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7 Days by Beth Weasley
Day 1
Calm down all of you, Professor McGonagall shouted over the noise of the dining students. Tonight we will be beginning the inter-house pen pal system. You will all form lines according to your year and house, and will receive a number. Your pen pal will have the same number, and over the next seven days you will need to write to each other as much as you can. Next Sunday evening you will meet your pen pal. We hope this system will encourage inter-house friendships. Form you lines now.
Ron and Harry had of course not been listening.
I cant believe they let him back in! Ron muttered, glaring across the hall at Malfoy.
I guess that because he was on our side in the war, they decided to be nice, Harry said quietly. He wasnt happy about McGonagalls decision, but he could understand her reasoning. They joined their line with Hermione.
This is so exciting! she whispered as she pulled her number from the hat.
Whatever Mione. Only you could find this exciting! Ron dismissed her excitement.
Harry stepped forward and pulled a number from the hat. Seven. He couldnt help but wonder who his pen pal was. He looked at all the other seventh years in the hall, but he couldnt work out who it was. Oh well, he thought. Ill find out on Sunday anyway.
When he got back to the common room he decided to go up to his room and write his first letter. McGonagall had specifically told them not to mention their houses, and to use false names.
To my pen pal
Since McGonagall says we cant use our real name, you can just call me Simpson. Im one of those people that put up a front against the world. A lot of people think they know me, but they dont. Im a huge fan of muggle music, and my favourite bands are Dashboard Confessional, The Calling and Nickleback. I enjoy flying, Quidditch and swimming, as well as driving my old bashed-up mini that I keep outside of school. If we hit it off we can go for a drive next Hogsmead weekend, as thats where I keep it.
Harry gave the letter to Hegwig, who flew off into the dark. It was getting late, and as hed been writing the others boys had come upstairs and gone to bed. But the idea of sleeping made Harry want to heave. He blew out hid candle and lay back on his bed, his hands behind his head.
Why do you have to be so different? he asked himself as he stared at the canopy hanging over his bed. Because you ugly and wrong the voice in his head told him. Because youre a disgusting person, because you live a lie, because youre WRONG! But Im not wrong. Im right, this is who I am! Isnt it? Youre a sick, twisted, disgusting person, and what you feel is wrong.
Harry couldnt take it anymore. He climbed out of bed and grabbed his invisibility cloak from his bedside table. He stepped out of the portrait hole and ran to the main doors of the school. He pushed one of them open, and it creaked slightly. He froze, not wanting to draw attention to himself. When he was sure the coast was clear, he slipped out of the building.
He ran across the grass, his cloak flapping around his ankles. He sat down on the other side of the lake and picked up a small flat stone. He held it between two fingers and flicked his wrist, then watched the stone skim its way across the lake. He stayed there like that for a long time, looking out over the lake, occasionally skimming a stone out across it. He watched the ripples the stones made, the way one thing set off all those consequences. He reached to pick up another stone, and he had just thrown it out when he heard a yelp.
Watch it Potter! Blaise Zabini said as he stepped out from under an invisibility cloak. You could get someones eye out with them stones!
Well, I wasnt exactly expecting anyone else to be out here was I! Harry hadnt expected anyone else to be out by the lake, he thought he was the only that ever went out there to just think.
Im sorry, I didnt mean it like that, Blaise said, looking straight into Harrys eyes. Harry was surprised he wasnt used to Slytherins treating him like an actual person.
Well, I guess Id better go, Harry mumbled. He stood up and walked away.
Oh fuck, fuck, fuck! he thought. He looked so gorgeous like that moonlight makes him even more gorgeous that the lights in the hall! WRONG! the voice in his head shouted. Harry looked down at the ground as he walked back to his dormitory, the voice in his head shouting at him about how sick and twisted he was.
When he arrived back in the dormitory he found a letter resting on his bed. He opened the envelope and began to read.
Simpson thats an unusual name to choose! Not that Im complaining, I like unusual! I guess you could describe me as weird. Im the only person I know thats quite like me, I suppose is how you could describe it. I think muggles would call me a emo, simply because of the music I like and the way I dress when I can choose my clothes. But I dont think of myself like that, I just think of myself as me. But enough of my moaning, I have a feeling you may be getting a bit bored of it.
Z yes, I think thatll do
Harry feel into a deep sleep, the letter from his pen pal clutched in his fist.
A/N: Your opinions please! This is the first piece of fanfiction I've written in quite a while, so I hope you like it! xXx
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Well, all of the questions will be answered of course at Nokia's upcoming event in New York City, which is dated for July 11th. Looking at the accompanying photo, we can see how the tiny dot/period at the end of ZOOM has been magnified tremendously to show off more of its hidden details – so it kind of points to the inevitable reality of how a camera can capture so much in its shots.
Indeed, Samsung managed to raise some brows in the last few days with the recent announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with its sweet 16-megapixel camera with a 10x zoom range, but there's something about Nokia's offering that tantalizes our imagination more. In any event, the wait won't be long now before we know what the talk is all about. Naturally, we'll be there to cover all the festivities, so make sure to circle down the date!
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Nat Gasin new lower trading range
The horrific bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon sent a wakeup call that the US is far from terrorism free. The threat to the American public is just as prevalent as it was back on 9/11. As of this writing there is no indication of who may have performed this horrible and cowardly act nor has any group taken responsibility. My prayers are with the victims and their families.
Nat Gas futures started Monday's session mostly ignoring the start of the selling firestorm that hit just about every risk asset market. However, as the session progressed the selling spread even to a mostly de-linked market like Nat Gas. When the session ended Nat Gas futures declined by $0.085/mmbtu after hitting a 21 month high of near $4.30/mmbtu or just $0.10/mmbtu below the range resistance level. Not only did the market fail to reach and breach the range resistance level it reversed, declined and breached the $4.16/mmbtu support level.
The market is now back to the range that was in play early last week with $4.16/mmbtu now the new resistance level with around the $4/mmbtu as the new support level. I have changed my upside bias as yesterday's selling resulted in a relatively strong technical reversal which suggests that the market is likely to remain within the confines of the new trading range… at best or even possibly work its way for a test of the range lower support level.
The selling momentum that eventually hit the Nat Gas market was strong enough to offset a somewhat supportive fundamental picture. The latest NOAA six to ten day and eight to fourteen day forecasts are still projecting half of the US (eastern half) is expecting below normal temperatures through the end of April which is likely to result in some level of Nat Gas heating related demand. In addition the western half of the US is expecting above normal temperatures that could potentially result in some light Nat Gas related cooling demand for that region of the US.
The temperature forecasts suggest that the weekly inventory reports are likely to underperform versus history during the next several weeks. This week will show a net injection… which is normal for this time of the year. However, with the latest temperature projections it is possible that there could be another one or two withdrawals or at best a lower than normal injection level for the forecast period. This week the EIA will release its inventory on its normal schedule and time... Thursday April 18th at 10:30 AM.
This week I am projecting the first injection of the season of 15 BCF into inventory. My projection for this week is shown in the following table and is based on a week that experienced a modest level of above normal temperatures during the report period. My projection compares to last year's net injection of 20 BCF and the normal five year net injection for the same week of 39 BCF. Bottom line the inventory deficit will widen this week versus last year as well as the deficit compared to the five year average if the actual numbers are in sync with my projections. This week's net injection will be supportive when compared to the historical data.
If the actual EIA data is in line with my projections the year over year deficit will widen to about 809 BCF. The deficit versus the five year average for the same week will come in around 90 BCF. This will be a slightly bullish weekly fundamental snapshot if the actual data is in line with my projection. The market is projecting a range of injections from 10 BCF to as high as 60 BCF with the market consensus forming around the 35 BCF level.
Did I say that China matters yet? When the main economic and oil demand growth engine in the world reports that its economy is slowing down the world quickly pays attention to that news as we saw in Monday's trading activity. There was simply a massive sell-off in most risk asset markets or what some like to call a risk off trading day. Commodities, with gold leading the way was sold strongly by the market in some cases looking like some of the panic selling we saw at the height of the financial crisis back in 2008. WTI solidly breached the $90/bbl level with the spot June Brent contract within shouting distance of testing the psychological $100/bbl level. The spot Brent contract has not closed below $100/bbl since mid-July of 2012. Of interest it did trade below the $100/bbl on an intraday basis on Monday.
Monday's selling was broad based across many asset classes and will likely extend to at least the Asian trading session tonight. It started with the latest first quarter GDP out of China coming in 0.2 percent below the fourth quarter number and 0.3 percent below the market expectations. It was a downside miss across the board. Simply put China is one of the main economic growth engines of the global economy and if China is starting to slow down market concern and thus the market sentiment is going to quickly move toward a bearish viewpoint for equities and commodities.
I am downgrading my view to neutral for Nat Gas but with a neutral bias as the spot Nymex contract has now breached the $4.16/mmbtu support level and dropped back into the $4 to $4.16/mmbtu trading range.
I am maintaining my view of the entire complex at cautiously bearish bias as inventories are starting to build and moving the complex back into a supply driven mode rather than a demand led market. Brent has now breached its range support level again with WTI and refined products not faring any better. The complex is now suggesting that the next move is likely to be a continuation to the downside.
Markets are mostly lower heading into the US trading session as shown in the following table.
Dominick Best regards,
Dominick A. Chirichella
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*Disclaimer: The information in the Market Commentaries was obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but we do not guarantee its accuracy. Neither the information nor any opinion expressed therein constitutes a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any futures or options contracts.


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Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year
I saw a tear.
Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow
So soon a sorrow.
Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame:
A tear became
A wondrous diamond sparkling in the light
A beautiful sight.
Upon my soul there fell such woeful loss,
I said, The Cross
Is grievous for a life as young as mine.
Just then, like wine,
Gods sunlight shone from His high Heavens down;
And lo! a crown
Gleamed in the place of what I thought a burden
My sorrows guerdon.
Poet: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poem: Guerdon
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Sometimes the most interesting science is right in front of us. Namely, why do the last bits of breakfast cereal cling together on the milk's surface? In 2005, a pair of Harvard scientists published a study in the American Journal of Physics to explain this phenomenon, which is called "the Cheerios effect." On the surface of a liquid like milk, the molecules all exert a weak force on each other known as surface tension. There are other forces, too: the air molecules above the milk exert a weak upward pull while the milk molecules below the surface exert a strong downward pull, thereby making the milk's surface cave in slightly. The sides of a container also pull on the molecules, creating an upward curve in the milk's surface wherever it touches the side. Cheerios float because they're buoyant, meaning they're less dense than milk and exert a constant upward force whenever they're on the milk's surface. This means that when they encounter a curve in the surface like the one on the side of the bowl, they'll want to travel up that curve as high as they can go. The weight of a single Cheerio also creates a small curve in the surface beneath it, so when other Cheerios come along, they'll all try to travel up each other's curves and appear to cling together.
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Bob Moon: The leading trade union commission in Europe scolded the European Central Bank today. The ECB has expressed concerned that excessive wage growth could exacerbate inflation. The unions shot back that the collective wage agreements on the books have modest, fixed increases.
The debate in this country over wages isn't as heated, but commentator and economist Jared Bernstein says the wage crunch is every bit as real as the energy crisis that's dominating the headlines.
Jared Bernstein: If I asked you why Americans feel so glum about the economy these days, you'd say gas prices, right? That's true, of course, but it's not the whole story. Like they say in mysteries, follow the money.
Paychecks are getting hit from three sides right now. First, recessionary conditions in the job market are leading to slower growth in wages and benefits. Second, employers have cut back on workers' hours. Third, you probably don't need me to remind you, but inflation has sped up a lot lately. Even if wages and hours were holding steady, faster price growth would mean less buying power.
It's often claimed that recessions hurt those who lose their jobs, but if you dodge that bullet, you're fine. Yet recent wage data reveal that you don't have to suffer a layoff to be hurt by a downturn.
And it's not just wages. Employers' contributions to their workers pensions and health coverage are also lagging behind prices.
Now, these are recent developments. They're driven by the loss in jobs and rising unemployment, and by relentlessly climbing energy prices. But for many workers, these real wage problems are frustratingly familiar.
The weekly earnings of the median worker, the one smack in the middle of the wage scale, were essentially unchanged between 2000 and 2007. In today's dollars, that middle-income paycheck went from $694 per week in 2000 to $695 in 2007.
Let's just pause on that point for a second. The productivity of the American workforce increased quite dramatically over those years, but middle-income workers got all of a buck from that growth. They baked a bigger pie, yet the size of their slice was unchanged.
So, where'd all the growth end up? Not exactly a head-scratcher. It flowed to the top of the pay scale, and the higher up you started out, the better you did.
Policy makers take note. Yes, we have to deal with the short-term problems of the slowdown and high energy costs. But the central goal of our policy agenda must be to reconnect paychecks and productivity.
Moon: Jared Bernstein is a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, and the author of "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?"


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Welcome to the DC Forum from Delaware! You are welcomed here, but I can't say that I agree with your State's view on gun laws.
This is a discussion on Hello from Illinois within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; New here. New to guns. I've never owned a gun and have not shot one for about 30 years (shot my brothers .22 once). Although ...
New here. New to guns. I've never owned a gun and have not shot one for about 30 years (shot my brothers .22 once). Although I'm a total newb, I'm interested in getting into guns. I am currently waiting for my FOID to come in the mail. Once I get it, I need to decide what gun to buy. My interest in guns is for range and home defense. Here in Illinois concealed carry is not allowed, hope this doesn't bar me from participating on the forums.
Welcome to the DC Forum from Delaware! You are welcomed here, but I can't say that I agree with your State's view on gun laws.
You can educate ignorance, you can't fix stupid
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Thank you for the welcome. There are many here in illinois that don't agree with our gun laws. There are also many that are trying to get the laws changed. It's un uphill battle! From what I've read since deciding to buy a firearm, we have the worst gun laws in the country. Odd since we have such good hunting here.
Squidzit, welcome from North Carolina, welcome from North Carolina.
Its a shame that youth is wasted on the young.
Welcome aboard from Virginia. As for your gun laws there in Illinois, your best bet in changing them is to cut Chicago and the surrounding countys loose from the rest of the state and let them sink into Lake Michigan!
Freedom doesn't come free. It is bought and paid for by the lives and blood of our men and women in uniform.
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Welcome aboard from the Mid Atlantic.
I'm from an equally gun-unfriendly state. You're not alone.
The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome from Tennessee
If you can read this, thank a teacher. Because it's in English, thank a vet
Welcome to the forum
"The Second Amendment: America's Original Homeland Security"
Welcome to the forum!!
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from Central Florida!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Greetings from Rocky Top Tennessee
When you accept mediocrity you sow the seeds for future failure.
One should never confuse good fortune with good training.
Illegitimus Non Carborundum. In God we trust.
Welcome from Tennessee also! I'm a former 38 year veteran of Cahokia, IL. who recently moved here. I share your pain. When I lived their I was a proponent of North Illinois and South Illinois, as in separate states...
Welcome from Southwestern Virginia.
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Welcome from St. Louis area Missouri... I spend a lot of time in Illinois on business. If you are near Belleville there is an indoor gun range where you can rent firearms right across from the Belleville News Democrat offices on Hwy 159. I suggest going there, shooting several & getting some time to decide what you do and do not like.
If you dare venture into Missouri on a weekend I would be happy to let you shoot a few toys at my local range... I can bring a friend for just $5.00 and I have a range of calibers available.
Welcome aboard. You do not have to be a gun guru to hang here and learn...
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Obstetrician and gynecologist Magnus Murphy, MD, and journalist/advocate Pauline McDonagh Hull offer a compelling case for surgical delivery as a legitimate birth choice for informed women. By offering a wealth of medical evidence from around the world and thoughtfully countering the many objections detractors have lodged against it, the authors convincingly demonstrate that a planned cesarean birth at thirty-nine- plus weeks is a safe and often preferred alternative to a planned vaginal delivery. An indispensable guide for women, their families, and medical professionals.
About the Author
Magnus Murphy, MD (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), is the author (with Carol L. Wasson) of Pelvic Health and Childbirth: What Every Woman Needs to Know. He is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calgary. He is also in a private practice specializing in pelvic floor disorders and at the Pelvic Floor Clinic at the Calgary Regional Health Authority. He created the website www.pelvicfloor.com, which provides information on these disorders. Pauline McDonagh Hull (Farnham, Surrey, UK) is editor of www.electivecesarean.com, a Web site that provides specific information on elective cesareans and offers support to women with this birth plan. She also campaigns for recognition of the legitimacy of planned cesareans via her blog www.cesareandebate.blogspot.com. Formerly, she worked as a BBC News broadcast journalist and producer in London.
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"A must-read for all women."
—Dr. Jennifer R. Berman
"An excellent presentation of the complex issues surrounding maternal request cesarean delivery. . . .
The authors have addressed the most common and most debated pros and cons in such detail as to allow the individual patient and her physician to make a truly informed decision."
—Ralph W. Hale, MD, Executive vice president, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
"A must-read for all women. Women need to be informed with all information related to elective c-section versus vaginal birth. This book arms women with the information needed to make the choice that suits them best."
—Dr. Jennifer R. Berman, Urologist and sexual health expert, Berman Women's Wellness Center
"As a global maternal health advocate, I hope that all women will someday have more birth options to choose from—and that once a woman has had access to information about her options and makes an informed decision about her birth, the rest of us will stand behind her to support that choice."
—Christy Turlington Burns, Director/producer No Woman, No Cry; founder, Every Mother Counts
"At last a sensible and 'easy-to-read' book about the pros and cons of cesarean at the mother's request. It reviews the scientific evidence thoroughly enough to satisfy professionals but also explains it in straightforward language for the nonmedical reader."
—Phil Steer, MD, frcog, Emeritus professor, Imperial College London; editor in chief, BJOG, An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
"A thoroughly readable book, beautifully written and well researched. The authors offer a supportive approach with informed decision making. . . . A compelling book I can thoroughly recommend."
—Dr. Peter De Jong, Consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, University of Cape Town


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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Liverpool, Britain
By Julie Mollins
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - In modern times, Liverpool is often thought of as the home of The Beatles, the influential 1960s rock band that got its start in the city on the Mersey River estuary.
But, as a port town, Liverpool played an important role in the economic development of the British Empire, which by the early part of the 20th century encompassed a quarter of the Earth's land surface and population.
Liverpool grew from a small fishing village into a financial center that helped power the empire in part because of its crucial role in the transatlantic slave trade -- the so-called trade triangle -- comprised of Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Between 1700 and 1807, about 1.5 million Africans were transported into slavery on ships that sailed from Liverpool, Britain's main slaving port, to the Americas.
Liverpool was also a major conduit for emigration from Ireland, Britain and northern Europe. More than 9 million people sailed from Liverpool to settle as immigrants in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand between 1830 and 1930.
Here is a selection of things to do while visiting:
5:45 p.m. - Visit the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King to hear the choir during the evening service. The round cathedral, designed by Frederick Gibberd and completed in 1967, has a unique spire resembling a crown. Continued...


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Yesterday, I reported on the worsening situation in Ghana for human rights for GLB people. Today, a government minister ordered the arrest of all gay people in his region.The Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the region.He has tasked the Bureau of National Investigations and all security agencies to smoke out persons suspected to be engaging in same sex.He also enlisted the services of landlords and tenants to provide … [Read more...]
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18 Jul 2010 // 5:00 PM
Like many pop-artists through the years, M.I.A.'s career has been built alongside forward-thinking producers and musicians, but few have had such a complex relationship as M.I.A. and Diplo.
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9 Sep 2015 // 2:00 AM
The EDM and hip-hop festival is touring the US and Canada through September with a changing lineup of acts. While the festival may not excel musically, it has something for almost anyone within the expanding EDM culture.
Daktyl: Cyclical
19 Apr 2015 // 9:05 PM
English DJ Daktyl's first album of originals suffers from a lack of conviction, but shines in short bursts.
Steve Aoki, Diplo and Deorro - "Freak" (feat. Steve Bays)
18 Mar 2014 // 6:50 AM
EDM powerhouses Steve Aoki, Diplo and Deorro make a play for 2014 dancefloor dominance with "Freak".
Diplo and His "Hero"es
13 Mar 2014 // 3:41 AM
The man who sampled the Clash's "Straight to Hell" for M.I.A. teams up with his heroes and Frank Ocean to bring summer to your speakers a few months early.
Diplo Is Reaching Out to Grab You
28 Jul 2015 // 6:03 AM
Diplo is having a serious pop moment, with two song-of-the-summer candidates near the top of Spotify's Global Top 50 chart.
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Stowage categories are identified in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code on Dangerous Goods List Column 16 to indicate what type of vessel and where on the vessel a dangerous good may be transported. IMDG Code Chapter 7.1 explains the different stowage categories. For material other than explosives, there are five categories: A, B, C, D or E. For example, Category A means that the material is permitted on or under the deck of passenger and cargo ships.
There is no requirement in the IMDG Code for a shipper to include a vessel stowage category on the transport document or package/container marks. That said, some vessel operators and/or freight forwarders may ask that the information be included for ease or convenience in planning a load or hiring an operator.
Vessel stowage and segregation of dangerous goods is one of the topics covered in Environmental Resource Center's Transportation of Dangerous Goods: Compliance with IATA and IMO Regulations course.


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Posted by Stephen Mann on March 30, 2012
IT service management (ITSM) has a number of definitions from a variety of sources. Starting with the ITIL (the ITSM best practice framework)-espoused definition:
"The implementation and management of quality IT services that meet the needs of the business. IT service management is performed by IT service providers through an appropriate mix of people, process and information technology. See also service management." Source: ITIL 2011 Glossary http://www.best-management-practice.com/officialsite.asp?DI=575004. Where service management is defined as: "A set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services."
A more "directly customer-focused" definition is provided on Wikipedia:
"A discipline for managing information technology (IT) systems, philosophically centered on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business. ITSM stands in deliberate contrast to technology-centered approaches to IT management and business interaction." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_management
Posted by Stephen Mann on March 15, 2012
OK ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework, is neither a cult nor a religion, but hopefully I grabbed your attention.
The point of this short, but hopefully interesting, blog is that when we usually think about ITIL we normally focus on the IT service management and IT operations organizational domains as its playground. And, while we appreciate that other IT roles might have an interest in ITIL (especially enterprise architects or those looking at DevOps), I imagine most will be surprised at the following percentage readership demographic for my recent "Adopting ITIL" report.
Percentage split of Adopting ITIL readers across Forrester "role types"
Posted by Stephen Mann on March 12, 2012
Last week I had the pleasure of attending ManageEngine's first user conference and training event in the Middle East (Dubai to be specific); with event attendees not only from the UAE, but also Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
The one-day user conference element of the two-day event, offered me both fresh insight into how IT service management, ITIL, and enabling tools are being adopted in the Middle East, and first-hand experience of ManageEngine's customers within the region.
This quick blog is intended to capture my views, thoughts, and opinions for the benefit of all.
The current state of IT service management in the Middle East?
My previous experiences of IT service management and ITIL in particular in the Middle East had been somewhat limited; but as with most things I had drawn my own opinions and conclusions based on the exposure (the proverbial joining of dots). So before last week I believed:
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Prior to IBM Pulse 2012 heating up in Las Vegas, I was lucky enough to receive a pre-brief on some of the key messages from this year's event. One of which is around mobility.
A statistic from the IBM mobility slide deck reminded me of a particular bugbear of mine: that mobility will most likely be yet another opportunity for gifted IT professionals to get excited about technology (and managing the technology) rather than stepping back to appreciate that modern IT is all about the consumption of IT services rather than the technology itself. That mobility is not about mobile devices or apps, that it's about the consumption of business or IT services on the move BY PEOPLE via fit-for-purpose IT provisioning and IT service delivery.
The IBM Statistic?
In a recent IBM report, it was revealed that the Top Mobile Adoption Concerns are:


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Re: Alternative Energy and Free Energy, Post All Links Here
Red Baron, have you watched Chris Martenson's Crash Course series, more specifically the part dealing with peak oil? It got me interested on the future of our civilization as we know it. We are not reverting back to hundreds years ago, because of all the renewable energy sources available, but from what I have read so far, they are much less efficient than oil, and has no other use besides providing energy, unlike oil which is responsible for thousands of byproducts that our societies are totally dependant upon.
Martenson also says in his series that nuclear energy is not a realistic replacement for oil, citing the vast number of plants that would be needed to generate suficient energy. Besides, is it safe? I don't think so. The more we have, the more danger there is. A terrorist attack and we get the territory uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
This academic study says that EROI (Energy Return On Investment) will be the deciding factor of energy production in the future: http://sef.umd.edu/files/Hall_SEF06.pdf
Chris Martenson believes that the world will be very different in 20 years from now... for the worse, so does a German military think tank.
What's your take on all this?
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Although I am skeptical of global warming, acid rain is supposed to be a side effect of the internal combustion engine and burning coal. Also acidification of the oceans may be caused by increasing carbon dioxide levels. As a fish biologist this is something I think is worth investigating. There may be other problems associated with the burning of fossil fuels which should probably be considered.
I think it would be wonderful to be able to use solar and wind power to completely power our homes, most businesses, and most vehicles.
Also biofuels are interesting to me but they will probably have a limited overall impact on our energy dependency.
Nuclear energy may or may not be a viable option so it seems continued scientific investigation should be done.
The most pressing problem seems to be overpopulation. If we don't control populations at sustainable levels than we will probably end up in a unlivable world.
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"Battery cathode made of waste byproducts from paper industry promises sustainable energy storage"
"He drew inspiration from the process of photosynthesis, where electrons charged by solar energy are transported by quinones; electrochemically active molecules based on benzene rings comprised of six carbon atoms. Inganäs chose the raw material brown liquor that is a by-product from the manufacture of paper pulp. The brown liquor is largely composed of lignin, a biological polymer in the plant cell walls."
"Milczarek devised a thin film from a mixture of pyrrole and lignin derivatives from the brown liquor. The film, 0.5 microns in thickness, is used as a cathode in the battery."
"Now we need more research into new energy storage based on cheap and renewable raw materials. Lignin constitutes 20-30 percent of the biomass of a tree, so it's a source that never ends."
Battery cathode made of waste byproducts from paper industry promises sustainable energy storage
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Turning electricity generated by solar panels into iso-butanol fuel for vehicles
"Photosynthesis is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar. There are two parts to photosynthesis — a light reaction and a dark reaction. The light reaction converts light energy to chemical energy and must take place in the light. The dark reaction, which converts CO2 to sugar, doesn't directly need light to occur.
"We've been able to separate the light reaction from the dark reaction and instead of using biological photosynthesis, we are using solar panels to convert the sunlight to electrical energy, then to a chemical intermediate, and using that to power carbon dioxide fixation"(by bacteria) "to produce the fuel,"
This process may be much more efficient than photosynthesis and produce a liquid fuel which would have much higher energy densities than storing the electricity in batteries and be much safer than producing hydrogen instead.
Modified microbes turn carbon dioxide to liquid fuel
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"the idea of using an amino acid to link metal atoms to silica molecules, because he had realized that one end of the amino acid molecule has an affinity for silica and the other end for metals.
The immediate result is a nanostructure of metal, silica and carbon, with much more metal than had been possible before, greatly increasing conductivity. The silica and carbon can be removed, leaving porous metal. But a silica-metal structure would hold its shape at the high temperatures found in some fuel cells, Warren noted, and removing just the silica to leave a carbon-metal complex offers other possibilities, including larger pores.
possible future application of the sol-gel process might be to build Graetzel solar cells, which contain light-sensitive dyes."
'Tunable' metal nanostructures for fuel cells, batteries and solar energy
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"Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert CO2" to fuel
"When fashioned into an electrode and stimulated with voltage, copper acts as a strong catalyst, setting off an electrochemical reaction with carbon dioxide that reduces the greenhouse gas to methane or methanol. "
"The group has engineered tiny nanoparticles of copper mixed with gold, which is resistant to corrosion and oxidation. The researchers observed that just a touch of gold makes copper much more stable. In experiments, they coated electrodes with the hybrid nanoparticles and found that much less energy was needed for these engineered nanoparticles to react with carbon dioxide, compared to nanoparticles of pure copper."
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Turning waste carbon dioxide into a usable fuel? Awesome. Here is to capturing it.
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US introduces $60 LED light bulb (?!?)
BBC News - US introduces $60 LED light bulb
"A prize-winning light bulb that lasts for 20 years is going on sale in the US on Sunday - also known as Earth Day.
Made by Dutch electronics giant Philips, the bulb swaps filaments for light-emitting diodes to provide illumination.
Using LEDs endows the light with a long life and a hefty price tag. The first versions are set to cost $60 (£37)."
"Philips was the only entrant for the competition and its design underwent 18 months of testing before being declared a winner.
A cheaper and less efficient version of the LED bulb is already sold by Philips in the US and Europe."
"It gives off 940 lumens, consumes 9.7 watts, and has a color rendering index, which is a measure of light quality, of 93. It's also rated to last 30,000 hours, which would be 20 years if used four hours a day. The color temperature is 2700, similar to an incandescent bulb, and it's dimmable. "
Now the question: Is it good enough light quality to gain wide adoption?
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This is My personal joke made up about this one....
Lady comes home to find someone has broken into her house. She calls police.
Police... What is the complaint mam...
Lady.... My house has been broken into and they stole my flat screen TV, and 22 $60.00 light bulbs, totaling 1320.00.
Police... What was the serial number on the flat screen TV and its value...
Lady.... X00012345 and it was 1000.00 new. But what about my light bulbs??
Police.... I think you are out of luck on that one lady....
Then the lady calls her insurance agency to report the loss.
Insurance agent. Sorry lady... Light bulbs aren't covered.
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Another scenario....
Girlfriend catches boyfriend in bed with another woman, and to get even, takes a broom to all the light bulbs he just bought for his house, smashing every one of them.
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Point well made.... A small 3 bedroom house can have up to 20 lights or more... How many people can afford to really spend that much money, when they do not even know if they will live that long!!! LOL
I would take that kind of money and build a tornado shelter first. A thief cannot come in and walk off with it, and a tornado cannot take it down like it can a house with all your 60.00 light bulbs in it.
If you simply make a habit of turning off your lights as you leave the room, the length of the life of your bulb can last up to a year, for only a dollar for 4 bulbs??? The electricity saved by doing this is tremendous.
It is a no brainer that these new light bulbs are the most idiotic thing to ever be pushed on us, especially people with very limited incomes. This is WRONG.
And a question.... What happens if lightning strikes yer telephone pole??? Muhahahahaha
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Support for climate science doesn't increase with science literacy, a survey suggests. Rather, people with technical backgrounds just dig in harder on their views about global warming, finds the study in the Nature Climate Change journal.
Overall, technically astute people are more "culturally polarized" than other folks and tend to side with the views of people in their social setting about global warming, concludes the survey of 1,540 people nationwide.
Testing science literacy with questions from the National Science Foundation's annual assessment of technical knowledge, the survey also collected cultural viewpoints from people in the study.
A great deal of climate science evidence supports the conclusion that global warming has occurred in the last century, driven by greenhouse gasses released by burning fossil fuels, as documented by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and other scientific groups. (As a result, around 97% of the most active climate researchers agree that global warming seems man-made, found a survey of scientists). Nevertheless, public opinion has long split, where about 53% of people in the most recent Gallup poll, "say global warming is caused by pollution resulting from human activities," and 41% blame natural changes in the environment instead.
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The study sought to test two explanations for the split, said Yale's Dan Kahan, who led the study, in a statement: "The first attributes political controversy over climate change to the public's limited ability to comprehend science, and the second, to opposing sets of cultural values."
The first notion doesn't wash, says the study, finding a small increase in the odds of folks seeing global warming as not too serious in the most science literate people in the survey.
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"...the gap between subjects with these outlooks became larger, not smaller as scientific literacy and numeracy increased..."
What's going on? Basically people with technical smarts just use their abilities to better rationalize their already-held views. And why is that? Fitting in with your friends matters a lot more to people than getting climate science right, suggests Kahan, by email (see his Cultural Cognition website for more details):
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Re: NDSolve doesn't stop
bar at ANTYSPAM.ap.krakow.pl wrote:
> Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> notebook file is "not readable" so I put it on www
>>> http://robox.ap.krakow.pl/~bar/pde.nb
>> tmax = 20 ==> no warning message issued (indeed for any 0 < tmax <)
>> tmax = 21 ==> a warning message is issued: it might be worth reading it
>> =========
>> NDSolve::"eerr" : "Warning: Scaled local spatial error estimate of
>> (159.0346060966196) at (t) = (21.) in the direction of independent
>> variable (x) is much greater than prescribed error tolerance. Grid
>> spacing with (15) points may be too large to achieve the desired
>> accuracy or precision. A singularity may have formed or you may want to
>> specify a smaller grid spacing using the MaxStepSize or MinPoints
>> options. More...
> There is a problem, I can't see this message,
> message window i empty, noetebook i running continuously,
> without any message too,
> (Mathematica 5.1
> Linux localhost 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #10 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 20 21:34:30 CET 2007 i686 Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux)
> top shows 0%CPU, 0%Memory
> When i try MaxStepSize->0.001
> thet top shows 99%CPU
> and %MEM is growing up to 100% (in about 5 minutes)
> and %CPU decreases to 0%
> In this time I killed process ...
> There is a problem with my individual installation ?
> The system of equations is not difficult, without nonlinearity,
> I can solve it "hand-made" , by reduction to ODE equation
> by separation t/x variable
> I decided to use Math because i hoped to see solution
> in addition nonlinearity ...
> Regards , Olaf
Hi Olaf,
Of course, if you do not get any warning message, it is difficult to
know what to do. Basically, the help page associated to the warning
message advise you to adjust the options PrecisionGoal and
StartingStepSize. (The higher precision you want, the smaller the step
size must be.) For instance,
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On Nov 29, 15:48, "Katherine (Williams) Derbyshire" wrote:
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> I have an arbitrary vector
> A = Array[a,3] = {a[1], a[2], a[3]}
> The dot product of this vector with itself, is evaluated correctly by
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> The 'ordinary' product of this vector with itself, A^2, should be
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> of A, (i. e. as a dot product). My linear algebra text doesn't offer
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> wrong answers in the first place.
> --
> Katherine (Williams) Derbyshire
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Hi guys,
has anyone fitted a 10'000k HID kit ?
if so can you post some pictures for me to see please?
thanks very much
I wouldn't bother mate. It's gonna be really blue and Mr PC Plod will take offence. It'll look cool but you'll be nipping your arse on the seat every time you pass a cop car, not worth it imo. If you do it though, post some pics cos they do look cool as a cucumber!
Plus the fact that you won't be able to see shit..
I got some 3k hids that looked super from the outside. They lasted two days before I put the 6k jobbies back in. The blue will be worse than the yellow I had and it bugged the hell out of me.
Standard kit is 4.3k which is normal white light, 5s and 6s are the CCFL nuclear flash white.
Any more than that and people will be checking bank notes in your headlights, the light gets very blue and doesn't go anywhere either.
The light gets an obvious blue / purple tinge which will draw a lot of attention from the other road users that use blue lights!
The sell well with the Ripspeed generation, who just want the biggest number on the box, but they give terrible performance.
cheers for the response guys !
i currently have an 8000 kit for my dipped beams, but i was expecting them to a bit more blue than they actually are. I was considering getting some 10k bulbs but ill probably give that a miss from reading the above.
as they are at the moment they do look good from the outside, and give a good amount of light for when im driving, so ill probably stick with them. atleast I know Its unlikely ill get pulled over for having them. whereas 10k i definitely would.
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It's hard to get the true effect in a photo, but there's an idea.
I went even one better, had 12000K in my old pug. Couldn't see naff all at night but made the signs in the distance reflect like the moon
Never got pulled either. I've got 8000k in my BMW, had 10000K before i'll try find a pic. Theres not that much difference between the two when looking at the lense but light output on the road is decreased by using 10000k
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The Outlaws finished their season with two losses last week in the American Legion AAA State Tournament, falling to Jefferson City Post 5 11-2 on July 31 and to the Joplin Miners 10-7 in seven innings in an elimination game Aug. 1. In neither game, Outlaws' manager Mike Gailey said, did the team play anywhere near the level that got it to the state's final four.
"We just had a bad couple of games," Gailey said. "It happens. Sometimes if you're playing teams not as strong as you, you can weather it. These were very good teams and we couldn't get away with it."
A solid defensive team most of the summer, the Outlaws struggled in the field at Sedalia's Liberty Park, coughing up two errors in the first game and six in the second. The normally reliable pitching surrendered big innings in both games.
"If we had played like the way we did the week before in winning the zone tournament, I think the results would have been a lot different," Gailey said.
The Outlaws did battle back from early deficits in both games. They trailed 3-0 against Jefferson City in the first game before scoring two runs in the sixth. Jefferson City then buried the Outlaws with a seven-run, seven-hit seventh.
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More than 1.5 billion people lack access to electricity. For the most part, they rely on kerosene lanterns and candles for light, and spend up to 40 percent of their family income on energy that is inefficient and hazardous. When Katherine Lucey took notice of this, she got to work.
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2012-13 | Junior Season: Compiled a 4-6 singles record and a 9-11 doubles record ...won her first doubles match of the season 8-4 against Miami (Ohio) with partner Ashleigh Witte (1/27) ... picked up her first singles victory of the season against Bowling Green State's Katie Grubb 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the fifth slot (2/10) ... won two doubles matches with Ashleigh Witte, an 8-1 decision over Connecticut (2/15) and a 9-7 win over Rutgers (2/17) ... topped Dayton's Erin Filbrandt 6-3, 6-4 on court No. 6 (2/24) ... picked up her third consecutive singles victory with a 6-4, 6-3 win on court No. 6 over Liz Steingass of Wright State (4/3) ... teamed with Ashleigh Witte for four straight doubles wins over Florida Atlantic (3/21), Northern Kentucky (3/26), Xavier (3/28) and Wright State (4/3) ... picked up two BIG EAST Championship doubles victories over Villanova (4/19) and St. John's (4/20) with Witte.
2011-12 | Sophomore Season: Competed in all 25 singles matches as well as in 22 doubles matches ... earned a 6-18 singles record and a 3-19 doubles record ... came away victorious in doubles, teamed with Carly Wilson, 9-7, and in singles play against Rutgers (4/19), 6-2, 6-1, at the BIG EAST Championship ... tallied consecutive wins in singles play against Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3/21) and against Augustana (SD) (3/20) and also secured a doubles win against Augustana (SD) (3/20) in the team's spring trip to Orlando, Fla. ... registered her first singles win of the season and her first as a Bearcat in a 6-2, 6-3 decision against Wright State (2/15).
2010-11 | Freshman Season (at Stetson):Competed at No. 4 and No. 5 in singles with a record of 15-7 ... played No. 2 doubles with a mark of 12-10.
Prior to College: Has held top 150 or higher national rankings in three different age groups, top 10 sectional rankings in all of them and represented Texas on three national zone teams and the 2009 intersectional team...district champion at Lake Travis High School before transferring to The Khabele School...won a TAPPS Class 2A state singles championship and played volleyball for her new school as well...has been a top-five ranked junior player in the Lone Star State for the last five years. Earned two Capital Area Tennis Association Community Service MVP Awards for her efforts with the Set2Serve Foundation, which teaches tennis and life skills to disadvantaged youth...volunteers for loveisrespect.org, the national teen help line subsidiary of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
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