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Apple is busy switching to these chips for their laptops/desktops. Coincidence?
Eh actually sorry, Samsung denied reports it decided to stop selling LCDs to Apple [forbes.com].
Apple is busy switching to these chips for their laptops/desktops. Coincidence?
Yes. Because when I'm looking for a server, I need to be able to RUN THINGS ON IT! You know, like exchange and our autocad plugin licensing program and our fax controller and our voicemail control program and active directory. I can't even think of anything an arm chip would help with other than being slow and not running anything. It wouldn't even work as a file server because then it'd have to run some RT-style version of server 2012 and Linux probably won't run on it either. What a pointless device.
Game servers may be problematic because afaict they are usually propietary.
Arm seems to be pretty strongly pushing linux support for 64-bit arm devices and I imagine the opensource server apps will pretty quickly follow. Samba4 will probablly run too if you want to host an AD tree.
It will be insteresting to see what MS does and whether they gimp the 64-bit arm version of windows in the same way they gimp the 32-bit one but even if they don't I wouldn't expect specialist propietry server apps to be ported any time soon. So for those uses arm is probablly out of the running for now.
I understand the implications of lower power for infrastructure reasons. Lower power means lower cost for power, lower cooling needs, etc. I get that. But what is the "Killer app" for these low power servers? Is it data warehousing? Simple web hosting? I can see these being useful for odds-and-ends servers in data centers with bigger iron for more heavy duty apps, but why is everyone jumping on this bandwagon?
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
Web hosting, data warehousing, networking infrastructure, and the like do fall that way pretty often, though obviously there are exceptions.
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
Didn't we invent SSDs to fix that...?
The I/O limit could be on memory. Servers can have >1000 times more RAM than there is cache on a CPU chip. With enough threads and/or processor cores the cache hit rate drops, so that the memory bus is 100% busy. At that point a faster CPU gives no benefit, may as well us a low-power one.
No, we invented SSDs to alleviate that. Even an SSD is much, much slower than the CPU. Hell, your *RAM* is much slower than the CPU; that's why CPUs have memory caches. Even with SSDs, there's a lot of load profiles where the CPU is not the bottleneck. A slower CPU that's cheaper, uses less power and generates less heat looks good to anybody with that kind of load profile.
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
Didn't we invent SSDs to fix that...?
Even if the system is not bottlenecked by a HDD, you wouldn't need much any CPU power if the server is doing a lot of plain I/O, which is just copying bits around.
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
How about distributed databases with high throughput and complex commit protocols?
Don't we need fast CPU's for that?
Hence the GP said, "though obviously there are exceptions."
He wasn't claiming that these chips would be perfect for everyone, just that there are *some* areas where they would be.
* DNS servers (if you aren't virtualizing stuff)
* email servers (if your spam scanning is external)
* some database servers (generally io bound not cpu bound, tho it of course depends on the nature of the queries)
* simple web hosting (stuff like a CDN serving static files needs almost no CPU)
* monitoring servers
* Camera/surveillance servers (video processing is mostly done by dedicated chips on capture cards)
Really, most servers are not CPU bound these days and would probably benefit from many low-clocked cores than few high-clocked ones. They are exceptions of course, that is why we have super-computers at the other extreme.
* email servers (if your spam scanning is external)
* some database servers (generally io bound not cpu bound, tho it of course depends on the nature of the queries)
Where are these servers not CPU intensive. Even in a small business your most CPU intensive servers will be mail and database.
Things that ARM chips would be ideal for.
* File server appliances
* Security appliances
* Web server appliances
* Networking appliances (DNS, DHCP, Directory Services)
You might notice the word "appliances" comes up a lot, well ARM/Linux is already used in a lot of these appliances.
The one that ARM would be ideal for I havent seen (so it probably exists and I havent seen it)
I dunno, I'm having trouble seeing what gap they fill. In terms of low powered units, well we have those already. They often do use ARM CPUs (or MIPS), with other bits integrated on them, and they work fine for consumer shit. When you start to talk higher end, you need bigger systems.
Like if you want a simple little home NAS type of thing, it might ship with a BCM4718 and do just fine. However when you start stepping up to enterprise filers, you need more power. You find NetApps use Intel and AMD CPUs as an
It's actually the byte size that matters. Chomping 64 bits per cycle means more data per instruction. You really don't need any of the fancy intel instruction set or construction set for just plain raw processing.
Who cares about ARM!
From previous slashdot CPU circle jerk articles the Cell processor should be in everything now! RIP x86!
I'd love to replace my server with a low-power ARM type one (Debian runs on ARM, right?). First of all, remember that there are many many more uses and installations of servers than in server farms and data centres.
My server is not doing much work, though it has many different jobs. It's running a web site that has a couple dozen hits a day maybe. It's a file server (NFS - for the home directories, and handling backups), Kerberos authenticaion, e-mail/SMTP, LDAP, etc. And it's for just two workstations, and
It's a file server (NFS - for the home directories, and handling backups), Kerberos authenticaion, e-mail/SMTP, LDAP, etc.
It might sound absurd, but I find e-mail to be one of the more intensive tasks my servers perform and this is mostly due to anti-virus, anti-spam, archiving etc.
And the indexing for quick searching. That's what takes quite some effort, too.
What do you do for SPAM? Running a small (less than 10 users) email system over the years, I've had to upgrade from a dual PII to a dual PIII and most recently just got an i7. To be fair I didn't need to get the i7, but the entire system was cheap and the dual PIII had problems that I didn't want to investigate (most likely bad RAM).
Postfix+mailscanner+spamassassin are not cheap to run! Dspam is maybe a lot lighter than spamassassin. But once you have an active mailserver on the internet you get signifi
The first 90% or so of spam is stopped by greylisting on SMTP level. Yes it delays mails from new senders a bit, but in 99.9% of those cases I'm not expecting it, and am not waiting for it, so that doesn't really matter. And by far most of the mails that I receive are from regular contacts anyway which are accepted instantly.
The last 10% that does come through amounts to some 30-40 spam per day on my account, and far less on my staff's account (which is not plastered all over the place). The number of e-mai
The new Google Nexus phones are shipping with 2GB of ram, and its conceivable that tablets will being shipping with > 4GB of ram within a few years. It just looks like Samsung is covering their bases for the future.
The recent 32-bit ARMs supports LPAE, so you can have over 4GB no problem. That's still running a 32-bit address space per app, which would probably still work fine for a mobile environment.
Very true, but marketing will probably prefer 64bit chips over 32bit chips with LPAE as it just sounds more powerful to have the 64bit.
It's not that simple. 64bit instructions can handle more data per cycle than 32bit ones, so there is an increase in performance whenever you handle large amounts of data and/or large numbers. I don't know how much of an overhead LPAE adds to execution, but no matter how small the overhead is no overhead at all is still better. Also, I am not sure if I have misunderstood something or not, but I've gotten the impression that even with LPAE the OS can access up to 1TB of memory, but the 32bit applications are
Umm, you're still processing a single item of data per cycle, but it's now 64-bit long instead of 32. Performance increases if you can process 64 bit as a vector of 2x32/4x16/8x8 bit values, which you could do before with NEON for ARM or MMX/SSE for x86.
Extra addressable space doesn't matter for most tasks, some, like DBMS, do benefit from it though.
Biggest performance increase from new 64-bit architectures, applicable both for x86_64 and ARM64, is bigger register set - you don't need as much memory accesse
It's not that simple. 64bit instructions can handle more data per cycle than 32bit ones, so there is an increase in performance whenever you handle large amounts of data and/or large numbers
The first is that the size of the address space corresponds to data size. NEON, the ARM vector instruction set, can already perform operations on 64-bit integer or floating point values[1]. This is even true on x86, where you have 64-bit operations that work on a pair of registers. The advantage is that you have 64-bit registers, so you don't need to use two for each 64-bit operation (6 of your 14 GPRs on ARMv7 if you want two source and one destination, comp
While it is a workable hack to support more than 4GB of RAM without expanding the virtual address space, it is a hack. Much better to just g 64-bit and call it good. Hence I imagine that's what you'll see with mobile devices. When they start to need more RAM, they'll shift to 64-bit.
Same shit with desktops and many Intel servers. Intel supported PAE, and Windows implemented it as AWE, with 32-bit chips. Was never very popular though, due to the limitations and performance issues with paging. Now, with actua
PAE is a hack. It works, but you should avoid it if you damn-well can. And it sounds like we all can avoid it.
It's that they're missing ethernet ports and are low on storage, but a modern phone is more than powerful enough to serve as a simple server.
It's that they're missing ethernet ports and are low on storage, but a modern phone is more than powerful enough to serve as a simple server.
My old Nokia N900, with its 650Mhz single-core CPU, was doing quite fine as a small Samba+SSH+Transmission+Mumble - server with spare CPU-resources left over, too, so yeah, I agree with this. I just installed DD-WRT on my Buffalo - router the day before yesterday and the proceeded to install uMurmurd (a simplified Mumble-server) on it, and it still handles routing 1Gbit/s Ethernet and 802.11n WIFI on top of it perfectly fine with only a 333Mhz ARM CPU. I love how DD-WRT made the box so much more useful and
Perhaps if Linaro's work bears fruit, that will be a realistic vision. Right now support for ARM-based devices is all over the place and is only now being unified in the kernel, let alone boot loaders etc.
If this thing does crypto well, I could use a quad-core ARM chip at home.
But I doubt those chips are targeted at home or small business. They'll probably have much more than 4 cores, to achieve similar throughput to the current x86 offerings.
MIPS and ARM are very similar Instruction Set Architectures. While I've only taking a cursory look at the new ARM64, it doesn't seem as clean as MIPS64. So with the same level of optimization, MIPS should be able to get a better performance per watt and higher IPC. SiByte had working MIPS64 CPUs 12 years ago. MIPS used to dominate the TOP500, but recently Intel has left them in the dust. So I don't see how Samsung is going to do any better with ARM.
Then again, if x86 can become the IPC leader, any ISA has
Because "we require" rarely means "we won't touch you with a bargepole unless you have". It's there to weed out the chaff who think they're not good enough or important enough to apply.
I've applied for numerous jobs that have "required" things like MCSE's and A+, and first-class degrees and I clearly state that I don't have them, but what I do have is X amount of experience doing Y.
The bright employers (i.e. the only type you *want* to work for anyway) pick it up and say "Oh, right, he's probably spent so long DOING the job, he never got around to paying the certification tax on a bit of paper to say he could do it." or "He was out earning a wage in this sector while our own guys were still in university playing with microcontrollers". The bad ones, of course, shove it off and it gets lost in the HR department because it "doesn't meet criteria".
I've also advised people to ignore this sort of thing in the past, so long as you *CAN* put forward a reasonable case of being suitable for the job anyway, and it's never perfect (there is no magic way to get a job) but it's helped a lot of them to get positions they didn't think they were good enough for. How many of the industry founding fathers and visionaries had PhD's or Masters? Nowhere near all, and they still got there.
Don't blatantly ignore high requirements, just substitute what you have instead (and, if you like, in your covering letter explain that: "Although I notice that the job requirements include X, I feel that my extensive expertise in position Y performing task Z should be sufficient to prove that I'm capable of performing to the standards required") if you think you have a shot of doing the JOB.
Applications processes are mainly about weeding out the vast number of applicants, but secondarily they are about YOU weeding out the vast number of jobs available. Because if your employer can't see that you can do the job, just because you have an absence of certain desired letters after your name, you probably don't want to work there anyway (and they probably will ignore your application, but the chances that they veto you for future posts because of your politely-worded ambition are vanishingly small... and again, those sort of people you just don't want to work for anyway).
That may be *why* they bothered emailing everyone. Because they aren't just interested in PhD's, but they just want a high standard of applicant. One who has those qualifications, or one who has the skills and knows how to get through a job application process by playing on them.
The worst that happens is they say No, and keep your information on file for future reference. The chances it will prejudice any future applications - a concern I've heard from the people I've given personal advice - are basically zero (do you really think HR departments keep years and years and years worth of applications that they are already TRYING to narrow down to just a few candidates from thousands and somehow and check them for every post? No.).
And, you never know, they might just say "Well, actually, you're not right for this particular position, but we are just about to advertise for X as well, and that's look more suited to you."
In job-hunting, there's nothing wrong with being ambitious, so long as you're honest. And even if they offer it you and you don't like the idea of working in a crowd full of bitter PhD's, or it's not better than your current job, again - you can so "no" just as easily as they can.
Oh I agree with what you're saying but 1) the job is in Dallas, TX. 2) In my experience, these large companies are very hard to get into w/o meeting the basic requirements. If you know someone, you can get into them, but I bet the application would never make it past HR. I'm a pretty spot on match for 90% of their requirements, maybe more. But I am not going to bother applying for a job that is somewhere I don't want to live, and is also likely just a waste of my time. I have a job already and am only c
So what you're saying is "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!"?
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Please join the English Department in celebrating the joy of poetry and the memory of Charles Crupi, one of Albion's finest teachers and colleagues.
On 20 April 2012 at 4:45pm in the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, we will be hosting a celebration of the first annual Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest (formerly, the Michigan High School Poetry Contest).
The festivities will begin at 4:45pm with mingling and refreshments. At 5:00pm, we will adjourn to the Bobbitt auditorium for a more formal ceremony, involving toasts and poems and acknowledgements. For more information, please visit the English Department's blog: http://campus.albion.edu/english/.

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Local men inspect the site of an explosion in Kirkuk, Iraq, on January 16, 2013
Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed 42 people on Wednesday as hundreds attended the funeral of a Sunni MP who died in a suicide attack a day earlier, as a political crisis grips the country.
The violence, which struck mostly in disputed territory in the north and which officials also said wounded at least 245 people, was the deadliest this year.
It comes as Iraq grapples with a long-running political dispute, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki facing several protests in hardening opposition against his rule and calls from many of his erstwhile government partners for his ouster.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militants often launch waves of violence in a bid to destabilise the government and push Iraq back towards the sectarian violence that blighted it from 2005 to 2008.
Wednesday's deadliest attacks struck the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad. Two car bombs in the same district killed at least 26 people and wounded 190, provincial health chief Sadiq Omar Rasul said.
"Both explosions inflicted massive destruction," said police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader. "Our forces are still trying to remove corpses from the rubble" of the first attack.
That blast was detonated by a suicide attacker during the morning rush hour and appeared to target a compound housing local offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani.
A second car bomb parked on the side of a road nearby detonated shortly afterwards, apparently targeting a KDP official.
Qader said six security force members were also killed and 10 wounded in the two blasts.
Another suicide car bomb in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, also north of Baghdad, killed five people and wounded 40 others. It struck near the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Both Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu lie in a tract of disputed territory in north Iraq that Kurdistan wants to incorporate into its autonomous three-province region against the wishes of the central government in Baghdad.
The row is regarded by diplomats and officials as the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability.
In Baghdad, five attacks left six people dead, officials said, while bombings and shootings in Baiji, Hawija and Tikrit, all north of the capital, killed five others.
Wednesday's overall death toll was the highest since December 17, according to an AFP tally.
The latest attacks come a day after the killing of a Sunni Iraqi MP in a suicide bombing west of Baghdad, with hundreds of mourners attending Ayfan al-Essawi's funeral outside the predominantly Sunni town of Fallujah on Wednesday.
Essawi's coffin, covered in an Iraqi flag, was transported atop an SUV that was part of a massive convoy of dozens of vehicles. One person was wounded by a roadside bomb as the procession set off for the cemetery, despite heavy security measures.
The lawmaker was a former leader of the Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal militias that turned against Al-Qaeda and sided with the US military from late 2006, helping to turn the tide of Iraq's bloody insurgency.
Sahwa fighters are frequently targeted for attacks by Sunni militants who view them as traitors.
The violence comes amid a political crisis that has pitted Maliki against several of his ministers just months ahead of key provincial elections.
Weeks of anti-government demonstrations in Sunni Arab majority areas, supported by several parties that are members of Maliki's unity cabinet, have hardened opposition against Maliki, a Shiite.
Violence is down across Iraq since the country's brutal sectarian war, but attacks remain common, especially in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu.


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Thanks to Laura , our friend who made up the Found Cat Hotel slideshow.
Just type Found Ctas Hotel and our video should show up and a click will take you to you tube where you can see us all.
There have been over 1330 views which makes me happy that all those people saw my Angels, and Scrappy Two and Miquelito.
When someone sees My Angels they live once more.:love:
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The points (7-15 & the letter rank A-E) assigned to player for Pak-Eng series are pretty stiff as compared to points assigned to Aus-Eng series. Let me show you the comparison:
1. Total points.
Aus-Ind Series: 354 points assigned to 32 players which is 11.1 point per player.
Pak-Eng Series; 315 points assigned to 31 players which is 10.1 points per player.
This means the players for Eng-Pak series are more expensive...for the total spending points of 125 each for both series.
So can you please increase the total available points from 125 to 135 or lower the cost for each player.
Not convince yet? Let me give you a few more differences;
2. Number of Players in each category for both series.
Code:Category Points Nbr of Players in Ind-Aus Series Nbr of players in Pak-Eng Series A 15 3 3 B 13 2 8 C 11 10 10 D 9 11 9 E 7 5 2 Total 31 32
As you can see there are 8 player in B category for Pak-Eng series but only 2 in Ind-Aus series.
3. Some individual rankings.
How can Hafeez be in category B where as Dravid, Laxman, Gambhir, Clarke, KP and Trott in category C?Code:Team Type Name Cat Pts IND WK Dhoni B 13 AUS Bat Ponting B 13 PAK Bat Hafeez B 13 PAK Bat Younis B 13 PAK Bowl Ajmal B 13 ENG Bat Trott B 13 ENG Bowl Bresnan B 13 ENG Bowl Swann B 13 ENG Bowl Broad B 13 ENG WK Prior B 13 IND Bat Laxman C 11 IND Bat Dravid C 11 IND Bat Gambhir C 11 IND Bowl Zaheer C 11 IND Bowl Ishant C 11 IND Bowl Ojha C 11 AUS Bat Clarke C 11 AUS Bowl Siddle C 11 AUS Bowl Patnson C 11 AUS WK Haddin C 11 PAK Bat Azhar C 11 PAK Bat Misbah C 11 PAK Bat U.Akmal C 11 PAK Bowl U. Gul C 11 PAK Bowl Rhaman C 11 PAK Bowl Wahab C 11 ENG Bat Struass C 11 ENG Bat KP C 11 ENG Bowl Tremlet C 11 ENG Bowl Finn C 11
How can Dravid, Laxman, Gambhir & Clarke (from Ind-Aus) be in the same category C ....as Azhar Ali, Misbah, Umar Akmal (may not even play)?
How can Hussey and Farhat be in the same category (D)?
So.. can you please re-evaluate the points for player in Pak-Eng series?


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Review: Cheap overclocking miracle
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Our brand new Bosnian lab tested the cheapest Intel processor based on Core 2 Duo architecture. This product should be interesting to our readers mostly because of its price/performance ratio, but also for its overclocking potential. At the time we received this processor its slightly weaker E2140 sibling was not available, i.e. they sell great over here, but the difference in price between this one and the one we tested isn't that significant.
From a technical standpoint they're not that different either. The tested model brings only 200MHz more compared to the cheapest E2140, while the specs are the same: 1MB L2 cache and 800MHz FSB.
To our surprise, the cheap C2D E2160 gave good performance on stock frequencies, and it was more than receptive when it comes to overclocking.
Core 2 Duo architecture brought about Intels market supremacy, but in the lower sector AMD x2 still seems like a good deal. By launching the new E21xx series the situation turned around, and the cheap AMD X2 processors finally have a worthy adversary.
Intel E2140 is currently priced at around €80, whereas the E2160 which we tested will cost you about €90. AMD is selling their Athlon 64 X2 processors for even less: an X2 3600 costs around €60 and X2 3800 is about €70. Bear in mind that an averagely equipped motherboard for AMD processors is generally cheaper than its Intel counterparts.
So, as we've said earlier, E2160 is in the lower class and unlike its big brothers it has only 1MB of L2 cache, and works at 800MHz FSB. The model we've tested runs at 1800MHz, with x9.0 multiplier. Of course, we're talking about a processor with two cores.


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Orange County now among the quietest counties in the nationJan. 18, 2012 ORANGE – An $85 million rail safety enhancement program that led the way for the establishment of quiet zones throughout Orange County is now complete.
The program, led by the Orange County Transportation Authority, enhanced 52 railroad crossings and helped silence train horns for local communities – making Orange County one of the quietest counties in the United States.
"OCTA's countywide approach to enhancing rail safety has been one of the most comprehensive programs in the nation," said OCTA Chairman Paul Glaab, also the mayor of Laguna Niguel. "These enhancements help keep our residents safe and have the added benefit of quieting train horns in our communities."
Construction at the railroad crossings began in August 2009. Improvements included upgraded and updated warning devices, additional gate arms, extended and raised medians, improved signage and coordinated traffic signals.
OCTA partnered with eight cities to implement the rail safety enhancement program, which allowed cities to apply for quiet zone status once construction at the crossings was complete.
When a quiet zone is established, trains only sound their horns in the event of an emergency. In the absence of a quiet zone, an engineer must sound their horn up to four times when they approach a crossing.
More than 72 commuter and freight trains travel through Orange County daily and by 2030 the number of daily trains is anticipated to grow to 108.
The program was funded by Measure M, Orange County's half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements, and state dollars. Participating cities also contributed 12 percent of the project cost.
"The partnership between OCTA, Metrolink, the California Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Railroad Administration is an ideal example of what can be accomplished when government agencies collaborate," said Glaab.
For more information about the rail safety program, visit www.octa.net/railsafety.
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Local Economy Solid in April, Report Says
U-T San Diego -- San Diego's economy continued to grow solidly in April, says a report released Thursday by the University of San Diego.
The report of Leading Economic Indicators measures month-to-month changes in various sectors of the local economy. In April, the index rose 0.5 percent from March, the 16th out of 17 months the economy has grown. In April, a drop in initial claims for unemployment insurance, an increase in job ads, and a rise in stock prices from local companies boosted the index. (Full Story)


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is recovering after sustaining a concussion, the State Department said Saturday.
The 65-year-old Clinton had been suffering from a stomach virus, became dehydrated and fainted, Philippe Reines, deputy assistant secretary to Clinton, said in a statement.
Clinton's condition was being monitored by her doctors, who advised her to work from home, which she will do in the week ahead, Reines said.
The secretary of state, who canceled a trip to North Africa and the Persian Gulf on Monday due to the illness, "is looking forward to being back in the office soon," he added of Clinton.
Clinton is expected to resign as secretary of state soon after President Obama's second term begins in January. Clinton, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Obama in 2012, has been mentioned as a possible candidate in 2016, when term limits force Obama to leave the White House. Sen. John Kerry, (D., Mass.), another former presidential contender, is considered the leading candidate to replace Clinton as secretary of state.


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SALT LAKE CITY — If you're a Utah Jazz fan, maybe you should be worried.
Have you seen what's going on with the Sacramento Kings?
Rich guys are once again looking for an NBA toy to buy, and they could soon be coming to a small-market team near you.
Hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered $550 million to buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle.
That would make it the largest sale in NBA history.
But it was rejected by the NBA's Board of Governors relocation committee, which consists of seven owners, including Utah's Greg Miller.
Know what the rich guys did next? They offered $625 million.
That's SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MIIIILLLLIIIION DOLLARS.
That's $625M to buy a team that has ranked last or next to last in attendance in four of the last five seasons and averaged 25 wins — so they can move it to a city that lost its own NBA franchise five years ago (the Sonics) to Oklahoma City.
The second offer was rejected again by the committee of NBA owners. The matter will be brought to a vote in a meeting of all NBA owners Wednesday in Dallas.
The sale/move of the Kings has been an ongoing saga for more than two years, and it couldn't be more complicated, with an earlier bid to move the team to Anaheim and efforts to keep it locally and a backup plan by the Seattle group to buy a limited ownership stake if their offer is finally killed, and, oh, yes, Hansen's hedge fund just posted losses for the second consecutive quarter and the Sacramento mayor is former NBA guard Kevin Johnson, who is fighting to keep the team.
But who cares? The point is, the value of NBA teams is skyrocketing suddenly and what better time to sell a team, even YOUR team.
If Hansen and Ballmer — or any other rich guy who wants to buy an NBA team for a hobby — can double the value of the Kings to $625 million, why couldn't he do that for some other small-market team — say, the Toronto Raptors? Or the Milwaukee Bucks? Or Memphis Grizzlies?
Or the Utah Jazz?
If you're a Jazz fan, you should be hoping the Millers are out of town — way out of town, in, say, Madagascar.
Somebody should steal the newspaper off their front porch every morning.
And sabotage their cable TV connection.
Or send them on a vacation to, say, China.
Just keep them away from the news until the Sacramento situation is resolved. This could give them ideas.
Sure, Larry Miller, the late owner of the Jazz whose single-mindedness is the only reason the Jazz remain in Salt Lake City, said he would never sell the team. Miller passed up many opportunities to turn the Jazz into a huge profit. Fourteen months after buying half the team, he not only refused an offer that would have allowed him to turn an $8 million debt into a $6 million profit, but he added $14 million more to his debt to buy the other half of the team. Months before he died, he said he received offers for the team annually, some for as much as $400 million for both the franchise and the arena. He never seriously considered it. He said it would be like selling Canyonlands. He called the Jazz his gift to the community.
The Miller family will certainly feel a responsibility to continue that legacy, but for how long can they continue to say no when the value of an NBA franchise has skyrocketed? Don't they have to look at these offers? NBA franchises are a hot commodity. Who wouldn't be tempted? Just two years ago, Forbes Magazine reported that the average value of an NBA franchise was $369 million. This year they reported the average value is $510 million — a 30 percent jump from last year.
In the last years of his life, Larry Miller established the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation, which will fund charities and various causes. Eventually, the entire Miller fortune will be placed in the foundation, including the Jazz. But the sale of the team would provide a lot of money for the foundation.
How can they ignore these offers when there are men like Hansen and Ballmer who have lost all rationality when it comes to wanting a franchise?
The Millers aren't likely to cave in to absurdly rich offers, but it must be tempting, no matter who you are.
Doug Robinson's columns run on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. EMAIL: [email protected].


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The Weather outside is frightful…High of +6 and -8 on New Years Day but clear…
But Mongolia…Blizzards…Montreal 47 cms worth of snow…Russia having one cold winter, 120 dead and 16 plus feet of snow….Rochester NY gets snow, lots…..Global Warmening? Or winter weather?
My Opinion Buck Ofama? I don't care what 'public' opinion is because your jackbooted media will manipulate and lie as will any of your bought and paid for 'pollsters'. My opinion is you keep your damn hands off of my guns. You won't care what we say anyway. You have shown that throughout your reign.
Hands and feet kill more the the misnamed 'assault' weapons. Actually laying ones hands or feet on someone whom does not want you doing that, is 'assault. Sure wish the libtarded media would get it straight.
Stylish Carry for the Well Dressed Man ...(H/T Linoage)
How to use a flashlight…Tactically.. (H/T Linoage)
the Ultimate Shotgun..for the apocalypse ya know!!
Obama gives up on controlling the border and abandons Americans living, next disarm them and well to bad huh, Buck Ofama?
Lets ban gun using an insurance scam!! Like Obamacare !!! Because you know the bad guys would like up for insurance!!! Just like they avoid Gun Free Zones..
Novel gun control ideas continue to percolate through the commentariat. The latest idea is requiring liability insurance for gun owners, which seems to have first been suggested by John Wasik blogging at Forbes. Reihan Salam, one of my favorite thinkers, says it's an idea seriously worth considering.
Drunks, Booze, Cars. Grandma dead. But no bans. No guns..
3 dead. Home-built plane. Ban them!!
California Authorities say a pilot from Phoenix, his wife and daughter were killed when a home-built airplane crashed in a San Diego County nature preserve. Sheriff's Lt. Scott Amos says the single-engine plane went down Saturday morning within Sycamore Canyon Open Space Preserve near Santee. Medical examiners said the dead included a 65-year-old man, his 53-year-old wife and their 19-year-old daughter. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the four-seat Lancair IV-P had departed from San Diego's Montgomery Field en route to Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix.The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The Lancair web site says the IV-P is one of a series of aircraft kits that are no longer in production.
Multiple theater shooters? Something to think about…
Food Prices goosing up in the USA and UK…oh happy New Year..
NRA or Obama? Apparently NRA's rating is a bit better….Not surprised!!


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I recently upgraded my tour os to .230, liked it very much, but it had a few glitches. I decided to try and wipe my tour, reinstall .230, databases and then readd my 3rd party apps to see if it would run smoother. I could not get bbsak to connect to my device, so I used a security wipe to remove 3rd party apps. I then used app loader to put on .230. Since the reinstallation, I cannot get my device to load many of my 3rd party apps (pocketday pro, berry annoying, L theme, etc.) When I use application installer in dm, I get a message that my device is not compatible with this software and it cannot be loaded (these were all apps that were working well with the first .230 install--before my 'wipe' misadventure). At first, I thought that they couldn't be loaded after .230 was on my bb (they had all been in place prior), so I actually downgraded to a 4.7* os and tried to reload them--same error message. I've since re installed .230, have some of my old 3rd party apps (quicklaunch, beyond 160, bbalerts), but cannot get the remainder to load with dm (same error message about my device not being compatible). Can anyone help....please. I've only had the tour (my first bb) about 2 mos and thought I was getting the hang of it, but I'm stuck here. :aargh4: :omfg:Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!:)


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Plus, read about how Congress and President Barack Obama will likely take on Social Security reform as part of the coming deficit debate, and see how the Herbalife fight is shaping up to be one of the great Wall Street epics.
— Alice Hagge, staff editor
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- Previous threads can be found using the links below, One being very first and so on…
One (26/04/12) here Two (14/05/12) here Three (17/05/12) here Four (20/05/2012) here Five (23/05/12) here Six (26/05/12) here Seven (28/05/12) here Eight (30/0512) here Nine (02/06/12) here Ten (08/06/12) here Eleven (11/06/12) here Twelve 13/06/12 here Thirteen 17/06/12 here
Well tomorrow is the day Gerard Baden-Clays legal team go head to head with the DPP at Brisbane's Supreme Court to get bail.
AS has already been reported he may be in jail for several years before the case makes it to trial. That is the case whether he gets bail or not. I personally cannot fathom him getting bail, when you consider the potential to interfere with potential witnesses and evidence in this case. I'm certain that will be a hotly contested argument made tomorrow. His team will argue he has ties to the community, would abide by strict conditions and so on. It will be massive news either way. The bail application is to be heard at 2.30pm and is scheduled to last 40 minutes.
UPDATE 3.06PM 21/06/12 New thread here folks http://goo.gl/wG56D
Is this true, bomb threats mid hearing, court has been evacuated? bloody hell. stay tuned, this is outrageous, is it connected to this hearing? There has been dozens of others without drama…I wonder…
His family keeps their traps shut for 8 weeks, and now want some coin to help Gerard with his case today? Bit late to be seeking support now.
update 9.30am 21/06/12
THE family of Gerard Baden-Clay say they are "unwavering" in their support for "his innocence" and have appealed to friends and relatives to help them fund the legal defence.
A clean-shaven Baden-Clay is not expected to turn up to his bail application hearing today, but sister and brother-in-law Olivia and Ian Walton wrote in an email dated Tuesday, June 19, that they had raised sufficient surety to cover the amount required should he be released on bail.
However, the couple wrote they were still attempting to gather enough money to pay ongoing legal costs and required $30,000 by no later than 5pm yesterday.
Baden-Clay's lawyer Darren Mahony said last night that he expected the bail application hearing to proceed today.
"Any comment about my engagement is prohibited by solicitor-client privilege," he told The Courier-Mail.
The Courier-Mail also telephoned Baden-Clay's father Nigel, but he hung up before any questions could be asked.
It has been confirmed Baden-Clay shaved off his beard to facilitate more forensic tests in compliance with a court order but a spokesman from the department of Justice and Attorney-General said yesterday he had not been asked to attend today's hearing, but could if he wanted to.
If Baden-Clay is granted bail, he would have to comply with all the bail conditions before being released, which can often take several days.
After almost two months of a police investigation, which is continuing, the 41-year-old was last week charged with murder and interference with a corpse.
He reported his wife Allison missing on April 20 and her body was discovered 10 days later at Kholo Creek, Anstead, about 20km from the family home in Brookfield where she was last seen alive.
Baden-Clay will be represented in today's hearing by barrister Peter Davis, SC.
The accused killer is currently in the medical unit of Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, but if he loses his bid for bail it is expected he will be taken to one of the prison's standard 3m x 4m cells.
The prosecution, in its bid to keep him behind bars, will have to convince the presiding judge that Baden-Clay is either a risk of re-offending, could interfere with witnesses, may fail to appear at future court appearances or might flee the jurisdiction.
Although it is rare for an accused murderer to be granted bail, it can be in special cases provided certain conditions are met.
Meanwhile, a cricket day fundraiser will be held on Sunday at the Brookfield Showgrounds to raise money for the three Baden-Clay daughters.
To donate to the Late Allison Baden-Clay Children Appeal, Sanction Number CP5609; BSB 084 737; Account 133196502.
THIS is the man whose role is to argue accused wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay should remain behind bars until his trial.
Prosecutor Danny Boyle has been chosen as the Director of Public Prosecutions' man to mount a case in Brisbane's Supreme Court to deny the father-of-three bail on Thursday.
Baden-Clay, 41, is accused of murdering his wife, Allison, at their Brookfield home in April.
His lawyer Darren Mahony said Baden-Clay would "defend the charge vigorously".
Mr Boyle is an experienced prosecutor who has tried a number of murder trials, including one in 2009 which led to the conviction of a Hervey Bay man who paid a hitman $10,000 to murder his wife.
In April 2010, Mr Boyle prosecuted a man convicted and jailed for nine years for the manslaughter of his de facto wife in September 2008.
More recently Mr Boyle won convictions against two teenagers who brutally bashed a 52-year-old man to death in an inner-Brisbane city park in July 2008, and three dangerous prisoners convicted of killing a fellow central Queensland jail inmate 12 years ago.
Lawyers for Baden-Clay lodged an application for bail in the Brisbane Supreme Court's civil jurisdiction last Thursday, less than 24-hours after the well-known real estate agent was taken into custody accused of killing Allison.
Several hours before the bail bid was lodged, Baden-Clay made two brief appearances – one just 40-seconds long – in the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Roma St.
Under Queensland law a person charged with murder cannot apply for bail in the lower courts, with any application to be considered and ruled upon by a justice of the Supreme Court.
Court documents obtained by The Courier-Mail show tomorrow's bail application is to be heard at 2.30pm and is scheduled to last 40 minutes.
The documents also show Baden-Clay is charged with the murder of Allison June Baden-Clay and improperly interfering with her body on April 19, 2012.
It is unclear at this stage, but it's likely respected barrister Peter Davis, SC will represent Baden-Clay at the bail application.
Baden-Clay is currently being housed in Wacol's Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre's medical wing, locked away from any visitors other than his lawyer.
The Crown, in its bid to keep Baden-Clay behind bars, will have to convince the presiding judge the accused killer is either a risk of re-offending, could interfere with witnesses, fail to appear at future court appearances or flee the jurisdiction.
While it rare for an accused murdered to be given bail, it can be granted in special cases provided certain conditions are met.
The range of possible bail conditions can be regular reporting to police, posting of significant surety, staying away from witnesses, living at a designated address and surrendering any passports.
Should Baden-Clay fail to secure bail tomorrow, he can refer the matter to Queensland's highest court – the Court of Appeal.
Previous threads can be found using the links below, One being very first and so on…One (26/04/12) here Two (14/05/12) here Three (17/05/12) here Four (20/05/2012) here Five (23/05/12) here Six (26/05/12) here Seven (28/05/12) here Eight (30/0512) here Nine (02/06/12) here Ten (08/06/12) here Eleven (11/06/12) here Twelve 13/06/12 here Thirteen 17/06/12 here
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- Baden-Clay to seek bail next week (news.smh.com.au)
- Allison Baden-Clay Killer(s) still not arrested…Makes one wonder! (aussiecriminals.com.au)
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- GERARD Baden-Clay has been charged with the murder of his wife Allison Baden-Clay. (aussiecriminals.com.au)
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- Gerard Baden-Clay – Bail Application on Murder Charges June 21 2012 (aussiecriminals.com.au)
UPDATE 3.06PM 21/06/12 New thread here folks http://goo.gl/wG56D


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DAINGERFIELD, the pleasant county seat of Morris County, was named for Captain London Daingerfield, supposedly a native of Nova Scotia, but beyond that and a few other facts, Captain Daingerfield remains a mystery man.
Morris County pioneers told stories of finding Daingefield's millstone and water well, which pre-dated local Anglo-American history. These items were likely made by Acadian settlers from Louisiana, but they returned to the territory because of Indian hostilities.
A spring known locally as Daingerfield Spring was once a popular camp used by Indians such as the Choctaws and Caddoes. Around 1830, Captain Daingerfield and a company of 100 men attacked an Indian village at the spring and, after a long, bloody fight, the Indians were driven away.
LOCAL HISTORY says Captain Daingerfield settled his family around the spring, but the Indians retaliated, killing Daingerfield, his wife and children.
The Captain and his family were likely buried nearby with large flat rocks marking their graves. But as the years passed, the cemetery and rocks were moved as new homes were built in the area.
In those days, it was the custom of settlers to plant cedar trees around the graves of their loved ones. Near the spot where the Daingerfields were buried, large cedars are now growing.
THE PROBLEM of finding more about Captain Daingerfield is compounded by the fact that Morris and the surrounding counties were once a part of Arkansas.
Army records in Washington have no record of Daingerfield and, despite the efforts of several historians to unearth more details about the captain, his family and his fellow soldiers, his disappearance remains one of the legendary stories of East Texas.
Some early visitors were not kind to the early town of Daingerfield. William A. McClintock, who passed through the area in 1846, noted in his diary that the town consisted of "three or four cabins scarce fit for pigsties."
But by the early 1850s the town began to grow. Sylvia Academy, a private school for girls, opened around 1850, and in 1852 the Marshall Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church founded Chapel Hill College.
(Bob Bowman of Lufkin is the author of over 50 books about East Texas. He can be reached at bob-bowman.com)


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H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A browser based console application is included. The database has strong security features. Disk based and in-memory databases and tables are supported.
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Leaky can help you track down memory leaks and some kinds of memory corruption. It also has entry pointers for logging addref / release calls. The key thing that leaky does is this: it logs all calls to malloc / free / realloc / new / delete into a log file. The logging data includes information about size and address, as well as the call stack of the operation. The leaky program then can translate the call stack data from addresses into symbols and then dump the data out.
cp_lib is a module loader and a collection of modules to ease the development of Web sites and Web apps. The module loader automatically handles dependencies as much as possible, and users never need to see the module code since all configuration is done through config files. Currently, the core module consists of a database connection class a row manipulator, a sequence manipulator, an error handler, a string manipulator, and a ratings class.
The Extended Universal Resource Locator library provides a complete virtualization of file-like objects. How data is stored is completely transparent to the client, since the library is meant to replace java.io.File. It provides implementations for handling local files, Jar/Zip archives, and XML documents. (Implementations for CVS and FTP are available seperately.) Other storage providers can be written and plugged in. It also provides a merged filesystem implementation that allows multiple hierarchies to appear as one and to override each other in a controlled way. Other features include notification of changes to files, and support for attaching (dynamically updatable) actions to file objects.
wctpXml offers C++ developers a class library to support generating WCTP requests, and parsing WCTP responses expressed in XML. Building wctpXml creates a static library appropriate for your environment. The library provides you with a set of classes, wctpXmlXXXX, that encapsulate the operations supported in WCTP Version 1.1.
Trace.java is a package used by Java programmers, testers, server administrators and others to understand what happened during the execution of a program. It doesn't generate tracing statements automatically; programmers have to add them. Trace messages go into an in-core ring buffer, a disk log, or both. The disk log can be fixed size with backups. What amount of detail gets logged can be controlled at runtime or launch time. The ring buffer and disk log can be controlled separately. Different subsystems of the code can be controlled independently.
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March/April 2012
Brand name: Lexiva
Generic name: lopinavir/fosamprenavir calcium (fosamprenavir), or FPV
Class: Protease inhibitor (PI)
Manufacturer: ViiV Healthcare, www.viivhealthcare.com, (877) 844-8872
AWP: $947.12/month for 60 tablets; $133.20 for 225 mL oral suspension (50 mg/mL)
Standard Dose: For people on a PI for the first time: two 700 mg tablets with either one 100 mg or two 100 mg Norvir, both once daily; or two 700 mg tablets (without Norvir), twice daily; or one 700 mg tablet with 100 mg Norvir, twice daily. For PI-experienced patients, one 700 mg tablet Lexiva with 100 mg Norvir, twice daily. Available for children ages 2 and older. For people with liver problems, the dose of Lexiva may need to be adjusted and Norvir may or may not be used depending on the degree of liver disease. A grape/bubblegum/peppermint-flavored oral suspension is also available. Can be taken with or without food, with no dietary restrictions, at any dose. Adults must take suspension without food. Take missed dose as soon as possible, unless it is closer to the time of your next dose. Do not double up on your next dose.
Potential side effects and toxicity: Because Lexiva contains a sulfa component, it should be used with caution in patients with allergies to sulfa drugs. The most common side effects may include nausea, rash, diarrhea, headache, and vomiting. Rash occurred in about 19% of patients, but severe rashes were uncommon. If you experience a rash, notify your doctor. For mild or moderate rashes, your doctor may choose to continue Lexiva, with close monitoring. Patients with hepatitis B or C should be monitored closely for the possibility of elevated liver enzyme levels. Dose adjustment is recommended for people with liver impairment. Side effects and laboratory abnormalities were similar when Lexiva was taken once or twice daily, with or without Norvir. See chart for potential drug class side effects.
Potential drug interactions: PIs interact with many other drugs. See package insert for the most complete list. Tell your provider or pharmacist about all medications, herbs, and supplements you are taking or thinking of taking, prescribed or not. Not recommended to be taken with Kaletra. When taken with Sustiva, boost once-daily Lexiva with 300 mg of Norvir. Do not take with alfuzosin, Revatio, Tambocor, Rythmol, oral Versed (midazolam), Halcion (triazolam), rifampin, Orap (pimozide), or the herb St. John's wort. Should not be taken with Incivek (telapravir), because levels of both Lexiva and telapravir are decreased. Do not use Advicor, Altoprev, Livalo, Mevacor (lovastatin), Simcor, Vytorin, or Zocor (sim- vastatin) for the treatment of high cholesterol. Cholesterol-lowering alternatives are Crestor, Lescol, Lipitor, and Pravacol (pravastatin), but use with caution and start at the lowest dose possible; monitor closely for increased side effects from these medications. Calcium channel blockers (Norvasc, Procardia, and others) should be used with caution and careful monitoring. Lexiva should be taken two hours before H2 blockers (Zantac, Pepcid, and others). Lexiva can lower methadone concentrations. A dose adjustment of Mycobutin (rifabutin) will be needed when used in combination with Lexiva. Steroids, such as Decadron, can decrease levels of Lexiva. Increases levels of fluticasone (found in Advair, Flonase, and Flovent); use only if the benefits outweigh the risks, and monitor for signs of Cushing's syndrome (increased fat in the abdomen, fatty hump between the shoulders, rounded face, red/purple stretch marks on the skin, bone loss, possible high blood pressure, and sometimes diabetes). Alternatives should be considered, particularly for long-term use. Trazodone concentrations may increase; a lower dose of trazodone is recommended. Drug levels of Paxil are lowered; titrate dose based on clinical response. Use caution with anti-convulsants Tegretol (carbamazepine), phenobarbital, and Dilantin (phenytoin). Lexiva may alter Coumadin (warfarin) levels; additional monitoring may be required. Effectiveness of birth control pills may be decreased; consider the use of alternative or additional contraception methods. Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra levels are increased; doses should not exceed 10 mg Cialis per 72 hours or 2.5 mg Levitra per 24 hours, or 25 mg Viagra per 48 hours. Use with caution with Biaxin (clarithromycin), bosentan, salmeterol, immunosuppressants (including transplant drugs), and colchicine (lower the dose). Use of the hepatitis C drug Victrelis (boceprevir) along with a Norvir-boosted PI can potentially reduce the effectiveness of both drugs -- combined use is not recommended.
More information: Last year, U.S. HIV treatment guidelines dropped Lexiva in regimens not containing Norvir as an option for first-time therapy because of inferior potency and the potential for developing cross-resistance to Prezista, a recommended protease inhibitor for first-time treatment. The lower dose of Norvir may cause less of an increase in cholesterol and triglycerides, but there are limited clinical data with this dose. Studies have demonstrated that protease inhibitor-experienced patients should take Lexiva 700 mg with Norvir 100 mg, both twice daily. The once-daily dosing is not recommended for treatment-experienced patients for whom a PI therapy has previously failed. It is important to take Lexiva exactly as your doctor instructs, and not to change dosing without discussing it with your doctor. An analysis from a French cohort showed Lexiva was associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, heart disease, and stroke. A liquid formula of Lexiva is available. See package insert for more complete information on potential side effects and interactions.
Doctor's Comments
Before there was Lexiva, there was Agenerase, which came in enormous, suppository-sized capsules taken at large, stomach-filling doses. The approval of Lexiva, a "pro-drug" of Agenerase, was a big improvement and it had the most versatility of any PI. It could be taken with or without food, with or without Norvir boosting, and once or twice a day. However, a comparison of twice-daily Norvir-boosted Lexiva showed no advantages over Kaletra in terms of effectiveness, safety or tolerability, and Kaletra had the advantage of co-formulation. Later, a once-daily regimen of two tablets (1,400 mg) of Lexiva with 100 mg of Norvir was approved for people who hadn't taken PIs before, but there weren't any clear advantages of this combination over boosted Reyataz or Prezista, which had been more extensively studied. As a result, this worthy PI hasn't been widely used. While it's one of the few PIs that doesn't have to be boosted, the use of unboosted Lexiva can lead to Prezista cross-resistance, and should therefore be avoided.
-- Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H.
Activist's Comments
Originally released in a form known as Agenerase, this drug is an "also ran." It has no real advantage over sturdier regimens, and it was still linked to the Norvir booster problems; it simply never caught on. I guess there may be a few reasons for a handful of folks to use it, but I'm no fan of this one. On to better choices!
-- Joey Wynn
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From the Arctic to the Everglades, wilderness is a haven for animals, a source of clean water and air and a challenging place which can inspire profound personal growth. Hosted by actor Christopher Reeve, AMERICAN VALUES: AMERICAN WILDERNESS introduces a wide variety of citizens who share a deep love of nature - from their early childhood experiences to their expressions of hope for the future. The documentary was filmed during the 40th-anniversary celebration of The Wilderness Act and marks one of Reeve's last on-screen appearances.
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Another useful software for auto-banning bad accesses is fail2ban [fail2ban.org] which can also handle other services, like exim, vsftp, apache, etc.
I second that: DenyHosts is now mandatory on all the Linux servers I manage, and allows one to protect servers against that type of attacks with minimal effort.
Please note that the author did not mention Denyhosts since his servers run OpenBSD, which incorporates DenyHosts functionality through ''pf'', its packet filter/firewall software (see the brute-force configuration of pf for more details).
Please note that the author did not mention Denyhosts since his servers run OpenBSD, which incorporates DenyHosts functionality through ''pf'', its packet filter/firewall software (see the brute-force configuration of pf for more details).
You can do the same with iptables on Linux using the module "limit". See the manual page for "iptables-extensions" for the details. DenyHosts may have it's good points, but mostly it just complicates things. There is already a lot of functionality in the packet filte
If you like DenyHosts - look at fail2ban. It has all the functionality of the older DenyHosts project and more. You can ban based on more than failed ssh logins - but any type of logfile imaginable. With customized responses to X login failures per Y time units for Z service. You'll find it in the repo's for all debian/rhel based distributions.
This is about the low-intensity password brute-forcing via ssh that's been going on for years -- the only difference between this and any other password brute-forcing via ssh is that fail2ban and such scripts are ineffective, because the attempts are so low-frequency that it's practically impossible to distinguish them from users fumbling their passwords.
The simple solution is to disable password authentication for all users, and make them use keys -- this renders you 100% safe from this botnet. If that's infeasible, be damn sure you've disabled password authentication for root (i.e. "PermitRootLogin no" or "PermitRootLogin without-password" if you still want key-based root logins). If you do allow password logins for any or all users, enforce strong password requirements.
low-intensity bruteforcing is not dangerous - therefore it does not matter that fail2ban doesn't help. Basically, all fail2ban does is turning a fast bruteforce attack into a low-intensity one anyway.
Tricky passwords is enough - they can't guess them in a lifetime with a low-intensity attack. Do not force people to change passwords (except if there ever is a security breach), that makes it much easier for them to put up with really long passwords. And if you live in a part of the world where your keyboard h
low-intensity bruteforcing is not dangerous - therefore it does not matter that fail2ban doesn't help. Basically, all fail2ban does is turning a fast bruteforce attack into a low-intensity one anyway.
Yes, of course -- what's dangerous is not the low intensity attack itself, but that they command enough bots to make low-intensity attacks have a reasonable chance of success against lousy passwords. And that's only dangerous in combination with the fact that you're permitting users to have lousy passwords.
Tricky passwords is enough - they can't guess them in a lifetime with a low-intensity attack.
Amen, brother. That's absolutely enough -- if you enforce it.
The main reason I suggested key-based auth first is because some fools' idea of "make sure users use strong passwords" is to force users to change their passwords frequently, and tell them to use strong passwords (e.g. not derived from a single english word), and maybe enforce silly requirements such as "must have at least one letter and one numeral"; this inevitably results in "password1" the first month, "password2" the next month, and so on.
why did he not say "Linux, BSD, and Other OSes
Maybe because the default setting in BSD [freebsd.org] is
PasswordAuthentication = no
PermitRootLogin = no
Could that be why he didn't mention the botnet logging into to lots of BSD boxes with password authentication?
"Could that be why he didn't mention the botnet logging into to lots of BSD boxes with password authentication?"
No. No it could not. The first reason is because it is disingenuous to imply that the Hail Mary Cloud is succeeding in breaking into "lots" of Linux boxes. It is also the default on every decent Linux distribution out there that root logins via ssh are not allowed. Also, as you said, it is the default setting. Perhaps you were unaware of the word default and what it means, because the last ti
This is really one of those literal RTFM situations...
Notice I was talking about password authentication?
As noted above, PasswordAuthentication defaults to no on FreeBSD.
How about some popular Linux flavors?
Ubuntu? Debian? Fedora?
Those are the top 3 in usage, right? So I checked those and guess what?
PasswordAuthentication defaults to yes.
So yeah, could that be why he didn't mention the botnet logging into to lots of BSD boxes with password authentication?
Correct me if I'm wrong..
Perhaps you could bother to read the whole comment yo
"This is really one of those literal RTFM situations..."
No. It's really more of a "You're a troll who is misrepresenting the facts" situations. I did read what you wrote, and as I said: No!.
"PasswordAuthentication defaults to yes."
Who cares what PasswordAuthentication defaults to, when PermitRootLogin is no? The chances that they will brute force a root account password with "PermitRootLogin no" is just as equal to zero. Furthermore, with PermitRootLogin yes the chances are also zero if a strong passwor
You're totally off topic. If anyone is a troll, it's you. Sadly, it appears you're just an idiot who spouts off without even knowing the basics of what is being discussed.
The botnet being discussed tries to login with a series of usernames over time with each member of the botnet attempting to guess a different password for each username in the series.
So PermitRootLogin is irrelevant to defending against it, other than presumably it might eventually try root among all the other usernames it's attempting.
Now that you've changed your tune, it's obvious you realize you were wrong all along. Of course, with your posting history on other things, that's not much of a shocker, is it? You have a lot of these "misunderstandings".
The botnet doesn't need a privileged user. It can generally use the machine's resources for whatever it desires, including making outgoing connections to compromise more hosts, with just a non-privileged user.
I'm just posting to say I haven't seen:
>... Plonk.
For years. As in 15, at least. Wow.
Note that this is judgement-neutral, I'm just saying 'hi' to once-familiar term, this is judgement-neutral!
"I'm not really in a mind to offer help or advice to the people running those scripts, but it might be possible to scan the internet from 255.255.255.255 downwards next time."
Yes, start with all the multicast addresses. That'll work for them!
"I've managed to get my name on slashdot a lot"
"Use key auth instead of passwords"
"My references are my own blog posts"
There's nothing interesting to see here. Don't allow password logins to your system, because you can't trust people to use good passwords. It's 2013, there's no cake for pointing this out.
STOP USING PASSWORDS FOR AUTHENTICATION! why not only allow connections in authorized_keys??? if you feel so inclined, add a password on top of the authorized key.
there is only so much programmers can do to make it user friendly and secure.
Ow please.. This is so old.. haven't allowed pasword logins in the last decade or so..
Why on earth would anyone have allowed password logins for the last 10 years? Or: Ever?
Someone that's savvy enough to get a shell account is savvy enough to use a key pair.
It's 2013. I mean, seriously, PASSWORDS? for SSH?? You must be joking.
Keys are good for security, but random passwords of 8 characters (and even less) are totally safe against online brute force attacks. Passwords are frequently needed when new systems are installed. After all, you can't go moving keys around on an USB stick every time a new host is set up.. Using passphrases on the SSH keys is fine, but if we neglect the security of the keys themselves, it turns an online attack into an offline attack: the keys are much easier to brute force, and it can be distributed
Pick a host from our pool, assign a user name and password (picked from a list, dictionary or pool)
Implies that each host will, from a predefined directive, try certain user names. I have seen ones better coordinated than that, where they are going through the list alphabetically across a large number of systems. To me this implies a tighter degree of central control on the attack.
That said, the list of users that they try are almost always first names only, aside from the usual collection of system names (root, toor, admin, oracle, games
At any rate, my point remains: this is an old game they've been doing. Interesting that we now have assigned a name to the botnet but otherwise not really news. It would be interesting to know more about the systems that are part of it, but they mostly come from the usual collection of countries and hence your likelihood of getting useful information on them is pretty well zero.
Here is the guide we provide to the SSH users at our University: https://it.wiki.usu.edu/ssh_description [usu.edu]
Some of the major points:
"An open mind has but one disadvantage: it collects dirt." -- a saying at RPI


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On an evening in which heavy fog looked in danger of ending proceedings early at Vicarage Road, the home side took an early lead through Andreas Weimann.
But Palace, who went into the game on the back of Saturday's impressive draw against high-flying Norwich, battled back well to earn a share of the spoils through James Vaughan's sixth goal of the season.
Hornets manager Malky Mackay opted to hand Weimann, on loan from Aston Villa, his first start and the striker repaid his manager's faith immediately, putting the hosts ahead in the 10th minute.
Fellow loanee Andros Townsend was instrumental, cutting inside from the left wing before finding Weimann with a pinpoint cross which the striker volleyed home.
Not content with one, Watford pushed for a second with Weimann looking particularly threatening.
However, they nearly paid the price for their endeavour moments later as Darren Ambrose forced a smart save from Scott Loach.
The home side remained the game's dominant force, though, with Weimann sliding a clever ball across goal which Graham was inches away from converting.
The game became increasingly open thereafter and Palace felt they should have had the opportunity to restore parity when Adrian Mariappa hauled Vaughan down in the area, only for the referee to wave play on.
But the visitors soon levelled things up as Vaughan profited from Townsend giving the ball away, receiving the ball from Danns before jinking his way past Mariappa and firing past Loach.
Clearly looking to make amends, Townsend and Mariappa nearly linked up to put Watford back ahead. The former was instrumental, cleverly working his way to the byline before whipping in an delicious centre which Mariappa failed to convert.
Spurred on by the vocal away faithful, Palace started brightly after the interval.
And, after the game entered a lull, they nearly took the lead but Neil Danns was unable to get on the end of Wilfried Zaha's clever ball.
Surprisingly, Mackay opted to replace the dangerous Townsend midway through the second period with Daniel Drinkwater coming on.
However, that change had little impact as both sides struggled to create openings.
The Hornets did threaten to regain the advantage as Eustace found space just outside the area and forced an excellent save from Julian Speroni.
And, just when both teams seemed content with a point, Watford nearly claimed all three – but Eustace saw his effort cleared off the line.


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Dec. 27, 2006
Santa Barbara, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball team has been picked sixth in the CSTV/AVCA Division I-II Preseason Coaches Top 15 Poll. UC Irvine took the top spot with 234 points and racked up 11 first-place votes.
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) teams filled the top six slots in the poll. Following UC Irvine was Brigham Young in second (224 points, three first-place votes), UCLA in third (203 points, two first-place votes), Hawai'i in fourth (192 points), Pepperdine in the five spot (179 points), and UCSB in sixth (153 points).
The Gauchos' ranking was the same that they received in this season's MPSF Preseason Coaches Poll. UC Irvine was chosen first in that poll as well.
UCSB finished its 2006 campaign with a 13-16 overall record and placed eighth in the MPSF with a 9-13 mark. The Gauchos were downed 3-1 in the MPSF Play-In match by eventual national champion UCLA and ended the year ranked 10th in the final CSTV/AVCA poll.
Ken Preston, entering his 29th season leading the UCSB program, returns seven starters plus last season's top libero for 2007.
The Gauchos lost just two players to graduation and will return senior outside Bryan Berman (264 kills), junior middle Theo Brunner (264 kills, 90 blocks), junior outside Michael Fisher (146 kills), senior middle David Kennedy (139 kills, 64 blocks), senior opposite Evan Patak (423 kills), and senior outside Aaron Richman (234 kills). Patak led the MPSF in kills (327, 6.06 KPG), aces (40), and points (7.13 PPG), while Berman and Brunner were named All-MPSF Honorable Mention.
UCSB also returns two talented setters in sophomore Max Klineman and senior Bart Kowalski. Klineman amassed 1,279 assists as a true freshman in 2006, while Kowalski will be back after taking a redshirt last year.
Senior Armen Zakarian picked up the libero role last season and recorded 142 digs in 83 games played.
The Gauchos open their 2007 campaign on Jan. 2 at 7 p.m. in Robertson Gymnasium with an exhibition match against Thompson Rivers University. The regular season starts Jan. 5-6 as UCSB hosts its annual Elephant Bar Collegiate Invitational.
The next CSTV/AVCA Coaches Top 15 Poll will be released Jan. 8.
(first place votes in parentheses)
1. UC Irvine (11), 234 points
2. Brigham Young (3), 224 points
3. UCLA (2), 203 points
4. Hawai'I, 192 points
5. Pepperdine, 179 points
6. UC Santa Barbara, 153 points
7. IPFW, 130 points
8. Penn State, 124 points
9. Cal State Northridge, 117 points
10. Long Beach State, 111 points
11. Ohio State, 81 points
12. USC, 54 points
13. Loyola-Chicago, 47 points
T14. Pacific, 25 points
T14. Ball State, 25 points
Others receiving points: George Mason (21)


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Glee's newest star Dean Geyer admits he should start taking acting classes or enrol in drama school if he wants to take his US television career to another level.
The South-African born Australian has progressed from humble beginnings as an Australian Idol contestant six years ago to winning a role on a hit teenage musical show in America.
Geyer landed the role at his fourth attempt at pilot season auditions in the US earlier this year.
He plays Brody Weston, the love interest for Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) in the Emmy award-winning series.
The 26-year-old's acting career started on the long running Network Ten soap Neighbours after his third placing behind Damien Leith on Australian Idol in 2006.
Since then he has swapped his obsession with music for acting.
Geyer said acting lessons may soon be a necessity if he wants to break into feature films on the back of appearing in Glee.
"I am so lazy, the most I have ever done is a couple of private acting lessons for my first and second pilot seasons," Geyer said.
"I promise you I will enter an acting class, I need to take my art seriously.
"Some people have been coming out here for eight years and still haven't got their big break and I feel very grateful.
"To be able to take it to the next level, I do need to lift my game as there are some very talented people out there ... and a movie career is very appealing to me."
LA-based Geyer said when he was originally cast on Neighbours he was unsure acting was for him, but that soon changed and he has not played a gig or been in a recording studio for at least three years.
His contract with Glee is pretty much at the mercy of those behind the hit show, but so far so good.
He said there's even the possibility of graduating from a recurring character to a regular cast member.
"I was actually hesitant about going into the acting world but once I started on Neighbours, I realised how much I loved acting and how much harder the music world was.
"It seems like my storyline is going in the direction of being one of the regular characters [on Glee].
"Now it just seems acting has taken the reins and literally I have not been in the studio and have not played a gig for three years."
Geyer, who moved to Australia when he was 15 and has Australian citizenship, not only made his mark on Idol and Neighbours but he was also part of the celebrity scene in Australia after he got engaged to Lisa Origliasso of The Veronicas.
Their union was called off because of work commitments but he says the pair still remain in contact.
"I spoke to her the other day and they are releasing their new album and single and they are doing some great things," Geyer said.
TV profile
Who: Dean Geyer as Brody Weston in Glee, season four.
Where and when: Tonight, 7.30pm Four.


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absolutely perfect
Accuweather shows there won't be showers till Monday. Watch out weekend two... the rain is coming for you
a bit cold, will i die?
hahahahaha and the forecast slowly starts sneaking up...
we'll hit 90 sunday for sure. just watch.
Seriously, weather forecasting is such a sham.
For your health
this will be my first coachella and tbh, i could give a shit about the weather. not going to let some stupid rain ruin what looks to be a fucking amazing weekend. even if it does rain, it might be a nice reprieve from the heat. maybe.
I've actually been looking at these forecasts and rooting for it to hit the mid-90s. I've always seen Coachella as my heath and youth gauge... But a little rain is nice, too. In 07, at the V-Fest, a little rain actually made an Interpol set very cool to be present for (not to mention it helped me feel better, because the humidity in Baltimore was much worse than the heat of Coachella).
Itll break triple digits. Then itll go back to 75 for the country folk.
People you guys are complaining about mid 80s to low 90s? This would be the best weather that coachella has ever had aside from the 1st year ever!!! Im also a Coachella valley Local and the weather is just fine right now. Its suppose to be a little warm early next week but then cool down for Chella.. Usually pretty accurate.
I actually love the weather at Coachella. Dry heat isn't nearly as bad as humidity and at Coachella it feels amazing at night. Another reason why Coachella is the best festival in the U.S. hands down.
^ kEwL
FYF Fest 8/27 - 8/28
Yea I like it in the 90s because at night the temperature is fucking perfect.
FYF Fest 8/27 - 8/28


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Health officials are now pushing for young males ages nine to 26 to get the HPV vaccine known as Gardasil, a vaccine that for years has been for women only.
In June 2006, Gardasil hit the market as the first cervical cancer vaccine.
The Gardasil vaccine prevents against four types of HPV. Young women, ages nine to 26, learned for the first time that through sexual contact, they could be in danger of getting HPV. So many rushed to get the Gardasil vaccine.
"My grandma and my aunt encouraged me to get them and said it would help me and my body to grow better," says Marivel Perez, a high school freshman.
But after four years and a number of commercials promoting the HPV vaccine, studies show fewer women are getting or finishing the series of three shots.
"My mom wanted me to get it, but we just never did I guess," says Freshman Julia Lucero.
And now new research shows oral cancer rates have more than doubled since 1973. And more than half of all reported cases are related to HPV.
Making oral sex a major risk factor for both women and men. Something many are unaware of.
"Um, no. I do not have an idea of what HPV is," says high school freshman Matt Prinster.
Daniel Asif, another freshman, says, "I have no idea. Nope."
And many also don't know that a year ago the FDA approved the HPV vaccine for young males ages nine to 26. "Certainly the vaccine is a great way to protect you against contracting HPV. Abstinence is also another way, and if someone chooses to be sexually active, the use of condoms may lower their risk of getting HPV," says Karen Martsolf, spokesperson for Mesa County Health Department.
And if you're considering the HPV vaccine, now might be the time to do it. The Health Department is offering the vaccine to young men and women for free thanks to a grant. "This vaccine should be administered prior to the male or female's first sexual contact," says Martsolf.
As for young teens, they may not know exactly what HPV is, but many get the gist. "They say that it protects you a lot from more viruses so I'm happy I can't get those viruses," says Perez.
According to the OCF, oral cancer kills about one person every hour and only half of those affected survive more than five years after their diagnosis.


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Making a difference in many ways
The message has been quite clear this week at The American Legion's Department Service Officer School: the organization's service officer make a real difference in the lives of veterans and their families.
And, yes, the work can be quite demanding.
Peter Gaytan, executive director of The American Legion in Washington, told the group of about 100 service officers at the Renaissance Hotel that "It's one thing for our national staff to go to the White House and lobby for veterans benefits. But it's a very different thing that you do at the grassroots level, every day in the towns and cities where you live."
Gaytan thanked the Legionnaires for their service, which "gives us credibility here in Washington. You support the pillars of this great organization, and that's why we're the world's biggest and best veterans' service organization." He said it was important for the Legion and its service officers "to evolve with the needs of America's veterans, and that's what we're doing."
Barry Searle, director of the Legion's Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation Division, highlighted some important topics being covered at the school. "One of my priorities is to help women veterans, and also to help with the VA claims process - to make life easier and simpler for veterans," Searle said.
Amplifying on Gaytan's theme, DSO school director Steve Smithson reminded the participants that the school has changed a lot over the years, based mainly on feedback from the service officers. "Keep that in mind as you go through your training - we're always striving to make it better," he said.
Legislative briefing
Steve Robertson, the Legion's legislative division director, gave the school a rundown of VA funding status, noting that President Obama's $125 billion budget request for fiscal 2011 met or exceeded nearly every recommendation by The American Legion. He told the group that the president's three major areas of concerns were to get greater access for veterans to benefits and services, reduce the VA disability claims backlog, and to alleviate the problems of homelessness among veterans.
"It's going to take a culture change at VA and also some technology changes," Robertson said, to deal effectively with the claims backlog. He said a new record was set last year for the number of disability claims filed with VA - which sounds like progress is being made. However, even more new claims were received than were adjudicated. VA anticipates even more new claims may be filed because of recent VA decisions concerning illnesses related to Agent Orange exposure.
On the homeless veterans issue, Robertson said a lot of money is being invested to defeat the problem, and the federal focus is to provide more housing. "But we keep reminding them that veterans need job training programs that work. The way you end homelessness among veterans is to provide them with meaningful employment."
The Legion is pushing to expand the GI Bill to include more vocational opportunities, Robertson said, and also supports the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record initiative, which will make servicemembers' records completely available to both VA and DoD from the day they take the oath of enlistment until laid to rest in a veterans' or military cemetery.
Updates were also given on mental health care for veterans, third-party billing of medical expenses, health care for women veterans, VA rural health care, and concurrent receipt (military retirement pay is offset, dollar for dollar, against any disability compensation being received by the veteran).
"We've been able to have some changes made to that policy, but many veterans still have that offset," Robertson said. "President Obama wants to eliminate concurrent receipt offsets completely, and his budget request includes funding that would completely repeal concurrent receipt by 2015."
Encouraging DSOs to establish relationships with their local congressional offices, Robertson said, "The more you can educate folks in your local congressional district offices, the stronger the message will be to that legislator. Invite staffers to post meetings. Let them hear your concerns about veterans. If they're veterans, get them to join those posts. Invite them to judge Legion events, such as the oratorical contests.
"Grassroots is the secret to success, and if you can speak with one voice to your congressional representatives, it really helps."
Military DES representation
The next presentation focused on the U.S. Army's Disability Evaluation System (DES), given by Jerry Johnson, the Legion's representative at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He explained the components of DES and how they function: the Physical Disability Agency, Medical Evaluation Board and Physical Evaluation Board.
Johnson told the group that a DES pilot program was initiated in November 2007, which makes VA responsible for disability ratings instead of DoD. "The results of the VA exams are sent to the Physical Evaluation Board, then to the servicemembers," Johnson said. "Then they have five days to concur or appeal." He said a servicemember can appeal only one time while on active duty, and he or she must have new medical evidence to support their appeal.
"Once servicemembers are discharged, they can appeal their disability evaluations again, and they can be represented by American Legion service officers," he said.
Johnson referred to the findings of report written by Gen. Tommy Franks about DES, saying the general urged a complete updating of a system that hasn't been fully overhauled in about 60 years. "The system isn't very woman-friendly, and there needs to be more focus on the rehabilitation and transition of our troops," Johnson said.
The rest of the day was filled with other presentations. Verna Jones, head of the Legion's appeals unit at the Board of Veterans Appeals, explained the complexities of preparing and filing disability claims appeal with VA. She emphasized that DSOs need to make sure they have power-of-attorney from veterans they represent. "Without power-of-attorney, The American Legion can do nothing," Jones said. "And we really don't like to take power-of-attorney after an appeal has already gone to the board."
Two representatives from the Veterans Health Administration, Kristen Cunningham and Allisha Robinson, discusses service-connected disability ratings and VA assistance programs for veterans who are struggling financially and need help with their copayment debts.
Last but not least, Ron Abrams of the National Veterans Legal Services Program provided advocacy training to the DSOs. He said The American Legion was "on top of" the VA regulations concerning post-traumatic stress disorder, and that the organization needs to take note of a new problem with VA disability claims hearings that is becoming nationwide.
Abrams said that VA sometimes holds hearings on disability claims, then sends those transcripts to another location, where the decision is made by another individual.
"Does it seem fair that someone else is making that final decision, who was not involved in the actual hearing?" Abrams asked his audience. "We're also finding that some VA hearing officers aren't all that interested in listening to additional testimony. We want to work with The American Legion to change that."
Abrams said that when his organization represents veterans whose cases have been handled by The American Legion, they win about 95 percent of them in court.
Click here to see an overview on DSO school.