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Server upstart Cisco Systems has updated its B-Series blade servers and C-Series rack servers in the "California" Unified Computing System line, bringing itself on par with the latest Xeon E5 machines available from rivals HP, Dell, and IBM.
Like the past two generations of UCS machines, Cisco's now fleshed-out third generation of servers are all based on Intel Xeon processors. In the four machines that quietly debuted on Thursday, the compute engines are the Xeon E5-2400s for two-socket machines and E5-4600s for four-socket machines, which came out in mid-May.
Cisco launched UCS rack and blade machines based on Xeon E5-2600 processors back in March, when they first came out. The E5-2600s are the mainstream two-socket server CPUs, which sport more memory and I/IO bandwidth than the E5-2400s. For certain workloads, however, the E5-2400s – which cost less – are the better choice.
So you need both. The E5-4600s are preferable to the fatter and more expensive Xeon E7s in most cases, and because of the on-chip support for up to 1.5TB of main memory with the E5-4600s, the newer chips obviate the need for Cisco's homegrown memory extender technology, a key differentiating feature in the original UCS machines from March 2009.
That said, it would be fun to see Cisco put 3TB of memory on a four-socket box and see how it screams on in-memory database processing.
The way Cisco positions the machines is thus: E5-2400s are for scale-out and Web 2.0 workloads, E5-2600s are for heftier enterprise-class workloads, and E5-4600s are for mission-critical apps. You can get any in a blade form factor that sits inside the UCS chassis or a rack version with more I/O and storage capacity, all linked into the integrated server-storage 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone and using the UCS Manager management software.
Cisco has not launched a single-socket node based on Intel's "Ivy Bridge" Xeon E3-1200 v2 processors. But if enough customers ask for it, Cisco could make a quarter-width node, or maybe just put two nodes in an existing half-width B-Series blade enclosure.
The UCS B22 M3 blade server
Thus far, Cisco has shown no temptation whatsoever to adopt Opteron processors from AMD in its machines. It's reasonable to speculate that AMD would have to offer some truly dramatic advantages for Cisco – which is focused solely on high-end, data-center sales – to even think about adding another processor to the mix.
If Opterons are a remote chance, ARM processors or any other kind of exotic processor are at galactic distances until Linux and Windows operating systems and KVM and ESXi hypervisors are supported on ARM in some fashion. It could happen, of course, and – like many of you – I'm certainly rooting for that to happen because I believe competition drives the industry.
From the outside, you can't easily tell one half-width B-Series blade from the other. The B22 M3 supports all the variants of the E5-2400, with four, six, or eight cores, and has a dozen DDR3 memory slots for a maximum capacity of 192GB using 16GB memory sticks.
It's not clear why Cisco isn't supporting 32GB sticks, but they are available in the market and there is no reason why the Cisco boards, which are based on the same "Patsburg" C600 series as every other mobo out there in the world, can't use 32GB sticks. One good guess is that it makes a distinction between the machines that use the E5-2400 and those that use the E5-2600, which can have up to 384GB across two sockets now and which will have 768GB coming with support for 32GB sticks soon.
The B22 M3 blade has two hot-plug disk bays, and you can slide in 100GB solid state drives or SAS or SATA drives that come in 146GB, 300GB, or 600GB capacities; they are 2.5-inch drives, as is the case in a lot of servers these days.
The B22 M3 blade sports an LSI SAS 2002 RAID controller that supports RAID 0 striping for performance and RAID 1 mirroring for high availability. The machine also has two 16GB SD flash cards, which will be used after a forthcoming software update for some presumably interesting purpose – which could be on-server, replicated hypervisor storage.
The B22 M3 blade also has two mezzanine adapter slots: one PCI-Express 3.0 mezzanine slot and one micro LAN-on-motherboard (microLOM) slot for lashing the blade to the UCS Manager/switch at the top of the chassis using a virtual interface card (VIC) with two 10GE links. (Cisco has a number of these cards, and it is not clear which one the B22 M3 supports.)
The C22 M3 server is the rack analog of the B22 M3 machine.
The UCS C22 M3 rack server
This rack machine comes in a 1U metal pizza box, and if you squint a little, it will kind of remind you of the clean and shiny design of the Sun Fire Opteron servers from Sun Microsystems – which is probably not a coincidence, considering how many ex-Sunners ended up in the server unit at Cisco over the past several years.
Cisco is not supporting every E6-2400 in this box, just the E5-2470, E5-2450, E5-2440, E5-2420, E5-2403, or E5-2430L parts.
The C22 M3 has a dozen memory slots, just like the blade it most closely resembles, and can support 1.33GHz or 1.6GHz memory sticks; Cisco does not say in its spec sheets if this box has 16GB or 32GB sticks as its maximum.
The machine has eight 2.5-inch drive bays and supports SAS drives spinning at 10K and 15K RPM as well as fatter SATA drives that spin at only 7.2K RPM. SAS drives are available in 146GB, 300GB, 600GB, and 900GB capacities, while the SATAs come in 500GB and 1TB capacities. There are a variety of LSI MegaRAID cards available with various RAID levels of data protection.
The C22 M3 has two PCI-Express 3.0 peripheral slots. The existing UCS P81E VIC – a dual-port 10GE interface card that supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and that can be virtualized into 18 logical network interfaces for the server and a total of 128 interfaces to storage as well as the network – can be plugged into the machine and will work fine even though it is a PCI-Express 2.0 card.
The UCS VIC 1225 card, which has two 10GE ports back to the UCS Manager/switch that are similarly virtualized, but for a total of 256 virtual interfaces, will also slide into the machine. This one slips into an x16 slot, offering better bandwidth utilization than an x8 slot would.
Cisco has not yet added a PCI-Express 3.0 variant of these NICs because until it adds 40GE networking to the UCS switch, it doesn't need the extra bandwidth that PCI-Express delivers. That will come soon enough, El Reg suspects. The UCS chassis was designed from the get-go to support 40GE switching, so that's not the issue.
The UCS C24 M3 rack server
The C24 M3 rack server is a 2U variant of the E5-2400 machine, although in this case, the box has lots of local disk storage. The C24 M3 has room for 24 SAS or SATA drives mounted vertically across the front, and has five PCI-Express 3.0 peripheral slots. It supports the same CPU SKUs as the C22 M3 blade.
Four sockets, two times the fun
It is not clear why the B420 M3 server gets to keep a zero in its product name when none of the new Xeon E5 blades and racks do, but it does.
The B420 M3 blade is a double-wide that spans the full width of the UCS chassis and therefore gives Cisco twice as much room in which to create a four-socket server node that offers roughly twice the oomph and eight times the maximum main memory in which applications can frolic.
The B420 M3 double-wide blade server
Cisco supports variants of the Xeon E5-4600s with four, six, or eight cores, but has not outlined the specific SKUs from the possible options.
The B420 M3 has four processor sockets and 48 memory slots, twice the density per socket as the two-socket E5-2400 rack and blade machines and offering up to 1.5TB of memory across those four cores if you use 32GB sticks. (You won't use 32GB sticks because they are too expensive, so stop dreaming.)
The B420 M3 has four front-accessible, hot-plug drive slots in the 2.5-inch form factor, and all of the drive options and types supported in the C22 M3 rack machine are available in the B240 M3 blade.
The B240 M3 has an LSI SAS 2208R controller integrated on its motherboard and offers RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 data protection across those drives. The machine also sports those two 16GB SD flash slots that are going to be used for something in the future.
This blade has three mezzanine slots, one of which is dedicated to the UCS VIC 1240 interface, which has 40Gb/sec of total bandwidth running back and forth between itself and the UCS switch at the top of the chassis (across four ports) and that has 256 virtual interfaces for network and storage access over Ethernet and FCoE, respectively. The other two mezzanine ports can take two VIC 1280 adapters (which have 8 ports or a total of 80Gb/sec of bandwidth for their 256 virtual interfaces) or third-party network adapters (if you can imagine anyone doing that).
The B420 M3 is pitched as a machine suitable as the back-end for virtual desktop infrastructure as well as for running infrastructure clouds, databases, or ERP software.
The B22 M3 blade server is shipping now and a base price of $2,450. The other three machines will ship later this summer, and pricing will be available at that time.
It would have been interesting to see Cisco put one more machine into the field, what El Reg will call a C420 M3 for now. This would be a rack analog to the B420 M3 sporting four sockets, maybe in a 2U chassis, and offering 1.5TB of memory and 24 drives across the front like the C24 M3. Such a machine would complete the set.
The C460 M2 rack server, which is based on the Xeon E7 processors and has four processors and 64 memory slots (for up to 2TB of capacity) in its 4U of rack space is not exactly a dense machine by 2012 standards. Cisco needs a 2U rack with the Xeon E5-4600s, similar to Dell's PowerEdge R820, IBM's System x 3750, and the HP DL580 Gen8 – if HP ever gets around to launching that one. ®


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I'd like to begin my weekly post with an upcoming event which is of particular importance to me.
On Jan. 22, I will be attending the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. We expect to have very good attendance from Massachusetts, particularly with young people. We have been encouraging the youth to participate in the march as a way of experiencing another reality of the life of the Church.
However, we also want to encourage others who are able to travel to the nation's capital to be a part of the celebrations at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and the march itself. Those who cannot attend can participate by praying for the safety of everyone there and for the success of the march. They can also view the Masses and the other programs part of the March for Life on Catholic television stations.
The campaign against abortion in our country has been a long one, but we have seen great strides made. In part, that is because we have not let the issue die. Many are committed to continue to witnessing to the gospel of life, and we are very grateful for those who can go to the march and be personally present.
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Last Saturday I went to visit the Trappistine sisters at Mount St. Mary's Abbey in Wrentham. The Trappistine community there has over 50 sisters and many young women in formation. Their chaplain is Father Aquinas, from St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer.
Two of the communities novices, Sister Christine and Sister Pauleen
Sister Katie praying the rosary on a walk
The Trappistine life is one of prayer and work. There is such a joy and a peace in the place that it is always a wonderful spiritual experience to visit them.
Three of the current four postulants, Left to right: Eve Marie, Sofia, and Francesca. They are all in their 20's!
The sisters support themselves by manufacturing candy. I always say that they are so successful recruiting vocations because they make chocolate there; I'm sure that is one factor!… lol.
I believe they are preparing what they call "Butter Nut Munch" here
They also have a flock of sheep, and one year they gave me a blanket made from the wool of one sheep. I was very impressed.
Sister Rafaela working on the fencing of the sheep pasture
During my visit, I celebrated Mass with their community, along with some lay guests. Afterward, we had lunch together and dialogued about the Church today, religious life and so forth.
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Also this week I had Mass for the cloistered Carmelite sisters in Danvers. That community also has sisters in formation, and they have a wonderful community life. They live the traditional cloistered life of the Carmelites — the spirituality of St. Theresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Edith Stein.
During the Mass, my cell phone rang. Afterwards, one of the sisters asked me if that ring was my telephone. I said, "Sister, it was your imagination." But then I had to get it out because I wanted to take a picture of the sisters for the blog, and the only way to do that was to use the camera on my phone.
Usually I beg for photos when I go to a place, but the sisters, of course, did not have digital cameras, so I had to improvise with my spiffy phone that has a camera. It was one of the first pictures that I have ever taken on it.
What do you think of my cell phone photos?
We are very blessed to have five communities of contemplative sisters in the archdiocese — two convents of Poor Clares, two convents of Carmelites and the Trappistines, which is the largest community.
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On the Feast of The Epiphany I celebrated Mass at the Cathedral for the Hispanic Community. The Feast of the Three Kings is such an important feast in the Hispanic world, particularly for the Puerto Ricans. In their country, the Fiesta de Reyes is very, very important, and they have many processions and parades and, of course, they exchange gifts. In fact, it is a national holiday.
There, they always celebrate it on the 12th day of Christmas — Jan. 6 — whereas in the United States we transfer the Epiphany to the Sunday. This year, of course, Jan. 6 happened to fall on a Sunday.
Father Carlos Lopez, who is assigned at the cathedral and is working with the Hispanics, concelebrated the Mass. He has been such a wonderful addition to the life of the Hispanic community at the Cathedral. Most of our parishioners at the Cathedral are Puerto Rican, yet this is the first time we have had a Puerto Rican priest working wit us there, so it has been a great blessing for us.
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I was also with the Ge'ez-rite Catholic community on Sunday night because they celebrate Christmas on what for us is the Epiphany. The Ge'ez-rite community, which has its origins in Ethiopia and Eritrea, is based out of the cathedral so I try to join them for their important feast days.
The Christmas Mass went on for many hours, ending at 11:30 p.m. I stayed with them while they sang Christmas carols (which involves a great deal of drum playing). After the Mass, they had their traditional Ethiopian Christmas meal at midnight, and I blessed the food for them.
At the celebration, the women were all in their traditional attire. There was a Capuchin sister visiting from Ethiopia, so we have a picture of her with her mother and her sister.
One of our seminarians who was present at the Cathedral is also from Ethiopia, Tamiru Atraga. He is being ordained a deacon next month.
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As a follow up to our two convocations of priests held in the fall, we've begun a series of regional meetings in which the priests can come together in their own areas of the diocese for prayer, a light lunch, some presentations and dialogue. This week, we were in the South and Merrimack regions. The meetings were moderated by our Vicar General, Father Rich Erikson.
Central to the conversation was the work of the six-priest team which is the Clergy Services Group. To have six priests — four full time and two part time — looking out for the priests and deacons of the archdiocese is a blessing and a sign of the diocese's esteem and care for her clergy.
Since I'm sure many of you are unfamiliar with the Clergy Services Group, allow me to share a little bit about who the members are and the role they play assisting their brother priests:
Father Art Coyle is the Cabinet Secretary for Pastoral and Ministerial Services and acts as convener and coordinator of the group.
Father Brian Clary is the Director of the Priest Recovery Program. He assists clergy and their communities with issues related to addictions.
Father Ed Condon is the Vicar for Pastoral Care of Priests, making personal visits a major part of his work.
Father Bob Deehan is the Director of Clergy Personnel, with particular responsibility for coordinating and recommending assignments of priests and deacons.
Father Jim Flavin has just begun full time work as Director of Pastoral Care of Priests and Moderator of the Clergy Fund, having just completed his term as pastor at St. Edith Stein Parish in Brockton. He gives special attention to the emotional and physical health of our priests and has oversight of the funds that provide for priests' health benefits and retirement needs.
Father Bill Kelly is the Director of the Office for Clergy Support and Ongoing Formation. He is responsible for fielding questions, planning retreats, lectures and workshops, and also reaching out to priests and deacons on a daily basis.
We are blessed, and unique among dioceses, to have so many priests serving their brothers and we look forward to the rest of the regional meetings in February.
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On Wednesday I attended the inauguration of Dr. Carmen Mariano as president of Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree.
Dr. Mariano
Many parents participated in the event and many alumni came back to the school for the occasion. (In fact, Dr. Mariano himself is a 1964 alumnus of the school.)
The Archbishop Williams High serves over 30 communities, and more than 9,000 students have graduated since its creation in 1949 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. It is currently a Catholic private school.
They have a lovely auditorium where we celebrated Mass.
Distributing communion
I was glad to see that they're doing very well there: The chapel has just been refurbished, enrollment is up and they have a very active campus ministry at the school. Father Keymont is the chaplain there and he is doing a wonderful job.
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On Wednesday evening, I attended a St. Andrew's Dinner, sponsored by the Vocations Office.
There were about 60 young men who came from the parishes. We had vespers, dinner and then after dinner three seminarians addressed them. The young men visiting are high school students, and the seminarians are all in college. They talked about their own spiritual journey, discernment and their experience of seminary. Each of the seminarian speakers studies at a different college: one is at Providence College, one is in St. Charles in Philadelphia and another is at the Franciscan College in Stubenville.
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We had a lovely celebration on Jan. 4 to mark the 25th wedding anniversary of Antonio and Reyes Enrique. Antonio is the editor of our archdiocesan newspaper, The Pilot.
Many friends and relatives of the Enriques attended the Mass, held in the chapel at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Some of their children proclaimed the readings and provided the music. Antonio and Reyes renewed their marriage vows and I blessed silver rings to commemorate their silver anniversary.
During the Mass, I baptized Elena Carmen, the Enriques' 11th child, a beautiful little baby girl who was so well behaved during the Mass that I was amazed.
Afterwards, there was a little repast with some tortilla Española and a lovely wedding cake. It was a wonderful and joyful celebration, and everyone was very happy for the Enrique family.
The Enriques after the Mass
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For the photo of the week, I have chosen this photo with Trappistine Sister Anne Kohl. Her 100th birthday is Jan. 21. Happy birthday Sister!
Until my next posting, blessings,
Cardinal Seán


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When Macoupin County Sheriff Don Albrecht isn't dealing with law enforcement, he's tending to another aspect of his job: the upkeep of the Macoupin County Courthouse.
When Macoupin County Sheriff Don Albrecht isn't dealing with law enforcement, he's tending to another aspect of his job: the upkeep of the Macoupin County Courthouse.
His latest initiative has two goals. Albrecht wants to get the courthouse named to the National Register of Historic Places, a step he thinks will both properly recognize the building's architectural and historic significance and also perhaps make it easier to obtain grants to support its restoration.
The sandstone exterior of the landmark, Albrecht says, needs refurbishing, but the county is financially strapped, and residents are tightening their belts because of the closures of two area coal mines and what Albrecht calls "tough economic times."
But refurbishing is important to maintaining a site that attracts visitors from throughout the United States and abroad, he said.
The domed courthouse was known as the "million-dollar courthouse" when it was built in 1870, at a time when a $1 million construction budget was lavish. The final cost of the courthouse actually came to more than $1.3 million, though the widespread suspicion was that some of that money found its way into the pockets of local officials.
"They (the designers) wanted something upscale," Albrecht said.
Indeed. In the main courtroom, the 7-foot Elizabethan judge's chair once sat on a track and had to be wheeled to the bench by the bailiff. The bench is made of five kinds of Italian marble, and even the public seating is finely carved walnut.
A desire for strength is also evident. Almost all of the interior doors are made of steel.
"Each door weighs about 2,000 pounds and is about 2-1/2 inches thick," Albrecht said.
The courthouse dome is 191 feet high, and the building features 40-foot Corinthian columns.
Exhibits include documents signed by Abraham Lincoln, who practiced in an earlier Macoupin County courthouse.
Carlinville Regional Chamber of Commerce executive director Jessica Barton said it's not unusual to see people snapping pictures of the courthouse.
"I see people standing on the steps taking pictures of each other or standing on the street taking photos (to get a wider photo)," she said.
The visitors' guest book includes names of international as well as American tourists, Albrecht said.
When people visit the courthouse and the Carlinville Historic District, they also shop or dine at local businesses, said Barton and county economic development coordinator Nora Feuquay.
A committee of county residents is pursuing National Register recognition for the courthouse. The next steps include compiling supporting materials and talking with the state historic preservation agency.
"They'll be the ambassadors for what we want to do," Albrecht said of the commtitee.
The Carlinville Historic District is on the National Register of Historic sites, but the courthouse needs to be listed individually in order to be eligible for grants, he said.
Such recognition also has the potential to boost economic development and tie into national and international interest in nearby Route 66, as well as Abraham Lincoln sites in the Springfield area, county officials say.
Macoupin County officials raised taxes in the late 1800s and early 1900s to build the courthouse. The construction debt was finally retired in 1910.
Raising taxes isn't an option today, Albrecht said.
Debra Landis can be reached at (217) 483-4352.
What is the National Register?
The National Register of Historic Places is a national program to help identify and protect historic and archeological resources.
Properties listed on the National Register include districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects identified as significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture. The register includes more than 80,000 listings.
Eight structures or areas already are on the National Register in Macoupin County, including the Carlinville Historic District, Route 66 from Girard to Nilwood and Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive.
Sangamon County has 59 National Register sites, including the Statehouse, Lincoln Home and Tomb, the Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop and the Illinois State Fairgrounds.
The most recent Sangamon County addition to the National Register was the former Jennings Ford auto dealership at 431 S. Fourth St. in Springfield. Illinois National Bank restored the building to its original 1919 appearance, and it was added to the register in May 2006.
-- Debra Landis
Design echos 16th-century Italy, France
The architectural design of the Macoupin County Courthouse is identified as Renaissance Revival, which is based on the architecture of 16th-century Renaissance Italy and France and influenced by the architecture of ancient Greek and Roman buildings.
The architect for the courthouse was Elijah E. Myers of Springfield, who also worked on the Michigan, Texas and Colorado state capitols, among other sites in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
Myers also designed the 1869 Macoupin County Jail, which is no longer used but is open for visits by the public.
— Debra Landis
Courthouse's history rife with rumors of scandal
CARLINVILLE -- Growing up, Nora Feuquay heard the stories about the "million dollar courthouse" on the city square.
One of them was that Macoupin County officials in the late 1800s wanted Carlinville to become the state capital. Hence, they built a courthouse that cost more than $1.3 million.
Another was one or more county officials made off with some of the tax dollars raised to build the courthouse.
"They were stories I heard as a child. I don't know if they're true," said Feuquay, who today is the county's economic development coordinator.
The first Macoupin County Courthouse was built of logs on what is now the city square, according to local historians. That building was followed by a brick county courthouse, where Abraham Lincoln was among those practicing law. Copies of legal documents with Lincon's signature are on file at the current courthouse.
After the Civil War, Macoupin County officials began planning for the current courthouse.
"By the time the courthouse was officially completed in 1870, the project had cost a staggering $1,342,226.31," says a history post on the Carlinville Regional Chamber of Commerce's Web site. "Thus evolved the nickname, the 'Million Dollar Courthouse.'
"Not only was the courthouse an exorbitant expense to the taxpayers, rumors of a scandal involving misused appropriations also tarnished the project. Initially, the blame was laid on Judge Thaddeus Loomis and George H. Holliday, county clerk. Judge Loomis was apparently innocent of any wrongdoing. (We may never know the truth about Mr. Holliday, however, because one night in 1870, he boarded a train out of town and simply disappeared)," the history says.
When completed, the courthouse was said to be the second largest -- behind only New York City's -- in the United States.
Despite the questions about its construction, the courthouse is a source of pride in Macoupin County, which is proposing that the building be named to the National Register of Historic Places.
In July 1910, 40 years after the cornerstone was laid, county residents celebrated the retirement of the construction debt with a two-day celebration, according to records. An estimated 20,000 people are said to have gathered for the event.
"At a pre-determined hour, all mine whistles, church bells, alarms and anything else that could make a loud noise raised quite a ruckus," according to the Carlinville Chamber of Commerce Web site. "The noise wasn't limited to one mighty blast, however, because history records that athletic contests, balloon rides and even airplane rides gave the citizens plenty to cheer about.
"A parade of cars that stretched more than a mile also entertained the crowds. That doesn't seem like such a spectacular event today, but it was quite impressive at a time when so few people owned cars."
Such a history, combined with its architecture and continuing significance to Macoupin County, makes the courthouse worthy of National Register consideration, said Sheriff Don Albrecht.
-- Debra Landis
Want to help?
People interested in helping with efforts to get the Macoupin County Courthouse on the National Register may call (217) 854-3135, ext. 281.


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Re: st: Comparing coefficients across sub-samples
David Hoaglin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Comparing coefficients across sub-samples
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:34:48 -0400
The concept underlying "Lisa's formula" is quite basic; you should be
able to find it in almost any introductory book on mathematical
statistics or probability ("variance of a sum or difference [or, more
generally, a linear combination] of independent random variables").
It is not a "big" enough concept to be called a theorem, let alone be
named after someone. I should be able to dig up a reference if
The only part of the formula that might need justification is the use
of the estimates for var(B1) and var(B2) and then referring z to a
standard normal distribution. That step relies on having "large"
samples, but it should be OK, and it is very commonly done.
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I don't usually give in to the demands of domineering men. But two weeks ago, in response to my last Sunday Gleaner column, "Out of Many, Fi Wi Langgwij", which was also posted here on the blog, R. Oscar Lofters made me an offer I could barely resist: "I demand that from now on the professor writes her columns totally in Patwa. I refuse to read anymore of her columns written in English. Since Jamaicans all speak, write and understand Patwa, why waste time writing in a mixture of both".
I suppose Mr. Lofters was being sarcastic. But the very thought that he might possibly be sending a serious message to the Gleaner's Opinion Page Editor sent waves of pleasure rushing through my being. Here was a man after my own heart who was up for creativity; a man with a lofty vision of what my mother tongue could do. Mr. Lofters seemed to be celebrating the unlimited potential of the Jamaican language as a tool of communication worthy of the Sunday Gleaner's editorial page.
Mr. Lofters doesn't stand a chance in hell of having his 'dream' come true. However much my brain was stimulated by the thought of submitting to Mr. Lofters' seductive proposition, I knew it was all anti-climactic. My hands are tied. I'm not allowed to write a whole column in Jamaican. I'm restricted to one paragraph per week. It's the Gleaner's editorial policy from time immemorial, it would appear. Well, at least from 1834 when the ancient newspaper was established.
'You can't do science in Patwa'
In any case, I really don't want to use 'so-so Patwa' each week even though I thoroughly enjoy the challenges of writing expository prose in my mother tongue. It's a language we've been taught to diss: it's 'limited'. Sceptics keep on making silly claims like 'you can't do science in Patwa.' They don't know that speakers of a language can make it do anything they want. It's not the language that's doing the thinking. And if you need technical vocabulary for new concepts, you simply make it up or 'borrow' from another language.
Still for all, I'm never going to give up writing in English. I just love the quirkiness of the language. I think of English as the world's greatest patois. Its vocabulary is a grand mix-up of basic Anglo-Saxon words and a host of borrowings from other languages such as Greek, Latin, Old Norman, French, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Yoruba, Twi, Maori, Yiddish and, these days, even Jamaican!
Native speakers of English are often not hooked on 'correctness' in the way that up-tight second-language learners often are. They actually experiment with their mother tongue, making it do all sorts of interesting things. Words like 'bling' and 'diss' have found their way into English – not just as slang – but as 'respectable' new vocabulary.
Vote of confidence
Ideally, I'd like to write a bi-lingual column for the Gleaner as I did for the Observer in the 1990's. Then, I insisted that in our culture English and Jamaican are happily married, with no prospect of divorce. It wasn't easy to get the conservative editors of that young newspaper to agree. Youthfulness is no guarantee of creativity. And old age is no guarantee of wisdom.
That newspaper stopped publishing the column because of Motty Perkins. No, it wasn't Motty's fault. It was a case of collateral damage. But that's a whole other story. I've almost given up on trying to help the editors of the Gleaner see the value of a bilingual column. Until they 'sight' the light, I'm saving my pearls for my blog.
'Nation Language'
"Talk like Miss Lou, mi no talk like foreigner". So Anthony B seh inna fi im song, "Nah Vote Again." Im a one conscious DJ weh know seh how im talk reveal im history an im culture. Im naa put on no twang an a try gwaan like seh im come from foreign. Im a one heartical yardie. An a so im a talk.
Professor Kamau Brathwaite, one big-time history man an poet from Barbados, im call fi wi creole language dem 'nation language'. Im know seh yu language talk yu nation. It mek people know weh yu come from, who yu be an wa yu a defend. A di said same ting Anthony B a seh.
Professor Brathwaite write one lickle book, History of the Voice, weh come out inna 1984. Im talk bout how di 'system' never set up fi mek African people over ya so member fi wi owna African language dem. An wi no fi put no value pon di new language dem weh wi mek up. Seet ya:
"What our educational system did was to recognize and maintain the language of the conquistador – the language of the planter, the language of the official, the language of the Anglican preacher. . . . And in terms of what we write, our perceptual models, we are more conscious (in terms of sensibility) of the falling snow, for instance . . . than of the force of the hurricanes which take place every year".
A true. Christmas a come an plenty a unu a go buy Christmas card wid snow pon Christmas tree. And unu a go sing Christmas carol bout 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.' So unu no bodder gwaan like all a di foreign culture no deh ya pon top a wi, a beat wi dong inna di grong. A it mek IMF a tek step wid wi, cau wi love foreign tings so much. Wi ha fi tek fi wi owna culture an fi wi owna language serious. No true, Misa Lofters!
Seet deh now! Gleaner never publish dis ya column sake-a it have een four 'patwa' paragraph.


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Nov 5th: Daylight Saving
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Nov 23rd-24th: Center Closed in observance of Thanksgiving
Nov 30th: Art Gallery Family Night
Friday, November 17 We will have our Classroom Feast Celebration. Each parent will be able to bring in a dish that is a tradition for their family on Thanksgiving or bring a dish that represents their culture. Families are welcome to attend the feast with their child. Feast will be during the classrooms regularly scheduled lunch time.
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Thursday, November 30th We will have our First Annual Art Gallery Family Night from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. More information will be given throughout the month.
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I've been keen to set up a feed from our blog (the LRA) for new additions for some time, but I've always thought it would be a technological challenge. Turns out that it's pretty easy if you've got an RSS output already, which we have.
I had a word with my contacts on twitter and as usual they came up aces with the answer – two suggestions a site called Twitterfeed or using HootDeck. This is how I did it.
- I registered a new twitter account for the repository UoLLRA. You don't have to do that you can just use your own account – but I wanted this to be separate from my online identity.
- I went to Twitterfeed.com.
- I opted to register using an OpenID account, although you can set up your own personal registration on the site. Since the LRA has a GMail address I used this.
- Once logged in I created a new feed
- I named the feed and copied in the URL of the RSS feed of new additions to the site.
- I selected where this was to be posted to – in this case Twitter. As I was still logged into twitter I only had to authorise this access, rather log in again.
- And that was it – all new items added to the repository will automatically gain a little more exposure to the electronic world without me taking any additional action.
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Ten Penn State Berks students embarked on a three-week-long internship in Rwanda on July 4. The students will be working and living at Kabuga, a school established to provide education for homeless children and young adults.
Randal Fegley, co-coordinator of the Global Studies degree program and assistant professor of history and politics at Penn State Berks, established the internship program in 2006. This year, the students will be working three 50-hour weeks at Kabuga.
According to Fegley, most Africans must pay school fees, which take a huge chunk of the family's income. Kabuga offers a unique alternative where a foster family can provide food and shelter for a homeless child; in return, that child and the family's natural children can attend Kabuga free of charge.
Kabuga currently teaches preschool through second graders, as well as young adults, but it plans to add another grade to the curriculum each year. The school's goal is to provide students with necessary education and at least one skill they can master with their hands.
"There are so many children adrift that it makes a lot of sense. 170,000 people are without homes in Rwanda," commented Fegley. "The mission of the Berks students is to fill in the gaps where the school is lacking."
In 2006, a group of Berks students who participated in the Rwanda internship program established a soccer program. This year, the students are planning to teach the Rwandans volleyball.
In addition to teaching a team sport, the Berks students will be teaching jewelry making, knitting, and other crafts. The students took plenty of supplies so the Kabuga students can continue to use their new skills to make money for the school.
"These skills are important to teach the kids, but perhaps most important, is to act as a befriender: to share life together, to work in the fields together, and to learn each other's languages," explained Fegley. "To have someone from the other side of the world connect with them is so valuable. Nearly everyone in Rwanda is so emotionally traumatized."
Most of the students at Kabuga are female; the majority of the males in Rwanda were the victims of genocide.
The Berks students will have the opportunity to see nearly all of Rwanda due to the country's small size -- 26,338 square kilometers, a little smaller than the state of Maryland. They will visit genocide sites and memorials.
Megan Rudy, a communication arts and sciences major and global studies minor, is one of the Berks students traveling to Rwanda this month. She commented, "It's kind of hard to fathom -- 800,000 people murdered in 100 days. When I'm there and see the skeletons I think it will be different. I'm an emotional person, so being there will probably be an emotional experience for me."
Said Fegley, "The students go away with a changed view of the world. They see things in a much more complex way. I've had some of the students from the Rwanda trip later on in classes and I noticed that their willingness to explore gray areas greatly increased."
Many of the students in the Global Studies major go on to work in various agencies involved in humanitarian efforts, and this was a motivating factor for Fegley when he began planning the internship.
"I wanted these students to go and see something done right because so much isn't," he said. "Kabuga is something that is done right, and something they can remember as they go into these agencies."
Along with the internship, the students take a related political science course, Ethnic Content in Africa. They will be making documentary film shorts about Rwanda for additional credits. These films will be shown on the Berks campus when the students return in the fall and will also be applied to classroom use. Additionally, these films will be used in Rwanda to promote Kabuga.


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Gwen Stefani is reportedly in talks to replace Christina Aguilera on the next season of America's The Voice.
Bosses at U.S. network NBC want the No Doubt frontwoman to sit in the Dirrty singer's spinning chair while she takes a break to focus on her pregnancy.
If Stefani signs up, she will sit alongside another new face on the show - Pharrell Williams will act as a coach instead of original judge Cee Lo Green.
Adam Levine and Blake Shelton are expected to return.
Aguilera and Green were previously replaced in series four and six by Usher and Shakira.
Reports suggest Stefani will only appear in the seventh season, with Aguilera returning to her role in the eighth run.
The show is set to start filming in June (14).
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An avid skier and athlete, who travelled between his family's regal palazzo in Florence, the mountains of Switzerland and the glamorous resort island of Capri, Emilio Pucci naturally embodied the post-war, jet set glamour which captivated a new generation of modern, active women. His fashion career began unexpectedly in 1947 when he created a streamlined ski outfit - totally revolutionary with its sleek, tapered trousers and hooded parka, photographed on the slopes of Switzerland for Harper's Bazaar.
He then opened a boutique on Capri dedicated to simple, yet beautiful resort clothing (tight, colourful "Capri" pants, silk twill shirts, and striped jersey tops) that embodied the island's natural beauty and refreshingly bright colours. The novel concept of designer ready-to-wear was a hit with the island's sophisticated clientele who had instant access to wearable yet chic clothing. Later, his designs were prized by world-renown female icons, including Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Jackie Kennedy and Gloria Guinness as well as Madonna and Nicole Kidman.
Prior to Pucci's arrival on the design scene, women were constricted by rigid, structured clothing that utilised heavy padding, corsets and petticoats to unnaturally confine the body. Contrary to his design contemporaries, Pucci was driven by the desire to liberate women, granting them unprecedented freedom and movement. His simply designed dresses, pants and tops featured sexy, free-flowing lines that followed the natural curves of the body.
Pucci designs had the allure of couture, but were shed of all the impractical weight, volume, layering and, most importantly, cost of haute couture creations. Additionally, Pucci offered a total vision that ranged from dresses and underwear to linens, handbags, perfumes and rugs, and gave an expanded group of consumers access to designer goods for the first time.
Inspired by exotic cultures and by the natural landscapes of the Mediterranean, Pucci brought luscious, bright colour to his designs in an unparalleled way. A sophisticated fusion of colour -- lemon yellows, bougainvillea pinks, frosted lilacs, azure blue, almond green-- became the hallmark of Pucci design. The effect was glorious, joyful, and perfectly captured the new mood in fashion. Instantly recognisable, Pucci's colour combinations exude energy and emotion and allow the designs of the clothes themselves to remain relatively simple.
In the 1950s Pucci began developing his signature prints-- graphic, abstract designs, which swirled in a kaleidoscope of colour. The organic forms pulsing with geometric patterns mimicked contemporary art forms, but were inspired by the world around him - Sicilian mosaics, the heraldic banners of Siena's Palio horse race, Bali Batiks, and African motifs. It was the first time that such optical illusions had been incorporated into clothing and the effect was highly original, not to mention extensively copied in the years to come. Each print carries the designer's name "Emilio", in tiny hand-written form, marking the debut of a designer's name as an external logo.
In the 1990s, Pucci prints experienced a surge in popularity. As the world's fascination with the brand rekindled, Emilio's daughter, Laudomia Pucci, began to take over her father's business. In April 2000, an alliance was formed between the Pucci family and LVMH, with the French luxury group acquiring 67% of the company. In October 2008 the Norwegian designer Peter Dundas was appointed Creative Director. The Emilio Pucci headquarters are located at Palazzo Pucci in Florence.


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Kent State's Center for Innovation in Transition and Employment to Host Symposium May 2-3
The Center for Innovation in Transition and Employment at Kent State University will host the 2014 Kent Transition Symposium on May 2-3. The symposium, which will be held at the Kent Campus and the new Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center located in downtown Kent, is intended for students, parents, school educators and administrators.
Breakout sessions will provide participants with information about the four-year, non-degree Career and Community Studies college program and the Kent State Transition Collaborative's Job Training and Career Exploration programs. Topics will include information on the requirements of each opportunity; what students, parents, and schools need to know to get ready for a college or work experience; and how the thread of self-determination knits all areas together.
The Career and Community Studies program is for the student with intellectual disabilities who is interested in a college experience to advance his or her career interests.
"College is one of the first places where one begins to figure out who they are, what they believe and how one wants to contribute to life," said Vonnie Michali, director of the Career and Community Studies program at Kent State. "Interacting with peers who are going through the same experience has been extremely beneficial for the Career and Community Studies students who may not have had this chance otherwise."
The Kent State Transition Collaborative programs offer opportunities for students with disabilities to gain work experience, explore different work environments and identify personal strengths and interests.
"We receive students who are well-prepared and eager to learn how to claim their place in the adult world of work," said Babette Cameron, project director of the Kent State Transition Collaborative. "They meet our highly-trained staff eager to facilitate this self-determination, and our employers who actually need them both to succeed. It is a process that works, and we are all proud to be a part of it."
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The Cook Islands are a Pacific Island country of 15 islands spread over two million square kilometres of sparkling Pacific Ocean. The geological history of the islands is of constant fascination to scientists who gain much knowledge from the study of their varied, volcanic origins.
While Rarotonga is a raised island cone surrounded by fertile rainforest leading down to an encircling barrier reef, others are atolls.Mitiari, Mauke, Mangaia and beautiful Atiu are raised atolls framed by rings of coral and dotted with caves. Different again, Aitutaki boasts one of the world's most spectacular lagoons and less land mass, in the form of one major island and many small, idyllic motus.
It isn't known exactly when the Cook Islands were settled, but historians believe that Pukapuka was occupied some 2400 years ago, while Rarotonga's settlement followed about 900 years later.
Cook Islanders believe their original ancestral home is a place called Avaiki. The indigenous people who live on the islands now are believed to have been the remnants of the last great Polynesian Migration which started as early as 1500BC from Asia and whom originally arrived on Pukapuka.
European settlement has been varied, with Spanish explorers recording sightings of the islands in the late 16th century. It was another 150 years before another European was to explore the islands and land on one of them, Captain James Cook. The island group takes its name after the intrepid explorer, however Captain Cook originally named them the Hervey Islands.
The arrival of the Christian missionaries in the Cook Islands was and has continued to be a huge influence on Cook Island society. The London Missionary Society first sent Reverend John Williams to Aitutaki in 1821, followed by a trip to Rarotonga in the early 1820's. Teachers of Christianity established many rules and regulations, as well as a strong base for the religion during the 19th century. Christianity is still a strong social force in the Cook Islands today.
A British protectorate from 1888, and subjected to less than successful British residents through the late 1800's, the Cook Islands eventually became a New Zealand dependency in 1901. Some 60 years later, the Cook Islands became a self governing state, with foreign policy and defence still under the control of New Zealand. This close relationship continues today with Cook Islanders sharing New Zealand citizenship. This means there are now more Cook Islanders resident in New Zealand than living in the Cook Islands themselves.
In more recent history, tourism has become a major income for the islands, both from non-resident Cook Islanders returning to visit family and numerous visitors from international destinations. Visitors continue to enjoy the tropical climate, relaxing atmosphere and traditional hospitality of the Cook Island people.


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"The Voice's" blind auditions saw a few unexpected acts grace the stage Tuesday and a few unexpected coaches snag them.
A country hopeful didn't head to Team Blake, and a model-turned-singer with the temerity to cover Adam's own song didn't head to Team Adam. And a pair of white guys from Idaho who chatted up Shakira in Spanish didn't end up picking her, either.
And at the end of the night, Adam came away with a whale (and a Whale) of a catch.
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The night's first hopeful was Tawnya Roberts, a country singer who'd spent too long putting in her dues in Nashville. "I play out four to five nights a week," she said. "I've been shot down by every label in town."
A surefire Blake favorite, right? Especially with her playful but lilting take on the Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson classic "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys?"
Blake, who'd nabbed a country hopeful Monday night, sat out that round while the other coaches fought for her. Usher pulled out the tried-and-true Dolly Parton comparison any country singer wants to hear — but armed with an "English to Country" dictionary and praise of Tawnya's talents, Shakira won the 27-year-old over.
"I'm totally psyched about Shakira. She seemed super-passionate," the singer said.
But she wasn't quite as psyched as Cathia.
Cathia, a college student from the Bronx whose family hails from El Salvador, won the coaches over not just with her soaring take on "No Me Doy por Vencido" (Spanish for "I Will Never Give Up") but also with her sense of humor — and her endearing fan-girl moment.
"Usher!" she yelled, starstruck after she finished her song — itself a bold choice, given that it was entirely in Spanish. "Shakira!" she screamed, realizing she had just sung before one of the world's biggest Latin pop stars.
"I didn't understand one word," Blake said.
"It's okay, music is universal!" Cathia rejoined, and her enthusiasm was clearly infecting the coaches.
"I understand you," said Shakira, saying she wanted to be a mentor to the 19-year-old just as Gloria Estefan had been a mentor to her. "You can take the world by storm."
But if singing in Spanish is bold, singing one of the coaches' own songs is even bolder, and that's just what model-turned-singer Josiah Hawley did.
The gamble paid off. Hawley's take on Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning" won Adam over, and his hairstyle won some plaudits from Blake. But Hawley ultimately chose Usher as his coach.
Adam instead got a team member, and his first-ever duo, in Midas Whale, a quirky folk-pop duo from Idaho — one half of which was "American Idol" alum Jon Peter Lewis. After promising to become the first duo to win the whole shebang, the pair delivered a rockabilly cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," accompanying themselves on accordion and acoustic guitar.
And for a couple of white guys from out west, the pair stunned Shakira when they began chatting her up in Spainish.
But that Whale was hardly Adam's biggest catch of the night.
That honor belonged to Sarah Simmons, a soft-spoken music student from Memphis, Tenn., whose soft-spoken reserve belied her powerhouse of a voice.
Her emotional take on the Joan Osborne hit "One of Us" built from a fragile croon to a raspy belt and had the coaches stumbling over each other, and themselves, to woo her to their teams. Blake even deemed hers one of the top few performances he'd heard yet.
She chose to join Team Adam, and he had nothing but praise.
"She is magic," he said. "It is unreal."
The one contestant who went home disappointed Tuesday night was Abraham McDonald, a 35-year-old who began to take his ambitions seriously after his little sister goaded him into karaoke competitions. His take on Beyoncé's "Best Thing I Never Had" didn't prompt any of the coaches to turn their chairs.
"I think you're an excellent singer," Shakira told him with regret. "The only thing you lacked was a little precision on the trills."
Blind auditions will continue on "The Voice" next week.


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Aaaaargh! The Muscles on the back on my right leg begin to seize and I pull over to massage (punch) the pain out but it's not working. I say to myself "dude, you have only ridden 40km, sort yourself out" as men twice my age crawl past me up this long and windy gravel road. It's midday on Race day at L'eroica and I'm suffering, my training for this event has consisted of a daily 5km commute and that's it. Like a fool I believed that since I had taken part in the event previously, this year would be a 'breeze'. Ha! A Breeze.
It wasn't a breeze at all, this race is a toughie. I've ridden up some hard climbs in my time but they were on modern bikes, with modern components and adequate gearing, on butter smooth tarmac. There's none of that round here, let me tell you. You're on a pre 84 bike, mate. That's usually with 10 gears, with a frame made of Steel, toe clips and straps for your feet and tubular tyres. Now, I love all of that stuff as you probably know but out there all I wanted to do was cry into my handlebars after my hands and wrists had been shattered to pieces by the famed white gravel roads.
Earlier that morning I had felt good and strong, I had my English Le Coq Sportif jersey on and like all of my fellow team mates I felt proud but right now I'm just about cooked.
Unlike last year it's hot as hell, my body feels like it's been in a microwave and I need water. My bike (an early 70s Cornale) feels like it's made of lead pipe and I'm going nowhere fast. I've eaten well all day at the L'Eroica food stops, Tuscan bean soup, bananas, apricots, bread and jam, the lot but I've nothing left, I'm on empty.
I get back on the bike and press on before anyone else passes me and demoralizes me further. There's 30km to go and I think to myself "there can't be much more climbing after this hill, surely". Mike Routledge of the UK team said later on that day that " he felt like he'd been climbing so much, he should soon be at the moon" He was right.
I'm faced with a wall of white gravel and in my head I can hear the mother out of the Belleville rendezvous film whistling my pedal strokes like a metronome. One-two-three-four… one-two-three-four. I reach into the back of my soaked LCS merino jersey and pull out some sweets that I had stashed from an earlier food stop and jam them into my mouth, right now I need the sugar. I could need these later on but to be honest, I very much doubt that there'll be a climb as steep and as loose under tyres as this one.
I wonder where the French team are? My English team partner, Patrick and I had been riding with them earlier but we managed to drop them somewhere after food stop number one but I'm sure, given my performance today they will be along soon. I expect them any moment, all of them in the Blue, Blanc, Rouge of the Le Coq Sportif France country jersey, swallowing me up like a massive wave over a fallen surfer.
I want some Coca Cola, the elixir of life, but it's Sunday and I'm in the wilderness. It's not going to happen and I accept it.
Suddenly I see Patrick on the side of the road, he's stopped for me, and we continue up and over the crest and into the descent. I always feel like I'm in a computer game during descents and this is no exception. Some hate dropping down off of hills, I for one love it. I'm an ex downhiller, I should.
With this decent and all of it's fun comes a fresh perspective. My legs feel a little better and I no longer concentrate on the pain, instead I focus on my surroundings, Tuscany, its utterly beautiful here. Picture postcard country. So the sun is cooking my body, so what, would I rather it raining and blowing a gale? I think not. So the terrain is demanding, so what, would I rather be cycling in Worcestershire? Nope.
At the end of the day I finished the race with no scrapes or techinicals, I also finished ahead the ever-strong French team. I have no idea on how long the 75km took me, I didn't care. I had finished and I had a cold beer in my hand. I had that elation coursing through me and I was beaming from ear to ear. Sure, I couldn't quite get my legs to work but I had nowhere to go anyway so it didn't matter.
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Now, that was just a taster of what's to come, I'v plenty more to post from my weekend's activities in Chianti, so expect more words and lots of pictures!
Special thanks go out to:
Mike Routledge and Marc Chamberlain of Le Coq Sportif UK.
Patrick and Christophe of le Coq Sportif France.
Patrick, my podna from Oi Polloi.
Ed and Brian of Hanon shop.
Beth from Tea and Cake.
Max from Tokyo Fixed Gear.
I must also give a massive shout out to the whole LCS family, UK, Italy, France, Spain all of you, thank you! You all made the experience truly unforgettable.
Peep more at the Le Coq Sportif facebook page.
You can also read my account from last year's event here, and here.


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Some of the most exciting developments in technology are coming from innovations in interface design and control mechanisms. Now a new system uses a bit of augmented reality inspiration to offer a new way of manipulating 3D projects.
The T(ether) system was created by MIT students David Lakatos and Matthew Blackshaw as way to collaboratively edit 3D virtual objects in mid-air, in real-time using an iPad and a motion-tracked glove. The system facilitates spacial mapping between virtual and real space, allowing a pair of editors to build, change and control virtual objects in tandem.
It's like watching the rudimentary aspects of a Minority Report-style control screen, except no screen is needed, everything happens in 3D space. You can see the T(ether) in action in the video below.
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Somerset, Kentucky
Somerset was first settled in 1798 by Thomas Hansford and received its name from Somerset County, New Jersey. Somerset became the county seat of Pulaski County in 1802 and was incorporated as a city in 1887. A significant Civil War battle was fought at Mill Springs about 8 miles west of Somerset. Another, smaller battle, was fought nearby at Dutton's Hill.
The completion of Lake Cumberland in 1950 transformed Somerset from a sleepy rural community into one of the largest recreation centers in Kentucky, drawing more than 1.7 million visitors annually. Lake Cumberland is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Somerset is also near Cumberland Falls and the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.


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Derek Jeter to the White Sox?
It may not be as far-fetched as you think.
November 28, 2010
Come to your senses Chuck!
Tags: Chuck Garfien, Derek Jeter
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never, alexei is a good short stop. and too much money for nothing
Comment by Anonymous — November 28, 2010 @ November 28, 2010 2:59 pm | Reply
word. alexei is younger, better, and cheaper.
Comment by The Wizard — November 28, 2010 @ November 28, 2010 6:05 pm | Reply
why would anybody think he would come to the sox?
Comment by Anonymous — November 28, 2010 @ November 28, 2010 6:46 pm | Reply
it's an unsolved mystery!
Comment by The Wizard — November 28, 2010 @ November 28, 2010 7:01 pm | Reply
Just as cartoons entertained me as a child, I've come to the realization that the writings of Chicago's Three Stooges (and those following in their footsteps) should be viewed in the same vein – comedic relief. No longer will I get upset with their work. Going forward, please include their columns in your topics since every day should begin with a good laugh.
Remember, Stooges, we're not laughing with you; we're laughing at you.
Comment by Buford — November 29, 2010 @ November 29, 2010 12:51 pm | Reply
Dr. Phil couldn't resist chiming in:White Sox: Realistically there's little chance they will get Jeter but the fit shouldn't be discounted out of hand. Alexei Ramirez, like Castro, is a rising star. But his original four-year deal ends in 2011 and he will become an expensive proposition starting in '12. If the White Sox signed Jeter, they could make a series of moves that would give them a chance to win in '11 and '12, the last seasons they could have their strong starting rotation in place.
So, Phil's solution to Alexei getting expensive in 2012 (arbitration for 2 years, not free agency), is to sign the more expensive Jeter…
Comment by The Wizard — November 30, 2010 @ November 30, 2010 1:48 pm | Reply
The more expensive Jeter could well repeat his dismal 2010 offensive performance in tandem with his typical stationary defense, This helps the Sox because they will be throwing away tens of millions of dollars on an aging player when they have a better offensive and defensive player already in house. I think I've got it. Thanks, Dr. Phil.
"If the White Sox signed Jeter, they could make a series of moves…"
I can't wait for the article detailing these series of moves.
Comment by Buford — December 1, 2010 @ December 1, 2010 12:01 am | Reply
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It is widely known that Baby Boomers fueled the growth in health clubs in the 1980s, and it appears that they are coming back. In 1993, there were roughly 1.3 million health club members who were 55 and older. In 2004, that number increased to 10.2 million. In 2005, nearly 20 percent of health club members were 55 or older, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association.
Baby Boomers are people born after the end of World War II between 1946 and 1964. There are nearly 80 million Baby Boomers in the U.S. today. The oldest members of this group are now nearing retirement.
Boomers are an important group in the health and fitness industry, not only because of their numbers but also because they are highly motivated. This personality trait shows up in their drive to exercise, stay healthy and compete. To understand how much Baby Boomers still love to compete, pick up a copy of Masters Athlete magazine. Several sports journalists in the Chicago area launched this magazine and the accompanying Web site www.GeezerJock.com in October 2004. They decided to focus on people 40 and older who still enjoy competing. Every issue profiles older athletes -- some are in their 90s -- who do amazing things.
But, of course, this competitive drive comes at a price: injuries. In fact, it's so common that a new term has been invented to describe the injuries these older athletes suffer: "boomeritis."
As an employee or owner of a fitness club, why should you care? Because Boomers are very motivated to exercise for health reasons. They don't want to end up sitting in a wheelchair when they hit 70, or suffer a stroke or heart attack.
To attract individuals from this lucrative market to your club, consider the following six ideas:
1. Feed that competitive drive. Boomers are competitive, so consider programs like spinning classes and kickboxing. Create some type of recordkeeping that displays the performance of these members. For example, set a goal of 1,000 miles for members of a spinning class, and update it every week. For the less competitive, simply keep track of how regularly they exercise and if they are meeting the latest American College of Sports Medicine guidelines.
2. Offer training and conditioning advice. Because many Boomers might be preparing for an upcoming event, find trainers and coaches to give free talks on training and conditioning. Coordinate a membership drive with these talks.
3. Make sure you have ample cardio machines. Aerobic exercise is critical for warding off many chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Boomers know this.
4. Provide health checks. Find health care professionals in your community who can provide health talks at your club. If you can partner with a local hospital or clinic, offer blood pressure and cholesterol screenings periodically.
5. Establish flexible membership plans. Many Boomers have an "I can do it myself" attitude. Because it's likely that many of them will have joined gyms in the past, they'll appreciate the more options and choices you give them. Let them describe what kind of membership program they want.
6. Promote your personal training services. Personal training for Boomers is a good strategy. Boomers appreciate the special attention, and a knowledgeable trainer can help a Boomer from overdoing it.


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So much for Western civilization ending once marriage equality arrived in our nation's capitol. One year after same-sex unions became legal in Washington D.C. and the number of marriage licenses has doubled, reports the Washington Post.
The total number of applications more than doubled since the first same-sex couples lined up to get their licenses, from about 3,100 in the previous year to 6,600 during the past 12 months, said Leah H. Gurowitz, spokeswoman for D.C. Superior Court, which issues the licenses. Although the court does not differentiate between same-sex and heterosexual couples in its record-keeping, in previous years the number of applications varied by only 100 or less. So virtually all the increase is due to same-sex couples, Gurowitz said.
WaPo interviewed two same sex married couples profiled last year on R20. One of the couples is Rocky Galloway (left) and Reggie Stanley—who were among the first couples applying for marriage licenses.
In the year since Rocky Galloway married his longtime love, Reginald Stanley, in the District, the rhythms of their lives haven't changed all that much. They still get up every morning, get their twin 2-year-old daughters prepared for their day, go to work and live their lives the way other happy, committed couples do.
What has changed, however, is knowing that their union is now legal, the same as marriages between men and women have always been, said Galloway, 50, of Chevy Chase, an account manager for an IT firm. "There is something about marriage. It's a distinct institution," he said. "If you say you are married, people get it. If you say you are in a civil union, they say, 'Okay, but what is that?' Being married gives your relationship a different level of validity."
He said they have faced no discrimination or criticism for getting married. "It's been interesting meeting people, like when we're with the kids, and they assume that you are in a heterosexual relationship and you correct them and say 'My partner is male.' They get right through it," he said. "That is to the credit of the advocacy groups and the people of D.C. and the fact that we are very transient and many, many cultures come to live in this area. We're more open and embracing than some."
The Post also interviewedCandy Holmes and wife Darlene Garner, who also applied for licenses on that first day. Holmes is a 33-year federal employee and is fighting to get medical benefits for her wife, which unfortunately is prevented by the Defense of Marriage Act. But that could change in the next few years ...
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Rocky Galloway and Reggie Stanley Get Marriage Licenses
WATCH: 1st Same Sex Couples Apply for DC Licenses
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These are all the Logan History Blog posted on Friday, 19 April, 2013.
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