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Turn out perfect quick breads, yeast breads and pound cakes time after time in our professional-weight loaf pan. Made in the USA, the pan is fashioned from heavy-gauge aluminum-coated steel to promote even baking for consistent results.
- Commercial-grade aluminized steel distributes heat quickly and evenly for consistent baking results.
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- Before first use, hand-wash the pans in warm water with mild dishwashing soap.
- Due to this bakeware's heat efficiency, we suggest monitoring the oven temperature and baking time for the first few uses, then making adjustments to recipes as necessary.
- Use only wood, silicone or plastic utensils to avoid scratching the surface.
- Do not cut baked goods while they are in the pan.
- Pan will darken slightly with use. This is normal and will enhance its performance.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by VelkySyr from Excellent loaf pan!! I'm writing this review just before ordering my 2nd one of these loaf pans. Perfect for baking. Heavy, well made, fabulous value even if it were twice as expensive.Date published: 2019-02-03Rated 1 out of 5 by Dishshopper from Disappointed I love Williams Sonoma cookware so was looking forward to making bread in the bread pans I bought there. They are super heavy but my bread didn't brown and it was difficult to take the pans out of the oven because there is nothing to hold onto. It was a two handed operation. I thought they would be great for bread but I was disappointed in how my bread turned out.Date published: 2018-01-24Rated 2 out of 5 by BillBr from Excellent quality pan with Poor logo placement Pan is of excellent quality with smooth sides and makes a lovely baked loaf. Ease to clean. Not pictured is the large Williams Sonoma logo embossed on the bottom of the pan - giving each of your homemade loaves an ugly imprint. I realize it's on the bottom of the loaves, and I (the baker) am the only person that will likely see it - but I find it quite distasteful and would have at least liked to see this in the product photographs before purchasing.Date published: 2016-08-26Rated 5 out of 5 by KittyBean from Perfect for Baking Bread Absolutely the BEST pans I have ever had. I wouldn't use anything, but this pan. I bought two and will definitely buy more.Date published: 2015-12-21Rated 5 out of 5 by erikasmith05 from Happy with the Basics I own this one and the Goldtouch Nonstick pan and have been using for several years. I always use each of these at the same time because a lot of quick bread recipes call for two pans, so it is fun to compare the results. The Goldtouch turns out a lot darker, but yes the bread slides out easier. However, the color and texture of the bread is perfect in the Traditional finish, and I think the bread comes out tastier and less chewy on the surface. I just have to run a thin plastic knife around the edge of the bread to release but that is no issue. I also just soak both pans for several hours for cleanup, and they are a breeze to rinse off. The key is to soak right away. I came back to this product description because I am going to buy another one of this traditional finish loaf pan. It keeps winning the bakeoff every time! (I use for meatloaf, wheat bread, quick bread, etc).)Date published: 2013-11-21Rated 5 out of 5 by NatalieCH from My best loaf pans I make bread about twice a week and these are my favorite pans. They are heavy and seem to help the bread bake evenly. They also clean up easily too.Date published: 2013-08-29Rated 5 out of 5 by NChomecook from Fantastic Loaf Pan This pan is heavy-duty, high-quality, and makes perfect bread every time. I love it. And I love the traditional finish. I plan on using this pan forever. Others have mentioned difficulty cleaning, but I disagree. This is certainly not difficult at all. If something is stuck in the corner, soak the pan in water for a few minutes and then use a toothpick to scrape out the corner. I have never had a problem getting food out of the corner. Alternatively, use extra grease in the corners with the seams.Date published: 2013-03-25Rated 2 out of 5 by Arista137 from Wish I had read the reviews before buying this... I bought 2 of these pans because I own many pieces of Williams-Sonoma bakeware and love it all... however, this is an item I regret purchasing. Although they cook evenly and are durable, these pans are very difficult to clean because food gets stuck in the corner seams, just as other reviewers have stated. I know others have said you just need to use a toothpick to scrape the food out, but I feel that it is unacceptable to have to go to such great lengths to clean this product. It needs redesigned in order to be worth the price and to live up to the quality Williams-Sonoma is known for. Between working, being the mom of a busy toddler, and keeping my home, the last thing I want to do is spend 5-10 extra minutes tediously cleaning the corners of these pans. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone, but especially not to anyone who values convenience and quick clean up in the kitchen.Date published: 2012-01-10
Is this product coated with non stick chemicals? HI Shimo, Our Traditionaltouch bakeware is uncoated. The commercial finish is designed for traditional pan preparation methods, such as greasing and flouring or you may use Silpat or parchment paper.Date published: 2019-11-22

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Today is my last day at ThinkProgress, after four exciting years of reporting on the front lines of climate and energy politics. The experience has taken me from Biloxi to Copenhagen, from New Hampshire to Cancun. I've gotten to publish guest bloggers from John Kerry to Van Jones, from Bill McKibben to Paulina Borsook. And I've been privileged to share my own perspective on this special moment in history.
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The unique journey of Ravens offensive lineman Ramon Harewood from Barbados to the NFL is something he hopes will be repeated by his countrymen.
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Harewood grew up in Barbados as a track and field athlete who also played rugby and volleyball before enrolling at Morehouse on an academic scholarship after scoring a 1340 SAT score. He was eventually convinced to join the football team. A five-game starter for the Ravens last season at left offensive guard, Harewood was drafted in the sixth round by the Ravens three years ago.
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Sanders scored the resignation of party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a nemesis in the primaries, but that wasn't enough to quell the anger of supporters. As the convention opened, they still erupted in chants of "Bernie" and booed Clinton the first several times her name was mentioned. Outside the convention hall, several hundred marched down Philadelphia's sweltering streets with signs carrying messages such as "Never Hillary."
Behind the scenes, Sanders and Clinton aides joined forces to try to ease tensions. Clinton's campaign quickly added more Sanders' supporters to the speakers lineup. Sanders sent urgent messages to supporters asking them not to protest.
By the time Sanders took the stage for the night's closing address, much of the anger had been overshadowed by speeches promoting party unity. Sanders did his part, imploring his supporters to consider a country under Trump's leadership.
"If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country," he said.
President Bill Clinton, watching from the audience, leapt to his feet and applauded, as did most of the delegates filling the convention arena.
Sanders spoke just after Massachusetts. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals who has emerged as one of the Democrats' toughest critics of Trump.
"Donald Trump has no real plans for jobs, for college kids, for seniors," she said in the keynote address. "No plans to make anything great for anyone except rich guys like Donald Trump."
Mrs. Obama was one of the night's standouts. While she has often avoided overt politics during her nearly eight years in the White House, her frustration with Trump's rise was evident. She warned that the White House couldn't be in the hands of someone with "a thin skin or a tendency to lash out" or someone who tells voters the country can be great again.
"This right now, is the greatest country on earth," she said.
Clinton's campaign hoped the nighttime line-up would overshadow a tumultuous start to the four-day convention. The hacked DNC emails fed the suspicion of Sanders' supporters and sapped Clinton's campaign of some of its energy following a well-received rollout Saturday of her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
Campaigning in North Carolina, Trump seemed to revel in the Democrats' commotion, telling supporters that Clinton made a mistake by not choosing a more liberal running mate to appease Sanders' base. "Crazy Bernie's going crazy right now," he said.
But in Philadelphia, Delegates waved "Love Trumps Hate" signs and cheered as immigration supporters, gay rights advocates, and labor leaders took the stage.
Comedian-turned-Sen. Al Franken, a Clinton supporter, and actress Sarah Silverman, a Sanders supporter, made a joint appearance to promote party unity.
"I am proud to be part of Bernie's movement," Silverman said as the crowd roared. "And a vital part of that movement is making absolutely sure Hillary Clinton is our next president of the United States."
Trump was a frequent target throughout the night, though the jabs were often more mocking than mean. The tone was a sharp contrast to the Republican convention, where the attacks against Clinton was bitingly personal, including chants of "Lock her up."
Wasserman Schultz had planned to be among those taking the stage, despite the email hacking controversy. But she stepped aside, bowing to pressure from Democrats who feared the mere sight of her on stage would prompt strong opposition.
The outgoing chairwoman did watch the gathering from a private suite at the arena.
A breakfast for California's delegates Monday morning faced protesters, with speakers including California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, interrupted with boos by Sanders supporters each time they spoke about Clinton.
Pelosi said on stage she didn't take offense to the protests and spoke of the need to unite to defeat Trump. But for many of the Sanders delegates, simply voting for Clinton to defeat Trump would not suffice.
"We want to make our voices heard for a real Democratic alternative, " said 41-year-old California delegate Joey Aszterbaum. "It's not enough for the platform and the speakers to mention Trump all the time. What's important is for us to stand for what we believe in."
Many supporters in the crowd spoke about their discontent with Clinton's willingness to change her stance on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and fracking and called her a "liar."
"My voters do not want Hillary, my voters are very angry at how Bernie was treated through the primary," said 23-year-old California delegate Natalie Higley.
Higley said she's felt denigrated by Clinton supporters since arriving in Philadelphia on Sunday.
Sanders' delegates were waiting to see whether the Vermont senator frees them to vote for Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's roll call.
Nebraska delegate Jeff Leanna said the topic was a top discussion item at a breakfast meeting involving his state, Colorado and Nevada. He said regional members of the Clinton campaign were reaching out to some delegates to see if they would be willing to switch. He added he's willing to cross over if Sanders agrees to release them during a private meeting with delegates Monday.
Louise Edington of Utah said most in her delegation also were discussing but not revealing what they might do. Sanders won that state with nearly 80 percent of the vote.
Sanders won 1,846 pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses.
NBC's Kate Guarino and Associated Press writers Kathleen Hennessey, Catherine Lucey, Kathleen Ronayne, Lisa Lerer and Jeff Karoub contributed to this report..


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From: eLinux.org
Tims Notes on ARM memory allocation
This page has a collection of notes that I made while working on the stack limit patches for Sony. This was a set of patches that tried to map kernel memory areas as 4K pages, so that an individual page of the stack could be unmapped, and a page fault generated, when stack space was running low. (This was related to testing an implementation of 4K stacks on ARM).
These notes are placed here in the hopes that they will be useful for someone working on ARM memory management.
startup memory
At start up the kernel (usually) automatically determines the physical memory areas. However, the user can manually specify one or more physical memory areas using "mem=..." kernel command line options. When used, these override any automatically determined values. These are parsed by early_mem().
The initial description of physical memory regions are stored in the global 'meminfo' structure, and each region is described as a 'bank'. Some initial physical memory is utilized by the bootmem allocator. It is from this pool of physical memory, that the page tables are built, which allows the MMU to be turned on, and the kernel switched over to virtual memory. Once this process is done, the bootmem pool is freed and all system pages are turned over to the various page and slab allocators of the system. A good reference for this is Mel Gorman's excellent book on the topic: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager The prior link is to the PDF, here's a link to html: http://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/ Chapter 5 talks about the bootmem allocator.
page tables
The page tables are, unsurprisingly, initialized by paging_init(). ARM uses a somewhat weird way of mapping the Linux page tables onto the ARM hardware tables. This method is described in comments in the file arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h, with additional macros defined in pgtable-hwdef.h and page.h. Basically, Linux supports 4 levels (pgd, pud, pmd, and pte), and ARM maps this onto 2 levels (pgd/pmd and pte). The nomenclature in the code is hard to follow, because Linux generic code thinks that pgd is the top level of page tables, but internally the ARM code uses pmd macros to refer to the top hardware page table.
Originally, Linux used 4KB mappings for ARM, but they have converted over to mostly 1MB mappings (at least for the Linux kernel). According to my colleague, Frank Rowand, bad things happen if a physical page is represented in the page table by more than one entry (for example, if a physical page has both an entry as a small page in a second-level page table, and is inside a region covered by a large "section" page entry in a first-level page table.
At the hardware level, ARM supports two page table trees simultaneously, using the hardware registers TTBR0 and TTBR1. A virtual address is mapped to a physical address by the CPU depending on settings in TTBRC. This control register has a field which sets a split point in the address space. Addresses below the cutoff value are mapped through the page tables pointed to by TTBR0, and addresses above the cutoff value are mapped through TTBR1. TTBR0 is unique per-process, and is in current->mm.pgd (That is, current->mm.pgd == TTBR0 for that process). That is, when a context switch occurs, the kernel sets TTBR0 to the current->mm.pgd for new process. TTBR1 is global for the whole system, and represents the page tables for the kernel. It is referenced in the global kernel variable swapper_pg_dir. Note that both of these addresses are virtual addresses. You can find the physical address of the first-level page table by using virt_to_phys() functions on these addresses.
I found the following ARM reference material helpful in trying to understand the page table layout: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0333h/Babbhigi.html
- this is the chapter on the MMU in the ARM1176JZ-S Technical Reference Manual. In particular, diagram 6.9 showing ARMv6 section, supersection and page translation, in section 6.11.2 of the manual is very useful. It is here.
Note that in particular, the second-level page table (PTE) layout is weird. The ARM hardware supports 1K tables at this level (256 entries of 4bytes each). However, the Linux kernel needs some bits that are not provided on some hardware (like DIRTY and YOUNG). These are synthesized by the ARM MMU code via permissions and faulting, effectively making them software-managed. They have to be stored outside the hardware tables, but still in a place where the kernel can get to them easily. In order to keep things aligned into units of 4K, the kernel therefore keeps 2 hardware second-level page tables and 2 parallel arrays (totalling 512 entries) on a single page. When a new second-level page table is created, it is created 512 entries at a time, with the hardware entries at the top of the table, and Linux software entries (synthesized flags and values) at the bottom.
The kernel has a mixture of 1MB mappings and 4KB mappings. This relieves some pressure on the TLB, which is used by the CPU to cache virtual-to-physical address translations.
The page tables and paging infrastructure are initialized as follows:
- paging_init() is called by setup_arch() after the meminfo
structure has been initialized and the bootmem allocator is ready.
It calls the following routines:
- memblock_set_current_limit()
- build_mem_type_table() - builds a table of memory types. This has the page protection flags that are available for different memory types, for the current ARM processor. Different ARM processors have changed what flags they use, and where they are located in the page table entries, over the years. the 'mem_types' table encapsulates the settings for the running processor.
- prepare_page_table() - this zeros out certain areas of the first-level page table (called pmd in this routine). For example, it zeros out the areas of the page table that will be covered by user-space (areas below the start of the kernel address space).
- map_lowmem() - create the memory mappings (page table entries) for the lower portions of kernel memory. This is the "normal" memory that will be used by the kernel for static code and data, stack, and regular dynamic allocations.
- devicemaps_init() - create the memory mappings for special CPU areas (e.g. cache flushing regions, and interrupt vectors) and reserved IO areas in the memory map.
- kmap_init() - create the memory mapping for highmen ('pkmap')
A call tree for a regular page table setup is:
alloc_init_pud() - for a range of pgd entries
alloc_init_section() - for a range of "pud" entries
*pmd = __pmd(<stuff>) - actually set the pmd/pgd entries for a SECTION mapping
early_pte_alloc() - to get a page for the pte table
pte_offset_kernel() - get address of 'linux' portion of pte table page
set_pte_ext(<stuff>) - create the individual PTE entries, for a range of entries
=> cpu_set_pte_ext() - macro to wrapper calling through a cpu-specific routine
=> processor.set_pte_ext() - function pointer to cpu-specific routine
=> cpu_armXXX_set_pte_ext() or cpu_procvX_set_pte_ext - cpu-specific-routine
set_pte_ext ('set page table entry extended') takes the following arguments:
- pte - pointer to pte entry to change (the address of the linux entry
- not the 'hardware' entry)
- value - the value to place in the entry - this is usually created with the macro pfn_pte(x,y), where x has the page frame number (physical address of the page for this mapping), and y represents the protection flags for the page. This should be the 'linux' flags for the page.
- value2 - the value to place in the "extended" or "extra" entry
Note that the assembly routine for this, which is cpu-specific, will take the Linux PTE values and derive appropriate hardware mappings for the hardware PTE entry.
- pgd = page global directory
- pud = page upper directory
- pmd = page middle directory
- pte = page table entry (this is confusion, 'pte' can refer to both
the table and an entry in the table)
- ptep = pointer to pte entry
- pfn = page frame number = the base address (no bottom bits) of a physical page address


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'Sinister Six' Movie Will Be a Tale of Redemption
Sony has plans for two more 'Amazing Spider-Man' movies, as well as spin-offs for villains, including Spidey's greatest foes: the Sinister Six. And while they are the most villainous of the villains, the producers say we can expect a slightly different take on their story when it comes time for their tale to be told in the 'Sinister Six' film, which is being helmed by director Drew Goddard.
Over at IGN, producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach divulged more details regarding the upcoming 'Sinister Six' spin-off film, in which the villains will get their moment in the spotlight. The original Sinister Six line-up included Doctor Octopus, Electro (who we'll be seeing in 'Amazing Spider-Man 2'), Sandman, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, and Mysterio. But as it's their film, they won't necessarily be portrayed as the villains. Tolmach says:
There's no such thing as just a villain. There are villains by virtue of choices that people make but they always begin as humans, as characters. As flawed people; as tragic people. You know great movies have been made about a bunch of bad guys who get together to do something.
So it seems like we'll be getting something of a more shaded approach to the Sinister Six -- a group of guys who come together with more complex motivations and intentions than just, you know, being bad guys who gang up on Spider-Man.
Arad clarifies that the Sinister Six are indeed united by their hatred for Spider-Man, and that their story is one driven by redemption:
And everybody's looking for redemption; they're unforgiven. Would you see one of the Sinister Six starting to feel like that? Yes. And people love it, by the way. They love when a villain finds his way back because we're all very forgiving.
When asked if Spider-Man would be making an appearance in the 'Sinister Six,' Tolmach was elusive, as expected:
We're definitely not going to say what we're doing in terms of Spider-Man there.
You can read more insights from Arad and Tolmach over at IGN, but what do you guys think about this approach to the Sinister Six? It seems like they're taking a sort of anti-hero approach rather than an outright villainous one, and we can sort of get behind that concept.


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Why isn't Kurt Vonnegut's influence seen in more video games? I couldn't help but wonder that after playing through Vonneguts & Glory, a new (very short) browser game by Shaun Inman based on Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
It's a weird little thing, a shooter that is unstuck in time — you move backwards, picking up from your death and "unshooting" enemies, bringing them back to life and healing yourself. It's got a pretty cool soundtrack, as well.
The game was created as part of the 7 Day FPS Challenge, which tasks players with creating a first person shooter… in… seven days. OK you probably guessed that.
The short development time explains Vonneguts & Glory's brevity, but it's fun to imagine where a developer could take this idea if given more time. Something like Braid combined with Wolfenstein 3-D, I suppose?
I bet Soulja Boy would love this game.
Vonneguts & Glory [Official Page via The Verge]


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This year's summer solstice is on Thursday June 21 - the longest day of the year.
In Leeds the sun will rise at 4:35am and set at 21:41pm, meaning Yorkshire will see around 17 hours of daylight.
Here's where to celebrate the summer solstice here in Yorkshire:-
Ilkley Lido
Ilkley Lido is hosting its annual dawn solstice swim for the sixth year running. The outdoor pool, which has stunning views of the Cow and Calf rocks, opens at 4.45am and entry costs £4. The cafe will be open.
Marsden Moor Estate, near Huddersfield
Take a stroll on the Pennine Way along Milestone Edge to catch the sunset on the longest day of the year. The National Trust-organised family and dog-friendly walk promises far-reaching views across the county.
It's free to attend - meet at the Brun Clough car park at 8pm.
Whitby Pavilion
White Light Events are hosting a solstice festival at Whitby Pavilion featuring pagan-themed activities such as meditation and rune reading.
Entry is £3 and you can drop in throughout the solstice weekend of June 23-24.
Thornborough Henges, near Ripon
Often called the Stonehenge of the North, this ancient monument is a mystical place to watch the sun rise.
Since 2004 pagans, druids and New Age followers have been flocking here for Beltane, which celebrates the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Entry is free.
Rievaulx Terrace, near Helmsley
Watch the sunset on the longest day of the year at Rievaulx Terrace in the North York Moors - near to Rievaulx Abbey. A woodland nature walk has been organised from 7-10pm, and you can bring a picnic. Normal admission fees apply.
Blue Lagoon, near Pontefract
Billed as Yorkshire's premier open water swimming spot, Blue Lagoon is holding a dawn swim on the longest day. The facility opens at 4am, with swimmers allowed into the water for the sunrise at 4.40am. Breakfast is served in the cafe from 6am. Entry is £10 for members and £15 for non-members, including breakfast.
Watch the sunset at two of Todmorden's highest points - the Top Brink Inn pub and the Incredible Farm social enterprise. Meet at 9pm at the bottom of the Calderdale Way for a twilight walk.
And further afield...
Britain's most iconic solstice gathering is at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, which has traditionally held a midsummer festival for druids, pagans and other followers of 'old' religions. Access to the stones was restricted in the 1970s, but the rules are relaxed on the longest day to allow thousands of people to watch the sunrise.


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- Level access (no steps/thresholds) or access by ramp or lift to restaurant / cafe
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- Good contrast between the floor and walls
- Contrast markings on clear surfaces such as glass doors
- Menus available in large print (14pt and over)
- Restaurant / cafe provide meals for visitors with special dietary requirements:
- Lactose free (dairy free)
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- Baby changing facilities
- Restaurant / café well lit and suitable for people with sight impairments
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by HUGH GILMORE
I imagine that some night in the future a hungry person will be able to sit down at the dinner table before an empty plate. He'll pick up an electronic FSD (Food Summoning Device), press a few buttons, and, voilà! – a delicious, steaming hot, perfectly spiced, Chilean sea bass with fragrant rice and baby asparagus will appear. Warm rolls, too, butter if needed, and a nice warm slice of apple pie. Yummy.
On other nights, perhaps, roast beef, chicken, soyburgers, hotdogs, whatever your little heart desires. Just have the purveyor of your choice beam it to you. There'll be menus, choices of ethnicity, formal vs. informal dining, and snack foods too. You'll be billed each time you download, or monthly, via a charge against your account.
The food will taste good after the initial kinks have been eliminated from the system. After a while, it will taste as good as anything you ever remember eating. And it will be filling. And nutritious. You can even order extra, so there's some for lunch tomorrow.
Once in a while, though, you'll sigh and say aloud that you miss the feel of handling three dimensional vegetables and meats. The children will roll their eyes to say, "Not again," and keep eating, hoping the subject of homework does not come up. (There will always be homework – the dinner table will always be the play-at-home version of the Inquisition.)
"No," you'll say, "you don't understand." And once again you'll speak wistfully of those days of your childhood and young adulthood when people had kitchens. (The space in modern homes will have been given over to what is called the "Wii family fun room." Like home treadmills and hot tubs, they'll typically be abandoned after the second week of use.)
"Why back then, there was a neat 'crunch' as you sliced carrots or potatoes. And peas snapping: what a nifty sound!" The kids will say nothing. Silence gives consent, so you'll go on. "You'd crush a clove of garlic and the pungent smell would rush up into your nostrils. Oh boy, you kids would've loved the smell of garlic cooking. You'd walk into the kitchen, and what a rush – your appetite would rise out of nowhere. You couldn't wait to eat. But you'd have to. It took time, maybe a half hour or hour, or even more. And all that time, the house would fill up with the delicious aroma of the meal you'd be eating."
"Sounds gross," little Emma will say.
"Believe me, it was great," you'll counter. "Sometimes the heat from the stove and oven would fill up the kitchen. The windows would steam. The smell of baking bread was unforgettable. You never get over it."
Little Willie, who shows an aptitude for kelketronic symbionization, and may even major in it some day, will say, "What's wrong with the food we're eating? I read on my Daily Retina Feed that a person could not tell in several blind taste tests the difference between a TPM (Traditionally Prepared Meal) and a Beam-transmitted Meal."
"I know. I know," you'll say, "I saw the same retina feeds."
Emma will add, "Well why are you two always going on about TPMs" ?
"I don't know, my little plutonium, it's just that fembreeder and I … we feel there's something missing."
"Well it all sounds very vague," she'll say.
"And inefficient," chimes in Willie.
"Yeah, well …" you'll say, and let it rest. You'll keep chewing and enjoying one of the best-tasting meals you've had lately, sorry you didn't start ordering sooner from this purveyor your friends told you to dial up. Still, you'll need to suppress another sigh. The food's good, you'll think, but emotionally there's something missing.
Later that night, you'll lie in your Sleep Enhancing Platform, staring up at the Night Sky Simulation wondering why this is such an issue lately. You'll turn to your Child Rearing Partner and say, "Hey hon?"
"Yes?" Good, still awake.
"How do you feel about making a TPM for the kids one night this week?"
"Are you kidding? Where would we get the ingredients?"
"From Farms 'R' Us or something … we could drive there … go on a Sunday and take the kids. They'd get a kick out of seeing vegetables being pulled from the earth."
"It's too far. And they've seen umpteen-million school documentaries about this. And had all those vegetable-growing-simulations in 3-D."
"Let's try it anyway. Okay? I'd like them to see what it was like when we were kids."
"Where would we find the time? Every night we have Interactive TV meetings, clubs, discussions. My personal trainer is hard enough to schedule without getting backed up. Maybe sometime in the future. On vacation. We could visit one of those Traditional Food Making villages and see how they used to do it."
Too late in the evening to insist. With a sigh you uncover the Sleep Inducer. You set the Alpha Rhythm to "high" for a change, and press. Quality sleep, the best sleep you've had in weeks follows.
(Written after seven nights reading Madame Bovary on a borrowed Kindle. Detailed notes to follow in next week's column)


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Kings Point, NY – Sophomore attacker Geoff Harty (Chicago, IL) scored four times on Saturday afternoon as the United States Merchant Marine Academy Mariners (1-1, 0-0 LC) upended the FDU-Florham Devils (0-1, 0-0 MAC) by a score of 8-2 in Kings Point, NY.
Three of Harty's four goals came in the first seven minutes of play to grab an early 3-0 lead for Merchant Marine. Senior Joseph Purcell (Mineola, NY) tacked on a fourth in the final minute of the first quarter to give the Mariners a 4-0 advantage heading into the second frame.
For the second straight game, USMMA had a bit of a sluggish second quarter as they were held off the scoreboard. Devils senior attacker Cody McHugh (East Brunswick, NJ) netted the only goal in the period to cut the Mariner advantage to 4-1 heading into halftime.
After an early goal by FDU to open the second half, Merchant Marine grabbed back the momentum when sophomore midfielder Troy Smith (Deer Park, TX) fired a shot past the Devils' keeper less than two minutes later.
The tally would spark a run of four straight goals as the Mariners would ride their early lead to an 8-2 victory.
Despite being outshot 35-30, USMMA was able to weather the Devils' attack with another strong performance by sophomore goalkeeper Alex Peyreigne (Weston, CT). Peyreigne made a game-high 14 saves on 16 shots on goal to pick up his first victory of the season.
Freshman Kevin Young (Springfield, VA) also made his first appearance in net, playing out the final four minutes, stopping one shot, and allowing no goals.
Merchant Marine was able to keep control throughout the game by dominating in the faceoff circle. Freshman midfielder Chris Whitenack (East Meadow, NY) converted on 10 of his 13 faceoff chances while senior midfielder Sean Sheehy (Annapolis, MD) won the single faceoff which he contested.
Senior midfielder Sam Heard's (Boca Raton, FL) four caused turnovers was also a game high.
Merchant Marine will have some time off before heading out on the road to face Wesley College (2-0, 0-0 CAC) on March 6 at 4:30 PM.


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Because JavaScript is an interpreted language everyone who receives the "binary"(Aka, the .js file) has also received the source code.
Now, the GNU General Public License v3.0 states that:
"The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
Which would imply that the original Dart code in addition to the JavaScript code must also be provided to the end user. Does this mean that any web applications written in Dart must also provide the original Dart code to all visitors of their website even though a copy of the source code has already been provided in a human readable/writable/modifiable form?


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Plans to bring a giant water slide to the streets of Sussex could falter amid safety concerns.
Slide the City announced plans to bring the 1,000ft inflatable slide to Brighton earlier this year, although an exact date and location have not been confirmed.
However, uncertainty now surrounds those plans after a similar event scheduled in Leeds had to be postponed because of safety fears.
Organisers took to social media to announce the cancellation. It said: "We are notifying you because, regretfully, the Leeds Slide the City event scheduled for July 25 at Roundhay Park will have to be POSTPONED to a future (TBD) date.
"There are a lot of factors that come into play for an event of this nature and safety is our number one concern.
"We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and cannot speculate at this time of when a reschedule may happen."
No further information about the circumstances surrounding the postponement have been released by the company and refunds were offered to customers who had already bought tickets.
Slide the City did go ahead as planned in Manchester last weekend (Saturday, July 18) with no safety issues.
The giant flume, which is the length of three football pitches, has caused a sensation across the UK, where it has attracted hordes of thrillseekers.
Organisers say: "Slide the City is a family friendly slip-and-slide water party event.
"There will be live music, food, drinks, water, and of course the biggest slip-and-slide that you've ever seen.
"Don't worry, we've got it padded. This slide's got more cushion than your grandpa's orthopedic shoes.
"Make sure to bring your water buckets, floaties, and water guns (non-realistic of course), to squirt, spray, splash, and get all attending soaked."
Anyone over the age of five will be able to use the slide, with the price starting at £10 for a single ride, £20 for three rides, and £35 for unlimited use of the slide for an hour before it opens, and an hour after it closes.
Inflatable tubes to ride on are provided, or riders can bring their own.
Visit slidethecityuk.co.uk for more information.
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Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and a New Chevrolet Camaro
"America loves baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet," declared the advertising campaign crafted by Campbell-Ewald back in the mid-1970s.
At the time, it was little more than a way to tug at the heartstrings of Americans who might otherwise shop for a Toyota or Datsun. But as a car guy, food junkie, and casual baseball fan, it also resembles something of a grand itinerary for a vacation. And, by coincidence, my Fourth of July three-day weekend already included a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro SS convertible -- painted victory red, no less.
With one base covered, how could I resist the impulse to pack as much of the other three into a three-and-a-half-day span?
First Base: Start With The Motor City
My bosses sign off on the notion of a half-day on Friday -- provided, of course, I forgo a traditional lunch break. No worries. I wait an extra hour, and hop over to the Grand Traverse Pie Company on the outskirts of Ann Arbor and ignore mom's time-old warning about spoiling dinner by sampling desert first.
GTPC was originally founded in its namesake Michigan city, but has since expanded into a chain of roughly a dozen stores spread throughout both Michigan and Indiana. Though the restaurant itself follows the "bakery-café" formula popularized by Panera Bread, it's still known for the pies. I purchase a fresh slice of crumb-top apple pie, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and shell out a little over $5 total. I'm mesmerized by the sight of the ice cream sublimating off the pie, evidenced by the small wafts of steam rising off the crust. Thankfully, it tastes just as good as it looks -- quite sweet, with just a hint of cinnamon.
Next stop? Detroit, where the Tigers are hosting the San Francisco Giants for a night game at Comerica Park. That marks a roughly sixty-mile drive over some of the worst pavement Michigan has to offer, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the Camaro's behavior. Damping and suspension rates are firm, but not to the point where I'm counting the number of fillings lost per mile. Cutting the top off any vehicle inherently compromises its structure, but I'm impressed with the Chevy. There's some cowl shake to be found, but far less flexing than I've seen in other modern convertibles, including the drop-top form of its cross-town competitor, the Ford Mustang.
I wish I could say the same about the Tigers' performance this evening. Both teams are at or near the top of their respective leagues, and for the first half of the game, things appear to be at a stalemate. Pablo Sandoval's double in the top of the fifth helps bring in the first run of the game, which goes largely unanswered by the Tigers until the bottom of the 8th, when a single from Brennan Bosch brings Brandon Inge across home plate. The Giants take the lead with another three runs in the top of the ninth. Despite raking in another two runs in the bottom of the inning, Detroit winds up one run short of a win.
Bummer, but it's now 10 pm, and I've thus far abstained from dinner in order to avoid the traditional ballpark frank for something a little more bespoke to Detroit. Smack dab in the middle of town sit two Coney Islands -- American and Lafayette -- which, I'm told, serve some delicious eats. Each can be traced back nearly seven decades to the Keros family, but a longstanding rift has kept the restaurants spiritually apart (but not physically, as they're next door to one another). The rivalry, along with slightly different recipes for the same staples, has crafted two distinct leagues of adoring fans, each proclaiming their restaurant to be the best. So, how do you pick which one to sample?
Easy enough: at 10:30 at night, my stomach is growling, and customers were lining up down the street just to step foot inside Lafayette. Sign of a better product, perhaps, but American also has nearly three times the footprint and offers immediate seating. Lafayette devotees may claim I missed out, but I like what I find at American -- a great-tasting Coney that's made fresh and delivered to my table less than two minutes after I place the order. The dog is perfectly cooked, delivers a crisp snap when I bite into it, and the meat-based chili had a pleasant, mild seasoning. Delicious -- although I still can't help but wonder how good the dogs next door are…
Stealing Second: A Stop In Toledo
When not trying to crossdress his way out of both M.A.S.H. 4077 and Korea altogether, the fictional Corporal Maxwell Klinger waxed poetic about two staples of his hometown: the Toledo Mud Hens baseball team, and Tony Packo's hot dogs. And, thanks to a Packo's venue located right across from Fifth-Third Field, it's easier than ever to partake in both during a single trip to downtown Toledo -- at least for the time being. Despite being founded in 1932, a recent family feud surrounding finances (what else?) has spawned speculation that the Packo's future may be in question.
None of that drama is evident when I roll up to Packo's At The Park, although parking the Camaro right in front does spark some conversation with passersby. The Mud Hens don't play until 7:05 pm, but I show up at roughly 1:30 in the afternoon and sit down to lunch.
Macroscopically, Packo's menu resembles that of any other greasy spoon in the area. Chili dogs? Check. Chili mac? Check. But the family's Hungarian roots play a part in giving each dish a unique flavor. Buried deep inside that hot dog bun isn't your typical beef frankfurter, but a hearty Kolbász sausage. Traditional dumplings -- not elbow noodles or spaghetti -- serve as the foundation of the chili mac. And the pickles you see? Fair warning: thanks to a bath in paprika, they're quite hot.
Packo's food may blend cultures together, but the resulting product is uniquely American. I can't help but think my red Camaro parked outside is a similar sort of dish. Colleagues have pointed out that it was partially engineered in Australia, built in Canada, and that 15 percent of its parts were sourced from Mexico. Perhaps so, but despite these mixed roots, the end product -- a V-8-powered, rear-wheel-drive sports coupe -- fits the stereotype of an American muscle car to a complete T.
I made the 68-mile trek from Howell, Michigan, to Toledo with the top down, but temperatures outside have soared to a whopping 99 degrees Fahrenheit by the time I'm down for lunch. I keep the top raised and crank the A/C while I make my way across town to Schmucker's Restaurant. The small diner almost looks like a leftover prop from Back To The Future. Walk through the doors and you find a stereotypical American diner straight out of the '50s, complete with the requisite chromed counter top, neon signs, and a phone booth tucked in the corner. Schmuckers isn't trying to be retro for retro's sake. Things simply haven't changed all that much since the place opened in 1949.
The menu spans six pages and runs the gamut from breakfast munchies to dinner entrees, but I skip straight to the last page. "A dessert stop, huh?" asks the waitress behind the counter.
You bet -- although at this point, I'm pining more for the scoop of ice cream alone almost as much as I am for the pie. $4.75 nets me a big slice of crumb-top apple pie, which is topped with a glacier-sized scoop of vanilla ice cream. Delicious -- slightly more cinnamon than the slice I sampled at Grand Traverse, and the apples beneath the crust are slightly crisper.
Soon, it's time for a baseball game. The Mud Hens franchise dates back to the turn of the century, but became a Triple-A farm team for the nearby Tigers in 1987. It's a little funny to see players I've associated primarily as Tigers -- like second baseman Carlos Guillen -- on the batting list, particularly when Hens mentioned in the team's program -- notably Andy Dirks -- stepped up to home plate at Comerica Park the night prior.
The Hens take an early lead over the Indianapolis Indians, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first and following that with another run the next inning. Problem is, the Indians did exactly that beginning in the fifth inning. From there, the game stretched on scoreless past the ninth inning, through the tenth and eleventh. An end to the game (and the start of post-game fireworks) came in the top of the eleventh, when Indianapolis eked out another score. I start to wonder if I'm cursed. I'm root, root, rooting for the home team, but thus far, the home teams are 0-2 on my trip. It's a shame.
'Rounding Third: A Day In the Queen City
Perhaps the third time's a charm. I have tickets for Sunday's game in Cincinnati, which squares the Cleveland Indians against the hometown Reds. Since it starts at 1:05 in the afternoon, my brother offers me a place to stay at his apartment in nearby Dayton.
Problem is, he splits his two-bedroom apartment with a roommate, relegating me to the couch. I pack a sleeping bag for the trip along with a duffel bag of clothing, my laptop's attaché, and a cooler with ice and water. The small haul easily consumes all of the Camaro's usable trunk space, especially if I opt to keep the top down.
My brother and I do just that on the trip down to the game, although in retrospect, perhaps we should have savored the air conditioning as long as we could. In a budget-conscious move, I picked seats in the second-to-highest section of the Great American Ball Park along the first base side and although they offered a good view of the entire field, they offered precious little shade from the overbearing sun, which brought temperatures up into the high-90s once again.
Perhaps exposure to the sunlight is exactly what is needed to bring about a home victory on this trip. Despite Cleveland having a slight edge over Cincinnati in the rankings, the Reds played quite strong. The Indians bang out two runs in the top of the second, but the Reds follow up with three in the bottom of the same inning. Remarkably, another three follow in the fourth and another one in the fifth, putting the home team up by a whopping five runs. Cleveland narrowed that gap to two points by the bottom of the seventh, but strong pitching from closer Francisco Cordero in the ninth helped seal the deal, ending the Indian's season-long sweep of the Reds.
The apparent good luck falters once we leave the stadium. I've yet to find a bakery in the area that produces apple pies, let alone one that's also open on a Sunday. I give up on the pastry hunt for the day, but even our pursuit of a hot dog encounters a snag. My research uncovered a neat place that offered gourmet twists on traditional brewpub fare (a Korean hot dog with homemade kimchi? French fries cooked in duck fat? I'm sold…), but its doors were also firmly closed and locked in the early evening.
Oh well. When in Cincinnati, do what the Cincinnatians do: hit Skyline. Much as I loathe the idea of hitting such a large chain on this trip, there's no denying the restaurant -- and more specifically, its unique blend of chili -- is a regional institution. The mixture of seasoning used is considered a trade secret, but purportedly includes cinnamon and cocoa. All I know is how it tastes varies from person to person, and even over time. My first dish years ago tasted quite sweet; today, the chili seems to have a little more bite. The recipe hasn't changed, just my perception.
It's roughly a four-hour long trip back to Howell, but since it's still reasonably warm outside, I opt to drop the roof. As I wind my way north on I-75 and US-23, I encounter several fireworks shows, all displayed in IMAX fashion thanks to the panoramic view of the skies above. I loathe the cluttered center stack arrangement in the daylight, but its lighting -- particularly the four-gauge cluster ahead of the shifter -- brings back fond memories of the vintage Marantz audio equipment I collected as a teenager. It's funky, but somehow endearing -- which is more than I can say for the clutch, which flummoxes my left foot with a vague feel and non-linear take-up.
Sliding Home: A Return to Lansing
By Monday, I'm starting to have second thoughts about this whole plan. I'm not sick of hot dogs, nor has my blood sugar rocketed to new highs, but I'm tired, I'm weary, and my sunburned skin is beginning to match the paint on the Camaro. I'm half tempted to just pick up a pie, cook a hot dog at home, and try to find a baseball game on the tube.
But I don't. Michigan's capital is only a thirty-minute jaunt from my house, and it also happens to be home to the Lansing Lugnuts, a single-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. That team also happens to have an evening game scheduled for the Fourth, and tickets run $10 for the lower box. Better yet, post-game fireworks are paired with a city-sponsored display, further satisfying my inner child's appetite for colorful pyrotechnic affairs.
Lansing used to have a horribly named ("The Downtown Dog House") yet wonderful restaurant that dished out a number of different kinds of hot dogs, but odd hours along with prolonged construction on the street in front seem to have driven the place to its demise. So, I focus on pies. Grand Traverse has yet another store front in East Lansing, but I want a different taste of Michigan -- and one that's open on the Fourth.
Luckily, I find such a store in the northern Detroit. Achatz Pies (rhymes with "jackets and ties") is a relatively small, family-owned business with several locations (and another slated to open near our Ann Arbor office in the near future). I hardly consider this a chain. The company, which is still family-run, was literally born in a kitchen in rural Armada and the pies themselves are largely hand made.
I pick up a couple to bring home to sample -- another crumb-topped pie, along with a normal, crust-topped pie I was told was "fruit juice sweetened." It sounded good, and indeed it was, although the pie filling -- which, fittingly, is sweetened only with the apple's juices -- didn't exactly blow me away. The crumb-top pie, however, bowled me over. By far, this had the most cinnamon I'd tasted yet (although it wasn't overpowering), and the entire concoction -- crust, filling, and crumbs -- remained discrete entities until they literally melted in my mouth. Amazing.
Time for the game. A late start forces me to arrive in the top of the fourth inning, and a long line at the so-called sausage shack means I don't grab an Italian sausage and take a seat until the top of the fifth. Things don't look all that well for the Lugnuts. They're down to the Lake County Captains by a run after fighting back from a 4-0 deficit in the second. Maybe I should have stayed home after all; my curse continues once more, as a run for the Captains in the fifth and two in the sixth push the team past the 'Nuts, despite Lansing logging an extra run in the sixth inning.
That's The End Of The Game, Folks
Despite my friends' predictions to the contrary, I didn't gorge myself into a critical-care bed at the local emergency room. But it's safe to say I don't think I can live on hot dogs and pie on a daily basis. I'm certain my wallet can't exactly sustain repeated (and regular) trips to a major league ball park, and I can hardly bear to eye the leftover pie slices lurking my fridge -- delicious though they may be.
But -- finicky clutch, cramped trunk, and eight-cylinder fuel consumption aside -- I could potentially live with this Camaro day-in, day-out. Is it perfect? No. Like many Americans (including myself), weight is a hurdle, as is consumption. The EPA estimates I'd shell out roughly $2817 in fuel annually, and that isn't accounting for the propensity for my right foot to touch the floorboard. But it oozes charisma, packs a unique personality, and is quite a comfortable cruiser -- so long as you're not packed into the narrow rear seat.
The Camaro won't be everything to everyone, but for those looking to recapture some of the magic that made the Camaro a hit in its heyday, the new car is undoubtedly a home run -- at least with me.
Total driving distance: 735 miles
Number of games attended: Four
Number of hometeam victories: One
Slices of pies consumed: Four
Number of hot dogs consumed: Five
Gallons of gasoline consumed: 37.6 gallons (est. )
Calories consumed per mile driven: Ugh. Please don't ask…


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Obama appoints Carlson to TRPA
U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed Tim Carlson to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's 15-member Governing Board, according to a Thursday statement from the planning agency.
The presidential appointee is the lone non-voting member on the board.
Carlson has 40 years of government and business development experience, according to the statement.
Carlson's most recent work in the field of renewable energy has earned him recognition as an alternative energy leader, according to the TRPA.
"The President has appointed someone with the background and experience needed to help TRPA and the Governing Board forge ahead into the future," TRPA Executive Director Joanne Marchetta said in the statement. "Tim comes with a vast amount of environmental and development expertise, and a long history with Tahoe having lived first part and now full-time in the Basin."
Carlson, a Nevada resident, has worked with more than 1,000 domestic and worldwide companies, often bringing together diverse groups of stakeholders, according to the statement.
"I am looking forward to learning and working with the Board and staff to help accomplish the goals of the TRPA and the people it serves," Carlson said. "It is my hope that I can contribute along-side those that have put so much time and energy into protecting our beautiful Lake Tahoe."
Carlson replaces Josh Reid, the son of U.S. Senator Harry Reid, who rarely attended Governing Board meetings.


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While I know installing the VMware vShield Edge Manager isn't exactly all that exciting, I took the time to document during a deployment in a test lab and what better to way to use some of these screenshots than to write up a blog post. There isn't a whole lot to during the install but for those who are interested in knowing what the install looks like, please read on.
Proceed with downloading the VMware vShield Edge Manager from the VMware downloads site as shown in the screenshot below:
Once you've downloaded the OVA file, open up your vSphere Client, log into vCenter, select File –> Deploy OVF Template…:
Browse and select the OVA file you've downloaded:
Click Next:
The details of the OVF summarizing what you're deploying will be displayed:
Agree to the EULA as we always do:
Choose a descriptive name for the vShield Manager:
Select the host you would like to deploy the vShield Manager on:
Choose to either Thick or Thin provision the vShield manager:
Review the summary and click finish to begin the deployment:
As with any other OVAs, vCenter will begin creating the virtual machine:
Once completed, you'll see a new virtual machine in your cluster:
Proceed with powering up the virtual machine and open up the console:
The vShield operating system will begin to load:
Believe it or not, it took me awhile to figure out what the what the login credentials were because I missed it in the manual so in case anyone is searching for what the default vShield Manager admin credentials are, it's:
Login: Admin
Password: default
Once you've successfully logged in, begin the setup by typing:
The wizard will ask you for the following:
- IP Address
- Subnet Mask
- Default gateway
- Primary DNS IP
- Secondary DNS IP
- DNS domain search list
Once you've completed the wizard, exit the vShield Manager console by typing exit and log back in:
You can check to see whether your IP address setting was applied with the following command:
show interface
Once you've confirmed that the settings you've configured during setup has been applied, launch a browser and browse to the vShield Manager's IP address:
Login with the admin/default credentials:
Once you've successfully logged in, you will be placed in the configuration page:
You can navigate around the other pages such as the Updates page:
The Users page:
The System Events page:
The Audit Logs page:
To complete the setup, navigate to the configuration page, proceed with entering your vCenter Server information and click on the Save button. Once you've saved the vCenter information, you'll see the following message:
Changing the vCenter address may result in unpredictable behavior. Please update only if you change IP of your current vCenter Server.
Note: Please make sure you complete the vCenter information before proceeding to the next step.
Complete the install by registering vShield Manager as a Plug-in in vCenter by clicking on the Register button. Once you've done so, you'll see the following message:
Plugin is registered successfully
You should also confirm that the plugin shows up in the Plug-in Manager of vCenter:
Nothing too fancy but this should give you an idea of how simple it is to install and register the vShield Manager. Configuring it will require much more thought.


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Facebook, MySpace tolerated by businesses, survey says
Despite known threats to security, bandwidth and employee productivity, nearly half of CIOs recently polled say they don't ban popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Despite security and bandwidth worries, fewer than half of IT managers recently polled ban employee use of consumer-oriented social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Darin Stahl, research lead at Info-Tech Research Group Inc. in London, Ontario, said only 46% of the IT managers at the 200 companies polled by his firm explicitly block access to social networking sites. Forty-nine percent tolerate employee use of such sites, and 3% actually encourage use.
The reason more companies aren't blocking social networking sites is probably because they have more critical issues to deal with, Stahl said.
"They're probably picking their battles. One could argue that if it hasn't come up and reared its head, they're not fighting it," He said.
Social networking sites are Web-based social networks composed of a community of people who share interests through chat, messaging, email, video and file sharing.
But social networking sites are poised to change the way they're viewed by businesses, some experts say. Facebook, for example, which launched in 2004, is seeing double-digit membership growth this year -- many of its new members are older than 30 and professionals.
As appeal spreads beyond college students, professionals are joining the social networking site to keep in touch with colleagues and business contacts. And now Facebook, which already hosts networks for employees at companies such as Apple Inc., is preparing to launch a new feature that according to recent reports would allow it to act as a more professional networking utility, possibly giving professional networking sites such as LinkedIn a run for their money.
Still, the businesses that are blocking social networking sites are most likely blocking other sites as well.
According to the American Management Association (AMA), 65% of U.S. businesses block connections to inappropriate websites, such as pornographic or sports gambling sites, a practice called URL filtering.
The chief reason businesses block access to websites is to prevent the spread of spyware and other forms of malware, said Lawrence Orans, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. He estimates that about 20% of commercial organizations block social networking sites.
Triple threat
Stahl pointed out that several worms, viruses and Trojans have targeted these sites, MySpace in particular. Hackers have also succeeded in manipulating user profiles and stealing user login information. He said many users will maintain login information for their social networking sites that is identical to the login information they use for their corporate network access.
In addition to security concerns, employee productivity was cited as a top concern, Stahl said. "It was viewed as a big time waster and really had very little to do with business value of your average accounts-payable clerk."
Social networking sites are also bandwidth hogs. The typical social networking website will display content from various sources on the Internet, forcing many more DNS requests from corporate servers. The typical news site with an advertisement might call for about 15 DNS requests, while a MySpace page can call for 350 or more.
"If you drill down to look at what the bandwidth pressures are for an enterprise, those types of requests can become a particular problem," Stahl aid. "That cumulative effect of traffic can put a significant burden on a company's internal DNS servers and network bandwidth and it can begin to negatively affect business transactions."
It was viewed as a big time waster and really had very little to do with business value of your average accounts-payable clerk.
Darin Stahl, research lead, Info-Tech Research Group Inc.
Paul Geczy, vice president of administration at Jayco Inc., a Middlebury, Ind.-based manufacturer of recreational vehicles, said he blocks employee access to social networking sites with a Web filter from Barracuda Networks Inc.
Geczy said any benefits associated with allowing employees to use these sites are "outweighed by the liabilities of lost productivity and security issues." He said blocking the sites is easy, but new sites pose a challenge.
"The blocked ones stay blocked, but keeping up with the proliferation of such sites is difficult," Geczy said.
Stahl said some CIOs might tolerate social networking sites because they are confident in their security infrastructure or they just don't have the budget to invest in perimeter control technology that can discretely block access to certain sites.
Moreover, CIOs may be reluctant to block such sites because of the effect the action can have on employee morale. That wasn't a concern for Geczy.
"We haven't had complaints because we're very upfront policy-wise with our user community," Geczy said. "The systems are all for business use, all transactions, etc., are the property of the company. There is no expectation of privacy. Users have to agree in writing to abide by our policies as a term and condition of being granted access to our networks. We've blocked certain classes of websites from the beginning."
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