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"Nobody likes bugs." Most articles about testing utilities start with this sentence. And it's true--we would all like our code to act exactly as we planned it to work. But like a rebellious child, when we release our code into the world it has a tendency to act as if it has a will of its own. Fortunately, unlike in parenthood, there are things we can do to make our code behave exactly as we would like.
There are many tools designed to help up test, analyze, and debug programs. One of the most well-known tools is JUnit, a framework that helps software and QA engineers test units of code. Almost everyone that encounters JUnit has a strong feeling about it: either they like it or they don't. One of the main complaints about JUnit is that it lacks the ability to test complex scenarios.
This complaint can be addressed by doing some "out of the box" thinking. This article will describe how JUnit can perform complex test scenarios by introducing Pisces, an open source JUnit extension that lets you write test suites composed of several JUnit tests, each running on a remote machine serially or in parallel. The Pisces extension will allow you to compose and run complex scenarios while coordinating all of them in a single location.
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JUnit Pocket Guide
Two basic objects in JUnit are
TestCase and
TestSuite. The
TestCase provides a set of
utility methods that help run a series of tests. Methods such as
setup and
teardown create the test
background at the beginning of every test and take it down at the
end, respectively. Other utility methods do a variety of tasks, such
as performing checkups while the test is running, asserting that
variables are not
null, comparing variables, and
handling exceptions.
Developers that want to create a test case need to subclass the
TestCase object, override the
setup and
teardown methods, and then add their own test methods
while conforming to the naming convention of
Here is what a simple
TestCase subclass might look
public class MyTestCase extends TestCase {
* call super constructor with a test name
* string argument.
* @param testName the name of the method that
* should be run.
public MyTestCase(String testName){
* called before every test
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
* called after every test
protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
* this method tests that ...
public void testSomeTest1(){
* this method tests that ...
public void testSomeTest2 (){
TestSuite is composed of several
TestCases or other
TestSuite objects. You
can easily compose a tree of tests made out of several
TestSuites that hold other tests. Tests that are added
to a
TestSuite run serially; a single thread executes
one test after another.
ActiveTestSuite is a subclass of
TestSuite. Tests that are added to an
ActiveTestSuite run in parallel, with every test run
on a separate thread. One way to create a test suite is to inherit
TestSuite and override the static method
Here is what a simple
TestSuite subclass might look
public class MyTestSuite extends TestSuite {
public static Test suite() {
TestSuite suite =
new TestSuite("Test suite for ...");
// add the first test
MyTestCase mtc =
new MyTestCase("testSomeTest1");
// add the second test
MyTestCase mtc2 =
new MyTestCase("testSomeTest2");
return suite;
Running a test or a test suite is easy, as there are several GUIs you can use, starting with the GUI provided by JUnit and going all the way to IDEs such as Eclipse.
Figure 1 shows how the Eclipse IDE presents a
Figure 1. JUnit integration with Eclipse
Because it is not the main subject of this article and because there are many articles about JUnit, this article will only provide a brief overview of the basic concepts of JUnit. See the Resources section for articles that cover JUnit in greater depth.
JUnit Strengths and Weaknesses
JUnit is an easy-to-use and flexible open source testing framework. As with every other project, it has many strengths but also some weaknesses. By using the automated JUnit testing framework, which does not need human intervention, one can easily accumulate a large number of JUnit tests and ensure that old bugs are not reproduced. In addition, JUnit helpfully integrates with build utilities, such as Ant, and with IDE utilities, such as Eclipse.
JUnit's weaknesses are also well known. It supports only synchronous testing and offers no support for call backs and other asynchronous utilities. JUnit is a black-box testing framework, so testing problems that do not directly affect functionality (such as memory leaks) is very hard. Additionally, it does not provide an easy-to-use scripting language, so you must know Java to use JUnit.
Another big limitation is that JUnit tests are limited to only one JVM. This limitation becomes a big issue when one is trying to test complex and distributed scenarios. The rest of this article covers this problem and ways to solve it.
Why do we need to test complex distributed scenarios?
It is possible to coordinate several tests running on different
JVMs using only JUnit and Ant. Ant can run tasks both serially and
in parallel (using the
<parallel> tag), and can
be configured to stop if any of these tasks fail.
There are several limitations to this approach. First, using JUnit together with Ant still limits you to one box and one operating system. Second, as you accumulate many tests, the Ant XML file grows ever bigger and more unmanageable. Third, we found that in some cases the forked JVMs remained up and running even after the Ant task had terminated.
The Pisces project came into the world because of these limitations and in order to fully equip JUnit with the ability to test complex and distributed scenarios. The next sections of this article will introduce this open source project.
Project Pisces is an innovative open source project that extends the JUnit framework. Like many other extensions, Pisces adds functionality to JUnit while keeping the way you use it exactly the same.
At the heart of Pisces lies the ability to run JUnit tests on a
remote JVM on the same computer, or on a separate one. These remote
tests are wrapped in JUnit tests that are run locally so that the
developer or QA person performs regular (local) tests using regular
JUnit GUI tools. The wrapper object for the remote tests is called
RemoteTestCase and it extends the
TestCase object.
Figure 2 shows the remote test and its wrapper.
Figure 2. The remote test and its wrapper
On every remote location we run a Pisces Agent application with a unique agent name. That agent performs the actual JUnit test and returns the result to the local test. Now, once we can run a remote test wrapped in a local test, we can create a more complex scenario that is composed of several remote tests. Figure 3 shows a test suite composed of several remote tests.
Figure 3. A test suite composed of several remote tests
Every agent runs a set of JUnit tests and each test may write information to the default out. Because it is important that the tester or developer gets this information while the test is running, the default out is copied to the main local test suite's console. This process eliminates the need to go and look at each of the agent consoles in the test suite.
Communication between the agents and the main local test is a complex matter, and Pisces must be able to work in a range of different environments and network topologies. In order to accommodate this issue, Pisces has a pluggable communication layer. Each of these implementations solves the problems that occur in their specific network environments.
Two basic communication layers are provided by Pisces by default--a multicast implementation, which is easy to configure but works only in a LAN environment, and a JMS implementation, which requires the installation of Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) but works in most environments.
Configuring and Running Pisces Agents
As I mentioned before, the Pisces test suite is composed of several JUnit tests running on remote agents. Each agent is a Java application that, according to instructions it receives from the main test runner, runs the JUnit test and reports its result and the default out printouts back to the main test runner.
The easiest way to run an agent application is to configure and run the relevant executable script in the scripts folder provided in the Pisces build. Alternatively, you can also build your own script based on those already provided. The script allows users to configure general parameters for the agent, such as a unique identifier, and for the communication layer, a multicast IP and port.
For example, a script for running an agent with a multicast communication layer on Linux OS might look like this:
The executable script for a Pisces agent that uses a JMS provider
is similar in most ways; the JMS communication layer takes as a
parameter the name of a loader class that returns a
# the folder were the agent can find junit.jar
export JUNIT_HOME=/opt/junit3.8.1
# the folders were the agent can find
# the junit tests
export JUNIT_TEST_CLASSPATH=../examples/
# the multicast port that the communication
# layer uses
export PISCES_MCP=6767
# the multicast IP that the communication
# layer uses
export PISCES_MCIP=18.104.22.168
# the unique name of the agent
export AGENT_NAME=remote1
java -classpath
"$JUNIT_HOME/junit.jar:../pisces.jar:$JUNIT_TEST_CLASSPATH" \
org.pisces.RemoteTestRunnerAgent \
-name $AGENT_NAME -com multicast \
-mcp $PISCES_MCP -mcip $PISCES_MCIP
ConnectionFactory of your JMS provider.
Configuring and Running Pisces-Enabled Test Suites
After configuring and running all of the relevant agents, we still need to configure and run our Pisces-enabled test suite.
First, we have to add the communication layer configuration to
the beginning of our
TestSuite, as shown below:
// create the multicast communication layer
MulticastRemoteTestCommunicationLayer com =
new MulticastRemoteTestCommunicationLayer(
RemoteTestRunner.name ,"18.104.22.168",6767);
// set the communication layer
Then, we need to create an instance of a
TestSuite and
add a test to it to be run remotely. This is achieved by specifying
the JUnit class (with an optional test method), as well as the name
of the agent that should run this specific test.
Here is an example of how this is done:
// create a regular TestSuite
TestSuite suite =
new TestSuite("Test for org.pisces.testers");
// create a wrapper for a regular case
RemoteTestCase rtc =
,"someTestMethod", "remote1");
// add test case to TestSuite
The next section of this article will provide an example of a
distributed test scenario and the code of its
Let's say we have a web application. A user logs in, gets a service, and then logs out. We want to make sure that our security module prevents a single user from concurrently logging in on two different computers.
We have created a
MyTestCase test case object, as
shown before, that has two test methods. The first,
testLogin(), makes sure we can log in for the first
time, and a second one,
testLoginFails(), makes sure
that the second login fails.
Here is what a test suite that utilizes Pisces might look like:
public class RemoteTestSuiteExample extends TestSuite {
public static Test suite() {
// configure and start the com layer
JMSRemoteTestCommunicationLayer com = null;
try {
com =
new JMSRemoteTestCommunicationLayer
new MantaConnectionFactory());
} catch (JMSException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
// do the JUnit thing
TestSuite suite =
new TestSuite("Test for org.pisces.testers");
// run method testLogin in class MyTestCase
// on remote agent remote1
RemoteTestCase rtc =
"testLogin", "remote1");
// run method testLoginFails in class MyTestCase
// on remote agent remote2
RemoteTestCase rtc1 =
"testLoginFails", "remote2");
return suite;
If all goes well, the remote agent (called
tries to log in and succeeds. When the other agent (called
remote2) tries to log in with the same user and password,
it fails because the user is already logged in on a different
This test could have been more complex; for example, by adding a
testLogOut() method and performing other security
checks, but as an example I wanted to keep it simple.
In this example, I have utilized a serverless JMS provider called MantaRay, an open source messaging middleware package that is based on peer-to-peer technology. In the latest release of Pisces, you can find several examples that utilize a JMS communication layer and other examples that use a multicast communication layer.
Bugs are not fun, but with the help of JUnit, a widely used open source framework for automated testing, the task of running multiple test cases becomes much easier. Many projects extend the functionality of JUnit, but up until now, tests always had to be limited to one machine. With the help of Pisces and some "out of the box" thinking, we can now finally create complex and distributed test scenarios.
Amir Shevat is a senior software developer with eight years of experience in computing.
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Hi again
Thanks again. Re the duration of fussiness, what I meant was whether LO would settle later that evening if I didn't bring things to a head with a bottle feed.
My comment about let down relates to the ending of the period where LO has been sucking and swallowing milk - he usually only does this for 5-10 mins before reverrting to smaller sucks (no swallowing). Swallowing resumes when i have another let down
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I am a working mother and for the past three weeks he is not nursing.He cries and shouts when i make his mouth and keep for feeding.Please help.
I am now using breastpump and there is no milk coming also. Even at nites am not able to do, He identifies and not feeding and he shouts when i make him to sit in the lap.
But in other way he identifies me and recognises me and smiles and comes to me only when i am at home after office.
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News that Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is buying The Washington Post for $250 million took many in the news media and publishing industries by surprise. For more insight into Bezos, David Greene talks to BusinessWeek senior writer Brad Stone. He is the author of an upcoming book: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.


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The Office is responsible for helping to shape the Department's overall early learning agenda in ways that are consistent with current research and evidence-based best practices and administers the new Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, Even Start (State and Tribal), Early Reading First, and Early Childhood Professional Development programs. This office also has responsibility for working collaboratively with other OESE program offices and other principal operating components within the Department and across federal agencies to develop strategies, guidance, and networks designed to improve the quality of early learning programs and increase access to high-quality programs for children with high needs.
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Anatomy of a foreclosure
Institutional mortgage juggling leads to disabled Altadena woman's eviction
By John Seeley 06/05/2013
I n spring 2003, Harolyn Rhue, then employed as an administrative assistant at Bank of America, was ready to sell her condo in Altadena. A rambling three-bedroom ranch-style home near the foothills was offered in a probate sale so Rhue made a $100,000 down payment and, though troubled by its terms, took a World Savings mortgage arranged by her broker for the balance.
But last week, around her tenth anniversary there and after several years of seeking loan modifications from Wells Fargo Home Mortgage — which absorbed World Savings' assets when it acquired Wachovia Bank in 2008 — Rhue was kicked out of her home.
Shortly after 7 a.m. last Thursday, Rhue, who still suffers the effects of a brain injury incurred in a car accident in 1983, was awakened by loud knocking. Steadying herself on her cane, she was confronted at the front door by as many as six Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, who were there to effect an eviction ordered by the Orange County investors, operating under the name of Laurel Trust, to whom Wells Fargo had sold the property last August.
"I never thought this could happen," Rhue told the Pasadena Weekly later that day.
The 53-year-old Rhue had good reason to be surprised. She had filed a bankruptcy petition in April and was expecting Wells Fargo to acknowledge the faulty mortgage and come up with a workable resolution. Bankruptcy proceedings normally give temporary protection, or a "stay," from foreclosure. And on Monday, Rhue returned to federal bankruptcy court in hopes of voiding the eviction as a violation of the stay and restoring her to the home, filing a request for an emergency order, supported by a doctor's letter warning about the eviction's impact on her health. A clerk walked the request directly to a judge in chambers. The judge could issue an immediate order to place her back in the home or schedule a hearing in 48 hours.
Occupy Fights Foreclosures (OFF), an offshoot of the Occupy LA movement, took up Rhue's cause several months ago, setting up camp on her front lawn in early April and organizing a call-in campaign to Wells Fargo's CEO's office.
OFF's Carlos Marroquin, a foreclosure victim himself, exchanged letters with the bank and pledges to keep the pressure on until the Wells Fargo undoes the alleged injustice that stripped Rhue of her home, not to mention more than $100,000 in equity.
Marroquin may be in for a long wait. Wells Fargo spokesman Gary Kishner said by email that Rhue's property is no longer of any concern to the bank.
"We worked with Ms. Rhue for nearly three years in an effort to find an option that would allow her to remain in the home, but we were unable to find any way to keep her in her home," Kishner said. He pointed out that it is not the bank throwing her out. "Title was transferred to a third-party purchaser in September. The buyer, not Wells Fargo, is responsible for any activity related to the property and we are no longer involved in any related actions."
But Rhue and OFF supporters said that there should never have been any sale or "transfer" last fall. Rhue says she understood her case was still under review at the time of foreclosure; Wells Fargo denies that. The office of Pasadena attorney Stephen Golden filed a 25-page motion in August, alleging that Wells Fargo had not acted in good faith in the loan modification reviews and had no right to foreclose for that and other reasons. This challenge to Wells' right to proceed had not yet been heard when the title was transferred.
Says OFF's Marroquin, "Wells Fargo just wanted to transfer this hot potato and have somebody else take the flak. They pass the buck like this all the time to get out of the responsibility for fixing their predatory loans."
Rhue, who is African American, is the latest victim of a predatory loan epidemic that has hit minorities and the disabled particularly hard. There was already one other foreclosure on her block this year, and homes at the end of the street and on nearby Loma Alta are in pre-foreclosure.
In 2011, Wells Fargo received an $85 million penalty from the Federal Reserve Board over charges it steered borrowers into high-cost loans. The Fed ordered Wells to compensate certain borrowers between $1,000 and $20,000. The cities of Baltimore and Memphis filed lawsuits alleging Wells Fargo engaged in "reverse redlining," or intentionally targeting minority communities for predatory mortgage loans, leading to high foreclosures in minority neighborhoods. Wells settled with the two cities out of court.
In 2012, Wells Fargo settled a federal investigation into charges that it knowingly targeted minorities for risky mortgages that came with higher costs, according to documents filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, agreeing to provide $125 million in compensation for minority borrowers who the US Department of Justice said were steered into subprime mortgages, plus making $50 million available in new loans in heavily minority areas.
Rhue's mortgage typified these risky loans, though the originator was not Wells Fargo, but World Savings, later acquired by Wachovia and then Wells Fargo through mergers. Her so-called pick-a-payment mortgage loan allowed borrowers to make a minimum payment amount for a limited time under certain conditions. When a payment was insufficient to cover the monthly interest, unpaid interest was added to the loan balance so the outstanding balance increased, an occurrence known as "negative amortization." Plaintiffs in a successful mortgage class-action lawsuit claimed that Wachovia did not adequately disclose the pick-a-payment loan's potential for negative amortization.
Wachovia agreed to establish a $50 million settlement fund to resolve the case affecting pick-a-payment loans from World Savings Bank or Wachovia Mortgage, between August 2003 and December 2008. However, Rhue, though caught in the downward spiral of negative amortization, was not helped with any settlement money. In Rhue's case, the loan was more than inappropriate. It was never manageable, based on income figures twice her actual earnings. Rhue says she neither claimed the numbers listed nor did she actually sign the document, alleging her signature was forged. To make the payments she took a second job, but soon found the extra shift too exhausting. But she loved the house, and tried persistently to get a revised payment plan.
By late 2004, the bank had filed notice of foreclosure. Then in 2005 it granted a temporary loan modification, which lasted a year and a half, but a 2007 request for a permanent modification was refused. Years of fruitless interchanges with Wachovia and Wells led Rhue to file suit. Finally, in August 2012, though having written Rhue that her loan was under review, Wells Fargo sold the property to the Orange County investors.
Running out of money for legal help this spring, Rhue turned for assistance to the federal government and to OFF, hoping they could push Wells Fargo to buy back the loan and work out a new deal. In January, Rhue filed a discrimination complaint with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, which has not acted on her complaint.
Rhue and supporting activists plan to reach out to local churches and community groups for support in the coming weeks and are calling on Wells Fargo account holders to move their money elsewhere in protest of the bank's discriminatory practices.
Her case can be followed online at occupyfightsforeclosures.org.
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text: Well my LO will be almost 6 months! We are looking forward to introducing solids. I went to a class about this topic and there are some things that left me confused. Is rice cereal a first food because it's easy on the tummy? What about iron? If I make my own rice cereal would it have enough iron? What first foods are alternatives with iron? Also it was mentioned not to give sweet foods first, cause baby will only want sweet after that or develop a sweet tooth. Isn't breastmilk sweet? I don't get it? Eggs (yolk&whites) can be given @ 6 months, peanut butter before a year? I like The idea of BLS and don't want to give rice cereal if not necessary. Just dont know where to start and there's so much info to take in!


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Recalled clip-on chair pointing the lack of spacers between the cross bar and clamps
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Picture of clip-on chair with of spacers between the cross bar and clamps, not included in this recall
"metoo" Clip-on Chair
Missing or worn clamp pads allow the chairs to detach from a variety of different table surfaces, posing a fall hazard. In addition, when the chair detaches, children's fingers can be caught between the bar and clamping mechanism, posing an amputation hazard. Also, user instructions for the chairs are inadequate, increasing the likelihood of consumer misuse.
For additional information, contact phil&teds USA at (855) 652-9019 or visit the company's website at www.philandteds.com/support
54,000 (these were the subject of a product safety alert issued May 6, 2011)
The product is an infant/toddler chair with a nylon fabric seat and a metal frame that clamps onto tables using two metal vise clamps. The upper part of each clamp rests on the table top and has either a rubber pad on its underside or a rubber boot covering the clamp. The chair is sold in three fabric colors - red, black and navy. Chairs subject to this recall do not have black plastic spacers between the cross bar and the clamps.
phil&teds and CPSC have received 19 reports of the chairs falling from different table surfaces, including five reports with injuries. Two reports of injuries involved children's fingers being severely pinched, lacerated, crushed or amputated. The three other reports of injury involved bruising after a chair detached suddenly and a child struck the table or floor.
Consumers should immediately stop using the product and contact the company to receive a free repair kit and revised user instructions. Consumers who previously received a repair kit with only rubber boots should also stop using the chair and contact the company for the new repair kit.
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Two of the hottest rappers of the moment, J. Cole and Wale, will team up at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Rave, the venue announced Monday.
Tickets for their "What Dreams May Come" co-headlining tour, at $35 for general admission and $45 for VIP balcony seating, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 2 at the box office, (414) 342-7283 and therave.com. »Read Full Article
'The Fault in Our Stars' a story about what we expect from stories
On vacation with my daughter Zoe last week, I read her favorite book, John Green's 'The Fault In Our Stars,' making me about the nine-millionth person to do so.
Green's story about the romance between teens Hazel and Augustus (Gus), who both have cancer, was as good as Zoe billed it. Only a smart teen with cancer could truly answer the question of how realistic "Fault" is, but I found it completely plausible and convincing, deeply romantic and witty. Knowing how much Zoe, a lifelong fussbudget with high standards, likes "Fault," none of that surprised me. »Read Full Blog Post
Stratford plays tackle worlds gone berserk
Stratford, Ontario — I'd barely settled into my seat for Pete Townshend's "Tommy" — first of nine plays that I saw during a recent visit to the Stratford Festival — when the tone was set for my week to come.
As the orchestra let loose with "Overture: 1941," director Des McAnuff's technologically sophisticated backdrop featured bombs crashing down on London during the Blitz. Downstage, Tommy's parents and uncle looked small and lost while muddling through as best they could, trying to make sense of a world gone berserk. »Read Full Article
TWC says no to rebates asked by Senate president in Journal Broadcast dispute
Time Warner Cable offered a boilerplate negative response to a request by state Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) that it give rebates to customers affected by the blackout of Journal Broadcast Group stations in the state.
"It is clear your customers are no longer receiving the service they are paying for," Ellis wrote in a letter to the company last Friday. »Read Full Blog Post(58)
Pizza Man to open July 29
Pizza Man today answered the question on its fans' lips: Monday will be opening day at its new location, 2597 N. Downer Ave.
The two-story Downer Ave. site (with a chandelier made of wine bottles in the staircase) has a second-story veranda for summer dining (photos below). The popular east side restaurant's original location, on E. North Ave., was destroyed by fire in 2010. It had been open since 1970. »Read Full Blog Post(13)
And then there were nine: New WISN-TV anchor
Before Colectivo, we were already mourning Alterra
I got a note of congratulations and a pound of Alterra Coffee from my new boss at the Journal Sentinel when I accepted my job at the paper in 2000. She told me that if I wanted to get to know Milwaukee, checking out the local Alterra cafes would be a good place to start. And so, when I came back to search for an apartment, the Alterra on Prospect was one of my very first stops. And I've never stopped stopping in. It is almost synonymous with Milwaukee itself, for me.
Today, I live four blocks from that cafe and have a cupboard that is never not stocked with one of its blends. »Read Full Blog Post
Sanford holding James Beard preview dinners in August
Invited to cook at the James Beard House in New York in September, Sanford chef-owner Justin Aprahamian will give Milwaukee diners a sneak peek with two preview dinners, on Aug. 26 and 27.
His dinner on Sept. 9 in New York is called "Heartland Classic Revisited," acknowledging the restaurant's sale in December from founders Sanford and Angie D'Amato to Aprahamian. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap for Today: Chicken wings, Lake Park music and a ukulele singalong
It's not just Monday. It's National Chicken Wing Day.
Pack some up wings to hear music al fresco. For instance, there's a Ukulele Sing-Along at Bayshore Town Center starting at 11 a.m. »Read Full Blog Post


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by Anton Shilov
Back in the days Nvidia Corp. has managed to leave behind its rivals 3dfx and ATI Technologies significantly because unlike its competitors it worked with virtually all manufacturers of graphics boards by selling them graphics chips. Life goes on and recently Nvidia initiated selling graphics cards under its own brand in Best Buy stores in the U.S., following the example of 3dfx and ATI.
After acquiring 3dfx back in 2000 the company started to change its attitude to the market and decided to choose its partners itself instead of supplying its graphics processors to all interested parties. This ensured high quality of products as well as Nvidia's ability to dictate terms of purchase in particular and gain influence on the market of graphics cards in general. Such business practices allowed larger makers of graphics cards to become even bigger, whereas smaller makers were either forced out of the market or had to become Nvidia's exclusive partners that are obliged to closely follow any of the company's guidelines. Based on the fact that Nvidia has been using this business model both form consumer and professional graphics cards for about ten years not, the company has been pretty satisfied thus far.
However, in a surprising move the company has started to sell its own "designed and built by Nvidia" graphics cards in Best Buy stores in the U.S., according to a report from Hard|OCP web-site. The company confirmed on Tuesday that it decided to sell specific models under its own trademark in the Best Buy chain in the U.S.
"Nvidia and Best Buy are working together to offer PC customers the opportunity to experience firsthand the latest in PC technologies right inside Best Buy stores. As part of this broad initiative, Nvidia is supplying to Best Buy specific GeForce models built and supported by Nvidia. These products will only be available at Best Buy and will complement GeForce products from our partners. We will provide more details on this next week," an official statement by the company reads.
Nvidia's decision to try the same business model as 3dfx and ATI seems to be very strange, given cut-throat competition on the market of graphics cards as well as the fact that Best Buy is hardly a place where the vast majority of customers are getting their graphics cards. Moreover, competition with its own exclusive partners means that those companies no longer have to be loyal with Nvidia and try their luck with competing ATI Radeon graphics chips from Advanced Micro Devices.
In the recent year Nvidia lost loyalty of XFX company, which now supplies both ATI Radeon and Nvidia GeForce graphics cards and that does not carry any newer Fermi-based models. Moreover, the Santa Clara, California-based designer of graphic processor lost another important partner, BFG Technologies, which became bankrupt. Perhaps, Nvidia now needs to compensate the lower amount of add-in-board partners with its own-brand products?
Considering the fact that Nvidia does not own production facilities to produce graphics boards in large quantities, the company outsources production to Foxconn Electronics into China and call center support to India.


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Tunku Dato' Mahmood Fawzy bin Tunku Muhiyiddin
(Non-Independent Non-Executive)
Tunku Mahmood, 57, received his BA (Hons) Business Studies from the Polytechnic of Central London, Masters in Business Administration from the University of Warwick, the Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Management, and Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance.
Tunku Mahmood is a professional company director and has been a board member of Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd since December 2012. He is a member of the Board Finance and Investment Committee.
Tunku Mahmood is currently a board member of Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd, Hong Leong Assurance Berhad, Hong Leong MSIG Takaful Berhad, Hong Leong Asset Management Berhad, and Blue Stone Technology Sdn Berhad. He is also a Public Interest Director (PID) of the Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia.
He was previously a board member of Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad, Pos Malaysia Berhad, SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad / Kencana Petroleum Berhad, and Ethos Capital One Sdn Berhad, Energy Africa Limited, and Engen Limited in South Africa.
Tunku Mahmood draws on a wealth of governance, management, and cross border experience in telecommunications, investment management and private equity activity, oil and gas, marine and aviation logistics, corporate advisory, banking and financial services, across several international locations including the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa and Malaysia.


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What keeps you up at night?
(And what are you doing about it?)
6 librarians, 4 countries, 3 generations, 1 conversation
In this issue of NextSpace, we reached out to six librarians from different types of institutions at different stages in their careers to find out what was top of mind about their libraries and their profession. We asked them about the specific challenges and opportunities they were facing, whether it was in their departments or the library as a whole. We asked them about how collaboration—local, regional, national or global—might help in addressing some of those challenges and realizing some of those opportunities.
What we found were diverse thoughts and ideas—ranging from shelf space and training to identity and copyright—that provide helpful insights into how people—as opposed to institutions and organizations—are responding to the fundamental challenges we all face. These six librarians provided personal, geographic and generational perspectives across many issues. And although they were from vastly different environments, servicing different populations, there were shared concerns and common ground.
Our interviewees were: (from left to right)
- Megan McGlynn, Access Services Librarian, University of Michigan, U.S.
- Brett Bonfield, Director, Collingswood Public Library, New Jersey, U.S.
- David N. Ofili, Web Librarian/Pharmacy Librarian, University of Benin, Nigeria
- Charles Oppenheim, Retired Professor and Head, Information Science Department, Loughborough University, U.K.
- Maria Luisa Arenas Franco, Retired Library Director, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Gretchen Caserotti, Library Director, Meridian Library District, Idaho, U.S.
What keeps you up at night?
First and foremost: customer service
An area of common ground among participants was their concerns about libraries' customer responsiveness. Each interviewee wanted to improve, in different ways, the services they offered to support their users. They all realized that the communities libraries serve are changing; that the library has no destiny independent of the institutions, towns, cities and citizens it serves.
The community of Meridian, Idaho, is going through substantial change, Gretchen Caserotti says. What was an old farming community has exploded in growth over the last decade and is now considered a booming suburb of Boise. In addition, there is a mix of audiences, ranging from refugees and immigrants to farmers and suburban families, which creates service challenges and identity issues.
"We have both sides of the Digital Divide coexisting in our district," Gretchen says. "On the same block you'll see a wealthy housing development with three-car-garage homes tucked in between cornfields and cattle pastures. Additionally, the area is a desirable place to live due to the low cost of living and high quality of life. Idaho is filled with outdoor enthusiasts, and Meridian has repeatedly been named on 'Best Places to Raise Kids' lists."
This conflux of demographics is both a challenge and an opportunity, she says. "With such diversity in demographics, we don't have a clear identity, yet the fact that we have this diversity is so unusual it makes us special, which is part of our identity. As a suburban community, families are our 'bread and butter' and consideration of the whole family is at the core of our program planning this year."
For David Ofili, the pursuit of excellence is the driving force behind his library's programming, which means leveraging technology to reach out to current and potential patrons in new ways. "Information and communication technologies (ICT) constitute great opportunities, especially through social media," he says. "Sourcing for information and collaboration in resource and service sharing has been made easy with ICT."
For Maria Luisa Arenas Franco, the aspects of customer service she sees as being most important are:
- Supporting academic research in new ways, such as bibliometrics, which provides data to analyze the popularity and impact of specific articles, authors and publications
- Playing a role in institutional archives and cooperative repositories
- Creating benchmark statistics and management indicators that deal with the library´s contributions to teaching results and student academic performance
- Retrieving valuable information from library social networks to drive new development efforts.
"These new demands, in addition to the so-called traditional services, are great opportunities and put a lot of pressure on management, planning and personnel in libraries," she says.
The most pressing customer service need for Megan McGlynn is the provision of both digital and print resources in a timely manner.
"We want to give our users the materials they need, in the formats they want, at lightning speeds," she says. "Often that means digitized collections, but also a rich collection of physical materials, like maps, rare books and more everyday items—of keen interest to undergraduates—like a rotating cast of textbooks. The interesting bit is striking a balance between expanding e-book availability while still getting books in users' hands."
"We want to give our users the materials they need, in the formats they want, at lightning speeds."
As a host of online providers continue to emerge that deliver information to consumers fast, inexpensively and conveniently, Charles Oppenheim sees the most pressing issues as: the need to retrain or recruit staff who understand users' needs, and; the need to improve lobbying skills and efforts to put libraries higher on the scale of influence with government officials.
Learning the ropes
For Maria Luisa, preparing the next generation of librarians in the skills and practice of library and information science is her greatest concern. To her, the most pressing needs and opportunities in academic libraries in Chile and Latin America center on enhancing services—and new librarians will need to be educated and trained in new areas that extend the library's influence beyond traditional services.
Charles has been involved in, given talks on, and published widely on all aspects of information law, especially intellectual property rights and licenses, and on bibliometrics and research assessment. What keeps him up at night boils down to two major concerns, both of which involve education: the failure of governments to recognize the importance of libraries to the community, and the failure of libraries to influence user rights in copyright.
Space, space, space
The changing uses for libraries' physical spaces weigh heavily on the minds of Gretchen and Megan. The Meridian Public library was built in the 1990s and is a vestige of a "last century library," Gretchen says, with inadequate power, meeting room spaces and poor acoustical design. It was built to be a quiet library where everything was in its proper place.
"That does not work for the modern community that wants to see the library as a community gathering place where dynamic programs happen and patrons can plug in their laptops to do their work," she says. "Our branch library has no programming space at all and the staff do these wonderful programs often for 40–60 people right there in the middle of the library! It is beautiful to see them push right past the space limitations."
A vision of an overcrowded shelf haunts Megan. Part of her job is stacks maintenance for large physical collections, so she's constantly planning shifts to accommodate the ebb and flow of materials.
"People outside the library field sometimes ask, 'Isn't everything online now?' It's true that we have access to amazing digital resources, but that doesn't mean we're off the hook for housing and providing access to physical materials. We acquire material on the order of 50,000 items a year, which is equivalent to nearly a mile of shelf space. Of course we deselect at the same time…but allocating shelf space in the right places can still be a challenge."
Funding? Of course
While budget concerns are top of mind in many OCLC surveys and focus groups, our respondents had a range of issues that occupied most of their attention. Of our interviewees, only Brett Bonfield listed funding as the primary area that worried him and where he will have to invest attention in mitigating this risk.
"About two-thirds of New Jersey municipalities traditionally provide their libraries with more than the minimum…required funding, and we're fortunate to be in that majority," he says. "Our elected officials have a lot of faith in us, and we try to reward that faith, but I worry that I'm an election or crisis away from trying to manage a significantly reduced budget."
What motivates you to get up in the morning?
In the face of these pressing concerns, we also asked, what keeps you focused and optimistic? While our interviewees provided a wide range of specific examples, they all relate to two essential recipes for success: focus on making an impact on the people served by libraries, and focus on what librarians can accomplish by working together.
Making a difference in our communities
That's easy, says Gretchen. Being a small part of transforming someone's life is what library service is all about and why all of the participants are in the profession.
"If I thought I could cure cancer or other diseases, that's what I would be doing, says Brett. "But I would be a terrible medical researcher. I'm better able to help people by providing the kinds of services that libraries have traditionally provided or seem capable of providing in the future. My intention is to take my work just as seriously as the most dedicated medical researchers and other health care providers take theirs."
"There are so many things that are right about libraries today and there are innumerable things that could be improved."
Brett sees assessment as one way to sharpen the library's services, keep on track with your vision and head off potential problems. "There are so many things that are right about libraries today and there are innumerable things that could be improved. The data we have on what public libraries can do to serve their communities as well as possible—it doesn't exist. Not yet. We have a lot of nice anecdotes, and anecdotes are important, but it would be very helpful to have more quantitative assessments as well."
Gretchen says that it is rewarding to see people grow as library staff build relationships with them and help them meet their goals. "The library has the power to make a real difference in people's lives," she says. "I see it in the interactions our circulation staff have when talking romance novels with the grandmother or the children's librarians helping parents find resources to get them through tough developmental stages in their children. I see it in the smile our reference librarian has when someone tells them they got the job the librarian helped them apply for online. I see it in the number of exclamation points in an email from an out-of-state genealogist who we helped find information about their ancestor who lived in this area."
Working together across our communities
Although the demands and issues facing the librarians we talked to differed based on community or user needs, all thought that the best way to face these challenges was with a core library value and strength: collaboration—at the global level as well as the local and national levels.
"Collaboration is essential in order to achieve what we want to achieve," says Maria Luisa. "Introducing and supporting new services will require sharing information, expertise, training, bibliographical resources, new IT developments, good practices and metadata management on all scales." To translate her dreams into reality for the next generation, she's involved in forming a new graduate program at her university. "Our university recently created the first Magister in this area of the country, Processing and Management of Information, focused toward Chilean and Latin American audiences," she says.
David adds, "Considering my library's opportunities and challenges, collaboration helps us reduce the cost of acquiring resources we desire to have. We value collaboration, especially in metadata management and reference services, because it discourages duplication of effort."
And although David sees value in today's collaborative cataloging and resource sharing, the role of sharing transcends what is currently being accomplished. "In a nutshell, collaboration is a cherished opportunity for my library. If sharing resources and services can reduce cost today, then, a way has been paved for cost reduction in the future."
"It would be nice to see more major open source projects. I think code4lib is amazing, and I suspect a few years from now we'll realize that it's really only just getting started."
From her perspective, Megan sees a bright future in cooperative collection development and resource sharing to help libraries deal with space issues and content needs. "When we collaboratively share commonly used resources," she says, "academic library collections can go deep rather than broad. Libraries can learn to trust that the institution down the road—or thousands of miles away—will maintain and share their unique collections with our users, if we do the same. Now those miles of shelf space can be used for rare, interesting and astounding materials."
"I am so grateful for the development of regional repositories, like the CIC Shared Print Repository," she adds. "Contributing libraries maintain access to seldom-used print journals, but by sharing the resources, we all can allocate our shelf space to the materials users need most often. Resource sharing is the best news stacks managers have heard in decades."
Gretchen knows how crucial collaboration is on the local level. If one of the missions of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities, then librarians need to become part of communities, she says. Embedded librarians develop deep relationships as part of a team, and they can share what they learn with the wider library community.
"I want to have someone from the library at the table when a problem is addressed and be able to say, 'How can the library help you?'"
"We couldn't possibly serve this community adequately without partnerships," she says. "We want to expand our service points and services and we know that word-of-mouth and grassroots approaches have more lasting impact on helping something be a success.
"So, we are embedding ourselves into the community by having staff serve on local boards, committees and leadership programs. I want to have someone from the library be at the table when a problem is addressed and be able to say, 'How can the library help you?'"
Charles wraps it up nicely when he offers that libraries are already good at working together in all sorts of areas. "I am sure collaboration will increase over time as the pressures on libraries increase. The development of e-books and open access will impose significant changes on the ways libraries do business. They will have to adopt strong, collaborative outreach programs to address the changes coming their way. And collaboration on lobbying government is essential as well to make sure the library user is well-represented in issues of access and fair use in copyright."
Our core values…manifested
Librarians around the world are clearly aware that their users' needs and views are evolving. Our interviewees understand that these rapid shifts in the information environment require change—sometimes
radical, system-wide change rather than incremental, operational adjustments. They also recognize that librarians bring unique perspectives and skills to the information ecosystem, which is now crowded with online alternatives. They seek to develop high-value services…and expect that this will be a moving target. They are open to continually reinventing themselves to emerging demands while retaining their core values of cooperation, resource sharing and public service.
"Libraries exist to provide everyone the opportunity to have access to resources to better themselves and to discover new things," Gretchen says. "Holding onto our core values and seeing them manifested in the everyday work that we do helps keep me motivated. And that includes staff! Seeing my staff grow, challenge themselves and succeed is very rewarding."
OCLC Research Library Partners: Priorities and directions
OCLC Research Library Partnership Vice President Jim Michalko conducted 66 interviews with the senior staff of many of the OCLC Research Library Partner institutions earlier this year. His goal was to listen and then synthesize what he was hearing and find out what issues were top of mind for the management team. Here is what he discovered.
- Special archives and collections. The number one area for attention is special collections and archives. This seems logical. If the broad information environment has become flat with academic collections increasingly alike and discovery increasingly done outside the library, these types of materials represent spikes of local institutional distinction. They are a means for the library to connect with new forms of scholarship in the humanities. The concerns around special collections are that they are not discoverable by those who could make best use of them, nor properly described or indexed in search engines.
- Research support services. Here the challenge is for the library to become involved directly in the research process by providing expert resources and services. These might include text and data mining, global positioning services (GPS) expertise or virtual research environments. There is a need to create a class of liaison librarians who can actively reach out to the faculty and the academic departments.
- Data management. There is an increasing expectation that academic libraries will need to help to manage the data products of research. Some of this can be very large scientific data sets. In other cases, it might be personal data collections. The requirements for doing so may be outside the library's expertise, as classification and description of data sets are different from the skills used in describing library materials. Whether this should be created locally or built as part of a national infrastructure is a major question.
- Shared print management. Libraries need to determine how they can rely on centralized repositories of printed material instead of continuing to manage multiple collections locally. This means there will be difficult decisions about what materials to keep and discard. Success here requires libraries to navigate major changes in policies, manage local politics and set up new services with very efficient fulfillment capabilities.
- Space usage. The central library buildings on campuses are expensive and very desirable physical locations. These spaces need to be repurposed for people, not collections, by turning them into group and collaboration spaces.
- Staff realignment and development. Progress on the other five areas of high concerns will require that the library staff have new skills, that jobs are redefined, and that appropriate knowledge be acquired either through training or hiring these new skills. These priorities, trends and directions represent changes in organization, infrastructure and metrics.
- In summary: The successful 21st century library organization will be defined by shared collections, cooperative governance, and disclosure on the Web at the network level. It will be supported by an infrastructure of collaboration spaces, joint ownership and stewardship of assets used by all research libraries, and cloud-based management services. And it will be assessed based on its support for the research process, its management of its institution's intellectual property and the impact it has on teaching, learning and research outcomes.
ISSUE 22 contents
- Index
- President's Report
- What keeps you up at night?
- WebJunction community celebrates 10 years
- New definition of membership emphasizes the collaborative nature of OCLC; Asia Pacific annual conference in Bangkok focuses on cooperation
- Health Happens in Libraries
- The Big Shift: E-book availability in public libraries
- Demystifying Born Digital
- WorldShare Update
- Explore the world with mapFAST mobile; Watch WorldCat grow in real time
- What keeps you up at night? The rapid pace of change
- WorldCat statistics
- Updates
About the Author
Andy Havens
Andy Havens is OCLC's Manager of Branding and Creative Services. He is Managing Editor of OCLC's NextSpace magazine, leads the OCLC Cooperative Blog team and is "head tweeter" for the @OCLC Twitter account. He frequently works on the writing, editing, design and production of OCLC Membership Reports, white papers and symposium materials.
Tom Storey
Tom is an Editor at OCLC and works on NextSpace, OCLC's membership magazine, as well as OCLC Abstracts, a weekly e-news update, and the OCLC Annual Report.


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I'm no hoarder, but I'm not keen on throwing things away either. As a result, I am completely on board with recycling, reusing and (my new personal favorite) repurposing. Wiktionary.org defines repurpose as "to reuse for a different purpose on a long-term basis," which includes altering the original, e.g. "the church was repurposed as a nightclub by removing the pews." Repurposing is big here in the Upper Delaware River Valley and I often stop to admire the clever projects that my friends and neighbors have produced. Whether it's candlesticks from old wine bottles, benches refashioned from wooden pallets, or fridge magnets out of old keyboards, endless ideas surface daily and the scope of some projects are inspiring.
While making plans to attend a reading of Harold Pinter's "A Slight Ache" in Liberty, NY, I checked in with Liberty Free Theatre's artistic director and founder Paul Austin.
Knowing that the company is on the move and presenting shows in a variety of locations, I wanted to be sure where I was headed. "Tonight's reading is the second in a series of events presented in collaboration with the Liberty Museum and Arts Center (www.libertymuseum.com [2]) Paul told me, "while awaiting completion of the new theatre space, anticipated to be ready sometime next spring." Recalling my theatre history classes from college, I was unsure if my interest was leaning more toward Pinter or the new space that Austin and Co. are readying, but as it turned out, both were pretty interesting. As for the reading, "A Slight Ache" was written for radio presentation in 1958 and has been described as a "tragicomic" play that "concerns a married couple's dreams and desires, focusing mostly on the husband's fears of the unknown, of growing old, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity." (www.wikipedia.com [3]). Austin and Karen Young are consummate performers, and although I was often tempted to close my eyes and absorb the words (as originally intended) it was impossible to take my eyes off of Young, who is riveting. Her impressive resume ("Torch Song Trilogy," "The Sopranos") makes sense, given her nuanced, layered and incredibly charming performance in Pinter's confusing, wordy and unpredictable ode to manners and marriage. Austin was (as always) equally up to the challenge and if anyone can make Pinter accessible, it's these two.
As for the "new" theatre space, it's actually something old. Once the site of Katz's Bakery, which flourished in the late '60s and remained in business until 1989, the LFT (www.LibertyFreeTheatre.org [4]) has big plans to repurpose the somewhat decayed interior, and I was excited to be given a sneak peek. The space is cool, the project is underway, and the future, rising from the past, looks bright. To participate in making the dream a reality, visit the web site, or call 845/798-1527 to contribute.
Along the same vein, I had to remind myself that singing sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson (AKA Heart) have been topping the charts since rising to fame in the mid-1970s with a string of smash hits, selling more than 30 million albums worldwide. While their popularity has never really waned, the ladies have grown and evolved over the years and remain (according to Wikipedia) one of "the most commercially enduring hard rock bands in history." Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, Heart is currently on tour with Jason Bonham (son of the late, great drummer John Bonham) and the tribute to his dad—"The Led Zeppelin Experience," which thousands attended last Saturday night on the grounds of Bethel Woods (www.bethelwoodscenter.org [5]). Led Zeppelin is widely considered one of the most successful and innovative rock bands in history, so the double bill made perfect sense. Hardly an "imitation," I would call the "experience" the Mother of all cover bands, and with Bonham at the wheel, the band (and Heart) was amazing. Zeppelin is also in the Rock &Roll Hall of Fame, and the museum states that the band was "as influential in the 1970s as the Beatles were in the decade before them."
The tour culminates with a 30-minute "special encore" performance with Heart and Bonham together paying tribute to more than 300 million records sold, and is a fitting tribute to the legendary drummer who climbed the "Stairway to Heaven" in 1980. Son John's drum skills are pretty impressive as well, (the apple doesn't fall far) and his heartfelt words rang true. "I don't think my father had any idea of the legacy he was creating," Bonham told the crowd, "and I want to thank you on behalf of my entire family, for supporting us and helping to pass the music of Led Zeppelin on, from generation to generation." The Pavilion was rockin' and my heart swelled a bit as I observed the audience leaping to their feet repeatedly. As is often the case at Bethel Woods, there was a "Whole Lotta Love" goin' on.


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Fed Uncertainties Weigh Down Stocks Even as BlackBerry Rises
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock markets finished Monday in the red, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average logging their first three-day decline in a month as investors weighed the sugar rush that the Federal Reserve's ultra-loose accommodation has been providing against the still vulnerable economic backdrop that caused the central bank to maintain its $85 billion per month bond-buying stimulus program.
The uncertainty behind the pace of economic stimulus as well as the contentious budget negotiations in Washington were undermining encouraging manufacturing data from China and a strong showing in Germany elections for the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The S&P 500 fell 0.47% to close at 1,701.84. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.32% to 15,401.38. The Nasdaq traded lower by 0.25% to 3,765.29.
BlackBerry rose 1.09% to $8.82. Just one trading day after the company decided to quit the consumer smartphone market and become an enterprise focused handset and IT services firm, BlackBerry found a willing buyer in Fairfax Financial at $9 a share, or $4.7 billion.
Apple popped 4.97% to $490.64 after the company announced that it sold more than 9 million iPhone 5c and 5s units, breaking the previous record set last year. A year earlier, Apple sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 units across the globe.
Speaking to an audience at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business in New York Monday, New York Fed Bank President William Dudley said that central bank during its meeting this month decided to maintain its current $85-billion-a-month pace in asset purchases given that "we have made progress with respect to these metrics, but have not yet achieved success." He added that "our actions are data dependent and how the data will evolve is uncertain." Furthermore, Dudley emphasized that it's likely to take a considerable amount of time to reach the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold that the Fed is watching for as a guideline for determining a gradual exit of unusually low short-term rates and that it still might wait a long time after the U.S. economy breaches that threshold before beginning to raise the fderal funds rate.
Prior to Dudley's appearance, Atlanta Federal Bank President Dennis Lockhart told an audience at the Louise Blouin Foundation in New York that there is "some evidence to the affirmative" that the U.S. is "losing its economic mojo."


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William Tecumseh Sherman looks as though he hasn't slept in 36 hours. His brow is sagging and creased, his eyes are swollen, and it's unclear whether the scraggly beard on his chin is something he grew intentionally. His tie is noticeably askew, but, so the story goes, when Augustus Saint-Gaudens asked him to straighten it, he replied, "The general of the army of the United States will wear his coat any damn way he pleases." So that's how Saint-Gaudens sculpted it.
The bust sits in a small gallery at the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site on a sun-drenched hillside in Cornish, New Hampshire. It's one of only two National Park Service properties dedicated to visual artists, and it's clear why it ranks: Few sculptors did more to define America's national aesthetic than did Saint-Gaudens.
Saint-Gaudens came of age at a time when Americans were eagerly building monuments to the heroes of the Civil War. The nation was awash in sculptures of men on horses, but Saint-Gauden's pieces rose to the top. He portrayed his subjects as soldiers, not gods, bringing a level of realism to his work rarely before seen in American sculpture. Buttons were left undone, hair unkempt, beards unshaven. His Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Chicago portrays the president standing, with eyes downcast. He looks pensive, even troubled. It's arguably the most honest portrayal of Lincoln we have.
Though many of Saint-Gaudens' works are installed in busy municipal parks around the country, their prototypes were crafted at his idyllic New Hampshire estate, where the National Historic Site now resides. "Cornish was his safe haven in America," explains Henry Duffy, the property's curator. "He worked well in the quiet of the place, the peace of it."
The site offers visitors the unique experience of viewing the artist's works in the same peaceful setting where they were conceived. The effect is most striking with the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. Most know the work as the monument on the congested corner across from the Massachusetts State House in Boston, but in Cornish you'll find it in an outdoor gallery on a manicured lawn rimmed by a hemlock hedge. Duffy says it's one of the site's most pleasant surprises: "People don't expect to find it in New Hampshire, but at least here when you see it, you don't have to dodge buses and cars."


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Tim Hodges, Director of Research for Gallup's Education Practice, and William (Bill) Symonds, Director of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Project, have joined the Board of Directors of the National Career Technical Education Foundation (NCTEF). Hodges and Symonds bring to NCTEF their reputable experience in and longstanding commitment to quality education.
Dean Folkers, NCTEF Deputy Executive Director, calls Hodges and Symons "visionary leaders who are committed to charting a new path for education in America" who will help NCTEF's work in supporting and pursuing high-quality CTE.
Under NASDCTEc, NCTEF develops and funds activities and programs that are designed to improve CTE. NCTEF has focused significant efforts in support of Career Clusters ™ projects and efforts to increase the visibility and advance quality of CTE. As public members of the Board of Directors these leaders will advise and influence the policy and direction of the work NCTEF supports in CTE and Career Clusters™
Hodges consults with K-12 school districts and higher education institutions to lead research projects in strengths development, employee selection and engagement, and wellbeing. Hodges experienced formal CTE through marketing and agricultural programs, and served in leadership roles for Career Technical Student Organizations as well.
Symonds is the primary author of a groundbreaking report – Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century – which was released in February 2011. Since, he has been invited to speak about the report in more than half the 50 states. The report analyzes the reasons America has failed to prepare so many of its youth to lead successful lives as adults, and notably suggests supporting high-quality, comprehensive pathways, such as those used in CTE, that will lead students to a certificate or a postsecondary credential.
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Police say a man caught breaking into his neighbor's home claims he just wanted to borrow some eggs.
The Bucks County Courier Times reports that 20-year-old Christopher King of Middletown, Pennsylvania allegedly climbed through his neighbor's window and entered their home.
Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress and caught King coming out the front entrance. When police searched the home, they found dresser and cabinet drawers and doors open throughout the house, but apparently nothing was stolen.
The homeowner confirmed she knew King, who lives in the neighborhood, but that he didn't have permission to be in her home.
When police interviewed King, he reportedly claimed he wanted to borrow some eggs to make breakfast for him and his girlfriend, according to Middletown Detective Patrick Nicastro. Once inside, King decided to open drawers looking for valuables to steal, but then reconsidered and didn't end up stealing anything, Nicastro said.
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In many networks, IP addresses are manually assigned to hosts. There are a number of reasons why for most hosts this is an unnecessary and even undesirable arrangement.
In this column we'll describe how to manage the automatic allocation of IP addresses (and other useful information) in a Linux environment for hosts connected to a broadcast-style network like Ethernet. For convenience, we'll refer to these networks as Ethernet, but the same principles apply to many different types of underlying protocols such as FDDI, Token Ring, and AX.25.
There are a number of situations where dynamic IP address assignment provides benefit. Some of the more important of these are:
Dynamic address assignment isn't all good news. There are a number of situations where it is inappropriate, and some where it complicates management.
ssh) can also rely on the IP address of a host as part of the authentication credentials required to open a session to it.
There are three well-known protocols that manage dynamic IP address assignment for Ethernet networks; a brief description of each follows. If you want an exhaustive description of each protocol, see the relevant RFC documents.
All three protocols are related and make a nice study of evolutionary development and innovation should you be a history buff.
The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) complements the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and was designed specifically with diskless workstations in mind.
The ARP protocol is used by hosts wishing to discover the hardware address associated with a particular IP address. The RARP protocol operates in reverse by enabling a host that knows its hardware address to request and discover its IP address by transmitting a specially formulated broadcast query to a RARP server on the same network. The RARP server upon receiving such a request, searches a database to find an IP address associated with the hardware address of the requesting host and replies directly to the requester, offering the IP address that host should use. This is the extent of the RARP protocol.
Unfortunately, in many situations hosts need to learn more than their IP address in order to boot and operate. RARP is not very commonly used any more, but is still sometimes useful -- especially if you are installing Linux on a Sun workstation. Linux implementations of both client and server exist. The man pages supplied with the software should be perfectly adequate to explain how to use it.
The Bootstrap Protocol appeared shortly after RARP and addresses two important limitations. First, rather than being based on hardware-layer protocols, it is completely UDP/IP-based, making it somewhat easier to implement. A BootP transaction also supplies more than the IP address the client host should use, it additionally supplies the address of a boot file and the address of the server the boot file should be retrieved from.
BootP is quite simple. The cilent host builds a "bootrequest" message. In this message it places its hardware address. It transmits this message onto the network in a UDP/IP datagram with source port 68 and destination port 67. If the client knows the address of the BootP server, it places the server's address in the IP destination address field, if not it uses the broadcast address
255.255.255.255 (ref: RFC-919) instead.
The BootP server upon receiving a "bootrequest" message consults its local database, searching for an IP address mapped against the hardware address supplied. If a match is found, the BootP server formulates a "bootreply" message containing the IP address allocated and transmits the response to the IP broadcast address. BootP provides space in a "bootreply" message for vendor-specific information.
This mechanism allows a range of other configuration information and data to be provided to the requesting host. RFC-1497, "BOOTP Vendor Information Extensions" describes in detail how this works and defines the coding a wide range of possible configuration data. Suffice it to say, the BootP implementations available for Linux save you the pain of of having to deal at this level by providing direct keyword support for most of these.
DHCP leverages off the success of BootP and extends it by defining mechanisms for IP address allocation with a wide range of configuration data. DHCP describes backward-compatability with BootP, ensuring that BootP clients can effectively make use of a DHCP server without reconfiguration. DHCP servers can make use of the BootP relay feature provided by many routers.
DHCP describes three types of IP address allocation:
An important concept that DHCP introduces is the idea of "lease" time for an address. A DHCP client may request an address for a period of time, and the DHCP server guarantees not to reallocate the address to another host within that time. The client may, of course, make another request for an address at the expiration of the lease, and the DHCP server will attempt to reallocate the same address when this occurs.
The DHCP implementation most commonly found on Linux systems is that produced by the Internet Software Consortium. It will be available pre-packaged in just about all Linux distributions.
DHCP is easily the most commonly used dynamic address assignment mechanism as just about every desktop machine supports it, and many ADSL and cable-modem providers also use it.
Let's move on and start configuring. First, some assumptions:
192.168.1.0 and
192.168.2.0. In each, we will dynamically allocate addresses from the range
.254 to hosts. The remainder of the addresses are reserved for use by application servers, routers, and other shared infrastructure.
.1 on it.
testnet.net domain and there is a shared name server with address
The configuration file for the ISC DHCP daemon is named
/etc/dhcpd.conf and contains two types of statements, parameter statements and declaration statements. The parameter statements supply values for a number of DHCP variables such as lease times, and data to supply to client hosts such as gateway addresses. Declaration statements are used to describe collections of hosts to manage and collections of parameter statements to supply to hosts. Parameter statements can appear outside declaration statements and are then considered global parameters, or they may appear within declaration statements and then apply only to the hosts described by that declaration. Parameter statements are terminated with the
; character and declarations are enclosed within the curly brace
{} characters.
You can build quite sophisticated configurations, but in most cases a simple one is all that is required. A configuration to meet the requirements specified for our network described above might look something like:
# dhcpd.conf - configuration for simple network
# Our global default configurations
option domain-name "testnet.net";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.16;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
# On our .1 subnet we will dynamically allocate
# address to any host that requests one using
# either DHCP or BootP.
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.32 192.168.1.254;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
get-lease-hostnames true;
# On our .2 subnet we have a mixture of dynamically
# assigned addresses and a collection of hosts that
# should have fixed addresses.
subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.2.32 192.168.2.254;
option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
option routers 192.168.2.1;
# Our fixed address hosts belong to a different
# name domain and should have names assigned to
# them in addition to addresses.
group {
option domain-name "apps.testnet.net";
use-host-decl-names on;
host guava {
hardware ethernet 08:00:00:1a:2b:3c;
fixed-address 192.168.2.16;
host nectarine {
hardware ethernet 08:00:00:3b:4f:fa;
fixed-address 192.168.2.17;
host banana {
hardware ethernet 08:00:02:01:55:cb;
fixed-address 192.168.2.18;
In our example we used only a small number of configurable parameters. If you're in a complex environment of mixed computer and operating system types, you will likely need more sophisticated configurations.
If you have any or many diskless workstations, you may need to build a somewhat more complex configuration. The following sample is what you might use if you had a collection of diskless X11 workstations. You can cluster the information that is common to all workstations together inside the
group statement and then pass host-specific information in a
host statement for each workstation. You can see that this sample passes a wider range of configuration data to the workstations including the addresses of time, font, display manager, printer, and NIS+ servers. Additionally the
mango workstation is configured for IP routing and has a static route configured.
group {
# machine boot parameters
filename "/tftp/fruit.boot';
next-server guava.apps.testnet.net;
# application server parameters
option ntp-servers 192.168.1.32;
option x-display-manager 192.168.1.32, 192.168.2.32;
option font-servers 192.168.1.32, 192.168.2.32;
option lpr-servers 192.168.1.32;
option nisplus-domain testnet;
option nisplus-servers 192.168.1.32, 192.168.2.32;
# Workstation specific parameters
host mango {
hardware ethernet 08:00:02:30:02:ba;
fixed-address 192.168.2.19;
option ip-forwarding 1;
option static-routes 10.1.0.1 192.168.2.1;
host passionfruit {
hardware ethernet 08:00:a3:6c:0b:21;
fixed-address 192.168.2.20;
More detailed configuration information is available from the
dhcp.leases and
dhcp-options man pages, and from the Internet Software Consortium web site.
Terry Dawson is the author of a number of network-related HOWTO documents for the Linux Documentation Project, a co-author of the 2nd edition of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrators Guide, and is an active participant in a number of other Linux projects.
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The legendary Peter Max returns to a legion of fans when he visits Ocean Galleries in Stone Harbor over Labor Day weekend, bringing with him a collection of new original paintings, created especially for the show, along with the iconic imagery that has made him a world-renowned legend. The exhibition opens on Thursday, August 29 and runs through Sunday, September 8, with Peter Max at receptions signing purchased artwork from 7:00 PM until 10:00 PM on Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1.
Max remains an iconic, multi-dimensional artist whose signature vibrant colors have become part of the fabric of contemporary culture. With his long-standing career as the preeminent Pop artist in America, Max has been successively called a Pop Icon, Neo Fauvist, Abstract Expressionist, and the United States' "Painter Laureate". Millions of loyal fans celebrate Max's art, which has appeared in one-man museum exhibitions around the world and collections of numerous celebrities and political dignitaries.
Peter Max just completed portraits of Taylor Swift for her Web site and tour. It is the second series he has created for her; the first one sold out. He also recently painted the hull of the "Breakaway" Norwegian Cruise Lines newest ship. Upcoming projects include a book for Harper Collins.


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Have a liberal arts degree and aren't sure what to do with it? Maybe you're working in a skilled trade and taking community college classes. Or perhaps you're still in college and are exploring options for after graduation.
Peace Corps want to hear from you.
Many applicants are concerned that their specific major or field of study does not match up directly to any Peace Corps program. Don't worry! Many Peace Corps Volunteers are college graduates with degrees in liberal arts such as history, political science, English, social studies, or psychology. Others have degrees in photography, theater, and other fine arts. And of course, people with degrees in business, engineering, and the sciences have skills that translate well to many Peace Corps programs, including business development, environmental programs, information technology, and health education.
What if you don't have a four-year degree? The Peace Corps has opportunities for individuals without degrees who have professional skills and work experience (in such areas as business, technical trades, and agriculture) and a commitment to service. And if you have a community college education, your work experience or training in a specific area may qualify you for certain programs.
Computer skills and previous work as a counselor, as a volunteer in your community, or as an assistant in a classroom setting are the kinds of experiences that are needed in all countries in which the Peace Corps has programs. And, if necessary, your Peace Corps recruiter can suggest a range of activities that you can undertake now to help sharpen your skills for a Volunteer assignment.
So take the next step. Talk to a recruiter about how you can contribute your education, experience, and skills toward Peace Corps service.
Associate's Degree Eligibility
If you are have a community college education, your work experience or training in a specific area may qualify you for certain programs.
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Capital Punishment is in my opinion the greatest album of all time.
I've seen it all up close, **** without the movies you'd be buggin
My cousin Juju, barely a juve' lost it and turned on the oven
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Baring a secret too deep to keep on the streets for sharin
Get off your high horse, or die off like an extinction
Borikens are like Mohicans, The Last of the Poor Ricans
Terror Squad was the most talented/underrated rap group of all time.
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Oral torture, no doubt, the **** is holocaust
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It's settled, blitt up, put on your metal, foot on the pedal
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Out for the fast cash, level advance
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Most gangsta song ever.
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MapA chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America : with the tracks of His Majesty's sloop Discovery and armed tender Chatham Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. In upper right corner: 5. Insets: Entrance of Columbia River -- Gray's Harbour -- Port Discovery. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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- Date: 1798