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"Head and Shoulders" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald written and published in 1920. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post, with the help of Fitzgerald's agent, Harold Ober. It later appeared in his short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. It tells the story of a young prodigy at Yale who falls for a spirited dancer in spite of himself.
Horace Tarbox is a young and prospective intellectual, completely absorbed in his studies. Marcia shows up at his door one day (the "rap" alluded to in the stories ending) and takes to showing Horace another side of life. It quickly snowballs into an improbable pairing between an abstraction philosopher and a young actress. Marcia talks Horace into watching her in the theater to where he finds emotions and appreciation for beautiful women. And she returns the affection by being drawn to their connection as "infant prodigies." The story concludes as a role reversal of the two characters, for the better or for the worse, as Horace becomes active in gymnastics and Marcia becomes a respected writer.
The title comes from Marcia's idea that she represents the shoulders as a "chorus girl" known for shaking her shoulders during her dance routine in order to support the couple, and Horace as the head for all the ideas and thinking. Towards the end of the story, this dynamic changes: Horace begins doing gymnastic performances, his athletic shoulders financially "supporting" Marcia's writing, as she becomes the "head" as an acclaimed writer.
Fitzgerald weaves in several themes that he would later hone—and become infamous for—in his short stories and novels. One of his recurring themes is the odd matching of love interests, of people not supposed to find love with each other, as in the novel "The Great Gatsby". But in the short story the mismatch is hopeful. Horace is from the intellectual elite, born and bred to think instead of live. Marcia represents the adventures of life, the passion of art and a steaming sexuality. The second major theme is the adjustment of a career goal for love, especially in the beginning stages of romance, which would be taken up again in the novel Tender is the Night. Horace admits to having trouble thinking with the idea of Marcia in his head. That sense builds until he finds himself being consumed by passion. The third major theme is the bitter end. Marcia writes a book which steals ideas from Horace's life. At the end of the short story, Horace says that he should not have answered the door. He has given up something for romance: Marcia has gained fame from it. This anticipates Fitzgerald's dispute with his wife, Zelda, who he thought kept him from writing more and better.
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My demo at PAX Prime was short, and left me with questions that almost certainly won't be answered until I get to play the finished game, whenever that will be. It's still a ways off. I was dropped into an early area of the game -- but not the actual opening, it's worth pointing out -- and started hopping up hills and climbing vines. Hob is presented from an overhead view, but its camera dynamically zooms in on focal points. It pays to check out every tucked-away area for health, stamina, and weapon upgrades, sure, but also to take in the sights. Eventually, I happened upon some basic creatures and then a boss. My Souls instincts kicked in and I rolled, rolled, rolled. You can never be too cautious, y'know? The bigger foe was fairly easy but, in general, "The idea is that all of our monsters will basically destroy you unless you actually figure out how to beat them," according to Runic president Marsh Lefler. Moving on, I worked my way underground to an area like the one shown in this concept art, and used my arm to grapple around. The world is, in part, mechanical. It doesn't sit still. You might come back to a spot you've already gone through only to find that it has been altered. Runic wouldn't give much away about the story, but teased something unexpected. "What makes this game unique is what it hints at -- we have some pretty big ideas for it," said Lefler. He also believes the team is "going to blow people's minds when we start showing them what we're going to be actually doing with manipulating the world to the Nth degree." While there will surely be a Torchlight III one day, I'm happy we're getting Hob first. It sounds like the folks at Runic are genuinely happy to take a break from RPGs, too.
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Torchlight II (PC)Developer: Runic GamesPublisher: Perfect WorldRelease: September 20, 2012 MSRP: $19.99 It's been a few years since the end of the first Torchlight, and, surprise surprise, the world is in danger again. A corrupted Alchemist (likely the playable character from the original game) has destroyed the town of Torchlight, stolen Ordrak's Heart, and it's up to you to chase him around the world and stop him before he drains the energy out of the Elemental Guardians that keep balance in the world. How will you save the world? You will click. On everything. You will click on a bunch of monsters, and you'll click on some chests and some urns, and you'll click on all the massive amount of loot that spews forth from everything you touch, and sometimes you'll even mis-click on a poorly placed UI element. 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Unlike the original game, there are no skills shared among all the classes anymore -- each class has a unique set of 30 abilities. As long as you meet the level requirements for a skill (which naturally increase as you train a specific skill), you can put a point into it, regardless of how many previous points you have in skills that come before it or in the overall tree. It's pretty straightforward, and on the whole each class's skills seem varied and, for the most part, useful. Even the early skills can hold their own as long as you keep investing points into them (my Embermage beat the game almost entirely using Prismatic Bolt, the first skill in his Storm tree). Unfortunately, there's not a lot of room to experiment -- you can only refund the last three skill points you spent, and the cost to do so is rather high. One to three points in a skill is, I found, not enough to really get a feel for how the skill will perform at later levels. I often found myself hoarding points or just investing in passives -- I was hesitant to commit, out of a fear of having to restart my character because of bad skill choices. Another new mechanic is the addition of the Charge bar -- a meter that fills when you're murdering things and decays when you're not, conferring class-dependent bonuses. Embermages receive 12 seconds of mana-free casting and a damage burst when their bar is filled, while Outlanders receive small boosts to a variety of stats depending on how full their bar is. Engineers get charge "points" that make certain skills and abilities more powerful, and Berserkers get guaranteed critical hits for six seconds whenever their bar is maxed. It's an interesting mechanic that not only adds depth to each class, but also encourages you to move forward and keep murdering things. You'll fight your way through four acts (really three acts and a short final dungeon), each with its own feel and theme. The locales are nicely detailed and feel varied, and I never found myself getting bored of an area before I was on to the next, even when full clearing the area. Full clearing is something you'll want to do -- missing a sidequest or a dungeon can quickly put you behind the level curve, and you'll either have to go back and find what you missed or rerun previous areas to catch up before you can progress. The most notable new feature in the game is multiplayer -- something fans of the original game had been clamoring for. While the multiplayer system is primitive, consisting simply of a friends list, a list of games around your level range, and no chat lobby, it gets the job done, and as expected, Torchlight II is great to play with your friends. Any loot that drops in-game is unique to your character, so you don't have to worry about ninjalooters or fighting over the unique item that just dropped. It's a good thing, too, since you'll see a lot of uniques drop. Loot is plentiful, and as your work your way through the game you'll be showered in upgrades, which follow the standard loot rarity rating of common - magic - rare - unique - legendary. Whereas Diablo III was criticized for the scarcity of powerful items and upgrades, Torchlight II almost suffers from the opposite issue, with uniques dropping at a pace of roughly one every half-hour or so. I hesitate to call it a "problem," especially since trading is tough/non-existent given the lack of a chat lobby in multiplayer, but I will admit to being a bit annoyed after getting three of the exact same unique helmets in the span of thirty minutes. I've yet to find a legendary though -- the most powerful, rarest items that only show up starting at level 50 -- so even though I ended my first playthrough with something like 35 unique items, there's still better, more exclusive loot to aim for. And it's easy to want to aim for better loot after completing the game, since Torchlight II gives you a few options to keep things fresh. There's a standard New Game+ mode, allowing you to begin again with everything starting at Level 50, and there's also the Mapworks, which enables you to spend gold to purchase maps that allow you to enter various random dungeons, each with their own level range and special modifiers that mix things up. These complaints are relatively minor, though, especially in light of the game as a whole. It's addictive, it's got character, and it's really, really cheap for the product you're getting. I can guarantee you'll notice some problems as you play through it, and you'll probably wish the UI had a bit more polish and that the multiplayer system was a bit more robust, but you'll find these issues don't detract much from the overall experience. When you consider that the mod tools are already available, and what we saw with the first game, it's likely many of these issues will be modded out somewhere down the line. If you're a fan of hack 'n slashes, loot fests, or dungeon crawlers, definitely pick up Torchlight II. It's absolutely worth your time and money, and should hold your attention for quite a while. There are portions of the game that could certainly use a little bit of polish, but it's unlikely these problems will turn you off from the game entirely. Grab the game, grab some friends, and get to clicking. Did I mention it's only $20?
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"Enclave Night"[embed]231498:44413[/embed]This is the "night" theme from the opening town in Torchlight II. This particular mix (which is unique, but close to the in-game mix) starts with the classical guitar placed in a way that should be familiar to adventurers who have faced the curse of ember at least once before.As I listen to this now, I realize how much of an impression the early-nineties ambient movement made on me. Those whispering synth textures (mostly courtesy of Spectrasonics' spectacular Omnisphere, featured on hundreds of soundtracks in the past year or two) remind me more than a little of albums like "U. F. Orb" from that era, and other similar works. It seems to fit the mood of the Estherians - despite being enslaved by rifle-toting bandits, stalked by armored ten-foot bears and rumors of some turning into something resembling calamari, they seem to have a genuinely placid and even condescending demeanor."Wasteland"[embed]231498:44414[/embed]Here's a unique teaser mix of a few tracks from the deserts and salty barrens of Act 2. I couldn't resist being somewhat literal minded and using shakers, maracas, and the such, along with a few of the usual suspects in terms of near-asian instruments. But the real influence in the left-hand piano stabs is obviously the action soundtrack king of the era I was born into, Lalo Schifrin. His background in Latin instrumental music was the perfect means to redefine action music, and I'd like to think I subconsciously absorbed a little of it."Dungeons"[embed]231498:44415[/embed]And, one last unique mix, including a couple of minutes from some of the very last interiors in the game in the last half which didn't make it onto the promotional soundtrack CD. The medley begins with some live string glissandi effects from my session in Bratislava, which made for a good fit in a mysterious level involving a journal and infected dog somewhere in the frigid snows of Act 1. The track transitions through material from the corrupted temples also featured in that act, and ends with some of the noisier and more pounding music I made from dungeons near the climax of the game. The usual suspects - drums, screams and heavily distorted instruments - make their customary appearance. Does the sad fate of the pooch in the Ice Cavern portend some truly monstrous, Lovecraftian horror awaiting?
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Drive Any Track is wild, wild fun. Surprised I only came across it because of the steam sale, I thought I'd have at least heard something about it earlier. Can't wait to see how it progresses!
Quick thoughts about my first hours of XCOM 2: The new Sectoid is a bastard, Shen's daughter looks like she escape from Life is Strange, Tygan has a really cool necktie (i love neckties) and officer Bradford need a drink... a strong one. And a a hug.
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In between work and, uh, work, I've been buying PS Vita games. Not playing them. Buying them. There are a whole lotta obscure games on the Vita. And a lot of them involve either dating anime boys or underage girls doing decidedly non-underage-girl things.
Still better than Aliens Colonial Marines.
The good news: XCOM 2 is installed on my pc. The bad news: It runs about as well as a fat kid on ice.
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Glad I can support the site again with HUGE since my life is mostly back in order. Curious though if anyone knows what happened to the Merch Shop for the site.
Give me an open-world game and I'll find a way to mistreat children and the elderly.
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Fire Emblem Fates special edition is confirmed to have all three versions on one cartridge, so you DO get Revelation early.
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I ended up buying Yakuza 3 on Amazon and nabbing Gravity Rush Remastered on the PS Store. Both have trophies so I'm pretty hyped to play em.
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This weekend I'm heading to Lewisville, TX, near Dallas, for Animation Celebration. It was formerly known as Brony Fest. Pretty excited to swing by the area again. (I definitely love the H Mart in Carrollton, by the way! Their food court was delicious and reminded me of the ones in Korea.)
After that, I'm off to Kawaii Kon in Honolulu, HI from 4-6 April and then Sakura Con in Seattle, WA from 18-20 April. I'm visiting family and friends while I'm there! These two are going to be my only visits to these states this year, and may be my last pending on how my non-convention life events go.
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Today you don't have to have thousands of employees to have serious application management and endpoint protection challenges. Organizations of all sizes have a broad mix of operating systems and applications to deploy and keep up to date; a wide variety of desktops, laptops, smartphones and other devices to manage and secure; and geographically disparate sites that make hands-on attention from IT impractical, if not impossible.
The difference is, some organizations are struggling with these challenges while others have application management well in hand. I'd like to tell you about one of the latter: online dating firm Meetic Group. (Spoiler alert: the company was able to complete an upgrade to Office 2014 without any issues in just two weeks.)
Too Many Systems Management Tools Can Be as Bad as Too Few
Meetic Group is headquartered in France but its 500 employees are spread across Europe. The small IT team was finding it challenging to manage all the company's desktops and laptops — Windows, Mac and Linux —and maintain an up-to-date inventory of software assets. The problem wasn't that they didn't have tools; they had an open-source solution for desktops and asset management, as well as Active Directory Group Policy settings and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. The problem was that they didn't have the right tools.
"We had multiple solutions to oversee and none of them gave us the level of insight we really needed to manage the client estate effectively," explains Frédéric de Ascencao, internal IT manager at Meetic Group." Ideally, we wanted a single solution that could help us obtain more value from our desktops and laptops for the business and personnel."
Centralized Application Management Delivers a Host of Benefits
So Meetic Group went shopping. Through careful research and extensive testing, the company found a clear winner: Dell KACE K1000 and K2000 appliances. "They arrive preconfigured and can be up and running in a couple of hours," says de Ascencao. "Furthermore, we didn't need to spend time or money up-skilling our administrators. Using a basic knowledge of IT, an administrator can install and operate Dell KACE solutions. It's that simple."
Trading a hodgepodge of disparate tools for the integrated Dell solution has really paid off. Now Meetic Group enjoys:
To learn more about how efficient, centralized application management can make a real difference to your business, check out the latest chapter in our e-book, "Technology Tunnel Vision, Part 3: Expanding control of your application environment."
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The more money you invest in IT, the greater the return you want on your investment. Estimates from IDC show that worldwide healthcare IT spending will rise from $115 billion this year to $135.7 billion by 2019. That means you and your counterparts are increasing your investment in areas like patch management software, remote administration tools and systems management, and probably expecting more and more value from it.
We've put together a paper called Realizing the Return on Healthcare IT Investment to highlight the way that comprehensive systems management maximizes the value of healthcare IT. It turns out that investment isn't the only thing increasing from year to year; complexity is increasing as well, for several reasons.
Complexity in Healthcare IT
That's why we emphasize the value of comprehensive systems management in healthcare IT, extending to patch management, physical inventory, system auditing, vulnerability scanning and configuration management.
It's also a big part of fulfillling HIPAA requirements. Being able to see, update and account for all of the hardware and software in your organization is a long step on the path to compliance.
The Dell KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance and the Dell KACE K2000 Systems Deployment Appliance help healthcare IT teams cut through complexity and maximize the return on their investments in IT. Have a look at our paper, Realizing the Return on Healthcare IT Investment, to gauge the fit with your healthcare environment.
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Football is one of the most hyped sporting events in the country. With the 50th big game coming in the next week, all of the fanfare will be out in full swing. All of the articles, the speculation, the betting, the back stories and dissection of each team and player. I am a huge fan and I take it all in but what I love the most is thinking about how the teams and players prepare for the biggest game of the year. How to manage being the focus of all the attention and distractions and get ready to play in a game they have been preparing for their entire lives.
This is not remarkably different from what IT has to deal with every day, if you have a little imagination. One must constantly deal with all of the distractions, making sure that skill players (AKA execs) are taken care of, ensuring that game plans are ready, not just for this big game or on Sundays but every day. "Bad actors" take the form of "spies" for the football game, and hackers for IT professionals. Everything goes smoothly – players make the catches they are expected to – there are no service outages, and no one notices. Miss a game winning field goal, or find that no one is getting e-mail for an hour in the middle of the day, and the sky falls. Depending on how willing one is to push the analogy, the parallels can go on indefinitely.
Without stretching TOO far, though, it's possible to examine an effective endpoint management strategy through the lens of preparation for the greatest spectacle in American sports.
Get Ready for the Big Game!
1. Internal Game Planning - Coaches will tell you that one of the first things that teams do to get ready for the big game is prepare a critical self-evaluation. Before they even start looking at the opposing team's game films or play planning, they do an extensive internal evaluation. You can't focus on winning until you know what is working and what is not. Kind of like a SWOT analysis so they can see what worked well in the last few playoff games, where to improve and what needs to be corrected.
Similar to endpoint strategy and planning, one needs to have that same level of introspection and analysis. It's amazing how many IT organizations still say, they don't know how many devices or applications are connected to the network. That could be a good place to start. Start with focusing on that discovery and understanding your infrastructure. Where are the gaps and holes in your line that need to be adjusted to be ready for game day – which is every day?
2. Be Prepared for Every Situation – We all know that no matter how much you plan, something unexpected will go wrong. We have seen this so many times in football games that huge fumble, bungled snap or blown coverage, resulting in a touchdown at a critical time that totally changes the momentum of the game. Organizations face similar issues in IT. Top coaches focus on situational football where players know what to do, when and where; the two-minute drill, goal line play, short-yardage, backed up near their own goal line, etc. The last thing anyone wants to hear from a player during a game is, `I wasn't expecting that to happen,' or `I was not prepared for that.'
As IT systems become bigger, more complex and more difficult to manage, organizations need to have that same visibility and situational planning. Everyone knows that something will go wrong, but a good IT organization can be proactive and identify the issue quickly and take quick action to solve it. One can never be too prepared for a software audit, and knowing who is using what, and preparing for that, is a terrific place to start.
3. Manage the Process – One of the most successful and prolific college football coaches today, Nick Saban talks a lot about "the process" and getting the details right. Saban's "Process" is all about focusing on the journey, and not the destination. About doing the right thing the right way all the time. He instructs his players to treat each play as if it was a game, and focus on what is needed to be done during that play to be successful.
If one looks at this process from an endpoint systems management perspective, one might be thinking about automating repetitive processes, such as ensuring there is a fully automated software patch management system, a configuration management tool as well as regularly scheduled compliance reporting. Why not have a BYOD playbook in place that everyone is following?
4. Defense wins Championships – Anyone that follows football has heard this axiom. Although I'm not sure that it is statically true as one needs a balanced approach, no one would argue that defense isn't a critical aspect to the game. Just ask Tom Brady about the Denver defense in the most recent AFC championship game. Systems management is like defense in football. One can't win without building strong front lines. If one doesn't build a good systems management discipline and strategy then it becomes impossible to win the IT Bowl. Just like football, security is a tough game and not for the faint of heart. There are threats lurking around every corner. One may be blindsided at any moment. It's important to have defense at all levels of infrastructure to protect against all different types of threats while concentrating on the most important assets –endpoints, data and the network.
It has been estimated that 80% of malicious security attacks could have been prevented with improved patch management. One must ensure that the front line – endpoints, have all the protection they can get.
5. It's all about the Team – Just as in IT, one's resources and personnel are key to achieving IT initiatives and goals. Players don't just show up on game day and start playing. They have had hours or preparation and training so that when game day arrives, it has become second nature for them to understand how to react, adjust and respond to every situation. This goes for IT Administrators as well. It is not enough to prepare with the skills needed but to also have the appropriate policies and procedures in place. And just as each player needs to do their job, they need to also remember that there is a whole team behind them.
Patching endpoints covers one piece of the puzzle. Configuration management solves for another. Compliance reporting provides protection in a different, important way. All of these parts of the systems management whole help put prepared organizations in a position to be successful.
So as the world gets ready to watch the big game this coming Sunday, remember that just like in IT, each play, each yard, each touchdown moves us closer to that win and a foundation for success!
How is your organization preparing for the IT Bowl?
About Sean Musil
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The word "audit" strikes fear into the heart of every IT and software asset manager.
After all, audits can be very disruptive — and very expensive. But the reality is that vendor-imposed, revenue-motivated audits are increasing for organizations of all sizes and industries. In a recent study, Gartner, Inc., found that organizations had a 68 percent chance of being audited by at least one software vendor.
Since software audits are inevitable, you need to be proactive. Don't wait for vendors to contact you; instead, take charge of your organization's software license management now and avoid both the disruptions and the costs. It's true you might uncover a few ugly truths, but those are better dealt with outside of the scrutiny of a vendor audit. Moreover, our experience shows that you'll also discover opportunities to drive down costs, improve application currency and availability, and enhance security.
Here are five steps that will help you manage your software assets and ensure you are in compliance:
In short, being proactive with IT asset management (ITAM) can pay off handsomely: it will help you sail through the vendor audits that are almost certainly coming your way this year while also reducing costs and improving productivity and security. To learn more, check out the latest chapter in our e-book, "Technology Tunnel Vision, Part 3: Expanding control of your application environment."
Traditionally, systems management has been accomplished by installing an agent on each managed system. What's wrong with that?
Well, for starters, not all systems and devices can support an agent. Electronic kiosks, ATMs and point-of-service devices, for instance, are locked to prevent the installation of any additional software, including an agent from a systems management solution. And many smart, connected non-computer devices, such as printers or scanners, do not allow for installation of an agent.
Moreover, even when agents can be installed, there can be a question of whether they should be installed. There is a perception, justified or not, in some IT organizations that installing a systems management agent can hurt performance, which makes those teams reluctant to install agents, especially on mission-critical production servers.
Asset Discovery and Management Without Agents
Agentless management is now a viable alternative to traditional agent-based systems management. Agentless management connects over SSH, Telnet, SNMP and other protocols to collect device information and report inventory. It's useful if you're running unusual OS versions/distributions, or if your organization simply prefers to manage its systems without installing agents.
It's important to remember, though, there are two key aspects to systems management: asset discovery and asset lifecycle management. Agentless asset discovery is harder to do, and harder to find in a solution.
A paper from Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. (EMA), "Best Practices in Lifecycle Management," compares the agentless asset management capabilities of the four leading systems management solutions. It reveals that two of the four systems management products can perform many asset lifecycle management tasks, such as hardware and software inventory, reporting and service desk, without an agent in Windows and Mac environments. For Linux platforms, Dell KACE is the only platform that provides license management capabilities.
But discovering the assets without an agent is another story. Only Dell KACE provides hardware and software inventory without an agent, ensuring you have complete visibility into everything on your network.
The EMA paper is a valuable guide for any IT team planning to implement a new systems management product or upgrade an existing one. Download your free copy, and be sure to read its detailed discussion of agent-based versus agentless discovery and inventory management.
If you've been reading my last few blogs, you've seen the value of having centralized management for all your connected devices. With the number and variety of endpoints accessing your network skyrocketing, and attackers becoming ever more creative and sophisticated, you need end-to-end insight and control. A toolbox full of point solutions won't cut it; you need a single pane of glass that shows you everything that's accessing your systems and enables you to keep all those endpoints up to date and secure.
Lovely as my prose is, though, you may have had enough of it. Maybe you're ready to hear what an integrated endpoint, mobility and security management solution has done for a real-world organization like yours. If so, you're in luck. Harry Folloder, CIO of Advantage Waypoint, has graciously agreed to tell how such a solution helped him from the very start of the company. Here's what he had to say:
How Advantage Waypoint Merged Nine Company Networks in 30 days
"Our parent company, Advantage Sales and Marketing, merged nine companies overnight to form the first national sales and marketing company for the away-from-home food business," explains Folloder. "I had to bring together nine disparate companies very quickly and build a data center from the ground up.
"The first problem was that we had no visibility. We had no idea where employees were, which endpoint devices they used or what was running on the devices. Our other big problem was that each company had its own set of processes, but we couldn't idle hundreds of employees while we pulled our networks together. Solving those problems in the middle of a nine-way merger meant that we needed day-zero management of all endpoints across all companies.
"By partnering with Dell and taking advantage of their integrated solutions, we were able to stand up our new data center in just 30 days. First, Dell KACE appliances gave me a view of all the new systems I had to inventory through the merger when the only connection I had to them was over the internet. And as we continue to acquire and integrate companies, they give me a single point of insight and control for asset inventory and management, including deploying applications and patches, tracking changes to critical data, and even identifying the users with the most trouble tickets so we could provide them with additional training.
"Second, Dell Data Protection | Encryption (DDP|E) encrypts and protects both client data and our own intellectual property as it moves around the network — and it's nearly transparent to users. The KACE appliances verify that DDP|E is installed and active on target systems. This tight integration is invaluable. If a laptop is stolen, for example, we'd know that the data on the machine was protected, so we wouldn't have to pay millions of dollars providing identity theft protection to clients or employees, as other companies have been forced to do.
"Completing the solution is Dell AppAssure. AppAssure offers both business continuity and disaster recovery in a simple, non-invasive way. It lets us restore everything from a single document to an entire machine. My ops team likes AppAssure because it's up 100 percent of the time and they know they can easily recover from anything to keep the business going.
"Whenever a new technology need arises, I always turn to Dell first and ask, 'What solutions do you have for this?' They take the time to understand what we do, how we generate revenue, who our clients are and how we make them happy to ensure that their product is a good fit. The Dell solutions we've deployed have helped us create a stable, reliable, innovative foundation for making our clients raving fans."
See What Integrated Endpoint, Mobility and Security Management Can Do for You
I bet your organization shares at least some of the challenges that Advantage Waypoint faced. If an integrated endpoint, mobility and security management can help a company being born out of a nine-way merger, think what it could do for you. It won't make you breakfast, but it just might save your bacon.
To learn more about how you can empower your IT team to efficiently manage and secure a wide range of corporate and user-owned devices, be sure to read our new e-book, "Technology Tunnel Vision, Part 2: Centralized management for all connected devices."
About Harry Folloder | CIO at Advantage Waypoint
Folloder led the technical team that successfully integrated nine regional foodservices brokers to create Advantage Waypoint. He is also president of Folloder Foodservice, Inc., and former partner and founder of Net Guyz, LLC.
Cost is always a concern when you're buying new software. But it's critical to consider not only software licensing costs but all financial components.
In this series of blog posts, I've been talking about systems lifecycle management solutions in particular. Whether you're looking to invest in your first solution or thinking about replacing your existing solution, be sure to ask about licensing costs. But also be sure to ask questions like these:
A Complete Financial Comparison of Systems Lifecycle Management Solutions
For help identifying and quantifying all the cost factors involved in executing a successful systems lifecycle management implementation, look no further than "Best Practices in Lifecycle Management," a paper from Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. (EMA). This report provides not only a detailed functional comparison of the four most popular systems lifecycle management solutions on the market, but a complete financial comparison as well. It explains how to evaluate all the cost components:
For each of these costs, the paper builds out a total implementation cost based on size of organization, number of servers, length of maintenance contract, number of locations and other variables. It's easy to follow and it's designed to help you pencil out your own costs.
Get your free copy of "Best Practices in Lifecycle Management" and review EMA's detailed cost comparison of the four products, including Dell KACE appliances.
Ever wonder how many minutes in a day you could reclaim if you didn't have to run herd over OS deployments, patches, upgrades, reimaging and the myriad other systems management and deployment tasks that take up your time? Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say there are probably other things you'd rather do with that lost time. There are never enough hours in a day; at least not for the things we actually want to do.
Work-life Balance Makes Headlines
Last August's New York Times investigative report exposing brutal work schedules at Amazon.com continues to reverberate across the tech industry. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz took to his blog to weigh in: "Many people believe that weekends and the 40-hour workweek are some sort of great compromise between capitalism and hedonism, but that's not historically accurate," he wrote. "The research is clear: beyond 40-50 hours per week, the marginal returns from additional work decrease rapidly and quickly become negative."
But according to Glassdoor.com, the trend seems to be heading in the wrong direction. According to the site's 5-point rating system, employees rated work-life balance a 3.2 in 2015, down from 3.4 in 2012 and 3.5 in 2009.
Tools: Making Life Easier
Leaving at 6 p.m. shouldn't be a fantasy. In IT, the right tools can make the difference between exhaustion and exhilaration. So why are we chaining ourselves to time-consuming, repetitive tasks when there are tools available to set us free?
Having a tool capable of "lights off" deployments — re-imaging machines, installing and updating crucial apps — during non-business hours seems an obvious solution. And while we're at it, why not adopt one that can automate every step of the systems management lifecycle. Systems management and deployment tools like these do exist, but perhaps we first need to give up the ingrained belief that running ourselves ragged is the only way to prove the value we offer our organizations.
Remembering Why We Work
Take a minute to read our latest Real IT story about an overworked IT administrator and avid gamer who's been sacrificing personal time to keep crucial systems up and running for a non-profit health clinic. Though he gains satisfaction knowing his work helps doctors provide better care, the constant "firefighting" pushes him to a breaking point when 162 new computers destined for the clinic's remote locations show up misconfigured, potentially requiring days of overtime to become useable — right before a long-planned birthday trip to E3 with his son. Does he make it?
About Stephen Hatch
Stephen is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Dell KACE. He has over eight years of experience with KACE and over 20 years of marketing communications experience.
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Are you ready to manage the massive increase in devices? There are over 2 billion mobile devices shipping every year and over 28 billion IoT devices projected to be active by 2020.
It Doesn't Stop There
More devices means more apps which means an explosion of data, which means more security threats than ever before. So how do you discover, update, manage and secure all of these devices? Today's network is more vulnerable than ever due to the rise of these personal devices, BYOD, IoT and a growing mobile workforce. Managing and securing this massive increase in devices is now more important than ever before.
Check out this new infographic and see just some of the challenges and imperatives you have to deal with to address this ever growing trend.
To learn more about how to efficiently manage and secure a wide range of corporate and user-owned devices, be sure to read our new e-book, Technology Tunnel Vision: Why endpoint management without network security is putting your organization at risk.
Variety, they say, is the spice of life. But too much spice can lead to heartburn.
That's the challenge facing most IT administrators today: they must manage not just a few familiar platforms but hundreds or thousands of computers and servers running multiple versions of Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux, and, more recently, Chrome OS. In such complex heterogeneous environments, everyday tasks — like keeping track of all hardware and software, making sure you are in compliance with applicable regulations and licensing agreements, maintaining security, and providing exceptional support — become increasingly difficult.
Effective Systems Management Across Multiple Operating Systems
In my last post, I introduced "Best Practices in Lifecycle Management," a research paper from Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. (EMA), which evaluates the four most popular systems lifecycle management solutions on the market:
In addition to the detailed functional comparison I mentioned in my last post, the paper provides an extremely valuable chart (shown above) that identifies which specific Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix platforms each solution supports. Only Dell KACE appliances cover every version and flavor listed. If you spend your workday managing a multi-platform environment, then you'll find EMA's checklist a valuable resource in preparing for your next investment in a systems lifecycle management product.
Get all the details by downloading your free copy of the EMA report.


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I use the libtheoraplayer to include video payback into a game (http://www.gamedev.net/topic/557959-theora-playback-library-10-rc1/page__p__4610652__hl__theora__fromsearch__1).
The sample on the lib use openAL to read sound but I should use Fmod or directly DirectSound..
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Sociocultural anthropology
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Sociocultural anthropology is a portmanteau used to refer to social anthropology and cultural anthropology together. Some universities, such as Boston University, link them together into one major of study. However, mostly they are separated because of their different focuses.
The rubric cultural anthropology is generally applied to ethnographic works that are holistic in spirit, oriented to the ways in which culture affects individual experience, or aim to provide a rounded view of the knowledge, customs, and institutions of a people. Social anthropology is a term applied to ethnographic works that attempt to isolate a particular system of social relations such as those that comprise domestic life, economy, law, politics, or religion, give analytical priority to the organizational bases of social life, and attend to cultural phenomena as somewhat secondary to the main issues of social scientific inquiry.[1]
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"If the U.S. government had not chosen this policy path -- fostering the growth of a bubble of unprecedented size and equally unprecedented number of weak and high-risk residential mortgages -- the great financial crisis of 2008 would never have occurred," Wallison said.
Among the volume of evidence Wallison offers in his dissent is a 2005 HUD report that openly admits: "(L)enders have been encouraged by HUD and banking regulators to increase lending to low-income and minority households ... Sometimes these borrowers are higher risk, with blemished credit histories and high debt or simply little savings for a down payment. Lenders have responded with low down payment loans and automated underwriting."
He charges that the Democrats who wrote the report refused to acknowledge the reckless role that government housing policy played in the run-up to the subprime mortgage collapse, which is still wreaking havoc in the nation's depressed housing industry and in the larger economy.
While Democrats have tried to lay the entire subprime collapse at the doorstep of George W. Bush's administration, the roots of the subprime scandal really go back to the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, when he and Democratic leaders were pushing policies that sharply raised the number of mortgages to minorities and low-income home buyers.
"In 1993 (home ownership) was 63 percent; by the end of the Clinton administration it was 68 percent. The growth in the Bush administration was about 1 percent," Wallison wrote in his analysis: "The True Origins of This Financial Crisis" in the February 2009 issue of The American Spectator.
The New York Times "reported in 1999 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were under pressure from the Clinton administration to increase lending to minorities and low-income home buyers -- a policy that necessarily entailed higher risks. Can there really be a question ... where the push to reduce lending standards and boost home ownership came from?" he writes.
The two major policy culprits in the federal push to lower lending standards were the Community Reinvestment Act and what was known as the affordable housing "mission" that Freddie and Fannie were instructed to administer.
By the mid-1990s, under Clinton administration pressure, federal regulators created new lending rules under which banks had to show "that they had actually made a requisite number of loans to low-and moderate-income borrowers" by using "innovative or flexible" lending practices," Wallison writes.
HUD pressed for new mortgage lending policies under the 1994 National Homeownership Strategy developed at Clinton's request. Among its provisions, it called for "financing strategies, fueled by the creativity and resources of the private and public sectors, to help homeowners that lack cash to buy a home and to make the payments."
According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, subprime loans made to borrowers with poor credit records rose from 7.2 percent to nearly 19 percent. Standards for other loans fell as well. Fannie and Freddie eagerly bought them up, with the government guaranteeing them. And the bubble grew until it burst in 2008, and the rest is history.
The blame for this scandal rests first and foremost with the federal government.
Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times.
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WEST GOSHEN ñ With each passing season under veteran head coach Diane Lokey, West Chesterís softball program is making strides and covering new ground.
Wrapping up a decade at WCU, Lokeyís current squad is one of 64 teams in the nation to earn a bid to the 2013 NCAA Division II Tournament. With their next victory, Golden Rams (34-19) will establish a new record for wins in a season, and PSAC foe Lock Haven (28-14) will provide the opposition in todayís Atlantic Region opener (3:30 p.m.) in California (Pa.).
The winner will advance to face the Cal (36-4)-Chowan (26-21) winner on Saturday. A loss would drop West Chester into the loserís bracket.
ìAt this point, anybody can win on a given day,î Lokey said. ìWeíve beaten every team in our (four-team) pod. It doesnít mean we will automatically win again but it helps with confidence.î
Into the NCAAís for just the third time (all since 2008), WCU did experienced moments of self-doubt at various times this spring. But the Rams should be bolstered by the fact that they beat Lock Haven in round one of the PSAC Tournament 10 days ago, and swept a doubleheader against Chowan in April.
West Chester is 1-2 versus Cal this season, but the most recent meeting was a demoralizing 10-1 mercy-rule defeat in the PSAC semis a week ago. Afterwards, the Rams admitted they were intimidated heading in.
ìWe talked about it after the game,î Lokey acknowledged. ìWe have to go out there and play, and see what happens. We canít be intimidated.î
With wins in eight of the last 11 outings, WCU grabbed a No. 4 seed -- the programís highest ever. And this squad broke through another barrier, becoming the first West Chester team to qualify for the PSAC and NCAA tournaments in the same season.
ìWe feel we deserve it,î Lokey said. ìThe girls have worked hard.
ìWeíve been in the postseason every year since 2008, and that definitely shows the progress of the program.î
In the two previous trips to the NCAA, the Rams went 1-2 in 2008 (beating Bowie State), and 0-2 in 2009. West Chester is looking to win its NCAA opener for the first time, and the 4-1 triumph over Lock Haven on May 1 is a blueprint on how to get it done.
ìWe played with a lot of intensity and passion in that game and weíll have to do that again,î Lokey said.
ìThis time of year it gets hard because there are so many distractions with finals and the end of the semester. And in some cases, it really comes down to who wants it more.î
The Rams did not commit a single error in that contest, and staff ace Devon Utterback kept the Eagles off balance, scattering four hits in a complete-game victory. The senior went on to become just the second WCU pitcher to notch 20-wins in a season, and is expected to get the start today.
If West Chester can get past Lock Haven ñ whoís dropped six straight -- the next opponent will most likely be the regionís top-seed, Cal. The Vulcans are a power hitting outfit and will have the advantage of playing at home, on a field with a tantalizingly short fences, especially to the power alleys.
ì(Cal) recruits certain players because it fits the type of field they have,î Lokey said. ìBut we canít worry about any of that. We will worry about the things we can control. We want to play so we have no regrets.î
With juniors holding down six of the eight starting positions, Lokey says that her 2013 team is one of the closest sheís ever had.
ìThey really respect one another and play for each other,î she explained. ìThere is no finger-pointing going on. I suppose some teams can do well as individuals, but this team will do better if we compete as one.î


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See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionarySyllabification: wind·surf·ing
Pronunciation: /ˈwin(d)ˌsərfiNG/
Definition of windsurfing in English:
The sport or pastime of riding on water on a sailboard.
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- With over 20 million windsurfers around the globe, this initiative is targeting windsurfing and related water sports as a tourism attraction.
- As she rattles off a list of pursuits that include snorkeling, kayaking, beach volleyball, scuba diving, windsurfing and water skiing, my anticipation and adrenaline levels skyrocket.
- He loves extreme sports like windsurfing, motor racing and water jet riding.
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- So he decided to windsurf across Bass Strait, non-stop.
- The resort offers ample opportunities to ride horses on the beach, play tennis, windsurf, kayak, dance at the nightclub and enjoy fresh local fish.
- Despite poor sound quality, the waterproof MP120 is ideal for those who want music while they swim, windsurf or jog in the rain.
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Thats NOT parenting!
Okay, lets just take a moment to think about what this CPS call would look like. Get back to the car, find the number for CPS... "Yes, I was at Walmart at such and such a place and time and saw a woman whose name I don't know and likely wouldn't be able to identify with two kids and a baby..."
What exactly is CPS going to do with that? I agree it's abuse, but let's not throw OP under the bus because we think we'd magically do the right thing in the same situation. The internet gives everyone all kinds of bravado.
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I'm sorry but what do you all think the store manager could have done that the OP couldn't have just done themselves? They're a store manager, not the police.
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Unfortunate situation, not likely that store manager or CPS would've done much. Honestly, I'm not sure there's much you could've done in that situation. Not OK to take it out on your SO, though.
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Willingham Steps Down; Is Meyer Next?
Lou Somogyi
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ESPN announced at 1:30 p.m. EST this afternoon that Tyrone Willingham will not return as Notre Dames head coach in 2005. Speculation centered on current Utah head coach Urban Meyer, an Irish assistant from 1996-2000 who has a Notre Dame clause in his contract, as the top candidate to replace Willingham.
Could Urban Meyer become the next coach for Notre Dame?
Willingham is only the second non-interim Notre Dame coach to hold the position only three years. The other was Hunk Anderson (1931-33). Perhaps not coincidentally, Anderson and Willingham are the only two Notre Dame coaches to lose each of their first three games against archrival USC. Willingham lost his third straight by 31 points to the Trojans this past weekend.
Willinghams three-year record of 21-15 (.583) is virtually identical to the three-year marks posted by Gerry Faust (18-15-1) and Bob Davie (21-16) after their third seasons with the Irish. More distressing was the lack of appreciable progress after an 8-0 start his first year. Since then, Notre Dame is 13-15.
Moreover, the Irish have lost eight games by 21 points or more under Willingham. Faust and Davie combined for just seven such losses in their 10 years combined. After last years 5-7 debacle, Notre Dame only managed a 6-5 mark this year, including a loss at 5-6 BYU to open the season and home losses to Big East foes Boston College and Pittsburgh. Although the Irish did upset two Top 10-ranked teams in Michigan and Tennessee, the frustrating losses overshadowed the dramatic victories.
Sources indicated that Willingham and his family were unhappy in South Bend and were looking for opportunities elsewhere. A news conference is scheduled to be held at the University at 4:00 p.m. EST.