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The United States was not a party to their conspiracy, and in fact sought at several points to monitor and restrict it.
The monitor in November reported that more than 10 percent of the population uses Facebook in 51 countries.
When I visited Libya in 2006, a monitor team was working on several projects for the government.
Their app, Colorimetrix, is accurate enough to monitor conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, and urinary tract infections.
Britain, meanwhile, has deployed an E-3D early warning aircraft over Poland and Romania to monitor Ukraine.
I took off my hat to the man behind the gun on that monitor.
A monitor passed, bristling with guns and painted a vivid green.
The monitor type was a perfect solution of the problem of its day, and nobly it answered the calls made on it.
Such are worthy of the confi332dence of the people, because conscience is their monitor.
If one of them drank a little too much and staggered on the street, the monitor informed the public.
1540s, "senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order, etc.," from Latin monitor "one who reminds, admonishes, or checks," also "an overseer, instructor, guide, teacher," agent noun from monere "to admonish, warn, advise," related to memini "I remember, I am mindful of," and to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
The type of lizard so called because it is supposed to give warning of crocodiles (1826). Meaning "squat, slow-moving type of ironclad warship" (1862) so called from name of the first vessel of this design, chosen by the inventor, Swedish-born U.S. engineer John Ericsson (1803-1889), because it was meant to "admonish" the Confederate leaders in the U.S. Civil War. Broadcasting sense of "a device to continuously check on the technical quality of a transmission" (1931) led to special sense of "a TV screen displaying the picture from a particular camera."
1818, "to guide;" 1924, "to check for quality" (originally especially of radio signals), from monitor (n.). General sense from 1944. Related: Monitored; monitoring.
monitor mon·i·tor (mŏn'ĭ-tər)
A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system. v. mon·i·tored, mon·i·tor·ing, mon·i·tors
monitor A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen. Monitors generally employ cathode-ray tubes or flat-panel displays to project the image. See Note at pixel. |
1. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output. A monitor may be either monochrome (black and white) or colour (RGB). Colour monitors may show either digital colour (each of the red, green and blue signals may be either on or off, giving eight possible colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow) or analog colour (red, green and blue signals are continuously variable allowing any combination to be displayed). Digital monitors are sometimes known as TTL because the voltages on the red, green and blue inputs are compatible with TTL logic chips.
See also gamut, multisync, visual display unit.
2. A programming language construct which encapsulates variables, access procedures and initialisation code within an abstract data type. The monitor's variable may only be accessed via its access procedures and only one process may be actively accessing the monitor at any one time. The access procedures are critical sections. A monitor may have a queue of processes which are waiting to access it.
3. A hardware device that measures electrical events such as pulses or voltage levels in a digital computer.
4. To oversee a program during execution. For example, the monitor function in the Unix C library enables profiling of a certain range of code addresses. A histogram is produced showing how often the program counter was found to be at each position and how often each profiled function was called.
Unix man page: monitor(3).
5. A control program within the operating system that manages the allocation of system resources to active programs.
6. A program that measures software performance.

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BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Capital Partners, Inc. ("Sun Capital" or "Sun Capital Partners"), a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience, today announced that an affiliate has completed the acquisition of Sleep Innovations (or the "Company"), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of memory foam products, including pillows, mattress toppers and mattresses. Terms of the private transaction, which was announced on October 18, 2012, were not disclosed.
"Sun Capital has deep experience in the bedding market, most notably with bedding product retailer Mattress Firm, which was successfully exited in 2007 at an attractive return"
Sleep Innovations, headquartered in West Long Branch, New Jersey, manufactures standard and specialty polyurethane foam sold to end markets for use in bedding, furniture, auto, packaging and consumer products, and to be sold through the Company's retail division. Sleep Innovations' retail brands include Novaform, Bodipedic and Sleep Innovations, and it also sells products under licensed and private retail brands.
Sleep Innovations has strong R&D capabilities and introduced more than 70 new products in 2011, including a revolutionary gel-infused memory foam, and has more than 140 new products currently in development. The Company's product development capabilities are supported by state-of-the-art foam pouring and fabricating facilities located throughout the country. Sleep Innovations products can be found in multiple retail outlets including warehouse clubs, department stores, and through e-commerce sites.
"Sun Capital has deep experience in the bedding market, most notably with bedding product retailer Mattress Firm, which was successfully exited in 2007 at an attractive return," said Marc Leder, Co-Chief Executive Officer at Sun Capital. "Sleep Innovations will benefit from our extensive experience in the bedding and retail industries as the Company looks to continue on a growth path."
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Sun Capital Partners, Inc. is a leading private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in companies that can benefit from its in–house operating professionals and experience. Sun Capital affiliates have invested in 310 companies worldwide with combined sales in excess of $45 billion since Sun Capital's inception in 1995. Sun Capital has offices in Boca Raton, Los Angeles, and New York, as well as affiliates in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Shanghai and Shenzhen. For more information, please visit www.SunCapPart.com.
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WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Spending time in a garden might help soothe the agitation that commonly strikes people with dementia, a new review suggests.
Looking at 17 past studies, British researchers found evidence that watering plants, or sitting or strolling in a garden can help soothe some dementia patients' anxiety.
The study authors cautioned that the effects of gardens on dementia patients are a tough subject to study -- and the evidence of a benefit is limited. But experts said it's encouraging that there is ongoing research into the potential calming power of outdoor space.
As dementia progresses, it's common for people to become anxious, restless and agitated, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
Sometimes there is a medical reason -- such as chronic pain -- that the person with dementia just can't explain, said Dr. Mark Stecker, chairman of neurosciences at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y.
Often, though, the problem stems from the dementia itself. Then, families and caregivers can try offering reassurance and being a calm presence, explained Stecker, who was not involved in the new study.
"Just a nice smile can help," Stecker said. "Even when we can't understand language, we know, from the time we're children, what a smile means."
It can also be helpful to offer dementia patients a "distraction," such as playing a game or taking a car ride, Stecker said. "And that's where something like a garden could fit in," he added. "It can provide a distraction."
While that makes sense, it's a difficult principle to prove in a study, Stecker noted.
In the new review, published online recently in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, researchers found evidence that gardens at nursing homes helped lessen some residents' agitation. But the effects of gardens are much harder to pin down than the effects of a pill, for instance. And, Stecker noted, agitation in dementia patients is challenging to measure.
So the studies that have been done so far have tended to be of "poor quality," said review author Rebecca Whear, a research fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School.
It's too soon to recommend that nursing homes and day programs for dementia patients start routinely growing gardens, according to Whear.
"This work shows that their use could be beneficial," she said, "but much more research is needed."
That's in part because there are safety issues that come up with dementia patients.
"The idea of having an outdoor space is great, but it also has to be a safe space," said Dr. Gisele Wolf-Klein, director of geriatric education at the North Shore-LIJ Health System, in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
"First, 'wander-proofing' the space is absolutely essential," said Wolf-Klein, who was not involved in the study. "You also have to be very mindful about the surface, to lessen the risk of stumbling or slipping."
And because some dementia patients are prone to putting things in their mouths, the plants in the garden have to be non-poisonous, Wolf-Klein said.
And no matter where the garden or other outdoor space is -- at a nursing home or the family home -- people with dementia need to supervised, both Wolf-Klein and Stecker stressed.
With safety measures in place, they said, gardens -- or some type of outdoor space -- could be soothing to some dementia patients. "It's not unusual to have a geriatric patient who used to garden," Wolf-Klein said. "So, being in a garden could bring them back to a comfortable time in their life."
Stecker agreed. "When the brain is impaired, we go back to our basic instincts. Many people have always enjoyed the outdoors. They may not have an explicit memory of that, but it's an implicit memory. And they find it comforting to be outside."
Stecker said he hopes more care homes consider the idea of constructing a safe outdoor space. For family caregivers, he said, it may not take a garden. Simply going out to the patio, taking a short walk, or going to the local park could work just as well, he said.
For some dementia patients, though, the outdoors may not prove helpful at all, since being outside can be more disorienting than comforting. "It's not a panacea," Wolf-Klein noted.
Stecker agreed. "It's all going to depend on the individual," he said.
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The action this week was in mornings and late-night as Keith Olbermann did an interview with David Letterman and the network morning shows all went at it with guest-hosts, high-profile guests and unusual stunts.
What the heck — let's place Keith's visit with Dave in the top spot in this week's Top Five.
1) The never-ending saga of Keith Olbermann: Keith turned up on Letterman's "Late Show" Tuesday night for his first interview since he was fired by Al Gore's Current cable channel the previous week (the umpteenth time Keith has left a job this way).
The well-publicized appearance certainly was tailor-made to drive viewership, but in the end, you had to ask: What did Keith really reveal here? The answer? Not much, although the guest shot was must-see viewing for those of us who can't get enough of the Keith Olbermann story.
Top Five bonus video: While we're on the subject of Tuesday night's Letterman show, if you missed Eugene Levy with Dave, then you ought to watch our sample here. Levy's a great guest — he's just old-school showbiz.
2) Morning hype: Former NBC morning star Katie Couric guest-hosted on ABC's "Good Morning America," Oprah Winfrey turned up on pal Gayle King's "CBS This Morning," Matt Lauer announced on the "Today" show that he's sticking around, and Ryan Seacrest announced — in an interview with Lauer Wednesday on "Today" — that he's not taking Matt's job (as if that was ever really going to happen). Let's be blunt: Morning TV this week was nuts.
And look here, another bonus! Matt and Ryan were certainly friendly in that interview, but Jay Leno showed what really happened when the cameras stopped running.
3) But wait, there's more: Morning TV was so action-packed this week that we're devoting this third slot to it. It's the one thing we haven't mentioned yet — Sarah Palin "guest-hosting" on the "Today" show on Tuesday (though a number of critics felt she was more "guest" than "host"). On the subject of Palin on "Today," Jon Stewart had the last word on his "Daily Show" on Wednesday.
4) Betty White to the rescue: Lifting an entire network in the ratings is a lot to handle for a 90-year-old, but Betty White isn't like most nonagenarians. Her pranky, cranky series "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" — in which oldsters play practical jokes on unsuspecting younger folks — assumed its position this past week, joining the lineup in its regular time period at 8 p.m. Wednesday (7c), and then drawing 7.4 million viewers. That's a figure NBC hasn't seen Wednesday nights at 8 all season.
Unfortunately, by the time the night's second episode of the new-ish sitcom "Bent" rolled around at 9:30/8:30c, the audience had dwindled to 1.93 million. Oh, well — you can't blame Betty for that!
5) What else is new? This sitcom called "Best Friends Forever," which premiered after "Off Their Rockers" Wednesday night. We like featuring new, premiering shows in our Top Five, even ones like this one that drew 3.94 million viewers in its debut. We figure, with numbers like that, many of you must not have gotten the chance to see it, which is one reason why we're including it here.


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text: This Is What the GOP's War On Science Looks LikeMark Strauss4/01/14 4:30pmFiled to: science politicspoliticsGOPscience73779EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkI've seen some surreal moments in our nation's capitol, but few can compare to watching Republican members of Congress lecture John Holdren last week on the meaning of "science." Here are some highlights. Advertisement Holdren, the president's science advisor, was the lone witness at a hearing held by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to review the White House's fiscal year 2015 budget request for science agencies. You can watch the two-hour video here—or better yet, don't. We've watched it for you. Plus, you don't want to be more embarrassed than you already are about a science committee that includes a congressman who describes evolution as a "lie from the pit of Hell" and another who claims that climate change is a liberal plot to "create global government to control our lives." Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) set the tone of the hearing right away, beginning with the observation, "Unfortunately, this Administration's science budget focuses, in my view, far too much money, time, and effort on alarmist predictions of climate change." Smith then questioned Holdren about the National Science Foundation (NSF), which, he said, was swindling American taxpayers by funding apparently useless programs, such a $340,000 grant to study the ecological consequences of early human-set fires in New Zealand. Advertisement And that was one of the more courteous exchanges during the hearing. What came next was a series of Bizarro World lectures on climate change.Doesn't the Entire Earth Have the Same Climate?Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) demonstrated his inability to grasp the idea that the world's climate varies across different regions (which, in fairness, is a sensible line of questioning—if we were living on the forest moon of Endor):Rohrabacher: Do you believe that tornadoes and hurricanes today are more ferocious and more frequent than they were in the past?Holdren: There is no evidence relating to tornadoes. None of all. And I don't know any spokesman for the administration who has said otherwise. With respect to hurricanes, there is some evidence of increased activity in the North Atlantic, but not in other parts of the world. With respect to droughts and floods, there is quite strong evidence that in some regions they are being enhanced by climate change—not caused by [climate change], influenced by climate change. Rohrabacher: "I don't mean to sound pejorative...but they're Weasel words—that in some areas, "globally" there's not more droughts, "globally" there's not more hurricanes and they're not more ferocious. Is that correct?Holdren: If you want to take a global average, the fact is a warmer world is getting wetter, there's more evaporation so there's more precipitation, so on a global average there's unlikely to be more droughts. The question is whether drought-prone regions are suffering increased intensity and duration of droughts, and the answer there is yes.Rohrabacher: [snickering] So we actually have more water and more drought? Okay, thank you very much.Note to Rohrabacher: You can read about how increasing levels of temperature and precipitation can worsen droughts here. Or, if reading is not your thing, here's a short animated video (with pretty colors!)The Dinosaurs Didn't Mind Climate Change Next on the GOP lineup, Bill Posey (R-FL) observed that cycles of extreme climate change are normal, and then trotted out the Newt Gingrich "dinosaur" argument. ("Hey, it was hot during the Jurassic Era, and T-Rex seemed perfectly content."): Advertisement Sponsored Posey: How many ice ages do you think we've gone through?Holdren: The Earth has undergone climate changes throughout its entire history. The difference is that, for most of that history, there weren't 7 billion people on the planet who needed to be fed, clothed and kept prosperous. And the other difference is that the pace of change was generally much slower.Posey: I'm aware of that. You know, obviously, we've had global warming for a long time. You can't have one single ice age encompassing three ice ages. We had to have warming periods between each one of those, so that is a natural phenomenon. You know, just because we're alive now, the tectonic plate shifts aren't going to stop, the hurricanes and tsunamis aren't going to stop; the asteroid strikes aren't going to stop. These things have been going on for eons and they're going to continue to go on for eons....What do you think the temperature was on Earth before the disappearance of the dinosaurs?Holdren: There have been periods when the temperature was 3, 4 or 5 degrees Celsius warmer than it is now. The difference between the circumstances you're describing and the circumstance we're in now, is the changes that are being imposed on the climate—in a substantial part because of human activity—are faster than the ability of ecosystems to adapt and maybe, even more importantly, faster than the ability of human society to adapt....The natural changes, which we understand and which are underway on a long-term basis as we speak, would, if they were the only influences, be cooling the planet rather than warming it. We would be in a long term cooling trend as a result of the natural forces affecting climate that we understand. We are, instead, in a warming trend, which suggests that human activity, is overwhelmingly responsible for the difference.Posey: I remember the 70s, that was the threat. We're going to have a cooling that's eventually going to freeze the planet, and that was the fear before Al Gore invented the Internet….Those Crazy "Hypotheses"Saving the last for best, freshman congressman Randy Weber (R-TX)—whom the National Journal has labeled a "conservative legend in his own mind"—expressed his doubts about whether this whole science thing actually makes any sense: Weber: So, when you guys do your research, you start with a scientific—what do they call it—postulate or theory, and you work from that direction forward, is that right?Holdren: It depends on what sort of science that you're talking about, but the notion of posing a hypothesis and then trying to determine whether it's right is one of the tried and true approaches in science, yes.Weber: So, I'm just wondering how that related, for example, to global warming and eventual global cooling... I don't know how you prove those hypotheses, going back 50, 100, what you might say is thousands or millions of years, and how you postulate those forward.Silly scientists! But what Weber and his GOP colleagues overlooked—because that would require research and stuff—was that the NSF-funded program denounced at the very beginning of the hearing was a classic example of how researching the past helps us better understand climate change today.Here's a summary about why Montana State University researchers are so interested in the topic of human-caused forest fires in New Zealand: Advertisement Dave McWethy, assistant research professor in earth sciences and Cathy Whitlock, professor of earth sciences, chose New Zealand because humans arrived there just 700 years ago, and changes to the environment after people arrived were dramatic."Our goal is to better understand how the first peoples of New Zealand influenced the environment and how resilient landscapes were to human activity," McWethy said. "New Zealand provides a unique setting for examining human impacts because the country was settled fairly recently during a time of relatively stable climate. In addition, the wet forests of New Zealand were highly sensitive to disturbances, such as fire."The first peoples in New Zealand initiated a sequence of events that caused the loss of more than 40 percent of the forests, and this deforestation occurred within decades of human arrival. It was accomplished by the introduction of a new disturbance—fire.According to McWethy, New Zealand provides a dramatic case of how rapidly forests can be transformed by introducing a new disturbance. "Information from this research may also help us better understand how climate change and land-use change will influence fire and other disturbances in the western U.S."Holdren told the committee that basic research such as this NSF-funded program is crucial to "promoting the progress of science." Somehow, I doubt that any of the GOP members of congress were listening. Advertisement Photo by alphaspirit via ShutterstockReply737 repliesLeave a reply


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The earliest known Jewish community existed in 16th century. In 1890, there were 630 Jews but none by 1939. The cemetery was established during the first half of the 19th century. The landmarked cemetery is listed as a whole is in the register of monuments (A/241). The isolated suburban crown of a hill has no sign. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A broken masonry wall with non-locking gate surrounds. Both before World War II and now, the cemetery occupies 0.36 hectares. 100-500 gravestones, some not in original location with more than 75% toppled or broken, date from 1830. Vegetation overgrowth is a constant problem that disturbs graves. The cemetery is divided into special sections. There is a special section for women. The marble, granite, and other materials flat shaped stones or finely smoothed and inscribed stones have Hebrew, Yiddish and German inscriptions. There are no known mass graves or structures. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery use only. Properties adjacent are agricultural. The cemetery is visited rarely. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. No maintenance. Security, weather erosion, and vegetation are all moderate threats. Magdalena Grabowska, ul. Sanatoryjna 40, Bydgoszcz, Tel. 277335 completed survey on 30/10/1992. The Card of cemetery 1992 WKZ Bydgoszcz was used to as documentation. M. Grabowska visited the site in 10/1992. |
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Today for my Masters of the Renaissance: Art History course, we took a field trip to Vinci- Leonardo da Vinci's birthplace! This trip was much more manageable since the bus ride was only about an hour in each direction. One word to describe Vinci: visionary. Honestly, for the first time I was finally able to see a town that actually looks like the stereotypical Italy! It is exactly what you see in the movies, in your textbook, and just what you have always pictured Italy to look like. You know, the rolling hills, the symmetrical trees all lined up perfectly, the red-roofed houses spread in every direction. It was beautiful. Seriously, for a town to look as good as Vinci did in the rain, I mean, whoa! It was just breathtaking. And the cloudy weather just added to the beauty. Enjoy some of the pictures I uploaded below!


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Whew! It's been a busy week, and I'm ready to close up shop and take a little break. I'm heading down to DC for the weekend to visit a friend, so I'll be back on Monday with some exciting news. We've been working hard on some big projects around here, and I'll be able to start announcing some of them soon, starting with the one that's closest to my heart. So stay tuned for that next week! Until then, have a wonderful weekend! xo, grace
The beautiful lighting above is the "Point" lamp from designer David Taylor. David was part of Stockholm's Design Week, which we were lucky enough to have Amy attend. Stay tuned for updates from the fair next week. You can check out David's work and this gorgeous paper and hemp lamp right here.
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- DIY Projects: 3D Valentines, Vintage Arrow Valentine, Valentine's Tea, Three Ways, Simone's Plantable Love Note
- Before & Afters: Janis + Kristen's Chair Makeovers, Jennifer's Hutch + Ceiling Lamp
- Before & After Basics: Wallpaper Basics
- Sights & Sounds: Sam Beam of Iron & Wine
- Simply Color: Juliet Totten
- In the Kitchen With: Marlena Spieler's Treacle Sponge Dessert Recipe
- We Like it Wild: Fungi Love
- Small Measures with Ashley: Homemade Chocolate Peanut-Butter Cups
- Artwork: Why, Thank You!, Holding Hands
- Misc.: Hammam Stripes, Sophistikat, Asher Israelow, Eskayel: The Era Collection, Sequined Floor Cushions from Mar y Sol, Brass Trivets and Whale-Shaped Letter Opener from Morihata
Ah, what beautiful lamps! I'm checking out the rest of David's work right away. You have posted such lovely Valentine's Day related posts this week, I have really enjoyed them! I'm looking forward to hearing your big news next week :)
Amazing! they're like lit xmas gifts..that you can enjoy all year long.
ooooohh! i love new projects. I can't wait to hear:)
Haha wow this would look great in my living room. I hope to try these out!
Pretty Sleek, gave me a nice idea on how to decorate our new shop :)
Oh, I love these! I would really like to try them!
How unique! what a great warm light it casts.
They look like candles! If they were green or red I'd associate them with Christmas crackers, hehe!


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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Becoming a Certified Scrum Practioner
The CSP is the first rating in the Scrum Alliance structure that actually means something. A CSM has attended a class from a Certified Scrum Trainer (and starting October 1, will have passed a multiple choice test on Scrum). So a CSM is a trained apprentice.
A CSP is someone who actually has experience with Scrum. To become a CSP, you must provide evidence of at least one year of Scrum practice and be a member in good standing of the Scrum Alliance as a CSM or CSPO. The latter requirement means you must have taken a CSM or CSPO course from a Certified Scrum Trainer. You must have been doing Scrum for at least a year. You no longer have to wait 12 months after taking the CSM course - which is a sensible change. If you're the type who will read a book and then do Scrum, you probably have the right stuff to become a Practitioner, with or without the CSM Course.
Unlike other certifications, the CSP is not a multiple choice test which is graded to some arbitrary standard. It is a collection of 15 essay questions about how you have used Scrum in a real project, 5 questions about how Scrum works, and one question about how you have worked with the Scrum Community. It is reviewed by other Scrum Practitioners (If someone can give me better information about the process, please let me know).
So the CSP is a peer reviewed certification of people who have actually been doing Scrum. It means, you're now a journeyman ScrumMaster.
I became a CSP in August 2008. As I write this, there are some 60'000 CSM's and about 800 CSP's (and only 20 Certified Scrum Coaches, CSCs, the master level of certification).
The CSP hasn't really captured the attention of the marketplace, which is unfortunate, because these are the people who really know and do Scrum. I think the CSP is a way of demonstrating competence in and commitment to Scrum and should be recognized by the market.
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- charlie said...
Hi Peter, I'm a beggining scrum practitioner in Argentina. I was thinking to became in certified in scrum, but I don't know if I can do this here in Argentina or I have to do it somewhere else. Also I'm posting my experience implementing scrum in the electronic design in a factory here, its located in www.carlosjosebarroso.com if you want to take a look. If you can recomend the best way to be certified, I'll appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Carlos Barroso - 27 September, 2009 02:39
- Peter said...
Hi Charlie, You can find a list of certified Scrum courses on the Scrum Alliance home page.
It looks like the nearest courses are in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As an alternative, you might contact a nearby Scrum Trainer, and see if you can convince him/her to offer a public course closer to home.
In any case, good luck!
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Hi all, I managed to install ISPConfig 3 for the first time, and its also my first time to use ISPConfig, my dns(chrooted bind) is already configured, i can dig / nslookup records,.. but one thing I dont really get is that when i Add a Zone in ISPConfig Web Gui, it will be created in /var/named/chroot/var/named and the format of the file is eg: pri.mobile.domain.com, so it automatically created with a prefix of pri.,, can i configure ISPConfig not to add pri as prefix to my newly created zone file?... another thing after i create a zone file, do we need to manually include it to /etc/named.conf? ex: include /var/named/mobile.domain.com. Thanks in advance,
No. ISPConfig will create the files with prefix and will also use this prefix in the named-conf-local file which conatains the zones and gets included in named.conf No. All you have to do is to include the named-conf-local file at the end of the name.conf file. If your server would have been empty (which is a requirement for the installation of ispconfig btw.) and installed as decribed in the perfects etup guide for ispconfig, then bind would have been setup correctly for the use with ispconfig automatically.
thank you for your quick response, this is now the last part of my /etc/named.conf file. PHP: include "/var/named/chroot/var/named/named.local"; include "/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf.local"; is this how it must be done? btw, i dont have any zone declared in my /etc/named.conf file, as i said when i create a zone in ISPConfig, it is created in /var/named/chroot/var/named ..
If thats the file were ispconfig writes the zones in your installation, then its ok. You can freely configure this file in ispconfig under system > server config.
hi till, i already added a zone in mobile.domain.com, and added some test record.. but im unable to ping this record created.. heres my newly added zonefile.. $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA srv1.domain.com. admin.company.com. ( 2013020401 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 7200 ; refresh, seconds 540 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds ; test 86400 A 192.168.245.120 this file was in /var/named/chroot/var/named....
The file is incomplete as you did not add all required records. Incomplete files are skipped by bind. Better use the dns wizard in ispconfig to add a zone as it will add required records like ns records automatically. If the ns records that you use for your zone are subdomains of the zone, then dont forget to add a-records for these subdomains as well.
It works! thanks for this till, i created another zone, now using with wizard... so records were created automatically for me.. now i can ping the record that i created.. thanks for your help till, Edit: Now, how am I gonna mark this thread solved?
Other system dont have named.conf.local hi, just a follow up question before this thread will be mark solved, In my other system with bind chroot installed, i didnt find any named.conf.local file, i want to include that file as what till said, is it on different location? thank you... Edit: I do find it on /etc/named.conf.local but whenever i include that file in named.conf, bind will error /etc/named.conf:71: open: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf.local: file not found .. any help please?? thanks..
Zone created not detected Update: what i did is that, i tried to symlink the file /etc/named.conf.local to /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf.local PHP: ln /etc/named.conf.local /var/named/chroot/etc/ then i add a zone in ISPConfig GUI, then restart named PHP: service named restart ... it fail, another error occured. PHP: service named restart Starting named: Error in named configuration: zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0 zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 18.104.22.168.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 18.104.22.168.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone srv1.domain.com/IN: loaded serial 2013011004 zone branch.srv1.domain.com/IN: loading from master file /var/named/chroot/var/named/pri.branch.srv1.domain.com failed: file not found zone branch.srv1.domain.com/IN: not loaded due to errors. _default/branch.srv1.domain.com/IN: file not found [FAILED] .... am i doing it the wrong way?
The setup supported by ispconfig is described in the perfect setup guide. If you use a different setup which is not supported like you did, then files can be missing or might have to be created manually.
hi till, may i know which part did i make it wrong? whenever i delete the zone in ISPConfig GUI and restart the named service, all errors went away.. but when i create a zone and restart named again, it will display an error "file not found".. thanks... i dont know how to proceed
Install bind exactly as described in the perfects etup guide for the linux distrbution that you use before you install ispconfig. Dont change any config files if the changes are not described in the perfect setup, the guides comtain ecah required step and your server will work out of the box.
thanks till, i adjust the settings in System > Server Config > DNS and set the zone file directory to /var/named/data ... so i still include /etc/named.conf.local in /etc/named.conf file... and it works .. thanks again sir..


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Friday, October 06, 2006
hello from Atlanta
Arrived yesterday afternoon for the Art Cloth Network conference, which begins officially in about an hour, this morning. My first stop was at Mingei World Arts to pick up the tjap I had ordered from them on-line. Fabulous place and I'll be back there again before I leave Decatur. Yummy stuff. If you want copper tjaps, theirs are well-priced and you can get on their e-mail list. (no affiliation, blah blah blah). NOT that I need another tjap...but this is especially gorgeous.
3 comments:
- jenclair said...
You are right--this is gorgeous! Of course, you need it. Have a good time at the conference.
- October 6, 2006 at 11:35 AM
- Judy said...
Welcome South, Sister! LOL
Hope you have a wonderful week in Atlanta...with the weather we're having, it would be difficult NOT to!
Isn't Mingei World fun? I love it there!
I'm looking forward to meeting you and your classes next week at Campbell.
Judy - October 7, 2006 at 7:35 AM
- Liz said...
Wow, this is awesome! I'm so jealous!
- October 10, 2006 at 2:23 PM
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Submission + - Google announces 1Gbps fiber network (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Kansas City, Kansas will have a new Internet provider next year, one that operates a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home network, provides "open access" to any ISP wanting to use the pipes, and charges fees in line with current rates for much slower connections. That new Internet provider? Google.


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Despite the Blues becoming the first holders to not reach the knockout stage, the interim boss was delighted with the convincing manner by which his team beat Nordsjaelland
Chelsea interim boss Rafael Benitez spoke of his happiness with the Blues' 6-1 victory over Nordsjaelland, despite the Champions League holders failing to progress to the round-of-16.
With the club relying on Shakhtar Donetsk to prevent Juventus from winning in the other Group E game, the Blues thrashed their Danish opponents in vain as an Oleksandr Kucher own goal ten minutes into the second half sent the Serie A side through as group winners.
But Benitez was keen to look at the positives, highlighting Chelsea's attacking prowess, while looking ahead to the club's Europa League campaign in the New Year.
"I think always when you win it is a positive. When it is at home it is even better," the Spaniard told Sky Sports. "The way we won, we had 32 attempts and 18 on target, is really good.
"When you win you have to be happy but at same time we are disappointed as we didn't progress. At least we showed the level and quality we asked for.
"We now have to think about Sunderland (on Saturday) and the Europa League. But the game was so good today and we can see a lot of positives for the future. We pressed well, we created chances and scored a lot of goals."
Fernando Torres notched two goals during the game, and came close to completing his hat-trick, and Benitez is adamant the much-maligned striker can keep on progressing if his team-mates continue to forge open opportunities.


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The Cyntech GPIO paddle board is a new type of breakout board for the Raspberry Pi. It's nice and small (about half the size of the Pi) elegantly simple, and I like the connectors. To connect a wire, you hold down the orange tab, push your wire into the h
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It turns out that there's a lot more information captured in a World of Warcraft screenshot than most players would ever think to look for.
A user at OwnedCore unearthed the invisible watermarks, which then spilled forth onto Reddit. The gist is that a screenshot taken inside World of Warcraft with its screenshot function includes a certain amount of embedded information in a repeating pattern. The information includes an account ID, realm (server) information, and a timestamp. Screenshots taken using a third-party tool (like Steam or Fraps) do not appear to contain the watermark.
Some users, like the original poster at OwnedCore, are concerned about the privacy ramifications of watermark information floating around the internet. While no password or private data are embedded in the image, according to the original poster, a particularly dedicated person could look at the images and link several alts together, or determine a pattern of individual user behavior. The information in the images is more useful to Blizzard, who could theoretically use the data in the screenshots to trace TOS-breaking behavior or leaks of material under an NDA back to the source account.
Kotaku asked Blizzard for a comment but as of yet have had no response. We'll update if we hear back.
In the meantime, if you're curious about your own screenshots, finding the watermark is fairly straightforward. There are directions available for looking at images using IrfanView, a free image editing program, to sharpen a screenshot to the point where the watermark is visible as an artifact. For best results, the image needs to be as close to white as possible. Using this base image, a few minutes tweaking sharpness and light filters in Photoshop yielded some surprisingly cool-looking variations. (For best results, a black layer set to "hard mix" will make a watermark underneath it pop.)
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