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On Monday, the United States Attorney General Eric Holder accused China of hacking American industrial giants such as U.S. Steel and Westinghouse Electric, making unprecedented criminal charges of cyper-espionage against Chinese military officials. Kissinger Institute Director, Robert Daly offers his thoughts on the effectiveness of the U.S. response. (Originally posted on the Asia Society's China File).
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Apr 17, 2014
"I tend to think this is an exceptionally dangerous situation for the simple reason that the Russian message 'Take us seriously or else' has never received a satisfactory answer," said Matthew Rojansky on Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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HP today unveiled the industry's first server built to help clients operationalize Big Data, drive new business opportunities and save up to $1 million over three years.(1)
HP ProLiant SL45402 Gen 8 (Photo: Business Wire)
With the advent of Big Data software and the promise that it brings, many organizations have tried to deploy these solutions on existing architectures not designed to handle the specific needs of these workloads. As a result, the outcomes from these early deployments have been suboptimal from a performance and cost perspective.
"Big Data application environments such as Hadoop, MPP data warehouses, Big Data analytics and object stores have very different workload requirements," said Dan Vesset, vice president, Business Analytics Research, IDC. "Given the large and varied amounts of fast-moving data that needs to be stored and accessed quickly and the different requirements of end users, these workloads can be highly varied, complex and inefficient to manage if run on traditional hardware infrastructure. In order to fully embrace the promise of Big Data, it is critical that the underlying infrastructure be optimized for the workload."
The new HP ProLiant SL4500 server series is the only solution purpose built for Big Data environments. It provides maximum performance, productivity and cost-effectiveness in an ultradense solution required by these workloads. Built on HP Converged Infrastructure, the new server offers a highly efficient design that consumes up to 50 percent less space, 61 percent less power and 31 percent lower cost while using 63 percent fewer cables.(1)
Modular architecture optimizes results for workload specific applications
The modular design of the HP ProLiant SL4500 server series offers varied compute and storage configurations that enable clients to optimize their infrastructure for a workload-specific application, removing the need to piece together incongruent hardware for the supporting infrastructure.
With a single, cost-effective architecture, the HP ProLiant SL4500 server series also supports multiple Apache Hadoop vendors including Cloudera and Hortonworks, as well as additional software including OpenStack Cloud Software and MongoDB.
"Enterprises that leverage Cloudera's Platform for Big Data to unlock insights across all of their data benefit from deploying infrastructure components optimized for the extreme demands of Big Data workloads," said Amr Awadallah, chief technology officer, Cloudera. "By designing a server purpose built for Big Data, HP is offering the market a seamless new approach to processing large data sets efficiently and cost-effectively."
HP innovation delivers greater performance and density
The HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server series, with HP Smart Array technology, delivers industry-leading performance with a nearly seven times faster input/output operations per second (IOPS) than existing architectures.(2) With the smart analytics of HP SmartCache, the system will optimize storage traffic to ensure the lowest latency response and up-front investment.
Current server offerings cannot address the rapidly growing amounts of storage and servers for Big Data, forcing IT leaders to acquire additional expensive data center space. However, the new HP ProLiantSL4500 server series solves this problem by delivering industry-leading storage density of up to 240 terabytes (TB) in a single 4.3-rack-unit (U) chassis, or 2.16 petabytes (PB) with nine servers in an industry-standard 42-U rack.(3)
As a result of this extreme density, clients realize significant cost savings, greater performance and increased efficiency.
Safeguard Big Data, simplify management and support with HP ProLiant Gen8
The latest member of the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) family, the HP SL4500 server series is built with HP ProActive Insight Architecture, which embeds intelligence and automation capabilities allowing clients to:
- Eliminate down time and safeguard valuable data with automated data protection and HP Predictive Spare Activation, which moves data to an alternate device before failures occur.
- Ensure maximum server productivity with HP Active Health, and automate firmware updates with HP Smart Update.
- Leverage the industry's most comprehensive services, support and warranty offering with HP Insight Online.
- Lower data center power costs and improve compute per watt by up to 70 percent than previous generations with HP Intelligent Infrastructure.(4)
HP enhances scale-out server portfolio
HP also announced updates to its high-performance computing (HPC) portfolio, enabling clients to maximize the performance benefits of the latest processing technology from Intel and NVIDIA.
The HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 server offers maximized processor density, with the ability to support up to eight Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors or eight NVIDIA® Kepler™ graphic processing units (GPUs) per server. The HP ProLiant SL270s and SL250s Gen8 servers now support the latest NVIDIA Kepler GPUs and newly announced Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, enabling clients to select the best accelerator or coprocessor for their specific workloads.
Pricing and availability(5)
The HP ProLiant SL4500 server series in a single node configuration is available immediately worldwide for a starting price of $7,643.
The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 servers will be available next month, with for a starting price of $6,166. The HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 servers will be available with NVIDIA Kepler and Intel Xeon Phi processors early next year for a starting price of $5,659.
HP's premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
(1) Based on internal calculations comparing Dell PowerEdge R510 servers plus four units of Dell Power Vault MD1200 direct attach storage, which consumes seven racks, 28 servers, 112 JBOD (just a bunch of disks) enclosures, 14 networking switches, 448 cables and 79 kilowatts of power to HP ProLiant SL4500 servers consuming three racks, six networking switches, 168 cables and 31 kilowatts of power. Savings of $0.5M in acquisition costs (or CAPEX); $0.25M savings in power, cooling and distribution costs; and $0.2M savings due to rent of data center floor space over a three-year period.
(2) Based on internal testing that compares an HP ProLiant G7 server with a standard 15K SAS drive to that of HP ProLiant Gen8 server with a solid state drive.
(3) Based on internal calculations. Single-node configuration of HP SL4500 server is capable of providing up to 60 LFF (3.5-inch) SAS/SATA/SSD hard drives in a 4.3U chassis. Using the 4TB SAS/SATA hard drives that will be available early FY2013, every SL4500 server can provide 240 TB of storage capacity. A total of up to nine SL4500 servers can be installed in a single 42U rack to provide a maximum storage capacity of 2.16PB by using 540 LFF hard drives of 4TB capacity.
(4) HP internal comparison: HP ProLiant G7 to HP ProLiant G8.
(5) Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.
Intel and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning expected development, performance, market share or competitive performance relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP's businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the protection of HP's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties; integration and other risks associated with business combination and investment transactions; the hiring and retention of key employees; assumptions related to pension and other post-retirement costs and retirement programs; the execution, timing and results of restructuring plans, including estimates and assumptions related to the cost and the anticipated benefits of implementing those plans; expectations and assumptions relating to the execution and timing of cost reduction programs and restructuring and integration plans; the resolution of pending investigations, claims and disputes; and other risks that are described in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012 and HP's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
© 2012 Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. Registration No.: 198703164G. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
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Paul R. Chisholm, 85, died April 1 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation. Born March 24, 1926 in Raleigh, Miss., he was the son of John U. and Eva (Devlin) Chisholm. A resident of Great Bend since 1954, coming from Mississippi, he was employed by Jones and Laughlin Steel Manufacturing and Mission Manufacturing and later was a farmer and stockman. On Aug. 24, 1957 he married Joan Schartz at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Great Bend.
OTIS - Gerald "Jerry" A. Bahr, 56, died April 2 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Born June 30, 1954, he was the son of Roland J. and Dorothy (Mayer) Bahr. A lifetime resident of the Otis and Olmitz area, he was a foreman in the finishing department at Great Bend Manufacturing for 33 years, later working at Landmark National Bank as the maintenance man. On April 16, 1977 he married Linda Schneider in Olmitz.
BURDETT - Lester L. Shuck, 76, passed away April 1, at the Rush County Nursing Home in LaCrosse. Born July 24, 1934 in Pawnee County, he was the son of Rex and Leona Smith Shuck. A lifetime area resident, he was a feed mill operator at the COOP in Burdett.
Paul R. Chisholm, 85, of Great Bend, died April 1 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. Services are pending with Bryant Funeral Home in Great Bend.
Harmon E. "Shorty" Allinger, 77, died April 1 at Hays Medical Center in Hays. He was born March 21, 1934, at Great Bend, the son of Harmon C. and Goldie (Miles) Allinger. He married Velma Leiker on Jan. 14, 1958, at Hays. A lifetime Great Bend resident, he owned and operated H&H Auto Electric.
MISSION, Texas - Leona M. Wess Blankenship, 92, died April 1 at the Mission Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Mission, Texas. Born April 27, 1918, in Great Bend, was the daughter of Theodore P. and Sarah Ellen Gilbert Wess. Leona Wess and Donald Carroll Blankenship were married on Oct. 11, 1935, in Great Bend. She was a homemaker on the farm until the girls started high school. She worked for Honaker Drilling Inc. and moved first to Oleander Acres and then to Enchanted Valley Ranch in Mission, Texas.
Billie Lou Burgardt, 61, died April 1 at Trinity Hospital in Rock Island, Ill. Services are pending with Bryant Funeral Home in Great Bend.
LARNED – John Mariche Perez, 67, died March 31 at his home in Larned. Born March 2, 1944, at Dodge City, he was the son of Clemente Rincon and Lucille Mariche Perez. A lifetime resident of the Edwards and Pawnee County area, he was a Licensed Mental Health Technician at the Larned State Hospital. On Aug. 16, 1969, he married Mary Lynn Stejskal at Miami, Okla. She survives.
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Maurice Doolen "Dooley" Edman, 85, died March 29 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. Born Feb. 20, 1926 in Great Bend, he was the son of Maurice J. and Martha Lois (Doolen) Edman. He graduated from Great Bend High School and attended the University of Washington in Seattle Wash., majoring in Civil Engineering. A Great Bend resident since 1956, coming from McPherson, he worked for Evans-Rondeau engineering firm, Hallibutron Oil Well Cementing Company and was the Barton County Engineer for 36 years. On Feb. 27, he married Betty Stafford in New Mexico. Following his retirement he and his wife enjoyed many ...
RUSSELL - James Lacey Brown, 86, of Russell, died March 27, at the Russell Regional Hospital. Born Dec. 28, 1924 on the family farm outside of Russell, he was the son of John A. and Dorothy Ruth (Lacey) Brown. He grew up in Russell County and graduated from Russell High School in 1942. On Dec. 28, 1947 he married Marjorie Anne Moore. She preceded him in death on Jan. 13, 2010. A farmer and rancher his whole life, he farmed the family farm near Russell and his aunt's farm near Gorham. He also was a plumber and electrician throughout his ...
Lillian Marie Stremel, 81, died March 29 at Rush County Memorial Hospital in LaCrosse. Services are pending with Bryant Funeral Home in Great Bend.
ATCHISON - Virginia L. Jones, 93, of Atchison passed away March 25 in Miami, Fla.
Kermit Lee Johnson, 57, died Nov. 11, 2014 at Via Christi Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita.
CLAFLIN - Joseph "Joe L." Kaiser, 98, died Nov. 12 at the Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born Feb. 6, 1916, on the farm in Claflin, the son of Lawrence and Louisa (Fonscher) Kaiser. Joe was a farmer and a stockman.
Kermit Lee Johnson, 57, died Nov. 11, 2014 at Via Christi Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita.
Isidro Alvarez, 73, passed away at his home in Great Bend on Tuesday.
HOISINGTON - Linda M. Pettitt, 68, died Nov. 8, 2014 at her home in Hoisington.
GREAT BEND – Marilyn K. Preston, 72, died Nov. 12, 2014 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita.


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In a perfunctory and taut decision Tuesday night, Phillipsburg Town Council voted 4-0 to add a provision that places restrictions on the videotaping and recording of council meetings. Councilman John Lynn was absent.
It was the first vote of two on the subject.
The restrictions placed on the videotaping were compartmentalized into three sections in the amendment – on tripods, handheld and other provisions – and were arrived at after a previous ordinance was scrapped after citizens and WFMZ-TV news director Brad Rinehart raised questions about their legality during a September 4th council meeting.
"We made many concessions during this process," said Councilman Todd Tersigni before Tuesday night's vote.
No other council member spoke about the legislation Tuesday night.
The amendment approved states that "no more than two video recording devices at a time shall be permitted at a Town Council meeting, exclusive of any video recording device utilized by the Town." If more than two cameras wish to record the proceedings, the ordinance states that there will be a "drawing" by the town clerk or acting clerk, to ascertain which camera will be permitted to record.
In addition, the ordinance states that any video recording devices must be set up prior to the start of the meeting and cannot be moved during the course of the meeting.
In the section that examines handheld equipment, the ordinance states that the "handheld video or recording equipment is permitted in the audience seating area only." In addition these devices are also prohibited to start recording until the meeting has been called to order, and must cease upon its conclusion.
Under the "other provisions" section approved Tuesday night, a provision that state "members of the press are free to conduct interviews of Town Officials, or any other persons, in the hall prior to, or at the conclusion of, the meeting."
Should someone not comply with the ordinance, the council president can ultimately ask the individual to remove the video equipment from the room.
Prior to the vote Phillipsburg resident Blaine Fehley, who videotapes each council meeting for a website, expressed his disapproval of one section of the amendment that states that "video recording equipment may not be broken down and/or put away until the meeting has been adjourned or is in recess." Nevertheless his concerns were not addressed.
In other business Tuesday night three individuals were sworn in as the newest members of the town's police force. They were Dominic Belcastro, Michael Connaughton and Brett Marino.
The second vote on the videotaping issue will be taken at the council's next regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 16.
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Feb 5, 2011
AHD staff conducted fallow up visit among the villages of Jati area district Thatta in the villages still under flood water or little water standing beside houses. We preparing to install another 1,500 Nadi filter units among the flood affected families now returned to their homes and now need urgent basis safe drinking water. Please you all can help us to provide another 1,500 units within few days or weeks if your support will come soon or you help us to promote this report for other friends
Hope you will all be happy to see the present situation, as we installed more than 1,500 Nadi filter units in Tando hafiz Shah & Jhirk and same way we want to start the Nadi filter in low lying area of Jati district Thatta
We at AHD thankful for all of you and hope you will also take action to support further our this innovative project
With best wishes
Dear Donors / Supporters & Frineds
We are happy to share that so far 1,500 nadi filter units have been installed and some 500 ready to distribute and install within next 1-2 weeks, the 1500 families and about 12,000 households now have access to safe and clean drinking water and soon as we receive more funds from Global Giving, the no. of nadi filter installation will be increased up to 2,000.
We are thankful all of you, whoever donated for this project, the project is sustainable and its impact is long term, hope we will be able to promote 6,000 nadi filter among flood victims. we need quick support from all of you and donation to complete our this project
Please feel free to ask us for information or info for your donation, project leader and AHD management wants to complete this project as per plan and hope you support donation will help us to do ....
again thanks all of you, GOD bless you
1150 Nadi filter water units distribution in IDPs of Thatta district Pakistan
Dear all supporters. donors and friends
We at AHD thankful for your cooperation and support for so far 1,500 families. we also looking another 4,500 families support from all of you. Our area families waiting, suffering and looking for us and we hope you all will contribute to make success and provision of 6,000 nadi filter units among flood affected families Thatta Sindh Pakistan
So far 1150 Nadi filter (safe drinking water) filters distributed among the flood victims and now they all are happy and using these Nadi (bio-sand) type filters at their house hold level, we attaching some snaps and we will also put all data or info as per your requirement, please feel free and let us know
The families provided with 1150 Nadi filter units now using safe and clean drinking water at their household level and saved from water borne diseases, as many of them living in villages where flood water is available for the drinking purposes and ow they are happy to use Nadi filter units for filtering their available source of water. Nadi filter water is clean and rural poor families happy, many of them reports that now they have no sick and they are now drinking clean water at their household level.
We at AHD looking your all support to promote these filters on mass scale and cover other areas of Country affected by floods in 2010.the material is in process to provide 1,000 more filters in coming few days and your quick support will help us to do that. we also want as soon as fund this project and we will be able to install and distribute all 6,000 filters among Flood Victims in Pakistan
We will soon post a new reports and survey about the filters provided and are in use to keep update you all about our this innovative and sustainable work
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AHD Staff celebrated EID with 500 IDP families of Sujawal & Jati area and provided them with the
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2. Bengals for women and children
3. 13 EId programs for flood affected families in Gularchi
As we started the safe drinking Nadi filter provision and so far we prepared 900 Units which will be installed within next few days and we will post new report of the Nadi filter units
Women and Children was so happy and enjoyed EID programs organized by AHD staff for 500 families. the IDps living in far and scattered areas approached by AHD and further we will support hem through this project. AHD staff for this project and about 500 poor families distributed sweets and women items on the EID occasion
Hope you all will be happy to see the snaps and the IDPs support on EID day.
We at AHD also request to re-donate for this project and support us to provide Nadi filter units to large IDP families
the provided Nadi filters they will be bale to take to their home and AHD will help them in their rehabilitation
Looking your urgent attention to support our grass root level project
with lot of thanks and GOD bless you all
The floods in Thatta district creates worse situation and so far 2,180,000 people are displaced from them. Some 540,000 werebprovided with tents and food and remaining are 1,640,000 IDPs waiting. We at AHD installed 320 nadi filters so far and some 3,500 now able to have access to safe and clean drinking water. But still needs lot of to made more filters.
We find first installment on 7th Sept 2010 and hope in next 4-6 days we will be able to make another 500 or more units.
Our last days field visit shows very bad situation and many women and children now have skin diseases
Thanks to you all and Global Giving team for the considering to support our flood affected areas. Please go through the snaps and help us to reach more people as quickly as we can
We waiting your response
Thanks you all & Global Giving
From the AHD team & people of Thatta sharing thanks to our team
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Arianna Huffington recently attacked Roger Ailes of Fox News for permitting Glenn Beck to acknowledge the tens of millions of deaths caused by left-wing statists during the 20th century, on the grounds that it could incite a "killing spree." Yet her execrable Huffington Post soon afterwards published a piece by David Proletarian, I mean David Bourgeois, echoing the recent call by Roland Martin of CNN for metaphorical violence against those who would stand athwart Comrade Obama's path to a glorious socialist utopia.
If mentioning the Holodomor is incitement, what do you call it when a political fanatic urges the head of state to do this:
You've given it your best shot, you've tried numerous times to talk with the Republicans, to negotiate, to meet them halfway on every single matter before the American people. But they hate you for many reasons. It's time you break kneecaps. It's time to destroy the Republican Party. They don't deserve a seat at the table when all they want to do is score political points by being the Party of No.
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Just rhetoric? Sure. But it was more than rhetoric when Obama's SEIU shock troops sent Ken Gladney to the hospital for protesting plans to nationalize healthcare.
Liberalism is the ideology of the thug. Don't create wealth; seize it. Don't come to voluntary, mutually beneficial agreements; decide what you want others to do and force them to do it. Violent words and violent actions are to be expected from progressives, which is why they don't want the rest of us armed.
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COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö A recruitment session is scheduled for potential participants for the 49th program of Distinguished Young Woman/Junior Miss Saturday.
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Ott spoke on some of the current issues relative to firearms in the State of Indiana.
ŌĆ£Actually, business is too good right now,ŌĆØ he said. The demand far exceeds the supply. And itŌĆÖs a little hard to explain why,ŌĆØ he said.
He said it was more complicated than simply attributing it all to recent tragedies.
He equated it to panic buying without thought.
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He demonstrated his skill at the Steel Dynamics Keith E. Busse Technology Center of Ivy Tech Community College on the Fort Wayne campus.
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Columbia City finishes its Northeast Hoosier Conference schedule with a record of 5-2. The EaglesŌĆÖ only other NHC loss came against Carroll last week by a score of 7-6.
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FORT WAYNE ŌĆö Churubusco Head Track Coach Zack Dock described Tuesday eveningŌĆÖs Northrop IHSAA GirlŌĆÖs Track and Field Sectional as ŌĆ£a very good night.ŌĆØ
The Lady Eagles used strong performances in the field events to send three athletes in four events on to next TuesdayŌĆÖs Northrop Regional competition.
The Lady Eagles placed ninth as a team with only two points separating them from seventh place.
Eagle junior Katie Monk qualified in both of the throwing events.
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ŌĆ£Everyone we anticipated to qualify for the regional made it,ŌĆØ Fahl said. ŌĆ£There were no disappointments.ŌĆØ
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5,764 fans witnessed something special Wednesday night. It's been a long time since we could say it, but Scott Kazmir got that elusive victory he's been looking for. Kazmir, facing the Bridgeport Bluefish for the third time this year, finally got his win, and hopefully silenced some of the critics that have written him off. In what was his most dominant performance in years, Kazmir held the Bluefish to one run and two hits over eight innings. What is even more impressive is the one walk to go along with three strikeouts. Kazmir's stay in Sugar Land has been anything but pretty, but there has been an obvious improvement in the numbers. Sure there have been some awful pitching lines including an eight walk performance a couple starts back, but he continues to get on the rubber striving for improvement. With the end of the MLB season nearing, there are going to be some teams looking for that extra starter, or that extra reliever for the stretch run they're about to embark on. If he continues on this path, we may see Kazmir back in the show sooner than later. One win in an Independent league may not seem like much but to many this could be one of the biggest wins of Kazmir's career. Devon is the Founder and Executive Director of The GM's Perspective. He is a former professional baseball player with the River City Rascals & Gateway Grizzlies. Currently, Devon is a Manager at a financial institution in Northern Ontario Canada, and can be reached at email@example.com. You can follow The GM's Perspective on Twitter and Facebook. His full bio can be seen here.
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The consumer credit statistics presented here were calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis's Community Development Department using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York/Equifax Consumer Credit Panel data set (consumer credit data set). This is an anonymous, nationally representative sample consisting of 5 percent of U.S. residents with a Social Security Number and a credit report.1 The data set is an unbalanced panel, meaning that certain randomly selected consumers enter the data set when their credit report is initially created, and others disappear after they die or because their credit bureau file no longer contains sufficient information.2 The data are reported quarterly and generally reflect conditions as of the last month of each quarter.
In total, the consumer credit data set includes roughly 12 million consumers. Roughly 350,000 of them are located in the Ninth Federal Reserve District, which is composed of Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Both nationwide and Ninth District statistics are based on the entirety of the 5 percent sample.
No information about the income of individuals is included in the consumer credit data set. However, the data set does include the census tract, county, and state where the consumer lives. In this analysis, a consumer is assigned to a neighborhood income category based on the median family income (MFI) of the census tract where he or she lives relative to the median family income of either the metropolitan area (for metropolitan area residents) or the nonmetropolitan portion of the state (for nonmetropolitan residents).3 The neighborhood income categories used in this analysis are low income (<50 percent of MFI); moderate income (50-79 percent of MFI); middle income (80-119 percent of MFI); and upper income (≥120 percent of MFI). The analysis presents statistics based on the credit characteristics of consumers in each of these neighborhood income categories nationally and within the Ninth Federal Reserve District.
Our methodology for classifying census tracts into income categories is based on, but not identical to, methods used by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) in assigning census tracts to income categories for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and Community Reinvestment Act data-reporting purposes. Rather than using more current income data from the American Community Survey (ACS) as the FFIEC does, we use the ACS data set from 2005-2009. Although these income data are older, the 2005-2009 file uses census tract geographic definitions from Census 2000, which is consistent with the information reported in the consumer credit data set. The newer ACS data used by the FFIEC are based on census tract definitions from the 2010 Census, which are not entirely compatible with those used in the consumer credit data set.
In this analysis, we exclude consumers with a nonresidential address (e.g., a PO Box) from our income category estimates but include them in all total estimates. We treat consumers with incomplete or inaccurate geographic data similarly, as well as those who live in a census tract for which a median family income estimate is not available. Consumers who have exited the sample after one year or less are excluded from the analysis entirely, as are those reported to be deceased.4
This section describes the consumer credit statistics calculated by Community Development Department staff. If any questions remain, please feel free to contact the department directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Median Credit Score
The credit risk score provided by Equifax (the Equifax Risk Score) ranges from 280 to 850, with a lower score indicating a higher level of risk. However, Equifax does not calculate a risk score for consumers whose credit histories are too limited ("thin") to provide sufficient information for gauging credit risk. These thin-file consumers are excluded from the calculation of the median credit score, which is the midpoint of existing scores. That is, half of the consumers with scores have a score above the median and half have a score below the median.
Percent of Consumers with Poor/Fair Credit
This is the number of consumers with a score below 660, as a percent of all consumers in the sample who have a credit score. The threshold of 660 was chosen because this score is commonly used to distinguish prime borrowers from subprime borrowers.5 A consumer with a score below 660 likely encounters challenges in accessing credit from mainstream financial institutions.
Percent of Consumers in Foreclosure
This is the number of consumers who were in some stage of a mortgage foreclosure process during the quarter, as a percentage of all consumers with mortgage debt (where mortgage debt includes home installment loans but not home equity lines of credit). Being in a mortgage foreclosure process includes having a foreclosure process begin during the quarter, having a previously existing foreclosure process end during the quarter, and having a previously existing foreclosure process continue through the quarter.
Percent of Consumers with a Seriously Delinquent Tradeline6
This is the number of consumers with a seriously delinquent tradeline, as a percent of all consumers with a tradeline, where seriously delinquent includes loans that are 90+ days past due, in collections, classified as severely derogatory, or in bankruptcy. Accounts that are severely derogatory are more than 120 days past due and may be charged off by the lender as bad debt. Collection accounts reported by collection agencies or debt buyers are not included in this estimate. Consumers with no debt or an active account in good standing are considered to be current and are thus included in the denominator of this calculation.
The delinquency rate estimates presented in this analysis differ from those typically provided in other sources in at least two ways. First, these rates reflect the percent of individuals with a delinquent account. This methodology can produce very different trends than alternative specifications that calculate delinquency as the percent of outstanding debt (or loans) past due. Second, the delinquency rates presented here include individuals with accounts that lenders have likely closed and charged off because they no longer expect repayment. Many sources of delinquency rates on consumer loans will report a charged-off account in the period in which it occurs (a month, quarter, or year) but not thereafter.7 In the consumer credit data used here, seriously derogatory accounts (including ones charged off) can be reported for up to seven years. To the extent that lenders continue to report these accounts, they will be reflected in these charts.
It is worth noting that the percent of consumers with a delinquent bank card tradeline increased sharply in the last quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011. At the same time, the percent of consumers with a bank card tradeline—delinquent or not—also increased, but to a lesser degree. A significant portion of the bank card tradelines that first entered the data set during this period were already reported as 120 days or more past due or in collections. This is unusual and warrants further investigation.
Percent of Consumers with Debt
For total debt, this estimate reflects the percent of consumers in the data set with at least one debt greater than $0 (excluding accounts in bankruptcy but including debt from closed accounts that the lender has charged off but continues to report to the credit bureau). The percentages by type of debt are the percent of consumers in the dataset who have at least one debt of that type with a current balance greater than $0.
Median Debt
For consumers with debt, median total debt is the midpoint of consumers' debt totals, excluding accounts in bankruptcy but including debt from closed accounts that the lender has charged off but continues to report to the credit bureau. That is, half of the consumers have total debts that exceed the median and half have total debts that are less than the median. It is important to note that consumers with zero debt are not included in this estimate. Median debt by type is calculated only for consumers who have nonzero debt of that type. It again represents the midpoint, so that half of the consumers with that type of debt have balances greater than the median. When a credit file contains a joint debt, half of the amount owed is attributed to the consumer in question. That is, to mitigate potential double counting of debt amounts for joint debtors, it is assumed that the other half of the debt is owed by the consumer's spouse or other partner.
Robert B. Avery, Paul S. Calem, and Glenn B. Canner, "Credit Report Accuracy and Access to Credit," Federal Reserve Bulletin (Summer 2004), pp. 297-322.
John M. Barron, Gregory Elliehausen, and Michael E. Staten, "Monitoring the Household Sector with Aggregate Credit Bureau Data," Business Economics (January 2000), pp. 63-76.
Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, Do We Know What We Owe? A Comparison of Borrower- and Lender-Reported Consumer Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report 523 (2013).
Julia S. Cheney, Alternative Data and Its Use in Credit Scoring Thin- and No-File Consumers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Payment Cards Center Discussion Paper (2008).
Julia S. Cheney, Payments, Credit, and Savings: The Experience for LMI Households, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Payment Cards Center Conference Summary (2007).
Robert M. Hunt, A Century of Consumer Credit Reporting in America, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper 05-13 (2005).
Andrew Kish, Perspectives on Recent Trends in Consumer Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Discussion Paper (2006).
Donghoon Lee and Wilbert van der Klaauw, An Introduction to the FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report 479 (2010).
1 The 5 percent sample is drawn using the last two digits of a consumer's Social Security Number; consumers whose Social Security Number ends in one of five two-digit combinations are selected into the sample. However, the data set used to develop these statistics does not include the Social Security Number of the consumer or other identifying information (e.g., consumer name, lender name, address, etc.).
2 In order to be included in the data set, an individual must have at least one of the following in his or her credit bureau file at Equifax: an item of public record (e.g., a judgment) within the last seven years or bankruptcy filing within the last ten years; an open credit account that is regularly updated by the lender or servicer; or a closed account that continues to be reported, which can occur for up to seven years if the account was not in good standing. Not all adults will have a credit bureau file. According to an analysis of the Survey of Consumer Finances, slightly more than 8 percent of households do not include a member with a credit report (Brown, et al. 2011).
3 Income data are from the five-year American Community Survey (ACS) data set covering the years 2005-2009. In this analysis, a census tract is assigned to only one neighborhood income category for the duration of the study period, based on its income during the five years covered by the ACS data. For consistency, the same metropolitan area definitions are used throughout the study period. We use the definitions adopted for the release of the 2005-2009 ACS data and defined in the November 2008 OMB Bulletin No. 09-01.
4 It is impossible to know whether consumers who are first available in the five most recent quarters will remain in the sample for more than one year or whether they will exit after a year or less. We retain all consumers unless it is evident that they have exited the sample after one year or less. As a result, some recently added consumers included in this analysis will, in all likelihood, exit the sample as new quarters of data become available. In the eight quarters of data available in 2010 and 2011, anywhere from 17 to 35 percent of sample entrants subsequently exited the sample after one year or less.
5 See, for example, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of Thrift Supervision, Supervision and Regulation Letter 01-4(GEN): Guidance on Supervision of Subprime Lending, January 31, 2001. Accessed July 17, 2012.
6 A tradeline refers to an individual borrower-lender relationship, such as a single mortgage or a single student loan. Because lenders are permitted—but not required—to report seriously delinquent and subsequently closed tradelines and their charged-off balances to the credit bureau for up to seven years, such accounts can be included in the count of tradelines. It is important to note that the presence of a tradeline is not synonymous with the existence of debt, particularly for revolving accounts such as bank cards, for which it is common to have a tradeline but no outstanding debt associated with it. Mortgage estimates include both regular mortgages and home equity installment loans.
7 In financial statements, a charge-off is the removal of a loan (an asset) from the lender's balance sheet. In credit bureau data, an account charge-off reflects negatively on a consumer's repayment history and can be legally included in a credit report for up to seven years.


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November 2014
From the Counselling Corner
Television, newspapers, radios, and social media provide us with information on an ongoing, consistent basis.
We are saddened by the events presented these past few weeks. Two Canadian soldiers, who fought for our freedoms and the freedom of others, killed in acts of violence.
The newspapers, radio, television and social media have been busy relaying the story over and over again. Deborah Serani, a psychologist and psychoanalyst who reports for Psychology Today, notes in a June 2011 article titled, If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear Based Media, that how journalism is presented has changed: \"the journalistic mission was to report the news as it actually happened, with fairness, balance, and integrity. However, capitalistic motives associated with journalism have forced much of today's television news to look to the spectacular, the stirring, and the controversial as news stories."
Ms. Serani also notes that the main aim of the story is to "grab" our attention and then "persuade the viewer" to believe what is happening or occurring. This is done in a variety of ways, by using voice (change in tone, cadence) to presenting questions that make one think. Problems, arise, however, when the initial information that is presented is not accurate or changes. This creates fragmentation and confusion as the person watching is not able to ascertain what is real.
You may or may not agree with Serani. While Serani does not identify the age of the viewers in her article, it is important to note that our children have beautiful young minds. These minds, are not able to process complex material in the way that adult minds can. Watching and re-watching the news, hearing the news over and over again, interacting with social media, can create anxiety in our children. They are not able to process.
I encourage you to limit what your children are viewing and listening to on a daily basis. Your children may have questions as to what has happened and or is occurring. As parents, you will know what information your child is able to understand. The most important message will be to share with them that they are safe and loved.
last updated; November 12, 2014
From the Counselling Corner
October Issue: Routines
We are just settling in to October. One month has passed since children began their first day of school---met their teacher, walked into their new classroom, and saw the children that would be learning with them this year.
For the month of September the teacher has been establishing routines, things that the children do on a daily basis. For example, deciding on how to use the agenda that passes back and forth between home and school most effectively. When to share important days of the child, like his or her birthday? When to teach the various subjects? There are many factors a teacher takes into consideration when coming up with a routine for school.
The routine then provides children with an understanding of what the day is going to look like. By knowing this, children can then self-regulate, knowing that recess is at a certain time the child can make sure he or she has a snack and gets outside to actively participate with his or her friends. He or she can also have an idea about time-how much time does it take him or her to complete a task? Students will then become more confident in themselves knowing that they are able to achieve a certain task in the time given.
Routines can also be very beneficial at home. Of course, flexibility within the routine is also helpful as it helps the child know that sometimes things can change, like staying up later on a Friday night to watch a movie with mom and dad.
Dr. Laura Markham (www.ahaparenting.com) notes that routines at home do six key things:
1) Eliminate power struggles—children learn what a typical day looks like and know that during that day there will be opportunity for things like play
2) Help children cooperate
3) Take charge—children who have an understanding of routine may actually take a leadership role like helping with the dishes after supper because the routine is familiar to them and they have seen mom and dad model the action of washing dishes.
4) Looking forward: Within the routine, a family may talk about what is coming up, like visiting grandma and grandpa and children learn to look forward to the experience
5) Scheduling---routines provide for an opportunity for family's to schedule activities
6) Build in family time: Family time is important, and by having a routine, one can create opportunity to have special moments throughout the day.
M. Jeanne Wilcox and Juliane Woods (2012) have also identified that routines establish a way for very young children to understand language and how to communicate. It provides them with a context and a way to explore in a safe way.
This month is safety month. As a part of your family routine, you may wish to review your family's safety plan for computer use, potential fire and emergencies. Talk with your child about what ifs—What if I am not able to get home when I said I would get home? What if you are locked out of the house? What is safe computer use for our family?
By providing structure, children can become confident in their surroundings, whether at school or at home.
last updated; September 29th, 2014


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Torrey Pines High School students react to drunk driver sentencing
By Max Sutton-Smolin
The sentencing of a 17-year-old fellow student did not shock Torrey Pines High School students. It did not leave them crying in the hallways at school.
The worst of that was over.
The juvenile was sentenced Dec. 10 to probation and a minimum of 283 days in a juvenile camp for driving while intoxicated and crashing his car, killing one passenger (fellow TPHS student Alex Capozza) and seriously injuring another. The sentencing reflects a general climate at TPHS of well-wishing for the driver, as well as providing relief at some sign of closure of the ordeal.
"Basically our whole school just wanted the best for everyone," TPHS senior Allison Pfingst said. "The whole school was so upset about it, and none of Alex's family or anyone wanted (the driver) to go to jail. So everyone was pretty relieved at the sentence."
Trent Newquist, a junior at TPHS, was close friends with Capozza, and the two families were close as well.
"I think it was a pretty fair sentence for all that happened," Newquist said. "(The driver) is a good guy and everyone at our school loves him, but there has to be some sort of punishment for what happened."
For weeks, the death of one student and the vehicular manslaughter trial of another have affected the whole school, Pfingst said, with people "crying in the hallways" and other "terrible things happening."
Cole Short, a senior at TPHS, went to middle school with the driver and did not know Capozza personally. Short harbors no ill feelings toward the driver, he said.
"I've had friends die in the past through drunk driving, and ... people never get numb to it," Short said. "It's always going to be just as grievous as it was before."
The punishment was more important for people following the trial and not directly involved in it than for the driver himself, Short said.
A lot of people believed the sentence would be much worse, "but I don't know anyone — even Alex's friends — who wanted anything bad to happen to (the driver)," Pfingst said.
TPHS senior Sydney Gerbracht said that she "was torn" between her ties to the two boys' families and friends. She was close with both boys and has known the driver since middle school and Capozza since elementary school.
"For the trial, being (the driver's) friend, I wanted him to get out as soon as possible, but at the same time, as Alex's killer, I wanted him to understand the severity of the situation and understand that what he did is not excusable under any circumstances," Gerbracht said.
The sentencing seems fair to her but is difficult for her to evaluate personally because the trial was so removed from her, she said.
Time was most effective as a healer in this situation, Gerbracht said. Her initial reaction was one of despair but also anger that it took the death of Capozza to show students not to drink and drive.
"I definitely think that (the driver) should have known better, we've had to take his keys away before," Gerbracht said.


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