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Isobar Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
- isobar
n : an isogram connecting points having equal barometric
pressure at a given time
- Isobar \I"so*bar\, n. [Iso- + Gr. ? weight.] (Phys. Geog.)
A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the
earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is
the same either at a given time, or for a certain period
(mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line. [Written
also isobare.]
- Isobar \I"so*bar\, n.
The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in
atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or
application of isobaric science.
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- Radius of outermost closed isobar: The radius of outermost closed isobar (ROCI) is one of the quantities used to determine the size of a tropical cyclone . closed isobar in ...
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I just read through "The New Kingmakers," a thought-provoking book by Stephen O'Grady of the small, but influential, analyst firm Redmonk. The thesis of the book is straightforward: technology changes have moved developers, previously of little importance within the world of IT, to a central direction-setting role within companies.
O'Grady attributes this change to four factors:
- Open source, which democratizes both creation and access to software components, enabling developers direct access to useful software without having to obtain budget or endure sales interactions. This accounts for the move to PHP, MySQL, Cassandra, and Cloud Foundry rather than their proprietary equivalents.
- Cloud computing, which makes infrastructure to run software (especially the just-mentioned open source) available for pennies. Amazon Web Services kicked off this revolution and it is continuing to cause pain to traditional system vendors and hosting companies as the move to ever-cheaper infrastructure permeates IT.
- Internet communication, which eases distance and allows developers to collaborate across geographies and, crucially, work from wherever they happen to be located. MySQL is well-known for having staff strewn around the world; while this caused challenges due to varying employment laws and management coordination, it allows MySQL to seek out the best talent, no matter where it is located.
- Micro-investment, which allows developers with a good idea to obtain the small amount of funding necessary to launch new software-enabled products or services. Incubators and crowdfunding like Y Combinator and Kickstarter, respectively, have made it possible for a developer with a good idea and access to the cheap resources listed above, to jumpstart a business idea quickly and inexpensively.
I think he is spot-on with his assessment. The software industry, and end user IT, has changed enormously over the past 15 years. Certainly, within the software industry, developers are now avidly pursued and well-compensated, with some companies like Google and Facebook providing incredible perks and benefits. That's a big change from the past; at one company I worked at software engineering was openly despised by the CEO, regarded as nothing more than a unfortunate resource needed to create the product, and crammed into ever-shrinking cubicles in an ongoing effort to reduce engineering spend.
However, the fact that software vendors recognize developers as a critical resource to be nurtured and cherished does not account for their increasing importance and influence within end user IT shops, which have always been viewed as, well, a necessary evil, or, more charitably, a cost center to be reduced as much as possible. After all, while developers may make different technology choices today due to the above-cited changes, it doesn't necessarily make IT more important and, would not, in and of itself, result in developers gaining more clout within the larger company.
Nevertheless, I think O'Grady's thesis is correct, even within end user IT organizations, but I don't attribute it only to the changes affecting software development. I believe that the same factors underlying those changes are also having a powerful effect on the products and services companies deliver into the market, and this is causing IT (and developers who are setting the technical direction within IT) to take on a much higher prominence in companies.
Said succinctly, Marc Andreessen's phrase "software is eating the world," by which he means all companies are permeating their offerings with software capabilities, means that IT is no longer a back office concern. It is now critical to every company's revenue stream, which means that the creation and delivery of IT is now a core capability requirement -- and this leads, indirectly, to the increased influence of developers.
So, developers are the new kingmakers, whether they work at a software vendor or a software consumer. Their choices, enabled by the four factors O'Grady cites, are setting the direction for all software, no matter the organization within which they work. The "software is eating the world" trend is only going to grow and become more important, so we can look forward to developers being ever more influential.
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A few hundred pounds and a passport got Briton from Brighton seafront to the battlefront in Syria
Idealist and British, but here in Syria he has found a cause worth killing for.
Briton Amer Deghayes is following his dream of Jihad, but for Britain's security services that is a nightmare.
He fights for allies of al-Qaida who have put a gun in his hand and made him into a battle hardened warrior.
– Amer Deghayes
I came to Syria to answer the call of duty, and that is to the religion of Allah and the way to do that is to help the oppressed Syrians.
In a video by Vice News, Amer Deghayes he said: "We saw the enemy about five to 10 metres [away]."
– Amer Deghayes
The only thing I am afraid of is going back, or running away, or retreating.
He has been in Syria since November and two brothers have joined him. Jaffer just 16, and perhaps the youngest British Jihadist and Abdullah, 18 whose Syrian adventure end swiftly in blood.
– Amer Deghayes
His death was a sign of Martyrdom.
As he fell back, he laughed, and he smiled.
The boys were all UK born, sons of Libyan exiles. Amer, who was brought up in Brighton, once aimed for a career in finance. It took just a few hundred pounds and a passport to get Amer from the seafront to the Battlefront in Syria.
Much more alarming from the point of view of the British authorities is the ease with which he went from an aspiring student to a gun-toting fighter in a foreign land.
We showed the video to Amer's father, a veteran of the Libiyan uprising who himself has taken aid convoys to Syria. He said that is as far as he wanted his sons' involvement to go too. Abubakr Deghayes said: "I want my sons out of danger as a father. But the Muslim community has the right to support whoever they think it is justifiable to support."
Amer's family insists he poses no threat to the UK.
It is a claim unlikely to be tested because their son says it is better to die in Syria than to return to a British jail.
To read more on Amer Deghayes' journey from Brighton to Syria, visit Vice News


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Creative skill set takes centre stage
Retired teacher plays role of her life volunteering at theatre company
The truth is you are never too old to give birth to a new passion, to hear your voice anew, to develop a creative life that sets sail the spirit.
Janet Taylor admits she always loved the theatre growing up -- regaling with memories of going to the old Pantages Theatre as a child, having a role in her Grade 1 play and a small part in a high school musical -- but she never really took part in any drama clubs or classes throughout the years.
The year she retired (after 35 years of teaching in elementary schools, a few of those years as a principal,) the Manitoba Theatre Centre, in celebration of its anniversary, asked people from the community to participate in a production of Our Town. Taylor played the part of one of the dead souls in two of the shows. And from there the acting bug took hold.
Immediately desiring to be immersed in the theatre world, she began volunteering at Sarasvti Productions, a theatre company dedicated to promoting social change and human understanding.
"I really love what the theatre company does," says Taylor. "They really try to use theatre to transform people's awareness and understanding of issues, and they also give opportunities to emerging artists who may just be starting out in their careers."
For those who may not know, Sarasvti is the Hindu goddess of creative arts. Sarasvti Productions, which was established 13 years ago in Winnipeg, is said to embody the spirit of the goddess, with a desire to inspire artists and audiences through theatre.
Taylor can definitely attest to the transformative impact the theatre company has had on her life.
It was a perfect fit from the beginning for Taylor, whose transition from working fulltime to retirement had ignited a life-altering delight in the dramatic. She says Sarasvti Productions encompasses many of the same values she has always held, especially with regard to the power of theatre to create social change.
With great enthusiasm, Taylor has plunged into any volunteer role she can sink her teeth into over the past five years, from being president of the board to chairing the fundraising committee, from ticket sales to ushering.
"I see volunteering for Sarasvti Productions as a kind of partnership," says Taylor. "I think I bring a certain skill set to the board, whether it's my organizational skills or education background or the fact that as someone who is retired, I have more flex time to volunteer. And in return, I've learned so much about theatre for social change and how a theatre company works. As board members, we get to go to rehearsals and watch how everything comes together, which I love."
Taylor has also taken another big step in pursuing her passion -- she has gone back to do her second arts degree at the University of Winnipeg, majoring in theatre. But no worries, she still has lots of time to volunteer at Sarasvti Productions.
"Volunteers like Janet allow us to do the work we do," says Hope McIntyre, Sarasvti's artistic director. "Volunteers also help us to keep in touch with and be part of the community."
McIntyre says one of Sarasvti Productions' goals is to bring voices to the stage that wouldn't otherwise be heard. Last spring, the company put on the play Jail Baby, a culmination of three years of work in partnership with the Elizabeth Fry Society to bring the voices of incarcerated women to the stage.
The theatre company is also working with VOICES: Manitoba's Youth in Care, to create an interactive production that explores the issues that youth in foster care deal with, from the stigma of being in care to the transition to adulthood after care.
"I can never say enough about Sarasvti Productions," says Taylor. "I feel really lucky to volunteer somewhere where I love what I do, and the environment is so supportive for volunteers."
Sarasvti Productions' FemFest takes place until Sept. 21 at the University of Winnipeg Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, with a variety of plays written by women for everyone. To learn more, or how to become a volunteer or donate to Sarasvti Productions, please visit http://sarasvati.ca.
If you know a special volunteer who strives to make his or her community a better place to live, please contact Carolyn Shimmin-Bazak at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 16, 2013 B3
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Rejuvenating the Palermo Convention
As representatives from more than 100 UN member states gear up for the Fifth Conference of the States Party to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime in Vienna, one wonders whether the gathering will be another anti-climax or will see delegates heed the plea by Antonio Maria Costa, the former executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Costa urged states to focus on delivery, instead of using the occasion as a "license to debate endlessly."
The purpose of the October 18th-22nd conference is to improve the capacity of states to combat transnational organized crime and to promote and review the implementation of the convention, commonly known as the Palermo Convention. Neither of these objectives appears to have been met at the four previous conferences held since 2000.
The Palermo Convention is consequently limping along, firing on three of its four cylinders, while transnational organized crime has expanded aggressively and has been elevated into a global security threat.
Costa's frustration with the lack of commitment by some member states burst into the open shortly before he vacated his position in June this year to make way for his successor, Yuri Fedotov, a former Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"Benign neglect" of the Palermo Convention is what Costa accused UN member states of when addressing a high-level meeting in the General Assembly in June. By this past February, one third of UN member states had still not ratified the convention, including, he noted, "some major countries." These parting shots by Costa reflected the frustrations of a CEO who had been thwarted in his attempts to realize all his objectives––in this case, the effective implementation of the Palermo Convention, which could have become a major weapon against transnational organized crime.
One of the fundamental assumptions underlying the 2000 adoption of the Palermo Convention was that, once substantively ratified and implemented, it would constitute a potent mechanism to counter transnational organized crime. That is certainly what the states who negotiated the convention hoped for and believed would happen when they signed off on it.
However, the realities of organized crime have turned out to be more creative and aggressive than the drafters could have anticipated. Ten years later, following a period of rapid globalization, Costa's analysis that "crime has internationalized faster than law enforcement and world governance" accurately reflects the reality. Will the participants at the Vienna Conference reflect on this?
For the ten years since the adoption of the Palermo Convention and its three protocols, representatives of member states and others (including the author) have made repetitive calls and promoted numerous resolutions, declarations, and statements at conference after conference, calling for the ratification of the convention, improved international cooperation, etc., while outside in the real world, criminal networks were adapting, becoming more sophisticated, expanding their reach, ignoring borders, and in general conducting themselves as though the Palermo Convention did not exist.
The legal framework presented by the convention needs to be complemented by effective global political strategies that take account of the evolving nature of transnational organized crime and the changed global environment in which these criminal networks now operate. The use of criminal justice tools to combat transnational organized crime are, on their own, no longer adequate. A more strategic approach, involving additional tools and role players, and based on greater synergy with other strategies that address international security challenges, needs to be developed. This is what the Vienna Conference should consider.
At the high-level meeting on transnational organized crime held in the General Assembly in June 2010, the Norwegian representative, State Secretary Erik Lahnstein, wisely called for the Palermo Convention to be developed further and suggested that one means of achieving this would be to focus on the proceeds of crime and how they are integrated into the financial system. This is the type of proposal that should be acted upon.
There are other areas that require attention and further examination, including
- organized crime in armed conflict and in postconflict situations;
- international law enforcement collaboration in investigating transnational organized crime;
- transnational organized crime, illicit economies, and underdevelopment;
- transnational organized crime and terrorism;
- cybercrime and organized crime;
- transnational organized crime and illicit trade; and
- piracy and criminal networks.
Thinking that breaks out of institutional silos is needed. An opportunity to make a start presents itself in Vienna from October 18 to 22, 2010.
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The Equity Premium and the Risk Free Rate: Matching the Moments
AbstractThis paper investigates the ability of a representative agent model with time separable utility to explain the mean vector and the covariance matrix of the risk free interest rate and the return to leveraged equity in the stock market. The paper generalizes the standard calibration methodology by accounting for the uncertainty in both the sample moments to be explained and the estimated parameters to which the model is calibrated. We develop a testing framework to evaluate the model's ability to match the moments of the data. We study two forms of the model, both of which treat leverage in a manner consistent with the data. In the first, dividends explicitly represent the flow that accrues to the owner of the equity, and they are discounted by the marginal rate of intertemporal substitution defined over consumption. The second form of the model introduces bonds and treats equities as the residual claim to the total endowment stream. We find that the first moments of the data can be matched for a wide range of preference parameter values. But for both models the implied first and second moments taken together are always statistically significantly different from the data at standard levels. This last result contrasts sharply with other recent treatments of leverage in the literature.
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- Cecchetti, Stephen G. & Lam, Pok-sang & Mark, Nelson C., 1993. "The equity premium and the risk-free rate : Matching the moments," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 21-45, February.
- S.G. Cecchetti & P. Lam & N.C. Mark, 2010. "The equity premium and the risk-free rate: matching the moments," Levine's Working Paper Archive 1396, David K. Levine.
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It was a great day for Sania Mirza as she made it to the quarter-finals of women's doubles and the semi-final of mixed doubles at the US Open tennis event here.
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Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei and Chinese partner Peng Shuai advanced to the third round of the Women's Doubles at the U.S. Open Saturday in New York.
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Sania Mirza won both her women's and mixed doubles matches while Leander Paes was also victorious in his mixed doubles match as both Indians advanced to the next round of the US Open here.
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I have been going to Great Escape since I was a child and until recently, I have had a wonderful time. However, I have brought my children the last three years, and noticed quite a change. Very poor value for extremely high prices (a slice of pizza for $8??). The lines are terrible and this is made worse by the park's policy of allowing "fast pass" holders to skip to the front with no regard for those who have been waiting. I recently waited for a ride to go through three cycles before I could get on due to this policy..and I was first in line!!! And this was after waiting for 40 minutes to get to the front!! Park policies are vague and not posted clearly, and the staff has been rude (overly rude) every year I have taken my children. I filled out a comment card about the issues last year and was never contacted in any way. In short, if you choose to go, be prepared for the possibility of being very disappointed. I can't deny that the rides are fun, but outside of that, it will likely be a very poor experience.
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BYOD has quickly transformed IT, offering a revolutionary way to support the mobile workforce. The first wave of BYOD featured MDM solutions that controlled the entire device. In the next wave, BYOD 2.0, control applies only to those apps necessary for business, enforcing corporate policy while maintaining personal privacy. The #F5 Mobile App Manager is a complete mobile application management platform built for BYOD 2.0.
As more smartphones, tablets, and other types of mobile devices make their way into employees' hands, requests for corporate access from those devices are increasing, which represents a huge challenge for IT departments. Not only has IT lost the ability to fully control and manage these devices, but employees are now demanding that they be able to conduct company business from multiple personal devices. Initially resistant to the idea due to security concerns, IT teams are slowly adopting the concept, but hesitantly, still concerned about the inherent risks of allowing personal devices to access and store sensitive corporate information.
People have become very attached to their mobile devices. They customize them, surf the web, play games, watch movies, shop, and often simply manage life with these always-connected devices. The flipside of the convenience and flexibility of BYOD are the many concerns about the risks introduced to the corporate infrastructure when allowing unmanaged and potentially unsecured personal devices access to sensitive, proprietary information. Organizations need dynamic policy enforcement to govern the way they now lock down data and applications. As with laptops, if an employee logs in to the corporate data center from a compromised mobile device, then that employee becomes as much of a risk as a hacker with direct access to the corporate data center.
Enter BYOD 1.0.
BYOD 1.0 is the industry's first attempt at solving problems related to personally owned devices in the workplace. BYOD 1.0 consists of two primary components—mobile device management (MDM) and device-level, layer 3 VPNs. The primary goal of MDM is to manage and secure the endpoint device itself, including varying amounts of protection for data at rest on the device (which is typically limited to enabling native device encryption via configuration). The primary aim of the layer 3 VPN is to connect the device back into the corporate network, providing data-in-transit security for corporate traffic.
Both of these BYOD 1.0 components have a drawback—they are umbrellas that protect and manage the entire device, rather than zeroing in on just the enterprise data and applications on that device. Since these are usually dual-purpose (work/personal) devices, this device-wide approach causes issues for both workers and for IT. Employees don't like that BYOD 1.0 imposes enterprise controls over their personal devices, applications, and information. One of the most commonly cited examples is that of the employee who leaves a company and has his device wiped by the organization, losing photos of his family along with the enterprise data and applications. People are also concerned with the privacy of their personal data under a BYOD 1.0 scheme.
From an IT perspective, organizations agree—they don't want to have to concern themselves with personal data or applications. As soon as they manage the entire device or simply connect that device to the corporate network via VPN, that personal traffic also becomes an IT problem. While BYOD 1.0 helps to enable the use of personally owned devices in the enterprise, the device-level approach certainly has its challenges. BYOD 2.0 seeks to solve these shortcomings. The shift from BYOD 1.0 to BYOD 2.0 builds on many of the concepts developed during BYOD 1.0, adding a new set of frameworks that enable IT organizations to wrap enterprise applications in a security layer.
Throughout BYOD 1.0, F5 has provided connectivity for mobile devices into enterprise networks with VPN functionality, most commonly through iOS and Android versions of the F5 BIG-IP Edge Client. This layer provides management capabilities as well as functionality such as authentication and authorization, data-at-rest security, and data-in-transit security, among others.
BYOD 2.0 builds on the BYOD 1.0 foundation but makes a substantial shift from a device-level focus to an application-level focus. BYOD 2.0 seeks to ensure that the enterprise footprint on a personally owned device is limited to the enterprise data and applications and nothing more. This means that mobile device management is supplanted by mobile application management (MAM), and device-level VPNs are replaced by application-specific VPNs. These application-specific VPNs include technology such as BIG-IP APM AppTunnels, a single secure, encrypted connection to a specific service such as Microsoft Exchange.
With this approach, workers are happier than with BYOD 1.0 because the enterprise manages and sees only the enterprise subset of the overall data and applications on the device, leaving the management of the device itself, and of personal data and applications, to the device's owner. IT staff prefer the BYOD 2.0 approach for the same reasons—it allows them to concern themselves only with the enterprise data
and applications they need to secure, manage, and control.
BYOD 2.0 and the aforementioned application wrapping frameworks are changing the dynamic in the mobile space. By combining mobile management functionality and access functionality into a single offering, these wrappers give enterprises a mobile IT solution that extends from data and applications on the endpoint into the cloud and data center.
Introducing F5 Mobile App Manager
F5 Mobile App Manager (MAM) is a mobile application management and access solution that securely extends the enterprise to personal mobile devices. It manages applications and secures data while satisfying the needs of employees and enterprise IT departments. For IT, it limits the burden associated with securing and controlling personal data and mobile use. For employees, it safely separates personal data and use from corporate oversight. F5 MAM is a complete mobile application management platform offering security, management, and compliance for BYOD deployments. It is a true enterprise device, data, and information management solution that fits the needs of the mobile enterprise better than MDM solutions. F5 MAM includes a suite of business productivity applications and capabilities to separate and secure enterprise mobile applications while providing end-to-end security.
F5 MAM Workspace
Organizations and employees both want the ability to segregate professional and personal information. F5 MAM Workspace is an innovative solution allowing enterprises to truly create a virtual enterprise workspace on a wide variety of mobile devices. With MAM Workspace, individuals can have separate sectors and associated policies for their personal and enterprise uses of a device. This enables IT to control how employees access key corporate information while ensuring that employees maintain the freedom to take full advantage of their mobile devices. The secure MAM Workspace can be protected by a password or PIN that is independent of the device password. IT can also reset a user's MAM Workspace password, lock down a user's MAM Workspace, or wipe the Workspace in the event of a policy violation.
F5 MAM App Wrapper
Organizations can also add their own applications to the secure workspace. Organizations have the ability to add any application to the secure, IT-controlled environment. In addition, there is zero need to recompile to create a secure application. F5 MAM App Wrapper scans the existing code in third-party apps, identifies any security vulnerabilities, and injects new proprietary code. This wraps and secures the app for manageability and deployment.
F5 MAM Connect
Email is one of the most critical communication tools for organizations and employees alike. No email, no work. F5 MAM Connect is a secure, wrapped personal information manager (PIM) client that integrates with Microsoft Exchange and delivers enterprise email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes to the employee. MAM Connect offers EAS synchronization, global address list integration, secure storage, and networking
and is fully managed via the MAM management console.
F5 MAM Browser
The F5 MAM Browser is a secure and managed browser delivered within MAM. It provides employees with a full-featured browser, separate from their personal browsers, with the control IT needs for secure browser access. It facilitates integrated blocked and safe lists without reliance on proxies, provides controls for enterprise proxy configuration, and allows administrators to push configuration via the web-based MAM portal.
Whether organizations are prepared or not, BYOD is here, and it is transforming enterprise IT. It can potentially provide organizations a significant cost savings and productivity boost, but it is not without risk. F5 provides strategic control points for mobile applications from the endpoint to the data center and to the cloud, enabling unparalleled security, performance, and agility. F5 Mobile App Manager helps organizations make the leap to BYOD or transition from controlling the entire device to simply managing corporate applications and data on the device, solving the work/personal dilemma.
With F5 Mobile App Manager, BYOD 2.0 is now a reality.
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- BYOD Policies – More than an IT Issue Part 2: Device Choice
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- BYOD Policies – More than an IT Issue Part 4: User Experience and Privacy
- BYOD Policies – More than an IT Issue Part 5: Trust Model
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Dubai continues to remain the hottest real estate market in the world with prices growing fastest this year, in comparison to the 41 global cities, revealed a UK-based Global Property Guide.
The organisation gathers real estate data from across the world, and revealed that prices in Dubai jumped 6.48 percent during the third quarter, in comparison to second quarter, and the year-on-year increase was 21.37 percent.
The world housing markets saw their strongest performance since the boom years of 2006-07. The housing prices are growing in several countries, and the growth trend is strongly upwards, the organization said.
The prices of housing units dropped by 53 percent from third quarter of 2008 to third quarter of 2011, owing to global financial crisis and economic meltdown. But, Dubai started witnessing recovery from second quarter of 2012, with the support of robust economic growth in the UAE.
The strength of housing market in Dubai has been further strengthened by various factors, including finance availability, citys status as safe haven, exchange of rate-pegged to the US dollar, and improved consumer and investor confidence, it said.
The UK-based global consultancy, Knight Frank, early this month said that prices of housing in Dubai grew by 28.5 percent during first nine months of the year. However, to control speculators and price volatility in the market, Dubai has increased property registration fee from 2 to 4 percent since October, while the UAE Central Bank has introduced new mortgage rules that ensure higher down payment for investors.
According to the Global Property Guide Survey, prices increased in 28 of 41 housing markets. Taiwan took the second position in the list, with prices soaring 14.98 percent during the year until Q3 2013, following by Tallinn, Estonia in third place with price growth of 12.46 percent.
Makati CBD, Philippines came in fourth position with 11.09 percent growth during the year until Q3 2013, followed by Germany by 9.61 percent, US at 9.43 percent, and Hong Kong in the seventh position.
The 8th, 9th and 10th places were taken by Japan, Beijing, and China with annual increases of 7.63 percent, 7.10 percent and 6.98 percent, respectively.
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We are running our Spring+Hibernate web app on Tomcat (Java 1.5). Currently we use 2GB of heap space (I am told it is the max possible on Solaris 32 bit servers although Server has a total of 16GB RAM). The current JAVA_OPTS are :
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+UseParallelGC -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m
The Young Gen + Survivor space is ~600 MB and Old Gen is 1.4 GB.
There are time when the memory gets full and we need to restart Tomcat. The following are the observations:
- In approx 16 hour active running of the server, the GC spends around an hour for MarkSweep (~300 collections - Old Gen) and 5 - 7 minutes on Scavenging (~1500 collections - Young Gen).
- There are times when the Old Gen get full in 10 minutes and we need to restart the server. Identifying the thread that is causing is has not been very successful
We would like to change to the following JAVA_OPTIONS - I need feedback on whether this is sensible choice (UAT environments do not match the load of Prod env and we are unable to replicate the same in UAT)
Add -Xmn1024m - This is to make sure that the Young Gen objects don't easily get promoted to Old Gen. Any suggestions on increasing / decreasing this ? Also this would lead to more Young Gen GC and lesser Old Gen GC.
-XX:+UseParallelOldGC - This is to make the Young and Old Gen GC run multiple threads so that they gets GCed quicker.
Is the limitation of 2GB applicable to Solaris Servers too ? Cant the heap be increased to more than 2GB ?
Please share your thoughts on the above.
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More than 60 years ago, President Harry Truman established the third Saturday in May as Armed Forces Day. Tens of thousands of visitors poured into Washington, D.C. for a day of appreciation for America's men and women in uniform. In 1952, a New York Times article on Armed Forces Day summed up the spirit of the event:
It is our most earnest hope that those who are in positions of peril, that those who have made exceptional sacrifices, yes, and those who are afflicted with plain drudgery and boredom, may somehow know that we hold them in exceptional esteem. Perhaps if we are a little more conscious of our debt of honored affection they may be a little more aware of how much we think of them.
That debt of honored affection is as important today as it was then. While the threats our nation faces are different now than they were then, we still owe our gratitude and appreciation to the select few who volunteer to place themselves in harm's way for our defense.
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