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How meaningless is this solution ?. Higher education in India will become the domain of the school toppers and Children of affluent parents and we wonder why half a million students leave India to study undergraduate courses overseas. Children who will never return to a country that shunned them.

Is this is what we call inclusive in RTE ?.

God Save India

Inclusive education does not mean that everyone must enter, or pass out from, an IIT. It only means that if you wanted to, you could have a shot at it. The child labourer is excluded because she can never dream of entering an IIT; she may absolutely hate IIT, but not trying to join an IIT should be her decision. Even if there is only one IIT train, every child must have access to the platform where the train comes. Of course, not everyone will get on to the train but everyone knows what to do to have a shot at the train. This is called inclusion in education. Everyone must go to school till class 12; those who work hard, and are willing to work harder still, will join an IIT. Others will, by choice, decide not to work that hard and become economists.

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay

All children are born equal and mindless politicians are trying to grade the children and youth of the nation and create a new Brahamanical Caste system in Education, which is pandering to the neo rich who can afford to send their children to elite private schools and Coaching schools.

"HRD Ministry of India wants to build castles of higher education on the bamboo scaffoldings of its schools" ~ Satish Jha

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

240 - Old IITs raise voice against new test - Telegraph India

New Delhi, June 9: The IIT Kharagpur administration allegedly created a false impression that its faculty supports a Union government proposal for a new joint entrance exam for the IITs that has triggered fierce internal turmoil in the elite institutions.

Faculty opposition against the proposed two-step exam with weightage to Class XII board marks gained momentum today with the pan-India faculty federation saying its members in several IITs want to follow IIT Kanpur’s senate decision on Friday to reject the change.

The decision to introduce the new exam was taken by the IIT council. But several IIT senate members have said the Union human resource development ministry is trying to impose the new exam pattern on the IITs with little debate, lack of consultations with faculty — through a process facilitated by IIT directors who have ignored faculty views.

“The so-called consultations with faculty at the IIT council level have been a charade,” said Deepak Gupta, the co-ordinator of the IIT Kanpur senate which announced yesterday that it would hold its own entrance examination in 2013.

“Faculty in IIT Delhi, Bombay and Kharagpur also do not want their institutions to participate in the new JEE,” said Atul Mittal, the IIT faculty federation secretary in Delhi.

The IIT Delhi senate members have already requested the director to hold a special senate meeting on this issue. The IIT Bombay faculty will place a similar request, Mittal said.

The faculty are mainly opposed to the idea of giving weightage to the Class XII board marks in view of diversity and differences in assessment procedures followed by various state boards. The weightage to board marks will allow less deserving students to get into the IITs, they fear.

Three faculty members told The Telegraph that the IIT Kharagpur administration had misrepresented the strong opposition to the new exam expressed by its faculty.

Senate members told this paper they completely “opposed” the new exam pattern and had suggested that IIT Kharagpur should not participate in it for at least two years.

However, the letter of the IIT Kharagpur administration does not reflect the opposition of the senate members.

In an email, a copy of which is available with this paper, IIT Kharagpur faculty complained to director Damodar Acharya that the “spirit of the discussion in the senate meeting” had been diluted in the minutes circulated by the IIT.

“I am sorry to state that the resolution which you have circulated has not quite the true reflection of the spirit of the discussion in the special senate meeting on 2nd May. Majority of the senators and faculty were of the opinion that during this lead period the present IIT-JEE system should continue,” the faculty member said in his complaint.

Asked for a reaction, IIT Kharagpur registrar T.K. Ghosal said the director should be contacted on such issues. Acharya did not respond to calls made to his mobile phone.

HRD minister Kapil Sibal, who is the chairperson of the IIT council that approved the new JEE from 2013, on Wednesday claimed that four IIT senates, including the IIT Kharagpur senate, have supported the new JEE. He conceded that the senates of IIT Bombay, Kanpur and Delhi had opposed the new JEE.

Apart from opposing holding the test from 2013, the majority of the senates were in favour of considering the Class XII board marks as eligibility criteria for taking the test.

According to the compilation of senates’ views presented to Sibal by the IIT faculty federation, senates of IIT Bombay, Delhi and Kanpur had decided that the board marks should be considered as cut-off only. Their senates suggested that there should be no weightage to the board marks either for the first filter or for the final test.

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The IIT Delhi alumni association has decided to file a PIL in Delhi High Court next week to challenge the IIT council’s decision on the new JEE.


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West Coast Rock Lobster Transformed into a Maine Lobster Roll

Easter Monday, April 9th, was the last day for fishing West Coast Rock Lobsters here in South Africa until next November.

We initially questioned whether or not we should go out into False Bay since winter has arrived early this year with teaming rain, crazy winds and fridged temperatures. OK so not quite the freezing from my Canadian homeland but for my newly thinned blood, it was and is cold.

Since we had purchased the licenses and it was the last day for catching these tasty critters, we decided to bundle up and head out into the ocean. From afar, the water looked so calm but reality hit hard as Captain Paul navigated his skiff through extremely large swells. Half way to our destination, he asked me if I wanted to turn back, since they were on the larger side but I said “no thank you Paul, we are on a mission!”

Once we arrived just below Cape Point, with sun blazing and nets ready to catch a large haul, we set about our fishing tasks. I drove, Paul set the nets, and Patrick and Gab helped haul in the catch. Sadly, our excitement dampened slightly as the first few hauls brought up tons of seaweed,a rogue water snake and a baby shark. There were no lobsters, otherwise known as crayfish, to be found anywhere.

The day was not a total bust since we did manage to catch 8 large crayfish. As we returned home, the spectacular views as well as the site of fully satiated seal lounging in the water made my fishing trip a monumental success.

Once home, Patrick and I decided to attempt to make our favorite Maine lobster a la South African. We boiled rather than braaied the crayfish and then made a wonderful garlic and lemon mayonnaise to accompany the meat. The outcome was a winner, reminiscent of all the wonderful summers we have spent eating lobster rolls in Maine.

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[i]My memories of my childhood summers come flowing back with this recipe[/i]
  • 4 Crayfish or lobster
  • 1 celery rib, chopped
  • 1 tbsp chives, chopped[br][b]Mayonnaise[/b]
  • 1tsp dijon mustard
  • 1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove, chopped
  • 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper or a few drops of tabasco sauce
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 C light olive oil or vegetable oil
  • 4 Hot dog buns or any sandwich roll
  • Rocket for garnish
  1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and drop in lobsters.
  2. Let cook for 10 minutes until they are red in colour
  3. Remove from water and let cool
  4. Break off tails, remove meat and cut up into bite-size pieces[br][b]Mayonnaise[/b]
  5. Mix mustard, lemon juice, garlic and salt in a bowl.
  6. Add a few drops of oil to create an emulsion (thickened consistency)
  7. Keep adding oil in a thin stream, being sure that the sauce is thickening.
  8. Taste and season to your taste
  9. You will have leftover mayonnaise to use on sandwiches[br][b]To assemble [/b]
  10. Mix celery, chives and a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise together with the lobster meat
  11. Grill or warm rolls.
  12. Cut open and add some lettuce or rocket
  13. Add lobster meat mixture and top with a dollop of additional mayonnaise
  14. If you do not want to make your own mayonnaise then use Japanese mayo and add the lemon juice and seasoning.
I have also used wasabi as a bit of a spicy alternative for the mayo.

First important item of business is to remember to always bring a container for your crayfish. We used a stray plastic bag from the ocean, which was not highly effective. They were able to escape leaving a trail of fish poo behind.

Once cooked, these little bottom feeders turn bright red and are ready to be eaten. I often dip the legs in butter and suck out the meat. Yum…

Once the meat is removed from the shells and chopped into bite size pieces, you can add the chopped celery and chives.

The mayonnaise is quick to make. Keep the egg white in the freezer for use in a pavlova or an omelet.

Once the Mayonnaise has reached the correct consistency and taste, add to the meat by the tablespoon. Use as much or as little as you want. Remember that it is easy to add a sauce but not so easy to remove it.

I add very little mayonnaise to the meat and finish it off with a topping once it is in the bun.

Be creative, make your own lobster roll and enjoy this treasure from the sea.

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Sayre LSC Candidate Forum

Sayre Language Academy will hold a Local School Council candidate forum this Thursday, March 20, at 6pm in the auditorium. Parents, staff, and the community are all encouraged to attend, and also to vote in the LSC election on Monday April 7th (also Parent/Teacher Conference Day). More info from CPS.

(Also remember, Sayre Family and Friends Organization elections will take place at the FFO meeting the Tuesday night following the LSC elections)

Sayre to Implement New CPS Technology Curriculum

CPS announced Tuesday that Sayre Language Academy will be one of 25 Chicago public elementary schools to implement CPS’ new technology curriculum next fall.

The new curriculum promises to “elevate computer science to a core subject”, incorporate computer science lessons into elementary math and science courses, and “partner with, Google, and other technology leaders,” to “increase the quality of and access to computer science and coding classes.”

FFO Fundraising Update

Thanks to all the friends and families who have supported Sayre so far this year! See what we’ve accomplished:

  • Our Shop and Share events were well attended (and delicious)! Sayre friends and families donated $282.27 by enjoying a meal together. This year’s FFO proceeds will help support Teacher Appreciation Day, entertainment at International Night, and extra fun during Field Day.
  • Our most recent Box Tops for Education deposit will bring the school $160.60. Snip those tops and send them to the office! Thanks to Denise Graziano for coordinating this ongoing project.

Check out our fundraising page for more information about our fundraising programs.

Mark your calendars for the Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 26, from 9am to 1pm.

Please come to our next FFO meeting on Tues. April 8th. We’ll be having nominations and elections for our officers of the board.

March FFO Meeting and April Elections

Our monthly FFO meeting will be held tonight, March 11, 2013, 6pm, at the school. If you are interested in running for an FFO board member position for the 2014/15 school year, please attend this month and next month. Nominations will be accepted at both meetings and the election will be held at the April meeting.*

A description of FFO positions (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Communications) can be found here.

The FFO is a relatively small commitment and a great way to get involved with the school and bridge the gap between the school, parents, and community. Help make that bridge stronger! Even if you’re not interested in an officer position, there are lots of ways to get involved.

The April FFO meeting (and election) is scheduled for April 8, but may be changed, we will confirm any changes here and on the mailing list as soon as possible.

* Don’t confuse the FFO (Family and Friends Organization) election (tentatively April 8) with the LSC (Local School Council) elections (on April 7, report card pickup day). Please be sure to participate in both elections, both serve a very important purpose, and remember that the LSC application deadline has been extended to March 14.


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Interesting SSD results with a late model kernel

Basic MD raid0, xfs file system, 2 SSD Intel drives (X25-e).

There are quite a few benchmarketing numbers out there, and no, I won’t regurgitate them. Or believe them for that matter.

Just built a testing kernel out of 2.6.35, installed it on a test machine, and I wanted to see the impact on random reads/writes of a few of the changes to xfs and others.

From our (otherwise excellent) kernel, we see 12k IOP on write go to 17k IOP. Pretty repeatable. Random reads of about 12k IOP in both cases. This is for 32GB writes on a 16GB ram machine. xfs file system in both cases.

Will do something more soon, just an itch I needed to scratch after reading about some of the changes.

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a little bit of confidence goes a long way...

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

 "its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not"

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

i was recently inspired by a marilyn monroe post from the wonderful and oh so lovely amy of a daring little life and i wanted to share a little bit of love for miss monroe as well.

i am so inspired by the amount of confidence that this woman had.  the words she spoke were so honest and personal.  she held nothing back and told it like it was without worrying about the consequences.

i truly believe that even just a little bit of confidence goes a long way.  this is why i have learned to love myself...love myself for everything that i am and everything that i can be.  this is me, this is my life...take it or leave it.

love yourself first, if you don't no one else will have the opportunity!

so to all of my lovelies out there...take the time to love yourself today, because once you do your confidence will shine for all the world to see.

xoxo - lindsay

  1. her quotes are some of the best!

  2. Love this post and I love me some monroe. Very inspiring messages. She was amazing! Thanks for the reminder lovely! ;)

  3. These are empowering quotes... real, honest, & personal. I agree that even a little bit of confidence goes a long way and we somehow always tend to forget that.

    Great post, I am your newest follower!:D

    ***** Marie *****

  4. Have I told you how much I love you lately?! Love this post & Ms. Monroe to pieces. Thanks for the mention! I always know that when I come to visit your page, I'll be leaving with a smile on my face, and you sure did do it this time! Marilyn is just so incredibly fabulous and inspirational, a lot like you darling.

  5. Lindsay!
    you rock lady!
    thanks for sharing this inspiration for me to read today! You have a way with words, as did Marilyn!
    Two FABULOUS ladies here today!!!
    lots of love!

    xo ashley

  6. all i can say is cheers! to that!

  7. You have some of the most inspiring, amazing, meaningful posts ever. And Monroe is the best. Happy friday!

  8. So true!! I need to be more confident in myself and I feel like I have grown a lot since I had my daughter!

  9. I've been going to college for 2 years now, but I've changed my major three time and ended up with web design after I started my book review blog and had so much fun designing it. It's just a community college, but it's a great school. I can't wait to start in january!

  10. another fantastic post Lindsay! That first quote pretty much rocked my world :) And those pictures, WOW ms. monroe...always stunning

  11. I love that quote about loving someone at their best- I need to put that on my wall. Send some confidance my way, will ya? Im working on it...;-)

  12. What great post. I heart everything about her. X

  13. I really love Marilyn, she's just so beautiful and inspirational!
    Love your post as well, you always have such wise words for us. Thanks for sharing.


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September 2012

Helga Zepp-LaRouche will present an international webcast on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. EDT. It will be broadcast live on, and will be simultaneously translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

In a short video statement on Sept. 12, Zepp-LaRouche outlined the key points she will present in a broader form in her webcast. The video statement included her assessment of the German Constitutional Court decision dismissing the emergency petitions filed against the European Stability Mechanism, and a warning of the immediate war danger. Here follows a translation into English of excerpts from Zepp-LaRouche's statement.

"The Constitutional Court ruling of today, Sept. 12, means a real catastrophe for Germany. First of all, it allows the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to go into force, after a few amendments are made, and secondly, it means that the move by the ECB, taken just six days before the court decision, to buy unbounded sovereign bonds, is a success. Thus practically unlimited quantities of liquidity will be pumped into the system, and Bernanke is expected to do likewise tomorrow [Sept. 13] in the U.S., by proceeding with another "easing," i.e., liquidity injections.

"Thus, the entire trans-Atlantic region is threatened in the short term with hyperinflation like in Germany in 1923—the only difference being that it will not happen in only one country this time, but in the whole trans-Atlantic region....

"Another key aspect that must be considered in this context is the fact of the immediate war danger. The destabilization of Syria represents one source of the immediate war danger. There, the so-called Blair Doctrine coming from Tony Blair, who started the Iraq War based on lies, and who today pushes for humanitarian interventions is in complete opposition to the Putin Doctrine, which upholds the UN Charter and the invulnerability of national sovereignty. Another possible trigger for war would be an attack against Iran, which, as all experts agree, would mean a Third World War on the spot. And that would be a thermonuclear war that would mean the extinction of the human species.

"Everyone who is conscious of the strategic situation—financial collapse, financial disintegration, and the immediate danger of a Third World War must understand that currently civilization is fully driving against the wall. And if we do not immediately change the entire paradigm on which the current policy is based, then it will come to this disaster. Therefore, a withdrawal of Germany from the EU and from the European Monetary Union, is the absolutely necessary first step to launch any real development perspective for restarting the physical world economy. This is the only alternative that remains to us."


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This Essay seeks to explore whether there is a regulatory tipping point for sports-the point at which the government will take action to address a perceived problem in sports-and if so, what the circumstances are that generate such a moment. Such an issue is particularly important now. Troubling stories about athletes' health and well-being and the consequences of our most beloved games are nothing new. Reports of the effects of sports concussions, exploitation of college athletes, and other examples of the harms wrought by the "win at all costs" mentality dominate sports headlines and prompt calls for meaningful change. Many have lost faith in sports regulators to take the necessary steps. This begs the question of whether the government will take action to address these issues. That is, will the steady drum beat of examples, many of which have been presented in detail to Congress, lead to a public policy tipping point that prompts government intervention? For these or other important sports issues, will the government step in and take meaningful action to rein in the so-called excesses of sport?

In general, the answer is no. Using the example of doping in sports, this Essay explains that it takes more than shocking media reports and allegations of harm to athletes. Instead, as the anti-doping example illustrates, what makes the difference and brings us to the intervention tipping point is harm to the games themselves. In such a circumstance, the government has found a motivation to act and has proven well equipped to check the abuses in sports. In this way, the fight against doping in sports provides important insight into possible future sports reforms.

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

The real force behind D.C. school 'reform'

She's the wife of a media mogul, a friend of the Washington Post’s Graham family. She’s a philanthropist, adviser to public officials, and conduit to private foundations and investors in what has become her life’s work. In D.C., likely no private citizen is more involved in public education than Katherine Bradley.

City Paper's Jeffrey Anderson has written a feature story on D.C. socialite Bradley, calling her a "force multiplier" when it comes to the district's corporate-style school reform.

To me, she sounds a lot like D.C.'s version of New York's charter maven Eva Moskowitz who uses her clout to build her personal charter school empire and assail public schools and teacher unions.

Bradley’s primary advocacy vehicle is CityBridge Foundation, a nonprofit that distributed nearly $25 million in grants, scholarships, and donations from 2004 to 2013—mostly to charter schools and groups like Teach for America, which received $2.5 million according to tax filings.

Writes Anderson:
Like Bradley herself, the foundation is at the center of a constellation of private interests that are promoting charter schools in D.C. and around the country. The organization partners with TFA, Friends of Choice in Urban Education, and Charter Board Partners, and counts among its “Thought Partners” the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.
Two of the most politically challenging education initiatives in recent years have been public school closures and the effort to secure chartering authority for Supt. Kaya Henderson (Michelle Rhee's former deputy).
Rhee’s departure in 2011 did not faze Bradley. She embraced Rhee’s protege Kaya Henderson and co-chaired the education committee of the transition team for Fenty’s successor, Vincent Gray, who embraced Henderson as well. Bradley’s alliance with Graham, a fellow philanthropist and low-key civic force, provided a sounding board in the Post, which has heavily endorsed gains in math, reading, and science through charter schools such as KIPP D.C. Graham and Bradley sit on the KIPP board.
GREAT QUOTE... Former Wilson High School teacher and activist Erich Martel says such coziness among philanthropists, the private sector, and public officials reminds him of Plato’s “Cave,” an allegory in which captives view shadows on a wall as reality, because it’s all they see. For your average parent, Martel says, in an interview last year for this story, it’s often impossible to tell how change comes about: “How does one determine who influences whom? It’s the same people talking to each other.”

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  1. They're definitely NOT "philanthropists."
    A better word is the term "villainthropists."


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Boundary Condition: Chapter 5

A Fire in Heaven

The proper season is when the weather is very dry; the special days are those when the moon is in the constellations of the Sieve, the Wall, the Wing or the Cross-bar; for these four are all days of rising wind. A wind that rises in the daytime lasts long, but a night breeze soon falls.
— Sun Tzu, circa 300 B.C., "Five Ways of Attacking with Fire."

Mission Control was unaccountably understaffed; three of nine people had failed to show up for work, and their backups took forty minutes to plug in and come up to speed on the mission details.
"Is there a plague?" Robert wanted to know, grumping into his headset microphone.
"Just a gorgeous July morning," the capcom officer on the ground had answered. He sounded like a kid, and nobody on the station seemed to know who he was in more than a recognize-the-name kind of way.
Anyway, this put departure ops nearly an hour behind schedule, which necessitated all sorts of rushing around. There wasn't much time for sappy handover sentiment, or for proper procedural training. In six months the station crew had settled into a very efficient routine, which they'd had little chance to run through with the new crew. Galley power off before you switch the water heaters on, etc., etc. But if they missed their landing window it would be another full day before they could get out of here, and nobody seemed willing to consider it.
"Take care of her," was pretty much Robert's sole instruction to the new commander.
Jim, for his part, told Kennet to call his cell phone if she needed anything. The phone didn't work up here, of course, but once he was on the ground — or even near it — he'd be back in that part of the world again. The Noosphere, Tielhard had called it. The buzzing atmosphere of information that surrounded the planet, thicker and thicker every year.
Amusingly, Pope Dave had a heavy-looking satellite phone that did work up here. He spent several hours yakking into it in Italian while the crew rushed and fussed around him. "I'm told this thing would work on the moon," he remarked to Jim at one point, covering the mouthpiece with his hand. "It's secure, too; heavy encryption. Pretty cool."
Hmm. Perks of the job. "The chicks must love you," Jim answered, then caught himself. He'd just zinged the Pope. A regular-guy kind of Pope, to be sure. Easy to talk to, all that. But a billion people did look to him as their spiritual leader. Would Jim talk to the President that way? To a movie star? Probably, yeah, but he ought to watch it just the same. The Swiss Guard didn't like him already, and made no particular secret about it.
Finally it was time to seal the hatch, to isolate the atmospheres, electrical systems and computer networks of the shuttle and station. Jim and Chip walked through the steps together, each making sure the other hadn't left anything out.
"Some Russians died that way," Chip noted. "Left a valve open and suffocated."
"Pretty crappy valve design," was Jim's answer to that. General Spaceplane did a much better job of idiot-proofing. Still, since idiocy was one of the universe's truly limitless resources, he trusted nothing and triple-checked everything.
"No, no, vi ho detto," the Pope was telling his guards when Jim and Chip worked their way back to the mid-deck airlock. "I'm not riding in that thing. I want to see."
"See what?" Chip asked.
"Reentry." Dave jerked a thumb at the pair of jacks behind him. "These guys expect me to sit in the escape pod the whole time. There isn't even a monitor screen. I spent the whole launch sequence in there, and never saw a thing until we were already in orbit."
Hmm. Jim had seen that escape pod — was in fact about to check its circuit breakers and air vents — and he wouldn't want to ride in it, either. It was a two-seater only slightly bigger than a Mercury capsule, or a really compact sportscar. Still…
"Reentry's the most dangerous part of our flight profile, Dave, and this is clearly the safest spot on the ship. It would look pretty bad for the 'Service if anything happened."
The Pope considered that unhappily. Here was his one and probably only trip into space, and he couldn't look out the window? "I'm here as your guest," he allowed. "Naturally I'll follow whatever course you recommend."
Hmm. Yeah. "We can tie the door open with a bungie cord," Jim suggested. "From here if you… if you lean forward and crane your neck you should be able to see the mid-deck monitors. That's all we have to look at, me and Tomo and Chip. This isn't a tourist ship. Your guards can ride up in the cockpit, where the actual windows are."
"Nein," said one of the jacks in a thick European accent. "One in the cockpit. One in the pod with His Holiness. I insist on it."
That was no skin off Jim's nose either way, so he ran the arrangement by Robert and Lisa, who approved it without complaint. So, five minutes later when the systems were duly isolated and cross-checked, he strapped himself into the seat immediately forward of the pod, with Chip on his right and Tomohiro on his left. "Ready?" he called back to Dave and the guard.
"Whenever you are," the Pope confirmed. Boy, he did look cramped back there.
"Mid-deck ready," he said into his headset, pressing the push-to-talk.
"Aaah, roger that," answered Lisa, then rattled off a string of numbers for the benefit of Robert or Mission Control or somebody.
And then, with surprisingly little fanfare, they detached from the station, drifted away for a minute and a half, then fired a series of bursts on the attitude control motors, to turn the shuttle ass-backward in its orbit. They were behind schedule, so a whole series of checks and rechecks were skipped, while the pilots went straight into the deorbit routine.
"Point-three gee burn, eleven minutes nine seconds duration," Lisa said, presumably reading the figures off one of her displays up there. "Ignition in three minutes forty-one seconds."
"These are going to be a long three minutes," Dave noted, not over the headset but just calling forward.
But they weren't, really. Much longer was the deorbit burn itself, with the unfamiliar tug of gravity — or acceleration, anyway — on their bodies, on their chests and faces. They were all on the best gravity drugs and had kept to the exercise regimen so their bones and muscles didn't wither. Even so, after six long months of zero-gee, the pull of anything on your body felt more than a wee bit suffocating. Jim felt it most in his throat — a squeezing sensation, a feeling that his windpipe was no longer round, but some sort of oval. At point-three gee! They'd be pulling five times that much in a few minutes, when the shuttle turned around to face, nose first, a wall of gluey atmosphere at bone-searing temperature and speed.
The burn wasn't loud — just a hum and roar, like the sound inside a moving car — but nobody much tried to talk over it. When it was finally over, though, Jim turned and looked back into the pod.
"You okay back there?"
"Perfectly, thanks."
And as it happened, these were the last clear words ever spoken aboard that ship.

Death comes upon us in strange ways, shockingly sudden and disarmingly weird. Even months in a sickbed can't really prepare us for what's to come; the event arrives on its own time and terms, and everyone is caught off guard. Living one moment, struggling the next, and finally just gone.
There was no contrail. There was no explosion. Initially at least, there was no debris. Whatever you might have heard, it wasn't a missile. But there was a sudden streak of ionized air molecules, here in the wispy tendrils of the upper upper atmosphere. As near as Space Command was able to figure it, the shuttle Oberon was struck by an antisatellite energy weapon — most likely a hydrogen-fluoride laser based somewhere in central Asia. The Free Will Index was very high in that region; the choice to fire was made deliberately.
Shall we imagine human malice reaching out through a window of favorable weather? Shall we speculate on an agenda furthered, a To Do box checked off, a connection to the disappearances of NWS staffers in Omaha? Perhaps God or some other force could have intervened, or (troublingly) perhaps it did, in planting the seeds of these events. But the telemetry is clear enough: the beam passed completely through the fuselage in a tenth of a microsecond, unimpeded, leaving two fist-sized holes.
Jim's own perception was more muddled; one moment everything was fine, and in the next there came an orange flash and a loud noise, like the popping of air-filled bags. Bang! Bang! And there was a fierce wind, and sharp bits of something flying all over the place, and everyone was screaming.
The strangest property of accidents is the way we perceive them: not as movies but as comic books. "It happened so fast. It happened so slow." People say both of these things, and mean them, because the event breaks up into a series of discrete, vivid snapshots.
Flash: Jim was somehow out of his seat, and looking aft at the escape pod, and the Swiss Guard was there with a panicky look on his face, trying to pull the hatch closed and punch the fuck out of there. But the hatch was bungied open.
Flash: Something lurched, hard, and suddenly Jim was back there on the pod, falling against the door in some kind of weak gravity. He was trying to draw a breath from the roaring air; he was hot and cold and hotter still. Flash: the guard, in his space-jack flightsuit, was rolling up out of his chair and grabbing at the bungie cord, realizing the hatch wouldn't close until he somehow untied the thing.
"You're panicking," Jim wanted to tell him. "Just slow down and watch what you're doing."
But the words wouldn't come, and the part of Jim's brain that composed them was at the back of his skull, somehow — a passenger watching quietly while Jim himself panicked and thrashed. He wanted to help with the bungie cord, but that desire didn't seem to connect in any way with the actions of his body.
Flash. Finally, somehow, the bungie cord was floating free, and the Swiss Guard was bouncing away on a trail of jiggly blood spheres, and a hand was reaching out and hauling Jim into the pod. But whatever was happening here, Jim hadn't wrapped his head around it yet. He resisted, then actively fought. Get off me, let go, a part of him thought.
And then there was fire, and the ship was breaking up around him, and that clear, quiet part of his mind was noting, with absolute calm: could use a damned miracle right about now.
Said a voice from the ground, "Track loss, track loss. The radar filter has multiple targets. Oh my God. Does anyone have lock?"
But no one did.
"Seal the mission control doors," said the flight director. "Call security. Get me a next-of-kin list. Nobody talk to the press."
But everyone did.
A sad story? A martyrdom in the grand tradition? This is what happens, sometimes, to those who can't leave well enough alone. As it turned out, though, the escape pod fell away with two bodies sealed and rattling loose inside. Parachutes? Barely. No radar saw it come down. But the conspiracy theorists will tell you: the Pope and the Weatherman survived their fall and are still out there somewhere, arguing about God and Heisenberg while they make their slow way home. And truth be told, in a world of provable miracles, stranger things have been known to happen.
But really, who's to know? Where such miracles hide in the shadows of quantum mechanics, they must work — by definition — in subtle and mysterious ways. And that's a good thing, right?


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Friday, 12 May 2017

Movie Review: The Mummy (1932)

Directed by Karl Freund

Pros: interesting story, good effects

Cons: mediocre acting

In 1922 an archaeological expedition in Egypt dug up the unusual mummy of Imhotep and a strange box containing a scroll. Both disappear. Ten years later, a new expedition discovers the untouched tomb of a priestess of Isis, whose spirit, Imhotep discovers, is possessing a modern young woman.

My understanding of this film was that it consisted of a mummy in torn and tattered bandages, roaming around killing people. So I found the film quite surprising. The mummy I expected only shows up in the first few minutes of the film, after which Imhotep (well played by Boris Karloff) appears as a wizened man.

Imhotep isn’t awakened via a spoken spell, so he was either alive in some form this whole time, the spell was uttered inaudibly, or writing out a small portion of it is enough to enact it. I actually found the magic spells Imhotep uses later in the film interesting, though not likely authentic (in terms of language or how ancient Egyptians thought of magic). The make-up and costumes were excellent. The film used white actors for the important Egyptians, and black ‘Nubians’ as servants, though Ancient Egyptians would not necessarily look like their modern inhabitants (Egypt was conquered and settled by several nations in ancient and medieval times).

Helen’s ‘illness’ reminded me of Lucy (and later Mina) from Dracula, something that was supernaturally called by the antagonist that saw her wasting away due to her attempts to avoid the summons.

There’s a rather sudden romance, which felt kind of out of place given what’s going on and how little the characters know of each other. The fact that Helen (Zita Johann) even points this out, just made it worse as Frank ignores her concerns.  David Manners as Frank Whemple didn’t impress me much as the love interest (there was no chemistry between the couple and no time to develop any relationship), nor did the wise doctor Muller, played by Edward Van Sloan. Both were fairly wooden, and the doctor’s constant expositionary leaps of logic as to what’s going on were kind of annoying.

It’s an interesting film, more for its place in history and how inaccurately it’s remembered than because it’s great cinema.

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Welcome to Scottish Genealogy Tips And Tidbits

A wee bit of info to help you in your journey to discover your Scottish Ancestors and maybe even crack a brick wall or two!

Saturday, 15 August 2015

Lloyd's Register of Ships 1764 - 1899

Word comes today of a FANTASTIC new resource! Lloyds Register of Ships.

This is an online, fully searchable database. The Lloyds list tried to document ALL merchant vessels that were over 100 gross tonnes, self-propelled and sea-faring. Classification of ship didn't matter. The weight and the fact that the ship was sea-going was the criteria.

The registers started in 1764 - almost a full decade before ships lists were required under the Passenger Vessels Acts of 1842 & 1849

The Register tried to document all ships WORLDWIDE. The original registers are with the National Archives in London

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Scott Ward is a certified hypnotherapist who can be of assistance at your next staff wellness event. Whether its a staff retreat or professional development day, Scott Ward can help you and your co-workers achieve a greater sense mental wellness which will bring immediate results to the workplace.

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Easy Web Extract logo

Easy Web Extract is visual screen scraper for extracting data for business purposes. This data extractor rips desired web content (text, url, image, html) from webpages with minimum effort. Customize data export formats with its HTTP submit form, a unique feature of this screen scraper.

Easy Web Extract by Web2Mine is designed for simple and quick data extraction. This scrape tool is written using .NET technology and allows you to apply data transforming built-in scripts (C#, VB, JS). Easy Web Extract is excellent for exporting data into Excel (CSV), text, XML file, HTML formats, MS Access DB, SQL Script File, MySQL Script File, HTTP submit form and ODBC Data source. One shortcoming is that while making a scrape project, loading the URL sometimes takes a long time.

The developers of the Web Content Extractor, another scraping software, claim the Easy Web Extract being a clone of their software. “The “Easy Web Extractor” is the clone of our program “Web Content Extractor”. They copied the many elements of the program interface. They fully copied our export wizard, they fully copied our help file (only change the program name): http://webextract.net/OnlineHelp/.” I agree there are lots of interface similarities and scrape process too.

Easy to learn
Customer supportsubmit form
Price$59.9 and upgrade - $19.99
Trial version/Free version14 days
OS (Specifications)Win
Data Export formatsExcel (CSV, TSV), text, HTML, MS Access DB, SQL Script File, MySQL Script File, XML file, HTTP submit form, ODBC Data source
Multi-thread yes (up to 24)
API no

Start a new session by creating a new project. Go to the target page through the built-in browser and define the data you want. Now, you can start to Specify Extracting Data Pattern. After clicking “Next” you can start to define the first data record, thus creating a DOM tree (see a Project tree at the upper left corner). To select an item in a record use “CTRL+Click” and by using the visual rectangle icons above the tabs, you may expand/shrink the items set of the first record.

Data Record Defining

After choosing the first data record, proceed “Next” to choose Data Columns according to the record.

Again, use “CTRL+Click” to choose needed record fields to be the data columns and define them in the service window. If in a record there is a reference to details’ page, define this reference as of the “Link” type and check it as “Link to details”. Moving to the details page (“Sub page” tab), select fields needed. The visual rectangle icons will help with specifying. If you want to cut/split something in the chosen column info, invoke a transformation script.

To finish defining the data columns, follow with Crawl rules, clicking “Next”. Highlight the navigation area of the webpage (CTRL+Click) and activate navigation to multiple pages in Advance Crawling Rules in a Crawling Rule window.

Now,  proceed “Next” to confirm the target URL or choose more starting URLs (from file or a webpage). Don’t be afraid to close the window; it pops-up just for multiple URL choices or confirmation.

Then, name your project and close the window. Now, the project is ready!

Click “Finish” and you are back to the main console. Here you can start to Automate Scraping Data. To my surprise, the data extractor allows up to 50 multi-threats, which is good for a quick scrape to run. The option to define the number of threats is in Tools – Options. If you want to edit the project after you’ve made and saved it, just follow Project – Properties.

The extracting is smooth, having a preview window.

Extracting data

Various export options are available. Unlike most similar scraper software, this tool doesn’t set any limitations on the data extracting in the trial version. It allows only 200 records for export though.

Exporting Data Extracted

This screen scraper gives the impression of a simple tool that diligently crawls and extracts, though with some “oops” if you don’t select data fields in order. It took me some time to learn how to follow “CTRL+Click” and not to forget to define the output file name.

The current version of Easy Web Extract doesn’t support a scheduling function. However, developers plan to offer this function in the next version. As far as customer support, we asked through the submit form and within 12 hours received an answer.

The Easy Web Extract is a good tool for a simple scrape with few steps. It allows scraping details’ pages and navigation to multiple pages and it also supports scraping Ajax/JS content. The outstanding feature of this scraper is multiple formats for exporting and an HTTP submit form that works well for dynamic page content management, that is, sending data extracted directly to the destination website through an HTTP submit form: watch the video.


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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The Power of Art: How My Autistic Son Saved Me

I always felt I'm in the wrong place professionally. When I finished the army (yes, I was in the army but that's another story) I went to university and studies Social Sciences like I was expected to. It's not that I wanted to study something else, I didn't know what I wanted but instead of stopping and thinking about it I did what was expected of me.

When you start a path in life then you go on it and everything in your life aligns with it. The job you find is a continuation of that path and my job was in civil service. First the police and then the foreign ministry. A 9 to 5 job in an office, with a boss which was the logical natural place to be after getting a degree in Social Sciences. The thing about paths is that you walk on it until you reach an intersection and then you can decide if you want to continue on your path or take another one. The problem is sometimes you miss the intersection completely and you just keep on walking. But the universe is smart it puts that intersection in your path again and again but eventually if you still don't see it it makes you see it! And that is exactly what happened to me...

I had a beautiful baby boy. At first everything was fine,he did what every baby is supposed to do. But with time we started to noticed some things are not as they were supposed to be. Finally we got a diagnosis: Autism. My son is autistic. Being the practical person that I am I immediately started to work: taking him to therapists, pshycologists, putting him in a special needs education system and so on. He flourished. Making huge progress every day. But slowly I realized working in the foreign ministry meant living abroad, going to a different country every few years, that was not a way to live with an autistic child who needs stability more than anything.
I had two choices: stay and be cooped up in an office for the rest of my professional life or leave. I left. I decided my son's well being and development is more important than my career. But what am I suppose to do now? I need to find some kind of a job...

"When God closes a door, somewhere open a window" This saying is the best way to describe what happened next. One day I discovered the word scrapbooking and searched it on Google. I was shocked to find an amazing world I knew nothing about, but immediately knew this is what I wanted to do. That was the first step in my new professional life as an artist and designer. I started a business for custom designing scrapbooks and the rest is history.

So what actually happened? My autistic son was my wake up call. He was the one that opened my eyes to the intersection in front of me and made me choose the right path. I know now this is the path I'm supposed to walk on, this is what I'm supposed to do in this world. But there's more... not only did he show me my true path he gave me the tools to help him. By being an artist I have an outlet for my feelings and frustrations and I have a place to process them. And by doing that I'm a better mother to him, more patient, understanding and able to cope with whatever comes my way. Art is truly powerful I see it everyday and i wouldn't have found it if it wasn't for my son.

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  1. What a wonderful story! God has truly opened a window.


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Man performs BASE jump from historic Galata Tower

A man performed a BASE jump from the top of Istanbul’s historic 67-meter tall Galata Tower on the morning of Nov. 8.

Cengiz Koçak, 44, jumped from the terrace near the top of the tower with a rudimentary parachute, as part of an event organized by the European Outdoor Film Tour (EOFT).

Koçak staged the jump 385 years after the famous flight of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, credited with the first flight with artificial wings in the history of Ottoman Empire.

“I have been performing BASE jump for 26 years. I have jumped over 6,000 meters from a plane and have conducted 650 jumps from buildings, cliffs and bridges. But this is something else. I have picked up the legacy from Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi and that is enough for me,” he said after the jump.

Koçak also said he plans to jump from the television tower on Çamlıca Hill on Istanbul’s Asian side in May 2018, as the second part of a seven-stage marathon which will also include jumping from the Galata Tower and landing in Üsküdar, like Hezarfen in the 17th century.

“I couldn’t sleep last night. I was more excited than normal. After I opened the parachute I lost myself. I had so much fun. In Turkey we are not really where we should be in aviation sports. But this was the lowest base jump ever staged in Turkey,” he added.

Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who in 1638 took off from the Galata Tower and landed successfully in Üsküdar, on the Asian side of Istanbul.

Turkish director Mustafa Altıoklar’s 1996 film “Istanbul Beneath My Wings” was based on this story.

BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E. jumping, is parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure or cliff.

“BASE” is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: Building, antenna, span, and earth.

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Scum and Villainy

Wreck and Ruin

Episode I

Opening Crawl

Adventure Background

During the Clone Wars, countless ships on both sides of the struggle were blown to pieces and left adrift in space. Larger ones were towed out of spacelanes to minimize danger to hyperspace travel, but every so often, an explorer or smuggler comes upon the wreckage. Often, the drifting hulk is too damaged to be useful as anything other than scrap, but sometimes the derelict proves to be veritable treasure trove of salvagable goods. One such derelict, a large chunck of the Starworm (a Trade Federation Lucrehulk-class battleship), was recently discovered by a smuggler named Vordell, who then sold the coordinates of his find to his old friend Sude Raalo, a Nemimoidian gunrunner and veteren of the Clone Wars. Based on the scans that Vordell showed him, Raalo guessed that at least one hangar bay was more or less intact, and that, amid the wreckage, he might find a remote processor-which could be worth as much as one million credits.

The Adventure Itself

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The part heard about this job offer from their fellow party member Ootazoombabwae who heard it from his smuggler friend Daniel Sol. The chartered a transport to Tatooine to meet Sude Raalo at the Mos Eisly cantina.
When they got there Sude Raalo told them about the Starworm and offered them 2,500 credits to enter the hulk of the Starworm and bring back any intact cargo crates and other reclaimable items they can safely salvage. He also wanted them to be especially watchful for any remote processors they might chance across; Raalo had a buyer interested in them, and if they brought him any, they can keep anything else they find. Otherwise, he said he was willing to pay them a cut of only 15 % off the sale price of the salvage. The party tried to bargain with Sude but they were not able to get him to budge on his offer. Sude then asked them how they were going to get to the Starworm. They said they didn’t know so he offered to rent his ship to them for 3500 credits and said that if they did a good job he may consider making this a rent to own deal.
They accepted his offer and then he showed them to the ship. The ship was an old beat up YT-1300. Sude thes took their payment to rent the ship and he gave them the appropriate paper work and he left them. Upon examining the ship the party saw that it only had 3 days worth of consumable left on board. It also only had a back up hyperdrive that in a best case scenerio could get them someplace in as little as 12 days and in the worst case get them somewhere in 72 hours. They found that the communication’s array was badly damaged. Upon seeing that they bought as many provisions as the could afford, which ended up only being 13 days worth, and they fixed the communication’s array. Once the ship was stocked and repaired they took off and went into hyperspace.
They arrived at the coordinates in 12 days with only 4 days worth of consumables left. When they looked for the Starworm they could find it right away because it had apparently drifted. They then used their sensors and found the debris trail leading to the ship. While they were following the trail, they encountered what appeared to be a patrol of two TIE fighters. The party then contacted the TIE fighters. The TIE fighters ended up being someone else who was looking to salvage the ship and they didn’t want to share. A space battle followed and during the course of it the laser cannons stopped working and Oota went to fix them. When it was all said and done the party shot down both TIE fighters but the ship was in bad shape. Ever persistent though they pressed on.
By the time they found the Starworm they saw that the ship was drifting towards the geonosian system and that it was surrounded by a “cloud” of debris. The battleship was also spinning. The party first tried to line up the airlock of thier ship with the _Starworm_’s but they were unable to do so. They then took up a relatively stationary position and tried to space walk across to the Starworm. As they were walking across to the wreck some still functioning battle droids took pot shots at the party. While they were walking over to the wreckage thier ship was being pelted by debris but none of it was large enough to cause any damage.
When they finally got across they started searching the wreckage. When they made thier way to the hangar they got in by opening an airlock. Once they started moving debris inside the hangar some still functioning battledroids and super battle droids attacked them. Once they defeated the droids they started looking for what they came for. They ended up finding ten crates of droid parts and starfighter components, 100 days worth of provisions, a still functioning laser cannon, a still intact droid starfighter, and the remote processor that they came for.
Oota then went back to Old Reliable, what they named the YT-1300, and tried to dock with the Starworm again. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful. Arani then tried to hack into the battleships computers. She was successful. She then was able to get the battleship to stop spinning. Oota then docked with the battleship and they loaded Old Reliable up with thier haul. They then took off and jumped to hyperspace.
They ended up arriving back at Tatooine in 60 days. They then landed and met up with Sude. Sude Raalo was very happy with the job they did so he paid them and decided to just let them keep old reliable. Once they were paid the first thing they did was sell thier salvage. They ended up deciding to just keep the laser cannon that they found and install it on old reliable. They also decided to purchase a faster hyperdrive and install that.
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Using Big Data to Improve Healthcare

How MZI HealthCare identifies Big Data patient productivity gems using HP Vertica

The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series details how a healthcare solutions provider leverages big-data capabilities.

Learn how MZI Healthcare has deployed the HP Vertica Analytics Platform to help their customers better understand population healthcare trends and identify how well healthcare processes are working.

To discover more about how high-performance and cost-effective big-data processing forms a foundational element to improving overall healthcare quality and efficiency, join Greg Gootee, Product Manager at MZI Healthcare, based in Orlando. The discussion, which took place at the recent HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: HP is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]

Here are some excerpts:

Gardner: How important is big data turning out to be for how healthcare is being administered?

Gootee: Change in healthcare is really dramatic, maybe more dramatic than any other industry has ever been. If you look at other industries where they have actually been able to spread that change over time, in healthcare it's being rapidly accelerated.

In the past, data had been stored in multiple systems and multiple areas on given patients. It's been difficult for providers and organizations to make informed decisions about that patient and their healthcare. So we see a lot of change in being able to bring that data together and understand it better.

Gardner: Tell us about MZI, what you do, who your customers are, and where you're going to be taking this big data ability in the future.

Gootee: MZI Healthcare has predominantly been working on the payer side. We have a product that's been on the market for over 25 years helping with benefit administration and the lines of payers and different independent physician associations (IPAs) and third-party administrators (TPAs).

Our customers have always had a very tough time bringing in data from different sources. A little over two years ago, MZI decided to look at how we could leverage that data to help our customers better understand their risk and their patients, and ultimately change the outcomes for those patients.

Predictive analysis

Gardner: I think that's how the newer regulatory environment is lining up in terms of compensation. This is about outcomes, rather than procedures. Tell us about your requirements for big data in order to start doing more of that predictive analysis.

Gootee: If you think about how data has been stored in the past for patients across their continuum of care, where, as they went from facility to facility, and physician to physician, it's really been so spread apart. It's been difficult to help understand even how the treatments are affecting that patient.

I've talked a lot about my aunt in previous interviews. Last year, she went into a coma, not because the doctors weren't doing the right thing, but because they were unable to understand what the other doctors were doing.

She went to many specialists and took medication from each one of those to help with her given problem, but what happened was there was an interaction with medication. They didn't even know if she’d come out of the coma.

These things happen every day. Doctors make informed decisions from their experience and the data that they have. So it's critical that they can actually see all the information that's available to them.

When we look at healthcare and how it's changing, for example the Affordable Care Act, one of the main focuses is obviously cost. We all know that healthcare is growing at a rate that's just unsustainable, and while that's the main focus, it's different this time.

Not only are we trying to reduce cost, but we are trying to increase the care that's given to those patients.

We've done that before. In the Clinton Administration we had a kind of HMO and it really made a dramatic difference on cost. It was working, but it didn't give people a choice. There was no basis on outcomes, and the quality of care wasn't there.

This time around, that's probably the major difference. Not only are we trying to reduce cost, but we are trying to increase the care that's given to those patients. That's really vital to making the healthcare system a better system throughout the United States.

Gardner: Given the size of the data, the disparate nature of the data, more-and-more human data will be brought to bear. What were your technical requirements, and what was the journey that you took in finding the right infrastructure?

Gootee: We had a couple of requirements that were critical. When we work with small- and medium-size organizations (SMBs), they really don't have the funds to put in a large system themselves. So our goal was that we wanted to do something similar to what Apple has done with the iPhone. We wanted to take multiple things, put them into one area, and reduce that price point for our customers.

One of the critical things that we wanted to look at was overall price point. That included how we manage those systems and, when we looked at Vertica, one of the things that we found very appealing was that the management of that system is minimal.

High-end analytics

The other critical thing was speed, being able to deliver high-end analytics at the point of care, instead of two or three months later, and Vertica really produced. In fact, we did a proof of concept with them. It was almost unbelievable some of the queries that ran and the speed at which that data came back to us.

You hear things like that and see it through the conference, no matter what volume you may have. It's very good. Those were some of our requirements, and we were able to put that in the cloud. We run in the Amazon cloud and we were able to deliver that content to the people that need it at the right time at a really low price point.

Gardner: Let me understand also the requirement for concurrency. If you have this posted on Amazon Web Services, you're then opening this up to many different organizations and many different queriers. Is there an issue for the volume of queries happening simultaneously, or concurrency? Has that been something you've been able to work through?

Gootee: That's another value add that we get. The ability to expand and scale the Vertica system along with the scalability that we get with the Amazon allows us to deliver that information. No matter what type of queries we're getting, we can expand that automatically. We can grow that need, and it really makes a large difference in how we could be competitive in the marketplace.

Gardner: I suppose another dynamic to this on the economic side is the predictability of your cost.

Cloud services take some of that unknown away. It lets you scale as you need it and scale back if you don't need it.

Gootee: If you look at traditional ways that we've delivered software or a content before, you always over-buy, because you don’t know what it's going to be. Then, at some point, you don't have enough resources to deliver. Cloud services take some of that unknown away. It lets you scale as you need it and scale back if you don't need it.

So it's the flexibility for us. We're not a large company, and what's exciting about this is that these technologies help us do the same thing that the big guys do. It really lets our small company compete in a larger marketplace.

Gardner: Going to the population health equation and the types of data and information, is this something that's of interest to you? How important is this ability to get at all the information in all the different formats as you move forward?

Gootee: That's very critical for us. The way we interact in America and around the world has changed a lot. The HP HAVEn platform provides us with some opportunities to improve on what we have with healthcare's big security concerns, and the issue of the mobility of data. Getting it anywhere is critical to us, as well as better understanding how that data is changing.

We've heard from a lot of companies here that really are driving that user experience. More-and-more companies are going to be competing on how they can deliver things to a user in the way that they like it. That's critical to us, and that [HP] platform really gives us the ability to do that.

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Mathis attacker gets 93 years in prison for U.C. home invasion
by Neal Putnam
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The career criminal who assaulted former District 1 City Councilman Harry Mathis in a home-invasion robbery at his University City home was sentenced Dec. 12 to 93 years to life in prison.

Mathis, the 79-year-old chairman of the Metropolitan Transit System board, spoke about the Jan. 11 ordeal that he and wife Mary endured when they were held against their will and their house set on fire by Harvey Henry Duson, 46.

Consecutive sentences were imposed by San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenia Eyherabide, and she fined Duson more than $10,000. She ordered him to pay $8,000 to a Sprint store in Point Loma, which was robbed by Duson at gunpoint on Nov. 9, 2011.

“This is why the legislature made the three strike law,” said Eyherabide.

Mathis told the judge this was “a life changing event,” and he and his wife suffered out-of-pocket losses of $10,000. But Mathis said they would not seek restitution because “it’s enough to be alive.”

Mathis was bludgeoned in the face by Duson and another robber who has never been identified. Mathis attempted to shoot Duson in the garage in self-defense when he was first attacked, but he missed and Duson gained control of the gun, for which Mathis had a permit. Duson pistol-whipped Mathis.

“You seemed to have a charmed life,” said Mathis to Duson, referring to his missed shot at Duson, as well as Duson’s injuries in a serious car accident while evading police in Arizona, after which Duson was hospitalized.

Mathis said it was “no accident” that Duson’s life was spared twice, saying “a higher power led you here.” He urged Duson to tell authorities who the other robber is.

“I believe there is good in him because he could have shot me,” said Mathis, adding that he and his wife would pray for Duson.

Mathis said the jewelry losses including the wedding rings of his mother and grandmother.

Duson said nothing in court. He pleaded guilty to all charges on Oct. 22 without a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Sheriff’s deputy Peter Carrillo, who shot Duson in 1993 following a robbery of a Pizza Hut restaurant in Lemon Grove, asked the judge to impose the maximum term. Carrillo said he shot Duson after Duson pointed a gun at him while fleeing the restaurant in a Pizza Hut uniform.

“I’m angry this man was released into society to harm people again,” said Carrillo. “I’m asking you to protect society from this career criminal.”

Duson was convicted of numerous robbery charges following the 1993 robbery and was sentenced to 32 years in prison.

Most of the 93-year sentence concerned the Mathis home invasion, but Duson did get a 35-year term for robbing the Sprint store at gunpoint and tying up two employees. He received credits for already spending 346 days in jail.

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MA in American: Literature

  1. The Beginnings of American Literature: the Cultures of Native Americans, the English Utopian Tradition, the Explorers of the Southwest, Puritans
  2. Major Writers and Genres in the 17th and 18th Centuries: from William Bradford to Benjamin Franklin
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  7. The "Gilded Age": Major Writers: Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  8. Imagism: Amy Lowel, Harriet Monroe, early Eliot, early Pound, early Stevens, early William Carlos Williams, H. D.
  9. Modernism: Two Traditions: High Modernism and Radical Modernism. Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Pound, Williams, Stein
  10. Modernist Fiction (Stein, Barnes, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Porter, Welty)
  11. Modern American Drama: O'Neill, Miller, Williams, Albee
  12. Poets, Writers and Philosophers of the New Negro Renaissance. A. J. Cooper, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Larsen
  13. Postmodern Poetry (the Black Mountain Poets, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, the Language Poets)
  14. Postmodern Fiction: the First Generation (Pynchon, Barth, Coover, Barthelme, Gass, Hawkes, Vonnegut) and the Second Generation (Suckenick, Federman, Reed, Abish, McElroy), minimalism
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  16. Problems of Ethnic and Gender Identity in a Multicultural Society. Pick an Asian-American or Native American or African-American or Chicano Writer/Poet
  17. Major Schools and Trends in American Literary Theory (New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Narratology, Reader-Response Criticism, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Feminist Criticism, African American Criticism). Pick one school/trend for detailed elaboration

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Students are exptected to be thoroughly familiar with 6-8 books basic to the study of U.S. literature, especially those directly related to the topic of their thesis. Students are encouraged to bring bibliographies used in preparing for the various topics. The recommended readings can be located in several Budapest libraries, including the SEAS, University, Academy, and CEU Libraries.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

After I put my Christmas things away, I start with Reds and White's added with some pink...for the month of Love... That would be February...It is fun and whimsical to decorate and add little touches through out our home. I took my glass hurricane and added candy hearts to it and a red candle, I now have this on our dinette table. You can see the picture frame on the table in the distance I do for each of it to coming next.
I was asked can we eat those...umm no...but I will get some you
So simple yet so fun and colorful.
Next is my monthly picture frame that I change out every month.. I took a piece of scrapbook paper and
added heart stickers all over it. I got the stickers at Walmart for 1.00 a pack..I bought two packs but didn't use them all.
This pic is of our dinning room glass and oak stand..I added some red in with the white and crystal.
Now this is part of what I had made for Christmas...I took some pieces out and now use it,
as a centerpiece on the table. It has a wintery look with Valentine colors..So this is what I got started, I now need to get downstairs and get out my Valentine stuff that is packed away. That reminds me I need to get my Valentine Coffee mugs out...Tooddles...I'm going searching..

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Marti said...

Love your 'love' look, especially the red crystal in with the clear and white, nice touch.


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Due to contractual obligations with LOGO TV, ROBBIE TURNER, the scheduled star and host for Gay City Health Project/Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s big annual Oscar Party at the Cinerama, has had to pull out of the event. The popular local diva is a contestant on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race which premieres on March 7, 2016.
But, the Oscar Party will continue, on Sunday, February 28th, with a new host and a name not quite as familiar…up and coming new queen, THE LADY B will assume hosting duties for the big annual event and fundraiser. She has big shoes to fill: Robbie Turner, Jinkx Monsoon and Cherdonna Shinatra have all been hosts in the past. This diva is best known for her gigs at trendy new club, Kremwerk and is one of several exciting newcomers who call that club their home base.
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The organizers of the 11th Annual Academy Awards Party are pleased to announce that The Lady B, a Seattle drag and dance sensation, will be taking over as host of the event. The party, a benefit for Gay City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema, was recently forced to find a new host due to the cancellation of their original host, Robbie Turner.
Turner, a star in the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, was apologetic about the need to cancel. It was necessary, however, due to unforeseen obligations as a result of Turner’s contract with LOGO TV, the home of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
But the show must go on, and this show will thanks to The Lady B.
Story-teller, performance artist, community organizer, and activist, The Lady B uses burlesque, dance, drag, and spoken work to portray how the politics of race, sexuality, gender, and ability are projected onto us.
“I am so happy to be asked to host the 11th Annual Academy Awards Party,” said The Lady B about joining the event. “Gay City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema are important to support because of their on-going dedication to Seattle’s diverse queer communities as our needs evolve.”
“It is truly an honor,” she adds, “standing in support of these two great pillars of our community.”
The 11th Annual Academy Awards Party will take place at the amazing Seattle Cinerama on Sunday, February 28. Guest will enjoy the Academy Awards broadcast on their giant screen in their well appointed theater. The party will provide a glamorous Hollywood experience, with savory hors d’oeuvres, a no-host bar, an Oscar Ballot contest with door prize entries, and, of course, a fabulous Oscar raffle.
There will also be an exclusive VIP experience, with the best seats in the house reserved just for VIP guests! VIP tickets include a special VIP bar featuring complimentary champagne service (while supplies last), VIP only hors d’oeuvres, and complimentary coat check. Only 100 VIP tickets will be sold.
Don’t forget to take a moment and cast your vote for Gay City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s 2nd Annual Rainbow Cinema awards,recognizing and honoring the incredibly diverse talents of actors and filmmakers from 2015. The winners will be announced at the event. Votes can be cast at:
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The most versatile electric Turbofan convection oven available, able to handle four 460x660mm baking trays in a 710x800mm floorspace footprint.

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