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The 'Korean War Oral History Collection' includes six interviews, five with African Americans, who give accounts of their service before and during the Korean War (1950-1953) -- and subsequent years in the military. A major theme is segregation and desegregation in the military. As one combat soldier said, Why were we segregated? I mean, we got along. We spoke the same language. Another interviewee summarized as follows: We felt freer in a foreign land than in the land of our birth.
Topics covered include race discrimination -- overt and subtle -- in a now (early 1950s) integrated military. . Interviews discuss forms of racial hostility in the military; black and white service clubs; and segregation in military -- even after President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 in July 1948 abolishing segregation in the armed forces. Other topics include: fighting alongside whites and race on the front lines; African Americans sticking together; African Americans in charge of integrated units; acceptance of segregation during the Korean War and troop integration during the Vietnam War; returning to segregation back in the states and not experiencing segregation on leaves in Japan; receiving medals; reasons for joining military service; the Uniform Code of Military Justice; treatment during basic training and differing treatment at nearby base towns, etc.
Interviews suggest that the Korean War may have speeded integration back in the states. Interviewees discuss their war experiences as an ammunition truck driver, a jeep driver for officers, combat soldiers, a paratrooper, an artillerist, and POWs. The interviews of the black veterans were conducted in 2000.
The 'Korean War Black Veterans Oral History Collection' is part of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is an affiliated program of the University of Florida's Department of History. Its collections include approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country. The transcribed interviews are available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and other interested groups. Researchers have used our oral history material for theses, dissertations, articles, and books.
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NORMAL -- When Rachael Blanton decided to take a coaching job at Metea Valley after last season, Vernon Hills girls basketball coach Paul Brettner knew exactly who to turn to.
Andy Bitta.
OK, so the Bitta name over the years has been associated with soccer success much more than basketball, but Brettner knew Bitta's history as a basketball player and coach, the two knew each other well and it was a natural fit.
And now those two good friends, who met on the soccer field, will guide the Cougars when they play Quincy Notre Dame for the Class 3A state girls basketball championship Saturday at Redbird Arena.
"When Rachael left, Andy was the first guy I went to," said Brettner after the Cougars had stunned No. 1 Montini 48-45 in overtime in a state semifinal. "He just has a wealth of experience and a lot of basketball knowledge. He has a lot of ideas and great thoughts and the way he is with kids is remarkable."
Bitta, who played basketball for Bill Slayton at Prospect in the 1970s before going on to play at Western Illinois, has made his mark as one of the most successful soccer coaches in IHSA history. In two stints as Libertyville's boys soccer coach, where he is still the head coach, Bitta's teams have gone 396-125-54 in his 28 years, winning seven regionals, six sectionals and taking second in the state tournament in 1986 and 2010. The Wildcats' girls soccer program has had even more success under Bitta, going 278-61-23 in his 18 years, winning the state title in 1991 and taking second in 1989 and 1990 and third in 1996. Scott Schinto took over the girls program in 1999.
And it's soccer that brought Brettner and Bitta together. They met when Brettner was Libertyville's JV boys soccer coach from 1996-98.
That connection has continued this season as Bitta's experience and influence have been instrumental in Vernon Hills reaching the state title game for the second straight year.
"His energy and experience are amazing," said Cougars senior Meri Bennett-Swanson. "He's not afraid to say what's on his mind. When we're doing something wrong he tells us. But when we're doing well, he's right there to tell us we're doing well. He was at Libertyville for 30 years or something like that with soccer and he's been to state a lot."
Bitta had a message for Bennett-Swanson and the Cougars when he came into the program.
"I told him I really wanted to get back to state," said Bennett-Swanson, who will play at DePaul next year. "He said, no, we're going to the state championship. That's the difference; the mentality. He played college basketball and he's just a good all-around coach. He jokes with us and he connected with us within two weeks."
Brettner doesn't rely on Bitta for one area of expertise. Instead, Bitta is an all-encompassing coach, working with posts, guards and everyone on the Cougars' team.
"I can give him anything," Brettner says.
"Whatever Paul needs," said Bitta, who is now retired. "Watching video, breaking things down ... whatever Paul needs. We have 15 fantastic young ladies on this team and Paul is one of the most organized head coaches I've ever seen. Our whole staff works together well."
And now that staff, led by these two good friends, will get another chance to bring a state championship home to Lake County.


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Just a couple questions and seeking some input on a couple things. While in trade last year for HVAC, one of my instructors explained to get into a field with an open mind, get out get a job, get some experience, and find out where you want to be interms of career and what challenges/motivates you.
Being 30 when I first got into training for HVAC program, then moving on to Industrial Tech for Maintenance Mechanic type trade program, really excited just to be doing something I enjoyed and could hold me down financially. The idea was to get into a HVAC company grunt, or industrial warehousing and learn commercial work HVAC/Maintenance etc..
Well right out of school got picked up by a long standing fireplace shop in town and its been almost 7 months and I have come to love 99% of the job, work, and environment. Pretty much sold on learning everything I can about this niche of the heating side and see a longterm future in it. I understand its a previlege to work and work in something you love is few and far between fresh out of trade.
Most of us have heard the saying "find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." Well I literally can work 24 hours straight if they let me, its fun, its challenging, I just can't get enough of it. My questions are: Have you guys been in this situation when you first got into the industry where you found the path? I understand you have to justify your existence everyday and work hard and you can be laid off or fired things change but I can really see myself doing this for many years.
So the questions: Would you go all in and have you on a job you just got or do you play it close to the vest sponge up and be ready for next opportunity? Is putting all your chips in a bad thing when it comes to your professional career? I really feel no matter what your doing shining shoes, raking leaves, whatever do your best you can at it or strive for it. But it this situation early on in your career maybe getting too attached may lead to you missing some other opportunities in our industry? Being a chimney sweep seems pretty cool to me, doing the pellet service/Gas service and repairs is just the icing on the cake but in California the one thing you can bet on is restrictions wood burning is very very bad word and they have cut the burn days in half seems like everyother year, may be wood burning products may be an fading industry at least here which would greatly affect the career/job future? Just thinking out loud and asking for input. Apologize for the poor grammar and puncuation you guys have a cool weekend.


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John Bredin (Letters, June 30), while acknowledging a "dumbing down of our culture," still hopes that Hudson County can produce some kind of intellectually-stimulating publication that will "ignite a genuine curiosity about art, and ideas," and" to begin learning real stuff."
Real stuff! We had such a venture here once, or the nearest thing to it, and it was in this very newspaper, good old Hoboken Reporter!
When the Reporter was new, and young, and venturesome, and trying to get a start and attract attention, it began publishing controversial letters by T. Weed. These letters were so bold and unconventional and politically-incorrect and (many of them) taboo (even to mention Israel/Palestine is taboo) that they generated a lively and heated debate. This lively and heated debate ("real stuff") that went on for years, "made" (according to the publisher) the reputation of this newspaper to the public.
A decade's collection of those funny, stimulating letters (1985-1995) was published in a volume called Enough Rope. Give people enough verbal rope, let them express themselves fully, as the Letters page did, and many a participant will hang himself on his own words, for all to see another decade's worth of Letters, the nearest thing we have in our intellectual wasteland to an "intellectual publication" as called for by Mr. Bredin, has now been printed under the name of More Rope. Real stuff!
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February 14, 2005
A "deeply ingrained taboo" against men who have sex with men in Senegal is preventing many HIV-positive MSM from seeking treatment and putting the group at "high risk" of HIV infection, the AP/Advocate reports. MSM can be tried in Senegal for committing "an act against nature," which is punishable by up to two years in prison and "heavy" fines, according to the AP/Advocate. Although Senegal's HIV prevalence is low -- less than 1% of the population is estimated to be HIV-positive -- HIV/AIDS experts worry that the rate could be higher among Senegalese MSM, who they say are "driven so deeply into the closet" that they are being "overlooked" in HIV prevention efforts, according to the AP/Advocate. Many MSM are forced to live "secret lives" and marry women to hide their relationships with other men, which could put their female partners at risk of HIV infection, according to the AP/Advocate. "The majority of men having sex with men are married, they live their sexuality in a different sort of way," El Hadji Diouf of Family Health International said. MSM in the country also have no civic organizations and are subject to police harassment, and many physicians refuse to treat MSM for religious and legal reasons, the AP/Advocate reports. "It's violence, being afraid to go to the hospital because you know that if you go, the doctor will know that you are a homosexual, and he will reject you," Dr. Abdoulaye Wade of the AIDS division of Senegal's Ministry of Health said (Vinograd, AP/Advocate, 2/11).
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Friday, September 17, 2004
Symptomatology of Dying: Death Rattle
"Is my mother going to drown to death?" they ask me.
"Cough, Dad, cough!" they demand of their loved one.
"Can you suction her?" they inquire.
We only treat for death rattle if the family is at the bedside and either is disturbed or seems like they may become disturbed by the sound. Some of the treatments used include:
-Atropine opthalmic 1% solution, 1 drop sublingually (under the tongue) every 2 hours
-scopolamine patch placed behind the ear once every three days
-Benadryl 25-100mg every 4 to 6 hours
-suctioning (rarely - to be avoided)
Atropine is used to treat dysrhytmias, insecticide poisoning and decreases secretions by blocking the vagal reflexes. Scopolamine is used to treat nausea from motion sickness, spastic states and decreases secretions also by blocking vagal reflexes. Benadryl is a common over-the-counter medication used to treat allergies, insomnia, motion sickness, non-productive coughs, and Parkinson's disease and causes a dry mouth, which may decrease the sound of the death rattle.
Preventatively, in the hospital setting, we minimize fluids going into the patient so as not to add excessive fluids that may then accumulate in the throat. Repositioning the patient on a routine basis, preferrably every two to three hours, not only prevents bed sores, but it also may minimize the noise.
The death rattle is an indication that death is very near. This type of breathing may gone on for hours, but usually the patient will die within 24 hours of onset.
Suctioning is rarely done, even in a hospital setting where the necessary equipment is readily available. Although at the point when the dying person is experiencing the death rattle, it is unlikely they can register the physical discomfort of suctioning, this treatment option is still considered too invasive. Suctioning with a mouth-focused Yankeur tip cannot go deep enough to reach the mucus creating the noise, so deep throat suctioning is required for suctioning to be effect. The only time suctioning may be appropriate is if the patient is bleeding from or into the mouth or if the secretions are infectious, in which case the secretions may have a foul odor associated with them. Blood or infectious secretions may be suctioned with the smaller suctioning tubes made for tracheostomy patients. However, again, suctioning should be avoided in most cases, as suctioning almost always causes discomfort while it is being performed.
Always reassure families, however distressing the sound of the death rattle may be to them, their loved one is not likely experiencing any discomfort.
For more information, please see my Death Rattle 201 post.
33 comments:
- no milk said...
i'm not sure i find this explanation comforting. :(
- Jennynyc said...
Interesting. Tales of the "death rattle" were always a mystery to me.
- EJ said...
My mother is a hospice/home healthcare nurse and has always shared stories of her patients. This however is not something she ever shared with me. Thank you.
- big seester said...
What are the other symptoms of approaching death? This is fascinating.
Thank you for this...I just experienced this on Sunday with the death of my father...
While the explanation isn't comforting, I appreciate your information... God bless you.
My mother is at home and has hospice care, but they only come out when I call them. Today, she started making the most awful and loud yelling sound, and was making a kind of gurgling sound in her throat. It seemed like she was trying to clear her throat, but couldn't get it up. When I opened her mouth, she had this really thick, mucous like substance in her throat. The first thing I could think of was to get a mouth swab and try to pull it up from her throat, which I did. I finally got out enough to calm her down. But I am wondering if this is the beginning of the "death rattle". She has been without food or water for 34 days, and has about 1 ounce of urine output in the last 24 hours. She had a stroke initially that caused her to lose her ability to swallow. She is 86 years old and also has Parkinsons and dementia. How close to death is someone when they begin having these symptoms of the thick mucous in the throat and choking sensation? Thanks for any comments.
My mother passed away one week ago. The sound of the "death rattle" was the most distressing element of the whole experience. It terrified me and I felt she was drowning. I am an asthmatic and I kept pleading with the carers to sit her upright to facilitate her breathing - as I do for myself during an attack. Reading this article has helped me put the horror of that day into perspective. I now understand that the sound is a natural part of the process of death.
my father died one month ago today at a hospice, and the death rattle was there for a few hours before he died. the nurses know the rattle is a sign of death so told us to be prepared. although the rattle is not a nice sound at all id say my father passed away very peacefully.
- Thelma's daughter said...
My Mom passed away today. The death rattle was the most disturbing sound I have ever heard. I did not even know what the sound was until a neighbor of my Mom was offering me comforting words after her passing. Definitely the most horrible part of the dying process and not so sure it was not uncomfortable for my Mom as tears were running down her face.
My Mom led a courageous battle with cancer over the last 15 years finally to succomb to the awful disease. Thank you to the people sharing their stories as it has given me some comfort.
My aunt died this morning after 22 yrs with MS.
Yesterday was a day i will never forget due to the most frightening 'death rattle' noise i have heard. The nursing staff were very good to her, but did not tell me what this noise was. I wish they had told me!
- Chris said...
My husband just passed away from cancer and by far the worst thing was the death rattles. I can not believe it does not bother the patient, my husband was in great distress trying to remove the fluids from his mouth and throat. The nurse did use suction and it did help calm him down.
My mother is in the process of dying from terminal Cancer and this rattle has just begun today. I can tell by the nurse's faces and crying when they look at her, the end is very near. For the first time she actually looks peaceful, despite the sound. I see no winces of pain which is a blessing. While the sound is dreadful, there is a peace behind it knowing she will soon be out of all misery and with God.
My father passed a week ago and he experienced the death rattle, it lasted only for two days with the second day the sound was very loud and disturbing, he did try to cough it up with no success and I wanted to suction it but the nurse said it wasn't recommended at this point, while she didn't say he was dying her actions said the time was near...I am deeply sadden by the loss of my dad but I am glad he is no longer suffering......
I really appreciate this because I am 25 and have never experienced losing a loved one. I had never heard this and hearing it just scared me...this gave me comfort to allow my 93 year old grandmother to rest! THANK YOU!
I know this post was meant for humans, but I was looking for some place to find out what had happened to my cat. I found her at the bottom of the stairs with the saliva running from her mouth and she sounded like she was trying to clear her throat. I held her in my arms and within minutes she was gone. I thought it might have been my fault. That she had laid there forever choking on some food and I didn't notice in time. Now in reading this - even though it's human related - I realize she was already on her way to dying when the death rattle started and her death couldn't be prevented. So thank-you for your kind words - they gave me a little peace... RIP Camile - you were loved...and will be missed-
These posts have helped me to deal with my 57 year old husbands passing. He lost his speech and most of physical abilities from brain cancer Mar. 1, 2010 and has not been able to communicate with me fully . He passed away on May 13th at home under hospice care. The death rattle was very disturbing and went on for most of the day. The nurse said it probably was more disturbing to me than to him. I felt so helpless to do anything. I am comforted by knowing it likely wasn't painful. This is a memory I would like to erase. I know he is at peace now.
1 month ago today my Dad died from congestive heart failure. I sat at his bedside for days witnessing his life slipping away. The death rattle began. I didn't know what was but I did know this wasn't good. A friend of mine later told me what the sound was called.
Dad gave no indication he was experiencing pain or discomfort. The rattle was so loud I had to go into the hallway, I could still hear the sounds several doors away.
One nurse said to me I would never forget that sound. So far she is right, when I hear the sound of percolating water it takes me right to that time and place.
Thank you all for allowing me to share my story - my hope is peace to all who need it.
As I sit here listening to the rattle coming from my mom, watching her 2 year battle from lung cancer come to an end, I am both comforted and grateful to know that this is not causing her any discomfort. I equate the sound to those final sips of a milkshake thru a straw. Mom always loved a good chocolate milkshake!
- audra said...
my mother dies on March 19 2011. She also was in hospic care. She did have the Death Rattle... It was awful. She lived in an Apt. an the neighbor asked me if we had a coffe pot brewin in her room. Thats how loud it was. Her nurse said there was nothing in there But there was. an I did my best to pull it out....but the more i got out the more came up!
please go with god Mom. Allow your suffering to end. You fought brave and hard but please please just go be at peace. I love you...I always will...we will all be okay, I promise you
My father was diagnosed with colon cancer 15 months ago. He had surgery to remove the cancerous cells, but it spread to the liver. Chemo followed, however despite there being no sign of cancerous cells in the liver, the cancer spread to his brain. After a craniotomy and radiotherapy, scans revealed he had multiple brain mets and only had 4-12 weeks left.
Just three weeks later, he had a fall and remained unresponsive from thereon. He was moved to a hospice, 24 hours later he developed the most haunting sounds I have ever heard, a gurgling that sounded like he was really struggling to clear his throat or breathe, accompanied by a fairly unpleasant smell, dribbling and mucus streaming from his nose. It was without doubt the most distressing thing I have ever witnessed and although the nurses assured me he wasn't uncomfortable, nor was his brow furrowed and that it was more distessing for us than him- I couldn't help but feel he was uncomfortable, but I do really really hope he wasn't. He also shed a single tear the morning of the day he died- I can only hope this was a natural release of fluids, as he had such low tolerance for pain and was most fearful of dying in pain.
The nurses managed to make him more comfortable, changing him and sitting him more upright. In the afternoon he was breathing more comfortably but by the evening the gurgling returned and his breathing was extremely erratic- as if he was struggling to take even short shallow inhalations. At the time I was ignorant of the symptoms of nearing death, so I left thinking I'd return the next morning.
Just an hour and a half later, with only my mum at his bedside, his breathing apparently became even more erratic and loud (I've since learned this is referred to as Cheyne-Strokes breathing) he then vomited. After the nurses changed him and cleaned him up, it was clear to my mother that he was no longer breathing.
Although the very end was extremely distressing for my mother- the continual "death rattle" is still haunting me, but somehow reading all your accounts is comforting, in that it's a natural part of the dying process- hopefully we're as unaware of it as we were of any distress in being born.
My precious mother died on April 7, 2011 13 days after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. My father died peacefully of cancer 9 years ago. My mother had the death rattle. I had never heard of this before. To me this was the most horrible part of her death. The sounds haunts me, keeps me awake at night. I can't even describe it. To watch someone you love more than your own life have to end this way is just horrible. How do I know that she was not suffering even though she was in a coma. I was not prepared for this in any way shape or form. I don't think those days will ever leave me.
Thank you for this explanation. I have been at home the past two months with him on hospice. The last few hrs. Of his life were filled with this sound. It was distrubing and frightening to me. Now thanks to your information I know he was not suffering or in discomfort.
Thank you all for your comments. I have heard the death rattle twice in my life once with my mother-in-law where I had to tell my sister-in-law to get them to get her morphine and the second time with my dad. It is a sound you will never forget. The need to try and help them breathe is so heart breaking. I knew what it was when I heard it but never was it explained to me that it didn't cause discomfort. I hope not because my instincts told me he needed more morphine. Hospice did not send anyone until after my 3rd call so I had to pronounce my dad dead but God was merciful he was around his family and not alone. Thanks for sharing its not so scarey now.
I am sitting here with my Mamaw right now and she threw up twice last night some black stuff and now her mouth is full of white foam so does this mean its the end?????? and yes she is also doing the groaning growl noise with it.
My dearest father died on 3/14/12. He were totally unprepared for the "death rattle" even though he was under Hospice crisis care. This was NEVER explained to us by anyone at the nursing home or from Hospice. It was one of the most excrutiating experiences I have ever gone through. Not only to lose one of the most wonderful people to ever walk this planet, but watching and hearing this was horrible. I just hope that others can be somewhat prepared because we were not.
It's 2:00 am. My dad passed away at 3ish yesterday and I am the last to fall asleep. Nobody explained the dying process to me and it was all very sad in every way. I am afraid that the experience will haunt me in my sleep. My dad fought so hard even within a couple hours of his passing. For that I am proud of him and very sad. He tried so hard to win his battle against lung cancer. I will never forget him and as sad and disturbing as it was I was with him on his final breath. Take care of yourselves, we are all ultimately fragile. We only get one chance at this life, please don't take it for granted. Every single person on this planet is just as special as my dad. Be mindfull that other people are just as human as you and respect the beauty and fragility of all living things. Appreciate your loved ones now because they will not always be there for you and you will not always be there for them. Life is by far the most precious thing you can ever own but you can only borrow it. We will all ultimately give it back. It's what you do with it while you have it that matters.
My mother, who is passing from small cell lung cancer, has the "death rattle". It is awful to listen to and I take comfort only in knowing that she is not suffering. That being said, she has been "rattling" for 48 straight hours.The rest of us are at wits end. she does appear not to be suffering in any way, but oh it is so awful to listen to. My heart goes out to you all who must hear this.
My grandad passed away 8 hours ago. He'd had this death rattle for 12 or so hours before he passed, but was clearly in no pain. He went peacefully. Although distressing for us, it didn't seem to bother him at all.
How does anyone know at all...if dying patients, undergoing the death rattle...are discomforted by it or not? Is this just a gentle way to say...do not feel guilty if you asked the doctors to sedate your dying loved one for pain and whatever? What if...the dying person looked terrified when regaining consciousness? She was afraid of drowning all of her life, and when she found she could not cough up the secretions while dying...she looked so scared and she moaned and began to cry a little. She was sedated heavily with narcotics! And, she absolutely did feel discomfort due to the feeling of drowning. Now, am I just nuts or do people really not know about whether patients suffer from this suffocating/drowning known as death rattles? I say sadly, that many must or my own mother would not have shown this. Yes, I suffered watching her struggle for air, but to say that she did *not* suffer is just not true.
Answer to if they are in distress or aware during the death rattle, sometimes. My loved one was. She had the rattle for about four or more hours and it was audible, although her breathing pattern had changed hours earlier.
In last minutes she sat up several times, and spoke through the rattle which was loud wheezing times 10. She screamed loud many times, "please help me, help me," and called my name. It was not just reflex, and she struggled to clear the mucus. It was drugs that caused her death, not cancer -- slowly paralyzing all of her body's systems. They increased sleep, suppressed her appetite and digestive system, reflexes and respiratory function.
Not comforting at all no milk. Whether intentional or not the drugs (dilaudid) that she repeatedly asked not to be given was most likely the cause. It was forced on her several days earlier and she had a short episode of the rattle then. When we found out it had been given, we then again asked for morphine only. The day of her death the doctor convinced me that she needed to change her to the dilaudid because she was needing pain meds more often, which was not true.
Reading all your storiew has definitely comforted me. My grandmother has this so called death rattle now and has had it for about 12 or more hours. I had to smile after reading someones post about it sounding like that last sip of a milkshake. My grandma would always yell at me for trying to sip up as much soda as I could through that straw. At one point my cousin and I were sitting with her joking about how she was always taking care of everyone before addressing herself. She must have heard us talking about her and how she is so concerned and worried about us that she is afraid to let go. We saw my grandmas face relax and she smiled for a second while deep in her sleep. This tells us she can still hear us. So to anyone experiencing the death of a loved one like we are, I know how it feels to hear that horrible death rattle sound. But keep talking to them. They can hear you and I know it would help them relax and let go. I just pray that my grandma can see that we dont want her to suffer anymore. Grandpa is waiting for her, and I know she will finally get to see him again soon.
My father passed away December 21,2012. He was 94 years old. He had dementia and renal cancer. That night a few hours before he died he sat up in bed and told me he was very sick and that he needed to urinate. I helped him stand up to use the plastic urinal that was beside his bed, then I heard the gurgling sounds. I asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital but he softly answered "No". I remember reading somewhere about the death rattle, so I knew he was near death. I asked him if he had pain and he calmly answered "just a little" and he placed his hand on his chest. I put him back to bed,placed another pillow under his head, and helped him turn on his side. Then he sat up and asked me to stay by his bedside. The gurgling sounds started again and went on for about thirty minutes. then they suddenly stopped. My daddy passed away. He went very peacefully. I removed the blankets and found his hands folded across his chest as if he was surrendering. I knew at that moment that my daddy was at peace, which was very comforting to me even though I miss him very much. Thank you I hope this helps someone.


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Institute for Astronomy to hold comet-viewing event in MarchUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Comet PANSTARRS C/2011 L4, discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala in June 2011, is expected to become visible to the naked eye in Hawaiʻi in March.
The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will hold a free comet-viewing event on Tuesday, March 12 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Magic Island's picnic area 36, which is near the beach at the ewa end. Stargazing will follow comet viewing.
The comet is currently visible in the Southern Hemisphere, but is too far south to be seen here.
From about March 7, it will appear above the horizon in Hawaiʻi. To see it, you will need an unobstructed, cloudless view of the western horizon. It is best to pick a dark spot, away from streetlights. Look in the direction of the sunset just after the sun has gone down. The comet will be just above the horizon. The chart shows the position of the comet in the western sky at 7:00 p.m. throughout the month of March.
The twilight sky will make the comet much harder to see than if it were high up in a dark sky, and moonlight will interfere with viewing the comet after March 13. To see the comet's tails, you may need a pair of binoculars.
Although the brightness of comets is notoriously difficult to predict ahead of time, scientists expect this comet will have a brightness similar to that of the stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper or Orion's belt (magnitude 2 to 3).
March 13 may be the best time to take an interesting picture of the comet because on that evening, it will appear just below the thin crescent moon.
By the end of March, the comet will no longer be visible in the evening sky, but if you get up early, you may be able to see it in the eastern sky just before sunrise. However, by then the comet will be farther from both the sun and Earth, and will therefore be fainter.
Comets are balls of ice and dust. As they approach the sun, they heat up, and the ice begins to sublime—to change from ice into a gas. When that happens, they develop a coma, a large envelope of gas and dust that surrounds the solid nucleus, and two tails, a dust tail and an ion tail that consists of gas molecules ionized by sunlight. Each of these tails may be over a million miles long. It is because of the coma and tails that they become visible to the naked eye, sometimes spectacularly so.
Some comets, including Comet PANSTARRS, follow an orbit that begins in the very outer reaches of the solar system. As they pass by the planets, they receive a gravitational "kick" that propels them out of the solar system. Their sole visits to the inner solar system are therefore our only chance to see them.
Others, like Halley's comet, have elliptical orbits, and return to the inner solar system again and again, although their orbits are sometimes so large that it takes hundreds or thousands of years for them to return.
The Pan-STARRS Project is being led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Institute for Astronomy, and exploits the unique combination of superb observing sites and technical and scientific expertise available in Hawaiʻi. Funding for the development of the observing system has been provided by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory. The PS1 Surveys have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaiʻi, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, the Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/CometPANSTARRS/


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Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is the world's largest video and television episode rental subscription service, having pioneered the model and charging customers a flat monthly fee for unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping fees or pay-per-view fees[1]. Their 50 regional shipping centers across the United States help almost 95% of their customers receive their DVDs within a day of shipping, while their rating system gives customers recommendations based on their rental history[2]. In fiscal year 2010, Netflix recorded revenues of $2.1 billion and net income of $161 million.
As of late, I just ate a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and I feel fantastic! Netfix has focused on expanding its content base and international expansion. Netflix obtains content from studios, distributors and other suppliers because a lot of these license agreements give Netflix exclusive rights to a collection of titles. In 2010 it gained exclusive rights to stream Relativity Media movies and formed a five-year streaming deal with pay-TV network Epix[3][4].
Netfix is a subscriber based service that allows customers to rent DVDs via both direct mail and online streaming. A dot-com era creation, it was started in 1997 by Reed Hastings in Los Gatos, California. Through a sophisticated and automated supply chain and an effective customer rating system, it has honed its competitive edge over long-time competitor Blockbuster in the subscription-based online rental space.
Netflix has partnered up with different device manufacturers in an effort to integrate its platform into different broadband-enabled devices. Some of these partnerships are with Funai, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, and Toshiba, which will allow Netflix to distribute its thousands of movies and TV episodes through the digital televisions of consumers[8]. Additionally, Apple released a Netflix app for the iPad, allowing mobile access to Netflix's library of movies and tv shows[9].
It would be pretty iensrteting if Apple adopted a model for content in the iTunes store like it has for Apps. How about an annual $99 iTunes Producer's Membership, the 70/30 revenue split, and the indie producer all of a sudden has the same marketplace on tap as the app developers do today. Couldn't that model work? It's up to Apple. Amazon could do the same thing, like it has with books. If Netflix is throwing up roadblocks to the indies, that leaves an opportunity for the other guys already established in that space to scoop up some diamonds in the rough.
In 2010, more subscribers watched movies via streaming than by DVD. Netflix has decided that going forward, it will be primarily a global streaming business, with the added feature of DVDs-by-mail in the U.S. [10]
Because Netflix is one of its largest corporate customers (accounting for approximately 1.3% of all first class mail deliveries), the USPS's pricing and distribution decisions can greatly affect Netflix's margins and customer satisfaction. As the USPS attempts to overcome billions in net losses stemming from the recession, some speculate that the USPS may eliminate mail delivery or raise postage prices[11]. With Saturday being a prime movie watching day and with postage expenses already amounting to $420 million for Netflix, the USPS's operating decisions have a integral role in Netflix's profitability and service.
The market for entertainment video is intensely competitive and subject to rapid change. New competitors may be able to launch new businesses at relatively low cost. Many consumers maintain simultaneous relationships with multiple entertainment video providers and can easily shift spending from one provider to another.


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French court slaps poor man's YouTube
Dailymotion guilty of copyright infringement
France's answer to YouTube has been found guilty of copyright infringement. As the Google-owned YouTube faces a U.S. lawsuit from movie and TV behemoth Viacom, a French high court has ruled against the Paris-based video-sharing site Dailymotion, holding it liable for a copyrighted film posted by its users. Earlier this summer, after a high-profile suit from a man called The Buttock, the same court laid down a similar ruling against MySpace, but its latest order goes a few steps further.
Last month, the President of the High Court of the First Instance of Paris - whose title reads much better in French - issued a "summary order" that classified MySpace as a publisher, arguing that the so-called social-networker is more than just a hosting service and should be held liable for infringing content posted to its site. Well-known French comedian The Buttock - whose title reads about the same in French - sued MySpace after several of his films turned up on its pages.
Issued by a separate arm of the court, the new Dailymotion order carries a little more weight - and poses a greater threat to other sharing services. After a film called Joyeux Noel popped up on the site, Dailymotion was sued by the film's producers, and on July 13, a separate arm of the High Court held the site liable for copyright infringement - without calling it a publisher.
In its "proceeding on the merits" - a ruling backed by more legal rigor than a quick-and-dirty summary order - the court ruled that Dailymotion is liable simply because it was aware that the film was on its server. Says Brad Spitz, a French copyright lawyer whose recent blog post about the case was picked up by French tech law site Juriscom.net, "The Parisian judges held that DailyMotion was aware that illegal videos were put online on its site, and that it must therefore be held liable for the acts of copyright infringement, since it deliberately furnished the users with the means to commit the acts of infringement."
As the court noted, Dailymotion did not take the film down even after it received a letter of complaint from the producers. The court ordered the site to pay the film's producers 23,000 euros in damages and fork over a 1500 euro fine for each day the movie stays online - though Dailymotion can appeal.
"This shows that the service providers can be liable if they're aware of illegal content and do nothing," Spitz told El Reg. He was referring to French service providers, of course, but he also pointed out that the French law applied by the court mirrors the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law that governs such issues in the U.S. "American law is a bit similar," he said, "and you could have the same judgment in the States."
Indeed, video-sharers like YouTube can be held liable under the DCMA if they're aware of content infringement on their sites. "Clearly, if you are the owner of a movie and you say to me, 'On your site, at this address, you'll find my movie, take it off,' I have to take it off," says Ethan Horwitz, an intellectual property lawyer with the international firm King & Spalding.
But most of these sites, including YouTube, have set up some sort of system for responding to complaints from copyright holders. The problem becomes one of volume. Can a site respond to all complaints in a timely manner? Can copyright holders identify every instance of infringing material? "I don't think anybody disagrees that if you know about it, you have to take care of it," Horowitz explains. "The whole question is: What is knowing about, and what is taking care of it?"
Where web-based video sharers are concerned, American courts have yet to rule on the matter, but several suits against YouTube and others - including the big one from Viacom - could bring things to a head.®


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Jakarta Convention Center
Capital of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta is the center of government, the epicenter for finance, business and trade, and is the main hub for international air connections in the archipelago. Jakarta is centrally connected through its satellite telecommunications network. This sprawling mega-metropolis has hosted many important conferences besides offering many opportunities for large-scale exhibitions. The capital also has many de-luxe hotels that offer first class services in rooms, function halls and superb cuisine, whether for individuals or for large delegations.
Spouses not attending meetings are pampered for choice from the number malls available where are retail stores ranging from elegant designer boutiques to stalls selling Indonesian souvenirs. Jakarta also has a large number of international standard golf courses in and around the city, and offers world class Spas to relax and be pampered. Jakarta has a plethora of restaurants, from those offering fine dining on international food to fine Indonesian cuisine in exotic or romantic ambience. There are restaurants for busy businessmen and shoppers in malls, to small stand-alone restaurants for cosy intimate meals.
After exhausting meetings, relax and enjoy the many night entertainment that this city has to offer.
Pre-conference or post–conference visits can be made to Bandung in the Parahyangan mountains, some 2 hours away from Jakarta, or visit the Bogor Botanical Gardens and tour up the mountain to Puncak amongst green tea plantations, all within a day's visit.
Built to host the 10th. Non-Aligned Summit in September 1992, the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) – or Balai Sidang Jakarta – is Indonesia's largest Convention venue with state of the art facilites. JCC is versatile and is used the whole year through for formal conventions to elegant wedding receptions, as well as for prime trade exhitions. The Non-Aligned Summit in 1992 was attended by 62 Heads of State and delegations from 109 countries.
Located in the heart of Jakarta at Senayan within the Central Business District, JCC is situated across Jakarta's Stock Exchange. The Jakarta Convention Center has a large round Plenary Hall that can accommodate 5,000 people, large exhibition halls that together cover over 11,000 square meters, Assembly halls that can cater to 3,500 guests for receptions or for theatre style conferences, and rooms for smaller meetings and breakout sessions.
Because of its central location, the Jakarta Convention Center is within easy reach from many of Jakarta's de-luxe hotels that themselves offer a variety of facilities for conventions and social functions. To name a few, they are the adjacent Sultan Hotel, the Grand Sahid Jaya, Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, the Grand Hyatt and the Shangri-La by the Sudirman Boulevard and the Ritz-Carlton and the Marriott Hotel at Kuningan. Hotel Borobudur at the Banteng Square is another venue that caters for large conferences.
For detailed information on the Jakarta Convention Hall location, facilities and services contact
Balai Sidang Jakarta Convention Center
Jalan Gatot Subroto,
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Los Angeles' 10-day fashion "week" during which designers show their wares to wholesale buyers and retailers is now in the rearview mirror, and there were plenty of local labels — some familiar from past seasons and some newcomers — worth highlighting. Among them:
Cerre's husband-and-wife design duo Clayton and Flavie Webster are on a roll. Last season they were honored with the Moss Adams Fashion Innovator Award, and Wednesday night they presented their most impressive and fully realized collection yet at their West Hollywood store. The clothes included buttery leather biker jackets with scarf details that have become a Cerre signature, as well as their first stab at prints: computer-generated graphics mixing motifs from Russian porcelain and psychedelia which appeared on leather-edged scarves, drapey maxi-skirts slit high on the leg, and an oversized shirt dress with an asymmetrical button placket.
They also experimented with more color, creating an oversized biker jacket in a kind of powdery Yves Klein blue and a kimono coat in camel-hued leather. The collection also included their first-ever suit, with cropped black trousers, a boxy white shirt with a small point collar and an elegantly-draped black blazer, as soft and easy as a T-shirt, with leather piping detail. http://www.cerre.com
Kristen Dorsey Designs
Born and raised in the South Bay, Huntington Beach-based jewelry designer Kristen Dorsey combined her Chickasaw heritage with metalsmithing skills learned in Boston and launched her line in 2011. The result is a beautiful collection of handcrafted jewelry, ranging from tiny earrings to immense gorget necklaces, that uses recycled metals and conflict-free natural gemstones.
Dorsey explained that many of her pieces are made using a metalworking technique called repoussé which requires softening metal on heated wood pitch before hammering and shaping them from the reverse side.
Standout pieces on display at the L.A. Fashion Council (LAFC) showroom downtown included cuffs of rose gold plate over bronze with repoussé serpent-scale designs, earrings of clustered turtle shell designs inspired by a Chickasaw tradition called the stomp dance and a sterling silver and black diamond barnacle-shaped ring inspired by her marine biologist father. http://www.kristendorseydesigns.com
For the first time since Jennifer Lynn launched her line seven seasons ago, about half her suitable-for-the-twentysomethings fall-winter 2013 collection is made up of mixed-fabrication leather pieces — think textured leather yokes on fabric T-shirts and leather side panels on leggings — that can be washed in water up to 30 degrees Celsius/86 Fahrenheit without altering the color or texture of the leather.
Lynn told us she'd been inspired to seek out a sustainable, eco-friendly alternative to traditional leather after visiting a Canadian eco-museum and eventually found it in the form of a new salmon skin leather from Atlantic Leathers, a family-run fish-leather tannery on Iceland's north coast that uses hydroelectric power and natural geothermal hot springs in the tanning process.
The resulting product has a look and feel somewhere between traditional leather and snakeskin (thanks to its distinctive natural scale pattern). It also has a steeper price tag — pieces in the Linden line without the fish-leather fabrication run from $70 to $100; with it, the prices range from $200 to $700. http://www.lindenca.com
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While we're pretty sure Victor Wilde and the Bohemian Society bunch haven't completely abandoned their clothes-as-art/art-as-clothes approach, the fall-winter 2013 collection on display at the LAFC showroom was a marked departure from what we saw last season. Wilde created a tightly edited collection of entirely wearable cut-and-sew menswear pieces. Based in a palette of gray and black, with a couple of pieces in what looked like a faux wood-grain print, the offerings included heavy, three-quarter-length coats with gathered drawstring waists, asymmetrical zip jackets with detachable hoodies, shirts in a loose muslin-like weave and blousy drawstring pants accessorized with the occasional crucifix-at-the-crotch adornment telegraphing that there's plenty more mayhem up Wilde's repurposed parachute sleeve. thebohemiansociety.com
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Pre-Dentistry Preparation: Dental School Admission Factors
Competition for admission to dental school is keen. When selecting students, dental schools consider scores earned on the Dental Admissions Test (DAT), grade point averages, and information gathered through recommendations and interviews. You are responsible for applying to dental school and making arrangements to take the admission test.
Your Home-State School The Indiana University School of Dentistry typically has openings for 20 or more non-residents per year. To be admitted to the Indiana University School of Dentistry, students must earn satisfactory scores on the Dental Admission Test (DAT).
Dental Admissions Test (DAT)All dental schools require applicants to take the Dental Admissions Test given by the American Dental Association. You should take the DAT the spring or early summer before the application deadline, preferably only after completing the required biology and chemistry courses. However, dental schools are somewhat more flexible than medical schools about when you have taken the DAT. You should then formally apply early in the summer, or the summer following your junior year, 14 months in advance.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – Student identification cards issued by public universities could not be used to vote under legislation scheduled to be heard on the House floor Monday evening.
The measure was amended in a House committee last week to remove the use of student IDs. Less than a week before, the full Senate voted 21-8 to pass a bill to allow such IDs.
Republican Rep. Susan Lynn of Mt. Juliet is the House sponsor of the measure, and Republican Sen. Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro has the companion bill.
Lynn said Ketron is agreeable to the change even though he defeated efforts to remove college IDs from the bill in the Senate.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fijian police are investigating what appeared to be the brutal beatings of two recaptured prisoners on a graphic video widely shared this week on social media in the autocratic Pacific island nation.
The 9-minute video depicts at least eight plain-clothed men beating two handcuffed men. One of the victims is shown lying curled on the back of a truck while the other sits in a field nearby. In the video, the plain-clothed men hit the pair with long clubs and short batons. The victims can be heard wailing while the men laugh or whistle.
The Fiji Police Force said in a Tuesday statement it was "disturbed" to see the video of "what appears to be the abuse of two men who, at this stage, we understand to be recaptured prisoners."
The statement said Fijian security agencies have worked "tirelessly" to protect ordinary citizens from violent crimes but what is depicted in the video "requires investigation."
Fijian leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power in a 2006 coup, and since then, the former British colony has been isolated internationally for its failure to restore democracy. It has promised elections next year, but rights groups have expressed doubts about how democratic they will be.
Amnesty International raised concerns to Bainimarama about the treatment of five recaptured prisoners in a separate case last year. The rights group claimed the men were tortured and one had to have part of his leg amputated because of an open fracture.
Police told the Fiji Sun newspaper last year they were investigating that case and that the prisoner had diabetes.
After the new video surfaced, government spokeswoman Sharon Smith-Johns said Wednesday the government had no comment on the video and that police would not be commenting further until their investigation was more complete.
The video was circulated this week in Fiji through emails, social media and on anti-government websites. It was also posted on YouTube. It remains unclear who shot or circulated the video.
At one point, one of the plain-clothed men uses a baton to sexually assault the victim on the truck. At another point, the victim on the truck is shown naked below the waist as he is beaten. Large purple welts are visible on his legs. At another point in the video, a dog held on a chain by one of the plain-clothed men drags the victim in the field a short distance. That victim's clothes are torn and appear to have blood on them.
One of the plain-clothed men appears to be recording the beatings on a cellphone.
Bainimarama had raised hopes in the international community last year when he announced plans to institute a new constitution ahead of elections. But that process has proved controversial, and a series of decrees imposed by the regime this year have set hurdles for political participation.
One decree requires organizations to have at least 5,000 members from across the country to register as political parties. Another decree bans anybody affiliated with a trade union from seeking election and threatens media outlets with hefty penalties if they describe any unregistered groups as political parties.
Patrick Low, a spokesman for Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr, said Australia opposes the decrees.
"We are not giving up on the process," Low said. "The Fijian government says it remains committed to free and fair elections, and we want to encourage that. But steps away from that are unhelpful."
Low said Carr was trying to gather all the facts on the video before commenting on that.


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OpenManage Essentials provides a powerful framework for monitoring and alerting which can be built upon to automate a variety of common tasks. This white paper illustrates several examples and provides complete steps on how to accomplish this. This white paper also describes the following supported alerts action in OpenManage Essentials and provides information on how an IT administrator can leverage them:
Alert Email Action
The Alert Email Action feature helps you know the device status as soon as the device goes into critical state without you having to log on to the OpenManage Essentials console. You can customize alert severity, type, date, device, and days for Alert Email Action.
For the IT administrator to receive emails through the support desk, an SMTP server is required. The SMTP settings can be configured when an email alert action task is created. For SMTP settings. By default, port 25 is selected. You can customize the port according to your environment. For secured communication, you can enable 'SSL'. Fill out all the fields.
You can enable Logging to help you troubleshoot when there are issues in sending emails to the SMTP server. The logs can be viewed under the Logs tab in the OpenManage Essentials console. It is not recommended to enable logging unless it is required as it will consume a large amount of storage space.Configuring Alert Actions in OpenManage Essentials 5
Creating An Alert Email Action
1. Click New Alert Email Action, provide a name and proceed.
2. In the Email Configuration window, provide a valid To and From email address.
3. Customize the Subject and Message of the email based on your preference.
4. To receive emails for the alerts with critical severity, select Critical in the Severity Association window.
5. To restrict the emails to a specific category, select one or more alert categories or sources.
6. A specific device(s) that needs to be monitored can only be selected through a query or from the device tree.
7. Emails can be configured to be sent during a specific date/range. If none of the options are selected in this wizard, emails will be sent without any time restriction.
8. On receiving an alert that matches all the conditions configured in the Alert Email Action task, an email is sent from OpenManage Essentials.
Alert Trap Forward Action
OpenManage Essential receives alerts from various SNMP agents and platform event traps (PETs) configured on the network. These traps may be required by another OpenManage Essentials instance or other network management systems (NMS) such as Microsoft SCOM, Dell ITA, Dell DMC, and so on. In this scenario, OpenManage Essentials can reproduce the traps and send them to other NMS for consolidation of the traps.
The system administrator can set the rules to define which traps will be forwarded based on the traps severity, traps categories, and devices/device groups.
When there are multiple instances of OpenManage Essentials configured where each instance is monitoring a subset of devices in a data center, a system administrator may want to consolidate the alerts from multiple OpenManage Essential instances for tiered management. Otherwise, the system administrator will have to individually check all the OpenManage Essentials servers for monitoring the devices. Instead a system administrator can configure a master OpenManage Essentials server to which all the other OpenManage Essentials instances will forward the alerts/traps. It will then provide the system administrator a consolidated view of all the alerts and enable the system administrator to manage the data center from a single master OpenManage Essentials server.
Creating An Alert Trap Forward Action
1. Click New Alert Trap Forward Action,, provide a name and proceed.
2. Provide the trap destination to which the alerts need to be forwarded. The community string provided should be the same as that of the destination system.
− Forward Trap in Original Format (if enabled): The destination console will receive the alerts in the same format as the original alert that was received in the OpenManage Essentials console. The alert will have proper severity, enterprise, specific and generic OIDs as the original alert received by OpenManage Essentials.
− Forward Trap in Original Format (if disabled): The destination console will receive the alert with 'other' category and source as 'OMEalertforwardedalert'. The Enterprise OID alert will always be 18.104.22.168.4.1.674.11000.1000.100.1 irrespective of the original alert.
3. Severity, Category, Device, date and time can be customized according to the requirement as described for Alert Email Action.
4. The alert is forwarded to the destination OpenManage Essentials console if all the conditions configured in the task match.
Alert Application Launch Action
On receiving an alert in the OpenManage Essentials console, an IT administrator can automate to run scripts. Scripts can be used to log a trouble ticket or run any diagnostic tool. An executable VBScript or a batch file can be configured to run when an alert is received.
Creating An Alert Application Launch Action
1. Click New Application Launch Action, provide a name and proceed.
2. Configure the task by providing the correct path and the name of the script in the Executable Name field. The arguments are all configurable.
3. Severity, Category, Device, date and time can be customized according to the requirement as described for Alert Email Action.
Alert Ignore Action
An IT administrator can choose to ignore alerts for different reasons.
Article ID: SLN285557
Last Date Modified: 08/22/2014 02:09 PM
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