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|April 6, 2011 11:35 PM EDT
I'm returning to the US this week after spending more than a year in Asia. I'm pessimistic about many things, as I recently explained in a separate article.
But let's talk about the rays of light in today's grim global greyness. Let's talk about Cloud Expo.
I don't know much, but I do know that Cloud Expo 2011 New York (at New York's Javits Center June 6-9) presents a golden opportunity for IT managers and executives to see what's on display, listen to the whys and hows of Cloud, and network with their colleagues. I would never underestimate the power of such networking.
Say what you will about virtual events: they do save money. But I think you get what you pay for with them. A virtual event is virtual in the human sense of "not really," rather than virtual in the IT-centric sense of "in effect."
The opportunity to compare notes with one's colleagues, do a reality check, and maybe have a Mojito or two has tremendous value, even if you can't put a price on it.
Cloud Expo New York will have thousands of delegates, has a couple dozen major sponsors, has assembled an amazing 100 exhibitors, and a four-day, multi-track conference with an all-star conference faculty that has no equal in the world.
Hope to see you there.
Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT – especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions.
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The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren't yet translating into a true "cloud" experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the "private cloud" market? In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, explored the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences between wh...
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For basic one-to-one voice or video calling solutions, WebRTC has proven to be a very powerful technology. Although WebRTC's core functionality is to provide secure, real-time p2p media streaming, leveraging native platform features and server-side components brings up new communication capabilities for web and native mobile applications, allowing for advanced multi-user use cases such as video broadcasting, conferencing, and media recording.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Venafi, the Immune System for the Internet™ and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, will exhibit at @DevOpsSummit at 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Venafi is the Immune System for the Internet™ that protects the foundation of all cybersecurity – cryptographic keys and digital certificates – so they can't be misused by bad guys in attacks...
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There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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Machine Learning helps make complex systems more efficient. By applying advanced Machine Learning techniques such as Cognitive Fingerprinting, wind project operators can utilize these tools to learn from collected data, detect regular patterns, and optimize their own operations. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Stuart Gillen, Director of Business Development at SparkCognition, discussed how research has demonstrated the value of Machine Learning in delivering next generation analytics to imp...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides modern company intranets and team collaboration software, allowing workers to stay connected and productive from anywhere in the world and from any device.
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Large scale deployments present unique planning challenges, system commissioning hurdles between IT and OT and demand careful system hand-off orchestration. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Smith, Senior Director and a founding member of Incenergy, will discuss some of the key tactics to ensure delivery success based on his experience of the last two years deploying Industrial IoT systems across four continents.
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Basho Technologies has announced the latest release of Basho Riak TS, version 1.3. Riak TS is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). The open source version enables developers to download the software for free and use it in production as well as make contributions to the code and develop applications around Riak TS. Enhancements to Riak TS make it quick, easy and cost-effective to spin up an instance to test new ideas and build IoT applications. In addition to...
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Identity is in everything and customers are looking to their providers to ensure the security of their identities, transactions and data. With the increased reliance on cloud-based services, service providers must build security and trust into their offerings, adding value to customers and improving the user experience. Making identity, security and privacy easy for customers provides a unique advantage over the competition.
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"We've discovered that after shows 80% if leads that people get, 80% of the conversations end up on the show floor, meaning people forget about it, people forget who they talk to, people forget that there are actual business opportunities to be had here so we try to help out and keep the conversations going," explained Jeff Mesnik, Founder and President of ContentMX, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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"There's a growing demand from users for things to be faster. When you think about all the transactions or interactions users will have with your product and everything that is between those transactions and interactions - what drives us at Catchpoint Systems is the idea to measure that and to analyze it," explained Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York Ci...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data "MBA" course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
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"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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You think you know what's in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
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Let's talk about SeCuRiTy
With the dawn of the internet, millions of computers are getting connected to each other and billions of critical businesses are setting up their online presence. These all have brought so many smiles and reasons to be happy about in our lives. At our comfort we surf these powerful online portals to pay our bills, shop, do online banking, buy & sell shares, plan our vacation & much more....The list is endless..... Believe it or not these applications today are part of our life.
But one question haunts me every night.... how many of these online businesses are really secure? How many of these websites are implementing enough mitigation to protect their customer's private data? According to CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) statistics 1 out of every 5 internet websites have experienced a security problem. $ 12 billion loss per year is estimated due to security violations.
The tremendous increase in this trend is due to many issues. With the increasing computerization, e-commerce, and nearly every valuable information is stored and transmitted in digital format over the wire, individual that have knowledge of the internal working of these systems and those who have the capability to find the vulnerabilities of these technologies often exploit it to the maximum. The time demands that if we need such computerization and digital age, then we all have to prepare for the most important aspect "SeCuRiTy".
Hi everyone, my name is Anmol Malhotra, Senior Security Consultant with Microsoft's Information Security team. Our team - ACE caters to internal and external customer's security, privacy & performance needs. During my 6 years of experience in security world I have witnessed tons of security code reviews, security design reviews, penetration exercises, etc. I will be sharing my experiences; learning's, tips around application security & tips around conducting security white box code reviews with all of you with this blog.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- With their mission accomplished, thousands of Fort Riley soldiers are settling back into like here at home, fresh off their most recent deployment to Afghanistan. Their return is helping boost the local economy.
In recent weeks, there have been a number of emotional homecomings at Fort Riley as members of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the 1st Infantry Division's Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion have returned from Afghanistan,
As the troops get back into the flow of things stateside, they're spending time with their families and some of their hard-earned money.
From restaurants and retail stores to car dealerships and furniture centers, soldiers are turning to local business for the things they need and other items that they added to their wish lists while they were deployed.
"I think business overall has been good at all of our stores, not just here in Manhattan but also in Junction City and Abilene and even in our Salina stores so I think the impact of Fort Riley is great," said John Feldkamp, owner of Feldkamp's Furniture.
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More troops will continue to return to Fort Riley in the coming weeks.
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During fiscal year 2011, Fort Riley provided nearly $2 billion in economic impact to communities in the Central Flint Hills Region.


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Don't bother. I got these off 13 deals and they went straight into the trash. Dollar Store items have higher quality. The wire holding these is equivalent to coat hangers... they don't fold or tuck away. A complete waste. The Plaid ear warmers are the same... useless.
Thanks for the heads-up. I was thinking of getting some but I'll pass now.
Try Ear Pops - they pack flat in their own case, fit in purse or pocket, and stay on your ears.
@donslin and @skaarup: I got these last year and love them. I am surprised to hear that you didn't like them, especially for the price. Of course, we don't have a lot of cold weather where I live so I don't need heavy duty ear Warner's, but I took them on a ski trip to Lake Tahoe and they were great!
I also got a pair of these last year and was recently wearing a pair while working on assembling a wooden playset for my kids (for Christmas). While they are not top quality, and I was worried about them staying on, I forgot I had them on after a few minutes and kept my ears warm. However, it wasn't extremely cold either. For a couple bucks, I'm happy to have something I can wear and not worry about getting them nasty.
see? with conflicting reports...should I buy or not buy?! I was thinking for my daughter as she likes to use this style because they don't mess up her hair. she could keep a pair in her backpack and have them handy for when she has to catch the bus...but maybe not so much if they don't fold flat...?
I can't comment on these, but Woot often has 180's brand this time of year for less than $5 a piece, I'd personally hold out for those if you're in the market for ear warmers, and you haven't been able to find anything cheap locally to get you by. Just my two cents though, I'm sure these are fine for some people.


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I graduated in computer science. I had pretty good knowledge in Java. I have about a year experiences in ASP.net C# Web form. What other things do I need to know if I want become expert in ASP.net MVC which I able to do a complex eCommerce website?
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If you really want to become an expert in ASP.NET MVC, you'll first need to understand exactly what the MVC pattern is, how it's implemented in this case.
Next, I would get your head around stuff like:
Once you've really got your head around these things, the rest is pretty much like any other implementation of the MVC pattern.
As a side note, spend some time learning the Razor syntax. It won't be anything particularly new if you already know Java (and presumably C#), but I always find myself forgetting little things with it!
start from having a basic knowledge of M V C. go through exhaustive tutorial series.What actually they are i.e M, V & C. you should implement which kind of code How and where. Go through exhaustive tutorials available here. Watch Videos Available for making the concept clear by watching them implemented here
Get the more insights of MVC by watching some more advanced and detailed videos over here.
Download Sample MVC Applications from asp.net MVC site and try to observe the convention which is followed in those application
i will personally advise you to make sample applications along when you complete learning a concept
of course it will take time but learning is something which should be given time.
In my opinion, what is your main purpose of your project, is that to conquer a very complex eCommerce website, if so, you should try another server side technology like JSP, Django or Ruby on Rails. They are more suitable. ASP best appropriate for small and medium project.
If you still decide to learn ASP.NET with MVC Pattern. First, you should understand basic info about HTML, CSS, XML (if any), Client Side Scripting like JavaScript (these are the very important thing you need to know about web technology).
And then, you should know about MVC Pattern (supposed you know basic about ASP.NET) You can loo kup more closely the MVC Pattern in any Design Pattern Books to understand how it works.
After that, you should try to take part in more and more projects, with real practice, you gradually become an expert in ASP.NET. Just remember: "Practice makes perfect"


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Columbia's Radicals of 1968 Hold a Bittersweet Reunion
In 1968, students at Columbia and Barnard seized five campus buildings, resulting in 712 arrests during a big police raid. Over the weekend they reunited.
April 28, 2008, Monday
Bomb in Syria Kills Militant Sought as Terrorist
Imad Mugniyah, one of America's most wanted men, was accused of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings.
February 14, 2008, Thursday
George Habash, 82; Tactician of Terrorism
George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a hard-line Marxist group that shocked the world with a campaign of airline hijackings and bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died Saturday of a heart attack in...
January 28, 2008, Monday
George Habash, Palestinian Terrorism Tactician, Dies at 82
Mr. Habash was the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a hard-line Marxist group that shocked the world with a campaign of airline hijackings and bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
January 27, 2008, Sunday
8 Decades, 7 Iraqi Flags
In World War I, Britain enticed Hussein, the sherif, or protector, of Mecca, to head a revolt against Ottoman rule across the Arabian Peninsula, in hopes that he would become the new caliph of all Islam. The British diplomat Mark Sykes designed a...
January 27, 2008, Sunday
Where Living in Fear Starts at the Top
Last week Lebanon appeared closer to resolving a crisis over choosing a new president. So why do its politicians see assassination as a real threat?
December 2, 2007, Sunday
Sorting Out Pakistan's Many Struggles
A deadly bombing that threw the triumphant return of Benazir Bhutto to Karachi into chaos puts a focus on the multiple conflicts and rivalries that roil Pakistan.
October 21, 2007, Sunday
Life With Zabar's at the Epicenter
As the years went by and real estate prices skyrocketed, the Upper West Side began to acquire a certain showiness, cachet even.
August 12, 2007, Sunday
Good Form Once, but Now a Dark Horse
Tommy G. Thompson is scratching for headlines from a press obsessed with other Republican hopefuls.
June 8, 2007, Friday
Last-Minute Extension in Afghanistan for Unit Whose Bags Were Packed
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February 16, 2007, Friday
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Stack Overflow for sure is a class act. What are the downsides of Stack Overflow that you are aware of?
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Maybe it's wrong of me to attempt a serious answer, but one of the biggest shortcomings of the SO model, in my mind, is that it doesn't have an effective way to do troubleshooting. I've seen a lot of questions along the lines of "Why is this code block resulting in $SOME_FRAMEWORK crashing?" Often these require a multi-step process to diagnose, but there is no good way to do this.
What's the solution to this? I don't know. Better abilities to track questions and answers you're interested in would help, but ultimately I just don't know if such problems will ever really fit within the SO domain.
Downvotes without explanation. Too often people will down-vote your question/answer without telling you why. You're left with no explanation, no name, and no direction towards fixing whatever it was that they were upset with. It is my opinion that this is in no way helpful to anybody, and in fact may discourage many people from even attempting to participate.
Rich B.
(What the hell, I have a sense of humor too)
Expiration of answers. For certain types of questions, the "best" answer may change over time and the StackOverflow model doesn't quite capture or allow for that.
For example, let's say I asked "What is the standard way to manage DB persistence in Java?" back in 2000. At the time, the best answer might have been EJB (gulp). Today, the best answer is probably Hibernate. (Tomorrow, who knows?)
In this situation, users relying on StackOverflow to answer the question may be misled! The best answers should be voted up over time, but if the initial best answer got a lot of votes, then it may be difficult for subsequent votes to overcome that initial surge.
How do we account for this? Is there a way to revisit questions where the best answer has clearly expired? Is there a way to value more recent votes over votes that are several years old?
The downsides? Oh, there are many unintended side-effects of the the StackOverflow system.
One of the stated goals was to be "wiki-like"; that is to say, there is the intention that good answers will float to the top, and that over time, answers will converge toward "the truth".
Unfortunately, the karma system works against this. The "fastest gun in the west" problem is well known; early answers get up-voted far more frequently than later answers, and generally speaking, the first semi-correct answer rises to the top, over the more accurate and complete answers that come later.
In addition, points are given for asking and answering questions, not for editing and refining existing questions and answers. So, the system is constantly generating more and more noise.
Think, for a moment, if instead of editing a page, Wikipedia allowed each user to add another page for the same topic. You'd have a zillion pages on each subject, and it would be difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Unfortunately, I don't have any good suggestions for amending the incentives to reward the desired behavior; but the disadvantages to the current system should be examined.
Proprietary code.
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From the FAQ: You can answer and ask questions to your heart's content as an anonymous user
The fact that "anyone" can post a question is a weakness in my opinion. I'm seeing more & more "homework questions", not the cool/challenging/interesting ones, but rather the inane questions.
When I see a "hit & run" question like "why won't my program compile" (let's say due to a case mismatch in a variable name) or "what does += do in this C program" I feel that it dilutes the quality of the content.
Sure, questions can be downvoted & closed, etc... but I'd be happier if I never had to see such questions.
Maybe the admins have a point though, now that I think about it... Why clog the system with 100s of 1000s of registered users who will only ever ask 1 question...
I don't know if the answer is forcing registration, having some type of "posting probationary period" or what... but I fear that as word spreads, the signal to noise ratio on SO will go down.
Especially the fun tag :)
Popular questions and answers (I'm especially referring to humor) get upvoted a lot more than advanced, technically challenging questions/answers. I do enjoy it myself, too, but very skillful q&a should be awarded more than funny one-liners, imo. The difficult stuff, which should be exposed more, gets suffocated.


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I would like to convey to you, at the outset, the greetings and best wishes of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, who has honored me to represent him in this important meeting, which is concerned with a subject that has captured most of our attention and thoughts, and is a major source for our preoccupation at this critical and sensitive junction of the history of our region.
The importance of our meeting today lies in the fact that it expresses, in a profound way, our collective commitment to peace, and our full determination to eliminate all impediments and obstacles that may hinder its path. The justifications for our meeting today are present in every episode of the cycle of violence that has befallen this region in the past. As we all did during the massacre of the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, where we unanimously condemned all forms of violence and terror, we equally condemn today, unanimously, the violent acts that took place in Tel Aviv and the Occupied Territories. All these acts are directed at innocent civilians, and require us to strongly condemn them no matter who the perpetrators or what their justifications.
The participants here today, through this important conference, not only wish to deal with the issue of violence in the Middle East, but strive to uproot violence and energize the peace process with a view to speedily realizing its noble goals. These goals are aimed at realizing a just, comprehensive and durable peace in the region based on the Security Council Resolutions relevant to the Arab - Israeli conflict and the principle of land for peace, and will lead to the closing of the curtain on the acts of war and crises and conflicts that have plagued the region for decades, and will usher a new era of prosperity, progress and tranquility.
We are totally convinced that while the question of confronting violence and terror requires firmness and serious action to uproot, it equally and simultaneously requires due attention to avoid measures that could inflict punishment not only on the perpetrators of these despicable acts but also on the innocent civilians who are victims of these crimes. Collective punishment, closure and any type of violence against innocent people will in turn generate more violence.
Four years have passed since the launching of the peace process at the Madrid Conference. During this period many concrete steps have been taken and many gains attained. We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the co-sponsors of the peace conference. We also note, with great satisfaction, the efforts exerted by President Bill Clinton and his Administration to enhance the peace process. We would also like to register our appreciation to the international community for the material and financial support it has provided to promote the peace process. We hope that our meeting today will achieve tangible results that will energize the peace process and create the right and necessary environment for expediting the Syrian and Lebanese tracks of the bilateral negotiations and lead to the successful conclusion of the final status negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, that encompass the most delicate and sensitive issues of the Palestinian problem.
We are confident that achieving these results will constitute a determined response to all the enemies of peace in the Middle East, whichever side they belong to, since they use violence to hinder this noble process. The true assurance of ending the cycle of violence and the tragedy of terrorism lies indeed in giving the peace process a strong impetus to resume its path based on international legality and the principles established by the Madrid Conference.
To this end, we call upon the co-sponsors of the peace process to reconvene the Conference of Madrid in a resumed session to evaluate the achievements of the peace process, and to take all necessary measures to insure the realization of a just, comprehensive and durable peace in the region.
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When designating which sink in a kitchen is Milchig and which is Fleishig, is there any preferred method for which should side should be which. (Eg left meat and right milk, or vice versa)? What about for utensils?
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Whatever makes the most sense for you and your kitchen.
Often times people make the Fleishige side the side closer to the oven - for practical reasons, as that is what is cooked most, however everyone can and should do what makes most sense for them.


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'Play Money' Accounts Let Investors Test Their Skills
They give most of their money to their financial advisers. But not all of it.
A lot of clients want to have it both ways.
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They hire an adviser to handle the bulk of their investments, presumably because they trust his or her skills.
But they also keep a self-directed brokerage account on the side, pitting their own financial expertise against that of the professional.
The issue could be much bigger than most advisers believe: In a recent survey reported by Boston-based research firm Cerulli Associates, about three- quarters of investors who worked with advisers had a self-directed account, too. But advisers believed just 17% of their clients had these accounts.
The investors cited a variety of reasons for having such accounts. The most common was to save and invest for a specific goal, like retirement or education expenses. However, 18% of the households surveyed said they use them to experiment with their own investment ideas.
It's important that advisers know whether a client has a "play money" account, says Scott Smith, associate director at Cerulli. An adviser's asset-allocation design, for instance, can be undermined by a client who has significant exposure outside the relationship, Mr. Smith says.
But tread carefully. Mr. Smith cautions against implying that the client isn't capable of handling a portion of his or her own finances.
"Try to get as much information as you can, but insisting on those being part of your world view is a dangerous proposition," he says.
Al Depman, a practice-management consultant in Rochester, Minn., says most advisers he works with don't discourage clients from having small accounts on the side, as long as the accounts make up only a minor piece of the client's overall portfolio.
Having such an account could scratch an investor's "investment itch," he says, and serve as an educational tool. "If the client has money they are managing on their own, they're going to recognize how difficult it is and they'll understand the issues an adviser is facing on a daily basis," Mr. Depman explains.
Advisers may find more clients interested in play-money accounts if the stock market continues to climb from its financial-crisis lows.
The activity tends to be popular during bull markets, when it can be easier to beat an adviser's performance with riskier bets, notes Skip Schweiss, managing director of adviser advocacy at TD Ameritrade Institutional. But when the crash comes, he says, investors hand that money back to the experts.
That is what adviser Ron Weiner experienced during the tech bubble of the late 1990s. Enough clients were asking for "esoteric Internet stocks" that he decided to open separate non-fee-based accounts in which the firm would simply make the trades the clients requested.
"We did that out of self-preservation, in that we didn't want them to bother our allocations," says Mr. Weiner, chief executive of RDM Financial Group Inc., a Westport, Conn., firm with $600 million in assets under management. "We're more moderate so we decided to segregate our performance from the outside risk, which proved absolutely wrong for a period of time and totally right at the end of the day."
Keeping those accounts in house allowed Mr. Weiner to monitor them for both tax and allocation purposes. By 2003, after the tech bubble burst, every one of those clients had given him back their play-money assets, he says.
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It was certainly on pace to be a weekend that St. John Central graduate Kristin Heilmeier would never forget.
In Boston, to run her second Marathon on Monday, the Class of 2006 member received an added bonus during her trip to Massachusetts.
Heilmeier's boyfriend, Marcos Santos, whom she met as an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, proposed to her Sunday evening, just hours before she was to be at the starting line.
"It was a great weekend other than the bad ending," Heilmeier said during a phone interview.
Heilmeier finished her fourth career marathon and first Boston Marathon since 2009 with a time of three hours, 28 minutes.
Thankfully, Heilmeier and her fiance were out of harms way before the explosions, which federal authorities have indicated they believe is terrorism and were made by using pressure cookers.
"For me, it was more confusion and uncertainty than anything else," Heilmeier said.
Soon after finishing the race, Heilmeier met up with her fiance, who didn't participate, and the couple headed for the Boston mass transportation system.
Their time on the subway was brief, however. The explosions, which injured more than 170 people and killed at least three people, sent the city into a frenzy and the mass transportation was shut down.
"We were on the train, it stopped and they evacuated it immediately," Heilmeier said. "We heard all of the ambulances and that two bombs had gone off."
Heilmeier and Santos stayed in Cambridge, but without mass transportation, they were in a state of flux.
"Since the subway was closed indefinitely, we started out on foot, but we eventually got a cab back to the hotel," Heilmeier said.
Needing to catch a flight to Des Moines to get back to Iowa State University where she's a student in the veterinary school, Heilmeier literally got back to the hotel, collected her belongings and caught another cab to the airport.
"I was a little nervous getting on the plane that quickly after what had happened," Heilmeier said. "Plus, I didn't even have time to take a shower or get something to eat."
Heilmeier flew to Washington, D.C., and then onward to Des Moines without an issue. However, she did have time to reflect on what she had experienced.
"It's just so humbling and terrifying that literally 30 minutes before (the explosions), I was in that same exact spot," Heilmeier said. "And my fiance and others that I care about were in that spectators' zone. It just reminds you how life is so unpredictable."
St. John Central graduate Nick Habursky (Class of 2005) also ran in the Boston Marathon, but he finished in a personal best of two hours and 51 minutes. He was well out of the area and on his way back to the hotel and then to the airport before the explosions.
Though he didn't witness or experience the tragedy firsthand, Habursky still found himself stunned with what had transpired.
"It's such a terrible tragedy," Habursky said via text message. "It's so sad because it's such a community-involved race that really promotes the feeling of common brotherhood. It's just terrible that something like that has happened."
He and Heilmeier didn't get a chance to see one another before the race.
"I had talked to (SJC cross country coach) Jeremy (Midei) and he said he'd heard from Nick and he was OK," Heilmeier admitted.
Heilmeier doesn't think Monday's events will deter her from running in Boston again, should she qualify.
"I don't think it will hold many runners back at all, honestly," Heilmeier said. "It's such an iconic race and event."
Heilmeier isn't sure when her next marathon will be because she's entering her clinicals to become a veterinarian.
"I am probably going to focus on the half (marathon), 10Ks and 5Ks," Heilmeier admitted. "Once I finish school, I'll get back into doing marathons. I really enjoy the marathon because it fits my personality well. Plus, it's a great stress reliever and the training is so much fun."


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I am looking for a certificate/diploma course in UX/UI development. Basically, I think I am good in design as well as programming. Right now I have a job as an Interactive Developer and I get to work with javascript/jquery often but I feel if I had some sort of certificate, I'd be given more javascript intensive work or more programming intensive work.
Right now, I am more of the html-css-guy than the javascript-jquery-php-tech guy. I feel a degree/certificate/diploma may get me a job through which I can improve my skills further.
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Dreams have been the focus of curiosity and analysis for thousands of years, but often from singular perspectives. In A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (Zone Books), Elliot Wolfson explores the oneiric phenomena from a variety of academic disciplines—psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary theory, and neuroscience. Utilizing these different methodological approaches, Wolfson proposes a linguistic archaeology to elucidate the nature of the dream in a vast array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts. By interpreting the dream within the dream, Wolfson articulates how a productive paradox emerges to reveal the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness.
Wolfson, the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, has published extensively in the area of Jewish mysticism and philosophy in the medieval and modern eras. His books include: Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination; Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death; Venturing Beyond: Morality and Law in Kabbalistic Mysticism; and Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson.
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In these YouTube videos Challenge-Respond Mode and Sign Mode the customer enters a challenge into the CAP device before generating a one time password. Why not just generate the one time password directly?
I think this is to ensure that the response entered into the website is a fresh(ish) one. If the one time password was generated directly then it could be used at any point in the future, the server has no way of checking when it was generated. By providing the challenge to the card it means that the response generated can only be used for the transaction with the matching challenge.
Here's an example of an attack that takes advantage of the fact that a challenge isn't used for all online transaction or logging into your bank account:
It's taken from Optimised to Fail: Card Readers for Online Banking by Ross Anderson, a paper that talks about the CAP protocol and its various vulnerabilities. His group have many other interesting papers as does their site on Chip and PIN.


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In for 2. Great deal.
This device looks like it would take half your face off...
In for 2! One for me, one as a gift. I looked at something similar not long ago for $120 + in a department store. Don't know what the difference could be, other than design, but if it's just a rotating soft bristly brush that feels yummy on your cheeks and chin, I think this deal is AWESOME!
EDIT - attachments for body, face etc, makes this an even bigger bonus.
I couldn't find "water resistant" anywhere in the specs or reviews. I wanted one, but being paranoid, I went with this instead http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Skin-System-ToiletTree-Products/dp/B009GIOVLQ/ref=pd_sbs_bt_17
Which reviewers do say is water resistant, and it comes with 2 different smaller brushes. Has more reviews and also uses 4 AA batteries.


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Is there a difference between the terms category and type? I can't seem to figure out when I should use one over the other.
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"Category" and "type" are largely synonymous with regards to their similar meanings. ("Type" obviously has a few other uses.)
The only real difference between the two is that a category feels more like a bucket or classification: Things are filed or stored away in categories. A type is more akin to a label or identification.
In both of these examples, you could not switch the words out for the other. This isn't so much a grammatical requirement; people just don't do it.
Also of note, the terms have become absorbed by Computer Science and Mathematics with very specific meanings and purposes. For more information, see the relevant Wikipedia pages for Type and Category.
Rule of thumb: something is usually in a category and of a type.
A type can be a loosely defined collection, while a category is a sharply defined thing with a definite membership test. So he's the rude type, but he is in the rude category only if the rudeness distinction is sharp, so that you can test for rudeness. Sharp decisions are usually considered more arbitrary than loose assessments, because they require selecting a trait or feature and a dividing line.
So you can say he's in the tall category only if the "tall category" is defined by 6-feet and taller, and anything less is not "tall". If there is no dividing line, he's of the tall type. Consider also that something being of a "type" means only that it shares characteristics with the other things of this type:
The first suggests that he is Romanian, the second suggests that he is only sharing some vague characteristics with them.
Category conveys a grouping of similar objects. This is completely arbitrary in nature and one item can belong to many such categories.
While type tends to imply that an object can be identified by a particular attribute or trait. It strongly suggests that you should be able to classify it according to this particular attribute or trait that determines its "type".
An example might be that a book might be categorized into being a drama or a comedy or mystery in that it's entirely subjective. One person could interpret it as a drama while another could interpret it as a mystery. However, an example of a book's type would be fiction and nonfiction. This, unlike a category, isn't subjective and identifies what kind of book it is.
I'd say that a type refers to a group with common characteristics, while a category refers to a subgroup with a common set of characteristics and needs a clear supergroup in order to make sense. You are in a category, but you are of a specific type.
So, "He's the type of guy you can really trust", is correct, but "He's the category of guy..." is incorrect and "He's in the category of guys who..." is awkward.
On the other hand, "The next category of entries is bioluminescence", is correct, but, "The next type of entry is bioluminescence" is awkward at best. Similarly, "You're not my type" means "You're not the type of person I'm (romantically) looking for", while "You're not my category" could only be correct if you were in some kind of competition that was broken down into categories and added in ("You're not in my category").
When you have categories it can have different types. For example, "parts of speech" is a category which "pronouns" come under; and under "pronouns" you have different types.
Category fits to a family of different things, while type refers to the actual fact that something exists as being of this type.
Something has a type Something fits into a category.
Categories also are branched and hereditary, while types are just some qualification of an object.
Now you ask it, I can make this analogy: A directory describes a category you put things into. A label describe a quality of objects you put onto.
Now I make it more like computer sciences, put metaphysically, you put something IN a category, but you assign a type ON an object.
One is about the kind of object, the other is about the object itself.
BTW, types are more useful when you don't have time to find the good category. On the other hand, you can have a lot of labels, but you can't have too many different concurrent categories.
Other particularity of types, they can be mixed, while it's not possible with categories.
On the other hand categories make separation and organization easier: think of a (book) library or a hard drive partition.


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I want to know if there is any anti-gravity material. I am thinking of making flying vehicles which are made up of anti-gravity material so that they will not experience any gravity on them and can easily take off and be more fuel efficient. Is there any such thing? Or any workaround?
When you say "anti-gravity material", the closest thing I can think of is the hypothetical concept of negative mass:
But it gets more complicated because there are actually three different kinds of mass: gravitational mass, passive grativational mass, and inertial mass:
In any case, there does not exist any such thing, to the extent of human knowledge.
A from a theoretical physics point of view not completely off the mark approach to anti-gravity effects comes from certain versions of supergravity described in wikipedia, which is a unified supersymmetric point-particle quantum field theory.
Some particular versions of this theory not only contain the "usual" atractive graviton, a spin-2 particle, but in addition a so-called graviphoton is predicted (1). This graviphoton is a spin-1 vector field, interacts with mattar at the normal gravitational strength, and behaves generally like a massive photon. The fun thing about it is that it can give rise to attractive and repulsive forces. The repulsive forces feature can in principle give rise to anti-gravity effects, however the real-world / everyday usefulness of this has not yet been tested ... ;-)
For more see this blog article on Uduality (2).
(1) A model for a light graviphoton, R. Barbiery and S. Cecotti, Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 33(2), 1986, 255-261
(2) Antigravity from Supergravity, Physics blog post on: U.Duality thoughts on the new mathematics and physics, posted 24. November 2012
In the spirit of conspiracies and dubious theories, take a look at the so called Biefeld Brown effect.Some have claimed that Penney's 1965 paper as a possible source of rationalizing their beliefs. I don't know enough to offer an opinion either way. However, Mythbusters et al have obtained negative results in all their experiments.Take it for what its worth.
Forget anti-gravity material. As far as we know, there is none--gravity is always an attractive force. But there is a workaround: Use something with the appropriate properties, i.e. something that does have repelling force. Electromagnetism! All you need to do is separate enough charge, say a few grams of electrons, place half of them at the airport and attach the other half to your flying machine. Off they go with a mighty force that can lift Mount-Everest sized objects to the moon. Simple as that. (Calculation of the force between two 1g clouds of electrons left as an exercise--it's immense!).
Of course, the hard part is getting at a gram of electrons (without any positive charge nearby).
What does General Relativity have to say about this issue?
Instead of going into more recent developments, which others, such as Dilaton already have, I will discuss the general relativistic perspective on this. So, start with the Raychaudhuri Equation:
With $\theta^2$ and $\sigma^2$ are appropriately defined as $\theta^2=\left(\frac{\theta_\mu^\mu}{3}\right)^2$ and $\sigma^2=\sigma_{\mu\nu}\sigma^{\mu\nu}$ and also, under the assumption that the worldline of the centre of energy is completely time-like. Just for the time being, forget about $\sigma^2$.i.e. say that the object is not under any shearat all. $$\frac{\mbox{d}\theta}{\mbox{d}\tau}=-\theta^2-R_{\mu\nu}v^\mu v^{\nu}$$
Now, for there to be any anti-gravitational effect, $R_{\mu\nu}v^\mu v^{\nu}$ must be positive. Whether or not the worldlines go forward in time, or backwards, $v^\mu v^\nu$ must be negative since it is completely time-like, and thus, $R_{\mu\nu}$ must be negative. Now apply the Einstein Field Equation: $$G_{\mu\nu}=\kappa T_{\mu\nu}$$ $$R_{\mu\nu}=\kappa\left({T_{\mu\nu}-\frac{T}{2}g_{\mu\nu}}\right)$$
Thus, the anti-gravity condition imposes the following constraint: $$T_{\mu\nu}<\frac{T}{2}g_{\mu\nu}$$
Taking the trace of the inequation with respect to the Minkowski metric tensor (for fun, or maybe not really), letting $g=g_\mu^\mu$: $$T<\frac{T}{2}g$$ $$g>2$$ Wow, like we didn't know that before from the Einstein Field Equation before!
Conclusion: General Relativity does not disallow antigravity. Only a negative time-time component of the SEM tensor is necessary. : )
What does Newtonian Gravity have to say about this issue?
Let's go a step simpler and just handle Newtonian Gravity now. Well, you know this. Its really simple.
$$\|\vec F\|<0$$ $$G\frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}<0$$ $$\frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}<0$$
SPATIAL distances are always real numbers so the denominator must be non-negative. $$m_1m_2<0$$
Due to lack of spacetime, I couldn't write that Newton was actually telling Einstein that even Kindergarden kids could learn his theory of gravity but not the latter's! And that Einstein was mocking Newton.
Image Courtesty Wikipedia :).!
For your specific case, however, don't bother buying so much negative stress-energy-momentum tensor, instead just use two magnets (like poles repell) or really light objects.
Edit: Oops! I mean "lack of space"!
Anti-gravity is impossible, as it would let you build a perpetual motion system, as follows.
Assume we have a system in which we can capture the kinetic energy of a falling mass. For example, a ball that falls onto a scooped wheel to drive it. Take the ball and move a sheet of anti-grav material under it. As the ball now no longer feels the earth's gravity, we can push it up above the wheel without using any energy. Now remove the anti-grav sheet. The ball will fall onto the wheel and thus generate energy.
This violates the law of conservation of energy, i.e. the first law of thermodynamics. Hence it is impossible, and hence anti-gavity cannot exist.
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As promised, we made another low(ish) alcohol drink this week for #MasterofCocktails that's fantastic in its own right. This one's called The Adonis and it's a real flavour-packed treat!
It's taken from 'The Art of The Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level' by Dinah Sanders, a superb compendium of yummy low(er) alcohol cocktails. Well worth a look.
Without further ado, here are the ingredients:
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From Ralph Hipp
Late Show fans, if you're truly a fan of David Letterman, you know that February 1st marked 30 years since Dave came on the air with his first LATE NIGHT with David Letterman. He had been a morning show host, kind of a wild and crazy program in between NBC's game shows and soaps. As you can imagine, he was spot on being funny at that time of the day, but the time period was way off base.
So NBC moved him to his own Late Night program which began on February 1, 1982.. 30 years ago Wednesday night. His first guest was Bill Murray. That's why Bill was on Tuesday night's show; he's sort of like Dave's Good Luck charm. Bill Murray was also Dave's first guest when Mr. Letterman joined our team and moved to CBS on August 30, 1993. (You might also recall that's the show where Paul Newman was sitting in the audience, asking "Where the hell are the CATS?" as in waiting for the Broadway show!)
While it's not exactly Dave's 30th anniversary on the air (Dave was off the air for several months until his CBS show started..) three decades of late night is quite a big deal! Johnny Carson, David's idol and mentor, hosted the "Tonight Show" for almost 30 years, just a few months short of the milestone.
Mr. Letterman is still in talks with CBS to extend his stay with us until 2014, which would place him tops on the list of late night hosts.. longer than Mr. Carson held the helm of the show that set the gold standard.
Dave, you're one of a kind, too! (I was lucky enough to visit Dave's old LATE SHOW during the 1980s, and it was great fun. Would still love to go to the CBS show in New York sometime, but don't get up that way very often.)
Share a thought or two about Dave on his 30 years, and if you can remember a funny moment or two, share that with us, too! I still love Dave's old stuff of dropping in a vat of water while he was covered in Alka-Seltzer.. hey, Dave, how about doing that again to celebrate the big three-oh! rh


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Misunderstandings about 85
An anonymous coward wrote:
So I'm seeing edit wars and that sucks but there's kind of no option because there's no talk page and now there is so take it here, guys.
I'm wikitransposing a bunch of stuff from the articlespace to here because it's getting out of hand and crufty. Maybe we should start a new page called Beef, and you can just talk shit about people in the space or not in the space bugging you, either signing your posts or like an anonymous little coward. But at the beginning of this page it says, "This is a place to keep track of ... people who have been asked to leave Noisebridge ..." So for now, let's just limit it to that, yeah? If someone hasn't been explicitly individually asked to leave the space, please leave them off 85. As it is it's turning into a "people part of subcultures I don't like" page. 'Cause otherwise this thing is going to get ridiculous and way out of control, with oogles and other annoying individuals. And let's face it, in a place dedicated to people with limited social skills, almost everybody's a bit fucking annoying. <3
Sorry Anonymous Coward, this is completely wrong. 85 is not a list of people who have been kicked out of the space, as implied by your bad attempt at selective quoting (...) above. It's to help solve a specific problem of the space being invaded by non-hackers. It's a tool to help us determine who the problem users of the space are and then ask them to leave. (Jesse Z.)
Old beef
The Oogles
Some people seem to have gotten the impression Noisebridge is a 24-hour hangout and drop-in center, whether or not sleep is permitted. With refrigerators where you can leave your food.
The following people have been accused of using Noisebridge as a crashpad and the general sentiment seems to be that they are not making the space more Excellent.
(guy with cane who isn't Zack)
- Has not slept or stored stuff at the space in any way.
- Assisted with Removing Jonathon from the space
- Has been active in utilizing the space productively.
- Iraq War Veteran with two purple hearts. (edited by Jedi)
Yogurt Container Man
- I forget his name. Nice guy, unshaven, pretending extremely hard to not be homeless, plays chess, is really handy at repairing the Occupiers clothes with a needle and thread or with the sewing machines. Stores random things in the shelves in the middle of the space.
- Rayc lives at Noisebridge. He doesn't always sleep here, but when he does he feels entitled as fuck. He tells people he works for Noisebridge and thus is allowed to sleep here. He decides who else is allowed. He gives everyone tours, he's giving one right now as I write this, and as usual 90% of wat he is telling people is cringe-inducingly absurd bogus nonsense. He is frequently obviously under the influence of substances of the "upper" variety, and exhibits classic tweaker behaviors like constant reorganizing and "soldering" with plastic (making hella toxic fumes, wtf, please ask him to stop). Rayc obviously means well, but sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Rayc should stop trying to improve Noisebridge infrastructure, stop giving tours, and generally LURK MOAR (aka stfu and chill the fuck out).
- I hadooped the above text, did a Bayesian analysis of the memes...
DING DING DING its JustinDoerr! Are you still sore Rayc freaked out when you sat on him? I think you need to chill a little.
- I, for one, want to say I love rayc' tours. If you have a specific criticism, please mention it, so we can perpetuate awesome institutional culture for newcomers and learn from each other, but it seems to me that rayc always gives tours, when no one else is willing to, that, if nothing else, leave first-time visitors excited and inspired. Whatever other bullshit falls out of his mouth, who cares? People can figure out the rest for themselves, right? As long as they're here and willing to contribute and learn. And that's what rayc' tours do.
Look, I realize Amber, despite her protestations, was the catalyst for much of this. But, to my knowledge, she's never been escorted out of the space. Recently, in fact, she has been making an effort to be more productive, disavow her previous aquaintances, and integrate/interface better with the space. This has redeemed her in the eyes of some, but by no means all, regulars. So she dresses like a hippie and engages in logical fallacies when debating. If that's enough to not want her in the space, then grow a pair and ask her respectfully to not come back until the next Tuesday meeting. If not, then shut up and stop talking shit, or at least filling up 85 with rants.
"Please only re-add someone if you know for a fact they've been asked to leave and have specifically refused or been escorted out." --Eric
Sorry Eric, that is just not correct. This page is to compare notes with people who may think a person's presence in inappropriate. If a person has already been asked to leave they may be placed on the 86 page. I have not seen Amber in four days and the space has been MUCH MUCH improved as a result. I would very much like it if she never returned. (Jesse Z.)


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Steve T Power wrote:J.M. Vargas wrote:You know what? You're right. "Van Helsing" is pure and utter s*** while "Monster Squad" is charming-but-dated, at-least-Shane-tried-to-be-cool-but-stroke-out inconsistent s***. I take back the comparisons to Sommers' ode to cheap CGI overkill but "Monster Squad" is still, overall, a more-bad-than-good creature flick.
I actually prefer Van Helsing, but I don't have that childhood nostalgia working in Monster Squad's favor, and I'm also the Cinematic Hitler apparently.
I don't have childhood nostalgia going on either. I just didn't think it was humanly possible to like Van Helsing.


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Always reasons to hate Iran
In the State of the Union, President Obama said he would veto any effort to increase sanctions on Iran. Previous White House threats seemed a bit oblique, now his direct threat has pulled some Democratics back from the brink of voting for the "Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act" introduced by Senators Mendez (D.) and Kirk (R.). Rand Paul, one of the few Republicans to stand back from supporting the bill, now opposes it. All to the good.
Paul Pilar, senior fellow at Georgetown and The Brookings Institutions as well as a former CIA officer, has a long memory. He enumerates all the ways over the years in which relations with Iran have come under fire, and not just for their nuclear program. In the National Interest. He expects that as negotiations continue other and older reasons to bring down Iran will emerge.
Previous disucssions at dotCWL. Let's Have a War and War or Peace? Raise Your Hand.
About the Author
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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I have to say that there are a fairly large group of people who just will not be happy until we go to war with Iran. They will push it any chance and for any reason, and won't be happy until they see US troops marching through Terhan.
The regime-change impulse is strong. Do its supporters care more about that than they do nuclear weapons? Some seem to.
I don't think we need to worry about the U.S. starting a war against Iran, which, being Iran, will finagle, lie and cheat in sufficient ways to force us into a too-late defense of our legitimate interests and of Israel.
Ms. Steinfels - excellent analysis by one of my favorite presidential historians. It also helps put much needed context into this question (too often, everything with the Middle East begins with 9/11).
Key perspectives:
- "For decades, U.S. policy in the Middle East had sought to shore up that region's precarious stability. In a part of the world always teetering on the brink of chaos, averting war had formed the centerpiece of U.S. policy.
Now, however, the administration of George W. Bush contrived a different approach. Through war, the United States would destabilize the region and then remake it to the benefit of all. "The United States may not be able to lead countries through the door of democracy," Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz remarked, "but where that door is locked shut by a totalitarian deadbolt, American power may be the only way to open it up." (note also his phrase in describing the photo with Bush, Rice, and Gates given Gates' recent book and comments)
- "Although most of the 9/11 hijackers had come from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, "the problems there [were] intractable." Iraq was seen as "different, weaker, more vulnerable," Here was the place to implement America's new "democratic domino theory."
- "The point is crucial. Only by appreciating the magnitude of the Bush administration's post-9/11, vanity-saturated ambitions does it become possible to gauge their unforeseen consequences. Only then can we fully appreciate the deeply ironic outcome that those ambitions yielded." (and talk about not understanding the growing conflict in that region between Sunni and Shia)
- "Transformation—there was a word redolent with ambition and vanity. By invading Iraq and overthrowing a dictator, an administration disdainful of mere stability would make a start at transforming the entire Islamic world." (same mindset but substitute Iran for Iraq)
- "Following in the wake of the U. S. invasion of Iraq came not transformation, but disorder that enveloped large swaths of the Middle East."
- "Scholars will long debate whether the misuse of American power caused or merely catalyzed this instability—or indeed whether the disorder roiling the Middle East derives from factors to which decisions made in Washington are largely irrelevant."
Andrew Bacevich.
"or indeed whether the disorder roiling the Middle East derives from factors to which decisions made in Washington are largely irrelevant." That would serve us right--after killing all those people and spending all that money!!!
I doubt he really believes that, but it's a good last sentence.
I have a huge concern that our interests seem to always be assumed to be Israel's and Israel's ours. In a broad sense, over the issue of survival of Israel, that might be true, but elswhere I am not so sure it is. And the idea that we would effectively surrender our sovereinty to make war and peace decisions to another nation, particularly a smaller nation, is particularly dangerous. Some scholars have suggested that Germany's decision to give Austria-Hungary a blank check with repect to Serbia led to what would have been a moderate regional conflict to flare into the First World War. It may be in our interest to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran. Such an agreement, properly drawn and properly followed isn't appeasement. Not going to war isn't appeasement either
Mr, Dunn - thanks for broadening and focusing on this aspect of the *Iranian issue*. To support your comments: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/american-jewish-cocoon/?pagination=false
Key points:
"the same insularity characterizes debate about Israel in Washington. In part that's because of the weakness of Palestinian and Arab-American groups. And in part it's because of the effectiveness of the American Jewish establishment. Since 2000, according to the website LegiStorm, members of Congress and their staffs have visited Israel more than one thousand times. That's almost twice the number of visits to any other foreign country. Roughly three quarters of those trips were sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), AIPAC's nonprofit arm. And many of the rest were sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, local Jewish Community Relations Councils, local Jewish Federations, and other mainstream Jewish groups. During the summer of 2011 alone, AIEF took 20 percent of House members—and almost half the Republican freshman class—to the Jewish state. Since 2000, the foundation has taken House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer or his staffers to Israel nine times and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor or his staff eight times."
"They learn why Jews feel so connected to Israel and why they worry so much about its security. And for the most part, they learn to see Palestinians the way the American Jewish establishment does: as a faceless, frightening, undifferentiated mass. As one "pro-Israel" activist told The New York Times last year, "We call it the Jewish Disneyland trip."
"For centuries, when Jews lived in the Diaspora as a persecuted minority, we had to understand the societies around us. Because we lacked power, we had to be smart to survive. Now, I fear, because Jews enjoy power in Israel and America, especially vis-à-vis Palestinians, we've forgotten the importance of listening. "Who is wise?" asks the Jewish ethical text Pirkei Avot. "He who learns from all people." As Jews, we owe Israel not merely our devotion but our wisdom. And we can't truly provide it if our isolation from Palestinians keeps us dumb.
"If encountering Palestinians combats American Jewish ignorance, it also combats American Jewish hatred. In May, Sheldon Adelson, among the most influential Jewish philanthropists in America, said he would not support John Kerry's plan for Palestinian economic development because "why would I want to invest money with people who want to kill my people?" Adelson wasn't calling one Palestinian leader a killer, or even one Palestinian faction. He was calling Palestinians killers per se. And his views aren't uncommon. At a breakfast last year, I heard a prominent Jewish leader in New York call Palestinians "animals."
Above by Peter Beinart.
Just finishing up Duty by Robert Gates. Given the slog he describes that was Iraq and that is still Afghanistan, why would anyone in the U.S. Congress would want another ME war. All the talk of taking out nuclear sites by bombing and with no boots on the ground is fantasy. The U.S. military knows that and that's why head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Martin Dempsey has been one of most cautious voices on any Iran adventure.
Jim Dunn said: "I have to say that there are a fairly large group of people who just will not be happy until we go to war with Iran." (Jan 30, 5:10 pm)
I'll go one even further: there is a fairly large group of people who just will not be happy until we go to war … period.
I think we are cursed with governmental leaders in the House, Senate and Presidency since Bill Clinton (George W's … national guard service is very different from actual service military service!) most of whom have no personal military experience, nor have they (in the main) been willing to send their children into harm's way. (http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html)
They are perfectly happy to have what are effectively paid mercenaries do the fighting for the US. These people come largely from the ranks of the poor, minorities and unemployed, with a preponderance of the office and NCO ranks coming from the South, where military service continues to be an honorable profession.
Consequently we have what has been termed "chicken hawks" in charge of decisions to cause OTHERS to do the fighting and dying for whatever reason. There is no "skin in the game" nor personal "dog in the fight" when it comes to deciding where and when to go do war.
There is a segment of the US that believes the most effective way to maintain our being "Numbah One" in the world is via force of arms, operating, of course, under the guise of "leading countries through the door of democracy," as Paul Wolfowitz, another chicken hawk, remarked.
Wars are not conducted in the abstract even though in this day and age, most of the people in the US observe and "participate" from afar if at all. If anyone wants to disabuse themselves of the fact that they are, visit any VA hospital these days. When I was in Vietnam in the 1960s (no, I was not a direct combatant) people who were severely wounded stood a fairly good chance of dying from their wounds. Not anymore. Thanks to advances in medical science, people can be kept alive in conditions that they never would have survived 50 years ago. What one can see in the VA hospitals today makes what we saw in the person of Army Ranger Cory Remsburg during the State of the Union address appear to be small feed.
In Bernard Prusak's article elsewhere in this issue (https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/just-warriors-unjust-wars) he makes a couple of points directly applicable to what I have been saying:
"For 'war isn't a relation between persons but between political entities' which have turned human beings into mere instruments—'food for powder, food for powder' "
"(Daniel) Maguire finds problematic about just-war theory: that it has facilitated recourse to war."
Jim McCrea: "Thanks to advances in medical science, people can be kept alive in conditions that they never would have survived 50 years ago. What one can see in the VA hospitals today makes what we saw in the person of Army Ranger Cory Remsburg during the State of the Union address appear to be small feed."
One of the big points in Gates's Duty is the fights he had to mount with the Pentagon and DOD bureaucracy to get better and more protective equipment adapted to the troops' situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then to clean up the after-care conditions of the wounded in the military hospitals and veterans' hospitals (use to caring for older vets). There may be some self-serving here on the part of Gates, but the conditions he describes suggest that the wounded were regarded by many in the bureaucracy as simply fodder for the war.
The way the U.S. treats its non-injured veterans is disgraceful. They are trained only for military employment, and when they come out too often they cannot find jobs. Unlike the WW II vets, they don't get the GI Bill benefit of tuition and expenses for needed schooling. Shame, shame, shame on us.
Ms. Steinfels - in terms of the overall approach and attitudes: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/books/review/breach-of-trust-by-andrew-j-bacevich.html?ref=review&_r=0
In reference to defensive counter-measures to protect troops (esp. IEDs):
The story about Mine Resistant Military Vehicles is sad....both the technology and the vehicles were ready at the start of the Iraq War......plenty of documented narratives exist to show that senior brass and Congress along with the administration delayed, stopped, or ignored getting these vehicles built and into Iraq for more than 3 years at the cost of tens of thousands of dead or injured. Finally, after every IED counter measure alternatives had failed, they finally moved forward.
Gates found that the mine resistant vehicles, created for Iraq, had to be adapted for Afghanistan because of differences in terrain. Iraq is flat and sandy, Afghanistan rocky and mountainous. The Iraqi vehicles tipped easily in Afghanistan and Gates had to get on the military to adapt them so that soldiers weren't killed or injured, not from mines, but from other causes!! This also fits in with Gates's complaints about how congressionals protect factories in their own districts, which makes it difficult to adapt and/or change suppliers..
Thanks for the references.


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The 5 Most Overrated Jobs Of All-Time
#2. Samurai: You Will Get Stabbed
If you need any confirmation of how cool the Samurai warriors of Japan were, look no further than the film The Last Samurai. These people managed to survive and kick ass even with Tom Cruise in their midst. It'd be like running a marathon while dragging a dead cow behind you.
Samurai warriors followed the bushido code and were men of honor, believing in loyalty to their masters and the importance of fulfilling their duties even if it meant death. Outfitted in some insanely kick-ass looking armor, they'd rip their enemies six or seven new assholes with a razor sharp sword.
Samurai were noble and, unlike many knights of Western culture, literate and educated. They were patrons of the arts and aspired to be as skilled in them as they were in the ways of war. Samurai were basically Batman, only there were armies of them, on horseback.
Why it Sucked:
The downside to any code of honor is what happens when you step out of bounds, even if it was unintentional. Samurai had to invent the practice of seppuku (ritual suicide via cutting your own guts out) to account for fuck ups in the day to day life of being an aristocratic, ass kicking machine.
Warriors could not be shamed by falling into enemy hands, so any time a battle went awry and a warrior was going to be taken captive, the answer was to spill his own intestines. If the warrior had the time to perform the full ritual, he would bathe, dress in white robes, eat a meal then pull out a knife and slice his guts open from left to right. If he was in a hurry, like on the battlefield, he'd have to settle for a Snickers or whatever was handy, then gut himself on the spot.
Seppuku wasn't just a means of escaping capture, it was also a punishment for pretty much any major infraction committed by a samurai, and was used to redeem lost honor. In the 1860s, French sailors entered a Japanese town unannounced and caused a ruckus as Frenchmen are wont to do. Samurai warriors came to escort them out, but a fight broke out and the sailors were all killed. This pissed off the French who demanded something be done about it. Then, in a move they totally didn't expect, the men responsible committed seppuku, which freaked the French representative out so badly he requested the ritual be stopped and the remaining men spared.
"Sacre' bleu!"
Other reasons to off one's self included being an out of work samurai, fleeing from battle, engaging in battle without permission, and presumably diddling the local shogun's wife. They'd also do it as a form of protest, meaning a disagreement with their master meant the master had a nasty mess to clean up afterward.
So, in a nutshell, your choice was to fight honorably and be stabbed to death by an enemy, or run away and be forced to stab yourself to death as punishment. The fact that they got any recruits at all indicates the other benefits must have been awesome, considering the retirement plan brochure was just a bunch of pictures of guys getting stabbed.
#1. Private Investigators: Low Pay and Naked Fat Guys
Back in the 40s, if Humphrey Bogart was any indication, being a PI didn't take much more than the ability to wear an overcoat and look cool while shooting people. Through decades of gritty novels and grittier films, private dicks played by their own rules and went where the cops couldn't go.
Sure the world was full of dames and Peter Lorre-looking weasels and everyone was going to try to double cross you. But being a PI at the end of the day you were going to come out on top and retire to your office to have a nice, warm glass of Scotch and wait for the next dame to walk in with a sob story.
Why it Sucked:
While real life PIs could find themselves getting into some hairy situations (Allen Pinkerton got famous for stopping an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln), most movies overlook certain aspects of their lives. Either that or the editors were on the ball when they decided to weed out the countless hours of sitting around doing just short of jack shit.
Many private investigators work for insurance companies or collection agencies, tracking down deadbeats and people trying to scam their way into a disability claim. So you're basically spending hours and hours trying to track down an address, or following some fat guy around who claims his back is too injured to work, waiting for him to pick up something heavy so you can snap a picture of it.
There's also the adultery cases, wives wanting to catch husbands in the act to force a better divorce settlement. This means following the same fat guy around town while he goes about his tedious routine, with the goal of getting photos of him having fat sex with some lady who isn't his wife, praying the whole time that this does not in fact happen.
You'd follow him around. All day.
In reality very rarely do private investigators investigate or solve crimes, since, you know, that's what the cops are for.
Investigators starting out in the industry with an agency can expect to earn around $30,000 a year and will likely only resemble Magnum PI if they elect to grow a giant mustache. The likelihood of a rich benefactor wandering in to ask a PI to find her husband's killer and handing over an envelope full of cash is about as likely as Jessica Biel walking in and asking for a boob massage.
For movies that are depressing for a whole other reason check out Rick's look at 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes. Or find out about some action stars whose careers had a less than happy ending in 5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity.More of Fortey's stuff can be found at Scenic Anemia.
For the people who they should be making movies about check out 7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers. Or for horse shit you learned even before you could use the internet, read about The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class.


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I've been making peanut butter cookies, but skipping the step of pressing the top of the cookie down with a fork. What does this step do for the cookies?
Peanut butter cookies don't spread as they cook, so you have to flatten them before hand. This ensures that the middle will cook through before the outside burns.
As for the pattern created, it actually creates slightly more surface area, so you'll get more browning at the extra edges that you create. Think of it like a meringue, or the top of a shepherd's pie -- if it's too smooth, you won't get the little bits of browned crispy bits that you'd get if you rough up the surface.
I believe the main reason is to help the dough spread out. Peanut butter cookies recipes typically don't go for a lot of spread, and therefore you need to manually flatten the dough in order to get a proper cookie shape and allow the cookie to cook properly.
It's not clear to me whether the non-spreading recipe is a requirement for some aspect of the cookie, or if the reason that a non-spreading recipe is used is specifically to allow the fork-marks to remain, so you could experiment with some of the factors mentioned in this thread on cookie spreading if you'd prefer the cookies to spread on their own and skip the fork marks.
I actually just asked my wife about this! It turns out that the dough used for most peanut butter cookies is a little thicker than regular cookie dough. Pressing it can help it to cook more evenly. I don't know how much it helps, but she seemed to think it was pretty important!
The fork lines are so you can tell the difference between the peanut butter ones and the sugar cookies.
Nothing. It's just cosmetic. I didn't even know I was "supposed" to be doing that until I'd been making them for years.


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I have a 1TB array set up in
raid 1 using
mdadm on Ubuntu 8, to store mission-critical files. I'd like to speed up read/write, especially for large files by caching to an SSD. Is this possible? Does
mdadm contain a facility to cache to another drive?
Alternatively, is there something I should do to assign ordinary RAM to caching? There is 4GB RAM and files to be written are rarely larger than 1GB so I'm thinking writes should be quite quick just with RAM caching alone.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?
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Do you own the blog ? If so i beleve you can just deactivate you account in blogspot. Another option would be to edit the html of the site and a meta noidex tags to the pages.
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