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Vintage appliances keep carrying the load
PEORIA – They sure don't make them like they used to. Based on the flood of responses the Peoria Journal Star got to its call for "workhorses" — appliances that have taken a licking and kept on ticking for 30, 40 up to 60 years and more — there is some truth to the cliche. Dozens wrote in about their old appliances — everything from refrigerators built in the 40s to washers and dryers handed down so many times who knows how old they are to a 30-year-old hair dryer still good as new. By Jennifer Davis of the Peoria Journal Star.
State Briefs. News from around the state.
GOVERNMENT REFORM: The top two Democrats who run the legislature propose sweeping changes to root out corruption on the state's pension boards, while the reform commission created by Gov. Pat Quinn comes out with its own ideas for improvements. By Adriana Colindres of the State Capitol Bureau. Will be posted this evening.
STATE CAPITOL Q&A: A closer look at the busy week facing state lawmakers, who are trying to meet a Friday deadline to get bills out of the House and Senate and why that's important. By Adriana Colindres of the State Capitol Bureau.
LOCAL LOBBYING: Local governments spent about $6 million on lobbyists to try to sway state government last year, a 15 percent increase from the year before, a new report from the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform found. By Andrew Thomason of the State Capitol Bureau.
Inmate found hanging in Tazewell County cell
PEKIN – A Tazewell County Justice Center inmate was found hanging in his cell Monday in what officials say may have been a suicide. Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston said Bradley Scott Alexander, 35, of Bloomington, was found by an inmate who shared a cell with him. By Sharon Woods Harris of the Pekin Times.
Bartering companies look for fair trade
PEORIA – Ric Kearbey has traded in his weather maps for business plans. The former WHOI-TV weathercaster is now an active partner in the I-Trade bartering firm that recently opened an office in Peoria. The company works to find trading partners for businesses so that both sides benefit.
Rain, snow leave farm fields too wet to work in
SPRINGFIELD – Heavy rain and a weekend snow that melted in hours has left more than 80 percent of area soils too wet to work just as the spring planting season is about to begin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday. By Tim Landis of the State Journal-Register. To localize: Are farm fields in your area still too wet to work in?
House provides a river view from every room
CHILLICOTHE – Doing laundry in the laundry room/home office, Jeanie Ruhland has a view of the Illinois River. Washing dishes in the kitchen, she has a view of the river. Watching television in the family great room, preparing for bed at night, Jeanie and Terry Ruhland have a view of the river. The point of building an eight-room house on a narrow lot smack dab in the floodplain was, obviously, to take advantage of the river view - even when the river reaches scary floodstage levels. By Pam Adams of the Peoria Journal Star.
Medical facilities take a coffee break
SPRINGFIELD – James J. Flannigan didn't eat breakfast before donating blood at Springfield Clinic on a recent Thursday morning. But as soon as he was done, the Springfield man sat down at the clinic's first-floor coffee shop and ended his fast with a cup of coffee and a sugarless peach muffin. The small coffee shop is one of many located in medical buildings throughout Springfield. By Kathryn Rem of the State Journal-Register. To localize: Are coffee shops a fixture in medical facilities in your area?
Holocaust survivor lives to teach what happened
JACKSONVILLE – Several years ago, while addressing a gathering of activists intent on preventing genocide in Sudan, Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin said she stood "shoulder to shoulder" with those trying to stop the killing of innocent men, women and children. Godin's support for peace in that region has been unabated through the years, though, she admits, it comes from a unique perspective. By Steven Spearie of the State Journal-Register.
Kathryn Rem: First Garden sets a good example
For foodies, the best news to come out of the Obama administration so far has to be the decision to create an organic garden on the south lawn of the White House. The burgeoning local foods/organic/sustainable agriculture communities led the charge for replacing some of the neatly manicured lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with an American pie of a garden.
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Phil Luciano: Boys' final trip comes to awful conclusion
You wonder about the little boys' last trip, along a narrow, winding road in the middle of nowhere. And you wonder about their final moments, and if this unfamiliar, rural locale allowed the last sights set upon by their bright, young eyes. Sunday, a passer-by called police about a 1991 Dodge Dynasty resting on Taylor Road about a half-mile from Route 26. Any unfamiliar car would gain notice in this remote area. Duncan Connolly, 9, and brother, Jack, 7, were found inside the car. Michael Connolly, 40, was found 60 yards away. Police, who are investigating it as a double murder-suicide, have not said how they died or where the boys drew their last breaths.
Editorial: Can we succeed in Afghanistan where others have stumbled?
Over the centuries, the area now known as Afghanistan has been invaded by everybody from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan to the Soviet Union, with limited long-term success or none at all. So absolutely, it's fair to question President Barack Obama's decision last week to send 4,000 more soldiers. An editorial from the Peoria Journal Star.
BASKETBALL WRAP-UP: A look back at the Illini basketball season and a look ahead to next year. By John Supinie. Will be posted this evening.
FOOTBALL KICKOFF: Illinois football coach Ron Zook speaks on the first day of spring drills. By John Supinie. Will be posted this evening.


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For for-profit fitness facilities, now is a better time to take on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits than perhaps at anytime in the past, says Helen Durkin, executive vice president of public policy for the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), the trade association for for-profit health clubs.
Durkin made her comments on Wednesday at the tax-exempt competition forum, which was a part of the IHRSA conference and trade show in San Francisco. Durkin and Tom Richards, senior public policy manager for IHRSA, offered the 25 people at the forum an overview of how the perception of the tax exempt status of nonprofits, such as YMCAs, has changed, particularly since the recession.
During the recession, Durkin has received fewer calls from for-profit club operators asking for assistance fighting nonprofit competitors, she says.
"As the economy slumps…tax-exempt organizations find it harder to fund-raise," she says.
The challenges to challenging nonprofits are still the same, Richards says, including the lack of clarity about the responsibilities of tax-exempt fitness centers and the lack of enforcement of those responsibilities. Perhaps the biggest challenge, he says, is the "apple pie" idea that YMCAs are very American, which means politicians are eager to be associated with the Ys. The public, Richards adds, does not like attacks on the Ys and community centers.
However, the recession has brought with it new opportunities for shining a different light on nonprofits. Because fewer Ys have been built during the recession, for-profit club operators may have opportunities to grow, making people feel that community centers, nonprofit hospital wellness centers and YMCAs are less necessary in the future, Richards says.
The Affordable Care Act has new reporting requirements for tax-exempt hospitals (and their wellness centers), which is drawing the attention of the IRS to those facilities, he says. The focus on these facilities, Richards surmises, will raise awareness of other tax-exempt facilities, too.
City and state government revenue shortages have put plenty of government entities under great strain, Richards says, so some for-profit club operators have pointed out how much revenue is lost from the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and the necessity of ensuring these facilities are meeting their obligations as a nonprofit, Richards says.
Rodney Steven, owner of Genesis Health Clubs, Wichita, KS, has been fighting the tax-exempt status of YMCAs for 10 years. During that time, five Ys have been built in his market, he says. Initially, Steven says he was villainized by the some in the public and by some of the state legislators he spoke to for his stance, but he says that this time last year, the Ys were getting drilled by state legislators about how they earn their nonprofit status and whether they are fulfilling those missions.
"Now is the time to strike," Steven said during the forum. "The climate has changed drastically. The government needs the money."
Durkin warns that as states try to find additional revenue, more will look to tax health club memberships. For-profit operators must speak up against this and the possibilities that nonprofits might be exempt from these membership taxes, which would give them another advantage over for-profits, she says.

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Welcome to PWInsider.com's live, ongoing coverage of TNA Destination X 2012 from Orlando, Florida at the Impact Zone.
Lars Only vs. Rubix vs. Dakota Darsow vs. Mason Andrews - TNA X-Division Tournament Last Chance Match
This match, featuring talents who lost their qualifying matches in the X-Division championship tournament, is a chance for those talents to grab the last slot in the tournament. The winner will face Kid Kash.
Only is NWA Hollywood's Johnny Yuma. Rubix is CHIKARA's Jigsaw. Mason Andrews is PWG's Scorpio Sky. Darsow is the son of Barry Darsow.
Darsow was backdropped over to the floor by Rubix immediately. TRubix and Andrews went back and forth with quick near falls. Rubix escaped an armdrag and then dropkicked him out of the ring. Only nailed Rubix but was then attacked by Darsow. Only locked him in an armbar. Darsow fired back and fought his way back to his feet. Darsow smashed him into the mat and nailed Rubix, sending him off the apron to the floor. Darsow worked over Only and covered him for a two count.
Darsow whipped Only into the corner but Only went up and over and rolled him up for a two count. Rubix came off the top with a flying bodypress for a two count on Darsow. Darsow cut him off and drilled him down with a sitdown Michinoku Driver for a two count. Only broke up the pinfall.
Andrews nailed a series of dropkicks but was nailed by Darsow. Only drilled Darsow and they both went to the floor. Andrews hit a dive over the top on both after ducking a Rubix clothesline. Rubix, not to be outdone, hit a backflip over the ropes to the floor on everyone.
Rubix tossed Andrews back into the ring but was caught with an armbar submission. They showed Kid Kash scouting as he'd be facing the winner next. Only attacked Andrews to break up the pinfall. Only nailed a combination stunner and neckbreaker after kicking off Darsow in the same motion for a pair of near falls. The crowd clapped for everyone, rallying the bout.
Only grabbed a front facelock but was nailed by Darsow from behind with a sledgehammer. Only was able to toss him to the outside but was tackled into the corner by Andrews. Only nailed him and went to the top. Darsow cut him off but was then nailed by Andrews with several kicks. Andrews went after Only but Darsow slipped underneath for a Tower of Doom that took out his opposition. Rubix came off the top for a Van Terminator dropkick onto Darsow. That got the crowd soundly behind him as they started chanting for him.
Andrews went for a TKO but was cut off and nailed with a neckbreaker by Darsow. Rubix kicked Darsow but was caught with a Faceplant out iof a headscissors by Only. Rubix rolled to the outside, leading Only and Andrews. They went back and forth. Andrews nailed a leaping knee and a TKO for a three count.
Your winner, Mason Andrews!
Good, fast paced opener with everyone working their ass off. This had all the strikes and dives and interactions you'd expect. Nice way to kick off the show.
X-Division championship Tournament Kid Kash vs. Mason Andrews
Kash hit the ring and began beating the hell out of Andrews, beating him on the floor and rolling him back into the ring. Kash was doing a lot of jawjacking and stepped on Andrews' chest for a pinfall attempt but Andrews kicked up.
Kash nailed several crossfaces and several stiff chops. Jeremy Borash said they need Atlas Security to protect the fans from Kash on the road. Scorpio nailed several dropkicks and used a crucifix for a two count. Kash cut off Andrews with several strikes and was dropped across the steel connecting the turnbuckles and the ringpost.
Kash chopped him hard across Andrew's chest and back. Andrews tried to fire back but was kicked hard in the chest for a two count. Kash choked him against the ropes and nailed more crossfaces. Kash began to argue with the referee.
Kash nailed a suplex into a slam or a two count, then drilled Andrews over his knee with a backbreaker. Kash covered him for a two count. Kash positioned Andrews and ascended to the top rope. He then dropped down, slapped him and covered him for a two count. Andrews escaped at the last minute. Kash was getting upset.
Kash continued trouncing Andrews and played to the crowd. Kash gave fans the finger and dropped an elbow across the chest for another two count. He tied up Andrews in a keylock while standing over Andrews to add to the momentum of the move. The crowd rallied Andrews.
Andrews finally fights out but was cut off by Kash. Kash chopped Andrews, who collapsed from the force of the shot and fell through the ropes to the floor. Kash slammed Andrews down and went for a springboard moonsault but Andrews pulled his knees up. The crowd rallied him and Andrews fought his way to his feet.
Kash worked over Andrews but was nailed with a back flying elbow and pair of dropkicks. Kash missed a charge into the corner and was nailed with a missile dropkick. Andrews nailed a running high knee to the face for a close two count.
Kash nailed a sunset flip but Andrews rolled through. Kash bridged out and went for a backslide, Andrews slipped out and went for the Moneymaker. Andrews slipped out and rolled up Kash for the three count.
Your winner, Mason Andrews!
Andrews moves on to Ultimate X tonight.
Another very good match with some great psychology featuring Kash as the bitter, evil veteran beating down the young upstart. Kash did a great service to Andrews in terms of getting the crowd to get behind him and both did a great job here.
Christy Hemme interviewed Samoa Joe. She asked him for his prediction on the main event. Joe said that he predicts the man who beat him, Austin Aries. Hemme noted he was in second place in the Bound for Glory series and asked him his strategy going into tonight. Joe said a year ago, his strategy was to hurt, kill and maim everyone involved. This year, he sees the light and sees his road to the TNA title through the BFG Series. He said tonight Kurt Angle isn't a gold medalist but ten points. Angle isn't an indestructible wrestling machine but a man who will tap out. Joe promised he would win by any means necessary. Real good promo.
Douglas Williams vs. Kenny King
They went to the mat right away with some nice back and forth mat work. They talked up King's background in the Chippendales, tying it into the film "Magic Mike." The story early was that King would counter Williams' moves but would then get trapped in another move. Really good stuff.
King nailed several forearms in the corner. He whipped Williams into the opposite corner and there was a miscue that they tried to fix. They went into some near falls. There was a chant for King.
Williams and King jawed back and forth. Williams was sent to the floor. King nailed a twisting slingshot dive to the floor. Back in the ring, King covered Williams for a two count. He controlled Williams but was grabbed in a side headlock. King sent Williams into the ropes but was shoulderblocked down. King caught him in a drop toehold and grabbed a side headlock. Williams turned it into a hammerlock.
King slipped out and used a pair of hiptosses, including a kip up after one, which looked real flashy. They locked up with Williams nailing him several times in the corner. King whipped him out of the corner but was nailed with the European uppercut and a running clothesline. Williams locked in rear chinlock. King was whipped into the corner but came out of nowhere with a sunset flip off the buckles for a two count,.
Williams attacked him to cut off King, and worked him over in the corner. King fired back and both men were down as the referee counted. King recovered and nailed a series of clotheslines and a spinning kick for a two count.
King nailed another kick and a spinebuster for a two count. King charged but was kicked off. Williams went to the top but was met by King. They battled on the top and King was sent off the ropes to the floor, which looked like it could have been a hard fall. Williams drilled King off the ropes to the floor with a knee after King returned to his feet. King was almost counted out by slipped back in at nine.
Williams drilled King and scored a two count. The crowd chanted for King. King snapped him throat-first over the top rope and nailed a springboard into a reverse Buff Blockbuster for a two count. Williams cut him off and rolled up King for a two count. Williams and King battled in the corner. King shoved him off the ropes and came off but landed on his feet when he realized Williams would get out of the way before he nailed a move.
King nailed a TKO into a Uranage like move, driving Williams to the mat for the pin.
Your winner, Kenny King!
Solid match. King didn't look as flashy as he did on Impact but it was a different type of match in the way it was laid out. There was some really good matwork early on and it was good, solid match.
Christy Hemme interviewed TNA Tag Team champions Christopher Daniels. He said a lot can happen in a year. A year ago, he was a lackey and a friend but now he's a winner. He's one half of the World Tag Team champions of the World (not redundant). He said that all that matters is beating someone senseless. He said he knows what kind of man he is but he also knows what type of man that Styles is. He said Styles took advantage of a helpless woman and impregnated her and used his personal relationship with Dixie Carter to help himself. He said that now everyone in the world knows what type of man AJ is and he can drink to that.
Rashad Cameron vs. Sonjay Dutt
CZW flavor here.
They locked up and did some fast packed back and forth reversals and Lucha style takedown attempts. Both went for dropkicks at the same time and faced off. Dutt caught Cameron with a dropkick and locked on a side headlock. Dutt shoulderblocked Cameron down. Cameron leapfropped him and nailed Dutt, sending him to the floor.
Cameron nailed a tope con hilo to the floor. He shouted out Philadelphia and rolled Dutt back in the ring for a two count. Cameron nailed a series of chops in the corner but was kicked away. Dutt nailed a leaping head scissors to the outside, then nailed a nasty looking sliding dropkick through the ropes.
On the outside, Cameron whipped Dutt into the railing. He rolled Dutt back into the ring for a two count. Cameron elevated Dutt into a flapjack but Dutt made it to the ropes to break up a pinfall. Cameron ripped at Dutt's face and argued with the referee.
Cameron sent Dutt into the ropes and drilled him with a running knee for a two count. He locked Dutt in a body scissors for a two count. Cameron worked him over in the corner. Dutt escaped and drilled Cameron, running him into the buckles. He nailed a guillotine legdrop over the ropes on the apron outside and nailed a splash into the ring for a two count.
Cameron and Dutt went back and forth. Cameron used a forward roll for a two count. Cameron nailed a rana off the top and locked in a cross armbreaker. Dutt made it to the ropes. Cameron was getting really angry at referee Earl Hebner.
Dutt nailed a leaping DDT and came off the top with a flip into a double stomp for the pin.
Your winner, Sonjay Dutt!
Another good match. Lots of really strong wrestling so far on this show. Cameron looked strong and showed some of his facial expressions, which he's top of the class with, and Dutt looked just awesome.
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Nissan Innovation Makes Tire Inflation Easy
Franklin, Tenn. - A new federal study shows underinflated tires triple drivers risk of an accident, so it's timely that NISSAN recently introduced the "Easy Fill Tire Alert" system on its 2013 Altima. It's a way to help motorists maintain optimum tire pressure and it comes standard in all 2013 Nissan models.
"I think a lot of people probably don't think about tire pressure. I didn't, and so this is a good system to have," said Nissan customer Evan Galin.
When the tire-pressure warning system alerts a driver to a low tire, a display shows the pressure and the relevant tire or tires. Then the driver should drop into a nearby gas station and grab the air hose. As the driver fills the tire, the car's four-way flashers come on to confirm that air is going in. When the tire is full, the horn chirps to let the driver know the process is complete.
"I don't feel like I know what I'm doing unless I have something telling me that it's right, so this is good," said Galin.
If the driver puts in too much air, the flashers blink faster and the horn beeps three times. The horn chirps again after enough air is let out to reach proper inflation.
"It's one of those simple slap your forehead moments, as to why someone has not thought of it before," said Vishnu Jayamohan with Nissan Product Planning and Advanced Strategy
Some people don't keep a tire gauge in their glove box, or, they or have trouble using them. And professionals say that from one tire gauge to another you can easily have a three or four pound difference in air pressure readings. "Easy-fill Tire Alert" eliminates both the guessing and the gauge.
"If you get a low pressure tire warning, you're not left wondering if you have a serious condition that requires you to stop immediately, or if its something that allows you to drive home or to the nearest filling station and then fill up," said Jayamohan.
The display will show the driver the pressure for each tire. A delay in correcting tire pressure can cost the driver fuel economy. If the driver's tire pressure is down by even just a little bit, the driver is likely losing some fuel efficiency.
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Which, all things considered, is probably where the term Sally Forth came from to indicate a force going forth to cause havoc.
Unlike, as one character asked, Hoist by their own Petard, which is from one of the earlier 'oops' of pyrotechnic warfare.
Way back in the day, a mortar wasn't the thin tube shaped thing we know of today. What it was, was a very thick walled cannon, with a short - very short - barrel aimed well above 45 degrees off of horizontal. And originally, it was called a: You guessed it, a Petard.
Now, to fire it off, you touched a touch hole much like any other cannon.
To make sure the shell went off though, you had to light a fuse that was on the top of the shell inside the gun tube by reaching in with a lit length of slow match.
Trick is, you had to do *both* at the same time, and hope you got the propellent charge the first time - as there wasn't any time to try again because you *had* to assume that you got the shells fuse lit.
You can imagine I am sure the results of lighting the shell off whilst it was still in the tube.
Hence: Hoist (As in blown up) by your own Petard. :)


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Consolidating e-mail 'communities' saves money and improves quality of life for Missouri state employees.
They all worked for a single state government. But until recently, Missouri's executive branch employees were dwelling in a wilderness of isolated IT villages.
Each of the 14 departments used its own Microsoft Active Directory system, the framework that organizes, secures and controls access to network resources, services and user accounts. Some departments used more than one, giving the state about 20 separate IT communities. Each community managed its own infrastructure -- controlled its desktops, looked after its security, operated its peripherals and updated its software. Each ran a separate e-mail system. If employees in different communities needed to share data files, or even schedule multidepartment meetings on electronic calendars, they had to give employees special access to one another's systems, saddling workers with extra user names and passwords to remember.
The quality of life in these IT communities varied widely, said Bill Bott, former deputy CIO of Missouri, who resigned in January 2009 to join the Change and Innovation Agency. "Some people were living in mansions; some people were living in shacks." Some, for example, had excellent antivirus protection, while others scraped by with shareware.
Over the past few years, though, Missouri replaced its hodgepodge of IT neighborhoods with a single, full-service community. As part of a broader effort to consolidate IT under the state CIO, it moved all 40,000 of its end-user accounts onto a single e-mail system and a single Active Directory.
This strategy, state officials said, streamlined IT administration and gave users more equitable access to IT resources. It's also saving Missouri millions of dollars.
Missouri consolidated its data centers into a single facility 10 years ago. But the state government was still running numerous IT operations. When departments failed to collaborate on business challenges, many people blamed that failure on the fact that they couldn't share data. Departments also conducted IT projects in isolation -- for example, implementing content management systems with no thought to how they might share resources.
To address these problems, then-Gov. Matt Blunt promoted a move to put all of the state's IT budgets, employees and equipment under the control of a single IT division. As IT officials discussed how to launch this consolidation, two ideas rose to the top. They would merge the Active Directory systems, also known as "forests," and they would bring the whole executive branch onto a single e-mail system.
The new environment would be like a gated community with well run, shared services, Bott said. To access any of those services, a resident would need just a single user name and password -- one pair of keys, not a crowded, jangling key ring.
By migrating all users to one Active Directory system, Missouri was bucking a trend. Many organizations instead choose to build links among their separate directories, so data can pass back and forth among systems. That approach, however, requires some users to maintain multiple identifications, Bott said. And as the environment evolves, it develops features that aren't well documented. "It's cluttered, and it makes changes to the directory much harder to do," he said. "It's harder to manage."
Missouri started planning the consolidation in July 2005. Implementation began in January 2006 and wrapped up in November 2007, a month ahead of schedule. The project cost about $250,000, which was spent mostly on new equipment. Because in-house, salaried employees performed all the work, the state has not broken out the labor costs, Bott said.
The main challenges the project team contended with were political rather than technical. "One of the biggest battles we had with the agencies was over who was going to control security
at the upper levels of the forest," said Dee Lueckenotte, a member of the Active Directory/Exchange project group. Previously each agency maintained full control over who could access what within its own forest. "We had to cut that security model back to give them enough control to be able to do the job they needed to do, but not to be able to interfere with another agency," she said.
One of the technical decisions the group made was how to divide the Active Directory forest into subdomains, or "trees," Lueckenotte said. Could each agency get its own tree, or would that approach make the system too cluttered?
Missouri ended up creating four trees. One houses the servers that run the Exchange e-mail system, desktop management, Active Directory and other objects used across the state system. Each of the other three trees houses a group of agencies with related functions -- one for health care and social services, for example. Within that structure, the CIO's office controls higher-level functions, but each agency performs its own day-to-day administration, such as adding new employees, computers and printers to the network. "We didn't want to create a central bureaucracy, where every little change needed to come through one or two people," Bott said.
With the consolidation complete, state employees now can share data and collaborate on projects without maintaining multiple identities. The unified Active Directory also makes it easier to manage security and other features on the state's thousands of desktops. "When Microsoft sends out a patch, we can push one button and send it out to everyone in the state," Bott said. Also, under the new model, the IT department can procure virus protection, spam filtering and other tools for all 14 departments at once and ensure that all users receive the same level of protection, he said.
In return for its investment in consolidation, Missouri also realized many other benefits. Some flow directly from having moved all executive-branch employees into one forest. Others flow from the fact that the consolidation has put all of these end-users and their systems under centralized management.
As part of the consolidation, for example, the state's IT division replaced departmental servers with central servers, using virtualization to reduce the number of boxes. Central management also decreased the number of software licenses required. And it has cut the number of technicians the state needs, since one team now maintains the whole IT infrastructure, rather than a separate team for each department. Bott said the state saved $3 million in one-time IT expenses and expects to save another $385,099 per year for fiscal 2009-2013.
In the course of the consolidation, the state introduced modern technology that's more reliable than the older systems it replaced. One example is a storage area network for the e-mail system.
"We went from 14 different environments that were somewhat suspect -- in some cases, they had very aged equipment -- to a state-of-the-art environment with redundancy and proper backups," said Howard Carter, director of the state data center. If the budget permits, in the next year the state could build on this foundation to develop disaster recovery for the e-mail system, he said.
In fact, Missouri will be positioned to develop a complete, common disaster recovery strategy, Bott said. Having just one Active Directory forest and one e-mail system to recover, rather than 14 or more separate systems, makes this task much easier. "Short of the data center building, if we lost any single building in the capitol complex or around the state, we would have a backup for that building that we've never been able to have before."
Having a single e-mail system also makes it easier to develop a statewide e-mail archiving system. "We now have a whole state solution where
we're retaining all state e-mails indefinitely," Bott said. "But there will be another policy coming out, I'm sure, as the records retention folks catch up with the technology."
In the long run, the Active Directory consolidation could help Missouri do a great deal more. Bott said the state's strategy is much like the one that led Walt Disney to buy thousands of acres in central Florida in the 1950s, even though he needed only a fraction of that land to build Walt Disney World. That purchase allowed Disney to add hotels, resorts and more parks when the time was right.
"We don't have all the answers about how we're going to use Active Directory, but we know it has allowed us to build our 'theme park,'" Bott said. "Now we're able to do all those other things that branch out because of the foundation we have."


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A microscopic blue-green freshwater plant, Spirulina naturally occurs in tropical and subtropical lakes.
Spirulina has been around for a long time, evolving over three billion years ago and is one of the earliest life-forms on Earth.
And it's no wonder it's survived so long with its incredible nutritional profile; spirulina contains 60% protein, is packed with beta-carotene and other vitamins and minerals, is high in GLA (or Gamma Linoleic Acid to give it its full name) and contains a remarkable blue-green pigment called phycocyanin.


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Empty Cage Quartet – Stratostrophic (CF 103)
Stratostrophic is the Empty Cage Quartet's third official studio album. Formerly known as the MTKJ Quartet, the adventurous young West Coast-based ensemble features Tim Mears (alto saxophone, clarinet), Kris Tiner (trumpet, flugelhorn), Ivan Johnson (bass) and Paul Kikuchi (drums, percussion). A cohesive mix of exuberant free jazz, angular post-bop, stark chamber aesthetics and propulsive post- Braxtonian structures all figure prominently in their singular sound.
Balancing extended episodes with brief sketches, Mears and Tiner (the principal composers) demonstrate a newfound versatility in their writing. Their previous reliance on long-form compositions is now offset by the inclusion of concise miniatures which provide periodic interludes to a handful of prolonged excursions.
Five years together have imbued the group with a deep rapport. Mears and Tiner demonstrate their close-knit partnership as they weave expansive contrapuntal melodies and harmonious voicings with sonorous density. Mears' keening cry and brash multiphonics orbit Tiner's half-valve smears and muted refrains as they alternate collective and individual statements.
Johnson and Kikuchi pilot the band through thorny time signatures with subtle forward momentum that expands from aleatoric whispers to pummeling grooves. The formerly all-acoustic ensemble now dabbles in electronics, with Kikuchi adding nuanced kaleidoscopic accents.
The quartet's sympathetic accord is palpable as Kikuchi and Johnson dance around variable tempos while Mears and Tiner fire onomatopoeic salvos that sizzle and burn on "Again a Gun Again a Gun Again a Gun." Racing in unison to the finish, soaring horns provide an ascending climax as bass and drums thrash unfettered in the undertow.
Inspired by assorted styles, they draw on punchy hard bop for the intervallic counterpoint of "Old Ladies" and the freewheeling "Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture." Conversely, "The Power of the Great" and "Aurobindo" elicits shadowy atmospheres with obtuse angles.
The 17-minute finale, "Don't Hesitate to Change Your Mind," offers a wide range of dynamics, veering from soulful lyricism to volatile expressionism. Their adept listening skills, self-effacing interplay and respect for structure are displayed in a variety of settings, from austere soliloquies to fulminating collectives.
Their most diverse and expansive album to date, Stratostrophic is proof of the Empty Cage Quartet's rightful place in the pantheon of creative West Coast jazz.


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Meetup: Find political soul mates on line!
The latest national internet craze is scheduled for a double billing in Charlottesville in the next week. It's not virtual quilting or pug-lover bulletin boards-– it's old-fashioned grass roots politics.
Meetup.com began life a year ago to unite like-minded-people in face-to-face meetings. Aficionados of various– often somewhat eccentric– hues across the country would use the website to choose a local venue and then meet at a given time.
Then Howard Dean discovered it, and both the website and his campaign exploded. Pundits dubbed his "Little engine that could," and meetup.com claims that in five months it has brought him 90,200 on-line supporters nationwide.
More than 200 of these are in Charlottesville, where they have been meeting on the first Wednesday of the month to write letters to undecided voters in Iowa. The $7.5 million that Dean has raised in contributions in the second quarter of this year, surpassing his Democratic rivals, is a testament to his success in tapping the internet.
Other politicians have tried to follow his lead, and today all the main contenders in the Democratic primaries have tapped the new tool. There are "Republican Party," "Anarchy," and "Rush Limbaugh" meetups too, although these are not as well attended. In Charlottesville, the meetings still focus strictly on candidates for the Democratic primaries.
Friends of John Kerry meet on August 28 at the Mudhouse, and Dean supporters are to gather on September 3. If at least five people RSVP on line, there will also be a Dennis Kucinich meeting on September 4, and one for Wesley Clark on September 8. Members get to vote on whether to gather at Starbucks, Applebee's, the Gordon Ave. Library, Circuit City, or the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. These in turn pay meetup.com a fee for the privilege, and the meetings themselves are free.
Meetup.com may be cutting edge, but whether it will really serve candidates is another question. "Meetup.com is best used by candidates with strong, ideologically inspired followings. Howard Dean fits that profile perfectly," says Larry J. Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. "Anything that strengthens grassroots politics is a good thing. The challenge, though, is to get moderates and centrists– a large majority of Americans– involved as well."
Kerry and other candidates have been less successful with the site, and in Charlottesville, previous meetups have been cancelled because of insufficient responses. But the website is nevertheless getting to thousands of activists, many of whom are not being reached by more conventional means.
It also continues to appeal to apolitical hobbyists. In Charlottesville, where 72 percent of us showed up at the last presidential election, political meetups hold the top spots, but "Bookcrossing" and "Live Journal" are also very popular.
No doubt a "Favorite Meetups" list can teach you much about a city. In Islamabad, the top spot belongs to fans of the American TV series The Gilmore Girls.
The John Kerry Meetup is on August 28 at the Mudhouse at the west end of the Downtown Mall at 7pm. Howard Dean's supporters are to meet on September 3, also at 7pm. The Dennis Kucinich meetup is set for September 4, and the Wesley Clark meetup is tentatively scheduled for September 8. You must sign up at meetup.com in order to attend – if at least five people register, they will given the venue one week before the event.


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"Higher Ground" marks the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga. Based on "This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost," by Carolyn Briggs, the film yells the story of how she, along with several other Hudson Valley families in the 1970s, combined counter-culture diets and styles with right-wing Christianity.
The film, which Briggs adapted along with Tim Metcalf (who co-wrote "Revenge of the Nerds"—go figure) follows young Corinne from her earliest days in Bible school earning disapproving looks for reading "Lord of the Flies," to her romance with Ethan (played as an adult by Joshua Leonard), the front man for a local rock band with whom she ultimately has a shotgun wedding, to their conversion to fundamentalist Christianity.
Of course, the kind of kid who reads "Lord of the Flies" probably isn't long for such a life, where women aren't allowed to preach, are blamed for men's arousals and get scolded for "worshiping at the altar of yourself!"
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Farmiga remains respectful of those who believe, while exploring how one woman can lose her way. The film is peppered with hilarious hallucinatory moments during which Corinne imagines herself gyrating in lingerie or getting a shrimp job from a female friend—visions that can be troubling enough under the best circumstance (we're only guessing), but can really shake the faith of a true believer.
The film offers a fascinating look at a culture—hippy Jesus freaks--that barely made a dent in the country at large. There's a serious cognitive dissonance that comes from watching a bunch of tree-huggers calling out to the lord, a dissonance made stronger still by how disapproving they are of Corinne's awakening.
This is Farmiga's film all the way, and she keeps up her end of the bargain as Corinne, but it's Joshua Leonard and Dagmara Domiczyk who give the film's best performances. Leonard all but disappears behind his beard and faith, a man strongly possessed by an abiding faith--the torture he feels at the changes his wife undergoes is deep. Domiczyk, meanwhile, is incredibly sexy as Corinne's best friend, Annika, a woman who's found happiness despite the strict constraints of her faith. And let's not forget Bill Irwin, who singlehandedly makes his one scene in the film the movie's best as a super creepy preacher with a whiff of predator about him.
"Higher Ground" is a capably directed first film in which Farmiga explores how difficult it can be to keep one's faith, and how much harder it is to let that faith go.


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Cricket Web's Review of International Cricket 2009
Cricket Web Staff Member Martyn Corrin has reviewed International Cricket 2009 detailing the highs and lows of the latest release in the continued series of cricket management games
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Cricket Web Staff Member Martyn Corrin has reviewed International Cricket 2009 detailing the highs and lows of the latest release in the continued series of cricket management games
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Cheers Martyn .
I think I'll be giving this one a miss. Hopefully they've ironed out the questionable MOTM awards though:
Very well written review. I haven't yet purchased the game yet but am definitely intending on it - as I mentioned in one of the topics a few weeks ago, the various new features look very appealing.
Yeah, very good review.
I'm stuck with the 2-day trial until the boxed version comes out in this part of the world, but the impressions it's given me are similar to those expressed in the review. I like the game a lot though and will definitely be buying it when I can.
The mere suggestion that the game is less spinner-centric appeals to me.
Sreesanth said, "Next ball he was beaten and I said, 'is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously? I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball - mind you, it was a length ball - Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend."
yeah, might try the trial if it works on my computer, but very much doubt that I will be persuaded to buy it. Have avoided most of the more recent ones because there simply hasn't been a big enough improvement for it to be worth it and it seems the same for this version. Not really interested in cosmetic improvements, which the things like hawkeye, 3d graphics etc are, because essentially it always seems the same algorithms and database structure beneath. I'd assume this is why we don't see the extra domestic sides, ipl etc, because I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers to collect data for them.
If I looked at my wishlist say from the 2002 version, I'd doubt whether 10% of them have been implemented but there's been plenty of other things implemented which haven't really improved the game experience for me.
Mostly used to skim through OD games(put all my players on max aggresion or just sim them) and concentrate on the Fc games, the T20 games for me are even worse (though I know they have to be in there).
/old man
ps any improvement in stat tracking? (eg being able to see a proper breakdown of the guys career, not just this season and last?)
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yeaah can now see career,current, last year, last year -1 (so can look two years back.
The amount of dropped catches really ****s me off, I thought the last ones were quite good for dropped catches
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Never in my wildest dreams could I have expected my career to turn out the way it has so far. Ok... A little back story...
I come from a very hard working, lower to mid, middle class family. I was the second person in my direct family (after my mother) to receive a degree from a college. In saying this, I did not expect to be invited to any opportunity usually reserved for the top, best-of-the-best privileged people. That thought was recently
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This week has been very exciting. I have been able to see what this semester will be like and how it feels to be ENTIRELY dedicated to school. This is the first time in over 4 years that I have been able to take a full course load of classes at college and it feels great! (so far...)
This past summer I was running in a summer camp program and had dedicated over 14 hours a day to my work (including the drive). Now that summer is over, I feel like
I tried! I really did! I tried to keep up with the vLog series in these past weeks, but I ended up getting too busy/distracted to record it. The past few weeks have been especially hard on me mentally and emotionally.
This week I get back into the groove of recording AHEAD of time. I have a couple more videos recorded that will be scheduled to release over the next few weeks and if I record something in between them it will be released on a Wednesday of that week. Currently recorded
Woot! Weekly Drive links to Weekly Blog!
This blog was an idea that I had last week after I had already released the Weekly Drive. So now that its a new week, I get to write what I want here!
Recently I have been tied up with school work (homework, labs, reports, tests, lectures) so I haven't been as active as I have in the past with the HappyDiggers Community. I am sure that you guys understand, but I kind of miss the countless hours of debugging plugins and crash
Been a while since I have written here, so I'm gonna take this opportunity to enlighten the peasants.
To wrap up my recent events in a small package... would take a very large box (and a lot of postage). Last week was taken over by my participation in a friend's wedding along with working my "normal" job. This week is featured by work and a release of the Lobby Server on Friday. SO, I plan on taking a personal day on Sunday (the only day I have off after working Friday and


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Here to Eternity: The 50 Most Iconic Cars in Motoring History
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discussions debates over which ones are the most memorable, the most celebrated and the most remarkable. So to end the inquisition we've been compiling a list over the past two months and honing (and honing) it down to what we feel are the 50 most iconic automobiles in motoring history.
Cars are objects of subjectivity, and everyone seems to have an opinion, from the cognoscenti to the everyman. The best cars can be whittled down based on design, popularity, exclusivity, performance or all of the above. There are plenty of lists out there and opinions inevitably vary (widely), but for our humble screed of 50 we've used a single rule: which cars are truly significant in our own minds.
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1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic
The Type 57 Atlantic is the kind of car that can never be copied, reproduced or emulated without utterly ruining the memory. The sheet metal alone will send you home drooling, as if you'd seen the most sensuous woman in the world. With curves galore and an elongated hood, the Atlantic looked like nothing else on the road in its day and still stands apart over the generations. Like a vintage era Batmobile, it's both Powerful and elegant. It now auctions north of 30 million dollars and is essentially the world's most expensive car.
1948 Tucker Torpedo
The brainchild of Preston Tucker, the "Torpedo" or Tucker Sedan, was created in response to the lack of new ideas from any of the big three in the early 1940's. Originally designed with such innovations as four-wheel independent suspension, a rear mounted flat six aluminum engine a hydraulic drive system and four-wheel disc brakes. Sadly only 51 cars were made and the Tucker Torpedo never got out of the starting gates, supposedly due to a conspiracy by the big three. On the bright side, a single iteration of this pioneering automobile is worth a sweet $1.2 million.
1960 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
Though not as famous as its younger DB5 brother, it's even more stunning in our humble opinion. The bulging hood, the big frowning Aston grille and the spectacular wire wheels, along with the Zagato Italian touch rendered this British car stunningly curvaceous. Limited to only 20 versions, it still trades at over a cool million at auction. 0-60 times of 6 seconds and 314 horsepower made this car a force to be reckoned with in its day. We envision someone like Sir Richard Branson tooling around in one of these. Lucky bastard.
Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB
Probably one of Ferrari/Pininfarina's most beautiful designs, the 250GT Berlinetta SWB dominated the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans by taking the first four positions. With a shorter wheelbase (SWB) than the 250GT Berlinetta and the removal of the rear quarter windows, the 250GT SWB boasted improved cornering due to the wheelbase reduction. A revised V12 was parked under the hood, along with larger carburetors. The competition version crushed everyone else on the racing circuit in 1959 and 1960. Current versions bring upwards of $4 million to own a piece of racing history.
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Coupe
Also known as the C2, this version of the Corvette turned things around for Chevy. Redesigned completely, it sported a now much sought after split window, Corvette-only reverse flip-up headlights, improved handling and performance and a gorgeous silhouette made the C2 a standout amongst American sports cars. Produced for 20 years, the Sting Ray Coupe is as American as it gets. Part elegance and all sinew, the wide and sleek C2 will forever be associated with brilliant American design.
Ford GT40
Built by Ford to not only compete with Ferrari but to humiliate them at Le Mans, the GT40 was racing domination at its best, taking top position at the grueling 24 hour race series four years in a row. Utilizing high displacement Ford V8s, the GT40 established Ford as the only American built car to ever take Le Mans overall. It spawned the Ford GT, which carries forward the same kind of ferocious performance that made it an icon. Recently a 1966 Mk1 version brought in over $4 million at auction. Now that's a pricey Ford.
Aston Martin DB5
Bond made it famous in Goldfinger, but it would've stood on the merits of its own looks. The silky grand tourer was built from 1963-1965 and boasted a then-healthy 282 horsepower, enabling it to reach 145 mph at the top end and zero to sixty in around 7 seconds. Most importantly, the DB5 still stands as one of the most recognizable cars in the world. Instant panache for and respect to anyone lucky enough to own this rarity.
1967 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale
Widely considered to be one of the sexiest automobiles ever made, the car was not just a looker. Alfa produced the 33 as a roadgoing version of the racing Tipo 33 and introduced Alfa's racing technology to the world. It clocked 60 mph in 5.5 seconds and topped out at a blistering 160 mph. Sadly, only 18 were made. If it looks familiar, it inspired the modern Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. A beauty in its own right.
The intention to build the sleek and unique supercar was purely for homologation, and in 1970, BMW partnered with Lamborghini to help bring it to life. Lambo jumped ship before production and BMW took over the entire project, bringing the rare cars to market from 1978 to 1981. Fewer than 500 were built and they're still so sought after today that BMW still holds the M1 name sacred, as does the rest of the automotive world. We've seen it in the flesh and it is awesome.
AC Shelby Cobra 427
The stuff of legend, this is. Carroll Shelby approached Ford MoCo in order to shoehorn its monster 520 bhp, 427 V-8 into the AC Cobra, a British sports car. The result was magic and threw down with the previously victorious Chevy Corvettes in auto racing. It was a triumph of huge proportions. Shelby's beast did the quarter-mile in 13.2 seconds and handled like it was on rails. And though the production of these monsters ended in 1967, the automotive world would never be the same


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"Apie op 'n stokkie" is one in a range of Afrikaans rympies (rhymes) and is excellent for teaching Afrikaans vocabulary and spelling in both the home language and as an additional language. Also, use to teach rhyming words and let the learners learn the poems and recite them or act them out. Can be done individually, in pairs or in groups. Use as a comprehension activity where you ask questions relating to the rhymes. Let learners substitute some words for others or write their own rhymes.


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Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board of Lower Merion Township will hold a Meeting of the Board as authorized by Section 111 of Chapter 155 of the Lower Merion Code, as amended, to take official Board action. Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Hearing Board of Lower Merion Township will hold a Hearing of the Board as required by Section 113 A of Chapter 155 of the Lower Merion Code, as amended, and Section 908 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
The Meeting shall be held at the Township Building, 75 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, PA, on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at 7:15 PM. The Hearing shall commence immediately following the Meeting and at the same location on the following matters:
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I am posting this poll to find out everyone's opinion on this , because to me it makes sense for other sports to take a break when the Football World Cup is on because not many people seem to be interested in anything else.
I know the ODIs going onin England despite being sellout's are not faring well when having to compete for TV ratings . I personally missed the US open and lot of league and even Union to concentrate purely the Football World Cup and even several reptitive replays (I mean full replays of key games) and Highlights packages .
To me it would make sense for International Cricket to be kept off in the future during the greatest Global Sporting Fiesta , the FIFA World Cup .
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Jungfrau Railways offers a unique voyage to the natural wonders of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, a UNESCO Word Heritage site. The Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe is the highlight of any Swiss holiday. The visitors gain access to a high-Alpine wonderland of ice, snow and rock, which they can admire from the viewing platforms on the Aletsch Glacier or in the Ice Palace. Nature lovers and railway and aerial cableway fans are guaranteed to be in their element in the Jungfrau Region. The Jungfrau Railway ranks as one of the most impressive achievements in international mountain railway construction and is today still regarded as a masterpiece of railway technology. It runs from Kleine Scheidegg up through the rock of the Eiger and Mönch to Europe's highest-altitude railway station, the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe at 3,454 metres above sea level.
Harder Railway: The journey from Interlaken to the Harder Kulm, Interlaken's local mountain, takes 10 minutes by funicular. There, at 1,322 metres above sea level, you will enjoy a beautiful view of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau mountains as well as the Lake Thun and Lake Brienz from the Two Lages Bridge. The restaurant looks like a small castle and they offer evening trains to enjoy a wonderful dinner on Harder Kulm.
Schynige Platte Railway: Those who visit Schynige Platte with the cog railway feel as if they were in the "Belle Epoque". The nostalgic train with wooden benches in the carriages and rolling stock from the 19th century are reminiscent of bygone days. Visitors enjoy a beautiful view of Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau during the journey and on the mountain. Schynige Platte is the starting point for well-known walking tours. Also located here is the Alpine Garden, where 600 plant species grow.
Grindelwald – First Aerial Gondola: It's impossible to imagine the Swiss mountain world as more idyllic than the area surrounding Lake Bachalpsee. The snow-covered peaks of the Alps are reflected in the crystal-clear blue water. First is the starting point for hikes and it offers action: An adrenaline rush and speed thrills are guaranteed on the First Flyer, trottibike scooters or bikes.
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Adaptive Bodywork Unit 1 Intro
Adaptive Bodywork puts the clients back into the driver's seat empowering them with the tools they need to rapidly regain control of their structural rehabilitation and pain relief. Learn the basics with this Adaptive Bodywork Unit 1 intro.
Adaptive Bodywork Unit I Introduction – Foundation Principles & Techniques
- Date: June 10, 2017
- Time: 1pm
Build a Better Foundation
Whether you are a circus performer, an accrobat, a gymnast, an Olympic lifter, a X-Fit athlete, or any form of athlete engaged in the rigors of intense training and sports specialization, it is important to understand the consequences that injury to an athlete's connective tissue support system will have on their potential for coordinated, pain free movement.
When a structural dysfunction resulting from an injury like a fall or a strong impact with an external body or a wrong move is not recognized, its impact on the body will have life long repercussions. This dysfunction to the athlete's support system will continue to interact negatively with all future athletic movements, creating a series of performance limiting compensations that will ultimately compromise the athlete's likelyhood for success.
It is a priority to rapidly restore balance in the athlete's support system to avoid further structural dysfunction, dysfunction that will be exacerbated through the continued efforts of training and competition.
Address the Problem Conventionally
In passive modes of therapy the client abdicates responsibility for his body's dysfunction to a therapist. This common approach suffers from creating a neurological disconnect between the structural dysfunction and the client's nervous system. This is the "Fix me" mentality. It is popular in our instant gratification, fast food society, however it is rarely successful and at best yields only temporary and superficial results.
The Adaptive Bodywork Difference
Adaptive Bodywork puts the clients back into the driver's seat empowering them with the tools they need to rapidly regain control of their structural rehabilitation and pain relief.
As a team the client and therapist are able to work efficiently towards recreating a state of youthfulness in the client's tissues and movement potential.
Directed by the therapist, the client uses movement to create a sensory feedback loop that acts as his roadmap for the exploration and restoration of his compromised tissues.
Being in control gives the client the necessary confidence to effectively address their issues at a rate with which they are comfortable.
This active approach maintains the connection between the client's physiology or structure and his/her neurology or movement patterns, thereby integrating the work in real time.
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Adaptive Bodywork is an active approach that saves time by directly targeting only the compromised structures while avoiding needlessly spending time in areas without dysfunction.
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You'll find big-screen TVs, electronics and more on sale this month.
If you were planning on buying your sweetheart a necklace, ring or some other piece of jewelry for Valentine's Day, don't count on finding a great deal on it. Jewelry and other items in demand this month won't be marked down much (or at all). However, there are several things that will go on sale -- some of which might even make good Valentine's gifts. Here's what you can expect to find marked down this month -- and what you should wait a little longer to buy, according to dealnews.com, which analyzes deals from past years to predict what will be discounted this year.
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Big-screen HDTVs. If you're looking for a new TV to watch the Super Bowl, now is the time to buy because prices on 55-inch and 60-inch LCD HDTVs are at 12-month lows. Look for name-brand 60-inch HDTVs on sale for $900 or less, and for 55-inch 3D HDTVs to be marked down to $800 or less, which is an all-time low.
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The 3-year-old son of a housekeeper drowned Thursday after his mother left him watching television while she worked at a house in far Southeast Bexar County, authorities said.
A Bexar County Sheriff's spokesman said deputies were called to the 8100 block of Hildebrandt Road at 10 a.m. Thursday after the boy's mother and her employer pulled the child out of a swimming pool. Deputy Ino Badillo said the women administered CPR until paramedics arrived and had the child airlifted to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:02 a.m.
Badillo said the child's mother, 39-year-old Enayance Samargo, immediately searched the swimming pool after noticing he was missing, but didn't see him. He said the pool was not in use and had become murky from algae and other deposits, which could have prevented her from seeing him.
The deputy said the mother then checked other areas of the property before asking her employer to help search for her son. It was then, that the women went back to the pool and saw him floating in the water.
Badillo said the pool is located about 5 feet from the back of the house and was not fenced in because the homeowners don't have any children.
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Osherow powers Wave softball to shutout win at Greenwich
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She rarely walks a batter, strikes out an average of two hitters per inning and yields just a few hits each game. Indeed, facing Darien's hard-throwing right-hander Erika Osherow wasn't much fun.Monday, as Greenwich became the latest team to be silenced by the shutout specialist.
Exhibiting pin-point control, Osherow pitched a five-hitter with 15 strikeouts in the Blue Wave's 6-0 victory over host Greenwich in an FCIAC matchup. Osherow helped her own cause, going 3 for 4 with a two-run double. The first nine outs Darien's ace recorded came by strikeout.
"That's a typical Erika game, a lot of strikeouts," Darien coach Nick DeMaio said. "The other team may occasionally challenge, but she usually gets 13, 14 15 strikeouts a game. As long as we play defense behind her, she'll usually pitch a shutout."
Junior second baseman Kelly Vodola went 2 for 3 with two triples and drove in three runs for the Blue Wave, who improved to 11-1. Cardinals senior pitcher Jessie Schelz went the distance, striking out four in the loss.
After Osherow (8-1 with six shutouts) struck out the side in the second inning, the Blue Wave scored two runs in the third inning. Center fielder Kelly Reyes singled up the middle and Vodola tripled to right field, giving the visitors a 1-0 lead. No. 3 hitter Julia Domiziano's single to left field scored Reyes, putting Darien on top, 2-0.
That was more than enough for Osherow. Greenwich outfielder Jenn Ambrogio reached first on a bunt single in the third inning and stole second. In the fifth inning, Cate Decker and Ambrogio had singles, but the Cardinals failed to score each time. Greenwich's other chance came when Colleen Bennett and Ferguson singled in the first inning.
"She is definitely the most competitive pitcher we've faced all season," Cardinals shortstop Rebecca DeCarlo said. "She throws a lot of heat, so you have to be quick with your bat at the plate and we didn't do that today. We didn't capitalize when we had men on base. It's a tough loss, but we have to put it behind us and focus on our game against Fairfield Ludlowe on Wednesday."
The Blue Wave took a 3-0 advantage when Vodola tripled in Osherow in the fifth inning, then added three runs in the sixth inning.
"Whenever I'm at-bat in those situations I'm excited, but I try not to think about how many outs there are," Vodola said. "I just want to try my best to hit the ball hard."
Christina Chariott delivered an RBI single and Osherow hit a two-run double, making it 6-0 in the sixth inning. When the Cardinals did make solid contact against Osherow, the Blue Wave made the plays in the field.
"Greenwich always comes out strong, so we knew from the beginning that everyone was going to have to play great defense," Osherow said. "Our defense was on spot today, which was great."
Said DeMaio: "Erika is a fierce competitor, who doesn't back down. She's the best of the lot out there and when you give her some room, she smells the finish line."
Darien 6, Greenwich 0
Records: Darien 11-1; Greenwich 9-3.
Batteries: D -- Erika Osherow (WP, 8-1) and Rebecca DeMaio. G -- Jessie Schelz (LP) and Erin Ferguson. Doubles: D -- Osherow. Triples: D -- Kelly Vodola.


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I put blas_LINUX.a to /usr/local/lib/libblas.a
and "g++ clapacktest.cc -lclapack -lcblas -lblas -llibf2c" works.
maybe this is a good start to CLAPACK, I'd like to try some matrix inversion program later.admin wrote:Hi,
Could you try changing the linking sequence and adding a BLAS library
The cblas is just a C wrapper, it needs a BLAS library.
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g++ clapacktest.cc -lclapack -lcblas -lblas -llibf2c
I have the same problem, but it is not solved. I got blas_LINUX.a lapack_LINUX.a libcblaswr.a tmglib_LINUX.a libf2c.a, by build the CLAPACK 3.2.1 . Then I rename blas_LINUX.a as libblas.a, lapack_LINUX.a as libclapack.a ,tmglib_LINUX.a as libtmglib.a, and put them into /my own path/lib.
when I tried to compile the test code, it didn't work.
g++ -lblas -lclapack -ltmglib -lf2c -L/my own path/lib
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A top-drawer American cryptography boffin has expressed grave doubts about Bush administration plans to let spooks build wiretapping capabilities into the US comms infrastructure.
Writing in the Washington Post, Susan Landau, distinguished engineer at Sun Labs, described the capabilities sought by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a serious security vulnerability for America.
"Grant the NSA what it wants and within 10 years the United States will be vulnerable to attacks from hackers across the globe, as well as the militaries of China, Russia and other nations," she writes.
The NSA has recently been awarded temporary powers to conduct massive automated wiretapping in the United States without benefit of a warrant from the secret surveillance court, provided that at least one end of the communication is thought to be outside the USA. In order to carry out its analysis, the spook agency needs to be permanently plugged into most of the American comms backbone.
"NSA will need to build massive automatic surveillance capabilities into telephone switches," says Landau.
"Here things get tricky: Once such infrastructure is in place, others could use it... Intercept capabilities are likely to be managed remotely, and vulnerabilities are as likely to be global as local. In simplifying wiretapping for US intelligence, we provide a target for foreign intelligence agencies and possibly rogue hackers."
In the old days, a lot of voice and data went wirelessly - via microwave, line-of-sight, or satellite. The NSA could listen in on foreigners using expensive hardware which nobody else had: Landau says this was safe enough, as nobody could gain access to America's own comms by these means.
Nowadays, however, bulk info goes mainly by fibre, which needs to be physically tapped into. This is occasionally done overseas; certain parts of the US special forces, for instance, are reputed to have specialists who can sneak into a country of interest and place undetectable taps on fibre lines without being noticed. But a lot of foreign comms passes through America - where it can be tapped safely and simply.
To some degree, the NSA must have already put the systems that so worry Landau in place; the NSA's massive automated trawling of voice and data in and out of the USA began not long after 9/11 and is thought to have ceased only in recent months, when a secret-surveillance judge refused to renew a key warrant. That led to the recent change in the law.
Landau's argument isn't about the wrongness or rightness of spooks listening in on any conversation that any American has with a foreigner - or perhaps, at least in some cases, conversations between Americans. She's simply saying the technology itself will open up a backdoor into US communications which could be used by America's enemies.
"In its effort to provide policymakers with immediate intelligence, the NSA forgot the critical information security aspect of its mission: protecting US communications against foreign interception."
When a heavyweight security brain like Landau says that, you have to pay attention.
This isn't just an American issue. The UK intelligence community doesn't have the computer resources to do massive automated surveillance on an NSA scale, but it does wiretap its own people a lot - and in the case of the UK the warrants have always been signed by politicians rather than (relatively) trustworthy judges. Telecoms companies provide official backdoors in the UK and many another country. These too will be vulnerabilities to a greater or lesser degree.
But Landau suggests that constant massive access, potentially over a period of years, has to be a lot worse than relatively limited and targeted taps, and that does sound reasonable. Noted security heavyweight Bruce Schneier - who provides services to our own British Telecom - agrees with her too, saying:
"Last week, Congress gave President Bush new wiretapping powers. I was going to write an essay on the security implications of this, but Susan Landau beat me to it."
Landau recommends that Washington politicos think hard before rubberstamping the blanket wiretap warrant again.
"Lawmakers granted the warrantless wiretapping only for six months," she says. "They need to look carefully before it endangers US national security for the long term."
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