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New communication in WMT... algorithmic but still a penalty.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
12:47 pm on Apr 8, 2011
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After submitting rather a lot of requests since January 12th when my site seemingly suffered a huge penalty/filter, I today received a rather different response in my WMT which I'm guessing will be one of the improved communications that Matt Cutts indicated over the last month or two:
Dear site owner or webmaster of <site>,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider <site> for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google. There's no need to file a reconsideration request for your site, because any ranking issues you may be experiencing are not related to a manual action taken by the webspam team.
Of course, there may be other issues with your site that affect your site's ranking. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users.
If you've experienced a change in ranking which you suspect may be more than a simple algorithm change, there are other things you may want to investigate as possible causes, such as a major change to your site's content, content management system, or server architecture. For example, a site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot, or if you've changed the URLs for a large portion of your site's pages. This article has a list of other potential reasons your site may not be doing well in search.
If you're still unable to resolve your issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
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It's great to finally get an answer that my site's issues are algorithmic and not as a result of some nefarious spam report. So I give a thumbs up to the improved message rather than the innocous "We've processed your request" one.
Doesn't help the fact my site is suffering still, and having looked at my backlink profile I'm convinced spammers have successfully ruined my site's trust (so much bad/illegal sounding/irrelevant anchor text on literally thousands of domains). My lastest reinclusion request detailed the links which I obtained from Majetic SEO and described how I was countering them - complete with supporting documents. They never looked at the documents (checked my logs), so if this is what is killing me, how am I do raise the issue or at least highlight a possible shortfall in the algo to Google?
Either way, kudos to them for giving this little bit more information. I'll just have to plough away as usual to the site which now gets 10% of its previous G traffic.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:48 pm on Apr 8, 2011
(gmt 0)
Thanks for sharing that. It is definitely a much clearer communication than any previous effort. We have hope!
Msg#: 4294127 posted
7:44 pm on Apr 8, 2011
(gmt 0)
Yeah it's good to see them being more communicative.
In fact a different recent thread showed someone received a message about unnatural links being detected. Ironically, Google suggest the webmaster file a reconsideration request once they have cleared up the links... something which I was trying to do - and perhaps the message didn't exist in November when 24,000 links suddenly appeared in my backlink profile.
It was your response to a thread in fact which shifted me from on-page to looking at links - you said you had seen competitors ruining other's rankings before. Have you any experience in helping people overcome this? If you have a service please PM me with details! I'm pretty desperate after a lot of on-page and soul searching (and 6 requests)...!
Thankfully, Bing still ranks me where it has since day one or I'd be looking at more drastic life changes.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
9:12 pm on Apr 8, 2011
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Jeez, just a few days ago I got the:
We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn't appear in our search results, check our Help Center for steps you can take.
for both the requests I put in. It's not even logical, they mix past tense, present tense and future tense in just three sentences.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
9:32 pm on Apr 8, 2011
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It's not even logical, they mix past tense, present tense and future tense in just three sentences.
Actually grammatically and logically ( the "tenses" are indeed used correctly ) it makes perfect sense ( unusually IMO for the "plex" )..it just doesn't help you very much if you were hoping for something more specific by way of a response ..
The specific and detailed type of reply patc received would have been more helpful to you , if the circumstances had been applicable to your case, it does sound like they may have actually looked at patc's site whereas you appear to have received a "canned" (albeit grammatically and logically presented and structured ) response.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
9:46 pm on Apr 8, 2011
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It's interesting, because despite several g-cheerleaders suggestions to the opposite, Google must be receiving enough of a negative response to Panda that it felt it needed to break its vow of silence. I can only imagine the firstname.lastname@example.com email address the day after Panda.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
9:58 pm on Apr 8, 2011
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The specific and detailed type of reply patc received would have been more helpful to you , if the circumstances had been applicable to your case, it does sound like they may have actually looked at patc's site whereas you appear to have received a "canned" (albeit grammatically and logically presented and structured ) response.
I will add, the previous 5 requests yielded the standard response that Content_ed saw. Maybe I tripped a 'Pester' threshold at > 5 RRs!
They may have looked at the site but they clearly didn't look at the content of the actual request.
It's a bit of a problem that whilst I might be completely barking up the wrong tree, there is no real indication of whether there's a different tree I should be moving to, so to speak, and after exhaustive analysis (I didn't just submit requests, far from it!) I am genuinely stumped as to my position. So in essence, I have more info because of this new message, but it also raises me more questions when reading others who've felt the same 'tinfoil hat' paranoia about links outside of my control (which I didn't buy/sell/organise).
Now I am in a position any further RRs would seem somewhat massively pestering because the msg effectively says 'go away'. So I won't submit one, I just wish there was less of a 'guilty before proven innocent' mentality about these filters.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
1:26 am on Apr 9, 2011
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This article has a list of other potential reasons your site may not be doing well in search.
what's the list?
site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot, or if you've changed the URLs for a large portion of your site's pages.
did you check this? it looks important.
does your server, serve, the right pages for a particular URL?
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:42 am on Apr 9, 2011
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Sorry -
This Article.
It's the usual GW guidelines stuff. And yes, my site is delivering the pages with the right status codes and the right content. I moved the site to a new server some time between the 4-5th request also to eliminate any speed issues.
I have all 6 requests saved here, if I pasted them I think you'd be pretty bored with the amount of ground I covered.
Google definitely weren't hinting at anything specific to my site by mentioning those factors - it's just a cookie cutter email of a different kind!
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:32 pm on Apr 11, 2011
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Well this is really good news, especially if we can assume this is now policy: that all reconsideration requests will get this reply if there is no manual penalty.
Of course, we could now ask - why did it take a whole month to generate this response? Presumably such responses could be autogenerated instantly (and scalably) by checking for a manual-penalty flag in processing incoming reconsideration requests.
Why would google knowingly allow millions or billions in collateral damage to the US economy, in the name of something as subjective as 'search quality'? It seems irresponsible.
Obviously - operating with accountability would cost something, nipping into profits. Google doesn't have to, because of their market dominance. So search-dependent businesses must keep paying the price for maximizing google's profit... and the cycle continues.
I'd like to see lots more of these kinds of notifications,
an open path for recourse, and test-rollouts for alg changes , like they demonstrated with Caffeine rollout.
This is the kind of thing ALL search companies should offer, and if they don't - expect some regulations...
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:39 pm on Apr 11, 2011
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For example, a site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot
Given how many spam bots are hitting our sites on a daily basis, and given that we try to fight that battle via htaccess "deny from" IPs, I would hope that Google would let you/us know in a GWT message if we accidentally blocked them. I don't know one way or the other if they will do that, but it would be certainly be helpful, and would remove the issue from the radar screen.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
6:13 pm on Apr 11, 2011
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Of course, we could now ask - why did it take a whole month to generate this response? Presumably such responses could be autogenerated instantly (and scalably) by checking for a manual-penalty flag in processing incoming reconsideration requests.
Let me clarify - I submitted my 6th request before I'd received a reply to my 5th (but after several weeks). However, the reply to the 5th (the standard "We've processed your request") occured the day after I submitted the 6th, so I naturally assumed that was an overlap.
The new reply came 5 days after my 6th submission, so was quicker, but still may have required a human to push a button it seems.
Even with worldwide Panda on the loose, it has made no difference to this site, still in the duldrums. I'd really like to see a way you can request reconsideration in the instance of something you did not do - i.e. in my case spammy links - this new canned response implies there is no point in using reconsideration requests in these instances, but the official Google Webmaster Forum (and a different canned response from them about unnatural links) suggests you do exactly that. So it's a bit unclear to me what I can do now, if anything. And it, as ever, feels very unfair.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
6:37 pm on Apr 11, 2011
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I hear you.. just look at the webmaster forum and count the number of pleas which go unanswered (or with 1 unhelpful reply). Are we really to believe that google could not afford to pay a dozen people more to staff the forum - that they must rely on volunteers?
The problem really is that we don't have healthy competition in the search ecosystem. If there were say 10 equal sources of search traffic, a business could sustain a large drop from any one of them.
I'm in the same situation: complete google traffic halt, no GWT notification,no crawl errors etc, no help from the forum -no income, and no recourse.
Last time, it turned out to be completely my code bug - but it took me weeks to get help via the forum; those were very costly weeks I spent thinking I was accused (according to google) of some unspeakable spam crime.
>So it's a bit unclear to me what I can do now, if anything.
The only constructive thing I can think of to do is maybe webmasters could start an online petition to send to our reps in congress, asking for regulation of search co biz practices.. the politicos right now seem clueless about how search works; they're talking about regulating the alg itself lol..
Msg#: 4294127 posted
7:38 pm on Apr 11, 2011
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mantucket... LOL indeed.
I had thought of flying over (am in UK) and holding a one man protest with placards like a mad idiot... my partner is almost actively encouraging that after putting up with 3 months of complete stressout on my part.
I hasten to add, I have analysed this to death - yet scared to post on the official forum because of the seeming spam target, worried it would just add fuel to the fire - but I have used dozens of threads and info from elsewhere to get me to the point I am now. I have covered every single potential problem the site can have.
There are two answers to the issues:
1. It's our fault, our sites just aren't ranking as well as they used to. Build great content and the ranks will return
2. Point 1 is a Google Webmaster Forum smokescreen - the ranks vanished, not dissipated over time... this is a filter, I have now fully produced a tin foil hat (according to the 'Senior' people in the forum) and someone has successfully screwed me over.
Coupled with the fact someone registered <mydomain>yo.com and stole my front page in December, then sent 30,000 people to it in a day from a very dodgy neighbourhood (the front page has a <base href="http://mydomain.com"> in it, so all the outgoing links on the stolen page pointed to my site), and the newfound discovery of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of nasty links plastered all over dodgy forums, I'm inclined to believe point 2 after 3 agonising months of solid analysis.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
8:47 pm on Apr 11, 2011
(gmt 0)
It's now official btw (minus my rantings since):
Msg#: 4294127 posted
4:47 am on Apr 12, 2011
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There's no "official" announcement from Google in that article that I can see. SE Roundtable is covering this thread here as news, referencing your quoted email. It's a circle ;)
Msg#: 4294127 posted
4:55 am on Apr 12, 2011
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tedster, the circle gets even more loopy: Matt Cutts announced it via tweet [
...] but used SEroundtable link.
He also replied to me, saying they will consider automating the nonpenal responses [
Msg#: 4294127 posted
7:12 am on Apr 12, 2011
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In the comments a Google employee says yes we're doing this now and Matt Cutts 'likes' the comment. I was also drawn attention to it by Matt's tweet.
Ok maybe not Official official, but I'd say that's pretty Official short of them making a blog post about it.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
11:24 am on Apr 12, 2011
(gmt 0)
Yea, it's official Tedster. :)
Pierre Far from Google confirmed it in the comments and, as stated above, Matt Cutts tweeted a confirmation.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
12:33 pm on Apr 12, 2011
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(I'm the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst who posted the confirmation on Search Engine Roundtable).
Yes this is real. As I said, we want to give more feedback to webmasters, so we are experimenting with additional reconsideration response messages in some cases.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
1:41 pm on Apr 12, 2011
(gmt 0)
Thank you, Pierre. Can you say that affected sites that make changes to meet Google's standards for quality will regain their positions, or will they improve their current positions, or will nothing happen?
Msg#: 4294127 posted
2:19 pm on Apr 12, 2011
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pierre - I'll be even less specific than dickbaker and ask how I can address Google now? Or could you tell me I'm barking up the wrong tree? That would do.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
3:50 pm on Apr 12, 2011
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Thank you, Pierre. Can you say that affected sites that make changes to meet Google's standards for quality will regain their positions, or will they improve their current positions, or will nothing happen?
you are in the way of big sites making money. Well, you were. At most Google will send you a notice and the traffic to big media so they write something nice about Google...for a change. Not one site has come back as far as I can tell. I find it very unlikely that no one has gotten it right in the six weeks and that no one would speak up about it.
Hit them back, remove all my Google adsense and try Bing. If they are near equal, switch. It's only fair.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
2:47 am on Apr 13, 2011
(gmt 0)
As is customary when someone represents a significant business such as Google, I want to confirm that this member account pierrefar, is indeed the "real" Pierre Far from Google.
Welcome Pierre!
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:12 am on Apr 13, 2011
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Thanks for sharing the letter patc. You mentioned:
In fact a different recent thread showed someone received a message about unnatural links being detected.
I missed that. Are you saying that a site was penalized for having too many unnatural links from outside the site?
Is that part of the algo? I mentioned this in another thread, and someone said there Google can't judge a site negatively because of too many unnatural links.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
5:34 am on Apr 13, 2011
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We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google
The single best sentence to read in that response if you believed you were penalized. Changes the way you approach improving the website, at least in the short term, considerably.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
6:08 am on Apr 13, 2011
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Has anyone posted a flowchart of what you should do to diagnose a google traffic halt? It seems like there are quite a few rules, but with this step towards informing webmasters, combined with a few other things matt cutts has said recently, it is suddenly possible to make progress figuring out what happened, by process of elimination.
For example, if you send a reconsideration request and after 5 days have not got a 'non-manual' response, you can safely assume it's a filter and expect to get some hint about what is tripping the filter.
If you dont get such a response, it's either a manual penalty or error on your site. If it's a manual penalty, then after several weeks you should get a message saying either a) your site still violates our rules (but no hint about why) or b) traffic will be restored.
Similarly you can probably use a few tests to tell if you've been hit by an alg change....
I'm thinking I could take a shot at drawing out the diagnostic flowchart - but does such a diagram already exist?
Msg#: 4294127 posted
8:50 am on Apr 13, 2011
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I missed that. Are you saying that a site was penalized for having too many unnatural links from outside the site?
This is what this sounds like to me: [
I thought for a minute it was on-page linking but it references 'links to the site' and links 'outside your control' where you should submit a reconsideration request. They didn't even read my request with details of all my unnatural links so this is why it contradicts itself. However I never did get that same message - whether it's one of these new ones or not I don't know.
The single best sentence to read in that response if you believed you were penalized. Changes the way you approach improving the website, at least in the short term, considerably.
Yes, in a way. If you get it, you're with the millions scratching your head as before. If you get the opposite (i.e. you've been slapped on the wrist) that'd be a lot easier to sort out, presumably because the issues will be more obvious, fixing them and then showing 'good faith' and all the other things they ask for in a reconsideration request.
The overriding feeling of receiving the new message is "stop sending us your annoyingly long requests!" so I have to, because seemingly there is no button they can push to resolve my issue, it's algorithmic. I just hope they do cater for situations with spammy backlink profiles & losing site authority by quickly being placed in 'bad neighbourhoods'. Google say you get caught for buying links - I have to assume therefore that that is a manual penalty and not algorithmic because if that's the same filter in the algo, by sending me that message I now have no recourse to Google to sort it out. (even though, I stress again, I haven't ever bought links).
Again, I'd shut up about this if someone who actually knows for certain (Pierre) could just say 'wrong tree' to me...!
For example, if you send a reconsideration request and after 5 days have not got a 'non-manual' response, you can safely assume it's a filter and expect to get some hint about what is tripping the filter.
I don't think you'll get the latter part, mantucket. Once it's algorithmic (edit: an algorithmic filter/penalty I should say), they'd rather you figure it out yourself.
Msg#: 4294127 posted
2:39 pm on Apr 13, 2011
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patc, I'm sure I can fish up the segments from recent matt cutts videos where he says you will get notifications in most cases of what the issue is in automatic penalties. Matt has also described when penalties are lifted or expire... manual penalties are like a 'timeout' that expire after some amount of time, depending on severity, and automated ones lift once the alg reverses its opinion, i.e. you fix your site.
Up to now, I'd agree 'they'd rather you figure it out by yourself', but to me it seems like this is a step towards more ethical biz practices: smaller operations do not have resources to 'figure it out ourselves', which creates a bias towards big $$ operators. The sooner a respectable site can reverse the damage, the less impact these google wreaks on the economy with one of their experiments...
Well, I'd be up for combining all the hints we've heard so far into a straw-horse diagnostic flowchart, that the community can vet, and maybe we could ask google for comment..
Msg#: 4294127 posted
10:29 pm on Apr 13, 2011
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Two things spring to mind with your last response:
1. They can't give too much away or the black hats would have a field day. I've heard Matt talk of improved communications but outside pretty basic on-page guidelines I would doubt they'd go into any details about algo based penalties?
2. For people like us, if they introduce these at a later date and indeed they are as you describe, how do you reckon we'll get the message literally - I can't see them running their new emails retroactively to any site already in our situation?
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The Kane Regional Center in McKeesport thanks The Upper Room Group for an inspiring performance and the staff and volunteers who assisted our residents in attending.
For more information please contact Ken Schmigel, Recreational Therapy Supervisor, Kane McKeesport at 412-675-875 or Bill LaLonde, Community Outreach Representative, at 412.422.6773.


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High-Performance Networking Programming in C
TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun. All the advanced features of the stack are at your disposal, and you can do lot of interesting things in user space without getting into kernel programming.
Performance enhancement is as much an art as it is a science. It is an iterative process, akin to an artist gingerly stroking a painting with a fine brush, looking at the work from multiple angles at different distances until satisfied with the result.
The analogy to this artistic touch is the rich set of tools that Linux provides in order to measure network throughput and performance. Based on this, programmers tweak certain parameters or sometimes even re-engineer their solutions to achieve the expected results.
I won't dwell further upon the artistic side of high-performance programming. In this article, I focus on certain generic mechanisms that are guaranteed to provide a noticeable improvement. Based on this, you should be able to make the final touch with the help of the right tools.
I deal mostly with TCP, because the kernel does the bandwidth management and flow control for us. Of course, we no longer have to worry about reliability either. If you are interested in performance and high-volume traffic, you will arrive at TCP anyway.
Once we answer that question, we can ask ourselves another useful question, "How can we get the best out of the available bandwidth?"
Bandwidth, as defined by Wikipedia, is the difference between the higher and lower cutoff frequencies of a communication channel. Cutoff frequencies are determined by basic laws of physics—nothing much we can do there.
But, there is a lot we can do elsewhere. According to Claude Shannon, the practically achievable bandwidth is determined by the level of noise in the channel, the data encoding used and so on. Taking a cue from Shannon's idea, we should "encode" our data in such a way that the protocol overhead is minimal and most of the bits are used to carry useful payload data.
TCP/IP packets work in a packet-switched environment. We have to contend with other nodes on the network. There is no concept of dedicated bandwidth in the LAN environment where your product is most likely to reside. This is something we can control with a bit of programming.
Here's one way to maximize throughput if the bottleneck is your local LAN (this might also be the case in certain crowded ADSL deployments). Simply use multiple TCP connections. That way, you can ensure that you get all the attention at the expense of the other nodes in the LAN. This is the secret of download accelerators. They open multiple TCP connections to FTP and HTTP servers and download a file in pieces and reassemble it at multiple offsets. This is not "playing" nicely though.
We want to be well-behaved citizens, which is where non-blocking I/O comes in. The traditional approach of blocking reads and writes on the network is very easy to program, but if you are interested in filling the pipe available to you by pumping packets, you must use non-blocking TCP sockets. Listing 1 shows a simple code fragment using non-blocking sockets for network read and write.
Listing 1. nonblock.c
/* set socket non blocking */ fl = fcntl(accsock, F_GETFL); fcntl(accsock, F_SETFL, fl | O_NONBLOCK); void poll_wait(int fd, int events) { int n; struct pollfd pollfds[1]; memset((char *) &pollfds, 0, sizeof(pollfds)); pollfds[0].fd = fd; pollfds[0].events = events; n = poll(pollfds, 1, -1); if (n < 0) { perror("poll()"); errx(1, "Poll failed"); } } size_t readmore(int sock, char *buf, size_t n) { fd_set rfds; int ret, bytes; poll_wait(sock,POLLERR | POLLIN ); bytes = readall(sock, buf, n); if (0 == bytes) { perror("Connection closed"); errx(1, "Readmore Connection closure"); /* NOT REACHED */ } return bytes; } size_t readall(int sock, char *buf, size_t n) { size_t pos = 0; ssize_t res; while (n > pos) { res = read (sock, buf + pos, n - pos); switch ((int)res) { case -1: if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN) continue; return 0; case 0: errno = EPIPE; return pos; default: pos += (size_t)res; } } return (pos); } size_t writenw(int fd, char *buf, size_t n) { size_t pos = 0; ssize_t res; while (n > pos) { poll_wait(fd, POLLOUT | POLLERR); res = write (fd, buf + pos, n - pos); switch ((int)res) { case -1: if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN) continue; return 0; case 0: errno = EPIPE; return pos; default: pos += (size_t)res; } } return (pos); }
Note that you should use fcntl(2) instead of setsockopt(2) for setting the socket file descriptor to non-blocking mode. Use poll(2) or select(2) to figure out when the socket is ready to read or write. select(2) cannot figure out when the socket is ready to write, so watch out for this.
How does non-blocking I/O provide better throughput? The OS schedules the user process differently in the case of blocking and non-blocking I/O. When you block, the process "sleeps", which leads to a context switch. When you use non-blocking sockets, this problem is avoided.
TCP defects
When talking about TCP defects I think it is important to mention that probably the biggest one is the fact that TCP is most commonly used with HTTP, for which it is not suited very well.
Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
Metalink Broadband
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When talking about TCP
When talking about TCP defects I think it is important to mention that probably the biggest one is the fact that TCP is most commonly used with HTTP, for which it is not suited very well.
Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
Metalink Broadband
I only got one thang to say about the above statement, "non sequitur".
non sequitur is a short form
non sequitur is a short form of - this Sasha Sirotkin reminds me a guy who talks about things he's heard but has no knowledge about ...
I would advise you to read a
I would advise you to read a bit more on this subject than just the above article before engaging in technical conversation about TCP/IP.
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Intersections: Ethical Reflections for the New Year with Mark Wexler
As we count down the days until Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the time is right to look back on the year past and consider how we can be better to the people around us in the year to come.
Mark Wexler, our guest this month, is the Professor of Business Ethics and Management in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He will be sharing with us some cases he has looked at over the past year were businesses and individuals faced ethical puzzles, providing an opportunity for us to contemplate how we ourselves would approach similar situations in our own lives. Join us for what is sure to be an enlightening evening.
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Graduate Student resource page
Biology Student Resources
The UAB graduate school home page provides a range of resources to help you complete your program, explore career opportunities, and develop professionally. At this site, you can locate information on:
- Completing your degree
- Formatting your thesis or dissertation
- Postdoctoral fellowships and funding sources
Organizations and Clubs
Join the biology graduate student forum on facebook.
Work study/Internship Opportunities
Careers in Biology
It is always good to have a back up plan just in case your initial plan isn't able to come to fruition directly after graduation! Along with the UAB Career Services site, here are some very helpful links for Biology careers:
- http://phisigmasociety.org/WebSiteNew/Resources.htm Really good and comprehensive with multiple links
- http://facweb.furman.edu/~jsnyder/careers/careerlist.html
- http://nsm1.nsm.iup.edu/rwinstea/jobs.shtm
- http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/BioJobs.html
- http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/index.aspx
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Lord you see what is going on in the life of this little boy. God please place your angels around him and guide those around him to help him. We praise you for answering this prayer. |
Merlock 8/20/2008 22:01 |
How horrible. May God bless you and your son, and the friend and his family, and all who suffer this way. Amen. |
flower123 8/20/2008 22:10 |
In Jesus Name I pray for these children this is something that people don't like to talk about an I know to well myself I pleed the blood of JESUS for these children of Gods such ugly things in this world today, but God is not dead an post angles all around this babies my heart hurts for them please in Jesus name guide them to you safely. |
Isa.26:3 8/20/2008 23:01 |
Lord Jesus I pray for these young children to be protected from every evil work of the enemy. I pray the parents talk to the right people about this to get some help. I loose the blood of Jesus over the children spirit,soul,and body. I pray healing and deliverance for all the children in Jesus Name. Amen |
grace224 8/20/2008 23:53 |
Lord Jesus I pray that you comfort this family as they are going through this horrible experience. Lord Jesus cover this family in your precious blood. Please My Lord this family needs you more than ever, protect them Lord, fight for them, keep them in your presence. In Jesus Most Holy Precious name I pray. Amen |
smitty57 8/21/2008 02:17 |
Oh God I pray for Krystal and Alex your children of innocent years, may your love and compassion for them shield them from further transgression and heal them so they do not carry such burdens with them. Be in them so they live happy lives, full and rich as God's finest creations upon this earth. I pray for each one involved, my they seek guidance from God and stay on a path of faith to carry them past these evil times. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen. |
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A good friends mother, who has cancer everyone who needs prayer universal 02/12/2008
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"The love of my life has cancer."
Pray for Amanda B. 07/06/2008
"Please pray for my daughter and her unborn child."
Pray for Janice A. 07/05/2008
"One of my most favorite people in the whole world needs your prayers today. Please spread this and include Janice in your daily prayer."
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Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
A plant found throughout North Dakota, northern pussy-toes ranges from Newfoundland to Alberta south to Virginia, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The Antennarias are also sometimes called "cats-feet," "ladies' tobacco," and "everlasting."
Northern pussy-toes is a perennial, mat-forming plant with short, leafy runners (stolons). Plants are about 6 inches tall, with a tuft of large basal leaves. Stem leaves are much smaller and appressed along the stem. Stems and leaf bottoms are densely covered with white hairs. Small numbers of whitish flower-heads form in dense clusters atop the stems. Each head is composed of tubular flowers; there are no ray flowers. Fruits are tiny achenes about 1/16-inch long. These plants are dioecious and female plants only have been seen in the Great Plains.
Look for northern pussy-toes in late May or early June on native prairie pastures grazed by cattle. I found no references to any economic uses for these small plants, but this true for many prairie plants whose history of use by native Americans has been lost or was never recorded.
Northern pussy-toes is a member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). This family contains over 15,000 species and is one of the largest plant families in the world. The family is characterized by the arrangement of many flowers into a single head such as seen on a sunflower. These heads are often erroneously thought to be single flowers by laypersons. Aster means "star" in Greek, in reference to the radiate arrangement of the flowers in the heads. Antennaria was chosen for the generic name because parts of the flower heads resemble insect antennae. There are about 25 species in this genus; all are found in the North Temperate Zone and South America. The specific name neodioica refers to "the new A. dioica." The species was first described for science by Edward Greene (1843-1915), first professor of botany at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Khatia Buniatishvili
Sat, March 2, 8pm
$30 / $35
Georgian concert pianist Khatia Buniatishvili's extraordinary talent was recognized when she was very young. Aged six, she gave her début performance as soloist with an orchestra, and was subsequently invited to give guest performances throughout the world. Khatia's warm, sometimes sorrowful playing reflects a close proximity to Georgian folk-music. In 2011 Khatia made her recording debut with a Liszt recital on Sony Classical, following now with her first recording accompanied with orchestra for a Chopin album. More...
Show partner:
Chopin Sonata No. 2
Chopin Ballade No.4
Ravel La valse
Schubert-Liszt 3 Lieder :
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt: Ständchen D 957/4
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade S 558/8
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt: Erlkönig S 558/4
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Next event: Infographics #1, 30 June
Hello EDO friends
The craft of data visualisation is often overlooked so we are very pleased to announce our next event is on information graphics on 30 June.
Infographics #1 presents three diverse data specialists:
David McCandless describes himself as a data journalist and information designer. His work has appeared in Wired, The Guardian, and The Independent. He is author of the extremely successful book, Information is Beautiful and has recently spoken at the awe inspiring talks, TED, (Technology Entertainment and Design). McCandless' book will be on sale at the event for an EDO price of £15 instead of £20.
Nathalie Lees is in-house illustrator for The Times. She also works with numerous freelance clients including the BBC, The New York Times and The Observer. She recently completed the second Professor Brian Cox book 'Wonders of theUniverse', designed by Studio 8.
Peter Grundy has spent over 30 years making information visually interesting. His simple yet beautiful approach has become his signature. He calls it "Iconography; pictures that provide information and explain complex things". Clients include Shell Oil, Architects Journal, Royal Mail, The Guardian and Wired.
It promises to be another stimulating event so buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment. Better still, become a member and not only receive a significant discount on your ticket price but you'll also benefit from a 40% discount on 'The Art Directors' Handbook of Professional Magazine Design' published by Thames and Hudson.
And lastly, the EDO is now on twitter, so for latest news on events, speakers and offers, follow us on @edo_tweets.
Support the EDO!
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Sean and Fiancée Catherine Call AshLee's Statement "Ludicrous"
Season 17 Bachelor Sean Lowe and his fiancée Catherine Giudici phoned in to "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" to talk their engaged bliss. But, we had to ask Catherine, what'd she think watching the season back? How about that AshLee comment? And is she finally taking back Sean's 'born again' virginity?!
Watching back the season and Sean's moments with the other girls, surprisingly didn't bother the 26-year-old. "I wasn't jealous at all. I knew the process was going to be the way it was. I understood what he was going through and I wasn't jealous at all."
So was Catherine as cool with AshLee's statement that Sean didn't have feelings for her or runner up Lindsay? Not so much.
Why Was Desiree Hartsock Chosen as Next Bachelorette?!
Catherine explained, "I really do like AshLee. But, at that point, that was just a ludicrous statement." Adding, "if that was the case, if he did say that, then it would've gone a different way for her. So that's what confused me the most."
Now that Catherine has survived the other girls and got a ring on it, we couldn't resist asking, is she reclaiming Sean's 'born again virginity'?!
Catherine wasn't so open with that one, laughing, "I'm not going to respond to that one!"
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The largest engineering Faculty in Australia
The Faculty of Engineering at UNSW is the largest of all the engineering universities in Australia, offering you nine engineering schools to choose to study with at UNSW. We have undergone enormous changes since the beginning, growing and developing to meet the needs of students, researchers and government and industry along the way.
We are now proud to offer the widest range of engineering degree course specialisations in the country, for students wishing to study engineering through our engineering schools and the twenty-four different types of engineering they teach. We employ more than 600 staff and our enrolments are in the thousands.
Here you can find out more about our engineering schools and the engineering degrees they offer. You can also visit the individual engineering school websites for further information about each of the different types of engineering.


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Tooltips and dungeon journal reflect ability values for one encounter version. Please refer to "Effect" section on spell pages to see values for all raid sizes and difficulties.
The Sha of Fear looms atop the Terrace, attempting to consume the pure light emanating from its center.
A narrow column of uncorrupted light still projects skyward from the center of the terrace. When a player stands in this light it bends, forming a protective wall that extends back from this Champion of the Light in a 'V' shape. This attracts the attention of the Sha of Fear, who fixates on the Champion.
The group of players transported by Ominous Cackle must defeat one of three Sha possessed crossbowmen. The former terrace guardians Yang Guoshi, Cheng Kang, and Jinlun Kun attack the players.
On heroic difficulty the Sha of Fear retreats to the Dread Expanse at 66% remaining health, dragging players along with him. This watery wasteland is a place of the Sha's making where he has access to a new set of abilities.
The uncorrupted light from the terrace binds itself to the current champion and takes on a new form. It grows stronger, granting the champion immunity to fear and horror effects and reduces their damage taken by 30%.
The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website!
It serves 2 main purposes:
You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles!
So, what are you waiting for? Download the client and get started.


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If you find there's a limit to just how much time you can spend lying on a beach and soaking up the sunshine, then Wembury beach might be just the place to head for. It's got enough on the beach to while away the hours and is close to even more attractions and facilities inland.
Family Holidays
Wembury beach is perfect if you're looking for a great family holiday. It's set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has enough sand for sunbathing, along with a huge number of rock pools to explore. The waters are clean and have won an award from the Marine Conservation Society and are also fairly shallow, so the kids can enjoy a supervised splash-about. To get a flavour of the local scenery you can take a stroll along the cliff paths, which will take you Bovisand and Newton Ferrers.
Other Attractions
Walk along the shore and you'll find the Old Mill, an elegant National Trust attraction. But if you want your attractions a bit livelier then head to nearby Plymouth where you'll find high street shops, local craft shops and plenty of bars and restaurants. You'll also find the South West War Games Centre, where you can get rid of some excess energy with safe Airsoft guns. Slightly further afield in Sparkwell there's the Dartmoor Zoological park, which is a great family day out. Both Wembury and Plymouth have got plenty of places to stay in, ranging from hotels to self-catering cottages, so you're sure to find accommodation, even if you're travelling with a large group.
Just two miles from the beach is a mountain bike centre where you can hire bikes and zip off along the coast. And to remind you of your stay, why not buy a piece of driftwood art? These are made by local artists and sold at a small, beachside shop.
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Word of Life is a church characterised by passionate worship, challenging Bible-based teaching, and strong family relationships.
We aim to provide a safe place where people can experience God's presence and the salvation, healing and deliverance which flow from that.
Working alongside other local churches within Stratford Churches Together, and further afield, we seek to strengthen the unity we already have in Christ.
As part of the Horizon International Family of Churches we have a heart to reach not only our own community and area, but to support and encourage those God has linked us with in other nations.
We look forward to meeting you.
Senior Pastor Stephen Brooker
Bryony Brooker, Dave & Wendy Hurst & Tom & Olivia Brooker.
Word of Life Leadership Team


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Cities Rising New York City Housing and Homelessness Transportation Urban Issues Urban Planning and Development Urban Renewal
Without immediate action, cities like New York and Washington face a future of massive levees, floodgates and ecological catastrophe.
As last year's occupations showed, cities need more places the public can call its own.
City officials say social impact bonds are a smart way to raise revenue. But government watchdogs worry about creeping corporate influence.
Before the War on Terror and Ray Kelly's spies, the War on Crime helped transform the NYPD into a small army.
The Central Library Plan will compromise the NYPL's scholarly mission.
In a city divided by extremes, the festival brings together all kinds of people to cook up something marvelous.
Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?
Residents in four New York City districts had the chance to allocate funding for community improvement themselves. Can participatory budgeting make American democracy less lonely?
Our car-dependent, suburban, homeowner culture is no longer affordable. An exhibit at MoMA examines what to do about it.
He was sanguine Tuesday night when I spoke with him by phone about his gerrymandered eviction from the US House of Representatives.


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This is your time to impress, so show her how much you've been paying attention by choosing a gift that will match her personality and get in her good books. Have you considered whisking her away on a romantic break away for two? Or perhaps you'd like to organise an extra special day by surprising her with breakfast in bed, or cooking an evening meal at home? If so, check out our funky kitchen accessories and cool kitchen appliances to ensure you have all the right tools to hand.
From quirky kitchenware and gifts for the home to memorable experience days, you're bound to find inspiration when hunting for birthday present ideas for mum. If your mum is a keen cook why not browse our kitchen range? Or if you have a house proud mum then perhaps you'll find some cool home accessories you know your mum will adore? If you are looking for Mother's day gift ideas that will make your mum laugh and smile, then have a look through our novelty gifts and gift for pets where you will find some truly weird but wonderful products that will have you both giggling for hours.


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When winter comes roaring back to your neighborhood, you need to be prepared. Transform your truck into a snow-removing dynamo with a Curtis Sno-Pro Home Pro 3000 Snow Plow.
Heavy-duty truck owners and commercial plowers can choose between the Sno-Pro 3000 Polymer and the Sno-Pro 3000 Steel plows. The choice of contractors and professionals, the Sno-Pro 3000 plows come with the widest push frames on the market for better blade stability and finely-calibrated attacking angles to scrape ice while plowing snow. Compact and light-duty truck owners will find the Sno-Pro Home Pro 3000 Snow Plow perfect for use around the house and neighborhood. This easy-to-use plow features a lightweight, super-slick corrosion-resistant polymer moldboard engineered for a perfect fit and finish.
Each Sno-Pro snow plow comes with a fast attaching hydraulic system that lets you remotely move the plow up/down and side/side. No matter what Sno-Pro snow plow you choose, it will come with a hidden hydraulic cavity and a jack stand for easy mounting. Better still, these Curtis Sno-Pro Snow Plows are built for long-lasting durability: steel and Home Pro plows feature reversible cutting edges to prolong blade life, while the Polymer blade relies on thick and slick exterior construction to stay strong while quickly dispatching of snow and ice. Every system includes with your plow, a lighting kit, a mounting kit, and the hydraulic plow controller.
Whatever size truck you have, Curtis has the right plow for you. Become a hero to your neighbors and ensure that everybody can continue to go about their business by investing in a Curtis Sno-Pro Home Pro 3000 Snow Plow. Backed by a 2-Year Warranty.
Note: It is required by law that your snow plow have working headlights. Add the Headlight Adapter to your cart to attach the included light kit to your rig's electrical system.


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Craftsman 7/16 in. Easy-to-Read Socket, 12 pt. Deep Metric, 3/8 in. drive
Item# 00950656000 | Model# 50656Specifications & Dimensions
Product Overview: | |
Contact Points: | 12 point |
Drive Size: | 3/8 in. |
Item Weight (lbs.): | 0.1 lbs. |
Socket Depth: | Deep |
Impact or Standard: | Standard |
Unit of Measure: | SAE |
Marking Text Size: | Easy-to-read |
Socket Size: | 7/16 in. |
Socket Size: | SAE or Torx |
Socket Size: | Metric or SAE |
Screw Bit Size: | Metric or SAE |
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Color/Finish: | Nickel plated finish |
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Product Description
Laser-etched size marking makes it easy to locate the right socket for the job. Great for working in low-lit or greasy environments. Permanent marking resists chipping, fading and corroding. 12 point configuration allows you to work in cramped areas where turning capacity is limited.
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I recently shared a post about Halloween party decor for adults but I could not let the holiday pass without sharing some super cool party ideas for kids.
How fun would this balloon wall be to make? Fill each balloon with a treat and let the kids pick one to pop!
Check out this super cute Halloween Bingo game from Artsy Fartsy Momma. Click here to download the 6 cards from her site. Love it!
Have a happy and safe Halloween!!
{photos: pinterest, martha stewart {#2 & #5} , sarah westbrook, one charming party, artsy fartsy momma}


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Fall 2014 Job Fair
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Business Career Programs - Fall 2014 Job Fair
The College of Business and Innovation offers two job fairs during the academic year.
These events are open to all registered College of Business and Innovation students
and graduates.
College of Business and Innovation Fall 2014 Job Fair
Friday, September 26, 2014
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Student Union Auditorium
Here are some photos from our most recent job fair! Click on a photo to view it in a larger size.


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This article may not provide balanced geographical coverage on the region in question. (August 2009) |
Health law is the federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the health care industry and its patients; and (2) delivery of health care services; all with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional legal issues.[1]
Some areas of law it includes are:
The terms "legislation" and "law" are used to refer generically to statutes, regulation and other legal instruments (e.g. ministerial decrees) that may be the forms of law used in a particular country.
In general, there are a wide range of regulatory strategies that might be used to ensure people's health and safety. Increasingly, regulators are taking an approach of "responsive regulation". This involves using mechanisms that are responsive to the context, conduct and culture of those being regulated, providing for a range of regulatory mechanisms to achieve the behavior desired. Where appropriate, the aim is to use incentives before sanctions. However, when those being regulated do not respond accordingly, escalating sanctions can be invoked. These strategies may be broadly classified into five groups:


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Sunday's win over Leicestershire makes this a huge game for us. If we win it we are very much back in the hunt for a semi-final place. If we lose we would probably have to win all our remaining matches.
We are fully aware of how Somerset will come at us, which is very hard up front with the bat and aggressive with the ball. They have several very dangerous players and, it goes without saying, we need to start the game well. As this tournament unfolds it is clear to see the importance of taking early wickets. In many ways it is the only way of restricting a team to a competitive total. If you fail to take early wickets it is very hard to contain a side in the second half of an innings.
After back to back wins we enter the game in pretty good shape and with a realisation that the next 11 days are very important. A good performance against Somerset would set us up well for the LV=CC matches against Sussex and Yorkshire that follow at Lord's.
We will be making no changes to the squad, which will be the same as that against Leicestershire.
Middlesex are pleased to announce the following 13-man squad to play against Somerset in our Yorkshire Bank 40 match tomorrow, Tuesday 4 June:
Neil Dexter (captain)
Gareth Berg
Joe Denly
James Harris
Tom Helm
Dawid Malan
Tim Murtagh
Ollie Rayner
Chris Rogers
Toby Roland-Jones
Adam Rossington
Tom Smith
Paul Stirling
The match is due to start at 3.40pm with gates opening at 2.10pm.
Tickets can be purchased on the day and cost £18 for adults, £9 for over 65s and £5 for under 16s.
This match will be followed by a 4-day LV= County Championship against Sussex starting on Wednesday 5 June - the first day of this match with start at 12 noon due to the late finish of the match on Tuesday, with gates opening at 11am. The other three days will start at 11am as per usual with gates opening at 10am.
To keep up to date with Middlesex County Cricket Club news and updates! Click here to visit our page or click the like button below to like us.


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Should I Download Unity, CMock, or Ceedling?
There are a couple of things to consider when choosing which unit testing package you should be downloading. It's true that Unity is used by CMock, and that both are used by Ceedling... but starting with Unity and scaling up is not always the best solution.
For each of these statements, give yourself the number of points listed for each "True" statement.
- I'm not sure how to configure an environment for testing, or I would prefer not to. (10)
- I'm happy fine if the tools use a scripting language to make things easier. (5)
- I'd prefer to edit YAML or text files to configure a project than makefiles. (10)
- I'd prefer to stick strictly with C files. (-5)
- I'd like to test single modules only. (-5)
- I'd like tools to help me verify my code calls the correct functions. (5)
- I'd like tools to help me inject return values into my code. (5)
Total up your score and feed it into the Project-Decide-O-Tron-3000, created by one of our own Mad Scientists. The Decide-O-Tron will take your total and convert it according to the scale below:
- -500 to 5 - You probably just want Unity. You don't seem interested in mocking, and don't care for more than the most basic scripting support.
- 5 to 15 - You're likely interested in a decent mocking framework so that you can do some serious Unit testing and take advantage of some handy scripts... but in the end, you want these tools to fit into your current setup or would prefer to handle the details yourself.
- 15 to 500 - It's Ceedling time, baby. Sure, it's the largest of the download packages, but it's going to use Ruby to make your life easier... why figure out how to manage your own tests when you can make Ceedling do most of the work for you?
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The 2008 F1 in Schools world champions, Team Pulse from the UKs Devonport High School for Boys, enjoyed a taste of the high life last week as they continued to celebrate winning the international challenge.
Their week to remember began on Thursday morning with a tour of the House of Commons, courtesy of the schools local Member of Parliament, Linda Gilroy. In the evening Pulse were then invited to St Jamess Palace for a UK Trade and Investment reception, where they met His Royal Highness Prince Andrew.
They then capped off the week with a visit to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, where they were granted exclusive access to the Formula One paddock. As well as watching the drivers prepare to race, the students were given a tour of the BMW Sauber team garage by the squads third driver, Christian Klien.
Weve had a great time over the last few days, said John Ware, Pulses team manager. Its been non-stop for us, but weve loved every minute of it. Were very privileged to have met so many famous people, including royalty, visiting a palace in London, and then a different sort at Silverstone - the BMW garage was definitely a motor racing palace!
We were treated like royalty there as well, so it was excellent. Were also going to visit another award-winning venue, which is the McLaren Technology Centre. Weve been invited to go there next Thursday and were really looking forward to that, especially to see the engineering department - and hopefully to see Lewiss race winning car!
As well as Team Pulse, several other F1 in Schools squads enjoyed an exclusive glimpse of Formula One racing over the Silverstone weekend. Team Blaze from Ynysawdre School in Wales, who were crowned national champions at the 2008 finals earlier this year, visited Renaults team garage, while Spectrum, a team from Robert Mays School toured the Toyota garage.
The weekend has been a fantastic opportunity for the students to witness Formula One up close, said Andrew Denford, F1 in Schools founder. They had unrivalled access to the teams, garages and Formula One paddock hospitality, and spent time talking to some very influential people. I would like to thank Bernie Ecclestone and Silverstone for making us so welcome. It gives our students a real insight into the heights that can be achieved with an engineering education and is very inspirational.
F1 in Schools is a global multi-disciplinary challenge for students aged from 9-18 to use CAD/CAM software to design, analyse, manufacture, test and race their miniature F1 car made from balsa wood and powered by CO2 cylinders. Working in teams of between three and six, the students prepare a business plan, develop a budget and raise sponsorship as well as designing and racing their car. The challenge inspires students to learn about science, maths, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, leadership, teamwork, media skills and financial strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, competitive and exciting way.
For further information on the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge visit www.f1inschools.co.uk


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Purpose: The NAPDS Award for Exemplary Professional Development School Achievement recognizes Professional Development School relationships for their ongoing contributions to the mission and vision of the National Association for Professional Development Schools in creating and sustaining genuine collaborative partnerships between P-12 and higher education that shapes educator leadership and practice.
Eligibility: Nominees for the award must include, at a minimum, one school/district and one college/university that are in a formalized Professional Development School relationship. Nominations for the award are restricted to such relationships that support, through one or more individual memberships, the work of the NAPDS. Nominees must have had their PDS work presented at the PDS National Conference by one or more individuals at least once since 2010. Recipients of the award in 2012 are not eligible to apply until fall 2015. Recipients of the award in 2013 are not eligible to apply until fall 2016. Recipients of the award in 2014 are not eligible to apply until fall 2017.
Selection Criteria: Selection for the award will be based on the nine essentials of PDS work detailed in the April 2008 NAPDS statement titled "What It Means to be a Professional Development School." (The full statement can be found here.) These nine essentials are:
Award Submissions: Nominations must be received electronically in the NAPDS national office (email@example.com) no later than 4:30 PM EST Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
Applicants for the 2015 award must provide: 1. A cover sheet that includes: a. the name, title, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for the individual serving as the Primary Contact; b. the names and positions of all individuals who contributed to the writing of the application; c. the names of all members of the partnership who are current NAPDS members; and d. the date(s) and title(s) of the presentation(s) and the name(s) of the presenter(s) for presentation(s) made on the work of the partnership at the PDS National Conference since 2010.
2. A concise, well-sequenced narrative of no more than 20 double-spaced pages (12 pt. font) which addresses the PDS essentials by providing: a. an explanation of how the PDS mission is broader in its outreach and scope than the mission of any partner and furthers the education profession and its responsibility to advance equity within schools and, by potential extension, the broader community, and how student learning is impacted by the PDS (essential 1); b. a brief description of the formal and, if appropriate, any informal roles played by both college/university and P-12 faculty across institutional settings (essential 8); c. an explanation of how the organizational structure of the relationship encourages collaboration, reflection, and regular communication among participants (essentials 6 & 7); d. a description of how resources are dedicated and shared across school/university and P-12 settings and how participants are formally rewarded and recognized for their contributions to the relationship (essential 9); e. a summary of the work of the relationship in preparing future educators in the 2013-2014 academic year, including an explanation of how the P-12 setting embraces the teacher candidates' active engagement in the school community (essential 2); f. a description of how professional development is provided on a regular basis for all participants (essential 3); g. a description of the relationship's innovative and reflective practices that are explicit, mutually determined by PDS participants, and demonstrably enhance student learning (essential 4); h. an explanation of how best practice is routinely examined and shared with others, both within and outside of the PDS relationship (essential 5); and i. with the essentials in mind, the accomplishments and achievements of which the PDS is most proud.
*Not included in the 20 pages (1 inch margins), but as appendices, please attach: 1. a copy of the relationship's mission statement; 2. a copy of the relationship's written articulation agreement; and 3. a diagram of the relationship's organizational structure. *Applications should not rely on embedded links that include additional information that would extend the 20 page limit. *Incomplete nominations will not be considered.
Selection Process: The NAPDS Awards Committee, consisting of individuals with a balanced representation from the P-12 and college/university communities, will recommend the recipient(s) of the award to the NAPDS Leadership Team at their January 2015 meeting. Upon approval of the Leadership Team, the recipient(s) will be announced publicly at the 2015 PDS National Conference. The award recipient(s) will be featured in School-University Partnerships, the NAPDS journal. 2012 award recipients(s) may not reapply until fall 2015. 2013 award recipient(s) may not reapply until fall 2016. 2014 award recipient(s) may not reapply until fall 2017.
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