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install-path/dsrk6/bin/searchrate [options] -b baseDN -f filter
The searchrate command measures the rate at which an LDAP directory can perform random, user-defined searches. As with all measures of performance, results depend on many factors, including what options you pass to the searchrate command, and also how the directory service itself is tuned.
The searchrate command supports the following options:
Retrieve only the specified attribute.
Repeat this option to specify multiple attributes.
Run in asynchronous mode, not waiting for results before requesting subsequent searches. The maximum number of threads the searchrate command can use is limited by the number of file descriptors the operating system allows the process to use. The time is measured starts when the request is sent and finishes when the result is received.
Use the specified base DN for the target entry.
Default is the root DSE, "".
Refer to Random Target Syntax and Random Target Substitution for details on number and string substitutions.
Display the specified number of results messages before exiting. Results messages appear by default as output on standard out, similar to the following.
Avg r=2731.00/thr (1092.40/sec), total= 5462
This shows output for two threads searching for five seconds. The average search rate per thread is 2731 searches per thread for the interval measured, for 1092.40 searches per second on average. The total shown for both threads is 5462.
Default is to continue iterating until the command is interrupted.
Use the specified bind DN to authenticate to the directory.
If the bind DN is not specified, the searchrate command attempts anonymous authentication.
Display the bind DN and filter for searches that failed to retrieve an entry.
Display the number of attempted searches that failed to retrieve an entry.
Use the specified RFC 2254 conformant filter for all searches.
Refer to Random Target Syntax and Random Target Substitution for details on number and string substitutions.
Connect to the directory on the specified host.
Enclose IPv6 addresses in brackets ([]) as described in RFC 2732.
Default is to connect to the local host on the loopback address, 127.0.0.1.
Use the file specified to generate target entry base DNs at random.
Refer to Random Target Syntax and Random Target Substitution for details.
Display results each specified number of seconds.
Default is to display results every 5 seconds.
Keep connections open and only bind once, measuring only the time required to perform the search operation.
Default is to measure the duration the connection is active as the search sequence.
Keep connections open, measuring only the time required to perform the bind and search operations.
Default is to measure the duration the connection is active as the search sequence.
Set the search time-out at the specified number of seconds for synchronous searches.
Default is 10 seconds.
Perform no more than the specified number of searches per thread.
Default is for each thread to continue iterating until the command is interrupted.
Connect to the directory on the specified port.
Default is to connect to the default simple authentication port for LDAP, 389.
Run in quiet mode, not displaying results.
Default is to display results every 5 seconds, which you can adjust using the -j option.
Use the specified maximum to determine the range for random numbers replacing %d formatting specifications when searching random target entries.
When you use this option twice, the first occurrence generates random numbers in the range [0,maxRand1–1] for the first %d, the second [1,maxRand2] for the second %d.
Refer to Random Target Syntax and Random Target Substitution for details.
Use the specified seed, an unsigned int, for random number generation.
Default seed is 0.
Use the specified scope when searching.
The following values are supported for scope:
Examine only the entry specified by the argument to the -b option.
Examine only to the entry specified by the argument to the -b option and its immediate children.
(Default) Examine the subtree whose root is the entry specified by the argument to the -b option.
Use the specified number of the threads to connect to the server.
Default is to use one thread.
Display verbose output.
Read the bind password from the specified file.
Use the specified bind password to authenticate to the directory.
Prompt for the bind password so it does not appear on the command line or in a file.
The searchrate command repeatedly requests search operations of a directory server. Threads may be configured to keep open connections or perform LDAP binds with each operation. The command-line options let you specify the bind credentials.
The command uses LDAP v3, and cannot be used to authenticate to an LDAP v2 directory not supporting LDAP v3. Furthermore, the searchrate command uses simple authentication, not secure binding.
By default, the searchrate command continues its task indefinitely, displaying results periodically, and displaying any errors encountered as well without interrupting operation.
Include randomly generated numbers by specifying %d and %s placeholders in the base DN and filters. These placeholders are then replaced according to the following rules:
Replace this placeholder with random integer values depending on the maxRand parameter to the -r option.
The -r option may be used at most two times to generate random base DNs or filters. Replacement values for the %d placeholder range over [0,maxRand1–1].
Replace this placeholder with random strings from the file specified using the -i option.
Replacement values for this placeholder are randomly selected lines of the file specified.
Multiple -r and -i options are matched to the %d and %s placeholders, respectively, in the order they are used.
The searchrate command requires that you apply the following rules for substitutions, displaying an error message when the used incorrectly:
Use only one type of placeholder, either %d or %s, per invocation of the searchrate command.
Specify at least as many uses of the -r as %d placeholders used.
Use %%d and %%s to specify literal strings %d and %s, respectively.
In order to use this random mechanism, you must populate your directory accordingly. For example, you can measure the search rate using the following command:
$ searchrate -b "ou=test,dc=example,dc=com" -f "uid=test%d" -r 100
In order for the searchrate command to find entries, your directory must contain entries corresponding to the following LDIF excerpt:
dn: uid=test0,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth00 dn: uid=test1,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth11 dn: uid=test2,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth22 … dn: uid=test10,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth1010 … dn: uid=test99,ou=test,dc=example,dc=com userPassword: auth9999
Examples in this section use the following conventions:
The searchrate command is found in a directory present in the PATH used for the examples.
The directory server is located on a system named host.
The directory has been configured to support anonymous access for search and read. Therefore, you do not have to specify bind information.
The directory server listens on port 389, the default for non-SSL connections.
The following command performs searches until it has displayed five results messages. Notice that each line concerns only the elapsed interval.
$ searchrate -h host -b dc=example,dc=com -f "(uid=bjensen)" -C 5 Avg r=1349.00/thr (269.80/sec), total= 1349 Avg r=1312.00/thr (262.40/sec), total= 1312 Avg r=1334.00/thr (266.80/sec), total= 1334 Avg r=1346.00/thr (269.20/sec), total= 1346 Avg r=1340.00/thr (268.00/sec), total= 1340 All threads exited
Notice also that a result message provides the following items of information:
The average search rate per thread of execution
The average search rate per second
The total number of search operations performed during the interval the results message concerns
The following command keeping the connection open and binds only once:
$ searchrate -h host -b dc=example,dc=com -f "(uid=bjensen)" -C 5 -K Avg r=2706.00/thr (541.20/sec), total= 2706 Avg r=2706.00/thr (541.20/sec), total= 2706 Avg r=2739.00/thr (547.80/sec), total= 2739 Avg r=2717.00/thr (543.40/sec), total= 2717 Avg r=2731.00/thr (546.20/sec), total= 2731 All threads exited
The following commands substitute filters from a file to perform searches:
$ cat filters =Jen* =Jensen >=Jensen <=Jensen ~=Jensen $ searchrate -h host -b dc=example,dc=com -f "(sn%s)" -i filters -C 5 -K Avg r= 59.00/thr ( 11.80/sec), total= 59 Avg r= 64.00/thr ( 12.80/sec), total= 64 Avg r= 63.00/thr ( 12.60/sec), total= 63 Avg r= 64.00/thr ( 12.80/sec), total= 64 Avg r= 61.00/thr ( 12.20/sec), total= 61 All threads exited
The searchrate command returns the following exit status codes.
Successful completion.
An error occurred.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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Polling stations, set up in schools and mosques, opened at 9 a.m. (0430 GMT) and are scheduled to close at 7 p.m. (1430 GMT). Turnout was expected to be low and the polling stations were practically empty in the early morning.
One of the first to vote, however, was Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who cast his ballot at his Tehran home.
Friday's vote will not change the new political balance in the country or the capital.
In Tehran, 27 deputies, all reformers -- out of a total 30 seats attributed to the capital -- were finally endorsed last month by the official election body, the conservative-dominated Council of Guardians, which initially balked at the results and alleged widespread fraud.
Among the four candidates running in Friday's ballot, two of whom are clergy, is Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, an adviser to President Khatami. Mohtashemi's newspaper Bayan was recently suspended, part of an ongoing government crackdown that over the past two months has closed more than a dozen publications, almost all of them allied with reformers - TEHRAN (AFP)
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The Cincinnati Bengals have used an in-house option to fill their defensive coordinator vacancy.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per a person informed of the move, that linebackers coach Paul Guenther will take over the defense after Mike Zimmer accepted the head coach job of the Minnesota Vikings.
The move ends speculation surrounding Guenther, who had been connected to two other teams. NFL Media columnist Michael Silver reported that Zimmer would target Guenther to join him in Minnesota. The Washington Post reported that Guenther was "in line" to join the Washington Redskins in some capacity if Zimmer did not get the Vikings job and remained with the Bengals.
In the end, Guenther climbed the ladder from within. He inherits a defense that ranked third in the NFL during the regular season, giving up just 305.5 yards per game. Guenther also can look forward to the return of All-Pro defensive tackle Geno Atkins, whose 2013 season was cut short by a knee injury.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" featured discussion on Championship Sunday and an interview with Panthers star Greg Hardy.


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ANKARA (Reuters) - An Israeli delegation arrived in Turkey on Monday for the first time since 2010 to discuss compensation for the killing of nine Turks by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid ship, a sign of improving relations between the two U.S. allies.
The visit, led by an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, follows an apology from Israel last month, brokered by U.S. President Barack Obama, for the killings on board the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010.
Turkey cut its once extensive ties with the Jewish state after the Israelis killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists on the vessel which was trying to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza, a Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas Islamist group.
Ankara expelled Israel's ambassador and froze military cooperation after a U.N. report into the incident, released in September 2011, largely exonerated the Jewish state.
It set precise conditions for normalizing ties - an apology, compensation and Israel lifting its embargo on Gaza.
A rapprochement between two of Washington's main Middle Eastern allies could bolster U.S. influence in the region, help coordination to contain spillover from the Syrian civil war, and ease Israel's diplomatic isolation among its neighbors.
But for all the diplomatic flurry, a full restoration of ties still appears some way off.
Israel has made clear it did not commit to ending its Gaza blockade as part of the reconciliation, an oft-repeated Turkish demand, saying days after the apology that it could clamp down even harder on the enclave if security is threatened.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to delay a visit planned for late May to Gaza.
Kerry, who has visited the region several times in recent weeks, said Erdogan's trip could endanger U.S. efforts to revive Ankara's ties with Israel and Middle East peace talks.
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Call it the sidewalk economy of the iPhone. Or more appropriate for Chicago: iPhone dibs.
Apple fans across the country have proven they're willing to stand in line for days to be among the first to hold the latest iPhone iterations. Armed with blankets, chairs and a team of rotating seat-savers, Chicagoans have waited for snow, rain and this week's unseasonable chill to get their fix.
Chicagoan Julian Diggs showed up outside the Apple store on Michigan Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, days before the Friday release of the iPhone5. Diggs made the same trek last year for the iPhone 4S and was first in line then too.
Diggs considers his place in line more than a chance to be first at the register, though. His seat is potentially for sale.
"I already got an offer for $500 ... but I declined," he said. "I told him to call me back if you have $1,000, so we'll see. As the line gets longer, I'm sure I'll get some better offers."
Diggs isn't actively seeking buyers -- they come to him and the 11 or so other waiting it out. By Thursday morning, several passersby approached the group to make an offer.
"Obviously if the right offer comes along, I would definitely take it," said Gregory Thornton, a friend of Diggs.' But he said he really wants the phone.
Louis Vanarsdale, a senior at Columbia College, has the same plan in mind.
"I already preordered [the phone]," Vanarsdale said. "I'm selling my seat. I figure I sell my seat, it pays for my phone and I can go get the iPad 3."
His starting offer is $1,000, and if he doesn't get it, he'll drop the price from there.
"I used to do this for the Jordans [shoes], so people always show up hours before and they get impatient and start offering a lot of money. ... Either way I came for the experience. "
They still want the phone, though. And if push comes to shove and the offer isn't big enough, they'll still make the purchase.
"It looks like I'll probably just get the phone," Diggs said.


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- March 27: Original manuscript of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys goes on public display for first time. Full Story
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- February 25: J. L. Tarr, former Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America died.Full Story
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Whitewater Falls
Driving distance/direction from downtown Highlands, NC: Follow Hwy. 64 East to Cashiers, NC and continue on Hwy. 64 for 10.1 miles to Hwy. 281 South. Turn right, and continue south for approximately 9 miles.
Parking: Park in parking lot.
Hiking distance: 0.56 miles-2 miles round trip
Description: A 0.25-mile paved, wheelchair accessible trail leads from the parking lot to an overlook. The Foothills Trail begins to the right of the overlook. If you continue down this very steep trail, it will lead to the Whitewater River and bridge. The dirt trail to the left of the overlook leads upstream and fords the Whitewater River above the falls. Use extreme caution near the top of the falls. On the far side of the river, the trail forks into two old roadbeds. Both trails end shortly on Whitewater Road, above the parking area. This is an easy walk of about 0.5 mile one-way from the parking lot.
Footnote: Whitewater Falls is one of the tallest waterfalls in the eastern United States, with a total drop of 411 feet. During the spring, wildflowers are plentiful.
Hike descriptions adapted from the Highland Hiker's Guide to Day Hikes.


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A few years ago I went to a wax museum in Las Vegas while I was a little tipsy and took some admittedly obnoxious photos. Then I dedicated a web photo gallery to the whole experience. It never got much traffic on my site, but over the last few months I've been getting a lot of emails and comments from people having seen my photos on other websites. So I went and googled "Drunk Guy at a Wax Museum" and it looks like my image set has been making the rounds on dozens of sites across the globe.
File Under: Too Drunk to Care
All of these sites are basically vultures. They just go around stealing other people's content without any citations or links back to the original authors, most likely for the ad revenue, but also sometimes to deliver computer viruses, which is why I spent three hours removing the Antivirus Action Virus from my machine the other day (which is also why I'm not naming any of these other sites, because I don't want the same thing to happen to anyone else). That sucked, but it was fun seeing my face on sites in China and India, surrounded by language which could have been calling for fatwas against me, for all I know.
The content theft doesn't bother me all that much, since I've posted my share of uncited content, and since that's kinda the nature of the digital beast. Plus, most of those vulture sites get a lot more traffic than my little blog has ever received, which means they also get a lot more comments. And it's always fun to read what other random internet people think of me and my photo buffoonery:
The comment that tries to curse me with the haunting of dead celebrities is pretty awesome. That one took some effort. Here are some from another site:
I guess the "look at me" generation is better than "Generation X" or whatever. Reality Bites, man. But I do have my defenders as well (I apologize in advance for the language. Apparently I have some fans on the Jersey Shore.):
Allow me to repost that as text, to make it easier to read so that everyone can appreciate its eloquence:
i agree, this guy looks fun as fuck ! also, bitches need to shut up! always fuckin cryin about something i swear. i wanna play with the boys why are the boys mean wahhhh!! stfu !!!!!!!!!!! im a heterosexual girl and i cant stand a bitch boy omg! ……………………………………….boys are fun! shut up! playing w/ boys is fun!! go away if you want to make your fucking female points .. so irritating….. you know seriously, this is why women get no respect. because of your fucking whining everytime you try playing with the big kids man. this is the fucking internet… i dont know you people and i dont care about your whiny female feelings ! honestly! theres shit you girls say sometimes on here -funny as fuck- but then i gotta look at the whininess .. lovely. rubber dog turds was correct. the boys laugh it off, the girls have to cry . i wonder what delights will be said about this, if it isnt too late. what shit will be said by the girls for my complaints here… considering im also a bitch…. i wonder………
Again, sorry for the language. The rampant vulgarities are clearly nothing more than a symptom of her unrestrainable passion. And although that part about rubber dog turds is a little out of nowhere, I agree with her sentiment completely: Bitches be trippin'. And the one reply to her comment was totally cruel and unwarranted:


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POLITICO poll: Danger for Dems
President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
In the congressional districts and states where the 2014 elections will actually be decided, likely voters said they would prefer to vote for a Republican over a Democrat by 7 points, 41 percent to 34 percent. A quarter of voters said they were unsure of their preference.
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Among these critical voters, Obama's job approval is a perilous 40 percent, and nearly half say they favor outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Sixty percent say they believe the debate over the law is not over, compared with 39 percent who echo the president's position and say the ACA debate has effectively concluded.
Both Obama's job approval and the partisan ballot matchup are markedly more negative for Democrats in this poll than other national surveys — a reflection of the political reality that the midterm campaign is being fought on turf that is more challenging for Democrats than the nation as a whole.
The poll reveals that voters — even in the more conservative midterm states like Georgia and Arkansas, and tossup House districts in states such as Illinois, West Virginia and California — still lean in a liberal direction on several issues Democrats have championed this year, including immigration reform, pay equity for men and women and background checks for gun purchasers.
But none of those issues comes close to approaching health care as a major concern for midterm voters. Nearly nine in 10 respondents said that the health care law would be important to determining their vote, including 49 percent who said it would be very important.
By comparison, only 28 percent said that immigration reform was "very important" to determining their vote, and 16 percent who said the same of male-female income disparity.
( Also on POLITICO: Poll: GOP voters back immigration reform)
Charles Pearre, a retired civil engineer in Virginia's Prince William County, said his top priority for the midterms was "getting the government back on track where we have a Congress that can get something done." But Pearre, a self-identified conservative, said he prefers a divided government and deeply distrusts the president.
"My opinion of the president is he's not doing a good job at all and he's not qualified," said Pearre, who has not decided which party to vote for in the midterms. "The health care law, I think, should be totally revised."
So far, the 2014 midterms have shaped up as an asymmetrical contest between Republicans campaigning broadly against the health care law and Obama as a national political brand, and Democrats emphasizing a host of locally tailored issues and a narrower message about economic fairness and gender equality. The Republican argument appears more bluntly powerful in many of the midterm races — GOP-trending states with competitive Senate races, for instance, like Louisiana and North Carolina — but it remains to be seen whether the same set of national issues will continue to dominate the six months between now and Election Day.
( Also on POLITICO: How the poll was conducted)
Among voters who had an opinion of the ACA, the electorate was almost exactly split between those who want to repeal the law entirely and those who favor either leaving it alone or keeping it in place with modifications.
Forty-eight percent of respondents endorsed repeal, versus 35 percent who wanted to modify the law without repealing it and just 16 percent who said it should be left unchanged.
The POLITICO poll, administered by SocialSphere Inc. and conducted by the research firm GfK, tested 867 likely voters in hotly contested areas. The poll was conducted online using GfK's KnowledgePanel methodology, which is also employed by The Associated Press, from May 2 to 13. The poll has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
( Full poll results and cross tabs on Campaign Pro)
At the same time that the health care law is plainly a political anchor for Democrats, the poll signals that fully killing the ACA may not be a slam-dunk as a political proposition and could be a more complicated issue for a GOP presidential ticket to negotiate in 2016. While majorities of white voters (54 percent) and men (51 percent) support repealing Obamacare, repeal now falls short of majority support with most subgroups.
Among independent voters, a majority favor either keeping the law with modifications (45 percent) or leaving it intact entirely (11 percent), with 42 percent supporting repeal. Among self-described moderates, 50 percent say the law should be left in place but modified.
The law receives powerful support from minority voters, including 80 percent of African-Americans who want to leave the law alone (34 percent) or modify it (46 percent), and 55 percent of Hispanics who want it left entirely intact (22 percent) or only modified (33 percent).


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Garden Highlights Walk
Sunday, November 4, 2018
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Please note: This event has already taken place. Please use the Search options on the right to find upcoming events.
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights.
Free with admission to the grounds.
Perkins Visitors Center in Wave Hill
Directions to this location
Free with admission to the grounds. Admission is $8 Adults, $4 Students and Seniors 65+, $2 Children 6+, Free to Members and children under 6.


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This week, with the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to Tokyo. Similar to Berlin, Tokyo's architecture is overwhelming modern due its destruction during the 20th Century. We put together a list of 12 modern/contemporary buildings that we feel provides a good starting point. It is far from complete. There are dozens of other great buildings that are not our list, and we are looking to add to the list in the near future. Please add your favorites in the comment section below so we can add them on the second go around. Again thank you to all our readers who sent in their suggestions and photographs. The city guides would not be possible without your help.
To check out other cities visit our world map or our Architecture City Guide page. The Architecture City Guide: Tokyo list and corresponding map after the break.
Makuhari Messe / Fumihiko Maki Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower / Tange Associates De Beers Ginza Building / Jun Mitsui & Associates Architects St. Mary Cathedral / Kenzo Tange Yoyogi National Gymnasium / Kenzo Tange Nakagin Capsule Tower / Kisho Kurokawa Za Koenji Public Theatre / Toyo Ito Tama Art University Library / Toyo Ito Asahi Beer Hall / Philippe Starck Tokyo International Forum / Rafael Viñoly Prada Aoyama Epicenter / Herzog & de Meuron Gyre Shopping Center / MVRDV
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The Technology Behind the Social Security DebateBy Larry Dignan | Posted 2005-04-01 Print
President Bush wants to close a $4 trillion spending gap in Social Security through 2079, but there remain technical challenges in setting up private accounts.
AARP runs television spots panning the idea of allowing tens of millions of U.S. citizens to establish private accounts for their retirement, as part of the federal Social Security program.
President Bush travels the country pitching these accounts as a way to modernize the system.
Meanwhile, think tanks are busy trying to weigh the policy implications of any Social Security tweaks.
But while debate still roars about whether the program is in danger of running out of money by 2041, as the Social Security Administration estimates, none of the aforementioned parties have pondered the technology investment needed to make private accounts a reality.
What would this information system look like? How long would it take to build a system to manage private accounts? What are the hurdles in data management?
"Those are big questions," says Virginia Reno, vice president of income security at the National Academy of Social Insurance, a think tank that examines social insurance policy. "I don't think many [people] are looking for answers."
Currently, the biggest idea about reforming Social Security revolves around allowing the 159 million workers currently covered to divert 2 percent to 4 percent of the 15.3 percent tax paid on income to private accounts.
The goal? Close a $4 trillion unfunded liability in current dollars through 2079.
In theory, these accounts would earn a better return than Social Security, whose assets will be depleted in 2041, according to the 2005 annual report from Social Security's board of trustees, released March 23.
Indeed, a report commissioned by President Bush on ways to strengthen Social Security, released in December 2001, didn't mention information technology once.
Mark Lassiter, press officer for the SSA (Social Security Administration), says pondering the technology needed to handle private accounts is "premature" given that the proposals are still being formed.
"In politics, you often decide what to do and then ask how to do it," says Dallas Salisbury, CEO of think tank Employee Benefit Research Institute. "It's as if the question of how to do it is not being asked."
One thing is certain: Social Security reform would require heavy lifting on the IT side. And Bush has said he wants private accounts in place by 2009. Hitting that target is increasingly unlikely.
"If the SSA built a system [for tracking private accounts] itself, it would take at least three to five years to build," says Marcus Fedeli, manager of federal opportunity products at Input, a consulting firm. "That's conservative. It could take three years just to design the system."
In the meantime, the key information management issues are:
Challenge: Designing the system
Fix: Limit options
When current Social Security processes are compared to what would happen if private accounts are adopted, the complexity becomes apparent.
Today, SSA systems account for a limited number of data inputs.
Is the beneficiary alive? What's the age? Are there dependents? Is there a divorce?
Once those questions are answered, they are matched to rules and formulas, and a check is sent.
Private accounts introduce moving parts.
What percentage of funds will be invested in a private account? Did the allocation change this quarter? Should the accounts be paid in an annuity if below a set level or taken in a lump sum? This information would probably be collected quarterly.
And money needs to go to accounts faster.
Currently, it can take 18 months to reconcile individual contributions to Social Security, Salisbury says.
That lag applied to private accounts means you could miss an entire bull market.
"It's impossible to do what has to be done," says Francis Cavanaugh, the first executive director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which was the agency responsible for administering the Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees. His tenure ran from 1986 to 1994.
The Thrift Savings Plan is often cited as an example of how private accounts in Social Security could work. The plan is like a 401(k) for federal employees.
The catch? You can't compare the two programs because Social Security processes millions more transactions, Cavanaugh said.
Launching a record-keeping system for the federal savings plan was easy compared to what would be required for private accounts, he says.
"Our system worked because I could rely on the agencies' systems and only had to deal with one employer—the U.S. government," Cavanaugh said. "Our challenge was getting all the agencies to work together and report data in a uniform fashion. We then built a record-keeping system that took it in."
According to Salisbury, building a system is daunting but not impossible.
To simplify the system, individual choice could be removed by making accounts mandatory, setting an allocation rate, say 3 percent of all Americans' salaries, and allowing one investment mix, say 40 percent in a stock fund, 40 percent bond fund and 20 percent cash.
"Voluntary accounts are harder because they allow choice," Salisbury says. "Every option makes the system more complicated. If accounts are mandatory with set options, you know the inputs."
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Creating a Risk List for Your E-Commerce Venture
The most important step you can take to evaluate your e-commerce plan is to take a close, realistic, — even pessimistic — view of it. Have your project team look at the plan and point out the places where disaster is most likely to fall and compile the list — you end up with your very own risk list. If you know where the dangers lurk, you can safely navigate the rapids and enjoy the benefits. So get your key players together, and let them have at it!
When you're putting together a risk list, be sure to review the list of benefits to see if some of the benefits of the plan also come with great risk. For example, you may find that some of the benefits require the use of new and unproven technologies, therefore making them risks themselves.
Here's a sample risk list to get you started (Try to be realistic; "The world might end tomorrow" is a little off target for this particular exercise):
- This project could distract key resources within the company, causing the rest of the business to suffer.
- We will be placed on the same level as our major competitor, a company that already does most of its business online. (Yes, this is a risk as well as a benefit!)
- Our customers may not want to change the way they do business with us, so the cost of an e-commerce project may not generate profits.
- Increasing the number of products we offer by using a Web site will create warehousing and distribution issues.
- If we decide to use alternative warehousing options, we have to create partnerships that make us vulnerable — we have to count on those partners to ship products on time.
- Our employees may feel threatened by the project and refuse to use it or recommend it to customers.
Prioritizing potential risks
After you get all your risks in a row, have a volunteer from the e-commerce team enter it into the formal record. Make sure that the list is available to members of the team at each team meeting — you can compare the list to the benefits you expect to realize from your e-commerce venture.
Sit down with your project's key players and start prioritizing the risks. Rank them in order of how likely they are to occur. Assign two numbers, ranging from 1 to 3, to each risk (the lower the numbers you assign, the higher the likelihood the risk will become a disastrous reality):
- The first number indicates how likely the risk will become a reality.
- The second number indicates how devastating you think the risk will be if it occurs.
For example, one risk is that your Web server could crash, preventing customers from accessing your online business. How likely is that? Very — it will happen, sooner or later. So, give that risk a likelihood of 1, for "will definitely happen at some point." How devastating will it be? Pretty much totally devastating. So give it a 1 for "this will kill us if it happens."
Try to keep your likelihood/potential for devastation numbers on a scale of 1 to 3 (high, medium, and low). This scale will make the list easier to work with and keep you from splitting hairs when assigning priorities to your risks.
After you assign numbers to all the risks, arrange the list in order of likelihood and rank each item by how bad things would be if and when a disaster occurs. Then move on to less-likely risks, and so on.
Plan to revisit the risk list regularly — at each status meeting — and revise it periodically as risks arise and are mitigated. Use the risk list to prioritize your efforts — doing so will keep the project on track.
Mitigating possible risks
After ranking the risks for your e-commerce strategy, you can start looking at how to handle those risks should they occur. Your plan shouldn't go any further until you at least come up with a scheme to handle the risks rated as "likely to occur."
Ideally, you should have a plan to mitigate every risk on your list. Each risk carries a potential financial loss, and each mitigation strategy carries a financial cost. Does the risk justify the cost?
The scenario: Death of a Web server.
The risk: Loss of dinero (bummer), potential to lose customers (ouch), damage to the reputation (gasp — not the reputation!).
The conundrum: How much are you willing to risk?
Mitigation scenario number one: You have only one Web server. If it dies you could lose as many as three days' business while you purchase and set up a replacement server. If you generate $10,000 per day in revenue, your risk is $30,000 — plus the cost of a new server, plus the damage done to your reputation and the loss of customers who may never come back.
Mitigation scenario number two: You opt to purchase a second backup $50,000 server now.
Burning question: Is plunking down a real $50,000 for a server now a justifiable risk when compared to the potential loss of $30,000 (not to mention your reputation)?
The server could drop once a month, costing you $30,000 per month in lost revenue. A second server could reduce your company's response time to your users and prove a beneficial investment as your company grows. Or it could sit in a corner gathering dust.
As you develop mitigation strategies, evaluate them in terms of the entire project — the overall cost, ongoing maintenance costs, profits you expect to receive, costs of missed opportunities, and a host of other factors. You hired smart people — let them hash out a solution that produces the greatest increase in profits.


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A very warm welcome to our expat community here in Belfast! InterNations is a global network for expatriates in cities all over the world, helping you to interact and associate with a variety of fellow expats in your chosen country or city. If you're thinking of taking the step of living in a new country, there are plenty of potential hurdles and pitfalls you'll want to be wary of — and that's why our community is here. By taking advantage of our collective wisdom, you can make sure that everything goes smoothly and there are no nasty surprises waiting. You might want to know "is the Newtownards Road safe at night?" or "what level of healthcare will I be eligible for in the UK?", and our members will be happy to help with anything you have to ask.
Attend our monthly events and activities for Belfast expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
Get trustworthy advice and local insights from fellow members in our Belfast expat forums.
Compared to its larger, southern neighbour, less is known about Northern Ireland and Belfast, but after the end of The Troubles the city has taken on a new lease of life and is now a popular destination for tourists on city breaks and executives on business alike. Extensive regeneration means that you can get just as good cuisine or culture in Belfast as you would in any other major European city, with excellent seafood being a highlight. There's also a variety of new public arts venues, and tourism in the surrounding area has been further boosted by the filming of the popular TV series Game of Thrones taking place in the countryside. Belfast also boasts stunning architecture, particularly in the Queens and Cathedral Quarters.
Our network here is as friendly as the locals, and will help get you off to a good start by answering any questions you may have. But you can also take the experience offline too, attending one of our large community-wide social and networking events or by joining one of our groups and meeting new people straight away, from our women only group to our special film club, or you could start your own with like-minded community members. The possibilities are endless when you take part in our community.


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Turkish Police Shoot Down Surveillance Drone During Istanbul Protests
from the it-had-to-happen dept
As the growing number of Techdirt stories on the subject testify, drones are becoming a more familiar part of modern life. But their presence can add a new element to situations. An obvious example is during demonstrations, where drones can be used to monitor those taking part -- but also the authorities' reaction. As with cases where members of the public have used smartphones to capture police abuse, so drones offer the possibility of revealing questionable police activity that might in the past have gone unrecorded.
Given that potential to show the forces of law and order in an unflattering light, it was perhaps inevitable that the police would eventually take action against a drone that was monitoring them -- in this case, by shooting it down:
Tuesday afternoon on June 11th 2013, Police was violently attacking peaceful protestors. Police fired guns at one of our [remote control] drone during the protests in Taksim square, Istanbul. Police aimed directly at the camera. Due to the impact on the camera (it did have a housing) the last video was not saved properly on the SD card. The camera and drone were both broken. Managed to keep the SD card.
Here's a video of the take-down:
The drone's images before its violent end provide amazingly clear pictures of what is happening on the ground, and you can see why the authorities might not be very happy about that:
But as a Geek.com article on the incident points out, when you can soon buy a tiny $50 drone that streams straight to your smartphone for uploading to video sharing sites, the police may find themselves being monitored by tens or even hundreds of such devices during their actions against demonstrations, which makes shooting them all down problematic. Doubtless the authorities will come up with an answer to that (a squadron of police drones engaging in a dog-fight, perhaps?), but citizen drone users will then find a way around that -- perhaps flying small, hard-to-spot drones very high in the sky, and using high-quality cameras with zoom lenses. And so the drones arms race will continue.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > April 2004 > Wayland theatre to present second Friel play
Wayland theatre to present second Friel play
PLAINVIEW - Wayland Baptist University Theatre will present the play Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel as its season finale on April 15, 16 and 17.
Frequent patrons of Wayland Theatre may recall another Friel play, Molly Sweeney, performed in the 2000-01 season. But as striking as that dramatic piece was, director Dr. Marti Runnels feels this production is better.
"This is considered to be Friel's masterpiece. I think it's one of the most beautiful plays I have ever read," Runnels said. "I really love Molly Sweeney, but I love this play more. I've been wanting to direct it for a long time."
Runnels said the play is told from the standpoint of a man as he recalls his childhood in Northern Ireland, specifically the year 1936, when he was only seven. Michael, played by Billy Boone, recalls events from that summer when his uncle Jack returned from Uganda after serving as a missionary there for 25 years and events with his mother and her four sisters, none of whom ever married.
Runnels said the events center around the Festival of Lughnasa, an old Celtic festival held in Ireland annually which features dancing and revelry. The sisters argue over attending the festival, with some wanting to go and another balking, using the excuse that the women are too old and mature.
"The play deals with how one lives out his or her life," Runnels explained. "Do we only live by the traditions we were brought up with as a child, or is it possible that other traditions, other faiths have things to offer too?
"Sometimes what the world has to offer may be a good thing, but we never recognize it because it is 'secular' and we think nothing secular is good."
Runnels added that while some theatrical productions aim to solve the problems of life easily, Dancing at Lughnasa mirrors reality more.
"It's not a play with easy answers. A lot of plays that are about life struggles make it so black and white and real life is not like that," he said. "In this play, you are torn between what you see and what decisions you think the characters should make that may not turn out as expected."
The play features Boone as the narrator Michael, with WBU theatre graduate Cory Norman returning to the stage as Uncle Jack and technical theatre director Chris Moore, also a graduate of Wayland theatre, returning to an acting role as Gerry.
The five sisters are Kate, played by Teresa Moore of Plainview, a 1995 WBU graduate who has been in several productions over the past few years and now is WBU student activities coordinator; Maggie, played by WBU theatre major and veteran actor Milea Simpson of Wichita Falls; Agnes, played by WBU senior theatre major and veteran Desi Pharis of Plainview; Rose, played by freshman theatre major Mary Feril of Grand Prairie, who also had a role in the fall production of Fools; and Chris, played by junior Jennifer Rutherford of Artesia, N.M., also a WBU theatre veteran.
Jennifer Riley is serving as stage manager, with other crew heads including Lisa Angel on props, Kelley Dunn on lights, Chris Stegall on sound, Billy Boone on makeup, Jennifer Parrish on publicity, Andrew Oglesby on house and Tim Fisher on costumes.
Runnels noted that the play is a change from the original season plan which included Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote as the final show. The change occurred due to conflicts with Runnels' male actors needed for the production.
Dancing with Lughnasa will be performed at 8 p.m. on April 15, 16 and 17 in Harral Studio Theatre. Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for students. Patrons who bring a grocery sack of nonperishable foods will receive a ticket for half price.
For reservations or information, call the theatre box office at (806) 291-1089.


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Kellie Rigney necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
I am an Australian business woman Having recently moved her from America where I ran a successful jewelry company called The Bauble Nest. see http://www.thebaublenest.blogspot.com. I am now launching a new business here called "Zjoosh".
Zjoosh is a new and unique Australian retail concept targeting women between the ages of 35 to 65. Zjoosh sells a large range of affordable fashion jewelry and accessories alongside a small range of quality core capsule wardrobe pieces. The idea is that a quality simple, yet stylish base wardrobe can be made brave and unique with statement jewellery at a low cost. Looks can be interchanged easily bringing a unique personality to your overall look.
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The defintion of the word "Zjoosh" is to: tweak, finesse or improve something. This word perfectly encapsulates what my business aims to do. You begin with a base and then "you Zjoosh". Effectively you "decorate yourself".
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I would like the font to scream confidence and glamour without being tacky at all. It needs to appeal to older women also.
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2. To help prevent children from snacking, give them a light meal or snack before they head out – don't send them out on an empty stomach.
3. Tell children not to accept – and especially not to eat – anything that isn't commercially wrapped.
4. Parents of very young children should remove any choking hazards such as gum, peanuts, hard candies or small toys.
5. Inspect commercially wrapped treats for signs of tampering, such as an unusual appearance or discoloration, tiny pinholes, or tears in wrappers. Throw away anything that looks suspicious.
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1. If juice or cider is served to children at Halloween parties, make sure it is pasteurized or otherwise treated to destroy harmful bacteria. Juice or cider that has not been treated will say so on the label.
2. No matter how tempting, don't taste raw cookie dough or cake batter.
3. Before going "bobbing for apples," an all-time favorite Halloween game, reduce the number of bacteria that might be present on apples and other raw fruits and vegetables by thoroughly rinsing them under cool running water. As an added precaution, use a produce brush to remove surface dirt.
4. "Scare" bacteria away by keeping all perishable foods chilled until serving time. These include, for example, finger sandwiches, cheese platters, fruit or tossed salads, cold pasta dishes with meat, poultry, or seafood, and cream pies or cakes with whipped-cream and cream-cheese frostings. Cold temperatures help keep most harmful bacteria from multiplying. And don't leave the food at room temperature for more than two-hours.


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We experienced inner-core rumblings in the fantasy football world this week when Houston Texans running back Arian Foster announced to society that he'd become a vegan.
Officially a vegan now. We'll see how this goes. But week one down. So far, so good. Feels wonderful.- Arian Foster (@ArianFoster) July 5, 2012
For those of you baffled by the opening moments of this post, the vegan diet omits any form of animal products.
(People often follow this up with: "So, do you eat fish?" Answer: "Is a fish a living being?" BANG. Also: No meat. No dairy. No poultry. No sea animals. And no honey.)
Foster, something of a Renaissance man, set off alarms with those who care more about his yards per carry than his intestinal flora count. Many were concerned that an NFL running back might go soft if he stripped ribs and deviled eggs from his regiment.
People feel so strong about meat and milk. I wish they felt this strong about peace.- Arian Foster (@ArianFoster) July 5, 2012
One deep-thinker fired a shot at Foster on Twitter, reminding him of the milk he drank as a newborn.
"My mom didn't produce cow milk," Foster wrote -- and on that front, he's correct. We are on the hook, however, to produce a new version of the video you see above, in which Foster waxes poetic on breakfast burritos and chicken enchiladas. Sigh.
Let's keep in mind that Foster is in better physical shape that 99 percent of the American public. No need for panic here.Â
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City of Lincoln
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2004 Media Releases
Interim SRT Committee Report 477K - PDF
Community Dialogue on a Plan for Building Lincoln's Future
Mayor Coleen J. Seng's Advisory Committee for Streets Roads and Trails announced today that it is asking the community to help choose the way the City should fund future street improvements and construction. The Committee will sponsor five forums in coming weeks to be held throughout the City where citizens can learn about funding options and express their preferences. Brad Korell, Jan Gauger, Russ Bayer and Dan Marvin are the chairpersons of the Committee.
"Whether or not Lincoln can maintain our outstanding quality of life in the future is what drove the committee on the question of how to fund new infrastructure," Bayer said. "Our ability to provide good jobs with good wages and affordable housing while easing traffic congestion and maintaining our fast emergency responses will be jeopardized if we do not act. And if we do act now while interest rates are low, we can ensure Lincoln's future while saving taxpayer dollars."
"Lincoln has arrived at the same crossroads many communities reach as they face their future with open eyes," said Mayor Seng. "Will we move forward and find progressive solutions to our challenges? It is a bigger question than Lincoln's elected officials and local leaders can address without reaching out to our community. We must decide together how we are going to build Lincoln's future."
Mayor Seng was joined at Thursday's news conference by Jim Fram, President of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce; Mark Munger, President, Lincoln Central Labor Union; Lincoln businessman Richard Meginnis; Jennifer Brinkman, neighborhood association president; Robert Hampton, a local builder; Terry Uland, Executive Director of Neighborhoods, Inc.; and Charlie Claus, executive vice president of the Lincoln Independent Business Association (LIBA).
The five "community solution forums" where funding for the $138 million gap in street funding will be discussed will be held in each of the four City Council districts and a fifth forum meeting will be held downtown. The dates and locations of the forums are:
"The Committee believes that the community should help decide our future," said co-chair Jan Gauger. "We believe that the infrastructure question is a monumental decision that affects every single resident of not only Lincoln, but all of Lancaster County, and the surrounding region."
"Our goal is ensure that every person who wants to contribute their ideas has the opportunity to do so," said co-chair Dan Marvin.


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In recent weeks, Chris and I have checked out a couple of new entrants here in Southampton, both of which are literally walking distance from us, and next door to each other. It's my hope both of these will become Southampton institutions. In one case, the restaurant is already an institution in New York City.
The Southampton Social Club is a gorgeous building with a large patio and sprawling lawn out back that is primarily known for the nightlife (beginning at around 10 PM) that remains their core business. Managing partner Ian Stone and chef Scott Kampf have upped the ante in order to introduce the rest of us non-clubbers to a lovely space with a lovely meal (and developing some positive PR by way of a decent restaurant might go a long way towards easing local mistrust and antagonism for the late night summer crowds).
I'd seen ads locally promoting the restaurant, but figured the cuisine was geared towards late night munchies. But in late April, having read several good reviews of the place on TripAdvisor and Yelp, we tried it out.
The large, classically decorated dining room is lovely and serene, and the menu offerings looked delectable...and were. The crab cake, which had been noted in severeal of the reviews I'd read, was wonderful...so much crab it was amazing it held together. I ordered it again when we dined at Southampton Social Club for the second time last week, this time bringing four friends. The six of us passed around each appetizer and entree for group consensus, and we loved it all. Mussels, the Caesar salad, the zucchini chips with aioli...yum. We tried the full gamut of entrees..mahi mahi, steak, chicken, and the vegetable Napoleon, and found all absolutely delicious. Service was attentive and perhaps because we dined relatively early in the evening, the noise level was moderate. A great night, all around. We plan to be back, often, and recommend to guests.
The second and more famous addition to Southampton's culinary lineup is Delmonico's Southampton, which opened in the corner location on Elm Street and Railroad Plaza that for years held the restaurant Savanna's. Chris and I were able to attend their grand opening, which those of us who have been in the trade know can be a little rocky when a restaurant is still working the bugs out of their kitchen and table service.
Impressively, this was hardly the case at Delmonico's, which is an institution on Beaver Street downtown in NYC and has been since 1837, billing itself the oldest restaurant in America. (I'd thought Antoine's, in New Orleans, held that title, but that vernerable fixture of the French Quarter opened three years later in 1840.)
Delmonico's is a known primarily as a steakhouse, but among its fabled firsts include the invention of Eggs Benedict, Chicken a la King (originally Chicken a la Keene, after a patron), and Lobster Newberg. So I had to try the appetizer called Crab Cake Benedict. This was a single crab cake, topped with a poached quail's egg (sweet!) and finished with a special hollandaise. Presentation was marvelous and the taste sublime. All four of us opted for Delmonico's Signature Steak. We've had steak at Smith & Wollenski, Ruth Chris's, the Palm, Bobby Van's, and other known steakhouses. This was the best steak I've ever had.
Noise level was exuberant, but I was very pleased to note that the decor now includes carpet, a feature sadly lacking when it was Savanna's, which will help keep the noise level somewhat in check. (It's still a challenge due to the floor to ceiling windows on the street side.)
Congrats and welcome to Delmonico's managing directors Nicholas and Dennis...we hope for a long tenure and years of satisfied patrons, from A Butler's Manor and beyond!
Bon appetit!
Quote of the Day: The only time to eat diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook. --Julia Child


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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Drew Brees tossed a pair of touchdown passes en route to 239 yards Monday and the New Orleans Saints handled struggling Philadelphia 28-13.
Brees found Jimmy Graham and Marques Colston with scoring strikes, going 21-of-27 through the air while extending an NFL record with at least one TD toss in 51 straight games.
Graham finished with 72 yards on eight catches and Chris Ivory paced the ground game with 48 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries as the Saints (3-5) notched their first win under interim head Coach Joe Vitt.
Vitt had missed New Orleans' first six games while serving a suspension in connection with the Saints bounty scandal.
Philadelphia's Michael Vick was sacked seven times while managing to complete 22-of-41 passes for 272 yards, one touchdown and an interception.
LeSean McCoy picked up 119 rushing yards on 19 tries and DeSean Jackson amassed 100 yards on three grabs for the Eagles (3-5), who dropped their four straight.