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#ibmtechu Day 4 IBM Storage University - Storage Free-for-All
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011], I participated in the storage free-for-all, which is a long-time tradition, started at SHARE User Group conference, and carried forward to other IT conferences. The free-for-all is a Q&A Panel of experts to allow anyone to ask any question. These are sometimes called "Birds of a Feather" (BOF). Last year, we had two: one focused on Tivoli Storage software, and the second to cover storage hardware. This year, we had two, one for System x called "Ask the eXperts", and one for System Storage called "Storage Free-for-All". This post covers the latter.
(Disclaimer: Do not shoot the messenger! We had a dozen or more experts on the panel, representing System Storage hardware, Tivoli Storage software, and Storage services. I took notes, trying to capture the essence of the questions, and the answers given by the various IBM experts. I have spelled out acronyms and provided links to relevant materials. The answers from individual IBMers may not reflect the official position of IBM management. Where appropriate, my own commentary will be in italics.)Are there any plans to improve the use of BRMS [Backup Recovery and Media Services for IBM i] with [Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)]?
It should be against the law to connect these two together. IBM has no plans to make any further improvements.When will [IBM BladeCenter S] support 2.5-inch drives?
You are in the wrong session! Go to "Ask the eXperts" session next door!The TSM GUI sucks! Are there any plans to improve it?
Yes, we are aware that products like IBM XIV have raised the bar for what people expect from graphical user interfaces. We have plans to improve the TSM GUI. IBM's new GUI for the SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 has been well-received, and will be used as a template for the GUIs of other storage hardware and software products. The GUI uses the latest HTML5, Dojo widgets and AJAX technologies, eliminating Java dependencies on the client browser.Can we run the TSM Admin GUI from a non-Windows host?
IBM has plans to offer this. Most likely, this will be browser-based, so that any OS with a modern browser can be used.As hard disk drives grow larger in capacity, RAID-5 becomes less viable. What is IBM doing to address this?
IBM is aware of this problem. IBM offers RAID-DP on the IBM N series, RAID-X on the IBM XIV, and RAID-6 on its other disk systems.TPC licensing is outrageous! What is IBM going to do about it?
IBM introduced the [Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition (MRE)] to help address the cost when Small and Medium-sized Businesses managing SVC, Storwize V7000, DS5000 and DS3000 disk systems.What is the adoption rate of IBM Easy Tier?
About 25 percent of DS8000 disk systems have SSD installed. Now that IBM DS8000 Easy Tier supports "any two" tiers, roughly 50 percent of DS8000 now have Easy Tier activated. No idea on how Easy Tier has been adopted on SVC or Storwize V7000.We have an 8-node SVC cluster, should we put 8 SSD drives into a single node-pair, or spread them out?
We recommend putting a separate Solid-State Drive in each SVC node, with RAID-1 between nodes of a node-pair. By separating the SSD across I/O groups, you can reduce node-to-node traffic.How well has SVC 6.2 been adopted?
The inventory call-home data is not yet available. The only SVC hardware model that does not support this level of software was the 2145-4F2 introduced in 2003. Every other model since then can be updated to this level.Will IBM offer 600GB FDE drives for the IBM DS8700?
Currently, IBM offers 300GB and 450GB 15K RPM drives with the Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) capability for the DS8700, and 450GB and 600GB 10K RPM drives with FDE for the IBM DS8800. IBM is working with its disk suppliers to offer FDE on other disk capacities, and on SSD and NL-SAS drives as well, so that all can be used with IBM Easy Tier.Is there a reason for the feature lag between the Easy Tier capabilities of the DS8000, and that of the SVC/Storwize V7000?
We have one team for Easy Tier, so they implement it first on DS8000, then port it over to SVC/Storwize V7000.Does it even make sense to have separate storage tiers, especially when you factor in the cost of SVC and TPC to make it manageable?
It depends! We understand this is a trade-off between cost and complexity. Most data centers have three or more storage tiers already, so products like SVC can help simplify interoperability.Are there best practices for combining SVC with DS8000? Can we share one DS8000 system across two or more SVC clusters?
Yes, you can share one DS8000 across multiple SVC clusters. DS8000 has auto-restripe, so consider having two big extent pools. The queue depth is 3 to 60, so aim to have up to 60 managed disks on your DS8000 assigned to SVC. The more managed disks the better.The IBM System Storage Interopability Center (SSIC) site does not seem to be designed well for SAN Volume Controller.
Yes, we are aware of that. It was designed based on traditional Hardware Compatability Lists (HCL), but storage virtualization presents unique challenges.How does the 24-hour learning period work for IBM Easy Tier? We have batch processing that runs from 2am to 8am on Sundays.
You can have Easy Tier monitor across this batch job window, and turn Easy Tier management between tiers on and off as needed.Now that NetApp has acquired LSI, is the DS3000 still viable?
Yes, IBM has a strong OEM relationship with both NetApp and LSI, and this continues after the acquisition.If have managed disks from a DS8000 multi-rank extent pool assigned to multiple SVC clusters, won't this affect performance?
Yes, possibly. Keep managed disks on seperate extent pools if this is a big concern. A PERL script is available to re-balance SVC striped volumes as needed after these changes.Is the IBM [TPC Reporter] a replacement for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center?
No, it is software, available at no additional charge, that provides additional reporting to those who have already licensed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 and above. It will be updated as needed when new versions of Productivity Center are released.We are experiencing lots of stability issues with SDD, SDD-PCM and SDD-DSM multipathing drivers. Are these getting the development attention they deserve?
IBM's direction is to shift toward native OS-based multipathing drivers.Is anyone actually thinking of deploying public cloud storage in the near-term?
A few hands in the audience were raised.None of the IBM storage devices seem to have [REST API]. Cloud storage providers are demanding this. What are IBM plans?
IBM plans to offer REST on SONAS. IBM uses SONAS internally for its own cloud storage offerings.If you ask a DB2 specialist, an AIX specialist, and a System Storage specialist, on how to configure System p and System Storage for optimal performance, you get three different answers. Are there any IBMers who are cross-functional that can help?
Yes, for example, Earl Jew is an IBM Field Technical Support Specialist (FTSS) for both System p and Storage, and can help you with that.Both Oracle and Microsoft recommend RAID-10 for their applications.
Don't listen to them. Feel free to use RAID-5, RAID-6 or RAID-X instead.Resizing SVC source volumes forces ongoing FlashCopy or Metro Mirror relatiohships to be stopped. Does IBM plan to address this?
Currently, you have to stop, resize both source and target, then start the relationship again. Consider getting IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R).What ever happened to IBM [Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)]?
IBM continues to support this for exising clients. For new deployments, IBM offers SONAS and the Information Archive (IA).When will I be able to move SVC volumes between I/O groups?
You can today, but it is disruptive to the operating system. IBM is investigating making this less disruptive.Will XIV ever support the mainframe?
It does already, with support for both Linux and z/VM today. For VSE support, use SVC with XIV. For those with the new zBX extension, XIV storage can be used with all of the POWER and x86-based operating systems supported. IBM has no plans to offer direct FICON attachment for z/OS or z/TPF.Not a question - Kudos to the TSM and ProtecTIER team in supporting native IP-based replication!
Thanks!When will IBM offer POWER-based models of the XIV, SVC and other storage devices?
IBM's decision to use industry-standard x86 technology has proven quite successful. However, IBM re-looks at this decision every so many years. Once again, the last iteration determined that it was not worth doing. A POWER-based model might not beat the price/performance of current x86 models, and maintaining two separate code bases would hinder development of new innovations.We have both System i and System z, what is IBM doing to address the fact that PowerHA and GDPS are different?
IBM TPC-R has a service offering extension to support "IBM i" environments. GDPS plans to support multi-platform environments as well.
This was a great interactive session. I am glad everyone stayed late Thursday evening to participate in this discussion.
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Onslow County
Onslow County
Laptime for infants up to 23 months and their caregivers meets at the Main Branch every Wednesday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Time for Twos for 2 year olds and their caregivers meets at the Main Branch every Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Preschool Explorers meets every Tuesday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. at the Main Library.
Preschool Storytime, for children ages 3 to 5 meets at the Sneads Ferry Branch every Tuesday at 10 a.m. and at the Richlands and Swansboro Branches every Thursday at 11 a.m.
Mother Goose Time for children up to age 3 and their caregivers meets at the Richlands Branch every Thursday at 10 a.m. and the Swansboro Branch every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 a.m.
Kids Creations, featuring theme-based stories and crafts for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, meets at the Richlands Branch the first Thursday of each month at 4:30 p.m.
Legos at the Library for children ages kindergarten through 12th grade meets at 10 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at the Main Library and the third Saturday of each month at the Swansboro Branch Library.
Free family film Friday
The Onslow County Public Library shows a free family-friendly movie the first Friday of each month at 4 p.m. at the Main Branch. Bring the family and enjoy an afternoon movie and free popcorn. For more information or to register, call 910-455-7350, ext. 231.
American Girl Club
American Girl Book Club for youth in grades two to five meets the third Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Main Library. The group discusses a different American Girl each month with snacks, crafts and activities relevant to different periods in history.
Grantseeking basics
OCPL offers Grantseeking Basics at 9 a.m. Oct. 1 at the Main Library. Learn to become a better grantseeker, covering what you need to have in place before you seek a grant, grantseeking process and available tools and resources.
Friends� meeting
Swansboro Friends of the Library meets at 10 a.m. Oct. 1 at the branch library.
Teen volunteers
Teens in grades 6-12th can earn SAT and Junior Honors Society volunteer hours at your local library. Orientation for new volunteers held at 4 p.m. Oct. 2 at Swansboro Branch Library.
For more information on Onslow County Public Library services or programs, go to co.onslow.nc.us/library/ or call 910-455-7350.
Carteret County
Let�s Talk About It series
Carteret Public Library hosts �Let�s Talk About It� at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 with Billy Yeargin of Duke University discussing �Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class: by Larry Tye. This is the third session of the series on �Picturing America: Making Tracks.�
Western Carteret Public Library also hosts a �Let�s Talk About It� series at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 with Michelle Manning discussing Randall Kenan�s �A Visitation of Spirits.� This third session is on Tar Heel Fiction: Stories of Home.
Library newsletter
The library�s newsletter �The Library Log� is available as an eNewsletter. Visit Carteret.cpclib.org for details and to sign up.
Book wagon
Friends of the Carteret County Public Library�s book sales wagon is located at the corner of Turner and Front streets in Beaufort. Hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are 50 cents.
Children and youth programs
Carteret County Public Library�s storytime program for 3 to 5 year olds meets at 10 a.m. Wednesdays. Time for Toddlers, ages 18 months to 3 year olds meets at 10 a.m. Fridays.
The Western Carteret children�s storytime with Ms. Anna for ages 3 to 5 years meets at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays. �Bookends� meets Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Anime Club meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
Z-Factor Productions meets at 4:15 p.m. Thursdays.
Gaming meets at 3 p.m. Fridays.
Newport Public Library children�s library October is �Dress Up� month. The children can come to their reading groups dressed in costumes related to the following themes: Week 1: Goofy; week 2: favorite pajamas; week 3: favorite superhero; week 4: dress like a grownup; week 5: Halloween celebration. Ms. Susan will work her magic: lollipops will turn into ghosts, oranges into jack-o-lanterns, cookies into owls and spiders, and ice cream cones into witch hats. Book Worms Book Club meets Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Preschool �Read-to-Me� Storytime for ages 3 to 5 years meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Book Buddies Book Club for grades K-2 meets at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Bogue Banks Library�s preschool storytime �On the Farm� meets at 10 a.m. Thursdays.
For more information on Carteret County Library services or programs, call 252-728-2050 or go to carteret.cpclib.org.
Camp Lejeune
Preschool Storytime meets every Wednesday at Tarawa Terrace Community Center at 10 a.m. and Midway Park Community Center at 10:30 a.m.
Storytime meets for theme-based stories and crafts on Thursdays at the base main library at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
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Cashing in: Too much walk, not enough fire
The trailer for Walk the Line emphasizes "Ring of Fire" instead of the title song. (In the movie itself, "Jackson" and "Folsom Prison Blues" are the only songs sung twice.) The film should have done the same, not musically but stylistically.
The biography of Johnny Cash– at least the first half of his life, through the age of 36 in 1968– walks a line when it should have had more of a fiery ring. The highs (both drug and career) aren't high enough, and the lows aren't low enough. Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) explodes once in a while, but mostly he just broods.
In 1944, 12-year-old J.R., as his family called him, and his older brother, Jack, are listening to June Carter on the radio. Born into the First Family of Country Music, she's already a star at 10. Not long after that, Jack is killed in an accident, and their hard-working, dirt-poor drunkard of a father (Robert Patrick) blames John.
John spends the early '50s in the Air Force. He comes home and marries Vivian (Ginnifer Goodwin) and forms a band with Luther Perkins (Dan John Miller) and Marshall Grant (Larry Bagby), "two mechanics who can't hardly play." Johnny doesn't do well as a door-to-door salesman, so one day he knocks on the door of Sun Records and asks Sam Phillips (Dallas Roberts) for an audition. They strike out with a gospel song, and Phillips tells John to sing something he really feels. In a ragged rendition of "Folsom Prison Blues" we see the birth of the Johnny Cash we know.
In 1955, John's on tour and so is June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). They're both married to other people, but a spark is struck and they become friends. It's a wonder Johnny's marriage lasts as long as it does. He buys Vivian a house and car, but she complains he's a lousy husband and father, even when he's not on the road.
As the years pass, June divorces, remarries, and redivorces while John stays married to Vivian but drinks too much and gets addicted to pills. June joins his show but still avoids joining John. Vivian is jealous anyway, telling June, "Stay clear of my children," when they meet at an event.
Vivian finally leaves, but June wants no part of Johnny until he cleans up, and it's not until 1968 that she agrees to the marriage that will last for the second half of their lives. The same year he does the legendary Folsom Prison concert that will revitalize his career.
Let me tell you the reservations I had about Walk the Line, because some of the things that bothered me won't bother you at all.
* The reason things don't get more intense and there are no villains in the movie (except an unnamed drug supplier) is that this is an authorized biography, which almost always means boring.
* Anachronisms abound. It seems like we're moving backwards when the fall of 1956 is established, but Elvis Presley, who moved to RCA a year ago, is still on the Sun tour; and before we can figure that out they're playing at a dance for the Class of 1955. June is seen writing "Ring of Fire" in 1965 and '66, when it was a hit in 1963.
* Like everything from Chicken Little to The Weather Man, this is another story of a male child (at whatever age) trying to win the respect of his father. It's the plot of the year, and I'm sick of it. And as Daddy Ray, Robert Patrick doesn't age a day over the 24-year span of the story.
* At his low point ,John is rooming with Waylon Jennings (played by his son Shooter Jennings), doesn't have enough money to pay the phone bill, and can't get it from the bank. In the next scene he buys a house on a large piece of land.
*There are obvious budget limitations, and director James Mangold isn't good at finessing them. The band performs in an "auditorium" in Texarkana that's only eight rows deep.
Phoenix is believable as Cash and does a pretty good imitation, once the man finds his voice, but the script keeps Johnny from being as interesting as we know he was. Witherspoon has the big hair and some dramatic chops but sometimes falls into her usual cute comic shtick. We don't need another Meg Ryan.
The stars do their own singing, and with T Bone Burnett in charge, the music is in good hands. I'm not replacing my originals with the Phoenix versions, but they're not bad.
As biographies of 1950s musical artists go, Walk the Line is better than Beyond the Sea, Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Great Balls of Fire, but not as good as Ray, La Bamba and The Buddy Holly Story. The Oscar buzz has been overstated.


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Praise for The Water Witch
"A lighthearted, fast moving fantasy . . . The Water Witch should appeal to readers of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels."—New York Journal of Books
"Dark has an exquisite and clear voice. . . . One is aware of being in the hands of a mistress of the fine arts of storytelling and characterization. . . . It's all just great fun."—Albany Chronogram
"An intriguing story that will keep readers guessing."—Romance Reviews Today
"Readers are sure to enjoy being back in the atmospheric Fairwick. The cliffhanger ending will only leave readers clamoring for the last installment in this interesting trilogy."—SheKnows
Praise for Book One of The Fairwick Trilogy: The Demon Lover
"Dark's letter-perfect gothic style is a satisfying tribute to previous gothic novels, and the paranormal elements, including incubi, fae, vampires, and witches, make this a stellar romance."—Booklist, included in its list of the year's "Top 10 SF/Fantasy Titles"
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KINSTON � There was a Division I college baseball game played Friday afternoon at Grainger Stadium, but that was just a small part of the story.
KINSTON � There was a Division I college baseball game played Friday afternoon at Grainger Stadium, but that was just a small part of the story.
The third annual Freedom Classic kicked off with Navy�s 3-1 victory over Air Force in the opener of the four-game series between the two service academies.
Amid the on-field competition was the military pageantry, the grateful recognition of those who have served both past and present, and a stirring, heartfelt rendition of �The Star Spangled Banner� by Senior Master Sargeant Jerry Hannah, U.S. Air Force, retired, of La Grange.
�Coming to Kinston is one of the highlights of our season,� Air Force coach Mike Kazlausky said. �We�re so well-treated by the people and staff here who put on the Freedom Classic. We�re among people who understand the sacrifices that are being made both now and in the future by the young men in both dugouts. It�s a special occasion to be sure.�
The game itself almost seemed secondary, but, of course, it was the star of the show, featuring a dazzling display of pitching between Navy�s Ben Nelson and Cameron White of Air Force and a hard-fought contest that wasn�t decided until the final inning.
Nelson sailed to the complete game victory, scattering six hits while striking out eight. He didn�t walk a batter.
White soared through 8 1/3 innings but was ultimately the unlucky loser, also surrendering six hits with seven whiffs. His only unintentional walk of the game brought home the eventual winning run.
�My intention was to pound the strike zone and I was able to do that,� said Nelson, a senior from Winter Springs, Fla. �I also got a lot of help from my defense. They (Air Force) hit some balls hard, but the guys behind me were excellent.�
The two teams were locked in a 1-1 pitchers� duel until the top of the ninth.
Midshipman (3-2) ninth-place hitter David Wiedeman greeted White with a single to left leading off the frame. He advanced to second on a wild pitch and then reached third when Falcons (0-5) second sacker Matthew Roberts booted a grounder by Navy�s Brandon Beans.
One out later, White (0-2) intentionally walked Dave Milanes to load the bases and set up the potential force. Greg Dupell then coaxed a base on balls on a full count � the only unintentional walk by either pitcher � to force in the tie-breaking run.
Navy�s Kash Manzelli, who entered the game batting .467 through four games, followed with a base hit to right, chasing White and making the score 3-1.
Falcons reliever Bo Wilson induced a double play grounder to prevent further damage.
�Our pitcher was outstanding, their pitcher was outstanding, and we were fortunate to scratch out a couple of runs there at the end,� Navy coach Paul Kostacopoulos said.
�The Freedom Classic is something we look forward to every year. The people are great, the venue is great, and it�s a chance to play our brothers from the Air Force Academy. Winning today is just icing on the cake.�
Navy drew first blood on an RBI double by Brandon Beans in the third. The Falcons answered with Alex Bast�s run-scoring single in fourth.
�It was a great college baseball game,� Kazlausky said. �It�s a shame we came out on the losing end, but we�ve got three more to play. It�s going to be fun.�
FREEDOM FACTS: Today�s game will start at 5 p.m. � Navy�s win tied the all-time series between the academies at 16-16. � Winning pitcher Nelson is now 2-0 on the season and was named the Patriot League pitcher of the week after his season-opening victory over Norfolk State. � Wiedeman, who scored the eventual winning run, was the Patriot League player of the week. � With a 0-5 start, Air Force is still looking for its 1,000 win as a baseball program. The Falcons entered 2013 with 999 wins since starting baseball in 1956. � Friday�s game lasted just 1 hour, 53 minutes. � Game 2 is scheduled for 5 p.m. today.
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"Faith is recognizing that if at Christmas Jesus became like us, it was so we might become more like him," wrote the well-known preacher and activist William Sloan Coffin. He goes on to add, "We know what this means; watching Jesus heal the sick, empower the poor, and scorn the powerful, we see transparently the power of God at work."*
Christmas really is about seeing the power of God at work, but far too often pastors and churches fail to tell this story. Oh sure, we preach about Mary and Joseph, Jesus being born in a Bethlehem manger, and the Magi following a star to find him and offer gold, frankincense, and myrrh. My fear is that the story has grown familiar and routine. We have forgotten its power and no longer see its challenge.
In Matthew's Gospel, the Magi seek out Jesus after hearing of his birth. In order to find him they ask King Herod where they can find the new king. This, of course, is news to Herod who is surprised to learn that his title has been claimed by a baby. Herod consults his advisors and then reacts with the expected calmness of a leader anticipating a conflict, which is to say his response is not calm at all.
This story is an announcement that Jesus has arrived to challenge the powerful. The Messiah was not born meek and mild.
Here is the paradox of Advent. God has taken on human form to bring peace and justice into the world, but doing so requires confronting those who have power rooted in violence and injustice. This is good news of great joy for all people. Yet, some will have more trouble understanding and accepting this transformation because it will shake the foundations that uphold the status quo from which they benefit.
But, as my teaching pastor in graduate school used to ask me, does this preach?
The answer, of course, is yes, if we're willing to take the risk. In the United States, Christmas has often become a sentimental holiday that embodies some of the worst aspects of our consumer culture.
Many Christians may be surprised to hear a sermon during Advent that focuses on challenging our cultural assumptions about the meaning of Christmas, but doing so may be the most faithful witness a pastor can offer.
Our culture has often understood Jesus in a way that reflects our own values, rather than being challenged by the radical nature of his call to discipleship. Christmas is a perfect opportunity to be reminded that the power of God is at work and we are called to become more like the One born in the manger.
*William Sloan Coffin, Credo, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.
Beau Underwood is Campaigns Manager for Sojourners and a part-time pastor in a Washington, D.C., congregation.
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A Veteran of Unknown Origins
The Accident
It was a dark and storm night. The day had been a beautiful sunny summer's day. The change was dramatic. He'd had the top down all day, but put it up for the drive home. Wife always complained of "fumes" on the highway even though cars returned purer air from the "exhaust" than came in the "intake". But women; that was one battle no husband would ever win. She had other offsets; the Irish eyes, the rapier wit, and an athletic constitution. The picnic with relatives was fun. Seeing so may generations in one place at one time was inspiring. He turned off Route 37, drove by "his" American Legion Post, saluted, and approached the turn onto the ocean block. The storm intensified, lightin' 'n' thunder, and the street was covered with several inches of storm water. He'd be glad to get his baby in the garage. The cherry '57 Caddie was his special occasion ride. As he turned, he saw the surge. It looked like a foot or two wave coming right from the ocean. It lifted the heavy Caddie and rolled it. Wife was sucked right out of the car; he was restrained by the new fangled seat belt that she refused to mess her dress with. There was an instant to panic as the water engulfed him and the world went dark.
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The Scene
Lefty ran into the Post bar and yelled: "John: Call 911. There's a one car accident in the back lot." The Post Commander was tending bar and. like a good ex-military man, he could follow orders. "911. What IS your emergency?" "Post 351 has a one car accident in their parking lot." "Anyone hurt?" "Don't know yet." "I'm dispatching now." With that John went to see the accident. The bar had cleared; this was going to be the excitement of the day.
From the porch, he could see a Caddy on it's side with sand all around it. Maybe the jerk rolled it speeding around the bend on Route 37, but he'd have had to be doing over 100 to get that many rolls. Then he notice that the lot's fence was intact. Did it drop from the sky?
Walking over to it, he could hear the exclamation by someone: "I don't care what it looks like, it does NOT look like any Caddy I've ever seen. The logos are right but everything else is wrong." "Anyone hurt." "The driver's belted in but out of it. We're waiting for rescue to backboard him. He's got an American Legion jacket on, but even that's strange Post 158247532?"
Patrol rolled up on the scene, and the officer radioed in: "We're got a DUI here. Send a supervisor and HazMat for a fuel spill." The rescue squad was right behind him. "Get him out and I'll handcuff him to the gurney. Suspicion of DUI." John was frosted: "Officer how can you presume he's drunk?" "Rolling a car? Duh! I'll probably get to write 5 or 6 tickets. Maybe get a commendation." John looked around for Pete, the Post's attorney. "Pete: Make sure this fellow doesn't get railroaded. Until he can fend for himself, it looks like he's ours." "Sure. Give me a dollar as a retainer." "You brigand!" The officer reached into the car, opened the glove box, and grab what he believed would be the registration. Pete chimed in: "OK, unreasonable search and seizure. Did you ask my Client for his license, registration, and proof of insurance before you search his closed glove box?" "No. He's unconscious. Probably drunk out of his mind." "Assumes facts not yet in evidence. May I have the material you seized from my Client? And you can address your questions to me. Unless you don't want your pension going to my retirement account." As visions of tickets satisfying his quota danced in his head, he handed over the papers. "OK, counselor, we'll play it your way. Client's name?" Looking at the American Legion jacket, "Ameril E Gion, will do for now", and looked at the papers. He was in trouble. There was a New Jersey registration, but there was no name on it. Same with the Insurance Card, who ever heard of 'State Met Pru' Insurance. And the 'paper' felt like plastic.
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The Hearing / Witness #1
"Ms. Buhl, for the record, please state your credentials." "Certainly, I'm a Doctor of Forensic Medicine, as well as Pathology. I chair the Medical Anthropology School at the State University. I teach Medical Examiners, Pathologists, and Researchers. I also hold a doctorate from the State University in Chemistry. Specifically, DNA. My dissertation was on the 'Unique Components of Humanity's DNA. Where I …"
"Thank you, Ms. Buhl. I'm sure the Court accepts you as an expert. What can you tell us about John Doe?"
"You really mean 'Adam's friend Baker'. That's an old anthropology joke which has special significance here. See the Bible says Adam and Eve were the first humans. There is DNA evidence that every human is indeed descended from an 'Adam' and an 'Eve'. There are obsolete DNA fragments that are identical in every human being. Your John Doe doesn't have them. Hence we've identified him as 'Adam's friend Baker'. Adam and Baker had different parents. Completely different. He has different obsolete DNA fragments. This is science shattering. All our understanding has to change."
"Did you autopsy John Doe's body? And what does that tell you."
"My Baker, your John Doe, was what one would expect as a typical American male. Except his finger prints were not on file anywhere. He's human, but there are many uniquely strange findings. For example, his eye's show no signs of corneal degradation due to UV sunlight. Even in a teenager, one can see sun damage that will eventually develop into cataracts; Baker's eyes are like a newborn's. For example, his blood chemistry is off. His Vitamin C, D, and E levels are 1000 times normal. His coronary arteries look better than a baby's. His teeth are perfect without even a film from his last meal of fried chicken, corn, mashed potatoes, with gravy. It's like he went from a dental cleaning to the accident."
"Was he drunk?"
"No signs of any intoxicant or drugs in his system. With the exception, aspirin! He had high levels of that. So high as to wonder how he ingested it. He didn't get it via the stomach becuse such a level would have burned through the lining. It's like he'd just come from an IV infusion. I've cryogenically preserved everything I could for a time when our science catches up to him."
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The Hearing / Witness #2
"Mr. DuBois, for the record, please state your credentials." "Certainly, I'm a PhD in both Material Science and Mechanical Engineering." "Thank you. Did you examine the car that John Doe was found in?" "Yes." "Your findings?" "I have over 11,000 pages of findings." "Summarize for us layman." "John Doe's car was not made on this planet." "Excuse me?" "The only thing in common between this car and our planet is that the elements are the same. For example, the car is made out of "steel". Our steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. That "steel" has no carbon, but uses two .5% each harding agents of manganese and tungsten. Unheard of before. It's lighter, stronger, and presents a completely different profile under stress. For example, John Doe's Cadilac engine has a V-14; our "Cadilac" has had V-12 or a V-16. Never a 14. For example, the gasoline in John Doe's tank was 104 octane and tests out to deliver 52.5 Megajoule per liter in energy. It is infused a nanostructured porous material which we believe is a lubricating fluid. Here are just three of a thousands of other world uniqueness.
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The Hearing / Witness #3
"Ms. Duchone, for the record, please state your credentials." "Certainly, I'm the head of the FBI Identification Section and Doctor of Biometric Engineering." "Please describe your findings." "The car yields over 80,000 fingerprints. This contained 4,000 index fingers. We compared every print with all known sources of prints. No matches. None!" "Conclusions?" "It's impossible."
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The internment
At Post 351, having be granted Guardian Ad Litem for John Doe, 'Adam's friend Baker', created a tomb for him in the back parking lot where he was found.
"Here lies Baker, a truly unknown. We believe he's a veteran, but we don't know of what. But like all comrades in arms, even if he's from the wrong side, we honor his service. Even though we have no clue what it was, where it was, or when it was. We honor the contribution he's making every day to our indigent fellow vets."
John saluted and dismissed the assembly.
Strange how things worked out. Baker was a font of discoveries. And, all the money he "earned" came to the American Legion charity fund. Too much money. So the American Legion notified all the other veterans organizations to join them in helping Baker's fund help indigent vets. VFW, VFA, JWV … didn't matter, Baker was a cash cow.
Funny how things end.
Where was Baker from?
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(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) has agreed to pay $360 million to the brokerage estate of Lehman Brothers to resolve a dispute over $1 billion in collateral that the investment bank was forced to post in the days leading up to its bankruptcy in 2008.
According to a settlement reached on Friday with the trustee liquidating Lehman Brothers's U.S. brokerage unit, Citigroup will also relinquish its claim to $75 million that was contingently paid to the estate at the beginning of the liquidation, court documents showed.
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"For the benefit of customers and other creditors, we continue to resolve disputes and marshal assets for the estate, and this agreement accomplishes both," Giddens said in a statement.
In a New York court filing, Giddens said that the protracted litigation over the collateral dispute, along with associated legal costs, would not be in the best interests of the Lehman estate. Lehman's agreement with Citigroup is subject to court approval.
Lehman emerged from bankruptcy in March, and has paid out or plans to pay out $33 billion of an expected $65 billion to creditors, recovering an average of 21 cents on the dollar. The company is also being wound down.
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The cases are In re: Lehman Brothers Inc, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 08-01420; and In re: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in the same court, No. 08-13555.
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Daisy Berkowitz, Conor McCullagh and more sign on Saturday May 7.201 for Free Comic Book Day!
Daisy Berkowitz – Co-founder and original guitarist of the band Marilyn Manson. Daisy Berkowitz, Master of the Quija Board, will be on hand from 11:00AM throughout the day to sign, take pictures with fans and teach and play.
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I have been wanting to do something different for breakfast lately but Kevin, bless his heart, has taken over the chore of making breakfast on the weekends and he leaves too early in the morning to make breakfast through the week. It is not that I don't love his breakfasts, it is just, well……it is "Man food". You know what I mean? Pure, simple, straight to the point. Eggs with sausage, hash browns, and toast.
I have tried doing BFD (breakfast for dinner) but he hasn't been real thrilled with that idea. So I decided I had to put my foot down and tell him that I was making something with veggies in it for breakfast. I did add the footnote that there would be bacon in it. I mean bacon, eggs, cheese? How can that be wrong? Right?
He also went along with it because I had picked up leeks for a recipe I made a few days ago and he hates wasting food even more than me. So when I said it was a great way to use the leeks up he was on board.
When I was buzzing through the grocery store the grape tomatoes looked great so I new exactly what I wanted to do. Bacon, leek, and tomato, yummmm!!
I love quiche. My Mom used to make them when I was little. Although back in the day they sold quiche mix in cartons right along with the Egg Beaters. How simple could that be? Frozen pie crust, carton of quiche mix, hot oven, BOOM, breakfast! But seriously making quiche is so ding dang simple there is no reason to not give it a try. I will have a handy little "Quiche Cheat Sheet" after the recipe.
BLT (Bacon, Leek, and Tomato) Quiche
1 large leek, root end and dark green leaves cut off, cut in half lengthwise, then sliced into half moons
1 handful gape tomatoes, halved
4 slices thick cut smoky bacon, chopped
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 cup Swiss cheese, shredded
3 eggs
Kosher salt and cracked pepper
1 1/4 cup fat free evaporated milk
Pie dough (handmade or store bought)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the pie dough in a 9 inch pie plate and crimp the edges, chill for 30 minutes. Line with foil or parchment paper and fill with pie weights (can use dried beans if you do not have pie weights). Bake about 20 minutes, remove the foil and weights and continue to bake another 5 to 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown. Allow to cool.
Place the chopped leek into a large bowl filled with cold water. Swish them carefully and allow them to sit a few minutes to release the dirt and grit that is between the leaves. Scoop out with your hands and lay them on a clean kitchen towel. Roll the towel and squeeze the moisture out. Set aside.
Meanwhile cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Once bacon has rendered its fat and begun to crisp slightly, remove it with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel to drain. Reduce the heat to medium. Add the leeks and saute being careful to not brown the leeks. Once the leeks begin to soften add the halved tomatoes and cook for a couple of minutes to let the tomatoes release some of their juices. Remove from heat.
In a bowl combine the eggs, garlic powder, salt and pepper, and evaporated milk. Whisk until completely blended.
Spoon the leeks and tomatoes into the pie crust and sprinkle with the cheese. Pour the egg mixture over the top and bake on a baking sheet for 40 to 50 minutes or until the filling is set. Allow to cool 20 minutes before serving.
Easy Quiche Cheat Sheet
Make Your Crust
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the pie dough in a 9 inch pie plate and crimp the edges, chill for 30 minutes. Line with foil or parchment paper and fill with pie weights (can use dried beans if you do not have pie weights). Bake about 20 minutes, remove the foil and weights and continue to bake another 5 to 10 minutes, or until lightly golden brown. Allow to cool.
Choose Your Veggies
1/2 to 1 cup of up to 3 of the following veggies;
Roasted Asparagus
Roasted or Steamed Broccoli
Shredded Potatoes, sauteed
Cherry or Grape Tomatoes, halved
Green Peppers, chopped and sauteed
Mushrooms, sliced and sauteed
Onions or Shallots, sliced or chopped and sauteed
Green Onions, chopped
Jarred Roasted Red Pepper, chopped
Spinach, chopped and sauteed (or frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained)
Frozen peas, thawed
1/2 cup of up to 2 of the following meats;
Bacon, chopped and cooked
Sausage, cooked and crumbled
Ham, chopped
Shredded chicken
Crab, picked clean
Now Some Cheese
Up to 1 cup of the following cheeses, crumbled or shredded;
Goat Cheese
Jack or Pepper Jack
Now Let's Make Some Quiche
Whisk 3 eggs, salt, pepper, and 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, half and half, milk, or evaporated milk in a large bowl. Stir in 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (if desired), seasoning such as chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, grated lemon zest (would be awesome with a crab quiche).
Spread the vegetable/cheese mixture on the bottom of the prepared pie crust and pour the egg mixture on top. Bake until the filling is set, 40 to 50 minutes. Let cool 20 minutes before serving.


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merdarius has been denied entry into several scientific societies. He is the member of the surrealist group in Stockholm if no one else is present, but also of Kormorantrådet, and a few international surrealist, bibliophilic and naturalist groups that are not too careful about whom they're letting in.
The blog has so far mostly dealt with epistemological, methodological, geographical, systematical and organisational questions in the light of surrealism, or about surrealism from the mentioned viewpoints. The modest aim of the blog is to overthrow the current ideological order by means of the multiplication of imaginary sciences (sciences of, on, or in the imagination).


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November 21, 2011
Zucchini rolls with almond, rosemary and lemon stuffing
21 comments:
What a great snack, Maria! Always looking at new ways to add zucchini on our plate. Beautiful clicks and love those grill marks.ReplyDelete
Sounds so refreshing! What a wonderful melange of flavors :)ReplyDelete
Sounds good! Have a great week!ReplyDelete
oh I love the look of these! What a great party idea! And your blue plate is so pretty, makes me want to go out prop shopping hehe.ReplyDelete
I will definitely be making these! Such simple ingredients which yield, I'm sure, amazing flavor!ReplyDelete
oh these are so pretty! I love it!ReplyDelete
Lovely rolls! Great flavors.ReplyDelete
What cute and colorful little rolls! These would be wonderful to serve on New Year together with some lovely champagne. ;)ReplyDelete
I have been wanting to make courgette rolls for sooo long - thanks for the inspirational nudge to do it, Maria! Hope you had a lovely weekend! xxReplyDelete
Totally bookmarked. I love the look of this zucchini rolls and this must be REALLY delicious. Can't wait to try this soon!ReplyDelete
Great little snack! I love zucchini...ReplyDelete
These look wonderful and sound delicious!ReplyDelete
This looks really handy. I love the colours you have usedReplyDelete
What an absolutely novel idea. I can' wait to try it.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2011 at 08:39
Another simple, creative and delicious recipe, thanks!ReplyDelete
Im so in love with zucchinis at the moment. These sound perfect! Great for Christmas canapes too :)ReplyDelete
Never thought of this variant! Thank you :) !ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2011 at 18:46
I love reading your blog and recipes - they bring a little sunshine into the dark, rainy British winter days :-)ReplyDelete
I am obsessed with zucchini at the moment - I will definitely be using this at my next party! ♥ReplyDelete
What a great idea and delicious recipe :)ReplyDelete
Such a creative recipe! it sounds delicious, I added it to my favorite!ReplyDelete


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Understanding the types of treatments and programs that are available is an important part of choosing the correct facility.
Types of Pawtucket Addiction Treatment Programs
The purpose of an addiction treatment program is to get the patient drug-free and back to living a productive life. Facilities use a variety of different treatments to accomplish this.
Treatment typically starts with detox. Because of the difficulties in stopping drug use, it's most common for this stage to occur at Pawtucket inpatient drug detox centers where staff can monitor the patient and support them through the withdrawal period. Treatment centers frequently use medication to help the patient during the withdrawals and afterward to prevent cravings.
Addiction therapy is a part of every treatment program. Therapy can be one-on-one between the patient and a counselor, or in a group setting with a small group of other patients. Facilities frequently have patients partake in both options. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a popular option that involves analyzing the thought processes leading to the individual's addiction. This information can then help patients develop ways to cope without using drugs. Therapy that uses positive reinforcement for motivation is also common.
How Pawtucket Inpatient Drug Rehab Works
At an inpatient drug rehabilitation center, patients receive treatment while living on-site at the facility, normally in shared rooms. This keeps the patient out of the environment where they began using drugs and away from any triggers or bad influences that could cause them to relapse.
An inpatient program will typically last for at least 30 days. Some programs can last as long as 90 days, six months or even a year. The length of time the patient will spend living at an inpatient facility varies depending on the level of addiction and the treatment plan put in place for them, as well as how they respond to treatment.
Patients often go through the detoxification process at Pawtucket inpatient drug detox centers before transitioning to an outpatient program.
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More Neckface Face!
Yesterday the formerly-secret face of awesome (suck it, haters) street artist Neckface was revealed to the world. Now we have, possibly, two more photos, which is kinda interesting, I'd say:
Epicly Later'd is the blog of photographer Patrick O'Dell, former photo editor of Vice. Supporting evidence:
—This looks a lot like the dude in yesterday's Neckface pic (sort of? Iffy).
—Patrick O'Dell has a section on his site where he posts adoptible animals, where there is currently a cat named Neck Face (ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE).
—Patrick O'Dell is friends with Neckface! They did this video together for VBS.tv. And don't forget this blog post we just found, pointing out that O'Dell has been posting pics of Neckface for a while now with his permission, so what's the big deal? Here's one more:
Neckface, allegedly!


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Why well-baby visits are essential
Appointments allow pediatricians to check growth, development
N. A. Hernandez, Contributing writer
It is crucial that you always keep the well-baby visit appointments with your baby's pediatrician. These visits are designed at just the right stages in your baby's developments to help the doctor check on the growth and development of your child.
Each one of your baby's visit with his/her doctor will go through some of the same routine things such as:
- Height and weight as well as baby's head circumference
- Head to toe examination
- Ask you questions about baby
At certain stages your baby will be given immunizations, which are never fun for you or your baby. His/her 12-month well-baby visit is unfortunately a time where immunizations are necessary. Your baby will receive the following shots: DtaP, Hib, Polio, MMR and the Varicella vaccine, which is the chicken pox immunization.
Immunizations are important for protecting your child from certain conditions and help build up their immune system. So never put off getting your baby's immunizations.
Each immunization is important for different reasons and sometimes they can be combined so your child doesn't have to be poked with too many needles. The 12-month well-baby visit may be a bit tougher for you since your baby is probably walking by now. But, rest assured, the immunizations will start to slow down after the first year of your baby's life.
At your baby's 12-month well-baby visit his/her doctor will also check your child's eyesight and hearing to make sure he or she is developing correctly. During the full examination, the doctor will address any concerns that he or she sees, such as cradle cap, baby acne or diaper rashes.
The pediatrician just wants to check on the developmental skills of your child and ask questions like:
- How much, how often and what is he/she eating?
- How is your baby sleeping?
- Questions about his/her bowel movement and how often he/she urinates.
- What sounds does baby make, is he/she trying to talk?
- How does baby respond to you when you are interacting with him/her?
- Is baby interested in things around them?
- Is your baby teething or already have teeth?
- How are baby's gross motor skills developing?
- How are baby's fine motor skills?
- Is your baby beginning to or already walking?
- Is baby pointing at objects?
The pediatrician should recommend, if they haven't already, that you crawl around your house on your baby's level and child proof your home since he or she is now becoming more active. This is a very important thing that you should do the moment your child starts to move around throughout your house. You want to make sure that any potential harmful situations are totally avoided and that you always watch your baby very carefully.
Your baby's doctor should ask you if you have any questions and or concerns. This is the time to ask away, no matter how silly you may think the question is. You want to make sure that you know all the facts and take the best care of your child that you possibly can.
Make sure that you follow the guidelines that your pediatrician recommends on introducing solids to your baby. You want to make sure that you do not try too much at once so that you can keep track of any possible allergic reactions.
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When Google ships the Mac version of its Chrome browser later this month, it will arrive without Gears, the company says.
Google is phasing out Gears, its software for powering things like offline access, geolocation and local data caching in web apps, in favor of similar browser technologies being driven by the wider adoption of HTML5.
A Google spokesperson confirmed this with Mark Milian of the Los Angeles Times:
As Google prepares to release its first beta version of Chrome for the Mac (a developer preview has been available for months), the company is letting the sun set on its Gears project.
"We are excited that much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and geolocation APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, and see that as the logical next step for developers looking to include these features in their websites," wrote a Google spokesman in an e-mail.
Milian also reports that Google arrived at this decision partially because of a technical hurdle: Gears won't run properly on Snow Leopard, Apple's latest operating system. Gears is built into Chrome on other platforms, and Google will continue to support Gears as long as it's out there.
This is big news for web apps, which are rapidly becoming more powerful as browsers adopt HTML5 and other proposed standards designed to increase their functionality.
By and large, this move was expected – Gears was always intended to simply fill in the gap between the forward-thinking design of productivity apps like Gmail and Google Docs and the capabilities of most browsers. Now that browsers have largely caught up to the promises of HTML5 (except for IE, of course), there's less of a need to patch today's web to meet tomorrow's needs.
So, welcome tomorrow.
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Some elected positions clearly are partisan in nature. Most voters find party labels helpful — at least to some extent — when choosing candidates for the legislative or executive branch. However, the same logic does not apply to members of the judicial branch, which is supposed to be neutral in its administration of justice.
A little over a decade ago, Arkansas voters agreed and passed Amendment 80, which removed the election of judges from the partisan process. The result is citizens can enter a courtroom presided over by judges who have not declared loyalty to a political party to be elected. The new method has not created a perfect judiciary, but the benefit is apparent.
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers — mainly attorneys — sought to take the logical next step of including prosecutors in nonpartisan elections. Republican Rep.
Matthew Shepherd, an El Dorado lawyer, introduced HB1412 ,which would have made the office of prosecutor nonpartisan and moved up judicial runoff elections from November to June.
"What is the difference between a Republican prosecutor and a Democrat prosecutor," Shepherd asked from the floor of the House on Monday while speaking for his bill. "Does one enforce the law and the other does not?"
Democratic Rep. Nate Steel joined Shepherd in pushing for the change, drawing on his experience as a prosecutor in southern Arkansas. Steel said it's not natural when a deputy prosecuting attorney wants to move up to the elected position of prosecutor and is forced to pick a political party.
The change to nonpartisan election of prosecutors seems logical. For one thing, prosecutors hold a tremendous amount of power in deciding whether to charge citizens with a crime. Unlike some states where a grand jury always decides whether to issue an indictment, in Arkansas those decisions often are made by the prosecuting attorney's office. Obviously any action to remove any bias, or even an appearance of bias, is beneficial for justice being fairly served.
However, logic does not always seem to carry the day in the Legislature, made up of members who have been elected with loyalties to a political party. In this case, the two major political party organizations have a direct interest in defeating the change — money.
The change would take filing fees away from the state parties; instead fees would be paid to the state. Fees would go into a fund that would help divert the cost of the election, with excess funds going to help fund the financially strapped Trial Court Administrative Assistant Fund.
Those fees are a nice source of cash flow for the political parties. In the prosecuting attorney elections of 2010, the Democratic Party of Arkansas took in $180,000 from 24
prosecuting attorney candidates, who paid a filing fee of $7,500 each. The Republican Party of Arkansas took in $17,500 from five candidates, who paid a filing fee of $3,500
each. Republicans, feeling hopeful about their chance of recruiting more candidates as the state grows redder, since have raised their fees to $7,500, too.
Just as similar measures in previous legislatures, Shepherd's bill was defeated. On Monday, the bill got 40 votes — 11 short of the 51 needed for passage in the House. The vote was relatively evenly split across party lines.
Public interest in making a change likely will have to grow before legislators will be willing to effectively take away the filing fee revenue from political parties.
Meanwhile, here's my response to Rep. Shepherd's question: I have never heard of one example of how a Republican prosecutor is any different than a Democratic prosecutor, or vice versa. Not one.
It's clear the only issue at play is money for political parties, not the issue of what's best for Arkansas.
Jason Tolbert is an accountant and conservative political blogger. His blog — The Tolbert Report — is linked at ArkansasNews.com. His e-mail is email@example.com.


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A few years ago Dennis Green, then coach of the Arizona Cardinals, gave one of the best rants in pro sports history. While the tirade doesn't completely relate to the Winnipeg Jets, it always makes me laugh. And really isn't that worth clicking on the link?
Before the Jets land in Arizona they have some business to attend to in Chicago. By the time Winnipeggers invade the Coyotes arena and turn it into another home game for the Jets, they could realistically be 0-2. Chicago is a very explosive team, Winnipeg is not.
It was only one game, but the loss on Sunday was, I believe, a microcosm for the entire season. No they will not be hammered 5-1 every game, but they will be challenged to score goals. They did not have a single 30 goals scorer last year and I would predict the same to occur this year. (Ladd was close with 29) They did have the leading goal scoring defenseman but that will be a tough task for Dustin Byfuglien to repeat.
In fact, looking at the top scoring defensemen last year is an interesting study. Take Lubomir Visnovsky for example. He scored 18,15,8,8,18, & 17 goals in the last six seasons. One of those 8 goals seasons was affected by injury. Shea Weber has posted 16,16,23,6, & 17 goals in the last five years. Brent Burns is all over the map with 17,3,8,15,7, & 4 goals since being converted from forward. Even the first ballot hall of famer Nik Lidstrom is prone to variance, as he has posted 16,9,16,10,13, & 16 goals in the last six seasons. Now you may think that the difference between 16 and 9 isn't that much on the surface but imagine if the whole Detroit team scored 44% less goals for the season? I don't think they would make the playoffs with that performance.
The difference of course between Detroit and Winnipeg is that they have the offensive firepower to make up those 7 goals. Anything less than the 30 goals that Byfuglien and Tobias Enstrom combined to score are going to be a problem for the Jets to makeup. It's not all doom and gloom as there are some young players who should be better this year. I would expect more from Burmistrov, Kane and Wheeler. When Fehr comes back from injury he will join Ladd, Little, and Antropov as veterans who can chip in as well. Unfortunately I wouldn't classify any of them as snipers. Most if not all of them are solid "two-way" players who are a good core to build around.
The brass tacks is this; they are going to be in very tough to make the playoffs. Everything has to go right for them to do it as it did for the first 40 games last year. Atlanta fell short of the playoffs by quite a large margin and they really didn't do much to improve this team over the summer. That of course really isn't the point for this season though. This year is all about the return of a team to a starving fan base and building towards something better in the future.
In talking to a friend of mine who was fortunate enough to be one of the few who was at the game on Sunday, he had the perfect quote that summed up the experience. "Yes it sucks the Jets lost but at least we were not watching the Moose vs the Hamilton Bulldogs".
I couldn't agree more.


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Some of Stanford's respected professors, students and alumni now are sharing their personal memories of rejection in a project to teach "failure-deprived" undergraduates not to be defeated by setbacks but to capitalize on them.
In the Resilience Project, computer-science professor and former Google research scientist Mehran Sahami recounts rejection letters for jobs he badly wanted; Pandora founder Tim Westergren recalls experiencing hundreds of rejections, and former freshman dean Julie Lythcott-Haims tells of feeling crushed after earning a D in the first quarter of her freshman year.
"I just saw that as the university's indication that I was in fact the one admission mistake in the great class of '89," Lythcott-Haims recalls in a video on the Stanford Resilience Project website.
"If I failed at this class that was supposed to be the easy entry point to academic life, then clearly I was not cut out for anything, so that was hard."
When she finally told her parents, "they reacted beautifully," told her they loved her and helped her find resources at Stanford to help her get back on track.
"Over the 20-plus years from that D in communications, I've learned how to sit with those disappointments and not let them become me," said Lythcott-Haims, a Harvard Law School graduate who recently resigned to study writing and poetry after 14 years as a Stanford adviser and dean.
"I sit and examine them and take from them what I can and learn from them. ... I strengthen myself and become a stronger, more effective person as a result of that bad thing instead of feeling that bad thing is the cloak that I'm wearing as I walk through life."
Other Stanford luminaries sharing their stories with the Resilience Project include award-winning writer and English professor Tobias Wolff, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, HP CFO Cathie Lesjak, novelist and School of Medicine Professor Abraham Verghese and retired chemistry professor Carl Djerassi, famous for his contribution to the development of the birth-control pill.
The project was launched in 2011 by Adina Glickman, associate director for academic support at Stanford's Center for Teaching & Learning. She was inspired by Harvard University's "Success/Failure Project," which generated a handbook for students called "Reflections on Rejections."
"I thought our students are similar and that it would be good to start something speaking to the same issues for Stanford students," said Glickman, who coaches students who are struggling with academic or other issues.
"A lot of times, when you're feeling stressed, you feel like you're the only one," she said.
Last year Glickman and her steering committee assembled a wish list of Stanford faculty and alumni they hoped would share their stories and began approaching people.
So far, she said, "Nobody's turned us down. In fact, the most common response is, 'Which of the stories should I talk about?'"
Of the 16 interviews posted so far, several — including those of Lesjak, Djerassi, O'Connor and Breyer — are restricted to viewers with a Stanford password. Glickman said that's either at the request of the interviewee or because she hasn't had a chance to clear it with the subject.
She plans to continue adding stories, with a new focus on student stories, at the request of other students.
Stanford students are "amazingly diverse in personality and outlook and world view," Glickman said.
While some have never known rejection, others have overcome huge obstacles of poverty and homelessness but haven't figured out how to transfer those coping skills to academic life in an elite institution. Others, when met with a challenge, know to roll up their sleeves and say, "What can I do differently?"
"It's a full range, but Stanford is such a challenging place to be that almost everyone feels at some point they don't belong and they were the admission mistake, and it challenges their sense of belonging and sense of capacity," she said.
In July, Glickman presented the Resilience Project to fellow educators attending the National Resource Center's International Conference on the First-Year Experience.
"There was a lot of interest by people in developing something similar" on other campuses, she said.
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For the week ending 1 January 2011 / 24 Tevet 5771
Not From a Spielberg Movie
All is darkness. Then the movement begins, a trailing shot down the birth canal of a hallway, toward the mystery. Suddenly light! A bright room filled with elderly men in beards and black hats: sages, perhaps from another world. At the far end of the room, on a raised platform, is a blazing red light.
Is this a scene from a Steven Spielberg movie?
In an overview of the career of this legendary director, Time Magazine described this event as one which influenced Spielberg's vision. It turned out to be his earliest memory from a day in 1948 when he was taken in a stroller to a Cincinnati synagogue for a service.


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"A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee. The false test results led thousands of people to take antibiotics unnecessarily and even caused a New Hampshire hospital to limit the number of patients admitted since hospital workers were thought to be infected....Government health officials say cases have tripled in the United States since 2001, with nearly 26,000 cases reported in 2005. Nearly half of those cases were diagnosed with the testing method now called into question, and that has raised doubts about the true number of cases......"It's been a roller coaster. Whoa, look at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!" said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of Vanderbilt University's department of preventive medicine." - Mike Stobbe, Associated Press (August 23, 2007)
Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary:
When public health authorities choose to scare us by hyping the dangers of infectious disease, like whooping cough (pertussis), the least we can expect is that they have gotten their scientific facts straight. The Keystone Cops act is not very reassuring: "Whoa, look at this big outbreak! Whoa, it wasn't really pertussis!".
For the last several years, public health officials have been beating the drums, warning us that whooping cough is on the rise despite a more than 95 percent uptake of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine by all children entering kindergarten, who are required by most states to have 3-5 doses of DTaP (diphtheria- tetanus-acellular pertussis) vaccine before they can attend school. The CDC's solution has been to recommend yet another dose of pertussis vaccine via a booster Tdap shot for all 11-12 year old children. New York and other state health officials are in the process of persuading politicians to add Tdap to state mandatory vaccination laws. That "more is better" solution, say federal health officials, will finally stamp out whooping cough.
But now, we find out that many of the whooping cough cases reported in the "outbreaks" around the country, such as in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee, were bogus cases because some "speedy" lab tests to confirm whooping cough give a false positive the majority of the time. So the reported tripling of whooping cough cases in the past five years may be a total fabrication and the push for children to get another booster dose of Tdap at 11-12 years old may not make any difference at all.
There are other infectious organisms, such as parapertussis, which cause respiratory disease that can mimic whooping cough and they are not covered in the Tdap vaccine. Lab diagnosis is critical to accurately confirming and treating whooping cough and it is unfortunate that it has taken so long to uncover the ineffectiveness of the lab test used to confirm many suspected whooping cough cases today.
But more importantly, the rush by federal health officials to add yet another booster dose of vaccine without carefully investigating why whooping cough is apparently occurring in a highly vaccinated child population does not inspire confidence in the evidence with which the CDC supports vaccine recommendations. Assumptions are a poor replacement for scientific evidence.
Equally concerning is the lack of scientific evidence supporting the safety of giving children entering puberty multiple vaccines, such as Tdap, meningococcal, HPV and chicken pox vaccine and others without long term studies evaluating the impact of pre-adolescent vaccination on brain and immune function. Today, the CDC recommends that, by age 11, children should have received 53-56 doses of 15 or 16 vaccines depending upon if the child is a boy or girl. Where are the safety studies that demonstrate this much vaccination leads to greater long term good health?


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Townie® 20" Kids' sport modern Electra style and Flat Foot Technology® integrated into the frame, which ensures proper leg extension and no tippy-toe stops and the adjustable frame design accommodates major growth spurts. The 3i EQ comes equipped with bright front and rear LED light system and color matched front and rear fenders.
- Lightweight 6061-T6 aluminum frame
- Shimano Nexus internal 3-speed w/coaster brake
- Shimano Nexus Revo shifter
- Spanninga front and rear LED lights
- Shimano Nexus dynamo hub
- Custom alloy crank
- Painted alloy rims
- Painted alloy fenders
- 20"x 2.125" semi-slick street tires


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About Red Bull Sound Space:
What was once an office space packed with hum-drum cubicles is now home to a stage evoking the spirit of underground rock and roll. KROQ listener donations of old audio equipment such as '40s-era radios, record players and blinged-out boomboxes were crafted into a piece of artwork that adorns the stage. Since its launch in October 2011, the space has hosted Coldplay, The Black Keys, Bad Religion, The Fray, Of Monsters and Men, Keane, FUN, Falling in Reverse, Angels & Airwaves, Pennywise, Silversun Pickups, Neon Trees, Imagine Dragons, Metric, Serj Tankian, M83, Passion Pit, Grouplove, Slightly Stoopid (KROQ), as well as Maroon 5, Flo Rida & Nelly Furtado (AMP).
For more information on Red Bull Sound Space, please visit KROQ.COM/RedBullSoundSpace.
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Although still a young field, research in "decision neuroscience" has exploded in the last decade, with scientists beginning to decipher what exactly is happening in our brains when we are making choices, whether big or small.
In fact, early findings suggest it is possible to parse out the complexity of thinking into its individual components, and in the process determine how they are integrated as we ponder and decide.
Recently, researchers in decision neuroscience participated in a discussion about their work and the genesis of this cutting-edge field. During the dialogue, they discussed how decision neuroscience hopes to greatly advance our understanding of the brain, and in turn our understanding of mental disorders ranging from depression to schizophrenia.
"For many psychiatric disorders, patients that are symptomatic are frequently making poor decisions about numerous things throughout the day, such as how they handle their anxiety and other emotional states," said C. Daniel Salzman, MD, PhD., Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University School of Medicine. "If you've ever had a friend or family member with depression, you can see they are not making decisions the way they normally do. So there clearly has to be dysfunction in the neurocircuits of psychiatric patients affecting their decisions, and we need to understand this better in order to come up with better treatments for mental disorders."
As pointed out by another participant in the dialogue, this research is already deepening understanding of these disorders.
"Our new knowledge about the cellular and circuit mechanisms of working memory and decision processes in the brain has already had a significant impact on clinical studies of mental illness," said Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD., Department of Neurobiology, Physics and Psychology; Director, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology; Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine. "For instance, addiction is fundamentally a problem of making bad choices, resulting from impaired reward signaling and decision-making circuits in the brain. Understanding these circuits has become key to linking genes and molecules with behavior in clinical studies."
Daeyeol Lee, PhD., Department of Neurobiology and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, stated one important goal is understanding the neurobiological basis for individual variability in decision making.
"When people face the same decision, they tend to make different choices," said Lee. "Some of that is due to their different experiences and learning environment. There are also fundamental genetic differences that give rise to different decision making styles. Getting a better understanding of the neurobiological basis for those individual differences in decision making will have enormous implications. It can explain a lot of problems in our society, including differences in the tendency to develop psychiatric illnesses."
The complete dialogue is available at: http://www.