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Are surface temperature records reliable?
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Independent studies using different software, different methods, and different data sets yield very similar results. The increase in temperatures since 1975 is a consistent feature of all reconstructions. This increase cannot be explained as an artifact of the adjustment process, the decrease in station numbers, or other non-climatological factors. Natural temperature measurements also confirm the general accuracy of the instrumental temperature record.
Climate Myth...
Temp record is unreliable
"We found [U.S. weather] stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat. We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.
In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations – nearly 9 of every 10 – fail to meet the National Weather Service's own siting requirements that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating or radiating/reflecting heat source." (Watts 2009)
There are three prominent reconstructions of monthly global mean surface temperature (GMST) from instrumental data (fig. 1): NASA's GISTEMP analysis, the CRUTEM analysis (from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit), and an analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
Figure 1. Comparison of global (land & ocean) mean surface temperature reconstructions from NASA GISS, the University of East Anglia's CRU, and NOAA NCDC.
How reliable are these temperature reconstructions? Various questions have been raised about both the data and the methods used to produce them. Now, thanks to the hard work of many people, we can conclude that the three global temperature analyses are reasonable, and the true surface temperature trend is unlikely to be substantially different from the picture drawn by NASA, CRU, and NOAA.
The three GMST analyses have much in common, though there are significant differences among them as well. All three have at their core the monthly temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), and all three produce both a land-stations-only reconstruction and a combined land/ocean reconstruction that includes sea surface temperature measurements.
Let's explore the reliability of these reconstructions, from several different angles.
The data and software used to produce these reconstructions are publicly available
Source code and data to recreate GISTEMP and CRUTEM are available from NASA and CRU websites. (The data set provided by CRU excludes a fraction of the data that were obtained from third parties, but the results are not substantially affected by this).
The software has been successfully tested outside of NASA and CRU, and it works as advertised
Both GISTEMP and CRUTEM have been successfully implemented by independent investigators. For example, Ron Broberg has run both the CRUTEM and GISTEMP code. In addition, the Clear Climate Code project has duplicated GISTEMP in Python. Figure 2 shows a comparison of the output of the GISTEMP reconstruction process as implemented by NASA and by Clear Climate Code ... but since the results are identical, the second line falls exactly on top of the first.
Figure 2. The GISTEMP land/ocean temperature analysis as implemented by NASA and by Clear Climate Code. Results of the two analyses are effectively identical.
Similar results can be obtained using different software and methods
Over the past year, there has been quite a flurry of "do-it-yourself" temperature reconstructions by independent analysts, using either land-only or combined land-ocean data. In addition to the previously-mentioned work by Ron Broberg and Clear Climate Code, these include the following:
(There are probably others as well that we're omitting!)
Most recently, the Muir Russell investigation in the UK was able to write their own software for global temperature analysis in a couple of days.
For all of these cases, the results are generally quite close to the "official" results from NASA GISS, CRU, and NOAA NCDC. Figure 3 shows a collection of seven land-only reconstructions, and Figure 4 shows five global (land-ocean) reconstructions.
Figure 3. Comparison of land-only reconstructions, 1900-2009. Note that the NASA GISS reconstruction using only land stations is not shown here, because it is conceptually different from the other analyses.
Figure 4. Comparison of land-ocean reconstructions, 1900-2009.
Obviously, the results of the reconstructions are quite similar, whether they're by the "Big Three" or by independent analysts.
The temperature increase is not an artifact of the GHCN adjustment process
Most of the analyses shown above actually use the raw (unadjusted) GHCN data. Zeke Hausfather has done comparisons using both the adjusted and raw versions of the GHCN data set, and as shown in fig. 5, the results are not substantially different at the global scale (though 2008 is a bit of an outlier).
Figure 5. Comparison of global temperatures from raw and adjusted Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) v3 data, 1880–2010 (analysis by Zeke Hausfather).
The temperature increase is not an artifact of declining numbers of stations
While it is true that the number of stations in GHCN has decreased since the early 1990s, that has no real effect on the results of spatially weighted global temperature reconstructions. How do we know this?
- Comparisons of trends for stations that dropped out versus stations that persisted post-1990 show no difference in the two populations prior to the dropouts (see, e.g., here and here and here).
- The spatial weighting processes (e.g., gridding) used in these analyses makes them robust to the loss of stations. In fact, Nick Stokes has shown that it's possible to derive a global temperature reconstruction using just 61 stations worldwide (in this case, all the stations from GISTEMP that are classified as rural, have at least 90 years of data, and have data in 2010).
- Other data sets that don't suffer from GHCN's decline in station numbers show the same temperature increase (see below).
One prominent claim (by Joe D'Aleo and Anthony Watts) was that the loss of "cool" stations (at high altitudes, high latitudes, and rural areas) created a warming bias in the temperature trends. But Ron Broberg conclusively disproved this, by comparing trends after removing the categories of stations in question. D'Aleo and Watts are simply wrong.
The temperature increase is not an artifact of stations being located at airports
This might seem like an odd statement, but some people have suggested that the tendency for weather stations to be located at airports has artificially inflated the temperature trend. Fortunately, there is not much difference in the temperature trend between airport and non-airport stations.
The temperature increase is present in other data sets, not just GHCN
All of the above studies rely (mostly or entirely) on monthly station data from the GHCN database. But it turns out that other, independent data sets give very similar results.
Figure 6. Comparison of global temperatures from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) and Global Summary of the Day (GSOD) databases. (Analysis by Ron Broberg and Nick Stokes).
What about satellite measurements of temperatures in the lower troposphere? There are two widely cited analyses of temperature trends from the MSU sensor on NOAA's polar orbiting earth observation satellites, one from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and one from the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH). These data only go back to 1979, but they do provide a good comparison to the surface temperature data over the past three decades. Figure 7 shows a comparison of land, ocean, and global temperature data from the surface reconstructions (averaging the multiple analyses shown in figs. 3 and 4) and from satellites (averaging the results from RSS and UAH):
Figure 7. Comparison of temperatures from surface stations and satellite monitoring of the lower troposphere.
Reanalysis data sets also show the same warming trend. A 'reanalysis' is a climate or weather model simulation of the past that incorporates data from historical observations. Reanalysis comparisons by Vose et al. (2012) and Compo et al. (2013) find nearly identical global surface warming trends as in the instrumental record (Figure 8).
Figure 8. Temporal comparison of near-global land (90°N–60°S) 2 meter air temperature anomalies (TL2m) between 20CR and station-temperature based estimates. Red curve: global TL2m anomaly series from CRUTEM4, black curve: the average of five additional station-temperature datasets, and blue curve: the 20CR. 95% uncertainty ranges are shown for CRUTEM4 (yellow fill) and 20CR (blue fill) and their overlap (green fill). From Compo et al. (2013)
A paper by Anderson et al. (2012) created a new global surface temperature record reconstruction using 173 records with some type of physical or biological link to global surface temperatures (corals, ice cores, speleothems, lake and ocean sediments, and historical documents). The study compared their reconstruction to the instrumental temperature record and found a strong correlation between the two (0.76; Figure 9).
Figure 9. Paleo Index (solid) and the merged land-ocean surface temperature anomalies (MLOST, dashed) relative to 1901-2000. The range of the paleo trends index values is coincidentally nearly the same as the GST although the quantities are different (index values versus temperature anomalies °C).
We'll end by looking at all the surface and satellite-based temperature trends over the entire period for which both are available (1979-present). What are the trends in the various data sets and regions? As shown in fig. 9, the surface temperature trends over land have a fair amount of variability, but all lie between +0.2 and +0.3 C/decade. Surface trends that include the oceans are more uniform.
Figure 9. Comparison of temperature trends, in degrees C per decade.
Overall, the satellite measurements show lower trends than surface measurements. This is a bit of a puzzle, because climate models suggest that overall the lower troposphere should be warming about 1.2X faster than the surface (though over land there should be little difference, or the surface should be warming faster). Thus, there are at least three possibilities:
- The surface temperature trends show slightly too much warming.
- The satellite temperature trends show slightly too little warming.
- The prediction of climate models (about amplified warming in the lower troposphere) is incorrect, or there are complicating factors that are being missed.
It should be noted that in the past the discrepancy between surface and satellite temperature trends was much larger. Correcting various errors in the processing of the satellite data has brought them into much closer agreement with the surface data.
The well-known and widely-cited reconstructions of global temperature, produced by NASA GISS, UEA CRU, and NOAA NCDC, are replicable.
Independent studies using different software, different methods, and different data sets yield very similar results.
The increase in temperatures since 1975 is a consistent feature of all reconstructions, and is also a feature found in reconstructions from natural temperature proxy measurements. This increase cannot be explained as an artifact of the adjustment process, the decrease in station numbers, or other non-climatological factors.
- NCDC global temperature series
- Results from individual reconstructions, compiled by Zeke Hausfather
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Amazon Prime launched in 2005, offering two-day shipping on any of its products
Redbox made it possible for legions of supermarket shoppers to pick up a movie on the cheap
At $8 a month, Hulu Plus offers instant streaming access to a wealth of TV shows
The curtain hasn't even opened on Netflix's new DVD-by-mail spin-off company Qwikster, and many customers are already walking out.
The company recently revised its quarterly projections of net subscribers to show 1 million fewer customers than it had previously expected. Much to Netflix's chagrin, folks are realizing that the king of mail-away media isn't the only game in town.
We've taken a look at some of Netflix's (and Qwikster's) main competitors, and judged each service accordingly. Do the rest offer enough to stand up to the best?
Also known as Netflix: Redux. It's the same service we know and love, only completely different. Faced with massive customer backlash in the wake of a price hike, Netflix split itself into two separate companies this week. The streaming service will retain the Netflix branding while the DVD-by-mail service will be named Qwikster. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the split will better serve customers in the long run because each company will be able to better focus on one type of service.
Netflix pioneered the DVD-by-mail service, creating an entire industry where one did not exist previously. But after serious flux in Netflix's new pricing system — which split the streaming and DVD mailing services into two separate plans starting at $8 a month minimum — there's no guarantee the company's customers will continue to stick around.
WIRED: It's been around the longest, and is the most familiar service. Massive offering of physical mail-away media. New game rental service sounds intriguing. Streaming to all iOS devices and Android smartphones.
TIRED: Can you say price increase? We don't like paying more money for the same service, and we're failing to see how splitting the companies in twain is going to benefit consumers. Streaming-only service still lacks selection compared to DVD catalog.
Amazon Prime
Amazon's elite-level service launched in 2005, offering two-day shipping on any of its products to members anywhere in the continental United States and other select countries for a reasonable $80 a year. Originally meant for those who couldn't wait more than 48 hours for their tangible goods, Prime expanded in February to offer instant, streaming movie and TV show access to existing Prime customers at no added cost.
WIRED: Fast shipping on everything Amazon! What other movie service offers that? Lower yearly rate than Netflix and Qwikster. Works with over 100 different web-connected set-top boxes, including the ever-popular Roku.
TIRED: Smaller media selection compared to other existing services. Lacks the DVD rental option that made Netflix famous.
Redbox made it possible for legions of supermarket shoppers to pick up a movie on the cheap, without having to make multiple stops. Instead of leaving the grocery store (or 7-11, Walgreens or what have you) with only a TV dinner and a Mountain Dew in tow, Redbox's 30,000-plus DVD-rental kiosks make sure you won't go home alone on a Friday night again.
WIRED: Cheap, cheap, cheap. DVD rentals average two bucks a pop, with anywhere from 50 to 200 recent titles to select from in each kiosk, updated weekly. Game rentals to roll out this year.
TIRED: No streaming service? Bummer.
Once the dominant force in the media-rental industry, Blockbuster has fared horribly over the past few years. After scoffing at Netflix's business model years ago, the big blue-and-gold company filed for bankruptcy last September.
However late, Blockbuster jumped on the bandwagon with its own Netflix clone mail-away service, but with the added advantage of allowing customers to return DVDs to brick-and-mortar Blockbuster stores. And finally, Blockbuster Express is a blue-and-gold Redbox rip, with kiosks placed in grocery stores and Kwik-E-Mart's across the country.
WIRED: The Dish Network acquisition could mean big things for Blockbuster when (or if) the companies get a game plan up and running.
TIRED: Brick and mortar is slowly dying, so the leg-up Blockbuster has on Netflix with in-store DVD exchange may soon be moot. Ripping off its two major competitors shows a lack of ability to innovate, possibly signifying that the company is still behind the times.
Hulu Plus
At $8 a month, Hulu Plus offers instant streaming access to a wealth of TV shows only a day or so after they've originally aired. But seriously, if you're paying a monthly fee, you shouldn't have to deal with mid-show commercial breaks. That's the whole point of paying for streaming service, right?
Still, I challenge you to find a more comprehensive archive of Hell's Kitchen reruns on the web.
WIRED: Streaming to all iOS devices and some Android smartphones and tablets. Tons of TV shows that aren't out to rent on DVD.
TIRED: Despite taking your $8 monthly fee, you still have to sit through asinine commercials. "Hundreds," not thousands, of movies to choose from. Again, no physical media. Rights agreements sometimes complicate how many episodes are available for viewing on the site.
Android Market
Google has struggled to keep up with Apple in its media service offerings, only recently debuting its movie rental service on the Android Market in conjunction with a complete interface makeover. Fortunately, renting flicks from Google is available on all Android devices running version 2.2 and up — that's something even Hulu can't say.
WIRED: Rental ain't pricey, averaging around two to five bucks a pop. Streaming to Android phones is nice. Compatible with PCs.
TIRED: No physical media. Not functional across all Android tablets.
iTunes and Apple TV
There's a down-payment to get Apple TV up and running in your home, and it's in the form of a small, sleek set-top box. Fortunately, it's only $100.
Along with Netflix compatibility, Apple lets you purchase and rent movies from its iTunes media store, along with the ability to buy TV shows (due to lack of customer demand, Apple discontinued TV show rentals last month). Further, you're able to watch streaming media on all of Apple's mobile devices. The company wants to hook you into an Apple-centric world, and the interconnection between its services makes it easier for customers to buy in.
WIRED: Purchase prices are par for the course, ranging from $1 to $3 depending on whether you want to rent or own. Ability to buy entire seasons of a show is convenient. Rumors and speculation have long suggested bigger plans for Apple TV's future, though Apple itself is staying mum on any potential developments.
TIRED: Lacks an "all-you-can-stream buffet" option, which can get costly if you watch a lot of flicks. Though its library is extensive, iTunes alone doesn't contain the esoteric indie films that Netflix totes. So if you're subscribing to Netflix and buying through iTunes at the same time, charges could add up fast.
Wal-Mart got in on the media-services game in 2010 by buying Vudu, another streaming media company. Initially the service was available only in a set-top box version, but Vudu has since extended itself to other platforms as a standalone media service in and of itself, available to Playstation 3 users, Boxee for OSX owners and Windows-based PC users.
WIRED: Rentals and purchases stay on par with most other services, settling in the $1 to $5 range for rentals, and upwards of $5 for purchases. Titles available the same day they're released on DVD, unlike other services that require waiting periods. Streaming video available on iPad.
TIRED: No monthly unlimited movie-streaming option.
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GUATEMALA CITY - Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi was awarded the 2014 Olympics on Wednesday, rewarding President Vladimir Putin and taking the Winter Games to his country for the first time.
Sochi defeated the South Korean city of Pyeongchang 51-47 in the final round of voting by the International Olympic Committee.
The Austrian resort of Salzburg was eliminated in the first round of the secret ballot, setting up the decisive head-to-head contest between Sochi and Pyeongchang.
Pyeongchang led the first round with 36 votes, followed by Sochi with 34 and Salzburg with 25. Sochi picked up 17 votes in the second round to secure the victory.
The result was a triumph for Putin, who put his international prestige on the line by coming to Guatemala to lobby IOC members and lead Sochi's final formal presentation to the assembly. Putin had left by the time the result was announced.
IOC president Jacques Rogge opened a sealed envelope and read the words the Russians longed to hear:
"The International Olympic Committee has the honor of announcing the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in 2014 are awarded to the city of Sochi."
Russian delegates in the hall erupted in cheers, jumped to their feet and hugged each other. They unfurled a Russian flag and chanted, "Sochi! Sochi!" Korean delegates bowed their heads, some in tears.
"It was a historic decision for all countries," Sochi bid chief Dmitry Chernychenko said. "Russia will become even more open, more democratic."
In Sochi, cheers erupted from the crowd of more than 15,000 that had gathered for a pop concert and the announcement in a main square.
"We did it all together. We won," the concert's announcer said from the stage as fireworks flashed and boomed in the sky.
People hugged and waved their hands in the air. Some appeared to have tears in their eyes.
"It is great. I've never been so happy in my life," said Marina Matveyeva, 23, who works in a bank. "It means that Russia has reached the level of Europe, and we can be proud of our country."
Russia, an Olympic power which has won 293 Winter Games medals, has never hosted the Winter Games. That was a strong point in Sochi's favor with the IOC, which likes to spread the Olympics to new host countries. Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Games, which were hit by the U.S.-led boycott following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Sochi bid won out over the appeals of its rivals -- Salzburg, presenting itself as a safe, no-risk winter sports mecca at the heart of Europe with world-class venues already in place; and Pyeongchang, offering the potential for peace and reconciliation on the divided Korean peninsula and promoting winter sports in Asia.
Ninety-seven IOC members were eligible to vote in the first round, with 95 casting valid ballots. Members from bidding countries are ineligible to vote as long as their cities remain in contention. With Salzburg out, 100 delegates were eligible in the second round, with 98 casting valid votes.
Putin's government has pledged $12 billion to develop Sochi into a world-class winter sports complex linking the palm-lined Black Sea coast -- the so-called "Russian Riviera" -- to the soaring Caucasus mountains nearby.
Putin, one of the world's most powerful figures, emphasized his commitment by making a rare formal presentation in English to the IOC. He praised Sochi's natural setting, saying, "On the seashore you can enjoy a fine spring day, but up in the mountains, it's winter ... a real snow is guaranteed."
Although the site would have to be built largely from scratch, Putin assured, "We guarantee the Olympic cluster in Sochi will be completed on time."
"No traffic jams, I promise," he said with a smile.
Noting that athletes would have a short walk to their venues, Putin said, "Five minutes' walking distance, not bad."
It was the second straight first-round defeat for Salzburg, which also mounted a failed bid for the 2010 Winter Games, which went to Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Austrians were squeezed out by the political and economic might of the Russian and Korean bids.


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Tejas Desai, MD, has heard varying explanations for the pay difference between women and men in medicine over the years. These include women physicians not seeing as many patients, are not as productive or have less seniority than their male counterparts.
But none of these reasons were palatable to him. He looked at the research that had been done in this area, and most of it was based on surveys, which are subjective and do not capture enough data. So when he found out Medicare was going to do a data dump, he decided to analyze it to see if he could find a better explanation.
"Medicare is blind," he said. "If you do a procedure, it will pay this much — there's no ambiguity about it. There is not some troll in the back office looking at names provided on bills saying, 'You sound like a woman, I'm going to pay you less.'"
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His study, published online in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, found women made an overall differential of $18,677 in Medicare reimbursements. This occurred even when the numbers were adjusted for things like productivity, experience level, and number of patients. Two specialties had no major difference, and, among the other 11 specialities in the study, the greatest differential — $16,668 — was in nephrology.
"What we are trying to figure out is whether the pay inequality is due to something intrinsic to the way they practice or to the system they are in," said Dr Desai, a nephrologist at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina. "There has to be some other explanation than those we always hear."
Code Breakers
If the typically cited variables like productivity and hours worked are excluded, Dr Desai said that likely leaves a single major explanation of the differences in reimbursement. "I think female providers are billing differently than male providers," he said.
He said there was no other literature showing this, but the issue could be that men just code higher than women, or there is some inherent difference in the way they are coding.
A 2014 Nerd Wallet study also found that men make more money per patient treated but they also perform more services per patient than women do. This has played out in other research as well.
It is known that men tend to provide more services per visit than women physicians, but Dr Desai said he accounted for this in his study. He posits that male doctors code more. He used as an example a patient who goes to the doctor for a cold and receives an upper respiratory examination. A male doctor codes that he looked into both ears and both nostrils, while the female doctor would only code that she looked into one of each.
"She would get reimbursed less even though she provided the same services," he said.
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Nuria Pastor-Soler, MD, an associate professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and president-elect of Women in Nephrology, said the study shows that something is happening between a clinical visit and how that consultation is presented to the insurance companies.
"Definitely the results are provocative, but is not a definitive study of why there is a problem with reimbursement," Dr Pastor-Soler said. "It needs to be looked at particularly with the understanding that in many situations reimbursement is tied to compensation."
Dr Pastor-Soler said there are a few explanations that might make sense for the disparity. One possibility is that a particular cohort of women is not coding correctly. Another is that some women do not have a support system that helps them code higher. And third, women are being given less complex patients.
An easily addressable solution is to improve the coding support system. She has worked at jobs, for instance, where coders will come to her and say she should not be billing so highly for a service or that she should have included an examination that was left out.
"Physicians are very objective … but if they have more supportive coders backing them, they may get higher reimbursements," she said.
Groups might also be wise to audit providers to see if this rings true in their organization. If there are physicians who are not getting fully reimbursed for their work, they can train or get more help for those groups, Dr Pastor-Soler said.
Dr Desai is planning additional research in this area, but was glad to see that women may not necessarily need to be working longer hours, increasing patient loads, and skipping vacation to get paid equally.
"They need to focus on something no one has talked about — coding practices and accuracy," he said.
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The Linux Foundation will announce today that consumer electronics giant Samsung is becoming a platinum member of the organization, the highest tier of membership. This will give Samsung a seat on the foundation's board of directors.
The Linux Foundation, which was established in 2007, provides a vendor-neutral venue for coordinating the development of the Linux kernel and also employs some key developers, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds. The organization is supported financially by its members, which include individuals and corporations.
The foundation has three separate tiers of membership for companies: silver, gold, and platinum. Members at each tier pay annual dues that help fund the organization. Platinum membership, which entitles a company to a seat on the board of directors, costs half a million dollars a year. Samsung was previously a silver member, but is now upgrading to platinum status.
Samsung will be the foundation's seventh platinum member, alongside industry heavyweights such as IBM, Intel, and Qualcomm. Samsung uses Linux extensively throughout its product line, particularly in the mobile space. Samsung said in a statement today that it intends to continue expanding its support for the open source operating system.
"We're looking forward to increasing collaboration and support for our growing portfolio of Linux-based devices and to making contributions that advance Linux for all," said Samsung Electronics Vice President WonJoo Park in a statement.
Samsung is the largest manufacturer of handsets using Google's Linux-based Android operating system. Samsung is also collaborating with Intel and the Linux Foundation to develop Tizen, a new Linux-based mobile platform that emerged as the successor of the foundation's failed MeeGo project last year. Tizen is maturing, but hasn't launched on a handset yet. It's not yet clear how Tizen will fit into Samsung's somewhat scattershot platform strategy.
Samsung's investment in Tizen and the upstream-aligned Linux ecosystem will help insulate the company in the event that Google's acquisition of Motorola changes the Android landscape in a way that disadvantages competing handset manufacturers. Samsung is also possibly looking to Tizen to provide a unifying Linux-based software environment that can run more effectively across the spectrum of devices and form factors that the company builds.
Tizen hasn't achieved the same degree of community buy-in that the Linux Foundation had with MeeGo. The rough transition from MeeGo to Tizen left a lot of former contributors out in the cold and eroded the foundation's image. Samsung's decision to increase its membership status in the foundation sends a signal that the company is committed to Linux for the long run. It won't fully patch the hole that MeeGo's demise left in the foundation's credibility as a mobile platform steward, but it shows that the hole isn't irreparable.


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From this May to last month, 44 year-old Tomomi Monmae has been busy. Almost everyday, she's called the police. She even called them over nine hundred times in the span of 24 hours.
Website 47 News reports that repeatedly Monmae dialed 110, the Japanese police equivalent of 911, from her cell phone. She would often tell the police to arrest people she knew. She would also hang up before the operator could say anything.
The police visited Monmae at her home around sixty times to caution her about her excessive calling.
And this week, authorities finally arrested Monmae for interfering with police duties. Obviously, this woman needs help, and I'm not convinced she'll find it in jail.
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This project is not earth shattering or revolutionary, it is simply a means of
coming to terms with ASP.NET and C# development on my part, and to hopefully
expose some knowledge and ideas to others.
This project began with the need to create an intranet portal that contained,
among other things, the local weather forecast. The design for the forecast
information was to be just like a local TV station's web site. Since I could
not use their site, nor was paying for a service to provide the information an
option, it was determined that screen scrapping the local TV site would be a
good solution. I decided this would be a good introduction the .NET world so I
used ASP.NET with C# as the coding language.
It should go without saying that screen scraping is not the best solution in
many cases. You are completely at the mercy of the third party site, if the
layout changes, you must rework you solution. It may also present some legal
question as to your rights to use someone else's work.
The first step in the design was to call up the providing site,
http://www.pittsburgh.com/partners/wpxi/weather/ in this case, and look
at the HTML to find the information needed. In my case I was able to search for
the heading
Current Conditions for Pittsburgh
The weather information was found in two tables so it was just a matter of
searching the HTML text and extracting the tables. I could then pass this as
the innerHTML content for a table on my webpage.

Local Weather Forecast
information provided by WPXI
Using the .NET library it was easy to aqurire the HTML from the site. As can be
seen we just need to create a WebResponse object and feed the
into a instance of StreamReader. From there I parse through it to remove the
empty lines and assign the result to a string. I'm using StringBuilder.Append
method as an alternative to appending to the string based on the recommendation
of Charles Petzold in
Programming Microsoft Windows with C#. Here he demonstrates the using
the StringBuilder is 1000x faster than appending to a string.
// Open the requested URL
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(strURL);
// Get the stream from the returned web response
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
// Get the stream from the returned web response
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
string strLine;
// Read the stream a line at a time and place each one
// into the stringbuilder
while( (strLine = stream.ReadLine()) != null )
// Ignore blank lines
if(strLine.Length > 0 )
// Finished with the stream so close it now
// Cache the streamed site now so it can be used
// without reconnecting later
m_strSite = sb.ToString();
After the text has been acquired it is simply a matter of extracting and
returning the substring. To fix the relative path of the images I run the
substring through another method to insert the absolute path before returning
private string FindWeatherTable()
int nIndexStart = 0;
int nIndexEnd = 0;
int nIndex = 0;
// This phrase tells us where to start looking for the information
// If it is found start looking for the first beginning table tag
if( (nIndex = Find("Current Conditions for Pittsburgh", 0)) > 0 )
nIndexStart = Find("
 0 )
// Need to find the second end table tag
nIndex = Find("
", nIndex);
if(nIndex > 0 )
// Add 1 to the index so we don't find the same
// tag as above
nIndexEnd = Find("
", nIndex+1);
if(nIndexEnd > 0 )
nIndexEnd += 8; // Include the characters in the tag
// Extract and return the substring containing the table we want
// after correcting the img src elements
return CorrectImgPath(m_strSite.Substring(nIndexStart,
nIndexEnd - nIndexStart));
catch(Exception e)
return e.Message;
private string CorrectImgPath(string s)
int nIndex = 0;
// Absolute path to insert
string strInsert = "http://www.pittsburgh.com";
// Find any and all images and insert the absolute path
while( (nIndex = s.IndexOf("/images/",
nIndex + strInsert.Length + 1)) > 0 )
s = s.Insert(nIndex, strInsert);
return s;
catch(Exception e)
return e.Message;
The complete site used ADO.NET to connect to a SQL Server database and
provide the viewer with schedule and appointment information as well
as corporate information. They also had the ability to add events to their
calendar. For simplicity I choose not include these features in this sample. I
just wanted to share a beginner C# and ASP.NET exploration to give others
some ideas.
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Not too long ago, I sat with a small group of sustainability science "backcasters" at an international sustainability conference at the University of Utrecht in Holland. Forecasters look at trends related to sustainability to predict the future. Backcasters envision the idealized sustainable global future and research ways to get us there.
Seeming to think out loud, one backcasting researcher at the conference from Clark University asked our small seminar group, "What about the people of the sustainable future? What would they look like in terms of their behavior and attitudes?"
In that moment, I was given my doctoral and career research question. Three years later I have just completed some of the preliminary work to begin to answer this question as part of my doctoral dissertation at Saybrook and post-doctoral work funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
As a first-time guest contributor to Rethinking Complexity, I may be able to provide a fresh perspective related to generating systems for a humane and sustainable world. As a psychologist, my particular area of research interest is the relationship between human identity and sustainability. This includes individual identities—personal and social—as well as collective identities, such as those related to corporate cultures, indigenous cultures, and global citizenship. Individual and collective identities are connected in sociocultural systems. Sociocultural systems are key agencies for individual and collective identity development, identity expression in terms of behavior and attitudes, and identity change.
Whether individual or collective, identity can have multiple dimensions. For instance, a person can be a lawyer, a father, and an avid basketball fan all at the same time. We can make choices with regard to which groups we belong to and so we can make choices with regard to our identities. Who we are and who we will be is largely up to choices we can (learn to) make. Through our conscious choice, the inclusion of belonging by an individual to a group can incite and develop commitment to a cause in the form of action.
What about those people of the sustainable global future? What might their individual behavior and attitudes that define their identities be? What might their conscious choices be? To which groups might they choose to belong? How can these characteristics be developed in the people of today? The post-doctoral research I am currently conducting seeks to begin to answer these questions.
Individual identity is comprised of two broad interacting dimensions. These are identity as it relates to self and identity as it relates to other. I typically group the individual behavior and attitudes most equitable with generating (and maintaining) a sustainable future from the local to the global to reflect these two broad dimensions. I group those individual dimensions related to self as "I Am Sustainability" and those related to other as "We are Sustainability."
As a starting point I am researching individuals and communities that appear to already be engaged in at least some of those behaviors and attitudes that appear to be most equitable with generating a sustainable future from the local to the global. Given that the term sustainability itself has no concrete definition and that what to sustain and what to develop will continue to reside in evolving value judgments, the transition toward a sustainable world will likely be a continuous evolutionary work in progress rather than be circumscribed by a fixed endpoint(s).
Those individuals engaged in generating a sustainable future from the local to the global are a starting point for my research because they may be the prototype for the necessary global citizens of the sustainable future. They have been variously defined in the literature as world benefit leaders, cultural creatives, evolutionary leaders, positive deviants, social entrepreneurs, international social workers, sustainability champions, adaptive network leaders, knowledge managers, transition managers, and boundary managers.
I am seeking to develop an overall protocol by which to characterize, develop and connect these community leaders for sustainability and the communities they seek to generate across global cultures. I am currently researching groups in the Arctic, Caribbean, and American communities.
The characteristics of the people of the sustainable future may already reside with the shared attitudes and behavior of the community leaders for sustainability of today.
Enrico J. Wensing Ph.D. is the founder of Ecosphere Net, a social science research initiative for global sustainability based in the U.S Virgin Islands. He is a special guest contributor to Rethinking Complexity. Enrico earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Saybrook University. He can be contacted at [email protected].
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This blog posting is dedicated in memory to my chair and mentor Dr. Jeannie Achterberg.
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Clean gently with a cloth. Apply cold compresses to reduce swelling. If bleeding is severe, go to an emergency services provider. After bleeding has subsided, rinse with warm salt water.
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Q. Why is it important that women be concerned with their oral health?
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Q. Gum disease tends to run in my family. What's the best way to prevent and treat it?
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text: A security firm in Slovakia is asserting that a website operated by the country of Georgia has been used as part of a botnet to conduct cyber-espionage against that country's residents.But does that mean Georgia is conducting the cyber-espionage, or that its website run by the Georgia government is compromised by enemies of the country? Because the botnet's command-and-control operations lack some elements of stealth that might be expected, the Slovakian security firm that spotted it -- ESET -- reports it may simply be "a group of cyber criminals trying to find sensitive information in order to sell it to other organizations."MORE SECURITY NEWS: Most fraud against business from bad checks, not electronic paymentsWin32\/Georbot has a command-and-control structure that has exploited the website of the Georgian government for some time to drive some controls, says ESET researcher Righard Zwienenberg. When ESET detected evidence of Georbot as malware in January, it contacted the Georgian CERT. As it turns out, the Data Exchange Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia and its national CERT were fully aware of the situation as early as 2011 and have been monitoring Georbot, now in cooperation with ESET.Georbot is primarily a cyber-espionage botnet that has infected only about 200 computers that appear to be mainly in the country of Georgia, though about 30% of them are in the U.S., Germany and Russia. It's not clear who these individuals are, Zwienenberg says, but Georbot is "looking on their hard drives for documents," and can also capture audio and video when the computer's webcam and microphone are in use.Georbot is also remotely controlled to steal documents and certificates, and look for certain words in documents, among them "ministry," "service," "secret," "top," "agent," "army," "USA," "Russia," "Georgia," "major," "Colonel," "FBI," "CIA," "phone number," "east," "program," "KGB," "FSB" and other political and personal information.Based on ESET's analysis, Georbot does have features to hide itself. But it's not especially sophisticated since it has left some information unencrypted, lending doubt to whether a capable government spy operation from any country would be operating this. ESET got a look at the control panel for it to analyze what it was doing."The most likely hypothesis is that Win32\/Georbot was created by a group of criminals trying to find sensitive information in order to sell it to other organizations," ESET's report on this concludes. "They might be operating from Georgia or any country nearby and have been 'lucky' enough to gain control of a government website and are now using it as part of their operation."The development of the Georbot malware seems to be ongoing, with fresh variants discovered as recently as March 19, says ESET.Zwienenberg acknowledges he doesn't know why the government of Georgia has allowed it to operate so long, and says there's only so much the Georgian CERT or anyone else that ESET has contacted in Georgia will say about it. "It's possible someone from the Georgian government was running it," he says, adding that is pure speculation on his part. But Georbot has so far shown to be very targeted against a fairly small number of individuals associated with the country of Georgia.Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security.Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.


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"Let's sell everything we own!", I exclaimed to my husband. Apparently, he didn't have the same thoughts as me. "That would be going backwards", he said.
I looked perplexed. "Backwards?" I asked, "but we owe $75,000 of debt. We can buy that stuff back later in cash."
"I'll think about it" he said in his manly voice.
Okay then, I am selling all I own! 🙂 (Yes, I realize this is a joint effort, but sometime a woman needs to get the ball rolling)
This need to venture into a mass selling spree started after reading a guest post by Jenny Newcomer, on Man vs. Debt – PIF $15,000 in 9 months. I soon eyed the house for what I could possibly have to sell. And then it happened…
Every item in my house is now seen with a shiny price tag – the tent in the garage, the motorcycle helmets hanging on the wall, the books in my bookshelf, the coffee press in the cupboard. I realized, with new sight, that I have much to sell in my possession. The problem in the past, was the emotional attachment I harbored with these materialistic items. No more!
I will start small, but be persistant with posting and selling items.
My goal right now: to pay off half of my Bank of America card balance – $900.
On my agenda for the week:
- Sell 2 unused gift cards
- Inventory and update my book listings
- List clothing on Ebay and donate the rest
There are different avenues I am looking to sell my items.
With more than 88 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day.
Half.com offers buyers an online marketplace where they can buy both new and used textbooks, books, music, movies and video games at discounted prices. With one of the largest inventories on the web, Half.com offers everyone the ability to find the best bargains online, quickly and easily.
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Local classifieds and forums – community moderated, and largely free. Jobs, housing, goods, services, romance, local activities, advice – just about anything really. Started as an email list of SF events, as a hobby by Craig Newmark in early 1995. It now generates more than 20 billion page views. On Craigslist.org you can sell just about anything. For good Craigslist selling tips, Click Here
Garage sales are work – a lot of hard work, but the returns more than justify the effort. Whether it's advertised as Patio, Carport, Yard, Porch, or Garage-a-Rama, people will come and buy. Clean out your closets and ANYTHING that is useless to you or you don't want – put it in the sale. Don't throw anything away. People will buy just about anything. You'd be surprised. What is one person's trash is another's GOLDMINE!
Let the Selling Begin! What is your best selling avenue (Craigslist, Ebay, Half, Garage Sales, etc…)?


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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian capital region declared a state of emergency on Friday because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratically to its south.
The threat is posed by a blaze on Canberra's southern fringe that has razed more than 53,000 acres since it was sparked by heat from a military helicopter landing light on Monday, the Emergency Services Agency said.
"The state of emergency sets a clear expectation for our community that we need you to be vigilant," Emergency Services Minister Mick Gentleman told reporters. "This is the worst bushfire season in the ACT since 2003."
The fire is burning at emergency level — the highest on a three-tier scale of danger — and embers have created dangerous spot fires nearby, agency officials said.
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The Fire Danger Is Forecast to Escalate
Residents of southern Canberra suburbs and surrounding villages have been advised to prepare to either protect their homes or evacuate.
Roads were blocked to the village of Tharwa late Friday because the fire posed too much danger for residents to evacuate or return to their homes.
The fire is the most dangerous of dozens of blazes burning Australia's drought-stricken southeast.
Unprecedented fires across southern Australia have claimed at least 33 lives since September, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed more than 26.2 million acres.
The fire danger is forecast to escalate across the southeast in the Australian Capital Territory and the states of New South Wales and Victoria as summer temperatures rise over the weekend.
The state of emergency gives Canberra's local government additional powers to block roads, direct people's movements, control their property and undertake firefighting work on private land.


text: The PHP Group has released PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 on Tuesday in order to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited by hackers."The releases complete a fix for a vulnerability in CGI-based setups (CVE-2012-2311)," the PHP developers said in the release notes. Additionally, PHP 5.4.3 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-2329, in the apache_request_headers() function.The CVE-2012-2311 vulnerability, also known as CVE-2012-1823, was publicly disclosed last week and prompted the PHP Group to release PHP 5.3.12 and PHP 5.4.2 as emergency security updates in order to resolve it, on May 3.Unfortunately, the initial patch proved to be ineffective against all variations of the exploit for CVE-2012-1823, and the manual workaround suggested by the PHP developers when releasing the emergency updates was easy to bypass as well.The PHP developers investigated the issue further and published a new workaround on Sunday. They also promised to have a new working patch ready on Tuesday.However, hackers immediately took advantage of the situation and started to exploit the flaw in order to compromise websites, according to reports from several security firms.Researchers from security firm Trustwave announced that the company recorded exploitation attempts for the PHP CGI vulnerability on its honeypot servers -- systems designed to attract attackers. The attacks were particularly interesting because they were designed to bypass the second workaround published by the PHP Group on Sunday."One of the major goals of these attacks are to try and download\/install webshells and backdoors," researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs said in a blog post on Monday.Web hosting provider Dreamhost has also seen a large number of attacks trying to exploit this vulnerability, according to Trustwave researchers who exchanged information with Dreamhost's security team. In total, the Web hosting company recorded 234,076 exploit attempts against 151,275 unique domains, the Trustwave researchers said.Security researchers from website integrity monitoring firm Sucuri Security also reported seeing successful CVE-2012-1823 exploitation attempts since the weekend that resulted in the targeted websites being compromised.The attackers are first sending a malicious query that includes the "-s" php-cgi flag to test if the targeted websites are vulnerable and then installed a backdoor through a query with the "-d" flag, Sucuri's chief technology officer, Daniel Cid, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "It is also important to note that even though we are only seeing those two 'flags' being used (-s and -d), php-cgi has many options and any of them can be used." Cid advised Web servers administrators who run PHP through php-cgi, to update to the new PHP 5.4.3 or PHP 5.3.13, or to modify their setup so that it uses the PHP module (mod_php) under Apache or FastCGI, which is not vulnerable.


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Decorating the Christmas mantels
November 29, 2010
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Well hello there!! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving week! We had such a fantastic time, but there wasn't much resting, shopping or decorating going on.
Just a lot of this:
And this:
And this!
And watching our sweet Bub experience many firsts – first subway ride, first musical, first trip on an airplane:
That's him watching our plane pull up to the gate. Giddy. Adorable. :)
I've discovered the perfect recipe for Christmas decor that I love. It's so simple – greenery, red stuff and a few touches of nature. That's it. I mix up those three and I'm one happy chick.
I've also discovered I love fluffy greenery so much it's just sick. I need someone to stop me from adding and adding and fluffing and fluffing…big fat greenery makes me HAPPY. :)
My mantels haven't changed much since last year, I just added a little more greenery (shocking) and some HomeGoods finds. The base started with some basic greenery I've had used for years. But it needed some poofing, so last year I found some fantastic greenery at Big Lots of all places, and I'm kind of obsessed with it. I got a few more this week:
I just snip it apart and stick it in here and there in the basic, cheap greenery. It works GREAT and makes it look so much more expensive! In my opinion full and fluffy equals expensive looking.
After that, it's just more fluffing and adding – sticks:
Beady stuff, dollar store ornaments and pinecones:
And there. you. go. I would stuff a cat in there if it would stay, seriously. I just can't stop. :)
A few weeks ago while shopping for my Mom Cave, I found an adorable (big! lighted!) reindeer for $20, so I paired him with my little red adorable reindeer I found at HomeGoods last year:
By the way, I saw that exact same large reindeer at Pier 1 for I think $60? It's identical! Whoohoo!
My dollar store stars (from last year) hang from the ironwork, and it's done:
Ugh, that fluffy garland just rocks my world. I love it!
Upstairs, I did almost exactly what I have in years past, but couldn't resist a bit more fluff, of course.
Because I try to use what I have as much as possible in Christmas decor, I wanted to keep the current stuff up there, but the garland kept falling off around it. I picked up some Command Strips at True Value and laid a couple right on the top of the mantel:
I just hooked the greenery to it and it worked perfectly!
Here's a shot of the difference some fluffing can do – on the left, I've started stuffing my Big Lots good stuff in. On the right, it's just the basic garland:
Here it is again, with a bunch o' stuff thrown in:
Again, I just add till it looks right – ornaments, pinecones, the cat, whatever!
A few years ago, I got some cheap wood letters from the craft store, painted them red and then hung them from ribbon. I hang them from my wallpaper art every year and it's such a big impact for so cheap!
Instead of hot gluing them like usual, I picked up some tacks from True Value and used those to secure the ribbon to the backs of the canvases:
And that's it!
I just love the bright red against the black!:
RED makes me SMILE. :)
Our bedroom mantel, transformed with some greenery and a few changes to what we already have:
YES, I know…the cord. It's giving me hives. But I have two more trees to get up and ten more bins to empty, umkay? Priorities people. But OH YES, it will be covered…
The candles are fake, no worries. :)
And of course, I love them best at night:
Ahhhh…that's the magic!! :) LOVE. Be sure to link up tomorrow at Layla's. I can't wait to see what you've created!
P.S. I think I said "fluff" 89 times. Or so.


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A Warm First Half of Winter: January 2007 Climate Summary
New Jersey State Climatologist
Center for Environmental Prediction, Cook College/NJAES, Rutgers University
February 4, 2007
Updated: February 15
While the door to arctic cold opened at the end of January and remains ajar, the winter to date has been exceptionally mild in the Garden State. The end of January cold brought mean monthly temperatures down from a record early month pace. However, the preliminary state wide January average of 37.0° is 6.4° above normal, and ranks 11th warmest since 1895 (January 2006 was 6th warmest). One of the warmest January days on record occurred on the 6th, when afternoon temperatures reached the upper 60s and low 70s in most locales.
Looking back at the last several months, both the November 2006-January 2007 and December 2006-January 2007 intervals rank as the second warmest on record. Each trails the exceptionally warm winter of 1931-32, in large part due to the 42.2° January 1932 mean being the warmest on record. If you recall from recent monthly reports, both November and December 2006 were the warmest on record.
As a result of several early month rain events (1st and 7th-8th), January precipitation preliminarily totaled 3.68", just 0.26" below normal. Recent weeks have brought meager precipitation, but for snow lovers, at least some has fallen in frozen form. The first measurable (at least 0.1") snow of the season fell in New Brunswick on the 19th. This was the 5th latest date for such an event since station records began in 1893. To date, while a few inches of snow have fallen at various locations in scattered events (reports for events where at least one location received 2 or more inches of the white stuff can be found here), a major storm has not visited NJ. The coming weeks will tell whether we will be challenging seasonal records for snow futility. But as we learned last February 11-12, this can change in a matter of snowy hours.
Past Climate Summaries


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Healthy Baked Oatmeal
2 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup natural cane sugar or maple syrup
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter melted and cooled slightly
2 teaspoon vanilla
2 bananas
1 1/2 cups of any berries
1/2 cup of choice of nut if you like
Mix saving the bananas, berries and nuts to mix last. Place mixture in a greased 8" pan or muffin pan. Pre-heat to 375 and bake for 35 - 45 minutes. Keep a good eye so not to over bake. Let cool and enjoy. Modify the recipe to your liking in the future.
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VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0 allows IT departments to be more flexible when they put together centrally managed desktop images using separated application packages.
VMware lives and breathes desktop virtualization, but enterprises still want and need to run traditional desktops where applications execute on the PC. To address this fact, VMware last year acquired Wanova, a company whose software was used to centralize and simplify the management of physical desktop images while letting users get the native performance of a PC, it said at the time.
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The latest iteration of that software is Horizon Mirage 4.0. It became generally available on Monday and the basic idea is still the same: to centrally manage desktop images.
The most notable feature in version 4.0 is application layering, according to VMware.
In a Mirage environment, the IT department first configures so-called base layers, which include the OS and applications that are used across the whole enterprise. It is possible to create multiple base layers that can be customized for different countries or business units. However, only one base layer can be assigned to each PC, according to VMware.
On top of the base layer, administrators can now configure layers containing only applications -- and deliver them to Mirage-managed devices independently of the base layer. An application layer can include applications for the sales department, for example. Previously the applications were all part of the base layer, but the addition of the application layers allow IT departments to be more granular, according to Erwin Breneis, lead systems engineer at VMware.
Each layer can be migrated, updated, or restored independently of the others.
If the IT department decides to allow it, users can still control their own data and settings, as well as install their own applications on their endpoints. This personalization exists side-by-side with the IT-controlled base and application layers.
Today, Mirage works with Windows XP and Windows 7, and can be used to help migrate from one to the other. That's important because Windows XP support ends next April.
VMware will soon add support for Windows 8 as well.
Mirage is part of VMware's Horizon Suite end-user computing package, which also includes Workspace and View, and is this week being demonstrated by VMware at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany.
Version 5.2 of View -- which is used to remotely access desktops running on a server -- includes bandwidth improvements, hardware accelerated 3D graphics and the platform can now understand native iOS and Android gestures.
There is also support for Windows 8 and improved management when used in large deployments, which will decrease the time it takes to provision the platform, VMware promises.
Today, View and Mirage use separate management tools, but VMware's goal is to bring the two together, so administrators can use one console to control both virtual and traditional desktops, according to Breneis.
Horizon Workspace is a new product that allows administrators to create customized sets of applications and data for end users.
Horizon View 5.2 and Horizon Workspace have now also become generally available.
Horizon Mirage 4 and Workspace both cost $150 per named user, while Horizon View 5.2 costs $250 per concurrent connection and is offered in increments of 10 or 100 licenses. The whole suite costs from $300 per named user, according to VMware.
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MuleSoft Powers StackMob's Enterprise Marketplace for Enterprise Mobile Applications
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 19, 2013 – MuleSoft, provider of the world"s most widely used integration platform, today announced a partnership with StackMob, the leading cloud-based mobile platform provider. With this partnership, MuleSoft is providing connectivity to enterprise applications such as SAP, Salesforce.com, ADP and Workday for StackMob's new Enterprise Marketplace, a complete set of enterprise-class products combined with professional services to support enterprise mobility and connected services. Through the StackMob Enterprise Marketplace powered by MuleSoft's integration platform, larger organizations in need of enterprise mobility solutions will now be able to easily integrate enterprise and SaaS applications into the BaaS (Backend as a Service) industry's most open and flexible mobile marketplace.
Executing on its vision for connecting the New Enterprise, MuleSoft delivers the next generation integration platform by connecting and automating business processes across applications, APIs, and data sources, on-premise and in the cloud. MuleSoft's trusted integration platform enables enterprises and developers to take advantage of the explosion of applications and data by empowering them to generate a new wave of business opportunity through the on-demand connectivity of those endpoints.
"With the growing adoption of open APIs, mobile devices, SaaS and Big Data applications, there has been a massive explosion of endpoints and a resulting fragmentation of the enterprise. Companies can no longer compete by building mobile applications and managing IT within their four walls, but rather need to embrace the fragmentation and compete by connecting and orchestrating their information assets wherever they are. We call this the New Enterprise," said Chris Purpura, VP and GM of Cloud Integration at MuleSoft. "We are thrilled to be working with leading mobile players like StackMob to deliver an integrated mobile experience to the New Enterprise and look forward to our joint success."
"MuleSoft recognizes the importance of working with a platform that understands the complexities of enterprise mobile strategies. They understand the constraints around security, interoperability and complexity that enterprise app development presents," said Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob. "The collaboration with industry leaders like MuleSoft will help provide a solid ecosystem for businesses to deploy apps within their organization."
The StackMob Enterprise Marketplace is designed to support larger enterprise-level organizations that need a quick and effective way of building and deploying full-featured mobile applications. Leveraging prebuilt integration solutions from MuleSoft, StackMob's customers can now easily build enterprise mobile applications on top of popular applications such as Salesforce.com, SAP, NetSuite, Workday, and ADP. StackMob's experts in scalable, distributed systems work closely with the IT team throughout the entire lifecycle of mobile enterprise apps. StackMob's platform, combined with out-of-the-box application connectivity from MuleSoft, ensures that mobile enterprise app strategies are aligned with the more complex business structures and processes within the organization.
To learn more about MuleSoft visit http://www.mulesoft.com. For more information about the StackMob Enterprise Marketplace, please visit http://marketplace.stackmob.com/enterprise.
About StackMob
StackMob is the industry's premiere, cloud-based mobile platform that helps developers create a mobile business by letting them easily build, deploy and grow full-featured applications right from the start. StackMob features frontend HTML5 and robust backend services that cut development time more than 50% so developers can focus on creating high caliber apps with quality user experiences. With StackMob, developers no longer need to compromise the quality of their application development and can offload their deployment and scaling challenges using a robust, scalable and secure platform. For more on StackMob, see http://www.stackmob.com
About MuleSoft
MuleSoft provides the most widely used integration platform for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premise. With the rise of cloud and mobile, enterprises face a choice: get overwhelmed by the resulting explosion of end points or seize the opportunity to gain competitive advantage. Founded on the idea that connecting applications should not be hard, MuleSoft lets organizations harness the power of their applications through integration. MuleSoft"s Anypoint™ technology eliminates costly, time-intensive point-to-point integration, enabling business agility. Delivered as a packaged integration experience, CloudHub™ and Mule ESB™ are built on proven open source technology for the fastest, most reliable integration without vendor lock-in. Supporting billions of transactions per day, MuleSoft is used in production by thousands of enterprises, including Walmart, MasterCard, Nokia, Nestlé and Honeywell, and powers integrations with leading SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Workday, Intuit and Zuora.
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It's hard to overstate how successful the iPhone Apps Store is. Check out the latest figures from Apple:
Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple's iPhone Developer Program.
"The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it."
And I want to highlight this little fact (see the bolded bit) because I think it speaks to the single greatest weakness in the Zune platform:
Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
77 countries. Yikes.


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Tribal Enrollment
Enrollment Services
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribe Enrollment Office is responsible for the processing of all enrollment applications by researching individual applicants' family lineage, establishing Wichita blood degree, and the subsequent creation of their Wichita family tree. The Enrollment office also provides statistical data and individual membership information to our various tribal programs as needed and maintains the addresses of all tribal members for tribal elections and the mailing of newsletters.
Tribal members may request copies of their C.D.I.B. (Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood) cards, social security cards, or birth certificates from their enrollment files by written request only. C.D.I.B. cards are free but tribal Photo ID cards are currently $5.00 each. Any name changes to enrollment information must be substantiated by legal documentation such as marriage or divorce decrees, legal name changes or adoption papers.
ENROLLMENT AS OF MARCH 1st, 2023: 3,744
In order to be enrolled with the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, an applicant must meet one of the criteria listed in the updated membership ordinance.
The following documents must be submitted:
- A signed and dated Application for Enrollment
- An original state certified birth certificate of the applicant (No copies will be accepted. All originals will be returned by Certified Mail.)
- If adopted, both original state certified Birth Certificates and a copy of the adoption papers.
- A legible copy of the applicant's Social Security Card
- Parent's CDIB cards, if applicable
Please note that other supporting documents may be required depending upon the application, and if either parent or other relative is currently enrolled. All researched enrollment applications are then presented to the Wichita Executive Committee for final approval by tribal resolution. All applicants are asked to please allow 6-8 weeks for processing.
Address Updates
CHANGE OF ADDRESS FORM - Must print to fill out
Address updates for tribal members will be accepted by written request or by e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Please submit a return address when requesting updated documents to be returned to you by mail. In addition, you must provide the following in your request:
- Your full name as it appears on the tribal roll, at the time of enrollment.
- Your date of birth
- The last 4 numbers of your Social Security number
- Please remember to sign and date your request
(Fillable PDFs will still require handwritten signatures):
Enrollment Application (Regular PDF only): Enrollment Application Instructions
Release of Information for Documents
Burial Assistance Application Burial Assistance Application Instructions
Annual Children's Clothing Assistance Guidelines
Annual Elders Annuity Payment Guidelines
For more information or to request specific applications, please contact:
Michelle Emerson, Tribal Government Services Specialist
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes - P.O. Box 729 - Anadarko, OK 73005
Office:405.247.2425, Ext. 134 OR Ext. 110
Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST
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