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Financial services companies have been promoting Social Security training as a prime means of value-added support for advisors in recent years. But how well have they been doing?
Despite all of the online tools, illustration software, client seminars and educational materials, they could be doing better.
That is perhaps the thrust of a comprehensive new survey of 600 advisors conducted jointly by Practical Perspectives and GDC Research in May.
The completed report, weighing in at 91 pages, found that while virtually all advisors have some understanding of Social Security claiming strategies — vital knowledge in an age of rapidly retiring boomers — most describe their knowledge as modest.
Perhaps more to the point, while advisors utilizing such support say its impact on new client acquisition is minimal, its value lies more in deepening relationships with existing clients.
The report found that Social Security is a mainstream concern of advisors, with more than 9 out of 10 providing some support to clients in this area. Just 8% do not do so, the remaining majority falling into three segments: those who educate their clients about the topic (26%); those who go further by illustrating scenarios and claiming strategies but do not go as far as to make specific recommendations (30%); and a plurality of advisors who recommend a specific plan tailored to the client's needs.
That last group was generally more knowledgeable about Social Security and more successful in generating new business through Social Security.
But overall, for all the attention paid this topic, 41% of advisors surveyed found Social Security had no impact whatsoever on new client acquisition, while nearly the same percentage of advisors (39%) said Social Security was linked to less than 10% of new clients gained in the past year.
A small portion — 15% — of the elite planning segment of advisors — those who make tailored recommendations — traced more than 25% of their new client acquisition to Social Security.
Advisors nevertheless are seeking support from financial service providers — more than 3 in 4 say they want it — yet the Social Security Administration remains by far the single greatest source of advisor information, attracting 75% of advisors surveyed.
That is far higher than the second most relied-on source, the tools and software that vendors provide (47%). Advisors used resources provided by their broker-dealers and custodians (29%) to a more limited extent; and 28% use general financial planning software, with the balance of advisors reporting reliance on colleagues (22%), the media (21%), insurance companies and asset managers (18% each) among other less important sources (e.g., AARP at 11%).
In general, advisors like their Social Security support free, with 43% unwilling to pay any fee; 36% of advisors were willing to pay for programs costing less than $250 a year and just 7% were willing to pay more than $500 annually for such software or tools.
The planners who make Social Security recommendations had a higher willingness to pay for support, but even amongst that more elite group, nearly 4 in 10 fell into the camp of those not willing to pay a fee.
Overall, fewer than 1 in 7 advisors subscribe at cost to a Social Security service.
That leaves ample space for financial services companies to pick up some of the slack, and a large number of firms are seeking to fill the need.
Altogether, advisors — unprompted — named 115 separate sources of information on Social Security (including the Social Security Administration and media sources.)
Just one firm, however, elicited recognition by a majority of respondents as a go-to resource on Social Security: BlackRock.
"I was struck by how few firms received any significant mention as offering leading support beyond BlackRock and a few insurance companies. The asset managers especially lag in this area," Howard Schneider, Practical Perspectives' president, told ThinkAdvisor.
The asset management firm was the top choice — ahead even of the Social Security Administration for all channels (wirehouse, regional, independents) except for RIAs. The latter group sought its information from Fidelity, HealthView Services and MoneyGuidePro.
After BlackRock, the most used Social Security resources were HorseSmouth, MoneyGuidePro, Social Security Solutions/Analyzer and Fidelity.
Advisors' biggest concerns with the available resources are the need for training in order to properly utilize the available tools and uncertainty as to whether the tools at their disposal provide the best advice.
Overall, advisor satisfaction was low.
"I think with some exceptions — BlackRock, Nationwide, Allianz Life, Prudential — most product providers have not figured out how to help advisors work with clients regarding Social Security," Schneider says. "As the report shows, satisfaction with support from providers is modest, at best, and awareness of many providers and tools is also not high."
But that could change as a large advisor majority, roughly 3 in 4, say they are likely to seek out additional support, content or tools related to Social Security in the next year, potentially spurring asset managers, broker-dealers or software providers to connect more strongly with advisors.
"Social Security is not a core competency of most financial services firms," Schneider says. "They don't make any money from providing support, and most advisors have yet to fully engage clients on the subject. I think that is changing as many specialized providers such as Social Security Analyzer try and get a foothold in helping advisors and retail investors."
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- When to Take Social Security: A Breakdown by Marital Status
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A searchable, sortable list of roads in Escambia County with start and end points, length, and maintenance information.
This road list is maintained for internal use by the Escambia County Engineering Department. Pursuant to Chapter 119, Florida Statutes, the road list is a public record that is available for inspection and copying by any person. While the Engineering Department strives to ensure that this list is current and accurate, Escambia County provides no warranties, expressed or implied, for the information contained in the road list. Under Florida law, Escambia County is not liable for errors or inaccuracies in its public records. Accordingly, persons who view the road list are strongly encouraged to verify the accuracy of the information with other sources.
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I've been leading an initiative to establish anonymous credential systems on electronic identity cards, more generally on the Java Card platform. We coined this Smart Identity Card, and contributed it to the FP7 EU project PrimeLife. Whereas we follow the same goal of strong authentication combined with privacy, the Java Card's trust model, limited access to crypto primitives and resource constraints make this a challenge. The system must be secure in face of untrusted terminals and, thus, cannot easily delegate computation to a more powerful device and still achieve practical response times with secure keys. Nevertheless, we were the first to establish a practical and autonomous anonymous credential system on a standard Java Card (on a JCOP 41/v2.2 to be precise).
The German Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI) recognized this with the Innovation Award 2009.
Smart Identity Card (ACM CCS'09)
Patrik Bichsel, Jan Camenisch, Thomas Groß and Victor Shoup. Anonymous Credentials on a Standard Java Card. In ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009, pages 600-610. ACM Press, November 2009.


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Hostel | Kanalmagasinet Hostel lies in the village of Mem. The house was built by King Karl XIV Johan to hold festivities during the opening of the Göta Canal. The first lock along the Göta Canal is at Mem at the portal of the St. Anna archipelago.
Mem offers many activities to choose from. Take a bike ride along the canal to Söderköping, ramble through the forests around Mem, or take a refreshing dip in the sea. Further away, yet still close, you find shopping in Norrköping, challenging and attractive golf courses, and exciting Kolmården with its zoo and other activities for young and old.
Kanalmagasinet was built at the beginning of the 19th century by King Karl XIV Johan. It was built to hold festivities during the opening of the Göta Canal, and the opening banquet was held here in 1832. After this, Kanalmagasinet was used as a warehouse by various companies. Even now, it is easy to visualise the warehouse in use as rural storage, despite it having been rebuilt to suit the current operations.


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By ODU Athletics
FAIRFAX, VA (Feb. 24) - The 2000 CAA Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships got underway with the preliminary rounds of the women's three-meter and men's one-meter dives. The men's and women's swimming competition began on February 24 with prelims in the 500 and 50 yard freestyles, along with the 200 IM.
Old Dominion appears to have the early edge in diving as senior Kevin Harrison (Bethpage, NY) and freshman Ashley Kirchner (Arlington, VA) sit atop the standings after 11 prelim dives. Harrison, the 1999 CAA Diver of the Year, will be looking to repeat at the men's champ in the one-meter, while Kirchner will be seeking to notch her first win in championship competition for the Lady Monarchs on the three-meter.
Below is a schedule of Thursday's events:
2000 CAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Fairfax, VA (George Mason University)
Thursday, Feb. 24 TRIALS-10 am M&W 500 yard freestyle M&W 200 yard IM M&W 50 yard freestyle W Three-meter diving finals (8 dives) M One-meter diving finals (8 dives) FINALS-6 pm M&W 200 yard free relay M&W 500 yard free M&W 200 IM M&W 50 free W Three-meter diving finals (3 dives) M One-meter diving finals (3 dives) M&W 400 yard medley relay


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Heading for the USA
In 1993 Gus went to Santa Cruz, California, for an exchange year where he spent a lot of time at the small, local casino playing poker and observing other players. He carefully studied their individual strategies, especially admiring players with rather unconventional, unpredictable methods. Not sure which strategy was ideal for him, Gus often - even today - uses several approaches in one game, which earned him a reputation of being a sloppy, inconsistent player.
After his military service in Denmark, Gus Hansen headed back to the States, this time to New York where he proved his extraordinary backgammon skills in various backgammon- and Gin Rummy clubs. He decided to make a living as a professional backgammon player, but the field eventually became too small for him. The Dane spent a lot of time hanging out with future poker professionals like Huckleberry Seed and Phil Laak, and his passion for poker was reawakened. Consequently, he often travelled to Las Vegas to learn new poker variations and improve his game.
In 1996 Gus Hansen participated in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for the first time but dropped out on the first day of the tournament. This was no surprise, given that he had never played no-limit Texas Hold'em before. Gus did not lose heart because of this initial failure, though! On the contrary, he intensified his training, tried new poker variations, experimented with various strategies and combined them. Trying to find his own personal style, he eventually realized that combining methods and experimenting with different strategies was precisely what constituted his own personal style. Gus' permanent changing of tactics even led to some of his colleagues suspecting him of having a split personality.
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Big wins thanks to chaotic playing style
This frequently criticized style that may seem chaotic to outsiders eventually became Gus Hansen's trademark and started earning him money as well as recognition. When the first World Poker Tour (WPT) was carried out in 2002, Gus felt ready to go for it and show everyone that he was a force to be reckoned with. He won the $ 10,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas and collected more than $ 500,000 Dollars. After this breakthrough, Gus Hansen's face was well known throughout the poker scene and he seemed literally unstoppable.
In 2003 he received his second WPT title in the L.A. Poker Classic. Only a few months later he participated in the WPT "Bad Boys of Poker" invitational tournament in Las Vegas and won this event as well. He finished third in the WPT Championship. Nothing, it seemed, could end his lucky streak. In 2007 he landed his fourth WPT title in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. That same year, together with Doyle Brunson and James Garner, he was inducted into the World Poker Tour Walk of Fame. Being the only player to have won four WPT titles so far, he gained even greater fame as well as a new nickname: The Great Dane.
But this was only early days: In 2005 Gus Hansen topped his previous victories by collecting a one million dollar pot for his Poker Superstars Invitational victory. That same year he won the London All Star Challenge, as well as the NBC Poker After Dark tournament, beating poker pros like Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed. Gus also was one of the members of Phil Ivey's legendary "Corporation", a club which challenged successful banker and millionaire Andy Beal and shook him down for 16.5 million dollars. In 2007 he won the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, the biggest poker tournament outside the USA, collecting 1.2 million dollars.
It is mainly for his extremely high winnings that Gus Hansen went down in poker history. In 2006, in the second season of High Stakes Poker, he defeated Daniel Negreanu with quads of 5s beating Daniel who, with a full house, felt certain to be collecting the mega pot of $ 575,700, which, until then, was the biggest pot in the entire history of the show! Recently, Gus has been focussing more on cash-games and chooses the tournaments he participates in very carefully. He regularly participates in Bellagio's "Big Play" in Las Vegas where he plays 13 different variants of poker against stars like Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, David Benyamine and Barry Greenstein. He often plays high stakes online poker, mostly pot-limit Omaha or limit Omaha Hi Lo. Rather rarely Gus can be found playing low stake limit Texas Hold'em, Razz or Sit'n'Go matches.
In 2010, Hansen finally won his first WSOP bracelet alongside £288,409 when taking part in the No Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up event at the WSOPE.
In spite of his incredible success, Gus Hanson struggles with financial problems every now and again. His aggressive style and his love of high risk often lead to enormous losses in cash-games. Losing about a million or so in just a couple of games is nothing out of the ordinary for Gus. It is not a secret that he loves all kinds of sports bets and often loses. Sometimes he even bets on his own personal sports performance. Although Gus does not make a secret of his excessive gambling, calling himself a professional gambler, there are moments he wishes he could just kick the habit.
Gus' crazy poker strategy
Gus Hansen describes his unique, aggressive style as a bit "crazy". Unlike his colleague Howard Lederer who recommends every beginner to play very carefully and thoughtfully, Gus does not like the idea of sticking to rules and guidelines. He once explained in an interview that he had read a little bit about poker in order to get a general idea of the game but then had created his own style. Moreover, according to Gus it simply is more fun to "play one's hands instead of throwing them away again and again". Besides, playing more hands can be highly instructive. Even though it is hard for a beginner to play weak hands, Gus recommends everybody to try it as often as possible and to keep experimenting in order to learn something. His style influenced the poker scene in a way that the expression of "having a Gus'" has become synonymous for "having a weak hand", a hand that only Gus Hansen could play successfully. In spite of his anything-goes approach, Gus also stresses the importance of being able to slow down a bit and play more carefully if the situation requires it. Many young, aggressive players lack this ability. It is something Gus has acquired over many years and he is convinced that it is this long-time experience that makes him a better poker player.
There is some malicious gossip about Gus just being lucky without really knowing what he is doing, but his success rate definitely proves the contrary. He does admit to sometimes making questionable decisions and, after all, poker also is a game of chance. But the Great Dane simply is brilliant at it.
Away from the poker tables
Away from the poker tables, Gus Hansen is an all-rounder with multiple talents: he is a passionate tennis player and also plays golf, squash and soccer. Gus is a sports addict with a strong competitive drive. In Denmark he even plays for a football team. Staying in good physical condition is very important for Gus, especially when spending a lot of time sitting at the poker table. Moreover, physical workout perfectly counterbalances the mental challenge of poker and helps him to stay focussed during games and tournaments.
Backgammon is still one of Gus's favourite hobbies and he is always willing to play for high stakes against anybody who dares to challenge him. But Hansen's strong points even go beyond poker, sports and backgammon: in 2004, the bachelor by conviction was elected one of the 50 sexiest men alive by People Magazine.
If, by now, you are so full of admiration you are finding it hard not to lose control, hold on tight and prepare for even more:
Gus comments Danish and American poker broadcasts, features in the American action movie "Redline" (2007) and writes a weekly blog for the Danish newspaper "Ekstra Bladet". In 2003 he was the subject of a Danish documentary film with the title "Royal Straight Flush". Moreover, he has a contract with the Danish men's fashion label Frank Q to wear their couture exclusively for public appearances.
And that's still not the end of it: all-rounder Gus Hansen also has remarkable writing skills and published a book about his victory at the 2007 Aussie Millions called Every Hand Revealed in 2008. He used a voice recorder during the tournament in order to analyze his hands afterwards. The book offers an overview of all hands he played during the tournament. Gus demonstrates how to win a tournament and explains all the decisions he made. In this unique, unprecedented book, some 320 hands have been analyzed.
"Then everybody will see how mad I actually am!" says Gus about his book.
Gus Hansen lives in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and is a bachelor out of conviction, as mentioned above.
"Because I simply like too many women!" he explains.
He travels the world playing poker, doing whatever he likes. According to Gus, this kind of life is not compatible with a permanent relationship and the idea of hooking up does not appeal to him at all. Wrapping the Great Dane around one's finger is not an easy task but stick to it Ladies! Who knows…
Even though he lives alone, Gus loves spending a lot of time with his family in Monaco. He particularly adores his little niece Sally and is looking forward to passing all his poker knowledge on to her.
Gus Hansen – Poker star, brainiac and mastermind, top athlete, writer, actor, TV star, model and sex symbol – this man leaves nothing to be desired!
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(The Root) —
What should I do about a guy friend I really love and care about — and I know he cares for me — who has said he doesn't see me as his life partner? I am heartbroken and at a loss for words. Other folks see what I see whenever we are together. Should I say something again or wait on him? —H.B.
I'm sorry to hear that you are in pain, but don't allow your grief to cloud your judgment. The person you care so much about has made it clear that he is not interested in pursuing a relationship with you, much less marriage. He has been up-front and, so it seems, upstanding. And he has made a decision about what he wants. What "other folks" think or see, and even what you think, doesn't matter. No means no. Respect his candor and his feelings, and also keep a little of your pride by not pushing this issue any further.
You seem to have invested a lot of emotional energy into this friendship and have become a bit deluded about what was occurring between you and him. You note that you love and care about him but describe how he "cares" for you — no mention of love. This points to an imbalance in the feelings between the two of you.
You are also "at a loss for words" over a man telling you he doesn't want to spend his life with you. I'm curious why you even thought he would. He was "only" a friend, not even a boyfriend. If he had not committed to the foreseeable future and did not love you, as you implicitly acknowledge, what made you think that he was remotely interested in forever-ever?
The options you suggest for dealing with this issue won't only strain the existing friendship; they will also embarrass you and leave you further depleted in the long run. Often how this scenario plays out is the guy flat out rejects you again, which means he's actually doing you a favor. Or, worse, he occupies his downtime with you despite not wanting a full-blown relationship, and you continue to pursue his affections. This is a mistake that many women make while dating, one that can lead to bitter spirits and broken hearts.
You're painting yourself into a gray area. He's not entirely right for accepting your ego-stroking attention or bed-warming affection, but he's not exactly wrong, either. After all, he's done his part by telling you what the situation is — that it's nothing serious and going nowhere — and as you continue to pursue him, you're tacitly accepting that you're OK with that arrangement.
Of course you aren't satisfied, since you said you want to spend your life with him, but you'll push forward, intentionally ignoring what he said, and reading into his actions. In the end, someone will come along whom he actually wants to be with, and he will go off to be with her. You will be left wondering something like, "How could he do this to me?!" when actually, you participated in doing it to yourself.
You're setting yourself up for the same result by waiting for him to come around, which is extremely unlikely and a waste of time. It's the equivalent of sitting by the phone waiting for HR to call long after an employer has said you didn't get the job. See how crazy that sounds? It's even crazier when you do it.
Too many women spend too much time on men who are just plain uninterested in them as partners, as your friend has made clear to you. Some of those ladies "wake up" later in life, look around and wonder, "Where did all the good men go?!" Uh … they walked on by and you missed them while you were waiting for Godot. You don't want that to happen to you.
For now, you will be best served by cutting off contact with your friend (at least for now), licking your wounds and then beginning the process of healing your spirit.
Part of that "healing" should include a soul search about why you invested so much into someone who had not invested in you, and why you were willing to ignore the obvious signs that he just wasn't that into you. It's important that you address the root of these issues to keep them from happening again.
Going forward, be more careful to whom you give your heart; it is precious and should be shared only with someone who values it as much as you do.
Good luck!
Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root, a life coach and the author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She answers your dating and relationship questions on The Root each week. Feel free to ask anything at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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People tour the National September 11 Memorial Museum, May 14, 2014.
The long awaited museum will open to the public on May 21 following a six-day dedication period for 9/11 families, survivors and first responders.
The doors to the museum will be open for 24-hours a day from May 15 through May 20.
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A wall with a quote from Virgil and featuring 2,983 panels for each victim, May 14, 2014.
On Thursday President Barack Obama and the first lady attended the dedication ceremony for the opening of the museum.
While the construction of the museum has often been fraught with politics and controversy, the exhibitions and displays seek to pay tribute to the 2,983 victims of the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 bombing while also educating the public on the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
All photos taken on May 14, 2014.
The historical exhibition section inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
The doors open to the general public on May 21.
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A display of front pages of newspapers at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site.
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Eyeglasses and a case found in the World Trade Center wreckage.
A photograph of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing after the September 11, 2001 attack.
A video image of victim of the September 11th Attacks is seen next to the the Last Column of the World Trade Center inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
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Please read PART 1 first.
As stated in part 1 of this report, after the panelists (Dr. Brook, Dr. Sultan, and Dr. Pipes) took the stage and began their opening dialogs, and as Dr. Daniel Pipes began discussing the jihadi threat around the world including the UCLA campus, the protests and disruptions began.
(Again, as stated in part 1, the pictures in the auditorium and outside after dark aren't of high quality. I apologize.)
Dr. Pipes continued to speak, despite the fact that was apparently distracted by something that was transpiring in the audience. I looked behind me and noticed that several audience members began rising from their seats, notably a few young women of Middle-Eastern descent wearing hijab (and it looks like that gentleman in the glasses is flipping me the bird. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, DUDE! Ahem.) No one shouted and no one created much of a ruckus initially. They simply made their way to the aisles and the exits.
Thus the protesting of Dr. Pipes and the panelists began–with a bit of a whimper.
Dr. Pipes continued to speak, but he was slightly preoccupied with this initial tide of the protest. Still, he and the panelists conducted themselves professionally. They didn't acknowledge the activists with anger or disdain, choosing rather to ignore them for as long as possible.
More protestors rise and head for the exits. As you can see, it continued quietly and with a considerable amount of reserve from those in revolt, so much so that many in the audience barely took notice, as you can see in the above picture.
Unfortunately, this relative decorum would not last.
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius. The above three women must be having one hell of a flashback because they can't seem to remember that this is 2007 and not 1969. As they passed me up the aisle, making their way toward the exit, it became apparent to me that more had likely been planned by the protestors, and specifically these three elderly ladies, in order to create chaos and disorder within the nights proceedings. As one can see from this photograph, the three women all had black shirts with large white letters plastered on the front. It was obviously meant to spell out "LIAR" but the opportunity to stand united and actually spell the word for the panelists and/or the audience never came to pass. Alas, the will to fight seems to have been drained from these particular women. They didn't even try, opting instead to simply walk out of the auditorium without executing their carefully laid plan–without even trying.
At least, the "R" and the "A" lady gave up. The "LI" lady wasn't as easily deterred.
This particular protestor, pictured above, was evidently the better third of the "LIAR" lady trilogy. While she didn't have anything intelligent to say, she said it loudly and repeatedly.
"LIARS! LIARS! LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!" All the while she too made for the exits.
Wagging her finger at the panelists, the "LI" lady resumed her retreating diatribe, "LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!"
By the time she started shouting, so too did the audience, admonishing her and the other protestors disruptive behavior. Many in auditorium at this point were adding their voices to the din, urging the "LI" lady to beat a hasty retreat so the panelists could forge ahead.
The protests from these three women didn't quite make sense to me. If they were protesting Dr. Pipes and the other panelists, claiming they were liars, then it was apparent to me they (the three ladies in particular) had never even attempted a read of the Qur'an. Many of the statements by the panelists, even this early in the discussion, could be referenced directly from the words and actions of Muhammad within the pages of the Qur'an, or even better, the Hadith. So dubbing the panelists liars was inaccurate. They weren't there to lie. They were there to provide truths and opinions on what actions might or must be taken to protect the west from radical Islam.
As Dr. Sultan stated during the event, no one has ever murdered someone because they were emulating Jesus. If one wishes to emulate the prophet Muhammad however (as every good Muslim is taught and required to do as Muhammad is the embodiment of the perfect man and all men and women should be like him), killing and murdering by his example is sanctioned within the pages of the Qur'an and the Hadith.
Finally, one last protestor unfurls a large sign (too big for his wingspan to handle appropriately as you can tell from the above picture–it seems to read "s DON'T SUPPORT TE SPEECH.") Needless to say, the sign was difficult to read.
Dr. Pipes in the upper left calmly waits until the protests subside.
I think it said, "DON'T SUPPORT HATE SPEECH." I heard quite a bit of hate speech from the "LI" lady. She spewed "LIARS!" forth with quite a bit of acerbically drenched venom, but I didn't notice hate speech coming from any of the panelists. Some in the auditorium may have been slightly surprised by some of the verbiage coming from Dr. Brook for example, but hate speech appeared relegated to the protesters alone.
As the disruptions subsided, Dr. Pipes resumed his initial comments. You can see he had to remove the lav mic attached to his lapel and bring it closer to his mouth because some in the back of the venue had difficulties hearing him speak.
After a couple of minutes, I became audibly aware that a commotion was taking place outside of the building. Predicting more protests, I quickly shot from my seat (no offense to panelists hopefully) and made my way outside to see what might be taking place.
Yup. More protests. The individual on the far right of the above picture even sported a fashionable kaffiyeh and military fatigues while banging peacefully on his tabla.
I couldn't quite make out what the sign read though.
Ahh! Of course. The protesters had taken the opportunity to transform the panelist's discussion, Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West, into a peace protest against the war in Iraq. That makes perfect sense, especially since the discussion rarely focused on Iraq or the American military adventure within. In fact, the only time the war in Iraq every really surfaced in the dialog was during the question and answer period at the end. This event was not about the Iraq war, but the protesters felt (in a somewhat bigoted manner) that speaking about radical Islam must logically relate directly to that conflict, despite the fact that the majority of the worlds Muslims do not live in the Middle East.
Within this group marched Muslims, hippies, students, young children and even babies (who obviously had no idea why everyone was shouting so angrily.) It was ragtag, and barely organized. The march itself was pathetically short, mostly regionalized to the west face of the building wherein the panelists were speaking, and the south side of the building.
I honestly can't remember what everyone was shouting. All I can say is how disappointed I was to see what appears a fellow metal-head, framed in the center of this photograph, participating in the peace march. Dude, metal is not peaceful.
I was sad to see I had just missed Muslims participating in salah–their prayers, but at least I managed to snap a picture of their rolled up musallah.
There were some young Muslims minutes later praying, but my camera did not take any adequate photographs of their activities unfortunately.
Finally, I re-entered the auditorium and took my seat, taking in the rest of the discussion. Oddly, I had been wondering earlier in the day as to why this issue of radical Islam is such a polarizing one. In general, why does it divide so evenly down political lines? Why is it so partisan? If the left is the champion of women's rights, equal rights, no war, etc. why would they so recklessly wish to support a religion as oppressive to its followers, particularly its women, as Islam? I mean, the left generally would rather abolish all religion anyway. Why fight for a religious faith that sanctions plural marriage, marriage to children and the subsequent pedophilia (as Muhammad did with Aisha when she was six), beating of women, killing of dissidents, etc.? These are some of the major tenets that the left purports they desire so strongly to prevent, yet they stand in solidarity with Islam. So why the blatant hypocrisy?
Dr. Pipes and Dr. Brook actually satisfactorily answered my question thanks to a question from the audience. The reason why leftists support Islam is because they all share a common enemy–George W. Bush specifically and western culture and society generally. Who cares if Muslims, under the auspices of Islam and Muhammad, commit abhorrent acts of terror, killing scores of innocent people throughout the world? They hate George Bush. They hate the West and the decent individualistic values we stand for.
It was an interesting and enlightening evening and I hope Dr. Pipes will make his way back soon, for myself and those who wanted to hear what he and the other panelists had to say, and for the panelists right to say it.


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Training and Program Support
Technical Assistance
ODVN offers on-site and telephone consultation to domestic violence service providers and allied professionals, including batterer intervention programs. In addition, ODVN assists communities in developing coordinated community responses to domestic violence and sponsors issue-specific networking caucuses and taskforces. For more information about caucus and taskforce offerings click here.
For more information about any of the technical assistance offerings below, please email Shelley Marsh, the Training and Program Support Director or Emily Kulow, the Assistant Training and Program Support Director.
Program Design and Development
Do you want to know the best practice for developing a particular program or service? Want to design new, revised, or expanded programs? Have questions about how to improve the way in which you are providing services? Want assistance in thinking through developing a new program? ODVN can provide you with guidance and assistance in your endeavors, to make programs accessible and effective and help you get the outcomes you are looking for.
Quality Improvement Plans
Does your agency have trouble obtaining consistency in quality of service? Is the staff experiencing difficulty strategizing ways to complete paperwork and provide service in an effective manner? ODVN staff can work with you to identify the problem areas, create a quality improvement plan and establish a committee to ensure that the plan is working and you are getting the results the funders are looking for.
Outcome and Evaluation
Outcome and evaluation studies have become a staple in grant management. If you are not sure how to develop outcome studies with evaluation plans, contact ODVN and we will work with you to develop realistic outcomes, create implementation plans that will get your agency to the desired outcomes, and construct evaluation tools that will measure your results.
Staff Retreats
Does your staff need an energizer or retreat but there is no time or energy to plan one? Technical assistance is available to help your organization plan and develop staff retreats that meet the needs of each organization. Staff is also available to facilitate your retreat.
Advocacy and Intervention
Could your staff use a higher level of advocacy and intervention skills? Do staff, volunteers, or board members need guidance in working with survivors and their children? All trainings are grounded in the core principles of the Domestic Violence Movement. ODVN also has expertise in anti-oppression theory and outreach to underserved populations. Call or email Shelley Marsh, the Training and Program Support Director or Emily Kulow, the Assistant Training and Program Support Director to schedule a training that can be held on-site at your agency or for your community.
Research and Information Gathering
Have questions or need information on general or specific topics related to domestic violence? Need information on the emerging issues related to domestic violence? Call or email Shelley Marsh, the Training and Program Support Director or Emily Kulow, the Assistant Training and Program Support Director who can provide answers to questions, research issues, and supply materials on a variety of topics, including promising practices in service delivery to survivors of domestic violence.
Coordinated Community Response
Need some help developing a local domestic violence task force or coordinating council? Staff is available to help your organization develop strategies, training programs, or other methods to improve the coordinated community response.
If you need assistance with something in your program that does not appear above, please call or email Shelley Marsh, the Training and Program Support Director or Emily Kulow, the Assistant Training and Program Support Director, and ODVN will do its best to assist you with your needs or refer you to the appropriate person or organization.


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Great ways to show off youthful potential
WHEN looking to take the leap into the employment market, the class of 2012 should turn their lack of experience from a negative into a positive for potential employers according to Kevin Ayre, CEO, Sarina Russo Job Access.
Mr Ayre said school leavers must promote their understanding of new technology, their multi-tasking ability, their high energy levels, the fact they have few commitments outside work and their flexibility as they are still in a learning mode and not set in their ways.
"The 'class of 2012' should also be aware of a few simple strategies employers use to choose the best job candidates," Mr Ayre said.
"Employers want a can-do personality, will-do attitude and will-fit company culture.
"The preparation of a good resume and cover letter is vital for school leavers to get through the job application stage."
When reading resumes, Mr Ayre said employers look for:
- Consistent grades - indicates an ability to apply yourself to a task
- Extra-curricular activities - indicates an ability to prioritise and multi-task
- Involvement in sport or team-based activity - indicates good discipline, focus and the ability to work in a team
- Part-time work - indicates initiative, a work ethic and customer service skills
- Voluntary work- indicates a preparedness to give something back to the community
- Networking - indicates a 'can-do' attitude
At the interview stage, he said an employer will be impressed if you:
- Are neatly attired, polite and on time for the interview
- Have researched their business and understand their industry
- Can relate how your personal qualities will benefit their business.
"School leavers who plan to go on to university or enrol in vocational education should still heed these strategies to secure part-time work which will enhance their long-term employability skills," Mr Ayre said.
"As they say it's always easier to get a job if you already have a job."
Mr Ayre said school leavers need to become proactive jobseekers and actively look for a job - because "the job won't look for you".
He recommended reaching outside of your comfort zone and contacting people you've never met, planning how to best sell yourself, preparing your own list of interview questions relevant to the industry, company and the potential role, and always be professional - even if there's no work


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Ustream as a company likes to challenge employees to think outside of the box and fuse in creativity. We believe that being surrounded by unique, innovative people helps develop new ideas.
In February, we hosted an internal Hackathon to give engineers the freedom to work on things they love and to hack solutions that could solve problems to find better ways of doing things at our company.
(To learn more, check out this previous blogpost)
We hoped that in a few months, one or two of the Hackathon projects would become a reality and make it into the product as a feature or a completely new application.
Some of our developers needed a tool to make their life easier. Instead of purchasing an already available product, they gathered together and developed their own tool, now called Openduty. (You can see the source on Github)
The OpenDuty project is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service built for system administrators and support teams on call duty. When an incident happens regarding our server or service, this tool provides a proper alerting system for quick notification. This development will automatically route actionable alerts when a problem occurs and determine whom to contact.
Till the end of the Hackathon contest an internal SMS gateway, a Pagerduty compatible REST API, and a basic admin dashboard was developed. The team succeeded to send automated SMS and phone call notifications for a given alert, escalate it according to a calendar, and see logs according to the failures in the system.
In 2 months they have build a Beta version and started implementing new bells and whistles.
Today, Openduty collects alerts from monitoring tools, provides an overall summary of the alerts and allows users to build notification rules. It provides also the freedom to set up multiple levels of coverage, so if the "primary" on-call person doesn't respond to an alert in a timely fashion, it's automatically escalates to a "secondary" person, and so on. The system integrates with GTalk, Push notification, Phone and Text Message (operates through Twilio).
The idea came from Bálint Csergő (Deathowl) who works as an Infrastructure engineer at Ustream Hungary. He and his team constantly work on new ideas to make Ustream's service better.
We welcome any feedback or ideas regarding this project!


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Chlordane, a chlorinated cyclodiene that is the principal isomer formed in the preparation of a contact insecticide of the same name. Chlordane is a thick, odourless, amber liquid with a molecular formula of C10H6Cl8. The compound's accepted name is octachlorohexahydromethanoindene.
The organochlorine insecticide chlordane (also called octachlor) was used extensively in agriculture from the mid-1940s through the mid-'60s. It is made by the chlorination of chlordene (hexachlorotetrahydromethanoindene), a cyclodiene having the molecular formula C10H6Cl6. The commercial insecticide contains 60 to 75 percent chlordane; the remainder consists of several compounds closely related to it, including heptachlor. Heptachlor was first observed as a minor component (about 10 percent) in the manufacture of chlordane. It is a white crystalline solid with a melting point of about 95° C and a molecular formula of C10H5Cl7 and is also known as heptachlorotetrahydromethanoindene.
Chlordane and heptachlor are highly toxic to many insects, and as a class, the organochlorine compounds are considered less toxic to mammals than either the carbamate or organophosphate insecticides. But because chlordane and heptachlor are readily absorbed through the skin and can cause liver damage in laboratory animals, their use has been banned in many countries.


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If you've spent any time on the soccer corner of the internet in the past month, you know that FIFA 11 has hit shelves worldwide. To help the spread the word, EA Sports hired NBA all-star and Vancouver Whitecaps part-owner Steve Nash to direct a series of promos starring American soccer poster boy Landon Donovan. MLSsoccer.com caught up with the Phoenix Suns' point guard/soccer fanatic/budding film auteur to get his take on videos games, supporters' culture and the Whitecaps upcoming MLS campaign.
MLSsoccer.com: So, tell me about directing. You've directed this series of promos for FIFA 11 and recently did the documentary Into The Wind for ESPN. What made you decide to get into film?
Nash: You know, I just developed a love of film and, at some point, I just felt like I had something to say and just started creating things. And now it's starting to take off. It's something that I enjoy and I'm really passionate about. I'm learning a lot and growing as a person because of it. My cousin and I are partners, so it's been a lot of fun.
MLSsoccer.com: Was it fun directing Landon Donovan?
Nash: It was great, especially since I hadn't met Landon before and I'd been such a fan and had such respect for his abilities. To get a chance to meet him in person and work with him and to see that he's a funny guy, a talented guy, was fun. He's somebody who has a sense of humor but is really easy to talk to and get along with. When you see someone like him who represents his country at the highest level, you have automatic respect for him, but then you meet him and he's an easy guy to get along with, which is nice.
[inline_node:318943]MLSsoccer.com: Did you get to play him at FIFA 11 at all? I don't know if you know, but he likes to talk up his game on Twitter; he's always trash-talking to the other MLS & USMNT players so I'm wondering if he really is that good.
Nash: I didn't get a chance to, really. For the sake of the shoot, we were playing at one point in the back of a vehicle, but we really didn't get to play a real, full game. So there is no winner yet. But he definitely has a lot of ability.
We should actually get all those guys from the US team in the FIFA Pro Player Challenge and see who really is the best. And let them put some money where their mouth is.
MLSsoccer.com: What about you? Are you a big gamer?
Nash: I'm not a huge gamer, but I like to play. It's becoming more of a passion for me now with all of the incredible graphics. The CGI on FIFA 11 is incredible and makes it really fun to play. I'm dying to play it a little more just because it's so lifelike.
MLSsoccer.com: Aside from the FIFA 11 promos do you have anything else coming in the way of film work?
Nash: We're actually producing a documentary on Pele with Bill Guttentag, who's an Academy Award-winning director. I'm super excited about that because obviously Pele's such an iconic person and a wonderful story to tell at this stage, where a lot of young kids may not know a lot about him and older people may have forgotten about him. So we can dig back and find out what made him such a special, charismatic star, his place in the history of the game, and also lead us into getting excited for the World Cup in Brazil.
MLSsoccer.com: That sounds great. I have to say you've got a lot on your plate outside of basketball. Next year you're going to be part of the Vancouver Whitecaps ownership group. Do you plan on being pretty hands on?
[inline_node:312372]Nash: You know what, I'd like to be connected in different ways. I'd like to have my hand in the structure of the athletic side of the club, the development of players, their fitness and training, the culture of the club -- I think those are the areas of the club where I could lend my professional expertise, I would say, having been a professional athlete for 14 years now. I want to add value there and wherever else I can but, for the most part, I'm just going to be a superfan. I want to cheer for my local team and be there to support our club with our local community.
MLSsoccer.com: Most people in the soccer community know you are a big fan. What's your take on supporters' culture in North America? Do you have much experience with it or any opinions on it?
Nash: I think that supporters' culture is generally based on tradition. If you look around the world, the clubs that have great fan support, whether it's a 100 year-old club in Europe or a college team in the United Sates or an NFL team, the teams that have great fan culture and support base it all on tradition. We're skipping that in many ways in MLS because the league is a baby. I think we should be proud of the fan culture we have. I think, obviously, Toronto and Seattle are leading the way as far as fan culture goes, but other clubs are stepping up quickly. Both LA teams, New York, DC -- they all have great fan culture and I'm sure that Vancouver, Portland and Montréal will have great fan culture, so it's quickly catching on.
Some of that is due to the traditions that the clubs or the city's had with the NASL and some of it is just taking a liking to the game and riding the wave of soccer's growing popularity. It takes a while to develop a true fan culture but, for MLS at this stage, with it's lack of longevity, it's pretty phenomenal where it's come in such a short amount of time.
MLSsoccer.com: You just touched on something I was going to ask you about by mentioning Toronto and Seattle. Which do you think will be a bigger rival for the Whitecaps: Seattle or Toronto?
[inline_node:306366]Nash: I think they are going to be different. Obviously, there is a major Canadian rivalry with Toronto, but we'll have that rivalry with Montreal as well. I think we're going to have a big border war with Seattle, but we'll also have a big I-5 rivalry with Portland. It's fantastic for Vancouver because we're going to have four rivals, and derbies and rivalries are what make soccer special. I can't wait to see all the travelling support, the passionate fans and sellout crowds; it's going to be a great chapter of our franchises history.
MLSsoccer.com: This is a question that comes from the guys at Sounder at Heart. In the Pacific Northwest, you've got three MLS teams coming in and two NBA teams going out in the last 10 years. As someone who knows both sports and is from the area, do you see a connection?
Nash: I think the NBA left Vancouver and Seattle unnecessarily. They had great support in Vancouver, regardless of reports. It was difficult at times with sponsorship because the Canadian dollar wasn't that strong back then, but we had an owner come in and realize he could make a lot of money by buying the team and moving it to Memphis. So the league can pin that on the city.
And Seattle -- it was the arena. Their lease agreement was not good and they couldn't get a new one built. They're an unbelievable sports town with great fan support but it was just another deal where another owner came in and decided that it could be more profitable in another city. That's just what happens.
MLSsoccer.com: So really it's more of a business thing than a cultural thing?
Nash: For sure. Vancouver's dying to have another NBA team. It's a shame, but it's a business.
MLSsoccer.com: Do you think you guys [Vancouver Whitecaps] will delve into the world of Designated Players? Do you think there is any real value in that for you guys?
[inline_node:312370]Nash: We're definitely hoping to because there is value in that. We're going to to be very critical of any decision we may make to make sure that it's about the long term, not the short term. We want to build the right foundation to develop the right culture and chemistry within our team. What we don't want to do is do it as a novelty and sign any player just for the press. We want to sign a player that we feel makes a lot of sense for us on the field, so it's got to be a very well-scouted, well-thought out decision so that we are adding value to our club on and off the field, but most importantly on the field and in the locker room.
MLSsoccer.com: So you're not going to sign yourself is what you're saying?
Nash (chuckling): Yeah, that would be called a novelty.
MLSsoccer.com: Hey, I've seen you play in Chinatown here in New York a few times. I know you can ball.


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Lawsuit pending 1 year after casino construction collapse
More than a dozen workers fell 30 feet in collapse
Victims are still recovering after a construction accident that took place one year ago.
It was on Jan. 27, 2012, that part of the Horseshoe Casino collapsed during construction. The collapse injured more than a dozen workers. Some are still recovering after the collapse.
The second floor of the Horseshoe Casino collapsed sending workers to a 30-foot fall.
Several of those injured workers have named the casino in a lawsuit alleging negligence.
That lawsuit was filed in the fall of 2012 against construction contractor Messer Construction.
Horseshoe Casino was added to that lawsuit on Friday.
Four plaintiffs said they still suffer from their injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Workers were pouring concrete when structural beams collapsed and a 60-by-60 foot section of the floor collapsed.
"My eyes opened this morning and the first thing I said was 'Thank you Lord, I'm still here.' We're lucky to be alive," James Lancaster said. He was one of the men injured and he is part of the lawsuit.
Six construction companies, including Messer, were cited by OSHA for failing to complete routine safety inspections, among other things.
"It just dropped straight down and me and several other employees were in the middle of the slab and the main beam had given away. We plunged 32 feet, I thought to our deaths," Lancaster said.
Lancaster broke his back in two places.
Erika Morthland's husband, Mikah, was injured in the collapse.
"(The companies) are worried about protecting their assets instead of the men and women who worked for them. Our lives are changed forever,"Morthland said.
The casino is scheduled to open March 4.
Messer Construction said they don't comment on pending litigation. A spokesperson for Horseshoe Casino said they weren't aware they had been named in the lawsuit.


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HCS has run a set of computing resources for students and student groups almost since its inception. While we used to charge for these services, we've since seen the light (or rather learned that we're not very good at collecting money) and aim to provide new and cutting edge technology directly to students. We operate on the premise that we move faster than Harvard can, so we can provide cool new things right away (FAS IT seems to take about 8 years, judging by the speed at which they adopted Apache2 - they still don't offer databases to users).
We've got a lot of cool projects going on right now, and we're always planning more. Is there something that really bothers you about technology access at Harvard? Tell us about it! Do you want to learn how to engineer real, deployed systems with thousands of users? Or do you just want to work on one of our super-cool projects (or suggest one of your own)? Join us!
This list is somewhat out-of-date. We work on it, but you'll always do better to look at the prospective projects page on our wiki.
You can reach us at systems (at) hcs (.harvard.edu). We're very friendly.
Systems Projects
These projects are happening now and will probably never really go away.
System Maintenance
We run 5 servers (login, mail, web, MySQL, and test) plus a NetApp filer which form the core of our current production services. Additionally, we have backup mail servers, our office heads, monitoring machines, and some miscellaneous equipment currently being used to attach our office to production via a VPN. Keeping these systems running, happy and secure requires maintenance - we get a lot of traffic (something like a few web hits per second and ~28,000 unique inbound mail messages per day during the school year). Plus, we always have need for one tool or another to make maintenance easier, so we write a lot of scripts in sh, python, and perl. Right now, we're thinking about 2 larger projects: one to make Ruby on Rails easy for users (currently, they'd have to set up a proxy by hand) and one to make using external DNS names (or names of the form groupname.groups.hcs.harvard.edu) easy for users while running the associated virtualhosts easy for us.
Account Services/RT
We support hundreds of student groups and thousands of mailing lists. Naturally, not everyone who uses these services is an expert, so we've got to help them out. And we want to make sure that we do so in a professional manner (i.e. in a reasonable time frame, courteously, etc.), which can be difficult since we get 3-4 new requests per day. As such, we maintain and are actively improving a ticketing system (RT) to make sure we can manage our user interactions and still stay sane. RT has the advantage of being free and easier to use than Remedy, the system that FAS IT uses to do the same job. Finally, we write and maintain a series of tools to make it easy for users to get at their accounts. This includes everything from our automated mailing list generation system to simple tools for managing access lists to our grand schemes for web-based account management and/or e-mail.
These projects might be at any stage from ideas jotted down on whiteboards in our office to products that we're just about to launch. Some of them will turn into really cool things as they mature. Others will probably fizzle out for lack of interest. And of course, there are many more projects that we've thought of and which aren't even at the stage where they've made it onto this page. We encourage people to suggest projects - there's plenty of stuff to do.
We've recently written a package management system for groups so that commonly used web software (e.g. Drupal, MediaWiki, WordPress, and the like) can be installed or upgraded with a one-click interface. Hopefully, this will make our systems more user-friendly and people won't be so scared about having to use SSH. We're almost ready to launch the software and we're looking down the road at 2 questions: how do we maintain packages going forward and what software should we package?
People have been trying for years to make a single integrated Harvard calendar. The latest effort, Lonespot, while a nice website, falls victim to the same problem as all of the others that came before it: it's impossible to convince people to go read or contribute to a website unless it's already relevant to them.
We're taking a different approach. Let's assume that student groups will go to the effort of putting events on their web pages. We're writing a single piece of calendaring software which will allow web-based updates and export iCalendar feeds so that users can read the calendars they want to see in their favorite iCalendar-compliant reader (which, for most people, will be Google Calendar). Further, we'll leverage hcs-pkg so that people who install our software will have the option to register in a searchable database of calendar feeds so that new students can find the feeds they want to read easily.
HCS hosts over half of the websites of Harvard's 13 houses. Everyone agrees that houses have lots of special needs: room reservation systems, facebooks, event RSVP trackers, grille ordering systems, and the need to authenticate users against all of these systems. With the current hodgepoge of house website systems, everyone has to do all of these tasks themselves. What results is a huge disparity between the quality of websites and overall technology integration between houses.
We envision a system in which house websites are built on a standard platform with a collectively maintained core and native support for modularity. The platform must be robust enough to support the needs of a house without getting in the way, easy enough to use so that non-technical persons can edit the content, simple enough to develop for that budding developers can produce nontrivial applications, versatile enough that house websites appear heterogeneous, and extensible enough to support future needs, even unforeseen ones. In such a system, anyone who develops a tool such as a room reservation system has to use a set of interfaces which are standardized to the base platform. Then other houses can easily integrate such a tool immediately, even without strong technical knowledge.
Supporting such a system requires 2 things: declaring and maintaining a base platform, along with providing strategies to get houses to install and maintain it, and maintaining a repository for modules that extend the functionality of that platform. HCS has done several things to this effect. First, we've been actively encouraging houses and organizations to migrate their websites to Drupal, which fits many or all of the stipulated requirements for a base platform. Second, HCS is planning to run a subversion repository open to people developing tools for houses and to encourage such people to port these tools to Drupal modules. It should even be possible to leverage hcs-pkg to make house-specific modules one-click install packages. Currently, 3 houses already use (non-packaged) Drupal, and at least one is considering a switch.
Large-Scale Virtualization
Wouldn't it be cool if we could give away virtual machines to anyone who asked? We think so, too. And we're working hard on making it a reality. Specifically, we'd like to provide a system where machines could either be deployed empty and in the presence of images that could be installed and built from scratch or be deployed against one of several prototypes with pre-configured software stacks. The idea is that people with specific, common needs (say to run an application server that requires administrative access) can run preconfigured lightweight machines. People with complex needs, houses, and big projects, on the other hand, can run their own machines. Ideally, we'd support a variety of architectures and even proprietary operating systems. Interested? Come talk to us. There'll be a lot of development as this gets going. We'll hopefully be collaborating with our friends down the river at SIPB who are trying something very similar.
Single Sign-On, and PIN/Kerberos Integration
With all of these groups going to Drupal and other pieces of web-based software, we're reaching the point we've been trying to avoid all these years - the point where people have passwords for their HCS-hosted resources. Shared passwords are a huge problem, not only from a security perspective but from an ease-of-management perspective (since we have to reset them all the time). If we had some sort of single sign-on that could authenticate users via existing credentials from the UIS PIN system or from the FAS Kerberos realm or both, we could do lots of cool stuff like a web-based account control panel, web-based e-mail for groups, and the publishing of a single API for people to tie this authentication and thus an access list model into their web-based software.


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If you've turned on a television, read a newspaper or visited an Internet news site in the last year, you've heard of Bernie Madoff, the investor sentenced to life in prison for running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. The same is probably true for numerous other rogue businessmen like Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski and Enron's notorious Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. But what about the smaller con men who get away with bilking investors out of millions, even billions, of dollars every year?
We've rounded up some of the most unbelievable scams you may have never heard of over the last few years. The ones that keep the SEC and other federal investigators busy day in and day out. They may not be as notorious as the big boys, but they're all cases of American Greed.
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Macs are great for beginners, because the basics are easy. The challenge comes when you want OS X to do things your way. For Mac users who want to travel beyond the basics, Master Your Mac is here to help. You'll learn how to:
- Automate day-to-day tasks with AppleScript, triggers, and Automator macros
- Turn your Mac into a file or web server
- Create Safari extensions and use site-specific browsers
- Secure your Mac with firmware passwords, firewalls, and FileVault encryption
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"I'll just say the $29.95 list price for this title is some of the best money a new Mac user can fork over. Mr. Cone's style is simple, direct, and informative and lets readers take action simply and easily. I highly recommend this book for those wanting to make more of their Mac experience."
About the Author
Matt Cone is a technical writer and has been a Mac user for more than 20 years. A former ghostwriter for some of Apple's most notable instructors, Cone founded Macinstruct in 1999, one of the most popular online destinations for OS X tutorials.
Peak Inside the Book
In Master Your Mac, you'll find out how to change hidden defaults and enable undocumented features; repair disk permissions to improve performance and keep things humming along; monitor your system; and even create a bootable USB drive for emergencies.
Master Your Mac is packed with tips and addons to make everything you do with your Mac faster, easier, and better. Take a look at the table of contents and some sample chapters: Talking to Your Mac and Creating a Bluetooth Proximity Monitor.


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Lucky girl, 16 year old and already owning an electric car. While I own my LEAF, my 21 year old son (who's living at home and commuting to college) gets to drive it and puts the most miles on it. The rule in my household is that anybody who needs to drive the furthest (within LEAF range, of course) gets priority over using the LEAF. Since my work commute is so close to home, he always wins out over me and his mom.Cheezmo wrote:My daughter learned on an ICE, had a little experience with the Leaf, and when she turned 16, the Leaf became hers. Had that same cool feeling of a generation starting that will never have regularly driven gas cars.
nice video you shared ....KellyROlsen wrote:Here's a video I made showing a mother and father giving their son his first driving lesson in their LEAF.
A whole generation of drivers are coming up who will have the option of never having to deal with hassles and environmental issues associated with gas vehicles.
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Climate change is making forest fires around the world bigger and more intense, increasing the threat to people and the environment and costing countries millions in damage and firefighting expenses, the United Nations reports.
With estimates of firefighting costs ranging from $450 million to $900 million per fire season, some countries — such as Canada — may no longer be able to afford to fight fires with the vigor that they currently do, cautioned the report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
In a global assessment of forest fires, the Rome-based agency found that 865 million acres of vegetation were affected by fires in 2000 alone — most of it in sub-Saharan Africa.
The report noted that not all forest fires are bad and that in some areas, ecosystems need fire for plant regeneration. Fire is also an important and widely used tool in agriculture. But overall, the report said, forest fires caused immense damage in human, environmental and economic costs — and are expected to increase in size and intensity alongside global warming.
The report urged countries to invest more in fire preparedness and prevention, noting that people are the main causes of fires and need to be better educated about preventing them.
The report stressed that the data was incomplete since many regions don't record the extent of fires because it costs too much. Data from Southeast Asia, for example — where forest fires in recent years have raised international concern — was particularly scant. But FAO said the report represented the best assessment of the global fire situation to date.
North American researchers reported that the incidence and severity of fires "will increase dramatically" with global warming.
In the most recent years for which figures are available, the United States recorded the most severe series of fire seasons since it started collecting statistics, with more than 7 million acres burned in 2004. Initial figures indicate that 8.6 million acres were burned in 2005.
Mediterranean countries also said that warmer temperatures and reduced rainfall in summer — both associated with climate change — would increase the risk of fires in the region and beyond. That concern was echoed by Caribbean countries, which noted an increase in fires with the El Nino weather phenomenon.


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The latest in the hugely popular Call of Duty series, Call of Duty 3 delivers the intensity of being closer than ever to the fury of combat during the Normandy Breakout, the historic campaign that made the liberation of Paris possible and brought the Allies a step closer to Berlin.
Through a seamless narrative that delivers the rush of unrelenting battle and breathtaking action, players assume the roles of four ordinary Allied soldiers - American, British, Canadian and Polish - and are thrust into authentic battlefield situations that feature an unprecedented variety of combat.
Tailor-made to take full advantage of the advanced technology at the heart of PlayStation®3, Call of Duty 3 brings the battle to life with advanced graphics, a new physics engine, procedural environments, detailed ensemble animations and explosive on-screen action, which deliver the most immersive and cinematically intense war experience ever.
Next generation level design provides multiple attack routes that let players decide how to confront the enemy. Each mission requires you to employ special tactics, from sniping and demolition to all-out head-on clashes, while a new close-quarters battle mechanic allows you to fight hand-to-hand.
State of the art environmental physics enable you to destroy enemy cover, forcing foes out in the open, but beware as opponents can eliminate your protective cover as well.
A new vehicle based multiplayer mode introduces combined arms and team-based combat, which provide unprecedented depth and variety by allowing players to battle it out online with the option of single or split-screen Internet play.
You have the choice to play as infantry or commandeer vehicles, including tanks, jeeps, and motorcycles with sidecars, leading to unique mobile combat roles for all-out, multiplayer mayhem. Call of Duty 3 also offers soldier classes, each with class specific abilities, and a ranking system for truly diverse squad combat.
War of the world
The other first person shooter in the PlayStation 3 launch line-up, Resistance: Fall of Man, gives you a slice of gritty, science fiction action as you try to turn back an invasion in 1950s Europe. With Call of Duty 3, the 1940s action is far from sci-fi, but no less gritty as you push beyond the Normandy beaches and take a step closer to Berlin and victory. A step the retreating German forces will make you pay dearly for.
The highly-respected Call of Duty series has been enthralling PlayStation heroes since its debut on PlayStation 2 with Call of Duty: Finest Hour in 2004. Now the World War 2 FPS advances to the next generation with Call of Duty 3 on PlayStation 3.
Norman conquest
Having tackled many of the seminal confrontations of the war, developer Treyarch has turned its attentions to the events that followed the Normandy invasion. Allied forces from around the world worked in tandem to push into the French mainland, with the ultimate goals of liberating Paris and pushing the Axis forces back to Berlin. Call of Duty 3 lets you see this decisive and bloody campaign through the eyes of four brave soldiers; a British SAS soldier, a Polish Tank Commander, a Canadian Mechanised Infantryman and an American GI.
These four unique viewpoints let you experience different facets of this bloody campaign; on foot, in the air (via parachute) and in an array of authentically reproduced WW2 land vehicles. As an infantryman you'll find yourself in the very thick of the conflict; from house-to-house, close quarters fighting in occupied towns and villages, to battling your way through fortified enemy trenches scarring the once beautiful French countryside. As well as utilising a familiar array of sub-machine guns, rifles and grenades, you'll also become familiar with an arsenal of support weapons such as machine guns (both portable and emplaced) and mortars.
Wireless operator
Being at the sharp end of the action, you'll be fighting German forces closely, and in some cases too closely. Stroll into a location that hasn't been thoroughly scouted (or grenaded) and you'll find yourself grappling with a Wehrmacht soldier trying to wrestle your rifle from your grasp or plunge a knife into your chest. Utilising the motion sensitive abilities, grappling the SIXAXIS Wireless Controller back and forth (as per the on-screen instructions) you can gain the upper hand and dispatch your attacker and move on.
The motion sensitive challenge comes in to play in other life-or-death situations. Placing, priming and detonating explosives on a key installation, desperately paddling a boat across a river under attack or working crane controls to halt an advance, all require skillful use of the SIXAXIS Wireless Controller abilities. An alternate control scheme using more traditional button presses is also available.
Tanks for the memories
As well as experiencing the war from the viewpoint of an infantryman (US, Canadian and British), you'll ride into battle as a Polish Tank Commander. Trundling across Normandy in your Sherman Firefly tank flattening trees and crashing through fences you'll cross swords with German Panzer, "Panther", Tiger and "King Tiger" tanks. As well as open terrain combat, your turret twisting skills will be tested as you hunt down a German ace commander through a village's narrow streets.
As well as a stirring solo campaign, you can play your role in the theatre of war in an array of online multiplayer modes. Take part in up to 24-player conflicts in the pure deathmatch of Battle and Team Battle modes, or the flag-based firestorms of Capture-the-Flag (CTF), Single CTF, and War modes. Lastly, you can put your tactics and combat skills to the test in the desperate attack/defend gameplay of Headquarters mode.
Call of Duty 3 features a detailed, historically accurate story of ordinary men doing extraordinary things to preserve freedom, coupled with exciting, varied gameplay and massive online firefights. Add to that the power of PlayStation 3 delivering jaw-dropping, epic visuals, nerve-shattering sound and challenging A.I, Call of Duty 3 should feature in every armchair general's PS3 arsenal.Call of Duty 3 is also available on PlayStation 2.
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text: Clean + Classic Thick or thin, short or tall, curved or straight—the Thick & Thin collection, designed by Charlie Kane for Cumberland Furniture, can take on any number of shapes to create the perfect seating solution. 08/22/2012 There are plenty of public seating options on the market, and most of them excel at supporting people in one or two specific settings—an airport, a reception area or collaborative office space, for example. Seldom do you find a collection with the aesthetic and functional flexibility to bridge between all of these different environments. The new Thick & Thin line from Cumberland Furniture represents the rare exception to the rule. Charlie Kane, design director of XLG Design, designed the seating collection to showcase his firm's clean and classic aesthetic, while also incorporating Cumberland's signature blend of stainless steel, wood and upholstery. The result of the pairing is a modern yet timeless system that designers can use to create an architectural environment supported by any setting. "Any piece we design or manufacture has to reflect the designer and the Cumberland brand," explains Scott Gilmore, Cumberland's president. "Our belief is that Cumberland Furniture represents designs that are timeless and classic, yet attainable and tailored to every client. We strive to introduce furniture that is not too trendy, not too modern and not too traditional. Rather, we want pieces that have the ability to adapt to various interior settings." Luckily, Kane's design sensibility goes hand-in-hand with Cumberland's. "I've always been fond of clean, modernist architecture," he says. "Except for some K-12 products that I've done, everything I have has the same kind of aesthetic. We just kind of meshed between what my aesthetic is and what Cumberland's is." By all accounts, the shared vision and design philosophy allowed for a relatively smooth collaborative process. After a discussion about the end goal being a sectional, Kane sent some drawings to Gilmore. Following a few minor changes, the line was prototyped and released. "It was a great collaboration and was pretty seamless," Kane recalls. "It really looks almost exactly like what the original drawings looked like." The perks of modern technology also had a hand in the rapid creation of Thick & Thin. "This wireless and connected world we live in allows us to work together without meeting with one another. For the most part, that was the way this design process happened," Gilmore says. "I don't recall Charlie ever visiting our corporate office or factories, nor do I recall ever visiting his office. Truthfully, we didn't need to. We both shared a common vision and communicated back and forth via phone calls and email. We threw ideas back and forth, listened and observed, and created what we offer today." That offering includes nearly 100 different pieces within the Thick & Thin line, all of which are capable of combining in different ways to alter the privacy and interaction within a space. And because the line allows for the differentiation of a space without the addition of hard architecture, it provides a new level of flexibility and affordability to designers and end-users. "Thick transactional walls provide just enough space to support a laptop or papers during a conversation. Thin walls showcase the amazing warmth and beauty of wood in a minimal space," Gilmore explains. "Tall walls make for visual privacy for groups and individuals working with them. Shorter walls invite collaboration or input from outside sources. Variable heights and thicknesses combine together to make an architectural environment to support any environment." "We enjoy how designers are thinking about the psychological dimension of personal space, personal boundaries, and what gives cues to others who might interrupt or interact," he continues. "Thick & Thin is a tool for designers to use to create these environments. We would prefer to give designers the freedom to create these environments with few limitations. That is why we created this offering with nearly 100 different pieces." To meet the goal of creating a sectional furniture system for collaborative work that combines seating and surfaces with the architectural element of walls of varying heights and thicknesses, Kane drew from several different inspirations. His first inspiration was how space is being used, and the needs that aren't currently being met within that space. "The agenda was to create something that had work spaces and encouraged work, but also had a vocabulary of thresholds and boundaries that was a little bit larger than what we typically see in furniture," he says. Another inspiration came from high-backed sofas that weren't readily specifiable in corporate settings. After considering how people are working today and how to make existing high-backed sofas work within the office environment, Kane created the line to provide cues about how the workspace can be used. The resulting collection includes a wide range of options, including thick or thin arms or backs, and multiple heights (29, 41 and 51 inches), all designed to help create the ultimate collaborative space. "With Thick & Thin you can send out a variety of visual and physical cues to encourage different levels of collaborative or private workspaces. I think more and more in architecture and in real estate, interior designers are needing more tools to do this without having to rely on hard, physical architecture," Kane says. As a long-time veteran of the interior design industry, Kane's inside knowledge allows him to create products that operate in a way he thinks will be useful for interior designers—even if the designers have yet to realize the need his products fit. "Charlie is brilliant," says Gilmore. "He seems to have a good finger on the pulse of what designers need and what the market isn't currently offering. Charlie is the Steve Jobs of furniture design. We didn't know we needed iPhones and iPads until they were available and we wondered how we ever lived without them. We feel the same way about Thick & Thin and public space." Learn more about the Thick & Thin Collection at www.cumberlandfurniture.com. Kylie Wroblaski is a former editor for BUILDINGS magazine, and has written previously about architecture and facilities management. Related Articles Room & Board and Cambria Launch Pren Collection Collaboration for Home or Office 3 Trends to Know When Designing Your Next Meeting Space Meet Etc., A New On-Trend, On-Time Brand from National Office Furniture


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