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NetIQ Extends Policy Compliance and Assessment to VMware Environments
Adherence to Security Industry Best-Practice Benchmark Increases Confidence around Migrating Applications to Virtual Machines in Production
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Organizations are embracing virtualized environments for the cost savings they bring to the enterprise. In order to move a VMware environment from test to production, it is critical for organizations to ensure that the applications deployed on virtual machines have the same level of performance, availability and security they have in the physical world. To help ensure secure migration to and maintenance of virtual environments, NetIQ Corporation, an Attachmate business, today announced its adherence to industry-set security configuration standards and best practices, as NetIQ® Secure Configuration Manager™ (SCM) has achieved the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark for VMware ESX Server 3.x.
An increasing number of companies are recognizing the cost savings benefits—specifically during these energy conscious times—of reduced power output that comes from migrating to a virtualized environment. Leading industry analyst firm, Gartner Inc., predicts that by 2009, 60% of production virtual machines will be less secure than their physical counterparts as the rapid implementation of virtual machines breaks down some of the old security disciplines in the data center.¹
Automating security precautions to ensure that applications are secure against vulnerabilities and threats is an essential element of moving VMware projects from the testing phase to actual production. SCM's adherence to the CIS Benchmark for VMware ESX Server 3.x provides assurance for customers that they have the correct configuration of ESX servers as defined by CIS, thereby protecting VMware servers against Denial of Service and other potential security vulnerabilities.
"Migrating to the virtualized infrastructure requires the same service levels—performance, availability, security—as the physical environment, otherwise all the cost saving benefits could be put at risk," said Ulrich Weigel, EMEA product line director at NetIQ. "It is vital that organizations have comprehensive systems and security management in place to secure critical applications and provide administrators with full visibility across the entire environment. Our ability to ensure that the servers are correctly configured to align with security industry best practices helps VMware projects quickly and confidently move into production without sacrificing the cost efficiencies they promise."
In addition to SCM's compliance with this CIS Benchmark, NetIQ continues to demonstrate its ongoing commitment to provide complete management solutions for VMware with the addition of new features for the NetIQ AppManager® Suite—its flagship systems management solution. A new reporting pack for NetIQ Analysis Center™ includes specific reports for the VMware infrastructure, enabling customers to better document and report on their virtual investment strategy.
For more information on CIS Benchmarks please visit www.cisecurity.org.
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The desire we share with educators to see at-risk students achieve, led to the creation of The MVP Leadership Academy. Through the MVP Leadership Academy, 6th – 8th grade boys will be motivated, empowered and encouraged to achieve academic excellence, develop personal skills and make positive decisions to avoid problem and high-risk behavior so that they can grow to be confident and successful role models and leaders.
The MVP Leadership Academy provides educators with a tool that they can use in their classrooms to encourage, incent and reward the outcomes that they desire most in their students. In order for a young man to become part of The MVP Leadership Academy, he has to commit to live his life following the MVP Leadership Academy Code of Conduct.
The MVP Leadership Academy Code of Conduct
I will be courteous and respectful of others and I agree to value and respect others' ideas.
I will not use drugs, alcohol, or tobacco as I will be a role model to others.
I will respect my teachers and continue to exhibit positive leadership qualities.
I will attend all classes regularly and on time.
I will prepare for each class and bring appropriate materials and assignments.
I will obey all campus and classroom rules.
For living by this Code, these young men earn their invite to The MVP Leadership Academy Camp. The Camp is a once in a lifetime experience where they will meet and interact with The MVP Leadership Academy founder Ron Wolfley (host of the Doug & Wolf show on KTAR) and his celebrity guest speakers such as Calais Campbell, Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald.
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New features on Riya connect
Riya Travels has always tried to come up with new features and developments for its agents, reveals Manoj Samuel, Director, Riya Group.
Q What kind of added benefits are you offering your agents this year? Riya has always tried to come up with new features and developments for our agents. We have recently added travel insurance on our online portal which was otherwise only available offline. We also have Queue Ticketing, a transactional module where travel partners can queue their PNRs to us, retrieve the PNR on this module and issue the ticket through our IATA-accredited website. This benefits the travel partners to retain their segments and earn commission on these tickets. There is no dependency of sending email and calls for ticket issuance, or any other manual interference. Refunds and cancellations will also be accepted in the near future from this module.
Q How has Riya connect performed so far? Riya connect started as a lone flight seller and today we offer a bouquet of travel products under one roof. We are not stopping here; we are constantly trying to come up with new things to make everything easy for our agents. We have recently added travel insurance to Riya connect and are working on few other things that will be added soon. We also offer a range of ancillary services like real-time ticketing status with the convenience of seat and meal selection.
Q What are your plans for 2017? We will soon be coming up with new trade activities. We also have plans to add new features to Riya connect and promote Riya Business Travel. We have also decided to try a lot of new things this year. For one, we have recently started to expand ourselves at B2C level too even though we have always been more of a B2B company. We'll have to see how that works out for us in the long run.
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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) and U.S. aircraft leasing firm Jackson Square Aviation said on Monday they had reached a firm agreement over the purchase of 30 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
The two companies announced the deal, valued at about $3.5 billion at current list prices, at the Farnborough Airshow.
Reuters reported earlier that Jackson Square was interested in placing an order for Boeing's hot-selling 737 MAX jets.
The model offers 162 to 178 seats in a standard two-class configuration and flies up to 3,550 nautical miles (6,570 kilometers), while improving fuel efficiency 14 percent over its predecessor.
Another leasing company, Goshawk Aviation, also plans to order about 20 of the planes, industry sources said.
In Jackson Square's first direct purchase from a jet maker, the leasing firm said it expected to take delivery of the aircraft between 2023 and 2025.
The order, previously unidentified in Boeing's orders backlog, represents the 100th customer for the 737 MAX program, the companies said.
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The three partners of Shadoan, Michael & Wells, LLP. credit their individual and collective success to their high standards for competence, hard work, integrity, and most important, commitment to client service. Highlights from the partners' resumes include being invited by their peers to membership in the nation's most prestigious legal organizations, including: The Inner Circle of Advocates, limited to the top 100 plaintiffs' lawyers in the nation; International Academy of Trial Lawyers, limited to 500 lawyers worldwide; and the American College of Trial Lawyers, limited to 1% of the lawyers in each state.
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The Comic Reel received an anonymous and unconfirmed tip that Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is up for the lead in the David Hayter-helmed spy thriller.
Rolling Stone has information on some of the music for the web-spinning sequel's soundtrack. "Dashboard Confessional didn't plan on recording new music this summer. Then the producers of Spider-Man 2 came calling. 'I'm a comic-book fan and a movie guy,' says Dashboard singer Chris Carrabba, who knocked out a new track, 'Vindicated,' in one afternoon. He's in good company: Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Jet and Fefe Dobson are releasing new songs for movies this summer." Hoobastank and Jet will also be on board. Meanwhile, Alfred Molina sat down for an interview with Comingsoon.net, saying, "I'm aware of how important [Doctor Octopus] is in the iconography of that particular universe. I've spoken to a lot of fans of the Spider-Man comics, and they say that he's revered as a character, because he's such a famous villain. I was always aware that there was a great deal of expectation awaiting this movie, and as with every transfer from one media to another, when you make a movie version of anything whether it's a comic book or a play, you can't be concerned about just making a direct copy of that original thing. You have to change it somewhat. You have to make it new. Doc Ock in our movie doesn't look the same as the Doc Ock in the comic book. And if you want to know how, you're just going to have to put down your ten bucks and find out." Also, Superhero Hype has new images from the movie, including shots of a new billboard in Times Square. Finally, the official site notes that the film has been rated PG-13.
The Leighton Buzzard Today reports that filming is going on around the proposed Wayne Manor, a building called Mentmore Towers. The article also reveals a somewhat surprising spoiler.
You can get a look at the new trailer for the Halle Berry-fueled feline flick at BlackFilm.com in Quicktime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Format. They also have a collection of still images from the movie. If you'd just like to see screen captures, you can find some at The Trades.
There's trouble in Westchester: according to Comics Continuum, actor Hugh Jackman is excited about the idea of getting his adamantium claws back, but hasn't signed on the dotted line. "I don't want to sound ungrateful, but first of all, I don't know what the script's going to be like. I don't know what it will be like," Jackman said at the recent press junket for Van Helsing. "But I would find it very, very hard to watch someone else play the role of Wolverine, you know. But, you know, I've had a really great go of it for two movies, so you never know. They may want to move it in different directions, so we'll see what happens in it. I can see there being complete validity in doing X-Men 3, if not more," he said. "I mean, I think it (X2) cemented what was a really interesting world."
There's a new trailer (Windows Media only) for the season's penultimate episode, "Forsaken," and Devoted to Smallville's got it, plus screen captures as well.
According to ICv2, Avi Arad said that The vampire sequel "Blade: Trinity" has been moved back to December 10th to avoid a "logjam" of the sort that saw "Punisher" going head to head with "Kill Bill Volume 2." An October 22nd debut of "Man-Thing" is in doubt, because Araid indicated "that Marvel and Lions Gate would look at the film and decide exactly how to proceed."
Comingsoon.net also talked to Victoria Pratt who plays "Shalimar Fox" on the Marvel-themed TV series. She discusses big top ambitions: "In the last episode we shot, which isn't necessarily the last one that will air, Shalimar goes undercover in a circus," Pratt said. "I actually got to train with the circus and we're trying to figure out what routine I could do, because it's not like I had tons of lead time to be able to train and stuff. So we came up with this cool bungee trapeze routine. I was doing cherry drops off of a trapeze at 40 feet. It's just cool stuff, like the closest you can come to flying really. It's just so amazing. I don't know necessarily how dangerous it was but I think it would've turned a lot of people's stomachs."
If you have the scoop on anything related to comic book movies, TV adaptations or just want to give us a truck full of cash, no questions asked, drop us a line and let's coordinate. You can choose an alias if you'd like, or be mentioned by name -- we honor requests for anonymity. Broadcasting live from Los Angeles, this is your humble scribe Hannibal Tabu saying thanks for your time and indulgence, and (insert pithy sign-off here, once it gets out of development hell).


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I had been waiting for the end of Wall Street. The outrageous bonuses, the slender returns to shareholders, the never-ending scandals, the bursting of the internet bubble, the crisis following the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management: Over and over again, the big Wall Street investment banks would be, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet they just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to 26-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility. The rebellion by American youth against the money culture never happened. Why bother to overturn your parents' world when you can buy it, slice it up into tranches, and sell off the pieces? At some point, I gave up waiting for the end. There was no scandal or reversal, I assumed, that could sink the system. Michael Lewis "The End"
This exact quote could almost describe the state of the Postmodern Art World. Why? There has been no rebellion, no reconsideration, no thinking about the recent past in any form – Just unequivocal acceptance and slavish following of POMO's theoretical stance. But things have changed exponentially in the last few months. The stock market has, for all intents and purposes, crashed. Not all at once, but over the last year we have watched it fall six thousand points or more. The market's highs last year were in the mid 14000s, today, we are in the mid 8 thousands, and we are threatened with it falling further to nearly half of its former value. If you think this has no bearing on the value of art AND artists – you are sorely mistaken.
Economically we've experienced one bubble after another and in this year alone we saw the deflation and depreciation of real estate, financial institutions and commodities (like the hedge fund run on oil and food staples over the summer.) We've seen it in our own art world with the recent deflation and depreciation of the auction houses, art fairs, and the reputations of many currently hot artists. The last amazingly OTT moment for inflated money in the art world was the Damien Hirst auction in September. If ever there was a manufactured bubble in the culture markets surely this "straight to auction" moment was it. The press surrounding this fire sale of warehoused product was immaculate, and the hype went off without a hitch. The principals walked away with millions – I'm not sure I believe the inflated figures – but they certainly cleaned up.
The "art" that was sold had little to offer aesthetically – there were no new ideas from Damien – it was basically the spinning out of tried and true art product under a brand name. But the artistic victory, the critical victory, was in the fact that "art" in the hands of a truly branded and successful artist, could in fact, be sold as nothing more than a desirable prestige commodity, like a gulf stream or a house in Palm Beach. Additionally, the amazing and radical part of the hype surrounding the pre-sale were the comments by the artist himself. He stated that he would not be creating any more of these types of works – this was it. The perception he created was one of a determined and enforced scarcity. It was a conceptual tour-de-force of the soft sell at work, and it put to rest the idea, forever, that art was an elite, avant garde activity. With one press release Hirst managed to bring to an end the old idea of High Culture by integrating its historical machinations into our everyday existences. Unlike the intellectuals of the 50s who dreamed of an "artless" culture where art would be lived everyday by the populace, Hirst and the Postmoderns dream of a business culture where the business would be lived and practiced by the artists. Up is the new down!
Perceived scarcity creates hype and bubbles. And it is the perception of those bubbles that is the calling card of the elite classes of all stripe in the 21st century. Perceptions are the life blood of the media, they are the focus of society, and they are the endgame of Postmodern theoretics. Perception is, for all intents and purposes, the power guiding the new electronic media. How we perceive or how we are perceived is the ultimate game, and it's being played out before our eyes, through the screens and lenses that proliferate our myopic world. It is this manipulation of the endgame that leaves us breathless and desirous as we chase after the feigned scarcities of fame, fortune and history. Bubble culture is about these perceptions and manipulations. And it sings to our ego centered souls. However, we are not tethered to the mast nor are we deaf to the the siren song that drives us mad with desire. We artists have crashed on the rocks, done in by our outsized "business" ambitions.
In the new year we will continue the Popular Culture series examining the machinations behind the scenes as we have been. Our first in depth series will begin in January with a discussion by artists relating to the difference between Style and Brand and how fame or recognition can drive those two very different approaches to making art. Stay Tuned! Exciting Times Lie Ahead!


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The holidays may be over, but you can still hang on to those festive feelings with a trip to the New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show. Each year the creators assemble together a month and a half long extravagant feast for the eyes that appeals to all ages from the young to old. Intricately … Continue reading Holiday Train Show at the Botanical Garden, New York City
Waterloo Village, New Jersey
There is just something mystifying about the woods during Fall that always make me want to seek out time away from the city to go exploring. That was what led to the discovery of this old abandoned town known as Waterloo Village. A small historical site that still stands quietly amidst the ever changing landscapes … Continue reading Waterloo Village, New Jersey
Maha'ulepu Heritage Trail, Kauai
Truly a hiker's oasis, Kauai seems to be filled with so many beautiful trails that if you were to try and venture on one a day every day, for a month, you would still not have tackled them all. The best part is no one trail is the same as the other so every hike … Continue reading Maha'ulepu Heritage Trail, Kauai
Kauai, Hawaii
Often times, when deciding on a travel destination, it's best to choose places not typically mentioned and be treated to wonderful surprises when you get there. Before setting my sights on Kauai I did not imagine experiencing such a diverse terrain of changing landcapes, going from varying beaches one moment to lush exotic jungles in … Continue reading Kauai, Hawaii
The Golden Circle, Iceland
One of the most magical experiences you can have in Iceland would have to be going on a road trip along Route 1 or the Ring Road. During the warmer months when weather conditions allow, you are able to circle the entire island. And it's guaranteed that the journey will be filled with picturesque … Continue reading The Golden Circle, Iceland
Tammany Trail, Delaware
This is going to be the first of a series that I am planning to post. If you are a fan of being in the natural outdoors and love hiking, then come along as I take us through the sights. Over the next few weeks I will be bringing to you photo diaries of the various hiking … Continue reading Tammany Trail, Delaware
The Blue Lagoon, Iceland
It always pays to make friends with the locals whenever you are visiting foreign places. That was exactly how my visit to the Blue Lagoon was made a touch more delightful. This outdoor, manmade lagoon is one of the most visited attractions within Iceland. So much so that you don't even need to make a … Continue reading The Blue Lagoon, Iceland
Paris by Night, France
In light of recent events, this is a simple Paris appreciation post dedicated to the romantic and elegant atmosphere of this enigmatic city of France. I only had a short visit here with not many chances to explore, but the time and parts that I did get to see, were magnificent. Strolling along the banks of the … Continue reading Paris by Night, France
Reykjavik, Iceland
Oh Iceland... despite an unpleasant send off by getting patted down from airport security for being a person of interest, I still heart you as one of my favorite countries to visit. More on that later if you are interested. I am starting off in the city of Reykjavik where its amazing food and friendly people are a nice … Continue reading Reykjavik, Iceland
Watkins Glen, New York : Watkins Glen State Park
As stated on the park's website description "spellbound" is exactly how you would feel as you proceed deeper into the gorge trail, until you reach its climax point called "Rainbow Bridge", then you have to stop and wonder if you might have somehow been magically transported into a setting of Rivendell. Watkins Glen Park is located … Continue reading Watkins Glen, New York : Watkins Glen State Park


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G.J. Mathews (Univ. Notre Dame), M. Orito, T. Kajino (NAO, Japan), Y. Wang (U. Oklahoma)
We reanalyze the cosmological constraints on the existence of a net universal lepton asymmetry and neutrino degeneracy based upon the latest high resolution CMB sky maps from BOOMERANG, DASI, and MAXIMA-1. We compute likelihood functions for flat cosmological models with and without degenerate neutrinos. We adopt priors on the degeneracy parameters and baryon content based upon light-element constraints on primordial nucleosynthesis. We also adopt the prior of h = 0.72 ±0.08 from the Hubble Key Project results. Our neutrino-degenerate CMB models include a correction for that change in neutrino decoupling temperature with degeneracy. The marginalized likelihood functions show a slight preference for a neutrino-degenerate universe.
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Finch, is the popular name for a large variety of birds, which for the most part belong to the scientific family Fringillidae. The birds called finches are for the most part small, often beautifully colored and not seldom endowed with the gift of song. In the United States and Canada there are said to be 135 kinds of finches; and there, indeed, is no tropical or temperate country in which finches are not found, although some scientists have wrongly excepted Australia, where, in fact, finches are plentiful. The indigo-bird, purple finch, horse-finch, American goldfinch, pine-finch, grass-finch and rosy finch are among the best-known species in this country. Canaries and sparrows are also classed as finches.


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The sofa bed lately can be an important furniture for your living room. We think most of you often receives guests, in this space all the guests would gather and talk together. Indeed, the living room is a space that is most suitable to receive guests because strategically located at the entrance of the main room of the house.but know, we can pay attention for the furnitures room for your children.we sure they will impressed with it. For that, the owners should give the impression and the best design kidsSofawith bed ideas for the living room or for their bedroom ideas . In here, first time the guests will saw and enjoyed the room in your home.
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Ebola Virus - The GuardianAnimation showing the effects of ebola & statistics around the 2014 outbreak Motion graphics work
The main aim of this animation was to highlight the effects of Ebola; how it spreads, the symptoms it causes; and ultimately why it's such a deadly virus.
As with all the work I've done for The Guardian it wasn't just me working on this, a whole team of Journalists and science editors helped produce the script. Alex Purcell, the head motion designer then provided the art direction, I was then set the task of animating everything and putting all the pieces together.
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- Coal use has been growing rapidly in the 21st century because it effectively delivers the very high energy surplus necessary to drive economic growth in the developing world.
- Developing nations will most likely continue exploiting their abundant coal resources despite increasing environmental concerns.
- If climate science is correct, this situation will necessitate a very large scale CCS rollout over coming decades.
In the previous two parts of this series (1, 2), we discussed why CCS is likely to do very well in a future climate constrained world and how CCS might behave in a policy environment of rapid reactive decarbonization through a high and rising CO2 price. In this third installment, we will take a look at the primary reason why we need CCS in the first place: coal.
Coal is quite possibly the most hated commodity on earth. It is dirty in almost every sense of the word, can have severe local impacts if handled irresponsibly and is also the most CO2 intensive fuel we have. For these reasons, people have been out in force against coal for decades, especially as climate change became more mainstream and studies such as the Epstein et al. work assigned enormous externalized costs to coal energy.
However, for the most hated commodity on earth, coal is doing pretty well for itself. As shown below, global coal consumption has comfortably outpaced growth in all other energy forms since the turn of the century.
Despite the continued frustration of almost everyone who is even slightly informed about energy and climate issues, this trend is set to continue. Mainstream energy projections indicate that global coal growth will slow down in the near future with more growth coming from gas and renewables, but this is by no means certain. This article will delve a little more deeply into the details.
Energy and economic growth
In order to grow the global economy, we require high quality energy resources. Such resources allow us to use very little of our time and effort in the procurement and distribution of new energy and all the rest in manufacturing and distributing all the stuff that we really want. In fact, from a macro-economic perspective, the great job creation potential of renewable energy often touted by advocates is a bad thing.
As most readers on this site will be aware of, the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of all major fuels has been in decline for decades now. This simply implies that we are forced to spend increasing amounts of our time and effort in the procurement of new energy, leaving less for all the other stuff. As revealed in the data of the foremost authority on the topic of EROI, Charles Hall, coal is the only possible exception to this steady decline and has maintained its high EROI steady from 1950 to 2000 according to the source of the figure below.
This situation has naturally lead to the global coal breakout over the last decade. As the EROI of oil and gas continued to decline, the world increasingly turned to coal in order to maintain economic growth. In practice, this implied a stagnation in oil-powered developed nations while rapid growth took place in coal-powered developing nations. Take a look at the figure below while keeping in mind that the coal breakout began roughly around the turn of the century.
Aside from the potential of the heavily debated shale gas revolution in the US, the world has not solved the issue of declining oil & gas EROI, implying that there is no reason for these trends to change. If the world economy is to continue to grow, it needs a continued large energy surplus and, if oil & gas EROI continues downwards, this surplus will have to continue to come from coal. Nuclear power has potential to aid significantly here, but continues to suffer from very strong societal resistance. Wind and solar power, on the other had, is nowhere near the EROI required to sustain (let alone grow) the global economy when accounting for the intermittency (e.g. Weisbach or Palmer).
Thus, unless we see a rapid political turnaround on nuclear (appears unlikely) or a global shale gas revolution (perhaps somewhat more likely), a continued shift to coal will be necessary in order to maintain global economic growth. And, as discussed next, growth will be maintained at almost any cost.
Growth vs. environment
It is sometimes hard for developed world citizens to understand the priorities of the developing world, but it is important to understand (and accept) that the 6 billion people living in developing countries will pursue economic development at almost any cost over the coming years and decades. There are a number of good reasons for this, the most important of which will be discussed here.
Firstly, globalization has made catch-up growth much easier for developing nations than it used to be. Skills, knowledge and investment capital can be imported through various channels and the resulting copied technology combined with cheap local labour and cheap fossil energy ensures high global demand for the resulting very cheap products and services. This process creates enormous opportunity for hundreds of millions of poor people to better their lives – an opportunity which is normally grabbed with both hands.
Secondly, developing world citizens value externalities much lower than developed world citizens. For example, the Epstein et al. study valued the 24475 excess deaths in 2005 at $187 billion. If this valuation was used for the 444000 Americans killed by smoking every year, it can be calculated that cigarettes cost the US almost a quarter of its entire GDP. In contrast, an Indian study valued all non-CO2 externalities of coal at less than 10% the value calculated by Epstein et al. The reason becomes blindingly obvious to anyone who has ever seen one of the giant developing world slums first-hand.
Thirdly, developing world citizens still have an enormous amount of happy life years to gain from fossil-fueled industrialization. Happy life years (life expectancy times a subjective wellbeing score) tend to increase logarithmically with environmental footprint. This implies that most developing world citizens can still get enormous gains in happy life years through fairly moderate increases in environmental footprint (fossil fueled industrialization). The situation is totally opposite for developed world citizens, however, as illustrated by the figure below compiled from the Happy Planet Index.
Coal resources
None of this would matter, however, if we did not have such a tremendous amount of coal at our disposal. One sometimes hears the definition of sustainable energy consumption as a finite resource being sustainable if it will last at least 1000 years at current consumption rates. According to a recent IEA report, global hard coal resources are 17.2 trillion tonnes which equates to 2200 years at current consumption rates. Yes, proven reserves amount to "only" 133 years at current consumption rates, but resources are continuously being converted to reserves as the market demands it.
Referring to coal as a sustainable resource really sounds heretical, but if these enormous resources are combined with the total CO2 storage capacity which could be somewhere in the order of 10 trillion tonnes (close to a 1000 years if 80% of current coal-related emissions are stored), this sounds slightly less ludicrous. The point I'm trying to make here, however, is not that coal is a sustainable resource, but that it can definitely serve society's energy needs for many decades into the future.
More importantly, coal has the potential to give society some crucial freedom to balance between the seemingly conflicting needs of rapid economic development of the developing world and rapid decarbonization of the global energy sector. As outlined in this article and the first two parts of this series, CCS can potentially achieve retroactive CO2 abatement at a very rapid rate when the time comes that climate change starts to have a clear and directly attributable negative effect on the life of the average member of the democratic electorate. And yes, if climate science is correct, this point will probably arrive within the next decade or two as the developing world continues it's fossil-fueled expansion.
Whether we like it or not, coal is here to stay. Until we find another energy source that delivers the enormous energy surplus necessary to drive global economic growth in such a highly reliable manner, coal consumption must continue expanding. Currently, it appears as if that day is still a long way off, implying that coal might soon reclaim its former title as the leading global energy source. Just imagine the headlines when the most dirty and primitive of fossil fuels becomes number one in our modern world of microchips and solar panels…
If the world can find a broadly accepted clean energy solution capable of driving rapid industrialization and urbanization in the developing world, it would be fantastic, but until that happens, CCS will have to remain a high priority. Otherwise, we had all better pray that climate science is way off the mark (on the pessimistic side).


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Universal Automation Center Support to Push an image or a repository
A universal task to implement the docker 'push' container CLI command to Push an image or a repository from a registry.
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There was a large black pot on the stove that was making the room smell like fish. The room was too hot, and someone had left the sink running.
Johnny thought he was alone in the house. A shock jolted his body when he rushed into the kitchen and realized that his wife was home. He shut the water and and quickly shoved his bag behind some pots in the cabinet above the sink. If she caught him with it, he might lose his job and his home.
"Whatchya got there?"
His wife's voice was slightly more shrill than usual. He spun to find her leaning against the door jam, trying to stand without her crutches.
"Are you alright?" he said with earnest as he turned around to face her. She was visibly in pain from having hurried into the kitchen. She gasped a little, but nodded. "Let me get your crutches," he passed her and went into the living room, "Where are they?"
"They're in the corner." She turned her head towards the kitchen, curious about a rustling sound she started hearing in the cabinet that Johnny had left open. He immediately regretted turning the water off and simultaneously realized his error in leaving the fire burning on the stove. There's no way either of them would be able to get to the stove in time.


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text: DigitalUpcoming Facebook API Changes Bring Back Virality By Sorting Game GenresBy AJ Glasser|July 19, 2011 ShareBy AJ Glasser|July 19, 2011 ShareSean Ryan, Director of Games Partnerships at Facebook, delivered a keynote speech at Casual Connect in Seattle today detailing the future of the Facebook games ecosystem following many changes to the platform's communication channels, and the complete integration of Facebook Credits."There is a massive amount of value creation still going on here," he says, defending Facebook's games platform against arguments that the social games market is dying. "Social games are driving the revenue on mobile, the revenue on web. If you're not building social games on a platform, you're building for a shrinking market."Ryan breaks out key examples from the top 10 to 12 game developers that Facebook pays special attention to. Aside from the usual suspects of Zynga, Playdom, Crowdstar and Playfish, there were shoutouts to 6waves (now 6waves Lolapps), Kabam, Kixeye, PopCap, GSN, Digital Chocolate, Wooga, Double Down Casino and Playtika. Ryan characterizes most of these — with the notable exception of PopCap — as young companies that didn't even exist four years ago, and now many of them are making successful exits or raising large amounts of capital. So clearly, he argues, there's still a lot of growth to be had on Facebook and other platforms for developers looking to enter the social games space.The key is how developers should approach entry. Ryan breaks it out into four points: massive/relevant scale, multiple discoverability options, efficient monetization and continued improvement over time. Ryan says that a game can still find success with hundreds of millions of general users (massive scale), but the emerging trend Ryan wants to see more of is developers succeeding by attracting a smaller, more dedicated audience (relevant scale). Multiple discoverability options is a bit harder because developers have to spend on advertising, at least on Facebook. Ryan says that advertising accounts for one-third to half of all users in a game. However, if you're buying advertising, Ryan surmises that your game is already profitable.Efficient monetization and continued improvement are areas where Ryan sees Facebook stepping up its game to help developers. To the first point, there's Facebook Credits, which Ryan says is a logical improvement over fragmented payments systems of the old platform. As for continued improvement, Ryan says that Facebook is always looking to improve — which is why the terms of service and APIs change frequently in the games space.Going forward this year, Ryan says that Facebook hopes to restore a lot of the virality that games lost following the crackdown on the news feeds and other channels from last year. By working with developers, he hopes to help games find better ways of generating the kinds of news stories that players' friends will want to click on. On Facebook's side, the team is looking into sorting games by genre in a way that allows the platform to suggest games of similar genre to dedicated players. For example, by playing hidden object games, Facebook would know to show you ads for other hidden object games instead of ads for fashion games.Ryan's plea to developers is simple: Make more games in more genres, and stop copying each other. The days of monetizing by making a clone of a clone are over, he says. He broke out some areas where genre-specific games have succeeded — notably "midcore" and "hardcore" games like Zynga's Empires & Allies or Kixeye's Battle Pirates — and then listed some genres where there's almost nothing on Facebook so far:Fishing — There's only one actual fishing game on the platform so far. Christian — An untapped market, as 42% of the United States is evangelical. Urban — By which Ryan means games that speak authentically to that audience. Role-Playing Games — Here, Ryan characterizes RPGs as Diablo (not Mafia Wars) Fighting — A genre that's just starting to take off. Romance — A very big literary category, and yet there are no social games for it (we're not sure if It Girl counts) First-Person Shooter — So far, there are only two, but Ryan admits that there are limitations on this genre that come from the browser.A final point raised during the Q&A dealt with where Facebook sees the Asian and Turkish markets going. Ryan responds that Facebook sees Asia as the fastest-growing market for the platform, but there's still the challenge of being banned in China. Other countries in the region, however, are currently expanding — such as Korea. As for Turkey, Ryan says Facebook struggles with payment options for developers. The platform is working with Peak Games, however, to improve user acquisition in the region. Brazil is also an emerging market for Facebook games, which is why there's a big push to localize games in Portuguese. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2k6ANDP copy Adweek Adweek


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Very few Americans actually fell behind the payments of their credit card bills, even fewer than expected in July. Consumers fared much better in terms of their debt. There has been a drop in the delinquencies too, which are touching the lowest points of the year suggesting that there wouldn`t be a recovery in spending soon, as per the analysts. Many credit card issuers including JP Morgan Chase and Co., Bank of America, American Express Co. and Citigroup Inc. reported on Friday that they have indeed written off very few bad and uncollectible loans in July. While the shares of some major credit card issuers went higher, the stock of some drifted further down.
According to an analyst at Credit Suisse, Moshe Orenbuch, the delinquencies around this season tend to go a bit worse than during the second half of the year. This makes the numbers better than what were being expected. The quality of credit available also goes bad after the consumers stop getting rebates on tax around the middle of the year. This causes them to have less spare money to pay off their outstanding debt. In spite of the seasonal drag, the decrease in delinquencies continues. Orenbuch hence feels that the credit card lenders might report less than expect losses for the current quarter.
Since the beginning of this year, it has been seen that these delinquencies, which actually are an indicator for the future losses of a company, have declined. The decline in July especially indicates that the customers in US are doing well with their debt, in spite of the uncertain state of the recovery of economy and the high rate of unemployment hovering around. A Sandler O Neill analyst, Michael Taiano feels that this is a positive sign. He however warns that the credit recovery in the consumer market is still not complete. There has been some stability and improvement but it doesn`t really mean that the consumer is excited to go back and start spending money.
According to another analyst, the improvement in delinquencies indicates that consumers are climbing out of the economic slowdown and the recession. More credit trends are expected to improve in the coming month. The amounts of write-offs have declined too. The losses at Capital One Financial and JP Morgan Chase have declined to 8% too which is quite an improvement compared to the 10% mark early in the year.


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I just happened to be exposed to the question of creative commons license compatibility in a couple of different contexts. It isn't entirely trivial, but anyone who has done meaningful research into licensing will know, that overall copyright law and resulting licensing requirements are complex, tedious and mostly still highly jurisdictional (country by country differences), to say the least.
The Creative Commons licensing approach has been of immeasurable help to give non-lawyers a fighting chance to share and license some of their works without having to give up all ownership control over those works. Another huge benefit of standardizing some licenses, is the possibility to create derivative works, remixes and mashups, which would be otherwise entirely impractical, because every derived work author would have to contact and strike individual deals with every individual owner (or license management organization) of a previous generation work, which has been used to create the new work.
However the Creative Commons licensing approach deals (at least so far) only with non commercial licensing. This is still a very big deal, because it allows sharing, dissemination, remixing in non-commercial contexts.
But still, not all creative commons licenses are compatible – simply speaking that is, because the owners of the works using the licenses have different objectives in mind. Wishing that away is in my opinion a bit naive or a bit too militant, so I'm not one to advocate total uniformity in licensing. That would be as bad as total uniformity in languages, dress, operating systems, search engines or blogs 🙂
So for those who are remixing, deriving and mashing up like I do, generally with creative commons licensed materials, here is a key page you will want to bookmark: A creativecommons.org blog entry pointing to two CC license compatibility charts. One is an interactive tool from the CC in Taiwan, the other is a text link to a chart in the creative commons FAQ.


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Moving or traveling with Betta fish
I don't talk about my fish on here nearly as much as I thought I would. Since I was 16, I've kept at least one (and as many as nine) Betta fish as pets. Over that period, I've kept a total of more than two dozen different Bettas, both male and female. I've also had to move and travel over distances ranging from 100 to 850 miles while transporting as many as three fish at a time. I've been meaning to write up my method for transporting a fish over long distances by car for quite some time, and I sort of inadvertently wrote it while providing advice to someone on r/Aquariums last night. I'm mostly just taking the text from my response there and incorporating it into this post.
As a general rule, fish and car rides don't mix…at least not on a regular basis. That said, it is possible to travel by car with your fish from time to time, provided you do a few things to reduce any motion the fish has to deal with, prevent splashing or leaking, and make sure that the trip is the only stress your fish has to deal with. Also, I have had a few bettas that actually seem to enjoy (or at least not mind) the dynamic nature of a car trip, but they're definitely the exception.
What you'll need
- A box with high sides that will fit securely behind the driver's seat of your car or can be secured near your vehicle's center of gravity.
- Container(s) with a lid or splashproof cover that will fit in the box and are sufficiently large to temporarily house your fish.
- Blankets or towels for securing the containers inside the box.
- Enough water from your place of departure to cover water changes or transitions to the water at your destination.
- Your fish's usual food, water treatment chemicals, and water change equipment.
- Optional: A silk plant and/or some substrate (gravel or marbles)
- Optional: A digital thermometer with remote sensor
The process
First of all, I'd recommend only transporting your fish when you're going to be gone longer than two weeks and/or you absolutely can't find anyone to feed your fish while you're away. Any longer than two weeks and you'll have to find someone you trust to perform tank/water maintenance. (You should typically perform said maintenance more regularly than every two weeks, but the decline in water quality over that period is usually less stressful than a car trip.)
If you ARE transporting your fish, you have to make sure you can secure it properly. I've transported a lot of fish over long distances (moving and extended stay trips), and I've found that the best place to put the fish is either secured on the floor behind the driver's seat in a car, or secured just behind the space between the front seats in a van (or some SUVs). The trick is to secure the tank or container with the fish in it as close to the center of gravity of the vehicle as possible. This is where there will be the fewest inertial forces exerted on the fish and the water in the tank as you accelerate, decelerate and turn.
I recommend transporting the fish in a half-full container of clean, treated water with no substrate, decorations, or items of any sort and a lid or cover that will contain the majority of splashes. (I've had the best luck with smaller tanks–2.5 gallons or less.) This is to prevent injury to the fish if you go over any bumps or have to make sudden adjustments and, of course, to prevent water from getting all over your car. Place that container inside of a box and pad/secure it with towels or blankets. Then secure the box in the place that is the closest you can get to the center of gravity of the vehicle. Secure means that it it cannot slide or tip over, no matter what forces are exerted on it. I usually wedge it between the back of the driver's seat and the back seat on the floor.
Before you leave, put into containers (empty and rinsed soda bottles or milk jugs work well) enough water from where you're departing from to take your fish through any necessary water maintenance while you're away. This will help keep your water parameters the same and reduce any additional stress on your fish. If the amount of water you would have to take is impractical, bring enough to slowly transition your fish to the water at your destination, then bottle enough of that water to make the transition back upon your return. This is one of the first things I learned about moving with fish–the combined stress of the move and the immediate change to different water caused the first Betta I moved with to develop a number of stress-related health problems I could never get ahead of. Ever since, I've packed a supply of water, and I've never had that problem again.
If you're traveling in cold or hot weather, you will have to plan your stops and adjust your use of the heat or AC so as not to let the water temperature be affected by fluctuations in the temperature in your car. A digital thermometer with a remote sensor next to the tank is helpful in making sure your fish isn't too cold or hot during the trip.
When you arrive at your destination, use the water you brought (after you've treated it, of course) to refill the tank. If you brought along a silk plant, go ahead and put that in the tank. Wait until you're due for a full water maintenance before adding back any substrate. If you're making a return trip, make sure to take it out again before traveling.