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MDM has switched to a BUY signal.
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Multi-Pendants Chandeliers Are Beautiful and Versatile
Glenna MacDougal
Multi-Pendants Chandeliers
One of the most striking and beautiful trends in custom lighting is the multi-pendants chandelier. These fixtures are a creative and a unique way to introduce lighting into a space. Additionally, multi-pendant chandeliers define the space in a modern way.
AM Studio
specializes in designing multi-pendant fixtures that are customizable towards each client's objectives.
Chandeliers have been symbols of grace and elegance in interior design for centuries, but many of us, when we hear the word, conjure up an image of the traditional "crystal chandelier" with upturned points and lights that resemble candles. These are the types of light fixtures that were often installed in stately manor homes or castles in earlier centuries. That classic elegance can still be found; custom lighting designers have many clients that still prefer the traditional chandelier for formal dining rooms or large spaces. But the multi-pendants chandelier is a contemporary rethinking of the traditional form that can be graceful, beautiful, highly adaptable, and perfect for 21st century interior design.
New Elegance
Multi-pendants chandeliers can be hung in any area of the home. They can be created from a wide variety of materials including porcelain, wood, fabric, Mylar, thermoplastics, and others. Two of the most popular materials for multi-pendant chandeliers are:
. Pendants of brushed stainless steel, polished chrome, brass, copper, aluminum, and other metals are popular due to the reflective bounce that metal can give to light and the modern look they lend to the form.
Glass artisans have been particularly creative with the multi-pendants form. Glass also has wonderful interplay with light, and a huge number of shapes can be created. Colour is also a virtually limitless option for glass chandeliers, as pendants can be uniformly coloured or multi-coloured.
Unlike traditional chandeliers,
contemporary fixtures
can also feature lights hanging at different heights. In fact, one trend is to create a dramatic "curtain" effect using pendants of varying lengths, sometimes stretching from ceiling to floor.
Some of the most beautiful pendant lighting is on display at the Toronto's annual
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Reviews of recent shows have included praise for the fused glass multi-pendants look. In addition to articles about these fixtures that have appeared in major newspapers such as the Toronto Star and the Montreal Gazette, many
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are now singing the praises of the multi-pendant chandelier.
Versatile Lighting
Chandeliers are traditionally hung over the dining table, in large formal rooms such as ballrooms or living rooms, or in entryways or foyers. However, multi-pendants chandeliers are extremely versatile, and suitable for virtually any space in the home. Homeowners have sometimes opted to install several smaller chandeliers in formal rooms, rather than one large one. This allows light to radiate from various points in the room, and can generate an interplay of light and colour.
Better custom lighting designers will work with you to design the perfect plan for your home. Lighting is one of the major elements of design, and can create effects that greatly influence the atmosphere and mood of any room. Light can make rooms seem smaller or larger, for example. Warm coloured light lends a room a comfortable and welcoming air; blue or green light is calming and cooler. Whether you prefer a sleek modern look with unobtrusive lighting, or a dramatic fixture that can become the focus of the room, one of Toronto's better custom designers can imagine a custom multi-pendants chandelier that will suit your space perfectly.
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Apple Inc won the dismissal on Thursday of a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding consumers by selling MacBook laptop computers that contained "logic boards" it knew were defective, and which routinely failed within two years.U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, Uriel Marcus and Benedict Verceles, failed to show that Apple made "affirmative misrepresentations," despite citing online complaints and Apple marketing statements calling the laptops "state of the art" or the "most advanced" on the market."Plaintiffs have failed to allege that Apple's logic boards were unfit for their ordinary purposes or lacked a minimal level of quality," Alsup wrote. "Both plaintiffs were able to adequately use their computers for approximately 18 months and two years, respectively."Alsup gave the plaintiffs until Jan. 22 to amend their lawsuit, which sought class-action status, against the Cupertino, California-based company. Omar Rosales, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Apple did not immediately respond to a similar request.The plaintiffs claimed that Apple's sale of MacBooks since May 20, 2010, violated consumer protection laws in California and Texas, where the lawsuit began last May before being moved.They also contended that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook was told about the defective logic boards in 2011, but did nothing. Logic boards contain computer circuitry and are sometimes known as motherboards.A separate and still pending lawsuit in California accuses Apple of defrauding consumers by selling MacBook Pro laptops in 2011 that contained defective graphic cards, causing screen distortions and system failures. MacBooks are part of Apple's Mac line of desktop and laptop computers. The company reported unit sales in that business of 18.91 million in its latest fiscal year.The case is Marcus et al v. Apple Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 14-03824. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York. Editing by Andre Grenon) Read more
Opponents target North Carolina transgender bathroom law
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. For 20-year-old Payton McGarry, a transgender man and college student, the North Carolina law barring him from using public bathrooms consistent with his gender identity means a routine part of life now dictates his day.He limits how much he drinks to avoid using a bathroom away from home. He looks for gender-neutral restrooms at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he attends, but has missed instruction time when he cannot find one in his classroom buildings."There is a lot of insecurity about being in public spaces," the accounting and business major said in a telephone interview. "If I know I'm going to be out an extended period of time, I just don't drink a lot."On Monday, McGarry and other opponents of the law, known as House Bill 2, or HB 2, will ask a federal judge in Winston-Salem to block enforcement of its bathroom provisions while the legal fight against the full measure, enacted in March, plays out.North Carolina is the only state in the country to mandate that people use multiple-occupancy public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity, placing it at the forefront of the latest civil rights frontier in America.The restrictions put transgender people, particularly students at public schools, in an untenable position, said Chris Brook, one of the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers challenging the measure."It forces all trans kids in our state to choose between breaking the law and using the correct restroom or using the wrong restroom, which could put them in a perilous situation," he said.Republican lawmakers have not been persuaded by such arguments, or boycotts of the state by corporations, conventions, entertainers and the National Basketball Association, which this month said it was pulling its 2017 all-star game from Charlotte in protest of the law, which has been decried by critics as discriminatory. Lawyers for Republican Governor Pat McCrory argue the measure protects the safety and privacy expectations of the state's residents."Plaintiffs purportedly seek to overturn a single state statute, but in reality they seek to overturn millennia of accepted practice by which men and women utilize separate facilities for using the restroom, bathing, and changing clothes," the governor's lawyers said in a court filing opposing efforts to block HB 2.McCrory's office did not reply to a request for comment ahead of Monday's hearing. The University of North Carolina, also named as a defendant, welcomes "resolution of these difficult issues by the court so that we can refocus our efforts on our primary mission - educating students," President Margaret Spellings said in a statement. TELLING THEIR STORIESKaty and Mac Schafer hope their family's story will help change minds. Their eldest child, 17-year-old Hunter, was assigned the gender of male at birth but now lives and identifies as female.She attends high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where until HB 2 passed she used the women's restroom in keeping with the guidance given to her by medical professionals.Her mother felt sick when lawmakers took that option away. "All that we had done right as parents to love and support our kid and everything the medical community was telling us was important to have our teenager thrive in the world ... none of that was considered," said Katy Schafer, who joined her daughter and McGarry as plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and Lambda Legal advocacy groups.The case is due to go to trial on Nov. 14. North Carolina also has been sued by the U.S. Justice Department over the law, while McCrory and other public officials in turn have sued the U.S. government.The legal battles have thrust Joaquin Carcano, a 28-year-old transgender man and another plaintiff in the ACLU's case, into the national debate over bathroom access.Court documents tell how the only gender-neutral bathroom available to him in the office where he works as an HIV project coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill requires riding a service elevator to a part of the building used for housekeeping.Carcano said he feels a responsibility to speak for the transgender community. But being in the spotlight on such a personal matter is not always easy."Having your identity and body being a point of public conversation can be really exhausting," he said. (Editing by Steve Orlofsky) Read more
100-year global study finds world's tallest are Dutch, Latvians
LONDON Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet's tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world.Americans, once among the world's tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height rankings a 100 years earlier, to placing 37th and 42nd respectively in 2014.The research, led by scientists at Imperial College London and published in the journal eLife, also found some nations have stopped growing over the past 30 to 40 years, despite having spurts at the start of the century studied. The United States was one of the first wealthy countries to plateau, followed by others including Britain, Finland, and Japan. Meanwhile, people in Spain and Italy and many countries in Latin America and East Asia are still gaining height.In contrast, some nations in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East have seen average heights decline over the past three to four decades.Human height is strongly influenced by nutrition and environmental factors, although genetic factors can also play a role in individuals. Children and teens who are better nourished and live in better environments tend to be taller.Research suggests a mother's health and nutrition during pregnancy may also play a role in how tall her children grow. Height also has lifelong consequences. Some studies have found that taller people tend to live longer, get a better education and earn more. But being tall may also increase some health risks, with studies linking height to a higher risk of developing ovarian and prostate cancers."This study gives us a picture of the health of nations over the past century," said Majid Ezzati, an Imperial professor of public health. He said the findings underlined the need "to address children and adolescents' environment and nutrition on a global scale."The 800-strong research team, which worked with the World Health Organization, used data from various sources including military conscription figures, health and nutrition population surveys and epidemiological studies. The scientists use these to generate height information for 18-year-olds in 1914 through to 18-year-olds in 2014. They found that Iranian men have gained an average of 16.5 centimeters (cm) in height, and South Korean women 20.2 cm. The height of men and women in Britain has increased by around 11 cm over the past century, while the height of U.S. men and women has risen by 6 cm and 5 cm. Chinese men and women have gained around 11 cm and 10 cm.The study also found that: *Dutch men are the tallest, with an average height of 182.5 cm. Latvian women are the tallest, with an average height of 170 cm.• Men from East Timor were the smallest in the world in 2014, with an average height of 160 cm. Women from Guatemala were the smallest in 2014, with an average height of 149 cm.• The difference between the tallest and shortest countries in 2014 was about 23 cm for men – an increase of 4 cm on the height gap in 1914. The height difference between the tallest and shortest countries for women has remained the same across the century, at about 20 cm.• The height difference between men and women has on average remained largely unchanged over 100 years – the average height gap was about 11 cm in 1914 and 12 cm in 2014.• Australian men in 2014 were the only non-European nationality in the top 25 tallest in the world. The nations with the tallest men in 2014 (1914 ranking in brackets): 1. Netherlands (12) 2. Belgium (33) 3. Estonia (4) 4. Latvia (13) 5. Denmark (9) 6. Bosnia and Herzegovina (19) 7. Croatia (22) 8. Serbia (30) 9. Iceland (6) 10. Czech Republic (24) The nations with the tallest women in 2014 (1914 ranking in brackets): 1. Latvia (28) 2. Netherlands (38) 3. Estonia (16) 4. Czech Republic (69) 5. Serbia (93) 6. Slovakia (26) 7. Denmark (11) 8. Lithuania (41) 9. Belarus (42) 10. Ukraine (43) (Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Tom Heneghan) Read more
Iraq's marshes, once drained by Saddam, named world heritage site
BAGHDAD A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday.Fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshlands of Mesopotamia are spawning grounds for Gulf fisheries and home to bird species such as the sacred ibis. They also provide a resting spot for thousands of wildfowl migrating between Siberia and Africa.Saddam Hussein, who accused the region's Marsh Arab inhabitants of treachery during the 1980-1988 war with Iran, dammed and drained the marshes in the 1990s to flush out rebels hiding in the reeds.After his overthrow by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, locals wrecked many of the dams to let water rush back in, and foreign environmental agencies helped breathe life back into the marshes.The marshes, which covered 9,000 square kilometers (3,500 square miles) in the 1970s, had shrunk to just 760 sq km by 2002 before regaining some 40 percent of the original area by 2005. Iraq has said it aims to recover a total of 6,000 sq km. Vast, remote and bordering Iran, the marshes have been used in recent years for drugs and arms smuggling, receiving stolen goods and keeping hostages for ransom.The Marsh Arabs have lived in the wetlands for millennia, but are on the fringes of Iraqi society. A study put their population at 400,000 in the 1950s but several hundred thousand fled Saddam's repression or become economic migrants. Estimates of the numbers returning vary wildly. Many Marsh Arabs are illiterate and have struggled to find work outside the marshes.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday praised UNESCO's decision, which he said "coincides with the consecutive military victories in the war against" Islamic State. The militant group, which has been pushed back from about half the territory it seized in 2014, controls some of the world's richest archaeological sites in northern Iraq but has not come close to the country's south. (Reporting by Stephen Kalin; Editing by Helen Popper) Read more
German prosecutors say won't be lenient with VW
HAMBURG German prosecutors will grant Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) no mitigation for a record vehicle emissions settlement it faces in the United States and want VW to pay them a separate fine, a spokesman said.Prosecutors in Braunschweig, near Volkswagen's (VW) Wolfsburg headquarters, are demanding VW be fined based on the level of the profits it made from selling about 11 million cars equipped with illicit engine software.VW last month agreed with the U.S. government and regulators to pay $15.3 billion to get about half a million emissions-cheating diesel cars off U.S. roads. But the scale of U.S. penalties is no reason to exercise leniency on VW's regulatory offence, a spokesman for the Braunschweig prosecutor's office said on Monday."We cannot pay heed to what VW may have to pay in other countries when we go about setting the fine," he said. "We cannot say: 'VW is already requested to pay a lot in the U.S., so let's not be so strict.' That's not possible." Under Germany's law on regulatory offences, prosecutors are assessing the "economic advantage" VW enjoyed from using cheating software, rather than expensive exhaust filter systems, to manipulate pollution tests, the spokesman said, adding it will be difficult to determine the level of profits VW has reaped from its wrongdoing.Industry observers in Germany estimate this could result in a fine of several hundreds of millions of euros. Braunschweig prosecutors, which last month started probing former VW Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn and VW brand chief Herbert Diess over suspicion of market manipulation, declined comment. Europe's largest automaker confirmed on Monday it has been notified by prosecutors about the latest probe but declined further comment.The proposed U.S. settlement would move VW close to the 16.2 billion euros ($18 billion) it has set aside to cover the costs of the scandal. VW still faces criminal probes in the United States, Germany and South Korea as well as lawsuits from investors around the world suing the carmaker for what they describe as losses incurred after the manipulations were disclosed in September.($1 = 0.9053 euros) (Reporting by Jan Schwartz and Andreas Cremer; Editing by Ruth Pitchford) Read more


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Chennai: Chennai Super Kings, has been rated as this year's "most valuable team" in Indian Premier League cricket with a brand value of USD 48.4 Million (app Rs 224 Crores).
"With IPL's ratings and royalties on the rise, it doesn't come as a surprise to me," said Mr N Srinivasan, Managing Director, India Cements, was quoted as saying in a report published in the Economic Times.
Given its cricketing ethos and long-standing commitment to the game besides vast experience in managing teams, India Cements has become synonymous with the sport.
Led by Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Super Kings were runners-up in the inaugural IPL in 2008 and semi-finalists last year when the tournament was held in South Africa.
The Economic Times commissioned UK-based Brand Finance to carry out brand evaluation of the IPL and also each of the eight franchise teams (that will increase to 10 in 2011).
The study puts IPL's brand value at USD 4.1 Billion (app Rs 18,998 Crores) while the combined brand value of the eight franchise teams is pegged at USD 333 Million (app Rs 1,500 Crores).
"The Brand Finance study has treated IPL as a single commercial entity, aggregating the income that BCCI and the franchises will generate, and their expenditure," the report said.
"All cross-charged income and expenditures have been ignored to arrive at the total worth, which it terms as the IPL Branded System," it added


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The Honolulu Police Department needs your help in locating Bobbie Venenongsoth, who was last seen at his family's Waialua farm on July 21 at approximately 1 a.m. He is described as emotionally distraught and has not been seen or heard from since going missing. Police said Venenongsoth is Laotian and 30 years old. He is six feet tall, weighs 200 pounds and has black hair. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or call 911.


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Technique Sounds Deep House Vol.1 | WAV MiDi | 325 MB
Inside this dynamic collection of royalty free samples are a stunning library of deep house production tools that have been tailored and executed to give you every element of the production stage, we have taken every step to keep the authentic sounds from the deep house genre and injected some fresh production ideas for you to bring to your next deep house track.
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I am remodeling a room in the second story of an older farmhouse. The remodel plan includes the removal of the window in the photo.
I will eventually be residing the complete house, but it could be a couple years. I am looking for suggestions on how to make it look somewhat attractive while in the waiting period.
In other words i just don't want to put a piece of plywood over it
Any ideas out there please.
Thank you..
What's on there for siding now?
I'd just remove the siding to below the window and side right over it.
Tryed any real siding supplys, not box stores?
You could put some wood around the windows.Than you might not have to take the siding off just take a saw and cut it.
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After denouncing "Buy America" provisions, Moore attacks stimulus for sending money overseas
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Stephen Moore criticized the stimulus act for allowing California to use federal stimulus funds to pay the Chinese government to help develop the state's high-speed rail line. But Moore previously stated opposition to provisions that would require federal funds to be spent in the U.S., and during the stimulus debate, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, of which Moore is a member, denounced including such provisions in the legislation.
From the April 8 edition of Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:
VAN SUSTEREN: Why in the world are we using money to hire the Chinese, to get the Chinese technology and the Chinese equipment to build a high-speed rail?
MOORE: I guess I was wrong, Greta, when I said the stimulus bill wasn't creating jobs. It is creating jobs, just not in the U.S., in China. By the way, this isn't the first major project where money has gone to China, we talked a few weeks ago about all the wind turbines that are being built in China, too.
MOORE: I'm not opposed to free trade; if a country can make something cheaper then we can make it there. But here's the problem. The purpose of this federal stimulus money was to create jobs in the United States, right? And so if the money is going overseas, to China or Germany or any of these counties, it's not creating jobs in states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, where they're needed.
MOORE: And also, I think from the point of view, though, of creating jobs -- I mean, I talked to the cab driver coming over here and I just told him about this. People are outraged about this kind of story. They're saying, "Wait a minute, these dollars were supposed to be used to create jobs here in the United States, and that's not happening."
MOORE: If we're going to spend money to stimulate jobs, let's stimulate them here in the U.S., not in China.
Moore: "I'm personally opposed to 'buy America'" provisions
In an April 10, 2009, Wall Street Journal column, Moore wrote:
I'm personally opposed to "buy America" protectionist trade policies, but I've always felt a patriotic duty to purchase American cars. I loathe the United Auto Workers union, but I admire the grit and work ethic of American hard-hat workers -- even if they foolishly fork over part of their paychecks to union bosses. My uncle was brutally treated in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. So my mother ingrained in me at an early age the moral imperative of never buying a Japanese car.
WSJ editorial board opposed including "Buy America" provisions in recovery act
Moore is a member of the WSJ editorial board. According to his Journal bio, "Stephen Moore joined The Wall Street Journal as a member of the editorial board and senior economics writer on May 31, 2005."
Journal: "Steel's 'Buy America' Ploy" is "protectionism that would only hurt American consumers and taxpayers." In a January 8, 2009, editorial headlined "Steel's 'Buy America' Ploy: How to turn depression into recession," the Journal stated that the U.S. steel industry's proposed "Buy America" clause requiring steel purchased with stimulus funds to be made in the U.S. "amounts to protectionism that would only hurt American consumers and taxpayers -- and might kick off a trade war the world economy can't afford."
Journal: "Buy America" provision for manufactured goods "means that taxpayers risk overpaying." In a January 30, 2009, editorial headlined "Protectionism as Stimulus: We need to trade more, not less," the Journal stated that a proposal to require "manufactured goods" purchased with stimulus dollars to be American-made "means that taxpayers risk overpaying for their roads and bridges. And that means capital will be misallocated, fewer projects will be built and the bill will go ever-higher." The Journal added that "increased protectionism didn't stimulate the American economy in 1930 and it won't now."
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text: Admiral's House Admiral's House is located in the northeastern corner of the King Charles Court. The court was commissioned by Charles II as his new royal palace in 1660. It was designed by John Webb but was left incomplete due to a lack of funds in 1672. It was later integrated in 1696 into the larger design of the Royal Hospital for Seamen by Sir Christopher Wren, and became the residence for the Governor of the Hospital, who was invariably a retired Admiral. In 1869 the hospital closed and four years later the Royal Navy moved to Greenwich from Portsmouth. Admiral's House then became the Admiral President's Residence and was occupied by the most senior figure on site. Today the rest of the King Charles Court is home to Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Dance and Dance. Admiral's House can be hired as a private function space and can be viewed on private guided tours. Visit venue hire on how to hire Admiral's House for your event. Find out more Plan your visit Painted Hall Conservation Hire for an event Download a map of the ORNC >


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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
Creating a network of independent zine/book publishers in the Southeast region of the United States.
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Asheville Zine Fest going on May 1st of next year, the first of it's kind around these parts (NC), any one else planning on going?Continue
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where's everyone from? i'm from va. nice to have some zinesters close(ish) byContinue
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I'm in Tallahassee, FL ^^! Nice to see some representation Jasmine =)
Im in Atlanta!
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Does Florida count as the Southeast US? lol. I'm the only zinester that I know of down here.
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On an undisclosed piece of private property within the City of Rockford stands a tree, which is encapsulated by the largest "burl", we have ever seen.
What's a burl you ask? Wikipedia tells us that a burl is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded out growth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. Almost all burl wood is covered by bark.
A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. Most burls grow beneath the ground but the one in the picture completely encircles the tree some five feet above the ground.
Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood prized for its beauty by many. Its rarity also adds to its expense. It is sought after by furniture makers, artists, and wood sculptors. Some burls are highly valued and sliced into veneers for furniture, inlay in doors, picture frames, household objects, automobile interior paneling and trim, and woodturning.
Burl wood is very hard to work, with hand tools or on a lathe, because its grain is twisted and interlocked, causing it to chip and chatter unpredictably. This "wild grain" makes burl wood extremely dense and resistant to splitting, which makes it valued for bowls, mallets, and mauls for hammering chisels and driving wooden pegs.
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Sprint currently has 39,000 workers, and based on the amount of the severance charge, and the possibility of more layoffs taking place until the summer, that figure could be sharply reduced by the time this year's third quarter begins in July.
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Today's Market Movers:
UPSCDMA wireless technologies developer Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) leapt $32 1/2 to $378 after J.P. Morgan analyst Gregory Geiling raised his 12-month price target for the firm to a non-split-adjusted $460 per share from $315 per share, citing higher expected earnings thanks to new products and increased royalties.
Takeover rumors breathed some new life into the shares of networking products maker Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN) today, which jumped up $2 3/8 to $20 5/8. Alcatel (NYSE: ALA) and Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY) have been mentioned most often as potential acquirers.
It was an early Christmas for semiconductor process control metrology systems company Rudolph Technologies (Nasdaq: RTEC), which took flight for a $6 15/16 gain to $22 15/16 after selling 4.8 million shares in an initial public offering at a price of $16 per share. Fellow Friday IPO and TouchSense PC hardware and software firm Immersion Corp. (Nasdaq: IMMR) gained $6 5/8 to $18 5/8.
Several online brokerage firms got a boost today as Hambrecht & Quist analyst Greg Smith reportedly forecasted that the sector will report strong volumes in the short term, thanks in part to "extraordinary" online trading volumes in November. E*Trade Group (Nasdaq: EGRP) rose $5 13/16 to $36 3/4, Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) traded up $2 3/4 to $21 15/16, TD Waterhouse (NYSE: TWE) climbed $2 to $16 5/8, and Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCH) picked up $4 1/16 to $41.
Aircraft and electronic systems contractor Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) ascended $3/4 to $53 5/16 after announcing plans to acquire Navia Aviation AS of Norway for $35 million in cash. The Oslo-based company makes instrument landing systems, digital voice switching systems, and air traffic control systems for commercial aircraft.
DOWNSGo-go computer maker Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) slipped $1 11/16 to $41 3/4 as analysts at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and PaineWebber trimmed estimates for the fourth quarter despite a bullish forecast from the company yesterday. The analysts cited pressure on hardware margins as one of the reasons for the move.
Microchip component manufacturing leader Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) dropped $3 1/4 to $76 3/16 after Merrill Lynch analyst Joe Osha reduced his rating to "near term accumulate" from "buy" as a result of competitive pressure from rival Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) and issues related to the introduction of a new memory chip product made by Rambus (Nasdaq: RMBS). Rambus fell $3/4 to $88 and AMD fell $1 11/16 to $26 9/16.
Hardee's, Taco Bueno, and Carl's Jr. owner CKE Restaurants (NYSE: CKR) coughed up $1 1/8 to $6 1/16 after the company reported that third-quarter earnings will fall below analyst estimates because of delays in the company's turnaround as well as seasonal trends. It also announced plans to cut about 150 jobs in the next eight months at Hardee's headquarters in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The move is part of an effort to consolidate operations at CKE headquarters in Anaheim, California.
Today's Top Stories:FOOL ON THE HILL An Investment Opinion
Home Field Advantage
Bill Mann (TMF Otter)
OK, it's time for the three of you out there who still like me to finally have to turn on me. (And no, you don't count, Mom, you are required to like me. Even when you don't.)
I believe that 80% of the people who own Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) should not.
Surely I don't mean you. Well, if you don't own Cisco, I certainly don't mean you. Otherwise, unless you are a person who actively understands the technology of routers and how the Internet works, why yes, I more than likely mean you.
I also include myself in this group of people who own Cisco, but probably should not.
I'd like to take you back to high school football, just to lay out the basis for this thesis.
Picture this:
Two teams are playing. They are evenly matched, with one having a star-studded offense and the other with a defense that has not yielded a touchdown all season. They have both won every game they have played.
Which team has the advantage? Well, common sense tells us that, all else being equal, the team playing at home does.
This is not to say that the home team will win, but they do have an intangible but quantifiable benefit from playing in a friendly environment, before their own crowd. It is as psychological as it is real. And it makes sense, doesn't it? The players are just that much more comfortable by virtue of the familiarity of their surroundings.
This translates to most aspects of life, not just sports. Machiavellian business executives speak about the psychological advantage of conducting negotiations on home turf. Restaurants breed customer loyalty through familiarity. Children grow uneasy when their parents leave them at home with a baby-sitter. We all remember the chaos that reigned when we had substitute teachers in school. Was it because they were "bad" teachers? Nope, it was because their presence broke the familiar pattern to which we were accustomed.
Human beings almost always operate better when they are dealing with a "known quantity." Why would investing work differently?
Why, in investing, do we insist upon handing over the one major advantage we have? Why do the boo-bears decry the greatest investor of our generation, Warren Buffett, as "old-fashioned" or "behind-the-times" because he resists investing in high technology because he does not understand the financial model?
Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have always espoused, especially for individual investors, that we buy what we know. The rules under which Lynch had to operate when he managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund made this simple rule not practical for the amount of funds he had under management. But in the case of Buffett, a look at the companies held by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) gives us a perfect view into his circle of competency. Restaurants. Sundries. Candy. Super-catastrophe re-insurers.
The last item, in particular, speaks volumes about a complicated business where Buffett feels he holds a distinct advantage of direct, intimate knowledge. His basis for investing does not rest upon the notion that "reinsurance is a growth industry, so companies in the industry are bound to go up." No sir -- he understands float, capital costs, risk assessments, and all of the other ways in which the individual insurance companies differentiate their performance.
Do you "know" routers? How will you be able to see in advance that Cisco is becoming the next Wang or Digital or Hayes Corporation (Nasdaq: HAYZQ)? For those of you for whom Hayes does not ring a bell, five years ago it was so dominant in its industry that modems from other companies were at a disadvantage if they were not labeled as "Hayes Compatible." This former standard bearer is now bankrupt, having frittered away its dominance in a tremendous growth market.
What is it that you know? Cosmetics? Are Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) products superior to those of Revlon (NYSE: REV)? The last time you were at the department store, was one booth active and the other deserted? This is direct information that you have that the Wall Street analysts may lack. Why aren't you basing your investment on your direct knowledge?
What about consumer electronics? You hear that Hitachi's (NYSE: HIT) next generation DVD player is far superior to Sony's (NYSE: SNE)? Did you know early on that DIVX, sponsored by Circuit City (NYSE: CC), was doomed to be a bust? In retrospect, this company would have been a great short during the DIVX debacle, as it shed nearly half its value during the latter course of 1998.
If either of these things are your bag, this is your home field! Got a bunch of kids who go through Band-Aids (Johnson & Johnson) and Neosporin (Warner-Lambert) like it's going out of style? Well, then that's an industry you know about.
But how on earth will you know that a competitor has introduced a superior technology to Cisco's? When the stock tanks? The reason I'm pounding this issue is that it has happened to other industry darlings before, and Cisco's celebrated status and high-flying stock in no way make it immune. How do those who do not understand the underlying economics know when to get off the bus? Trust other people? Guess? Tirelessly study the industry?
Unfortunately, in the long run, the last answer is the only one giving the individual investor any kind of sustainable advantage. If you buy what you know, you have the luxury of not having to trust anyone else's instincts.
Corporate finance does not run by a different set of natural laws. Cisco, for example, is not a company that has a stock that is destined to go up just because it has a history of doing so. No company is immune to the laws of the marketplace. If your products don't sell, you don't make money. You don't make money, you die. Simple.
But who among us has ever seen a Cisco router? Do you, Cisco investor, know specifically what a router does, how it works, where it sits on a data network, or even what it looks like? Of course, there are millions of people worldwide who know and understand this technology, and if you are one, I am not talking to you. You likely know the reasons that Cisco products have come to dominate the router industry, as well as the flaws its products have. In this realm, you hold the advantage. Over analysts, over me, over everybody else. You KNOW Cisco.
I am thinking about this in part because of the announcement yesterday by Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) that it has an agreement with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to include its new open Internet components to Intel's Web offering and will offer its routing products at 50% below the prices of Cisco's.
Now, I'm sure that many Cisco (and Nortel and Intel) investors have read the press releases on Nortel's new assault on the router king. I could likely produce several articles worth of deeply technical analysis on how this is a threat to Cisco, how it is not, and how Cisco's position as a closed-source dominant player on the Internet give it a natural incumbency.
The unfortunate reality is, the vast majority of investors in Cisco might as well be reading Chinese as technical descriptions of chipsets, network bottlenecks, and the benefits of open/closed source. The remainder of the readers would quickly expose me as the technical poseur I am, since, when it comes down to it, I cannot possibly understand the full technical or financial implications of what may happen by Nortel making its routers open-source.
My point (and I do have one), is that we place ourselves at a disadvantage by investing in companies that we do not deeply understand. Will it turn out OK? There are millions of Cisco investors with billions of dollars of stock who could attest that, in this case, so far it has. But we as Foolish investors would be wise to remember that the marketplace can turn on a dime, and if we don't see the bend in the road coming, we will be hard-pressed to react to it before a potential crash.
Fool on and prosper.
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Dell Just Keeps on Pleasing
Richard McCaffery (TMF Gibson)
Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL), the world's largest direct sales computer company, last night reported net income (excluding charges) of $483 million, or $0.18 per share, for the third quarter, compared to $384 million, or $0.14 per share, a year ago. The results were in line with reduced analyst estimates, according to First Call.
A 72% increase in sales of enterprise products helped grow revenue to $6.7 billion. Operating expenses decreased to 10.6% of revenue from 11.4%, and net margins fell to 7.1% from 8% as a result of a 25% increase in the cost of memory products. Dell still managed to generate $1.1 billion in cash from operations, up from $586 million a year ago. A portion of the cash was used to repurchase 15 million shares of stock.
Wait a minute. According to Bloomberg, Dell reported net income of $289 million, or $0.11 per share, down 25% from net income of $384 million, or $0.14 per share, a year ago.
What's an investor to do when the numbers look different? In this case, it's pretty clear cut. The decrease in net income is due to a $194 million charge for the acquisition of ConvergeNet Technologies, a privately held storage network company based in San Jose, California. Dell spelled it out in the press release and Bloomberg explains it farther down in its story.
Nevertheless, Bloomberg gave prominence to Dell's actual earnings after the acquisition charge, which resulted in negative earnings growth for the quarter. It's a perfectly accurate view of the company's finances. Dell and Reuters, on the other hand, excluded those charges at first glance and underscored a much higher number.
Is that an inflated view of where the company stands? Not at all. It's standard operating procedure. The idea behind excluding charges is not to obscure financial reality. Rather, it's an effort to give investors a look at the real earnings power of a company.
To see what's really there, investors need to separate one-time charges, extraordinary items, and unusual items. It's like the 40-yard dash at football camp. The coaches don't put a tackler on the field because they want to see the player's pure speed.
Unfortunately, it can get complicated quickly as companies report all kinds of different numbers that they believe illuminate the income statement. Some companies exclude options expenses, others want investors to focus on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), others report cash earnings.
In addition, it can get tricky figuring out which items are really extraordinary. Suppose a large manufacturing concern with lots of factories closes a plant and takes a restructuring charge. That "unusual" item would be excluded, but manufacturers close factories all the time so how unusual is it?
There are many different viewpoints on these matters. On the whole, the issue illustrates one of the best reasons for buying and holding stocks. Over time, investors become very familiar with their company's sales cycles, earnings, business needs, etc., and it gets much easier to assess the numbers in context.
Oh, and once again, a great quarter for Dell.
More of Today's Best:Healthcare at the Speed of Light?
Richard McCaffery (TMF Gibson)
-- Internet healthcare services company Healtheon/WebMD (Nasdaq: HLTH) worked quickly to sign partners, land customers, and build its brand name during the third quarter, but losses exceeded First Call estimates by four cents per share. The Santa Clara, California company reported a net loss of $17.1 million, or $0.24 per share for the third quarter, compared to a net loss of $13.5 million, or $0.26 per share a year ago. Since Healtheon just yesterday completed its mergers with WebMD, MEDE America, and MedCast, third quarter results include only Healtheon's operations. Revenues grew 128% to $28.7 million, up from $12.6 million a year ago. On a pro forma basis (looking at the newly combined companies), Healtheon's third quarter revenue hit nearly $50 million.
FOOL PLATE SPECIAL An Investment Opinion
Is Sterling Software Ready to Shine?
Brian Graney (TMF Panic)
-- Application development and network management software firm Sterling Software (NYSE: SSW) turned in its fiscal fourth quarter results late yesterday, posting EPS of $0.47 (excluding charges) in line with the First Call mean estimate. That sounds good initially, until it's remembered that the company had guided investors to lower their expectations back in September when analysts were forecasting EPS of $0.52. Nonetheless, Sterling's shares rose about 10% this morning. Investors reacting to the news are likely looking well beyond the most recent quarter's numbers, focusing instead on President and CEO Sterling Williams' view that the firm is "well positioned for an outstanding 2000." Positioning has been the key word around Sterling's Dallas headquarters this year, as it adjusts its application management business to focus on the hot area of e-business applications.
McDermott on Its Back
Brian Graney (TMF Panic)
-- Investors who had figured on a quick recovery this year for beaten-down oil and gas industry subsea contractor McDermott International (NYSE: MDR) have received a rude awakening over the past two days as the company's shares have sunk to new depths. Despite rising oil and gas prices and improved investor sentiment toward the energy sector in general, McDermott's core J. Ray McDermott marine construction services business has seen dismal results. Yesterday, the company said fiscal Q2 EPS was $0.06, down from last year's $0.85 and substantially below the First Call mean estimate of $0.19. In turn, investors have unloaded the stock, sending its share price down a wrenching 55% in the last two trading sessions.


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Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers (2006)
by Avner Ash
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As a high school student, I found that this book struck an admirable balance between explaining in detail the simple concepts and explaining in essence the sweep of grand theorems. I will likely reread parts of this book for gems to contemplate.
I understood it up to chapter 12, and found that fascinating. After that I gradually lost the plot until it had vanished completely at chapter 19. I skim-read the book after that. I really liked the infectious way the authors explain the "amazing" concepts, but found it annoying in the latter tough stages of the book that they would slip in a explanation of something trivial amongst the advanced maths.
Enjoyable, technical treatment of a fragment of modern number theory involving group representations, Galois theory, elliptic curves, reciprocity laws, and other esoterica that went into the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. "Popular"-level, but by three-quarters of the way through I had reached conceptuo-abstractional overload.
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I think thats the good thing about hardware FW.Yes, IME BSD-based kernels with PF (as firewall appliances) are superior to Linux/Netfilter machines.. they just seem to see and process more packets.
OP, checkout checkpiont or cisco.
Most SOHO broadband router come with a packet filter, you can setup, it won't go to the stage of applaction FW, but for $100 you arn't going to get anything that good, and and thats hardware.


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Blown away: Suzuki is expecting fewer supply issues for its Vitara Turbo that will arrive in showrooms in the third quarter.
7 March 2016
By TIM NICHOLSON
SUZUKI Australia's local boss says the company is working through the supply
issues it has encountered since the launch of its reborn Vitara small SUV, and
that it anticipates better stock of the forthcoming turbocharged version.
The Japanese car-maker launched the Vitara in September last year and despite
strong interest in the funky crossover, it has been hamstrung by stock
constraints from the factory in Hungary.
In its first four months on sale in 2015, Suzuki sold 1109 Vitaras – an average
of about 277 a month – but Suzuki Australia general manager Andrew Moore said
he believes the new entrant to the segment could have sold more.
"I am happy with the level of inquiry and interest in the vehicle, but there is
no doubt that the supply issues have lost us a lot of sales," he admitted to
"I think we could have been selling 400 a month. We have been closer to 300.
But each month we have had 100-200 back orders. We are only just now starting
to have a lower number of back-orders that we can't supply in the same month.
It has only just gone below 100 at the end of last month."
"I am happy with the reception of the vehicle but it is just a shame - I think
we could have sold a lot more if the cars were available straight away. But
that will rectify itself as we go forward."
Mr Moore said while the supply was better now than at launch last year, he
added that some customers still face a wait to take delivery of their new
Vitara, with the longer production process for the two-tone variants pushing
wait times out.
"It depends on colour and specification. Our two-tone colours are the most
popular. There tends to be a wait list on them. Suzuki Australia has no stock.
All our stock is with dealers. Every car that has come in, dealers have
"A lot of the models now, if customers go in, they would be looking at a few
weeks, probably maximum for most of the range. There may be some that are
immediate delivery too."
The Vitara had a strong start to 2016, with 367 units shifted, outselling the
likes of the Ford EcoSport (249) and the Nissan Juke (216), while coming
dangerously close to outselling the Volkswagen Tiguan (410).
As previously confirmed, Suzuki will introduce the Vitara Turbo, powered by a
103kW/220Nm 1.4-litre BoosterJet four-cylinder turbo-petrol engine, in the
third quarter of the year, which will replace the naturally aspirated 1.6-litre
While Mr Moore said there would be a freer supply of Vitara Turbo compared with
when the initial Vitara launched, he said he thinks there would still be a wait.
Mr Moore said there would be a promotional focus on the Vitara Turbo when it
arrives later in the year.
"Our aim is to make it the hero vehicle of our marketing. We will promote the
entire range but really it is going to be the lead car for us."
He also said it was difficult to predict what percentage of sales the Turbo
would make up, but added that the company was confident it will be a popular
"We are looking at it being between 35 to maybe 50 per cent of sales. It's a
tricky one to know for Suzuki, a lot of our vehicles are closer to $20,000 than
$30,000, obviously the Turbo is the upper-spec vehicle.
"But it is a fantastic engine and has amazing fuel economy and in that segment
people tend to spend closer to $30,000 so we think, for the segment, it is
probably right. It is just a bit of a leap for Suzuki. I would like to think it
would get to 50 per cent because as a value proposition, it is outstanding."
Another Suzuki model has been the victim of the Vitara's success, with sales of
the similarly positioned S-Cross taking a dive. Sales dropped by 60 per cent
last year compared with 2014, while its January haul of 29 units was a whopping
79.4 per cent behind the same month last year.
Mr Moore said some buyers had opted for the newer Vitara in showrooms, but also
put the S-Cross results down to a halt on sales in late January – a directive
from its Japanese parent company – over an unspecified issue reportedly
relating to the car's airbags.
"Definitely the Vitara has impacted S-Cross. A lot of customers have chosen
Vitara over S-Cross that would have probably picked an S-Cross. At the same
time we have had some customers come in on Vitara and buy S-Cross," he said.
"We had some supply issues and our stock was a little bit aged and we had
limited colours. We have had new vehicles come through that have seen some
improvement in sales. You are probably aware of the short stop on S-Cross but
that has all been sorted out now. That impacted about four weeks worth of sales
as well.
"Longer term Vitara will definitely be the higher-volume model for us, but we
think having S-Cross provides a stronger offering to customers looking for that
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Some of you have asked about the Washington Times Blog Piece that talked about shock bracelets. We reached out to the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate to see if there was any validity to this story, and there isn't.
Here's what S&T's John Verrico posted as a comment on the Washington Times blog, and we wanted to make sure all of our readers saw it was well.
DHS-S&T spokesman said...
Shocking, but False
Sometimes it just amazes me how these stories evolve. Let me start off by saying that the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate nor TSA have been pursuing shock bracelets for airline passengers as alleged by the Washington Times Blog.
This allegation stemmed from a misleading video posted on the Lamberd Website which depicts an ID bracelet that would contain identifying information as well as the ability to stun the wearer. The company claims to connect use of such a device to DHS and TSA, but no discussions between these agencies has ever taken place.
This all originated from a meeting held two years ago with a private company representative (not Lamberd) who proposed bracelet technology in response to the TSA's desire to find less-than-lethal means to detain an apprehended suspect. The bracelet was never intended to replace boarding passes, contain ID information or be worn by all passengers as asserted in the Lamberd video and discussed in the Washington Times Blog.
The hypothetical use of the bracelet would have been for transporting already apprehended prisoners and detainees at prisons and border patrol facilities, and DHS was looking to see if there were potential air travel applications for apprehended suspects.
This concept was never funded or supported by the DHS or TSA and hasn't even been discussed for two years. The letter circulating throughout the blogosphere from Paul Ruwaldt was not addressed to Lamberd and merely states the DHS was interested in learning more about the technology.
Neither side followed up. DHS/TSA does NOT support the asserted use and has not pursued the development of such technology. - John Verrico DHS S&T Spokesman
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Just saw
Waltz with Bashir
by Ari Folman. It's about his and his comrades-in-arms' experiences and memories of the 1982 Lebanon invasion and the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Banned in Lebanon, not surprisingly -- it's not at all kind on the Phalangists, who are very much a player there.
I can't say I enjoyed it much. Films by Israelis about how Israelis feel terribly bad about killing all those Arabs (or, in this case, how terrible they feel about Arabs killing other Arabs while they're watching), with some second-degree Holocaust trauma mixed in, just start to feel really terribly old after a while. As with most of the ones I've seen, this one had the same sense of emotional distance -- as if everything's seen through the observation slit of a Merkava tank, or a TV; with an unbridgeable distance between them and the Arab "other."
The director clearly had good intentions, but the film still made me want to slap him one. As if he's trolling for sympathy for feeling so bad about shooting those light rockets over the camps as the Phalangists were doing Arik's dirty work. Give me
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There's a saying in politics People will fall more easily for a big lie than for a small one*. I think someone at VMware has picked this up because they're trying a really big lie.
VMWare doesn't need memory.
Or to quote the post more precisely: VMware Infrastructure's exclusive ability to overcommit memory gives it an advantage in cost per VM the others can't match.**
They were able to start 40 instances of Windows XP to achieve the 40 VMs, with 512MB of memory on a machine with only 4GB of RAM – a 5 times over commitment ratio. Of course they didn't actually run anything in them, because if you and I fired up Outlook, and IE (with our own mail boxes and choice of pages) you open word and I open PowerPoint very few memory pages will be sharable (I've got 47 pages open in IE right now, and it's using over 300MB of RAM, almost all for data). That means a lot of paging will have to happen in the virtualization stack. Brace yourself for really poor performance.
When I read they were using Windows 2000 in the server test I got suspicious, why use an OS which is out of support ? to get better results of course. (As I understand it they don't support Windows Server 2008 yet). To get as much page overlap as possible they ran identical OS, and application on all the VMs, and gave them only a little memory – 512MB for a server is pretty meager. That's important because it ensures memory is occupied by OS and programs rather than data. Programs will have a lot of sharable pages of memory: data and caches won't. Suppose they had done the same over commitment with 1.5GB machines and got 4 on their system to 2 on Microsoft Virtualization. Spare memory will get used as a cache and this will have almost no sharable pages. Data is in from disk to fill memory which isn't there and has to be paged out in the Virtualization stack – that's two sets of disk I/O for nothing.
The writer then cooks the figures: a $6000 for a 2-way server with 4GB of RAM ? I went onto Dell's web site, and got a quote for 2xDual Core Processors, 16GB of RAM and 2x500GB drives in an SC1435 for under £2,000. Given that the UK prices for hardware are always higher than US prices I'm very dubious of that server price. But let's allow that. According to the VMware post their software costs an extra $5,750 (note that's without support). Again I'm working from the memory upgrade prices on Dells web site, an upgrade from 4 to 32 GB upgrade adds £2,720 to the price. At today's Exchange rate, and ignoring the cheaper prices in the US, that's $5,440. So according to VMware a $17,000 system based on their software would have 4GB of ram and run 14VMs. On 4GB the system would run 7 VMs on Microsoft software. But the same money using Microsoft Software would buy 32GB of RAM, the extra 28GB which allows you to run 56 more VMs. That's 63 VMs on $17,000 of system with Microsoft ~ that $270 per VM for Microsoft, against $1268 for per VM for VMware. And with physical RAM for every byte the VMs see, the Microsoft system will perform better.
(To save smarter readers from pointing it out, a $6,000 server might run out of steam between the 7 VMs initially supported, and 63 VMs. The VMware work assumed there would enough CPU, DISK and network resource and the system would be RAM limited. If 14 VMs is where CPU becomes a limitation then we'd be looking at a 4GB upgrade costing £260 /$500, so the Microsoft system would come out about $5,250 cheaper for the same VMs – that's about $375 per VM.)
That's the argument ? Over $5000 of VMWare software is a good investment because it saves $500 on RAM ?
Further Cooking the figures. If you have a Microsoft support contract Microsoft Virtualization Software is covered. One of my colleagues tells me that VM platinum support for 3 years, would add $3666 to the total cost. I haven't checked this numbers but divided over 14VMs that's $261 per VM for VMware support… yes you read the numbers correctly support for VMware costs nearly as much per VM as the hardware, software and for the Microsoft solution. That's before you allow for training, maintaining a separate management infrastructure for the virtual world, and so on.
If someone can show me a customer who is running, in production, a VMware VI3 Enterprise system with a 2:1 memory overcommit ratio on all the VMs, where spending the cost of VMware on RAM wouldn't remove the need to use overcommitment then I'll give… lets say $270 to their choice of charity. ***
Update. Someone asked me to remove a term which is OK in British usage, but tends to offend other English speakers.
* Foot note 1. Yes I know who wrote that, and I'm not going to suggest that VMware have been reading him. Like me, someone there might collect books of quotes and aphorisms.
**Footnote 2. As one of the commenters to the post points out VMware's published recommendation is "Make sure the host has more memory than the total amount of memory that will be used by ESX plus the sum of the working
set sizes that will be used by all the virtual machines." I.e. Don't use this feature, if you want decent performance.
*** One offer only. Void where prohibited. Over 18s only. My cause drowsiness; if affected to not operate virtual machinery. etc.


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Re: Re: Security considerations in Mathematica&J/Link
There are several things one can do:
1. One can filter the cgi input from the browser so as to
eliminate many of the commands that could cause harm. One can
do this with Mathematica or with a script.
2. One can eliminate functions from Mathematica that could
cause problems.
3. One can keep Mathematica from writing any files
4. One can run Mathematica in a chroot structure with no
other programs available.
5. One can limit the amount of disk space that can be written
on the server.
6. One can limit the time that a process has for execution.
The above won't stop all possibilities, but can be workable.
Tom Compton
Murphy <werner.schuster at netway.at> wrote in message
news:8phceh$gag at smc.vnet.net...
> At 03:14 10.09.00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Surely someone has thought a little about it; otherwise
> >you could try breaking into WRI's integrator program. For
> >
> >Integrate [ ShellCommand["rm *"], x]
> >
> >
> >In a "purely functional" subset of Mathematica you could do
> >no input or output, you could not assign any values. Then
> >you limit the amount of time and space consumed you are on
> >right track. I suggest you remove ALL functionality not
> >by clearing function definitions of irrelevant commands.
> >
> >But you seem to be interested in making a browser out of
> >Mathematica... why care if he wrecks his own machine?
> it's the other way around, I try to turn the Browser into a
> FrontEnd;
> so you can access notebooks over the web
> this could eg. be used for Training; instead of setting up
mathematica on every
> single computer in a classroom, you put it on one computer
(the server) and
> the students
> can access the prepared notebooks using their browser and
work with them
> just like
> with the real FrontEnd;
> or say you wrote some mathematica package that you want to
sell; you could put
> this notebook on your webserver (+ the software that
connects mathematica
> to the web)
> and allow users to test your package (like a demoversion);
> but that are just possible ideas, at the moment its not more
than a little
> non-serious experiment
> (just to make sure I wont have 50 laywers standing at my
door tomorrow
> trying to sue
> me for license abuse ;-) )
> murphee


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Cancer Immunotherapy Meets Oncology: In Honor of Christoph Huber By Cedrik Michael Britten, Sebastian Kreiter, Mustafa Diken
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This book provides a comprehensive update on the state of the art in cancer immunology, which has rapidly evolved from a field of clinical research into an established discipline of oncology. The key recent developments in immuno-oncology are all covered, from the ever-changing immunological and regulatory frameworks to the most promising therapeutic concepts. Themes include combination therapies and personalized medicine, as well as identification of biomarkers to guide the clinical development of new approaches and to pinpoint the optimal treatment for each patient. The book acknowledges the continuing dynamic nature of the field as reflected in the development of next-generation immunotherapies that are already in clinical testing.Cancer Immunotherapy Meets Oncology is dedicated to the lifetime achievements of Christoph Huber, founder and chair of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT). It is also a tribute to those researchers and clinicians who are striving to develop novel diagnostics and tailored immunotherapies for the benefit of cancer patients.
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