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Eurofins Case Study
Eurofins needed a simple solution that's powerful enough to protect their complex organization, and keep their sensitive data safe.
Elkhart Community Schools Customer Story
Cisco Umbrella secures a public school district's network and its students' 1:1 devices against ransomware, phishing, and other threats everywhere digital learning happens, both on and off- campus.
Cianbro Customer Story
Integrated within its existing Cisco security platform, Cisco Umbrella delivers powerful security to employees and devices both in the office and off the network.
Boston Medical Center Customer Success Story
Cisco Umbrella protects highly sensitive patient, employee and research data against malware, ransomware and other threats so Boston Medical Center can focus on providing exceptional care.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Customer Story
With over 40 separate premises across the NHS trust, together with a growing number of remote workers and devices, maintaining consistent levels of security for all end users was a major consideration
Deakin University Customer Story
To protect the propriety research and sensitive personal data on its network, Deakin chose a Cisco Security architecture featuring Cisco Umbrella as its first line of defense.
Keepmoat Homes Customer Story
After building 30,000 homes and a rapidly expanding business, Keepmoat Homes selected Cisco Umbrella to establish a consistent security posture, gain visibility and block threats.
Axcess Financial Customer Story
By implementing a secure internet gateway, Axcess Financial secured access to the internet wherever users go, reduced its exposure to malware and improved the ability to detect, respond and remediate.
Staffordshire University Customer Story
Staffordshire University chose Cisco Umbrella to safeguard the propriety research and sensitive personal data on its network while protecting students, staff, and community users on and off campus.
Lewisville ISD Customer Story
By deploying Cisco Umbrella in conjunction with Cisco Firepower NGFWs, Lewisville ISD raised the network's BitSight score, decreased malware and cut remediation time in half.
Prologis Customer Story
Improve visibility and off-network protection for roaming employees
TIM Customer Story
As Italy's businesses grew vulnerable to the threat of malware and malicious attacks, service provider TIM sought an innovative solution to protect the network and data of its business users.
Arup Customer Story
Arup secured access to the internet wherever users go, reduced its exposure to malware and improved the ability to detect, respond and remediate when necessary.
Your Tech Team Customer Story
With businesses increasingly vulnerable to ransomware, data breaches, and other malicious activity, MSP Your Tech Team needed a way to effectively and efficiently protect end users, network and data.
Sirius Solutions Partner Story
With phishing attacks on the rise, IT solutions integrator Sirius sought an effective cloud security solution to protect its clients and itself.
Cloudera Customer Story
Eddie Garcia, CISO of Cloudera discusses how he secures cloud users, data, and apps with Cisco Cloudlock.
OSDE Customer Story
Memorial Hermann Health System Customer Story
By adding Cisco Umbrella to its existing security stack, Memorial Hermann Health System achieved a significant reduction in malware and extended off network protections for its employees.
Conexus Credit Union Customer Story
Conexus Credit Union wanted to better manage and protect the many endpoints moving on and off its network without adding latency, resource requirements, or hardware.
Lundbeck Customer Story
As Lundbeck expanded, so too did the need to manage its CWS solution, however, migrating to Cisco Umbrella decreased resource requirements while increasing network visibility.
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Our company provides prescription medicines for a range of conditions including schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. Distortions in perception may affect all five senses, including sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, but most commonly manifest as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction.
The website will also be a learning tool for patients, carers and members of the public who wish to know more about schizophrenia. The site will provide general information about choices in relation to the management of the condition. This website will also provide advocacy groups with another avenue for the provision of education and support for people touched by schizophrenia.
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Players: 1 - 100
Age: 10 +
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Four robots move in a warehouse. As they have no brakes, they must rely on obstacles such as walls and other robots to to stop. Once stopped, they use nozzles to move in a direction away from that obstacle, allowing them to ldblquote turnrdblquote . From time to time, they receive a request to move to one of the 17 targets in the warehouse and they rely on the players to provide them with instructions to move to the targets. Each turn, a player draws a chip to determine the next target and the robot that mus t reach it. The players search for the shortest moves to the target, using one or more of the robots. The player who finds the shortest route receives the chip as a reward. The player who takes the most chips, is the winner! Any number may play this game, making it a great party game, "If you love puzzles, sci-fi B movies, or just plain off-the-wall humor, this game' s for you!" - Robin H. King, Games Magazine
There have been 2 versions of the game published. The original and a second edition with diagonal walls and a black robot. The currently available version has no diagonal walls and an extra silver robot. The two are compatible with each other such that the boards from the game may be used togethr - though only four at one time, of course.


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We received a couple more pics this AM from one of our own embedded "Deep Throat" tipsters in the land of Michael Bay. And this here tipster got us some gems — how about that Bumblebee blaster above, eh? We've got four of the larger-than-life CGI and prettily-painted pics of the Camaro-y Bumblebee, the diesel-y Optimus Prime and of course, the — err — metallic crap-y Megatron in the gallery below. [Hat tip to faithful reader and Studebaker owner Mike!]
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The second half of the NBA season should be interesting
It's been a crazy NBA season, but we really shouldn't be surprised. With little preparation after the chaotic NBA lockout, few people expected solid play around the league. But coming off of last night's All-Star Game, there are plenty of storylines for the second half of the season.
The Miami Heat are certainly getting plenty of attention. Despite his errant pass last night that ultimately decided the game, LeBron James is having another monster season. Naturally, the pundits who are only capable of living in the moment have made their proclamations of how LeBron James is again proving he's the best player in the NBA, yet the rest of us know that regular season stats mean nothing. In the end, James needs to prove that he can perform when an NBA title is on the line. Plain and simple, he choked last year, and nothing will help him overcome that until he actually contributes to an NBA championship.
The biggest story, of course, has been Jeremy Lin. The NBA betting lines regarding the New York Knicks have been all over the place, as this team started by underachieving, and the Lin came along and sparked a remarkable winning streak. That said, Lin was exposed a little against Miami as he really needs to work on his defense, but he's still an amazing story and has real talent.
Lin might not be the best new talent in the league, however, as Cleveland's Kyrie Irving has been dazzling onlookers all year long and then put on a show during All-Star weekend.
Then we have all the possible trades, as the make-up of many teams will hinge on what happens with Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol.
In the end, this all might come down to a battle of superstars again in the Finals, as Kevin Durant seems poised to stake his claim as one of the NBA great.
It should be fun to watch.
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The problem I see at work: A T4‑2 with 3 guest LDOMs, virtualized disks and networks lost the complete network connectivity "out of the blue" once, and maybe "sporadic" directly after a cold boot. After a lot of discussion with Oracle, I have the impression that we have two problems here.
1st problem:
Total network loss of the machine (no zone or guest LDOM or the primary LDOM was able to have receive or send IP packets). This happened once. No idea how to reproduce it. In the logs we see the message "[ID 920994 kern.warning] WARNING: vnetX: exceeded number of permitted handshake attempts (5) on channel xxx". According to Oracle this is supposed to be fixed in 148677 – 01 which will come with Solaris 10u11. They suggested to use a vsw interface instead of a vnet interface on the primary domain to at least lower the probability of this problem hitting us. They were not able to tell us how to reproduce the problem (seems to be a race condition, at least I get this impression based upon the description of the Oracle engineer handling the SR). Only a reboot helped to get the problem solved. I was told we are the only client which reported this kind of problem, the patch for this problem is based upon an internal bugreport from internal tests.
2nd problem:
After cold boots sometimes some machines (not all) are not able to connect to an IP on the T4. A reboot helps, as does removing an interface from an aggregate and directly adding it again (see below for the system config). To try to reproduce the problem, we did a lot of warm reboots of the primary domain, and the problem never showed up. We did some cold reboots, and the problem showed up once.
In case someone else sees one of those problems on his machines too, please get in contact with me to see what we have in common to try to track this down further and to share info which may help in maybe reproducing the problems.
System setup:
- T4‑2 with 4 HBAs and 8 NICs (4 * igb on-board, 4 * nxge on additional network card)
- 3 guest LDOMs and one io+control domain (both in the primary domain)
- the guest LDOMs use SAN disks over the 4 HBAs
- the primary domain uses a mirrored zpool on SSDs
- 5 vswitch in the hypervisor
- 4 aggregates (aggr1 – aggr4 with L2-policy), each one with one igb and one nxge NIC
- each aggregate is connected to a separate vswitch (the 5th vswitch is for machine-internal communication)
- each guest LDOM has three vnets, each vnets connected to a vswitch (1 guest LDOM has aggr1+2 only for zones (via vnets), 2 guest LDOMs have aggr 3+4 only for zones (via vnets), and all LDOMs have aggr2+3 (via vnets) for global-zone communication, all LDOMs are additionally connected to the machine-internal-only vswitch via the 3rd vnet)
- primary domain uses 2 vnets connected to the vswitch which is connected to aggr2 and aggr3 (consistency with the other LDOMs on this machine) and has no zones
- this means each entity (primary domain, guest LDOMs and each zone) has two vnets in and those two vnets are configured in a link-based IPMP setup (vnet-linkprop=phys-state)
- each vnet has VLAN tagging configured in the hypervisor (with the zones being in different VLANs than the LDOMs)
The proposed change by Oracle is to replace the 2 vnet interfaces in the primary domain with 2 vsw interfaces (which means to do VLAN tagging in the primary domain directly instead of in the vnet config). To have IPMP working this means to have vsw-linkprop=phys-state. We have two systems with the same setup, on one system we already changed this and it is working as before. As we don't know how to reproduce the 1st problem, we don't know if the problem is fixed or not, respectively what the probability is to get hit again by this problem.
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One change from last week: We're still showing the average over/under each team saw on the season, but instead of including their home/away for this stat (there's not much of a split), we now have their average margin against the over/under. For example, the Seahawks have seen an average O/U of 43.2 points this season. Their games have seen an average of 40.6 points, so their margin against the O/U is -2.6. You can find this figures in purple, at the bottom of the charts.
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By having the Automated External Defibrillator available to the surrounding public 24/7 this means that we can help cut death tolls that are increasing every year.
The AED is going to be installed on the outside of the pub and to be available to both the Pub and the local community 24/7. If the defibrillator is placed onto the patient who is in Cardiac Arrest within 3 minutes they will have a 70% chance of survival.
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"Does Real-Time Pricing Deliver Demand Response? A Case Study of Niagara Mohawk's Large Customer RTP Tariff." 2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Asilomar: LBNL, 2004. 17. LBNL-54974..
"Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?." 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA , 2006..
"Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing." 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA, 2006. LBNL-59629..
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"The Role of Demand Response in Default Service Pricing." The Electricity Journal 19.3 (2006) 16. LBNL-59737..
"RTP as an Optional Service: It's Alive, But Is It Well?." The Electricity Journal Vol. 19.Issue 1 (2006) 18. LBNL-59740..
Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance. Berkeley: LBNL, 2006. LBNL-58114..
Customer Response to Day-ahead Wholesale Market Electricity Prices: Case Study of RTP Program Experience in New York. CERTS, 2004..
Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing. Berkeley: LBNL, 2005. LBNL-57128..
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How and Why Customers Respond to Electricity Price Variability: A Study of NYISO and NYSERDA 2002 PRL Program Performance. Berkeley: LBNL, 2003. LBNL-52209..
Industrial and Commercial Customer Response To Real Time Electricity Prices. Neenan Associates , 2004..
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A Methodology for Estimating Large-Customer Demand Response Market Potential. Berkeley: LBNL, 2007. LBNL-63346..
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With consumers snapping up netbooks faster than companies can make them, what makes Elonex think it has the solution with the Webbook? We took a closer look to find out.
Available from Carphone Warehouse the Elonex Webbook offers a 10.2-inch screen, 1.6GHz VIA C7-M processor, comes with an almost full-sized keyboard and measures 252 x 183 x 31.8mm.
Weighing in at 1.3kg, this isn't the lightest netbook on the market, but nor is it the heaviest, and the weight gives the design a solid feel rather than the sometimes lightweight feel of the early Eee PC models.
The hinged design sees a black outer case with silver inside and there was no Carphone Warehouse or Orange branding to be seen on our unit. There is, however, a big Webbook Logo on the top of the laptop for all to see when you're using it.
Get past the colour scheme and the laptop sports a QWERTY keyboard and trackpad with two buttons beneath it rather than to the side, a power switch and two shortcut keys for calling up a browser or a calendar. The front of the unit also features six different lights to let you know that you're on, being charged, accessing the hard drive, have Wi-Fi turned on or merely have number or key locks on.
When it comes to ports, the Elonex shouldn't let you down. There is an Ethernet port, headphone, mic, SD card, three USB sockets and a VGA out so you can connect it to a monitor when in your house or office and of course has b/g Wi-Fi options as standard. Considering this is part of a mobile broadband offering via Carphone Warehouse we are surprised you'll still have to have use a USB dongle instead of something internal.
Inside the Elonex Webbook and you get an 80GB hard drive and 512MB of memory to go with that VIA processor and while that means plenty of storage for files it means that you can't expect too much on the performance front from this machine. Try and go beyond basic document management, web surfing or chatting and you'll start to hit problems. That's not to say this is slow, but to remember that it's a netbook not a fully blown laptop.
The Webbook comes with the option of two operating systems - Windows XP or the Ubuntu variant of Linux.
We tested the Ubuntu version, which comes with the Firefox browser, Evolution email client and OpenOffice already pre-installed amongst other packages like chat client Pidgin and Wine.
Those new to Ubuntu shouldn't find it too difficult to use, although the only complaint we had with the system is that you can't easily turn of the tap click feature on the trackpad unless you start digging around in system's registry (check out Ubuntu forums to find out how).
The overall interface is very similar to Windows XP or KDE Desktop on the Asus Eee range and while there are little differences like the "Start Bar" at the top rather than the bottom you'll soon get the hang of it if you've opted for this OS. Ubuntu has the added advantage of faster startup than XP, so great for workers on the move, we found it typically took just over a minute.
For those choosing the XP variant, you'll get demo versions of Office, as well as Outlook Express and Internet Explorer for your browsing needs.
Battery life came in at about 2.5 hours during our tests, so compares favourably with the MSI Wind variants we have looked at recently.
Although there is a hole for a webcam, there didn't appear to be one included.
So how does it fair against other netbook offerings on the market? The 10.2-inch screen will match the Asus 1000 and MSI Wind for its quality, and the keyboard was easy to use with.
The trackpad, although not suffering the same annoying fate as the HP Mini-Note, was a bit on the flaky side to use and the annoyance of not being able to easily turn the tap click feature off for us made it almost unusable (I seem to flex my finger too much).
However (and here is the interesting proposition) if you're willing to sign a 24- month contract at £25 a month with Orange, you get it for free. If that's not appealing enough you can buy it without contract for £249.99 making it £30 cheaper than the Advent 4211, although you will be getting less memory.
It might not be the prettiest looking netbook on the market, but if you are thinking of getting a mobile broadband card from Orange in the near future upgrading the account to get one of these for free my be something you should seriously consider doing.


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One must be deluded unless one has reached Nibbana and beyond, even then, there are still traces of delusion left until one is a fully enlightened Buddha.tiltbillings wrote:It is a rather interesting question. If we are deluded, having to start from where we are, a state of delusion, how do we get undeluded all the while having to deal with a deluded mind, having to deal with a deluded sense of self?equilibrium wrote:Conventional self is the same as a deluded self, a self that is fabricated by wrong views.....all based on believe supported by the deluded mind.robertk wrote:Is there a conventional self who decides?
A decision can be made either one is deluded or not. As the mind is deluded, one cannot be certain ones decisions are right.
Should one achieve Nibbana (Arahart) one is no longer deluded as such, well, enough for one to escape samsara that is.....so the deluded mind needs to get undeluded.
When we say delusion/ignorance, the mind is simply not knowing.....so the mind needs to know something so to escape, this is where the teaching comes in.
Yet the teaching is only just a tool, a purpose.....so the mind can realize for itself reality. This reality must replace what the mind previously believed so the mind itself no longer do things which are deluded.
One cannot be undeluded if there is no realization in the mind as it is the mind that needs to be set free.
It must be a constant battle while one tries to learn from the teaching while the same time, the deluded self is having its own opinions.....so we need to be mindful that these opinions are nothing but self created fabrications which cannot be trusted on.
Maybe we should rely on the teaching and the N8P to keep us being right.


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Judge Says Giving Up Your Password May Be A 5th Amendment Violation
from the protect-your-data deptCourts have gone back and forth over the years concerning whether or not being forced to give up your password to reveal encrypted data is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. Now there's been yet another decision saying that someone cannot be forced to give up their password, because it likely violates their Fifth Amendment rights.
This is a close call, but I conclude that Feldman's act of production, which would necessarily require his using a password of some type to decrypt the storage device, would be tantamount to telling the government something it does not already know with 'reasonably particularity'—namely, that Feldman has personal access to and control over the encrypted storage devices. Accordingly, in my opinion, Fifth Amendment protection is available to Feldman. Stated another way, ordering Feldman to decrypt the storage devices would be in violation of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination.It's definitely a good thing to see courts getting this right. Being forced to give up your passwords and encryption is quite a slippery slope. It's good to see judges pushing back.
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"Facing the Shinobi World War…!!" (忍界大戦へ向けて…!!, Ninkai Taisen e Mukete…!!, Viz: Facing A Great Ninja War…!!) is chapter 489 of the original Naruto manga.
As Tsunade eats to regain her energy after coming out of a coma, Kakashi thanked her for waking up in time to stop him from becoming Hokage; a position he claimed he wasn't cut out for. He briefed her on the outbreak of war and everything else that happened while she was in her coma. After lamenting that the Uchiha's Curse of Hatred still plagued them even now. She later convenes a war council to discuss how the village will proceed. After being informed by Sakura that Tsunade had woken up, Naruto celebrates Tsunade's recovery at Ramen Ichiraku when he is summoned to Mount Myōboku. Per Jiraiya's instructions, Gerotora stores himself in Naruto effectively giving him the key to the Nine-Tails' seal. Elsewhere, Kabuto, having finally formed a symbiosis with Orochimaru's remains, confronts Tobi. He reincarnates all the members of Akatsuki as incentive for Tobi to accept an alliance.


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Saturday, September 24, 2011
More attacks from the Neo-cons directed at Ron Paul...
by Charles Scaliger
Although William F. Buckley, Jr., died more than three and a half years ago, his spirit clearly lives on in the National Review, the neoconservative political magazine he founded in 1955. The September 19 cover story, "Ron Paul's Last Crusade," by Kevin D. Williamson, purports to be an investigative piece about Congressman Ron Paul and his latest run for the presidency, but is instead a snide character assassination of Paul and an all-purpose smear on anyone who shares his convictions, including The John Birch Society.
"Ron Paul is kind of a dork," Williamson declares in the article's opening paragraph – this allegedly in favorable contrast to "Mussolinian" Barack Obama, "cowboy" Rick Perry, and "self-parodically 'presidential' " Mitt Romney. Decrying the "raging personality cult" that has supposedly elevated Ron Paul far beyond what his limited natural merits could possibly justify – the congressman checks his watch too often, according to the article, and isn't much of a public speaker, transgressions that make him America's "most successful awful retail politician," whatever that means – Williamson effuses paragraph after paragraph of scornful prose intended to portray Ron Paul supporters as nut jobs and ignorant wackos. Dislike the Federal Reserve? How dare they, those ignorant booboisie! Oppose interventionist American foreign policy? What are they thinking, given the shining success of America's incessant warmaking in the Middle East and Central Asia over the past generation!
The article is classic Buckleyite National Review, with its faux intellectual sniping at anybody to the left of William Kristol and its East Coast Ivy League-esque contempt for the Old Right grassroots, all packaged in the mocking, ad hominem purple prose that was and remains the hallmark of Buckley and his latter-day epigones.
According to Williamson:
The Ron Paul party, unlike the Republican Party, is full of people who whisper darkly about "international bankers," "the New World Order," "globalization," "American imperialism," "war profiteers," and the like. They hate Dick Cheney more than any three-espresso leftist ever hated Dick Cheney. And if Ron Paul is not the nominee – and let me go ahead and break the bad news to you guys: He's not going to be – many of them will not be supporting the Republican in 2012. They're already talking about an independent or third-party run for the most electable Republican who isn't going to be elected as a Republican. And the fact that Ron Paul is on his way out – he's not running for the House again – has a few Republicans worried that he's going to be a looser cannon than usual.
And that isn't the worst of it. It seems that Ron Paul and many of his followers have ties to The John Birch Society, which Williamson derides as "fringe lunatics":
[Ron Paul] still addresses the [John Birch Society] and has other political connections to it. Asked about this by the New York Times, Doctor Paul said: "Oh, my goodness, The John Birch Society! Is that bad? I have a lot of friends in The John Birch Society. They're generally well-educated and they understand the Constitution. I don't know how many positions they would have that I don't agree with. Because they're real strict constitutionalists, they don't like the war, they're hard-money people."
The John Birch Society: hard money heroes. That is an example of what one longtime Paul-ologist calls "Ron's Ronness." He is so maniacally focused on his issues – the Federal Reserve and American military action above all – that he has a hard time making judgments about friend and foe alike…. The John Birch Society may in fact be rock-solid on monetary policy; they also think that vast swathes of the U.S. government and business community are part of a secret socialist cabal actively working to replace American sovereignty with a one-world government under the United Nations. It's the only political organization that I know of that lists "CONSPIRACY" as a major title under the "Issues" tab on its web page. They're crackpots – but they're Ron Paul's crackpots.
Elsewhere, Williamson smears Ron Paul's Iowa campaign manager, Drew Ivers, for his long-ago association with maverick congressman John G. Schmitz — who also was involved for a time with The John Birch Society, dontcha know (he was kicked out of The John Birch Society for his extreme views — "Too crazy for the John Birch Society – make a note," smirks Williamson). Oh, and John Schmitz's daughter was a teacher who notoriously had an affair with a 13 year-old student back in the '90s — "totally random but absolutely unexcludable trivia" that Williamson can't resist bringing up, although it has absolutely nothing to do with Ron Paul or, for that matter, The John Birch Society.
For the record, Kevin, The John Birch Society does believe that conspiracies play a significant role in history, politics, and finance. However, nowhere does the JBS characterize such operations as "vast swathes of the U.S. government and business community" taking part in a "secret socialist cabal." What the JBS does say under its "Conspiracy" tab is:
By definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States. Extensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.
That's it. No black helicopters. No shape-shifting aliens. Heck, not even neocons are mentioned. And given Ron Paul's takes on U.S. foreign policy and the Federal Reserve, among many other issues, it's a good bet the Texas Congressman would be as glad to see the United States exit the United Nations and Congress lay bare the secret machinations of the Federal Reserve as would The John Birch Society. As for malevolent cabals, check out fringe historical events such as the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Catilinarian Conspiracy in Ciceronian Rome, the Sicilian Vespers in the medieval Mediterranean, and other such. Nothing to be seen here, folks. Move along.
So there you have it: Ron Paul is certifiably nuts, according to the studied opinion of National Review pundits. It's ironic that, in another feature article this month — in Time magazine, of all places — writers who presumably disagreed with many of Ron Paul's ideas nevertheless managed to produce a thoroughly fair and professional description of Paul and his ideological influences, including economists Murray Rothbard (another figure on the libertarian right that Buckley and the National Review have always despised, and whom Buckley notoriously smeared in a brief obituary), Hans Sennholz, and Friedrich von Hayek.
But National Review, one of the most mean-spirited periodicals this side of Fangoria, has always reserved especial bile for those it perceives as ideological competitors. With the gospel of neoconservatism on the wane — thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Ron Paul and organizations such as The John Birch Society — a meritless hit piece like Williamson's is to be expected.
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and there's nothing to help with. i explained it.
in fact, it's even easier to explain.
yes, you are putting the pictures of your characters under visualize. this is fine. you're doing that correctly. good job.
what the admins are talking about is creating a character. See up in the picture where it says "character--create a profile for an original character with an image from your computer" ? you're not doing that. so this doesn't even apply to you.
If you need help beyond that, then personally I don't even think an admin can help you.
This was the funniest three pages. lmao
"Rude" lol
But in all seriousness. Guys, you goofed on this. Kinda hard.
You don't honestly believe this belongs in General do you? https://www.weasyl.com/~xp/submissions/1495586/saki
Because that's exactly where it is now.
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That said, why is drug use not 18+? Why are sexualised and erotic situations and fashion not considered 18+ regardless of whether or not actual nudity is present?
And why oh why is drug use described as comedic?
If you can clear that up and make General actually appropriate for younger audiences then I'll support the new guidelines.
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New Web site outlines Manoa emergency action plansUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Manoa Interim Vice Chancellor for Administration
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The Manoa campus Emergency Management Office has unveiled a new Web site that provides a wealth of information about what to do in a variety of emergency situations.
"We have been working hard to provide a single source for emergency response information as a part of our ongoing review of campus emergency preparedness," said Manoa Interim Chancellor Denise Konan. "Our Emergency Management Coordinator, Mel Won, has pulled together every resource we have available to us. Now it's up to the campus community to take the time to learn about response options."
The Web site
These emergencies include: hurricanes and severe storms, tsunami and coastal flooding, volcanic activity, fire, bomb threats and explosions, biological and other hazardous material exposure, waterspouts, earthquakes, landslides and mudslides, war and terrorist attack, utility outages, civil disturbance and labor strikes, and aircraft and fallen object accidents.
"Safety and security of students, faculty, staff, campus visitors and campus property are a priority at Manoa," said Interim Vice Chancellor for Administration, Finance and Operations Kathleen Cutshaw. "Unfortunately we have had our share of incidents to confront in the past year or two, including a major fire, flooding in October 2004 and March 2006, extended power outages, and the earthquake just a few weeks ago. I am pleased that our Office of Safety and Security has completed this major part of our emergency response plan."
The new Web site also includes a link to the 47-page Manoa Campus Emergency Response Plan that has been available elsewhere on Web since February 2006.
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30283. Relief from interest; disaster. If the board finds that a person's failure to make a timely return or payment was due to a disaster, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the absence of willful neglect, the person may be relieved of the interest provided by Sections 30171, 30185, 30190, 30223, and 30281.Any person seeking to be relieved of the interest shall file with the board a statement under penalty of perjury setting forth the facts upon which he or she bases his or her claim for relief.
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The Polaris GENERAL® 4 1000 delivers the performance and versatility you expect from the ultimate adventure machine, plus 4 seats to bring your friends and family along for the ride. Industry-leading power and acceleration, premium comfort, and all the storage you need.
The Polaris GENERAL's cockpit was designed for the ultimate balance of work and play attitude for 4. From the redesigned premium bucket seats that lock you in off-road, to the customisable instrumentation and easy cab access, the Polaris GENERAL is the standard in all-day comfort.
Polaris GENERAL comes with seats designed to keep you comfortable no matter where the ride takes you,from ripping trails to a day cutting wood. A wide seat base and supportive bolstering gives a secure cockpit to driver and riders and with standard cut and sewn seats. Driver seat comes standard with a seat slider to dial in operator ergonomics.
GENERAL 4 doesn't make the rear row riders an afterthought. The most elbow and knee room available from any competitor plus a full rear center console with 2 cup holders for a great time on the trail for all.
Keep work and play essentials close at hand with a combination of in-dash storage and a class-best center console front and rear featuring a 12V outlet and 5.8L storage.
The digital instrumentation cluster moves with the tilt adjustable steering wheel for maximum visibility. The combination of digital and analog gauge indicates vehicle speed, engine RPMs and standard trip information. The center digital gauge can be set up to just the way you want it, and even features an auto adjusting backlight that can switch from red to blue.
Loaded down with gear for an extreme camping trip or ready to handle the toughest jobs, The Polaris GENERAL 4's 1,280 lbs. total payload is up to the task. With the standard 2" receiver, The Polaris GENERAL's 1,500 lbs. towing capacity - aided with standard engine braking - is ready to tackle whatever your day demands.
With the industry's fastest engaging high-performance AWD, The Polaris GENERAL is ready to attack demanding trails and the harshest fields. All four wheels engage near instantly when your vehicle needs more forward traction and reverts back to 2WD when it doesn't, no need to wait for pressure to build up or to stop and lock in a diff like our competitors. The VersaTrac Turf Mode switch unlocks the rear differential for easier, tighter turns that won't tear up your lawn.
You get it ALL with The Polaris GENERAL. With sway bars front and rear, it stays planted and composed on the trail. The tuned suspension geometry featuring dual rate springs maintains 62% of its ground clearance when fully loaded down -- 1.3 inches higher than Commander.
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Polaris GENERAL comes with seats designed to keep you comfortable no matter where the ride takes you, from ripping trails to a day cutting wood. A wide seat base and supportive bolstering gives a secure cockpit to driver and rider and with standard cut and sewn seats. Driver seat comes standard with a seat slider to dial in operator ergonomics.
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Ballet dancer Misty Copeland has a two-book deal. Copeland, 30, is working on a memoir for Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint and picture book for G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, part of Penguin Group (USA). Copeland helped break ground as an African-American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre. According to a release Wednesday by the two publishers, both of her books are scheduled for 2014.
In her memoir, Copeland is expected to describe the battles between her mother and her dance instructors while she was a teen over whether she should be allowed to pursue her career and who was her legal guardian.
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X-ray shout echoing through space
ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with a speed a thousand times faster than that of light, around the point in the sky where a powerful gamma-ray explosion took place in early December.
This is the first time that such a fascinating event, called an `echo', has been seen in X-ray wavelengths.
This echo forms when the powerful radiation of a gamma-ray burst, coming from far away, crosses a slab of dust in our Galaxy and is scattered by it, like the beam of a lighthouse in clouds. Using the expanding rings to precisely pin-point the location of this dust, astronomers can identify places where new stars and planets are likely to form.
On 3 December 2003 ESA's observatory, Integral, detected a burst of gamma rays, lasting about 30 seconds, from the direction of a distant galaxy. Within minutes of the detection, thanks to a sophisticated alert network, many observatories around the world were pointing their instruments at this mysterious source in the sky, named GRB 031203, in the attempt to decipher its nature. Also ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, joined the hunt and observed the source in detail, using its on-board European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC).
The fading X-ray emission from GRB 031203 - called the `afterglow' - is clearly seen in XMM-Newton's images. But much more stunning are the two rings, centred on the afterglow, which appear to expand thousand times faster than the speed of light. Dr. Simon Vaughan, of the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, leads an international team of scientists studying GRB 031203. He explains that these rings are what astronomers call an `echo'. They form when the X-rays from the distant gamma-ray burst shine on a layer of dust in our own Galaxy. "The dust scatters some of the X-rays, causing XMM-Newton to observe these rings, much in the same way as fog scatters the light from a car's headlights," said Vaughan.
Although the afterglow is the brightest feature seen in XMM-Newton's images, the expanding echo is much more spectacular. "It is like a shout in a cathedral," Vaughan said. "The shout of the gamma-ray burst is louder, but the Galactic reverberation, seen as the rings, is much more beautiful." The rings seem to expand because the X-rays scattered by dust farther from the direction of GRB 031203 take longer to reach us than those hitting the dust closer to the line of sight. However, nothing can move faster than light. "This is precisely what we expect because of the finite speed of light," said Vaughan. "The rate of expansion that we see is just a visual effect." He and his colleagues explain that we see two rings because there are two thin sheets of dust between the source of the gamma-ray burst and Earth, one closer to us creating the wider ring and one further away where the smaller ring is formed.
Since they know precisely at what speed the X-ray light travels in space, the team in Leicester have determined accurately the distance to the dust sheets by measuring the size of the expanding rings. The nearest dust sheet is located 2900 light years away and is probably part of the Gum nebula, a bubble of hot gas resulting from many supernova explosions. The other dust layer is about 4500 light years away. Understanding how dust is distributed in our Galaxy is important because dust favours the collapse of cool gas clouds, which can then form stars and planets. Knowing where dust is located helps astronomers to determine where star and planet formation is likely to occur.
Expanding X-ray dust scattering rings, such as those around GRB 031203, have never been seen before. Slower-moving rings, caused by a similar effect, have been seen in visible light around a very few exploding stars, mostly supernovae.
The expanding rings also provide much needed information on the gamma-ray burst itself. Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosive events in the Universe, but astronomers are still trying to understand the mystery that surrounds their origin. Some occur with the supernova explosion of a massive star when it has used up all of its fuel, although only stars which have lost their outer layers and which collapse to make a black hole seem able to make a gamma-ray burst. The delayed X-rays from the echo of GRB 031203 are very useful because they tell astronomers how bright the burst was in the X-ray spectrum when it went off on 3 December. The only direct data available from that moment are those obtained by ESA's Integral observatory in the gamma-ray range. "XMM-Newton's measurements are thus crucial to better understand the nature of the burst," said Dr. Fred Jansen, XMM-Newton's project scientist. "The more details we gather of the burst, the more we can learn on how black holes are made."
Today, ESA's Integral and XMM-Newton observatories provide astronomers with their most powerful facilities for studying gamma-ray bursts. In 2004 a new gamma-ray satellite, called `Swift', will be launched as part of a collaboration between the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.
Swift will add to the flotilla of satellites providing fast and accurate locations of gamma-ray bursts on the sky, which can then be followed with XMM-Newton. This will provide even more opportunities for new discoveries in this cutting-edge field.
A scientific paper describing this discovery by Dr. Simon Vaughan and his collaborators has been accepted for publication in ``The Astrophysical Journal'' (see http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312603).
The other members in Vaughan's team are R. Willingale, P. O'Brien, J. Osborne, A. Levan, M. Watson and J. Tedds from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom; J. Reeves from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, USA; D. Watson from the Neils Bohr Institute for Astronomy in Copenhagen, Denmark; M. Santos-Lleo, P. Rodriguez-Pascual and N. Schartel from ESA's XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre in Villafranca, Spain.


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Cooler rooms or cooler servers?
As the data center faces a warming trend, what makes more sense: designing a room that stays cooler or designing a cooler server?
Data center managers are packing more computing power into smaller footprints. But today's racks and blades produce massive amounts of heat per square foot in comparison with those old tower servers. Left unchecked, this heat can cause an IT meltdown.
So is the answer to the escalating heat problem in the data center better designed servers or better designed rooms? Are IT shops favoring one approach over the other? And as you plan your next server refresh, what should you be looking for?
Time for hardware innovation
Advances in server technology may give data center managers a little room to breathe. Innovations from chip technology to server construction are improving hardware's capability to deal with high-density environments.
According to Gordon Haff, analyst with Nashua, N.H.-based Illuminata, the days of using traditional server cooling methods are over. Companies
going forward with dense server environments will need to use every little piece to get closer to its goals. Upshot: A cooler server starts with the processor.Water is going to come back into the data center. The only question is when, and for what purpose.
Robert E. McFarlane
presidentInterport Financial Division, Shen, Milsom & Wilke Inc.
Better chips
Multi-core processing is one technology with the potential to reduce data center cooling requirements. In principle, multi-core processors could operate at a lower frequency, using less power to achieve today's computing levels, thereby running cooler.
Dual-core technology has been around since the 1990s, but AMD Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif. and Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., have pushed it into the x86 market recently. The Intel offering is scheduled to be available early in 2006, while the beta versions of the AMD product have been shipping since January 2005.
Haff predicts that further out, as multi-core processing develops, the possibility of operating at lower frequency levels is more likely, but current dual-core chips will not inspire people to lower usage levels.
"We've learned to live with where we are regarding server heat issues," Haff said. "People are going to run dual core processors at the peak power levels to get increased performance, rather than running them at half power to get the power of today's CPUs."
Another new chip technology designed to help servers run cool is demand-based switching. Intel's 64-bit Xeon chips use this feature which allows systems to be throttled down when not in use. According to server vendors, the technology has the capability to save customers 24% annually in power costs.
A step up from chips, the server design also plays a role in heat issues. IBM is a leader in cooling innovation, though many of its cooling features aren't new, since they often trickle down from the mainframe.
Fewer parts, cooler server
Calibrated vectored cooling (CVC) is an example. CVC optimizes the path of cooled air flow through the system, allowing servers to use fewer fans and less power. It directly channels refrigerated air through the hottest parts of the server. IBM recently offered CVC for its xSeries and blades. CVC technology for blades had allowed IBM to launch the first Xeon-based blade product.
Where blades are concerned, it's not just IBM stepping up to the plate with cooling strategies. Almost every blade manufacturer has been forced to deal with cooling issues, including Marlboro-Mass.-based Egenera.
Egenera was founded in 2000 by Vern Brownell, former chief technology officer of Goldman Sachs. The company has focused solely on blade manufacturing and has become a major player in that market in a very short time.
According to Susan Davis, Egenera vice president of marketing and product management, data center managers don't always have the luxuryof designing a state of the art server room. Since so many data centers are limited to working with available resources, Davis feels better server design can have a broader impact.
Egenera blades are all processor and memory. There are no disk drives, connector slots or NIC cards to block airflow. None of the extraneous hardware is included in the actual server. According to Egenera, eliminating as many components as possible allows direct flow to critical areas.
When data center design is key
Despite vendors' efforts to help alleviate the data center heat wave, some experts predict specialized cooling and room engineering will be necessary to meet computing demand.
"We are very close to the limit of how much more energy-efficient we can make CMOS [complementary metal-oxide semiconductor -- used in the transistors of most microchips] technology, and there is nothing anyone sees on the horizon in the way of a technical breakthrough to replace it with much more energy-efficient devices," said Robert E. McFarlane, president of the Interport Financial Division of New York-based Shen, Milsom & Wilke Inc. "Therefore, as compute power goes up and is crammed into smaller and smaller spaces, the stuff is simply going to get hotter."
Cool waters run deep
So what is the engineering solution people are talking about? According to Charles King, principal analyst with Hayward Calif.-based Pund-IT research, it's nothing new. In fact, the idea was cutting edge thirty years ago.
Some experts have proposed moving towards liquid cooling, much like the old Cray systems -- the liquid cooled supercomputers from the 1970s.
"Water is going to come back into the data center. The only question is when, and for what purpose," said McFarlane said. "Roger Schmidt, chief thermodynamics engineer at IBM, [recently] admitted that, while everyone knows servers are one day going to be water-cooled, no one wants to be first, believing that if their competitors still claim they are fine with air cooling, the guy who goes to water cooling will rapidly drop back in sales until others admit it is necessary."
King agrees. "Vendors are going to do everything they can to avoid going to liquid cooled systems. It makes everything more complex."
Cold air, warm parts
But conventional under-floor air can effectively cool hardware only to a certain point.
"Even if data center managers could get enough cold air under the floor to equipment locations, getting it evenly up the heights of cabinets is another problem," said McFarlane said. "And dealing with the problem of keeping return air from mixing with the cold air is even more difficult, both to predict and to accomplish."
Therefore, while it is important to design new data centers with every possible technique for maximizing conventional performance, McFarlane predicts much of what is coming or already here is going to require localized cooling techniques.
These options include specialized enclosures, such as West Kingston, R.I.-based APC promotes with their InfraStruXure line. These systems include power, cooling, and environmental management within a rack. According to APC, this can even eliminate the need for raised floors in many applications.
Other options include overhead spot cooling or liquid-cooled cabinets such as what the Columbus, Ohio-based Liebert Corp.offers. The Liebert X-treme Density heat removal system for example uses overhead fans and a waterless refrigerant pump to maintain safe rack temperatures.
In the battle against IT's warming trend, the value and limitations of each vendor and approach need to be weighed. According to Charles King, IT professionals can be much more proactive in data center design than they can on the manufacturing end.
Other experts may disagree, arguing that cooler servers are vital for customers to keep buying new generation servers and making them co-exist within shrinking confines.
But either way, these approaches aren't mutually exclusive. And data center managers would be wise to employ every advantage possible to protect hardware from a meltdown.


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