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IIS Media Services
Live and on-demand Smooth Streaming, part of IIS Media Services, enables highly-scalable adaptive streaming of HD content and live events. Since it was introduced, customers worldwide have used it to create compelling video experiences. Here are just a few highlights…
Playing On-Demand
Smooth Streaming enables uninterrupted streaming to Silverlight and other clients via HTTP, up to true HD (720p+). The quality level for each user seamlessly shifts as needed to adapt to changing bandwidth and playback conditions.
Measure and then monetize your IIS-delivered media experiences with customizable client and server data, and share that information in real-time with a third-party analytics service, using Advanced Logging.
Convert with Ease
Whether you need to convert either full media libraries or a steady flow of incoming files, let Transform Manager automate the job submission, scheduling, management, media transcoding, and encryption.
Perfect Control
Server-based Web Playlists enables you to protect, personalize, and monetize your progressively downloaded media assets across multiple media formats.
Playing Live
Live Smooth Streaming provides massive scalability, full DVR controls, and extended engagement times for PCs, Macs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices – including support for Apple devices.
scale to the edge
Users have a better experience when your web and media content is close to them, so use Application Request Routing on your edge servers to provide proxying and disk-based edge caching.
progressive downloads
Bit Rate Throttling increases scalability for progressive downloads while reducing bandwidth costs by intelligently detecting and metering media files.
While you can use Microsoft technologies to build a complete end-to-end solution on your own, sometimes working with one or more partners can help you achieve your goals more easily and quickly. Below, you will find a set of partners that have announced products or services that support IIS Media Services, including IIS Smooth Streaming. Click on a partner name to learn more.
- Advertising & Analytics
- Conviva
- DoubleClick
- Omniture
- Client Development
- Axinom
- BuyDRM
- iStreamPlanet
- Southworks
- Stimulant
- Ucaya
- Vertigo
- Yacast Media
- Content Protection
- Axinom
- BuyDRM
- CDNetworks
- CSG Systems
- Ipercast
- Irdeto
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Fast Thunder
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Fast Thunder (aka Xunlei) is a download manager developed by Thunder Networking Technologies.
SuperDownload database
The SuperDownload database can be found at:
On Windows
C:\Program Files\Thunder Network\Thunder\data\SdInfoDb.dat
This file uses the SQLite database format.
The timestamp:
- SuperDownloadInfo.ContentDownloadTime is stored as BIGINT and contains a POSIX timestamp
- SuperDownloadResource.DownloadTime is stored as BIGINT and contains presumably a POSIX timestamp
Task database
The Task database can be found at:
On Windows
C:\Program Files\Thunder Network\Thunder\Profiles\TaskDb.dat
The timestamp:
- TaskBase.CreationTime is stored as BIGINT and contains a POSIX timestamp shifted 24-bits to the left, e.g.
printf "0x%x\n" 22090158425767936 0x4e7ae1ce000000 date -d @$(( 22029112998625280 >> 24 )) Thu Aug 11 06:37:35 CEST 2011
Example queries
Some example queries:
To get an overview of the tasks:
SELECT datetime((TaskBase.CreationTime >> 24), "unixepoch"), TotalReceiveSize, TotalSendSize, Url, ReferenceUrl, Name, Description, SavePath FROM TaskBase;

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OK, you're right; we've been somewhat neglecting our hockey friends. It's just that it's really hard to get fired up about an NHL title in a city where ice had to be shipped in by train until 1941. (Yes, we know they were once the Hartford Whalers. And Elizabeth Taylor was once hot). But we promise we'll watch from here on out, and while we wait for the next
horrific Oilers shellacking exciting Finals matchup, here are some tidbits to stimulate your appetite.
• Puck Update postulates that one reason the Oilers are trailing is that they overpractice behind-the-back passes. We have to admit that we never would have thought of that in a million years; and are even somewhat surprised that such a manuever is possible. Puck Update also gives us this amusing public service announcement, which we think somehow might be relevant to hockey.
• Off Wing Opinion reminds us that, despite the latest round of testing indicating that the NHL is totally clean on the banned substances front, there are those who aren't buying the results. One is World Anti-Doping Agency head Dick Pound.
• It has been mentioned in several blogs, but cannot be stressed enough in our opinion: One of the Stanley Cup Finals refs is named Mr. Magoo. It's actually spelled McGeough, but pronounced the same as the nearly-sightless cartoon character. Come on, Oilers fans! Your're down 3-1, and one of the officials is named Mr. Magoo! If you can't work with that, there's no hope for you.
• Have we mentioned that GoonBlog has one of our favorite logos of all time? No? Well, remind us to do that sometime.
• Hey, the NHL draft is only 10 days from now, as the folks at The Ice Block kindly remind us. They have a pretty good rundown of draft articles over there, so you hosers should probably check it out. We probably don't have to point out that the St. Louis Blues have the No. 1 pick.
• So, Game 5, Edmonton at Carolina, NBC, 8 p.m. eastern, tonight. It's impossible not to like hockey right now (unless you play for the Danbury Thrashers, that is). Anyway, there'll be more scoring than France-Switzerland, we're pretty sure.


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Darkness brought about a premature end to the doubleheader between the Gauchos and Oregon St. on Saturday after the Beavers had already claimed a victory in game one. With the Gauchos trailing by one in bottom of the ninth in game two and down to their last out, senior third baseman Ryan Palermo hit a solo home run to tie the game.
After the inning was completed, the umpires and coaches from both teams quickly decided that there was not enough light to play extra innings.
The delayed game's first pitch will be at 11:30 AM on Sunday morning, with the originally scheduled series finale to take place 40 minutes after the first game ends.
Earlier in the day, UCSB fell to the Beavers by the score of 3-2 in a disappointing loss that spoiled a solid start from senior lefty Kevin Gelinas. In his first four innings, Kevin struck out 8 Oregon St. batters and allowed just one baserunner on a third inning walk.
UCSB was able to go ahead in the bottom of the third when a Marc Venning base hit drove home leadoff man Brett Vertigan, giving the home team a 1-0 lead headed into the fifth. However, that's where things began to unravel for Gelinas and the Gauchos. After retiring the leadoff batter to start the top of the fifth, Gelinas allowed four consecutive runners to reach base, including two hit batters and a walk. The Beavers were able to coax a pair of runs out of Gelinas on a bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly.
A home run from designated hitter Joey Wallace to lead off the bottom of the fifth allowed Gelinas to exit the game with a no-decision.
Senior Jeremy Peterson was solid in relief for UCSB, allowing just two hits in his three innings of work. However, a leadoff walk from the righty proved costly for himself and his team. Peterson began the eighth inning by walking the number nine hitter, John Tommasini. After a sacrifice bunt, Tyler Smith drove in the game-winning run with a single up the middle.
The Oregon St. bullpen was extremely effective in game one, limiting the Gauchos to three singles over four innings of collective work. UCSB was only able to muster one extra-base hit in the entire game, the Wallace home run.
Brett Verigan and Marc Venning each had a pair of hits to lead the Gauchos.
UCSB Head Coach Andrew Checketts was quick to praise Gelinas after the game. "Kevin gave us a real strong, healthy performance. He struck out a lot of guys and gave us a chance to win. On the negative side, we walked too many guys in the late part of the game and our infield defense and catching can get a lot better."
In contrast to game one's dominant pitching, the bats came alive to take over in game two. When the game was called after nine innings, the score was tied 12-12, a clear difference in tone from game one.
Ryan Palermo was 4-5 with four runs, including the last-minute home run that served as an intermission curtain for the two teams. Brett Vertigan had another three hits in game two, going 5-9 on the day, and tied for the team lead in RBI with Brandon Trinkwon, who had three.
UCSB jumped out to an early lead thanks in part to defensive miscues from the Beavers. With runners on first and second in the bottom of the third inning, a ground ball of the bat of catcher Joe Winterburn kicked off the glove of second baseman John Tommasini and into right field. Right fielder Tyler Smith's ensuing throw home was skipped to the backstop, allowing Greg Mahle to score and leaving two runners in scoring position. Singles from Lance Roenicke and Bretty Vertigan cashed in both those runners.
After allowing two runs in the top of the fourth, UCSB grabbed control again in the bottom of the frame, scoring five runs. A booming three-run home run over the right field fence off the bat of shortstop Brandon Trinkwon highlighted the inning.
Oregon St. starter Dan Child had a bipolar stat line, giving up eight runs over six innings- however only one of those eight runs were earned.
UCSB's starting pitcher again provided a solid effort. Andrew Vazquez pitched into the seventh inning, and though he surrendered five runs, only two of them were earned. Like Gelinas, Andrew struck out eight Beavers.
The Gaucho bullpen was significantly less effective in game two, giving up seven runs in just three innings of combined work. Cameron Cuneo was the lone UCSB reliever to not give up a run.
Luckily for UCSB, Oregon St.'s bullpen was not much better. Going into the top of the eighth inning, the Gauchos were leading 8-7. The two teams would go on to give up their respective leads in each of the next four half innings. Ryan Palermo's home run on an 0-1 pitch provided a fitting intermission based on the dramatic nine innings that preceded it.
The Gauchos and Oregon St. will wrap up their four game series on Sunday afternoon. UCSB is still looking for their first win under new head coach Andrew Checketts.


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Kitchen Makeover: Samantha Needs a Creative Space My Kitchen Needs a Makeover!
Name: Samantha and Jacob
Location: Berkeley, California
Rent or own? Rent
What does your kitchen need? Oh good lord, what DOESN'T it need?! I'm a professional photographer, but I was thisclose to becoming a chef. Having a stylish, welcoming kitchen is just as important to my culinary creativity as the rest of my apartment is to my artistic creativity (since I work from home).
What does your kitchen need? (cont.) Plus, the kitchen is across the hall from my office, which means clients may see it, so it needs to look...clean, at least.
We haven't officially moved in yet, though we signed the lease, hence the absence of...everything.
The building is from the 1920s, and it has some good bones, but the colors of the kitchen are all over the place. The floor is red tile, the walls are off white, the cabinets are white-white, and the counter is brown and blue-gray. It's just all over the place.
Our landlord is a saint (he agreed to take down wood paneling in my office and replace with drywall), but I promised any changes we made would be completely temporary.
I'd love something clean, modern, and slightly eclectic, without it being kitschy. There is also room for a mini dining area or breakfast nook, with which we can at least have a little fun. I'm not afraid of color, but what we have now just isn't working.
My boyfriend and I are both very tall--I'm 5'10" and he's 6'3", so certain hanging light fixtures might not be the best idea. Budget is small-ish, but flexible.
What are your limitations? We can't paint ANYTHING. Temporary wallpaper and coverings were given the OK by the landlord as long as they were genuinely temporary.
Makeover Recipe
Samantha, we actually love the pattern on your kitchen counters. It adds a lot of interest, and while we can't tell exactly how blue the blue-gray color is, we love pale blue with red or aqua/turquoise with red, so that color combination might work (look at this post on one of our favorite beer labels, which has a similar color combo).
• We know your landlord said no paint, but he does seem flexible. Would he consent to a simple white paint job to freshen up the walls and make them match the cabinets? That would brighten the room without permanently altering the look.
• We'd also suggest some rugs. The floors are interesting, but the deep red can be a little dark and overwhelming. Something lighter and more modern (see our suggestion below) would add a lot. One for the kitchen, one for the dining nook? Or get a basic sisal for the dining area.
• We'd also hang some small prints or other artwork on the wall above the oven or in the space between the cabinets and the countertop (perhaps some of your own photography...). Or even a collection of vintage plates, if that's your style. We could see a row of blue and white plates hung horizontally. And get some nice vases or fruit bowls to put along the countertop in photo 3.
• As for the windows, we'd go for inexpensive bamboo roman shades (you can find them in all widths at Overstock.com) that would pick up the wood edges of the countertops and add a little contrast so everything isn't white white white. If you did go with a neutral rug in the dining area, you could get some patterned curtains (Anthropologie has tons).
• And the dining room! That's a great space; we'd spend the most money here. Get a nice pedestal table with chairs and a pendant light. You might also be able to fit a low, shallow cabinet along one wall for more storage (and set a pair of lamps on top).
• San Francisco Sleek Yet Vintage Re-Do. This is an example of red and aqua/blue working together. Again, you'd have to pick a shade of blue that doesn't clash with the countertops.
• Erin and Melanie's Sunny White- a clean, white space with artistic accents. We also like the table and chairs, which we're pretty sure are from IKEA.
• Allison's Peaceful Cottage. We also like these window shades. The fabric looks similar to ticking, which would also work, if you found some in white and a deep red.
Suggested Resources:
• Dash and Albert indoor/outdoor rugs. We like the Diamond Denim/White and Diamond Slate/Light Blue.
• Rustique Bamboo Roman Shade, $19.99 at Overstock. (This comes in many widths.)
• Pressed Paisley Serving Bowl, $32 from Anthropologie. Other vases or vessels: White basics from IKEA or maybe a Marsupial Pot ($36) from Etsy seller Pigeon Toe Ceramics.
• IKEA Docksta table, $149- an inexpensive Saarinen knockoff, but not bad looking. Maybe pair it with some vintage wood chairs to keep it from looking too sterile.
• Drum pendants from Galbraith & Paul for the dining nook.
Those are just a few suggestions to start your inspiration process. Please check back in and show us what you do with your kitchen makeover. Readers — what would you do with this kitchen?
(Images: Samantha Wolov. Visit her photography site.)


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Opening the mail to find a "preapproved" offer on a credit card can feel like being welcomed into an exclusive club with lots of benefits. In reality, you may not even make the membership list.
As the economy rebounds, credit-card solicitations are on the rise—direct-mail pitches increased by 18.5% in the first quarter of 2013 over the previous quarter, according to the Mintel Group. And preapproval offers are a major part of the industry's marketing arsenal, says Casey Bond of GoBankingRates.com, which tracks the credit-card industry. A recent study by that company found that including the word "preapproval" in a pitch could increase the response rate by 77%.
But while "preapproval" implies exclusivity, it doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the card's benefits, says Ben Woolsey, director of consumer research for CreditCards.com. In fact, some preapproved cards have rates far higher than the current average of 15%.
What's more, being a candidate doesn't make you a winner: Odysseas Papadimitriou of CardHub.com, another site that tracks the industry, says the rejection rate for preselected applicants can reach as high as 30%, even among relatively affluent borrowers.
A variety of factors contribute to those "Sorry, no card" decisions, including having a relatively high ratio of debt to income or a spotty employment history. In other words, a high-powered, well-compensated executive can be turned away for recently taking out a jumbo mortgage. Also, when a card issuer makes a preapproval offer, says Papadimitriou, it is typically doing so on the basis of one credit report, so information held by other credit agencies may weigh against the applicant.
Since the act of applying for credit itself can negatively affect a credit score, borrowers are better off if they aren't swayed by a preapproval offer, say consumer experts. That is particularly true if a major purchase—like a home or car—is in an applicant's near future. "My rule of thumb is to hold off [on card applications] for six months if you need the best credit score possible," says Papadimitriou.
The good news, for borrowers who want or need new credit cards, is that some of the offers filling their mailboxes are becoming more competitive. The average interest rate on cards for those with excellent credit dropped by 1.69 percentage points, to 12.79%, in the first quarter of the year.
Even if an attractive preapproval offer shows up in the mail, however, consumer experts note that the same offer—or a better one—may be found on card comparison websites like Bankaholic, CompareCards.com, or CardHub.com. On top of that, the websites make it easier to sort through myriad cards—rather than combing through one printed solicitation after another.
The sorting is likely to pay off, since interest rates can vary greatly; in the latest survey from CreditCards.com, rates ranged from 10.29% to 23.64%.
This story was updated on May 7 to include additional details about credit-card application rejection rates.


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Developed by James O'Shaughnessy, the Value Composite score uses six valuation ratios. These ratios are price to earnings, price to cash flow, EBITDA to EV, price to book value, price to sales and shareholder yield. Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ) has a Value Composite score of 44. The VC score is displayed as a number between 1 and 100. In general, a company with a score closer to 0 would be seen as undervalued, and a score closer to 100 would indicate an overvalued company. Removing the sixth ratio (shareholder yield) we can view the Value Composite 1 score which is currently sitting at 50.
Investors often closely follow fundamental and technical data. Even with all the evidence, it can be tough to determine if the economy and the markets are preparing for a whole new breakout run. With the recent trend resulting in a series of new all-time record highs, investors will have to put the pieces together to try and gauge how long the second longest bull market in history will continue. Some professionals are still wondering if the next recession is looming, and if a bear market is right around the corner. Investors commonly strive to locate the highest probability of success. The next goal may be to capitalize on what could become the most interesting part of the record bull market. Investors will most likely be concentrating on what has proven to work in the past, which may offer a better idea as to how successful the strategies will be heading into the second half of the year and beyond.
Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ) has a current MF Rank of 4587. Developed by hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt, the intention of the formula is to spot high quality companies that are trading at an attractive price. The formula uses ROIC and earnings yield ratios to find quality, undervalued stocks. In general, companies with the lowest combined rank may be the higher quality picks. Capilano Honey Limited has a current ERP5 Rank of 5476. The ERP5 Rank may assist investors with spotting companies that are undervalued. This ranking uses four ratios. These ratios are Earnings Yield, ROIC, Price to Book, and 5 year average ROIC. When looking at the ERP5 ranking, it is generally considered the lower the value, the better.
Watching some historical volatility numbers on shares of Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ), we can see that the 12 month volatility is presently 30.898900. The 6 month volatility is 36.756700, and the 3 month is spotted at 19.267800. Following volatility data can help measure how much the stock price has fluctuated over the specified time period. Although past volatility action may help project future stock volatility, it may also be vastly different when taking into account other factors that may be driving price action during the measured time period.
We can now take a quick look at some historical stock price index data. Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ) presently has a 10 month price index of 1.22997. The price index is calculated by dividing the current share price by the share price ten months ago. A ratio over one indicates an increase in share price over the period. A ratio lower than one shows that the price has decreased over that time period. Looking at some alternate time periods, the 12 month price index is 1.20429, the 24 month is 1.33620, and the 36 month is 1.00636. Narrowing in a bit closer, the 5 month price index is 1.26788, the 3 month is 0.99477, and the 1 month is currently 1.00336.
Valuation Scores
At the time of writing, Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ) has a Piotroski F-Score of 6. The F-Score may help discover companies with strengthening balance sheets. The score may also be used to spot the weak performers. Joseph Piotroski developed the F-Score which employs nine different variables based on the company financial statement. A single point is assigned to each test that a stock passes. Typically, a stock scoring an 8 or 9 would be seen as strong. On the other end, a stock with a score from 0-2 would be viewed as weak.
Capilano Honey Limited has an M-score Beneish of -999.000000. This M-score model was developed by Messod Beneish in order to detect manipulation of financial statements. The score uses a combination of eight different variables. The specifics of the variables and formula can be found in the Beneish paper "The Detection of Earnings Manipulation".
Investors may be interested in viewing the Gross Margin score on shares of Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ). The name currently has a score of 5.00000. This score is derived from the Gross Margin (Marx) stability and growth over the previous eight years. The Gross Margin score lands on a scale from 1 to 100 where a score of 1 would be considered positive, and a score of 100 would be seen as negative.
Shifting gears, we can see that Capilano Honey Limited (ASX:CZZ) has a Q.i. Value of 33.00000. The Q.i. Value ranks companies using four ratios. These ratios consist of EBITDA Yield, FCF Yield, Liquidity, and Earnings Yield. The purpose of the Q.i. Value is to help identify companies that are the most undervalued. Typically, the lower the value, the more undervalued the company tends to be.
Investors often struggle with keeping their emotions in check when approaching the stock market. New investors can have a tendency to sell off winners too quick as well as hold onto losers for way too long. Some will argue that it is never a bad thing to take profits when they are on the table, but this can leave the investor with a large amount of regret if the stock continues to surge after selling. On the other end, investors may hold onto losers for way too long hoping for a bounce back. Holding out for better days can lead to even more exaggerated losses that can leave the investor with an even bigger feeling of regret. Battling to keep emotions separated from important investing decisions can be a big plus for investors over the long haul. Of course, this idea is easier to preach and much harder to follow.
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Are you a dry sponge? Edgy and rigid? Ineffective? Would you like to be softened up some? Would you like to be more useful in the hands of the One who made you? Then come to the well, says Max Lucado.
Scientists assure us that humans can't live without water, and we don't even attempt it. But survival without God? Oh, we sip, we taste, but we're prone to go extended times without a good drink from the well of the Lord. And we pay the price for doing so. We shrink. We coil and re-coil against the world… organs harden… hearts harden.
In this renewing and life-giving book, Max Lucado leads us to the four essential nutrients needed by every soul.
Come to the cross and know that your sins are pardoned and your death is defeated. Receive Christ's energy and believe that you can do all things through the one who gives you strength. Receive his Lordship, knowing that you belong to him and that He looks out for you. Receive his love and feel confident that nothing can separate you from it.


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Weill Cornell Medical College is committed to the education of physicians and scientists who are firmly grounded in the basic medical sciences, who are providers of compassionate care to their patients, and who excel in the application of the latest scientific discoveries. This tripartite mission is achieved via the Medical College's outstanding faculty, whose research programs have a national and international reputation for excellence in the biomedical sciences and clinical care, evidenced by hundreds of federal and private grants that support significant discovery.
Faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College are committed to training the next generation of physicians and scientists as passionate practitioners of innovative discoveries in clinical, translational and basic research across a wide range of medical disciplines. In addition, our faculty represent a diverse global community which translates into one one of the strongest global health education programs in the country, most notably as a presence in the Middle East and in Africa.


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In public comments submitted Aug. 5, a coalition led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center challenged a proposed rule under which Homeland Security would duplicate an existing system of records to create the DHS Watchlist Service. It will contain individuals' names, dates and places of birth, biometric and photographic data, passport information, driver's license information and "other available identifying particulars."
Homeland Security during the past year has been reviewing the eight-year-old terrorist screening database used at airports and is preparing, as set out in the July 6 proposal, to widen employee access to a mirror copy of the records created by the FBI and Justice Department "in order to automate and simplify the current method for transmitting" the data to DHS component agencies including the Transportation Security Administration. TSA uses the terrorist watch list for the Secure Flight program, which allows it to instantly check passenger names that airlines were given by ticket purchasers against a consistent national watch list of suspected terrorists.
David Heyman, assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in July that DHS had identified screening gaps during a review of the terrorism suspect database. Hence the department "has transitioned the Secure Flight program to use all terrorist watch list records containing a full name and a full date of birth and designates matches to those records as selectees subject to enhanced physical screening prior to boarding a flight," Heyman said.
Most notably, in the view of the privacy advocates, the proposed rule stated, "The department proposes to exempt portions of the system of records from one or more provisions of the Privacy Act because of criminal, civil and administrative enforcement requirements."
In their joint letter, the groups argued that the new system carried risks both to security and privacy and noted that the 1974 Privacy Act "requires DHS to notify subjects of government surveillance in addition to providing a meaningful opportunity to correct information that could negatively affect them."
The plan is problematic, the letter said, because "secretive government lists without any meaningful safeguards present a very real risk of 'mission creep,' in which a system is pressed into unintended or unauthorized uses. Under this proposal, the agency would have the right to maintain and rely upon information it does not know to be accurate, relevant, timely, or complete without recourse -- the right to subject citizens to arbitrary decisions."
The letter demanded that Homeland Security reconsider and narrow the proposal. "Rather than claiming blanket exemptions, the DHS could promulgate rules that would require notification only after an active investigation had been concluded, or with sensitive information, such as the identity of confidential informants, redacted prior to release," it stated. "Given the centrality of individual rights to notice, access and correction, DHS should withdraw its proposed exemptions and narrow the grounds on which it purports to avoid its obligations under the Privacy Act."
Groups joining with the Electronic Privacy Information Center include the American Library Association's Washington office, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, the Center for Media and Democracy, Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America, the Cyber Privacy Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Liberty Coalition, OMBWatch, OpenTheGovernment.org, Patient Privacy Rights, Privacy Activism, the Privacy Journal, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Privacy Rights Now Coalition.
In response, Homeland Security spokesman Chris Ortman told Government Executive "the introduction of the Watchlist Service is a positive step for privacy." Under the previous system, checks against the terrorist screening database "were done via CD-ROM and involved multiple copies -- a process that was vulnerable to inefficiencies, delays and inaccurate information," he said.
The new system "streamlines the process throughout the department, and guarantees that DHS components have the most up-to-date information," Ortman said in an email, "improving speed and efficiency, reducing the possibility for misidentification and other errors, and in compliance with the Fair Information Practice Principles laid out in the Privacy Act." Gavin Baker, federal information policy analyst at OMBWatch, wrote Monday in a blog that "DHS' approach twists the purpose of the Privacy Act exemptions almost beyond recognition. Exemptions should be limited to the time when they're needed, and no longer. But the proposed exemptions would never expire, even if the subjects in the database aren't under active investigation. This isn't necessary to protect the integrity of investigations, and it invites abuses."
Baker noted that the proposal would allow Homeland Security "to waive the exemptions 'on a case-by-case basis.' While this may sound like a reasonable approach," he wrote, "it would radically undermine the right to know."


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When petroleum prices took their first quantum leap four decades ago, it triggered a commodity crisis affecting metals like steel and many of the raw materials used to make them.
The U.S. steel industry also suffered a severe coronary back in the 1970s and underwent the equivalent of a quadruple bypass. Old steel mills were closed, coke ovens and blast furnaces were torn down and thousands of workers lost their jobs. The 1973 oil embargo was not the direct cause of the steel industry's problems, but it helped to expose how inefficient some steelmakers were in those days.
A decade or so later, when mini-mill technology was on the rise in the United States and around the world, if you asked some mini-mill executives if they needed to own scrapyards, they pooh-poohed the idea. In some ways, they were like today's drivers who keep buying oversized suburban assault vehicles—better known as sport utility vehicles—or high-powered diesel trucks with four-wheel drive for trips to the local mall. "There's no gasoline shortage," these people will tell you, "just a bunch of greedy oil companies gouging us for all they can get."
There were no ferrous scrap shortages either, some mini-mill executives said back then. There was plenty of scrap—a vast national pool of millions of tons of obsolete scrap—and hundreds of scrap dealers were ready to sell them whatever they wanted. The mine above ground, some called it in those days. The $173-a-ton factory bundles and similar high prices for shredded and heavy melt scrap in the 1970s were an anomaly, they said, unlikely to be repeated.
Companies like Commercial Metals Co. were in both steelmaking and scrap processing. But CMC had already been in the scrap business and it traded all sorts of commodities, not just scrap and steel. When Chaparral Steel Co. built a structural steel mill in Midlothian, Texas, and added a megashredder, some of its mini-mill rivals wondered why. Others attributed the move to the mill's location in central Texas, where processed scrap was not in abundance.
If ferrous scrap prices rose or supplies were tight, there were alternatives like pig iron and direct-reduced iron (DRI). Some steel mills even had their own DRI plants, but abandoned them later—not because of the high price of iron units, but because natural gas prices were rising and made them uneconomical except in a few countries where gas was plentiful.
Fast forward two decades, and the current generation of steel executives has made a 180-degree turn from those old beliefs. Was it simply that the previous generation of steel leaders were near-sighted? They built mini-mills into the powerhouses they are now, and rebuilt what was once seen as a dying industry in this country. But perhaps they were a bit short-sighted on this front.
Today's steel executives started out as young engineers and managers in those companies. These successors face a new challenge today—obtaining adequate raw materials. The current focus on today's stratospheric ferrous scrap prices masks the more pressing issue. Sure, some ferrous scrap prices are close to $800 a ton in the U.S. market and even higher in several scrap-importing nations. But finished steel prices have risen just as steeply and scrap surcharges have ensured profitability for many steelmakers.
Price is not the main issue. It never was. Ask any scrap buyer at a steel mill what will happen if he pays too much for scrap. The boss will howl, he might say, but he'll be looking for a new job if he lets the meltshop run out of scrap.
Ferrous scrap is a limited resource. Nobody makes scrap as a new product, like cars or plastics. Scrap is a by-product of manufacturing processes and our lifestyles, the waste materials that are not discarded in a landfill because there is still some value that can be extracted from them. We junk cars and discard washers and dryers after they are no longer usable. Each year, the growth of the steel industry's mini-mills has drained away more and more of that supposed never-ending stream of junk cars and old appliances. Many manufacturing plants have moved overseas, and with their departure the flow of industrial steel scrap has slowed.
And now, thanks to our own spendthrift financial ways, overseas steel mills see U.S. processed scrap as a cheap raw material. Scrap from other offshore sources like Russia and Ukraine? That's gone or, so we are told, soon will be. Archaic Soviet steel mills have been modernized and they want all of their domestic scrap.
And lastly, those seemingly abundant supplies of pig iron and DRI are not as readily available as once thought. The growth of China's steel industry and its use of the basic oxygen process has taxed the world's iron supplies. Compounding that supply problem has been the consolidation of the world's iron mining industry into a 21st-Century version of the Big Three.
Oil and steel price and supply problems were not unrelated 40 years ago. Nor are they today. Higher petroleum prices are financing a building boom in the Middle East, the region that supplies much of the world's gasoline. That construction binge, in turn, is demanding more steel and, to the chagrin of many U.S. mills, more raw materials like iron and scrap needed by mills there—and here.
Sure, you can turn corn into ethanol and add it to gasoline, but how many millions of acres of spinach will we have to grow to help make enough cold-rolled sheet?
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NEW YORK — While promoting a film, most actors wax poetic about how fantastic their costars were to work with on set. Few, however, actually mean it — and even the ones who do rarely form the type of bond that "The Heat" stars Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock share.
The actresses met while shooting their upcoming buddy cop comedy and instantly connected, said the film's director, Paul Feig.
"They were thick as thieves almost from the start," Feig said Sunday on the red carpet at the film's Ziegfield Theatre premiere. "It was almost to the point where I was like 'Hey, can I get in there?'"
PHOTOS: 'The Heat' stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Bullock, 48, and McCarthy, 42, quickly discovered they had kids around the same age and shared the same sense of humor. But they also had something more unusual in common: An obsession with fixing up their homes.
"There's very few people that have a home renovation sickness in this business," said Bullock, dressed in a form-fitting black leather dress with revealing cutouts. "I think maybe two. She and I have to be the two."
The fixation runs deep, McCarthy explained.
"Hours are spent, like, 'Did you see this wood?' There's nobody else who wants to talk to me about this stuff in such depth."
On the red carpet, the pair's friendship was evident as they posed playfully for the cameras, McCarthy pretending to choke Bullock.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
It's almost as if "they knew each other from another life," costar Demian Bichir said, observing the antics. "They're like sisters. They're adorable together."
In "The Heat," Bullock plays a straight-laced FBI agent who is forced to team up with McCarthy's outspoken Boston cop. The movie hits theaters Friday against "White House Down," the big-budget Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx action flick — but "The Heat" is primed to have a stronger opening weekend than the special effects-laden thriller.
Informed of that news, Feig seemed pleasantly surprised.
"Is it really? I mean — oh, well, that's too bad for them," he said with a smile. "I hope it's a wakeup call to everyone in Hollywood that we need to put more funny ladies in movies. We're the only studio film this summer with women in the lead roles — so let's change that."
'The Heat' gleefully plays with the buddy cop genre
'The Lone Ranger' premiere: A long red carpet under a hot sun
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It had been almost four years to the day since 33-year-old Omar Bravo last received a call-up to the Mexican national team. That's an entire World Cup cycle.
Since then the Chivas youth team product has gone from Tigres, returned to Chivas, failed at Cruz Azul and fallen on the other side of the tracks in Guadalajara with Atlas. There seemed little hope he would ever return to the national team fold, or even see out his career with a shred of decorum.
Atlas fans protested vigorously at his signing and there were even threats made towards the player during his unveiling. The feeling was that the player not only hadn't produced since leaving Chivas back in the summer of 2008 to head to Spain's Deportivo La Coruna but that he was forever tainted by his association with Chivas.
But Bravo's performances and attitude this season have been exemplary. He has somehow managed to turn all that vitriol from the supporters into positivity on the pitch. With hindsight, it was the motivation he needed at the tail end of his career and he has been the spark for Atlas' incredible season so far that has seen them climb to a lofty second position in the league.
Of course, Jose Manuel de la Torre knows exactly what he is getting. Bravo was a crucial part of Chivas' last title in the Apertura 2006, when Chepo established himself as a coach with a bright future and Bravo finished the season with 11 goals.
While arguments will rumble about whether other players were more deserving, what this version of Bravo brings to El Tri is versatility, experience and a refreshing attitude that Chepo will hope rubs off on some of the younger players.
It's not just the five goals in ten games this season for Bravo, but his assists and on the field leadership that have leap-frogged him above other more obvious names in Chepo's depth chart.
The call-up, along with that of Leon's Jonny Magallon, is also a reminder that experience is a valued commodity for De la Torre and that the much-praised youngsters have to be on their toes.
Olympic gold medalists Hiram Mier, Jorge Enriquez, Israel Jimenez and Darvin Chavez are some of the names that miss out.
The call-up of a certain other 33-year-old, however, is perplexing.
Despite the pedigree and experience that holding midfielder Gerardo Torrado has, in many ways he is going through the opposite of Bravo right now. The Cruz Azul player has not been in top form in a team that is drastically underperforming.
Torrado's thigh injury a year ago was caused by years of hard toil and a lack of proper rest during his career. The player turns 34 next month, pouring doubt on whether, at 35, the midfielder with 137 caps can play a role for Mexico come Brazil 2014.
If a solid, experienced defensive midfielder is what Chepo wants, Salcido appears to fit that particular bill, but perhaps the coach has one eye on keeping it extremely tight in that first game down in Honduras.
Aside from the aforementioned medalists, Chivas' Rafa Marquez Lugo and Pumas duo David Cabrera and Javier Cortes will think themselves unlucky not to be included in the latest squad.
Nevertheless, barring the continued exclusion of Carlos Vela, Chepo's squad to face Honduras (March 22) and the United States (March 26) is nicely balanced and the inclusion of a few new faces - however old they might be - should freshen things up after the Jamaica fiasco.


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Jay Kumar, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
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Barry Maskas, HPE; Tim Sheehan, University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab; David Rodgers, Teledyne LeCroy
Interoperability is a primary basis for the predictable behavior of a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. FC interoperability implies standards conformance by definition. Interoperability also implies exchanges between a range of products, or similar products from one or more different suppliers, or even between past and future revisions of the same products. Interoperability may be developed as a special measure between two products, while excluding the rest, and still be standards conformant. When a supplier is forced to adapt its system to a system that is not based on standards, it is not interoperability but rather, only compatibility.
Every FC hardware and software supplier publishes an interoperability matrix and per product conformance based on having validated conformance, compatibility, and interoperability. There are many dimensions to interoperability, from the physical layer, optics, and cables; to port type and protocol; to server, storage, and switch fabric operating systems versions; standards and feature implementation compatibility; and to use case topologies based on the connectivity protocol (F-port, N-Port, NP-port, E-port, TE-port, D-port).
In this session we will delve into the many dimensions of FC interoperability, discussing:
•Standards and conformance
•Validation of conformance and interoperability
•FC-NVMe conformance and interoperability
•Interoperability matrices
•Multi-generational interoperability
•Use case examples of interoperability
After you watch the webcast, check out the FC Interoperability Q&A blog https://fibrechannel.org/a-qa-on-fibre-channel-interoperability/
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RoCE vs. iWARP
Aug 22 2018
64 mins
Tim Lustig, Mellanox; Fred Zhang, Intel; John Kim, Mellanox
Network-intensive applications, like networked storage or clustered computing, require a network infrastructure with high bandwidth and low latency. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) supports zero-copy data transfers by enabling movement of data directly to or from application memory. This results in high bandwidth, low latency networking with little involvement from the CPU.
In the next SNIA ESF "Great Storage Debates" series webcasts, we'll be examining two commonly known RDMA protocols that run over Ethernet; RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and IETF-standard iWARP. Both are Ethernet-based RDMA technologies that reduce the amount of CPU overhead in transferring data among servers and storage systems.
The goal of this presentation is to provide a solid foundation on both RDMA technologies in a vendor-neutral setting that discusses the capabilities and use cases for each so that attendees can become more informed and make educated decisions.
Join to hear the following questions addressed:
•Both RoCE and iWARP support RDMA over Ethernet, but what are the differences?
•Use cases for RoCE and iWARP and what differentiates them?
•UDP/IP and TCP/IP: which uses which and what are the advantages and disadvantages?
•What are the software and hardware requirements for each?
•What are the performance/latency differences of each?
Join our SNIA experts as they answer all these questions and more on this next Great Storage Debate
After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog http://bit.ly/2OH6su8
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Q&T SIG Talk Series Ep. 19: Telemetry: Success for Agile, DevOps and SRE
Aug 14 2018
74 mins
Todd DeCapua
Telemetry: The essential ingredient to success with Agile, DevOps and SRE:
Measurements, metrics and telemetry enable teams and organizations to deliver successful results with Agile, DevOps and SRE; in order to achieve speed, quality and automation targets with built-in performance, security and resiliency.
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[Ep.18] Ask the Expert: What I Wish I Knew About SDN & Automation Years Ago
Jul 12 2018
49 mins
Darien Hirotsu, Solution Architect, SDN Essentials and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager, BrightTALK
This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.
Join Darien Hirotsu, Solution Architect at SDN Essentials and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into software-defined networks and automation.
Darien will answer questions related to trends from the field, including:
- Building the development pipeline
- Lessons learned building automation solutions
He will share expert insight into what he wish he had known about software-defined networking and automation years ago, and help you jump start your SDN solutions.
Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.
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Jun 19 2018
62 mins
Patty Driever, IBM; Howard Johnson, Broadcom; J Metz, Cisco
FICON (Fibre Channel Connection) is an upper-level protocol supported by mainframe servers and attached enterprise-class storage controllers that utilize Fibre Channel as the underlying transport. Mainframes are built to provide a robust and resilient IT infrastructure, and FICON is a key element of their ability to meet the increasing demands placed on reliable and efficient access to data. What are some of the key objectives and benefits of the FICON protocol? And what are the characteristics that make FICON relevant in today's data centers for mission-critical workloads?
Join us in this live FCIA webcast where you'll learn:
• Basic mainframe I/O terminology
• The characteristics of mainframe I/O and FICON architecture
• Key features and benefits of FICON
After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: https://fibrechannel.org/ficon-webcast-qa/
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Silicon, System and Software in the Age of Disaggregated Networking
Jun 7 2018
53 mins
Ruturaj Pathak, Senior Product Manager, Inventec
This talk will share information on the changes that are happening with software-defined networks in the three fundamental networking blocks; namely silicon, system and software.
These changes allow for IoT and connected applications to have greater control on the underlying infrastructure. It will also share how the open communities are creating an ecosystem for disaggregated networking to thrive. Please join this webinar to gain technical insights into these changes.
About the presenter:
Ruturaj Pathak is a visionary leader with over two decades of high tech Engineering and Product Management experience. He has been working in the Networking domain for over 13 years and has seen the rise of SDN/NFV since inception. Alongside with Networking, Raj also has experience in Industrial Robotics, Print Imaging systems, and Neural Networks. His interests and strengths lie in charting out and analyzing market and technology trends and how these are likely to reshape the industry in the near future.
He is very much involved in deep learning with neural networks and how it can be applied in networking and other fields.
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5G and Automated Driving: A Match Made for Driverless Cars
Jun 7 2018
64 mins
Mahbubul Alam, CTO & CMO, Movimento, an APTIV company
With high-speed connectivity at the heart of connected vehicles, 5G will play a significant role as the industry undergoes major transformation toward fully autonomous vehicles. These vehicles will be required to cooperate with each other and with the infrastructure in a secure and reliable manner with higher sustainable throughput, greater outdoor position accuracy, guaranteed jitter/delivery at a significantly reduced latency and improved vehicle safety even for out-of-coverage communications.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real-time teleoperations, putting human in the loop for autonomous vehicles.
2. Legal and lawful intervention of autonomous vehicles.
3. 5G V2X for improved safety of automated driving.
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Securing the Transforming Industrial Environment
May 29 2018
56 mins
Ronen Shpirer, Security Solutions Architect, Fortinet
IoT, IIoT, OT... It is likely that for many of us these acronyms are confusing. The fact is that traditional industrial environments, such as utilities and production, have started a digital transformation process which harness these and other technologies to become more efficient, automated and competitive.
Within this transformation from a well-defined and well-controlled industrial ecosystem to a dynamic and open one, lurks a shift in the security challenges, needs and solutions/architecture.
This session will focus on the technologies and challenges digital transformation introduces in industrial environments and how Fortinet's Security Fabric is deployed in such an environments to provide the required security infrastructure and posture, including demonstration of some simplified use cases.
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[Ep.12] Founders Spotlight: Doug Marschke, Founder & CTO of SDN Essentials
Apr 25 2018
46 mins
Doug Marschke, Founder & CTO, SDN Essentials
This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each week we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.
In this episode, Doug Marschke will share his insight and expertise into the software-defined networking industry: what it means to found and run a consulting and managed services company, where the network industry is headed in the age of software-defined everything, and how to scale and grow a services organization in the hi-tech industry.
Join us for this live AMA where the audience will be encouraged to ask questions and engage directly with the panelists.
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The Mentalist invites two chess players on stage. These are not plants, but random people who understand something about chess. He tells the audience that, before the show, he gave a chess book to an audience member. He had them take the book to the lobby, circle a chess piece on any page, and then note the page they circled. They were then instructed to seal the book in an envelope and keep it in their possession. They were further instructed to TELL NOBODY, including the performer, which piece they circled.
The performer then calls for the sealed package. The package is then placed on a table in full view of the audience. The table also contains a fully set-up chess set. The Mentalist then asks that the first spectator go over and stand in front of the chess set blocking it from view. He is given an unprepared paper bag and asked to SECRETLY drop any chess piece in the bag. He is cautioned NOT TO LET THE AUDIENCE, or the other spectator on stage, see the piece he chose. He remains standing in front of the chessboard, blocking its view from the audience.
The performer then opens the package and has Spectator Two remove the book. The performer does not touch the book once it is removed from the package. There is a note in the package (or stuck to the book) that tells the page number of the circled piece. Spectator Two opens to that page number and shows the audience the circled piece, say, BLACK ROOK. The spectator is then asked to riffle through the book and make sure there are no other marks in the book. No other marks are seen anywhere in the book.
The Mentalist says, "The chess piece circled in the book, before the show, is the BLACK ROOK. Wouldn't it be incredible if the piece the person secretly put in the bag is also a BLACK ROOK?"
Spectator One removes the chess piece from his bag; it is shown to be a BLACK ROOK! A totally amazing coincidence that appears impossible.
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2012-13: Rowed in the #7 seat of the Varsity 8 B boat and in the #3 seat of the Varsity 4 A boat at the Princeton Chase (10/28) … sat in the #4 seat of the Varsity 4 B boat at the Foot of the Charles (11/17) … rowed in the #1 seat of the Varsity 8 B boat at the Joy Cup (4/06) … saw action in the #1 seat of the second Varsity 8 boat against Dartmouth and Harvard (4/13) and at the EARC Sprints Regatta (5/19).
2011-12: Competed on the MIT varsity team in the #2 seat at Yale (4/7); against Harvard (4/14); versus Cornell (4/21) and at Penn (4/28).
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science … held internships with the Charles River Analytics and VMware.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Weston High School … four-time letterwinner in crew … sixth at US Youth National Championship in lightweight 8+ … first at the Mid-Atlantic championships in lightweight 8+ in 2008 … Massachusetts Mathematics Olympiad Certificate of Merit … National Merit Scholar Letter of Commendations … AP Scholar … Women's Voters League of Weston community service award.
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E15 is fuelling an increase in horsepower in NASCAR's national top three series (NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series), says Mike Lynch, managing director, NASCAR Green Innovation. "After several months of dyno lab and track testing, we've seen a five to eight percent increase in horsepower," says Lynch about Sunoco Green E15, which NASCAR has used since the start of the 2011 racing season.
Sunoco Green E15's ethanol component is produced at Sunoco's ethanol production plant in Fulton, NY. It is then trucked to Sunoco's Marcus Hook, PA, facility where it is blended with a high octane unleaded gasoline. (Please see accompanying diagram.) This Sunoco center concentrates specifically on racing fuels.
"Sunoco manages everything that goes into the fuel so that NASCAR drivers can be confident their fuel is the best available," says Thomas Golembeski, Sunoco's manager of corporate communications. Once the fuel has been blended and tested, it is pumped into Sunoco's fleet of trucks which then transports it to the various NASCAR racing venues, including Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC, which hosts this Saturday's race.
Sunoco has redesigned the iconic Sunoco red fuel cans used at NASCAR races into a closed system so that the E15 fuel is not exposed to ambient air, Golembeski says. Prior to Sunoco Green E15, NASCAR vehicles were powered with Sunoco's 260GTX 98 octane unleaded gas.
Nearly all of the corn used to produce the ethanol is sourced within a relatively short distance of Fulton, located in north central New York.
NASCAR puts ethanol in the limelight, and it reaffirms NASCAR's commitment to conservation. Along with using E15, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over conventional unleaded gasoline, NASCAR has instituted green building, recycling and tree-planting programs.
"In addition to putting us squarely on our conservation focus, ethanol helps create American jobs and strengthens our energy independence," NASCAR's Lynch says.
Lynch adds that NASCAR is a family sport and a family enterprise and that the American Ethanol partnership (comprised of NASCAR, Growth Energy and the National Corn Growers Association) is in itself a family. "The people we've met working with Growth Energy and the National Corn Growers Association—farmers and ethanol plant employees—take pride in their jobs and we feel comfortable standing side by side with them," Lynch says. "And everyone came together to do the testing and provide a seamless transition to the use of E15."
The American Ethanol partnership, a six-year agreement, is supporting NASCAR drivers, teams and race tracks with several marketing activities. American Ethanol will participate in NASCAR's Prize Money & Decal Program, also known as the contingency program, with the creation of the "American Ethanol Green Flag Restart Award" in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It will also provide weekly prize money for eligible competitors in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series based on finishing position. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekly award will be given to the participating driver who records the fastest average speed on restarts and who finishes the race on the lead lap.


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The Bienen School of Music welcomes students interested in studying music to attend an information session.
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Take a Teeny Tiny Holiday: Small Space Campers, Trailers & Vacation Getaways
I recently spent a couple hours on the tiny living inspiration blog Tiny House Swoon. There are small dwellings from all over the world, from treehouses to huts on the beach, but what caught my eye were the ones on wheels and the fun vacation rentals. Who's in for a road trip?
An all original splitscreen 1967 Volkswagen Westfalia bus.
1978 Bluebird bus converted into a tiny home. Photos by Ralph Barrera, for the Austin American-Statesman.
A rustic, 200 square foot tiny house on wheels from Aaron Maret Design Build Studio.
1973 Airstream Sovereign with a modern restoration in Santa Barbara, California. Restored by Hoffman Architecture. Nightly rentals available here.
A vintage 203 truck converted into a "rolling bed" with a mini fridge and wired for current in Ardèche, France, owned by Les Roulettes Du Travers.
A small cabin with canvas roof at Dunton Hot Springs in Dolores, Colorado, by Reclaimed Space. You can find rental information here.
A houseboat in North London from IKEA Family Live.
Old Caboose converted into a vacation rental in Essex, Montana. You
can find more information here.
Tiny cabin on wheels in Dolores, Colorado with a gambrel roof design, by Spice Box Homes.
- Tiny camper with roof-mounted row boat from The American Dream Trailer Company.
For more tiny house inspiration, visit Tiny House Swoon.
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- Weekly – Troop meetings each Wednesday night during the school year at UUMC. 7:30pm-9:00pm.
- Monthly – Troop outings are held monthly from September to May
The following calendar details all of the Troop's activities and events. It is regularly maintained by the adult leaders in the troop.
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EXCELLENT question, for which I have no answer except the gut reaction of a native speaker:
"It is high time that we left" and "it is high time that we leave" are equally acceptable, and I am sure that I have said both with equanimity. Taking the present as a basis, therefore, retrogression would give us: "it was high time that we left". Oops! That's not retrogression for the first sentence, it's retrogression for the second. Well, "it was high time that we had left" certainly looks and sounds quite unnatural, so this must be a very peculiar exception indeed.
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Agner Fog details this particularly nasty examples of Intel's anticompetitive practices quite well. Intel's compiler can produce different versions of pieces of code, with each version being optimised for a specific processor and/or instruction set (SSE2, SSE3, etc.). The system detects which CPU it's running on and chooses the optimal code path accordingly; the CPU dispatcher, as it's called.
"However, the Intel CPU dispatcher does not only check which instruction set is supported by the CPU, it also checks the vendor ID string," Fog details, "If the vendor string says 'GenuineIntel' then it uses the optimal code path. If the CPU is not from Intel then, in most cases, it will run the slowest possible version of the code, even if the CPU is fully compatible with a better version."
It turns out that while this is known behaviour, few users of the Intel compiler actually seem to know about it. Intel does not advertise the compiler as being Intel-specific, so the company has no excuse for deliberately crippling performance on non-Intel machines.
"Many software developers think that the compiler is compatible with AMD processors, and in fact it is, but unbeknownst to the programmer it puts in a biased CPU dispatcher that chooses an inferior code path whenever it is running on a non-Intel processor," Fog writes, "If programmers knew this fact they would probably use another compiler. Who wants to sell a piece of software that doesn't work well on AMD processors?"
In fact, Fog points out that even benchmarking programs are affected by this, up to a point where benchmark results can differ greatly depending on how a processor identifies itself. Ars found out that by changing the CPUID of a VIA Nano processor to AuthenticAMD you could increase performance in PCMark 2005's memory subsystem test by 10% - changing it to GenuineIntel yields a 47.4% performance improvement! There's more on that here [print version - the regular one won't load for me].
In other words, this is a very serious problem. Luckily, though, it appears that the recent antitrust settlement between AMD and Intel will solve this problem for at least AMD users, as the agreement specifically states that Intel must fix its compiler, meaning they'll have to fix their CPU dispatcher.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Intel too, and it is also seeking a resolution of the compiler issue, but the FTC takes it all a step further than the Intel-AMD settlement. Since the latter only covers AMD, VIA could still be in trouble. Consequently, the FTC asks that Intel do a lot more than what's described in the AMD settlement:
- Intel provide them, at no additional charge, a substitute compiler that is not a Defective Compiler;
- Intel compensate them for the cost of recompiling the software they had compiled on the Defective Compiler and of substituting, and distributing to their own customers, the recompiled software for software compiled on a Defective Compiler; and
- Intel give public notice and warning, in a manner likely to be communicated to persons that have purchased software compiled on Defective Compilers purchased from Intel, of the possible need to replace that software.
Fog also offers up a number of workarounds, such as using GNU GCC, whose optimisations are similar to that of Intel's compiler, "but the Gnu function library (glibc) is inferior". You can also patch Intel's CPU dispatcher - Fog even provides a patch to do so in "Optimizing software in C++: An optimization guide for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms".
This is a particularly nasty kind of anticompetitive practice, as it really requires deep knowledge of matters in order to find it out. God knows how many benchmarks have been skewed in favour of Intel simply because people unknowingly used Intel's compiler in good faith. Intel's compiler is seen as the cream of the crop and delivers superior performance, but apparently only if you stick to GenuineIntel.


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Amarillo, TX – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today said that the ongoing 40-day vigil of demonstrators outside the offices of Planned Parenthood of Western Washington is doing more than raising awareness for the pro-life cause.
"What Kitsap Human Life is doing this Lenten season does more than make people aware that Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest abortion profiteer," said Fr. Pavone. "This vigil is a sign of what Lent means in the first place; self-sacrificing love to save the helpless. Groups across the nation should follow the example of Kitsap Human Life."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Mike Isabella, who competed against the Voltaggio brothers on Season 6 of "Top Chef," is creating the menus for the corporate and VIP tents at the Preakness this year, the Maryland Jockey Club announced on Wednesday.
Today's announcement also said that the corporate and VIP menus at the May 18 event will have a farm-to-table theme.
Isabella's proposed menu for the Corporate Village and Turfside Terrace includes entrees like coffee-dusted roasted tenderloin of beef, free-range pepperoni chicken with farro risotto and Chesapeake crab cakes with guanciale and kohlrabi slaw. Isabella is the chef-owner of Graffiato in Washington.
The Maryland Jockey Club said that it hopes to start teaming up with celebrity chefs every year.
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In Background, select a picture or solid color, or create a slideshow of pictures.
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Invitation to Learn More about the ECE Programs:
Every engineering program is different. Making a good engineering decision involves collecting information, considering options, and then deciding which option is the best one. We invite you to learn what makes the ECE programs at OC different, and then discover first-hand whether OC would be a good fit for you.
Typically, our ECE students are bright, hard working, and want to use the gifts God has given them to serve God in their careers. They want to make a difference and work on projects that can impact lives in a positive way. They are also social; they like working in teams and want to be part of a group of other hard working students.
Invitation to Join us for Lunch:
The best way to learn more about the computer and electrical engineering programs at Oklahoma Christian is to visit us. The ECE faculty will take you to lunch and see if OC is the right home for you. You will learn about how a group of Christian engineers put together an engineering program that will help you develop the gifts God has given you so you can serve Him as a Christian engineer. Afterwards, we can give you a tour of the engineering facilities. There will also be time to tour the campus and visit with financial aid if you would like.
Just contact admissions to set up a personalized campus visit.
Invitation to Attend Engineering Summer Academy
If you are graduating next Spring, we invite you to attend Engineering Summer Academy (ESA). ESA occurs the week before freshman orientation (Earn Your Wings), and is the best way to get a head start in engineering. You will learn about all three engineering majors and start building friendships before school starts. About 2/3 of our freshmen engineering students attend every year. We encourage you to attend!
The ECE-Admissions Team:
The ECE Department and Admissions have teamed up to provide you with all the information you need to learn about the ECE programs and work through the application process. Here is a quick guide for whom to contact.
- Your Admissions Counselor or the Admissions Office:
- To schedule a campus visit
- To get help with applying, housing, or financial services
- For questions about the academic programs
- For information about college credit (e.g. AP scores, concurrant enrollment)
Every student who applies to OC has an Admission Counselor. You can go here to find out who yours is.
The best way to contact the ECE department directly is via e-mail.
Transfer Students:
The ECE department welcomes transfer students. We recommend a personalized campus visit at least six weeks prior to your starting semester where you can meet with admissions as well as with the department chair to review transcripts and customize a degree plan that will successfully integrate you into the ECE community. Please contact admissions to set up a visit.