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John Calvin: Suffering, Understanding the Love of God
John Calvin (1509–1564) was familiar with suffering. He faced challenges as a leader of the Reformation, ministered to people undergoing various trials, and experienced his own physical difficulties and the death of loved ones. He has been criticized as an aloof, intellectual theologian whose view of suffering may seem to some as less than sympathetic and pastoral. However, Hill's selection of his writings shows that Calvin was tender and understanding toward sufferers.
This book consists mainly of quotations from Calvin's commentaries and his Institutes of the Christian Religion, which are interspersed with Hill's own comments. Calvin's writings are applied to human suffering, including all sorts of pain and distress, serious illness, loss of loved ones or friends, natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and forest fires, poverty and hunger, accidents, persecution, and many other such events. Illustrations of suffering are drawn from the life of Calvin himself and other figures of history. Hill also quotes Seneca, Augustine of Hippo, John Milton, Joni Eareckson Tada, and others to throw light on the problem of suffering. Calvin turned particularly to the Psalms and to Job to comfort his congregation and readers. He rightly noted that in Job 32–37 Elihu corrected the view of Job's three friends that suffering was only punitive. Like Elihu, Calvin dealt with many reasons believers suffer, including, among others, stimulation to prayer, trust in God's power, teaching patience, encouraging hope, evidence of obedience, leading one to a higher relationship with God, being led to seek God's help, having pity on others, and preparing for eternal glory.
Why God allows His people to suffer is given careful consideration (pp. 59–76). Hill wisely points out that it is more important that God has acted in Christ to justify the ungodly than that believers are able to understand and defend every action of God in allowing suffering. An example of this is Calvin's comments on Job 8:13-22: "So then, let us learn not to put our trust in this world, or in any of the inferior means below. But let us lean upon God, seeing that he has given us our Lord Jesus Christ, to the end that being grafted into him we may drain such strength and sap from him that, although our life is hidden so that we are even as it were in death, we may not cease to continue still. And we may be maintained in a good and sure state, waiting till this good God has delivered us out of all worldly miseries and out of all the troubles we are obliged to suffer here, until he calls us and brings us into the kingdom of heaven and into the glory which he has purchased by the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ" (p. 342). Hill also draws on Calvin's biblical teaching that God ordains the suffering of His people for good (pp. 77–107). And as God's people pour out their hearts to Him, He purifies and gives them grace to persevere (pp. 127–66).
The collection also includes such themes as "God governs all things at all times" (p. 49), "God cares about His people" (p. 52), "God is the supreme cause of all that happens" (pp. 59–76), "Good people suffer too" (p. 63), "Faith sometimes fails" (p. 113), and "Standing on the promises" (p. 115). The subtitle "Understanding the Love of God," does not prove to be the major emphasis of the book; a better subtitle would be "Understanding the Heart of God" since other divine attributes besides love are addressed.
Ministers and teachers who care for God's suffering people will find this book helpful. Any serious-minded believer who wrestles with the problem of suffering will find profit in this compilation of Calvin's writings. Hill is associate professor emeritus of biblical studies and Greek at Geneva College.


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Atlanta has long been glibly characterized as a city without historic
architecture--"Sherman burned it all, you know." Besides ignoring
the "brave and beautiful city" that Henry Grady
and his New South compatriots championed after the Civil War, that
comment also forgets that some of the city's most distinguished
antebellum architecture was destroyed long after the war, including
the original county courthouse and the city's downtown churches,
all of which had been torn down and rebuilt by the 1890s. Numerous
examples of antebellum residential architecture also survived into
the 20th century around the fringes of downtown, although none survived
past mid-century. The Leyden House, one of the few high style Greek
Revival houses built in the city, was demolished by real estate
speculators in 1913. The Italianate Neal Mansion, which Sherman
used as his headquarters during the Federal occupation in 1864,
was demolished in 1927 for construction of a new city hall. And
the city's first two-story house, which dated to the earliest days
of the city in the 1840s, was torn down in the late 1930s for a
Popular interest in the Civil War escalated in the early 20th
century, and in 1921, the city opened the Cyclorama in Grant
Park to exhibit the massive 1886 painting that depicts the Battle
of Atlanta. Five years later, as Margaret Mitchell
began writing Gone With the Wind, her father and others organized
the Atlanta Historical Society, and in the 1930s they carefully
documented the antebellum city and the war that destroyed it. The
United Daughters of the Confederacy and other organizations began
erecting battlefield monuments around the city during the same period,
but local landmarks of those battles continued to be lost to neglect
and new development.
The success of the Historic Savannah Foundation, which was organized
in 1955 to successfully oppose demolition of that city's landmarks,
had already attracted widespread attention in the State, and encouraged
by passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, similar
organizations sprang up in Augusta, Macon, Columbus, and Thomasville
in the mid-1960s. Although Atlanta had no similar voice for preservation
until 1980, interest in preserving the city's past was slowly emerging
in the 1960s. In 1966, the city established a 15-member Civic Design
Commission, consisting of appointed experts in architecture, painting,
sculpture, engineering, and planning along with three lay representatives.
By the end of the year, the Commission had begun a campaign "to
clean up . . . and restore" what would soon be christened "Underground
Atlanta." Created by the series of viaducts that the city built
to bridge the downtown railroad "gulch" between 1890 and 1930, the
area contained some of the city's oldest surviving commercial buildings,
and by 1969 it was a thriving entertainment district.
As the city began to lose population and crime rates soared, Underground
Atlanta struggled to survive in the mid-1970s, and when construction
of the city's new heavy-rail transit system demolished some of downtown's
most important buildings in 1975, Underground Atlanta withered away.
By then, the city's major passenger depots had both been torn down
as had most of its old hotels and theaters and many of its early
skyscrapers. Parts of the landmark Equitable Building, designed
by Burnham and Root in 1890, were salvaged and repurposed as outdoor
sculpture, and the entire facade of the Paramount Theater, designed
by Hentz, Reid, and Adler in 1922, was re-erected as part of a private
residence in south Georgia. Otherwise, Atlanta's historic architecture
was consigned to the landfills.
Essay by Tommy Jones, Architectural Historian with the National
Park Service's Southeast Regional Office.
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Let's make one thing crystal clear, no member of the US military contributes in any way whatsoever to protecting the freedoms of the American people. As a matter of fact, they are more likely to turn their weapons on you than they are to defend your Constitutional rights.
The only people on this planet Earth who can affect your freedom are members of Congress, local legislators and the members of enforcement institutions who will blindly follow the rulers who sign their paychecks. And, while your beloved troops are murdering people around the globe, yes, I said murdering, your Congress and local legislators are eliminating your freedoms, en masse, without any intervention by our so-called protectors in the armed forces.
There is no honor in volunteering to go anywhere in the world and kill anybody you are told to, without question, without historical background and without verifying the stated reasons for doing so. In this modern age of information we now know that time and time again our military have been deployed into battle, to kill and be killed, for reasons that in no way shape or form resemble the reasons for which they, or we were told at the time. This is no secret, although many Americans refuse to take off the flag that is wrapped around their eyes and see American history as it really happened. They blindly believe what was told to them by the people who have a vested interest in maintaining myths and misconceptions.
The US military, not once but twice, committed the single largest mass murders in history by dropping nuclear weapons on civilian populations, including of course, on women and children. Say what you want about how it helped end the war….the bottom line is the US could have exploded these devices over uninhabited territory with the same effect of scaring the heck out of the Japanese. But they followed orders that were lies and murdered almost 300,000 people, without question. As a human being I find it hard to honor such "patriotism."
From the Gulf of Tonkin to the first and second invasions of Iraq, history now teaches us that lies have led our troops to military intervention more often than not. As a matter of fact, it is hard to find an American military intervention in modern history in which the cover story ends up matching the actual events. A little research will show you this. It will also show you how the same people are usually behind funding both sides of military conflict and those doing the funding and instigating have almost always been, how should I say this, the 'good guys.' Yep, westerners on the popular side of conflict are the ones funding the 'bad guys' before they ever are labeled the bad guys.
Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of George H.W. and George W. respectively, made his fortune by funding the Nazis and Hitler's rise to power. This is the same clan who went after Saddam Hussein in Iraq after they put him in power and armed him in the first place. But why pay attention to details if it interferes with our troop worship and flag waving?
Time and time again we see that the people who make decisions to send troops to war are the very people who profit financially from such wars. Today's troops can see this. It is part of the public record, yet they still do not question their missions. They join the military with a promise never to question orders. Taking history into account, I see no pride in this kind of service.
Recent history provides a very clear lesson for our troops and those who cheer their missions. You have never seen a more clear and egregious example of questionable motivations for military intervention than during the Bush/Cheney administration. A virtual 'who's who' of defense contractors comprised not only the Defense Policy Board, but the office of Vice President. Not to mention that a significant portion of these men signed a document noting that that a 'new Peal Harbor' would be useful in getting public support for their agenda (to increase military spending and activity), and then – just such an attack – the first Pearl Harbor in 60 years took place on 9/11…what a nice coincidence.
Gee, what are the odds of the only 'Pearl Harbor' in 60 years taking place while the men responsible for preventing one (and in positions to create/allow one) were the same men who wrote about benefiting from one. But according to most Americans, it is crazy to suspect them of anything…simply because they are Americans. If Dick Cheney had been a Muslim he would have been hanged 9 years ago.
Unfortunately, the majority of Americans have neither the intellectual curiosity to actually learn about historical events nor the intelligence to actually think about claims made by their leaders or pop-journalism-gate keeping-icons.
For example: Americans have swallowed whole the concept of our troops "protecting our freedom" without ever once asking "how, how does killing foreigners in Iraq or Afghanistan protect our freedom?" Maybe if they asked that question just once and really waited for an answer, a real answer that actually really made sense to them, they would realize there is no answer – because troops killing foreigners have no impact on the freedoms of the American people, and they never will.
Here is another question Americans have not asked, "How can an Iraqi, Pakistani, Afghan or Islamic fundamentalist in other nations take away our freedom?" The answer to this question is of course…by becoming a member of the US Congress.
It is sad that I will be lambasted for speaking the truth about this sensitive subject, but someone has to. The saddest truth however, is that the members of the US military serve today with no honor. They are dangerous and a threat to all free people, here and abroad. In plain terms – they volunteer to kill at the behest of people who have lied to them for generations about why they are being sent to kill. Generations of lies be dammed, they still follow orders, and kill, without question. I repeat – as a human being I see no honor in this.
While it is true that the existence of our military acts to deter nations from invading our shores, credit really should go more to our nuclear arsenal and military technology than to National Guardsman who find themselves shooting at Iraqis in their own homeland. I don't think that it is a deterrent to have private American "security firms" torture, for fun, the "enemies" who are in their own country, in their own neighborhoods, near their own families, and who dare to fight the American military personnel who obliterated their homes, killed their brothers, sisters, children, mothers and fathers, and occupy their soil. The nerve of them!
In the meantime, your freedoms and protections are being systematically eliminated while government protected rights for corporations are expanding beyond your wildest dreams. If this nation had a legitimate mainstream news media you would know this and you would probably take to the streets and revolt because you would realize what some of us already know, your rights, health and wealth have been under assault while you are distracted by bogey men in foreign nations who are supposedly going to take your freedom away!!!
So how free are you and who exactly are the terrorists. Here is how free you are in your own home in your own country. These are just a few examples – off the top of my head. – there are more…but to start…
- You are not allowed to drink raw milk, no matter how healthy it is, because under certain rare conditions may cause health issues), but you do have the right to smoke chemically addicting cigarettes that when used as directed WILL KILL YOU!
- You don't have the right to stop your food supply from being contaminated and genetically manipulated, leaving you with no alternative.
- You don't have the right to collect rain water or grow your own vegetables to feed your family.
- You have no right to stop corporations from poisoning your air and water.
- You have no right to treat your ailments naturally because your government has declared that the only way to become healthy is by medications and treatments that will produce big profits for corporations. Healthy food can not benefit your health and if it does the FDA will classify it as a drug.
- You have no right to raise your child without injecting toxins and dangerous chemicals directly into their blood streams.
- During the Bush/Cheney administration you had no right to free speech. Special zones called "free speech" zones were created and kept far from Bush and Cheney where those who wanted to speak as free Americans could gather.
- You are not free to exchange goods and services on your own terms. You must use Federal Reserve Notes, which is NOT U.S. CURRENCY. It is a system of money created and maintained, unconstitutionally, by a cadre of private banks.
- You are not free to feed homeless people and if you are homeless you are not free to be fed by your fellow citizens.
- We are not free to know about or have any say about secret activities in which our rulers partake. For example what terrible weapons they create, what biological or chemical programs that may accidentally or purposely destroy us all, how they set up and instigate wars and conflict as well as events that justify actions for which they want to take but have no legitimate justifications.
America is not yet a totalitarian dictatorship, but it is clearly on the way to becoming one. And our beloved troops are doing nothing at all to stop this. What is worse is that some day they may actually be the ones to stop you from doing anything about it. They are already practicing to do so.
So if you want to thank people for protecting your freedom…thank journalists…real ones, not establishment hacks, who try to inform you about what is taking place while you are distracted by nonsense. Thank civil liberty lawyers and staff who don't use their education to make it rich charging criminally high fees for their services. Thank whistle blowers. Thank people who risk a backlash of threats and worse to finally speak the truth to people who simply don't want to know there is a truth beyond the myths that have comforted them throughout their lives. And while you do this I'll thank you for at least listening to these uncomfortable words. Reality is not pretty, but if we all open our eyes to reality maybe we can stop those who make it so ugly.
I don't know about you, but I want to be proud of my country for real reasons, not mythical ones.
Think about it. Jesse Richard – Founder, TvNewsLIES.org


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Leveraging technology to drive energy efficiency and conservation
Our current resource constraints and the onslaught of coal plant closures are driving the need to reduce energy consumption and demand.
There seems to be an influx of policy these days focused around reducing energy consumption and demand. One such policy is the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program or Act 129. So what can utilities do today to meet these new policy requirements?
There are some simple techniques to reduce consumption regardless of when the load occurs such as weatherization, LED and compact florescent light bulb replacement, energy star appliances, high-efficiency HVAC equipment, etc. All of these actions reduce electric consumption, reduce carbon footprint and lower consumer bills.
Another way to meet these requirements is by reducing peak demand which has the benefit of reducing the need for generation and T&D capacity. Since the last generation to be dispatched typically is the least efficient, there are ties between energy efficiency and peak demand reduction. In addition to the above benefits, energy efficiency does have the added benefit that if a consumer load is 20% more efficient, generally that consumer's contribution to peak demand will also be reduced by approximately 20% depending on the type of loads and the energy efficiency improvements that are implemented.
For utilities without smart meters, direct load control of air conditioners, hot water heaters, pool pumps, and other loads that the utility can control have been around for at least two to three decades. Peak demand reduction is typically very important for co-ops and munis with power purchase agreements that include a peak demand charge. Smart meters enable more sophisticated load control programs based on time-of-use rates, critical peak pricing rates, or providing pricing signals to home automation systems with programmable, communications-enabled thermostats and controllers for other loads. Peak demand reduction does not necessarily reduce consumption, but it does shift demand. EV charging infrastructure is a good example of a demand response program to avoid having the charging of electric vehicles contribute to system peak demand (there can also be local cluster issues with EVs).
Volt/var optimization (VVO) is another tool that can be used for both energy efficiency and peak demand reduction. VVO is typically a two-step process involving correction of power factor by offsetting inductive loads with capacitor banks. Switching the capacitor banks reduces reactive power losses and flattens the voltage profiles on the utility feeders. This does two things — it increases power delivery efficiency by lowering the losses (which extrapolates to less generation capacity, less fuel consumption, and lower carbon footprint) and the flatter voltage enables conservation voltage reduction. With a flatter voltage profile, utilities can lower the substation voltage at the source end of the feeder without causing low-voltage problems for customers at the far end of the feeder. Lower feeder voltages reduce consumption (at least for constant impedance loads — not the same for constant power loads) which further improves energy efficiency.
For utilities with rates based on kWhs as measured at the meter, CVR also reduces revenue. Like the energy efficiency programs listed above, conservation voltage reduction also reduces demand, including peak demand.
Another example of utility energy efficiency is to deploy low-loss distribution transformers or to implement a transformer load management program (TLM) to make sure that distribution service transformers are correctly sized to minimize losses based on individual transformer load profiles. AMI data can be analyzed when available to assess transformer loading. Transformers can also be monitored – Power Partners is launching an Intelligent Distribution Transformer that can capture the necessary information.
One growing segment of the market is using VVO as a grid tool to reduce peak demand. OG&E is an example of this. By rolling out VVO to 400 feeders, OG&E is on track to avoid building an 80 MW peaking plant. The business case is often stronger for utilities like OG&E which are vertically integrated and can leverage avoided generation capacity costs. In de-regulated markets, I think that PUC policy is required for T&D wires companies to implement VVO which has societal benefits but does not necessarily help the bottom line of the wires company.
The ERCOT market in Texas is de-regulated and ERCOT is asking the IOUs to look at VVO for grid-based demand response given the Texas resource constraints — the question is how will ERCOT and the Texas PUC address compensation for the wires companies in Texas to offset revenue impacts and infrastructure costs?
Regardless of policies like the one listed above, our current resource constraints and the onslaught of coal plant closures are driving the need to reduce energy consumption and demand. At least with the breakthrough of smart grid technology, utilities have a choice in how they are going to deal with the issue.


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CHICAGO — The grizzled Chicago Democrat has compared himself to a virile hog, likened a then-chief prosecutor to a Nazi and bragged about directing government investigators to kiss his posterior.
William Beavers' you-can't-touch-me bravado will be put to the test as the former police officer-turned-politician beats a path — well-worn in Illinois — to a federal courthouse for testimony in his tax-evasion trial this week.
The combative Cook County commissioner stands accused of diverting more than $225,000 from campaign coffers to feed a casino-gambling habit and for other personal use without reporting it. Jury selection began Monday, and opening statements are expected later this week.
With his booming voice and devil-may-care persona, the 77-year-old Beavers is seen by many as an artifact old-school Chicago pols.
"He's of a generation that felt, if you win election, the seat isn't in the public trust — it's yours as a spoil of war," said David Morrison, of Illinois Campaign for Political Reform. "You now have license to look out for yourself and your family."
Beavers' fondness for gambling will feature prominently at the trial, according to prosecutors, who say that points to his motive. Beavers also is accused of failing to declare that he took more than $68,000 in campaign money and put it in a city fund to bump the monthly pension he got for his years as an alderman from nearly $3,000 to more than $6,000.
There's a bit of deja vu at Beavers' trial. It's taking place in the same courtroom as that of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The judge is the same, as are many of the defense attorneys and some of the prosecutors.
Blagojevich, whose case wasn't otherwise linked to Beavers', is serving a 14-year prison sentence on multiple corruption convictions, including charges that he tried to sell President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.
One question, says Tom Gradel, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is whether Chicago politics is no longer as corrupt as it once was.
"Beavers wasn't bashful about talking about his wheeling and dealing," he said. "But I don't see too much difference in the new school. Now, it's about campaign contributions, whereas old school may have relied on kickback from employees."
Politicians, he said, operate "on the borders between what's acceptable and criminal" and are good at adapting to stay on that line.
"Once that line is changed by law enforcement, they move into different grayer areas — away from the clearly criminal areas," he said.
Other much-younger Illinois politicians have recently found themselves in legal trouble. Last month, 47-year-old Jesse Jackson Jr., once viewed hopefully as a new-age politician, resigned from Congress amid an investigation of his campaign finances.
One of Beavers' attorneys is Sam Adam Jr., who was Blagojevich's lead lawyer at the Democrat governor's first corruption trial. That trial ended with the jury deadlocked on all but one charge, leading to a second decisive trial.
Adam's penchant for showmanship and delighting in verbal brawls meshes well with Beavers' public image.
Beavers' most famous rhetorical flourish came several years ago when he offered a favorable estimation of his own influence by calling himself "a hog with big nuts."
He's hardly proven a wilting flower since his February indictment.
Within minutes of entering a not guilty plea, he walked down to the lobby of Chicago's federal courthouse and accused then-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of using "Gestapo-type tactics" to win convictions. Fitzgerald, who was responsible for the indictment of Blagojevich and dozens of other Illinois politicians, retired over the summer to enter private practice.
Beavers has said he was indicted in an act of retribution by investigators for refusing to wear a wire against another county commissioner, John Daley, the brother of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Beavers has said he paid all the money at issue in his tax case — albeit only after he realized he was under investigation.
He has pleaded not guilty to three counts of filing false tax returns and one of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service. Each count carries a maximum three-year prison sentence.
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EDMONDS — The sample size may be small, but Tuesday night the Mountlake Terrace boys basketball team proved that they have at least one thing in common with last year's team that went 19-1 in the regular season and made it to the 3A state tournament.
They are pretty good.
The Hawks relied on a great defensive effort to defeat Edmonds-Woodway 61-42 in the season-opener for both teams.
The Warriors were picked by the 4A Wesco South coaches to finish second in the league behind Jackson this season largely because of the presence of post Travis Bakken and point guard Devin Joseph, but Bakken and Joseph combined to score just seven points on Tuesday.
"Their names made the white board before the game," Mountlake Terrace head coach Nalin Sood said. "It's as simple as that. They are two guys that we have a lot of respect for them, so you better go after them because they can go out there and turn the basketball game around if you're not dialed in defensively to what you need to do."
Edmonds-Woodway head coach Steve Call said that the physical nature of the Mountlake Terrace defense gave his team problems, specifically Bakken and Joseph.
"They were strong and physical," Call said. "They have a strong presence inside and (Travis) again struggled from the inside and part of that is they played really tough on him. They were able to stop the dribble drive against Devin. They played solid defense on us."
Sood makes it no secret that his teams like to hang their hat on defense and the Hawks established the defensive tone early, holding the Warriors to just four points in the first quarter. Edmonds-Woodway's first points of the game came from Henry Olson with nearly six minutes gone in the first quarter.
"We try to hang our hats on defense and I think for the most part we didn't do too bad of a job on that," Sood said. "We will get better as we keep working our way at it."
With players like Ryan Shannon and Coby Russell gone, there are a select few Mountlake Terrace players that are needed to provide offense to help the team go. Tuesday, the player that stepped up was Greg Bowman, who finished the game with 22 points and 17 rebounds, six of which came on the offensive glass.
"I don't want to say Greg can do that every night because you never know how basketball games go and how your matchups go, but between him and Loren (Lacasse) hopefully one of them can get freed up for some baskets," Sood said. "The nice thing to see is that (Bowman) went and rebounded the ball really well and that's controllable. Sometimes you can't control your shot and I think he had over 20, but he really worried about the controllables. He worried about rebounding. He worried about playing good defense and he worried about being a gazelle up and down the court."
Sood said Bowman and a few others will be key to just how far the Hawks can go this season.
"There are a few guys on this team, Greg included — as that player goes so goes this basketball team," Sood said. "I think if we are going to be a good basketball team Greg has to show up every night and really, really compete. Tonight, stats aside, he competed."
The bright spot for the Warriors' offense was Jason Smarr, who finished with 18 points, including three 3-pointers, and kept his team in the game in the first half. Call said he believe the junior will play a big role in the Warriors' offense as the season progresses.
"As a junior this year, I think he will be one of our really top players this year," Call said. "He attacks the hoop well, shoots the ball well, rebounds well, so we are looking forward to good things from him."
For the Hawks, it was a good way to start the season, but Sood said the team has a long way to go.
"It's a start for us, whether you are successful with a win or a loss at least you have some assessment," Sood said. "That's the biggest thing is that now we can say, 'Here is what we need to work on.' I think as coaches we found 100 things that we need to work on, which that is part of why you coach."
The task for the Warriors is to shake off the defeat and the early season jitters and get back to work.
"I want us to fight," Call said. "I want us to play really physical and match up with that style of play. So hopefully that gets us going."
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I have been dying to write this blog for months because every conversation that I have with customers includes asking them if they are planning on implementing virtual desktops. The discussion does not need to be focused on security for me to ask this question either. The customer may want to talk about virtualization and […]


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VMware wheels and deals on server virtualization
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The low-hanging fruit for server virtualization - customers who already knew they needed it on their x64 iron whether the economy was in good shape or bad - must be starting to dry up as the competition among virtualization-hypervisor providers heats up.
Why? Because VMware is starting to wheel and deal like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.
VMware wants to keep its dominant position in server virtualization, and to that end announced Monday a promotional program that guarantees that VMware's techies will cut x64 server costs in half or the professional services used to deploy VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3 software stack will be free.
The Guarantee Promotional Program is clever in that VMware is compelling customers to sign up for a services engagement, deploy its virtualization software, and then if server costs don't fall by 50 per cent or more, they get the services for free.
VMware is not, you will notice, offering any discounts on the VI3 software stack. Which seems a bit odd given that the vSphere stack - what we would normally think of as the VI4 tools, including the ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor and its related management tools and add-ons - will be launched on April 21.
I think it's highly unlikely that VMware actually expects companies to deploy the VI3 tools when much better (and presumably more aggressively priced) software is only weeks away. It is likely that the server-cost guarantee will continue long past the vSphere launch - but the VMware site says that the deal only runs from April 8 through June 30. This is the kind of deal that a vendor can - and often does - extend even as a new generation of products comes out.
Especially when the economy is rotten.
VMware is not letting just anyone take advantage of this deal. First, you have to want to virtualize between 200 and 750 physical servers, and they have to be located in the United States. Then you have to commit to buy a bunch of services from VMware.
The first of these is the Operational Readiness Accelerator Service, which is an overall analysis of the business and IT environment. Then you have to buy a service called Jumpstart with Physical to Virtual Migrations, which does a few physical-to-virtual conversions at your site to give you some hands-on experience. Then you have to shell out some cash for a Virtualization Assessment, which takes a look at the environment and does an analysis of the expected cost savings from virtualization and consolidation of servers.
Add onto that the Plan and Design for VMware Infrastructure service, which maps out the new architecture for your virtualized servers, and the Configuration/Build service, which does the P2V conversions as laid out in the plan, and then a Wrap Up service to calculate the realized savings from the virtualization project.
VMware did not provide pricing information for these services at press time. But I suspect they're not cheap.
To participate in the deal, customers have to have or acquire servers and storage that are on the VMware VI3 compatibility list, and they have to have host machines with a minimum of four processor cores and 32GB of main memory. That's a fairly hefty piece of x64 iron.
You also have to get VI3 Enterprise 3.5 software licenses, and you cannot disable transparent memory page-sharing settings, which allows VMware to stack up more VMs on a machine than you might otherwise be able to get away with.
To calculate the savings, VMware insists that customers perform a before-and-after configuration in its online TCO Calculator, which we told you about last month and which you can play with here.
It's not clear if the TCO calculator accounts for the cost of any new iron, but it certainly should if it's required. Mileage will certainly vary from shop to shop, but with x86 and x64 server utilization typically very low, even customers needing to buy new iron to virtualize efficiently can show good return on investment if the term is set long enough and operational, power, and cooling costs are tossed in.
The guarantee is open to new and existing customers in the United States. No word on when Europe will get a similar deal, but there is no reason why Europeans shouldn't demand equal treatment from VMware. ®


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I've often felt that the recruiting simulation in NCAA Football could be a salesmanship trainer at some kind of corporate retreat. Unlike the free agency or trading periods in other sports video games, you're not sending contract terms back and forth with the CPU. Money doesn't talk here, you do.
You have to understand a high schooler's priorities and sell to them. You have to respect the independence of their decisionmaking while chipping at what your competitors have told them. Sometimes you have to guarantee something completely beyond your control like, say, a national championship.
So, coach, what the hell are you gonna do when your starting tight end knocks on your door and tells you he's homesick?
That's one new wrinkle in a general overhaul of the "pitch system" in NCAA Football's Dynasty mode, whose recruiting mandate makes it the most intensive and interesting sports management simulation available on a console. Gone is the frustrating "roulette wheel" of past versions, where you'd simulate calling a player on the phone and having to discuss a random attribute of your program, whether it's a strength, a weakness, or even something the kid is interested.
The wild cards will now be manifested in scouting high school players, who may not be as good as their ranking suggests, and in managing the needs of your current roster, who may be looking turning professional early, or transferring to a school nearer to mom and dad.
But the underlying structure has become more transparent and less subject to whim. In the past, attracting talent depended upon a number of selling points beyond your control—your campus lifestyle, television exposure and the prestige of your conference . These were all graded and set throughout your career, even if you altered a conference's makeup. They were a source of considerable outrage from offended alumni, who would take to EA Sports forums to complain about being rated a B- in academic prestige or championship contender status. And an unduly driving factor was the team's Bowl Championship Series ranking.
"This year, we created the means to influence those pitches to recruits," said Jordan Peterson, "and the game exposes those conditions to the users." For example, the "conference prestige" grade. Meant to measure a recruit's desire to play in an elite league like, say, the Atlantic Coast Conference, it will now adjust for the performance of that conference's teams that year. This means a coach can sell into a spike, so to speak, if he's coaching a team in an up-and-comer conference whose programs are gathering a lot of attention at the time.
The pros and cons your football program presents to a prospect will be more transparent, more customized to the recruit's needs, and more open to influence by how your team performs.
A team's playing style will also be the basis for a customized pitch to the prospect; for example, a team largely based on an option offense won't have as much appeal to a quarterbacking prospect strongly rated as a dropback passer. "Championship contender," perhaps the most immovable of the gradings, will now examine your school's roster for the next four years and judge whether it has the talent to make a run.
The "homesickness" example is in what happens when your players get restless after they have signed. The design team promises that one will be rare, and sensibly managed (if he can't be persuaded to stay, the player won't go to a rival in the same geographic area, or to another school just as far from his home state). But it and the need to convince talented players not to turn pro are aspects of actual program management, and ones EA Sports wanted to reflect here.
But it also shows how your school's reputation can work for or against you. Being regarded as a prime refinery of professional talent can attract a lot of high school recruits. It can also encourage them to bail out on you early. Regardless, you will still get a chance to convince these players to stay—to re-recruit them with the same kinds of promises you make to high school kids throughout the year—playing time, postseason success, and the like. You can even use a player's projected draft status against his desire to leave.
As for the main high-school recruiting game, the game does away with the infuriating "roulette wheel" that governed a simulated phone conversation. Now you as the coach can select a topic to discuss or simply ask the prospect what he's interested in, and then react to that interest. If you're not bringing up something that's a strength of you program, you'll be asking the player to talk about a quality that's an actual priority, much more like a conversational negotiation. In the past, the game would automate the topic selection, and sometimes wind up on a subject in which the recruit had little interest and in which you were rated low (Coach Loyalty was my favorite.) Dynasty's biggest upgrade, outside of the presentation changes mentioned yesterday, seems to be in having a more productive discussion at a blue-chipper's kitchen table.
Scouting is the other new component of talent management. You can send assistant coaches to examine a player and see if he lives up to the hype, in virtual sessions as long as 60 minutes each. Depending upon the core traits influencing the position, (kickers have the least, a running back or linebacker would have the most) you can get a quick handle on whether you've found an underrated gem or an overrated bust.
By creating this variable, NCAA Football wants to pry the game loose from the rigid structure of past years, when the only way to bring top talent to your program was to convince a true 5-star recruit to join up. This is meant to create a chance to find overlooked prospects who increasingly form the story of a striver program's breakout year. You can go star-chasing as before, but the 3- and 4-star recruits you'd normally get will lose interest.
One final note about the changes to "Dynasty." The game will include the new Southeastern Conference alignments, of course, and figuring out its schedule rotation was a nightmare. The SEC will play an eight-game conference schedule, six of which will be divisional games that repeat every year, one of which will be an extradivisional protected rivalry, leaving one as a rotating random matchup.
The SEC provided EA Sports no guidance on this rotation, having not yet determined it. "If they ever want to know how that rotation works, they can come see us," sighed Ben Haumiller, a producer on the game. "I had to turn it over to a math major."


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Midget Series Fund Tops $100,000
An extraordinary evening at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis has been scheduled January 9, 2009 to recognize the 2008 USAC National Champions. As part of the evening festivities, USAC will host a special and private"Champions Club" for all prior and current USAC National Champions. For the first time, this year's event will be streamed live via the internet on USAC LIVE PIT PASS for fans to join in the celebration as USAC recognizes the Top 10 competitors for the Silver Crown, Sprint and Midget National Championships.
Driver and car owner participants in USAC's three National racing series are competing for over $300,000 in year-end point fund bonuses announced by the United States Auto Club. The funds reflect, for the first time in history, identical funds paying $75,000 to the winning teams in each National series.
The K & N Filters Silver Crown funds represent the largest per-race postings, based on the nine scheduled events in a transitional year where the traditional pavement cars returned to the tracks for the first time since 2005.
The $75,000 payout for the Mopar National Midget Series nearly doubles the 2007 funds paid from USAC. Additionally, Toyota will pay $25,000 to the Top 10 in points, with a $100 per race contribution to the car owner, making the total Midget Series fund more than $100,000. 2008 marks the first time in the Series history to have a six figure points fund.
The Lucas Oil USAC/CRA Series based in Southern California will have a $60,000 points fund for 2008, paying out to the Top 10 in points. A West Coast awards banquet for all USAC Western Division racers is also in the planning stage.
Driver and car owner distributions will reflect a 50-50 split in each of the three National series, namely the K & N Silver Crown Series presented by Optima Batteries, the National Sprint Car Series and the Mopar National Midget Series. The"top-10" drivers and car owners in each series will share in the point funds.
These bonuses are a result of sponsorship commitments of companies like K & N Engineering of Riverside, Calif., Optima Batteries of Aurora, Colo., Mopar of Auburn Hills, Mich., Hoosier Racing Tire of Lakeville, Ind and Toyota Motors Sales, USA.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — From pickpockets and prostitutes to dirty bombs and exploding manhole covers, authorities are bracing for whatever threat the first Super Bowl in downtown Indianapolis might bring.
Some — nuclear terrorism, for instance — are likely to remain just hypothetical. But others, like thieves and wayward manhole covers, are all too real.
Though Indianapolis has ample experience hosting large sporting events — the Indianapolis 500 attracts more than 200,000 fans each year, and the NCAA's men's Final Four basketball tournament has been held here six times since 1980— the city's first Super Bowl poses some unique challenges.
Unlike the Final Four, which is compressed into a weekend, the Super Bowl offers crowd, travel and other logistical challenges over 10 days leading up to the Feb. 5 game. And unlike the 500, where events are largely concentrated at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway about seven miles from Lucas Oil Stadium, the NFL's showcase event will consume 44 blocks — about a mile square — in the heart of the city, closing off streets and forcing an anticipated 150,000 or more NFL fans to jockey with downtown workers for space much of the week.
"This is clearly bigger in terms of the amount of people who will be downtown over an extended period of time," city Public Safety Director Frank Straub said.
Under a security risk rating system used by the federal government, the Super Bowl ranks just below national security events involving the president and the Secret Service, said Indianapolis Chief of Homeland Security Gary Coons. The ratings are based on factors including international attention, media coverage, the number of people the event attracts and visits by celebrities and foreign dignitaries, he said. The Indianapolis 500 ranks two levels below the Super Bowl.
The city has invested millions of dollars and worked with local, state and federal agencies to try to keep all those people safe. Up to 1,000 city police officers will be in the stadium and on the street, carrying smartphones and other electronic hand-held devices that will enable them to feed photos and video to a new state-of-the-art operations center on the city's east side or to cruisers driven by officers providing backup, Straub said. Hundreds of officers from other agencies, including the state police and the FBI, will be scanning the crowd for signs of pickpocketing, prostitution or other trouble.
One concern has been a series of explosions in Indianapolis Power & Light's underground network of utility cables. A dozen underground explosions have occurred since 2005, sending manhole covers flying.
Eight explosions have occurred since 2010. The latest, on Nov. 19, turned a manhole cover into a projectile that heavily damaged a parked car and raised concerns about the safety of Super Bowl visitors walking on streets and soaring above the Super Bowl village on four zip lines installed for the festivities.
Since December, IPL has spent about $180,000 to install 150 new locking manhole covers, primarily in the Super Bowl village and other areas expected to see high pre-game traffic.
IPL officials say the new Swiveloc manhole covers can be locked for security reasons during the Super Bowl. In case of an explosion, the covers lift a couple of inches off the ground — enough to vent gas out without feeding in oxygen to make an explosion bigger — before falling back into place.
An Atlanta consultant hired by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission last summer to audit IPL's underground network of cables for a cause of the explosions says the new covers are merely a Band-Aid.
"We've argued it's better to prevent," said Dan O'Neill of O'Neill Management Consulting, which filed its report in December.
O'Neill's team couldn't pinpoint an exact cause for the explosions but said a flawed inspection process contributed, noting that IPL workers missed warning signs such as road salt corroding an old cable or leaks in nearby steam pipes. In a report filed Jan. 19 with Indiana utility regulators, the power company said it had overhauled its inspection process.
IPL will dispatch extra crews to the area around the stadium in case of power-related problems, such as a recent breaker fire that left 10,000 customers in homes south of downtown without power. Spokeswoman Crystal Livers-Powers said the company doesn't anticipate any power issues.
Straub, the public safety director, said he's confident the city is prepared and notes that Indianapolis hosts major events "pretty regularly."
Special teams from the Department of Energy will sweep Lucas Oil Stadium and the surrounding area for nuclear terror threats, and a new $18 million high-tech communications center that opened in time for the lead-up to the game will tie it all together.
"We're using more technology, and state of the art technology, than has been used in any Super Bowl before this one," Straub said.


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A new species of owl has been found on an Indonesian island, identified by its unique birdsong. It had escaped scientific detection for so long partially because it looks very similar to a related species.
While on a field expedition in 2003, two members of a research team on opposite ends of the Indonesian island of Lombok independently realized that the owl's calls were unique, according to a PLOS ONE study published today (Feb. 13).
That's quite a coincidence, especially considering that ornithologists didn't think Lombok was home to a unique species of owl despite years of study in the region, said George Sangster, study co-author and a researcher with the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
The new species has been dubbed the Rinjani scops owl, with the scientific name Otus jolandae. It is locally common in the foothills of Mount Rinjani, a large volcano on Lombok, living at altitudes up to 4,430 feet (1,350 meters), according to the study.
"I did not expect to find a new species, and certainly not one that is this common," Sangster told OurAmazingPlanet. "It is a wake-up call for ornithologists: there is still much to learn, and new species can reveal themselves even if you are not looking for them, and in places where no one expected to find something new."
To verify that the species was unique, researchers played this new birdsong to a group of Moluccan scops owls, a related and more widespread species. They didn't respond to the calls. In the area where the unfamiliar songs were heard, however, local Lombok owls responded by whistling back and approaching the speaker the songs were played from, according to the study. A closer comparison of the new bird and the related species revealed subtle body differences — Rinjani scops owls have slightly different coloration and are slightly smaller, the study noted. DNA analysis confirmed it was a new species, Sangster said.
Owls are nocturnal and they use songs to communicate and identify one another. When owls' songs are significantly different, it's a good sign that they may be a different species, Sangster said.
Based on field work, studies of museum specimens and previous research, the scientists think this owl is likely unique to Lombok. Residents of nearby islands were unfamiliar with recordings of the owl, the only exception being one man who ended up being an immigrant from Lombok, the study found.
The owls are known to locals as "burung pok," which is "an onomatopoeic name reflecting the song note of the bird, which may be transcribed as 'pok' or 'poook,'" the authors wrote in the study. [ Listen to the owl's call.]
While there are more than 250 known species of owls worldwide, there are undoubtedly many species yet to be discovered, according to the study.
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2621-1 openssl -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 13 Feb 2013
- Affected Packages:
- openssl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 699889.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-0166, CVE-2013-0169.
- More information:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
OpenSSL does not properly perform signature verification for OCSP responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an invalid key.
A timing side channel attack has been found in CBC padding allowing an attacker to recover pieces of plaintext via statistical analysis of crafted packages, known as the
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For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze14.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-1.
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1963 Jeep Wagoneer - Landmark Vehicle
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If you think about it, most of the basic design elements that make up today's modern sport utility vehicles have been around for a long time: things like automatic transmission with four-wheel drive, four doors, fancy interior, power everything, and lots of optional equipment. But to place an exact date on it, they came together for the first time in one vehicle in the fall of 1962 when the all-new Jeep Wagoneer debuted.
Wagoneer is probably the most influential four-wheel-drive vehicle in history after the original military Jeep MB. It didn't just change the way people looked at utility wagons: Wagoneer revolutionized the four-wheel-drive industry by effectively creating today's SUV market. It introduced new concepts and features years ahead of the competition. In its time, Wagoneer was known as the best luxury SUV, period. Today it's recognized as the first modern sport utility vehicle, blazing a trail that others followed.
Although it's true that four-wheel-drive wagons had been on the market for years, in 1963 most people still considered them utilitarian work trucks. Wagoneer, though, was viewed as a different, almost revolutionary vehicle.
Cruse Moss, former executive vice president at Willys Motors says, "It was really the first sports utility wagon. The Willys wagon had been the first station wagon with four-wheel drive, but Wagoneer was the first true sports utility wagon. No other company had any product that even approached it."
Wagoneer came in response to growing competition in the four-wheel-drive market. Up to 1960, Willys had the light-duty four-wheel-drive market pretty much to itself. Then in 1961, International Harvester (known today as Navistar) introduced its new line of Scout sport utility vehicles. The Scouts looked a lot more modern than the Willys wagon, which dated back to 1946, and the public really liked them. Willys realized that to remain competitive it had to develop a replacement for the venerable Jeep wagons. With Jeep's future riding on the success of the new vehicle, the company knew it had to be spectacular. It was.
Cruse Moss remembers: "We developed the Wagoneer in Detroit. Three of us handled it: Engineering VP Dan Hammond, Styling Director Jim Anger, and myself in charge. We had a dozen or so guys working on it, and we did the whole thing there in our facility on Cass Avenue."
That contradicts traditional histories, which claim that independent designer Brooks Stevens designed the first Wagoneer. We asked Moss about that.
"Stevens was brought in late in the game as a consultant," he says. "He argued strongly for a more distinctive, vertical grille design, and we adopted his recommendation."
Another man who worked in the Willys styling department in 1963, Jack Wildman, recalls, "The Wagoneer was designed in Detroit by a team led by Jim Anger, director of styling. Willys Styling had space in the Blake Business Machines building on the corner of Cass and Canfield. We were on the second floor: a heck of a place for styling studios when you consider that some of the clay models we worked on weighed anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 pounds."
The Willys Motors division of Kaiser Industries introduced its new vehicle in November 1962 as a 1963 model. Wagoneer was noticeably larger and much more family-oriented than the old Willys wagon. The new Jeep also displayed a number of innovations and groundbreaking new ideas. It offered both two- and four-door models, providing a range of choices previously unseen in SUVs. It was, said Willys, "the first station wagon to offer passenger-car styling in combination with the advantages of four-wheel-drive traction." Engineering boss Dan Hammond wanted the doors to open 90 degrees. His mother was an invalid, so he realized how important ease of entry and exit was. Although the public responded enthusiastically to the entire Wagoneer lineup, they were almost passionate about the four-door versions. It was the most exciting innovation since the original Willys wagon.
Window areas on the Wagoneer were unusually large, giving an airy, spacious feel to the passenger compartment. Also, Wagoneer's interior trim was almost posh compared to other SUVs, which back then resembled construction vehicles.
Standard equipment on four-wheel-drive Wagoneers was a 2,500-pound-capacity front axle and 3,000-pound rear axle. Standard tires were 7.10x15s - tiny by today's standards but considered a pretty good all-around tire back then.
Innovations abounded. Wagoneer was the first production four-wheel-drive wagon to offer a smooth-riding, optional independent front suspension. Much more significant, however, was Wagoneer's optional automatic transmission (made by Borg-Warner), the first ever offered on a family sport utility wagon. The automatic opened up the SUV market to hundreds of thousands of drivers who wouldn't or couldn't drive a manual gearbox. Wagoneer also offered Selector Drive Lights on four-wheel-drive models to let drivers know at a glance which drive range they were in.
Another innovation was the all-new overhead-cam six-cylinder engine, which debuted in the 1962 Jeep pickups and wagons. It was the only U.S.-built overhead-cam engine in production back then and was designed for heavy-duty performance with maximum efficiency. Amazingly robust for its size, the hardy Jeep Tornado-OHC six produced 140 hp (and that was net horsepower, not gross) with excellent fuel economy. In fact, tests showed Jeep's Tornado-OHC engine had the lowest specific fuel consumption of all production gasoline engines on the market; however, Wagoneer was relatively trim: curb weight on the four-wheel-drive Wagoneer was 3,701 pounds. For the first two and a half years, the OHC six was the only engine available.
The new Jeep offered both two- and four-wheel-drive models. The two-wheelers could even be ordered with an optional overdrive transmission for smoother highway running and improved fuel economy. In addition, a panel-truck version was produced; however, the panel wagon is considered a commercial truck model, separate from the Wagoneer. In catalogs, it was listed with the Gladiator trucks, which shared sheetmetal and much of their underpinnings with the Wagoneer.
Wagoneer instantly became the new style leader among truck-based wagons. Why not? Compared to its competitors, the handsome new Jeep was trim and athletic. Although Wagoneer's 110-inch wheelbase was nearly 1/2 foot longer than the old wagon's and its overall length more than 7 inches longer, it remained an easy-handling, efficient-size family vehicle. "Some competing designs sketched out by Brooks Stevens had separate front fenders like the old Willys wagon," recalls Jack Wildman, "but (Design Chief) Jim Anger went for a modern design, incorporating the front fenders into the body."
One particularly innovative feature was the large number of comfort and convenience options available, including power steering, power brakes, upgraded interior trim, wheel discs, and an electrically operated tailgate window to name a few.
Yet for all its comfort and luxury features Wagoneer remained a true Jeep: tough, rugged, and supremely competent. A sturdy frame and heavy-duty underpinnings ensured Wagoneer would safeguard Jeep's "go-anywhere" reputation. Road testers of the day raved about its off-road performance.
In that era of planned obsolescence, Wagoneer plainly offered lasting value. Buyer response was overwhelmingly positive: The public went wild for the new Jeep. It was noted that in many cases Wagoneers were being purchased to replace conventional automobiles, and that's where today's SUV market got its start. The company reported new sales records during the 1963 fiscal year as retail deliveries of new Jeeps rose an amazing 55 percent over the prior year. New dealers flocked to the Jeep banner, and the dealer network increased 20 percent.
For 1964, Jeep stretched the envelope further, adding air conditioning to the option list - an unusual and very exclusive feature for sport utility vehicles back then. In April 1965, the company added a potent 327-cid AMC V-8 engine to the option list. Offering 250 hp (75 percent more power than the Tornado-OHC six), it turned the Wagoneer into a hot rod. A midyear styling change replaced the original keystone grille with a more modern full-width grille Jeep dubbed the "Action Look." A new Super Wagoneer model arrived for 1966 loaded with more standard features than most luxury sedans had back then, making it the most sumptuous sport utility anyone had ever seen and a forerunner of the high-end SUVs that would appear in the 1990s.
The move to greater luxury was no accident. "It was a conscious decision," recalls Cruse Moss. "The market was in its infancy and we were a small company pioneering a new product in a new market. And it turned out to be an explosive market."
In the '70s, Wagoneer introduced full-time four-wheel drive, a major innovation seen on virtually all premium SUVs today. Leather upholstery debuted in 1978, earning Jeep an award as the first American company to offer it in a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
For more than a quarter of a century, Jeep Wagoneer remained the standard by which other SUVs were judged. Year after year, Wagoneer continued to be a favorite among automotive road testers. Ten years after its debut, magazines still judged it "the best 4WD vehicle in the world." Its external appearance saw very little change - only minor alterations such as a new grille or the addition of standard wood-grain side trim. In 1987, a magazine described it as "honed close to perfection."
In all, Wagoneer remained on the market from the fall of 1962 to the end of the 1991 model year. It's been gone now for nigh on 17 years, but Wagoneers are still a common sight on the road and off, and they're still respected as a landmark Jeep vehicle.


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17 Apr 2018
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With long-standing resistance to change and low productivity, the construction industry needs to urgently embrace new technologies. In the first of a two-part series, Jonathan Arnold explores the issues, and the opportunity to reboot an often conservative industry.
A recent survey by Balfour Beatty, one of the world's leading construction groups, offered a dramatic vision of the future.
"The construction site of 2050 will be human free. Robots will work in teams to build complex structures using dynamic new materials. Elements of the build will self-assemble. Drones flying overhead will scan the site constantly, inspecting the work and using the data collected to predict and solve problems before they arise, sending instructions to robotic cranes, diggers and automated builders with no need for human involvement.
"The role of the human overseer will be to remotely manage multiple projects simultaneously, accessing 3D and 4D visuals and data from the on-site machines, ensuring the build is proceeding to specification. The very few people accessing the site itself will wear robotically enhanced exoskeletons and use neural-control technology to move and control machinery and other robots on site." (Balfour Beatty, Innovation 2050 - A Digital Future for the Infrastructure Industry, 2018)
Major shake-up
Balfour Beatty's view of the future might seem fanciful, but many of the industry's leading figures believe the construction sector has remained stubbornly resistant to change for decades, if not centuries, and is ripe for radical change.
The arrival of revolutionary technologies means the entire industry is set for a major shake-up. It will impact everything, from productivity to talent to on-site construction methods.
Indeed, the World Economic Forum is clear on what these changes will mean for the industry.
"Wherever the new technologies have properly permeated this fragmented industry, the outlook is an almost 20% reduction in total life cycle costs of a project, as well as substantial improvements in completion time, quality and safety."
Faster Pace
Mark Reynolds, CEO of Mace, the $2.5bn international consultancy and construction business headquartered in the UK, is clear why action is needed now.
"We are quite simply not keeping up with the pace of technological change. Advancements in robotics and automated manufacturing, data analytics and virtual reality are radically transforming the sector and, indeed, the whole economy. Yet all is not lost.
"The fourth industrial revolution could improve productivity levels in construction, increase the number of highly skilled jobs and transform the way that the UK delivers some of the biggest and most complex infrastructure projects of the future.
"New and evolutionary infrastructure projects are vital to creating a favourable environment for investment, so important particularly in times of political and economic uncertainty. New construction technologies may also contribute to solving the housing crisis, which is arguably the single biggest social policy challenge facing the country."
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Some enlightened players in the wider industry are already grasping the technology nettle.
Last year, John Deere, the US equipment manufacturing giant, partnered with drone technology start-up Kespry. The deal means John Deere's sales teams will sell drones and related services to the construction industry.
One of the ways drones can help construction workers is by flying over their construction sites while taking pictures. These pictures can help construction workers keep tabs on their productivity, track their materials and monitor how their projects are coming together.
Creative emphasis
One person who believes AI is going to be the "big disruptor" and that it will "affect the entire architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector" is Hugo Blasutta, President and CEO of WSP Canada. His company is a global entity with 36,000 employees in 40 countries worldwide and provides management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment.
He explains: "A lot of work is going on concerning field assembly through robotics and AI. If I break down our business and take a typical project in a typical engineering firm, around 80% of the work tends to be fairly repetitive and around 20% is unique and where you really want to apply your creative skills.
"What ends up happening in the average firm is that they spend 80% of their time on the repetitive work, because they don't have the AI in place or processes in place, and then run out of time to work on the creative part. What we're doing and where AI will help is to flip that around. 20% of our time on the repetitive work, and then use AI on the creative side of the business."
AI will, he adds, allow for more "iterations of creative designs" so that what the client sees is more options, fully-thought- through, to select from. It's 'value added' in a way not seen before. Adds Blasutta: "Deploying AI on the creative side will enable us to test different options much faster and deeper with more meaningful analysis."
Beyond digital
David Cox, Managing Director for the Middle East and South Asia at Mott MacDonald, the global engineering, management and development consulting firm, reckons that the pace of the construction industry's digital adoption is increasing exponentially and "technology will ensure that we adapt even faster in the future".
He explains: "The period between industrial revolutions is contracting, so we must be prepared not only for the ongoing digital revolution but the machine one that will follow. We are already adopting technology to enhance our long-term and imaginative solutions and service offerings to our clients through the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM), generative design, and design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA). And we are exploring the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence."
In the next article in this series, we explore how computers are taking the drudgery out of engineering work, and investigate the talent challenge facing a rapidly-evolving construction industry.


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Savings bonds save a lot of people who thought they had No money left.
John DeFlumeri Jr.
Remember travelers checks? In the days before ubiquitous automated teller machines, they were a useful product. You could use them almost like cash — but you could carry more than you'd feel safe carrying in cash because if they were lost or stolen you could get them replaced. Well, savings bonds have all those features but one.
The thing you can't do with savings bonds is spend them like cash; you have to cash them in at a bank. (But then, I've sometimes had to cash travelers checks at a bank too.) In the US, pretty much any bank will cash US savings bonds. I assume there's something similar in other countries.
I first noticed this feature in the early 1980s — back before networked ATM machines made it easy to access the money in your accounts from anywhere you happened to be. Travelers checks were a useful tool for carrying your cash. But, when I noticed that several of their key features were shared with savings bonds, I started buying savings bonds instead — they paid interest. And I wasn't the only one. Anybody who needed to move around a lot — for example, military personnel — found them just as useful.
Basically, what you do is this: Buy savings bonds in small quantities over a period of time. This is easy to do; many employers let you buy savings bonds through payroll deduction and many banks will set up automated purchases as well. You can get them in all the denominations that you can get travelers checks and then some: $50, $75, $100, $200, $500, $1,000, and $5,000.
You can't cash the bond in until you've held it for a year, which is why I suggest buying gradually — you wouldn't want to put your whole emergency fund into savings bonds all at once. But, if you buy one every pay period or every month, pretty soon you'll have some that are more than a year old. Once that happens, they're basically just like travelers checks that you can only cash at the bank.
Go into pretty much any US bank with one or a few savings bonds (up to $1000 worth), and you can turn them into cash in just a few minutes. If they're lost or stolen or the paper certificate is damaged, you can get it replaced.
I've been enamored of savings bonds for a long time, but haven't talked about using them this way before here on Wise Bread, because they haven't had a competitive interest rate. Now, though, the rate on I bonds is looking pretty good.
As I mentioned back in July, the Consumer Price Index is about to surge. This isn't because inflation is rising (although I rather expect that to happen as well), it's just because it's now been a year since the big drop in oil prices.
The interest rate paid on I bonds is based on the CPI for the previous six months, so the effect of the oil price drop has already fallen off the calculation. Bonds purchased now will earn interest at a 3.36% annual rate for the next six months. That's a hard rate to beat in the current environment.
There's a 3-month interest penalty if you cash them in during the first 5 years, but even if you end up paying the penalty you still come out ahead compared to most vehicles for small savers. And if inflation rises (as I rather expect it to), the return just gets even better. Combine that with the features that make them like an interest-paying travelers check, and I think they're a pretty good buy right now.
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Buy an occasional savings bond and stuff it into a drawer. It can come in very handy when your emergency fund runs dry.
That's why I was so unhappy over the past few years, with savings bonds paying such lousy rates--I wanted to recommend a strategy like this, but I didn't feel like I could do so in good conscience when you'd basically be locking in a terrible rate. In the current environment, that's not so true.
I like the idea of that - thanks! They aren't just the things you get from your grandma anymore!
Are you amassing TIPS for retirement? Do you think that's a good idea? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
As for travelers checks--their time has come and gone. They are almost impossible to cash here or abroad.
I have some TIPS. Of late I've thought the yield over inflation was a bit low.
Of course, the yield over inflation of the I bonds is even lower. The difference, though, is that the I bonds can be cashed in early (for a small penalty). If you had TIPS, though, and wanted to get out of them, you'd have to sell them--and if the reason you were selling was because you could get better rates on new TIPS, your selling price would be pretty low.
If I were really, really rich, I'd want to own enough TIPS that the income could support me at a modest standard of living. Then I'd feel free to invest the rest of my portfolio with wild abandon. Since I can't afford that many TIPS, I have to invest the rest of my portfolio with due attention to safety.
Interesting enough to make me want to research I-bonds further.
Which brings me to my other point: what this article really needs is a link out. Like this:
Learn more about or purchase I-bonds here: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_glance.htm
The "I Bonds" link in my post is to an older post of mine where do an analysis of I bonds versus TIPS, and that post has a link to the Treasury site where you can buy them.
But, yeah, there's no need for anybody to read that before they make a decision. I just thought it provided good context, because it talks about the obvious alternative (TIPS).
I love my I bonds. I purchased my bonds from around 2000 through 2004. My bonds have inflation rates of 3.4% to 1.1%. Additionally, I purchased them all with credit cards and racked up some serious frequent flier miles - unfortunatel the US government does not allow you to purchase savings bonds using credit cards any longer.
Thanks for responding. I was conflating the 2 types--oops. I have cash on a money market and may move some to IBonds. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for re-framing the use of the savings bond! I have only ever received them as birthday presents from my grandma when I was a kid. It sounds like others here have had that same experience!
this is informative...i am currently doing posts on bonds on my blog and when i do savings bonds, i will link to this post. Nothing better than a blogger's personal opinion over those wall street people
When our grandson was born 2 years ago Nov. 7th, and the day he was born we bought him his first Savings Bond. He gets them for birthdays, Christmas and sometimes "just because". We still get him toys, clothes, etc, but we wanted to start an investment for him. I have gotten several friend's doing this now for their grandchildren also. My grandson's mom and dad are thrilled with these!! I also have his 2 uncle's doing this for him also. I just cannot get his other grandma on-board--would rather buy him more toys and junk instead of doing this.
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Like many of us, [Felix] sometimes wonders if he actually closed the garage door. I know I'm always double-checking my car locks! So, he decided to automate his garage door to give him some peace of mind!
He's been working on a pretty big Raspberry Pi home automation series, and in this final segment he shows off his new GarageMote board which, as you can guess, lets him wirelessly control the door. It's a very simple board complete with a small relay, a diode, and 2 resistors. The 8 pin header provides connection to two hall effect sensors that detect the status of the garage door, and the original door opener. He then connects this to an open-source wireless Arduino clone of his own design, dubbed the Moteino. A pair of these communicate to the Raspberry Pi which acts as his secure home automation gateway server.
The whole project is extremely slick, and very well documented – so if you're looking at automating your home, [Felix] has a wealth of knowledge to share — well at least if you want to use is Raspberry Pi!
Stick around after the break to see the web-server controlled garage door in action.


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A four-man science team led by British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Dr Andy Smith has begun exploring an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. The lake -- the size of Lake Windermere (UK) -- could yield vital clues to life on Earth, climate change and future sea-level rise.
Glaciologist Dr Smith and his colleagues from the Universities of Edinburgh and Northumbria are camped out at one of the most remote places on Earth conducting a series of experiments on the ice. He says,
"This is the first phase of what we think is an incredibly exciting project. We know the lake is 3.2km beneath the ice; long and thin and around 18 km2 in area. First results from our experiments have shown the lake is 105m deep. This means Lake Ellsworth is a deep-water body and confirms the lake as an ideal site for future exploration missions to detect microbial life and recover climate records.
"If the survey work goes well, the next phase will be to build a probe, drill down into the lake and explore and sample the lake water. The UK could do this as soon as 2012/13."
This ambitious exploration of 'subglacial' Lake Ellsworth, West Antarctica, involves scientists from 14 UK universities and research institutes, as well as colleagues from Chile, USA, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand. The International Polar Year* project Principal Investigator is Professor Martin Siegert from the University of Edinburgh. He says,
"We are particularly interested in Lake Ellsworth because it's likely to have been isolated from the surface for hundreds of thousands of years. Radar measurements made previously from aircraft surveys suggest that the lake is connected to others that could drain ice from the West Antarctic Ice sheet to the ocean and contribute to sea-level rise."
Professor Siegert is already planning the lake's future exploration. He continues, "Around 150 lakes have been discovered beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheet and so far little is known about them. Getting into the lake is a huge technological challenge but the effort is worth it. These lakes are important for a number of reasons. For example, because water acts as a lubricant to the ice above they may influence how the ice sheet flows. Their potential for unusual life forms could shed new light on evolution of life in harsh conditions; lake-floor sediments could yield vital clues to past climate. They can also help us understand the extraterrestrial environment of Europa (one of the moons of Jupiter)."
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Hd. qrs. 11th Corps, Boonesboro Gap Md
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I received your letter while we were at Gettysburg and feel grateful for it. You know very well how difficult it is to write upon an active Campaign and I have never written so few letters as since we reached Md. and Penna. In fact we never drove business quite so hard before. Day before yesterday we marched about 30 miles. Our Corps is in advance of all. Schurtz Divn. went forward beyond Boonesboro last night to support Buford's Cavalry which had been fighting all day – The other two Divns. took up position on the sides (west) of the mountain to hold the Gap at all hazards until the other Corps get up […]
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There is good news for young adults (and parents) who are tired of lifeless, often commercially-oriented films. Two classic novels for young people, Lois Lowry's The Giver is in production and Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes was released in 2012.
Winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal, Lowry's The Giver is often required reading in junior high and it is one novel that most students enthusiastically embrace. Set in the future, Lowry's riveting tale revolves around Jonas and his "community." When Jonas is selected to be the new "Receiver of Memories," he discovers that the idealized life his community has created is horrific. Little by little, Jonas becomes increasingly aware that everyone he knows and loves, and everything he has been taught in his engineered, perfect world is evil.
For the film version, (the making of which has been rumored for some fifteen years) actor Jeff Bridges will play the lead. Auditions are still underway to fulfill the role of Jonas. You can listen to an interview with Lowry and the upcoming film based on her novel on NPR's Studio 360 here.
(Have you been assigned The Giver in school or do you want to learn more? Here at eNotes, not only do we have a comprehensive study guide for the work, but also individual quizzes for each chapter of the novel! Test your knowledge before your exam or just for fun!)
Another teen favorite which made its debut on the big screen recently is Judy Blume's classic novel Tiger Eyes. Tiger Eyes is about teenager Davey Wexler dealing with her father's sudden and shocking death. Like all of Blume's work, (which has won over ninety awards) the author treats real world concerns of teenagers with deftness but also includes her trademark humor which keeps even the most sensitive of topics from becoming overbearing. Tiger Eyes was released in April 2012. You can listen to an interview with Blume on NPR's Think with Krys Boyd here.
Want to learn more about Tiger Eyes? Check out our study guide and stay tuned for upcoming chapter-by-chapter quizzes for the work!
Readers, what other Young Adult novels would you like to see given a cinematic treatment?