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I LIVE in a town with hundreds of restaurants serving many of the world's cuisines: sushi bars, pizza parlors, pho, tapas, KFC, you name it. My family eats out a fair amount, and we appreciate these tastes, so we could conceivably explore a different menu every outing. But we don't. Some years ago we discovered a neighborhood caf that we all really like, and that's pretty much where we go. It is our place.
I know that other people are different. We're basically opting for certainty and predictability, whereas others prefer exploration and change. But why do people differ on this trait? What motivates some to constantly seek out the next best thing, the greener grass, and others to stick with what is known and safe? How do we know there's not a new and better favorite eatery just around the corner? Are we trading off curiosity and novelty for the luxury of not having to make a decision?
Psychologists are very interested in this question, and some believe it may reflect a fundamental difference in cognitive style, wired into our neurons. Think of it this way: our ancient ancestors had to forage in the savanna for food and water, but there was no telling where they would find these resources. The environment was patchy, with a watering hole here and an antelope herd there, but no uniformity or predictability. So what was the best search strategy? Once you find a hunting ground with some antelope in it, do you set up camp and make it your own, or do you go looking for a better hunting ground, then a better one still?
An Uncertain World
Now fast-forward to modern times. Our challenges are perhaps more intellectual and abstract, but we still have to decide how to deal with an uncertain world. Faced with a problem or decision or choice, do we bear down and exploit one idea for all it is worth, or do we move rapidly on from one solution to another to another? Or maybe we do both, depending on the problem, toggling back and forth until we find what works.
Indiana University psychologists Thomas T. Hills, Peter M. Todd and Robert L. Goldstone decided to explore these questions in the laboratory. They wanted to see if people do indeed have a consistent cognitive style for foraging, whether it is for food or for ideas. They also wanted to see if jostling those ancient foraging neurons—triggering either exploration or exploitation instincts—influences the way people approach modern problems.
Because they could not actually ask people to root around for food in the wild, they used some modern tools: a computer and a board game. They had a group of volunteers manipulate icons to "forage" in a computerized world. Volunteers could move around until they stumbled on a hidden supply of food or water, at which point they had to decide if and when to move on, to continue the search (and in which direction), and so forth. The scientists tracked their movements.
But the volunteers explored two very different worlds: Some foraged in a "clumpy" world, which had fewer but richer supplies of nutrients. Others explored a "diffuse" environment, which had many more but much smaller supplies. The idea was to "prime" the unconscious mind to use the optimal foraging strategy for each possible world. Those who looked for resources in a diffuse world would in theory do better to give up on any one spot quickly, moving on rapidly and navigating to avoid any duplication. Those in a clumpy world would be more likely to stay put, exploiting the rich lodes of nutrients rather than keeping up the search.
Scrabbling for Words
That was the first part of the experiment. Afterward, the volunteers participated in a more abstract, intellectual search task: the board game Scrabble. They didn't actually play Scrabble, but they got letters as if they were going to play, and they had to search their memory for as many words as they could make with those letters. As with the board game, they could also choose to trade in their letters for new ones, but in the experiment they could do it whenever they wanted to. The wholesale trading of letters is what the psychologists were actually observing: they wanted to compare the volunteers' Scrabble strategies with their foraging strategies, to see if they stuck with the letters they were given—or rapidly abandoned one set of letters for another (more promising) set. In other words, would those who were mentally primed for a clumpy world see their Scrabble letters as rich clumps, worth sticking with, whereas those primed for a diffuse world would quickly abandon one set of letters for another?
The results were striking. As reported in the August issue of the journal Psychological Science, those whose neurons were primed for exploration in the wild were also more restless and exploratory in Scrabble, whereas those primed for exploitation were more focused and persevering when they switched to the abstract mental challenge. Put another way, the human brain appears capable of toggling back and forth between exploration and exploitation, depending on the demands of the task.
The psychologists also found that individuals were consistent in their cognitive style. That is, the most persevering foragers were also the most persistent Scrabble players, just as gadabouts in the food search tended to gallivant in intellectual matters as well. And presumably in life: they would probably be too antsy to settle for a "good enough" neighborhood caf.
But dining out is trivial. These findings have more serious implications related to other recent work on brain chemistry and cognitive disorders. Exploratory and inattentive foraging—actual or abstract—appears to be linked to decreases in the brain chemical dopamine. Similarly, many problems related to attention—including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, drug addiction, some forms of autism, and schizophrenia—have been associated with a dopamine deficit. It is possible, psychologists say, that computer foraging might reveal one's underlying cognitive style—either having persistence or lacking it. It is even possible that simulated foraging could have long-term effects on thinking style and possibly even lead to therapies for cognitive disorders. That is something worth exploring.
Note: This story was originally published with the title, "Foraging in the Modern World".


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"Come for a walk with me" he says in a tone that makes we want to protest, but I can't. So, here we are standing in the forest.
Take it back, take it all back now
the things I gave, like the taste of my kiss on your lips,
I miss that now
The many times I've kissed you, the countless times you've said you loved me, and now you say this?? "Bella, we're leaving"… those words ripped through me.
I can't try any harder than I do
all the reasons I gave, excuses I made for you
are broken in two
So you're a vampire, big deal. I want to be one too! I've made many excuses to friends on how you take so many "Camping Trips" whenever the weather is nice. After all I've done, you're still going to leave me here like this?!
All the things left undiscovered
Leave me empty and left to wonder
I need you
all the things left undiscovered
Leave me waiting and left to wonder
I need you
Yeah I need you
don't walk away
Please… Don't do this to me! I need you. I want you. There's so much more I want with you. Just don't leave.
Touch me now how I wanna feel;
something so real, please remind me
my love, and take me back
Just take me with you. We could go away… just the two of us. I'd do anything, just don't leave me like this! Edward, my love, my life, take me and let's run away!
Cuz I'm so in love with what we were
I'm not breathing I'm suffocating without you
Do you feel it too?
I love you; I'll say it a thousand times more if it means you'll stay! We were so happy… and just because of one little mistake at a party, that I never wanted in the first place, you're just going to give up?!? "What happened with Jasper – that was nothing, Edward! Nothing!" I shouted at him, trying anything to make him stay.
All the things left undiscovered
Leave me waiting and left to wonder
I need you
all the things left undiscovered
Leave me empty and left to wonder
I need you
Yeah I need you
"It was exactly what was to be expected" he replied… I didn't like where this was headed! I don't want to hear this… don't leave me, I need you!!
When I'm in the dark and all alone
Dreaming that you'll walk right through my door,
it's then I know my heart is whole
"This is about my soul isn't it? You can have my soul. I don't want it without you – it's yours already!" I protested, and you might as well take my heart too; it won't beat without you here either.
There's a million reasons why I cry
hold my covers tight and close my eyes
Cuz I don't wana be alone
Tears streaming down my face, I stared at him looking into his eyes. They seemed frozen, like he was afraid of showing something. I closed my eyes, breathing in his sent, quite possibly for the last time. That thought brought chills running up my spine. I don't want to be without my angel.
All the things left undiscovered
Leave me waiting and left to wonder
I need you
all the things left undiscovered
Leave me empty and left to wonder
I need you, I need you
"Bella, I don't want you to come with me." He said those words with no emotion. No, you can't mean that… either you're lying to me now, or you were lying when you said you loved me; and I refuse to think that's true. "You…don't…want…me?" the phrase came out like a question, a very weird question. "No" he replied plainly.
Cuz I can't fake and I can't hate
But it's my heart
that's about to break
I literally felt my heart rip from my chest. He doesn't want me, how is that even possible? Not that I didn't think it might come. I mean, he's perfect, a Greek god… it never did make sense for him to love me, a weak human. "Well, that changes things then"
You're all I need
I'm on my knees
Watch me bleed
would you listen please
"I've let this go on much too long, and I'm sorry for that" My knees are beginning to shake, I don't want to do this; I don't want to hear this! "Don't… Don't do this!" Please don't walk away from me.
I give in
I breathe out
I want you, there's no doubt
I freak out, I'm left out
without you, I'm without
He pressed his cold lips lightly to my forehead for the slightest second, "Take care of yourself" he said as his cold breath blew across my face. What do you care, you're leaving, you don't want me. Then he was gone with the breeze.
I'm crossed out
I'm kicked out
I cry out
I reach out
Gone… disappeared. I tried to follow him into the woods, but there was no sign of him. No footprints, no sign of him ever being here. He was gone, and never coming back again. 'It will be as if I'd never existed'… the words echoed through my head. The problem, Edward, is that you DID exist; you changed my life in so many ways.
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
My knees buckled and I collapsed in a heap on the damp ground. I know I should have gotten up, but I didn't want to. My life, my love, my angel was gone; and he wasn't ever coming back again. He didn't want me, so what do I have to live for? He took my heart when he left. I might as well give up, and just die here in the woods. 'Goodbye my angel; I love you, and always will. Even if you don't love me' I though as the darkness slowly closed in around me.

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'Pif le Chien' (Pif Gadget #4, 17 March 1969).
Louis Cance was born in Sansac-de-Marmiesse. After a first publication in L'Écureuil magazine, Cance made his professional debut in Johnny Texas magazine with 'Red Devil' in 1959 and 1960. Between 1965 and 1968, he drew several comics for magazines like Record, Lisette-Nade and Amis-Coop. In 1967, Cance took over the title 'Pif le Chien' series in Pif magazine and continued to work on it until 1990. He alternated on the scripts with Patrice Valli and Christian Godard.
'Red Devil' (Johnny Texas, 1959).
While working on Pif, Cance additionally drew the series 'Pépé Dynamite' from scripts by Claire Godet and published in Formule 1 by Fleurus publishers. In 1973 he launched Hop! magazine, which is considered one of France's best comics news magazines and appears to this day. He made 'Un de la Police Montée' for Amis-Coop between 1973 and 1990. From 1978 until the mid-1980s he was also affiliated with Édi-Monde/Hachette as a scriptwriter for Disney comics. He is the father of illustrator and painter Hubert Cance.
'Pif le Chien' (Pif Gadget #6, 31 March 1969).


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Forget about peace in our time. Readers who responded to InfoWorld's online poll have made it clear that they back Apple in the dispute over allowing Flash on the iPhone and iPad. As of 5 p.m. PT on Thursday, May 13, 48 percent said that Apple had the right to block Flash, while 35 percent said that Apple should place no restrictions on Flash or other technologies if users chose to install them. Only 17 percent supported InfoWorld's peace plan, which outlined four steps to allow Flash to run on the iPhone OS while satisfying the technical complaints Apple has made about Flash.
The results show that 52 percent of respondents (the pro-Flash and pro-peace-plan respondents) support having Flash on the iPhone, though of that group a third wants Adobe and Apple to first adopt InfoWorld's peace plan. But the overall results also mean that just 35 percent of all the respondents would be satisfied with Flash as is running on the iPhone OS.
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The poll, which is still open, had 2,453 respondents as of 5 p.m. PT on Thursday. You can see the current poll results and vote yourself at InfoWorld.com. You can also read InfoWorld's proposed Flash-on-iPhone peace plan there as well. The peace plan's four basic recommendations were:
- Create a Flash video player plug-in for the iPhone OS.
- Put the core Flash technologies into the standards bodies.
- Create an iPhone-certified SWF exporter for Adobe Creative Suite.
- Explore a Flash app certification process.
Anti-Adobe passions run high
Reader comments at InfoWorld.com and Slashdot indicated strong antipathy to Flash and Adobe's handling of the technology. For example, InfoWorld reader "editorsteve" wrote simply, "Flash crashes drive me nuts." Reader "eww" wrote, "I don't want Flash on my mobile devices until it's stable and far less power-hungry." And "BurkPhoto" commented, "Users worldwide lose over the long haul if a junky technology like Flash is allowed to flourish unchecked. Apple is correct on this one. I hope they pull off an HTML5 revolution and clean up Web video for everyone."
InfoWorld reader "systemadministrator" described the Flash issue colorfully: "Bringing Flash into iPhone or iPad is like bringing farm animals into your living room. They mean no harm, yet, they will have no remorse in stinking up your house, leaving droppings on your floor, and making a mess. Some things should not be on a device that was not meant to support it. Just because there's a browser on the iPhone or the iPad doesn't mean that somehow someway every known plugin must work in that browser."


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No sailing to Cuba: Road Scholar cancels U.S. trips by ship
A U.S.-based organization on Friday canceled people-to-people trips to Cuba that would have transported U.S. citizens there by ship.
Road Scholar canceled the programs after receiving an amended copy of its people-to-people license from the U.S. Treasury Department specifically excluding travel to Cuba "aboard a vessel."
"Travel to and from Cuba, whether originating or terminating in the United States or a third country, may not be aboard a vessel," stated a provision written into the amended license, which Road Scholar received a copy of on Thursday.
Road Scholar, based in Boston, had previously announced trips from Jamaica and Miami with stops in Havana and other parts of Cuba.
Most travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba is outlawed, but tens of thousands of Americans now visit the island legally each year on people-to-people tours, which are licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department. People-to-people trips must have educational and cultural exchange itineraries in order to be approved by the U.S. government.
Typically people-to-people tours fly from U.S. airports to Havana on chartered planes.
In originally announcing the tour July 18, Road Scholar's director of international programs, Yves Marceau, had said it was his understanding that "nothing in the regulations or guidelines" precluded traveling by ship on a people-to-people tour.
Marceau said Friday that "as a result of this new information, we withdrew" the three ocean voyages to Cuba.
Road Scholar, a not-for-profit educational organization that offers guided trips to many destinations, continues to offer land-based people-to-people tours that fly in to Cuba.


text: Despite the U.S. government spending billions of dollars to encourage electric utilities to roll out the Internet-powered smart grid, the nation is at a critical stage for adoption of the next-generation electrical system and accompanying smart meters, some experts said Tuesday.The U.S. Congress designated US $4.5 billion for smart grid deployment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the huge economic stimulus package passed in early 2009. But there appears to be a growing consumer backlash about smart meters, and in June, the Maryland Public Service Commission rejected a plan by Baltimore Gas and Electric to install smart meters, saying the BGE plan put too much of the risk on the backs of customers.The Maryland PSC's decision put at risk about $200 million in smart grid grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, although the state agency invited BGE to submit a new plan, which it did Monday.Many consumers aren't sure how much the smart grid and smart meters will benefit them, said John Howat, senior policy analyst at the National Consumer Law Center. The smart grid promises to allow dynamic pricing of electricity, but consumers see potential downsides to paying more for electricity at peak times, and for paying for smart meters and related equipment up front, he said during a New America Foundation forum on the smart grid.In April, a utility in California used a smart meter to remotely shut off the electricity of a customer behind on monthly payments, Howat said. The family lit candles and a fire started, killing four children.Consumers have a "what's-in-it-for-me" mentality, and electric utilities across the country haven't done a good job of explaining the benefits of the smart grid and smart meters, added Robert Leiberman, principal with the Regulatory Assistance Project, a nonprofit focusing on the economic and environmental sustainability of the power and natural gas sectors.Advocates of the smart grid, including U.S. President Barack Obama, say it will allow customers to better understand how much energy they use, allow them to lower their monthly bills in many cases, and allow them to comparison shop for energy. The smart grid will also allow utilities to more easily integrate renewable energy sources, such as wind power, advocates say.Consumers may be worrying too much about dynamic electricity pricing, Leiberman said. "The real value proposition for customers is the 95 percent of the hours where the prices in the electricity market are far lower than they're being charged," he said. "Until regulators and companies start talking about the real value proposition, I don't see why anybody would do this."The Maryland PSC noted that BGE's smart meter deployment would cost $835 million, including $482 million during the initial rollout."Although we share BGE's (and others') hopes, and even enthusiasm, for the long-run potential and importance of the infrastructure upgrades known colloquially as the 'smart grid,' we find the business case for this proposal untenable," commissioners wrote in their June order. "The proposal asks BGE's ratepayers to take significant financial and technological risks and adapt to categorical changes in rate design, all in exchange for savings that are largely indirect, highly contingent and a long way off. We are not persuaded that this bargain is cost-effective or serves the public interest, at least not in its current form."Utilities need to provide additional equipment beyond simple smart meters that allow customers to measure their electricity use and give them some control, said Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, senior research associate at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado. More education programs about the smart grid are also needed, she said.Many electricity customers want to save money and want to help protect the environment by using renewable energy, she said. "People are ready to do their part, but they don't know what to do," Ehrhardt-Martinez added.Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantusG. Grant's e-mail address is email@example.com.


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With the introduction of event tags, it is now possible to tag problem events. That also means that with tagging it is possible to correlate a specific problem event to its resolution. For example, in log monitoring, when several problems are discovered that are related to different applications, you may want to see them resolved separately rather than all together. This is now possible.
For example, in log monitoring you encounter lines similar to these:
Line1: Application 1 stopped
Line2: Application 2 stopped
Line3: Application 1 was restarted
Line4: Application 2 was restarted
With event correlation, you can match the problem event from Line1 to the resolution from Line3 and the problem event from Line2 to the resolution from Line4, and close these problems one by one:
Line1: Application 1 stopped
Line3: Application 1 was restarted #problem from Line 1 closed
Line2: Application 2 stopped
Line4: Application 2 was restarted #problem from Line 2 closed
For more information see the event correlation section.
Custom tags for events are introduced in the new version. Custom event tags are realized as a pair of the tag name and value. You can use only the name or pair it with a value.
These tags are defined in trigger configuration - for triggers, template triggers and trigger prototypes.
After the tags are defined on the trigger level, corresponding events get marked with tag data.
Having custom tags for events opens up new possibilities:
Tags can be defined for template triggers and trigger prototypes. These tags are propagated to real triggers when created.
For more information see the event tag section.
The monitoring part of Zabbix frontend has gained a new dedicated "Problems" view. This section is for displaying problems only and it follows immediately after Monitoring → Dashboard. The new section is intended to give users a much clearer view of problems in comparison to the two Monitoring → Triggers and Monitoring → Events sections used for this purpose previously.
In a related development, Monitoring → Events has been removed from the frontend. To access event details, use the new section for problems.
Some problems in log monitoring or trap handling need to be closed manually because there is no easy way to determine when the problem has been resolved. For these cases, triggers can now be configured with the option of manual closing of problem events. Once configured, problem events of the trigger can be closed manually when using the acknowledgement screen.
For more information see: Manual closing of problems.
Sometimes a macro may resolve to a value that is not necessarily easy to work with. It may be long or contain a specific substring of interest that you would like to extract. For these purposes, the new version comes with a new concept of macro functions. Currently, two macro functions are supported:
These macro functions are supported for the {ITEM.VALUE} and {ITEM.LASTVALUE} macro values in trigger names, trigger descriptions, event tags, notifications subjects and notification messages.
For more information see the macro function section.
Having a built-in mechanism for a logical grouping of host groups is something that is very much required, especially in larger organizations. While the new Zabbix version does not support a full nesting of host groups where a higher-level host group would automatically inherit all hosts of a nested host group, first steps towards nested host groups have been taken by allowing a nested representation of host groups and aligning the permission schema to host group nesting.
Nested representation of host groups is accomplished by using the '/' forward slash to separate the logical levels of host groups.
For more information see: Configuring a host group
Note that nested host group functionality is extended in Zabbix 3.2.2.
In a related development, the host group permission tab has been significantly reworked in user group and user configuration forms.
More advanced options are available for dealing with fast-growing log files. The key issue with such files is the enormous number of messages, which are written to the log files in certain situations. As all new lines must be analyzed by Zabbix and the matching lines sent to Zabbix server, it may result both in serious delays and a large number of identical messages sent and stored in the database.
To deal with these issues there are two major improvements:
Trigger hysteresis is a useful option both to avoid trigger "flapping" (switching between problem and OK too often) and in situations where you need an interval between the problem value and the OK value. While it was possible in previous Zabbix versions to define trigger hysteresis using the {TRIGGER.VALUE} macro, the resulting expression was not exactly the easiest way of doing things:
The new version proposes a much easier way of defining trigger hysteresis by introducing an optional second trigger expression called 'recovery expression' where you can separately define the conditions that have to be met for the trigger to return back to the OK state.
There is also more control over how OK events are generated. You can use the problem expression as basis (then it works the same way as before), the recovery expression as basis, or even select 'None' in which case the trigger will always remain in problem state if it goes into it.
Additionally, PROBLEM event generation mode for single/multiple problem events has been changed from a silent default/optional checkbox into an obvious two-way choice.
See also:
Being notified on problem recovery has become easier in Zabbix. If previously there was the slightly confusing concept of a special "Recovery message" or the possibility to create a full escalation when problem triggers go OK, now that has been united into one "Recovery operation" concept.
In a recovery operation you can both receive a notification and execute a remote command. Even though recovery messages cannot be escalated (assigned to several steps), it is possible to assign several operations to a single step. Moreover, all users that were notified on the problem previously, can be notified on the recovery with just one selection made in action configuration.
Recovery operations also get a dedicated tab in the action configuration form, while the condition tab has been dropped and conditions now can be set in the general action property tab.
Note that some action conditions have been dropped completely with this development:
For more details, see:
The logic of delaying problem notifications during host maintenance has been changed.
In previous Zabbix versions, it was possible to skip problem notifications during a host maintenance period (using the Maintenance status = not in "maintenance" action condition). Then, if the problem persisted, problem events were generated immediately after the maintenance. However, since the original problem messages were suppressed, it was not always easy for users to understand what generated those events and why. Acknowledgement information of the original event was also lost.
In the new version, the old mechanism is dropped. Instead there is a new option in action configuration, which allows to pause notifications in the host maintenance phase if you wish so.
If notifications are paused during maintenance, they get started after the maintenance, according to the escalation scenario. That means that no messages are skipped, simply delayed.
See also:
Entities created by low-level discovery (items, triggers, graphs) in previous Zabbix versions were only listed. It was not possible to view their details or apply mass operations to them, such as enabling/disabling or deleting.
Now these entities are shown in a much more user-friendly way. It is possible to view the details of these items, triggers and graphs. Check-boxes are enabled to apply mass operations to them. Thus it is possible to enable/disable/delete them.
|Items created by low-level discovery before 3.2.0.
|Items created by low-level discovery in 3.2.0.
When exporting hosts or templates into XML, web scenarios are now exported as well. When importing hosts/templates, there are options for creating new, updating existing and deleting missing web scenarios.
Now on you may easily share web scenarios on share.zabbix.com. For example, export a template with the web scenarios into XML and upload to share.zabbix.com. Then others can download the template and import the XML into Zabbix.
A separate option for acknowledging OK events along with problem events has been removed from the acknowledgement screen. It is now possible to acknowledge problem events only, with the choice of acknowledging just one or all problem events of the trigger(s).
Host groups, templates and global scripts can now be searched by name in:
Several frontend sections have gained a filter allowing to search by name as well as status, type or mode:
Zabbix server will validate host availability, discovery and auto-registration data received from proxy stricter and will reject the whole data packet in case it contains invalid entries. At the same time fewer but more informative messages will be written to the log file. Also, if passive proxy for example returns invalid host availability data, server will skip polling discovery, history and auto-registration data from that proxy. Apart from better messages processing of historical data from proxies and active agents is not affected. Log file messages containing name, IP address and error description will help troubleshooting misconfiguration issues such as proxypoller connecting server's trapper port or agent instead of proxy.
Zabbix agent configuration file parameter Alias now supports setting flexible key parameters. For instance, now it is possible to set an alias with wildcard as a parameter (
alias[*]) and use it on item setup entering required valid key parameters as usual (e.g.,
alias[all,avg5]). The other benefit of such flexibility is that now it is possible to pass any parameters to a key which originally doesn't support parameters. In such case passed parameters will be ignored and original key processed. This may be used setting up multiple low-level discovery rules for the same items.
log.count and logrt.count - two new items have been added along with a 'maxdelay' parameter for log monitoring. For more information see: Coping with fast-growing log files.
Two new item keys to read the datacenter name have been added for hypervisors and virtual machines:
{#DATACENTER.NAME} field has been added to the hypervisor and virtual machine discovery item keys
vmware.hv.discovery and
The count() function now supports regexp and iregexp operators for all item types. It is now possible to count values matching a regular expression (ordinary or global) collected over a specified period of time.
Several functions are now calculated for unsupported items as well:
Host and item, however, must be enabled as before.
Previously any unsupported item in trigger expression or error in function evaluation immediately rendered the whole expression value to Unknown. Triggers became Unknown, calculated items became unsupported.
In the new version there's a more flexible approach: unsupported items and errors in function evaluation continue to take part in expression evaluation as unknowns.
Advantage - logical OR and AND expressions are evaluated, if possible, to known values. For example:
See Expressions with unsupported items and unknown values.
The history_text.id and history_log.id fields were removed from the corresponding history tables. Those fields were redundant and removing them will simplify history table structures and will remove unnecessary overhead when inserting values.


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In the virtual world of Second Life, female avatars expose substantially more skin than males, independent of their virtual body proportions, according to research published December 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matthieu Guitton and colleagues from Laval University, Canada.
The human tendency to cover up stems from climatic, environmental, physical and cultural constraints, so measuring people's propensity to reveal skin can be difficult in the real world. To study human behavior free of at least some of these constraints, the researchers analyzed how male and female avatars in the virtual, 3- dimensional world of Second Life dressed. Second Life offers users options to choose the gender, appearance and attire of their virtual avatars, and users can select clothing from several items created in this virtual world, rather than being restricted to a predefined costume.
They found that out of over 400 virtual people studied, 71% of male avatars covered between 75-100% of their skin, while only 5% of females did. In contrast, 47% of the virtual females they studied covered between 25-49% of their skin, compared to 9% of males. The amount of skin covered was independent of traditional gender-specific measures of physical attractiveness for virtual avatars, such as waist-chest ratios for females. According to the study, "These findings have implications for understanding how sex specific aspects of skin disclosure influence human social interactions in both virtual and real settings."
Guitton adds, "Virtual settings provide a unique tool to study human behavior unhindered by physical and environmental constraints.This tool enabled us to find a dramatic gender difference in the propensity to disclose naked skin."
Citation: Lomanowska AM, Guitton MJ (2012) Virtually Naked: Virtual Environment Reveals Sex-Dependent Nature of Skin Disclosure. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51921.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051921
Financial Disclosure: This work was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (grant number 371644). MJG holds a Career Grant from the "Fonds de la Recherche en Sante´ du Que´bec" (FRSQ) and AML is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from FRSQ. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interest Statement: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.


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By Elin Hilderbrand
A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.
As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents--secrets kept, promises broken, hearts betrayed. Elin Hilderbrand explores the power of community, family, and honesty, and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight.
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Children with Hypertension Have Trouble with Thinking, Memory
Children with high blood pressure are not as good at complicated, goal-directed tasks, have more working memory problems and are not as adept at planning as their peers without hypertension, according to recent research. If they are both hypertensive and obese, they are also more likely to have anxiety and depression.
Considering the demands on a child's brain – both in continued development and in education – and the fact that up to 10 percent of the increasing population of obese children have hypertension, these novel findings could give physicians and parents more impetus to diagnose and treat high blood pressure in children.
"These results were very surprising to me, despite similar findings in adults," said Marc Lande, M.D., a pediatric nephrologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center's Golisano Children's Hospital and author of the paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics this month. "Adults with hypertension often have other problems that might affect cognition such as chronic disease, smoking or alcohol use. However, children with hypertension usually do not have these comorbidities."
In adults, high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart disease, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure. Lande postulates that the cognitive changes demonstrated in this study may represent very early manifestations of hypertensive damage to the brain, which may long precede more overt damage such as stroke.
In addition, more than half the children with both hypertension and obesity demonstrated clinically significant anxiety and depression. Lande said he was initially looking at anxiety and depression only to rule out its interplay with executive function, which is a collection of cognitive abilities that help plan for and respond to complex situations; he did not expect to tease out this new finding.
"Children with only obesity or only hypertension did not have the anxiety and depression that children with both obesity and hypertension did," Lande said. "With further study, screening for anxiety and depression could end up being routine when an obese child is diagnosed with hypertension."
Lande said preliminary results suggest that treatment of hypertension in children may improve their cognitive executive functions, indicating that the changes in cognition associated with hypertension may be reversible with treatment to normalize the blood pressure.
Lande was inspired to conduct the study after finding a correlation between high blood pressure and lower scores on neurocognitive tests in a nationally representative dataset, NHANES III, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 1988 to 1994. To dig deeper, Lande enrolled 32 newly diagnosed hypertensive children and adolescents (10 to 18 years old) from the Pediatric Hypertension Clinic at the University's Golisano Children's Hospital. Children who didn't have sustained hypertension or had previous medical issues that affected learning or sleeping were excluded. Thirty-two children with normal blood pressure were recruited from the hospital's pediatric practice and other area pediatric practices and were matched with the hypertensive children by age, weight, sex, race IQ and socioeconomic level.
The parents of both sets of 32 children answered a series of surveys to determine their children's executive function. (Testing the children through parental assessments can be a more valid test because these assessments evaluate the child's abilities in real-life situations better than directly testing a child, one-on-one in a lab setting) Although the hypertensive group did not perform poorly enough to require clinical intervention, the results were significantly different than the group without hypertension.
"We don't know the long-term implications of these subtle changes, but the potential for these differences in cognitive function to affect children is certainly concerning enough to warrant further study," Lande said.


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Museum London honours the Afzaal family with a new exhibit
On Saturday, Museum London launched a brand-new display honouring the Afzaal Family.
The Youth Coalition Combating Islamophobia (YCCI) collaborated with a local artist to design the "London Remembers" exhibition.
There are numerous displays honouring the Afzaals, encouraging peace and inclusion.
The Hexagon shapes link the mural to the commemorative installation at Hyde Park and South Carriage Roads in London.
On June 6th, 2021, a car ran four members of the Afzaal family over, killing them.
The London Remembers exhibit will be displayed until the second anniversary on Tuesday.
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What Drug Works for Urinary Incontinence?
There's no easy answer, because treatments must be individualized, especially with older patients
En español |Q. I take care of my 85-year-old aunt, who has urinary incontinence. She had been taking Ditropan, but it didn't seem to help her, so her doctor prescribed Enablex. The drug made her urinate so often and gave her such horrible nightmares, though, that she got no sleep at all. Now he's put her back on the Ditropan. Is there another medication you have had success with that I could ask the doctor about?
A. Urinary incontinence — the loss of bladder control — is a common condition, especially among women and older adults.
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There are many types of urinary incontinence, the most prevalent being "urge incontinence" — an urge to urinate so sudden and strong that you often can't get to a bathroom in time. When this type of incontinence has no identifiable cause, it's called "overactive bladder."
The drugs typically used to treat this condition include darifenacin (Enablex), fesoterodine (Toviaz); oxybutynin (Ditropan), solifenacin (Vesicare), tolterodine (Detrol) and trospium (Sanctura). These are all anticholinergics — drugs that block the effects of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter associated with muscle activation, learning and memory.
I'm sorry to say, however, that your aunt long ago reached the age where anticholinergic drugs should almost certainly be ruled out as a treatment option. In older patients, anticholinergics — like the two your aunt has been prescribed — can cause a wide range of adverse effects, including constipation (which, in turn, can cause urinary incontinence), blurred vision, confusion and short-term memory problems, dizziness, anxiety, depression and hallucinations.
When considering how to treat urinary incontinence it's important to remember two things. First, while the muscles in the bladder and urethra lose some of their strength as we get older (and the bladder also loses some of its capacity), incontinence isn't "normal" at any age. Second, urinary incontinence is a symptom, not a disease. Urge incontinence, for example, may be caused by:
- urinary tract infections
- bladder irritants, including coffee, tea, carbonated drinks, alcohol, and many other foods and beverages
- overhydration, especially before bedtime
- constipation and other bowel problems
- Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease
- nervous system injuries (such as stroke)
- nervous system damage associated with some diseases, such as multiple sclerosis
Further, many commonly prescribed drugs can also cause incontinence or make it worse. Among them:
- heart medications
- blood-pressure medications (amlodipine, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, lisinopril and torsemide, for example)
- antidepressants
- muscle relaxants
- diuretics
- sleeping pills
I'd recommend that you work closely with your aunt's physician or other health care provider to determine, if at all possible, what might be causing her incontinence. Smoking or being overweight can be contributing factors, for example.
While it's not always possible to pinpoint a cause — especially with very old patients — I find that adjusting a patient's medications often resolves or, at least, substantially lessens the problem. Some simple behavioral techniques — including bladder training and scheduled toilet trips — can help, too.
If these approaches don't work out, I'd recommend that your aunt try adult diapers, pads or panty liners, which can be purchased just about anywhere. They can be worn comfortably (and invisibly) under everyday clothing and virtually eliminate any risk of embarrassing accidents. In my experience, many patients are reluctant to try this approach, but once over the initial hurdle, come to prefer it for security and peace of mind.
"Ask the Pharmacist" is written by Armon B. Neel Jr., PharmD, CGP, in collaboration with journalist Bill Hogan. They are coauthors of Are Your Prescriptions Killing You?, published by Atria Books.
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Benthic Grabs
When scientists want to sample the organisms that live on or just below the surface of the ocean floor (the benthos) they commonly use a Benthic Grab to collect a portion of the ocean floor. Benthic Grabs can take a bite out of the benthos. Various sizes and approaches work with different organisms and sediment types. The aim is to bring to the surface a complete sample of both the sediment and the organisms found there. Using these techniques, scientists describe the species found in the sediment and their abundance, even preventing some of the injury that occurs to delicate animals with other methods, such as bottom trawling.
A diagram of a small Benthic Grab detailing the major components. (NOAA Ocean Explorer)
A large Benthic Grab being hauled on deck after use. (Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life - CeDAMar. Senckenberg, Germany)


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Vintage Yard Haunt
Posted by Rot at 6:32 AM
Labels: cemetery, flickr.com, hangman, tombstones, vintage
4 comments:
- VJESCI said...
- April 14, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Rot said...
Those are some gruesome images.
I've seen many discussions on the offensive historical nature of the Halloween hangman prop. I tend to see it as an execution prop, similar to the guillotine.
- April 14, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- VJESCI said...
.as a prop it also recalls the hallowe'en scene in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_(film)
- April 14, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- JHMDF said...
Very creepy photo...looks like they just hung a dude at a small graveyard.
- April 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM
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1932: Jose Feliciano Ama, Izalco indigenous peasant
4 comments January 28th, 2020 Headsman
El Salvador campesino Jose Feliciano Ama was hanged in the town square of Izalco on this date in 1932 during a ferocious repression of the peasantry.
In an environment of desperate economic immiseration for nearly all Salvadorans below the landed oligarchy, the heavily indigenous western peasantry rebelled on January 22, 1932 — aided or led by the Communist Party.*
This fate of this rebellion might be inferred by its historiographical sobriquet, the Salvadoran peasant massacre — or simply la Matanza, the slaughter.
In numerical terms, it ran to well into the tens of thousands, maybe up to 40,000 — indiscriminately visited on peasants of originario complexion in the zone of rebellion, batches of them summarily shot into mass graves they'd been forced to dig for themselves.
In the Pipil town of Izalco, where coffee latifundias dominated the best agricultural land,* up to a quarter of the population was butchered. None of those put to la Matanza were more recognizable nor more vividly recalled than the local rebel leader Feliciano Ama English Wikipedia entry | Spanish), extrajudicially noosed in front of the Izalco church. Today a small plaque in this square honors him as a popular martyr.
* See States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America. An heiress of coffee magnate and former president Tomas Regalado allegedly forced our Feliciano Ama off his lands by dint of brute force.
On this day..
- 1886: The leadership of the Proletariat Party - 2019
- 1591: Agnes Sampson, North Berwick witch - 2018
- 1820: The slaves Ephraim and Sam, "awful dispensation of justice" - 2017
- 1573: Lippold ben Chluchim, scapegoat - 2016
- 1989: Teng Xingshan, butcher - 2015
- 1820: Not Stephen Boorn, saved by newsprint - 2014
- 1656: Joris Fonteyn, anatomized and painted - 2013
- 1697: John Fenwick, bitter - 2012
- 1829: William Burke, eponymous body-snatcher - 2011
- Themed Set: The Medical Gaze - 2011
- 2010: Five for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - 2010
- 1953: Derek Bentley, controversially - 2009
- 1853: Nicholas Saul and William Howlett, teenage New York gangsters - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Borderline "Executions",Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,El Salvador,Execution,Hanged,History,Mature Content,No Formal Charge,Power,Public Executions,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,Revolutionaries,Summary Executions,Torture
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