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FUNcube at Lauriston
This is an account of one school's experience with the FUNcube satellite since its launch on November 21st, 2013. We captured frames of data from the satellite and uploaded them to the data warehouse on launch day (UTC). Since then, we have experimented with a number of approaches to using this educational satellite.
Lauriston Girls' School is an independent school in Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. About 800 girls attend the school at primary and secondary level. The school prepares students for both the local Victorian Certificate of Education and the International Baccalaureate and has an active approach to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) at all levels.
I teach Physics, Science and Mathematics and contribute to STEM activities at Lauriston. I have been active in amateur radio and satellites for over 30 years and developed a satellite programme at Mentone Girls' Grammar School in the 80s, particularly focussing on the UoSat satellites. The technology has changed since then but the underlying principles are the same – get students involved with the equipment, capture and analyse data, explore the physics and have fun.
Software-defined radio
The first step this time around with chasing satellites was to acquire a FUNcube dongle. The school placed an order online and our dongle arrived a few days later – thank you to the efficient suppliers. Software-defined radio was a new area for me, so I took some time to look at software options. The FUNcube Dashboard had not yet been released, so I looked at SDR#, HDSDR and SDRConsole. I mainly use SDR# now, which supports FCDPro+ and is easy to use. I spent some time getting used to the idea of having a wide view of a band available and have found this immensely valuable for shortwave and amateur radio monitoring.
The FUNcube Dashboard
The release of the FUNcube Dashboard allowed us to see before launch how the satellite would appear once available, using files recorded from the engineering model satellite. The pre-recorded files also allowed an insight into how SDR# and the Dashboard can work together to provide a clear view of the base signal, the data spikes and frequency changes due to the Doppler shift. This is invaluable in a school setting. The FUNcube dongle integrates seamlessly with the Dashboard and supports automatic data capture and upload, perfect for schools learning about satellites without an 'expert' on hand.
I have a roof-mounted 2m/70cm vertical available so I could practise using the dongle by listening to local air band and amateur transmissions. I also have a hand-steered 2m/70cm Yagi pair, so the 70cm half was removed and the 2m half was mounted on a camera tripod. This gives lockable azimuth and elevation movement as well as a 90 degree swivel to change polarisation as required. This arrangement proved ideal for student use. The beacon is at full power during the day, when schools are most likely to be operating. The 2m/70cm transponder is on at night with the beacon on reduced power.
Tracking software
There are plenty of options available nowadays for orbit predictions, real-time tracking and Doppler correction. The easiest approach is to use Heavens Above ( www.heavens-above.com ) for orbit predictions. I am familiar with Orbitron, which is free and shows the access circle of the satellite on a world map, as well as continuously updated azimuth, elevation and Doppler shift.
Most recently, I downloaded Satellite Tracker, an iPad/iPhone app developed locally in Melbourne by Susan VK3ANZ. This is ideal for school use, as it offers a graphic display showing the next pass. This has a spirit-level type 'bubble' – if this is kept over the satellite symbol during a pass by pointing in the right direction and tilting to the appropriate angle, it is very clear where to point the antenna.
I also use the Star Walk app, which shows a real-time view of the sky. The satellite is selected from the list and its location in the sky can be clearly seen using the augmented reality feature. The iPad camera shows the view in front and the satellite icon is clearly visible as it travels from horizon to horizon. This makes the shape of the satellite pass very clear to students and it helps with pointing the antenna in the right direction.
FUNcube in practice
We operate in two modes, automatic and hands-on. The automatic mode works well to introduce students to the basics of satellite operation, while the second can involve all students in a group, each with their own job to do before, during and after a pass.
In the automatic mode, a fixed antenna is used so tracking is not required. The roof-mounted vertical antenna works well for all but the highest passes. The FUNcube dongle and Dashboard software combination works extremely efficiently (well done, developers!). The auto-lock manages the Doppler shift, so frames are captured and sent off to the data warehouse without user input.
For schools, the hands-on team approach presents more opportunities for learning. For Lauriston, this takes place outside on the school's playing field, so all electronic equipment is battery-powered. Two students use a laptop to keep an eye on Orbitron, one calling out azimuth and elevation to the student steering the antenna as the satellite travels across the sky. The other passes Doppler-shifted frequency information to a radio operator using a handheld receiver connected to an amplified speaker running on rechargeable batteries.
The antenna steering is further supported by students with iPads using the Satellite Tracker and Star Walk apps. Another student looks after a laptop running the FUNcube dongle and Dashboard. The school's wi-fi network extends far enough outside for the data to be sent via the Internet to the data warehouse in real time, so the count is called out of frames captured and successfully forwarded. Other students monitor the data warehouse web site and call out (quite excitedly!) whenever Lauriston appears as a data provider.
Orbit details can be presented at a level suitable for primary students, whose first question is always "How fast is it going?"
The radius of the earth is 6400 km and the satellite is 600 km up, so the radius of the satellite's orbit is 7000 km. The circumference of the orbit is 2πr, so approximately 6 x 7000 or 42,000 km. FUNcube takes about 90 minutes to complete an orbit, so it is travelling at 42,000 / 1.5 or about 28,000 km per hour – impressive! Dividing by 3600 gives us a value of 7.8 km every second, which is about the distance I travel to work, so this gives students a very clear idea of the high speed involved.
Summer holidays have now started for Lauriston students, so activities for next year are being planned. These include a study of the physics of satellite motion and an analysis of whole-orbit data, now available as a daily download. Both areas will be included in the senior physics course, both IB and VCE. I will post an update on the FUNcube forum soon.
Paul VK3DBP
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Mark Forster's Autofocus
I've been having serious Task Management issues, despite the fact that Toodledo is such a wonderful tool and I'm proud to be a Pro user. My problem is that no matter how nice the interface or how nicely organized my tasks are, I always get to a point where I can't bear to look at my list at all. All my efforts to emphasize my tasks' importance backfire and make me not want to do ANYTHING.
So I've been reading about yet another way to manage my tasks and time, hoping that I can somehow get over the fear and overwhelm. This one is by Mark Forster (author of "Do It Tomorrow") and is called Autofocus, which alludes to the way the system seeks out what the mind is ready to focus on instead of forcing the mind to do things that drain all energy and enjoyment out of the tasks. The system has been in beta for several months and with several revisions, the latest of which is here:
One major difference between the latest version and the previous versions (none of which I was actually ready to try, despite my intrigue in how it worked) is that the latest looks like it will actually work digitally -- which means, perhaps I can use it to save my Toodledo list from my inability to face it!
I just haven't quite figured out how, yet. I'll be working on it, but first I feel I need to start with paper, just to get used to how it works.
So far, one of the major benefits of the system is that it keeps refreshing itself: ANY activity on a task allows you to check it off and add it again onto the end of the list, changing the mind's perception of the task by putting it adjacent to other things newly added to the list. In Toodledo, this can be modeled by simply sorting by last modification date and replacing the idea of "end of the list" (a limitation of paper) with "top of the list" (which may actually turn out to be more inspiring, and less likely to let new-but-urgent tasks fall to the wayside).
I'm not sure what else will be involved in making Autofocus work in Toodledo, which is why I'm playing with it on paper first. I will report back after a few days or so! I just wanted to put the word out that there may be another way to deal with our neverending lists. Maybe together, we can come up with a way to marry Toodledo with Autofocus in a way that best makes use of Toodledo's strengths!
(On that note, I bet it will be an advantage to be able to review items on the list in terms of their folders, etc., something that I'm afraid I'll find lacking in the paper version!)
Posted: Sep 18, 2009
Thanks for the link. I took a quick look at the web site and came away with a very interesting thought. If I had to revise my list every day on paper, I might think twice about some of the items that seem to never leave my lists. Its all too easy to park an item on a list and never get to it (especially if your list is electronic). It is much harder to ignore it if I have to manually re-write it every day, and this is not always a bad thing.
replytoken, I agree.
It seems that the Autofocus approach involves a fundamental shift in how a task list is perceived and, consequently, in how the list is worked.
It also indirectly provides some insight into why it's easier to work a task list in the first few days of implementing a new task management system: All the tasks are "fresh", even those that came from a previous system. A few weeks later (or, even a few days later) some of the tasks have become "stale", and a few months later there's a lot of clutter. In a physical system (notebooks, paper, pen), the clutter is more obvious. In an electronic system, the clutter accumulates in the various nooks and crannies of multiple folders and filters.
It's not clear to me, though, whether an Autofocus system (paper-based or electronic) will maintain the "freshness" of task list any better than regular reviews of something like Toodledo. If it all comes down to discipline, then which system is most likely to work with a particular person's level of discipline? Or, which system is most likely to foster the discipline to get many things done efficiently, effectively, and with minimal stress?
Hey, sometimes shift is a good thing. Y'know what they say: Shift happens.
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Posted: Sep 18, 2009
Posted by Claudio:
It's not clear to me, though, whether an Autofocus system (paper-based or electronic) will maintain the "freshness" of task list any better than regular reviews of something like Toodledo. If it all comes down to discipline, then which system is most likely to work with a particular person's level of discipline? Or, which system is most likely to foster the discipline to get many things done efficiently, effectively, and with minimal stress?
Hey, sometimes shift is a good thing. Y'know what they say: Shift happens.
Good observations, Claudio. I know that it is very easy to let items "stack up" with any task list. In TD, I sometimes "pull items out" by giving them a Star. That works well for getting those tasks accomplished, but it is much more challenging to address the "long-term" residents on my list.
I would wager to say that if I had to re-write my whole list every day, I would be very motivated to keep that list as short as possible. One way to do that is to deal with the tasks ASAP. The other way is to never add them in the first place. Taking that one step further, are they not added because they have been accomplished or because I do not want to add them to my list? Some might say that the latter approach totally avoids the issue, while others may say that we are being realistic with our limited time. I guess it depends on your ultimate goal(s) as to what is the best answer to that type of question. And yes, shift happens!!
Very interesting. I will look into this Autofocus and see what nuggets I can find.
I know some of you are not using GTD but the Weekly Review in GTD is where I remove task that seemed important at one time but I have come to realize I really won't do.
This helps keep my list fresh and purged at all times. Claudio is correct in that in boils down to Discipline.
We are always working to improve our Discipline.
Discipline is definitely not my strong suit, which is why I have so many issues with task management. Weekly review? EW! :P But I know it would help.
The Autofocus way of reviewing is that it is a part of scanning through to decide what tasks to do. If you go through the whole Closed List without doing any of them, and it's the first pass through it in that session, then all the items are marked for review.
As far as rewriting goes, it does help to keep things fresh, but I'm not so sure the benefit is found within the actual rewriting. It may be more about the fact that stuff is crossed off of the old, stale part of the list, and readded (and even perhaps reformulated) in the new, alive part of the list.
If an automated list is sorting itself by whether a task has had activity on it (which Toodledo can do), one wouldn't need to rewrite it at all, and would still be able to reap the benefits of 'refreshing' the list by taking small bites of big tasks, and doing it often, changing the context of the task by putting it next to other tasks that have recently had progress.
The dividing line between the "Closed List" and the "Open List" is what I'm not sure how to emulate with Toodledo. Still thinking on that part. Also still struggling to get the system into my head, and my tasks off my list, so my head is free to get creative about this idea.
Really appreciate the discussion on it, and am keen on seeing whether anyone else has more to add!
Posted: Sep 29, 2009
Posted by Qrystal:
As far as rewriting goes, it does help to keep things fresh, but I'm not so sure the benefit is found within the actual rewriting. It may be more about the fact that stuff is crossed off of the old, stale part of the list, and readded (and even perhaps reformulated) in the new, alive part of the list.
while I do not necessarily disagree with your statement, I personally believe that the benefit is not in re-adding the item(s) to a fresh list, but in the "hassle factor" of the re-writing. If I have to keep re-writing something every day, I am certainly going to be motivated to get "quick and dirty" items off of my list ASAP to avoid the hassle of re-writing them.
Look at it this way, with a list that does not get re-written, it is often easier to let tasks, albeit mostly minor ones, accumulate than it is to just deal with them. By raising the "cost" of the tasks(i.e. having to re-write them), you are much more likely to either deal with them quickly or delete them so as to reduce your "cost". YMMV.
[Forrest Gump]Maybe it's both, maybe both are happening at the same time.[/Forrest Gump]
I must say I have stopped using Toodledo on a day-to-day basis for a few months, just to try Autofocus (on paper)... and I stick with it.
I'll keep Toodledo for the someday / maybe and long terme task planning, but on a daily basis, Autofocus is right what I needed.
When using Toodledo "GTD like", I felt depressed everyday when seeing this (way too) high number of tasks, never going down. Every time I reviewed all tasks to try to purge the list, I kept everything.
Autofocus brings in a new concept : the todolist has a slowly but steadily advancing time slot of active tasks. If you have not done the tasks during this time slot, they are whether dismissed, or re-entered anew, rephrased, broken in smaller steps.
2 advantages :
1- the dismissed ones stay on the paper, so they become someday / maybe, but they get completely out of sight an thoughts. So even for non disciplined people (count me in !), there is an autocleaning process that keeps the list manageable, realistic, and motivating.
2- when you bring a reviewed task up on the top of the list, it is a very conscious action : you know you want to keep this task because it is important, and you know you have failed to do it in the normal time slot, so you have to modify it, break it down, or else, to make it doable.
It works much better for me than having an ever growing list, on which trying to pick-up the next thing to do makes me dizzy.
I love paper and my internet connection at work is painfully slow, so I stick with paper. But I think this system can be used with most of todolist softwares. With Toodledo, I think it is manageable with "modification date" sorting.
For the separation between closed list and open list, just create a task with "--------------------------" subject, and check it off when you dismiss the closed list.
This message was edited Oct 01, 2009.
I have also been having a look at Autofocus after reading Qrystal's original post.
Just bit of brainstorming - could this work with two searches?
AF - Closed List. "Checked off" = No AND "Date Modified", "is before" X
AF - Open List. "Checked off" = No AND "Date Modified", "is after" X - 1.
(X being the date you start using AF)
When you want to restart AutoFocus just set X to the current date.
I have tried the searches but seem to have too many in my open list (I am using today as X and I know I haven't touched a lot of the tasks that appear - all the ones I have added/modified are there though) I am using the Outlook sync tool so I don't know if this is marking some as updated. I will need to test a bit more to see what is happening - unless someone already knows the answer to this?
Of course you can add more criteria to the searches as the example above will give you all your tasks. E.g. Status = "Next Action". Folder = "Work" etc.
It does involve a bit of jumping around search tabs and modifying the search criteria but it could work. I will probably try this out is the next week or so.
I think it could work. Folders, status and so can help when you want to do project reviews. But the real important thing in Autofocus, is to sort the actions by creation date. The hassle to read through old stuff forces you to take a decision when the dismissal time comes up.
If your list seems too long to be manageable, Mark suggests to delare a backlog, and work it little by little. Baiscally, it means putting aside all old tasks, starting afresh with a blank page, making sure we never let this new list growing, and everyday actionning a few actions from the backlog.
Here are 2 links describing his method.
http://www.markforster.net/blog/2008/7/28/its-like-walking-across-a-muddy-field-how-to-get-rid-of-ba ck.html
Posted by replytoken:
I personally believe that the benefit is not in re-adding the item(s) to a fresh list, but in the "hassle factor" of the re-writing. If I have to keep re-writing something every day, I am certainly going to be motivated to get "quick and dirty" items off of my list ASAP to avoid the hassle of re-writing them.
Firstly, note that you don't rewrite things if you don't work on them, and so you're not rewriting the same tasks every day unless you actually make progress on them. And if a task is truly "quick and dirty", you'll be done it as soon as you work on it! For tasks that are dirty but not so quick, the progress made can change the way the task is written, and this is especially true if you choose to write down just the Next Action instead of something vague like "work on Project". This is how rewriting can be embraced as a motivator instead of a detractor, and that's how I prefer to roll.
I think my main issue with most to-do-list systems it that the old and stagnant tasks weigh me down. In the written version of Autofocus, stagnating tasks get surrounded by all the happily-scribbled-out tasks, making me feel bogged down by them (and perhaps this is an advantage, but it still feels discouraging to me). Rewriting is supposed to be the blessing that cures these woes, because it takes the task out of backlog and back into a part of the list that is fresh and new. But I still don't like looking at all my crossed-out tasks... so I'm yearning to come back to Toodledo for my day-to-day stuff. I am just certain that the ideas behind Autofocus go beyond the fact that it was originally a paper-based system, and so I want to use the ideas here.
Chris, your idea for separating the Open and Closed Lists into two search tabs is interesting, but I think it seems a bit complicated for my taste. There is still the question of how to distinguish the things on the Autofocus lists (either the Closed part or the Open part) versus things that are just Someday/Maybe or Wish-I-Had-Time-To-Do. This is a big deal for me... and in fact, one of the things I like most about Autofocus is that it helps me see only the things I'm fairly sure I'll be doing in the near future, and if I'm wrong, I am encouraged to dismiss, defer, or delay the tasks for a time that is more appropriate. But how to do all this in Toodledo?
Suddenly, it hit me: there IS a natural answer within Toodledo that would make it easy to toggle tasks onto or off of the Autofocus list. It's as easy as clicking on the STAR!!! All that is needed to turn the Starred List into the Autofocus list is to sort by modification date (crucial to making this work!), and add a separator task as Alex suggested. When ready to move the separator, so as to "Close" the Open List and start making a new Open List, just modify the separator task and it will move itself!
This excites me so much, I think I'm going to try it.
I found one thing that made me not like the view in the Starred list, and I found a fix for it.
First, note that I use the Multi-line details view, not the table showing all details all at once. I've always preferred this view; it's not an Autofocus-inspired change, although it does fit well with the Autofocus way. It's nice just seeing the task descriptions, and letting them speak for themselves in trying to appeal to my sense of "Do I Want to Do This Now?"
The only other info visible in this view is one aspect of the task listed on the right-hand side of the page. This one aspect is guided by the way the list is sorted, and so when I sort by Last Modified Date, the right-hand column tells me the date I last modified the tasks. This isn't terribly useful information in this case, because I am content to just know that the tasks are in the proper order. But if I change the primary sort parameter to something else, I risk having the items show in an order other than the one needed for Autofocus.
So what I did was this: I sort by Star first, and THEN by Last Modified Date. Since I'm using my Starred list as my Autofocus list, selecting this sort parameter does nothing to the sort order -- but much to my delighted surprise, it changed the right-hand side to display the due date, which is the one missing piece of information that is really worth knowing when deciding what task to do!
This also means that I can use Autofocus to handle tasks with important due dates, without having to include that info in the task description! Another point for digital over pen-and-paper! :)
Has anyone figured out how to get this accomplished on iPhone. The sort for create/modified date doesn't seem to exist on the iPhone. Or am I missing something?
This message was edited Nov 20, 2009.
I am reading more and more about Autofocus but I must say that GTD is working great for me.
I never feel bogged down, I always work on the things that I have energy for and I never have task that linger too long because of the ever growing task that come into my life.
Not sure how many other GTDers have found it to work as intended, but I know that I do.
One thing I believe that helps me is that I do not accept all the task or request that come into my life. Not anymore.
I often say things like. "I don't have time to work on that" or "Let's see if someone else can do this".
Now I am careful of what I commit to and add to my task list. This by itself is not what makes GTD work for me, but I did make a big difference. I used to think that everything that came my way, was something I had to figure out how to do or fit into my life. Not anymore.
"Not anymore."
This is one thing I love about AutoFocus. You can throw everything in, and then as you comb through the tasks, items that you're not committed to get removed--you can add them to a "someday" file, or just forget 'em.
I suppose the weekly review of GTD would allow for the same, but AutoFocus makes it, well, auto...
Thanks to those who are posting their Toodledo/AutoFocus ideas--that's exactly what I came here to fine!
Posted by shiva:
Has anyone figured out how to get this accomplished on iPhone. The sort for create/modified date doesn't seem to exist on the iPhone. Or am I missing something?
You're missing it. You can sort by date added or date modified using the sort button in the lower left corner.
I found autofocus very intersting, I am trying to use the system for my contexts and starred lists.
Anyone has been successful in using it in Toodledo?
This message was edited Feb 04, 2010.
I tried it but find GTD to be more structured for me and I get things done without any problems.
Actually, I still use GTD. I agree with you it is more structured, but i find working on my next actions list quite chalenging. I am testing Autofocus for the doing part of GTD.
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You can't get stunned if you live in Denison, Iowa. (read the fine print) Then, Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidates distance themselves from Iowa's packing industry. Why? Chris Simcox heads the Minuteman, a volunteer civilian border patrol. He's looking for volunteers from Iowa. Then, follow-ups on the Senate immigration amnesty bill. Lotsa bytes.
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No. 1: Chemtrails
This, the notion that jet plane contrails are often in fact government planes seeding the skies with pathogens to lobotomize or even cull the American population, is one of the wackier beliefs in extremist circles. There is not a shred of evidence to suggest such a program is afoot. However, well-documented programs from decades past, in which the government did indeed test chemical and biological agents on human beings, sometimes without their knowledge or consent, certainly shows that the US government, or elements within it, is capable of actions akin to what chemtrail true believers warn about.
No. 2: Martial law
Patriot groups are supposedly delusional in their insistence that plans are afoot to institute martial law following a crisis, whether real or manufactured. "A longstanding and central plank of the Patriot catechism," writes Zaitchik, "is the belief that one day — very soon! — federal forces, in league with the states, will suspend constitutional government and institute a police state."
While it is impossible to know what event might trigger attempts to impose martial law, concerns derisively dismissed by Zaitchik are very plausible. We wonder whether Zaitchik knows anything about American history beyond grade-school platitudes; or has he conveniently overlooked well-known facts about the Civil War, such as President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, his arrest of legislators and journalists, and his invasion and occupation of the American South by a military government (aka martial law)? And for a more recent precedent, we need look no farther than Hurricane Katrina and the imposition of de facto martial law in New Orleans. So yes, concerns about martial law are very real and amply substantiated by historical precedent.
No. 3: FEMA concentration camps
Think the federal government, and more specifically, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are laying plans to intern American dissidents in concentration camps as part of an imminent crackdown? Then, according to Zaitchik, you've bought into the foolish notion, fueled most recently by anti-Obama paranoia, that the federal government, after imposing police-state rule, might try to do what most other police states in history have done, namely, set up concentration camps for undesirables. While fears of enlisting the aid of urban gangs to round up white-bread Americans are probably over the top and quite possibly driven by racist sentiments in some quarters, the notion of American concentration camps in a coming time of crisis is not at all far-fetched — just ask any Japanese-American.
No. 4: Foreign troops on US soil
Writes Zaitchik:
While "urban gangs" are considered a leading candidate to enforce a New World Order (NWO) lockdown, they are not the only threatening force clouding the Patriot mind. There is also a belief on the radical right that treasonous government officials are colluding with other governments to suppress Americans with the use of foreign troops. Patriots believe this foreign assistance will be necessary due to the patriotism of America's own troops. As explained on the Patriot website libertyforlife.com, many U.S. active military personnel and veterans would likely refuse orders to suppress the rights of their fellow citizens, and so "the US/NWO/UN government is importing foreign troops into the USA to do what US soldiers did to Iraq.
Again, while hard evidence is scanty that such a turn of events is as imminent as the hard-core extremist militia types allege, who can doubt the plausibility of such a scenario? The use of foreign mercenaries to quell a revolt is as old as autocracy. Roman emperors surrounded themselves with praetorian guards often imported from Germany, while Byzantium brought in Catalan mercenaries (Roger de Flor's "Catalan Company") to police its own citizens when the empire was in crisis in the Middle Ages. During the Revolutionary War, the British government imported crack Hessian troops to fight against the American forces. In modern times, the United Nations always uses foreign troops to carry out its various military occupations. Whether things could come to such a pass in the future United States remains unclear, but the soaring recruitment of foreign nationals into the US military, as well as the involvement of the US in foreign alliances like NATO and the United Nations, cannot be lightly dismissed.
No. 5: Door-to-door gun confiscations
"One of the defining features of Patriot/militia subculture is an obsession with firearms," Zaitchik observes. Well, actually, one of the defining features of American culture, writ large - not to mention the writings of the Founding Fathers - is an "obsession," as it were, with firearms. This is because the Founders, and most Americans with any grasp of history, have understood that would-be despots fear an armed populace more than anything else. If ownership of multiple firearms, unswerving support of the right to keep and bear arms, and willingness to defend one's own country from tyranny - by armed force if absolutely necessary — is deemed an "obsession," then this author, and millions of other American lovers of liberty, will happily plead guilty. Door-to-door firearms confiscation took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and a systematized effort to disarm law-abiding Americans, dating back at least to the 1930s, is manifest in the tens of thousands of "gun control" laws already on the books.
Few other governments in the world, past or present, have permitted their citizens to keep and bear arms. Gun control laws do nothing to restrain crime, as study after study has demonstrated. The sole purpose of such laws - and of the overt confiscation that tends to follow in their wake — is to ensure a fearful, obedient populace, and withal one unable to resist government encroachments.
No. 6: 9/11 as a government plot
To be sure, stories of a missile, rather than a civilian jetliner, hitting the Pentagon, are absurd. Shocking events like a terrorist attack or assassination often precipitate speculation driven by deep-seated (and often justifiable) suspicion of "official" versions of events. 9/11 has been no exception, and there is plenty of evidence showing that elements in the US government were aware that a mega-terrorist attack was coming, that it might involve coordinated takeovers and strikes by civilian airliners, and that terrorist cells were already operating within the United States. FBI agents tried unsuccessfully to draw attention to the fact that Arab men had been training themselves to fly airliners using flight simulators, and the US security community was well aware of schemes hatched in the early 90s to use hijacked airliners as weapons of mass destruction.
But none of this adds up to proof that, as some "truthers" have alleged, the government of George W. Bush knew of 9/11 beforehand and let it unfold, or worse, that American government agents, not Islamic extremists, carried out the attacks. Still, it is safe to say that, as with the Kennedy assassination, the full truth of what happened in September 11, 2001 has yet to be disclosed, and may be left to generations yet unborn to uncover.
No. 7: Population control
Here again, while there's no strong evidence that the US government has explicitly embarked on a deliberate program of population control (witness the dizzying rise of the US population over the past several decades, to well over 300 million), there can be little doubt of the ideological sympathy such notions tend to garner in the councils of the ultra-elite. Since Malthus, overpopulation has been blamed for many of the world's ills, and a crisis stemming from overcrowding has been part of the litany of doomsday prophets like Paul Ehrlich for decades. The radical environmentalist lobby has been especially obstreperous in promoting population controls, and the US government's complicity in UN programs to encourage birth control and family planning in allegedly overpopulated countries suggests more than a little official sympathy for such views. Thus, while we have little evidence of a cohesive plan, we can have no doubt of the intent.
Incidentally, as one who has spent much time in supposedly overpopulated countries like India, this author can attest that, for the most part, bad government, not an excessive population, is responsible for poverty, overcrowding, disease, malnutrition, and inadequate resources.
No. 8: HAARP
Huh? As a well-read scary right-wing paranoid patriot, this author blushes to confess not having heard of what Zaitchik styles the "'Death Star' of the patriot conspiracy galaxy." Those of you who are familiar with this allegedly core belief of the far right (the "High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program"), judge for yourselves.
No. 9: The Federal Reserve conspiracy
Sorry, Mr. Zaitchik, but this one has no merit whatsoever. Yes, the creation of the Federal Reserve was the introduction of "European-style central banking into the United States," and no, it wasn't a Jewish conspiracy carried out by some Zionist cabal. But dismissing the ultra-secret confab at Jekyll Island as a mere hashing out of plans for an American central bank is akin to calling Pearl Harbor a Japanese probe of American naval strength. The Federal Reserve was born in secrecy and secrecy has been its byword ever since. As Bertie Charles Forbes, the founder of Forbes Magazine, wrote a few years after the meeting at Jekyll Island:
Picture a party of the nation's greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundreds of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written... The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. The public must not glean a hint of what was to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one to go quietly into a private car of which the railroad had received orders to draw up on an unfrequented platform. Off the party set. New York's ubiquitous reporters had been foiled... Nelson (Aldrich) had confided to Henry, Frank, Paul and Piatt that he was to keep them locked up at Jekyll Island, out of the rest of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific currency system for the United States, the real birth of the present Federal Reserve System, the plan done on Jekyll Island in the conference with Paul, Frank and Henry... Warburg is the link that binds the Aldrich system and the present system together. He more than any one man has made the system possible as a working reality.
The men who met at Jekyll Island represented a lion's share of the world's total wealth back in 1909, and acted in secrecy because they were well aware that the project they were designing represented a collusion of public and private (financial) interests. The Federal Reserve allowed the federal government, along with the banking sector, to manipulate the money supply just as European banks had become accustomed to doing. Had Americans any inkling of what was being urged on them in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, they would have prevented the formation of the "money trust." But they were, and to some extent still are, kept in the dark about the Fed's purpose. If that's not conspiratorial, then the word has no force.
No. 10: The North American Union
"Since the passage of NAFTA in 1993," Zaitchik writes, "fears of economic dislocation and loss of sovereignty have animated both sides of the political spectrum." But of course, that isn't what's happening at all, he hastens to assure us; there is absolutely no merit to claims that the elites are planning to merge Canada, the US, and Mexico into a single political entity, abolishing national sovereignty along the way.
Mr. Zaitchik, whether deliberately or out of willful naivete, treats the credibility of such claims on the basis of what political leaders say they intend to do, not on what in fact they have done or are doing. Several facts which Zaitchik conveniently omits help to explain why many sober observers have concluded that, in fact, there is a plan to merge North America into a single polity, of which NAFTA is only the first step. For one thing, shortly after NAFTA came into effect, plans were drafted for the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas), which was touted as a free-trade zone along the lines of NAFTA that would extend from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. It was modeled on the European Community, the old Europe-wide free trade zone that just happened to morph into a full-fledged European government, the European Union.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, European leaders insisted that the Common Market was nothing more than a free-trade zone, and that it would never be used as a platform for regional government. Succeeding generations have learned the lie of such claims. Likewise, pace Zaitchik's vaporings, we pay little attention to what our leaders say they intend to do, and look at what they're doing. And we think that our leaders' actions -- the creation of NAFTA, the drive to create a superhighway through the three countries, and the now-languished plans for the FTAA, for example -- speak much louder than their words.
Zaitchik's screed is a plea to abandon all suspicion, even healthy suspicion, of our leaders and their motives. Suffice it so say that, had the American Founders been as trusting as Zaitchik's frame of reference requires, we would still be British citizens.


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Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage was a great game, at least if you liked the Dynasty Warriors series and had an affection for the punch-happy manga upon which it was based. Kenshiro's post-apocalyptic wanderings worked remarkably well with the brawling, one-against-all gameplay Koei is famous for.
Koei is also famous for masses of sequels, and a follow-up was inevitable. Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 snuck out quietly compared to its predecessor, and unfortunately, there seems to be a reason for it.
The reason being, of course, that it's a paltry shadow of the original title in terms of visuals, quality, and ... pretty much everything.
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (PlayStation Network, Wii U eShop, Xbox 360 [reviewed])
Developer: Tecmo Koei Games
Publisher: Tecmo Koei
Released: February 5, 2013 (PSN, 360) / February 7, 2013 (eShop)
As with Dynasty Warriors, Ken's Rage 2 chooses to re-tell the same story it told in the last game, but quite unlike the Three Kingdoms period upon which Dynasty Warriors is based, there are only so many ways you can "reimagine" Fist of the North Star. Characters have distinct attacks, predetermined personalities, and looks -- there's nothing up for interpretation as there is in the historically inspired games. This becomes crushingly clear once you start playing the main story mode, Legend, and realize it's almost exactly the same game as last time.
When Warriors games get a sequel, it typically gives all its characters a complete overhaul, with new looks and movesets to justify a fresh purchase. Not so in Ken's Rage 2, where any aesthetic alterations are minimal at best, and playable characters boast the exact same moves they had in the last game. None of the existing content seems to have been updated at all, and in some areas, even appear stripped down and inferior.
This is most noticeable in the boss fights. Many of the boss encounters from Ken's Rage are regurgitated here, but with features seemingly removed. The fight with Jagi is a particularly outstanding example, removing the parts of the battle where he repeatedly cheats with bombs behind a fence. As a result, famous fights between Kenshiro and his many adversaries are less visually interesting and require less thought to beat. Battles now rely heavily on repeatedly spamming signature moves and mashing the dodge button, which further exposes an issue left unimproved from Ken's Rage -- cheap fights against enemies that can block you mid-combo, aren't physically affected by your blows, and power through them to hit you with their own unblockable moves.
For the most part, Ken's Rage 2 is like a degraded cassette tape -- a complete copy of an original recording, but noticeably worse in every respect. There's no English voice acting this time around, with Tecmo Koei continuing its commitment to cutting costs in the audio department. Cutscenes are mostly told through still images created from character models frozen in place, because the game couldn't even spring for some good artwork. This thrifty move is compounded by ugly graphics throughout, full of collision detection issues and jaggy shadows excessively sprinkled over character faces, making everybody look like their skin is made of gauze.
As noted, gameplay remains largely identical to the previous outing. Players punch their way through mobs of enemies before taking out stronger and more durable leaders, building up a power meter to perform various signature moves made famous in the manga. Dream Mode allows players to use supporting characters and villains and once again provides more tactical battles by dotting bases to capture around the map. A grading system provides light challenges throughout each level, requiring a certain number or enemies to be defeated or NPCs to be protected in a time limit to gain greater rewards.
Even basic levels seem to be of lower quality than the first game. Gone are the more interesting environments and setpieces, replaced by an endless stream of corridors with predictable, arena-style clearings. Despite boasting more chapters, there's less variety overall, even by the formulaic standards of Warriors-style game, so the game feels like a tiresome slog. Oh, and naturally many of the environment details seem to have been copied and pasted over from the first installment.
Ken's Rage 2 is not entirely identical, of course. New playable characters are included, though many of them, like Juda, were already bosses in the last game and so didn't require much effort at all to make playable. As noted, Legend Mode boasts more chapters detailing parts of the manga people care less about, but thanks to the unimaginative and supremely repetitive nature of levels, they just work toward exhausting the player. There's also online cooperative play -- a pleasantly received feature but one nobody seems to actually be using. At the time of writing, nobody's been found online.
This fist-flavored sequel isn't unplayable, and there's still a measure of satisfaction to be had from punching enemies over and over again. I also have to admit that the new playable "Thug" character is hilarious, boasting a range of ridiculous attacks and even able to detach and throw his mohawk like a deadly ranged buzzsaw. Dream Mode, while as poorly presented in the cutscene department as Legend Mode, at least boasts far better written original stories for the side characters, making for some sympathetic and intriguing takes on Fist of the North Star's many fighters.
Even so, there's no escaping the issue of this being a shameful followup to a genuinely great brawler. I like Koei, but I'm the first to admit it can cut corners wherever it feels able to get away with doing so -- and even for that particular studio, this is a notably substandard effort. Uglier, more boring, as stale as week-old French bread, Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 is best ignored by fans of both Dynasty Warriors and Hokotu no Ken alike.
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MANILA, Philippines, May 1 (UPI) -- Philippine workers celebrated International Workers' Day Tuesday with marches as labor officials offered as many as 300,000 jobs during various job fairs.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the nationwide job and livelihood fairs offering local and overseas jobs are among key events for the celebration, the Malaysia Star reported.
In the Philippines, thousands of public- and private-sector workers marched Tuesday to the presidential palace to press President Benigno Aquino to act on their demands, The Philippine Star reported.
Groups and unions belonging to labor coalition Nagkaisa gathered by the University of Santo Tomas in Manila to mark May Day, also known as International Workers' Day and sometimes referred to as Labor Day. During their program, labor leaders ripped a symbolic contract to demonstrate opposition to labor policies such as privatization of government agencies and the award of what they said were low pay raises.
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May Day celebrations took place at two locations in Ankara after local government officials said they would not allow for a joint celebration.
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An oft repeated adage is that when the leaders lack vision, the people perish. Nothing could be truer as demonstrated by Texas today. Our governor and fellow Republicans apparently believe that the way for Texas to prosper is to keep taxes low, wages low and any benefits or consideration for the average worker almost non-existent. While Texas has provided great opportunities for the wealthy, who are drawn here because of the low taxes and low wages, Texas has not done right by the poor — nor the middle class. Shortsighted policies of the current conservative leadership of Texas indicate serious lack of vision for the future of our state.
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Shortchanging education by cutting public education's budget by more than $4 billion is further evidence of the lack of vision of our leadership. Despite claims to the contrary by our governor, lieutenant governor and others, the funding of Texas education on a per-pupil basis substantially trails the national average. While business leaders proclaim the future of America's economy will depend on a workforce trained in such courses as math and science, Texas has a woeful deficiency in graduating students proficient in math and science, both from our public school system and our colleges and universities.
Efforts to increase Texas' commitment to catching up with the rest of the nation in education have largely been brought about by lawsuits and federal mandates. Further evidence of lack of vision among our Republican leadership is exemplified by Sen. Florence Shapiro, current chair of the Senate Education Committee. and Congressman Culberson of Houston. Shapiro suggests the way to deal with our current teacher shortage in the math and science area is to trim the math and science requirements for high school graduation. When the Supreme Court of Texas ruled the Legislature had failed to comply with the constitutional mandate of offering an efficient system of free public education, Culberson's suggestion was that we simply amend the Constitution to remove that mandate. Unfortunately, during a recent session, the Legislature at least in part followed Culberson's suggestion by changing the legal requirement that assures adequate funding of public education in Texas.
The current vision of our governor in Texas of low taxes, low wages and suppression of organized labor will lead us soon to the status of many undeveloped nations of the world. Already, Texas is starting to resemble some in many respects including, according to a national foundation studying the rate of rich to poor, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few Texans. Currently, Texas is among the leaders of the nation in high school dropouts, teenage pregnancies, working Texans living in poverty and the most children of any state in the nation with inadequate health care
Considering the above facts, building an economy characterized by a poor and uneducated workforce is not calculated to improve Texans' status near the bottom in per capita wealth of its citizens. If our current governor continues to successfully advocate low taxes, low expenditures, starving of higher education and our public education, future generations will be robbed of high-paying, high-skilled jobs. If Texas voters continue to vote for right-wing conservatives who expound and advocate promising no new taxes no matter what the cost, all of us will reap what they sow.
Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas.


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Cholinesterase Monitoring
What are employers required to do?
The rule requires employers of agricultural pesticide handlers who use toxicity class I or II organophosphate or N-methyl-carbamate pesticides to take the following steps:
- Record the number of hours employees spend handling these pesticides.
- Implement a medical monitoring program for workers who could meet or exceed the handling threshold of 30 or more hours in any consecutive 30-day period.
- Identify a medical provider to provide medical monitoring services.
- Make baseline and periodic cholinesterase testing available to employees who could meet or exceed the handling threshold.
- Investigate work practices when a handler's red blood cell (RBC) or serum cholinesterase level drops more than 20 percent below the employee's personal baseline.
- Remove employees from handling and other exposures to organophosphate and N-methyl-carbamate pesticides when recommended by your health care provider.
- Provide training on cholinesterase monitoring to covered employees.
- Report employee handling hours to the medical provider with each periodic test.
- Maintain medical monitoring and other records for seven years.
Employer cost reimbursement
Employers may request reimbursement for the reasonable costs of training, recordkeeping, and medical expenses for cholinesterase monitoring by submitting the Cholinesterase Monitoring Reimbursement Request form along with required documentation.
- Handler Hours Tracking - Instructions (59 KB PDF).
- Handling hours Spreadsheet (476 KB XLS).
- List of covered pesticides (agr.wa.gov).
- Medical Monitoring Providers list.
- Pesticides.
- Worker Protection Standard Checklist of Requirements (156 KB PDF): Use this form to help evaluate your worker protection program and pesticide handling practices.
- WRD 33.27: Cholinesterase Depression (DOSH Policy) (137 KB PDF).
What is cholinesterase?
Cholinesterase (acetyl cholinesterase) is an enzyme that removes the chemical neurotransmitter acetylcholine from the junctions between nerves cells. Cholinesterase serves as the nervous system's "off switch" and is essential to the normal function of the nervous system.
Why monitor cholinesterase levels?
Exposure to organophosphate or N-methyl-carbamate pesticides may lower the level of available cholinesterase. Without the normal protective levels of cholinesterase, nerves in the body may be overstimulated to the point of exhaustion, leading to symptoms ranging from blurred vision, diarrhea and tremors to seizures, loss of consciousness and even death.
Monitoring cholinesterase levels in the blood through simple laboratory tests can detect cholinesterase depression prior to the onset of illness. When significant cholinesterase depression is identified employers are required to evaluate their pesticide worker protection program and make corrections to prevent further over-exposure.
What are the benefits of cholinesterase monitoring?
The cholinesterase monitoring Cost Benefit Determination and Small Business Impact Statement identified the following benefits of cholinesterase monitoring:
- Prevention of illness after over-exposure.
- Increase hazard awareness and improve overall workplace safety related to pesticide use.
- Improve pesticide illness diagnosis and reporting.
- Provide greater certianty about frequency of pesticide over-exposure.
- Decrease the risk of unintended exposures to workers families.
Additional resources
- 2014 Final Report: Cholinesterase Monitoring of Pesticide Handlers in Agriculture (52 KB PDF).
- 2013 Final Report: Cholinesterase Monitoring of Pesticide Handlers in Agriculture (53 KB PDF).
- 2012 Final Report: Cholinesterase Monitoring of Pesticide Handlers in Agriculture (147 KB PDF).
- Contact David Shepherd-Gaw for reports from previous years.
- Worker Protection Standard Checklist (157 KB PDF): Use this checklist to evaluate your pesticide worker protection program and employee pesticide handling practices.
- Cholinesterase monitoring fact sheets for employees:
- Jorge's New Job- Washington - PDF Booklet (English & Spanish) (F417-213-909).
- Pesticide Worker Protection Standard (WPS) (4.86 MB PDF).
- Questions and answers about the Cholinesterase Monitoring Rule (129 KB PDF).
- Sample Training Program (128 KB PDF).
How can I get help from L&I?
The L&I office in your area has industrial hygienists who can assist with specific questions. Please call your local area L&I office and ask for a consultation supervisor.
Region 1: 425-290-1300
Island, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom counties.
Region 5: 509-454-3700 or 1-800-354-5423
Adams—west side, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, Okanogan, Walla Walla and Yakima counties.
More help from L&I
For general information, call 1-800-423-7233.


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I know that iTunes Match is still in its infancy, but I'm having a weird occurrence. Most of my tracks are ripped from my CD collection.
Albums that were all ripped in one batch, some of the tracks show up as matched, while others had to be "uploaded." See the example below:
Any ideas?


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Many people ask us why we recommend keeping items off a floor where radiant heat is present. Here's why: items placed on top of the floor can trap radiant floor heat. This trapped heat can make the area much warmer than the surrounding areas. If you are not careful, in some cases, trapped heat can cause problems with the floor coverings and radiant heat system itself.
What is trapped heat?
To demonstrate this phenomenon, we took a heated mat and placed it over a laminate floor for 30 minutes.
Image 1 shows the thermal image of the floor immediately after we lifted the mat. You can see the surface temperature displayed near the illustrated boxes. The box on the top is 114 degrees, and the box on the unheated portion of the floor is 85 degrees. The deeper the red hue, the hotter the area is. Cooler areas are shown as shades of blue.
In Image 2, we can see the surface temperature is dropping, but there is still some dark red present near the base of the flowerpot where heat is trapped.
In Image 3, the flowerpot has been removed from the area. The area under the pot is still about 16 degrees warmer than the other areas that were under the heated mat.
Why is trapped heat a problem?
Trapped heat should be avoided because it can have some unwanted consequences. If the floor temperature sensor is located under the insulating item, false readings can occur. As a result, the system responds to the warmer temperatures at the sensor (under the object), and the rest of the floor will be colder than desired.
Leaving objects, like a beanbag chair, futon mattresses, boxed-bottom furniture or fixtures, in the same place on the floor for extended periods of time may result in localized areas of discolored carpet or laminate. The Environ™ radiant heating products are powered at 12 watts per square foot, which will not cause discoloration when installed and used under the conditions provided in the installation manual. However, problems can arise if excessive insulation (an object) is placed over a heated carpet area for long periods of time. Carpets that are lighter in color or lower in quality are the most vulnerable to discoloration.
Laminate, engineered wood and carpet are more forgiving than hardwood, but they all can be affected by trapped heat. Gapping, cupping, and discoloration can occur in any of these floor coverings when the heat is trapped for long periods of time. For the best results, always follow the humidity recommendations of the flooring manufacturers.
In extreme cases, trapping heat for an extended period of time can be a safety issue resulting in a system failure if the floor covering fails.
What can be done about it?
Prevention is the best strategy to avoid trapped heat. Following the recommendations in the Environ™ installation manual will ensure safe, trouble-free operation of your radiant heat system for many years.
Those recommendations for avoiding trapped heat include the following:
- • Never install radiant heat under permanent fixtures or items with flat or boxed bottoms.
- • Ensure that there is a minimum clearance of 2-3 inches between the floor covering surface and the underside of the furniture to allow free movement of air through that space for any large furniture on short legs (e.g. sofa or bed). Do not allow bedclothes or drapes to restrict the airflow under furniture.
- • The following types of furniture should never be allowed onto the surface of the carpet or other floor covering where radiant heat is installed: pianos , bookcases, closed-bottom furniture, and any stands that have sharp points as feet.
The system will work great if you let it. By following a few simple guidelines, you can enjoy the maintenance-free comfort, convenience, and other benefits of radiant heat for many years.
After all, if you just spent money on a heated floor, why cover it up and keep the heat from getting into the room? Why place a barrier between you and the heat when instead you can enjoy the open space, additional warmth, and your investment?
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SuicideGirl of the Day — Lavonne [PICS]
Meet Lavonne, a SuicideGirl from Alberta, Canada that says there isn't anything she can't live without. Maybe she'd be able to live without clothing. That would rule.
Name: Lavonne
Age: 27
Location: Alberta, Canada
Occupation: Artist
Sign: Scorpio
My kink factor: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.
Into: Organic and local.
Makes me happy: Art, music, love, philosophy, good food, like-minded friends, books, crystals, rocks, nature, water, laying in the sun, adventures, traveling and selling paintings.
5 things I can't live without: I can probably live without almost everything.
Vices: Food.
SuicideGirls is a community that celebrates alternative beauty and alternative culture from all over the world. Since 2001, tens of thousands of models have submitted millions of photos to their website hoping to become SuicideGirls.


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Over half of firms in a survey have said their top priority around cloud computing is "readiness", rather than full migration.
IT infrastructure services firm Computacenter questioned over 200 IT decision makers at the recent Cloud Computing World Forum. The survey found that 20 percent of organisations have no form of virtualisation in-house, but an equal 20 percent have fully virtualised systems.
Overall, 51 percent of organisations said their overriding priority this year was making their IT infrastructure "cloud-ready". The survey found that 28 percent of organisations are looking to migrate many of their workloads to the cloud this year, but a more cautious 72 percent were focusing on testing individual cloud functions, such as email, testing/development and hosting.
Some firms don't have the cloud in their minds at all at the moment though, with 8 percent of IT decision makers admitting they are neither looking to migrate to the cloud or looking to become cloud-ready this year. Other priorities are taking up their budgets and mindshare, such as security, unified communications, disaster recovery and networking projects.
Andrew Vize, propositions and strategy director at Computacenter, said: "Most organisations do view cloud computing as a major focus for their business, but many corporate infrastructures are simply not ready for a full-scale switch to cloud computing.
"The majority of companies are still focused on becoming 'cloud-ready' and virtualising infrastructure, ensuring that systems are prepared for the cloud before making the leap."
Other recent research found that the majority of chief information officers across Europe believed the cloud would provide their main IT operating channel by 2014.
Communications provider Colt commissioned research among 500 CIOs in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Benelux region, with 100 CIOs from the UK taking part.
While few businesses said they have company-wide implementations of cloud computing to date (16 percent), many enterprises believed the cloud will be their most significant IT operating method by 2014 (60 percent).


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1. "We're relics of a bygone age."
The department store is a treasured American institution, with roots going back to the mid 19th century, when such now famously familiar emporiums as Macy's M, -2.16% and Lord & Taylor first opened. But these days, it often seems as if the department store has become an endangered species. For starters, many once-popular store chains — May's, Filene's, Bonwit Teller — have been taken over by competitors or have gone out of business altogether. And perhaps more important, the ones that remain aren't pulling in as many customers as they once did: From 2000 to 2012, annual sales at such stores fell by 22%, to $186 billion from $239 billion, according to the Census Bureau. No wonder there's been talk of more chains possibly failing — most notably J.C. Penney JCP, -5.09% , whose share price has tumbled from the $80-plus mark in 2007 to around $10 today.
The reason for the decline? It has to do with the rise of competing merchants: big-box discounters (think Wal-Mart WMT, +0.56% ), warehouse clubs (such as Costco) and e-commerce specialists (Amazon.com AMZN, -0.28% ), all of which can offer a wide selection of goods at affordable prices and attract record numbers of customers as a result. Consider how much Wal-Mart has grown, for instance. In 1972, it posted sales of $78 million, among 51 stores; in 2012, sales hit $443 billion, at 10,000-plus stores.
And when people aren't bargain-shopping for staples, they increasingly turn to specialty retailers: Today's consumer doesn't have to go to a department store to buy clothing or electronic items; instead, they can just head to The Gap or Best Buy, where the product selection and customer service is built around a more niche orientation, say retail pros. Either way, it equates to a sea change in shopping: "In the past 15 years, department store advantages on convenience and access to high-quality brands have largely disappeared," says Chris Malone, a retail sales expert who serves as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and non-profits and who's the author of the book "The Human Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies."
Naturally, department stores and their advocates take a somewhat different view, saying their one-stop shopping model still fulfills the needs of many customers and that the stores continue to be competitive on price. "Observers have been predicting the death of department stores for decades," says Jim Sluzewski, a spokesman for Macy's Inc., the parent company for both Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores. But the "truth is, department stores are a flexible and sustainable format that can change with customers' needs and preferences." And to his point, Sluzewski notes that Macy's Inc. has seen its annual sales increase by more than $1.2 billion in each of the past three years, reaching $27.6 billion in 2012.
(Many other department store chains declined to comment for this article.)


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Dr. Seshadri Mohan, chair of UALR's Department of Systems Engineering, and Dr. Nitin Agarwal, assistant professor of Information Science are serving as guest editors of the June 2012 edition of IEEE Communications Magazine.
Also serving with Drs. Mohan and Agarwal in that role is Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, the chief technology officer for NIKSUN, a Princeton, NJ-based company that provides cybersecurity and network performance appliances.
The three guest editors have authored an editorial entitled "Social Networks Meet Mobile Networks" that addresses the possibilities that are arising as use of mobile devices escalates at the same time bandwidth is increasing. "These technological advancements have created a favorable environment for launching mobile-aware social computing applications, offering practitioners and researchers key architectural challenges with numerous fledgling opportunities," the editorial notes.
The editorial introduces four articles on the subject included in the June issue of IEEE Communications Magazine, and concludes that "the advances in both Web paradigm and mobile devices have induced phenomenal socio-technical behavioral changes in the users of these technologies. The advent of social applications has invigorated the user-content creation and sharing at an unprecedented scale. Further, pushing these applications onto mobile devices has intensified content generation by leaps and bounds. Users can share whatever they like and wherever and whenever they want. However, the impact of advances in both the sectors and the resulting interaction between them has not been fully explored and understood. There exists a plethora of exciting opportunities and intricate challenges to mutually leverage the advancements in each sector to the benefit of the other in offering a rich user experience."
IEEE Communications Magazine has a monthly circulation of 41,000 copies, making it the most broadly distributed of any of the publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.


text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Akamai Technologies Inc. jumped 10% to $39.05 on Thursday morning after the company landed a strategic alliance with AT&T T, +2.05% to provide content delivery network, or CDN, services. For its part, AT&T says the deal will allow it to combine Akamai's content delivery platform with its own IP network to offer business customers "a suite of CDN solutions that will be jointly-marketed, managed and supported by the two companies." AT&T shares were flat in early trades. The deal may also remove some of the overhang on Akamai that stemmed from worry that telecommunications giants like AT&T will eventually offer their own CDN services, competing with pure-play providers like Akamai.


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Wordless Wednesday - I'm a proud auntie
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
These are my little nieces, the children of my brother Danny, who live near Tacoma, Washington. Little Aubriel is on the left, and Kelia is on the right. I really enjoyed bonding with them when I visited WA back in 2007, but now all I can do is see pictures. They, along with my sister's boys, are growing up too fast, and I just hope I make it there before they grow up!
Link up your Wordless Wednesday post for us all to see!


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Popular Keyboardist Freddie Ravel, The Jones Gang and Other Recording Artists Donate Song Tracks That Can Be Stored and Played on a USB Flash Drive
MILPITAS, CA, JUNE 13, 2006 - Owners of SanDisk's Cruzer® Freedom USB flash drive can now download more than 40 songs from a variety of international recording artists as part of an effort to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The offer uses a new technology that stores music to the flash drive but allows it to be played on any personal computer and other devices that accept USB connections.
Although the tracks are available for free, SanDisk® (NASDAQ: SNDK) and the community of artists hope that Cruzer Freedom owners will make voluntary donations to their choice of charities involved with the Katrina disaster relief effort. There are links to these organizations from the Freedom online catalog, which offers books, music and other content. To access the catalog, users plug the drive into a USB port of a computer that is connected to the Internet and click on www.cfsv.com/Katrina/index.html.
Jean-Christophe Klein, who heads up SanDisk's digital art platform, said, "SanDisk is honored to associate its name with the thousands of people who have already made a difference in saving lives and offering new hope. Along with this stellar group of performers, SanDisk asks that people who download this music click on the link and make a meaningful contribution to the charity of their choice."
Among the first entertainers to contribute music for the cause was Freddie Ravel, internationally acclaimed keyboardist. His 2005 remixed hit single, "Sol to Soul" is one of the songs available for download. Ravel actively performs on the smooth jazz concert circuit and has worked with artists as diverse as Madonna, Prince, Kanye West, Jennifer Lopez, Sting, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin and Earth Wind & Fire.
Of his relationship with SanDisk and the Katrina campaign, Ravel said: "As a kid, I danced to the Latin/Caribbean rhythms and funky, sassy horns of the rich music of New Orleans. It is in this spirit that we offer 'Sol to Soul' - a groove of celebration where the light of giving from the 'sol' reaches out to the heart and 'souls' of our brothers and sisters of the Gulf states."
In addition to Ravel, The Jones Gang, a trio of high-profile rock performers who have been associated individually with some of the world's legendary rock bands (The Who, Foreigner and Bad Company among them), have contributed "Angel," the hit single from their debut album, "Any Day Now."
"This song is an inspirational gift for the people of New Orleans who are today rebuilding their lives and looking towards a promising future," said a statement issued by the band.
Apart from Ravel and The Jones Gang, a French electro-groove band named noJazz has donated a song called "Have Fun." Tracks are available as well from Israel-born jazz guitarist and composer Issi Rozen.
There are several world music tunes from Terra Humana, a label based in France, from artists Frederic Dubois and Shan Di, Karin Nobbs and Philip N'Bess, and Damhlaic and Dominique Verdan. In addition, Terra Humana is contributing an entire album called "New Orleans" with 11 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel and Cajun music.
SanDisk Cruzer Freedom, which recently received an Editor's Choice award from PC News Weekly Magazine, is available from several U.S. retailers, including Staples, as well as online at www.SanDisk.com. The unique flash drive was introduced last September for the educational market, allowing students, with the assistance of their parents and in cooperation with their schools and universities, to download purchased electronic versions of textbooks and other study materials from the SanDisk Freedom Web catalog.
Underlying the Cruzer Freedom is a technology called TrustedFlash™. This stores the content to the flash drive once it is downloaded, although the drive and its contents can be accessed from any PC. "However, beyond educational uses," said Klein, "the Cruzer Freedom has broader applications for storing a variety of exciting audio-video content in a controlled way and for a much wider audience."
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Cruzer are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. TrustedFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).
SanDisk Corporation
Ken Castle
(408) 801-7032


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Woo! My order from Cocktail Kingdom arrived today!
Reprints of Vermeire, Ensslin, Straub, Maier, Kappelar, and home boy Boothby!
Japanese tins, some beautiful heavy mixing glasses, and even a bonus spoon!
Thanks Greg Boehm and Company, you are truly doing amazing things for the cocktail community.
PS. Ahem, the Aviation recipe in Hugo Ensslin's book calls for Creme de Violette, not Creme Yvette!


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