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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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As a reminder the goal with defensive action is avoiding the full brunt of down a lot should it happen, not every breach will result in down a lot so there will be times where a position is entered and then sold without the market having dropped a lot.
My plan yesterday was to sell the DXD, if necessary which would have been of the SPX was above the 200 DMA, five minutes before the close. Any closer to 4:00 and I can't be certain of getting the trade complete which would be a huge headache.
For most of the last hour yesterday the SPX was a few tenths of a point above or a few tenths of a point below the 200 DMA which stockcharts.com had at 1113.93; it will be a little different today. Given how the market was trading, within a few tenths of a point either way, I decided about ten minutes to the close to not place any trade even if it ticked back over the 200 DMA. The thinking was if the market continues higher on Wednesday I can always sell it then as missing by one day would not be a crisis and if it goes lower then the chance for whipsaw has been reduced.
As a practical matter if an individual waits until one minute before the close to place a trade they may not get it in on time to be executed due to the vagaries of the internet and online brokerages. I am quite confident I could get a trade completed for a liquid vehicle like DXD if entered no later than 3:55 but I am not sure where that line in the sand is and don't want to find out first hand.
In the time I have been relying on the 200 DMA in this manner I cannot recall another instance where the market hopped around the 200 DMA on either side of it so closely as it did yesterday. As the SPX closed below the 200 DMA yesterday (1113.84 for the cash index versus 1113.93 for the 200 DMA) I will wait to sell DXD until there is another two day series of closes above the 200 DMA.
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- Phil May said...
Would an exponential M/A reduce the whipsaws on the DIA? My chart says "yes". I know you're using the DXD for tax reasons but for timing perhaps a larger index?
- Roger Nusbaum said...
sometimes an EMA would be better and sometimes worse. to the other point the index being hedged is reasonably broad and is our benchmark; the SPX.
the device right now is DXD - 6:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
I still hold the same small long SDS position from May 21. One reason is my per-share transaction costs are probably higher than yours, so I'm more reluctant to pull the trigger. Also I look st the 40 week MA, not saying that's better but IMO it smooths out some of the whipsaw possibility.
Once again, it should be said more often, thank you for this blog, lots of intelligent discussion about relevant topics...
Mark from L-Ville - 7:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Can you place all or none sell stops a few cents above your bogey?
- Roger Nusbaum said...
thank you Mark
anon, generally speaking the more restrictions placed the more reasons you give them for not executing an order that is not convenient for them.
things like size limits for AON orders probably changes from time to time but I imagine an indivudal investor's order at 1000 shares or less could be place AON but have tens of thousands of shares to trade (and mind you I am a small RIA)so by going AON i am forcing someone to find one buyer of the thing I need to sell as opposed to letting that person dispose of the position in the easiest way possible. - 8:33 AM
- Phil May, CLU, ChFC said...
On another topic, I, like most everyone else, am searching for yield. The BAB fund looks interesting, but I fear I'm missing something in the formulation of it. Normally, I try and hedge fixed income, e.g., international funds vs. UUP. In the case of BAB, I'm not sure what would protect the downside. (Taxable is not an issue)
Any ideas? - 10:17 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
the BAB program may be short lived. while it won't hurt the bonds I don't know what that would do to the funds.
- Max said...
I own BAB. Could you please take a minute and explain your comment: "BAB may be short lived".
Thanks! - 12:29 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
i said the program may be short lived. bonds were issued with the higher interest rate with federal help--issuance of this sort of bond may be short lived I believe i have this correct abd that this is well known as part of the stimulus program
no more issuance should not be a factor for individual issues but i do not know if it means anything for the funds - 12:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
The next 8 bus days shpuòd be week. However, we may still be in a corrective process. It is like the 2008 bot with 2009 bot. About 5 month appart. This will be the same. We have put in a first bottom and have made a bounce, however this downtrend is not over yet.
Jeff from Milan, Italy
Roger - The vis. verification word is still a problem - TX - 12:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
Like to say hello to Mike C., SEG, RW Bill B, SD and most of all to you Roger,
Jeff from Milan, Italy - 12:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
There you go. Problem deferred to another day :)
- winslow said...
What are your thoughts on the high speed algorithms that can sense out a trade before it happens and frontrun the tades. - 6:13 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
for the most part I don't spend any time on HFT. IMO it has nothing to do with whether or not Cementos Argos (CMTOY), to pick a stock and country I don't own, will be a good proxy for Colombia for the next few years.
- Anonymous said...
one simple solution would be to un-hedge 1/3 first day, 1/3 second day, or...put it back on...or wait.
charlie - 6:31 PM


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Hyderabadi biriyani
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Region or state | Andhra Pradesh |
Main ingredient(s) | Basmati rice, meat (or mutton), spices |
Hyderabadi Biryani is a biryani dish made with basmati rice, spices and lamb. Popular variations use chicken instead of lamb.[1]
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The ingredients are Basmati, mutton, yogurt, onions, spices, lemon, saffron. Coriander leaves and fried onions are used as garnish. Although the preferred meat is mutton, it is replaced by goat or chicken in some variations.[1]
"Biryani" comes from the Persian word 'beryā(n)' (بریان), which means fried or roasted.
Biryani was introduced when Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb conquered southern India. The blending of Mughlai and Telugu cuisines in the kitchens of the Nizam, rulers of the historic Hyderabad State, resulted in the creation of Hyderabadi Biryani.[2][3]
Hyderabadi Biryani is of two types: the Kachchi (raw) Biryani, and the Pakki (cooked) Biryani.[4]
Kachchi gosht ki biryani[edit]
The Kachchi biryani is prepared with meat marinated with spices overnight and then soaked in yogurt before cooking. The gosht (meat) is sandwiched between layers of fragrant long-grained basmati rice,[5] and cooked on dum (steaming over coals), after sealing the handi (vessel) with dough. This is a challenging process as it requires meticulous attention to time and temperature to avoid over- or under-cooking the meat.
Pakki biryani[edit]
In a Pakki biryani, the meat is marinated for a shorter time, and cooked before being layered with the rice and cooked in a dough-sealed vessel. In Pakki Aqni (with cooked gravy), the ingredients are cooked before baking.
The gravy is redolent of mace, ittar and kewra. Saffron and cardamom are also used.
There is also a vegetarian version of the biryani, which is made using vegetables such as carrots, peas, cauliflower and potato and cashew.
A biryani is usually served with Dahi chutney (yogurt and onions) and Mirchi ka salan[2] - a green chili curry. Baghara baingan (roasted Eggplant) is a common side dish. The salad includes onion, carrot, cucumber, and lemon wedges.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Colleen Taylor Sen (2004). Food culture in India. Greenwood Publication. p. 115. ISBN 0-313-32487-5. Retrieved 12 october 2011.
- ^ a b "Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Legendary biryani now turns `single'". The Hindu. 2005-08-18. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
- ^ "Of biryani, history and entrepreneurship - Rediff.com Business". In.rediff.com. 2004-04-09. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
- ^ "Metro Plus Chennai / Eating Out : Back to Biriyani". The Hindu. 2005-06-13. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
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Further reading[edit]
- A Princely Legacy, Hyderabadi Cuisine By Pratibha Karan ISBN 81-7223-318-3 ISBN 978-81-7223-318-1
- Elegant East Indian and Hyderabadi Cuisine By Asema Moosavi, Moosavi, Asema ISBN 0-9699523-0-9
- The Hindu: Hyderabadi Biryani popularity and its variants


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The Bowl-O-Ree provides much needed funding so that all Scouts, regardless of their family's financial situation, can go to Summer Camp. Your participation is fun-filled, a service to others, and part of a Scout's daily good turn.
The Bowl-O-Ree program also provides a commission for the unit. It is suggested that this is also a way for units to support Scouts to get to Summer Camp when they may otherwise unable to attend. The unit may select an option to receive a unit commission, or to donate that commission to the Council Camp Scholarship program. Some individual Scouts may earn recognition items and prizes through their participation.
• A patch is earned by Scouts who participate with at least $40 in pledges. • A t-shirt is earned by Scouts with $100 or more in pledges. • Scouts with $300 or more in pledges will be entered into a grand prize drawing. These Scouts will be entered as many times as they meet the $300+ criteria (2 entries at $600, 3 entries at $900 etc). • The top 30 Scouts with the most pledges of at least $300 or more will be invited to a Bowl-O-Ree Victory Reception and will receive a neat prize. The Grand Prize winner will also be selected at the party.
This great activity represents the best of Scouting - family fun with the purpose of service to others. Individual Dens or Patrols as well as Packs and Troops may participate in the Bowl-O-Ree.
Here is how the Bowl-O-Ree works for your unit: 1. Each Unit should designate a Bowl-O-Ree Unit (or Den) Coordinator. 2. The Coordinator should hold a Unit Kick-Off at a Pack or Troop meeting. Pack meetings provide an excellent opportunity to present parents with the details of the Bowl-O-Ree and how important it is for the support of our campership's for Scouts in need. 3. Encourage Scouts to get as many pledges (either per pin or flat pledges) as possible. There is a minimum of $40 worth of pledges to participate in the Bowl-O-Ree. Participation includes the cost of the 2 games of bowling, shoes and a Bowl-O-Ree patch. $100 worth of pledges is needed to qualify for the Bowl-O-Ree tee shirt. 4. Those Scouts who raise $300 or more will also be entered into the Grand Prize drawing. This drawing will take place at a reception for the top 30. Each $300 raised gets one entry.
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Science Pin & Belt Loop March 8, 2014 Challenger Learning Center (255 Route 59, Airmont, NY 10901) Time: 10am-1pm Cost: $25
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What is a Catholic Religious Emblem Counselor? What role do I serve? How to recruit Scouts to work on these Religious Awards? What does it take to complete Religious Emblem Work? What is the Pope Paul VI Quality Catholic Unit Award?
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Astronomy Merit Badge March 15, 2014 Challenger Learning Center (255 Route 59, Airmont, NY 10901) Time: 10am-1pm Cost: $25
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Trail to Eagle Saturday March 29 - ½ day meeting Parent & Scout Fri – Sun June 6 - 8 - Scout weekend at Durland Thu-Sun Aug 21 - 24 - Scout weekend at Durland
The Westchester-‐Putnam Council, Boy Scouts of America is proud to sponsor the 2014 Trail to Eagle Course. This specialty course will provide an opportunity for Scouts to earn 5 merit badges over a 5 month period; this program is offered for Scouts who are…
• Age 14 or older • Have at least attained the rank of Star • Attended Summer Camp in 2012 or 2013
There will also be additional activities for team building and outdoor challenges.
All aspects of this course will follow the Merit Badge process (no short cuts), while providing a structured environment for success. Each scout will contact their assigned MB counselor in which they will have contact with throughout the entire duration.
Additional topics to assist the scout on his Trail to Eagle will be covered during the sessions; • What is an Eagle Scout? • Planning the Trail to Eagle • What is a good Service Project? • How to plan a Service Project
The Merit Badges being offered are effort intensive and will include activities that occur at home in-between sessions. Transportation will be provided to and from off-site TTE Merit Badge activities.
This course will be limited to 30 scouts and requires Scoutmaster recommendation. The cost for the course is $300 which includes materials, food and a Trail to Eagle item. Each Scout needs to have the Merit Badge Booklet for their MB selections, some are available to borrow from TTE. A $100 non-refundable deposit must accompany your registration form to reserve your place. In addition, a $100 payment is due by March 1st and the $100 balance is due by the Parent meeting. If you have any questions, please contact the Council Service Center at 914-773-1135.
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Engineering Merit Badge At The 2014 Engineering EXPO March 30, 2014
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Sunday March 30, 2014 is the date for the 11th Annual Engineering EXPO. It is a venue where middle and high school Students and Scouts can go to meet with people from Engineering & Science Colleges and Universities, as well as Engineering firms, Government Agencies, Technical Societies and Businesses working in Engineering, Technology and the Sciences. The EXPO is sponsored by the Foundation for Engineering Education, Inc.(FEE).
The EXPO will be held, again this year, at White Plains High School.
For most of the past 11 years, Westchester-Putnam Council and Hudson Valley Council have teamed up to offer Scouts the opportunity to earn the Engineering Merit Badge. This is not a Merit Badge give-away, Scouts will be required to pre-register and complete a number of Engineering Merit Badge requirements at home and bring their work to the Counselors at the EXPO. Some work can be completed at the EXPO. Scouts must prepare their work in the workbook and bring their completed workbook to the EXPO.
Scouts need to start as soon as possible so that they will have all of the pre-requisites completed before the EXPO. Again, the EXPO is Sunday MARCH 30th.
Complete registration and preparation information is available in the download below.
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Boy Scout Camporee May 2-4, 2014
The Council-wide Boy Scout Camporee only happens every four years and it is taking place the weekend of May 2-4, 2014 at the Croton Point Park. The theme is Man vs. Wild and is based on the Discovery Channel show of the same name. There will be four program areas: Man vs. Mountain, Man vs. Desert, Man vs. Arctic and Man vs. Jungle. Additional program details will be released soon.
The cost is $15 per person before April 1st and includes an event t-shirt. The cost after April 1st is $20 per person.
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23rd World Scout Jamboree Tuesday, July 28, to Saturday, August 8, 2015 Kirara-hama, Japan
Be a part of the BSA contingent to the 2015 World Scout Jamboree!
Adult Leader Applications Due By 2/15/2014
In 2015, more than 30,000 Scouts and leaders from 161 countries around the world will converge on Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan, for the 23rd World Scout Jamboree.
The event will provide opportunities to raise awareness about global issues, explore the environment, participate in community service, make friends from around the world, and deepen understanding of developments in science and technology. The world jamboree is a unique opportunity for participants to experience an exciting program of activities, including: Global Development Village, City of Science, Crossroads of Culture, and the Peace Program.
Participants will live and learn with fellow Scouts from around the world. They will be housed in tents along with the BSA contingent but will soon venture out to mingle with tens of thousands of people for two weeks of activities and adventure. That's right, a world fellowship exercise on an enormous scale!
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We are looking for a campground in Florida that also rents cabins or has a lodge with kitchen/kitchenettes. We want to take our camper but the children and grandchildren need a cabin or room with kitchen facilities. We are looking for something in the Florida panhandle that is close to or, even better, on the beach. The state parks do not have any vacanies for their cabins at this late date. We are trying to go for a long weekend the second weekend of June.
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Three a.m. came very early this morning and I have a brand new appreciation for the folks who broadcast live radio and live television during the early morning rush hour.
Upon arriving at our Denver Broncos Boys and Girls Club in Montbello 45 minutes later, I was greeted by Rich Barrows, our club director who is a rock star and had spent endless hours overnight making our club absolutely pristine in preparation for our live radio remote today with partner News Radio 850 KOA benefitting the Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center legacy project.
At 4:45 a.m., in walks Guy Johnson, a regular Club member and future member of the Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center. Guy has become friends with Rod Smith over the past couple of years and his mentor is clearly rubbing off as Guy can be seen often in the end zone. Might I say that I was very touched that Guy was ready to go and support Darrent's legacy bright and early this morning.
Shortly after, at 5:20 a.m., in walks Broncos linebacker Louis Green and he could not have been more gracious and more focused on our goal at hand — to raise awareness for the Teen Center and thank our community fans. Thank you, Louis.
Once the hour of 6 a.m. rolled around, the Club was just in a frenzy with wonderful community members, kids and so many of our Broncos players on hand that it appeared as though the entire roster came out in honor of Darrent Williams.
Domonique Foxworth, who has been our right-hand man during this whole effort and recruited the players along with Kelly Woodward in our office, made many radio and television appearances this morning to raise funds and awareness and to meet and greet the kids. He remains committed to his Tuesday writing class with these Club kids as well.
I am worried that trying to print the name of every player who was there (nearly 45) will put me at risk of omitting someone … So let me summarize some highlights. Rod Smith started the online auction bidding for one of five Darrent Williams-signed footballs. The bidding is still open at positiveplacedenver.org and will be open through Thursday of this week at 5 p.m. Ian Gold talked with KOA about growing up in a Boys and Girls Club in Michigan and helping the Broncos open our Club in August of 2003. It was great to see Ian out there this morning.
Nate Jackson, who brought all his great energy and spirit to the event this morning, will work with me on having one of his truly amazing journal entries (his tribute to D-Will last January) permanently crafted into the mural wall inside the Teen Center … really special!
Remembering our goal of raising funds ($98,000 left of our renovation budget) and awareness today, the awareness was stellar with the KOA morning crew of April, Steffan, Dan, Jason and Kenny pulling out all the stops. Javon Walker helped us close the morning with his on-air pledge of $30,000 … yes, $30,000! Many thanks, Javon.
As of now, our fundraising total is roughly $36,000 today (that will join our $125,000 from Shanahan Golf this summer and $155,600 from the City and County of Denver which is simply awesome) and we still have the auction going live at positiveplacedenver.org through Thursday. We welcome your support as a legacy is born.


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I am convinced that the readers of the Symantec Security Response blog are the smartest around! The results from our Password Survey prove it. Actually, the number of responses itself proves it to me. At best, I thought 20 or so of you would take the time to fill out the survey—and that would include most of my close relatives. Instead, we got more than 400 responses in a few short days (not even including my relatives). So, thank you to all who took the time to complete the survey.
I want to comment on some of the results. It may be a stretch to draw too many definitive conclusions from the data, but it will be fun nonetheless. If anyone wants to comment, correct, or vehemently disagree with any of my conclusions, I've set up a place to do all that here.
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In 2005, the European Commission embarked on a new policy framework that embraced all aspects of the "information society." This framework, called i2010 - A European information society for growth and employment, provides the broad policy guidelines for the information, communication, and audiovisual sectors in the years up to 2010.
One of the priorities of the EU's i2010 program is to focus on E-Health to boost innovation and jobs. The aim is to provide user-friendly and interoperable information systems for patients and health professionals across Europe. E-Health provides many benefits, such as making it easier for doctors to access patients' medical records, gain immediate access to test results from the laboratory, and deliver prescriptions directly to pharmacists.
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In October 2009 we started tracking the Mariposa, or Butterfly, botnet. At that time, a security company had reported that a large number of Fortune 100 companies had been infected with this threat. Earlier today, news came out that the same firm had worked with the appropriate authorities in arresting alleged key members of the Mariposa botnet.
Back in October 2009 we also blogged about this bot's capabilities, in a brief post called The Mariposa Butterfly. Later that month we were able to get our hands on a toolkit being sold in underground forums that clearly demonstrated the bot's capabilities. More information about that is...
We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. That has caused a spike in our detection rates, in particular Suspicious.Insight detections, and so I thought I'd take a few minutes to explain some of the background and what is going on.
So what exactly is a Suspicious.Insight detection? These detections are derived from Symantec's new reputation-based security technology. They highlight files that have not yet developed a strong reputation (either good or bad) amongst Symantec's community of users. Our goal is to keep our users' machines safe, and part of achieving that goal means helping our users make informed choices about the files they allow on to their systems. Suspicious.Insight detections help shine a...
Well, it looks that way. We are only just into the second month of 2010 and yet we can now see, in prospect, a whole new raft of innovation coming our way. At CES a lot of the attention was with respect to eBook readers and new slate/tablet based PCs. These new devices are squarely focused on digital content. The success of Amazon and Apple in the digital content arena clearly shows that there is a big market for digital content and that money can be made as a result. We have seen a lot of activity in the eBook reader market, with many companies starting to launch products. Amazon, with the Kindle, has very much been the vanguard of showing how this can all come together. CES also witnessed a range of announcements with respect to tablet computers. We saw products from HP, Lenovo (interesting cross-over laptop/tablet device), Sony, Archos, etc. Many of these products will start to come to market mid-point this year. Some people commented that these CES...
If you have been following this series on Trojan.Hydraq over the last week you may have noticed that the blog entries have been well, boring. Because of its profile in the media and varying assessments of the threat posed by and the complexity of Trojan.Hydraq we decided to present the facts of the threat.
Threats make their way into mainstream media for various reasons. Sometimes it's the effectiveness of a threat or the elegance associated with a particular approach taken by a piece of malware. Some use near impenetrable packers to make analysis extremely difficult and some have novel approaches to make the malware more robust and harder to take down.
2010 saw Trojan.Hydraq hit the media. This incident was dubbed "Operation Aurora". In case there is still any confusion at this stage, the malware used in the Aurora attack is Trojan.Hydraq.
Yesterday's blog spoke about the obfuscation techniques employed by Trojan.Hydraq. As it turns out these techniques are not new, had been used by various malware in the past, and are not too tricky to get around. This entry examines the techniques employed by this threat in order to stay active on a compromised computer and survive a restart.
Hydraq takes advantage of the Svchost.exe process in Windows. When a Windows system starts up it checks the following registry key:
These entries are referred to as service groups. The information under this key will have all the information required by the operating system in order to load the service group into memory. The following screenshot shows the services loaded into a particular instance of svchost on a clean computer:
While Trojan.Hydraq has been described as sophisticated, the methods used to obfuscate the code are relatively straight forward to deobfuscate. Trojan.Hydraq has spaghetti code, which is a technique used to make analyzing the code of program more difficult. The basic blocks of a function are identified, and then completely rearranged so one cannot easily follow the code in a linear fashion. The rearranged code blocks are connected by jump instructions that connect them in the proper order during execution.
However, spaghetti code has been used in the past and, due to the simple method of implementation by Hydraq, is easily reversed. We posted one of the first blogs about spaghetti code in malware back in 2006 in regards to LinkOptimizer. Most security companies have tools to simply reverse this type of obfuscation in an automated fashion and even off...
In our last Trojan.Hydraq (Aurora) blog, The Trojan.Hydraq Incident, we mentioned that one of the components of this Trojan is based on VNC code and has the ability to allow an attacker to control and stream a live video feed of a compromised computer's desktop to a remote computer in real-time. In this blog we will look at these components in more detail and demonstrate them being used.
Once Trojan.Hydraq is installed by means of an exploit, it downloads additional files from a remote location to aid with the attack. Two of the additional files downloaded are named VedioDriver.dll and Acelpvc.dll. These files are placed into the %System% folder on the exploited computer. Analysis of the files and communication protocol suggests that...
Symantec Security Response has repeatedly warned that looking for free movies and videos online often results in malware infection, and here we go again with yet another example. We recently became aware of a campaign, centered around the YouTube Web site, to trick users into following malicious links.
YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing sites and therefore is often picked by online criminals hoping for an easy catch. Performing a search using a (generally female) celebrity's name followed by "sex tape" or a recent movie name yields results such as the following:
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Out of sight out of mind: isn't that the old saying? Unfortunately it seems that has been what has happened to many of our elderly: out of sight; out of mind. We get a caregiver, or many must go to nursing homes.
What then? Out of sight, so we put them out of our minds believing someone else has the responsibility of taking care of them. Not knowing or just putting it out of our minds how they feel. Helpless, sad, depressed or just down right lonely, waiting for that family member or friends to stop by or pick up the phone and call and check on them.
This new year please take time to visit a shut-in person or an elderly person. Sometimes soft words and a kind smile are the best medicine.
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Fully renovated in 2009, this hotel is located along Place de la République, which is easily reached via five Metro lines. The on-site Le Dix restaurant serves a generous breakfast buffet, along with a la carte lunch and dinner. Modern French cuisine takes center stage. 24-hour room service is available. A bar faces the bustling Place de la République. The hotel also offers a fitness facility, concierge services, and a business center. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available on the first floor and in the lobby.
- Porter/bellhop
- Total number of rooms - 328
- Multilingual staff
- Currency exchange
- Elevator/lift
- Secretarial services
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Number of floors - 4
- Room service (limited hours)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Coffee shop or café
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Express check-in
- One meeting/conference room
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- 24-hour front desk
- Garden
- Tour assistance
- Shopping on site
- Laundry facilities
- Parking (surcharge)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Parking nearby (surcharge)
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- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Voice mail
- Direct-dial phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Window opens
- Climate control
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness facility.
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
Policies & Fees
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Pets
Pets allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Self parking fee: EUR 32 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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The technology inside that new solid state drive you just purchased could be obsolete sooner than you think. A group of Japanese researchers have developed a hybrid SSD that uses high-capacity NAND flash memory alongside Resistive Random Access Memory, or ReRAM. The combination could allow future drives to write up to eleven times faster than today's quickest SSDs.
The research was led by Professor Ken Takeuchi from Chuo University and presented at the 2012 Symposium of VLSI Circuits held in Hawaii. At the event, the group proposed a drive that included 256GB of NAND flash as well as 8 Gbits of ReRAM, the latter of which is used as cache and storage.
In addition to the increased speeds, researchers claim the hybrid drive will reduce power consumption by up to 93 percent. And if that isn't enough to get you excited, these drives could last far longer than traditional SSDs – nearly seven times longer, to be exact. ReRAM, however, is currently expensive but the price versus longevity factor could reduce overall costs to just 1/7 of today's drives.
Life of the drive is also extended by reducing the number of writes in the NAND flash. Instead, data is written in the ReRAM about 30 times more often than in NAND flash.
An algorithm called MRU (most recently used) is used to store frequently used data in the ReRAM. By using this method, common data can be read from the drive faster than from NAND flash.
Despite its promise, Neowin concludes that we aren't likely to see this technology come to consumer-level SSDs anytime soon. The reason for this has to do with the price of ReRAM. If the researchers can significantly lower the overall price (none was mentioned) then things could become much more feasible.
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Up to 11 times 6Gb/s, am I doing this right? That would be over 60Gb/s.
Definitely need a new storage standard for this tech. With each SATA standard doubling in speed, we are looking SATA7. Why would we even bother doubling transfer rates for SATA4, SATA5, and SATA6? Even with SATA Express you would need 8 lanes to achieve 60Gb/s.
No, you're not doing it right.
Write performance is just 46Mb/s, which is 11x the speed of conventional SSD hard drives.
One thing is theoretical transfer speed and other thing is real write speed...
Write performance is just 46Mb/s, which is 11x the speed of conventional SSD hard drives.
I know I don't want any of your SSD's, 46 megabits or 46 megabytes is slow for an SSD. SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) would translate closer to 600MB/s (megabytes). A standard HDD could transfer 100MB/s.
A damn good HDD could transfer 100 megabytes a second, most of them get only 70-80. But yeah, your math seems correct. Today's fastest SSDs have Maximum R/W speeds of let's call it, 550 megabytes p/s, that times 11 would be roughly 5.9 gigabytes a second, which is in fact 47.26 gigabits per second.....
The reason I wrote out megabytes, gigabytes and gigabits is because a lot of people get them all confused.
1 GB (Gigabyte) = 8 Gb (Gigabits). 1 GB = 1024 megabytes. If I'm not mistaken, GB are used when measuring size, and Gb are used when measuring bandwidth.
There's no edit button on replies? Really?
You can edit your post by looking for it in the forum.
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Ok sweet. No "Delete" button though, so no point in consolidating all my replies into 1 if I can't delete it anyway.
Someone said bigabites are used for size and bigabits are used for speed. Can you also use gigabytes per second or gigabits per second. Is ether still valid. Also the same is true for size you can have gigabits or gigabytes. hehehe confused yet.
Technically if you are using base 2 (e.g. 1024), then it's Gib, GiB... Gb and GB are base 10.
That chart is AWESOME.
Now, didn't they make some similar claims about SSDs long before they arrived on the scene? I recall something about ten to twenty year lifespans. As we've discovered, that was bull. I kinda expect this to go the same way. If we're LUCKY we might start seeing five years warranties.
If this new tech will actually have a 20 year warranty, then I'll be first in line.
I wonder what primary school is this "research" from. "MRU" Algorithm, my God! This revolutionary approach was called "smartdrive" in DOS some 25 years ago, and now is an integral part of any operating system, it's called "disk caching".
Per module, and there are several.
Not quite.
6Gb/s is the potential transfer speed of the Data Bus, not the read/write speed of the drive. Most SSDs struggle to utilize the 3Gb/s offered by SATA II. 3Gb/s is GigaBits, not GigaBytes (though we may all wish it was bytes instead of bits). There are 8 Bits in a Byte, so 3Gb/s is actually a data transfer rate around 384 MegaBytes a second (going by pure theoretical limits and math - the rate in reality is usually lower due to system bottle necks). Up to 11x faster would be around 33 GigaBits a second. Again, by pure theoretical work, and that is just the speed the bus would be able to produce (bottle necks and all) in order to make full use of the drive speed - the actual Bus it would be one would probably be operating at a minimum of 48Gb/s (going by the observance that Moore's Law also applies to data bus speed growths, doubling each generation, with each generation being about two years apart)
So, still very fast, faster than most consumer computer can even process data. I'm predicting we're still 10 years off, and will probably have to see electrical data transfers (in-system) replaced with an optical system of some form.
No, that's all wrong. I don't know where you got this rubbish.
think it's time to add builtin fiber connections!!
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Minnesota Storms to the Playoffs by Plundering Other Teams' Top Free Agents; 'It Never Snows Here'
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JANUARY 14, 2010Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
Re:Hide Your Players, It's the Vikings!
Looks like the Vikings organization knows what they are doing. Now let's win a Super Bowl and show the rest of the league how it's done!
Re:Hide Your Players, It's the Vikings!
Ray Edwards is a FA next year, enter Aaron Kampman. Make it happen staff. Especially if they want to keep this scheme.
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Great article. The author makes some good points. I'm proud of this organisation.
Think about it! with Vikings owner Zigi Wilf, the Vikings have possibly had the most success in signing players outside the draft than any other NFL team.
2006 - Steve Hutchinson (best lineman in the league)
2006 - Chester Taylor (do-it-all running back who broke 1000 rushing yards in his first season with the Vikes)
2007 - Visanthe Shiancoe (has been a top 5 tight end in the last couple of seasons, broke Vikings' record for most TD by a TE, he's still underrated)
2008 - Bernard Berrien (his second season has been hampered by injuries and a change at QB, but he had his career best season in his first season with the Vikes. Put on nearly 964 yards, had 7 receiving TD's, and lead the league in average yards per catch)
2008 - Jared Allen (best 4-3 pass rusher. The greatest upgrade to the defense in many years. Allen has 15 sacks in every season with the Vikes)
2009 - Brett Favre (had his best season with the Vikes, next to Drew Brees in most TD's and highest passer rating)
I dare anyone to find a more impressive list! Seems like we have picked up or traded for the best position player in every season.
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This article does a nice job of summarizing some of the major offseason acquisitions. Nothing of this sort has been done with the consistency and effectiveness in the Vikings franchise since its inception. Given the cap, FA, tags, etc. they have done a damn good job. I'm surprised another team hasn't offered Brzezinski double the salary he gets from Winter Park.
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On-line booksellers have changed the way I decide which books to buy. Not only have they made it possible for me to get most books within two to three days, but they have also given me a means of comparison shopping previously unavailable to me. If I am thinking of buying a book, I immediately look to see what others have written about it. In most cases, these evaluations clinch the deal, convincing me to buy a certain book instead of its competition.
I have been thinking more about such systems since my recent move to Modi'in, a new Israeli city halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Just before I moved to Modi'in, I was asked to take over a small mailing list for residents of Modi'in. The list gives people a chance to share local announcements and ideas related to life in Modi'in.
Soon after becoming the list administrator, I realized that subscribers often asked for recommendations, from doctors to lawn services to after-school activities. Normally, an e-mail list administrator who sees such constant repetitions will prepare a FAQ, a list of common questions and their answers. But recommendations are extremely subjective, and one person's favorite barber may be someone else's nightmare.
This month, we will look at a set of CGI programs I wrote to allow list subscribers to enter and rank their favorite products and services in town. Because my web space provider does not offer mod_perl, I had to use the CGI standard for writing my programs.
This "ranking" system, as I call it, consists of three CGI programs written in Perl, which use a relational database for back-end storage. (These listings are not printed here due to space considerations, but can be downloaded from the LJ FTP site. See Resources.) I have used MySQL, but there is no reason another relational database, such as PostgreSQL or Oracle, could not be substituted for it. Some of the SQL syntax might have to be changed in order to fit another database server, but the majority should remain the same.
While the ranking system presented this month is not as sophisticated as the one used by Amazon.com nor as flexible as that used by Epinions.com, it does serve a simple purpose. Moreover, it demonstrates how to produce a simple ranking system, which could easily be extended to produce a rough version of Epinions.com.
As always, the first step in creating a database/web application is to consider how we want to store the information, and then to create the tables in our relational database. In this particular case, we will keep things simple, dividing ranked items into categories, but without any hierarchy representing the categories. We will thus be able to keep all restaurants in the same category, but without any distinction between Italian restaurants and French restaurants. Alternatively, we can create two separate categories for Italian and French restaurants, but then the system will see them as unrelated as barbers and vacuum-cleaner salesmen.
We will also associate a name and e-mail address with each ranking. It might be more elegant to place user names in a separate table and refer to them with a numeric key. However, we are less interested in tracking users than in making it possible to find useful consumer information.
Given all this, I decided to implement the ranking system with three tables: RankCategories, RankItems and Rankings. RankCategories, as its name implies, contains the categories into which the items are sorted, and can be defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE RankCategories ( category_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, category_name VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL, category_description TEXT NULL, UNIQUE(category_name) );
Notice how each category will have a unique category_id, allowing us to refer to it by number alone. By using the AUTO_INCREMENT feature, MySQL can automatically set this number for us, ensuring that it is unique. For a small web site, a MEDIUMINT is large enough, ranging from 0 to 16,777,215. A large site might eventually have more than 17 million rankings, in which case a larger size, such as INT or BIGINT, might be a good idea.
We also want to ensure that no two categories can have the same name, and thus add a unique constraint to the category_name column as well. Each category can then have some descriptive text associated with it, which is placed in category_description.
The items to be ranked are placed in a similar table, RankItems:
CREATE TABLE RankItems ( item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, category_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, item_name VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL, item_description TEXT NULL, UNIQUE(item_name) );
Once again, each item has a unique value in item_id, and the item name is guaranteed to be unique, thanks to the UNIQUE constraint. However, RankItems adds a category_id column, identifying the category in which this item sits.
RankItems defines the items available to be ranked, but does not store the grades. That role is assigned to the Rankings table, defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE Rankings ( ranking_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, item_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, ranker_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, entry_datetime TIMESTAMP(8) NOT NULL, comments TEXT NULL, rank TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, UNIQUE(item_id, email) );
Like the other tables, Rankings gives each ranking a unique primary key, ranking_id. None of our applications use ranking_id, and it is possible that its inclusion in the table definition wastes some space on disk and in memory. However, such a primary key will make it easier to refer to items in Rankings if and when we build additional applications for the ranking system.
Rankings then contains an item_id column, which refers back to the primary key of the same name in RankItems. Because each item is in a single category and RankItems contains a category_id column, there is no need to name the category in Rankings as well.
We ask each ranking user to provide his or her full name and e-mail address. This information is displayed next to a ranking, in order to give it a slightly more human touch. In addition, some people's opinions will carry more weight than others, especially in a small community of users, so it is worthwhile to identify opinions by name.
The ranking consists of a numeric rank between 0 and 10, stored in a TINYINT. It is accompanied by optional (NULL) comments, stored in a TEXT column, where the user can elaborate on his or her ideas.
To ensure each user can rank each product only once, we have MySQL require the combination of item ID and e-mail address to be unique in the Rankings table. By combining the two in this way, the database itself will reject any attempt to enter two rows in which the combination of e-mail address and item_id are identical.
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