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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...except when it comes to Black Hat, arguably the world's most important annual hacking conference. This renowned - and sometimes infamous - hacker con is scheduled to kick off July 31- and it's an event that every consumer should pay attention to.
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So why should you care about a hacker con? This event is where the top new threats to our smartphones and other devices are often first revealed. In many ways, Black Hat sets the course for what hackers around the world will be doing for the next 12 months.
This year's Black Hat is especially interesting, because it marks an important shift in the hacker community as more attention is being paid to electronic devices not typically thought of as hackable. As manufacturers add Internet connectivity into more 'things' - from cars to appliances, TVs, pacemakers, etc. - these objects become vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Here are the top seven hacks coming out at Black Hat that consumers need to know about - some of them can be prevented, but others can't:
1. HTTPS is in Trouble. If we were to rank the most important things that ever happened to the web, SSL/TLS would certainly be in the top three. What is it? It's an online security feature - the 's' in HTTPS - that makes it possible to safely log into a bank account, make a purchase or just travel the web without letting other people spy on you.
The problem, however, is that flaws have been discovered in SSL/TLS that could allow a hacker to circumvent this security setting - and steal your information. At this year's Black Hat, hackers will be showing how to steal a user's login credentials from a 'protected' HTTPS site - and another talk will show how to retrieve this information from a device.
What can you do?: Don't rely solely on HTTPS to keep you safe. Avoid logging into bank accounts or entering credit/debit card information when using a public WiFi network. Also, make sure to thoroughly wipe any device that's ever used your login credentials (computer, laptop, phone, tablet) before you discard it.
2. Cell Tower Spoofing. Can you hear me now? Actually, the real question should be, who's doing the listening? Hackers at Black Hat will reveal a frightening attack on cell phones - by using a modified CDMA femtocell (which anyone can buy, by the way), hackers can trick your phone into connecting to them instead of the cell phone tower, eavesdrop on everything (phone calls, text messages, web sites visited, etc.) and even clone your phone! This is similar to what hackers now do with a WiFi network, where they trick you into thinking their WiFi hotspot is a legitimate one.
This is an alarming vulnerability that should concern anyone who owns a CDMA smartphone (Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, Alltel, etc.).
What can you do?: If you own a CDMA phone, you should really think about adding a VPN (virtual private network) that will encrypt everything you do on the phone.
3. When Your TV Watches You. Smart TVs are the latest trend in entertainment - with new models available from Samsung, Sony and LG, plus upcoming models from Apple and Google. However, connecting TVs to the Internet and giving them an operating system, plus features like webcams and mics, also comes with new risks.
Hackers at Black Hat will be showing how to break into smart TVs to spy on users through the webcam, monitor what you're doing, even scam you through a TVshing attack (TV phishing).
What can you do?: Right now this is a low-risk threat, but as more homes add smart TVs to the living room it may be something to plan for. Unplugging the TV when not in use, or covering the camera, are some basic precautions that could help.
4. Hijacking Appliances. Another gadget that's getting 'smarter' is the home appliance. WiFi-connected refrigerators, dishwashers, washers/dryers or thermostats will become more common over the years. But they're also more vulnerable.
Researchers at Black Hat are showing off new ways to remotely eavesdrop and interfere with smart appliances and networked home electronics - which could have serious implications for home security.
What can you do?: Nothing.
5 Remote Controlling Cars. Manufacturers are increasingly adding new features to automotive computers (ECUs) to expand entertainment offerings and safety controls. But the ECU could also let a hacker gain control of certain automotive functions.
A well-known security researcher will be showing how to hack the ECU to affect a car's breaking and steering at Black Hat's sister conference, DefCon.
What can you do?: Nothing.
6. SpyPhone. Security pros have long worried about the danger of mobile apps - specifically, their ability to sneak viruses and malware onto your phone.
A researcher at Black Hat this year will be showing how infected apps can turn your phone into a full-blown surveillance tool - monitoring you via video and mic, as well as intercepting all of your calls, texts, emails and other activity.
What can you do?: Don't download apps from third-party websites. Stick to well-known apps that have been around for a while. Limit the total number of apps you download. Check the permissions before approving them (i.e., why does a game need to access my contacts?).
7. Hacking the Human Body. Implantable medical devices - including pacemakers, defibrillitors, insulin pumps, etc. - now come with wireless connections but only rudimentary security.
Hackers say the devices can be remotely controlled to harm or kill the patient
What can you do?: Nothing.
Jason Glassberg, co-founder of Casaba, LLC provides cybersecurity consulting to Fortune 50s, banks, energy firms and government agencies. The company's areas of expertise include penetration testing, threat modeling, reverse engineering, malware analysis and software security. Casaba is part of Microsoft's SDL Pro Network.


text: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > I know a few ppl on this list are running redhat 7.3. Has anyone experienced > the problem of pxe not working on upgrading from 0.1-24 to > 0.1-126.96.36.199 ?? We wrote our own PXE server handle the many problems that can occur with the typical DHCP+TFTP (+ maybe a PXE auxiliary info server). But I can suggest the most common problems: Firewall configuration blocking packets Lost configuration files in the 8.0 upgrade. Changed syntax of configuration files. > my kickstart works fine on the old version but wont grab the linux.* > files by tftp when using the newer. redhat also seem to be a bit > secretive about one of the bugs in pxe (i dont have permission to view > it on bugzilla). There are many opportunities for security holes if you are using a general purpose DHCP server. The ISC DHCP server has extensive functionality. Much of the complexity comes from dealing with dynamic assignments from multiple communicating servers. While cluster should automatically handle new machines, cluster PXE boot service has far fewer configuration options than enterprise-wide DHCP+boot service. -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993

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During the last few years, we've seen a lot of fashion films — "Valentino: The Last Emperor," "Coco Before Chanel" and "The September Issue" among them.
But "L'Amour Fou," which opens locally Friday, May 20, may be the most tender. It centers around Yves Saint Laurent's lifelong partner, businessman Pierre Bergé, as he comes to terms with the death of the designer.
Filmmaker Pierre Thoretton uses the 2009 auction of their extravagant art collection to frame the story and bring up issues of love and loss, especially where they relate to material possessions.
The film opens with Saint Laurent giving his televised retirement speech in 2002, during which he says he is proud to have created the modern women's wardrobe. For him, fashion exists not only to make women beautiful but "to reassure them so they can assert themselves."
It's a quote from an era when designers seemed to have a loftier purpose. By designing practical pieces, such as safari jackets, trench coats, peasant blouses and Le Smoking suits, Saint Laurent "played a part in the transformation of his time."
He also lived that time, the 1960s and '70s, to its jet-set fullest, with three lavish homes — in Paris, Marrakech and Normandy — and an art collection that fetched $483.8 million on the auction block. (The proceeds went to charity and to support the Fondation Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.)
Why did Bergé sell it all after the designer's death in 2008? It's hard to tell. Maybe because he was used to playing the role of caretaker to the fragile Saint Laurent, which he did throughout their relationship. He was the yin to the designer's yang, in the same way Giancarlo Giammetti was for Valentino Garavani.
In the film, Bergé speaks poignantly about attending to the collection's "funeral" and hoping the precious pieces will "fly off like birds and find a new place they can perch." He adds, "But losing someone with whom you have lived for 50 years, whose eyes you closed … that is another thing entirely."
Bergé and Saint Laurent met in 1958, soon after the designer presented his first collection for Christian Dior. National treasure Dior had just died, and there were questions about whether the label would go on. It did, but not for long under Saint Laurent. He left after just six seasons to start his own fashion house with Bergé in 1962.
The two bought an apartment on Rue de Babylone and began collecting art. There was no order to their acquisitions; they came upon things through chance encounters, Bergé explains. In the film, as the "art undertakers" dismantle the apartment, carefully removing and inspecting each piece, Bergé recalls the stories behind some of them. Upon seeing Saint Laurent's famous Mondrian dress in 1965, he says, "I never thought we would own a Mondrian, but then one fine day one came into our lives, followed by others." And Goyas, Matisses, Ensors and Picassos.
The film is full of fascinating historical footage of runway shows, the Palace nightclub, the Opium perfume launch and ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire dancing in a spectacular pink flower costume created by Saint Laurent. There are personal photographs from Saint Laurent's archives, too, of his model muses Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux and his friends Maria Callas and Andy Warhol.
Bergé opens their sumptuous homes in Marakkech and Normandy, where each room is named after a character from a Proust novel. The camera's long tracking shots take the viewer through slowly, lingering on the perfect fountains and frosted lamps, as if led by a spirit guide. The houses are quiet and still, with fresh flowers in every room. But without a person living in them, they seem as cold as museums.
Despite a world of riches, Saint Laurent was rarely happy. He was born depressed, Bergé says, and sought refuge in drugs and alcohol: "Fame brought him nothing but suffering."
Bergé surmises that had he died first, Saint Laurent never would have organized the auction. "He would not have been able to live without this painting or that statue," Bergé says. "It would have been like a black hole, he would have had vertigo." And there is something sad about seeing all of the crates being loaded aboard an Air France jet to go on display at Christie's in New York and London in advance of the sale. Sad and crass.
At last, the day of the auction arrives, and Bergé solemnly takes his seat. He watches the spoils of his love being picked apart. The Goya painting, the dragon chair, the Brancusi sculpture "Portrait of Madame L.R." that goes for $26 million. It makes you think about the sum total of someone's life, and question the reasoning behind accumulating so much stuff, whether it be art — or fashion.
For his part, Bergé doesn't seem to mourn the loss of the pieces so much as the memory of the person who shared them.
"L'Amour Fou," in French with English subtitles, opens Friday at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West L.A. and the Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena.
Fashion Diary: In 'L'Amour Fou,' a life without Yves Saint Laurent
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Appleton absent as Rovers wait on news
Blackpool manager Michael Appleton did not take training on Thursday in the wake of an official approach for his services from npower Championship counterparts Blackburn.
Rovers posted a statement on their official website, www.rovers.co.uk, on Wednesday night confirming their interest in the 37-year-old former Portsmouth boss, with a Blackpool acknowledging a "formal approach" in a statement of their own shortly afterwards.
Amid reports Blackburn's bid to appoint Appleton as Henning Berg's successor had received the short shrift, Ewood Park managing director Derek Shaw on Thursday morning told Press Association Sport the clubs remained "in discussions".
On Thursday afternoon Blackpool declined to add any official comment to Wednesday night's statement, but England Under-21 winger Tom Ince confirmed to BBC Radio Lancashire that assistant manager Steve Thompson took training ahead of the weekend trip to Charlton.
Appleton's scheduled 12:30pm press briefing was cancelled and, after confirming his manager's absence, Ince said: "It's been like any normal day. We can't worry about things that are out of the players' control. As players, we stick together. There's a great bunch of lads in there and all we're doing is looking forward to Saturday.
"Whoever's our manager is whoever's our manager. We can't worry about what's happening off the pitch. We have to worry about working hard in training, going to Charlton and getting a win."
Meanwhile, Blackburn caretaker manager Gary Bowyer insisted himself and head of youth Terry McPhillips will be in charge of first-team affairs for Friday night's televised clash against Wolves at Molineux.
Bowyer has led Rovers to three consecutive victories following the abrupt end to Berg's 10-game tenure two days after Christmas and last week the club issued a statement to confirm he and McPhillips would remain in charge until the end of January. Nevertheless, the 41-year-old former Rotherham defender is fully understanding of the situation.
"As we stand we expect to be taking the team at Wolves," he said. "As far as we're aware we were told we had it until the end of January but, like I stressed last week when that announcement was made, we understand that anything can happen in that month.
"Until we're told otherwise we'll continue to do what we've done and that's prepare the players for the game tomorrow. I was notified last night and told that the official approach had been made, like I have been with everything that's gone on in our time here.''


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The Panama and Shady Point police departments and the Police Wives Auxiliary Group have announced the opening date for their annual charity haunted house. Bad Dreams Haunted House opens Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. and will be open every night until the final Halloween tour. The cost to enter, if you dare, is $5 per person. A sneak preview for those seeking early spooks will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. Bad Dreams Haunted House is located in Panama on Midland Valley Road.All proceed are used to fund the police departments Christmas program for children in need.


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"Edinburgh is a mad god's dream."
-- Hugh McDiarmid
Scotland, and most of the world, is locked in the grip of an economic downturn. Society is quietly shaken by escalated international tensions over arms races, and increasing cultural clashes between differing races, creeds and religions. Suicide and unemployment rates are up, marriage and birthrates are down, and the general feeling reported through myriad media outlets promotes a bleak outlook of despair. Quality of life regressed from its peak with blame seeded in mutated pathogens causing widespread outbreaks of illness, global warming, dramatic increases in violent crimes, and every tumble and turn of a jittery stock market. No one has answers, only accusations.
Edinburgh is a city on the brink. The great artistic capital of the north, settled upon seven hills, is the epicenter for something of unmeasured scientific and mystical significance. Its powerful Consilium, controlling the mystical heart of Britain, approaches a pivotal moment in history. Upheaval in the Supernal Realms sends ripples through the Fallen World. Decades of stagnation creates an atmosphere of complacency between renown mages and entrenched Seers. The status quo cannot hold against enormous external and internal pressures. Everything the Awakened know about the world is going to change. Revelations: Edinburgh is an nWoD game based on Mage: the Awakening.
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About Al Maktoum International Airport
Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) is a major new airport currently under construction in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Previous working names have included "Jebel Ali International Airport," "Jebel Ali Airport City" and "Dubai World Central International Airport".
It will be officially known as Al Maktoum International Airport. It has been named after the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the former ruler of Dubai. It will be the main part of Dubai World Central, a planned residential, commercial and logistics complex scheme.
Dubai World Central is the world's first truly integrated logistics platform, with most transport modes, logistics and value added services, including manufacturing and assembly, in a single bonded and Free Zone environment.
At the heart of this huge new community is the Al Maktoum International Airport, planned as the world's largest passenger and cargo hub, ten times larger than Dubai International Airport and Dubai Cargo Village combined.
If completed as planned, the airport will have an annual cargo capacity of 12 million tons, more than three times that of Memphis International Airport, today's largest cargo hub, and a passenger capacity between 120 million and 150 million per year – more than Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (90 million in 2008), currently the world's busiest passenger airport.
Designed for the future, Al Maktoum International Airport proposes to handle all next-generation aircraft, including the Airbus A380 super-jumbo. Up to four aircraft will be able to land simultaneously, 24 hours a day, minimizing in-air queuing.
Dubai World Central will include:
- 6 parallel runways, 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) in length, each separated by a distance of 800 metres (2,600 ft). This amount, however, was reduced to 5 in April 2009.
- Three passenger terminals including two luxury facilities; one dedicated to airlines of The Emirates Group, the second to other carriers, and the third dedicated to low cost carriers.
- Multiple concourses
- 16 cargo terminals with a 12 million ton capacity
- Executive and Royal jet centres
- Hotels and shopping malls
- Support and maintenance facilities: the region's only hub for A, B, and C Checks on all aircraft up to A380 specifications
- Over 100,000 parking spaces (probably underground) for airport staff and passengers
- Al Maktoum International Airport and the existing Dubai International Airport will be linked by a proposed high speed express rail system
- Al Maktoum International Airport will also be served by the Dubai Metro and a dedicated Dubai World Central light railway
- Al Maktoum International Airport will be used by foreign carriers only. Emirates operations (both passenger and cargo) will remain at Dubai International Airport.
The airport is planned to have six 4,500m parallel runways, with a large passenger complex in the middle. Three runways would straddle at one side of the complex while three more would be located at the other side.
Furthermore, each runway would have extended asphalted pathways on either side which would allow aircraft to by-pass other runways and taxiways without disturbing aircraft movements of these runways and taxiways. The airport is the biggest section/component of Dubai World Central.
When fully built it will be the world's largest airport with 120 million passenger/year capacity and a cargo capacity of 12 million tons/year. Its large runways and the distance between would allow simultaneous take-offs and landings.
Dubai's expectations of an exponential rise in passenger traffic over its skies is built on the presumption that it would become the ideal air hub for transiting travellers from the Asia-Pacific Region, South Asia, Greater Middle-east, Africa, Europe, and Australia (for the Kangaroo route–Australia to Europe/Britain and vice versa).
Upon completion it will be the fourth largest air facility in land area (physical size). Only three other air facilities are/were larger than Dubai World Central:
- King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (790 square kilometers)
- Montreal, Canada, the Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (392 square kilometers as originally planned in 1969, but as of December 2006, only about 50 square kilometers)
- King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (225 square kilometers)
The air complex would, perhaps, become the most Airbus A380-friendly air facility in the world since all the hard-stand aero bridge gates are capable of accommodating the aircraft, as the master plan model suggests.
The facility, however, will initially service cargo airlines. Several large warehouses and hangars line the westernmost part of the airport. These interlinked warehouses and/or hangars will stretch from end-to-end of the westernmost runway. Each of these warehouses and/or hangars are capable of housing A380 aircraft.
The airport will complement Dubai International Airport, some 40 km away. The airport itself is surrounded by a large logistics hub, an ultra-luxurious golf resort (with suburban housing interwoven between greens and fairways), an expansive trade and exhibition facility (3 million square metres of exhibition space—would become the world's largest single exhibition site/location/address/destination), a massive commercial district, and a spacious residential/housing district.
Due to the massive physical scale of the masterplan, others would come to claim that Al Maktoum International Airport would be the most ambitious airport project ever envisioned.
The latest estimates by the government of Dubai peg the price tag at US$ 82 billion. This aerotropolis would be US$62 billion more expensive than the next most expensive airport project Hong Kong-Chek Lap Kok International Airport Core Project—which cost the Hong Kong government around US$ 20 billion (in 1997 dollars).
This would also make it the most expensive single project in the world, ever (with the possible exceptions of the Dubai Waterfront, The Palm Deira, and New Songdo Intelligent City).
Dubai World Central (not just the international airport) will have a total of 100,000 parking slots for automobile vehicles for its employees, Dubai residents, tourists, and other users. This will give the air facility the distinction of having the largest parking facility in the world.
The A-380 enabled 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) runway was completed within its projected 600 day construction period and will undergo strenuous tests and trials over the next six to eight months in order to fulfil its CAT III-C requirements. Meanwhile, construction of the airport's approximately US$75 million cargo terminal, the Al Maktoum Airport Cargo Gateway, is 50% complete. The first phase of the project will see the terminal initially handle 700,000 tonnes per annum. By 2013 it is expected to become the largest of its kind in the world, handling more than 12 million tonnes of cargo annually.
The project is expected to be fully built-out and operational by 2017. The 2009 financial crisis may postpone the completion of the complex with 5 years to 2022. On 24 February 2010, it was announced that Al Maktoum International Airport will be opened on 27 June 2010.


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Elephant ivory is on the march. Not elephants, but their ivory. The elephants are left bloodied and dead on the range. So are many rangers who work to protect a country's natural capital. In the past 10 years, over 1,000 rangers have been murdered in 35 countries alone; the International Ranger Federation tell us that as many as 5,000 may have been murdered worldwide in that time.
At the CITES COP – the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species – the halls in Bangkok ring loud with concern for the elephants and other charismatic species, particularly rhinos, that are being exterminated across Africa in pursuit of private profit, at the expense of communities that rely on nature for their food, shelter, start-up capital, and safety net in a warming world.
So why should the World Bank care? Our concern is to build strong economies and healthy communities by revving the engine of inclusive green growth as we prepare countries and communities for the impacts of climate change.
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Detailed on the loud commercials and CALM act page within the FCC's Encyclopedia, today marks the first day that the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act went into effect after being passed during mid-December of 2011. This new federal law forces television stations, cable operators and satellite TV providers to make sure television commercials are broadcast at the same volume level as the regular programming during that time slot. If these companies are utilizing the ATSC A/85 RP set of methods to control audio volume, television watchers shouldn't have to fumble for the remote's mute button to silence an overly loud commercial.
While the Federal Communications Commission passed the act a year ago, the organization allowed the television industry a grace period to become compliant with the new rules. However,the FCC is relying on the public to help catch organizations that aren't complying with the rules.
Television viewers that spot an overly loud commercial can call 1-888-TELL-FCC, mail a form, send a fax or simply use the FCC site to report the commercial. When reporting a loud commercial, viewers must provide their personal information in addition to the name of the company connected to the complaint.
In addition, the viewer must specify if the commercial was viewed through cable, satellite or over-the-air on an antenna. After providing the name of the station, the viewer has to supply the name of the product advertised within the commercial, the date and time of the commercial and the program that was playing during that time slot. The viewer can also include additional notes regarding the volume level.
Depending on the amount of complaints are being submitted to the FCC about a particular station, network or provider, the federal organization will decide how to enforce the CALM Act and penalize the entity playing loud commercials. The FCC also recommends that consumers look into utilizing "automatic gain control, audio compression, or audio limiters" in order to help keep programming volume at a constant level. These features can be found within newer televisions and home theater systems.


text: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 jbbernard at eng.uab.edu wrote: > Hi all, > > We're renovating a classroom for the use of a cluster that does not yet > exist. We're hoping it will reach 1000 nodes in a couple of years, but it's > likely that it will have to grow piecemeal as funding allows. > Notwithstanding that, we hope to administer the machines as a single > cluster. > > My question is: how much room (in racks, or rack-units) would you allocate > for the non-compute-node hardware, ie, the networking equipment, file > servers, backup systems, management nodes, etc, for 1000 nodes? I'm sure > this greatly depends on how we set things up, and I'm happy to be reminded > of the many variables that need to be considered. (In our case, the UPSs and > airconditioning units will be an adjacent room, so luckily they don't factor > in.) Data for existing clusters would of course also be helpful. > > TIA. This is tough to answer, because networking equipment, file servers, backup systems and so forth can almost always be cased for racks (or in the worst case, installed on rack shelves) and the number of them depend entirely on your cluster's particular requirements. Even things like the density of switch ports depends a lot on what kind of switching you select, which also depends on what your primary "parallel" network is. If you use SCI interconnects, for example, you may not need a switch at all except perhaps for 100BT connections to the nodes for installation and maintenance purposes, but you may also have some physical constraints on rack layout to keep the internode connects topologically sane. For 100BT ports alone for 1000 nodes you'll likely need a full 45U rack, twice that if you use patch panels, guestimating something like 24 ports per U (although there may well be switches with higher per U density). OTOH, if you have a lot of higher speed ports, they may have lower port density. If you have both 100BT and myrinet switches, you'll have to accomodate both. You also have to worry a LOT about how you're going to partition the switches -- I don't think there are any switches with 1000 ports with full bisection bandwidth at any price, and the bigger the full-BB switches that you DO select, with uplinks of one sort or another to connect the switches, the more expensive. Unless, of course, you choose another network (Myrinet, SCI) as the IPC channel or only will be doing embarrassingly parallel tasks and don't care about the 100BT network. Servers/backup are equally difficult to estimate, as it will depend very much on what the cluster is doing. I could imagine running the entire cluster with a single server and very little disk either on the server or the nodes. For some tasks that just compute and don't manage lots of data (such as mine), that would be fine. I could also imagine a cluster with terabytes of dataspace in several RAIDs, lots of node-local disk, with backup to match -- if your task is rendering a movie, for example. In the first case it would take a handful of U -- maybe order 10U being generous (room for a small RAID, a tape, a 2U server). In the second well, the sky's the limit -- a full rack? More? So to make your estimate, you're going to have to start by thinking about what KIND of network(s) you're planning to use, how MUCH server-based disk resource you'll need to provide (and whether all, some, or none of it will be backed up locally) and how much redundancy you require -- 1000 nodes is a lot to have down for long because your server crashes. At a very wild guess, four 45U racks at a minimum, up from there? There are other things you also need to think about space for -- a workbench/tool area for node assembly, installation, removal, repair is very useful (better than having to haul the nodes out and far away and back again). Stereo headphones (noise cancellation is good:-). A warm jacket. Remote monitoring devices (thermal, video, whatever). That is aside from thermal kill on the power, professional wiring for switched power supplies, harmonic mitigating transformers. Enough room to be able to easily insert and remove rack units and get a front or back accordingly. Enough light. And don't forget, those 1000 nodes will cost you on the order of $150,000 to $250,000 PER YEAR to leave turned on all the time, JUST for the electricity and AC (assuming 150-250 Watts per node, $0.08/KW-hour, and a COP of ballpark two or three on the AC). Plus amortized costs for the room renovation. Obviously you have deep pockets, but make sure they are deep enough! 250 KW is a rather lot of power to be moving into and out of a limited space. BTW, I'm >>trying<< to get more of this sort of infrastructure thing explicitly into my online book, and (to plug a bit ahead of time) an upcoming issue of linux magazine is going to cover many aspects of cluster computing, including infrastructure. The book is linked to my personal website below and to the brahma website as well. rgb -- 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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Water Resources: Consensus Reports
The division produces 60-70 reports per year. These reports are unique, authoritative expert evaluations. Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review. The experts who volunteer their time participating on study committees are vetted to make sure that the committee has the range of expertise needed to address the task, that they have a balance of perspectives, and to identify and eliminate members with conflicts of interest. All reports undergo a rigorous, independent peer review to assure that the statement of task has been addressed, that conclusions are adequately supported, and that all important issues raised by the reviewers are addressed. Thus, while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy.
Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security (2012)
Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds. The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is the location of several of Asia's great river systems, which provide water for drinking, irrigation, and other uses for about 1.5 billion people. Recent studies show that at lower elevations, glacial retreat is unlikely t... More >>Report in Brief
Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit (2012)
This report provides a scientific review of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the National Park Service that compares the effects of extending a permit to operate the Drakes Bay Oyster Company shellfish farm in Drakes Estero for the next 10 years, or denying the permit and converting the site from potential wilderness to full wilderness status. The report looks at the Park Service's evaluation of the following resource categories... More >>
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Water management in the California Bay Delta is directed toward providing a more reliable water supply for California, and protecting and rehabilitating the Delta ecosystem, including five endangered and threatened populations and species of fish that live in or migrate through the Delta. However, water management in the Bay and Delta is distributed among many agencies and organizations, a structure that hinders the development and implementatio... More >>
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text: Dear Francesco, as for the -rpath, during linking time you can use something like that: -Xlinker,--rpath=/full/path/to/library -lmylib All you need to make sure is that /full/path/to/library is available on all machines in _exactly_ the same way. So use something like /usr/local/lib for it. As for intel, I am using -i-static in the linking stage. That does apparently link all the intel libs staticaly. What I am doing is, if possible, I am linking statically as that saves all the hassle with rpath and suchlike. Bigger binary, when you update a library (like BLAS) you got to relink (not recompile, linking is enough), but it also saves you time messing with the above stuff. By the way, you don't need to build openmpi with the intel _fortran_ compiler, gcc is doing a good job here, and that saves you the hassle to install the missing libraries on the nodes. I hope that helps a bit. All the best Jörg > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:34:23 +0200 > From: Francesco Pietra <francesco.pietra at accademialucchese.it> > Subject: [Beowulf] Issue in finding libraries on the unix path > To: beowulf at beowulf.org > Message-ID: > <b87c422a0904131434i579b0e26j3c3ab741e8a6f417 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi: > With debian amd64 lenny I have circumvented the issue > > "dynamic linkage is also a headache in that the mechanisms > used to find shared libraries during dynamic loading are not all that robust > on Linux systems running MPICH or other MPI packages > .................... for the compilers that use compiler shared > libraries (ifort, pathscale), we use LD_LIBRARY_PATH during > configuration to set an -rpath > linkage option, which is reliably available in the executable." > > by compiling with gcc g++ gfortran, both openmpi-1.3.1 and a parallel > computational code. With intel compilers (contrary to the time of debian > amd64 etch and a simpler dual-opteron computer) I was unable to have > them recognizing their library limf.so, although it is available at > boot on the unix path. A mixed gcc g++ ifort compilation for > openmpi-1.3.1 succeeded with two-socket mainboards, not with 4-socket > ones. > > Unfortunately, the fastest executable (+ 40%) of the said code lists > in "./configure -help' > compaqf90 (Compaq Fortran 90, osf1_alpha only) > f90 (Native Fortran 90, sgi_mips) > ifort (Intel Fortran Compiler, v8+, linux*, sgi_altix) > pathf90 (Pathscale Fortran 90/95, linux64_opteron only) > pgf90 (Portland Group Fortran 90/95, cray*, linux*) > xlf90 (IBM xlf90/mpxlf90/mpxlf90_r, aix_spx only) > > of which I only have intls, with th said problems. I > must rely on this faster executable, otherwise, with limited hardware, > I can't perform the simulations. > > Question: could you please clarify how to implement the above "-rpath > linkage option"? > Also, is there any hope to satisfy the f90-type compiler request with > gfortran or other gnu fortran compiler? What I did is sourcing the > path to the libraries at boot > (calling from my .bashrc the intel *.sh file to this concern. "echo > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH" shows the path to the requested library but intel > does not see it. > > Thanks a lot > francesco pietra -- ************************************************************* Jörg Saßmannshausen Research Fellow University of Strathclyde Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry 295 Cathedral St. Glasgow G1 1XL email: jorg.sassmannshausen at strath.ac.uk web: http://sassy.formativ.net Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html


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Re: Mace killing Jango
Of course! What would any self-respecting justice-dealing person have done? It was war. Jango was Mando and he knew this. In fact, he would have done the same, I'm sure.
Let's switch the places for a moment. The Mandalorians serve the galaxy as guardians, and the Jedi are a dying race, desparate, willing to do anything to survive. This includes bounty hunting. Mace tries to kill Padme, then runs off to his little retreat on the Rim. Some Mando'ad goes to smite and retrieve, and fails.
Jango helps organize an assault on the enemy and, being the most able warrior, leads the charge. He sees Mace has a kid. Duh! He would feel bad, but how many orphans have the Mandalorians left in their wake over the course of history? He'd kill Mace, win the battle, and have no remorse. I suppose this would make Jango evil? If so, then the whole Mandalorian race is evil. People die in war. They leave loved ones behind. Orphans are created in war. This can't be changed. Jango knew this, and I'm certain Mace did. They're shaking hands somewhere in the Force and agreeing 'it had to be done. I would have done the same in your place.'


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Barry Jenkins sure knows how to tell a story. With images and words that reach out to our emotions, the 31 years old writer & director was able with his first feature ' Medicine for Melancholy' to tell of a beautiful and unexpected romance ... Since then he's worked on other brilliantly executed projects like 'Tall Enough' for Bloomingdales and most recently 'Chlorophyl'.
We had a chat with him and it went a little something like this.
We had a chat with him and it went a little something like this.
1. Tell us a bit about yourself, who is Barry Jenkins?
I'm a filmmaker living in San Francisco. That's more or less the gist of it, I've been reading quotes lately. Or rather, I've been coming across them, they seem to be everywhere and this one I've read recently has stayed with me so the "who I am" question gets only that succint answer. "Ask yourself: 'Who am I?' Invariably the internal answer will be autobiographical—an identity based on the past. It will be a description of a continuity from childhood through adolescence to adulthood which is all past memories and no longer exists. Memory is the mirror and we live on the wrong side. Seldom will anyone answer the question of 'Who am I?' with: 'I appear to be the process of reading this page." — Yatri, Unknown Man
2. Growing up what did you want to be / do?
A lawyer for the longest while. Seems strange to me now, as a grade schooler that was my answer.
By college, I'd decided to teach, a high school English teacher was how I saw myself. It's a great profession, very thankful for the English teachers I've had throughout my life. Molders and shapers.
3. Tell us about your creative process? Who / what inspires you?
I'm inspired by so many things, I wouldn't know where to begin. There's so much noise in our lives, all this technology we surround ourselves with, so much stimulus. Sometimes it feels like noise, a great wall of noise. And then you filter based on intuition, pick the bits of noise that elicit a noise from you and take it from there.
And then there are windows. Right now, I'm sitting in a window writing this and in the parking lot across the street there, two lovers are circling a car having an argument. This is a hotel parking lot. Workers and guests are starting their day (it's morning) and one by one each of them inspects the couple, gauges the situation, moves on. The couple have settled now, they've gotten the worst of it out and have settled into the car. This scene I've just watched can be spun so many ways. It's... undoutedly inspiring. I'm forever looking out of windows. There's so much out there.
4. What's your work philosophy?
I want to work on things I care about, preferably with people I care about. That's as far as I've gotten. My philosophy for how to work is to embrace intuition. Not to be unformed but to embrace intuition that arises from the study, the diligent engagement of the subject or theme I'm working at. I've grown up loving American football, it's my first love and passion, as a boy my earliest memories are of grass and feet and a mess of play on the football field. Recently I've come to appreciate soccer, the other football, and I think the way intuition rules on the field of play in that game, preparation and practice giving way to intuition over the flow of a half. That's how I approach working: let's figure out what we're gonna do... and then never think about it again once we've begun.
5. The Borscht Film Festival commissioned one of your last projects the short 'Chorophyl'. How was it filming in Miami, now that you call San Francisco home?
Amazing. I had the best time and felt free in a way I haven't in the longest. I wrote no dialogue for this film save the voice-over narration, something I've never done. None of the performers had acted before; the lead I cast via Facebook after meeting her at a party two-years prior. I went with my gut through the entire process of making Chlorophyl.
Amazing. I had the best time and felt free in a way I haven't in the longest. I wrote no dialogue for this film save the voice-over narration, something I've never done. None of the performers had acted before; the lead I cast via Facebook after meeting her at a party two-years prior. I went with my gut through the entire process of making Chlorophyl.
6. Who are some of the artists who've influenced your work?
James Baldwin. Claire Denis. Wong Kar Wai. Henry Roy. Gus Van Sant. Steven Soderberg. Carlos Reygadas -- there's an interview he gave to BOMB magazine that I carry with me at all times, that I handed out to the crew as we shot Chlorophyl. Amazing. Glenn Ligon. Lynne Ramsay. Josh and Bennie Safdie. Micheal Winterbottom. Malik Hassan Sayeed. It's not a definitive list, things come on and go off (though can anything ever come off such a list? Once you've been inspired by a thing it stays with you, it's always in there). Stars of the Lid. Agnes Martin. Charles Burnett. Sebastian Silva. Cao Guimarães. This is getting ridiculous though, I'll stop there.
7. What else do you have in store for us?
I need to get my next feature together. I'm working very hard on a couple things and hope to get back to feature making soon. I've done four short films since Medicine, never expected to make so much short-form content or to have this much time pass between features. I've helped start a company in the interim, Strike Anwyhere Films, and together we've gotten ourselves going on commercial work in a way that's opened me aesthetically in completely unexpected ways.
8. A new feature, a short-film?
Both. Features are the ultimate goal, a constant aspiration. The shorts just seem to arise, I never plan them, never decide to make a short film. They just... happen. I love making things. I'm hard on myself. Knowing this doesn't alleviate a thing. And I can be a pretty down person, these moods come upon me from time to time like an itch or a memory but... knowing what you love is the best antidote. Thus, in the present and future I will continue to just make shit. And I will pay less and less attention to the past. The ideal state is making.
9. What's playing on your Ipod these days?
I'm just gonna do that thing where you list the first ten tracks that play.
I'm just gonna do that thing where you list the first ten tracks that play.
Flwrpt + Lemu - The Sound of a Brooklyn Summer (great mix, get it here)
Rachels - Honeysuckle Suite
Gypsophile - Devant des fleurs singulières
Sleepy's Theme - Can't Let Go
Sufjan Stevens - Get Real Get Right
Clifford Smith - 11 11 11 011_6
TV On The Radio - No Future Shock
Young Scamels - Bring Forth A Wonder
Andre 3000 - E.T.
Isley Brothers - Who's That Lady (original version)
Good lord what a crazy mix!
Barry Jenkins elsewhere...
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Jon Yates was born and raised in Ames, Iowa, where he spent six years as a stock boy and bagger for the Hy Vee grocery store chain. In college, he placed third in the Southeast Iowa Regional Grocery Bagging Contest.
He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1992 with a degree in journalism and history, and the following year became a reporter at the Iowa City Press-Citizen. He later worked for the Palm Springs Desert Sun and the Nashville Tennessean, before joining the Chicago Tribune in 2000 as a general assignment reporter.
He started the What's Your Problem? column in 2005. It appears on Wednesdays and Sundays.
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How Working Out Will Help Your Waist and Wallet
TechnoGym CEO Nerio Alessandri explains how his company has adapted to the economic downturn and why staying healthy is not only about looking good, but saving money long term. WSJ's Alessandra Galloni catches up with him in Davos.
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by Clark Groome
"Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches," which the Wilma Theater is presenting through July 1, is only half the story. Part II, "Perestroika," will open the Wilma's 2012-2013 season in September.
"Angels in America" is an exciting, frustrating, creative, sometimes diffuse and occasionally poetic evening in the theater. Subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," the play originally opened to unanimously ecstatic reviews exactly 19 years ago in New York.
Tony Kushner, the openly gay playwright whose soaring imagination and sensitivity won him and his New York production two Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is simply using what he knows best to express his views about issues with universal meaning. The play's sprawling content spans commitment and vulnerability, hypocrisy and faith. It's a full plate he's serving his audience, and it's mostly very satisfying.
To tell his story, Kushner has set the piece in 1985 in the middle of the Reagan era, for which he has no respect, and the AIDS crisis, about which, like all gay men at the time, he has a great deal of feeling. In that world he has cast two couples, one gay and one confused. He has also included in the mix that real life homophobic homosexual monster, Roy Cohn (Stephen Novelli).
The play opens with a rabbi presiding at the funeral of a very old woman and ends with an angel descending from the flies to redeem the soul of a young man dying of AIDS.
Contrasts abound in the play. The gay couple, Louis Ironson (Benjamin Pelteson) and Prior Walter (Aubrey Deeker), are truly committed to each other, although Prior's AIDS diagnosis severely challenges Louis' love for his dying partner.
Joe (Luigi Sottile) and Harper Pitt (Kate Czajkowski) are a Mormon couple whose life is skewed by Harper's dependence on Valium and Joe's emerging homosexuality.
When Roy Cohn is also diagnosed with AIDS, he refuses to admit he's gay while Prior embraces his identity, another contrast drawn in the play.
The Wilma's production captures the characters and the situation impressively. Blanka Zizka's sharp direction and the excellent cast — which also includes Mala DeSanti, the superb James Ijames, and Mary Elizabeth Scallen — brings Kushner's fantasia stunningly to life.
The physical production uses a very simple white set (designed by Matt Saunders) on which set pieces are arranged and moved on and off to establish the play's various locations. This approach and the set were, to my eye, the evening's weakest elements. The monochromatic visual impact of the set didn't adequately complement the stories being told on it.
Oana Botez' costumes, Russell H. Champa's lighting and Christopher Colucci's sound and original music, on the other hand, were all superb.
"Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches" is complicated and often convoluted. It is also stunning theater. FYI, the show runs slightly less than three-and-one-half hours. It doesn't seem that long and is worth every minute you spend with it.
For tickets to "Angels in America, Part One" Millennium Approaches," playing at the Wilma Theater through July 1, call 215-546-7824 or visit www.wilmatheater.org


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Manual Therapy is the use of "hands-on" techniques to maximize the body's own self-healing potential. Manual Therapy is used to diagnose and treat injured or unhealthy tissue.
How Manual Therapy is Different from Physical Therapy?
Manual therapy is a form of physical therapy but differs from conventional physical therapies by identifying the source of dysfunction. Below are a few manual therapy techniques:
This list is not comprehensive. There are many more.
Manual therapy techniques balance and realign the soft tissues and joints so the body can function more efficiently. Manual therapy is the gentle use of hands on techniques to release soft tissue and joint dysfunction. As restrictions are found, the techniques are used to gently release them.
These techniques have affects on the whole body: musculoskeletal, circulatory, lymphatic and immune systems with exceptional functional outcomes.


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Now in my 8th and (for now) final year of college, I've spent enough time in classrooms and around my peers to notice that some of them are completely inconsiderate, rude, entitled people. Granted, this can be said of any group of people. But there are some things that specifically college students do that I just haven't observed in others. Now that the semester is nearly over and I've got some free time, I've compiled the top 5 most irritating, rude, and obnoxious behaviors of college students. Hopefully this post can serve as a public service announcement, and someone, somewhere, will learn something.
Top 5 Most Irritating Habits of College Students
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When Google bought Motorola, the search giant promised that the struggling handset maker would not get preferential treatment over the many creators of other Android-based handsets. Of course, that didn't mean that Google ultimately wouldn't have a say in the design and building of Motorola's smartphones. But clearly, Google walks a fine line – it has a chance to showcase Android's full capabilities, but doesn't want to alienate the massive Android ecosystem in the process.
Thus it's not surprising that the Moto X – the first Motorola smartphone designed under Google's ownership – is cool, but not too cool. It's specs are . . . OK, and it's got just enough unique features to differentiate itself from the pack.
But is it the Android phone to end all Android phones? While I have yet to hold one in my hands, on paper I'd say not.
During an event in New York Thursday, Motorola and Google took the wraps off the Moto X. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro dual-core processor running at 1.7 GHz, along with additional processors handling specific chores. Motorola refers to this network of processors as the X8 Mobile Computing System.
The phone also has 2 GB of RAM and comes with either 16 or 32 GB of storage. There's no memory card slot, which is in keeping with other phones designed under Google's aegis, such as the Nexus 4.
The display is a 4.7-inch AMOLED screen, the edges of which curve gently into the case, which is made of a composite material. The corners are curved, so it looks a lot like the 3G-era iPhones or Samsung's Galaxy S phones from the front. Based on photos, the back curves similar the HTC One.
The screen has a 720-by-1,280-pixel resolution, with a pixel density of 316 pixels per inch. That's less than the iPhone 5′s 326-PPI retina display, but still not bad. But, it's surprising that Motorola didn't up the ante by offering a 1080p display. That keeps the cost down and keeps Android partners at bay.
It also has a 10 megapixel camera that uses a cluster of 4 pixels rather than 3 in its sensor. This fourth pixel picks up light, and the company claims it can pull in more light as a result. And here's a cool trick: to launch the camera app you just flick your wrist. To snap a pick, just touch anywhere on the screen, and holding your finger on the screen takes multiple photos.
Interestingly, the Moto X comes with a mostly stock install of Android 4.2.2, which is not the latest version of Android. At the same event last week in which Google unveiled new Nexus tablets and its Chromecast TV-streaming device, it also launched Android 4.3. Presumably, the Moto X will get an update soon, but it's a little disappointing that even Google can't get its own phone out the door with the latest release of Android.
You can expect the carriers offering the Moto X to load it up with their own branded crapware, but the company promises that an unlocked, Android-only version will be available direct from Google. You can buy similar Google Play versions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 now.
As had been leaked earlier, the Moto X does indeed come with the ability to listen constantly for voice commands. It's off by default, but when it's on you can say "OK Google Now" and give a command without touching the phone. In a hands-on blog post, Gizmodo reports it works so long as the commands aren't complex:
For the most part it seems to work pretty well, though it did have trouble with longer commands, like adding a calendar entry with a time, date, and location. It would definitely be very handy while driving. You can even configure it to read texts to you, and to verbally confirm the things you tell it to write, so you really don't have to look at it (or touch it) at all.
And unlike Google Glass, which has a similar trick but will wake up when anyone speaks the magic words, you can train the Moto X so it only responds to your voice. (I bet the finished version of Glass has this protection as well.)
The Moto X also is smart about notifications, which show up on a mostly black lock screen. They'll display briefly, then disappear, which saves battery life.
And then there's the vaunted ability to customize the phone physically to your liking. You can have different colored backs and other cosmetic customizations – eventually, Motorola will even offer wooden backs.
Unfortunately, you'll only be able to do this if you're an AT&T customer. At Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and U.S. Cellular, you'll be stuck with black-and-white colors. All the phones are assembled at a plant in Fort Worth.
The 16-GB version of the Moto X will sell for $199 on contract, and $249 for the 32-GB version, later this month.