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The career of a web developer is an interesting one with many slopes. Considering a learning curve this steep, you can fully expect to live through periods of frustration, enlightenment, self-righteousness, and every mindset in between. In this article, we'll have some fun, by reviewing each of these phases through the lens of a meme!
Phase 1 - Noob
We all have warm feelings for the early days of our careers; the period when you have absolutely no clue what you're doing. Like a fish out of water, each new line of code is a mystery. Doctype? Huh? What the heck does a
<div> do? The first phase is an intimidating, scary, but exciting one. How many dang languages are there?
Perhaps your greatest advantage, though, is that you have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes. Learning HTML is the baby step.
Phase 2 -The First Steps
Though it takes a while, you'll eventually learn enough to begin taking your first steps into the coding world. While Phase 1 is the overwhelming "how/where do I start" period, Phase 2 is the one in which you slowly begin building your skill-set. Sure, the syntax for defining styles with CSS still feels foreign, but at least you're able to make a change in your freshly bought code editor and see it reflected in a web browser. That's a wonderful feeling!
Phase 3 - Complete Frustration
Imagine being lost in a cave, shining your flashlight down each tunnel, as you search for a way out. With each step, you hope to see a glimmer of light. Unfortunately, the learning curve in our industry is a steep one. That speckle of light won't come for a long time, I'm sorry to say. Expect to spend hundreds of hours in this phase, reading technical books over, and over, and over, as you desperately try to make sense of the madness!
If the frustration becomes too overwhelming, find peace in the fact that every one of us felt that exact way at one point or another in our careers. You're not alone. Stick with it, and, before long, you'll reach the aha phase!
Phase 4 - The Aha Moments
An "aha" moment is one of the greatest feelings in the world: that brief instance when, suddenly, you "get it." "Ohhhhh, now I see!" Personally, I've found that these coding break-throughs occur late at night, when the rest of the world is sleeping. After the eighth read, what was once blurry is now, at least somewhat, clear!
This is the phase when all of the technologies and languages you've been learning begin to click.
Phase 5 - Fragile Code
Like it predecessors, the Fragile phase is a lengthy one. At this point, you are successfully building applications and achieving your desired end result, but the underlying code is one client feature-request away from popping. In this phase, your methods are dozens of lines long, and the concept of testing hasn't yet entered your brain.
But at least you're building things! For now, though, keep your GitHub pull requests limited to documentation and typos fixes. Don't underestimate how helpful that can be!
Phase 6 - Copycat
The copycat phase is an important one. There's no better way to learn proper coding techniques than to spy on the code that your heroes write - even to the point of reproducing their code line by line. Don't feel badly; every artistic career has its copycat phase! Luckily, GitHub has made this form of silent envy easier than ever before. Of course, copying will only get you so far, but it's an excellent start! Mimic the people who inspire you, and, eventually, you'll begin to develop your own style.
Phase 7 - Cocky
At this point, you're finally beginning to get into a groove. There's certainly vast room for improvement, but your confidence is quickly rising - perhaps too quickly! They say that, in the first few years, you still don't know enough to realize just how little you know!
Resist the urge to become too cocky at this stage. It benefits no one, and will only make your future, far more talented, self look back and shake his head. When you feel the need to leave a sarcastic "learn how to code, dude" comment in a GitHub, Reddit, or StackOverflow thread, don't. It wasn't too long ago that you, yourself, were a complete noob. Pay it forward; don't knock people down. We're all in this together - just at different phases.
Phase 8 - Learning Vim
If you've ever looked over a fellow developer's shoulder, and found yourself amazed by the speed at which they maneuver in their code editor, then, chances are, they were using Vim. Though it comes with a massive learning curve, once you've reached the top, your workflow, too, will look like magic to onlookers!
This is the phase when you begin harnessing, not only your coding techniques, but your workflow as well. Proper tooling is equally as important as technique.
Phase 9 - When Code Becomes Art
Though it takes thousands of hours, one day, you will look at your code and the ease with which you breeze through the command line, and realize that it's nothing short of art. Your code is under version-control, well-abstracted, perfectly testable, scalable, and easy to read. At one point in your career, you might have prided yourself on your ability to write cryptic, confusing, but functional code. Leveraging every possible language quirk or hidden feature is not a sign of a mature developer. Neither is reducing complex logic down to a single line, all for the purpose of patting yourself on the pack for being so clever. It instead signals a cocky developer who doesn't think about the future maintainer of his code.
Code becomes art when its readability is easily as important to you as the action it performs. In this phase, you code for human beings; not machines.
Phase 10 - Seasoned
When code becomes instinct, you've reached the next phase of your career. No longer do you think in terms of language or framework. Instead, you simply see problems, and choose the correct tool from your coding tool chest to provide the solution. A seasoned developer understands why the cowboy path is rarely the correct route. Each new feature is discussed with all members of the project, whiteboards are prepared, stories are written, and tests are generated...all before writing a single line of production code.
You've become a mature, thoughtful developer who others want to work with. Congratulations.
Phase 11 - Rock Star
Few make it this level. The rockstar phase is the tip of the mountain. In addition to your day job, you regularly speak at conferences, serve as the lead behind countless popular open source projects, yet still find time to participate and contribute to the future of the web through mailing lists, while simultaneously assisting newcomers on IRC. You're the type of person who writes compilers and parsers for fun.
You're what others refer to as rock star or ninja, despite the fact that you hate such labels. You know better than anyone how much more there is to learn!


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BERLIN (AP) - David Hasselhoff has put his name behind a campaign to preserve one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall. And in Germany, The Hoff's name carries weight.
The American actor, best known for starring in Knight Rider and Baywatch, is fondly remembered by many Germans for releasing a schmaltzy song called Looking For Freedom shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Hasselhoff said on Sunday that a real estate developer's plans to move part of the wall was "like tearing down an Indian burial ground" because of the great historical importance it had.
Berliners have rallied against the plan they say is part of a wider trend of steamrolling Berlin's tumultuous history to make way for gleaming developments in the now unified capital.

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Testimonies suggest bottom trawling was depleting whitefish in the nineteenth century.
It is a safe bet that when local councillor C. Abbs testified before a royal commission in northeast England in 1866, he did not expect that his statements would be of use to a fisheries scientist nearly 150 years later.
"I could buy haddocks formerly at 3d. and I have now to pay 6d.", Abbs claimed, using the pre-decimal notation for pence (worth 1/240th of £1 at the time). His information on price doubling, along with other testimony from nineteenth-century fishermen and their customers, has now been converted into estimates of the impact of bottom trawling. The fishing technique, which involved dragging nets along the seafloor, was increasing in popularity at the time — when boats were still powered by the wind.
Today, bottom trawling is often criticized as a destructive practice that can obliterate sensitive sea-floor habitats. In work published in Fish and Fisheries1, Ruth Thurstan, a marine ecologist now at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and her collaborators show that such concerns existed long before there were detailed records.
Royal reports
Thurstan and her colleagues at the University of York, UK, where the work took place, looked at the evidence given to two royal commissions that investigated the effects of fishing in the 1860s and 1880s. The team converted all quantitative statements that related to fish stocks or fishing practice into relative changes in measures such as catch rate and distance travelled to fishing grounds.
The researchers found that witnesses from the northeast of England reported an average 64% decline in catches of whitefish — which includes cod and haddock — over their careers, and that many blamed that drop on the rise of bottom trawling. Thurstan describes this level of impact as "quite shocking".
"Clearly, even in the days before steam power (using only wind and sail) we had the capability to dramatically alter our coastal seas and the communities contained therein," she says. "This research provides some of the earliest evidence of the influence of intensive fishing, and shows that dramatic changes occurred many decades before we began to collect fisheries statistics."
The work pushes knowledge back to the earliest days of industrialized fishing, says Thurstan, highlighting significant but overlooked changes.
"I think the message from the nineteenth century is that even low intensities of bottom trawling can very quickly alter seabed communities beyond recognition, and that fish abundance was being impacted even during the early days of industrialized fishing," she says. "This heralds a stark warning for our fisheries today, particularly those which are expanding their efforts further offshore and to greater depths, as deep-sea communities are simply not able to recover rapidly from disturbances."
Net impact
Jan Geert Hiddink, a marine ecologist who studies the impact of bottom trawling at Bangor University, UK, says that it is now well established that some forms of bottom trawling can be hugely destructive, although the extent of their impact depends on the type of habitat and the fishing technology involved.
"It's interesting to see the quotes of the [historical] fishermen," he says, but he cautions that the evidence is "very anecdotal".
"What I expect would have been happening over time is the fisheries were going from a state where they were under exploited to a state where they are fully exploited," says Hiddink. That would potentially cut stock levels in half, while maintaining sustainable catch levels.
Hiddink also highlights a different modern parallel: the nineteenth-century fishermen who used lines or pots blamed declining catches on those who trawled. "What is typical is the situation where the fishermen are all blaming each other."
Thurstan, R., Hawkins, J. P. & Roberts, C. M. Fish Fish. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12034 (2013).
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Lane United FC won't be in action this season on the field, but the club's leaders are ensuring they remain active in the community to set the club up for big 2021 League Two campaign.
EUGENE, Ore. – Even before the official announcement came that the 2020 USL League Two season wouldn't be played with his side having previously withdrawn from the season, Lane United FC's Managing Director Dave Galas was ready for what was next.
And because of the work the club is now doing within its own community, the side is set to come back even more strongly in 2021.
"That's our singular focus right now," Galas told KVAL's Jonathan Acosta. "Building enthusiasm around the club, around the ground, and around next season."
The lack of action on the field and person-to-person interaction with supporters has meant finding ways the club can engage fans digitally. That's meant not only regular social media content on the club's channels, but also online games that have seen Head Coach Connor Cappelletti fire up his console and represent United in EA Sports' FIFA20 against other fans and clubs.
"It's been fun so far and it's been fun to follow things too," Cappelletti told Acosta. "I know a lot of fans, not just from our club, but from all over the place. When we look at the feeds, people are really getting engaged with it from other clubs and stuff. It's kind of a cool escape."
The shutdown was a tough decision for United. For one, the club was looking forward to moving into the new Civic Park which would provide an enhanced gameday experience for fans led by supporters group the Red Aces. Galas was also feeling good about the talent he and Cappeletti had assembled to come and play for the side, with the postseason in sight for the first time after finishing third in the Northwest Division the past two years.
Unfortunately, the logistics of the season – especially given the fact that the Northwest Division includes teams from across the border in Canada – made it unfeasible to contemplate playing during the current pandemic.
"The reality is," Galas told Acosta, "our division being spread over two states, two provinces, and two different countries, the logistics of pulling off a season are involved, and if we had to play with restricted attendance, for instance, that was just going to cripple some clubs."
But as they plan for the club's seventh season – now to be played in 2021 – Galas and Cappelletti are maintaining an upbeat attitude as they continue to look for ways to keep their fans entertained away from the field over the coming weeks and months.


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|TDK's full frame Japanese VHS entitled "REGAIN"
The career of the embodiment of one of those Chinese knock-off action figures, Reb Brown, can be likened to the fast fall of heavy metal's mainstream prominence to grunge in the early '90s. Starting out in the '70s, the actor received steady work throughout two decades only for the bottom to fall out of his specific niche almost immediately after the dawn of the '90s. Either by this factor or perhaps by choice, Last Flight to Hell marked his last leading role before stumbling around in a handful of minor work before running cold for over a decade after 1998. David A. Prior's next upcoming masterpiece, Night Claws, marks his long belated return. (see Dread Central article here)
Surprisingly Chuck Connors, just two years before his passing, is always and obviously 100% game. With his chiseled visage holding up and hair perfectly coiffed, the best way to describe his presence can be summed up in a comment on the trailer on YouTube, "Chuck Connors acts the shit outta that shit." The veteran never sees any action sequences, but like a pro never once seems above spitting out his trite lines with unexpected zeal. Mike Monty, who seemed to make an '80s dayjob out of jumping between every Italian/Filipino production imaginable, cashes his check and is naturally dependable. Another Bruno Mattei vet, David Brass, gets more than a walk-on as a member of Brown's extraction team.
The action (to the recycled tune of Strike Commando's music) is where you find it with a few gunfights, remote hut denotations, venomous viper stand-offs, and Brown making teeth find stomachs through force. Instead of his patented scream n' spray, Brown uses almost entirely controlled machine gun bursts with zero vocalization. The only time that he breaks out the rebel yell is in the climax and is immediately shot in the guts. Almost as if that little touch acts as a (probably) unintentional rejection of Brown's God-like panache for surviving even the most intense onslaughts untouched in prior features. Last Flight to Hell begins and ends on a whimper much like its star's career and the bygone industry that produced it. Still, I can't say I wasn't entertained despite my sides not hurting from laughter afterward.
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Last week a colleague at my newspaper told me about Oculus Rift experiments by data visualization experts. It seems logical to use virtual reality for data visualization – after all that's what people also did and I guess still do in virtual environments such as Second Life and OpenSim. Personally I never did much more than 3D brainstorming by putting up media billboards showing videos and websites about a certain topic. I (my avatar) walked around those things and meditated, making all kinds of associations.
I did some browsing to find more compelling examples of data visualization, and these are some must-read articles:
– Mike Wheatley at SiliconAngle.com explains how Virtual Reality brings Big Data visualization to life. He talks about engineers using OpenSim for visualization experiments and the development of a 3-D data browser based on the Unity3D game development engine "capable of rendering 100,000 data objects in about 15 seconds onto a bog standard 2011 Macbook Air".
– Andy Greenberg on Wired wrote about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turning Oculus into a Weapon for Cyberwar. The real use by soldiers is still years away, but the researchers envision a future in which similar devices could be used for offensive hacking as well as defense and reconnaissance.
– Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments' R&D think-tank, has launched StockCity, a virtual-reality view of an investor's portfolio. I still have to test it, it seems something between a useful visualization tool and a marketing gadget, but here is a video:
– Arch Virtual ran a story about City Planning and Urban Design with Oculist Rift and they published an e-book about Unity3D and Architectural Visualization (including a chapter about the Rift).
So lots of experimenting going on, still early phase.


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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
YLS Partners with San Francisco City Attorney and Boalt Law School in Affirmative Litigation Working Group
Yale Law School students will get an opportunity to explore innovative public policy litigation strategies as the result of a unique collaboration with the San Francisco Attorney's Office and the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Professor Kenji Yoshino Receives 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award for "Covering"
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law Kenji Yoshino has been honored by The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights for his most recent book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Yale Law School Introduces Law and Globalization Breakfast Series
"The Changing Dynamics of International Arbitration" was the topic of Yale Law School's first Law and Globalization Breakfast, held November 29 in New York City.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Professor Gerald Torres '77 To Give Dean's Lecture on December 12
On Tuesday, December 12, Professor Gerald Torres '77 will give a Dean's Lecture entitled "The Red and The Black: Culture, Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights."
Friday, December 1, 2006
Gerhard Casper To Deliver Inaugural Kronman-Postol Lecture December 7
Gerhard Casper will deliver the inaugural Kronman-Postol Lecture on Thursday, December 7, speaking to the Yale Law School community on "Caesarism in Democratic Politics: Reflections on Max Weber."
Friday, October 20, 2006
Lillian Goldman Law Library Receives Significant Collection of Rare Books
YLS Librarian Blair Kauffman with representatives from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Chief Justices Margaret Marshall '76, Drayton Nabers, Jr. '65, and Randall Shepard '72 Receive Yale Law School Award of Merit
The awards were presented on Saturday, October 14, at the 2006 Alumni Weekend luncheon.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Dean Koh Announces New Faculty Chairs
The Yale Corporation approved the appointment of four members of the Law School faculty to endowed Chairs.


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We can all do with a check-up every so often – just to ensure things are going ok and we're not falling apart.
Today our team took the lid off the colossal squid tank and started to drain out the preservation fluid so we can give the colossal squid a check-up. We last had the lid off the tank in March 2009.
This gives our conservator Robert Clendon, and exhibition team members Hutch and Don a chance to see how the squid specimen is doing, and find out what's going on in the tank. They are bravely doing all of this in the gallery space – so visitors can watch and ask questions.
The preservation of the colossal squid (the heaviest, bulkiest squid in the world, remember) is an experiment. There are no guarantees! No one has done this before, so Te Papa's team are learning as they go.
The liquid chosen to preserve the squid in is a glycol-water mixture. The squid has been in this liquid for 2 years. During this time the fluid in the tank has discoloured and there's been a build of detritus in the base of the tank – both of which interfere with getting a good view of the squid.
We're not sure why this is happening and that's why we need to take a closer look and try to work out what is going on. The fluid in the tank will be changed and we'll be cleaning out the tank.
It will take about 5 hours for the tank liquid to drain out. We can then start assessing the condition of the squid, which will take a few days. Robert will be doing a visual assessment, comparing the specimen with existing photos. He will also test samples of the tank liquid for pH and for biological activity, such as the presence of bacteria or moulds. These results will tell us if the squid is deteriorating or not.
We do know that the squid specimen has contracted in size by about 5% after being in the preserving fluid. Robert is not sure why, but is confident that this is not because the squid is deteriorating – in fact the indications are that the specimen itself is in very good shape.
After the check-up is complete towards the end of this week we'll be able to make informed decisions about the future of the colossal squid specimen. Once we know more about what's been going on in the tank over the last 2 years, we can work out how long the squid can be kept on display and how often we need to change the tank liquid.
All of which helps us keep this incredible colossal squid out there for you to see.


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A popular '50s rock 'n' roll song asked, "Who wears short shorts?"
The answer today? A lot of people who shouldn't. And stores everywhere are accessories to that fashion crime.
I've heard women young and old complain that the only shorts they can find are nearly obscene: tight and tiny and leaving almost nothing to the imagination.
While it's true that there are a ridiculous number of scandalously short shorts on store shelves, that doesn't mean you have to buy them! There are flattering options.
To prove it, I went strolling with photographer Abel Uribe on a warm day to find an array of shorts gone wrong.
Then I went shopping to find better alternatives that work on a wide array of sizes and shapes. The bottom line? To avoid these fashion felonies, before you leave the house, check a rear-view mirror.
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Tight and skimpy often are the opposite of sexy.
When in doubt, chose longer, looser.
Big prints on big bottoms? Don't do it.
A mirror check is a must before leaving home.


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We welcome your contributions and thank you for working to improve the Go development experience in VS Code.
This guide will explain the process of setting up your development environment to work on the VS Code Go extension, as well as the process of sending out your change for review. If you're interested in testing the master branch or pre-releases of the extension, please see the Go Nightly documentation.
If you are interested in fixing a bug or contributing a feature, please file an issue first. Wait for a project maintainer to respond before you spend time coding.
If you wish to work on an existing issue, please add a comment saying so, as someone may already be working on it. A project maintainer may respond with advice on how to get started. If you're not sure which issues are available, search for issues with the help wanted label.
The VS Code Go maintainers are reachable via the issue tracker and the #vscode-dev channel in the Gophers Slack. Please reach out on Slack with questions, suggestions, or ideas. If you have trouble getting started on an issue, we'd be happy to give pointers and advice.
Please note that extra configuration is required to build and run the Debug Adapter, which controls the debugging features of this extension. Refer to the documentation for the Debug Adapter to set that up.
Install node.
Clone the repository, run
npm install, and open VS Code:
git clone https://github.com/golang/vscode-go cd vscode-go npm install code .
Make sure the
window.openFoldersInNewWindow setting is not
To run the extension with your patch, open the Run view (
Ctrl+Shift+D), select
Launch Extension, and click the Play button (
This will open a new VS Code window with the title
[Extension Development Host]. You can then open a folder that contains Go code and try out your changes.
You can also set breakpoints to debug your change.
If you make subsequent edits in the codebase, you can reload (
Ctrl+R) the
[Extension Development Host] instance of VS Code, which will load the new code. The debugger will automatically reattach.
There are currently three test launch configurations: (1)
Launch Extension Tests, (2)
Launch Extension Tests with Gopls, and (3)
Launch Unit Tests. To run the tests locally, open the Run view (
Ctrl+Shift+D), select the relevant launch configuration, and hit the Play button (
After making changes to the extension, you may want to test it end-to-end instead of running it in debug mode. To do this, you can sideload the extension.
Install the vsce tool for packaging extensions (
npm install -g vsce).
cd into your
vscode-go directory.
Install all dependencies by running
npm install.
vsce package. This will generate a file with a
.vsix extension in your current directory.
npm install -g vsce cd vscode-go npm install vsce package
Open a VS Code window, navigate to the Extensions view, and disable or uninstall the default Go extension.
Click on the "..." in the top-right corner, select "Install from VSIX...", and choose the generated VSIX file. Alternatively, you can run
code --install-extension path/to/go.vsix or open the Command Palette and run the
Extensions: Install from VSIX... command.
Once you have coded, built, and tested your change, it's ready for review! There are two ways to mail your change: (1) through a GitHub pull request (PR), or (2) through a Gerrit code review.
In either case, code review will happen in Gerrit, which is used for all repositories in the Go project. GitHub pull requests will be mirrored into Gerrit, so you can follow a more traditional GitHub workflow, but you will still have to look at Gerrit to read comments.
The easiest way to start is by reading this detailed guide for contributing to the Go project. Important things to note are:
Once you've sent out your change, a maintainer will take a look at your contribution within a few weeks. If you don't hear back, feel free to ping the issue or send a message to the #vscode-dev channel of the Gophers Slack.
The extension's test suite will run on your change once it has been mailed. If you have contributed via a GitHub PR, the test results will be provided via a GitHub Action result on the PR. If you have mailed a Gerrit CL directly, tests will run in Google Cloud Build, and the results will be posted back on the CL.
Note that, as of June 2020, the GCB and Gerrit integration is not yet ready, so the results of the CI run will not appear on the Gerrit changelist. Instead, if your change fails on GCB, we will notify you and provide you with the relevant logs.


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The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) is a national organization founded in 1967 by A.J. Cooper at the New York University Law School, for the purpose of effectuating change in the legal system and sensitizing the legal profession to the ever-increasing needs of the black community. While this commitment has never wavered, BLSA's main purpose now is to articulate and promote the professional needs and goals of black law students; to foster and encourage professional competence; to focus upon the relationship of the black law student and the black attorney to the American legal structure; to instill in the black attorney and law student a greater awareness and commitment to the needs of the black community; and to influence the legal community to bring about meaningful change to meet the needs of the black community.
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show event
Displays the event extension of a data file. This can be referenced either by its number in the observation catalogue (show_from = o), or by its place in the list of read-in data files (show_from = d). Use show data to determine the latter. The number is given in the parameter show_which. This parameter currently accepts only one entry, and not a range of values.
The show_rows parameter controls which of the rows you wish to see. The show_method determines whether the data is displayed by column (show_method =dump), or by record (show_method=list).
xsel > show event <show_from> <show_which> [show_rows] [show_method]
So to show rows 1-50 of the 5th file from the current obscat, say
xsel > show event obscat 5 show{\_}rows=1-50
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To calculate a value in Nanoseconds to the corresponding value in Minutes, multiply the quantity in Nanoseconds by 1.6666666666667E-11 (conversion factor).
Minutes = Nanoseconds x 1.6666666666667E-11
The conversion factor from Nanoseconds to Minutes is 1.6666666666667E-11. To find out how many Nanoseconds in Minutes, multiply by the conversion factor or use the Nanoseconds to Minutes converter above.
A nanosecond (symbol: ns) is an SI unit of time equal to one billionth of a second (10−9 or 1/1,000,000,000 s). One nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.71 years. The word nanosecond is formed by the prefix nano and the unit second. A nanosecond is equal to 1000 picoseconds or 1⁄1000 microsecond. Because the next SI unit is 1000 times larger, times of 10−8 and 10−7 seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of nanoseconds. Times of this magnitude are commonly encountered in telecommunications, pulsed lasers and some areas of electronics.
The minute is a unit of time or of angle. As a unit of time, the minute (symbol: min) is equal to 1⁄60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system). As a unit of angle, the minute of arc is equal to 1⁄60 of a degree, or 60 seconds (of arc). Although not an SI unit for either time or angle, the minute is accepted for use with SI units for both. The SI symbols for minute or minutes are min for time measurement, and the prime symbol after a number, e.g. 5′, for angle measurement. The prime is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time. In contrast to the hour, the minute (and the second) does not have a clear historical background. What is traceable only is that it started being recorded in the Middle Ages due to the ability of construction of "precision" timepieces (mechanical and water clocks). However, no consistent records of the origin for the division as 1⁄60 part of the hour (and the second 1⁄60 of the minute) have ever been found, despite many speculations.


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Google said Friday it will cut 1,200 more jobs at its Motorola Mobility division, following the announcement of 4,000 layoffs in 2012.
The new job cuts represent 10% of the struggling mobile device maker's staff.
"These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. "It's obviously very hard for the employees concerned, and we are committed to helping them through this difficult transition."
Google (GOOG) has preached patience in its turnaround effort of Motorola. When the search giant completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola in May 2012, it inherited a product pipeline of about 18 months. That means Google hasn't yet been able to release Motorola-branded smartphones of its own design.
Meanwhile, Motorola's mobile business continues to bleed red ink. It lost $353 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, and Google's Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette has said he expects Motorola's financial results will be volatile "for quite awhile."
Google has made some progress in restructuring Motorola. It sold Motorola's cable box division for $2.4 billion in December, and it has outsourced much of Motorola's manufacturing business.
Shares of Google fell slightly on the news. But the stock is up 17% so far this year and hit an all-time high on Wednesday.


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Hand Collection
In order to properly identify and catalog the biodiversity of a site, researchers often must physically collect specimens by hand for more thorough study in a laboratory. Examples of species are collected by SCUBA divers using nets and collection bottles, and by using devices called suction samplers that act like vacuum cleaners to collect small organisms. More quantitative methods include more systematic approaches such as quadrat sampling along the intertidal zone.
Much like observation by passive quadrat sampling, active collection using quadrat sampling involves using a series of squares (quadrats) of a set size placed across a habitat of interest. Species found within quadrats are collected for later identification. As with passive quadrat sampling, abundances of organisms found at the study site can be calculated using the number found per quadrat and the size of the quadrat area. Example specimens are often kept in long-term research collections for historical records. This is a time-tested sampling technique that is, as with all hand collecting, best suited for coastal areas where access to a habitat is relatively easy.
Scientists and assistants quadrat sampling along a transect line on the coast of Hokkaido, Japan. (Natural Geography in Shore Areas - NaGISA)
A picture of a quadrat full of organisms. (Natural Geography in Shore Areas - NaGISA)
The same quadrat after all the specimens have been thoroughly removed for later identification. (Natural Geography in Shore Areas - NaGISA)
Scientists sort specimens taken in quadrat sampling along the coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska. (Natural Geography in Shore Areas - NaGISA. Gayle Neufeld)


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VisualLightBox is a free software that helps you easily generate online photo albums, website albums with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just add your photos into VisualLightBox application window, press "Publish" and your own picture album web site with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser instantly!
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Steven Burky was arrested in Santa Monica on Monday at the nursery school where Violet Affleck, one of Garner's two daughters with husband Ben Affleck, is enrolled.
Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Burky will be arraigned on Thursday.
Garner was granted a restraining order against Burky in November 2008 after she told the court she believed he posed a threat to her and her family. Garner alleged that Burky had been stalking her since 2002.
The former star of the television series "Alias," Garner has also appeared in films such as "Juno" and "The Kingdom."


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By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor
March 03, 2014
FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload (LTL) subsidiary of transportation and logistics bellwether FedEx, announced today that it will implement a General Rate Increase (GRI) of 3.9 percent for non-contractual freight, effective March 31.
The company said the GRI will apply to eligible shipments within the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and between the contiguous U.S. and Canada, within Canada, and between the contiguous U.S. and Mexico, and within Mexico.
And it added that the GRI applies to shipments covered by the FXF 1000, FXF 501 and related series base rates, with additional charges including absolute minimum charges and accessorial rates and charges, while the company's fuel surcharge will not change.
Many LTL executives have told LM they view the current rate environment as "rational," especially when compared to 2009-2010, when they were doing whatever they could to hold onto business while sacrificing price for volume to keep freight moving in their costly fixed network operations.
A recent research note from Stifel Nicolaus suggested that LTL pricing should rise 1 percent to 3 percent in 2014. But the firm added that if the economy were to decelerate, these expectations would likely prove too aggressive.
"On the other hand, if the economy were to truly accelerate and/or if the onslaught of federally mandated safety rules sufficiently shrinks effective capacity, these pricing estimates could easily prove too conservative," according to a Stifel research note. "Again, we side with the more cautious view, which would lean toward expecting low single digit y/y pricing expansion in 2014."
Regardless of which way the economy goes, LTL GRI's have seemingly gone the way of a "broken record," according to Satish Jindel, president of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting.
"LTL carriers announce these every year, but they are clearly becoming meaningless because they cannot seem to show it on the bottom line," explained Jindel. "FedEx Freight, UPS Freight, and Con-way are three of the largest LTL carriers and operate at an operating ratio of 96 or worse, and GRIs are not going to correct the problem for them. And then smaller companies like Saia and Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) are operating with better OR's in the high 80s or low 90s, and private carriers smaller than them also around there."
The larger LTLs need to do some soul searching, Jindel said, and figure out how even with such large networks and density, why they are underperforming, as the three LTLs that should be the most profitable are actually the least profitable.
And even with healthy amounts of density and scale, Jindel observed that quarter after quarter the big three LTL carriers still have not been able to perform at the level of Saia and ODFL.
"GRIs simply are not correcting the problems some of these carriers have," said Jindel.
LTL executives have told LM that their primary focus is on the recovery of rates in the market and that is limiting capacity
There was a time, some said, when everyone was after growth and expansion, with the thought that if you got the density the margins would come through efficiencies and then you find that at a certain price that does not work. And in recent years there was bad period in which LTLs learned and realized price cannot be cut to chase volume, because LTLs end up running a lot of miles and burning out equipment for no return.
Industry analysts have frequently stated that LTL GRIs typically impact 20-40 percent of LTL business.


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An entrepreneur can choose a MLM software for various reasons. This Software is a great tool can easily be owned and can easily be run on your own and definitely can boost your own business. Generally, people get confused about the development of this Software as to whether they should develop it of their own, or they should hire the services of some provider.
Those who want to choose marketing software should try to know that this software does not consist of only programming but also good domain knowledge of marketing. The world of MLM marketing is on cut throat competition and every mlm company must keep that in mind to get success. The selection of marketing Software should be done very carefully because if on one hand, good Software can bring success to a creeping business and on the other hand, bad, irrelative and ineffective marketing Software can ruin even good running business. Therefore, the required precaution should be taken before selection of the Software. Same is true for the providers of this Software as well.
When you are searching for some company for getting the multi level marketing software, you must select the Software that is right for your business need and as par your requirement and budget. The market study should be done cautiously, and the search should stop at the best provider Company in the market. From here onwards short listing of some MLM companies should be done and the records of their accomplishment should be verified. Then the selection of the company should be made on the basis of experience and latest technological approach in the market. Try to get knowledge about the support packages. In this way, you will get knowledge about the Company that suits your need.
It is always recommended for you to shortlist at least 2-3 MLM companies for getting network marketing software. It will help you make you to take your decision wisely. You should make one thing crystal clear in your mind that whatever mlm marketing software you choose should be able to make your business stronger, smarter and grow better.


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I was very fortunate recently to have my first article for Simple Talk published. Simple Talk is an online magazine operated by redgate. The article is titled "A Sudden Move: one developer's journey from C# to JavaScript". In it, I discuss the reasons that JavaScript is so compelling and try to dispel some of the unfair treatment JavaScript get from developers.
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This year again, on November 27, ICF strikes again, welcoming more than 300 participants, students, teachers, staff during what is now established as to be the main intercultural and international eve
Audencia Business School takes pride in announcing one of our IMM student, Andréa Thillou, won a regional prize in the "Concours National Promotion de l'Ethique Professionnelle 2018&r
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iAdvize, a pioneer start-up company in human resourcing commerce based in Nantes welcomed IMM students following "Entrepreneurship and Innovation" elective run by Claire Champenois. Studen
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Gonzales, Gonzaga outlast #2 Arkansas
Junior Marco Gonzales threw a complete game shutout and struck out nine batters as Gonzaga University baseball downed No. 2 University of Arkansas 3-0 at the Coca-Cola Classic on Kansas City Royals practice field five Friday. Cory LeBrun had two hits for the Zags and drove in the first Bulldog in the sixth in the three-run inning for Gonzaga.
The Bulldogs improve to 5-4 and the Razorbacks drop its second in a row to move to 7-3.
Gonzales (2-1), preseason first-team All-American, got the starting nod and did not disappoint. The southpaw scattered eight hits in his 9 innings on the bump. The performance lowered his ERA to 2.45.
"Marco pitched an outstanding game," head coach Mark Machtolf said. "He was on from the start and was mixing his pitches well. He was able to get ahead with a steady mix and just really pitched."
Gonzales' last shutout was Apr. 28 when the Zags hosted Loyola Marymount University in Spokane and Gonzales went 11 innings for the win.
For Arkansas, Barrett Astin (1-1) got the start and got into trouble in the top of the sixth. Astin retired the first batter but gave up singles to Clayton Eslick and Zach Abbruzza to put Bulldogs on first and second. The next batter, Phoenix native Cory Lebrun, singled to left center driving in Eslick.
Travis Forbes then stepped up to the plate and singled to right field to advance LeBrun to second and Abbruzza to third. However, a throwing error from the outfielder allowed Abbruzza to score and LeBrun to advance to third. Gonzaga took a 2-0 lead.
The final Gonzaga run of the inning came in from Billy Moon who hit a ball to the second baseman who made a fielder's choice to the shortstop covering second, allowing LeBrun to score.
"Offensively, we put pressure on the defense all day," Machtolf said. "We had a ton of quality at bats and saw great days from LeBrun and Moon."
The three runs were all that Gonzales needed.
The lefty capped off his performance by getting a strike out and two pop flies to Moon in left field to end the game.
The Zags had eight hits in the game with the first seven hitters in the batting order reaching base.
Gonzaga continues playing in the Coca-Cola Classic Saturday when the Zags take on future West Coast Conference member University of Pacific at 3 p.m. The Bulldogs and Tigers have split their two games against each other this season.


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Alopecia areata is a condition that causes round patches of hair loss, and can lead to total hair loss.
The cause of alopecia areata is unknown. About a fifth of people with this condition have a family history of alopecia.
Alopecia areata is thought to be an autoimmune condition. This occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue.
Alopecia areata is seen in men, women, and children. A major life event such as an illness, pregnancy, or trauma occurs before the hair loss in some, but not most patients
Forms of alopecia include:
See also:
Most of the time there are no other symptoms besides hair loss, but some people may feel a burning sensation or itching.
Alopecia areata usually begins as one to two patches of hair loss, most often on the scalp. It may also be seen in the beard, eyebrows, and arms or legs.
Roundish patches of hair loss are smooth, and may be peach-colored. Hairs that look like exclamation points are sometimes seen at the edges of a bald patch.
On occasion, a scalp biopsy may be performed. Several blood tests may be done, because alopecia areata may occur with autoimmune conditions.
If hair loss is not widespread, the hair will likely regrow in a few months, whether or not treatment is used.
Even for more severe hair loss, it is not clear whether treatments will change the course of the condition.
Typical therapy may include:
Irritating drugs may be applied to hairless areas to cause the hair to regrow.
Full recovery of hair is common.
However, some people may have a poorer outcome, including those with:
Permanent hair loss is a possible complication of alopecia areata.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you are concerned about hair loss.
Alopecia totalis; Alopecia universalis
Habif TP, ed. Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier;2009: pp 932-934.
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T-Rex Effects Introduces Fuel Tank Goliath and Alberta II Overdrive
T-Rex Effects, the Danish effects pedal manufacturer, unveiled the newest member of its Fuel Tank power supply family, as well as the next generation of its beloved Alberta overdrive pedal.
(April 25, 2013) -- T-Rex Effects, the Danish effects pedal manufacturer, unveiled the newest member of its Fuel Tank power supply family, as well as the next generation of its beloved Alberta overdrive pedal at Musikmesse 2013.
Fuel Tank Goliath (Retail: $399/Street: $299)- With 7 isolated outlets and the ability to handle 9, 12 and 18 V DC pedals plus a 12 volt AC, the new Fuel Tank Goliath will power almost every pedal you own… and then some. Each of Goliath's five standard outlets delivers a mammoth 450mA of switchable 9 or 12 volt power – which is enough to keep even the most demanding T-Rex pedals pumping out pure tone. On top of that, you get an 18 volt DC outlet (250mA) and a 12 volt AC outlet (450mA), for a wealth of ferocious T-Rex power. That's nearly 3000 mA of simultaneous power – our mightiest power supply ever! Plus, Goliath features a 115V/230V voltage selector, making it conveniently compatible overseas for touring musicians. North America availability: June 2013
Alberta II (Retail: $369/Street: $279)– When we discovered that many guitarists were employing a pair of our muchloved Alberta overdrive pedals to get their fix on stage and in the studio - one for creamy rhythm sounds and the other for a cutting solo sound – we decided to build a single pedal that does this and more, while staying true to the sound, practicality, and size of the original. With the Alberta II, our classic overdrive sound has doubled in quantity but the sonic and physical footprints are unchanged. The user gets a three-step rocket of creamy, responsive overdrive without sacrificing pedal board real estate. We've given Channel 2 a slightly more open and punchy sound, for a little more pick attack and push, but with the same voice as Channel 1. Two channels of overdrive means you can get the clean sound from your amp, a nice "on-the-edge" overdrive from Channel 1, and a hard-hitting rock sound from the Channel 2. We've also added a Fat switch to each channel, to provide a useful low-end boost for those "Strat" moments. Flip the switch for an even thicker tone on either of Alberta II's channels. Just like its predecessor, Alberta II can serve up much more than the blues, so don't judge this book by its cover. With the new features, there's now an even wider range of sounds hidden inside to get the job done for players of all genres. North America availability: July 2013
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MAY Book(s) of the Month: The Dark Divine Series by Bree DespainMay 1st, 2012 | By Kallieross | Category: Book News, Book of the Month, Book Reviews, Fandom, Featured Articles, Site News
Our Book(s) of the Month, for May 2012, are The Dark Divine, The Lost Saint, and The Savage Grace by Bree Despain! I absolutely love this werewolf series, and the characters that Bree has created. You will love Grace Divine, the main character, who happens to be an artist, student, and preacher's kid. Her family
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House approves $20.5B Colorado budget for next year
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DENVER – After bitter finger-pointing, the Colorado House on Friday passed a $20.5 billion state budget for next year, sending more money to public schools, paying down some pension debt, and earmarking money to wildfire victims.
The spending plan cleared the House in a 45-18 vote, with only nine Republicans voting yes – underscoring a big contrast from last year when the budget had near unanimous support in the Colorado Legislature.
The budget for the upcoming fiscal year begins July 1 and will increase spending per pupil at public schools, but the exact figure will be determined later. State employees will also get a pay increase of 2 percent – the first in four years. And lawmakers agreed to use $2.8 million to pay victims of last year's Lower North Fork Fire in the foothills southwest of Denver, which was started by a state prescribed burn.
Lawmakers voted on the budget after lashing out at each other, with Republicans in the minority accusing Democrats of playing games with GOP amendments on Thursday evening.
At issue was one Republican proposal for 5 percent across-the-board spending cuts. Democrats easily defeated it. But knowing they had enough votes to kill it, they brought it up again later, this time to try to get Republicans on the record voting for it.
"That is decidedly partisan, to say 'We killed your amendment, but we're going bring it up again to put it in your face and spike it a second time,' is not bipartisan," said Republican Rep. Mark Waller, the House GOP leader.
Speaker Mark Ferrandino countered by telling Republicans that they're not blameless.
"Partisan politics gets played down here. We all know that. We all do it," he said. He told Republicans that "we should not forget history" and reminded them about how, as the majority party in the House last year, Republicans killed civil unions legislation by refusing to bring it up for a floor vote.
Ultimately, Waller was one of nine Republicans to vote for the budget. As reasons for his approval, Waller cited budget provisions that pay down $140 million in state debt for police and firefighter pensions, and $30 million for water storage projects in rural Colorado.
Both chambers have passed the budget, but they still must rectify differences in the spending plan. Those differences include a House amendment that took nearly $500,000 from private prisons to pay for more parole officers. Lawmakers who proposed the change cited the shooting death of Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, who authorities suspect was killed by a parolee who recently slipped through the cracks in the criminal justice system.
The money for wildfire compensation is another difference that will need to be rectified, as well as adding $1.5 million to the state's film incentives program.
General fund expenditures, which lawmakers control, were expected to be about $8.2 billion next year, compared with $7.6 billion in the current budget year. The state's total budget, which includes federal money and cash funds, would be about $20.5 billion.
The biggest areas of general fund spending would continue to be K-12 schools, at about $3.1 billion, and the department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which administers Medicaid, at nearly $2.1 billion.


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New York University College of Nursing's (NYUCN) Dr. Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, CNM, FAAN, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for 2013. Dr. Kurth is one of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates the IOM elected during its 43rd annual meeting. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
IOM Elects 70 New Members, 10 Foreign Associates for 2013
New York University College of Nursing's (NYUCN) Dr. Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, CNM, FAAN, Professor and Executive Director, NYUCN Global, and Associate Dean for Research, NYU Global Institute of Public Health, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for 2013. Dr. Kurth is one of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates the IOM elected during its 43rd annual meeting. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
"It is an honor to welcome our highly distinguished colleagues to the Institute of Medicine," said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg. "These individuals have inspired us through their achievements in research, teaching, clinical work, and other contributions to the medical field. Their knowledge and skills will deeply enrich the IOM."
"We are exceedingly proud of Dr. Kurth's appointment to the Institute of Medicine," said Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean & Erline Perkins McGriff Professor, New York University College of Nursing. "Her leadership and seminal work to improve women's health as a nurse, midwife, and public health scientist for those at risk for HIV/AIDS has had wide ranging impact on better health for people, communities, and countries. We congratulate her and the IOM on her selection."
New members are elected by current active members through a selective process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health. IOM's charter ensures diversity of talent among the Institute's membership by requiring at least one-quarter of the members to be selected from fields outside the health professions, such as engineering, social sciences, law, and the humanities.
"The work of the IOM is critical, especially in these times of health reform at home, and winnable battles in global health around the world." Dr. Kurth says. "The scientific credibility and impartiality brought by the IOM to key health topics is a national treasure, and it is a true honor to join the IOM as an elected member.
The newly elected members raise IOM's total active membership to 1,753 and the number of foreign associates to 120. With an additional 93 members holding emeritus status, IOM's total membership is 1,966.
About Dr. Ann Kurth:
Dr. Kurth is a Professor at NYUCN and the founder and Executive Director of NYUCN-Global. She is also Associate Dean for Research at the NYU Global Institute of Public Health. As a nurse-midwife and epidemiologist Dr. Kurth focuses on HIV/sexually transmitted infections/reproductive health prevention, screening and care, as well as on global health system strengthening, using information and communication technologies among other approaches for health intervention implementation and workforce training. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIAID, NIDA, NIMH, NICHD), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, CDC, HRSA, and others, for studies conducted in the United States and internationally.
Dr. Kurth has consulted on research methodology for the NIH, Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Committee for the Outcome and Impact Evaluation of Global HIV/AIDS Programs (PEPFAR2), the largest-funded single disease global program in history.
Her expertise is in behavioral epidemiology and approaches to improve HIV/STI prevention, screening, and care; reproductive health; and global health workforce/system strengthening efforts. Her research evaluates informatics, as well as human-delivered, approaches in the US and internationally, with funding from the NIH (NIAID, NICHD, NIDA, NIMH), CDC, HRSA, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others. She has consulted on research methodology for the WHO, CDC, and Gates; and is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Committee for the Outcome and Impact Evaluation of Global HIV/AIDS Programs (PEPFAR2).
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This lends cred to WUWT's previous analysis done by our own Charles the moderator: The CRUtape Letters™, an Alternative Explanation,
Climate-Gate: Leaked
by Lance Levsen, Network Analyst – courtesy of Small Dead Animals
Some time starting in mid November 2009, ten million teletypes all started their deet-ditta-dot chatter reeling off the following headline: "Hackers broke into the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit…."
I hate that. It annoys me because just like everything else about climate-gate it's been 'value-added'; simplified and distilled. The contents of FOIA2009.zip demand more attention to this detail and as someone once heard Professor Jones mutter darkly, "The devil is in the details…so average it out monthly using TMax!"
The details of the files tell a story that FOIA2009.zip was compiled internally and most likely released by an internal source.
The contents of the zip file hold one top-level directory,
./FOIA. Inside that it is broken into two main directories,
./documents. Inside
In comparison,
./documents is highly disorganized. MS Word documents, FORTRAN, IDL and other computer code, Adobe Acrobat PDF's and data are sprinkled in the top directory and through several sub-directories. It's the kind of thing that makes the co-workers disorganized desk look like the spit and polish of a boot camp floor.
What people are missing entirely is that these emails and files tell a story themselves.
Proponents of the hacker meme are saying that s/he broke into East Anglia's network and took emails. Let's entertain that idea and see where it goes.
There is no such thing as a private email. Collecting all of the incoming and outgoing email is simple in a mail server. Using: Postfix the configuration is
always_bcc=<email address>, here are links on configuring the same for Sendmail, and for Exim. Those are the three main mail servers in use in the Unix environment. Two of them, Sendmail and Exim are or were in use as the external mail gateways and internal mail servers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
When a mail server receives an email for firstname.lastname@example.com, it checks that it is authoritative for that domain. This means that a server for domain.net will not accept email for domain.ca. The mail server will usually then run checks on the email for spam, virus, and run other filters. It will then check to see whether to route the email to another server or to drop the email in a users mailbox on that server. In all examples examined in the released emails, the mail gateway forwarded the emails to another server.
The user then has a mail client that s/he uses to read email. Outlook Express, Eudora, Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, mutt, pine and many more are all mail clients.
Mail clients use one of two methods of reading email. The first is called POP and that stands for Post Office Protocol. A mail client reading email with POP logs into the mail server, downloads the email to the machine running the mail client and will then delete the original email from the users spool file on the mail server.
The second protocol is called IMAP, Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP works by accessing the mailboxes on the mail server and doing most of the actions there. Nothing is actually downloaded onto the client machine. Only email that is deleted and purged by the mail client is gone. Either protocol allows the user the opportunity to delete the email completely.
Most email clients are setup for reading emails with POP by default and POP is more popular than IMAP for reading email.
The released emails are a gold mine for a system administrator or network administrator to map. While none of the emails released contained headers, several included replies that contained the headers of the original emails. An experienced administrator can create an accurate map of the email topography to and from the CRU over the time period in question, 1998 thru 2009.
Over the course time, UEA's systems administrators made several changes to the way email flows through their systems. The users also made changes to the way they accessed and sent email.
The Users
Using a fairly simple grep1 we can see that from the start of the time-frame, 1999, until at least 2005 the CRU unit accessed their email on a server called pop.uea.ac.uk. Each user was assigned a username on that server. From the released emails, we can link username to people as such:
- Prof. Trevor Davies was user e022
- Dr. Timothy Osborn was user f055
- Prof. Phil Jones was user f028
- Prof. Mike Hulme was user f037
- Prof. Keith Briffa was user f023
In the previously referenced grep comes some more useful information. For instance, we know that Professor Davies was using QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) in September of 1999. (ref Email: 0937153268.txt). If you look at the README.txt for that version you can see that it requires a POP account and doesn't support IMAP.
As mentioned previously, POP deletes email on the server usually after it is downloaded. Modern POP clients do have an option to save the email on the server for some number of days, but Eudora Light 3.0.3 did not. We can say that Professor Davies' emails were definitely removed from the server as soon as "Send/Recv" was finished.
This revelation leaves only two scenarios for the hacker:
- Professor Davies' email was archived on a server and the hacker was able to crack into it, or
- Professor Davies kept all of his email from 1999 and he kept his computer when he was promoted to Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer in 2004 from his position as Dean of the School of Environmental Sciences.
The latter scenario requires that the hacker would have had to know how to break into Prof. Davies' computer and would have had to get into that computer to retrieve those early emails. If that were true, then the hacker would have had to get into every other uea.ac.uk computer involved to retrieve the emails on those systems. Given that many mail clients use a binary format for email storage and given the number of machines the hacker would have to break into to collect all of the emails, I find this scenario very improbable.
Which means that the mail servers at uea.ac.uk were configured to collect all incoming and outgoing email into a single account. As that account built up, the administrator would naturally want to archive it off to a file server where it could be saved.
This is a simple evolution. You just run a crontab to start a shell-script that will stop the mail server, move the mail spool file into a file somewhere else, nulls the live spool and restart the mail server. The account would reside on the mail server, the file could be on any server.
Alternatively you could use a procmail recipe to process the email as it comes in, but that may be a bit too much processing power for a very busy account.
This also helps to explain the general order of the
The Email Servers
I've created a Dia diagram2 of the network topography regarding email only as demonstrated in the released emails. Here's a jpeg of it:
The first thing that springs to mind is that the admins did a lot of fiddling of their email servers over the course of ten years. 🙂 The second thing is the anomaly. Right in the middle of 2006-2009 there is a Microsoft Exchange Server. Normally, this wouldn't be that big of an blip except we've already demonstrated that the servers at UEA were keeping a copy of all email in and out of the network. Admins familiar with MS Exchange know that it too is a mail server of sorts.
It is my opinion that the MS Exchange server was working in conjunction with ueams2.uea.ac.uk and I base this opinion on the fact that ueams2.uea.ac.uk appears both before and after the MS Exchange Server. It doesn't change its IP address nor does it change the type of mail server that is installed on it. There is a minor version update from 4.51 to 4.69. You can see Debian's changelog between the Exim versions here.
I've shown that the emails were collected from the servers rather than from the users accounts and workstations, but I haven't shown which servers were doing the collection. There are two options, the mail gateway or the departmental mail servers.
As demonstrated above, I believe that the numbers of the filenames correspond to the order that the emails were archived. If so, the numbers that are missing, represent other emails not captured in FOIA2009.zip.
I wrote a short Bash program3 to calculate the variances between the numbering system of the email filenames. The result is staggering, that's a lot of email outside of what was released. Here's a graph of the variances in order as well as a graph with the variances numerically sorted . Graph info down below.
The first graph is a little hard to read, but that's mostly because the first variance is 8,805,971. To see a little better, just lop off the first variance and rerun gnuplot. For simplicity, that graph is here. The mean of the variances is 402839.36 so the average amount of emails between each released email is 402,839. While not really applicable, but useful, the standard deviation is 736228.56 and you can visualize that from the second graph.
I realize that variance without reference is useless, in this instance the number of days between emails. Here is a grep of the emails with their dates of origin.
I do not see the administrators copying the email at the departmental level, but rather at the mail gateway level. This is logical for a few reasons:
- The machine name ueams2.uea.ac.uk implies that there are other departmental mail servers with the names like ueams1.uea.ac.uk, (or even ueams.uea.ac.uk), maybe a ueams3.uea.ac.uk. If true, then you would need to copy email from at least one other server with the same scripts. This duplication of effort is non-elegant.
- There is a second machine that you have to copy emails from and that is the MS Exchange server so you would need a third set of scripts to create a copy of email. Again, this would be unlike an Administrator.
- Departmental machines can be outside the purview of Administration staff or allow non-Administrative staff access. This is not where you want to be placing copies of emails for the purposes of Institutional protection.
- As shown with the email number variances, and if they are representative of the email number as it passed through UEA's email systems, that's a lot of emails from a departmental mail server and more like an institutional mail gateway.
So given the assumptions listed above, the hacker would have to have access to the gateway mail server and/or the Administration file server where the emails were archived. This machine would most likely be an Administrative file server. It would not be optimal for an Administrator to clutter up a production server open to the Internet with sensitive archives.
./FOIA/documents directory is a complete mess. There are documents from Professor Hulme, Professor Briffa, the now famous HARRY_READ_ME.txt, and many others. There seems to be no order at all.
One file in particular,
./FOIA/documents/mkhadcrut is only three lines long and contains:
tail +13021 hadcrut-1851-1996.dat | head -n 359352 | ./twistglob > hadcrut.dat # nb. 1994- data is already dateline-aligned cat hadcrut-1994-2001.dat >> hadcrut.dat
Pretty simple stuff, get everything in hadcrut-1851-1996.dat starting at the 13021st line. From that get only the first 359352 lines and run that through a program called twistglob in this directory and dump the results into hadcrut.dat. Then dump all of the information in hadcrut-1994-2001.dat into the bottom of hadcrut.dat.
….Except there isn't a program called
twistglob in the
./FOIA/documents/ directory. Nor is there the resultant
hadcrut.dat or the source files
hadcrut-1851-1996.dat and
This tells me that the collection of files and directories in
./documents isn't so much a shared directory on a server, but a dump directory for someone who collected all of these files. The originals would be from shared folders, home directories, desktop machines, workstations, profiles and the like.
Remember the reason that the Freedom of Information requests were denied? In email 1106338806.txt, Jan 21, 2005 Professor Phil Jones states that he will be using IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) to shelter the data from Freedom of Information requests. In email 1219239172.txt, on August 20th 2008, Prof. Jones says "The FOI line we're all using is this. IPCC is exempt from any countries FOI – the skeptics have been told this. Even though we (MOHC, CRU/UEA) possibly hold relevant info the IPCC is not part our remit (mission statement, aims etc) therefore we don't have an obligation to pass it on."
Is that why the data files, the result files and the 'twistglob' program aren't in the
./documents directory? I think this is a likely possibility.
If Prof. Jones and the UEA FOI Officer used IPR and the IPCC to shelter certain things from the FOIA then it makes sense that things are missing from the
./documents directory. Secondly it supports the reason that
./documents is in such disarray is that it was a dump folder. A dump folder explicitly used to collect information for the purpose of release pursuant to a FOI request.
I suggest that it isn't feasible for the emails in their tightly ordered format to have been kept at the departmental level or on the workstations of the parties. I suggest that the contents of
./documents didn't originate from a single monolithic share, but from a compendium of various sources.
For the hacker to have collected all of this information s/he would have required extraordinary capabilities. The hacker would have to crack an Administrative file server to get to the emails and crack numerous workstations, desktops, and servers to get the documents. The hacker would have to map the complete UEA network to find out who was at what station and what services that station offered. S/he would have had to develop or implement exploits for each machine and operating system without knowing beforehand whether there was anything good on the machine worth collecting.
The only reasonable explanation for the archive being in this state is that the FOI Officer at the University was practising due diligence. The UEA was collecting data that couldn't be sheltered and they created FOIA2009.zip.
It is most likely that the FOI Officer at the University put it on an anonymous ftp server or that it resided on a shared folder that many people had access to and some curious individual looked at it.
If as some say, this was a targeted crack, then the cracker would have had to have back-doors and access to every machine at UEA and not just the CRU. It simply isn't reasonable for the FOI Officer to have kept the collection on a CRU system where CRU people had access, but rather used a UEA system.
Occam's razor concludes that "the simplest explanation or strategy tends to be the best one". The simplest explanation in this case is that someone at UEA found it and released it to the wild and the release of FOIA2009.zip wasn't because of some hacker, but because of a leak from UEA by a person with scruples.
1 See file ./popaccounts.txt
2 See file ./email_topography.dia
3 See file ./email_variance.sh
4 See file ./gnuplotcmds
Graphs created with gnuplot using a simple command file4 for input. I use a stripped down version of the
variants_results_verbose.txt file, it's the same, just stripped of comment and the filenames.. The second graph is a numerically sorted version,
$> sort -n ./variance_results.txt > variance_sorted_numerically.txt.
Assigned Network Numbers for UAE from RIPE.NET
RIPE.NET has assigned 188.8.131.52 – 188.8.131.52,22.214.171.124 – 184.108.40.206, and 126.96.36.199 – 220.127.116.11 to the University of East Anglia for Internet IP addresses.
RIPE.NET Admin contact for the University of East Anglia: Peter Andrews, Msc, Bsc (hons) – Head of Networking at University of East Anglia. (Linked In, Peter isn't in the UEA directory anymore so I assume he is no longer at UEA.)
RIPE.NET Tech Contact for the University of East Anglia: Andrew Paxton
Current Mail Servers at UEA
A dig for the MX record of uea.ac.uk (email servers responsible for the domain uea.ac.uk) results in the following:
$> dig mx uea.ac.uk ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> mx uea.ac.uk ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 737 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;uea.ac.uk. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: uea.ac.uk. 50935 IN MX 2 ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk. uea.ac.uk. 50935 IN MX 2 ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk.
The IP addresses for the two UEA email servers are:
ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk. 28000 IN A 220.127.116.11
ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk. 28000 IN A 22.214.171.124
Test connections to UEA's current mailservers:
$> telnet ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk 25 Trying 126.96.36.199... Connected to ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:45:42 GMT quit 221 2.0.0 ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. $> telnet ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk 25 Trying 220.127.116.11... Connected to ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'. 220 ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:45:49 GMT quit 221 2.0.0 ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk closing connection
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TAMIU Names University Success Center After Senator Zaffirini
Recognizing a "tireless champion for Texas higher education and TAMIU," Texas A&M International University named its University Success Center for State Senator Judith Zaffirini in ceremonies Monday, June 11 in the lobby of the new Senator Judith Zaffirini Student Success Center.
The Texas A&M University System Chancellor, John Sharp, Jim Schwertner and Elaine Mendoza of the Board of Regents for the A&M System, joined University officials in announcing the honor. A&M Regents approved the naming in Board action Friday.
TAMIU president Ray Keck said Sen. Zaffirini's support of higher education was critical to all institutions, but most especially for TAMIU.
"She knows education. She is herself a product of a remarkable education. She maintains a laser focus on TAMIU and is deeply engaged in the life of our institution and our students. From helping to secure legislative funding to helping us to attract critical student scholarship support, she is front and center. Her tireless advocacy and leadership have been pivotal in TAMIU becoming a major regional university of choice.
"Likewise, her role on the Senate's Higher Education Committee has given her a substantial responsibility for education statewide which she discharges with deep commitment and resolve. What better building to have her name associated with than one that dedicates itself, like her, to student success?," he observed.
Chancellor Sharp, both a former colleague and friend of the Senator, said he was honored to help celebrate the naming of the Senator Judith Zaffirini Student Success Center.
"There is no bigger champion of higher education in our state than Senator Zaffirini and certainly no larger influence on the campus of Texas A&M International University. This recognition is a tribute to her work for students and our immense gratitude to her," Chancellor Sharp said.
Regent Schwertner concurred, noting Senator Zaffrini's expansive involvement in Texas higher education.
"Senator Zaffirini is and has remained a spirited leader for higher education in Texas. Her fingerprints can be seen on virtually every aspect of the education system. It is entirely appropriate that we now honor her with this lasting recognition on such an important building in her hometown, " Regent Schwertner said.
The Center, made possible by State funding initiated by Sen. Zaffirini in the 2006 Legislative Session approved by Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, centralizes essential student services areas under one roof.
Current and prospective students are able to access needed services to apply for admission, take placement exams, register for classes, apply for financial aid, request transcripts, pay for classes, buy books and obtain academic counseling services, all in one location.
Sharp, who became Chancellor of the A&M System in 2011, serves as chief executive officer of the A&M System under the direction of the Board of Regents.
Regent Schwertner, appointed to the Board in 2009, serves as chair of the Policy Review Committee and as a member of the Committee on Finance, Committee on Buildings and Physical Plant and the Herman F. & Minnie Belle Heep Texas A&M University Foundation.
Regent Mendoza, of San Antonio, was appointed to the Board of Regents by Governor Perry in 2011.
The A&M System is a statewide network of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a comprehensive health science center that educates more than 120,000 students and makes more than 22 million additional educational contacts through service and outreach programs each year. Externally funded research expenditures exceed $780 million and help drive the state's economy.
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On their way to the Virbank City Gym, our heroes are surprised to come across several Trainers who are still reeling from their defeat at the hands of the Gym Leader, Roxie, who specializes in Poison-type Pokémon. With Cilan's help, Ash discovers the Gym in an underground music club, where Roxie is the leader of the punk-rock trio known as Koffing and the Toxics. Roxie accepts Ash's challenge, on one condition: she wants him to use all six of his Pokémon against her team of three! Ash is a little unsure about this, but she assures him that he'll appreciate the numbers advantage. He agrees, and the unusual battle begins—in front of a crowd of rowdy fans and with plenty of musical accompaniment!
First up, it's Roxie's Koffing versus Ash's Boldore. But, as the losing Trainers warned, Roxie proves to be extremely powerful and resourceful, and Boldore is quickly eliminated. Ash sends out his Unfezant next, hoping a Flying type will be able to keep up with Koffing's incredible speed—but it's just not enough, and Unfezant is knocked out.
Ash's third Pokémon is Leavanny, much to everyone's surprise—as a Grass-type Pokémon, it's at a disadvantage against Poison-type foes. But Ash has a strategy this time, and he directs Leavanny to wrap Koffing up with a String Shot and reel it in for a close-range Energy Ball. Koffing is finally eliminated, and Roxie is one Pokémon down!
Next, she sends out her Scolipede, and it uses Toxic to send Leavanny reeling! Will Ash be able to recover from this poisonous assault and win his eighth Gym badge?