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Crude oil has been trading ways for the past year between the 2011 high and low. The trading range through 2012 has been contracting with a series of lower highs and higher lows. This pennant formation because it is taking place after an uptrend is a bullish pattern with $110 and possibly even $140+ per barrel in the next 6-18 months.
If you look at the weekly investing chart of crude oil the key support and resistance levels area clearly marked. A breakout of the white pennant will trigger a move to the next support or resistance level. And judging from the positive economic numbers not only form the USA but globally the odds are increased for the $110+ price target to be reached sooner than later.Crude Oil Price Chart - Weekly Investing
If we zoom into the daily chart and analyze price and volume you will notice the $100 per barrel level is potentially only 2-3 days way… But keep in mind whole numbers (decade & Century Numbers) naturally act as support and resistance levels. So when the $100 century price is reached there will be a wave of sellers with fat thumbs who will slam the price back down to the $96 and possibly back down to the $92 level before oil continues higher. Can be followed with USO, UCO, SCOXLU - Weekly Investing Chart
The utility sector has done well and continues to look very bullish for 2013. This high dividend paying sector is liked by many and the price action speaks for its self… Keep in mind you can view my actual watchlist of stock and ETFs I trade in real-time with my analysis free: https://stockcharts.com/public/1992897
Energy stocks which can be followed using the XLE exchange traded fund (NYSEMKT:ETF) typically leads the price of oil. Looking at energy stocks we can see that they are outperforming the price of crude oil and on the verge of breaking out of a large Cup & Handle pattern. If so then $90 is the next stop but prices may go much higher in the long run.
In short, crude oil is stuck in a large trading range much like gold and silver which I just wrote about here: http://www.thegoldandoilguy.com/articles/precious-metals-miners-making-waves-and-new-trends/
Once a breakout takes place on either the white or yellow lines on the first crude oil weekly chart we should see oil, energy and utility stocks start making some big moves. Depending on the direction of the breakout (Up or Down) it must be played in that direction to generate substantial profits obviously.
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Hey there,
Was trying to subscribe to your blog with the mailchimp thing but the damn thing keeps refusing to let me :( Could you have a peek at that?
Sorry to hear that! I'll look into it.
So enjoyed your photos creations and commentary on MMM. And now I have your blog to enjoy.
I am coming over to New York in 10 days. All the way from NZ. My first ever trip there. Sooo excited about going to Mood. Should I be getting excited about other fabric stores too?
I shall be a definite tourist but my man knows that fabric shopping is a definite.
What would be your advice to 1st time NYC fabric shopper. (Staying near Times Square.). I shall be bringing an empty suitcase. :)
Oooh, I'm gonna email you! I've got LOTS of suggestions for you!
Ginger, are you from Michigan? I live in Charlevoix, the top of the ring finger (mitten) on Lake Michigan. Where does your Dad live?
I'm not, but my parents moved there a few years ago, so I visit them from time to time. They're in Sturgis, near Kalamazoo, so probably not as cold as you!
Hey! Thanks for inspiring me to finally make the Sorbetto Tank! I made it from a vintage sheet and it turned out splendid! I would have given you props on instagram, but I don't think you have one. Regardless, if you want to see it, look for seagyrl on instagram. :)
I'm so glad you liked it! :)
I finished my Gingers!!! I thought you'd like to know. ;) Believe it or not I can't wait to make more! I'll do some other stuff in between & hopefully I'll be MUCH faster on the next go round!
Hi There! Long time home sewist (auto-correct changes that to sexist!), and I discovered you on Mood Sewing Network. Super inspired to learn to knit from your blog.
I asked and received some "practice" yarn and needles from my mom several years ago and just broke them out a couple of days ago. So far I am using Stitch 'n' Bitch book and youtube to get the basics. How long have you been knitting and are there any specific resources you can recommend for beginners?
I hope (and fully intend) to be sweater knitting by the fall (too soon?). I live in NYC, so if you recommend lessons, I am open to that. I used to be on the upper west side a lot, and I know there are good resources there, but I live in Queens now, and work in Chelsea.
Thanks for any advise that you are able to give!
Also, so happy that you inspired the Ginger Jeans. I'm loving my 1st pair and intend to sew 2 more in the fall!
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Issue: Autodetect opton in proxy settings in browser does not work, when configured users can not access internet through TMG server.
As per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713344.aspx
ISA Server uses the Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) protocol, which allows automatic discovery of Web Proxy servers. ISA Server uses WPAD to provide a mechanism for clients to locate a WPAD entry containing a URL that points to a server on which the Wpad.dat and Wspad.dat files are generated. The Wpad.dat file is a Java script file containing a default URL template, constructed by Internet Explorer. The Wpad.dat file is used by Web Proxy clients for automatic discovery information. The ISA Server WinSock Proxy Autodetect (WSPAD) implementation uses the Wpad.dat file, and creates a Wspad.dat file to provide automatic discovery information to Firewall clients. For more information about the WPAD protocol, see the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol document.
Above article also explains how WPAD option is configured in DHCP as well as in DNS and how browser uses WPAD to get wpad.dat which had the script that tells the browser who is the proxy server and how to route the web requests through proxy server and when to by pass the proxy server.
This post is about when you know that you have configured your DHCP server with option 252 and whenever you use autodetect as proxy setting in your browser its not able to access internet(in case the client machine is not secureNAT client).
In order to find out if WPAD option is configured properly and the client machine is able to get the option 252 from the DHCP server we can use FWC tool that comes TMG/ISA firewall client and its located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Forefront TMG Client"
above is the sample when we are able find WPAD and WSPAD. Lets also have a look at this Scenario when Browser is not able to detect the WPAD and we can use FWCtool to find out whats going on
If we take network monitor trace while doing this test we will see following DHCP inform packet with request for WPAD
and reply from DHCP server does not have the option 252 for WPAD
In this particular scenario we had to reconfigure DHCP option 252 and after that issue got resolved.
Well done Suraj, I'm proud of you my friend :)
Thanks Yuri
Great article!
pretty much a very poor recycle of another MS whitepaper why did you bother.
is there any way to trace at the client machine level wether its reaching at dhcp to get the wpad


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I've always been wary of writing posts that are "too personal." Whatever that means. It's a result of having a parent that is maliciously narcissistic and predatory. I've generally been happy to Reblog, Like and post items about current events, Idris Elba crushes, etc…you get the idea. With that said, I think it's time for a change. I think it's time to start really writing for myself and sharing bits and pieces of my life with an online community that has embraced me in some surprising ways and shown me different ways to grow and adapt in a world that generally feels pretty hostile.
Lately I've been thinking about the miscarriage I had in early September; hence the title. I've never been one to expose my soft underbelly in such a way but the experience of being pregnant and then not, well, it's been significant for me and affected my outlook on well, a whole lot.
My husband and I found out I was pregnant sort of by accident but I was suspected and yet was in denial. I made an appointment with a midwife right away and tried to keep to my normal routine that included working out, regular appointments, etc. Looking back now, I would definitely pamper myself more. My midwife told me that the energy it takes for the body to create another life in that first trimester is equal to running 15 miles. A day.
I went in at about 7 weeks and I felt okay, exhausted, slightly nauseous but everything looked okay but no heartbeat was found on the Doppler. Come about 11 weeks I started spotting and then cramping and I knew just based on conversations I'd had with my midwife and various posts I read. If there was any upside it was that I didn't have to have any further procedures i.e. a D&C.
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As my husband pointed out the grieving process was different for him than for me. He was sad, in a quiet intense way and for me, well, grief overcame me in waves. Sometimes at work I stared into space and swallowed back tears. For a couple of weeks, every so often when I came home I would just sit on the bed and just cry. Initially I tried to be strong, stoic and move on. However my partner pointed out to me that by not demonstrating the same amount of compassion for myself that I do for others, it was going to come back and bite me in the ass.
So I stopped intellectualizing. And let myself feel. I let myself go back into my body and by that I mean being present in my body. I worked out. I slept. I let myself relax and be still when I wanted to and I pushed myself into a sweaty heap after during a workout when the need arose. I took a trip back home to Oakland where my adoptive mamas took care of my heart and soul. There were several weeks of just sitting. Indulging in food, drink, sleep and hard workouts. And finally, balance. I finally feel balanced.
And still apprehensive about trying again. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with other women about how many first pregnancies resulted in miscarriages, especially after being on the pill for a long time, etc. That miscarriages happen to so many women but it's not discussed. I get why and yet, I don't. I'm scared about the possibility of it happening again and yet, excited about the prospect of having a child with someone that I adore and love and is truly my beloved. We're still excited about the prospect of having a child together and that is all I can ask for at the present.
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A panel of mental health experts concluded Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from a mental illness when he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the athlete's murder trial has heard.
Pistorius' trial resumed after a break of one month during which a psychologist and three psychiatrists also assessed whether the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Ms Steenkamp through a closed toilet door.
The panel's reports were submitted to Judge Thokozile Masipa, and prosecutor Gerrie Nel referred to key parts of the conclusions, noting that the experts believed Pistorius was "capable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his act" when he killed Ms Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model.
The evaluation came after a psychiatrist, Dr Merryll Vorster, testified for the defence that Pistorius, who has said he feels vulnerable because of his disability and a long-held worry about crime, had an anxiety disorder that could have contributed to the killing in the early hours of February 14, 2013.
He testified that he opened fire after mistakenly thinking there was a dangerous intruder in the toilet.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel has alleged that Pistorius, 27, killed Ms Steenkamp after a Valentine's Day argument, and has portrayed the Olympic athlete as a hothead with a love of guns and an inflated sense of entitlement.
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But he requested an independent inquiry into Pistorius' state of mind, based on concern the defence would argue Pistorius was not guilty because of mental illness.
Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if found guilty of premeditated murder, and could also face years in prison if convicted of murder without premeditation or negligent killing. He is free on bail.
Pistorius was evaluated as an outpatient at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital.
Later, defence lawyer Barry Roux called surgeon Gerald Versfeld, who amputated Pistorius' lower legs when he was 11 months old, to testify about the runner's disability and the difficulty and pain he endured while walking or standing on his stumps without support.
Pistorius was born without fibulas, the slender bones that run from below the knee to the ankle.
At Mr Roux's invitation, Judge Masipa and her two legal assessors left the dais to closely inspect the stumps of Pistorius as he sat on a bench.
The athlete was on his stumps when he killed Ms Steenkamp, and his defence team has argued that he was more likely to try to confront a perceived danger rather than flee because of his limited ability to move without prostheses.
Mr Versfeld noted that Pistorius' disability made him "vulnerable in a dangerous situation".
During cross-examination, Mr Nel questioned Mr Versfeld's objectivity and raised the possibility that Pistorius could have run away from a perceived intruder on the night of the shooting.
He also said Pistorius rushed back to his bedroom after the shooting and made other movements that indicated he was not as hampered as Mr Versfeld was suggesting.
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Total expects its oil production in Libya to return to pre-war levels as soon as next month, a company executive told Reuters on Tuesday as the oil major and other French companies campaigned for new business in the war-torn country.
"We have been at normal levels of production offshore since Sept. 23, and our field onshore will now restart. We should be back to our usual level (of output) very quickly, at the least in January," said Bernard Avignon, Total's head of exploration and production (E&P) in Libya.
Avignon made the comments on the sidelines of a delegation of French business officials led by Trade Minister Pierre Lellouche travelling to Tripoli as France seeks to benefit from its role in the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.
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"There are still some logistical issues that need to be sorted out," Seguin said.
Total had production of 55,000 barrels a day in Libya prior to the eight-month war that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi.
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Total's operations currently focus on the Al Jurf oilfield offshore and the Mabruk field onshore, but the French group also hopes to capitalise on France's backing of the country's new leaders during the civil war.
Last week, a senior source at Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters Total would be among 10 companies that would get priority access to term supplies of its crude oil in 2012.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy spearheaded military intervention in Libya and France's top firms are eager to capitalise on the positive sentiment towards Paris among the country's new leaders.
Lellouche said European planemaker Airbus, part of aerospace and defence group EADS, had resumed talks to deliver aircraft to Libya following Gaddafi's fall.
Libyan carriers have a backlog of orders worth about $4 billion at current list prices for Airbus aircraft that have not yet been produced or delivered.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS ATTENTION: REGIONAL RECORDKEEPING COORDINATORS THRU: LEO CAREY Director Office of Field Programs FROM: STEPHEN A. NEWELL Director Office of Statistics SUBJECT: Recording Cases on the OSHA Log that involve Bloodborne PathogensThe concepts and definitions for OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping for all private sector employers are contained in 29 CFR 1904, the instructions on the OSHA 200 Log, and the supplemental instructions contained in the Recordkeeping Guidelines for Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. For cases involving bloodborne pathogens, cases are recordable under 29 CFR Part 1904 when any employee experiences an "exposure incident" as defined below, that meets the criteria listed on page 6 of CPL 2- 2.44C (attached).
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Henry François Becque (äNrē´ fräNswä´ bĕk), 1837–99, French dramatist. His plays, which portrayed Parisian life in realistic detail, influenced French naturalistic drama. Among them are Les Corbeaux (1882) and La Parisienne (1885), translated in the volume The Vultures, The Woman of Paris, The Merry-go-round (1913).
Henry Becque: Selected full-text books and articles
Representative Continental Dramas: Revolutionary and Transitional Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1924
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FREE! Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905
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Antoine and the Théâtre-Libre Harvard University Press, 1926
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A Study of the Modern Drama: A Handbook for the Study and Appreciation of the Best Plays, European, English and American, of the Last Half Century D. Appleton, 1925
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An Outline of Contemporary Drama Houghton Mifflin, 1927
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How to give a great TEDx talk
By Robert P Crease in CERN, Geneva
It's great to go first.
Then you can actually listen to the other performances without fretting about your own. Somewhere near the middle of my TEDxCERN talk yesterday (Wednesday 24 September) I stopped being aware of the timer at my feet, began to have fun and left the stage at the end without even noticing whether I had exceeded my time limit. I made a brief stop backstage to lose my "Madonna" – a microphone that's not on a neck clip or attached to a headset but extends out from an ear brace – then retook my seat in the front row.
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Behind the scenes at CERN's TEDx event
By Robert P Crease in CERN, Geneva
On Tuesday morning I addressed 1300 empty chairs.
I was the first of several presenters yesterday at a dress rehearsal for the TEDxCERN event, which takes place this afternoon, Wednesday 24 September. The rehearsal was held in a huge tent specially constructed for this event, and for CERN's 60th-anniversary celebrations next week. The programme will be broadcast live today starting at 1.30 p.m. CEST (GMT+2).
It isn't easy, I discovered, to grab the attention of empty chairs. I stumbled over sentences and forgot to click my slides. Occasionally I felt on automatic pilot, and had the eerie experience of hearing myself speak with a half-second delay, as if I were listening to myself from the back of my head. I went a minute over time and also discovered a typo in a slide that I had viewed approximately a zillion times before. I was relieved to find I wasn't the only one; some of those who followed, too, tripped over delivery or had trouble with slides.
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The birthday party goes on at CERN
By Hamish Johnston
All this week the people at CERN and in its member states will be celebrating 60 years of particle physics at the world-famous lab in Geneva. There is something for everyone to enjoy and here are a few highlights that we have picked out
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A TEDx train wreck?
By Robert P Crease in CERN, Geneva
On Sunday morning I arrived at CERN to find workers putting finishing touches on a huge tent where the lab will host its TEDx event on Wednesday, and its 60th anniversary festivities next week.
"TED", which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, is a non-profit organization that promotes talks on what it calls "ideas worth spreading"; the "x" denotes an independent event organized in that spirit. This is the second TEDxCERN – the first took place last year – and it's hosted by Brian Cox. More than 1000 people will watch 14 speakers, three performances and three animations; tens of thousands more viewers are expected online.
James Gillies, CERN's head of communication, invited me to be a speaker. The subject this year, he said, was how science could better engage with major social challenges. He said that my May Physics World column "Why don't they listen?" – on why scientists have difficulty getting politicians' ears – had "hit the nail on the head", and asked if I'd be interested in discussing the idea.
A week at CERN? A great excuse to implore colleagues take over my classes? Sure! All I had to do, I thought, was talk my way through some extended version of the column.
A scientific pyramid scheme, symmetry through the ages, why physics students are "standing a little taller" and more
By Hamish Johnston
Just this week six people were convicted in Bristol of crimes related to running a pyramid scheme. This involves taking money from lots of new investors and giving it to a smaller number of investors who signed up earlier – until the pyramid collapses. Is the current model for training scientists a pyramid scheme of sorts? That is the claim in a piece on the US's National Public Radio (NPR) website written by Richard Harris.
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A day in the life of CERN's director-general
By Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Geneva
There is no such thing as a typical day in the life of a CERN director-general (DG), certainly not this one in any case. In my experience, each incumbent has carved out a slightly different role for themself, shaped by the laboratory's priorities and activities at the time of their mandate. For me, every day goes beyond science, management and administration, and I am particularly fortunate to have been DG through a remarkable period that has seen not only the successful launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and confirmation of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, but also an opening of CERN to the world – an area that I have pursued with particular vigour.
As I regularly joke, we have changed the "E" of CERN from "Europe" to "Everywhere", and that has meant a lot of travel for the CERN DG, as we hold discussions with prospective new members of the CERN family. And when the CERN Council opened up membership to countries from beyond the European region in 2010, it seemed to me that we should also be extending our contacts in other directions as well.
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Is desperation for new physics clouding our vision for new colliders?
By Hamish Johnston
This month marks the 60th anniversary of CERN and to kick-off our coverage here at physicsworld.com, I'm highlighting an essay on the future of collider physics that has just been written by Nobel laureate Burton Richter called "High energy colliding beams; what is their future?".
Richter shared his 1976 Nobel prize with Samuel Ting for their independent discoveries of the J/ψ meson. He knows his particle colliders, having helped to design and build the world's first collider in the late 1950s at Stanford University and later directing the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for 15 years.
Richter believes that the international community is not facing up to tough decisions that must be made about what to do when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is retired sometime in the early 2030s. He thinks that "the perspective of one of the old guys might be useful".
Planning the next huge collider involves the co-operation of three main groups of physicists: those who design and build the accelerators; those who design and build the experiments; and the theoretical physicists who work out what the experiments are looking for. Richter thinks that this is not going well at the moment.
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Comedy at CERN, physics in a Buridanian universe and separating sugar from sand
By Hamish Johnston
"Bad Boy of Science" Sam Gregson and colleagues are organizing an evening of physics-related comedy at CERN in Geneva on Friday 13 June. "LHComedy: No Cause for ConCERN" will kick off in the CERN Globe at 19:30 and is billed as "a fantastic and innovative new way of presenting the work going on at CERN and engaging with the public". The line-up from CERN includes Canadian PhD student Nazim "License to Thrill" Hussain, quantum diarist Aidan "The Mole" Randle-Conde and Cat "Schrödinger" Demetriades. You can watch last year's comedy extravaganza from CERN here. Others involved in the project are Clara Nellis, Alex Brown, Hugo Day, Claire Lee and Rob Knoops.
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Seven lessons from Sean Carroll
By Matin Durrani in Cheltenham
I made the short journey yesterday from Bristol to the regency spa town of Cheltenham, which this week is hosting its annual science festival. One of the largest such events in the UK, it's been running since 2002 and has a packed programme of A-list speakers and topics ranging from genetics to geology, from cocktails to cake, and from the human brain to the Higgs boson.
My main reason for attending the festival, though, was to meet Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, whose book about the search for the Higgs boson (called The Particle at the End of the Universe ) was picked by Physics World last year as one of our top 10 books of 2013. Carroll was in the Gloucestershire town to give a one-hour talk about the Higgs, although the festival organizers were clearly working him hard as he also spoke in separate lectures on dark matter and dark energy, and on his role as a science adviser to Hollywood. (Carroll's worked on films including Thor, Avengers Assemble and TRON: Legacy and even played a tiny role on TV's The Big Bang Theory – stay tuned for more on that in our upcoming audio interview with him.)
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CERN gets set for LHC restart
By Michael Bishop in CERN, Geneva
As CERN ramps up its preparations for "Run 2" of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the start of 2015, many are wondering where the next big discovery will come from and whether it will emulate the success, and popularity, of the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
There appears to be no hangover from that landmark event and a genuine excitement among the scientists at CERN, which I witnessed first-hand earlier this week during a two-day tour of CERN's facilities organized by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Many of the UK-based scientists that I spoke to during the tour showed a remarkable enthusiasm for the experiments they were working on and confessed to expecting similar, if not bigger, discoveries when the particle collider starts smashing protons together at higher energies.
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ABSTRACT: During normal mating in mammals between males and females, fertilization of oocytes by spermatozoa produces progeny with alleles inherited from both parents. Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells can differentiate into all adult cell types, including oocytes and sperm. In culture, genetically male mouse ES lines spontaneously lose the Y chromosome at a frequency of about 1%, resulting in genetically female XO cell lines that can produce viable fertile females. Previous studies have not shown that such XY-derived XO pluripotent stem cells can generate viable progeny with genetic information from 2 distinct fathers. This present study exploited this stem cell strategy (in vitro sex reversal) to generate viable male and female mice that combine the haploid genomes from 2 fathers. Manipulation of fibroblasts from somatic cells of a male (XY) mouse fetus produced induced pluripotent stem cell lines. Injection of these XY-derived XO ES cells into blastocysts from donor female mice produced functional oocytes in female chimeras. Natural mating of the female chimeras (from father 1) with genetically distinct males (father 2) resulted in live progeny with haploid genomes that were equally derived from both fathers. These findings demonstrate that use of induced pluripotent stem cell technology can generate male and female progeny by combining the alleles from 2 male mice. This new method of mammalian reproduction may have major implications for improving livestock breeds and preserving endangered species as well as for advancing assisted reproductive technology in humans.
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ABSTRACT: In sexual species, fertilization of oocytes produces individuals with alleles derived from both parents. Here we use pluripotent stem cells derived from somatic cells to combine the haploid genomes from two males to produce viable sons and daughters. Male (XY) mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (Father #1) were used to isolate subclones that had spontaneously lost the Y chromosome to become genetically female (XO). These male-derived XO stem cells were used to generate female chimeras that were bred with genetically distinct males (Father #2), yielding progeny possessing genetic information that was equally derived from both fathers. Thus, functional oocytes can be generated from male somatic cells after reprogramming and spontaneous sex reversal. These findings have novel implications for mammalian reproduction and assisted reproductive technology.
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I love the art of these! Great job!
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WOW!!! Absolutely amazing!
this one is awesome too!
I think I'm completely in love with this. I wish you were able to sell prints!
Amazing work! The details are simply magnificent and the colors you used are also great. I wish I could draw like you.
Loving all of these, this one especially. Great job!
Amazing !!
LOVE the art style of these tarot cards!!!!
I think Eowynn fits better in the concept of the Strenght in Tarot meanings...
Very good, i like
beautiful :3
That is one cool Gimli.
This deck is brilliant! I love the art style. I love the card choices. As a collector of tarot decks, I am dying to add this deck to my collection. Are there plans to publish?
I'm afraid that I can't have any plans about that Because all publishing rights belong to Peter Jackson
But thank you very much for the nice review)
But thank you very much for the nice review)
oh wow this is stunning! such amazing colours and details, ugh I could stare at it for ages <33
eee wow wow wow!!! That look, that beard, a;sldkfj. I'm amazed. This is amazing. You are such an inspiration
I love these drawings X>X
Wow! Great detail!
Very cool! All the colors look lovely together, and Gimli looks ready to kick ass!
О да! это прекрасно. Сила - укрощение и огонь, гномы укротившие огонь, как воплощение силы
Woooooooouuuuuu, this is great! OwO
Your work is so full of details and I love it!
Your work is so full of details and I love it!
You're really talented and inspiring and the fact that your work is inspired by Tolkien deserve all my respect!
Oh, and to other viewers, make sure to look at the large version! There are some very find details that don't really show in the small version. Great use of patterns!
Yes! Excellent choice!
Hooray for Gimili! Did I tell you how much I am enjoying your LOTR tarot series.
Hmm... Gloin?
Love your patterns. Just beautiful.
Love your patterns. Just beautiful.


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"Hawaiian Wahine" by Pegge Hopper? Wonderful Hawaiian Art Print. In exceptional condition. It is signed by I believe "Pegge Hopper"- Signature is hard to read, however, it looks like the work of this Island artist. Professionally double matted and framed. Entire framed piece measures approx 11 1/2 " inches x 10 1/4 " inches. The actual print approx 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 " inches. The signature appears to be real ink and personalized--- reads something like "To Rono, P. Hooper". Again, I am not an expert in this field and hopefully my many photos can help you make a decision. Ultimately you are the expert. Bid accordingly and don't let this piece slip away. Mahalo!


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Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7
We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics—from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows architecture—security, accounts, user interface, design, and so on—we had several other members of the team contribute to the post.
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User Account Control (UAC) is, arguably, one of the most controversial features in Windows Vista. Why did Microsoft add all those popups to Windows? Does it actually improve security? Doesn't everyone just click "continue"? Has anyone in Redmond heard the feedback on users and reviewers? Has anyone seen a tv commercial about this feature?
In the course of working on Windows 7 we have taken a hard look at UAC – examining customer feedback, volumes of data, the software ecosystem, and Windows itself. Let's start by looking at why UAC came to be and our approach in Vista.
Technical details aside, UAC is really about informing you before any "system-level" change is made to your computer, thus enabling you to be in control of your system. An "unwanted change" can be malicious, such as a virus turning off the firewall or a rootkit stealthily taking over the machine. However an "unwanted change" can also be actions from people who have limited privileges, such as a child trying to bypass Parental Controls on the family computer or an employee installing prohibited software on a work computer. Windows NT has always supported multiple user account types – one of which is the "standard user," which does not have the administrative privileges necessary to make changes like these. Enterprises can (and commonly do) supply most employees with a standard user account while providing a few IT pros administrative privileges. A standard user can't make system level changes, even accidentally, by going to a malicious website or installing the wrong program. Controlling the changes most people can make to the computer reduces help desk calls and the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to the company. At home, a parent can create a standard user account for the children and use Parental Controls to protect them.
However, outside the enterprise and the Parental Controls case, most machines (75%) have a single account with full admin privileges. This is partly due to the first user account defaulting to administrator, since an administrator on the machine is required, and partly due to the fact that people want and expect to be in control of their computer. Since most users have an Administrator account, this has historically created an environment where most applications, as well as some Windows components, always assumed they could make system-level changes to the system. Software written this way would not work for standard users, such as the enterprise user and parental control cases mentioned above. Additionally, giving every application full access to the computer left the door open for damaging changes to the system, either intentionally (by malware) or unintentionally (by poorly written software.)
Figure 1. Percentage of machines (server excluded) with one or more user accounts from January 2008 to June 2008.
User Account Control was implemented in Vista to address two key issues: one, incompatibility of software across user types and two, the lack of user knowledge of system-level changes. We expanded the account types by adding the Protected Admin (PA), which became the default type for the first account on the system. When a PA user logs into the system, she is given two security tokens – one identical to the Standard User token that is sufficient for most basic privileges and a second with full Administrator privileges. Standard users receive only the basic token, but can bring in an Administrator token from another account if needed.
When the system detects that the user wants to perform an operation which requires administrative privileges, the display is switched to "secure desktop" mode, and the user is presented with a prompt asking for approval. The reason the display is transitioned to "secure desktop" is to avoid malicious software attacks that attempt to get you to click yes to the UAC prompt by mimicking the UAC interface (spoofing the UI.) They are not able to do this when the desktop is in its "secure" state. Protected Admin users are thus informed of any system changes, and only need to click yes to approve the action. A standard user sees a similar dialog, but one that enables her to enter Administrative credentials (via password, smart card PIN, fingerprint, etc) from another account to bring in the Administrator privileges needed to complete the action. In the case of a home system utilizing Parental Controls, the parent would enter his or her login name and password to install the software, thus enabling the parent to be in control of software added to the system or changes made to the system. In the enterprise case, the IT administrator can control the prompts through group policy such that the standard user just gets a message informing her that she cannot change system state.
We are always trying to improve Windows, especially in the areas that affect our customers the most. This section will look at the data around the ecosystem, Windows, and end-users—recognizing that the data itself does not tell the story of annoyance or frustration that many reading this post might feel.
UAC has had a significant impact on the software ecosystem, Vista users, and Windows itself. As mentioned in previous posts, there are ways for our customers to voluntarily and anonymously send us data on how they use our features (Customer Experience Improvement Program, Windows Feedback Panel, user surveys, user in field testing, blog posts, and in house usability testing). The data and feedback we collect help inform and prioritize the decisions we make about our feature designs. From this data, we've learned a lot about UAC's impact.
UAC has resulted in a radical reduction in the number of applications that unnecessarily require admin privileges, which is something we think improves the overall quality of software and reduces the risks inherent in software on a machine which requires full administrative access to the system.
In the first several months after Vista was available for use, people were experiencing a UAC prompt in 50% of their "sessions" - a session is everything that happens from logon to logoff or within 24 hours. Furthermore, there were 775,312 unique applications (note: this shows the volume of unique software that Windows supports!) producing prompts (note that installers and the application itself are not counted as the same program.) This seems large, and it is since much of the software ecosystem unnecessarily required admin privileges to run. As the ecosystem has updated their software, far fewer applications are requiring admin privileges. Customer Experience Improvement Program data from August 2008 indicates the number of applications and tasks generating a prompt has declined from 775,312 to 168,149.
Figure 2. Number of unique applications and tasks creating UAC prompts.
This reduction means more programs work well for Standard Users without prompting every time they run or accidentally changing an administrative or system setting. In addition, we also expect that as people use their machines longer they are installing new software or configuring Windows settings less frequently, which results in fewer prompts, or conversely when a machine is new that is when there is unusually high activity with respect to administrative needs. Customer Experience Improvement Program data indicates that the number of sessions with one or more UAC prompts has declined from 50% to 33% of sessions with Vista SP1.
Figure 3. Percentage of sessions with prompts over time.
An immediate result of UAC was the increase in engineering quality of Windows. There are now far fewer Windows components with full access to the system. Additionally, all the components that still need to access the full system must ask the user for permission to do so. We know from our data that Windows itself accounts for about 40% of all UAC prompts. This is even more dramatic when you look at the most frequent prompts: Windows components accounted for 17 of the top 50 UAC prompts in Vista and 29 of the top 50 in Vista SP1. Some targeted improvements in Vista SP1 reduced Windows prompts from frequently used components such as the copy engine, but clearly we have more we can (and will) do. The ecosystem also worked hard to reduce their prompts, thus the number of Windows components on the top 50 list increased. Windows has more of an opportunity to make deeper architectural changes in Windows 7, so you can expect fewer prompts from Windows components. Reducing prompts in the software ecosystem and in Windows is a win-win proposition. It enables people to feel confident they have a greater choice of software that does not make potentially destabilizing changes to the system, and it enables people to more readily identify critical prompts, thus providing a more confident sense of control.
One important area of feedback we've heard a lot about is the number of prompts encountered during a download from Internet Explorer. This is a specific example of a more common situation - where an application's security dialogs overlap with User Account Control. Since XP Service Pack 2, IE has used a security dialog to warn users before running programs from the internet. In Vista, this often results in a double prompt – IE's security dialog, followed immediately by a UAC dialog. This is an area that should be properly addressed.
Figure 4. Number of Microsoft prompters in the top 50 over time.
One extra click to do normal things like open the device manager, install software, or turn off your firewall is sometimes confusing and frustrating for our users. Here is a representative sample of the feedback we've received from the Windows Feedback Panel:
We understand adding an extra click can be annoying, especially for users who are highly knowledgeable about what is happening with their system (or for people just trying to get work done). However, for most users, the potential benefit is that UAC forces malware or poorly written software to show itself and get your approval before it can potentially harm the system.
Does this make the system more secure? If every user of Windows were an expert that understands the cause/effect of all operations, the UAC prompt would make perfect sense and nothing malicious would slip through. The reality is that some people don't read the prompts, and thus gain no benefit from them (and are just annoyed). In Vista, some power users have chosen to disable UAC – a setting that is admittedly hard to find. We don't recommend you do this, but we understand you find value in the ability to turn UAC off. For the rest of you who try to figure out what is going on by reading the UAC prompt , there is the potential for a definite security benefit if you take the time to analyze each prompt and decide if it's something you want to happen. However, we haven't made things easy on you - the dialogs in Vista aren't easy to decipher and are often not memorable. In one lab study we conducted, only 13% of participants could provide specific details about why they were seeing a UAC dialog in Vista. Some didn't remember they had seen a dialog at all when asked about it. Additionally, we are seeing consumer administrators approving 89% of prompts in Vista and 91% in SP1. We are obviously concerned users are responding out of habit due to the large number of prompts rather than focusing on the critical prompts and making confident decisions. Many would say this is entirely predictable.
Figure 5. Percentage of prompts over time per prompt type.
Figure 6. Percentage of UAC prompts allowed over time.
Now that we have the data and feedback, we can look ahead at how UAC will evolve—we continue to feel the goal we have for UAC is a good one and so it is our job to find a solution that does not abandon this goal. UAC was created with the intention of putting you in control of your system, reducing cost of ownership over time, and improving the software ecosystem. What we've learned is that we only got part of the way there in Vista and some folks think we accomplished the opposite.
Based on what we've learned from our data and feedback we need to address several key issues in Windows 7:
The benefits UAC has provided to the ecosystem and Windows are clear; we need to continue that work. By successfully enabling standard users UAC has achieved its goal of giving IT administrators and parents greater control to lock down their systems for certain users. As shown in our data above, we've seen the number of external applications and Windows components that unnecessarily require Admin privileges dramatically drop. This also has the direct benefit of reducing the total amount of prompts users see, a common complaint we hear frequently. Moving forward we will look at the scenarios we think are most important for our users so we can ensure none of these scenarios include prompts that can be avoided. Additionally, we will look at "top prompters" and continue to engage with third-party software vendors and internal Microsoft teams to further reduce unnecessary prompts.
More importantly, as we evolve UAC for Windows 7 we will address the customer feedback and satisfaction issues with the prompts themselves. We've heard loud and clear that you are frustrated. You find the prompts too frequent, annoying, and confusing. We still want to provide you control over what changes can happen to your system, but we want to provide you a better overall experience. We believe this can be achieved by focusing on two key principles. 1) Broaden the control you have over the UAC notifications. We will continue to give you control over the changes made to your system, but in Windows 7, we will also provide options such that when you use the system as an administrator you can determine the range of notifications that you receive. 2) Provide additional and more relevant information in the user interface. We will improve the dialog UI so that you can better understand and make more informed choices. We've already run new design concepts based on this principle through our in-house usability testing and we've seen very positive results. 83% of participants could provide specific details about why they were seeing the dialog. Participants preferred the new concepts because they are "simple", "highlight verified publishers," "provide the file origin," and "ask a meaningful question."
In summary, yes, we've heard the responses to the UAC feature – both positive and negative. We plan to continue to build on the benefits UAC provides as an agent for standard user, making systems more secure. In doing so, we will also address the overwhelming feedback that the user experience must improve.
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The idea of the UAC is right, but you need to work in options like "I Trust in this software" so the UAC don't display every time the popup.... and please avoid duplicate popup, i receive in some circunstancies three popup for one operation ???
I'm using Windows Live OneCare and have choosen to manually allow software to access the internet. When a new software want's to access the internet, I'll get 3 promts on Vista. First OneCare asking to allow this, then UAC asking to allow OneCare to allow this, and then again OneCare asking the same question again. Please make your own software work better with UAC. This task should be only one click. If it's UAC or OneCare asking doesn't matter. But it should be only one click.
I don't know if this has been fixed in SP1 as I've not tried it again. When I tried to sort my start menu programs on Vista (without SP1) by moving, deleting and renaming the shortcuts, I've got for every single action and shortcut an UAC prompt. I simply gave up sorting my start menu (the nice Vista menu with search box helps a lot with an unsorted menu).
Sometimes the UAC promt starts minimized or in the background. I see only the flashing button in the taskbar and I have to click it to bring it into the foreground. An unexperienced user may miss this and never see the promt and wonder why the action he wants to start doesn't work.
I want a feature that I can disable UAC promts for a specific action (e.g. a checkbox in the UAC dialog "Never ask me for this action again"). So I can partially disable UAC for often used programs or actions. This could work similary like a firewall. As soon as the program changes (filesize/hash/location), the UAC promt will return.
I think I caught the basic Idea of UAC already in the first Vista beta. But as a so called 'Poweruser' I tend to turn the whole thing off, as soon as the installation is finished.
so, instead of controlling ALL of my action, or rather respond to always the same action, it would be great if the UAC had some sort of Training Mode..
You see that in Firewalls a lot, where the software 'tries to get an idea' of how people use the network, Ports etc...
(or at least that you would have some kind of option, that UAC remembers the choice I've made...).
I think it would be good to have some visual cue (like an alternatively colored title-bar or maybe a small icon), that makes clear that a program runs in elevated mode.
On a side note: I'm wondering how people are using their client-systems when the UAC-prompt is such a huge cause of anoyance. Although I consider myself a power user, I don't see many prompts as there's no need to change system-settings (or install software) on a daily basis.
Only one thing to say, keep the system protected by default but give possibility to desactivate this security. User mustn't be jailed with something he don't want.
One thing that I don't know why more people don't complain about is UAC and networking. Other then the "ipconfig /renew" not working without running cmd with Run as... UAC and networking is my next most fustrating issue. For example, you are trying to run an application install off the network. Now in order to correctly install the software you are asked to "Run with higher rights" that of a local admin account. In a domain that local admin account does not have access to the files needing to be installed so the whole installation fails. Now some of you smarty pants might say well you should have been using group policy using msi's to deploay the software anyways!. There are still a lot of vendors that do not provide an MSI and sometimes I have seen where if the program itself does automatic updates like Adobe reader group policy sometimes kicks back in and tries to re-install the application which then completely renders the program useless. What I propose that Microsoft first an formost is make their OS have the ability to have a regular user have a UAC type prompt that asks them for permission of the administrator. So many programs break if the user isn't an administrator. Although I hate to say it Linux and Mac OS do such a better job at this then compared with Windows. If the UAC gave the option to check off a box and then be able to specify an adim like "firstname.lastname@example.com" that would really help us out. UAC is great for home users... terible for Domains...
I'm waiting a post about WGA. I hope you are able to provide a good protection against privacy for Windows. I don't why a big company like you unable to win against a small team of hackers. Or, maybe you deliberately giving chance to piracy in order to widespread Windows usage in third world countries which most of users unable or unwilling to buy a freaking expensive license of Windows. If what I'm saying is not right, I guess you know what you have to day. I'll keep viewing this blog and hope you will make a good post to explain your view on piracy and your anti-piracy strategy. Hope you'll have a good implementation too.
The problem with UAC is that it's not just the UAC prompts. Turning UAC off stops file and registry virtualisation, knackering up user settings and configurations in many programs (especially if you only have UAC on intermittently). Likewise this works in reverse. With UAC turned on, why is the DRM registry files around htcaccess hidden (even with "view hidden files" turned on)? - users sadly need to get there quite a bit to delete those files as the DRM registry is so prone to corruption, and if they do they have no idea that they're failing to do so unless they're running with UAC turned off - this forces three reboots for a task that should only take one.
WHY!!! It's baffling. UAC being on or off should control UAC only. It shouldn't randomly be changing file permissions and virtualisation at it's whim.
I simply hate the UAC prompts. I'd prefer to get a plain old "Access denied" message. You already have the "Run as Administrator" option on right-click on all applications. I can even put that as a default if I wish. A bit better "sudo" support would be great.
The problem is that if I run as a normal user with UAC turned off a lot of stuff just failes silently (especially registering ActiveX's with regsvr32.exe during install of apps). The application seemingly was installed fine, but when I start it up it failes due to missing ActiveX components.
Can't Windows implement something similar to SUID bit on Unix/Linux system?
As a developer, most of time I am forced to create a do-nothing service simply for giving auto-elevation to my application. An Unix-like SUID feature will eliminate the need for creating services in such kind of scenario and reduce the number of services running on the system.
On Windows, one can set the flag "Run As Administrator" on an executable file. But Windows would prompt for credential when starting such file. I *really* hate this.
My thoughts on UAC:
As an IT professional, I keep a good idea of what's going on for my system at all times, so UAC was an extreme annoyance for me. I'll admit I took the time to find the settings and disable it. I do appreciate Microsoft biting the bullet though and forcing the lazy application developers out there to actually think about what kind of access their programs really need. The side benefit we noticed is that it's been a lot easier to secure our Terminal Services farms now because a lot of the applications aren't fussy about requiring local administrator group privileges (this used to be a huge pain). Overall I like the direction Microsoft is taking, as they've let the developer community be too lazy for too long, but keep this blog going, as I think every time you guys can explain why you're doign things with Windows Vista and Windows 7 in a particular way, you'll help us understand, and you'll get better buy-in from us in the IT pro community.
In general, I actaully really like UAC. So much so that I enable the 'Administrator' account in Vista and set my personal account to be a 'Standard User'. So not only do I get a UAC prompt, I have to type a different password in to allow that change. I like to think of it as similar to the security on a Mac or Ubuntu machine.
As many others, I'm sure, I do have my gripe with UAC, though, and the Windows 7 team seems to know about them already:
The Double Prompt. This one is the worst -- I'm getting a dialogue box telling me that I'm going to get another dialogue box? Seriously? This should never happen -- ANY UAC prompt should go STRAIGHT to the secure desktop. There a user can Continue or Cancel (or be required to enter a password) and that is that. I'm glad to hear that this is an area of change for Windows 7.
Thanks for the informative post!
As someone who uses Macs and Linux, the prompts are nothing new to me, I don't mind them at all.
It's kind of like asking people to wear seatbelts. It's a pain, and slightly uncomfortable - but in the grand scheme of things it's utterly justifiable.
What does concern me is specific flaws are being found that can escalate code to Admin privileges (a recent GDI+ flaw springs to mind).
I don't mind the prompts for installing software at all, my main problem is when I'm prompted for Windows operations. For example, when ever I start up my computer the first thing I do is start up task manager and I like to view all of the processes. Without UAC selecting the check box once keeps it checked for all future sessions, while with UAC I am prompted everytime I log on and check the check box. Other admin stuff like this should have an opt out of UAC prompts setting in protected admin accounts.
My other annoyance is that when saving pictures from IE (Save picture as) the folder I saved to is not remembered throughout that instance of IE. For example if I open a bunch of tabs from my art inbox on deviantART I have to renavigate from the My Pictures folder each time I save from a different tab instead of remembering the subfolder that I save to.
There have been a few questions about the percentage of customers that disable UAC. Our data is showing that about 92% of people run with UAC enabled.
The interesting point to consider is the data about how many popups happen early in the usage of a new PC--this might cause an enthusiast to disable UAC early on and then decide not to enable it or neglect to enable it after the initial flurry of elevation requests. That is perhaps why this number, 8% disabled, might seem a tad bit higher than expected.


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