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During Monday's introduction of the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs detailed that the upcoming device will make use of what Apple calls the Retina display.
But what exactly is a Retina display and how will it, along with other screen technologies, benefit the new slimmer, HD-ready iPhone? To put it simply, Apple's figurative Retina display is an LCD that boasts a super high pixel density by squeezing a 960-by-640-pixel resolution into 3.5 inches - a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch (ppi).
The Retina display has four times the number of pixels as previous iPhones; its screen size is unchanged, resulting in double the pixel density. When compared to the now $99 iPhone 3GS, which has a 163ppi screen with a 480-by-320 resolution, it's easy to imagine just how this new screen will shine.
While talking about the new display, Steve Jobs went on to detail that after a certain point the human eye fails to distinguish individual pixels. According to the Apple CEO this "magic number," when visible pixelation is no more, is around 300ppi. Therefore, with the iPhone 4's screen coming in at more than 300 pixels per inch (326ppi) the display will supposedly always looks smooth and crisp, with no jaggies in sight.
The photos, taken by PCWorld Senior Editor Melissa J. Perenson, show an icon on an iPhone 4's screen compared to the same icon on the iPhone 3GS's screen. The difference, as you can see, is pretty remarkable.
Apple's retina display also promises an improved contrast ratio. The company claims that the upcoming iPhone 4 will have a contrast ratio four times higher than that of previous models. Beyond the use of more compact pixels the screen, which is a backlit LED, will also adopt In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology to improve viewing angles and enhance color display.
Apple isn't the first to put a super-high-resolution screen in a smartphone. Google's Nexus One, for example, features an OLED screen with a resolution of 800-by-480 pixels, but its subpixel arrangement has some issues.

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Cambodia's assault on senses
THE river reminds me of cabbage stew.
Whiffs of fermented fish for making fish sauce assault my nostrils every now and then.
Fishing boats dot the expansive river and on them, families huddle at the back napping.
I am on a speed boat travelling from Chau Doc in Vietnam to Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
It is a pleasant five-hour journey cruising through the soup that is the Mekong River.
The Mekong Delta is enormous. The scenery of poorly built wooden houses on stilts, where sights of children bathing in the river next to women doing their washing at the beginning of the journey transform to paddy fields towards the end.
As the boat approaches Phnom Penh, the horizon changes again - it is now occupied by rising skyscrapers.
Evidently, foreign money is pouring into this former French colony that sits on the banks of three major rivers, once known as the "Pearl of Asia".
I walk through the streets that hug the riverfront and observe my surroundings.
A tuk-tuk driver dries his vehicle of rain water before soliciting new customers.
Girls, no more than six-years-old, carry baskets of hand-woven bracelets and CDs, looking for purchasers.
A mix of locals and tourists walk along the promenade chatting, laughing and taking photos.
It's hard to fathom that behind this vibrant waterfront is a city steeped in unspeakable pain.
Former Khmer Rouge leaders are today still awaiting trial at a UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh for their violence and inconceivable brutality.
The Pol Pot regimen of cleansing those who posed a threat to their party (notably those who were successful, educated, skilled or opinionated) saw a quarter of the country's population exterminated in a matter of days with tens of thousands more tortured and killed over the years.
The scene today is of locals living the best way they know how, but memories of anguish remain raw and very much alive.
The faces around tell a story of the unshakable sorrow and misery they once had to endure.
From the gloom of Cambodia's past, I head into the maze that is Central Market where a treasure or ten can be found. Clothes, accessories, gadgets and gizmos, fresh food and kitchenware occupy the many isles that form the market.
High-pitched calls of "you buy something?" become the theme song as I stroll through.
As a visit here should be equipped with energy, good bargaining skills and patience, all of which I left back at the hotel, I go on a leisurely cyclo tour to visit the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Wat Ounalom Pagoda and the Post Office.
Not only is this the best way to get oriented, it keeps this traditional mode of transportation alive.
Faced with competition from tuk-tuks and taxis, cyclo riders are being phased out, which is a great shame as they contribute to the city's romantic charm.
For great sunset views, I head to the FCC.
The French Correspondent Club may be overpriced and food less than average, but it is airy, clean and home to an amazing collection by celebrated photographers of yesteryear.
It is here that I mingle with others and continue my education on Cambodia's dark past, progressive present and bright future.
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Yesterday evening I ran another training session for OxSAR. This time I tried to combine what was previously two different training sessions into one.
ALSAR have two water safety standards:
On Friday, White October hosted the first European jQuery conference, and I managed to convince my employer to buy me a ticket.
Here's something I wrote last Friday:
I'm back at my desk after a busy and tiring, but immensely fun and rewarding, Alfresco DevCon. It's my first Developer Conference and one of the first things I noticed was the incredible amount of appreciation for the Alfresco Engineers: people genuinely love the product and platform we've built, they've built careers on our code, they're excited by the ideas we have for the future and our opinions on their implementations. That's both encouraging and humbling.
Something strange happened a few weeks ago: I got back in a playboat in a concrete river and had fun. I'm classing it as training for the 'proper' (river) paddling I'm hoping to do this season, but secretly: a part of me enjoyed waiting in a queue of boats in order to get on to a wave or into a hole to get thrown around by the force of the water, trying to convince it that I was worthy of an 'established' front surf or split wheel.
Heading to London pre-dawn on a Saturday morning may not be at the top of everyone's todo list, but watching - and hearing - this country's largest mammal strutting its stuff in its annual autumnal ritual should be.
I've been meaning to put these slide up since I ran the training for OxSAR back in the spring.
Last weekend continued the theme of recent trips: visiting new places in England; I often think our home country is overlooked and endeavour not to do so myself. For years Sharon has been trying to get us to go down to Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour and this autumn we found a free day, got up early and made the first ferry to the tiny island.
I've spent the best part of two days this week tracing and solving a bug raised against the Alfresco Share implementation of FullCalendar that I recently did. The error thrown up is: Object doesn't support this property or method. I've not found anything in Google about this, hence this post.
So - I'm now blogging as part of my work, my first Alfresco blog went up at the start of this week. If/when I do anything interesting. It's good to get feedback from the community - that's one of the things I like about working for an Open Source software company - so I've got a couple more lined up when I get chance to write them, so watch this space...
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City were left counting the cost of another dramatic cup triumph after suffering two more injuries.
Phil Parkinson will launch an urgent bid for reinforcements after Zavon Hines (ankle ligaments) and James Meredith (hip) were added to the casualty list following a rollercoaster FA Cup replay against Northampton.
Parkinson was keen not to knock off the gloss from the latest knock-out victory, which was almost inevitably secured from penalties. Carl McHugh's header clinched a 3-3 draw with the final touch of extra-time before City won 4-2 on spot-kicks.
Their eighth straight shoot-out success booked a second-round home clash with League One Brentford on December 1.
But seeing City's options further depleted by this latest double blow means shoring up numbers before the loan deadline two days before then will be a priority.
Parkinson said: "I had a meeting with the two chairmen last week and told them the most important period was between now and January.
"With the amount of games we've played, we're going to need more players to get us through this. We ummed and aahed about it but now we've got to do it.
"As much as we're pleased to go through, my mind in extra-time was thinking about who we're going to bring in. We're going to need reinforcements because we're getting very low.
"We've got a terrific group of lads but they need help. Stephen Darby's carrying an injury, Meredith and Hines have gone off and we have to get people in."
City had twice led during 90 minutes. Will Atkinson put them ahead in the first half before Ishmel Demontagnac levelled from the penalty spot – straight after the home side felt they should have had a penalty for a pull on Adam Baker when the young striker was through.
Parkinson said: "That should have been a red card and a penalty. The ref told me at half-time that he (Baker) was too honest and stayed on his feet.
"Every week we watch Match of the Day and the pundits are talking about players diving and the ref's telling me he should have gone down.
"Maybe it was a bit of naivety from Adam's part but I feel the ref should have been able to judge that he was impeded."
Nahki Wells thought he had won it with his 13th goal of the season from the spot with only two minutes left but Clive Platt sent the game into the extra half hour.
Kelvin Langmead then curled Northampton in front after 109 minutes but City, who had to play the second extra-time period with ten men, rescued it through teenager McHugh in injury time.
Parkinson admitted: "These lads never know when they are beaten. Once again you've seen the immense character in the team and they just keep going.
"We've got some record with shoot-outs. You could feel the confidence from the supporters and players.
"They kept cool heads again. When you've been in that position a few times, the experience has got to help you."


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As Square considers IPO, rancor from merchants is a trouble spot
Square came in handy for Camilla Barry in accepting payments at her bed-and-breakfast in the Northern California town of Rumsey - until a guest disputed a room charge in May.
That's when Barry discovered that Square Inc., which enables merchants to accept credit cards using a smartphone or a tablet, doesn't take phone calls from its customers.
Callers are greeted with an automated message, directing them to an online help center or to email their questions, and then they are disconnected.
Barry said she grew so frustrated exchanging emails with customer service representatives that she drove two hours to the company's San Francisco headquarters to get some help in person.
Instead, she cooled her heels in the lobby for a couple of hours. No one would speak to her, she said, and the security guards threatened to call the police. Then Square deactivated her account, saying "high-risk activity was detected."
"I got a laugh out of that," Barry said. "They meant I was a high-risk person because I showed up demanding service."
Square isn't the only tech company that is more self-service than customer service. But growing complaints from merchants come at an inopportune time for one of the tech industry's hottest companies.
The San Francisco startup, led by Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey, is weighing an initial public offering of stock as soon as this year. Its value hit $5 billion this month when investors privately bought shares from employees and shareholders, according to a person familiar with the transactions but not authorized to comment publicly.
Silicon Valley likes to pat itself on the back for coming up with innovative products and services that the world often falls in love with.
Customer service, though, usually consists of offering online help tools, not staffers sitting by the phone. That cuts costs and is usually enough to resolve an issue - until users encounter a major problem, such as their Facebook account being hacked or their funds being frozen.
The volume of rancor has been cranking up in recent months as one unhappy Square merchant after another has turned to the Web to gripe about not being able to reach a live human being and warned fellow merchants to steer clear of the company.
On Phillip Parker's website CardPaymentOptions.com, there are more than 1,100 comments, many of which are negative.
"Square actively does not want people to call," Parker said. Yet, he said, the company doesn't make its policy on freezing funds clear enough to merchants.
What's confusing to merchants is that Square is an aggregator, not a credit card processor, and as such offers less service to customers, said Ben Dwyer, founder of CardFellow, an online marketplace where credit card processors compete for merchants' business. An aggregator routes transactions to processors, enabling merchants to accept credit cards without setting up accounts with the card firms.
"You pay for what you get, and in the case of Square, you usually pay too much," Dwyer said.
Square defends its customer service, saying it responds quickly by email, typically within 24 hours and, during business hours, frequently within six hours.
Square also has a Twitter support feed that takes questions from users. If it freezes someone's funds because a transaction appears suspicious or a buyer has disputed a charge, Square says in "many instances" it gives small-business owners a phone number to call.
"Our goal is fast, efficient customer service that gets people immediate answers to their questions whenever and however possible," the company said in an emailed statement. "In addition to email and real-time Twitter support, we have a robust online help center that customers can visit any time. We also provide phone support for some issues and continue to test new ways to help our customers as quickly and efficiently as we can."
Is that enough? Not always, said Micah Solomon, a customer service speaker and author.
"Good customer service is good customer service. If you answer emails promptly, that's different than if you make people wait," Solomon said. "But you should be available by the channels your customers are asking you to be available by. Not everything can be resolved by email and certainly not by social media."
Before Square and other mobile payments companies came along, merchants had to fork over hefty fees to accept credit cards.
With Square, small businesses fill out a form, download the app and plug a reader into a smartphone or tablet. There are no long-term commitments or monthly fees, just a flat rate of 2.75 percent for swiped transactions and 3.5 percent plus 15 cents for each transaction that is manually entered.
That has been a stroke of good fortune for Ruth Jenkins, who runs a shopping service in Oxford, Pa. She says Square has helped her small business stay afloat.
Her credit card fees used to add up to about 30 percent of her annual sales. With Square, she estimates she saves an average of $300 a month.
Jenkins says she has seen the online complaints about Square's customer service, and says Square may not be for every business. But, she says, it suits her.
"I always get a response when I contact them via email," she said. "They always have responded quickly."
Square decided to respond to customers electronically whenever possible in large part because of the high costs associated with fielding customer inquiries over the phone, said Rick Oglesby, senior analyst with Aite Group.
An average small-business owner rings up just $3,000 to $4,000 in sales on Square each year, he estimated.
"When you deal with very small merchants, and particularly with the pricing paradigm Square has - pay as you go, no monthly fees - it's not a very profitable segment," Oglesby said. "You can't afford a lot of additional costs."
Square has good reason to keep a lid on its costs. As it prepares for an IPO, Square is facing rising competition from established companies such as PayPal, part of eBay Inc., and a slew of startups including IZettle in Europe.
"Square is doing everything it can to get to profitability to enhance its market value when it goes public," Oglesby said. "So I can certainly understand where the company is coming from and why they are doing it this way."
It's unlikely complaints from small businesses will cast much of a shadow over an IPO unless Square has a high rate of customer attrition, Oglesby said.
Should Square offer small businesses more hand-holding? Perhaps in some situations, Solomon said.
"Google and Facebook do not consider us, the public, their customers. Their customers are the advertisers, and their product is free. With Square, I think of the merchants as being the customers," Solomon said. "There need to be escape hatches for when one needs human intervention."
Ann Harris, who has a farm outside Boston and also stores cars in the winter, says she happily used Square for more than two years.
"It worked great, and customers were happy that I could scan credit cards easily. I was definitely pleased with the ease and cost of the service versus a traditional credit card processing service," she said.
But then a transaction for $360 to store a customer's car didn't go through.
"When I poked around the site for support, I was shocked to find no phone number for customer service and had to hunt for some time to find their email form for issues," Harris said.
She says she wrote Square an email and got a reply that the company was looking into the situation "with no information on when I might expect a response or how we might resolve this."
"It seems very strange to me that a company that deals with financial transactions can be so bare-bones when it comes to customer service," she said.
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The Submariner diving watch is one of Rolex's most popular models. The two green models, known among fans as "Kermit" and "Hulk", are especially desirable collector's models that are likely to continue to increase in value.
In 2003, the Rolex Submariner celebrated its 50th anniversary, which the Swiss watch manufacturer honored by releasing a special edition of the world-famous diving watch. While the Submariner had previously only been offered with a black bezel and dial, the bezel of this special model shone in a deep green. Watch enthusiasts and fans quickly gave the watch a nickname befitting its coloration: Kermit. This timepiece can be found under the reference number 16610LV.
The Submariner with the reference number 116610LV followed in 2010. Not only did it have a green bezel, it also featured a green dial with a subtle sunburst. Even though it has the same 40-mm diameter, this watch still feels more massive than the Kermit thanks to its bigger lugs and its enlarged crown protector. Fans were once again quick to come up with a nickname for this timepiece, naming it after the green superhero: the Hulk.
It's not just the dial colors and cases that set these two models apart: While the Kermit has an aluminum bezel inlay, the Hulk has an inlay made of Rolex's Cerachrom ceramic. This makes the Hulk's bezel much more scratch resistant. Beyond that, these two models are almost identical. Both are made of stainless steel and have a so-called "maxi dial" with enlarged, glow-in-the-dark indices. Each also has a date display with a cyclops lens at 3 o'clock and is powered by the in-house caliber 3135. This caliber has been ticking away inside every Submariner since 1989.
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Green Submariners are coveted collector's watches, which are likely to increase in value. This is especially true of the Submariner Kermit ref. 16610LV, as it is no longer available in Rolex's catalog. Be prepared to spend at least 12,000 USD for a pre-owned model. So-called "Flat 4" models were produced from 2003 to 2004 and are recognizable by the flat-topped "4" in the "40" on their bezel. Prices for a pre-owned model in good condition can easily exceed 13,600 USD. A never-worn Kermit costs around 16,400 USD.
The Submariner Hulk with the reference number 116610LV is a more affordable alternative. You can get a pre-owned example starting at as little as 10,500 USD, while an unworn Hulk costs about 11,400 USD on average.
Rolex uses 904L stainless steel for their watches; the monobloc case, screw-down case back, and bracelet are all made of this material. This type of stainless steel is considered more scratch and corrosion resistant than the type 316L. The Triplock crown ensures the watch remains dry. It's screwed down to the case and can be unscrewed to set the time. You can also wind the movement via the crown by hand.
The Submariner can easily reach depths unattainable by recreational divers. It is water resistant to 300 m (30 bar, 984 ft) . This makes the Submariner suitable even for professional divers. Those who need to dive even deeper will find that watches in the Rolex Sea-Dweller line are water resistant to 1,220 m (122 bar, 4,000 ft). The Deepsea can even survive up to depths of 3,900 m (390 bar, 12,795 ft).
Diving watches must be easy to read in the dark. To facilitate this, the Submariner uses Chromalight, a luminous material developed by Rolex. When dark, it glows blue. Other watch manufacturers use Superluminova, which glows green in the dark.
The in-house, automatic caliber 3135 powers both green Submariner models, along with the black or blue date models. The movement is certified precise by the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC). According to Rolex, the watch deviates from the official time by at most two seconds per day. The caliber has a power reserve of 48 hours.


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Soul*Sparks – Elegant eBooks to Inform, Engage, Awaken, EmpowerJanuary 11, 2011
Welcome to Soul*Sparks books – an ebook publishing venture of Elizabeth Wolf and Steven McFadden.
As of 2011, we have published two e-books, both authored by Steven. Both books are available in a range of popular digital formats for ebook readers such as Kindle and Nook, as well as for iPads, iPhones and all Smartphones. The books are also available for download in PDF format, readable on any computer.
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~ Tales of the Whirling Rainbow ~
Authentic Myths and Mysteries
Tales of the Whirling Rainbow is a journalist's account of some of the key myths and mysteries of the Americas, and an electrifying exploration of how those myths are echoed in real time as we pivot at the signal year of 2012 and the Sun awakens with solar streams. Veteran journalist Steven McFadden weaves the living myths together seamlessly in a tightly written ebook that is soul-resonant.
Tales of the Whirling Rainbow: Myths & Mysteries— is an account of some of the key spiritual mysteries, and an arresting exploration of how those elements are resounding through real time.
A crucial part of the story commences on June 23, 1995 when traditional wisdom keepers of North America — and a multicultural band of walkers from several continents — began a prophetic journey, walking from First Encounter Beach, Eastham, Massachusetts across the continent to the legendary Western Gate — Point Conception on the Pacific shore. The pilgrimage proceeded for eight months under the dazzling, natural sky sign of the Whirling Rainbow, a key image in the lore of Pte San Wi (White Buffalo Calf Woman) since the birth of the white buffalo in 1993.
The new material in the 2nd edition, based on interviews with traditional Mayan Daykeepers, expands the scope of the ebook by also exploring the key role of the 21,000 pyramids and temples of Mesoamerica as they figure in the 2012 teachings of the Maya. This elaborate network of sacred centers, the Mayan Daykeepers told the author, has a key energetic role to play in keeping the balance as the 'Sun Awakens,' Earth Changes intensify, and our human lives attain high velocity.
In this manner, the elders told him, will the different colors and faiths of humanity be moved to heal their web of relationships.
Having traveled widely for over 30 years with Native Elders both north and south, McFadden writes about many of the core insights associated with 2012, including the role the Sun and its solar flares may play. He tells the tales in plain, precise language, creating a quick but absorbing investigation into the mythology of this moment in time. "The calendar of 26,000 years is new for the dominant civilization," Mayan Daykeepers told the author, "but the calendar portends big changes."
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As we pivot on prophetic date of Dec. 21, 2012 in relation to Mayan teaching about time, this compact but potent ebook offers a concise compendium of North American (Turtle Island) wisdom teachings for this era, attuned to theme of transition.
Journalist Steven McFadden compiled the insights based on over 30 years of traveling with traditional Native elders. The selections he has made for Native Knowings come from the past and the present, including excepts from some of McFadden's most popular and enduring dispatches about the Maya, the Seven Fires Teachings, the Hopi, the Whirling Rainbow, and much more.
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Scary story from the Valley....
The mental problems of Kenneth W. Baker of Churchville allowed him to avoid a murder prosecution a decade ago. Then, last week, the 42-year-old was accused of molesting a wheelchair-bound 97-year-old. And on Monday, July 27, an Augusta County grand jury indicted him in the 1998 incident, the death of Ruth Naomi Mays, whose body, bearing evidence of a rifle shot, was found in a septic tank next door to the home where Baker was then living. He's been charged with first-degree murder and firearms charges and faces a sentence up to life in prison if convicted.
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I agree with you Sick, indeed if you spare the rod you WILL spoil the child. You see it every where nowadays. It feels like it all started when parents started getting arrested and ridiculed for diciplining their children like normal, loving parents would. I lived by the belt and cursed everytime my back and thighs were humbled by it's lashes but I now give thanks and respect to my parents for having done right by me. What's really funny is they would say that everytime I was diciplined! I said, "Never!".
However in the case of Mr. Baker I would have to agree with health officials in that he is mentally unfit for society. I mean fondelling an nonagenarian is wildly absurd behavior.
Well, Sick is continuing to show how far up his own backside his head really is. He takes a terrible criminal story and flaunts his own agenda without regard to reality. While I won't begin to get into why R10 has the number of employees they do have (why does any organization hire the number of people they have?), I can tell you that R10 employs a fine group of professional people who are looking out for a ever growing population of Central Virginians who have some form of mental illness. No, when we were younger there were not as many of these diagnosis made because no one understood them. They just took some of these people and sent them to institutions and tried to lock them up and throw away the keys. How many bullies did you know in school? How many kids did you know that kept failing their grade until they just dropped out? How many kids did you just call "retard"?
While there has been a trend to quickly label a child or an adult with a mental illness, a lot of it is a result of today's "Google-mentality". Need a quick diagnosis? Search the web.
For full disclosure, I have one of those kids that have been diagnosis as "Bipolar disorder". Trust me when I tell you that it wasn't quickly applied or just an effort to label a "misbehaving" child. With the help of several local professionals, we came to this difficult conclusion and are working to help my child deal with this situation and not use it as an excuse to act out. No "JOB SECURITY" involved here. Just professionals working to help a troubled child deal with a sickness within his own body.
So, "Sick", stop belittling your neighbors and area professionals and go volunteer your time at R10. Bet your eyes would be opened a bit; maybe even your ever closed mind.
I would love to understand how Region 10 can justify 600 employees in the first place. That's totally absurd! No wonder this country is in the current financial crisis it's in. Just more people feeding at the public trough I suppose! I would be willing to bet that 550 of the 600 employees don't do a good day's work as much as one day a week.
Region 10 has fired 11 employees. This happening right here in our own community. How do we expect to prevent problems such as the one in this article or many other problems that are the direct result of untreated mental illness and substance abuse by ââ?¬Å?minimally maintain our current levels of care" as the director has stated.
Rumor has it that the reason for these firings has not yet been fully disclosed or reached the printed page. I hope the full story of this local tragedy will soon be told and those responsible held accountable. Otherwise we will see scary events in our own town as a direct result of these cuts.
Maybe those 11 got fired because they were the sort to let things like those in the linked story happen. Who's to say we aren't going to avoid scary events like this in our town as a direct result of those cuts.
Sick - you really ARE sick. Obviously you have never worked in the human services field. I would be willing to bet that the majority of Region 10 employees work harder and more hours than your average white collar worker...and, no, I am not an employee of Region 10 nor have I ever been. I have, however, worked with the MR population as well as on an acute psychiatric unit. Working with these populations is draining and extremely hard workd.
There are many, many people in our community who need the help and services that Region 10 provides. Any cut in services will impact those that Region 10 serves. Believe it or not, even with 600 employees, there are still times when people have to wait to get the services that they need.
I pray to God that you never end up on the other end of things, needing mental health help and being unable to afford it and unable to receive it from the local community services board due to such cuts.
Maybe this is another Glenmore ?
You can all judge and ramble on about those 11 employees being laid off all you want. But the truth is you have NO IDEA how much Region 10 is needed in this community. They service Charlottesvlle and all the surrounding counties and trust me, they need their employees. You have no idea the amount of widespread mental illness and other needs that they service and you would be SHOCKED at how many mentally ill people we have living in this area. I just feel for the 11 people that got laid off. I personally have known a couple of them and they are amazing, capable individual with a desire to truly help the mentally ill in our community. So I tell you what.... get your facts straight first of all, then I challenge you to actually take a job working with this everyday. It takes special, dedicated and caring individual to do what they do. All my respect to the people who work at Region 10.
I haven't said a word about the 11 employess that were laid off. I asked how Region 10 can justify 600 employees in the first place? Face facts, a lot of the widespread mental illness in this community could have been solved at a very young age with a well placed application of a leather belt. It's darn sickening how all these fancy names for "mental illnesses" have been been born in the last 20 years. For example, take any kid between the ages of 12 and 20, and some shrink somewhere can attach a few different labels to them. It's called JOB SECURITY. Good God, what happened to our country? I turned out halfway decent, with no mental illnesses, because my parents and grandparents used a nice leather belt when I acted out a temper trantrum like a moron.
I recall the Andy Griffith episode where Opie Taylor is taught how to throw a temper trantrum by young friend of his. The friend told him he could get his way by acting up. In the year 2009, Opie could have been diagnosed with about 3 or 4 different mental illnesses causing this intentional behavior.
And for what it's worth, I worked around mental patients for close to 30 years. The vast majority of them could have won an Emmy for their performances. Once they put on their dog and pony show for the mental health professionsals, and once they were in the car headed to Western State Hospital for a free bed and 3 free meals a day, they were suddenly happy as a lark.
We still need to know where the money that has been allocated by taxpayers has gone and if patient services will be cut or reduced that can't possibly be a good thing for the community.
Mental Health Advocate, don't waste your time. You'll never convince me that 600 employees are necessary for the few counties that Region 10 services. Whenever the police take any person into the hospital in need of mental health services, it takes forever to find just one employee and get them to respond to the hospital. You wouldn't believe the manhours wasted while the cops sit around waiting on them.
Mike, there is indeed true nut cases out there. But I still question Region 10 needing 600 employees in the small area they serve locally, and I question the many "mental illness" terms they want to attach to almost everybody who misbehaves. Especially young kids. There was no such thing as Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Complusive Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and others when I was in school. If I brought home poor grades, I was punished accordingly... and trust me, I then improved my grades. I didn't need 20 employees at Region 10 prescribing me Ritalin to help adjust my attitude and grades, a leather belt worked fine.
It's all a money making scheme in the vast majority of cases. It also insures JOB SECURITY. Here in our small area it seems to be supporting 600 employees. That's JOB SECURITY at it's best!


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As you can see each time it prints 'Loops' it has done 10,000 data transfers. So it's not slow, as in acoustic modem slow, but it is a clunky way of transferring large amounts of data.
Xena really needs external (to the chip) circuitry to get to the PCIe portion of the Xorro slot for moving data in a more elegant manor. Xena can do the heavy lifting for that but not by herself, and leave the localbus interface for command and control.
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A national spotlight is shining on Calgary's food scene this week as two major Food Network Canada shows will start airing episodes starring some of this city's favoured establishments and food trucks.
Both You Gotta Eat Here — a show that features some of the country's best hidden gems — and Eat St., which profiles food trucks from across the continent, filmed in Calgary and area in the fall, and those episodes are ready to air. (For a full list of restaurants and air dates, see below.)
As local restaurants and food trucks prepare for their moment in the limelight, they are also welcoming the additional attention the shows will bring to the city's entire culinary scene.
"They will elevate the view of Calgary," says Rita Tripathy, co-owner of Jelly Modern Doughnuts. "It's going to be good for Calgary for people to realize what a great food scene we have here."
Jelly, which just celebrated its one-year anniversary of dishing up delicious doughnuts with a fresh, local and organic focus, went through two days of filming for You Gotta Eat Here last year. The shop's episode airs May 25.
Among the doughnuts that will be featured are the popular maple bacon and s'more versions, plus red velvet cake doughnuts.
"People travel for food," says Jelly's executive pastry chef Grayson Sherman. "It's a testament to Calgary; it legitimizes us."
But neither Sherman nor Tripathy (nor her sister, co-owner Rosanne) can overlook the benefits the show will bring to Jelly specifically.
"It adds value to what your business is about," says Rosanne.
For the owners of Fat City Franks, the call from You Gotta Eat Here producers was a blessing.
Jane and Bob Steckle started dishing dogs back at the Calgary Farmers' Market in the Currie Barracks, but moved their hotdog joint to Mission several years ago. (They recently changed their name from Le Chien Chaud.)
The retro-feel and creative toppings — some of which have just come to them in the middle of the night, while others arise from customer suggestions — have earned the Steckles plenty of regulars.
Romances started in the shop have led to weddings and the subsequent arrival of children who have dined on their first hotdog at Fat City.
But the Steckles are eager to see what the exposure on You Gotta Eat Here will do.
"You couldn't give a small business a better gift," says Jane. "It's a pinch-me moment."
Even though filming went about 12 hours per day for two days, Jane and Bob said they barely noticed the time.
"I don't think we've ever had so much fun," Jane says.
Meanwhile, Calgary's food trucks had only been rolling for a few months when Eat St. came to Cowtown.
Although a Canadian production, most of the filming for Eat St. has been done in the States, where food trucks have a longer history. Still, the host of the show, comedian James Cunningham, says he was impressed with the quality of food and concepts in the Calgary trucks, which were still in their infancy when the television crew arrived for filming last year.
"Calgary is a great city in terms of their passion," he says. "Portland, Oregon has 400 trucks, New York has hundreds of trucks. To see we're doing world class stuff in Canada makes my heart smile."
The first Calgary truck to make an appearance on the show (tonight on the Food Network) is Alley Burger, the brainchild of Charcut's Connie DeSousa and John Jackson, and run by "Alley Burger" Mike Batke.
"For us, it was a dream come true. A show like Eat St. has such a huge cult following with foodies from across North America and now reaching into Europe," DeSousa says. "The exposure we're supposed to get for not only Alley Burger but Calgary . . . is unreal."
That, says DeSousa, will have food enthusiasts looking here as a destination food city.
Over the course of three episodes, Eat St. will feature Perogy Boyz, Alley Burger and Fries n' Dolls, who impressed Cunningham with their high concept, combining a retro pin-up doll feel with french fries.
"People think about Stampede, but there's so much more to offer in our food scene," DeSousa says. "It will be an eye-opening experience. (Viewers) will say, 'Let's go there.' "
Cunningham sums it up more succinctly, saying, simply, "Calgary rocked."
You Gotta Eat Here, airs Fridays at 7 p.m.
May 11: Fat City Franks
May 18: Diner Deluxe
May 25: Jelly Modern Doughnuts
June 1: Evelyn's Memory Lane Cafe (High River)
June 8: Chuckwagon Cafe (Turner Valley) and Tubby Dog
June 29: Pfanntastic Pannenkoek Haus
Eat St., airs Wednesdays at 8 and 8:30 p.m.
May 9, 8:30 p.m.: Alley Burger
May 23, 8 p.m.: Fries & Dolls
May 23, 8:30 p.m.: Perogy Boyz


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My frenzied hacking through the unexplored territory of Expression Filters was derailed (to mix my metaphors) by an internal error when using the Evaluate() function in a rather complex query that uses an inline view, analytic functions etc..
The following was extracted from the alert log:
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kkqsCkLegalEqvExpCB()+199] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [0x000000000] [] []
The mnemonic beginning "kkqs" in the first parameter apparantly indicates a fault raised from the query rewrite source module. Because query rewrite is not helpful to the execution of the query I coded an alter session to set query_rewrite_enabled to false, and executed the problem query again.
Interestingly, adding a NO_REWRITE hint to the query did not prevent the error occurring. A shame, because I would have preferred that approach.
According to the website query rewrite problems might also be indicated by any of the codes kkqg, kkqs, kkqs1, kkqs2, kkqs3, kkqu, kkqv, and kkqw, so disabling query rewrite might also be a good workaround for internal errors that reference mnemonics beginning with any of those strings.
It also prompts the thought that in some cases it might be possible to get guidance on working around internal erros based on the mnemonic. For example an error in "kkfd" probably indicates a parallel query fault, and the remediation might be to disable parallel query. "kxtr" … trigger problem?
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Threats to cultural and natural heritage sites from the effects of climate change are further substantiated in a new report presented at the 12th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Nairobi, Kenya. The report, entitled 'The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge' describes impacts such as rising sea levels, flooding and storms. Mosques, cathedrals, monuments and artefacts at ancient sites are threatened by changes in climatic conditions, which in turn may lead to damaging shifts in moisture levels affecting structures directly, or the chemistry and stability of soils in which they are found.
The report was compiled by researchers with the Stockholm Environment Institute with assistance from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report is based on studies from researchers across the globe, including members of the World Heritage Committee.
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As a degree requirement, each student completes an approved program of concentrated study in a major field. The major is commonly taken in a single discipline, along with several courses in related subjects. Some majors are interdisciplinary. An individualized major may be designed, however, to meet particular educational needs.
A disciplinary major consists of a minimum of 30 semester hours in a single discipline, including six hours devoted to a Senior Study. In the B.A. and the B.S., the major may not require more than 50 hours in a single discipline (i.e. a single three-letter course designation). The B.A. involves a maximum of 56 hours in all major and related subjects. The teacher licensure track within some majors may exceed the 56-hour limit because of the addition of professional courses. The B.S. involves a maximum of 70 hours in major and related courses. For an individualized major, possible only with the B.A. and B.S. degrees, at least 18 hours in one subject, 12 hours in a related subject, and six hours in Senior Study are required; approval of the Committee on Individualized Instruction must also be obtained.
The student may select a major by the end of the first college year, but such selection may wait until the sophomore year in some fields. Postponement of the choice beyond the sophomore year, or a subsequent change of field, is likely to delay graduation beyond the normal four years. A student planning to pursue a major in a highly structured program, where the sequence of courses is an important consideration, is encouraged to confer with the appropriate academic division chair early in the first year of enrollment. Such fields include the foreign languages, natural sciences, mathematics, teacher education, physical education, and the cooperative programs in engineering and nursing.
Permission of the academic division chair must be secured in order to major in any field. Approval must be registered on the proper form filed by the adviser with the College Registrar. Continuation in the major is contingent upon satisfactory academic performance. Substitutions for required major courses are granted only in rare instances and require the written approval of the division chair. For all courses taken to satisfy major requirements for all degrees, a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 (2.70 for all teacher licensure majors), must be earned with no more than four semester hours below the grade of "C-."


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Profil Moziljana
Firefox bug triage, sometimes Web translation
Veščinebug triage
Zunanji računi
- Mozilla Add-ons: Aleksej
- Bugzilla (BMO): firstname.lastname@example.com
- MDN: Aleksej
- Mozilla Wiki: Aleksej
- Mozilla Support: Aleksej
Henrik Skupin
I cannot fully remember how often I have seen Aleksej attending testdays. It looks like he is always around. Thanks for all your time spending on triaging so many bugs!
Liz Henry
Aleksej not only does localization, and fabulous triage and verification -- he coordinates and moderates for many test days and bug days as part of the QA community. He is always ready to answer questions on irc and give people good advice in bugs! Here is his Bugzilla profile. Thanks Aleksej!
Tony Mechelynck
Aleksej has been doing triage for Firefox and occasionally for SeaMonkey; he has also done L10N not only in Russian but also in Esperanto.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Carmelo Anthony scored 16 of his 40 points in the fourth quarter, helping the New York Knicks top the Orlando Magic 114-106 on Saturday night.
J.R. Smith added 18 points for New York, and Tyson Chandler had 14 points and 12 rebounds. The Knicks have won two straight overall and four in a row over the Magic, dating to last season.
Arron Afflalo and Jameer Nelson each had 29 points for the Magic, and Nik Vucevic contributed 11 points and 18 rebounds.
Orlando outrebounded New York 45-40, but had 14 turnovers as its longest losing streak of the season reached eight games.
The Magic flipped a four-point halftime deficit into an 89-81 lead entering the fourth. The Knicks rallied using their size, going up 99-97 on a dunk by Chandler with 5:14 left.
DALLAS (AP) - Eric Gordon completed a three-point play with 4.7 seconds left in overtime and New Orleans spoiled Dallas' first game this season with Dirk Nowitzki in the starting lineup.
After a timeout, O.J. Mayo was beyond the 3-point line when Gordon went up the air and by him. Gordon's foot made contact with the ball, knocking it loose. Instead of a foul, officials called it a kicked ball. Dallas got one more chance but Vince Carter's shot from the right corner ricocheted off the rim.
Nowitzki had a team-high 20 points in 34 minutes, his most extensive action this season. He missed a free throw with 18 seconds left in regulation that would have put the Mavericks ahead by a point.
Greivis Vasquez had 15 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter for the Hornets, but missed a final shot at the end of regulation. Vasquez also had nine assists.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Roy Hibbert had 20 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots to lead Indiana past Milwaukee.
Hibbert grabbed a career-high 11 offensive rebounds as the Pacers won their seventh straight home game. George Hill added 14 points after missing Indiana's previous three games with a right thigh contusion.
The Bucks scored the first six points of the third to grab a 53-52 lead. But the Pacers responded with an 8-0 run and cruised from there.
Indiana, which lost in Boston on Friday night, hasn't lost consecutive games since falling to Denver on Dec. 7 and at Oklahoma City on Dec. 9.
Monta Ellis led the Bucks with 21 points.
ATLANTA (AP) - Rajon Rondo had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and the Boston Celtics rallied to beat Atlanta.
Paul Pierce scored 17 of his 26 points in the third quarter as the Celtics erased a 19-point deficit and went on to consecutive wins for the first time since late November against Oklahoma City and Orlando.
Boston, which beat Indiana 94-75 on Friday night, had lost four straight road games.
Lou Williams scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half for Atlanta, which has lost two straight.
NEW YORK (AP) - Brook Lopez scored 18 points in 17 minutes to lead six players in double figures, and Brooklyn got a nice effort from their reserves for its third straight victory.
One night after needing two overtimes to escape with a 115-113 victory in Washington, the Nets made sure the starters weren't too taxed. Deron Williams and Joe Johnson both scored 15 points, but neither had to play even 30 minutes.
Reserves MarShon Brooks and Andray Blatche each scored 15 points and Mirza Teletovic had a career-best 14 as the Nets scored a season-high 65 points in the first half and improved to 5-1 under interim coach P.J. Carlesimo.
DeMarcus Cousins had 28 points and 11 rebounds for the Kings, who had won four of five overall and two straight on the road but were defenseless in the finale of their four-game trip.
CLEVELAND (AP) - James Harden scored 29 points, including 16 in the fourth quarter, and Houston beat Cleveland.
Jeremy Lin added 20 points for Houston, which has won 11 of its last 14.
Kyrie Irving led Cleveland with 30 points, including 11 in the final period, but the Cavaliers fell short of winning two in a row for the second time this season.
Harden, who had four points in the first half, made 6 of 17 field-goal attempts, but was 14 of 15 at the line and had a career-high seven steals. He came into the game averaging 26.3 points and has topped the 20-point mark in each of his last 16 games.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Nicolas Batum and Wesley Matthews each made five 3s and scored 26 points to lead Portland past injury-depleted Minnesota.
The Trail Blazers made 16 3-pointers and withstood a fourth-quarter rally by the Timberwolves to win for the 10th time in 13 games and finish their four-game road trip with a 3-1 record.
Nikola Pekovic led the Timberwolves with 21 points but left the game in the third quarter because of a left hip strain. Only hours earlier, Minnesota learned it lost star forward Kevin Love to a broken right hand for the second time this season when an MRI confirmed the injury.
The banged-up Timberwolves - who dressed only 10 players - also played without point guard Ricky Rubio, who sat out with back spasms.
Damian Lillard had 20 points for the Blazers.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Tony Parker had 20 points and Manu Ginobili added 19 and San Antonio routed Philadelphia.
Tim Duncan added 16 points, Danny Green had 13 and Gary Neal had 12 for San Antonio, which has won 10 straight at home. Tiago Splitter had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Spencer Hawes had a game-high 22 points for Philadelphia, which has lost three straight and five of six.
Evan Turner added 12 points and Thaddeus Young, Jason Richardson and Jrue Holiday each added 11.
San Antonio rebounded from a blowout loss Thursday against the New York Knicks to improve to 14-2 at home.
DENVER (AP) - Danilo Gallinari scored 26 points and Denver rebounded from a rare home loss to beat Utah.
Andre Iguodala added 18 points and Kenneth Faried had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets, who improved to 11-2 at home this season after their eight-game winning streak at the Pepsi Center was snapped Thursday in a loss to Minnesota.
The Nuggets extended their recent success against Utah at home, winning for the eighth time in the past 10 meetings between the teams at the Pepsi Center.
Paul Millsap had 15 points to lead the Jazz, who were without center Enes Kanter (ankle) and guard Mo Williams (right thumb surgery).
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Chris Paul had 27 points and nine assists, Blake Griffin added 20 points and the Los Angeles Clippers set a franchise record with their 12th straight home victory.
The Clippers lead the NBA with a 27-8 record, a half-game ahead of Western Conference rivals Oklahoma City and San Antonio. The Clippers won a club-record 17 straight overall before back-to-back road losses at Denver and Golden State, then beat the Lakers 107-102 on Friday. Their previous best home winning streak was set in 1978-79, their first season in San Diego after the franchise left Buffalo.
DeAndre Jordan added 13 points and eight rebounds for the Clips, who built a 23-point lead through the first quarter and won for the 19th time in 21 games overall.
Klay Thompson had a team-high 14 points for the Warriors, who had won 12 of their previous 15.


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Greetings From London
Shame on me but I only have three pictures to share from my first night (Thursday).
Fish + chips
View from the balcony
Ducks in the lake behind the house
Yesterday (Friday) was my first full day in London and the first thing I did was get my shin tattooed. On my way home I stopped by a few shops and was overwhelmed by all the people who looked like they fell out of an Urban Outfitters catalog. A few minutes in each store and I was over it. Considered going to Portobello after being told things there were more my style but my leg was a bloody mess and I had to call it quits.
Today (Saturday) I have to go into town with my Aunt to look for cheap linen trousers. I brought tons of dresses for Italy and Sweden, completely forgetting my new tattoo has to be covered up.
I'm going to look so janky on this vacation. 😦
(sidenote: English keyboards are weird!)
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So funny reading your London reports seeing i am british and live in London, i hope you enjoy yourself.


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On the passion shown by the team:
The game didn't look different from the games we played at home before. The difference was the goals. If you remember the game against Colorado, against New York, against Houston I think they were good games. We were not fortunate when we had the chances to basically score. Most of our chances came, in those games, in the first half and we didn't score. And today was different. The goals changed the game. And even if you played the potentially best team in our group, which is Montreal who have the most points, you can do good things and you can win the game. They are the same players, they are getting tired. It is also a 90 minute game for them too.
On the team's defensive performance:
I think we were very aware tactically. Everybody did their job. The way that we described to our guys how they (Montreal) are playing, or what they are doing, or how they possess the ball, or how they sometimes abuse possession and everything worked out for us. The second goal that Dominic scored, he got the ball from the guy who was facing his own goal, he was trying to make another pass, and he took it and he scored.
On Bernardo Anor's performance:
I think we have to come back to some of the previous games we had. He played in some reserve games, in the game in Dayton and he played in Chicago on Thursday morning and he was doing well in the practice. I thought he was a guy for the job tonight and I was right. I think he played very well.
On Chad Marshall and Danny O'Rourke's return to the lineup:
Obviously it's a big blow with Glauber's ACL, we lost a second player and he is very, very important to us – as well as Eddie Gaven. But having Chad and Josh [Williams] gives us some hope and I think stability. The players believe that we are still a good team and I think we showed that tonight.
On challenge of picking his lineup after Thursday's game:
Trying to do the best we can. We knew what they are capable of doing. That's why we went with Ben Speas and Bernardo [Anor]; we went with Dominic [Oduro] higher and Pipa [Higuain] instead of [Aaron] Schoenfeld and Dominic on the right. We thought they were going to respect Dominic's speed and drop back a little bit and we were right.
On defensive midfielders joining attack:
We talked about it yesterday. We did some patterns and then asked one of the midfielders to join the attack and be closer to the forwards. [Matias] Sanchez was first and did very well. He took the shot and luck was on our side.
On building upon the win:
I think as much as we get some games like this, it gives us confidence. But next game, next Saturday, we need to improve because if not this game is not going to mean anything.
On next week's lineup:
A lot of things happen during the seven days. I don't like to change too much to be honest with you. I like to reward the players who actually did very well. So mostly these players will be on the field next Saturday against Chicago. From the back line, through the midfield, and our two forwards they did very well. Most of these players will be on the field next Saturday against Chicago.
On Federico Higuain's positioning:
We talked with Federico before the game and we want him to be more central, that's where he's more dangerous. I think teams want him to drift left or drift right and not be able to be dangerous. Today he stood more between the penalty boxes and that's why he was so successful. He was picking up the second ball and also Bernardo [Anor] was tucking in and so was [Ben] Speas. Bernardo was going with his left foot, which we wanted because the left back is a left footed player, so I think it was easier for him to penetrate the inside. And that gives Chad Barson the space on the right side to go forward. Federico played tactically well today and that's why he was more effective. He always talks about the touches and having as many as he can. But staying inside he had a lot of touches today especially between Bernardo, him, [Matias] Sanchez, and [Danny] O'Rourke. I think [Dominic] Oduro and him was a very good combination, at times we looked a little like Barcelona.
On Matias Sanchez's leadership:
It depends on the game we are playing. His aggressiveness and his tackles and running of the ball obviously he is going to be one of the leaders, absolutely. If you play well then people will follow you and you can be a leader without even speaking.
On if Josh Williams could play centerback for the rest of the season:
I don't want to go that far in the future. Having [Chad] Barson available for this game, he's a young player and did very well. You play a game like this and the defense was so good so obviously I am going to keep him on the inside. That's a position he likes and hopefully he is going to bond with Chad [Marshall] and they are going to be good center backs. If we keep a clean sheet every game there's no reason to put him on the right side or the left side.
On stopping Montreal's forwards:
Tactical awareness or anticipation were things we did very well. As a unit we were solid, there were no holes in the line. We gave them a couple of chances in the first half, but that was from transition, losing the ball in the wrong spots. But that happens. You can't play without giving teams chances. They came here to score goals and they did everything to get the chances. But Andy [Gruenebaum] was outstanding and saved a couple and kept it 2-0.
On the win:
We really needed this win. When we were on the road for our game, it wasn't really that good with the conditions of everything. But I thought that overall it came out good. Everybody was motivated to win this game because of the fact that we haven't won many games at home. We had decided to come out and prove to ourselves that we are a better team than we thought, and we knew that from the get go after getting the two goals in the beginning. That being said, we still need to make our winning a habit now. I mean, we know where we want to go so that's where we need to keep going as much as we can.
On the assist on Matias Sanchez's goal:
I was trying to beat the guy around, pass the ball around and go from there. It was unfortunate, I think that he tripped me a little bit but I was right there to finish it so other than that it ended up being a great pass. I would take that assist!
On the club getting the first goal tonight:
Like I said, it meant a lot. We could tell that we were doing very well. And we kept pressuring down on them from the get go. I was really positive; we dreamed what we came out to do and how we execute it. We played well and the other team played well, everyone is happy and excited. Hopefully we can do the same against Chicago.
On his first half goal and his first career tally:
We won the ball. Dom [Oduro] took the ball, gave it to me, and I shot. I am very happy for my wife, she is pregnant. We are awaiting a baby in December. I am very happy.
On how the first goal affected the team's moral:
Yeah. If our team scores first, it is very important, because you get order in the field. You can take the ball and do things. It is very important to score first.
On tonight's performance:
I'm a little bit disappointed in the way we came out. Obviously we had a little bit of a break, but we were expecting them to come out and press us. We made a couple of mistakes in the first twenty/twenty-five minutes, we weren't good and were very timid. We were second to everything and they [the Crew] showed that they wanted it a little bit more at that point in the game. We were able to still break them down and create chances; the game goes like that sometimes – [Andrew] Wenger has a clear opportunity and [Andy] Gruenebaum makes a great save. After that missed opportunity, the game would have been 1-1 at that point and things change. Second half we controlled the game in terms of possession and created a couple of opportunities. In the end, we weren't able to score today, and the mistakes in the beginning cost us.
On Andrew Wenger's performance:
For a forward, when you're having difficulties scoring, you have to continue to work hard and do the simple things. Sometimes goals they come in bunches and sometimes it's a little bit difficult. Andrew needs to continue to work hard, but the good thing is that he got in those situations and created those chances – that's what's positive. Chances come all the time; he's just got to be ready for the next one.
On the Crew playing two games in three days:
If I look at their roster [the Crew's], a lot of guys that didn't play, played tonight – Chad Marshall and [Josh] Williams did not play on Thursday. We still expected them to come out strong and they're playing at home in front of a lot of people tonight, they were pumped. This is a team [the Crew] playing with a little bit of urgency because of the situation they're in, but we've got to be ready for everything. We've got to be ready for teams that want to beat us because we're in first place – if you're not ready in the first twenty/twenty-five minutes, you're going to pay.
On tonight's performance:
They jumped on us and we weren't really sharp in the first fifteen/twenty minutes, giving up a couple goals. On the road you're fighting an uphill battle, so we just made it tough on ourselves.
On the Crew's performance:
They're [the Crew] at home, we expect them to have energy and come at us. Unfortunately we weren't really prepared for it and it cost us in the end.
On playing after a bye-week off:
After a couple of weeks off it takes a little bit of time to get back in your rhythm. No excuses because we're an experienced group, so you can't blame it on any layoff, but maybe it had something to do with it.
On the Crew's performance:
We didn't think they were tired coming into the match, we just knew that we had to stay energetic from the start. Obviously credit them [the Crew], they came out hard and caught us flat-footed – that's something we talked about at halftime and we were pretty upset with ourselves that we had that start.
On tonight's performance:
We just have to look at ourselves individually, and collectively as a whole in the next training session, then say, "Hey, we can't play like that and expect teams to respect us". We're on top of the league, but it doesn't work that way. We've got to go back to the drawing board and really look at ourselves in the mirror and say, "This is a gut check time right now".
On playing Houston next week:
It's a good opportunity for us to a play a good team coming in our home, a good Eastern Conference rival. We need points now because we just gave up, essentially, six points on our own side. We need to keep going and we know Houston is not going to lay down for us either.
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Fear as a marketing strategy can never be underestimated. Particular when the fear is of the misunderstood. Media helps stoke the flames of fear-marketing with stories of fired or disgruntled IT staff who reportedly effectuate their revenge on former employers by bricking systems.
When hyperbolized threats-from-within transform into actual damage, the victim can be left helpless, unable to access crucial IT and unable to have continuity of operation. In today's case, after being fired, Defendant allegedly changed the passwords of her former employer's employee's accounts and changed the password of the firewall. The scorned company contacted an external IT contractor who was able to hack in and open up the employee accounts. The firewall, however, had pretty much become a big expensive paperweight that had to be replaced.
The Defendant was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Count One, the conviction challenged in this case, was pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A):
Whoever... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer... shall be punished...
The Defendant challenges her conviction and raises two questions of law: (1) Is a computer on the Internet a 'protected computer' pursuant to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; and (2) can the salaries of employees that rebuild the system be counted as a part of 'damages.'
What is a 'protected computer' under the CFAA? Is it a computer with good virus protection or behind a firewall (even if the firewall has been Bricked?). According to 18 USC § 1030(e)(2)(B),
"the term "protected computer" means a computer— which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;
In other words, a computer on the Internet is a "Protected Computer." Lots of Courts agree on this point: US v Trotter, No 05-4202 (8th Cir. Feb. 23, 2007) (Non-profit's computers are engaged in interstate communications connect to Internet); U.S. v. Walters, 182 Fed. Appx. 944, 945 (11th Cir. 2006) (stating that the internet is an instrumentality of interstate commerce); US v. Fowler, Case No. 8:10-cr-65-T-24 AEP (MDFL Oct. 25, 2010) (computer connected to Internet is 'protected computer'); Multiven, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., 2010 WL 2889262, at *3 (N.D. Cal. July 20, 2010) (finding that a computer connected to the internet was a protected computer); National City Bank, N.A. v. Prime Lending, Inc., 2010 WL 2854247, at *4 n.2 (E.D. Wash. July 19, 2010) (stating that "any computer connected to the internet is a protected computer"); Expert Janitorial, LLC v. Williams, 2010 WL 908740, at *8 (E.D. Tenn. Mar. 12, 2010); Dedalus Foundation v. Banach, 2009 WL 3398595, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 16, 2009) (noting that courts have "found that computers that access the Internet through programs such as email qualify as protected computers"); Continental Group, Inc. v. KW Property Management, LLC, 622 F. Supp.2d 1357, 1370 (S.D. Fla. 2009) (noting that a connection to the internet affects interstate commerce or communication).
Second, in order to be convicted under this provision, a defendant must have inflicted at least $5000 worth of damage (this was a notorious problem for Clifford Stoll's who detected a $0.75 accounting discrepancy, and thus could not garner federal attention, even thought the hacker's breadcrumbs indicated international espionage of highly sensitive military information. See Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg (Pocket 1990) (a great beach vacation read)). According to the Court, the Defendant managed to inflict $27K in damages, which included $11K for the salaries of all of the company's staff and all of the company's contractors who had to put the network back together again. The Court noted the following accounting:
- $3,941.27 amount paid to IT Contractor for responding to and correcting the damage to the computers
- $2,501.20 amount attributed to CEO's time spent responding to and correcting the damage to the computers
- $2404 amount attributed to [employee A's] time spent responding to and correcting the damage to the computers
- $1,590.68 amount attributed to [employee B's] time spent responding to and correcting the damage to the computers
- $730.72 amount attributed to CFO's time spent responding to and correcting the damage to the computers
The Court rejected Defendant's argument that time spent by salaried employees cannot be considered a loss under the statute, noting substantial precedent to the contrary:
NCMIC Finance Corp. v. Artino, 638 F. Supp.2d 1042, 1065 (S.D. Iowa 2009) (finding that the company's chief information officer's time spent investigating the matter was appropriately considered a loss under the statute); U.S. v. Larsen, 190 Fed. Appx. 552, 553 (9th Cir. 2006)(stating that losses "include[] the time that the victim's salaried employees spend responding to the unauthorized intrusion"); U.S. v. Millot, 433 F.3d 1057, 1061 (8th Cir. 2006)(recognizing that hours spent by employees responding to an intrusion constitute losses under the statute, because their time could have been spent on other duties); U.S. v. Middleton, 231 F.3d 1207, 1214 (9th Cir. 2000)(finding that a salaried employee's time spent responding to an intrusion is a loss under the statute, because "[t]here is no basis to believe that Congress intended the element of `damage' to depend on a victim's choice whether to use hourly employees, outside contractors, or salaried employees to repair the . . . harm to a protected computer")."Engaging in some simple math, the Court notes that $11,000 damages alleged is greater than the $5000 threshhold required, and therefore denied Defendants Motion to Acquittal.
US v. Fowler, Dist. Court, MD Florida 2010
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As the Jaws warning theme song plays in my head, along with the 'Baby Shark' song that became an internet sensation, patterns of "do-do-da-do" fill my head as I anticipate the first-ever Affiliated Monitoring Shark Tank at Catalyst 2019.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) will host its annual Conference & Expo at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, June 17-20.
The last blog I wrote, "What your connected smart home IoT devices are really doing," highlighted the fact that there are no security standards for IoT manufacturers to follow when cr
Mission 500, a 501c3 charitable organization born from the professional security industry to serve children and families in need across the U.S., raised over $145,000 at its 10th annual Security 5K/2K Run/Walk at this year's ISC West show, April 9-12 in Las Vegas.
As more and more people connect IoT devices to their homes, making them smarter, living machines, the more fodder hackers have to breach systems and gain access to consumers' personal identifiable information, or even gain entrance into their humble abodes.
I know I am aging myself here, but after reading about the JetBlue passenger who was none-too-happy to find out that her face would be used as ID for boarding, I thought back to the T
ISC West 2019 wrapped up on April 12 in Las Vegas after another record-breaking year in terms of attendance, according to Mary Beth Shaughnessy, Event Director - ISC Events and Unmanned Security Expo at Reed Exhibitions, who spoke to Security Systems News on the SSN Media Stage during the event.
It sounds cliché to say, but "I'm excited about ISC West this year." This is my first ISC since returning to the security industry and while I have memories of sore feet, late nights and early, sleepy mornings, I gladly welcome all because that means I have the opportunity to get reacquainted wit
Mission 500, a charitable non-profit organization engaging security professionals to raise money for children in need across the U.S., has announced the winners of its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Humanitarian awards, The award presentation will be on April 11, 2019 at ISC Wes
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Proposal: eliminate down-votesby sundialsvc4 (Abbot)
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I've got a sworn enemy on PerlMonks. Only one, it seems, but definitely one. And what this not-to-be named person does, among other things, is to downvote. Having himself an XP somewhere in the stratosphere, this person not only pushes some folks up, but steps on the toes of others.
While I certainly cannot stop someone from doing what they are able to do, I would like to offer the point for consideration that many sites have chosen not to allow anyone to down-vote a post, or a geocache, or whatever-it-is. They can nominate a posting for outright removal, by moderators or by being "voted off the island," but the only type of feedback that they can make to a post and therefore to the poster is ... either positive, or not-at-all.
And this, in addition to resolving a source of personal annoyance (but nothing more) for me, is what I consider would be a significant improvement for PerlMonks. I personally don't think that anyone posts anything anywhere on any forum for any reason other than what he or she considers to be "good." If others agree, I think that "goodness that is a commonly-held opinion" ought to be rewarded. But if they dis-agree? Well, frankly, I agree with Dr. Richard Feynmann on this one: "why do you care what other people think?"
Briefly pursuing this point, I feel that the posting of negative feedback on anything is, as eBay for example certainly regards it, an act of declaring that something is actually bad. That it has been made with "bad" motivation. And I simply do not think that people on a forum ought to be given the opportunity to express an opinion like that. The posting, and hence, the poster, ought to be "presumed good," with the report-this-post (or, in the case of this forum, "consider") being used to weed out the exceptions. If you think that something adds to the discussion, you should be able to clap your hands. But if you instead intend to shout, "Boooo!" you should be given no opportunity to do so (other than the proverbial shepherd's-hook that shoots in from the sideline of the stage while the tomatoes pelt down).
When I am looking through a forum thread looking for an answer, I am ultimately looking for an answer, and it so happens that a forum system like PerlMonks is an excellent way to quickly produce high-quality peer-reviewed answers, thence to find them again. I frankly want to keep personalities out of that stream. I want to find fav'd responses as quickly as possible. I more-or-less think that a thumbs-down response is irrelevant at best, and maybe antithetical, to that objective. You see, I do not participate here to hear myself talk. I participate here to try to give something to back to one of my long-standing fundamental sources of technical guidance and information.
Epilogue: This is nothing personal; this is not a rant; I have a Rhett Butler approach about such trivialities. But it does get me thinking and this is what I think. What do you think?
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It's official; the last 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded in the United States.
Fans in Kansas City endlessly boo New York Yankee Robinson Cano during the Home Run Derby.
Spain's banks are next in line for a bailout by the European Union.
Who is the mystery woman routinely appearing with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un?
The ABQ BioPark Zoo is New Mexico's most visited attraction, beating out White Sands National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns.
A law in Indiana that could have prevented low-income women from using Medicaid for reproductive care is declared illegal.
Apple drops its "green" electronics certification from its products.
The internet could be creating forms of mental illness.
Some Muslim clerics are calling for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids.
Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!


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In 1980, the course of national politics may have turned on one brilliantly framed question: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Now, with the crucial midterm elections less than three months away, we're being asked, in essence, another question – one that could resonate through the 2012 presidential campaign: Who's your Mama Grizzly?
Unlike Ronald Reagan's classic query, which he offered during his final televised debate with then-President Jimmy Carter a week before the 1980 election, the Mama Grizzly battle is being played out on YouTube, in a sign of the times.
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Here's another, perhaps more telling, indication of the state we're in: the fight over the meaning of feminism and motherhood – and quite possibly the direction of the country – may very well revolve around competing conceptions of ursine imagery.
EMILY'S List, a liberal group dedicated to electing pro-choice Democrats, posted a video last week called "Sarah Palin Doesn't Speak for Me" – a humorous, but pointed response to the Republican pol's June video in which she created something called the Mama Grizzly movement and essentially declared herself the leader.
Palin's video has spurred a debate, as silly as it might seem, over what defines a Mama Grizzly. In a somewhat strained interview with fellow Fox News employee Bill O'Reilly last month, Palin described a Mama Grizzly as "someone who is watching what is going on that is adversely affecting our cubs, our children, the future of America. And there are a lot of common-sense, constitutional-conservative women who are willing to put it all on the line and run for office… to take this country back."
In the EMILY's List video, women from various walks of life don cheesy bear masks and makeup, joke and mug for the camera – and tell why they're true Mama Grizzlies: "Yeah, I attack when my cubs are threatened. But want to know what threatens me? My daughter not having the right to choose."
The EMILY'S List video benefits from a clarity of message, which is something that Palin's video, with its generic images of women waving signs and its vague odes to motherhood ("Moms just kinda know when something's wrong"), lacks.
There are other differences: Palin's video is slick, complete with music and a campaign ad feel, while the EMILY'S List effort has a homemade look – attributes that will play in different ways to different audiences. The liberal group has the advantage of taking a shot at a Palin strategy that's already earned her some mocking.
But the EMILY'S List video, perhaps more than anything, shows the enduring power, presence and influence of Palin nearly two years after John McCain tapped her to become the GOP's first woman vice presidential candidate.
Like her hero, Reagan, Palin is framing the debate. And she's doing so by using the Internet more effectively than any politician since Barack Obama, while largely avoiding any direct contact with the press and carefully controlling her message.
But the EMILY List's campaign might have annoyed Palin enough for her to tweet an apparent response last week, earning her some new jibes for her increasingly creative verbiage: "Who hijacked term:"feminist"? A cackle of rads who want 2 crucify other women w/whom they disagree on a singular issue; it's ironic (& passé)"
In the end, this battle may be as much about winning hits as it is winning hearts. Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" video has attracted about 450,000 views in two months, compared to more than 186,000 in a week for EMILY'S List.
EMILY'S List is extending the Net turf battle by starting a website with a says-it-all URL – www.sarahdoesntspeakforme.com – that solicits pledges to vote in November and seeks stories, pictures and videos of Americans "speaking out against Sarah Palin and her allies or (describing) why voting in November is so important to you."
Meanwhile, check out the dueling Mama Grizzly videos below – if you think you can bear it:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Indiana State upsets No. 22 Notre Dame
- Indiana State upset No. 22 Notre Dame 83-70
- The defeat marked the first time Notre Dame had lost in November under coach Mike Brey
- The Sycamores held the Irish to 36%25 shooting
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — After seeing a 10-point halftime lead evaporate into a second-half deficit, Indiana State sophomore swingman Khristian Smith recalls thinking one thing.
"We've just got to fight back," Smith said Sunday after the Sycamores upset 22nd-ranked Notre Dame, 83-70. "Runs are going to happen."
For the Sycamores, it was an ensuing run of their own that determined the outcome. After falling behind 45-44 with 15:07 remaining, Indiana State produced a spurt in which it outscored the Irish 18-3 to take control of the game. The Sycamores improved to 2-1 while the Irish dropped to 2-1.
With his team trailing on the road, Indiana State coach Greg Lansing was not concerned with his team losing its confidence.
"That's one thing I don't have to worry about," Lansing said. "They think they're pretty good."
On Sunday, the Sycamores were good, and balanced. Five Sycamores scored in double figures, led by Justin Gant's 17 points and Smith's 15. Manny Arop chipped in 13 while Jake Odum and Devonte Brown each added 10.
Notre Dame was led by Eric Atkins' 18 points while Jerian Grant added 17 and Pat Connaughton 16. No other Irish player scored more than six points. Notre Dame shot 37 percent (28-of-58) from the floor, and committed 16 turnovers, many of them in the first nine minutes of the game.
"We got beat by one heck of a basketball team today," said Irish coach Mike Brey, who suffered his first November home loss in 14 years at the school. "I think their veteran poise was better than our veteran poise. It was Indiana State imposing their will on us on both ends of the floor."
The Sycamores built their halftime lead thanks to a 12-0 run. Smith scored eight points during the spurt, starting it with a dunk and adding in a 3-pointer.
The Irish, however, surged ahead when Austin Burgett completed a three-point play with 15:07 remaining.
Indiana State responded.
"We don't want to go back to Terre Haute with that loss, having that lead at halftime. What we went through Thursday, we knew we couldn't go through again today," said Smith referencing a 96-95 loss to Belmont earlier in the week. "It was a great opportunity being up I think 10 at halftime, to let it slip. We fought and dug deep just to get that lead back and played our game the rest of the way."
Atkins wasn't surprised that the Sycamores, who beat a pair of ranked teams last season, answered ND's run with a run of their own.
"Not really. It's a game of runs," Atkins said. "We made our run and they made their run to take the lead right back. We didn't respond after that. That's what hurt us right there."