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It turns out that reading comprehension strategies are as effective in one's second language as they are in one's first language. For ELLs, the development of and access to useful background knowledge is crucial for their comprehension of texts in their second language. What follows is a Strategy Guide for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
Research Basis
We know that effective readers monitor their comprehension by activating background knowledge prior to reading and questioning, clarifying, predicting, and evaluating during their reading (Paris, Wasik, and Turner (1991) in Fisher, Rothenberg, and Frey. (2007) ) For English language learners, deep comprehension is often dependent on background knowledge. Malik (1990) conducted a study of Iranian students proficient in English. He provided students with articles in English: one on Iran and the other on Japan. He found that the Iranian students were able to deeply comprehend the article on Iran because of their background knowledge, while their comprehension of the text on Japan was more surface-level. Given that background knowledge is so crucial for ELLs, the gradual release of responsibility model, which asks that teachers build background knowledge through model focus lessons, have students practice strategies in collaborative learning groups, and gradually release students to apply their learning in independent reading and writing, is quite effective for teaching comprehension strategies to ELLS. (Fisher et. al.)
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Modeling, think-alouds, and teaching comprehension strategies and literary analysis help support ELLs.
- Model (with graphic organizers/overhead copies of text) or use think-aloud protocols to teach research-supported comprehension strategies such as predicting/clarifying predictions, summarizing, evaluating, inferencing, connecting, and understanding Question-Answer Relationships (QAR). (Fisher, Rothenberg, Fry 2007 p.106) Consider using visual text first to teach these strategies. For example, use short films found on iTunes such as "Lifted,"(2007) "Grace," (2009) "The Little Matchgirl," (2006) "The Mantis Parable,"(2006), or "Presto" (2008) to teach strategies, build background knowledge, and for students to use for practice. These are complex but short films (5-15 minutes) with no dialogue and, therefore, no language burden. Next, use comprehensible texts, including short stories, excerpts from larger works, and adolescent novels. Give students time to apply comprehension strategies while in collaborative learning groups. Finally, use complex texts such as novels, non-fiction, and academic exposition. The goal is for students independently to choose and use strategies for different purposes, and to be able to critically analyze, in writing or in speech, the texts they read strategically.
- Model (with graphic organizers/overhead copies of text) or use think-aloud protocols to teach the processes of literary and stylistic analysis. While ELL's may have exposure to basic narrative elements (plot, character development, and setting), they need access to more complex components of writing such as tone, symbol, theme, author's attitude, and word-choice. Consider teaching the terms directly, and then applying them through teacher-modeling and student practice using visual text, comprehensible texts, and complex texts. Focus on how these stylistic choices affect the text and create meaning. Follow modeling/think aloud protocols with plenty of practice in groups and independently. Provide opportunities to synthesize and evaluate learning through presentations, written literary/stylistic analyses, reciprocal teaching, Socratic seminars or other complex tasks.
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Up, Up and Away! - NHGRI Postdocs Receive Two-Stage Pathway to Independence Awards
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NHGRI Postdocs Receive Two-Stage Pathway to Independence Awards
Three National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) postdoctoral fellows — Anthony Antonellis, Ph.D.; Santhi Ganesh, M.D.; and Kan Cao, Ph.D. — are among the first wave of about 170 awardees of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence (PI) Award program. NIH created the new program to advance the research careers of selected young investigators as they embark on academic research careers.
"We are all celebrating their achievements. Not only do these awards recognize the extraordinary promise of each of these postdoctoral fellows, but they also reflect positively on the quality of the training they have received within the NHGRI intramural program," said NHGRI Scientific Director Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.
The PI Award represents a prestigious recognition of the career potential for each recipient. Also referred to as the K99/R00 program, the award packages two, uninterrupted phases of support over five years so that the awardee can achieve a strong foundation for building their own independent research program. Over 1,000 applicants per year have applied for this program from institutions around the country since it began in 2006. NIH plans to issue between 150 and 200 awards per year.
The initial two-year component of the award — the Scholar Development Phase (or K99) — provides support for supervised research work. A subsequent award period — the Faculty Transition Phase (or R00) — lasts up to three years and provides support for the grantee as an independent tenure-track or equivalent researcher. During the R00 phase of support, grantees establish research independence, publish their results and are expected to prepare an application for grant support for an NIH Research Project (R01) .
For each PI awardee, the program facilitates the transition from mentored postdoctoral research status to a stable, independent research position, hopefully earlier than is currently the norm. The program also aims to help NIH increase and maintain a strong cohort of biomedical investigators.
Dr. Antonellis, a postdoctoral fellow in the Physical Mapping Section of the Genome Technology Branch, will apply his PI Award for pursuing "Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Studying Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies." He completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., and earned a Ph.D. from the George Washington University and National Institutes of Health Joint Program in Genetics. His is currently being co-mentored by Dr. Green and William J. Pavan, Ph.D., senior investigator in the Genetic Disease Research Branch.
The major focus of Dr. Antonellis's research is to identify and characterize genetic variants responsible for the two major subtypes of peripheral nerve disorders. One disorder subtype is caused by defects of the nerve axons that carry electric pulses and signal external environmental stimuli. The other disorder subtype is an impairment of Schwann cells that are associated with maintenance of the myelin protective sheaths around axons.
Peripheral neuropathies, which impair motor function and cause sensory loss in the extremities, impact 2.4 percent of the general population but are difficult to diagnose and treat. Dr. Antonellis plans to study the role played by the essential enzymes aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) in normal neuronal function and neurodegenerative disease.
Dr. Antonellis also is interested in identifying genetic variants involved in inherited demyelinating peripheral neuropathies. Some of these variants reside within binding sites and their associated genes for the SRY-box containing 10 (SOX10) transcription factor. SOX10 has a critical role in the development and function of neural crest derivatives, including Schwann cells, melanocytes and enteric neurons.
"Accomplishing the objectives detailed in my research plan will yield a better understanding of the role of ARSs in neurodegenerative disease, a more complete repertoire of genes regulated by SOX10 in Schwann cells, and additional candidate genes underlying inherited peripheral neuropathies," Dr. Antonellis said. "These studies are likely to be broadly important for understanding the developmental and functional complexities of the peripheral nervous system."
Dr. Cao is being mentored by NHGRI Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. in the Molecular Genetics Section of the Genome Technology Branch. She is engaged in the study of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), a rare genetic disorder characterized by dramatic premature aging. She received a B.S. degree from Nanjing University, China, in 1997, and a. Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2005.
"The work we are doing on the cellular mechanisms of progeria is important for the ongoing clinical treatments of this premature aging disease," Dr. Cao said. "Our data suggests that specific genes and pathways are affected in progeria and we hope this information will lead to novel therapies for progeria and advance our knowledge of the normal aging process." The title of Dr. Cao's PI Award is "Cellular Mechanisms in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Normal Aging."
Dr. Cao's long-term research objective is to uncover the cellular mechanisms underlying HGPS and normal aging. Classic HGPS is caused by a de novo point mutation in the LMNA gene, resulting in a mutant version of a lamin A protein called progerin. Her research goal is to functionally characterize progerin during mitosis and analyze the potential mitotic defects caused by progerin accumulation. She will also investigate the role of progerin in the normal aging process.
Dr. Cao is collecting data from high-resolution, genome-wide maps of the alterations of chromatin structure and gene expression in HGPS cells using chromatin immunoprecipitation, DNA microarray technology and expression microarrays. She anticipates that high-resolution maps of alterations in epigenetic modifications and gene expression in these cells will provide a framework for understanding important genes and pathways involved in HGPS and normal aging. Such information may also prove valuable in developing therapeutic strategies for HGPS.
Dr. Ganesh received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and her medical degree from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. She trained in internal medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and then was a cardiology fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at NHGRI and an assistant clinical investigator at NHLBI.
Dr. Ganesh studies the genetics of complex cardiovascular diseases under the mentorship of NHLBI Director and NHGRI Senior Investigator Elizabeth Nabel, M.D. The title of her PI Award is "Genetics of Vascular Remodeling." Her research plan includes exploring why individual patients respond differently to vascular injury by analyzing genetic variants and RNA expression data in human subjects.
"The research we are doing on restenosis is important for understanding how to better treat patients affected with this disease," Dr. Ganesh said. "We also hope that by studying the genetic basis for differences in how individuals respond to treatments like stenting, we can gain some insights into why vascular remodeling occurs differently in some patients. This may be important for understanding other vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis."
In addition to the above three PI Awards thus far granted to NHGRI intramural trainees this year, the NHGRI Division of Extramural Research will fund an additional four PI Awards to trainees at institutions around the country. The recipients are Yun Song, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, studying "Novel Methods for Characterizing Recombination and Selection;" Charles Schroeder, Ph.D., Harvard University, studying "Single Molecule Technology for Genome-Wide Association Studies;" Holly Tabor, Ph.D., Stanford University, studying "Ethical and Social Issues in the Study of Genetics of Complex Traits;" and Zhirong Bao, Ph.D., University of Washington, studying "Automated Single-Cell Gene Expression and Phenotype Analysis in C. elegans."
NIH has committed approximately $390 million to the PI Award program over the next five years. Upcoming application submission dates for NIH PI Awards are February 12, June 12 and October 12, 2008.


text: Show Hide image Politics 15 November 2012 Ed Miliband must learn that change can scare people Politicians love a change narrative - it's uplifting. But the dominant mood now is of pessimism and fear, and Labour must adapt accordingly. Sign-up Change is no longer the currency of politics – security is. That is the message, or at least one of the messages, that emerged from Barack Obama's re-election. As the post-mortem continues and the corpse of the Romney campaign is dissected, one fact is being overlooked: it was Mitt Romney, not Obama, who pilfered, if not quite seized, the mantle of change. We know that not because of Romney's hubristic claims, but because Obama's own supporters conceded as much. After the first presidential debate they were unequivocal. "The first debate really did disrupt the race and presents a painful real-time test of what happens when the president tries to convince people of progress and offer a very modest vision of future change," reported James Carville and Stan Greenberg. The Los Angeles Times agreed: "All Romney has to do, by contrast, is propose a credible change in direction. He's done that, proposing across-the-board cuts in tax rates, an overhaul of the tax code and deep reductions in federal spending. His plan won't appeal to Democrats, and there are plenty of analysts and economists who doubt that Romney can make the numbers work. But he's not proposing to stay the course set by Obama, that's for sure." The Fabian deputy general secretary, Marcus Roberts, who enjoys good links with the Obama team and worked on Ed Miliband's leadership campaign, contrasted Obama's strategy with the old Lee Atwater maxim "Choose the ditch you're gonna to die in". "Consider this," he wrote on the Fabians' website, "Chicago started with attack on Mitt, went briefly positive in May, went back to attack, went positive at the convention and then went to a different type of attack. Then, last week the TV ads were back to bashing Bain. Now, the campaign says Obama will close positive. That's a lot of different ditches." It was, but despite abandoning the moral high ground, scrambling from foxhole to foxhole and ceding the hopey-changey thing to the Republicans, Obama won, comfortably. Feel the fear Politicians love a change narrative. It's uplifting. It reminds them why they came into politics in the first place. But in the present economic and political climate, it is also a recipe for disaster. The popular mood – both here and in the States – isn't of hope and optimism but pessimism and fear. A survey by Havas Media testing voters' perceptions of the presidential candidates' ability to help society as a whole and them as individuals came up with what the pollster termed "atrocious" results. Asked whether the candidates would "help make my life easier", "help me live a better or fuller life" or "help me be a more responsible citizen", no more than 32 per cent of respondents agreed it applied to either Romney or Obama. But this was never going to be the election for a march on the sunlit uplands, and Obama recognised that. His campaign adverts weren't promising change you could believe in, they were bombing Romney back to the political Stone Age: on Bain, on tax, on the "47 per cent". Even more importantly, the campaign portrayed Obama not as the great reformer, but as the great protector. Your factory was under threat, he'd make sure it stayed open. Your son or daughter was serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, he would bring them safely home. Understandably, some people are wary about drawing parallels with events across the Atlantic – but up until now they haven't been sitting in Ed Miliband's office. The Labour leader's election strategy is based on the cast-iron belief that 2015 will be an Obamastyle "change election". Indeed, this past week Miliband aides were approvingly circulating an article by Dan Corry for Policy Network which argued that a Labour win required "a strategy that has the current of realism running through it, but that also has an uplifting sense of optimism . . . If the centre left does not give people the hope that through purposeful action we can build growth and a better world, then our appeal will always be less than that of our opponents." This is more to do with the politics of convenience than the politics of hope; anything allowing Team Miliband to divert attention from the need for cuts is pounced upon. 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Support for Big Data
Because the dataflow operators in a graph work in parallel, the model allows overlapping I/O operations with computation. This is a "whole application" approach to parallelization as opposed to many thread-oriented performance frameworks that focus on hot sections of code such as
for loops. This addresses a key problem in processing "big data" for today's many-core processors: feeding data fast enough to the processors.
While dataflow does this, it scales down easily as well. This distinguishes it from technologies, such as Hadoop and to a lesser extent, Map Reduce, which don't scale downward well due to their innate complexity.
We've discussed how a dataflow architecture exploits multicore. These same principles can be applied to multi-node clusters by extending dataflow queues over networks with a dataflow graph executed on multiple systems in parallel. The compositional model of building dataflow graphs allows for replication of pieces of the graph across multiple nodes. Scaling out extends the reach of dataflow to solve large data problems.
Dataflow and Actors
The actor model has been popularized by languages such as Erlang and Scala. In these models, independent actors communicate using messages. When an actor receives a message, it acts upon it as defined by functions inside the actor. Actors define communication endpoints that allow other actors to find them and send them messages. In some implementations, messages are free form and actors use regular expression forms to distinguish messages and how they are handled.
Below is a very simple example of an actor in Scala. This code is a fragment as it does not include imports or definitions of the message classes. The
MessageHandler class extends the
Actor library class, overriding the
act() method. The
act() method is invoked to handle incoming messages. The example code receives messages in a loop until a
Stop message is received. Once a
Stop is received, the sample invokes
exit(), terminating the instance of the actor. Inside of the loop the
receive block is used to process messages by type. The
case statement is used per message type that can be received. Regular expressions can also be used to determine which messages are handled by a
case statement. The
Message type is handled by doing some processing of the message and then sending an acknowledgement to the message sender. The
sender variable is defined by
class MessageHandler extends Actor { def act() { while (true) { receive { case Message => // Do some work to handle the message // Send an acknowledgement sender ! Ack case Stop => // Terminates the actor exit() } } } }
On the surface, the dataflow and actor models are very similar. They both support a functional, shared-nothing programming style. The concepts within each are easy to grasp. It is straightforward to pick up frameworks of either model and become proficient quickly. Both models are also easy to extend by writing new operators or actors. As with dataflow, the actor model hides multithreading issues from the developer. Having no shared memory means no synchronization worries.
As with dataflow, the actor model scales up as well as out. Both models also support an active or reactive implementation model. Active models imply an active thread per operator or actor. The reactor model allows for a work-stealing implementation, where the number of system resources utilized can be contained, thus allowing for many thousands of instances of actors.
Below is an example written in more of a dataflow style. It is a simple operator that takes strings as inputs and outputs the length of each string as output. The looping construct is similar to an
Actor, but handles a more static data type.
public class StringLength extends DataflowProcess { private final StringInput input; private final IntOutput output; public StringLength(Dataflow source) { // Handle properties, set up inputs and outputs … } @Override protected void execute() { while (input.stepNext()) { output.push(input.asString().length()); } output.pushEndOfData(); } }
There are differences in the two models. The actor model does not guarantee immutability or message ordering; whereas dataflow does. Nor do actors optimize for large numbers of messages or messages with large amounts of data.
Dataflow provides flow control where the actor model doesn't (at least, not out of the box). Without flow control, messages either get dropped or memory usage problems occur as communication endpoints become full. Dataflow also generally does static binding of components at composition time, whereas actors are much more dynamic. Static binding enables graph analysis to apply optimizations.
The actor model appears much better suited to task-based parallelism where concurrency is important. For example, Erlang programs control telecom equipment with thousands of unique requests per minute. Meanwhile, dataflow is focused on data parallelism where single-job data processing and analysis performance are the main concerns. In a sense, they're slightly different solutions for different domains, although conceptually similar.
Performance Benchmarks
I used the MalStone B10 benchmark, which consists of 10 billion rows of log data in five fields, to measure performance of a dataflow based framework. The overall data size is nearly a terabyte. The code for the benchmark extracts the year and week of the year from a timestamp field and aggregates a compromise indicator by site identifier, year and week. A count of overall site activity is included and the summations are cumulative.
The benchmark was run on a single-node machine with 32 cores. Figure 2 shows run times for the benchmark. The test was run with increasing numbers of cores showing good scalability as the compute resources increased.
The test was also run on a 20-node cluster using Amazon EC2 instances. Each instance contained eight cores but less capable I/O systems. The overall runtime was 10 minutes, showing the ability to scale large processing jobs across a cluster using dataflow techniques.
Multicore and many-core will be the performance answer of processor providers for years to come. Software has yet to catch up, but mainstream evolution towards parallel, scalable software is taking place. As a software architecture, dataflow fits well in the big data domain. It enables impressive multicore and multi-node utilization and scalability. It's easy to learn and easy to use and scales both up and out well, as well as down for smaller workloads.
Further Reading
Simple Concurrency with Dataflow Variables in C++
Jim Falgout is the chief technologist for Pervasive DataRush; Pervasive is a company that specializes in embedded, cloud-based, and highly parallel database technologies.


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All the news about Kanotix - Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
- 01.08.2007, 13:53 Uhr
Who has downloaded Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer ?
What is your experience with it ?
(for the others: the thorhammer-link is given in the IR-Chat)
- 01.08.2007, 20:52 Uhr
there is a thread on "feedback - thorhammer rc5", has been going for some time
- 02.08.2007, 08:01 Uhr
Dear Friends,
I did test Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer RC5 and I found it very stable and very very good for my taste (take into consideration that normally I prefer to have Debian stable -etch- installed to my workstation for stability, so Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer RC5 that is etch based was/is my choice). For me Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer RC5 is an excelent etch installation which benefits from many Kano's script and newer better kernel possibilities.
I am looking for the next RC or even better for the next Stable Release.
Thanks Kano for making this good RC and finally choose etch as the way to go...
- 02.08.2007, 10:17 Uhr
Habe diese Version auf 4 verschiedenen System, davon ein Notebook (Toshiba sattelit m-40) getestet Lief auf allen Systemen als Live ohne Probleme. Auf einem System installiert, dort werden mE falsch beide DVD Laufwerke in die fstab eingetragen, was dazu führt das das zweite Laufwerk beim einlegen einer Scheibe nicht mehr aufpopt. Wenn man die Einträge für die Rom-Laufwerke löscht ist alles ok.
Mit dieser Version könnte meiner Ansicht nach ein release starten.
- 02.08.2007, 14:41 Uhr
Danke Hadschi
aber schreib hier im englischen Teil des Forums in englisch oder halt deutsch im deutschen Teil
Thank you Hadschi
but write your feedback here in English or in German in the German part of the forum
- 03.08.2007, 00:59 Uhr
I posted the following on the "de" forum before I was aware of this one. For us one-language (as in one-legged) english speakers it follows:
I installed RC5 on a compaq laptop with a K6-2 433 processor with 192M. The first problem to raise its head is that my password didn't work in kdm but is ok from the console. I think this relates to the xorg.conf xkbdlayout option which is still set to "de" but changing it to "en" seemed to bork X. I just looked at my other box and perhaps I should have used "us".
I was able to roughly follow the update instructions in update-RC4.txt and did some clean up and all seems to be ok...other than the kdm keyboard issue. All the onboard hardware and Netcardconfig for my pcmcia ethernet worked fine and I was able to get it online easily as with 2006 versions. I haven't tried the ltmodem yet...have heard that support for that one is shakey. It isn't real fast due to the slow cpu and small memory but it seems to be cleaner overall than building up the various minimal Etch installs; definitely better than the mepis based AntiX or DSL or Puppy, all of which I tried on this machine before discovering that Kano was back with Thorhammer.
Oh, almost forgot...couldn't get the iso to burn on my HP 9100 series CD burner. k3b kept blowing up due to being "unable to load cuesheet". Finally had to do it with wodim in the RAW mode to get it to burn. My new Lite-on DVD burner would burn it, but it won't burn slow for some reason...wants to burn at max speed all the time regardless of k3b or wodim settings. At least it was cheap!
It's great to be back with a fresh Kanotix distro on this laptop but it is a bit heavy for the machine...wish there was a "lite" version. Minor detail...I love thorhammer! Thanks for being there Kano!
- 03.08.2007, 11:08 Uhr
wh7qq hat folgendes geschrieben::
For us one-language (as in one-legged) english speakers...
- 13.08.2007, 16:32 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
Daddy-G hat folgendes geschrieben::
Who has downloaded Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer ?
What is your experience with it ?
(for the others: the thorhammer-link is given in the IR-Chat)
Hello Forum!
I can't see the link to download Thorhammer in the IR-Chat from my Easter Kanotix
Could you help me please ? Thanks
- 13.08.2007, 16:40 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
You have to ask Kano for the download link.
- 13.08.2007, 16:53 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
ockham23 hat folgendes geschrieben::
You have to ask Kano for the download link.
Tks ockham23
- 25.08.2007, 08:07 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
Daddy-G hat folgendes geschrieben::
Who has downloaded Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer ?
What is your experience with it ?
RC5 - On a USB HDD - works fine - it wouldn't let me log into KDE (through kdm) until I'd changed my user's password. (It did let me log in via the console.)
(And, having installed it on a USB HDD, I had to futz with GRUB a bit - but it's cool that it works at all.
- 25.08.2007, 08:40 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
Usually usb hd install is very easy now when you do it correctly. You did not use the advanced option to reorder the Grub device.map.
- 25.08.2007, 09:43 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::
Usually usb hd install is very easy now when you do it correctly. You did not use the advanced option to reorder the Grub device.map.
I did look at that, and it looked like gibberish (and so best left untouched). In the end, all I had to do was change (hd2,0) to (hd0,0).
About the password: it doesn't seem to like the slasn ("/") in my default password.
- 25.08.2007, 12:58 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
I am not sure what the problem with your pw is. Maybe you bootet with german settings then it is a keyboard layout problem as the xorg.conf is set to german (de). Check this:
grep XkbLayout /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- 25.08.2007, 19:01 Uhr
Re: Kanotix-2007-Thorhammer
Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::
I am not sure what the problem with your pw is. Maybe you bootet with german settings then it is a keyboard layout problem as the xorg.conf is set to german (de). Check this:
grep XkbLayout /etc/X11/xorg.conf
That was it, exactly. Now it's set to "us" and all is well.
- 04.09.2007, 09:54 Uhr
eco2geek hat folgendes geschrieben::
I apologize for posting in English here, but it would be greatly appreciated if you could keep us non-German speakers appraised of the current progress of Thorhammer.
(I installed RC5A over RC5 yesterday, just burned RC5B, and am wondering if there's a benefit to installing RC5B over RC5A.)
I have no further information. After download last night I checked RC5B by booting "fromiso=".
I saw that there is a great difference or progress between RC5 and "5A/5B" e.g. with new kernel 2.6.22 and other features. So I thought, it would be better not to mix the feedback of 5A/5B with old RC5 and started a new thread.
The manual in the 5B - iso seems to be finished in English and German, so you can test it and perhaps you can feedback here to other English-speaking Kanotix-friends
- 05.09.2007, 07:59 Uhr
Here's a few for you (from RC5B):
- the "advanced partition
" screen in the installer should read "advanced partition
- When I ran "acritoxinstaller" straight from the menu, and installed to a USB-HDD, it stalled when installing GRUB.
- But when I started the installer from a console, as root (using "sux"), it finished up just fine.
- When the live CD's starting X, it blanks out the window for a few seconds on my computer (using the "nv" driver). All that's needed to bring it back is to wiggle the mouse, but this might confuse some people.
- Running "install-nvidia-debian.sh" works great, but it puts
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
into xorg.conf, when it should be "us" (at least for me).
- 05.09.2007, 09:32 Uhr
When the live CD's starting X, it blanks out the window for a few seconds on my computer (using the "nv" driver). All that's needed to bring it back is to wiggle the mouse, but this might confuse some people.
Maybe this is caused by power management and automatic resetting of the clock during boot. The system thinks there's been no user input for hours and turns off the screen to save energy.
- 05.09.2007, 13:36 Uhr
the whole nvidia script does not contain XkbLayout.
- 05.09.2007, 17:47 Uhr
ockham23 hat folgendes geschrieben::
Maybe this is caused by power management and automatic resetting of the clock during boot.
Probably -- the PCLinuxOS CD, in live mode, has a "wizard" which runs before it boots into KDE. After you set the time/date, it blanks out the screen in the same way, and you have to wiggle the mouse to get it back.
Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::
the whole nvidia script does not contain XkbLayout.
I should have looked at that. It must be the regular install script then (or maybe the regular live CD), because it's done that when I installed RC5, RC5A, and RC5B.
- 05.09.2007, 17:59 Uhr
This reminds me of something: Wiggle it, just a little bit ... (2 in a Room).
- 10.09.2007, 02:32 Uhr
I have installed Kanotix Thorhammer on September 1 with no issues so far on the following:
Dell Dimension desktop
Pentium 111 Coppermine
866mhz 320mb ram
ATI video card.
It is running very smoothly. I have been using Kanotix since 2005-04 edition.
I do not think Kanotix gets the attention that it deserves.
Cheers from Guelph Ontario.
- 14.09.2007, 02:59 Uhr
I have Thorhammer and the 2.6.22 kernel installed on an old Pentium3 550mhz dinosaur. This box started as a Dell Optiplex GX1 before I upgraded to the Pentium3 processor, so I am guessing the board is 10+ years old. Kanotix runs as well as any other distribution I've tried, including the ones designed for older hardware. In fact, it makes me wonder why Ubuntu is so popular...
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THE present chapter does not contain any additional matter that has not been treated in the [previous] chapters of this treatise. It is a kind of conclusion, and at the same time it will explain in what manner those worship God who have obtained a true knowledge concerning God; it will direct them how to come to that worship, which is the highest aim man can attain, and show how God protects them in this world till they are removed to eternal life.
I will begin the subject of this chapter with a simile. A king is in his palace, and all his subjects are partly in the country, and partly abroad. Of the former, some have their backs turned towards the king's palace, and their faces in another direction; and some are desirous and zealous to go to the palace, seeking "to inquire in his temple," and to minister before him, but have not yet seen even the face of the wall of the house. Of those that desire to go to the palace, some reach it, and go round about in search of the entrance gate; others have passed through the gate, and walk about in the ante-chamber; and others have succeeded in entering into the inner part of the palace, and being in the same room with the king in the royal palace. But even the latter do not immediately on entering the palace see the king, or speak to him; for, after having entered the inner part of the palace, another effort is required before they can stand before the king — at a distance, or close by — hear his words, or speak to him. I will now explain the simile which I have made. The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.
Those who are in the country, but have their backs turned towards the king's palace, are those who possess religion, belief, and thought, but happen to hold false doctrines, which they either adopted in consequence of great mistakes made in their own speculations, or received from others who misled them. Because of these doctrines they recede more and more from the royal palace the more they seem to proceed. These are worse than the first class, and under certain circumstances it may become necessary to day them, and to extirpate their doctrines, in order that others should not be misled.
Those who desire to arrive at the palace, and to enter it, but have never yet seen it, are the mass of religious people; the multitude that observe the divine commandments, but are ignorant. Those who arrive at the palace, but go round about it, are those who devote themselves exclusively to the study of the practical law: they believe traditionally in true principles of faith, and learn the practical worship of God, but are not trained in philosophical treatment of the principles of the Law, and do not endeavour to establish the truth of their faith by proof. Those who undertake to investigate the principles of religion, have come into the ante-chamber; and there is no doubt that these can also be divided into different grades. But those who have succeeded in finding a proof for everything that can be proved, who have a true knowledge of God, so far as a true knowledge can be attained, and are near the truth, wherever an approach to the truth is possible, they have reached the goal, and are in the palace in which the king lives.
My son, so long as you are engaged in studying the Mathematical Sciences and Logic, you belong to those who go round about the palace in search of the gate. Thus our Sages figuratively use the phrase: "Ben-zoma is still outside." When you understand Physics, you have entered the hall; and when, after completing the study of Natural Philosophy, you master Metaphysics, you have entered the innermost court, and are with the king in the same palace. You have attained the degree of the wise men, who include men of different grades of perfection. There are some who direct all their mind toward the attainment of perfection in Metaphysics, devote themselves entirely to God, exclude from their thought every other thing, and employ all their intellectual faculties in the study of the Universe, in order to derive therefrom a proof for the existence of God, and to learn in every possible way how God rules all things; they form the class of those who have entered the palace, namely, the class of prophets. One of these has attained so much knowledge, and has concentrated his thoughts to such an extent in the idea of God, that it could be said of him, "And he was with the Lord forty days," etc. (Exod. xxxiv. 28); during that holy communion he could ask Him, answer Him, speak to Him, and be addressed by Him, enjoying beatitude in that which he had obtained to such a degree that" he did neither eat bread nor drink water" (ibid.); his intellectual energy was so predominant that all coarser functions of the body, especially those connected with the sense of touch, were in abeyance. Some prophets are only able to see, and of these some approach near and see, whilst others see from a distance: comp. "The Lord hath appeared from far unto me" (Jer. xxxi. 3). We have already spoken of the various degrees of prophets; we will therefore return to the subject of this chapter, and exhort those who have attained a knowledge of God, to concentrate all their thoughts in God. This is the worship peculiar to those who have acquired a knowledge of the highest truths; and the more they reflect on Him, and think of Him, the more are they engaged in His worship. Those, however, who think of God, and frequently mention His name, without any correct notion of Him, but merely following some imagination, or some theory received from another person, are, in my opinion, like those who remain outside the palace and distant from it. They do not mention the name of God in truth, nor do they reflect on it. That which they imagine and mention does not correspond to any being in existence; it is a thing invented by their imagination, as has been shown by us in our discussion on the Divine Attributes (Part 1. chap. 1.). The true worship of God is only possible when correct notions of Him have previously been conceived. When you have arrived by way of intellectual research at a knowledge of God and His works, then commence to devote yourselves to Him, try to approach Him and strengthen the intellect, which is the link that joins you to Him. Thus Scripture says, "Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord He is God" (Deut. iv. 35); "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is God" (ibid. 36); "Know ye that the Lord is God" (Ps. c. 3). Thus the Law distinctly states that the highest kind of worship to which we refer in this chapter, is only possible after the acquisition of the knowledge of God. For it is said, "To love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deut. xi. 13), and, as we have shown several times, man's love of God is identical with His knowledge of Him. The Divine service enjoined in these words must, accordingly, be preceded by the love of God. Our Sages have pointed out to us that it is a service in the heart, which explanation I understand to mean this: man concentrates all his thoughts on the First Intellect, and is absorbed in these thoughts as much as possible. David therefore commands his son Solomon these two things, and exhorts him earnestly to do them: to acquire a true knowledge of God, and to be earnest in His service after that knowledge has been acquired. For he says, "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart . . . if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever" (1 Chron. xxviii. 9). The exhortation refers to, the intellectual conceptions, not to the imaginations: for the latter are not called "knowledge," but "that which cometh into your mind" (Ezek. xx. 32). It has thus been shown that it must be man's aim, after having acquired the knowledge of God, to deliver himself up to Him, and to have his heart constantly filled with longing after Him. He accomplishes this generally by seclusion and retirement. Every pious man should therefore seek retirement and seclusion, and should only in case of necessity associate with others.
Note. — I have shown you that the intellect which emanates from God unto us is the link that joins us to God. You have it in your power to strengthen that bond, if you choose to do so, or to weaken it gradually, till it breaks if you prefer this. It will only become strong when you employ it in the love of God, and seek that love; it will be weakened when you direct your thoughts to other things. You must know that even if you were the wisest man in respect to the true knowledge of God, you break the bond between you and God whenever you turn entirely your thoughts to the necessary food or any necessary business; you are then not with God, and He is not with you; for that relation between you and Him is actually interrupted in those moments. The pious were therefore particular to restrict the time in which they could not meditate upon the name of God, and cautioned others about it, saying, "Let not your minds be vacant from reflections upon God." In the same sense did David say, "I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved" (Ps. xvi. 8); i.e., I do not turn my thoughts away from God; He is like my right hand, which I do not forget even for a moment on account of the ease of its motions, and therefore I shall not be moved, I shall not fail.
We must bear in mind that all such religious acts as reading the Law, praying, and the performance of other precepts, serve exclusively as the means of causing us to occupy and fill our mind with the precepts of God, and free it from worldly business; for we are thus, as it were, in communication with God, and undisturbed by any other thing. If we, however, pray with the motion of our lips, and our face toward the wall, but at the same time think of our business; if we read the Law with our tongue, whilst our heart is occupied with the building of our house, and we do not think of what we are reading; if we perform the commandments only with our limbs, we are like those who are engaged in digging in the ground, or hewing wood in the forest, without reflecting on the nature of those acts, or by whom they are commanded, or what is their object. We must not imagine that [in this way] we attain the highest perfection; on the contrary, we are then like those in reference to whom Scripture says, "Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins" (Jer. xii. 2).
I will now commence to show you the way how to educate and train yourselves in order to attain that great perfection.
The first thing you must do is this: Turn your thoughts away from everything while you read Shema' or during the Tefillah, and do not content yourself with being devout when you read the first verse of Shema, or the first paragraph of the prayer. When you have successfully practised this for many years, try in reading the Law or listening to it, to have all your heart and all your thought occupied with understanding what you read or hear. After some time when you have mastered this, accustom yourself to have your mind free from all other thoughts when you read any portion of the other books of the prophets, or when you say any blessing; and to have your attention directed exclusively to the perception and the understanding of what you utter. When you have succeeded in properly performing these acts of divine service, and you have your thought, during their performance, entirely abstracted from worldly affairs, take then care that your thought be not disturbed by thinking of your wants or of superfluous things. In short, think of worldly matters when you eat, drink, bathe, talk with your wife and little children, or when you converse with other people. These times, which are frequent and long, I think must suffice to you for reflecting on everything that is necessary as regards business, household, and health. But when you are engaged in the performance of religious duties, have your mind exclusively directed to what you are doing.
When you are alone by yourself, when you are awake on your couch, be careful to meditate in such precious moments on nothing but the intellectual worship of God, viz., to approach Him and to minister before Him in the true manner which I have described to you — not in hollow emotions. This I consider as the highest perfection wise men can attain by the above training.
When we have acquired a true knowledge of God, and rejoice in that knowledge in such a manner, that whilst speaking with others, or attending to our bodily wants, our mind is all that time with God; when we are with our heart constantly near God, even whilst our body is in the society of men: when we are in that state which the Song on the relation between God and man poetically describes in the following words: "I sleep, but my heart waketh; it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh" (Song v. 2); — then we have attained not only the height of ordinary prophets, but of Moses, our Teacher, of whom Scripture relates: "And Moses alone shall come near before the Lord" (ibid. xxxiv. 28); "But as for thee, stand thou here by me" (Deut. v. 28). The meaning of these verses has been explained by us.
The Patriarchs likewise attained this degree of perfection; they approached God in such a manner that with them the name of God became known in the world. Thus we read in Scripture: "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. . . . This is My name for ever" (Exod. iii. 15). Their mind was so identified with the knowledge of God, that He made a lasting covenant with each of them: "Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob," etc. (Lev. xxvi. 42). For it is known from statements made in Scripture that these four, viz., the Patriarchs and Moses, had their minds exclusively filled with the name of God, that is, with His knowledge and love; and that in the same measure was Divine Providence attached to them and their descendants. When we therefore find them also, engaged in ruling others, in increasing their property, and endeavouring to obtain possession of wealth and honour, we see in this fact a proof that when they were occupied in these things, only their bodily limbs were at work, whilst their heart and mind never moved away from the name of God. I think these four reached that high degree of perfection in their relation to God, and enjoyed the continual presence of Divine Providence, even in their endeavours to increase their property, feeding the flock, toiling in the field, or managing the house, only because in all these things their end and aim was to approach God as much as possible. It was the chief aim of their whole life to create a people that should know and worship God. Comp. "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him" (Gen. xviii. 19). The object of all their labours was to publish the Unity of God in the world, and to induce people to love Him; and it was on this account that they succeeded in reaching that high degree; for even those [worldly] affairs were for them a perfect worship of God. But a person like myself must not imagine that he is able to lead men up to this degree of perfection It is only the next degree to it that can be attained by means of the above-mentioned training. And let us pray to God and beseech Him that He clear and remove from our way everything that forms an obstruction and a partition between us and Him, although most of these obstacles are our own creation, as has several times been shown in this treatise. Comp. "Your iniquities have separated between you and your God" (Isa. lix. 2).
An excellent idea presents itself here to me, which may serve to remove many doubts, and may help to solve many difficult problems in metaphysics. We have already stated in the chapters which treat of Divine Providence, that Providence watches over every rational being according to the amount of intellect which that being possesses. Those who are perfect in their perception of God, whose mind is never separated from Him, enjoy always the influence of Providence. But those who, perfect in their knowledge of God, turn their mind sometimes away from God, enjoy the presence of Divine Providence only when they meditate on God; when their thoughts are engaged in other matters, divine Providence departs from them. The absence of Providence in this case is not like its absence in the case of those who do not reflect on God at all: it is in this case less intense, because when a person perfect in his knowledge [of God] is busy with worldly matters, he has not knowledge in actuality, but only knowledge in potentiality [though ready to become actual]. This person is then like a trained scribe when he is not writing. Those who have no knowledge of God are like those who are in constant darkness and have never seen light. We have explained in this sense the words: "The wicked shall be silent in darkness" (1 Sam. ii. 9), whilst those who possess the knowledge of God, and have their thoughts entirely directed to that knowledge, are, as it were, always in bright sunshine; and those who have the knowledge, but are at times engaged in other themes, have then as it were a cloudy day: the sun does not shine for them on account of the cloud that intervenes between them and God.
Hence it appears to me that it is only in times of such neglect that some of the ordinary evils befall a prophet or a perfect and pious man; and the intensity of the evil is proportional to the duration of those moments, or to the character of the things that thus occupy their mind. Such being the case, the great difficulty is removed that led philosophers to assert that Providence does not extend to every individual, and that man is like any other living being in this respect, viz., the argument based on the fact that good and pious men are afflicted with great evils. We have thus explained this difficult question even in accordance with the philosophers' own principles. Divine Providence is constantly watching over those who have obtained that blessing which is prepared for those who endeavour to obtain it. If man frees his thoughts from worldly matters, obtains a knowledge of God in the right way, and rejoices in that knowledge, it is impossible that any kind of evil should befall him while he is with God, and God with him. When he does not meditate on God, when he is separated from God, then God is also separated from him; then he is exposed to any evil that might befall him; for it is only that intellectual link with God that secures the presence of Providence and protection from evil accidents. Hence it may occur that the perfect man is at times not happy, whilst no evil befalls those who are imperfect; in these cases what happens to them is due to chance. This principle I find also expressed in the Law. Comp. "And I will hide my face them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?" (Deut. xxxi. 17). It is clear that we ourselves are the cause of this hiding of the face, and that the screen that separates us from God is of our own creation. This is the meaning of the words: "And I will surely hide my face in that day, for all the evils which they shall have wrought" (ibid. ver. 18). There is undoubtedly no difference in this regard between one single person and a whole community. It is now clearly established that the cause of our being exposed to chance, and abandoned to destruction like cattle, is to be found in our separation from God. Those who have their God dwelling in their hearts, are not touched by any evil whatever. For God says: "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God" (Isa. xli. 10). "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee" (ibid. xlii. 2). For if we prepare ourselves, and attain the influence of the Divine Intellect, Providence is joined to us, and we are guarded against all evils. Comp. "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear; what can man do unto me?" (Ps. cxviii. 6). "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace" (Job xxii 21); i.e., turn unto Him, and you will be safe from all evil.
Consider the Psalm on mishaps, and see how the author describes that great Providence, the protection and defence from all mishaps that concern the body, both from those that are common to all people, and those that concern only one certain individual; from those that are due to the laws of Nature, and those that are caused by our fellow-men. The Psalmist says: "Surely he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day" (Ps. xci. 3-5). The author then relates how God protects us from the troubles caused by men, saying, If you happen to meet on your way with an army fighting with drawn swords, killing thousands at your left hand and myriads at your right hand, you will not suffer any harm; you will behold and see how God judges and punishes the wicked that are being slain, whilst you remain unhurt. "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked" (ibid. vers. 7, 8). The author then continues his description of the divine defence and shelter, and shows the cause of this great protection, saying that such a man is well guarded "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name" (ibid. ver. 14). We have shown in previous chapters that by the "knowledge of God's name," the knowledge of God is meant. The above passage may therefore be paraphrased as follows: "This man is well guarded, because he hath known me, and then (bi chashak) loved me." You know the difference between the two Hebrew terms that signify "to love," ahab and hashak. When a man's love is so intense that his thought is exclusively engaged with the object of his love, it is expressed in Hebrew by the term hashak.
The philosophers have already explained how the bodily forces of man in his youth prevent the development of moral principles. In a greater measure this is the case as regards the purity of thought which man attains through the perfection of those ideas that lead him to an intense love of God. Man can by no means attain this so long as his bodily humours are hot. The more the forces of his body are weakened, and the fire of passion quenched, in the same measure does man's intellect increase in strength and light; his knowledge becomes purer, and he is happy with his knowledge. When this perfect man is stricken in age and is near death, his knowledge mightily increases, his joy in that knowledge grows greater, and his love for the object of his knowledge more intense, and it is in this great delight that the soul separates from the body. To this state our Sages referred, when in reference to the death of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, they said that death was in these three cases nothing but a kiss. They say thus: We learn from the words, "And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab by the mouth of the Lord" (Deut. xxxiv. 5), that his death was a kiss. The same expression is used of Aaron: "And Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor . . . by the mouth of the Lord, and died there" (Num. xxxiii. 38) Our Sages said that the same was the case with Miriam; but the phrase "by the mouth of the Lord" is not employed, because it was not considered appropriate to use these words in the description of her death as she was a female. The meaning of this saying is that these three died in the midst of the pleasure derived from the knowledge of God and their great love for Him. When our Sages figuratively call the knowledge of God united with intense love for Him a kiss, they follow the well-known poetical diction, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth" (Song i. 2). This kind of death, which in truth is deliverance from death, has been ascribed by our Sages to none but to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. The other prophets and pious men are beneath that degree: but their knowledge of God is strengthened when death approaches. Of them Scripture says, "Thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward" (Isa. lviii. 8). The intellect of these men remains then constantly in the same condition, since the obstacle is removed that at times has intervened between the intellect and the object of its action: it continues for ever in that great delight, which is not like bodily pleasure. We have explained this in our work, and others have explained it before us.
Try to understand this chapter, endeavour with all your might to spend more and more time in communion with God, or in the attempt to approach Him; and to reduce the hours which you spend in other occupations, and during which you are not striving to come nearer unto Him. This instruction suffices for the object of this treatise.
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LEGO has made some modifications to its Batman LEGO line for Dark Knight Rises, giving us two new minifigs based on characters from the film.
There's a Batman and a Bane, both sporting their outfits from Chris Nolan's movie instead of the more nondescript digs previous LEGO versions of the characters have worn. There's also a Gordon. In case you ever wanted a little LEGO Gary Oldman.
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DNSChanger: lies, damn' lies and telemetry statistics
First the panic, then the accusations of hype. Can we really estimate the impact of DNSchanger yet?
First the panic, then the accusations of hype. Can we really estimate the impact of DNSchanger yet?
I originally posted this on the AVIEN blog site at http://avien.net/blog/?p=286, but in view of the increasing volume of "Y2.10k" date-related bug reports, I'll re-post it here with an updated list. (Thanks to Mikko Hypponen for posting a couple of links I hadn't seen.) Windows Mobile/SMS bug (Welcome to 2016!) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/05/windows_mobe_bug/ http://www.wmexperts.com/y2016-sms-bug Bank Bugs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/bank_queensland/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34706092/ns/technology_and_science-security/?ocid=twitter]
Around the end of the last decade, when I was working for a research organization in the UK, I used to write a monthly column on security for an in-house newspaper, and was rapped over the knuckles for telling this little story. I've probably changed the detail since then: I don't keep everything I've written


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Hello - I've been researching this all day without any luck. I have a multi-top-level interface application with several open frame windows. When the user is taking some action on one frame window, I'd like the other frame windows to dim so it's clear that the user is operating on the given window. Visual Studio 2010 does this sometimes when its thinking (or crashed) - the entire VS window is blended with a white. Here's a screenshot of an example:
Here is another example:
But I only want to dim other windows in my application, not the entire desktop. I looked into using layered windows and UpdateLayeredWindow, but if that's the answer, I'm not using it right. Does anyone have suggetsions? Thanks in advance!
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As direct marketers, we spend a great deal of time and money developing programs to make the phone ring. But it's the call-center agents that truly make the cash register sing.
Therefore, I spend a great deal of time training customer service reps (CSRs) to be powerful brand advocates with the ability to make a difference with all customers. Personally, I hate calling a company and hearing some disinterested rep deal with my order in a lackluster way. It tells me the company I'm dealing with doesn't get that the people manning the phones are the voice of the company.
A simple CSR training program can solve the lackluster attitude and increase conversion.
CSR's should be trained to think on their feet rather than interacting with customers and prospects by reading a script. Of course, good call-center software with a scripted environment can be beneficial, but even the best scripting can't beat a well-trained CSR's instincts. It's important to hire reps that can work this way, and then mentor and monitor them on an ongoing basis. A word of caution: Analyze call times to ensure your reps aren't burning up phone time with the personal touch.
CSR training programs are quite simple. You don't need elaborate monitoring equipment. Simply use a cassette recorder and some basic monitoring equipment you can buy at Radio Shack to record CSRs' calls for a day, then listen to the tapes. Break the reps into teams of three or four and sit in a room together and listen to the day's calls. Teach the reps to listen actively and objectively to the calls.
Let them coach each other on the cues and buying signals that sometimes get missed in real time. If you spot a missed buying signal, stop the tape — I encourage all of the reps in the group to stop the tape if they hear something — and role-play how the rep could've made a difference in converting the call.
Set up contests during the training process for the individual CSR and training team that generates the highest conversion rates. Drill the reps on making sure to be gentle and not pushy, as it's human nature to get more aggressive to win a contest. Stress the quality of the relationship with the customer as well as the quantity of the order.
Using this simple technique at one company I worked with, we increased conversion rates by as much as 20 percent. Also, by fostering an atmosphere of teamwork and healthy competition, we increased the enthusiasm and morale in its call center as well.
Train CSRs to seek out opportunities to cross-sell effectively. Let your reps know which items complement each other, and coach them on the art of cross-selling. Truth is, sometimes all it takes is a suggestion, something like, "Do you know, Ms. Jones, that we have a beautiful top that complements the shorts you're purchasing today?"


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Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) is an ambitious effort to collect, store, and share species information and occurrence data. You can participate by taking and submitting photographs of butterflies, moths, and caterpillars.
Explore the variety of moths and butterflies in North America. Browse regional species checklists and taxonomy pages or search the species database to find species profiles, distribution maps, and photographs.
Get involved in the project. Submit photographs of your sightings, or share your expertise and help us review and verify submissions.
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Learn more about this project. We aim to fill the needs of scientists and nature observers by bringing verified occurrence and life history data into one location.
Get help identifying a butterfly, moth, or caterpillar. It is a trade: you help us collect verifiable data, and we will try to identify the species.


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How To Win Every Argument
How To Win Every Argument by Madsen Pirie was published in 2006 as a humourous yet insightful guide to "the use and abuse of logic".
Contrary to the impression of the subtitle, the book details a catalogue of 79 common (and not so common) logical fallacies, arranged in alphabetical order, as well as a handy classification of the various fallacies into five categories of:
- formal;
- informal (linguistic);
- informal (relevance - omission);
- informal (relevance - intrusion); and
- informal (relevance - presumption)
Where applicable, fallacies are listed under their traditional Latin names. Otherwise, they are listed by the name of the fallacy in English.
The book succeeds in explaining why various argumentative or seemingly reasoned positions are invalid with obvious examples, clear descriptions and simple commentary.
How To Win Every Argument is written with an irreverent style, and is not lacking for humour, which primarily manifests itself in the brief commentary and explanations of where a logical fallacy breaks down.
The dust jacket of the hardcover edition contains imagery of a sledgehammer and a walnut, the walnut being intact on the front of the dust jacket, and broken on the rear. The rear cover of the dust jacket also contains an image of a fake sticker, claiming:
- "Publisher's Warning: In the wrong hands this book is dangerous. We recommend that you arm yourself with it whilst keeping it out of the hands of others. Only buy this book as a gift if you are sure that you can trust the recipient."
The book is published by Continuum, with the ISBN 0-8264-9006-9


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High Risk Pregnancy in Fayetteville, NC
While a pregnancy is almost always a happy occasion, many women are faced with the prospect of a high risk pregnancy. Whether due to a pre-existing illness, age or any other factor a high risk pregnancy requires special care.
Request more information about high risk pregnancy and obstetrics today: call (843) 492-4884 or contact Dr. Dalal Akoury online.
What is a High Risk Pregnancy?
A pregnancy is considered high risk when either the mother or child faces an increased chance of complications. Some of what causes a high risk pregnancy is pre-existing health conditions, while other risk factors include age or lifestyle choices.
A high risk pregnancy isn't necessarily "treated", but is instead subject to much closer monitoring and more frequently health check-ups. If the high risk pregnancy is due to an underlying medical condition, treatment of that issue may need to happen before pregnancy occurs.
If it is determined that a high risk pregnancy is present, special steps may be taken. These can include blood testing , urine testing and additional ultrasounds. In some cases, a special facility or hospital that caters to high risk pregnancies may be used.
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There are many different factors that can lead to a high risk pregnancy. Some non-illness high risk pregnancy factors include:
- Age: Women younger than 17 or older than 35 face a higher risk of complications than women within that range.
- Multiple-child pregnancy: In many cases, a multiple-baby pregnancy is automatically considered high risk.
- Lifestyle: Mothers who are obese , underweight or have a history of substance abuse are considered to have a high risk pregnancy.
- Past pregnancy issues: If a mother has dealt with multiple miscarriages, early birth, and pregnancy seizures or has had previous high-risk pregnancy, this is also a factor.
Many high risk pregnancies also stem from health issues present in the fetus, including Down syndrome, heart problems and lung issues.
Still other high risk pregnancies are caused by a pre-existing health condition in the mother. Some of these illnesses can include:
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- Cancer
- Hepatitis C
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- Sickle cell disease
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- Arthritis
Certain medications may affect pregnancy risk as well.
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Interview with Diego Cardenosa, Lead Scientist
Since I was three years old I have been in love with the ocean. I know that sounds odd, since is highly unlikely that I would remember that, but there are many childhood drawings that can prove it. I also remember my parents telling me stories about their incredible diving trips and how amazing the underwater life was. They told stories about their numerous encounters with sharks and other mind-blowing ocean creatures. I soon realized that I wanted to become a biologist, while most of my friends wanted to become firefighters or cops.
Why sharks?
My initial interest in biology was prompted by reading books about sharks and marine life that my parents kept giving me as I grew up. They were always encouraging me to follow my dreams, and gave me all the tools they could to keep my curiosity going.
Later, at the end of my undergraduate studies, I had my first real shark research experience volunteering at the Bimini Biological Field Station (BBFS), Bimini, Bahamas. For seven months I learned many key research skills in the field of marine biology which I have been using since then. This experience further reinforced my drive to concentrate on my chosen career path. My decision was confirmed after I joined a research project for the first time, focusing on the effects of habitat loss on survival and growth rates in the juvenile lemon shark.
How did you get involved with Projects Abroad?
I have been working on my own project called the Alopias Project with scientist from the South West Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC-NOAA), Monterrey Bay Aquarium, Stony Brook University, CICESE and Universidad de Los Andes currently on board. This international research project aims to understand the biology, migrations, population structure, and fisheries interaction with artisanal fishermen of the pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus in the Pacific Ocean. The first results of our work on this project suggest the existence of a potential new shark species in the Pacific Ocean. This was the main result of my MSc. thesis in Biological Sciences at Universidad de los Andes. I am now a published shark biologist.
The last two years were particularly important for me. I traveled to India to attend a Go4BioDiv Youth Forum focused on World Heritage Marine Sites were I represented the Flora and Fauna Sanctuary Malpelo Island. During this experience I also attended the Convention on Biological Diversity as a Youth attendant. Then, I went on a shark and swordfish cruise organized by NOAA at the Southern California Bight, where I learned new research skills. During the second semester I taught a course entitled "Biology and Ecology of Elasmobranchs" at Universidad de Los Andes for 43 students with a very successful field trip to the Bimini Biological Field Station in the Bahamas. I also prepared a presentation and video for a CITES meeting recently held in Brazil about the shark molecular identification study. The video will be translated to English and French by the Humane Society International and will be shared in different countries, and published in the Organization of American States website.
Early this year my life completely changed when I started working for the Shark Conservation Project in Fiji with Projects Abroad. I was lucky enough to become involved through the recommendation of Dr Damian Chapman (one of the top shark biologist in the world) and his PhD student Mark Bond. In the last 6 months I have been conducting shark research in one of the top shark destinations in the world, which for me is like my dream playground. I have been having so much fun, seen so many sharks, and worked with so many passionate people that it is a little unfair to even call it a job!
Your Experience with Projects Abroad?
During my time at the Shark Conservation Project in Fiji I would like to think I have learnt most about life. Working with people from all walks of life and sharing our thoughts and cultures with one another. Not only that but I have learnt an incredible amount about shark behavior which I never thought possible. I suppose diving with 50 + magnificent Bull sharks weekly, each with their own personalities and hierarchies, will do that to you.
My dream has always been to become a scientist and to promote change through knowledge. This is exactly what I am doing here with Projects Abroad. Volunteers usually come with little or no knowledge about sharks and at this project I have seen people change their minds about sharks, and I would like to think that they started looking at them the way I see them, not as scary monsters, but as the magnificent and beautiful creatures they are. I strongly believe that the Shark Conservation Project from Projects Abroad will make a huge difference in the way people look at sharks and promote their conservation around the world.
What do you believe is the most important thing that the average person can do to help save sharks?
I believe that the general public can do two important things for sharks. One is to increase awareness and spread the message about conserving them. Projects Abroad is doing some amazing work in order to make this change. They are teaching the Project Aware course which arms the volunteers with the knowledge and heightens their understanding of shark conservation, allowing them to go home and talk confidently with their families, friends, and peers, and hopefully change the common misconception and media stereotype that all sharks are out to attack humans.
One of the main threats to sharks is overfishing. People must be responsible consumers and choose not to be uninformed and purchase or consume any shark products. It doesn't matter if they come from Asia, Australia, and even Europe, no matter which part of the world you are from you are in some way consuming sharks and aiding to the shark consumption market.
What was the thing that surprised you the most about the project?
I wasn't entirely sure what I was getting myself into when I boarded the plane to Fiji. Over the last 12 months I have seen the project flourish into the leading shark conservation project in the world. We have received the highest number of conservation volunteers with Projects Abroad and have started to be recognized by big players in the shark conservation world. This is mostly thanks to the hard work and incredible passion of Ingrid Sprake and Andy Hill whom without this would not be possible.
What is next for you?
Now that my time with the Shark Conservation Project in Fiji has come to an end, I will be working on my PhD for the next 4 years at Stony Brook University. Again under the supervision of Dr. Damien Chapman.
It has been a privilege to work alongside people with such passion and knowledge in shark conservation and it is an experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
Read more about this project and find out how you can get involved on our Shark Conservation in Fiji page.


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The guy's cruising. He's managed to define the comfortable centre, make himself the default anti-Ford candidate, and take advantage of Olivia Chow's miscalculations and bad positioning. All he has to do is not fuck himself up again, and he's got some very serious help to keep from doing just that.
And then Friday:
- Opens the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid / Pride thing again, only to have it blow up in his face.
- Thinks "some of my best friends are gay" constitutes effective damage control.
- Blows off the Globe.
- FUs @Goldsbie, both directly and indirectly.
So what the fuck is going on? Can only speculate: now that Olivia's started playing to her strengths, finally, he's afraid of losing support on the left, so he veers hard right in an attempt to milk what's left of Ford Nation before Brother Dumbfuck starts campaigning in earnest?
Maybe the latest numbers are prompting this, who knows, but really, John? You think you need people like this? Maybe it isn't a series of gaffes. Maybe this is a well-thought out strategic move that we mere mortals aren't smart enough to understand.
Let's see if we can follow the calculation here. He's ready to risk losing people who are basically progressive but willing to hold their noses and support him because Olivia's been running a shitty campaign and he's become the default "only one who can beat Ford" candidate. And he's willing to throw them away because he needs some of the stupidest, most deluded people in the world -- aka "Ford Nation?" You know, the people who think he's a closet Liberal in bed with Kathleen Wynne?
Or is there a simpler answer?
Internetz? Anyone?
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The Brush Beetdiggers were 2-1 to end last week and move to 12-6 overall with wins over Lyons and Thornton.
The Beetdiggers wrapped up the weekend on Saturday with a road game against Thornton. Brush won 29-8.
Brush trailed 7-3 headed to the top of the third. Zane Pfau hit an RBI single and then another run scored on an error. Then Alec Petterson would single and the tying run would come across on an error.
The go-ahead run came on an RBI single from Arnoldo Maltos-Garcia and an RBI double by Kyle Rosenbrock would buy a little insurance for the team.
Thornton would score one run in the bottom of the third, but they would not score again in the contest while Brush would bring home three in the fourth and 17 in the fifth. The game ended after five innings due to the great than 10-run lead.
Brush got a home win over Lyons 13-0 on Friday. Maltos-Garcia drove in the first run of the game in the bottom of the first, which was technically the winning run as well as Ryan Hirschfeld pitched the complete game shutout.
The game ended early thanks to eight runs in the fourth inning. Brush already lead 5-0 after scoring two in the first and three in the second. Grayson Simmons had the two-run hit that let the Beetdiggers take a 10-run lead and have the game end early.
Brush lost 3-2 to University on Thursday. University's Cody Rusch had an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to give the Bulldogs the win.
Ryan Hirschfeld and BJ Hirschfeld both had RBIs in the game.
Brush is now 12-6 overall with one home game left. They wrapped up league play against University, finishing 5-4 and in sixth place.
Brush wins two over weekend
The Brush Beetdiggers were 2-1 to end last week and move to 12-6 overall with wins over Lyons and Thornton.


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Fire Island storm cleanup suspended
Six days after it was awarded, an $8.8 million contract for removal of storm debris from Fire Island has been suspended, a spokesman from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.
DS3 Enterprises Inc. of Central Islip was ordered Thursday to stop work on the contract because the Army Corps received a protest from another bidder. The agency did not identify the company or the nature of the protest.
The cleanup was announced in December, more than a month after superstorm Sandy, which officials said destroyed or damaged about half of the island's roughly 4,000 homes.
Officials announced the contract award on Jan. 25, and Army Corps spokesman John Campbell, from the Field Recovery Office in Manhattan, said cleanup of about 82,500 cubic yards of debris from the narrow island and national park was expected to begin this weekend or next week.
"The corps remains committed to working through this issue to find a solution so we can clean up the amount of debris that remains on Fire Island," Campbell said. "We know that debris continues to pose a significant health and safety threat, and we're committed to safely removing the debris as quickly as we can."
According to a news release the Army Corps issued last week, the project must be completed by the end of March. Hauling debris on the beach will be restricted after March 15 because of the nesting season of the piping plover bird, the release indicated.
Campbell said the cessation could last "from a few days to a few months, just depending on how things go . . . If we can convince the contractor there's not merit to their protest, they may withdraw it fairly quickly and work resumes. If the contractor persists and tries to fight things harder, obviously it takes longer to find a resolution to these things."
A representative from DS3 Enterprises said the company had no comment.
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Facebook has now opened its AV Marketplace, a new page for free six-month trials of anti-virus software.
"We also provide extensive controls, resources and tools to all of you, so that you can better protect your account. In addition, we work with industry leaders to cooperate on important safety and security issues. That's why we're thrilled to announce the Antivirus Marketplace and welcome Microsoft, McAfee, Trend Micro, Sophos, and Symantec to the Facebook Security family," Facebook Security wrote on its blog. "We believe that arming our users with antivirus software will help empower them to stay safe no matter where they are on the web."
Facebook's URL blacklist is extensive and created with the help of a multitude of anti-virus software companies. It also cross-checks 300 million images a day with federal and international databases of exploitative images. Despite only dealing with only 4 percent of spam and malware, Facebook reported that it oversees 600,000 compromised accounts each day.
The new AV Marketplace could be a win-win for Facebook if it gets a URL blacklist from each security company for just providing their trials to its 901 million users. Access to the users may also be worth handing over the information. The free trials aren't a bad thing for Facebook users, but users would have to be naive not to think the free trials are aren't being provided in hopes that a few million of them would buy the software.