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Oh, there's a quarterback competition, of course. There will be headlines generated by some sort of locker room drama, either real or contrived or somewhere in between. Rex Ryan will say something -- he always does, right? -- and the Jets remain likelier than the Giants to dominate the back pages of the New York tabloids and sports talk radio.
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But on the field? Expectations couldn't be lower. Will they win six games? Four? Would a .500 record represent a football miracle? Bottom line: Does this group even have a chance?
The overwhelming answer to that last question seems to be no. At least outside the confines of 1 Jets Drive. And, for the better part of the next three weeks, SUNY Cortland.
So, as they reported to training camp Thursday, what did the Jets have to say about all of this? How did they respond to their naysayers?
The answers: nothing, and they didn't.
"It honestly doesn't affect what we do here," said quarterback Mark Sanchez, who will have to hold off rookie Geno Smith to keep his job. Sanchez added, "The outside expectations don't bother us at all."
Said cornerback Antonio Cromartie: "You can't worry about what everyone expects and what people think on the outside. It's about us and only about us."
For the record, Sanchez spoke in his usual even tones, with an occasional smile and while wearing the ever-present headband. A grinning Cromartie could not have seemed more content.
A year ago, the Jets would have handled this differently. Someone -- the now-departed Bart Scott would be the prime guess -- would have either predicted, loudly, that the critics would eat crow or would have illustrated his disdain for the media by refusing to talk at all.
This year is different. Where outsiders see a season likely headed for doom, these Jets are embracing opportunity. Where some see certain defeat, Rex Ryan and his players are highlighting competition. As Ryan noted Thursday, the Jets might have as many as 13 new starters, including perhaps eight on defense.
Essentially, the Jets have posted the equivalent of a "Help Wanted" sign, and everyone in the locker room should know it.
There is, Ryan said, "a great chance here. Is there really a player on this team that has no chance of being on the (53-man roster) or developmental squad? I don't think there is."
He added: "I don't know if there is ever going to (be) more competition than we're going to have this training camp."
There are plenty of jobs to be won, and there are players on the inside track for some of them. Chris Ivory was an expendable running back for the New Orleans Saints, who traded him to the Jets in April. He'll battle for carries with Joe McKnight (who finally passed his conditioning test Friday), Bilal Powell and possibly Mike Goodson, who hasn't reported because of issues that are, apparently, in addition to his legal troubles.
Veteran Braylon Edwards, who was just signed, said he intends to start and believes the Jets "definitely" have playoff potential. He should help a receiving corps that failed to make even routine catches in the spring, is led by Jeremy Kerley and remains without Santonio Holmes, not yet cleared to practice (foot surgery).
This is Edwards' third stint as a Jet and he's been reunited with Kellen Winslow; the two once did nearly 2,400 receiving yards of damage with the Browns. In 2007.
"Here we are again," Edwards said, "with another chance to make some magic."
And then there's the defense, where Ryan is also trying to rework his magic with a group that has more youth, speed and versatility than in years past. It is also long on inexperience and can no longer count on Darrelle Revis, upon whom the Jets schemes were heavily dependent.
Ryan is trying to turn defensive lineman Quinton Coples into an outside linebacker, a scenario the 2012 first-round draft pick has embraced: "It's a great opportunity for me to showcase my talents."
And Ryan is trying to turn a group of young players into a defense that can overcome what are almost certain to be offensive shortcomings, even as offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg represents a considerable upgrade from Tony Sparano. (The Jets have lost 13 of their past 19 games. In 12 of the 13 losses, they have failed to score 20 points.)
Rookie Sheldon Richardson, the No. 13 overall pick, should start along the line, or contribute a lot. Fellow first-rounder Dee Milliner is expected to start opposite Cromartie, filling the Revis void. Milliner, taken ninth overall, has yet to agree to a contract and did not report Thursday, which Ryan said "disappointed" him.
The defense, ultimately, might be led by second-year linebacker DeMario Davis, the heavy favorite to replace Scott.
"It's not just an opportunity," Davis said. "It's a tremendous opportunity."
Davis doesn't run from the comparison. "I don't have to try to be that," he said. "It's who I am as a leader."
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Coaches, he added, want him to be more vocal with teammates, more energetic on the field. It's an adjustment Davis said he feels comfortable making in his second season.
"The coaches are counting on me not just to be a solid starter," he said, "but to be a dominant force in this league."
There was nothing boisterous about Davis' demeanor. He was speaking quietly, to an audience of one. It was as if he truly believes.
Maybe that is what the Jets need right now. It's still July. They'd better believe in themselves. Outside expectations be darned.


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Study didn't look at type of programming or possible effect on kidsMonday, April 14, 2014
MONDAY, April 14, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Fussy and demanding babies are likely to spend slightly more time plopped in front of a TV or computer screen when they're toddlers than are "easier" babies, new research finds.
It's not clear just what this finding means. Parents could be trying to get a break from their high-maintenance children, or the kids could be naturally drawn to screens. The study didn't explore what the kids were watching, so it's not clear if those extra minutes of "screen time" -- an average of nine minutes a day -- were harmful, beneficial or somewhere in between.
But the main finding is still intriguing, said study lead author Dr. Jenny Radesky, a fellow with the department of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. "The children who really had difficulties with regulating their emotions, calming themselves down and sleeping well wound up watching significantly more media when they were toddlers," she said.
Radesky launched the study to better understand young children, like her own, who can be fussy and difficult. "I know how stressful that can be as a parenting experience for new parents," she said.
It may not be temporary, Radesky said. High-maintenance kids can grow up into high-maintenance adults who have a hard time coping with life and its challenges, she said.
But it's not clear how much being fussy and irritable -- at age 2 or age 52 -- has to do with genes and how much has to do with nurture and other factors. And being demanding isn't necessarily a universally bad trait for an adult. It could, for example, make someone a fine CEO.
Radesky also wanted to explore the issue of "screen time" -- sitting in front of a computer monitor or TV screen.
She and her colleagues pulled statistics from surveys of parents of 7,450 kids who were born in 2001 and tracked for a couple of years. At the age of 9 months, 39 percent were deemed to have moderate or severe problems with so-called "self-regulation," suggesting they're generally fussier, moodier and more irritable and demanding than the other kids.
These children looked at screens an average of 2 hours and 29 minutes a day, according to their parents, nine minutes more than the average level of "screen time" for the other kids.
Some of the parents might not have accurately reported how much screen time their kids got, so the numbers could be wrong. The study is also a bit out of date when it comes to the evolution of screen time: Parents were surveyed before the dawn of iPads and smartphones.
In general, researchers frown on exposing kids of any age to a lot of screen time. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 not watch any TV "or other entertainment media" because they learn best by interacting with people.
Of course, many parents don't follow those guidelines because they want to occupy their children so they can work, do chores or simply relax.
Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University, praised the study and pointed to a potential risk from using TV as a way to distract troublesome kids.
At issue, he said, is whether the child is learning a valuable way to cope. "We all use the media as a coping strategy. You have a hard day at work, and you just want to flop in front of the TV. But distraction is a low-level problem-solving strategy. What if that's the only skill you've got?"
Gentile acknowledged that questions remain. For example, he said, researchers haven't determined if screen time might actually make fussy and demanding kids even more fussy and demanding.
In a second study in the same journal, researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the Harvard School of Public Health found an association between more TV viewing/having a TV in the bedroom in early childhood and shorter sleep, especially among minority children.
What's next for research? Radesky said a study to be released soon will shed light on what kids are actually watching when they get "screen time." The current study doesn't examine the content of programming, meaning there's no way to know if it's educational.
"I really want to know if this is a good thing," she said. "Are parents getting a break from their more intense children by putting [them] in front of educational media? Or is it worse because they're missing out on more educational activities?"
The study was published online April 14 and appears in the May issue of the journal Pediatrics.
SOURCES: Jenny Radesky, M.D., fellow, department of pediatrics, Boston Medical Center; Douglas Gentile, Ph.D., associate professor, psychology, Iowa State University, Ames; May 2014, Pediatrics
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I personally like the Malfurion costume, I think one of the many Pandaren costumes have a good chance of winning though.
This year cosplay is awesome! It's gona be hard chosing a winner
5 minutes for the contests to start! for what I can see from the photo gallery, it´s gonna be a blast of a contest! I always have loved the dance and costume ones, so let's see what's about the new talent contest. All the luck in the world to the contestants! Go for it!
awsome pics,looks like every one is having a great time,wished I was there!
Awesome costumes! These guys put a lot of work into them, I love the target dummy costume. LOL
I hope one of the pandas wins
A good sleeper would be the Sarah Kerrigan in the white/blue Ghost armor suit. The hair is near perfect, and her face makes her an absolute dead ringer for the actual, animated Kerrigan (pre-Zerg infestation).
wow, they looks awesom
Going to be a tough one to judge this year, some AMAZING costumes. Although the training dummy did make me laugh
Wow, there are some pretty good ones!
There are some pretty cool transmogs out there, while i don't really like the character, that Magda cosplay is amazing!
They all look so swesome
i like the walrus guy lol
Far too many pandas in the mix for my tastes, but that Barbarian and Herod are pretty good looking.
I forget sometimes Blizz has more games than WoW, I have no idea what half those costumes are :D I like the armor replica ones. I saw a couple really cool ones but I don't know what they are, so I can't point them out :(
Oh wow, such impressive costumes this year. Some of those are downright menacing and brownie points to the ones who stuck a pose (in character). It makes you wonder how well some of those could see things through their full facial hoods, etc. Hard to pick a winner, there were too many stand-outs.
Wow, great job by everyone! So much time and effort put into all of these, really awesome! Can't wait to see the winner! Best of luck <3
Looking like there's some pretty decent costumes.Quite a few pandaren, but hey ho.That zerg is amazing, guessing that's going be 1st, 2nd or 3rd place winner.The training dummy made me laugh as well, hope that gets a good place.
The death knight with Sulfuras and Thunderfury!
Those people who made costumes for cos-play are to be commended for their attention to detail and time that they took to make their outfits. I cannot pick one as my favorite, everyone is just AWESOME! Thanks for taking these pictures and sharing them with us.


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The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine of Hope College will continue at Mary Free Bed Hospital in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. with a look at hip pain.
Dr. Steve Andriese, who is a physician in private practice in Grand Rapids, will present "Evaluation and Treatment of Hip Pain in Athletes" at the hospital, located at 235 Wealthy S.E. in Grand Rapids.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
According to Andriese, there is a fair amount of overlap between hip pain in athletes and that of the general population, particularly with more people engaging in activities such as running, cycling, basketball or soccer into their later years. Such pain, he noted, can be a result of repetitive movement in fitness activities and athletics, and can also result from problems originating in areas other than the hip itself, such as the spine or leg. For health care practitioners involved in treating hip pain, he said, the primary goals should be optimizing biomechanics, rehabilitation and conditioning.
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine, which features a variety of topics, is designed for health care professionals with an interest in physically active patients, and is intended for students, educators and clinicians alike. It is co-sponsored by Shoreline Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic Associates of Grand Rapids, GRSportsCenter and the college.
All lectures in the series begin at 7 p.m., and will be presented either at the college or at Mary Free Bed Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Additional information about the Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine may be found online at https://hope.edu/academic/kinesiology/athtrain/ dlssm/index.html


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What goes up must come down: Shares in Tokyo fell almost 2% on Monday, continuing to erase last year's runaway gains.
The benchmark Nikkei has tumbled 10.3% so far this year. That means the index is now undergoing a correction, after posting a whopping 57% gain in 2013 -- its biggest annual rise in over 40 years.
Related story: Can stocks shake off January jitters?
Market sentiment has become shaky as investors pull out of emerging markets now that the Fed has started to scale back its bond buying program. That has boosted the yen, as some investors look to relocate their money in traditional safe havens.
The currency has gained more than 3% against the dollar since hitting a 5-year low of 105.4 last month. That's bad news for Japanese shares as it makes it more challenging for exporters to sell goods.
On top of that, emerging markets are facing a grab bag of political risks. Over the weekend, ongoing political protests stalled elections in Thailand.
Related: Worst still to come for Fragile Five
Growing worries of an economic slowdown in China -- exacerbated by weakness in the manufacturing sector -- have added to investor concerns.
Local issues may also be contributing. Aggressive monetary policy and additional government spending have begun to lift Japan out of 15 years of stagnation, but investors want to see Prime Minister Shinzo Abe deliver promised economic reforms.
Growth has picked up, although a surprise slowdown in the third quarter of last year served as a warning that without major reforms, the early success could fade. And inflation is still only half the central bank's 2% target.


text: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) might be cast into doubt\u00a0in the wake of a Department of Defense announcement last week that as many as 1,000 defense contractors -- and possibly thousands more -- may voluntarily join an expanded program of sharing classified information on cyber threats with the federal government.The program, known as the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Security\/Information Assurance, or DIB CS\/IA, has been in a pilot phase for the past four years with only 37 contractors. The expansion, recently approved by the Obama administration, means about 8,000 contractors cleared to work with DoD intellectual property are being invited to participate.Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that if this expansion "proves successful in safeguarding defense contractors from cyber attacks, the administration may enlarge the program to companies in 15 other critical infrastructure categories through the Department of Homeland Security," Eric Rosenbach, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, said.This, if it works as expected, could prompt those arguing over CISPA, recently passed by the U.S. House, along with other similar pending legislation in Congress, to wonder how necessary it all is. Why mandate information sharing with the government if it can happen voluntarily?[See also:\u00a0CISPA enjoys wide backing from enterprises]Jason Healey, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Washington, D.C. think tank Atlantic Council, says while "there absolutely are similarities" between DIB and the various legislative efforts, that there are "lots of other bits" in those bills -- such as mandatory security standards. "Some legislation is necessary," he says.Dan Philpott, an expert in federal cybersecurity and editor of FISMApedia, says DIB CS\/IA is "a much lighter version" of CISPA. He says another reason the program could not replace cybersecurity law is because it is unlikely that anything close to 8,000 contractors will volunteer to enter it. He believes the DoD is being optimistic even with an estimate of 1,000. "I think they'd be happy with 500," he says.Beyond that, there is debate over how worthwhile and effective DIB CS\/IA has been and will be. There is broad agreement that the threat of cyberattacks is increasing at "a rapid and accelerating rate," in the words of Rear Admiral Samuel Cox, director of intelligence for the military's Cyber Command, at a forum last month.And the goal of the DIB expansion is for more sharing of data between private defense contractors and the DoD's intelligence-gathering arm, the National Security Agency. Richard A. Hale, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity, told the American Forces Press Service, "We started the program in an attempt to share cyber-threat data with these companies in a way that allowed the companies to act on that information immediately," and called it, "an important step forward in our ability to catch up with widespread cyber threats."But Healey, speaking to Reuters last week, expressed some skepticism about whether the benefits of DIB CS\/IA would be worth the cost to contractors. "The DIB pilot probably increases the defenders' work factor much more than it increases the attackers," he said. "This is a lot of work and a lot of taxpayer dollars for something that has apparently not proven it can increase security more than on the margins."Healey says he is "very pleased to see DoD saying they could scale this to 8,000 companies." But he still thinks the department could be much more efficient in its dealings with private industry.In an article in The Atlantic, Healey argues that the NSA should simply declassify much of its database of malware "signatures."While he acknowledges that critics will argue that such action would, "compromise our sensitive collection sources and methods. [But] in truth, the extreme classification surrounding most of these signatures protect little but bureaucratic inertia. General Michael Hayden, a past NSA director, made this case best, saying, 'Let me be clear: This stuff is overprotected.'""More importantly, the Internet is an open network and any adversary that uses novel malicious software knows it will eventually be discovered," he said.Philpott adds that in the information security community, "signature-based security is becoming kind of looked down on. It's inherently weak because only identifies things that have already happened."Healey writes in The Atlantic that NSA's signature database, while "considered among the crown jewels of the U.S. government's defense capabilities ... may not be as awe-inspiring as advertised." He adds: "And independent review found only marginal benefit" to contractors like Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin."Only 1% of the attacks were detected using NSA threat data that the companies did not already have themselves," Healey says.He argues that a more effective system would be an "independent clearinghouse for signatures. NSA might anonymously add its signatures ... and further wash their source by mixing them with signatures from security companies and even with other nations' intelligence agencies.""This option would create the world's best-ever signature database ... and any organization that contributes their signature collection would then able to use the full database," Healey says.


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CAN – Mission Statement
Find resources on how to build community at work and beyond, plus find links for support services here.
United through diversity… it is our mission to:
- Strengthen our Local Unions and the level of service to the members within our Local Unions by building on the principles of commitment, respect, justice and equality for all our members, while representing and supporting the multiculturalism and diversity of our membership.
- Continue reaching out to and building relationships with organizations and community groups that share Locals' 175 & 633 values and commitment to our members' participation in and contributions to their communities outside the workplace for the betterment of all our members' lives and our Local Unions.
- Work jointly with community groups and organizations to educate members, stewards and staff about circumstances and issues that affect our diverse membership and help them develop as community leaders to improve the everyday lives of their co-workers and communities.
The Community Action Network (CAN) celebrates the diversity and multiculturalism of the Local's members. President Shawn Haggerty is dedicated to embracing the many unique cultures that make up our Union. Throughout the year, CAN organizes and sponsors a wide variety of events and programs to highlight the communities of our members.
Many of our members are new to Canada and we understand the challenges and difficulties they may experience. Members may not be aware of the labour laws in place to protect them and their right to unionize. We are committed to educating members on their rights in the workplace, as well as providing information about settling in Canada.


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Does anyone know how to disable SNMP on a netgear FWAG114.
I am trying to configure the netgear FWAG114, and it looks like the SNMP is running but I cannot disable it anywhere in the configuration options. I searched through the manual and nothing is said about SNMP.
On the other hand when I run Solar winds IP network Browser on my laptop to query network device information I get a nice list of all of the snmp related info about the netgear router. I do not want to display this to thewireless user connected to the router.
Interesting thing is that nmap UDP scan does not show anything running on SNMP port (UDP161). Could this be because the netgear is configured to drop ICMPs by default?


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The more we learn about ecosystems, the more obvious it becomes that we won't save the Earth until we admit that our planet is a giant, incredibly complex machine that can be programmed. And, with enough study, it can be reprogrammed, too.
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One of the things I find irritating about some environmentalist rhetoric is the oft-repeated idea that nature is the opposite of a machine. On the contrary, our natural environments seem to behave very much like devices with interchangeable parts, whose inputs result in predictable outputs.
Take, for example, the story of the monarch butterfly. This is a beautiful orange and black insect whose wings fold into gently curved triangles when they alight. Native to the Americas, monarchs travel on an annual migration through Canada, the United States and Mexico, pausing along the way to gather in enormous flocks of tens of thousands of butterflies. They gather in such incredible numbers that trees appear to be draped in orange-and-black leaves, which upon closer examination resolve themselves into fluttering wings.
Photo by Alex Wild
This season, however, the great monarch migration to Mexico has become a shadow of its former self. Hundreds of thousands of butterflies used to descend on the cool mountains of central Mexico, but last year only 60,000 came. This year only 3000 arrived, a week late. Environmental scientists are warning that the insects may be headed rapidly for extinction. What happened?
Think of the monarch butterflies' population as the output of a machine process that has gone wrong. To understand that process, scientists have had to observe the butterflies and their environments for decades. It was only in the 1970s when Canadian entomologists Fred and Nora Urquhart discovered something incredible about these butterflies. Their migration spans 3 to 4 generations, with each new generation completing only part of the circuit between Canada and Mexico.
The butterflies who begin this incredible cross-continental migration in Canada will never make it back – only their great-grandchildren will.
Along the migration route, each generation settles in a preferred egg-laying area full of milkweed, which is the only kind of plant their larvae can eat. In a sense, these animals are living out the scenario that so many science fiction writers have imagined in stories of generation ships. Each cohort goes on a journey from which they will never return home. But their offspring will eventually complete this dramatic quest.
What anchors this epic flight is the environment. Specifically, the butterflies require milkweed, without which they cannot return to their ancestral homes because they can't reproduce. Unfortunately, as its name implies, milkweed is a weed. As farms grow and humans take over formerly wild habitats, they destroy the milkweed that is part of the monarch's lifecycle.
Now, with very little milkweed, the monarch migration grows thin. These animals are suffering from a famine. Put another way, the process that produces their population has been perturbed. Milkweed is an input into this process; humans are an input; and all of the plants that make up agriculture are an input.
This year, the ancient process that produced large populations of monarchs has many new inputs. Not surprisingly, the output is different from what we saw historically.
Photo via US Fish and Wildlife Service
The beautiful and frustrating part about the machine that is our planet is that every output is also an input. Monarchs help fertilize plants, and when there are very few monarchs, those plants cannot reproduce. Monarchs also provide food for birds, which means that the monarch famine becomes a bird famine. Eventually this famine will get passed along to humans – especially when you consider that monarchs are just one of many insects whose populations are under threat. Bees, which pollinate a number of plants humans eat for food, are also suffering low population numbers.
This input/output model of understanding the environment also applies to climate. If you input carbon to our environmental system, temperatures go up and oceans become more acidic. Here, the carbon is the input while temperatures and ocean acidity are outputs.
Those outputs are inputs too, because temperature and acidity affect how many animals and plants develop. Shellfish, for example, have a difficult time finding the calcium necessary to build their shells in a highly acidic environment.
Once you realize that nature behaves like a machine, it becomes obvious that even small changes to an ecosystem can have dramatic downstream effects. It's sort of like changing one line of code in a computer program – maybe that line of code does nothing; but maybe it causes your process to crash. Maybe it leaves your entire application vulnerable to being infected by a virus.
The good news is that we are understanding how to program our planet better and better every day. Field biologists, botanists, and even paleontologists are breaking ecosystems down into their component processes, trying to understand the relationships between inputs and outputs. Microbiologists are trying to figure out how bacteria contribute to wetlands health, while forestry experts are figuring out how trees affect carbon loading in the atmosphere.
But the big question is when we should start trying to reprogram the Earth, to avoid disasters like famine and unwanted climate change.
When I say "reprogram," I don't mean building giant geo-engineering machines that suck in carbon and poop out oxygen — though that would be nice. I mean doing things like planting milkweed at the edge of your farm, so that the monarchs can survive. Or, to reduce carbon inputs, we might use a system called enhanced weathering, where we harness the planet's natural geological processes to increase the alkalinity of the ocean.
As I said earlier, nature is not the opposite of a machine. In fact, our best hope may be learning how this machine works so that we can be its very best mechanics.
Annalee Newitz is the editor-in-chief of io9, and the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.


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SAN JOSE, CA – 28 May, 2017 – Northern California chess instructor Chris Torres is celebrating his 20th anniversary teaching chess this summer. Two decades of experience have transformed Chris's summer camps from a small beginner class held in a garage into the must attend event of the summer for many of California's most successful youth chess players. To celebrate his 20 years of success, the Torres Chess and Music Academy is offering its San Jose summer camp at 1997 prices!
Twenty years ago, Chris Torres decided to leave a promising career at a legendary Silicon Valley company in order to combine his passions for chess and teaching. At just nineteen years of age, this change of occupation seemed unwise to many of Chris's closest friends and family. Though after just one year of teaching chess professionally, Chris Torres' teaching services were in high demand based on the outstanding results of his first crop of students.
The Torres Chess and Music Academy was established in 2005 in order to meet the growing demand for quality chess and music lessons in the Bay Area. That year, the TCAMA established several popular after school programs, weekend chess clubs, tournaments and summer camps. As word spread, these scholastic chess clubs and events quickly grew in size and number. During these periods of growth, Chris Torres regularly collaborated with other top instructors from around the United States in order to keep raising the bar for quality chess instruction in Northern California.
Today the Torres Chess and Music Academy's successful approach is internationally recognized by FIDE (the world chess organization) which listed the TCAMA as an official FIDE Academy. Even with the rise in popularity of scholastic chess all throughout the Golden State, The Torres Chess and Music Academy remains the only California based chess organization to hold this important distinction.
"This summer I will be celebrating 20 years of service as a professional chess instructor. I am thankful to the thousands of families who chose to place their children in my after school programs, tournaments and camps for making this anniversary possible. In recognition of this professional achievement, I have rolled back the prices on our summer camps back to 1997 levels. I look forward to teaching your children this summer and continuing to serve in my current capacity for another 20 years."
The Torres Chess and Music Academy's summer chess camp will meet July 17 to July 27 at St. Timothy's Christian Academy, 5100 Camden Ave, San Jose. The tuition for this camp is only $160/week. For more information on the Torres Chess and Music Academy's summer chess camp in San Jose, California, please visit: www.ChessAndMusic.com
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Petite sweet potato pies lightly sweetened with a ripe banana, a touch of brown sugar and spices, then topped with a light meringue topping – perfect for the Holidays!
My Mom hosts Thanksgiving every year, she wouldn't have it any other way! I usually bring a side dish and an appetizer and my cousin Nina usually brings dessert. My cousin Nina has a baking blog called Ambrosia[1] and she often shares some of her delicious treats with us (those parker house rolls[2] on her blog are dangerous!). She's not just a great baker, she's also very talented in photography, writing, and she just graduated from Columbia University so I put her up to the challenge of creating her first guest post for me and she really came through! Please welcome her and visit her blog if you love to bake.
Hi, everyone! My name is Nina, and I'm the blogger behind Ambrosia[3], a site full of everything you could imagine about creating simple and delicious baked recipes. I'm very excited to be sharing this recipe for mini sweet potato meringue pies. Creating this recipe was something very new to me. I'm no stranger to coming up with creative pie, cookie, and cupcake recipes, but this recipe was a bit different. My blog features traditional style recipes, full of butter, cream, and sugar, so the recipes I share tend to be on the indulgent side. However, this doesn't mean that I'm always thinking about rich foods; on the contrary, I actually care a lot, more than some people know, about eating healthy whole foods. I love being active and over the past several years have grown to love all kinds of exercise, and eating a lot of healthy foods is definitely one of my priorities to help keep my cake and ice cream obsession in check. Fortunately for me, my cousin Gina has been a great resource for coming up with healthy meals! I actually prepared a lot of her recipes while I was living away from home during college, and love it when she asks for taste testers for her new recipes. Who knew that eating healthy could be so easy, and delicious?!
I was pretty excited when Gina asked me to help her come with a perfect dessert for Thanksgiving. There was a catch though: I had to stick to a specific number of points per serving! Yikes! I was up for the challenge though, and immediately knew that I wanted to make pie. Pie is one of my absolute favorite things to make, so I knew that that I wanted to make a skinny pie dessert, and sweet potato pie seemed like a great way to go. To make the pie filling light, I used a trick I saw on many sweet potato casserole recipes. Adding a ripe banana to the sweet potato puree is the secret to keeping this sweet potato pie filling light. Since the banana adds natural sweetness to the sweet potato, it means that you need hardly any additional sugar at all! Rolling out a store-bought pie crust a little bit thinner helps keep the points low, and also makes life a little bit easier. Meringue is naturally fat free, so it was a great way to add a little more sweetness without increasing the points per serving, as well as adding some marshmallow flavor to the sweet potato filling, because who doesn't love that flavor combination? I thought making mini pies would be great for Thanksgiving, because they not only help with portion control, but also looks cute and festive. You can make the pies the day before, top them with the meringue just before serving, and all that's left is arranging them on a pretty platter and digging in. At only 4 points plus per serving, these will go fast! Hope you enjoy!
Mini Sweet Potato Meringue Pies
Servings: 12 • Size: 1 mini pie • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 4 pts
Calories: 136 • Fat: 4 g • Carb: 24 g • Fiber: 1 g • Protein: 2 g • Sugar: 13 g
Sodium: 106 mg (without salt)
For the Pie:
- 1 9-inch Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust*
- 1 1/2 cups sweet potato puree (from 4 [1.8lbs] sweet potatoes) or canned
- 1 medium banana, ripe, mashed
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Meringue:
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- pinch of salt
Begin by preparing the sweet potato puree. Pierce the sweet potatoes all over with a knife, and place in the microwave. Bake the sweet potatoes until they are cooked through and soft, about 8 -10 minutes. Once the sweet potatoes are cool enough to handle, split them down the middle and scoop out the flesh, and add it to a food processor. Process until a smooth puree forms. Set aside 1 1/2 cups of the puree for the pie filling, and reserve any remaining puree for another use.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the pie crust into a 12-inch circle. Using a 3 1/2-inch round cutter, cut out rounds of dough (you will need to gather the scraps and re-roll the dough to the same thickness to get all 12 circles). Gently place each circle into the well of a lightly greased cupcake tin. It's ok if you need to overlap the dough onto itself.
In a bowl, combine the 1 1/2 cups of sweet potato puree, mashed
banana, egg, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla extract.
Use a hand mixer to mix the ingredients together until they are smooth
and well combined. Divide the pie filling equally among the prepared
mini pie shells, and smooth the tops with an offset spatula. Bake the
mini pies for about 32 minutes, until the pie crust is a light golden
brown and the filling is set and puffed slightly. Allow the pies to
cool to room temperature.
Just before serving the pies, prepare the meringue. In a saucepan, combine the sugar and water, and heat, without stirring, until it becomes syrupy and reaches 234° degrees on a candy thermometer. While the syrup is heating, whip the two egg whites until soft peaks form. Once the sugar has reached the correct temperature, drizzle the syrup into the egg whites, all while mixing and turning the speed up to medium high. Beat until stiff peaks form. Beat in the salt.
Transfer the meringue to a piping bag fitted with a decorative tip. Remove the mini pies from the cupcake tin, and place on a baking tray. Pipe a swirl of meringue onto each cupcake (you may not use all of the meringue). Place the tray with the mini pies underneath the broiler set to high for a few minutes. Keep an eye on them as you don't want them to burn! Remove the mini pies from the oven once the meringue is a light golden brown color.
*I used 6.25 oz of the pie crust, and discarded the rest. Nutritional information is based on this.
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Migration Policy Institute
Still an Hourglass?: Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs
Multimedia Tabs
Eduardo Martín Ochoa, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
Anthony P. Carnevale, Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, report co-author
Margie McHugh, Co-Director of MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President
This important MPI report challenges the conventional wisdom about the immigrant workforce, using a sophisticated new method of analysis that permits deeper examination of how workers – immigrant and native-born – fare by economic sector, the skill level of their jobs, and educational attainment. The report, developed with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers detailed findings for the economy as a whole and within key sectors (health care, information technology, construction, and hospitality), tracing workers' progress in the labor market into the recession. The findings hold significant policy implications for the nation's work-preparing institutions and for how they can provide workers with the credentials and language skills necessary to obtain jobs that pay family-sustaining wages.


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- CD player
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- Air Conditioning
- Rear window defroster
- Power driver seat
- Power steering
- Power windows
- Remote keyless entry
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Four wheel independent suspension
- Speed-sensing steering
- Traction control
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes
- ABS brakes
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Emergency communication system
- Front anti-roll bar
- Knee airbag
- Low tire pressure warning
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Rear anti-roll bar
- Brake assist
- Electronic Stability Control
- Exterior Parking Camera Rear
- Delay-off headlights
- Front fog lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- High-Intensity Discharge Headlights
- Panic alarm
- Security system
- Speed control
- Block heater
- Bumpers: body-color
- Power door mirrors
- Spoiler
- Auto-dimming Rear-View mirror
- Compass
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front reading lights
- Illuminated entry
- Outside temperature display
- Overhead console
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Tachometer
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
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The Old Slithy Tove Scoop-And-Slither Routine – February 16, 2011
• Tuesday, January 4 11:13 a.m. An upstairs officer worker in the 400 block of I Street complained that people in the downstairs office are continually smoking pot and cigarettes, the fumes of which waft upstairs and make her office smell like a bar.
8:25 p.m. A perv in a gold Volvo was reported unveiling his disquieting appurtenances in front of children on the Plaza. He then drove off northbound on G Street.
9:19 p.m. After almost smashing into another car and nearly mowing down a pedestrian in the parking lot of a Uniontown shopping center, the driver parked the car and, rather unsteadily, emerged. A witness said he looked intoxicated, which may explain why he then lingered casually next to the car with its alarm blaring, enjoying a bag of potato chips. He then took his leave, swerving east on Seventh Street, where he was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of DUI.
• Thursday, January 6 5:27 a.m. The Post Office is always a handy spot for unplanned interactions, a place for long-time-no-see encounters and spontaneous conversation. On this morning, a man quipped that a passerby was a "fucking tweeker," piquing the man's interest. When the tweeker-designate sought clarification, the accuser responded with subtle body language, rasing a large stick as though to strike the guy. A brief but tawdry struggle over the stick ensued, with the accused tweeker being struck in the leg. This led to an eruption of profane caterwauling and police intervention. The fate of the stick isn't known.
10:27 p.m.
In the Sunny Brae Court known as Beith
Loud drumming sounds rattled the teeth
Of residents there
Who battled the blare
By calling cops in for relief
10:54 p.m. M Street residents were puzzled by a woman who came to their door with accusations of cat theft.
• Friday, January 7 6:47 a.m. A man with missing teeth regaled the east Plaza area with his religious beliefs, then lumbered under the load of his backpack down to the Ball Park. There, he was advised to keep the spirituality to sub-seismic levels.
12:43 p.m. An officer visited the adjoining store and office from which the offensive pot/cigarette miasma had allegedly issued. Personnel there were advised of City smoking regs.
2:28 p.m. A man who had expected a crunchy taco at a Mexican restaurant thought the bolt he found in the filling was taking the concept too far. The restaurant took the bolt back and made him another burrito, and he left the restaurant. Later, when he called back to speak to the manager, he wasn't allowed to. He added that he had been with six other people and that "apparently" bolt-flavored tacos are a house specialty, having been served "numerous times at this location." Police contacted the restaurant manager, who said it was an ongoing problem with this customer, who he said had demanded $3,000 and threatened to kill the workers. The manager didn't want him to come back to the restaurant.
3:34 p.m. Someone called APD to complain about Brian and his "High Schools Are Prisons" sign outside the high school. The caller was reminded about freedom of speech.
4:07 p.m. A K Street resident came home to find a blue pickup truck with the keys in the ignition in her driveway. It had been parked there by the auto shop across the street.
6:08 p.m. A baggy-jeaned, black-booted woman with short black hair entered a Plaza store and made off with a double-stranded silver necklace with a pheasant on it.
6:37 p.m. Unknown subjects gutted and humiliated laundry equipment at an upper H Street apartment building. After extracting the coin box, they disconnected hoses and pulled the machine from the wall.
• Saturday, January 8 4:29 p.m. When a woman put $7 in bills in a change machine at a Westwood laundromat, barely had the quarters dropped when a hoodie-and-sunglasses-bedecked slithy tove variant scooped them up and slithered out the door.
• Sunday, January 9 2:04 a.m. A woman in a striped shirt who used to know the previous tenants demanded entry to a South G Street apartment. Instead, the tenant called police, who arrested her on a public drunkenness charge.
2:56 a.m. A 36-year-old man was found deceased in McKinnon Court.
• Monday, January 10 9:43 a.m. A woman was called by a man claiming to be her grandson who was in jail in Canada. He asked that she wire him $2,800. No.
1:34 p.m. A woman who had a restraining order against another woman went to a public place where the restrained one was. The restrainer went to another part of the facility, but the restrainee and her father reportedly sought her out and told her they were there first, so she had to leave. Shouting and obscenities were deployed.
4:31 p.m. A man allowed a woman and her two teenage daughters to stay at his place for a few weeks. After they left, the man took a call from the mother, who rather ominously stated that she was coming back to "deal with him." She had a key to the door, but not the deadbolt.
7:46 p.m. A man in Valley West noticed a cylindrical object in front of a tenant's door, and picked it up. Inside he found "miscellaneous hardwares" – nuts and bolts embedded in some type of resin material. Police inspected the odd object and deemed it non-bombly, and the man disposed of it.
• Tuesday, January 11 8:29 a.m. Some sort of yellow powder was sprinkled all over a Northtown office.
12:01 p.m. An aggressive shepherd isn't effectively confined by the fence around its yard, and it gets out and runs around free all day. George the cat was recently killed not far away, and posters warning of aggressive dogs are up all around. The owner is said to be "very nice," but also too busy to make a decision about the dog.
2:36 p.m. A debit card was used by someone other than its owner to buy a $470.99 watch from a cable shopping channel.
6:31 p.m. A man in an H Street alley appeared torn between two modes of existence, and alternated between standing up and falling down. One constant provided continuity though – the yelling.
• Wednesday, January 12 12:05 p.m. A skeezy check-cashing business further endeared itself to neighboring businesses by setting up one of those grotesque inflatable dancing doll things in the parking lot, the intent of which is to trigger some latent primal urge to be charged usurious rates for fast access to cash. The visual annoyance, a possible hazard to passersby, was powered by a loud generator that bothered a neighboring business. The out-of-town landlord, acting with lightning responsiveness, promised to send a letter to the money-lending outfit.


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Proliant DL360p G8 Overview
HP ProLiant DL360p Generation 8 (Gen8)
iLO Management Engine NIC connector
4 USB connectors
Power supply bay 2 (Shown populated: Optional Power Supply for Redundant Power)
Standard Features
HP SmartMemory
24 (12 DIMM slots per processor / 4 channels per processor / 3 DIMMs per channel),it
768GB (24 x 32GB@1066MHz)
x 16GB@1333MHz)
HP ROM (Read Only Memory) is now digitally signed using HP's Corporate
Signing Service. This signature is verified before the flash process starts,
reducing accidental programming and preventing malicious efforts to corrupt
system ROM.
HP ROM provides for essential initialization and validation of hardware
components before control is passed to the customer-installed operating
system. The ROM also provides the capability of booting from various fixed
media (HDD, CD-ROM) and removable media (USB), to continue operation to
the operating system.
HP ROM performs very early configuration of the video controller, to
allow monitoring of initialization progress via an attached monitor. If
configuration or hardware errors are discovered during this early phase
of hardware initialization, suitable messages are now displayed on the
connected monitor. Additionally, these configuration or hardware errors
are logged to the Integrated Management Log (IML) to assist in diagnosis.
HP's ProLiant ROM is used to configure the following:
NOTE: For further information, please
refer to HP's RBSU (ROM based setup utility) user guide: www.hp.com/support/rbsu.
8 SFF drive bays total with Optical drive bay
NOTE: Power Specification and Technical Content for supported
power supplies can be found at: https://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14209_na/14209_na.html
NOTE: Mixing of power supplies in the
same server is not supported. All power supplies inside a server must
be exactly the same model. Mixing Gold, Platinum, and Platinum Plus certified
power supplies is not supported.
HP's Common Slot (CS) power supplies allow for commonality of power supplies
across a wide range of ProLiant and Integrity servers, as well as HP Storage
solutions, and are designed to provide the highest power supply efficiency
without degrading system performance. HP CS power supplies are tested
by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and certified through
the ECOS 80 Plus power supply program. HP CS power supply options provide
efficiency ratings of up to 94% (80 Plus Platinum) and are available in
three power output options - 460W, 750W, and 1200W - allowing the customer
to "right-size" a power supply for their specific server configuration.
All HP Common Slot power sources are UL, CE Mark Compliant, hot-plug and
support redundant configurations.
NOTE: Mixing of power supplies
in the same server is not supported. All power supplies must be of the
same output and efficiency rating. If non-matched power supplies are inserted
you will get errors and operation will fail.
HP CS Platinum Plus power supplies are required when enabling HP's Intelligent
Power Discovery (IPD) solution. IPD is the first technology to create
an automated, energy-aware network between IT systems and facilities.
This allows your company to reclaim millions of dollars in wasted power
capacity and downtime costs across data centers. For more information
on HP's IPD solution, go to www.hp.com/go/ipd.
It is highly recommended that you use the HP Power Advisor in defining
the "Right-Size" power supply for your needs. HP Power Advisor
can be accessed at: www.hp.com/go/hppoweradvisor.
NOTE: The 80 PLUS program is a
unique forum that unites electric utilities, the computer industry, and
consumers in an effort to bring energy efficient technology solutions
to the marketplace. 80 Plus independently tests power supply efficiency
and publicly posts the results on 80Plus.org.
Redundant Power: Optional (1+ 1 or n+n redundant)
power supplies can be purchased through power supply option kits (see
Power Supplies for part numbers).
NOTE: Power Specification and
Technical Content for supported power supplies can be found at: https://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14209_na/14209_na.html
Windows Server
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Integrated Matrox G200 video standard
HP iLO 4 On System Management Memory
HP iLO Management Engine is a comprehensive set of embedded management features
supporting the complete lifecycle of the server, from initial deployment, through
ongoing management, to service alerting and remote support. HP iLO Management
Engine comes standard on all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. The HP iLO Management Engine
portfolio includes:
For more information, visit: https://www.hp.com/go/ilo
or HP iLO Management Engine technologies whitepaper
HP Service
Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM) provide a comprehensive
approach to firmware and system software maintenance. Together they provide better
operating stability and ensure maximum uptime. The SPP will be updated at a predictable
cadence, typically coinciding with new HP server hardware launches. By enabling
firmware to be updated online and integrating firmware and system software updates
in one operation, HP SUM and the SPP offer faster updates of individual servers
and dramatically faster updates of entire BladeSystem enclosures. Further improving
system uptime and stability is the fact that HP provides 12 months of support
for each Service Pack for ProLiant release.The user experience around
HP SUM and the SPP has been improved in several ways, starting with the web download.
A single web page provides access to a single download containing both the latest
version of HP SUM and the latest SPP. Optional smaller subsets with only specific
types of servers or specific operating systems are offered to save on download
time. The HP SUM application provides a straightforward, intuitive user interface
that guides the user through the steps of discovery, analyses and update, providing
comprehensive information on available updates, criticality and interdependencies.
This information is also available in reports. By providing the option of multiple
local or shared repositories which can be easily updated from hp.com, HP SUM provides
the tools to optimize stability and consistency throughout the company. While
HP SUM and the SPP recommend the combinations of firmware and system software
that HP has found to be the best practice, the application gives customers the
flexibility to set their own specific baseline. The Service Pack for ProLiant
has been rigorously tested with specific attention for interaction between firmware,
drivers and agents both within the server as well as in interaction with the BladeSystem
enclosure components (Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect). This testing
ensures the highest quality as well as providing the input for HP SUM to deploy
updates taking into account all interdependencies, when determining the correct
updates and order of update deployment.
The Service Pack for ProLiant (which includes HP SUM) can be downloaded from
More information can be found:
Fully functional, capacity-based licenses are available in 4TB,
10TB, and 50TB sizes. For more information and access to the 60-day free trial,
visit: www.hp.com/go/tryVSA
Optional Features
HP Insight Control includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical
Support and Update Service ensuring rapid access to HP support staff and
proactive delivery of software updates. For more information about this
service, see: https://www.hp.com/services/insight.
NOTE: For more information, visit: https://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe
HP Cluster Platforms are specifically engineered, factory-integrated large-scale
ProLiant clusters optimized for High Performance Computing, with a choice of servers,
networks and software. Operating system options include specially priced offerings
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, as well as Microsoft
Windows HPC Server. A Cluster Platform Configurator simplifies ordering. https://www.hp.com/go/clusters.
Whether you need
to solve a specific data protection, archiving, or storage command and control
challenge, or deliver on strategic consolidation, compliance, or continuity initiatives,
look no further than HP storage software. Our storage software helps you reduce
costs, simplify storage infrastructure, protect vital assets and respond faster
to business opportunities.
Storage software that gets the job done:
For more information available Storage Software including QuickSpecs, please
see: www.hp.com/go/storage/software.
HP Insight Online is a new addition to the HP Support Center for one stop,
secure access to product and HP support information personalized to your IT environment.
Insight Online can automatically display devices remotely monitored by HP Insight
Remote Support. With Insight Online's easy navigation you can efficiently track
your IT support contracts and device status from anywhere and at any time. www.hp.com/go/insightonline
Prevent problems with innovative, automated monitoring tools and proactive
services. The HP Proactive Insight experience consist of using Insight Online,
Insight Remote Support, and Proactive Care Support Service as one integrated solution.
The Proactive Insight experience provides you with expert advice and personalized,
cloud-based automated IT support, helping to prevent unplanned down time and solve
problems quickly. For more information, visit: www.hp.com/go/proactiveinsightexperience
HP Factory Express offers configuration, customization, integration and
deployment services for HP servers and storage products. Customers can
choose how their factory solutions are built, tested, integrated, shipped
and deployed.
Factory Express offers service packages for simple configuration, racking,
installation, complex configuration and design services as well as individual
factory services, such as image loading, asset tagging, and custom packaging.
HP products supported through Factory Express include a wide array of
servers and storage: HP Integrity, HP ProLiant, HP ProLiant Server Blades,
HP BladeSystem, HP 9000 servers as well as the MSAxxxx, VA7xxx, EVA, XP,
rackable tape libraries and configurable network switches.
For more information on Factory Express services for your specific server
model please contact your sales representative or go to: https://www.hp.com/go/factory-express.
Service and Support
HP Technology
Services for Industry Standard Servers
Capitalizing on HP ProLiant server
capabilities requires a service partner who understands your increasingly complex
business technology environment. That's why it makes sense to team up with the
people who know HP infrastructure hardware and software best - the experienced
professionals at HP Services. Protect your business beyond warranty
with HP Care Pack ServicesHP Care Pack services offer complete care and
support expertise with committed response choices designed to meet your IT and
business needs. HP Foundation Care services offer scalable reactive support-packages
for HP industry-standard servers and software. You can choose the type and level
of service that is most suitable for your IT and business needs. HP Proactive
Care delivers high levels of system availability through proactive service management
and advanced technical response.
HP Proactive
Care Personalized Support - Environmental Option
The Personalized Support
option provides an assigned Account Support Manager who can bring best practices
from across the industry plus extra technical skills to your IT team. This option
is only available as an add-on to HP Proactive Care Support.HP Proactive
Select ServiceProvides a flexible way to purchase HP best-in-class consultancy
and technical services. You can buy Proactive Select Service Credits when you
purchase your hardware and then use the credits over the next 12 months. https://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA2-3842ENN.pdfAdditional HP Care Pack services can be found at: https://www.hp.com/go/cpc
HP Insight Remote Support provides 24 X 7 remote monitoring, proactive notifications,
and problem resolution. This comes at no additional cost with your HP solution
Learn more about Insight Remote Support https://www.hp.com/go/insightremotesupport
and Insight Online https://www.hp.com/go/insightonline
Insight Remote Support is a prerequisite for Proactive Care.
online support portal with access to information, tools and experts to support
HP business products. Submit support cases online, chat with HP experts, access
support resources or collaborate with peers. Learn more https://www.hp.com/go/hpsc
HP's Support Center Mobile App** allows
you to resolve issues yourself or quickly connect to an agent for live support.
Now, you can get access to personalized IT support anywhere, anytime.
HP Insight
Remote Support and HP Support Center are available at no additional cost with
a HP warranty, HP Care Pack or HP contractual support agreement.
Support Center Mobile App is subject to local availability
HP will provide
HP-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the
hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available
recommended engineering improvements.Parts and components that have reached
their maximum supported lifetime and/or themaximum usage limitations as set
forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, productquick-specs, or the technical
product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these
To learn
more on HP ProLiant servers, please contact your HP sales representative or HP
Authorized ServiceOne Channel Partner. Or visit: https://www.hp.com/services/proliant
Pre-configured Models
Entry Models
Base Models
E5-2600 series Processors,pt
Performance Models
Energy Star Models
Smart Buys
Configuration Information - Factory Integrated Models
NOTE: This section lists some of the steps required to configure a Factory
Integrated Model. To ensure only valid configurations are ordered, HP recommends
the use of an HP approved configurator. Contact your local sales representative
for information on configurable product offerings and requirements.NOTE:
Factory Integrated Models must start with a CTO Server.NOTE: FIO
indicates that this option is only available as a factory installable option.NOTE: All Factory Integrated Models will be populated with sufficient hard
drive blanks based on the number of initial hard drives ordered with the server.
System Fans - 6 (2 additional fans included with second processor)
- 4 Rear, 2 Front, 1 Internal
1 Internal SD slot
On System Server Management
- (HP iLO Management Engine) (embedded)
SID - System Insight Display(Active
Health Indicator)
Power Supply not included - choose from Power Options section
With new options available for Networking solutions and Rack Rail Kits these options
are no longer standard on-board with this Model Part Number. Please see the Networking
and HP Rack Options below for optional required options.
System Fans - 6 (2 additional fans included with second
USB - 4 Rear, 2 Front, 1 Internal
1 Internal SD slot
On System
Server Management Processor - HP iLO 4 (embedded)
SID - System Insight Display(Active
Health Indicator)
Power Supply not included - choose from Power Options section
With new options available for
Networking solutions and Rack Rail Kits these options are no longer standard on-board
with this Model Part Number. Please see the Networking and HP Rack Options below
for optional required options.
System Fans - 6 (2 additional
fans included with second processor)
USB - 4 Rear, 2 Front, 1 Internal
Internal SD slot
On System Server Management Processor - HP iLO 4 (embedded)
- System Insight Display(Active Health Indicator)
Power Supply not included
- choose from Power Options section
With new options available for Networking solutions and Rack Rail Kits these options
are no longer standard on-board with this Model Part Number. Please see the Networking
and HP Rack Options below for optional required options.
Core Options
HP Memory
HP Optical Drives
HP Graphic Options
Additional Options
HP I/O Accelerator Options
PCIe Workload Accelerator Options
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By ETIENNE LEGRAND
Black boys are flailing and we must do more than continue to treat them like defective girls if we are to change the trajectory on which so many of their lives are headed. We need to act quickly on information we already possess about the differences in the ways boys and girls learn and develop. We need to consider more fully the uniqueness of boys' development and the implications for parenting and teaching them, especially given that so many are being reared and taught by women, live in poverty in homes with absent fathers, and in communities with too few positive male images.
It should come as no surprise that under these conditions Black and Latino boys are failing to thrive. They account for 90 percent of young murder victims and perpetrators, and have a 50 percent higher poverty rate than their White and Asian male counterparts. They are two times more likely not to graduate high school — almost guaranteeing the cycle of poverty in which they are born will not be reversed.
According to "A Call For Change," a 2010 study released by Council of Great City Schools, only 12 percent of Black male students are proficient at reading by fourth grade, compared to 38 percent of White males. By eighth grade, proficiency rates fall to 9 percent for Black males and 33 percent for Whites – which isn't great either. Black males are almost twice as likely as White males to drop out of school. While they make up only 5 percent of college enrollment nationally, they represent 36 percent of the prison population.
We have to stop this train wreck and now. These negative trends result in unmet human potential and an economic and social drain on our national productivity. High school dropouts cost taxpayers more than $8 billion annually in public assistance programs like food stamps. While it costs about $14,000 a year to attend community college, we are spending on average $25,000 annually to incarcerate too many young Black men who could become our future teachers, doctors, scientists, labor and business leaders.
Recently, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new program in partnership with philanthropist George Soros aimed at tackling the widespread disparities of Black and Latino males. The "Young Men's Initiative" looks to bridge gaps in education, health, employment and the justice system. The ambitious new program would seemingly overhaul how the city's government interacts with 315,000 disenfranchised Black and Latino males, who are disproportionately undereducated, incarcerated and unemployed.


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30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 2
OK. Step one in spending 30 Days With…Ubuntu Linux is to get Ubuntu Linux installed so I can use it. I have already narrowed it down to Ubuntu, so I don't have to bother with the question of which Linux, but the first question I need to address at this point is how to install it.
First, there is the "scorched Earth, all-in, leave no survivors" installation. That means wiping my computer clean of all traces of Windows and my existing data–formatting my hard drive, and doing a clean, standalone install of Ubuntu Linux. I am only committing to 30 days up front, so this option is too drastic for my taste. I did consider taking an older laptop that isn't my main Windows 7 laptop and setting up my Ubuntu Linux shop there, but I don't want to have to deal with two laptops.
The next option would be to install Ubuntu Linux side by side with Windows in a dual-boot configuration. This option requires making some space on the hard drive so Ubuntu can have its own partition–like emptying out a drawer or two for a girlfriend who is moving in. Well, not only does that endeavor come with some risk of screwing up and losing data, but it also seems like a bigger commitment than I am looking for.
Ubuntu Linux offers a third choice which is perfect for people like me–Windows users who want to install Ubuntu to test it out and see what it's all about. There is an installation utility called Wubi–a cutesy contraction of Windows UBuntu Installer. Wubi lets you install Ubuntu Linux from within Windows as if it were an application, but the result is essentially similar to the dual boot method above. Once installed, you can choose during boot up whether you want to go into the Windows, or Ubuntu OS.
There are some tradeoffs to using a Wubi installation rather than a pure dual-boot. A Wikipedia entry on Wubi explains that hibernation is not supported, and the Ubuntu file system is more vulnerable to hard reboots–like simply powering off the system rather than shutting down properly. If Windows experiences a crash, Ubuntu will not be able to boot until Windows has successfully booted and shut down again, and if Windows can't be booted up, the Ubuntu installation is toast as well. There may also be a slight performance hit.
But, those are tradeoffs I can live with, so Wubi it is!
I downloaded and ran the Wubi.exe file, and it worked as promised. I added a password (and confirmed it), and changed the installation size to 30GB–I figure I have the hard drive space, so better to err on the side of too much than too little. I clicked Install, and it installed pretty much like any other software application, with no indication that I was actually installing an alternate operating system. Once it completed the initial phase of the installation, a reboot was required.
When the system rebooted, it went into the Ubuntu desktop environment to complete the installation. I have to admit–I am impressed. The Ubuntu desktop interface is pretty clean and simple, with a very familiar look and feel for a Windows user like me. Ubuntu had already installed and configured my wireless adapter, and instantly detected the available wireless networks for me to connect to. A wireless network password later, I was connected to the Internet and ready to rock.
The whole process took a matter of minutes. It didn't require me to format or re-partition my hard drive. It didn't require me to understand the inner-workings of Linux. It didn't require anything more than installing any other Windows application, yet I now have Ubuntu Linux installed and up and running.
It was amazingly easy. Impressively so. So much so, that I recommend any of you who are curious at all about Linux to go ahead and try it out yourself. You've got nothing to lose. The Windows security blanket is still right there only a reboot away, and if you don't like Ubuntu you can simply uninstall it from the Windows Control Panel like any other application.
Day 1: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux


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With Ragnar taking over as the new Viking leader upon his brutal deposing of Gabriel Byrne's departed Jarl last episode, perhaps viewers would be afraid that Episode 7, "A King's Ransom" would be taken up with the mechanics of his transition into his new office. Filing paperwork, HR seminars, that sort of thing. No fear, however, as the episode begins with Ragnar Lothbrok already leading another expedition across the sea in Northumbria. Sporting his new head tattoos and with a full three ships packed with warriors, Ragnar, exhibiting his, (and Vikings), signature no-nonsense approach to action, wastes precisely no time getting to the next battle.
Not that Vikings is action-happy, it's just that its economy of storytelling is continually surprising, and entertaining. Whether its Ragnar's healing wounds, Athelstan's grown-in tonsure, or, in this episode, the sudden appearance of the Lagertha's baby bump, which was first mentioned in the closing minutes of the last episode, this expositional shorthand is another refreshingly brisk narrative element in Vikings' storytelling arsenal, and one that enlivens even the non-action scenes.
While Ragnar and his men confidently set up camp on British soil, the action shifts back briefly to their homeland, where Lagertha, now regal and pregnant, is presiding over the courts in her husband's stead. Hearing an adultery case where a husband, not without probable cause, suspects his wife's new baby may be the spawn of the hunky young traveller who shared their bed for a bit, Lagertha draws on the Norse belief system to proclaim that the probable father was, in fact, the god Heimdallr, that the baby is part divine, and that the husband had damned well better not ever harm the child or his mother. It's a great scene for Katheryn Winnick: there's no sense that she doesn't know exactly what she's doing here, and the underlying female solidarity theme is deftly integrated without being oversold. Again-economy of storytelling.
Then we're back in Northumbria, where Ragnar's incursion has thrown King Aelle into a burly, blustering tizzy. Sending his brother Lord Aethelwulf to confront the significantly smaller Viking force leads to yet another stupendous display of British overconfidence, as the supercilious lord, pronouncing the Vikings as "scavengers, little more than beasts" eschews a direct assault and gets utterly routed in the night by the wily Ragnar's band. With their continued ineffectualness in battle, the Northumbrians could be seen as unrealistically feeble, but the show continues to lay out the circumstances of these encounters in such a way as to make sense. There are but few Vikings, they don't have the Britons' armor or weaponry (Rollo marvels at the superiority of the British steel), there's every indication that Aethelwulf, for all his failures here, is a successful commander- it's just that the Brits have simply never seen a people as resolute as these.
The Vikings' goals are singular, and their methods implacable. As the King's conference with his people (who alternately speculate that the Vikings are the devil's emissaries and advise complete capitulation) and the clergy (who pull a Pat Robertson and lay blame on the Brits' inadequate holiness for their misfortune) after news of his brother's disastrous defeat reaches him shows, the Brits' entire world is shattered in the face of an enemy so alien to them as to throw their entire worldview into question. It's in this kind of convincing world-building that Vikings continues to excel.
Speaking of excelling, the episode's two major battle scenes carry on the series' tradition of smartly conceived, impeccably executed action sequences. Additionally, each sequence admirably uses what could be standard action scenes to further illuminate Vikings' protagonist. Before the nighttime raid, Ragnar resists Rollo's typically boneheaded exhortation to make a frontal attack, speaking about evening the odds and smiling that enigmatic Lothbrok smile. And then it's night, and he's leading his men in a slaughter. The same dynamic plays out again when the King tries his ill-advised double-cross, Ragnar mocking Rollo ("Attack, attack, attack- it's all he says"), before waiting for the Brits to fall into some ingenious booby-trapping. In both scenes, we're left in the dark as to just what Ragnar has in mind until he's done it. We're caught as off guard as his enemies and, unlike them, we can just sit back and marvel at his, and the show's, clever economy. You know, without getting an axe in the head.
The best example of this comes when, having captured the King's brother, Ragnar accepts Aelle's invitation to dine and parlay…in the King's stronghold. Rollo speaks for us when he points out that they, Viking prowess notwithstanding, don't stand a chance if the King just decides to have them killed. Cue the Ragnar smile. The ensuing sequence had me actually giggling with admiration and anticipation, and it's all about Travis Fimmel's continued mastery of Ragnar's character. Honestly, I had no idea how this encounter was going to play out, which is a welcome rarity when watching all but my favorite TV series: Ragnar's approach to every dangerous situation thus far has been an inscrutable combination of shrewd planning and balls-out boldness, and this is the biggest test of that strategy so far. Coupled with the high comedy of the Viking/Northumbrian culture clash all through a tensely raucous dinner sequence (Floki stealing every scene, whether admiring the workmanship underneath the dinner tables, or throwing a hilariously sheepish look after he shatters his unfamiliar ceramic plate), I was as riveted here as with either bravura battle scene.
Also coming to the fore this week is Floki's enduring antipathy towards all things Christian. Often relegated to reliable scene-thief, Gustaf Skarsgard's flamboyant madman has flashed to life whenever confronted with the Christian trappings the Vikings encounter. That crests this week when Rollo offers himself up to be baptized as part of King Aelle's negotiations: Of course, Rollo's doing so only because he thinks it will put him in position to challenge his brother, but look at Loki's face while Rollo gets dunked in the river. His shoulders hunched, Floki's eyes burn with hatred. Floki increasingly functions as the avatar for the Norse religion: his visceral hatred of Athelstan's beliefs spring from his understanding of the threat they hold to his people's way of life, and this coming confrontation continues to gnaw at the edges of the drama. Look at the contrast here between Lagertha's view of her religion (as a canny tool for conflict resolution and good governance) and the picture of the Northumbrian court (where Aethelwulf is caught unawares while praying, and where Aelle's court descends into fractious religious squabbling rather than uniting against their imminent threat.) It's not to say Vikings is advocating worship of the Norse gods: It's just that Floki and Lagertha show how a society rooted in a more pragmatic, single-minded pantheon is much, much stronger. Just ask the devout, defeated Aethelwulf, anointed by the victorious, blood-soaked Ragnar with a bloody, mocking baptism of his own.
Stray observations:
The Brits are a booming, blustery bunch. It's a bit much, perhaps, but entertaining nonetheless. I have yet to tire of Ivan Kaye's King Aelle belting out the word "brothaaaaaaaaa!"
How to make Ragnar seem even cooler? Fighting in front of some fire.
Rollo, on the captured Aethelwulf: "Why should he care about his brother?" Ragnar: "Do I not care about mine?" Character development without sacrificing forward momentum. I want to stand up and salute this sort of muscular narrative shorthand.
Both battle scenes rival the beach fight in episode 4 for excitement and storytelling. Each with a unique visual presentation, varying shooting styles (some handheld here, some fire there) and all sold with the cast's uniformly authentic and convincing movements.
I spotted at least two shieldmaidens in the final battle scene. That mysterious promo photo for episode 3 must have been from a deleted scene. Mystery solved.
A very Athelstan-light episode this week. George Blagden makes the most of his brief appearance in the adultery hearing, eyes bright in fascination observing his captors' strange world. His journey appears to come to the fore next week, though.
Floki's position as avatar of anti-Christian thought continues in the raid on the Northumbrian camp, where Lord Athelwulf has taken time before joining the battle to pray in his tent. Floki's decision? Cut the tent ropes, trapping him. Then walk away giggling.
Rollo's is the funniest baptism since Bill Murray's in Ed Wood.
Challenged by Floki over his faux conversion, Rollo goes on Vikings' first berserker rampage, mercilessly and muddily dispatching a half dozen or more wounded British soldiers before screaming, "How many Christians! How many Christians have I killed Floki? Do you think Odin is angry with me now?!" It's Rollo's first truly compelling storyline, and I'm actually looking forward to what Clive Standen does with it.
Ragnar was killing me in this episode, whether offering Aelle's terrified little son a drink, enigmatically playing his hand over the open fire in the King's great hall (a recurring Ragnar move), or casually blowing his nose on Aethelwulf's altar cloth. Best of all is when a soldier, seeing the captive Lord, says, "We did not know the King's brother was alive" and Ragnar playfully pats the bound Aethelwulf on the head. Viking comedy gold.
Apologies if I spelled Aethelwulf incorrectly: IMDb didn't have the cast list up by post time.
Lagertha's tale in Ragnar's absence had some major developments, too. Space precludes going into them further this week, except that her line "All lives are stories" keeps echoing in my head.
A fond goodbye to elderly warrior Torstein, who finally got what he wanted, with his leader on hand to grant him a smiling, silent benediction. He died well.


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I commissioned an oil painting of Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs
There's something deliciously appropriate about using a painting cloning service to clone a photograph of some cloned dogs.
"Did you just order an oil painting of Barbra Streisand's dogs?" is the most Simon and Natalie thing ever.
Although this comes close:
I took it to the framing store and asked if they could do something with "an air of existential dread"… and they nailed it too!


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SEATTLE (AP) — All those who were missing after an avalanche Sunday near a popular ski resort in Washington state have been accounted for, and the total number of people killed remains at three, a resort official said.
John Gifford, general manager at the Stevens Pass ski area, says he's unsure how many people were caught up in the slide, or whether there were additional injuries. But he said the death toll remains at three.
The King County Sheriff's Office earlier said as many as eight people were missing after the avalanche.
Sgt. Cindi West said her office began receiving word about the slide just after noon. Stevens Pass is in the Cascade Mountains, about 80 miles northeast of Seattle.
The avalanche occurred in an out-of-bounds area on the back side of the resort.
The Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center on Sunday issued a warning for high avalanche danger for areas above 5,000 feet, saying warmer weather could loosen surface snow and trigger a slide on steeper slopes. The elevation of the avalanche wasn't immediately clear.
At mid-afternoon, the temperate at the base of the ski resort was 24 degrees, with light winds and good visibility. The temperature at the top of the mountain was 22 degrees, according to the resort's website.
John Gifford, the ski area's general manager, said the resort has received 19 inches of snow in the past 24 hours. However, he said it wasn't snowing there Sunday afternoon, and he had no details about the slide.
Stevens Pass is one of the most popular outdoor recreation areas in the state, with visitors flocking there to go cross-country, back-country and downhill skiing, as well as snowshoeing and backpacking.
It's been a deadly winter in Washington's mountains. Four people disappeared in vicious storms while camping and climbing on Mount Rainier last month. The four remain missing, and authorities have said they're hoping to find their bodies when the snow melts this summer.
Across the West, there had been 13 avalanche deaths this season as of Feb. 16, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, which tracks avalanche deaths in the U.S.
Experts have said the risk of additional slides could remain high all season. They attribute the dangers in part to a weak base layer of snow caused by a dry winter.
Avalanche deaths are more common in the backcountry than at ski resorts. Out of about 900 avalanche deaths nationwide since the winter of 1950-51, 32 were within terrain that was open for riding at ski resorts, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
Also Sunday, West said a snowboarder was killed in a separate incident at the Alpental ski area east of Seattle. The snowboarder went over a cliff. No other details were available.


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In my own research I use profinite groups quite frequently (for Galois groups and etale fundamental groups). However my use of them amounts to book-keeping: I only care about finite levels (finite Galois extensions; finite covers) and so I take their inverse limit. Then various "topological" arguments just mean: look at the finite levels (this occurs because the quotients by the open subgroups exactly correspond to the finite levels I care about.)
There are people who use profinite groups more intently than I do, and I suspect that they see some value in them as mathematical objects. So my question is this:
What theorems/properties are good about profinite groups that don't arise trivially from its book-keeping nature (so for example the profinite Sylow theorems are disqualified, because they arise trivially from the finite-level group theory). What, if anything, rewards us for dealing with this new type of object rather than with the finite levels? (again, except that it makes it easier to write down notes.)