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2.5in SATA Removable Hard Drive Bay for PC Expansion Slot
Use an available expansion card slot to install a hot swappable 2.5in hard drive
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- Fits a 2.5" SATA drive into a rear full profile expansion card slot
- Trayless design: drive is not mounted into a tray or enclosure
- Latching drive door
- 50,000+ insertion rating
- Vented aluminum and steel construction
- Door mounted Power/Activity LED indicator
- Support for SATA revision I/II/III (1.5/3.0/6.0 Gbps)
- Supports 2.5" form factor SATA hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
- Plug-and-Play and Hot-Swap compatible
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The S25SLOTR Trayless Hard Drive Rack can be installed into an available (full profile) PCI expansion card slot, providing easy access to a bare 2.5" SATA hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) from the rear panel of a computer case.
Unlike conventional hard drive enclosures, the S25SLOTR hard drive rack doesn't require that a drive be installed in a drive tray, saving the time and hassle involved in having to mount or install the hard drive for access to drive contents.
To maximize performance and utilize the full speed potential of your SATA III hard drives, this HDD Backplane supports SATA III for transfer speeds up to 6 Gbps when paired with a compatible controller.
Once installed in a PCI slot (and accompanying rear panel bracket), installing a 2.5" SATA HDD is as simple as inserting it into the trayless rack. To remove the hard drive, simply hit the eject button to unlock the access door, allowing the drive to be pulled out of the computer without having to dismount the drive.
* This unique design of the mobile rack enables you to use any available full profile expansion slot to mount a removable 2.5in SATA hard drive.
- Add additional storage capabilities to a computer with no more internal or external drive bays
- Add removable storage to the rear of a system, where it is less noticeable or accessible to unauthorized users
- Add removable storage to small form factor chassis' with no standard 3.5/5.25" drive bays
- Add additional hot-swap bays to a server or workstation computer
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- Utilize a free expansion card slot to add a removable 2.5" SATA hard drive bay
- Vented aluminum/steel design and a 50,000+ insertion rating ensures reliability of the drive and drive rack
- Maximize performance, with file transfer speeds up to 6Gbps when paired with SATA III HDD and controller
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|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Compatible Drive Types
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|Number of Drives
|Hot Swap Capability
|Max Drive Capacity
|Tested up to 500 GB
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|1 - SATA Data & Power Combo (7+15 pin) Receptacle
|Host Connectors
|1 - LP4 (4 pin; Large Drive Power) Male
|1 - SATA (7 pin, Data) Plug
|1 - SATA Power (15 pin) Plug
|OS Compatibility
|OS independent; No software or drivers required
|LED Indicators
|1 - Solid - Power On
Blinking - Activity
|Operating Temperature
|0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
|Storage Temperature
|-5°C to 75°C (23°F to 167°F)
|Physical Characteristics
|Aluminum and Steel
|Max Drive Height
|0.4 in [9.5 mm]
|Product Height
|4.7 in [12 cm]
|Product Length
|5.7 in [14.5 cm]
|Product Width
|0.8 in [21 mm]
|Weight of Product
|5.9 oz [167 g]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|1.3 in [33 mm]
|Package Length
|5.4 in [13.6 cm]
|Package Width
|6.3 in [16.1 cm]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|8.3 oz [234 g]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - Expansion Slot Removable HDD bracket
|1 - 20in SATA cable
|1 - LP4 SATA breakout cable
|1 - Hard Drive Protective Film
|1 - Mounting Screws
|1 - Instruction Manual
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Yes, this mobile rack does support hot-swapping of SATA drives. To use this feature, it is required that the SATA port is set to Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode and hot-swapping is enabled. On most motherboards, this is performed within the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) or the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). If you are using a SATA controller card, consult the motherboard manufacturer's technical documentation for the correct steps to accomplish this.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Handmade. Barbie Clothes! IN A MUSEUM!!!
Anyway, so goes the legend.
And although both my Mama and my Nana sewed, and even taught me to sew a little as a pretty young child (I used to use my Nana's polyester scraps to sew clothing for my set of stuffed bananas, an easy prospect since they had no arms or legs), I never DREAMED of handmade clothes! For Barbie!!!
The fact that handmade Barbie clothes are in a museum now does not surprise me in the slightest.
The Indianapolis Children's Museum is currently exhibiting Barbie: The Fashion Experience. I do NOT approve of their dress-up area being tied to a child-sized fashion runway--watching toddlers work it in person is even more chilling than watching it on train-wreck TV--but the child-sized design studios, with fabric scraps that can be pinned on teeny-tiny dressmaker's dummies? Love it. The area for sketching out one's own fashion designs? Love it. The displays of Barbies and their fashions from that black-and-white bikini to the latest Project Runway designs? Love it.
And the special exhibit of Barbie clothes, made by somebody's grandmother a very long time ago?
Love it.
While I was zoning out on my ipod and browsing the exhibits, Matt was supervising the girls playing with Barbies at a Barbie-sized runway just off-stage of the real runway. He had a great view of the disturbingly large deal being made by preschoolers and parents in the hair and make-up stations--people, and adult people, no less, were getting REALLY excited about this--and a great location to eavesdrop on parents just about to send their children out onto the child-sized runway ("Go look sexy for Daddy, honey, so he can take your picture!"). It was enough to nearly send him over the edge:
Of course he didn't actually bite Barbie's head off. He practically doused himself in hand sanitizer just from touching her with his hands--he does not carry mouthwash in case of unsanitary biting conditions.
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- Mo Tucky said...
You're spot on about the pre-tween runway (though I've never seen it). The thought simply makes me cringe.
Were you aware of the Doll Museum in Atlanta? They "have" Madame from Solid Gold!
- January 6, 2010 at 3:22 AM
- Unknown said...
I remember the incident with the Barbie clothes. It was a child size washer and dryer. They were mine before they were Amy's. They were from the Susie Homemaker collection. I had the washer and dryer, oven, and gosh I can't remember what else, but they did actually wash clothes and I was there when Pat discovered the wet Barbie clothes. The oven actually cooked. It heated with a light bulb and once it got to a certain temp the door would lock and wouldn't open back up until the oven had cooled back down. I burned up some money once I had hidden in the oven. Mother helped me sew a bunch of Barbie clothes. Even a Barbie wedding dress out of the material of your mom's wedding dress. Ah, good times.
- January 6, 2010 at 7:42 AM
That yellow shirt with the buttons? I SO HAVE that pattern!!! Honest. Along with an enormous stack of other late 60's early 70's fashions for Barbie AND KEN!! That's how I learned to sew!
Now that I've totally carbon dated myself...
- January 6, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- cake said...
i had no idea that they had a runway in there. yuck. however, there are people who are sort of related to me, who would be thrilled about EVERY aspect of that barbie exhibit.
i tried once, to sew some doll clothes, not for a barbie, but a baby doll. it was really hard. i don't recommend it. not worth it.
- January 7, 2010 at 4:52 PM


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Musings about Leadership, Decision Making, and Competitive Strategy
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Rethinking the Relationship between Pay and Performance
What were the results? You might expect performance to rise with bonus level. After all, that fundamental belief underlies compensation schemes in most companies. However, Ariely and his co-authors found that performance was lowest in the highest bonus condition. The same results held in the United States. What happened? Some combination of stress, fear of losing the money, and other psychological pressures, such as over-attention to the bonus as opposed to the task itself, seemed to cause participants in the highest bonus condition to actually perform poorly on the games and other tasks in the experiment. One can certainly relate to this finding. Consider how many business executives may find themselves obsessing over their compensation toward the end of the year, and perhaps becoming distracted from the actual work that they must accomplish.
By the way, these results hold when the tasks involve some level of cognitive skill. If the tasks are purely mechanical in nature, then higher bonuses yield higher performance. That finding indeed suggests that stress may play a factor in diminishing performance on tasks that require thinking and reasoning (such as many business tasks).
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- MCKibbinUSA said...
Dan Ariely's new book, "The Upside of Irrationality" can be purchased at:
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- professor cz said...
Eliminate the bonus system. Mintzberg (2009) calls the culture of bonuses on Wall Street and public corporations a form of legalized corruption and largely responsible for the financial meltdown of 2008. According to Olive (2009) "… excessive CEO pay is the cancer eating away at sound corporate management. Excessive pay for top management distorts decision making. It encourages reckless and short-term behavior that damages the enterprise and undermines the wider economy. He goes on "Mostly this cursed phenomenon takes the form of CEOs betting the company for a quick windfall, hence the crisis in global finance that brought us to the brink of a second Great Depression." As we observe with the bonus system and compensation in general we can conclude that most executives operate with the belief that they are special and how they are paid should have little relationship to reality. Consequently they have their special compensation systems structured by "compensation consultants" who guarantee a handsome bonus no matter what the company does. In addition these bonus systems only reward short term goals and forces greedy CEO's to terminate employees, outsource, offshore and reduce R&D and long range objectives to fatten the bottom line for the big short term bonus. While there is wide spread belief among academic researchers and business writers that CEO compensation should be aligned to corporate performance the chief complaint is that current compensation practices tend to reward short term profitability. Consequently we find that current compensation practice results in short term bottom line results where CEO's push their employees to take short-term risks with little regard for the long-term effects. This view became particularly visible during the crisis of 2008 and led to a movement by business writers, politicians and others to suggest that CEO compensation should be changed to consist of restricted stock and other forms of long-term compensation designed avoid rewarding short-term performance. According to Cooper, Gulen and Rau (2009) this proposed system of compensation implies a positive relationship between long-term incentive pay and future firm performance. They disagree and they have demonstrated that there is not only no positive relationship but in fact there is an inverse or negative relationship between CEO compensation and long term shareholder wealth. In fact they discovered the higher the CEO long term compensation the lower the shareholder returns. We now have significant evidence to suggest that overpaying executives will decrease shareholder wealth. Why? The answer is simple excessive pay is a disincentive to do well but it is an incentive to "take the money and run."
- WealthSaver said...
Current executive compensation systems, approved by the overlapping board on which they serve, turn CEOs from "parents" (for whom the health and happiness of their charges are reward enough)into vampires.
I've seen no convincing evidence that $15,000,000 is any more motivating than $7,500,000.
- Bajwa said...
nice article, i enjoyed reading it. it re-instates that incentives are not the only thing required to improve the performance.
i think, its the time to bring in spirituality into managemenet especially in HR.
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- No Gods Required said...
You should check out Alfie Kohn, on the subject of parenting and competition.
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text: When a lion kills a person or livestock in East Africa, the locals often kill one of the felines in revenge. That's been the custom among the Sukuma people, farmers in western Tanzania. Traditionally, Sukuma men who've dispatched lions perform celebratory dances in villagers' homes while wearing a costume made from their prey's pelt (photo). Homeowners then reward these avengers with one or more cows. But the increasing number of tourists allowed to hunt lions and the Sukuma's retaliatory killing have taken a toll on the animal's population in the area—which used to be one of the remaining strongholds for the big cats. (Lion numbers have declined by 60% across Africa since the mid-1990s; only 30,000 to 40,000 remain.) As a result, the number of lion depredations has also dropped dramatically, scientists report online this week in Biological Conservation. Yet the lion dancers persist—only now, these men are no longer avengers, but hunters, the researchers say, because they're adorned with the teeth and claws of felines they've killed in nearby Katavi National Park instead of cats found lurking near the family corral. Villagers, however, take a dim view of these "wa-feki," a Swahili-English word which roughly translates to "fakers," and do not condone the killing of lions in the park. After interviewing 129 heads of households, the researchers discovered that 72% know that the dancers have hunted the lions solely for the money, and not to protect the villagers and their animals. Some have begun refusing to reward the dancers. That shift in social attitudes is already helping protect the park's remaining lions, which number around 200, the scientists say. They're now working with villagers on a lion conservation campaign, targeting local bylaws and customs that could lead to new conservation approaches elsewhere.


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Keith Urban Reveals How Nicole Kidman Kept Opry Invitation a Secret
In almost every press shot of Australian couple Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, they are holding hands. In the media, it seems like the couple is nearly inseparable — so how did Kidman manage to keep Urban's exciting Grand Ole Opry invitation a secret? She just told a tiny little white lie.
Before Urban participated in the All for the Hall benefit on April 10, where Opry members Vince Gill, the Oak Ridge Boys, Diamond Rio and Rascal Flatts presented him with his Opry invitation, Kidman was already in the know. Problem was, she had to make sure that her country star husband didn't schedule anything for April 21, the night of Urban's Opry induction ceremony. So, a few weeks before the All for the Hall benefit, the beautiful actress penned a fake birthday party on the couples' calendar.
"That's all I knew, that it was a friend of my wife's birthday written on the schedule," Keith says, "which apparently is totally fictitious, but I didn't question it. I was just gonna go."
Luckily, there is no birthday party –or any other scheduling conflict– to impede Urban from attending the induction tonight (April 21). Urban is so excited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry that it sounds like he wouldn't miss this opportunity for the world.
Urban recalls his feelings from two weeks ago when he received his invitation in front of thousands of screaming fans. "I was thinking what it means to me to be inducted into the Opry is probably no more than a feeling of they know where my heart is," he explains. "My whole childhood was predominantly immersed in traveling around to country festivals and performing and competing in these talent quests."
His induction will finally be official this evening. Congrats, Keith!


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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Senior Drew Snider scored three goals to send the Maryland men's lacrosse team to the Final Four for the second straight season with an 11-5 victory over No. 2 seed Johns Hopkins Saturday afternoon at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
The Terps (11-5) will play the winner of the No. 3 seed Duke/Colgate game on Sat., May 26 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The Blue Devils and Raiders are set to play on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at PPL Park in Philadelphia. The Blue Jays finish their season with a 12-4 record.
The Blue Jays started off the scoring at the 9:13 mark on an unassisted goal by Mark Goodrich, but that would be it for Hopkins in the first quarter.
Maryland got on the board less than two minutes later with a goal from junior John Haus. He dodged down the right wing and turned back to fire a shot that beat JHU goalie Pierce Bassett stick-side-high to even things up at 1-1 with 7:46 remaining in the first quarter.
The Terps took their first lead of the day with 13.6 seconds remaining in the quarter when redshirt sophomore Mike Chanenchuk dodged from behind and redirected the ball to junior Owen Blye, who then found Snider cutting on the right alley. Snider finished the shot inside the far pipe to give Maryland the 2-1 lead.
Sophomore Niko Amato made a save at the buzzer to keep the lead at 2-1, which was one of four saves made by Amato in the quarter.
With 13:24 remaining in the second quarter, Hopkins tied the game at two thanks to an extra man goal by Bradon Benn, but that was as close as the Blue Jays would get in the game.
Maryland scored the next six goals in the game, including two in the next two minutes to regain the lead that they would not give up. First, Snider scored an unassisted goal after running through the defense and finished the shot past Bassett's off side hip.
Then, sophomore Michael Ehrhardt came up with a big ground ball off the faceoff and moved the ball to junior Landon Carr who finished the transition goal at 11:23 to give the Terps the 4-2 advantage.
Maryland scored again less than a minute later with Snider finishing off the hat trick. He dodged down the right wing and finished the shot into the far post to extend the lead to 5-2 with 10:30 remaining in the half.
Maryland then added to the lead with 3:05 remaining in the half. Junior Kevin Cooper dodged from up top and found senior Joe Cummings alone on the crease. Cummings then finished the one-on-one shot to make the lead 6-2 going into half time.
Chanenchuk started off the scoring in the second half with a goal at the 11:51 mark. Cummings fed him the ball on the right alley and Chanenchuk went around his defender and finished the shot from 12 yards out into the top right corner to make it a 7-2 Maryland advantage.
With 6:15 remaining Haus added to the Maryland lead. Dodging from behind the cage Haus split two defenders before diving tangent to the crease to beat Bassett with a low shot to make the lead 8-2.
With 3.1 seconds remaining in the third quarter Chris Boland scored for Hopkins to cut the Terps lead to 8-3. The goal ended a 28:20 scoreless stretch for the Blue Jays.
Maryland responded at 13:50 in the fourth quarter. Chanenchuk dodged from up top and fired a shot from the right alley that beat the keeper past the near post to extend the lead to 9-3.
Junior Billy Gribbin scored his first goal of the day with 11:03 remaining in the game. Gribbin picked up his own rebound and finished the shot to increase the lead to 10-3.
Hopkins answered back with two goals of its own to cut the lead to 10-5 with 7:48 remaining in the game.
However, Maryland answered back scoring the final goal of the game with 1:35 remaining to seal the victory. After killing several minutes of clock Cummings found Cooper on the crease for the goal to make the lead 11-5.
Junior Curtis Holmes won 9-of-16 faceoffs and led the Terps with three ground balls and Amato was credited with seven saves. Junior Jesse Bernhardt continued to be a force for the Maryland defense, causing three turnovers.
Maryland won the ground ball battle scooping up 26 ground balls compared to Hopkins 15.
The Terps were efficient clearing the ball with 12 of their 14 clears being successful. Hopkins had more trouble with the Maryland ride, only completing 14-of-21 potential clears.
Game Notes:
• With today's 11-5 win, Maryland is now 40-68-1 all-time vs. Johns Hopkins.
• The Terps are now 4-9 all-time vs. the Blue Jays in the NCAA tournament.
• Maryland is now 21-11 all-time in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.
• This marks the first time since 1973 that Maryland has beaten Johns Hopkins twice in one season.
• With two points on two goals, senior Joe Cummings now has 30 multi-point and 22 multi-goal games for his career.
• The two points gives Cummings 111 for his career, which moves him into a tie with Max Ritz (2005-08) for 31st on the all-time points list.
• With three points on three goals, senior Drew Snider now has five hat tricks, 16 multi-point and 11 multi-goal games for his career.
• With two points on two goals, junior John Haus now has 18 multi-point and nine multi-goal games for his career.
• With two points on one goal and one assist, junior Kevin Cooper now has 10 multi-point games for his career.
• With two points on two goals, redshirt sophomore Mike Chanenchuk has five multi-point and three multi-goal games for his Maryland career.


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A tumor does not have to be malignant to cause serious symptoms and lead to billions of dollars in health care spending every year. Consider uterine fibroids, which are benign tumors of the reproductive tract.
Fibroids are the most common reason women undergo hysterectomies; 300,000 are done each year just to remove them. All told, the cost of treating fibroids exceeds $21 billion a year, and that does not include the price millions of women pay in diminished quality of life.
A friend of mine was plagued with prolonged heavy menstrual bleeding and episodes of iron-deficiency anemia for nearly half her childbearing years. The root of the problem, her gynecologist told her, was a fibroid tumor that enlarged her uterus to the size of a four-month pregnancy.
After reviewing possible treatments, with a hysterectomy described as the only sure cure, my friend decided against all of them. She chose instead to wait until menopause to see whether decreased hormone stimulation would cause the fibroid to shrink. It didn't. But at least now, in her mid-60s, she no longer has to deal with menstrual bleeding.
In some ways, my friend was fortunate. In addition to heavy, prolonged periods, many women with this common tumor experience debilitating menstrual pain, chronic pelvic pain or pressure, or pressure on the bladder that results in a frequent and urgent need to urinate. Fibroids can sometimes cause infertility, repeated miscarriages or other pregnancy complications.
Today there are several treatment options. While none is free of potential complications, at least women with disabling symptoms have a choice. Unfortunately, many gynecologists are unfamiliar with the newer treatments and may not inform patients about what, other than surgery, might bring them relief. It pays to explore all the current treatments that can reduce or eliminate the symptoms of fibroids before deciding what might be best for you.
HYSTERECTOMY This is major surgery to remove the entire uterus, along with the fibroids it contains. It is usually done through an incision in the lower abdomen, although it is sometimes performed vaginally. Typically, a woman stays in the hospital for two or three days, followed by a six-week recovery.
A hysterectomy has all the usual risks of surgery but is unquestionably effective at curing fibroid-caused symptoms. After the operation a woman will no longer menstruate, although she will not enter menopause unless her ovaries are removed at the same time.
The procedure is often recommended for women who have completed childbearing, especially if they no longer want to bother with birth control. An infrequent delayed side effect is a drop in the pelvic floor, which can cause urinary incontinence.
MYOMECTOMY This operation removes just the troublesome fibroids, leaving the uterus intact, and is therefore a choice for women who wish to become pregnant. It sometimes cures infertility or repeated pregnancy loss. However, the fibroids can and often do grow back.
How a myomectomy is done depends on the size, number and location of the fibroids. Most often, an abdominal incision is used, with a recovery period similar to that of a hysterectomy. A myomectomy can sometimes be done as an outpatient procedure through a laparoscope or hysteroscope, with lighted surgical tubes inserted near the navel (for the laparoscope) or through the vagina (for the hysteroscope).
DRUGS Before resorting to more involved treatments, many women try one or more medical approaches to reduce bleeding, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs taken either alone or with the hormone progesterone. Some try an IUD that contains synthetic progesterone. The relief is temporary; the fibroids shrink, but can also regrow.
A drug marketed as Lupron, a synthetic form of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, shrinks fibroids by reducing their supply of estrogen and progesterone. It is sometimes used before a myomectomy to simplify the surgery. It can be used only for a limited time because it can result in osteoporosis. Once it is stopped, the fibroids regrow.
EMBOLIZATION This nonsurgical procedure is perhaps the most viable alternative to a hysterectomy for women who have completed childbearing. It works by cutting off the blood supply to fibroids, causing them to shrink though not necessarily disappear.
A catheter is inserted through the femoral artery and guided first to one uterine artery, then to the other. Tiny pellets particles of polyvinyl alcohol, gelatin microspheres or gelatin sponge are then inserted through the catheter, preferentially cutting off the blood supply to the fibroids, which have larger blood vessels than the uterus itself.
In a recent report in The New England Journal of Medicine, two interventional radiologists, Dr. Scott C. Goodwin of the University of California at Irvine and Dr. James B. Spies of Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of embolization, which has been used in the United States since 1997. Several large studies have found that the procedure eased fibroid-caused symptoms in 85 to 95 percent of women but did not necessarily eliminate them.
The hospital stay for an embolization is short, usually one or two days, and most women return to their normal lives within a week. But fibroids can regrow or new ones can develop, and in clinical trials one-fifth to one-quarter of patients had to repeat the procedure or have a hysterectomy.
In an interview, Dr. Spies called proper patient selection crucial to the success of this technique, although he added, "About 80 percent of women with troublesome fibroids could have uterine fibroid embolization." Relief of symptoms occurs gradually over two or three months. Women may experience pelvic pain, fever and malaise during recovery. A rare complication is pulmonary embolism, which is also a risk of surgery.
When a patient is given surgery as her only option, Dr. Spies recommended that she ask about embolization and perhaps consult an expert in the technique, which is covered by insurance.
M.R.I.-GUIDED ULTRASOUND This "new kid on the block" is not yet routinely covered by insurance, and women often pay out of pocket as much as $10,000. It uses magnetic resonance imaging to direct high-intensity ultrasound beams to the fibroids, heating them and destroying their outer layers.
A sedative but no general anesthesia is given, and recovery requires little or no time. But as with other alternatives to a hysterectomy, the fibroids can regrow and symptoms return, necessitating a repeat procedure or an alternative like a hysterectomy.
The procedure takes several hours, during which a woman must lie very still face down in an M.R.I. machine with her head outside the machine and her belly in a pool of water. The safety of this method for women who wish to become pregnant has not been determined, and the risks include burns to other tissues and nerve damage.


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A quarter of an hour (15 minutes) after the named hour in time. A: "What time does the movie start?" B: "Not until a quarter past eight, so we've got plenty of time!" I thought I'd be home already, but with this traffic, it'll be quarter past before I'm back.


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After several years of almost no inflation, many Americans may be surprised to find some of their favorite foods, from burgers to pizza to a glass of orange juice, rising in price this year.
The producer price index, which measures changes in wholesale prices, rose 1.6 percent last month, mainly because of a jump in food prices, the Department of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. The food segment, up 3.9 percent, saw the biggest monthly increase since November 1974, with soaring vegetable prices responsible for about 70 percent of that jump. On Thursday, the government will report the consumer price index.
In the year ahead, expect to see the largest food price increases in the protein group: chicken, beef, and pork, as well as dairy items. One key reason: The price of corn, used as feed by ranchers and farmers, has doubled in the past year. But vegetarians won't get off easy: Produce and orange juice are rising sharply, as well.
Higher food prices have wide economic ramifications and are being watched closely by the Federal Reserve. From a business standpoint, food producers – from agricultural giants to the corner pizza parlor – must raise prices or watch their profit margins evaporate. Many middle-class households are financially stretched to the limit, so any extra expense for such basics as milk or bread makes their life even tougher. Organizations that help the poor with food, moreover, find they can't help as many people because their dollar doesn't go as far.
"The more you have to spend on a loaf of bread and a pound of ground beef, the less you have to spend on everything else," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pa. "It's like a tax increase, although it's not quite as bad as rising oil prices, since at least the revenues go to US farmers, truckers, and ag-equipment manufacturers."
The US Department of Agriculture expects the average price of food in 2011 to be 4 percent higher than last year. Some private forecasters say that, by December, prices could be as much as 6 percent higher than in December 2010.
"If food inflation comes in at 6 percent, it would be the most dramatic increase since 1982," says William Lapp, a consumer foods economist with his own firm, Advanced Economic Solutions in Omaha, Neb. "We had a 10-year period, from 1972 to 1981, when annual food prices rose sharply – including a two-year period when increases averaged 8.7 percent."
Three reasons food costs more
Mr. Lapp attributes the expected price increases to three main factors:
•The expanding middle class in rapidly developing countries such as Brazil, India, and China is boosting its consumption of protein, driving up demand.
•The US dollar has been weaker, helping American farmers to export their products but potentially leaving less for domestic consumption.
•Almost 40 percent of the US corn crop is now used to produce ethanol instead of food, although the farm lobby denies that diverting corn to ethanol production raises food prices.
Harsh winter weather is responsible for some of the food-price hikes. In December, cold weather in Florida wiped out the pepper, tomato, and green bean crops. A freeze in Mexico knocked out produce from there as well.
"It's kind of rare to have a one-two punch like that," says Lisa Lockridge, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association in Maitland, Fla. With two months of warmer weather in Florida, farmers will have produce back on the shelves by April, she says.
While that may help produce prices, critical grain crops may have more challenging weather ahead, says Paul Pastelok, senior meteorologist at Accu-Weather.com in State College, Pa. He expects the Midwest to be cooler than normal this spring, even into the summer. "This could stunt growth and the crop yield," he says.
Why Fed isn't warning of inflation
Normally, climbing prices might raise caution flags at the Federal Reserve. But in his March 1 testimony before Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said he didn't view increases in commodity prices as a problem, in part because "inflation expectations" are "quite well anchored, which helps to keep inflation stable, even if there are temporary movements coming from commodity prices."
"The Fed's view is that there is very litle pass-through of higher costs," says Mr. Zandi. In addition, the Fed chairman is sanguine because bond investors have not indicated any fear of inflation or efforts to hedge against it in the financial markets, says Robert Brusca, an economist with Fact & Opinion Economics in New York.
Mr. Bernanke said he will continue to monitor inflation development, especially if inflation expectations were to rise.
He needs to go no further than Rick's Chop House in McKinney, Texas. In early March, restaurant owner Rick Wells was shocked to pay $25 a pound for sea bass. He immediately raised his menu price by $5 to maintain his profit margin.
In the past, his suppliers hesitated to charge more because of the sluggish economy, Mr. Wells says. "This year, my vendors are raising prices almost immediately."
For low-income Americans, a jump in food prices means food stamps don't buy as much. Groups who support food pantries feel the pressure as well. "It's scary for us; our dollars don't go as far," says Ross Fraser, a spokesman for Feeding America, a hunger-relief charity in Chicago.
Some distributors are still absorbing the price increases instead of passing them on to consumers. At the University of Virginia's large food-service network, UVA or its middlemen have absorbed the higher costs for coffee and produce, says Brent Beringer, director of food services. He hopes school will be out before the larger spike in food prices comes. "Then we will wait it out and see what happens in the fall, when [students'] meal-plan prices are set for the next year," he says.
Many food producers and restaurants are also softening the blow to their diners. Gluten-free pesto pizza, a bestseller for Simply Shari's, a national food producer based in Westlake Village, Calif., requires fresh basil – which has leapt from $3 to $6 a pound in the past month. "I cannot discontinue it," says Shari Cole. "No way I can raise my prices," she adds, noting her competitive industry. "We are really scrambling."
Some restaurateurs hope prices will start to fall once the weather improves. In Portland, Ore., Lincoln Restaurant's chef and owner Jenn Louis tries to buy as much as she can from local farmers. Bad weather kept local cows from grazing enough, sending her outlays for butter from $60 a case to $100 a case.
She hopes to adapt her recipes to lessen the financial impact. "With the price of butter up, you can absorb that if you know how to use everything else on your shelves," she says.
As rising costs mount, such adaptations will surrender to the inevitable price increases for consumers, Lapp argues. The food industry's grain expenses have increased by $40 billion since July, but it has absorbed most of those costs – so far.
"Either people in the middle will have to continue to absorb those increases or the costs will have to be passed on to the consumer," he says.


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If you happened to catch any of the news coverage of Dennis Rodman's trip to North Korea last week, you might have spotted in the big man's entourage a white guy with an Amish-style beard, as in clean-shaven cheeks and no moustache. That's Joseph Terwilliger, 48, a statistical geneticist who splits his time at Columbia University and the University of Helsinki. Suffice it to say, even losing the beard Terwilliger would be no ordinary geneticist.
For starters, his passion is the tuba. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and has since tooted with groups as diverse as the New York City Opera and the Tubonic Plague tuba quartet. "About 15% of my income comes from music," Terwilliger says. Other diversions include impersonating Abe Lincoln and taking second place in a Nathan's hot dog eating contest.
Terwilliger's scientific career is equally intriguing. He has jetted off to western China, the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and Iran in search of novel traits in nomadic populations. "Most of my work has been on trying to identify natural experiments that mimic experimental conditions in a way that might help us to understand the genetics of normal human variation in health and disease," he says. Terwilliger has also lectured in Cuba, China, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, and, he says, "many other places where relationships between their government and ours are poor." He's a longtime critic of the human genome project and the HapMap project, arguing that backers of those massive enterprises were misleading in suggesting that genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other approaches would quickly pinpoint disease-risk genes meaningful for public health. "GWAS has been an abject failure in uncovering much of the etiology of complex human diseases," he argues. "Many of my colleagues who work for large genome centers have no choice but to continue to promote the technology they have invested millions of dollars in, as they have factories set up and employees whose livelihoods hang in the balance."
"Joe is a unique character, eccentric, brilliant, libertarian, and a lot besides," says longtime collaborator Kenneth Weiss, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "He is a voice to be heard, and thinks 10 times faster than most of the rest of us. He's basically a very good-hearted guy, but one who does enjoy notoriety!"
Which brings us to North Korea. Terwilliger has been to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as the country is formally known, eight times in the past 5 years. Twice he went as a tourist, and twice to study the North Korean dialect. He has a good professional reason for visiting the Hermit Kingdom: He and colleagues have a large, ongoing study of the Korean diaspora aiming to compare the relative contributions of genetics, culture and the environment to health-related traits. Last July, he taught human evolutionary genetics at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), founded in North Korea's capital in 2009 by Christian Korean-Americans. And now he's been to North Korea with Rodman—three times and counting. ScienceInsider caught up with Terwilliger at his perch in Helsinki.
Q: Any big surprises last week?
J.T.: Every time I visit the DPRK I see things from a different perspective. Of course going there with Dennis Rodman is entirely different from going there as a teacher and shopping at local markets as we did last summer. I have been all over the country, and seen Korea from many different perspectives, and the one thing that is invariant in all those different vantage points is how sweet and kind the citizens of the DPRK are. The Korean word 소박함 describes perfectly the innocence, warmth, sincerity, and kindness of the North Korean people.
One anecdote from last week. We were at the new Masik Pass ski resort near the East Coast of the DPRK, which was just opened in the last month. We were the first foreigners to visit it after it opened. I was sliding down the bunny slope in a tire tube and got turned around and lost control. A Korean man then blocked my tube and was knocked down hard enough to the ground to have been hospitalized for a possible concussion from the collision. I then kept moving in the tube and five other Korean men also were knocked to the ground in their effort to stop my tube from going off a 100 foot cliff that was located at the bottom of the bunny slope.
I had the chance the next day to meet these men and thank them, and every one of them was gracious, sweet, and wonderful to me, even though one of them even had to go to the hospital because of my accident. This genuine sweetness and kindness is typical of people in the DPRK. People are the same everywhere, and interaction with them can only be a good thing.
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Q: How did you become part of the Rodman entourage?
J.T.: In April of 2013, I saw an online auction for charity where people could bid on the chance to play H-O-R-S-E with Dennis Rodman. So I bid and won, solely because I wanted to tell him that I supported what he was doing and would be happy to assist him if he needed any help on the ground, as I was going to be in the DPRK teaching and living there in July.
A few weeks after the H-O-R-S-E game, Dennis's agent contacted me and asked if I could help find a way to get Dennis back to the DPRK without involving Vice magazine and their media crews who made his previous visit less than ideal. We eventually chose a friend of mine, Michael Spavor, a Canadian living in Yanji, China, to organize the visas and logistics with the DPRK Olympic Committee and Sports Ministry. Together, he and I and two student volunteers organized the return trip in September and helped with translation and cultural advising during his trip.
The September trip was one of the most amazing things I have ever been involved with in my life. And I almost could not even go, as I suffered a retinal detachment the last night I was teaching in Pyongyang in July and had to have emergency surgery on my return to NYC to repair the retina. They had to perform a complete vitrectomy and attach a scleral buckle to the eye, and I had to remain face down with a gas bubble in my eye until the third week of August. The trip to Korea was on September 1st, so I was very close to missing the entire thing. While my vision was not good, I was cleared to travel and had the experience of a lifetime.
The rest is history, as we then worked on the logistics for setting up the basketball game held last week, and the training session in late December.
Q: Has the experience changed your life?
J.T.: No, I have kept a very low profile. Sure, it has come out that I was there, and my photo is all over the place, but most people just ask, "Who is the crazy looking bearded guy with Dennis?" so it has had very little direct effect on my life. I was just there to assist him, to help with translation. Basically I was there as Dennis's friend who happens to speak Korean.
While it seems very normal to me at this point, if someone had told me in January 2013 that a year from then I would be hanging out in Pyongyang with Marshal Kim Jong Un, Dennis Rodman, Cliff Robinson, Charles D. Smith, Kenny Anderson, Doug Christie, and Sleepy Floyd, I would have laughed in your face. But they were all wonderful to me, and especially to the basketball players who joined us for this game. They were all there for positive reasons, to interact with local people, to teach basketball, to make people smile by doing what they do best, and by generating money to support deaf children in Korea. Their intentions were entirely selfless and noble, and they did a positive thing, despite the enormity of the criticism they have received on returning home. Any form of interaction is a good thing when done between people of nations whose governments have hostile relationships.
Q: Last July, you spent 3 weeks teaching at PUST. What was that like?
J.T.: I viewed this as a great opportunity to experience the DPRK as a resident, and also to help build a positive and trusting relationship with people in the DPRK, a necessary prerequisite for some future scientific exchanges. I viewed my role there as one of showing the positive side of the American people to a population who has heard mostly negative stereotypes about us.
I engaged the students, taught them scientific critical thinking, and showed an understanding of their society and culture which most foreigners do not even try to get into. I spoke Korean with their grammatical styles and their accent, and I showed familiarity with their culture. Students all wrote me very sweet notes attached to their final exams about how they really appreciated my efforts to understand their country and needed to think twice about their opinions of the American people as a result of our interactions.
They said the very same thing about their experiences viewing Dennis Rodman's visit to their country in February of 2013. Many students talked about how much they loved watching that basketball game on television, and how many had even read Dennis's autobiography and admired him for being so frank about the difficulties he had in his life. And when they saw him saying nice things about their country and their leader it really affected their views of American people, seeing one in this light for the first time. To this end, an enormous amount of goodwill had been engendered by Dennis's efforts at sports diplomacy, as well as the impact I think I was able to have on my small class of students by doing the same things with science as the vehicle of choice.
Q: Rodman's basketball diplomacy is one of the few things the United States has going with North Korea right now. Do you see an opportunity to engage the North Koreans through science diplomacy?
J.T.: I have tried to do this by teaching at PUST last summer, and may go back in the future as well to pursue that further. I would love to have the chance to help them with epidemiological or genetic studies in the DPRK, and would love to work with their students to help them going forward. Every time I have been there, including last week, I was asked when I would come to teach again, and they seemed very positive about the potential for further interactions on a scientific level going forward. I have no specific agenda at this time, but hopefully something will materialize in the near future! Science, music, sports, culture, academics all have the potential to build bridges between people with no risk to government and no political overtones, and I hope that I will be able to help build such bridges between our countries in the future, using the trust and connections I have built with them over the past several years.
I hope to have more opportunities to interact with the North Koreans on a scientific level—in fact that was a large part of my motivation to get involved with Rodman's efforts as a way to build contacts, connections, and trust, so something positive could happen down the road.


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A 13-year-old Delaware boy took off on a joyride in his dad's SUV this morning and ended up first in a ditch and then in the hospital.
"No one was home at the time, and he just decided to go for a ride," said Master Corporal Gary Fournier with the Delaware State Police.
The teen got behind the wheel of his father's Toyota 4Runner shortly after 7 a.m. and drove along Bloomfield Drive near Harrington, Kent County.
The SUV knocked out a telephone pole when it veered into a ditch. Once he got back onto the road, the teen was able to stop the vehicle, according to police.
Another driver who witnessed the accident stopped and kept the teen company until police and emergency crews arrived.
"He was walking around, talking to the witness and seemed to be in good spirits," Fournier said.
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Mythologist Michael Meade describes sacred occurrences as those in which the "seal that separates the worlds" is broken and Spirit enters through that break. In Doorway sessions, clients go through a portal into a sacred, interior place where they tap into their own metaphoric inner wisdom. The messages from this realm are clear, direct and immediate. Once we've received an image, there is no further analysis or thinking that we need to do.
Valuing My Time: How a Metaphor Instantly Shifted Things
I've often felt uncomfortable setting limits and boundaries on my time with people. I've struggled with feeling that I was being callous, or it was my ego. But in a Doorway Session I saw fruit falling off my tree...and the fruit was my time. My tree was producing fruit and if I didn't take care to harvest that fruit, it would hit the ground and be wasted. I had been acting like I had unlimited time and the image clearly showed me that I don't. My tree won't be producing fruit forever and it's my responsibility to harvest it now.
After this image showed up, I had no energy about this anymore. Metaphors put an end to the stuckness, we're no longer in our heads analyzing the various sides of the issue: "Is it better for my business if I do this or I do that?" Instead, we experience immediate truth. We all have such metaphoric inner wisdom available to us for any issue that we struggle with.
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Sacral Chakra – a Silk Painting Workshop in Bristol
It's been a while since I hosted a silk painting workshop in Bristol and so have decided to offer another one next month. We'll be creating a beautiful feminine silk cushion cover which enhances our sacral/sacred energy centre. We will do some meditation and tuning into our creativity, sensuality and sexuality in order to let the colours and energy come to free flow and expression. I will teach you some silk painting techniques and offer some motifs that you can … Continue reading
Can Colour Therapy Positively Affect the Chakras?
It's been many years now since I completed my colour therapy training but all in all, colour was always a huge part of my life. In a way, doing the training was just formalising what I wanted to do, allowing me to take the certificate and get out there to share what I had learned with others. I can remember much earlier reading about how ancient cultures used their amazing knowledge of the healing properties of the various colours to … Continue reading
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Chakra Mandalas as Greeting Cards
While I lived in Glastonbury a few years back, I created a series of 7 chakra mandala paintings which I never really got round to 'launching' in any way. Those of you who are artists will know exactly what I am talking about. You have this urge to keep creating new art, yet don't always have an outlet for it. So it tends to accumulate and pretty soon you run out of wall space. I don't know about you, but … Continue reading


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N° 24–2007: First ATV leaves Europe to prepare for launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana
15 June 2007
Time to bid farewell to the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built in Europe. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will leave the European Space Agency's ESTEC establishment in the Netherlands in mid-July and be shipped to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. There, it will start its launch preparation campaign which will last several months, before being launched by Ariane 5 not earlier than mid-January 2008 and (after a 12 to 15 day journey) docking automatically with the International Space Station using its own propulsion and navigation systems.
To mark the upcoming departure of this first ATV, the Jules Verne, ESA is inviting media representatives interested in covering this event to attend a Media Day on 28 June at ESTEC. This will not only feature an opportunity to see the Jules Verne in its clean room at the test centre there but also presentations by experts from ESA and industry on the latest status of the project. The programme also includes ATV photo and video opportunities as well as opportunities to interview various experts.
Media representatives wishing to attend the ATV Media Day are kindly requested to fill out the attached accreditation form and return it by fax to the ESA-ESTEC Communication Office + 31 71 565 5728 by Tuesday 26 June at the latest.
Note for editors:
The ATV European resupply spaceship is a crucial element of the International Space Station (ISS) programme. It will deliver refuelling propellant for the Station's own propulsion system, as well as air and drinking water for the crew. It will also transport science experiments and related hardware, thus making a major contribution to ISS logistics. The ATV will also give the Space Station an orbit reboost to overcome the effects of residual atmospheric drag. After serving for six months as a work space extension of the ISS, its final task after undocking will be to dispose of waste during a guided and controlled destructive reentry into the atmosphere high over the Pacific.
For more information:
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Phone: + 31 71 565 6799
ATV Media Day
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ATV – Preparing for Exploration:
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ATV - European Resupply Vessel:
John Ellwood, ATV Project Manager, ESA Directorate of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration
ATV – Technological masterpiece:
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ATV – Role for Human Spaceflight:
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Questions & Answers
Transfer to ATV at Test Centre
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In this election year, everyone is worried about the economy. Experts disagree about whether the United States is headed for a recession, but the housing slump, losses on Wall Street, and the skyrocketing price of oil have both individuals and companies looking for ways to tighten their belts and trim their budgets.Nobody likes being told to spend less, but the tough reality is that in many organizations, all departments are seeing their budgets cut -- and that includes IT. The question now is not whether to trim the budget, but how to do it in a way that's least painful for the company and its employees. In this article, we'll take a look at a few ways you may be able to save big bucks by making little (and not-so-little) changes.
Note: This information is also available as a PDF download.
#1: Put off unnecessary upgrades
If your IT department is in the habit of automatically upgrading to the latest version of the operating system as soon as it comes out (or as soon as the first service pack is released, or any other arbitrary timeline), rethink that strategy. Do you really need the new features offered by the new OS? Will those features actually increase productivity, solve some problem with the current software, or otherwise save you money? If not, maybe you can get along just fine without upgrading for another year or so.
Remember that upgrading the operating system doesn't just require the money for those licenses, but also often requires that you spend more money to upgrade the hardware to support the new OS. And there are indirect costs, such as the administrative overhead involved in the upgrade and end-user training.
The same thing goes for productivity applications, such as Office. Will you benefit from the new features or have you been just automatically upgrading every time a new version comes along? Many companies save money by upgrading only with every other new release. Of course, there may be good reasons to upgrade, but do a cost-benefits assessment first and be sure those reasons are sound.
#2: Don't buy top of the line
Like it or not, hardware does eventually fail or become obsolete. When it comes time to purchase new computers -- whether servers or desktop machines -- you can save a lot of money by not buying the top-of-the-line product. When you buy the fastest processor on the market, for example, you pay a big premium. The processor that's one step down may be considerably less. And one thing you can count on in the IT industry is that the top-of-the-line model won't stay in that lofty position for long. In a few months, a new, faster model will come out and the price of that expensive piece of equipment will drop like a rock.
Of course, you don't want to go cheap by buying the oldest, slowest systems available, either. The best value usually comes one or two steps below the top-of-the-line model. For example, at the time of this writing, a Dell Optiplex 755 with a 2.40 GHz Core 2 quad processor costs $320 less than the same model with a 2.66 GHz Core 2 quad, yet the difference in performance will hardly be noticeable. And when you start buying dozens or hundreds of workstations for a business, that $320 difference can add up fast.
#3: Consolidate servers
Server virtualization is all the rage now, and there's a good reason: Consolidating multiple physical servers on one (or fewer) machines, using virtualization technologies such as Microsoft Virtual Server, VMWare ESX Server, or (coming soon) Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V, can save money on hardware costs, power and cooling costs, and administrative workload.
Dedicated servers are often underutilized, but combining server applications/roles on the same computer can become an administrative and security nightmare. With virtualization, each server role functions in a separate logical (virtual) machine that appears on the network with its own name, IP address, etc., but multiple logical machines run on the same hardware.
Server consolidation also cuts down on the amount of server room space you need, allowing you to save money on valuable office real estate.
#4: Virtualize applications
Server consolidation isn't the only use of virtualization technology in today's cost-conscious IT environment. Application virtualization using technologies such as Microsoft's SoftGrid can save you money by reducing the administrative costs of installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting application software. Because the virtualized application is installed on the server instead of the clients, admins don't have to deal with multiple installations of a program on different machines.
Application virtualization can also provide a way to protect the OS and other applications from software with bugs or glitches, reducing or eliminating expensive downtime. And because it uses fewer resources than separate virtual machines, less expensive hardware can be used.
#5: Use thin clients
Thin client computing is another way to cut hardware costs and allows you to provide users with a modern desktop while utilizing older or low-powered client machines. Windows Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 and the soon-to-be released Windows Server 2008 can be deployed to allow users to access the full Windows desktop or selected applications on the terminal server over the LAN or Internet.
As with application virtualization, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of applications is centralized, saving administrative overhead. Programs can be deployed and updated more quickly, and less network bandwidth is used to access remote applications.
There are many approaches to thin client computing, including new "zero client" technology such as that offered by Pano Logic.
#6: Consider selective deployment of open source software
Open source software is often available free of charge, but may also come without warranties, formal training programs, or technical support. Updates may or may not occur. Some organizations have deployed open source operating systems and applications, only to return to commercial software due to these problems. Another disadvantage of some open source products for business use is lack of integration/interoperability with commercial software that may be in use by other departments, partners, customers, etc. Traditionally, open source programs have tended to require more technical expertise on the part of the users, although some open source software has become more user-friendly.
All that said, open source may have a place in your organization if deployed carefully and selectively. Open source (Linux/UNIX-based) server software may be appropriate for certain dedicated servers if you have IT personnel who have knowledge and expertise in the OS. Open source operating systems on the desktop may work fine for more technically savvy users. Open source applications such as Open Office that offer compatibility with the file formats of commercial applications might be the right choice for some users, especially those who only need to create documents occasionally and don't need the advanced features of commercial programs such as Word.
A careful assessment of where open source software can and can't be deployed in your organization without undue disruption and a steep learning curve can help you integrate it into your network in a way that saves money.
#7: Have fewer, smarter meetings
Meetings eat up a lot of time that could be better spent on more productive work. This is true across all organizations, and the IT department is usually no exception. You can cut down on meeting wastage by careful planning, having a set agenda and staying on-topic, and requiring only those who really need to be there to attend.
In many cases, the purpose of a meeting can be accomplished much more efficiently via e-mail or a telephone conference. Meetings at remote locations cost even more in travel time and expenses. If face-to-face communication is essential, you can use videoconferencing to save both time and money.
#8: Look at new training options
Training is often one of the first items to suffer when budgets have to be cut, but arbitrarily slashing all training dollars can end up costing the company more in the long run. It's necessary for IT personnel to keep current on the technologies they deploy and administer; mistakes can result in expensive downtime or even loss of critical data.
When cutting training allocations, it's important to have a plan for personnel to continue to maintain and update their knowledge and skills. There are a number of ways to save money on training. Instead of attending expensive offsite conferences that involve travel and per diem costs, you may be able to set up onsite training or utilize computer-based training and self-study programs to accomplish the same thing.
Encourage IT personnel to keep learning. If the company can no longer afford to pay all the expenses for employees to obtain industry certifications, for example, you may still be able to cover part of the expenses (such as the exam fee) and/or offer incentives -- monetary and otherwise -- to employees who complete the training on their own time.
#9: Replace dedicated WAN links with site-to-site VPN
If your business has multiple physical locations and you have dedicated leased lines connecting them, it might be time to think about ditching the expensive dedicated links and replacing them with site-to-site VPN connections instead. Midsize and large businesses may be able to save thousands of dollars on monthly fees by doing this.
Likewise, small businesses that are currently paying hundreds of dollars per month for a T-1 line should look into new Internet service options. In some areas, you can get a business FiOS line (with static multiple IP addresses) for less than half the cost of your T-1, and it provides up to 10 times the downstream bandwidth and twice the upstream.
#10: Outsource some services
Outsourcing is a sensitive subject. Many people, hearing the word, think only of personnel cuts and jobs going to foreign shores. But judicious outsourcing can allow you to better utilize the personnel you have and to more efficiently and cost-effectively run your IT operation, without entrusting your data to people half a world away.
For example, as your business grows and your need for more servers expands, you might find that it's less expensive and less hassle to use a hosting service for your Web servers or e-mail, rather than buying more hardware and hiring more personnel. As with other money-saving measures, this is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and you should first assess your specific needs, compare prices, and do a cost/benefits analysis to determine whether outsourcing really is the most cost effective option in both the short and long run.
Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology consultant, trainer and writer who has authored a number of books on computer operating systems, networking, and security. These include Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook, published by Syngress, and Computer Networking Essentials, published by Cisco Press. She is co-author, with her husband, Dr. Thomas Shinder, of Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP, the best-selling Configuring ISA Server 2000, and ISA Server and Beyond.


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Pomme en Croute Cocktail Recipe
This recipe is a twist on the Brandy Crusta, a classic New Orleans cocktail from the 1850s. Chris Hannah, a bartender at Arnaud's French 75, dreamed up this cocktail (which was featured in Food & Wine Cocktails 2012.)
Coupling applejack with Campari, lemon, and orange juice, this tart drink is best enjoyed with a hearty coating of sugar on the rim.
- Yield:Makes 1 cocktail
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 1 orange wedge
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 ounces Laird's Applejack (80 proof)
- 1/2 ounce Campari
- 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed juice from 1 orange
- 1/2 ounce juice from 1 lemon
- Garnish: Orange twist
Moisten the rim of a rocks glass with the orange wedge. Pour sugar onto a plate or square of waxed paper and roll lip of glass in sugar to coat.
Fill shaker with ice and add applejack, Campari, orange and lemon juices. Shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Strain into sugar-rimmed glass. Garnish with orange twist.


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Committing to home practice is such a transformational step that it's very easily turned into a goal, an item on the to-do list, a get-through-to-get-done: in short, a duty.
And setting aside the time on your calendar or to-do list can be an effective method for keeping this promise to yourself. But how to maintain the practice mind and not slip into goal seeking?
Here's what I mean: One morning you set your alarm a little early – 20 or 30 minutes to start – and feel triumphant because you kept this promise to yourself. And the practice, short though it was, transformed your day and was filled with moments of sunlight and inspiration. Three weeks later, the alarm rings again, you find yourself on the same mat with the sunlight streaming in, but can't keep from pushing yourself through the poses you're working, measuring your progress from yesterday, and none too flatteringly. What a way to start the day!
What happened to that first morning's lightness and joy in the practice? What happened to that blinding insight from the Bhagavad Gita, something about releasing the fruits of action, putting your heart in but non-attachment to outcomes?
If the "goal" is to meet yourself on your mat every morning, you've satisfied "duty" by arriving. Before you do anything, ask yourself one question: "What do I really want?" Maybe it's more sleep. Fine, take legs up the wall, or yoga nidra. Maybe you're feeling a backbend. Cool, warm up with some gentle heart openers like sphinx and cobra. Or maybe you need a good laugh or cry. Nice, that's pranayam.
You might even find that when you follow it, your desire changes, transforms into something that supercedes goal, need and thought.
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your DESTINY. ~Upanishads
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NH House voting on whether executor should control social media accounts
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire's House is voting whether to give the executor of an estate control over the deceased person's Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts.
The House Judiciary Committee is split over the issue with a majority recommending that the House vote Wednesday to kill the bill as unenforceable and premature.
Bill opponents argue the contracts between the user and the social media site outline what happens when the user dies.
Supporters say the executor of the estate should be able to delete the account, turn it into a memorial or make changes to it. They argue the bill should pass or be kept in committee for more work over the summer.


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The wild rover (1) (A Drinking Song - Traditional)
From "A Song-book of Folk and Pop Music" by Mario Papa & Giuliano Iantorno, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1977
l've been a wild rover for many's the year
And l've spent all my money on whisky and beer;
But now I'm returning with money in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more.
And it's no nay (2) never,
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover,
No never, no more.
I went into an ale-house (3) I used to frequent
And I told the landlady my money was spent.
I asked her for credit, she answered me: " Nay,
Such a custom as yours I can have every day ".
Chorus: And it's no nay never, etc.
I then took from my pocket ten sovereigns (4) bright
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight;
She said: " I have whisky and wines of the best
And the words that you told me were only in jest (5)".
Chorus: And it's no nay never, etc.
I'll go home to my parents confess what I have done
And I'll ask them to pardon the prodigal son,
And when they caress me as oft-times (6) before,
I never will play the wild rover no more.
Chorus: And it's no nay never, etc.
1. The wild rover: a famous traditional British folk song often sung in evening sing-songs at the pub. There are some famous singing pubs in Britain where young and old go to drink and sing together.
2. Nay: No (old use).
3. Ale-house: public house, in Britain familiarly called ' Pub ', where alcoholic drinks are sold.
4. Sovereigns: old British gold coins, face value £1.
5. In jest: as a joke, not seriously.
6. Oft-times: often (old use).
The pub
In Britain people like to meet in taverns, called public houses or more familiarly 'pubs'. There are about 73,000 pubs in Britain and they are more than just drinking houses. Pubs are places where people relax, chat, make friends, sometimes have tight meals, play darts and, of course, drink. Most pubs have a dart board and any customer may play. In many pubs there are also dart teams which play matches against teams from other pubs. The most popular drink served in pubs is beer, light or dark. It is generally served in pints, and people drink it either at the bar, that is the counter where drinks are served, or at the tables. There are drinking laws in Britain. By these laws, young people under eighteen are not allowed to buy alcoholic drinks in the pubs, and there are hours during the day when alcoholic drinks cannot be served at all. In fact the usual opening hours for pubs are:
London 11.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
5.30 p.m. - 11.00 p.m.
Provinces 11.30 a.m. - 3.00 p. m.
5.30 p.m. – sometimes 10.30 pp.
sometimes 11.00 p.m.
Off-licenses (Where alcoholic drinks can be bought for consumption elsewhere):
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C-SPAN, CNN.com, Coretta Scott King, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Facebook Trending, fake news, George Orwell, impugning, Jeff Sessions, journalistic dishonesty, journalistic truth, partisan rhetoric, Politics and the English Language, Republicans, Senate rules
The following is a Facebook post of mine from yesterday:
On Facebook Trending (in the upper right of your screen), I found a clip of the following headline from today on CNN.com: "The Coretta Scott King letter Elizabeth Warren was trying to read." [http://www.cnn.com/…/elizabeth-warren-coretta-sc…/index.html]
Is that statement true? Yes. Does that statement, as a featured headline, herald the truth of the story. No.
CNN.com ultimately tells the truth of the story, but furthers its dishonesty by purposely coloring the truth with a concoction of partisan rhetoric: "On Tuesday night, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren attempted to read part of the letter on the Senate floor. Republicans cried foul — charging that Warren violated Senate rules against impugning another senator. A party-line vote upheld that decision, turning what could have been an ordinary late-night partisan floor speech for C-SPAN devotees into a national story."
What is the uncolored truth of the story? On Tuesday night, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren attempted to impugn another senator, Jeff Sessions, through the use of a Coretta Scott King letter. Republicans charged that Warren violated Senate rules prohibiting such impugning. A vote upheld that decision, turning the attempt into a national story.
This attempt by CNN.com to color a truthful story with partisan rhetoric is a prime example of fake news.
An essential reading on writing truthful journalism is "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit