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alexh wrote:I have originals of the German, French and English versions of Dragonflight for Atari but no SCP. If anyone wants to loan me one for a few days, I'm in Oxfordshire England, just send me a PM.
AtariZoll wrote:JimDrew wrote:I received an original sealed "BoBo" today along with an opened "Treasure Trap". Oddly, both sets of disks for these games did not work because the center hub spun freely from the magnetic media! As a test, I put a drop of CA (superglue) where the center hub meets the plastic and I was able to load Bobo and copy it, however, the index mark is way off from where it should be. I have never seen this issue before, but gluing the disk seems to work.
There is thread here, where someone wrote about same problem with floppy. Wrong index position may be problem by protections using track read. But I guess that shifting of track can be done in image.
kodak80 wrote:If these Total Recall disks are double-sided, just wondering what trickery was done to get the budget version of this game on a single double-sided disk?? The budget STX on Atarimania works fine in Steem and in just one disk.
simonsunnyboy wrote:Hmm, I have a PASTI copy of Total Recall here and it works in Hatari with PASTI support. (Atleast for Level 1, I hardly get farther than that)
Maybe tehre are different disks around? Mine is a two disk set.
AtariZoll wrote:I looked STX images at AM - Ocean edition's disk 1 image is bad, while disk 2 img. seems OK. They are 2 sided - so not correct what Brume says.
AtariZoll wrote:But there is lot of unused space on them - that and data compression is the answer how it fits on single floppy (HitSquad ed.) - which STX is OK.
So, it seems that we can have good STX images of Ocean edition even if Brume will be not able to make good image of disk 2
Brume wrote:Found an interesting case: Total Recall
The game needs two disks which seem to be double-side formatted. But...
- SuperCard Pro archives only one side on each disk.
- At last, I imaged both disks with Kryoflux: this time, they do work with Steem. No problem at all, the game is playable. Since the second disk has a bad track (track 29.1), I'd prefer not spread it publicly until I manage to recover it. I tried to clean it several time, but the bad track is still there. Will try again.
Brume wrote:Found an interesting case: Total Recall
The game needs two disks which seem to be double-side formatted. But...
- SuperCard Pro archives only one side on each disk. See the pictures below. So the game doesn't boot at all.
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Recommended dietary supplements
The effect of diet on gastrointestinal symptoms and morning sickness
Food avoidance and risk of childhood food allergy
Food safety advice during pregnancy
A healthy diet during pregnancy is essential to provide all the nutrients needed by a mother and her growing baby. It is a common misconception that pregnant women need to "eat for two". In fact, most of the additional nutrients needed during pregnancy can be obtained by selecting appropriate foods and eating a high quality nutrient-dense diet. However there are some specific recommendations, which include taking folic acid supplements in early pregnancy to reduce the risk of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. It is also important for pregnant women to be adopt good food hygiene practices to minimize the risk of food poisoning from harmful bacteria and to avoid substances in foods and drinks that might be potentially harmful to them or their growing baby.
The need for a healthy, balanced diet during pregnancy is well recognized and most dietary recommendations date back several years. For example, in the UK the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) set specific recommendations for nutrient intakes amongst the population as a whole and for pregnant women in 1991.However, in recent years
General weight-gain recommendations for women who are expecting only one baby. (Illustration by GGS Information Services/Thomson Gale.)
there has been heightened concern about the potential risks from exposure to certain substances, for example caffeine and alcohol, and greater support for the role that some nutrients can play in ensuring a successful pregnancy outcome. For example, it is now well recognized that folic acid supplements before and in the first trimester (first 12 weeks) of pregnancy can help to reduce the risks of neural tube defects (such as spina bifida).
Although pregnant women do not have to "eat for two", a healthy, balanced and varied diet that is rich in vitamins and minerals is important for both a mother and her baby. The mother's diet must provide sufficient energy (calories) and nutrients to meet her usual requirements, as well as the needs of the growing fetus, and enable the mother to lay down stores of nutrients required for the baby's development and for breastfeeding.
Pregnant women, as well as those planning for pregnancy, should follow a healthy, balanced diet. This can be achieved by following the usual guidelines, which are based around the five main food groups:
- Bread, other cereals and potatoes. Foods in this group include breakfast cereals, pasta and rice. These foods should make up the main part of the diet. They are good sources of carbohydrate, protein and B vitamins, low in fat and filling. Whole-grain varieties contain more vitamins and minerals and breakfast cereals that contain added iron and folic acid are a good choice during pregnancy.
- Meat, fish and alternatives. Alternatives include eggs, nuts, pulses (such as beans, lentils, chickpeas) and textured vegetable protein. These should be consumed in moderate amounts and lower fat versions selected whenever possible. They are a major source of protein, vitamins and minerals. Atleast one portion of oily fish (e.g. sardines or salmon) a week will ensure an adequate supply of omega-3 fatty acids.
- Milk and dairy foods. These should be consumed in moderate amounts and lower fat versions are preferable. These foods are particularly high in calcium and good sources of protein. Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk contain just as much calcium and protein as whole milk.
- Foods containing fat and sugar. These foods add palat-ability to the diet but should be eaten infrequently.
Energy intake and weight gain
Energy (calorie) requirements increase during pregnancy by a small amount. The body's increased need for some other nutrients, such as iron and calcium, can be met without increasing intakes. This is because the body adapts and becomes more efficient at absorbing and using these nutrients during pregnancy. However, for some nutrients, an increase in intake is necessary, including protein, the B vitamins - thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2) and folate, and vitamins A, C and D. For some of these nutrients, such as for protein, the majority of women will already be consuming enough. However, for others, such as folate, dietary adjustments may be necessary in order to make sure that adequate amounts are consumed, and these are discussed in more detail below.
The total energy cost of pregnancy has been estimated at around 321 MJ (77,000 kcal). However, in reality, there are wide variations in individual energy requirements during pregnancy as women vary greatly in basal metabolic rate, body fat and physical activity levels. In the UK, the recommendation is for women to consume an extra 200 kcals per day during the third trimester only. But this assumes that women reduce their physical activity levels during pregnancy and women who are underweight or who do not reduce their activity level may require more. The American Dietetic Association recommends the additional energy needs during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy to be approximately 300 kcal per day in adults and older adolescents and 500 kcal per day in young adolescents (<14 years) but individual differences are also emphasised.
A good approach is for pregnant women to eat when they feel hungry. If weight gain is appropriate, then energy intake is likely to be adequate.
For women with a healthy pre-pregnancy weight, an average weight gain of 12kg (range 10–14kg) is associated with the lowest risk of complications during pregnancy and labour and with a reduced likelihood of having a low birth weight infant. However women who are normally a healthy weight vary widely in the amount of weight they gain during pregnancy. Women who gain an excessive amount of weight are more likely to remain overweight or obese following the birth. But pregnancy isn't a time for faddy diets or restricting food intake as this may lead to inadequate nutrient supplies for both the mother and fetus. Medical advice should be sought if there is concern about excessive weight gain during pregnancy.
Important nutrients
Extra iron is needed during pregnancy, mostly in the last two trimesters. Inadequate blood iron levels causes iron deficiency anaemia which can make people feel tired, irritable and less able to concentrate. The risk of becoming anaemic is greater during pregnancy and anaemic women are more likely to deliver a baby of low birth weight and with poor iron stores. In the US, most recommendations advise pregnant women to take a supplement of 30 mg of ferrous iron as well as eating a well-balanced diet. In other countries, such as the UK, supplements are advised on an individual basis where considered necessary. However, pregnant women should eat plenty of iron-rich foods, such as lean red meat, pulses, dark green leafy vegetables and fortified breakfast cereals. Consuming foods containing vitamin C at the same time as non-meat iron-rich foods helps to enhance iron absorption. Examples include having a glass of orange juice (a source of vitamin C) with a bowl of cereal (containing iron) or baked beans (containing iron) with a baked potato (a source of vitamin C).
Vitamin D is needed to absorb calcium from the diet and an adequate supply is therefore essential for healthy bones and teeth. A vitamin D supplement of 10mcg/day is currently recommended for all pregnant women as a precautionary measure. Vitamin D is obtained mainly by the action of sunlight on the skin but is also found naturally in eggs, meat and oily fish. Most fat spreads are also now fortified with vitamin D.
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosa-pentaenoic acid) are types of omega 3 fatty acids found in oil-rich fish (e.g. mackerel, salmon, kippers, fresh tuna, herring, trout and sardines). These are a major constituent of the brain and retina and there has been a lot of recent interest in their role in infant development. Eating fish has been associated with a lower risk of pre-term delivery and low birth weight. DHA and EPA can be made in the body from a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid called alpha-linolenic acid but it is not known how efficiently the body does this. Alpha-linolenic acid is found in oils (e.g. rapeseed, linseed, soya, walnut oils), nuts (e.g. walnuts, peanuts), grass-fed animals (e.g. beef) and green leafy vegetables (e.g. spinach).
Recommended dietary supplements
Apart from folic acid (400mg/day) and vitamin D (10mg/day), other vitamin and mineral supplements should not normally be necessary during pregnancy. However, if dietary intakes are thought to be inadequate, then a low dose multivitamin and mineral supplement can be taken as a safeguard. High dose supplements should be avoided, particularly those that contain vitamin A (retinol). There are now a number of specially formulated supplements available for pregnant women, and those planning to conceive.
The effect of diet on gastrointestinal symptoms and morning sickness
Indigestion, heartburn and intestinal discomfort are common, especially in late pregnancy when the baby takes up more space and squashes internal organs. Women usually learn by experience which foods to avoid and this is unlikely to lead to any nutritional problems unless it involves foods that are a major source of important nutrients (e.g. all meat or dairy products). Eating small meals, avoiding fatty and spicy foods may help.
Women who are experiencing constipation or haemorrhoids should increase the amount of fibre in the diet, by increasing intake of starchy carbohydrate foods, particularly whole-grain cereals and breads. An adequate fluid intake is also important, along with gentle exercise.
It is not unusual to have cravings for certain foods and aversions to other foods during pregnancy. The cause of these is also uncertain but may be due to altered taste perceptions. Dairy and sweet foods are most commonly reported as being craved and the most common aversions are to alcohol, caffeinated drinks and meats. As long as a healthy, varied diet is being consumed, there should not be cause for concern. Once the baby has been born, tastes usually return back to normal.
Food avoidance and risk of childhood food allergy
Infants whose parents have a history of allergic disease are more likely to develop allergies themselves and it has been suggested that by avoiding certain foods during pregnancy and breastfeeding mothers may help to prevent allergy in their infants. But there is little evidence to support this and others have suggested that exposure to these foods can actually help a baby develop tolerance to them. If there is strong family history of allergic disease (i.e. if either parent or a previous child has suffered from hayfever, asthma, eczema or other allergy), then it may be advisable to avoid peanuts or foods containing peanuts during pregnancy and while breastfeeding in order to reduce the risk of the infant developing a peanut allergy.
Vitamin A
A high vitamin A (retinol) intake during pregnancy can cause birth defects. Pregnant women should therefore avoid liver and liver products, such as pate, as these foods can contain high concentrations of vitamin A and foods that are fortified with this vitamin. It is also recommended that supplements containing vitamin A (in the form of retinol), or high dose multivitamins are avoided, as well as cod liver oil supplements.
Drinking alcohol excessively or binge drinking during pregnancy can increase the risk of birth defects and low birth weight, as well as behavioural problems during childhood. The effects of lighter drinking on a developing child are less clear but to be cautious pregnant women are advised to avoid alcoholic drinks. If
they choose to drink alcohol, intake should be reduced to a minimum (1-2 units once or twice a week). This is equivalent of half a pint to a pint of beer or lager or 1-2 small glasses of wine.
Pregnant women should not consume excessive amounts of caffeine, as levels above 300 mg/day have been linked with low birth weight and miscarriage. Caffeine occurs in a range of food and drinks such as coffee, tea, cola and chocolate. In the UK, the Food Standards Agency recommends that pregnant women should not drink more than the equivalent of around four average cups of coffee a day.
Food-bourne illness
It is very important for pregnant women to follow general food hygiene guidelines when handling foods, especially raw meat. It is sensible to avoid foods which increase the risk of food-borne infections such as Listeriosis (e.g. unpasteurised milk, cheese made from unpasteurised milk, mould ripened cheeses which are usually soft or blue cheese) or salmonella poisoning (e.g. undercooked chicken, undercooked or raw eggs). It is also important to wash raw vegetables thoroughly as eating soil may cause toxoplasmosis.
Important foods to avoid to minimize the risk of foodbourne illness during pregnancy include:
- Raw seafood (e.g. oysters, uncooked sushi)
- Unpasteurised dairy products (these are unlikely to be sold by supermarkets but caution should be paid to exotic,smelly cheeses from the cheese counter)
- Cheeses with a white mouldy rind (e.g. Brie, Camembert, Cambozola) and blue-veined cheeses (e.g. Stilton, Blue Brie, Danish Blue, Roquefort)
- Pate (unless tinned)
- Raw and undercooked meat and poultry (these should be cooked until there are no pink bits left, re-heat ready-cooked meals until piping hot)
- Unwashed vegetables and salads
- Liver and liver products (e.g. pate, liver sausage)
Contaminants in fish
Fish is a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals. In particular, oil-rich fish (e.g. mackerel, salmon, kippers, herrings, trout, sardines, fresh tuna) contain the long chain omega 3 fatty acids which are essential in brain and eye development in the fetus. However, fish can contain certain contaminants, namely mercury, dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and concern has been expressed about the consequences of prenatal exposure to these toxic chemicals on risk of brain and nervous system abnormalities.
High concentrations of methylmercury have been found in large, predatory fish such as shark, marlin and swordfish.These fish should be avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding (in the US this also includes king mackerel and tilefish). Some samples of tuna have also been found to have higher levels than other species. In the UK, pregnant women (and those who may become pregnant) are advised to restrict their weekly intake to two 140g portions of fresh tuna or four 140g portions of canned tuna. The American Dietetic Association recommend a maximum of six ounces of albacore (white) tuna a week during pregnancy and that women restrict total fish consumption to 12 ounces of cooked fish per week (avoiding those listed above).
Oily fish can contain PCBs and dioxins. Because of the benefits of oily fish consumption, pregnant women are advised to follow the general advice for fish consumption in the UK and to consume at least two portions of fish per week, one of which should be oily. But to limit their intake to no more than two portions of oily fish per week. This advice also applies to women who might become pregnant and those who are breastfeeding.
Department of Health Dietary Reference Values for food energy and nutrients for the United Kingdom. Report on Health and Social Subjects 41. HMSO London, 2006.
Department of Health Report on Health and Social Subjects No. 50. Folic Acid and the Prevention of Disease 2000. Report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food PolicyThe Stationery Office, London, 2000
FAO/WHO/UNU Report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation. Human Energy Requirements. FAO Food and Nutrition Technical Paper Series, No. 1, 2004.
Goldberg G Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation. In Shetty P (ed) Nutrition Through the Life Cycle. Leatherhead, Leatherhead Publishing, 2002.
American Dietetic Association. Nutrition and lifestyle for a healthy pregnancy outcome. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 102 (2002): 1470-1490.
Williamson, C.S. "Nutrition in pregnancy." Nutrition Bulletin 31(2006): 28-59. Reprints of this briefing paper also available from www.nutrition.org.uk.
American Dietetic Association. 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995. Telephone: (800) 877-1600. Website: www.eatright.org. British Nutrition Foundaton, 52-54 High Holborn, London WC1V 6RQ. Website: www.nutrition.org uk Food Standards Agency, UK. Website: www.eatwell.gov uk Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, UK. Website: www.sacn.gov.uk
Sara A. Stanner, MSc PHNutr

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Owner Demourkas earns first victory since joining class in 2004
As Groovederci pulled into the docks at Bert Jabin's Yacht Yard, crew members from the other Farr 40 programs stopped what they were doing, stood and applauded. It was a testament to how popular owner John Demourkas has become within the class.
Demourkas scored his first victory since joining the Farr 40 class in 2004, and boy was it a big one! The California skipper and his crew aboard Groovederci put forth a consistent performance over four days of racing on the Chesapeake Bay and captured the Farr 40 East Coast Championship.
Veteran owners Jim Richardson and Wolfgang Schaefer were among the first to come over to the boat and congratulate Demourkas, a Santa Barbara resident who returned to the class this year following a lengthy hiatus.
"I'm really happy for Johnny D. He's a first-class individual and deserves to finally win a regatta," said Richardson, a three-time world champion from Newport, R.I.
Groovederci was atop the 12-boat fleet upon conclusion of racing on Saturday, but it was a tenuous lead as Ramrod trailed by one point and five other boats were within six points. With six boats still in contention, Sunday's final day became a free-for-all with numerous tacking duels on the upwind legs during both races.
Cameron Appleton called tactics for Demourkas, who maintained his lead by posting a pair of fourths on Sunday and finished with a low score of 41 points. Groovederci won two races and placed fifth or better in six others to beat Barking Mad (Richardson) and Struntje Light (Schaefer) by three points.
Barking Mad and Struntje Light won three races each en route to totaling 44 points but Richardson's crew won the tiebreaker by virtue of having more second place results (two).
"It was a real slugfest out there today. I can't say enough about Cam and the rest of the team. Everyone rose to the occasion," Demourkas said. "Now I know what it's like to be Jim Richardson. It feels awfully good to win and we are going to really enjoy this."
There was a consolation prize for Richardson as Barking Mad took over first place on the United States Farr 40 circuit. Barking Mad, which won Key West, placed second in Miami and now has five total points. Enfant Terrible, the Italian entry owned by Alberto Rossi, was the circuit leader after two events, but finished fourth at the East Coast Championship and fell to second with seven points. Struntje Light remains third on the U.S. Circuit with nine points.
"It's nice to be leading the circuit with one event remaining, but it ain't over till it's over," said Richardson, repeating the line made famous by New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra. "We had to fight really hard to get our result here. We were behind the eight ball early and had to really battle to come back."
Barking Mad will now return to its home port of Newport looking to consolidate its lead on the U.S. Circuit with a strong performance at the Rolex North American Championships, being held July 4-7 on the Narragansett Bay.
Barking Mad won the start, went hard to the favored right side of the course on the first upwind leg and was never headed in leading Race 9 from start to finish. Ramrod, the Annapolis entry skippered by Rod Jabin, got pinned out to the far left and lost significant ground to most of the fleet. That one disastrous leg led to an eighth place finish that basically took Ramrod out of contention.
"This is the only class in the world that you can go into the last day of racing one point out of first and wind up finishing fifth," Jabin said.
In the 10th and final race of the series, Struntje Light got a great start and was allowed to sail clear of the fleet while the likes of Barking Mad, Enfant Terrible and Ramrod beat up on each other. Barking Mad covered Enfant Terrible closely on the second upwind leg and that strategy ultimately had a major impact on the outcome.
Enfant Terrible was at one point in position to win the regatta and maintain its circuit lead, but the tacking duel with Barking Mad pushed the Italian boat back just enough to make a difference. On approach to the second windward mark, Enfant Terrible came close to crossing Provezza 8 and Barking Mad on port tack, but realized at the last minute it could not do so and wound up ducking three boats.
"It was a tight situation and we were not able to cross cleanly so we had to bear off and lost several places," Enfant Terrible tactician Giovanni Cassinari said. "That race is not what cost us the regatta. We did not sail well Saturday because I was not in sync with the wind."
When it was over, skippers and tacticians on five boats could shake their heads about mistakes made in various races and play the game of what if? Meanwhile, Demourkas and crew were popping bottles of champagne and exchanging hugs.
It was also the first Farr 40 victory for Appleton, who has been calling tactics for Demourkas since 2008. Christian Kamp (jib, spinnaker) and Andrew Estcourt (main) served as trimmers aboard Groovederci.
"It's overly special to be able to share this win with John. We've been working really hard to improve as a team and get things right," Appleton said. "We set some goals this week to sail smart and stay out of trouble. All credit to John for driving the boat well and holding his nerve when it came down to the wire there at the end. John was fantastic in this regatta, really solid on the helm. He has gotten better because he believes in himself."
Demourkas did not campaign his Farr 40 for almost two years while racing on the Farr 30 circuit and recovering from major reconstructive knee surgery. He said driving a J/105 in club events back home in Santa Barbara helped hone the steering skills.
"Sailing on my own without any pros forced me to focus and raise my level. When I get back into this boat and am surrounded by pros, I'm even better," he said. "I can't say enough about the level of competition in this class. It's unnerving, but it's also unbelievable!"
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FRIDAY, Oct. 12, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Spirituality is the key to successful treatment using traditional Chinese medicine, a new study says.
Researchers analyzed the origins and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and concluded that it is profoundly influenced by Chinese philosophy and religion.
They focused on these aspects of traditional Chinese medicine: its history and fundamental beliefs; spirituality in traditional Chinese healing rituals and pharmacy; spirituality in health maintenance theories; and spirituality of master doctors of traditional Chinese medicine.
An underlying premise of this type of medicine is that the mind and body of a person are inseparable, according to the study. A person must have good spirit and pay attention to cultivating that spirit to be in good health.
The researchers noted that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners see people -- not diseases -- and equate curing diseases with curing people.
"Good health and longevity are what we pursue. More and more, people are concerned about ways to prevent disease and strengthen their bodies, which is the emphasis of traditional Chinese medicine. It pays attention to physical pains, and at the same time is also concerned with spiritual suffering," wrote Lin Shi from Beijing Normal University and Chenguang Zhang from Southwest Minzu University, in China.
"Therefore, [traditional Chinese medicine] can teach people to be indifferent towards having or not having, to exist with few desires and feel at ease, to keep the body healthy and the mind quiet, and to achieve harmony between the body and the mind and then to achieve harmony with the world and nature," the researchers concluded.
The study was published online in the October/December issue of the journal Pastoral Psychology, a special issue dedicated to the psychology of religion in China.
More information
The U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has more about traditional Chinese medicine.


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The Trump administration has put Indonesia on a list of 16 countries whose trade surpluses with the US will be put under review. A series of disputes between Indonesia and American firms has also ruffled ties.
"We will work with President Jokowi to reduce barriers to trade and investments and to create a truly level playing field where all our businesses have equal opportunity and market access," Pence said. Jokowi is the nickname of Indonesia's President Joko Widodo.
"The president and I spoke about that very candidly and very respectfully," Pence told a roundtable discussion with business executives in Jakarta before flying to Australia on the last leg of his 10-day Asia-Pacific tour.
Indonesia's investments barriers include a lack of intellectual property protection, insufficient transparency with regulations and requiring local content for manufactured goods sold in the Indonesian market, Pence said.
Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board chief Tom Lembong said Widodo agreed "we still have too many regulations, too many barriers to trade, and these are bad for local and international industries".
Lembong said Indonesia needs both investment and imports from the US, "especially productivity-enhancing products and services. You need imports to boost exports".
Neither side disclosed any discussions about the disputes Indonesia has had with American companies of late.
Over the past six months, Indonesia has wrestled with mining giant Freeport McMoRan, demanding the company divest 51 per cent of its shares in its Papua-based gold and copper mine, and has demanded that Google Inc settle unpaid taxes and fines of more than $US400 million ($A531 million). Jakarta also scrubbed JP Morgan from its list of primary bond dealers after what was deemed a negative research report.
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So Its now the time to connect everything together. People are connecting things as there are business opportunities in doing so. Now-a-days we are connecting several things to the enterprise, like temperature sensors, medical devices, power meters, etc. Some of them in the past have been connected using hard wiring. Now-a-days, we are seeing increasing use of networks such as cellphone infrastructure... We have started to think if people can talk, why not the devices...
There are several types of applications that can now run on a mobile. Some of them are web based and some are native applications. Now we have applications that are even hybrid, ie native applications that utilize the browser interface to delivery content. A product from IBM that can be helpful to address the mobile needs is IBM Worklight. It can be used to develop hybrid applications. IBM Worklight provides an open, comprehensive and advanced mobile application platform for smartphones and tablets, helping organizations of all sizes to efficiently develop, connect, run and manage HTML5, hybrid and native applications. Mobile messaging can be used in hybrid application to connect to the enterprise messaging backbone.
HTTP has been standard way for several years now for web applications . But you need more than just HTTP. Mobile and the internet of things have additional challenges like emitting information from one to many, listening to events, pushing information, etc. To achieve this, IBM now provides reliable mobile access to the Enterprise. Its underpinned by MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. The product that will help address the needs for messaging is IBM WebSphere MQ. Its evolved a lot now and provides capabilities to move messages, interact between services, move files, integrate with Mobile, applications and even sensors. MQTT plays a important role in mobile messaging. It provides reliable transport, push notification, publish subscribe paradigm, and also converse battery and bandwidth, IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry provides mission-critical connectivity and intelligence by delivering, relevant near real-time data to intelligent decision making assets.
Following links provide you more information on this topic:
1. Eclipse Paho Project
2. MQDev Blog
3. WebSphere MQ Telemetry
4. IBM Worklight
Something interesting for the developers to think about now ... How are mobile applications different from the desktop or server applications? How applications targeted for small sensors interact with the enterprise?
Read more blog posts on WebSphere MQ and MQTT here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/messaging/?lang=en


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Court-at-law judge switches to Democratic Party
SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County court-at-law judge elected during the "red tide" of 2010 is switching parties.
Standing at the foot of the Bexar County Courthouse steps, County Court-at-Law No. 11 Judge Carlo Key said Monday that he is joining the Democratic Party and will seek re-election as a Democrat in November 2014.
"Make no mistake, I did not leave the Republican Party, it left me," said Key, flanked by high-ranking Democrats. "My principles have led me to the Democratic Party, and my only hope is that more people of principle will follow me."
While he's been considering the decision for several weeks, it was the recent federal government shutdown that caused Key to seriously consider switching parties.
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said that "in the past few weeks, you've seen the ugly face of the Republican Party that is more interested in taking care of their primary base than in taking care of Americans and Texans."
The 16-day government shutdown appears to have affected Americans' opinions of the GOP: According to a CNN poll conducted over the weekend, just over half of the public oppose the party's control of the House of Representatives, and more than six in 10 people surveyed think House Speaker John Boehner should lose his job.
Key, 38, a native of Marshall, was an attorney before he joined the wave of Republican judges who won seats in 2010, when all but one of the new county judges elected that year were Republicans. Key is a 2002 graduate of the Baylor Law School.
He has pitted himself against the law enforcement community by forbidding testimony that a horizontal gaze nystagmus test — in which an officer uses a pen or finger to track involuntary eye movements — indicates intoxication. This summer, Key learned that he would face a challenger in the Republican primary: Julie Wright, a prosecutor married to a police officer.
His announcement came just days after another Bexar County Republican left the party. Last week, Therese Huntzinger, 55, announced that she will run for district attorney after recasting herself as a Democrat. Huntzinger, a criminal defense attorney who could face 15-year incumbent Susan Reed in the general election, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for a district judge seat in 1998.
Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Manuel Medina said two other judges who attended a recent Democratic Party event could also make the switch in the near future, and U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro, D-San Antonio, said he expects more to follow Key and Huntzinger.
"The Republican Party is catering to such a narrow ideological base," he said, "and many Texans are realizing that the Democratic Party is a better choice. The Texas Republican Party is going backward in respect to Latino issues. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
Robert Stovall, the Bexar County Republican Party chairman, said that was "absolutely not true." Republicans "hold the values that have made Texas great," he said, adding that there have also been recent defectors to the Republican Party.
"The American public as a whole is frustrated with a lack of leadership, and it's pure deadlock," Stovall said. "(U.S. Sen. Ted) Cruz is doing an excellent job trying to take control, so we've got some good, solid leadership, but it's obvious that the American public is frustrated."
Democratic leaders said Republicans are inching away from Hispanic voters and further to the right of the political spectrum by doing things such as threatening to repeal the Texas DREAM Act and forcing the government to shut down.
"I cannot tolerate a political party in which hate speech elevates a candidate to higher office rather than disqualifies them," Key said, "and I cannot condone a party which values ideological purity over devotion to rule of law."
At an early-voting event, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, said Key's decision was a "mistake."
"We've had several former Democrats become Republican since I've been speaker, and that's a tide I would like to see continue and try to encourage," he said. "But everybody has to make that decision on their own."
Political pendulum swings, while somewhat unusual, aren't unheard of.
Former Court-at-Law Judge Karen Crouch, who was unseated in 2010 as a Democrat and lost in a race for the 166th District Court in 2012, switched to the Republican Party this year and is seeking election for County Court-at-Law No. 10.
In 2010, two Democratic state representatives, Aaron Peña of Edinburg and Allan Ritter of Nederland, switched to the Republican Party.
Gov. Rick Perry spent his first six years in the Texas House as a Democrat before he became a Republican and was elected in 1990 as agriculture commissioner. Former Sen. Phil Gramm served as a Democratic congressman for several years before he was kicked out of the House Budget Committee for supporting President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts. In protest, he resigned his seat, changed parties and won the seat back in a special election. The next year, he ran against now-Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and won election to the Senate.
On Monday, Doggett addressed Key's announcement in an emailed statement.
"The Republican Party today is like a canoe that's tilting dangerously too far to the right. The folks thrown in the water didn't 'leave it,' they were dumped," he said.
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Configuration file precedence
For more information about configuration files, read About configuration files.
Splunk software uses configuration files to determine nearly every aspect of its behavior. A Splunk platform deployment can have many copies of the same configuration file. These file copies are usually layered in directories that affect either the users, an app, or the system as a whole.
When editing configuration files, it is important to understand how Splunk software evaluates these files and which ones take precedence.
When incorporating changes, Splunk software does the following to your configuration files:
- It merges the settings from all copies of the file, using a location-based prioritization scheme.
- When different copies have conflicting attribute values (that is, when they set the same attribute to different values), it uses the value from the file with the highest priority.
- It determines the priority of configuration files by their location in its directory structure, according to whether the file is located in a system, app, or user directory, in that order. To determine priority among the collection of apps directories, Splunk uses ASCII sort order. Files in an apps directory named "A" have a higher priority than files in an apps directory named "B", and so on.
Note: Besides resolving configuration settings amongst multiple copies of a file, Splunk software sometimes needs to resolve settings within a single file. For information on how Splunk software determines precedence within a single
props.conf file, see "Attribute precedence within a single props.conf file".
About configuration file context
How precedence is determined depends upon the context of the file.
App or user context versus global context
To determine priority among copies of a configuration file, Splunk software first determines the directory scheme.
Splunk software uses two main schemes of directory precedence.
- App or user: Some activities, like searching, take place in an app or user context. The app and user context is vital to search-time processing, where certain knowledge objects or actions might be valid only for specific users in specific apps.
- Global: Activities like indexing take place in a global context. They are independent of any app or user. For example, configuration files that determine monitoring behavior occur outside of the app and user context and are global in nature.
Cluster peer configuration context
There's also an expanded precedence order for cluster peer node global configurations. This is because some configuration files, like
indexes.conf, must be identical across peer nodes.
To keep them consistent, files are managed from the cluster master, which distributes them to the peer nodes so that all peer nodes contain the same versions of the files. These files have the highest precedence in a cluster peer's configuration, which is explained in the next section.
For more information about how configurations are distributed across peer nodes, see "Update common peer configurations" in the Managing Indexers and Clusters manual.
How Splunk determines precedence order
This subsection provides a conceptual understanding of precedence order and context. For ordered listings by directory name, see "Summary of directory order precedence", later in this topic.
Precedence order within global context:
When the context is global (that is, where there's no app/user context), directory priority descends in this order:
1. System local directory -- highest priority
2. App local directories
3. App default directories
4. System default directory -- lowest priority
When consuming a global configuration, such as
inputs.conf, Splunk first uses the attributes from any copy of the file in
system/local. Then it looks for any copies of the file located in the app directories, adding any attributes found in them, but ignoring attributes already discovered in system/local. As a last resort, for any attributes not explicitly assigned at either the system or app level, it assigns default values from the file in the
system/default directory.
Note: As the next section describes, cluster peer nodes have an expanded order of precedence.
Precedence for cluster peer nodes
For cluster peer nodes, the global context considers some additional peer-specific ("slave-app") directories. These directories contain apps and configurations that are identical across all peer nodes. Here is the expanded precedence order for cluster peers:
1. Slave-app local directories (cluster peers only) -- highest priority
2. System local directory
3. App local directories
4. Slave-app default directories (cluster peers only)
5. App default directories
6. System default directory -- lowest priority
With cluster peers, custom settings common to all the peers (those in the slave-app local directories) have the highest precedence.
Precedence order within app or user context
When there's an app/user context, directory priority descends from user to app to system:
1. User directories for current user -- highest priority
2. App directories for currently running app (local, followed by default)
3. App directories for all other apps (local, followed by default) -- for exported settings only
4. System directories (local, followed by default) -- lowest priority
An attribute in
savedsearches.conf, for example, might be set at all three levels: the user, the app, and the system. Splunk will always use the value of the user-level attribute, if any, in preference to a value for that same attribute set at the app or system level.
How app directory names affect precedence
Note: For most practical purposes, the information in this subsection probably won't matter, but it might prove useful if you need to force a certain order of evaluation or for troubleshooting.
To determine priority among the collection of apps directories, Splunk uses ASCII sort order. Files in an apps directory named "A" have a higher priority than files in an apps directory named "B", and so on. Also, all apps starting with an uppercase letter have precedence over any apps starting with a lowercase letter, due to ASCII sort order. ("A" has precedence over "Z", but "Z" has precedence over "a", for example.)
In addition, numbered directories have a higher priority than alphabetical directories and are evaluated in lexicographic, not numerical, order. For example, in descending order of precedence:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myapp1 $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myapp10 $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myapp2 $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myapp20 ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappApple $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappBanana $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappZabaglione ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappapple $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappbanana $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/myappzabaglione ...
Note: When determining precedence in the app/user context, directories for the currently running app take priority over those for all other apps, independent of how they're named. Furthermore, other apps are only examined for exported settings.
Summary of directory precedence
Putting this all together, the order of directory priority, from highest to lowest, goes like this:
Global context:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/local/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/default/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/default/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/*
Global context - cluster peer nodes only:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps/A/local/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps/z/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/local/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps/A/default/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps/z/default/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/default/* ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/default/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/*
Important: Within the
slave-apps/[local|default] directories, the special
_cluster subdirectory has a higher precedence than any app subdirectories starting with a lowercase letter (for example,
anApp). However, it has a lower precedence than any apps starting with an uppercase letter (for example,
AnApp). This is due to the location of the underscore ("_") character in the ASCII sort order.
App/user context:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Current_running_app/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Current_running_app/default/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/local/*, $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/A/default/*, ... $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/local/*, $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/z/default/* (but see note below) $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/* $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/*
Important: In the app/user context, all configuration files for the currently running app take priority over files from all other apps. This is true for the app's local and default directories. So, if the current context is app C, Splunk evaluates both
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/C/local/* and
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/C/default/* before evaluating the local or default directories for any other apps. Furthermore, Splunk only looks at configuration data for other apps if that data has been exported globally through the app's
default.meta file, as described in this topic on setting app permissions.
Also, note that
/etc/users/ is evaluated only when the particular user logs in or performs a search.
Example of how attribute precedence works
This example of attribute precedence uses
props.conf. The
props.conf file is unusual, because its context can be either global or app/user, depending on when Splunk is evaluating it. Splunk evaluates
props.conf at both index time (global) and search time (apps/user).
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/props.conf contains this stanza:
[source::/opt/Locke/Logs/error*] sourcetype = fatal-error
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/t2rss/local/props.conf contains another version of the same stanza:
[source::/opt/Locke/Logs/error*] sourcetype = t2rss-error SHOULD_LINEMERGE = True BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE = True
The line merging attribute assignments in
t2rss always apply, as they only occur in that version of the file. However, there's a conflict with the
sourcetype attribute. In the
/system/local version, the
sourcetype has a value of "fatal-error". In the
/apps/t2rss/local version, it has a value of "t2rss-error".
Since this is a
sourcetype assignment, which gets applied at index time, Splunk uses the global context for determining directory precedence. In the global context, Splunk gives highest priority to attribute assignments in
system/local. Thus, the
sourcetype attribute gets assigned a value of "fatal-error".
The final, internally merged version of the file looks like this:
[source::/opt/Locke/Logs/error*] sourcetype = fatal-error SHOULD_LINEMERGE = True BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE = True
List of configuration files and their context
As mentioned, Splunk decides how to evaluate a configuration file based on the context that the file operates within, global or app/user. Generally speaking, files that affect data input, indexing, or deployment activities are global; files that affect search activities usually have a app/user context.
props.conf and
transforms.conf files can be evaluated in either a app/user or a global context, depending on whether Splunk is using them at index or search time.
Global configuration files
admon.conf authentication.conf authorize.conf crawl.conf deploymentclient.conf distsearch.conf indexes.conf inputs.conf outputs.conf pdf_server.conf procmonfilters.conf props.conf -- global and app/user context pubsub.conf regmonfilters.conf report_server.conf restmap.conf searchbnf.conf segmenters.conf server.conf serverclass.conf serverclass.seed.xml.conf source-classifier.conf sourcetypes.conf sysmon.conf tenants.conf transforms.conf -- global and app/user context user-seed.conf -- special case: Must be located in /system/default web.conf wmi.conf
App/user configuration files
alert_actions.conf app.conf audit.conf commands.conf eventdiscoverer.conf event_renderers.conf eventtypes.conf fields.conf limits.conf literals.conf macros.conf multikv.conf props.conf -- global and app/user context savedsearches.conf tags.conf times.conf transactiontypes.conf transforms.conf -- global and app/user context user-prefs.conf workflow_actions.conf
Troubleshooting configuration precedence and other issues
Splunk's configuration file system supports many overlapping configuration files in many different locations. The price of this level of flexibility is that figuring out which value for which configuration option is being used in your Splunk installation can sometimes be quite complex. If you're looking for some tips on figuring out what configuration setting is being used in a given situation, read "Use btool to troubleshoot configurations" in the Troubleshooting Manual.
Configuration file structure
Attribute precedence within a single props.conf file
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 6.0.9, 6.0.10, 6.0.11, 6.0.12, 6.0.13, 6.0.14, 6.0.15, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.1.9, 6.1.10, 6.1.11, 6.1.12, 6.1.13, 6.1.14, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.2.7, 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.2.10, 6.2.11, 6.2.12, 6.2.13, 6.2.14, 6.2.15, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11
For clarity, "Splunk uses ASCII sort order." probably needs a little more precision. How about:
Splunk uses 7-bit ASCII sort order for filename precedence, and pays no attention to collation or language settings. Extended and non-ASCII characters in filenames are ignored. (are they?)
Rfrey - I assume your main concern here is precedence in the so-called app/user, aka search-time, context, described in this topic. The search head transmits the search-time settings to the search peers via the knowledge bundle.

The search peers then use the contents of the knowledge bundle to execute searches on behalf of their search head. In so doing, they follow the app/user precedence. So, for example, a knowledge bundle setting in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/*, for the user running the search, will have precedence over a conflicting setting in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Current_running_app/local/* in the bundle.

The use of mounted bundles doesn't change this. It just means that the search peer will access the conf files from the mounted bundle rather than from a downloaded copy of the bundle. Similarly, search head pooling doesn't affect the set of files that the search peers receive from the search heads. The contents of the knowledge bundle remain the same in both cases.
Can you elaborate on how file precedence works in relation to mounted bundles and search head pooling, specifically if there is a clear order of precedence based off of location on the file system? I am aware that you can use btool to determine how things are being applied but in a design phase that is a very trial and error approach to determining which copy of each configuration file should host which settings in a distributed environment.
Fixed the typo, thanks, BenAveling!
user_seed.conf or user-seed.conf ?


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Cairo: Holiday snaps of Australian Peter Greste's parents and his award-winning BBC documentary on Somalia were just two of the many pieces of irrelevant material presented as evidence to an Egyptian court, as the trial of three Al-Jazeera journalists descended further into farce during its fifth day.
Other purported evidence against the journalists, who are charged with conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast news that falsely portrayed Egypt as being in a state of "civil war", included footage of a press conference in Kenya and five Sky News Arabia stories filmed in Cairo.
Not a single video or photograph shown to the court was produced by Al-Jazeera English in Egypt, leaving Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata bemused and infuriating Mr Greste and his colleagues, Canadian Egyptian bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed.
"Today the case completely fell apart," Mr Greste said from the defendant's cage in the court in Cairo's Tora Prison complex during a break in proceedings.
Mr Fahmy agreed, describing Egypt as a "police state" and the case a farce. "You have got 20 defendants who do not know each other and unrelated video being played as evidence."
He appealed to the judge to release them on bail, saying: "We have been in jail for four months and every time we come to view the video (evidence) someone else makes a mistake and we pay for it."
As more of the videos were played – a long press conference in Nairobi following the Westgate Mall terror attack and Mr Greste's Land of the Bandits documentary in Somalia and Kenya – lawyers for the journalists protested to the judge over their relevance. Family photographs of Mr Greste's parents Lois and Juris on holiday in Germany and Latvia pushed the court to breaking point.
One of the senior defence lawyers rose to his feet and all but yelled to the bench: "If this continues it will kill the image of Egypt – we are not prosecuting terrorists, they are educated people, they are journalists and we are asking for mercy and justice."
Mr Fahmy's counsel followed with: "The world is watching, the international media are here. The prosecutor is wasting our time."
Mr Greste's lawyer chimed in: "The material you have captured has nothing to do with the allegations. Based on all investigations and everything you've taken from my client … you do not have any evidence to prove my client guilty."
The shambolic nature of the prosecution's case against the journalists – it was the third day they had attempted to screen the video "evidence" and it followed an earlier court session in which key prosecution witnesses were unable to remember crucial aspects of their evidence – was viewed with obvious dismay by the defendants and their families.
During the March 5 hearing, another witness admitted that at the time of their arrest, he believed the journalists were working for Al-Jazeera's Egyptian network Mubasher, which is banned, and not Al-Jazeera English, which is permitted to operate in Egypt.
"We've had enough," Mr Greste told journalists. "I am unbelievably frustrated – every single day we wonder why we are behind bars.
"It is obvious the prosecution has not even looked at the videos … the only thing we have had from the prosecution is conjecture."
The Qatari-backed news network is perceived in Egypt as being overly sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was formally designated a terrorist organisation on December 25, just four days before the journalists were arrested.
Mr Greste, Mr Fahmy and Mr Mohamed have been held in prison without bail since December 29. Along with the other charges, Mr Fahmy and Mr Mohamed are further accused of being members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
All deny the charges, as do the other 17 people named in the list released by authorities in February, many of whom do not work for Al-Jazeera.
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The trial was adjourned until April 22 and the journalists were again denied bail.
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Volkswagen Group Sales India Pvt Ltd (VWGSIPL), the division of Volkswagen India which handles sales and service of their cars has designed a curriculum for Advance Diploma in Autotronics. The company has signed an MoU with Hindustan University and the course is available in Chennai.
VWGSIPL has signed an MOU with Hindustan University and the course is available in Chennai.The course is an 18 month programme which includes 10 weeks of internship. It will be held at Hindustan University campus and the resources for the course will also be provided by them. The course aims to provide its students a keen insight in to the world of modern automotive technologies as well as raise their skill level to make them competitive enough to join the workforce in the automotive sector.
Hindustan University and Volkswagen Sign MoU to offer Advance Diploma in AUTOTRONICS
Chennai, April 2004: Hindustan University and Volkswagen Group Sales India Private Limited have signed an MoU to offer Advanced Diploma Course in Autotronics in Chennai, India. This unique course will be offered for the first time in India through Hindustan University.
Volkswagen Group Sales India Private Limited (VWGSIPL) is in the business of sales and service of Volkswagen Group cars in India. VWGSIPL has developed the curriculum for the ADVANCE DIPLOMA IN AUTOTRONICS and the same will be offered in India for the first time through Hindustan University.
Through this course, VWGSIPL shall endeavour to provide the participating students an insight of the modern automobile technologies. Hindustan University and VWGSIPL have mutually agreed to conduct this course at the University's premises and the University has agreed to provide necessary resources for the same. The Advance Diploma in Autotronics course consisting of three learning modules spread over a period of 18 months which includes a 10 Weeks of internship. The program aims to raise the skills levels of recipients and further prepare them to join the global workforce in The Automotive Industry.


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Though the growth of ultrabooks is set to help increase the global NAND flash market by 8 percent in 2012, Apple will consume a quarter of the NAND flash modules produced this year.
That's according to the IHS iSuppli Data Flash Market Tracker report, which shows that Apple will consume about 25 percent of the overall NAND supply in 2012, equivalent to some 8 billion gigabytes.
The iPad will be responsible for 74 percent of NAND consumption in the tablet segment this year, accounting for 2.8 billion gigabytes out of a total 3.8 billion gigabytes in tablets, IHS iSuppli predicts. The iPhone, with an average density that is more than two times that of other smartphones, will consume more than 3.2 billion gigabytes in 2012.
The remaining billion or so gigabytes Apple is responsible for will be consumed by the MacBook Air and the iPod touch, the other current Apple products that use NAND flash memory, while there is a possibility that new MacBook Pros with SSD (solid-state drives) could get in on the act too.
The smartphone market is one of the biggest consumers of NAND flash, IHS says, with smartphone shipments this year expected to hit 626 million units, with an average NAND flash content of 9 gigabytes per unit. This will work out to 5.7 billion gigabytes of flash memory in all.
Despite the success of the iPad, though, the tablet market is only expected to account for 12 percent of the NAND flash market in 2012. Ultrabooks will be another major driver for NAND flash production, IHS iSuppli reckons, with some 3.3 billion gigabytes of flash being used in SSDs over the course of the year.
"Given the lukewarm performance of the tablet segment last year, there was some trepidation coming into 2012 for the NAND industry," said Michael Yang, senior principal analyst for memory & storage at IHS.
"But even though most NAND manufacturers had planned to be on the fast track in 2012 to increase production at newly built fabs, each supplier has since reduced capital spending compared to its original plans, electing to moderate supply expansions to allow demand to catch up. Such a strategy will avoid a precipitous price decline that the industry won't be able to withstand, leading to more optimism for a stronger 2012."


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A controversial abortion method that lets a woman terminate a pregnancy via so-called "telemedicine" is just as effective and acceptable to patients as a face-to-face office visit, a new study finds.
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Three-quarters of patients who choose that option said they did not prefer having the doctor in the room during the procedure that allows physicians to remotely supervise administration of the pregnancy-ending drug RU-486.
Ninety-four percent of the women who chose telemedicine reported that they were "very satisfied" with the procedure, and researchers found that women who received "virtual" counseling had no more complications than those who had office visits, according to the new report published in the latest edition of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
"I think that our study shows that the telemedicine model is being provided quite safely in Iowa, with identical outcomes as face-to-face visits," said the study's lead author, Dr. Daniel Grossman, an assistant clinical professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a senior associate with Ibis Reproductive Health, a non-profit research organization based in Oakland, Calif.
"Also, this is something women really like," he added.
The report is among the first to study the effects of telemedicine abortions, which have been increasing even as they've been banned by new laws passed in at least five states.
Grossman and his colleagues followed 578 Iowa women who came to Planned Parenthood clinics seeking to terminate a pregnancy with RU-486: 223 of the patients signed up for counseling via telemedicine while the other 226 opted for face-to-face visits. An Iowa clinic network, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, has offered some abortions via telemedicine since 2008 in order to expand the service to women earlier in pregnancy and to those who lived in rural areas without abortion providers.
Even though termination with RU-486 requires no surgery, most states require that a physician "provide" the medical abortion, which means that a doctor must personally counsel each patient before doling out medication. A small percentage of states allow the medication to be dispensed by nurse practitioners and other health mid-level providers.
The women received ultrasound at the clinic to determine the gestational age of the fetus before speaking with a physician either in person or virtually. Medical termination was successful in 99 percent of the telemedicine patients as compared to 97 percent of those who had face-to-face counseling. There was no significant difference when it came to complications between the two groups of women.
Telemedicine patients were more likely to report satisfaction with their care than those receiving face-to-face counseling. Still, 25 percent of the telemedicine patients said afterward that they would have preferred being in the same room with their doctor.
The practice has sparked outrage among anti-abortion advocates who claim that telemedicine makes abortion too easy and that not having a doctor on site could endanger womens' health.
Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser for Operation Rescue, has called the procedure "a push-button abortion pill scheme that denies women access to physical examinations by licensed physicians and leaves them to deal with the painful multi-day abortion process at home without access to a licensed physician in the event of emergencies."
So far, five states — Arizona, Kansas, North Dakota, Nebraska and Tennessee — have passed laws limiting telemedicine abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
So-called medical abortions using RU-486, the drug mifepristone, have been available since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the medication in September 2000. Since then, 1.52 million women have used RU-486 to induce abortions, a just-released FDA report showed.
Through the end of April, 2207 adverse events have been associated with the drug, according to FDA records. They include 14 deaths and 612 hospitalizations. Some 339 patients had blood loss severe enough to require transfusions and 256 infections were reported, including 48 serious infections. FDA officials are quick to point out that it's not clear that the drug caused any of those conditions and they told msnbc.com that these reports generated no new "safety signals" regarding RU-486.
Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan suggests that the legislative pushback against this use of telemedicine has more to do with opposition to abortion in general than with a concern for the safety of women.
"Unless these groups have some broader heartburn over the notion of rural areas getting access to doctors by video, I don't think this is in any way a serious complaint," said Caplan, a frequent contributor to msnbc.com. "Clearly we don't have enough primary care providers. One way to solve this is through telemedicine. We don't want to be attacking that, we probably want to be celebrating it."Story: Attack on 'telemedicine' is really about squashing women's rights
But gynecologic surgeon Dr. Morris Wortman said that telemedicine may depersonalize a delicate and emotionally fraught procedure.
"One thing I learned a long time ago is, just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done," said Wortman, a clinical associate professor of gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and director of the Center for Menstrual Disorders and Reproductive Choice.
"I've no doubt it can be done safely. But it removes the element of caring that happens when you have two people in the same room. When a patient in my office breaks down in tears, I can at least hand her a tissue or put my hand on her shoulder for support," he added.
The real solution to the problem is to pass legislation that will allow mid-level providers, such as nurse practitioners, to counsel patients and dispense RU-486 — in person, Wortman said.
"I'm 60 and the majority of pregnant patients who come to my office are far younger than me," Wortman said. "And for that reason I have two nurse practitioners who work the patients up. They are better able to form a bond with the patients. And I think that is as it should be."
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Apple in Education Profiles
Teachers and students at Northwest Kansas Tech find a common touch point in iPad.
The inspiration
Since 1964, Northwest Kansas Technical College — a two-year school located in Goodland, a farming community of 4500 people in northwest Kansas — has developed highly skilled workers for the technical industries that maintain the nation's infrastructure. The school does this by rigorously training its students on the same technology they'll use in the workplace.
The school's programs are ideally suited for the workforce needs of the state and region. On its 20-building campus, Northwest Kansas Tech offers 15 programs and more than 40 online and evening classes in construction, health and human services, information technology and transportation. Recently it has added cutting-edge training in hybrid vehicle technology, biodiesel process and "going green" carpentry. And the school is developing programs in emerging technologies such as mobile apps.
But two years ago, Northwest Kansas Tech was dying. After a decade of precipitous declines in enrolment, the school's president, Dr. Guy E. Mills, knew he needed to make immediate changes to reverse the trend. In 2010, after consulting closely with staff and faculty, Mills decided to put iPad in the hands of every student, instructor and administrator at the school. The idea was to build on the school's tradition of hands-on instruction by using a device that was rewriting the rules for interactive learning.
"iPad and AirPlay allow us to demonstrate a procedure just once, record it and play it on the big screen for all the students to view and discuss."
— Greg Unger, diesel technology instructor, Northwest Kansas Technical College
The introduction of iPad and select apps has opened up many new learning opportunities. Thanks to AirPlay technology built into the iPad, auto technology students now watch video demonstrations of repair techniques streamed wirelessly by their instructors from iPad to a large flat-panel display connected to an Apple TV. A respiratory therapy instructor uses iPad to highlight lessons in a collaborative textbook app that students can access in the classroom or from remote labs and clinical sites. Cosmetology students use an iPad app that lets them comprehensively track and manage clients.
The benefits of the iPad program are visible across the campus. Students use iPad to access the school's iTunes U content, to collaborate with teachers and other students, and to develop their own video learning projects with the built-in iSight camera. Students with low reading, writing and math scores use iPad and apps to achieve better learning outcomes. And graduating students use iPad to create digital portfolios, which they bring to potential employers to demonstrate what they've learned and what they can do.
The implementation
Because more than half of Northwest Kansas Tech's budget comes from the state of Kansas, it was important to convince the Kansas Board of Regents to continue that funding. The college did it by reestablishing the value of the school to the community and region — and iPad implementation was key to the plan. The school used a local fundraiser and donations from local businesses to provide an iPad for each faculty member. Financial aid contributions from the community and alumni helped students purchase iPad devices as part of their tuition. The success of the iPad program has led to a growing enrolment of students from the local school district.
Because hands-on training in technical education traditionally means putting hands on machines rather than digital devices, there was some concern among faculty about how best to use iPad for instruction. So the school gave each instructor an iPad six months before students received theirs. In-service training sessions by Apple Professional Development facilitators helped faculty who were already great technologists fine-tune their iPad skills to enhance their teaching. Other training focused on using iWork and iLife to script and develop video teaching materials that students could access on iPad. Faculty members who adapted most quickly mentored other instructors on how to best incorporate iPad into their curricula.
The Northwest Kansas Tech campus uses Mac computers and iPad devices exclusively, so technical support is simple. The chief information officer and a staff of one are able to maintain all the Apple equipment on campus, including more than 500 iPad devices.
The results
With the success of its iPad implementation program, Northwest Kansas Tech has nearly doubled its enrolment from 252 full-time students to just under 500 in 2012.
The school's overall licensure exam passing rates have improved since the iPad was introduced in the classroom. The pass rate in developmental classes has increased dramatically to well over 75 percent. And pass rates for board exams among respiratory therapy students has risen from 62 percent to 87 percent, the highest rates the college has ever recorded.
"The learning potential with iPad is just endless."
— Dr. Guy E. Mills, president, Northwest Kansas Technical College
Students leaving the school are finding excellent employment opportunities. Since implementing the iPad program, Northwest Kansas Tech is graduating 90 percent of its students and placing about 90 percent of them in jobs.
Products they useiPad
This revolutionary mobile device introduces a whole new way of teaching and learning. Learn more about iPadApple TV
This device makes it easy to stream lessons, photos, videos and more from iPad to a large-screen TV using AirPlay. Learn more about Apple TVMacBook Pro
This notebook computer is great for learning both inside and outside the classroom. Learn more about MacBook Pro
Aligned with iPad
When first-year auto instructor Jim Kennedy contemplated using iPad as a teaching device, he asked, "This is a neat deal, but how is it really going to be a tool to help me fix cars in the shop?" After using iPad with his students, he says, "I was really surprised at the amount of things we can do with it." Among the most useful is faster car realignments — made possible by the Hunter TouchRemote app, which lets a mechanic working under a car view on iPad all the readings needed to turn a toe to spec.
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Digital makeover
Northwest Kansas Tech cosmetology teacher Christa Bergsma initially could see a million ways to use iPad in the classroom, but she wasn't sure how to make it relevant for her profession. Then she discovered tools like the Vagaro Pro app, which her students use to track clients, customer formulas, allergies and services performed. Bergsma knows her students will be well prepared when they take jobs in salons and bring their iPad devices with them: "You can't cut hair with them, but you can do a lot of other things." Watch the video


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Holidays at Squaw 2012
It's back!
The merriest season of all. The Village at Squaw is a bustle with holiday cheer, the mountain is covered in white, and there is plenty to do for the whole family that involves snow, Santa, sleigh rides, and more!
Here's the lineup of events/activities to enjoy, December 15 to January 1. All held at various times:
• Santa on the Slopes
• Santa in the Village
• Great Basin Carolers
• Snowman Contest
• Torchlight Parade
• Ski/Snowboard with Mountain Host, Jonny Moseley
• On Mountain Scavenger Hunt
• Dawn Patrol (aka First Tracks!)
• Complimentary S'Mores
For the full schedule and list of events (there are so many to list!) click HERE. What's your all-time favorite holiday event (or celebration)?
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