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How to Hurt the Hackers: The Scoop on Internet Cheating and How You Can Combat It
July 24, 2000 Page 1 of 4
I had planned to begin this article by sharing my own true experiences with online cheating as it pertained to a particular game. But I think the long version of my story would cast an unnecessarily negative light on the game and the company that made it. And since the developers are good friends of ours, I'll stick to the short version that goes like this.
Last year I became hooked on a certainfirst-person shooter (FPS) game. After a couple months of addictive online gaming, I became convinced that some players were cheating and things suddenly changed that day. I was ready to walk away from the game in disgust and tell everyone else to do the same. Instead, I decided it was time to learn what I could about the alleged cheaters, their motivations, and most importantly their methods. In my case, I discovered at least three distinctly different methods of cheating that could explain what I experienced -- though as just a player I could not prove conclusively which methods, if any, were being used against me.
The aim of this article is to bring the subject of online/multiplayer cheating out of the shadows and talk about it in terms of real problems with real games and to help build a framework for classifying and understanding the various details. I will cover some of the ways that players are able to cheat at various games; at times I will go into the working details, ways to prevent those cheats, and limitations of various game architectures as they relate to multiplayer cheating. This is by no means a comprehensive and exhaustive tome on the issue, but it is a start. There is a serious lack of information on this subject, and paranoia among developers that talking about it will reveal secrets that will only make the problem significantly worse. Several individuals at various companies declined to talk to me about cheating and their games for this and other similar reasons. I respect that, but I think developers have everything to gain by sharing our knowledge about cheaters and how to combat them.
Just how seriously should you as a developer take the possibility of online cheating? If your game is single-player only, then you have nothing to worry about. But if your game is multiplayer only, the success of your entire product is at stake. If your game does both, you're somewhere in the middle. As more games are released with online play as an integral component, drawing ever-larger audiences (and the corollary development of online communities and sites based around the game), it becomes ever more important to insure that each online game player experiences what they believe to be a fair and honest experience. I'm reminded of a quote from Greg Costikyan's excellent report, "The Future of Online Gaming" (http://www.costik.com): "An online game's success or failure is largely determined by how the players are treated. In other words, the customer experience -- in this case, the player experience -- is the key driver of online success." Our short version is, "Cheating undermines success."
Consider the well-known case of Blizzard's Diablo -- deservedly a runaway best-seller and great game that acquired a significant reputation for a horrible multiplayer experience because of cheaters. Many people I know either refused to play it online, or would only play over a LAN with trusted friends. Blizzard did their best to respond, patching it multiple times, but they were fighting an uphill battle.
Cheating hit closer to home for me while I was working on the final stages of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Cheating online became a widespread problem with the original Age of Empires. Tournaments had to be cancelled due to a lack of credibility, the number of online players fell, and the reputation of my company took a direct hit from frustrated users. Unable to spare the resources to fix the game properly until after Age of Kings was done, we just had to endure our users turning their anger upon us -- probably the most personally painful thing I've experienced as a developer.
What about your next game? This is a good time to introduce my first two rules about online cheating:
Rule #1: If you build it, they will come -- to hack and cheat.
Rule #2: hacking attempts increase with the success of your game.
Need more reasons to take online cheating seriously? Go onto eBay and type in the name of your favorite massively multiplayer game. Now look at the real money changing hands for virtual characters and items. What if those items being sold were obtained via some sort of cheat or hack? Let's not overlook the growth of tournaments and contests for online games. Consider the public relations nightmare that would ensue if the winner of a cash prize in a tournament had cheated. Enough to give you a headache, eh?
Understanding the Hackers and Cheaters
The sad truth is that the Internet is full of people that love to ruin the online experiences of others. They get off on it. A great many cheaters use hacks, trainers, bots, and whatnot in order to win games. But while some openly try to wreak havoc, many really want to dominate and crush opponents, trying to make other players think they are gods at the game -- not the cheaters they are. The only thing that seems to bother them is getting caught. Beyond that, no ethical dilemmas seem to concern them. The anonymity and artificiality of the Internet seems to encourage a moral vacuum where otherwise nice people often behave in the worst possible way. A big factor in this is a lack of consequences. If a player is caught, so what? Are they fined or punished? No. Are they rejected by the people they played against? Usually, but it's so easy to establish another identity and return to play that discovery and banishment are no barrier to those with ill intent.
Another interesting aspect of online cheating is the rise of clans and how cheats get propagated. If a member of a clan hacks a game or obtains a not-readily-available program for cheating, it will often be given to other members of the clan with the understanding that it's for clan use only and to be kept secret. The purpose being, of course, to raise the standing and prestige of the clan. If the cheater is not a clan member, odds are he will keep the secret to himself for a while and not advertise his advantage. The logic here is simple: If anyone goes public with a cheat, a) he will lose his advantage, b) he will probably be identified by his opponents as a cheater, and c) the developer can then patch the game, invalidating the cheat. As a result of this secretive behavior we get to rule number three.
Rule #3: cheaters actively try to keep developers from learning their cheats.
Tools of the Hackers
So how do they discover the hacks and create the programs to cheat at your game? Consider rule number four:
Rule #4: Your game, along with everything on the cheater's computer, is not secure. The files are not secure. Memory is not secure. Services and drivers are not secure.
That's right, you gave them a copy of your game when they purchased it. The hackers have access to the same tools that you had while making the game. They have the compilers, dissemblers, debuggers, and utilities that you have, and a few that you don't. And they are smart people -- they are probably more familiar with the Assembly output of an optimized C++ file than you are. The most popular tool among the hackers I surveyed was NuMega's excellent debugger, SoftIce - definitely not a tool for the wimpy. On another day, you just might be trying to hire these people. Many of them possess a true hacker ethic, doing it just to prove it can be done, but more do it specifically to cheat. Either way we get the same result: a compromised game and an advantage to the cheater.
Hacking games is nothing new, it's been going on as long there have been computer games. For single-player games, it has never been an issue, since no matter what a player does with a game, he's only doing it to himself (and therefore must be happy about it). What's new is bringing the results of the hacking to other players, who never wanted or asked for it.
I've lost count of the number of developers I've encountered who thought that because something they designed was complicated and nobody else had the documentation, it was secure from prying eyes and hands. This is not true, as I learned the hard way. If you are skeptical, I invite you to look at the custom graphics file format used in Age of Empires. Last year, I received a demanding e-mail from a kid who wanted the file format for a utility he was writing. I told him to go away. Three days later he sent me the file format documentation that he reverse-engineered, and asked if he missed anything. He hadn't. Thus, this is a perfect example of rule number five. Yes, I've borrowed it from cryptography, but it applies equally well here.
Rule #5: Obscurity is not security.
Sometimes we do things, such as leaving debug information in the game's executable, that make the hacker's job easier. In the end, we cannot prevent most cheating. But we can make it tough. We don't want effective cheating to be a matter of just patching six bytes in a file. Ideally we want hacking a game to be so much work that it approaches the level of having to completely rewrite the game -- something that goes outside the realm of any reasonableness on the hacker's part.
One of biggest things we often do that makes it easier for a hacker, and thus harder on us, is include Easter eggs and cheat codes in the single-player portion of our games. Considered to be practically a requirement, they expose extralegal capabilities of our game engines and make it much easier for the hackers to locate the data and code that controls that functionality.
Models of Multiplayer Communications
Most online games use one of two communication models: client-server and peer-to-peer. For our discussion, the deciding factor is where game event decisions are made. If only one player's (or a separate) computer makes game event decisions or has the game simulation data, it is client-server. If all players' computers make some or all of the game event decisions, or have the full game simulation, then it's peer-to-peer. Many of the cheating methods described here are applicable to both models. I've organized the various cheats, trainers, exploits, and hacks that I've learned about into the categories listed in Table 1.
Table 1. Cheating classifications
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|Authoritative clients
|Information exposure
|Compromised servers
|Bugs and design loopholes
|Environmental weaknesses
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The aim of this guide is two-fold. First, we want to show you the item sets created for Paladins: tier sets, PvP sets, BoE items meant to be worn together, craftable sets, etc.. Second, we want to show you the models of all the items that a Paladin can wear so that you can design your own sets or complete sets found on our site or elsewhere.
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Similar to his previous album, "The Adventures of Bobby Ray," B.o.B features artists on the majority of his tracks. This time around, he shares his spotlight with those such as Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder and even Morgan Freeman. Though his previous album has much more of a pop-ish feel, "Strange Clouds" takes on more of a hip-hop sound. The beats are stronger and the bass is louder, showcasing B.o.B's rapping abilities but leaving no room for a couple of the more upbeat tracks that were present on "The Adventures of Bobby Ray."
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text: Hi Patrick & the group! Yea, it topped out around 106 to 107 here in Las Vegas, NV. However, you know well as I do, it's a dry heat. :) Anyhow, great operating and keep cool. 73, Jeff WB3JFS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)" <amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net> To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:22 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] more SSB satellite experimenting (23 August) > Hi! > > Today, I planned to spend most of the morning at a city park > in north Phoenix (a park straddling the DM33/DM43 grid boundary) > to try a few passes on DO-64 and VO-52. I also worked an AO-51 > pass using my all-mode setup (two FT-817NDs with Arrow Antennas > handheld 2m/70cm Yagi), before those SSB birds started making > their morning passes here - and before it reached 41C/106F > outside! > > The DO-64 pass I tried first was about 22 degrees maximum elevation > to the east. I could hear the beacon, and could hear my CW going > through the transponder. I could not hear myself when using the > mic. Since the second pass to the west was about the same elevation, > I didn't try it. I was on VO-52 for two passes, both passes having > maximum elevation in the 20-25 degree range. I heard a couple of > stations in SSB on each pass, I was able to hear myself call CQ a > lot during each of the passes, but logged no QSOs. > > Since I am not using computer control, I have tried not to park near > the center of the passbands on these satellites. Specifically for > VO-52, I have tried to park around 145.910 or 145.915 MHz on the > downlink as not to interfere with others around 145.900 MHz using > full computer control. Unfortunately for me today, nobody ventured > up to find me during the passes. > > During the second (western) VO-52 pass around 1825-1840 UTC, I > started reducing my power as I called CQ. The FT-817ND has 4 power > levels, and I went down from the high power (5W) setting to the > lowest level (500mW) and could still hear myself clearly through > VO-52. Antenna polarization was more important as the power level > went down, in order to get to and through the transponder. I had > to twist my Yagi around more, to make sure I could make the round- > trip to the satellite. This is a good thing, as now I know I can > use a lower power level if I am operating with only the FT-817ND's > internal NiMH battery pack. I normally use one of my two 12V/20Ah > jumpstart battery packs to power my two FT-817NDs or (for the FM > birds) my IC-2720H when on the satellites. > > Since next weekend is a holiday weekend for the US (and Canada), I > hope to be on VO-52 and maybe DO-64 during those 3 days. I might > try AO-7 if there is a high pass in my area as well. If you are > on during those passes next weekend, please feel free to tune up > the passband. Please be patient with me, as I am not set up for > computer control on my radios - yet. If things go well, I will do > some demonstrations on VO-52 along with the 3 FM satellites during > the upcoming ARRL Southwestern Division convention here in the > Phoenix area on 12-14 September. > > 73! > > > > Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK > http://www.wd9ewk.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >


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When Landon Donovan scored the winning goal in Wednesday's MLS All-Star Game, that familiar smile hid a secret few knew.
Behind the fist-bumping of his heart and that leap and those hugs, Donovan had known he would retire for a couple of weeks. It made the goal and MVP trophy that much more sweet and meaningful and euphoric.
And while he was celebrating, Donovan wondered: "I kept thinking, if everybody only knew."
And now we know.
The dreaded moment when the best American-born player in history would say goodbye.
For Donovan, this is the right time to retire at the conclusion of this MLS season. For us, knowing the one man who's made us care about soccer is leaving, well, parting is such sweet sorrow.
Donovan is only 32 and his fitness level so great the he could surely play at a high level for several more years. He had one more year on his contract with the Galaxy. But this will be his last.
His impact, however, will be forever lasting.
Donovan announced his decision to retire on Thursday at the Stubhub Center.
"I played here the majority of my career for two reasons," Donovan said. "One, I wanted to be happy, and my happiness always lied in being close to my family and friends. Two, to help grow the league. I always thought it would be more important to do that than go get lost in the shuffle in Europe or elsewhere."
He was the big fish in our pond. A class act on the field, in the locker room and in the community.
His impact on the game is impossible to quantify in numbers, but he's made people care about soccer, and in the U.S., that's more important than any of the MLS-record 138 goals he's scored or 124 assists he's made.
He had a record 57 goals and 57 assists for the U.S. national team.
Flanked by Dan Beckerman, the CEO and president of AEG, Chris Klein, the president of the Galaxy, and coach Bruce Arena, Donovan began to say goodbye.
The kid from Redlands, who always wanted to stay close to home, couldn't have imagined the impact he had on Southern California and well beyond.
"No, I didn't. I did not. I could not have envisioned that," Donovan said. "All three of these gentlemen have been around a long time, and they've seen the sport grow tremendously.
"I remember that first year, in 2001, that All-Star Game. And (Wednesday), looking around and seeing all the passionate people. I was thinking about 2001 and in San Jose and the crazy differences between the two.
"The growth is slow but significant. Now, to wake up in 2014 and see what happened with the World Cup and people paying attention is fascinating. I know we live in a society that tells us we need to be the best now, but I think we should all feel very proud of what we accomplished over the 18 years (of the MLS)."
Will there be another Landon Donovan in this country? Someone to take the U.S. on his back for more than a decade, and give a stiff-arm to the money and prestige of playing overseas and take on the commitment to adding to Donovan's legacy?
"You'd like to think so," said Galaxy teammate Robbie Keane, who used to star in the English Premier League. "That's one of the reasons why the league wants to grow and wants to produce certain players like Landon. Will they achieve what he's achieved with the country? I have no clue, to be honest with you.
"I'm sure the league would like that to happen. He's certainly one of a kind, and he's shown that since he started off here in the MLS (and) with the national team, how important he's been with them over the last decade. I'm sure down the road with the structure of the league and the structure of the youth system, I'm sure they'll want to get another Landon Donovan."
We felt Donovan's pain when he was inexplicably left of the U.S. men's national team roster by Jurgen Klinsmann and didn't get to play in the World Cup.
The subject was debated on television shows and on the radio and at water coolers in offices around the country.
Can you believe Donovan has made us care that much about soccer?
This decision had nothing to do with the World Cup debacle or Klinsmann. And Donovan was cool enough to get in one last dig about that.
"I've never made decisions based on what other people do," Donovan said. "When I was 18 years old, not playing and not happy in Germany, I made the very controversial move to come home and I've always made decisions on my own that were for my happiness. I certainly wasn't going to allow one person's poor choice this summer affect a decision like this."
Donovan was 18 when he left for Germany to play for Bundesliga's Bayer Leverkusen. He got buried on the bench on that team and left to come back to the U.S. and started an MLS career that has made him the best American-born player in history.
"It's an unbelievable legacy," Arena said. "I have a hard time thinking there's another American player that's accomplished as much as he has. He's been a champion at the club level, a force on our national team programs and really the focal point of this game in our country for so many years. He's accomplished everything an American player can accomplish at this point and time. That's quite a legacy. We all know the statistics, and on top of that he's a first-class person."
Donovan has inspired children to kick soccer balls and Angelenos to attend Galaxy games. He'll continue to work with children through the Galaxy as well.
David Beckham is gone, and fans are still flocking to the Stubhub Center. The Galaxy have the fourth-best attendance in the MLS, averaging 20,730 per game.
Asked what he hopes his soccer legacy is, Donovan sheepishly laughed: "Why would you ask me that?"
He knows. His footprint on the game is unprecedented for an American. It's innovative and lasting.
"I hope that my teammates will say I was a good teammate," Donovan said. "I hope my coaches will say they enjoyed working with me and having me on their team. I hope that the fans enjoyed watching and could see how much I gave to this sport over the last 16 years. And that's really it.
"At the end of the day, the goals and the assists and accolades, they don't mean a whole lot to me, but the relationships matter. I always prided myself in being someone guys wanted to be around."
If you're a kid in the U.S. and you've dribbled a soccer ball, not only have you wanted to be around Donovan, you've surely wanted to be like him. You've surely celebrated like him, with that smile and outstretched arms. Whether it was his video games or game-winning goals or snub by the U.S. team, Donovan made us care.
"It's bittersweet for me as I tell people and now as I say it here," Donovan said. "There's some sadness. I'm also excited for what's to come. As most of you know, I've been doing this quite some time. The timing right for me."
Is the timing right for us, though? Is there another Donovan in the making, who will carry the torch and pick up where Donovan has left soccer here, which is in a good place?
Perhaps that same fire and passion and talent is hiding behind a teenager's smile somewhere, waiting to be discovered.
And later, he might remember where he was when Donovan retired.
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text: Hi Mark, >> For my next cluster room, I am hoping to use 'liquid cooled' racks make by >> Knurr (CoolTherm, http://www.thermalmanagement.de/). The scale is 67 racks >> x 7.5kW heat removal per rack (36 U usable per rack). > > 7.5 KW/rack isn't much; are you designing low-power nodes? Yup -- I guess so. For example our current cluster nodes are dual core Opteron 175s (Supermicro H8SSL-i motherboards). They cost about $1200 for 2 x 2.2 GHz, with 1GB per core, and use 180 W under load (per 1U). I will have enough rack space (67 x 34 U, per 500kW power and cooling) that if I want to use nodes that dissipate 300 W per node then I will simply limit myself to 25 nodes per rack. >> The racks have front and back doors that close, and contains fans in the >> back which circulate air through a heat exchanger located in the bottom of >> the rack. The heat exchanger transfers the heat into chilled water. > > APC has something similar with the cooling on the side. Can you give a positive or negative opinion about either the Knurr or APC racks? Have you used them yourself in a system? >> The advantages of this are that it is quiet, and that you don't need >> vertical height for underfloor ducting or overhead hot air removal. >> Disadvantages are cost, potential difficulty of working within the rack. >> and loss of one rack of cooling capacity if you open both the front and >> back doors. > > I'm pretty skeptical of the sealed-pod approach, since it seems to > multiply the number of parts, create access issues, doesn't seem to > actually save on space, etc. It does save on vertical space, and it reduces noise to the level where you can work comfortably in the room. > I've also been burned by cold water cooling, so to speak (assuming you > don't have your own, well-controlled CW plant.) I'll have my own self-contained plant, designed by German engineers. They seem to know their stuff. > I would definitely consider a normal big-chillers approach _with_ > back-of-rack CW boosters (heat exchangers). Can you provide a URL or recommendation for these back-of-rack CW boosters? > and I'd definitely consider creative layouts of racks and chillers (for > instance, I'm not crazy about the hot/cold-aisle approach - something > W-shaped would be better for my ~50-rack machineroom. or even just > lining all the hot racks up against the chillers along one wall.) > >> (In this case I have access to 'building' funds that can not be used to buy >> more cpus, so the cost issue is not important.) > > are you sure you can't just be clever about laying out normal front-to-back > racks? possibly with back-of-rack heat-exchangers? I'd like a URL for the back-of-rack heat exchangers, please! (PS: though that approach still sounds noisy!) Cheers, Bruce


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Let's jump ahead to the fact that Charlotte is having her 3rd birthday party ON SATURDAY (ahh!). Well, I have to fit in some cake pops right? Of course I do. The problem is I am already making a cake for the Strawberry Shortcake themed party. AND (shh don't tell) I am going to have a food from each of her "berry best friends"... as in Raspberry, Blueberry, Orange, Lemon, and Plum.
I replace the water with milk (this was a tip from the instruction book) and I fill up my pans a little less than halfway. The cake mix we used the day before for a "trial run" of the pans TOTALLY overflowed.
On goes the lid.
15 minutes later... hmmm. Well, I guess I under filled them this time.
BUT... if you roll them over... voila!! It works!! Woo hoo.
I added a glaze which was oh-so-yummy that night... but it kinda soaked in by the next morning.
I think for the party, I will either throw these on a stick and glaze them right before the party OR roll them in a cinnamon crumb topping.
Enjoy! Happy Cake pop-ing!
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Dear Mom,
Yesterday was December 21, 2012. The Mayan calendar ended, but the world did not.
You probably don't remember other "doomsday warnings," but I do. Especially my first one in 1957.
That year one of our neighbors built a fallout shelter. He also called it a bomb shelter; either way, it was his survival guarantee. In school, we practiced hiding under our desks or crouching in the hall away from windows. That was our guarantee.
Our neighbor was a successful but harsh and stingy old man (I won't say his name because I don't want to hurt the feelings of his children and grandchildren, in case they didn't know this about him.) We'll call him "Bob," with apologies to the kind and generous Bobs in the world. Anyway, Bob made it clear that he had a shotgun, and when the worst happened and everyone panicked and wanted to hide in his bomb shelter, the rumor was that Bob would shoot them.
I asked you if we should dig our own shelter and stock it with food and water and everything on the list. You said no. "If there is a massive bomb, Marylin," you said, "and you and David are at school and Daddy is at work, we won't be together. So if I hid in our shelter, then when it was all over and I came out, you all wouldn't be with me."
I remember you laughed and winked at me. "And if I came out of my shelter and Bob came out of his, and we were the only two who survived, well, I'd have to borrow his gun and shoot myself." This made me laugh, too, and the spell of doom was broken.
In 1956, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote the lyrics and music for a song called "Que Sera Sera" (Whatever will be, will be.) Doris Day sang it in Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, and whenever it came on the radio I danced around to it, singing with Doris. Later I learned "Que Sera Sera" is something to say when you're stuck in a hopelessly unchangeable situation, but you've come to accept it. It's similar to today's "It is what it is."
We live in a troubled world, you used to say, but it's always been troubled and dangerous, and we live by prayer, faith, and gratitude. Your final message after our bomb shelter conversation was this: "When things get bad, you hold tight to the hands of those you love, and you get through it." I asked, "But what if we can't find each other to hold hands?" and you said, "We're always in each other's hearts, honey. Always."
"Que Sera Sera" is more than a song. It's also your philosophy about life; you always did the best you could in every situation, but beyond that you waited: What will be, will be. Thank you, Mom, for teaching me that the best we can do in tough times–and always–is to pray, hold the hands and cherish the hearts of those we love, and be grateful.


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Chesterton Tribune
Assessor and appeals board catch up assessment backlog
By JEFF SCHULTZ
Eliminating a stack of over 9,000 assessment appeals would be a tall order
for any county government, but Porter County Assessor Jon Snyder, his staff,
and the Property Tax Board of Appeals accomplished the seemingly
insurmountable task in just a shade under two years.
During a press conference Tuesday at the County Administration Center,
Snyder said 7,038 appeals from 2006-2010 were still pending when he took his
oath of office in January 2011 and grew by 2,000 more later that year.
Snyder estimates that over $15 million, as well as $1 million in interest,
of property tax has been refunded to taxpayer pockets. County Auditor Bob
Wichlinski later on Tuesday said that the net effect of reconciliation on
the appeals for taxing units across the county is $29 million.
He took subsequent steps to revamp the PTABOA board to be quicker and more
efficient by reducing the number of board members from five to three. That
allowed the board to meet more often since a quorum could be established
more easily. Sitting on the PTABOA board currently are its president Joe
Wszolek, vice-president Vicki Urbanik and Nick Sommer.
Wszolek and Sommer are Commissioner appointees; Urbanik, the bipartisan
board's sole Democrat, is the Council's appointment.
This year, Sommer replaced PTABOA member Jeff Sederberg, who also
contributed to the backlog reduction.
Snyder also appointed two of his staff to work on the appeal backlog full
time. He also credited Portage Assessor's office, the county auditor's
office, the board of Commissioners, and the County Council.
"These groups have worked tirelessly to reach this important milestone,"
said Snyder, adding the task was not an easy one. "I am extremely proud of
my staff and applaud them for accomplishing what some thought was
Residential properties made up roughly 75 percent of the appeals and
commercial properties around 25 percent. While the appeal refunds do impact
the revenue collected by taxing units, there is a benefit in the fact that
the county will not have to pay as much interest with the backlog whittled
down, Snyder said.
With the appeals under control, Wszolek said that taxing units can "finally
begin functioning with a budget they can depend on."
Assessments for 2012 went out at the end of last month and so far nearly
2,000 appeals have been sought and close to 800 of those have been screened
out, Snyder said. As the state requires, taxpayers have 45 days to file an
appeal with the assessor's office. The last day to do so is Nov. 13.
Appeals can also be filed online at
which was started last year. Porter County is the first and only county in
the state currently to offer an online appeal option.
"Our office will implement safeguards to ensure that the words 'backlog' and
'appeal 'are not in the same sentence again," Snyder said.
PTABOA meetings for 2012 appeals are starting to be scheduled. Chief Deputy
of the Assessor's office Daniel Timm said they will still be screening the
appeals for any "low-hanging fruit" the staff can clear up first, sparing
taxpayers the process of having to go through the PTABOA.
Snyder said he expects 3,000 appeals to be filed this year, which has been
about the average compared to recent years. Many of those who appeal do so
year after year. And even though about 75 percent of the county's 80,000
parcels saw lower assessments, appeals still have been steady. This year's
assessments also reflect reassessment numbers which the state requires ever
five years.
Not included in
the reconciliations are any appeals made by the County's steel mills since
they are now assessed by the state, Snyder said.


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Miranda Lambert Reveals What's Next
By Dustin Stout
February 8, 2018
Music is medicine, and Miranda Lambert is healed.
The country megastar opens up in a new interview about her music future, and things are looking bright.
"I don't know when or what. I just feel this energy and this excitement about what's coming next," Miranda says, adding that The Weight of These Wings was just the kind of therapy she needed. "It just almost honestly gave me more strength to go, 'Alright. I got through that. I'm happy, let's move on.'"
And moving on, she's doing, potentially with girl trio Pistol Annies, saying she's "very much in the spirit of the Annies right now."
"Literally the other night I had a song that kind of just came out of the air to me, and I sent a verse and a chorus to the girls," she says of bandmates Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. "And nobody said anything. Not, 'Hi, how you doing.' I sent them half a song, and then within three minutes, I had a whole song. They both sent me a verse back. And I was, 'And, we're back.'"
Pistol Annies last dropped a new album, Annie Up, in 2013.
No official word on any new music from the Pistol Annies.
Photo: Getty Images


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Scott Parker has emerged as a summer transfer window target for Sunderland, with Tottenham reportedly willing to sell the England international before the deadline in September.
According to the Daily Express, Sunderland have identified Parker as a potential acquisition as Paolo di Canio looks to narrowly overhaul a squad that narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League last season.
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas is reportedly ready to move Parker on during the summer with the Portuguese planning to recruit a replacement for the 32-year-old following the opening of the transfer window.
Parker made only 15 league starts for Spurs last term after struggling with injury, and Villas-Boas is reported to have made Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry a target.
Villas-Boas is reportedly hopeful the sale of Parker - which could raise around £4 million - would fund a swoop for Barry who, along with several Manchester City players, faces an uncertain future after the departure of Roberto Mancini.
The potential arrival of Barry at White Hart Lane would place Parker's position at the club in doubt, and seemingly provide Sunderland with the chance to bring the former West Ham star to the Stadium of Light.
Spurs are also set to welcome Sandro back to action next term as the Brazilian continues his rehabilitation from injury, apparently casting further doubt over Parker's future in north London.


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Alarmed, today is a new dawn,
and that affair recurs daily like clockwork,
undone at dusk, when a new restaurant
emerges in the malnourished night.
We said it would be this way, once this became
the way it was. So in a way we were
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Ziv summary
(Chaim Freedman March 15, 2010)
Study of the the many Zivs on Jewishgen's
database yields no evidence that they are all related. Lithuania
This despite Lord Israel Sieff's claim in his memoirs that his great-grandfather Yosef Ziv told him that all Zivs (sic) are related.
According to Lord Sieff his great-grandfather told him that his branch of the Ziv family was descended from the Vilna Gaon's brother Joshua.
Since the Gaon did not have a brother named Joshua, I assume that the name suffered in the translation and that it was Yissakhar-Ber.
The main branches of Ziv families are those in Plunge, Ariogala, Kedeiniai, Raseiniai, Seta, Tavrig and smaller numbers in many towns.
Lipman's "Toldot Heyehudim BeKovno Ve Slovodka" (Keidan 1931) establishes the line descended from Azriel ben Yehudah Leib, the first rabbi of Kovno, born about 1700.
His son Yehudah-Leib was ABD in Plunge . Lipman claims that Yehudah Leib was a signatory on documents in 1782 and 1836, fifty four years apart. If he lived until 1836 he would have been about 100 years old. Yet he had descendants born in 1799 and 1810 named Leib. It appears that he died before 1799 and the person who appeared in the 1836 signature was a different Yehudah Leib
His son Gershon Mendel is claimed to have died in 1900. Although most sources claim he was a son of the above Yehudah Leib, there is too wide a gap and therefore a generation may be missing or the date of death incorrect.
Gershon Mendel was ABD in Plunge and Tavrig.
He had a son Tuviah.
Azriel Ziv who was ABD of Birz died young in 1827 and was apparently a brother of Moshe father of Zev Wulf (1816-1864).
Lipman however claims that Azriel and Moshe were cousins to Gershon Mendel.
However Moshe's son Zev Wulf was the father-in-law of Moshe Yaakov Zevadia. In the latter's book "Me'eyn Ganim" (Vilna 1904) he claims that Moshe was a son of Gershon Mendel of Plunge and Tavrig.
If so, extrapolation backwards would place Gerson Mendel's birthdate at c. 1760 in which case he could not have died in 1900. .
To accomodate these and other calculations, it appears that the death date of 1900 was wrong.
Gershon Mendel Ziv of Plunge and Tavrig should not be confused with Gershon Mendel Ziv of Raseiniai (1816-1902). His family is described in Stephen. W. Feingold's "From Rasseyn to
: The Generations of Gershom Mendel Ziv" (published1983-1984). He was related in some way to the Plunge Zivs and to Lord Sieff. He is mentioned in Markovich's "Lekorot Ir Rassein Urabbaneiha" ( Worcester 1913). Warsaw
From the Plunge records a Zelman son of Israel Ziv was born in 1799. In various records Azriel appears as
. Israel
Zelman's wife was Lessa.
In the tradition of the Grad family, Yaakov Grad's wife Peena/Pina 1817-1913 ( see Plunge records) was a Ziv with some recollection of "Izrael". Her tombstone on Har Hazeitim in
gives her father as Shlomo Zalman Leib. Jerusalem
Another family tradition/confusion claims that her name was Peena-Lessa, which could not be so as she had a grand-daughter born during her lifetime Breina-Lessa.
Note that the above Zelman son of Israel Ziv of Plunge was the husband of a Lessa.
Putting all the above together we can conclude that Peena Grad was a daughter of Zelman (ben Azriel) Ziv and Leesa.
Zelman had descendants named Zelman-Leib, so it is possible that that was his full name, correlating with the name of Peena's father Shlomo Zalman Leib which appears on her tombstone.
Given the Grad tradition that Peena was descended/related to the Vilna Gaon, my original estimation in my book "Eliyahu's Branches, the Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His family" (Avotaynu 1997) that Peena's grandfather Azriel was a son-in-law of the Gra's brother Yissakhar-Ber, appears to be correct. Thus Peena's father Shlomo Zalman Leib was named after Yissakhar-Ber's father Shlomo Zalman.
Regarding Rabbi Yosef Yuzel Hurwitz,(1849-1919, who changed his name from Ziv), the Alter of Novardok, a tradition recently conveyed claims that he too was related to the Vilna Gaon. His biographies state that his father Shlomo Zalman Ziv was Rabbi in Plunge and then Kurtuvenai.
There is a birth record in Kovno in 1882 of Menukha a daughter of Azriel Ziv son of Zalman. Azriel is described as "family from Kurtuvenai"
From this it is fair to assume that Azriel was a brother of the Alter of Novardok, whose father Shlomo Zalman may have been a son of an Azriel Ziv.
A book "Netiv Oz" (Baltimore 2007) written by Azriel Yehudah Ziv includes a recommendation by Rabbi Mordekhai Zev Yofen, a descendant of the Alter of Novardok. He describes the auther as "She'er Besari" indicating a blood relationship, further evidence of the Ziv connections of the Alter of Novardok.
As to the Ariogala Zivs, it is not ready ascernable if they are related to the Plunge Zivs. The only clue is the name Azriel.
Lord Israel Sieff's family was established by Oscar Friedman from the 1887 Ariogola family list and
records as follows Manchester
Lord Sieff, Azriel Moshe born 1889.
son of Efraim born c. 1855
son of Naftali-Khaim born 1842
son of Yosef Leizer born 1820,
son of Efraim.
Lord Israel Sieff (1889-1972)
According to Lord Sieff's memoirs his family lived in Ariogala and Siady (Seta).
Since Lord Sieff's great-grandfather Yosef claimed descent from a brother of the Gaon, and since Lord Sieff bore the name Azriel, it is reasonable to expect that Lord Sieff's family is a part of the Plunge Zivs, as too Peena Grad and the Alter of Novardok.
Regarding the mother of the Alter of Kelm Simkha-Zissel Braude-Ziv (born 1824, son of Yisrael son of Menakhem Nakhum Braude): his mother Khaya is recorded in a family tree by Reuven Poupka as "Ziv" and descended from the Khakham Tzvi. His source was Rabbi Nakhum Zeev Dessler of
. Cleveland
It has yet to be established how she was a Ziv. But this explains why her son chose the surname Ziv when he changed his name from Braude.
A clue may be found in the 1816 Revison List in Kedainiai which records a Iudel Leyb son of Izrael Ziv whose wife Chaya (born 1773) was a sister of Leyb Movsha son of Wulf Braude.
DNA testing conducted by Simon Ziff shows that there are various Ziv (sic) families who are not related.


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The potential for history takes place every time Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw takes the mound.
On Wednesday, that promise became a reality.
The buzz steadily grew with each out recorded. Nine straight to start the game. Then 18 in a row.
Not even a two-base throwing error by shortstop Hanley Ramirez to start the seventh inning could derail this magic.
Kershaw ventured into legendary territory with a performance that will likely go down as one of the most iconic in Dodgers history.
Kershaw's first career no-hitter.
Kershaw delivered a commanding no-no by retiring 27 of the 28 hitters he faced and finishing with 15 strikeouts in an 8-0 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies to complete a three-game sweep in historical fashion.
"We started scoring so many runs, I didn't want to screw that up," Kershaw said. "Just throw strikes. It was just so much fun. I can't explain.
"As far as individual games, this was pretty special."
It was the 22nd no-hitter in Dodger history and comes on the heels of Josh Beckett's no-hitter on May 25 at Philadelphia, becoming the first time the Dodgers had two no-hitters in same season since 1956. And he was miscue away from throwing the franchise's second perfect game.
"Beckett told me he was going to teach me how to do that," Kershaw said, laughing.
Kershaw got doused by two buckets of sports drinks by Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig. Then the team came out with their now famed bubble machine and did their new dance with Kershaw — much to the delight of the crowd.
Then Kershaw shared a warm embrace with his wife Ellen, who he was tipping his hat to at the end of the game.
The crowd of 46,069 came to its feet in raucous fashion to start the ninth inning.
D.J. LeMathieu hit a grounder to first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who flipped to Kershaw covering first.
Charlie Culberson lifted a harmless fly ball to Yasiel Puig in right field for the second out.
Then Kershaw needed just four pitches to strike out Corey Dickerson for the final out.
Overall, Kershaw threw 107 pitches, 79 for strikes.
Kershaw began sitting all alone in the dugout in the fifth inning.
He began receiving standing ovations after he struck out the side in the sixth inning.
The crowd rose to its feet with two outs in the seventh and erupted in a loud roar when Kershaw froze Wilin Rosario with a wicked curve to end the inning.
Kershaw received another standing ovation when he came to bat in the eighth inning.
Kershaw tied his career high in strikeouts when he fanned Drew Stubbs on three pitches to start the eighth for his 13th strikeout.
Kershaw set his career high for strikeouts by fanning Josh Rutledge in the eighth inning, right after Rutledge lined a shot down the left-field line that was just foul.
Kershaw won his fourth consecutive start and improved to 7-2 this season.
Kershaw had a pair of previous two-hitters — on May 29, 2011 against the Florida Marlins and on June 20, 2011 against the Detroit Tigers.
Kershaw needed just 42 pitches to get through the first nine batters. He struck out five in that span, including Corey Dickerson looking to start the game and freezing Wilin Rosario on a beautiful 73-mph curveball.
The hardest ball hit through the first nine batters was actually by Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa, who hit a liner that was snared by third baseman Miguel Rojas.
Kershaw helped his own cause in the fourth inning by fielding Dickerson's dribbler, whirling and firing to first to just beat Dickerson.
Kershaw fielded a comebacker by Rutledge to end the fifth inning.
Then Kershaw fanned the side in the sixth inning, overwhelming Kyle Parker, D.J. LeMathieu and pinch-hitter Ryan Wheeler (Torrance High) to give him 10 strikeouts after six innings.
Kershaw shook off Ramirez's throwing error thanks to a spectacular play by Miguel Rojas, who fielded a chopper by Troy Tulowitzki (Long Beach State) on the third-base line and made a long accurate throw that was hauled in by first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.
"I'm in great company with this pitching staff," Kershaw said.
Maybe lost in the hoopla was the fact the Dodgers continued to make up ground on the San Francisco Giants, closing within four games of the NL West leaders after trailing by 9 1/2 games as recently as June 8.
The Dodgers swept the three-game series with the Rockies and completed an impressive 5-1 homestand. The Dodgers have won eight of their past 11 overall.
It's the first time they have swept the Rockies since winning the final three games of the 2012 season.
Dee Gordon got the Dodgers off and running in the first inning.
Gordon drew a leadoff walk, then stole his major league-leading 37th base of the season.
Gordon was also so much of a distraction on the basepaths that De La Rosa made an errant pickoff throw into center field, allowing Gordon to take third base and score on Puig's towering sacrifice fly to center field for a 1-0 lead.
Ramirez also drew a walk in the first inning and scored on Kemp's rifle RBI single to center for a 2-0 lead.
Then the Dodgers exploded for five runs in the third inning, all with two outs.
Puig drew a two-out walk, and the fireworks began.
Gonzalez and Kemp hit back-to-back RBI doubles, and Rojas blasted a three-run double over Dickerson's head in left field for a 7-0 lead.
It could have been a bigger inning, but Gordon's infield single was overturned on a manager's challenge and Rockies third baseman Rutledge made a diving stop to rob Ramirez.
The Dodgers continued to pile on with Gonzalez dropping an RBI single to left field to score Ramirez in the fourth inning for an 8-0 lead.
Kemp now has seven multi-hit performances in his past 12 games. He went 3 for 4 with two doubles, two RBIs and a run scored.
Ramirez's finger — bruised on a liner in Tuesday night's game — did not seem to affect him much at the plate, getting a double, a sacrifice fly, a walk and a run scored. Carlos Triunful replaced Ramirez defensively in the eighth, but it might have been an inning too late.
De La Rosa had a miserable game, lasting just 3 1/3 innings. He allowed eight runs (seven earned) with six hits, five walks and just one strikeout.


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DH team brings you highlights of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's budget speech.
Fiscal Affairs:
CM seems to have spared the common man of additional tax burdens. Thanks to the election year.
Additional excise duty on beer hiked from 122% to 135%. So, that makes your favourite drink more expensive.
License fee for distilleries and breweries hiked by 50%.
Luxury taxis may become significantly more expensive. Rs 500 to be levied on luxury cabs per seat, per quarter.
Stamp duty exempted for alternative sites by BDA.
Key announcements:
A new policy to buy land for residential sites in rural and urban areas will be implemented.
Motor Vehicles Act to be amended to plug revenue loss from vehicles registered in other states plying on Karnataka roads. But no details on how this will be done.
Government to set up three 250-bed super speciality hospitals in Mysore, Gulbarga and Belgaum. These would serve critically ill patients.
Government to set up one medical college in each district in phased manner. Six colleges to come up initially - one each in Tumkur, Haveri, Bagalkot, Yadgir, Chikkaballapur and Chitradurga.
Kaveri Tourism Authority to be set up to develop Mysore circle (Mysore, Mandya, Chamaraja Nagar and Kodagu districts)
Incentive to set up 'Janatha Cinema Halls' at district and taluq HQs to exhibit Kannada films.
Rs 500 crore to Krishibhagya scheme to improve rainfed agriculture. The scheme will be implemented in 23 districts to cover 45 lakh hectares.
Rs 1.5 crore for entertainment in old age homes through classical music, folk performances and other traditional art forms such as harikatha. Small money but significant gesture.
Rs 26,405 crore for the second phase of metro rail.
Development and widening of roads - Rs 300 crore
Development of footpaths - Rs 100 crore
Development and protection of 31 lakes - Rs 100 crore
Implementation of parking policy - Rs 10 crore
Development of peripheral ring road - Rs 5800 crore
Solid waste management - Rs 100 crore
Development of arterial and sub-arterial roads - Rs 500 crore
Elevated road to be constructed from Chalukya to Hebbal junction.
Elevated road to be constructed from Alisada to Basaveshwara Circle.
BDA to construct 8000 flats.
Applications for 5000 sites in Kempegowda layout to be invited in March.
Expert committee to prepare text books.
Online computer-aided education to be introduced.
Central university to be set up in Karwar.
Bangalore and Karnataka Virtual University to be set up.
10, 000 students in standards 9 and 10 to be trained in IT, retail and healthcare.
Education Quality Monitoring Cell to be set up.
Allocations for different sectors
Water resources - Rs 11, 349 crore
Education - Rs 21, 305 crore
Energy - Rs 11, 693 crore
Urban Development - Rs 9995 crore
Social welfare - Rs 6475 crore
Women and child welfare - Rs 3670 crore
PWD - Rs 6634 crore
Rural Development - Rs 9361 crore
BBMP - Rs 1527 crore
12:55 pm. We received our copy of the budget speech. So, stopping the minute by minute tracking of the CM's speech. Will bring highlights of the speech.
12:50 pm. Agricultural growth was at 4.9%, higher than the national avaerage of 4.6%
12:45 pm. State GDP was around 5% in 2013-14.
12:43 pm. BBMP gets total grant of Rs 1527 crore.
12:40 pm. We have provided clean government. We have also met many promises in a short duration.
12:36 pm. Speaker asks CM to start the speech. Siddaramaiah begins presenting his 9th budget.
12:33 pm. CM walks into the Assembly looking relaxed and takes his seat. All set to go.
12.28 pm: Till December 2013, the government had met only about 68 per cent of its tax-revenue target, thanks to the slowdown in the economy. The target was Rs 62,464 crore, while the actual realisation as Rs 42,947 crore. The coming Lok Sabha elections would prevent him from taking harsh measures to boost revenue.
12.20 pm: The budget will see him walking a tight rope. The government expenditure is ballooning at a time the revenue is shrinking. Some of the burden is due to the welfare schemes he announced in a hurry when he took charge.
12.15 pm: Though Siddu will present the budget for the full year (2014-15), he will seek legislative sanction to bankroll government expenditure only for the initial four months.
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Oh, the hairstick/shawl pins. They're here to show folks what they can expect to turn out in my upcoming carving class on Camano Island for the Crochet Liberation Front Retreat. I'm hoping they will inspire folks to sign up for the class. I'll also be teaching hook carving and button making... hope to have some sample buttons to show soon too. The class will be part of the retreat and you can find more information by going to http://www.crochetliberationfront.com/crochetcama-retreat-information/
I went last year and I can't say enough good things about it.... the setting was incredible, on the banks of Puget Sound... the atmosphere was just perfect, friends were made, crochet topics were learned and experienced, our host and Fearless Leader Laurie Wheeler and an amazing group of talented crochetiers guided us through 4 days of fun and camaraderie , the memories of which will make me smile for years to come. And it's happening again!! If you can, please sign up and come join us!! If you'd like more information about my classes, please don't hesitate to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Now for the hooks. You see something new? Yes the hooks are standing! I've made a group of hooks from wood that I thought was pretty enough to be displayed. Yet the hooks are also VERY functional! And I'm going to do an old fashioned Jimbo hook auction for their sale. So here we go!
Starting from left to right,
Hook #1 is the only hook in the bunch that's not made of local hardwoods. Its made of Jobillo, a Central American hardwood that had dark streaks that almost look like burn marks. Its a very hard wood and, as you can clearly see, is a beautiful wood albeit a bit heavy compared to the other hooks in the group. It's an I size on my Bates "Knit Check" gauge.. 5.5mm; and it's 7 3/4 inches long.
Hook #2 is a VERY rare and beautiful piece...so much so that I just had to leave as much of the foot as possible in view. This hook is as much a piece of Mother Nature's best sculpture, AND it came from the fabled apple tree up on the ranch where Jimbo hooks had their birth. Just this last week-end I sat on the front porch of the cabin whittling hooks and watching the deer gather around the base of the old tree, eating apples that are starting to fall. A week before, we saw a momma bear and cub stopping by the old tree looking for apples. That old tree does so many things. It feeds the deer and bear, gives us apples for pies if we like, provides places for the Robins, Goldfinch and Humming Birds to rest and feed, and it drops branches that are too old and dry to support apples. Those discards have spent their useful lives feeding and sheltering the animals and are ready to become beautiful and useful again as hooks for you. This piece was one that you'd have NEVER thought could ever have become a hook, and I was amazed that the wood at it's core was so firm and ready to become a piece of art. It's a hook that I've been hesitating to sell just because it's such a majestic thing to look at. Ah but there's a mill to buy, to make lumber for the rest of the porch and perchance a bunkhouse for the grand kids.... so it's up for bids. Since this is such a rare beauty, I'm thinking the bids should start at $75. High. Maybe nobody will bid and it will stay here with me? Not a bad prospect at all.
Technically, this hook is a 7mm (between a K and an L) and is 7 5/8 inches long.
Hook #3 is another beauty from the old apple tree..... just not such a striking grain pattern as the sculptured hook #2. Still, it's from that same fabled old apple tree. It's such a generous tree, giving me all that nice wood for hooks, eh? Anyways, this hook is a Bates Gauge H (5mm) and is 7 5/8 inches long.
Hook #4 is another beauty. This one was rescued from the local "Waste to Energy" plant (we used to call it the dump). I was unloading trash one day next to a couple in a nice truck as they were unloading some amazingly pretty branches from an ornamental tree they had removed from their lot. Turns out the tree is what some call a Thunder Plum, from its beautiful dark leaves. I asked, and they gave me a few of the branches. I cut them up into blanks, let them dry and crack for a year or so, separated the cracked parts and Wall-AH! HOOKS! This one is an I and it's 7 3/8 inches long.
Hook #5 is yet another hook from the old Apple Tree... amazing eh? This one has a foot with what is left of a deep cleft that almost led me to believe there wasn't a hook hiding in there. But a little patience and see what came out!! It's another beauty with some remarkable grain pattern and, of course, history. It has pedigree. A little spalting here, a little bark on the foot... all remind the user of where this hook came from. Kind of makes the mind wander to the meadow up Deadman Crick. So the tree and me are sharing with you. The tree sheds the branches, I use them to make you hooks and leave what I can to show you the character and legacy of this old landmark. The hook is an H (5mm) and is 7 1/2 inches long.
All the above hooks have a comfy thumb rest.
Now for the bids. You can bid on any one or more of these hooks simply be e-mailing me at
email@example.com , and letting me know your bid. I'll post bids as they come in* and run the auction until Wednesday, Sept. 21. The auction will close at 10pm Pacific Std Time on that date. Please bid in $5 increments. Ties will be broken by the time the bids are received. The first bid received in a tie wins.
Ah its nice to get back in the saddle! Been too long!!!
And as always, THANK YOU for dropping by! I like the company!
*I won't always be in front of my computer, but will post bids as soon as possible.
***** Bids over $30 get a FREE Hairstick/Shawlpin
Hook #1
Kath bids $35
Kristin bumps it up to $45
Hook#2 SOLD....$80!
Kay bids $10
Nicole from Australia bids $30
Kathryn's here with $30
Kath with $35
Kathryn says to say "Get out of my way, Kath" and bids $40. Heh! Determined, that Kathryn.
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Microserver News: HP Picks Intel, Calxeda Reveals Benchmarks
The concept of microservers—servers with less powerful microprocessors, often grouped together to provide a lot of performance with lower power requirements—inched a bit closer to reality last week. HP and Calxeda both made announcements that take the concept closer to product.
The most important statement came from HP, which announced its Project Moonshot last November, with a plan to build a system that could accommodate thousands of servers per rack in a federated architecture designed for massively "scale out" systems.
Surprisingly, HP announced last week that it is partnering with Intel on the first iteration of the commercial products, code-named Gemini. The platform itself involves a chassis that is capable of taking various kinds of "server cartridges." Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager of HP's Hyperscale Business Unit, said the idea is to have different cartridges for different workloads.
The first of these will be based on Intel's upcoming Centerton chip, based on the Atom CPU design. Santeler said HP picked the Intel chip because it offers 64-bit and error-correcting code (ECC) support. Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel's Cloud Infrastructure Group, later explained that Centerton is a dual-core 32nm SoC (system on chip) that uses just 6 watts, compared with the 150 watts or so used by Intel's higher-end Xeon server chips. Its features include virtualization capability, hyperthreading, and software compatibility.
Centerton is slated to be available in the second half of this year, and the first Gemini systems are due out by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, in a separate announcement at the Structure Conference last week, Waxman said that Centerton will be followed next year by a 22nm version known as Avoton.
Santeler talked about how Project Moonshot hopes to be "disruptive," allowing for the same amount of compute power, but using less energy and costing less money. This is particularly appropriate for things like instances of Hadoop or Memcached that are not CPU bound, or for simple Web surfing. He noted that the current Project Moonshot website is run on a Centerton server, yet can accommodate 2,500 concurrent webpages, and is able to do this in a 12 to 14 watt power envelope. However, he did not rule out other kinds of chips for future server cartridges.
In another important announcement, Calxeda released benchmark results of its upcoming ARM-based server chips.
While I always take vendor benchmarks with a grain of salt, these spotlight how in some applications, input/output (I/O) can become saturated well before the traditional server CPU is used, so combining more smaller CPUs can be much more efficient. As always, we'll need to see final products to really know how well this works in the real world, but the concept is intriguing.
In related news, Dell announced that it is shipping a prototype ARM-based server known as "Copper" based on Marvell ARM-based CPUs, and Mitac showed a different approach using the same CPU at Computex.
Many, perhaps most, workloads are CPU dependent, and for those applications, traditional CPUs will continue to make the most sense. But for smaller, I/O driven applications, microservers may well become a significant market over the next year.
I was particularly interested in reports that Facebook is looking at "wimpy cores" as a way of improving performance per watt. It has said that even if it needs more cores, that's worth the tradeoff. The company has tested Tilera's multicore products and has showed interest in a subscription model of buying processors. Facebook has been pushing its OpenCompute project as a way to get vendors to think about "Web scale" infrastructure, and microservers could likely be a part of that.


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