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Update 5/20/2013: This stencil has been updated. Head to my VMware Visio Stencils and Shapes permalink page for the latest version.
Yesterday I posted a Visio stencil with some generic VMware icons. I also have put together a Visio stencil for use in diagraming VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. Some of the icons are borrowed from other collections (see links in my earlier post), and some are unique shapes that I made for this View specific set. This View set has 184 shapes as of today. These shapes provide visuals for all aspects of a View environment, from the actual View server components down to users, group policies, smart cards, SSL certs, apps and the like.
Here's a sampling of what's included:
Grab the download here: VMware-View-Visio-Stencil.
Update: 11/11/2012 – I had a request to provide these in .VSX XML Stencil format. You can grab that format here: VMware-View-Visio-Stencil-XML-Stencil
I'm open to suggestions for improving or adding to this collection – leave a comment! I'd love to see diagrams you've made – feel free to share them in a comment too!


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What is hormone therapy?
Hormones are chemicals produced by glands, such as the ovaries and testicles. Hormones help some types of cancer cells to grow, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. In other cases, hormones can kill cancer cells, make cancer cells grow more slowly, or stop them from growing. Hormone therapy as a cancer treatment may involve taking medications that interfere with the activity of the hormone or stop the production of the hormones. Hormone therapy may involve surgically removing a gland that is producing the the hormones.
How does hormone therapy work?
Your physician may recommend a hormone receptor test to help determine treatment options and to help learn more about the tumor. This test can help to predict whether the cancer cells are sensitive to hormones.
The hormone receptor test measures the amount of certain proteins (called hormone receptors) in cancer tissue. Hormones (such as estrogen and progesterone that naturally occur in the body) can attach to these proteins. If the test is positive, it is indicating that the hormone is probably helping the cancer cells to grow. In this case, hormone therapy may be given to block the way the hormone works and help keep the hormone away from the cancer cells (hormone receptors). If the test is negative, the hormone does not affect the growth of the cancer cells, and other effective cancer treatments may be given. Always discuss the results of the hormone receptor test with your physician.
If the test indicates that the hormones are affecting your cancer, the cancer may be treated in one of following ways:
– Treating cancer cells to keep them from receiving the hormones they need to grow
– Treating the glands that produce hormones to keep them from making hormones
– Surgery to remove glands that produce the hormones, such as the ovaries that produce estrogen, or the testicles that produce testosterone
The type of hormone therapy a person receives depends upon many factors, such as the type and size of the tumor, the age of the person, the presence of hormone receptors on the tumor, and other factors.
When is hormone therapy given?
Your physician may prescribe hormone therapies before some cancer treatments or after other cancer treatments. If hormone therapy is given before the primary treatment, it is called neoadjuvant treatment. Neoadjuvant treatments help to kill cancer cells and contribute to the effectiveness of the primary therapy. If hormone therapy is given after the primary cancer treatment, it is called adjuvant treatment. Adjuvant therapy is given to improve the chance of a cure.
With some cancers, patients may be given hormone therapy as soon as cancer is diagnosed, and before any other treatment. It may shrink a tumor or it may halt the advance of the disease. And in some cancer, such as prostate cancer, it is helpful in alleviating the painful and distressing symptoms of advanced disease. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) states that although hormone therapy cannot cure prostate cancer, it will usually shrink or halt the advance of disease, often for years.
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What medications are used for hormone therapy?
Hormone therapy may be used to prevent the growth, spread, and recurrence of breast cancer. The female hormone estrogen can increase the growth of breast cancer cells in some women. Tamoxifen (Nolvadex®) is a medication used in hormone therapy to treat breast cancer by blocking the effects of estrogen on the growth of malignant cells in breast tissue. However, tamoxifen does not stop the production of estrogen.
Hormone therapy may be considered for women whose breast cancers test positive for estrogen and progesterone receptors.
Drugs recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), called aromatase inhibitors, are used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. These drugs, such as anastrozole (Arimidex®) and letrozole (Femara®), prevent estrogen production. Anastrozole is effective only in women who have not had previous hormonal treatment for breast cancer. Letrozole is effective in women who have previously been treated with tamoxifen. Possible side effects of these drugs include osteoporosis or bone fractures.
Another new drug for recurrent breast cancer is fulvestrant (Faslodex®). Also approved by the FDA, this drug eliminates the estrogen receptor rather than blocking it, as is the case with tamoxifen, letrozole, or anastrozole. This drug is used following previous antiestrogen therapy. Side effects for fulvestrant include hot flashes, mild nausea, and fatigue.
Men who have breast cancer may also be treated with tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is currently being studied as a hormone therapy for treatment of other types of cancer.
What are the side effects of hormone therapy?
The following are some potential side effects that may occur with hormone therapy. However, the side effects will vary depending upon the type of hormone therapy that is given. Every person's hormone treatment experience is different and not every person will experience the same side effects. Discuss the potential side effects of your hormone therapy with you physician.
As each person's individual medical profile and diagnosis is different, so is his/her reaction to treatment. Side effects may be severe, mild, or absent. Be sure to discuss with your cancer care team any/all possible side effects of treatment before the treatment begins.
For prostate cancer, either the surgical removal of the testes or hormone drug therapy can improve the cancer. Both surgery and drugs may cause the following side effects:
– Hot flashes
– Impotence
– A loss of desire for sexual relations
– Male breast enlargement
For breast cancer, some women may experience side effects from tamoxifen that are similar to the symptoms some women experience in menopause. Other women do not experience any side effects when taking tamoxifen. The following are some of the side effects that may occur when taking tamoxifen:
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These crochet balls you can make in all the colours of the rainbow and in any size.
It is a very good idea for beginners to start out with thick yarn and a large hook so they can practice before going down to the skinnier threads and crochet hooks.
Used terms: stitch (st.), single crochet (sc), single crochet 2 together (sc2tog)
A wooden bead is perfect as a core of a crochet ball, but you can use acrylic beads as well. Use proper size of crochet needle for the yarn you chose to use for the bead.
Take a bead about 2 cm diameter.
Make a loop a few inches from the end of your yarn.
Take the loop where two threads overlap, between your left thumb and forefinger.
Insert hook into the loop from front to back.
Draw up a loop.
Make a chain.
Continue to crochet over a loop and the yarn tail until you have 6-8 SC (quantity depends of diameter of your bead and thickness of yarn)
Begin your second round by crocheting into the first stitch of the first round.
Ball is made as a spiral. Please count your rounds. You can put little thread – marker of safety - in the first stitch of every round.
R2: inc in every stitch of the first round.
R3: Move the marker up to the first stitch of the round. inc, sc in every stitch of the second round.
R4: 2 sc, inc in every stitch around.
R5: 3 sc, inc in every stitch around. Take your bead and fit it. It should fit well. If it fit tightly you should unpick 1-2 rounds and make more inc. If you have big bead you will need to repeat R4.
R6-R7-R8-R9: SC around. Quantity of this step depends of diameter of your bead. Take the bead and thread tail into the hole. Put the bead inside the finished part of the crochet bead. Now you will crochet around the bead.
R11: dec, 4 sc around
R12: dec, sc around
R13: dec around
When the bead will be whole covered, cut your working yarn leaving a long tail. Pass the tail in the last loop and draw tight.
Tie both tails of yarn, cut them 1 cm and pass using hook through the hole of the bead to hide them. If you can see tails on the other side, cut them again.


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For this month's Cake Slice Bakers selection, we voted for the Chocolate-Hazelnut Nutcracker Cake in the great book, Sky High Cakes: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman (page 51).
You need to make this cake.
No, really. You need to make this cake.
Okay, you don't believe me? Let me show you why...
Grated unsweetened chocolate was a great addition to the chopped nuts. Hint: freeze or chill the chocolate to make the grating easier (I think this was the hardest part of the recipe...my arm was tired!). The hazelnuts are ground up...
...and a graham cracker crumb, hazelnut, chocolate, and sugar mixture is created!
The yolks are beaten with sugar and some oil, nut mixture, flour, pumpkin pie spice and baking powder are added. The batter is lightened with whipped egg whites.
I made half the recipe and used a 9 x 13 pan (original recipe is for 3 x 9 inch rounds). As you can see, I didn't level out the batter very nicely and my edges were a bit thin. I just put the smallest layer on top.
I used a 2 1/2 inch circle and cut 12. And don't think the leftover cake went into the trash...it didn't go to "waste" - it went to my "waist."
A simple syrup mixture with added rum is brushed on each layer. Because I was bringing it into work, I didn't want to use real rum and used a bit of rum extract. After last month's cake, the author wrote to me inquiring about this new baking group, and I took the opportunity to ask her about options. She suggested those coffeehouse non-alcohol syrups used to flavor coffee. I went searching but couldn't find a rum flavored one in my local stores so I went the rum extract route.
The filling is a heavenly Creme Chantilly: heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Directions say to make this cake about 6 hours before you serve it to allow everything to set up.
The cake is light and yet rich with texture and flavor. It's not too sweet and I could probably eat five pieces in one sitting. My co-worker said it is one of her favorite items I've ever brought into work.
Three layers of yum! Please, please make this cake! Alisa's book Sky High Cakes would be great under any baker's tree this season.
Check out the other Cake Slice Bakers - I know my fellow bakers were really creative with this cake!


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Every once in a while I like to write a short post on what we've been eating lately. We're always keen to cook our own food versus buying ready-made lunches and we reserve restaurant outings for the weekends, so our kitchen is always bustling with activity.
Though it's not always easy, it's worth the effort. We buy 90% of our weekly groceries at the farmers' market and get staples like ketchup, mayo, etc. at Lidl or SuperValu. This means there's a whole routine of packaging up our vegetables and bread and fish/chicken/meat when we get home from the farmers' market, as most of it isn't in any kind of container or wrapping.
Still, we wouldn't have it any other way. We eat incredibly well and Sunday through Friday we eat three meals a day that we've made ourselves. Our average cost? About €3.80 per person, per meal. Of course we're not factoring in the effort it takes, but as I love to cook (and as Mountaineering Man is starting to get into cooking himself), we don't mind it at all.
So here's a look into an average week for us, many of these dishes don't have recipes as we kind of throw them together. We focus on using everything we have for the week (I even write a list of what we have in the fridge every Sunday so I can better plan our meals and curb any waste) and with the exception of the weekends cook relatively simple food.
Brown Bag Lunches
MM takes a couple of sandwiches, plus oatmeal with fruit plus an apple every day for his breakfasts and lunches at work. I try to make his sambos interesting, and always use meat from the butcher and fresh bread from either il Valentino or Arun Bakery plus a variety of condiments. Last week he took corned beef with pickles, Edam cheese and a homemade Thousand Island sauce. My breakfast usually consist of a huge Glowing Green Smoothie, which I make at home and bring to work, and lunches are usually vegan or vegetarian. Yesterday I brought some roasted cauliflower and sweet potato topped with baked beans. A bit odd, I know, but filling, easy and tasty.


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Although the piece in question didn't address the environmental causes of autism, Deer left a note about the environmental causes of autism.
It said that if it turned out that autism was environmentally caused, that the public would look back in hatred at those who advocated that autism was environmental. I kid you not:
Brian Deer
March 31st, 2011
"Looks like the NAS is getting its shit together. It has taken them long enough, if you ask me. But I'm sure everyone will be glad to see them going out to spread their message. Ditto Bob MacNeil coming back for a PBS series of reports.
If those who believe that there may be environmental causes of developmental disorders turn out to be right, people will look back at this interlude caused by Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, the Age of Hatred site and so forth with burning outrage.
If there are toxic substances out there doing harm to children (and I recall Tom Insel at NIH pretty much saying that there were too many candidates to know where to start) then there's not one minute of time and not one cent in public money to be wasted over those lying fools."
The only way I can reckon that he thinks this makes sense is if he believes that vaccine causation was different than environmental causation rather than a part of environmental causation. And the only way that the thinks that, is if he actually doesn't even know what environmental causation arguments are being offered by Jenny McCarthy, Age of Autism, Me, my readers and that guy he probably should have heard of by now, Andrew Wakefield. (He has been in the press a LOT. Not sure how Deer could have missed it.) His comment on Insel seems to betray that he does not realize that Insel had to begrudgingly admit that we were right about environmental causes, and that he had to say, "who knows where to start" to throw people off of the obvious place, the two studies that show that mercury emitting coal plants raise autism rates.
Brian... Vaccine induced autism IS PART of the environmentally induced autism theory. Here... let me draw you a diagram.
What the medical authorities used to push (and the Offiteers are still pushing):
Now they can't get away with that any more. We have enough information to know and our government has now admitted, that is the scenario in play:
Deer seems to be under the impression that:
Study carefully Mr. Deer. Let us know when you catch on that we are being proved right, not on the road to being hated. And that you are going to be listed among the villains list under Bettelheim. Because in the good old US of A, our health department has already said that MMR causes vaccine encephalopathy, which causes autism.


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This new digital amp that Roland put out seems pretty cool. I'm usually not a big fan of digital technology when it comes to playing electric guitar live, except for some digital effects. However, digital amp modeling keeps getting better and better, year after year, especially for recording purposes. What Roland has done here seems pretty cool. I haven't had the opportunity to try one of these out yet, but this amp does seem promising.
Thanks to Sweetwater Sound for making this demo video.
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Prosecco: The Good Stuff
How many parties have I attended at which I spotted a bottle of cheap Prosecco, perhaps even served in a red plastic cup? Frankly, it's usually a relief — I'd much rather sip a $10 Prosecco than a Barefoot Bubbly or some such. Even inexpensive Prosecco is usually cheerful and well-balanced, if not anything worth deep contemplation. Really, though, what more can one ask from a party wine?
But cheap and cheerful is not Prosecco's only mood, as reaffirmed by a recent lunch I attended that was hosted by the Consorzio Tutela del Vino Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco. (Full disclosure: The lunch and wines were provided free of charge.) We tried seven different Proseccos, all of which exhibited complexity as well as food-friendliness. The trick is that these were all classified as Prosecco Superiore DOCG.
Most Proseccos, and certainly the most inexpensive ones, are classed as DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata). These wines come from grapes grown anywhere within the DOC zone — Italy's largest DOC, in fact — an expanse of almost 35,000 acres. Most of this DOC is flat and relatively unexciting, at least in vinous terms.
The vineyards with more potential for high quality are in the smaller DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) zone. The approximately 15,000 acres of the Prosecco DOCG occupy picturesque hills around the towns of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, hence the consorzio's rather unwieldy name. Fortunately for the non-Italian-speaking consumer, there is no need to remember the name of the consorzio or the towns. If you look for Prosecco with the letters DOCG on the label, you're off to a good start.
Terroir geeks will want to go one step further and look for the word "Rive," which indicates that the grapes for the Prosecco were grown on an especially notable site. We tried two such Proseccos at the lunch. The 2018 Sommariva Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Rive di S. Michele Extra Dry had an enticing orangey aroma, sharp and frothy bubbles, and notes of sweet chalk and dark citrus. It was an excellent pairing with some salmon topped with preserved lemon-caper butter. And the 2018 Adami Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Vigneto Giardino Asciutto Rive di Colbertaldo — good gracious, just writing out the names of these wines doubles the word count of this article — felt ripe and lush but pointy, with juicy acids and elegantly sharp bubbles. It was just sweet enough to pair with some Meyer lemon semifreddo.
The drier Proseccos we tried were also delicious ("extra dry" is, confusingly, not as dry as "dry" or "brut"). There was the ethereal NV Bisol Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Jeio Brut, which had notes of melon and citrus; its round, full mouthfeel evaporated into prickly froth. The NV Villa Sandi Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze Brut La Riveta smelled of chalk, lime and stone fruit, and though its acids and bubbles were zesty, it felt classy, finishing on a mineral note (the word "Cartizze" on a label is also encouraging; the vineyards there are particularly well-regarded). I also enjoyed the well-balanced and elegant 2018 Col Sandago Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Vigna del Cuc Brut, which we sipped as an aperitif.
Only the 2017 BiancaVigna Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Rive di Soligo Dossagio Zero was not to my taste. This bottle had lots of promising words on its label — Superiore, Rive, DOCG — but two of those words were deal-breakers for me: Dossagio Zero. The equivalent of "Zero Dosage" or "Brut Nature," Dossagio Zero means, essentially, that the wine is bone-dry (see here for a more in-depth explanation). I like dry wine, up to a point. But sugar in wine can be like salt in food. You need a little bit sometimes, for balance. This wine tasted bracingly tart on its own and was palatable only when paired with food. There surely are some good sparkling wines that are Dossagio Zero, Zero Dosage or Brut Nature, but I have tasted precious few of them.
Prosecco Superiore DOCG costs more than Prosecco DOC, of course, and some of you may well be wondering if it's really worth the extra money. If the descriptions above don't convince you, consider watching the video below, in which we blind-taste a Mionetto Prosecco DOC against a Mionetto Prosecco Superiore DOCG. They cost about $10 and $20, respectively, which means that the difference between them ought to be readily apparent. We put that hypothesis to the test:
Note: The lunch and Proseccos described in the post above were provided free of charge. The wines in the video we purchased at full retail price.


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PNG dormitory under construction (G. Smith photo credit) |
In a short piece called "Are Chinese loans always a bad thing?" (the very title shows what a balanced analyst is up against in Australia!) Smith gives the inside story of a concessional loan arranged via a Chinese construction company to build a dormitory at a South Pacific university, and how university students protected the Chinese workers during the riots, because it was their dormitory being built. Smith's paper also notes the "request-based" aid system for concessional loans that I discuss in The Dragon's Gift, showing in detail how it worked in this case:
Whether it is a grant or a loan affects local control and ownership. With a grant, local partners have little leverage. As a University administrator explained, '(t)he difference is that this is a loan. Even if it is a soft loan, we're still going to pay them back. So it's really the government of PNG paying for it. We're in total control of it.'
My thesis that Chinese infrastructure companies in the Pacific, not aid agencies in Beijing, are driving aid requires more substantiation. Yet for those with even a passing familiarity with China's polity, it is a no-brainer. The Chinese central government lacks full agency and control within its own borders; why would it enjoy it outside of them?
This lack of control can lead to better outcomes for Pacific nations. In the case of the dormitory project, the tail wagged the dog. GDFC [a Chinese construction firm] successfully lobbied Exim Bank in Shanghai. The contractor, rather than the lending agency, penned the initial loan agreement. Remarkably, the university and the lead architect in PNG were able to push back, persuading Exim Bank to accept their terms for the design and supervision of the project, because they were competitive on price, and arrived at the negotiating table with plans and standards to hand.In a March 2012 article in the Journal of Pacific History (available free for two weeks only) mainly on Chinese reactions to the anti-Asian riots in the South Pacific, Smith argues:
When China does appear in the literature, analysis is rarely nuanced or informed by original sources. This is evidenced by the titles of many articles, where China appears as an anthropomorphised 'clumsy panda' or as the 'dragon in the Pacific', lurking in the background, secretively disbursing aid, corrupting weak and passive Pacific governments, and engaging in an endless cloak-and-dagger game for diplomatic recognition with its arch nemesis, Taiwan.One by one, Smith punctures a host of myths and fictions that dominate some of the coverage of Chinese activities in the region. He then analyzes Chinese reactions (via interviews and the blogosphere) to the Port Moresby riots. It's useful and interesting, and China-Africa watchers will benefit from the comparative perspective.
A hat tip to Ekawati Liu.


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ARM Aims at Intel, Cortex A15 Headed for Smartphones, Notebooks and Servers
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 9, 2010 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
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Last month TI announced it was the first to license ARM's next-generation Eagle core. Today, ARM is announcing the official name of that core: it's the ARM Cortex A15.
Architectural details are light, and ARM is stating that first silicon will ship in 2012 at 32/28nm. Here's what we do know. The Cortex A15 will be a multi-core CPU, designs can have as few as a single core but most will have 2 - 4 cores depending on their target market.
The cores will all be superscalar out-of-order designs and support Long Physical Address Extensions (greater than 32-bit memory addressing). I suspect the cores will be an evolution of the Cortex A9. The Cortex A15 will support extensions to the ARMv7 instruction set to enable hardware virtualization support (among other things).
The Cortex A15 will feature private L1 caches but a shared L2 cache (similar to the A9). The L2 cache is stated to be low latency and up to 4MB in size, although smartphones will probably see smaller versions. ARM is promising FP and SIMD performance improvements, but it isn't saying anything more than that.
ARM is listing performance as 5x a Cortex A8 but we don't have a good estimate vs. Cortex A9. Clock targets are as follows:
1) 1 - 1.5GHz single or dual-core for smartphones and mobile devices
2) 1 - 2GHz dual or quad-core for netbooks/notebooks/nettops
3) 1.5 - 2.5GHz quad-core for home and web servers
ARM is targeting more than just smartphones with the Cortex A15. This will be the architecture that ARM takes into the low end notebook and netbook market. That's right, with the Cortex A15 ARM is going after AMD and Intel - it wants to fend off the impending x86 assault on its territory.
In addition to notebooks/netbooks based on Cortex A15, ARM will also be targeting the server market with its next architecture. As Xeon and Opteron grow more powerful, so does the need for simpler, lower power consumption servers. We've seen some companies attempt to address this market, but expect the floodgates to open in a couple of years as ARM officially supports it. The Cortex A15 will also enable virtualization support, specifically for the server market.
It's too early to know anything about how well the Cortex A15 will do, but it's clear that Atom (and maybe even Bobcat) are going to have to face a threat from below just as ARM is gearing up to face the threat from above.
Given that the first Cortex A9 designs have yet to ship it'll be a little while before we see smartphones, tablets, notebooks and servers based on Cortex A15. Today's announcement is simply ARM's statement of intent. ARM doesn't plan on staying in the smartphone market forever, it has bigger things planned.
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Trisagion - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
"The Cortex A15 will support a new instruction set which ARM is calling ARMv7-A."
The ARM v7 architecture has two 'profiles' - the ARMv7-A which is meant for regular application processors (like in smartphones) and the ARMv7-M which is for micro controllers (Cortex-M). ARMv7-A is not new. The extended address space and virtualization features are called extensions to the existing ARMv7-A profile. -
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
Thanks for the correction!
Take care,
Anand -
Trisagion - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
Sorry, I forgot to mention the third profile ARMv7-R for real time applications. Just FYI. -
JarredWalton - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
Wonder if this will get the netbooks something more compelling than Atom with regards to HD video, plus better battery life? Looking at smartphones that last 8 hours on a 5.5Wh battery, that's about an order of magnitude better than Atom and still ~1/3 the performance. So give us the performance boost to beat Atom by 2X, and we'd still be looking at 14 hours battery life! One can only hope.... -
Trisagion - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
I still think this new processor will not be faster than an Atom, but I also think people will be more put off with the lack of Windows support rather than the performance gap, which depending on the number of cores etc, I'm guessing, will not be that great. -
B3an - Saturday, September 11, 2010 - link
From everything i know about these new ARM CPU's they will be faster than Atom. They need to be anyway, Atoms performance is pathetic at best.
No x86 will be a problem for servers but smartphones dont use x86, and many netbooks dont use windows, same with tablets. You'll probably get Chrome OS or Android 3.0 on these ARM A15 netbooks and tablets. -
mino - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
Um, in 2012 there is 28nm Ontario shrink and next-gen Atom.
While I would not dismiss 2012 ARM as competition for today's (2yr old!) Atom, 2012 is a completely different game ...
If everything goes well, they shall work well in iPads and thin clients and embedded devices of the time.
Outside that - no x86 = Windows = no PC market inroads. Unfortunately. -
mino - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
= no Windows = -
LtGoonRush - Thursday, September 9, 2010 - link
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The AppNexus Ad Platform: Building for Scale with NoSQL, MySQL, Hadoop & more
In three years, our servers scaled from processing zero to 500,000 queries per second. With 2000% growth in 2011, tens of millions of dollars of transactions taking place daily, a data pipeline bursting at the seams, and 24/7/365 uptime, AppNexus engineers faced a task likened to changing the engine of a 747 in midflight.
This talk will explore how we horizontally scaled our pipeline and data reporting by adapting a variety of technologies, including Hadoop, Vertica, NoSQL, MySQL, and more. In this session you will gain from our experience and hear our lessons-learned in terms of hardware application, monitoring, rollback, failover nodes, controlling memory allocation, and day-to-day fire drills. We will cover the data flow between different systems, integration details, job scheduling, common pitfalls, and the finely tuned solutions that we have developed.
Mike oversees the Engineering and Technical Operations teams, having helped design the AppNexus system that handles over 27 billion ad requests a day. Prior to founding AppNexus, Mike was Director of Analytics and Product Manager at Right Media (acquired by Yahoo! for $850 million in July 2007), where he designed and managed key applications, including predictive optimization, inventory forecasting, and Media Guard, which protects publishers from harmful or unwanted ad content. Mike's deep understanding of the intersection between business needs and technology innovation began at 15, when he sold his first software application, and continued at Princeton University, where he studied Economics. On his popular blog, MikeOnAds, Mike analyzes the fast-changing display ad management and buying space, and the dynamic interplay between ad networks, ad exchanges, real-time bidding and the entire ecosystem.


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(CARLSBAD, CA) – Exercise is supposed to be the fountain of youth. So, why the dry, scaly skin in the winter time? It seems that winter workouts in dry air, both indoors and outdoors, wreak havoc on skin, creating an appearance that is anything but youthful.
Fitness aficionados, take heart. Winter time workouts are not synonymous with dry, cracked skin. Jazzercise Founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett gives these suggestions to fight-off seasonal dryness, so that your fitness glow can shine through all winter long.
Judi Sheppard Missett, who turned her love of jazz dance into a worldwide dance exercise phenomenon, founded the Jazzercise dance fitness program in 1969. Judi and Jazzercise Executive Vice President Shanna Missett Nelson have advanced the business opportunities of women and men in the fitness industry by growing the program into an international franchise business that today, hosts a network of 7,500 instructors teaching more than 32,000 classes weekly in 32 countries.
The workout program, which offers a fusion of jazz dance, resistance training, Pilates, yoga, and cardio box movements, has positively affected millions of people worldwide. Benefits include increased cardiovascular endurance, strength, and flexibility, as well as an overall "feel good" factor. Additional Jazzercise programs include Junior Jazzercise, Jazzercise Lite and Personal Touch. For more information on Jazzercise go to jazzercise.com or call (800)FIT-IS-IT or (760)476-1750.


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EFF has long fought to reform vague, dangerous computer crime laws like the CFAA. We're gratified that the Supreme Court today acknowledged that overbroad application of the CFAA risks turning nearly any user of the Internet into a criminal based on arbitrary terms of service. We remember the tragic and unjust results of the CFAA's misuse, such as the death of Aaron Swartz, and we will continue to fight to ensure that computer crime laws no longer chill security research, journalism, and other novel and interoperable uses of technology that ultimately benefit all of us.
EFF filed briefs both encouraging the Court to take today's case and urging it to make clear that violating terms of service is not a crime under the CFAA. In the first, filed alongside the Center for Democracy and Technology and New America's Open Technology Institute, we argued that Congress intended to outlaw computer break-ins that disrupted or destroyed computer functionality, not anything that the service provider simply didn't want to have happen. In the second, filed on behalf of computer security researchers and organizations that employ and support them, we explained that the broad interpretation of the CFAA puts computer security researchers at legal risk for engaging in socially beneficial security testing through standard security research practices, such as accessing publicly available data in a manner beneficial to the public yet prohibited by the owner of the data.
Today's win is an important victory for users everywhere. The Court rightly held that exceeding authorized access under the CFAA does not encompass "violations of circumstance-based access restrictions on employers' computers." Thus, "an individual 'exceeds authorized access' when he accesses a computer with authorization but then obtains information located in particular areas of the computer— such as files, folders, or databases—that are off limits to him." Rejecting the Government's reading allowing CFAA charges for any website terms of service violation, the Court adopted a "gates-up-or-down" approach: either you are entitled to access the information or you are not. This means that private parties' terms of service limitations on how you can use information, or for what purposes you can access it, are not criminally enforced by the CFAA.


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Welcome to the Vancouver Executives Association
The Vancouver Executives Association (VanEx) was founded in 1920 by a group of Vancouver's leading businessmen who decided to form a group for the purpose of assisting each other's business success through cooperative networking.
By limiting membership to one company per business classification, an atmosphere of openness and sharing was assured. Since members were all decision-makers within their respective firms, whatever the size, business dealings were easily facilitated.
Over the years, names changed and businesses evolved. There is no longer a company that delivers coal and sawdust in a horse and buggy and typewriter dealers are now computer specialists. Despite the constant change, the basic VanEx ideology has endured: to promote good business in an atmosphere that is collegial, congenial, and cooperative.
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The sixth annual delegation of the association took place from the 27th of July to August 10th, 2014. It numbered 10 participants: Israeli yeshiva students and students from the Bar Ilan University, together with staff members. As in the previous year, Dr. Boris Khaimovich, an expert on Jewish art, Dr. Ilia Luria, a scholar of Eastern European Jewry (both from the Hebrew University) and Ms. Marina Bruck from the department of Jewish Culture of the national university of Saint Petersburg headed the delegation.
The delegation finished the documentation of the Bolekhiv (Bolechów) cemetery and undertook the complete documentation of the cemetery in Tovste (Tluste). In addition, Jewish sites in Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislawow), Tluste and Chortkiv (Czortkow).
The cemetery in Bolechow (see the report on the delegation's activity there from 2013) was discovered to be one of the most important Jewish sites in Eastern Europe. Around 700 tombstones were discovered, photographed and documented during the work process (in addition to a similar number documented by the previous year's delegation). Some of these stones dated back to the 18th century, while most were from the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. A separate burial section for plague victims from the 1830s epidemic was also discovered.
Unlike Bolechow, the other destination visited by the delegation – Tluste – was a relatively small town, which in 1900 boasted 2,172 Jewish residents, out of a general population of 3,199. Despite its size, however, Tluste has a special place in the history of Jews in Eastern Europe. In 1734, Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement, settled in the town, and it was during his stay in this town – according to Hassidic tradition – that his greatness as a mystic and an instructor of worship was discovered. In addition, this town's graveyard hosts the grave of his mother, Sarah.
Our first testimony to the Jewish settlement in Tluste dates back to the second half of the 17th century.
In the nineteenth century, the Jews of Tluste traded in agricultural produce, timber, cloth, and alcoholic beverages. Hasidism was preponderant in the town. The wealthy members of the community were followers of the zaddik of Czortkow (a town 20 km to the north of Tluste), whereas shopkeepers, grain merchants, brokers and scholars adhered to Viznitsa Hasidism, and the artisans were followers of the zaddik of Kopychintsy.
Tluste was predominantly a Jewish town. Jews consistently made up approximately two-thirds of the population, while Ukrainians constituted about 20-30% and Poles only 11-12%. The central market area of town – surrounding the Catholic church – was comprised mainly of Jewish-owned shops and businesses, selling food, fabric and other household goods. A synagogue and Hasidic batei midrash stood on the opposite side of the main road through town, close to the northern end of the reservoir.
With the establishment of the Polish rule, the economic situation of the Jews deteriorated and more and more Jews migrated from the town. Despite this, the town continued to boast a lively social and political life, which included the operation of religious and Zionist parties, schools and many cultural and charitable Jewish organizations. |
With the fall of Poland in September 1939, Soviet forces occupied Tluste and neighboring towns. They remained there until June 1941.
Tluste was captured by the Germans on July 8, 1941, and the persecution and murder of local Jews began immediately. In March 1942 a ghetto was constructed in the Jewish quarter, which lay between the municipal square and the Great Synagogue of the town. The remaining Jews of the Tluste community were placed in the ghetto, along with many Jews from surrounding towns. Later on, the Jews who were banished from Hungary were moved to Tluste as well.
All of the ghetto's residents were murdered in the Jewish cemetery and in the city street during two roundup operations, on May 27th and on June 6th, 1943. A monument has recently been erected on the site of their killing and burial. The synagogue and the batei midrash were destroyed, along with the majority of the homes in the ghetto and more than half of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, including that of Sarah, the Ba'al Shem Tov's mother.
During the delegation's work in the town about 500 tombstones from the Jewish cemetery – all that survived to this day – were photographed and documented. The majority of these date to the 18th and 19th centuries and the period before the Holocaust, but a few rare tombstones from the 17th century were also discovered. These constitute an important testimony to the antiquity and importance of the Jewish community of Tluste.
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Charity Gibson: Forgiving Her Abductors
CBN.com "It was a constant burden," Charity Gibson recalls. "Something was about to happen and couldn't tell what. Had no idea. Just knew that whatever it was, God was trying to warn me."
When Charity Gibson arrived home from her college classes one day, she couldn't shake the feeling, so she prayed for God to help her. "I turned the car off, finished my prayer, and when I said, 'Amen,' the Lord spoke to my heart," says Charity. "And he said, 'Look up.' And when I looked up, in my rearview mirror, I saw this gentleman approaching my car."
"I had heard some police detectives speak before and they had said that if you are forced into a vehicle, if somebody's willing to kidnap you, chances are they're going to kill you. And so I did not want my vehicle to become my prison."
"When I got out of the car, I had my back to him, and when I turned around, he had a gun on me. And he began yelling, he said, 'Give me your f-ing purse.' I just raised my hands and said, 'I don't have a purse.' So at that point, he walked up and he stuck the gun in my lower stomach and he took my cellphone and my keys and he popped the trunk."
"I thought, 'Oh God, why would he pop the trunk unless he's going to kidnap me?' I'm thinking, 'You get into the vehicle, you're dead, you're dead, you're dead!' It was very surreal. And at the same time the Lord was speaking to my heart and saying, 'You've got a trunk release.'"
"I was going to fight him with anything that I could. And as I went by about to act on this plan, the Lord spoke to my heart in a very firm, powerful way and said, 'Don't do it.' So I climbed into the trunk and I'm laying there looking up at my captor, and he looks down at me and gives me a little smirk and says, 'Don't f-n move and don't make a noise. I don't want to hurt you, okay?'"
"I put my hand on the trunk release. I start to pull ever so slightly and again, the Lord stopped me. I really felt like God was with me even in the trunk, and so I stopped pulling on the trunk release and I started thinking of the scenarios, 'What would happen if I'd pulled the trunk release at that time?' Everything ended in me getting shot and killed unless I waited on him to start down the road."
Charity continued to pray--this time that God would tell her the right moment to escape. "When I felt him slow down, I pulled the trunk release. But I kept the trunk kinda closed," Charity remembers. "And I had forgotten that a sound goes off in my car. And when the sound went off in my car, he hits the gas and I pushed open the trunk and jumped out."
Charity saw another car coming up behind her. "I felt the Lord speak to my heart and said, 'This car is in league with him.' And the two accomplices were in that car. I took off running down the side of the road and I remember looking back as I'm running and I see him tapping the brakes, and I thought, 'Oh God, what's going to keep him from turning around and coming back and shooting me?'"
I started running through people's yards, in between their vehicles, anything that put a distance and objects between me and them," Charity says. "I didn't want to be an easy target. And I beat on doors until someone came and went in and called 911."
Police responded immediately, but they didn't know if they would be able to catch the suspects or get Charity's car back. Charity remembers what was foremost in her mind at the time. "I didn't want this to happen to anybody else, and so I was praying that the Lord would allow them to get caught."
The next day, all three suspects were arrested. When the case went to trial and their sentences were being decided, Charity made a decision of her own. "I felt God was calling me to forgive," she says. "Forgiveness isn't something that 'Oh, I'm going to build up to. One day, you know, I'll get over this, and one day…' --It's not like that. Forgiveness is a decision. You forgive. You just do it."
Charity forgave her attacker and his accomplices. Her assailant was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 5 years probation. His accomplices were sentenced to 2 years in jail and probation.
"If I had listened to myself what I was planning on doing that day, instead of listening to the Lord then I definitely don't think I would be sitting here," Charity declares. "Pray and trust God. It might not turn out the way that you want, but believe God that He can do what He said that He can do, because He can."


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Throwback Thursday – Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock
The Legend of Coffin Rock is highly recommended for any adventure player who enjoys plot-driven stories punctuated by combat and fighting that is a natural part of the story line
Release Date: November 2000
Note: This review was originally published July 11, 2003
On the back of the box of Blair Witch Volume 1, there is a quote from the Just Adventure preview that states, "Don't play this game in the dark, because when you are done you will be too scared to get up and turn on the lights." Well, unfortunately, the full version of the game was too disjointed, for me, to sustain the horror that was evident in the small demo I had played. It would be great, though, if Gathering of Developers could remove that quote from Volume 1 and paste it all over the front of Volume 2, for this time they done scared me so bad that my hair has turned white!
Soon after the opening cinematic of Blair Witch Volume 2, the hero of our story is recovering on a quilt-laden bed as his hostess, Bess Weaver, pleads with him to search in the forest for her lost granddaughter. The moment she uttered, "Them woods out there is a deadly maze," my heart sank to the floor. I won't go into another of my diatribes concerning mazes in adventure games (but if you do happen to enjoy my ravings, then you might want to read my review of Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr), but let me state for the record–boy, were my first impressions of this game wrong! For Blair Witch Volume 2 is one of the better-written and thematically structured games ever released for the computer. It is as good and as self-contained as any episode of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone ever was.
Set soon after the Civil War, The Legend of Coffin Rock is the middle game of Gathering of Developer's revolutionary Blair Witch trilogy. A Yankee lieutenant has been stricken with amnesia and is found wandering the woods of Burkettesville by a young girl named Robin Weaver. Robin takes the soldier to the home she shares with her grandmother to recuperate. Bess Weaver, the grandmother, christens the soldier "Lazarus" to commemorate his "rebirth" and offers him a place to stay and heal. But after an evening of strange occurrences, Lazarus awakens to find that Robin has vanished into the forest of the Black Hills. The worried grandmother begs for the soldier's help, as she has had a premonition that only he and he alone can bring Robin back safely. Is he being knowingly sacrificed to the Blair Witch? For things are not always as they seem in Burkettesville, as Lazarus is soon to discover.
The majority of computer games find it difficult to tell one story coherently. Blair Witch 2 manages to simultaneously weave two stories, one from the past and one from the present, that eventually mesh into a satisfying and eerie conclusion. For as Lazarus wends his way through the story, and closer to the black heart of the forest, he experiences blackouts that allow him to mentally relive a very special mission during the Civil War. As the story progresses, we gradually piece together a tale of dread. Again, it is difficult to say too much for fear of giving away the surprises in the story. If you have played the first game, then you will recognize many familiar names and events that were foreshadowed, but it is not necessary to have played the first installment. It will be interesting after the third installment to discover why Gathering of Developers decided to release the trilogy in reverse chronological order. This decision would seem to preclude any surprises, but I have faith in G.O.D.
The woods are different, almost more benign. Even though both games use the same Nocturne engine, the forest is less spooky this time. There are patches of green peeking through the underbrush. It is as if the forest still has some control and has not yet been dominated by the Blair Witch. Yes, these are the same forest paths that were a maze in the first Blair Witch, but this time they are used as an integral part of the story and not as a device to lengthen the game. Nor is a map necessary for this installment, as the forest is broken into smaller, easier-to-navigate chunks. Naturally, much of the story takes place in the woods since this is a time when small towns were sparse and people live off the land.
Another huge improvement this time around is that there are no difficulty settings for the game. Thus, you don't wonder if you missed any puzzles or cut-scenes by playing on an easier level. Instead, the game seems to have a built-in setting that changes according to your actions. If you know there is a time when you you should, for example, chase Robin back into the woods, then the game will allow you to do so. But if you are not quite sure what to do, then multiple dialogues with the nearest character will steer you along in a way similar to a Universal Hint System file. Even the woods themselves are helpful; often they will not allow you to leave unless a particular task has been accomplished.
Initially, the auto-aiming is a drawback. I again played using my gamepad (there are options to use a gamepad or keyboard/mouse) and had difficulty accomplishing any quick, accurate shots, which of course led to my saving before every confrontation. But as the game progresses, Lazarus develops an increased proficiency with the gun.
Lip-synching to the voices are but a hopeful wish, but the excellent voice acting overshadows this shortcoming (there is nothing like the moaning voices of dead children to make me squirm in my seat). Twana sticks substitute as medi-kits, but there never seemed to be enough to keep me healthy, and I often had to replay entire scenes just to figure out ways to conserve my twana sticks. While this is a distraction from the flow of the game, especially one like Blair Witch that demands your emotional involvement, it also heightened the suspense, as I often feared I would not make it through a scene without perishing.
Bullets and weaponry are in abundant supply. Weapons are the standard issue Civil War issue–saber and revolver–and the developers have attempted to realistically recreate not only the weapons, but also the uniforms and atmosphere of the post-Civil War era (being a Southerner by birth, it broke my heart every time I had to fire upon the boys in blue).
The traditional adventure aspects of the game are few–many of the expository scenes occur during discussions or cut-scenes–but there are enough to keep the average adventurer smiling. The action sequences are nowhere near as hardcore they were in the first Blair Witch. In fact, where the first game was marred by a jagged narrative that saw an adventure sequence and then a pure action sequence and then a romp in the woods, the second Blair Witch flows much more smoothly, and when there is an action sequence, it feels more like a part of the story rather than an intrusion.
The Legend of Coffin Rock is highly recommended for any adventure player who enjoys plot-driven stories punctuated by combat and fighting that is a natural part of the story line. As was the first installment, it is short in length, but it far outshines the first volume in the series and encourages hope for the conclusion of the trilogy.
Final Grade: A-
If you liked Blair Witch Volume 2:
Read: Urban Myths & Legends
Watch: Blair Witch 2
Play: Blair Witch Volume 1
System Requirements:
PII 233 or higher
SVGA Video
Sound board
Windows 98
Mouse/keyboard or gamepad


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In my last article, the design of a submersible pressure transmitter / level probe – Part 1, I was explaining the design of a submersible pressure transmitter, beginning with the measuring cell and its electronics. Specifically with respect to the media resistance and watertight sealing, great attention must be placed on the physical design characteristics of a submersible pressure transmitter.
For instance, the development of a level probe requires an optimised design of the housing, a special cable design, a very application specific selection of suitable materials for the cable used and a fail-proof design of the cable inlet to join the cable watertight with the housing.
The housing:
The key requirement for a submersible pressure transmitter is the resistance and watertight sealing against the liquid being measured. Due to these requirements, it is always recommendable to choose a high-quality submersible pressure transmitter, such as the WIKA model LH-20, with a choice of materials matched to the medium, a transmitter that has been built and tested specifically and exclusively for submersible level measurement.
Basically, a housing material that is suitable for the medium to be measured must always be selected, to prevent chemical dissolving processes and electro-chemical corrosion. For application in non-critical media, the choice of a stainless steel, such as 316L, is recommended. In applications with aggressive media, however, the use of a housing material specifically suited to the harsh media, such as Hastelloy or titanium, is required. Further information on the prevention of corrosion and electrochemically-induced failures can be found here.
The cable entry:
One of the weakest points of many submersible pressure transmitters is the connection of the cable to the housing. This interface demands an optimised, hermetically sealed design which guarantees a high resistance against the ingress of moisture, under the surrounding water pressure of large immersion depths and the effects of aggressive media. It is important to avoid products whose design of a submersible pressure transmitter is based on a standard industrial pressure sensor "customised" with an optional cable outlet.
A submersible pressure transmitter which is expected to work reliably and, above all, continuously even in the harshest of environments, needs to be a product that has been developed specifically for this application. A slight pollution of groundwater, a damaged pump or even a failure in the local water supply and wastewater treatment is the constant danger of an unsuitable product.
The cable:
The cable represents the most important distinction between submersible pressure transmitters developed specifically for this application and poorly designed "level probes". The cable of a submersible pressure transmitter is permanently exposed to the direct effects of the media and the surrounding hydrostatic pressure in the respective immersion depth. With an improper selection of material, there is a permanent risk of fluid ingress into the cable through transversal water pressure and thereby the risk of a failure of the level sensor. Specialised manufacturers such as WIKA therefore offer the user a comprehensive selection of cable materials, in order to enable the highest media resistance and thus process reliability for the target application.
The user can select from a choice of tested cable material suitable for the application, depending on the aggressiveness of the liquid being measured, e.g. PUR cable for standard, non-critical applications, or FEP cable for aggressive liquids. Last but not least the mechanical properties, i.e. the mechanical durability, of the cable used, must be taken into account during the development of a level probe. For Pleased , the cable material must offer a maximum pressure resistance, even in the largest immersion depths such as in deep wells or groundwater monitoring. Furthermore, the specific strength of the cable, with respect to the weight-related stretching load and the direct mechanical influences with regard to bending over edges and other associated wear and tear, becomes very important.
All of this assists in the goal of preventing media ingress of the liquid into the cable, effectively and permanently. Further information on the prevention of media-ingress–related failures in level probes can be found here.
WIKA offers comprehensive solutions for your hydrostatic-pressure level measurement.For further assistance in selecting the pressure sensor most suitable for your application, please use our contact form.
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Parents Online
In this report, we present a synthesis of several years of findings from our general research on the impact of the Internet on Americans. The material has been gathered from numerous surveys that the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted with American adults and teenagers.
Parents are more wired
We have consistently found that parents with children under 18 are more likely to have used the Internet than non-parents. (In our surveys, non-parents are those who do not have a minor child living at home.) In our survey from October 7-27, we found that 70% of the U.S. parents with a child under age 18 use the Internet, compared to 53% of non-parents. That means there are almost 45 million online parents in the United States today, and they make up 43% of all U.S. Internet users.1
Our October survey also showed that parents are generally more enthusiastic about technology and less burdened by technological change than non-parents. For instance, parents, whether they use the Internet or not, are more apt than non-parents to say they like all the information that is available today from all kinds of media. Similarly, parents are also more likely than non-parents to say they like computers and technology and to assert that technology tools give them more control over their lives. Parents are also more likely than non-parents to own cell phones, DVD players, and pagers.
One strong incentive for parents to have Internet access is for their children. The vast majority of parents believe that their children need to know about computers and the Internet in order to succeed. Not surprisingly, parents who do not have access are more likely than non-parents to show interest in going online eventually.
Yet, parents are less fervent Internet users than wired non-parents
Parents are less likely than non-parents to use the Internet on a typical day. In a survey in September, we found that 54% of the parents with Internet access were online on an average day, compared with 60% of the non-parents who have Internet access. Parents also go online less frequently than non-parents. In September, 44% of the connected parents said they went online at least once a day from home, compared to 53% of non-parents who have Internet access at home.
In earlier surveys, we found that even when parents go online, they are likely to spend somewhat less time using the Internet on a typical session than non-parents are. For instance, in March 2000 we found that a parent spent an average of 81 minutes online during an average day's worth of Internet use compared to an average 94 minutes for a non-parent's sessions. In subsequent surveys we found the gap fluctuated from 7 minutes to 15 minutes, but always favored non-parents.
Parents are more likely to access health, lifestyle-enhancing, and religious information
Online parents show more interest than non-parents in getting health and medical information from the Web. Parents are more likely than non-parents to look at several sites during their searches, but they are less vigilant than non-parents in checking the source and sponsorship of the information. In addition, parents are more likely than non-parents to have used the Internet to gather religious information. Here are some of the other ways parents' online behavior differs from non-parents:
- Online parents are more likely than wired non-parents to do research for school or training or research for their jobs.
- Parents are more likely than non-parents to participate in online banking.
- Parents are more likely than non-parents to use the Internet to contact a local community group or association, a support group, or a religious organization.
- Parents are more likely than non-parents to say the Internet played a role in their finding a new place to live, dealing with a medical condition (their own or a loved one's), and starting a hobby.
A family helper for some
Use of the Internet has hardly revolutionized the activities of parenthood. Online parents generally use the Internet as one of the technology tools that helps them get through their lives – not just as parents, but also as friends, work colleagues, consumers, hobbyists, and generally as information seekers and contributors. The impact of the Internet on life inside their homes is relatively modest. Asked in December 2000 about the impact of Internet use on some of the core activities of family life:
- 34% of online parents said their use of the Internet improves the way they plan weekend outings and family trips.
- 27% said it improves the way they shop for birthday and holiday gifts.
- 26% said it improves the way they spend time with their children.
- 19% said it improves the way they care for their children's health.
A life helper for many
In some other surveys, online parents were relatively enthusiastic about the way their Internet use affected their lives. In March 2001, we found:
- 73% of online parents said their use of the Internet helped them learn new things.
- 61% said their use of the Internet improved the way they connect with friends.
- 52% said their use of the Internet improved the way they connect with members of their family.
- 42% said their use of the Internet improved the way they shop.
- 41% said their use of the Internet improved the way they get health care information.
- 41% said their use of the Internet improved their ability to do their jobs.
- 22% said their use of the Internet improved the way they manage their personal finances.
- 22% said their use of the Internet improved their ability to find ways to deal with problems in their lives.
Single parents are less Internet-connected than married parents
Our March-May 2002 survey showed that 58% of single parents use the Internet, compared with 71% of married parents. About 6.5 million single parents in the United States go online; about 4 million of these are single mothers. Single parents tend to have less Internet experience than married parents, but they access the Internet about as often as married parents do. Single fathers go online more often than single mothers.
Single parents use the Internet to communicate; married parents use it to research
Single parents are more likely than married parents to take part in Internet activities that revolve around communication, such as instant messaging, chat rooms, and posting to bulletin boards. Married parents are more likely to participate in research-oriented online activities, such as looking for financial and health information.
Mothers are looking for health information; fathers are looking for news and leisure
There are 24 million online mothers and 21 million online fathers in the United States. Mothers tend to be newer to the Internet and to spend less time online. Fathers are more likely to go online from both work and home, and mothers are more likely to go online just from home.
Mothers are more likely than fathers to seek medical, fitness, weight-loss and spiritual information. Fathers are more likely than mothers to look for information about a hobby, visit news and government Web sites, and look for financial information.


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Postcode Wannanup, Western Australia, Australia. Zip Code for Wannanup
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Postcode Wannanup, Western Australia
- Locality: Wannanup
- Postcode for Wannanup: 6210
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- Postcode Area: Western Australia
What is the zip code for Wannanup in Australia?
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Homemade TWIX Bars
Homemade TWIX Bars
The combination of shortbread cookie, creamy caramel, and chocolate is what makes TWIX bars so loveable today. This recipe takes extra measures to ensure that it replicates the timeless candy in its entirety.
- nonstick cooking spray
- 2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 16 ounce soft caramels
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 ounce milk chocolate, chopped
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
- To make the shortbread layer, spray a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium-sized bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside. In a stand-mixer, beat together the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla extract and beat until combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients until the dough is dry and firm. Press into the baking dish and pat firmly so that the dough fills every corner. You want the dough to be about ½-inch thick. Using a fork, poke the top of the shortbread dough all over with holes. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes until the top is golden brown. Let cool and set aside.
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