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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing: Using the Cloud for Competitive AdvantageOn Monday, Sun Microsystems announced the Sun Cobalt Control Station, a server appliance management tool designed to streamline the management of hundreds of servers while easing the provisioning of new services.
The Control Station integrates with Sun's Cobalt RaQ and Qube server appliances.On Monday, Sun Microsystems announced the Sun Cobalt Control Station, a server appliance management tool designed to streamline the management of hundreds of servers while easing the provisioning of new services.
Control Station can manage hundreds of server appliances from a single location, thus simplifying tasks, like upgrading and patching server appliances, that are usually done individually. System alerts notify administrators, and metrics allow them to monitor the health and performance of systems containing their managed appliances.
"The Control Station augments the Sun Cobalt server appliance line, echoing the exceptional ease-of-use, flexibility, and reliability of our current solutions, and introducing extensive capabilities that ease and simplify both the day-to-day management of existing systems and the implementation of new services," said Peder Ulander, Sun Microsystems director of marketing.
Sun Cobalt will also provide a software development kit (SDK) for Control Station that will allow other utilities to be incorporated into the module architecture and built as separate control modules. With these customization capabilities, enterprises can continue using proprietary utilities while using the Control Station to perform daily operations.
Organizations will also have the choice of configuring the Control Station as a multipurpose device, running several modules (such as performance monitoring and software management), or as a dedicated device.
The Control Station will be available directly through Sun and its worldwide sales channels starting November 20. Its list price is about $5,000 with variances depending on the configuration options selected.
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"Explorers and scientists alike have long studied and marveled at these islands—made famous by Charles Darwin," wrote Raleigh Seamster, project lead for Google Maps.
Google partnered with the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Parks Directorate to collect panoramic images of the islands at 10 locations with its Street View Trekker (which appears to be a look like a backpack with a raised soccer ball on it -- which is the camera). While Google released some images today, the majority will be available later this year.
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dineshraju necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 161 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Hi, we are a start-up technology company who wants to re-design our logo (which will be followed by our website and corporate look/stationery) and are very excited to work with the designers here. =)
About Anafore: We are a company that uses cutting edge technology to help businesses grow their customer base with referral marketing programs.
Small to medium businesses who are interested to grow their customer base.
Website: http://www.anafore.com (website for reference, but new logo does not have to use the same colors/design etc. in fact we prefer to start from a clean state and the website might be redesigned to be in line with the new logo)
Being the young company that we are, we used a simple logo to start off with. At this point in time, we would like to re-design our logo to better reflect who we are and what we do
We need a new logo that contains the word Anafore that
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Feel free to experiment with colors and please keep the designs fresh and original! We will try to provide as much feedback as possible during the contest. Thanks and we are looking forward to your designs!
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For John Bartelt at Studio Art Shop on West Main, shipping late afternoon orders has been a simple matter of toddling across the street to the University Station post office.
After March 10, never more.
"We lost our lease," says Postal Service district coordinator Lois Miller. "We were notified by the owner that our lease would not be renewed."
"I'm not evicting the post office," says the building's owner, W.K. Heischman. "They wanted a longer-term lease. I didn't want to do that."
The 11th Street SW building sits in the middle of a West Main Street destined for redevelopment– squeezed between UVA hospital expansion on one side and Heischman's long-vacant property at 10th and West Main on the other.
Around 2000, plans were afoot for a mixed-use project called Holsinger Square that might eventually stretch west to include the land under the University Station.
"I have several options," says Heischman, who declines to say more about what those options are– or what's going on with Holsinger Square/University Station. Whatever happens, it seems unlikely the simple 1965 brick postal building will remain standing.
Heischman's University Station LLC bought the 6,818-square-foot structure on nearly half an acre in 2002 for $1.18 million. The post office was neighbor to the legendary Trax nightclub, demolished by the university's bulldozers in early 2003.
Like its razed neighbor, which in the early 1990s became the proving ground for the Dave Matthews Band, the post office has a Dave connection.
Chris Tetzeli, a 13-year veteran of the musicians' empire and now head of ATO Records, says he has "very fond memories" of shipping Dave Matthews Band t-shirts, hats, and CDs from an office upstairs over Trax.
"At first we were going over there with five packages," recalls Tetzeli. "They were very friendly. When it started becoming 50 packages, they weren't as happy to see us."
That shipping business grew into MusicToday, a company so large that its 200-plus-person staff now occupies much of the former ConAgra food-processing plant in Crozet. Customers include such musical acts as the Rolling Stones, Eminem, Shania Twain, and the Grateful Dead.
Back at University Station, the 528 P.O. boxes and four or five employees will be relocated to the Downtown station on the first floor of the Market Street parking garage. While Miller says the Postal Service sought space closer to the university, a letter is going out next week to customers informing them that their P.O. boxes will now be a mile and a half away.
"We were unsuccessful at finding something at this time," says Miller, who doesn't rule out a future site near the Corner.
Of the four major branches– Main, Barracks Road, Downtown, and University– the latter made the least money, according to Miller, so finding a new home for the branch could be an uphill battle.
"That's one way of accounting," says local businessman Eugene Williams, whose Dogwood Housing real estate office is close by. "The post office is located in a neighborhood with the most low-income families. It affects a lot of people who do not have cars and walk– a lot of senior citizens. It's hard even for people with cars, finding parking at Barracks Road and Downtown."
"It's inconvenient for us," concurs Bartelt, no fan of parking at the Barracks Road station.
For businesses like Bartelt's, there's an option, but it's one perhaps most dreaded by the Postal Service: dropping the USPS for UPS.
But that doesn't help when all somebody really wants is a book of stamps.
The University Station post office moved into its 11th Street SW location April 1, 1966. Forty years later, its time is up.


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Alibaba Partners Include Onetime Top Cop
When Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed on Monday the names of the 27 partners that control the e-commerce giant's board of directors, one of the most unlikely names on the list was Shao Xiaofeng.
Mr. Shao is a 48-year-old former cop who gained a small measure of fame in China for cracking a brutal murder case more than a decade ago. Though listed as the company's chief risk officer, he also as of last year held another essential post, according to one government website: secretary of Alibaba's Communist Party Committee.
Alibaba – which is seeking an initial public offering in the U.S. that could be one of the largest in history – declined to comment on Mr. Shao or make him available for comment. It isn't clear whether he still leads the company's internal Communist Party apparatus, an important position at major Chinese companies that helps executives coordinate with the organization that dominates politics in China.
Mr. Shao is an example of the tendency of Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma to surround himself with old friends as well as those who share his vision of the company. In the filing, Alibaba described the 27-member partnership as a way "to ensure the sustainability of our mission, vision and values." In a television interview, Mr. Shao has said he met Mr. Ma roughly 30 years ago in a library while preparing for China's college entrance exam.
At a press conference earlier this month dedicated to Alibaba's purchase of a stake in China's Guangzhou Evergrande soccer club, Mr. Ma cited Mr. Shao, who was in attendance. "Almost all our leaders are outsiders, but we know how to respect the experts," he said. "Our Shao Xiaofeng, who was a police officer before, had been in that job for over 20 years. Today, he works at an e-commerce company. So I think outsiders can lead experts. The key point is to respect the experts."
Mr. Shao was in the police force until 2005, when he left to join Alibaba to help it catch and prevent fraud on its sites. Since 2012 Mr. Shao has held the title of chief risk officer, an important position at a company that has grappled in the past with U.S. officials who accused it of being a major source of pirated goods. U.S. officials removed Alibaba's Taobao arm from its list of notorious markets in 2012.
In a 2009 television interview (in two parts, in Chinese here and here), Mr. Shao described himself as the son of a cop drawn to that line of work. He worked his way up in the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau to eventually become the leader of the department's major criminal case team.
In 2001 a group of four young men murdered a family of six in Hangzhou in order to steal 70 yuan ($12) and a mobile phone, in a case that received national attention (in Chinese).
"I arrived at the scene and that was very, very bloody," Mr. Shao said in the interview. "It was a two-floor house. The six victims were in different spots. There was blood everywhere inside the house." He added, "the only thing alive there was a hen eating stuff in the yard."
The four suspected killers had all fled back to their home province of Guizhou, and the police believed they were likely hiding out in a remote part of the province. Mr. Shao and a group of officers went to the region undercover, scouting steep mountainous terrain and learning the local dialect to blend in with the locals.
After eight months of search, the group found the killers hiding out in a cave in the mountains. "The suspects were quite surprised," he said.
Mr. Shao said he left the police force after being promoted to an office position away from the front lines. Mr. Ma also helped convince him, he said, by laying out the security difficulties that Alibaba was facing at the time.
Mr. Shao in the interview said that Mr. Ma himself had a bit of police in him. "There is some sort of justice in his blood, or that kind of passion," he said. "When he sees something evil, he would appear in a rage. He dares to stand out too. Sometimes that was very dangerous for a small guy like him."
He added that Mr. Ma's small stature and unique appearance – "if you saw him once you wouldn't forget what he looks like" – made it impossible for the Alibaba founder to fit into a police job.
–Yang Jie and Paul Mozur. Follow Paul Mozur on Twitter @paulmozur
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IT IS true that Collingwood's chief executive Gary Pert genuinely believes that illegal drugs have infiltrated football clubs to a dangerous and damaging degree – a degree that the current AFL illicit drugs policy cannot hope to adequately address.
But it is equally true that Pert, his president Eddie McGuire and Magpies coach Nathan Buckley are desperately worried about what is taking place in their own backyard. Pert has been telling friends for weeks that he is tearing his hair out with concern over the behaviour of certain players at his club.
Pert must have known when he delivered his impassioned speech at the end of last week's chief executives' meeting on the Gold Coast that he would be putting his club in the spotlight. That he was prepared to take a stand is an indication of how worried he has become about the culture at his club.
Like many club chiefs he has become increasingly frustrated at how powerless the clubs are when it comes to drug abuse. They hear the stories, they ask questions but while anonymity remains the privilege of the out-of-season drug user they cannot hope to prove their suspicions unless a player tests positive three times during the season proper or is caught in a legal sense.
But what Collingwood does have in its favour is that it is a remarkably wealthy club. The Magpies are expected to announce an operating profit of about $5 million any day now. The club is rich, it is successful, it is powerful. Powerful enough to withstand a scandal and powerful enough to take a stand that could damage the team in the short term but help it in the long term.
Which is why Collingwood should seriously consider sacking Dane Swan. If it has not already.
Swan is not the only player at Collingwood who has been a law unto himself during his end-of-season break but he has been a dreadful influence for some time and to take a stand now could prove the correction required as Ray McLean moves in to rebuild the erosion of discipline and dedication and bring together what appears to have become a team divided.
The club has asked Swan whether he has been using drugs and he has denied it. St Kilda has unofficially confronted Sam Fisher with the same question in recent days and he denied it also. So did Ben Cousins for two years at West Coast. Even if Swan is telling the truth about drugs his cavalier behaviour has helped create a culture which is not healthy.
But what Collingwood does know is that Swan is one of its best players who does not want to be a leader. They know he turned up at training a month before the finals disoriented after a heavy night out. They know there have been plenty more heavy nights out over the past six weeks. Very heavy nights. There has also been at least one nasty fight in a public place.
Buckley said after Swan was suspended for two weeks for his transgression in August that the player – who has two years remaining on his contract – was remorseful. The view from Collingwood now is that the opposite seems to be the case. Fairfax Media could not find one senior person at Collingwood this week prepared to defend Swan.
Swan's teammates with off-field misdemeanours to their name include Alan Didak – whose career is coming to an end, Ben Johnson (ditto) and 2012 Copeland Trophy winner Dayne Beams. Sharrod Wellingham has gone to West Coast with a public good riddance from his football boss Geoff Walsh. Clearly the club is trying to take a stand.
You would think that such a tragic occurrence as the death of John McCarthy during an end-of-season bender in Las Vegas would see the penny drop but for some players it hasn't. Footballers have continued to holiday in Vegas and continue to take unacceptable risks.
You would think that more chief executives would have turned to West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett in a bid to learn from West Coast's mistakes, its experience and its remedies. But only Pert over recent years has sounded out Nisbett.
You would think that the circumstances surrounding McCarthy's passing would have been a top-of-agenda item at one of the club chief executives' meetings since it happened but it has never even been officially raised. Port Adelaide boss Keith Thomas did say that the club would early in 2013 put in place a new policy for post-season trips.
AFL chief Andrew Demetriou was correct when he stated that illegal drugs are not simply an AFL issue but an issue for society. But Demetriou must know that the demands of the game when mixed with impressionable or wilful young men with plenty of money is a dangerous cocktail.
So the competition must attempt to show stronger leadership, as it has for two decades now where some social problems are concerned. The AFL players' union must accept that there is a small but influential group of footballers who do not deserve their protection. And Collingwood, which continues to accept the mantle as a club of influence, should muster its considerable force and take a stand. Sometimes actions speak louder than words.
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The family always said your great-grandmother's maiden name was "O'Toole." But was it really? Have you collected documents about her that would list her maiden name, such as her marriage license, death certificate, obituary, or her children's marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, and so on? You might be surprised to find out that her surname was listed as "Towle" instead, which sounds similar and could be a variant spelling. Or maybe she had a first marriage to someone named O'Toole, rather than that being her maiden name. These are some of the many reasons why you should try to confirm the first and last names you have been given by viewing official records about your ancestor, especially those where she would have been present at the time of the record creation (like her marriage license).
This happened recently to one of our patrons, when she learned that a family story was not quite correct. She told me her great-grandmother's maiden name was "Nancy Delong"*. She was interested in finding Nancy's parents, but had looked in all the counties in which Nancy had lived with her husband and found no one with the Delong surname. She wondered aloud to me if Nancy might have dropped out of an alien space ship, or just why else she couldn't find her. When this happens, it's a red flag that something is wrong (besides an impending alien invasion)! The answer could be one of several possibilities:
1. The spelling of the name could be off, a little or a lot, in the records; perhaps because the name was misspelled, the handwriting was unreadable, or the same name night be spelled differently, such as Smith vs. Smythe.
2. The reported name of the family is incorrect.
3. The family may have changed their name – but this happened very infrequently.
4. They were in a different location than expected.
5. The family IS there in the expected records, even though the patron reported being unable to find them, indicating that the patron needs more education in how to search in that databases or source.
To find out what was going on in this case, we chatted about the patron's ancestor further and in the course of that conversation, I asked her several questions:
1. How did she know Nancy's maiden name? She said it was passed down through the family. Had she verified this information with official records? No. (Red flag!)
2. Where had her great-grandparents had married? She thought it was in Knox County, Indiana. I advised her to try to locate the marriage record, as that is the simplest way to learn a woman's maiden (or previous married) name.
When she found the marriage record, the name was spelled "De Lorngne." Aha! If the name was verbally passed along in the family, this name is similar-sounding to Delong, depending on pronunciation and regional accents. Do we know which one was her actual maiden name at this point? No, but finding more records about Nancy should clarify it further. A search of Nancy's children's marriage records seemed to confirm that Nancy's maiden name was Delorgne, but with several more variant spellings. All those were noted, so that when the patron looks for this family in further records, she will have a list of alternate spellings to search under. This, as well as learning to search effectively in genealogy databases, will help make her search more successful. For example, to find records in the Ancestry database under all the variations of this family's surname, she should search using the "Soundex" and "Phonetic" options; under both names, DeLong and DeLornge (which are not Soundex equivalents); and with and without a space between the De and L.
Back to the hunt for Nancy's parents: Armed with the new version of the surname and list of alternate spellings, the patron was able to search more creatively in the census and find a possible brother living nearby to Nancy and her husband in Illinois. He had the same birth state listed as Nancy did (New Jersey) and the same uncommon surname, so it seems promising that they might be related. More research should be done to confirm or deny this theory, while continuing the search for Nancy's parents.
Have you looked and looked for your ancestor under the name you were given for that person, and come up empty? Is it possible that the name you were given was wrong or that you are not searching effectively to find all possibilities? When you think creatively, ask for help, and learn better search techniques, you can break through many a brick wall!
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World finance leaders are searching for ways to promote better economic growth and stronger job creation while avoiding a dangerous slide into a global currency war.
Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations were expected to wrap up their discussions with the release Friday of a joint communique.
The group, which includes Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, began its discussions Thursday night with a working dinner. Those talks were a prelude to broader discussions during the spring meetings of the 188-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister lending organization, the World Bank.
The G-20 joint statement was expected to repeat a pledge the group made at its last meeting in February that members would avoid using competitive currency devaluations to gain advantages in trade.
Lew, previewing the U.S. objectives going into the meetings, said he would press Europe to do more to support growth and would maintain pressure on Japan and China to avoid lowering the value of their currencies to boost their exports at the expense of the United States and other countries.
Lew said it was important that G-20 nations "avoid a downward spiral of `beggar thy neighbor' policies," the type of destructive trade competition that worsened the Great Depression in the 1930s.
In Europe, countries are split over how much budget austerity to pursue, with some nations resisting a push by Germany for a strong emphasis on deficit reduction.
Referring to disagreements over the issue, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Thursday that his government had chosen "to keep open the engine of growth." He said, "Germany understands that as prosperous as it is, as strong as it is, it also needs a strong France."
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that the United States, Europe, Japan and China all need to make adjustments to their current economic policies in order to boost a still-struggling global economy.
"We need growth, first and foremost," Lagarde told reporters.
She said the U.S. and many other countries should focus more on growth and less on trimming budget imbalances this year while their economies are growing at sub-par rates.
Earlier this week, the IMF lowered its outlook for the world economy this year, predicting that government spending cuts would slow U.S. growth and keep the 17-nation area that uses the euro currency in recession.
Lagarde noted that the United States had avoided the "fiscal cliff" of across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts at the beginning of this year that could have derailed the U.S. recovery. But she said Washington had made a policy error by allowing $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts, known as a sequester, to take effect on March 1.
She said that a priority for Europe was "to fix its frayed banking system" and also where needed to moderate its austerity programs. Lagarde noted that Spain was struggling with high unemployment and therefore the country needed more time before pursuing aggressive deficit reduction.
Lagarde rejected a suggestion that the IMF had given conflicting advice to countries such as Britain by first praising their austerity programs and then contending they were too stringent.
She said the IMF had always cautioned that if economic growth started to falter, then a country needed to moderate its deficit-cutting programs.
"We very much stand by that" advice, she told reporters.
But Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA, an anti-poverty group, said the IMF's reduced economic forecast demonstrated "a kind of schizophrenia at the IMF" in which growth has been hurt "due to the austerity policies the IMF previously promoted."
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told reporters that his institution welcomes creation of a new development bank being started by five of the world's emerging economic powers because new sources of capital are needed to meet the world's need to build new roads, dams and other infrastructure projects.
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced last month that they would create a development bank to help fund $4.5 trillion in infrastructure projects. The announcement was seen as a direct challenge to the World Bank, which has been accused by the developing world of having a Western bias.
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So, I had a birthday recently, one ending in a zero. To celebrate, I spent a long weekend in Las Vegas, eating my way through the strip and environs. I hadn't been to Vegas for a few years, but in this town, things change so much that a few years can seem like a lifetime. I'll begin my series of reports on Sin City dining with one of the best meals I had on my trip: Carnevino(at the Palazzo).
Mario Batali's Italian steakhouse Carnevino was a tour de force of a meal from start to finish. I mean, how can you not love a place that serves its bread not only with butter but with a little tub of lardo. Yes lardo, pork fat, whipped up and seasoned with rosemary and salt. It had the texture of a very creamy butter and the taste of a rosemary butter with an underlying porkiness. The stuff was addictive. It made me want to lick out the tub, to take it home with me or to buy a brick of manteca and try to make it myself.
Given my experience at Batali's Osteria Mozza, we expected the pasta appetizer to be good, and it was. We opted for the cannelloni, stuffed with braised rabbit, spring garlic and lemon zest and topped with cheese. The pasta was Batali-perfect and the stuffing was a delightful fusion of sour, salt and garlic.
But beef is the thing here, BBL Beef to be specific. BBL is still sort of a mystery to me. As far as I can discern, it stands for Belgian Blue Lefaivre, which appears to be a proprietary breed; a hybrid between a particularly lean breed and a fattier cow which is both lean and well marbled, if that seeming contradiction makes sense. The menu states that BBL is "often beyond regular USDA prime standards for marbling and flavor and is hormone and antibiotic free."
Whatever the stuff is though, it's tasty. We ordered our favorite cut, the porterhouse, which was stunning. The beef tasted like no other I've had. The marbling, evident in the bone left on the plate (all steaks are carved tableside) was more similar to that of Wagyu steak than any other steak I've had in the US. The flavor was much more beefy, almost gamey, than a standard cut. This was one of the best steaks I've had, ever, and I like steak. And yes, I picked up the bone and tore the last bits of meat from it caveman style, to the amusement of surrounding tables. I'm sorry, but if you're going to give me the bone on a plate, I'm going to eat it.
Dessert was also excellent. Caramel date fritters, were warm and perfectly fried. The date and caramel, which you might think would be an excessively sweet combination, came together perfectly, the date puree adding some texture to the burnt sugar of the caramel.
My only complaint of the meal was that one of the sides we ordered, a fregula pasta (a sort of large couscous) with fava beans and pecorino romano, was too salty. The pecorino, cut into little balls and mixed in with the fregula, overwhelmed with their saltiness and there were too few favas in the dish to make an impression.
The more I eat at Batali restaurants, the more impressed I am that this seemingly class-clown type of a guy with a television, restaurant and cook book empire is still putting out food of this quality. This was a meal that was worth a pilgrimage. If you are a steak lover, you need to check out Carnevino.
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- Banana Wonder said...
Hah, I went to Mario Batali's Del Posto in NY - so good. Happy Birthday, Sku!
- May 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- SinoSoul said...
dangit, happy belated S! sorry I haven't been following up. This the big 40? I think I'm gonna ride off Palos Verdes cliffs when I turn 40. Just sayin'.
- June 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM
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The municipal elections in Henderson County are three days away, and I'm still here in the frozen North breaking ice to get out of the harbor.
The municipal elections in Henderson County are three days away, and I'm still here in the frozen North breaking ice to get out of the harbor.
It doesn't matter, really, as I can't vote, anyway. It's not that I'm a felon, though some of my critics would like to think so. In fact, convicted felons can vote if they get their rights restored. But I can't.
No, I'm not a U.S. citizen (yet), and so I can't vote. But that will change.
But some 76,765 eligible voters in Henderson County can vote. The right to vote has been called the cornerstone of democracy. I wonder how many people will vote.
According to Beverly Cunningham, director of the Henderson County Board of Elections, roughly 17 percent of eligible voters turned out for the primaries. "We hope that number will get up to 20 percent (for the municipal election)," she said. "That's a little more than normal."
In the last federal election, 54 percent of eligible voters in America exercised that right.
"Why is that figure so much higher?" I asked Ms. Cunningham.
"There's a big difference between a federal election and a municipal election."
"Why?" I asked again.
"I don't know. It's just voters."
Even though the federal election numbers are more than 2� times that of a municipal election in Henderson County, barely half the citizens with a right I don't have failed to exercise it. The U.S. has been called the greatest democracy on Earth, and yet the cornerstone may be crumbling.
I can see why. The partisan politics in this country has frozen the nation, and the ice seems thicker than the ice the bow of my boat breaks up as I head out into the lake. People don't care anymore. (But in my opinion, municipal politics is no place for partisanship; there should be no ice there.)
If half the nation thinks voting is unimportant in this country, why are young U.S. soldiers dying in foreign countries for the rights of the citizens of those nations to vote?
Spreading democracy is the reason often given for fighting foreign wars. George W. Bush, or Dubya, as "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau likes to call him, pledged to free the citizens of Iraq. Personally, I doubt the veracity of that pledge; in my mind there was a different game afoot. But to take Dubya at his word, one would have to ask the question, why? If this country is any example, only half the people want it. In Henderson County, only one-fifth of voters do just that.
Of course, that isn't entirely true. People risk their lives in many countries with fledgling democracies to cast their ballots. Some lose their lives.
I believe firmly in the right to vote and the responsibility to exercise that right. I have said the following before and it feels appropriate to say it again. The last time I ran for federal politics in Canada, I ran for a centrist party in a right-wing conservative riding. The left wing was spending a fortune on its guy, and I knew I had no chance of winning.
It was a winter election. (Our prime minister at the time, the leader of my party, called on the troops, "Let's don our snowshoes and win this election." I did just that and snowshoed some 300 miles in a circular route, returning to my home polling station on Election Day. As I took off my shoes to go inside and vote, I gathered my children around me. They were 9, 11 and 13 years old.
"Remember to tell your children," I said to them, passionately, "that their grandfather once walked 300 miles on snowshoes to vote because he thought it was that important." I fervently hope they got the message.
I don't know what the voter turnout will be in Henderson County, but I do know nobody has to risk his or her life or walk 300 miles to cast a ballot. Incidentally, dear reader, I am aware that my walking does not shine a candle to those brave men and women who risk death to vote, or to the U.S. soldiers abroad.
If you can't make it out to vote Tuesday, early voting is available today from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 75 East Center Street in Hendersonville. "We've had 500 people vote early, so that's better than the primary," said Beverly Cunningham. "We're open now (last Wednesday) and nobody's here. There's no line."
There's no reason to vote in Flat Rock as no seats are contested. But Fletcher, Mills River, Laurel Park and especially Hendersonville have contested seats. Show the world — rock that 20 percent.


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Milne is a massive pie-chucker. Completely hopeless.
Milne is a massive pie-chucker. Completely hopeless.
Gah, that was a terrible over. Far too predictable.
He's CD's worst bowler as well as NZ's
Reckon Milne will be a quality bowler in a few years. At the same time I think he is pretty poor right now. With his pace though it could just take the right line and length to see him become quality.
Well played Jadams.
Hop**** to phail
Why does Adams bat so low? Has his batting deteriorated?
Mason on a hattrick! lol hopkins
LOL Hopkins! This mug is comedy gold
lol hopkins
And this guy has been playing international cricket.
I'm gonna repeat myself...why on earth does Adams bat below Mills, Tuffey and Hira??? If anything he's the sort of bloke you'd expect to be batting near the top of the order in the De Grandhomme role. Seems like an ideal T20 batsman.
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The file left, on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, by former President George Bush for the forty-fourth president, Barack H. Obama – courtesy of the Boston Globe
Some have said they've been disappointed by Obama's inaugural speech, saying it lacked a memorable poetic line in the tradition of FDR or JFK. What?! After a mere sixteen hours, they think they are in a position to evaluate the memorable-ness of a speech? Come on! FDR died almost fifty-four years ago, and JFK just over forty-five years ago: it takes time for history to define what might or might not emerge as memorable. For goodness sake. (For what it's worth, my money is on his offer of friendship to leaders around the world who will renounce violence and corruption in favour of mutual respect –
[…] we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.)
Here is an excerpt from Andrew Sullivan's take –
Mulling over the address yesterday, I felt in retrospect that the restraint and classical tropes of the speech were deliberate and wise. From the moment he gave his election night victory speech, Obama has been signaling great caution in the face of immense challenges. The tone is humble. We know he can rally vast crowds to heights of emotion; which is why his decision to calm those feelings and to engage his opponents and to warn of impending challenges is all the more impressive. He's a man, it seems to me, who knows the difference between bravado and strength, between an adolescent "decider" and a mature president, between an insecure brittleness masquerading as power, and the genuine authority a real president commands. He presides. He can set a direction and a mood, but he invites the rest of us to move the ball forward: in a constitutional democracy, we are always the ones we've been waiting for.
He is not a messiah and does not act or speak like one. He's a traditionalist in many ways.


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Coherent and Nonlinear Lightwave Communications
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This is a practical source on recent developments in coherent and nonlinear lightwave communications. The book systematically presents up-to-date explanations of all the relevant physical principles and recent research in this emerging area. Providing an unparallelled engineering-level treatment (with 700 equations), this reference also describes the progression of coherent and nonlinear technology from yesterday's experimental field to today's practical applications tool. This work is intended as a tool for research telecommunication engineers, applications engineers working with broadband telecom systems and networks, and postgraduate students.
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Last Saturday, I was doing nothing in particular and suddenly, by nighttime, I was dealing with completely debilitating pain in my…coccyx (tailbone). I could barely move. Standing and laying down were sort of doable, but sitting down and moving just weren't in the cards. The tailbone just hurt like mad. On Sunday, I missed church and didn't leave the house as I laid down or stood up all day. Too painful to sit.
Absolutely no idea what has caused this pain. Only thing I can come up with is that my birthday was 9/22 and some force in the universe was simply trying to taunt me re my age.
One thing I have learned from this OMI is that I seriously take for granted sitting. All day every day I sit. And I've never thought about how nice it is to sit without pain. It's sort of like breathing. I take sitting for granted constantly. Well, now that it hurts to sit, I don't take it for granted. In fact, all of you sitting and reading this ought to take a moment to un-take-for-granted the fact that you can sit pain-free.


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DESE Offers Advice on Transfers from Unaccredited Districts
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released a set of guidelines designed to help students who want to transfer from schools in unaccredited districts to schools in accredited districts.
These guidelines come on the heels of the Missouri Supreme Court upholding the 1993 statute that required schools from unaccredited districts to pay tuition for students transferring to nearby accredited districts. Some school districts have argued that the 1993 law violated the Missouri Constitution by imposing an unfunded state mandate. St. Louis County Circuit Judge David Lee Vincent III agreed in a May 2012 ruling in which he said the some schools would not be able to comply with the law due to budgetary issues. The Missouri Supreme Court overruled that verdict on June 11.
Transferring students can be a challenging prospect, both for families and schools, so the DESE decided to share some guidelines for making the process as simple as possible, especially considering the legal aspect as well.
"We need to provide guidance for districts in implementing the law," said Missouri Commissioner of Education Chris L. Nicastro. "It's critical that policy be in place to ensure a smooth transition for new students transferring into accredited districts from unaccredited districts."
There are currently three unaccredited districts in Missouri: Kansas City and the suburban St. Louis school systems of Normandy and Riverview Gardens.
If students apply to a school in a district that has higher demand than availability, the students will be entered into a lottery for the limited available seats. Some preference may be given to students who have already have siblings enrolled in the district.


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Man stabbed during robbery outside Burlington home
Police are looking for a man suspected of stabbing another man during a robbery outside his home late Monday night.
Robert Conn, 48, was found stabbed in the chest around 11:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Westmoreland Drive. Conn was taken to Alamance Regional Medical Center for treatment of non life-threatening injuries.
Conn told Burlington police that he was outside his home when a stranger approached him from behind, took the wallet out of his pants pocket and stabbed him in the chest from behind with a long knife.
The suspect was last seen running toward Sharpe Road. He was described as standing 5'7" to 5'8" tall and wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt.
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Inbox: Is Britton a rotation possibility?
Orioles beat reporter Brittany Ghiroli answers fans' questions
With 14 Orioles games in the books, it's not really time to step back and take stock in the young season. Still, if the early going has taught us anything, it's that the O's -- and every club in the American League East -- will have their depth tested and their work cut out for them if they're going to be among the last teams standing.
Here are some of your most popular questions regarding the Orioles, who will head to Boston on Friday for the start of a tough seven-game road trip that ends in Toronto.
Will the Orioles make Zach Britton a starter? It only seems fair given how well he's performed and how the rotation has struggled.
-- Tim B., Norfolk, Va.
It's an enticing thought and a question I've received countless times already this season, which is a testament to how great Britton has been. The 26-year-old hasn't allowed a run in 11 1/3 innings, and he looks like a completely different pitcher out of the bullpen. That's why I'd be hesitant to move him, and it's why the Orioles believe Britton has more value in relief, giving the club some great innings in close games.
Britton's three innings were the highlight of Wednesday's 3-0 win over the Rays, and he was publicly a candidate for a starting spot this spring. But he never made a start longer than two innings, and the O's never planned on him being part of the rotation out of camp, barring an injury.
I think that case still exists here, and the preference is to leave Britton in the bullpen, where he's a serious weapon as a lefty who can get right-handers out and potentially be a late-inning force. Britton and Brian Matusz are two huge threats for the opposition, and I think they'd be hesitant to put Britton back in the rotation. Britton is throwing harder and is more confident out of the 'pen, and that success doesn't automatically translate in a starting role. Unless there's an injury and no other viable candidates, which could happen, I'd expect Britton to stay in relief for the time being.
I thought the addition of Steve Lombardozzi was a fantastic grab, and he's proven his worth early on in the season. Has he made Ryan Flaherty expendable as the primary utility role player once Manny Machado returns?
-- Paul O., Woodbridge, Va.
Lombardozzi has been impressive, I agree. But when Machado returns, I don't think it will change things for Flaherty as much as it will for Jonathan Schoop, who would likely be the odd man out. Either Lombardozzi or Flaherty will start at second base on any given night, and the other player will be the utility man off the bench. Both have shown some exceptional defensive skills and versatility to give manager Buck Showalter options late in a game.
What's the timetable on Machado? When will he rejoin the team?
-- Scott S., Columbia, Md.
Machado ran the bases on Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla., which was his last step, and he's working to play in a couple of extended spring games, which could happen when the team is on the road. Showalter hinted that Machado's rehab assignment won't be as long as the 20 days dictates, barring a setback, because Machado has been hitting and fielding since Spring Training. The key is to have the 21-year-old adjust to the game pace, and my guess is he could be an early May addition.
If the Orioles are in contention in August, do you see Kevin Gausman and Dylan Bundy playing an everyday role, or is 2015 the true goal for both of them?
-- Bernie B., Largo, Md.
First, Gausman and Bundy have to get into a position to help the team before you can pencil them in as a second-half boost. Gausman, who was sick earlier in the season, didn't last four innings in his last Triple-A start, as Showalter said Gausman reportedly dealt with a blister that developed on his right hand. Obviously, Gausman is well thought of in the organization, but he'll need to string together some successful outings at Triple-A Norfolk before the Orioles consider a callup. And that will also depend on the needs of the big league club.
Bundy is in a little different situation since he's rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. He has started to spin the ball, which is a big step in his progression, and he will incorporate his breaking ball shortly in his bullpen sessions. But the right-hander will have to, even more so than Gausman, prove he can help the O's, as Bundy has just 1 2/3 Major League innings under his belt.
A guy who could be a viable option sooner than Bundy and Gausman? It's Johan Santana, who continues to throw live batting practice, and he's considered ahead of Bundy's projected timeline right now. Whether the two-time AL Cy Young Award winner can return to form is yet to be seen, but Santana is certainly worth keeping an eye on.
It seems Showalter isn't using Darren O'Day as his go-to setup man. I know there haven't been a ton of opportunities, but Evan Meek and Ryan Webb seem to be getting those chances before him. Has O'Day been demoted?
-- Rusty, McLean, Va.
Not at all. If you look at O'Day's game logs by innings, it reads like this: 8, 8, 9, 10 and 9. So it's not like the righty is pitching any earlier in games. I think it's partially a product of Showalter wanting to see what he has in new pitchers Meek and Webb and him trying to determine how his bullpen could -- in a perfect world -- slot as a bridge to closer Tommy Hunter.
Showalter is also trying to determine who can pick up the ninth if Hunter is unavailable. O'Day is and will continue to be a late-inning option for the Orioles, and the club is hopeful that some of the things he worked on this spring -- namely defending himself against right-handed hitters -- will help give Showalter more flexibility in terms of when to use him. So far, O'Day has thrown five scoreless innings, which doesn't seem like he's been demoted to me.


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Sen. Trent Lott likes to reminisce about the time he spent as a child on a cotton farm near Schlater, Miss. But the Senate's top Republican appears to be forgetting his ties to the Delta, judging from comments he made on the Senate floor Nov. 30.
"The Senate bill couldn't be written any worse," he said. "This is a disastrous bill. Here we are three weeks from Christmas, and we're tangled up in a bad ag bill."
Aside from the fact that the senator's countdown to Christmas was a little off, his comments couldn't be more wrong, according to some Mississippi farmers who have supported Lott in the past.
While many growers favor the Farm Security Act of 2001, the House bill, because it would provide a higher target price, they could also live with the Senate bill, which includes a higher AMTA payment than the House version. Few consider either a "bad" bill.
But Lott said that, given the differences between the House and Senate versions and administration opposition, he thought it would be impossible to produce a unified bill by year's end. "We'll have a bill by the time the current law expires (in 2002)," he said.
That will be too late for many growers. Without the price guarantees of the House or Senate bills, lenders from the High Plains to the East Coast say they will be unable to finance many growers for 2002.
In contrast to Lott's stance, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle reportedly told Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, the Ag Committee chairman, that he couldn't go home to South Dakota for Christmas without a farm bill.
As Lott and other Republican senators have dug in their heels, the administration has stepped up its rhetoric that both bills encourage higher commodity production, which, in turn, will depress prices. (An analysis by the Food and Agricultural Policy Institute says that is not the case.)
For all its free market platitudes, the administration has had little to say about Delta farmers and others who would be forced out of business by its philosophy. Or the landowners who would see their incomes dry up.
While farm organizations are pressing for the Ag Committee bill, most would be happy to see anything move in the Senate, including the Cochran-Roberts bill that was rejected by the Ag Committee earlier. The latter, co-authored by Mississippi's other senator, contains lower target prices than the Senate Committee bill, but would give leaders something to take to conference.
Administration officials have promised that if Congress will take its time and write a more "thoughtful" farm bill, the $73.5 billion in additional spending for agriculture in the budget resolution will be there for next year.
Besides the fact that the administration has no say on appropriations, farm groups see the promises as disingenuous. "Given the current economic outlook, we'll be lucky to get half that much if we have to wait," said one leader.
At press time, Daschle was expected to ask for a vote of cloture on the Committee bill. If he can get the needed 60 votes, he planned to bring the bill to the floor for debate.


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