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Part I Network Services Topics
Part II Accessing Network File Systems Topics
4. Managing Network File Systems (Overview)
5. Network File System Administration (Tasks)
6. Accessing Network File Systems (Reference)
8. Planning and Enabling SLP (Tasks)
SLP Configuration File: Basic Elements
How to Change Your SLP Configuration
Modifying DA Advertising and Discovery Frequency
Limiting UAs and SAs to Statically Configured DAs
How to Limit UAs and SAs to Statically Configured DAs
Configuring DA Discovery for Dial-up Networks
How to Configure DA Discovery for Dial-up Networks
Configuring the DA Heartbeat for Frequent Partitions
How to Configure DA Heartbeat for Frequent Partitions
Accommodating Different Network Media, Topologies, or Configurations
How to Reduce SA Reregistrations
Configuring the Multicast Time-to-Live Property
How to Configure the Multicast Time-to-Live Property
How to Configure the Packet Size
Configuring Broadcast-Only Routing
How to Configure Broadcast-Only Routing
Modifying Timeouts on SLP Discovery Requests
How to Change Default Timeouts
Configuring the Random-Wait Bound
How to Configure the Random-Wait Bound
Considerations When Configuring Scopes
Placing Multiple DAs for Load Balancing
Multihoming Configuration for SLP
When to Configure for Nonrouted, Multiple Network Interfaces
Configuring Nonrouted, Multiple Network Interfaces (Task Map)
Configuring the net.slp.interfaces Property
How to Configure the net.slp.interfaces Property
Proxy Advertising on Multihomed Hosts
DA Placement and Scope Name Assignment
Considerations When Configuring for Nonrouted, Multiple Network Interfaces
10. Incorporating Legacy Services
Part V Serial Networking Topics
15. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Overview)
16. Planning for the PPP Link (Tasks)
17. Setting Up a Dial-up PPP Link (Tasks)
18. Setting Up a Leased-Line PPP Link (Tasks)
19. Setting Up PPP Authentication (Tasks)
20. Setting Up a PPPoE Tunnel (Tasks)
21. Fixing Common PPP Problems (Tasks)
22. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Reference)
23. Migrating From Asynchronous Solaris PPP to Solaris PPP 4.0 (Tasks)
25. Administering UUCP (Tasks)
Part VI Working With Remote Systems Topics
27. Working With Remote Systems (Overview)
28. Administering the FTP Server (Tasks)
29. Accessing Remote Systems (Tasks)
Part VII Monitoring Network Services Topics
30. Monitoring Network Performance (Tasks)
With scopes, you can provision services that depend on the logical, physical, and administrative groupings of users. You can use scopes to administer access to service advertisements.
Use the net.slp.useScopes property to create scopes. For example, in the /etc/inet/slp.conf file on a host, add a new scope, called newscope, as shown:
Your organization might, for example, have an alcove of networked devices, such as printers and fax machines, at the end of the south hall on the second floor of Building 6. These devices could be used by everyone on the second floor, or you might restrict the usage to members of a certain department. Scopes provide a way for you to provision access to the service advertisements for these machines.
If the devices are dedicated to a single department, you can create a scope with the department name, for example, mktg. Devices that belong to other departments can be configured with different scope names.
In another scenario, the departments might be dispersed. For instance, the mechanical engineering and the CAD/CAM departments might be split between floors 1 and 2. However, you can provide the floor 2 machines for the hosts on both floors by assigning them to the same scope. You can deploy scopes in any manner that operates well with your network and users.
Note - UAs that have particular scope are not prevented from actually using services that are advertised in other scopes. Configuring scopes controls only which service advertisements a UA detects. The service is responsible for enforcing any access control restrictions.
SLP can function adequately without any scope configuration. In the Solaris operating environment, the default scope for SLP is default. If no scopes are configured, default is the scope of all SLP messages.
You can configure scopes in any of the following circumstances.
The organizations you support want to restrict service advertisement access to their own members.
The physical layout of the organization you support suggests that services in a certain area be accessed by particular users.
The service advertisements that are appropriate for specific users to see must be partitioned.
An example of the first circumstance was cited in Configuring DA Discovery for Dial-up Networks. An example of the second is a situation in which an organization is spread between two buildings, and you want users in a building to access local services in that building. You can configure users in Building 1 with the B1 scope, while you configure users in Building 2 with the B2 scope.
When you modify the net.slp.useScopes property in the slpd.conf file, you configure scopes for all agents on the host. If the host is running any SAs or is acting as a DA, you must configure this property if you want to configure the SAs or DA into scopes other than default. If only UAs are running on the machine and the UAs should discover SAs and DAs supporting scopes other than default, you do not need to configure the property unless you want to restrict the scopes the UAs use. If the property is not configured, UAs can automatically discover available DAs and scopes through slpd. The SLP daemon uses active and passive DA discovery to find DAs, or it uses SA discovery if no DAs are running. Alternatively, if the property is configured, UAs use only the configured scopes and do not discard them.
If you decide to configure scopes, you should consider keeping the default scope on the list of configured scopes unless you are sure that all SAs in the network have scopes configured. If any SAs are left unconfigured, UAs with configured scopes are unable to find them. This situation occurs because the unconfigured SAs automatically have scope default, but the UAs have the configured scopes.
If you also decide to configure DAs by setting the net.slp.DAAddresses property, be sure that the scopes that are supported by the configured DAs are the same as the scopes that you have configured with the net.slp.useScopes property. If the scopes are different, slpd prints an error message when it is restarted.
Use the following procedure to add scope names to the net.slp.useScopes property in the slp.conf file.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
# svcadm disable network/slp
net.slp.useScopes=<scope names>
A list of strings that indicate which scopes a DA or SA is allowed to use when making requests, or which scopes a DA must support
Default Value=Default for SA and DA/Unassigned for UA
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Use the following to construct scope names:
Any alphanumeric characters, uppercase or lowercase
Any punctuation characters (except for: '', \, !, <, =, >, and ~)
Spaces that are considered part of the name
Non-ASCII characters
You use a backslash to escape non-ASCII characters. For example, UTF-8 encoding uses 0xc3a9 hex code to represent the letter e with the French aigue accent. If the platform does not support UTF-8, you use the UTF-8 hex code as the escape sequence \c3\a9.
For example, to specify scopes for eng and mktg groups in bldg6, you change the net.slp.useScopes line to the following.
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Grilling Steak at Home? Pick Up Some Dry-Aged Steaks at Joseph's Finest Meats in Dunning
One of my favorite ways to time travel is to step inside an old school butcher shop. As someone who wanders often around the Midwest, I've been to a lot of great meat markets, especially in Wisconsin. For some reason, these shops aren't as prevalent in Chicago as they once were. Sure, we have some really nice new-to-the-block hipster butcher shops, but they lack the neighborhood atmosphere (and friendly prices) that a place like Joseph's Finest Meats in the northwest neighborhood of Dunning brings. As soon as you step inside and grab your ticket, you're greeted with a hello. The sweet sound of saw blades in use is the only music.
There's no denying Chicago is a great place to eat steak. But when it comes to steak for your backyard grill, I always recommend one place. At Joseph's, you'll get the same steakhouse bang for half the bucks. They get hunks of untouched USDA Prime stamped beef, which are hung in their old world meat cooler for a minimum of three weeks, though most stay for 30 days. Business is never really slow, but there are times when they have chunks that have aged for longer than 30 days. Just ask.
Joseph Camarda was born and raised in Altavilla Milicia, Sicily. He came to the States on November 27, 1951 at the age of 18 and settled in Chicago's Little Sicily area, which was where Cabrini-Green once stood. His uncle in New York owned a butcher shop, and after visiting it a few times, he was intrigued with the business and wanted to learn more. So he decided to open his own spot. During this period, Joseph was managing the meat department for the National Tea Company, which was a large chain grocer in the Midwest. In 1977, when being a butcher wasn't all as hip as it is today, it was a big risk venturing out on his own.
Ordering meat through Joseph's has become a valuable learning experience for me over the years. I've been tipped off on and picked up many tricks of the trade from Joseph's son, Ben Camarda. He's been around the family business for as long as he can remember, working weekends even back in grammar school. Despite getting a degree in Management Information Systems from Loyola University, he decided to follow his heart and return to the butcher shop. Today he runs most of the show, but you'll still see the 81-year-old Joseph doing his thing from time to time. You know how the saying goes, old habits die hard.
They make close to 20 varieties of sausage on site. My personal favorite is the Italian sausage blend, which is an old family recipe from Sicily. The crown roast of pork is also very popular.
They stack a few small aisles worth of Italian groceries, along with some fresh vegetables and just baked bread from a local bakery. Plus, they open at 8 a.m.—since when did it become norm for bakeries and butcher shops to start their day at 10?!
I became a regular over time, but there was never a visit where I didn't feel that way. The same vibe stretches over to the customer side of the counter where loyal shoppers share small talk while waiting for their orders. When you're at Joseph's, you're in a positive mood as you know good food is coming soon. Everything here is still done the old fashioned way.
On this visit, I watched as another customer requested a brisket. Joseph's didn't have any ready to go in the case, so Ben politely asked if he was okay waiting a bit. The repeat customer knew he was getting a top notch product and was happy to wait, and we both watched as the butchers grabbed a quarter of a cow and threw it on the chopping block. First thing to go was the leg, which would be turned into beautiful beef shanks in display in the case. After about 15 minutes of dicing and slicing more cuts for the case, a fresh cut brisket was being weighed.
I was there for the same reason I always am: USDA Prime 30-day dry-aged "Cowboy-Cut" Ribeyes. Joseph's keeps some already cut steaks in their display case, but they'll be happy to cut a fresh steak to your exact specifications. I just suggest calling a day or two ahead, as it makes it much easier for them. There was a time when I thought the fillet was the most baller piece of steak one can eat. Of course, this was also around the same time I thought girls were impressed by things like fake IDs and cigarettes, so what did I know? Not much, because these days I find the fillet to be about as boring as a chicken breast. For me, there's nothing quite as lustful as a bone-in, dry-aged ribeye with beautiful marbled meat.
When I called to place my order, Ben was all over it with the same type of customer service I imagine David Burke get's when he calls his supplier. But i's not as easy as, "I want two cowboy-cut ribeyes." Sure, Ben could of said okay and given me whatever he determined those to be, but that's not how you stay in business for over three decades. Questions needed to be answered. Exactly which cut from the seven ribs was I looking for? "The good one," I replied. Still not enough. Ben went on to explain how each slice from the seven bones is different and how steakhouses prefer a certain slice, while the regular grilling enthusiast consumer may prefer others. Upon arrival for pickup we spent a good 40 minutes going over the details.
I walked out with two beautiful Cowboy-Cut Ribeyes from opposite ends of the prime rib. These were to be consumed early afternoon on Super Sunday.
Well, as we all know now, the game itself was about as glorious as those 50-shades-of-gray-looking steaks Dominick's used to have in its discount display case. On a day which included enough food to feed an entire starting NFL offensive line, it was the Seahawks defense and my ribeyes from Joseph's that shined.
I think it's safe to say the risk Joseph Camarda took back in 1977 worked out—not just for his family, but the neighborhood and city as well. Cent'anni!
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Willie Nelson is not a one trick pony!
The country music legend calls his 700-acre Texas ranch, "Luck" and the name of his farm is very appropriate considering 70 horses who were all destined for the slaughterhouse, now reside here.
Aligned to the farm's sentiment for 'Luck,' Willie shared with KSAT, "My horses are probably the luckiest horses in the world. They get hand-fed twice a day, and they were just ready to go to slaughter is probably the last thing they remembered, so they're happy horses."
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Soft and Chewy Brownie Cookies
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Soft and Chewy Brownie Cookies – These cookies have the taste and texture of perfect brownies. They're rich, dark, and smooth. They're soft and tender in the interior with chewy edges. They're fudgy, dense, and not at all cakey. Chunks of chocolate are present in every bite and make these cookies an indulgent, rich treat.
These cookies have been on my bucket list for years.
I only wish I had checked them off my list sooner because I loved every fudgy center and chewy-edged bite.
They're one hundred percent from scratch, no cake mix, no brownie mix, no shortcuts. The recipe is adapted from Donna Hay, who's been called the Australian Martha Stewart. After converting grams of butter to tablespoons, and using regular granulated sugar in place of superfine caster sugar, I thought I was in for smooth sailing. Wrong.
I've seen versions of this recipe using melted chocolate chips for the 12 ounces of dark chocolate that Donna calls for. I wanted that to work because a standard bag of chocolate chips is 12 ounces and that would have been convenient. But when I melted the chocolate chips with butter as directed, the mixture seized horribly.
I should have known better because chocolate chips have stabilizers in them that prevent them from melting easily. This is great when used in chocolate chips cookies so they retain their chip-like shape in a 350F oven. Not great when you want them to melt into sauce with butter. The water that's released from the melting butter turned the mixture turn into seized-up sludge. So I started over. I hate wasting butter and chocolate, but salvaged the clumpy mess and was used it as Smores chocolate.
I tried again with a 54% Dark Chocolate Pound Plus bar from Trader Joe's, not to be confused with their 72% bar. Because there's only 2/3 cup of sugar in the entire batch of cookies, I didn't want to use chocolate that was too dark for fear the cookies would be bitter. I like my brownies and chocolate cookies on the less sweet side, but had read reports of others trying 72% chocolate and the cookies were bitter.
To make the cookies, combine 7 ounces of chopped chocolate from a bar (not chocolate chips as I learned) with 3 tablespoons of butter and heat to melt, about 45 seconds in the micro, and set it aside to cool.
In a mixing bowl, beat together 2 eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Donna suggests beating for 15 minutes, or until pale and creamy. That seemed ridiculously long, but I kept my stand mixer running for over 13 minutes. The mixture didn't change in appearance after the first five minutes of beating, and I believe 5 to 8 minutes of beating is adequate. The mixture thickens up and become slightly frothy, but earth-shattering changes didn't happen after the 5-minute mark.
All at once, add the melted chocolate-butter mixture, the remaining 5 ounces of chopped chocolate, 1/4 cup flour, baking powder, and beat it together, about 1 minute on medium low speed.
If you're visualizing two eggs, 10 ounces of a melted chocolate-butter mixture, and only 1/4-cup flour and the contents of the mixing bowl looking like liquid chocolate sauce, you're visualizing correctly. I was freaking out thinking, no, please not another chocolate fail in a recipe that hasn't even been baked! The mixture was so sloppy, soupy, and wasn't anywhere near cookie 'dough'. Chocolate smoothie was more like it.
Donna's recipe instructs to set the bowl aside for 10 minutes so the mixture can firm up before baking. After 10 minutes, there was no way it was firm enough to do anything with other than maybe insert a straw and drink the chocolate. So I covered the mixing bowl with plasticwrap, said a prayer, and left it on the counter for 1 hour.
In that hour, it had firmed up enough that I was able to use my medium 2-inch cookie scoop and scooped out 17 mounds onto Silpat-lined baking trays. In reality, it felt like I was scooping out severely melted ice cream that had been sitting out of the freezer for a few hours.
There was no way I was going to bake that 'dough' and allowed it to remain uncovered on baking sheets at room temperature for another hour to continue to solidify before I was brave enough to bake them.
So that's setting the bowl aside for 1 hour, then scooping out into mounds, and letting the mounds sit on cookie sheets for another hour before baking. Two hours of solidification. The 10 minutes suggested by the author would have never worked for me.
I was bracing for chocolate puddles to emerge from the oven, but much to my shock and amazement, the cookies pread much less than I expected.
I ran out of cool baking trays and clean Silpats and baked the last two cookies on unlined baking trays and they spread so much more and baked so thin and turned crispy and crumbly. The difference between baking with and without Silpat Non-Stick Baking Mats was night and day. Silpats are tacky and give cookies traction and something to grab onto so they don't slip and slide around on a hot baking sheet, spreading and turning into cookie puddles.
These cookies are worth everything they put me through and are the lightest, fudgiest, moistest, best brownie cookies I've ever tried. You'd think they'd be thick and as heavy as bricks, but they're not since they're nearly flourless. And they're not cakey in the least. I don't want cake in my brownies, cookies, or brownie-cookies.
The chocolate intensity and sweetness level of the cookies from the Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate bar (54% chocolate) turned out to be spot-on perfect. Sweet enough, but not too sweet; nor bitter.
The 5 ounces of chopped chocolate that's added to the batter are unexpected nuggets of bliss. It adds so much intensity and also texture. The cookies are so dark and you can't see the chocolate, so the chunks really are heavenly surprise bites. The chocolate chunks make the cookies so rich. Like having a mini chocolate candy bar baked into every cookie.
It's worth mentioning that this recipe may not be for everyone. If you are typically prone to cookies that spread and have never mastered the art of anything close to a puffy cookie, this probably isn't the recipe for you. And now is a great time to spend that $20 bucks on a Silpat because without one, I didn't have success. Finally, you'll need a cookie scoop or small ice cream scoop because there's no way to get the 'dough' out of the mixing bowl and onto baking trays in a shape that's domed enough to hold up to baking.
But they're so worth it. They really do taste like a brownie, in cookie form. So fudgy, rich, intense, and decadent.
Now I can have my brownies and cookies in one.
Soft and Chewy Brownie Cookies
These cookies have the taste and texture of perfect brownies. They're rich, dark, and smooth. They're soft and tender in the interior with chewy edges. They're fudgy, dense, and not at all cakey. Chunks of chocolate are present in every bite and make these cookies an indulgent, rich treat. They're lighter in weight and heft, thanks to being almost flourless. It's important to bake these cookies on Silpats or silicone mats and to use a cookie scoop to dollop out the dough, and to give the dough ample time to firm up at room temperature before baking so they cookies don't spread. These are the best brownie cookies I've ever tried and would also make great sandwich cookies with frosting or ice cream filling.
- 12 ounces dark chocolate from a bar, chopped and divided into 7 ounces and 5 ounces (I used a Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Pound Plus Bar 54%; do not use chocolate chips)
- 3 tablespoons butter (I used unsalted)
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar (or superfine sugar if available)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
- In a medium microwave-safe bowl, combine 7 ounces of chocolate, butter, and heat to melt, about 1 minute on high power. Stop to stir. Heat in 10-second bursts until mixture can be stirred smooth; set aside to cool briefly.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or use an electric mixer), add the eggs, sugar, vanilla and beat for 5 to 8 minutes on medium speed, or until pale and creamy. (Donna Hay recommends beating for 15 minutes, but I saw no changes in the mixture after about 5 minutes and believe 8 minutes is ample).
- Add the flour, baking powder, melted chocolate-butter mixture, and remaining 5 ounces chopped chocolate and mix to combine, about 1 minute on medium-low speed (the machine will make lots of noise and shake from the chopped chocolate). Remove the paddle, cover bowl with plasticwrap, and allow to stand at room temperature for about 1 hour in order for batter to firm up (Hay suggests 10 minutes but my batter was like chocolate sauce and it needed 1 hour).
- Using a medium 2-inch cookie scoop or small ice cream scoop, scoop out mounds of dough onto Silpat-lined baking trays, placing 8 mounds per tray. Do not crowd them in case your cookies spread a fair amount (mine didn't but I can foresee it). Allow mounds to remain on trays, uncovered, for about 1 hour before baking to help batter set up more.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until puffed and cracked (I baked for 9 minutes). Allow cookies to cool completely on trays. Cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
- Recipe adapted from Donna Hay
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 110Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 34mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 1gSugar: 12gProtein: 1g
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I read in your website that the Bible does not mention purgatory. However, you must be reading the King James version. Martin Luther removed several books from the Bible that didn't agree with his teachings. Please take the time to review the books he removed. You may be enlightened by the scripture that has been removed from many Protestant bibles.
It looks like your question (or comment) is at bottom really about the Bible more than about purgatory. I have indeed read the books (well, a good deal of them) included in the Catholic Bible and not in the Protestant Bible. I will try to reply briefly:
(1). Up until the time of the Reformation there was more than one opinion regarding the books to be included in the Bible. St. Augustine, for example, while revering the books to which you refer as being worthy of reading in the churches for edification, considered them to be "deutero-canonical", that is, having secondary authority not on a par with the fully canonical books.
(2). The Protestant churches (not just Martin Luther) considered the canon of Old Testament Scripture in use by the Jews of Palestine and recognized by Christ and his apostles to be the divinely given canon of OT Scripture. The other books (referred to by Protestants as "The Apocrypha") were never part of the Jewish canon and circulated in communities outside Palestine. There was actually a much larger library of such books, written in Aramaic or in Greek, some of which are still extant. The Reformers did not originate their view of the canon (i.e., take books out of the Bible, as if all the church before them had accepted all the books found in the Catholic Bible).
(3). The "Catholic" books were not officially declared to be part of the Bible until the Council of Trent, an action in reaction to the Protestant Reformers, and not a council of the whole church.
(4). We do not consider that councils of the church are infallible, and in particular not the Council of Trent, which did indeed address and reform moral abuses in the church. But rather than adopting doctrinal reforms which would have clearly affirmed what the Bible teaches about salvation - through the work of Christ alone, received by faith alone, imparted by grace alone (Rom.3:19-26, Eph. 2:1-10, etc.), Trent codified the doctrinal traditions that had grown in the previous centuries to obscure the gospel under prayers to saints, the mediation of Mary, penance and meritorious works, purgatory, the sacrifice of the mass, etc., none of which find any support in Scripture.
In regard to purgatory, please consider that our Lord was confident that the thief on the cross would be with him "this day" in paradise, that Paul's expectation was that on leaving this life he would go into the presence of the Lord (Phil. 1:21-24, 2 Cor. 5:1-9). The book of Hebrews teaches the once-for-all sufficiency of what Christ did on the cross to atone for the sins of believers (e.g., 10:12-14) and tells Christian worshipers that the church on earth is already spiritually united with the heavenly Jerusalem, with all the angels, God the Father, Christ our redeemer, and "the souls of righteous men made perfect" (12:22-24). While we remain in this life our loving Father is active chastening and disciplining us that we may more and more be cleansed of sin and share in His holiness (12:5-10), but by His promise we expect upon death to pass into His presence fully perfected by His Spirit. For the Christian believer, death has lost its sting and become the portal, not to purgatory, but to the glorious presence of our God where we will await our final glorification in resurrection when Christ returns to the earth.
This is merely a brief accounting of where we stand and why on the questions of purgatory and "The Apocrypha". Since you found our website to offer your comment, you can if you wish go there again and find our Confession of Faith, where we state our positions officially as a church. Chapter 1 gives a full statement regarding the Bible, and Chapter 32 gives a summary of the Bible's teaching on "The State of Men after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead". If you click on the version with the Scripture proofs you will get the text with the Scripture passages on which it is based.
Thank you for your comment / question. I hope the exchange is profitable for us both.
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The potential disruption of service and risk posed by compromised, zombie PCs spewing spam is putting fear in UK ISPs, according to a survey conducted by security firm StreamShield Networks.
A massive 96 per cent of 50 ISP respondents cited the proliferation of botnets - networks of virus-infected PCs under the control of hackers - as a key business issue.
According to industry analyst firm Gartner, seven in 10 items of spam originate from infected PCs.
Other items high on the agenda include the difficulties ISPs face in differentiating services from competitors, finding fresh sources of revenue, and addressing user concerns about the security of their services.
Bandwidth optimisation, customer churn, falling margins, and the negative impact on service resulting from traffic in spam and malware also got a mention in the StreamShield survey, conducted during a recent meeting of ISP peering organisation LINX.
On a more positive note, ISPs recognised that customers would be prepared to pay a premium for security filtering services, a handy result for SteamShield, which supplies kit designed to block spam and viruses. ®


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"It's time to change the conversation" about women and advisors, argues Kim Dellarocca of Pershing LLC. In a media conference on Tuesday, the Pershing director noted that not only do women represent a "crucial client opportunity" because of their control of household financial decisions, but also because of their expressed dissatisfaction with those advisors with whom they already work.
The opportunity and the threat are explored in a new guidebook for advisors published by Pershing called "Women Are Not a 'Niche' Market," and was the subject of the gathering which, in addition to Dellarocca (left), known for her practice management acumen at Pershing Advisor Solutions (see previous AdvisorOne interview with Dellarocca on advisor succession planning), featured a presentation by the author Susan Hirshman. The guidebook is the first of three reports to be published by Pershing on specialty markets for advisors, and is meant to help advisors "secure and service women clients at every stage of their lives."
Dellarocca cited a number of research findings, many from the Sullivan Trust Study on which the guidebook is based, that place the opportunity and threat in stark relief:
- Women comprise 60% of the working population in the U.S.
- Forty percent of working women outearn their husbands, and more than half of married women with business-related degrees outearn their husbands
- Women control roughly two-thirds of annual household spending, or about $12 trillion
- Eighty percent of American women will be solely responsible for their household finances at some point in their lives
- Only 49% of women said their advisors focused on "making me a smarter investor," compared with 60% of men
- Only 57% of women said their advisors "clearly articulate the downside risk of investments," compared to 66% of men
Hirshman, a former JPMorgan advisor and executive who has written extensively for Investment Advisor and for the Wealth channel on AdvisorOne, recently completed a yearlong tour in which she presented the findings of her book, "Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?" which is intended to give women of every station in life an understanding of the investing world. Many women, said Hirshman, only become involved in their finances and those of their families after a life-changing event such as the death of a spouse, a divorce or a layoff. Too many women, she said, are "If-onlys," which she defined as those say after that life-changing event, "If only I had paid attention" to their finances and the investing world before they were forced to.
To help overcome many women's lack of confidence in the world of financial services—not a lack of ability, Hirshman pointed out, they need only break down what they need to know to four areas: what is their current financial status; where do they want to go with their finances; what's the plan they need to reach those goals; and how to assess how well the plan is going.
Realizing that "the industry has not done a great job of communicating what investing means," Hirshman saw the need to "translate investment-speak into a language women can understand," which is why her book is presented in the form of a diet plan." With the understanding of those four areas, and with greater confidence in how investing works, women can be given the power to judge the value of an advisor, Hirshman (left) said.
(See this prior AdvisorOne article on Hirshman, her book and how advisors can better serve women clients in retirement.)
As for how advisors can more strongly engage existing female clients and attract more women to their practices, the guidebook suggests the following:
First, review your current relationships.
Among your clients, identify and list the divorced, single or widowed women and for all of them, ask yourself:
- How much do I know about their financial and retirement goals?
- Have I ever asked about topics that go beyond the obvious investment categories—such as elder care, children's education or health care?
- Are there areas of interest or apprehension that I have detected but never delved into?
For each of your clients who are part of a couple, list the wives or partners and ask yourself:
- Have I ever met the wife or partner?
- Has she been attending my regular client meetings?
- If not, have I made an effort to invite her?
- If so, have you taken the time in meetings to direct questions her way and to include her in the conversations?
- Have you collected her e-mail address so she can receive the same communications as her husband or partner?
Second, consider opportunities to attract new female clients to your firm through:
- Offering education on pertinent topics such as divorce and bereavement
- Hosting lifestyle events, perhaps featuring high-end products and services
- Becoming certified as a financial planner in divorce situations
- Joining or serving on the boards of organizations in which women are leaders or that deal with women's issues
- Presenting on investment topics at conferences where affluent, professional women will be in attendance
- Conducting local workshops that deal with topics that may be of special interest to women, like elder care finances, college planning or managing divorce.
For additional news and analysis on advisors and women clients, please see these recent AdvisorOne articles and blogs:
Consultant and new AdvisorOne blogger Kristan Wojnar's posting on how advisors can be a "values" manager to their women clients.
AdvisorOne staffer Joyce Hanson's interview with advisor and former NAPFA chair Peggy Cabaniss on the unique tax issues to consider with your woman clients.
Mary Zimmer of RBC Wealth's Soapbox in the March issue of Investment Advisor on how greater female representation among the advisor force will pay off for the industry.


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Word of introduction here. I have promised to provide feedback on current state of content creation tools as one of my sprint tasks and try to fill all the holes I can see with some concepts. I was hoping to meet Rowan on IRC, but, since I'm rarely there and there is not much I can do with it, I thought - what the heck, I may post it here as well and maybe someone will benefit from this or tackle the subjects a bit forward.
It is all just my idea, ad-hockerish invention, so feel free to discuss it. Especially if you feel like you have better idea. Or when I'm clearly wrong.
I have checked current state of map editor
and it was "not good". It seems to be close to useless now. It was hard for me to do anything in there. There was many basic things not present there. It looks like it should work, yet there is clearly something broken.
I was unable to load any object into the editor, for most of the time the editor crashed. I was unable to import whole directory of objects at once as well.
There was no objects palette to choose objects from
Interface used to customize an object is crude, prototype-like thing, yet it looks promising and extensible.
What was annoying was also the fact that each time I had to choose directory from / level, it was not remembered by the editor.
How can this be improved?
By extending funcionality - for example adding "auto load" of all PARPG assets available in game directory. By adding simple object selection palette that reflects directory structure and eventually adding "last used" palette. (I thought I've seen this palette before, but it doesn't work now...)
What is a quest?
This is the other major topic.
From how I can imagine the quests are three kinds of interconnected elements:
s - that block or permit further elements from being executed without fulfilling them. Condition can be: event that happened, time that passed (or certain global time), given inventory state of PC
State changes
- (taken from dialogue with rowan): NPC state changes (inventory, stats, behavior, look, or if it exists (is visible) at all, also adding/removing/moving dialogue options), PC state changes (inventory, skills, stats that are lowered, increased or fixed at a given level, also changing boundaries of stats if needed, altering learning to be easier or harder, altering health status of PC, changing PC look), scenery changes - map objects changes, new passage is opened, area of map is changed (like when flooding big area or when whole level of building colapses), changing interface (adding or removing a quick slot), item state alteration (sharpening a knife), altering other quest state, changing map situation (adding/removing a map or changing existing map in the game). If a particular object is changed - it would be better to point it (or recall what was pointed) with a mouse.
3. events - stuff that PC does (or NPCs) that can make a need of checking out if quest conditions are fulfilled. This may be entering a "quest area" on the map, that will make someone angry, tweaking inventory, progressing in a dialogue, interacting with a map object in a specific way (pulling a lever), given fight result, given global or relative time.
I have chatted with Technomage and we've been trying to figure out how to bind it together in terms of data structures. It seems like some state changes can be binded to map, global timer and PC himself, and some events may happen due to interferrence with "quest layer" of a map.
What do we need to make to make a quest
Produce quest information: dialogues, conditions, chains of state changes, events
Attach above to a real (may be real, but invisible) game object or time - that may be as much as altering map for a given location or as little as upgrading a given tool stats due to sharpening
What tools would be needed?
1. Map editor, enabling developer to comfortably put, move and remove things on maps. Features: comfortable map editing, opening one map from another, opening map with other tools when needed (like when pointing state change to object on a different map. Ideally it would be best to only load main map for a given location and freely move to all the needed places by clicking exits and triggering events.
2. Editor, enabling designer to in-depth edit objects (inventory, NPC stats and behavior, buildings and so on).
3. Conditions, state changes and event editor for making a quest. What I think would be needed is making easy editing whole (quite simple in terms of count of branches, but long in terms of link count) chain of conditions, changes and events, jumping from one to another and editing what is going to happen at a given node - this all within a single window.
4. Dialogue editor that we have already nicely prototyped.
As for 2. and 3. - I'd say it will be best to merge it with map editor.
I know this is all a bit fuzzy. But I feel like I couldn't be much more precise. Maybe I wrote to little from time to time, so ask me if you feel like it.
What are your thoughts and ideas? Does it make sense to do it that way?
Will it be better to keep with buged and incomplete FIFE map editor? Or should we move to, for example, tiled, which seems to be more mature and stable (and will reqiure some extra work)?
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June 11, 2011, 03:11:08 AM »
Map editor is probably much higher priority.
I wouldn't worry about the quest editor until the actual game system is more developed.
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June 11, 2011, 06:35:48 AM »
To keep content creators busy, we have to have something they will work with - for now this is broken (at least here) map editor, barely prototyped dialogue editor and their local tools. Map editor alone, fixed, will not make things go faster - we can make a map or two more, but that's it, and doing anything else will be extra-tedious.
I know what your point is - there is very little quest-enabling mechanics implemented. And that's not even a priority item to tackle yet. But, I hope, with what I did, and what we have figured out with Technomage and what took like an hour for both of us, it will be not needed to redesign and refactor whole thing again, once implementing fully featured quests will be needed. Same thing with quest editor, that no one before even imagined (or left a trace of such activity), and now it's ready for first pre-prototype mockups.
Finally, wasting a month-long sprint was the other choice for me. Now I'm rather busy, but it was not so during last weeks.
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June 12, 2011, 06:37:29 PM »
As much as I'd like to start making stuff, until we've decided the whys and wherefores, I think that any effort would be wasted. We don't even have some of the basics down yet.
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July 30, 2011, 06:11:22 PM »
A game like this doesn't need a ton of programmers. You can easily make a game with just 1 or 2 programmers (engine and tools).
The problem with you guys seems to be that you're all about "pipelines, management tools and synergy methods" and all that crap, and you lack a real code monkey who simply gets stuff done.
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July 30, 2011, 08:06:22 PM »
It is all about getting the stuff done code-wise, at least from what I feel. And yes, a guy who does all the major stuff within a week would be a blessing here. Not happened yet, but we all have hope. After doing that he will be insta-blessed with a good job everywhere he wants with a game like this in his portfolio (plus experience in medium-size project in international team with all the "cool features", like timezone mess and me not speaking English too well
), as there is some content to start, so it will be not bad-looking thing (like, sadly, Whiff of Smoke presents itself now, just for an example).
But there are some other problems that will eat some more time: making whole toolchain - dialogue editor, item editor, "quest editor" of some kind, map editor (partially usable now, but it seems not to have anything more to offer than placing ready-made blocks on the map - what with editing npcs, events and such?), graphic asset and mechanics editors maybe as well... It's too much for one person, I think. And that's all is needed before someone will start adding real content - that is write thousands lines of dialog, plan quests, edit maps, make hundreds of items, and model, texture, rig, animate and render a good million of frames. This - making content - will seriously take years, and we're not even able to start. Just to put things into the right perspective of why all this management and pipelines are critical.
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holy smokes I agree with dracre.
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There is an overmanagement with bureaucracy in PARPG.
That's why I want to radical clean up the wiki and the forum and discard concepts which do no longer work.
That includes
by the way, even Trac.
If there are trac issues that never get fixed, something must be done too.
For content creation, we need to agree to use a format. Wesnoth has decided to go with XML, the "Wesnoth Markup Language Format".
I personally HATE XML. I hope we never use it to describe the Quests or dynamic aspects of the game world.
If we have a background story, it will be easy to notice what parts we are lacking still. This engine should be powerful ... a quest can be complicated. But for now, we can agree to use something SIMPLE and continue from there. We just should keep in mind that we may one day use to something a little bit more complicated.
Apparently we lack a code monkey indeed, though Beliar is still about and fixing things.
Cleaning away the bureaucracy in PARPG to make our life easier.
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America is as much of a melting pot for dogs as it is for their human friends. Walk through any dog park and you'll find a range of breeds from Europe, Asia, even Australia and mutts and mixes of every kind.
But a few indigenous breeds in North America have a purer pedigree — at least one has genetic roots in the continent that stretch back 1,000 years or more, according to a new study. These modern North American breeds — including that current urban darling, the Chihuahua — descended from the continent's original canine inhabitants and have not mixed much with European breeds.
"There is ... archaeological and historical evidence that the native peoples of the Americas had dogs," says Peter Savolainen, an evolutionary geneticist at the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and an author of the new study. When humans first came to the Americas from Asia, they're thought to have brought with them dogs, whose descendants populated North and South America for centuries.
But those dogs didn't fare too well once Christopher Columbus got here. "It's known that most of these dogs were eradicated when Europeans arrived in America," says Savolainen. Pathogens the Europeans brought killed humans and dogs alike, he says.
Any canines that survived are thought to have interbred with European dogs over time. Most researchers have assumed that today's dogs would have little trace of their ancient American ancestry.
To find out if that was indeed the case, Savolainen and his colleagues looked at the mitochondrial DNA of a handful of modern breeds with indigenous origins. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited from the mother and remains relatively unchanged over generations. By looking at the mitochondrial DNA sequence, one can get a peek at the ancient maternal ancestry. "You can go back in time as far as tens of thousands of years," Savolainen says.
He and his colleagues looked in particular at the maternal lineage of the Inuit sled dog, the Alaskan malamute, the Greenland dog, the Chihuahua, the Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican hairless dog), Perro Sín Pelo del Peru (Peruvian hairless dog) and a range of strays from North and South America. The scientists compared the DNA sequences of these dogs with those of hundreds of dogs from Europe and Asia.
Savolainen expected to find a strong European influence on these breeds, but he was surprised.
Except for some of the stray dogs and the Alaskan malamute, "they have very little influence of European dogs in these breeds," he says. "So they have been kept pretty pure."
When he and his team compared the sequences of the relatively unchanged breeds with those of 19 ancient dog sequences found across the two American continents, he was even more surprised. One breed — the Chihuahua — had a portion of DNA that was an exact match to that of an ancient dog.
"We have exactly the same unique DNA type in Mexico 1,000 years ago and in modern Chihuahua," Savolainen says. This suggests that at least this particular breed had genetic roots stretching back before the arrival of Europeans.
In addition, most American breeds in the study had a lot in common with present-day dogs from East Asia, he says. This genetic similarity is because the indigenous American breeds descended from the first dogs that traveled from Asia to the Americas.
Maternal ancestry, of course, can't tell the whole story, Savolainen says, and mitochondria trace the genetic lineage only through mothers.
But the evidence does show many modern North American dogs continue to carry a significant genetic signature from their distant past, he says. And that means that, like distinct languages, they're very much the products of the indigenous human cultures that created the breeds.
"These are [a] remaining part of the indigenous cultures — the Indian and Inuit culture — in America," Savolainen says. "And that makes it more important that these populations ... are preserved."
People in North America trace their ancestry back to places all over the world - Asia, Africa, Europe. Many of our canine friends do, too. A new study finds that at least some dogs have been here a very long time.
As NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports, some modern breeds may have descended from animals that accompanied the very first groups of people who migrated from Asia to America.
RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: A quick visit to a dog park can tell you a lot about American dogs. When I visit Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., there are a range of breeds running around.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Teddy, (unintelligible).
CHATTERJEE: There are the popular purebreds, like this beautiful white labrador retriever.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Come here, buddy.
CHATTERJEE: And then there are mixed breeds, like Lola.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: She is a Schnoodle, a schnauzer-poodle mix.
CHATTERJEE: But these dog breeds are relatively recent arrivals. Peter Savolainen is an evolutionary geneticist at the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He says there've been dogs in America for far longer.
PETER SAVOLAINEN: There is both archaeological and historical evidence that the native peoples of America had dogs.
CHATTERJEE: He's the lead author of the new study published this week in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. No one really knows what happened to these ancient dogs. Some must have interbred with all the European dogs that came later. Savolainen wanted to know if any of the ancient dog genes could still be found in modern American dogs. To find out, he and his team decided to look at mitochondrial DNA. Now, that's the DNA inherited only through the mother and changes very little across generations.
SAVOLAINEN: And this means that you can go back in time as far as tens of thousands of years.
CHATTERJEE: They analyzed samples from several of the most traditional types of dogs in North and South America.
SAVOLAINEN: Inuit sled dogs, Greenland dog, Alaskan Malamute, Chihuahua, Mexican hairless dogs, and Peruvian hairless dogs.
CHATTERJEE: All these dogs are associated with cultures that go back way beyond the arrival of Europeans. And when they compared their DNA with that of dogs in Europe, they were very surprised.
SAVOLAINEN: These breeds are indeed almost pure indigenous breeds. They have very little influence of European dogs.
CHATTERJEE: Then they compared the modern dog DNA with that of ancient dogs found in archaeological sites in Alaska and South America. And in the case of the Chihuahua, they found a close match.
SAVOLAINEN: So, we have exactly the same unique DNA type in Mexico 1,000 years ago and in modern Mexican Chihuahua.
CHATTERJEE: They also found that most of these indigenous dogs had a strong genetic resemblance to present day East Asian dogs. Now, he admits that the picture may get more complicated if one looks at the paternal side of inheritance. But he says his findings do show a direct connection between some modern American breeds and the very first dogs that migrated to the Americas from Asia. Adam Boyko of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine agrees.
ADAM BOYKO: Gives us sort of the clearest picture to date as to, you know, whether or not we see any contribution of pre-Columbian Native American dogs in today's dogs.
CHATTERJEE: He says it also shows why scientists should look beyond recognized breeds for signs of ancient DNA. The team also looked at the DNA of feral dogs.
BOYKO: There is a significant component of genetic diversity retained in these semi-feral street dog populations, as well as indigenous breed populations.
CHATTERJEE: And studying that genetic diversity, he says, may tell us more about the history of dogs in America. Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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What?? Bet on common sense in Washington (DC)?
EV proliferation/fast charging combined with (hopefully soon) major upticks in battery capacity and V2H and/or V2G to allow significant early morning load shifting based on EV use profiles, could significantly improve our existing US energy structure.
In the 9 months I've owned my Leaf, I've had many thoughtful questions/discussions about the usefulness of a 60 mile range EV. Most would try an EV IF the range was 100 - 150 miles plus, lots of 15-30 min charge stations and a cost competitive with inexpensive compacts. Tough combination, but likely a natural progression to that end.


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While I haven't tried to make a sourdough raisin bread yet, that idea occurred to me while I was making my latest breads, this week. I'm sure it would be a good mix, but I'll have to build my levain up again, since I used all my countertop levain in yesterday's bread (about 350g).
I still have a culture in the fridge, however, and will take some out to get it going in the warmer kitchen, today.
I made a medium-sized sourdough loaf, and two smaller raisin-cinnamon loaves, Friday. Somewhat ambitious of me, but with mixed results.
Two? You ask. Yes, because my first loaf was a mess. It stuck in the pan and broke at the cinnamon-spread layer when I attempted to get it free of the pan. Very disappointing. I decided to try another while I still had the ingredients on the counter. I wanted to offer Susan a good-looking loaf, Saturday morning. Presentation matters.
I'm trying to determine the best way to make a raisin-cinnamon bread that combines the nicest combination of texture, flavour and structure. I have the flavour down pretty well, and the texture is close, but in most of my efforts, the bread has de-laminated where the layers of cinnamon spread are rolled into the dough. Sometimes just a bit, sometimes more. An elegant structure eludes me somewhat.
My first effort at raisin-cinnamon bread was a recipe from the 300 Best Canadian Bread Machine Recipes book. It combines everything in the machine, but used only a small amount of cinnamon (1 tsp). It didn't make the bread very flavourful. While edible, it wasn't spectacular.
I like more cinnamon, but because it's a yeast inhibitor, I chose to put more (1 Tbsp) into a spread that could be used in a swirl in the bread itself. I tried that in a bread a couple of weeks ago, with modest success. The idea works; the technique needs refinement.
I used molasses instead of sugar in the recipe, but otherwise used the book's basic 1.5 lb. loaf recipe as presented for Friday's loaves.


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Mattias Lindstrom
Lulea Sweden
Eligible for draft:
Trade with Carolina, 2012
203 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
2008-09: Mattias Lindström played seven games with Skelleftea of the Swedish Elite League — scoring once. He played most of the season with Skelleftea's U-20 team, scoring 8 goals with 5 assists and had 46 PIM in 31 games. Lindström played for Team Sweden in the WJC U-18 tournament and had no points with 4 PIM in six games. Chosen in the 3rd round (88th overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft by the Carolina Hurricanes.
2009-10: Lindström suffered an injury during pre-season training and played one game with Skelleftea's U-20 team but re-injured the knee and underwent season-ending knee surgery. He was expected to attend the Hurricanes' conditioning camp in July but was not there.
2010-11: Mattias Lindstrom saw limited ice time with Skelleftea of the Swedish Elite League as well as competing for the club's junior team. Lindstrom averaged less than six minutes in 11 regular season games and was scoreless with a -1 plus/minus with 8 PMs. He saw even less time in the playoffs (just over three minutes per game) but appeared in 9 of Skelleftea's 18 playoff games as Skelleftea reached the Elitserien finals. He had no points or penalties in the playoffs. Lindstrom played 33 games (including playoff games) for Skelleftea's junior team and scored 3 goals with 10 assists and had 42 PMs. While his offensive numbers weren't particularly impressive, the fact that he was able to compete after serious knee surgery the previous season impressed Carolina brass and he was signed to a three-year, entry level contract in June 2011.
2011-12: Lindstrom skated for Tingsryds in Sweden's second league, AllSvenskan. In 34 games he had 3 assists and was minus-nine with 16 penalty minutes. Tingsryd finished 12th in the 14-team league. The Panthers obtained the NHL rights to Lindstrom in January 2012 as part of the four-player trade that sent Evgeni Dadonov to the Hurricanes.
2012-13: Lindstrom played a lower line role for the ECHL's Cincinnati Cyclones in his first season in North America. In 49 regular season games he scored 4 goals with 9 assists and was +1 with 54 penalty minutes. Cincinnati finished first in the North Division and reached the Eastern Conference finals. Lindstrom played in 13 of 17 playoff games and was +1 with 1 assist and 8 penalty minutes.
Talent Analysis
Lindström is a strong winger who plays a physical game and is at his best along the boards and in the corners. He is not particularly fleet of foot, but he uses his size and strength well. Lindstrom takes care of his defensive responsibilities and his hockey sense and puck skills are improving, but he is not much of a scoring threat.
With his first year in North America now behind him, Lindstrom will attempt to climb to the next level and win a job with the Rampage in the AHL. However, with tough competition in place, he may end up back in the ECHL in order to receive extended ice time to help him further acclimate to the North American style of play.


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I didn't catch this until today. Awesome! Definitely a huge step up from the original word clock, especially with the scrolling text thing!
Thank you Riva, didn't notice! I'm working on a small desk clock, only 150mm square, and I think your code is the best I've seen!
All is ready now but I'm facing serieus issues with the light: when using a sticker with a transparante background (so the letters are transparent) than the light is to strong and to much in one bundle (not enough spread) so you can't see the letters any more. Using a sticker with a white background makes it not transparent enough and my leds are almost not getting through... you only see it lighting up a bit... any hints how you handles this part?
where did you get the big stripboard plates ?
The led looks a bit focused. Did you get the diffuse LEDs or not? Diffuse leds can be viewed from a large range of angles. Their plastic housings look rougher than a smooth plastic surface.


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By Chad Waller, NAIA Director of Communications and Sports Information
Pictures courtesy of www.NAIAPictures.com
COLUMBUS, Ga. – (Box Score) Katie Cotta rebounded from her roughest outing to pitch her 16th season shutout and lift top seeded Concordia (Calif.) to an 8-0, six inning run-rule victory over No. 4 Oklahoma City at the 2013 NAIA Softball National Championship final site at the South Commons Softball Complex on Monday. In the 7-6 win Saturday against Reinhardt (Ga.), Cotta allowed her first earned runs since March 30.
"My rise (ball) and changeup were working today," said Cotta. "My team came out and hit the ball and had my back. It was really nice to come out and be the team that we are used to being back at home."
Concordia remains in the winner's bracket and is scheduled to play the winner of No. 6 Williams Baptist (Ark.) and No. 10 Spring Hill (Ala.) Tuesday at 7 p.m. EDT. Oklahoma City next takes on Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) foe No. 2 Lubbock Christian (Texas) Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the loser's bracket. The two teams finished one-and-two with the Lady Chaps winning both the SAC regular season and tournament championships.
Concordia's Hannah Howell smacked her eighth homer of the year to lead off the third inning. Caitrin Debaun then singled to left, went to second on a sacrifice bunt, and came around to score on an RBI-single by Jenna Jorgenson. After three innings, the Eagles led 2-0.
The Eagles put the game out of reach in the fifth inning. With one out and the bases loaded, Emily Craig reached on a hit-by-pitch, which forced home Chanele Dresser. On the next pitch, Annette Merjano (pictured top left) took a 0-0 offering from Oklahoma City pitcher Danielle Fox and hit her first career grand slam. At that point, the lead was too much for Oklahoma City to overcome against one of the best pitchers in the NAIA.
Cotta, who moves to 25-2 on the year, struck out seven Stars, walked one and allowed just two hits. After giving up a lead-off single, Cotta retired 13-straight batters to take control. This game got the 2012 NAIA All-American back on track. She had gone 10-straight appearances (55.0 innings) without allowing an earned run before the outing Saturday. Today, she was in attack mode and held the NAIA's No. 1 hitting team, in terms of total runs, off the scoreboard.
"I stuck to my game plan," said Cotta. "I had to win every pitch and if I took a pitch off, then I would be in the same situation last game and that was unacceptable."
With one out and a runner on third, Jorgenson picked up her second RBI of the game to push the score to 8-0 in the sixth inning.
Jorgenson went 2-for-2 and Debaun was 2-for-4 to lead the nine-hit Concordia attack.
Jamie Rateliff, who started in the circle for the Stars, was hit with the loss to fall to 23-5 on the year. She went 2.1 innings and gave up two runs on three hits.
The championship is a 10-team, double-elimination event hosted by the Columbus Sports Council. This is the 33rd annual championship and takes place in the state of Georgia for the first time in NAIA softball history.
For more information on the national championship, click here.


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Since the founding of the winery in 1973, Cakebread Cellars has focused on making fine Napa Valley wines. They attribute the success of their winery, Cakebread Cellars, to their over 40 years of dedication to quality, consistency and continuity, characteristics that apply equally to the grapes, the wines, the people and the overall operation of the winery.
Plan a trip to Cakebread Cellars on our interactive winery map:
While an appointment is necessary to taste, they are easy to set up by calling us at 800.588.0298. Our staff is very wine knowledgeable and enjoys answering your questions.Wine Education: We offer special educational tastings, see our website for details.
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.cakebread.com or call 800-588-0298.
Cakebread Cellars features four wine clubs; The Bakers Club, the Classic Red Wine Club, the Cabernet Only Club and the White Wine Club. Each receive four or six bottles of wine several times each year. Benefits include invitations to members only events, a special tasting area when visiting the winery and an annual offering from a selection of library wines.
The offer listed below is valid for all Napa Valley residents age 21 and over.
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The Napa Green program is supported by a wide variety of groups including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the University of California. The Napa Valley Vintners, along with Fish Friendly Farming, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa County Farm Bureau and others developed the Napa Green program. Learn more about the program at napagreen.org.
Cakebread Cellars is certified under the Napa Green Winery Program by the Napa County Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Association of Bay Area Government's (ABAG) Green Business Program and completed all the regulatory components needed for environmental sustainability. These components included developing water and energy conservation methods, preventing pollution, and reducing solid waste. In addition to developing sustainable winery practices, this program is set to become the standard for the state of California.
Cakebread Cellars is certified under the Napa Green Certified Land Program. Cakebread Cellars has created and implemented a customized farm plan with measured results that addressed all aspects of its property, vineyard land as well as non-farmed land, including practicing soil conservation, water conservation, stable drainage, riparian corridor enhancement, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement and long-term improvement and sustainability.
Certification - certification is granted by the Napa County Agricultural Commissioners Office of Pesticide Regulation, the Regional Water Quality Control board, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
Cakebread Cellars
Cases: 10
Varietal: Cabernet Franc
Vintage: 2018
Release Date: July - 2021
Appellation: Napa Valley
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Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
(Sulu Kofte)
Kofte ingredients:
400 g regular ground beef
1/4 cup short grain rice, washed, drained
1 egg
1/2 cup flour
1 onion, grated
4-5 tbsp crushed tomatoes, canned
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp butter
2 cups water
Place flour on a large plate. Knead all the kofte ingredients in a bowl. Break off small pieces and give a small ball shape with your palms. Place them in the flour.
Meanwhile, saute the onion with olive oil and butter for a couple minutes in a medium sized pot. Add crushed tomatoes, water, salt and pepper, then bring to boil over medium heat. Flour all the little Kofte, gently drop into the pot and stir slowly. Cook for about 20 minutes over a little bit under medium heat. Sprinkle some chopped parsley on top. Serve this dish with a spoon and Turkish Bread on the side.
3-4 servings.
Meal Ideas:
- Carrot Salad, Eggplant with Veggie Filling and Creamy Pudding.
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Gene-Environment Interaction in Disease and Aging
- Xiaoling Li, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
- Tel 984-287-3484
Fax 919-541-1898
- P.O. Box 12233Mail Drop F2-11Durham, N.C. 27709
Research Summary
Xiaoling Li, Ph.D., heads the Metabolism, Genes, and Environment Group and holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory. The long-term goal of the Metabolism, Genes, and Environment Group is to understand the signal transduction that coordinates the gene-environment interaction in biological processes associated with metabolic homeostasis, and investigate how dysregulation of this interplay contributes to pathogenesis of metabolic diseases and aging.
To achieve this goal, the group focuses on a family of unique protein modification enzymes called sirtuins. Sirtuins are a highly conserved family of NAD+-dependent protein deacetylases and ADP-ribosyltransferases that target histones, transcription factors, co-factors, as well as numerous other key regulators. The NAD+-dependent activities enable sirtuins to monitor cellular energy status and modulate gene transcription, energy metabolism, and genome stability in response to environmental signals. These activities are also important for cell survival in response to various environmental stressors and are required for lifespan extension provided by calorie restriction (CR) in a number of model organisms. Therefore, sirtuins are considered to be essential genetic factors that directly link the environment to animal physiology, providing a unique opportunity to study gene-environment interactions during the processes of disease and aging.
The mammalian genome consists of seven sirtuins, collectively known as SIRT1 to SIRT7. They are expressed in different tissues with distinct subcellular localizations. The Metabolism, Genes, and Environment Group focuses on SIRT1, the most conserved mammalian sirtuin. Using mouse and cultured cells as model systems, the group combines molecular, cellular, and genetic approaches to study the role of SIRT1 in the regulation of metabolism, stress response, reproduction, and aging.
Major areas of research:
- The role of SIRT1 in transcriptional responses, particularly nuclear receptor mediated signaling
- The role of SIRT1 in metabolic diseases associated with aging
- The regulation of SIRT1's activity in response to various environmental, nutritional, and hormonal cues
Current projects:
- Investigate the function of hepatic and intestinal SIRT1 in lipid metabolism
- Study the role of SIRT1 in age-associated metabolic diseases
- Understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the phosphorylation regulation of SIRT1
- Identification of other signaling pathways regulated by sirtuins
Li earned her Ph.D. in biological chemistry from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2002. She was a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Leonard Guarente, Ph.D., at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining NIEHS in 2007. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles in leading biomedical journals.
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