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I regard Thornton May as a thought leader in the field of information technology, but his Nov. 19 column, "Can Infosec Cure Stupid?", had me scratching my head.
Unusually for him, May's underlying assumptions are flawed. He argues that end users are generally stupid, his evidence being that they don't understand how the devices they use work and that they do stupid things with those technologies that render them vulnerable. His solution: All users should have a brain trust of security-savvy people they can turn to with their questions. I know many of the smart people that May says make up his personal brain trust, and I certainly hope none of them told him that this column was a good idea.
Let's look at the "people are stupid" assumption. It's true, May contends, because you would have to be stupid to leave your laptop or cellphone at an airport checkpoint or in a taxi. But hundreds of thousands of people have done this. In a group of that size, there are going to be people who avoid all guidance and do things purposefully or ignorantly wrong, and can be considered "stupid." But how many are we talking about, really? Those hundreds of thousands of people include people from all walks of life, including high-ranking executives, which is why their carelessness matters so much. Is it really helpful to chalk up that carelessness to stupidity?
I have to think that this situation -- hundreds of thousands of reasonably bright people just walking away from valuable assets like laptops and smartphones -- demonstrates not their stupidity but a flaw in the measures taken by security professionals. Think about it: If something happens so often, and clearly is not done intentionally, then a good security professional should realize that the problem is not the people but the process. So who's looking stupid now?
A good security professional should realize that airport checkpoints are mentally overwhelming for even "smart" people. People are rushed. They are forcibly separated from their laptops and other devices, among many other personal belongings. There is a lot for people to account for under stressful conditions. I even know many smart security professionals who have left devices behind.
What is smart is for security professionals to acknowledge that while they cannot prevent laptops from being left behind, they can ensure that the laptops are physically marked so that the TSA can restore them to their proper owners. They can install laptop-retrieval and whole-disk encryption software on the laptops. They can make sure that any data on a missing laptop can be remotely wiped.
The other sign of stupidity that May bemoans is the fact that users don't understand how the devices they use really work. But if I don't know how a computer works or how to recognize a phishing scam, am I stupid, or uninformed? Once again, I think the responsibility falls upon the very security professionals whom May wants you to go to for advice. Quite simply, if a fundamental lack of knowledge is behind security failings, then security professionals should do more to provide such knowledge.
May's article prompted one reader to comment that people are equally clueless about how cars work, and yet millions of them drive every day. May replied that "there are generally accepted rules regarding what constitutes 'safe' driving," but the same is not true about safe computing. Why is that, though? Need I point out that there is a massive educational infrastructure devoted to making sure that drivers know what they're doing? That there are extensive laws aimed at reducing accidents and the severity of those accidents that do occur? That significant safety measures are built into cares on the assumption that people will get into accidents. And that despite all that, car accidents do continue to happen, every day?
People need a license to drive, and they can't be licensed until they have demonstrated a good knowledge of the rules of the road and a facility behind the wheel. We aren't about to license computer users, of course; we're talking about the regulation of two very different sorts of risk. But the risks are greater for corporations that hand out to their workforces' laptops and smart devices that could contain tremendous amounts of sensitive data. Those corporations, and specifically their information security professionals, have a very large incentive to make sure that those users are suitably aware of the risks.
I wrote last month about the inadequacy of many infosec-awareness programs and how they need to incorporate the social sciences if they really want to induce users to behave with more security consciousness. That is much more to the point than suggesting that your only hope is to throw together a brain trust of the top CISOs.
Are there stupid users out there? Of course there are. What would Computerworld's Shark Tank be without them? They purposefully do things that they have repeatedly been told not to do. But truly stupid behavior defies common sense. And there's no common sense without common knowledge. Unfortunately, most security professionals assume that users have common knowledge, and do nothing to ensure that they do. Doesn't that make those security professionals the stupid ones?
Hopefully, May's brain trust will tell him that the purpose of a good security program is to implement a strong security culture. That is accomplished by implementing awareness programs that use scientific principles to get people to behave securely by default and by implementing technical and other countermeasures that proactively prevent users from taking actions that are known to cause damage, or to at least contain that damage.
And if Thornton May were ever to consider me part of his brain trust, I would ask him, "Is that user behavior stupid, or is it just something that should be expected and that infosec professionals should therefore prevent or mitigate?"
Ira Winkler is president of Internet Security Advisors Group and author of the book Spies Among Us. He can be contacted through his Web site, irawinkler.com.
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Since December 2012 we have entered a new era in transportation. For the first time ever, the number of vehicles on the roads has reached over one billion globally and there seems to be no signs of slowdown in the growth of vehicle fleets. It is also forecasted that 80 million new vehicles will be produced in 2013, increasing the growth of the global fleet size by 30 million vehicles. If this trend continues, we will see an additional 100 million vehicles on the road every three years, equivalent to a 10% increase in total.
While these figures represent a tremendous success story in transportation history and is one of the remaining drivers of global economic growth; there is also a downside in that 98% of all vehicles still run on oil. This puts additional pressure on the global oil supply every year and nobody knows with certainty how long supply can keep up with the demand. We also face new political dependencies as oil production in western regions like Europe, the USA and in big Asian economies like Japan, Korea and China decrease quickly; and other suppliers are needed to fill the growing gap.
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"The test has vastly exceeded our expectations," said Maurice Geraets, senior director, NXP Semiconductors. "Together, NXP and IBM have logged more than 200,000 test kilometers as part of the trial, and the complete system has proven to be highly reliable. The technology is ready to charge car owners fairly for the use of the car based on road type, time of day and the environmental characteristics of the car, and to give effective feedback to drivers to influence their behavior – helping them save money and make more efficient, greener driving choices on a daily basis. Further, the Eindhoven trial has demonstrated that our technology is ready for implementation in any large-scale traffic management program."
"The results of our GPS based solution in Eindhoven show that nation wide implementation of road user charging is feasible. Already successful IBM implementations of congestion charging schemes in Stockholm, Brisbane, Singapore and London are now also achievable with GPS which makes country wide implementations possible for millions of cars", said Eric-Mark Huitema, mobility executive at IBM. "Smart traffic and transportation systems have tremendous potential to reduce traffic congestion, contribute to a cleaner environment with reduced carbon dioxide and small particles emissions."
Key findings of the trial included:
- 70 percent of drivers improved their driving behavior by avoiding rush-hour traffic and using highways instead of local roads.
- On average, these drivers in the trial saw an improvement of more than 16 percent in average cost per kilometer.
- A clear system of incentives is critical to changing driving behavior.
- Instant feedback provided via an On-Board Unit display on the price of the road chosen and total charges for the trip is essential to maximizing the change in behavior.
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The Netherlands will be introducing a new road-use charge starting in 2012 for trucks and lorries, and 2013 for passenger cars. The new road pricing system – Paying differently for mobility (Anders Betalen voor Mobiliteit) – is expected to be up and running nationwide by 2016.
Many EU countries are now in the process of exploring road pricing programs as one of the measures to reduce congestion and CO2 emissions. In the Netherlands, once fully implemented, the Price per Kilometer (De kilometerprijs) system is expected to achieve the following benefits. (1)
- A 58 percent reduction in delays caused by traffic jams;
- A 15 percent reduction in the total number of kilometers driven annually;
- A 10 percent reduction in CO2 emissions;
- A 6 percent increase in total passenger kilometers via public transportation;
- More than 50 percent of Dutch households will pay less than they do currently for the motor vehicle tax and vehicle purchase tax.
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After months of negotiations, including initial resistance from some local politicians, Orange County is ready to play host to hundreds of detainees suspected of being in the country illegally.
By mid-October up to 838 immigration detainees will reside at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange and James A. Musick Facility near Irvine, an accord between the Orange County Sheriff's Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
The agreement makes Orange County a vital partner in providing bed space for ICE officials. Santa Ana already contracts with ICE, providing 200 beds annually since 2006.
As of Tuesday morning, 509 detainees – 401 in Theo Lacy and 108 in Musick – were in Orange County.
The first detainees arrived Aug 9 at Theo Lacy and about a month later to Musick. For now, the jails are only taking male detainees. Musick is expected to eventually house up to 110 female detainees.
Often referred to as "beds for feds," a cash-strapped Sheriff's Department struck the deal with federal officials this summer, selling their vacant bed space for $118 per detainee per day.
The deal stands to generate $30 million in revenue for the Sheriff's Department. Officials there say the money helped save jobs at the department.
"We would have had to lay off some deputies," said Sheriff's spokesman John McDonald.
In exchange, ICE officials who have ramped up immigration enforcement can meet the demand for much-needed bed space.
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Immigration officials say the detainees at the jails are held on administrative violations and therefore separated from the county's criminal population at the same facilities.
Most ICE detainees are those suspected of being in the country illegally who also have some sort of criminal record – from misdemeanor driving under the influence and petty theft to felony aggravated assault and homicide.
Other detainees do not have criminal records and instead are being held because they are suspected of being in the country illegally, avoided a past deportation order, or returned after a prior deportation.
The detainees are held for a variety of reasons and are awaiting deportation, hearings, asylum, appeals, or travel documents.
Critics say the contracts are a departure from what Department of Homeland Security has promised as an overhaul of the immigration detention system.
ICE officials had said the overhaul included moving away from contracting with local authorities to provide beds for its detainees.
Immigration officials had touted the idea of building their own facilities specifically to fit the needs of their detainee population. The overhaul, officials said, is aimed at reducing abuse within its detention system.
The contracts have come under fire by civil rights organization attorneys who have launched lawsuits against ICE for alleged abuse. They point to the various allegations of in-detention deaths and inhumane treatment of detainees at municipal jails that contract with ICE.
ICE officials stress that detention is not punitive and that they're committed to providing safe and humane experiences for detainees.
Contracting with municipalities for bed space still falls within the department's plan for detention reform, said Los Angeles ICE Field Office Director Timothy Robbins.
"You need to look at the needs of the location," Robbins said. "It doesn't mean you can't build a facility and still have contracts. Detention reform means the treatment and well being of the detainee we house, not necessarily the structure they're detained in."
Robbins also pointed to national detention standards that contract jails need to meet.
For instance, Sheriff's officials had to re-train deputies to oversee this particular population and had to partition their once-communal showers for privacy, among other changes. At Musick, officials agreed to hire a round-the-clock nurse.
As part of implementing the agreement, the department is in the early stages of renovation of the two facilities, including the eventual installation of three courtrooms at Musick. The expected cost is $6 million.
Detainees with more serious offenses are housed in a jail-like setting at Theo Lacy. Those with lower level criminal backgrounds or none at all are housed in what used to be the barracks for inmate workers. There, they have access to green-space and other recreational activities, such as a ping pong table and get more outdoor time than the criminal population at the jail.
Still, most detainees aim to end up at Musick, also known as "the farm" by detainees and guards. Once a full-scale working farm that still holds a couple thousand chickens, Musick resembles more of a "camping experience" than a jail, several detainees said. Detainees with minimal criminal backgrounds, such as misdemeanors or no criminal record and in basically good health end up at Musick.
Demand for bed space remains high, especially with the recent implementation of a variety of programs – such as Secure Communities – aimed at nabbing people who are in the country illegally with criminal records.
"We're continuing to look for beds," Robbins said.
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Why are Europeans so gorgeous? They accept the skin they're in. Laura Mercier wants youth-obsessed American women to view aging the European way: a ripening into mature beauty.
Laura Mercier is on a mission to help American women succeed in feeling good about getting older . A French makeup artist who has worked with celebrities like Madonna, Mercier believes we need to embrace our mature beauty.
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"Because I am French, my mentality from birth has been to appreciate beauty everywhere and not because it is young and perfect," says Mercier. "I have never thought beauty was only associated with the young."
It seems the older American women get the more confidence we wield in business and relationships, but the less secure we feel about our looks. "I find American women even more scared of aging," observes Mercier. "I see more than 100 women a day when I do personal appearances and among 100 women, you know what? Not one will say 'I feel great . I look great.' "
We're sabotaging our sex appeal with too many hang-ups and too little self-esteem.
"I think this country is insane on the matter of beauty ideals ," Mercier says. "It drives me crazy and I swore I would go into battle against that mentality. I don't want women to get depressed because they are getting older or because of the fear that your husband will leave you or that society will push you away."
It's different in Europe, she says. Confidence, sensuality, character and personality play a bigger role in beauty. "A woman accepts that at 50 she is a gorgeous woman who still has sex," she says. "Her children are gone and now she can have fun and still attract people socially or intimately. She feels herself to be a beautiful woman, and it translates into her expressions and her attitude."
Every decade should bring wisdom and joy. You should feel better and better in your own skin. You have to grow to love your wrinkles, says Mercier, because they give you expression and character. They tell a fascinating story about the woman you are.
Mercier's story is this: a former artist, she moved to New York City from France in 1985. In 1996 she launched her own line of cosmetics. A line of skin-care products followed in 1999. She released a video, Flawless Face, in which she demonstrates her tips for applying perfect makeup. The right cosmetics and technique help, but Mercier doesn't think women should rule out a little laser surgery or collagen injections to make wrinkles less obvious or to make skin look more youthful.
What she wouldn't change is the character that the years have given her beautiful face. "I will never have a facelift," she asserts. "I would do something subtle that doesn't touch any feature. But I am scared to death not to find myself anymore, not to find my expression," she says.
It is expression that makes celebrities like Madonna, a past client of Mercier's, sexier at 45 than she was in her 20s. "Madonna is great," says Mercier. "She is very smart and demanding and knows what she wants."
Mercier is also a fan of Susan Sarandon. "She looks so sexy and is a tremendous example of a woman aging beautifully who has the same sex appeal as when she was younger."
And Mercier admires the way actress Meryl Streep is aging naturally.
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Universal remote controls have become increasingly popular due to the consolidation and convenience they provide the home theater buff with an increasingly burgeoning rack of gear. While manufacturers have approached the technology in a number of different ways, we tend to be partial to the PC-programmable technique used onLogitech Harmony remotes. There are alternatives to this concept; we've looked at remotes that use Wi-Fi to display TV programming schedules like with the Acoustic Research Universal Smart Remote ARRU449 and we've seen basic remotes that simply offer button-based programming (no PC at all). The Philips Prestigo SRU8015 falls into that final camp. There's nothing truly innovative or outstanding about it; it's just a relatively easy-to-use universal remote that falls within the $80-to-$120 price range. But while the predecessor SRU8010 model offered simplicity and the potential for customization at a great price, the Prestigo SRU8015's addition of a scroll-wheel makes it a bit more polarizing from a usability perspective.
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Such delusional thinking is rampant today, especially in Libertarian and right-wing circles, who blame the government for everything. "If only the government would get out of the way," they shout. Only trouble is, our free market ain't free at all folks; the opposite is true.
The free market is, in reality, every company's nemesis. Every product that comes to market has numerous patents that cover its uniqueness and functionality. Writings are protected by copyright law. Patents and copyrights are government-granted protections that prohibit the copying of ideas for a number of years.
In a truly free market, there wouldn't be any patents or copyrights. Everybody would be free to steal and copy ideas randomly to sell their products and compete side by side, like vendors in a flea market. The truth is, everybody wants protections.
Corporate legal departments are filled with lawyers who sniff out any signs of likeness in other products, and sue at the drop of a hat to preserve their employer's protections. Many workers today have to sign non-compete contracts in order to keep their employment because companies fear their leaving and divulging secrets that might threaten their specific product.
The number of lobbyists in Washington has doubled over the last 10 years, all pushing to get legislation passed favoring their agenda. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a collaborative organization of corporate executives that meet, discuss, and write ready-made legislation that favors business.
They then give the ready-made law templates to supporting elected officials to sponsor it into law. A new study just out by Princeton and Northwestern University concludes that our country is no longer a Democracy or even a Republic, but an Oligarchy. It is a country controlled by corporations and the rich few.
The recent Supreme Court rulings allowing unlimited money contributions into politics has given the few unlimited voice in elections and policy. Our government "by the people and for the people," like our free market, is only illusionary.
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MILTON — These community news items have been taken from the December issue of the Milton Gazette with the kind permission of Parks and Recreation Director Karen Brown.
Kids' Christmas Party
Please join the VFW Post 8393 for their 21st annual Toys for Kids Christmas Party on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. at the Emma Ramsey Community Center.
The annual Christmas Party is the conclusion of the VFW's fundraising efforts to help bring toys to families that are in need this holiday season. The public is encouraged to attend the party and to bring an unwrapped toy for a boy or a girl. Santa Claus will be stopping by to say hello and to thank all the youngsters and families who are reaching out to help an area family in need this holiday.
There will be a live auction of assorted gift certificates and donated items, along with some cookies, treats, hot chocolate and coffee to add to the enjoyment of the afternoon activities.
Assessing Department
The Town of Milton started the fourth year of the cycled inspection program on Oct. 22 Each year 20 percent of the properties are physically measured and attempts are made to view the interior to ensure accuracy in the data and equity for assessments. If you are not at home at the time of the first visit, a letter will be sent requesting an interior inspection. This process will be ongoing throughout the late fall.
The areas to be inspected include portions of White Mountain Highway, Industrial Way, Northeast Pond Road, Bolan Road, Salt Box Road, Kingsbury Drive, Mason Road, Teneriffe Road, Silver Street, Sam Plummer Road, Ford Farm Road, Ledgewood Avenue, Grandview Drive, Bourdeau Drive, Ridgeview Drive, Lydia Way and Tierra Drive.
If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the Assessing Department at (603) 652-4501, ext. 6.
Parking ban
The winter parking ban went into affect on Sunday, Dec. 1, and will remain in place through Monday, April 15. A $10 fine will be issued for any vehicle that is found parked on the street, and is subject to be towed at the owner's expense. During snow plowing operations, a vehicle that constitutes a hazard may be removed upon request by the town Highway Department, and towing will be at the owner's expense.
Winter Carnival
The 21st annual Milton Winter carnival is slated for Feb. 15 and 16, 2013. Plans will be underway the first week of January to plan the Carnival. Hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate this year and give us some snow to play in!
If you have helped with winter carnival before, we would love to have you back on the planning committee. If you have never been involved but you would like to help plan out this year's event, than we would love to have you join in the fun.
If your group/organization would like to take part in this year's event, please contact the Milton Recreation Dept. at 652-4501, ext. 8 or 834-0279.
Meetings in the Town Hall
Selectmen — Dec. 17 at 6 p.m.; Budget Committee — Dec. 20 at 5:30 p.m.; Zoning Board — Dec. 27 at 6 p.m.; Townhouse Restoration — TBA at 5:30 p.m.; Recreation Commission — Dec. 12 at 5:30 p.m.; Water District — TBA at 5 p.m. in Emma Ramsey Center.
Children's Craft Fair
Donations are requested for the Milton Elementary School's annual Children's Craft Fair on Dec. 19.
Children get to shop for gifts for their families and have them wrapped at the school so they have something to surprise their family with. This event has been going on for about 30 years. The school relies on donated craft items for this day. Anyone who would like to donate items should contact PTA President Brenda Forcier at firstname.lastname@example.com or contact the elementary school office at 652-4539.
Learning Center thanks
The parents and staff of the Milton Learning Center would like to thank all the businesses and families who donated their time, baked goods and auction items to this year's penny sale.
This is the center's biggest fundraiser of the year and it enables MLC to keep their tuition costs down so that more of our families can take advantage of their early educational opportunities for their children. MLC also provides much needed day-care services for our families who need after school care.
Woman's Club
Milton Woman's Club monthly meeting will be on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Community Church of Milton for a fun and exciting Christmas Party. All members are asked to bring a wrapped gift valued at $10.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. New members are welcome!
Parents' night out
A Parents' Night Out will be hosted by the class of 2014 in Nute High cafeteria on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 5 to 9 p.m. The cost is $10 per child, and includes pizza, a movie, popcorn, crafts, coloring, games and stories. Drop you kids off and enjoy a night out.
Any questions contact, Angela Locke at (603) 973-9826 or e-mail email@example.com.
Kids' night out
Kids' Night Out will be on Friday, Dec. 21 at 6 p.m. with Elf Man (not rated). The movie, supper and craft evening is $6 per child. Register at 652-4501, ext. 8.
Milton Recreation invites children to come and watch this fun holiday movie. Supper and craft are included in the evening's activities. Children are invited to bring along a pillow and blanket and dress in comfortable clothing. If your child is not interested in watching the movies, please do not send them! It makes it really difficult for those children who do wish to enjoy a night out watching movies and hanging out with their friends.
Participation is limited to the first 20 children who sign up. Registration for the program is on a first come basis. Program registration is closed after Friday, Dec. 14.
Further reading...
To read the full contents of the Milton Gazette, please visit www.miltonnh-us.com/parks.php.


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Kathleen's Albany Creek Team's Ditch Dutton Door-knock
We're building GetUp's biggest ever door-knocking campaign to vote out Peter Dutton at this year's Federal Election.
To hit the 22,000 doors we need to knock before Dutton faces election, we're forming teams of door-knockers hitting the ground in Dickson.
Join volunteer leader, Kathleen's Albany Creek team at their 4th doorknock on Saturday 23rd March in Albany Creek.
At this special event, you'll be trained in how to have conversations that count, talk with voters about key issues, and share food and stories with fellow volunteers.
We'll start at Lemke Park (17 Jagora Rd, Albany Creek) at 2pm.
Don't worry if you haven't doorknocked before. You'll receive training and support from start to finish, and be paired with an experienced door-knocker who can show you the ropes. All you need to bring is a water bottle, a hat, a pen and a passion for making change!
March 23, 2019 at 2pm - 5:30pm
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The latest ECDC/WHO report Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2019 (2017 data) shows that despite an overall decline in numbers of people suffering from TB, the disease remains a major public health challenge in the Region.
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'Scandal' serves up explosive season finale!
WARNING: Many spoilers!
Yes, there was a bomb. We knew that going into Thursday's season finale of Scandal.
But did it explode? Did it go off? Or as Olivia Pope (Kerry Washignton) might say through clenched teeth: "Did ... It... Go...Off??!!"
"Mr. President, We have a situation!" said Jake Ballard (Scott Foley), bursting into President Fitzgerald Grant's meeting. And moments later, they all watched as a bomb went off at a church. Fitz (Tony Goldwyn), of course, wasn't there, but his opponent, Sally Langston (Kate Burton), was.
Did saving Fitz's life cost him the election? Looks like it. Public sentiment is going her way.
Meanwhile, Rowan Pope (Joe Morton), Liv's dad, is in the hospital recovering from his knife wounds. "I was worried about you," Liv tells him, adding with gloom, "Fitz is going to lose the election."
Papa Pope tells Liv, "I love you ... I wish I could help. You." She rests on him in his hospital bed in a tender moment.
Meanwhile, Huck (Guillermo Diaz) and Quinn (Katie Lowes) are going at it again. In the office!
At his place, Jake is having a beer and watching the Redskins game, even though attorney David Rosen (Joshua Malina) wants him to get the bad guys.
And Fitz vows to Liv, "I'm going to marry you. We're going to have babies. Two babies, I think." She giggles.
Liv then tells Fitz that his father raped his wife, Mellie. Fitz is stunned and goes to talk to Mellie. "I fought him. I. fought." she says, leaning into Fitz for a hug.
Liv tells Fitz over the phone, "You can't leave her now."
Fitz responds with, "I love you." Liv replies, "I love you, too" Like schoolkids, they don't want to hang up the phone, even though she's at the hospital with her dad and he's about to give what will likely be his final speech.
Liv heads back into the hospital room, and there's her mom, the evil Maya (Khandi Alexander).
Meanwhile, at the speech, Fitz's son, Jerry (Dylan Minnette), is passing out, blood coming from his nose. He winds up dying from bacterial meningitis, contracted from a vial that is kept locked in Fort Detrick. Murder! "She killed my son," says Fitz of Evil Maya.
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Liv tells her dad she wants to take him up on his offer of a plane. Escape it all.
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"So this is your pity party?" he says.
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This SOP is to describe nagios configurations
- 1 Contact Information
- 2 Initial Configuration
- 3 Configuration
- 4 Understanding the Messages
- 5 Further Reading
Contact Information
Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team
Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main & sysadmin-noc groups
Location: Anywhere
Servers: noc01, noc02, noc01.stg, puppet1
Purpose: This SOP is to describe nagios configurations
Initial Configuration
CGI Access
To view information in nagios (anything with cgi-bin in the path) you need to be able to grant yourself access. After checking out the Puppet CVS tree as described in the Puppet SOP you first need to edit configs/system/nagios/cgi.cfg and append your FAS username to 'authorized_for_system_commands'
Contact Information
Create a new file named 'fasname.cfg' in configs/system/nagios/contacts/ with the following details:
define contact{ contact_name fasname alias Real Name service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,u,r service_notification_commands notify-by-email host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email email Email address (any) }
Next append your name to the 'members' section of configs/system/nagios/contactgroups/fedora-sysadmin-email.cfg
The same changes will need to be applied with the nagios-external configuration (configs/system/nogios-external)
Commit Changes
Commit changes by running
cvs commit -m "Adding fasname to Nagios" and then mark the changes for distribution by
make install
Fedora Project runs two nagios instances, nagios (noc1) and nagios-external (noc2), you must be in the 'sysadmin' group to access them.
Staging Istances
Apart from the two production istances, we are currently running a staging istance for testing-purposes available through SSH at noc01.stg.
nagios (noc01)
The nagios configuration on noc01 should only monitor general host statistics - puppet status, uptime, apache status (up/down), SSH etc.
The configurations are found at
configs/system/nagios/ in the puppet tree.
nagios-external (noc02)
The nagios configuration on noc02 is located outside of our main datacenter and should monitor our user websites/applications (fedoraproject.org, FAS, PackageDB, Bodhi/Updates).
The configurations are found at
configs/system/nagios-external/ in the puppet tree.
Production and staging istances through SSH
Note: Please make sure you are into 'sysadmin' and 'sysadmin-test' FAS groups before trying to access these hosts.
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com) (Note: no password login is required, so if you get any password request at this point, you probably don't have access to this machine)
ssh UID@noc01 for the production system or
ssh email@example.com for the staging one) (Note: you will be prompted for a password, which is the one registered for your FAS account)
We are currently using NRPE to execute remote Nagios plugins on any host of our network.
A great guide about it and its usage mixed up with some nice images about its structure can be found at this link
Understanding the Messages
Nagios notifications are generally easy to read, and follow this consistent format:
** PROBLEM/ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/RECOVERY alert - hostname/Check is WARNING/CRITICAL/OK ** ** HOST DOWN/UP alert - hostname **
Reading the message will provide extra information on what is wrong.
Disk Space Warning/Critical
Disk space warnings normally include the following information:
DISK WARNING/CRITICAL/OK - free space: mountpoint freespace(MB) (freespace(%) inode=freeinodes(%)):
A message stating "(1% inode=99%)" means that the diskspace is critical not the inode usage and is a sign that more diskspace is required.


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Skadar Lake National Park
Skadar Lake National Park is the Montenegrin side of Lake Skadar. It is the largest lake of the Balkans.
Lake Skadar is a vast freshwater lake, two thirds of which is in Montenegro and the remainder in Albania. It is surrounded by dramatic karst mountains and hosts a thrilling array of wildlife with more than 260 species of birds, traditional fishing villages, islet monasteries and pristine beaches.
It has been a protected National Park since 1983 and was added, in 1996, to the World's List of Wetlands of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention.
Lake Skadar has a long, proud history. Once part of the ancient Slav province of Zeta, it was invaded by the Turks in the 13th century and occupied for five centuries with many battles witnessed by now crumbling fortresses such as Besac in Virpazar and Lessendro in Vranjina.
When the Turks were expelled from Montenegro in the late 19th century, Skadar town itself (once the capital of Zeta) was incorporated into Albania and is also called Shkoder. Meanwhile several Albanian villages on the southern shores such as Ostros and Donji-Murići became part of Montenegro.
During the fighting days against the Ottomans, Montenegro's rulers established their ruling seat and bastion in the north-west wetlands, at Žabljak Crnojevići, until they were forced to move their capital to Cetinje in 1482.
By the 19th and early 20th century, with an Independent Montenegro, the lake returned to royal glory with King Nikola setting up his summer court at the attractive lake town of Rijeka Crnojevića.
In WW2, Lake Skadar made history again as Virpazar provided the scene of the first Partisan uprising in Montenegro.
Lake Skadar is the largest freshwater lake in the Balkans. It is fed by the Morača river and a series of underwater springs. An unusual feature, creating a special eco-system, is the annual expansion of the lake's circumference from 370 square kilometres in summer to 530 square kilometres in winter.
On average it is 44km long, 10km wide and 8 metres deep.
Flora and fauna[edit]
The variety of different habitats offered at Lake Skadar attract an incredible range of wildlife and provide one of the five most important birding sites in Europe with more than 260 different species to see. They include pygmy cormorant, the rare southern dalmatian pelican, storks, herons, egrets and ibises.
The surrounding hinterland is home to wild tortoises, lizardsm, amphibians, snakes and even wild boar.
The lake is also famous for its medicinal plants and wild orchids.
The climate is Mediterranean with long hot summers and a short cold winter made very wet by the mountainous nature of the region.
Get in[edit]
By Train Virpazar, the main settlement at the lake, has a train station on the Bar-Belgrade line operated by Serbian Railways, with several trains visiting daily.
By Bus You can also get to Virpazar by bus from Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, or nearby coastal town Sutomore. Note that public transport is not available to reach other settlements around the lake.
A small fee is payable for a day's access to the national park and permits are required for fishing. Contact the Visitors' Centre of the National parks of Montenegro in Vranjina for more information. Opening hours: during the summer tourist season, from 8-18 every day; Out of season: from 08 – 16 hours, from Monday to Friday. Contact details: [email protected]; +382 20 879 103.
Get around[edit]
Public transport is not available around the lake, but there are tourist agencies in Virpazar who can arrange lifts for you. Private car hire highly recommended.
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Boat tours and cultural attractions Skadar Lake features very rich cultural and historical assets dating from prehistoric times. Visit archaeological sites, fortresses, Middle Age churches and monasteries, water-mills, unique fishing settlements and more.
Special events Ecotourism Day – Skadar Lake National Park, in June. Ecology, tourism, culture and sports days, in several places around Skadar Lake (Plavnica, Murići, Rijeka Crnojevića, Žabljak Crnojevića), in July, August and September. Scutari Lake Trophy, an international fishing contest, organized every year in July. The festival of vine and bleak is organized at Virpazar every December.
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Birdwatching With its 271 bird species, four bird-watching towers on Stanaj, Radus, Plavnica and Zabljacke and eight organized bird-watching tours offered by the National Park, Lake Skadar is a real attraction for bird-watchers and nature lovers. Skadar Lake is also the habitat for the protected, rare curly pelican. Since 1995 it has been a designated Wetland of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention as a habitat for water birds. Especially interesting bird species are: Dalmatian Pelican colonies (Pelecanus crispus); the Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) (the biggest world colony of approximately 2000 bird pairs); the Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus); The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); the Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca); the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla); as well as several hundreds of Grey Heron (Ardea ralloides); There are five ornithological reserves at Skadar Lake: Manastirska tapija, Grmozur, Omerova gorica, Crni zar, Pancevo oko.
Hiking This is a good destination for walkers, although not as challenging as Montenegro's North, where the mountains are far higher. The National Park authorities have marked some paths and provided info-boards. Contact the visitor centre for more information.
Cycling Marked routes available throughout the National Park and surrounding areas. A great 55km circular route is - Virpazar, Boljevici, Stari-Bar, Ulcinj (overnight), Ostros, Murici, Godinje, Virpazar.
Speleology Around the lake there are various interesting caves to visit including Obod, Grbocica, Bobosuta and Ispila.
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At the end of a long month of bias-based violence on Staten Island (for details, click on "Links In the News"), the City Commission on Human Rights on September 24 opened up its first permanent office on the island in the commission's 48-year history. The office was long-planned, says Human Rights Commissioner Pat Gatling. But the Bloomberg administration is clearly concerned. New York City mayoralties have been made and unmade by responses to bias violence.
In the summer of 1989, when Yusef Hawkins, a 16-year-old African American from Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, visited the mostly white Bensonhurst neighborhood in the borough, a mob of white youth killed him. That incident marked the end of the re-election bid of three-term Mayor Ed Koch, who had often been viewed as insensitive in racial matters. It also catapulted Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins into City Hall, the first African American to be mayor.
Just one year later, black New Yorkers rioted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn after a car in a Hasidic motorcade sped through a red light and killed 7-year old Gavin Cato. Shouts of "Kill the Jew" went up and Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year old Australian rabbinical student, died from stab wounds inflicted by Lemrick Nelson in a case that was only recently resolved in the courts. The fact that it was not resolved in 1993 when Dinkins ran for re-election and Governor Mario Cuomo released a critical report on the matter during the campaign, contributed to Dinkins's narrow loss to Rudy Giuliani, who had been quite vocal in accusing the mayor of holding police back during the riots.
The first incident this past month occurred in a playground late at night Labor Day in Eltingville on Staten Island, when a mob of some 17 white men and women reportedly confronted an 18-year old black woman named Rachel Carter visiting from New Jersey. They uttered racial slurs and told her she didn't belong in the neighborhood. Then they attacked her and her five companions (who were white, black and Latino), using a sickle and a broken bottle --ugly stuff made worse because the police from the 122nd Precinct tried to discourage the victims from filing complaints. Eleven arrests have been made so far in the Labor Day attack.
Two weeks later, there were nine bias incidents citywide reported on a single weekend, including several on Staten Island, such as a black man accosted by a white mob in a Staten Island deli and a black man shooting at white teens. The cycle of bias violence continued on Staten Island a week after that, when one of the alleged perpetrators in the Labor Day attack was himself assaulted by three Latino men in what law enforcement officers reportedly described as a "retaliatory assault." All in all, in the month after Labor Day, there were a dozen suspected bias incidents on Staten Island alone. Some newspapers began painting Staten Island as a hotbed of bigotry.
None of these incidents are as incendiary as the bias murders of Yusef Hawkins and Yankel Rosenbaum. But the administration is careful to show their concern. At the opening of the human rights office on Staten Island, Commissioner Gatling said, "Mayor Bloomberg and the commission are committed to using all of our resources to ensure that the people of this city do not become hostages to prejudice. This new office will be used to educate, mediate, and enforce the strongest anti-bias laws in the country. Our message is a simple one: Discrimination will not be tolerated in our city." One action already taken is the disciplining of three police officers in connection with the handling of Rachel Carter's Labor Day complaint.
But it's not just individual police officers who are being criticized for their failure to take such civil rights violations seriously. The commission itself is under attack from the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York for not fulfilling its responsibility to enforce the city's human rights law. In a scathing report, attorney Craig Gurian, director of the non-profit center, said that the commission "had eliminated a decades-long backlog of cases in part by a newfound determination to do so, and in part by what the report refers to as 'the Big Case Dump.'" The report charges that the commission found no probable cause against discriminators in more than 98 percent of cases, leveled civil penalties just once, conducted only two trials, almost always failed to interview those accused of discrimination, and "failed to understand and apply basic principles of discrimination law."
Commissioner Gatling responded in the Times that the report "demonstrates a lack of understanding of the commission's objectives and practical application of the city's Human Rights Law," whatever that means. (She didn't elaborate.)
For all the criticism, the mayor has insisted that Staten Island is getting an unfair rap - that the incidents of bias have actually decreased by 25 percent on the island. Of course, these are the official statistics, based on people actually filing complaints - which, as evident from the police reaction to the Labor Day incident, is not always encouraged. But in a way, the mayor surely has a point in asking that Staten Island not be singled out. The truth is, bias violence is not restricted to one part of the city, nor targeted just at one group.
The New York City Gay and Lesbian Project has documented a 52 percent rise in attacks on people who either are or are perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. A recent weekend saw three reported incidents, including six men beating a man after he exited a subway stop in Chelsea.
Clarence Patton of the Anti-Violence Project attributed the rise in anti-gay incidents to the massive increase in the visibility of gay people in the news and on TV entertainment shows, contributing to a backlash. He also cited the downturn in the economy and tensions over the war with Iraq.
Commissioner Gatling is also conscious of these factors. The main perpetrators of bias violence, she says, are young people 17 to 22 years old for whom "the economy looks bleak" and for whom there are fewer after-school options in the economic downturn. But even while acknowledging these factors in play, she said that New York is experiencing less bias violence than cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. "We don't have it like they do," she said.
Even while playing down the dimensions of the problem on Staten Island, Gatling said she has spoken to the superintendent of schools there about stepping up conflict resolution and tolerance programs, some of them offered by the commission itself. "I'm a big proponent of peer mediation," she said.
The commission and its critic, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, do agree on testing neighborhood tolerance in at least one concrete way. They are both sending out testers to pose as people looking for a job or a home, to see if local real estate agents and employers treat all comers equally. Most often, a white tester and a black tester who pose as similar applicants (same educational level or same income level) approach the same employer or real estate agent at different times to see if they receive the same treatment. One finding so far: In Howard Beach, both testers were treated the same. This might be surprising to those who see the Queens neighborhood as a bastion of bigotry because of past incidents, most notoriously in 1986 when a gang of white youths attacked three black men, killing one of them.
Mayors and mediators, boosters and borough presidents like to say that New York, which is probably still the most diverse city on earth, is a largely successful experiment in peaceful coexistence. One question provoked by the latest incidents is whether New Yorkers get along as well as we do only as long as all members of each group stay in their own neighborhoods. This is a city that, as Gotham Gazette's demographics columnist Andrew Beveridge has pointed out, "remains among the most segregated areas of the United States" - or, as one observer famously said, the only place New York is integrated is on the subway.
Andy Humm is a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (34 on Time-Warner; 107 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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Im in love!
Im in love!
\"A little too tall, coulda used a few pounds...\"
i feels so plebeian, drinking mys beefeater martini with two small spanish olives
i would like it to be devastatingly cold though
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Dude, this was like touching heaven to your lips.
With a little gin in there for good measure.
...even the smell... sublime.
\"A little too tall, coulda used a few pounds...\"
Okay, now you are just rubbing it in!
---This post is delivered with righteous passion and with a solemn southern directness --
...........fighting against the deliberate polarization of politics...
Now I just need to figure out how to get it stateside.
\"A little too tall, coulda used a few pounds...\"
Check out this place in Seattle:
buy two, put second bottle in your wife's luggage
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Sapphire martini with three olives.
I call it, "Bombay the Right Way"
The best statement I've seen from this latest carnage came from a student who lived through it -
"My generation will not allow this to continue!"
Remember voting age is 18. Read it and weep reds.
I urge you to try some Malfy.
And put a little damn vermouth in it. This idea of extra extra dry with no vermouth is crap. There's a reason there is vermouth in a martini. Otherwise it s just cold gin.
Can't find Micil around here, even for a taste. Seattle now has a lot of new distilleries and many make gin. But the tastes of gin varies a lot with the botanicals used. I've experimented with several, but so far I've always come back to Sapphire for my martinis. For gin and tonics I really like Bell Ringer which is actually a pretty inexpensive gin but it seems to work really well with Schweppes tonic.
Now look what you've made me do!
Adnams Copperhouse was voted "World's Best Gin" in 2013, but times have moved on.. I still like it, though. It has replaced Gordons just as Fevertree has replaced Schweppes.
Berry Brothers and Rudd's No.3 Gin is the best in a dry Martini.
Plymouth is best in a pink gin.
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... and at the other end of the scale, we had some godawful gin the other night in Pai. We ended up at some hippy bar out of town. One of the guys (apparently) was on mushrooms and ended up getting banned for life.... not because of having eaten magic mushrooms, but he apparently offended someone. Back to the gin. It was awful. I don't even want to know what it was.
We sell three or four at our bar... Bartons (cheap and nasty), Gordons, Sapphire... and I will have to see what else later.
Copperhouse is not silly expensive and is very good.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.― Mark Twain,
A couple I tried in Australia this winter…
Sipsmith is really good. I'm not an expert, but I felt it was better than Bombay.
Also tried some 4 Pillars. They are a distillery down near Melbourne. I was working nearby, but never had a chance to the visit their shop. In any case, I bought a variety pack of small bottles and like each one. No surprise there.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.― Mark Twain,
^ Gotta love "Navy Strength" gin !! Thanks for the photo .....
Second the fever tree as the tonic water of choice.
My preference is "Victoria Gin" from.....Victoria.
Lots of micro distilleries around. Some good, some far to hipster for me.
The Micil distillery is quite close to the house where we stayed in Galway City. If I'd known of it, I'd have stopped in.
If you're still in the area, I urge a visit to Kai, a café run by New Zealanders. Brilliant food!
We're merely mammals. Let's misbehave! Cole Porter


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You know my personal goal for this blog is to describe what it feels like to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
Well, I found an email I sent to some buddies in Chicago while we were flying around on that big production trip recently, and part of it describes a wonderful little experience I had. It also sort of describes what yesterday's game felt like...
I actually slept for 6 hours straight last night, my body clock is finally adjusted!
Which must mean it's time for a night shoot followed by back to back 13 hour plane rides!
Back when we left Marrakesh...you know I chew gum all day long, right?
When the flavor's gone and I'm on a plane, I throw the spent gum into one of those little white airplane throw-up bags.
So I found my throw-up bag, and worked my hand down in there to open it up.
Unfortunately, the guy who sat in my seat on the flight before me was a throw-up bag user too, because SURPRISE! there was a semi-fresh, giant green loogie in there.
I pulled my hand out and it was attached to a loopy string of 3rd World spit-snot.
Shock and reflex made me immediately wipe the hand on the empty seat next to me.
A minute later a flight attendant came by and said, "Why are you crying?"
Well, that's exactly what yesterday's 5-13 loss to the Diamondbacks felt like to me.
Now, it's time to forget that one and just move on, eh?


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Infineon Technologies, Intel, Panasonic, and Texas Instruments have launched the HomeGrid Forum, an organization aimed at promoting and a worldwide standard for networking digital content, such as movies, music, and pictures, over home wiring.
The Forum will be a companion to ITU-T G.hn working group, supporting the interests of service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, PC OEMs, and other networking companies to create a single MAC and PHY protocol for transporting multimedia across a home's existing wiring to include coaxial cable, power lines and phone lines. HomeGrid Forum is contributing next-generation technology requirements to ITU-T G.hn, quickly developing consensus around one worldwide standard. ITU-T is the standardization sector providing global telecommunication standards in the International Telecommunication Union.
"HomeGrid Forum was created to support the development of a single standard for transmitting multimedia over coax, power and phone lines," said Matthew Theall, president of HomeGrid Forum. "The forum will promote HomeGrid-certified products and ensure interoperability."
"A single, unified technology for multimedia networks over power lines, coaxial cable, and phone lines has the potential to enable a simple, easy-to-use means of networking devices together in the home," said Kurt Scherf, analyst with market analyst firm Parks Associates. "We believe today's announcement is an important step towards eliminating fragmentation in the industry, and achieving the vision of a networked home."
Three work groups have been established:
- An ITU-T G.hn contribution work group
- A compliance and interoperability work group to ensure that any product with a HomeGrid logo will work reliably in customers' homes
- A marketing work group to promote HomeGrid-certified products worldwide.
HomeGrid Forum has 11 founding members. Infineon, Intel, Panasonic, and Texas Instruments will serve on the board of directors. Aware, DS2, Gigle Semiconductor, and Pulse~LINK will serve as promoters; and Ikanos Communications, Sigma Designs. and Westell will serve as contributors.


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Nonresident Alien Spouse Treated as a Resident(p6)
If you do not choose to treat your nonresident alien spouse as a U.S. resident, you may be able to use head of household filing status. To use this status, you must pay more than half the cost of maintaining a household for certain dependents or relatives other than your nonresident alien spouse. For more information, see Pub. 501.
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Table 1–1. Ending the Choice To Treat Nonresident Alien Spouse as a Resident
|Either spouse can revoke the choice for any tax year.
|The revocation must be made by the due date for filing the tax return for that tax year.
|The spouse who revokes the choice must attach a signed statement declaring that the choice is being revoked. The statement revoking the choice must include the following:
|The name, address, and social security number (or taxpayer identification number) of each spouse.
|The name and address of any person who is revoking the choice for a deceased spouse.
|A list of any states, foreign countries, and possessions that have community property laws in which either spouse is domiciled or where real property is located from which either spouse receives income.
|If the spouse revoking the choice does not have to file a return and does not file a claim for refund, send the statement to the Internal Revenue Service Center where the last joint return was filed.
|The death of either spouse ends the choice, beginning with the first tax year following the year in which the spouse died.
|If the surviving spouse is a U.S. citizen or resident alien and is entitled to the joint tax rates as a surviving spouse, the choice will not end until the close of the last year for which these joint rates may be used.
|If both spouses die in the same tax year, the choice ends on the first day after the close of the tax year in which the spouses died.
|Divorce or
Legal separation
|A divorce or legal separation ends the choice as of the beginning of the tax year in which the legal separation occurs.
|Inadequate records
|The Internal Revenue Service can end the choice for any tax year that either spouse has failed to keep adequate books, records, and other information necessary to determine the correct income tax liability, or to provide adequate access to those records.
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Why do Hilbert spaces have to be complete?
I've been studying (teaching myself about) Hilbert spaces for a while now as they have a habit of popping up in many of the papers I'm come across (I'm a computer scientist). I understand what completeness means (re Cauchy sequences), most texts make that clear. What I wish the texts made clearer is why completeness is necessary.
I'd appreciate, simple explanations if possible.


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Major Campaign Launched to Eliminate Seven Diseases by 2020
10 Jan, 2012, 11:00 GMT
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- The END7 Campaign is dedicated to building awareness of diseases that infect more than one billion people worldwide
Launched today, the END7 campaign is dedicated to eliminating seven major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a public health threat to poor communities by the end of 2020.
NTDs infect one in six people worldwide, including 500 million children, and carry a higher health burden than malaria and tuberculosis.
The effects of these diseases are devastating. NTDs cause blindness, massive swelling in appendages and limbs, severe malnutrition and anaemia. They are a leading cause of pregnancy complications among women and are a key source of poverty by reducing school attendance among children and worker productivity for adults.
Treatment for NTDs is one of the most cost-effective health programmes available today. Pills to treat the seven leading NTDs are donated by pharmaceutical companies and many programmes use existing infrastructure, such as schools and community centres, to administer the treatments.
The END7 campaign raises the public awareness and funding required to cover the costs of distributing medicine and setting up treatment programmes in impoverished communities. The annual cost works out to approximately 50 pence to treat and protect one person for a whole year against all seven diseases.
"I'm shocked by how much devastation these diseases cause. But what shocks me more is how simple the solution is. Pocket change to provide medicine that can help end not just one disease, but seven," said actor and campaign sponsor Bill Nighy, who lends his voice to the campaign's creative animated video.
The first comprehensive campaign to raise public awareness of all seven major NTDs, END7 is run by the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. "Unlike many global health campaigns, END7 has an end in sight," said Dr. Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director of the Global Network. "With enough support and donations we believe we can end the plight of people suffering from these diseases by the end of this decade."
END7 is a public/private partnership that seeks to catalyse grassroots support for NTD control efforts to encourage major political and philanthropic leaders to increase funding for this important global health issue. The UK and US governments, as well as major pharmaceutical companies, have already made significant contributions. END7 works with global partners such as the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The campaign will be managed through a Facebook hub developed by Wunderman UK to promote campaign videos, photographs, success stories and other content - including a real-time donation ticker. Wunderman's animated video, 'Our Mission in a Minute', describes END7's goals in an engaging way and is the current featured content on Facebook.
"This campaign is truly about how together, we can have a huge influence on eliminating NTDs as a public health threat in a very short time frame," said David Harris, Executive Creative Director at Wunderman UK. "By making social media the core of END7, millions of people connected by Facebook and Twitter have an amazing opportunity to help millions of others suffering from these diseases."
To get involved in the END7 campaign, please visit END7 on Facebook. Together we can see the end!
About NTDs
NTDs are a group of 17 parasitic and bacterial infections that are the most common afflictions of the world's poorest people. The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases focuses on the seven most common NTDs that account for 90 percent of the disease burden - elephantiasis, river blindness, snail fever, trachoma, hookworm, whipworm and roundworm. They blind, disable and disfigure their victims, trapping them in a cycle of poverty and disease. Research shows that treating NTDs lifts millions out of poverty by ensuring that children stay in school to learn and prosper, by strengthening worker productivity and by improving maternal and child health.
About Sabin Vaccine Institute
Sabin Vaccine Institute is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organisation of scientists, researchers and advocates dedicated to reducing needless human suffering caused by vaccine-preventable and neglected tropical diseases. Sabin works with governments, leading public and private organisations and academic institutions to provide solutions for some of the world's most pervasive health challenges. Since its founding in 1993 in honour of the oral polio vaccine developer, Dr. Albert B. Sabin, the Institute has been at the forefront of efforts to control, treat and eliminate these diseases by developing new vaccines, advocating the use of existing vaccines and promoting increased access to affordable medical treatments. For more information please visit http://www.sabin.org
About Wunderman UK
Wunderman is the first name in response-driven marketing that delivers measureable results. With 50+ years of innovation, creativity and analytics, Wunderman transforms businesses - delivering digital, data and creative solutions through its network of 145+ offices in 55+ countries and 19 companies specialising in social, mobile, local and performance marketing. Wunderman stands as the first name in advertising that delivers customer conversations which build brands and generate sales.
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Green Gadgets Aim to Woo Eco-Aware ShoppersBy Reuters - Print
Amid the usual array of power-hungry televisions, stereos and computers, a handful of companies promoted high tech products designed to cut energy consumption at a technology show in London.
LONDON (Reuters) - Gadget makers showed off their green credentials at a technology show in London on Friday to try to tempt consumers worried about soaring fuel bills, climate change and the financial crisis.
Amid the usual array of power-hungry televisions, stereos and computers, a handful of companies promoted high tech products designed to cut energy consumption.
London-based firm DIY Kyoto has come up with the Wattson, a wireless device that lets families monitor exactly how much power they are using at home.
It measures electricity consumption and displays the amount of power and how much it costs on a sleek portable box with a digital screen.
The device, which costs 100 pounds, glows red when households use more power than normal or blue when they are being energy efficient.
"The whole idea is to save money and to save the environment," Jason Goldman, of DIY Kyoto, told Reuters at the Stuff Live! show. "You find people try to get the reading down as low as possible."
British gadget Web site www.firebox.com displayed a Chinese-built electric scooter that it has converted for sale on the British market.
Called the Ego Street Scoota, it has a 30 to 40-mile range and a top speed of 30 mph. It costs eight pence to charge the bike using the mains electricity supply.
Parked next to it was a more powerful scooter from U.S. firm Vectrix. Its Maxi-Scooter has a top speed of 62 mph and a range of 68 miles at 25 mph. Its latest model has a built-in music player and a system that sends music wirelessly to your helmet.
While nearly all the gadgets on display rely on electricity or batteries, a range of portable chargers from U.S. company Solio uses solar power.
Its device can convert one hour of sunshine into an hour of playback on an iPod or 25 minutes of talk time on a mobile.
The gadget has three blades which fan out to catch sunlight which it then stores in an internal battery for up to a year.
Wearing its heart on its sleeve, one energy-efficient laptop came with a shell made of bamboo instead of the usual plastic or metal in an attempt to reinforce its eco-friendly aspirations.
Taiwanese computer maker Asustek said it used bamboo because it is strong, grows back quickly and is biodegradable. One blogger quipped: "Don't let your panda near it."
(Editing by Astrid Zweynert and Paul Casciato)
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