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All of this and you're asking them to pick a side. Draw a line in the dirt close his eyes and decide...
Rather live in Rome than take the time to know what lies within his reach but he'll never get to see.
I'm so scared this time it feels like truth when someone's been lying about the news to me, has never been so real when i cant think and i cant feel...
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Abortion Takes Center Stage in Presidential Contest
President Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. Robert Dole debated Thursday (5-23) about late-term abortions. After Dole criticized Clinton's veto of a late-term abortion ban, Clinton accused Dole of succumbing to political pressure on the issue and of disregarding the threats to women's lives and health posed by the ban of the rare abortion procedure known as intact dilation and evacuation. In his rebuttal, Clinton referred to the five women who spoke at the veto-signing ceremony and who testified that the procedure was necessary for them to escape permanent physical disability. From Milwaukee, Clinton asked Dole, who had attacked the President's morals (while speaking to Catholic newspaper editors in Philadephia), "What would Senator Dole say to those five women who stood up there with me?" Clinton continued, "I'm a little skeptical when politicians piously proclaim their morality. He has to answer to those five women." The abortion ban would have allowed the procedure only to save the life of the woman, but not to protect her health or future fertility.
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Jun. 5, 2014
Source: Opal Foods news release
Opal Foods, an entity created by AGR Partners, in association with Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers, has purchased Moark's Midwest egg production assets.
Opal Foods expects annual revenues to exceed $200 million with its operations in Missouri and Colorado, as well as a new cage-free farm in Neosho. Many of the farms purchased were recently renovated to comply with California's future production standards, and some will be among the most modern in the country.
Opal Foods' company headquarters will be in Neosho, Missouri, and the company will retain all 250+ employees previously employed by Moark in the Midwest. Opal Foods will be a franchisee of Eggland's Best and will continue serving the same customers.
Jerry Welch, general manager of Opal Foods said, "Opal Foods is proud to continue to supply customers with the highest quality eggs to help meet the category's strong and growing demand. Opal Foods' stewardship will provide its customers and end consumers with a sustainable source of protein and valuable nutrition for years to come."
Opal Foods is interested in growth opportunities in egg production operations and recognizes the shift to healthier diets as a catalyst to the growth of the egg industry, as individuals and restaurants embrace the trend to increase protein consumption and expand breakfast and lunch menus that include eggs.
AGR Partners pursues non-controlling investments and seeks to partner with best-in-class management teams and business owners. Rose Acre Farms and Weaver Brothers are strategic partners in the creation of Opal Foods.
The partners will assist Opal Foods and its management team in building an industry leader in the production and distribution of fresh eggs that meet the nation's needs for a healthy source of protein.
Ejnar Knudsen, managing member of AGR Partners and a director of Opal Foods said, "The AGR team is grateful to be working with such a strong team in Opal, supported by great partners with all the resources and expertise from their respective organizations."
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By Glenne Fucci, Regular ContributorNovember 20, 2015
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This week the world stood still and wept with our fellow humans as terrorists struck not one, but two cities in a matter days. Paris and Beirut experienced shock and trauma and the purest form of hatred in the course of a few hours, in a manner that leaves our hearts heavy. Our fellow humans have been taken, impacted, and changed forever and we, in many ways, feel helpless to do anything about it. However, what's incredible in the days following these tragedies is the ability of communities to come together in love and support of people we have never met and places we have never traveled.
While so much hatred swirls on social media in the aftermath of these attacks, it's overshadowed by the love and kindness stretching across the globe.
I, unfortunately, know all too well what it's like to feel the love of the world in the aftermath of catastrophe. Back on a beautiful fall day in 2001, less than 30 miles from my middle school, two planes crashed into what was then, arguably, the most iconic set of buildings in the nation. At nine, I got my first taste fear -- the moments when you don't know whether a loved one will be making it home that day as you try to comprehend how different your world will be when you wake up tomorrow. I watched as classmates buried parents and parents buried grown children, and many of the street signs in my neighborhood changed to reflect the name of the person who lived on that street who would never be coming home. At nine, I hoped that this would never happen to anyone else, that no other communities would be so fundamentally changed by such senseless acts of violence.
Sadly, this happened again and again in different communities and contexts around the world.
Out of so much darkness though, there seems to be just the faintest light -- the coming together of people that otherwise would never cross paths.
The outpouring of love and support surrounding this week's tragedies is a testament to the strength and resilience of the human soul. Although feelings of anger, retaliation, and disgust are normal, natural even, what the world needs, what we all need, is a little bit more love. Intolerance breeds more intolerance and hatred breeds more hatred, and the revolving door of sadness just keeps on spinning. But, if we show some appreciation, gratitude, and respect for our fellow humans, we maybe, just maybe, can prevent the next generation from grieving for these same horrendous events. Who knows if love could have prevented the attacks in Paris or Beirut, or in so many other communities that have been left reeling after attacks, but it certainly can't hurt.
Love keeps us afloat. It keeps us going when senseless acts occur.
It keeps us inspired and pushes us to keep fighting for the peaceful world we envision for ourselves.
So girls, let's keep the love flowing, not just in our own communities, but far beyond. Let's lend a hand and reach out to those in need. Let's preach tolerance and respect. Lets smile more, gossip less, and hug our loved ones a little tighter. Lets never forget how lucky we are to get to live this life but also how powerful we are to shape it into something incredibly beautiful. Let's make this world the lovely, safe, and peaceful place we so dream of. And in the meantime, let's #StandwithParis and #StandwithBeirut.
Let's chat!
In times such as these, how can we overcome hate with love? How can we better show our support? Tell us below!
About Glenne
Glenne is a third year law student hailing from NYC, University of Michigan '13 grad and Beyonce enthusiast. Currently residing in Korea, her interests include duathlons/triathlons, traveling near and far, documentary films, consuming sugary cereal, watching mid-2000s teen dramas and singing her heart out at Betty Who concerts. You can watch her attempt to navigate Asia and beyond on Instagram @glennefucci.
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5 Responses to "I'm goin' LIVE!"
Boat. California. Have a seat. Hershey. Reverse. Cranberry Sauce.
Don hits his bottom in this episode, and potentially begins his climb out.
Have fun Basketcases! Wish I was there!
Roberta, Deb and Everyone,
Have a marvelous Mad Men party in East Greenwich Village tonight.
A few of us here in Hollywood are gathering at my home to look at some episodes from previous seasons and watch "In Care Off' together. Bummer that TW Cable stopped showing us the Hi Def feed at East Coast Time, which just gives us 3 more hours to party before watching our feed at 10 P.M. our time.
Ooh, really (about TW)? Here in Santa Barbara, we get COX Cable service, which is still showing AMC HD on the Eastern feed at 7:00 PDT.
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Cigar-smoking Gulbis fired up to reach the top
French Open sensation Ernests Gulbis celebrated his colourful Roland Garros campaign with a cigar on Friday before confidently predicting a major title was just around the corner.tennis Updated: Jun 06, 2014 21:33 IST
French Open sensation Ernests Gulbis celebrated his colourful Roland Garros campaign with a cigar on Friday before confidently predicting a major title was just around the corner.
The 25-year-old son of one of Latvia's richest men, who used to travel to tournaments by Lear jet, was beaten 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 by world number two Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals on Friday.
It ended one of the tournament's most compelling storylines.
Gulbis had knocked out 17-time major winner Roger Federer in the fourth round, the Swiss legend's earliest French Open exit in a decade.
He then caused a minor stir when he suggested tennis was no place for women to forge a career and that they would be better served staying at home producing babies.
It was the latest in a long line of headline grabbing soundbites from Gulbis whose hair-trigger opinions have overshadowed a topsy-turvy career.
But he insists he is now serious about toppling the giants of the sport after admitting earlier in the tournament that he was riding the "last train".
"I can take a cigar with my coach. That's the only vice which is left in me," said Gulbis after reaching his first major semi-final.
The celebrations would have been a lot more boisterous in his bad old days when he would miss days of practice to recover from the late nights, the wild times which once saw him arrested in Sweden for allegedly trying to pick up a prostitute.
"I'm not going to celebrate. Now I'm addicted to success, really," he said.
"I felt the success so close, and I don't say that I let it slip, these two weeks, because it's great to play semifinal. I need to make this extra step now. I'm extra motivated now."
Many in the sport have heard this pledge before from a man who had previously only once got to the last-eight of a Grand Slam - in Paris in 2008.
How far can he go?
"All the way to No 1," he confidently asserted.
He's closing in on that prediction as he will be in the top 10 in Monday's new world rankings from his current 17.
At the end of 2012, he was down at 139 and begging for wildcards into second-tier Challenger events.
Even his own mother urged him to quit.
He will certainly be regarded as a threat at Wimbledon which starts in two weeks and where he made the third round in 2013, his best performance at the All England Club.
If the courts are fast and true, few will relish facing a player who was serving at 225km/h in Paris and hitting 75 aces.
"Overall experience is just that I understood it much more than I did the previous time I was in the second week of a Grand Slam," he concluded.
"Previous time I reached the quarter-final I had no idea what was happening. I was there, you know, whatever comes, comes. I wasn't thinking about it.
"Now I really understood every feeling and I learned from it and I tried to enjoy it. I tried to understand how I can be better next time."


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A new infestation is causing concern at the Fairfax County, Va., Health Department.
Ticks normally found in Gulf Coast states have been discovered in a landfill off Interstate 66 in the Fair Oaks area. Because the ticks can carry disease, the health department is pressing hard to contain them.
A handful of the ticks show up in the area each year, probably dropped from migratory birds. Last July, the health department was surprised to find 69 of the Gulf Coast ticks when they treated a fawn from the landfill at an animal shelter.
Officials dragged sailcloth and adhesive sheets over the landfill, which was closed in 1982 and is now covered with trees and grass, to collect more ticks, and they found a lot from the Gulf Coast, 42 percent of which carried the bacterium ricsettia parkeri, which can cause a type of Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease. The Gulf Coast ticks do not carry Lyme disease.
Tick traps dot the landfill, now, as health department staffers collect them every week trying to learn more about the ticks and their population. The landfill is fenced off and gates are closed to discourage deer.
Workers at the waste transfer station, which also sits on the property, have had special training to keep them tick free at the end of the day.
The health department will also soon dispatch a Johns Hopkins students to study other areas of the county to make sure the Gulf Coast tick hasn't spread.


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QUALCOMM Signs CDMA ASIC License Agreement With LSI Logic
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QUALCOMM Signs CDMA ASIC License Agreement With LSI Logic
SAN DIEGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM)today announced that it has signed a license agreement with LSI LogicCorporation of Milpitas, Calif. The agreement enables LSI Logic to develop,manufacture and sell cdmaOne (IS-95) Application Specific Integrated Circuits(ASICs) to QUALCOMM's subscriber equipment licensees for digital cellular,personal communications services (PCS) and wireless local loop applicationsaround the world.
"LSI Logic enjoys a worldwide reputation as a key supplier of digitalcommunications integrated circuits to the mobile communications marketplace,"said Steve Altman, senior vice president and general manager of QUALCOMM'sTechnology Transfer Division. "By adding CDMA to its portfolio ofcapabilities, LSI Logic stands to gain an even larger share of this lucrativemarket."
With this agreement, LSI Logic becomes the fourth ASIC supplier toworldwide CDMA markets. CDMA is the digital technology of choice for digitalcellular and PCS in the United States. CDMA offers better voice quality withlonger talk and standby times and greater wireless access to millions ofsubscribers.
"This patent license agreement allows LSI Logic's leadership inCoreWare(R)-based ASIC design to be combined with CDMA technology, therebyproviding our wireless customers with system-on-a-chip solutions at a timewhen time-to-market and product differentiation around the CDMA standard iskey," said John Daane, LSI Logic's vice president and general managerCommunication Products Division.
Company Background: LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI), The System on a ChipCompany(TM), is a leading supplier of customer high-performancesemiconductors, with operations worldwide. The company enables customers tobuild complete systems on a single chip with its CoreWare(R) design program,which increases performance, lowers system costs and accelerates time tomarket. LSI Logic develops application-optimized products in partnership withtrend setting customers, and operates leading-edge manufacturing facilities toproduce submicron geometry chips. The company maintains a high level ofquality as demonstrated by its ISO 9000 certifications. LSI Logic Corporationis headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035,www.lsilogic.com.
Headquartered in San Diego, QUALCOMM develops, manufactures, markets,licenses and operates advanced communications systems and products based onits proprietary digital wireless technologies. The Company's primary productareas are the OmniTRACS(R) system (a geostationary satellite-based, mobilecommunications system providing two-way data and position reporting services),CDMA wireless communications systems and products and, in conjunction withothers, the development of the Globalstar(TM) low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellitecommunications system. Other Company Products include the Eudora Pro(TM)electronic mail software, ASIC products, and communications equipment andsystems for government and commercial customers worldwide. For moreinformation, please visit: http://www.qualcomm.com/.
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THE New Zealand government and SkyCity have signed a deal over the construction of a convention centre in Auckland.
The casino will fully fund the $NZ402 million ($A348 million) centre in exchange for gambling concessions.
The contract was signed on Friday, a spokesman for NZ Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has confirmed to NZ Newswire.
The details of the deal will be released on Saturday morning, he said.
The negotiations were originally supposed to be completed by June 14, but were pushed out to June 30, then July 5 after the sides failed to reach an agreement.
A commitment to complete the deal for the New Zealand International Convention Centre was unveiled on May 13.
It was announced then that the convention centre would cater for up to 3500 international conference delegates at any one time, with construction expected to begin next year and opening for business in 2017.
SkyCity would operate the convention centre for at least 35 years, and fund its construction, fit-out and land costs, in exchange for:
* extending SkyCity's Auckland casino licence, which is due to expire in 2021, out to 2048, and an amendment to cover all of SkyCity's properties in Federal Street
* 230 more pokie machines on the casino floor
* 40 more gaming tables
* a further 12 gaming tables that can be substituted for automated table game player stations, but not pokie machines
* up to 17 per cent of its pokie machines and automatic table games will be able to accept banknotes of greater than $20
* cashless gaming technology on all pokie machines and automatic table games at its Auckland casino.
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The currently ongoing New York Fashion Week is a semi-annual event that is held every year in the months of February and September. It is one of the four major fashion events that happen in the world, the other three being held in London, Paris and Milan.
But, apart from upcoming fashion trends, a lot of new hair and makeup trends are also spotted on the runway . So, we've listed some of the best hairstyles from the New York Fashion Week (NYFW).
The NYFW showcases new international fashion trends to buyers, the press and the public.
This fashion week was initially called the "press week" and made American fashion reach out to a global audience due to huge coverage by the magazine "Vogue", which earlier used to cater only to a French audience, covering French designs.
It was created by Eleanor Lambert, the press director of the American fashion industry, in 1943.
The New York Fashion Week is one of the biggest fashion events that takes place in the world, and press from all over the world cover even the tiniest of aspects from the show.
So, have a look at some of the best hairstyles that we think rocked from the NYFW this year!
1. Victoria Beckham:
Victoria Beckham's show had hairstyle that looked sleek and polished, pretty much inspired by her own hairstyle in real life. This is the easiest style to do without doubt. It's basically poker straight hair with added shine.
2. Carolina Herrera:
These looks are really minimalistic and yet sophisticated. Twisted minimalism is the key for these. You would need a straightener and lots of hairspray to do these.
3. Custo Barcelona:
Sculpted yet minimalistic, these hairstyles at the NYFW are really simple looking and yet structured well.
The vibe given is grown up, yet girly. They have a lot of ponytails that they've tied with things like belts to make them look structured and formal. It is the classic low ponytail with added accessories.
5. Creatures of Comfort:
This hairstyle looks so sophisticated and complicated, but all you have to do for this is to braid your hair and then, fold up the braid. Tie up the entire thing with the ends of the braid.
6. Josie Natori:
Basic ponytail that looks undone and classic is what this New York Fashion Week hairstyle is all about. Tie your hair in a basic ponytail fashion and then take a section from it to make a loop, then tie the loop.
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This is a one day tournament. We don't plan on keeping anyone late this weekend being Easter weekend just enough to knock off your teams rust. 2 pool, single elimination tournament. Game balls provided First and second place and individual trophy's. Entry fee is 125.00. contact Jim at 615-481-5688
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Neeraj Vij received his Ph.D. degree in biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2001. He was also a recipient of an international Fellowship at the Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center (Centre of Excellence of the European Union), Hungary. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and JHU SOM. Vij is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences and Institute of NanoBiotechnology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHU SOM), USA. Vij serves at the editorial boards of several journals. He has been invited to help organize several conferences and seminars. He is also frequently invited to serve as a reviewer for various journals and grant review study sections. He is a Life Member of the American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) and several other international scientific societies. He recieved several research awards and recognition for his scientific contributions. The primary research focus of Vij's laboratory is the identification of molecular pathways leading to chronic disease pathophysiology, with an aim to identify novel therapeutic sites. His laboratory is interested in applied and preclinical translational research and concentrates on the identification of novel therapeutic strategies to treat chronic diseases.
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US attacks to have modest impact on Saudi economy: report
The terror attacks in the United States will have a modest impact on the Saudi budget for the remainder of 2001, but oil income will substantially drop next year, a leading economic report predicted Tuesday October 16.
"We have made no change to our 2001 forecasts for one percent real Gross Domestic Product growth, a balanced budget, a $2 billion current account surplus" and a zero inflation rate, said the Saudi American Bank (SAMBA) report.
The report, prepared by chief economist Brad Bourland, projected a $10 billion decline in oil revenues from a likely $66 billion in 2001 to $56 billion in 2002, mainly due to a slowdown in world economy and OPEC oil production cuts to boost prices. It also projected that the September 11 attacks will cause a decline in Saudi private assets overseas, a slowdown of inward foreign direct investment flows, and a modest impact on foreign exchange rates.
The value of Saudi government foreign assets, estimated at $83 billion by the end of July 2001, has not declined due to the crisis, because most of it is in fixed income instruments, not equity. But Saudi private assets, estimated by SAMBA at $750 billion, 35 percent of which is invested in equities, is believed to have lost $50 to 55 billion0, Bourland said.
The report said that the most likely economic forecast for 2002 is for a zero GDP growth, a $ 5 billion budget deficit on a three percent increase in spending and a $ 4 billion current account deficit.
"In 2002, the Saudis face an oil price-production trade off that appears likely to lower oil revenues. Even a price sustained within OPEC's $22-28 price band is very likely to come at the cost of lower oil production," the report said.
For the remainder of 2001, the Saudi economic performance will be solid and oil production is unlikely to be altered much before year-end. The report also expected outstanding government debt, nearly all of it domestic, to remain at 610 billion riyals ($162.6 billion), representing 95 percent of forecast 2001 GDP. — (AFP, Riyadh)
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Discussion in 'Ballroom Dance' started by chomsky, Aug 22, 2011.
Blackpool Breaking Dance News:
USA wins team match!!!!!!!!!!!!! (USA/North American I guess)
Team Match:
1. USA/North America
2. Europe
3. Great Britain
4. Australasia
USA Team: Arunas and Katusha, Victor and Anastasia, Riccardo and Yulia, & Maurizio and Andra
Different from last year where they invited another Canadian ballroom couple instead of Victor and Anna...it seems less manipulated by the organizers in favor of the European team this year.
(But, I don't know if it was by invitation or how it was done this year)
Congratulations to Yegor Novikov and Yana Blinova on winning Pro RS Latin - 1st in all dances
And Shirley Ballas!!
GO OSKAR AND KAROLINA! 1st in Rising Star Amateur Ballroom! Proud to say I practice in the same studio as them.
Pasha and Daniella made semi in Am Latin! Only US couple! We also have 2 in quarter! Go USA!
Good for them...
In amateur latin final round, I don't I see dancers like Andrei Zaitsev & Anna Kuzminskaya, Nino Langella & Khrystyna Moshenskaya. I am not following closely amateurs, but can anybody kindly shed light on? Is it due to WDSF and things like that?
wow, that's great news - happy for them.
Don't know can be discerned from the Dancesportinfo Blackpool results page, but it appears that neither Franco and Olga and/or Slavik and Daria are moving forward into round 3 today (pro latin)...so it appears that neither couple showed up to dance Blackpool. Maybe someone at Blackpool can provide further first hand info? All the other 'top couples' are moving up into the results for subsequent rounds...(so far round 3, top 99)
Neither Slavik or Formica are dancing. Slavik and Daria ended their partnership allready, and Formica published on facebook that he and Olga are not ready yet to compete.
Are we sure they ever had a partnership? Like, a competitive partnership?
Woah!!!! I can't believe that Slavik and Daria already terminated their partnership!!! Stunned!!! Although, something happened at Sunshine State Dancesport Championship that hasn't yet fully been explained...plus there were more signs that things weren't going well (already). Also, Slavik and Daria were registered to dance at Emerald Ball and didn't show according to reports on that thread! Absolutely stunned, although if it's true I'm not sure that Daria was the best partner for him, but actually they looked good in Miami and got a standing ovation for Rumba.
I am still definitely excited to hear results, but not quite as much as I was earlier today. Bummer.
Professional Latin Final Results
Blackpool Pro Latin Final Placings
1. Michael and Joanna (England)
2. Riccardo and Yulia (USA)
3. Sergey and Melia (Russia)
4. Maurizio and Andra (Canada)
5. Andrej and Melinda (Slovenia)
6. Justinas and Anna (Lithuania)
7. Anton and Ekaterina (Russia)
8. Markus and Ksenia (Germany)
8. (tie) Emanuele Soldi and Elisa Nasato (Italy)
Not sure I understand the overall placement here in the multi-dance final, but this doesn't seem like it's making sense, they are giving Justinas and Anna an overall 6th even though they only made the final in one dance: Cha Cha?
Also note Michael and Joanna 1st in all 5 dances, Riccardo and Yulia 2nd in all 5 dances, same for the other placements through 5th
Anton and Ekaterina final-ed in all dances, but Rumba...Markus and Ksenia only once (6th in Jive), Emanuele and Elisa also only once in Rumba (6th)
Also the only other US couple through to semis was Yegor Novikov and Yana Blinova in Cha Cha and Rumba only
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Online Enemy #1: Blackhole Exploit Kit
There's a new cyber bully out there that not only has frightened users, but continues to frustrate IT departments with its knack for exploiting the latest software vulnerabilities and infect otherwise well-defended systems and networks. Named the Blackhole Exploit kit, it stands out as a particularly effective example of an increasingly sophisticated exploit kit first unleashed in 2010.
Blackhole attacks endpoints such as PCs, laptops and workstations by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in popular software programs developed by industry leaders, including Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Oracle and Mozilla.
This GFI Software white paper examines:
- The complex, persistent challenge Blackhole has presented to IT security professionals
- How antivirus alone is no longer enough and adequate malware defenses now require integrated patch management solutions
- The importance of implementing automated, centralized software patching, used in conjunction with traditional antivirus solutions as part of a comprehensive security strategy.
- How a layered security approach to network security enables IT departments to more proactively address the top threat their users now face online.
Provided by: GFI Software Topic: Security Date Added: Feb 2013 Format: PDF


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Britney Spears CDs. McDonald's hamburgers. Sylvester Stallone movies. To the list of exports for which the United States might be less than fully proud, one might add commercially published rankings of colleges and universities. Since U.S. News & World Report first published its annual list of the best colleges 25 years ago, the phenomenon has exploded not only in the United States but in countries such as Australia, Canada, China, Italy, and Spain, often (perhaps not coincidentally) closely following the introduction of policies that require students and parents to pay their own tuition.
A new report [1] by the Educational Policy Institute finds that many of the strengths and especially the perceived weaknesses that so many American college officials find in the U.S. News rankings [2] -- above all, the approach of weighting indicators to come up with one overarching "score" of quality -- are replicated in the comparable lists in other countries. But the authors of the study also identify, in Germany, a possible way out, in which colleges there band together to collect and publish much more data and information than they now do in a way that enables individual consumers to decide which institutions to rank, and on what basis.
The study, "A World of Difference: A Global Survey of University League Tables," was co-written by Alex Usher, a vice president at the policy institute, a research associate there. It examines 16 national rankings from 10 countries and three systems that attempt to rate institutions from across the globe (one of the three, which was formerly published by Asiaweek, is now defunct).
The rankings share some things in common. Most are produced by commercial publishing companies, and as a result are designed to tell a "story" that consumers can easily grasp. To do that, most try to boil a complex set of factors and data down into what the study calls "single, comparable" -- and, one might add, easily digestible -- "numerical indicators" of quality. The designers of each ranking system, of course, decide what measures to use and how to weigh them, and therefore define quality in their own way.
"It is no exaggeration to say that when publishers advertise their product as a guide to 'the best' institutions, it is the publishers themselves who largely decide the best simply through their choice of indicators and weightings," the study says. "In effect, the act of choosing a set of indicators and weightings imposes a definition of 'quality.' "
The different systems use what the study calls a "bewildering array" of indicators, due partly to the varying availability of data measures and partly to the designers' differing perceptions of what quality is, and then weight them in wildly differing ways; the four different ranking systems in China, for instance, place much more emphasis on research measures, virtually ignoring teaching, while British systems focus more on staff quality.
The authors find, a bit to their surprise, that despite the great variation in the indicators the different ranking systems use, the same institutions tend to rise to the top of most of them, although the gap between the results for individual colleges widens the further down the rankings you go. The study suggests that this is because there is "some 'dark matter' or 'X factor' exerting a gravitational pull on all ranking schemes such that certain institutions or type of institutions .. would rise to the top regardless of the specific indicators and weightings used." The authors' (speculative) candidates for those non-measured "X factors": "age of institution," "faculty size," or "per/student expenditure."
Because of the problems they perceive with the subjectivity of the rankings, the authors suggest that there may be a better way for consumers and others to measure institutional quality -- and they find it in Germany. There, a think tank called the Centre for Higher Education Development, [3] working with a publisher, Die Zeit, publish a ranking ( German language only [4]) of individual academic departments based on extensive surveys of students and professors and data gathered independently of the departments themselves (the latter a crucial factor, says Usher, because it "takes the massaging of the data" that some colleges engage in out of the process).
The German ranking does not weight or aggregate the scores on individual indicators into a common "grade," nor does it in any way assign the institutions in a numerical order. It classifies the departments into thirds (top, bottom, middle) on each individual indicator, and it allows individual users to sort the weightings and rankings in its database to compare institutions and departments in the way they choose.
"In so doing, the CHE/DAAD approach effectively cedes the power of defining 'quality' -- which, as we have seen, is one of the key roles arrogated by the authors of ranking schemes -- to consumers of the ranking system (i.e., prospective university students and their parents or sponsors)," the study finds.
While some leaders in American higher education have tiptoed in this direction -- the Graduate Management Admission Council, for instance, is working on a database [5] that would make admissions, enrollment, placement and other information about business schools available to the public in a move designed as an alternative to business school rankings -- college officials have done relatively little to back up their perpetual complaining about existing rankings with concrete steps to produce an alternative, Usher says.
"Institutions deserve the ranking systems they get," he says. "If they don't like the way they're being ranked, it's often because they're not willing to share the information that consumers really want."
For better or worse, pressure to collect and publish readily comparable, "user friendly" information about colleges in the United States may come from outside higher education, in the form of the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. [6]


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Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by peRFection, Mar 3, 2012.
he said it from the heart.
That's like telling me that water is wet.
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court interview during the ceremony
10 duh's
Fed is the most popular player in tennis since Agassi
Dubai is a pretty even crowd. I remember last year they were vociferously backing Djokovic in the final. This year, Murray had a large contingent of support, but Fed definitely had his as well. I'd say it was 55/45 Fed in the final this year.
He doesn't always seem like the happiest guy on the court but Murray does have a good sense of humour
Thanks for the spoiler.
It is no spoiler, not even implicitly and why do you come here If you dont know The result yet?
We have got the Pro Match Results section for these things.
Plus I'm not sure "I think most of the crowd wants Roger to win" is something Murray is likely to say to the umpire on a changeover
No one posted any final score or who won the match.
The match will replay on The Tennis Channel, so you could have wait before visiting this board.
Murray is right, even if he played Roger in the Wilmbedon final fan support would be split. Also think maybe close to half of Spanish fans would rather see Fed beat Rafa. Fed is beloved everywhere. Greatest champion in tennis history.
I think most of the crowd hated to witness childish reactions from murray when he makes ue.
It's disappointing and weak
Andy was honest. it's as simple as that. yes, Roger is still a tennis star. this just reminded me of the French crowd last year at RG. I hated it.
Je suis un Suédois Also, looking from that pic I can ascertain what happened.
Real test is coming up in another desert. That is what counts. You will see a different Djoker there.
Pretty understandable considering Fed plays better tennis and has a better personality.
The Cincinnati Desert?
I'm hoping that Andy M doesn't "roll over" for Roger.
Well I would expect so. Federer is a tennis legend, and will probably be the most recogised name in the sport along with Laver and Sampras. Nadal is pretty much a legend, certainly all time great. Djokovic is a tennis great in the making. Murray is a current slam contender at best. He is a great player but he's gonna have to win multiple slams just to reach the Djokovic level of greatness which is still some way behind Federer and Nadal. People generally support the guys who achieve at the very highest level. It's just like the biggest movie stars and the biggest rockstars will have more demand and attention than the good current guys who have not become legends yet.
Federer is going to be like Pele, Jordan, Gretzky or Ali. People will use his name without mentioning the sport itself, so obvious it will be.
Not sure he will be as ubiquitous as those guys but he'll be close.
Federer has already passed Gretzky. Outside of North America and a few select countries Gretzky is not even in the top 20 of best regarded athletes. Jordan, yes. Pele, yes. Michael Schumacher, yes. - Federer is also fortunate to be in this era where social media and media consumption in general has shot through the roof. Legendary antics/skills have so much more chance of being seen by millions of people than even stuff as recently as 2005.
True legend is when you become known outside of people who are remotely interested in the sport the person played. Federer has achieved that, even more than Sampras ever did imo. So many people know and acknowledge him as a legend haven't a clue about sport, let alone tennis.
I don't think jordan would be known elsewhere if he didn't wear Nike.
Basketball is not that big in a lot of places and he wouldn't be on tv.
Schuhmacher, a car, tv - he's known everywhere
Watching it seemed maybe 95/5 in favor of Federer.
In Australia, hardly anyone cares for basketball, but everyone knows what a legend Jordan is.
Yeah, Schumy is on that list of immortals too.
He was getting his ass kicked on regular basis, being around #4, until Mansell and Prost retired and Senna died. And then he got his weak era to dominate.
Who is Gretzky?
Wayne Gretzky a Hockey Player. Probably the GOAT of Hockey.
Who is this Hockey?
Pele - Umm NO. Football is 10x more popular than tennis will ever be and Pele is football's favourite son(although I think Zidane trumps him but that's another matter).
The rest is fairly OK.
I'd say(in that order) -
Ali is regarded by most as the greatest sportsman in history.
In fact it sounds like something Murray would have said apologizing to the crowd after winning the title , so no spoiler
Oh, I didn't mean Federer had passed Pele... no way. I meant that he, Jordan and Schumacher were in the top 20 globally but Gretzky wasn't.
Oh ok, my mistake.
Pele was very special. I really don't think we should compare Pele with Rog. I used to watch football at that time and Pele was simply bloody amazing. I still think the best player that has ever played the game. Pele was a genious.
The only thing is that even in his days boxing was fixed
Fed is the most popular player in tennis since tennis was invented. {fixed}
It wouldn't have mattered what athletic company he wore, he had his own logo... Anytime you get your own logo, you know you've hit the big time. Doesn't matter if it was through Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc...
Although it does seem like Nike is one of the only athletic companies to give athletes their own logos - Jordan, Federer, Nadal.
I wish I could say the same for you.
Have to agree to that, I had to google Gretzky to know which sport you were talking about (I would have said ice hockey if asked, but wouldn't have been surprised if he'd been a baseball or football player, that's how "well" I know him...)
I'll be honest - living in Australia, I have brought up Gretzky and people look at me funny, he isn't a world-wide name.
Federer is extremely synonymous with the sport of Tennis, but I don't think he reaches the heights of Ali, Pele or Jordan. I don't think anybody argues with the first two, but people saying Jordan isn't well known should just look at how heavily referenced in pop culture he is, mostly in music - but he also is the name of a brand which has athletic apparel which has spanned out to multiple sports (not just basketball), not to mention being in quite a popular and well known (if terrible) film in Space Jam.
Ali is mostly regarded by people who know next to nothing about his out-of-ring exploits. He was mostly a despicable human being and secondary to that a very good boxer. Difference between Jordan, Federer and Ali is that the former 2 were considered the best in the world, while Ali would struggle to make the top 5. Has humanity had decades to become accustomed to the legendary status of Federer? Not really, so you cannot fault him for that. In terms of helping his sport develop he is head and shoulders above anyone.
I have to agree.
Zidane trumps Pele? Funny, he's probably not even one of the top 5 footballers in history.
I don't know much about Boxing so I'll take your word for what you're saying - but I think the reason why Ali transcends the sport is again because of his role in Pop Culture. Couldn't tell you the first thing about boxing, but his fights with Frazier are stuff which even I know about, and to a lesser extent the film that was made about a decade ago, it helps to make him more well known.
I'd also probably say Tiger Woods is more well known than Federer - or at least on par (pun intended) with him, whether or not that is good or bad publicity at the moment, there was a time where he transcended the sport of Golf.
Are you serious? Ali is considered the greatest boxer, and sportsman, by a mile and that's after spending 3 years of his absolute prime in prison as a conscientious objector against the very ugly and dubious Vietnam War. Knock 3 years off Federer's prime and see how well he fares?
Ali with that handicap is still considered the greatest boxer. No heavyweight has ever had that speed, coordination, movement and skill.
You ever watched Ali in his prime? You ever seen Sonny Liston and how Ali destroyed and toyed with him to win the title.
Sonny Liston was like a bigger version of Mike Tyson except better and more vicious, so dominant and brutal before Ali, he was thought to be unbeatable.
Regarding being a despicable human being, you better ask the billions of people Ali inspired and influenced over the years. The most famous and popular man on the planet, not just sportsman, for well over a decade.
A man who had everything and gave it up for his religious and moral beliefs (even went to jail) then had to rebuild it all and became the most famous man and sportsman a second time.
Was never quite the same boxer he was in the sixties but still good enough to beat the best. And one of the bravest sportsmen fighting 10 rounds against Frazier with a broken jaw! Imagine. And later beating another, considered unbeatable boxer Foreman. Ali's insides were so badly beaten he was spitting blood after the fight.
Ali is the greatest in every way you can imagine.
Federer's popularity is staggering, leaves Andy far behind.
That's not entirely a reflection on Murray either.
Federer's longevity in the game is impressive and plays a significant factor.
Murray treats Masters 1000 matches vs top 3 like a true slam final and like its the last match he'll ever play. I'm sure he would never do that.
first there was tennis
then there was federer
about ali.. ali is such a legend because of a number of different aspects that all came together with him. few of them were actually related to sports. he was a fantastic boxer, certainly one of the best there ever were. but he was also a showman, an attention seeker (if not ***** lol), an egomaniac, a revolter and all that made his story go way beyond simple boxing and reach far into culture and even politics. that just isnt the case for any other sports icon and so ali stands alone up there
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SEATTLE -- Erik Bedard's first start since June 7 was encouraging, as the left-hander struck out eight batters in four innings and retired the last 10 guys he faced. But the Mariners bullpen, consistent for much of this season, couldn't get it done against Baltimore on Tuesday. Bedard's limited pitch count -- coupled with a long first inning -- forced the 'pen into action early, and three Mariners relievers combined to allow 10 runs over five innings in a 12-4 blowout loss to the Orioles in front of 19,340 at Safeco Field.
Four runs in the sixth and six more in the seventh blew this one open for the Orioles, who rebounded from an early 3-2 deficit by feasting on Chris Jakubauskas and Shawn Kelley. "We had a good ballgame going," Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said. "And then the wheels fell off." And in a big way. With the game tied at 3, Baltimore DH Luke Scott tripled with the bases loaded in the sixth, driving in two of his seven runs. Franklin Gutierrez, who has been one of the best center fielders in the Major Leagues this season, came in on the ball as soon as it was hit and couldn't recover in time to make the catch. The play was ruled a hit, but it was a catch that Gutierrez usually makes. That opened the flood gates for an offensive explosion. Melvin Mora followed with an RBI single to give the Orioles a 6-3 lead, and Scott highlighted a six-run seventh inning with a three-run homer to right-center field. Scott also drove in the Orioles' first two runs in the first inning with a bases-loaded single to center field, but Baltimore manager Dave Trembley thought they should have had one more. Gutierrez made an errant throw into the seats up the third-base line, and Trembley was ejected for arguing that Nolan Reimold, who moved from first to third on the play, should have been awarded home plate. "I felt the play wasn't called correctly," Trembley said after his third ejection of the season. "I have a lot of respect for the umpires, but when you make a mistake, you've got to admit you made a mistake. They said Reimold had not touched second base before the ball was out of the hand of Gutierrez, and basically told me that Reimold didn't run hard. And that set me off because I asked Reimold, and he told me he already got to second base before the ball was out of the hand of Gutierrez." It looked like it may have been a fairly crucial ruling. Gutierrez put the Mariners ahead 3-2 with a two-out home run to left-center field in the bottom of the frame, his ninth dinger of the season. Other than a sacrifice fly by Ichiro Suzuki in the bottom of the ninth, that was all the Mariners got. In a battle of bullpens, the Orioles won this one by a landslide. After starter Jeremy Guthrie was yanked after allowing three runs and walking four in 2 1/3 innings -- he was also displaying some flu symptoms -- Baltimore's 'pen tossed 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball. Left-hander Mark Hendrickson worked 3 2/3 of that while striking out five to get the win. It wasn't all bad for the Mariners, though. In his first start since being placed on the disabled list with shoulder stiffness, Bedard allowed only two runs and was perfect after the rough opening frame, but his pitch count reached 72 after the first four innings and he had to be removed. Manager Don Wakamatsu said before the game that Bedard would be on a pitch count of around 75-85. He should be closer to 90 in his next start on Sunday, Wakamatsu said. Reserved as usual, Bedard said the process was fairly simple. "I don't know," Bedard said, asked what changed for him after the rocky start. "Just throwing strikes. That's about it." If only it were that simple for the bullpen. Jakubauskas worked a scoreless fifth, then gave up a single to Nick Markakis to lead off the sixth and went to a 3-0 count two batters later on Aubrey Huff before intentionally walking him. That changed the landscape of the game. Wakamatsu said he thought Jakubauskas was pitching too much to protect the lead instead of going after guys, and it cost him. Reimold followed the walk with a single, then Scott's triple blew it open. "For me, it really came down to getting behind Huff 3-0," Wakamatsu said. "That was kind of a turning point in the game where I thought he should have challenged him a little bit more. Then the momentum switched, and they came up swinging from that point on." Kelley didn't fare any better, as he allowed five runs on four hits in one inning pitched. Roy Corcoran allowed Scott's homer after entering with runners on first and second. The Mariners had some chances of their own offensively, but Hendrickson worked out of a couple jams to keep them off the scoreboard. He came into the game with runners on first and second in the third, but struck out Gutierrez and Ryan Langerhans to end the threat. Langerhans struck out twice more with runners in scoring position to end the fifth and eighth innings. By that point, it didn't matter. "In two innings, the game was basically out of control," Wakamatsu said. "Other than that, I thought we had a pretty good game going. ... We had some opportunities with the walks we didn't take advantage of early. We could have blown that game out a little bit earlier. We let the tides change on us."
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Jays see potential in Encarnacion's glove
Jays see potential in Encarnacion's glove
Blue Jays bench coach Brian Butterfield, who doubles as Toronto's infield instructor, hardly needed to give Rolen advice during the season and a half the pair worked together.
"Even if there was something there that I could've helped Rolen with," said Butterfield, who then cracked a smile, "he would've just yelled and screamed at me anyway."
A few hours prior to Wednesday's tilt with the Yankees, Butterfield and Jays third-base coach Nick Leyva were on the diamond at Rogers Centre with newly acquired third baseman Edwin Encarnacion. Over the season's final months, Buttterfield and Leyva plan on teaming with Encarnacion to tackle his defense.
Encarnacion -- sent from Cincinnati to Toronto along with reliever Josh Roenicke and Minor League pitcher Zach Stewart -- is not in Rolen's league as an elite defender. So far, though, Butterfield said he likes what he has seen from Encarnacion in his first few games with the Blue Jays. There is plenty of work to be done, but Butterfield believes the foundation is solid.
When he learned that the Jays had obtained Encarnacion, the first thing Butterfield did was phone up Reds bench coach and infield instructor Chris Speier. The two went over Encarnacion's strengths and weaknesses, and Butterfield has spent the past few days observing the third baseman and doing his own evaluation.
"He has great glove action," Butterfield said. "He catches the ball the way I've always taught it. You run to the ball, and there's a point where the ball is getting on you and you present the glove and you keep it open -- relax it and keep it open. Whether it's going to be your backhand or to your glove side, you present the glove, and you keep that thing open. A lot of guys will glove-flip at the last second -- they'll present it late.
"As I see him so far, I'm very impressed with his glove. His hands, there's no panic in his hands. He's got a strong throwing arm. There's some things that we may see -- just like Chris Speier saw when he was over there -- but it's obviously good ability to work with."
Entering Wednesday, the 26-year-old Encarnacion owned a .938 career fielding percentage with between 16-25 errors in each of the past three seasons. Rolen boasted a .967 career fielding percentage and had not committed more than 16 errors in a single season since having 24 in 1997 -- his second big league campaign.
Butterfield said Encarnacion is well aware of what he needs to work on the most.
"Nick asked him today," Butterfield said. "He said, 'Out of your errors that you've had last year and this year, would you say they're half and half? Half fielding and half throwing?' [Encarnacion] goes, 'No. If I was to have 10 errors, I would say eight would be throwing and two would be fielding.'
"Obviously, just by listening to Edwin talk, he knows that he's got to become a more consistent thrower, and that will come. That will come with time. He's still a young Major League player."
A perfect example of what separates a player like Rolen from other third basemen came in the third inning on Tuesday night in Toronto.
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez sent a sharply hit grounder down the third-base line, where Encarnacion made a nice backhanded stab at the ball. After gathering himself, Encarnacion sent the baseball skipping across the diamond to first, where Rodriguez easily reached for an infield single. It was the type of difficult play Rolen has made look routine over the years.
Butterfield said that part of Rolen's success was in his footwork.
"Nobody has feet like Rolen," Butterfield said.
Even so, Butterfield believes Encarnacion shows promise and can improve as a defender. That being said, the Blue Jays' bench coach also realizes that switching ballclubs and working with new coaches does not always bring greater success for a player. The Jays are hoping to be an exception in that regard.
"Some people think that just because a guy goes to another organization," Butterfield said, "that all of a sudden this coaching staff is going to be the magic elixir. That's not necessarily so, but you always like to think that maybe there's one thing that Nick Leyva can get across to him that maybe has been overlooked.
"I consider Chris Speier one of the better infield instructors in all of baseball. So I know that he's worked very hard and diligently with this guy, which we will do. Who knows? You hope [Encarnacion can improve]. At least there's something to work with."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Meet Dick and Duane. The beefy, furry comedic team from New York don't want to be called bears, and they're not leather enthusiasts but the leather crowd is the right one for their act.
"We're a gay married duo," says Duane Tragis. "So we tend to be sexual. I think that the leather crowd is sexually smart so that's why we love performing for a leather crowd. Because they get it, and they're with you."
Not wanting to be called bears is not meant to disrespect the bear community. They just don't like labels. And if you saw pictures of Tragis and Richie "Dick" Cohen when they first met three decades ago, looking very much like Wham!, you would understand.
"We're not into any scene," Tragis says.
But they are into comedy. Their main purpose at the Mid-Atlantic Leather Contest is to make audiences laugh with skits inspired by old classics like I Love Lucy and the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
"We've been together for 29 years," says Cohen, recounting their meeting in college. "I was 18 and Duane was 19, and we have just always made each other laugh. And I guess a few years later, 24 years ago, we started performing on stage in Manhattan and here we are."
So what can audiences expect this weekend at MAL?
"Our act gets a little sleazier and a little raunchier with the gay audiences," Cohen says. "We definitely do tone it down when we play a mainstream comedy club. We do the same material, but we don't pull our dicks out."
Cohen adds that there have been times in the past where gay audiences have asked for a lot more than what they got onstage — including explicit propositions from some audience members.
"They want to fuck us," Cohen laughs. "Sometimes it's a bit of a drag for me, because I'm a bottom. Everyone looks at us and thinks big hairy guys and they think that we're both tops. I do get asked, unfortunately, by a lot of bottoms and I'm not interested."
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Minor League Report: Brad James
Minor League Report: Brad James
The right-hander is considered a budding star among Astros prospects, one who will likely help the Major League club down the road. The 23-year-old also is not ready for the big leagues just yet, and he was anxious to get to Minor League camp, where he would receive enough playing time to prepare him for the regular season.
James pitched two innings while with the Major League team this spring. That's not enough playing time for anyone, especially for a starting pitcher who needs to build up enough arm strength to get through five innings by the beginning of April.
James will likely start the season with Double-A Corpus Christi, with whom he ended the season in 2007. He blew through Class A last year, going 9-2 with a 1.98 ERA over 16 starts. He was promoted to the Hooks and started nine games, going 1-5 with a 5.17 ERA.
"We'll try to stretch him out, to really get prepared for the season," assistant general manager Ricky Bennett said. "We've got about two, 2 1/2 weeks before we start. Between now and then, we'll just stretch him out and try to get him as many innings as we possibly can, so when the season starts, he'll be ready to go four, five innings."
On the move: Left-hander Josh Muecke is likely headed for Triple-A Round Rock this year, but a final decision will be made toward the end of Spring Training. He's one of a handful of prospects who received limited playing time while in Major League camp, so he has some catching up to do.
"We'd like to stretch him out to three or four innings," Bennett said. "He could possibly start. We haven't made that decision yet. We want to get him as many innings as possible."
On the pine: Fernando Nieve, who was sent to Minor League camp earlier this week, threw a batting practice session on Tuesday but still has a while to go before the club will consider placing him in Round Rock's starting rotation.
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Nieve had Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery last May and was hampered by a strained hamstring for much of Spring Training. Because he was so behind everyone else who was competing for a spot in the rotation, the right-hander was the first of 11 pitchers to be eliminated from consideration for a starting job.
Now, his focus will rest on getting ready for the Minor League season.
"We're just going to try to stretch him out as long as we can before we start the season," Bennett said. "He probably won't be stretched out to more than two or three innings before we leave. Once we get to that point, we'll have to decide whether to leave him in extended [Spring Training] or break with the team."
Class of '07: Russell Dixon, the club's seventh-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, was selected as a second baseman but has been moved to the outfield, effective immediately.
Dixon will compete for a spot with Class A Lexington.
"In our Elite Camp and our [Spring Training] minicamp, he took a lot of ground balls, but we made a decision the other day to put him in the outfield exclusively," Bennett said.
He said it: "They need to get ready, get in shape. They need a lot of at-bats. We played intrasquad games, Double-A versus Triple-A, and the A ball teams played. It gives us a chance to get guys more innings." -- Bennett, on the importance of the Minor League players who were in Major League camp preparing for their seasons
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While iSCSI might have the little "i" so common in Apple's naming schemes, it has nothing to do with Mr. Jobs. In this case, the "i" stands for "Internet." SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is an interface used for connecting PCs to peripherals such as hard drives. SCSI is nothing new. It's been around for a long time. It is, in fact, a preferred choice for production environments because of its performance. iSCSI adds a new dimension to the SCSI interface. It allows the SCSI commands to be sent via existing network cabling. What does this mean? It means that you can easily create a SAN (Storage Area Network) using your existing network infrastructure. (A SAN is an integral part of a clustered server setup.)
How Does it Work?
iSCSI requires the installation of a special piece of software, called an initiator, on the host machine. This allows the host to accommodate incoming iSCSI commands. Microsoft has released a free download for Server 2000 and Server 2003. Server 2008 comes with the iSCSI initiator included out of the box. The initiator, installed on the host, initiates and receives requests from the iSCSI target via the IP network.
In Plain English, Please?
It sounds more complicated than it is. The host machine (running the iSCSI initiator) is connected to your network. It sends special network traffic to the target machine (where the iSCSI devices are installed) to access the storage devices. The data being written to and read from the drive is encapsulated within that network traffic and sent back to the host machine. In essence, it's like having a really, really long drive cable connected from your host machine to your target machine. Since it all runs over TCP/IP (which is the same protocol used by most web traffic), there's no need to install specialized networking gear to make iSCSI work.
It Sounds Too Good to Be True!
Like a lot of innovative technology, this does sound too good to be true, which doesn't stop it from actually being true. Considerations must be taken to ensure that the performance of your iSCSI SAN meets your needs and expectations. While you don't need specialized networking hardware, you do want to use high-speed dedicated hardware for the SAN. This means gigabit Ethernet cards in your target and host machines. (This gigabit card should be in addition to the existing network card being used to access the public/internal networks.) Having such a card dedicated to the SAN traffic will help you achieve optimal performance. Isolating the SAN traffic onto a private network will also help boost your SAN's performance. Dual processors are also recommended in all of your iSCSI hosts.
Security is also a concern. By default, no security protocol is in place for IP traffic, even that being carried over an iSCSI connection. This is an obvious concern. Fortunately, CHAP and IPSec can be used to maintain security of your data being transmitted. CHAP is used as a negotiation between the host and target. If the host and target both know the secret password, the connection is established. If not, the connection is terminated. This prevents unauthorized machines from accessing your data via a direct connection, but does not protect your encapsulated data while it is in transit. For that, IPSec is required. IPSec is a security method which can be implemented on your iSCSI network to encrypt the traffic as it flows from point A to point B, protecting it from people attempting to intercept it.
SAN and Clustering
Clustering servers requires that they have access to the same shared storage. If we go back to the diagrams from the last post, we can see that centralized storage is an integral part of the clustering scenarios I outlined.
The SAN allows both clustered servers to access the data being written. If the storage were local to one of the servers and that server failed... you can see where that goes. It renders your cluster ineffective. Thus, centralized SAN storage becomes imperative to redundancy.
You can find more information on iSCSI SAN solutions and how to set them up here. Jose Barreto, member of the Storage Solutions Division, has some great blog posts on this subject, which begin here.


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We're living in an incredibly fast-paced world, where nearly every phrase seems to be abbreviated to save time. Whether purely social (LOL, OMG, TTYL) or strictly business (ROI, CTR, CPA), shorthand has become ubiquitous in the language of business.
But what about API? Perhaps lesser known—but no less powerful—this acronym is the driving force behind virtually all social platforms. Here's everything you need to know to about these three little letters that pack a whole lot of punch.
What Is an API?
API stands for application programming interface. As it's a rather complicated concept, let's break it down by looking at each of its parts.
If you have a smartphone, you are well acquainted with what applications are, i.e., the tools, games, social networks and other software that we use everyday.
Programming is how engineers create all the software that make our lives so much easier.
An interface is a common boundary shared by two applications or programs that allow both to communicate with one another.
So an API is essentially a way for programmers to communicate with a certain application.
API: A Technical Perspective
Kevin Stanton, API Chapter Manager at Sprout Social, offers further insights into the underpinnings of this term.
"API is a precise specification written by providers of a service that programmers must follow when using that service," he says. "It describes what functionality is available, how it must be used and what formats it will accept as input or return as output. In recent years, the term API colloquially is used to describe both the specification and service itself, e.g., the Facebook Graph API."
API Analogy
Every time you want to access a set of data from an application, you have to call the API. But there is only a certain amount of data the application will let you access, so you have to communicate to the operator in a very specific language—a language unique to each application.
To help visualize this concept, imagine an API as the middleman between a programmer and an application. This middleman accepts requests and, if that request is allowed, returns the data. The middleman also informs programmers about everything they can request, exactly how to ask for it and how to receive it.
Example of an API
At Sprout, we give people the ability to run reports on their social media as often as they want. But in order for us to get the raw Twitter data needed to populate these reports, we must pull that information from Twitter's database.
Of course, we can't send an email to the folks at Twitter whenever we need that information, and for security reasons, they can't give us the access to go in and help ourselves.
That's where the API comes in. Our developers have written unique code that streams data from Twitter in real time so that whenever people request analytics from us, our platform is ready to package it all together nicely.
What Is an API Call?
Whenever a developer or tool requests information from an API, they need to call (or, more technically speaking, create a request to) that API. Many open APIs have strict limits on how many times people can make a call in order to limit traffic and not overwhelm the API with requests.
Why Are APIs Important for Business?
Do you use an application that tells you what the current traffic looks like? Or how about an app that shows when the next bus will be at your stop? Most tools like these rely on open APIs to run and pull the most accurate data. Those are both good examples of how open APIs might help you in your everyday life, but here's how they can help you in business.
1. Businesses Create Apps With APIs
There are many businesses out there that build software and tools that rely on pulling data from open APIs to help streamline a business process in some new way. In fact, without APIs, Sprout, as we know it, would cease to exist.
2. Business People Use Those Apps
APIs are important for business because they allow programmers to build amazing tools that help us do our jobs more effectively. A good example is this keyword tool that accesses Google's search API to suggest keywords your business should target.
3. Businesses Rely on Open APIs
APIs are also important for the businesses that provide them, because third-party developers build out applications that further the use of the company's core product. This saves the API provider both time and money. For example, before Reddit came out with its own mobile app, it relied on other tools created by companies looking to monetize that work.
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Learn to Use APIs
With the growing popularity of websites that teach people to code, learning to use an API can be done from the comfort of your own home. The site Code Academy even offers lessons that show people how to use APIs to create their own applications.
Of course, if you'd like to use a tool that already has access to all sorts of social media APIs, consider starting a free, 30-day trial with Sprout to gather deeper insights that will further empower your business.


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Gliders at Harbor Soaring Society shut down
I guess we all saw this coming, apparently the club is going to enforce the 400 foot altitude limit, while we technically can still fly a glider there, a good winch launch can exceed 400 feet, long gone are the days when we flew large scale gliders there, at 400 I am setting up for a final with the large stuff.
I felt a little sadness 2 weeks ago flying in the SC/2 contest, I had a feeling this might be the last true soaring contest ever held at the field. Too bad, Harbor Soaring is the oldest AMA soaring club, while I have nothing against electric rc models (I even have a few), they might want to change the club name to something like the "Harbor R/C Society", true thermal soaring is finished at Harbor.
I don't think they are, its more like 3 1/2 miles, but supposedly they are under some approach control from the tower, I think it has something to do with a police department that has a surplus of money to spend on a police chopper, you would think that there might be something that the city of Costa Mesa could better spend their money on than harrasing a bunch of "criminal" model airplane flyers!
The HSS sailplane flyers have only them selves to blame over this. They are still the majority membership and can easily oust the offending power only pilots that now control the elected positions. I've been told via back door that all of the local power flyers are assiting in getting this turned into a power only flying site.
Going to be a sad time when the two pound and 25 mph limit is imposed on the power flyers. No 30 pound four motor 50 mph flying right next to a major public walk way.
What Plot????
I am just one of the HSS electric power flyers that flies at Fairview, I'm not aware of any plot to oust anybody. I am sympathetic with glider flyers that feel that this restriction will drastically reduce their enjoyment of flying at Fairview. Many of the active flyers fly both electric power and gliders/sailplanes and also fly, or will be flying, IC and electrics elsewhere.
FYI, when a 3 foot wingspan model is at 400 feet, it's wingspan appears to be about 1/8" wide. A 6 foot wingspan would appear about 1/4" wide and a 12 footer about 1/2". Most of the flyers begin to lose orientation at certain angles when their models are 400 feet up and some distance away.
I think that we are lucky to have any legal place to fly electrics and sailplanes and sincerely hope that nobody, through accident or recklessness, screws things up for us.
You are the problem E-Challenged. The plane in your icon is clearly too large to fly at Fairview Park as are most of the planes that few Saturday. I quote from one of your other posts about Saturday; "Watched a 1/4 scale electric J-3 fly at our scale fun fly today, old guy nearly stalled it during takeoff due primarily to stage fright..."
What you don't mention is that awnings and the pits were set up on one side of the public pathway while the runway is right on the other side letting the public walk between them. Also there were no pilots stations. Then there was the five pound Corsair that went over the public path at head height and between the awnings on take off. Combine that with the five pound (or better) Yak that crashed off field.
This is not about visability. This is about public safety. Even the AMA has reviewed Fairview and clearly stated that it's not a good place to fly power planes. Too small of an area and too much public access. How long do you think that any flying will remain at Fairview when one of the twenty to thirty ponders that certain power only flyers insist on flying takes out a mother or her kid in a stroller.
Yes E-Challenged. You and your power buds are the problem.
Last edited by SoCalGliderFlyr; Jul 30, 2006 at 08:17 PM.
[QUOTE=E-Challenged] Most of the flyers begin to lose orientation at certain angles when their models are 400 feet up and some distance away.
I think you will find that the majority of sailplane pilots have good
orientation to 600 meters. some have reached 1000 meters and still
can control there plane. And without offending those few that fly
Large scale sailplanes as myself we have reached even higher. My
personal limit is 1550 meters, and wont do it again as at that
altitude was very difficult for my self. There are others that have
logged higher altitudes. My point is that Sailplane pilots have to read
every movement of there plane to have a good flight.
So maybe you power boys do lose Orientation over 121 meters.
But then again it is a different sport isnt it. We dont just follow a propeller
Now I am not trying to pick on you, and if you think that, I apologize in
advance. Go to a scale event and see for yourself 400 feet is ridiculous
for a sailplane of size.
I myself come off my winch at 900 feet. Any lower would just make it
harder to find lift.
On the other point having a field with a public pathway next to or near
the runway is just wrong.
The propeller heads have moved the two benches that the city placed out for them onto the other side of that path (was on the runway side). This is so their planes can sit on the paved path. Makes the public walk around them ON THE RUNWAY SIDE!
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Last edited by SoCalGliderFlyr; Jan 14, 2007 at 08:11 PM.
Well, 2 years plus since this message was posted, and they have to hold a REAL glider contest at another field, (the August SC2) still trying to figureout why the name is still Harbor SOARING Society, and look at the newsletter, power planes everywhere, sure isn't the club I remember joining years ago.
Flew with an older GLIDER flier from Harbor soaring, he told me some of the sad details about what is happening at Harbor, seems the power guys are still bringing out the 15, 20, and 25 pound models to fly, even though they have a 10 pound weight restriction, yet they are ever so vigilant when it comes to the altitude restriction. Thankfully, us true glider fliers have a new home in the SoCal area that will remain a secret location for now. It is for those of us who understand about the props and how they ruin can ruin a perfectly safe flying site. The first rule implemented has been absolutely NO PROPS of any kind allowed on the field to fly or even test. What a joy it is to fly once again without the constant drone of propellors overhead. I have more info to find out about what the propheads really didn at Harbor, what I was told was much worse than I ever suspected.
Harbor Soaring Society
They have a new website. Check it out. I think its better than any other RC Site out there.
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A truly beautiful piece of work! I find this level of craftsmanship to be very rare and something to remind people that price is just not the be all and end all. Sometimes it's about raising the bar and creating something wonderful. Thanks for what you do.
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Candice Brown planning to 'grab opportunities' after Bake Off win
The 31-year-old PE teacher "can't stop smiling" after beating Jane Beedle and Andrew Smyth to take the trophy.
Candice Brown is going to grab any opportunities "with both hands and run with them" after being crowned winner of The Great British Bake Off.
The lipstick-loving PE teacher beat Jane Beedle and Andrew Smyth to take home the trophy from judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry after a tense final on Wednesday night (26Oct16).
She has been tipped for a £1 million payday after her victory, through predicted book deals, television work and promotional jobs, and Candice told the Daily Mirror that she's not ruling anything out when it comes to what she will do after winning the series.
"I love baking and this has increased my love of baking," she said. "If I can get my little vintage shop selling tea and cakes with random antiques that would be my ultimate dream.
"Let's wait and see what will come my way but I will be grabbing it with both hands and running with it, that's for sure. It would be crazy not to, wouldn't it?"
In scenes explaining what each contestant has been up to since the Bake Off was filmed earlier in the summer (16), it stated that Candice and fellow finalist Jane were planning a baking road trip, which many viewers thought would make great television.
Whatever Candice chooses to do, celebrity agent Jonathan Shalit believes she has a very long and financially rewarding career ahead of her.
"Candice is the most immediately accessible Bake Off winner – middle class, well spoken. I can imagine her doing a column for a paper or releasing a cookbook," he told the Daily Mail Online. "She is like a vintage, young Nigella Lawson. Adds a bit of sex appeal to baking. I'm confident she can earn £1 million."
Candice impressed the judges with her meringue, a Victoria sandwich technical challenge, which had just one instruction on the recipe card, and a showstopper which required the finalists to make a staggering 49 bakes for a picnic hamper.
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"When they said my name, that means more to me than anyone will ever realise," she added to the Daily Mirror. "I have low self-belief, even though my friends and family constantly build my confidence up.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 188.8.131.52
First, a dmoz directory listing has no additional bearing on getting into google over and above any other link as far as I have ever been able to ascertain, so if you never get in, don't worry about it - just look elsewhere for your inbound links.
Some tips for getting into dmoz:-
1. Submit within the guidelines (i.e read the guidelines).
2. If you don't have unique content, don't bother to submit. You're wasting your time.
3. Submit to the right category.
4. Be very careful about how you word your description. You have an opportunity here to help the editor for the cat. you're submitting to. Make his/her life a little easier and they might return the favour. Have a look at the existing entries in the category and copy the style of description writing. They will edit whatever you submit to that style anyway, you may as well do it yourself and save them a little time. You would not believe the amount of people who use something like "The best widget resource on the web!" as their description. To a lot of editors, that's an "ignore this one" or "just delete" message.
5. Wait. Resubmit in six months time.
No's 1 to 4 are based on the most common mistakes that will at least guarantee a delay in getting listed.
Have you had a dmoz editor look at your site yet? You can tell by looking in your log files for a referral from the dmoz domain. If someone took a look, and you didn't get listed, then it's possible your site is not up to the editors sense of what is "unique content".
5. Wait. Resubmit in six months time.
Better: Wait a month, then (if your site hasn't appeared in the directory yet) inquire about the status of your submission in the ODP public forum. If they tell you it's waiting to be reviewed, just wait. No need to resubmit, after six months or whenever, unless you've changed the URL or the focus of your site.
After six more months, if you're still waiting, you can ask for another status check.
If they tell you it's been rejected, don't try to argue about it. They don't get into that sort of discussion as much as they used to.
What's the deal with your sites? They apparently aren't as irresistible as you think they are.
Thats always the same tired old excuse!
It may be true for many sites but there are also some sites which will never get in because they are in direct competition to the editors own "pet interest" sites.
We have managed to get every site in apart from one, now I wonder why that is? :(
They link to a lot of stale sites you'd expect to see in archive.org.
The Yahoo directory is better overall by a huge margin.
We attempted to inquire via the forum regarding our submission and received no response.
If they took LOOKSMART'S ZEAL program criteria, it would be a better and more respected directory, as it is now I wouldn't bother to even submit a site to DMOZ.
If we took their criteria (zeal) it would be much easier... we could probably remove 50% of the listings and 98% of the spam submissions. You know that zeal doesn't allow commercial listings (last I checked - I don't pay attention to them) unless you are a paying customer...right?
Either I'm lucky, or the guidelines are accurate about what they like. Hopefully both.
So don't take absence of a referral from dmoz as a given that it *hasn't* been looked at, but at least if you see the referrer, you know that someone has taken a look.....
Actually, there are many ways you can get the dmoz referral without a human ever seeing your site and many times editors simply surfing the web will cause the DMOZ referral to show up. I tested this on myself out of curiosity and it actually happens. DMOZ refferrals don't really mean very much so don't fret over them.
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They have extremely few editors, and the few they have run their little part of the ODP as a fiefdom, inserting their own sites and ignoring all others. Many people will cheer the day DMOZ goes off-line.
>>Webmasterworld is full of too many ODP-haters and baiter
Or the more savvy webmasters who can see the ODP for what it has become rather than what it set out to be.
kdawg, buy an old site in your category that hasn't expired. That's the thing ODP is best for - finding old, forgotten-about domains. That way it'll get you your listing and it'll cost you less than bribing a DMOZ ed ;)
(Sorry, jimnoble, I know you're one of the nice guys - I've spoken with you at "your" forum - but I call the shots like I see them)
[edited by: Macro at 12:43 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2004]
You're asking for some DMOZ bashing and examples of compliant and worthy sites, properly submitted, which haven't been listed ;). I've got some sites listed and some not. I've spent hours - if not days - going through listing guidelines including various tips in webmaster newsletters etc. I've even poured through comments by known ODP editors here (and their own forum) to suss what kind of sites they reject and for what reasons. (It's amazing - if there's only one ed working in a cat and he's on a standards mission you'd better make 100% sure you're more than 100% W3C compliant! Not a stroke out of place or you'll get rejected. There are various other high horses you'll have to contend with along with editing for "anti-competition" reasons - so it makes sense to know your eds).
There's one site I've had in their queue (or "pool" if they prefer, I think jimnoble refers to it as a "heap" ;)) for over a year and their only response is that nobody has gotten around to looking at it yet!
Once, many years ago, I applied to be an editor, double checked everything from my spelling to my punctuation, only to be turned down without a reason. Now, with the ODP in the state it's in, I wouldn't want to be part of that and I certainly won't be applying again. Maybe the loss is mine but I don't see the ODP going anywhere fast. Or going anywhere at all.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not just talking about getting new sites listed, I'm also talking about getting old, rubbish sites out (especially the ones that started off as hardware news sites but haven't updated their "news" for the last three years!). ODP just doesn't have the resources. Do you believe otherwise? Do you have reason to believe that editor intake is extremely strong? And that new editors are really doing what they signed up to do (rather that just getting their own sites listed and competitors removed)? Do you really believe everything is hunky dory? And, if you did disclose info about your pool - isn't it really becoming an ocean?
I do admire the ODP editors who come and post here whenever they see an ODP thread (even if some of them never, ever post in anything else). Loyalty is a good thing and I do respect that but, as Mulder would say: The truth is out there ;)
If, as you say, most of the sites being submitted don't get looked at for more than a year
Anyway, I don't see the waiting period for suggestions as a problem for the directory myself. Thanks to all visitors for suggesting so many sites, but neither is that the only source of links the ODP has, nor is the goal of the ODP to process all suggestions that are made in a specific timeframe. Has never been the goal. Will never be the goal. Should not be the goal of a good user-oriented (remember: user not equal submitter!) directory.
But talking about numbers, maybe the following is interesting to the readers. As things are, I am more familiar with stats for the german sections of directories than for the english ones. I happen to have some numbers at hand, which could be used as an example. These numbers are some months old, about one month between them.
dmoz (german part): 377730 -> 381655
web.de: 380424 -> 380028 (They stopped giving out numbers meanwhile, can you imagine why? ;-) )
de.yahoo.com: 492872 -> 492998 (They count every category at least twice that is crosslinked, so the absolute number is nonsense. But look at the growth rate, incredible, huh?).
ODP just doesn't have the resources
Btw: If you don't know, the "Update URL" feature can be used to notify editors of broken/... links. If users would use that more often, the quality would further increase. We recently updated the software so that Update Requests stand out better. Editors still aren't forced to process them, but if they want to - now they can find them much easier. Result: We reduced the number of waiting Updates by 40% in just a few months. Keeping in mind that new ones still roll in, that is quite good, better than I expected, to be honest.
I'll show you 50 categories for which there have been zero, yes zero additions in the last month and most have zero additions for the last year. And these are cats where there have been a lot of excellent new sites recently (especially in technology related subjects). Quoting figures from one section that has some new sites when most others are going backwards is almost like hearing figures from Mr Cook-the-books at our UK stats office (ONS).
>>They stopped giving out numbers meanwhile, can you imagine why?
I don't know, tell me. Is it because the regularly released ODP numbers are usually so pretty? :)
I'll show you 50 categories for which there have been zero, yes zero additions in the last month and most have zero additions for the last year.
Well that not bad. That works out to 0.00847457627118644% of the over 590,0000 categories in your instance of not being updated in a year.
There will always be categories that rarely get touched. Some of the reasons are it's not much fun wading through 100's or 1000's of submissions to find the few sites that belong in spam ridden areas. That's why many editors may add a site they find, but not one in the "q". Some dialup users can't even edit in those areas because they will time-out from the 1000's of submissions in the "q".
I think in the past 9 months dmoz has added many more sites to their index than Google has ;)
>>I think in the past 9 months dmoz has added many more sites to their index than Google has
OK, I take back everything, Google's only gone from 4 billion pages to 8 billion. :)
And please don't keep admitting that there is a "q". Stay on message :)
See, I do think it started off brilliantly. And, for a long time, it was superb at what it did. But, times change, the web changes, and ODP has just not kept up. It's not beyond salvation but only if the problems are recognised and dealt with. As with any big organisations someimes it pays to take a step back and make an honest evaluation of state of play. Maybe it needs to go commercial in some respects, maybe it needs to use staff rather than volunteers, but it sure does need a major revamp.
[edited by: Macro at 4:26 pm (utc) on Nov. 23, 2004]
I have a site of my own that has a true 4,500-5000 pages - google now shows 18,000 because it counts the same 3 pages 4,000 times each :)
so stop kidding yorself...hehe