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Spending on augmented and virtual reality will nearly double in 2018, according to a new forecast from International Data Corp. (IDC), growing from $9.1 billion in 2017 to $17.8 billion next year. The market research company predicts that aggressive growth will continue throughout its forecast period, achieving an average 98.8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2017 to 2021.
Consumer spending will be the single largest source of spending on AR and VR in the near term, accounting for $6.8 billion in 2018, with about three quarters of that spending going toward virtual reality hardware and software. The majority of spending on augmented reality in 2018 will go toward software. Spending by consumers will grow more modestly than the market overall, increasing at an average CAGR of 45.2 percent to reach $20 billion in 2021. Gaming will be the leading consumer use case for VR and AR throughout the forecast period.
All commercial sectors combined will account for 60 percent of AR and VR spending in 2018, according to IDC, and will grow to account for more than 85 percent of all spending by 2021.
"Each of the five commercial sectors is forecast to undergo triple-digit spending growth throughout the forecast, led by the public sector with a five-year CAGR of 156.7 percent," according to a news release.
The distribution and services sector will take the lead in 2018, accounting for $4.1 billion in spending, followed by manufacturing and resources at $3.2 billion. The individual industries projected by the company to lead spending on VR and AR in 2018 are retail, process manufacturing and construction.
"Virtual reality will continue to drive greater levels of spending in the next 12-18 months, as both consumer and commercial use cases gain traction. There is currently a huge appetite from companies that see tremendous potential in the technology, from product design to retail sales to employee training," said Tom Mainelli, program vice president for devices and AR/VR at IDC, in a prepared statement. "Meanwhile, the augmented reality market will deliver more modest levels of spending near term with mobile AR on smartphones and tablets likely to garner the most attention from consumers, while head-mounted displays will primarily sell into commercial use cases."
The United States will be the region responsible for the most spending in 2018, at $6.4 billion, and will see accelerated growth until spending is projected to peak in 2020. The Asian/Pacific region, which excludes Japan, will trail U.S. spending in 2018, at $5.1 billion, and will similarly experience slowed growth toward the end of the forecast. The U.S. and the Asian/Pacific region will both experience an average CAGR in excess of 100 percent throughout the forecast period, though they will trail Canada, the leader in that respect, and Eastern Europe, at 139.9 percent and 113.5 percent CAGR, respectively.
"Commercial entities are ready to embrace virtual reality for both customer-facing use cases and internal ones," said Marcus Torchia, research director of IDC Customer Insights & Analysis, in a prepared statement. "There are a lot of opportunities here to develop commercial-grade hardware and applications that meet the needs of these industries. Meanwhile, phone-based AR is likely to garner most of the excitement for the near term and many companies are already experimenting with AR apps and services. Some of these will be useful, many won't be, but over the course of the next 12–18 months, we should start to see developers beginning to grasp the potential of AR."
About the Author
Joshua Bolkan is contributing editor for Campus Technology, THE Journal and STEAM Universe. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed* the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber optic cables with roughly 99 percent efficiency. The team's efforts could bring improvements to secure electronic communication, advanced quantum computation and the measurement of optical power.
Using essentially the same technology that permitted them to achieve 88 percent detection efficiency five years ago,** the team has enhanced its ability to detect photons largely by improving the alignment of the detector and the optical fibers that guide photons into it. The basic principle of the detector is to use a superconductor as an ultra-sensitive thermometer. Each individual photon hitting the detector raises the temperature — and increases electrical resistance — by a minute amount, which the instrument registers as the presence of a photon.
According to team member Sae Woo Nam, the advantage of this type of single photon detector is that the new detector design not only measures lower levels of light than have ever been possible, but does so with great accuracy.
"When these detectors indicate they've spotted a photon, they're trustworthy. They don't give false positives," says Nam, a physicist with NIST's Optoelectronics division. "Other types of detectors have really high gain so they can measure a single photon, but their noise levels are such that occasionally a noise glitch is mistakenly identified as a photon. This causes an error in the measurement. Reducing these errors is really important for those who are doing calculations or communications."
The ability to count individual photons is valuable to designers of certain types of quantum computers as well as scientists engaged in quantum optical experiments, which concern exotic states of light that cannot be described by classical physics. But one of the most promising potential applications of a high-efficiency photon detector is a way to secure long-distance data transmission against unwanted interception. A detector that could recognize that a photon forming part of a transmission was missing would be a substantial defense against information theft.
The team has optimized the detection for 810 nanometers — an infrared wavelength?and it still has high efficiency at other wavelengths that are interesting for fiber optic communications, as well as the quantum optics community. Ironically, the detector is so efficient that it outstrips current technology's ability to determine its precise efficiency.
"We can't be sure from direct measurement that we've achieved 99 percent efficiency because the metrology is not in place to determine how close we are?there's no well-established technique," Nam says. "What is great about our latest progress is that we measure nearly the same detection efficiency for every device we build, package and test. It's the reproducibility that gives us confidence."
The team is currently working to develop evaluation techniques that can measure up to the detector's abilities, and Nam says the team's creation could also help evaluate other light-gathering devices.
"NIST offers a standardized service for measuring the efficiency of photodetectors and optical power meters," he says. "We're trying to develop a calibration technique that extends to ultra-low levels of light. It should be valuable for anyone looking at single photons."
* A.E. Lita, B. Calkins, L.A. Pellouchoud, A.J. Miller and S. Nam. Superconducting transition-edge sensors optimized for high-efficiency photon-number resolving detectors. Presented at the SPIE Symposium on SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center, Crystal J1 Ballroom, 3 p.m. April 7, 2010.
** See "NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency" in NIST Tech Beat, June 2, 2005, at www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2005_0602.htm#photon.

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Being an entrepreneur is tough ... very tough. There are a myriad of reasons why some entrepreneurs make it big and others do not. In my speech, I spoke about the organic reasons why some business owners fall short of their goals. This message is not about capital or the economic climate; rather, it's about those individual characteristics that keep some entrepreneurs performing below their potential.
Here are 10 reasons why some entrepreneurs underperform, along with the advice I gave to EO members during my presentation:
Passion: If you don't have it for what you are doing, find something else to do. Being an entrepreneur is just too hard if you do not feel very strongly about what you are doing.
Physical and mental strength: If you think working hard is a 50-hour work week, please stay safe and sound under the covers of "a real job."
Self-doubt: If you do not think you are entitled to big success, and if you do not think that you have what it takes, do not become an entrepreneur. At times, you will be the only one who believes in you.
Belief: Speaking of belief, if you do not believe your endeavor has a 1,000 percent chance of taking you to the moon, stay back on earth. Those who are tentative have no shot at reaching the moon.
Foresight: Can you see around corners? Look for opportunities at the edges. Pick up a good business book, like "Blue Ocean Strategy" by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, which argues for staying out of the red water—that place where everyone competes and mauls themselves—and diving into open, blue (uncharted) water.
Guts: Do you have the stomach to persevere when you feel like a punching bag? Oftentimes, the difference between the successful person and the also-ran is that the success story got up off the ground one more time than the other.
Failure: Are you prepared to fail? A big public, gut-wrenching failure? If not, you may be playing it too safe. Failure is almost a rite of passage to success. You need to see the difference between an event of failure and a conclusion to the story.
Self-discipline: Do you have the willpower to make decisions for the right reasons? There are no guarantees of success, but one sure-fire way not to succeed is by making choices out of fatigue or frustration. You must be strong.
Fairness: Are you hung up on the belief that life is fair? If so, forget about being an entrepreneur. The strong survive. That's it. If you are expecting anything else, stick to something safer.
Integrity: Yes, some jerks are big successes; however, in general, those who keep their commitments regardless of the people around them are more likely to succeed.
Jim Randel is the founder of "The Skinny On" book series— concise, illustrated books that cover important topics in an entertaining fashion. For more information, visit www.theskinnyon.com.
Conditions of EO Membership Application and Renewal: Every member who applies or renews their membership agrees to comply with the Policies and Procedures, Bylaws and Code of Conduct of Entrepreneurs' Organization. Current members must complete the online renewal form acknowledging review of the organization's Policies and Procedures, Bylaws and Code of Conduct.


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Ten years ago, on Oct. 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act.
Congress overwhelmingly passed the law only weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. It's designed to give the FBI more power to collect information in cases that involve national security.
But in the decade since then, civil liberties groups have raised concerns about whether the Patriot Act goes too far by scooping up too much data and violating people's rights to privacy.
Nicholas Merrill is one of the people sounding an alarm.
The techie from New York may be one of the few people to fight a request for information from the FBI that came in the form of a tool called a national security letter. The Patriot Act made it easier for authorities to demand records from Internet service providers like Merrill's company. But Merrill is the only person who's gone to court to get a green light to talk about it, and he's doing so.
It's time to have an open discussion about the direction that our country's going in, in terms of all this secrecy and justifying everything with national security.
"I find it kind of upsetting that there's still so much secrecy surrounding these powers and their actual use, even to this day," Merrill says.
But even Merrill's court victory has its limits, as NPR found out after asking him for details about the visit he got from an FBI agent back in the winter of 2004.
"Unfortunately I am not at liberty to talk about that, because that's one of the things that's still covered under the gag order that I'm under," Merrill says.
That secrecy, according to lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, is just one of the problems with the Patriot Act.
Sneak And Peek
They're bothered by another part of the law, the so-called sneak-and-peek provision. It lets FBI agents search a person's home or business with a judge's blessing, but without telling the person they're doing it.
"We're now finding from public reports that less than 1 percent of these sneak-and-peek searches are happening for terrorism investigations," says Michelle Richardson, who works for the ACLU in Washington. "They're instead being used primarily in drug cases, in immigration cases, and some fraud."
What's more, Richardson says the Justice Department doesn't usually point to specific terrorism cases it built thanks to the Patriot Act, raising questions about whether the powerful law really works.
"I think a number of provisions have been very useful," says Pat Rowan, who led the Justice Department's national security unit during the Bush years. "But it's not so much that they can be isolated and pointed to and said, 'Oh, well this particular provision caused the government to discover a plot it otherwise wouldn't have discovered.' "
Instead, Rowan says, the Patriot Act made investigations more efficient by giving investigators in national security cases many of the same tools they had in criminal cases — and by encouraging intelligence operatives and law enforcement agents to share information.
And Lisa Monaco, the assistant attorney general for national security, told NPR in a written statement that the ability of FBI and intelligence analysts to work together helped the country to move quickly in September 2009 to find a man trying to target the New York City subway system. That man, Najibullah Zazi, ultimately pleaded guilty last year in connection with the plot, Monaco said.
Congress and the country felt very comfortable with the basic work that we did.
A Counterterrorism Symbol
Viet Dinh, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote the Patriot Act, tells NPR that despite all the criticism from civil liberties groups, most people couldn't tell you what's in the law.
"There's no question that the USA Patriot Act has become a brand, if you will, a symbol of all the counterterrorism activities after 9/11," Dinh says.
Dinh says the law simply gave the FBI more flexibility to do its job — and he points out that Congress has reauthorized provisions in the law with only small changes several times in the past 10 years.
One of the tweaks lawmakers made was allowing people like Merrill to talk to a lawyer for advice about receiving a national security letter.
In the years that followed the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department's inspector general went on to study the FBI's use of national security letters, reporting that agents had demanded information without following internal procedures, and in some cases, in violation of the law. The FBI blamed the mistakes on poor record-keeping and insufficient oversight.
Dinh says that there have been "troubling instances of their misapplication and misuse" by the FBI. But he says it's clear that "Congress and the country felt very comfortable with the basic work that we did" in the Patriot Act.
Bigger Surveillance Efforts?
Richardson, at the ACLU, says she hasn't given up on efforts to get lawmakers to scrap some parts of the Patriot Act. But she's got her eye on even bigger surveillance efforts in the works now.
"The White House's cybersecurity proposal right now makes the Patriot Act look quaint," Richardson says. "And really, the collection that it would allow would really outpace anything that's probably being done under the Patriot Act."
Merrill, who wasn't able to talk to his family for years about the FBI request or his lawsuit, still wonders how many other people have gone through a similar experience. Two Democratic senators, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have been demanding this year that the Justice Department go public with a classified interpretation of one part of the Patriot Act that they say would surprise and anger the public.
"It's time to have an open discussion about the direction that our country's going in, in terms of all this secrecy and justifying everything with national security," Merrill says.
That's a conversation that Merrill hopes to jump-start Wednesday — on the Patriot Act's 10th anniversary.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Mail Transport Agent ⇝
Message Transfer Agent
(MTA, Mail Transfer Agent) Any program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. Upon receiving a message from a Mail User Agent or another MTA, often by SMTP over the Internet, it stores it temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and delivers it to any local addressees and/or forwards it to other remote MTAs (routing) for delivery to remote recipients. In either case it may edit and/or add to the message headers.
The most widely used MTA for Unix is sendmail, which communicates using SMTP. [Other OSes?] RFC 2821 (SMTP) expands MTA as "Mail Transfer Agent" though this is less common. Alternatives with "Transport" are also seen but less correct.Last updated: 2007-06-01
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Your Immune System is Your Daily Defense Against Invaders
At its peak, your immune system defense works like a master orchestra performing in harmony. Upon detecting potential threats — including bacteria, parasites, and viruses — your immune system unleashes a powerful army to destroy these foreign invaders.
Usually, this defense works well, protecting you against illness. But sometimes stress and other factors cause the immune system to work too hard. An overactivated immune system can create problems like allergies, asthma, or eczema.
An overactive immune system might begin to also begin attacking your healthy tissues and organs, like your joints and pancreas. This may result in autoimmune disorders — there are over 80 known ones — including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes.
What Damages Your Immune System?
An unhealthy diet, not exercising enough, and getting insufficient sleep can make a healthy immune system go bad.
A weak immune system can't fight the bacteria, viruses, and toxins that overwhelm your body. As a result, you become increasingly susceptible to infections.
These three conditions underlie these immune problems:
– Oxidative stress
– Chronic inflammation
– Psychological stress
Your body generates a certain amount of free radicals. Free radicals are the "foreign invaders" that create problems in your body and activate your immune system. Breathing, exercise, eating, drinking water, and using medications generate them. Some free radicals are even essential to life. Even your immune system benefits from some free radicals to fight foreign invaders that can make you sick.
Normally, your body can balance those free radicals with antioxidants.
But when too many disturb your body's antioxidant defense system, a condition called oxidative stress results. Over time, those free radicals can damage tissue and contribute to diseases including diabetes.
Diet and lifestyle choices contribute to oxidative stress. Not getting enough sleep can increase that free radical load. So can a diet low in plant foods, which contain antioxidants. When you lower the number of free radicals in your body, you also improve your immune system and overall health.
Chronic inflammation and immunity also go together. Your immune system responds to injuries, like cuts, bruises, and pulled muscles, with inflammation. Immune cells quickly react to the damaged area to fix that problem. Think of the callus or scar tissue that builds up over a wound. This is your immune system sending cells to repair the tissue and heal it. But once the healing process is over, the inflammation should go away. When your immune system stays activated all the time, a condition called chronic inflammation occurs.
Chronic inflammation damages healthy cells and contributes to a wide range of conditions, from cancer to asthma.
Inflammation can impact your immune system in ways you might not suspect. Inflamed blood vessels, for instance, make it difficult to keep your fingers, toes, ears, and nose warm.
Like free radicals and inflammation, a little bit of stress can be good for your immune system. But maintaining the right balance is key. Constant stress on your body, whether it is exercising too much or mental stress, can weaken your immune system and create inflammation.
It's no coincidence if you get sick after you've had a rough week at the office or juggled additional responsibilities. Over 300 human studies over three decades show this type of stress can negatively impact your immune system.
Among its damage, stress can decrease the white blood cells that help fight off infection. It can keep levels of cortisol raised when this stress hormone should taper down, increasing inflammation. Anxiety, depression, and burnout can further create stress that raises inflammation.
Altogether, these three processes — oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and physical and psychological stress — take their toll on your immune system, weakening its ability to fight infections.
Ways to Boost Your Immune System Defence
Boosting Immune System Defense
Of course, you already know what you can do to enhance your immunity:
Here are some strategies to support your immune system and fight off pathogens:
– Eat a colorful array of fruits and vegetables with antioxidants
– Exercise regularly, but not too much
– Maintain a healthy weight
– Don't smoke- or quit, if you do
– Get quality sleep
– Wash your hands regularly
– Reduce stress levels
Daily Defense Nutrients
There are other nutrients that can act as your daily defense against free radicals and infection, and help you manage your stress levels. These are the top four most-researched nutrients for your immune health.
Curcumin, the orange-yellow component of the spice turmeric, provides anti-inflammatory benefits to support your immune system.
This powerful antioxidant can activate a wide range of immune cells that lower pro-inflammatory proteins. In fact, most research on curcumin focuses on its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant benefits.
Those benefits allow curcumin to support a wide variety of conditions, including diabetes, anxiety, exercise-induced inflammation, and arthritis.
Even if you don't have these and other conditions, a relatively low dose of curcumin can provide health benefits. After all, oxidative stress and inflammation impact almost everyone.
To get these benefits, sprinkle organic turmeric on your food. But to get the most benefit, you'll want to take a curcumin supplement. Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric and the most studied for its benefits.
Most curcumin supplements absorb poorly. One solution is to attach a "carrier" so you get more of that nutrient.
One specific brand of curcumin — Curcumin C3® Complex — combines curcumin with piperine, the major active component of black pepper. This can increase curcumin's availability by an impressive 2,000 percent. MaxLiving has a powerful curcumin supplement, Curcumin C3® with BioPerine®; it has this type of curcumin.
You might want to combine this with some other ingredients, too, that support a strong immune system.
Indian Gooseberry Extract
Indian gooseberry grows in India, the Middle East, and some southeast Asian countries. The fruit of this tree has a long history in Ayurveda medicine, primarily because of its ability to scavenge free radicals. Processing the fruit increases the benefits of vitamin C and other antioxidants.
Animal studies also show Indian gooseberry can fight inflammation and help manage many acute and chronic inflammatory conditions. One rodent study gave rats Indian gooseberry after surgery. After 15 days, the rats had lower inflammation levels and reduced pain levels.
This extract also has lower microbes, like bacteria and mold, that can make you sick. Indian gooseberry's antioxidant and antimicrobial benefits make it ideal for people with stomachache, pain, swelling, and more.
Extramel® M Melon Extract
Researchers estimate about 30 percent of us will experience fatigue, stress, and anxiety at some point in our lives. You probably already have. Fatigue, stress, and anxiety all create inflammation and weaken your immune system.
Extramel® M — a clinically studied freeze-dried melon juice concentrate from a specific, non-genetically modified (non-GMO) variety of melon — provides high levels of the specific antioxidants your body needs to support those and other conditions.
In one study, this extract significantly improved stress and fatigue linked to performance, pain, sleep problems, trouble concentrating, irritability, and more compared with the placebo.
Extramel® M can dramatically boost superoxide dismutase (SOD). This enzyme acts as a "super" antioxidant defense to protect against oxidative stress and inflammation.
The SOD and other antioxidants Extramel® M provides fight oxidative stress, help improve stress and fatigue, support brain function, and boost the overall quality of life.
The correct amounts of SOD can protect against many conditions including:
– Cancer
– Inflammatory diseases
– Cystic fibrosis
– Ischemia
– Aging
– Rheumatoid arthritis
– Brain disorders
– Diabetes
N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine is your master antioxidant; it is called glutathione, and directly scavenges a diverse range of free radicals, which helps to reduce oxidative stress.
Glutathione is the most abundant antioxidant in your body, and for good reason. It protects your cells against damage, supports your immune system, and can even help you live longer.
Your body can make glutathione. But oxidative stress, inflammation, and environmental toxins can all lower glutathione levels. Having high blood sugar, psychological stress, taking certain medications, and a poor diet also lower glutathione levels in your body. Researchers link low levels of glutathione with aging and numerous diseases.
Fortunately, you can give your body the materials to build ideal amounts of glutathione.
One of them is N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), a unique form of the amino acid cysteine and a building block for glutathione. Studies show NAC can substantially increase glutathione in virtually everyone.
For some diseases like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the right amount of NAC can improve and even restore immune function.
Its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits also make NAC ideal for other conditions including heart disease, liver and kidney damage, and high blood sugar.
These four nutrients work very well on their own to support your immune system. But they work even better together. That's why we've combined them in one easy-to-take capsule: Daily Defense.
Just like the bacteria and cells in your immune system work together as a team. The four nutrients in Daily Defense work synergistically to protect your cells against free radicals, inflammation, and stress that can negatively impact your immune system.
Looking to improve your dietary habits? Consult our certified nutritionists for expert nutritional counseling. With our guidance, make informed decisions to optimize your health and well-being.


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1/8 Online Inch Ruler
This is an online ruler (inches,1/8,3/8,5/8 inches) can be adjusted to the actual size, before you use it, please set of pixels per inch in your own device, but also can be adjusted by reference. If you need a real ruler or tape, you can print a ruler, or purchase online.
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You can adjust the size in two ways:
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Extracts field-values from table-formatted search results, such as the results of the top
, tstat
, and so on. The multikv
command creates a new event for each table row and assigns field names from the title row of the table.
An example of the type of data the multikv
command is designed to handle:
Name Age Occupation Josh 42 SoftwareEngineer Francine 35 CEO Samantha 22 ProjectManager
The key properties here are:
- Each line of text represents a conceptual record.
- The columns are aligned.
- The first line of text provides the names for the data in the columns.
The multikv
command can transform this table from one event into three events with the relevant fields. It works more easily with the fixed-alignment though can sometimes handle merely ordered fields.
The general strategy is to identify a header, offsets, and field counts, and then determine which components of subsequent lines should be included into those field names. Multiple tables in a single event can be handled (if multitable=true), but might require ensuring that the secondary tables have capitalized or ALLCAPS names in a header row.
Auto-detection of header rows favors rows that are text, and are ALLCAPS or Capitalized.
For Splunk Cloud Platform, you must create a private app to extract field-value pairs from table-formatted search results. If you are a Splunk Cloud administrator with experience creating private apps, see Manage private apps in your Splunk Cloud deployment in the Splunk Cloud Admin Manual. If you have not created private apps, contact your Splunk account representative for help with this customization.
multikv [conf=<stanza_name>] [<multikv-option>...]
Optional arguments
- conf
- Syntax: conf=<stanza_name>
- Description: If you have a field extraction defined in
, use this argument to reference the stanza in your search. For more information, refer to the configuration file reference for multikv.conf in the Admin Manual.
- <multikv-option>
- Syntax: copyattrs=<bool> | fields <field-list> | filter <term-list> | forceheader=<int> | multitable=<bool> | noheader=<bool> | rmorig=<bool>
- Description: Options for extracting fields from tabular events.
Descriptions for multikv options
- copyattrs
- Syntax: copyattrs=<bool>
- Description: When true,
copies all fields from the original event to the events generated from that event. When false, no fields are copied from the original event. This means that the events will have no _time field and the UI will not know how to display them. - Default: true
- fields
- Syntax: fields <field-list>
- Description: Limit the fields set by the multikv extraction to this list. Ignores any fields in the table which are not on this list.
- filter
- Syntax: filter <term-list>
- Description: If specified,
skips over table rows that do not contain at least one of the strings in the filter list. Quoted expressions are permitted, such as "multiple words" or "trailing_space ".
- forceheader
- Syntax: forceheader=<int>
- Description: Forces the use of the given line number (1 based) as the table's header. Does not include empty lines in the count.
- Default: The
command attempts to determine the header line automatically.
- multitable
- Syntax: multitable=<bool>
- Description: Controls whether or not there can be multiple tables in a single _raw in the original events.
- Default: true
- noheader
- Syntax: noheader=<bool>
- Description: Handle a table without header row identification. The size of the table will be inferred from the first row, and fields will be named Column_1, Column_2, ...
. - Default: false
- rmorig
- Syntax: rmorig=<bool>
- Description: When true, the original events will not be included in the output results. When false, the original events are retained in the output results, with each original emitted after the batch of generated results from that original.
- Default: true
The multikv
command is a distributable streaming command. See Command types.
Example 1: Extract the "COMMAND" field when it occurs in rows that contain "splunkd".
... | multikv fields COMMAND filter splunkd
Example 2: Extract the "pid" and "command" fields.
... | multikv fields pid command
See also
mstats | multisearch |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk Cloud Platform™: 8.2.2112, 8.2.2201, 8.2.2202, 9.0.2205, 8.2.2203, 9.0.2208, 9.0.2209, 9.0.2303, 9.0.2305, 9.1.2308 (latest FedRAMP release), 9.1.2312, 9.2.2403


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Bay Area Real Estate Values
Bay Area Luxury Home Sales
San Francisco Home Prices by Neighborhood
August 2014 Report by Paragon Real Estate Group
Bay Area Home Prices – Mapped
Our updated map of comparative house values around the Bay Area: The trend virtually everywhere around the Bay has been continued appreciation since the recovery began in earnest in early 2012. Please note that median sales prices and average dollar per square foot values are statistical generalities that may fluctuate for a number of reasons.
Bay Area Luxury Home Sales
Luxury home sales have soared all around the Bay Area, but are concentrated most in the 3 counties most affected by the high-tech wealth boom – Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco – as well as Marin, which has been a very wealthy county for a long time. In San Francisco, condos and co-ops make up a significant percentage of high-end sales (and generally achieve the highest dollar per square foot values), but in other counties, the luxury segment is comprised almost exclusively of houses, estates and, in the wine country, ranch/vineyard estates.
As a point of context, Santa Clara is the most populous Bay Area county with about 1,875,000 residents; then come Alameda (1.58m), Contra Costa (1.1m), San Francisco (835,000 residents, about 60% of whom are renters), San Mateo (750k), Sonoma (500k), Marin (260k) and Napa (140k). As a percentage of total sales, homes selling for $2,000,000 and above make up about 13% of Marin's market, 11% of San Francisco's, 10% of San Mateo's, 7% of Santa Clara's, 5% of Napa's, and under 2% in Sonoma, Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Solano had no home sales over $2m reported to MLS during this period.
Of course, $2,000,000 will buy you a lot more in some counties and neighborhoods than in others. The devil's always in the details – and this is only a broad brush overview.
San Francisco Home Prices by Neighborhood
Below are 2 of 8 updated tables breaking down the city's 2014 YTD sales by neighborhood, property type, bedroom count, median and average sales prices, and average dollar per square foot value. Each table is in order of median sales price.
All 8 tables can be found online here: San Francisco Home Values.


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I went out one evening with the Turkish students, a group of ten with only one man who sucked away on his waterpipe while one of the women read my future from tea leaves (she read that I was going to fly through the air in the soon future). I asked the guy how come there are so few male students in this group. It's because theoretical physics isn't manly, it's not considered a guy thing in Turkey, he said. Real men work outdoors or with heavy machinery, they drive, they swing tools, they hunt bears, they do men's stuff. They don't wipe blackboards or spend their day in the library.
I'm not sure how much of his explanation was sarcasm, but I find it odd indeed that theoretical physics is so man-dominated when it's mostly scribbling on paper, trying to coordinate collaborations and meetings, and staring out of the window waiting for an insight. It seems mostly a historical accident that the majority of physicists today are male.From the desk in my home office I have a view onto our downstairs neighbor's garden. Every couple of weeks a man trims her trees and bushes. He has a key to the gate and normally comes when she is away. He uses the smoking break to tan his tattoos in her recliner and to scratch his breast hair. Then he pees on the roses. The most disturbing thing about his behavior though isn't the peeing, it's that he knows I'm watching. He has to cut the bushes from the outside too, facing the house, so he can see me scribbling away on my desk. He'll stand there on his ladder and swing the chainsaw to greet me. He's a real man, oh yeah.
After I finished high school, I went to the employment center which offered a skill- and interest-questionnaire, based on which one then was recommended a profession. I came out as landscape architect. It made sense – when asked, I said I would like to do something creative that allows me to spend time outdoors and that wouldn't require many interpersonal skills. I also really like trees.
Then I went and studied math because what the questionnaire didn't take into account is that I get bored incredibly quickly. I wanted a job that wouldn't run out of novelty any time soon. Math and theoretical physics sounded just right. I never spent much time thinking about gender stereotypes, it just wasn't something I regarded relevant. Yes, I knew the numbers, but I honestly didn't care. Every once in a while I would realize how oddly my voice stood out, look around and realize I was the only women in the room, or one of a few. I still find it an unnatural and slightly creepy situation. But no, I never thought about gender stereotypes.
Now I'm a mother of two daughters and I realized the other day I've gone pink-blind. Before I had children, I'd look at little girls thinking I'd never dress my daughters all in pink. But, needless to say, most of the twin's wardrobe today is pink because it's either racing cars and soccer players on blue, or flowers and butterflies on pink. Unless you want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on designer clothes your kids will wear maybe once.
The internet is full with upset about girl's toys that discourage an interest in engineering, unrealistic female body images, the objectification of women in ads and video games, the lack of strong female characters in books and movies. The internet is full with sites encouraging women to accept their bodies, the bodies of mothers with the floppy bellies and the stretch marks, the bodies of real women with the big breasts and the small breasts and the freckles and the pimples – every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. It's full with Emma Watson and He for She. It's full of high pitched voices.
But it isn't only women who are confronted with stereotypical gender roles and social pressure. Somebody I think must stand up and tell the boys it's totally okay to become a string theorist, even though they don't get to swing a chainsaw - let that somebody be me. Science is neither a boy thing nor a girl thing.
So this one is for the boys. Be what you want to be, rise like a phoenix, and witness me discovering the awesomeness of multiband compression. Happy Halloween :)


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Shabbos 107 - 113
A Fishy Mystery
May one write the Torah chapters for tefillin on the skin of a fish?
This question was put to Rabbi Nachman bar Yitzchak by the Sage Mar, the son of the Sage Ravina. It appears in the gemara's discussion of which living things are considered as having a layer of skin covering their flesh and the ramifications of this for one who wounds such a creature on Shabbos.
Rabbi Nachman's response was that while it is obvious that a fish has a skin, we will have to wait for the Prophet Eliyahu to reveal to us whether the inherent uncleanliness of this skin is removed in processing it for parchment. Since we have not yet merited Eliyahu's arrival, Rambam rules that we may not use fish skin for tefillin.
A simple reading of the gemara suggests that the physical uncleanliness is the putrid odor of fish skin. But it is difficult to understand why we need a prophet to reveal to us something which we can determine with our own sense of smell.
Rabbi Nissim (RaN), one of the early commentaries, offers another perspective. The gemara (Shabbos 146a) tells us that when the primeval serpent persuaded Chava to sin by eating from the Tree of Knowledge, he instilled a spiritual uncleanliness into the entire universe. The Jewish People, and the spirits of their future generations and converts, which stood at Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, were purified of this uncleanliness. All animal life, except for fish, was there as well, adds Rabbi Nissim, and was likewise purified. The question remaining for Eliyahu to solve is whether this spiritual uncleanliness disappears during the processing of the skin.
A more recent commentary, Sfas Emes, suggests that only animal life requiring shechita, such as animals and fowl, were granted release from spiritual uncleanliness, to the exclusion of fish which do not require shechita. Only Eliyahu will tell us whether processing achieves the same effect.
Shabbos 108a
When Word is Work
Shabbos is different!
Since this day is holy, our Sages taught us that we must show our respect for this difference in a variety of ways. Not only must the clothes we wear on Shabbos be different than those we wear on the weekdays, and the manner in which we walk be different from how we move about on the weekdays, but even our talk on Shabbos must be different from our talk on the weekdays.
Rashi explains this ban on weekday talk as referring to discussion of weekday business and calculations, activities which are forbidden on Shabbos. Tosefos rejects this approach because discussion of business comes under another category of activity previously mentioned in the gemara. Rabbeinu Tam, one of the leading Tosefists, suggests that the aforementioned curb on speech relates not to the subject but rather to the quantity of talk, even about permissible things.
In support of this point he cites a Midrash which tells of the extremely talkative elderly mother of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. On Shabbos the Sage would remind her that it was Shabbos and she would become silent.
A further support is the Jerusalem Talmud which relates that the Sages stretched the law to its limit in order to permit us to say "Good Shabbos" to one another.
The reason for all of this caution in regard to talking on Shabbos, says Maharsha, is that in regard to Shabbos, word is equivalent to work: The Torah says "(Hashem) rested on the seventh day from all the work which He had done (Bereishis 2:2)," and King David explains that "with the word of Hashem" everything was created (Tehillim 33:6). Since word is work, on Shabbos we must be careful which words we speak and how many of them.
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Some time ago, a news article described how scientists had studied the genetic material of a magnolia leaf that supposedly died 20 million years ago.
It might seem amazing that scientists would be able to duplicate the genetic material of a fossil, but the technique does seem to work. However, we reject the 20 million year date in favor of a biblical history of life on Earth. In fact, what scientists found out about this leaf supports the biblical history.
The genetic information in living things contains the instructions for making that living thing. The color of your hair, eyes, skin, your height and all of your other features are contained in your genetic information. Scientists are not able to read that information in all its detail, but they can tell the difference between one kind of creature and another. They can also compare similarities and differences in great detail.
When they compared this supposedly 20 million year old magnolia leaf to modern magnolia leaves, they discovered that even in its genetic detail it was virtually identical to the modern magnolia. Scientists freely admit their surprise. No evolution had taken place!
As science increases its ability to study the genetics of ancient creatures, it will continue to fail to find evidence of evolution. That's because all creatures were originally created in finished form, according to their kinds, just as the Bible says.
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Alyssa Gregg is one of our town's charming and reserved chefs. She has been quietly creating culinary magic at Castagna, and now is the head chef at The Teardrop Lounge in the Pearl. She's also spent time in commercial kitchens throughout San Diego and San Francisco. Alyssa graciously allowed us to pick her brain about food, the industry, and about hunting.
Where are you from originally?
Alyssa Gregg: Born in Minneapolis, but I was raised here in Portland.
How long have you worked in commercial kitchens?
AG: Since 2001
What's your food philosophy? Or what's your attraction to it as a career?
AG: My food philosophy is basically that I love the look on a person's face when they put something really good in their mouth. It makes me the happiest seeing their reaction.
What's your opinion about culinary school?
AG: Culinary schools have recently gotten to a point where there is little reason for them to create any restrictions on whom they accept. There is always financial aid, and then there are the people who believe that cooking will turn them into Emeril. But the brutal truth is that these people will be paid $8-$9 an hour for the first four years of service, and they will have a severe amount of debt. If you can afford it, do it; but otherwise get a job that can teach you what you need to know. Most chefs steer clear of hiring culinary grads anyway.
Who are your food heroes (or sheroes)?
AG: My mom and my grandmom. She's always creating aromas of sherry wine reducing (my favorite smell).
What's there to love and hate about working in the Pearl District?
AG: The Pearl draws people in, which causes us to have very few slow nights, which is great. On the other hand, the Pearl people always eat and drink with their eyes; which causes a domino effect of selling the same drink or food dish all night sometimes.
Do you have dreams of running your own place one day?
AG: I do want my own place, and I haven't committed entirely to any ideas per se. Cooking is sort of like fashion; it changes very quickly, so my plans change as fast as flavors and such change.
You've been known to host some pretty impressive dinner parties-what was your most ambitious menu? Any coming up?
AG: I have most recently invested in a professional-grade smoker. Most of my dinners are over the top, so I don't know how to choose. My last party was meat-focused; we smoked a four-rib beef roast, four racks of pork spare ribs, and four whole trout. I love smoked rib roast! With fresh horseradish, of course.
As a dog owner, do you think you could ever eat dog–if you traveled to Asia, for example?
AG: NOOO! Not only because I love dogs, but any animal that uses their muscles a whole lot like a dog or horse, is probably going to be extremely tough.
What kind of animals have you killed? (Because I know you have!)
AG: I have killed many a fish. I usually go hunting once a year with my dad for chukar, quail, and pheasant. The first time was tough, but it's sort of like seeing a bullfight. There is something in the air.
What's your favorite restaurant right now?
AG: Three way tie: Mille Fleurs in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.; Giorgio's in the Pearl; and this little hole in the wall sushi place in NY that I can't remember the name of, but I could find on a map. All the best sushi places are like that.
What's your most loved cookbook? What's your take on cookbooks?
AG: For the most part, I don't use cookbooks–but there is one I use and that's The Joy of Cooking. It's really hit or miss, so I use it more as a reference point. If someone says, what's in mulligatawny–it's in there.
So how'd you learn how to cook?
AG: Well… I went to culinary school in San Francisco; but (laughs) I don't think that taught me how to cook. It's not like it was a bad experience, but it's not like learning to read or something. It's all food development… how food affects your palate.
Do you taste everything that goes out?
AG: Yeah. Foods can develop as they've been made; so if I make a batch of soup, I'll taste it when I make it, then three hours later I'll have to taste it again.
What about your bottom line. How do you watch that?
AG: Basically, I write the menu up, then try to keep the plate-costs around $10-$12 level. When it comes to putting a dish on a plate, that's when I really think about food costs. Thirty percent is a good goal.
Making 30 percent, so 70 percent mark-up?
AG: Right. Then you've got loss, labor… so then you're looking at 40 percent profit. Then consider operations, and (laughs) yeah, you're basically looking at two percent.
With all the talk about rising food costs, what are you worried about?
AG: It's just a matter of knowing your products. I'm not going to put salmon on the menu this year. It's all about knowing what's local. Historically, 'poor-man's dishes' are pretty good. There's a lot of good cheaper meat, and if you know how to cook 'em, then it turns out to be a really great dish. I mean, around Portland it's really popular to do braised pork belly. Yeah, the cuts may be fattier, but when they're cooked right, they can taste really good.
Are there any ingredients that you'd like to get a hold of that you can't get here?
AG: I want crosnes.
What is that?
AG: They are Chinese artichokes. It sort of looks like ginger, but tastes like a cross between an artichoke and a water chestnut. They're really cool looking, so… I got a crosne plant. But I don't really know if I'll be able to produce crosnes. I don't know if they do start to grow in my yard, if I'll be able to control the crosne growth. I've never had one, but I've seen them on a menu up in Vancouver, B.C.
So you grow food?
AG: Yeah–I've got artichokes, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, edible geraniums, persimmon tree, Asian pear tree and a fig tree.
And this is all possible to see here on the menu at Teardrop?
AG: Yeah, it just depends on how green my thumb is.
Since you cook for work–but have to continue doing it even when you're not working–do you ever get sick of it?
AG: This job is a lot more enjoyable as far as creativity-wise. One of the first things I realized when I first went into cooking was that I had to have a creative outlet. If I was sitting at a desk, I think I would've been committed to an institution by my mid-thirties. I have to be moving around all the time. I don't know if I have restless-leg syndrome, but think I might.
Can you go out without analyzing a dish to death?
AG: If I go out with other foodies… other chefs, it is kind of a race to see who can find the typo in the menu. But it doesn't take the enjoyment out of eating out, because when you do find that perfect place, you almost glorify it.
What about any terrifying cooking stories?
AG: I was cooking in San Diego in a place called Pample Moose and we had to make 50 lbs. of mashed potatoes a day. We'd have a huge vat boiling and you'd pick it up, take it over to the sink and strain it out. The other guy that was working during my days off, took the big pot, poured it in the sink, but poured it way too fast and the water splashed up and went into his clogs. It was boiling water, just sitting in his shoes. He kicked his shoes off, but made the mistake of ripping his socks off; he ripped off all the skin on his feet. When I came back to work the next day everyone's like, "Be careful when you strain the potatoes…"
You said something really cool about people in the Pearl eating with their eyes. Did you mean that people see what others are eating and just want that?
AG: Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. Sometimes you'll send something out with a lot of presentation value and they'll just point and say, "That!" I remember this one time someone had allergies or something and she asked me to plate up just 10 shrimp. Just lightly salted with a little bit of olive oil. I sent it out and four more plates sold right away. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Catherine Cole wants to try this chocolate-covered bacon she keeps hearing all about. In the meantime, her writing has appeared in The Portland Mercury and PortlandPicks.com. She's also been a copywriter for various local businesses, and has a blog at: ccole.info/aflyonthewall.


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A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran this fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering U.S. military and civilian personnel (and other interests) throughout the Middle East and beyond.
Robert Baer made his prediction on the provocative KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters.
Baer has had a storied career, including a stint in Iraq in the 1990s where he organized opposition to Saddam Hussein. (He was recalled after being accused of trying to organize Saddam's assassination). Upon his retirement, he received a top decoration for meritorious service. Incidentally, George Clooney won an Oscar for playing a character based on Baer in the film Syriana (Baer also wrote the book).
Baer didn't name sources for his prediction of an Israeli attack, but the few he did cite are all Israeli security figures who have publically warned that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are hell-bent on war.
Baer is especially impressed by the unprecedented warning about Netanyahu's plans by former Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. Dagan left the Israeli intelligence agency in September 2010 and two months ago predicted that Israel would attack and that doing so would be "the stupidest thing" he could imagine. According to Haaretz:
When asked about what would happen in the aftermath of an Israeli attack Dagan said that: "It will be followed by a war with Iran. It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end."
The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hizbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.
According to Ben Caspit of Israeli daily Maariv, Dagan's blasts at Israel's political leadership are significant not only because Mossad chiefs, in office or retired, traditionally have kept their lips sealed but also because Dagan is very conservative on security matters.
Caspit writes that Dagan is "one of the most rightwing militant people ever born here. … When this man says that the leadership has no vision and is irresponsible, we should stop sleeping soundly at night."
Dagan describes the current Israeli government as "dangerous and irresponsible" and views speaking out against Netanyahu as his patriotic duty.
And his abhorrence of Netanyahu is not uncommon in the Israeli security establishment. According toThink Progress, citing the Forward newspaper, 12 of the 18 living ex-chiefs of Israel's two security agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet), are "either actively opposing Netanyahu's stances or have spoken out against them." Of the remaining six, two are current ministers in Netanyahu government, leaving a grand total of four out of 18 who independently support the prime minister.
In short, while Congress dutifully gives Netanyahu 29 standing ovations, the Israelis who know the most about both Netanyahu and Israel's strategic situation think he is a dangerous disaster.
But according to Baer, we ain't seen nothing yet.
There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] … and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict," Baer explained.
The Israeli air force would attack "Natanz and other nuclear facilities to degrade their capabilities. The Iranians will strike back where they can: Basra, Baghdad," he said, and even Afghanistan. Then the United States would jump into the fight with attacks on Iranian targets. "Our special forces are already looking at Iranian targets in Iraq and across the border [in Iran] which we would strike. What we're facing here is an escalation, rather than a planned out-and-out war…it's a nightmare scenario. We don't have enough troops in the Middle East to fight a war like that. I think we are looking into the abyss."
Masters asked Baer why the U.S. military is not mobilizing to stop this war from happening. Baer responded that the military is opposed, and so was the civilian head of the military, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who used his influence to thwart an Israeli attack during the Bush and Obama administrations. But he's gone now and "there is a warning order inside the Pentagon" to prepare for war.
It should be noted that the Iranian regime is quite capable of triggering a war with the United States on its own through some combination of colossal stupidity and sheer hatred. In fact, Baer says, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would welcome a war. They are "paranoid." They are "worried about … what's happening to their country economically, in terms of the oil embargo and other sanctions." And they are worried about a population that increasingly despises the regime.
They need an external enemy. Because we are leaving Iraq, it's Israel. But in order to make this threat believable, they would love an attack on their nuclear facilities, love to go to war in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Iraq and hit us where they could. Their defense is asymmetrical. We can take out all of their armored units. It's of little difference to them, same with their surface-to-air missile sites. It would make little difference because they would use terrorism. They would do serious damage to our fleet in the Gulf.
Given all that, is it possible that the United States would allow Israel to attack when the president knows "we would be forced" to join the war on Israel's side?
Baer's response: "the President is up for re-election next year" and Israel is "truly out of control."
What happens when you see 100 F-16's approaching Iraq and there is a call to the White House [from Netanyahu] that says "We're going in, we're at war with Iran"? What does the President of the United States do? He has little influence over Bibi Netanyahu. …We can't stop him. And he knows it.
It's a pretty frightening scenario, made infinitely more so by the fact that top Israelis (who have heard Netanyahu's thinking from Netanyahu himself) also see the future the same way. Those Israelis deserve a world of credit for sounding the warning bell loud enough that we would hear it and do something about it – although it's impossible to know if the people who matter are paying attention.
Actually, only one person matters: the president. If Israel bombed Iran tomorrow, Congress would forget all about partisan differences and run, not walk, to the House and Senate floors to endorse the attack and call for unstinting support for Israel. That is what Congress always does, and will always do so long as the lobby (and the donors it directs) are the key players in making our Middle East policies.
And who knows what Obama would do? So far, he has not exactly distinguished himself when it comes to standing up to Netanyahu.
But an Israeli attack on Iran would be different. It would endanger countless Americans (in the region and here at home, too). It would kill off any economic recovery by causing oil prices to skyrocket. It would engulf us in another Middle East war. And it would threaten the existence of the state of Israel.
This is something the President needs to focus on instead of being forced to nickel and dime with the likes of Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell. How incredible that these two, and their right-wing allies, have our government tied in knots in their incessant effort to elevate themselves by destroying the President of the United States. When did Congressional leaders decide that the only thing that matters is not national security — but their party's fortunes and, mostly, their own? It is sickening.


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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
When It Comes to Obama the Media Continues to Fail the American People
I explained that given conflicting evidence about where Obama was born, many in the public have wanted to make sure that Obama was born in Hawaii and constitutionally eligible for the Office of President.
I also explained that Obama has asserted privacy rights to block any efforts by the public to view his Hawaii birth records and other background documents.
I explained that the media has failed us miserably in not asserting its powers to confirm whether or not Obama was born in Hawaii.
I also explained how in the past, the media has not hesitated to assert its rights to uncover the truth on matters it deemed important and I asked why has it not done the same when it comes to confirming where Obama was born.
Well, here is another example of the media getting in the fight when it wants to uncover information that it believes is important to the public.
With the general election two weeks away, six major television networks are asking a federal judge to enjoin New Jersey from enforcing a broad ban on exit polling and other expressive activity within 100 feet of polling places.
The plaintiffs, ABC, the Associated Press, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC, in American Broadcasting Companies Inc. et al. v. Wells , 2:09-cv-5275, are asking U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction, arguing that restrictions on exit polling activities have been struck down on First Amendment grounds in the 12 federal courts that have heard similar challenges.
The suit, filed on October 16, 2009, in Newark, New Jersey, seeks to block a September 30, 2009, New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that surprised the litigants on both sides. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey had appealed the attorney general's denial of a request to hand out voters' rights cards at the polls. But none of the parties sought to ban exit polling within 100 feet, which the state has permitted since 1988.
The media plaintiffs say the ban serves no legitimate government interest that would justify infringement of their First Amendment rights. While conceding that courts have recognized the states' interest in prohibiting activities that interfere with the electoral process, they argue in their brief that there is no evidence that polling voters who have cast their ballots borders on intimidation or fraud.
The plaintiffs also maintain that prohibiting exit polling within 100 feet is not a narrowly tailored approach. The state defendants "already have all the authority they need to address any potential disruption at the polls. Applying a blanket restriction to plaintiffs' non-disruptive exit polling activities, however, is unnecessary and unconstitutionally overbroad," their brief said.
The plaintiffs also argue they will suffer irreparable harm if injunctive relief is not granted. They cite the potential loss of valuable voter information in the election.
As we can see, the media will not hesitate to take on the big boys when it comes to fighting for what it perceives to be its First Amendment rights. But when it comes to Obama, who blocked all efforts by the public to learn about who he really is by wanting to review his birth, education, work, and travel documents, why did the media believe that Obama's privacy rights should trump its First Amendment rights to express itself by satisfying its journalistic obligations to provide critical information of national security importance to our political institutions and the voting public? If the media could not make a successful First Amendment claim, why did it not even file any Freedom of Information Actions with all public entities possessing any of Obama's records and arguing that any right to privacy should fail given the critical national security interest it sought to protect?
Needles to say, the President of the United States, in both his civil and military capacities, has immense powers over not only our nation but over the world. Again I ask, why has and why does the media take on these other legal fights, not affecting national security, but did not do anything of real substance to uncover the real evidence needed to assist our political institutions and the American public to find out who Obama really is?
Does not the media see the potential "irreparable harm" to our nation should Obama not be eligible to hold the Office of President? Why does the media mock and suppress the efforts of those who want our courts to confirm whether Obama is constitutionally eligible to be President, like not reporting on a pending case against Obama until the Court dismisses it on some threshold or procedural ground and not the merits and then telling the world that the case was frivolous? Is the media afraid of what may be uncovered?
The only "evidence" of his being born in Hawaii that Obama released to the public was a computer-imaged Certification of Live Birth posted on his web site and not a paper long-form, hospital-generated Birth Certificate. Now there are so many alleged and questionable birth certificates of Obama's birth floating around the internet which show him to have been born in Kenya. Who knows how many more will come in the future. Clearly, such activity is a distraction for our nation and only takes away from the respect that the Office of President so much deserves. It is time for the media to step up to the plate and assist our nation to bring the issue of Obama's place of birth to a close.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
185 Gatzmer Avenue
Jamesburg, New Jersey 08831
October 20, 2009
15 comments:
- Ted said...
Of course, it doesn't matter whether Obama was born in Kenya, Hawaii, or wherever, in the sense of trumping Obama's (Sortero's) own declaration to the world that his father is Barack Obama Sr. of British/Kenyan nationality on Barry's birth — hence, by his own declaration he's not a "natural born citizen" (requiring both citizen parents).
Case closed. - October 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- jayjay said...
- October 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Incredulous said...
True all that, the media is complicit in this marxist takeover.
But why?
Canada Free Press wrote their money and jobs were threatened. They were more willing to trash the Constitutional Republic and keep their jobs than to stand up for it even while Obama the "Undecider" mismanages Afnamistan causing US soldiers to DIE.
OR they are marxists themselves.
OR they were paid off.
In any case, they are complicit, they are criminals, and it is right that the public should attack that angle relentlessly. The media are part of the enemy within,they are few in numbers and their weapons are control over the press---now Obama wants control over the internet too.
It's not as if we're going to get a straight answer from a crime in progress. "Is that your hand in the bank safe?" "Why no, it's just my elbow, and you're a racist, oh! and look at the bunny wabbit almost got hit by a truck!"
The DNC and the cabal of mafioso and media are prepped for inquiries and expecting an apathetic lazy materialistic stupid public not to challenge them in any meaningful way. They've corrupted the courts too. - October 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- libertyforusa said...
Our nation is in desperate need of defragmentation of it's values. They have become a jumbled and confused mess!
The list of reputable conservative voices that jumped on the "silence is golden" bandwagon early on is one of the great mysteries in the case of allowing this Obama legal hide and seek game to proceed.
What could be more important than confirming the legitimacy of the POTUS?
Many of these power players must know the actual and exact real story about Obama- and feel that suppressing that truth is more valuable then being involved in any way to expose it.
The cover up is too universal, making it extra sinister.
The media is a total disgrace in many areas, and deserve all the criticism they are getting for being pawns of the Obama administration.
Both Congress and the media have totally shirked their accountability to the people.
Americans deserve better. - October 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Sallyven said...
All good questions, Mr. Apuzzo. One would think the media would be all over such a "sensational" story. The likely answer: The media doesn't want the truth to become known at this point, because it would reveal the obvious bias and lack of real reporting and journalism in their coverage of the election.
Have you ever read "Witness", by Whittaker Chambers? (One of the best books I have ever read, by the way.) In parts of it, Chambers discusses the infiltration of Communism in the media, during the time (40's) he was an editor of Time Magazine. I would not think it farfetched to believe that this Communist influence has also played a role, as few can argue the far-left liberal agenda of this President, which the Communist party has endorsed.
There are so many important things to take away from a reading of this masterpiece (as well as the many profound statements it contains), but one thing Chambers did make clear--by including all of the hundreds of names and numerous pages of seemingly minor details of the Communist plotting and "community organizing" and spying that occurred--that an evil of this nature does not require a single individual at the top, directing the show, but rather it can move as one giant monster, comprised of all the individuals who are of the same mindset, each performing their own minor contribution to aid in its movement.
Conspiracy? Maybe not of the kind that we usually see in the movies, with the evil madman who wants to "rule the world", but of the kind composed of many individuals, all working to dismantle and "transform" our form of government, aided by a constituency who are uneducated in our nation's history and easily swayed by an unaccountable media. - October 20, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- Mario Apuzzo, Esq. said...
I have not read Witness, but based on your recommendation would like to. I will see if I can get a copy and read it.
Thank you for your contributions to this blog and to the public. - October 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- Jim said...
Mario.you can get "A Tissue of Lies" which should be a few books anywhere.It goes over HUAC and the whole Chamber-Hiss Affair.It should be noted that Hiss was a Soviet Agent that penned the UN Chrater verbatim from the former USSR's Constitution.Good work.You know,after the treasonous APA ACt and later the UN put on oour soil fromland donated from the Illuminist Rockefeller it was all over for our sovereignty.Just a matter of Fabianism until December at Copenhagen,but admire and respect your efforts....m2 see IO Blog open thread for history and what is to come shorlty -- http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/ note:type open thread into search box.We haven't commented here because your case is poignant in that it is the best one.We give Leo credit for his work and education.But you were right the other day on not helping the defense and also not denigating anyone's efforts publicly,although we have laid it out in this open thread for the historicval record.We expect major upheaval next week from our decades long research.Hope we are wrong.Charles...you my frien are an excellent and educated Plaintiff that I'm sure makes the load on Mario's shoulder's less difficult to bear in this tryingt time.Thank you for your service,and Mario thank you for standing up when the likes of experts such as Vierira and Napolitino and others yawn and play the political pundit and write columns as the nations descends into tyranny.In Jesus' Love........ Bry/Gort/Jim/ma...m2...and m3
- October 20, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- Jim said...
Mario,you don't have to publish this one---kay[also in open thread] is almost in tears over your case.Although we know this really must be done in DC,we do agree with your analysis on a theortical level.That is to say,if we had a legtimate government,then QW or any action should be heard anywhere in the country.But under Title 50 and tied into Title 28 US Code and all the wranglings and beauracracy of the Administrative State it really must be done in DC with millions behind the lawsuit.Too late though.Rod Class is looking for the remedy of going on the floor of Congress to prove what many of us have known for decades about the system.It wil never get that far.Here's link to Rod's work via radio--- AIB- http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=48361&cmd=tc and-- RADIOFREEAMERICA-- http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=17898&cmd=tc This is old news to some of us,but a shocker for those of us that have been in the trenches for decades.God Bless you and Charles my dear friends.
- October 20, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Sallyven said...
I am not sure what "bry" is talking about, but I think that The Tissue book sought to disprove whether Chamber's accusations in the famous Hiss trial were true. Recently released KGB files have proven, however, that Chambers was correct and Alger Hiss was indeed a spy.
My recommendation to you to read Witness has nothing to do with this aspect. It is one of those beautifully written and powerful books that you will find yourself underlining and marking up as you read it, and when you open it later to locate a particular line or passage, you will find yourself again lost in its pages (all 800 of them!). But beyond this, the parallels with events as they are today, are indeed striking. Chambers was a true American hero, who endured great personal risk, unsupported by the public and ridiculed by the media, in his battle, both personally and publicly, for the truth. - October 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Incredulous said...
Yuri Bezmenov speaks 25 years ago about psychological warfare.
This is a marxist takeover, plain and simple. All the steps are there, and the end game is violent, deadly and ugly.
Ayers has said 25 million Americans will need to be exterminated because they cannot be reeducated.
Anita Dunn admires mass murdered (100 million) Mao.
Georgia has 500K 4-person plastic coffins stacked up.
I hate sounding like this, it's unbelievable to me as I type it. But here it is. - October 21, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- Unknown said...
The courts have obviously been totally corrupted by an unseen hand. Unless something positive transpires very soon, this nation will be finished. I couldn't be more disgusted with the government and the media and everyone I know feels precisely the same way. God help the government's case next time I'm selected to sit on a jury, no matter what the evidence shows, whomever is on trial will go free, that I promise.
- October 21, 2009 at 2:42 AM
- James said...
It is coming up to November and still no answer from the Judge. Perhaps you should call the court to find what is going on. If you don't get a decision by November 1, 2009, you should think about writing a second letter to the judge. It has been almost 3 months...This judge has had plenty of time to render a decision. How much longer are willing to wait. - October 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- jayjay said...
Sallyven and all:
The book "Witness" is excellent as you say and shows the widespread Communist influence which started about the time, actually, of Woodrow Wilson - our first truly far-left dangerous president. It is well worth the read.
An even more informative book that shows how political party greed in QWashington DC plays into the hands of committed Communists is the book "Blacklisted By History" by W. Staunton Evans which DEEPLY researches and investigates what the liberals still (spitting on the floor in disdain) call the "Joe McCarthy era".
The book documents in great detail (600 pages of heavily footnoted archival data and material from the Russian decrypted Venona Papers) that of those identified by McCarthy in his many Senate hearings about 90 to 95% were indeed Communists employed inside of the US government - many with state department jobs and were influential in China becoming the Communist country we see today.
Also fascinating (since it no doubt is true today) a cabal of Democratic Senators (mainly) supported by the president at the time (Truman) were able to make gross offerings of the "Big Lie" about McCarthy and sought to destroy him personally and hound him out of the Senate (which they did). His main Senate protagonist was Millard Tydings who held competitive hearings trying to nail McCarthy to the wall with information which the author clearly documents were grossly and outrageously untrue - but few stuch up for McCarthy and certainly the media (even then) delighted in attacking such a conservative guy who loved his country and sought to see it not be pushed into Communism. Even today the MSM would tell you the oft-repeated lies about McCarthy.
A highly recommended read to gain insight into what is going on inside the Beltway today no doubt!!
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- Andy said...
James basically summed up my comment. How much longer must you wait. I would add only one thing - is there no judicial rule that compels the judge to render a decision without undue delay? Can he sit on this indefinitely? Can you appeal to a higher court if he fails to render a decision within a certain amount of time?
Also, on the subject of the birth certificate a topic has recently been brought to my attention that I would like to share with your readers. That is, Obama's posted COLB contains a date that says "filed by registrar" while other people's hawaiian COLB's contain the language of "accepted by registrar". I've worked for the federal government before and filed and accepted are to very different things. Accepted generally means, we have reviewed and we approve while filed simply means we have received your documents.
Anyway, check out naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com for lots of info on the current battle to obtain information from Hawaii. - October 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Jim said...
Sallyven,you are correct.But understanding the larger picture it should alert any thinking person that Nixon was a shill for the powers that be.It is good to look at both sides of an issue and do one's own research on history to get the larger picture.The fact is that we lost the Republic in 1861.To simplify-look at the Judiciary Act of 1789;the War Powers Act of 1933;and the APA Act of 1946.To fill in the blanks go back to the Reconstruction Act.Then look at Title 28 US Code sections 1333 and 1343 and how the federal corporate employess have viloated it.The last true Article III court in the nation is the Superior Court in DC.You mentioned other things,and I mentioned the Tissues book,but should have given a caveat lector on it.I could delve into history much deeper but this is not the forum for it.
- October 22, 2009 at 1:35 AM


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Having a child with type 1 diabetes can be a challenging health condition for parents to manage, but new research suggests an "artificial pancreas" system may beat standard treatment in controlling the blood sugar disease in young children.
Forms of the technology -- which automatically monitors and regulates blood sugar -- are already available for adults and kids with type 1 diabetes. The systems have been shown to improve blood sugar control and make life easier for people with the disease.
Until recently, most research on artificial pancreas systems has focused on adults or older children, though one system is approved in the United States for children aged 2 to 6.
The new study, published Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine, adds to evidence that the technology is safe for toddlers and preschoolers -- and may better control their disease.
Type 1 diabetes is far less common than type 2 diabetes, which typically strikes in adulthood and is often associated with obesity.
The type 1 form is caused by a misguided immune system attack on the body's insulin-producing cells. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar, and people with type 1 diabetes need to take synthetic insulin daily.
Traditionally, that meant taking multiple "finger sticks" each day to measure blood sugar levels, then injecting the right amount of insulin.
Some advances have made the task easier: Instead of injections, people can opt for a "pump" that delivers insulin doses throughout the day via a small tube just under the skin. And an alternative to finger sticks is the continuous glucose monitor -- a device that tracks blood sugar 24 hours a day, via a sensor placed under the skin.
Even with those technologies, though, managing type 1 diabetes remains daunting -- especially in young children, experts said.
Parents still have to calculate how much insulin the pump should deliver and make frequent changes, both day and night, said lead researcher Dr. Julia Ware.
The artificial pancreas -- also called a hybrid closed-loop system -- connects the insulin pump and glucose monitor into a single automated system. The middle man is a computer algorithm that analyzes the monitor's glucose readings and automatically adjusts the pump's insulin doses.
"This automation significantly reduces the burden for parents, particularly at nighttime," said Ware, of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge, in England.
That point was echoed by Sanjoy Dutta, vice president of research for the nonprofit JDRF (formerly called the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), which helped fund the study.
"Now parents can sleep through the night," Dutta said.
Beyond that, better blood sugar control from an early age is critical, he added. Over the years, chronically high blood sugar can damage blood vessels and nerves throughout the body. Better control can lower the risks of long-term complications like heart, kidney and eye disease, Dutta said.
Blood sugar extremes -- very high or very low -- can also cause immediate problems with thinking, attention and other mental abilities. And young children are particularly vulnerable to that, said Dr. Meredith Wilkes, medical director of the Pediatric Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai, in New York City.
Wilkes, who was not involved in the trial, agreed that managing diabetes in young kids is especially challenging: They often cannot sense symptoms of blood sugar extremes, and rely on their parents and other caregivers for monitoring.
"The hope is that newer technology, especially artificial pancreas systems, will not only improve [diabetes] control, but also make management easier for caregivers," Wilkes said.
The new trial included 74 children aged 2 to 7. Each spent 16 weeks using a traditional glucose monitor and insulin pump, and 16 weeks using an artificial pancreas system developed by the Cambridge researchers.
On average, the study found, the children spent about 72% of the day within normal blood sugar range when they were using the artificial pancreas -- just over two hours more than standard treatment.
The system also reduced instances of very high blood sugar, without increasing potentially dangerous blood sugar lows.
"Right now, hybrid closed-loop systems are the best treatment we have," Dutta said.
In the United States, Medtronic's MiniMed 770G is approved for children as young as 2. And other systems are being studied in very young children, Dutta noted.
The technology does not come cheap, and there is an ongoing cost of supplies for the glucose monitor and pump. Even with insurance coverage, Dutta noted, cost can be an obstacle for some families.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more on artificial pancreas systems.
SOURCES: Julia Ware, MD, clinical research associate, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.; Sanjoy Dutta, PhD, vice president, research, JDRF, New York City; Meredith Wilkes, MD, medical director, Pediatric Diabetes Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City; New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 20, 2022


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The Weight of Water
Part of the Water: H2O = Life exhibition.
Part of the Water: H2O = Life exhibition.
In the developed world, we seldom bear the weight of water. If we did, it's safe to assume we'd use a lot less than we do. For instance, in North America--that is, Canada and the United States--average use per person inside the home ranges from 225 to 335 liters (about 60 to 90 gallons) a day. The weight of that water? Between 225 and 335 kilograms (about 500 to 740 pounds).
Try lifting a three-gallon jug of water. Be careful, because water weighs a lot. You won't be able to put it on your head, which is the way many people carry water over very long distances.
You're feeling the burden of about 11 liters (three gallons)--or 11 kilograms (25 pounds)--of water. Water experts say that people in some regions may carry nearly four times this weight on their heads to meet the water needs of their families.
The Q-Drum, made of tough plastic, holds 50 liters (13 gallons) of water--and it rolls! The only extra equipment needed is a piece of rope. Clever ideas like the Q-Drum, shown here in South Africa, simplify people's lives in the short term, but it would take improvements to infrastructure to make permanent change happen.
Distance from a clean water source is a critical factor affecting women's lives; in some places in sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, women can spend between 15 and 17 hours each week collecting water. A decent water supply and good health are tightly linked, and the need to carry water long distances limits the amount women can bring to their families.


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Riverhead school board candidates introduced themselves to the community Wednesday at the Greater Calverton Civic Association's meeting and answered questions.
Challenger Christopher Dorr of Baiting Hollow will face incumbents Jeff Falisi of Calverton and Amelia Lantz of Riverhead. There are two seats carrying three-year terms up for grabs on the seven-member board.
Residents will go to the polls to vote on the budget and school board election May 21.
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