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I have received a ton of private mail on this, hence rather than just pasting the same answer in I'm going to take it on here. Interestingly enough I explained this problem, with a slightly different context, back when 2005 SP1 came out here, but lets go through it again with 2008 context. Bob Ward…
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While SSIS has always been able to load SQL Server at high speed it doesn't use any of the high speed Oracle APIs that are available. Well there is now a new high performance loader for Oracle and another one for Teradata. Downloads are here.
Slipstreaming SQL Server Updates/Service Packs in SQL 2008, almost
One of the most common asks for SQL Server related to servicing/patching (after uninstall of updates/SPs) is the production of slimstreamed media, ie where the Update/SP and the RTM are included together in a single plackage. Now there are a couple of reasons to do this, the first is to save time and complexity for…
SQL Server 2008, Report Builder
Ok so not everything for SQL Server 2008 is available yet, Report Builder is going to have a lag, you can find RC 1 here. This should work with RTM SQL 2008. Here are some of the changes from the last RC; Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions. Support for…
SQL Server Express 2008, Advanced Services and Tools now available
Get it here. That should not be all the pieces of SQL Server 2008 available.
SQL Server 2008, Express Edition now available
Get it here. No tools or advanced services yet, but they will be here shortly. Good info on this page but beware its download link points to 2005 still.
SQL Server 2008: Why do all the Microsoft web sites still point at and talk about SQL Server 2005
In short there is a "rolling thunder" plan to both release bits and update all the sites. Yesterday the MSDN subscriber sites were updated, also the MVP and TAP sites. Today Eval Edition and Feature Pack became available
SQL Server 2008 Installation Confusion, VS 2008 Sp1 and NetFx 3.5 Sp1
Ok lots of folks are confused and are having their installations bounced. There is some info in the release notes but this is the definitive KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956139 Let me try and explain; SQL Server 2008 has dependencies on (and includes) VS 2008 SP1 and its components (BIDS is just VS 2008, SSMS uses components), plus…
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Homeowners need to keep ahead of their mortgage payments, but there are other important payments to keep an eye out for.
Local councils levy rates on property owners every year, which can be paid yearly or by installments. While there are concessions for water management, there are still charges that homeowners need to be prepared for. The Department of Water and Energy has established best practice pricing guidelines to help ease the burden on property owners.
However, for New South Wales-based homeowners, a massive funding injection is sure to provide some refreshing news.
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The NSW government has pledged $700 million over the next year to "maintain, renew and upgrade critical infrastructure across state water networks," according to a June 23 statement.
The funding is part of a 2014-15 state budget initiative and it's hoped that it will result in "better outcomes" for water customers in the state.
Several projects will receive funding, including $171 million for works that will facilitate urban development. This is in addition to $268 million for upgrades to wastewater treatment plants and pipeline, as well as $71 million towards maintaining water distribution systems.
Reform is one the way, too, with the Water Industry Competition Amendment (review) Bill 2014 being introduced to parliament.
The bill establishes a framework for a more efficient water sector, including safeguards for water users across the state.
"Through this bill the [government] is encouraging competition, driving innovation and boosting efficiency of service delivery," Minister for Natural Resources, Lands and Water, Kevin Humphries, explained.
A thorough look at water pricing may trigger homeowners to rethink their entire finances, from their home loan repayments to budgeting for associated costs, such as council rates, electricity and gas.
Individuals who want to drive down their costs may even contemplate a mortgage refinance to obtain a better interest rate.
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In the wild, bees have a certain behavior when the days get shorter and the temperature starts dropping. They start to adjust their nest and move down, and any last bit of honey gets put up above them. The kick out the drones to die (since their usefulness has ended with the end of the summer), and the queen starts slowing down on her laying. But this preparation doesn't always allow the bees to survive the winter (for example, if they don't have enough food).
With managed hives, since we do rob them of some of the excess honey, we also try to help them get ready for winter. For me it's a matter of making sure they have enough food, and they have places they can store it.
This last weekend was a bit of Indian Summer, with temperatures in the high 70's / low 80's. The bees were out in force with the good weather (my wife has some Shasta Daisies growing in the back yard, the bees [including mason bees] are all over it). I decided it was a good time to do some winter preparations.
I needed to do the following:
- Take off the honey supers (since the bees haven't put anything up there)
- Check the top box to make sure they have room
- Put on an empty brood chamber above the inner cover, in preparation for adding jars of sugar syrup
Brown Hive
I started with the brown hive. I started on the bottom box, and this was what I saw:
It's not a terribly large number of bees, but not too bad. I saw some bees bringing in pollen (probably from the daisies and something else which is bright orange). I marked them in the following picture:
There was also a good amount of pollen in the lower brood chamber:
Up top, the bees had collected some amount of nectar, but not enough for winter:
In the honey super I saw that the bees had some nectar stored, and about 1/3 of a frame of capped honey on two frames. These I will scrape open and set out for the bees to rob and put back into the hive.
Pink Hive
On the Pink Hive, I put the honey super (undrawn) on the brood chamber without a queen excluder. I didn't expect them to do anything with it, but it was worth a try. I was right - they didn't do anything with it.
But I did see the queen in this one:
Note that there isn't much brood - it looks like she's already cutting back on production.
Green Hive
The Green Hive got a pretty good makeover. You'll recall that this was a hive from a late summer nuc, so it hadn't really started going up into the top brood chamber (I added the top chamber a few weeks ago). I did see that they had started putting up some nectar there, so that's good.
I also had a Grey Nuc over at a friends house. It turns out that the queen in that nuc was really bad - she hardly had any brood production, even when it was in a nice environment away from other hives pestering it.
So I brought the gray nuc back, and let's say I left the queen there :-)
I decided to combine the bees from the grey nuc into the green hive to boost the number of bees. I did that.
Since the green hive had the least food, it got two of the frames of food from storage. Here is one of those frames:
So I have the hives ready for winter. I set out all of the supers a little way away from the hives so the bees can reclaim whatever nectar and honey is there.
Here are the three hives (the top box is an empty cover so I can easily add jars of syrup):
The empty box of the Grey Nuc is sitting off to the side so the bees that are left in there (there are always some) can go to their new home.
I'll mix up some 2:1 syrup to feed the bees at a later date.


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|The SP-445 sheet film developing tank.
David M sent me a Kickstarter link which is all about a fund raising campaign for a "new" way of developing 5x4 film without resorting to open trays in the darkroom. The inverted commas around new are necessary because there have been a few tanks like this over the years all purporting to do the same thing: develop sheet film in much the same way that we develop 35mm or 120 in a Paterson tank.
Getting your hands on one of these old tanks is difficult, though. Even if you find one you have to keep your fingers crossed that it's light and developer proof to avoid the twin evils of fogged film and stained worktops and/or clothing. This new affair should take care of these potential problems nicely providing it does exactly what it says on the tin.
The people behind it were looking for $27,700 but I see they've already attracted pledges of almost $70,000 - possibly above that figure by the time you read this. I think that shows that there's still quite an interest in large format in general and that, in particular, people really don't like standing over trays in the dark for an hour at a time! Count me amongst them.
Rather than explain what it's all about, here's the video accompanying the project although I should point out that the "plunger" agitation system has been ditched in favour of the good old inversion method.
The tank seems a well-thought-out device and already has more than 200 backers. Four sheets of film can be developed at a time using just 500ml of chemicals. The retail cost is likely to be in the $80-90 range. It's scheduled to ship in April so we'll know soon enough whether or not it's the answer to some large format users' prayers.


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Marion, North Carolina celebrates the arrival of autumn in the Blue Ridge during their annual Mountain Glory Festival. For 34 years, beautiful downtown Marion has hosted this popular celebration on the 2nd Saturday in October.
Celebrate small-town life in the mountains. Visitors looking for original handicrafts will find plenty of choices shopping with three jam packed blocks, featuring locally made arts and crafts. Enjoy lots of festival foods and the wide variety of live entertainment, focusing on old time mountain music.
Don't miss the annual Mountain Glory Quilt Show inside the McDowell Arts Council. The quilt show is the gallery's featured October exhibit.
The kids will have fun in the "Children's Arena" with hands-on activities, local entertainment and the ever popular best-dressed pet contest.
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"Hey I want to go Swim Swim~"
"Hey that's my swim tube, don't touch!"
She is a little fierce isn't she, well you can't blame her,
she love swimming so much! but she still need that swim tube
to help her learn :)
loving ur handmade so much!!! you're really talented! ur dolls are so cute!ReplyDelete
;) 可不可以让她也戴泳帽?ReplyDelete
I love her! She is precious.ReplyDelete
It's really pretty!!
Happy new year!!
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Thank you Kim, Novelda, ching, nann nann, Nina and Kim Baise, Happy New Year to you too!!
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泳帽! 很好的idea! XD
I love it. It is very cute and I love the sea and want to go swimming with her.
I've just discovered your blog and everything you make is so amazing! I checked your etsy but you don't have any dolls for sale. How much they normally are because I'm just dying to have one! :D
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It was a 'Black Friday' we'll never forget. After enjoying an enormous Thanksgiving feast, I entered my turkey-induced coma only to be awakened at 2am by contractions. 16 hours later… Colin Lee entered the world! A happy & healthy baby boy with a rockin' head of hair!
He is most certainly loved (well, at least by me & John… Colby Jack is still deciding). Here is our family of four. Please excuse my tired eyes… the product of a couple sleepless nights. Well worth it!
Back in December, we sent out these birth announcements/Christmas cards to introduce Colin to the world…
I can promise there will be many, many more photos to come!


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Many unethical webmasters and site owners are already creating thousands of TEMPLATED (ready to go) SKYSCRAPER sites fed by affiliate companies immense databases. These companies that have your website info within their databases feed your page snippets, without your permission, to vast numbers of the skyscraper sites. A carefully adjusted variant php based redirection script that causes a 302 redirect to your site, and included in the script an affiliate click checker, goes to work. What is very sneaky is the randomly generated meta refresh page that can only be detected via the use of a good header interrogation tool.
Googlebot and MSMBOT follow these php scripts to either an internal sub-domain containing the 302 redirect or serverside and "BANG" down goes your site if it has a pagerank below the offending site. Your index page is crippled because googlebot and msnbot now consider your home page at best a supplemental page of the offending site. The offending sites URL that contains your URL is indexed as belonging to the offending site. The offending site knows that google does not reveal all links pointing to your site, takes a couple of months to update, and thus an INURL:YOURSITE.COM will not be of much help to trace for a long time. Note that these scripts apply your URL mostly stripped or without the WWW. Making detection harder. This also causes googlebot to generate another URL listing for your site that can be seen as duplicate content. A 301 redirect resolves at least the short URL problem so aleviating google from deciding which of the two URL's of your site to index higher, more often the higher linked pagerank.
Your only hope is that your pagerank is higher than the offending site. This alone is no guarantee because the offending site would have targeted many higher pagerank sites within its system on the off chance that it strips at least one of the targets. This is further applied by hundreds of other hidden 301 permanent redirects to pagerank 7 or above sites, again in the hope of stripping a high pagerank site. This would then empower their scripts to highjack more efficiently. Sadly supposedly ethical big name affiliates are involved in this scam, they know it is going on and google adwords is probably the main target of revenue. Though I am sure only google do not approve of their adsense program to be used in such manner.
Many such offending sites have no e-mail contact and hidden WHOIS and no telephone number. Even if you were to contact them, you will find in most cases that the owner or webmaster cannot remove your links at their site because the feeds are by affiliate databases.
There is no point in contacting GOOGLE or MSN because this problem has been around for at least 9 months, only now it is escalating at an alarming rate. All pagerank sites of 5 or below are susceptible, if your site is 3 or 4 then be very alarmed. A skyscraper site only need create child page linking to get pagerank 4 or 5 without the need to strip other sites.
Caution, trying to exclude via robots text will not help because these scripts are nearly able to convert daily.
Trying to remove a link through google that looks like
new.searc**verywhere.co.uk/goto.php?path=yoursite.com%2F will result in your entire website being removed from google's index for an indefinite period time, at least 90 days and you cannot get re-indexed within this timeline.
I am working on an automated 302 REBOUND SCRIPT to trace and counteract an offending site. This script will spider and detect all pages including sub-domains within an offending site and blast all of its pages, including dynamic pages with a 302 or 301 redirect. Hopefully it will detect the feeding database and blast it with as many 302 redirects as it contains URLS. So in essence a programme in perpetual motion creating millions of 302 redirects so long as it stays on. As every page is a unique URL, the script will hopefully continue to create and bombard a site that generates dynamically generated pages that possesses php, asp, cigi redirecting scripts. A SKYSCRAPER site that is fed can have its server totally occupied by a single efficient spider that continually requests pages in split seconds continually throughout the day and week.
If the repeatedly spidered site is depleted of its bandwidth, it may then be possible to remove it via googles URL removal tool. You only need a few seconds of 404 or a 403 regarding the offending site for google's url console to detect what it needs. Either the site or the damaging link.
I hope I have been informative and to help anybody that has a hijacked site who's natural revenue has been unfairly treated. Also note that your site may never gain its rank even after the removal of the offending links. Talking to offending site owners often result in their denial that they are causing problems and say that they are only counting outbound clicks. And they seam reluctant to remove your links....Yeah, pull the other one.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 9:49 pm (utc) on Mar. 16, 2005]
Twist, see msg #218 - i summed up some suggestions there. Also, there's this new thread on one method of removing a redirect script from google (you can also return a 404):
I can't say for certain however:
If Google says that page is part of your site (shows up in the site: search) and it does in fact link to such stuff then what am I left to beleive. It is a link to a script that can even return:
Links to bad loactions, bad pictures, a page of very nasty words like #*$! that Brett's board autocensors. Before the word that was a nasty three character sequence of the twenty fourth letter of the English alphabet.
That one threw me for a loop when I first ran into it.
blah blah blah (php redirect code) http/your domain.com
Notice no semicolon and no double slash on Yourdomain.com.
This isn't a typo either. All the links on this site had the same method of listing the url.
It shows up in the allinurl command of the target site.
Of course this site is managed by GoDaddy/domainsbyproxy.com so I doubt this link will ever be removed.
While digging deeper into one of the hijacker sites I did see some questionable adult content...
the site I mentioned above is linked from one of those also and they linked to a "Christian" poet on my site with the same name as the owner of this site, obviously to use that name. Also, practically all the links on the page are to Christian sites with that name on their site somewhere.
So far, I haven't seen my particular circumstance discussed, either here or in the Adsense forum. Here's what I'm finding in an allinurl search for my domain:
www.spammingsite.com/ autolinks/?o=mydomain - 27k - Supplemental Result
www.nextspammingsite.com/cgi-bin/links/out.cgi?id=4115 - 26k - Supplemental Result
Both these return 302 in that header checker tool someone posted, so I'm assuming this is a hijack. Correct? Also, is "supplemental result" a good thing?
On the first example, when I click on the link, it returns my homepage, but with both my AdSense ads stripped out - one from the left sidebar and one from the center column. A fastclick ad is left in place. How did they do they that? And how does it benefit them?
My site is 4 years old, used to be PR6, now PR5, with main subdirectory index pages also PR5. Search terms that I used to have on page 1 are now buried deep in Google results. Please advise - what do I do?
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When you find the results from the suspected hijacking site on the G SERPs, does the listing use the title you use on your page and does the cached version of that listing contain your content (as opposed to a scrapper site with a portion of your content)? If the cache for their funky link is exactly your content -- that's a hijack
When you say you clicked the link and the Adsense was gone, but FC ad displayed -- was this the actual link or the cache link? I find that in my (non-hijacked) pages, the cache will show FC but usually drops out the Adsense, or gives PSA on Adsense, or ads related to "Cache." (!)
The first site example, by the way, is a spam site extraordinare...you go to their domain and are hit with a page that is totally filled with hidden text words and a block at the bottom with non-hidden spam keyword stuffing.
The fact that these scumbags even appear in the same search results as my own drives me crazy!
What that means is that these 302 redirects have been in existence for months...my site is holding its own, although admittedly some search terms have been buried. Who knows how much better my standing in SERPS would have been without them?
My site focuses on crafts, most of which are designed by me, and I write the instructions and take the step-by-step photos to tell others how to reproduce the craft. This is first-rate original content...now being ripped off by a 302 redirect that anyone can use?
Twist - I posted about this problem in the Apache forum and Jim replied right away - I guess he doesn't read the google forums (or maybe gave up at post 400)
This is old hat to him he seems quite confident that there is no solution available to us, google needs to fix it and it is a lot harder than you'd think.
Also there are 2 more threads in google news (same folder as this thread) - One like you described - dedicated solely to dicussing solutions. (lay it out for google engineers type thing)
The other one is 'how to detect and remove 302 hijacks'
This thread has served it's purpose already - this thread is the google 302 forum - the word is out on the news and getting a lot of PR in SEO forums.
I'm not so sure I'd worry about anything in inurl: unless it looks really sketchy or is from x-rated or spammer etc.
302's are very common - for googlebot there are also a lot of 'internal' 302's on large servers for different functions unrelated to 'links'. So it is a big job.
Most tracking type 302 links are completely harmless as long as google recognizes them for what they are.
Sometimes a 302 method can mess up google (unknown to the webmaster creating them).
The real problem is that since the word got out ( a year ago?) ALL the spammers and scumbag types are using 302's in ways they never thought possible.
There are 'get rich quick' e-books based on exploiting this bug with scraper sites - this is in the top 10 ways now.
There is "SEO" software that promises - no "guarantees" top SERP's "for whatever keyword you want" just punch in the keyword and you get instant 'top ranking pages'. What do you suppose this software is based on? Exploiting the 302 bug "because it's unfixable".
So it is a big problem and is going to get bigger exponentially. I cant wait to laugh at these 'get rich quick' scemes when it no longer works or when google is so saturated by it that it no longer pays because everybody is hijacking everybody.
Yahoo figured it out and google will too. I think googles algo is just a lot more complicated and the big wigs just gave the order (about time) to fix it because it's in the news and being discussed - to big wigs that IS a problem. I bet they cringe when they look at this thread, 700 posts and not losing any steam.
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It is intellectual dishonesty for GoogleGuy to tell us how to report hijacking problems when the reply you get back from them says:
"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We understand your concern about the inclusion and ranking of your site. Please note that there is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index."
The two solutions to this problem are:
1)As Caleb posted today, Google should eventually fix it. They have fixed bigger problems in the past.
2)Take the law into your own hands to protect yourself in the interim to when and if (1) happens. Besides, this problem may transcend to other search engines to an extent. There has been talk that this happened. This would be akin to carrying your own guns in the days of the old wild west where vigilantes and gangs ruled. So I have a game plan that I intend to pursue and my own motive is that if I can convince others to do likewise, the effect will be stronger in numbers. It is as follows:
A)First priority is to choke off the information flow of your vital signs that act as bait for the 302'ers. Namely your traffic rank, and PR, including a jpg of your site and two 302's back to you off low PR pages (seemingly innocuous). Hit the spider that is feeding some of your strategic info to that service. If you follow the other threads this week on the subject you will be able to figure out what to target. At a minimum, immediately robots.txt it. Hopefully you have a spider trap, if you don't build one for mission-critical sites. After you get that done, created a rewrite based on that spider's USER-AGENT [OR] the owner's IP REMOTE ADDRESS ( [OR]that means if either condition is satisfied, the rule goes forward) to serve that spider and only that spider and it's web service a page (other than your home page) that then does a meta refresh to the most disgusting image that you can find on the web. You can learn how to do this (the rewrite, not the disgusting) in the archives of Apache Web server forum. Then un-robots.txt the feeder spider. Don't let you conscience get to you about hurting established web institutions when so many webmasters have been hurt bad by them on this issue; just hope that the hurting gets stopped.
B) Next step: Go after the sleazy, PR-Hogging puny directories that are 302'ing to you. You can find out which little directories are redirecting to you on a 200 versus a 302 basis by using this tool on their bogus little link to you: Tool is on Webmasterworld site: [searchengineworld.com...] Server Header checker. I'm afraid ther are a lot more out there than on the various doiagnostic google searches touted about this week. At least I found three more 302's against mine (no help from google search). Remember the search engine spider that will not give a REFERER property will follow the 302 to your home page anyway and there is nothing you can do short term to stop that (as antisocial as that REFERER property-cloaking on behalf of that spider may seem). You will be doing this to retaliate against the punk 302'ing, PR hogging, directory that is try to look official to the public with a disgusting and vile image, not porn please. Hopefully that will exceed even their comfort level, and they will make adjustments.
C)Identify your market place. Then IP block the A-blocks of entire global regions that are not in the market place. Look to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority a-block allocations for guidance in making your decisions. If a bandit across the globe cannot find your site, it may not be targeted
D)Do the Base URL meta-tag thingy.
E)Look at the other search engines that will be eating into Google's market share and learn their optimization game to work with them in the future so you won't have to whine so much; a tiny little bit of that goes a long way on the other forums; check em out!.
A little bit about my outlook on Google: I only do this for the love of my hobby and to supplement income a little. I am not an IT professional. Heck, I'm only an engineer with an MS in it. I am highly specialized in research outside of IT. Three years ago I thought Google was the best, and I used it for my own searches. I lurked around this particular forum a lot and learned how to get to the top of their SERPS. Then about 2 years ago I saw Google's competitors incorporating Google's old PHD link-POP idea plus the newer competition's idea of Direct Hit; a great idea involving "time spent at the site". I began to follow the Apache Web Server Forum instead. Then Jim Morgan, the all-time guru, became moderator and I continue to look and learn from him. I have come to believe that Google had a great new idea for its time long ago, but I also know that all great new ideas have their time in the Sun. We haven't seen anything great, new, and creative since; only War-Path. Overlooking, of course thier 8 gazillion megapixels or gigawatts, or whatever. And so when this issue is over, I will remove myself from this forum again, having no interest if following an Anachronism. I dig not your IPO, Mr. Secretive.
P.S. JD Morgan IS aware of the problem. It has been on the Apache Web Server Forum this week and he has posted. This is not a problem solvable with Apache Modules. My suggestions are a best long-shot and of questionable effectiveness. IMHO, they are ruthless but justified.
What if i have a PR 6 site, then created a blank directory with a htaccess 301 redirect to the most popular file/page on a site with a PR 2?
redirect /mydir/mysite.html h**p://somesite.com/somefile.html
The googlebot would also see this as duplicate content, and also think that the content it directs to belongs to my site.
If you point a 302 at another page from one of your pages, then the search engine will keep your URL and throw away the URL of the target page.
If you do it with a 301, then the search engine will throw away your URL and keep the URL of the target page.
So, 301's and 302's work in opposite directions.
I have to say that I am disturbed by the comments of Japanese "...Also note that your site may never gain its rank even after the removal of the offending links. " and Zeus... "...I dont see any solution to this topic, so maybe we most face the music and start to build pages with some redirecting scripts to good sites and then our own content, that way the scripts will be a form of SEO"
What do I say to a client that has invested $300,000 in web site development and SEO since 1997? Give up? Start over?
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Anyone who has been SEOing for a few years probably thinks of pleasing G most of the time. We do things we think G will like, and avoid perfectly reasonable things we think G won't like, and that's in addition to building good content day after day. It's time to try something different.
I have decided to start thinking of G as a welcome but unreliable source of traffic. I'm going to concentrate on other engines and I'm going to go back to cross linking my network of sites where appropriate.
You see, I've actually deleted scads of self referencing links over the past couple of years as my SERP positions dropped. I used to get some nice cross traffic that way, which was nothing compared to G traffic when my positions were good. But it was real, legitimate traffic that I could predict and control.
Why should I sell myself short and expend all my energy on bowing and scraping before a god that will not be appeased?
On a final note -- do you recall those days of wandering in the desert after the fall of AltaVista but before the rise of Google? We took our traffic where we could get it. We got by, and we will continue to get by. And we'll meet with high profits again some sunny day...
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I'm considering recommending that my organization implement this, but am airing it out in public first to see if someone can find a flaw in it.
Proposed Defensive Solution
Problem Statement
Robots that index pages for a search engines may be tricked into believing that content from one site actually belongs to another. The sequence of events looks like this:
Proposed Defense
To protect against the scenario above, the administrator of victim.xyz can install a filter on her web server which will issue an HTTP 301 redirect back to itself if it thinks that the request might be the result of a malicious/erronious HTTP 302 redirect.
Here is how it works:
Because a robot might be smart enough to recognized that it is being redirected back to the current page, it would probably be a good idea to obfuscate the http 301 redirect by rewriting the URL in a technically insignificant way. For example, "http://www.victim.xyz/" might be rewritten as "http://www.victim.xyz/?"
Exactly how this filter would be implemented depends on the Web server platform and possibly the requirements of the organization. For example, it could be implemented as an Apache httpd module, an IIS ISAPI filter (or whatever the .Net equivalent is. It's been a few years since I've worked with Microsoft products), or a servlet in a J2EE setup. In some cases, it could even be implemented in a more localized scope using globally included PHP or ASP scripts, although I think I'd steer away from this because of the performance penalty.
I'd greatly appreciate feedback.
A web browser visits pages by going from one to the next by clicking on links, and may (it might not, as some people surf with referrers off) leave a referrer in your log (the referrer is the URL of the previous page that it was visiting, if that page linked to you). If someone typed the URL in, clicked on a bookmark, or has referrers off then you will not see a referrer. Don't confuse Referrer with User Agent. The User Agent part of the log entry says which browser and OS was used.
For search engines, they do not crawl the web going from one page to the next. They spider a page and add all links found on that page into a database. When they finish that page, they ask their own database for the URL of the next page to spider. It might be one on a different site! Multiple bots will adding to that database, and getting their next job from it, so you can have several bots from the same search engine on your site at the same time. Search engine bots leave User Agent information in your log, but they do NOT leave any referrer information, ever.
Here is how it works:
1. The robot visits [badguy.xyz...]
2. Badguy issues its 302 redirect as above
3. The robot follows the redirect to [victim.xyz...]
4. The filter at victim.xyz intercepts the request and examines it. The request either contains no referrer header or else the referrer header indicates that the client followed an external link to victim.xyz.
5. The filter determines if it has seen this particular web client recently. (This check could be as simple as scanning the last few lines of the Web server's access log.)
6. If the filter has not seen this client (the robot) recently, it issues an HTTP 301 ("moved permanently") redirect pointing to [victim.xyz...]
7. The robot follows the redirect to [victim.xyz...]
8. The filter at victim.xyz intercepts the request. This time, it recognizes that it has seen the robot bofore and lets the request through normally.
9. The robot receives Web content from the sever at victim.xyz and indexes it. Because it reached this site from a 301 (moved permanently)rather than a 302 (moved temporarily) redirect, it knows that the content belongs to victim.xyz rather than badguy.xyz and indexes it under victim.xyz. badguy.xyz never gets associated with the content.
you mean well, but theres flaws to the defense. mainly the already posted fact that a robot will look at the badguy.foo?url=victim.foo, see the 302 to victim.foo and just record it as if your content existed there under the badguy site. it at a later date then goes to index victim.foo.
so when googlebot is doing a normal crawl on your site your log checker will trigger and you'll start tossing 301s at goolgebot left and right.
its already been mentioned as one of the helpful possibilities (tossing 301s to robots upon their next vists to your site after you've been 302 serpjacked) amongst other things. all those things mostly being hail-mary type defenses, not really sure things.
to recap the long thread your possible defenses are:
1. adding dynamic elements to all your urls
2. sending 301s once per page to robots
3. dynamic content elements on all pages
4. 301/302s from victim.foo to www.victim.foo
5. contacting badguy.foo, asking them to remove listing
6. change domain names
7. try to get PR boosted over badguy.foo
8. changing link/navigation structure
9. removing badguy.foo via google removal tool
10. reporting site as spam to google
11. yelling and screaming at ww and /.
thats most of them- as you see, none are optimal in terms of seo practices.
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At Rock Bottom is Grace
It is my experience that you don't truly transform, until you hit rock bottom.
Or until your heart cracks wide open and you are finally no longer able to keep change from coming in.
I absolutely remember my rock bottom and when my heart cracked open for good--it was loud and painful. I was in the midst of several big life changes, a new and (stressful to me) job, my youngest child growing up and fighting to do things his way, and a search for a greater meaning and purpose to my life.
I was alone in the house sobbing uncontrollably on a Friday night after a long and stress-filled week. I felt helpless, hopeless, and so far from myself I wasn't sure who I was anymore. Everything felt off. Wrong.
A mixture of shame, guilt, frustration, anger and all the other lower energies took control of me. The sobs came from deep within, the kind that leave a trail of snot and spittle on your shirt and sweat pits under your arms. My stomach hurt, my head hurt, and my heart hurt. I remember being really scared I would not be able to summon the strength to pull myself back together again, to get myself under control if I let it all out. But keeping it in was no longer an option. My gut was burning.
What I see now looking back is that the breaking of my heart on that day in November of 2012 was not a falling apart to render me helpless, but a cracking open to heal. It was an answer to my prayers for wishing to live happier and freer. It was a letting go of the bottled up negativity that had held me hostage for way too long.
Lying on the basement floor, feeling broken and exhausted, I opened my eyes to the sound of another human being asking me what was the matter. It was the person who I might at the time have been the most worried about, most scared for and certainly the one I was feeling the most disconnected from. It was my youngest son Mitch.
At the time he was struggling with his own set of life issues, his having more to do with the friends he chose to hang out with and the choices he was making about his future. Mine revolved around my need to stay in control, to do things perfectly and to keep my Type A, control freak death grip on life in place. It was no longer working the way I was used to, and I was lost. I had fallen into a deep well of self-doubt and I couldn't find a way out.
His concern, his gentle words and the tender way he touched me, lifted me up and gave me courage to let it all out. I opened my eyes and out spilled all my regret over how I hadn't been the mom I had always wanted to be, how I had tried too hard to keep he and his brother safe and maybe in the process suffocated them and how everyone and everything was falling apart around me. Worst of all I was a mess and I considered myself a failure. From my low place all I could see was what I had done wrong in my life.
There was no doubt I had gotten lost from my true self somewhere in the busy years of being a mom, wife and working woman. Yet beneath the controlling, judgmental, hypocrite I had become, Mitch still saw hints of the real me underneath the layers of pretend.
And with grace greater than I ever expected from him (or thought I deserved), he said the words I needed to hear. That I was not a parenting failure, that I was not a complete failure as a human being, that he, in fact, wanted to be more like me. Didn't I know that he wanted the kind of marriage, family and life his dad and I had for himself someday?
I looked out through my swollen eyes in disbelief and wonder, and I probably cried harder at that point, but the tears that streamed out were somehow softer, cleansing maybe, and I felt the tightness in my belly and chest begin to loosen. I believe now that this brief exchange at my rock bottom moment created a small space in my heart for the real healing to begin.
As Glennon Melton author of Carry On , Warrior so eloquently said: the call from God doesn't just come once, if you missed it the first time (or the second or the third) he will find a way to reach you. To offer you that door again to see if you are ready.
I was clearly ready.
Up until that point in my life change had never my friend. Since the same old hadn't worked for me in years, it was time to try something new. When you hit rock bottom the only way to go is up. Changes began in me and around me from that point forward. I won't say the changes were always easy, I experienced many things I never thought I would, and yet I found myself dealing with them in much healthier ways.
Slowly but surely the broken pieces of me fit back into place --- putting me together in a way I had never been before. Or at least in a way that I did not ever remember being. Creating a better version of me. A more authentic, stronger, happier me.
There is no doubt grace finds a way in through the actions of others, through unexpected acts of kindness and sometimes even through what seems to be a hopeless situation.
For most of my life I feared rock bottom. Now I see it was the solid ground I needed to get to before beginning my ascent.
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|378 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Seek, Test, Treat Strategies for Vietnamese Drug Users: A Randomized Controlled Trial
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2016
Experimental: Intervention
Participants who are assigned to intervention arm will receive ART and methadone maintenance at an integrated methadone and antiretroviral therapy (iMART) clinic and ART adherence support through the use of mobile phone technologies.
Other: Integrated methadone and antiretroviral therapy (iMART) clinic
Other Names:
No Intervention: Standard of Care
Participants will be referred to standard HIV outpatient clinics and methadone maintenance clinics.
- Time from randomization to the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) [ Time Frame: At month 3 ]
- CD4+ counts [ Time Frame: At months 6, 12, and 18 ]
- HIV-1 RNA levels [ Time Frame: At months 6 and 12 ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 years or older;
- Recently released from drug treatment centers;
- Positive HIV serology;
- Male;
- Meet criteria for ART initiation according to Vietnam's national guidelines;
- Provide informed consent for the study; and
- Reside in study area and do not plan to move away in the next 18 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently on ART;
- Co-enrollment in other HIV interventional research study;
- Unwilling to provide locator information.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01841320
|Tu Liem Medical Center
|Hanoi, Vietnam
|Principal Investigator:
|Quan M Vu, M.D
|Johns Hopkins University
|Responsible Party:
|Vu Minh Quan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01841320 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01DA030776 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|April 26, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 6, 2016
|Last Verified:
|October 2016
Behavior, Addictive
Compulsive Behavior
Impulsive Behavior
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Analgesics, Opioid
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Antitussive Agents
Respiratory System Agents


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Improving the energy efficiency of buildings
The Code for Sustainable Homes is the national standard for the sustainable design and construction of new homes. It aims to reduce carbon emissions and promote higher standards of sustainable design above the current minimum standards set out in the building regulations.
The code provides 9 categories of sustainable design:
- Energy & CO2 emissions
- Water
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- Waste
- Pollution
- Health and well-being
- Management
- Ecology
Each dwelling will be awarded a rating from one to six stars depending on the level required by your Local Authority.
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Aggression is widespread among the animal kingdom yet its causation, function and theoretical underpinnings are not well understood. In a new paper in American Naturalist, authors Allen, Akkaynak, Schnell, and Hanlon present a fortuitous field observation of intense fighting between two male European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) for a female in a natural setting in the Turkish Aegean Sea. The imagery recorded during this encounter (watch their video at https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0PR7SX4) enabled the authors to describe the animals' aggression in the context of game theory, using models of fighting behavior. The males engaged in a series of aggressive bouts that escalated in intensity from skin pattern and posture displays to vicious physical fighting complete with dramatic grappling, biting, and rolling.
"Dramatic fighting by male cuttlefish for a female mate"
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Justine J. Allen, Derya Akkaynak, Alexandra K. Schnell, and Roger T. Hanlon
The authors found that the male cuttlefish resolved conflict by progressing through successive phases of aggression while maintaining a similar rate of escalation. This suggests that the animals are monitoring the aggressive behavior of their opponent, rather than simply gauging their own fighting behavior. Although this conclusion is based on just one observation of wild animals, the authors cautiously suggest that this pattern of fighting behavior might follow some of the predictions of a mutual assessment strategy rather than a self-assessment strategy in this species.
These findings encourage the investigation of the intricate details of competition to further our understanding of aggressive behaviors, which are fundamental to winning both short-term contests and long-term evolutionary success. Rare and exciting field observations like these complement and guide laboratory experiments by validating or refuting previous studies. Moreover, they inspire future lines of inquiry since the best way to build our understanding of the life history of a species is to study and analyze freely behaving animals in nature. Read the Article


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Casio Announces New Hybrid LED-Laser Projector Models
Casio announced six new models in its SLIM line of hybrid LED-laser projectors at the Consumer Electronics Show this week: the XJ-A141, XJ-A146, XJ-A241, XJ-A246, XJ-A251 and XJ-A256.
Each weighing five pounds, the new SLIM projectors are 1.7 inches high, which, according to Casio, makes them the thinnest high-brightness projectors in the industry. A wide-angle 2X power zoom lens allows an extensive range of projection distance. Three of Casio's new SLIM projectorsthe XJ-A146, XJ-A246 and XJ-A256are equipped with USB capabilities, MobiShow, wireless presentation capability, and a presentation timer.
MobiShow makes business presentations possible from most popular mobile devices using only a Wi-Fi connection. MobiShow is compatible with Microsoft Windows Mobile, iPhone, iPad, and Android operating systems. Additionally, the SLIM USB models have the ability to make wireless presentations from Mac computers. Up to 32 computers can be connected at one time and users can also view up to four PCs on an individual screen simultaneously.
The built-in presentation timer function lets users keep track of time and ensure all presentations are done in a timely fashion. A compact window is displayed in the corner of the screen and lets both the presenter and audience know how much time is left for the presentation.
The latest introductions in the SLIM lineup feature innovative functions such as Intelligent Brightness Control, an ECO function that minimizes power consumption by using no more than the level of brightness actually required all while illuminating sharp imagery. Intelligent Brightness Control utilizes a built-in light sensor to automatically adjust the brightness level of the projection to suit the lighting conditions of any room. Brightness can be adjusted continuously and smoothly due to the laser and LED hybrid light source, a feature not possible with traditional mercury lamps.
The SLIM projectors are powered by Casio's laser and LED hybrid light source and DLP technology that provides lamp-free, eco-friendly data projection at a fraction of the cost of traditional projectors. Casio's laser and LED hybrid light source Source combines blue laser light and a fluorescent element to generate a high output of green light. The green light, blue laser light, and the light emitted by a red LED are projected through a DLP chip which, in turn, is passed through the projection lens to form an image. This technology achieves an increase in color spectrum compared with a mercury lamp, while lowering a projector's total cost of ownership and maximizing investment.
The new SLIM models will be available for $999.99 to $1,499.99 and are covered by a three-year parts and labor warranty including 6,000 hours on the laser and LED hybrid light source.


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The October guitar making course has just finished and it was great to see three lovely guitars spring from my new workshop here in Llanidloes, Mid Wales. The guys (who had travelled from France. South Wales and Liverpool) all produced very finely built instruments with great attention to detail including some nice inlay. They all played beautifully and sounded superb. Here's a quote from one of them just received,
"Thanks Richard, I'm still on Cloud 9!
Thank you again for a wonderful experience and making sure we delivered on beautiful, looking and sounding instruments."
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It's been a while since I last posted, but there was a reason! I went back home to visit my family for the Easter break and the only thing I wanted was to relax & forget that crazy-busy life in London. However, as I've stayed in Lithuania only for a week, it has been such a rush all the time that I didn't manage to do everything that was planned and meet all the people I wanted...Well, at least now I know that I need to go back home more often than every 6 months!
As soon as our plane landed in London, we've got the best surprise ever - amazing weather! I've actually fell as I was in Barcelona when I stepped out of a plane. I was waiting for this season A LOT as it's definitely my favourite one! London is just a different city during the spring/summer seasons, it's so alive, full of positive emotions and smiling people everywhere. Believe me, when you live in London, these little things make your life much easier and happier as all those rushing moments, busy weekdays become less exhausting.
While I was back home, I just couldn't miss visiting Julia Janus store. It's my second collaboration with this brand and I'm so pleased to work with them as I just love the quality and original pieces they create. I've picked this super light white top which is soooo soft, you can even feel it on your skin! Especially in spring, I always want light fabrics, not only in colour but also in the texture. I'm sure this top will be my favourite as it goes so easily with black leather pants (which are my fave) and basically any shoes!
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Networked Computers with Aquarium 2010 02 February 2010
What do all the green squares in the image below represent?
Seasoned Aquarium users will immediately recognize that this is a screen-shot of the Aquarium status bar (split into two lines) where each square represents one chess engine (Rybka in this case). What is unusual here is the huge number of chess engines: thirty-four instances of Rybka, all analyzing at the same time, running on a network of computers! It is an amazing experience to have so much analysis power at your fingertips.
In the following, a "local engine" is used to describe an engine running on the same computer as Aquarium, but a "remote engine" runs on a different computer.
The Benefit of Analysis on Networked Computers
A single chess engine can only use the CPUs of the computer on which it is running. At least this applies to currently available chess engines. Using Aquarium as a central point for managing multiple chess engines running on a network of computers gives you additional computing power, which can be used in various ways to speed up and improve your analysis.
More computing power can be used to get faster results, which is important if you have limited time or if you simply want to use more time for other things. You can analyze deeper, or examine more positions and games in the same amount of time.
The additional computer(s) allow you to run more chess engines at the same time; e.g., to get a "second opinion" of a position. You can view the position from various angles by letting a few engines (Rybka, Shredder, etc.) analyze in single variation mode while others use multi-variation analysis and perhaps one engine analyzes the opponent's threats at the same time. The new IDeA (Interactive Deep Analysis) version in Aquarium 2010 was also designed to take advantage of a network of computers for its analysis.
Practically anyone who has access to two or more computers can take advantage of chess analysis on networked computers with Aquarium 2010, even if the computers are in different countries!
In general, the players that will benefit most from the additional analysis power of networked computers are the more serious top-level players, correspondence players, opening analysts, etc.
Few users have access to the computing power required to run as many engines as shown above, but as soon as you have one additional computer hooked up to your Aquarium, new opportunities for analysis arise.
Even if you never use more than one chess engine at the same time for your analysis, you may still want to consider using a remote engine. It gives you more flexibility and allows you to use the engine from different computers. You can, for instance, run the engine on your most powerful computer and use it from Aquarium running on your laptop, whenever that suits you. With a little computer network knowledge you can even access it via the Internet.
The more advanced your analysis techniques are and the more computers you have, the more Aquarium's networked engine approach has to offer. If you use IDeA, either alone or in combination with infinite analysis, the networked approach is a very attractive option.
Of course the basic requirement is that you actually have access to networked computers to take advantage of the analysis features that are the subject of this column. If you do have access to networked computers, the addition of remote engines never limits your existing analysis options, but adds new ones. Therefore, the only question is how much you will benefit from the addition of remote engines. The simpler your analysis methods are the less you will gain. As an example, a user who never uses analysis presets, always analyzes with a single engine, and doesn't use IDeA will gain much less than someone who uses multiple engines, analysis presets, and IDeA.
If you own two computers, but they are not connected on a network, you can still use them both for analysis (although you can't use remote engines), as you are allowed to install Aquarium on computers that you own. For some types of analysis, it is a question of working habits and whether you prefer the networked engine approach or separate instances of Aquarium running on different computers.
The Types of Analysis on Networked Computers
Remote engines can be used for any type of analysis in Aquarium:
Remote engines can also be used in matches and tournaments, except for Randomizer matches.
How to Use a Remote Engine in Aquarium
I assume that you have already installed Aquarium 2010. We will call the computer where Aquarium is running the "master computer." Now you want to set up a remote engine on another computer (a "slave computer") and then use it from Aquarium. The following steps are required:
1. Install the engine and engine server software on the slave computer.
These three steps are described below. After you have completed them, you can use the remote engine for analysis in Aquarium.
Installing a Remote Engine Server
Besides the engine itself, you need to install the RTHomeServer (which is available as a free download) on the slave computer. For simplicity, I will install both components into the same directory.
1a) Create a directory and copy the engine you want to use into the new directory.
1b) Download the RTHomeServer and save the downloaded file into the new directory.
1c) Extract RTHomeServer.rar (with WinRar or WinZip). After that you should see several files in the new directory, including RTSingleServer.exe, which is the remote engine server.
Now, all the required software is available and the next step is to configure the remote engine server.
Configuring the Remote Engine Server
One of the files contained in the new directory is RTSingleServer.ini, which contains the engine server configuration. At this stage, the goal is to get the server up and running, so I will only change the essential parameters.
2a) Open RTSingleServer.ini with a text editor, such as Notepad.
2b) Note the second line in the file: port=7788. The port number specified here (7788) is needed later on for the remote engine setup within Aquarium as described below.
2c) The third line in the file is engine=rybka.exe. Change rybka.exe to the name of the engine you are going to use (the one you copied to the new directory in step 1a above). An example is engine=Rybka 3 1-cpu w32.exe. Here I use the single-core version of Rybka 3 32-bit. Save the changes you have made and exit Notepad.
Finally, you need to find the IP address of the computer running the engine server. If you don't know what an IP address is or how to find it, see the next two sections. You need the IP address when setting up the remote engine in Aquarium.
The IP Address
Every computer on a network has a unique identifying number, called an IP address. A typical IP address on your local network might look like this:
IP addresses are normally expressed as a "dotted decimal number" like the one above.
If a program needs to communicate with another computer on a network, it must to know its IP address. As an example, when Aquarium wants to use a remote engine it needs to know the IP address of the slave computer where the engine server is running.
The following describes how you can find the IP address of a computer running Windows 7, Vista, XP, or 2000.
1. Click Start and then select All Programs (Windows 7, Vista, and XP) or Programs (2000).
The output from the command will display the IP address (or IPv4 address if you are using Windows 7 or Vista). The example shown in the image below comes from Windows XP. The IP address is highlighted.
Adding a Remote Engine to Aquarium 2010
At this point you should have completed the configuration of the remote engine server and have the following information handy:
1. The IP address of the remote engine server
Start Aquarium on the master computer and switch to Engines view by clicking the Engines button in the sidebar. Click the Add button to install the remote engine. The "New engine properties" dialog box will be brought up.
Here you must set Type to "Remote UCI" and give the engine a name (I have selected "Remote Rybka 1" in this example). Next, click the Setup button in the lower left corner.
Server is the IP address of the slave computer where the remote engine server runs.
Port is the port number that is specified in the configuration file of the remote engine server.
User is not used in the current version of the remote engine server. Set it to anything you like. "MyUsername" is used in the example shown in the image.
Pass is your password, but it's not used in the current version of the remote engine server. Set it to anything you like. "MyPassword" is used in this example.
Reconnect can be left as it is.
After specifying the parameters, click OK, and then OK again, and the remote engine has been configured within Aquarium.
Determining if the Remote Engine was Successfully Installed
Go to the computer where you installed the remote engine server (the slave computer) and start it by double-clicking the RTSingleServer application. The small window shown below should be opened.
The engine server is ready for use. Now you can go to the master computer where you run Aquarium 2010. Start Aquarium and switch to the Sandbox. Select the Analysis tab on the ribbon and click Start Custom.
Here you will see the newly installed remote engine ("Remote Rybka 1" in this example) listed among other installed engines. After selecting the engine, click OK and if everything works as expected, the remote engine will start analyzing the current position.
Look at the computer where the engine server is running to see if a connection is established and the username you selected when installing the engine in Aquarium is listed in the "Users" list.
Running Multiple Remote Engines on the Same Computer
If your slave computer has more than one core, you can use it to run multiple remote engines simultaneously. It is quite common, for instance, that IDeA users analyze with multiple single-core Rybkas on the same computer. When running the engines, you must of course make sure that they don't use more cores than the computer has.
Each additional remote engine requires its own engine server software and must be installed into a separate directory. Otherwise, the process for installation and configuration is the same as described above, except that each server must use a unique port number. When we installed the engine server above, we left the port number unchanged in the configuration file (7788). For the next engine server on the same computer, you could use port number 7789, 7790 for the third one, etc. You also need to use these port numbers when you install each remote engine in Aquarium. If all the engine servers are running on the same slave computer, the IP address would be the same, of course.
Let's say that you want to install four single-core Rybkas on a quad computer. You would start by creating four directories and copy the engine and the engine server software into all of them. After that you would edit the configuration file in each directory and change the engine and the port number as explained above. Finally, you would go to the master computer, start Aquarium, and install the four remote engines. They would all use the same IP address (since they are located on the same computer), but different port numbers.
Using Remote Engines on Two Different Computers
There is no hard limit on the number of slave computers that Aquarium can control. Simply install the engine and engine server on each slave computer as explained above. Note that it is OK to use the same port numbers on different computers. If you have two dual core computers and wish to run two single-core engines on both of them, you can use port numbers 7788 and 7789 on both computers.
It is best to test each remote engine in Aquarium after it has been installed, so you discover any problems as early as possible.
Connecting to Remote Engines Across the Internet
You can run engines on the master computer where Aquarium is running, computers on your local area network, and computers connected over the Internet all at the same time. It doesn't matter where in the world the slave computers are located as long as you can connect to them.
Changing the Hash Size of a Remote Engine
By default, the hash size of remote engines is 32MB, regardless of your settings in Aquarium. You can either edit the configuration file and set the hash size to a different value or modify it so that the value specified in Aquarium overrides the default value in the engine server.
Open the configuration file (RTSingleServer.ini) with Notepad and look for the following lines:
Here you can change the default hash size to a different value. Just remember, that the more remote engines you are going to run on a computer the lower the value must be.
The reason why the server doesn't allow you to change the hash size from Aquarium can be found in the [client] section of the configuration file:
By default, the options listed in the [client] section can't be changed from Aquarium. If you remove the first line in the section (Hash=), the hash size specified in Aquarium will be used for the remote engine.
Also note that by default Max CPUs cannot be changed from Aquarium unless you also remove the third line shown above, "Max CPUs=."
Advanced users should be able to understand most of the options in the configuration file by reading the comments and by having a look at the read-me file.
Analysis on networked computers gives you more flexibility and additional analysis power. In this column I have explained how to install and configure remote engines. After that you can use them just like any other engine in Aquarium. When used for infinite analysis, remote engines are a perfect match for Aquarium's analysis presets, which have good support for multi-engine analysis. Remote engines are also ideal for IDeA analysis as many Aquarium 2010 users have already discovered.
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One year after Woodruff Construction finished building this cleanroom at the University of Iowa, it is being used for many course offerings in the fascinating field of nanotechnology. Working at atomic and molecular levels, researchers have the potential to make great advancements in science and technology, with applications ranging from electronic devices to medicine.
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(Down Syndrome)
Down syndrome is a genetic condition in which a person has 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
In most cases, Down syndrome occurs when there is an extra copy of chromosome 21. This form of Down syndrome is called Trisomy 21. The extra chromosome causes problems with the way the body and brain develop.
Down syndrome is the most common single cause of human birth defects.
Down syndrome symptoms vary from person to person and can range from mild to severe.However, children with Down syndrome have a widely recognized appearance.
The head may be smaller than normal and abnormally shaped. For example, the head may be round with a flat area on the back. The inner corner of the eyes may be rounded instead of pointed.
Common physical signs include:
Decreased muscle tone at birth
Excess skin at the nape of the neck
Flattened nose
Separated joints between the bones of the skull (sutures)
Single crease in the palm of the hand
Small ears
Small mouth
Upward slanting eyes
Wide, short hands with short fingers
White spots on the colored part of the eye (Brush field spots)
Physical development is often slower than normal. Most children with Down syndrome never reach their average adult height.
Children may also have delayed mental and social development. Common problems may include:
Impulsive behavior
Poor judgment
Short attention span
Slow learning
As children with Down syndrome grow and become aware of their limitations,they may also feel frustration and anger.
Many different medical conditions are seen in people with Down syndrome,including:
Birth defects involving the heart, such as an atrial septal defect or ventricular septal defect
Dementia may be seen
Eye problems, such as cataracts (most children with Down syndrome need glasses)
Early and massive vomiting, which may be a sign of a gastrointestinal blockage,such as esophageal atresia and duodenal atresia
Hearing problems, probably caused by regular ear infections
Hip problems and risk of dislocation
Long-term (chronic) constipation problems
Sleep apnea (because the mouth, throat, and airway are narrowed in children with Down syndrome)
Teeth that appear later than normal and in a location that may cause problems with chewing
Under active thyroid (hypothyroidism)
Sign Sand Tests
A doctor can often make an initial diagnosis of Down syndrome at birth based on how the baby looks. The doctor may hear a heart murmur when listening to the baby's chest with a stethoscope.
A blood test can be done to check for the extra chromosome and confirm the diagnosis.See: Chromosome studies
Other tests that may be done include:
Echo cardiogram to check for heart defects (usually done soon after birth)
X-rays of the chest and gastrointestinal tract
Persons with Down syndrome need to be closely screened for certain medical conditions.They should have:
Eye exam every year during infancy
Hearing tests every 6 - 12 months, depending on age
Dental exams every 6 months
X-rays of the upper or cervical spine between ages 3 - 5 years
Pap smears and pelvic exams beginning during puberty or by age 21
Thyroid testing every 12 months
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George Geoffrey Codrington
Commander George Geoffrey Codrington, R.N., Retired (2 May, 1874 – 29 September, 1946) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Codrington was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1895.[1]
Codrington was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1903.
On 16 June 1904, Codrington's destroyer Sparrowhawk was patrolling the mouth of the Yangtze with Whiting and Janus. Codrington led the trio to an anchorage at the northern end of Raffles Island and struck an object at 3.08pm, initiating flooding in his forward stokehold, which was evacuated and sealed as she settled on the obstruction, stabilized by anchors. As the high tide approached, Sparrowhawk's fore guns were unshipped and moved aft and the contents of her forward magazines passed to her consorts. Though this allowed her to be floated free at 11pm and the battleship Glory arrived and came alongside with pumps, the water advanced and the destroyer was lost at 7am the next day, sinking by the head. Codrington was not blamed for the loss, as the danger which had befallen his command was found to be uncharted and no due caution was left unexercised.[2]
Codrington was promoted to the rank of Acting Commander on 22 June, 1916.
Codrington was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 15 September, 1919. On 20 September, he was promoted to Commander (retired), dated 15 September.
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|Naval Appointments
|Preceded by
Harry C. J. R. West
|Captain of H.M.S. Porcupine
23 Jan, 1902[3] – 1 Aug, 1902
|Succeeded by
Robert C. Hamilton
|Preceded by
Robert G. D. Dewar
|Captain of H.M.S. Hardy
1902 – 14 Jan, 1903
|Succeeded by
Frederick B. Noble
|Preceded by
Basil A. Austen
|Captain of H.M.S. Angler
1 Aug, 1902 – 1902
|Succeeded by
Robert C. Hamilton
|Preceded by
Charles P. Mansel
|Captain of H.M.S. Otter
14 Jan, 1903[4] – 28 Oct, 1903
|Succeeded by
John Kiddle
|Preceded by
Oscar V. de Satgé
|Captain of H.M.S. Sparrowhawk
29 Oct, 1903 – 17 Jun, 1904[5]
|Succeeded by
|Preceded by
Archibald C. Goolden
|Captain of H.M.S. Leopard
3 Jan, 1905 – 31 Jul, 1905
|Succeeded by
Walter L. Allen
|Preceded by
New Command
|Captain of H.M.S. Wear
31 Jul, 1905[6] – 17 Apr, 1906
|Succeeded by
Thomas N. James
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 16.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 17.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 293.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 287.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 17.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 397.