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After the perceived problems
with the C4ISR system and
installation on the first National
Security Cutter, Bertholf, how
are you approaching installation
for the next seven cutters?
GLENN: As you said, it's the perception that they didn't work, which I
don't think is accurate. Bertholf sailed
up to Baltimore from Pascagoula,
Miss., then sailed around to the West
Coast, and its C4IT systems functioned properly. We're still doing
additional planned installations of
certain pieces of equipment. Not
everything was planned to be
installed when it was accepted. So
there are still things being installed
and its continuing to go out on
shakedown for various pieces of
communication. [Bertholf's] Inmarsat
communications worked fine while
it was underway and continues to.
What are some net-centric
problems the Coast Guard
continues to wrestle with?
GLENN: Given that we operate as a military service, as a
part of DHS and as a law enforcement agency, there are
certain pieces of law enforcement information that can't
be shared with DoD, so we're constantly vetting the
information and figuring out how we can share it best
and who we can share it with.
We're not the authoritative data source for all the
information, but we do get lots of information on
cargo, on people, on vessels, on infrastructure. The
challenge is figuring out what we can share with
whom, and trying to develop almost an attribute-based
access system for the various pieces of information. …
It's not a problem, it's a challenge. It's ongoing, but I
have to admit, it's not yet perfect.
Right now, there's a lot of point-to-point information-sharing. … Where we'd like to be is that if I'm the
authoritative source for the data, I could publish it to an
enterprise service bus and, if you've been granted authority, you could see it, he could see it, she could see it. That
would be the better way of doing it.
control radio systems are not changed nearly as frequently as the computer systems are. Even the sensors don't
change as frequently as the computers and the operating
system. There's a little bit more stability in that regard.
If you lived in the perfect world, how often
would Coast Guard assets get updated C4ISR
GLENN: Every four to five years. I try to recapitalize all the
computers in the Coast Guard on a four-year basis, and I'd
love to be able to upgrade every five years. Command-and-
There's going to be a new DHS secretary, Congress and administration in the coming month.
What changes do you see that would affect
your department?
GLENN: I think that having close interactions with the
DHS CIO [chief information officer] and being a member of the DHS CIO council will help. Also, we recently
did a complete upgrade of the Strategic Plan in August.
We tried to have a one-, three-, five-year plan of things
that we wanted to accomplish that DHS would try to go
on budget for.
The plan was done knowing there would be this
change in administration and we tried tried to tap the
corporate knowledge of everybody who was current and
get their thoughts so that it could be presented to the
new administration. Hopefully, it will not result in the
new administration taking a different direction.
We'll be receptive, though, as each administration
wants to emphasize certain things. Cyber security has
been a major emphasis of DHS' and DoD's current
efforts. I envision that that will continue to be one of
the top three things under the new administration, but
we'll wait and see. ■


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Adventures with Ashton
11 comments:
- Kari said...
Such a cute post. Boys are so much fun.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- Jordan said...
Aww that little man is adorable. I got some great finds at DI the other day too although unlike you, I can't stand Utah. It's so smoggy and I get headaches all the time from the bad air quality.
- February 2, 2011 at 12:16 AM
- Alli said...
What is Artic Circle? Cute photos of the day! I've never actually seen Cars but I think I'd like it.
- February 2, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- kELLY said...
haha the boys i watch love trucks to and yell "TRUCK" at them every time at the top of their lungs; however, the cannot pronounce their "t's" yet, so they use and "f"
it's rather amusing, until you are in public. and it's clear as a bell. for everyone to judge. :) haha
also, same situation with the word "sucker"...
- February 2, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- Emily Carter said...
Oh, so much fun!! I love little boys, and he is by far one of the cutest toddlers ever! I need to find an Arctic Circle, but I have a feeling I'd have to drive hundreds of miles to do so. :)
- February 2, 2011 at 8:08 AM
- Sherri said...
Such a great post!! Ashton is just too cute!! Looks like such a fun day:)
- February 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Bri!!! said...
What a cute auntie you are. Boys really are such a blast.
I remember thinking the same thing when Caleb was little. I was so excited to talk to him about things. I can attest it's even better than I imagined. Knowing what is going on in their cute little heads is magical.
We bought the movie "Cars" for Caleb over Christmas. It is by far his favorite movie. I think it is super cute.
Ashton is a doll. I'm sure it will be such a blessing for him to have your little guy to play with.
- February 2, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
!) He is such a handsome little man!
2) I'm not sure what fry sauce is but I am intrigued!!!
3) I love me a good corn dog.
4) I haven't seen CARS yet...but it's in Hudson's Valentine's surprise so I can't wait to see it soon!
5) You are a great MOM and AUNT! :)
- February 2, 2011 at 9:41 PM
- Chelsea said...
he is such a little stud! Makes me want a corn dog really bad!!!!!
(good thing we're going to costco later!!!)
- February 3, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Nell said...
Sounds like the most fun day. And good thrifting lady. Those sound like some awesome finds! xx
- February 4, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- BUHLER LIFE said...
What a good sister-in-law you are to give his Mom a break like that. She needs one, thats for sure. You inspire me to be a better person and you must be a good writer because I don't follow blogs but for some reason I seem to be following yours. Thanks!
- February 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM

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Although band leader and singer Wolfgang Niedecken sings in Cologne dialect, BAP's Kölschrock is understood all over the world. Niedecken modelled himself on Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen – and his band's music is just as direct and honest as theirs.
Niedecken founded his band BAP in Cologne in 1976. At the outset, the vocals in dialect made the project seem like a small, regional affair, but then the third album Für usszeschnigge! (1981) got to number one in the German charts. To date there have been nine other number one albums, and more than 20 BAP songs have topped the singles charts. Kölschrock's popularity isn't confined to Germany. BAP are stars in Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Switzerland too, and their tours have taken them to destinations as far afield as Mozambique, Nicaragua, China and the Soviet Union (1989).
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Media Advice: Interview Techniques
Media Advice: Interview Techniques
Giving an interview can be a daunting experience, and it is vital that your presentation is clear and your message understood. This is especially true of the broadcast media, because unlike in print viewers and listeners will be able to see and hear any mistakes or uncertainty.
What is the interview about? You should be told why they want to interview you, how long it will last and what form the interview will take. If you're not told, ask. Interviewers may try to shift the subject of an interview, so do not assume that you will only be asked questions on the stated topic.
Find out if others will be commenting too and anticipate what they will say.
If you have the option do the interview in a studio rather than at home - you will be sharper and more attentive and the quality of your voice will be better for the audience.
Know what you want to communicate, and try to boil it down to a single soundbite. Reiterate your point several times in different ways. You will not be given much space or time. That means you must get your points across in a punchy, quotable way.
Use notes, including a memory-jogger of any facts you wish to quote.
You don't have to answer every question. Watch politicians - they usually sidestep questions and keep making their point. If you are presented with an irrelevant question, steer it back to your soundbite.
Try not to be forced on to the defensive - eg. drunk cyclist kills self by riding into wall. The journalist wants to blast, even make fun of cyclists who drink. Instead put the story into perspective. You don't condone his action, of course, but how many others is he putting at risk by drink-cycling compared to the consequences of drink-driving? And what about drunk pedestrians meandering into roads at chucking out time? Think damage limitation and turning the story around in instances like this.
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If the interview is being pre-recorded, the best tactic is to stop the interview, forcing them to re-record and giving you thinking time. Rehearsing your points with someone taking the role of the interviewer can help. Try to anticipate questions (see below for some common ones) and have answers ready.
Beware of having words put into your mouth. 'The A123 is so busy it's too dangerous for many cyclists isn't it?' 'Well yes but….' Headline: Cycling is too dangerous.
Try not to let cyclists be put in a box. We're all human beings to most of us also drive, walk, catch buses, trains....
Prepare well and have three key points you want to get across straight away. You won't have more than a couple of minutes and part of that will be taken up with introductions and questions from the interviewer. Never hold a key point back for later – it might be too late.
Be calm, reasonable and altruistic - don't get drawn into am antagonistic blame game. Controversy may equal news, but don't be drawn into conflicts to feed the media's needs. If faced with an irate interviewer or guest just remain calm. It may be difficult, but the audience will have more respect for you than if you wade in.
Don't make up policy on the hoof. You could end up looking stupid and splitting your group. Stay on message, remember your soundbites, and remain focused.
Don't dwell on negative aspects; acknowledge them but be positive. If you are asked about cycling in the rain, you could respond by saying "According to the Met Office, there are only 52 days in the average year which are defined as 'rainy'."
Live interviews prevent points being edited out - but be careful not to libel anyone.
Stay calm. Broadcasting can be nerve-wracking, but get things in perspective - you're not going to be recognised in the street afterwards. If you are nervous, rehearsal can give you confidence and some people find that deep breathing helps.
Don't be afraid of pauses. Don't gabble. Refer to your notes if stuck, but try not to look down too much - it can make you look shifty.
Radio stations often interview on the phone, so make sure you're ready at the arranged time and that there is no background noise.
Dress appropriately and be prepared to play 'suits' at their own game. Dress smartly for TV - British audiences are a conservative lot and will be more likely to listen if you are conservatively dressed. If you wear Lycra then you know only too well the stereotype that will be applied. Even if you are being interviewed for radio, it will make you look professional, and make journalists more likely to call on you again.
Don't be scared of microphones - they improve your voice! Sit/stand at hand's length away and don't provide the audience with any distraction – shuffling papers, a twitch, fiddling with a pen.
Look at the interviewer and don't get distracted by movements behind them. The viewer will want to know what you are looking at.
What do you sound or look like yourself? What would you think of an interviewee looking/sounding like you? Would you be struck by their scruffiness? Would something else distract you so that you didn't take in what they said? What impression are you creating?
You represent a serious transport option so don't let journalists trivialise you. Don't wobble into the studio on a penny-farthing to talk about targets for vehicle emissions.
Be aware of contrasts - being interviewed on location with your hair and coat blowing around will look unfavourable when they cut back to a calm and collected councilor at a desk.
Be aware of what you want to say and be sensitive to what you are saying - make sure the two are the same.


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Hanthana Linux project, founded around two years ago is now reaching it's basic objectives. School computer laboratories were equipped with operating systems which require license and most of the installations were pirated copies. Things began to change recently.
The pilot project of nine computer laboratories with more than 200 computers, recently facilitated by the Ministry of Education entirely operate only on Hanthana Linux. Several other schools having grants from the world bank to better equip their laboratories have decided to shift to Linux operating system. They have the advantage of saving money spending to buy licensed software unnecessarily and from thus saved money, complete the computer network of their laboratories.
Dharmashoka College, Ambalangoda, Richmond College, Galle, Sujatha Balika Vidyalaya, Matara, Ferguson High School, Ratnapura, Sahira College, Gampola, Udayagiri College, Ampara and Maithreepala Sirisena College, Madawachchiya have received with computers by the Ministry of Education with Hanthana Linux as the only operating system. Wickramabahu College, Gampola and several others have started using Hanthana Linux in their computer laboratories.
At this point of writing, number of computers running Hanthana Linux as the only operating system in school computer laboratories exceeds 250.
Hanthana Linux deployment at Bandaranayake College, Gampaha.
Training sessions for teachers on how to use Hanthana Linux to fulfill the educational needs have already started. Coordination of those sessions are done by the Information and Communication Technology Branch of the Ministry of Education. Selected teachers from education zones are trained at the National Institute of Education.
Issues that Linux address
Although at times a school receives a licensed copy of an operating system as a donation they hardly can install a newer version later of it since the school has no money to pay for the license.
Though it is a licensed operating system, threats from viruses remains the same. To keep them away, new software has to be bought and installed. With Hanthana Linux there is no hassle from viruses since the threat from those are minimum and the latest security updates are available on the internet to be downloaded for free.
In general there comes a bundle of useful software with a Linux system and they all are installed in less than a 30 minutes time.
The finance for basic laboratory infrastructure for most of the laboratories are as foreign debt. With licensed software what happens it that we have pay the foreign for licenses. Further the quality of the software which comes free with Linux operating system are in good standards.
Sri Lanka is a developing country depending highly on foreign debts. In such a scenario projects like Hanthana Linux saving the flow of money to multi national companies and selecting qualitative options are of national importance.


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The "Just Give Me a Reason" singer tweeted the cryptic message, "I love that every time I find a box of Girl Scout cookies I'm pregnant. Guilty: I'm having a thin mint:)"
Pink Flaunts 55-Pound Weight Loss
No one knows for sure if Pink was just joking around, but her fans immediately began tweeting their congratulations.
Celebrity Bump Watch 2014
The couple's daughter, Willow Sage Hart, turns three in June.
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Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors
08.02.2020 – 28.02.2021Vitra Design MuseumGae Aulenti: A Creative Universe
29.02.2020 – 18.04.2021Vitra SchaudepotTypology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items
07.12.2019 – 24.01.2021Vitra Design Museum GalleryThe Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
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09.09.2020 – 12.12.2020Wrightwood 659Chicago, USA
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The collection of the Vitra Design Museum ranks among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide. It contains some 7000 pieces of furniture, a vast assemblage of lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. On 4 June 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot was opened, created by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in which the Vitra Design Museum presents key pieces of its collection.
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»Night Fever« opens with the 1960s, exploring the emergence of nightclubs as spaces for experimentation with interior design, new media, and alternative lifestyles. The Electric Circus (1967) in New York, for example, was designed as a countercultural venue by architect Charles Forberg while graphic designers Chermayeff & Geismar created its distinctive logo and font. Its multidisciplinary approach influenced many clubs in Europe, including Space Electronic (1969) in Florence. Designed by the collective Gruppo 9999, this was one of several nightclubs associated with Italy's Radical Design avant-garde. The same goes for Piper in Turin (1966), a club designed by Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, and Riccardo Rosso as a multifunctional space with a modular interior suitable for concerts, happenings, and experimental theatre as well as dancing. Gruppo UFO's Bamba Issa (1969), a beach club in Forte dei Marmi, was another highly histrionic venue, its themed interior completely overhauled for every summer of its three years of existence.
With the rise of disco in the 1970s, club culture gained a new momentum. Dance music developed into a genre of its own and the dance floor emerged as a stage for individual and collective performance, with fashion designers such as Halston and Stephen Burrows providing the perfect outfits to perform and shine. New York's Studio 54, founded by Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell in 1977 and designed by Scott Bromley and Ron Doud, soon became a celebrity favourite. Only two years later, the movie »Saturday Night Fever« marked the apex of Disco's commercialisation, which in turn sparked a backlash with homophobic and racist overtones that peaked at the Disco Demolition Night staged at a baseball stadium in Chicago.
Around the same time, places in New York's thriving nightlife like the Mudd Club (1978) and Area (1983) offered artists new spaces to merge the club scene and the arts and launched the careers of artists like Keith Haring und Jean-Michel Basquiat. In early 1980s London, meanwhile, clubs like Blitz and Taboo brought forth the New Romantic music and fashion movement, with wild child Vivienne Westwood a frequent guest at Michael and Gerlinde Costiff's »Kinky Gerlinky« clubnight. But it was in Manchester that architect and designer Ben Kelly created the post-industrial cathedral of rave, The Haçienda (1982), from where Acid House conquered the UK. House and Techno were arguably the last great dance music movements to define a generation of clubs and ravers. They reached Berlin in the early 1990s just after the fall of the wall, when disused and derelict spaces became available for clubs like Tresor (1991); more than a decade later, the notorious Berghain (2004) was established in a former heating plant, demonstrating yet again how a vibrant club scene can flourish in the cracks of the urban fabric, on empty lots and in vacant buildings.
Developments have become ever more complex since the early 2000s. On the one hand, club culture is thriving and evolving as it is adopted by global brands and music festivals; on the other, many nightclubs have been pushed out of the city or survive merely as sad historical monuments and modern ruins of a hedonistic past. At the same time, a new generation of architects is addressing the nightclub typology. The architectural firm OMA, founded by Rem Koolhaas, has developed a proposal for a twenty-first-century Ministry of Sound II for London, while Detroit-based designers Akoaki have created a mobile DJ booth called »The Mothership« to promote their hometown's rich club heritage.
Based on extensive research and featuring many exhibits never before displayed in a museum, »Night Fever« brings together a wide range of material, from furniture to graphic design, architectural models to art, film and photography to fashion. The exhibition takes visitors through a fascinating nocturnal world that provides a vital contrast to the rules and routines of our everyday life.
While the exhibition basically follows a chronological concept, a music and light installation created specially by exhibition designer Konstantin Grcic and lighting designer Matthias Singer offers visitors the opportunity to experience all the many facets of nightclub design, from visual effects to sounds and sensations. A display of record covers, ranging from Peter Saville's designs for Factory Records to Grace Jones's album cover »Nightclubbing«, underlines the significant relationship between music and design in club culture. The multidisciplinary exhibition reveals the nightclub as much more than a dance bar or a music venue; it is an immersive environment for intense experiences.
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Tom Douglas's Guide to Where to Eat in Seattle, WA
Our buddy Tom Douglas is perhaps Seattle's best-known chef-restaurateur. He has two pizzerias, a bakery, a Greek spot, a tavern, a seabar, a biscuit-erie (yes, it's now a word), and other eateries all over town. The man knows how to feed people—and he also knows how to feed himself! Tom shared his favorites for pizza, doughnuts, dive bars, and more around Seattle (and some of his picks happen to be some of his restaurants).
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Best Ice Cream: For gelato, Procopio in the Pike Place Market. For creamy, Old School Custard.
Best Chocolate: For "bean to bar" chocolate, Theo's in Fremont. For truffles, Fran's Chocolates.
Best Bread Bakery: For rustic bread, Columbia City Bakery. For the perfect French baguette, Le Panier in the Pike Place Market.
Best Pizza: For pizza from a wood burning oven, Serious Pie [see Slice review here]. For delivery, Pagliacci Pizza.
Best Dive Bar: For a dive bar with a view, the Athenian, in the Pike Place Market since 1909. Don't need a view? Try the Nitelite in Belltown.
Best Cheese: My favorite hard cheese is Beecher's Truckle, while my soft pick is a Mount Townsend Seastack.
Best Cocktail Bar: For classy, the elegant Canlis. For trashy, Hattie's Hat in Ballard.
Best Sandwich: For American, order a BLT at Dot's Delicatessen in Fremont. For international, a pork banh mi at Pho Cyclo.
Best Doughnut: For a nouveau doughnut, try the cinnamon-sugar-dusted ethereal puffs of brioche we call Dahlia doughnuts. For a classic doughnut, go to Top Pot (multiple locations and a truck).
Favorite Vendor at Pike Place Market: For cured meat, Bavarian Meats. For fresh meat, Don and Joe's Meats.
Best Coffee Shop: I love coffee with a pastry at Besalu in Ballard. For a solo cup, the Starbucks in the Pike Place Market.
Best Breakfast: Lola serves my favorite upscale breakfast. When I'm in the mood for classic American breakfast I head to Vera's in Ballard.
Best Take Out: Lowbrow pick is Dick's Drive-In. For highbrow, it's the Rub with Love Shack (next to Seatown).
Best Happy Hour: For trashy, Brave Horse Tavern in South Lake Union. For classy, the Walrus and the Carpenter in Ballard.


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The Allman Brothers Band is coming back to New York. The band is returning to the Beacon Theatre for its annual March residency beginning March 1st. The band will hold ten performances at the Beacon Theatre from March 1st – 16th. This year's annual residency marks its twenty-third year of performing at the famed theatre. The band has sold out its shows some two-hundred and ten times since it started performing at the theatre in 1989. Founding member Gregg Allman discussed the upcoming annual stint. "Yes, it's that time", he said. "The Beacon run is always magical. The room sounds great, lots of familiar faces and the band really stretches out. After Macon, New York is really our second home. There's just something about it, and our fans know it."
Tickets for the band's Beacon Theatre performances go on sale beginning next Friday, January 11th at 10am ET. They can be purchased at http://www.ticketmaster.com and http://www.beacontheatre.com. They can also be ordered by phone toll free at 1-800-744-3000. Fans in New York can also purchase them in person at the Beacon Theatre box office beginning next Saturday, January 12th.
Along with its annual stay at the Beacon Theatre, the band has also been invited by fellow music vet Eric Clapton to perform at his annual "Crossroads" benefit show on March 12th and 13th. Those performances will be at New York's equally famed Madison Square Gardens. The band will also headline a pair of dates at the annual Wanee Festival on April 19th and 20th in Live Oak, FL. To check out the full listing of The Allman Brothers Band performance dates, fans can go online to http://www.allmanbrothersband.com, http://hittinthenote.com, and http://www.waneefestival.com.
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The premise of clinical decision support (CDS) is simple and powerful: humans can't remember everything, so enter data into a computer and let the computer render judgement. So long as the data is accurate and the rules in the computer are valid, the computer will be correct the vast majority of the time.
CDS is commonly implemented in computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems across most order types – labs, drugs, radiology, and more. A simple example: most pediatric drugs require weight-based dosing. When physicians order drugs for pediatric patients using CPOE, the computer should validate the dose of the drug against the patient's weight to ensure the dose is in the acceptable range. Given that the computer has all of the information necessary to calculate acceptable dose ranges, and the fact that it's easy to accidently enter the wrong dose into the computer, CDS at the point of ordering delivers clear benefits.
The general notion of CDS – checking to make sure things are being done correctly – is the same fundamental principle behind checklists. In The Checklist Manifesto, Dr. Atul Gawande successfully argues that the challenge in medicine today is not in ignorance, but in execution. Checklists (whether paper or digital) and CDS are realizations of that reality.
CDS in CPOE works because physicians need to enter orders to do their job. But checklists aren't as fundamentally necessary for any given procedure or action. The checklist can be skipped, and the provider can perform the procedure at hand. Thus, the fundamental problem with checklists are that they insert a layer of friction into workflows: running through the checklist. If checklists could be implemented seamlessly without introducing any additional workflow friction, they would be more widely adopted and adhered to. The basic problem is that people don't want to go back to the same repetitive formula for tasks they feel comfortable performing. Given the tradeoff between patient safety and efficiency, checklists have only been seriously discussed in high acuity, high risk settings such as surgery and ICUs. It's simply not practical to implement checklists for low risk procedures. But even in high acuity environments, many organizations continue to struggle implementing checklists.
So…. what if we could make checklists seamless? How could that even be done?
Looking at CPOE CDS as a foundation, there are two fundamental challenges: collecting data, and checking against rules.
Computers can already access EMRs to retrieve all sorts of information about the patient. But computers don't yet have any ability to collect data about what providers are and aren't physically doing at the point of are. Without knowing what's physically happening, computers can't present alerts based on skipped or incorrect steps of the checklist. The solution would likely be based on a Kinect-like system that can detect movements and actions. Once the computer knows what's going on, it can cross reference what's happening against what's supposed to happen given the context of care delivery and issue alerts accordingly.
What's described above is an extremely ambitious technical undertaking. It will take many years to get there. There are already a number of companies trying to addressing this in primitive forms: SwipeSense detects if providers clean their hands before seeing patients, and the CHARM system uses Kinect to detect hand movements and ensure surgeries are performed correctly.
These early examples are a harbinger of what's to come. If preventable mistakes are the biggest killer within hospitals, hospitals need to implement systems to identify and prevent errors before they happen.
Let's assume that the tech evolves for an omniscient benevolent computer that detects errors and issues warnings. Although this is clearly desirable for patients, what does this mean for providers? Will they become slaves to the computer? Providers already face challenges with CPOE alert fatigue. Just imagine do-anything alert fatigue.
There is an art to telling people that they're wrong. In order to successfully prevent errors, computers will need to learn that art. Additionally, there must be a cultural shift to support the fact that when the computer speaks up, providers should listen. Many hospitals still struggle today with implementing checklists because of cultural issues. There will need to be a similar cultural shift to enable passive omniscient computers to identify errors and warn providers.
I'm not aware of any omniscient computers that watch people all day and warn them that they're about to make a mistake. There could be such software for workers in nuclear power plants or other critical jobs in which the cost of being wrong is devastating. If you know of any such software, please leave a comment.


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Warren Buffett's solar deal is important. It signals that the power industry appears to be pivoting away from wind and focusing on solar. The drivers are risk, reward and tax credits.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) knows a thing or two about the power and natural gas industries. Through its holding company, Berkshire owns Pacific Power, Rocky Mountain Power, MidAmerican Energy (electric and gas utility), Northern Natural Gas, Kern River Gas Transmission, Northern Powergrid (U.K.), CalEnergy Generation, and MidAmerican Renewables. The combined companies control 38,600 miles of natural gas pipelines, 177,000 mile of electric power lines, and 22,000 megawatts of generating capacity.
Berkshire's solar deals are taking place in its MidAmerican Renewables subsidiary. The company already owns a number of geothermal, wind, hydroelectric and solar assets. In its solar sector, MidAmerican has two solar projects already under development. Its Topaz Project is located in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. At 550-megawatts, it is huge. Better, it is hedged against PG&E's (PCG) subsidiary, Pacific Gas and Electric; the company will buy Topaz's electricity under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
MidAmerican's Agua Caliente Project is located in Yuma County, AZ. At 290-megawatts, it is large. It is supported by a $967 million federal loan guarantee. It is also financially hedged with a long-term power purchase agreement from Pacific Gas & Electric.
Now, MidAmerican Renewables plans to buy SunPower's (SPWR) 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects, which are co-located in California's Kern and Los Angeles counties. Combined, these new facilities will become one of the largest photovoltaic power facilities in the world.
Although many are focused only on Antelope, it is only part of a larger solar picture. Here are five key facts to consider about MidAmerican's solar initiative:
1. The deal to buy Antelope has little to do with the fiscal cliff. Of course, anything can happen in Congress. But unlike wind, solar power was largely immune from the expiring tax laws. Previous Congresses treated renewable energy from photovoltaics as a special case. Photovoltaics facilities were not entitled to the production tax credits that have been offered the wind power industry. Instead, they earned a 30% investment tax credit. However, that tax credit requires the owners to take the entire risk of project development before they can claim any tax benefits. The tax credit expires in 2016.
2. All of MidAmerican's solar projects will be completed, considered "used and useful" and in commercial operations well before the investment tax credit is set to expire. If the 113th Congress alters tax credits before the end of 2015, MidAmerican's projects may not be completed.
3. After MidAmerican's solar projects celebrate their sixth birthdays, they will incur almost zero production costs. They are expected to have very low operating costs and no depreciation expenses will remain. These facilities will drift to the very top income tax rates at both the federal and state levels where they will stay for the next 20 years. Any tax benefits earned in the early years will be offset by higher taxable earnings in subsequent years. The offset could be multiples of the tax benefit.
4. MidAmerican appears to be willing to pay $4.30 million per megawatt. This price seems to be above the market for comparable facilities (about $3.75 million). However, MidAmerican may be willing to pay a premium for SunPower's advanced technology, which produces electric power at approximately 18% efficiency. By comparison, First Solar's (FSLR) lower-cost thin film technologies is approximately 12% efficient.
5. The massive infusion of new power from photovoltaic may affect margins at Edison International's (EIX) San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). It could also affect other regional independent power producers, such as Calpine (CPN) and NRG Energy (NRG). The reason is that massive amounts of solar power will come on line and it will consistently displace price-setting peaking facilities. That displacement will cause average market-clearing prices to decline for the region. Lower average prices usually cause lower margins and lower earnings for all participants in that market.
Few other utilities have the financial might to pull off projects of this magnitude. For solar to work at these levels, owners not only have to have strong balance sheets, they also must be hugely profitable so they can afford to absorb massive amounts of tax equity. This is why MidAmerican's solar projects integrate nicely with Berkshire's financials. They company offers tax losses in the first several years of operations and it will provide strong and reliable earnings in subsequent years.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (Nov. 30, 2018) -- For a second year in-a-row, households throughout the United States will be able to experience the excitement and energy of SCCA® racing when select National Championship Runoffs® events from Sonoma Raceway air on CBS Sports Network in December.
Starting at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, race fans will be treated to the Formula Continental® event followed at 10 p.m. by the GT-2 race. A week later on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m., the Formula Enterprises and Formula Enterprises 2 race takes center stage followed at 2 p.m. by the Spec Racer Ford Gen3 event.
The exciting Formula Vee® Runoffs race then airs at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16, and the Spec Miata race at 9 p.m. the following Sunday, Dec. 23. Encore presentations of each broadcast will also air on CBS Sports Network on Dec. 30 with a marathon beginning at noon and including the final two premieres -- a combined Formula F/Formula 500 event at 6 p.m. followed by the F Production race at 7 p.m.
Each separate race, produced by Apex Broadcast for the 10th year in-a-row, will be 60 minutes in length and anchored by longtime Runoffs announcer Greg Creamer. Additional commentary is supplied by Ryan Myrehn (SportsCar365 writer), Tom O'Gorman (pro driver), Andy Hollis and Larry MacLeod (SCCA Solo Nationals announcers), and Heyward Wagner (pit reporter). All broadcast times are Eastern and the schedule is subject to change. Check cable or satellite TV providers for local CBS Sports Network channels.
2018 Runoffs CBS Sports Network broadcast schedule:
-Sun., Dec. 2, 9 p.m. Eastern; Formula Continental (encore Sun., Dec. 30, noon Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 2, 10 p.m. Eastern; GT-2 (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 1 p.m. Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 9, 1 p.m. Eastern; Formula Enterprises/FE2 (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 2 p.m. Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 9, 2 p.m. Eastern; Spec Racer Ford Gen3 (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 3 p.m. Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 16, 9 p.m. Eastern; Formula Vee (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 4 p.m. Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 23, 9 p.m. Eastern; Spec Miata (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 5 p.m. Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 30, 6 p.m. Eastern; FF/Formula 500 (encore Sun., Dec. 30, midnight Eastern)
-Sun., Dec. 30, 7 p.m. Eastern; F Production (encore Sun., Dec. 30, 1 a.m. Eastern)
Mike Cobb, SCCA President and CEO, said exposure on CBS Sports Network gives the Sports Car Club of America® an opportunity to showcase its exciting brand of road racing on millions of televisions in homes across the nation.
"The eight races selected for broadcast this year were chosen based on the quality of competition, the ability to connect with a wide audience, and the desire to display a spectrum of SCCA Road Racing activities," Cobb said. "It is my hope that every SCCA member will tell friends, family, co-workers, neighbors and acquaintances that the Runoffs will be airing Sundays on CBS Sports Network in December. It's a great way to share with others exactly what SCCA Road Racing is all about."
The SCCA National Championship Runoffs has evolved into what is now commonly agreed to be the pinnacle of American motorsports. Since 1964, the SCCA has crowned Road Racing's National Champions at the winner-take-all, single race Runoffs format through dozens of separate races over three days. As host of the 55th Runoffs, Sonoma Raceway became only the third California track to host SCCA's National Championship, joining Riverside International Raceway and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Each race on Sonoma's 12-turn, 2.52-mile circuit was 20 laps or 40 minutes, whichever came first.
With broadcasts presented by Mazda, all 28 Runoffs races from Sonoma Raceway are available for online viewing anytime at the 2018 SCCA Runoffs OnDemand webpage at SCCA.com.
The Sports Car Club of America®, Inc., founded in 1944, is a 67,500-member motorsports organization that incorporates all facets of autocross, rally and road racing at both Club and professional levels. With headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, the SCCA annually sanctions over 2,000 events through its 116 Regions and subsidiary divisions. Much of the SCCA's activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Chevrolet, the Official Truck of the SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Mobil 1, the Official Oil of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; and Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA. To learn more, please visit www.scca.com.


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If there's one thing that became increasingly clear during Andi Dorfman's time on The Bachelor, it's that she's not afraid to speak her mind — and she certainly won't settle for being told, "It's OK." But according to the 26-year-old, there's a whole other side that she can't wait for the world to see.
"Obviously America saw a lot of the tough girl and that's what came out at the very end," Andi tells TVGuide.com. "But I am a very soft person inside, I'm vulnerable and I'm somebody who is looking for love. I'm not just the tough chick from Atlanta who's an attorney. I'm a girl who wants to be courted and have the love of her life."
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On Monday, The Bachelorette kicks off its tenth season with Andi settling into her temporary L.A. digs before meeting the 25 guys who've earned a chance to win her heart. It wasn't too long ago that Andi herself was flying to California unaware of the journey that awaited her. After meeting Juan Pablo, Andi flew under the radar for awhile, eventually making it past hometown week to the overnight date. Going into the fantasy suite, things seemed to be falling into place for the two, but when they emerged the next morning, it was a different story. Andi called the date a "nightmare" and later, just prior to the rose ceremony, she told Juan Pablo she was going home. A confrontation transpired, and ultimately, Andi left frustrated and alone. But everything worked out for the best when, during the finale's "After the Final Rose" special, hostChris Harrison announced that Andi was the new Bachelorette.
"My biggest fear, honestly, was not finding anybody," Andi says. "Going into the first night I was thinking, 'I don't know if I can do this! I don't know if I can find anybody through this.'"
Was Juan Pablo the Worst Bachelor Ever? And Does It Even Matter?
Andi's worries were immediately quelled when she met the group of guys who will vie for her affection, including an opera singer, a farmer and a "pantsaprenuer." As viewers already know, one suitor, Eric Hill, tragically died in a paragliding accident after he completed filming. About Eric, Andi recently said, "We lost a family member and it's been hard, [but] we are holding on to the legacy of Eric. He really did live life to the fullest and that's something that every single person, cast, crew, production, you know, myself included will take away from Eric and his experience with them."
Looking at the upcoming season, Andi — who might be the first woman to wear a one-piece bathing suit on the show — says it won't rank high on the sexy and scandalous scale.
"Mine will probably be on the more romantic side," she says. "You will not see a lot of hot-tub scenes; it's not really my thing. But I feel like you can be sexy by being romantic and it doesn't need to involve bikinis and hot tubs."
Watch a sneak peek of the season:
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The Klingons pictured above are angry at being left on the cutting room floor of JJ Abrams' 2009 film, Star Trek; it's possible the director will make amends by including them in the as-of-yet untitled sequel, Star Trek 2. At the MTV Movie Awards last night, Abrams participated in a skit that misdirected your attention onto Jennifer Lawrence's hotness and Joel McHale's terrible archery skills. What you may have missed is an intentionally included screenshot of a Klingon warrior on a monitor behind Abrams. Reportedly, this isn't an old screenshot from the 2009 film, but an image that was added to the skit on purpose. Does it confirm that Klingons will be in the sequel? Maybe not, but it does confirm that Abrams likes to dick with us. Hit the jump to check out the image. (Update: HitFix has confirmed that the image is from the sequel and that it features a real live Klingon.)
The site that brought this to our attention is the same one that previously suggested the presence of Klingons in the sequel. In that same piece, it was also presented that Benedict Cumberbatch would in fact be playing the iconic (i-Khan-ic?) villain of Khan in the sequel. That presumption was recently refuted by star, Simon Pegg. So is the Klingon screencap just another red herring from Abrams or a clue into what we can expect to see in the sequel? Starring Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Alice Eve and Karl Urban, the Untitled Star Trek Sequel debuts May 17th, 2013. Check out the video from the MTV Movie Awards below, followed by the screengrab (via TrekMovie):


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Tessa's shirt is from Gnome Enterprises on Etsy. Hat is from Forever 21. Little Little was found on the streets of Brooklyn, and is now loving life in Sunny South Florida.
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I get that you're seventeen and all of that, but please don't be in any rush to grow up.


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The mountain town of LARES is often bypassed by foreign visitors, its shabby centre and weathered buildings evidence of prolonged hard times. Yet its citizens are some of the most welcoming on the island, proud of their central role in the Grito de Lares of 1868, the most significant Puerto Rican rebellion against the Spanish and commemorated solemnly here every year on September 23. Indeed, revered independence activist Pedro Albizu Campos is supposed to have said "Lares is Holy Land, and as such, it must be visited kneeling down." Lares isn't all serious, however: Campos would no doubt be mortified by the monument honouring the slightly less heroic (but equally famous) local girl Denisse Quiñones, who in 2001 became the fourth Puerto Rican to win the Miss Universe title, and even if the history doesn't interest you, the town's celebrated ice cream more than justifies a visit.
The town is centred around the Plaza de la Revolución and its large Spanish Colonial-style church, the Iglesia de Parroquia San José de la Montaña (usually open daily). Its wide vaulted interior has antique tiled floors and a beautifully carved wooden retablo – the rebels placed their revolutionary flags here to signal the beginning of the 1868 revolt. After the well-attended Mass on Sundays, worshippers eat fried snacks at the Kiosko de la Iglesia, beneath the church on the plaza, only open on Sunday mornings. In front of the church are the main memorials to the Grito: the all-white Obelisco, an austere pillar flanked by flagpoles honouring the six heroes of 1868; the Arbol de Tamarindo behind it, a tamarind tree from Simón Bolívar's estate in Venezuela, symbol of the struggle for freedom in Latin America; and the Monumento a Betances, a statue of the leader of the rebels, Ramón Emeterio Betances.
Walk down the hill from the plaza (north along Calle Campos) and a couple of blocks on the right is the Museo de Lares (t787/563-7883), with an odd collection of photos, documents and bric-a-brac relating to the history of Lares, as well as local contemporary art.
Lares is also home to one of Puerto Rico's "Coffee Zone" haciendas, Café Lareño (t787/897-3643), south of Lares, at PR-128 km 40. Call in advance to be given a tour of the premises.
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A required text for the Open University Course, Richmond Lattimore has made this classic translation wonderfully readable. The book includes an extensive introductory commentary, providing both an historical and literary perspective and a glossary.Lattimore, Richmond is the author of 'Odyssey of Homer ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780061244186 and ISBN 006124418X.[read more]
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Hobbies are a personal thing. What might float your boat might not float your lover's. And sometimes, your hobby might repulse them entirely.
An online survey of one thousand revealed what hobbies have caused boyfriends or girlfriends to run far, far away. Those hobbies were largely otaku and fetish related.
Here's a list of hobbies that some of those surveyed said made them pull away:
• "Idol mania," said a 25 year-old female. "I didn't want to be associated with that, so I dumped him."
• "Anime otaku," said a 25 year-old male. "I let it be, but I detested it."
• "Boy bands," said a 44 year-old male. "I stopped saying bad things about boy bands."
• "Liking erotic game Tsurupeta and fanzines," said a 30 year-old female. "And so, I gave a different reason for breaking up."
• "S&M play," said a 31 female. "I wasn't really forced to do anything and, well, I let it slide, but I thought there's no way we can get married."
• "Her hobby was sniffing feet," said a 37 year-old male. "What kind of hobby is that...?"
• "Dressing as a man," said a 26 year-old male. "I was totally repulsed."
• "Street racing," said a 28 year-old male. "We broke up."
• "Playing cards, pachinko, smoking, mah-jong," said a 23 year-old female. "I want him to stop wasting money."
• "Going to cat cafes (cafes with cats to play with) everyday," said a 30 year-old female. "I couldn't go along with that, so we broke up."
Not every couple must share the exact same hobbies. But if your better half isn't cool with them, that's probably a good sign you both should not be together.
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Now part of the Suzlon Group, Repower Systems established its French subsidiary Repower SAS in 2002 with Belgium's Turbowinds and erected its first turbine, a 1.5MW unit in the north-eastern Marne departement.
Over 500 turbines have now been installed, making it the country's second-largest supplier after fellow German firm Enercon.
CEO Per Hornung Pedersen says that Repower SAS "is among the oldest and largest Repower subsidiaries and generates one of the highest levels of sales". The company now has its eye on France's offshore market.


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What did Richard Sherman say to Michael Crabtree? Here's the answer (VIDEO)
It's the question the football watching world has been waiting for since Sunday night: What did Seattle Seahawks corner Richard Sherman say to San Francisco 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree when he ran over to him at the end of the NFC championship game? Now we have the answer, courtesy of NFL films.
The answer? "Hell of a game."
Much like the overblown reaction to Dez Bryant's sideline outburst during the regular season, the audio paints a different picture than what many people probably assumed when they saw Crabtree shove Sherman in the face.


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Scientific Linux 6.0 Released
Linux adoption in the scientific community is very high for many reasons. Cost is a significant issue, as many university research groups typically have small computing budgets. Another key factor is the availability of quality tools and a community of support. Python has a tremendous amount of support in the academic and scientific community, specifically around tools like matplotlib, NumPy and SciPy. The recently held Pycon conference featured a large number of talks on Python in the scientific community.Linux adoption in the scientific community is very high. For the many organizations that want Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 but don't want to pay for it or wait for the next release of CentOS, Scientific Linux is worth a look.
Scientific Linux (SL) 6.0 is the latest release of a Red Hat-based distribution specifically tailored to meet the needs of the scientific computing community (see Figure 1). It's championed by Fermilab and used for some experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Fermilab released its first version on SL in 2004 with a target audience of the high-energy physics community. Since then, it has been adopted by research facilities across the world.
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Scientific Linux Installation
There are several methods for installing SL 6.0, including from a full DVD distribution .iso file or over the network. The SL site also offers a live CD for testing purposes. This version works well if you want to give SL a spin using a virtualization tool like Virtualbox. You'll want to give the virtual machine at least 1GB of memory and a minimium disk size of 20 GB.
The SL website provides an annotated installation guide complete with screenshots to guide you through the process. You'll find guides for both initial installation or an upgrade from a previous version. If you choose to do a network install, you may need to configure your network devices. Several screenshots detail what needs to be entered to get your computer connected to the network. If you choose the Live CD route, there's also an option to install permanently, should you choose to do so. The default user environment is based on GNOME, so if you're a KDE fan you'll have to install that manually.
Scientific Linux Version 6.0
This release is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 compiled from source, but you will not find the words Red Hat anywhere in the documentation or on the website. The missing words are intentional in an attempt to avoid any issues over naming. There are some specific additions to the core distribution added because of their use at many SL sites. Added packages include icewm, openafs (Apple File System port), and a set of tools for building either live CDs or USBs for distribution.
There does seem to be a significantly missing package from this release. SciPy is not installed by default and, in fact, it is not easily installed, at least for a 64-bit system. If you browse the mail list archives,you'll see several discussions on getting SciPy installed on previous versions of SL. We made a few feeble attempts to get it installed but failed on account of missing dependencies.
Software Development
Software development in the scientific community is a common requirement. SL 6.0 includes a number of tools to support that effort including Eclipse 3.5.2, Gnu Emacs, OpenJDK, and both Qt3 and Qt4. Python 2.6.5 is the default version installed along with gcc 4.4.4. You can install other languages using the normal Add/Remove Software tool from the System / Administration menu (see Figure 2).
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The base distribution includes the Virtual Machine Manager but neither KVM nor QEMU. You will have to install one or the other if you want to create a virtual machine for testing purposes. Using virtual machines for software development and testing provides a clean way of separating your development environment from your main machine to prevent any inadvertent changes to your basic system.
Python Plotting
SL does come with both NumPy and matplotlib installed, so you do have some basic computation and plotting tools to start with. NumPy provides a large library of functions for performing various numerical operations on arrays and matrices. For plotting, there's matplotlib, which provides a fully functional tool for generating scientific plots (see Figure 3).
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These two tools enable quite a bit. Both matplotlib and NumPy have large numbers of examples and fairly comprehensive documentation to help you along. You'll find video tutorials as well if you like to have someone show you how to do things. The Pycon videos are posted on the blip.tv site and include everything from basic introductory material to a review of Python-integrated development environments (IDEs).
Bottom Line
Scientific Linux is one way to get your hands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 without waiting on the next release of CentOS. It also provides a solid foundation for developing scientific applications with many of the needed tools already installed. There are a few missing pieces including SciPy, so be aware of that.


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Robert De Niro to Tackle Bernie Madoff Character in HBO Movie
Robert De Niro, who's never one to shy away from portraying criminals, has signed on to play Bernie Madoff in a potential HBO movie about the disgraced financier.
Although production has yet to start, De Niro's Tribeca Productions will be the ones to do so. The film is partially based on the Madoff books 'The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust and Truth' and 'Consequences: Life Inside The Madoff Family.'
In 2009, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme, which bilked investors out of $50 billion. As a result of his crime, him and his family have become the targets of hate mail, prompting Madoff and his wife to attempt suicide.


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My name's Cooper. I'm known as an American downtempo producer, but lately I've made two big changes in my life:
1) I moved to Japan
2) I started writing some absurdly fast psytrance.
You can hear some of the stuff i've been doing with the legendary CinderVOMIT as Datavore right here:
So i've gotten to know the Brain Busters crew pretty well, and I've even opened one of their parties with some of the wobbly chillstep I normally do (http://soundcloud.com/naiaddaiad if you're interested) BUT.
Datavore psytrance is waaaayyyyy too fast for them.
So, who in Japan is throwing parties where I could play a liveset at between 170-220 bpm? I'd really like to get some gigs to try out this new music, but I've never met anyone here who's really into the extreme stuff! They must exist! Someone must be doing it, right??
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For Christmas, my children received an interesting gift: a Crayola Crayon Maker.
It's a cute little device. All you do is break up some crayons (they come with the crayon maker) and put them on a little tray in there, flip on the switch, and wait for a bit. The crayons melt, then you tip the tray over and the melted wax pours into some crayon molds. Wait a few minutes and you have new multicolored crayons!
It was one of those toys that my children had a lot of fun with for one day, then it got set aside and hasn't really been thought about since. However, the core idea behind it is something that can really be of use to frugal families where the children are really into drawing and art.
At the bottom of our crayon bucket, you'll find a lot of nubs. These little mostly-used crayons are now short enough that our children's fingers don't hold them very well. Often, the nubs are the result of accidental crayon breakage; other times, the crayons are short due to wear and tear.
These stubs might get thrown out at some houses, but at our house, they're a perfect item for recycling.
We just take out a silicone mold we found at a garage sale for a quarter (like this one), break up the nubs into tiny pieces, and fill up the mold with the pieces.
Then, we pop the mold in the oven at a fairly low temperature – say 200 F – and leave it in there for fifteen minutes. We often do this alongside something that's baking for other reasons. The melting point of crayon wax seems to be around 130 to 150 F depending on the color, so 200 F is a great temperature for the crayons to melt together in the mold.
When they're done, just put the mold out on the table and leave it there until the crayons are room temperature, then pop them out of the mold. If needed, you can carefully cut the new "crayons" into smaller shapes that are easier for drawing.
This gives the children very interesting swirled crayons to use, costs us virtually nothing, and enables us to put those crayon stubs to good use. That's a win all around.
On top of that, this is a perfect lesson for the children about recycling and reusing things. There's no reason to throw something away if there's still a perfectly good use for it, after all.
In fact, we've actually taken a big pile of crayon stubs from the children of friends who were happy to hand them over at first, until we explained what we were going to do with them. They then seemed to change their minds a bit, thinking that it seemed like a pretty nifty thing to do with their kids.
If you've got kids and crayon stubs and if you have access to a silicon mold of some sort, give this a try. It's easy, demonstrates recycling, costs almost nothing, and results in some cool crayons for your children.
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A ruler, also known as a rule is a flat, straightedge measuring instrument with equally marked spacing etched or moulded along its length. The spacing forms a measuring scale and is usually in increments of inches (sometimes denoted as "), centimetres (cm) and millimetres (mm). Some rulers have measurements on both sides, the edges of the rulers are bevelled to reduce measurement errors. Rulers are used to measure the length of an object or its edge precisely and as a guide for drawing or scoring straight lines.
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Rulers are used in schools, at home and in a wide range of occupations and fields of study including geometry, printing, technical drawing, building and engineering.
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Rulers are made from durable materials like wood, plastic or metal. These materials are hard wearing, they are usually shatter resistant and scratch proof and are made to last a long time.
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Transparent plastic rulers allow an unobstructed view of the surface underneath for precise measuring and drawing. Stainless steel rulers or an aluminium ruler is very durable and are ideal for use in a workshop. These steel rules often have a satin chrome anti-glare finish for clear visibility of the scale. Wooden rulers are ideal for use at home or in schools, the wood has a smooth surface, is clear to read and won't split. Flexible rulers or tape measures, are ideal for determining the dimensions of objects with curves and angles. They are able to bend and flex to measure an exact circumference, length, width or height. Machinist's rulers are made from steel and are usually a 6 inch ruler. The imperial machinist scale ruler is divided into increments of 1/10 inch. The metric machinist ruler is divided into millimetres or half-millimetre increments, allowing small, precise measurements to be taken with accuracy.


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Apr 07, 2009 05:40 PM|vcsjones|LINK
I've read some information about the new identity model for IIS 7.5 and it seems really cool, the identity on-the-fly and SID injection is neat. But either I am doing something very stupid, or something else. My problem is I need to grant write access to the folder where the application lives for the Windows ACL, so I have my application pool named "DefaultAppPool". When I hit the application and look in task manager, I can see that the w3wp is running as "DefaultAppPool".
However, when I go to grant DefaultAppPool write access to the directory, Windows always complains it cannot find the user. I've tried:
The first one says the account doesn't exist. The second one says "The following object is not from a domain listed in the Select Location dialog box, and therefore is not valid"
Well that makes sense since I am not on a domain, and there is no domain called IIS APPPOOL.
Any hints? Thanks in advance.
Apr 07, 2009 09:07 PM|lextm|LINK
Can you use icacls to set permissions for IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool?
Apr 07, 2009 09:53 PM|vcsjones|LINK
Yes I can, and that seemed to work just great. I suppose that is an oddity of the Beta release - you can't do that through the GUI. Why didn't I think of that!
Oct 22, 2009 07:25 AM|Khyalis|LINK
My coworker just got 7 installed on his Desktop the other day, and we ran into the same problem when trying to set up permissions. Either it's not an oddity of the Beta release, or we didn't take something into consideration which we should have, in which case we'd be glad to take hints as to where we are wrong.
Thanks you.
Oct 23, 2009 03:01 PM|CoderX|LINK
Oct 25, 2009 11:56 PM|lextm|LINK
It is easy to miss these necessary settings.
When you are in Select Users or Groups dialog, please make sure you select the machine name for Locations and have Built-in security principals selected for Object Types.
Only if you have the above settings you can find pool identities such as IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool
Therefore, this is not a bug.
Oct 26, 2009 10:14 AM|Khyalis|LINK
Your suggestion helped us a lot.
Apparently when we set the local machine name as location we didn't use the "IIS AppPool" prefix, and when we used the prefix, we forgot to set the Location.
But fortunately there is you.
Thanks a lot
Oct 27, 2009 08:03 AM|RemcoRos|LINK
I'm running into this issue too (Windows 2008 / IIS 7.0).
I tried the suggestions above, but it doesn't work.
When using 'search' in the permissions GUI, none of the built-in IIS AppPool security principles are found.
When specifing IIS AppPool\AppPoolName it says it cannot find the user/role/principle.
It seems the folder/file Permission GUI does not support IIS AppPool built-in principles... is that correct?
I can however modify permissions using isacls.
Oct 27, 2009 11:21 AM|blackburn_|LINK
We have the exact same problem here. It works like a charm in Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5, but not in 2008 SP2 / IIS 7.0.
In 2008 R2 I can use the GUI to set file acls for "IIS AppPool\<app pool name>" but in 2008 the user can't be found. I've tried on several different servers.
Location is the local computer and Built-in security principals is checked under Objects.
Oct 27, 2009 01:27 PM|anilr|LINK
This is unfortunately a limitation of the object picker on ws08/vista - as several people have discovered it already, you can still manipulate the ACL for the app-pool identity using command line tools like icacls.
Oct 27, 2009 01:33 PM|Khyalis|LINK
I just retried with Vista SP2 / IIS7.0, and what recently worked well with Windows 7 / IIS7.5 just wouldn't.
Edit: Oh noez, starting a reply and leaving it sitting around for extensive periods of time will lead into obsoleteness. :-)
Oct 27, 2009 03:44 PM|RemcoRos|LINK
The nice thing is I learned to use icacls now :)
Jan 14, 2010 02:04 AM|Sweeperq|LINK
I am using Windows 7 and set up the permissions for "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool" to have "Full Control" over my web app. I still keep getting FileIOPermission errors. When I switched the App Pool to use Network Services everything worked like a charm.
Any thoughts on why a web app running in Full Trust with Full Control granted for the DefaultAppPool would still be throwing FileIOPermission errors?
Note: I have tried setting the permissions with both the GUI and the icacls command. In both, full control was granted. Keep getting the following error when I do not use Network Services:
System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.
Apr 11, 2010 02:23 PM|deko|LINK
I found this thread after experiencing the same ApplicationPoolIdentity authentication problems described by the original poster (IIS 7.5 on Windows 7). Someone called it "a limitation of the object picker" which sounds like a nice way of saying the Windows/IIS
team let this out the door half-baked. I was just about to use the "Network Service" identity instead but will give icacls as try and see if I can get the ApplicationPoolIdentity to work...
Authentication ApplicationPoolIdentity
May 10, 2010 01:57 PM|jgovednik|LINK
I just found an easy solution to this problem that does not involve using the NetworkService as the account to run the AppPool.
I have applied this solution to my 2008R2 using IIS7.5 (using IIS6Compatibility mode and the local SMTP server Feature installed and all ASP AppPools running in 32bit mode); I have not tested this outside of that environment, so your mileage may vary.
let me preface by saying, this issue didnt happen when the AppPool was running as NetworkService, only when using ApplicationPoolIdentity. The reason for this is explained below.
In 2008/IIS7+ the ApplicationPoolIdentity accounts are hidden accounts that have dynamically assigned SID's (created and assigned when the ApplicationPool is started). But the accounts live as (hidden) users under the IIS_IUSRS group on the local machine (this makes giving them permissions to the AppPools pretty easy, since you can use the normal GUI interface for perms or use scripts while specifying the local user group).
Hope this helps all the other people who found this thread.
Application Pool Identity IIS 7
Jun 04, 2010 04:17 AM|danielLo|LINK
Jun 16, 2010 04:53 PM|pyousefi|LINK
What if its SQL server that isn't giving you access?
I'm getting this error: System.Data.EntityException: The underlying provider failed on Open. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'IIS APPPOOL\ASP.NET v4.0'.
Jun 17, 2010 03:50 AM|Khyalis|LINK
CREATELOGIN [IIS AppPool\ASP.NET v4.0] FROM WINDOWS
(Edit: Maybe you also want to give that user appropriate permissons on the databases / database-objects he's supposed to interact with.)
(Edit2: This was under the assumption, that the SQL Server is on the same machine as IIS. Which, thinking about it, is a quite unreasonable assumption in general. If SQL Server and IIS are running on different machines, I'd think you would have to use some account which is known to both of them, and not local to the IIS-machine.)
Jun 17, 2010 09:24 AM|lextm|LINK
It is highly not recommended to grant application pool identity permissions on database.
MSDN has two approaches listed for ASP.NET beginners,
Sep 29, 2010 04:04 PM|ewookie|LINK
Oct 11, 2010 08:29 AM|mr_3ntropy|LINK
ewookiei am running windows server 2008 r2 standard. i was unable to give DefaultAppPool permissions to an .mdb file using the GUI. i was able to do it with icacls. however, the web application still could not write to the database. i tried using the iis_iusrs group as well, but writing to the database was still denied. finally, i gave the IUSR account modify permissions and it worked. any ideas why i'm having to do this and how i can make my installation of iis 7 work the recommended way?
Yes, its because you are not using .net, so the app runs under the security context of the anonymous user (IUSR), because in classic asp impersonation cannot be disabled.
To make it work the "recommended" way set your anonymous identity = app pool
Jun 01, 2011 07:25 PM|zipswich|LINK
I want to second what jgovednik described.
I used to grant DefaultAppPool permissions for my ASP.net apps. Now I just grand permissions to IIS_IUSRS. This has worked well for me so far.
Jun 01, 2011 08:05 PM|steve schofield|LINK
Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
Log archival solution
Install, Configure, Forget
Jul 26, 2011 09:00 AM|sh_olsson|LINK
Jul 26, 2011 10:50 AM|HCamper|LINK
Hello @ sh_olsson,
If you check IIS Net library http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/applicationPools
reference for Application Pools the samples section may help.
For general Application Pool use http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/ in IIS Net library.
Jul 27, 2011 10:28 AM|freefallen|LINK
Jul 27, 2011 12:00 PM|HCamper|LINK
Hi @ freefallen,
The information in the thread from Lex for ICALS commands and operation
work with IIS Server 7.0 to manage permissions.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx .
Jul 27, 2011 01:06 PM|sh_olsson|LINK
Hello @ sh_olsson,
If you check IIS Net library http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/applicationPools
reference for Application Pools the samples section may help.
For general Application Pool use http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/ in IIS Net library.
Thanks, but in the first link there is a worrying sentence: "To do so, you would set your security using the name of an application pool by using syntax like "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool." This identity is created dynamically, thereby dramatically reducing the surface attack area of your server"
The word "dynamically" is ominous to me, I get the impression that if I use syntax like:
...FileSystemAccessRule(New NTAccount("IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool"), FileSystemRights...
to create en ACE in an ACL for a resource, later on, the SID-number för "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool" will have changed so the access rule stops working?
Or is the SID-number stabile on that machine, for that specific name "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool", so I shouldn't worry about the wording "dynamic"?
Jul 27, 2011 01:23 PM|HCamper|LINK
The Topic "Troubles with ApplicationPoolIdentity" " IIS 7.5 server" or "Windows 7 operating systems"
Your questions are important "security questions and concerns" need the best possible answers.
Create a new post.
Sep 27, 2011 03:56 AM|olivier.voutat|LINK
Have you ever found the solution to this problem? I'm having a problem very similar when trying to access an Azman Xml...
Sep 27, 2011 05:28 AM|HCamper|LINK
The Topic "Trouble with ApplicationPoolIdentity in IIS 7.5 + Windows 7"
Your questions are important and need the best possible answers.
Create a new post for the problems and issues.
Apr 26, 2012 08:55 AM|Rob Grainger|LINK
It may not be a bug, but its hardly well documented. I'd vote to describe this as a documentation bug - I really shouldn't have to trawl through multiple online forums to find how to do such a basic operation (most of the descriptions I read were incomplete or wrong). And this isn't the first time I've attempted to resolve it (first time I succeeded before giving up though). Thanks for the solution, it just saved me having to use "Network Service" again.
lextmTherefore, this is not a bug.
May 21, 2012 03:00 AM|Tasmey|LINK
Sep 18, 2012 12:51 PM|russmichaels|LINK
Sep 18, 2012 01:04 PM|russmichaels|LINK


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