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It's not even out yet, but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is riding a huge wave of good will on the fact that we know it'll have an excellent and ear-wormy soundtrack that'll likely include Fleetwood Mac and The Sweet, Chris Pratt throwing himself around the screen like a young Harrison Ford, and it's got Kurt Russell's facial hair.
Really, what more do you want from a film? More to the point, why wouldn't you want more of that? That's certainly the feeling from director James Gunn, who confirmed in an interview with Complex that a third Guardians of the Galaxy movie is on the way. "I'm trying to figure out what I want to do really, that's all it is. I got to figure out where I want to be, what I want to spend the next three years of my life doing."
"You know, I'm going to make another big movie; is it the Guardians or something else? I'm just going to figure it out over the next couple of weeks," explained Gunn. Did that sound non-committal to you? It sure did to us. Evidently, the arduous process of directing a major blockbuster film, editing it, supervising the huge amount of VFX work and facing down the barrel of a long promotion tour is going to make anyway balk at the prospect of going through that again.
Just look at the way Daniel Craig is back-pedalling all his comments about Bond when asked during the press tour for Spectre, as an example. In any event, we can rest assured that whether or not Gunn is involved, Star-Lord, Baby Groot, Drax, Gamora and Rocket are getting a third volume.
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I found an interesting article over at vnunet about how Microsoft continues to push forward with it's plan to delivery TV over IP in a similar fashion to VOIP.
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You read that right. We've now hit the 90th chapter of Journey. It doesn't seem real, but there it is.
This one centers on Miroku and Sango from Sango's POV. I find her perspective rewarding. She's strong, tough, and has incomparable skills in fighting. And yet, Sango is still undeniably a woman. She has never really hidden from that---and I love that often she uses her womanhood as a strength rather than bemoaning it as a weakness or trying to cut it away from herself. That's sometimes the most rewarding aspect of tackling her character. She has to balance that warrior self with that woman self and make this whole person that makes her Sango. I hope that this chapter captured that.
I will warn people, though. There is a trigger warning for discussion of rape in this chapter. I don't normally get worked up about sticky stuff in my writing because I'm hoping those that read are adult enough to handle most of the more adult-themed elements, but this one topic deserves that mention.
Sango and Miroku have a bit of a dicey road ahead of them in the aftermath of what they've been through in the Fall of Mal Yaska, but I think the pay off down the road will be worth the angst and struggle they endure here. This one is a bit more emotional of a chapter, too. Writing this one was equally challenging and satisfying. At times, some of it just wrote itself and I can't necessarily take credit for it. I just hope that you'll enjoy the finished product.
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34. The following information is available for a product manufactured by Gardenia Corporation:
Per Unit Total
Direct materials $ 62.50
Direct labor $ 47.50
Variable manufacturing OH $ 15.00
Fixed manufacturing OH $ 250,000
Variable selling and admin expenses $ 10.00
Fixed selling and admin expenses $ 55,000
Gardenia has a desired ROI of 16%. It has invested assets of $8,250,000 and expects to produce 2,000 units per year.
Compute each of the following:
1. Cost per unit of fixed manufacturing overhead and fixed selling and administrative expenses.
2. Desired ROI per unit.
3. Markup percentage using the absorption cost approach.
4. Markup percentage using the contribution approach.
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Cost per unit of fixed manufacturing overhead = fixed manufacturing overhead /number of units= $250000/2000 =$125
Cost per unit of fixed selling and administrative expenses = fixed selling and administrative expenses /number of units = $55000/2000 = $27.5
Total fixed cost per unit = $125+$27.5 = $152.5
Total variable cost per unit =Direct material + direct labor + variable ...
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Got up earlylate to make the Regency dance at 2pm, which was fun, if slow (as usual). Lisa may have made a breakthrough on waltzing (ie "all ypou have to do is always walk forward?" which is true in regency, though not in most later waltz), though she still has spinning issues (yet not so much in swing, somehow).
Left early from the Regency to helping out with the Giant Icetowers demo (and finding that despite not being on the schedule, the Zendo demo ran an hour earlier; was guiltily glad that it was left off the schedule, thus giving me a good excuse for mising it, so I could make one last dance: wouldn't have volunteered for it if I'd realzided it was cross scheduled against regency dance), which was fun -- Zarf and I played in the first game, and after that it mostly ran on its own, with enough intrest that I neither needed nor felt justified in playing. I spent my time either giving advice (rules or strategy; if nobody else has done so, I should write a strategy guide for Icetowers -- it's suprisingly richer than is obvious) or letting Ben Newman talk my ear off about Hidden Worlds, the icehouse space exploration game he's working on. After Lisa showed up, Ben led us to a surprisingly good Thai resturant he'd discovered (though I was disappointed when my curry had bean sprouts, not bamboo shoots).
After we got back, Lisa and I did a lot of obligitory party crawling (hilight: definately the lj/blogger party), ending at the filk, and eventually to bed. The filk was really good, and very non-chitter-chattery, though this was partially because Yaakov, and to a lesser extent, YT did a decent job of pushi ng things back to filk when they tried to drift.
We got up early (9:30ish) with enough time to make Neil Gaiman's reading, of Nancy's Boys. Was good.
After, I had a bit of time to hang out (I went to see Bill Roper's concert, among other stuff) before meeting drcpunk to go to the A&E gathering, which was an amzing bust -- ILee and Bary forgot to show up on time, so Lisa and I showed at 1:10, and stayed 'till 1:25; Barry shpowed up, remembering, at 1:30, and we're told someone else showed some time before or after this. Since nobody else showed, it was probably just as well, though.
Then we went to the Fantasy of Manners panel, which was a blast. Drcpunk took good notes, while I took bad ones, and apparently destroyed them accidentally somewhen in the last day.
After some more hanging out, I went to the Filkado, which was lots of fun, and very silly, while being about the right length (ie, an hour long). Afterwards, Lisa picked me up and a big posse of us went to dinner (Lee and Barry Gold, YT, Lisa, Maureen S. O'Brian, er, um, others) at the large Move'n'pick, which was expensive, but very good -- we had a prime rib (nicely medum rare), salmon filet, ant some oysters, as well as clam chowder and yummy desert.
Aftrerwards, I went gaming for a while, since it was still early, and was taught Ticket to Ride, which I'm going to have to own. Very fun, and I cam in second pretty much only because I made a single mistake.
Then Lisa picked me up, and after visiting the autographedcat kitanzi, gorgeousgary, and Sheryl party, let Lisa pull me upstairs to get a Pan Galactic Gargle-Blaster from the Double-exposure party, which was dangeous when first made, awful (yet still more than half made) once the dry ice had boiled out, and actually quite nice perhaps an hour later (it lost acidicy, I think). And blue.
Then we filked, with very few, if any, parties in betwen. Filking was good, though this was the first crowded day -- I think a lot of people arrived on Friday, or otherwise just took it easy. It was also fairly polite, and I got a song in without undue difficulty duroing the heaviest time. OTOH, it actually got harder after the first wave emptied out -- - think a bunch of people failed to recalibrate their pushiness for the emptier room, or did recalibrate, for a room with 5 active performers, not one with 15+. Late, it got more polite (mostly), and I got a nice slew of songs in; late, we went and filked in the Arisia Party/Mini Arisia (with badges and everything) prior to playing in night1stalker's exclellent micro-WoD LARP (divide into bad and good vampires, fight with RPS until only one side survives), having icecream at the mini-ice cream social, heading to breakfast with Ben Newman, and then to bed.
Got up just in time to make it to the pre-tourney-Icehouse Demo only a bit late, demoing for two new players and one semi-veteran. Then the Icehouse tournament started, drafting Zarf so we could have exactly 8 players. I did fairly well in the perliminary rounds, winning two games (which with four player games, garunteed me a seat in the final), though not as well as Cthulia, who won 3 of her four games. We moved out by the con suite for the final, since I'd spotted very icehouse-suitable tables there earlier, and chose to play two games to decide the tournament. As it turned out, I won, with a very strong (and almost, but for my hesitation, 30 point) first game, and a not as wide loss to Cthulia in the second one as her loss to me in the first. Was amazing fun, with a very different feel from the Origins Icehouse tournament (which is also fun, mind).
Ater that, Ben got Cthulia and YT into another Hidden Worlds playtest with slightly different rules, and I stayed in that as long as I could, then raced to mete up with Lisa in the Dealer's room, meeting with the help from our phones in the fan lounge. We headed for dinner, and unsurprisingly, somehow, ended up joining and acreting with Maureen, tigerbright, teddywolf, bercilakslady, happyfunpaul, Eugene Reynolds (of A&E and NYRSF), and two more guys I don't actually know, coopting three tables to make a cloverleaf thing we could have actual floating conversations in. Diner happened, conversations happened, with me bouncing between the Lisa+Eugene show on my left and the Gingi+Maureen converaation on my right. Was fun.
After dinner, Eugene, Lisa, and I continued our conversation for a few hours, hanging out, talking about the new indie RPG: With Great Power, other similar RPGs, and other topics. For a while, I relaxed in the game room, playing San Juan, among others, while Lisa and Eugene chatted and played a gme of Carcasonne. Eventually, however, we made it to the filkrooms.
That's right. I said filkrooms; this was the first night when the filk was really, at least while it was there, big enough to bifrictrate, into one room with Kanef, the Golds, Harold Feld, and enough others to make up the difference (about 12 in all while I was there), and the other the "big filkroom." However, the atmosphere was better than Saturday night throughout, with no noticable to me examples of even semi-filkhogging, and a very easy to break into filkroom even in the big room (which was where we mostly stayed).
The only bad spot was one time we came back into the main filkroom and found that it had devolved into general public chatter -- with people talking back and forth, but nothing resembling a performance for about ten minutes (partially, I'm convinced, because that kind of genral converaatipn is a lot harder to insert a song into than a normal chaos. After a bit of private grumbling, I got up and asked if I was in the right place, and got back "this is a southern-style filk, where a good story is considered as good as a song", but the songs started up again. I had a lazy night of it -- the occasional song or accompanyment, but a lot of the time used to work on this entry and listen. Eventually, we declared the filk done, at around 4:30; which is a bit early, but not as much for Sunday on a Worldcon (Saturday is really the late night). And maybe an hour to half an hour later, it's time for me to sleep.
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In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, it is widely agreed that the character of Jane Bennet is, in all aspects, the perfect 19th century woman. She has beauty, charm, manners, a little intelligence (but not too much), and is very loving and supportive. All of these qualities are said to show the men around her that she would make a good wife. As many discussions about this story have already said, this shows a sexist ideal of the time, that women are only good for wives. However, along the same standards we find a character such as Charles Bingley, who is thought to be the perfect gentlemen of the time. Bingley is remarkably handsome, affable, rich, and extraordinarily mannerly. All of these characteristics throw the Bennet house of women into a frenzy over who will be fortunate enough to marry Bingley. While this may show a certain dominance/subordinance relationship due to the women clamoring for the hand of a "good man", it also simplifies a man's place as to be rich, handsome, and strong. Thereby, all men who are not these things are judged according to what they do have to offer in terms of these three or so categories.
In the very beginning of the novel, the Bennet girls' mother says, when asked if Bingley is married, "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" (p3, Austen). This shows a simplicity of role for a female, but also an undermining of any personality a man may have. Nothing is known about Bingley except that he is rich, yet Mrs. Bennet is already prepared to allow him to marry any of her daughters. Albeit she is being made fun of for this mindset, she continues to focus solely on her daughters marrying the most handsome, rich man they can find.
It can be said that in a relationship such as this, that the woman is simply a pawn in the game, trying to move up in social status. This is rather sexist. However, at the same time men are presented as only being good for bringing a woman up in social class and providing her with wealth. Which role is worse for the individual is arguable, but it can be assumed that either person would most likely be rather unhappy in such an arranged marriage. The man, who had known nothing of the woman except her looks and lineage, would most likely grow tired and resentful of his wife. This can be seen in the character of Mr. Bennet, who continuously throws sarcastic barbs toward his wife and children, most of whom he believes are "silly and ignorant" (p2). This possibly could have been prevented had the Bennets not followed standard conventions of the time and married a woman he did not know very well.
On the same point, Mrs. Bennet can assuredly not be happy with her husband. The only way someone can be happy while another person is actively degrading him/her is to ignore it, which is not an effective way to deal with the problem. This may also have been avoided had she not followed standard conventions of marriage and courtship. However, to judge the decisions of characters 150 years ago would be unfair. To a certain extent, people are all free to choose whatever path they want. However, some paths at certain points in history are more difficult than others.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 4 seconds Finally, I want to talk to you a little bit about the performance of Shor's algorithm. I have a plot here showing the performance of the algorithm compared to the number we want to factor. So the X axis, this is the length of the number we want to factor in bits, so 100 bits, 1000 bits, 10,000, 100,000, it's a logarithm scale. The vertical axis is the amount of time it takes us to factor and that's also a logarithmic scale, so here in the middle we have 1 year, down here at the bottom we have 1 second, up at the top is about the age of the universe.
Skip to 0 minutes and 35 seconds Right now, there is one line on this, this black line, that's the number field sieve we've been talking about, the classical algorithm that does the factor and you can see that it goes up very steeply. There is one blue point on it, is the current record for how large a number we can factor using the classical algorithm. It's 768 bits and you can see that from there getting to maybe a 1000 bits might be okay, but going from 1000 bits to 2000 bits means going from maybe a year's worth of execution time to up to the lifetime of the universe, it's a big deal.
Skip to 1 minute and 11 seconds Well, we talked earlier about Moore's law and the advance of classical technology as well, so would that give us a big advantage? Let's say we used a thousand times as much computing power, how would that look? Well, it would look something like this, curve is the same shape and it doesn't move very far to the right, so it's still a big problem even the apparently exponential gain of Moore's law doesn't get us a big improvement in the overall performance of the classical factoring algorithm. So, what about Shor's algorithm? Let's put Shor's algorithm on here and compare it. Shor's algorithm, instead, would look something like this. On this log-log plot, it's a straight line, it's a polynomial number.
Skip to 1 minute and 55 seconds Now, you noticed though that I took away the time on the vertical axis, how long does it actually take? That actually depends on a number of factors. You may have heard that a quantum computer can factor a number in seconds, that's not actually true; the performance actually depends on several factors. The first, of course, is actually the clock speed of the quantum computer itself. How fast can we execute each individual operation? So let's put in several curves here. Let's say, you can execute only one operation per second. Up here, factoring a large number can still take thousands of years, thousand times faster than that, it still might take a year.
Skip to 2 minutes and 43 seconds At a million times faster than that, 1 million gates per second, now we are down into the seconds and we are down into some really good performance here and the gigahertz might be even faster, so the clock performance actually has a bigger impact on the performance. What about the architecture? The architecture of the computer actually also has a big impact. You can see here three different lines and those represent differences in the internal structure of the quantum computer itself as well as how well we match to the modular exponentiation algorithm to the system itself.
Skip to 3 minutes and 22 seconds And so you can see, we go from a line like this to a line like that, to a line like that, so you can see that ultimately we have these three big factors that impact the performance, we have the clock speed of the system itself, our ability to make good algorithm that executes the modular exponentiation part and finally the architecture of the quantum computer itself. So when somebody tells you that a quantum computer can factor a number in seconds, ask them those three questions; how fast is your computer, what's the architecture of it and what algorithm are you using to actually execute the arithmetic.
Putting It All Together -Big factors that impact the performance
Today's best classical computers and algorithm would require the lifetime of the universe to factor a number that is 2000 bits long. Even the apparently exponential gain of Moore's law does not get us a big improvement in the overall performance.
Can a quantum computer factor a large number in seconds? Ultimately we have these three big factors that impact the performance, we have the clock speed of the system itself, our ability to make good algorithm that executes the modular exponentiation part and finally the architecture of the quantum computer itself.
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では、量子コンピューターは因数分解を瞬時に解くことができるのでしょうか? システムのパフォーマンスに影響を与える主な要因は、システム自体のクロック速度、冪剰余を実行する優れたアルゴリズムと量子コンピュータのアーキテクチャの3点が主に挙げられます。
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Original compositions like the title track display a respect for deviant form, stretching the edges and sharpening the contours in fresh ways. "Dragon Fly" segues from a blunt opening assault into sparse, sugary melodicism and then cycles back, gradually opening connections over time that make the abrupt transition seem more natural and unforced. The piece never really feels "comfortable" (and Sharpe relays his childhood fear of dragonflies in the liner notes, which helps explain things a bit), but that's not the point. Unfortunately, like several other tracks on the record, it simply fades out instead of ever coming to a point of resolutionor even conclusion.
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1. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv May 9, 2019 2:15 PM (in response to oneilv)1 person found this helpful
Further to the above, VMware recommended to disable the igbn driver and use the native igbo driver.
We made these changes on one host and the host experienced disconnections almost every night with the management network going down and we had to manually restart the management network every time to get connectivity to the VC restored.
Raising this with VMware they still don't have an ETA for the a fix and they along with Dell, have advised that they now have a test driver available which is not yet released for production.
Due to the long delays in this issue, we have decided to roll back to the old igbn driver version 4.1 as it seems to be more stable compared to version 1.4.7
Cheers, Onil
2. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1vm7user Jun 17, 2019 4:23 AM (in response to oneilv)
We also have PSOD issue with I350 and VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update02-13006603.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A00.iso
3. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Jun 18, 2019 6:36 PM (in response to vm7user)
Are you running the cards using the igbn drivers? If yes what version?
4. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1anvanster Jun 18, 2019 9:09 PM (in response to vm7user)
Can you please post the screenshot of the PSOD. It might be helpful.
5. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Jun 20, 2019 3:58 PM (in response to vm7user)
vm7user can you please share a screenshot of the PSOD? Seems like you are running ESXi 6.7 Update2 while we are seeing this issue on 6.7 Update1
7. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Jun 27, 2019 11:47 PM (in response to vm7user)
Thanks vm7user
Did VMware GSS get back to you as to what caused the PSOD? Or did they confirm it was the same igbn driver?
8. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Jul 16, 2019 4:31 PM (in response to oneilv)
Hi All,
Please note that VMware have come back with the below.
PSOD on boot multiple hosts
The Intel igbn driver in combination with VMWare's internal network handling has resulted in this scenario
The codelevel fix has been released for in 6.5u3 and is slated for 6.7U3 which is pending release shortly.
vm7user - maybe this is impacting you too. Have you hear back from VMware at all reg the PSOD's?
Cheers, Onil
9. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1danf201110141 Aug 8, 2019 7:52 AM (in response to oneilv)
I have recently migrated two servers from 5.5->6.5->6.7, and the two of them are near identical with the exception of one card having an Intel I350 adapter. The server with the I350 adapter became very unstable and any serious sustained network traffic would crash the management interface.
This was troublesome as vCenter was also on this server (it's been moved to the more stable server) and everything became unresponsive. Restarting the management network via console did not help.
One thing that would always trigger it is a full backup (not an incremental backup) as it would transfer a few TB off of the host. It would always crash about 4-5 hours in the job necessitating a host restart as the management network would not reset.
I think perhaps part of the issue in our case is the onboard networking requires the igb driver and the I350 wanted the igbn driver. I've blacklisted the igbn driver and now ESXi is using the igb driver for everything.
I'm currently monitoring the backup but it's now in the verifying stage so I don't believe it will crash the management interface any more.
Hopefully 6.7u3 will be released soon - I will try unblocking the igbn driver then to see if the problem is resolved.
10. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Aug 8, 2019 3:39 PM (in response to danf201110141)1 person found this helpful
Intel have released a new driver for igbn, please see the below link for it. Read through the release notes and see if you can test this on one of your ESXi hosts.
You will also need to upgrade the firmware on the Intel cards to ensure interop with this driver version.
Give this a crack and hopefully it fixes your issue. Or else wait for vSphere 6.7 Update3 as they are making changes in the way network is handled.
Intel i350 Driver igbn 1.4.10 https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI67-INTEL-IGBN-1410&productId=742
Keep us posted with results if you do try the above driver.
11. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1mweissen Sep 9, 2019 2:22 AM (in response to oneilv)
We have seen the same PSOD about 3-4 times since April on a Dell PowerEdge R740xd. Just applied the update and will keep you posted.
12. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1cruz878 Sep 29, 2019 7:54 AM (in response to oneilv)
Different HW than OP, but I am also seeing similar on 6.7u2. Would like to be kept abreast of any developments/fixes.
I posted full logs and additional detail of my error on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/dan3k3/pf_exception_14_in_world_2481950vmnic00tx_ip/
13. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1oneilv Sep 29, 2019 11:40 AM (in response to mweissen)
Hi mweissen,
Has the host network been stable since you updated the driver to the latest version?
Any issues or feedback you can provide to us on this?
Cheers, Onil
14. Re: igbn driver issue on ESXi 6.7 Update1mweissen Sep 30, 2019 12:12 AM (in response to oneilv)
Hello oneilv!
The system has not PSOD'ed since we applied the patch - for 20 days straight now. But in the past we had already seen uptimes of up to 40 days before it crashed. So it's looking good until now, but I cannot say 100% sure that it's fixed for good.


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Complete Network is passionate about empowering small and midsized businesses with trustworthy IT strategy, support, and security. For over two decades, we've been helping companies achieve greater productivity by eliminating their network troubles and streamlining their technology to provide optimal efficiency. We're driven by a philosophy of always doing what's right for the client, whether that's taking full responsibility for their technology or providing flexible support that relieves pressure from in-house IT staff. In our many years of service to New York's Capital Region and Charlotte, North Carolina, we've won several awards and distinctions, which includes being honored as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country multiple years in a row by Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 5000 list.
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Jeremy Wanamaker, CEO
Jeremy is a veteran of the technology services fields, having founded his first IT consulting company in New York's Capital Region well over a decade ago. After meeting Benjamin Hicok in 2011, the two of formed a fast partnership and created Complete Network Support (CNS), one of the predecessors of Complete Network.
By assembling a team of top engineering and sales talent, Jeremy and Benjamin grew CNS into the premier information technology services firms in the Albany area. CNS earned accolades from both clients and the media for its high-value IT consulting and support services. This included publications in the Capital Region like the Albany Business Review, as well as national media such as Inc. magazine, who recognized CNS as one of the country's fastest growing private businesses several years in a row.
Since Complete Network Support acquired Charlotte's Waypoint Solutions Group in 2017, Jeremy has served as Complete Network's CEO, overseeing company operations while continuing to play a guiding role in the technology strategy of Complete Network clients. Jeremy is a leader in the Matthews, NC chapter of Trail Life USA and enjoys mountain biking and hiking the high country of North Carolina with his family.
Benjamin Hicok, COO
Benjamin Hicok is passionate about partnering with entrepreneurs and executives and helping them leverage the best technologies to improve their businesses. From helping corporate clients increase revenue with happier, more productive employees, to working efficiently for Complete Networks' not-for-profit clients so they can make the world a better place, Benjamin brings his deep enthusiasm for technology and his passion for service to every task at Complete Network.
Ben is a co-founder of Complete Network and has helped grow the company from just three employees to more than thirty employees today. In previous lives, Ben led teams for telecom and technology training companies and won several awards for his business achievements, though he is most proud of his contributions to Complete Network. This includes helping the Complete Network team make the MSPMentor 501 list 6 consecutive times, and for the company being recognized by the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest growing private businesses for 3 straight years.
Ben serves as the Complete Network Chief Operating Officer and is currently focused on providing the best possible IT strategy, support, and security to the company's clients in New York and North Carolina. Ben enjoys spending time outdoors in the Adirondacks, hiking and fishing with his family.


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Retro Student Reviews by Jillian Heise and Her Students
When I asked Donalyn Miller how old was considered retro for a Retro Book Review, and she responded, "18 months," I was surprised (as were a few other people standing next to me at MRA). But then I started to think a more about it. In today's society and the pace at which knowledge and information are gained and shared, retro maybe doesn't seem so old anymore. Typically I think the term would harken back to an older (possibly less complicated?) time, but perhaps, as often happens with words, that definition is changing and evolving. In my classroom library I have over 1,300 books for students to choose from. Many of those are some of the newest or most recent titles, some even advanced copies that students can read before a book is published, but there are some gems hidden in there. My students (and often I) tend to gravitate toward the sparkliest, newest, and most exciting of these, but how many good books would we miss if we never went back to unearth some of the "retro" titles? How many recommendations or award winners or just plain TBR pile books are older that we haven't gotten to yet because new recommendations and awards and piles take their place? Too many to count. However, sometimes it's really nice to look at that overflowing bookshelf and be reminded of a title that was recommended by a friend, or a student, or a publication, that I really wanted to read, and remember that feeling of/reason for wanting to read that book. So let's not forget about those "retro" books. Let's not let them remain hidden in that never-ending TBR pile of forgotteness, let's find them and read. Who's with me? I know some of my students are.
Here are the gems some of my students have recently discovered on my bookshelves. My students write quick responses after they read a book to authentically respond and share their thoughts, feeling, opinions, reactions, recommendations, connections, and ideas about a book while fresh in their heads. We're lucky to get some great recommendations on titles that may have been missed, and they learn how to think critically about their response to a book and articulate it for someone else (isn't that what we all do with books?). However, I recently realized that I want them to have a broader audience in mind beyond our classroom, so I've been collecting some of their quick responses for my book blog. When looking for a "retro" book to post about, I realized that I had several student responses/reviews of books that perhaps shouldn't be missed. So, without further rambling (sorry – it can't be helped when I start talking books), I share with you a few 8th grade student-written "retro" reviews.
CRANK by Ellen Hopkins (October 5, 2004)
The book that I have recently read was the CRANK novel by Ellen Hopkins. The reason why I picked that book was because the front cover looked artistic. Also because I heard from some people that it was unique, and I like unique books. CRANK has a lot of emotions that go around. For me I could not stop reading; I could not put the book down because it was so good. Many crazy things happened in the book that will make your jaw drop. CRANK is a book that has many realistic problems that can happen to people in reality. I would rate it 5 stars because it's a very interesting book and I feel a lot of people would enjoy reading it.
THE STRANGE CASE OF ORIGAMI YODA by Tom Angelberger (March 1, 2010)
The book The Strange Case of Origami Yoda is one of the best books I read this year. I would give this a book four out of five stars. The theme is you can't judge people by how they look or act because you never know they might be helpful to you. My favorite person in this book is Origami Yoda because he gives good or even great advice to people that ask him questions. My least favorite person is Harvey because he doesn't believe in Yoda. I would recommend it 6th and maybe 7th because it is about 6th graders. But this book is really good and is one of the best books I read this year with Th1rteen R3asons Why (October 18, 2007).
I WILL SAVE YOU by Matt de la Peña (October 12, 2010)
The book I recently finished was I Will Save You by Matt De La Pena. I would rate this book five stars. I started to read this book because my wonderful teacher recommended me to read another book by Matt because the first book I read by him I really enjoyed. After finishing the book I was glad that she told me to read it because it turned out to be a very good book and I really enjoyed it like the last book I read that was written by him, Ball Don't Lie (March 13, 2007). In my opinion, Matt de la Peña is a very good author and writes good books that many people could relate to in different ways. The book left me surprised in some parts. It was really sweet but dramatic at the same time. I plan to read another book by him soon and hope to end it with a good feeling and same impression of the other books I finished by him.
Jillian Heise is a lover of shenanigans – both the word itself and the author-related antics. She teaches 7th and 8th grade Language Arts at the Indian Community School of Milwaukee, which is a good name for the school, because it's a school for Native American Indian children in Milwaukee. Presumably, she there professes on a daily basis her love for her brothers (both biological and bonus), fictional boys (of the Noah Shaw and Four variety), literature and the Oxford comma. I mean "[comma] and the Oxford comma." When presented with the task of finding a favorite thing, she will often find herself in a conundrum as picking favorites leaves too many awesome options out. This applies to books, students, countries, words…pretty much everything. She has a favorite brother, though. No doubt. Follow Jillian at @heisereads on Twitter and check out her amazing blog at heisereads.com. Right now. Go do that. Then come back and comment on her fantastic post.
*Jillian's Note: This bio was ghostwritten by Brian Wyzlic, my sister classroom teacher, bonus brother, and writer of entertaining Nerdy bios. [I will never give up my Oxford comma.]


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The Runaway Jury
The Runaway Jury
In 1979, a boy in my home room was found dead in a schoolyard, with
six rocks the size of quarters stuffed down his throat. I didn't
kill Johnny Pius. But my brother and two friends and I were near
the school that night, and when the police didn't find any better
suspects --- although there were several --- they pulled my brother
off his bike a week after the murder and took him to the
office of the homicide squad. There, with a lot of encouragement,
he confessed, only to deny everything as soon as my mother and I
There was no physical evidence against us. Really, there were no
witnesses with solid testimony. But it didn't matter. On Long
Island, in those years, you couldn't put the police on trial ---
juries were so devoted to their homicide detectives that they
produced convictions in more than 90% of the county's murder
trials. Suffolk County homicide detectives probably had the highest
conviction rate in the nation during those years.
In l98l, Jesse Kornbluth wrote a two-part magazine piece about the
case that showed the inadequacy of the police investigation --- and
the very good possibility that innocent people were convicted.
Later, there were investigations of that police department. As for
me, I'm still in jail, still fighting to prove my innocence.
Many people have told me that had it not been for the negative
local publicity, the result of my trial would have been different.
To this day, the lawyers still say that the outcome was decided
when we lost the motion to move the trial to another county. Others
have said that if my name was Kennedy, none of this would have
The bottom line --- intentionally or not, my jury was
While the police department was very much on trial in my case, the
tobacco industry is on trial in Grisham's book. A jury is selected
in Mississippi to hear the case of a widow whose husband died of
lung cancer. On this jury are all manner of average citizens,
except that one juror, Nicholas, a law school dropout, has managed
to penetrate county records, get a fictitious name added to the
jury roll, and then have that non-person be selected to hear the
case. The tobacco industry goes to great lengths to influence the
jury, even outright bribing a few jurors. There's no dramatic
cross-examination; no heartwrenching testimony.
For once, lawyers play a small role in Grisham's tale. Instead, the
focus is on Rankin Fitch and his nemesis, Marlee, who also happens
to be Nicholas' girlfriend. Marlee and Nicholas have hatched a plot
to get even with the tobacco industry. Fitch is the guy behind the
scenes, a master manipulator with unlimited funds from Big Tobacco,
and he will do anything to win. He is not one of the lawyers, but
this is his eighth tobacco trial and he has never lost.
And then comes the plot twist, which I won't spoil for you.
THE RUNAWAY JURY is timely if only because it fits neatly into the
current debate on litigation reform and the limitation of huge
punitive awards in product liability cases. Reading it, I had
trouble figuring out whether the larger point is that smoking is
dangerous, the jury system is contemptible, or that big business
will go to any length to crush any opposition to profits. Surely,
verdicts have been bought before, and the investigation of jurors
in civil trials is not unheard of, although it may border on the
unethical. None of this is new.
What Grisham's book best illustrates is jury tampering, and the
conduct of a jury which cannot follow instructions. This leaves one
wondering just how corrupt the jury system is, and what impact this
has on the manner in which we dispense justice in this
In both civil and criminal trials, jurors are instructed not to
discuss the case. They are reminded to keep an open mind. They are
ordered not to deliberate until all the evidence has been
Do they really do this, and if not, why are they unable to follow
simple instructions?
Who in America believes that the jury in the O.J. Simpson trial ---
already the most publicized courtroom event in recent memory ---
did not discuss the case prior to the start of
And when O.J. tried on those gloves, don't you think the jury
discussed it?
Who wouldn't be influenced by that kind of testimony as it
In this sense, juries corrupt themselves.
But there are a number of ways that juries are corrupted. Jury
tampering in the form of purchased votes ---- as Grisham
illustrates here --- is only one. A less prominent theme in THE
RUNAWAY JURY but one which nonetheless plays a major role in any
big trial is the influence of the media; a community saturated by
one-sided publicity about a trial is unlikely to yield a fair and
impartial Jury. Additionally, the conduct of the attorneys can be a
factor in influencing a jury's verdict.
But there is a balancing force --- as unsettling in its own way as
the power of the mighty.
Most trial lawyers will tell you that juries are completely
unpredictable, that selecting a jury is a roll of the dice, that
you can't predict what they'll decide. And so, for completely
irrational reasons, it is increasingly possible that a jury could
run away with a verdict. Perhaps this is why most civil cases are
settled out of court, and most defendants plead guilty. They, like
the characters in Grisham's book, fear the Runaway Jury.
--- Michael Quartararo
The Runaway Jury
- Publication Date: November 30, -0001
- Genres: Fiction
- Mass Market Paperback: 550 pages
- Publisher: Dell Publishing


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Do you find, that as you get older you're starting to be more and more like your mom or your grandma? As a teenager I would have rather died than acknowledged this, but now, I'm embracing it. I can spot myself doing/being different things that majorly resonate with my mum and/or my grandma.
To start things off here's a list of reasons why I'm turning into my grandma:
1. I open any present carefully, not necessarily because there might be a fragile item inside, but because I want to save the wrapping paper! I actually have some wrapping paper that my grandma saved in the 70s – proof is in the pictures above…nuts!
2. When my toothpaste is running low I cut it in half and scrape the rest out with my toothbrush (this might be one of the weirdest habits:)
3. I have a box full of buttons (one of the most special things was to inherit my grandma's collection of buttons when she passed away).
4. I'm inspired to start making more of my own clothes. She made all her own and her children's clothes – winter coats and all! (I think it'll be a looong while before I'm brave enough to attempt winter coats:)
5. I knit. (And oh boy did my granma knit! She was a machine)
Some might find realising they're turning into their grandma terrifying. I don't – my 'mummi' is one of my heroes!
– Hanna
Ps. Sorry about the silence over the last weeks – life is taking over at the moment and making it so hard to keep on top of posting! However, we're still managing to keep fairly active over in Instagram. If you're a grammer find us under->
@hannaelinab , @celestemichelle , @sarahbelfrancis


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The International Standardization Organisation (ISO) announced energy efficiency standards for buildings.
It has been a while since ISO expressed its commitment to contribute to the global fight against climate change. ISO 14001, for instance, was established as an Environmental Management System (EMS) certification in enterprises and various businesses. At the World Energy Congress organized in Rome in November 2007, there was a session on the role of International Standards in the supporting and development of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources. The participants concluded that "a strategic partnership between the [World Energy Council (WEC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), ISO and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)] had been initiated and would be pursued in order to identify priorities for industry and governments and boost the production of globally relevant International Standards." (Source).
About only a year later, ISO took this initiative rather seriously and now aims one of the single most GHG-intensive end-usages: energy consumption of buildings (read press release). "ISO 23045:2008, Building environment design – Guidelines to assess energy efficiency of new buildings, provides energy-related requirements for the design process, or to achieve targeted values of energy efficiency for new buildings" is the complete name of the standard.
This new standard is powerful because of its cold logic: energy efficiency (in buildings) is a way of saving money, saving the planet and fighting energy dependency. Creating these standards enable a durable "green" market to be created.
Cleaner, cooler, fitter.
The way in which standards create new markets for environmental goods and services is rather straightforward. In a sentence, when you have an ISO certification, you have something that others do not demonstrably have, hence the added value on your investment. Without standards, one has to rely on ad hoc appraisals of a building's global energy efficiency, for instance, whereas standards reduce transaction costs, insure a certain degree of quality and oust-out wannabe greens from the building market.
As with any other standard, such as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, the devil is in the details. It is not clear how exactly the energy efficiency of the building is appraised. Does it rely on best practice or on similar buildings? What are the thresholds? Is there a need for third-party monitoring, validation and measuring? Regarding GHGs, is there a qualitative analysis of the energy sources?


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There is a new accessory brand in the radio control market and it's not for your car, truck, drone or even boat; it's for YOU! Axtion Brands has been launched by RC Driver magazine Editor-in-Chief Greg Vogel and the first product line offered by the new business are sunglasses with a safety rating. There are four styles right now for general car, boat, flying use and one blue-blocker style specifically for flying.
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This is the Black Ghost Knife I've had for 2 years now. He is approx 25cm long, and not afraid to come out when it's feeding time. As it happens, the Blood Parrots are not afraid either, and will happily snatch food from the much bigger Ghost Knife!
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It's usually caused by an infection with a type of Staphylococcal aureas bacteria. The bacteria release poison (toxins) that cause the skin to blister and peel.
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Academic journal article British Journal of Canadian Studies
The Canadian Department of Justice, and the Completion of Confederation 1867-78
Article excerpt
Jonathan Swainger, The Canadian Department of Justice, and the Completion of Confederation 1867-78 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000), viii + 167pp. Cloth. £48.95. ISBN 0-7748-0792-X.
Jonathan Swainger has written an important book which draws to our attention the importance of 1878 as a dividing line in Canadian constitutional history. Goldwin Smith once remarked that it would need the pen of Voltaire to impart a touch of liveliness to the British North America Act. The legal and administrative implications of that text present a considerable challenge to any author, and Swainger is to be congratulated on his treatment. Broadly, he has approached the subject through a series of themes, examining the origins of the Department and the way in which it operated, concentrating on its attitude to the prerogative of mercy, the administration of penitentiaries, and appointments to the Bench. By his choice of 1867 to 1878 as a single period of study, Swainger demonstrates that the Mackenzie government was something more than a disorganised interlude between two periods of Macdonaldian nation-building. Indeed, we see an unbending John A. in these pages, capable of agreeing with a trial judge that a murderess should go to the gallows because she was conducting a relationship with a black man. …


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We can't really talk about the second issue of Deathstroke without a discussion of its cover. I mean, look at this thing — it's awesome. It makes it seem like the issue inside's going to feature Deathstroke vs. the Transformers, or maybe Deathstroke battling his way through a level from Mega Man 7. Simon Bisley (of Lobo fame) may be my favorite cover artist working at DC right now, and that's saying a lot. This is the kind of frontpiece that would have made me beg my parents to buy me this book 20 years ago, and even now it's got a style that convinces me to purchase a series I might have otherwise overlooked.
Of course if my parents had bought me this comic, they'd be absolutely disgusted with what they saw inside. But this seems like a good time to invoke Will Smith's axiom about parents. A lot of people aren't going to like Deathstroke because it's too violent. Well, okay. I think that's a perfectly legitimate complaint for a lot of DC books — Tom Tomorrow argued as much with Green Lantern Corps, and I complained of it myself in a review of Nightwing — but when it comes to Deathstroke, saying the book is violent is like saying Freddie Mercury's a good singer. Duh. And truthfully, I kind of love the violence in this book. It's so over-the-top that you can't take it seriously. In pages six and seven, Deathstroke decapitates, impales or otherwise dismembers like ten people in endlessly creative, brutal ways. In the climactic scene of this book, some dude is cut in half by a helicopter blade. This isn't gore, it's a cacophonous symphony of bloodshed.
I'd really like to know how this book came about at DC — whether it was conceived by editorial or by writer Kyle Higgins himself. If it's the former, I wonder if Higgins took the assignment and decided the best way to do it was to make the book basically unbelievable in its murderousness. I hope that's the case, because no one can/should take this seriously.
In Deathstroke #2, our titular mercenary pursues an underworld connection who sent him on a bad job in the first issue. The "villain" of the piece (that's a relative term) has decided to send an army of hired guns to take down the protagonist in a battle royale on a Los Angeles freeway, but of course that's not going to work. He's Deathstroke. The whole point of this book is that no one can really take him out. I'd say he's the best he is at what he does, but that would be straying too far into another company's territory.
That does make me wonder, though — at some point, this book will have to put Deathstroke up against an opponent that he can't brush off so easily. It's cool that Higgins is building him up by having him fight all these scrubs, but at some point somebody's got to test him. That will likely be some kind of metahuman/superhero. I'm honestly kind of hoping it's Superboy, since our hero's daughter is currently busy tending to the clone over in his own title. Is it weird that I think that fight would be kind of awesome? I would definitely buy Superboy to see that crossover.
I really like Joe Bennett's artwork here, particularly the way he draws the book's main character. Slade Wilson is a hardened man with a chiseled chin and a cold, craggy face. He's built like a truck but can move like a gazelle. You wouldn't want to mess with him. As long as Bennett can convince readers of that, the rest of the book should fall into place, and brother, does he convince me.
Again, I can't stress enough that Deathstroke is not for everybody. For starters, no one under the age of 13 should ever look at this book, and that's being generous. But if you know what you're getting into and you're up for a pop-art explosion of violence like no other, it's a really good comic, and I certainly don't regret my decision to buy it.
tags: deathstroke, joe bennett, kyle higgins, simon bisley
My Best of 2012 Playlist by Eric Garneau
After being inspired by some friends, for the past few years I've been really into documenting my musical exploration with year-end mixes. I realize this is not a particularly novel thing to do, but hey, who has original ideas any more? Anyway, this has gotten even easier to do thanks to new technology like Spotify. read more
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Archive for February 4th, 2010
LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4
The latest LEGO Harry Potter screenshots and Character render art from the video game 'LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4'. Players will have the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter in a new and uniquely LEGO way. Read the rest of this entry »
It's Beach Party Time!!!
On Vacation Isle. Read the rest of this entry »
Bioshock 2 Launch Trailer
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Square Enix , today announces that 'Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers' will be available exclusively on the Nintendo Wii from tomorrow, 5th February 2010.Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers opens up a whole new style of game design never experienced in previous Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles games. Set in a huge and beautifully created open-world universe, players will be treated to a magnificent story of adventure, exploration and puzzle solving. Read the rest of this entry »
DYNASTY WARRIORS: Strikeforce Free Demo Today
DYNASTY WARRIORS: Strikeforce is available now for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Consumers can get the demo beginning today from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PlayStationNetwork. Read the rest of this entry »
LEGO Mini Figures
How could anyone not like LEGO? Read the rest of this entry »
Bandai's new Mousou mini arcade controllers
How'd you like to take some of your favorite classic arcade games and carry them around on your keychain? What if I told you that you couldn't actually see what you were doing, but just hear it? Well that's pretty much what you get with these new mini controllers. Read the rest of this entry »
C3PO USB Stick
Star Wars fans will love this!. A Lego-based C3PO of Star Wars fame being modified to hold 16GB of storage space inside, lighting up in a soft glow as well when plugged in to give it that "enlightened†look just like the Buddha. Read the rest of this entry »
Splinter Cell: Conviction Set in Stone?
Ubisoft has announced the long-awaited release date of Splinter Cell: Conviction. The title will be shipping on April 13, 2010 for Xbox 360 and PC. Read the rest of this entry »
God Of War Kratos PC Casemod
This is pretty impressive!
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SEGA Zone
The Sega Zone is a weird little console that comes preloaded with 50 games, including 20 classic Genesis games. 16 of the remaining games support motion control with a strange Wiimote , if that's your thing. Read the rest of this entry »
Sonic and Mario's Awkward Reunion
Via College Humor
Life Sized Operation
Coming later this year to Xbox One, PS4, PC and Switch.