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Maine is up for another round of investments in its cyber infrastructure, funded in part by the ConnectME Authority. This year the state agency expects to award up to $1 million in grants to groups and Internet service providers that will expand "last mile" service to unserved areas in the state.
The endeavor is much needed, as some 35,000 households remain without broadband access, according to the authority's estimates. But will Maine get the most out of this investment in expanding service?
It's no secret Maine's Internet service ranks among the worst in the nation. Mainers on average surf the Internet at speeds peaking around 7 to 10 megabits per second — adequate for basic browsing and video streaming, but inadequate for much more — while the most common level of service for Mainers is Federal Communications Commission Tier 3, which is a slow 3 megabits per second.
Since 2007 the agency has awarded more than $9 million in grants to groups and Internet service providers that have expanded service to 36,615 previously unserved households. Much of this investment hasn't been in newer fiber technology but older copper cables with lower bandwidth capacities. The authority also has adopted the FCC minimum of 3 megabits per second. But is that enough?
Improved Internet connectivity is essential for competing in the global economy. In 2013 the White House released its state of broadband report, which acknowledged access to the FCC minimum is near universal. However, "we acknowledge the country is rapidly reaching the point at which baseline broadband evaluations should increase, and might instead begin at 10 megabits per second downstream," defined by the FCC as Tier 5.
Already, Maine has significantly expanded its cyber infrastructure with the 1,100-mile " Three Ring Binder," which brought fiber cable within reach of more than 100 communities from southern Maine to The County. Despite the investment of nearly $32 million in federal grants, Mainers have yet to see a change in the quality of high-speed Internet access because fiber has yet to reach their homes.
Instead, Internet service providers continue to build off the infrastructure with outdated technology, which has severely underutilized the Binder's capacity. Not only that, but this technology lacks the longevity fiber promises for the years ahead as demand for bandwidth rises.
The road forward isn't easy. But Maine can start by re-examining how it invests its grant money in the cyber infrastructure to ensure the state won't be left behind in the digital age. Running a fiber backbone across the state is an important investment that shouldn't go to waste. The ConnectME Authority can lead the state by setting an ambitious goal of raising the definition of high-speed Internet from 3 to 10 megabits per second, which is where the national baseline is headed.
Maine soon will reach the point where minimum bandwidth isn't enough to keep pace with the rapidly changing digital age. The 2013 Maine Broadband Task Force Report noted "21 percent of economic growth in developed economies is attributed to the Internet," and laid out many goals to achieving significant gains in improving Maine's cyber infrastructure.
Such investments are critical to Maine's job creation prospects — attracting new businesses, increasing access to affordable education through online classes and improving access to affordable health care through telemedicine. Creating these opportunities, however, requires bandwidth the state lacks. The ConnectME Authority can help by ensuring Maine is ready for a future that largely is already here.
By taking initiative to invest wisely now with an eye toward the future, Maine can bring its infrastructure into the current century and attract the economic development and generation of young professionals the state needs.


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Given the graphic images of the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, thankfully all embassy personnel are safe and accounted for. At the request of the Ambassador, all family members and non-essential embassy personnel were ordered Friday afternoon to leave Serbia. They will be taken to another country in the region until it is deemed safe for them to return to Belgrade.
Secretary Rice (Feb. 22):"The Serb Government ...had an obligation to protect diplomatic missions and from what we can tell, the police presence was either inadequate or unresponsive at the time."
More information...
The Situation At U.S. Embassy Belgrade (02/21/2008) | View VideoDaily Press Briefing (02/21/2008) | View Video
Ronald in New York writes:
The Serb reaction represents a refusal to accept the inevitable emergence of rule-of-law, democratic and free elections, and peace and security in the New Kosovo.
Today, Undersecretary Burns took a great deal of time and effort to describe the USG's intentions support the independence of Kosovo and the future for EU membership. Serbs, and others would see this movement destroyed, Partly, because a transparent and secure Kosovo would mean an end to a history of crime, corruption and violent control.
NB in Pakistan writes:
Most shocking picture of attack on U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. Thanks be to the Almighty God that everyone is safe and accounted for. Here, if I may, I would like to draw the attention of the people who label America as an "Enemy of Islam" that the U.S. has suffered this attack as a result of helping the Muslims of Kosovo. I would also like to call upon my fellow Muslims to join me in thanking the U.S. THANK YOU AMERICA!
SNP in Syria writes:
Serbs should abandon Muslim Kosovan, you loose some acreage, but you save your nation by keeping the most ignorant of people out of your country.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Suppose an ethnic minority, let's call them "Mexicans", sneek into your country and settle in a geographic area we call "California", and after a massive crime wave affecting the the residents of the area, they declare Southern California to be an independent nation. Let's further assume that the native residents of California are outraged by the sheer arrogance of these Mexicans and let's say that Mexico's government supports their demand for independence. Would anyone be surprised that the Mexican embassy might soon be under attack by angry citizens trying to burn it down?
Would it matter that the EU fully approves and supports dividing California to form a new country? This scenario is just one of many, of which President Putin said is a two ended stick that will someday hit us on the head. A bad precedent? Absolutely.
President Lincoln fought a war to block the independence of the Confederate States of America. America is lucky that the CSA had no real support from abroad. Do we really want to overturn the precedent set by the Civil War?
When the Russia's government decides to support the movement of Reconquista of America's Southwest, as does the Mexican government, would the US react calmly when hispanic Californians declare themselves to be an independent nation?
Ralph in Greece writes:
Now these same type of troublemakers are planning a protest against the American Embassy in Athens, Greece on Saturday.
NB in Pakistan,
Well stated, and a simple truth it be. I find it also true that those that accuse the US of being the "enemy of Islam" are themselves the greatest threat to the global umma, to the core values of a peaceful religion, and to peace, prosperity, and hope in general.
In this context, I wonder what your thoughts would be on the effect of US humanitarian aid to Pakistan in the aftermath of the earthquake, was upon the people's attitude towards US presence in the region?
It is unfortunate that such reactionary and criminal behavior was not placed in check by responsible leadership preemptively to Kosevo's declaration of independence, knowing full well the Serbian people's attitude towards those that made the declaration possible.
Folks with the embassy did their jobs very well under trying circumstance. They have this citizen's thanks for their service as well.
Nikola in Cyprus writes:
Please, I would like to know if every nation that stays in other country has right to, by using drug smuggling to support arm buying and turn out against domestic country, create and vote for new country.
If YES, than I think many other regions in the world will go for independence.
If NO, than Kosova shouldn't be what it is now ... an un-independent country.
Zhou in China writes:
This is a mistake on the world, even if it is a special and only. How do you operate Quebec Kurd Baluchi Basque Northern Ireland? Will they get a sample? Can you promise they do not aroused?
Yonaton in Florida writes:
Well, I don't approve of their tactics, but...
...I can't say I blame them, either. "NATO bombed the Serbs into the stone age in favor of Muslims based on lies, killed more civilians than the Serbs were alleged to have killed. Kosovo, their 'Jerusalem', has been stolen from them and given to the enemy (just as Co.Rice/Bush want to do to Israel in favor of the Placentinians[sic]), and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Serbs by Muslims[Albanians] is being ignored by the 'peace keepers'." Only the Serbs are vilified, but their internal enemies get a free pass.
Kissinger "gets it". Why don't President Bush and Ms. Rice?
By giving Kosovo over to the Islamists, and using it as a model for how to rip out the heart of Biblical Israel as a gift to the so-called "Palestinians" (the point men of modern Islamic terror) the US is making grave errors for which we and the world will pay dearly.
The U.S. has lost its direction in the war against terror and has, inadvertently, become one of its most effective sponsors. The sane conservatives of the world see the battle for what it is, while the delusional throw fuel on the fire thinking that will put it out.
Kelsie in Texas writes:
The Serbian government needs to take definitive action to prevent this type of international travesty from occurring again. It would seem that Serbia, not Kosovo, is the source of unrest in the area at the moment.
NB in Pakistan writes:
It would make this world a better place if we educate the most ignorant of all people (reference to SNP in Syria posting).
Yonaton in Florida writes:
Update to my previous comment...
Some good insights from Lubos Motl..."I was thinking what is the main reason why so many Western countries so hastily support something so irresponsible, dangerous, and - in my opinion - unfair. My conclusion is that it is the media's fault. It seems that the Western media have been feeding their audiences with extremely oversimplified, biased, black-and-white, anti-Serbian, pro-Albanian stories from the Balkans. While one might hope that the audiences are not stupid to buy similar nonsense, the reality is different. Most of the audiences of course buy this crap. And many of them pay for it."
And, although his thesis, that the MSM is responsible, could explain why the average Westerner believes the Albanians should be supported over the Serbs, that doesn't explain why Western leaders make that error.
Yonaton in Florida writes:
Here is another little gem that should put things in perspective, if one is paying attention, that is.
SNP in Syria writes:
@NB in Pakistan -- The Indians were smart people they wanted nothing to do with Moslem Pakis except separate from them. They saved the Indian Nation and now Pakistan is just what it is, and what it supposed to be, just a STAN for more ignorant Moslems that have no honor and no dignity, just like the god they worship. India is thriving; it is already the U.S. biggest outsourcing country for high technology. India along with non-Moslem China is rising as the worldãs number one economies. PAKIãs for the next few thousand generation will be infighting with Moslem warlords.
By the way, how do you find time to read and write on this blog, you must be missing your daily half dozen prayer sessions, bowing down in humiliation and touching the ground with your forehead in worship toward the House of Annat and Allat (Qaba). Or you are Christian, you are already saved by grace and now you can sin all your life for free. Assaulting SNP is not forgivable sin according to Mathew 13.4. If you are a Moslem you are only permitted to assault SNP on the first rising crescent, at dawn on April 21, otherwise, it is a sin (not Halal) and Allah will torture you with fire and brimstone.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Advocates of "democracy" should not be afraid to allow Serbia to vote on whether to split the country or not, and respect the Serb vote.
Germany, France, America, and even the E.U., have no national interests involved over whether Kosovo is Serbia or not Serbia. The votes of these nations, or their approvals, should be as irrelevant as the votes of Canada or Mexico should be irrelevant to the independence of America.
A credible State Department should not advocate the benefits of democracy only to reject democracy when it matters the most to the people involved. Imposing independence by force without a Serb national referendum on independence for Kosovo, is as undemocratic as a dictatorship could be.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
I'm afraid you will be seeing much more of this.
Polarization is taking place again and perhaps it is Putins indirect way of reacting to Kosovo and the fact American Troops may be sent there.
It is in classic OLD school methodolgy is it not?
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
When we bombed Serbia, did we bomb the wrong side?
Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian civil war of 1992, thinks so. His article is worth reading, at:
NB in Pakistan writes:
Reference SNP in Syria posting of Monday Feb-25. Please ask the Indians, they would certainly love to take back the land known as Pakistan together with its inhabitants and have even tried it three times. By the way, the Muslims worship the Almighty God of Abraham, the same God worshipped by Moses.
Bigotry will not bring about a peaceful world where all creatures could live in peace and harmony irrespective of the religion they follow, education will and that's what the great country the U.S. is trying to achieve. Let's chip in and help the U.S. reach the goal of a peaceful world. Bless you.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Personally I think when folks settle down and start building their nations, we may very well eventually see something like a miniturized EU among the former Yugoslavic states, and how might one make a democrat out of a separatist?
By immersion in the process of governing.
Today one could say they are from Alsaise, in France, and folks generally won't recall that the region was fought over several times in the last hundred years, by parties laying claim to not just the land, but the people on it.
Let us endeavor not to repeat lessons from history.
The American Civil war is not a real good example to compare to in that it was mostly the economics involved in slavery that lead Southern states to break separate from the United States of America, when emancipation was proposed..and declared.
Long ago we fought ourselves, to determine the definition of freedom. Now we in America see the world fighting to determine what it means to them. It is said that freedom is never free, and perhaps Churchill was right when he said that, "Democracy is the worst form of government ever invented by man, save for all others."
But there are some advantages in the long run.
We the people don't generally worry about the checks and balances of government, as we are the ultimate hook for bad actors on stage.
We the people demand results, and policy changes accordingly if an incumbent wishes reelection.
We the people protest the unjust, as an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and our civil rights movement was an education for all, globally. Both our friends and detractors witnessed a nation moving in an ethical motion to better the human condition, and fully implement the notion that we the people are created equal.
And as a premise, this philosophy inherently extends to foreign policy intent and implementation.
So now one may properly understand why the U.S. gov. employs sanctions on leaders of governments that repress their people and deny their basic human rights. Indeed, even take up arms to protect the rights of others, globally.
We can encourage folks to learn from our mistakes forming a "more perfect union" or they may learn from their own, as circumstance dictates. History is littered with the bleached bones of ideologies that failed the people's "lemon test".
Folks will ultimately choose what works for them, and knowing this the U.S. government endeavors to promote the freedom of people to think for themselves, because democracy must be "of, by, and for the people", and chosen as a system of government by the people, of their free will.
Totalitarianism however, is always imposed upon the people. Whereas in a democracy, the people impose their will upon the government. We designed it that way from the start.
In my memories of Watergate, what made me proud to be witness to, was watching as the laws of this nation kept it intact, as the people demanded accountability.
So too, the debate about proper nation building requires that rule of law be the guide, history our teacher, and the free-born individual, our inspiration to others.
Freedom sells itself, so why do the naysayers of the world insist on being convinced? Let alone the terrorists, who already are, and it frightens them. I believe that whatever terrorizes a terrorist is a good thing, and should be encoraged, and sustained. They who create conflict to feed upon it should naturally fear peace among nations.
And from that one may see just a glimps of why I also believe that " Cowboy diplomacy " is not just dependant on the strength and temperament of the horse ridden, the job description is essentially all about mending fences and leading the heard to greener pastures. This is why the U.S. got involved in the Balkans as a part of NATO to begin with.
Change does not come without some wishing for the status quo. Inherently, change is viewed with suspicion, as a threat to culture and ways of tradition and ethical belief systems, and constitutes the makings of identity crisis on a political, and often nationalistic level on the global stage.
And so I can only offer this thought with my best regards to the good people of Serbia and Kosovo;
"We're all dysfunctional. Get over it already, so as to get on with the buisiness of nation building."
Joe in Tennessee writes:
QUOTE:Germany, France, America, and even the E.U., have no national interests involved over whether Kosovo is Serbia or not Serbia. The votes of these nations, or their approvals, should be as irrelevant as the votes of Canada or Mexico should be irrelevant to the independence of America. END QUTOE
People felt the same way about North Korea for a long time as well. The 'mouse that roared'...but in all the above statement is very poor. Even in Canada, trade laws, inter corporate relationships and political ties with foreign an array of countries including aid are all dependent on whom is elected many times. That is a reality and the basic laws of physics do apply to politics as well...and are compounded.
The world is a much more complicated place and what happens in one place WILL affect another in some manner or another at one time or another. The assurance of peace is dependent on many, not one yet the realization that each may affect a whole positively or negatively must be considered and paramount to International decision making policies.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Joe in Tennessee -- Nicely put Joe, but I got a question on this here:
"That is a reality and the basic laws of physics do apply to politics as well...and are compounded."
Aye then, would that be Sir Newton's laws, the laws of thermodymamics, or Einstien's general relativity? Had to ask..(chuckle).
I think what we have here is a case of the human condition, as perspective or lack of factors into decision making.
NB in Pakistan writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- Reference Eric in New Mexico. Very well stated, I enjoyed reading it.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
What I would like to know is, why is the State Dept. bullying Russia around?
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia desperately wanted to become friends and a trading partner with the United States. Instead, we kicked dirt in their face, kept them out of trade conferences, surrounded them with NATO forces, and bombed their allies, invaded Serbia, and interfered with CIA-supported "Orange Revolutions." Now they've reached the point where Russia is talking about protecting Serbia with nuclear weapons. What the hell is wrong with our government?
Why has the American government attempted to destroy relations with Russia with unwanted missile bases, approval of muslim terrorists to take Kosovo over, supporting the KLA despite their inclusion on lists of known terrorist organizations, and treating Serbia and Russia as enemies? It would be nice if someone at the State Department could explain the reason for these apparently insane policies.
LONDON ? MI6 agents have monitored secret meetings between top Serbian officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin's anointed successor, Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss the installation of Russian nuclear missiles to contribute to what he told a Moscow election rally this weekend would "help to ensure Serbian security."
NB in Pakistan writes:
Placing Russian nuclear missiles in Serbia sounds more like bullying than America's stance. The U.S. has been trying to be fair to both the Serbians & the Kosovians. That's how it clearly looks.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ NB in Pakistan -- I recall that some wise man once proposed that all ideas go through three phases of acceptance.
First it is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed, then it becomes popular. Or some such....
In any case, thanks.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
@ Zharkov in U.S.A. --
"Why has the American government attempted to destroy relations with Russia with unwanted missile bases, approval of muslim terrorists to take Kosovo over, supporting the KLA despite their inclusion on lists of known terrorist organizations, and treating Serbia and Russia as enemies?"
Where do you get your information Z?
Putin started some 12 years ago in disregarding policies and agreements in a subversive manner. He has limited Human rights in disregard to the democratic promise made to the U.S. and his people. Free press and speech is now has to have the Stamp of approval of the Kremlin.
What about the second richest countries in the world paying back all the loans to the US which it defaulted on or were stolen? How about not selling weapons to the people shooting our soldiers or other countries trying to establish democracy? How about not stopping the indoctrination youth camps reminiscent of Hitler? How about lowering the PUBLIC THREATS made to the U.S.? How about NOT PURCHASING OIL with the Eurodollar in an attempt to devalue the U.S. economy?
The only person who is Polarizing is Putin and with the skill and intent of the outstanding KGB officer he was. He is using standard propaganda to make the US seem the enemy to RENATIONALIZE his countries people?and obviously, it is working.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
As our imperial State Department has now decreed that Kosovo will never again be part of Serbia, do you not wonder from where such authority is derived? When did Serbs vote to give our State Department the right to decide for them and remove part of their country?
Do we now decree which countries may exist or not exist according to the wishes of our government or some group of governments?
Does anyone remember the neutral America of George Washington and James Madison?
NB in Pakistan writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico -- Wise man he must have quite rightly been. However, when something makes sense it's accepted immediately, and what you stated made sense to me.
@ Joe in Tennessee -- You said it! The weapons being used by the terrorists are Russian and the nuclear technology and its related materials are also being transferred by Russia. I fear and dread the day when people might start carrying nukes in their holsters and be quick on the draw against anyone or anything they don't like.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
@ Joe in Tennessee -- Joe, I get my information from open source documents that anyone could find if they care to do the research. Here's an article from Michel Chossudovsky, 23 February 2008:
The decision to destroy Yugoslavia as a country and carve it up into a number of small proxy states was taken by Reagan administration in the early 1980s.
A "Secret Sensitive" National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 133) entitled "U.S. Policy towards Yugoslavia." sets the framework for the destabilization of Yugoslavia's model of market socialism and the establishment of a U.S. sphere of influence in Southeastern Europe.
Yugoslavia was in many regards an economic success story. In the two decades before 1980, annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged 6.1 percent, medical care was free, the rate of literacy was 91 percent, and life expectancy was 72 years.
NSDD 133 set in motion a series of covert intelligence operations which consisted in creating and supporting secessionist paramilitary armies. These operations were combined with the destabilization of the Yugoslav economy, which ultimately led to the destruction of its industrial base, the demise of the workers cooperative and the dramatic impoverishment of its population.
The record of U.S.-NATO war crimes (covert operations) is important in assessing recent developments in Kosovo.
From the outset of their respective mandates in June 1999, both NATO and the UN Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK) have actively supported the KLA which from the outset of the NATO occupation has been involved in numerous atrocities. It is important to understand that these atrocities were ordered by the current and former prime ministers of the Kosovo "government".
Since 1999, State terrorism in Kosovo has become an integral part of NATO's design. The present government of prime minister Hashim Thaci (a former KLA Commander), is an outgrowth of this reign of terror. It is not a government in the common sense of the word. It is remains a terrorist organization linked to organized crime. It is an instrument of the foreign occupation.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
(HOW TO SPOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Lesson- 1)
@ Zharkov in U.S.A. -- Zharkov wrote:
"A 'Secret Sensitive' National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 133) entitled 'U.S. Policy towards Yugoslavia.' sets the framework for the destabilization of Yugoslavia's model of market socialism..."
I find it extremely dubious indeed, that a fellow can describe a policy he's no doubt never ever seen, precisely because as he says , it is "secret sensitive".
I think it's a pretty safe bet that the U.S. gov. would not let Zharkov anywhere near anything remotely classified....LOL!
(Thanks Zharkov, I needed a good laugh today, are you done pissing into the wind yet?)
@ NB in Pakistan -- I was simply elaborating on something Secretary Rice said regarding totalitarianism as compared to democracy.
Credit should go where it is due, I believe.
Although...(chuckle)...if you think it might make a North Warizstan Tribal elder's day, by all means let's do a little social experiment. If you have the time to translate it, and find a way to have it delivered.
(I figure if it makes sense to him, it probably proves the case)
I'm glad you enjoyed reading it, I had some enjoyable moments writing it.

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text: On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mark Hahn wrote: > Hi all. > we're doing a new machineroom, which will dissipate around 250 KW. > I'm having a hard time addressing the question of whether such a load > (all modern PFC computers) needs harmonic mitigation. the electricians > all just say "your loads are nonlinear so you need HM". I can't help > think that the cost of HM hardware translates to more than a couple more nodes! > and merely because the PSU is implemented with nonlinear components doesn't > mean that the load is noisy. > > to my thinking, the active PFC found in current computers means precisely > that HM is not necessary, since a PFC of .97 (so says my KillAWatt) indicates > that only 3% of the power is drawn outside the ideal sine envelope. > further, we're talking about O(800) seperate power supplies, and their > harmonics are probably not perfectly synchronized, and so sub-additive. > > can anyone offer advice or references on this? we can apparently get a full > answer by hiring a power consultant to bring in some kind of fancy power > digitizer which will give us a plot of our load waveforms and presumably also > a spectrum. so far, we're going along with the HM plan, but mainly because > it'll clean up the power coming in, and perhaps permit us to ride out some > flickers (the compute nodes won't have UPS-protected power...) You're lucky your electricians are that clueful. Ours weren't... There is a HM link on the brahma resources page, let's see: http://www.mirusinternational.com/ Their FAQ is one of the best explanations of HM and nonlinear loads associated with switching power supplies that I've seen. When last I looked at this (not too long ago) not so many power supplies were PFC and the ones that were cost more (as one would expect). The argument advanced by Mirus is that putting a high quality HM transformer at the room itself saves you this marginal cost (x N nodes) and keeps you from having to make a PFC power supply a design specification for future nodes. Being a low suspicious sort of person, I'd also put a scope on the lines and look at the waveforms for the voltage and current (ideally simultaneously) before concluding that the current draw and voltage are in sync and that there are no e.g. 180 Hz harmonics. I'd guess that this is what the fancy consultant is offering to sell you, but for what you're likely to have to pay them you can probably buy an oscilloscope and do it yourself. I trust the kill-a-watt, sort of, but I trust my eyes more. You also should think of the whole picture (as it looks like you are doing) and not just the PFC issue. I believe that it is desirable to have the server room transformer as local as possible and have the distribution panel grounded to building steel (there are code rules on just where and how things have to be grounded) to avoid ground loops and excessively long runs to ground. If you need a transformer anyway, then you are really looking at the MARGINAL cost of the HM on the transformer you get, and I don't think it is all that great. HM can save you operational money if you DO have non-PFC supplies -- the peak currents drawn in the middle third of the phase a) cause the primary transformer to run hot; b) heat is money; c) it can actually cause the primary transformer to burn out prematurely which is a LOT of money; d) if you run circuits at max capacity without correction, you typically brown out the voltage during the peak due to resistive drops on the supply line, which in turn causes the supply to run with the capacitor not properly charged, which in turn reduces the system's fault tolerance. Shoot your electrical contractor if they even THINK of sharing a common neutral among three phases, and get them to use at least 12/2 throughout even for "short" runs. Thick wire stays cooler -- enough to pay for the difference in cost several times over, I believe, over the ~10+ year lifetime of such a space running 24x7 -- and minimizes the voltage on the neutral at the receptacle relative to ground. They'll likely bitch, because bending thicker wire through conduits is somewhat more difficult than thinner wire. I think I read somewhere in my researches on power that it is desirable in server room designs to keep the length of the runs between distribution panel and receptacle down to 25 feet. I don't know about the riding out flickers thing, but I would guess that the HM transformers would do a pretty good job of buffering at least certain classes of spikes and supply line wobbles. rgb > > thanks, mark hahn. > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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On May 16, Finnish Ambassador Ritva Koukku-Ronde welcomed me and the Nordic-Baltic (NB) Ambassadors to her home on Embassy Row for a candid discussion on some of the most pressing global challenges we face today. Over a traditional Scandinavian breakfast, we exchanged views on a wide-range of issues, from the DPRK to ending the bloodshed in Syria to climate change in the Arctic. I very much appreciated hearing from our close friends.
For decades, the United States has shared a strong partnership with the NB nations (Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden) -- a partnership that is founded on our mutual interests and common values. These Northern European states, which range in population from 9 million (Sweden) to 300,000 (Iceland), are nonetheless among the strongest global economies and represent the second-largest contributor of foreign assistance in the world. Together, our partnership is indispensable to global security and prosperity.
We've worked with Northern Europe for that last 10 years through the Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (EPINE), a policy coordination group comprised of all eight NB states. EPINE provides an important venue for engagement and policy coordination as we seek solutions to the complex problems set of problems before us.
Secretary Kerry has been actively engaged with Northern Europe as well. Just this week, he returned from the Arctic Council Ministerial in Kiruna, Sweden. The Council moved forward on a number of critical initiatives responding to unprecedented changes in the Arctic, including efforts to promote dynamic and sustainable Arctic economies, and addressing the impact of climate change on the Arctic.
We're also working closely to bolster the global economy by tapping into Northern Europe's strong history of trade and investment. Many of the NB states are EU members, with which we share a mutual goal of achieving an ambitious, high-standard Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Our extensive trade with the Nordic-Baltic region is important to our broader transatlantic economic relationship, which supports millions of jobs and makes key contributions to growth.
U.S.- NB cooperation literally stretches the globe, and I'm sure we'll continue to deepen our partnership in the years ahead.
About the Author: Wendy R. Sherman serves as Under Secretary for Political Affairs.


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Review: Nautilus 1.0: Has Eazel Earned Its Place in GNOME?
Going into launch day: a quick Eazel and Nautilus backgrounder
Eazel put the final touches on the Nautilus file manager and quietly launched version 1.0 on Tuesday morning.
Eazel and Nautilus have been the subject of close examination from more than just the Linux press. The New York Times, Red Herring, and Newsweek have all featured the company and its product, which attract attention because they represent curiosities in both the broader world of computing, where the 'Linux desktop' is still considered a quixotic pursuit; and within the narrower confines of the Linux community, where the company has set about drawing on skills informed by past involvement with none other than the MacOS to build a centerpiece to the GNOME project they hope will eventually make them money as a services conduit.
"Services" are, as most have noted by now, where many companies are turning their attention. Computer hardware is ever-cheaper, as is bandwidth. Though the "Internet appliance" hasn't taken off in any meaningful sense, end users are treating their PC's as such all the same, preferring their computing experience to be as simple as possible. Selling services to these users involves providing useful 'net-mediated tools and providing a level of system management for consumers who aren't interested in the process of maintaining their computers.
In this context, the software Eazel produces is secondary to the services it hopes to sell. Nautilus is a means to an end... an investment in producing the best possible tool to deliver software and services to users. This business model will probably not prove itself any time this year. It's a measure of how hard a sell it is in the current tech economy downturn that Eazel laid off 40 workers, primarily in marketing and sales, in the face of difficulties raising a second round of funding on the very same day Nautilus launched.
The other half of the equation, though, is a test of the talent and experience the Eazel team brings to bear. Nautilus has been built to bring a usable Linux desktop experience to computer consumers: the sort of people who appreciate America Online's simplicity and consider the computer itself a simple vessel for services. The resumes of the core Eazel leadership are largely known to anyone following Eazel's story since it stepped up a funding offensive a little over a year ago: Michael Boich, Andy Hertzfeld, and Bud Tribble were all members of the original Apple Macintosh team. Several other staffers were integral to work on MacOS at some point in their careers.
Though the overall quality of the major Linux desktop environments has improved dramatically since the call first went up several years ago to provide a better interface for end users, members of the Eazel team weren't shy in their assertions that they had levels of experience in both interface design and software engineering that would distinguish their contributions to GNOME, taking it from merely solid to desirable for consumers. In an interview conducted in August with Darin Adler, Eazel's Vice President of Software Engineering, the executive/developer stressed his company's focus on quality testing and its ability to generate original interface design elements as key distinguishing factors among the largely volunteer community of developers surrounding GNOME at large.
Nautilus is no small chunk of the GNOME desktop, either. As the environment's file manager and the software controlling the X desktop itself, it forms a large part of the average end user's day-to-day experience with the computer, acting as a gateway to online documentation, Eazel's services, image previewing, a basic web browser, and, yes, a file management tool. It's the mortar with which the overall GNOME desktop environment will be held together. Nautilus will help determine GNOME's success among users.
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- 1. Going into launch day: a quick Eazel and Nautilus backgrounder
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Although the 20-day public comment period ended on August 18, 2010, the National Academy of Sciences continues to accept comments on the composition of the provisional committee that will study the feasibility of uranium mining in Virginia. The deadline has been extended until the first committee meeting, which is yet to be scheduled. The comment period was extended in response to 120 requests for extenstion of time received by NAS from various public interest groups and concerned citizens.
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Project Title: Uranium Mining in Virginia
Major Unit: Division on Earth and Life Studies
Sub Unit: Board on Earth Sciences & Resources
Water Science and Technology Board
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Date Posted: 07/29/2010
Dr. Joaquin Ruiz - (Chair)
University of Arizona
JOAQUIN RUIZ is Executive Dean of the Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science, Dean of the College of Science, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. Prior to being appointed as Dean of the College of Science, Dr. Ruiz served as the Head of the University of Arizona's Department of Geosciences from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Ruiz is an expert in radiogenic isotopes applied to the study of regional tectonics, origin of magmas, and hydrothermal ore deposits. He was elected to the Mexican Academy of Science in 2006. He has served as a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior; a member of the National Science Foundation's Instrumentation Panel with the Division on Earth Sciences; and was a panel member of the Facilities Program and Centers for Excellence in Science and Technology Program with the Directorate of Education. Dr. Ruiz is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and of the Society of Economic Geologists. He received a B.Sc. in Geology and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Miami and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Corby G. Anderson
Colorado School of Mines
CORBY ANDERSON is the Harrison Western Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Anderson is an expert in the fields of mineral processing, waste minimization and recycling, has an extensive background in industrial-oriented research, and has more than 30 years of academic and applied experience in mining, chemical, and materials engineering. In 2008 he received the Milton Wadsworth Award from SME for his contributions to advance the field of chemical metallurgy. Dr. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering - Metallurgy from the University of Idaho, as well as a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters degree in Metallurgical Engineering.
Dr. Lawrence W. Barnthouse
LWB Environmental Services, Inc.
LAWRENCE W. BARNTHOUSE is the President and Principal Scientist of LWB Environmental Services, Inc. His consulting activities include 316(b) demonstrations for nuclear and non-nuclear power plants, Superfund ecological risk assessments, Natural Resource Damage Assessments, risk-based environmental restoration planning, and a variety of other projects involving close interactions with regulatory and resource management agencies. Dr. Barnthouse has authored or co-authored more than 90 publications relating to ecological risk assessment. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Hazard/Risk Assessment Editor of the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and Founding Editorial Board Member of the new journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. He has served on the National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology and on several National Research Council committees, and was a member of the peer review panel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment. Dr. Barnthouse holds a PhD in biology from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Scott C. Brooks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
SCOTT C. BROOKS is Senior Scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Brooks' research focuses on the biogeochemistry of advecting fluids in the subsurface and the geochemical factors influencing the fate and transport of solutes. He has conducted numerous experiments at the laboratory and field scale studying the fate and transformation of radionuclides in the environment. He has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Patricia A. Buffler
University of California, Berkeley
PATRICIA BUFFLER (IOM) is professor of epidemiology and holds the Kenneth and Marjorie Kaiser Chair in Cancer Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Buffler's research interests include the environmental causes of cancer, especially gene-environment interaction and childhood cancer, lung cancer, leukemia, brain cancer, and breast cancer; epidemiologic research methods; and the uses of epidemiologic data in health policy. She has served on numerous committees of the National Research Council, including the Committee on Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, and Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants. Dr. Buffler was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994. She received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Michel Cuney
MICHEL CUNEY is director of the research team, Genesis and Management of Mineral Resources for the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Henri Poincaré Universite in Nancy, France. He has worked mainly on the geochemistry of uranium in various geological environments since 1972. He has visited and/or worked on most major uranium deposits of the world, and has published about 180 scientific papers in this disciplinary area. Dr. Cuney is one of the world's experts on the genesis of uranium deposits and uranium geology, and he will provide invaluable insights concerning mining techniques that would be used to extract uranium from deposits in Virginia as well as the possible effects on the local environment. Dr. Cuney received his Docteur es Sciences (Ph.D.) degree from Henri Poincaré Universite.
Dr. Peter L. deFur
Environmental Stewardship Concepts
PETER L. DEFUR is President of Environmental Stewardship Concepts, LLC (ESC), an independent private consulting firm in Richmond, Virginia. He is also an affiliate Associate Professor at the Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University where he conducts research on environmental health and ecological risk assessment. Dr. deFur has over thirty years' experience providing technical services regarding the cleanup of contaminated sites to community organizations across the country. Dr. deFur received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Mary R. English
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MARY ENGLISH is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is a social scientist who is familiar with the environmental effects of mining and related regulatory issues. Her work has focused on energy and environmental policy and has included research on mechanisms for involving stakeholders in public policy decisions, how "the community" should be defined within the context of community-based environmental efforts, information-gathering and analytic tools to improve environmental decision making, and guidance on conducting socioeconomic impact assessments. She previously served on the NRC Board on Radioactive Management as well as the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. Dr. English has a M.S. from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr. R. William Field
University of Iowa College of Public Health
R. WILLIAM FIELD is a Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and in the Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health. He also serves as Director of the Occupational Epidemiology Training Program, at the NIOSH-Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety, and Director of the Pulmonary Outcomes Cluster, NIEHS - Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC). Dr. Field has been active in numerous national and international collaborative radiation-related epidemiolgic projects for many years and has served on the editorial boards of several national and international scientific journals.. His research interests fall into the broad categories of environmental epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, radioepidemiology, cancer epidemiology, immune-mediated disease epidemiology, health physics, biomonitoring, risk perception, and novel methods of retrospective exposure assessment. Dr. Field received his Ph.D. in preventive medicine and environmental health from the University of Iowa.
Dr. Jill Lipoti
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
JILL LIPOTI is Director of the Division of Environmental Safety and Health at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to assuming this position, she was an Assistant Director with responsility for directing the state's radiation protection programs. Dr. Lipoti also serves as adjunct assistant professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, specializing in radiation exposure, and preparedness for chemical and radiological emergencies. She has provided advice to the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding radiation safety and security, and has served on the Radiation Advisory Committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board. She has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Dr. Paul A. Locke
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PAUL A. LOCKE, an environmental health scientist and attorney, is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Toxicology. He holds an MPH from Yale University School of Medicine, a DrPH from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a JD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Dr. Locke's research and practice focus on how decision makers use environmental health science and toxicology in regulation and policy-making and how environmental health sciences influence the policy-making process. His areas of study include designing and evaluating radiation protection initiatives and radiation policies, especially in the areas of low dose radiation science, radon risk reduction, safe disposal of high level radioactive waste, and use of CT as a diagnostic screening tool. Dr. Locke directs the School's Doctor of Public Health program in Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Locke was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board from 2003 to 2009, and has served on five National Research Council committees. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Risk Analysis: An International Journal and the International Journal of Low Radiation and is on the Board of Directors of the NCRP (National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements). He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the Southern District Court of New York and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Henry Schnell
Areva, Inc.
HENRY A. SCHNELL holds the position of Technical Authority (Senior Expert) in the Expertise & Technical Department, Mining Business Unit, with AREVA NC Inc., In his role as Technical Authority for uranium, he is responsible for review and support of existing operations and new projects world wide, and for final technical authorization of plant design and modifications. Mr. Schnell has 41 years of experience in management, plant operations, plant design, engineering, and research and development in mining and ore treatment, and 21 years of this has been specializing in uranium metallurgy, operations, and mining projects. He has a B.S. (Honours) degree from the University of Alberta, Edmonton and other extensive training in metallurgy and project management.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Wong
California Environmental Protection Agency
JEFFREY J. WONG is Deputy Director of the Science, Pollution Prevention and Technology Program for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) at the California EPA and serves as DTSC's Chief Scientist. This program's activities include environmental measurements, biological and exposure monitoring, toxicology and risk assessment, and green chemistry and pollution prevention. Before his current appointment Dr. Wong served as chief of DTSC's Human and Ecological Risk Division. He served by presidential appointment on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board from 1996 until 2002. Dr. Wong has served on several National Academies committees, including the Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste, the Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, the Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites and the Panel for Review of the DOE Environmental Restoration Priority System. Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of California at Davis.
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Country-music iconoclast Willie Nelson filled Hard Rock Live with familiar hits and ageless swagger Thursday night. Here are five things that resonate about the show.
I am embarrassed to say that I waited until Willie Nelson was nearly 80 to see him perform live, but I can't imagine he was any more energetic even 50 years ago. While the show was light on banter, Nelson, in black jeans and T-shirt, silvery braids unspooled from a low-slung black cowboy hat (which later gave way to the red bandanna), prowled the stage with well-worn authority. His confident, jazzy timing with lyrics (showing no sign of the flu that canceled a couple of recent concerts) and cascading finger work on his banged-up acoustic offered a vivid reminder of how underrated he is as a singer and guitarist. If the show had a by-the-numbers, not-my-first-rodeo quality to it, so what? It's enough just to see the guy still doing what he loves, damn the calendar. He'll release a new album, "Let's Face the Music and Dance," on April 16, two weeks before he turns 80.
After strolling onstage as the massive state flag of Texas unfurled behind him –– the size (it may have been borrowed from a suburban freeway car dealership) making it all the more ironic –– Nelson opened provocatively, with the logical encore, "Whiskey River." But, then, he's got about 20 songs that would make a great encore, and they sped by at a brisk pace: "Nightlife," "Me and Paul," "On the Road Again," "Blue Eyes," a spirited sing-along version of "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" and cheesy, crowd-enhanced treatment of "You Were Always on My Mind," plus covers of "Crazy" and Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'." Best moments were the bluesy "Angel Flying to Close to the Ground" and "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die," delivered with righteous gospel vigor.
More than 5,000 fans packed Hard Rock Live for the Old Farts and Jackass Tour stop, an easy sell-out. There was a sprinkling of cowboy hats, sharp-toed boots, outlaw motorcycle jackets and painted-on jeans, but plenty came in comfortable shoes and seemed to have celebrated nearly as many birthdays as the star. The room was an easy mark for Willie's sing-it-with-me cues, with "Mamas" and "Always on My Mind" earning what passed for a standing ovation. A moment of comedy came when a gray-haired gentleman loped up to the stage and flipped a plastic baggy of what the post-show rumor mill said was marijuana onto the stage. Talk about crowd-sourcing … A security guard quickly removed it.
Nelson's Family band is one of the tightest in country music, with the remarkable runs of longtime harmonica wizard Mickey Raphael especially memorable. But if there is a torch being passed, it is Nelson's son Lukas who is on the receiving end. His fiery guitar duel with his dad on Lynryrd Skynrd's "Call Me the Breeze" and a searing version of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Texas Flood" underscored a talent to be reckoned with.
Another country-music icon, Merle Haggard, filled with moxie if not the physical verve of Nelson, opened the evening with a personable set of favorites, including "Mama Tried," "Silver Wings" and "The Fightin' Side of Me." His blustery reading of the conservative anthem "Okie From Muskogee" got a big reception from the crowd (many of whom would have driven past the gun shop across the street, emblazoned with the words "Now Open" over a picture of an assault rifle). Haggard ended his set obviously, but wonderfully, doing a spirited duet with Nelson on "Pancho and Lefty," after which they strode off in back-slapping brotherhood.
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text: New promotions within the Garland Police Department will become effective next week and will lead to changes within the leadership of the department. Five officers are promoting to the rank of Lieutenant and two Lieutenants will promote to the rank of Captain. Two current lieutenant assignments affected in the changes are in the successful and high profile Neighbor Police Officer (NPO) program. Lieutenants Gary Gregory and Jeff Bryan, who have lead the NPO program for the past several years, are promoting to the rank of Captain. They are transferring to the Patrol Division in order to fill two captain's positions recently vacated by retirements. Transferring to the NPO supervisor positions are Lieutenants Scott Vornberg and Ben St Clair. Vornberg has been with the department 17 years and St Clair 14 years. These two lieutenants bring a wide range of career experience that is expected to be very helpful in leading the NPO program. The NPO unit consists of two lieutenants and 17 officers. The unit has a team approach that works throughout the City with citizens and business owners in an effort to solve problems and make Garland a safer place to both live and work. The new promotions with assignments include;


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Persuasive Games: Designing For Tragedy
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A month after the Virginia Tech massacre, 21 year-old Australian hobbyist animator and game developer Ryan Lambourn created V-Tech Rampage, a web game that recreates the massacre's events. He released the game on his personal website and popular Flash portal Newgrounds.
The game was universally reviled on websites and blogs. Some cited the very idea of a game about the massacre as an offense ("We just find such a game to be in extremely poor taste").
Others noted a lack of sensitivity in the timing of the game ("[Lambourn] waited less than a month. Which suggests that [he] is motivated primarily by getting his name in the limelight").
Elsewhere, still others cited the game's structural coherence and other design merits ("If you don't follow the plan accordingly, the cops capture you early. If you walk into a classroom, the game engine makes the walls transparent. When you fire shots near pedestrians, they'll freak out and start screaming and running").
And most highlighted Lambourn's demand for payment in exchange for removing the game from Newgrounds and his own site, including the apparently thoughtless offer to apologize if donations reached $3,000 (Lambourn later retracted the offer, claiming it was a joke).
The game has been compared to another controversial and highly-publicized videogame about a school shooting, Danny LeDonne's Super Columbine Massacre RPG (SCMRPG), but the two games share little in common.
While SCMRPG portrayed Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's lives in researched detail, depicting the events of the Columbine massacre as the tragic outcome of two complex and misunderstood lives, V-Tech Rampage focuses on the acts of killing over the killer's motives. While SCMRPG defamiliarizes murder by rendering it in RPG form, V-Tech Rampage encourages fast-fingered triggering.
While LeDonne has thoughtfully and convincingly connected his game with the personal effects Columbine on his life, Lambourn's game makes him appear unstable at best, deeply troubled at worst.
One might even wonder if authoring the game was actually more a signal of his own disquiet than the offhand gag he claims it to be. For example, in V-Tech Rampage, the victims utter revealing secrets before the player mows them down. These range from the cynical ("Please just not my face! I want to stay pretty!") to the disturbed ("I cut myself sometimes") to the homophobic ("Bring the pain, faggot!") to the melancholy ("I'm lonely").
Several deal with sexual molestation, including one final lament, "I wanted to have sex with a preteen before I died," and another rejoinder accusing a professor of having sex with an underage student.
The world probably didn't need V-Tech Rampage. But what if Ryan Lambourn did? Are these just tasteless jokes, or are they calls for help?
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau earlier this month inaugurated a new visitors center in the Jewish "settlement" of Sussia south of Hebron, and said the Jewish state must stop referring to itself as an "occupier" before it can expect anyone else to do the same.
"In the past we had arguments [over whether or not to remain here], but we always said it is our [land]," noted Landau. "But for the past 20 years we have been calling ourselves 'occupiers,' so what do we expect from everyone else?"
According to Landau, Israel needs to do a full 180 degree turn in how it approaches the subject. "This is our land! This is our homeland!" the minister stated emphatically. "We need to build without reservation and act as though we belong here."
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What's Holding Up Linux on Wall Street?
A Stealth Takeover In Progress?
Although the financial services industry has adopted Linux more slowly than first expected, Linux is now starting to hold more sway, even if often from behind the scenes, according to participants in this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York City.
"I like Linux," said Chris Kwasnicki, VP/senior architect for capacity planning at Pershing LLC, one of the speakers at the full-day conference in Manhattan.
Kwasnicki pointed to the advantages of open source development. Linux also "puts pressure on the vendors to look at the business case--what (vendors say) versus what you're going to get," he added.
"We are using some Linux," Kwasnicki told LinuxPlanet after his conference presentation. "But I can't say anything more than that about this."
But more Linux implementations are actually happening in financial services than is commonly known outside the industry, said some attendees at the show.
Among Information Builders's customers, Linux has grabbed hold faster in government--particularly among state and local agencies--than in financial services, said Adam E.Cohen, partner marketing manager at IB, during an IBM-sponsored customer and press event at the close of the show.
Cohen listed costs and ease of use as two key drivers for Linux adoption in the government space. On the other hand, though, he pointed to financial services as second only to government in terms of enterprise-level Linux deployments among IB users.
A sales rep for CiRBA also said she sees widening use of Linux in financial circles. In fact, 60 percent of all implementations of the vendor's software are running on Linux, she said. These deployments are split just about evenly between Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux.
"Although our software is running mostly on Linux, it is being used to configure changes on (RISC-based) Sun and HP servers, too. But (RISC-based) Unix is an older platform that's been around longer," she said.
Some banks and other financial firms, however, are reticent about their use of Linux, participants suggested. "What really needs to happen is for (a major bank) to come out strongly and say, 'We are using Linux,'" according to Cohen.
Meanwhile, some recent press reports have focused on issues such as a decision by Lloyd's of London to deploy Windows instead of Linux, and on allegations that Bank of America was an initial target for SCO's customer lawsuits, until SCO decided to go after AutoZone instead.
It was only a couple of years ago that major vendors were proclaiming high hopes for Linux in financial services, an industry traditionally viewed as an early adopter of emerging technologies.
Back in 2002, for example, HP, Intel, and Red Hat announced plans to migrate Reuters Market Data Services to Linux.
That same year, IBM opened a Linux Center at its office building in Manhattan. At the time, some analysts mentioned scalability and applications as the chief barriers to Linux in banking.
Now, scalability has greatly improved, and more Linux software is available, said participants at last week's conference.
In one session at the Wall Street conference, Bruce Talley, director of BMC Software's Virtualizer Products Group and Chandy Nilakantan, co-founder and CTO of Scalent Systems both noted that their software runs on Linux.
Are there any other remaining obstacles to deployment' Concerns over Linux and open source legal issues seem to constitute one newer stumbling block. Technical support could be another.
"There may be (some) legal and implementation issues," said Pershing's Kwasnicki.
Still, though, attendees acknowledged no opposition to Linux in the financial services industry per se, even though they opently admitted to plenty of controversy over service grids, an architecture for sharing software services across departments and other organizations.
"Departmental managers pretty much run whatever (OS) we give them. They really don't care whether or not it's Linux," Kwasnicki told LinuxPlanet.
"It's really just a matter of preference. Some of our customers like Windows, while others prefer Linux," said a vendor said, during the IBM-sponsored event that evening.
In contrast, service grids are still a foreign concept to many. "Ownership of a service is paramount to people in departments," said BMC Software's Talley, during a panel presentation.
"The key is not to introduce (the grid) as an agent of sweeping change," recommended Scalent's Nilakantan.


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In the movie The Bucket List, one of the more memorable scenes depicts actors Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, both playing terminally ill characters, engaging in some vehicular mayhem. They pair off against each other, trading paint and driving with abandon in a classic Shelby Mustang and a Dodge Challenger. (Hey, who cares how valuable the cars are, since you can't take them with you?)
Anyway, even if you're not a movie star, stomping the loud pedal in an American musclecar surely qualifies as one of those peak moments in life. All the more so if you get to kick it in several hot rides while touring through some spectacular desert scenery.
That's the compelling premise of World Class Driving's "American Muscle Car Experience." We've previously noted WCD's tempting offers to drive several European exotics, but we couldn't convince our Corvette-biased editor to let us attend until a C6 Z06 showed up in the fleet. Adding to the fun, this joy ride also includes a Shelby GT500, a Camaro ZL1, and a Dodge Challenger SRT8. (As of this writing, the company has no firm plans to add a C7 to the roster.)
What follows is not only a breezy account of high-speed cruising through Red Rock Canyon, located northwest of Las Vegas, but also an impromptu comparison between three different interpretations of American muscle. We won't pretend that this event was a well-documented road test, but we did come away with some distinct impressions of how the other cars stack up against a Corvette. (The Camaro wasn't available for driving the day we arrived, but we'll give you one guess as to which of the other three cars we preferred.)
For those not familiar with southern Nevada, a few miles away from the sensory overload of the Vegas Strip, there lies a spectacular range of crimson cliffs. This rugged hiking and conservation area features a meandering, 13-mile, one-way drive at the base of the towering geology, albeit only at First-gear speeds. But you can still take in the view on the main road at freeway velocities, as long as you keep an eye out for wild burros and roving highway-patrol officers. Two excursions are available, either 30 or 50 miles in length, and priced at $300 and $400, respectively.
The American Muscle Car Experience starts out at the suitably named Red Rock Casino Resort. Since we're hardly high rollers, we weren't offered any comped rooms in exchange for engaging in fiscally irresponsible behavior at the casino, so we don't have any comments on the quality of the accommodations.
Besides, we're more interested in the cockpit amenities of the gathered American muscle. For sheer size, we'll give the nod to the Challenger, which we'd characterize as the fastest living-room sofa we've ever driven. In contrast, the seat bolsters in the Mustang and the Corvette wrap more snugly around your body like a custom-tailored suit. As for stance, the Corvette is a ground-hugging cruise missile, while you sit higher in the saddle in the ponycars.
How do these brutes stack up? Well, they're all quick, with plenty of beans under the hood, so the differences come down to a matter of refinement and road feel, plus chassis reflexes. To provide a sense of each car's handling profile, the contours of the drive past Red Rock Canyon offer a variety of moderate curves and dips. (If you're seeking some hardcore track action behind the wheel of a Corvette, the Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, located on the western side of Red Rock Canyon in Pahrump, offers the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School.)
So consider the Experience a teaser of sorts for the general public, along with an opportunity to drive a select few choices of way-cool cars back-to-back, something you'd never be able to do at a new-car dealership. Not only that, the lead driver who escorts the group doesn't seem to mind if you blip the throttle in certain portions of the route in order to catch up. Just don't try any smoky burnouts when you depart from the scenic rest stops along the way, or you'll be promptly relieved of your keys.
Out of the three cars we drove, the 662hp Shelby GT500 has the most raw-boned, racy feel. Its exhaust note is guttural, its acceleration bone-jarring. The Challenger is game but feels a bit porky and is mushier in its manners. Nicely balanced between those two extremes is the Z06. Its engine sounds more like ripping silk, and it gets up to speed with sudden smoothness. In this setting in particular, it's easy to get caught by surprise by the triple-digit readings on the speedo.
While appearances don't matter all that much for an afternoon cruise (except for some vacation snapshots standing next to the cars), we nevertheless noted styling points as well, to delineate these rivals even further. The look of the Z06 is refined and precise, like a razor-sharp scimitar, while the Challenger is more of a blunt weapon. We'd characterize the Shelby as a Colt .45: deadly effective but kinda crude in overall execution.
So what's the bottom line of the American Muscle Car Experience? Like many a Vegas attraction—from gorging yourself at a gourmet buffet to firing off a machine-gun clip at the local target range—the titillation is exhilarating yet all too transitory. But maybe that's part of the appeal, since you don't have to keep up with the cost of ownership. Either way, it sure beats losing your shirt at the craps table.


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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life and fined the maximum of $2.5 million for a string of racist comments made in a conversation taped by his ex-girlfriend.
Silver also revealed the NBA's investigation concluded that the voice on the tapes is indeed Sterling's.
Prior to Silver's decision, Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Lovie Smith told reporters Tuesday that Sterling's diatribe is "troubling."
"Everyone has someone that's over them," Smith said. "And as an owner, they have a commissioner that I'm sure is going to come down and do the right thing for the good of the league."
Cleveland Browns general manager Ray Farmer has also weighed in on the subject, stating that Sterling's alleged comments are "disappointing."
"I've been focused on the draft," Farmer said Monday, "but I will say I'm happy that I'm in a situation where we don't have to worry about those comments being made."
Considering Sterling's long history of offenses, the NBA's punishment is fitting.
Silver should be applauded for going even further than Major League Baseball did when faced with a similar controversy in the 1990s.
After a one-year ban for racist and insensitive comments in 1993, Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott was suspended for two years in 1996 for stating her support of Adolf Hitler.
Facing a third suspension and a potential ouster, Schott disappeared from the public eye when she sold the franchise in 1999.
A similar fate awaits Sterling.


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Cover Girl isn't on sale in the UK, but I have found a brilliant US seller of drugstore brands on eBay. I actually needed to find this gloss after seeing the girls on ANTM model it – that's how sad I am.
I got waterproof Lash Blast:
Heres the brush head:
The mascara is SO BIG. You could never carry it around in your handbag, it's like carrying around a dildo.
Concealer, in Warm Beige:
It's a funny one this concealer – quite soft and creamy. The shade reminds me…well it's not very skintoney:
Reminds me of being 14 and buying Cover Girl Fresh Foundation – (they used to sell it in the UK) secretly because I wasn't allowed make up as a teen. The one they used to sell in a jar – Clean Skin? Anyway it was the most disgusting orangey colour, like no one's skin tone but that's what it used to be like back then.
This is the reason I actually bought some covergirl items:
The girls on ANTM advertise these – they are supposed to have a minty fresh scent to them (and they do).
Hmmm. The problem with these is that they are very pretty but very sheer as you can see on the swatches. The colours are also very similar…it's a nice item and would make you feel fresher, but I wish there was more oomph to the glosses. But this is cover girl after all – the colours are young and easy to wear – this is probably what it's supposed to be.
All in all I am happy with all this, although the NYX parcel I got from the same seller was more exctiting.


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By Shawn Langlois
Good morning.
Your free investment advice of the day: Buy high, sell higher!
That's not only a good headline for a story on Medical Marijuana Inc. /quotes/zigman/548382 /quotes/nls/mjna MJNA , it's actually a sound strategy. Better than trying to follow the traditional "buy low, sell high" market axiom, anyway.
Sure, go ahead and laugh it up, just like we did at Beppe Grillo. But it's no joke, according to Los Angeles-based portfolio manager Mebane Faber, who pored over numbers dating back to 1791 to come up with his blog post.
He concluded that buying when the S&P 500 hits a 52-week high, like it did last week, has delivered an average of 9.6% the following year, easily beating straight buy-and-hold. Conversely, scooping up stocks at or near lows has returned a big fat 0%.
"History's verdict is clear … You're much better off buying at new highs than at new lows," Faber wrote. "You might not agree with it … but it's true."
In that spirit, happy hunting.
Key market gauges: Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP is recovering a bit from Tuesday's big drop, with Italy's FTSE MIB /quotes/zigman/1482176 XX:FTSEMIB clawing back some of its 5% plunge. The Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:100000018 was responsible for weakness in Asia, though the other major indexes in the region were higher. Check out Asia Markets.
Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 are pointing to another higher opening, but just barely. Read: Indications.
The economy: Ben "what equity bubble?" Bernanke will continue his two-day QE defense before Congress, with House Republicans likely taking aim at the Fed for cozying up to Obama. Investors also have consumer durable-goods orders and pending home sales to chew on. Read: What to watch on the U.S. economy.
Earnings: Target /quotes/zigman/253872 /quotes/nls/tgt TGT , one of the last notable companies to open their books this earnings season, came in with surprisingly upbeat results in the wee hours. The stock is up 2% premarket. Hey, if it's good enough for Britney Spears …
Groupon /quotes/zigman/7212269 /quotes/nls/grpn GRPN , J.C. Penney /quotes/zigman/237947 /quotes/nls/jcp JCP and Limited Brands /quotes/zigman/232232 /quotes/nls/ltd LTD are all slated to post numbers after the close. Read: Stocks to Watch.
The buzz: Apple's /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL annual meeting has put the stock squarely in investors' sights. The focus will be on what the company intends to do with its gobs of cash. Shareholders will also want to know if there's truth to rumors of a stock split. Whatever they're doing over there in Cupertino, it's good enough for David Shaw.
Among the big market movers, Priceline.com /quotes/zigman/90481 /quotes/nls/pcln PCLN is trading higher premarket after the company posted a 28% profit surge, while First Solar /quotes/zigman/102025 /quotes/nls/fslr FSLR is in store for a beatdown in the wake of a weak outlook.
Commonwealth REIT shares /quotes/zigman/601531 /quotes/nls/cwh CWH notched a massive rally yesterday, and the number of commentators on StockTwits followed suit. The stock is giving some of it back this morning. Read about why it skyrocketed from The Motley Fool.
Coach /quotes/zigman/263421 /quotes/nls/coh COH is shooting up the buzz charts. The stock is rallying almost 6% premarket with the cyber-hive pointing to rumors the company may be put up for sale.
BlackBerry /quotes/zigman/18534 /quotes/nls/bbry BBRY , Amarin /quotes/zigman/109177 /quotes/nls/amrn AMRN and Transocean /quotes/zigman/531240 /quotes/nls/rig RIG are also trending, and keep an eye on gambling stocks after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday legalizing Internet gambling. Bwin Party Digital Entertainment /quotes/zigman/508486 UK:BPTY , for instance, is up 13% in London.
The chart of the day: Gold bugs should rush to Bernanke's defense as he faces another grilling from Congress. Just look at how the precious metal has fared under his leadership . The price of gold has jumped 182.9% during his seven years, more than double the return of any of his three predecessors and almost as much as their combined performance, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
The call of the day: Xerox /quotes/zigman/246904 /quotes/nls/xrx XRX is underappreciated and undervalued, according to Helix Investment Research, and its fourth-quarter results laid out "hidden gems of progress." Xerox's transformation toward services will continue through 2013, the research firm explained, and there's ample upside to the shares as skepticism washes away and the company pays down debt and deploys capital.
Random reads: Bring the floaties, ditch the iPhone, it's Titanic 2! Sounds terrible.
Speaking of open-ocean disasters, here's one of the more graphic depictions of a shark attack. Disclosure: Swam there once. Won't again.
A good read on how the facts got in the way of one Wall Street Journal reporter's attempt to prove Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion.
Crisis mode? Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898 /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO responds to the work-at-home backlash.
Some seriously discerning beer drinkers somehow came to the conclusion that Anheuser-Busch /quotes/zigman/270060 BE:ABI is watering down its beer. So they're suing them.
Time to put your stockpicking skills to the test with our "Beat the Darts" competition. I fully plan to dominate. I had also planned to retire on a private island by now.
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Weil, S&C, Wachtell, Cravath, DPW provided good hotel. W&C, Simpson provided disgusting hotels.
Sorry, I forgot about this board! This is probably of no use to you now, but for future generations:The two best places were Gibson Dunn (Waldorf) and Boies (Hotel Benjamin--a swanky corner suite!). SullCrom put people at the Tribeca Grand. Wilkie used the Time, which was kind of lame... I know other firms have put people there too (Cravath, I think). Latham used the east side W, which is convenient to their office but very small.The best travel agency is Lawyer's Travel, which many of the firms used. They're friendly and responsive.


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Madonna's 'Girl Gone Wild' - LISTEN NOW
Check out Madonna's new song, "Girl Gone Wild," the second single off her forthcoming album MDNA!
The 53-year-old Material Girl will release MDNA on March 26. Check out tour dates for Madonna's upcoming world tour if you missed them earlier in the month!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Madonna
"Hey-ey-ey-Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey, I'm like a girl gone wild, a good girl gone wild," Madonna sings during the chorus.
Earlier in the week, Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, were spotted making their way through a frenzy of fans as they arrived at LAX airport.
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France's 26-year unbeaten record over Germany has ended as the visitors came from behind to win 2-1 in an entertaining international friendly at the Stade de France.
Marseille's Mathieu Valbuena opened the scoring following Karim Benzema's free-kick which cannoned off the bar, before Thomas Muller restored parity soon after the break. Despite the hosts' dominating, Sami Khedira turned in late to ensure a rare win in the capital for die Mannschaft.
In a bright opening from both sides, it was the visitors who spurned the best opportunity. Ilkay Gundogan's break saw him pick out Khedira with a fine pass towards the edge of the area, but the Real Madrid star could only drag his shot narrowly wide.
Whilst les Bleus opted for a more cautious approach, die Nationalelf should've broken the deadlock just six minutes from the start amidst a ferocious opening. A neat ball threaded into Mesut Ozil from Thomas Muller saw the former denied by a sprawling Hugo Lloris save, who raced off his line to maintain the score.
Deschamps' side settled into their rhythm following a frantic opening, dominated by Germany. Nevertheless, the hosts did create a chance of their own, as Newcastle midfielder Moussa Sissoko miscued a shot in a promising position, and Rene Adler – back in the international fold following a two year absence – denying Karim Benzema.
Nevertheless, France were still struggling with the immense counterattacking threat the visitors pose. Lloris was again called into action, turning a Per Mertesacker header onto his own bar and out for a corner as the Germans ascended.
The relentless attacking from both sides continued in a surprisingly open first half. Ribery displayed trickery and pace to evade his marker, before Valbuena blazed over. Seconds later, profligate finishing saw Benzema beat the trap, but not Adler who pulled off a monster stop to deny the Real Madrid man.
If the centre-backs enjoyed a spotless first half, then the wing-backs endured a torrid period, with Ribery in particular giving the likes of Mertesacker and Lahm a headache, thought it wasn't long before the game would witness its first goal.
On the stroke of half-time, Benzema's audacious, curling free-kick slammed against the crossbar, with the smallest player on the field – Valbuena – heading past Adler to hand the hosts the most slender of advantages in a thrilling half.
After the break, the visitors were far more conserved, and the new approach paid dividends almost immediately. Substitute Etienne Capoue was the guilty party in conceding possession as Muller struck past Lloris to restore parity after 51 minutes.
Low's side, under the watchful eye of Chancellor Angela Merkel, were once more susceptible to the width offered by Valbuena and Ribery, with the latter spurning a golden opportunity to hand the hosts the advantage following Benzema's sweet cut-back.
Despite that, the tenacious Germans would seize the initiative against the run of play. Ozil threaded a sumptuous ball into Khedira, who beat the flag and Lloris to silence the raucous fans inside the stadium before the hosts were denied by the flag as Germany held on to confirm victory.
Following the result, Germany turn their attention to a double header against Kazakhstan at the end of March, whilst Deschamps' side entertain Georgia and Spain as the road to Brazil is resumed.
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As demands for new and exciting applications grow, so too must the research and development into ink formulations that are up to the task. This article highlights what's going on in UV.
By Mike Plier
As the digital industry continues to develop, can the presses and the inks really keep up with the demands—or with our imaginations?
New ink systems and applications are plunging the digital industry into markets that, until now, were considered off limits. With continued technological advances in UV chemistries, digital inks are continuing to evolve at a staggering pace. These new UV systems are setting performance standards that once were considered almost impossible, providing improved color gamut, cure speeds, substrate versatility, and durability.
Historically, research chemists had a limited selection of raw materials to work with when developing UV inkjet inks. Today, myriad raw materials contribute to the functionality of these ink systems in ways never before thought possible. Raw-material manufacturers and suppliers have committed all resources available to the continued development of this growing market, and ink-formulation chemists are the beneficiaries. The relationship between raw-material manufacturers and the formulation chemists is vital in the development of these high-performance digital ink systems.
In this article, we look at the latest UV digital inks and their relationship to UV screen inks. We delve into how this newest generation of ink systems must be formulated to overcome limitations in conventional UV digital performance. Given the cutting-edge menu of monomers, oligomers, photoinitiators, additives, and pigment dispersions, there should be no limit to the application of these inks to new markets and materials.
Mission: nothing's impossible
The future of digital ink is limited only by our imagination. I anticipate we will see digitally printed dashboard clusters in vehicles, improved printing of architectural glass, jettable adhesives and metallics, in-mold decorations for blow molding and injection molding, digitally printed membrane switches and electronic circuitry, and more.
Can we do it now? Not yet, or at least it's not ready for prime time. But we'll get there with the help of open-minded researchers and raw-materials suppliers. Constant communication between ink manufacturers and their suppliers creates the chemical building blocks for these ink systems.
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