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"A civil war, it is the cruelest kind of conflict, when a neighbour kills his neighbour and sometimes his brother, it is the worst of conflicts," said Brahimi in an interview with France 24 television at his Paris apartment.
"There are a lot of people who say that we must avoid civil war in Syria, me I believe that we are already there for some time now. What's necessary is to stop the civil war and that is not going to be easy," said the Algerian diplomat.
Syria's popular uprising, which began in March 2011, has spiralled into an armed conflict with more than 21,000 deaths over the past 17 months, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The United Nations puts the death toll at 17,000.
Brahimi said that "change is inevitable" in Syria, adding that it must be far-reaching.
"The aspirations of the Syrian people must be satisfied," he said, without saying whether President Bashar al-Assad must step down from power.
The Syrian opposition earlier Sunday criticised Brahimi for not explicitly calling for Assad's departure.
Brahimi, appointed by the UN Security Council to replace Kofi Annan, has been welcomed by the West as well as by Assad's traditional allies Russia and China, although the White House said it would seek clarifications on the terms of his mandate.
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Women who have long supported the breast cancer fundraising organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure are today taking off their pink ribbons (metaphorically, at least) to protest the news that it has cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because the health provider it is under investigation by a right-wing Republican member of the House of Representatives, Cliff Stearns.
Komen, which was started by its namesake's sister, former U.S. ambassador Nancy Goodman Brinker, who was interviewed by The Sisterhood here, funds breast cancer research, screening and treatment programs. Brinker is Jewish and today is the group's CEO.
Komen last year provided $680,000 to 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates for breast health screening exams. While Planned Parenthood has been targeted for years by anti-choice protesters and politicians who have pledged to defund it because it provides abortions, the organization, which has nearly 800 clinics, is probably also one of the nation's largest providers of affordable women's (and men's) health services. The organization says that "more than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's healthcare is preventative," including contraception, testing for STDs and screening for cancer, along with general reproductive health care.
If the government shuts down today, we'll have come to a new zenith of institutionalized misogyny in American government — a level of disregard for women that is so powerful it might bring that government to a halt. Even if it doesn't and a deal is reached, the fact that women's health was the last thing standing in the way of an agreement for over 24 hours is both alarming and telling.
As I and others have been noting during the past two days, the negotiations to settle on a budget and a avoid a catastrophic government shutdown (which still could happen in the next few hours) almost entirely boiled down to the issue of Planned Parenthood funding.
While many had predicted that the House GOP's drive to strip the institution of its family-planning federal funding under Title X — the Hyde Amendment currently prevents it from receiving abortion funding — would be easily killed in the Senate, they underestimated, in my opinion, the sheer level of hatred for women's bodily autonomy by some members of the D.C. legislative corps.
As fellow Sisterhood blogger Chanel Dubofsky wrote here, today marks the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which gave American women the right to vote. And we have a great Jewish woman, Rep. Bella Abzug, to thank for making this day a holiday. Back in 1971, at Abzug's urging, Congress declared August 26 "Women's Equality Day." Read the text, and context, of the declaration here:
It's also a day to express our admiration for our foremothers in the first and second waves of the women's movement. And it's a day to take pride at we're accomplishing today: young feminists, activist groups at the intersection of gender, race, class and the environment, feminist writers, artists and musicians, and large women's organizations alike. It's also a time to take stock of where we need to go.
On my mind today is our struggle to maintain reproductive rights not just in name, but in reality — for all women, regardless of geography. With more restrictions becoming law and clinics being shuttered by aggressive politicians and protesters, the idea that it's "easy" for women to access abortion care — not to mention other other kinds of crucial reproductive health care, including prenatal care — is becoming more absurd.
I can't quite describe the sock in the gut I felt over the weekend when I read about "In Shifra's Arms," which is apparently the first crisis pregnancy center targeting young Jewish women. The story was first reported in the Washington Jewish Week by Sisterhood contributor Sarah Breger. As a reproductive rights advocate, I'm strongly opposed to the CPCs, because they spread misleading, incorrect medical information about abortion, couched in feminist-friendly terms like "help" and "your decision." As Emily at Jewesses With Attitude wrote:
Women and girls visit CPCs at the beginning of an unplanned pregnancy, one of the most vulnerable states in which one could be, and they are given false information and limited choices. And it angers me.
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New Evidence of Anti-Islam Bias Underscores Deep Challenges for FBI's Reform Pledge
The FBI is now in damage-control mode. On Thursday afternoon, the FBI held a conference call with Muslim civil rights groups to apologize for its offensive training materials and admit that they were more extensive than it previously acknowledged. The FBI did not make any commitments on which outside experts or organizations it would consult for an updated training curriculum. But according to one participant, the FBI representative on the call said that many people within the Bureau disapproved of the anti-Islamic rhetoric. The FBI's Allen declined to comment.
"We are glad that this very serious issue has finally received the attention of FBI leadership," says Farhana Khera, executive director of the San Francisco-based civil rights group Muslim Advocates, "but an internal review is insufficient at this stage. In the last year, the FBI has either defended its use of bigoted trainers or emphatically assured the public that the various trainings were one-time, isolated incidents. Each time those assurances were later revealed to be false."
Muslim Advocates sent a letter to the Justice Department Inspector General last week seeking an investigation. It has yet to receive a reply. However, the chairs of the Senate's homeland security and intelligence committees have separately told Danger Room they will subject the FBI's counterterrorism training to scrutiny.
For months, in fact, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), has raised concerns that law enforcement at all levels lacks "meaningful standards" for counterterrorism training. In the course of his ongoing inquiry on the subject, Lieberman's staff became aware of a particularly problematic individual: an FBI intelligence analyst named William Gawthrop.
In April, Gawthrop presented a three-day briefing at the FBI's Quantico training facility to counterterrorism agents in which he equated "mainstream" Islam with terrorism. In earlier interviews, he mused about triggering a "deteriorating cascade effect" upon Islam, convincing Muslims to abandon their religion by attacking "soft spots" in the Islamic faith. And he has lectured widely about the "threat" of Islam, ostensibly as a private citizen.
Lieberman staffers were appalled by the "inappropriate materials being used by Mr. Gawthrop and notified the FBI in mid-July of their concerns," says Leslie Phillips, Communications Director of the Homeland Security Committee.
The FBI wouldn't directly comment on the committee's warning, instead reiterating the Bureau's new commitment to a wide-ranging review — one that will stretch from Quantico to the FBI's many field offices to the J. Edgar Hoover Building, its Washington headquarters.
"The senator hopes the FBI will take appropriate action to prohibit these and any other inaccurate training materials from being used in the future," Phillips adds.
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Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a comprehensive WAN optimization and application acceleration solution that is a key component of Cisco Borderless Networks and Data Center architectures.
Cisco WAAS accelerates applications and data over the WAN, optimizes bandwidth, empowers cloud services, and provides local hosting of branch-office IT services, all with industry-leading network integration. Cisco WAAS allows IT departments to centralize applications and storage while maintaining productivity for branch-office and mobile users.
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- Deliver desktop virtualization
- Deploy new, rich-media applications
- Deliver high-performance cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications
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- Optimize bandwidth for rich media and telepresence
- Defer bandwidth upgrade expenses
- Protect remote data and help ensure business continuity for regulatory compliance
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Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.3 provides these main features and benefits:
● Cisco Virtual WAAS (vWAAS)
- Cisco vWAAS is a virtual appliance that provides application acceleration and WAN optimization for any TCP-based application delivered from the cloud to end users in remote branch offices, campuses, and data centers, helping ensure an optimal end-user experience. It allows organizations to migrate their business application traffic to the cloud without affecting application performance.
- Cisco vWAAS runs on the industry-leading VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 hypervisor and Cisco Unified Computing System™ x86 servers, enabling an agile, elastic, and multi-tenant deployment in private and virtual private cloud infrastructure.
- Cisco vWAAS is a cloud-ready WAN optimization service that can be deployed in an application-specific, virtualization-aware, and on-demand manner. Using policy-based configuration in the Cisco Nexus® 1000V Series Switches, Cisco vWAAS service is associated with application server virtual machines as they are instantiated or moved. This behavior enables cloud providers to offer rapid delivery of WAN optimization services with little network configuration or disruption in cloud-based environments.
- Cisco vWAAS Central Manager provides common management of physical and Cisco vWAAS instances.
● Enhanced acceleration and optimization for secure web-based (HTTPS) applications
- New optimization features improve application response time, reduce server load, and reduce WAN bandwidth consumption for secure web-based applications.
● Common Cisco WAAS Central Manager for Cisco WAAS Express instances
- Enhanced Cisco WAAS Central Manager capabilities enable organizations to manage the industry's broadest portfolio of WAN optimization devices from any vendor. Cisco WAAS Central Manager can manage Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) and Wide Area Virtualization Engine (WAVE) appliances, Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) integrated network modules and Cisco Services-Ready Engine (SRE) Modules, Cisco vWAAS, and Cisco ISR Generation 2 (ISR G2) integrated Cisco WAAS Express in Cisco IOS® Software.
● Enhanced performance monitoring with new charts
- Better throughput performance
- Device connections scalability metrics
- Exportable executive performance summary report
Unique Cisco WAAS Advantages
Cisco WAAS offers numerous benefits that distinguish it from other WAN optimization products.
Cisco WAAS Offers the Most Choices for WAN Optimization with the Broadest Portfolio
● Software-based WAN optimization solutions
- Cisco WAAS Software on Cisco ISR G2 provides router-integrated, on-demand WAN optimization for branch offices. The Cisco SRE Modules on the Cisco ISR G2 platform, which decouple software services from the underlying hardware, can deliver WAN optimization as an on-demand service as required by business objectives and IT budget. This approach makes better use of existing investments while offering business agility.
- Cisco vWAAS is a virtual appliance that accelerates business applications delivered from private and virtual private cloud infrastructure, helping ensure an optimal user-experience. Cisco vWAAS enables cloud providers to rapidly create WAN optimization services with little network configuration or disruption in cloud-based environments by using policy-based configuration in the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series, which allows association with application server virtual machines as they are instantiated or moved.
- Cisco WAAS Express extends the Cisco WAAS product portfolio with a small-footprint, cost-effective Cisco IOS Software solution integrated into Cisco ISR G2 to offer bandwidth optimization capabilities. Cisco WAAS Express increases remote user productivity, reduces WAN bandwidth costs, and offers investment protection by interoperating with existing Cisco WAAS infrastructure.
- Cisco WAAS Mobile delivers bidirectional compression, application-specific accelerators, and flow optimizers for mobile or remote users in situations in which neither an appliance nor a branch router is available or practical, or for public cloud environments that cannot support an appliance.
● Full appliance portfolio
- Branch-office appliances support Cisco WAAS virtual blades for local hosting of branch-office IT services, reducing branch footprint.
- Scalable data center platforms support small to large data centers across a wide range of deployment scenarios and price points.
Cisco WAAS Offers a Proven End-to-End Architectural Approach with Validated Designs to Lower Cost of Ownership and Ease Deployment Challenges
Cisco WAAS is the only WAN optimization solution that has published jointly validated designs with major application vendors such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and IBM. Validated designs assist Cisco customers by offering best practices to successfully incorporate IT infrastructure such as Cisco switches, routers, security devices, and servers, thus significantly reducing the risk of deploying WAN optimization to accelerate these applications. Coupled with award-winning Cisco global support and advanced services, Cisco WAAS gives customers a significant set of resources to help ensure full network integration while reducing maintenance costs and deployment time.
For example, with Microsoft, Cisco has developed an optimized branch-office architecture that uses Cisco WAAS to optimize performance of centralized applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and file services, while most Microsoft Windows branch-office services and applications can be locally hosted on Cisco WAAS devices using Cisco WAAS virtual blades. The Cisco WAAS optimization for Microsoft Windows protocols has been developed with Microsoft, and the relevant intellectual property rights (IPRs) are licensed from Microsoft.
Network Services Integration Provides Transparent, Secure, and Reliable Application Performance
Cisco WAAS transparent architecture enables integration into the network and preservation of existing network services, thereby making WAN acceleration easy to deploy and operate.
● Network transparency and preservation of IP and TCP header information allows ease of operation and interoperability with network services such as quality of service (QoS), NetFlow, access control lists (ACLs), firewalls, Cisco Performance Routing (PfR), and IP service-level agreements (SLAs).
● Cisco WAAS offers automatic discovery of optimization devices, simplifying operations for all types of WAN architectures (including Multiprotocol Label Switching [MPLS], hierarchical networks, and hub-and-spoke topologies).
● Cisco WAAS integrates with all the Cisco firewalls - Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco PIX® Firewall Software, Cisco ASA 5500 Series Enterprise Firewall Edition, and Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Firewall Services Module (FWSM) - to provide the only solution in the industry that gives customers full stateful firewall inspection and network virus-scanning capabilities for accelerated traffic.
● For inline deployments, Cisco WAAS offers a low-latency voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic bypass feature that has been stress tested with Cisco VoIP test beds.
Deployment Options
Cisco WAAS provides flexible deployment options, as shown in Figure 1 and summarized in Table 1.
Table 1. Cisco WAAS Flexible Deployment Options
Deployment Location |
Cisco WAAS Product Family |
Cisco WAAS Appliances |
Cisco vWAAS |
Cisco WAAS Modules on Cisco ISR and ISR G2 |
Cisco WAAS Express on ISR G2 |
Cisco WAAS Mobile Client |
Cisco WAAS Mobile Server |
Branch office |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
- |
Data center |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
- |
- |
Yes |
Private, virtual Private Cloud (vPC) and public cloud |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
- |
- |
Yes |
Mobile or home-office PCs |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Yes |
- |
Features and Benefits
Table 2 summarizes the main features and benefits of Cisco WAAS. For detailed information about acceleration for mobile users, please refer to the Cisco WAAS Mobile data sheet. For the features and benefits of Cisco WAAS Express, please refer to the Cisco WAAS Express data sheet.
Table 2. Main Benefits and Features of Cisco WAAS and vWAAS
Benefit |
Feature |
WAN optimization Eliminate or defer expensive WAN bandwidth upgrades |
Transport flow optimization (TFO): TFO improves application packet flow under unfavorable WAN conditions such as packet loss and small initial windows while helping ensure fairness.
Data redundancy elimination (DRE): DRE is an advanced form of network compression that uses a bidirectional database to store previously seen TCP traffic and replace redundant patterns with very small signatures. DRE can provide up to 100:1 compression depending on the data being examined.
Adaptive persistent session-based compression: This type of compression can provide up to an additional 5:1 compression.
Application acceleration
● Improve employee productivity
● Consolidate branch-office servers
● Centralize branch-office IT resources such as storage and backup tapes and reduce operating costs
Protocol acceleration: Application-specific latency is reduced through a variety of application-layer techniques such as read-ahead, operation prediction, connection reuse, message multiplexing, pipelining, and parallelization, resulting in LAN-like performance despite deployment over a WAN.
Application optimizers: Protocol-specific acceleration is available for Microsoft Windows file sharing (Common Internet File System [CIFS]); Microsoft Exchange (Messaging API [MAPI] and MAPI over SSL); HTTP and HTTPS applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access (OWA); Microsoft Windows print services; and UNIX Network File System (NFS). These features improve end-user application response time, significantly improving employee productivity.
Content prepositioning: Centralized policy-based file distribution and prepositioning can be used to push files to edge Cisco WAAS devices, accelerating software patch distribution and file access for all users.
Ease of initial and ongoing deployment |
Network transparency: Cisco WAAS preserves all existing network services.
Client, server, and application transparency: No modifications to clients, servers, or applications are needed.
Automatic peer discovery: Cisco WAAS devices automatically discover peers, reducing configuration steps.
Quickstart wizard: Use of the wizard eliminates many configuration steps. The wizard includes defaults for faster deployment.
Management and monitoring: Intuitive workflow-based management and real-time monitoring are provided. Diagnostic and troubleshooting tools help reduce mean time to resolution.
Flexible deployment options for cloud |
For private and virtual private cloud:
Agile: Implement agile virtual machine-based deployments on standard x86 servers, such as Cisco UCS servers.
Application-specific WAN optimization: Use Cisco Nexus 1000V Series port profiles and vPath to create value-added WAN optimization services on a per-application basis in your catalog of cloud services (for example, use Cisco vWAAS only for Microsoft SharePoint or Exchange) for optimized delivery to remote branch-office users.
Elastic scale-out Cisco WAAS deployment: Using policy-based configuration in the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch, you can associate Cisco vWAAS services with application server virtual machines as they are instantiated or moved in response to dynamic application load demand in the cloud. This capability enables cloud providers to offer rapid delivery of WAN optimization services with little network configuration or disruption to achieve a cloud consumption and delivery model.
Multi-tenant: Cisco vWAAS reduces the hardware footprint needed for multi-tenant deployments.
DRE on SAN: Cisco vWAAS offers an option to allow its DRE database to be hosted on the SAN to provide an improved fault-tolerant response and to support virtual machine mobility requirements.
Validated sizing benchmarks on Cisco UCS servers: Cisco vWAAS can be hosted on any x86 server that supports the VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 hypervisor. Sizing benchmarks and performance metrics provided on the Cisco Unified Computing System platform result in lower risk for cloud deployments.
For public cloud:
Accelerate SaaS applications: Cisco WAAS accelerates SaaS applications, such as Salesforce.com, delivered from the public SaaS cloud. SaaS applications are typically HTTPS based and can be configured in an easy and scalable manner. In addition, Cisco WAAS Mobile can be used to accelerate access to hosted IaaS applications delivered from the public cloud, such as Amazon.com, to remote mobile users.
Cloud agnostic: Cisco vWAAS can be deployed in public clouds with the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series to obtain benefits similar to those for private clouds. The Cisco vWAAS solution is public-cloud agnostic.
Note: IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service; SaaS = Software as a Service |
Delivery of high-quality live and on-demand video
● Eliminate need for expensive WAN bandwidth upgrades
● Avoid complex configuration
● Centralize branch video servers
Easy-to-deploy live video with edge-stream splitting: Automated edge-stream splitting helps ensure that only one video stream is downloaded over the WAN regardless of the number of users in the branch office viewing that stream.
Recorded video on demand (VoD): VoD files can be published using prepositioning on edge Cisco WAAS devices.
Server offload: The live and on-demand video features offer server offload capability that can enable up to 10X reduction in the number of data center video servers.
Locally hosted branch-office IT services
● Reduce branch-office device footprint
● Deploy branch-office IT services with flexibility and agility
Network-embedded virtualization: Third-party services can be hosted on isolated virtual blades. This architecture maintains native performance for WAN optimization, while using the same hardware platform for additional hosted services.
Virtual blades: This feature can be used to deploy many different Microsoft Windows and Linux branch-office services on Cisco WAAS appliances within hours instead of the days or weeks often required for dedicated hardware-based deployments. Certified and supported hosted services include Microsoft Active Directory, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and print services using Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008R2; Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM); and Cisco Application and Content Network System (ACNS).
Note: Because Cisco vWAAS is a virtual appliance, it does not support the virtual blades feature available on physical Cisco WAVE appliances. |
Simplified central management and monitoring
● Enhance usability with intuitive workflow-based management tools
● Enhance visibility through real-time monitoring of connections with application performance management
Cisco WAAS Central Manager: This workflow-based tool manages central configuration, provisioning, real-time monitoring, fault management, logging, and customized reporting with the capability to create scheduled reports for up to 2500 Cisco WAAS devices within a Cisco WAAS topology.
Comprehensive statistics: Comprehensive logs, reports, graphs, and statistics for Cisco WAE device functions help IT administrators optimize system performance and troubleshooting.
Monitoring, reporting, traps, and alerts: Real-time monitoring of connections, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Versions 2c and 3, Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) authentication, and syslog are supported.
Centralized software upgrades: Administrators can remotely schedule upgrades or version rollbacks.
Application performance management: NetQoS SuperAgent and Cisco WAAS together uniquely provide accurate reports about end-to-end application response time and WAN bandwidth utilization.
Easy integration with software distribution tools: Tools include Short Message Service (SMS), LANDesk, Altiris, and BigFix solutions.
XML API: The XML API can be used to integrate Cisco WAAS Central Manager into customers' network management and monitoring systems.
Scalability and high availability |
Out-of-path deployment: Cisco WAAS can be deployed using Web Cache Communication Protocol Version 2 (WCCPv2) for high-availability clustering and N+1 load balancing for up to 32 Cisco WAAS devices within a WCCPv2 service group. Policy-based routing (PBR) is also supported as a deployment mechanism.
Physical inline interception: Cisco WAAS appliances can be transparently deployed using a four-port network interface card (NIC) with fail-to-wire capability in the event of failure, helping ensure that network connectivity is not lost. The inline option provides high scalability and active-active failover through daisy-chain clustering.
Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE): Cisco WAAS deployed with Cisco ACE can scale up to 16 million TCP connections and up to 64 Gbps of bandwidth, supporting the largest deployments.
Configuration backup and restore: In the event of hardware failure, the reprovisioning and restore process can be handled remotely using the Cisco WAAS Central Manager.
Redundant WAN link support: Cisco WAAS supports environments with redundant WAN links, redundant routers, and asymmetric routing to improve high availability and optimization efficiency.
Security |
Data-at-rest encryption: All data on the Cisco WAAS disk is secured with 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and automatic key management.
Data-in-flight security: Cisco firewalls perform stateful inspection of accelerated traffic.
Acceleration of SSL applications: Existing enterprise security architecture is preserved when accelerating SSL applications.
Data access security: All security-related protocol commands are delegated to the file server and the domain controller. No additional domain security or user configuration is necessary.
Management access security: The Cisco WAAS Central Manager offers authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) integration with external authentication providers such as Microsoft Active Directory, RADIUS, and TACACS+ and supports role-based access control (RBAC) to help ensure security.
Network security: Cisco WAAS and Cisco firewalls secure accelerated traffic with stateful firewall inspection and network virus scanning using Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). No other vendor preserves security for accelerated traffic.
Cisco WAAS offers the following licenses based on feature capabilities:
● Cisco WAAS Transport license: This license provides the WAN optimization features of Cisco WAAS, including DRE, Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression, and TFO, optimizing application delivery to the branch office.
● Cisco WAAS Enterprise license: This license provides Transport license functions plus application-specific accelerations for protocols including CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, SSL, NFS, and Microsoft Windows print services, to facilitate application acceleration, WAN optimization, and IT consolidation.
● Cisco WAAS Live Video license: This add-on license provides wide-scale delivery of live video to the branch office across the WAN. It offers automated edge-stream splitting to help ensure that only one video stream is downloaded over the WAN regardless of the number of users in the branch office viewing that stream. This option is available only when the Cisco WAAS Enterprise license is ordered.
● Cisco WAAS Virtual Blade license: This add-on license enables local hosting of server OS and applications on Cisco WAAS appliances. This option is available only when the Cisco WAAS Enterprise license is ordered and is available for Cisco WAVE-274, WAVE-474, WAVE-574, and WAE-674 with Cisco WAAS Software Versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3.
● Cisco WAAS Virtual Blade license with Microsoft Windows Server Core 2008: This add-on license offers organizations flexible delivery of branch-office IT services while reducing the device footprint. The first set of certified and supported hosted services includes Microsoft Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and print as part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 core services. This option is available only when the Cisco WAAS Enterprise license is ordered and is available for Cisco WAVE-274, WAVE-474, WAVE-574, and WAE-674 with Cisco WAAS Software Versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3.
Cisco vWAAS is offered only starting with Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.3.1 and supports only the Enterprise license option. For details about models, pricing, and sizing, please contact your local Cisco account representative.
Ordering Information
For ordering information, please contact your local Cisco account representative.
Upgrade from Cisco WAAS Software Versions 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2
Customers who have an active Software Application Support plus Upgrades (SASU) contract in place can upgrade from Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2 to Version 4.3 with no additional cost.
WCCP Support
Web Cache Communication Protocol, or WCCP, is a free Cisco IOS Software feature that runs on the following Cisco platforms:
● Cisco routers such as the Cisco 1800, 2800, and 3800 Series ISR; Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series ISR G2; Cisco 7000 Series; and Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers.
● Cisco switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 6500 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches.
Service and Support
Cisco offers a wide range of services programs to accelerate customer success. These innovative services programs are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners, resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction. Cisco Services offerings help you protect your network investment, optimize network operations, and prepare the network for new applications to extend network intelligence and the power of your business. For more information about Cisco Services, see Cisco Technical Support Services and Cisco Advanced Services.
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For more information about Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.3, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/waas or contact your local account representative.


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Prospects for wind energy utilisation in Karnataka State
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An examination of the data available at 22 meteorological stations in Karnataka State shows that wind velocities in the State as a whole are neither spectacularly high nor negligibly low. The highest winds (annual mean of around 13 km/hr) are experienced in parts of the northern maidan region of the State (Gulbarga, Raichur and Bidar districts) and in Bangalore. The winds are strongly seasonal: typically, the five monsoon months May-September account for about 80% of the annual wind energy flux. Although the data available are inadequate to make precise estimates, they indicate that the total wind energy potential of the State is about an order of magnitude higher than the current electrical energy consumption.
The possible exploitation of wind energy for applications in rural areas therefore requires serious consideration, but it is argued that to be successful it is essential to formulate an integrated and carefully planned programme. The output of current windpumps needs to be increased; a doubling should be feasible by the design of suitable load-matching devices. The first cost has to be reduced by careful design, by the use of local materials and skills and by employing a labour-intensive technology. A consideration of the agricultural factors in the northern maidan region of the State shows that there is likely to be a strong need for mechanical assistance in supplemental and life-saving irrigation for the dry crops characteristic of the area. A technological target for a windmill that could find applications in this area would be one with a rotor diameter of about 10 m that can lift about 10,000 litres of water per hour in winds of 10 km/hr (2.8 m/s) hourly average speed and costs less than about Rs 10,000. Although no such windmills exist as of today, the authors believe that achievement of this target is feasible. An examination of various possible scenarios for the use of windmills in this area suggests that with a windpump costing about Rs 12,000, a three hectare farm growing two dry crops a year can expect an annual return of about 150% from an initial investment of about Rs 15,000. It is concluded that it should be highly worthwhile to undertake a coordinated programme for wind energy development that will include more detailed wind surveys in the northern maidan area (as well as some others, such as the Western Ghats), the development of suitable windmill designs and a study of their applications to agriculture as well as to other fields.
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- Title
- Prospects for wind energy utilisation in Karnataka State
- Journal
Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences Section C: Engineering Sciences
Volume 2, Issue 4 , pp 521-544
- Cover Date
- 1979-12-01
- Print ISSN
- 0250-5983
- Online ISSN
- 0973-7677
- Publisher
- Springer India
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Wind energy
- Karnataka State
- energy resources
- economics of wind-pumps
- load matching for windpumps
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- U. Shrinivasa (1) (2)
- R. Narasimha (1)
- S. P. Govinda Raju (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore
- 2. Cell for the Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, India


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A four-team trade that would send Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers is complete, multiple sources told ESPN on Thursday night.
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A source with direct knowledge of the talks told ESPN.com's Marc Stein the Lakers will receive Howard, the Denver Nuggets will acquire Andre Iguodala, the 76ers will receive Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson, and the Magic will get Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Nikola Vucevic and one protected future first-round pick from each of the three teams.
The Lakers also will acquire Earl Clark and Chris Duhon, a source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard. Draft picks the Magic will receive are the Nuggets' (2014), 76ers' (2015) and Lakers' (2017).
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Lakers forward Pau Gasol had been in and out of talks, sources told Shelburne, before ultimately being excluded.
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"Well, it looks like Superman has found a home," Bryant posted on his Facebook page. "I wish nothing but the best for Big Bynum. I hope he follows what was a great season last year with an even better one next year. I know LA is excited about the deal and rightfully so. The Lakers landed a piece that will hopefully carry the franchise long after I'm gone. I have spoken to Dwight Howard already and we are locked and loaded to bring back the title."
Dwight Howard to Lakers
A four-team trade that sent Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers was finalized Friday. A look at what each team gets in the deal.
Team | Receives in trade |
Lakers | Dwight Howard, Chris Duhon, Earl Clark |
Nuggets | Andre Iguodala |
76ers | Andrew Bynum, Jason Richardson |
Magic* | Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Nikola Vucevic, Moe Harkless Josh McRoberts, Christian Eyenga |
*- Magic also will receive a protected first-round pick from each of the other three teams and five overall draft picks |
Sources told Broussard that Philadelphia has not spoken to Bynum or his representatives, and has no assurances he will sign a long-term extension with the team.
"The Sixers are willing to take a shot (without Bynum's commitment)," one source said.
Although Bynum signing an extension with the 76ers is not out of the question, according to a source, his stance all summer has been he will sign an extension with only the Lakers.
Bynum, who grew up about an hour away from Philadelphia in Plainsboro, N.J., could sign a three-year, $60 million extension this season or wait to become a free agent after the season and be eligible for a five-year, $102 million deal.
Near the end of July, Howard met with Magic general manager Rob Hennigan and reiterated his desire to be traded, saying that if he wasn't, he would leave the team as a free agent after next season.
The Lakers' position on Howard had remained relatively unchanged for the past few months, league sources familiar with the situation told ESPNLosAngeles.com. The Lakers always had been willing to trade for Howard without assurances he'd re-sign with them after the season, believing that once Howard experienced a championship culture, he would want to stay for the long haul.
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Ben Schimidt is a former Faceoff Factor writer. He has joined the "Beat The Experts" fantasy hockey league and will chronicle his rookie season as a fantasy hockey GM.
I've never done fantasy hockey before, so when Faceoff-Factor decided to start a league, I thought, "why not?" Well, the season hasn't even started yet, and I've already learned a few lessons the hard way, and I'm sure I'll got through many more as time goes on.
I thought I might well share these hard-learned lessons as we go through the season. At the very least, it will provide some laughs at my expense from the more experienced fantasy GMs out there, and who knows, maybe someone else will learn from my mistakes.
To start, here's the context: I've joined the Factor Conference in the Faceoff-Factor League. The details of how this fantasy league works can be found here
I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it for the live draft, so I had to pre-rank my players. I've never done this before. I figured that I have my opinions on who was good, and who wasn't, and I knew what was being used for scoring, so I figured I'd just go ahead and give it a shot.
The first thing I tried doing was going through and ranking all the players. Yeah, that didn't last long. After that, I settled for taking the suggested rankings and tweaking them a bit. One of the main tweaks I made was to remove players I knew wouldn't be in the NHL this year – out go Alex Radulov and Martin Straka. I then down-ranked a few players who I knew would be on long-term injury reserve. Thus, Ryan Whitney gets downgraded from his ranking.
Then I twiddled a bit with some of the individual player rankings. For instance, I think Sidney Crosby will get more points than Alex Ovechkin this year, so he takes #1, with Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin in 2 and 3 respectively. I then up-ranked Niclas Lidstrom to #4, since he's good for both points and +/-. I brought a few goalies up higher in my rankings. I moved Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane a little higher, since I think they'll be better this year.
I moved a couple other players higher, such as Jordan Staal, Kris Letang and Alex Goligoski, since I think they'll produce more this year with increased responsibilities. (For the record, I also moved up a few players from other teams for similar reasons, but I figured I'd stick with the Penguins examples as being the simplest to explain).
I finished a basic ranking, and then let it go. The next day, I checked to see who I drafted. And discovered my first mistakes. Here's the team I originally drafted, in draft order:
- Evgeni Malkin, C
- Nicklas Lidstrom, D
- Martin St. Louis, RW
- Jonathan Toews, C
- Jason Pominville, RW
- Dan Ellis, G
- Jay Mouwmeester, D
- Jordan Staal, C/LW
- Brian Rolston, LW
- Dustin Byfuglien, D/LW
- Brent Seabrook, D
- Josh Harding, G]
- Scott Munroe, G
- Phil Kessel, RW
- Milan Lucic, LW
- Alex Goligoski, D
- R.J. Umberger, C
- Jonas Enroth, G
At this point, the experienced fantasy drafters are probably all laughing at me. I've got a pretty good top 6 forwards, and a reasonable blueline corps, but I really did poorly in getting goalies.
This was lesson #1: Rank goalies a lot higher than the defaults in general. People who are there for the draft can decide to snag a goalie earlier, but when pre-ranking, you're likely to end up getting forwards in the early rounds when you should be getting a goalie, simply because the goalies you ranked highly were already all picked.
Lesson #2: The pre-ranking system lets you rank by position. Make use of it, especially for goalies. The default rankings can put a player like Craig Munroe, who isn't likely to even play in the NHL this season, over players that will definitely at least be backups this season.
The other thing people will notice was the odd choice on my blueline. I ranked Dustin Byfuglien a bit higher, because I knew he'd been switched to wing, and had done well in that position. I've seen a few places predict him for a top 6 role. From the description of his game, I also got a mistaken impression that he'd help out in PIMs. This leads to the next lesson –
Lesson #3: If you're going to move a player out of their default ranked position, do your research, and don't do it based on hunches alone. I hadn't realized that the system would rank Byfuglien as a D, and it turns out I was wrong about what he might bring in PIMs, so I ended up dropping him to pick up another defenseman.
This brings me to the last point for this entry – adding and dropping players. If one looked at my transaction list, they'd notice a decent amount of movement, including an instance where I added a guy only to drop him the very next day. That brings me to the final lesson for today:
Lesson #4: The default rankings are not actually set all that well for your league's settings. A goalie who is a great prospect won't count for much if they're going to be in the AHL all season. A backup who may not be as good of a player is likely to be a better choice, simply because they're going to count for the stats needed in the NHL. Make sure you dig further down the lists of available players, in case someone you think is a better choice is available instead of picking up someone who isn't likely to play in the NHL.
I ended up dropping Scott Clemmenson and adding Dany Sabourin, since Clemmenson is stuck behind Martin Brodeur and Kevin Weekes in New Jersey, while Sabourin, at least, ought to get a few starts in the NHL this season. I also picked up Antti Niemi, as I think it's likely that Nikolai Khabibulin will get moved from the Blackhawks, with Niemi taking his place. There really wasn't a lot left in goalies by the time I was able to correct the mistakes I made in drafting via pre-ranking.
As of my latest changes, my team currently looks like this:
- C Evgeni Malkin
- C Jonathan Toews
- LW Jordan Staal
- LW Brian Rolston
- RW Martin St. Louis
- RW Jason Pominville
- D Nicklas Lidstrom
- D Jay Bouwmeester
- D Brent Seabrook
- D Mike Komisarek
- G Dan Ellis
- G Josh Harding
- G Dany Sabourin
- RW Phil Kessel
- LW Milan Lucic
- D Alex Goligoski
- C R.J. Umberger
- G Antti Niemi
I still think my skaters are reasonably solid, but I fear that my goaltending may be the horrendous weak spot in my team.
Join me throughout the season as I share my thinking behind my team moves, and feel free to laugh at my mistakes as I make them!
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(Read the transcript or watch in Windows Media format) This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2009/10/change-your-clocks-change-your-batteries/ (Read the transcript or watch in Windows Media format) Halloween is approaching and before the ghosts and goblins take to the streets in search of candy treats, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is providing these safety tips to prevent injuries related to burns from flammable costumes. Candle flames and flammable costumes can be a dangerous combination. Costumes made of natural fibers such as cotton are extremely flammable and it can be very dangerous if they come in contact with an open flame. It is important to use inherently flame-resistant fabrics such as nylon and polyester when making kid's costumes. Flame-resistant fabrics will resist burning and should extinguish quickly. Read more This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2009/10/halloween-safety-tips/ CPSC and its counterpart safety agency in China, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ), wrapped up the 3rd biennial Consumer Product Safety Summit today in Beijing. CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum lead the U.S. delegation, which included the agency's top technical experts and members of CPSC's Compliance division. 20 U.S. stakeholders participated with the U.S. delegation. The four-day summit was a platform for CPSC and AQSIQ to make very clear that times have changed. CPSC and AQSIQ put Chinese suppliers and U.S. importers on notice that it is a mistake to depend on good intentions and a few final inspections to ensure compliance with safety requirements.CPSC and AQSIQ will push companies to build safety into the product at every stage of the production and the distribution chain," said Tenenbaum. "Suppliers and importers need to understand that this is now our expectation." Tenenbaum said CPSC will hold importers of products into the United States accountable if their products are hazardous or if they violate U.S. product safety requirements. AQSIQ will hold Chinese suppliers responsible for implementing best practices and building U.S. safety standards into their products before they reach U.S. ports. "Our goal at CPSC is to protect families in and around their homes by ensuring the safety of the products they buy. That's what this Summit has been about – protecting families," said Tenenbaum." The best way to protect families is to build safety standards into products during design and manufacturing." The next U.S. China Consumer Product Safety Summit will take place in the U.S. in 2011. This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2009/10/day-4-u-s-china-consumer-product-safety-summit/ This address for this post is: http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2009/10/chairmans-blog-from-china-day-3/ It's Day 2 of the U.S.-China Consumer Product Safety Summit and ATV safety is on the agenda. ATVs can be a lot of fun to ride, but ATVs are also involved in hundreds of fatalities and more than a hundred thousand injuries each year. We need to reverse the rising death toll associated with these popular recreational vehicles. Today, Chairman Tenenbaum and 10 CPSC staff members travelled about two hours outside of Wuxi to the industrial city of Taizhou for a firsthand look at a Chinese ATV factory, Jiangsu Linhai Power Machine Group. There was considerable interest by the Chinese media in the visit. The CPSC team toured the factory and had a very informative meeting with the firm's President Lu Hai Min and Chinese government safety officials. 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PHILLIPSBURG -- It's a big leap from office manager in the automotive industry to owning a children's clothes resale boutique, but Colleen Ryan is making the jump.
Originally from the Detroit area, Ryan plans to open Meah's Closet in downtown Phillipsburg this spring.
Meah, Ryan's and Wes Russom's daughter, inspired the name.
Russom and Ryan have known one another for approximately a dozen years since both lived in Michigan. They renewed their acquaintance nearly two years ago after Russom moved to Kansas.
They've lived in Phillipsburg approximately two years.
Ryan said she's had the idea for the boutique for a while, but it germinated after seeing how many children participated in last year's Halloween costume contest.
"We don't have a lot of shopping options here," she said. "Being from Michigan, the shopping options are unlimited. ... Kids grow so fast that they're growing out of their clothes before they're used. We have three kids of our own, so every season, I'm buying a new wardrobe."
The couple's other children are Makenna Russom, 7, and Brady Russom, 4.
"Makenna is very excited about the store. She wants to know when she can start working," Ryan said.
While it will be a resale boutique, it won't be a consignment store.
Wes Russom sees that as a definite benefit.
People will get "cash on the spot," he said.
"You're getting some money for them and able to shop at reasonable prices for clothes that are almost new," Ryan said.
She might add baby equipment such as swings, high chairs and bouncers later.
"You spend so much money on baby things, and they use it for such a short time."
Ryan and Russom are renovating the building, a former restaurant, at 977 Third. Like Meah's nursery, the boutique will be decorated in orange and lime green.
"I've never been a pink girl. It's just not my thing," Ryan said.
The boutique will be kid-friendly.
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When I boil eggs and eat them I almost always eat just the whites and toss out the yolks. ( I don't like hard boiled yolks) I eat maybe 5-6 eggs a day this way.
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Musicians tend to play better after warming up. Or, as the case may be, thawing out. "Our first practice space was in a room we couldn't afford to heat," recalls Wild Light's cofrontman Timothy Kyle, thinking back to the band's winter rehearsals in Quincy, Massachusetts.
"When we finally had a gig someplace warm, it was crazy how limber my fingers felt," says Seth Pitman, 25, who shares songwriting and instrumental duties for the folk-pop foursome with Kyle and Jordan Alexander, both 28. "Playing is easier when you're not freezing your ass off!"
It's also easier when you have a history as long as Wild Light's. The friends -- including drummer Seth Kasper, 27 -- grew up in New Hampshire and played together in a Clash-inspired outfit throughout their teens. They broke up before heading to college, but when they all found themselves back home after graduation, the flame was rekindled. "We realized there was something between us that we hadn't been able to replicate with anyone else," Kyle says. Included in that creatively unsatisfying "other" are Arcade Fire -- an early incarnation of which featured Kyle. (Alexander roomed with Win Butler at Exeter and introduced him to Kyle.) The groups remain friends and toured Europe together in late 2007.
Last summer Wild Light traveled to L.A. to work with producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) on their debut, Adult Nights (StarTime International), a humble blend of twinkling keyboards, crisp guitars, and hopeful melodies, all cloaked in the shadows of English mope rock (sample lyric: "I ain't never gonna turn around / I'd rather make the whole world pay"). "We don't follow much new music," says Kyle. "We're more influenced by Dylan and the Smiths than whatever's on the blogs."
Standout Nights tracks like the shimmering "Heart Attack" and pensive "Lawless River" suggest that the aspiration isn't asinine -- provided the quartet keeps out of the cold. "The weather in California was definitely inspiring," Kyle says. "It was so nice outside that we actually wanted to go play." Guess no one told him 80 percent of success is just showing up.
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