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Cyclones In Sixth; Moreno and Weatherman Roll
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Iowa State wrestling team (9-7 overall, 1-2 Big 12) sits tied with Cornell and Oregon State for sixth-place with 9 points at the 2014 NCAA Wrestling Championships thanks to first period pins by No. 8 seed Michael Moreno and No. 12 seed Tanner Weatherman.
Moreno ran an arm bar over to stick Rider's Ramon Santiago 2:30 into the match. The win moves the Urbandale, Iowa, native into the round of 32 for the second straight season. He will face No. 9 seed Joe Booth of Hofstra next. Moreno pinned Booth in overtime earlier this season at the NWCA National Duals.
The 2013 All-American has scored bonus points in four of six career wins at the NCAA Championships.
Like Moreno, Weatherman is into the round of 32 for the second consecutive season. The Huxley, Iowa, native pinned Chattanooga's Levi Clemons in 2:09 for his first career pin at the NCAA Championships.
Weatherman faces No. 5 seed Matt Brown of Penn State later this evening. Brown won by major decision over Weatherman in the quarterfinals of the 2013 NCAA Championships in Des Moines.
No. 5 seed Kyven Gadson controlled his opening match from start to finish, winning 6-1 with 3:24 of riding time over Princeton's Abram Ayala. Gadson has not lost since the Southern Scuffle title match on Jan. 2 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Waterloo, Iowa, native faces No. 12 seed Taylor Meeks of Oregon State tonight in a battle of 2013 197-pound All-Americans. Meeks leads the all-time series with Gadson 1-0, beating him 8-6 last season in the third-place match at the Midlands Championships.
Two Cyclones, Gabe Moreno and Earl Hall, each picked up their first career wins at the NCAA Championships.
Moreno beat Oklahoma's Nick Lester 5-4 with 2:37 riding time in a pigtail match to start the morning at 141 pounds. In two previous matches this season, Lester outscored Moreno 23-0.
In the first round, Moreno was pitted against top-seed Mitchell Port of Edinboro and was pinned in the first period. He remains alive in the wrestle backs this evening and will face No. 16 seed Joe Spisak of Virginia.
Earl Hall knocked off No. 13 seed Evan Silver of Stanford in the opening round, scoring three takedowns in route to victory. The Homestead, Fla., native faces Air Force's Josh Martinez, the No. 4 seed, tonight.
Hall beat Martinez 5-3 at the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas back on Dec. 6 in their only previous meeting.
Lelund Weatherspoon faced a tall task in his opening match, as he drew No. 3 seed Gabe Dean of Cornell. The Jackson, Mich., native was unable to get his offense going and fell 12-4. He remains alive in the wrestle backs and will face Fred Garcia of Lehigh tonight.
Session II of the NCAA Wrestling Championships begins tonight at 6 p.m. CT, live from Chesapeake Energy Arena. ESPNU will be providing national TV coverage of tonight's matches.
Session I Team Standings:
1. Penn State – 16.5 pts.
2. Oklahoma State – 13.5 pts.
T-3. Edinboro – 11 pts.
T-3. Minnesota – 11 pts.
5. Nebraska – 9.5 pts.
T-6. Iowa State – 9 pts.
T-6. Cornell – 9 pts.
T-6. Oregon State – 9 pts.
T-9. Iowa – 8.5 pts.
T-9. Wisconsin – 8.5 pts.


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Many businesses, partners, Higher-Eds and ISPs have committed to Zimbra by becoming paying customers. And there is an even larger set that is part of our open source community. We just made an irrevocable contribution of Zimbra 5.0 to the open source. No one can take that away. We will remain true and faithful to our contractual obligations and will do everything possible to make sure that our biggest assets - you - remain confident that we are here to stay and execute. Thankfully, I can confidently say that the Zimbra movement is bigger than any one company.
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The man who has led the fight for information about the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune was at the Oval Office when President Obama signed a bill providing health care for those who suffered illnesses because of the toxins.
Jerry Ensminger of Elizabethtown was at the White House on Monday, when Obama signed the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act. Ensminger's daughter, Janey, died at the age of 9 of a rare form of childhood leukemia.
The bill provides health benefits to Marines and family members exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune from 1957 to 1987. Congress approved the bill last week.
Health officials believe as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to tainted groundwater.
The retired Marine whose quest for answers into contaminated water at Camp Lejeune is reacting now that a bill to help people affected by that water is one step from becoming law.
Jerry Ensminger lost his daughter Janey to leukemia when she was nine. The Janey Ensminger Act is named after her and only requires President Obama's signature.
Janey was conceived, carried and raised at Camp Lejeune. While pregnant with Janey, Ensminger's wife drank the water, along with giving it to her as she grew up on base. Little did they know at the time the toxins in the water could lead to childhood cancer and many other illnesses.
The Janey Ensminger Act will allow servicemen and women and their families who lived and worked on the base from 1957 to 1987 to have their medical bills covered.
Unfortunately, for those who have already lost loved ones, there is nothing that can be done. That's why Jerry Ensminger says he has been his daughter's voice after what he remembers her telling him. Ensminger says she told him, "I want to make a difference in this world and If through her short life and through her death think Janey has made more change than most human being make in their lives."
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cabell Midland's been in the playoff semifinals before. In fact, the Knights have now made it this far four times since 2000. Only this time, it feels different. Midland feels like it belongs there, and that could go a long way toward the team's ultimate goal when the Knights (12-0) lock up with Morgantown (10-2) tonight in the Class AAA semis. Kickoff is set for 7:30 in Ona. The survivor advances to the state championship game at noon on Dec. 1 at Wheeling Island Stadium. The Mohigans last made that trip during a title run in 2005; the Knights, meanwhile, have never played in the state finals. However, second-year coach Luke Salmons has noticed a difference in his players' attitude this season as his program posted the school's first-ever unbeaten regular season and secured the No. 1 seed for the playoffs. "I don't want to say they expect to be here,'' Salmons said, "but last year, when they made it to the second round, they were happy. So this year, we have a different mindset. They want to keep playing, and they want to win. They're not happy just to be here; they want to win and go to Wheeling. "They don't talk about getting to the playoffs and going undefeated. Their mindset is they're going to win, and that's important to believe that. They've been pretty even keel since the beginning of the season, and that's the way they've worked as a team. That's why they're here.'' Midland leans on a reliable running game, led by seniors David Gaydosz (1,886 yards, 26 touchdowns) and Lowell Farley (1,471 yards, 19 TDs), the latter the school's all-time rushing leader. Kasey Thomas and Coy Pettit split time at quarterback. Gaydosz, running behind a dominating line that features 2011 first-team all-stater Josh Baisden, posted back-to-back games of six touchdowns at midseason against Woodrow Wilson and Winfield. "We've got to contain Gaydosz and Farley and their big plays,'' said Mohigans coach John Bowers. "We can't let them go 75 or 80 yards. We've got to make them snap the ball 12, 15, 16 times. "Our philosophy is that even a good high school team will make a mistake - holding, jump offside - if they have to play that long. But you can't defend against a big play. We want to line up, tackle them and play again.'' Morgantown also features a ground-heavy attack, led by Shane Commodore, who took over as lead back when Chazzy Thomas went down with an ankle injury toward the end of the regular season. In two playoff games, Commodore has run 33 times for 396 yards and seven TDs. Quarterback Mark Johnson has been accurate in the postseason, completing 13 of 19 passes for 164 yards and two scores with no interceptions. "They have different variations of the run game,'' Salmons said, "with the slot, pro and stick-I. They do multiple things at the same time when they want to run off tackle. "[Johnson] can throw and they've got good receivers, but they're just a good team. If you shut down the run, they can still throw, but they're not going to live and die with that. They want to establish the run game.'' Bowers, however, wonders if his team can sustain drives against a capable defensive front of Midland, which employs a rare two-platoon system at the West Virginia high school level. "Defensively, their down tackles are as good as anyone we've seen,'' Bowers said. "The defensive ends try to keep you contained and force pressure on you, and the rest of their kids rally to the ball.''


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Testimony :: Olga Jonas
Secretary - Free Czechoslovakia Fund
Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today about the problems US citizens have in receiving equal treatment in the Czech Republic. This is not just a problem for the US citizens concerned – most of them aging widows – but also for residents of the Czech Republic and for establishment of the rule of law in the Czech Republic.
Let me start by quoting Secretary of State Colin Powell – this is what he said yesterday: "The hidden architecture of sustainable development is the law. The law. The law. The rule of law that permits wonderful things to happen. The rule of law that permits people to be free and to pursue their God-given destiny, and to reach and to search and to try harder for their country, for their family. The rule of law that attracts investment. The rule of law that makes investment safe. The rule of law that will make sure there is no corruption, that will make sure there is justice in a nation that is trying to develop." I believe that this is absolutely key, and that is why since 1991 I have been engaged on the issue of restitution to the victims of the Nazi and Communist regimes.
Today I want to speak about three topics. First, a brief overview of the status – not so much of the relevant laws (because these have not changed) but of the Czech government's policy, how it's being implemented and how it shows that there is not rule of law in the Czech Republic. Second, I want to describe two specific cases that illustrate my general points. And, finally, I will have some suggestions about what the US government could do, going forward, to accelerate justice. As Stuart Eizenstat told this Commission six years ago, "Justice delayed is justice denied." Today many people on both sides of the Atlantic are still waiting.
First, the overall status. Since 1990 the Czech authorities have sought to establish a democratic state based on the rule of law as well as a market economy. Property has been at the center of these changes. But only half-hearted attempts were made to allow some of the victims of Nazi and Communist era confiscations to apply for return of some of their properties. Czech legislation governing private property is fraught with restrictions and limitations whose effect has been to unreasonably reduce the amount of property being returned. Nazi and Communist era confiscations are often legitimized by the new government, in which former Communists still occupy key positions, both in the executive and in the judicial branches.
Over time, it has become clear that the Czech government's policy on return of confiscated properties has one – and only one – purpose: to directly benefit Communist and former Communist functionaries who have acquired these properties, or hope to acquire them in privatization. All other reasons that Czech officials have offered to Western observers can be shown to be false. For instance, ten years ago, Vaclav Klaus and other Communist-trained economists claimed that returning properties would slow down privatization. This was a false claim to start with – in privatization the authorities had to invent mechanisms to identify the new owners. These mechanisms turned out to be protracted and highly corrupt. The Czech economy still has not recovered from the asset stripping and other "wild East" practices.
With restitution, this step could have been largely skipped – clearly there is an owner, and there is the advantage that this owner has a legitimate claim. This is so because of the effect of Act 119/1990 which annulled the illegitimate Communist verdicts ex tunc – as of the date they were pronounced. It is important to note that by annulment ex tunc the victims never ceased to be the owners, not even for a day. They were illegally denied use and enjoyment of their property – and for this they should receive compensation, in addition to the unconditional restoration of registration of their property in the property books. The Czech Constitutional Court issued several rulings to this effect – that the rehabilitated persons never stopped being the legitimate owners (though the de facto "owner" was someone else- first the state and then typically its high nomenclatura servants). But the lower courts, at the behest of the government, systematically prevent the implementation of these rulings, refusing to restore possession to the rightful owners. This is one more example of the sad fact that the Czech Republic is not yet a state under the rule of law.
The most serious are the clauses disallowing return of property to all persons who are not now considered Czech citizens, to legal persons, and to those victims whose Nazi-confiscated assets were to be returned by the 1945 restitution laws but the return was not actually carried out in time before the Communist takeover in 1948. The victims live both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Their unreturned properties are being steered into the hands of well-connected former Communists and state security agents who are thereby paradoxically rewarded for their support of Communism under the previous regime.
The policy of the Czech government is to deny US citizens the right to apply for return of their confiscated property. This was deemed to violate the non-discrimination requirement of article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in July 1995 and again in July 1996. These rulings are being ignored by the Czech government, although they have the force of constitutional law in the Czech Republic. The Czech government also disregards repeated requests by the US government and by the US Helsinki Commission to stop discriminating against US citizens. So, to this day, the Czech Republic discriminates in the area of fundamental rights and freedoms; and the right of everyone to own property is abused. Now the European Court will consider the case of several US citizens in this regard. We hope that the Czech government will pay attention. The restoration of the rule of law is not important only for the victims. It is also clear that a market economy simply cannot flourish on the basis of property rights that are illegitimate - and uncertain. Property rights remain uncertain because, fortunately, many people still expect that eventually justice will prevail, even against the wishes of the present Czech government. Just last week the Forum of European Businessmen appealed to the Czech government to improve the investment climate by reducing corruption and improving functioning of the courts. Given the record of the Czech government in taking on board such advice, they may yet have to wait.
Now let me tell you about one case, one among certainly hundreds, if not thousands. Two brothers, Jan and Jaroslav, inherited their family home in 1946, after their father died. This is a nice villa, corresponding to the family's upper-middle class status, with three apartments and a garden, in a good location near the center of Prague. In 1953, the government had Action "B" Against the Bourgeoisie, to implement its policy of "class cleansing." In a matter of hours, Jan and Jaroslav and their mother were evicted, their belongings were put on a truck and shipped to a remote village, to a house without indoor plumbing. Their mother was not allowed to return to Prague till 1960. The house was taken over by the government housing enterprise, rented for a pittance – about $50 per month, and allowed to deteriorate over the years. When the restitution law (Act 87/1991) was passed in 1991, Jaroslav applied for return of the house, both on his behalf and on behalf of his brother Jan, who had escaped to the USA and became a US citizen in 1974. The court did return Jaroslav's half but it did not return Jan's half, giving as reason that Jan is a US citizen and so is not eligible. So Jaroslav immediately applied for the return of Jan's half to himself (as the only family member deemed to be eligible) – but the court refused again, giving as reason that Jan was still alive. This was back in 1992.
So Jan then pursued the case in Czech courts and even appealed to the European Commission of Human Rights. That was in 1995. I want to quote from the "Observations of the Government of the Czech Republic" on Application No. 23063/93 submitted to the European Commission of Human Rights and signed on September 27, 1995, by the Director for Human Rights from the Czech Foreign Ministry, Mr. Rudolf Hejc: "Different treatment of the applicant and his brother may be justified by their different legal status, based on different citizenship." This is the reason for the discrimination. Jan re-acquired Czech citizenship in 1999, when this became possible. But this did not help because the deadlines had long since passed. So to this day, many legal petitions later, the government still refuses to surrender Jan's half of the house; it is still deteriorating, and without doubt there are a number of local operators who are waiting to buy Jan's half from the government, as soon as Jan is dead. This is an especially unattractive aspect of the Czech government's approach – the barely concealed wish for the victims to die. Well, Jan – who was my father – did die four months ago. My mother inherited everything. She wants to pursue the case but in the Czech Republic (where she inherited nothing but this claim), my father's will has to go through probate. This will take some time - certainly months, maybe years. Another case, very similar, was that of George Hartman. George – many of whose relatives perished in the Holocaust – came to the US after the Communist putsch in 1948. He tirelessly lectured about the misdeeds of the Communists. After 1990, the house that he owned with his brother was also only "half-returned". His brother, who lived in France since 1948, and whom the Czechs recognized as a citizen, got his half. George never got his own half only because the Czech government declared him ineligible on account of his US citizenship – and George also died this spring. As for the 1928 Treaty on citizenship, I want to note that over the years the Czech governments abused the Treaty, with the sole objective of depriving US citizens of their property rights.
So what can be done now? First of all, we hope that this Commission will continue and, indeed, deepen, its activities on property rights in post-Communist countries. Only Western pressure will help. The protests of the victims have not had any effect. For instance, thirty organizations submitted a Proclamation to the Czech President and other officials several years ago; these officials took no notice. We would like this Proclamation be made part of the record of this hearing. Now that the Czech Republic is in NATO, Czech officials feel that there is not so much US government interest in how the country is run. It is important for the US government to impress on the Czech government that it has obligations – to conduct itself in line with international agreements on human rights, in a nondiscriminatory way. The US government should object when high government officials claim that everything that US citizens should have received has already been returned to their Czech relatives. The two examples I just described show that this is just not true. Yet this claim is repeatedly made in the Czech press by Mr. Rychetsky, the Deputy Prime Minister, a former Communist, and the author of the discriminatory and defective restitution laws. Ending of the arbitrary discrimination should be at the top of the Administration's agenda for the planned visit to Washington of the Czech President Vaclav Havel on September 18, 2002.
The US authorities should demand that the Czech government respond to the two binding decisions of the UN Committee of Human Rights. The United States is a member of this committee. There should be a deadline – the one for responding to the UN Committee under its rules has long since passed. Nobody seems to care, so the Czech government is content. The US government should impress upon the Czech authorities that those being denied property are not simple beggars who can be put through countless bureaucratic hoops in order to prove that the property that is theirs should be returned – instead it is the obligation of the Czech governments to speed up this process, to make it easy for the claimants, to return property as soon as possible, and to pay compensation: first, for the delays that the present government has caused and second, for the period when the predecessor regime denied the victims the use and enjoyment of their assets. The Czech state did not just take over the assets of the predecessor Communist state – it also took over all its obligations. It should matter to US-Czech relations whether the Czech government treats the victims of the Nazi and Communist regimes with due respect and civility.
Second, we would like to encourage the Helsinki Commission to hold hearings with the responsible Czech officials, in the Czech Republic, with the Czech press and public having access. As you may know, Czech officials, notably Vaclav Klaus, have openly dismissed the appeals from the Helsinki Commission. It would be harder for them to do so if the hearings were held in the Czech Republic. It's a lovely country to visit, the people are really kind – that is, people other than the officials, among whom are some former dissidents who seem to have forgotten about human rights now that they are in power. I hope that the members of this Commission will seriously consider this proposal.
Finally, it would help to begin to hold accountable the specific officials who have been active in denying the basic rights of US citizens for the last decade. They should not be eligible to receive visas to visit the US. They are engaging in arbitrary and discriminatory persecution of US citizens and their families. We have compiled a list from the voluminous correspondence between the victims and Czech officials. Maybe this proposal could be taken into consideration in the ongoing review of US visa policy.
In closing, I would like to acknowledge on behalf of all the Czech exiles the very helpful work that Erika Schlager and Maureen Walsh have been doing on these matters over the last several years. There are many people on both sides of the Atlantic who are very grateful that this Commission exists and continues its work for human rights.
Thank you.


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Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Born Michael Gerard Tyson in Brooklyn, NY on June 30, 1966, he was one of three children born to Lorna Smith and Jimmy Kirkpatrick, who abandoned the family when Tyson was two. As was often the case with fatherless children, Tyson's early life was plagued by turmoil; financial difficulties forced the family to leave Bedford-Stuyvesant for the tough public housing in the East Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, and Tyson quickly fell in with a bad crowd. By the time he was 13, he had amassed a criminal record of 38 arrests, as well as a reputation for street brawling, which was often spurred by comments about his high-pitched speaking voice and pronounced lisp. He was eventually sent to the... Continue Bio >>
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For more than five years, he's aired his show from the Shake and Bake Center on Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore, and then had tons of toys delivered to Mrs. Santa.
They decided being at AFRO headquarters would negate the need for the delivery, provide easier access for donors as well as present the opportunity for Mrs. Santa to share a light breakfast with the community.
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Named by the Greater Baltimore Urban League as the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award winner, Young's enthusiasm was apparent even though he was a bit under the weather recently.
"I'm pretty sure this is a first, at least I know it is for Radio One and our 54 stations," the former state senator said, referring to the upcoming broadcast.
He's also sure this partnership between a Black radio station and a Black newspaper is something new and that it will be modeled across the country. His show is rated the number one Black talk show in Maryland.
Every year, Mrs. Santa, with the assist of donations to AFRO Charities, serves at least 100 families and beyond with additional items going to area churches, shelters and transitional facilities. The letters begin to trickle in early, some before Halloween, and then become a torrent right after Thanksgiving.
"We try to help everyone who sends a request," said AFRO Director of Community and Public Relations Diane Hocker, also known as Mrs. Santa since 2000. "And with the help of individual donations and especially groups, like the sororities and fraternities, we never turn anyone away."
The requests that now come in hand-delivered envelopes and email are too many to be printed, and with the sagging economy, increase every year. Hocker works with a team of elves – AFRO employees and volunteers – maintaining Mrs. Santa's workshop until every item is in the right place.
Mrs. Santa has been around since 1947 to ensure that families have what they need during the holiday season, but it didn't stop with Christmas. Provision was made at Easter and Thanksgiving, in addition to aid in the wake of local disasters.
In 1974, with $14,421, 450 families received food baskets and 584 families received $10 food certificates and toy certificates from Montgomery Ward, according to notes from the late Ida Peters who was Mrs. Santa back then.
There were also events like the Christmas Eve party, for more than 1500 children, featuring regional entertainers at the Regent Theater.
Donations can be made throughout the year to AFRO Charities in care of the AFRO American Newspapers. For more information, contact Diane Hocker, [email protected] or 410-554-8243.
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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These are exciting times for networking researchers. New developments in data-center networking—and the new efficiencies those advances offer—are making this one of the hottest fields in computing.
Major figures in networking and communications research gather in Hong Kong from Aug. 12 to 16 for SIGCOMM 2013, the flagship annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications. And a trio of papers from the Mobility and Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond will provide an eye-opening vision of what can be accomplished in the short term—and what the future could bring.
The topic of the hour in these environs is software-defined networks (SDNs), which provide a clean way to control and manage data-center networks and make them increasingly flexible. It's a passion shared across the Mobility and Networking Research Group, as exemplified by Victor Bahl and George Varghese.
SDNs won't be the only focus of SIGCOMM 2013. Microsoft Research will present 10 of the 39 papers accepted for presentation—seven of them from the Redmond group and one each from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Microsoft Research India, and Microsoft Research Asia.
But, as noted by Bahl, a Microsoft Research principal researcher and manager of the Mobility and Networking Group, his team's SDN contributions certainly will enliven the SIGCOMM conversation.
"Software-defined networking," he says, "has taken the community by storm."
At issue is the communications infrastructure that connects the giant data centers where web-scale data is warehoused. For years, that infrastructure has been constrained by the hardware that manages the network backbone that connects those data centers. Now, though, research is providing ways to make those communications more flexible and efficient, and SDNs play an integral role in that transformation.
"They separate out the control plane from the data plane," Bahl explains. "That means the part of the network that makes decisions [the control plane] on where the traffic is sent is decoupled from the part that forwards traffic [the data plane]. As a result, the hardware for the data plane [the network switches] becomes much simpler."
Suppliers of high-end network hardware traditionally have produced expensive switches because they include lots of fancy features, which require memory and computation.
That, Bahl says, is about to change.
"Researchers have been working on this problem for many years, and they have figured out a way to remove the most essential control logic from the network switches and put it into a different box, which then sends control packets to configure the switches according to the desired policy," he says. "That reduces the complexity in the switches, makes them cheaper, and simplifies the network, because now you have fewer heavyweight network components to manage. You still have to manage every component, but you can change network behavior more intelligently, and failures are easier to detect and handle."
SDNs work particularly well in enabling data-center networking, and that's the context for Bahl's group's three SDN-related papers for SIGCOMM 2013:
As more and more computation and data move into the cloud, communication between data centers becomes increasingly critical for providers of online services, and that's where SDNs could play an important role, as outlined in the Achieving High Utilization with Software-Derived WAN paper.
"The problem there," Bahl says, "has been that bandwidth between data centers is expensive. We pay a lot of money for the thick pipes that connect our different data centers. The reason we have thick pipes is that, for example, Bing indexes the entire web. Hundreds of thousands of servers in a data center are used to index the web. Once they've done it, these indexes have to be moved to other data centers, but that's a lot of data, and it has to be moved quickly for it to be relevant."
While the pipe connecting data centers is large enough to accommodate the peak requirements created by the indexes, when the indexes have been moved, this pipe becomes underutilized. At times, the flow of information through the big pipe slows to a relative trickle.
"The reason is," Bahl says, "the network itself is not able to adapt its global behavior intelligently to the changing requirements. Ideally, after high-priority indexes have been moved, the network would reconfigure itself to meet the traffic demands of other servers inside the data centers. With SDNs, by pulling out the control and making the switch simpler, the controller is able to look at all traffic demands globally and configure the switches to adapt the network behavior intelligently.
"Looking at pipe utilization, there are peaks and valleys. With SDNs, we fill the valleys with data from different sources inside the data center and fill up the pipe."
The stakes are high.
"There's data to be moved," Bahl states. "Once the data moves, the servers become free, and then they can be used for other jobs. If the data does not move fast enough, even though we have a big pipe, the servers stall. By making the pipe available to these stalled servers, we free them up to do other work, thus getting more efficiency out of the data center.
"We will save a lot of money if we get this right. This is important because it will reduce the overall cost of operating data centers, which, in turn, will reduce the cost for everyone using the cloud."
That, though, is not all. The approach taken by Varghese and his colleagues in the Forwarding Metamorphosis paper could represent yet another sea change.
Within a data center, a router performs two vital processes: packet forwarding and managing the dynamic tables that determine the forwarding address when a link changes. SDNs can enable changing the software that controls the building of the routing tables, providing more flexibility with the control plane. But the basic hardware portion of the router can't be changed.
The forwarding mechanism, though, can.
"We propose mechanisms to allow changing the forwarding, in addition to changing the routing, as SDN already allows," Varghese says. "That's really the big idea here.
"The 'forwarding metamorphosis' means we can actually change what is done to a packet as it travels through a router, which SDNs today cannot. SDNs only allow you to change the contents of tables, but not the actual forwarding process of a router. We change the way you could understand packets, the way you could allocate table entries among various functions of the router, and the way you could process a packet so that the same piece of hardware can be transformed from being an edge router to a core router to even what is called a bridge."
For some time, researchers thought that network processors could provide the ability to provide additional flexibility with the packet-forwarding piece of the data-communications puzzle. But routers work at speeds much, much faster than the fastest network processor or field-programmable gate array. As Varghese explains, "We really need the power of raw hardware."
That's not to say that such power cannot be combined with flexibility. He and his co-authors—acclaimed researchers from Stanford University and circuit designers from Texas Instruments—have constructed a mechanism that provides three flexibilities:
"We built a flexible parser," Varghese says, "where, in an operational network, you could say: 'I'm changing this protocol. It uses these particular bits in the packet, and this is what they now mean.' We can do that without upgrading the hardware."
Such work represents nothing less than a new frontier in networking.
"This," Varghese says, "is what SDNs should look like five years from now."
The third SDN-related paper provides further evidence of Microsoft Research's intention to remain at the forefront of this exciting new opportunity.
The new network architecture of SDNs creates a unique problem—and opportunity— that the zUpdate paper addresses. zUpdate eases network planning necessary to keep data-center networks running smoothly during software updates.
"This," Bahl says, "is about how you update these switches and do so in a way that doesn't affect the smooth operation of the data center. You have to update them in a very systematic manner."
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During an 85 mile ride yesterday, the speedo showed 80+mph. I held it there for maybe 5 seconds at the most and then gently backed off. Before I die I think I would like to whip somebody, give them a good licking. Its bad to think I might go thru my whole life never ever beating up on another man.
It is too easy to die, in a fight, even if you are very good - all it takes is a blow in the wrong place. It is not worth the risk of death, or killing the opponent, so avoid it unless pressed hard by a fool, then end it quickly.
Hi All,my first post on this forum, and someone's started a thread on something that gets me started - no, not the violence, just getting an Electra-X to pick up her skirts and run like she was meant to!First off, your Electra-X has a redesigned engine that is really is intended to cope with more enthusiastic use than the stock classic. It's not just the tougher crank and gear oil pumps, have you had a look inside the head? I'll post some pictures, the inlet port is big, with very little work needed for some fun. The whole thing seems designed to rev. 80 MPH is not unreasonable, and set up right an Electra-X is good for more. On my side of the Atlantic (sorry, another one joined!) some riders a few pounds lighter than me (and with less sail area, I'm 6'3" tall) have been getting very good speeds from their Electras. I think the best was some guy from Finland who posted on the Hitchcock's board and, after converting from kilometers and adjusting for speedometer error, we calculated his top speed must have been 90+ mph, officer! His Electra had the 32mm Dell'orto pumper carb which the UK importers supply as well as a free flowing exhaust. Rick who also posts here has had some excellent performance from his Electra-X, some of this with the stock Mikarb CV carb jetted up and a modified needle!What I have noticed is that the overall gearing on my Electra is slightly too high for me with the stock 18 tooth countershaft sprocket, yet plenty of Electra riders seem happier with 19 or even 20 tooth versions. Weird, perhaps I still need to lose more weight! Adrian
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text: Under pressure: The science of stress Stress 10 August 10 by Jonah Lehrer This article was taken from the September issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing onlineBaboons are nasty and brutish. They have a long muzzle and fangs designed to inflict deadly injury, and are largely defined by their social habits -- they live in groupings of several dozen and have a strict hierarchy. Whereas female rank is hereditary, males compete for dominance. These fights are bloody and the stakes are immense: a higher rank means more sex. The losers face a bleak array of options -- submission, exile or death. In 1978, Robert Sapolsky was a college graduate with a degree in biological anthropology and a job in Kenya. He set off for a year of fieldwork among baboons before returning to the US for grad school and lab drudgery.His wilderness experience consisted of backpacking trips; he had lit a campfire only once. On making his way to the bush, he discovered a sprawling savannah filled with zebras and wildebeests and elephants. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Sapolsky remembers. "There was an animal behind every tree. I was inside the diorama."Sapolsky slowly introduced himself to a troop of baboons, letting them adjust to his presence. After a few weeks, he began recognising individual animals, giving them nicknames from the Old Testament. It was an act of rebellion against his childhood Hebrew-school teachers, who rejected the blasphemy of Darwinian evolution. "I couldn't wait to record that Nebuchadnezzar and Naomi were off screwing in the bushes," Sapolsky wrote in A Primate's Memoir. "It felt like a pleasing revenge."Before long, Sapolsky's romantic vision collided with the dismal reality of living in the bush. His feet itched from a fungal infection, his skin was covered in insect bites, the Masai stole his stuff, he had awful diarrhoea, and he was terribly lonely. Sapolsky's subjects gave him no glimpse of good fellowship. They seemed to devote all of their leisure time -- and baboon life is just that -- to mischief and malevolence. "I discovered that I didn't like them very much," he says. "They're awful to one another, scheming and backstabbing. They're likechimps without the self-control." Although Sapolsky was disturbed -- this was nature, red in tooth and claw -- he realised that their cruelty presented an opportunity to investigate the effects of social upheaval. He noticed that the males at the bottom of the hierarchy were thinner and more skittish. "They just didn't look very healthy," Sapolsky says. "That's when I began thinking about how damn stressful it must be to have no status. You never know when you're going to get beaten up. You never get laid. You have to work a lot harder for food."So Sapolsky set out to test the hypothesis that the stress involved in being at the bottom of the baboon hierarchy led to health problems. At the time, stress was mostly ignored as a medical subject. It was seen as an unpleasant mental state with few long-term consequences. "Studies had linked stress to ulcers, but that was about it," he says. "It struck most doctors as unlikely that your feelings could affect your health. Viruses, sure. Carcinogens, absolutely. But stress? No way."Sapolsky, however, was determined to get some data. He wasn't yet focused on human beings or public health. His transformation into one of the leading researchers on the science of stress would come later. Instead, he was busy learning how to shoot baboons with anaesthetic darts and then, while they were plunged into sleep, quickly measure their immune-system function and the levels of stress hormones and cholesterol in their blood.In the decades since, Sapolsky's speculation has become scientific fact. Chronic stress, it turns out, is an extremely dangerous condition. And not just for baboons: people are as vulnerable to its effects as those low-ranking male apes. Although stress doesn't cause any single disease -- in fact, the causal link between stress and ulcers has been largely disproved -- it makes most diseases significantly worse. The list of ailments connected to stress is staggeringly diverse and includes everything from the common cold and lower back pain to Alzheimer's disease, major depressive disorders and heart attack. Stress hollows out our bones and atrophies our muscles. It triggers adult-onset diabetes and is a leading cause of male impotence. In fact, numerous studies of human longevity in developed countries have found that psychosocial factors such as stress are the single most important variable in determining the length of a life. It's not that genes and risk factors like smoking don't matter. It's that our levels of stress matter more. Furthermore, the effects of chronic stress directly counteract improvements in medical care and public health. Antibiotics, for instance, are far less effective when our immune system is suppressed by stress; that fancy heart surgery will work only if the patient can learn to shed stress. As Sapolsky notes, "You can give a guy a drug-coated stent, but if you don't fix the stress problem, it won't really matter. For so many conditions, stress is the major long-term risk factor. Everything else is a short-term fix."The emergence of stress as a major risk factor is testament to scientific progress: the deadliest diseases of the 21st century are those in which damage accumulates over time. (Sapolsky refers to this as the "luxury of slowly falling apart".)Unfortunately, this damage is exacerbated by stress. Although medicine has made astonishing progress in treating the fleshy machine, it is only beginning to grapple with those misfortunes of the mind that undo our treatments. The power of this view -- that health is linked to our emotional state -- connects with a range of observations, from the sociological to the molecular. On one hand, stress can be described as a by-product of a society that leaves people in a state of unease. But that feeling can now be measured in blood and urine, quantified in terms of glucocorticoids and adrenal hormones. And we are starting to see, with scary precision, the devastating cascade unleashed by these chemicals. The end result is that stress is finally being recognised as a critical risk factor, predicting an ever larger percentage of health outcomes. To Sapolsky, the next step was obvious: attack the condition head-on. In 2003, he proposed a vaccine-like treatment that protects people against stress. It's an ambitious attempt to combat a societal scourge at the level of our DNA. Although years of work remain, Sapolsky now insists that, given the public-health consequences, it's time to take the problem seriously, to move our treatments beyond talk therapy and Valium. "Sometimes it's not enough just to tell people, 'You should really learn to relax,'" Sapolsky says. "If stress is as half as bad as we think it is, then we need to stop treating the side effects and go after stress itself." Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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I enjoy the little details and extraordinary ordinary elements of life. Such as watching Lauren leave the house to go out on the town. By bike, of course.
Bag in basket, undo the chain lock, take out the bag & put the lock in the basket.
Put the bag right back in the basket.
Conveniently just walk the 50 meters to the bridge.
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Royals, Cardinals announce "Teams Unite for Joplin" details
The Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals have announced details about "Teams Unite for Joplin" events, a collaborative effort with the St. Louis Cardinals, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association to help Joplin, Mo., recover from a devastating tornado that ripped through the city on May 22.
The upcoming I-70 Series at Busch Stadium, tonight through Sunday, will feature a number of fundraisers and awareness efforts dedicated to Joplin relief. Details are outlined below.
"Teams Unite for Joplin" Patch: For all three games of the weekend series, the Royals and Cardinals will wear a special commemorative "Teams Unite for Joplin" jersey patch. Fans have an opportunity to help support the Joplin relief effort by purchasing the commemorative patch for $10 online at www.royals.com/joplin or at Kauffman Stadium beginning Tuesday, June 21. All proceeds will benefit Joplin relief efforts. The patch will also be available at Busch Stadium this weekend.
"Teams Unite for Joplin" Items Featured in Online Auction: In addition, Royals Charities is hosting a special online auction featuring commemorative "Teams Unite for Joplin" game-used items from the Royals-Cardinals series. The auction, which includes items such as game-used bases, home plate, player jerseys and lineup cards with the commemorative logo signed by select Royals and Cardinals players, is now live at www.royals.com/joplin. The auction also includes the opportunity to secure a spot in the Joplin Jersey Hand-Off fundraiser scheduled for Saturday, June 25 following the Cubs-Royals game. In addition, the club is selling a limited number of commemorative "Teams Unite for Joplin" logo baseballs signed by select Royals. The auction will close on Sunday, June 26 at 8 p.m. with all proceeds benefiting Royals Charities disaster relief efforts.
Special Pregame Ceremony Details for Friday: The Royals and Cardinals will salute members of the Joplin High School softball team during pregame ceremonies. Danielle Campbell and Mikaila Craig, outfielders on the 2011 Eagles softball team who both lost their homes in the tornado, will both throw out a ceremonial first pitch with a Royals player and Cardinals player serving as catchers.
Special In-Game Ceremony Details for Saturday: During the first inning of Saturday night's game, eighteen teammates of the Eagles baseball team will join Royals and Cardinals players in a special tribute to Joplin High School, which was also destroyed by the tornado. Kansas City and St. Louis will wear the Joplin Eagles caps during pregame activities and when each team takes the field for the game. Members of the Joplin baseball team will participate in an on-field hat exchange with the big leaguers and receive an autographed baseball. The special Joplin Eagles hats worn by the Royals will then be included in a future auction to benefit Joplin relief efforts. Auction details will be announced at a later date.
Text to Donate: Royals fans can continue to support the Joplin relief effort by texting "REDCROSS" to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief.
Joplin Jersey Hand-Off Fundraiser: The Royals will also host a Joplin Jersey Hand-Off fundraiser on Saturday, June 25, giving fans to opportunity to win one of the autographed "Teams Unite for Joplin" jerseys from a Royals player. During the event, volunteers will sell $1 instant-win scratch tickets with proceeds benefiting the American Red Cross and Royals Charities disaster relief efforts. Following the club's 6:10 p.m. game against the Chicago Cubs, winners will be escorted to the field where Royals players and coaches will award the jerseys they wore during the Royals-Cardinals series. Fans can bid on the opportunity to secure a spot on the field at www.royals.com/joplin. Please note that this auction item will close on Monday, June 20.
Additional Efforts at Busch Stadium: The Cardinals will have volunteers outside all stadium gates this weekend to collect cash donations as fans enter the ballpark. In addition, the Cardinals will host a special live on-air auction of unique Cardinals experiences on KMOX and Fox Sports Net on Friday. The club will then host Cardinal Care Jersey Day, giving fans chances to win the game-used jerseys from the Cardinals after Sunday's game. Like the Royals, St. Louis will also host an online auction with game-used items from the weekend series that will run from June 18-26. For details on all these efforts, fans may visit www.cardinals.com/joplin.
In the wake of the Joplin tornado, Royals Charities made a $25,000 donation to Heart to Heart International for its relief efforts and made a goodwill trip to the city in conjunction with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, the club's Double-A affiliate in Springdale, Ark., on June 6. In addition, Royals fans generously contributed more than $18,000 during an in-stadium collection that will benefit the American Red Cross relief efforts.
Fans are encouraged to visit www.royals.com/joplin for more details on the club's disaster relief efforts and to learn about how they can help.
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I wish I could be there! I will certainly get the patch, though! I grew up a Cardinals fan, and am now a frequenter of the Royals games as well. My thoughts and prayers are with the the families in Joplin and the teams as they assist in the rebuilding of a community!