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LVM or logical volume manager is the recommended way of installing domUs onto a partition. I've written another how-to on installing Linux Mint 13 root and /home partitions onto LVs.
Once you have successfully created the Windows domU and installed Windows, you can also access the Windows file system from your Linux Mint dom0.
Warning: Don't mount your Windows domU under Linux in read-write mode while Windows is running - it may cause data loss
It's strongly advised to shut down the guest system BEFORE mounting it under dom0 as shown below !
Install kpartx:
List the partitions:
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sudo apt-get install kpartx
The interesting part of fdisk -l is:
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sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mapper/lm13-win7p1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/mapper/lm13-win7p2 206848 125827071 62810112 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
win7p1 is the boot partition, win7p2 is the actual Windows partition which I'm going to mount. lm13 is the volume group I created when installing my Linux Mint system.
Use kpartx to map the new LVs:
Note: I didn't try /lm13-win7p2 which may also work.
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sudo kpartx -av /dev/mapper/lm13-win7
Create a mount point:
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sudo mkdir /mnt/win7 # or wherever you want to mount your Windows partition
gives me something like this:
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ls /dev/mapper
control lm13-root lm13-win7p1 vol1-lm13_backup vol2-swap
lm13-home lm13-win7 lm13-win7p2 vol2-data
lm13-win7p2 is what I want.
Let's mount the Windows file system as NTFS, read-only:
And check:
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sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/mapper/lm13-win7p2 /mnt/win7
Documents and Settings PerfLogs Recovery Users
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ls /mnt/win7
hiberfil.sys ProgramData $Recycle.Bin Windows
NVIDIA Program Files System Volume Information
pagefile.sys Program Files (x86) temp
Note: Never mount the Windows domU file system under dom0 when it is up and running, unless in read-only mode..
Important: When you're done with the Windows partition,you must remove the partitions with kpartx -d:
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sudo kpartx -dv /dev/mapper/lm13-win7
That was easy.


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The report, prepared by Earth Economics for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, says trees provide a useful function by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, and the blaze has reduced that oxygen output.
The value of carbon storage lost in the fire is between $102 and $797 million, the reportsaid, using data collected in September, before the Rim Fire was extinguished.
In addition, the fire has reduced the value of nearby private property by between $49.7 and 265 million, it said.
The fire, started by a hunter's illegal campfire, burned across about 256,000 acres before it was contained in October.

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Top 5 Celebrity Homes for Sale in 2013
As 2013 comes to an end, it's interesting to look at what happened to the real estate market as it continued to groan and grasp its way up slowly from the recession abyss. Across the United States, median home prices increased almost 10 percent in 2013. Some regions made slow progress while others were selling so fast, they feared running out of inventory.
??Like many Americans, the recovering housing market led many celebrities to put their homes on the market in 2013. Stars such as Steve Martin, Matt Damon, Kid Rock, Carrie Underwood, Howie Mandel, Sheryl Crow and Reese Witherspoon put their homes up for sale in 2013.
What celebrity has the nicest home, the best furniture, biggest pool or, better yet, most ostentatious taste? Here are EDGE's picks of the grandest of them all...
Matt Damon's Florida Home
Located on one of North Miami Beach's most exclusive and secure celebrity magnet islands, Matt Damon's La Gorce Island home is designed in the classic Old Florida Mediterranean-style.
Though it has all the exterior character of the grand mansions of the Henry Flagler era, the interior is sharp contemporary. Damon and his new wife at the time acquired the double lots and their 1935 mansion dream home in 2005 for $14.5 million.
The 12,705-square-foot home has seven bedrooms, ten bathrooms, home theater and custom office. The enviable acre of premium waterfront land includes the main house, pool house with roof terrace and a two bedroom guest house. With 170 feet of water frontage on Biscayne Bay, it also has a dock and views of downtown Miami. Damon is asking $18.999 million.
Carrie Underwood's Canada House
Carrie and her NHL hockey playing husband, Mike Fisher, put their Canada home on the market after Mike was traded from the Ottawa Senators to the Nashville Predators.
Located on eleven acres in Carp, Ontario, close to five golf and country clubs, lakes and the Mississippi River, Carrie and Mike are asking $2.2 million. The 6,000-square-foot gated home has five bedrooms, five baths, well appointed mud room, eat-in chef's kitchen, great room, formal dining and a four-season enclosed sun room with its own fireplace, spacious deck and hot tub. The lower level features a home theatre, gym, wine cellar, family and game room, bar and kitchenette.
Sheryl Crow's Solar Horse Farm
Sheryl Crow's Cross Creek Farm in Tennessee is situated on 152 rolling acres with a western-style saloon, barn, outdoor riding arenas, a building for farm equipment, large storage building, guest-staff houses and a pool with waterfall and spa.
One of the most interesting and timely features of the estate is Sheryl's forward thinking by installing a solar system that is designed to reduce electric costs by 42 percent. Sheryl first listed the farm for $7.5 million in early 2010. She put the home back on the market in 2013 for $5.8 million.
Kid Rock's Balinese Paradise
His fans might expect Kid Rock to live in a log cabin with a couple of hens roosting on the porch railing. It's hard to picture him in the sophisticated Balinese-style mansion he now has for sale in Malibu.
Kid's immaculate home is 8,305 square feet with dark hand-carved wooden columns and pristine white walled background. Large sweeps of glass open to the lanai, balconies and tropical landscape with views of the pool and guest house situated across the lawn. Inside, there are five bedrooms, five full baths, gym, large chef's kitchen and a formal living room that can be turned into a media screening room. Kid is asking $13.45 million.
Suzanne Somers' Le Baux de Palm Springs
Just as beautiful today as she was back in the '70s, Suzanne Somers and her charming TV host husband, Alan Hamel, have created an earthy and at the same time glamorous Palm Springs, California estate which is now back on the market.
Modeled after L'oustau De Baumaniere in Provence, France, there are five buildings on 73 acres set into the side of a craggy mountainside to explore with 10,000 square feet of pavilions including a master suite, a separate two room kitchen and wine cellar, and a 1920's stone guest house.
There are no cars - access is via a private funicular, golf cart or a hillside of stone steps. There is also an outdoor amphitheater with a dance floor carved into the mountain that seats 50, a pool, spa, hiking trails and natural waterfall that spills musically down the hillside. The home was first listed in 2008 at $35 million - now asking $14.5 million.


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- * Using an expired key for signing should give an error message
- "expired key" and not "unusable key'. Furthermore the error should
- also be thrown when the default key has expired. Reported by
- Eric.VanBuggenhaut add AdValvas.be.
+ -*- outline -*-
+* src/base64
+** Make parsing more robust
+ Currently we don't cope with overlong lines in the best way.
+** Check that we really release the ksba reader/writer objects.
- * pause scrolling help in --edit-key and elsewhere.
+* sm/call-agent.c
+** Some code should go into import.c
+** When we allow concurrent service request in gpgsm, we
+ might want to have an agent context for each service request
+ (i.e. Assuan context).
- * getkey does not return revoked/expired keys - therefore it is not
- possible to override it.
+* sm/certchain.c
+** Try to keep certificate references somewhere
+ This will help with some of our caching code. We also need to test
+ that caching; in particular "regtp_ca_chainlen".
- * Selection using +wordlist does not work.
- What about adding a feature -word to the +wordlist search mode.
+* sm/decrypt.c
+** replace leading zero in integer hack by a cleaner solution
- * Check the changes to the gpg random gatherer on all W32 platforms.
+* sm/gpgsm.c
+** Implement --default-key
+** support the anyPolicy semantic
+** Should we prefer nonRepudiation certs over plain signing certs?
+ Also: Do we need a way to allow the selection of a qualSig cert
+ over a plain one? The background is that the Telesec cards have 3
+ certs capable of signing all with the same subject name.
- * Show more info does not work from edit->trust. We should give more
- information on the user ID under question while running
- --update-trustdb.
+* sm/keydb.c
+** Check file permissions
+** Check that all error code mapping is done.
+** Remove the inter-module dependencies between gpgsm and keybox
+** Add an source_of_key field
- * Check that no secret temporary results are stored in the result parameter
- of the mpi functions. We have already done this for mpi-mul.c
+* agent/
+** If we detect that a private key has been deleted
+ Bump the key event counter.
- * We need another special packet at the end of a clearsign message to mark
- it's end and allow for multiple signature for one message. And
- add a real grammar to the code in mainproc.c
+* agent/command.c
+** Make sure that secure memory is used where appropriate
- * Fix the bug in the mips assembler code
+* agent/pkdecrypt.c, agent/pksign.c
+** Support DSA
- * Add a way to show the fingerprint of an key signator's keys
+* Move pkcs-1 encoding into libgcrypt.
- * Concatenated encryption messages don't work corectly - only the
- first one is processed.
+* Use a MAC to protect sensitive files.
+ The problem here is that we need yet another key and it is unlikely
+ that users are willing to remember that key too. It is possible to
+ do this with a smartcard, though.
- * Add option to put the list of recipients (from the encryption
layer) into the signatures notation data
+* sm/export.c
** Return an error code or a status info per user ID
- * --disable-asm should still assemble _udiv_qrnnd when needed
+* common/tlv.c
+ The parse_sexp function should not go into this file. Check whether
+ we can change all S-expression handling code to make use of this
+ function.
- * the pubkey encrypt functions should do some sanity checks.
+* scd
+** Application context vs. reader slot
+ We have 2 concurrent method of tracking whether a reader is in use:
+ Using the session_list in command.c and the lock_table in app.c. It
+ would be better to do this just at one place. First we need to see
+ how we can support cards with multiple applications.
+** Resolve fixme in do_sign of app-dinsig.
+** Disconnect
+ Card timeout is currently used as a boolean.
+ Add disconnect support for the ccid driver.
- * "gpg filename.tar.gz.asc" should work like --verify (-sab).
+* Regression tests
+** Add a regression test to check the extkeyusage.
- * for messages created with "-t", it might make sense to append the
- verification status of the message to the output (i.e. write something to
- the --output file and not only to stderr. However the problem is
- that we consider the message transpatrent and don't have any
- indication of the used character set. To implement this feature
- we need to make sure that all output is plain 7 bit ascii but
- given that we need to print a user name, this does not make sense
- at all. The only way this can be implemented is by assuming that
- the message is encoded in utf8 and hope tht everyone starts to use
- utf8 instead of latin-1 or whatever RSN. Hmmm, I myself should
- start with this.
+* Windows port (W32)
+** Regex support is disabled
+ We need to adjust the test to find the regex we have anyway in
+ gpg4win. Is that regex compatible to the OpenPGP requirement?
- * keyflags don't distinguish between {certify,signature}-only.
- * cat foo | gpg --sign | gpg --list-packets
- Does not list the signature packet.
+* sm/
+** check that we issue NO_SECKEY xxx if a -u key was not found
+ We don't. The messages returned are also wrong (recipient vs. signer).
- * When presenting the result of a verification show the user ID with
the highest trust level first instead of the primary one
+* jnlib/
** Try to remove all jnlib_xmalloc
- * allow the use of option in gpg.conf.
+* g10/
+** issue a NO_SECKEY xxxx if a -u key was not found.
- * Add the NEWSIG status.
+* Extend selinux support to other modules
+ See also http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/06/06/se-linux-support-gpg/
- * Delete a card key as well as a wiping.
+* UTF-8 specific TODOs
+ None.
+* Manual
+** Document all gpgsm options.
+* Pinpad Reader
+ We do not yet support P15 applications. The trivial thing using
+ ASCII characters will be easy to implement but the other cases need
+ some more work.
+* Bugs
+* Howtos
+** Migrate OpenPGP keys to another system
+* Gpg-Agent Locale
+ Although we pass LC_MESSAGE from gpgsm et al. to Pinentry, this has
+ only an effect on the stock GTK strings (e.g. "OK") and not on any
+ strings gpg-agent generates and passes to Pinentry. This defeats
+ our design goal to allow changing the locale without changing
+ gpg-agent's default locale (e.g. by the command updatestartuptty).
+* RFC 4387: Operational Protocols: Certificate Store Access via HTTP
+ Do we support this?
- * passphrase_to_dek does not return NULL after a cancel. There is
- no way to issue a cancel when unsing the CLI - this would however
- be a Good Thing when used with mixed symkey/pubkey encrypted
- messages. See comment in mainproc.c:proc_symkey_enc.
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Russian and Latin American Mobile Markets
Michael Hecker of Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia's largest wireless carrier, and Carlos Domingo of Spain-based Telefonica took the stage at D: Mobile to discuss their respective markets with Ina Fried of AllThingsD. Here's the full session video.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the ... well ... from Telefonica let me know and from anti US and Russia ... Michael Pachter ... of ... suppose ... I ask you dear to you you were a number of interesting that both you is that as an individual and Telefonica as the company ... I'm starting with the company up for those of the motel for the big global carrier ... big in Europe but also a really big in Latin America ... um you guys are what roughly evenly divided between deter Western European markets and emerging markets some revenue Weiss is fifty fifty ... fifty percent comes from Europe ... on ... last year than last year was a person to lead America became a slightly bigger ... but in terms of customers recover one hundred million ... euro but two hundred meters ... so ... to all of ... the chemical abuse me that ... the revenue per customer is ... small ... revenue was ... fifty three ... you were there is your kind of the person responsible for figuring out what's next both from a business model perspective from a device perspective ... when you spend your time looking at ... say yes I'm not typing work and that the definition of business I work more than eighteen years of overdue Indian cricket it is tough ... to find a house in a separate business called ... it a good thing to do but ... you know the new opportunities including the white space so ... the softener in um had been part of their profits was for the ... last couple of years working with a ... whim of the top um we did the first ... 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MTS for this demo largest carrier in Russia ... Gas nor his time ... and you do business in a bunch of other ... 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market Andy of all the features of a developed market in the same market ... yet we have electricity like Moscow which is basically like a London Big ... conglomeration hierarchy is funded eve of a total con activity ... very high smartphone penetration sizzling I Phones to reach people in Moscow rally on the idea of Moscow was the city we have the biggest I've competition in the very early days they were all the black market of that time but that though it was still the biggest penetration ... um ... we we have a overall a smartphone penetration from above twenty five percent ... very strongly growing but we also have ... areas in the country where the arches of those smartphone penetration is still though ... that we have different interests and different regions this is so it's it's it's it's it makes its a mix of a ... developing market and it's a mix of developed markets ... and that gives us different opportunities in different regions see your core business is still still growing in me just providing activity but you guys ought to look a lot of opportunities beyond connectivity absolutely were were were looking out on the one hand we have our traditional business connectivity but will first we know that come come activity is limited and growth and we're looking at specific opportunities that ... that our market it gives that ... are not really the opportunities you would ... traditionally find in in the developed markets is one of its banking as retail banking ... not not not just the use of transaction services payment services all that but it's it's classical to consumer credit retail ... basically credit card business that were were tapping into what what we do best ... it's it's a huge market going Russia is is under banked in under ... credit card penetrated Carpentras was below ten percent ... and ... we were sitting there and saying ok we have a ... we have basically all the ingredients is that to make a successful bank businesses not immobile 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Earlier this year, a student group drew criticism when it screened "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge." (Be sure to look for it at next year's Academy Awards.)
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Update: Vail's Lindsey Vonn has made news of late for reasons that go well beyond her skiing skills -- like, for instance, her alleged dalliances with golfer Tiger Woods. But her massive wipe-out at the world championships in Austria has changed the narrative. She's now expected to return to Colorado for surgery, and while she's confident she'll be back in time for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, others aren't sure. Details, crash video and lotsa pics below.
As we reported below, Vonn, who's on the cover of the current issue of Outside magazine after topping its list of sixty "perfect" things, was competing in the Super-G at the world championships but lost control after a jump and smashed into a gate.
As a result, Vonn reportedly tore two knee ligaments (the ACL and MCL) and broke a bone in her lower leg (technically a lateral tibial plateau fracture).
Afterward, Vonn released a statement that reads in part, "I am grateful to my fans for the outpouring of support, which has really helped me stay positive. I can assure you that I will work as hard as humanly possible to be ready to represent my country next year in Sochi."
That won't be easy. Having more than a little experience with ACL injuries (my daughter has torn hers in both knees), I know that recovery takes a minimum of six months, but often considerably more than that -- and the additional MCL tear and bone fracture complicate things immeasurably, especially given the pounding Vonn gives her legs while competing at the highest level of her sport.
Add the fact that Vonn recently was on the shelf for a month with an intestinal condition that led to her hospitalization and you've got a challenge even Adrian Peterson might find daunting. After all, Vonn doesn't want the Sochi Olympics, slated to get underway approximately a year from now, to be her first time back on the slopes. Rather, she's targeting the World Cup speed races taking place in Lake Louise, Alberta, circa November/December.
What are her odds? Time magazine put that question to Dr. Jo Hannifan, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery who served as a physician for the United States Olympic Committee for the 2004 games in Athens. "The issue with injury and surgery is that things are never perfect," she notes. "And there's the psychological challenge. But I wouldn't think that would have much of an effect on her."
Indeed, Vonn isn't an injury novice, having hurt herself in competition many a time, including a training crash at the 2006 Olympics in Torino and notable tumbles in 2007 and 2009. And while her wounds from Austria are the worst of her sparkling career to date, Hannifan says, ""If anyone can do it, she can. She's really an astonishing athlete."
Here's video of her fateful Super-G run earlier this week, followed by our earlier posts.
Continue for our previous coverage, including Vonn's Outside magazine cover, an accompanying video and a photo gallery. Update, 11:03 a.m. February 5: Our post this morning spotlighting Vail's Lindsey Vonn was lighthearted, focusing on her rumored relationship with golfer Tiger Woods and an Outside magazine cover that described her as perfect. But things didn't go perfectly at the ongoing skiing world championships in Austria. She reportedly wiped out during a Super-G race and was taken by helicopter to a local hospital.
According to the Associated Press, Vonn's injury -- she lost control after landing a jump and smashed into a gate -- doesn't appear to be life-threatening. Indeed, the main damage is said to have been done to her right knee. That's a big problem from a competitive standpoint, particularly considering that Vonn recently returned to the slopes after a month-long break caused by an intestinal disorder that also required hospitalization. But it won't hurt her standing with fans...including, possibly, a certain Mr. Woods.
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Original post, 7:50 a.m. February 5: Skier Lindsey Vonn is one of Colorado's most celebrated athletes -- but she seems to get as much attention for rumors about who she's banging as for victories on the slopes. Not that she doesn't fuel the frenzy. Whispers that she's getting horizontal with golfer Tiger Woods arrive at the same time as Outside magazine has listed her as the most perfect thing on its list of sixty -- a claim enhanced by a pic of her busting out of a bikini. Here's the full cover.
The Outside article that justified this image -- as well as a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot, also included below -- is a wide-ranging opus, juxtaposing discussions of her skiing accomplishments about personal-life details, including her 2011 divorce, which is now final.
Even before she was officially on the market, the grapevine suggested that Tim Tebow had helped break up Vonn's marriage -- a claim she took to Twitter to deny. But she's not exactly slapping down suggestions that she and Woods are an item. In a press conference for the Alpine world championships in Austria, which get underway today, she giggled while replying, "Oh, my God! I don't know -- you should ask him."
Tiger does seem to have a thing for Nordic-looking blonds....
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Venus, the super Yacht that the late Steve Jobs was working on with French designer Philippe Stark has supposedly been impounded in a Dutch harbor because of a payment dispute between the Job?s family and Mr Starck.
Port of Amsterdam spokesman Jeroen Ranzijn confirmed the boat has been in the harbor since Dec. 8, and won't leave until the civil dispute is resolved ? possibly as early later Friday. "It was actually ready to continue its voyage when there was a dispute between two parties, including the heirs, and one party laid a claim on the boat," said Ranzijn. He said the dispute may be resolved shortly.
The supposed dispute is purely a financial one and is said to involve a lower than expected payment to Philippe Starck. His original fees were thought to be in the region of ?9 million ($11.8 million) but as the completed Yacht cost much less than originally thought, Starcks fees were supposedly reduced to ?6 million ($7.9 million).
The Yacht cost a total of ?105 million ($138 million) to complete so the dispute is really over small change and shouldn't take too long to resolve. The Yacht was finally completed this year and is unsurprisingly like an Apple Store taken float, with an aluminum exterior measuring 80 meters long that -- you guessed it -- makes it lighter than other yachts in its class. The design is minimalist, with teak decks and floor-to-ceiling glass, and 7 iMacs are front and center in the wheelhouse.
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(AP) — Illinois will end 2013 with $7.6 billion in unpaid bills, a 15 percent reduction from a year earlier, officials said Monday.
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka had estimated the backlog would be closer to the $9 billion owed at the end of 2012. But an unexpected $1.3 billion infusion of tax receipts last spring helped, the Rockford Register-Star reported.
The newspaper's story is part of GateHouse newspapers' series on Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills.
Still, 2014 doesn't promise to bring much relief. For years, not-for-profits and other state contractors have come to count on faster payment in the spring when tax revenues are strong, but they expect to wait longer in the winter months when revenues have slowed and money has been spent for other budget matters.
"That's been the discernible pattern now for several years, and it's not changing this year," said Steven Langley, chief executive officer of Stepping Stones, a housing and treatment center for clients with severe behavior and mental health issues.
Some might expect relief now that lawmakers finally adopted a plan for reforming the way government employees are provided retirement pensions. The package approved this month would cut benefits and ensure government pays its fair share to save $160 million over 30 years.
But it doesn't take effect until next year, and any savings wouldn't be realized for several years down the road. And before it can even take effect, retired teachers and other educators have filed a lawsuit challenging the measure's constitutionality.
"There are simply too many unknowns right now," Topinka spokesman Brad Hahn said.
Organizations such as Stepping Stones in the meantime are preparing for a switch to managed-care programs for Medicaid clients. Instead of billing the state for Medicaid-covered services, they will send invoices to a for-profit managed-care company and expect payment within a month.
"That would take a lot of stress off us," Langley said.
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Federal agency managers looking to recruit and hire quality candidates can now do so more quickly and inexpensively in the cloud.
Lockheed Martin and NGA.NET are offering StaffAcq360, a cloud-hosted recruiting and hiring system for federal agencies. Developed by Lockheed Martin, StaffAcq360 uses NGA.NET's eRecruit talent acquisition system and is available as a software-as-service subscription from Lockheed. The solution runs behind a secure firewall in Lockheed Martin's Federal Information Security Management Act-compliant cloud, the company said in a release.
Currently, organizations purchase and use the majority of recruiting and hiring technologies separately, which increases cost, manual effort and chance of error, company officials said. Because StaffAcq360 is integrated, it reduces these issues, they said.
Through a Web portal, agency managers will be able to improve their organizations' recruitment process by having access to advanced tools and enhanced reporting, search, security, selection and onboarding capabilities.
Lockheed Martin is the federal government's largest provider of human resources systems and services, said Elmer Nelson, director of human capital solutions at Lockheed's Information Systems & Global Solutions division. As a result, the company is able to apply its experience supporting approximately 2 million federal and uniformed personnel to StaffAcq360, he said. Driven by big data and social networks, cloud-based recruitment and hiring solutions offer organizations a new dimension of data intelligence mining, allowing companies to achieve a deeper understanding of current and potential candidates, according to an article in Wired.
Oracle, another company with a heavy presence in government agencies, also offers a set of cloud-based human capital applications. For instance, the Oracle Taleo Cloud Service lets managers recruit talented workers and align those talents to meet mission goals as well as collect relevant information throughout an employee's entire lifecycle.
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Today was a big day at the Federal Reserve.First the scoreboard:
Dow: 13,245, -2.9, -0.0 per cent
S&P 500: 1,428, +0.6, +0.0 per cent
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- All eyes were on the Federal Reserve today, which wrapped up its two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting and published its monetary policy statement. Stocks were flat ahead of the announcement, surged right after the announcement, and fell back to break-even by the end of the trading session.
- The big announcement: The Fed is now employing quantitative thresholds to guide monetary policy. This is also known as the "Evans rule" after Chicago Fed President Charles Evans who first proposed it. Specifically, the Fed now plans to keep interest rates "exceptionally low" as long as inflation is at or below 2.5 per cent and the unemployment rate is above 6.5 per cent.
- The Fed also announced that it would purchase up to $45 billion worth of Treasury securities monthly in its efforts to keep interest rates low. This is also being referred to as quantitative easing, or QE4.
- The FOMC also cut its U.S. GDP growth forecast ranges for 2012 through 2014. Most Fed officials expect rates to stay near-zero until 2015.
- During his press conference today, Bernanke said the 6.5 per cent unemployment threshold should not be confused with the Fed's long-run unemployment target which is 5.2-6.0 per cent. He also made clear that the new program does not mean the Fed is on "autopilot," meaning that breaching the quantitative thresholds wouldn't automatically trigger tighter policy.
- Bernanke also stressed that monetary policy has its limits. He noted that "Clearly, the fiscal cliff is having effects on the economy." Also, he warned that if we go over the fiscal cliff, "I don't think the Fed has the tools to offset that event."
- Regarding the fiscal cliff, we still have no deal. "Don't make plans for Christmas," said House Speaker John Boehner.
- JP Morgan's top strategist Tom Lee doesn't think the market will be too pleased with this ongoing uncertainty. In his new 2013 outlook, he forecasts the S&P 500 falling to 1,400 in the middle of 2013 before rallying to 1,580 by year-end.
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Cops in Sammamish, Washington, are super pissed after being sent to a home here by a 911 call claiming someone inside had claymore mines and hostages. The caller turns out to be a prick seeking revenge on an Xbox Live moderator.
Rolling Johnny Law up to someone's doorstep just to cause them trouble is called "swatting", apparently, and the FBI is tracking about 100 such cases of it nationwide. It has ties to video gaming, as well, already happening in Oregon and Florida to people who got into Xbox Live arguments with extra-antisocial bastards instead of just the regular-strength ones.
In this case, it happens that the victim works for Xbox Live, and told police his job was to "catch and shut down hackers."
Evidently he dun goofed at some point and so that's why last month (this has just now come to light) Sammamish police got several emergency 911 text messages around 4 in the morning claiming that "two armed Russian males" had broken into a home, "shot my son ... and they have Claymore mines". The texts also warned of a "flashing red device" in the home.
LOL, say you, how could the cops take that seriously? Cops take everything seriously, it's partly why they have all that cool battle gear. About half-a-dozen police cars went screaming to the door with guns drawn before the homeowner, rousted from sleep, came out and calmed everything down.
The Sammamish police chief believes the griefer hacked into a 911 text messaging service to pull off the stunt, and he's furious. "We have officers responding lights and sirens to a call they think is an emergency in progress and they get there only to find out it's a hoax," he said.
Note to hackers/griefers/griefackers: Washington's legislature is working on a bill to make harassing a 911 operator, which includes swatting, a crime. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Wash.
Hacker's Hoax Leads Police to Swarm Xbox Live Employee's Home[KOMO-TV — h/t Jesse]