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I have a wordpress website which gets around 20K visits a days and with around 7pages/visit and 62 hits per visit.
My server is :
8 processors --> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz
Now my users are complaining about that the site takes time to load sometimes and craches giving the taking too long to load and it also happened to me a couple of times wher i thought it was my connection.
From previous issues I know that there is a query that sometimes take too long and the site was crashing from it. I then tweaked the server and changed the query_cach_size (because on days with traffic spike the site was stopping alot) in the
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Any ideas ? How can I monitor my site and see when it goes down and what is causing it to troubleshoot this ?
- I am using a dedicated server.
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[mysqld] max_connections = 250 safe-show-database skip-locking key_buffer = 128M max_allowed_packet = 24M table_cache = 700 sort_buffer_size = 16M read_buffer_size = 8M read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M query_cache_size = 128M max_heap_table_size = 180M tmp_table_size = 180M thread_cache_size = 16 wait_timeout = 45 interactive_timeout = 600 skip-name-resolve skip-innodb [mysqldump] quick max_allowed_packet = 16M [mysql] no-auto-rehash [isamchk] key_buffer = 80M sort_buffer_size = 64M read_buffer = 2M write_buffer = 2M [myisamchk] key_buffer = 80M sort_buffer_size = 64M read_buffer = 2M write_buffer = 2M
The site will stop responding sometime when I click on any hyperlink (post, page just anything that requires action).
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At Yes, it's Cake! Taresa Hancock designs custom made desserts. She creates the most unique Couture wedding cakes, one of a kind groom's Cakes, Celebration cakes and Cupcakes that South Georgia and North Florida has to offer.
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Stapleless Staplers are a more efficient way to bind paper. The models available today are designed for small binding tasks (5-7 pages max).
The stapler seen above is available for about $21 from Amazon. Other models are be seen here.
This model is popular in Japan. It is available from the Japanese importer JBox for $13.50.
They also have a sculpturesque model available for $34.50.
Older models of stapleless staplers or "paper fasteners", like the one above, could bind many more pages but no longer seem to be available. Let us know if you have seen these for sale.


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Amazon China has sent out emails to customers who managed to place an order for the Lumia 920T stating that all orders have been cancelled. The Nokia Windows Phone 8 handset was underpriced (3599 Yaun / $570) and subsequently sold out in just 30 minutes.
We've previously seen retailers make mistakes when it comes to Windows Phone product listing, but we rarely see lower prices published by accident. It appeared to be too good to be true, and while some managed to get their name in before the handset sold out it's clear Amazon is not going to fulfil said orders.
The apology email read as follows (roughly translated):
"I regret to inform you, in your account to buy goods, commodity price information is incorrect and the merchandise has not yet arrived, order merchandise has been canceled. If your order payment has been made, the abolition of commodity payments will retreat into your gift card or electronic account, you can query in the "My Account" - "My gift card or electronic account."
Amazon has also included a giftcard worth 30 Yaun in the apology. This is a strong contrast to what happened with Harvey Norman in Australia, which also managed to price the Lumia 920 incorrectly but honoured each and every order placed by customers. The australian company had the Windows Phone listed at $699 before changing the price and announcing the error.
In Amazon's case, the error displayed signs of high interest in the Nokia Windows Phone. While this demand could be entirely down to the ridiculously low price the company tagged the Lumia 920T with, we'd like to think that many were planning to place the order already. Let's hope those affected will still fire up the purchase process again and take a leap with the Nokia flagship smartphone.
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Store brands aren't what they used to be. Today, supermarket shoppers spend $1 of every $5 on store brands, and their sales are growing in just about every retail channel. But given the perfect storm of a struggling economy, rising consumer perception of quality and new lines hitting stores daily, private brands' growth has not reached the potential many expected, increasing sales just 1 share point between 2009 and 2013.
Amid the sluggish growth, however, some retailers have successfully tapped into private brands' potential. And in an environment where retailer and manufacturer collaboration has never been greater, understanding the private label landscape will become even more critical to manufacturers that must coexist and collaborate to drive total category success.
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For free field theory, it seems the solutions of a field equation are used to give a representation of Poincare group, and the field equation is still satisfied after quantization. However for an interacting theory, such as QED, the field equation:
$$\partial_\nu F^{\nu \mu} ~=~ e \bar{\psi} \gamma^\mu \psi.$$
I don't see any possibility of satisfying this equation using operators since LHS will only act nontrivially on bosonic sector of the Hilbert space and RHS only on fermionic sector, and I don't think perturbation technique can fix this since it's qualitatively not satisfied. Yet nobody seems to be bothered by this, so I'm wondering what's the role of field equation in QFT, especially for interacting ones.


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The shenanigans amongst the #slpeeps have been in full swing over in the Twitterverse. In the past few weeks, one big development has emerged which has me quite excited.
A Flash Mob. Yep, so join in the fun and don't forget to sign up here. Follow the details via Twitter using the hashtag #ashamob
Check out the original post by @atklingensmith over at speechieapps.com.
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text: 03 Apr 2014 14:30 British nationals who are hospitality professionals now have the opportunity to take their career high into the sky by joining Etihad Airways' World's Leading Airline Cabin Crew. People interested in attending the recruitment day and joining the airline's award-winning team of cabin crew, food and beverage managers, and qualified inflight chefs, should register in advance by visiting www.etihad.com/careers/cabin. The recruitment day will take place in London on Monday, 28 April. It will offer applicants the opportunity to meet Etihad Airways' recruitment specialists who will provide comprehensive information about living in Abu Dhabi and the dynamics of working with guests at 30,000 feet. New cabin crew members undergo a seven-week training program conducted at Etihad Airways' state-of-the-art Training Academy in Abu Dhabi. Aubrey Tiedt, Etihad Airways' Vice President Guest Services, said: "To support the rapid, dynamic expansion of Etihad Airways, we are delighted to host our recruitment drive in the United Kingdom, a key market for the airline. "We hope to attract and recruit individuals who are incredibly passionate and dedicated to deliver remarkable hospitality. "Our team hails from more than 110 nationalities and enjoys great career development opportunities commencing as cabin crew, an inflight chef or food and beverage manager and progressing to onboard leadership and management roles," Ms Tiedt said. Nearly 1,222 British nationals currently work for Etihad Airways, including 688 core staff, 367 cabin crew and 167 pilots. Cabin crew are all based in the vibrant and cosmopolitan city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Staff enjoy many benefits including medical insurance and housing support, in addition to access to a wealth of world-class leisure, sports and entertainment activities. Etihad Airways currently has a three-times-a-day service to London Heathrow and twice daily flights to Manchester from its Abu Dhabi hub. Etihad Airways has received a host of awards over the years reflecting its position as a world leading airline including the prestigious titles of World's Leading Airline, World's Leading First Class, and World's Leading Airline Cabin Crew at the World Travel Awards held in November 2013 in Doha, Qatar. Contacto Como aerolínea verdaderamente internacional, contamos con una presencia auténticamente global. Cómo ponerse en contacto con su oficina de Etihad más cercana. Ver información de contacto Observaciones Si desea enviarnos un comentario, una felicitación o una reclamación, o simplemente hacernos una pregunta, pulse aquí Déle a «Me gusta». ¡Visite nuestra página de Facebook! Véanos ¡Visite nuestro canal de YouTube! Síganos Etihad Airways | Ofertas Etihad | Ayuda Etihad | Recompensas Etihad


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Well, this is cool. I'm getting kind of weary of Disney princess reboots, but this, from disabled artist Alexsandro Palombo, might be one of the most worthwhile ones I've seen. Here's Ariel, Belle, Jasmine and the whole beautiful-because-they're-drawn-that-way gang—depicted as disabled.
There's Snow White and Belle in a wheelchair, Cinderella missing part of her arm, Pocahontas on crutches and more. Palombo tells the HuffPo Uk that he was inspired to create depictions of disable Disney princesses because:
"Two years ago I had a rare form of cancer and after surgery to remove it some parts of my body are now paralysed. I am now a disabled person, and every day I have to deal with all forms of discrimination. Through this series I wanted to give visibility to this problem of strong discrimination directed to the persons with disabilities who live in our society."
Awesome, right? And stirring, somehow, to see these classic characters depicted in a way you'd never expect. Kinda turns your notions on princesses upside down, no? Like the little girl who wants to see a disabled American Girl doll, it's important that children see their favorite characters depicted in ways that resonate with their own experiences, whether that's as a child of color, a physically-disabled child, or maybe even a child with a learning disability. Hell, it's important that children see characters that are different than them, too, so they can learn that the world contains a vast diversity of people with different sizes, abilities, shapes, skin colors and more.
Disney isn't too great at showing those different skin colors, as we know. Disney is one of the biggest media companies in the world, and continues to be the one of the largest influences on children (even despite the many other awesome and more inclusive forms of books and media that are now being produced for children). But aside from the continued discussion about Disney's problem with people of color, I think that Palombo's art brings up a number of other important questions about representation and discrimination.
Can we get a dyslexic Disney princess up in here? Or maybe a princess with Asperger's Syndrome? (Although Asperger's is commonly seen as a difference rather than a disability, as I understand it). Granted, I'm sure it will be a long long long long time until we see a Disney princess who is disabled or "different," if we ever do.
Still, these continued re-imaginings of the characters show that people's patience with Disney's patented brand of white, able-bodied, thin, flawless femininity is growing thin. Maybe one day, perfect, aspirational fairy-tale characters will no longer be the norm and there will be a little less ableism in the Magic Kingdom.


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Bioequivalence of Metronidazole Gel, 0.75% in the Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01020396
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 25, 2009
Last Update Posted : November 25, 2009
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|Condition or disease
|Bacterial Vaginosis
|Drug: Metronidazole
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|579 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Official Title:
|A Multi-Center, Double-Blind, Parallel Group Study Comparing the Bioequivalence of Teva Pharmaceuticals, USA's Generic Formulation of Metronidazole Vaginal Gel, 0.75% and MetroGel-Vaginal® Metronidazole Vaginal Gel, 0.75% in the Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis
|Study Start Date :
|January 2002
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2003
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2003
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Metronidazole Vaginal Gel, 0.75% (Teva Pharmaceuticals, USA)
Drug: Metronidazole
Vaginal Gel, 0.75%
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MetroGel-Vaginal® metronidazole vaginal gel, 0.75% (3M Pharmaceuticals)
Drug: Metronidazole
Vaginal Gel, 0.75%
Other Name: MetroGel-Vaginal®
- Therapeutic cure rate of the subject at the Test-of-Cure Visit. [ Time Frame: Visit 3 ]
- Incidence of Adverse Effects reported throughout the study. [ Time Frame: 29 Days ]
- Therapeutic cure rate at the Post-Treatment Visit [ Time Frame: Visit 2 ]
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must provide written informed consent prior to any study related procedures being performed.
- Female subjects must have a clinical diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis, defined as having the presence of "clue cells" > 20% of the total epithelia cells on microscopic examination of a saline "wet mount" and all of the following criteria: Off-white (milky or grey), thin, homogeneous discharge; pH of vaginal fluid > 4.7; a positive 10% KOH "whiff test".
- Subjects must be 18 years of age or older with no known medical conditions that, in the investigator's opinion, may interfere with study participation.
- Women of child bearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test result upon entry into the study.
- Subjects must agree to abstain from sexual intercourse throughout the first 7 days of the study. Following the first 7 days, subjects must agree to use a non-lubricated condom when engaging in sexual intercourse.
- Subjects must be willing to abstain from alcohol ingestion during the 5 day treatment period and for 1 day afterward.
- Subjects must agree to refrain from the use of intra-vaginal products throughout the study (e.g., douches, feminine deodorant sprays, spermicides, lubricated condoms, tampons, and diaphragms).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with known or suspected other infectious causes of vulvovaginitis (e.g. candidiasis, Trichomonas vaginalis, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, active Herpes simplex or human papilloma virus, or any other vaginal or vulvar condition, which in the investigator's opinion, would confound the interpretation of the clinical response).
- Subjects with a Gram's stain slide Nugent score <4.
- Subjects who received antifungal or antimicrobial therapy (systemic or intravaginal) within 14 days of randomization.
- Subjects who have taken disulfuram within 14 days or randomization.
- Subjects who have demonstrated a previous hypersensitivity reaction to metronidazole, either orally or topically administered, or any form or parabens.
- Subjects with primary or secondary immunodeficiency.
- Women who will be under treatment during the study period for cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN) or cervical carcinoma.
- Subjects who are pregnant, breast feeding, or planning a pregnancy.
- Subjects who are menstruating at the time of diagnosis.
- Subjects with intrauterine devices.
- Concurrent anticoagulation therapy with coumadin or warfarin.
- Concurrent use of systemic corticosteroids or systemic antibiotics.
- Subjects with clinically significant unstable medical disorders, life threatening diseases or current malignancies.
- Subjects previously enrolled in this study.
- Subjects who have participated in another clinical trial or have taken an experimental drug within the past 30 days.
- Subjects who are unwilling or unable to comply with the requirements of the protocol.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01020396
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|November 25, 2009 Key Record Dates
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|November 25, 2009
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vaginal Diseases
Vaginosis, Bacterial
Genital Diseases, Female
Bacterial Infections
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents
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MTV has posted this video from the set of Friday the 13th (on this very appropriate date) that gives a first look at the shooting of the new film, including a close-up of Jason Voorhees' new mask. Opening February 13, 2009, the Marcus Nispel-directed horror film stars Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Danielle Panabaker, Travis van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Jonathan Sadowski, Willa Ford, Derek Mears and Arlen Escarpeta.
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Four NorCal players considered prospects in MLB draft
Elk Grove, Linden, Granite Bay produced top players
With the MLB draft looming, four players from Northern California are considered top recruits.
Outfielder Aaron Judge plays for the Fresno State Bulldogs, but elevated his baseball career at Linden High School.
BleacherReport.com wrote that the 6-foot-7-inch prospect must "prove he can make contact with balls low to keep his average up and drive the ball out of the park."
It is expected that Judge will be selected during the first round of the draft due to his strong arm and above-average range.
Former Granite Bay Grizzly and current UC Berkeley player Andrew Knapp is ranked fourth in the catchers category.
Knapp was named a Sierra Foothill League MVP, Sacramento All-City and Sacramento Area All-Metro player. He was drafted in the 42nd round by the Oakland A's in 2010, but decided to play college ball for the Cal Bears.
Elk Grove High School produced two top players in catcher Dom Nunez and first baseman Ryan "Rowdy" Tellez.
According to Bleacher Report, Nunez has a solid game in all aspects, but will likely be picked in the second or third round.
The Thundering Herd catcher batted .390 during the 2013 season and had an on-base percentage of .504.
Elk Grove player Rowdy Tellez shows "raw power and a good feel for hitting, with patience and discipline," according to Bleacher Report.
The Herd's first baseman hit .500 with 46 RBIs and nine home runs during the 2013 season.
Tellez's 176 career RBIs are the most in Sac-Joaquin Section history, according to MaxPreps.com.
Watch the MLB draft to find out if any of these local players will make it to the big leagues.


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WATER Puerto Rico……Flint a Human Right Exhibition Reception A solo exhibition featuring Karen Hampton, MSU Artist-in-Residence: Critical Race Studies. JANUARY 19 – MARCH 23, 2018 RECEPTION JANUARY 19, 5-7PM, REMARKS AT 6:15PM Join us Friday,[...]
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A discussion by Nida Abdullah about a framework for capturing interdisciplinary dialogue.
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2018 Department of Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Triennial Exhibition Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum March 17-May 13, 2018 Exhibition Reception April 8, 6-8PM The 2018 Department of Art, Art History, and Design[...]
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Of all the tablets out there, the only one that really interests me is the Notion Ink Adam, largely because, on specs, it represents a better picture of where this form factor is going. This week, Notion's website went up, and a countdown to ordering began. I doubt it is going to make it to Christmas for most of us, but to me, on paper, it is a better iPad alternative than anything currently out there. It could cause people to hold off buying anything else, even if it doesn't sell, and you may want to look at it and decide whether you should wait or not.
Let's talk about that today.
First-generation tablets
The iPad has, so far, easily set the bar with regard to first-generation tablets, with the Samsung Galaxy Tablet jumping to second place with a reported 600,000 sold. But both products are constrained by laptop display technology, which limits their usefulness. What I'm talking about are the TFT screens, which tend to glare out if used in bright direct light. In addition, the biggest power hog in this current generation is generally the screen, giving the class a double whammy of issues. E-Ink, which is what the Kindle and e-book readers use, sucks for Web browsing and has frame rates measured in single digits per second. This means E-Ink won't work for anything that has to move, and doesn't yet do color in a production product.
The one thing that is likely to be fixed before we call this product mature is that screen. The Notion Ink Adam, which uses a unique Pixel Qi screen, may be the first product that represents the next generation of tablets. And it has a number of other next-gen features, too.
Is Notion Ink's Adam the first second-generation tablet?
As we've learned from the iPad, tablets are consumption devices, which means they need an unusually strong graphics engine. The Adam uses the Nvidia Tegra 250, which currently excels at this and should outperform most current-generation products.
The Adam also has a 3.2-megapixel swivel camera, which anticipates the second-generation iPad getting either a swivel, or two fixed cameras. On a device like this, a swivel camera should be better if you are video conferencing and want to switch views easily. Even if the second-generation iPad doesn't go this route, I expect following versions will, as Sony, when it created a similar product a few years back, found swivel to be more user friendly.
MicroSD card support should be in most tablets, with the possible exception of the iPad (because Apple likes to upsell higher capacity products, which have higher margins). This is how users will increase capacity, and retailers will reduce the number of SKUs they have to shelve holding down inventory cost.
Because tablets are used for media consumption, and because they will likely be connected to TVs at least some of the time, an HDMI port would seem to be an obvious addition as people don't like to carry docking stations or dongles.
The Notion Ink has all of these, or will have when and if it ships, and on top, the keystone hybrid indoor-outdoor Pixel Qui screen. The whole assembly argues for a second generation product.
3G or 4G? A crinkle in connectivity
What isn't yet clear is whether second-generation tablets will be 3G or 4G offerings. These devices are data hungry, and will want as much bandwidth as they likely can get. Initially, the Adam is 3G only. However, my general advice with tablets and notebooks is to use them on Wi-Fi networks and pick up a 3G or 4G access point like the Sprint Overdrive mobile hotspot, so you can use one plan for the laptop and tablet. I don't think this is a major issue, but for those who want this built in, it could be a problem.
A hardware heavyweight
About 50 percent of what makes the iPad great are the services that stand behind it, and I'm only talking about hardware with the Notion Ink Adam. What will make or break this product is what stands behind it, and we know very little about that yet. However, I do think this product will be closer to what the second- or third-generation tablets will look like, and you may want to hold off on the current generation if you find something compelling, and are willing to wait. In any case, it is always great to see companies that don't just copy the leaders, but attempt to go out and create something different. That is how Apple has generally been successful itself, and it often amazes me how many firms attempt to copy Apple's products poorly, rather than copying Apple's creative approach to the problem.
For those of you in the States, here is hoping you have a wonderful holiday weekend and that whichever tablet you buy, you find it amazing.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.


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keepnote – Backtrack 5 – Reporting Tools – Evidence Management – keepnote
KeepNote is a great note taking application installed by default in Backtrack Linux. Notes are an important part of security assessments as well as pretty much any technical projects you work on because there is no way to remember everything that happens in hours of working on a project unless you have good notes. KeepNote provides the ability to create multiple notebooks, directories under those notebooks, and associate actual notes to any level of directories underneath the primary notebook.


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My name is Carolyn Nicander Mohr and I am a lawyer, wife and mother to three daughters (including a set of twins). I am a polygadgetist who has been entranced with personal technology for over 20 years. I moved back to the US from the UK in 2010, after having lived there for nearly four years. When I lived in the UK, I helped others who were living far from home use tech to make their lives easier. In 2006, when I arrived in the UK, most people didn't know about Skype or GPS devices (called Sat Navs in the UK). They were racking up huge international phone bills and getting lost in their adopted country. I began teaching groups of ex-pats how to use tech to improve their lives. When I moved back to the US, I started The Wonder of Tech so I could continue helping others see how tech can benefit them.
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Protecting pensions
Rural communities often rely on cooperatives and nonprofits to conduct community business, and their employees rely on pensions provided by these communities.
The pension plans used by rural cooperatives and nonprofits pose little risk of the employer failing to pay benefits, and were therefore granted temporary exemption from onerous regulations in the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
If Congress doesn't act, these exemptions soon will expire, meaning rural cooperatives and nonprofits would be unable to continue providing pension benefits on which many families rely.
So we acted. I led a bipartisan effort to introduce the Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act. This commonsense legislation allows cooperatives and nonprofits to continue providing pension benefits without government intrusion and improves the system ensuring a more stable future for rural cooperative employees.
Kansas communities are conducting their business and providing for their employees. We don't want the federal government getting in the way.
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Bubble burster: ACT exams soon going digital
The college admissions tests will be available online as early as 2015.
As early as spring 2015, ACT college admissions exams will be available digitally, the tests' provider said Monday, allowing students to see their results within minutes, not weeks, of clicking "submit" on a laptop, iPad or other digital device.
The results now typically take two weeks, and sometimes as much as four to six weeks.
Nearly 1.7 million students took the ACT last year. It was one of two dominant tests high school students take as part of their college applications. Roughly the same number took the rival SAT. Those exams are still administered with No. 2 pencil and paper.
Several states already use computers for statewide tests, and Iowa-based ACT works with 22 of them, from Alaska to Florida. But testing in Kentucky was suspended last week after ACT officials discovered glitches. Problems with other vendors forced Indiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma to delay their high-stakes testing.
That is partly why ACT is not rushing to start online offerings for the tests, which help determine whether applicants get into their chosen schools and what scholarships they receive.
ACT officials told the Associated Press that the traditional, 215-question fill-in-the-bubble tests still would be available for those who prefer the paper-and-pencil option.
"Access and comfort level of students will continue to be on the top of our mind," said Jon Erickson, president of ACT's education division. "We don't want to measure a student's computer skills or fears. The most important part will be measuring their learning in school and college readiness standards."
The new testing format — still two years away and optional even then — comes as 45 states and the District of Columbia align their classrooms with Common Core standards, which stress students' reasoning skills over rote memorization. The ACT, which is designed to test students' high school learning, naturally follows the shift in classroom instruction.
"Hopefully, this will be more relevant than just sitting down and taking a fill-in-the-bubble test," Erickson said. He acknowledged that several details have yet to be finalized, including whether students will be able to bring their own devices on test day. But he said the new tests will still have the familiar sections to measure students' English, math, reading and science understanding, as well as the optional writing section that some colleges require.
Founded in 1959, ACT originally stood for "American College Testing." In 1996, the official name of the organization was shortened to "ACT."


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When you select a group of pictures to use in a Photos project, the pictures appear in an area below the project. You can drag the pictures one-by-one and place them where you want in the project, or you can click the Auto-Fill button just above the pictures. When you click the Auto-Fill button, Photos automatically places pictures into your project.
If you want this option turned off while you work on a project, follow these steps:
- Open the project.
- Control-click anywhere in the light-gray background of your project (the space surrounding the project's content).
- Click Enable Auto-fill Suggestions to turn off the option.
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Volunteer Opportunites
Our parents are the reason that Birchtree Charter School is such a wonderful place of learning. Every day, parents are here in the building tutoring, baking, cooking, cleaning, singing…. It is truly a school community that works together for the benefit of all children who attend here. If you want to log in volunteer hours from home, please go to https://www.helpcounterweb.com/signin/index.php?ts=1401480869 and follow the directions there. Once you log in, it is quick and easy! Remember that time spent shopping for ingredients, baking, cooking, sewing and other at home help does count toward volunteer hours.


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August 2003
Scientific Background
Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule, lecturing ca. 1979. Source: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Photograph: Bradley Smith.
Scientists over decades have explored and mapped lands, oceans and the heavens with the expectation of increasing our awareness of the environment in which we live. Underlying this search for knowledge is also the desire to improve human existence through the discovery of beneficial resources. The Human Genome Project (HGP) has served to explore our genetic environment to make us aware of the beneficial resources that might contribute to understanding and improving our lives.9 The HGP involves the discovery and sequence of the full DNA complement in a single human somatic cell. Its primary goal is a listing and location of our genes — the single unit of heredity responsible for how we develop from conception, how we grow and mature, how we live, and how we die.
Dr. James Watson, one of the most well-known proponents of the Human Genome Project, contributed significantly along with Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins to our understanding of the nature of DNA through the discovery of the structure of the DNA double helix.11 This discovery changed the focus of modern genetics and influenced the direction of many other disciplines in that the foundation of all life processes could now begin to be explored.12
Since then, technological advances have enabled scientists to study DNA and its structure in detail:
DNA to be sequenced undergoes a lengthy process, using computer programs like this one to "read" DNA fragments. Source: DOE Joint Genome Institute.
- Computer generated analysis tools designed specifically to understand the significance of the base sequence in this large macromolecule have aided the Human Genome Project tremendously. These tools also aid in understanding how biochemical processes encoded in the sequence of bases are maintained, controlled, duplicated and terminated. With the development and modernization of the Fred Sanger dideoxy chain-terminating automatic sequencing method, the bacteria artificial chromosome (BAC) and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), scientists have within 13 years been able to finish determining the order of 98% of the 3-billion nucleotide base pairs that compose the human genome.6 Simply knowing the sequence of bases at any given place or locus on a chromosome is not sufficient to understanding its function. As important as the sequence is to the function of genes, their distribution, location and structure among the 23 chromosome pairs is just as valuable when determining their role in different life processes. The estimate of between 30,000 and 40,000 genes is based on the fact that exons (gene segments) within the genome are flanked by known marker sequences (e.g., splice sites) that are located along the linear DNA sequence. Some computer programs can now recognize and label these segments and marker sequences while other programs can predict the location and structures of genes in genomic sequences from a variety of organisms. [Editor's Note: See Computational Biology "learn more links" at end of this article.]
- Through great effort and expense, scientists in molecular biology, biochemistry, math, computer science, engineering and the health care industry have worked together to turn what began in 1985 as a simple campus improvement project at the University of California, Santa Cruz into an international scientific consortium. This cooperative effort now known as the Human Genome Project, begun in 1989, was lead by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), formally the Atomic Energy Commission. The DOE was charged to investigate genetic mutations and genome structural integrity after observing the consequences of the development of the atomic bomb. Many universities, private industries and non-profit organizations from around the world have worked together to produce a complete reconstruction of the human genome for public display. The institutions involved in this consortium are often referred to as "sequencing centers." These centers:3,7,10
- offer facilities that allow scientists to determine the sequence of DNA of many different organisms including human
- spend time and money in disseminating sequence information into publicly accessible databases
- also develop computer programs that attempt to make biological sense out of the vast amount of sequence data being generated
- The accelerated development of the Internet is due in no small part to the need for communication between scientists at various DNA sequencing centers and to provide public accessibility to a DNA sequence database initially set up at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The database called GenBank is the major warehouse of genome sequence information from many different species and is accessible from many other web sites devoted to the utilization of sequence information.1,4
April 25, 2003 marked 50 years since the publication in the journal Nature of the letter by James Watson and Francis Crick describing the DNA double helix structure. This day also marked the completion of the human genome sequence to 99.9% accuracy as announced by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).8 In the wake of this enthusiasm for the completed project lies information that has only begun to provide science and medicine with clues to how to combat heritable diseases, how to improve medical applications, and how some of life's seemingly most insignificant organisms like the fly, roundworm and mouse give us clues to better understand our natural selves.2,5,13,14 The door of discovery and knowledge has been opened and it is up to responsible individuals to use this information to improve our collective lives today and in the future.
Ethical Implications
The ethical issues raised by the human genome project can be grouped into two general categories: genetic engineering and genetic information.
Genetic engineering
The first category consists of issues pertaining to genetic manipulation or what is sometimes called "genetic engineering." The map of the human genome provides information that will allow us to diagnose and eventually treat many diseases. This map will also enable us to determine the genetic basis of numerous physical and psychological traits, which raises the possibility of altering those traits through genetic intervention. Reflection on the ethical permissibility of genetic manipulation is typically structured around two relevant distinctions:
- the distinction between somatic cell and germline intervention, and
- the distinction between therapeutic and enhancement engineering
Somatic cell manipulation alters body cells, which means that resulting changes are limited to an individual. In contrast, germline manipulation alters reproductive cells, which means that changes are passed on to future generations. Therapeutic engineering occurs when genetic interventions are used to rectify diseases or deficiencies. In contrast, enhancement engineering attempts extend traits or capacities beyond their normal levels.
The use of somatic cell interventions to treat disease is generally regarded as ethically acceptable, because such interventions are consistent with the purpose of medicine, and because risks are localized to a single patient.
Germline interventions involve more significant ethical concerns, because risks will extend across generations, magnifying the impact of unforeseen consequences. While these greater risks call for added caution, most ethicists would not object to the use of germline interventions for the treatment of serious disease if we reach the point where such interventions could be performed safely and effectively. Indeed, germline interventions would be a more efficient method for treating disease, since a single intervention would render both the patient and his or her progeny disease-free, thus removing the need for repeated somatic cell treatments across future generations.
Enhancement engineering is widely regarded as both scientifically and ethically problematic. From a scientific standpoint, it is unlikely that we will soon be able to enhance normally functioning genes without risking grave side effects. For example:
- Enhancing an individual's height beyond his or her naturally ordained level may inadvertently cause stress to other parts of the organism, such as the heart.
- Moreover, many of the traits that might be targeted for enhancement (e.g., intelligence or memory) are genetically multifactorial, and have a strong environmental component. Thus, alteration of single genes would not likely achieve the desired outcome.
- These problems are magnified, and additional problems arise, when we move from somatic cell enhancements to germline enhancements.
In addition to the problem of disseminating unforeseen consequences across generations, we are faced with questions about whether future generations would share their predecessors' views about the desirability of the traits that have been bequeathed to them. Future generations are not likely to be ungrateful if we deprive them of genes associated with horrible diseases, but they may well feel limited by choices we have made regarding their physical, cognitive, or emotional traits. In short, there is a danger that social-historical trends and biases could place genetic limitations on future generations.
Genetic information
The second general category consists of ethical questions pertaining to the acquisition and use of genetic information. Once we pinpoint the genetic basis for diseases and other phenotypic traits, what parameters should be set for the acquisition and use of genetic information? The key issue to be considered here is the use of genetic screening. Screening for diseases with the due consent of a patient or a legal proxy is generally viewed as ethically permissible, but even this form of screening can create some significant ethical challenges. Knowledge that one is or may be affected by a serious disease can create difficult situations for both patients and their families. Consider:
- If a test is positive, what options, medical or otherwise, will be available to ameliorate the condition?
- Will the patient's relatives be informed that they too may be affected by the ailment?
It is the job of genetic counselors to educate patients about the implications of genetic knowledge, and to help patients anticipate and deal with these challenges.
Mandatory genetic screening of the adult population raises serious ethical questions about personal liberty and privacy, and thus is not likely to garner widespread support. Nevertheless, we are likely to hear calls for mandatory genetic testing in specific social contexts, and existing practices will no doubt be cited as justifications for such testing. For example, in the justice system, longstanding practices of fingerprinting, urine testing, and blood testing are already being supplemented by DNA testing.
Of particular concern is the specter of genetic testing in the insurance industry. When individuals apply for insurance policies, they are often required to provide family medical history, as well as blood and urine samples. At present, however, insurance companies in the United States cannot require genetic testing of applicants. While this prohibition is designed to prevent genetic discrimination, insurance industry lobbyists will surely be pressing the following kind of argument in coming years:
- If it is considered fair and proper to identify applicants with high cholesterol and/or a family history of heart disease, and to charge those applicants higher premiums, why should it be considered unfair to utilize genetic testing to accomplish the same goals?
Such questions will have to be seriously considered by ethicists and lawmakers, in the attempt to achieve a fair balance between individual rights and the rights of insurance companies. Indeed, the development of genetic screening for a broad array of diseases and conditions may eventually lead us to rethink the principles that are used to determine insurability and the apportionment of payment burdens.
Additional ethical questions arise when we consider genetic screening of newborns, young children, and others who cannot give valid consent for such procedures:
- As more genetic tests become available, which ones should be universally administered to newborns?
- What role should parental consent play in determining when children are screened?
Decisions about the implementation of universal genetic screening for newborns will likely follow existing policies, which perform tests for serious, early-onset diseases that are susceptible to treatment. The paradigm case for such universal screening is phenylketonuria (PKU). Newborns are routinely tested for PKU without the explicit consent of parents, under the assumption that parents want to know if their child is afflicted with this potentially devastating but easily treatable condition. Of course, the moral propriety of newborn screening becomes more complicated when we begin to deviate from this paradigm case. Determining whether screening should be pursued in cases like this will not always be easy:
- What if the disease is not easily treatable, or can only be treated at great expense that parents may not want to incur?
- What if an ailment is late onset and untreatable, as is the case with Huntington's disease? What if a test can only determine a probability, not a certainty, that a child will develop a disease?
Of course, from a legal standpoint parents have broad discretion when it comes to decisions about their children's health and welfare, and this will no doubt hold true for decisions about both genetic testing and genetic engineering as these procedures become increasingly available. While this broad discretion is based on respect for parental autonomy and on a desire for minimal government intrusion into family life, we must acknowledge the potential for conflict between a parent's choice and a child's welfare.
- What if a parent refuses to consent to a test that is clearly in their child's best interest?
- What if a parent decides to pursue a genetic "enhancement" that involves significant risks for a child, or that may limit a child's life prospects?
While these questions may seem far-fetched to some, it is worth noting that current laws in most states allow parents to opt out of testing for PKU, despite the fact that this may leave their child exposed to a devastating disease.
Today, we face many important challenges pertaining to the use and distribution of genetic research and information. As our capabilities for genetic screening and genetic engineering increase, we are likely to encounter more difficult ethical questions, including questions about the limits of parental autonomy and the application of child welfare laws.
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Would be nice to meet up with some fellow fronty owners nearby sometime.
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I've got a facebook group going for this, ask me for the link if you want!


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This bear reliefed box was designed by Kazukiyo Kurosu, a paper craft artist.
I saw it in his book.
The box has openings (lack), but it is something interesting.
Cut such paper, then fold and assemble.
Draw eyes and nose with felt-tip pen.
The bear doesn't need glue. But when making the box, use glue.
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Bear box
This bear reliefed box was designed by Kazukiyo Kurosu, a paper craft artist.
Origami box 2
Hard version of origami box.
This is difficult to fold. The bottom is treble, so it's rather strong.
This method can be applied to polygonal boxes.
If you see books about origami box, you will find various boxes and details of making.
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Origami box
Small boxes of used wrapping paper.
Easy square box making.
Use a sheet of rectangle paper.
Divide a long side in five.
"A" (1/5) is width of a box. "B" is height.
Insert a side into another. It becomes a fence.
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When you zone into BT you start in the sewers and work your way up to the first boss, High Warlord Najentus. Then you climb out of the sewers and into a big courtyard with Supremus at the end of it.
After Supremus your enter the foyer of BT and then there are a couple different paths you can follow. The foyer is dark and foreboding and is dominated by a huge Dark Gaurdian statue. On the right is Shade of Akama and on the back right is the way up to Teron Gorefiend. Akama's room feels a little evil and is just right for a fight against his imprisoned soul or whatever the hell the shade is supposed to be. Teron's area has a martial feel to it which is fitting for one of the most famous deathknights around. If you head to the back left of the foyer and then take another left you go down into the dark, dank basement which feels perfect for a crazed fel orc like Gurtogg Bloodboil.
On the near left side of the foyer you can go up to Mother Shahraz (after you kill the other bosses) through the Den of Mortal Pleasures. Lots of concubines and comfortable furniture and scantily clad statues as you make your way up to Mother. After Mother Shahraz you go through the Grand Promenade, which isn't anything special but does contain the greatest trash mobs ever: the Random Laser Beam 1-shot Robots otherwise known as Promenade Sentinels. Then you enter the Chamber of Command where you fight the Illidari Council. These guys have a pretty neat room, and it is kinda fitting for them, unfortunately the boss fight that takes place in there is probably the most long and boring fight I have ever done. After Council you head up to the Temple Summit where you fight Illidan himself. The Temple Summit is a very neat area and just might inspire an "I can see my house from here" moment.
But in a zone that is really well designed and very aesthetically pleasing, the area around Reliquary of Souls is still able to stand out. When you go to the back left of the foyer and take a right instead of the left down to Gurtogg, you will find the Reliquary of Souls. This is may be the most unique fight in all of TBC. To get to the boss you need to fight your way through a short gauntlet. Its not as bad as the Supression Room or the soul crushing Fankriss tunnel, but it is the same idea – tanks run in and round up the mobs until they get to a stopping point and then every does AOE and when everything is dead you keep going forward because they respawn incredibly fast behind you. When my guild does it we stop 3 times to AOE before heading down the final ramp to the boss. After the third AOE you will get out of combat for a couple seconds so you can stop and drink before the boss comes out.
The area has an airy, wispy type of feel to it while being dark at the same time. There is a lot of bright blue shining through cracks in the floor and walls. I can't even think of how to describe it and still do it justice.
During phase 1 of the fight you are against the Essence of Suffering. This poor fella has an aura that affects everyone in the room which reduces healing by 100%, reduces armor by 100% and reduces defense by 500. Sounds like fun right? It gets better – he doesn't have an aggro table. Instead he 'fixates' on the person closest to him for 5 seconds at a time and at the end of those 5 seconds he will do a new range check and target the person closest to him but if that person happens to be the same guy as last time, he won't change targets at all. Thankfully he only hits for about 1k – 1.2k during the normal part but every 60 seconds or so he enrages and starts hitting a lot harder and a lot faster. For the enrage we have a rogue take the fixate and then use evasion and after 15 seconds the enrage ends and we put a regular tank back in there. Since the aura reduces armor by 100%, anybody can tank him, but a big health pool on a druid or a lot of block value on a warrior makes life easier. Phase 1 is pretty easy once the tanks get a feel for it.
Phase 2 is the really hard part of the fight. In phase 2 you fight the Essence of Desire. Desire has an aura that increases healing by 100%, but everytime you do any damage to the boss, 50% of it is reflected back at you and it periodically reduces your maximum mana until 160 seconds into the phase you end up with zero mana. Because of the mana drain it is a huge dps race which means your threat has to be incredibly good. But that's ok because you stacked block value like crazy for phase 1.
Doesn't sound to bad yet does it? Well here comes the fun part – Desire is a pure caster mob and given the chance she will chain cast and never melee, but she only has 1 spell that is chain castable and if you can lock it out, she will stop casting and start to melee. That spell is called spirit shock and it is a 1 second cast that does 8-9k damage and disorients the target for 5 seconds. If she casts it on the tank and it isn't interupted, that tank will get disoriented and the boss will deaggro and go kill someone until the disorient wears off. You have to set up a rotation for rogues to kick every single spirit shock.
To make it harder to interrupt the Spirit Shock, the boss has another ability called Rune Shield that absorbs 50k damage and increases cast speed by 100%. Mages can spell steal the shield the instant it comes up. It helps their dps a lot because they can nuke hard without killing themselves while the have rune shield. But relying on the mages not lagging or reacting fast enough is tough so we have felhunters with devour magic on autocast ready to eat the Rune Shield.
The other big ability in phase 2 is called Deaden. She will cast Deaden on her current target every 30 seconds and if it lands, it increases damage taken by 100% for 10 seconds. Deaden is reflectable and the tank needs to reflect it because a 100% damage increase on the boss will go a long way in helping your raid beat the mana drain. One of the big problems is that rogues with a twitchy finger might accidentally kick a Deaden instead of a Spirit Shock and that leads to two problems, a) your raid doesn't get the damage increase and b) that rogue now has kick on cooldown so he can't interrupt the next Spirit Shock.
As a tank in phase 2 rage management is everything. You need to put out huge threat numbers but still have enough rage spell reflect. I don't shield block anymore on this fight. The boss only hits for 3-5k so crushes hit for around 4.5-7.5k which isn't too bad and the rage you save from not using shield block makes a huge difference because you can dump all of that rage into threat generating moves instead. A lot of things have to go right to get out of phase 2 cleanly – your rogues need to interrupt every spirit shock and never a deaden and you need to reflect every single deaden and you need to generate a ton of threat so the dps can burn the boss down before they all go OOM.
Phase 3 is generally thought of as easier than phase 2 but only because it isn't as dependant on every little thing going right. But it is just as much of a dps race as phase 2, if not more so. That means that the tank needs to put out huge threat numbers again. In phase 3 you fight the Essence of Anger and everyone in the room gets hit with the Aura of Anger which does shadow damage every three seconds and it starts at ~100 damage and increases by ~100 every tick. It also increases your damage dealt by the same amount of damage it does. So by the end of phase 3 people are doing enormous amounts of damage but they are also taking tons of damage. While that is happening the boss is hitting the tank kinda hard (5-6k) and he will be doing a frontal cone ability called Soul Scream which is a two part ability that he will cast every 10 seconds. The first part is just regular shadow damage, about 3k, but it also has a power burn component which will really mess you up – for every point of rage you have, the burn does 100 damage. So if you have a full rage bar when the boss does a soul scream, he will hit you for 10k. Since he does pretty significant melee damage and there is pretty significant aoe damage from the aura, it is really really hard to use all of your rage so full rage bar power burns are not uncommon.
Before they changed it in the last patch, a warrior could "change stances" from defensive to defensive to dump their rage right before a Soul Scream but that isn't possible anymore – thanks for "fixing" that one Blizzard. If you don't kill him fast enough in phase 3 then the aoe damage will destroy your raid. But since everyone also is increasing their damage over the course of the fight, the last 15% go waaaay faster than the first 15%. It is pretty common to have the aura ticking for around 3.5k when you get the first kill.
Unlike a lot of the fights in TBC, Reliquary has totally unique mechanics and the nature of the fight makes it very very intense. Add in a very cool looking area and boss and you get one of my favorite fights in WoW.


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Robbie ate 4 teaspoons straight from the jar and within minutes he turned into a whirling dervish, a cyclone of hyperactivity. He was banging his head against a pillow on my lap one minute and the next tearing down the hall to throw toys around his room. The parents seemed all too familiar with this behavior and began making excuses. He gets like this when we have company, when he's overtired, when he's excited.
As a doctor, I immediately knew what the problem was - sugar. Robbie's parents had already figured out that indulging his sweet tooth lead to hyperactive episodes. But they didn't make the connection between the peanut butter and the behavior. I took the jar and showed them the label, which listed two different sugars (high fructose corn syrup and sugar). The parents were stunned and said they would be more diligent about cutting out the hidden sugars in their son's diet. When my husband saw Robbie's father a week later, he said Robbie was much calmer, was sleeping better, and was like a different person both at home and at daycare.
Most people do realize that sugar can cause hyperactivity, but what they don't realize is that sugar lurks where you least expect to find it and affects the human body in myriad ways. The sugar industry vehemently denies that sugar is hazardous to human health. Are the parallel increases in sugar consumption, obesity, and diabetes just a coincidence? Here are the straight answers.
I know sugar can lead to weight gain, but is it really all that bad for me?
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BYOD: Beyond the Triple Play
By Ross Fujii, CTO of Cisco Network Management Technology Group (NMTG)
Service providers have already penetrated the connected home network with equipment such as set-top boxes and Internet gateway routers to provide Triple Play services – voice, video, and data. From this established base, Service providers have the opportunity to further extend into quad and quintuple plays by offering additional services such as wireless/cellular and security-based/home automation. In fact, with the right infrastructure, the connected home network becomes extremely flexible and capable of supporting a wide range of new and innovative services. Service providers are the natural candidate to offer – and capitalize upon – these services.
The key to generating more than just Triple Play revenues is visibility into the home network. Effectively, Service providers need to push the edge of their networks further into the connected home. In this way, they can enable the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) reality by:
- Supporting ALL of the devices consumers are bringing into their homes
- Creating the foundation for the services consumers are demanding
- Implementing the management capabilities businesses need to protect their data
- Providing transparency as to how the network operates and devices connect
- Offering seamless delivery of content and services
Clearly, content is king. To stay competitive, however, service providers need to go beyond merely serving up content that users have requested. They need to manage content so that its discovery and delivery is seamless.
Such visibility can also increase revenue for service providers by reducing operating expenses. For example, a common problem that service providers receive calls about is slow service. Often the issue is that someone else in the house is streaming video or playing an online game. Currently, service providers cannot verify that this is the actual "problem." Nor do they have any way of giving the customer a way to resolve the issue in the future other than to tell everyone else to get off the network. Furthermore, this situation often generates several service calls for service providers with their related expenses.
By pushing the edge into the home network, service providers will be able to give consumers more control over content and service delivery. For example, parents will be able to prioritize traffic so that a WebEx meeting is allocated bandwidth before YouTube. Such capabilities also create a whole new level of service possibilities. For example, customers could add and manage parental controls that block undesirable content to children and teens. This visibility also becomes the foundation for home security and automation services, offering service providers a wholly new potential market in which to operate.
All of these possibilities are exciting. In my next blog, I'll discuss how Cisco is enabling service providers to extend their network into the connected home.
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I hope this isn't offensive.
I was a part of another community once before, and a popular forum game was the Banning Game. It was rather fun.
What you do:
For example, since I posted this, the first person to comment will say "chocotaco150 should be banned because..." and put a random, silly reason. Basically, 'the person above me should be banned because...'
Hope not to offend. Delete this thread if it is. I just saw all these forum games going on, and thought I might want to try starting one.
To start...
The nonexistant person above me should be banned because they obviously don't exist.


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For the second day in a row, schools in Jackson County have been disrupted by bomb threats.
Jefferson Middle School and Maysville Elementary School were evacuated Thursday following bomb threats.
At JMS, a note was reportedly found on the bathroom wall saying a bomb would go off Thursday. Students were evacuated to the nearby Jefferson Academy building. Bomb dogs and personnel were brought in from UGA and Hall County. No bomb was found and students and teachers returned to class.
About 2:30 Thursday afternoon, students and teachers were evacuated from MES due to a bomb threat.
EJCHS received a bomb threat Wednesday.
Evacuation of MES.
MES, JMS gets Thursday bomb threats
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Thankful everyone is safe. Bomb threats like this are also going on in other states. Five bomb scares in the past seven days in Montana. Three of them at schools similar to this and at East Jackson yesterday. Google Jefferson school bomb threat and this came up:
That is not Jefferson High School in Jefferson GA. It's a school in Boulder Colorado.
It's in Boulder in Jefferson County in Montana. It seems to be happening in a lot of schools across the country. Students should be made aware that it is a felony! Talk about consequences!
All of this bomb scare stuff reminds me of my years in JCCHS when we had a kid with an actual Pipe bomb come in the administrative office area. Students need to realize that pranks like this are not funny and will be dealt with accordingly. I'm thankful that there haven't been actual bombs involved in the past few days. Whether they were meant to be pranks in general or not, no one will know. But pranks like these are not hilarious to any extent.
There was also or is a bomb threat a Maysville elementary school going now. Im very worried about my son. This is getting really crazy. The same thing at ejchs yesterday.
The threats being made to the schools cause a lot of worry and fear, not knowing for sure if they are just that: threats. It is also very frustrating knowing that they have only been someone's idea of a prank (but thankfully not the real thing) and the students have a wasted day, and school officials and law enforcement agencies have to put their energies into dealing with the "prankster's" fun-and-games. I hope parents will take time to talk to their children (yes, high school CHILDREN too) about how they should act in these situations. It is one thing to "keep your cool" and understand that these events could take a much different turn, but has anyone given any attention to some of the student's social media (twitter, etc) Many of them were acting like it was a social event, taking "bomb threat selfies", acting like they were at a party. Hopefully, these events have not become so commonplace that people just shrug like it is no big deal and let their guard down to what is going on around them.
You do have a valuable point. I remember at JCCHS how the kids all thought it was a free day yet the leaders along with myself were scared out of our minds...not to mention it was an actual bomb.
Looks like a good time to make some changes in this county. There is no leader ship. Law enforcement sux in Jackson county.
It is time parents take responsibility and start being parents and teach their children the consequence of making threats of this nature! It's not up to the county and teachers to teach this!
It is up to the sheriff and police chiefs to make sure the kids are safe. This is not happening.
I'm sorry but how is this in anyway possible law enforcements fault? Its the kids fault that wrote the threats. There is usually one deputy at almost all county schools everyday. One deputy that the sheriffs office provides and the boe helps fund partially. If you want more then come off some money but last time I checked all the voters vote no to millage rate increases and the sheriffs office employees are still furloughed 9 days a year for the last 4 years because of this. The first 3 years were for for 12 days a year. One deputy can't be everywhere at once. Law enforcement have obviously responded to everyone one of these events and treated them as if they were real and wasted a lot of manpower and resources on this. Not to mention the dangers they face to themselves and other citizens while trying to respond in a timely matter. Drive too fast and citizens complain. Drive too slow and it means they don't care. You people are ridiculous. You knock law enforcement every chance you get and have no idea what you are talking about. Blame the kids for being childish and cruel. Not law enforcement. And if you have kids and they do wrong then look in the mirror to see who to blame not the cops.
Seriously? Are you really that ignorant? How can you say that it is up to the sheriff or the department to keep kids safe? It is a team effort, and the main part goes to PARENTS.
Bomb scares are serious business. You are right, it isn't up to the teachers to educate the kids about why they shouldn't do this. I have 3 kids in Jefferson schools and they tell me they rarely see a police officer in or around their school. Why is this? Why do we not have officers there at least dropping in to say hello or talking to the kids. Why do we have a sub-sub par police department. In my neighborhood alone there are at least 6 police officers. A couple of them I know personally and are high ranking officers at metro departments. Why don't we recruit one of them to lead our police force and hire better officers. They live here, they care about our kids and our assets. We have a guy that's a "move-in" from another state and doesn't even live in the city he's paid to protect. Hire someone who cares!! Can someone please pass this to the powers to be. I hate to rant but it all starts with the police and their presence in the schools. Just sayin!!
First of all I want to thank our Sheriff, Deputies, and public safety staff. You can not ever be everywhere at the same time and capture the bad guys. Personally, ever interaction we have had with the SO has been positive, and professional.
To negative comments on our SO try it for a while, it is dangerous work, thankless work (anyone ever thank a cop for stopping them for wreckless driving) and the pay is what sux.
You can rest assured our SO has quietly enlisted the assistance of other entities including the GBI.
These people will be caught, they are cowards. The ones I hold accountable (in my mind) are the public justice system. When found, these yahoos need a fair trial, if no reasonable doubt and found guilty, they need to be put away for a very very long time.
From what little I read in the paper my money is on law enforcement who will find the culprits.
And I have to laugh about the comments about metro police living here. So what?
To negative comments on our SO try it for a while, it is dangerous work, thankless work (anyone ever thank a cop for stopping them for wreckless driving) and the pay is what sux.
You can rest assured our SO has quietly enlisted the assistance of other entities including the GBI.
These people will be caught, they are cowards. The ones I hold accountable (in my mind) are the public justice system. When found, these yahoos need a fair trial, if no reasonable doubt and found guilty, they need to be put away for a very very long time.
From what little I read in the paper my money is on law enforcement who will find the culprits.
And I have to laugh about the comments about metro police living here. So what?
Community guy: We have a great Police Dept here in Jefferson! They have tried to get an SRO for the city schools but the Superintendent and school board don't want to have one in the schools. What kind of facts do u have that make the Police dept "sub sub par"? Those men and women work hard every day to make Jefferson a safer place to live. Officers do walk through the schools every day I know for a fact. Your kids may not see them because they are in class learning, but they are there. Don't be so quick to slam and judge when you don't have all of or any facts. Tell me where there is a rule that you have to live in the city you work in? You yourself stated these "high ranking" officers from other departments living in your neighborhood. Why don't they live in the city they are paid to protect? Just think about all this. There are going to be bomb threats and all kind of crimes that will occur when the police are not present. Does this mean the Police dept is sub sub par? NO. Go sign up and do a ride along with the police dept and see what goes on. They have a citizens police academy a couple of times a year here in Jackson county and you get to see everything that goes on. It is not a secret. Everything that public safety does is public record. Thank you and God Bless!
A great police dept. at collecting revenue... If they spent one tenth of the time they do hiding and trying to catch those 8 mile per hour over speeders....real crime would be almost zero in Jtown! Jefferson and Jackson police mottos "To $erve and Collect"
Revenue collecting? Really and they can't write tickets fro eight over unless you are in a school zone, Historical Area or residential area. It has to be ten or above in most areas. Get your facts straight before you go dissing the JPD. They do a fine job for little to nothing in salary and obviously no respect from you.
Well it is easy to tell who works for the Jefferson police. The sheriff is always wanting more money. 10 new dodge chargers she has and wants more. Wake up people it's time for a change.
It wasn't too terribly long ago that we didn't even have to have resource officers in our schools. Our children will grow up with this being normal to them--how sad. With this week's scare at EJCHS and the one at day's end at EJMS a little while back, I think everyone did their jobs very well. The school system has done a great job of sending out the voicemail message as well as the email message VERY QUICKLY and keeping parents informed (I hear a lot of people complain, "I didn't get a call!" I'll bet they change their phone numbers so often they never think to change it with the school!!) I also think our law enforcement responded in admirable fashion. They ARE doing their jobs when they respond and investigate. The comments of needing new/better people isn't going to solve anything or make a person change their mind about breaking the law (pulling these pranks). The officer's job is not that of mind-reader with the ability to predict these events and who is responsible before it happens.
You are incorrect about notification from the schools. Your statement:, "The school system has done a great job of sending out the voicemail message as well as the email message VERY QUICKLY and keeping parents informed (I hear a lot of people complain, "I didn't get a call!" I'll bet they change their phone numbers so often they never think to change it with the school!!)" . MANY people who get all the fundraising calls, the absence calls (even when not absent) etc DID NOT get a call or email. I did not get a phone call and I have not changed my number. You are being absurd suggesting that. Also the school did NOT let the students call on their own phones to let parents know anything. As far as your definition of "quickly" --the email came it at 2:30 when the children were already released from school and most parents had already picked up their students. The kids had been back in school, back from the Academy since before 10:55. That is FAR from quick. Parents knew about the bomb threat from at least 10 am. To wait until 2:30 to let parents know they were safe is unconscionable.
I am one who is on both sides of this. I received a call around 10:30 - 10:45 because my son goes to EJHS. The reason the students were not able to use their cell phones is because the signals could be used to set the bomb off if there was one. I am very glad they made them shut them off because I also had a husband that was there because he works for the SO. I want to thank the school, SO, and all involved for taking such great care of the students.
They did the same thing when I was at JCCHS the day of their bomb incident about 8 years ago. It's extremely far-fetched that it can happen. You'd have more luck getting struck by lightning than for a cell phone signal setting off a bomb. The main reason they take the phones away is because a cell phone can easily be attached to the bomb and if a student calls the phone, that's when it would go off. It really doesn't have anything to do with signals or reception. I also know that they may go around to collect cell phones but that does not mean all students will be honest. Some girls will hide them in their undergarments and pretend they don't have one like I did. The intentions of taking the phones away are good but it's a bad idea because there are parents who want to make sure their child is safe like my mother did with me.
My comment was about Jefferson City schools. Our notification did not come until 2:30. The "keeping the phones from them" that I was re to was AFTER they were back in the school when the bomb threat was over SO it had nothing to do with any nonsense about "setting off" a bomb. We were not notified for over 4 hours after the threat was over, let alone during the ordeal to let parents know the police were on the scene and that the kids had been safely moved to the Academy across the street. Which btw would mean their cell phone would not have even been a problem dueing the threat anyway. Irresponsible.
#188.8.131.52.1 stop hysteria on 05/02/14 at 07:04 PM [Reply]
Sadly, the reason they didn't notify parents sooner is because they were trying to prevent mass hysteria from people like you. Law enforcement and school officials needed to do their jobs without the interference of parents racing up to the school and getting in the way. I have two kids in Jefferson and while it was unsettling to me, i realized that they had it under control. If i didn't trust the schools and police dept. I wouldn't send my kids there.
#188.8.131.52.1.1 Kristen Nations on 05/07/14 at 09:48 AM [Reply]
Dear Stop Hysteria, You are beyond ignorant. It was not from people like me, I didn't interfere in the least. As a matter of fact (something you don't bother to research)I actually helped diffuse people who had legitimate concerns. In this day of instant information is IS the responsibility to notify the parents that the children were safe. How in the world would it cause hysteria once it was over and the police were gone? How exactly did you "know" it was under control? Case and point.If you didn't trust the govt you wouldn't send your kids there???Wake up, there is no choice (the law duh!) other than home school which MANY have chosen and others cant. Btw, I was the first to point out notifying parents at the start could cause ppl to come to the school and possibly block exits etc but, it is beyond irresponsible to not notify parents when the students were safely back at the school. Disgusting on so many levels.
Where is the Director of School Security that was hired by the former superintendent..he is the person that should handle these types of concerns??? What is the system policy in handling these type of situations. It seems to me that the system should have a policy in effect to check the situation before crying wolf and wasting value resources and time.
I don't think ensuring the safety of hundreds of children is "crying wolf". I am glad to know the threats were taken seriously.
They aren't crying wolf! Is someone supposed to check every inch of the school to see if they find a bomb BEFORE evacuating the students or calling for help? The #1 priority IS protecting the children and all occupants of the building, which is exactly following policy. You have to take action from the very start to avoid catastrophe! As for the dir of school security, I believe this was one of the people who came with and left with the former superintendent. Wasn't it a position created by him and given to someone he was already acquainted with? Maybe there were some changes implemented while he was superintendent that the board just could not fulfill as HE had promised.


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Anyone else going to bother with this?
Kingdom Hearts main site
This series has a somewhat fractured place in my heart. The first game I remember very fondly, it was beautifully crafted and a novel idea of combining my favourite Disney and FF characters along with a new group of characters and storyline. The only very weak component was the gummi ship part, which was almost completely avoidable.
I haven't played the other games included (or at least partly included) in this collection, so it is capturing my attention a little bit. But for me, major problems started at KH2. It was still beautifully presented and I became intrigued by the added "Council of XIII" storyline, and the overhauled gummi ship component is awesome fun. But the major of the gameplay is so linearly boring and full of cutscenes that at time I wanted to bang my head against the wall from frustration. The combat mechanic broke as well, in my opinion, due to overreaching.
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Is it logical to estimate cost of project depends on source lines of code?
Like those calculated reports from tools such as
How to convince [somebody|employer|client] to pay depends on those reports ? The weird things come to scene when I see something like $83,862 based on my project.
Sometimes the developer [him|her]self would write more lines of code because of this estimating.
So if the count of the source lines isn't worthy, Why should be [sometimes|somehow] interesting part of development, Specially for employer, It does amaze them but why doesn't have any effect on pricing ?
Hey Employer I've developed this project that worth $1 million dollars, This source code counter program will prove it.
Maybe I don't know the real worth of my work, Should I public it for people and collect some comments about it or show it to some [experts|consultants] to find-out or just estimate myself upon my knowledge, And all of these solutions aren't right or at least logical.
And what happens to those codes I didn't wrote by myself, I mean sometimes we just copy a piece of code and [pasted|modified] into project.
And if estimating in this way is wrong, What is the purpose of these tools to generate such a report about source lines of code, Average hourly work and other facts.
Ohloh :
Estimated Cost
We calculate the estimated cost of the project using the Basic COCOMO model. For those familiar with the details, we are using coeffcients a=2.4 and b=105.
Estimate still seems way off?
Software cost estimation is tricky business even when all the variables are known (which we certainly don't have). One thing to remember is that COCOMO was created to model large institutional projects, which often don't compare well with distributed open-source projects. Beyond just development time, COCOMO is meant to include the design, specification drafting, reviewing and management overhead that goes along with producing quality software.
This model seems to be most accurate with mature, large projects. Young projects with little activity are typically overvalued.
I know quote from ohloh isn't just about SLOC


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Talk about a Monday buzz kill, "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire"... Morris Berman likes to beat himself up, so we help him. Then, deer huggers think 15 varmits per square mile is the ideal. AAAAAAAARRRRGGGG! You ever wonder why the immigration problem seems to be illusive to the political class? Jerome Corsi thinks he knows. NAFTA and money. A new cuss word. If you ever run out of invective, call somebody a "Sacerdotal Flagist".... I double-dog dare ya.
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