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2009 goals focus of Council
- Published: January 29, 2009
2008 goals
The following are the 2008 Village Council goals, which Council members are continuing as broad Village principles. Their 2009 goals will be specific steps toward reaching these six principles.
1. Deepen the democratic decision making process with active citizen participation and effective representative governance.
2. Strengthen the Village as an excellent employer and provider of services within a responsible fiscal framework.
3. Be a welcoming community of opportunity for people of diverse race, culture and income.
4. Establish a plan that improves the economic condition of the community.
5. Develop a comprehensive policy that will address global warming and reduce the carbon footprint of our community.
6. Develop a vision of a comprehensive land use plan.
What is the best model for economic development for the village? How much of a priority should Council make green space preservation? How aggressive should the Village be in pursuing energy conservation practices and the use of alternative energy?
These were some of the issues discussed at Village Council on Monday, Jan. 26, at a special meeting devoted to Council's 2009 goals. Council members had previously agreed to continue their 2008 Council goals as broad Village values (see sidebar) and in 2009 to set more specific action steps for reaching those broad goals.
The issues above were those about which Council members expressed some disagreement, and which they will address in future discussions. Council will consider goals further after it sets the 2009 Village budget, which will begin next Monday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. in Council chambers. Two other special budget meetings will take place on Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 9 a.m.
Before Monday's meeting, each Council member had submitted a suggested list of 2009 goals. On Monday Council members agreed on many of those goals, especially those concerning improving the democratic decision-making process, strengthening the Village as an excellent employer and provider of services, and being a welcoming community for people of diverse race, culture and income. Council member John Booth encouraged Council to find ways to reach out to villagers who are under-represented in decision-making.
"Just because they don't come to Council meetings doesn't mean they don't have concerns," he said.
Council members also agreed on the importance of continuing to completion current projects, including implementing the visioning/planning process, improvements to the wastewater treatment plant and the Glen Helen sanitary sewer main line, a water/sewer rate study, an update of the Village Comprehensive Plan, final approval for the Friends Care Community Barr property apartments, and moving forward with the Center for Business and Education.
Council members Kathryn Van der Heiden and Karen Wintrow encouraged Council to include in its 2009 goals a capital improvement plan for major projects. Wintrow suggested that Council appoint a blue ribbon finance committee to consider how to replace the five-year property tax levy, which is currently in its third year.
The complete list of 2009 goals suggested by Council members can be accessed at http://www.yso.com/; click on Council Packet for the Jan. 26 meeting.
Difficult issues
The five-year levy included $50,000 annually for economic development, but the first two years of that revenue has not been spent. Asking why Council hasn't yet spent the money when everyone seems to agree that economic development is a priority, villager Pat Murphy said, "What's really going on?"
What's going on, according to Council President Judith Hempfling, is that "there's a hard discussion we've needed to have and we've postponed it."
Council members agreed that they will have that discussion soon. Council has also been preoccupied with hiring a new Village manager and with the closing of Antioch College, according to Lori Askeland, but "I sense we're committed to moving forward" on economic development.
In stating their preferences, Hempfling said she supports using energy as a focus for economic development, supports efforts for the rebirth of Antioch College, and supports efforts to localize the economy, as promoted by the recent workshop led by Michael Shuman. Askeland agreed on the importance of an energy focus for new business, and supported villager Benji Maruyama's suggestion that the Village hold an annual contest for a business plan for a new energy-related business.
Whatever steps the Village takes toward economic development, Hempfling said, "the issue of transparency is key."
Van der Heiden stated her preference that Council work with Community Resources, the community improvement corporation that developed the Center for Business and Education.
"We need to use the resource we already have," she said. Wintrow agreed, stating, "We already have economic development groups in town and in Dayton. We need to work with them."
Council members also differed in how much the Village should commit this year in the Village budget to green space preservation, although they shared a commitment to make some contribution. Tecumseh Land Trust leaders have encouraged Council to bring the green space fund up to $250,000 so that it can act quickly to acquire Jacoby greenbelt land that may be available soon, according to Hempfling. Currently, the green space fund contains about $138,000. Hempfling and Askeland said they support the Village's contributing $100,000 to green space this year, if that amount is available.
Several community members who attended the meeting spoke in favor of making green space preservation a priority, including Julia Cady of Tecumseh Land Trust, who said that Council's substantial contribution to the Whitehall Farm purchase made the preservation of that land possible. And former longterm Council member Tony Bent stated that in three surveys of villagers' priorities taken during his terms on Council, green space preservation and diversity always came out as top priorities.
However, $100,000 may be too much for Council to contribute to green space this year, Van der Heiden said.
"The reality is we have a limited amount of money," she said. "All of us need to understand we may not be able to get what we want each year."
Council members also expressed differing views on how aggressively the Village should pursue energy conservation. Hempfling said she supports the Village following the second-phase recommendations of the Electric System Task Force, which include the Village spending up to $50,000 to make Village-owned buildings more energy efficient.
While she supports the task force's first-phase recommendation that the Village does not need to spend $3.5 million for a new electric substation, she feels less supportive of the second-phase recommendations, Van der Heiden said. Those recommendations call for, along with aggressive conservation measures, more investment in potential alternative energy sources for Village needs. However, Van der Heiden said, the Village will continue to rely on coal for the foreseeable future, and needs to start thinking about new contracts to take the place of current coal plant contracts that will expire in 2012.
Money invested in conservation measures should not be considered as only expenditures, but also as money that will be paid back via savings over time, Maruyama said.
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10 Lesser-Known Far-Right Groups of the 21st Century
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10 Everyday Products Surprisingly Made by Inmates
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10 Fascinating Typographical Origins
A typographical character is simply a printed symbol—this includes letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. The ? is called a question mark; ( and ) are called parentheses; and ; is known as the semicolon. But you know that already, and I suspect you're beginning to wonder how one could possibly wring drops of "fascinating" from the dry towel of typography. And that's fair. But did you know the division sign has a name? What about the mysterious origins of the paragraph sign? Where did the % sign come from? ¿Why on Earth do Spanish-speakers put those upside-down question marks at the beginning of their sentences? Read on!
The pilcrow, also less elegantly called the "paragraph mark," serves a number of purposes, most of which involve denoting the presence or location of a paragraph in one way or another. Most commonly, it's used in word processing programs to indicate a "carriage return" "control character;" that is to say, a non-permanent mark showing where a paragraph ends. There is disagreement over the origin of the name; The Oxford English Dictionary, for one, likes to think it comes from a string of corruptions of the word "paragraph." I prefer to side with the Oxford Universal Dictionary, which suggests that the sign itself looks a lot like a featherless crow—a "pulled crow." The symbol itself derives from the letter C—you can still see it in there—which stood for the Latin "capitulum," or "chapter." The two lines that ended up vertically crossing the C were a sort of editorial note from the writer.
The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages, in an earlier form, as a way of marking a new train of thought before the paragraph became the standard way of accomplishing this. Now, among its myriad uses are in academic writing (when citing from an HTML page), legal texts (when citing a specific paragraph), and in proofreading (an indication that a paragraph should be split in two).
The ampersand is a logogram used to mean "and." The symbol itself is based on a shorthand version of the Latin word for "and"—et—and in certain fonts, you can still clearly see an 'e' and a 't' linked together (Adobe Caslon, for instance). The word ampersand has a somewhat unusual origin—it's a corruption of the hard-to-parse, multilingual (English and Latin) phrase "& per se and," which means "& by itself is 'and.'" Confused? Don't worry—that's only natural. All it means is: "The symbol &, all by its little self, simply means and." And where did this phrase come from? Well, in the early 1800s, & was considered the 27th letter of the English alphabet, and since saying "X, Y, Z, and" would be confusing, "and per se and" was said instead. It doesn't take a major stretch of the imagination to fathom how this could quickly turn into ampersand, which it did by around 1837.
Because people like to make up urban legends based on everything, including stodgy ol' typographical marks, there's a vicious rumor floating around that French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère used the mark so much that it eventually got called "Ampere's and." Don't believe it for a second. In the end we're left with a pretty little symbol that has more than a few variants.
What?! You've never heard of the interrobang!? Really? Well, now you have, so all is forgiven. An interrobang is described as a "nonstandard punctuation mark" (it's part of the punctuation counterculture), used to end sentences where you really want both the exclamation point and the question mark. While the use of both marks side by side had been prevalent for some time, it wasn't until 1962 when an advertising executive named Martin K. Speckter decided that enough was enough—no longer would he withstand the tyranny of two separate punctuation marks when one would suffice. He asked readers to suggest names—rejecting such fine ideas as rhet, exclarotive, and exclamaquest—and ultimately settled upon interrobang, a combination of the Latin root "interro" (think "interrogate"), and "bang," which is printer's slang for the exclamation mark. The word is used to describe both the two side by side (!? or ?!), or the combined symbol ?.
What we know as @ has a lot of different monikers—including "at sign," "at symbol," "ampersat," and "apetail"—but is unusual in that it doesn't have a widely-accepted name in English. In Spanish, it is known as an arroba, and in French the arobase. @ has two primary usages—its original one, used in commerce to mean "at the rate of," and more recently, "directed at" (primarily in email and in social media like Twitter). It has been claimed (by Italian professor Giorgio Stabile) that the symbol is actually over 500 years old, to represent an "amphora"—a unit of capacity used in commerce. It first made its way onto a typewriter as early as 1885, and has since found its way into our hearts.
A couple of fun facts:
– The Spanish arroba was a unit of weight equivalent to 25 pounds.
– The names for @ in other languages often derive from the idea that it looks like an animal. To wit: apenstaartje (Dutch for "monkey's tail); papacy (Greek for "little duck); dalphaengi (Korean for "snail"); sobachka (Russian for "little dog").
Guillemets are what the French use instead of quotation marks. In addition to the physical differences, the usage differs as well—generally, guillemets open and close entire conversations or exchanges, rather than individual utterances. Amusingly, the guillemet is named after a French printer named Guillaume Le Bé from the 16th century; "Guillemet" is a diminutive of "Guillaume." One can only assume that French people call our quotation marks "Willies," "li'l Bills," or "Mini Williams."
The Obelus, more commonly known as "the division sign" for reasons I can't fathom, comes from an Ancient Greek word for a sharpened stick or other similar pointy object. It shares its roots with the word "obelisk." The obelus was once used to denote sections of writing that were considered incorrect or suspicious; in other words, it would have been perfect for Wikipedia editors. It was first used to mean "division" in 1659 by Swiss mathematician Johann Rahn. While still used frequently in the US and in Britain, it is not commonly used to mean division in most of the rest of the world.
In Spanish, when a sentence ends with a question mark or an exclamation point, it also starts with an inverted one. ¿Porque? Well, I'll tell you porque. In 1754, the Spanish Royal Academy decided that the Spanish language had a dire problem: when you start reading a sentence, you often have no way of telling if it's a question or not until you get to the very end.
Consider the sentence vas a ir a la tienda? (Are you going to go to the store?). Up until you get to the question mark, you are totally in the dark—is it a question, or simply a declarative sentence stating "you are going to go to the store"? In English, we have ways of indicating that a question is coming, so that proper inflection can be used, as well as to help with comprehension. In Spanish, you used to need contextual clues to help you out before the Royal Academy had its way. They also decided that the exclamation point would be lonely, so they advocated for its inverted use as well.
Though the language was slow to adopt this new convention, it is now a fully integrated part of the language. A few interesting usage notes:
– Short, unambiguous questions are often written without the inverted mark—Quien eres?
– In digital communication, the inverted mark is frequently left off (emails, instant messaging, texts).
– Some authors refuse to use inverted marks.
– Writers can get playful with the marks, including starting a sentence with a ¡ and ending it with a ?.
– ¿ can be used in the middle of a sentence if the whole sentence is not a question, but rather the final clause.
– Note that ¿ and ¡ are positioned differently than ? and !; they hang below the line.
File this under "things we use all the time but don't know their name." Ditto marks are those quotation-looking-guys you use to save your tired wrist from a few more seconds of writing, indicating that what's directly above should be repeated. Though one might suspect ("one" being "me" before I researched it) that the word ditto may have been related to the Latin root "di" (meaning "two", as in when you say "ditto" you mean "me too!"), it in fact derives from an early (c. 1620) form of the Italian word for "to say." Originally, it was used to avoid needless repetition when writing a series of dates in the same month.
A "ditto mark" is a type of "iteration mark." Other languages have their own, notably Chinese, Japanese, and Ancient Egyptian. It's tough to fathom why Ancient Egyptian scribes might have needed a way to cut down on chiseling elaborate drawings into rock.
Take a look at the percent sign. Look at each of the three individual marks—a circle, a line, a circle. Remind you of anything? Does it, perhaps, remind you of a certain number, with the digits rearranged and realigned? A very important number? Maybe . . . the number 100?
The % sign, of course, means that the preceding number should be understood as being divided by one hundred—"per cent." The slash mark used to be straight across, with zeroes above and beneath, but it gradually became slanted—leading to what D.E. Smith, in 1925, called the "solidus form" of the percent sign. The solidus, aka slash, virgule, fraction bar, and other names, is this sign: /.
Because there is disagreement about everything, there is disagreement over whether there should be a space between the number and the % sign, over whether it should be per cent or percent, and when you should use the % symbol and when you should instead write out the word.
Once I learned the origins of the terms "upper case" and "lower case," it seemed so obvious. I mused: does everyone know this but me? What else are my friends and family keeping from me? Instead, though, I decided to convince myself that legions of Listversers were in the dark like me, too embarrassed to say anything. Take comfort, fellow readers, for you may remain anonymous in your ignorance.
Now then: in the early days of printing, when each letter was set individually, the letters were kept in cases. The capital letters were kept in—you guessed it—the "upper case," less convenient to the printer because of how relatively few capital letters are used, while the lower case letters were kept in the more accessible—wait for it—"lower case." It's as simple as that, really. This usage of the terms dates back to 1588.
Fun facts about cases:
– The use of two cases in a written language is called "bicameral script." Languages with only one case are called "unicase."
– So what were lower-case letters called before they used cases at all? Well, we have other words to describe them—Upper-case letters are called majuscules (and, of course, capitals), and lower-case letters are called minuscule. Note the spelling difference with the word miniscule.

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If you have an aging loved one — grandparent, parent, aunt, uncle, or family friend – living in a senior nursing community or being cared for at home by a home health organization, the people performing the most menial-sounding jobs may be the most important people in their lives. They are the van driver who takes them for a day out to the mall or to the clinic for dialysis; the laundry worker who picks up their dirty clothes every morning and brings them back clean and carefully hung or folded; the activities director who brings music, art and crafts to engage their minds, bodies and hearts; the housekeeper who cleans the floor no matter what mess s/he encounters. They also are the groundskeeper who mows the lawn and manicures the flower beds; the custodian who hangs a new memento on the wall; the hairdresser who keeps them neatly groomed.
My mother spent the final eight years of her life in a nursing facility. That became her permanent home, and almost everyone treated her as if she owned the place. She knew most of the staff by name and would share with me her interactions with them. It became clear after a few months that she only spoke in detail about the employees that I mentioned in the first paragraph. The nurses and aides, of course, were giving her the physical caring she needed to stay healthy, yet the non-clinical staff were the people she told me about. She knew about their marital status and family life, what they did on their non-working time, and their favorite hobbies. Mom didn't get to know the clinical staff on the same personal level; they had many residents who demanded their expertise, and her interactions with clinical staff were focused on medical needs.
The next time you visit your aging loved one living in a senior community, pay attention to the staff: not only those who are giving the meds or changing bedpans, but also those working behind the scenes to make life more comfortable for the residents.
Alber Enterprise Center has created a new training program for those on the front lines who would like some help understanding the challenges of the elders in their care. The Elder Care Certificate program, designed for anyone who cares for or interacts with older adults, is a wealth of information about issues facing our aging population. This program will transform the way participants work with elders and enhance their status as caring individuals. Participants will gain expertise in dealing with the aging population, will have a better understanding of the challenges seniors face, and will be better equipped with the interpersonal tools to function as contributing members of a caring team. The modules include topics in gerontology, personal effectiveness, communication, problem-solving, and leadership/customer service skills.
The 16-hour pilot program was delivered in 2017, and the 14 participants who were randomly selected to experience the program offered high praise for their experience. One stated, "The thing that touched and inspired us the most is that it changed our attitudes and the way we look at our residents." Another commented: "What is the #1 thing that I will use in the future? Listening: Making each resident or coworker feel that they are very important and have my undivided attention."
To be clear, there are actually two aspects to this program: the full, noncredit Elder Care Certificate program (dates will be announced soon) and the Elder Care Certificate Train-the-Trainer, being offered at various locations in Ohio throughout the year. The Ohio State University has licensed the Elder Care Certificate curriculum, and the train-the-trainer workshop will ensure that the certificate program is delivered to as many workers as possible across the state. (Certain criteria must be met to become a certified trainer.)
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How the Golfball Affects Your Game
How the Golfball Affects Your Game
Written by: Brian Hill
Golfers spend hours getting properly fitted for golf clubs and invest hundreds of dollars for the latest in club technology, but the sometimes overlook the options available in golf balls. Golf ball technology has come a long way from the "featheries" of yesteryear. Those balls were basically leather sacks stuffed with wet goose feathers. When the feathers dried, the ball filled out. Featheries were a vast improvement over the wooden balls preceding them, just as modern balls are a substantial improvement over the first rubber balls called gutties.
Golf balls are manufactured to favor distance or control, although ball manufacturers try to reach a compromise between the two with some models. Distance balls have a lower spin rate, which results in a longer shots. The covering is made of a harder material, such as surlyn, rather than the softer urethane. But the low spin rate and hard feel make these balls more of a challenge to control — around the green, for example. Recreational players with higher handicaps often prefer balls that are designed to travel a longer distance.
Balls made for control have a soft feel when struck. Their increased spin makes the balls more maneuverable around the green and out of tough lies. The dimple pattern on the ball facilitates this control. The dimples reduce the drag on the surface of the ball, causing it to stay in the air longer. If you're an accomplished amateur with a low handicap you'll probably prefer a golf ball that gives you more control.
According to "The Golf Book," the differences between distance balls and control balls are less obvious than 20 years ago. Advances in technology, manufacturing processes and materials have resulted in the compromise ball, allowing longer distance than a control ball but a softer feel than a distance ball. The golfer can get the best of both types of balls.
Core Considerations
Some balls have a core that gets softer toward the center. Soft cores cause greater energy transfer upon impact, resulting in longer distance — and also softer feel. This design helps golfers with lower swing speeds increase their potential distance. Choose a ball that matches your swing speed and strength.
The USGA puts limitations on the size, weight, speed and the potential distance of golf balls. The initial velocity and distance as tested using USGA equipment is limited, and the standards are updated to reflect the currently available equipment. A ball must be no smaller than 1.68 inches, but there is no limitation on how large it can be. It must weigh no more than 1.62 ounces, but it can be lighter.
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Developing new leaders has taken a back seat to other IT issues for too long. Smart CIOs know that having talented leaders at all levels is necessary for an IT organization to be prepared to meet their enterprise's ever-increasing technological and strategic demands. Yet many IT executives simply equate growing leaders with sending them off to a leadership training class or the leadership book listings at Amazon.com. Few companies run leadership programs at all, let alone for IT personnel: According to Meta Group, fewer than 15 percent of world-class Global 2000 firms have formal leadership development programs, and less than 2 percent have organizational development processes for developing the business skills of their technical staffs.
Books and conventional leadership programs aren't sufficient for developing IT leaders, because leading in IT is different from leading a business unit: IT leaders face the dual pressures of understanding—at both a strategic and operational level—the business of the company and the business of IT. IT leaders need to guide and change the business while simultaneously serving it; they must challenge their fellow executives' decisions when there are flawed assumptions about technology and information while they support their needs; and they must build a consensus when decisions need to be made about technology at the enterprise level. And while focused on the business, IT leaders have to be diligent in strengthening their own organization. They must adjust their style to fit their IT organization's abilities and create an attractive environment for talented technologists.
No book or course, no matter how helpful, can prepare an individual for all this. Only a leadership development program that provides the right blend of experiences, mentoring and regular evaluation, as well as training, can enable companies to grow a steady supply of IT leaders. This whiteboard provides CIOs with both an approach and the tools to run such a program.


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You plan to create a field that will store email addresses.
You need to ensure that a user can send an email message by clicking the email address in the new field.
Which type of data should you use for the field?
A. Lookup
B. Two Options
C. Single Line of Text
D. Option Set
Answer: C
The recommend setting to store emails is to use the field type to a value of "Single Line of Text". This is the same field type value that CRM uses by default for all of its Email Address Fields.
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D: An option set is a type of field that can be included in an entity. It defines a set of options. When an option set is displayed in a form it uses a drop-down list control.
You have a Dynamics CRM organization that contains the business units and security roles shown in the following table.
A user named User1 belongs to Businessunit1 and is assigned the Salesperson and the Branch Manager security roles.
User1 is promoted and given a new job. The account of User1 is moved to Busmessunit2.
You need to identify which security roles were assigned to User1 after the user moved to Businessunit2.
What should you identify?
A. Salesperson only
B. Salesperson and Sales Manager
C. none
D. Salesperson and Location Manager
Answer: C
When you move a user between business units it removes all the security roles.
Every time you change business unit in CRM, you have to re-assign the roles to that users.
You have a Dynamics CRM organization.
You enable Manager Hierarchy security.
You have the users shown in the following table.
You need to identify which actions the Vice President can perform.
What should you identify?
A. Read and update the records owned by Sales Manager.
Read and update the records owned by Sales User.
B. Read and update the records owned by Sales Manager.
Read the records owned by Sales User.
C. Read and update the records owned by Sales Manager.
Read the records owned by CEO.
D. Read all of the records in the organization.
Edit the records owned by Sates Manager.
Answer: B
With the Manager hierarchy security model, a manager has access to the records owned by the user or by the team that a user is a member of, and to the records that are directly shared with the user or the team that a user is a member of.
In addition to the Manager hierarchy security model, a manager must have at least the user level Read privilege on an entity, to see the reports' data. For example, if a manager doesn't have the Read access to the Case entity, the manager won't be able to see the cases that their reports have access to.
You receive leads that are generated from your company's website.
Once the leads are in Dynamics CRM, they must be assigned to a specific CRM user based on the city from which the lead came, and then moved to the queue of the user.
You plan to create a workflow to manage the process.
You need to identify which event should be used to trigger the workflow.
A. Record is assigned.
B. Record status changes.
C. Record is created.
D. Record is deleted.
Answer: C
You are modifying a Dynamics CRM form for a custom entity.
You need to identify which parts of the CRM form users can use to modify data.
Which two parts should you identify? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Navigation
B. Footer
C. Header
D. Body
Answer: AD
You have a Dynamics CRM organization.
You have a team named Team1. All of the members of Team1 have identical security roles.
A user named User1 has a personal view to display the records owned by Team1.
You need to ensure that all the members of Team1 can use the view.
What should you do?
A. Instruct User1 to assign the personal view to the owner of Team1.
B. Instruct the owner of Team1 to configure the filter criteria.
C. Instruct User1 to assign the personal view to Team1.
D. Instruct User1 to configure the filter criteria.
Answer: C
Your company uses Dynamics CRM Online.
You have an entity that has the ownership set to User or Team.
You need to add a drop-down list to the entity. The drop-down list will contain six list items, and will trigger a workflow that has a custom activity.
What should you do?
A. Use a real time workflow.
B. Use the trigger option from Microsoft SQL Server.
C. Add an option set field to the entity.
D. Add a lookup field to the entity.
Answer: A
Similar to asynchronous workflows, real-time workflows can be used to model and automate real world business processes. They can optionally require user input, can start automatically based on specified event conditions, or can be started manually by a user. Real-time workflows are for business users, for example business analysts, to implement similar functionality to synchronous plug-ins without requiring .NET Framework programming experience.
You have a Dynamics CRM organization.
You need to ensure that sales users can access the organization by using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Windows Store app.
What should you do?
A. Modify the System Settings for the organization.
B. Assign the Delegate user role to the users.
C. Configure a server profile.
D. Enable the CRM for mobile security privilege for a security role.
Answer: D
Microsoft Dynamics CRM uses a security privilege, CRM for mobile, to provide access to CRM for phones and CRM for tablets.
You need to identify the maximum number of stages that a business process flow can contain.
What should you identify?
Answer: C
Business process flows can have up to 30 stages.
You need to limit a user's ability to edit a specific field in a contact record.
You enable field security on the field properties.
What should you do next?
A. Create an access team template.
B. Enable hierarchical security.
C. Create a new security role.
D. Create a field security profile.
Answer: D
Best practices when you use field security include:
Some data, such as addresses, are actually made up of multiple fields. Therefore, to completely secure data that includes multiple fields, such as addresses, you must secure and configure the appropriate field security profiles on multiple fields for the entity.
You have a business rule that has a scope of AM Forms.
You discover that the business rule does not execute on forms when users access the forms.
You need to ensure that the business rule executes on the forms when accessed by the users.
What should you do?
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B. Change the scope of the business rule from All Forms to Entity.
C. Activate the business rule.
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You have a Dynamics CRM organization.
You need to tell a user which types of out-of-the box charts are available on a personal dashboard in CRM.
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B. Scatter
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You have the business units in a Dynamics CRM organization as shown in the following table.
You create a new security role named New Employee that is being used by all of the business units. Users in the Consumer Salesbusiness unit who are assigned the role report that they fail to update records that they should be able to update.
You plan to update the security role so that the users can update the records.
You need to identify in which business unit you must update the role.
Which business unit should you identify?
A. Sales
B. Root
C. Enterprise Sales
D. Service
E. Consumer Sales
Answer: B
You have a Dynamics CRM development environment and a Dynamics CRM production environment. In both environments, your account is assigned the System Customizer security role.
In the development environment, you create a custom solution that contains all of the project components deployed to the production environment. The custom solution contains an entity.
In the development environment, you open the project solution that you intend to deploy to the production environment.
You see the entity, but not the field.
You need to ensure that you can modify the field in the development environment.
What should you do?
A. Ask the system administrator to assign your user the System Administrator security role, and then modify the system field.
B. In the project solution, add a field to the entity, and then make the modification.
C. In the default solution, make the modification.
D. Use the Add Sub Components action, add the field, and then make the modification.
Answer: B
You have a Dynamics CRM organization.
You set an option that contains the values configured as shown in the following table.
What is the default sort order of the labels?
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True Causes and Natural Remedies
There is perhaps no pain as agonizing as the pain associated with a slowly passing kidney stone. From all who have suffered from this ailment of the uro-genital tract, we have heard that they never want to experience this excruciating pain again. And so we are compelled to highlight the causes and natural cures for both the trauma, as well as the chronic condition from which this imbalance springs.
"Kidney stones develop when microscopic particles form in the collecting system of your urinary tract and then gradually enlarge. When they become large enough to move, kidney stones can cause excruciating pain. Low urinary volume — the result of inadequate fluid intake — high concentrations of calcium, oxalate, phosphate, sodium and uric acid ions, acidic urine and low levels of citrate all favor stone formation. A variety of medical conditions contribute to kidney stones, too, including diabetes, obesity, gout and some intestinal diseases. A family history of kidney stones also increases your risk."(Per Livestrong.com)
Kidney stones are much more common these days for a number of reasons. So much of the modern lifestyle contributes to their formation and so little is done to maintain good kidney health. "Kidney stones, usually comprised of a compound called calcium oxalate, are the result of a build-up of dissolved minerals on the inner lining of the kidneys."[1] Here are some of the causes, which very few in the medical model will tell you.
(1) The proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs has place an inordinate burden on the kidneys. How often have we heard about the antibiotics and other drug medications showing up in the water supply after being urinated out? Such a constant assault on the kidneys greatly affects their proper functioning which can lead to stone formation. As the drug chemicals themselves are not always being filtered out, they can add to the stone formation.
(2) The overuse of calcium supplements has created a predicament whereby proper calcium metabolism has been adversely affected for many. Whenever the body receives too much calcium over too long a period of time, especially in the form of substandard formulations, the individual's biochemistry can be changed in negative ways. The human body is practically knit together with calcium. Since this is the case, when you alter the delicate balance, calcium will lay down in all the wrong places. Kidney stones are a dramatic example of where calcium will accumulate in the kidneys as a protective mechanism.
(3) Dehydration, which can be caused by not drinking enough fluids and by drinking the wrong fluids at the wrong time, is a major contributing co-factor for kidney stone formation. For instance, drinking coffee or other caffeinated beverages in the morning will upset proper hydration, since caffeine is a diuretic. Caffeine is also a powerful chemical which will alter the body chemistry of those who have an inability to properly metabolize it, thereby affecting the kidneys — the main fluid filter of the body.
(4) Foods high in oxalates[2] are a definite culprit in the formation of stones. Therefore, a high dietary intake of oxalate-containing foods, such as spinach, beet greens, Swiss chard, okra, chocolate, rhubarb, blueberries and blackberries, black tea, peanuts and soybeans, wheat bran and wheat germ, almonds, soy milk and soy yoghurt, ought to be avoided when there is a history of kidney stones. It should be noted that raw spinach and beet greens is preferable to cooked greens since the cooking process significantly contributes to oxalate content. The Oxalate Content of Food
"Beer, tea and coffee are beverages that are high in oxalates. Because soy, chocolate and tomatoes are high in oxalates, soy milk, hot chocolate and tomato juice are all high in oxalates, too."(Per Livestrong.com)
Read more at FOODS HIGH IN CALCIUM OXALATE
There are other risk factors which may be present in any given case of frequent kidney stone formation. However, if those co-factors listed above are eliminated, you are putting the odds in your favor never to experience this painful condition. When you do, here are some tips for quickly passing the stone naturally.
Natural Treatments for Kidney Stones
The following recommendations are made with the proviso that you consider any other serious medical conditions which may also be present. These natural remedies have been used quite successfully and are proven safe as long as they are taken correctly and with moderation.
The following measures can be taken when there is acute pain from a slowly passing or stuck kidney stone.
• Drink LOTS of distilled water and eat much less during the traumatic phase of the kidney stone – ASAP
• Squeeze lemons and put it in the distilled water – ASAP
• Need to dissolve the calcium deposits in the kidney area with freshly squeezed carrot + celery juice asap. (Drink lots of fresh orange juice BEFORE breakfast)
• Go to health food store and create kidney stone tea @ http://www.kidneystone911.com/kidney-stone-tea.html
• Moist warm heat on the lower back with hot water bottle unless painful
• Magnesium orotate supplement in moderation
• Drink organic cranberry or pomegranate juice (organic and diluted, not too strong)
• Most stones are calcium deposits therefore vinegar can be taken as follows :
• No coffee or black tea (no caffeinated beverages), No hot chocolate, No tomato juice, No soy drinks
• No supplements of any kind except those that dissolve kidney stones, except magnesium
• No oxalates
Go easy on oxalates. Eating large quantities of fruits and vegetables provides you with lots of vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial nutrients; however, some of these foods also provide oxalates, which you ought to reduce significantly if you have a tendency toward kidney stone formation.
• Use salt sparingly for a few days
Salt. There's also a high correlation between kidney stones and salt intake. Limit your sodium consumption to no more than two grams per day.
Teas which are diuretics and/or dissolve stones
Diuretic Tea for Dissolving Kidney Stones:
"Dandelion and corn silk are two choices of diuretic that are effective. Diuretic tea is another natural remedy for kidney stones. Made from dandelion, corn silk, fennel seed, nettle leaf and oat straw, diuretic tea is very simple to prepare. Pour one quart of boiling water on ½ teaspoon of all the remaining herbs. Cover with a lid and set it aside for 20 minutes. Filter and then drink a cup of this tea in the morning and evening."
(Per http://www.alternativehealth.co.nz/kidney/dissolvestones.htm)
Goldenrod tea (Wild Herb to Cure Kidney Stone)
The North Americans found a wild herb called goldenrod, which is also found to be very effective. If you are allergic to goldenrod tinctures, don't try the following recipe.
"Take a quarter cup of gravel root, marshmallow root, hydrangea root, ginger capsules and 250mg of vitamin B6 and uva ursi capsules. Soak all these ingredients in small non-metallic cups with non-metallic lids individually filled with fresh tap water. Then boil the herbs and simmer for 20 minutes. Drink a quarter cup, when it cools down and freeze the rest. Buy fresh parsley that is not sprayed. Boil four bunches in one quart of water for three to five minutes. Strain the portion and drink it once it cools down. Freeze the rest. Make a mixture of both the frozen contents daily and add 20 drops of goldenrod tincture and one tablespoon of glycerin. Take a big mug full daily. Drink it in small quantities and if you are allergic, start with half the dose." (Per http://www.thelifetree.com/kidneycleanse.htm)
Kidney Cleanse Programs
Regular or seasonal cleansing of the kidneys is the single best way to avoid the painful stones. We have used both of the following programs with excellent results.
Dr. Hulda Clark's Kidney Cleanse
Dr. Richard Clark's Kidney Cleanse
In closing:
Perhaps the best preventive measure for kidney stones is to do the following every day.
=> Very first thing in the morning after cleaning the mouth, one should drink a large glass of warm, distilled water.
This is the single best way of flushing out the kidneys. This practice should always be done before eating.
3 Morning Essentials — EVERYDAY!
May you enjoy great health,
The Health Coach
[1] "What Are Kidney Stones? What Causes Kidney Stones?" – www.medicalnewstoday.com (Article Date: 17 Jun 2009)
[2] "Oxalates are salts formed when oxalic acid combines with potassium, sodium or calcium. While the first two are innocuous, calcium oxalate is implicated in the formation of kidney stones. Some kidney stone sufferers benefit from a diet reduced in oxalate." (Per "What Fruits & Vegetables Contain Oxalate?" @ www.ehow.com)
[3] Cooking greens like spinach, Swiss chard or beet greens increases the conversion of oxalic acid to oxalate salt. Therefore, raw spinach is much better than cooked spinach for anyone with a history of kidney stones. For those who like cooked spinach, it's recommended to lightly steam it or very gently sauté it.
Addendum: Photos of Kidney Stones
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Alex Minsky is a 24-year-old U.S. Marine whose right leg was amputated by a roadside bomb in 2009 while he was serving in Afghanistan. Minsky spent 47 days in a coma and suffered traumatic brain injuries and severe burns to his body from the explosion.
"I was down," the Calif.-based Minsky told ABC News. "I was numb and I was running away from everything…especially myself, my own head."
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Scott Horton / The Future of Freedom – 2015-09-18 00:57:22
US Government to Blame for Somalia's Misery
Scott Horton / The Future of Freedom
(September 1, 2013) — At the beginning of May the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), a US- and UK-government-financed organization that monitors various food crises around the world, released a new report detailing the horrific consequences of the Somali famine of 2011.
According to FEWS NET, "An estimated 4.6 percent of the total population and 10 percent of children under 5 died in Southern and Central Somalia [between October 2010 and April 2012.]"
It is now estimated that more than a quarter of a million people died, more than half of them — at least 125,000 — children. This is more than twice the number the British government had previously concluded.
Even in the midst of the global economic crisis, there is enough wealth in the world that it is an outrage so many should die of such extreme poverty and deprivation. But what is absolutely unforgivable is the role played by the US government in making a horrible drought into a humanitarian catastrophe in what has to be the worst case of the strong picking on the weak since — well, probably the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
If one were to bring up US intervention in Somalia to most Americans, they would probably think only of George H.W. Bush's "Operation Restore Hope" food-aid mission in 1992, which turned into the infamous "Black Hawk Down" warlord-hunting debacle under Bill Clinton in 1993. The US government thankfully stayed out of the Somali civil war in the years that followed.
By the turn of the century Somalia was more free and prosperous than it had ever been. It was not that Austrian-American anarcho-capitalism had taken hold in the minds of Somali economists and policymakers, but simply that their various post-communist warlords had finally worn themselves out after years of fighting, and had left the place as a stateless, if not completely ungoverned, society. There were still highwaymen and gangsters here and there, but none had the ability to do any large-scale damage.
Somalia Was Never Paradise
According to a 2003 article by Michael van Notten in Liberty magazine and a 2007 paper by Peter T. Leeson of George Mason University in the Journal of Comparative Economics, anarchy was working out.
Old Somali tribal customs for dealing with disputes came back into effect, violence waned, trade in the markets and at the ports was soaring, technology was advancing, and health and wealth were growing. By virtually every measure, the Somali standard of living was rising.
Somalia was never a paradise — though some progressives enjoy pretending that libertarians think it was. But by any measure the short era of statelessness was preferable to the preceding eras of communism and civil war, and was certainly better than what was in store for Somalis when the Yankees returned.
American Interventions
In the summer of 2000 the US government and its allies attempted to create a Transitional National Government (TNG), later called the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), to rule, though it had very little real power.
Then in 2001 came the September 11 attacks, and the US government decided to take full advantage of the crisis to extend its military hegemony across the planet.
As General Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, explained in 2007 at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his staff had drawn up a hit list of countries ripe for "regime change" shortly after the 9/11 attacks. At the top of the list were Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran — none of which had any involvement whatsoever in the attacks or any real ties to those who did.
The fact that Somalia, strategically located on the Horn of Africa, was included on this list seemed to emphasize that the policy was about expanding the American empire's power and influence rather than protecting America from foreign attack.
Luckily for the Pentagon and CIA, it was not very difficult to find cutthroat warlords willing to accept their cash to carry out targeted assassinations and kidnappings against those they accused of being Islamists — or anyone else they felt like targeting.
What happened next is almost a perfect microcosm of the whole terror war. It is as tragic as it was predictable.
The more the CIA supported the warlords — including the son of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, villain of Bill Clinton's Somalia misadventure — the worse they abused people. More abuse spurred more local resistance to the warlords and then more support from the Americans to counter it.
The cycle of violence continued until the Somali public was finally motivated to support the rise of a new government, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), to protect them in 2005. The combined forces of the 13 groups in the Courts Union drove the warlords and the Transitional Federal Government out of the country and established themselves in power in the capital by the summer of 2006.
The ICU then declared the reign of Islamic law. That, of course, was none of America's business, and even if it had been, the Somali regime lacked the power to create an authoritarian religious state like, say, US ally Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore, the ICU was led mostly by truly grassroots imams, uncles, and elders — the last men standing after decades of communism and war — rather than strongmen who had simply seized power.
There had been no power to seize. And Somalia's traditional Muslim beliefs were much more laid-back and tolerant than those in Arabia. While they did close a couple of local movie theaters and other minor things that grabbed headlines in the West, the Courts Union had no ability or desire to turn Somalia into totalitarian Afghanistan under the Taliban, or to pick a fight with the United States.
But they had defied the empire and won, for the moment. Then Uncle Sam got mean. In late December 2006, US satellite state Ethiopia, its dictator's arm twisted by the US government, invaded Somalia, with CIA and special-operations officers leading the attack. The Islamic Courts Union was quickly smashed and driven from power.
The Bush regime hardly bothered with an excuse for the war, telling the Washington Post that this invasion by proxy was justified by the supposed presence of just three "suspects" "wanted for questioning" by the FBI in connection with the 1998 al-Qaeda attacks on the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.
The army of the Christian Ethiopians, historic rivals of the Somalis, took the opportunity to ravage the helpless country for two years. They were accused of numerous war crimes against civilians, including rape and mass murder on a grand scale, and the "renditioning" of approximately 85 Somalis and others to Ethiopia to be tortured.
At least one American citizen, Amir Mohamed Meshal, caught at the Kenyan border, was presumed guilty of terrorism, threatened with torture and death, and denied all access to the American consulate or other legal representation while he was repeatedly interrogated by the FBI and CIA.
In 2008, with the help of what had been the youngest and least influential group in the ICU, al-Shabaab ("the youth"), the people of Somalia finally drove the Ethiopians out of the country after two years of fighting. At that point it appeared the Bush administration had simply run out of time, and so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a deal with the old men of the ICU.
The US government would let them take power in Mogadishu if they would accept the form of the Transitional Federal Government the Bush administration had created. That way the Republicans could at least save a little bit of face in their failure.
The former ICU leaders took the deal. They were immediately denounced as traitors and American lackeys by the armed young men who had won the war. Al-Shabaab vowed to fight on. It was only then — years after the whole mess began — that it declared loyalty to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. It started acting like al-Qaeda too, implementing Arabian-style laws and punishments in the areas they dominated, such as cutting off the hands of those accused of stealing.
The story has been covered by few in the West. The best work has been done by intrepid investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill in his book Dirty Wars, which reveals that the US government meant to keep Sheik Sharif, the former head of the ICU, all along. The whole war was launched because it was "preferable" that Sharif be "weakened," but ultimately "co-opted." He ended up staying in power until 2012.
Nation-building: Obama Edition
Benefiting greatly from the fact that hardly anyone in the United States knows the first thing about the crisis and that even fewer care, Obama's junta remains on the same Bush/Cheney course of stumbling blindly in vain for a policy on Somalia that will solve the problems created by their last great idea, or that will even make sense at all.
After the Ethiopians withdrew, they sent in the armies of Uganda and Burundi under the auspices of the African Union to hunt down and destroy al-Shabaab. Then came the Kenyans, who apparently panicked after luxury resorts near their border had come under attack.
In 2011, the Ethiopians reinvaded. Kenyan forces took the port city of Kismayo from al-Shabaab in 2012 and loudly declared victory when the rebels melted away. But the stubborn insurgency continues the fight.
The Americans, for their part, continue to back the invading forces, as well as what passes for the "government" in Mogadishu, with hundreds of tons of weapons and tens of millions of dollars.
The CIA and military have also remained directly involved, partly by advising the politicians, police, and military in the capital, but also by firing deadly cruise missiles from submarines at thatched huts full of women and children, by mounting helicopter attacks, by launching repeated drone strikes from a little formerly French-conquered airstrip of a country called Djibouti, and by overseeing at least two different torture dungeons; one found by Scahill and his photojournalist partner Rick Rowley, and the other by the Daily Beast's Eli Lake (whose reporting in this instance seems credible).
Though the May FEWS NET study focuses on 2011, the drought and starvation started really kicking in back in 2009 and 2010, as Human Rights Watch activist and Africa expert Leslie Lefkow explained on my radio show at the time. But the bad weather couldn't have picked a worse war to intervene in. The drought hit the whole Horn of Africa, but the Somalis took it the hardest.
All the chaos, fighting, and killing over the past three to four years had made it much more difficult for farmers to save their crops, and then the few who could had much more difficulty getting the food to market, where no one had any money anyway. The economy was ruined. Millions were living in makeshift refugee camps up and down the roadways.
Finally the rains did come back and the famine was broken, but at unimaginable cost to the people of that tragic land. And the war continues.
This article was originally published in the September 2013 edition of Future of Freedom.
Scott Horton is host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 in Riverside, and the Scott Horton Show on No Agenda Radio. In 2007 Horton won the Austin Chronicle's "Best of Austin" award "Best Iraq War Insight and Play by Play" for Antiwar Radio. Scott's articles have appeared at Antiwar.com, LewRockwell.com, the History News Network, The Future of Freedom and the Christian Science Monitor. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna.
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Updated February 5, 2022 at 7:22 PM ET
Three people are dead, including the suspect, and one person is in critical condition after a shooting at an apartment complex north of Milwaukee.
Police said they believe the shooting, which took place on Saturday at Park Plaza Apartments in the village of Brown Deer, started as a domestic dispute.
Police Chief Peter Nimmer said that the 26-year-old suspect was taken into custody and transferred to a nearby hospital, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"We believe the suspect shot himself," Nimmer said at a press conference.
The other two people killed were a 31-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, authorities said. Another man, 36, was shot in the leg but is expected to recover. A child at the scene was not harmed. Autopsies are scheduled for Monday.
Nimmer said he did not know the relationships of all involved, but that at least two people knew each other.
Officers responded to a call shortly after 10 a.m. local time for shots fired, said Nimmer. When they arrived, the shooter fired on the officers from the second floor. One of the squad cars was hit, but no officers were injured and no officers returned fire.
Police believe that the shooting took place inside an apartment as well as in the parking lot.
"There's no reason to believe that there's any danger to the community at this time," Nimmer said.
This is a developing story. Some facts reported by the media may later turn out to be wrong. We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities, credible news outlets and reporters who are at the scene, and we will update as the situation develops.
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Property and Plunder: A Guest Post from Frederic Bastiat
Property and Plunder
Frederic Bastiat (from pp. 6-7 of the FEE edition of The Law):
"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
"But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.
"Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain—and since labor is pain in itself—it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.
"When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
"But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.
"This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds."


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Rafael Nadal is 27. And after he missed last year's U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open with a knee injury, you hope his worst ailments are over. With his four-set U.S. Open victory over Novak Djokovic on Monday night, Nadal now has 13 Grand Slam championships — one behind Pete Sampras, and just four behind the all-time leader, Roger Federer.
Federer, 32, might be done; his loss to Tommy Robredo in the fourth round of this year's U.S. Open certainly inspires little confidence. Nadal is pretty much unbeatable on clay. So you can probably count on a couple of more French Opens, at least, for Nadal.
And, oh yeah, Nadal hasn't lost on hard courts yet this year. Unless Federer keeps winning Slams, Nadal is a good bet to catch him.
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Nadal's 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win against Djokovic in this year's U.S. Open final should go down as one of his sweetest. "He's a mental genius," said Wojtek Fibak, one of Djokovic's exasperated coaches, after the match. In the third set, Nadal and Djokovic were tied at 4-4, each having won a set. Nadal was serving, and fell behind 0-40. On one point, Nadal tripped over himself on the baseline, while chasing down a very hittable Djokovic shot. On the next point, Nadal's feet got tripped up again, after Djokovic hit a beauty that fell right at the baseline.
Djokovic had finally stopped Nadal from chasing down everything. He was about to break Nadal, and serve for the set. "I was the one who was, you know, dictating the play," Djokovic said afterward.
But Nadal fought back — thus, the mental genius — and even recorded his first, and only, ace of the match at 30-40. He held, and Djokovic never recovered: his unforced errors pockmarked the fourth set (Djokovic finished with 53 unforced errors, Nadal with 20).
In their 37 matches — Nadal leads the head-to-head series 22-15 — Nadal and Djokovic have played a few classics. They went the distance at Roland Garros this summer, at the French Open, in the semis — Nadal won a fifth-set tiebreaker. On the CBS broadcast, analyst Mary Carillo said it was the best match she'd ever seen on clay. And tennis fans won't soon forget their five-set duel down under, at the 2012 Australian Open, which lasted five hours and 53 minutes. Djokovic won that one.
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So is 17. It's right there. Nadal, the guy who first won the French Open at 19, who people figured would be a clay-court specialist, may yet be the best of all time.


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President Biden just signed a national security directive aimed at boosting defenses against ransomware attacks and the hacking of critical infrastructure like energy, food, water and power systems.
The directive sets performance standards for technology and systems used by private companies in those sectors — though it can't force those companies to comply.
The memorandum follows a series of high-profile attacks on a major pipeline and the country's biggest meat supplier (those have been linked to groups operating in Russia, and Biden says he raised the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they met last month).
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters that the new standards will be voluntary.
For reference, almost 90% of the country's critical infrastructure is owned and run by the private sector, and the government has limited authority over their cybersecurity requirements.
But the official says the Biden administration may pursue legislative options, with help from Congress, to require the kind of technological improvements that would defend against such cyberattacks.
"Short of legislation, there isn't a comprehensive way to require deployment of security technologies and practices that address the threat environment that we face," they added.
For now: The government may draw up the standards, but it's up to private companies to decide whether to follow them.
This story originally appeared on the Morning Edition live blog.
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