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MS-PREP August 2010 Capstone Presentations
August 23, 2010
August 11, 2010 marked the culmination of intensive research and planning for two candidates for Master's degrees in the Pain Research, Education and Policy Program at the Tufts University School of Medicine with the presentation of their capstone projects.
Margaretta Elizabeth (Beth) Sangree, a student in the joint program with the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA), presented her capstone project entitled
"Measures of the Patient-Provider Relationship in Acupuncture Treatments". Beth highlighted several studies that support the importance of relationship-centered care in effective pain treatment. Future directions will include quanitfiable, replicable, randominzed control studies to continue to document the effect of patient-provider relationship on treatment effectiveness.
Sherry Brink, RN, BSN, presented her capstone project on "Post-Op Pain Management in the Pediatric Patient" with emphasis on bringing best practices of post-op pain managment to underserved, international patient populations. Sherry recounted her experience bringing comprehensive pain management methods to a small rural hospital in the Andes mountains of Peru and her development and integration of a bilingual nursing education module on pain management currently being used by the staff in Peru. Sherry hopes to use her MS-PREP degree to further her international medical mission work by continuing to educate nurses worldwide in effective, compassionate pain management methods.
Congratulations to these two exceptional MS-PREP degree candidates!
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When you are shopping for sapphire jewelry, the most important value factor to consider is the quality of the sapphire. The more vivid and bright the hue, the more valuable the sapphire. Cut and clarity also matter and the larger the carat weight, the more the sapphire will cost per carat. Because all Gemvara jewelry is made to order, we can hand-select fine-quality sapphire to perfectly suit your design.
What is the meaning of sapphire in the language of gems? Sapphire is the gem of truth and the soul. In ancient times, a gift of a sapphire was a pledge of trust and loyalty. This tradition makes sapphire engagement rings a perfect symbol of the promise to marry. Kate Middleton's sapphire engagement ring is the latest in a long tradition of royal sapphire engagement rings. Sapphire is the September birthstone, the 5th and 45th anniversary gem, and the zodiac gem for Virgo. In addition to blue sapphire jewelry, today pink sapphire jewelry, yellow sapphire jewelry and white sapphire jewelry are also popular and more affordable than blue sapphire. Sapphire other than blue is known as "fancy sapphire."
Sapphire with fine color is so desirable that producers take an extra step after mining and before cutting to make sure that a sapphire has the best hue possible. Before their final polish, most sapphires are heated to almost 2,000 degrees in order to improve the color and clarity. Heat enhancement is stable, does not require special care, and does not reduce the stone's value. Sapphire jewelry is most often crafted in white or yellow gold or platinum but silver is also an option if budget is a concern. Because the color of your sapphire jewelry will catch the eye, you will want to match the color of sapphire earrings or a sapphire necklace closely to the color of a sapphire ring. Sapphire is a very durable gem that wears well over generations. Clean sapphire jewelry with mild dish soap: use a soft brush behind the stone where dust can collect. Gemvara's fine quality sapphire jewelry is designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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Sorry Human Beings, but it looks like "Community" won't be returning a soon as you hoped.
A source confirmed to E! that NBC will not be premiering the new seasons of "Community" and "Whitney" on Friday, Oct. 19, like originally planned. But before you start sharpening your pitchforks and Mapquesting NBC's headquarters, this delay is actually a good thing.
The insider tells us that the reason the network has pushed back the premiere date for two of its comedies is to give them proper marketing support. And if anybody needs some kind of push in an effort to get more viewers, it's "Community."
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Fox picked up two freshmen series today
"Given the success we've had for the past four weeks--including winning the first week of the season in adults 18-49, we've decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are scheduled Monday through Wednesday and have therefore decided to hold 'Community' and 'Whitney' from their previously announced premieres of Oct. 19," NBC says in a statement. "Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week. Plus, we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule changes on those nights. When we have a better idea of viewing patterns in the next few weeks, we will announce new season premieres of 'Whitney' and 'Community.'"
For now, NBC will air "Grimm" repeats on Friday nights at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
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The Interview
Erina shows up at Pizza Palace for her interview with the store manager. (Scenes 3 | Part 5 of 7)
Erina: Hello, is Mike here?
Todd: Oh you know, I'm sorry, he's out. He's doing a delivery. Can I help you?
Erina: I actually came here for the job application. I was going to talk to him about the job
Todd: Oh right, right. Are you Erina?
Erina: Yes, I am.
Todd: Okay, yeah, Mike told me all about you. Actually we are hiring, so, but he said that you're not Canadian, right?
Erina: Yeah, I'm actually an exchange from Japan.
Todd: Okay, so, with your visa, do you have a work-agreement? Can you work on your student visa?
Erina: Yes I can.
Todd: Okay. Well, let me tell you about the job. Basically we need somebody to work about 10 hours a week. We have two jobs available. One is to make pizzas, and another job is to make deliveries.
Erina: Okay.
Mari Goes to Australia
Part 1: First Meeting
Part 2: Drop Classes
Part 3: The Invite
Part 4: The Job Offer
Part 5: The Interview
Part 6: Work Rules
Part 7: The Mistake
Todd: Would you be comfortable driving around Vancouver?
Erina: Yeah, I would actually love to, because I would... I have to... learn about the roads, but I'm really interested in driving.
Todd: Well, since you're new to Vancouver maybe we should start you out just making pizzas at first?
Erina: Yeah.
Todd: Do you have any cooking experience?
Erina: Yes, I love cooking.
Todd: Okay.
Erina: Yup/Yeah.
Todd: Well it's pretty basic what you have to do. You just make the pizzas, everyday. You work in a team, there's usually 4 people, and we'll start you out basics, with the basics first. Just putting on the toppings, and putting the pizza in the oven.
Erina: Oh that sounds pretty easy. I can do that.
Todd: Okay, well, tell me about your schedule. What days can you work?
Erina: I can work on Tuesday and Thursday, and the weekends.
Todd: Okay, how many hours would you like to work every week?
Erina: I can work 5 hours, 6 hours a day.
Todd: Okay, we need a little more than that.
Erina: A little more?
Todd: Yeah, could you work maybe 10 hours a week, would that okay?
Erina: Sure.
Todd: Basically what we would do is, need you on the weekends, maybe 8 hours?
Erina: Okay.
Todd: 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday.
Erina: Okay.
Todd: And then maybe 2 hours one night during the week.
Erina: Okay, I can arrange my schedule.
Todd: Okay. What I need you to do is, come back in and bring in all your documents
Erina: Okay.
Todd: Your passport and things like that. And, we'll have one more interview with the other manager, and if it works out, we can get you started.
Erina: Oh, thank you. So I'll bring all the documents for you the next time we (bring)... the next time I come in.
Todd: Okay, well great. Thanks a lot for coming in Erina.
Erina: Oh, thank you so much.
he's out
Mike is not here. He's out.
When someone is out, that means they are not there but that they should be back soon. However, it also usually means it is unsure when the person will be back. Here are a few other examples:
- Mike is out now. Can I take a message?
- I will be out all afternoon. Tell me if I get any messages.
work agreement
Do you have a work-agreement?
Here, a work-agreement is just an agreement between two countries to let their citizens work in each other countries.
For example, Australia and Japan have a work-agreement where their young people can work in each other's countries for one year.
start you out
We should start you out making pizzas.
If you start someone out doing something, that means you will teach them how to do something. If you start out making pizzas, then you begin making pizzas before learning something else. Notice the following:
- I will start you out with and easy task before giving you another.
- New learners of anything start out making mistakes before learning from them.
arrange my schedule
I can arrange my schedule
When you arrange a schedule, then you change the times of appointments or make new ones.
If someone is going to arrange their schedule, then they are likely changing the time of something already planned to accommodate something else. Here are a few examples:
- I am busy this week, but let me arrange my schedule so I can see you.
- She said she can't arrange her schedule for us.
work out
If it works out, we can get you started.
When something works out, that means it happens without problems or inconvenience and will continue to happen for sometime.
When people talk about something working out, they often are talking about some relationship between more than one person. Notice the following:
- I hope this job works out. I don't want to look for a new one.
- The house I wanted to get didn't work out. I will have to look for a new one.
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The throttle slide limits the flow of air to the engine. Its degree of opening is determined by turning the throttle grip. The further it is opened the more air can flow in. Some throttle slides have air pockets on the top side and cut sections (so-called 'cutaways') on the underside. These add additional air to the petrol mix and make it leaner as a result. The slides with the flat underside do not add any additional air and are therefore ideal for compensating a leaner middle range. To be able to comply with the required emissions values for the new PX, the SI carburettors that are currently available are fitted with a throttle slide with 2 additional air pockets. This attenuates the mix such that partial load pinking and piston jams can occur on tuned engines. The solution to this problem is to replace the throttle slide that is fitted with a thicker throttle valve without any air pockets (e.g. throttle slide SIP 4.0, part no 84920400). As of now, the SIP throttle slides are also available in the versions 4.1 (opening 50% of original size, slightlly richer in medium/low range) and 4.2 (no opening, richer in medium/low range).
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Conclusion: Throttle valves are often overlooked during carburettor tuning and are the icing on the cake in SI tuning.
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Brunswick grads told to travel, give back
As the commencement speaker at Brunswick School's graduation ceremony Wednesday told students to take chances and use time to travel abroad, it was definitely a case of practicing what you preach.
Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, worked in France, backpacked around Africa and Asia, lived on four continents, traveled to more than 150 countries and visited all 50 states.
Though his experiences weren't all positive and included malaria, mobs and a plane crash, Kristof still encouraged students to venture into the world.
"When you're over your head, it can be incredibly powerful," Kristof said.
The Harvard graduate said people think they have to go to school, work and then give back later in life. He said they can start helping others much earlier.
"When one does that, one begins to appreciate one's self," he said.
Kristoff told the students to remember their good fortune and what an incredible school they attend. He relayed stories of less fortunate people, who overcame their odds and then gave back to their communities.
"I hope you will always remember to give back," he said. "The fact that we're all here in this room today means we won the lottery of life," Kristof said.
Headmaster Thomas Philip told students about the importance of courage, honor and truth, three traits mentioned in the school song, "Men of Brunswick."
Throughout their lives, Philip said they will come across people who are untrue. He said they'll have to make a lot of choices in their life.
"The really important choices are not so much what you do, but how you act," he said.
Valedictorian Paul Dornier was introduced as having a 99.9 average, as well as being a varsity athlete. He received the Kulukundis Cup, for the senior with the highest academic standing. Dornier will attend Princeton.
Dornier thanked his teachers and coaches for inspiring him and thanked his friends for telling him that only nerds do homework on Saturdays and that he's "not special" because there's two of him.
Dornier gave thanks to his two younger brothers, including his twin, saying that he is slightly older.
Alexander Coopersmith, the Ivy Speaker and recipient of the Thomas A. Altman Prize for the senior who maintained positive personal relationships in the school, said he's been "a lifer" at Brunswick, having spent 14 years there. He recalled some of his thoughts as a child.
"What did I do to receive this cruel and unusual punishment -- a school without girls?" Coopersmith asked, to a round of laughter.
Coopersmith talked about being a "Brunswick Boy," teachers who made students think it was a privilege to erase the blackboard and wearing Merrell shoes.
In middle school, he said students ditched their Merrells, voices started to change and they wondered where the girls were.
In high school, the presence of girls didn't improve their hygiene, but brought about awkward eye contact and half hellos in the hallway, he said.
The graduate said he learned a lot at the school, including that teachers who wrote him up for not shaving, genuinely do care.
"I learned it is a life sentence, with no possibility of parole," Coopersmith said.
"My classmates and I will always be Brunswick men."
Several awards were given out at the ceremony, including the Headmaster's Trophy to Matthew Podlesak, which goes to the senior who, because of his dependability, integrity and character, has made an outstanding contribution to his class and Brunswick School.
Travis Buck received the Community Service Award; John Davis received the BPA Prize; Samuel Fraser received the Jenkins Athletic Award; and Thomas Rosenkranz received the Robert Cosby Award.
While the majority of students were from Greenwich, there were some from Stamford, New Canaan, Norwalk and Darien.
There will be five graduates each attending Dartmouth, Georgetown and Harvard. Four will attend Boston College and three will attend Yale.
After the ceremony, the students filed out of the auditorium to the sound of bagpipes and congregated on the front lawn.
They chatted with each other, greeted their parents and some lit up cigars.
"It's a great thing, being done with the whole experience," Parker Odrich said. "I'm really going to miss Brunswick. It's like a family."
Odrich, who's been there for eight years, said it's been a great run and he couldn't be more grateful.
He will be attending Stanford University in the fall.
"So happy I'm free," said Ian Ronda, who will attend Boston University.
"But it's kind of sad. I've been here since the fifth grade. It's a great school, I'll miss it," he said.


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Air conditioner maintenance big this time of year
Professionals say problems could lead to higher energy bills
With 90 degree temperatures in the forecast this week - heating and cooling professionals say this is one of their busiest times of the year.
Tim Paetz with Bud Anderson Heating and Cooling says when temperatures start to go up, AC problems increase too.
"The temperature goes up, the phone calls go up. People get a little aggravated," Paetz said.
Here are some of the biggest problems Paetz says he sees just before hot summer months:
- Low Freon, which is what cools your air conditioner. If your Freon levels are low, you could have a leak.
- Rusted outer coils
- Clanking or groaning sounds when the fan turns on
- Wire or connection problems
Changing your air filter might fix any air conditioner problems too, especially if you have pets. The extra dander in the air can clog those filters faster.
Paetz also says leaving these problems unchecked can lead to higher energy bills or an AC breakdown altogether.
"When you keep everything cleaned and properly maintained, everything works with less stress and you save money," Paetz said.


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As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations, we've been giving away a selection of fantastic prizes every Monday before Christmas. As it's now the 23rd, we've reached our final set of giveaways, so good luck to all those who entered. Our final set of giveaways has been our biggest yet, so take a deep breathe and read on to find out if you are one of our lucky winners. Good luck!
Although the end of the year will bring an end to our 10th anniversary celebrations, if you want to find out more about how we celebrated and the prizes and gifts we gave away, please CLICK HERE.


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Cancun and the Riviera Maya in the fall
Cancun and the Riviera Maya account for the lion's share of U.S. tourism to Mexico, and most of those travelers set their compasses south in winter, beginning around the Christmas holidays. Most northerners don't think of the Caribbean coast as a fall destination, but that's when some of the region's best events — aimed primarily at locals, since that's who is around — take place.
This is also the time of year when prices are lowest – right up until the week before Christmas, when they soar to the highest levels of the year. Yes, it's humid early in the season, but November is comfortable and December weather often approaches perfection. If you haven't considered the Mexican Caribbean for a fall vacation before, here are some reasons to try it this year.
Day of the Dead
Roughly analogous to, yet profoundly different from, our Halloween, the annual Day of the Dead celebration (Nov. 1-2) produces some of Mexico's most joyous pageantry, and the Caribbean coast is no exception — the Maya version here is called Hanal Pixán. The Xcaret theme park extends the celebration to five days with its annual Festival of Life and Death Traditions, Oct. 30-Nov. 3. program. Music, dance, visual arts and a patchwork of traditions from cuisine to spiritual rituals to altars and offerings combine to provide the pageantry, and visitors can participate in children's activities and cemetery tours. The central theme for this year's Day of the Dead festival is Ix'tabay, a beautiful woman of Maya myth who appears to men and takes them with her as she walks through the night.
Playa del Carmen's Yaxche restaurant hosts a reservations-only fiesta with traditional Maya food on Nov. 2, attended by a local shaman and a dance troupe that performs a farewell to departed souls. Playa del Carmen hosts a parade down Fifth Avenue, with some altar displays and decorations on the pretty little side street called Calle Corazon. Alltournative, the local ecotourism company, offers a tour to the Tres Reyes Maya community for Day of the Dead observations, including a traditional meal and a ceremony led by a community shaman.
Food, glorious food
With its famous whale sharks departed for the season, Isla Holbox's tourism slows to a trickle. But visitors savvy enough to visit this fall will reap the benefits when the tiny island shows off a culinary might wholly out of proportion to its size during the Second Annual Holbox Gastronomic Festival, Oct. 16-20. A pantheon of visiting chefs and local restaurants (CasaSandra, Paraiso, El Chapulin, Mandarina ...) will showcase Caribbean flavors, fresh seafood and international dishes prepared in unique island style. In honor of the occasion, the carless town's famous golf carts will stage a parade through the sandy streets.
Playa del Carmen started its annual Taste of Playa food festival five years ago to honor the creativity and diverse cultural influences of the Riviera Maya's cadre of chefs. This year's event, Nov. 24 in the Parque Fundadores, will have more than 30 participating restaurants, from traditional and contemporary Mexican to European meats and cheeses, French pastry, Mexican-Asian fusion, Cuban seafood, Thai, vegetarian, sushi and an array of cocktails and tequila.
Cancun's Underwater Museum
Cancun's Underwater Museum (Spanish acronym MUSA), which sank its first set of sculptures to the bottom of a national marine park in the waters between Cancun and Isla Mujeres in 2010, has installed 11 new sculptures, designed to be altered by the fish, coral and other marine life that colonize them. Even bigger news is the opening of a visitor center in the Kukulcan Plaza luxury shopping center. Featuring 26 replicas of the most popular submerged sculptures, it also offers exhibits showing sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor's process, step-by-step, for creating internationally recognized art installations that become part of the marine environment. Another center, which will emphasize the Underwater Museum's role in marine conservation, is planned for Isla Mujeres.
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We got culture
Cozumel's Fall Cultural Week, Oct. 19-27, takes place at venues all over the island. Culture meets ecology through various events such as a Mother Earth ceremony, a water drum/fire-dancing performance, an organic market, a puppet theater, films and videos, an organic agriculture conference, contemporary dance and ballet, an organic gardening workshop and concerts.
The Riviera Maya Jazz Festival, Nov. 28-30 at the Mamitas Beach club (end of Av. 28 Norte), is ranked as one of the world's top 10 jazz festivals. Among the jazz legends and Grammy winners who have appeared in its 11 years are George Duke, Four Play, Sergio Mendes and Herbie Hancock. This year's festival will bring Grammy-winning guitarist Frank Gambale, pianist/composer Jim Beard and ground-breakers Earth, Wind & Fire to the Mamitas Beach club.


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i need some advice!
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Fans → New Here
i need some advice!
Such as?
Lol yea we need a bit more information first lol.
yes what advise doyou want?
eat healthy
Work out
and sleep at least 7-8 hours a night.
Read a good book every once in a while.
7-8 hours, Maltese??? Don't you mean 15-20????
Welcome, Cloud Fett!
Hehehe, yeah one must sleep at least 12hrs a day
Another one is: eat your vegetables and be good to your mother
And may the Force be with you...
7-8 hours, Maltese??? Don't you mean 15-20????
Welcome, Cloud Fett!
Couldn't agree with ya more RC...15-20 is a better time frame....lol
Soooooo, Cloud Fett, how have things been "floatin" for ya? Advice as in...what...
my only advice at the moment, "think staight, keep your head out of the clouds" lol
Welcome to the boards! Hope you like it here.
Always wash your hands when you use the toilet.
Bobby pins and electric sockets do NOT mix.
Always check the expiration date on food.
Make sure your room is brightly lit before attempting to walk across it.
If it smells bad, chances are it is.
and the most important peice of Advice:
Always look behind you before walking forward.
Umm, I could give you plenty of advice. But chances are you wouldn't find any of it useful....Either that or it's stuff you already know.
(i.e. things I have done)
Don't hit your finger with a hammer
Don't close a pocket knife on your fingers
Don't fall 15 feet out of a tree and land on one leg.. (uuh, yeah, ouch)
DO NOT ARC weld without a mask (or allow your friends to do so with you near)
NEVER throw spray paint cans into a fire
It's a bad idea to walk on thin ice (trust me)
....you get the idea....
Oh and never cook bacon in the nude - I cracked up when I heard that one
Don't run in front of moving vehicles
Don't sit in the fireplace with the fire going
Don't play with matches
Don't talk to strangers
Eat all the food on your plate
Don't jump off a cliff if your friend jumps first
Don't call your mom or dad a nerfherder
And never, EVER jump into a body of water when temperature is below 65 degrees
Leave crazy stunts to the stuntmen (aka driving things through explosives, jumping over rivers, ect.)
And MOST IMPORTANT! Don't take my droid, HK-47's advice!
I got some...........
dont be something your not
be cool
and stay cool when they come around
We should start a thread on advice..........
alright, lets start here.
just keep your head up and remember R Kelly's song.........I believe I can touch the sky If I can see it I can doOOOO it!
dont get discouraged, trust me..............it never helps..........
alright you want advice? use protection.
GREAT one....;)
I learned that one the hard way.............hahahaha sike Im just playing.
heres one...
alwas stay true to yourself and dont drift away from who you are.
Dont trust anyone is my advice.
thats not a good one........only if your a bounty hunter with no family does that work.
trust your parents or who raised you always.......but only when your on the streets dont trust anyone.
some more advice: dont leave your backpack at a friends house during a school week.
Don't ever use a Boba Fett costume helmet as a hard hat or as a substitute for safty glasses. It seriously limits your visibility and you might end up sticking an angle grider into your brothers coat because you dont know he's standing there!!
Preorder, always. Not preordering sucks. Cause then a game you wait for for almost four years is finally released and you can't play it cause you were so focused on the game you forgot to preorder the system it's for. And then you become heartbroken, which is bad.
Has someone started the advice thread yet? I don't see it....
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Graduate Data Analyst
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Role: Graduate Data Analyst
Salary: £20-21,000 basic salary
They promote and support progressive careers within this company and offer a fantastic benefits package as well as a unique, fun working environment. A huge name in the manufacturing sphere, they're now looking for graduates in Leeds! We have already placed a number of Pareto graduates into this role and the success of the business and candidates has meant they are looking to expand the team further and invest in new graduate talent!
The Role: Graduate Data Analyst
As a Graduate Data Analyst, you will join the front line of this multi-national organisation. This is a unique opportunity to work across all verticals as a knowledge broker, acting as an intermediary: between clients and experts, connecting customers with the blue chip organisation you'll be working within!
Training is a vital part of being in this team and there is a comprehensive training programme for every graduate. Mentoring is a continued theme throughout your career in this organisation and as you become more competent your responsibilities develop. Opening up opportunities for candidates to grow the client base and develop your own team to support you in project delivery!
Responsibilities as a Graduate Data Analyst:
- Effectively evaluate and analyse data
- Ensure that company data is record accurately and is correct
- Work as part of a team to evaluate and analyse key data that will be used to shape future business strategies
- Perform regular client outreach to promote the company's proposition and secure business
Benefits/What you get:
- £20,000-£23,000 basic salary
- Contributory Pension
- Extensive training and personal development
- Educated to degree level
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The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War
Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield
"It is the most touching, the cruelest story of the war that I tell, a story of the purest and most brutal symbolism." In these words, written in the 1930s, the French journalist Paul Bringuier revealed to his readers the tale of a "living unknown soldier," the man they called "Anthelme Mangin." But in his excellent book, Jean-Yves Le Naour shows how much more touching and cruel this man's real story was, and how impure its symbolism became. Le Naour has achieved the most piercing account I have ever read of the ghosts who crowd the landscape after a modern war.
They found him, so Bringuier related, in a railroad station at Lyon. It was early morning on February 1, 1918. A hospital train bringing exchanged prisoners of war from Germany had arrived at Lyon-Brotteaux a few hours before, but its occupants had long since been welcomed by their families and taken away. Only one man remained, wandering along the silent platforms.
They asked him who he was, but he could only mumble. He was wearing the remains of a French uniform, but the unit tags were all missing. In his pockets, there was no money and no identity papers, nothing but a cigarette lighter made out of an old cartridge case. He was young, perhaps in his late twenties, and had a dark mustache. The railroad staff saw that he was sick, scarcely aware of his surroundings.
They summoned army medics. Equally baffled, the military doctors sent the stranger to a mental hospital at Bron, on the Lyon outskirts. At one point, when asked who he was, he muttered a reply. It was very indistinct, but sounded roughly like "Anthelme Mangin." So Anthelme Mangin he became.
He was to remain confined in France's grim empire of psychiatric hospitals for twenty-four years, until his death in 1942. Most of his time was spent in an asylum at Rodez, in the hills of the Aveyron, whose director was Dr. Fenayrou, an exceptionally humane and patient physician. Given the storms of emotion and publicity which were to break over him, Mangin was lucky to have such a protector.
For Anthelme Mangin was about to become a celebrity. The mystery of his identity converged with the grief and guilt of a nation trying to overcome the trauma of the war, the delusions of bereaved families unable to accept their losses, and the fascination of intellectuals who were to construct a small genre of literature around "the only truly free man, as he was without past, without memory, without hatred…." Jean Anouilh wrote a play about him, Traveler Without Luggage, staged in 1937. The Mangin case also became political, as the extreme nationalist right and the liberal left took up the causes of rival claimants to family relations with him. It became a legal legend, as French courts wrangled for years over what should be done with him. And it became a feast for the French press. New "revelations" about him, almost all…
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Addressing a Rio+20 side event about investing in natural capital organized jointly by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and Africa Development Bank, Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Environment), Dr Terezya Huvisa, noted that the country stands to benefit immensely by going green through initiatives such as SAGCOT.
"The 2011 SAGCOT investment blueprint envisions profitable farming systems services, businesses supported by infrastructure, value chains and human capital development. Innovative financing will include a public-private sector and multi-donor catalytic investment fund leveraged over 2bn US dollars," noted Dr Huvisa.
The minister further noted that the SACGOT region offered immense potential for Tanzania which continues to be bogged down by high poverty levels and vulnerability to climate change.
SAGCOT's Green Growth Strategy includes a number of key components that will safeguard key ecosystem services and natural capital for agriculture and rural communities and support climate smart agriculture to capture carbon in soils and vegetation, improve yields and resilience to droughts and floods as well as protect water quality and biodiversity.
The strategy furthermore involves agricultural investments for food and nutrition security with opportunities for export earnings and using Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), to help finance transitions to low-emission energy systems plus designating wildlife corridors in conjunction to maintain biodiversity, improve tourism revenues and minimize human-wildlife
As the Rio +20 talks continue, Dr Huviza noted that the green growth concept will give hope to sustainable climatesmart agriculture and social development to be mainstreamed into development initiatives. The SAGCOT blueprint for Tanzania is a laboratory for testing and implementing this concept and will provide valuable lessons for the agriculture sector in Africa.
Speaking during the same event, WWF's Director General, Jim Leape noted that "it is extremely disappointing to see that the international process on sustainable development culminating in the RIO+20 Conference, is failing in terms of achieving firm commitments in regard to preserving our natural capital.
Mr Leape said it is extremely encouraging to see that individual countries, the champions of this world, are stepping up to the challenge and take crucial actions where international negotiations are failing.


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Support group facilitators face these issues in their groups every day. And effective support group facilitators are the key to making any support group experience positive and productive. The NAMI Facilitator Skills Support Group training enables support group facilitators to run useful, helpful support groups. NAMI affiliates know that effective support groups are a key facet of NAMI's grassroots organization.
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Murder, My Sweet, playing on TCM on Tuesday.
Not a lot of new stuff this week, but a few 1940s films worth checking out: Murder, My Sweet on Tuesday, Gaslight on Friday, and Hail the Conquering Hero on Sunday. And a lot of really worthwhile repeats, as always.
Monday, May 10
11:00am – IFC – Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Lawrence Sterne's 1769 proto-postmodern novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy has long been considered unfilmable. So what does director Michael Winterbottom do? He makes a film about the difficulty of filming Tristram Shandy. Winterbottom's film is something of an experiment, but it's a delightful one, showing the behind-the-scenes antics of production as well as highlighting the circularity and self-defeating narrative of Sterne's novel in the film-within-the-film.
2005 UK. Director: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Jeremy Northam.
(repeats at 4:00pm)
5:35pm – IFC – Hannah and Her Sisters
Though I love Manhattan and Annie Hall to bits, I throw my vote for best Woody Allen movie ever to Hannah and Her Sisters. It has all the elements Allen is known for – neurotic characters, infidelity, a tendency to philosophize randomly, New York City, dysfunctional family dynamics, acerbic wit – and blends them together much more cogently and evenly than most of his films do.
1986 USA. Director: Woody Allen. Starring: Barbara Hershey, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, Woody Allen.
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(repeats at 4:45am on the 11th)
10:00pm – Sundance – The Lives of Others
If any film had to beat out Pan's Labyrinth for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, I'm glad it was one as good as The Lives of Others. A surveillance operator is assigned to eavesdrop on a famous writer who may be working against the government regime – he's torn in both directions when he starts sympathizing with his subject. It's really well done in tone and narrative, with a great performance by the late Ulrich Mühe.
2006 Germany. Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Theime.
12:30am (11th) – TCM – Love Me or Leave Me
One of Doris Day's better roles places her as a singer in an abusive relationship with gangster/career supporter James Cagney. She's tough yet vulnerable, and her rendition of the title song is suberb.
1955 USA. Director: Charles Vidor. Starring: James Cagney, Doris Day, Cameron Mitchell, Brian Keith.
Tuesday, May 11
6:15pm – TCM – Murder, My Sweet
The definitive depiction of Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe is by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, but this well-done film starring Dick Powell as Marlowe shouldn't be discounted either; it's pretty solid stuff, based on Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely.
1944 USA. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger.
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Wednesday, May 12
6:00am – IFC – Bananas
Woody Allen in full-on zany mode in one of his earlier films, as the wonderfully named Fielding Mellish. In an attempt to impress a politically-minded girl, Mellish runs off to a Latin American country and takes it over.
1971 USA. Director: Woody Allen. Starring: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán.
(repeats at 10:45am and 4:45pm)
Thursday, May 13
8:00pm – IFC – The Proposition
Australia's answer to the western; Guy Pearce must hunt down and capture his brothers for the law in order to save his own skin. Gritty and violent almost to a fault, and it definitely brought new life to the Western genre.
2005 Australia. Director: John Hillcoat. Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone.
(repeats at 3:00am on the 14th)
9:45pm – IFC – Kill Bill: Vol. 1
A lot of people would point to Pulp Fiction as Tarantino's best film, and I think Inglourious Basterds is right up there, too, but I vote Kill Bill Vol. 1 for sheer amount of fun. He homages spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong fighting flicks, and revenge-sploitation, and ties it all together with incredible style.
2003 USA. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine.
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11:45pm – IFC – The Cooler
William H. Macy plays a loser whose bad luck gets him a job as a "cooler" at a casino – his luck spreads and cools off any hot winning streaks that might be going on. But when he starts a relationship with Maria Bello, his new-found love and acceptance turns his luck. This film reinforced my knowledge of Bill Macy's talent, made me take notice of Maria Bello, and gave Alec Baldwin pretty much his best role until 30 Rock.
2003 USA. Director: Wayne Cramer. Starring: William H. Macy, Mario Bello, Alec Baldwin.
Friday, May 14
10:30am – TCM – Gaslight
A Victorian thriller of murder and insanity, with Ingrid Bergman as a young ingenue being slowly driven mad by her husband in the house where ten years previously her aunt had been murdered. Charles Boyer is the chilling husband, and look for Angela Lansbury in her first film role.
1944 USA. Director: George Cukor. Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury.
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12:15pm – IFC – Renaissance
In near-future Paris, a brilliant young scientist is kidnapped; her employer Avalon (a highly influential company that sells youth and beauty itself) wants her found, but her importance to them may be more sinister than first meets the eye. The story's not handled perfectly here, but it's worth watching for the beautifully stark black and white animation.
2006 France. Director: Christian Volckman. Starring (English version): Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Ian Holm, Catherine McCormack, Jonathan Pryce.
(repeats at 4:45am on the 15th)
2:30pm – TCM – North by Northwest
Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for George Kaplan and pulled into an elaborate web of espionage in one of Hitchcock's most enjoyable and funniest thrillers. So many great scenes it's impossible to list them all.
1959 USA. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau.
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Saturday, May 15
8:05am – IFC – Garden State
First-time director Braff brings his quirky personality and taste in indie music to this story of a young man who returns to his home town for the first time in years for his mother's funeral. While there, he meets a girl who teaches him how to feel for the first time since his father started prescribing meds to him as a child. It's become a popular pastime to hate on Garden State and its self-conscious quirk, but I refuse. I loved it when I first saw it, and I love it now.
2004 USA. Director: Zach Braff. Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard.
(repeats at 1:30pm, and 5:10am on the 16th)
9:00am – TCM – Horse Feathers
Most film comedians do a college-set film at some point, and this is the Marx Brothers entry into higher education. This is a relatively early film for them, and it's not quite as great as the Duck Soup–A Night at the Opera–A Day at the Races trifecta, but it's still really solid, one of my favorites of their pre-1933 films.
1932 USA. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Starring: The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau.
9:50am – IFC – Spirited Away
Often considered Hayao Miyazaki's finest film, it's easily among the best family-friendly animated films in existence, full of magic and wonder, gods and spirits, and shapeshifting spells.
2001 Japan. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Starring: Rumi Hiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki.
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4:15pm – TCM – The Big Heat
Director Fritz Lang came out of the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s, so it's not surprising that he ended up making some of the better noir films, given film noir's borrowing of Expressionist style. Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts you'll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten-up gangster's moll. Her performance and Lang's attention to detail raise the otherwise average story to a new level.
1953 USA. Director: Fritz Lang. Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame.
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8:00pm – IFC – The Good German
Steven Soderbergh's attempt using 1940s equipment and filming techniques didn't actually turn into a particularly good movie, but as a filmmaking experiment, it's still fairly interesting. And has George Clooney and Cate Blanchett in gorgeous B&W as former lovers/current spies, if you're into that sort of thing.
2006 USA. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire.
(repeats at 1:30am on the 16th)
9:50pm – IFC – Spider (short film)
This is a one-reel short film directed by Nash Edgerton, who has the feature film The Square in limited release in the US right now. Spider is being shown with a lot of the prints in release here, including the one I saw, and it's pretty enjoyable – a one-bad-thing-leads-to-another domino effect film with a morbid sense of humor. So, yeah, a lot like The Square in tone. Worth a look-see.
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2:00am (16th) – TCM – What's Up, Tiger Lily?
The first film Woody Allen directed was this redubbed Japanese film – he stripped off the original sound track and redid it with his own dialogue, making a spy film into a crazy comedy. Anticipating today's remix culture by a few decades, I'd say!
1966 USA/Japan. Director: Woody Allen/Senkichi Taniguchi. Starring: Woody Allen, Tatsuyo Mihashi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, John Sebastian.
Sunday, May 16
5:00am – TCM – The Blue Gardenia
This may be a lesser Fritz Lang noir, but a Lang noir is still a Lang noir. Anne Baxter is a mousy telephone operator who has an uncharacteristic night out drinking with a near-stranger; the next day she wakens with little memory of the night, but the stranger is dead. That setup leads to police investigation, and her own questioning whether or not she is a murderer. Baxter's an underrated talent, I think, and even though this film has its flaws, it's still quite enjoyable in its way.
1953 USA. Director: Fritz Lang. Starring: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Anne Sothern, Raymond Burr.
8:30am – IFC – Maria Full of Grace
Once in a while a film comes out of nowhere and floors me – this quiet little film about a group of South American women who agree to smuggle drugs into the United States by swallowing packets of cocaine did just that. Everything in the film is perfectly balanced, no element overwhelms anything else, and it all comes together with great empathy, but without sentimentality.
2004 USA. Director: Joshua Marston. Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virginia Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega.
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2:00pm – TCM – On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando's performance as a former boxer pulled into a labor dispute among dock workers goes down as one of the greatest in cinematic history. I'm not even a huge fan of Brando, but this film wins me over.
1954 USA. Director: Elia Kazan. Starring: Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint.
Must See
8:00pm – TCM – Hail the Conquering Hero
After being discharged from the Army as 4F, Eddie Bracken is pressured into pretending to be a war hero by a group of marines when he returns to his small home town; as things escalate in his honor, he tries to set things straight, but can't get anyone to listen. This is one of Preston Sturges' best-known absurd comedies, and he has quite an impressive string of absurd comedies, so that's saying a lot.
1944 USA. Director: Preston Sturges. Starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Raymond Walburn.
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8:00pm – IFC – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones takes up the directorial reins for the first time with this revisionist western about a rancher whose Mexican right-hand-man dies, his last request being that his body be returned across the border to his family. Thus begins an odyssey that's more about mood and character than anything else. It's not wholly even, but Jones has an excellent eye, and this was one of the more surprisingly good films of its year.
2005 USA. Director: Tommy Lee Jones. Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo.
(repeats at 2:35am n the 17th)
2:00am (17th) – TCM – Tokyo Story
One of my goals in life is to learn to truly appreciate and like Japanese cinema; I'm getting there, having made some breakthroughs with J-horror, anime, Kurosawa, and Mizoguchi, but I'll know I've finally made it, I think, when I can appreciate Yasujiro Ozu. This is Ozu's best-known film, I believe, and I have tried to watch it at least two or three times and always stalled out – Ozu is a very patient filmmaker who likes his long takes; that's something I usually like as well, but for whatever reason, I've found this film difficult to connect with. I'm not sure I'm ready to try it again just yet, but for anyone who is further along than I am, here it is.
1953 Japan. Director: Yasujiro Ozu. Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura.
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Gary Olsen, a solution architect for Hewlett-Packard's Technology Services organization, a Redmond magazine contributor and a Microsoft MVP, takes some time to answer some of my questions on the status and future of Active Directory.
And for those attending this year's TechMentor conference, don't forget to catch Gary's speaking engagements.
Q: How do I know if my Active Directory infrastructure is healthy?
A: Sometimes you don't. Active Directory is often self-healing in that it will still "work," but not efficiently. If you aren't watching, it will lull you to sleep until something really bad happens.
Q: Do I have to spend an arm and a leg?
A: No -- that's the point of my session ["Active Directory Health Assessment and Troubleshooting -- Five Answers You'd Otherwise Pay For"]. All these tips use native tools, but you have to know which ones to use and how to interpret the data. That's not hard, as you'll see in my session.
Q: What kind of tools does Microsoft have?
A: Very basic ones that have been around since Windows 2000, just waiting for someone to wake them up! In my session we'll explore Repadmin, event logs, ipconfig and dcdiag -- and MPSReports, which is a free download.
Q: Do I just use these tools once, and then I'm all set?
A: That would be nice, wouldn't it? Because they're free they don't have fancy monitoring capabilities, so you have to do more manual intervention. However, periodic checks are easy when using a tool like MPSReports, which runs a plethora of these tools and can be scheduled to run if you like.
Q: What happens if I don't give Active Directory a checkup?
A: Possibly nothing. But just like anything else, you run the risk of something breaking and causing an outage. I saw one case where the admin reported a domain controller was not replicating. Looking in the logs, it hadn't replicated in more than three years. So while you could say it wasn't broken, it wasn't efficient, either -- and if you let enough of these slide, it can lead to a disaster.
Q: Do you expect Microsoft to update these tools as new OSes arrive?
A: Microsoft updated these tools regularly until Windows Server 2003. Many of the old standbys are obtained from the Windows Server 2003 resource kit, and some were added to the Windows Server 2008 OS as native tools, but most have not been updated. The basic ones I'm going to demonstrate are available and still work well in Windows Server 2008. We'll see about Windows Server 2012.
Want to learn more? Gary will be speaking at our Techmentor 2012 conference, being held at Microsoft HQ in August.
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Mark Minasi is one of those Microsoft MVPs that does it all – he's a technical consultant, a speaker and an author of over 40 books relating to Microsoft and IT.
So to say that his opinion carries some weight is an understatement. I recently got the chance to pick Mark's brain on the emergence of the private cloud and what kind of impact it has for your shop.
Also, if you want to hear Mark's often opinionated (and usually right) thoughts for yourself, check out his speaking gig at this year's TechMentor conference.
Q: What do you think of the term "private cloud"? Is it a good, clear term or a vague and abused buzzword?
A: The cloud is just our latest attempt to talk less about servers, cables and software and talk more about delivering fast, effective, so-reliable-you-don't-think-about-it services like Exchange mailboxes or SharePoint services. Push away the hype and I think the cloud will result in a new and improved set of best practices on how we run our datacenters and how we deploy services.
Ultimately, a private cloud will be our private datacenters employing those new best practices and those seamless deployment tools to provide our end users with self service -- a Web front-end to create and modify the services they need -- and less downtime.
If that's not clear, think of it this way: Over the past 70 years, computers have gotten easier and easier, and more and more useful -- for example, personal computers were one such step, GUIs another, networks a third and the Internet a fourth. Cloud computing is simply the most recent big step, a technology that's "disruptive" in some senses but that couldn't have happened without those four precursors.
For our attendees, I think it means: Learn about this -- it matters. Even if it does turn out to be a fad or hype, it's one that prospective employers will ask you about, so put "private cloud" on your list of things you need to get somewhat smart about.
Q: What does it mean to you?
A: Good news and bad news. It'll mean that all of my fellow IT pros will have to put up with a lot of silly marketing bafflegab from sales droids who've decided that adding the words "in the cloud!" to any IT-related sales pitch will generate interest. It'll mean that a small few might lose their jobs because some higher-up got sold a bill of goods that included a promise of lower staff requirements -- outsourcing with another name. It's good news because the private cloud takes some of the really boring scut work and friction points between IT pros and both end users and other IT pros and simplifies them. That frees us to focus on the projects that many of us haven't had time for, like, "What the heck do I do with these iPads and smartphones that want to access our important corporate stuff?!" Again, to rephrase it, for many of our organizations, adding a password self-service Web portal meant that users didn't need us and that either freed up an IT pro to do something else, or in some cases made someone whose only job was to reset passwords into – sadly -- an unemployed person.
Q: What's the difference between a good, highly virtualized set of servers and a private cloud?
A: Easy question. In its simplest form, a private cloud is virtualization plus automation plus self-service.
Q: Whose security is better: an IT shop with security based on the best person they could hire, or a cloud vendor whose whole business is presumably securing their systems?
A: It's hard to say. On the one hand, the in-house security guy gets a W-2 from the same people who use the cloud. That person is – hopefully -- invested in the safety, security and viability of the organization. On the other hand, the cloud security person honestly doesn't care all that much about one of the 10,000 accounts that his company services, but he also knows that a data breach might cost his job. Therefore, he might strive mightily to create a one-size-fits-all answer and might have more free time to find that answer. It's sort of like asking, "From whom will you get a better pair of shoes: a craftsperson or Macy's?" Some craft pros might create the best shoes you've ever owned, but in truth most won't, at least not in a postindustrial age. Mass production -- meaning the cloud -- will naturally move to a point of standard mediocrity. But it will be a reliable level of mediocrity, and that will be better than what probably 65 percent of craftspeople could accomplish.
Q: When I build a private cloud, do I overbuild to handle spikes or deal with an outside provider to handle times of high demand? If I do the latter, don't I double my security risk?
A: One of the whole points of cloud technology, as I said in my first answer, is that we're learning new best practices. One of those best practices is about how to plan for the flood. Call it "overbuilding" if you like, but that seems like a negative phrase. I think that five years from now, even the most cloud-allergic groups will be talking about "fabric," "capacity units" and the like.
Remember: Hardware is cheap. Failures are expensive. Not serving the users is massively expensive.
Just ask the mainframe MIS and DP guys who lost their jobs because they weren't meeting user needs. They saw their clients go gleefully to the lower-tech, slower, less-capable but more-responsive PCs.
Want to learn more? Mark will be speaking at our Techmentor 2012 conference, being held at Microsoft HQ in August.
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/09/2012 at 1:19 PM0 comments
Microsoft really wants you to buy Windows 8. How much? You can upgrade to the professional version for just $40. The poor saps who bought Vista had to shell out a minimum of $120 to get off that load and onto the proper Windows 7 (most were probably happy to pay it!).
My guess is the dirt cheapness is because Win 8 doesn't compete with the Mac or desktop Linux. Microsoft is now entering the tablet wars and it wants a coalition willing to resist the charms of the iPad and the low price of Android.
And for an extra $15, you get a backup copy of Win 8 on DVD. Now that's the real bargain.
Is this a cool deal? If not, what would you spend $40 on? Answers to both welcome at [email protected]
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/09/2012 at 1:19 PM8 comments
I know that the Internet sky crashed to fell down today because of DNSChanger, but on the off chance you are online and reading this, there are three critical patches to install tomorrow and six important ones to get to sometime after. When exactly is for you to decide.
The tired old record you know so well is remote code execution (RCE). Two of the three critical RCE items impact Windows, while the third goes after both Windows and IE. A double threat. Find out more here.
Microsoft last week released a do-it-yourself kit to keep .NET Framework 4.0 happily up and running.
The tool is pretty narrow in focus, rectifying known update and setup issues reaching back to XP SP 3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2.
You probably know Don from his Redmond magazine column, his blog here on Redmondmag.com or have seen him speak at our TechMentor conference. And if you know Don, you know he's passionate about PowerShell. I recently got the chance to ask him a bit more about why he feels so strongly that PowerShell is a must-have skill for Windows IT pros.
Q: Why should IT care about Windows PowerShell?
A:Two reasons. First, we're increasingly moving toward an era where we don't physically touch our servers. They're hosted by someone else, or perhaps in our own remote datacenter; Windows PowerShell provides a more effective and consistent means of administering servers in a variety of scenarios. Second, businesses should be getting fed up with manual effort when it comes to administration. They should be demanding that anything done more than once be automated. That was always near-impossible to pull off in the Microsoft world, but Windows PowerShell is making it possible now. Frankly, IT pros who don't embrace Windows PowerShell are putting their jobs at risk, because their decision makers are going to figure this out eventually. "What do you mean, you're still using a wizard to do that? You do it 10 times a day! What a waste of time! You're fired!"
Q: Can you explain how you use Windows PowerShell without programming or scripting?
A: Windows PowerShell isn't a "scripting language." Not like VBScript was. Calling it a scripting language annoys me, because those words turn off a huge number of admins who simply didn't sign up to be programmers. Windows PowerShell is a shell. You run commands. If you can run "ping," you can use Windows PowerShell. Yes, it does have a scripting language within it, but that isn't the first thing you have to learn. You may not ever need to learn it! Windows PowerShell, unlike VBScript, actually has a very shallow glide path: You can start small and learn in small increments as you need more capability. So don't be put off because you've heard Windows PowerShell is like programming. That's not necessarily true—although some people do choose to approach it that way.
Q: How do I know, as an IT person, if I need to program or script or if I can use Windows PowerShell at a higher level?
A: You'll know because you'll run into a need. As you start to use Windows PowerShell, it almost becomes obvious. "OK, I know how to do A by running a few commands, but now I need to add another command that should only be run under B circumstances." Well, you've identified a need to add some logical decision-making. So you explore a bit and learn how to use the If construct. Are you scripting now? Maybe. It's a bit of splitting hairs and applying labels to things. The point is to just focus on getting the job done. Windows PowerShell itself has the tools you need to teach yourself what you need to get today's job done, and there's no need to learn more than that. One of the main things I teach is how to teach yourself the shell, so that you don't need to learn anything more than what's needed for the job at hand.
Q: What are people who don't use Windows PowerShell missing?
A: Two things. First, quality of life. I mean, seriously, who wants to be clicking next-next-finish all the time? Automate that stuff and free up some time for interesting work. Second, career opportunity. Believe me, Windows PowerShell expertise is going to matter a lot more than an MCSE or whatever, and that day is only a scant number of years away—maybe three, maybe four. If you start now, you'll be a Windows PowerShell guru in three to four years, but you sure don't want to wait until then to start learning. Unless you also enjoy saying, "Would you like fries with that?"
Q:You're one of the people fostering the GUI versus command-line debate. Is there a winner?
A: Yes: They both win. Windows PowerShell doesn't eliminate the GUI—it provides you with a choice. Is there some task you only do rarely, like maybe adding a new site to Active Directory? Use the GUI. GUIs make it easier to perform unfamiliar tasks. Something you do every day, like adding new users, or something you need to do in bulk, like updating access control lists on a bunch of files? Use Windows PowerShell. We invented computers to do the repetitive, boring stuff for us, right? So let them do it, via Windows PowerShell.
Want to learn more? Don will be leading several PowerShell workshops at our Techmentor 2012 conference, being held at Microsoft HQ in August.
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/03/2012 at 1:19 PM0 comments
Our ace Redmond Web news maven Kurt Mackie recently analyzed what BYOD means for software licensing. At first I wondered why he bothered. Isn't it the same as a corporate device? Turns out it can be, but not necessarily, and the differences are worthy of your study. Don't get it right and you could be wasting money, or worse, not be in compliance and have the licensing cops pay you a visit.
Here's what I gleaned from Kurt's report:
Interestingly, a variety of machines, including Android devices and iPads (even smartphones) can be BYODs and may require extra licenses.
So how do you know what does and doesn't need licenses? Several issues, including whether the device is used remotely or on-premises, weigh in. Part of that is that remote devices are often companion or unmanaged devices and are apparently taxed less by the Redmond licensing machine.
One area that is relatively simple is that machines that need to access servers need client access licenses. However, if these are bought on a per-user basis, the device should be in the clear.
Beyond this, much of the BYOD licensing issues are the same as for corporate devices. The trick, so far as I can see, is to determine what licenses you can avoid if the BYOD machine is truly a companion device, to carefully parse what a per-user means and to research if that is a better deal than a per-device equivalent.
How versed are you in Microsoft licensing, are the terms more complex than need be, are they fair and have you ever been visited by the software fuzz? Answers to any or all questions welcome at [email protected]
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/02/2012 at 1:19 PM1 comments
Speaking of education, Microsoft just announced that schools can get Office 365 for free. The news comes as a sort of celebration for the one-year anniversary of the cloud suite.
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/02/2012 at 1:19 PM0 comments
Facebook has been kind of messing up lately -- however, not enough to take back Mark Zuckerberg's recently minted billions or its social media dominance.
Timeline, to me and millions of others, is the worst interface since Office Bob. Privacy doesn't even seem to be an afterthought. And if you want dirt from the past, there's a new book chock full of dirty little secrets.
More recently someone at the firm had the bright idea of building a program for mobile users, a bit like FourSquare, that let you know when other Facebookers are nearby. As if that's not bad enough, they don't even have to be your friends.
Imagine the trouble that could cause. Affairs would no longer go undiscovered. Just try to skip work. And kids won't find it near as easy lying to their parents. The stranger stuff is way disturbing, maybe too creepy to even mention.
This idiocy actually went live. And someone with an ounce of sense pulled the plug.
Three idiots drove a van straight into the Greek Microsoft Headquarters, pulled weapons on security personnel and attempted to burn the largely concrete structure before fleeing. As a result, it is not clear which of the world's ills these morons are upset with.
What is clear is the Greek economy is in a heap of trouble, and a thriving company like Microsoft is only there to help. Not sure trying to drive it out of business is such a sharp plan.
Posted by Doug Barney on 06/29/2012 at 1:19 PM8 comments
I may be naïve, but I find it hard to believe that malware (especially automated malware) in these days of layered protection, can steal millions upon millions of dollars from highly successful financial institutions.
But that is precisely the claim of McAfee and Guardian Analytics, who just published a report on the subject that printed loss figures (but didn't name the names of those companies who got hacked).
The malware is based in part on Zeus, and is cleverly (I guess) named High Roller since the companies its steals from have lots of dough.
The hacks are a combination of hands-on hacking and automated pilfering of ongoing financial transactions.
McAfee believes a little as $75 million and as much as $2.5 billion may have been lifted, but with a range this wide, does the company really have any clue?
What is your take on all of this? Is it really still this easy to steal this much money and not get caught? You tell me at [email protected]
Posted by Doug Barney on 06/29/2012 at 1:19 PM5 comments
Six years ago I suggested that Bill Gates run for President. I was serious. Gates knows business, and through his foundation, knows world affairs.
He also knows education, which is why I was interested to see a recent article on the subject in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Education today is, in many ways, stagnant. Too much of what we do is because that's the way we've always done it. Does every high school kid have to read "A Catcher in the Rye" and "The Great Gatsby"?
Recently there's been a lot of attention on the value -- or lack of value -- of the college degree. And as a Harvard dropout, Gates is qualified to address this. Bill believes you generally need something to establish that you've achieved a level of education, which the degree does. And he is interested in the notion of certificates that show that you've taken and passed certain online course.
And while you might expect Gates to be stoked that more devices such as tablets are entering the classroom, he thinks computers are useless unless the curriculum is built around them. For more from professor Gates, head over here.
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By James Whittington, Sunday 27th January 2019
Buckle up for ride in the Black Moon, a sleek, high-tech supercar, powered by hydrogen and capable of speeds of over 300mph! The cult classic Black Moon Rising is coming to Blu-ray on 15 April.
Tommy Lee Jones (Rolling Thunder, Under Siege) stars as Sam Quint, a master thief working for the government who hides a computer disc loaded with evidence of corporate crime in a prototype supercar, the Black Moon. When a gang of thieves steal the car, Quint seduces their leader, Nina (Linda Hamilton, Terminator), to get to the disc. But in order to reclaim his property, Quint and Nina must break into an impenetrable skyscraper and take down Ed Ryland (Robert Vaughn, The Delta Force), the head of a dangerous stolen car syndicate...
A fast-moving, hydrogen-fueled action thriller written by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Black Moon Rising has earned admiration from cult movie audiences for its thrilling chase sequences, pounding synth score, and slick direction courtesy of Harley Cokeliss (Battle Truck, The Glitterball).
Extras Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original 35mm interpositive High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Uncompressed PCM 2.0 stereo audio and alternative 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing New audio commentary by Lee Gambin, author of Show Me: The Making of Christine Black Moon Ascending, a new interview with director Harley Cokeliss Thief in The Night: Producing Black Moon Rising, a new interview with producer Douglas Curtis Sound of Speed: Composing Black Moon Rising, a new interview with composer Lalo Schifrin and film music historian Daniel Schweiger Carpenter's Craft, a new video essay on co-writer John Carpenter's screenwriting career by author and critic Troy Howarth Making Black Moon Rising, an archival documentary featuring behind the scenes footage and cast and crew interviews Alternative Hong Kong version scenes, a presentation of selected scenes from the Hong Kong theatrical version with a different score and sound effects Theatrical trailer and radio spots Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love
First Pressing only: Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Kieran Fisher.
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National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
The NAEHCY web site is an excellent source for research, publications, legislative updates, and events that promote the enrollment, attendance, and academic success of homeless children and youth. NAEHCY promotes strategies for working with various agencies and developing strong programs.
Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
ICADV works to raise awareness about domestic violence, to influence societal change, and to ensure access to comprehensive services through policy and the allocation of resources. The organization is a coalition of members that it works to educate and strengthen in order to accomplish its goals.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to solving the problems of homelessness and to preventing its continued growth. The Alliance web page contains information on programs, practices, legislation, and NAEH activities.
National Coalition for the Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national organization dedicated to the eradication of homelessness through advocacy. The web site provides fact sheets, state and national contacts, legislative and policy alerts, scholarship information, and several other resources.
National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc.
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is a membership organization of health care providers working with homeless people across the United States. The Council exists to help bring about reform of the health care system to best serve the needs of people who are homeless. The National Council home page contains reports, policy papers, clinical information, two newsletters, links to health and homelessness sites, and a forum for members.
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
The Law Center's mission is to advocate effectively to protect the rights of homeless people and to implement solutions to end homelessness in America. To achieve its mission, the Law Center pursues three main strategies: impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education. The Law Center's home page provides information on homelessness and describes current projects, publications, and activities.


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(Updated Aug 11: CDC has raised the number of people confirmed infected to 153)
As many as 153 people have been infected this summer with a new pig flu virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week, although the disease does not appear to be any more serious than normal seasonal flu. Nine out of 10 of them are children, CDC says.
Most cases appear to be among people who were showing pigs, or people visiting fairs and other places where these pigs are, CDC says. This suggests they are catching the flu directly from infected pigs. So far everyone has gotten better on their own, Dr. Joseph Bresee, from the CDC's influenza division, told reporters on a telephone briefing Thursday.
"At this point there is no evidence of sustained, efficient human to human spread," Bresee said. "This is not a pandemic situation."
But Bresee cautioned that even seasonal flu can kill people and this is likely the case with the new form of flu, which is designated H3N2v.
The new strain of H3N2 was first seen last year, and three people were confirmed to have caught the bug from other people. So far it has not been any more serious than regular, seasonal flu, causing fever, a sore throat and achy muscles. Last year no one ended up in the hospital with the new flu. This year, two people have but they are fine now, Bresee said.
While the current flu vaccine does not protect against this new virus coming straight from pigs to people, patients can be treated with the two drugs that work against seasonal flu – Tamiflu and Relenza.
Most of the cases have been in Indiana, where 120 have been reported, the CDC said. There have also been 31 cases in Ohio, one case in Hawaii and one case in Illinois.
Flu viruses have eight genes, and this one is seven-eighths pig virus -- a virus designated H3N2 that's been circulating among swine for years. But one single gene comes from the H1N1 swine flu virus that caused a new pandemic of influenza among people in 2009 and which is now part of the human seasonal flu mix.
The names can be confusing because there's also an H3N2 virus that causes seasonal flu in people, and it's one of the three strains of flu virus that is included in the vaccine that's just arriving in doctor's offices and clinics now. "Get your flu vaccine," Bresee advised. "Everybody should get a flu vaccine this year in the U.S. because regular, seasonal flu will be here soon."
CDC stressed that only people who have contact with pigs are at any real risk of catching this flu. "This time of year is the time when you have state and county fairs…there's thousands of them," Bresee said. CDC has some simple advice to prevent infection:
- Wash your hands after you've been near any live pigs
- Don't bring any food or drink into areas where live pigs are
- Stay away from swine if you are at high risk from flu, for instance if you are elderly or have a weakened immune system.
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Stationery designer and mom Lisa Wong Jackson of Good on Paper Design didn't have to look far for a party theme for her son's third birthday bash. "Lucas has really been into reading letters and numbers on everything from books to license plates, so I thought the perfect theme for his party would be letters and numbers," Lisa says.
Lisa took what could have been a simple idea and ran with it, creating an imaginative, kid-focused event that was full of fun activities, including parachute play, a DIY piñata, and a live band led by Lucas's preschool teacher. Click here to see all of the party fun, including Lisa's incredible invitations and homemade crayon favors!