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|On plagiarism with sense of humor
|"Copying from one person is plagiarism. Copying from two or more people is research."
— Hwee Hwee Tan[1]
Plagiarism is the use of another person's words or ideas with the goal of deceiving readers into thinking the plagiarist originated the ideas and deserves credit for them. It is considered a very serious offense in the academic world, and students, professors and even college presidents are regularly punished for it.
Colleges have elaborate rules on how students can avoid plagiarism by quotations and citations. Note that when academic credit for original writing is not at issue, plagiarism does not happen. Thus officials of government or the private sector often give speeches or reports, and take credit for them, even though some staff member actually did the research and writing. That is not plagiarism because no academic credit is claimed, plus the speech writers are paid for their services.
Plagiarism is intellectually dishonest, and in the academic and professional community is considered to be a serious offense, and can lead to academic suspension, expulsion, or loss of a job.[2]
Academic standards
Dave Pierre of NewsBusters quotes the Harvard University definition of plagiarism as cited at Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences which defines plagiarism and emphasizes personal responsibility:
|Plagiarism is passing off a source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to acknowledge that source—an act of lying, cheating, and stealing.
See also Harvard's "Writing with Sources: Common Questions about Sources" (emphasis added):
4. Am I plagiarizing if I accidentally use a few vivid phrases from my reading without citing them? Yes; it's your responsibility to avoid such accidents (p. 14b).[3]
Relation to copyright
Plagiarism and copyright infringement are separate concepts, and don't necessarily overlap. An act of plagiarism can also qualify as copyright infringement if the work being copied is copyrighted.[4] However, it is still plagiarism to copy a work that is in the public domain without providing a citation.[5]
Hollywood Plagiarism
Science fiction author Harlan Ellison sued and won in a case against James Cameron, claiming that his film The Terminator plagiarized the two episodes he wrote for the television show The Outer Limits: "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand". [1] The case was settled out of court, with Ellison gaining a spot in the film's credits.
Plagiarism and the Internet
Plagiarism is an ever-increasing problem in schools. With the widespread popularity of the Internet, it has become much easier for students to directly plagiarize information; rather than laboriously copying it from a book, they can now simply cut-and-paste electronically. The problem is exacerbated by the existence of online sites offering pre-written papers for a fee.[6]
Joe Biden
Associated Press reported: "On the plagiarism issue, Biden correctly attributed lines in one of his speeches to former British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock on some occasions, but not at an Iowa State Fair debate where Biden was videotaped. In political campaigns, no black mark is too old to dredge up — again. Biden admitted back in 1987 that he had committed plagiarism while a freshman at Syracuse University law school and that he occasionally used other people's words in his speeches without giving credit. [2]
- ↑ Hwee Hwee Tan (2000). Foreign Bodies. Simon and Schuster, 184. ISBN 9780671041700.
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_ethics/casestudy_blair.php
- ↑ NewsBusters - Dave Pierre
- ↑ http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
- ↑ http://www.csuchico.edu/lins/Oasis/Ch4/IA1a2.html
- ↑ http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/plagiarism_the_internet.html
See also
External links
- plagiarism.org
- Search engine plagiarism checker - SmallSEOTools (1000 word limit)
- Search engine plagiarism checker - PaperRater
- Search engine plagiarism checker - Plagiarisma
- Search engine plagiarism checker - PlagiarismChecker
- Search engine plagiarism checker - DupliChecker (1000 word limit)
- Search engine plagiarism checker - unplag (500 word limit)


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Despite what you may have read elsewhere on the interwebs, the biggest diver in hockey likely will be in Pittsburgh's lineup for tonight's big game between the two best teams in the Eastern Conference since Turkey Day, but the focus will most likely be on the two Russians comrades who were taken one-two in the 2004 Entry Draft and have won the last two Calder Trophies. You know plenty about that first pick, so let's talk a bit about the second.
Evgeni Malkin is following up
Make no mistake about it - Sidney Crosby is irreplaceable, both on and off the ice. But if there's a silver lining to his injury for the Pens, it's that they'll get a clearer picture of where Evgeni Malkin is in his development as a player and a leader. Something tells me they won't be disappointed.
Why The Pens Will Win:
"Evgeni Malkin. Period. The guy has been playing like he has a chip on his shoulder the size of the Communist Bloc. His consistent dismissal of an all-star game invitation will fuel 'Geno' to new levels leaving goalies to beware." - Confessions of a Hockey Fanatic (and if you're more of an aural learner, check out the audio clip Mike sent over - very cool):boomp3.comElsewhere 'Round the Rinks:
"This game has Capitals finally rise up and beat the Penguins all over it..... It should be a really entertaining game. How come no one ever talks about Malkin vs. A.O. Old fashion shootout. Pens torch caps goalie Jim Carey 6-4." - The Pensblog
"The Pittsburgh Penguins will win this game because of, wait for it, defense. Gasp! That's right, since getting lambasted by the injury bug in 2008, the Penguins have clamped down in their own zone and played tight hockey in front of some hot goaltenders. Ty Conklin has been absolutely stellar between the pipes and Dany Sabourin earned a shutout in his first start of 2008 Saturday night in Montreal. Evgeni Malkin rose to the occasion in Crosby's absence Saturday and I'd expect him to do the same tonight." - Faceoff-Factor
"Let me preface this by saying that I was once a resident of Northern Virginia. Yes, I was one of those Penguins fans that all Capitals fans hate. You could count on me being at each and every game that the Pens came south to meet Washington, in my Lemieux jersey, agitating everyone around me to the point that my well being was threatened on many occasions. But those, as they say, were the days...
"The series is much better when both teams are competitive. Right now, the Caps are in a re-building stage and the Pens are at a much different stage of development. This alone should be reason enought that Pittsburgh will prevail. But, due to Sid Crosby's ankle injury, the plot has thickened. In the Pens most recent game, a 2-1 victory against the Canadiens, they proved to everyone, including themselves (and this may be the most important), that they can win without #87 in the lineup. They did so by playing sound defense, finishing checks and eliminating costly mistakes. Does this sound like a typical Penguins team? No. And this is the same team that the Capitals will face tonight. If Washington is not prepared for a gritty, hard nosed game then they will not end up on top when 60 minutes have been played. If they are prepared, which I believe they will be, it should be a very tight contest with the Pens winning in OT 3-2." - Home of the Penguins
"The Penguins will win because it's not just about Crosby, it's about Malkin. The Pens supporting cast (Malone, Sykora, Gonchar) is more skilled, experienced than the Caps. The Caps have given up three or more goals 5 times in calender year 2008 already; the Penguins just once. The Pens will win because role players like Jarrko Ruutu and Georges Laraque spend more time on the cycle than Lance Armstrong. But mainly the Pens will win tonight because they've beaten the Capitals six times in a row, it's just one of those things that's meant to be." - The Sweater Ted
On this national holiday, I wonder how Donald Brashear and George Laraque plan to honor the memory of famously pacifistic Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Mathieu Perreault is on a 17-game point-scoring streak (only 44 games to go to tie Mario Lemieux's record) and is tied for sixth in the Q in scoring with 64 points in 40 games (three points behind fellow Caps prospect Francois Bouchard).... Maybe the Caps are scouting the Jax after all.... Another Canadian writer thinks Alex is overpaid. Surprise.... Short blurb on Flash.... Finally, a special welcome to our puppy-stealin' friends to the north. Make yourselves at home.
Daily Awards
- Hart: John Madden (2G, including the game-winner, +1, 5 SOG)
- Ross: Scottie Upshall, Braydon Coburn (3 points each)
- Norris: Braydon Coburn (G, 2A, +3)
- Vezina: Tim Thomas (W, 30 saves on 31 shots against)
- Richard: Brenden Morrow, Niklas Hagman, John Madden, Scottie Upshall (2G each)
- Calder: Andrew Cogliano (A, +2)
- Aiken: Martin Gerber (L, 4 goals allowed on 14 shots against in 39:51 of work)

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Carey Mulligan donating Met Ball gown to charity
Actress CAREY MULLIGAN has put the gown she wore to New York's annual Costume Institute Gala up for sale to raise money for charity.
Mulligan, who wed singer Marcus Mumford last month (Apr12), made her red carpet debut as a married woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glitzy event, known as the Met Ball, in a futuristic gold and silver Prada piece on 7 May (12).
And despite making a splash in the dress as one of the evening's co-chairs with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and designer Miuccia Prada, the Drive star is gearing up to say good riddance to the garment.
The 26 year old has put the stunning size 8-10 gown, which is worth an estimated £2,500, on auction site eBay, alongside a photo of her wearing the one-of-a-kind dress.
The proceeds from its sale will go to poverty and injustice charity organisation Oxfam.


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Jim and Ruby Wax Pleeeeaaaase.!!!
I wonder if it would be possible you fab people at JCO to include Ruby Wax's interview with Jim in your video clips section. The Jonathon Ross interview was great but I think the Ruby one was even better. I have seen the stills that have been been posted which are great but he video would be wonderful. I'm not sure if has been shown in the US or worldwide even, but any Jim Fan will love it. I don't know if its possible to download it from somewhere, I'm not very good with finding stuff like that...so if anyone knows how to see this please let me know I would soooooo love to see it again.
Yeah, i wanna see this too Tommy,and you DID say you'd upload it AGES ago!
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Joygasm !!! I watched it twice this morning....god he is so funny, him and Ruby bounce off eachother just great. I love the look on his face when he pulls the tablecloth off....such a naughty boy, Johny Depp eat your heart out )
oh Maaaan!!.........lol......i have just watched it courtesy of Tommy on JCO, alas without sound ........So i've had to lip read and translate with lousy German and check out their facial expressions.
What a blast they all had, Ruby was in her element and Jim had a ball.....
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What a lucky girl, to have Jim Carrey pick you up, spin you around, pin you to the floor and kiss you.....lol......AND she did it in the name of work!!......lol.....
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Mexico Supreme Court rules drug lord release wrong
MEXICO CITY Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned an appeals court ruling that freed drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero from prison, a decision that had enraged U.S. officials who placed a bounty for his re-capture.
Caro Quintero, whose whereabouts are unknown, walked out of a maximum-security prison in August after the appeals court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 torture-killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena and a Mexican government pilot.
The three-judge appeals court annulled Caro Quintero's sentence on procedural grounds, saying he should have been tried in a state court instead of federal court because Camarena was not formally registered as a diplomat, which would have made it a federal crime. Simple homicides are state crimes.
Prosecutors appealed that ruling and a panel of five Supreme Court justices voted 4-1 Wednesday to overturn the release, ruling that Camarena was a registered U.S. government agent and thus covered by the federal law.
"In his character as a DEA agent, he was an internationally protected person, given that he had been officially recognized by Mexico and the United States, as an intergovernmental agent," the court said in a statement.
A U.S. official who attended the court session, but who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said his government was "satisfied" by the Supreme Court ruling, calling it "the correct decision."
Caro Quintero, 61, would be returned to prison to serve out his sentence under the ruling, but the two governments have not been able to find him since he walked free in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 9 - a release that Mexican prosecutors say they were not advised about until hours after it took place.
Just days after his release, the United States formally requested that Caro Quintero be held for extradition on an unspecified indictment filed in California. Caro Quintero has been charged in two indictments in California, one alleging drug offenses and the other accusing him in Camarena's death. Since Mexican law prohibits extradition on charges already tried in Mexico, he is now likely being sought on the drug charges.
Fellow DEA agents consider Camarena a hero in the war against drug trafficking. The El Paso Intelligence Center, where U.S. federal agencies collect information about Mexican drug barons, is dedicated to him.
The U.S. State Department has announced a reward of up to $5 millionfor information leading to the arrest and conviction of Caro Quintero, who was a founding member of one of Mexico's earliest and biggest drug cartels.


text: The Dylan Thomas Theatre is Swansea's only waterside theatre venue. We are a thriving community theatre in the heart of the Maritime Cultural Quarter, located in the SA1 area of Swansea and we currently attract over 15,000 visitors per year. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our programme, which showcases the work of educational and community projects from throughout the region.The Dylan Thomas Theatre has been the home of the multi award-winning Swansea Little Theatre for over 30 years. We are a registered charity with a membership of over 150 actors and technicians, all working on a voluntary basis.Our theatre has undergone major redevelopment, following the award of a major Arts Council of Wales grant. Our foyer and bar, the Ruby Graham Room and the theatre is now fully accessible to all with ramps, lowered bar and box office and disabled toilets and shower.Panels in the theatre tell the story of Wales` most famous poet, Dylan Thomas`s time as an actor with the Swansea Little Theatre in the 1930`s. We try to open the theatre to the public Monday - Friday for 4 hours 10:00 - 14:00 and we have visitors from all over the world as we have a display of unique panels showing scenes from plays in which Dylan Thomas appeared. We have murals on the outside of the building showing Dylan Thomas, Captain Cat and Polly Garter and the theatre is opposite the iconic Dylan Thomas statue, next door to the Tram Museum and close to the Waterfront museum. Private parties catered for.


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Martha Scott Poindexter chosen for expertise, advice and ability Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss has named Martha Scott Poindexter as staff director for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Poindexter, a native of Morgan City, Miss., formerly served as legislative director for Chambliss, a Georgia Republican. Chambliss was elected chairman of the Agriculture Committee on Jan. 3, replacing Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., who became chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
"It is an honor to have Martha Scott remain on my team and serve in this new capacity," said Chambliss.
"Martha Scott has been a great asset to me. Her expertise and seasoned advice as well as her ability to get things done on Capitol Hill will be invaluable to me as chairman."
Scott joined Chambliss during his first term as a member of the House of Representatives, serving as the senior legislative assistant for agriculture and natural resources.
From 1997 to 2001, Poindexter served as a professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture for then Subcommittee Chairman Thad Cochran.
She has also served as a director of government relations for Monsanto in Washington, and, for the past two years, she has served as legislative director for Chambliss in his Washington, D.C., office.
Poindexter will be responsible for all aspects of the committee's legislative and administrative activities and functions while reporting directly to the chairman. She will also assist the committee's senators in developing and implementing policy objectives and political strategies for agriculture policy.
Poindexter is a 1989 graduate of Mississippi State University. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Poindexter of Morgan City, Miss.


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Clarke: Shero was ahead of his timeby Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke captained the Philadelphia Flyers for six seasons while playing for Fred Shero. In that span, he won the Stanley Cup twice and three Hart Trophies.
When Fred Shero got to the Flyers in 1971, I was 22 years old and going into my second NHL season. Back then players didn't just go talk to the coach; eventually the coach would tell you what he wanted or needed from you.
I think in today's world every new coach talks to every player and their wives and their kids and everybody else before the season starts. Freddie never said a word through training camp to me personally until probably 30 games into the season. But it didn't bother me at all, because I don't think he was talking to anybody else.
I don't think there was any ulterior motive behind it. I don't think he was trying to make me work harder or anything.
When he finally did talk to me, he said, "You're kind of hard to coach. You never talk, you don't talk to me." I was afraid to talk him. I said I was 22 years old; I wasn't going to talk to the coach. He snickered a little bit, but then it was all good.
I think that was just the way Freddie was.
Freddie was unique in so many ways. He was the first coach to use team systems. Before that, everybody played the same way on the ice. Every player was taught the same way, even though different players had different roles. That was way ahead of hockey's time. Nobody else ever did that. Freddie also was the first to use video. He was the first to get an assistant coach. He was by far the most progressive coach ever.
But what really stood out is that I never saw him raise his voice to players. There were times you knew he was angry at us, but never did he ever forget that his job was to coach us. So he never attacked any player personally.
He got his point across through practice. If the team was messing up, he would go through those things in practice without telling the players he was doing it. He would be repeating and repeating and repeating the things that he felt you were screwing up with on the ice as a team until you did it the way he wanted you to do it. He never told you why he was doing it, but pretty soon you'd be doing it right.
Because of that players had complete trust in Freddie and what he said and what he taught. And he earned that. He didn't demand it. He never criticized anybody, criticized an athlete. So many coaches will attack players personally, but that was never part of him. He was so far ahead of his time in so many ways. In those days the criticism of individuals by coaches, coaches giving players grief all the time individually, that was the way of coaching. He never did that. He got everybody to play the game properly and play together by being so smart.
Freddie had his peculiarities but I don't think it was an act. I think he was bright enough to do that if he wanted to, but in all honesty, I don't think he did it intentionally. That was him and that was his way. I remember after one road trip, Freddie gives Bernie Parent a ride home, and when they get to Bernie's house he says to Bernie, "How do I get to my house?" So Bernie gives him the wrong directions. The next morning at practice Freddie comes out and says Bernie, I drove around for two hours and I couldn't find my house. Bernie says it's lucky you weren't Christopher Columbus or they'd still be looking for America. The whole team laughs and then away we go.
Just another day for Freddie. Freddie thought it was a big joke.
Everyone remembers Freddie for his sayings. Sometimes they were humorous, sometimes you'd look at them and read them and have to think about what he was saying. In many cases, players just ignored them. There's funny guys in the locker room and not everybody is going to take something from it. But he knew all that. The one obviously that everyone remembers was, "Win today and we'll walk together forever." That was the biggest one he ever wrote. And the best.
That saying, like most of what Freddie said and did, we only recognized later how great it was. As players were traded and went to other teams, none of them found success after they left us. After playing for Freddie, I think it was hard to go someplace else where you're back to the old ways. It was tough for those players. It was really hard for me when Freddie left in 1978 and Bob McCammon came in because McCammon was not a technical coach like Freddie was. I couldn't play for McCammon. I just couldn't play that style, whatever he was trying to do. I was no good.
It's nice for Freddie and his family that he's finally going in to the Hall of Fame. I think all of us feel it was something that should have happened years ago, but for whatever reason it didn't. We'll complain about that he should have been in years ago, but this isn't the proper time to do that. This is the time you celebrate for Freddie and for his family because it's totally deserving. I think we're just very proud that Freddie is going in.


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Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys.
"We performed a sanity check of public keys collected on the web," the researchers state in their paper, published today and titled "Ron was wrong, Whit is right".
The researchers, who include Arjen Lenstra, James Hughes, Maxime Augier, Joppe Bos, Thorsten Kleinjung and Christophe Wachter, note in the paper that they found a shockingly high number of duplicate secret keys in what is supposed to be unique random number generation in RSA-based moduli.
The researchers said in an examination of 6.4 million distinct X.509 certificates and PGP keys containing RSA moduli, 71,052 (1%) occur more than once, some of them thousands of times. "Overall, over the data we collected, 1024-bit RSA provides 99.8% security at best," the paper states. "More seriously, we stumbled upon 12,720 different 1024-bit RSA moduli that offer no security. Their secret keys are accessible to anyone who takes the trouble to redo our work."
The researchers summarised their findings by saying, "We find the vast majority of public keys work as intended. A more disconcerting finding is that two out of every one thousand RSA moduli that we collected offer no security."
They also said their research showed that crypto based on "single-secret" cryptosystems like ElGamal or DSA, based on Diffie-Hellman, is less risky than cryptosystems based on RSA. Hence the research paper's title, "Ron was wrong, Whit is right," is an oblique reference to Whitfield Diffier, the cryptographer, and Ron Rivest, the co-inventor of the RSA algorithm.
RSA has no immediate comment to the paper. It was not possible to immediately reach the researchers Arjen Lenstra or James Hughes.
Some cryptographers say the paper is impressive in its scope.
"It is interesting. And great research," commented Bruce Schneier, cryptography expert. He said the research paper "is mainly a demonstration of the truism that random number generation is hard to do."
As to whether these research findings will cause a panic run away from the RSA crypto technology, he said, "No. But it will, like an Italian cruise ship running aground off the coast of Italy, make people wary of cruising – or maybe countries that begin with the letter 'I.'"
The researchers of the "Ron was wrong, Whit is right" paper say they will be presenting more about the findings at an upcoming conference.
They also said due to the difficulty in contacting individuals whose public key certificates they say are at risk, they have decided to put their project data "under custody" so that if anyone wants to exploit the current situation, they would have to redo the work, both the data collection and the calculation.


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Diagnostic Medical Sonography
Technical Standards
All students in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program must possess the intellectual ability to learn, integrate, analyze, and synthesize data. They must have functional use of the senses of vision, hearing, and equilibrium. Students must have motor function capabilities to meet the demands of Diagnostic Medical Sonography education and the demands of patient care.
The Diagnostic Medical Sonography student must possess the following capabilities and skills listed below:
Observation: The ability to observe is required for demonstrations, visual presentations in lectures and laboratories, laboratory evidence and microbiological cultures, microscopic studies of microorganisms and tissue in normal and pathologic states. The ability to discriminate among blacks, grays, and whites, and various color combinations that indicate blood flow on both display devices and recorded images (film and paper) is required for scan interpretation. A student must be able to observe patients accurately and completely, both at a distance and closely.
Communications: A Diagnostic Medical Sonography student must be able to communicate effectively via speech, reading, and writing. He/she should be able to hear and observe clinical staff and patients in order to elicit information, perceive nonverbal communications, describe changes in mood, activity and posture, and recognize and respond to an emergency or urgent situation. In addition to patient and clinical staff communication, the student must be able to communicate orally and in writing with physicians and other health care professionals.
Motor: An ultrasound student should posses the ability for gross and fine motor function, manual dexterity, and physical strength to:
- Apply general care & emergency treatment to patients
- Help lift patients who may be unable to move themselves from wheelchairs or beds to the examination table and vice versa (up to 10-25 patients per day)
- Lift and move objects (50 pounds or more routinely)
- Manipulate ultrasound equipment, computers, and peripherals
- Distinguish audible sounds: Adequately view sonograms, including color distinctions
- Work standing on his/her feet 80% of the time: Have full use of both hands, wrists and shoulders involving the coordination of muscular movements, equilibrium, and sensation.
Intellectual: Conceptual, integrative, and quantitative abilities are required. Problem solving is a critical skill demanded of sonographers and this requires all these abilities. The student must also be able to comprehend multi-dimensional relationships and the spatial relationships of anatomic structures.
Behavioral and Social Attributes: A student must be emotionally healthy. The student must be able to use his/her intellectual ability and exercise good judgment, to complete all responsibilities attendant to obtaining a quality ultrasound study and providing care to patients.
A student must be able to develop mature, sensitive, and effective relationships with patients and colleagues. An ultrasound student must be able to tolerate physical and emotional stress and continue to function effectively. A student must possess qualities of adaptability, flexibility, and be able to function in the face of uncertainty. He/she must have a high level of compassion for others, motivation to serve, integrity, and a consciousness of social values. A candidate must possess sufficient interpersonal skills to interact positively with people from all levels of society, and all ethnic and religious backgrounds.


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>You're late to a meeting and caught in traffic. Your toddler is screaming and your in-laws just showed up. You're about to give an important presentation but you've misplaced your notes—and you're beginning to panic. We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for many of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily to get the best of us? According to Dr. Friedemann Schaub, the answer lies in the subconscious mind—the source of our most challenging emotions and the key to the wisdom they offer.
The Fear and Anxiety Solution presents Dr. Schaub's breakthrough and empowerment program for learning to understand, direct, and utilize the subconscious mind as our greatest ally on the path to health and wholeness. The processes and tools of each chapter will show you how to consciously work with your subconscious mind to pinpoint and understand the root causes and deeper meanings of your fear and anxiety, release emotional blocks from the past, and "shine more of who you truly are out into the world." Through step-by-step guidance, Dr. Schaub explains how to transform fear and anxiety into healing catalysts that lead to greater confidence, self-worth, and success, as he illuminates:
- The five principles for change—awareness, flexibility, choice, actualization, and readjustment
- How to address inner conflicts, stored emotions, and limiting beliefs—the three subconscious root causes of fear and anxiety
- A five-step process for effectively eliminating negative self-talk and mind-racing
- How to manage "free-floating anxiety"
- The Parts Reintegration Process, a powerful method for peace of mind, increased energy, and improved health
- The Pattern Resolution Process for releasing subconsciously stored fear and anxiety
- How to replace your old anxiety-driven identity with a new foundation of self-empowerment at the cellular level
"The more unresolved fear and anxiety you've stored in your subconscious, the more untapped potential awaits you," explains Dr. Schaub. With The Fear and Anxiety Solution, now you have the tools to change faster and perform better in every aspect of your life through the power of conscious-subconscious collaboration.
The Fear and Anxiety Solution is the 2012 Independent Publisher Award Gold Medal Winner and the USA Best-Book Award Winner in the category best new-self-help book.
"The Fear and Anxiety Solution is beautifully written and loaded with the truth that can free you from the adverse effects of fear and anxiety. I highly recommend this book!"
—Christiane Northrup, MD, physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
"This book is so much more than a solution for fear and anxiety. It will educate you, guide you, empower you, and heal you. Dr. Schaub has uniquely blended the current wisdom on the subconscious power of the mind-body-spirit connection, and how to use it in daily empowerment practices that will transform your life for the better. His strategies truly represent a breakthrough process for using your subconscious mind for healing and empowerment. I highly recommend it to my patients, medical residents, and colleagues. And I recommend it to you."
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"This book can help you to abandon your past and achieve your potential. We are created with the potential to heal our wounds but we must be ready to step forward, practice, participate in the process, and not live with the fear and anxiety of failure. If you are ready, the coach has appeared. Show up for practice by reading and learning what this practical and wise book has to offer."
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You are not your weakness, you are not your anxiety, you are not your fear…You are Peace …You are Joy …this is not philosophy but this is what I have learnt from Dr. Friedemann's book and guided meditations.
When you identify yourself in this way (Peace-Strength-Confidence…) (Dr. Friedemann will teach you how you can easily get there),your life will change and you will be surprised of the many gifts life will offer you but you were not able to see it through your negative filter .
In this book, you will learn how to release negative past experiences from your memory and from your body that take all of your energy, you will have compassion to your inner saboteur or inner critic because you will understand his purpose and you will know how you can make your positive voice work with your negative side in order to be whole again and when you are whole, there won't be any more inner conflict that keeps you stuck and depressed. You will have a new empowered image.
The most important t thing to understand is that negative emotions are not here to bother us but they are just messages from the subconscious that we need to accept and acknowledge and not to fix but to learn and grow from them.
This book has a lot of rich information, tools and meditations and in just 3 days of doing some of them, something in me shifted and I became more confident, felt more beautiful, open to life, eager to go out, smiling from the bottom of my heart…
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Powerful yet gentle healing process. I would recommend getting both audio and book. (Posted on December 18, 2012)
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Great approach to understanding where anxiety is coming from and how are minds recreate the past while keeping us fearful. Very helpful and reassuring practice. (Posted on December 11, 2012)
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Friedemann Schaub wrote an excellent book, which i highly recommend. I also downloaded the Guided Practices...(Audio-Book) which is the perfect combination. He shares obviously everything out of his treasure box which includes all the tools he gathered. I haven´t finished yet the read, and nevertheless i feel much lighter and very balanced. And a great thanks to Tami who put the right questions in this interview. (Posted on November 8, 2012)
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Red Blue Ring Octopus??
Posted 30 May 2011 - 07:14 AM
Posted 30 May 2011 - 10:48 AM
I have tried a couple of times to shoot octopi with a fluorescent setup and got mostly nothing but it is hard work since you need to have no lights going at all.
It was my understanding that each species will typically only possess three different colours of chromatophores and the patterns we see are based on different combinations of those chromatophores, similar to the way an RGB display works. The patterns are someone limited by the colours of the chromatophores and they can only make colours possible by the combinations.
As far as I know, fluorescent pigments are not known from cephalopods. The ones in cnidaria (corals, anemone, etc.) are proteins synthesised by the animals themselves and this is fairly unique to cnidaria. I don't believe algal symbiosis is known from cephalopods either - it is known from some gastropods which ingest cnidaria (hydroids and anemones) and steal their zooxanthellae.
The fluorescent alga idea is interesting, but I'm not sure how it could work.
The best way to see if it was fluorescent would be to photograph it using filters from NightSea. Basically you put one filter each strobe which only lets short wavelength through and another filter goes over the port and only lets light with longer wavelengths than what is blocked from the strobes. The only light that reaches the sensor/film will be fluorescence.
For a good review of pigments of a variety of sea beasties take a look at
Free content but you need to register. The authors suggest that some squid have fluorescent pigments but mention nothing about fluorescent octopuses.
Canon 7d, Nauticam, Lots of glass, Olympus OMD-EM5, Nauticam, 60 macro, 45 macro, 8 mm fisheye, Inon, S&S, Athena Strobes plus lots of fiddly bits.
Posted 11 June 2011 - 09:52 PM
One thing I would be looking for is if the red color appears metallic. As far as I know, cephalopods are not fluorescent (absorbing one color of light and re emitting it as another) but are iridescent (differential refraction of light). The red anemone at 100 feet as well as the colors of many corals under uv light are great examples of fluorescence. The metallic color of many insects, especially certain metallic blue butterflies, is a good example of iridescence. Soap bubbles and oil on water are also examples. Iridescence is directional - change your viewing angle and the colors you see likely change. Color from pigments (most things) and from iridescence doesn't behave like that.
Cephalopods also have an iridescent system that is separate from their better studied chromatophore system. Unlike buttefly wings which are fixed, cephalopods can turn there iridescent system on an off!
Both iridescence and fluoresce can be very difficult to photograph. For iridescence you generally need to be shooting available light. What you see is not what you get when your strobes chance the angle and properties of the incoming light. For fluorescence, you may need to shot available light (its dim at 100 ft) or supply the right spectrum of light (often uv) and add a filter to your camera to block undesirable noise.
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Posted 12 June 2011 - 07:12 AM
These two shots are I believe of the closely related mototie octopus. There was 21 secs between the shots and it changed faster than that when irritated by the dive guide. About 2-3 inches long delightful little beastie.
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Posted 13 June 2011 - 01:56 PM
Cheers, Simon
Posted 14 June 2011 - 03:42 AM
These two shots are I believe of the closely related mototie octopus. There was 21 secs between the shots and it changed faster than that when irritated by the dive guide. About 2-3 inches long delightful little beastie.
Tim Digger
Nice picts Tim. The red and brown is the "normal" chromatophore system at work. As it is directly controlled from their brain, they can change colors in fractions of a second. The blue eye spot is from iridescence, a different system.
We sometimes see a similiar stripped pattern in swimming O. vulgaris (common octopus) in the Caribbean. I think it may mimic a local parrot fish.
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Former wrestler-turned-actress Chyna has been admitted to hospital in Los Angeles after allegedly over-medicating herself with a sleeping aid, according to a U.S. report.
TMZ.com initially claimed the 39 year old, real name Joan Laurer, was suffering from alcohol poisoning when she was taken to UCLA Medical Center on Monday morning.
However, a source now tells the website the star took as much as five times the suggested dosage of Benadryl to help her sleep -- but found herself throwing up and struggling to walk properly when she woke up.
The insider adds Chyna is being treated with fluids in the emergency room and is expected to make a full recovery.
A representative for Chyna had yet to respond to requests for a comment as WENN went to press.
The troubled star has a history of substance abuse and heavy drinking, and attempted to overcome her problems during a 2008 stint on U.S. reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.


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Scheduled cesarean birth has been one topic that has surfaced in many different ways on the ICAN list. It is important to acknowledge and support our Sisters who will – for one reason or another – decide to schedule a repeat cesarean, so I decided to dig around on the internet. I conducted a simple google search [cesarean "birth plan"] and immediately was directed to some interesting resources.
Most expectant mothers assume that having a Caesarean Section means that a birth plan isn´t necessary. However, creating a birth plan can ensure that the mother experiences the birth that she wants! Here are some things to consider for a planned Caesarean birth plan:
Would you like for your partner to cut the cord?
Would you like to have a free hand to touch the baby?
Would you like to watch the birth?
Who do you want present in the OR?
Would you like any sedatives or medications before the operation begins?
Would you prefer an Epidural or a Spinal?
How soon would you want to begin breastfeeding?
Do you want the hospital to bathe your baby immediately or would you rather do it later?
Furthermore, this site suggests that women who plan to schedule a cesarean should meet with the careproviders who will likely be involved – including an anesthesiologist. I second that recommendation especially if you have strong feelings about how you would be medicated during the surgery.
The ICAN White Papers are continually being reviewed and revised so that they can present the most accurate and current information. So know that the content and links are subject to change. Here's the link to the Family Centered Cesarean information.
This contains a good list of ideas for having a positive cesarean birth experience. Included are many things I wouldn't have otherwise thought of such as "[y]ou can ask for the lights to be dimmed for a couple of minutes at the moment of birth. Babies are born with their eyes open so if the lights are dimmed and there is silence, yours can be the first face that comes into view and yours the first voice your baby hears."
A blogger's cesarean birth plan:
You might look at this or other similar blog posts for ideas on how to frame your birth plan.
Other Resources
Planning Your Cesarean FAQ from childbirth.org
Planning Your Caesarean from csections.org
Creating a Birth Plan Part 2: In Case of Cesarean Section from a Bradley Birth weblog [again, more things one might forget to specify such as preference for low horizontal incision and suture specifications]
Tips from Childbirth Connection
Especially if you are undecided regarding VBAC or ERCS, consider joining the ICAN Yahoo Group, Birth After Cesarean, and visit the ICAN Forums
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At a time when people are storing more data than ever before and more households have multiple computers (and networked devices) in them there is a growing need for connected storage. Something like a network-attached storage (NAS) device is the ideal tool for sharing data with multiple computers as well as backing up those same systems. Most of these devices aren't limited to working with your computer either, they can share files with things like an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows Media Extender, connected television, and others. In fact, they are more useful than you might think, especially once you factor in features like remote access. So while external USB hard drives (direct-attached storage devices) are useful, the move to a networked device is something that more and more people should be considering.
With that in mind Western Digital has released a new version of their My Book World Edition. The networked My Book has been around for some time and even though this release marks a major overhaul the name was not changed (so keep in mind that we are working with model WD10000H1NC, not the older 2TB one will be arriving shortly. If you haven't used a My Book World Edition in some time, you'll also notice that features like MioNet (for easy remote access) have seen big upgrades from older versions.has revamped the internals, making for a device that has faster transfer speeds than previous models as well as slight changes to the exterior. The capacities have obviously increased as well–we'll be testing out a 1TB model and the
The Western Digital My Book World Edition 1TB is essentially a single disk version of the company's ShareSpace. Where the ShareSpace has four drives the My Book has only one, but the software and feature sets are practically identical so we'll be keeping this article brief. Pretty much everything you can do with the ShareSpace you can do with the My Book, though you obviously lose the benefits of RAID 0/1/5 and there is only a single USB slot (for adding external storage). Another change at this point is that the My Book has a new firmware that is said to improve transfer performance greatly. This was a problem many people had with the ShareSpace though the firmware for that is on its way (we'll be doing a follow-up article).
On the hardware side the My Book World Edition is a white plastic enclosure about the size of a hardcover book. The front and sides are a glossy and the top, bottom, and rear are a vented plastic. It is clearly designed to be placed on a bookshelf or desktop as the design is not stackable and there are no feet included for placing the drive on its side. The front has a white LED strip that flashes up and down to indicate drive activity. It also acts as a capacity gauge that shows how much space you have left on the drive. On the back the My Book has a power button and three connections: gigabit ethernet, USB, and power. The NAS is fanless and it is not user serviceable.
The software for the My Book, just like the ShareSpace, is all web-based. This means that users only access the drive through their browser (probably 192.168.1.xxx) which means that the drive is platform-agnostic and it will work with your Mac just as well as it will with your Windows system. You will just have to map a network drive, which is very easy using any network discovery tool (but, just to be safe, WD includes one). This means that once the drive is on your network and powered up you will have access to it under a minute. WD's setup can be as simple as setting a password or it can be quite in-depth, with email alerts, remote access, user accounts, group permissions, and so on.
The online controls that will be accessed through the browser are very easy to use so long as you have a basic understanding of networking and storage. There is a Basic mode for people who are new to networked storage, but the Advanced mode is easy enough to use that almost any NAS user will feel comfortable with it. Through six tabs (System, Network, Storage, Media, Users, and Status) you can control all the NAS' functions, from your login password to creating user accounts and all the other functions you would expect. A quick look through this area will make it clear that the the My Book World Edition is for home users, not businesses, as many business features (Active Directory, etc.) are not present. The My Book has an iTunes server as well as UPNP support and DLNA 1.5 certification so your media can be streamed all over. One example of this is playing 1080p video on your television through your Xbox 360.
In my testing the My Book World Edition up to my network, just like I would any NAS device. It was connected to a switch and through that to a Linksys WRT610N router. The device was instantly recognized and accessible through Firefox. Windows Vista also recognized it which means that I could see it through Network discovery (Start > Network) or by mapping a drive. Once the drive was setup on my network it was fully accessible from all my computers and I was able to map it to a drive letter for easy access through my Vista system.
The My Book World Edition is a consumer product so performance was not a top priority. This was also the case with the ShareSpace, which was faulted by many people for it's slow (often under 10MBps) transfer speeds. Taking that into account WD has promised faster speeds with the My Book and they didn't disappoint. Initial real-world testing from a PC (with a wired connection) to the My Book moved along at about 16-17MBps when transferring a 1GB file to the NAS. Transferring the same file from NAS to a PC took place at 11MBps. This means that you don't get the speed of something like eSATA but transfers move along good enough pace. Transfer speeds mark a clear distinction between the My Book and higher-end NAS devices that hit much greater speeds.
{ad}As far as usage goes, the My Book has a few main applications. First, obviously enough, there is networked storage. After that the other two big ones are remote access and automatic backups. Remote access is handled through MioNet and you get a free account with the drive so there are no subscription charges to worry about. MioNet includes a third party in your information transfers but it greatly simplifies the setup and makes sharing with friends and coworkers effortless. WD handles backup with Anywhere Backup which does both one-click and continuous (incremental) backups of your computer. It is not the most robust backup solution, but it works easily enough and it will allow users to backup their systems as well as retrieve deleted files.
One interesting angle WD has played up with the World Edition is it's green friendliness. This may not be something you consider when buying a storage device, but WD points out that leaving on a NAS 24/7 consumes much less power than leaving on a PC to store/share the same data. Aside from low power consumption it also uses one of WD's Green Power drives which consume up to one-third less power than a typical 3.5-inch disk.
Western Digital's My Book World Edition, despite having the same name as the previous product, is a solid continuation of the company's overall strategy. They are delivering easy-to-use, consumer-focused storage devices that place price above performance, don't bog down users with unnecessary features, and at $229.99 (1TB) and $449.99 (2TB) are priced appropriately for the intended users. This My Book World Edition is effectively version 2.0 of the product which means better performance and an easier setup so it's worth considering even if you didn't love your previous My Book. While the World Edition will satisfy most people looking for simple connected storage it will be best for home users who are looking for a basic solution and don't need business features or redundancy.
Update: Here is the My Book World Edition unboxing…
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More than 30 students from UCLA Anderson's Executive MBA and Fully-Employed MBA programs visited Seoul National University in South Korea during August for a one-week class called, "Doing Business in Korea 2010." The class included lectures, guest speakers and company visits.
The course was taught in English by faculty of Seoul National University. Students stayed in a guest house on campus.
Twenty-two students from SNU's Global MBA Program also participated in the course. Some of those students will attend one term at UCLA Anderson next year.
"Part of our mission at UCLA Anderson is to help students develop what Dean Judy Olian calls global brains," said Bonny Kim, director of International Studies for the EMBA and FEMBA Programs. "We are offering eight international programs this year and we hope to increase these opportunities. Being in a foreign country allows our students to gain a new perspective on the global economy."
The course in Korea particularly focused on high tech business. A guest speaker from Google Korea discussed the company's challenges in Korea where they have a relatively small share of the search market. Hobart Lee Epstein from the Anderson class of '81 shared his business experience in Korea. Amy Jackson, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, also addressed the class.
Students had opportunities to visit Samsung, Hyundai-Kia, SK Telecom and CJO Home Shopping. Some took an optional one-day trip to the new international business district of Songdo, which was built from the ground up over the past three years. With an advanced technology infrastructure and innovative sustainability features, Songdo was designed as a model for new cities in Asia.
Students prepared deliverables before and after the trip - and received four units of class credit.
Participants enjoyed social and cultural events along with their studies. "Seoul has good infrastructure and public transportation so our students did a lot of cultural sightseeing and touring together too," said Kim.


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Hot new games for iOS
The stars lined up just right this week (read: gift-giving season is here!) to have a number of awesome game sequels and new releases launch all at once. Frankly, there are so many new games that there is no better time than the present to check out what the App Store has to offer.
Rick Broida already wrote about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City earlier today, but there are plenty more that would make nice additions to your iOS gaming collection.
This week's collection of apps is a group of excellent games released over the course of this week. The first is a funny and fun dual-stick shooter…
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Thursday was a tough day for Los Angeles-area drivers after an unusual combination of multiple crashes and two bomb scares created traffic nightmares during both morning and afternoon commutes in different parts of the region.
"It's definitely busier, and it makes the traffic for drivers a lot more difficult," said Officer Jennifer Cassidy of California Highway Patrol.
At 6:30 a.m., a suspicious backpack was reported at 1st and Hill streets downtown, prompting a 90-minute closure of the busy intersection near the city's government complexes through much of the morning commute. Added to the downtown frustration was the closure of Grand Avenue, an alternative to Hill, because of street closures related to the Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival.
The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad determined that the backpack's contents were not dangerous and reopened the intersection at 8:05 a.m.
Shortly after 9 a.m. a Caltrans worker called CHP to report a suspicious device in the brush off the shoulder of the westbound 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills that looked like a pipe bomb. The freeway was closed in both directions from Shoup Avenue to Mulholland Drive for roughly 90 minutes. A stretch of Ventura Boulevard was also closed while the LAPD bomb squad investigated and detonated the device.
"It was crazy. Everyone said, 'You've got to get out of here,' " said Adam Fish, an artist whose work is sold out of Fountains & Garden Art at Woodlake Avenue and Ventura Boulevard. He and a couple of other employees were in the building at the time, and were evacuated by LAPD officers.
"It was about 20 feet from me, on the other side of the fence," he said. "It looked like a pipe with wires coming out."
It turned out to be a pipe that did not contain any explosive materials, police said.
"It was a facsimile device, about 8 inches long, that was made to look like a pipe bomb but didn't actually have any explosives in it," said Sgt. Jeff Nuttall of the Los Angeles Police Department's Topanga Division.
But the pipe was enough to make things miserable for Valley drivers.
Drivers in idling cars took to Facebook and Twitter, posting pictures of the shut-down freeway. Many vehicles took to surface streets, turning residential streets into major thoroughfares.
The most dramatic incident of the day happened around 10 a.m., when a charter bus overturned on the 210 Freeway eastbound in Irwindale, injuring 52 people, some seriously. The freeway was shut down in both directions for more about an hour as six critically injured people were transported via helicopter to local trauma hospitals, with the westbound lanes used as a staging area for the helicopter transports.
Drivers stuck in park were urged to stay in their cars by CHP, as dozens wandered down the freeway on foot to see what was holding up traffic.
Westbound lanes reopened at 11 a.m., but at least two eastbound lanes remained closed into the evening rush hour, frustrating drivers who turned to backed-up surface streets.
Scattered amid the major messes were a few smaller vehicular incidents.
In West Hills, an elderly man accidentally crashed his Buick sedan through the front lobby entrance of a post office at 23055 Sherman Way. One man in the building was struck by the car and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Katherine Main. The driver was also transported to a hospital in serious condition.
"He possibly mistook the brake pedal for the gas pedal," said Officer Bobby Hammers of LAPD's Valley Traffic Division. "It was an accident."
The post office was closed for the day as city inspectors checked for structural damage near the entrance of the building where two glass window doors were destroyed, but is expected to be reopened Friday morning.
And in the early morning hours, at 1:05 a.m., the northbound side of the 405 Freeway and a connection road to the 5 Freeway were closed for more than an hour after a car crashed, overturned and caught on fire in a tunnel connecting the two freeways in Sylmar.
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Apple May Build New Data Center In Oregon
Subject: General Tech | December 4, 2011 - 10:28 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: server farm, Internet, data center, cloud, apple
CNet is reporting that Apple is currently considering constructing a new data center outside of Prineville, Oregon. The 31 Megawatt facility would be built on 160 acres outside of the small Oregon town and would join other prominent tech companies' data centers including those of Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
According to Oregon Live, it is the area's mild climate (meaning lower cooling costs compared to naturally warmer climates in addition to all the heat from servers), low electricity costs, and certain "rural enterprise zones" that exempt computers and equipment from normal business property taxes. They state that such exemptions could save Apple several million dollars.
Although Apple has so far declined to comment, city officials have commented that the company looking to purchase the land for the data center codenamed "Maverick" appears to be serious about going through with the purchase. Two major issues stand in the way of Apple building a large data center in the area, however. The company is concerned about tax issues against their intangible assets. Due to Apple putting a great deal of stock (er, the other kind :P) in their brand name, trademarks, and patents, they could face further taxes in the way Oregon's State Department of Revenue taxes data centers. The largest issue; however, lies in power concerns. In order to supply enough electricity to the various data centers in the area (including Apples should they indeed be building one), Bonneville Power Administration would need to upgrade the Ponderosa Substation, construct an additional substation, and add further transmission lines. This is because the utility company's transmission capacity to the area is currently nearly maxed out. A 31 Megawatt data center would consume enough electricity to power approximately 22,000 homes and that kind of capacity is not available in an area where towns are a fifth of that size.
The upgrade to the areas electrical subsystems would cost nearly $26.5 million and would take almost three years. Member Services Director for the Central Electric Cooperative, Jeff Beaman, believes that after the appropriate upgrades, a new data center "seems doable."
Whether this elusive "Maverick" is indeed Apple, and whether the company decides to build a data center remains to be seen; however, it is certainly plausible. Now that Apple is moving more services to the Internet, and the increased adoption of IOS devices thanks to the iPhone being available on all the major US carriers, the company would definitely benefit from having another facility on the other side of the country as their current North Carolina based data center for performance as well as redundancy and stability reasons. What are your thoughts on the reports, is Apple looking to put more cloud (server horsepower) in your icloud?
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Hope they are not stupid enough to use their own overpriced crappy systems for their server array.
You dont mark up your on stuff and sell it to your self, It would be at cost from workers that get pay 3 dollars a hour...
Now pcper is posting what the "A" company is considering doing. Is the website going to start posting "A" rumors as well. Please Ryan, don't go down this road. What does this stuff have to do with pc enthusiast stuff?
Small edit, it's Prineville, not Pineville. I live a couple of hours west of Prineville, seems weird that anything high tech would go out there. It can get dang cold so cooling certainly would be easier. Would be interesting to see how many jobs something like this would add to the area.
Will all of it be running on IBM prowided hardware, and Oracle software, maybe even Windows server 2008. :D
I remember that Apples server branch went bancrupt 8 years ago, so all signs show, that all in all this company will buy 3rd party services, because of its incompetence and bloated commertial costs. :(
But at least Apple made best loocing blade servers in the day. ;)
They going to hire cheap Chinese labour for this place too?


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Icecrown Citadel is going to be broken up into four distinct sections: The Lower Spire, Plagueworks, Crimson Hall, and Frostwing Halls. We plan on releasing these four sections of Icecrown Citadel over time and not all immediately when patch 3.3.0 goes live.
The first section that opens will include the Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Icecrown Gunship Battle, and Deathbringer Saurfang encounters. Progress beyond that point will be prevented for several weeks. Then the Plagueworks will open with Rotface, Festergut, and Professor Putricide becoming available. After another period of time, the Crimson Hall will open and you can then fight the Blood Princes and Blood-Queen Lana'thel. The final Frostwing Halls unlock then occurs after that, making Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and the Lich King available. We believe a staggered release of the content will allow players to experience Icecrown Citadel at a sustainable, measured, and ultimately more enjoyable pace.
I agree, I think staggering the release will make the content more enjoy able. Hopefully by the time ICC is released we will have killed Anub, and it will only take us an hour to clear ToGC. This way we can work on achievements like Mad Skill and Insanity while still getting to work on some new bosses.
I know the hardcore racers won't like it, but that is not me. It suits my playstyle and my guilds playstyle perfectly.
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The Ashen Verdict provides reinforcements and material for players to assault Icecrown Citadel, but this support is not endless. Raids will have a limited number of attempts total each week to defeat the four most difficult encounters in Icecrown Citadel: Professor Putricide, Blood-Queen Lana'thel, Sindragosa, and the Lich King. As these boss encounters are unlocked, the number of attempts available per week will increase. The initial number of attempts provided for defeating Professor Putricide is only five. When Blood-Queen Lana'thel unlocks, the amount of total attempts remaining will increase to 10. Then when Sindragosa and the Lich King unlock, 15 total attempts will be available to defeat all four bosses. After a raid has exhausted their attempts for the week, the Ashen Verdict must withdraw their support and the four most difficult bosses all
despawn and become unavailable for the week. The limited attempt system is a feature of both Normal and Heroic difficulty.
In the weeks and months after all twelve encounters are unlocked, additional attempts against the final four boss encounters become available. This represents the Ashen Verdict growing more powerful and gaining a stronger foothold in Icecrown Citadel.
As a general concept I don't have a problem with Blizzard limiting the number of attempts a guild can make on a boss each week. I do think it makes it easier to compare guilds who spend 30 hours a week raiding with guild that spend 10-15 hours a week. However, I don't think the ToGC model of limited attempts had any real impact on most guilds. Fifty attempts was to much, and it ended up giving most guilds 45-50 attempts on Anub when they first started working on him. I think the new model is trying to fix that issue, but I think it fails miserably for a couple of reasons.
- First, 5 attempts is just to low unless the boss is relatively easy. It also doesn't fix the problem that by the time we get to Arthas we will have a lot more attempts because we should be killing the earlier bosses with ease at this point. In my opinion they should increase the number of attempts you start with, and decrease the rate at which you gain more. For example, the first week you should have 10 attempts on the first boss. When the second boss is released you gain an additional 3 attempts. When Arthas is released you gain another 3. This way you don't walk up to Arthas with a thousand attempts, but you also have enough attempts for the first boss to put some real work into him.
- Second, this system favors PTR guilds. Some guilds already have dozens of attempts on these bosses. I know we benefit from the guides they write but that is not the same as doing the actual encounter. It just seems unfair to me that they can start these encounters with unlimited attempts and we only start with 5 because we didn't have the time to help test.
Third this system discourages us from doing some of the bosses on hard mode. Unless I'm reading it wrong the limited attempts are tied to the normal and Heroic versions of the bosses. If I was a raid leader and wanted to work on Arthas, why would I risk wasting an attempt on Hard Mode Blood-Queen when I can do it on normal with less risk. Therefore, a lot of guild are going to get their first kills and not do it again for several weeks because they want to work on something else.I misread the post.
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assistance by inspiring the armies attacking Icecrown Citadel. This is represented as an additional zone wide spell effect applied to all players that will increase their hit points, damage dealt, and healing done. This effect will also increase in effectiveness over time. Players may opt out of the spell's effect if they so wish.
Obviously, little is know about this spell, but my first reaction is that I hate it. I realize you can click it off, but a gradual built in nerf is not the way Blizzard should be tuning encounters. It just feels cheap to me. This way you never know if you just downed that boss because you improved or if the the fight was finally nerfed enough.
Picking up additional gear from one week to the next is already an indirect nerf to the content, why do then need to provide this charity. Blizzard should design the encounters to be as though as they think they should be. If it's decided that the encounter is to hard then nerf it, but I want to kill the boss on the intended difficulty. This just feels like the MMO equivalent of having your mommy stand over you and give you a participation ribbon at a swim meet.


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I recently read a quote by Edward Glaeser, an urban economist, in the latest issue of IFC's quarterly journal on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), which caught my attention:
Statistically, there is a near-perfect correlation between urbanization and prosperity among nations. As a country's urban population rises by 10 percent, the country's per capita output increases by 30 percent.
I immediately thought of Ulaanbaatar, the frozen capital of Mongolia, which The Economist recently described as a boom town. Since the emergence of the free-market economy twenty years ago, the population of the city has doubled to over one million. Economic growth in Mongolia has certainly been phenomenal—20.8 percent in the third quarter of 2011—led by a mining sector gone wild. I'm not sure if Mongolia's experience was factored in Glaeser's calculations, but the correlation seems to hold.
Prosperity, however, hasn't come just yet. The surge in the population of UB (as we call the capital) put a visible strain on the city. You don't have to be an economist to see it. The roads can't handle the 100,000+ vehicles in the city today, which has led to horrendous traffic jams. Three Soviet-era coal-fired power plants contribute to the sickening winter smog. Hundreds of thousands of people in the newly-created ger districts have limited access to housing, electricity, or water. Health systems are overburdened, and educational institutions struggle to prepare young people for the new economy.
So what's the answer? To stop the urban migration? Definitely not. As Glaeser points out: "People are moving for a reason. It's a terrible thing there are so many poor people in the world, but it's not a terrible thing that they have come to cities to try and make their lives better." Instead, Ulaanbaatar will have to evolve as its population and economy grow. To do that, it will need the experience and resources of the private sector.
Public-private partnerships can help make that happen. Mongolia has already taken the initial steps. With help from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), it passed the Law on Concessions in 2010 and kicked off its first major PPP, for a new power and heating plant. And good governance, especially in relation to the development of the mining sector, is a high priority and a core part of the government's partnership agreement with the World Bank. With a better regulatory environment for PPPs, the private sector will be able to contribute a lot to the city's infrastructure and public services.
But there's a lot more to be done before Ulaanbaatar can be considered a world-class city that meets the needs of its people and supports the country's expanding economic machinery. Is it going to happen? Having watched Mongolia for the last several years, I'm optimistic. But it would be great to hear what people living in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolians and expats alike) think about the future of the city.
Further reading: Handshake: Cities and PPPs
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The Urbanisation-Prosperity nexus is a potential to be realised
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I've got Mongolia on my mind too.
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Mongolia needs all of its people
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Lets go back all together!
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Let us build up our future
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What skills are companies looking for?
Well, I think, first and
Of course we noticed what
What skills are companies in Mongolia looking for?
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I don't understand your
I don't understand your worries. If you could learn other languages like German or French, why not Mongolian.