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I am most definitely at that age now where the sleepless nights are catching up on my face – I feel tired, I look tired. I am not one for injections or anything that involves PAIN or long term commitment in terms of skin care. I don't want to get botox then have to get it constantly – I don't have the time or money to do so. So what is one to do? Well apart from trying to get more sleep and making healthier lifestyle choices (exercise, a better diet, smiling more) I am ALL for none evasive beauty treatments that prevent further ageing.
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Crystal Clear is one of those brands that I find very 'active' – I haven't used it in a long time but I do remember how the products were extremely potent and back in the day I had to introduce new products one by one to avoid a bad reaction. If you want something that is effective though and potent then this is the brand for you.
This particular kit (there is another version of this device in white called the Contour IT set that comes with the illuminate cream too) contains a cream formulated for the neck area (but can also be used on the face). The Wand can be used on the next but also on the face on key areas, such as on the jawline, under the cheekbone and under the eyebrow. Do watch the video here to see exactly how to use this device.
This device looks like the letter T. It vibrates when you turn it on, and is very smooth feeling on the skin – there's no edges or anything jagged that would pull the skin. You apply your serum of choice (you can use your own), and just gently push this across the areas holding it there if you can. It effectively gives your facial muscles a bit of exercise and they contract, lifting everything:
The result lasts for around 24 hours, but there are other benefits – it feels like you are getting a real facial massage for one thing and my skin felt tighter, toned and really tingly for a few hours afterwards. It was really strange….like I could feel it working even after I had finished the treatment.
I really enjoyed using this device – it's nice at night, and good before special events too.
The side of my face this was used on looked a bit brighter – no it's not going to get rid of all your wrinkles or anything like that but after treatment you look at least 50% more awake and brighter.
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FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop.
Just a few minutes earlier, the then 25-year-old French programmer had made a quick trip to the front desk to complain about the room's internet connection. He had arrived two days ahead of a talk he was scheduled to give at a nearby security conference and found that there was no Wi-Fi, and the ethernet jack wasn't working. Downstairs, one of the hotel's staff insisted he wait while a technician was sent up to fix it. Delpy refused, and went back to wait in the room instead.
When he returned, as Delpy tells it, he was shocked to find the stranger standing at the room's desk, a small black rollerboard suitcase by his side, his fingers hurriedly retracting from Delpy's keyboard. The laptop still showed a locked Windows login screen.
The man mumbled an apology in English about his keycard working on the wrong room, brushed past Delpy, and was out the door before Delpy could even react. "It was all very strange for me," Delpy says today. "Like being in a spy film."
It didn't take Delpy long to guess why his laptop had been the target of a literal black bag job. It contained the subject of his presentation at the Moscow conference, an early version of a program he'd written called Mimikatz. That subtly powerful hacking tool was designed to siphon a Windows user's password out of the ephemeral murk of a computer's memory, so that it could be used to gain repeated access to that computer, or to any others that victim's account could access on the same network. The Russians, like hackers around the world, wanted Delpy's source code.
In the years since, Delpy has released that code to the public, and Mimikatz has become a ubiquitous tool in all manner of hacker penetrations, allowing intruders to quickly leapfrog from one connected machine on a network to the next as soon as they gain an initial foothold.
Most recently, it came into the spotlight as a component of two ransomware worms that have torn through Ukraine and spread across Europe, Russia, and the US: Both NotPetya and last month's BadRabbit ransomwarestrains paired Mimikatz with leaked NSA hacking tools to create automated attacks whose infections rapidly saturated networks, with disastrous results. NotPetya alone led to the paralysis of thousands of computers at companies like Maersk, Merck, and FedEx, and is believed to have caused well over a billion dollars in damages.
Those internet-shaking ripples were enabled, at least in part, by a program that Delpy coded on a lark. An IT manager for a French government institution that he declines to name, Delpy says he originally built Mimikatz as a side project, to learn more about Windows security and the C programming language—and to prove to Microsoft that Windows included a serious security flaw in its handling of passwords.
His proof-of-concept achieved its intended effect: In more recent versions of Windows, the company changed its authentication system to make Mimikatz-like attacks significantly more difficult. But not before Delpy's tool had entered the arsenal of every resourceful hacker on the planet.
"Mimikatz wasn't at all designed for attackers. But it's helped them," Delpy says in his understated and French-tinged English. "When you create something like this for good, you know it can be used by the bad side, too
Even today, despite Microsoft's attempted fixes, Mimikatz remains an all-too-useful hacker tool, says Jake Williams, a penetration tester and founder of security firm Rendition Infosec. "When I read a threat intelligence report that says someone used Mimikatz, I say, 'tell me about one that doesn't,'" Williams says. "Everyone uses it, because it works."
Secrets for the Taking
Mimikatz first became a key hacker asset thanks to its ability to exploit an obscure Windows function called WDigest. That feature is designed to make it more convenient for corporate and government Windows users to prove their identity to different applications on their network or on the web; it holds their authentication credentials in memory and automatically reuses them, so they only have to enter their username and password once.
While Windows keeps that copy of the user's password encrypted, it also keeps a copy of the secret key to decrypt it handy in memory, too. "It's like storing a password-protected secret in an email with the password in the same email," Delpy says.
Delpy pointed out that potential security lapse to Microsoft in a message submitted on the company's support page in 2011. But he says the company brushed off his warning, responding that it wasn't a real flaw. After all, a hacker would already have to gain deep access to a victim's machine before he or she could reach that password in memory. Microsoft said as much in response to WIRED's questions about Mimikatz: "It's important to note that for this tool to be deployed it requires that a system already be compromised," the company said in a statement. "To help stay protected, we recommend customers follow security best practices and apply the latest updates."
But Delpy saw that in practice, the Windows authentication system would still provide a powerful stepping stone for hackers trying to expand their infection from one machine to many on a network. If a piece of malware could run with administrative privileges, it could scoop up the encrypted password from memory along with the key to decrypt it, then use them to access another computer on the network. If another user was logged into that machine, the attacker could run the same program on the second computer to steal their password—and on and on.
So Delpy coded Mimikatz—whose name uses the French slang prefix "mimi," meaning "cute," thus "cute cats"—as a way to demonstrate that problem to Microsoft. He released it publicly in May 2011, but as a closed source program. "Because you don't want to fix it, I'll show it to the world to make people aware of it," Delpy says of his attitude at the time. "It turns out it takes years to make changes at Microsoft. The bad guys didn't wait."
Before long, Delpy saw Chinese users in hacker forums discussing Mimikatz, and trying to reverse-engineer it. Then in mid-2011, he learned for the first time—he declines to say from whom—that Mimikatz had been used in an intrusion of a foreign government network. "The first time I felt very, very bad about it," he remembers.
That September, Mimikatz was used in the landmark hack of DigiNotar, one of the certificate authorities that assures that websites using HTTPS are who they claim to be. That intrusion let the unidentified hackers issue fraudulent certificates, which were then used to spy on thousands of Iranians, according to security researchers at Fox-IT. DigiNotar was blacklisted by web browsers, and subsequently went bankrupt.
The Second Russian Man in a Suit
In early 2012, Delpy was invited to speak about his Windows security work at the Moscow conference Positive Hack Days. He accepted—a little naively, still thinking that Mimikatz's tricks must have already been known to most state-sponsored hackers. But even after the run-in with the man in his hotel room, the Russians weren't done. As soon as he finished giving his talk to a crowd of hackers in an old Soviet factory building, another man in a dark suit approached him and brusquely demanded he put his conference slides and a copy of Mimikatz on a USB drive.
Delpy complied. Then, before he'd even left Russia, he published the code open source on Github, both fearing for his own physical safety if he kept the tool's code secret, and figuring that if hackers were going to use his tool, defenders should understand it, too.
As the use of Mimikatz spread, Microsoft in 2013 finally added the ability in Windows 8.1 to disable WDigest, neutering Mimikatz's most powerful feature. By Windows 10, the company would disable the exploitable function by default.
But Rendition's Williams points out that even today, Mimikatz remains effective on almost every Windows machine he encounters, either because those machines run outdated versions of the operating system, or because he can gain enough privileges on a victim's computer to simply switch on WDigest even if it's disabled.
"My total time-on-target to evade that fix is about 30 seconds," Williams says.
In recent years, Mimikatz has been used in attacks ranging from the Russian hack of the German parliament to the Carbanak gang's multimillion dollar bank thefts. But the NotPetya and BadRabbit ransomware outbreaks used Mimikatz in a particularly devious way: They incorporated the attacks into self-propagating worms, and combined it with the EternalBlue and EternalRomance NSA hacking tools leaked by the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers earlier this year.
Those tools allow the malware to spread via Microsoft's Server Message Block protocol to any connected system that isn't patched against the attack. And along with Mimikatz, they added up to a tag-team approach that maximizes those automated infections. "When you mix these two technologies, it's very powerful," says Delpy. "You can infect computers that aren't patched, and then you can grab the passwords from those computers to infect other computers that are patched."
Despite those attacks, Delpy hasn't distanced himself from Mimikatz. On the contrary, he has continued to hone his creation, speaking about it publicly and even adding more features over the years. Mimikatz today has become an entire utility belt of Windows authentication tricks, from stealing hashed passwords and passing them off as credentials, to generating fraudulent "tickets" that serve as identifying tokens in Microsoft's Kerberos authentication system, to stealing passwords from the auto-populating features in Chrome and Edge browsers. Mimikatz today even includes a feature to cheat in Windows' Minesweeper game, pulling out the location of every mine in the game from the computer's memory.
Delpy says that before adding a feature that exploits any serious new security issue in Windows, he does alert Microsoft, sometime months in advance. Still, it has grown into quite the repository.
"It's my toolbox, where I put all of my ideas," Delpy says.
A Bitter Password-Protection Pill
Each of those features—the Minesweeper hack included—is intended not to enable criminals and spies, but to demonstrate Windows' security quirks and weaknesses, both in the way it's built and the way that careless corporations and governments use it. After all, Delpy says, if systems administrators limit the privileges of their users, Mimikatz can't get the administrative access it needs to start hopping to other computers and stealing more credentials. And the Shadow Brokers' leak from the NSA in fact revealed that the agency had its own Mimikatz-like program for exploiting WDigest—though it's not clear which came first.
"If Mimikatz has been used to steal your passwords, your main problem is not Mimikatz," Delpy says.
Mimikatz is nonetheless "insanely powerful," says University of California at Berkeley security researcher Nicholas Weaver. But he says that doesn't mean Delpy should be blamed for the attacks it's helped to enable. "I think we must be honest: If it wasn't Mimikatz there would be some other tool," says Weaver. "These are fundamental problems present in how people administer large groups of computers."
And even as thieves and spies use Mimikatz again and again, the tool has also allowed penetration testers to unambiguously show executives and bureaucrats their flawed security architectures, argues Rendition security's Williams. And it has pressured Microsoft to slowly alter the Windows authentication architecture to fix the flaws Mimikatz exploits. "Mimikatz has done more to advance security than any other tool I can think of," Williams says.
Even Microsoft seems to have learned to appreciate Delpy's work. He's spoken at two of the company's Blue Hat security conferences, and this year was invited to join one of its review boards for new research submissions. As for Delpy, he has no regrets about his work. Better to be hounded by Russian spies than to leave Microsoft's gaping vulnerability a secret for those spies alone to exploit.
"I created this to show Microsoft this isn't a theoretical problem, that it's a real problem," he says. "Without real data, without dangerous data, they never would have done anything to change it."

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BALTIMORE, Md. – In the America East conference opener for both teams, the UMBC women's soccer team fell, 3-1, to the two-time defending conference champion Albany Great Danes on Sunday, September 24. The Great Danes move to 3-7-0 overall and 1-0-0 in conference play, while the Retrievers fall to 2-5-3 overall and 0-1-0 in America East contests.
Albany scored the first goal of the game in the 34th minute after Caroline Kopp sent a free kick towards the middle of the box. Hailey Summers was able to put a head on it towards the left post, where Vivian Vega collected it and sent it into the net.
In the 43rd minute, freshman Meredith Webber (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) netted the equalizer after she headed a long kick from classmate Evie Kenna (Aldershot, England/Ashmanor) behind the goalkeeper to tie things up at 1-1 before the half.
The Retrievers looked to take the lead early in the second half after a header shot from freshman Elysia Paolillo (Holliston, Mass./Worcester Academy) went wide over the net. But, it was the Great Danes that would take a 2-1 lead in the 52nd minute after Gina Bracamonte collected the ball after it had previously hit the post.
Albany's final goal of the game came in the 75th minute after Kopp headed a ball toward the net that collided with the goalkeeper and Vega sent it in for the score.
Overall, the Great Danes outshot the Retrievers, 19-10, including an 11-3 advantage in the first half. Vega and Sophia Eifler led Albany with five shots each, while Webber, Paolillo, and senior Gabby Boehmer (Lebanon, Pa./Cedar Crest) had two each for UMBC.
In goal, Albany's Andrea Leitner moved to 3-5-0 on the year after making two saves on three shots faced in all 90 minutes of play. For UMBC, junior Leah Roth (Valencia, Pa./Pine-Richland) fell to 2-5-3 after allowing two goals but made five saves in 73:23 minutes of play, before freshman Jade Wilkins (Stoney Beach, Md./The Catholic High School) took over in net and made one save.
NEXT UP FOR THE RETRIEVERS: UMBC will return to the field as they travel to Maine for another America East matchup on Sunday, October 1. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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When we arrived in Rainbow 9 years ago, we made sure we sampled different tours and activities so we knew what we were recommending to you. We are delighted that our Fraser Island Tour Guide has started his own service. Mick is a very likable, entertaining guide that loves Fraser Island and it shows.Sunrover Fraser Island 4×4 Tours offer a small personalised tour with local knowledge and stories. Mick Findlater has 17 years in the industry, from 4wd rental, organising self-drive tours, tag-a-long tours, tour guiding and most recently, tour co-ordinator at RB adventure company RBAC , he is launching his own service.
"I want to be the first bus on Fraser Island and the last one off so customers get a full day of Fraser Island, and they can experience what a wonderful part of the world we live in."
Lake Mackenzie is Mick's favourite spot on Fraser – "I have heard a lot of people say it is the best lake they have seen in the world."
He is taking customers to all the places Fraser Island is famous for, "You will swim in crystal clear water at Lake MacKenzie, bushwalk in rainforests, tube down Eli Creek, explore Central Station and enjoy a picnic lunch on the Island." Visitors will take in the Maheno Shipwreck, Wanggoolba Creek and learn about Fraser Island's fascinating Aboriginal history.
His 18 seater bus is fully air conditioned with opening windows so you can really experience the rainforest and beach driving. "We are the cheapest one day tour for Fraser Island, catering for all ages and families at an affordable price." Ask Judy to book your tour ready when you book your next holiday with us.
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Three movies encapsulate and reverberate throughout my life: The World According to Garp, Wonder Boys, and American Beauty.
I've reached my American Beauty moment, and may I go on and have such a fruitful career as Kevin Spacey has since 1999.
I'm an unemployed former food safety professor of almost 20 years, who coaches little and big kids in hockey and goofs around.
I've enjoyed the last few months – despite the angst of moving into a house that may slide down the hill at any moment given the Brisbane rains – but with 80,000 direct subscribers and students and media still contacting me daily, I feel a connection.
I just gotta figure out how to get paid.
(If you see any adverts on barfblog.com, like Amy did this morning, it is not authorized. Chapman and I are quite happy to say what the fuck we want and call people on their food safety fairytales).
And I would like to publicly apologize to Amy for dragging me to Australia, and all the bitching I did about shitty Internet, and how I lost my career (at the mall).
It's looking much better now.
Kansas State University took whatever opportunity they could to get rid of me, for the salary, for the controversy, for whatever. Wasn't too long after that Kirk-2025-Schultz bailed for Washington state. The provost queen is still stuck there.
As full professor, Kansas had become boring and I hated doing admin shit.
When people in Australia ask me about President Trump (two words that never sound right together, like Dr. Oz – thanks, John Oliver) I say, look at Kansas, that is what will happen to America.
The N.Y. Times seems to agree.
In an editorial today, the Times wrote:
Kansas can only hope that reports are true that the Trump administration will let its governor, Sam Brownback, escape the disaster he created in Topeka for a quieter United Nations agricultural post in Rome. And global humanity can only hope for the best.
Mr. Brownback, a Republican first elected on the Tea Party crest of 2010, used his office as a laboratory for conservative budget experimentation. His insistence that tax cuts create, not diminish, revenues has left the state facing a ballooning deficit plus a ruling by the state Supreme Court that Kansas schoolchildren have been unconstitutionally shortchanged in state aid for years, with the poorest minority children most deprived.
The court ruled this month that they would shut the state's schools if funding wasn't made equitable by June 30. It found reading test scores of nearly half of African-American students and more than one-third of Hispanic students were deficient under aid formulas favoring more affluent school districts.
Mr. Brownback played no small role in the long-running school crisis by leading the Republican Legislature to limit school aid after enacting the largest tax cuts in state history, for upper-bracket business owners. Characteristically, the governor's reaction to the court mandate was to further undermine schools by suggesting parents "be given the opportunity and resources to set their child up for success through other educational choices."
If that's the governor's parting contribution to the school crisis before his flight to a Trump diplomatic appointment, Kansas parents and school administrators cannot be too surprised. They have been experiencing the deepening budget crisis firsthand in shortened school hours and resources as the state suffered two credit downgrades. Public protest led to a number of Brownback loyalists voted out last year, with legislative newcomers igniting a budget revolt against the governor. He barely survived a showdown last month, by vetoing a $1 billion tax increase.
The tax push seems likely to be renewed, since the state faces a two-year $1.2-billion deficit plus the school funding mandate. For that obligation, state education officials have estimated it might require $841 million over the next two years. The court fight was prompted by a slide in school aid that began in the recession under Mr. Brownback's predecessor, Gov. Mark Parkinson, a Democrat. But it spiraled once the Brownback tax cuts drained state coffers.
It seems unfair that Mr. Brownback might abandon the mess he created, especially since Mr. Trump never ceases to renounce life's "losers." But Kansans have learned the hard way that they need to be free from the benighted Brownback era, and maybe Mr. Brownback has, too.
I wish nothing but the best for my Kansas colleagues, and a slow, endless angst for administration assholes who put money above values.
There was a time I thought being a prof meant something.
But we don't need no institution.
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- Partnered with United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) in December 2015 to mobilize private sector around the issues in a bid to commence dialogue in this regard.
- As a follow-up a field visit to Maiduguri was undertaken in partnership with National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) from January 15 to 17. Led by Chairman Kyari Bukar, the objective was to afford private sector member organizations of the NESG an opportunity to engage with humanitarian actors and stakeholders. It also served as a platform for members to see firsthand, the realities on ground in a bid to mobilize response for the humanitarian situation in the state.
- Since then, partnerships have been formed with multi-actors to form the Connecting Business initiative which is situated under NESG Governance and Institutions Policy Commission to address Nigeria's humanitarian issues.
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As an American citizen of eight years I have taken great interest in the subject of gun laws, being a subject I knew nothing about before coming to live in the U.S. I wanted to comment on all the recent letters regarding gun laws. I have read a lot of very controversial letters recently, for and against this issue, but would just like to refer everyone back to Biff America's editorial on the subject, back on July 29 of last year. This was written following the Aurora shooting but it is just as relevant today. In it he gives us statistics regarding gun use throughout the world and points out that "what is not subject for debate is that, in America, the gun-murder rate is almost 20 times higher than the next 22 richest nations." Following that he goes on to say "the gun violence in this nation is an embarrassment. Of those 23 richest nations I mentioned earlier (this nation being one of them) 80 percent of all gun deaths are American deaths and 87 percent of all kids killed by guns are American kids." Isn't this enough evidence to try to do something about these appalling statistics? Isn't it time to try to save some of the innocent children and adults who end up being killed by guns that are in the wrong hands?
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Something I've discovered while living in China is the usefulness of pictographic language. I occasionally see people online bemoaning the increased popularity of emoticons, stickers, and gifs as the small images slowly overtake the various messaging apps at our disposal.
Typically, I would too, but I've started to understand some of the benefits that these symbols can provide. I'd like to share some of those insights.
With the proliferation of the internet, email, and cell phones, text based communication has become defacto. As important as face to face contact is, as beneficial as audio and video chat may be, the golden standard is text.
Email and text messages is too darn convenient. It's an asynchronous medium. Each party can read and respond at their leisure. It allows contact without interrupting the person on the other end. It doesn't need to be scheduled ahead of time. It allows responses to be carefully crafted when necessary or put on hold until an opportune moment.
The biggest drawback to text communication is that it lacks both verbal and non-verbal clues. How do you express sarcasm? 😜 Anger? 😡 Sorrow? 😪 Embarrassment? 😳
Emoticons add non-verbals into text-based communication.
Stickers (and gifs) take this a step further. An appropriate use of gifs provides a conduit for emotional expression that would be awkward in written form.
Right now, maybe you're reading this, thinking:
Or, perhaps you're still a little skeptical.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, maybe an emoticon is worth a hundred.
In many ways emoticons are a natural extension of language. Personally I think this is especially true for Chinese. Chinese words are made up of characters, some of which have meaning on their own. A good example is the word 'busy.' Chinese: 忙 (máng). The character 忙 is actually a logogram of two different characters, 忄(xin) meaning 'heart' and 亡 (wáng) meaning 'death.' To be busy, that is: when you do not have time for relaxation and liesure, your heart (figuratively) dies. (In English we might refer to this as being 'burn out,' an apt, though much less emotional description.)
Chinese is a vivid language. It's colorful, descriptive, and flavored with interesting connections that are absent in germanic languages. The Chinese people also seem to be more expressive.
Expressing thanks via emoji and stickers is sometimes expressed through sending hearts. From a western perspective, hearts equal love, so it took me a while to get used to the occasional student or coworker send me animated characters throwing hearts or blowing kisses.
Of course, not all emoji are created equal. There are a lot of 'decorative emoji.' Emoticons which have less to do with emotion and more to do with simply being picturesque. I consider these to be less useful in normal communication.
On the flip side, some stickers as are so perfect at expressing the desired idea, they can completely replace words. I find stickers (especially some of the animated ones) to be extremely useful for expressing the more complex emotions, such as disdain, frustration, awe, or celebration.
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This a basic guide on how to flash your GPU with a BIOS created in PolarisBiosEditor. Please make sure you understand all the risks that comes with playing with the BIOS before you try this. I dont take any responsibility of damages.
(I dont claim my way is the only way nor the best way, but this is how I do it and it might be useful to someone)
You will need a computer with Windows.
Download this two programs and install them:
Turn off PC and insert the GPU you want to flash into a free 16x PCI slot.
Turn on PC. When in Windows start ATIWinFlash as admin (right click-run as admin).
Make sure you have selected correct card in the top corner where it says "System Video Device". (Pls note that only AMD cards will be shown here and if there is no AMD card connected ATIWinFlash will not start)
Click on "Save" and save the bios on your computer. Make sure you save it somewhere safe, in case you might need it in the future. Since this is the original BIOS. You can then close ATIWinFlash.
Now open PolarisBiosEditor. And click "OPEN BIOS" and find the BIOS you created earlier. (Make sure you are showing all files . if you cant find it)
After you have opened your BIOS click on "ONE CLICK TIMING PATCH". You should then get a windows that confirms that it have applied new straps.
Save this new modded BIOS. Make sure you dont overwrite the original BIOS. Then you can close PolarisBiosEditor.
Now open ATIWinFlash as admin again. Once again make sure you have selected the right GPU under "System Video Devices" Click on "Load Image" and load the modded BIOS.
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The residential care system is failing the elderly, says UNISON
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Elderly and vulnerable people in residential care homes are being left in re-used continence pads, denied trips to the toilet and kept indoors for days on end because of severe staff shortages, according to a survey published by UNISON.
The vast majority (83 per cent) of care workers say they are so rushed they are compromising the dignity and well-being of the people they look after. This is despite many staff (80 per cent) regularly working through their breaks.
The findings are based on survey responses from more than 1,000 care staff working in private and local authority care homes across the UK.
Further information on the survey can be found here
Government must scrap the pay cap says UNISON, as survey shows public service employees are struggling
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Staff providing public services are being forced to cut back on groceries,borrow money from friends or family, and even go without meals to feed their children because the government has capped their pay, according to a survey from UNISON.
The survey is released to coincide with the first day of UNISON's national conference in Brighton. Dave Prentis, General secretary, will call upon the government to lift the pay cap, and undo the damage its pay policies are causing.
The research is based on responses from more than 6,500 employees including paramedics, teaching assistants, council workers and police staff across the UK. The survey highlights how years of wage restraint have left many struggling through to the next pay day.
For further information please see the full article here
Save Glenfield Children's Heart Centre
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Attached is a flyer for a Public Meeting on Glenfield Heart Unit which Notts Trades Council is jointly hosting with
Leicester Trades Council. Public meeting on Glenfield Heart Unit June 24 2017
The meeting will be at the Mechanics, North Sherwood Street, NG1 4EZ, on Saturday, June 24 at 2pm
More details of the event can be found on Facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/events/114292552507394/
Dying to Work Charter
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Nottingham City UNISON is really pleased to have signed the TUC Dying to Work Charter alongside colleagues from Unite and GMB, and the City Council. It will mean that our members will be treated with the dignity, care and respect they deserve when they are diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing that they will have employment, and death in service benefit protection will give them peace of mind and avoid needless stress and worry.


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Why global deduplication is important in backup systems today
Learn about why global deduplication is important in backup systems today in W. Curtis Preston's latest column.
By W. Curtis Preston
Global data deduplication removes redundant data when backing up data to multiple deduplication devices. With global dedupe, when data is sent from one node to another, the second node recognizes that the first node already has a copy of the data, and doesn't make an additional copy.
Global deduplication is also the most important feature missing from target deduplication systems today. The lack of this feature increases both the acquisition cost and the operational cost of such systems. The first step in understanding the value of global dedupe is to understand why people often confuse the term.
Hash-based deduplication systems
Consider the hash-based deduplication systems shown in "Table 1: Hash-based and delta-based deduplication products" below. Hash-based deduplication slices data into chunks, create a hash for that chunk, and then perform a hash table lookup to see if they have ever seen that hash before. Delta-based deduplication systems (also shown in Table 1) compare an entire backup (e.g., saveset, image, dump) to another backup that it is similar to. For example, they look for the delta between the most recent full backup of Elvis to the previous full backup of Elvis.
Vendors of hash-based dedupe products often tout how they compare every incoming backup to every other backup they have ever seen, saying that their dedupe is more "global." However, delta-based vendors tout how their dedupe is more granular. Hashing is more efficient with dissimilar data; deltas are more efficient with similar data. "Bake-offs" that compare the deduplication ratio of the two methods often result in a draw.
Since hash-based vendors consider their dedupe to be more global, some representatives of those vendors refer to what they do as global deduplication. The matter is further complicated by EMC Data Domain, which often uses the term global compression to describe what it does. (In all fairness, they were using the term long before the term deduplication came into common usage.) However, this is not what we mean when we use the term global deduplication.
The concept of global dedupe comes into play when you purchase multiple dedupe appliances (i.e., nodes). If a vendor supports global dedupe (also known as multi-node dedupe), they will have a cluster or grid of multiple nodes that work together as one. Data sent to one node in the grid is compared to previous data sent to that appliance, and to data sent to any other node in that grid. This allows the customer to load balance backups across all nodes in the grid, while being assured that data common to more than one node will only be stored on one node. All known source deduplication systems support global dedupe; it is with target deduplication systems that this discussion is most relevant.
As you can see in Table 1, most target deduplication vendors offer some level of global deduplication. The more nodes a vendor supports in a globally deduped cluster, the easier things will be for their customers. NEC Corp. supports 55 nodes, Exagrid Systems Inc. supports 10 nodes, Sepaton Inc. supports eight nodes, FalconStor Software supports four nodes, IBM Corp. supports two nodes, and EMC Data Domain supports two nodes, but only with its fastest system (the DD880) and only for NetBackup OST customers. Quantum Corp. is the only target dedupe vendor to offer no support for global deduplication.
Table 1: Hash-based and delta-based deduplication products
Global dedupe support
EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array
2 nodes, NBU and OST only
EMC Data Domain (All ofther products)
Exagrid Systems Inc. EX Series
10 nodes
FalconStor VTL
4 nodes
IBM ProtecTier
2 nodes
NEC Corp. HydraStor
55 nodes
Quantum Corp. DXi
8 nodes
How global deduplication lowers operational and acquisition costs
The easiest thing to understand is how global dedupe lowers operational costs. If one can treat all of their global dedupe nodes as one grid, and load balance all of their backups across all nodes in that grid, configuration of the backup system should be extremely easy. However, if you purchase multiple nodes that don't work together, you must create and maintain multiple subsets of your backups, and point each subset at only one node. The creation and maintenance of these backup subsets makes the backup system harder and costlier to maintain, and the requirement to point each subset to only one node makes the backup system less reliable. The latter also increases management cost due to manual workarounds that must be performed in the case of a node failure.
The existence of global deduplication also reduces acquisition cost for three reasons. First, consider the differences between the type of nodes that are used to build ExaGrid, FalconStor, NEC and Sepaton, and the nodes that are used to build Data Domain, IBM, and Quantum systems. The former are able to use less expensive nodes because their performance is not capped at one or two nodes. The latter tend to use much more expensive CPUs and RAM because the power of each node is what drives their performance numbers. Buying the latest and greatest CPUs and components is more expensive than buying the previous generation.
The second reason that global deduplication reduces acquisition cost is that it allows a customer to buy today what they need today, and buy tomorrow what they need tomorrow -- without throwing anything away they bought yesterday. Customers buying target dedupe systems that do not have global dedupe (e.g., Quantum), or who offer it only for two nodes (e.g., IBM, EMC Data Domain), or only for certain customers (e.g., EMC Data Domain) are faced with a very different proposition. Because they cannot grow their current system by simply adding more nodes, they are forced to do one of three things.
The final reason that global deduplication helps reduce acquisition cost is that it ensures that all backups are compared to previous backups.
Their first choice is to buy today what they need tomorrow. For example, a customer that needs a Quantum DXi 7500 today will probably be advised to buy a DXi 8500 instead, even if they won't need its performance or capacity for a year or more. In the world of ever decreasing cost of disk, buying today what you need tomorrow will always cost you more money. Data Domain customers have a slightly different choice. If a customer needs a DD 690 today, but grows into a DD 880 in a year or so, can purchase just the head of the DD 880 appliance, and replace the DD 690 head with the DD 880 head, while keeping the disk they already purchased. The DD 690 head will, of course, go to waste. Finally, a customer could "upgrade" any of these systems by simply purchasing another system and using both of them side-by-side. Besides the operational cost mentioned above of performing backups with multiple discrete nodes that don't work together, there is also the acquisition cost created by the difficulty of properly sizing each node. Since it is impossible to get right, and under sizing such a system would be even worse, resulting in even more waste, customers will tend to oversize such systems.
The final reason that global deduplication helps reduce acquisition cost is that it ensures that all backups are compared to previous backups -- regardless of which node they were sent to. Since backup systems are always in a state of flux and customers must constantly change their backup policies in order to meet various needs, it would be nice if at least they do not have to worry about messing up their deduplication ratio by changing their backup configuration. Global deduplication should ultimately result in the best deduplication ratio; it also reduces the amount of disk the customer must purchase.
Global, or multi-node, deduplication reduces the acquisition and operational cost of target-based deduplication systems. While it isn't the only decision factor in the complicated job of choosing such a system, it certainly should be a high-priority feature.
About this author: W. Curtis Preston (a.k.a. "Mr. Backup"), executive editor and independent backup expert, has been singularly focused on data backup and recovery for more than 15 years. From starting as a backup admin at a $35 billion dollar credit card company to being one of the most sought-after consultants, writers and speakers in this space, it's hard to find someone more focused on recovering lost data. He is the webmaster of BackupCentral.com, the author of hundreds of articles, and the books "Backup and Recovery" and "Using SANs and NAS."


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Who can remember what it's like to be lost?
Hardly anyone apparently, 7 out of 10 people in the UK now own a smart phone and can access services like Google Maps out on the go. So there's no need to buy a map, learn a foreign language or politely ask a policeman for directions, you just thumb a few keys in your phone and away you go.
Maps, atlases and A-Z street guides weren't the first casualty of the search engine wars and they certainly won't be the last, but what lessons can be learned? Well, any service that makes customers jump through hoops to find their contact details is going to struggle against one that can produce them in a fraction of a second.
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I wish I could take credit for this one. As you all know, tahini is without a doubt one of my favorite condiments. I use it in everything, from smoothies (like my mellow green smoothie) to soups to sauces to dressings, and I adore it. Every time I post a tahini recipe, I get at least four or five comments from readers who hate the stuff, and ask what they can substitute for it (the answer: cashew or macadamia nut butter). But I persist in loving it, and everything it's a part of: hummus, falafel, and so on, and so forth.
A few nights ago, my boyfriend was struck with the ingenious notion of combining tahini and balsamic vinegar. As soon as I heard it, I declared it brilliant. Not a typical flavor pairing, but since when do I like conventional flavor pairings? If avocado and chocolate didn't forever persuade me that conventional pairings are nonsense, then nothing will. And actually, tahini and balsamic work really beautifully. The sweet and sour balsamic offsets the salty tahini, and since tahini is a relatively mellow flavor, it's a perfect canvas for a really strong acid.
Our original tahini and balsamic experiment was just that: tahini and balsamic vinegar, tossed with a bowl of chopped veggies. The following day, at lunch, I made a slightly more refined version. I hope you'll love it.
Balsamic Tahini Dressing
- 1/4 cup tahini
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons water
- 1 clove garlic crushed or finely minced (optional)
- 1 tablespoon tamari or nama shoyu
- Whisk or blend all ingredients together, and serve. Dressing will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to five days.
For my part, I served this over a heaping bowl of veggies and spinach.
The meal was rounded out with some simple whole grain crackers and a white bean dip—I'll be hitting you with that recipe soon! It was a lovely, simple lunch.
This dressing proves that adventuresome flavor combinations almost always pay of. (Almost—I'm still traumatized by the garam masala and honeydew melon smoothie I once tried.) What are your favorite unexpected flavor pairings? And what recipes did you find them in?


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Dornoch Heritage Story Map displayed in The Culloden Battlefield Memorial
The story Map was created by artist John Hodkinson and storyteller Bob Pegg, working together with Historylinks Curator Sue Higgins, Historylinks volunteers, members of the Dornoch Community, and residents and staff of the Oversteps Care Home.
From the top left, clockwise, here is a brief summary of the stories:
Before fishing for freshwater mussel pearls was banned in 1998, pearl fishers were a common sight in Highland rivers. Here is Geordie Davies, from a well known pearl fishing family, photographed with Catherine Mackay, together with a brooch Catherine had made from pearls she bought from Geordie.
In 1727 Janet Horne and her daughter were both accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. Her daughter escaped, but lanet went to the flames, the last person in Britain to be executed as a witch. The commemorative stone for this sad event (inscribed with the incorrect date of 1722) was later incorporated into a garden in Littletown and surrounded by flowers, and is remembered by Cathy Forsyth whose father created the garden.
Dornoch characters (from top left, clockwise: the Green Man, to the right of the south entrance to Dornoch Cathedral; town crier Simon Bain, circa 1955; milkman Bill Wright, circa 1930; Miss Kathleen Lyon, who died in 1983 in her 98″ year, a keen local historian and amateur photographer the Dornoch Imp; the formidable Kirsty Grant, scooter rider and science teacher at Dornoch Academy, circa 1955;
School photo including Miss Davidson.
Battle of Embo was fought some time around the middle of the 13″ century. A party of Danes had landed at Little Ferry and encamped near Embo. The Earl of Sutherland asked Richard de Moravia to hold them in check while he gathered a force strong enough to defeat them. The plan worked, and the Danes were routed on the arrival of the Earl. During the battle Richard was killed and the Earl reputedly slew the Danish leader with the leg of a horse, an incident that accounts for the horseshoe on Dornoch's present coat-of-arms. Recreation – the Royal Dornoch Golf Club is world famous (bottom couple of images), and the area boasts a wide range of recreational activities (from top left, clockwise: Curling (with whiskey bottle) at Loch an Treel, 1930s; Dornoch pipe band, 1958 gillies with dogs; the diving rock off Dornoch beach, now hidden under sand, the Barrie tennis shield, 1950s, children caddying; Hector Ross, hotel owner and
curling champion. Tickets and ticket dispenser from the era of the old cinema.
St Gilbert, who founded Dornoch Cathedral in 1224, tackled a firebreathing dragon which had been destroying the Highland forests. Gilbert pierced the dragons heart with an arrow. The stone of the beast near Camore wood marks the place of the dragons demise.
For centuries the Meikle Ferry was the only way to cross the Dornoch Firth without a long overland journey. On 16th August 1809 it became the scene of a tragic disaster when, overloaded, the ferry sank resulting in the deaths of ninety nine passengers. The Meikle Ferry was finally closed down in 1957, as more and more people began to take the southern route by Road, via Bonar Bridge.
A long time ago a band of troublesome fairies was set the task of building a bridge of sand across the Dornoch Firth. Each time the job was almost complete the tide washed the bridge away and work had to begin again. Although a road bridge was opened over the firth in 1991, the fairies still pursue their task. At low tide their handiwork can be seen in the famous sand bank, which is known as the Gizzen Briggs.
In 1902 a group of Dornoch businessmen opened the Dornoch Light Railway, a branch line which connected to the main Highland Railway some 7 miles away at the Mound. Two years later they opened the Station Hotel with sixty stylish rooms and all the latest facilities. For the next thirty years the hotel was a magnet for wealthy tourists. For many local people the Dornoch Light Railway was a gateway to the rest of the world, but by the 1950s car ownership became the norm and rail travel declined. Dornoch's Light Railway was deemed unprofitable and in July 1960 its much loved coffee pot engine
steamed to the Mound for the last time.
Dornoch at war (clockwise, from top: planes on golf course during WWII; the death of Earl Sigurth, around 895, from the poisoned tooth of a decapitated enemy; cannon in Witch's Pool; WWI permit book; Sutherland Arms on fire, 1941; in the centre is the Ospisdale brooch – found in 1830 – from the 10 th century, the time of Norse occupation.
Additional images by Brora Butterworth and Ralph Phipson.
Culloden Memorial official website
Crossreach Oversteps in Dornoch


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Capitol Pressroom
Oct. 28, 2014: Steve Greenberg, Tim Wu, NYSCOPBA, Yevgeniy Feyman
October 28, 2014
Steve Greenberg has the latest Siena Poll. We'll discuss the 21st and 24th Congressional District results.
Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu explains why net neutrality is an issue this election season.
The New York Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association will release a report on assaults in NYS prisons today. NYSCOPBA's President, Michael Powers, will share details of the report.
Manhattan Institute Scholar Yevgeniy Feyman discusses Ebola procedures in NY.◄ Back to PodCasts


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Huntingdon baseball team downed Methodist University 7-1 on Sunday to close out a three-game USA South Athletic Conference series.
In a battle of top-20 teams, the 13th-ranked Hawks won two of the three games against the 17th-ranked Monarchs. Huntingdon won the first game 16-2 on Friday night before losing 8-3 in Game 2 on Saturday.
The series win was the fourth for Huntingdon (18-5, 10-4 USA South) in five conference series this season. This was the first conference series loss for Methodist (18-5, 9-3 USA South) this season.
In Sunday's win, Huntingdon took the lead with five runs in the third inning and added a run in the sixth inning and a run in the eighth inning. Junior Wallace Henry frustrated the Monarchs for eight innings before John Crawford closed the game in the ninth inning.
Henry (4-1) scattered three hits, struck out eight, walked two and gave up one run to earn the win. Henry faced just three batters in four of the first five innings and did not face more than four batters in any inning. Crawford faced four batters in the ninth, striking out two, walking one and forcing one fly out. Crawford ended the game with a strikeout.
Tied 0-0 in the third inning, Huntingdon sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs to take a 5-0 lead. Bradley Harris scored the first run of the game on an error before a sacrifice fly by Chris Fisher brought in Jake Elrod. Heath Haskins drove in Wes Powell with a single to make it a 3-0 game before a two-run single by Danny Coleman Jr. scored Garrett Breland and Will Cosby.
Elrod scored on sacrifice fly by Haskins to make it a 6-0 game in the sixth inning. The Hawks closed the scoring in the eighth inning with Elrod scoring on a single by Breland.
Haskins finished the game 3-for-3 with two RBIs, Coleman had two hits and two RBIs and Powell had two hits and a run. Elrod had a double and scored three runs, Breland had an RBI and a run, Fisher had one RBI and Cosby and Harris each scored one run.
For the series, Haskins was 6-for 12 with nine RBIs, three runs, a home run and two doubles, Powell was 7-for-15 with five runs and three RBIs and Fisher was 7-for-14 with four runs and two RBIs.
Records: Huntingdon (18-5, 10-4 USA South); Methodist (18-5, 9-3 USA South)
Coming Up: Huntingdon will play at Birmingham-Southern on Tuesday at 5 p.m.


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This innovative eco friendly home in the Cotswold nature reserve, UK has just sold for approx $14.5million
The 'thoroughly modern manor house', named Orchid House and modelled on a bee orchid found on the reserve, was sold offthe plan recently to an anonymous buyer who is believed to be in the entertainment industry. They will get a lakeside home complete with a glass-sided badger set in the garden.
It is said that Brad Pitt has looked at the plans for Orchid House, while Kylie Minogue had stayed at the estate.
The house will be one of those that will produce more energy than it uses with an underground pump and geothermal heating. The house is designed by Sarah Featherstone, whose practice in East London is designing part of the London 2012 Olympic athletes' village. It is said the house will take three years to be built as the structure is complicated.


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Little Big Town Float First No. 1 on Country Songs
By Wade Jessen
Meanwhile, Jana Kramer scores a top five hit and Carrie Underwood returns to No. 1 on Country Albums.
Little Big Town's "Pontoon" tops a second Billboard songs list -- this time Country Songs -- eight weeks after it became the group's first chart-topping song on Country Digital Songs (July 21). The quartet's previous best rank on Country Songs was noted when "Bring It on Home" stopped at No. 4 six years ago.
LBT Talks 'Pontoon' | 'Tornado' Album Review
On the digital tally, "Pontoon" has amassed four weeks at the summit and ranks at No. 2 (78,000 sold). Nielsen SoundScan reports 1.1 million downloads sold since its release in May.
Meanwhile, Darius Rucker is the most recent benefactor of coordinated hourly play at Clear Channel-owned country stations, an August 27 surge that lifts the South Carolina native to a career-high No. 26 debut on Country Songs with "True Believers." The handsome start surpasses Rucker's previous high debut, a No. 44 arrival with "Come Back Song" on the July 10, 2010 chart. The track introduces the artist's next album, which hasn't been titled or scheduled, but is expected sometime in early 2013.
Easton Corbin and Carrie Underwood freshen up the top 10 on Country Songs, as Corbin's "Lovin' You Is Fun" becomes his third top 10 (14-9) and "Blown Away" brings Underwood's top 10 tally to 16 (12-10). Corbin's first two singles both reached No. 1, and Underwood has an even dozen leaders on the audience chart.
Billboard's Chart Beat columnist Gary Trust notes that Underwood maintains her perfect record of reaching the chart's top 10, as all 16 of her promoted (non-holiday) radio singles have reached the top tier, a record among women in the tally's 68-year history -- she passes Taylor Swift, who has sent her first 15 such releases to the top 10.
Taylor vs. Carrie: Who Is Country's Chart Queen?
Speaking of Swift, her "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" bullets at No. 18 in its third chart week. Read more about the top 10 competition between the two superstars here . Underwood's similarly titled album jumps 4-1 to lead Country Albums for a sixth cumulative week, while Swift's song tops Country Digital Songs for a third straight week.
Also noteworthy on Country Songs, singer/actress Jana Kramer's "Why Ya Wanna" logs the best rank for a woman's first promoted single since Underwood's chart topping "Jesus, Take the Wheel" in 2006. With 37 chart weeks, Kramer's track is the slowest top five climb for such a song since Jamie O'Neal's 2001 leader, "There Is No Arizona" (25 weeks).


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Although early rumors had it that the economic crisis would turn the opening of this year's Venice Biennale into a seriously unglamorous, penny-pinching affair, the rumors were proved very wrong yesterday, before the event even started.
"Is that Naomi Campbell?" asked Lynn Forester de Rothschild at the Hotel Cipriani, where Eli Broad was hosting a lunch for Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. (It was indeed Campbell, mingling with everyone from John Baldessari to Darren Star.) By nightfall there were still no Paris Hilton sightings on the Grand Canal, but several parties were humming: After 200 people filed into the Palazzo Contarini for a dinner toasting Elmgreen & Dragset's buzzy group show at the Danish and Nordic pavilions, the next stop was a bash for Brit artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen [see our March 09 story on him HERE], where so many reveler-packed speedboats jammed the dock that the scene looked like some high-glam version of spring break at Lake Havasu.
And the art? Three must-sees so far include McQueen's brilliant 30-minute split-screen work about life and death in Venice; the Punta Della Dogana, Francois Pinault's new exhibition space in the old customs house; and the Elmgreen & Dragset show, which spoofs the art market with a mock presentation of a trendy collector's home that's up for sale. The line for the show was already long at the opening hour this morning, and by afternoon -- when word had spread that the young male models in the house, posing as hustlers, had begun stripping naked -- it was noticeably longer.


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