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The thumping noise coming from the rear a/c is being caused by your rear a/c actuator. If you replace this part which is located on passengers side in the rear behind the panel. You will need to remove the panel to access this but very easy to replace once you get to the part. This will take care of the problem just had it done and bingo like new no thumping and air blowing much better. Part runs around $50- $60.
I thought I was the only one with these issues. Favorite settings and clicking/thumping noise (still happening even though the rear ac doesn't even blow cool air anymore). now having to change my alternator at 137K miles.
This is my second for that I didn't take much care of after the extended warranty and it's still pretty good. i can't complain.
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They have thought of everything in this modern well equipped Villa. It is well situated, tastefully furnished and very comfortable. Can thoroughly recommend.
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The experience at Villa Pheakon and Pissouri Bay could not have been better! I spent a week with my wife and 2-year old son, and we enjoyed every minute. We all recommend a stay at Villa Pheakon for all who may consider passing this way.The entire process, from making leasing arrangements to "check out" was quite easy, thanks to Denise and Pete. It started with an easy drive from Larnaca Airport, and although I had to quickly adapt to driving on the "wrong" side of the road, the precise directions to the property helped simplify the adjustment. Upon arrival, again excellent guidance provided by the Owner's made it easy to get in and begin enjoying this beautiful Villa. We awoke to the most stunning bay view with the sun shimmering off the water. The Owner's local caretaker, Pam, stopped by to make sure we were comfortable and knew how to operate everything. She was so nice, and so very helpful. The layout is fantastic in this Villa, with views...
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SUMOylation of ATRIP potentiates DNA damage signaling by boosting multiple protein interactions in the ATR pathway
ABSTRACT The ATR (ATM [ataxia telangiectasia-mutated]- and Rad3-related) checkpoint is a crucial DNA damage signaling pathway. While the ATR pathway is known to transmit DNA damage signals through the ATR-Chk1 kinase cascade, whether post-translational modifications other than phosphorylation are important for this pathway remains largely unknown. Here, we show that protein SUMOylation plays a key role in the ATR pathway. ATRIP, the regulatory partner of ATR, is modified by SUMO2/3 at K234 and K289. An ATRIP mutant lacking the SUMOylation sites fails to localize to DNA damage and support ATR activation efficiently. Surprisingly, the ATRIP SUMOylation mutant is compromised in the interaction with a protein group, rather than a single protein, in the ATR pathway. Multiple ATRIP-interacting proteins, including ATR, RPA70, TopBP1, and the MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 complex, exhibit reduced binding to the ATRIP SUMOylation mutant in cells and display affinity for SUMO2 chains in vitro, suggesting that they bind not only ATRIP but also SUMO. Fusion of a SUMO2 chain to the ATRIP SUMOylation mutant enhances its interaction with the protein group and partially suppresses its localization and functional defects, revealing that ATRIP SUMOylation promotes ATR activation by providing a unique type of protein glue that boosts multiple protein interactions along the ATR pathway.
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ABSTRACT: Sumoylation has important roles during DNA damage repair and responses. Recent broad-scope and substrate-based studies have shed light on the regulation and significance of sumoylation during these processes. An emerging paradigm is that sumoylation of many DNA metabolism proteins is controlled by DNA engagement. Such 'on-site modification' can explain low substrate modification levels and has important implications in sumoylation mechanisms and effects. New studies also suggest that sumoylation can regulate a process through an ensemble effect or via major substrates. Additionally, we describe new trends in the functional effects of sumoylation, such as bi-directional changes in biomolecule binding and multilevel coordination with other modifications. These emerging themes and models will stimulate our thinking and research in sumoylation and genome maintenance. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Trends in Biochemical Sciences 03/2015; 40(6). DOI:10.1016/j.tibs.2015.02.006 · 11.23 Impact Factor


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The Red Maids Society exists to keep former pupils and staff of the Red Maids' School, Bristol, in touch with each other and to share news of the School and of other old girls around the world. We currently have almost 1,300 members, many of whom live in Bristol or the South West.
The Summer 2015 magazine is now available to members by post or on by logging on to the newsletter page.
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On so many levels, Tyler John Tyler's 48-44 playoff win over Plano East in 1994 has become legendary.
Thursday is the 15th anniversary of the game that won ESPN's 1995 ESPY Award as Showstopper of the Year.
The game, which was played at Texas Stadium, was not the state final. It was a third-round playoff game. The two 12-0 teams were known best for defense. Plano East, ranked No. 2 in The Associated Press' state poll, was allowing less than nine points a game. John Tyler, No. 3 in the poll, was giving up just 13.9.
John Tyler went on to win the Class 5A Division II championship, beating Lake Highlands, Arlington and, finally, Austin Westlake in the title game.
Often overlooked in Plano East's comeback was the contribution of Terrance Green. He caught a touchdown pass that made it 41-23, set up another with a 44-yard catch and also executed the onside kicks. Plano East's regular kicker had been dismissed from the team and Green was the fill-in.
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Light and sugary, André Spumante is a California Champagne that satisfies your sweet tooth.
Try this sparkling wine, and you'll be treated to warm fruity flavors with a crisp aftertaste. Best served chilled and perfect for dessert, barbecues, or lazy summer nights with your best friends in tow.
André's Notes
Now this is why people call it bubbly. The first thing you'll notice about any Spumante wine is the massive amount of bubbles pouring out of the bottle. Next time you need a little fizz, or just a sweet alternative to brut, reach for this California take on an Italian classic.
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Rimmel Exaggerate Full Colour Lip Liner - Addiction 018
96 reviews
86% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $
on 7/15/2007 6:00:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Tired of all those "nude" and "neutral" liners that leave you looking orangy or muddy? Finally, a liner for ladies with cool undertones that is everything MAC Spice is for the girls with warmer complexions--subtle, just-a-bit-better-than-you-were-born-with, and infinitely versatile. This liner looks great when you blend it with lip balm for an imperceptible boost of colour, or when applied to the whole lip and then topped with a sheer gloss. Lightly line your lips with this after you've applied dark lip colour--you won't be left with the normal lip liner ring and your lip colour won't bleed or feather.
I love this product despite its having what I think are two, albeit miniscule, shorcomings. First, I suspected that the name "Exaggerate" was meant to imply that this lip liner has lip-plumping properties. The product description on the Rimmel website ("Exaggerate Lip Liner is a soft textured, fine tipped automatic liner that gives full volume color definition to the lips.") seems to confirm this. Although this does make your lips a bit more pronounced, the definition that any liner provides will do the same. I know that many cosmetic companies routinely make far more deceptive claims about their products, but it still kind of irks me that such a good product is being marketed in a misleading fashion. Don't play that game, Rimmel--with this liner you don't need to!
Secondly, I wish this liner had a little more staying power, as I find myself having to reapply slightly more frequently than with other liners. Both these aspects, however, are trivial enough that I don't think they detract from such an outstanding cosmetic.
There is nothing worse than knowing about a great product, but not being able to give it a try because it is prohibitively expensive or not sold where you live.This product has both the (low) price and (ubiquitous) availability that hardly excludes anyone. If you have pink undertones, go out and pick one of these up--I hope it becomes a valuable staple for you like it has for me!
on 6/13/2007 9:42:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Normal, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Study package. Nice nude color. Great if you applied a gloss afterwards. Reasonable price. Will definately purchase again!
on 5/20/2007 5:09:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is a great neutral liner, not too brown or grey or dirtlike or pink or orange... These Exaggerate automatic lip liners are creamy, easy to apply, and are high quality. Under 5 bucks, you can afford to experiment. Good staying power. Highly reccomend, you'll be impressed! Get any color, but this one is a good basic one.
on 5/19/2007 12:20:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I was looking for a dupe of MAC Subculture and settled for this. While it's not an exact dupe, it's still a pretty good drugstore product at $4.99. Addiction is slightly rosy while Subculture is more light and peachy, so Addiction is probably a better dupe for MAC Whirl than Subculture. Instead of canceling out the color of my pigmented lips, Addiction matches it, so I don't quite get a nude lip look out if this, but it's still a nice and creamy lipliner. I also like the automatic pencil-like packaging that doesn't require sharpening. If you're looking for a gloss liner in a shade similar to Addiction, try Rimmel lip vinyl liner in Tasty. It's almost the same as Addiction but in a gel-like consistency that goes better with lip glosses.
on 4/19/2007 11:37:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
The perfect lighter nude lipliner -- no nasty undertones of brown, grey, or orange, just a nice beigey-pink nude. This is an automatic lipliner (no sharpening) by the way. Great pigmentation, doesn't crumble or flake, good packaging. Goes great with Revlon Nude Lustre lip gloss, among many other colors. I'm glad to see MUA'ers love it. I will definitely repurchase.
on 3/27/2007 6:31:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Other, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
when worn alone, i think this shade is too warm for my cool tones. w/ my cool tones... it applied a lil brick brown. however, worn w/ nars chelsea girls (pinky nude shade)... i'm able to get a polished pinky brown lips i've been searching high and low for.
on 1/14/2007 9:14:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
The consistency and quality of this lip liner is the best I've used. It's creamy going on, but stays put if you put lip gloss over it. This color is brownish-peach (to me), but I think it's a bit too brown and warm to be a neutral for my lips, but I still think it's a great product and will use it if I want a darker lip. I think Wild Clover would be a better choice as a neutral for my lips, so I'll try that.
on 1/3/2007 4:23:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
THE BEST LIPLINER!! I love this stuff...my makeup feels "incomplete" without it. I never used to use lipliner much until I found this...it's very natural-looking and my lips look fuller and more polished with this liner on. I use it as a base for practically every lipgloss or lipstick I use. Or, even with lipbalm. And it's super cheap. Sadly, my Target doesn't seem to be stocking Rimmel products anymore...I found this recently at Walmart.
Go get it!
on 11/21/2006 12:33:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Oily, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
It was too light in color for my lips. I am Native American, so the just disappeared on my lips like nothing was there. It also had a terrible petroleum taste to it. I really dislike that when that happens. Taste is rather important to me in anything on my lips. I immediately removed it. I had previously a few years ago purchased highly praised mascara from Rimmel and I had a terribly reaction to it. I put it on and it my eyes burned and tears started flowing. A little too harsh for me! I think you've got to want to suffer for beauty to wear this stuff.
on 11/14/2006 7:47:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I love this!I purchased this liner based on MUAer meandering's many raves about it on the mu board.Well it's a *perfect* nude,just as she said it was.These glide on without any tugging,have a nice amount of pigmentation,and stay in place without any bleeding or feathering.Exaggerate lipliners are 'automatic',or self-sharpening lipliners,i.e. you never sharpen,you just swivel it whenever the tip wears down and more product comes up.You can't get a better lipliner for the price.Or,for that matter,anywhere!I can't wait to try other colors.
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Tangling with the Tiger
a Lone Pine Pride novel
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Joey Logano will start at Kansas Speedway right where he left off.
There was a nearly five-year period for Dale Earnhardt Jr. when being a famous race car driver wasn't all glitz and glamour.
Kurt Busch's win at Richmond International Raceway would only be considered redemption if anyone had ever questioned his driving ability.
There was a time in NASCAR when skipping a race because of illness or injury was simply not considered. Rather than sit out with swollen eyes, Ricky Rudd used tape to keep them open. Richard Petty ran three races hiding a broken neck from NASCAR officials.
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Joey Logano led flag-to-flag Saturday to win the Xfinity Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Roger Penske has warned his NASCAR team to stay out of any controversy regarding the possible manipulation of tires used during races.
FONTANA, Calif. - Kurt Busch's comeback from his season-opening suspension is gathering speed.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - To the surprise of none, Kevin Harvick won at Phoenix.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Kurt Busch was cleared Wednesday to get back in his race car and attempt to rebuild a career that was halted two days before the Daytona 500 when NASCAR suspended him for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Two races is just too early to form a definitive opinion about NASCAR's new rules package, which was tweaked as part of a concerted effort to improve the racing.
LAS VEGAS - Austin Dillon appeared headed to an easy victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway until four fresh tires helped Ryan Blaney chase him down.
NASCAR did not have its finest weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where the follow-up to the Daytona 500 began with the theft of a race car and a parked SUV rolling into Denny Hamlin's motorhome.
HAMPTON, Ga. - The season just started. The calendar hasn't even turned to spring. Yet Jimmie Johnson has all but wrapped up a shot at his record-tying seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup title.
HAMPTON, Ga. - The No. 44 race car returned to its NASCAR shop in North Carolina on Saturday after it was recovered along a remote road in suburban Atlanta, apparently abandoned by the thieves who stole it from a hotel parking lot.
HAMPTON, Ga. - When Travis Kvapil got the call Friday, he figured someone on his race team was playing a joke.
CHICAGO (AP) - It didn't take Kevin Harvick long to start needling the drivers standing in his way of a second consecutive title.
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The Aptana IDE for Ajax Development
The Debatable:
The use of Eclipse can be a polarizing factor.
The Good:
The syntax highlighting and completion works well across HTML, CSS and JavaScript mixed content.
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Using Aptana breakpoint debugging with Ajax XMLHttpRequest calls is not simple.
Sometimes things become a little slow, even on grunty hardware.
Debug mode sometimes requires that you restart Aptana to recover.
Aptana: www.aptana.com
Aptana Screen Casts: www.aptana.tv
Fedora Eclipse: sources.redhat.com/eclipse
Linux Installation Issues: www.aptana.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=134
Installing Aptana on Linux: www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Installing_Aptana_on_Linux
Mozilla Issue and Aptana: www.aptana.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=169&view=next
Tutorials: www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Aptana_Tutorials
Using the Ajax Monitor View (although there's no information about getting around the permission problem for Aptana Web server sessions): www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Using_the_AJAX_Monitor_View
Interview with Paul Colton, Founder of Aptana: playbacktime.com/2006/08/30/interview-paul-colton-founder-of-aptana-ajax-web20
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There's a new article on developerWorks that features an interview with the main architects/team leads for Workplace Designer. This might be the first inside look at the product since Lotusphere 2005.
It's exciting to see the product come out of development and I think folks will be excited to try it...but, you'll have to wait a few more weeks for that.
Stay tuned!
Chris Reckling
Sr. Product Manager, IBM Workplace Application Development Tools
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InsideLotus - Lotus, Portal and Social Collaborative Software
Check out the interview on IBM Workplace Designer
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Chris' Guide to Lotusphere for Developers - IBM Workplace Edition
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As product manager for all things in IBM Workplace application development, I thought I would provide a handy guide to everyone attending Lotusphere who wants to learn more about the IBM Workplace development options. While not an exhaustive list, I wanted to highlight some of the sessions that would be most interesting to developers. Even if you are mainly interested in Lotus Domino development, you'll find these sessions enlightening. Plus, you'll still have time to attend all the great Domino sessions being offered!
A full list of Lotusphere sessions, dates and times is posted, if you haven't seen it yet.
Chris Reckling
P.S. Don't forget the hands-on lab sessions, too!
Sunday: JMP 109 - In-depth Introduction to the IBM Workplace Client; Speaker: Carl (Pooter) Kraenzel
Start Lotusphere 2005 with this Jumpstart as Pooter takes you on a whirlwind tour of all things IBM Workplace Client. This will be an excellent introduction and prelude to the rest of the conference.
11 AM and 5 PM. AD102 - Introducing...IBM Workplace Designer! Speakers: Martha Hoyt and Maureen Leland. A Must See for All Developers. Guaranteed to make you want to try out IBM Workplace. Who better to do it than the folks who brought you that other famous Designer product.
3:45 PM. AD 304 - WebSphere Portal and Portlet Application Development; Speakers Beverly Dewitt and George Decandio
At some point, you will want to make a portlet. Thankfully, we're making this easier and easier by building in the tools into the IDE.
6:15 PM. BOF207 End the day with a BoF on IBM Workplace Application Development. I've coerced most of the developers who will be at Lotusphere to come and discuss the options with anyone who comes. Tell us what you think so far and how you can envision using all this great stuff.
10 AM. AD402 Overview of the IBM Workplace Contextual Collaboration Architecture; Speakers: Sami Shalabi and Mustansir (Miki) Banatwala
Sami and Miki always have an interesting perspective on things. As you may know, these are the guys who brought you QuickPlace. IBM Workplace goes pretty far beyond that product and this is where you'll find out more about how it all works.
1:30 pm AD305 - WebSphere Portal and Lotus Workplace: Portlet Programming Model and Techniques; Speaker: Stefan Hepper
Hear from one of the portal architects directly in this session. Portlets are an important concept for you to understand as you build IBM Workplace apps.
4:15 PM. AD405 - Introduction to Developing Applications on IBM Workplace Client Technologies; Speakers: Niklaus Heidloff and Srinivas Rao
If you are interested in developing for the IBM Workplace Client, this is the session you want to go to (after the jumpstart, of course). With the 2.5 API Toolkit, we'll also introduce apis for the client platform, and these are the guys who did it.
7 AM. BOF215 Workplace Opportunities for Domino Developers; Speakers: Alex El Homsi and David Hughes (Trilog Group)
It wouldn't be Lotusphere without an early morning BoF to go to! If you want to hear the perspective of a third party, then this is a good place to start to figure it all out and what it means to you, as a Domino developer.
10 AM. ID302 - IBM Workplace Rich Client Platform Architecture; Speakers: Rick Wilson and Bob Balfe.
As developers, we have to understand the architecture of the platform. This session will be a good follow-on to the jumpstart.
10 AM. AD407. The Power of SIP - What Can You Do With It? Speakers: Uri Segev and Amir Perlman.
If you want to find out about the power behind the new SIP server, this is the one for you. Like Sametime bots, the developers who understand SIP, and how to extend it, will be the ones ahead of the game, writing very cool, standards-based applications.
11:15 AM. AD401 - Customization of IBM Workplace Using Workplace Builder Tools; Speakers; Tom Doak and me.
Whenever you build a workplace application you will be using the application template editor in workplace builder. This is also in IBM Workplace Services Express, which I failed to mention in the abstract. In any case, this year we'll show lots of demos with a minimum of conceptual understanding slides.
1:30 PM. AD403 - Introduction to Developing Applications for the IBM Workplace Server
3 PM. AD404 - Using the IBM Workplace Component and Application Infrastructure Services APIs; Speakers: Hardy Groeger and Michael Herzberg
2 developers give you a look at how to use the new 2.5 API Toolkit to build components or access the workplace services. This is the session you've been looking for. AD403 is the introduction and overview of all the api's in the toolkits, while AD404 goes into some detail around actually building something.
1:30 PM. AD501 - Introduction to J2EE Application Development Using Rational Application Developer (formerly Webphere Studio); Speakers Beverly Dewitt and George Decandio.
Uh oh, we have a conflict...so, you'll have to chooose. I'd say if you are ready to start with Java, JSP, JSF, and Rational App Developer soon, then this session is a must. All of our tools and api toolkits will work seamlessly with this toolset, so it's important for you to know what capabilities it provides. If you haven't had the introduction to the api toolkit and are trying to figure out its capabilities, then I'd go to that one instead.
10 AM. AD307 - A "Portal Makeover": Advanced Theme Development; Speaker: Angela Self.
If you need to change the look and feel of your portal or workplace (and who doesn't?), then you need to attend this session.
11:15 AM. AD406 - Leveraging Your Lotus Domino Data in Lotus Workplace / Workplace Client Technology; Speakers: Jeff Eisen and Mike O'Brien.
Notes gurus show you the way to a blended experience of Notes + IBM Workplace Client. Cool![Read More]
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CNet Article on Social Networking Efforts
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Lotus GM, Mike Rhodin, recently spoke with c/Net News about our social networking efforts. No specific dates or product plans were mentioned. Some of those tools coming from IBM Community Tools have made their way into Sametime 7.5 and some are coming in future releases. I can't really distinguish between what's been discussed publicly and what hasn't been, so I'll just leave it at that. There were some demos at Lotusphere last year, however, in this realm, like the polling feature (instant poll).
While there are add-on's to Sametime being written both for IBM internal use (like our directory lookup plugin for Bluepages) and external product plans, there are other projects, more in the Web 2.0 style, like Dogear, for social bookmarking, and Activities, for managing ad hoc collaborative tasks. (In fact, I "dogeared" this article. :) )
The guiding idea behind the effort is to help people tap into thecollective knowledge of their co-workers, in much the way consumersocial networking sites like MySpace and Facebook connect people online.
Where have we hear that before? Well, the article takes the question head-on, which is good. The question is
"The reason knowledge management failed is quite simple: Knowledgeinherently resides in minds. Putting it into a system that can bemanaged is inherently flawed," he (Rhodin) said.
"Traditional content management and collaboration applications usuallyfocus on the creation of a document or presentation, Rhodin said,whereas many technologies and practices associated withsocial-networking sites focus on people and connections between people."
I think both styles of collaboration will co-exist and actually intersect at appropriate places in the UI. That's why we are building simple interfaces into these services.
What do you think? Do you use social networking software now? In your organization? or consumer sites? Can you see this taking off in your organization? What are the barriers, if any?
IBM Warms to Social Networking
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User Experience Design Manager
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Collaboration without boundaries
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Throughout that last 2 or 3 years, you have probably seen a shift in focus on user experience and simplification from the Lotus portfolio of products. I think it first started with the 6.5.1 product releases. This is when Lotus aligned many of the products in the portfolio and provided seamless integration between the products. I was fortunate enough to work on an IBM Redbook about installing, configuring, and integrating Release 6.5.1 of IBM Lotus Domino and the Extended Products. They are no longer extended products, but instead enterprise ready software solutions that fits into our Lotus product strategy. This brings me to the point of this blog which is tight integration between Lotus products. Click on the image below to hear from the Lotus VP of Development and view a live demo from our Lotus Executive Evangelist.
By the way, Happy belated Birthday to developerWorks.
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Component Designer - Easy AJAX Type Ahead
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In the tradition of the Designer family of products, we made it extremely simple to add AJAX type-ahead to an input edit control. Simply check the box, and tell us what the choices should be and you're done. For more dynamic lists, compute the values on the fly - for instance, do a view lookup and show column values for the choices. Or, point to an external URL that contains the list.
Pretty cool - why bother coding it yourself when we've done all the heavy lifting!
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Cool Tool - Teamstudio Script Browser
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The folks over at Teamstudio are at it again. This time with a free utility to help you with your LotusScript coding efforts, called Teamstudio Script Browser. It lets you browse ALL of your script in the database all at once, find out where code is referenced by other code, and browse to it in Domino Designer.
I'm sure the Domino developer community will be quite grateful for this useful tool. (And be sure to check out their other Domino development tools, which have always been first class!)
Chris Reckling
Sr. Product Manager, IBM Workplace Application Development
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Cool Web Site
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Warning, this could be addictive! I've been checking out some interesting web design sites and studios lately because I have a new, expanded role in Lotus as the manager (with Charlie Hill as creative director, essentially) of the Massachusetts Design Studio (but we're thinking of a better name to reflect our mission). (We also have a sister/brother organization in Raleigh, aka NC Design Studio, but that's for another post some other time.)
(we've moved - new Inside Lotus blog)
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Couple of Workplace Designer pieces coming out soon
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We're working on a few things around here related to Workplace Designer.
1. I wrote an article for The View...24 pages worth! You have to be a subscriber to read it, or it should be in your mailboxes already. I love doing these articles because they have such good editors over there.
2. A redpaper is almost done and I should be seeing a draft tomorrow. The team built a great component and really took the tool through its paces. Thanks to John Bergland, Redbook project leader, and the team: Adam Egressy from Ad Hoc Systems; Nick Orrick from IBM Austin; and Marc Weinzetl from IBM Deutschland. You'll be able to download the code with the paper when it's posted.
3. Samples, samples, samples. We are busy writing sample components, doing code reviews, and soon we'll start posting them to developerWorks.
(There's also a Domino app dev Redpiece in progress that started this week. More on that later...)
Chris Reckling
Sr. Product Manager - Workplace Tools[Read More]
Creating a portal for IP-TV using WebSphere Portal
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In the April/May edition of the IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal, there is an interesting article about WebSphere Portal & TV. The article is authored by two IBMers from the European Business Solution Center. The Internet Protocol Televison (IP-TV) uses a broadband connection to deliver digital television services. I spend about three hours of my day inside customer Portals and IBM own intranet and extranet Portals. Ironicly, I spend about another three hours watching TV. While creating IP-TV may not be practical for internal deployment or easily configurable without additional HW/SW, it is possible with WebSphere Portal and solutions are rapidly growing in EMEA and APAC.
The Article includes an IP-TV Portal demo and dives into how WebSphere Portal in an IP-TV environment can be used to create a "home dashboard" portal for communication and entertainment on a TV set.
Ted Stanton
IBM Premium Service Manager/IT Specialist
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CRM integration with Lotus Connections
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One of the many competitive advantages that Lotus Connections has over other vendors is our relationships with a wide variety of partners and our commitment to build first class solutions. We've already made some great announcements around integration with Microsoft Office, RIM, SocialText, Confluence, NewsGator and more. While many of the niche social software vendors concentrate all of their development effort on a browser UI, many of them aren't able to take a step back to and understand a browser interface only is limiting. The truth is, I have never met a company where every employee was able to access all their applications from a browser only. There are some division's with-in organizations that can succeed with just a shared computer and browser.
Your probably asking where am I going with this. I can't stress enough the importance of integrating Connections with existing applications in your enterprise. Today IBM and iEnterprises announced the integration of iEnterprises' customer relationship management (CRM) software, iExtensions CRM, with Lotus Connections.
Just one place you can read all about it.
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Cultural Sensitivity in Technology
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The 'Coltrane' release of Lotus Freelance Graphics, the 1998 version bundled with Lotus SmartSuite, was famously held up for a month when it was found out that one of the clip art images had a tiny 20 pixel image of Taiwanese currency (rather than mainland Chinese currency). Or was it the other way round? An eagle-eyed QA engineer had discerned the offending image. Needless to say, this was something that would cause offense and/or affect purchasing decisions in the involved markets.
I was a little canary in that Freelance mineshaft (or was it a minefield?) when a couple of months earlier in the project I had discovered a seriously outdated map of Africa when integrating new clip art into the product. I wrote one of the sprs of which I am most proud titled something like: "Upper Volta should be Burkina Faso". The spr also made a brief mention of the fact that as far as I could tell there were similar problems in our maps with the names of the states from the former Soviet Republic which had changed earlier in the decade. I believe that my spr was deferred to a later release; it was too late in the product cycle and we'd have had to go back to the company we licensed the art from and so forth. As it turned out however, with the advent of China/Taiwan flag issue, the entire suite was delayed as the test team had to painstakingly go over all the clip art and other areas of the product vetting for similar outrages that could endanger sales.
Incidentally the acronym, spr, stands for "Software Problem Report" in Lotus's parlance. After a decade of indoctrination, I still tend to use spr rather than the more clinical, "defect", which is the favoured term at IBM, or bug which is the more widely-used term generally. You can still tell whether someone has the 'old Lotus' DNA rather than the 'new Lotus/IBM' variety by the terminology they reflexively use. For a dissection of recent linguistic trends in technology see this earlier post.
As a further aside, the Lotus spr database is actually one of the most successful and useful applications of Notes technology ever and in a similar manner, the Bugzilla project is actually one of the best things to have sprung out of the Mozilla effort. Certainly it was more useful than the Gecko suite until the M7 milestone was reached years ago. There must be some kind of software law at work here, something analogous to Zawinski's Law on software expanding until it can support email (and now feed technology) and so I'll coin it as Koranteng's First Law of Software Systems:
A software platform reaches its tipping point once it can serve as a bug reporting system.Intuitively this makes sense, once developers can view, file and retrieve bug reports using their own products, they will be more likely to use them and their confidence in their mission will improve dramatically.
Back to my topic though... I'm sure that the artists who created the clip art in that design firm had no subversive intent; they probably used outdated stock art as their source material. Still sometimes you wonder at these things and, in this vein, I'm reminded of the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author, Jose Saramago's wonderful novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, in which a copy editor proof-reading a historical novel defiantly changes a crucial word in the text changing the outcome of a famous historical battle from a miserable defeat to victory. A masterful alternate history of Portugal then develops and its culture is fully reimagined. I'm sure that bored developers sometimes slip similar things into their products, and not just serendipitous Easter Eggs.
More seriously though, the Freelance incident (or similar incidents relating to any new release of dictionaries or thesauruses from Microsoft) go beyond the cultural sensitivity of which this post is concerned into the rarefied realm of political sensitivity. The same thing goes when choosing product names: you don't want mere mention of your product to cause snickering or offense. A misconceived name or culturally-insensitive feature can be a black eye that will chasten even the most high-flying company. More worrying is that this can translate to a serious financial impact (well beyond a month's lost revenue for the suite) if proper attention isn't paid.
Internationalization however is a mostly thankless, and oft-neglected task even as I've outlined its importance. From a developers standpoint, you first think about it mostly in terms of dealing with resource bundles and having to put all your resource strings into seperate files for different languages. This is a pain because you probably started with a little prototype of a user interface and now you're being asked to find all those hard-coded strings and to "do the right thing". Plus it typically becomes an issue only late in the game when the real interesting work is over and you're ready to think about the next big thing. Instead, you're grudgingly forced to worry about handling different writing systems, dealing with bi-directional text, or that old favorite: the various "special characters" in the wide variety of programming languages, file formats, protocols or operating systems in your software. Those best at this task are akin to forensic investigators and must possess considerable patience and attention to detail.
If, for example, your software mangles names with accents, you'd have real trouble selling in France. Similarly with ampersands and apostrophes - which have significance in SGML and its derivatives (HTML, XML etc). And don't get me started about wider character sets and encoding issues... As an ironic case in point, while developing Lotus K-station, one of our best business partners was somewhat stymied in his development and extraordinary evangelism of our product because, in its earliest release, it couldn't handle the ampersand in his company's name. Luckily for us, he temporarily renamed his organization in his LDAP directory; Sun & Son became Sun and Son until we worked out the quirks. To this day, I always make sure to test whatever product I work on with that organization name. It's surprising though, how often this kind of problem recurs.
In this internet era, most technology, and certainly all software development, has to have global concerns in mind. It is said that the sun doesn't set on an IBM project and I work with a very diverse set of colleagues the world over. Presumably the benefit of such a widely dispersed and diverse workforce should be to mitigate the likelihood of issues in this area. As my current project has been going through translation and localization testing of late, I've been thinking a lot about how we handle internationalization.
The old Lotus process was a more decentralized one, each product group had an internationalization team seconded to it. Members of such teams were domain experts and knew the product inside-out in addition to being localization gurus. This had many benefits, the team was involved from the very beginning in the product development cycle and could give crucial design feedback very early and iteratively. Your first prototype was immediately critiqued from their standpoint. The obvious downside of decentralization was the lack of uniform standards - chaos that our translation teams couldn't bear. Some products were very easy to localize, others were, to put it politely, far less so.
As we transitioned to the more centralized IBM globalization process, we got the benefits of uniform standards and greater resources. More languages could be supported in the initial release and you could at least point developers to documentation about the processes to follow instead of ad-hoc stumbling about. Still this was at the expense of the loss of domain expertise, sensitivity and a much slower feeback loop. Some of the test teams would be barely getting up to speed with the product by the end of the testing phase. Localization concerns would sometimes surface too late in the game and would cause much unnecessary reworking and product delays. These things are tweaked, as all processes are, and in recent years, I've seen a push towards re-enabling more domain expertise in the internationalization teams which has been very useful for our product development.
I'll lay out a brief example then, that I think is illustrative of the kinds of things we're dealing with here I hope it can tease out the technical, design and business issues that can arise...
I embarked over the past couple of weekends on a mass digitization project and scanned, retouched and uploaded 2000 or so old photos from shoeboxes under my bed. The technology involved in this exercise was scanner hardware and image aquisition software, the bundled Adobe Photoshop Elements for color adjustment and red-eye correction and a couple of online photo-sharing services: Yahoo Photos and Flickr (I started the day Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr was announced).
The first thing I very quickly noticed: somehow all the photos that I uploaded to Yahoo Photos turned out darker than on Flickr (the services both resize uploaded photos). The photo-resizing algorithm used by Yahoo Photos was giving worse results. This was noticeable to me because a large number of photos featured darker-skinned people such as myself. The originals were fine and where there were lighter skin tones everything looked good, but with darker skintones, the resized photos were not so good. This meant that if I didn't believe in the virtues of Save Lots of Copies Everywhere (SLOCE), I would have leant towards Flickr and stopped using Yahoo Photos.
Secondly, I don't have Flash installed on my Mozilla browsers and so my experience of the Flickr website was very different from that of my family and friends who started looking at the photos with Flash on Internet Explorer. There were immediate complaints about the first bunch of photos. It turns out that images that are rendered in the Flash plugin have a slightly darker tinge than the images rendered directly by the browser itself. This is not normally noticeable but again this exacerbates contrast issues when darker skintones are in evidence as in this case. This was made worse when users tried the slideshow feature because the background of a Flickr screenshow (also implemented in Flash) is black worsening the contrast further.
Thirdly, when retouching photos, the Quick Fix or Auto Correct options in Photoshop seemed tailored for lighter skintones so I was constantly having to do manual tweaking of my photos. Now this is not a big deal for a few photos and indeed it's fun to fiddle with photos but after a couple of hundred images, it gets tiresome. I found mysef longing for "smarter" recognition by the software or for at least, a nice 'dark skin' option that I could set in a preferences dialog. In short I started considering using different software instead of Adobe's.
Now I mention these nitpicks on otherwise excellent and useful products because of the design issues they raise. Technology is simply a tool in aid of people and as human beings we live in different society and cultures. We find that different cultures adapt technologies in different ways to suit local preoccupations and concerns. And I certainly had my own localized concerns these past weeks.
Even when the technical 'fixes' are easy there are design issues and economic tradoffs that also arise. True, Macromedia could implement better JPEG rendering in Flash but that comes at a certain expense - a good renderer is a hard thing to write (even if they could license the photo-rendering from the Mozilla folks). Also what they have appears to be good enough for most people (except me obviously). When do you decide that your product is good enough and stop pandering to the Long Tail? Can you afford to do that? Or are you missing out on a vast market opportunity?
Yahoo Photos could certainly implement a better photo-resizing algorithm although presumably there's a performance penalty to be paid if you use a more color-accurate algorithm (or perhaps a larger resultant image size). At the kind of intenet scale that the Yahoo service operates on with tens of millions of users and photos, this could potentially seriously affect the scalability of their platform. Conversely, if all Yahoo users switched en-masse to Flickr which uses the more expensive algorithms, would that platform be able to handle it? Or would it generate a case of teething problems and turn users off because of poor response times?
Similarly Photoshop could implement a slight variant of their various Quick Fix and AutoCorrect features that were more attuned to my kind of skin colour (indeed I assume that photographers in Africa have written macros or filters that do such a thing). How best though, to phrase a global preference in an options dialog in Photoshop? "Adjust for darker skintones"? Documentation writers would have a field day finding the right verbiage for such an option. Also what about usability? If you add all these preferences to your product what will your user interface look like? Try typing about:config in a Mozilla browser to get a sense of the kind of complexity that modern software developers have to cope with.
If there was a huge market for these products and services in Africa the issues I faced could be a real problem for the companies in question (although this is unlikely given the low internet penetration rates and the likely widespread software piracy). There would be demand not just for local language versions (say a Swahili language version in Kenya) but also for tweaks that would make these services more closely attuned to the prevailing culture and, in this case, ethnic backgrounds. Thus photographers in Africa over the past 150 years have had to deal with brighter sunshine, higher contrast as well as darker skintones when processing their photos as photography has gone through its various evolutions and has now moved into the digital realm. The people who install photo laboratory hardware in Ghana where I come from, always have to recalibrate their equipment to deal with the kind of skin tones that are present in the local market. The factory defaults simply won't do. I've had better results developing film in Ghana than in the US because I often forget to tell the labs here that they should "watch for skintones". I'd expect then that software that were truly local (and all web software should be local or adjustable to fit local concerns) might sometimes need not just run-of-the-mill language changes or even writing system changes but also, as seems needed here, algorithmic adaptations.
As software designers, we try to engineer simplicity and refrain from overwhelming users in their interaction with our services and products. Software is not the user's main focus, it's rather its use that is most important for the user, for the business and for society as a whole. Yet there very real concerns in the application of technology in different cultures. So the next time you see a vaguely-worded so-called "Turkish option" somewhere in your application's configuration dialogs, know that someone somewhere was likely adapting their product for a local market. Join me though in saluting the developers, testers, product managers and designers who collectively worked together to come to that solution. I'd hazard that the tweaking of the product was to fix a deal-breaker in some market.
Finally, for what it's worth, I find endlessly fascinating this notion that cultural sensitivity in technology sometimes necessitates algorithmic adaptation. Maybe though, iterative adaptation in response to local environments - evolution in short, is the name of the game. Perhaps that's simply the way things should be.
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah
Workplace Forms Development, Lotus Software[Read More]
Day 1 - Lotusphere (really Day 3 for me)
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I came down to Orlando on Thursday night to help prepare for the Opening General Session (OGS). You wouldn't believe how much work goes into this 2 hour presentation. Most of us were up until 1 or 2 a.m. working on stuff - scripts and demos, which started out too long and had to be trimmed to their essence (but still very good). Then back at it at 8 a.m. I hear that it was nice outside. :(
I went to the House of Blues for dinner with the Activities team and a few others. (Good ribs.) Then, a stop by ESPN to meet and greet with Turtle, Gary, Colleen, Carl, Bonnie, the Bob, and probably a few others I can't remember.
On Sunday, the Jumpstarts began. I hear that the 8 a.m. Workplace Designer jumpstart was over-flowing. The WP Designer Doc API session by Philippe Riand had a good crowd, too. The second Designer intro jumpstart was also well attended in a bigger room. We already gave away 400 of the Document API posters.
(The Domino Object Model posters will be in the the product showcase on a table kind of toward the back. Remember - there are 2 of them.)
The party begins soon, and I hope I can go for a little bit. Maureen Leland and I start the first session at 11 a.m. on the main stage, so they better be done with the OGS by then. :)
We're off to a good start!
Chris Reckling
Sr. Product Manager, IBM Workplace App Dev[Read More]
Default Calendar Color Tip
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If you've installed Notes 8 and played around with it, you've noticed a few design changes (one or two). In the calendar, we thought it would be useful to give you good default colors so that the calendar would look like it was professionally designed, instead of letting our color-challenged users pick them. Problem is that if you installed over an existing Notes mail file, the calendar will use your existing color choices. The tell-tale sign is black text for entries, which to me looks a bit harsh because we are using a bold font for the titles. If you want to try the new colors, do the following:
1. In the Action Bar of the mail file, choose More...Preferences...
2. Choose the Calendar & To Do tab.
3. Choose the Colors tab.
4. Click the Restore Default Colors button (see picture below)
5. Click OK.
Manager, Product Design
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DEMO: IBM Workplace for Customer Support!
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Sean Nicholas Savages drops a new video awaiting the release of his new album 'Other Death' on September 18th! Find yourself a chill-out spot, some decking, and watch the video for 'Propaganda' here.
Health released their new album, titled 'Death Magic'! Watch the video they've made for the second single 'Stonefist'! On the 9th of October they are playing at Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, as part of their Death Magic tour! It promises to be a blast as always!
Today Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm release a surprise collaborative 7", called "Life Story Love and Glory"! The two track release will be released via Erased Tapes Records. There's also a website dedicated to the partnership! Check it out here.
Today Pukkelpop kicks off! Completely sold-out! With the addition of 'Baraque Futur' for their 30th anniversary they have 9 stages filled with some very fine bands! We can't wait to see Father John Misty, Goat, Raketkanon, ZinGeR, A/T/O/S & BRUTUS!
Great Lake Swimmers dropped a new music video! Watch 'I Must Have Someone Else's Blues', taken from their latest album 'A Forest of Arms'. They have an European tour coming up in September/October! All info on their artist page!


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- Cavalcade of Bands set for Halloween
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- Lowe's, Aaron's Acres team to upgrade Manheim park
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Second-half outburst lifts Warwick in DistrictsField Hockey
By: BRUCE MORGAN Record Express Sports Editor email@example.com, Staff Writer
At halftime on Tuesday, Warwick field hockey coach Bob Derr challenged his players to dominate the second half.
Apparently, they listened with open ears.
While building a big advantage in both shots (13-6) and penalty corners (10-3), the 3rd-seeded Lady Warriors erupted to score four goals after the break en route to a 5-0 shellacking of 14th-seeded Governor Mifflin in a District Three Triple-A first-round playoff game at Penn Manor.
The win sends Warwick (18-3) to the District quarter-finals for the first time since 2008. The Lady Warriors, who suffered back-to-back first-round losses the past two years, will face 6th-seeded Red Lion (18-2), a 3-1 winner over Conestoga Valley, at Governor Mifflin High School at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Coming off the emotional high of winning the League crown last Thursday, combined with a sub-par practice on Monday and the distraction of that night's Lititz Halloween parade, Derr had his concerns about facing the Governor Mifflin (14-7).
And although Warwick (18-3) led 1-0 at the half on Emma Rissinger's tally with 10:15 elapsed, on assists from Marissa Lutz and Liz Wenger, they weren't on top of their game.
"I was really concerned about (those factors) coming in and then watching that first half, I mean, that was scary," Derr said. "The ball was going up and down the field very fast and we weren't controlling any kind of offense… At halftime, we pretty much said, 'Hey, this is your season. You're only up 1-0. They can tie that up pretty quick. What you need to do is discourage them and score early and score often in the second half.'"
Score early and often they did. Warwick got four corners in the first two minutes of the half and Wenger converted with 2:36 gone on assists from Emily Harting and Rissinger.
Just over seven minutes later, Bethany Han controlled the ball along the end line and sent a perfect cross to Kiersten Cepeda, who finished to make it 3-0 with 20:09 left.
"In the second half, they turned it on and looked much better than they did the first half," Derr said. "It was nice to see multiple kids scoring. I think what we were doing was turning the ball over and not making good decisions with the ball in the first half. We did a better of connecting passes in the second half and getting the passes to a person in a white jersey and that made a big difference."
For the game, the WHS girls outshot Mifflin 20-11, and Martin's tally, on a nice feed from Wenger, made it 4-0 with 15:11 to go. Five different girls found the back of the cage for Warwick and Wenger finished with three points on a goal and two assists.
The Lady Warriors completed the scoring with 11:29 left as Harting connected top shelf on a stroke. From there, senior keeper Alexis Charles made two of her 11 stops in the final 2:30 to preserve the shutout.
With that victory behind them, they turned their attention toward this Saturday's key battle against Red Lion. A win in that game will nail down a PIAA State berth.
"We're guaranteed two more games, but the key game is Saturday," Derr said. "I want to try to impress upon them that Saturday is huge. You've got to win Saturday to move on." More DISTRICTS, page B-5
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The Apps Store has been hit by a malware infestation for the first time thanks to a counterfeit version of Xcode.
New data shows how the GCHQ and NSA have been targeting anti-virus companies for years, looking for deliberate targets to exploit. Worse, apparently sending malware for analysis is grounds to be flagged as a suspicious person.
Popular VPN browser extension Hola has a feature users might not know about. Not only does it sell your bandwidth to third parties, that bandwidth can be hijacked and used to attack others.
A new report from security firm Incapsula indicates malware authors have found a way to exploit tens of thousands of routers loaded with the same flawed firmware — and there's some indication that Anonymous is pulling at least a few of the strings.
A new proof-of-concept rootkit has demonstrated just how dangerous GPU exploitation can be. Our threat-detection tools are woefully inadequate.
A new malware, Rombertik, is making headlines for its hostile response to investigation techniques. When it detects an attempt, it attacks the master boot record of the local hard drive.
It's still on you to be aware of threats to stay safe, but Android is by its very nature more secure than a desktop computer. Still, you've probably already got what you need.
The Internet is a little safer today, thanks to the release of decryption keys for CoinVault ransomware.
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Messiah of the Jews, an Easter Sai Baba Leela for Japanese devotees?
Today is Good Friday, April 22, 2011, celebrated as the anniversary of the death of the body of Lord Jesus Christ where Sai Baba says it is He to whom Jesus referred when He said He would return.
This Sunday is the Easter anniversary celebrated of Lord Jesus' resurrection from the dead after three days in the tomb about 2000 years ago.
Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Love, and Nonviolence – The Five Fundamental Human Values espoused by Bhagawan Swami Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the real Avatar of Our Age.
Let us all of the human family live these values in respect of Baba's love for all and service to all.
While the earthquake and tsunami destroyed Fukushima DaiChi nuclear reactors in Japan continue seeming out of control emitting radiation elements blowing around the world indicating nuclear fission is taking place, slowed atomic bomb activity, is it any wonder that Sai Baba's illness coincides with this emergency where one familiar with Him would expect He is "gone" from His body attending to his devotees in Japan and around the world as urgently as "humanly possible"?
Many Buddhists regard Him as Sai Buddha come in this age to set humanity on the path of The One Truth with faith in The One Law, the wonderful dharma of love.
Shakyamuni called Buddha the revered One of ancient India about 2500 years ago died at the age of 82 when his time came, after delivering his final lecture and simply lying down and consciously leaving his body behind.
What will happen this Easter on the eve of the last 9 years of Sathya Sai's declared lifetime when He has said He will become recognized by the Moslems as their prophesied Al Mehdi and King of The World?
radio discussion and transcript explaining medical situation and past "illnesses" Baba has taken on to heal devotees of love
http://www.saibabaofindia.com/5-update-on-Swamis-health-by-Prof-G-Venkataraman.htm April 7
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Message from the world Sathya Sai Organization head, Dr. Goldstein who recognizes Sathya Sai Baba as the Messiah of the Jews
April 8th Buddha's birthday
Dr. Michael Goldstein is the Chairman, Sri Sathya Sai World Foundation, as well as the Chairman, Prashanthi Council – the international body that oversees the activities of Sri Sathya Sai Organisations worldwide.
This is the transcript of the message Dr. Goldstein recorded in the studio of Radio Sai for the benefit of all listeners on April 8, 2011:
With humility and love I offer my pranams at the Divine Lotus Feet of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Sai Ram to all of you!
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is currently an intensive care patient at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, the hospital that He built for the poor who receive treatment there free of charge. He has cardiac and pulmonary problems. His condition is stable. There has been improvement, but He is still seriously ill. Medical reports of His condition are being given on a regular basis by the eminent Director of this Hospital (Sri Sathya Sai Institute for Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram), Dr. A. N. Safaya, formerly the Medical Superintendent of the All India Institute for Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Medical updates can be obtained at the following internet page: srisathyasaihealth.wordpress.c om
Bhagawan Baba, our Beloved Swami as we refer to Him, is, and always has been, in control of the human life that He has assumed. He is, and has always been, in control of His own destiny in this life that He Himself ordained to take place for the benefit of mankind. We, who are devoted to Him, pray that He will decide to recover and remain amongst us. We pray that He will continue to teach us, inspire us, bless us, and love us as the Divine Mother and Father that He is and has always been. We pray that He will enable all of mankind to accomplish the inevitable spiritual journey that awaits each and every one of us, the journey towards enlightenment and self realization.
Dr. Goldstein in the Radio Sai studio
This last November, the President and Prime Minister of India visited Bhagawan Baba on the occasion of His 85th Birthday. They acknowledged and paid homage to the monumental and unprecedented humanitarian accomplishments and services rendered by Baba over many decades.
Free schools, primary through University level, providing high quality worldly education and unprecedented spiritual education, incorporating the universal human values: Right conduct, Truth, Peace, Love, and Non-violence, into the curriculum at all levels.
Who has ever done such a thing?
Free medical services in mobile hospitals, general hospitals, and super-specialty hospitals where the poor are treated for ordinary maladies as well as complicated medical diagnostic evaluations, treatments, and surgery. All free of charge.
Who has ever done such a thing?
Conceiving and building a system of reservoirs, overhead tanks, wells, and thousands of miles of pipes conducting pure water to millions of poor people at no cost to the people or the government.
Who has ever done such a thing?
Most noteworthy and awe inspiring, is the following of kindred hearts, the procession of human goodness and selfless love, the good people who have joined together to follow Him. They imbibe His Divine Teachings and emulate the noble examples that He has demonstrated. Over the years, people from many countries, who had a dream, or a feeling, or a thought, or heard a voice, or read a book, were all suddenly inspired to act and become His devotees. There was no solicitation, advertisement, or campaign. There was no telephone call or written invitation. They received the message promulgated by the Divine One, our Beloved Baba, heart to heart. There are hundreds of thousands of devotees all over the world, perhaps millions of good hearted people, finding the light of His love deep in their own hearts, transforming their lives into beacons of virtue.
Who has ever done such a thing?
Now, He, who has been the veritable source of goodness and godliness, who has taught and sacrificed for the people, who has taken upon Himself a serious illness, is being falsely maligned in some quarters. Onerous prefabrications are promulgated. A litany of old, scandalous accusations, proven false repeatedly over the years, is being published irresponsibly. Multitudes of tender hearts suffer as a result of this callousness.
"Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do!"
I am hopeful that noble minded journalists will seek, find, and write about the "greatest story ever told". They will seek the truth and humanity will be served. They will find the truth in the lessons taught by our Beloved Baba to mankind through His Words and His Works over many decades. They will find lessons for the spiritual redemption of mankind.
Let us pray that Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba will decide to remain with us for the salvation of all. As He has taught, and may we all experience, that everyone of us are children of God. We are all essentially divine. Let each of us turn inwardly, find the light of selfless love - the light that enlightens. May each of us ultimately become the noble beings that we truly are and behave accordingly.
Let us all pray that Swami will hasten His recovery and move amongst us once again.
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The eldest son of James I and Anne of Denmark, Henry was reputed to be an ideal warrior prince: athletic, brave, noble, clever, cultured and ardently Protestant. He became the focus for courtiers who advocated a more militant foreign policy, and for those who sought to make London a great cultural centre in Europe. Henry assembled an important collection of paintings, sculpture and books; and patronised artists, architects, writers and musicians. He was actively engaged with the development of the navy, exploration and foreign politics. His sudden death in 1612, probably from typhoid fever, at the age of eighteen, was a devastating blow to the hopes of many at home and abroad.
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If you want to fathom the Japanese military mind when the Allies asked for Japan's surrender in July/August of 1945, I urge you to attend the film "Japan's Longest Day," on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Pajarito Room of Fuller Lodge.
This documentary, a Japanese production with famous Japanese actors, explains why the emperor wanted to stop the war after Hiroshima was bombed.
Army General Korechika Anami wanted to continue the war, even after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The emperor needed, and achieved, unanimous support for surrender from his war council and cabinet.
Even after this remarkable turnabout, the emperor's surrender broadcast almost did not happen when the Commander of the Imperial Palace Guard was killed by Army officers during Japan's Longest Day.
Persons wishing to understand how the atomic weapons shocked Japan into surrender will learn much from this film, shown under the Los Alamos Historical Society film series.
In Japan, a newly filmed version of this story was released this weekend.
Nancy Bartlit
Los Alamos
Thanks to community for Nepal fundraiser
On behalf of whole team that organized the fundraiser musical program who helped the victims of the Nepal earthquake, I would like to thank Los Alamos community for their enthusiasm, presence in large numbers.
Thanks to all singers and dance groups for their superb show. Thanks to the Los Alamos Monitor, LA Daily Post and LA Postdoc association for their publicity. Thanks to Trinity on the Hill Episcopal church for giving Kelly Hall for free. Thanks to each one of you for your generous support and in one hour, we had collected a $2,217 fund. For those who haven't donated, look for these people and give your contribution personally.
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Branding needs
success measurements
I found Councilor Kristin Henderson's recent column on branding very much unconvincing, largely because (a) no objectives were explicitly stated for "branding" and (b) no measures of success were proffered.
Henderson lists several "successful" branding stories, but frankly I had never heard of any of them. The fact that I never heard of such isn't terribly important, but what is important is that no measure of just how such efforts were judged successful was offered.
Without such, there is simply no way to evaluate her statements.
Let's assume for the moment that the examples Henderson listed are in fact, somehow, successes. Many communities have attempted to brand themselves. How many such efforts have failed?
Listing only successes seems to me rather like asking a gambler how he or she is doing. Such folks almost always recall their wins, but somehow forget to mention their losses, which are more often than not larger than their wins.
Surely many recall the monies spent by the City of Albuquerque under the Martin Chavez regime, where much effort (and funds) was spent to brand the city as "Q." The "Q" effort failed miserably and has been utterly abandoned.
Unclear on column health care view
Merilee Dannemann makes a number of good points in her column on health care, especially that much risk seems to have been transferred to medical practices, but:
1. While there are always bad apples, my personal experience convinces me that a significant majority of doctors seek to avoid errors and unnecessary procedures because that is good medical care. They do not need a changed incentive of saving money. To suggest otherwise is an uncalled-for insult.
2. The column is unclear about costs: Average cost per 'patient' is about $6,000, while average premium is about $1,500. However, the latter is per subscriber. As long as there are more than four subscribers for every patient, the scheme pays for itself and even provides a profit for the insurer. Does she mean to say that every subscriber is also a patient? Most people are healthy most of the time.
Terry Goldman
Los Alamos
Controlled by the council?
Around the world, we are fighting an enemy that kills people who disagree with them — sometimes by beheading. They mutilate young girls under the guise of "female circumcision."
Dr. Gary Welton has clearly demonstrated that he has indeed set a very low bar for his children to exceed him. His complete failure to understand statistics is displayed by referring to no less than three differences of less than one standard deviation as if they were statistically significant.
That all three have the same sign may indicate something, but not much.
Do we need to have such incompetence presented in the local paper of 'science city?'
Terry Goldman
Los Alamos
Braving the storm for Crab Fest
Forcing not an effective tactic
Much as I respect Rebecca Shankland, climate change has not yet come close to making Los Alamos water-front property, so I sincerely doubt there is much danger of our plastic bags invading any ocean.
As with most things, there are pros and cons to forcing, as opposed to the generally more effective social encouragement, (cf. use of cigarettes) of beneficial behaviors. However, knee-jerk references to irrelevancies have little if any positive effect.
Terry Goldman
Los Alamos
Middle East needs equilibrium
Due to indecision by the Obama White House to support moderate Sunni rebels in Syria, Islamic terrorists in Syria (ISIS) were able to reposition forces and attack the Iraqi Army, which folded and abandoned its U.S. equipment, including many Humvees and 155mm guns.
The Iraqi government requested air strikes against ISIS, but President Barack Obama ignored the request, referring to ISIS as the "JV Team."
The result was ISIS captured our military equipment, and established territory from which they can launch terrorist attacks.
We belatedly decided to send advisers to assist the Iraqi army, and we launched air strikes against ISIS.
Cloth bags are worth the effort
I'm a bit puzzled about the sense of outrage expressed by people who'd like to keep the convenience of having "free" (Smith's does pay for them) single-use (I know, lots of people re-use them, which is great) plastic bags.
In 2008-2009 a group of kids in grades 4-6 (the Kinnikinnick Club) wanted to do something for the world. They researched small actions that could have a large effect and decided to ask Smith's to encourage the use of cloth bags instead of paper or plastic.
They gave a nice presentation to the Smith's employees and Smith's put up the signs you see now that say, "Did you forget your cloth bags?" Smith's also gave a 5-cent credit (later a green points credit) to those using cloth bags.
Did those kids (and Smith's) make a difference? On March 9, 2009, the manager sent a letter telling the kids that Smith's stores in Los Alamos and White Rock were under budget by 865,170 bags and added that that equated to "432 cases less in plastic bags making it to our land fill." Furthermore, Smith's then introduced this program "throughout the entire Kroger Company."
Solar energy shines for all New Mexicans
You might wonder who is benefitting from solar PV being installed on homes, businesses, schools and cities in New Mexico? Is it wealthy individuals with lots of spare cash or average New Mexicans?
Recent studies show that working class New Mexicans benefit in two significant ways — job creation and reduced energy costs.
Consider that the solar industry added jobs nearly 20 times faster than the national average in 2014.
Right now, 1,600 New Mexicans make their living in the solar industry. By contrast, the state's largest utility, PNM, employs 2,100 people. Employment in the solar field has increased 86 percent in the past five years.
The solar boom in New Mexico is creating good jobs for working class Americans during the worst economic downturn in modern times.
These are livable wages. Solar installers make an average of $20 to $24 per hour, solar project managers make $50,000-$70,000 and designers $40,000-$70,000.
Along with these positions, there are also warehouse people, sales people, marketing people, administrative staff and managers — creating a range of opportunities for New Mexicans. Solar jobs are generally more accessible to minorities and to those without advanced degrees.
Councilor wants to clarify point
In the March 25 story about a Los Alamos County Council discussion on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), a comment made by another person was incorrectly attributed to me, as a review of the meeting recording (audio recording on KRSN at 42:37 mins) in the public record will show.
The story quoted me as saying that the county needs to "aggressively" ensure that the park's national headquarters is located in Los Alamos and the story went on to report about all the people who disagreed with that position.
While I wasn't the person who made that point, I think it's perfectly appropriate for Los Alamos to argue that we should host the Park Headquarters, vying for the high paying federal jobs and locally-based decision authority that will go with the headquarters operations. I expect Oak Ridge and Hanford to make similar proposals, and I think our chances to land the headquarters on the merits in a fair competition are great.
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