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(Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Co said in a letter made public on Friday that its products could have been delivered to Syria through resellers or distributors, but the world's largest PC maker affirmed it did not sell directly to the country.
The letter was a response to a request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Global Security Risk that asked whether HP's products were sold in countries where they would be subject to U.S. sanctions.
"We are aware of November 2011 news reports that your equipment was installed by the Italian company, Area SpA, in Syria as part of a nationwide surveillance and tracking system designed to monitor people in that country," the SEC wrote in its request.
"Please describe to us the nature, duration, and extent of your past, current, and anticipated contacts with Syria and Iran, whether through subsidiaries, distributors, resellers, vendors, retailers, or other direct or indirect arrangements."
In a letter dated October 9, HP said it had not authorized the sale of products to Syria.
Instead, HP said the Italian surveillance company had likely obtained its products from an HP partner that was unaware of their ultimate destination.
In another October 9 letter to the agency, HP said it ended its contract with Area SpA in April.
Calls to HP seeking further comment were unanswered as were calls to Area SpA.
HP's overseas subsidiaries ended sales of printers and related supplies to third-party distributors and resellers with customers in Iran in early 2009, the company wrote.
But because its products are often sold by others through indirect channels without its knowledge or consent "it is always possible that products may be diverted to Iran or Syria after being sold to channel partners, such as distributors and resellers," HP said.
Reuters has documented how banned computer equipment from U.S. companies has made its way to Iran's largest telecommunications company through China-based ZTE.
Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc has since cut its ties to ZTE.
HP said in both letters that it would continue to work with ZTE, but it had conducted an internal investigation relating to an alleged sale of its products to MTN Irancell, Iran's second largest mobile carrier.
The company was also asked about EDS - an IT outsourcing company that HP bought in 2008 - and any activity in Iran, Syria and Sudan.
HP said it had the same policy regarding Sudan as it did on sales to Iran or Syria.
HP is eager to avoid more negative publicity after surprising the market on Tuesday with an $8.8 billion write-down on its $11.1 billion acquisition of software group Autonomy, accusing the British company of improper accounting to inflate sales.
Autonomy has denied any wrongdoing.
Reporting by Nicola Leske in New York. Editing by Leslie Gevirtz and Andre Grenon

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Q & A With Senior Forward Michelle Osier
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Head Coach Charity Elliott calls Michelle Osier "the heart and soul of our team." The 6-1 senior is a three-time first team All-CCAA selection and the Tritons have a 75-20 record over those three seasons as well as one conference title and three trips to the NCAA Playoffs. As a junior, the Placerville, CA native averaged a double-double (15.2 ppg/10.9 rpg). "We rely on Michelle to bring intensity to our play on both ends of the court," says Elliott. "She leads us in virtually every category and has worked hard to improve her game. I think you'll see a player with better one-on-one skills that will be able to get to the basket and score off the dribble." With the 2008-09 season getting into full swing, Osier took time to reflect on her career and talk about her final season at UCSD.
Q: How has your UCSD career compared to the expectations you had when you arrived as a freshman?
OSIER: During preseason of my freshman year, it was projected that we'd take second to last in league. Boy, were they surprised! In the last three years, we have won a league championship, a regional championship, and have made it to the Final Four. We've made history. And we're not done yet!
Q: What would make your senior season a success?
OSIER: Success would mean walking away from my senior season with no regrets. I know what this team is capable of and I will be unsatisfied with anything less. For four years, my sights haven't changed...I want a national championship ring. Go big or go home!
Q: What facets of your game do you feel will be improved in 2008-09? Why?
OSIER: I think that I have matured a lot as a player since last year. I spent the off-season working to expand my game. Instead of relying on my athleticism, I feel like I have a lot more to turn to as far as individual skill.
Q: How does it feel to be a senior on a very young team? What type of a leadership responsibilities does that demand?
OSIER: Honestly, it still surprises me when I hear the announcer say: "Michelle Osier, senior from Placerville, CA." I have always felt comfortable leading by example, but as a senior captain, I have been forced to be much more vocal than I am used to.
Q: How have you grown the most as a player in your first three years?
OSIER: Well, I would definitely say that I have grown since my freshman year...grown in that I've gained 15 lbs of muscle (haha). Really though, in the past three years, the most valuable thing that I have gained is experience. Now that I feel completely at ease on the court (well, most of the time), I am able to focus on just playing basketball.
Q: What are the most significant things that second-year coach Charity Elliott brings to the program?
OSIER: Coach Elliott takes pride in developing her players individually. She is genuinely excited when one of us succeeds in trying something new. For me, this was key. Spring and summer individual workouts did wonders for my game.
Q: Which of your new teammates have impressed you the most in the early going?
OSIER: I have a great amount of respect for each of my teammates, but I would have to say that Leilani Martin has stepped up tremendously. She is stronger than anyone in the backcourt and she easily handles the responsibilities of a point guard.
Q: Which of your past teammates have had the most impact on you? Why?
OSIER: Don't tell her this but a past teammate that has had the most impact on me would have to be Alexis Mezzetta (current asstistant coach). She is the most passionate and hard-working teammate I have ever played with. My freshman year, Coach Jones asked each of us: "If you were in battle, who would you want by your side in the trenches?" Mezzetta was my number one.
Q: If you weren't playing basketball, what other sport(s) do you think you might excel at?
OSIER: In high school, I also played soccer and volleyball. But if I hadn't been recruited to play basketball, I definitely think I would have made a great hip hop dancer.
Q: How does your hometown of Placerville, in Northern California, compare to La Jolla?
OSIER: Well, let's just say that I live a mile back on a dirt road and the biggest threat about being out late at night is being eaten by a mountain lion. Enough said.
Q: When are you scheduled to graduate? What are your plans after you do?
OSIER: I plan to graduate in June. I am hoping to pursue something in the business field or possibly play basketball overseas.
Q: Off the court, what characteristics and interests do you have that people might find surprising?
OSIER: On the court, I probably appear to be pretty serious and kind of intimidating. But off the court, most people who know me would agree that I am just a big goofball.
Q: What do you hope fans remember about you as a basketball player at UCSD?
OSIER: I'd like to be remembered as one of forces that put UCSD on the map. And when I say "on the map," I mean a very specific location: St. Joseph's, Missouri, the site of the 2009 NCAA Division II Championships.
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Ron Larsen (USA Volleyball Assistant Coach) October 13, 2008
Jessica McGovern (Women's Soccer) October 6, 2008
Bre Schofield (Cross Country) September 26, 2008
Tony Fernandez (Men's Soccer) September 18,2008
Kimberly Carpenter (Women's Volleyball) September 12, 2008
A.J. Kotanjian (Men's Water Polo) September 2, 2008
Peter Akman (Men's Soccer) August 21, 2008
Natasha Belak-Berger (Women's Soccer) August 15, 2008
Jake LaVieux (Men's Cross Country) August 8, 2008
Dr. Penny Rue (Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs) July 30, 2008
Michelle Torres (Women's Volleyball) July 15, 2008
Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer Head Coach) July 1, 2008
Julie Ertel (Athletics) June 16, 2008
Clint Allard (Men's Basketball) June 9, 2008
Jen Myers (Women's Crew) May 27, 2008
Casey Ryan (Men's Track and Field and Men's Basketball) May 21, 2008
Keith Noe (Baseball) May 13, 2008
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 30, 2008
Sydney Gstettenbauer (Women's Water Polo) April 22, 2008
Sarah Hendy (Women's Track and Field) April 17, 2008
Eric Leserman (Men's Volleyball) April 9, 2008
Danielle Lukk (Softball) April 4, 2008
Chris Franco (Baseball) March 24, 2008
Dan Perdew (Swimming) March 18, 2008
Evan Hsiao (Swimming) March 9, 2008
Eric Rubens (Men's Tennis) February 27, 2008
Melissa Ward (Softball) February 20, 2008
Cameron Sprowles (Fencing) February 13, 2008
Kim Hockett (Women's Water Polo) February 6, 2008
Trevor Decker (Baseball) January 31, 2008
Jordan Lawley (Men's Basketball) January 23, 2008
Jason Spangler (Men's Volleyball) January 5, 2008
Andrew Skewes (Men's Diving) December 26, 2007
Alexis Gaskin (Women's Basketball) December 17, 2007
Aubrey Panis (Women's Swimming) December 2, 2007
Andrew Hatch (Men's Basketball) November 26, 2007
Kevin Klein (Men's Cross Country) November 12, 2007
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Ichiro Suzuki had four hits in his return to Japan, Dustin Ackley homered and then singled in the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics, 3-1, last night in baseball's season opener.
Felix Hernandez combined with two relievers on a six-hitter as Major League Baseball opened its season in Tokyo for the fourth time.
Seattle and Oakland complete their two-game series today. The rest of the big-league teams start to get going April 4, when the renamed Miami Marlins open their new ballpark against the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Ackley homered in the fourth off Brandon McCarthy, and Oakland's Kurt Suzuki doubled in a run in the bottom half. The score remained 1-1 until the 11th, when Brendan Ryan doubled against Andrew Carignan (0-1), Chone Figgins sacrificed and Ackley singled to center.
"I was able to put a good swing on that one," Ackley said of his 11th-inning hit. "Our team is off to a good start, and that's all that matters."
Jerry Blevins relieved, Ackley stole second, and Ichiro singled for a two-run lead. Brandon League closed it out for the save.
Tom Wilhelmsen (1-0) got the win with two hitless innings.
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes, who signed a $36 million, four-year contract with Oakland, was 1 for 3 with a seventh-inning double and two strikeouts in his major league debut.
A capacity crowd of 44,227 at Tokyo Dome was a sea of flashbulbs every time Ichiro came to bat. He got a standing ovation when he took his position in right field in the final inning.
Ichiro, dropped from leadoff to third in the batting order as he started his 12th big-league season, singled in the first when be beat shortstop Cliff Pennington's throw after his grounder over the mound was deflected by McCarthy.


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Safe Home Village was established by Church of Christ evangelist John Travis in 2004 with the help and support of small group of Christian couples that were all young married couples in Kansas City in the 1980's. This group started a non-profit that partnered with Safe Home Founder John Travis following an introduction by Ron Pottberg, a representative of World Bible School who had known Mr. Travis for some time.
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An amazingly viewful dinner at OXO Harvey Nicks was our welcome to London Tuesday night. The meal for media was in a restaurant high a tower on the south bank of the Thames with great city views of St. Paul's and the river traffic far below.
En route into the city from our Heathrow Marriott Hotel we learned about the inner city Congestion Zone, a plan that has kept central London more or less free from traffic snarls. Built long before cars came into existence its streets are narrow and parking if difficult to say the least.
An 8-pound fee (about $13) is assessed to motorists during working hours and it's enforced by remote cameras that record license plates. Those who don't pay are fined 80 pounds (about $100) So needless to say that encourages people to use public transportation, which includes the legendary tube or Underground — a subway system that works quite efficiently and goes everywhere. The per ride charge is about 4 pounds, but residents and those who use if more than once or twice can get a pass that costs significantly less.
This morning motorcoaches transported our group of writers 90 minutes to Southampton, a busy English Channel port city where Celebrity's Equinox was at anchor. We've spent the afternoon exploring the ship, and discovering its many beautiful and interesting spaces. We have a veranda, perfectly amazing shower and many intuitive touches A deck 5 espresso bar was heavensent for our jetlag.
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ALBI, France: Slovakian Peter Sagan dominated a bunch sprint to win the seventh stage of the Tour de France on Friday as South African Daryl Impey defended the race leader's yellow jersey.
Sagan, last year's winner of the race's green jersey points competition, surged in the final 150 metres of the 205.5km stage from Montpellier to Albi to claim his first win of the 100th edition.
Germany's John Degenkolb (Argos) and Italian Daniele Bennati (Saxo) finished a bike length behind in second and third respectively.
It ends a frustrating first week for Sagan, who has narrowly missed out on sprint wins on four occasions.
"The team did an incredible job and I want to thank them all," said Sagan.
"I hope today's win gives an answer to all the fans who had criticised me and the team on the internet. Now the pressure is off."
A day before the first of two consecutive stages in the Pyrenees, a combination of the climbs and the pace in the peloton proved too much for sprinters Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel.
Both were dropped in succession on the second of the day's four small climbs, and when the news filtered through to Sagan he put his troops on the front of the main bunch and ordered them to hit full gas.
It left Cavendish and Greipel, who won stages five and six respectively, in an 84-strong group which flirted with missing the time cut-off limit.
The late arrivals crossed the finish nearly 15 minutes in arrears, but Cavendish was unperturbed.
"Over half the peloton was dropped on that climb," said the Manxman. "It was difficult."
He added: "There's still a lot of sprint stages, especially the last stage on the Champs Elysees."
German veteran Jens Voigt (RadioShack) and Frenchman Blel Kadri (ALM) lit up the early stages with an attack inside the first 20 km, the pair building a maximum lead of 6min 50sec on the main peloton over undulating terrain.
But as Sagan set his sights on the points from the intermediate sprint, and other riders came to the front to help the chase, the pair were eventually reeled in just after the 114km mark.
Sagan took the 20 points by winning the sprint at the 135km mark, but soon after Cannondale were put to work again.
Sitting only 33sec behind Impey overall, Jan Bakelants attacked in a bid to regain possession of the yellow jersey and was joined by Cyril Gautier and Juan Oroz.
For a spell it looked like Impey, with only Orica-GreenEdge teammate Michael Albasini to help him, was in danger of losing the lead.
But the South African maintained his composure as Cannondale's efforts eventually helped close a gap that had never got above the 60-second mark.
Impey admitted the second climb that had snared many of the sprinters had tested his resolve: "There was a moment on the second climb that the pressure was on, but we handled it pretty well," said the 28-year-old.
"But I was happy to see the top of that climb, that's for sure."
The escapees' bid ended with just under 4km to race.
"I had great legs today, but unfortunately the last 10 kilometres were into a headwind," lamented Bakelants, who wore the yellow jersey for one day after stage two.
In the closing kilometre Argos, whose main sprinter Marcel Kittel was left trailing with Cavendish and Greipel, set up the lead-out train for Degenkolb.
But their timing was flawed. Degenkolb powered to the finish but hit top speed well before the line, leaving Sagan to surge past in triumph and reinforce his grip on the sprinters' top prize.
Sagan now has a lead of over 100 pts in the points competition, but said the green jersey was far from secure.
"So far the first seven days have gone very well, but we still have to get through the next 14," he added.


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However, I tried careful adjustments of noise and detail in Topaz Denoise 5, following the advice in their video tutorial that says to zero all of the ACR controls, not just of sharpening and noise reduction, but of all other controls.
So, exactly how are you determining the results between ACR/LR and Denoise 5? Are you making prints...at 100% of the native file size? You know one of the best noise reduction techniques is to downsample and image? As far as evaluating images on screen, you realize the shortcomings of that, right?...But, to put all settings to zero in ACR/LR? Nope, no friggin' way would I do that. Really backwards (and makes me suspect their motives).


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The Harvard men's water polo team has opened the season with a 4-5 record (Gil Talbot).
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Max Eliot scored seven times to lead the Harvard men's water polo team to a 1-2 record at the North-South tournament in Annapolis, Md. Sept. 17-18. The tournament featured matchups of Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) North Division teams against CWPA South Division squads in 26 games over three days. The Crimson downed Mercyhurst, 17-8, but fell to Bucknell, 18-8, and Navy's 'B' team, 10-8.
In Harvard's tournament opener, Bucknell featured six players who scored multiple times as they blitzed to a 5-0 lead after one quarter and 9-3 at halftime. The Bison won its third consecutive game to start the season.
William Roller netted a hat trick for the Crimson and Kevin DiSilvestro and goalie Alexandre Popp added two assists apiece.
Harvard ended day one of the tournament with a split after a scoring outburst against Mercyhurst. Nine Crimson players scored in the win and five had multiple goals. Eliot found the back of the net four times and Popp added three assists to lead Harvard.
In the tournament finale, the Crimson could not overcome an early deficit against Navy's 'B' team. The Midshipmen jumped to leads of 2-0 after the first quarter, 3-2 at halftime and 7-5 going into the fourth quarter.
John Holland-McCowan had a hat trick against Navy to become the third player in three games to score at least three goals for the Crimson.
Harvard will continue its run of road matches with games at Iona and Fordham Sept. 24. The Crimson will have played its first 11 games away from home before opening at Blodgett with games against MIT Oct. 7 and Brown Oct. 8.


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Engineering is the application of math and science to create something of value from our natural resources. If we look carefully we would find that everything is engineering i.e. from transistors to cell phones, from cycles to rockets, from fans to microwaves, from roads to dams, from computer chips to artificial limbs and the list is unending. Theodore Von Karman, an aerospace engineer, put it nicely when he said, Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was. It is a branch of science, which deals with innovation. It helps in development of new methods of solutions and analysis for open-ended, complex and unique problems.
Engineering is a kind of expertise, which open the doors to many careers. Engineers work with structures, tools, chemicals, metals etc. They repair, modify and build the hardware of life by using their technical skills and scientific principles.


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Action Cancer
Action Cancer's dedicated team of staff and volunteers work across the whole of Northern Ireland helping to save lives and support people affected by cancer.
Registered Charity No. XN48533View website Watch video
Against Breast Cancer
Against Breast Cancer is a charity dedicated to funding ground breaking research to improve detection and increase survival after breast cancer diagnosis.
Our expert scientists use one of the largest collections of breast cancer patient samples in the UK to look for vital information that could identify the spread of the disease.
More women are surviving breast cancer every year. Against Breast Cancer's research looks at the whole woman through three interlinked areas of research -
biochemistry, immunology, and diet and lifestyle.
The charity's research is studying new ways that could help doctors identify and treat secondary breast cancer faster and more effectively and our ultimate aim is to find a vaccine.
Our national Diet & Lifestyle study is one of the largest in the world looking at the effects of diet, lifestyle and complementary treatments on breast cancer and long-term survival. Your support is vital for Against Breast Cancer to continue its innovative research to develop ways to improve detection and survival after diagnosis so women and men can look forward to a future free of breast cancer.
Registered Charity No. 1121258View website Watch video
Anthony Nolan
Anthony Nolan is the only UK charity to help provide lifesaving transplants to people with blood cancer.
Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is told they have a blood cancer, such as leukaemia. For many of these people, a bone marrow transplant is their only chance of a cure. Your support could help give them that chance.
Every day, we use our register to match incredible individuals willing to donate their bone marrow to people in desperate need of a transplant. But we can only find a matching donor for half the people who come to us. And that's where you come in.
Your gifts could help add more bone marrow donors to our register, find more matches - and save more lives.
Registered Charity No. 803716/SC038827View website Watch video
We're here to beat blood cancer
We fund world-class research and offer expert information and support to anyone affected by leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancer related disorders.
Registered Charity No. 216032 (England and Wales) SCO37529 (Scotland)View website Watch video
Bowel and Cancer Research
B&CR is a unique organisation with three principle aims. The first is to improve survival rates for bowel cancer sufferers through research into the complex way that cancer behaves in individual patients. The second is to investigate the causes, effects and treatment of bowel disorders other than cancer which are currently poorly understood. The third is, through pioneering innovations in surgery, to improve the quality of life of patients suffering a range of bowel disorders who may otherwise need to rely upon a stoma(bag).
Registered Charity No. 1119105View website Watch video
Bowel Cancer UK
Bowel Cancer UK is the UK's leading bowel cancer charity. We're determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. Every 15 minutes someone is diagnosed, that's almost 42,000 people every year. Bowel cancer is the UK's second biggest cancer killer with more than 16,000 people in the UK dying every year. However it shouldn't be because it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone survives bowel cancer if diagnosed at the earliest stage. However this drops significantly as it develops. Early diagnosis really does save lives.
Bowel Cancer UK support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care. Our vision is a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer but we can't achieve this alone. Support us. Take action. Because you can help save lives. Today.
Registered Charity No. 1071038View website Watch video
Breast Cancer Now
We're excited to announce Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now are uniting to create one charity for everyone affected by breast cancer. From April 2019, we'll be the UK's first comprehensive breast cancer charity.
From research to care, our new charity will have people affected by breast cancer at its heart – providing support for today and hope for the future. United, we'll have the ability to carry out even more world-class research, provide even more life-changing support and campaign even more effectively for better services and care.
Registered Charity No. England & Wales (No. 1160558)View website Watch video
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is working to reduce the impact of cancer in Northern Ireland.
- Over 3,600 people die from cancer every year in Northern Ireland.
- 1 in 3 local people will develop some form of cancer.
- Thanks to earlier diagnosis and improved treatments, more & more people are surviving cancer.
- There are currently 39,000 people in Northern Ireland living with cancer.
Your donations will fight cancer in Northern Ireland by:
- Providing care for local cancer patients and their families.
- Funding local, cutting edge research to improve treatments for cancer patients.
- Reducing the risk of cancer and promoting early diagnosis by providing education and awareness programmes.
Registered Charity No. NIC101307View website Watch video
Cancer Fund for Children
Cancer Fund for Children is Northern Ireland's leading children's cancer charity, providing practical, financial and therapeutic support to children and young people living with cancer.
Our team are here to listen and to help the whole family cope with the impact cancer has on their lives and support them every step of the way, from diagnosis right through treatment.
By supporting us, YOU are making sure that these families don't have to face cancer alone.
Registered Charity No. NI049930View website Watch video
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK pioneers life- saving research to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.
Our groundbreaking research into the prevention, control and treatment of cancer has seen survival rates double in the last 40 years. But we can't stop there as sadly it is still the case that more than 1 in 3 of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives.
We are fighting for a world where no one's life is cut short by cancer. And we can only do this with the support of people like you.
Registered Charity No. 1089464 and Scotland SC041666View website Watch video
CLIC Sargent
CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families.
We provide clinical, practical and emotional support to help them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.
Due to a lack of funds, we are only able to help two out of three children and young people who need us.
Please help us to be there for more children and young people with cancer by setting up a tax free regular gift direct from your salary.
Registered Charity No. England 1107328 & Scotland SC039857View website Watch video
Everyman Appeal
The Everyman Appeal is a fundraising campaign set up by and in aid of The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) to further our research into male-specific cancers.
Every year some 10,000 men lose their lives to prostate cancer and over 2,000 others have their world turned upside down by a diagnosis of testicular cancer. These men are the reason why we established the Everyman Appeal in 1997 and they're the reason we're still fundraising for male-specific cancers today.
The Everyman Appeal has been a huge success. It has so far raised over £10 million to support the work of the ICR's scientists in investigating the causes of these diseases, and developing treatments and better methods of diagnosis. By supporting the Everyman Appeal you will help the ICR continue this work and make a real impact on cancer patients' lives.View website Watch video
Friends of the Cancer Centre - Northern Ireland
Friends of the Cancer Centre has a long and proud history of helping local cancer patients across Northern Ireland for over 30 years.
Based at the heart of the Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital, the charity funds life-saving and life-changing projects that make a real and lasting difference to the lives of thousands of local people affected by cancer and in the last year alone, Friends of the Cancer Centre has put £1.2 million back into local cancer services.
Everything we do to support local cancer patients relies on our wonderful supporters who raise vital funds for us.
The good news is that the only limit to what you can do to raise money is your imagination. You can take part in one of our own events such as our Take on the Tower Abseil, Belvoir Walk and Slieve Donard Challenge, or get your family and friends together to organise your own fundraising event at home. You can also support us when you're at work by taking us on as your charity partner, taking on one of our events as a team, or by holding your own event with colleagues.
To give you some inspiration, take a look at our Be Inspired section below and feel free to contact our fundraising team at any time if you have a fundraising idea that we can support you with.
Registered Charity No. NIC101345View website Watch video
Hope for Tomorrow
Hope for Tomorrow is a dedicated charity, bringing cancer care closer to patients' homes via our Mobile Chemotherapy Units (MCUs).
As a cancer charity, we understand that time is a crucial factor for patients, and in 2007 we launched the world's first ever MCU to bring vital cancer care closer to patients, enabling them to spend more time with family, friends and loved ones.
We develop, build, provide and maintain MCUs to support patients who are going through Chemotherapy by alleviating the stresses and strains of travelling for appointments, along with reducing hospital waiting times.
Working in a unique partnership with the NHS, we now have 11 MCUs operational in Gloucestershire, Somerset, South Wiltshire, Hampshire, East Kent, Lincolnshire, North Wiltshire, Cornwall, West Suffolk, East Essex and London/ Surrey, with two reserve MCUs in place to ensure continuity of service during the maintenance schedule. We also provide a Nurses Support Vehicle with each MCU, which allows the nursing team to travel to and from the daily treatment locations.
Since the launch of the first MCU in 2007, the charity has saved patients a total of over 2,000,000 miles and over 170,000 hours of travel and waiting time.
The charity won a Queen's Award for Enterprise – Innovation, in 2016. The Award is the UK's highest accolade for business success, and was made in recognition of our achievements since the Founder, Christine Mills MBE, set up Hope for Tomorrow in 2003.
Registered Charity No. 1094677View website Watch video
27 people are diagnosed with leukaemia every day in the UK. Thats nearly 10,000 people every year who face the battle against this terrible disease.
At Leuka we invest in ground breaking research to find a cure for leukaemia and other blood cancers.
Until we make this a reality, we are dedicated to translating research into new treatments as quickly as possible, so patients can live better, longer lives.
Our founding chairman was Professor John Goldman, a pioneer in bone marrow transplantation for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) who wanted to bring the latest research breakthroughs from bench to bedside as quickly as possible. We started in Hammersmith hospital in 1982 and today, we support innovative cancer researchers all across the UK.
With your help, we will beat leukaemia.
Registered Charity No. 1154856View website
Leukaemia UK
Someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 14 minutes.
That's more than 34,000 people every year.
At Leukaemia UK, we understand that behind every diagnosis are families and individuals who need help.
We will support those affected by blood cancer, and their family and friends, through the physical, psychological and financial uncertainty that lies ahead.
For 40 years Leukaemia UK has been working to fund innovative and effective research into finding a cure and better treatments for leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood disorders.
Registered Charity No. 1150414View website Watch video
Macmillan Cancer Support
Being told 'you have cancer' can affect so much more than your health – it can affect your family, your job, even your ability to pay the bills.
But life with cancer is still life. We get that. And, after over 100 years of helping so many people, we get what's most important: that we treat everyone as a person, not just a patient.
With your help we can do more for people living with cancer, giving each person the support they need to look after all that matters and take care of their health, protect personal relationships and deal with work and money worries.
We want to help everyone with cancer find their best way through, from the moment of diagnosis, so they're able to live life as fully as they can. You can be someone who makes that happen.
Registered charity in England and Wales (261017), Scotland (SC039907) and the Isle of Man (604). Also operating in Northern Ireland.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie is here to help anyone with a terminal illness.
Marie Curie Nurses work night and day, in people's homes across the UK, providing hands-on care and vital emotional support. If you're living with a terminal illness, they can help you stay surrounded by the people you care about most, in the place where you're most comfortable.
Our hospices offer the reassurance of specialist care and support, in a friendly, welcoming environment, for people living with a terminal illness and their loved ones –whether you're staying in the hospice, or just coming in for the day.
Through our information and Support services we help everyone affected by a terminal illness get the information and support they need, whether you have an illness yourself or you're a family member or friend.
We'll be by your side with care and support every step of the way, bringing light in the darkest hours.
Registered Charity No. 207994 and in Scotland Reg No. SC038731View website Watch video
Myeloma UK
Registered as a charity in 1997, Myeloma UK is the leading UK cancer organisation dealing specifically with myeloma and its related disorders. Our broad and innovative range of services cover every aspect of myeloma, from information and support to improving standards of treatment and care through research, education, campaigning and raising awareness. Our strategy is to take an integrated approach to systematically address the barriers and challenges that are slowing down myeloma research and the development of, and access to, new treatments, optimal care, information and support.
Registered Charity No. SC0 26116View website Watch video
Ovarian Cancer Action
Currently, a woman dies of ovarian cancer every two hours in the UK.
Ovarian Cancer Action is the UK's leading ovarian cancer charity, dedicated to improving the survival rates of this disease.
We do this by funding world-class research at the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre based at Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital, by funding symptoms awareness campaigns aimed at women and healthcare professionals, and by giving people affected by the disease a voice, encouraging them to become advocates of the disease with policy makers, healthcare professionals and scientist.
Registered Charity No. 1109743View website Watch video
Pancreatic Cancer Action
Pancreatic Cancer Action are a national charity dedicated to saving lives by improving early diagnosis and the quality of survival for those diagnosed. The charity's approach is to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer to the public, the medical community and Government, provide education and training on pancreatic cancer to medical professionals and fund research specifically into improving early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
The charity's ultimate goal is to ensure that more patients are diagnosed at early stage so that they have the best chance of survival.
Registered Charity No. 1137689View website Watch video
Pancreatic Cancer UK
Pancreatic cancer is the 5th most common cause of cancer in the UK, but it has the lowest survival rate of the 21 most common cancers.
Out of 100 patients diagnosed only four patients will survive for five years or more.
Pancreatic Cancer UK is here to change all of that.
Our vision is a long and good life for everyone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic Cancer UK is the only national charity fighting pancreatic cancer on all fronts: Support, Information, Campaigning and Research.
Our flagship campaign, the Campaign for Hope has two simple goals; to double five-year survival rates within five years and change the experience of pancreatic cancer patients from one of the worst to one of the best. We work with MPs, Ministers, policy makers and health professionals to ensure that pancreatic cancer is high on the NHS agenda and we support people affected by pancreatic cancer to make their voice heard in parliament.
We provide hope by funding innovative research in to the causes of pancreatic cancer, better diagnosis and improved treatments. And we help people cope with a diagnosis by providing information and emotional support.
Your support could help us fund our vital work, to improve the lives of people with pancreatic cancer and their families.
Registered Charity No. 1112708View website Watch video
Penny Brohn Cancer Care
Penny Brohn Cancer Care is the leading charity in the UK specialising in a Whole Person Approach to cancer. We recognise that cancer affects the mind, body, spirit and emotions and we offer support in each of these areas. We do this through our courses, groups and individual therapies, helping people live as well as they can with the impacts of cancer. Our services are free of charge but we rely on donations to support our work.
Registered Charity No. 284881View website Watch video
Prostate Cancer UK
Prostate Cancer UK fights to help more men survive prostate cancer and enjoy a better quality of life. We support men and provide vital information. We find answers by funding research into causes and treatments. And we lead change, raising the profile of the disease and improving care. We believe that men deserve better.
Our purpose
To help more men survive prostate cancer and enjoy a better quality of life.
What we want
The best diagnosis and treatment for all men, to cure or to prolong life without unpleasant side effects.
New brand
We have chosen a new name and a new look to reach more men and speak more forcefully. By raising our voice we will raise the profile of prostate cancer much higher.
Registered Charity No. England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332)View website Watch video
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation gives help and hope to people affected by lung cancer.
The charity has a dual focus - saving lives and supporting people living with lung cancer. It saves lives through funding research, helping people to quit smoking & encouraging young people not to start smoking, campaigning for better outcomes for lung cancer patients and raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis. It supports people living with lung cancer by providing information materials to the NHS, running lung cancer support groups across the UK, supporting nurses, providing patient relief grants and offering telephone and online support.
Registered Charity No. England & Wales 1046854 - Scotland SC037596View website Watch video
St Raphael's Hospice
St Raphael's Hospice offers the best of palliative care to terminally ill patients living in Wimbledon, Merton, Sutton and Cheam. The Hospice is completely free of charge to its patients, regardless of the extent of services they receive and patients of all faith or none are welcome at St Raphael's. Our services include Home Care, a Day Care centre and an In-patient centre. The cost of providing our Hospice service has now reached over £50,000 each week, and we depend on the generosity of our supporters to enable that care to continue.
Registered Charity No. 1068661View website
Teenage Cancer Trust
Most of us have been affected by cancer but for a young person the diagnosis is particularly cruel. Through our staff and specialist wards Teenage Cancer Trust's aim is to be there for every one of them – but for every one we help right now there's another we can't.
We rely on generous support to continue our vital work so please help us make sure every teenager and young person with cancer gets the care they deserve.
Registered Charity No. 1062559View website Watch video
Tenovus Cancer Care
If you have cancer or you're close to someone who has, it can be frightening and stressful. We can help.
We bring treatment, emotional support and practical advice to where it matters most; the heart of the community.
Tenovus Cancer Care is here to help you cope, and through our vital research, we offer hope. We're the leading cancer charity in Wales and, whenever you need us, we're here.
Registered Charity No. 1054015View website Watch video
The Elimination of Leukaemia Fund
Registered Charity No. 282886View website Watch video
The Eve Appeal
Every year a million women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer worldwide.
In the UK,18,000 women are diagnosed and nearly 7,500 women die every year. And yet, awareness and funding of gynaecological cancers remains low.
The Eve Appeal is determined to change this by funding
vital research to develop effective methods of prediction, detection, treatment and care that will help save women's lives.
Our vision is simple:A future where fewer women develop and more women survive gynaecological cancers.
Registered Charity No. 1091708View website Watch video
The Institute of Cancer Research
It's hard to know what the future might bring but we do know that cancer is something that touches us all. Over the past 100 years The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has made some of the most important and ground-breaking discoveries in cancer research. Cancer patients worldwide are receiving life-saving treatments that were discovered and developed by us.
Over 83% of our expenditure directly supports our research activity and our scientists and clinicians are working daily in our labs – in Chelsea and Sutton, London – to make a real impact on cancer patients lives. As one of the world's leading cancer research institutes you can rest assured that by supporting the ICR you will help make the discoveries that defeat cancer and bring hope to future generations of people with cancer.View website Watch video
The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust
The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust is the only UK charity funding medical research specifically into cancer affecting teenagers and young adults, where it can frequently strike in dangerous and complex forms. The Trust also funds measures to improve the quality of life for young cancer patients, both during and in the aftermath of their illnesses. Support is offered to all of the hospitals throughout the UK which treat teenage cancer (currently just 38).
Before the LCYCT was founded in 1996 there was no fund aimed specifically for research into cancer in 13-24 year olds. Research from the funds we raise will bring increased understanding of cancer in this age group, improved treatments and ultimately more young lives will be saved.
The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust supports measures to improve the quality of life for teenage cancer patients during their frequent and debilitating stays in hospitals. Teenagers are an age group onto themselves and require occupational and social activities to help keep up their motivation, which is so desperately needed to fight their illness and cope with the harsh regimes of treatment and the isolation from school, friends and family that it brings.
Registered Charity No. 1138003View website Watch video
World Cancer Research Fund 1000739
Registered Charity No. 1000739View website Watch video
Worldwide Cancer Research
Worldwide Cancer Research is a UK charity that funds ground-breaking cancer research projects around the world. By investing in the pioneering ideas of today, we are finding life-saving new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer for tomorrow. As 1 in 2 people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime, you, your family, or your friends may benefit from the research youre supporting.
Registered Charity No. SC022918View website Watch video


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Take a look at the character Jennifer Coolidge plays in the 2014 movie adaption of the film and you will get an idea of the fun and silliness you are in for with the book it is based on... you can imagine yourself in the drawing room, taking part in the shenanigans of the characters at this imme... Read More »
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Characters: 8/10
Plot: 8/10
Writing: 9/10
Great for the Austen-lover (and the movie is fun too!).
A light and funny read, much better than the movie. The movie was very odd and left me extremely weirded out. But that was not the case with this novel. It was a nice quick read that I read in one afternoon and still, I enjoyed it. I would recommend it, not whole heartedly, to any Janeite out there. I was never a fan and never will be, of the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth so the references towards it were not enjoyed as I'm guessing they should have been. But all in all, it was a good book; not above that and not below that.
This was better than expected. I was pleasantly surprised because the movie version of this book was SO bad...There are no words to express how bad.
I was intrigued by the premise and I have a friend who loves Jane Austen. I wanted to be able to discuss Jane Austen's influence in popular culture so I read this. I don't usually read romance novels, but I was intrigued enough to give this one a try.
The main character Jane was well crafted, but the writer missed an opportunity with this book. She did not carry the premise all the way. I would have liked more of a "fish out of water" story with descriptions of Regency customs, wardrobe and language and the difficulty of a modern girl in adjusting to them. I would have liked more of anthropological view. Also, I would have appreciated a more in depth look at the conflicts between the actor playing an engagement scene and the real feelings of the participants .
I do admit that the author knows how to write romantic scenes about saying good bye.
Enjoyable, but definitely the kind of book that you skim instead of read intently
The Austen book to end all Austen books! If you've ever watched obsessively that 1995 BBC series with Colin Firth in the wet shirt, then you know what I'm talking about, ladies. Austen is supposed to epitomize romance for a very select group of people and this book is about what happens when ladies get together to celebrate all that is Regency England as laid out by that witty, acerbic lady writer.
Jane's romantic getaway is meant to be both a tonic and a last hurrah. The inner dialogue sizzles as she tries wrestling with supposedly amorous "suitors" and her own yawing emotions. This is a woman on the cusp, one who thinks she's done with men but isn't sure. She needs to get over her Darcy fixation because who could ever measure up to such storied perfection? But it doesn't hurt to linger in the make-believe because that's what this place is meant to be…right?
The book is funny, uncomfortable, a little bit unhappy. But that's all to the good—it takes us on Jane's inner journey from manic fandom to settled and calm womanhood. Like the girl Sarah in "Labyrinth", Jane clings a little too hard and too long to her silly fantasies. But the author manages to engage our sympathies for her. I never felt impatient or infuriated with Jane's sporadic inability to let go of her playacting or false expectations because she tried so hard to overcome them.
For those who adore Austen or despise her, this book is brilliant comic relief. It's undeniably chick-lit but it's about the ultimate chick-lit writer. So who can complain about that?
Three weeks in Austenland, a role-playing vacation destination is just what Jane needs, she thinks, to rid herself of the male ideal (like Mr. Darcy in P&P). Maybe that's what's been keeping her from finding her "one". Once there though, she's by turns uncomfortable with the unreality of it and really into the role-playing. The "gentlemen" are paid actors. She hooks up with the "gardener" and the Darcy-ish Mr. Nobley woos her but is anything real? Does either of these men actually love her? Does she want them to? Each chapter begins with a short blurb about a past boyfriend and a sorry lot they are. It seems she has been duped or dumped in every possible way. Skip the movie, but I thought the novel was fun.
I really wanted to like this book more! Shannon Hale writes wonderful, strong female characters for girls (see The Princess Academy or The Princess in Black). This needed more editing perhaps...and a stronger story overall.
it is a great novel I have read it so many times I lost count, I picked it of the shelf to read in English periods silent reading I really did not have any intention of actually reading but I just could not help it and then I watched the movie and I fell in love with Mr. Nobely. this book also inspired me to read Jane Austen's collection. I have a long way to go till I am done but I also have a lot of time
This novel is great to take on vacation as it is not overly taxing on the reader nor does it demand your full attention. I enjoyed the idea of a vacation resort based on Jane Austen's fictional world, and was pleasantly surprised by the details of Hales portrayal of such a place. However it did not keep turning pages when something more interesting came along on holidays.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little"
"What are you doing?"
"Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly.
It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window.
"Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?"
"You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me.
I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja."
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New year, new job.
So it's a new year and this is the obligatory 'Beginning of the year' post. It's been put off for a while because well I've been a bit busier than normal. The main reason for that is that I'm a few days into a new job. I've left AirDat for a sysadmin position at Glencoe Software.
The 7 Deadly Sysadmin Sins
- chmod 777
- chmod 4755 $file
- setenforce 0
- echo " |passwd –stdin root
- service iptables stop
- echo 'reboot' > /etc/cron.daily/fix-hanging-db.sh
- curl http://randomwebsite/foo.sh | bash
The last one bugs the crap out of me when good software developers assume this is a valid way to install software (outside of your personal machine).
Running a puppetmaster in ec2
I struggled with this for a few days before figuring it out, so I'll post it here in hopes it saves someone a few minutes. When you install puppet and start the puppetmaster (webrick or rack-enabled) it generates a ssl cert for that machine and also generates a CA that you will use to sign all of your clients.
Recent versions of puppet do not add subjectAltNames to the server certificate when it's generated by the puppetmaster process. This means that if you do not use the same name as your masters hostname to connect to puppet you will get a lovely cert mismatch. I posted a question on serverfault about this (here). It looks like the common practice for EC2 in particular is to use a uuid as the certname for each puppet client. This avoids name collisions and problems with hostnames changing everytime the instance is rebooted. It's a little harder to keep track of since they aren't very easy to remember, so caveat emptor.
The psychology of server naming
One of the more hotly debated topics among sysadmins is what to name servers. Some people use this as an outlet for their creativity or pop culture references. Servers named after Lord of the Rings characters, super heros, greek mythology abound. There's a strong push from those of us who have moved past the 'clever' phase of our careers to name machines in logical consistent manners. web0X, db0Y, rackXpduY, all get bandied around and are debated with often the same fervor as Vim vs Emacs (vim for the record). The truth, sadly is that all the good names are taken ™©®. The grizzled veterans who've done time on a VAX will exclaim, "This naming scheme is crap, lets just use IPs, they are immutable." Well for one they are wrong, ips are not immutable. Take a look at EC2, have fun with that. Second humans are bad at remembering numbers, 10 digits is the longest number most people can retain (why phone numbers are that length) and usually not for very long.
Names also provide a very important psychological edge for our poor meat brains. Names allow us to recall information in a similar way that a key allows you to recall information from a database. A message from your alert system saying 'Alert gandalf.example.com is DOWN!' would (in theory) trigger something in your memory. Gandalf is a wizard, that's the master DNS server! This key isn't as good as a more meaningful name but it's a key none the less. I prefer names which are functional and overload information into the rest of the domain. proxy01.atl.example.com tells me very quickly this is a proxy server, it's one of a multinode cluster, likely load balanced, and is located in Atlanta. All of this allows me to asses the situation at hand faster. All of the pertinent details should be written down in a wiki, or some other document source, but the naming gives me a fast way to access that without having to go look it up. 126.96.36.199 is DOWN only tells me something is broken, not how important, how impacting or anything about it. Maybe that's a dev box or 1 node in a 40 node cluster, but I don't know that (unless I just memorize it which stresses the meat brain) until I look it up.
Consistency is the key, I don't in general like 'clever' names not because they are unprofessional or silly, but because they only mean something to the person who came up with it. I know why I named the database 'pearl' (bonus points to anyone that guesses), but my other team members might not and likely that someone coming behind me wouldn't either. I'm a huge fan of code names and clever names for software / service names / etc just not machine names. Here are some of the conventions I use.
Multinode clusters are numbered 2 digit starting at 01.
10 servers in a web cluster, web01 – web10. Using 2 digit precision gives you 99 machines before you end up changing field sizes.
Short hostnames are the most common functional purpose.
Sometimes it's ok to call it a server and put more information into the sub domain. 'Web' in general sucks, it's too generic and means very little, what does it 'do'.
If you think they'll be more than one, name it 01.
Don't use a sequential numbering system for unrelated things.
If you have two webservers that serve different content/services/etc don't name them web01 / web02. This creates a logical grouping of those two machines which are not actually tied together from a service standpoint. I've heard of shared filesystems being named fs01, fs02, fs03, fs04, etc. They aren't related other than that they are all shared filesystems, why are you grouping them into something that looks like a cluster. People assume that 1 is related to 2 to 3 to 4. Put some thought into it and give it a name based on what it does or what's important about it.
Use A / B notation for duality relationships.
I name my netapp filers: filer01a / filer01b. They are both addressable services but provide failover for each other. There will never be a 'c' since netapp doesn't support wheel based failover. They are a matched set, so they are named as such. A vs B gives less cardinality than 1 vs 2 and that's a good thing.
Use subdomains in a consistent manner to produce a lightweight hierarchy of information.
proxy01.www.internal.nyc.example.com lets me denote physical location, security context (internal), content type (www), and functional purpose (proxy) all in one name. Granted this assumes a high degree of machine / service separation and may not work for everything, but you can use that name to store quickly accessible information.
Order is important, remember that.
In english we read left to right. Information is ordered in that direction as well. Put the thing you care about most (or quickest) to the left and less immediate information flows to the right). database01.hr.alt tells me it's a database (important!), it's part of a cluster (less important than being a db but still relevant), HR database (eeek will I get paid?!), and finally location which may not matter (alt is a backup site, I can deal with that later). Order frames your response into the correct context. database.atl.hr.clusternode1 tells me this machine is a database (important), in Atlanta (wait that's the dr site I might not care right away), it's HR (wait we don't have a primary b/c it died last week), and that it's a clusternode. Is this better or worse? Depends on the context, order is important.
The crux of the whole point is that names are useful things, humans name things not because they want to be clever but because it's an effective way to partition information about something without having to memorize it all. It comes down to the difference between knowing something and memorizing it. You design a convention and stick to that convention until it doesn't work, then you redefine that convention. The convention saves you time but only if everyone 'gets' the convention or it can be easily explained. If your convention is a complicated scheme involving lollipop guild chairmen's you are requiring the audience to have immediate intrinsic knowledge of Mid 1930's Judy Garland films, which is the same as asking them to look it up.
The horrible state of ruby in a production environment.
As a long time perl guy I was attracted by ruby. It's very perl like method chaining is extremely useful and intuitive. I like ruby, but the state of ruby applications in a production environment is horrible. There are plenty of really good tools out there for ruby developers. Vagrant, sahara, bundler, capistrano, etc the list goes on. RVM and rbenv are two really good alternatives for maintaining your development environment in a sane manner. We are in the stone ages when it comes time to go to production. Distro support for ruby is shaky at best. Most places are still running centos/rhel5 which leaves them with ruby 1.8.5 or if lucky ruby 1.8.7. If you've upgraded to a rhel6-ish you're fortunate enough to get wait… ruby 1.8.7. I'm not as familiar with debian but I'm fairly certain it's 1.8. Ubuntu has an available 1.9.1 package but that's officially a beta version, plus most indications is that it's extremely buggy. As of writing ruby is on 1.9.3. When it comes to rubygems the situation is even worse. Most 'best practices' recommend managing everything with gems. This introduces a world of pain especially when you start installing things that are based on ruby but provide shell level commands (rackup, unicorn, etc). Now you've got two package managers trying to determine the state of a system, but one of them only knows about one part of it. It's a mess. Read more…
puppet and vim
I've been using vi/vim for nearly my entire professional life, and most of my computer life as well. I gave emacs an honest try for a couple of days a few years ago but just couldn't grok the shortcuts and make it feel natural. Recently I overhauled my setup on my laptop and in specific tuned to to what I generally spend a lot of development time on… puppet.
Read more…
oh hey, look! New blog…
I make no promises, I probably won't update this iteration any more frequently than I did my old blog. But i am going to try, whatever that's worth. Why the move? A couple of things. Mainly I got really tired of having to upgrade wordpress every time I wanted to use it. So I'm lazy and will let wordpress.com do it for me. This also frees up my slicehost for some other things I want to do with it, hopefully the results of that will end up here. My tiny slicehost was getting hammered by bing and google whenever they did indexing. Mysql would freak out apache would refuse to keep up and things would spiral. It was annoying. If you read this regularly (all 2 of you) you saw a 'shoo' page up for a while, this was me seeing if the spider/mysql interaction was the culprit of my slicehost panicking about once a week. Turns out it was, or it's plausible enough to be a reason. I never really liked running mysql just for a tiny blog on a little server anyway. So here we are. I'm actually going to try to blog more, now that my job is new and exciting and I'm doing some interesting things rather than trying to figure out the best way to gouge my eyes out during a meeting I hopefully will have some interesting (at least to me) things to talk about.
If I've done something horrible to the rss feed or anything let me know in the comments. I'll likely leave the redirect around for a while, I doubt that I'll shell out for the domain premium, especially considering wordpress.com want's you to move registration rather than just an A record…. Hello? No.
The new address is https://onastick.wordpress.com hopefully I'll do more with it.


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The next time anyone tells you that an increase in gasoline prices (say, as part of a carbon-tax or a cap-and-trade system) would generate unbearable costs to consumers, think again. The Los Angeles Times reports something that I have often seen but never really thought through: gasoline stations often a couple block away from each other have radically different prices:
Known in the industry as zone pricing, the controversial practice was apparent one afternoon when Culver City resident Michael Denis, on a jaunt to downtown Los Angeles, stopped at a Chevron station to feed his Fiat 500 some gasoline at $4.69 a gallon.
About four miles away, Lupe Alfaro was filling her Toyota Camry with Chevron gasoline but was paying $3.89 a gallon.
The two motorists were buying the same grade of gasoline, which more than likely came from the same refinery in El Segundo. Yet the prices they paid differed by 80 cents a gallon, or by more than $10 to fill an average 13-gallon tank.
I can confirm this in my own Westside neighborhood. Today I drove down San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood and found: Conserv Fuel at $3.59; Chevron at $3.75; Union 76 at $4.39; and Exxon/Mobil at $4.59 — all within one mile of each other.
The Times says that this disparity stems from two things: 1) "zone pricing", in which refiners sell at different prices to different stations "based on a host of closely guarded factors, such as nearby competition, traffic volume and station amenities"; and 2) consumer preferences for different gasoline brands and station characteristics.
Consider me highly skeptical. The Times reports concedes that these policies are unheard of in just about every other retail business, and I see no reason why shoppers are more brand picky about gasoline than in any other retail product; if anything, they are probably less so.
Instead, there are two more feasible explanations in my view. First, this could be a method of price-fixing among refiners. At the very least, this should something that the California Attorney General should look at quite carefully.
Second, it might simply be another example of competition not working very well to reduce prices. Consumers in convenience-type areas just don't do much comparison shopping. That's their right, of course, but let's not say that the Magic Of The Marketplace will automatically create lower prices for all.
In any event, let's repeat the moral of the story at the beginning of the post: the next time someone tells you about the disaster that a carbon tax would create because it would raise the price of gasoline, you are allowed to tell them to stuff it.


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Pangnirtung is a hamlet on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It serves as one of the starting points for trekkers departing for the Akshayuk Pass in Auyuittuq National Park- the other being Qikiqtarjuaq.
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First Air [1] and Canadian North [2] offer daily scheduled flights to Pangnirtung from Iqaluit.
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There are two trails suitable for day hikes.
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The only public eating establishment in town is a fast food court at Northern Store supermarket.
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Pangnirtung is a dry town. No alcohol is sold in town and guests at the Auyuittuq Lodge are prohibited from bringing alcohol to the hotel.
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The only lodging in town is Auyuittuq Lodge [3], 867-473-8955. It has 11 double rooms with shared bathrooms. Single travelers may find themselves sharing a room with a stranger in time of high demand.
The lodge serves breakfast (6.30-9.30am), lunch (12-1pm), and dinner (6-7pm on weekdays, 5-6pm on weekends) to guests. It is not open to the public.
There is an official camp site (without any facilities) near the mouth of the Duval River.
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Well, another year is just about over, and what a year it's been for the MCAD industry. Let's qualify that statement, though. Busy, yes. Innovative and disruptive? With relatively few exceptions, not so much.
Granted, a lot went on, but the magnitude of the events just seemed smaller this year than in recent years past.
With that said, let's take a brief look at some of the major things that did transpire in 2012:
Technology Advancements
There were a number of incremental technological advances, but the two that really caught our eye this year were:
Direct modeling that continues to attract proponents from a list of MCAD vendors that continues to grow every year, and 2012 was no exception.
Reverse engineering and 3D modeling contained in one package — Geomagic Spark — an innovative scan-to-cad platform that incorporates SpaceClaim as its CAD engine.
Autodesk acquired HSMWorks (CAM software),Inforbix (PLM software). To complement its "virtual prototyping" initiative, Autodesk also acquired Qontext and its enterprise social collaboration software technology.
3D Systems continued its buying binge that began a couple years ago by acquiring Z Corp., Vidar, Rapidform, Viztu Technologies, FreshFiber, and a couple major service providers.
PTC acquired Servigistics for its service lifecycle management (SLM) software that could change how traditional PLM is viewed.
New Computing Platforms
Although not really new, tablets continued to make their way into the tool palette for designers and engineers. They are still used mostly for viewing and markup, but some interesting sketching, conceptual design, and rudimentary simulation showed up on tables in 2012. The future of tablet engineering software applications is tied closely to the next category, the cloud.
The Cloud
It wasn't all that long ago that an MCAD executive referred to the cloud as "mere vapor," but that is rapidly changing as real engineering applications become available.
Autodesk 360 is a cloud computing platform suite of services that include PLM, simulation, rendering, and conceptual design. Will these cloud-based services ultimately replace traditional applications that reside on users' computers? That remains to be seen, although Autodesk has not made a definitive statement one way or the other.
Kenesto is a cloud-based service for social business and process collaboration. A socially oriented PLM, if you will that is an interesting approach. With Michael Payne and Steve Bodnar on board, this company and technology could be poised to go places.
3D Printing
This segment of the larger rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing industry really took off, thanks largely to MakerBot's Replicator 2 machine. 3D printers distinguish themselves by being lower in cost (less than $5,000), but also (for the most part) producing less than stellar parts.
A New Kid on the Block?
Several of the founders and early employees of SolidWorks, including Jon Hirschtick, Dave Corcoran, Scott Harris, and John McEleney are back together again. They have formed a company with a venture known as Belmont Technology. What they are up to remains to be seen, but there is strong speculation that they are developing an innovative approach to 3D design (no surprise there). Absolutely no details have been disclosed to date, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a cloud-based platform. This will be one to watch as an encore from some very smart guys.
The Future
That's anybody's guess, but look for huge news from DS SolidWorks, starting with the product announcement(s) it is likely to make at its annual user conference in late January. Expect to see more of a presence of Solid Edge in the MCAD market. Autodesk should make its intentions more clearly known on its future software offerings — whether they will be on-premise, cloud-based, or a combination of the two. 3D printing will continue to proliferate because of prices that continue to plummet and quality that incrementally improves. Interoperability will continue to be a major challenge for mixed CAD environments. Look for more native engineering software available on the Mac platform.
Whatever happens in 2013, the technical/engineering software industry will continue to be a fascinating and vital place to be, and I'm glad to be a part of it.


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LONDON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A French television reporter was killed Wednesday as he covered a rally supporting the Syrian government in Homs.
Gilles Jacquier of France TV2 is the first foreign journalist known to have been killed in Syria since large protests began there last year, CNN reported. He was hit by mortar fire in a strike that killed a civilian and injured several other people, including members of the press.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called Jacquier's death an "odious act," and demanded an investigation into the slaying, Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported.
"It's up to Syrian authorities to ensure the security of international journalists on their territory, and to protect this fundamental liberty which is the freedom of information," Juppe said.
The rally was one of many held around the country to support the regime of President Bashar Assad. The official government news agency reported that Assad gave an address in Damascus claiming victory and thanking those who support him.
Anwar Malek, who went to Syria with the Arab League monitoring team, said the country is a humanitarian disaster. He said he resigned from the mission because of what he witnessed, including a series of war crimes, the BBC reported.
"The snipers are everywhere shooting at civilians," Malek said. "People are being kidnapped. Prisoners are being tortured and none were released."
Malek accused the Syrian government of orchestrating what the monitors saw in an effort to keep the Arab League from taking action.
"The mission was a farce and the observers have been fooled," he said.
The United Nations Security Council said Tuesday about 400 Syrians have been killed since the Arab League mission arrived in Syria in late December.
Syrian security forces have killed more than 5,000 people since the uprising against the government began in March 2011, the United Nations reported.