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controversial copyright-infringement monitoring technology CView.
CView is a monitoring system created by Detica, a subsidiary of the defence, security and aerospace company BAE, which uses deep packet inspection (DPI) technology that the makers claim can detect whenever certain copyrighted works, such as music, are being shared on a computer network.
Virgin Media and Detica both claim that no personal information is gathered or stored, and that the system would be used solely to monitor the extent of illegal file-sharing on their network.
A Virgin Media spokesperson told me this morning that the situation was complicated, and that Virgin Media (as with all ISPs) has to take into account the current legislatory framework as well as striking an appropriate balance between copyright holders and their customer's needs.
The spokesperson would not be drawn on the future, explaining that Virgin Media's initial decision to trial the technology stemmed from a proactive approach in fulfilling the ISP's likely obligation in the then embryonic Digital Economy Bill. Even though the Bill passed into law in April, many aspects of the implementation are yet to be defined by Ofcom and subject parliamentary review, leaving a great deal of uncertainty for ISPs.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group spoke last night at an open session of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy to express concerns about the likely privacy impact of large-scale surveillance and evidence gathering by private organisations required to detect infringement and drive the provisions in the Digital Economy Act. The measures required to detect and prevent infringement are seen by many as disproportionate to tackle what is in effect a minor civil offence.
The use of CView and other similar technology is hugely controversial:- privacy and rights campaigners and some academics and legal commentators argue that such systems could fall foul of one or more laws, including the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.
As I've commented in previous posts, large-scale copyright infringement is a huge problem across many industries; from music to books, films and software and there are no clear answers to the basic problem that it is nearly impossible using current technologies - at least without impinging Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR - to identify beyond reasonable doubt specific individuals responsible for the infringement.
I strongly believe mass surveillance is not the answer, but there is now strong entrenchment in all sides of this debate and it's easy to see that progress could be hampered by the hostility which is clearly visible between certain individuals in opposing camps.
But my 20-minute interview with Virgin Media this morning gave cause for optimism as the spokesperson was extremely well informed and knowledgeable about both the detailed technology and the legal and rights issues, indicating the seriousness with which such issues are now taken and perhaps acknowledging many of the concerns I and others have been raising over the last 3 years.
I was left with the strong impression that Virgin Media are working very hard to strike an appropriate balance, although I of course note that I was talking to a public relations professional whose job centres around selling a positive image!
I'm still concerned that Virgin Media and many other ISPs including British Telecom (BT) in their trial of the Phorm advertising system haven't seemed in the past to share my view that my communications data is mine and mine alone. It's my private data, not a large resource available to be mined by the music industry and/or sold to advertisers.
But I'm encouraged when ISPs are willing to enter into discussions and attend meetings as Virgin Media and at least one other large service provider did at Westminster last night, and I'm optimistic that open sessions will give those who work in the tech industry like myself, as well as rights campaigners and bloggers (like myself), a chance to explain the problems we see with the current legislation.
The Digital Economy Act came into existence at least partly because of the sheer simplicity of the argument by rights holders. People were disregarding the law - and it was costing the creative industry money.
I don't dispute this argument - that online infringement has in all likelihood lead to lost revenues from sales of traditional media, but I do believe the Act is a deeply-flawed piece of legislation.
But the arguments against the Digital Economy Act are about as complicated as any legilator has to deal with. They cover complex legal areas, including European law; the ever-evolving capabilities of internet technology as well as philosophical and moral arguments on privacy, freedom of expression and proportionality of justice.
With such a richly-textured opposing viewpoint it's little wonder that those campaigning against the Act have so far had reasonably little success persuading those who originally supported it to change their mind, leading to the inevitable frustrations expressed so succinctly online (and usually directed at key figures within the BPI and UK Music, to name two institutions).
Clearly the only way forward is for all sides to engage with each other. And in addition I'd also like to see institutions like the BPI engaging directly with technical experts from e.g. the Open Rights Group before demanding action from MPs.
I'd also like to see the BPI - a body representing the music industry - to involve recognised technical experts when they approach institutions like the British Library, universities and colleges to offer guidance on the kind of measures which might be needed to meet these institutions' obligations under the Digital Economy Act.
Watching over the pipes ... and other wonkish digital-policy-based musings
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Friday, 9 July 2010
Austerity and the economics of populism
Famously there's no money left, but cash isn't the only currency of government.
On the surface the Coalition's willingness to get behind Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems' freedom agenda could be seen as part of the Lib/Con compromise deal. Plus it shouldn't be a surprise to see a Conservative government wanting to cut the bureaucratic burden in order to shrink the size of the state and ultimately lower taxes.
But there could be another driver for the Freedom agenda and it's linked to austerity. Scrapping unpopular laws and business regulations can serve to improve national morale (and government popularity) at a time when spending cuts and tax rises threaten strikes and wider civil disobedience as seen in Greece.
If the intentions signalled by government are driven by a need to rebalance national morale, should this be viewed as a shrewd or cynical move by the Coalition?
I'm confident that some rebalancing of civil liberties was overdue despite the great recession due to the assault on freedoms during the second half of the Labour government - I'm not trying to make a party-political point here, I support many of the earlier laws passed by the Blair government, including Freedom of Information and minimum wage.
But populism does have a price, and I see the implementation of populist policies as analogous to borrowing money, in that many unpopular policies are actually driven by long-term goals: short-term pain bearing long-term gain.
Take for example the scrapping of plans to build additional runways at London airports. For many years travellers to or from Heathrow Airport have faced delayed takeoffs and queues (stacking) prior to landing when travelling at peak times (early morning and early evening).
Personally I'm hopeful demand for air travel can be curbed. I'm painfully aware of the environmental impact, carbon emissions and problems with oil security.
Yet I think Heathrow probably needed a third runway even if the number of flights was to remain constant. This could even be a "green" measure to save fuel wasted when planes are stacked waiting to land. Queues and delays are exacerbated in extreme weather such as fog, when additional time is allowed between each aircraft using the runway.
But what if demand for flights into and out of London increases, and the UK starts to lose business because of the hassle and cost of flying in and out of the country?
Even seemingly simple cases such as the recently announced postponement of the switch-over to digital radio (DAB) and the hugely unpopular closure of all FM radio stations comes at a price. The introduction of digital radio in the UK has in my opinion been a complete shambles, but that doesn't necessarily mean that leaving the system in limbo for a few more years is good for the broadcasting industry and the country as a whole in the long term.
Listeners have been let down by the failure of the UKs digital radio strategy but will continue to be let down whilst the long-overdue introduction of new technology is delayed.
Many parts of the UK would benefit from an increased diversity of radio stations. Digital broadcast radio in some form is probably the best way to achieve this to meet all existing demand (e.g. in cars, out walking, at home, on building sites...). The FM impending switch-off would at least have served as a catalyst for the government and broadcasters to sort out the system or face outright revolt!
I'm supportive of the Freedom agenda, I want to see rights at the centre of government policy, and I'm even quite pleased that additional runways and the FM switch-off are early casualties of the Coalition government.
But broadly speaking populist policies of now can impact future prosperity, so in that respect courting popular opinion now is building a debt that needs repaying at some stage in the future.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
My Picks from Your Freedom
Last week Nick Clegg launched the Your Freedom website as a forum for the public to suggest how the law could be changed to restore and protect civil liberties, reduce state intrusion and cut some of the red tape associated with running a business.
Jump straight to my top 5 suggestions from the site
Whether or not you believe the site will have any impact on government decision making - personally I'm optimistic - the site has received a substantial number of ideas since the launch 5 days ago.
I like the simple "go do it" approach, and the website itself is most definitely fit for purpose. It's simple in operation, obviously (well, hopefully) hasn't had an obscene amount of taxpayer money thrown at it, is fast to load and registration is extremely simple.
Importantly, the site operates as a proper forum.
Unlike the e-petitions section on the Number 10 website, there's no pre-moderation of submissions. Shock/horror! This is a government website where the government has not attempted to control proceedings but instead embrace the power of user-created content.
One of the weaker points of the site is the number of duplicate suggestions, caused by the simple structure and lack of pre-moderation I trumpeted earlier(!) - the onus is on the submitter to use the site's adequate search feature and tag cloud to research other similar entries before creating a new one. This isn't ideal but on balance is probably an acceptable compromise (I don't want to see pre-moderation and I certainly don't want to see large amounts of government cash thrown into solving a minor problem).
The problem of duplicates is exacerbated by the conceptual overlap between two of the categories: restoring civil liberties and repeal unnecessary laws. In many cases repealing an unnecessary law also has a positive impact on civil liberties and so, at the time of writing, requests to repeal the Digital Economy Act 2010 appear multiple times under each category.
I'm hopeful that the problem of duplicates can be mitigated when the results are analysed using either simple keyword matching or more sophisticated semantic analysis to pool the votes for near-identical proposals.
Here's my top 5 from the proposals made to date, feel free to vote for any you agree with in order to bolster support!
1. Repeal the Digital Economy Bill (sic, should be Act)
- I've written enough about this already!
2. End IR35
- Unfair legislation that affects small businesses and, in all likelihood, costs more to administer and enforce by HMRC than it yields in tax revenues and adds to red tape and running costs for independent consultants like me.
3. Fix the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
- I've linked to search results rather than a specific idea because there are several ideas to fix this monster problem. RIPA was intended to regulate police and other authorities' powers to use intrusive surveillance. It succeeded the Interception of Communications Act 1985 but also attempted to regulate even basic close surveillance of suspects in a public place. Furthermore it introduced an extremely illiberal and intrusive crime of failure to disclose encryption keys, which could lead to a severe miscarriage of justice for IT professionals like myself who dabble with encryption techniques on behalf of clients then forget that we've even created an encrypted volume, never mind log and retain the keys.
The problems with this act are fourfold: it gives police powers to access some private communications data without a warrant, it required councils and other bodies to file unnecessary paperwork when undertaking surveillance in a public place (eg. to prevent dog fouling), it gives elevated powers to councils to access private communications, a power that should in my mind be reserved for the police, and it is not fit for purpose in the digital age since the sections dealing with interception of electronic communications do not specifically define how to handle internet communications such as IP packets.
In summary, the whole act needs replacing.
4. Repeal s57 of the Finance Act 2010 which allows opening of postal mail without a warrant
- A powerful change to the law was made in the rush to pass the Finance Bill at the fag-end of the last parliament. Section 57 of the Finance Act 2010 amends the Postal Services Act 2000 to allow post to be opened without a warrant and without the presence of the recipient.
To hide such a wide-ranging change to the law in the budget and to rush through parliament during the wash-up I see is itself an affront to our parliamentary democracy.
5. Scrap the P11D return of benefits and expenses form
- If you're involved with the running of a company and know about P11d forms, you'd probably agree with me that this crazy bit of red tape, which was an attempt to stop expenses being used as a way of avoiding tax, represents a large burden on small businesses and, like IR35 legislation above, I feel represents a penny-pinching bureaucratic burden on small businesses and probably yields very little in way of increased tax revenues.
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A woman has been spared jail after falsely claiming £14,000 in benefits.
Thelma Watson, 51, was handed 175 hours of unpaid work by Sheriff Christine McCrossan when she appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court for sentencing, having previously admitted two charges of benefit fraud.
Social security chiefs said the case showed how the department was "rooting out" benefit cheats.
Watson, of Cruikshank Crescent, Aberdeen, previously appeared in court last month and admitted claiming the cash over a period of more than two years.
She pled guilty to failing to notify DWP officials that, having previously declared she was single, she lived with her partner.
Watson claimed £2,111.32 in Jobseekers Allowance between February 5 and September 5, 2012.
She also claimed £11,888.68, in Employment Support Allowance between September 6, 2012, and January 9, 2015.
Defence for Watson, Neil McRobert told the court his client had no previous convictions for dishonesty.
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"Clearly at that stage that is a change in circumstances and she should have told the DWP."
He added: "She accepts she should have informed the DWP of a change of circumstances. She is deeply remorseful. She appreciated the power the court would have and she is aware of the disposals."
Mr McRobert said she was "distressed" at the prospect of a custodial sentence.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Work and Pensions said: "Only a small minority of people try to cheat the benefits system, but cases like this show how we are rooting out those who are stealing taxpayers' money and diverting it away from the people who really need it.
"People convicted of fraud shouldn't be able to benefit from their crimes, so we will always try to get back the money they stole.
"If you suspect someone of fraudulently claiming benefits, then call our National Benefit Fraud Hotline on 0800 854 440."


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Very nice. Inserting a satellite around a comet/asteroid is a very impressive feat. Kudos to the ESA.
Rosetta is in its 18.6 km medium orbit now. Decision on whether to go to the planned 9.6 km low orbit should have been taken today, if GO then burn will be on wednesday.
NAVCAM's snapping pictures at about 1.4m/px resolution*, including the one below of the intended landing site J for Philae:
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(Large version here)
Large parts of pics taken these days are shadowed, since Rosetta's orbit is matching the comet's terminator plane, i.e. the exact line between day and night on the surface. It will remain on this orbital plane since this way its solar panels can stay edge-on to the gas flow coming from the comet, thus minimizing degradation damage. Placing Rosetta e.g. "ahead" of the orbit, i.e. permanently on the dayside, would mean the panels' "back side" would constantly be pummeled by the comet's gas flows.
Philae is actively conducting science by now, using its surface sampling and analysis instruments to analyze the comet's coma. The SD2 surface drilling/sampling system is currently used to inhale some of the dust cloud into one of its 26 ovens so once heated the resulting gasses can be analyzed by the PTOLEMY gas chromatograph.
*- OSIRIS' narrow-angle camera should have around 0.4 m/px resolution at this distance. At the low 9.6 km orbit it would be around 0.2 m/px. MPG isn't releasing any OSIRIS pics lately though.
Very nice. Inserting a satellite around a comet/asteroid is a very impressive feat. Kudos to the ESA.
GO for low orbit.
Go for 10 km! | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser
Interesting NAVCAM picture of the neck area:
This boulder on the surface of 67P/CG has received the nickname "Cheops":
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Cheops is located in this field, roughly in the center:
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Cheops has a diameter of around 45 meters. The boulders strewn in the center have been nicknamed "the pyramids" due to their distribution; Cheops as the largest of them got its nickname from the largest pyramid. The Egyptian naming scheme will be kept for other features of the comet. Cheops and the other boulders stand out not just by being physically distinct from their surrounding, but also because their surface is brighter than the surface of the comet.
Resolution in the first picture above is 0.5m/pixel, which is roughly equivalent to what (far larger) military reconnaissance satellites can reliably get off of objects on Earth. Picture was taken from 28.5 km distance on September 19th. Second picture with the wider situation was taken on August 6th, taken from a distance of 130 km with a resolution of 2.4m/pixel.
Rosetta will reach its 10-km low target orbit tomorrow.
PS: And ESA publishes another NAVCAM picture today, this one from the "side". Cheops in the center.
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Full version: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/files/2...M_141008_A.jpg
Cheops even looks pyramidic from this angle. Size of the rock is basically a one-sixth version of the real Cheops pyramid; height is about 25 meters. Also note surrounding features in pic. Picture taken on October 8th from 16.9 km at 1.25m/pixel resolution.
Looks wind swept.
Gravity can erode a rubble pile perfectly on its own given long enough timespans, i guess...
PS to that NAVCAM pic: Distance from center of comet was 16.9 km. Distance to surface shown is about 15 km.
The 9.6 km orbit Rosetta is now moving to should bring the probe to within 7 km of the surface. OSIRIS is calibrated to focus up to about 1 km minimum distance, and at 7 km should get a resolution of around 15cm/pixel. The OSIRIS pic of Cheops is a crop from a 250% enlarged version, giving competing scientists as little data from OSIRIS to work with as possible*. Hence also the fuzziness of that pic. The classified full version of that picture would be 2048x2048 pixels covering about 1000x1000 meters, probably a similar area as that shown in the crop from the side-shot NAVCAM pic. Just from the top, and at around 3 times the resolution...
* standard procedure for the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, which has been wellknown for this practice - that people in other countries just don't get - for decades.
New picture by Philae's CIVA-P system of Rosetta with the comet in the background, this time from 16 km distance:
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Compare to the same thing from further away, posted on the first page of the thread.
ESA is running the "Lander Operational Readiness Review" today, i.e. fixing down the landing scenario. Will be released tomorrow.
Even at perihelion (closest point to sun) the comet is still about as far away from it as the Earth - a bit farther out actually. The maximum solar wind it experiences would be somewhat similar to near-Earth asteroids like e.g. Itokawa.
Here's another picture of the "swept" surface, this one showing Landing Spot J, the primary landing zone for Philae, taken from 30 km by OSIRIS at 0.5m/pixel resolution:
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( large version: Space in Images - 2014 - 10 - Philae's primary landing site from 30 km )
What the surface actually reminds me of somewhat are deposit fields from melted glaciers on Earth. That might actually be what you're seeing; solidified volatiles (ices) inside the comet sublimate (i.e. turns straight into gas, such as what happens with "dry ice" made of frozen dioxide), then find an easy primary escape point - where the jets erupt, for this comet that would apparently be mostly in fractures in the "neck" region - and their retreating and internal movement then shapes the surface. It's glacial shaping - just neither fluvial (shaped from melting) nor moraenic (shaped under solid). Dust and gravel mixed into the ice would mostly settle in place, possibly pushed around a bit from the miniscule gravity, sliding down each others surface and thus smoothing out the surface somewhat. Larger rocks would be "exposed" in situ, and may slide similarly - one example for that could be that "rockslide" patch in the background of the Cheops side picture.
At the same time, this sublimation also provides "wind" in some places: At places where sublimated ices outgas through small vents, lighter surface material is pulled along away from the comet. "Jets" seem to form where multiple such outgassings overlap, forming a disc between their cones; some of the material would be thrown off the venting gasses here and "snow" down to settle in the surrounding region due to the comet's own miniscule gravity, some would be blown off into space by the jet, and some, probably heavier material, would rather randomly tumble to settle in the zone immediately below.
These are rocky and silty deposits at Melaspina glacier like the ones i'm thinking of above:
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The reason for it all: 67P/C-G experienced a change in its orbit around the sun when it came too close to Jupiter in 1959, which moved the perihelion of its orbit inward towards the sun - from 2.7 AU previously to 1.24 AU now. The comet therefore in the past 55 years - in the 8 perihelia following that encounter - was heated far more by the sun than it used to be previously. This might be why we are not seeing surface ices, but may be seeing an ice-shaped surface. The sublimation encountered in these perihelia is of rather significant volume; during the 2007 perihelion (the last one before the next occurs in early 2015) the rotation period of the comet changed from one rotation in 12.7 hours to one rotation in 12.4 hours, presumed to stem from torque as a result of sublimation of ices on the comet.
As for the surface material, I wouldn't be surprised much if it looks somewhat like Itokawa up close. This one, of Itokawa, was taken by Hayabusa during landing there:
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The white bars in the picture are each one meter long, as a scale.
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ESA, DLR (Germany), CNES (France) and AIS (Italy) are jointly running a naming contest for the landing site.
Name Rosetta mission's landing site
You can propose a name for the site (no names of people) and have to give a short description of up to 200 words / 1500 characters why you think the name is appropriate, with the winning entry to be selected by an ESA jury. The name will not be IAU-approved but used by ESA and its cooperation partners (i.e. NASA) to refer to the site in the future.
Winner receives a grant to cover travel costs and up to two overnight stays to to attend the descent and landing live at the Rosetta/Philae control center at Darmstadt, Germany on November 12th (limited to 1000 Euro from within Europe, 1500 from US; minors the same again for an accompanying adult). Food not included, refreshments as part of the media events. You need to upfront the money and redeem it with receipts.
Conditions are: minimum age 13; you need to be a citizen or permanent resident of an ESA or EU member state or the USA; proposals must be made in a European language. One entry per person. May not have won in a previous ESA competition with the same prize, may not work at ESA or a cooperating partner space agency - including contractors - or live with such a person.
Deadline: Oct 22nd, 23:59 GMT.
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NAVCAM pictures from this wednesday have been released, from an orbit of 9.9 km, or 7.9-8.9 km to the surface of the comet.
Full versions here: CometWatch at 10 km | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser
Basically, more rocks and spectacular cliffs with a sandy surface cover and small boulders both spread around singly as well as accumulated around some cliffs.
I've also by now seen some people comparing the scenery to the glaciers with mixed in and covering volcanic ash and soot in Iceland, such as these.
ESA has also published a comparison picture showing the comet both with their surface brightening and as seen in original side-by-side:
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And as further comparison, the Earth, Jupiter's moon Enceladus, the Moon and 67P/C-G:
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Picture of Cheops taken from 7.9 km distance by NAVCAM, resolution is 67 cm/pixel:
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Also note the region where the smooth ground transitions into rock in the upper right quarter of the picture. Looks more like multiple layers to me. And somewhat glacial too - see post above.
Here's the section a bit further "right" on the comet (the pictures overlap), showing this layering in this transition zone - and beyond - even better:
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Rosetta has switched over to her pre-landing orbit - i.e. she's currently making her way back up to a 30 km target orbit (should reach it about next night). From this orbit, Rosetta will later on do a rapid burn towards the comet before detaching Philae (so it falls towards the comet) at 22.5 km distance and then move back into a proper orbit at about 20 km altitude.
Less than 12 days left till Philae is going to touch down on the surface.
Following the naming contest mentioned above, the primary landing site J has been named "Agilkia".
Agilkia is the name of the island in the Nile that ancient Egyptian complexes were evacuated to from the island of Philae (after which the lander is named) during the flooding in connection with building the Assuan Dam. The name had been suggested by 150 out of 8000 participants in the contest, the second-most-named entry was "Abydos" (at 149 entries).
Agilkia was also imaged again by NAVCAM from 30 km altitude where Rosetta is at now in pre-delivery orbit:
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To locate Agilkia in this picture: Roughly on the center line dividing the picture into an upper and lower half there is a prominent cliff-like depression with what looks like a small landslide in the center of the cliff. This is the same depression as in this picture, where the red circle gives the one-kilometer landing ellipse for Philae.
Also, ESA is now releasing all NAVCAM images under Creative Commons license. This officially allows anyone to use or modify them including commercial use provided the source and license is given. Therefore:
All NAVCAM images in this thread: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
The Crucible never gets old.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller cemented his reputation as a major playwright at a very early age. It deals with the Salem witch hunts and was used as a parable to mirror the McCarthy communist witch hunts in the 60s. As my first sketch opportunity after returning from Australia, I went to Lake Minneola High School (101 North Hancock Rd Minneola Fl) to see a run through of this student production being produced and directed by Kaitlin Elizabeth Baxter.
The school seemed like a fortress or prison as I approached at night. Tall fences surrounded the entire school and a locked gate blocked me from parking near the performing Arts building. I must have grown up in much more innocent times. I circled back and drove around the school looking for an gap in the fence. I found an opening on the opposite side of the school and parked near the bus loading zone. The gates to the school inner compound were unlocked, and I asked a student to point me towards the Performing Arts Building. Kaitlin had left one of the lobby doors open.
In the theater, the run through was already in progress. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, Kaitlin welcomed me. I found a spot up front and started to sketch. John Proctor, (Daniel Santos) and his wife Elizabeth (Briana Barnett) felt that their marriage was under attack by Abigail (Bella Martinez) who was accusing Elizabeth of witchcraft so she could have John to herself. John had an affair with Abigail but wanted to stay true to his wife. At the witch trial Abigail screams in horror and points at an unseen menace. All the young girls follow her lead and join in the hysteria which mystifies and spooks the religious court. There is something truely terrifying about a group of girls acting together as a pack.
There were several long awkward pauses in the second act in the midst of an argument on stage. Even a short pause can feel like an eternity as an actor searches for a line. In a high school lab, I was once asked by a theater teacher to pretend I was on a boat leaving port and my loved ones were on the dock. It was a fun acting exercise that I embraced and enjoyed, and I suppose he wanted to see if I had what it takes to be an actor. I was already addicted to sketching, so I didn't go on stage. I admire anyone who is brave enough to stand in front of an audience. As an artist, I never actually see the people who view my work. They are filtered behind the curtain of the Internet. As a senior in high school, I partied with the theater students. It was a fun boysterous group to be with and I suppose they fueled my need to always stand on the sidelines to watch the magic and hard work of theater. It is possible that a student in this production might find they to could become addicted to the siren's call of theater. It is a calling that can last a lifetime.
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When you're in the mood for a serious get down to cumbia, salsa, merengue, bachata, or rock en español, Blue Agave Nightclub in Grantville is where you need to go. While there is a cover charge to get it, it is usually FREE before 10pm. Although you will need an Uber to get here, it is worth it to stop in on Sunday nights for live Banda music and dancing.
Other Options
If you're not into the club scene, there are plenty of other ways to get your body moving to the sultry sounds of Latin music. Learn to salsa at Salsacrazy or Majesty in Motion. Step up your samba skills with a class from Super Sonic Samba School— classes are held at WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park.
Whether you're in the mood for late-night dancing to Shakira and Calibre 50 or looking to take private lessons from a professional instructor, you can find the Latin music and dancing you love close to The REY apartments in San Diego.


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Exchanging ideas between SETAC and ISES on the role of exposure science in the context of hazard and risk assessment of (emerging) chemicals
A special welcome to ISES members to the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting!
Registration is open.
The central theme of the conference is "Environmental Quality through Transdisciplinary Collaboration". Within this general theme, SETAC and the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) are setting up a collaboration with the aim of "exchanging ideas on the role of exposure science" in the context of hazard and risk assessment of (emerging) chemicals.
We are delighted to announce three initiatives within this context for the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting 2017 in Brussels:
- A special session (session 8.01) entitled "Do we have the right tools to identify emerging hazards and risks?" is organised by chairs from both societies and renowned invited speakers. Chairs for this session are Georg Streck (European Commission), Yuri Bruinen de Bruin (European Commission), Jos Bessems (European Commission) and Joost Bakker (RIVM, Netherlands).
- Several other sessions in the scientific programme, being organised over the entire conference, are also interesting for bringing together SETAC and ISES members around exposure science and emerging hazards and risks. These sessions invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics, including endocrine disruptors, microplastics, nanomaterials, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, natural toxins, metals, etc.
- A business meeting between invited SETAC and ISES members to explore and discuss opportunities for further collaboration. Exposure Modelling Interest Group Business Meeting, Wednesday 10 May, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Meeting Studio 311 & 312.
A module for late-breaking science abstract submission (poster only!) is now open. Abstracts can be submitted until 26 April 2017.
For any questions, please contact Roel Evens (SETAC Europe Science Manager) or Karel De Schamphelaere (Conference Chair) or Yuri Bruinen de Bruin (Liaison to the International Society of Exposure Science).


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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Upcoming Season 7 Premier Week Chats
The Knights and Ladies of The Criminal Minds Round Table are happy to announce two chats this week to coincide with the highly anticipated Season 7 premiere.
Kirsten Vangsness, our team's technical wizard Penelope Garcia, will join us Tuesdays 09/20 and Executive Producer Erica Messer will be our guest Friday 09/23. We can't wait for two of our favorite ladies to pay us another visit.
Should be a great week for Criminal Minds fans!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Criminal Minds "Reunited and it feels so good" SPOILERS
Reunited and it feels so good
by May Seah
For two guys who have spent the last few years of their professional lives chasing down psychopaths and serial killers, Joe Mantegna and Thomas Gibson were looking very dapper.
Our two leading men from the popular case-solving show Criminal Minds were immaculately suited up on the morning I met with them in Los Angeles, where the show is shot. Criminal profiling, apparently, comes with the side effect of having good taste in suits.
As their characters David Rossi and Aaron Hotchner, Mantegna and Gibson play the alpha males of the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit, or BAU. In other words, don't mess with the nice uncles.
With the double dose of testosterone in the room, it was hard to say who was the manlier man. Mantegna, on the one hand, was on that month's cover of Cigar Aficionado, puffing intensely while holding on to a classic Freudian symbol of manhood.
On the other hand, Gibson ... Well, he had a very cool iPhone case that looked like the cover of one of those old leather-bound books found in legal libraries.
Happily, judging from all the clapping of each other on the back that they did, the dynamic duo were in good spirits due to the fact that when Criminal Minds returns for a new seventh season, "the family" will be back together again.
To read more Today's Online
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Welcome Lady Iseult!
'Criminal Minds' cast: Deadly serious about recycling. Contain SPOILERS
Having grown up in a family that recycles, Erica Messer makes sure the set of "Criminal Minds," the show she produces, does the same — among other green practices. "My granddad used to have me stomp on his Pepsi cans and we'd take them to the recycling place. I grew up doing it so if I see a can in the trash I take it out and put it in the recycling bin. We have bins and recycle everything on the stage, and all internal documents and scripts are double-sided. It reduces the costs but it's more than that. It makes me crazy" when people don't do it, said Messer, at CBS' fall launch event at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
To read more go to MNN
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Criminal Minds Press Release for Episode 7.03 "Dorado Falls"
Max Martini ("The Unit") Guest Stars as Navy Veteran Luke Dolan
CHEAT TWEET: There's lots of "insecurity" after a mass murder at an Internet security company, Criminal Minds Oct. 5
"Dorado Falls" – The BAU team investigates a mass murder at an Internet security company in Charlottesville, Va., but clues reveal it is not a typical serial killer at work. Also, Prentiss must complete recertification training under Morgan's watchful eye, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Oct. 5 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Max Martini ("The Unit") guest stars as Navy veteran Luke Dolan.
David Rossi Joe Mantegna
Aaron Hotchner Thomas Gibson
Emily Prentiss Paget Brewster
Derek Morgan Shemar Moore
Dr. Spencer Reid Matthew Gray Gubler
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau A.J. Cook
Penelope Garcia Kirsten Vangsness
Luke Dolan Max Martini
Jenna Dolan Sarah Aldrich
General Boyd Milgram Lindsey Ginter
State Trooper Brian Long Rodney J. Hobbs
Driver Andre Ellington
Jamie Jamie Silberhartz
Adam Werner Bryan Friday
Nathan Munz Andy Allen
Mark Dolan Michael Bofshever
Mary Dolan Julia Rhoda
Dr. Risa Coletti Robin Daléa
Ally Dolan Hana Hayes
Uniformed Officer Vince Green
Reporter Gina St. John
Wendy Milgram Janice Kent
CBS Television…2
Carter Tadman Robert Steinman
HRT Commander Powell Bruno Amato
Police Officer Sean Hemeon
WRITTEN BY: Sharon Lee Watson
DIRECTED BY: Felix Alcala
Source: CBS
Shemar Moore is one Tough Mudder
What is Tough Mudder? Only one of the toughest, most-challenging, difficult, grueling obstacle courses ever devised. It will test not just their fitness, strength and stamina but also both their physical and mental toughness. It's the toughest military style obstacle course you could dream up on steroids. This 11 mile event will take place over an elevation increase of 2,300 feet in the mountains of Squaw Valley, CA September 17 and 18 to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and other charities.
Learn more about the event here: http://toughmudder.com/
Monday, September 12, 2011
A.J Cook to take part in the CBS "Tweet Week"
CBS Looks to Tweet Up Ratings
Network launches two weeks of social media events with live chats with executive producers and the return of Tweet Week
By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/12/2011 7:12:26 PM
Sept.19 through Sept. 26 will see the return of CBS Tweet Week, which features live tweets from stars of the shows.
Starting at 7:30 p.m. ET, on Monday, Sept. 12-18, CBS.com users can watch a 15-minute episode introducing them to CBS's nightly lineup. Each episode features exclusive content from CBS's new and returning fall series and will be followed by a live chat events with the executive producers.
The chats will coincide with the East Coast rebroadcasts of most of the shows' 2010-2011 season finales except for CSI.
Chats with executive producers start with Hawaii Five-0 executive producer Peter Lenkov on Monday, Sept. 12, followed by NCIS executive producer Gary Glasberg (Sept. 13), CSI executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill (Sept. 14), The Mentalist executive producers Bruno Heller and Chris Long (Sept. 15), and CSI: NY executive producers Pam Veasey and Zachary Reiter (Sept. 16).
Talent participating in Tweet Week include Hawaii Five-0 star Masi Oka; NCIS: Los Angeles' Eric Christian Olsen and Daniela Ruah; Survivor host and executive producer Jeff Probst; Criminal Minds' AJ Cook; The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar; A Gifted Man's star Patrick Wilson and the show's executive producer Neal Baer; and The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies.
source B&C
Criminal Minds Sneak Peek Video at Episode 7.01 "It Takes a Village"
Criminal Minds Press Release for Episode 7.02 "Proof"
- 09.12.2011
Andy Milder ("Weeds") Guest Stars as Cy, a Mentally-Challenged Man, and Tracy Middendorf ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Boardwalk Empire") Guest Stars as Lyla Bradstone, Cy's Sister-In-Law
"Proof" - The BAU team searches rural Oklahoma when women are being found murdered after being robbed of one of their five senses. Also, JJ and Prentiss get the cold shoulder from Reid as he deals with their deception about Prentiss' presumed death, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Sept. 28 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Andy Milder ("Weeds") guest stars as Cy, a mentally-challenged man, and Tracy Middendorf ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Boardwalk Empire") guest stars as Lyla Bradstone, Cy's sister-in-law.
David Rossi................................ Joe Mantegna
Aaron Hotchner....................... Thomas Gibson
Derek Morgan.......................... Shemar Moore
Dr. Spencer Reid........... Matthew Gray GublerJennifer "JJ" Jareau.......................... A.J. Cook
Penelope Garcia.................. Kirsten Vangsness
GUEST CAST:Abby Elcott......................... Caroline Schreiber
Young Cy................................ Sean Ryan FoxCy............................................... Andy Milder
Beth.................................... Lindsay LaVanchyMatt Bradstone.......................... David Starzyk
Detective Bonner......................... Kristen ArizaMr. Elcott................................. Doug Morency
Mrs. Elcott.................................... Peg LondonMrs. Westerly............................ Cynthia Eades
Lyla Bradstone.................... Tracy MiddendorfTammy Bradstone................... Johanna Braddy
Jason Bradstone.............................. Paul ButlerSarah........................................... Jessi Cooper
Medical Examiner................ Nawal BengholamGwen....................................... Kinna McInroe
Debbie.................................... Monique GreenJeff........................................ Michael Monken
Teen Cy.................................... Jimmy DeshlerYoung Lyla.............................. Katelyn Pacitto
Teen Matt................................. Kevin NormanCheryl.......................... Chloe June O'Shannon
Bully Kid #1..................... Troy Lindsay BrownBully Kid #2............................... Harry Daniels
WRITTEN BY: Janine Sherman Barrois, one of the series' executive producers
DIRECTED BY: Karen Gaviola
Images from the CBS Fall Preview at The Paley Center - 2011
Expect Criminal Minds to bring the BADASSERY in Season 7
1) From the short segment of the season opener "It Takes A Village" we were shown, the first episode it going to ROCK. It looks like we are in for a wild ride.
2) It is GREAT to have the team back together. Paget Brewster and AJ Cook were missed last year and we are so excited to have them back. The seven actors on that stage have the best chemistry. Prentiss back from "the dead" and the return of JJ is the best outcome we could have ever hoped for. Thankfully CBS worked things out with Shemar and Thomas too so we can have them all this coming season.
3) They are not going to gloss over the deceit surrounding Emily's "death". The team was fractured; let's hope we get great drama as they put it back together.
4) We are very excited to have Erica Messer running our show. CBS could have brought in an outsider to take over for Ed Bernero but chose to promote from within. Erica has been with us from the very beginning. She is as big a fan of CM as we are. Erica promises to bring the BADASSERY to CM. Bring it on, Erica!!
5) Hotch with a beard is sexy. In fact, it was Thomas Gibson's return from hiatus with his beard that got the show to want to write it into the show. Hotch's beard should be in the opening credits as a supporting player.
6) JJ as a profiler means we get to see a whole new side of her and we can't wait.
7) Season 7 is going to let us dive a little into what drives these seven agents to continue to do what they do. Anyone else excited to see some new layers added to our beloved characters?
8) We really do have the BEST looking cast on television. Sorry, had to say it again!
I think Kirsten Vangsness had the best analogy of the evening. She said last year they had a whole bunch of lemons thrown at them; the debacle with AJ and Paget, the contract negotiations with Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson, Ed Bernero leaving, new writers to name a few. This year they've taken those lemons and are going to try and make the best and sweetest lemonade ever!
CMRT is ready and excited for Season 7 of Criminal Minds! Are you??


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CCA Data Analyst Exam (CCA159)
- Number of Questions: 8–12 performance-based (hands-on) tasks on a Cloudera Enterprise cluster. See below for full cluster configuration
- Time Limit: 120 minutes
- Passing Score: 70%
- Language: English
- Price: USD $295
Exam Question Format
You are given eight to twelve customer problems with a unique large data set, a CDH cluster, and 120 minutes. For each problem, you must implement a technical solution with a high degree of precision that meets all the requirements. You may use any tool or combination of tools on the cluster (see list below) -- you get to pick the tool(s) that are right for the job. You must possess enough knowledge to analyze the problem and arrive at an optimal approach given the time allowed. You need to know what you should do and then do it on a live cluster, including a time limit and while being watched by a proctor.
Evaluation, Score Reporting, and Certificate
Your exam is graded immediately upon submission and you are e-mailed a score report the same day as your exam. Your score report displays the problem number for each problem you attempted and a grade on that problem. If you fail a problem, the score report includes the criteria you failed (e.g., "Records contain incorrect data" or "Incorrect file format"). We do not report more information in order to protect the exam content. Read more about reviewing exam content on the FAQ.
If you pass the exam, you receive a second e-mail within a few days of your exam with your digital certificate as a PDF, your license number, a Linkedin profile update, and a link to download your CCA logos for use in your personal business collateral and social media profiles
Audience and Prerequisites
Candidates for CCA Data Analyst can be SQL developers, data analysts, business intelligence specialists, developers, system architects, and database administrators. There are no prerequisites.
The CCA Data Analyst exam was created to identify talented SQL developers looking to stand out and be recognized by employers looking for these skills. It is recommended that those looking to achieve this certification start by taking Cloudera's Data Analyst training course, which has the same objectives as the exam.
Required Skills
Prepare the Data
Use Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) processes to prepare data for queries.
Import data from a MySQL database into HDFS using Sqoop
Export data to a MySQL database from HDFS using Sqoop
Move data between tables in the metastore
Transform values, columns, or file formats of incoming data before analysis
Provide Structure to the Data
Use Data Definition Language (DDL) statements to create or alter structures in the metastore for use by Hive and Impala.
Create tables using a variety of data types, delimiters, and file formats
Create new tables using existing tables to define the schema
Improve query performance by creating partitioned tables in the metastore
Alter tables to modify existing schema
Create views in order to simplify queries
Data Analysis
Use Query Language (QL) statements in Hive and Impala to analyze data on the cluster.
Prepare reports using SELECT commands including unions and subqueries
Calculate aggregate statistics, such as sums and averages, during a query
Create queries against multiple data sources by using join commands
Transform the output format of queries by using built-in functions
- Perform queries across a group of rows using windowing functions
Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Exam delivery and cluster information
CCA159 is a hands-on, practical exam using Cloudera technologies. Each user is given their own CDH5 (currently 5.10.1) cluster pre-loaded with Spark, Impala, Crunch, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Kafka, Flume, Kite, Hue, Oozie, DataFu, and many others (See a full list). In addition the cluster also comes with Python 2.7 and 3.4, Perl 5.16, Elephant Bird, Cascading 2.6, Brickhouse, Hive Swarm, Scala 2.11, Scalding, IDEA, Sublime, Eclipse, and NetBeans.
Documentation Available online during the exam
Cloudera Product Documentation
Apache Hadoop
Apache Hive
Apache Impala
Apache Sqoop
Apache Crunch
Apache Pig
Kite SDK
Apache Avro
Apache Parquet
Cloudera HUE
Apache Oozie
Apache Flume
JDK 7 API Docs
Python 2.7 Documentation
Python 3.4 Documentation
Scala Documentation
Only the documentation, links, and resources listed above are accessible during the exam. All other websites, including Google/search functionality is disabled. You may not use notes or other exam aids.


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Economists have long advocated that competition improves the efficiency of an industry. Elementary education, however, is typically a state monopoly, and where private education is offered, it is typically much more expensive as not subsidized. While there are locations where voucher programs allow parents to use the subsidy elsewhere, it is hard to find examples where public systems compete with each other.
David Card, Martin Dooley and Abigail Payne look at an example that comes close to this: Ontario, Canada, has a parallel state school system for Catholics. The later can choose where to send their children, and thus the spatial variation in the proportion of Catholics in the population can provide interesting insights in the efficiency of local schools.
The general idea is that in areas with a larger share of Catholics, non-catholic schools has larger incentives to improve to attract these children, especially if parents are not particularly attached to religious education. Using detailed data at the school and child level, this study finds that competition does indeed improve performance as measured by student achievement. One more example highlighting that school choice is good.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Competing schools are more efficient
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Sweet Engagement Cupcakes
I Had a lot of fun baking my own engagement party cupcakes – you can too!
Here is an easy recipe for you to make your own engagement themed cupcakes!
2 cups cake flour
2 tsp baking powder
half a cup of castor sugar
pinch of salt
2 eggs
half a cup oil
half a cup milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
For the icing
2 cups icing sugar
200g butter
pink and blue food colouring
1-2 tsp depending on the shade of coulour you want
(powder or liquid)
1 tsp water
DIY Ring decoration
You will need a few toothpicks and printed and cut out pictures of a ring. Use glue to stick a ring picture onto each toothpick. Let dry for a few minutes.
In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs, oil, milk and vanilla together. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. When finished, sift the dry ingredients again, into the the bowl with the egg mixture. Fold/mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until all the flour is mixed into the egg mixture – be careful not to over-mix!
Get a muffin tin and put in the muffin casings. Then use a big spoon and a butter knife to spoon spoons-fulls of mixture into the casings to make them three-quarters full.
Bake for 15-20 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius.
Put on a cooling rack to cool.
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter for the icing until creamy. Sift the icing sugar into the butter and mix with a hand blender until combined.
Divide the creamy butter-icing mixture into 2 bowls. Add the pink food colouring to the one and the blue colouring to the other bowl. Mix until you have the perfect colour – or add even more colouring if you're not satifsied with the colour.
Use a knife to spread one colour of creamy icing on each cupcake.
Take a toothpick with a ring that you prepared earlier and stick it into the cupcake.
Enjoy the party!


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Call us at (403) 259-3401
What are Dental Implants?
Dental Implants are small, titanium-based, screw-shaped threaded cylinders that are placed into the bone in the upper (Maxillary) and/or lower (Mandibular) arches of the mouth. They are used to replace one or many missing teeth, or to stabilize dentures. Titanium is an inert metal that is capable of creating a very tight bond with bone. Titanium is used in other operations such as knee or hip replacements — so it is a proven surgical component.
About Dental Implants
The implant acts like the root of a natural tooth, and bone actually forms around a special coating on the implant to hold the implant firmly in place. This process is referred to as osseointegration. A crown – with the look, feel, and function of a natural tooth – is then affixed to an abutment which is connected to the implant. The 'abutment' is simply a small connecting piece between the implant and the crown.
In cases where there are multiple missing teeth, or where the patient has previously had dentures, multiple implants are placed in the mouth to allow for implant-supported crowns or bridges, ball abutment retained over-dentures, and/or bar-supported over-dentures.
The success rate for dental implants is very high; and, with proper care, good dental hygiene, and a healthy life style, it is rare that implants will fail. Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of implants have been placed. Many of the 'original' implants are still functioning without problems. Technology and procedures have advanced significantly since the first implants were placed. The success rate is now in the 95%+ range. Some reasons for failed implants can be attributed to an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking), or to poor dental hygiene.
The Dental Implant Procedure
What are the benefits of Dental Implants?
At Ultima Dental Wellness we are Always accepting New Patients!
Call Us at (403) 259-3401 to book your Dental Implants appointment today!


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Back to last year October 2007, I have show before a website name MyIPNeighbors, which you can check whom hosted same server with your domain, or how many domain in a server. This year let me introduce another tools which allow you to check who hosted the same server with your domain.
In this website, simply in the your website address or domain name over the "remote address" section and click "check"
It will display all the domain name who hosted in the same server. According to You Get Signal Website, the result are not guarantee.
It use the reverse IP check technology, which check the domain IP address pointed to the particular web server, and find out those domain name with the same IP address via Search Engine Result.
I have try to compare result search via "MyIPNeighbors" and "You Get Signal", both give me different result, as you can see the "You get signal" show my server have 342 domain share the same server, wheres "MyIPNeighbors" only shows hosted 251 domain in the server.
The result at MyIPNeighbors show 251 domain hosted at server with IP address 126.96.36.199
I have also make another domain search comparison at imDavidLee.com a Malaysia Financial Blogger, the search result from both "MyIPNeighbors" and "You Get Signal" also different.
As you can see, You Get Signal show 337 domain hosted same server with imDavidLee.com, while MyIPNeighbors shows 300 domain only.
At WebHosting point of view, as a ethical web hosing company, they will not hosted too much domain name over a shared server, but some of the unethical web hosting company hosted too many domain name, can up to 1000++ domain in a shared server, it will affect the server performance
Mostly blogspot.com and wordpress.com will hosted up to 1000 user, this is the reason some time when we access blogspot.com and wordpress.com will have slightly slow, but their server is very powerful, they also well maintain on their server, downtime are less too
If you found that your website is very slow to access, or always no display when you access, might be server overload, you should check how many domain name hosted in your server. So irresponsible web hosting company can host up to thousand domain name in 1 share server. Oh ya, lastly, is the URL of this service, you can check who hosted same server with your domain at You Get Signal.com


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No need to silently suffer in depression, Google has collaborated with NAMI [National Alliance on Mental Illness, USA] to test what your possible level of depression. With this latest update in the form of PHQ-9 questionnaire, Google has taken a huge step to help eliminate depression. Currently available on mobile search feed, PHQ-9 questionnaire is a few simple multiple-choice questions to help you figure out if you're in need of medical help or not.
If you are thinking, what is PHQ-9 questionnaire?
According to google latest update PHQ-9 is a reliable measure to validate depression severity. As per the American Psychological Association, the PHQ-9 "Patient Health Questionnaire" consists of 'nine points' which are mandatory to answer for evaluating depression. It is "self-administered" method to check the level of your depression. These questionnaires are free of charge in English as well as in more than 30 other languages.
Therefore, if you will make a Google search regarding depression, you will get an option to "Check if you're clinically depressed" by NAMI. You can see this option in the knowledge panel. You can get more information on the webpage, the questionnaire is more than just a link to webpage, but it will actually help you. Just click and take the test as a first step towards a depression free life.
Google's Intentions is to Offer HELP!
Depression is a most serious as well as neglected mental illness. According to NAMI, a majority of US population is suffering from it. This is the main reason that Google and NAMI has partnered together for offering primary screening to get into the process of diagnosing depression. Some common symptoms that the PHQ-9 checks for include a lack of interest in or pleasure from doing things, feeling down or hopeless, trouble concentrating, or thoughts of self-harm.
Google is not going to secure your test results
Google has made its part clear, that "Your Information Is Just Solely Yours". It will not secure or keep your information in any manner. Company will not be keeping users' information from the PHQ-9 on file. Google understands that this information is private and user's security is essential. So you are free from Google will not store your responses.
Are you depressed? Or think you might be suffering from it? Now get started to assess you mental health with NAMI and Google-generated depression questionnaire. However, the time will tell, if any, benefit the tool will have for depression parents.
For new mobile search updates from Google and mobile application development, keep following Zatak Softech.


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PikeOnline is personal project that I originally set up back in 2001. It was the second web design project I undertook to develop the skills I use today in web design and development. Back then and up until 2011 it was a standard html based site, one that had been neglected and not updated for quite a long time. Despite this it had been continually busy and was a clear indicator that there was a need for it and a community that used it.
It had throughout its life resided in a sub folder and was listed simply as www.hooklinks.co.uk/pike and had few real search listings due to its layout, it was 'frame' based and difficult for search engines to list effectively. So given the sites popularity I took the decision in 2010 to start the process of rebuilding it using Joomla, a CMS that I frequently now use for customers needing the self managing capabilities and for those where there will be a fair amount of regular updates and edits for me to carry out for my customers.
I decide back in 2010 that the site should have its own identity via its own domain name. It has always been known as 'pikeonline' so the domain 'pikeonline.co.uk' was secured. This domain is also a key to its future as it has two key words that help it immediately with any searches for 'pike' related websites. Matching the sections, page names/titles/keywords and content to typical search queries has seen the site climb to a #1 ranking for many of the key searches pike anglers are making on most of the key search engines.
Pikeonline is a dedicated pike fishing information platform, providing access to information about fish care and welfare, how to create rigs and tackle, how to fish for pike and where to fish for them. It utilises some powerful components to build sections of the site and to make delivery of the content as simple as possible. The key feature that makes the site stand out from probably all of its competition is the quality and strength of the illustrations that show how to set up and fish many of the popular pike fishing rigs and other such parts of a pike anglers methods.
Components included delivering video from a variety of sources, directories for where to fish, boat hire and slipways and events, and offers information for anglers across the UK in one accessible place.
A key standout feature is being developed and that is to allow visitors looking at the rigs to be able to purchase from the page via a pop up shopping cart, any items of tackle that are recommended with relaitve ease. Partnering with a suitable tackle supplier is planned, but currently the system utilises an Amazon store to explore the potential.
Visit the PikeOnline website and take a look around the features at: http://pikeonline.co.uk


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Diaconal Sunday
Through our baptism all Christians are called to share God's word and to serve our neighbours in Christ's name. Diaconal Sunday is a day to recognize and give thanks to God for the men and women who serve in official calls as deacons in our church. Yearly, we celebrate witness expressed through service (diakonia) and leadership offered by the ELCIC's diaconal ministers.
Additional resources are available on the ELCIC website here.


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sitemap implemented and submitted.
changes at ODP (Open Directory Project ) and Google.
Changed the "smart"-script redirect that pics up dead urls to use HTTP 301 instead of being caught by the HTTP 404 errorpage and then redirected.
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This recipe wins hands-down in the easy, fast, and delicious category. It takes just 6 minutes to cook, you hardly have to chop a thing, and you get a plateful of garlicky shrimp and warm, plump tomatoes in a lovely, light sauce.
Recipe courtesy of So Easy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ©2009.


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High School Mountain Bike Team Accepting Riders
Whatcom County's High School Mountain Bike Team in Association with the Washington Student League.
"Our mission is to promote youth development, confidence, leadership, health and public stewardship through mountain biking and positive outdoor experience and to and create a foundation for lifelong cycling enjoyment."
– Washington Student League
The team is open to anyone who is a Whatcom County high school student grade 9-12. Basic bike riding skills recommended. There are also volunteer opportunities for parents and bicycle minded community members. This is a great way to help out and give back to the community, as riding bikes ties together personal wellbeing, stewardship, and camaraderie!
An excuse to ride your bike! Meet new people, explore new trails, build your riding skills. The Whatcom Composite mountain bike team's main focus is riding and skill development. The idea, most of all, is to ride bikes and have fun! There will be opportunities for racing, though it's not a requirement. The League puts on four races a season, and we will plan to attend each one!
Spring 2015 – The goal is for students to ride 2-3 times per week. Practices will take place on two weekday evenings per week (4:30pm-6:15pm once daylight savings arrives), with a longer ride on the weekend. The tentative schedule is Tuesday/Thursday and Saturday or Sunday, though that may change depending on what team members deem most doable.Rides will take place on various trail systems, including Galbraith & Chuckanut mountains.
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It took the police 14 days to register the rape allegation and 30 more days to make an arrest, by which time the victim had killed herself. The awful case of a 17-year-old kidnapped from her village in India and raped by two men in a field during Diwali's November celebrations emerged only after last year's horrific gang rape of another student in Delhi on December 16 2012 sparked international outrage.
The 23-year-old student was travelling home from the cinema with a friend when she was viciously attacked by six men on a bus. The woman died from her injuries 13 days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore, in a case that sparked national and international protest.
A year on, it seems fair to ask what difference horrific cases such as these have made to the treatment of women in India.
The older sister of the girl from the small village in the Punjab who was raped in a field has said that, after the teenager tried to report the incident, police officials refused to register the case and then pressured her to make peace with the alleged rapists.
"On some occasions, the policemen would take her to the police station in late evening hours. They also tried to force her to withdraw her complaint."
The attackers threatened their victim and her family.
On December 26, the young woman swallowed poison just as protests were gaining momentum in Delhi. One news presenter said: "Even as Delhi streets are bubbling over with protests, it took the suicide of a 17-year-old rape victim for the police to finally act on her complaint. What good is that now?"
Others are asking the same question. The Delhi bus case appears to have encouraged more women to come forward if they have been raped, and for the media to report these allegation, but in many other ways little appears to have changed.
Soon after the Delhi rape, the government surprised everyone by quickly setting up a commission to update the law before accepting most of its recommendations (except, crucially, to criminalise marital rape).
But passing progressive legislation is very different to enforcing it, especially in a country where police corruption is widespread and legal bans on dowry payments and sex-selection abortionsare routinely flouted.
The latest annual figures available show that, of the 706 rape cases filed in New Delhi in 2012, only one, the most famous, ended in conviction.
Police in Delhi recorded 501 allegations of harassment and 64 of rape between December 16 2012 and January 4 2013 and yet just four inquiries were launched.
In the nine months to October this year, almost twice as many rape victims (1 330) have come forward, and four times as many allegations of molestation have been made.
One area that has changed in the past year is the national media.
"The media has raised awareness by default that India has a lot of gender problems. People are finally having conversations that were otherwise swept underneath the carpet. It is still not doing enough to educate the masses about violence against women, but the media conversation is finally moving in the right direction," says Krishna Khunti, a charity worker who lives in Mumbai.
Just last month, allegations of sexual assault at the respected investigative magazine Tehelka made news as its editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was arrested and questioned. Even its managing editor, Shoma Chaudhury, had to resign over accusations that she played down the controversy.
Although heightened media attention can spur politicians and the police into action, activists say it has also had the effect of challenging the shaming of women who have been sexually assaulted.
Some victims have even revealed their identities on television in a bid to raise awareness of the increasing numbers of sexual assaults.
The problems of sexual violence in India underlines the deep-rooted misogyny of a society in which men are valued more highly than women.
Back in 1991, the economist Amartya Sen estimated that Asia as a whole was "missing" around 100-million women. This discrepancy has only got worse in the intervening years. According to India's 2011 census, there are 37-million fewer women than men (about 587-million versus about 624-million). In countries where both sexes receive similar care, there are typically more women; the European Union has an average of 95 men for every 100 women, for example.
This gender gap is due to a toxic combination of feticide, infanticide, excessive neglect of girls, murder and destitution.
In northern and western states, especially in urban middle-class areas, it is not unusual for fetuses to be aborted before birth, simply because families don't want girls.
A girl under the age of five has 75% more chance of dying through neglect than a boy – the highest differential in the world.
But as the cost of a dowry is rising in India, making families more reluctant to have daughters, the sex ratio for children under the age of six is falling – from a high of 983 girls to 1 000 boys in 1951 to 914 girls in 2011.
Sehjo Singh, director of programmes at ActionAid India, says: "We have seen over the past decade that sex-selection services, which were once limited to urban areas, are now moving into rural areas. These services, such as ultrasonography machines, are also getting cheaper, which makes them more available to rural families. ActionAid is extremely worried about these developments and what it means for the huge numbers of girls who are killed in India before they are even born."
As the gap between the number of men and women keeps widening, men in some northern areas are finding it harder to find wives.
Nongovernmental organisations report "a boom in sex trafficking" as unmarried men turn to prostitution, kidnapping or even buying young girls as "brides".
Signs of progress are limited. This week's elections in Delhi saw politicians compete on safety policies for women for the first time.
"The very fact that parties are debating women and their rights is a victory for the women's safety movement. This has never happened before," Sudha Sundararaman, general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association told the Wall Street Journal.
A survey in the DNA newspaper last week found that only 15% of women in the commercial capital Mumbai felt safe while travelling on public transport.
After the death of the 17-year-old rape victim, Punjab police belatedly sacked two officers for misconduct and charged another for abetting her suicide. The state judge said the judicial system was becoming so ineffectual and slow that violence against women was rising because criminals felt they would go unpunished.
The victim's family said the teen's final words were: "There is nobody willing to listen to us, mother."
Even a year after these horrific incidents, too many Indian women still feel that way. – © Guardian News & Media 2013


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Periodically, we sit down with developers in the community who are implementing YUI for projects outside of Yahoo. Yesterday we met with a team from the marketing firm Genius.com, a company that specializes in helping sales professionals monitor (in real time) the impact of emails sent to qualified sales leads. Genius.com allows salespeople to track who has read an email message, which recipients have gone on to visit related web content, and which recipients are looking at that content at any given moment — all of which allows for a highly personalized followup response. Ryan Ausanka-Crues, Nader Farahani, and Chris Krueger from Genius.com met with us to talk about how they are using YUI to create their rich interface and that crucial sense of interactive immediacy necessary in a product that communicates real-time feedback to its users.
At what point did you begin evolving your application to use a rich interface? What were the original tools/libraries you used?
The company from day one started as a Web 2.0-focused project, but we didn't have the engineering resources to create everything ourselves — we knew that from the beginning. So we looked at a lot of UI libraries back when we were getting started on the product. We looked at Dojo, and we looked at Google's web toolkit and some of the commercial libraries. We had a big decision to make about whether to spend money on a commercial product or use one of the open source packages. Ultimately, we found that what we could get from the open source community was more than enough for us.
Why did you choose YUI as part of your JavaScript foundation?
What attracted us to YUI specifically was the documentation, first and foremost. It was surprising, at the time we were doing this research, how many good tools were out there that simply didn't have enough documentation to make us feel confident about doing complex implementations. YUI's documentation makes it easier for us to hire people, too, because with YUI we don't need to hire someone with YUI-specific skills. A good programmer can come to YUI and learn it based on the documentation. That's been important to us lately as we've grown the company.
The YUI examples were another factor that drew us to YUI; you could see immediately how each component was meant to be used and whether it solved our core problems.
The final key draw to YUI for us was the quality of the APIs throughout the library. It was compelling to see how much thought was given to writing the APIs and designing them in such a way that it would make sense to use and to build on. The APIs resonated for us, made sense immediately in many cases, and that made it much easier for us to feel comfortable building on YUI.
There's a sense, too, that with Yahoo! behind this it will be around for a long time and will continue to receive real development commitment.
How are you using YUI in your site today?
Today we're using the Animation Utility, the Dialog Control, the Calendar Control, and Jack Slocum's YUI-ext Grid, among other things. We're beginning to implement Connection Manager for XHR transactions, and we do a lot of that. We have a lot of work under development that extends this even further. We're in the process of converting wholly to YUI from some in-house components and from some other third-party pieces. We're now in the process of converting every XHR call to Connection Manager; in one place, we've ripped out about 700 lines of XHR code and replace it with 130 lines based on Connection Manager.
We're also in the process of converting every table from an old hand-rolled solution to Jack's Grid or the upcoming YUI DataTable.
You've mentioned that you're using Jack Slocum's YUI-ext library, an extension of YUI. What holes has Jack's work filled for you?
Jack's work was one of the things that put us over the top for using YUI . Some of the components we really needed, like the Grid, weren't in YUI, but Jack had them; Jack's Grid really made it possible for us to use YUI. And we could see how Jack was extending YUI and the patterns he used to do that; that showed us that there was a solid foundation for building our own implementations and going beyond just what YUI did out of the box. Another thing that we really liked about Jack's work is the richness of his examples visually; he goes beyond the base YUI in terms of styling his examples, which is really important to us as we try to style our own components. We've also gotten accustomed to Jack's implementation of the API documentation, which is based upon but styled differently than the documentation on the YUI site.
How has the YUI implementation process gone for you so far?
Our CTO really pushed us in this direction. We knew we needed to get ourselves onto a coherent platform, whether it was Dojo or YUI or something else. And when we went down this path, the experience really validated the decision to migrate to a platform. Things we'd been struggling with for a long time we were able to mock up in a couple of days once we moved to YUI. Jack's Grid was a good example of that.
Compared to where we were, it's been a huge step forward.
What are some of the pain points you've experienced while using YUI?
It would be better for us if there was more attention given to the graphical or visual aspect of the examples. It would be easier for our visual designers to work with the examples if they had more of the visual richness that will ultimately be part of the product.
Getting started was tough back in the early days for us — there's so much information on the YUI website, it can be hard to know where to start. There were challenges early on, too, in just tracking what includes were needed — that information was available in the documentation, but not in the API docs, and so we spent some time learning how to track dependencies (Editor's note: dependencies are now included in API docs as well as in user guides). Back in the early days, we would have benefitted from a "Getting Started with YUI" guide or tutorial.
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The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.Chaim Weizmann
There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering.Chaim Weizmann
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.Chaim Weizmann
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.Chaim Weizmann
He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'Chaim Weizmann
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Since 2008 when I established my practice I feel privileged I have been able to support numerous expectant mums throughout pregnancy, via maternity reflexology, as they prepare for birth. It is a wonderful journey to be part of and it's so exciting when a client makes contact to share the news of their arrival.
Whilst you consider whether you would like to receive maternity reflexology, I have detailed some information for you below.
What is Maternity Reflexology?
It is an area of reflexology aimed specifically at women during pre-conception, pregnancy, labour and the post-natal periods.
Why do clients have Maternity Reflexology?
For many of my clients they choose to have maternity reflexology, to relax and unwind in a secure space before the little one arrives. Some clients may feel anxious or worried and my treatment helps them to relax and release some of the stress and tension they may feel.
Can Maternity Reflexology shorten the duration of labour?
Research has shown that regular reflexology treatments during pregnancy can shorten the duration of labour, with subjects often requiring less pain-relief during the course of delivery.
A research study has shown reflexology in pregnancy significantly reduced pain during labour and reduced the length of the first stage (Valiani M et al – 2010 "Reviewing the effect of Reflexology on pain and outcomes of the labour of primiparous women" Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research. 15(Dec) p302-310)
An earlier study showed first-time mums who received 10 reflexology treatments prior to birth had average labour times of five to six hours. It was noted the group treated with reflexology needed far less pain relief during labour too. (G. Motha and J. McGrath – 1992 "The effects of reflexology on labour outcome").
What qualifications do you have?
- International Institute of Reflexology Diploma
- Enhancing Fertility and Maternity Care through Reflexology. Accredited by the Association of Reflexologists (AoR) via Jubilee College, taught by David Wayte who is a Fellow of the AoR and the only reflexologist in the UK to be made a member of the Royal Society of Medicine
Membership of Professional Organisations
I am a member of the following organisations:
Membership of these bodies ensures I have to work to a strict code of conduct and am committed to continuing professional development.
I am pregnant – what happens before a treatment?
As an experienced maternity reflexologist I work in a complementary way alongside the skilled work of your midwife (your chief healthcare provider during pregnancy) and will ask you to obtain permission before reflexology treatments commence.
How do I choose a Maternity Reflexologist?
If you would like to experience maternity reflexology for yourself, please ensure the reflexologist you choose has undergone specialist maternity reflexology training to effectively and safely carry out treatments during pregnancy.
If you have any questions about the treatment please contact me at email@example.com or 07910 120 929.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kelly x
Maternity reflexology is a wonderful complementary treatment for pregnant clients and is not a substitute for medical and obstetric care. If you are concerned about your health, please always consult your GP and Midwife first.
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If you provide any sensitive medical/health information to me via email, text, phone conversation or social media messenger services, I will only hold and use this if we proceed to treatment, at which time I will require explicit consent from you to hold this data. If we do not proceed to treatment I will securely destroy all information sent.
All maternity reflexology and reflexology clients will be required to read and sign a Privacy Notice under the new GDPR guidelines. This notice will be issued at your treatment.
The Purpose of Processing Client Data
In order to give professional maternity reflexology and reflexology treatments, I will need to gather and retain information about your health and well-being. I will only use this information for informing reflexology treatments and associated recommendations concerning aspects of health and well-being. This will be discussed in full at an appointment.
If you have any questions regarding your information or GDPR please email email@example.com
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