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WINTER PARK, Fla., January 4, 2017—Human resources outsourcing company Anthros Inc. grew 26 percent in 2016 and is poised to double in size in the first quarter of 2017.
"Anthros Inc.'s growth last year reflects the high-level of customized service that the Anthros team provides to our clients," said Anthros Founder and CEO Anurag Dandiya. "We are constantly improving and re-engineering our service delivery model to fit client needs, both now and in the future."
With the addition of new clients in 2016, including a major communications and technology firm, Anthros Inc. now has a footprint in 33 states. To accompany growth in 2017, Anthros is planning a strategic expansion into additional states.
"Our growth has been highly strategic," said Dandiya. "We've never been interested in short term gains. Instead we focus on long-term partnerships, only taking on new clients that are aligned with our culture and values."
In 2016, Anthros also guided many clients as they launched new businesses, expanded its leadership training capabilities and brand management services, and upgraded its Human Resources Information System (HRIS) to harness the latest technology available for its client-centric service delivery model.
"We've built a foundation for growth over the past two years by securing the right team and the best HR technology on the market," said Dandiya. "Now as we move into the new year we're seeing the rewards of our investments in infrastructure and are more than ready to grow the business."
About Anthros Inc.
Anthros Inc. is a boutique Human Resources firm headquartered in Winter Park, Fla. Known for its personalized service and high-performance HR technology, Anthros processes payroll, administers benefits programs, provides worker's compensation and actively manages and reduces employer risks. The Anthros vision is to empower clients to become the best in their industries and build a legacy by serving as their long-term partner in human resources. For more information, please visit: www.anthrosinc.com.
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Wes is Anthros Inc.'s Director of Business Development, leading the company's growth and shaping client relationship strategy. As a key member of the Anthros leadership team, he provides strategic guidance in customizing products and services to meet client needs. Before coming to Anthros, Wes was Vice President and Senior Relationship Strategist for a major bank's wealth management group. In his 20 years in financial sales, he has held senior business development roles at PNC Wealth Management, SunTrust Bank, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, where he established a record of building and leveraging client relationships to generate new revenue. Anthros clients benefit from Wes' expertise in banking and investment products, portfolio management, keen industry insight, a deep personal network and proactive approach to help them develop HR strategies that support their long-term business goals.
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Anurag Dandiya
Anurag Dandiya is the Founder and CEO of Anthros. As CEO, he leads a handpicked team of professionals that provide the best in client-focused human resources management and business and brand consulting.
Anurag has been in the human resources and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry for more than two decades and is known for his willingness to re-engineer the service delivery model to meet client needs. For him, success in business has never been about the quick win. Instead, it is about building relationships over decades and identifying what's relevant for clients now and in the future. He sees profits as a byproduct of building a legacy with the right team.
Before founding Anthros, Anurag served as Executive Vice President and Director at HR outsourcing companies with annual revenues of more than $1.2 billion. He negotiated a $400 million client acquisition, the largest to date in the PEO industry, along with two other acquisitions valued at over $100 million.
Anurag grew up in India, where he attended The Air Force School in New Delhi and the elite St.Stephen's College, established in 1881 by the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and known internationally for its distinguished alumni. Growing up in India, Anurag was deeply inspired by his father Subhash Dandiya, who served in the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot and retired as a decorated Commanding Officer.
Since 2014, Anurag has served on the Board of Directors for the Florida Association of Professional Employer Organizations (FAPEO). He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the premier leadership organization of chief executives around the world. YPO is made up of more than 29,000 chief executives in 130 countries, each recognized for having achieved significant leadership success at a young age. He is also a member of executive coaching organization Vistage International, as well as the Ferrari Club Racing Association. In 2011, he was named Rookie of the Year by the Ferrari Club, and in 2012 he won the 360 Ferrari Challenge Daytona race. A leader in corporate and social responsibility, Anurag is a Founding Donor at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and an Honorary Founding Member of the Harris County Sheriff's Office Foundation. He frequently fundraises for organizations that transform the lives of children and promote the arts. For more than 20 years, Anurag has made his home in Orlando, where he lives with his son, Aidan.
Anil Deshpande
Chairman, Advisory Board
Anil Deshpande is the Chairman of the Anthros Advisory Board. He has over 40 years of experience in commercial, industrial and residential development and construction. He is the co-founder of Park Square Homes and served as its CEO for 20 years. His development projects have included hospitals, office buildings, hotels, and industrial plants, and he served as project manager for the construction of Orlando International Airport. Today, Anil is involved in commercial ventures in Central Florida and India. He is a partner in two IT firms and sits on the Board of Directors of Seaside National Bank and Trust.
Committed to serving his community through philanthropy, Anil helped found the India Center at the University of Central Florida. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Hindu Society and the Indian American Chamber of Commerce. He contributes to many other social and educational causes through a family foundation.
Dyannah Byington
Dyannah Byington joined Anthros Inc. as Brand Manager in 2016. As Brand Manager, she leads the team's efforts to enhance brand awareness and brand equity, promote company culture and craft social media and content strategies for Anthros and its clients. A lifelong storyteller with a passion for marketing and communications, Dyannah has years of experience in content creation, social media and digital marketing and has helped shape brand stories for companies in hospitality, retail, arts and education. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is also a native of Central Florida and a graduate of Park Maitland and Trinity Preparatory School.
Bill Edwards serves as the Director of Legal Affairs for Anthros Inc. He is an expert in labor and employment law and one of only a handful of attorneys specializing in employment practices liability claims. In his role as Director of Legal Affairs, he provides Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) compliance training and strategic human resources and risk management consultation. Prior to joining Anthros, Bill served as Of Counsel in the Tampa office of Broad and Cassel and Director of Legal Services for a national PEO. He has defended clients from charges of discrimination brought before the EEOC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and various human rights commissions, and has also represented clients in wage claims before the Department of Labor.
Bill is a member of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) and the Florida Association of Professional Employer Organizations (FAPEO) and also serves on NAPEO's Legal Advisory Council.
Helen Usher
Director of Benefits
Helen Usher serves as the Director of Benefits for Anthros Inc. In this role she administers health insurance plans with premiums of more than $12 million annually and is the trustee of 401(k) plans with more than $30 million in assets. In her career she has created customized service delivery platforms for clients in more than 30 states, and Anthros clients benefit from her unparalleled expertise in insurance products, retirement planning and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Helen also facilitates ongoing training and development for the Anthros client relations team, and under her leadership more than 60 percent of new clients come to Anthros through referrals. Previously serving as Director of Operations, Helen has been at Anthros since it was founded and built the systems and processes that make it successful today.
Ed Whalley
Ed Whalley serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Anthros Inc. An accomplished leader with more than 28 years' experience in the human resources and hospitality industries, Ed comes to Anthros with a distinguished record of achieving profitability and operational excellence. In his role as CFO, Ed oversees business development, financial operations and compliance, and also works closely with the CEO on strategic planning and scaling operations to support the company's growth.
Before joining Anthros, Ed served as CFO and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at a large golf course management company, where he managed all aspects of financial services and planning, business development and compliance for more than 25 golf clubs. He has also been a business development executive at one of the largest HR outsourcing companies in the United States. During his tenure, the company grew by $40 million. Ed has also held leadership positions at other major golf management companies, including Kitson & Partners Club Services, whose portfolio reaches from Central Florida to Hawaii, and Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, where he started career. In addition to his expertise in finance, operations, sales and management, Ed brings to Anthros a commitment to transparency and team building.
Since 2014, Anurag has served on the Board of Directors for the Florida Association of Professional Employer Organizations (FAPEO). He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the premier leadership organization of chief executives around the world. YPO is made up of more than 29,000 chief executives in 130 countries, each recognized for having achieved significant leadership success at a young age. He is also a member of executive coaching organization Vistage International, as well as the Ferrari Club Racing Association. In 2011, he was named Rookie of the Year by the Ferrari Club, and in 2012 he won the 360 Ferrari Challenge Daytona race. A leader in corporate and social responsibility, Anurag is a Founding Donor at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and frequently fundraises for organizations that transform the lives of children and promote the arts. For more than 20 years, Anurag has made his home in Orlando, where he lives with his son, Aidan.
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David "Tom" Mitchell is Fabrinet's founder. He has served as its CEO and Chairman of the Board since the Company's inception in 2000. He also served as its President from 2000 to 2011. In 1979, Mr. Mitchell co-founded Seagate Technology, a disk drive manufacturing company, where he served as its President from 1983 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Mitchell served as the COO of Conner Peripherals, another disk drive manufacturing company. From 1995 to 1998, he served as the CEO of JTS Corp., a mobile disk drive manufacturing company. During his tenure in the data storage industry, Mr. Mitchell has established manufacturing operations in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the PRC, and India. Mr. Mitchell earned a B.S. in Economics from Montana State University. His hands-on experience in building a world-class management team to run a global operations infrastructure is unmatched.
Colin Campbell joined Fabrinet in August 2014 as its Senior Corporate Counsel, with over 30 years experience as an attorney in both private and corporate practice and, early in his career, as a mechanical engineer. He was a senior partner in two law firms in northern California, one he co-founded, where his practice included patent and other complex litigation, and corporate, intellectual property and insurance law. In 2000 he joined Read-Rite Corporation as its Associate General Counsel, Litigation & Intellectual Property, and later promoted to be its General Counsel. Mr. Campbell earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, did graduate work in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Davis, and earned a J.D. in Law from Santa Clara University. He is licensed to practice law in all state and federal trial and appellate courts in California, and in the U.S. Supreme Court, and earlier in his career he was licensed to practice before the U.S. Court of Claims and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He also holds professional licenses in California as both a Mechanical Engineer and a Nuclear Engineer.


Before the clock has even struck midnight on Halloween, Rockefeller Center is already ushering in the Christmas season.
The 2017 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has been selected, and will grace the streets of New York City with its dazzling array of lights in just a few short weeks. The massive Norway Spruce hails from State College, Pennsylvania, about 239 miles away from its final destination in the Big Apple. It will be cut down on Thursday, November 9.
Rockefeller Center revealed their selection to the public through a series of rhyming tweets, invoking the spirit of some of your favorite Christmas stories as they encouraged fans to guess the location of the highly anticipated tree.
According to Rockefeller Center, the tree will arrive in the city on November 11, where it will be decorated with 50,000 multi-colored LED lights and topped with a Swarovski crystal star.
The tree will, as always, be lit during the live broadcast of "Christmas in Rockefeller Center," which this year is on Wednesday, November 29. The tree will then remain on display for holiday travelers and locals to enjoy until Jan. 7, 2018.
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Jet Lag! (Day 181)
A quick zoom home, 22 hours in flight and I wonder how the Jet Lag will be?
We didn't need to wait too long for our next flight from Abu Dhabi to London. As soon as we got on the plane we realised that we weren't sitting next to one another. How weird. I sat there and thought about it. Am I bothered? Well, yes. I love Tim's company, I enjoy sitting next to him and, what is more, I did mention to the ground staff in Sydney why we were coming back to the UK, I thought it rather insensitive that she didn't sit us together. Shortly after we were up in the air, my veggie meal arrived so I had a quiet word with the air hostess. She couldn't have been nicer; zoomed off and quickly returned to inform me that there were some better seats for Tim and I further back in the plane. When we got there, we realised that we had front seats of a section so could stretch our legs out. Wonderful!
The rest of the journey was uneventful. Over the 22 hours of flying from Sydney to London, I did go film mad and watched 5 of them! I don't think I've watched that many in the last year:
• Lady Bird – Family move to Sacremento and main character Christine "Lady Bird" goes to the Catholic High School. She longs for adventure and feels that she is from the "wrong side of the tracks." Her lovely Dad loses his job and she has a difficult relationship with her Mum, Story based on her relationships, being in the school play and applying to college. Nice film, nice ending.
• Wonder – A very sweet story about a boy called Auggie who has a rare facial deformity. He is home-schooled by his Mum (played by Julia Roberts) then goes to school in 5th grade. Gets bullied and then becomes a hero – whoops sorry – just told you the ending!
• I, Tonya – True story about the American figure ice skater Tonya Harding who became the first American woman to complete a triple axel. Sadly her career comes to an end after the huge scandal when her ex-husband organises an attack on competitor Nancy Kerrigan.
• The Disaster Artist – another true story based on two aspiring actors who can't get a break into acting. One suggests making their own film, so Tommy Wiseau, the main character decided to do just this. He writes, produces, directs and acts in "The Room", a disaster and given the title in the industry as "The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made"; now a cult film. Funny and cringe-worthy.
• The Hours – I had high hopes for this film, with Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman as the main characters of three women searching for a meaningful life, yet all suffering from mental anxiety. Each character is alive at different periods and places so the film jumps from one to another. Finally the film brings them together in a surprising way. Couldn't quite get into this, perhaps I was "filmed" out by this stage!
Arrived at Heathrow and managed to get an Uber to my sister's home in Dorking. We thought Uber had lost their licence so was well pleased to get one, saved us getting a train to London then out again.
On the hour drive there, what struck me was the intense green of the countryside. It was like being a Lilliput person travelling in a bunch of spinach. In our last 180 days, I haven't experienced this depth of green anywhere. Not even in Cameron Highlands in Malaysia or in New Zealand. The UK really is a most beautiful country with its lush" green green grass of home".
We arrived at Jac's and collapsed with a nice cup of tea. She arrived back a little while later so hugs all around. Updated us on the funeral plans, then Jac and I trawled through Marks and Spencer's Party Food to make our decision and ordered, ready to pick up on Friday for the Wake. Jac needed to drive to London to be with our niece who is having minor surgery, so Tim and I decided to ensure we kept awake….Oh dear, I just felt as if I'd been drugged. The body just wanted to stay put, the brain had slowed down to a snail's pace…if that. Keep awake….keep awake….keep awa……zzzzzz.
I woke up in the pitch dark. Where was I? What country was I in? It took me a time to come to my senses. Woke Tim up, then we did some admin. We need to book an Airbnb when we go to Bristol. Yes, I know that's where our little house is, but it is full of our son, girlfriend and friends. There is no room at the inn! Luckily we found a nice pad about 20 minutes' walk away. We ended up staying awake until midnight. I creaked up the stairs, each step was like a rusty old hinge, my knees feel that they need a spray of WD40 on them. Climbed into bed ahhh ….Let's hope we have a good night's sleep…zzzzz
Farewells and Hellos
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Head-on crash in West Hartford injured two, closed major route
By Christine Dempsey
Two people were injured in a head-on crash that happened in West Hartford Tuesday night. (West Hartford Fire Department)
Two people were injured in a head-on crash that forced the closure of a busy road in West Hartford Tuesday night, police said.
The crash happened about 10:10 p.m. on North Main Street, or Route 218, in the area of Sheep Hill Drive. Although there were reports that one of the injured people was unresponsive, neither motorist has life-threatening injuries, police said Wednesday morning.
The road was closed for about 2 ½ hours, in part because there was a lot of debris from the crash, police said.
North Main Street is a major north-south route through the town.
Christine Dempsey can be reached at cdempsey@courant.com.
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The Belmont Stakes was just run, and Big Brown did not win. The heavy favorite, the horse spent most of the race in third, and faded significantly down the stretch. So once again, there will be no Triple Crown winner in horse racing for at least another year.
Horse racing has never fascinated me the way it does so many people. Mostly, I believe this is because I've never been able to make the great leap necessary in personifying horses as great athletes. To be sure, thoroughbreds are remarkable specimens within their species, but I've always been a little put off when people talk about them as if they are human.
There was a photo of Big Brown in the paper today. In it, the horse had remarkably expressive eyes. Some could call it a 'steely gaze'. I contrasted that with some footage I'd seen during the sports segment of the news the night before when the horse was in its stable, tossing its head back and forth and bearing its gigantic set of teeth. The look last night was the complete opposite of the emotionally heavy photo from the paper. Instead of appearing to be a thoughtful being, aware of the moment of which it was about to be a part, the horse came off as a braying yokel, yuk-yukking it up when cameras happened to be present. In short, it looked just like what it was: a dumb animal.
None of us will ever know what goes through an animal's mind, but a person can be rest assured that it is not as complicated as human emotion and reasoning. Attaching our humanness and complexity to an animal just seems to me to be an exercise in futility.
I have no issue with racing horses. Of all the vestigial remains of our once deep symbiotic relationship with horses, racing is the only one, because of its uniqueness, that has retained relevance as we have moved to a machine driven civilization. It survives because it is a competition, ancient enough to be regarded as an art among sporting events. We have auto racing, sure, but the horses still run because racing is a luxury, and has no bearing on the daily comings and goings of society. Where things are practical, like lugging home groceries or traveling, the horse has disappeared.
That's not really a shame. I don't believe many of us romanticize horses to the point that we'd be willing to forego hours long cross-country travel by plane for the months long horse-driven alternative. So maybe the thick affectations that are placed upon horses by human projectors are merely nostalgia for a time when horses were a part of daily life for more than just a small minority of us. If that's the case, then no harm done. Remember, though, that if one looks into a horse's eyes and sees a soul, what one is really seeing are themselves reflected back to them in those big, glassy orbs.


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Protective immunity against novel coronavirus may last for over eight months: Study
The findings, based on analyses of blood samples from 188 COVID-19 patients, suggest that nearly all survivors of the disease have the immune cells necessary to fight re-infection.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses its "spike" protein to initiate infection of human cells, so the researchers looked for memory B cells specific for the SARS-CoV-2 spike. (Representational image: Reuters)
COVID-19 survivors may have protective immunity against serious disease from the SARS-CoV-2 virus for months, or even years after the infection, a study suggests.
"Our data suggest that the immune response is there — and it stays," Professor Alessandro Sette from La Jolla Institute for Immunology in the US.
The researchers measured antibodies, memory B cells, helper T cells and killer T cells — all four components of immune memory — at the same time.
The study, published in the journal Science, helps clarify some concerning data from other institutes, which showed a dramatic drop-off of COVID-fighting antibodies in the months following infection. Some feared that this decline in antibodies meant that the body wouldn't be equipped to defend itself against reinfection. Sette explained that a decline in antibodies is very normal.
"Of course, the immune response decreases over time to a certain extent, but that's normal," he noted.
"That's what immune responses do. They have a first phase of ramping up, and after that fantastic expansion, eventually the immune response contracts somewhat and gets to a steady state," Sette added.
The researchers found that virus-specific antibodies do persist in the bloodstream months after infection. They said the body also has immune cells called memory B cells at the ready, adding that if a person encounters SARS-CoV-2 again, these cells could reactivate and produce antibodies to fight re-infection.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses its "spike" protein to initiate infection of human cells, so the researchers looked for memory B cells specific for the SARS-CoV-2 spike. They found that spike-specific memory B cells actually increased in the blood six months after infection.
"COVID-19 survivors also had an army of T cells ready to fight reinfection. Memory CD4+ "helper" T cells lingered, ready to trigger an immune response if they saw SARS-CoV-2 again," the researchers said.
Many memory CB8+ "killer" T cells also remained, ready to destroy infected cells and halt a reinfection, they said. "The different parts of the adaptive immune systems work together, so seeing COVID-fighting antibodies, memory B cells, memory CD4+ T cells and memory CD8+ T cells in the blood more than eight months following infection is a good sign," said LJI Professor Shane Crotty.
"This implies that there's a good chance people would have protective immunity, at least against serious disease, for that period of time, and probably well beyond that," Crotty said.
However, the researchers cautioned that protective immunity does vary dramatically from person to person. They saw a 100-fold range in the magnitude of immune memory.
"People with a weak immune memory may be vulnerable to a case of recurrent COVID-19 in the future, or they may be more likely to infect others," the researchers said.
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Spread warmth and joy throughout your home as well as those of all your candle-loving friends when you explore the captivating world of Home Candle Making! Author and candle-making expert Stephanie Rose will introduce you to all the basics of candle making – wax and wick selection, melting techniques, colouring and fragrance options – and then the fun really begins! Stephanie will not only guide you through 12 boutique-quality projects, but she'll provide presentation ideas to make gift time that much more special.


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In the summer of 2020, when Covid-19 had shuttered arts organizations throughout the United States, I collaborated with guitarist Oren Fader to create a video recording of Diario dun Camiño, a solo guitar work that I wrote during happier times, while walking the Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain. Oren's wife, mezzo-soprano Jessica Bowers, was his de facto recording assistant for that project, and she and he, as the Bowers Fader Duo, asked me to compose something for them to perform together.
My wife and I, meanwhile, had embarked on a separate pandemic project: to watch the complete plays of William Shakespeare. As we progressed, I noted various passages that struck me as potentially set-able, and one such passage—from Henry VI, Part III—found a home in King's Complaint. King Henry VI, his realm besieged by internal wars for which he has neither the stomach nor the antidote, here laments his lot and wishes away his kingdom and life.
John Dowland's lute songs are an easy model for any work for voice and guitar, and since Dowland was a contemporary of Shakespeare, my choosing to emulate his tone and (less precisely) his style was all the more compelling. Moreover, I had spent much of the month of October 2020 composing a set of variations for solo piano on a lute song of Dowland's that had obsessed me for years, so his music was quite fresh in my mind.
King's Complaint can be heard as an homage to Dowland and to Shakespeare in equal measure, and I hope that it becomes a vital addition to the Bowers Fader Duo's now extensive catalog of music composed specifically for them.
KINGS-COMPLAINT


Brody is a solid kicker. He has a nice leg and makes kicks. Shows college level ability. Has a good head on his shoulders and does well under pressure. I like his attitude. Look for Brody to compete well amongst his class in Las Vegas.


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Study: Tech Companies That Made Black Lives Matter Pledges Had 20% Fewer Black Employees Than Companies Who Didn't
(Bloomberg) — After the murder of George Floyd last year prompted widespread protests, dozens of companies released public pledges to promote racial justice. However, their support of the Black community wasn't reflected in the demographics of their workforces.
A new study of diversity in the technology industry found companies that made statements of solidarity had 20% fewer Black employees on average than those that didn't. The finding highlights a gap between what companies say about social issues and what they do in their own workplaces, said Stephanie Lampkin, the founder and chief executive officer of Blendoor, which conducted the study set to be published Monday.
See also UK Student "Government ruined our lives".
Blendoor, a startup that helps companies recruit a diverse group of candidates, crunched publicly available data on 240 of the most prominent tech companies. Despite the shortcomings of many companies that put out Black Lives Matter statements, the pledges could have a serious impact. Their financial commitments surpassed $4.6 billion, more than double the amount of pledges made in the previous six years combined, according to the report.
See also STUDY: Cell Phone Usage Can Damage Sperm Quality
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Q: How do I target a specific driver for libata kernel parameter modding? I'm running a 22-disk setup, 19 of those in a ZFS array, 15 of those backed by three port multipliers attached to SATA controllers driven by the sata_sil24 module. When running full speed (SATA2, 3 Gbps), the operation is pretty quirky. Simple read errors will throw an entire port multiplier into spasms for a long time, sometimes with pretty awful results. Booting with kernel parameter libata.force=1.5G to force SATA controllers into "legacy" speeds completely fixes all issues with the port multipliers. Thing is, my ZFS pool is backed by a fast cache SSD on my ICH10R controller. Another SSD on this same controller holds the system.
Doing libata.force=1.5G immediately shaves about 100 MB/s off the transfer rate of my SSDs. For the root drive, that's not such a big deal, but for the ZFS cache SSD, it is. It effectively makes the entire zpool slower for sustained transfers than it would've been without the cache drive. Random access and fs tree lookups, of course still benefit. Listing the module options for sata_sil24, no such option exists.
How to pass the libata.force=1.5G parameter on to just the three SATA controllers being backed by the sata_sil24 module?

A: Ah! I found out!
At http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, it states,
    libata.force=   [LIBATA] Force configurations.  The format is comma
        separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
        PORT[.DEVICE].  PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
        matching port, link or device.  Basically, it matches
        the ATA ID string printed on console by libata.  If
        the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
        values are used.  If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
        configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.

        If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
        the port and all links and devices behind it.  DEVICE
        number of 0 either selects the first device or the
        first fan-out link behind PMP device.  It does not
        select the host link.  DEVICE number of 15 selects the
        host link and device attached to it.

        The VAL specifies the configuration to force.  As long
        as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
        For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
        The following configurations can be forced.

        * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
          Any ID with matching PORT is used.

        * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.

        * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
          udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
          allowed.

        * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.

        * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
                      and both resets.

        * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.

        If there are multiple matching configurations changing
        the same attribute, the last one is used.

So, the tricky part is finding out which port X and device Y (dmesg ataX.YY) is which controller and drive. I think - that notation matches PORT[.DEVICE], but there's also the W:X:Y:Z notation. I'm guessing ataX.YY :)
Luckily, I just did this mapping manually last week (trying to identify a drive that was throwing spasms and resetting a host controller), so I have an exhaustive list already :) I couldn't find anywhere that the mappings from sdX to ataX.Y or W:X:Y:Z where listed, so I ended up simply yanking out SATA cables and watching which ataX.YY messages appeared in /var/log/messages ;)
So, in my setup, it seems I need to do
libata.force=1:1.5G,2:1.5G,3:1.5G

Gonna have to try that out as soon as my ZFS scrub finishes, and report back :) Awesome! Hope this helps someone else :)

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And Life is Good again..
After two weeks of settling down in India - Life is good again.
There have been a lot of challenges for us - but I am glad I have a wonderful family who made us feel so comfortable.
Nothing can beat the feeling of being at home , laughing and sharing and making memories together!
Just recently I got an order from Canada - the customer wanted a cute girly card with quilled coffee mugs! It came out exactly the way I wanted and the best part was I was able to do it in the very limited resources I had at hand!
He wanted me to ship the card all the way from India and was ready to pay any amount of shipping for the card! woww! It has to be the prettiest!
It is such a lovely card, this will be a great success.
The card is really nice. Though I wish it was a little less crowded. Maybe one ribbon instead of one wud have done the job. But, otherwise,awesome card. :) ATB to ur business in India now. Wish u all the luck!
wow gorgeous card, love the glitter and embelishments !!!
I Love your every design what u made.wish u all the best of luck.God bless u.love u sweety.
Thanks Leesandra for organizing the blog hop - a perfect time to appreciate those talented people out there and make some new friends.
If you are coming from Linda's quilling nest - http://www.myquillingnest.com/ You are doing just awesome.
I made this simple and a pretty card yesterday! I never miss a chance to put those lil beads on my quilled patterns :) Hope you all like it!
And a big hand to all the wonderful crafters across the globe! I have looked at your blogs and I think there is a lot to learn from you all..
I have been quilling for about 2 years now and I just cant get tired of it. This one has been my favourite so far! This is a quilled envelope and can be used as gift card or money holder.It looks way more beautiful in real! Just cant stop admiring it :P These beautiful little things have made me fall in love with them and myself.
Over the past few months, I had been spending a lot of time and money on cabs travelling to my workplace and back. It was a total pain to bear the taxi drivers each day.... But I kept at it, coz I had a kind of subconscious fear of taking a bus.. But one fine day..I built up the courage and explored travelling by bus..Gosh! It was so easy...and now I wonder all day long y was'nt I doing that before!
I think when we stay safe inside our comfort zones, we limit ourselves to experiencing things we already know. So next time when you experience that queasy feeling of stepping out, don't shy away from it ... Thats a sign!!


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As campuses becoming increasingly digitized, the role of campus libraries becomes more complex—and more important. A new infographic released at Educause 2013 by Jones eGlobal Library, a provider of online library solutions, draws on a variety of research from sources such as Pew and the College Board to paint a clearer picture of the important role librarians play in their institutions.
Students are bombarded with more information than ever, and librarians play a critical role in helping them to become better consumers of that information. After all, no instructor wants a research paper sourced from Wikipedia.
According to eGlobal Library President Joseph G. Gregg, the challenge is presenting a library that can accommodate a wide range of clients who want anything from a sophisticated search engine to a simple search box.
Among research presented on the infographic is the stat that 23% use the Web site of their institution's library before anything else when accessing scholarly journals, and 68% of college students feel they have the best chance of succeeding when they work with a research librarian.
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The Opportunity to Understand What's Different: Q&A with Christine Sneed
Paul Wilner
Posted on September 1, 2016 (February 16, 2017) by me
Christine Sneed (photo by Adam Tinkham)
Over the course of a relatively short but extremely productive literary career, Christine Sneed has already achieved a substantial, and enviable, body of work. Her first story collection, 2009's Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, was awarded the AWP Grace Paley Prize and long listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story prize.
Both for its attention to detail, and its close, caring, but unsentimental attention to the complicated lives of women (and men), Portraits is in Paley's spirit at the same time as it honors the tradition of what O'Connor called "the lonely voice'' that characterizes the under-respected story form.
Sneed, who is the faculty director of the MA/MFA in Creative Writing Program at Northwestern, followed that success with an ambitious novel in 2013, Little Known Facts, about the hidden costs, and familial complications, of Hollywood fame. In a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Curtis Sittenfeld wrote, "Christine Sneed has written a novel just for us: Little Known Facts is just juicy enough to appeal to our prurience but smart enough not to make us feel dirty afterward."
Nothing daunted, Sneed next spread her wings further with Paris, He Said, a novel about a struggling artist who moves to Europe at the urging of an older gallery owner who sets her up in his apartment. Robin Black's notice for the Times said, "With clever and graceful prose, Sneed deftly guides a story that explores whether satisfaction follows when one's deepest wishes come true.''
In her newest book, the just-published The Virginity of Famous Men (320 pages; Bloomsbury), she returns to her favored form of the short story, with deepening psychological explorations and a commitment to sympathetic, knowing understanding of the spaces between us—how we punish each other, and often ourselves, because of these missed connections.
Sneed took time to talk with us via email about the new collection, and her career:
ZYZZYVA: In a sense, The Virginity of Famous Men seems like a coda to Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry. Apart from the fact that they both have great titles, what similarities—or differences—do you see in the two works?
Christine Sneed: I suppose most writers would have to say this, but I'm most interested in relationships—whether they're between spouses, siblings, parents and children, friends. The tensions that arise in everyday life have always been a source of inspiration, and I suppose that even with the stories that are a little more out there (with on-the-verge characters who count a ghost as a close friend, or another who is applying for a job in a manner that probably won't get her too many offers), I'm most interested in how people connect with each other, or else the opposite—how we alienate each other. That dominant theme is the same here as it was in Portraits.
Z: The new collection feels like a fuller exploration of the psyche, with perhaps a less direct connection to sexual themes than Portraits. Do you agree? How have you changed as a writer in the intervening years?
CS: I'd say that I've been looking outward more and more in recent years, and trying to understand my responses to some of the stories in the news, especially those related to violence toward women or the concept of females as some exotic other, along with the frequent portrayal of women as witless and hysterical. Old stereotypes die hard—it's not as if men are open books or are more prone to behaving rationally than women are. In any case, I initially started writing in order to try to figure out my feelings about the world and its contradictions and about relationships, romantic ones in particular. I'm still trying to do that, but the backdrop to some of my newer stories is a little larger than in my earlier ones.
Fiction offers us readers and writers the opportunity to try to understand people who are different from us, and it's easy to assume that when someone commits a crime or tells a lie that he or she is motivated by an objectionable impulse and that we wouldn't behave the way this person did (or in some other similarly suspect way) if we were in his or her shoes. Judging is easy to do, and I look at my own tendency to judge and try to rein it in, as well as explore this impulse through fiction.
Z: Since Portraits, you've taken on two ambitious novels, Little Known Facts and Paris, He Said. Are there different muscles you use for long-form fiction? Do you "storyboard'' your plots or go where the characters lead you?
CS: I don't storyboard my plots, but I do jot down a few notes in a notebook as I progress through a novel draft. Generally, however, I try to trust where the characters will take me, as I do in short stories—it's rare that I write down plot notes when working on a shorter piece.
The sheer act of endurance that a novel requires is much harder for me to maintain than it is for a short story, but I'm dogged and keep reminding myself that one sentence at a time—that's how everything gets written, whether it's 20 pages or 300.
Z: You're based in the Midwest, outside Chicago, but have explored themes of film fame, particularly in Little Known Facts, but also in Portraits. What speaks to you about this subject? It feels like the Bitch Goddess of success is something you know how to ironize, but also sympathetically explore. It's easy to make fun of celebrities, and celebrity culture—the default position of academia, and most "enlightened'' cocktail party chatter. But it doesn't feel like that's what you're up to. What makes you so empathetic with the challenges that confront people in such special positions?
CS: I've long been interested in how fame, wealth, beauty, and the attention from others—sincere or sycophantic or calculated—that comes with these qualities affect character. If everyone around you, aside from a few intimates, is telling you how brilliant and gorgeous you are all the time, how can you fail to become self-absorbed, if not also utterly egomaniacal? But then when the famous do something personally or professionally disastrous, so many supposed fans, predictably, circle for the attack. I always wonder why this process keeps repeating itself. Don't we know by now that our movie and rock stars and politicians are human and therefore also vulnerable (maybe more vulnerable than the non-famous) to their most self-destructive urges? This whole scenario denotes a deeply interesting duality: we're enormously intrigued and infatuated with the famous, but conversely, it's all but irresistible to start throwing stones without a thought when some kind of personal train wreck occurs—the DUI or drug arrest or adultery or consorting-with-a-transvestite-prostitute arrest. Why is everyone so surprised and outraged?
Most famous people did not begin life as the children of famous parents, so the fact that the same emotional and personal stories keep repeating themselves in the rarefied sphere of Hollywood (or in the highest echelons of political power, e.g. the Kennedys) is a compelling topic to me as a writer.
I know a few famous people, and they'd be willing to admit, perhaps, that they struggle with the chasm between who they truly are, and who, publicly, they're expected to be. Beneath all the attempts to appease fans, to be beautiful and dazzling and at the top of your mythical game, I think there has to be a strong impulse to flee the footlights. The famous, on some level, must be very, very tired.
Z: You've said that the short story form is your favorite genre, despite the commercial challenges. In the new book, many of the pieces seem like photographs or black-and-white documentaries. I'm thinking of "Five Rooms,'' "Older Sister" and maybe "Clear Conscience.'' Is that how you see them? What is it about the form that you find formally and creatively freeing?
CS: I definitely see "Older Sister" as a black-and-white photograph or film. It's a moody, dark story, and maybe my favorite in the collection. I wrote it several years ago, before acquaintance rape was discussed as openly as it has been recently. As a longtime college professor, I see my students coming into the classroom day after day, and some of them look as if they are changing, and not necessarily in ways they are happy about. The other stories in this collection I see more in color, though maybe not the one ghost story, "Roger Weber Would Like To Stay."
And ironically, the fact that a short story needs to be short frees me to go off on narrative trajectories that I might not feel I could pull off in a novel, though both forms allow for happy discoveries and risks. I don't get flop sweat as much while writing a short story as I do with a novel; i.e., worrying that I can't pull it off, especially if a choice made early on in the manuscript turns out to be a blind alley; at that point of gloomy, please-don't-let-this-be-happening discovery, you have to go back and rewrite a lot of pages. That's the point where it might seem easiest to give up and start over with something new.
Z: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously (or infamously) said that the very rich are different from you and me. You write, in "The First Wife,'' which deals with some of the same characters from Little Known Facts: "The famous do resemble the infamous, but they are not the same species, not quite. The famous have mutated, amassed characteristics—refinements or corporeal variations—that allow their projected images, if not their bodies themselves, to dominate the rest of us.'' What do you think is going on here? Is this some kind of Jungian archetype, the hero of a thousand names—but vaporous identity—who we are taking on because of our own untapped psychological needs?
CS: People have said that lacking a royal family in America, we've made celebrities into our royalty, and I think there's probably some truth to this. They're the people many of us project our desires onto, and I was thinking about this as I wrote those opening lines to "The First Wife."
As I mentioned above, too, we often expect famous people's actions to be beyond reproach but of course there are times when they're decidedly not. It's as if we believe these celebrities should be the embodiment of our best selves, but that's of course impossible and also, hardly fair. That said, the rich and famous do have many privileges that the rest of the population do not, and so their abuse of these privileges should be examined, though not with the pettiness and meanness that it usually is. Again, that Biblical allusion—let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Z: "Five Rooms,'' in particular, the piece about the blind man with the doomed love affair and the teenage girl who helps take care of him, has a Raymond Carver feel to me, maybe just because of his (very different) story "Cathedral." Was he an influence at all? If not, who are the short story masters whom you admire, or seek to pattern yourself after?
CS: I've read some of Carver's collections and love the story "Cathedral," but he's not a writer who readily comes to mind as one of my primary influences; the short story writers I keep returning to are William Trevor, Deborah Eisenberg, Alice Munro, Edward P. Jones, Matthew Klam, Charles Baxter, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mavis Gallant, Mary Gaitskill, and John Updike, too.
Z: "Words That Once Shocked Us'' seems to show the tension, the difficulties of friendship and inevitable separation between the narrator and the woman she's trying to prevent from having a possibly adulterous assignation. Again, it sounds a bit Carver-esque (though I know he may not be your preferred literary model), especially in the conclusion she draws after a difficult night with the woman and her husband:
"Don't take this the wrong way,'' she says, "but you shouldn't take your unhappiness out on other people. I know your husband cheated on you and he's an asshole, but I'm not like him and Ben's not like you.'
"I look at her and say nothing. Of course he's not, I could say, but despite what you think, you are like my husband. He had excuses, too…There are always excuses. We will never suffer a shortage.''
I'm hearing a bit of Fitzgerald here, too, the part of Nick Carraway that wants no part of the "moral holiday'' embodied by Tom and Daisy. Is this part of what you're saying here?
CS: Yes, it is. Most of us, myself included, find excuses for the things we do that we don't want broadcasted to our friends and family. But here's the flipside—who wants to hang around with someone who always behaves perfectly? I certainly don't! And also, you have to have flawed characters in order to have a story.
Z: The portrait of Michael's ex-wife and her bitter blog in "Clear Conscience'' is hilarious, and timely: "Doesn't she have other people to hate?'' his friend Jon, who had been his best man, once asked. "What about Donald Trump? Or Pol Pot?'' But apart from the errant texts, and deleted emails between Sasha and her brother-in-law, the abortive flirtation speaks to the omnipresent sexual tension of struggling marriages. It's telling that Michael finally elects to not respond to her, instead posting a "comment'' on his wife's blog, trashing her and her vacuous new boyfriend.
How do you screen out the ever-impinging demands of social media—not to mention grading student's work and the other obligations of keeping a literary career going—and find the time to write? Do you just unplug? Listen to music? What helps get you in the frame of mind to capture, and sustain, the creative moment?
CS: It's very unromantic, my process. I sit down at my desk just about every day and make myself write something close to a thousand words, occasionally more. I don't listen to music anymore, though I used to. I stopped after reading an interview with another of my literary idols, Scott Spencer. In this interview, he said that he doesn't listen to music, either; he finds it distracting to have the sounds of someone else's genius in his head (a paraphrase, probably inexact). I also live in a raucous, noisy part of Evanston, very close to the northern border of Chicago. My partner Adam and I are across the street from both an emergency room and an elementary school (What was I thinking when I bought this place? Nothing intelligent, obviously…) Increasingly, I've found that I need relative quiet to put words down on the page.
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The importance of Java in the software scenario has led to another major trend. Software vendors are either rewriting their existing products in Java, or are creating new products exclusively or partially in Java. This has led many analysts to question the need to port already existing applications to Java. While the prospects of porting small or medium sized software to Java may not attract concern, it assumes significance when we consider porting existing databases that could be handling millions of sensitive blocks of information. Similarly, experts also have to decide between deploying reputed databases, and new databases that have been entirely developed in Java, in their organizations. Analysts have to answer many pertinent questions like: What are the advantages of a Java RDBMS that would compel my company to switch to it? Would it be cost effective to change to an RDBMS that has all the advantages of Java? Would the costs involved in porting millions of existing records justify the perceived performance and scalability features of the Java RDBMS? How secure would be the new RDBMS? What is the learning curve that has to be tackled by the staff who may be assigned to this database? In fact, there are a host of questions that a concerned technical head may ask himself before taking that all important decision to switch to a Java RDBMS. Let's try finding out some of the answers.
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Widely used sugar adversely affects our microbiomes
Terrific piece in the Times April 6 by Moises Velasquez-Manoff headed "The Germs That Love Diet Soda." Trehalose is sugar on which the baddest bacteria —aptly named Clostridium difficile— thrive. It's also produced as we digest shrimp, mushrooms, and yeast (bread).
There are lots of reasons to avoid processed foods. They're often packed with sugar, fat and salt, and they tend to lack certain nutrients critical to health, like fiber. And now, new research suggests that some of the additives that extend the shelf life and improve the texture of these foods may have unintended side effects — not on our bodies directly, but on the human microbiome, the trillions of bacteria living in our guts.
These substances may selectively feed the more dangerous members of our microbial communities, causing illness and even death.
Consider the rise in deadly cases of clostridium difficile, or C. diff, a terrible infection of the gut. The bacterium tends to strike just after you've taken antibiotics to treat something else. Those antibiotics kill your native microbes, allowing C. diff to move in. Nearly half a million people develop the infection yearly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and around 29,000 die, sometimes after long bouts of painful, bloody diarrhea. By one estimate, deaths linked to C. diff increased fivefold between 1999 and 2007.
One reason the bug has become more virulent is that it has evolved antibiotic resistance and is not as easily treatable. But some years ago, Robert Britton, a microbiologist at Baylor College of Medicine, discovered something else about C. diff: More virulent strains were outcompeting less virulent strains in the gut.
Dr. Britton and his colleagues wanted to know what gave these strains their edge, so they combed through over 200 sugars and amino acids present in the gut to see if these microbes better utilized some food source compared with others. The results of their investigation, recently published in the journal Nature, suggest a deceptively banal adaptation: Two of the most problematic C. diff strains have a unique ability to utilize a sugar called trehalose.
Trehalose occurs naturally in mushrooms, yeasts and shellfish, among other things. It has historically been expensive to use, but in the late 1990s a new manufacturing process made the sugar cheap. That was good news for companies that manufactured prepackaged foods, because trehalose works great for stabilizing processed foods, keeping them moist on the shelf and improving texture. Since about 2001, we've added loads of it to everything from cookies to ground beef.
What Dr. Britton and his colleagues contend is that, in doing so, we've inadvertently cultivated the most toxic C. diff strains, driving what has become a scourge of hospitals.
As evidence, he points to the timing of recent C. diff epidemics. The virulent strains existed before 2000, but they didn't cause as many outbreaks. Only after large quantities of trehalose entered the food supply did they become this deadly.
"What this research shows is that people should be considering the ecological impacts of food stuffs," Dr. Britton told me. "Our gut bacteria are being bombarded with things that we never ate — or never ate in the concentrations we eat now."
Of course, as the old mantra goes, correlation does not prove causation, and trehalose is probably not the only factor behind the rise of epidemic C. diff. But Dr. Britton also found that mice infected with those virulent strains of C. diff that consumed the sugar fared worse than infected mice that were not fed the sugar.
His research adds to a growing body of evidence indicating that common food additives can push our microbial communities in unhealthy directions, not only potentially aiding the emergence of new pathogens, but also encouraging diseases like obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease.
Let's back up and ask: Why have a microbiome to begin with? Why lug around a few pounds of microbes in your gut? One reason, the Stanford University microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg reminded me, is that these microbes can rapidly shift in response to new foods, helping us wring calories from a wider variety of foods than our bodies would normally allow.
As an example, he pointed to research on the microbiome of people in Japan. It has a unique ability to break down seaweed, and scientists think it acquired this talent by borrowing DNA from microbes that live on seaweed itself. The implication is that by eating lots of seaweed, the ancestral Japanese pushed their microbiome to evolve until it adapted to their diet. And they were presumably better off for it: Their microbes could extract more calories from what they ate, better nourishing them.
But that same flexibility can be dangerous when we push our microbial communities too far, says Dr. Sonnenburg. Our sugary, greasy diet diverges so much from the diet humans evolved eating, he and others think, that the microbes of westernized populations may no longer mesh well with the human body.
Gut microbes are kept slightly removed from the intestinal lining by a thin layer of mucus, and the Western diet seems to erode that protective barrier, bringing microbes too close. (A diet rich in soluble fiber, on the other hand, keeps the mucus barrier thick and healthy.)
Certain food additives also lead to a weakened mucus barrier. Andrew Gewirtz, a microbiologist at Georgia State University, and colleagues have found that the common emulsifiers polysorbate 80 and carboxymethylcellulose — often found in items like mayonnaise and ice cream — prompt an erosion of the mucus barrier in mice. They also seem to cause the mice's microbes to produce proteins that inflame the gut, increasing the animals' tendency toward obesity and diabetes.
Christine McDonald, a scientist at the Cleveland Clinic, has discovered something very similar with the food thickener maltodextrin, which seems to both thin the mucus barrier in mice and nourish a strain of E. coli linked to Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease. The microbiomes of patients with Crohn's, she found, have an enhanced ability to break down maltodextrin compared with people without the disease, suggesting that the germs potentially driving the disease profit from maltodextrin.
The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease has, it's worth noting, sharply increased in recent decades.
Then there are artificial sweeteners like sucralose and saccharin, which we consume in diet sodas and "sugar-free" snacks in hopes of cutting calories. Our bodies can't directly digest most of them — they're meant to pass right through — but it turns out that the microbes inhabiting our colons can metabolize the sweeteners, potentially to our detriment.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found that, in mice, saccharin causes glucose intolerance, a marker of impending diabetes — and one disease that those who eat these sweeteners are probably trying to avoid. When the scientists transplanted microbes from mice fed saccharine to mice that hadn't consumed the sweetener, the recipient animals developed glucose intolerance as well, suggesting that the microbiome that was warped by the sweetener, not the sweetener itself, was causing the problems.
The scientists also fed a small group of healthy people saccharin-sweetened drinks for a week. In a subset of volunteers, microbial shifts occurred, accompanied by mounting glucose intolerance. So for some people, diet sodas may not be any healthier than regular sodas.
The big question is whether food additives are worse than the high-sugar, high-fat junk food diet they're often a component of. Put another way, does adding maltodextrin to your supersize ice cream smoothie really make it more harmful than it already was?
Dr. Britton's work suggests that, yes, additives may cause additional damage. After all, Americans were eating junk food long before the virulent C. diff strains began causing havoc; trehalose may have tipped the scales.
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Q: Oracle row_number greater than and including 1 I have a query that uses the row_number function. I want to return all rows greater than 1 but also include 1.
When I try
row_number()over(partition by .. order by)rn
...rn > 1

I get rn =  2, 3, 4...
If I do
rn >= 1

I get rows that only = 1  along with rows greater than 1.
How do I include 1 in rows greater than 1 but not include the rows that are only 1?
All help is greatly appreciated
Edit
I was afraid my question wouldn't make sense.
I am searching items in a storage warehouse and trying to find all locations with the same item. My query is a follows
select * from (
   select item_number, bin_number, qty
    ,row_number()over(partition by item order by loc) rn --maybe I need count(*) over(....)
     from my_table
) where rn >= 1

which returns
item_number | bin_number | qty | rn
12345       |  A1        | 2   | 1
123456      |  A2        | 1   | 1
123456      |  A3        | 1   | 2
123456      |  A4        | 4   | 3

If change
rn > =1

to
rn > 1

I get
item_number | bin_number | qty | rn
123456      |  A3        | 1   | 2
123456      |  A4        | 4   | 3

I want to include all rows when rn is greater than 1

A: Use count instead of row_number.
select * from (select count()over(partition by .. order by) cn
                 from ...) x
where x.cn > 1

If you also want the row_number value, add it as a separate column in the select list.
select * from (select count()over(partition by .. order by) cn,
                      row_number()over(partition by .. order by) rn
                 from ...) x
where x.cn > 1

Updated:
Remove the order by from the count(). Here is an example.
create table mytab(id number, name varchar2(100));
insert into mytab values(1,'Ram');
insert into mytab values(1,'Rahim');
insert into mytab values(1,'Reuben');
insert into mytab values(2,'Esther');
insert into mytab values(3,'Veena');
insert into mytab values(3,'Visu');
insert into mytab values(4,'Vishnu');
commit;

select * from mytab;

Output:

ID NAME
1 Ram
1 Rahim
1 Reuben
2 Esther
3 Veena
3 Visu
4 Vishnu

select *
  from (select id,
               name,
               count(1) over(partition by id) cn,
               row_number() over(partition by id order by name) rn
          from mytab) x
 where x.cn > 1;

Output:

ID  NAME    CN  RN
1   Rahim   3   1
1   Ram     3   2
1   Reuben  3   3
3   Veena   2   1
3   Visu    2   2

A: I have worked with an example on the Employees table in the HR schema.
SELECT
    row_number() over (partition by salary order by salary) as serial_no,
    employee_id,
    first_name,
    salary,
    department_id
FROM
    employees
WHERE
    salary IN (
        SELECT
            salary
        FROM
            employees
        GROUP BY
            salary
        HAVING
            COUNT(salary) > 1

    ) ORDER BY salary;

See if this fulfills your purpose and kindly provide a feedback.