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[UPDATE] A massacre in Eastern Al-Ghouta's towns due to chemical weaponry - Wednesday, 21/8/2013 (self.SyrianUprising)
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A report from activists on location:
At around 3:00 a.m. in the morning, regime's forces fired rockets with chemical heads on Zamallaka and on Al Zainia area in Ein Turma. Jobar district was slightly affected by as the gases were driven to it by the wind. A big number of civilians were consequently subjected to the gases, leading to the martyrdom of tens of them. Up until now, primary reports from makeshift hospital of Arbeen (where victims were taken) report 41 martyrs fell (22 children, 11 women, 8 men), 5 other martyrs were taken to Douma, 40 martyrs documented by videos in Saqba, and at least 20 martyrs inside Ein Turma itself. Most activists report that death toll amounts to more than a 100 up until now. Many of the martyrs are children, seen in videos below suffocating to death.
Do note that the death toll is very hard to report right now as there are up to 80 civilians in critical conditions in a medical point in Arbeen solely, not mentioning all the other areas to which the patients subjected to the chemical weapons were taken to. [Note: patients were taken to several areas for treatment including Arbeen, Saqba, and Douma].
Symptoms of the patients include nausea, hallucinations, suffocation, hard coughing, high blood pressure, seizures, during affection and post-death gargle, etc. Still, no clue of the chemical weapon/toxic gas that was used by the regime's forces to target the innocent civilians.
Families are fleeing the targeted areas to Saqba and several other nearby areas as reported by activists there as they are utterly horrified. Activists also report the lack of Atropine that is usually used to treat civilians during chemical attacks by the regime; oxygen tanks are not available too. Medics are only using vinegar to the mouth and nose and are washing the bodies of the victims by water.
-- Doctor speaking from a medical point in Eastern Al Ghouta, also receiving victims of chemical weaponry:
-- Photos/videos of martyrs taken from Arbeen:
21 martyred children and 8 martyred men in video solely
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one of the martyred children
martyred child
2 martyred children
martyred man
-- Victims of chemical weaponry:
child suffocating
child affected; blue lips due to suffocation
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZwlhsglIs | huge number of victims on ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwS4_E3OQE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUr0XtWlKwpfpxYoLkHzKoxw | children affected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTKTlf4-Dg | children affected; lips blue due to suffocation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5kqpYyT2c&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfMnrc-v5i_cieu14Gy5Mhw | attempts to resuscitate a child
-- Photos/videos taken from Hamoureyyeh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYSmoa6BUs&list=UUQ57A4S-uWJrpi8j5AN9N5Q | tens of civilians on ground in a medical point, suffocating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1Nu8A1jEo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUQ57A4S-uWJrpi8j5AN9N5Q | attempts to resuscitate children
-- Photos/videos from Saqba:
(3 videos documenting martyrdom of 40 civilians in one medical point)
http://youtu.be/Qa0fWpKmFuY (part 1)
http://youtu.be/t8H_iuI56zY (part 2)
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In this workshop, Dr. Grayzel will use his own experience at Atlas Venture, Infinity Pharmaceutical, Arteaus Therapeutics, Annovation Biopharma, and other business building efforts to discuss early state venture creation and the process of translating scientific experiments within laboratories after initial scientific breakthrough, to create a persuasive dataset for fundraising and spinouts. The speaker welcomes the audience to bring forward their own issues to be discussed by the speaker during the workshop to further illustrate the principles.
David Grayzel, Managing Director of Atlas Venture Development Corp (AVDC).
AVDC is an innovative, asset centric structure that partners with pharma and biotech companies to develop late preclinical and clinical stage programs through to key value inflection points. AVDC has created Arteaus Therapeutics and Annovation Biopharma. Arteaus was funded by Atlas and Orbimed and is developing a CGRP antibody for migraine prevention. Annovation was funded by Atlas, Partners Innovation, and The Medicines Company and is developing novel anesthesia therapies.
Prior to joining Atlas in 2011, Dr. Grayzel led Infinity Pharmaceutical's clinical research efforts as the head of clinical development and medical affairs. Having joined Infinity as a startup, Dr. Grayzel established the clinical capabilities to run trials from Phase I through global Phase III registration studies. His responsibilities included clinical strategy and development, operations, pharmacovigilance, and medical affairs. He also co-chaired the scientific leadership team. In addition, as a member of the executive leadership team, he was instrumental in the overall corporate and business strategy, which included establishing corporate alliances with Medimmune/AZ and Purdue Pharma, as well as executing Infinity's IPO in 2006. Prior to Infinity, Dr. Grayzel was director of corporate development and business operations at Dyax, a biopharma company focused on antibody and protein therapeutics.
Dr. Grayzel received an MD from Harvard Medical School and completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to his medical training, he was a curriculum director at Stanford University Medical Center, where he created Stanford's first case-based medical ethics curriculum. He received a BA with honors from Stanford University.
Dr. Grayzel serves on the board of Acera: The Massachusetts School for Science, Creativity, and Leadership, which he and his wife Courtney started in 2009. Most of his free time is spent with his children, Annabelle and Benjamin, sledding, swimming, and rooting for the NY Giants (but not the Yankees).
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NEW YORK — Just when Wall Street seemed to have settled down, a barrage of bad economic reports collided with fresh worries about European banks today and triggered a global sell-off in stocks.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 419 points Thursday, but that was only part of the story on a head-spinning day in the financial markets. Here's a quick guide to what moved and why.
STOCKS: The Dow was down more than 528 points shortly after trading began. The closing loss of 419 made it the sixth time this month the Dow has moved 400 points in a day. For the month, the Dow has lost almost 10 percent. Investors are worried that a new recession may be coming.
GOLD: Another day, another record. Gold reached almost $1,830 an ounce before closing at $1,824.60. The price has soared 28 percent this year. Some investors see gold as a safe investment at a turbulent time for the markets. Many others are just looking to cash in because it keeps going up.
BONDS: The yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly dipped to 1.98 percent on fears of another recession. That's the lowest since at least 1962, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Standard & Poor's may have stripped the United States of its top-notch credit rating, but investors are still buying bonds with gusto because they see the investment as safe. More demand pushes the price up and the yield down.
OIL & GAS: Oil fell almost 6 percent to $82.38 because investors expect the weakening economy to reduce demand. Gasoline prices usually follow oil, so expect Thursday's national average of $3.59 a gallon to fall. Gas could fall to $3.25 this fall.
CURRENCIES: The dollar, Swiss franc and Japanese yen rose because of their reputation as safe places to invest. The euro fell because of concerns about European countries debt problems.
THE ECONOMY: Investors got a series of discouraging reports. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first time was the highest in four weeks. Sales of previously occupied homes fell for the third time in four months. Manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic states is weakening sharply. And inflation in July was the fastest since March.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 419 points — a return to the wild swings that gripped the stock market last week.
Stocks were only part of a dramatic day across the financial markets. The price of oil fell more than $5, gold set another record, the government's 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest yield, and the average mortgage rate fell to its lowest in at least 40 years.
The selling began in Asia, where Japanese exports fell for a fifth straight month, and continued in Europe, where bank stocks were hammered because of worries about debt problems there, which have proved hard to contain.
On Wall Street, the losses wiped out much of the roughly 700 points that the Dow had gained over five days. Some investors who bought in the middle of last week decided to sell after they were confronted with a raft of bad news about the economy:
— More people joined the unemployment line last week than at any time in the past month. The number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits rose to 408,000, or 9,000 more than the week before.
— Inflation at the consumer level in July was the highest since March. More expensive gas, food, clothes and other necessities are squeezing household budgets at a time when most people aren't getting raises.
— Sales of previously occupied homes fell in July for the third time in four months — more trouble for a housing market that can't seem to turn itself around. This year is on pace to be the worst since 1997 for home sales.
— Manufacturing has sharply weakened in the mid-Atlantic states, according to a report from the Federal Reserve. Manufacturing has been one of the strongest parts of the economy since the recession ended in 2009, but its growth has slowed this year.
The manufacturing news was especially bleak on an already bad day, said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at brokerage BTIG. He called the Fed report "an atrocious set of numbers."
"That really set the market on its head," he said.
Wall Street and other financial markets have wrestled for several weeks with fears that a new recession might be in the offing. Morgan Stanley economists said in a report Thursday that the U.S. and Europe are "dangerously close to recession."
"It won't take much in the form of additional shocks to tip the balance," they wrote.
Worries about European debt also hang over the market. A default by any country would hurt the European banks that hold its bonds, plus American banks that have lent to their European counterparts.
Renewing the fears, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that U.S. regulators are looking at the U.S. arms of big European banks to make sure they have enough money for day-to-day operations.
"I don't want to pretend that the market knows what it's thinking about too much," said David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds. "We live in an environment of sell now and ask questions later."
Asian markets started Thursday's drop. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.3 percent. The main stock indexes in South Korea and India each dropped a little more, then Europe more than that — 4.5 percent in Britain and 5.8 percent in Germany.
In the United States, the Dow fell 419.63 points, or 3.7 percent, to 10,990.58. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 53.24, or 4.5 percent, to 1,140.65. The Nasdaq composite fell 131.05, or 5.2 percent, to 2,380.43.
The Dow is down 13.6 percent since stocks began falling July 21 — four weeks that have rattled Americans watching their retirement savings and other investment accounts shrivel.
Lee Applegate, a retired sales executive from Cincinnati, watched the latest market plunge uneasily but said he was planning to stay the course with his investments. He and his wife have several retirement accounts.
He remembers the mistake he made in pulling his money out of stocks in early 2009, just before the market started its two-year surge. Since March 9 of that year, the S&P 500 is up 68.6 percent.
"I think things are going to get worse before they get better," Applegate said. "But I'm still going to ride it out."
The selling Thursday was immediate. The Dow plunged from the opening bell and was down 528 points about a half-hour into trading. It essentially moved sideways for the next six hours.
New York Stock Exchange volume was 6.2 billion shares — busy for a summer day, but not as busy as during the worst of the selling earlier this month, when volume sometimes hit 9 billion.
Last week was one of the wildest in Wall Street history. The Dow moved more than 400 points on four straight days for the first time. But stocks had been relatively stable this week because investors were calmed by strong earnings reports.
The Dow fell 76 points Tuesday and rose four points Wednesday — the first time in nearly three weeks that the average rose or fell by less than 100 points on two straight days.
That ended Thursday. And with stocks down big, money flooded into U.S. Treasurys and gold, both considered safer investments.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note briefly fell below 2 percent for the first time. It hit 1.98 percent before rising to 2.07 percent. Investors are willing to accept a lower return on their money in exchange for safety.
The price of gold reached yet another high — $1,829.70 per ounce. Gold keeps setting records bcause some investors are looking for stability and others are simply looking to cash in.
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I like the concept, and there have been a few instances of employee-owned
businesses being successful, but really, when you come down to it, there are
enormous differences in the interests of owning a company vs being an employee
of the company.
Owning a business is survival-of-the-fittest, with brutal decisions involved, like laying off workers and replacing them with machines, to better compete in a ruthless market.
How many employee-owned businesses survive the test of time? How many employee-owned companies have survived major technological shifts that have rendered large chunks of the employee base obsolete?
- 7:52 a.m. June 9, 2014
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"...wages do not often create material wealth." Exactly so.
Marx explained it like this. Labor's flow is C-M-C, the laborers sells his labor time C for money M, which he then uses to by the necessities of life C. This is steady state, survival without accumulation.
The capitalist's flow is M-C-M', The capitalist takes money M and buys a commodity (could be labor, could be a physical product) C, which he sells for more money M', only in this case M' = M + profit. Here is accumulation.
My thanks to the writer for bringing up employee ownership. Such has been a mixed bag. Note that employee ownership is different from Worker Self Directed Enterprise, WSDE, in that under WSDE not only to the workers own the place, they also manage it democratically. Over the long haul this is a BIG difference.
- 8:12 a.m. June 9, 2014
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Perhaps the industry in an outlier compared to others, but software was built in
the 70s and 80s on employee participation in equity ownership of companies via
generous stock option plans. It is what built companies like Microsoft and
Oracle. Employees were willing to put in huge hours, because they were part
owners and had a stake in the success of the companies.
It was only through short sighted tax policy that the practice went away.
I currently work for a privately owned company that does about 3 billion a year in business. The owner tries to create ownership in the company through benefits... and a real retirement plan.... something almost unheard of in current companies. It has the near same effect of gaining employee loyalty. But what it doesn't do is encourage entrepreneurial culture - but rather one based on caution. It has served my company now in positive ways.... but very different ways.
I enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle now because of my association in companies that shared equity.... the extra effort was realized in very real ways, far past my last day with them. I don't see that incentive present in todays workplace.
- 8:35 a.m. June 9, 2014
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I agree that employee owned businesses are a good thing. That's why
I've always been an advocate of small businesses, and family businesses.
My father-in-law believes you can earn a LOT more if you are your own boss. He started and ran many small businesses. Sometimes with a partner, sometimes by himself. But he's always his own boss.
The advantage of starting your own business is... you get to keep all the income produced by your labor (except what the Government takes) Instead of the Boss getting all the income and giving some to you for your time.
Of course you need to put much of that money back into the business (IF you want it to succeed)... but it's up to you how much you keep and take home to your family.
I know he has worked harder than I ever have, and has taken more risks, and has failed more times than I could handle. So I have decided to not take the risk and work for a wage. It provides what my family needs... but I will never get "rich" this way... and I don't care to get "rich".
- 8:39 a.m. June 9, 2014
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To "marxist" name the companies that are managed "democratically". I see companies that are managed through the typical Owner/President or the CEO running a board. Their owners make their workers feel more involved by letting them vote on things, but in the end, they do not actually run things democratically. Much like Communism being "democratic" when put into practice.
- 12:14 p.m. June 9, 2014
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RE: Redshirt1701 The largest WSDE in the world is the Mondragon Co-operative in Spain. It's the largest, I don't know if it is the most representative. Just do a search for Mondragon.
- 12:52 p.m. June 9, 2014
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If you want to work for an employee owned company... that's fine. Do it! Start your own company! Open a taco stand and be your own boss! Or open your own hospital, or aerospace engineering firm (people have done it).
But in the meantime... don't try to throw stumbling blocks in front of regular companies. I want to keep my job, and my pay check.
Small businesses are great... but not EVERYTHING can be done by small businesses or mom-and-pop shops. I can't imagine a small mom-and-pop hospital, or a mom-and-pop run Boeing or GE.
- 12:58 p.m. June 9, 2014
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During WWII, Congress froze all DoD and contractor wages to avoid War
Since prices were fixes,
and in order to remain competitive in the hot job market,
Corporations were forced to add these sorts of employee owned Stock Options in addition to other benefits; Healthcare, Retirement, Sick Leave, Vaction as a means to intise skilled labor.
The pratice stopped in the 1960-1970's once corporations realized these now old geezers had all made themselves $millionaires by the time they retired.
It wasn't enough that they had also made WallStreet investors extremely Wealthy as well.
It's just a matter of Greed.
Those who work - the producers - should be working for them, and not for themselves.
- 1:12 p.m. June 9, 2014
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Yawn, ESOPs have been around for a long time – this article talks of
nothing new.
You have to quote someone with credibility if you want us to take you seriously.
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Yep, it was the dems in WWII that established the practice and allowed greed to take over. Why do you still support them?
- 2:17 p.m. June 9, 2014
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To "marxist" they don't operate as a democracy any more than the US
does. The Mondragon Corporation operates more like a Republic where you have
the leading council making the big decisions. You see a democracy is where
everybody votes, but a republic is where people vote for a representative to
make their decisions. This is how modern corporations work. The owners vote
for a CEO, wich the Co-operative has, and that CEO makes the big decisions.
Have you another corporation that is just like all other big businesses, but you think is different?
- 4:03 p.m. June 9, 2014
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Now that the Golden Goose is dead, the killers want to sell the carcass.
The problem with employee ownership of business is the same as with ownership of anything else, you've got to know what you're buying. Business ownership is no longer just a case of a human owner and his employees and the wealth of a business is no longer just the operational parts.
In the Stock market, the true value of a business goes up or down often having little relationship to the activities of the business itself.
- 4:21 p.m. June 9, 2014
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Many of us would just like to be able to trade our labor for enough wealth to
handle the simple need of the good life. It would be nice to be rich but it
takes a lot of hard work, training, and luck that we don't really want to
take on. Not that we are lazy, it's just that we have other priorities.
However, since there are those who will work very hard at taking our wealth away from us, we need to protect ourselves either by being well educated or having a big brother to protect us.
In the role of big brother protector the government is expected to set the rules, regulations, enforce them and do the other things we ask it to do. If the government was actually doing its job we wouldn't need the Gebhardts and Angie's list to protect us from unscrupulous vendors.
Like the schoolyard bullies there are those who would hamper our big brother and call him Nanny as a derogative term. The only thing is, having a Nanny wouldn't be such a bad thing for people who have more important things to do.
- 4:55 p.m. June 9, 2014
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Re: ". . . having a Nanny wouldn't be such a bad thing for people who
have more important things to do."
So, if you want to be cared for by a nanny, go ahead. Make that choice.
What you and fellow liberals should not be able to do is make that choice for me.
It's the difference between freedom and tyranny.
- 5:22 p.m. June 9, 2014
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ANYONE can own stock in a publicly traded company. If you want to share in the
profit or loss of a company, just buy stock. A privately held company chooses
to whom it sells stock. A privately held company is under no obligation to sell
stock to its employees.
The point is, if you want to take the risk that a business owner takes, there is nothing that stops you from doing that. Buy some stock. If you've chosen the right company, you'll make a profit. If you've chosen the wrong company, you'll lose money. That's what every business owner does every day of the year. He bets his ability to earn a profit in a highly competitive market on his unique skills to run a business better than his competition. The "government" does not guarantee his "risk".
Few businesses make a profit that justifies the risk involved. When employees know so little about economics that they demand that the minimum wage be doubled, do you really think they have sufficient economic training to run their own business?
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@Redshirt1701 "The Mondragon Corporation operates more like a Republic." Mondragon is a hybrid. There are a number of us on the left looking for a solution for labor, which, if you haven't noticed, is taking a beating. The trajectory for capitalism is toward ever more difficulties for labor. I'm looking for socialist models which involve individual empowerment. We may have to learn some new tricks.
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If you want to see an employee centered and successful business model, Google America's largest steel producer, Nucor. As Artie Johnson would say, "Very interesting!"
- 8:18 p.m. June 9, 2014
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To "marxist" what socialist system works? You are looking for a shiny
new car in the wrecking yard.
The funny thing about you and your ilk is that you keep thinking that if you try socialism again that you can get it to work this time.
When has socialism actually worked? The best argument your ilk has ever made is that it works where capitalism is allowed to work within it. Why is it that socialism can only survive with capitalism funding it?
You realize that the current trajectory for our economy is socialism, and if it is allowed to continue on that path will only lead to more misery and less individual empowerment. Socialism destroys individual empowerment in favor of the collective.
You are right, we need to learn some new tricks. We need to learn to stand on our own and get the governmetn off our backs. We also need to learn that government impeads business, and that individuals will solve our problems, not the government.
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"You are right, we need to learn some new tricks. We need to learn to stand on our own and get the governmetn off our backs."
I think if you would take a deep breath and set the ideology aside for a moment and really try and understand what Marxist is saying you might find those new tricks.
" I'm looking for socialist models which involve individual empowerment" Marxist isn't saying anything about government takeover, he's talking about personal empowerment.
The key principle of socialism is community. You can define the community anyway you choose if you're creative. It can mean the whole society but it could also mean a community of workers.
If capitalism/private ownership is to thrive it has to change it's ways and re-define the winners and losers equation. That doesn't mean equal shares, so calm down. It does mean "sharing" of risk, rewards, and responsibility, the point of the article.
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Good editorial. I've been writing about this for 25 years. Yes, employee ownership would have a significant impact on the rampant inequality that will soon sink our economy, but there are other, even more persuasive reasons to look at worker ownership models. Primary among these is that we currently have an economy dominated by businesses that are in direct conflict with our social ideals and political principles. In case you haven't noticed, most of the businesses in our country are authoritarian regimes that basically own their workers. This feudal pattern of business will eventually reach its inevitable destination. We can reverse this by encouraging (through tax rates) the transition to more democratic workplaces through various types of employee ownership options. The moral reasons for this move are even more persuasive than the economic arguments. We fought a war in the 18th century to overthrow authoritarian rule, but we failed to extend it into the economic sphere. We are now paying the price for that oversight.
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To "pragmatistferlife" I don't think you understand socialism.
"Community" is not its key. The key to socialism is control. Control
by government officials that turn you from being an individual to just a number,
demographic, or cause. Socialism does not operate as a community, just look at
Europe. There is no "community" there, except for a minority of
individuals that have taken it on themselves to care for others. The people
look to the government, not the community, for help with most everything.
Socialism cannot exist where people have a sense of community because they will
reject the central planners.
Why redefine "winner" and "loser"? Winers are those that succeed, losers are those that don't. How hard is that to understand?
What new tricks does Marxist have? Socialism failes every time it is tried. Sometimes the death is quick, sometimes it is slow. The result is the same either way.
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I get Windows Server 2008 R2 for free through the DreamSpark program, so I thought I could save $30 and use Windows Server as my OS and not get Windows 7. I found this website, which makes it seem like this is a route many people take. What are the advantages / disadvantages of running Windows Server 2008 R2 instead of Windows 7? Are there any features that are missing from the server version that are in the consumer one? (one thing I am worried about is Windows Media Center, which I would really like)
you won't have Superfetch and Readyboost ...
and of course no Media Center.
Most free AVs and a lot of software won't run on server versions of windows.Some drivers may not work, though on the whole, the windows 7 or vista drivers ought to work. On the other hand, subjectively, Server OSes feel faster.
I used Server 2008 (pre-R2) through the DreamSpark program for a while as well. It did pretty much everything I needed it to, and was a lot cheaper than buying Vista would have been. The only problems I had were, as mentioned above, AV (Avast! Home won't install on a server OS). It took a little tweaking, but once set up, everything worked fine. I haven't checked out R2 yet, since I have no x64-capable computer, but if my experience with 2008 was any indication, you'll be fine. If anything, it seemed speedier than Vista, although I don't know if the same will apply with Win7 vs 2008 R2.
You might also want to check and see if your school has an MSDNAA subscription. Mine doesn't, but some do, so you might be able to get Windows 7 for free anyhow.


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One year after an unprecedented number of at-large selections from mid-major conferences, the committee has done it again. Three in 2010 made the field (Green Bay, Arkansas-Little Rock and Fresno State) and three made the field again this year (Louisiana Tech, Houston and Middle Tennessee).
Some might quibble with Conference USA's label as a mid-major, but the truth is that since the mass defections to the Big East after the 2005 season, only once has the league produced multiple bids. While Houston's inclusion this season was no shock, it is news when C-USA gets a second team in.
Just like a year ago, two of the three are not at all surprises. Houston and Louisiana Tech were expected to and should have received bids. Middle Tennessee's inclusion, while not egregious by any means, was not clear-cut and should be questioned.
The committee clearly gave MTSU a pass for losing in the quarterfinals (after a first-round bye) of the Sun Belt Conference tournament (and perhaps the Blue Raiders deserved the pass given the horrible circumstances of losing a teammate the way they did just days before the game). Here's why.
When non-BCS, non-Atlantic 10/Mountain West conference teams have received at-large bids in the past, they have achieved some combination of the following: a huge overall winning percentage, clearly won the league's regular-season championship, had a top-40 RPI, or made it to at least the conference tournament final. Middle Tennessee does not qualify under any of those circumstances (the Blue Raiders did win the east division of the Sun Belt and had the same league record as UALR, but without the divisional separation they would have lost a tiebreaker to UALR). That would make MTSU's inclusion an anomaly of sorts. Here are the numbers for sake of comparison to the other mid-major teams selected over the past four years (conference record, overall record, RPI).
Louisiana Tech (WAC) -- 15-1, 24-7, 28 (won regular season by one game; reached WAC tournament final)
Houston (C-USA) -- 16-0, 26-5, 26 (won regular season by four games; C-USA tournament semis)
** Middle Tennessee (Sun Belt) -- 14-2, 23-7, 44 (won Sun Belt east division; Sun Belt tournament quarterfinals)
Fresno State (WAC) -- 16-0, 27-6, 34 (won regular season by five games; WAC tournament final)
UALR (Sun Belt) -- 17-1, 26-6, 57 (tied MTSU for the regular-season title; Sun Belt tournament final)
Green Bay (Horizon) -- 15-3, 27-4, 66 (won regular season by one game; Horizon tournament semis)
VCU (CAA) -- 15-3, 26-6, 32 (second place regular season; CAA tournament semis)
UTEP (C-USA) -- 16-0, 27-3, 16 (won regular season by five games; C-USA tournament final)
Taking a more sympathetic view of MTSU's Sun Belt tournament loss is understandable, but let's remember when one team is given a break over something it can't control and then included in the field of 64, another team, not selected, is thusly hurt by that very same factor. For example, not penalizing the Blue Raiders ended up penalizing LSU.
Let's say the committee was voting on a group of teams that included MTSU, Syracuse, Michigan and LSU for that last spot in the field (I'm not saying the Blue Raiders were the last team in, but it certainly appears they were one of the last two, along with Dayton). The three which did not get a bid played better schedules and had more good wins than MTSU. Certainly part of that is due to playing in conferences which provide more of those opportunities. Also, with full disclosure in mind, only LSU among this group of four won a game in its conference tournament.
But, if it is "only being fair" to give Middle Tennessee a pass because of a teammate's death and its conference's inability to offer enough topflight games, isn't that then, in turn, penalizing Syracuse, Michigan and LSU for those exact same situations, which are really out of those schools' control? In the selection process, a "break" can't be given to one school without it hurting another.
Bottom line? I'm not necessarily saying Middle Tennessee doesn't belong this year (in fact, Texas was the bigger head-scratcher). However, it should be noted that this selection process is a numbers game. To overlook a circumstance or not scrutinize a situation the same way because it seems like the "fair" thing to do for one team means another team is being penalized for that same outlook.
Peculiar placement
In 2008, the committee put fellow Big East members Connecticut and Rutgers in the same region as the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds and was roundly (and rightfully) criticized for the unusual move that didn't seem necessary.
The explanation was that a great attempt was being made to keep teams, especially those near the top, in their natural geographies. As long as the teams didn't meet before the regional final, it didn't matter whether they were from the same conference (although this also violated a stated principle in placing teams in the bracket, but that wasn't acknowledged).
Perhaps hearing the complaints from the coaches and the media, the committee did not repeat the decision in either of the past two brackets. In 2009, Oklahoma was a No. 1 seed in Oklahoma City and Baylor and Texas A&M were both No. 2 seeds. If the committee had been consistent from the previous year, one of those two schools would have also gone to Oklahoma City along with Oklahoma, but neither did.
Instead, Auburn went to Oklahoma City, Texas A&M was placed in Trenton, N.J., and Baylor was shipped to Raleigh, N.C. On a geographical level, there's no way that can be considered logical. The only reasonable explanation is that the committee didn't want to follow its ill-conceived decision with UConn and Rutgers. Bravo. Learn from a mistake and correct it.
Last year, if the geography excuse had been used, then Notre Dame would have been the No. 2 with the Huskies in Dayton, Ohio, and Texas A&M would have been placed with Nebraska in Kansas City. But those scenarios were also avoided. Good move. Better tournament.
But, this year it happened again.
Baylor is the No. 1 and Texas A&M is the No. 2 in the Dallas Regional. Why? The answer all week will certainly be what it was in 2008 -- keeping teams in more geographically friendly regions and all else be damned. Why, then, the change in philosophy each of the past two years? It doesn't make sense. The fix is easy. Flip-flop the pods that A&M and Notre Dame are in. The Aggies play into Dayton, the Irish play into Dallas. Is that really such a big deal when it avoids the top teams in arguably the top conference potentially meeting before the Final Four for a fourth time?
Ironically, Texas A&M is paying the price for the change in philosophy. To keep the Aggies away from Nebraska last year, they were sent west to the Sacramento Regional. But they never reached it because of an upset loss to Gonzaga -- in Seattle.
This exact same issue happens in the Spokane Regional this year with Stanford as the No. 1 and UCLA as the No. 3. It's completely unnecessary. Fans don't want it, coaches don't want it and the media doesn't want it.
The bracket is tough to put together, no question about that. This one isn't so tough, though. Get UCLA away from Stanford. Put the Bruins in Dallas or Dayton. Yes, it will force someone else to travel more, but there is a level of going overboard with the geography issue -- and that level was hit this year.
Why was it OK for Notre Dame to play in Kansas City last year, but not OK for the Irish to be in Dallas this year? At least provide some consistency. The 180-degree shift in philosophy is dumbfounding.
What was true last year isn't the same truth this year. That shouldn't be. And that's what frustrates fans.
Other quibbles and questions
• Good to Be the Buckeyes. Bad to beat the Buckeyes. Of those teams presumed to be close to the field but not in (let's not call them all snubs because they all had flaws), three -- Michigan (twice), Duquesne and Syracuse -- all registered victories over Ohio State. The Wolverines and Dukes even did it in Columbus. So while the Buckeyes' body of work (helped tremendously by the big late-season push) was good enough to get a No. 4 seed, being able to beat Ohio State was not a good enough résumé element to get those three over the hump and into the field.
Michigan's problem clearly was the four losses outside the RPI top 100, because the Wolverines had better victories, more wins against the RPI top 50, a better road record, a better conference performance and a better finish than Texas.
Give Syracuse the advantage over the Longhorns in all of those categories, as well -- plus the Orange didn't have a bad loss. It had to be Syracuse's nonconference schedule other than Ohio State that the committee didn't like. Big road wins over tournament teams Marquette and St. John's didn't quite get it done, either.
• RPI does matter. We hear during the selection process every year that RPI is just one of the factors in selection. But it appears to have taken on more than that this year. The only criterion that gave Texas an advantage (and that includes the eye test because the Longhorns played some poor basketball aplenty this season) was its RPI. At 38, Texas had a higher RPI than any of the other schools discussed. Middle Tennessee's RPI (44) was the next highest, followed by Dayton's (46). While all other signs point to Syracuse, LSU and Michigan all being in instead, their RPIs were lower than the trio that did make it. It's doubtful this was just mere coincidence.
• Don't see the SEC. LSU's exclusion from the draw is actually historic. It means the SEC will have as few as four teams in the tournament for the first time since the league expanded from a 12- to a 14-game schedule (of course, it's 16 now). And, LSU becomes the first SEC team since that 1998 expansion with at least a .500 conference record and at least 18 overall wins not to make the NCAA field. Most would agree this wasn't a banner season for the conference, but this becomes an unprecedentedly poor showing. Probably enough reasons to keep the Lady Tigers out existed, but they certainly had as good if not a better case than Texas, Middle Tennessee or Dayton. LSU had more quality wins than any of them and had the single best win (at UCLA). LSU had a rough season in spots, but if the committee's job is to pick the best 33 at-large participants, then the Lady Tigers probably should have been in. Now that they are not, SEC history has been rewritten.
So with the SEC taking a numbers hit this year, here is the conference breakdown:
Big East: 9 teams
Big 12: 7
Big Ten: 5
Pac-10: 3
Sun Belt: 2
Mis-seeded? Texas' being selected is not a crazy notion. The Longhorns probably shouldn't be in, but the bubble was soft, so we'll live with it. But making Texas a No. 9 seed conveys that the Longhorns were in more easily than they should have been. Maybe there was a seed line shift that made Gail Goestenkors' team a No. 9, but if not, that's extremely puzzling. Arizona State was too high as a No. 7 and Marist was probably too low at No. 10. Ironically, those two were supposed to play each other this season, but a snowstorm canceled the Red Foxes' trip to Tempe, Ariz.
Aggies get the same treatment. Let's just say I wouldn't want to be the desk in Texas A&M coach Gary Blair's office tonight, because he's going to be pounding it more than once. Not only did A&M get placed in the same region as Big 12 rival Baylor, but for the second straight year Blair's team has been sent to play in a subregional where the second-round game could be in his opponent's home territory (Louisiana Tech is about an hour away from Shreveport, La.). Repeats of this situation are supposed to be avoided, if possible. And the committee needs to do everything possible to protect the highest seeds. Sometimes, with the predetermined host sites, it is unavoidable. This one was preventable. Moving teams a seed line is permissible. Do it here. Make the Lady Techsters a No. 11 seed. It's not that vital if La. Tech is a No. 10 or a No. 11. Put a No. 3 seed in that position. Certainly don't do it to the same No. 2 seed two years in a row.
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Network bolsters Alon Orstein, Wendy Douglas and Marisa Levy from within its East Coast executive roster
TLC announced the promotion of three East Coast production and development executives Wednesday.
The network named Alon Orstein the region's senior vice president of production and development, Wendy Douglas the region's vice president of production and Marisa Levy the region's vice president of development. Each continues to report to Howard Lee, the company's executive vice president of production and development.
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In a press release, Lee said: "Alon, Wendy and Marisa represent some of the most creative and tenacious talent I've ever worked with – these promotions are in direct response to their outstanding contributions to the network. From conceptualizing the next generation of breakout series to establishing TLC's biggest hits, these executives continue to move the needle when it comes to the buzzy, open-hearted content and relatable real-life people our viewers love."
Orstein, a Discovery veteran, previously has worked on several successful series, including "Breaking Amish," "Cake Boss" and "Four Weddings." Douglas, meanwhile, is touted as helping drive "The Little Couple" and "19 Kids and Counting" to their most successful seasons ever in 2014. Levy, who has been with the company since 2011, helped create "Sex Sent me to the ER."
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Skip to comments.Three Scientists Probed In 2001 Anthrax Attacks
Posted on 03/28/2008 11:08:46 AM PDT by SargeK
WASHINGTON The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Armys bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.
Among the pool of suspects are three scientists a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I'm a little confused. These anthrax attacks came just after the 9/11 terrorist attack. Are they connected or just coincidence?
That question is the live wire that no one wants to touch.
Some theories say yes, but I believe the majority opinion is no, the anthrax attacks were not the result of middle eastern terrorism.
However, you what they say about opinions...
No names named. FBI's getting a tad bit smarter.
Wasn't there an Amerithrax ping list? If so, I'd like to join.
Very strong pattern to the letters...and that takes planning.
The planes came on a Tuesday. The letters all have Tuesday dates on them.
Which could mean the connection was opportunism of a big national event to send out the letters.
The handwriting proves that they were not written by an American. Were any of these scientists of ME or European, or Eastern European, extraction? The handwriting was from someone who learned to write on a different continent.
I'm interested to know the motive and if it compatable with the motives of the 9/11 attacks. I think that's the key.
Maybe the "T" for Tuesday was a tip off about what was going to happen.
Not quite as quickly afterwards as people remember. All the 9/11 hijackers were dead before the letters were mailed, of course.
Um.. wrong link?
Al Queda typically doesn't go out of its way to minimize killing people as the Amerithrax mailer did (it seems the mailer perhaps did not realize the danger of power leaking from the envelopes) which is why I've always been very dubious of a connection.
Did Saddam weaponize anthrax?
It's unfortunate that our government works overtime to clear Saddam's name just so that Iraq won't get sued.
The whole term "weaponization" of anthrax is extremely complex and has been used/abused by the media (a great deal in the media about the Amerithax case is wrong.)
Good general reading is http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com
Be advised the author does not believe AQ or Iraq were involved; there's quite a group of people that go into a blind fit of rage at the slightest suggestion that AQ or Iraq were not behind the attacks.
The dates are different:
"09/18/01 and 10/09/01"
but there was a missing hijacker. And possibly other cells grounded that day.
The 9-11 attacks were already a conspiracy of agents of terror. One more agent to mail the letters is not a stretch.
After the 9-11 attacks, planes were grounded for days and mail delivery was disrupted.
It made more sense to "wait" to mail them as a "stage 2" attack.
If it wasn't the 9-11 cells activity, why hasn't there been a subsequent attack on a national scale by similar opportunists (who literally had days to mobilize their plan and shift blame to the Islamic terrorists in September 2001)?
So, what's the roundoff error here?
Maybe they have 3.825 suspects.
Interesting. It is my understanding that the FBI is not actually the investigators on this case. All the leg work is actually being done by the U.S. Postal Inspectors.
"The American people have focused their suspects for sheer idiocy, ruining lives by innuendo, and general incompetence, to "about" four hundred people, mainly higher-ups, in the FBI. Handwriting analysis was difficult because, while agents write interview reports on the same form since 1934, and examples are everywhere, few of the reports made any sense except for covering up or minimizing errors by FBI staff. Results from the FBI labs will be forthcoming, as soon as they are told what result is to be desired."
what do you think?
Iraq did apparently work on weaponozing anthrax.
However, anthrax doesn't have to be weaponized to kill. All that is required at the most basic level is for someone to get their hands on a virulent strain. The so-called Ames strain that was used in the 2001 attacks is only one of several possibilities.
It is the nature of the bug to spread through aerosolization - that is it's normal life cycle. Sure, it could be a lot more effective as a weapon with special processing techniques and additives. However, I haven't seen any definitive evidence that this was the case here.
There is plently of open-source material in the scientific literature to culture the bug. This is why bioterrorism ought to be of acute concern, because at least at the small-scale level, it is so easy to do. In fact, I think that was the the motivation of who ever did it - to point that out. Unfortunately for all concerned, it got away from the perp and did a lot more damage than he/she/they probably intended.
That's not to excuse the perp - but understanding the motive is, I believe, a key element in identifying the actor.
Key to that is why Daschle and Leahy, out of everyone in the US Government, were sent letters, IMHO.
USPIS is involved. So are some other agencies, I would guess.
In Washington, there are places where you can literally stand and swing a dead cat through four or more law enforcement jurisdictions. Makes things a tad complicated.
Well, maybe, but what are their last names?
The General ain't gonna be real happy with you.
The article doesn't name names - of anybody. Which is why I am skeptical.
OTOH - I won't name names either. I have met a few of the people likely to be in the crosshairs, if the article is to be believed.
It would be pure speculation and extremely unfair to people I believe are dedicated and patriotic scientists and researchers. I will maintain that opinion of them until I see convincing evidence to the contrary.
Look what happened when the FBI did it to Richard Jewell. I won't go there.
Jewell wasn't IDed as a suspect after 6 1/2 years of investigation.
This would have taken advance knowlege of the WTC and Pentagon attacks to have been sent out on the same day. It would have taken at least months of planning to coordinate this closely. There would almost have had to have been some connection. I just wish Americans would wake up to the fact that 94% of the population of the world and therefore 94% of the evil in the world is from outside the US, when they harp on America being only 6% of the world population to promulgate their convoluted explanations of everything.
It's called a courier. Doesn't know. Doesn't care. Pay me.
The second set of letters were mailed after Stevens died. Would have been a bit hard to get an unsuspecting courier to do that.
No letters were sent out the same day. The first letters were sent out 9/18 (Btw, the letters were sent out AFTER the newsmedia had fully reported on who the hijackers were, where they had spent time in the US - including Florida, etc.)
The other issue is that if the 9/11 hijackers are responsible, why take the risk of having the anthrax mailings a week after the attacks? Gives time for whoever is supposed to make the mailing (unsuspecting courier or not) to be tracked down through their connections to the hijackers. And of course an "unspecting courier" would have seen all the news about 9/11 and possibly recognized the person handing him the envelopes.
There's no conceivable reason for them not to drop the letters in a mailbox at Logan or Dulles or whatever on their way to board the planes, instead.
Not necessarily. The only thing in evidence is the postmark, not the date they were dropped in the mail. Nor do we know when the letters were prepared for mailing
What do I think?
Strike one: Fox News.
Strike two: "Nearly identical" ""Nearly"" What's "nearly" and in whose view and experience? Does this mean it's just very pure, or "weaponized" - whatever that means. Why isn't it "identical?"
Foul Ball: If such an e-mail existed, it is so damning, why pursue Hatfill who is an MD? Why are there "four" not just one suspect?
Strike three: Suspicious timing, redaction of the name could lead those, like judges, who haven't followed the case closely to think it's Hatfill.
Who knows? There's been so much garbage posing as significant info flung out there. Whatever, I suppose it's something Hatfill's legal team will want to see.
I'm taking as my opinion that suggested by Senator Leahy - the investigation should have been run differetly from the future.
If the deputy commander of USAMRIID was involved in this in any way, not only will the conspiracy theorists have a field day, they will probably be right.
"I'm taking as my opinion that suggested by Senator Leahy - the investigation should have been run differetly from the future."
I meant "...from the beginning"
That was a strange slip!
By the way, "handwriting" samples? Seems to me the writer was origninally a non-latin alphabet language speaker, or trying to hide his handwriting.
Perhaps. But you're applying standard, western logic to analyze the strategy/tactics of unknown individuals who may operate under quite different reasoning processes.
I hold no strong opinion on who the likely culprits might be. But I rule out none, either, based solely on what "makes sense" to me.
Thanks so much for the ping on the other locked thread Battle Axe.
Thought you'd find this interesting MS, and you too Grammy.
He's already serving life plus 70 yrs on other charges.
I'm not saying it was AQ, but why, if it were them or ally, must the letters have been mailed by the hijackers themselves? They got other members, plenty.
He's involved in a bogus charity called "Help the Needy."
"Then he said he had to look at a lot of samples that the FBI had prepared ... to duplicate the letter material," the e-mail reads. "Then the bombshell. He said that the best duplication of the material was the stuff made by [name redacted]. He said that it was almost exactly the same his knees got shaky and he sputtered, 'But I told the General we didn't make spore powder!'"
This is a poorly written paragraph, but taken literally, it says to me that the FBI had material made to replicate that which was in the envelopes involved in the attacks. Made by whom? It would seem obvious that this comparison material would have had to have been by the scientists at Ft. Detrick. It would have to be made and studied within the confines of a BSL IV lab. Ergo, when one scientist says the best duplication of the material was the stuff made by [name redacted] it is meaningless. It says only that one of them came closest to replicating the attack material at the request of the FBI itself.
I dont know what significance to attach to the quote about what they told the General. Maybe it only means that Ive been made a liar, because here we are making spore powder for the FBI investigation, after we told the General we dont do that here. Of course, if spore powder had to be made in the course of the investigation, where else COULD it be made?
I think the whole article may be B.S.
Could be "procedural crime" so they can get yet another unsolved mystery off the books.
This is beginning to smell like it's an extention of the conspiracy theory that pointed the finger at Dr. Hatfill.
It's all based upon what ONE "law enforcement source" told Fox News. No confirmations.
But it should be very interesting to see how this all plays out.
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