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The nucleation-mode aerosol size spectrometer (NMASS) measures the concentration of particles as a function of diameter from approximately 4 to 60 nm. A sample flow is continuously extracted from the free stream using a decelerating inlet and is transported to the NMASS. Within the instrument, the sample flow is carried to 5 parallel condensation nucleus counters (CNCs) as shown in Fig. 1. Each CNC is tuned to measure the cumulative concentration of particles larger than certain diameter. The minimum detectable diameters for the 5 CNCs are 4.0, 7.5, 15, 30 and 55 nm, respectively. An inversion algorithm is applied to recover a continuous size distribution in the 4 to 60 nm diameter range.
The NMASS has been proven particularly useful in measurements of nucleation-mode size distribution in environments where concentrations are relatively high and fast instrumental response is required. The instrument has made valuable measurements vicinity of cirrus clouds in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (WAM), in the near-field exhaust of flying aircraft (SULFUR 6), in newly created rocket plumes (ACCENT), and in the plumes of coal-fired power plants (SOS '99). The instrument has flown on 3 different aircraft and operated effectively at altitudes from 50 m to 19 km and ambient temperatures from 35 to -80ºC.
Accuracy. The instrument is calibrated using condensationally generated particles that are singly charged and classified by differential electrical mobility. Absolute counting efficiencies are determined by comparison with an electrometer. Monte carlo simulations of the propagation of uncertainties through the numerical inversion algorithm and comparison with established laboratory techniques are used to establish accuracies for particular size distributions, and may vary for different particle size distributions. A study of uncertainties in aircraft plume measurements demonstrated a combined uncertainty (accuracy and precision) of 38%, 36% and 38% for number, surface and volume, respectively.
Precision. The precision is controlled by particle counting statistics for each channel. If better precision is desired, it is necessary only to accumulate over longer time intervals.
Response Time: Data are recorded with 10 Hz resolution, and the instrument has demonstrated response times of this speed in airborne sampling. However the effective response time depends upon the precision required to detect the change in question. Small changes may require longer times to detect. Plume measurements with high concentrations of nucleation-mode particles may be processed at 10 Hz.
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Januka BK
Januka BK is 21 years old, and lives in Chandannath, Nepal in an extended family with her husband (22 years old), four-year-old daughter, one-year-old son, mother-in-law, Rasila (45 years old), brother-in-law (15 years old) and sister-in-law (12 years old). Her brother-in-law and sister-in-law both attend school. Her father-in-law has a second wife and family who live nearby, and he takes it in turn to stay with each family. Januka was married before puberty. Her husband and father-in-law, Jayalal BK (48 years old), work as tailors in nearby villages and Januka does daily wage work whenever it is available in the village. The family owns a small piece of land on which Januka and Rasila grow wheat, barley or paddy for sustenance.
Januka's village is situated high up in the hills, away from the road (a 30–45-minute walk away from the highway, with no public transport provision), and there is very little work for women in the village:
Unlike the women in other villages who carry sand, breaking stones [near the river and close to the road], the women in this village only have the option of carrying firewood from the forest and tilling the land… I do wage labour whenever there is work.
Currently, she has been offered a day's work (around six hours) carrying stone on a school project, 'my sister works there so she called me so I could earn some money. They will pay me Rs 500 [US$4.5] for the day with which I can buy some oil and also save some money.' In the past year, Januka also worked for a few days in the Karnali Employment Programme (KEP), a public works social protection programme initiated by the Government of Nepal, taking turns with her father-in-law to go. Jayalal explains their participation further:
Last year, some people with disability worked there, the leader chose them. But later, we told them that we are poor and have people with disability at home. We explained to them the difficulty we face to meet the daily needs and requested them to help us. So, two people worked under the same card at that time.
However, Januka could only participate for five or six days because her child fell ill after that and she had to look after him.
With regards to income, her husband's income is used for buying rice and taking care of the children's education while Januka tries to save Rs 100 (US$1) per month with a local savings group. Besides Januka and her husband contributing to the day-to-day expenses, her father-in-law buys some groceries in turn for both his families.
Januka is primarily responsible for most of the care work and household work:
I wake up in the morning, smear and sweep the floor, fetch water, cook food, go for work in the afternoon. And, if I do not have work outside the house then I stay at home... I also fetch firewood and cut the grass.
Januka also has to take care of Rasila, who has been very unwell for the last couple of months; as Rasila explains:
I am physically tired, I don't have the energy. My daughter-in-law does most of the work. I don't go to work; I stay home and look after the children, cook when she goes to do some work and sometimes feed the cow.
Januka is burdened with all the unpaid care tasks because being the daughter-in-law in the family she is primarily responsible for all the household work; as Rasila shares: 'the elders [men] and the children of the household do not engage in household work.' Rasila's illness has left Januka with no support; Januka says, 'My mother-in-law is ill, so, naturally the burden falls on me. I bring the firewood in the morning, have food, and come here. Then I return in the evening, wash the dishes and cook food.' She finds going to the forest the most time-consuming and burdensome as the forest is open for only a short period of time, and the task takes the whole day as the forest is far away from her village. Additionally, the water source is a 15-minute walk away from the house. She gets very little time to rest and none in the peak farming seasons such as June and July as 'we have to cut the barley, plant the seeds and till the land.' The burden of all the work takes its toll on her but she feels she has no choice: 'She gets tired. Sometimes, she gets fever after work, sometimes she has body aches. She takes some herbal medicines and goes to work on the next day as she has no choice', shares Jayalal. Also, she receives no help from her husband and this burdens her more, resulting in physical exhaustion:
I wish that he cooked food and offered me water when I am tired. Since there is nobody I have to look after my children while cooking and also fetch water. Who will do it? I have to do everything.
Januka would like to do more paid work but she has small children and so she is unable to find work outside of the village: 'I got some work opportunity at Urthu road, it is a little far. But I cannot leave the child behind and go far to work.' She would preferably like paid work opportunities closer to home: 'I could have done my work properly if there was a person to look after my child. Now, I worry about my child while working, I'm worried that the child would fall. I cannot concentrate on my work.' She could not do additional KEP work as she could not take her child along because of the location and because it is road construction work.
Januka's parents-in-law do not force her to do paid work but value the income that she earns as it helps the family financially. They all wish she could do some decent work rather than carrying stones in construction sites. Jayalal also feels that the provision of old age and disability allowances would help the household financially.


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ioSafe 1513+ Review: A Disaster-Resistant Synology DS1513+
by Ganesh T S on August 13, 2014 7:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- Synology
- Enterprise
- ioSafe
Introduction and Testbed Setup
The emergence of the digital economy has brought to fore the importance of safeguarding electronic data. The 3-2-1 data backup strategy involves keeping three copies of all essential data, spread over at least two different devices with at least one of them being off-site or disaster-resistant in some way. It is almost impossible to keep copies of large frequently updated data sets current in an off-site data backup strategy. This is where companies like ioSafe come in with their lineup of fire- and waterproof storage devices. We have already reviewed the ioSafe SoloPRO (an external hard drive in a disaster-resistant housing) as well as the ioSafe N2 (a 2-bay Marvell-based NAS with similar disaster protection).
External hard drives are good enough for daily backups, but entirely unsuitable for large and frequently updated data. The latter scenario calls for a network attached storage unit which provides high availability over the local network. The SoloPRO's chassis and hard drive integration strategy made it impossible for end users to replace the hard disk while also retaining the disaster-resistance characteristics. A disaster-resistant RAID-1 NAS with hot-swap capability was needed and the ioSafe N2 / 214 was launched to address these issues. However, with growing data storage requirements amongst SMBs and enterprise users, ioSafe found a market need for disaster resistant NAS units that supported expansion capabilities in addition to large number of drive bays. The ioSafe 1513+ serves to fulfill those requirements.
ioSafe partnered with Synology for the N2 NAS (which was later rebranded as the ioSafe 214). The partnership continues for the ioSafe 1513+, a disaster-resistant version of the Synology 1513+. The main unit has five bays, but, up to two ioSafe N513X expansion chassis can be connected to make 15 bays available in total for the user. Obviously, the N513X chassis is also disaster-resistant. We got our initial look at the ioSafe 1513+ at CES earlier this year. As a recap, the specifications of the unit are provided in the table below.
ioSafe 1513+ Specifications | |
Processor | Intel Atom D2701 (2C/4T @ 2.13 GHz) |
Drive Bays |
5x 3.5"/2.5" SATA 6 Gbps HDD / SSD (Hot-Swappable) |
Network Links | 4x 1 GbE |
External I/O Peripherals | 4x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, 2x eSATA |
Expansion Slots | None |
VGA / Display Out | None |
Full Specifications Link | ioSafe 1513+ Specifications |
Price |
$1600 (Diskless) |
The ioSafe 1513+ review unit came in a 70 lb. package. Apart from the main unit (which has the PSU in-built), we had an Allen key and a magnetic holder for the same, a U.S power cord and a single 6 ft. network cable.
Interesting aspects to note are the hot-swappable fans, the rubber gasket around the waterproofing door for the drive chamber and the faceplate on the underside that allows for addition of a SO-DIMM module to augment the DRAM in the unit. The drive caddies also have holes for mounting 2.5" drives, a minor complaint that we had in the ioSafe N2 review. The fanless motherboard is mounted at the base of the unit in a separate compartment under the fire-/waterproof chamber for the drives.
Testbed Setup and Testing Methodology
The ioSafe 1513+ can take up to five drives. Users can opt for either JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 or RAID 10 configurations. We benchmarked the unit in RAID 5 with five Western Digital WD4000FYYZ RE drives as the test disks. Even though our review unit came with five Toshiba MG03ACA200 2 TB enterprise drives, we opted to benchmark with the WD Re drives to keep the numbers consistent when comparing against NAS units that have been evaluated before. The four ports of the ioSafe 1513+ were link aggregated in 802.3ad LACP to create a 4 Gbps link. The jumbo frames setting, however, was left at the default 1500 bytes. Our testbed configuration is outlined below.
AnandTech NAS Testbed Configuration | |
Motherboard | Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA2011 SSI-EEB |
CPU | 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630L |
Coolers | 2 x Dynatron R17 |
Memory | G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL (8x8GB) CAS 10-10-10-30 |
OS Drive | OCZ Technology Vertex 4 128GB |
Secondary Drive | OCZ Technology Vertex 4 128GB |
Tertiary Drive | OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM88 (1.6TB PCIe SSD) |
Other Drives | 12 x OCZ Technology Vertex 4 64GB (Offline in the Host OS) |
Network Cards | 6 x Intel ESA I-340 Quad-GbE Port Network Adapter |
Chassis | SilverStoneTek Raven RV03 |
PSU | SilverStoneTek Strider Plus Gold Evolution 850W |
OS | Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Network Switch | Netgear ProSafe GSM7352S-200 |
Thank You!
We thank the following companies for helping us out with our NAS testbed:
- Thanks to Intel for the Xeon E5-2630L CPUs and the ESA I-340 quad port network adapters
- Thanks to Asus for the Z9PE-D8 WS dual LGA 2011 workstation motherboard
- Thanks to Dynatron for the R17 coolers
- Thanks to G.Skill for the RipjawsZ 64GB DDR3 DRAM kit
- Thanks to OCZ Technology for the two 128GB Vertex 4 SSDs, twelve 64GB Vertex 4 SSDs and the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM88
- Thanks to SilverStone for the Raven RV03 chassis and the 850W Strider Gold Evolution PSU
- Thanks to Netgear for the ProSafe GSM7352S-200 L3 48-port Gigabit Switch with 10 GbE capabilities.
- Thanks to Western Digital for the five WD Re hard drives (WD4000FYYZ) to use in the NAS under test.
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ganeshts - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - link
I hope we don't have readers chiming in about how they can build a better DIY NAS than the one presented here :) -
hodakaracer96 - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - link
I for one, was hoping for fire and water testing :) -
Samus - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - link
Some good "tests" on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszTblXpwgY -
ddriver - Thursday, August 14, 2014 - link
I wouldn't bet money on this product surviving an actual fire. Insulation seems too thin -
ganeshts - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
I hope you are kidding :) ioSafe's products have been proven to work - they have many real world success stories. Quite sure they can't have big-name customers if they don't prove that they can really protect the drives as per the disaster specifications quoted. Just for reference, a picture of one of the 1513+ units subject to both fire and water damage is in our CES coverage: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7684/synology-dsm-50... -
ddriver - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
Well, looking at the youtube videos of fire test I am not really impressed. Surely, it will probably survive a mild and short fire with not much material to burn, but being in a serious blaze and buried in blowing embers it will not last long. A regular NAS unit put in a small concrete cellar with no flammable materials in it has better chances of surviving.
And this probably has to do with how they test their products, which I can logically assume is safe controlled fires carefully estimated to not exceed the theoretical damage the unit can handle. But how many houses did they torch to test their products in real life disaster situations? My guess is zero :) -
ddriver - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
I mean, it will most likely survive a plastic trash can full of paper catching fire and burning out next to it, but will it survive an actual blaze disaster? I highly doubt it.
In other words, I don't doubt the product will survive what they claim it can survive, I doubt that the disaster specifications they quote reflect real world fire disasters well enough. They will probably suffice for "fire accidents" but not really in "fire disasters". -
ganeshts - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
Does this convince you?
As for real-life situations, they are claiming protection for the following fire situation: 1550°F, 30 minutes per ASTM E-119
I remember reading a post about some statistics regarding how fast fire services respond to hourhold fires, and ioSafe's protection circumstances fall within that. Anyways, this product is targeted at SMBs / SMEs who have buildings as per fire marshal codes. Any blaze in such a situation is probably going to be controlled well by building sprinklers. -
ddriver - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
It is the 1550 F number that bothers me. That's below 850 C, and even wood and plastic burns at almost 2000 C using air as oxidizer. Most of the stuff that is flammable burns around 1950 C, so targeting the product at 850 C pretty much excludes direct fire damage. E.g. if you have a wooden cabin and if it burns to the ground, the data is very unlikely to recover.
That is why I drew a line between "accident" and "disaster". This product will do in the case of fire accidents, but in the case of a fire disaster its specs are just not enough.
So, it is a "fireproof" product for buildings with anti-fire sprinkler installations and with good accessibility for fire services. In short, it doesn't protect in the case of fire disasters, but in the case of fire accidents and the water used to put them out. -
robb.moore - Friday, August 15, 2014 - link
Hi ddriver-
The average cellulose building fire temps are between 800-1000F for about 10-15 minutes. We've been in many fires and have a record or zero data loss for fire disasters in the real world. Most of the building damage is actually caused by firefighter hoses - not the actual fire. The absolute temperature (1500, 1700, 2000...) is not as important as the duration actually. Think of a pot of water boiling on the stove - as long as there's water in the pot, the pot doesn't melt because the endothermic action of the boiling water (212F) keeps the pot from melting. The flame temp could be anywhere between 800 and 3000+? and the water would still boil at 212F (assuming sea level pressures). You could use an aluminum pot (which melts at 1100) and still be ok. Once the water runs dry, then you'll ruin the pot. It's actually the same with all fire safes (and ioSafe). There's water chemically bound to the insulation that works to cool the inner chamber and keeps it at survival temps. Our fire test standards is hotter and longer than typical building fires and the systems we sell typically can go double the standard just to be conservative.
The fire protection technology is not new. We use the same proven techniques that have been around for 100 years. What unique about ioSafe is how we combine fire/water protection with active computers – managing the heat produced during normal operation while protecting against extreme heat possible during a disaster.
As Ganesh has said, we test both internally and externally (with the press watching and recording!) in both standard and (ahem) very non-standard ways at times - we've NEVER failed a demo. One of these days, I'm sure a gremlin's gonna pop up and we'll get recorded by the press as failing a disaster demo (because a HDD refuses to boot) but that's the risk we take. Our stuff's legit.
And btw, a cellar is a great place for tornados and fires but not so good for water main breaks or river floods – we've seen it all :)
Robb Moore, CEO
ioSafe Inc.


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New England winters are known for being cold and snowy, but climate change means that's shifting, and this winter is no exception. New Hampshire Public Radio's Mara Hoplamazian took a ride recently with someone feeling the impact from climate change - a snowplow driver.
MARA HOPLAMAZIAN, BYLINE: Harold Davis keeps his phone close by. In the summer, he's the guy you call to reseal your driveway, fill in cracks in the pavement or paint stripes onto a parking lot. In the winter, he's the guy you call when snow starts to fall. When it storms, he's out all day.
HAROLD DAVIS: It's 20 stops. It's 56 driving miles. Typically, say, 10 minutes average a stop. It's going to take around six hours.
HOPLAMAZIAN: Davis bought his plow and a used truck a few months ago. This is his first season with his own equipment. He spent about a decade working for other snow removal businesses when it gets too cold to do his usual work. He takes care of about 20 homes whenever it snows more than three inches. In December, the first storm came to Concord, New Hampshire's capital city, where Davis lives. He went out with a tape measure.
DAVIS: Oh, we're at an inch and a half. It's almost time to go out. Two inches. And then it was like three. And I'm like - you know, I already had the truck cleaned off and started, of course. And it just felt really good when I dropped the plow for the first time.
HOPLAMAZIAN: That's been the only storm this season big enough for him to plow his entire route. Davis charges per visit. If it snows a foot, he can make a few thousand dollars. He says it'll take about four snowstorms to see a return on his investment in the plow and another five storms for the truck. But driving his usual route, on this day, Davis sees only bare driveways.
DAVIS: You know, rain in a snowstorm melts the snow, and you can't plow a puddle. No one wants you to go plow a puddle, so...
HOPLAMAZIAN: Puddles are increasingly common. Winter is the fastest-warming season for most of the country. New Hampshire's state climatologist Mary Stampone says that means there are more days when it's not cold enough to snow.
MARY STAMPONE: With the warmer temperatures comes a change in the type of precipitation, where we have more precipitation falling as rain during the winter season.
HOPLAMAZIAN: When snowstorms happen, they're getting stronger, says Astrid Caldas. She's a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She says warmer air holds more moisture that can come down as rain or snow.
ASTRID CALDAS: A lot of people, when they have these huge snowstorms, they say, how can it be global warming? Look at all the snow. Well, that's exactly what's expected under global warming.
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DAVIS: I think it's already clear to people that you can't count on snowplowing. It's been clear for a few seasons now.
HOPLAMAZIAN: Davis says he worries about climate change and losing the winters he loves. He says he's doing OK financially, but he's trying to figure out next steps for his business.
DAVIS: I'm really still wracking my mind about what else can I do to obviously keep my employees employed and to, you know, keep my family supported throughout the wintertime.
HOPLAMAZIAN: For now, Davis plans to hold on to his plow despite the rain and pray for more snow to come.
For NPR News, I'm Mara Hoplamazian in Concord, N.H. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


text: Great Isaiah Scroll The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved...more » The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, have been digitized and are now accessible online. view » War Scroll The War Scroll (1QM), popularly known as "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness," is one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered...more » Temple Scroll The Temple Scrolla (11Q19) was almost certainly discovered in 1956 in Cave 11, located about two kilometers north of Khirbet Qumran. The manuscript is written...more » Commentary on the Habakkuk Scroll The Commentary on Habakkuk (Pesher Habakkuk, 1QpHab), is a relative complete scroll (1.48 m long) and one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered...more » Community Rule Scroll The Community Rule (Serekh Hayahad, 1QS), formerly called the "Manual of Discipline," is the major section of one of the first seven scrolls discovered...more » "We are privileged to house in the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book the best preserved and most complete Dead Sea Scrolls ever discovered," said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum. "They are of paramount importance among the touchstones of monotheistic world heritage, and they represent unique highlights of our Museum's encyclopedic holdings. Now, through our partnership with Google, we are able to bring these treasures to the broadest possible public."... more »


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Letter LXI. Letter to Maximus. (Written About 371 a.d.)
To our beloved and most truly longed-for son, Maximus1 , philosopher, Athanasius greeting in the Lord.
Having read the letter now come from you, I approve your piety: but, marvelling at the rashness of those `who understand neither what they say nor whereof they confidently affirm2 ,' I had really decided to say nothing. For to reply upon matters which are so plain and which are clearer than light, is simply to give an excuse for shamelessness to such lawless men. And this we have learned from the Saviour. For when Pilate had washed his hands, and acquiesced in the false accusation of the Jews of that day, the Lord answered him no more, but rather warned his wife in a dream, so that He that was being judged might be believed to be God not in word, but in power. While after vouchsafing Caiaphas no reply to his folly, He Himself by his promise3 brought all over to knowledge. Accordingly for some time I delayed, and have reluctantly yielded to your zeal for the truth, in view of the argumentativeness of men without shame. And I have dictated nothing beyond what your letter contains, in order that the adversary may from henceforth be convinced on the points to which he has objected, and may `keep his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile4 .' And would that they would no longer join the Jews who passed by of old in reproaching Him that hung upon the Tree: `If thou be the Son of God save Thyself5 .' But if even after this they will not give in, yet do you remember the apostolic injunction, and `a man that is heretical after a first and second admonition refuse, knowing that such an one is perverted and sinneth being self-condemned6 .' For if they are Gentiles, or of the Judaisers, who are thus daring, let them, as Jews, think the Cross of Christ a stumbling-block, or as Gentiles, foolishness7 . But if they pretend to be Christians let them learn that the crucified Christ is at once Lord of Glory, and the Power of God and Wisdom of God8 .
2. But if they are in doubt whether He is God at all, let them reverence Thomas, who handled the Crucified and pronounced Him Lord and God9 . Or let them fear the Lord Himself, who said, after washing the feet of the disciples: `Ye call Me Lord and Master10 , and ye say well, for so I am.' But in the same body in which He was when he washed their feet, He also carried up our sins to the Tree11 . And He was witnessed to as Master of Creation, in that the Sun withdrew his beams and the earth trembled and the rocks were rent, and the executioners recognised that the Crucified was truly Son of God. For the Body they beheld was not that of some man, but of God, being in which, even when being crucified, He raised the dead. Accordingly it is no good venture of theirs to say that the Word of God came into a certain holy man; for this was true of each of the prophets and of the other saints, and on that assumption He would clearly be born and die in the case of each one of them. But this is not so, far be the thought. But once for all `at the consummation of the ages12 , to put away sin' `the Word was made flesh13 ' and proceeded forth from Mary the Virgin, Man after our likeness, as also He said to the Jews, `Wherefore seek ye to kill Me, a man that hath told you the truth14 ?' And we are deified not by partaking of the body of some man, but by receiving the Body of the Word Himself.
3. And at this also I am much surprised, how they have ventured to entertain such an idea as that the Word became man in consequence of His Nature. For if this were so, the commemoration of Mary would be superfluous.15 For neither does Nature know of a Virgin bearing apart from a man. Whence by the good pleasure of the Father, being true God, and Word and Wisdom of the Father by nature, He became man in the body for our salvation, in order that having somewhat to offer16 for us He might save us all, `as many as through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage.17 ' For it was not some man that gave Himself up for us; since every man is under sentence of death, according to what was said to all in Adam, `earth thou art and unto earth thou shall return.18 ' Nor yet was it any other of the creatures, since every creature is liable to change. But the Word Himself offered His own Body on our behalf that our faith and hope might not be in man, but that we might have our faith in God the Word Himself. Why, even now that He is become man we behold His Glory, `glory as of one only-begotten of His Father-full of grace and truth.19 ' For what He endured by means of the Body, He magnified as God. And while He hungered in the flesh, as God He fed the hungry. And if anyone is offended by reason of the bodily conditions, let him believe by reason of what God works. For humanly He enquires where Lazarus is laid, but raises him up divinely. Let none then laugh, calling Him a child, and citing His age, His growth, His eating, drinking and suffering, lest while denying what is proper for the body, he deny utterly also His sojourn among us. And just as He has not become Man in consequence of His nature, in like manner it was consistent that when He had taken a body He should exhibit what was proper to it, lest the imaginary theory of Manichaeus should prevail. Again it was consistent that when He went about in the body, He should not hide what belonged to the Godhead, lest he of Samosata should find an excuse to call Him man, as distinct in person from God the Word.
4. Let then the unbelievers perceive this, and learn that while as a Babe He lay in a manger, He subjected the Magi and was worshipped by them; and while as a Child He came down to Egypt, He brought to nought the hand-made objects of its idolatry20 : and crucified in the flesh, He raised the dead long since turned to corruption. And it has been made plain to all that not for His own sake but for ours He underwent all things, that we by His sufferings might put on freedom from suffering and incorruption21 , and abide unto life eternal.
5. This then I have concisely dictated, following, as I said above, the lines of your own letter, without working out any point any further but only mentioning what relates to the Holy Cross, in order that the despisers may be taught better upon the points where they were offended, and may worship the Crucified. But do you thoroughly persuade the unbelievers; perhaps somehow they may come from ignorance to knowledge, and believe aright. And even though what your own letter contains is sufficient, yet it is as well to have added what I have for the sake of reminder in view of contentious persons; not so much in order that being refuted in their venturesome statements they may be put to shame, as that being reminded they may not forget the truth. For let what was confessed by the Fathers at Nicaea prevail. For it is correct, and enough to overthrow every heresy however impious, and especially that of the Arians which speaks against the Word of God, and as a logical consequence profanes His Holy Spirit. Greet all who hold aright. All that are with us greet you.


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Since majority of popular Linux distributions utilizes either KDE or GNOME desktop environment, you may have only used terminal emulators such as Konsole, GNOME Terminal, and xterm. But did you know that there are capable and unique terminal emulators for Linux other than those I've mentioned?
Here is a list of some of the best Linux terminal emulators you may have never heard of (in no particular order):
Terminator is currently my favorite Linux terminal emulator. It allows me to easily organize multiple command line sessions into resizable split panes within the same window. This way, I can do some command-line multitasking in a more efficient manner, minus the desktop clutter. Terminator is written in Python, and it will work on any modern POSIX system with Java 5 or later, which means it can also run on other operating system platforms aside from Linux such as Windows and Mac OS X.
Guake is a top-down terminal emulator for GNOME Desktop Environment that has a design inspired by consoles in computer games such as Quake and Doom. It can quickly slide down from the top of the screen using a single keystroke, and can be hidden by pressing the same key. The advantage of using Guake when compared to the standard terminal is that it is faster to open since the program is already loaded into the computer memory.
Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake) is a drop-down KDE terminal emulator with features almost similar to that of Guake. Its design was also inspired by consoles in computer games. Like Kate, Konqueror, and other KDE applications, Yakuake depends on Konsole for its terminal functionality.
rxvt is a simple and lightweight terminal emulator that is aimed to be a slimmed-down replacement for the already slim xterm, removing several of its little-used features, like Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. Apart from features like those controlled by resource files, the terminal emulation of rxvt differs from xterm in a few important ways.
Tilda is a slide-down GTK+ terminal emulator similar to that of Guake and Yakuake. The program also runs invisibly in the background allowing it to quickly slide up and down once a hotkey is pressed.
mrxvt is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator based on rxvt that provides DEC VT102 compatible terminals. Like rxvt, it is fast, lightweight, and flexible without depending on desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE. The main features of mrxvt include multiple tabs, dynamically changeable tab titles, customizable command for each tab, input broadcasting, fast pseudo-transparency with tinting, user supplied background images, multi-language support, Freetype font, logging, and more.
Wterm is a fork rxvt that is also very fast and lightweight. Its look was designed for NeXTSTEP style window managers like Window Maker. It has terminal support for Latin, Chinese, and Greek characters and features customizable background images, background color tinting, and zero overhead pseudo-transparent background.
aterm is the AfterStep terminal emulator for the X Window System that is based (again) on rxvt. As described from its project webpage, aterm is designed to provide pleasing visual effects, while performing such a mundane function as terminal emulation under X.


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Was The Holocaust Story The Biggest "Fake News" Story Every Told?
By Jack Allen
This is one of those topics that people don't like to talk about and there are some countries that forbid discussing it all together if you happen to question the reality of this claimed event in history. This event is called the Holocaust and in my opinion, we are at a point in history I now think only an idiot beyond measure would still believe the Holocaust story.
Before we discuss the Holocaust, we must first ask, who were the biggest mass murderers in history? The answer to that question is Satanic Bolshevik Jews that took over Christian Russia and converted it to Hell on earth. So before WW2 even started Satanic Bolshevik Jews killed an estimated 100 million mostly Christian people. So where are the museums for all the people that the Satanic Bolshevik Jews killed? There are none because Real Christians lost WW2 and Satanic evil won by the use of lies and propaganda.
The Holocaust story was around way before WW2 and it was Satanic Zionist propaganda that was used to raise lots and lots of money. The Holocaust 6,000,000 story was feed to good people even in Readers Digest before WW2 even started and that article was written by a Hollywood writer.
The Holocaust story is taught to Jews that go to Synagogues as a new Religion. So Satanic Jews created the Holocaust propaganda and some other Jews are just innocent victims like the rest of us are. This Holocaust story is pushed so much as fact that brainwashed zombies will fight and kill others to defend this epic Satanic lie.
"I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan." Revelation 2:9
Video: Questioning The Holocaust – Why We Believed
By Tex Marrs 0ne group and one group alone is responsible for virtually all wars and bloodshed on the face of this planet. This evil cabal is few in numbers but, like a deadly octopus, its tentacles reach out to grip and strangle untold multitudes of innocent victims. The initiates of every secret society and internationalist organization, from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Jesuits to the Bilderbergers and the Order of Skull & Bones, obey the dictates of this sinister group and tremble when standing before its leaders.
The cabalist group I refer to is the Synagogue of Satan, an ancient, yet modern, elite so politically powerful and so fabulously wealthy that even past history has been twisted, reshaped, and revised to meet its preferred version of humanity's gloomy, totalitarian future.
Religious in nature, the Synagogue of Satan is, at its essence, a grotesque, satanic cult. It's high council is composed of High Priests of Lucifer; these are men who literally worship death while practicing sexual magick and occult rituals of the blackest nature. Read More
I strongly believe the Holocaust story is a Satanic Creation and the 6,000,000 number is an occult number. I believe this so strongly that I will not even buy Kosher Taxed products because I feel a sense of evil when I see the "U" in a circle and other Kosher marks. You do know that if the food you eat has a Kosher mark that means a Rabbi that sucks blood from a baby boy's penis has been involved with the product production, How sick is that?
The Kosher Food Tax is the biggest consumer fraud existing in America. Examine every item in your cupboards for either the (U) or (K) labels. These symbols represent a Jewish "blessing" and when these small symbols are detected; it means that you have unwittingly paid a tax to a Jewish religious group. They will not always be on the front of the package; they may be hidden amid the small print near the label's seam. This cryptic code has to do with a Hebrew "secret;" a heist; which illuminates the Jews' power in the United States.
The circled "U;" sometimes with the word "Parve;" stands for Union of Orthodox Jews (UOJCA); the "K" stands for Kosher (KOV K). Both will not be found on the same package. These symbols mean that the product's producer paid the Jews – Synagogue of Satan a kind of "tax" to have some blood baby boy sucking rabbi "curse" it.
Don't confuse these letters with the letter "R" which stands for registered trade mark or a letter "C" which stands for copyright. These two letters will probably be there too. You have now discovered what the Jews call "hechsers;" a rip-off code found on most grocery items.
Anyway back to the Holocaust story. With a degree of absolute treachery, one that exceeds all limits of human deceit and corruption, that is this claim that there was an actual Holocaust against European Jews.
See the real nature of WWII-era European Jewry. They were never oppressed. Rather, they were the great oppressors of the land in every way conceivable:
The Holocaust is a cash cow for Jews and Israel. False sympathy for Jews has given Israel hundreds of billions of dollars from Germany and the US, and has provided large incomes to individual Jews who have capitalized on the Holocaust with their novels, 'memoirs', films, plays, speaking tours and the like. It may be truly said that the Holocaust is the golden calf on the gentile leg that the Jews have been pulling for more than 60 years.
Video: Don Heddesheimer: The First Holocaust—The Surprising Origin of the Six-Million Figure
Most people believe that roughly six million Jews were killed by National Socialist Germany during World War II in an event generally referred to as the Holocaust or the Shoah. But how long have we known about this six-million figure? The most frequent answer is that the six-million figure was established after the Second World War during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Although it is true that the six-million figure was declared to be the indubitable truth at this tribunal, it is actually remarkably older. In this book, Don Heddesheimer shows that the six-million figure dates back to a Jewish fundraising campaign that started during the FIRST World War and reached its peak in the mid-1920s. During those years, Jewish groups in the United States spread the rumor that millions of Jews in Europe were suffering to the degree that millions had died already, while many more millions would face a lingering death. The New York Times was the main vehicle for such propaganda, which even included well-known buzzwords like "extermination," "holocaust," and the now famous "six million" figure.
Although this exaggerated propaganda of Jewish suffering slowed down during the 1930s, it never completely ceased and received new momentum in the 1940s during the Second World War. As we all know today, this propaganda skyrocketed after Germany's total defeat, as the victorious nations of the Second World War seized upon the opportunity to take advantage of such propaganda and to increase its scope and impact. Heddesheimer's book clearly shows that the origin of the "six million" figure, together with "extermination" and "holocaust" claims, are Jewish-Zionist in nature and part of a propaganda pattern that started at the very dawn of the 20th century in order to promote Jewish political and financial goals, be they in Soviet Russia then or in Israel today. Since the end of World War Two, this propaganda has increased in intensity due to its political success and the successful suppression of resistance against it.
Video: THE JEWISH GAS CHAMBER HOAX
Third edition with a research update of 2015, also including a list of 276 sources referring to 6 million suffering, dying or dead Jews, and published between 1900 and the opening of the Nuremberg Trials in late 1945.
Free eBook – PDF – Download It In Case It Is Blocked In Your Country: The First Holocaust
Available as Paperback or FREE PDF or Kindle download here as well.
Free eBook – PDF – Download It In Case It Is Blocked In Your Country: Six Million Open Gates
Many countries in Europe, as well as Canada and Australia, have laws against denying the Holocaust Story (Orthodox Jewish Version of the Holocaust). There can be only one reason for these laws: Supporting a lie that is a cash cow for Jews, and preventing criticism of Jews. If the Holocaust stories were true, it would not need legislative support. Only lies need such support.
Once you start lying, you can't stop without admitting that you were lying, and if the Big Jews do that, then Jew-Deism — the worship of The Chosen — actually The SELF-Chosen — by Jews and Christian idiots will collapse, and instead of the Chosen People, the Jews will become the Frozen People.
The Holocaust is a secular religion in a secular age that keeps Jews drawn together and makes them easier for the Big Jews to manipulate.
Jewish scholars such as Yehuda Bauer of Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust museum, have admitted that some of the most important features of the Holocaust story are false, including the story that soap was made from the fat of Jewish bodies, and lampshades from Jewish skin. And yet in spite of these grudging admissions, the falsehoods remain firmly in place because Jews suppress the findings of Holocaust revisionists.
Judea Declares War on Germany – Dr Fredrick Toben (full) – Satanic Zionists started WW2
Jews make much of the 'blood libel' which accuses Jews of killing gentile children and using their blood for cooking — an accusation which is not without evidence; but Jews have in fact engaged in the greatest of all blood libels by accusing Germany of the Holocaust.
Jews during WW2, Jewish guerrillas sunk a ship which was full of Jews bound for Palestine in order to blame it on the British and create more sympathy for Jewish immigration to Palestine, an area which was then under British control. Several similar cases of Jews killing their own for political purposes in WW2 have been reported.
It is essential that the truth about the Holocaust be known, because the Holocaust is both the key and the Achilles heel of Jewish power over gentiles. If the Holocaust Lie collapses, then so does Jewish power.
Jews had a significant role in building the atomic bomb, which was then used to create a genuine holocaust of Japenese victims. Isn't it funny that we never hear much about this very real holocaust, but we are subjected to a never-ending stream of weeping and wailing over a false one?
The only real holocaust in Germany was the firebombing of German cities by the British. In particular, 'Bomber' Harris incinerated Dresden, a city of no military importance, but one filled with civilian refugees, which killed upwards of a quarter million people.
Always remember Satanic Jews were the biggest mass murderers of all time


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Dell spills beans on biz app rejig after software gobble fest
Texan titan also polishes control-freak appliance KACE
Software wannabe Dell is rejiggering the divisions within its burgeoning Software Group to rationalize them in the wake of a number of acquisitions which have seen it gulp down a serious amount of software IP. The Round Rock firm has also launched an updated KACE management appliance for both PCs and servers.
Back in February, Dell tapped John Swainson, a former software bigwig at IBM and more recently the CEO at CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates), to run a new Software Group and made no secret that it planned to build up the portfolio of applications it had already amassed through acquisitions.
Dell had already acquired Scalent for cloudy systems management, Boomi for cloudy application integration, and SecureWorks for security at that point. It then added AppAssure that same month for continuous data protection, and followed it up quickly with the acquisition of SonicWall for firewall and threat management; Wyse Technologies for thin client and virtualization management; Quest Software for a hodge-podge of systems, database, performance and access management tools; and Clerity and Make Technologies for mainframe and midrange legacy application modernization.
It's not the software business of Microsoft or Oracle or IBM, to be sure, but it hangs together better perhaps than what Hewlett-Packard has cobbled together.
Having brought these pieces of code together – some of which are currently sold as services, and others that are peddled as hardware appliances today, but perhaps will be sold as software appliances or cloudy services in the future – Dell needs to shift things around a bit and put engineering and sales teams together so they are not working at cross purposes. Saranya Babu, senior product marketing manager at Dell's new Client Systems Management division, spoke to El Reg about the reorg.
Rejiggering Dell's Software Group
Dell will have four primary software areas: security, systems management, business intelligence, and applications. The Systems Management division will be managed by Tom Kendra, and will include the KACE, Wyse, Quest, AppAssure, and Scalent products. And while KACE will continue on as a product brand, it will no longer be a separate division in its own right.
Most of KACE will be put into a Client Systems Management group under Rob Meinhardt (one of the original company founders), and that unit will mash up the KACE management appliance as it relates to clients plus pieces of Quest once that deal closes. KACE server management appliances will be mashed up with Dell's mobility management tools. "Our server focus is not going away," Babu explains.
But, it looks like client and server management could, in the long run, end up coming from different appliances with similar KACE code bases informed by various other tools in the Dell software box, including network and physical server management.
Kace in point
The one thing Dell doesn't want to do is screw up the KACE business. According to Babu, since Dell acquired KACE in February 2010, Dell has nearly quintupled the formerly independent company's revenues. In the last year, the KACE products doubled their sales and the company more than doubled the customer base to 6,000 companies worldwide.
Part of that expansion has come through adding more language support and geographic support, which KACE could not afford to do on its own, and thus now sales outside of the United States account for 30 per cent of sales instead of the 15 per cent of a year ago. The KACE products are supported by some 500 employees inside of Dell who work in engineering, marketing, and sales, and they are focused mainly at midrange shops that have complex management issues and tight budgets.
Dell is still peddling two difference KACE appliances, which are based on its own PowerEdge servers. The K1000 management appliance for discovery, asset management, software distribution, remote control, power management, security, and patching. The K2000 is a deployment appliance that does centralized operating system imaging, network installs, configuration management, and recovery when something goes wacky on a PC or a server that is under the rule of the KACE control freak.
With today's announcement, Dell is upgrading the software in the K1000 management appliance to Version 5.4, which has support for Microsoft's impending Windows 8 and just-announced Windows Server 2012 as well as Apple's Mac OS X "Mountain Lion" 10.8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Canonical Ubuntu Server 10.04 and 12.04. This is the first time that SLES, Ubuntu, and Mac OS are supported by the KACE appliances. And the Windows 8 support is only for the x86 version, since, according to Babu, Microsoft has not yet opened up the APIs for the ARM version, called Windows RT.
V5.4 of the KACE software has a new machine inventory API, which allows system admins who are working from devices and operating systems that are not supported by the appliance out of the box to craft scripts to generate XML files that describe the device to the KACE box and feed it information – so it can at least be monitored and managed.
The update also adds eight new languages, including Italian and Castilian Spanish. Dell is also pushing into 25 new countries with the KACE appliances, bringing the total up to 110.
The KACE V5.4 software will be installed on new PowerEdge R420 12G servers, and will be orderable on October 24, with shipments starting in early November. The software costs $8,900 for 100 nodes (be they PCs or servers), with a 20 per cent annual tech support fee. ®


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A New York Times bestseller! A beguiling first novelGregory Maguire in the New York TimesTakes readers to a marvelous place.The Wall Street JournalEven though his awful GreatAunt Gertrudis doesnt approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any otherthe Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real. And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a miracle. With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets out to find the Circus and the man he believes will save his grandfather. The only problem is, the Lightbender doesnt want to keep his promise. And now its up to Micah to get the miracle he came for.
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