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Since the collapse of Chileís San JosÈ mine that trapped 33 miners, many in the CFCA community have been keeping the miners and their families in our prayers. No sponsored members were directly affected; however, one father of a sponsored member was scheduled to work in the mine on the day that it collapsed.
A recent Yahoo news report said that the rescue efforts have made some outstanding progress.
Luis Olivares, who works for CFCA in Chile, sent this report.
"Many thanks for your concern about what is happening to our 33 countrymen who are trapped 700 meters (0.43 miles) deep in the ground. This occurrence has all of us dismayed since our country is like a big family, even though there have always been social and political differences.
"All of us Chileans are praying for the miners every day, that they may have the strength and the courage to survive, that they may not be daunted by the difficulties or setbacks during the process of their rescue.
"There are no fathers of sponsored children trapped in the mine. There was a father of one of the sponsored members who worked in that mine, but on that day he decided to change his schedule at the request of a friend. Therefore, he was saved from being trapped in the mine. This father said how terribly at fault he felt because of this.
"Some fathers of sponsored members work in other mines, especially in other small mining companies without any security at all, with lit dynamite in hand and running, with shovels and picks in subhuman conditions. Those parents only work sporadically at this job since most of them are looking for other alternatives to making money. At present the price of copper is good and the companies are using contract workers because the price of copper makes it convenient. This will change when the price of copper goes down and these workers turn to agriculture or construction.
"…I must add that the miner is a tough person, accustomed to the roughness of the job, a man who can survive in extreme conditions, accustomed to the solitude of the desert and to living in permanent risky conditions. They are very proud of this.
"For example, years ago many coal miners in the south of Chile refused to reconvert to labor as construction workers because, in their estimation, being in construction was a job for 'delicate young ladies.'
"We pray daily that the miners may not become depressed and that they may keep up the fight. May God help them.
Luis Olivares"

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China reported that four more people in one province were seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans while cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measures to guard against a disease that has already caused two deaths.
The health bureau of eastern Jiangsu province said in a notice on its website that three women, aged 45, 48 and 32, and an 83-year-old retired man, from different cities in the province, were all critically ill with the H7N9 virus, a diagnosis confirmed by the provincial disease prevention center.
Based on the bureau's statement, only one of the patients appeared to come into daily contact with birds - the 45-year-old woman, who was described as a poultry butcher. The four cases did not appear to be connected, and people who have had close contact with the patients have not reported having fevers or respiratory problems, it said.
The provincial health bureau said it was strengthening measures to monitor suspicious cases and urged the public to stay calm, joining Beijing and China's financial capital, Shanghai, in rolling out new steps to respond to the relatively unknown virus.
The four latest cases follow three earlier ones reported Sunday, including two men who died in Shanghai, resulting in the city activating an emergency plan that calls for heightened monitoring of suspicious flu cases.
Under the contingency plan, schools, hospitals and retirement facilities are to be on the alert for fevers, and administrators are to report to health authorities if there are more than five cases of flu in a week.
Cases of severe pneumonia with unclear causes are to be reported daily by hospitals to health bureaus, up from the weekly norm. The plan also called for stronger monitoring of people who work at poultry farms or are exposed to birds.
The level-3 response plan, the second-lowest in a four-stage scale, reflects higher concern after the H7N9 bird flu virus led to the deaths of two men in Shanghai and seriously sickened a woman in the city of Chuzhou, 360 kilometres west of Shanghai.
"The health bureau will take effective and powerful measures to prevent and control the disease, to make sure the flu epidemic is effectively guarded against and to safeguard the health of the city's residents," said Xu Jianguang, head of the Shanghai Health Bureau.
The H7N9 strain, so named for the combination of proteins on its surface, has previously been considered not easily transmitted to humans, unlike the more virulent H5N1 strain, which began ravaging poultry across Asia in 2003 and has since killed 360 people worldwide.
Health officials said this week there was no evidence that any of the three earlier cases, who were infected over the past two months, had contracted the disease from each other, and no sign of infection in the 88 people who had closest contact with them.
Health authorities in Beijing also upped the capital's state of readiness, ordering hospitals to monitor for cases of bird flu and pneumonia without clear causes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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After a devastating tsunami and earthquake shook Japan, many survivors were unable to communicate with their loved ones. Cell phone towers and cables had been destroyed, effectively cutting off access to the decimated areas for days. When many tried to reach their loved ones in the affected area, their calls were either forwarded to voicemail or answered with this recorded message: "This is NTT DoCoMo. Due to the earthquake, the area you are dialing is difficult to reach."
And this disaster is going to happen again. Anywhere between now and 2016, seismologists predict the country can expect another major earthquake that will rival the 9.0 magnitude one experienced last year. But rather than wait for the inevitable, Japan's mobile providers have decided to rebuild with future catastrophes in mind, namely floating cell phone towers.
Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications and internet provider not unlike America's Verizon and AT&T providers, intends to deploy these balloon base stations by the end of this year. These mobile floats are tethered to the ground via ropes and a strong anchor. These mobile relay stations will serve as an emergency backup when land-based towers are damaged.
This solution may sound like something out of science fiction, but this fantasy tech has already proven itself on the battlefield. Try getting a signal in the middle of the desert in Afghanistan. Lockheed Martin has built floating towers to carry signals almost 20 miles away—no matter the terrain. Compare that to the 5-10 miles a commercial cell phone tower is limited to, and that estimate is just for flat landscapes.
As catastrophes can sometimes be unpredictable, it would be wise for other carriers, who have it within their means, to follow Softbank's lead and not wait for disaster to strike first.


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I'm looking for a definitive list of Android devices that officially support USB On-the-go (OTG) / USB Host (non-rooted).
USB OTG/USB Host means that they can be used in a similar way to a PC whereby USB devices can be attached to them for them to access. E.g. memory sticks and other USB storage (mass storage class).
I am not looking for rooted devices (I know that such procedure can make a device support USB OTG/USB Host if the hardware supports it). I am looking for official support, out-of-the box.
Some devices may require adapter cables if necessary (i.e. micro USB to female USB socket).
So far I know at least one device that supports USB OTG / USB host out-of-the-box (non rooted):
The GoTab GBT740R 7" Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, costing just 100 pounds or less in UK! This device has a full size USB female socket to support USB OTG / USB Host. A friend owns one, his USB memory sticks work in this - we can browse to the USB stick contents using Astro File Manager App on the tablet. (By the way, I don't work for GoTab). This seems to be a feature-rich device though for the price point: microSD and HDMI also supported.
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WESLACO, Pa., June 24 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry had harsh words for Central American leaders Tuesday, warning of a "Trail of Tears" if their citizens did not stop crossing the Texas-Mexico border.
After touring detention facilities over-run with unaccompanied minors, Perry spoke to the Department of Public Safety, criticizing the federal government's inability to secure the United States' southern border.
"We can't allow this to happen, and our federal government is the one that has the ability to work with those countries to stop this from happening," Perry said. "We know you can do this, but there has to be the will and there has to be the courage."
"There are babies there that have been transported all across Mexico. I am telling you, that in July and August, if the message does not get out into those countries in Central America, you're going to see a 'Trail of Tears' again from Central America to Texas."
The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation and subsequent ethnic cleansing of Native Americans from the southeastern United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. It is widely considered one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Brooks County Chief Deputy Sheriff Urbino Martinez, who is tasked with enforcing the law along a portion of the Texas-Mexico border, said the current situation is grim and getting worse.
"If we find one body, we're probably missing 10," Martinez told the Los Angeles Times. "That's how many bodies I think are out there that haven't been discovered."
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Qriket is an app for most smartphones where you can make a little bit of money! All you have to do is pick a color either yellow or blue and spin the wheel. If it lands on your color then you win that amount of money! Now this is by no means a huge amount of money! It usually ranges between 5-20 cents per spin. You can win bigger amounts but it's very rare! So why not! What do you have to lose! Download and start making money! It ads up! If you'd like you can use my code to get started!
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"The Journey of 1000 miles begins with the very first step"
So i would first lie to point out that i at blogging. i have so many ideas to share yet have such a hard time putting them out there! But i have completed one full month of clean eating and working out daily! i am so proud of how far i have come and can't wait to share it. My blog is going to be taking a newer direction taking into account all of the new changes i have made to my lifestyle!
First change will be having a lot more to do with fitness and the journey i'm currently on. i will share progress recipes and much more along the way!
Second thing will be my life as a whole. A few months ago i mentioned wanting to start working from home. Although that is my biggest goal in life it isn't going to happen anytime soon. So in the next couple of weeks i will be looking for a job as well as doing the work from home on the side. i am planning on moving into my own place with my daughter in the next few months and for that i need a steady income.
i will also still be keeping the all things mommy outlook.i am a mother and that won't be changing so i will have lots to share along the way.
So i loo forward to interacting with everyone and i hope you all enjoy what i have to share!
Goals for 2016!!
Good evening everyone! So i know it's been a while since i posted but my main reason for coming back to blogging was because i have a lot of upcoming goals for 2016! I mentioned in a few previous posts that i struggle very severely with anxiety, and while that is still the case. I have taken it upon myself to make 2016 my most amazing year yet.
So to start things off my baby turned 3 at the beginning of February!! i cannot believe i have a 3 year old! It is crazy how fast time flies!
So my next few goals kind of go hand in hand with each other. I'm going to get a job and move out this year. I am so determined, I've already handed out resumes got brook onto a waiting list for daycare. And it's baby steps from there! This is my biggest anxiety trigger, getting a job or even just the interview so i think once i accomplish this the rest is smooth sailing.
My last goal and the main reason for starting back up my blog is i am extremely motivated to start living a healthier active lifestyle! I started my weight loss journey on Feb 14, 2016 and i know that only 10 days but i have eaten 100% clean and worked out every single night! I am so motivated to live this lifestyle and i have lost 4 pounds already. I just feel so much healthier and active already and it's only been 10 days! I have been following a youtube by the name of blogilates. She is truly motivating and theres an amazing community of people motivating you along the way. Ill post tomorrow all about it but for tonight i just wanted to let you all know my plans this year!
Do you have any goals for this year?! I know new years resolutions are so cliche but u feel like i am finally getting somewhere this year. Slowly and surely by 2017 i will be where I want to be!
Guess whose back!!
Anxiety Update—-
As most of you know i suffer from severe anxiety to the point it has stopped me from doing things. As i am sitting here today looking back on my day i feel like i have made a significant amount of progress in just one day!
First i went to the doctors office – So some of you are like yeah so? but for me that is a huge milestone! One of a huge triggers in my anxiety is attending appointments! I have a very nice doctor and once i am there i am find, but getting into that office is very hard. So today i overcame that and went to the doctors to talk about my anxiety! I have been given a few tools i'm hoping will help me out a bit.
Second i got some financial burdens figured out – I am currently unemployed but slowly building up a working from home business. I was able to pay off some debts and even get into the bank to get them all sorted out. Yet again going to the bank may be easy for you but for me it is a large fear that i was able to overcome.
I feel like opening up about my anxiety is making things so much easier. People just think i don't want to work and i want to stay home and live on welfare for the rest of my life, but are you kidding me!!!! There is nothing more that i would rather do then go to work and pay off my debts, move out of my mothers house and into a place i can call my own, give my daughter everything and anything she can possibly imagine.
So like i said yes those small tasks may seem stupid, but i got help! That is the most important thing i want everyone to take out of this post. I seeked help and finally felt like someone was on my side. I put a plan into place and i'm going to continue to work towards my goals both long term and short!
I will beat this anxiety and i will overcome everything i need to in order to give my daughter and i the best life i possibly can!
Thanks for listening, See you soon, Jamie ❤
Conversations With My 2 Year Old – Fair and Thanksgiving Weekend!!!!
Well this weekend has been a SUPER busy weekend! It is thanksgiving here in Canada So happy thanksgiving everyone! We also had a huge fair on this weekend in town and decided to go to that 2 of the days. And on top of that i decided to attempt to make my very first turkey dinner!
So brooks first fair was a huge success! She had so much fun and i'm so happy she got to go. She was a champ on all of the rides and just kept wanting to go on more and more! I am so fortunate to be able to do this for her and i look forward to carrying on more traditions just like i did as a child! When i was younger we used to go to the fair every thanksgiving weekend and then we'd have a turkey dinner at my grandmas on the monday!
This thanksgiving i decided to cook a turkey myself! Since my grandmother passed away we have yet to ever have a thanksgiving dinner. So lets just say the turkey was definetely and experience! The worst part was preparing the turkey. Lets just say it turned my stomach… And i honestly debated continuing but i knew i had to do this or we weren't going to have a thanksgiving dinner! So i ended up making turkey, potatos, stuffing, corn, cranberries and a fresh pumpkin pie! I wish i had taken pictures of it because i was so proud that i did this for my family.
Heres a few pictures from the fair! This weekend was full of "baby daddy drama" which i won't be getting into in this post, but spending it with the ones you love is truly the best feeling ever!
See You Soon, Jamie ❤


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Wake Forest Innovation Quarter: Piedmont Triad Research Park changes name, adds tenants
Piedmont Triad Research Park has a new name, and three companies have announced plans to move in or expand on the property.
The park has been renamed the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, officials with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said in a news release. The property has a new website, WakeForestInnovations.com.
Officials also announced that two start-up companies have moved onto the property, and a third is expanding.
AsInEx, a Russian medical chemistry company, will put its North American operations in Winston-Salem. The company currently employs 11, and it plans to employ 30 by the end of the year.
Software company Blue Atom Technologies has five employees and plans to employ 15 by the end of the year. Research firm Biolucidation, LLC, is expected to employ five people by the end of this year and up to 10 by the end of 2014.
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Dexter Carter, RHP, White Sox
22 years old, 3-2, 3.35 with a 94/20 K/BB in 78 innings for Class A Kannapolis, 75 hits allowed. Love the K/IP ratio. Drafted in the 13th round out of Old Dominion last year, he has good stuff but had severe control problems in college. Has turned that around as a pro, much more effective against the wooden bat. K/IP makes this look like a good call so far.
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Managing storage at the edge
As the amount of off-site workers and data increases, you'll need everything from replicating software to USB drives to keep pace.
The further data gets from the data center, the harder it is to manage. When employees work on the road or remotely - which IDC estimates 47 million corporate users will do this year - IT has little choice but to create an effective policy for managing far-flung storage. And that includes not only laptops and PDAs on the road, but also home office computers. Roughly 30 million employees last year engaged in some sort of telework during the workweek, according to a Cahners In-Stat survey.
The stakes for IT are high. The Computer Security Institute estimates that when a single laptop is lost or stolen, it costs $32,000 on average to replace data and proprietary information. And PDAs - although they may seem cheap and unassuming - were pegged with a hefty replacement cost of $2,500 in a recent Gartner study. "There's so much more mission-critical corporate data on mobile devices now," says Stephen Drake, an IDC analyst. "IT is forced to take them seriously - and to think about things like management, administration and security because of the growing mobile workforce."
Ensuring the security of mobile or at-home data is a complex job for security professionals. But when it comes to preventing data loss and preparing for disaster recovery due to disappearing equipment, imploding hardware or user fumbles, the buck stops with IT storage managers. Laptops and home office computers require backup schemes that - like good enterprise desktop procedures - require as little user intervention as possible (see "Local backup for laptops"). PDAs need workable backup and synchronization procedures - or read-only applications that minimize the impact of loss or theft.
Like it or not, enterprise data will keep circulating in a wider and wider orbit from the heart of the enterprise. Halfhearted attempts at managing data at the outer edge invite disaster - even concerted efforts run amok. Lesson by lesson, IT is learning how to cope.
Corralling far-flung hard drives
Any worthwhile IT department implements regular network backups and has a plan for disaster recovery. But managing remote laptops or home computers is a different kettle of fish. No one is there to crack the whip in person, so a mature, automated backup process is mandatory - studies show only one out of 10 employees perform manual backups. Also, unless remote users connect via a VPN, encryption during remote network backup is a must. And with connections often sporadic and/or dial-up-based, backup software needs to minimize connect time.
At Deluxe Corp., Shoreview, MN, one of the world's largest check printers, Tina Reilly, senior technical analyst, manages storage for a 300-person international sales force that never comes to the office. "We work with financial institutions ... so if our sales reps lose that information, it's very critical," Reilly says. To serve these home-based, traveling sales people, Reilly recently outfitted all of them with identical new Dell laptops loaded with Mobiliti's Network/Unplugged, a mobile synchronization and backup solution.
Because laptop hard drives aren't interchangeable, Reilly needed the homogenous Dell hardware, so IT could stock identical replacement drives preloaded with a standard mix of OS and apps in preparation for bare metal recovery. She also required a complete backup of current user data - a challenge with non-technical, permanently dispersed users, many of whom rely on dial-up connections. What to do? "We went to their sales convention and did the first initial backup for them via LAN," says Reilly. "So when they got their laptops, all they had to do was keep up with the incrementals."
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When dial-up is the only connection available, it's sometimes harder to convince remote users to perform network backups than to back up to a local device. As usual, the quicker and easier the backup, the better. The range of backup devices includes:
Zip drives. Iomega has an entire line of removable magnetic media drives, including models that slip into the expansion bay of Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Toshiba laptops. A six-pack of 250MB cartridges costs $80.
CompactFlash cards. You can't back up a whole hard disk with one. But in conjunction with automatic backup software, a $150 256MB card plugged into a free Type II PC Card slot can do incrementals without the user being the wiser.
Microdrives. Like CompactFlash memory cards, these slip into a Type II PC Card slot, but they provide cheaper storage by the megabyte. A 1GB microdrive in a PC Card adapter sells for less than $300. IBM and Kingston are leading vendors.
CD-RW. Buy your laptops with a CD-RW drive already installed, and you can simply leave a disc in there for periodic backups. To ensure problem-free incrementals, the disc needs to be in packet-write format, which reduces capacity to 540MB. Be forewarned: Users can't do much else while the CD-RW records.
External hard drives. User intervention is required, but you can easily find a unit with enough capacity to back up a laptop full of data. Choose a model based on a 2 1/2-inch laptop hard drive, because - although laptop models are slower than desktop drives - they're far more resistant to shock.
If you opt for an external device, a word about connections. Laptops and drives equipped with FireWire or USB 2.0 ports will increase the likelihood that users will actually back up data, because USB 1.0/1.1 devices are pretty slow. If the laptop has only a USB port, you might consider connecting an external device to a PC Card adapter.
For automatic external backups, CMS Peripherals sells a line of devices preloaded with backup software that kick in as soon as a connection is made. Finally, the Amacom Flipdisk boasts the greatest versatility of any external drive, with PC Card, FireWire, USB 1.0/1.1 and Parallel interfaces in one device.
Mobiliti's Network/Unplugged speeds up those incrementals in a couple of ways. Like other remote packages - such as Computer Associates' BrightStor Mobile Backup, Legato's NetWorker Laptop, NovaStor's NovaNet-Web, Novell's iFolder, and Storactive's LiveBackup - Network/Unplugged takes a store-and-forward approach. The software aggregates and compresses incremental file backups on local drives and automatically starts backing up when a connection is available - a 40-bit encryption algorithm protects data in transit. Delta transfer technology synchronizes files between host and client systems, uploading only the portions of files that have changed instead of the whole file. Reilly, who says she's impressed by the quick backup times, paid $43,000 for the 300-client license and dedicates a single server to remote sales force backup.
Of course, not all IT departments back up their laptops with specialized mobile packages. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, deployed the same version of Veritas' NetBackup Professional across roughly 500 faculty and staff, around 150 of whom use laptops. Initially, the main reason was the lack of a viable tape backup solution for laptop users.
Gene Spencer, associate vice president of information systems for Bucknell, was surprised by the immediate benefits of NetBackup Pro's self-service features. "Having users be much more self-sufficient in terms of getting files back from the system when they need to restore a file ... changes our support model and allows us to provide users with solutions that are actually much easier for them." NetBackup Pro lets users choose between two backup profiles, one for remote and one for local use. Remote users get the benefit of store-and-forward, delta transfer and 128-bit encryption. And data compression increases automatically with slower connections.
Spencer dedicates two backup servers to support his 500 users. Laptop users that roam the campus tend to connect via wireless LAN; backup over dial-up is "not totally unreasonable," but not especially fun, either. A major drawback of NetBackup Pro is that it doesn't support Mac or Linux users who are obliged to copy files to a server by hand. But after messing with tape backups and other manual solutions, Spencer says NetBackup Pro has provided Bucknell with its first effective solution spanning both local and remote users.
Getting serious about PDAs
Laptops are merely desktop PCs with legs. With tiny storage and a much higher risk of loss, PDAs require an altogether different approach. But according to W. Curtis Preston, founder of The Storage Group consultancy, Oceanside, CA, many companies still make PDAs the user's responsibility. Often, the sum total of IT's storage management policy is to admonish users to plug into a desktop cradle once a day. The basic attitude is, "either you synch or you don't," says Preston.
"There are two types of organizations," says Jeff Warner, product manager for Extended Systems, Boise, ID, a provider of mobile infrastructure, "organizations that look at mobile devices as a strategic tool and have an estimated cost of ownership - and organizations that are just reacting and kind of sweeping it under the rug." The risks of turning a blind eye can be political as well as financial, Warner says, because spiffy PDAs typically fall into executive hands first.
Among IT departments that have developed a real plan, ensuring the integrity of handheld data devolves to two basic strategies: flash backup and server-based synchronization.
Flash backup is a cheap and simple way of guarding against the main enemy of PDA data: dead batteries. All users do is pop a $50 flash memory module loaded with auto-backup software into a PDA expansion slot. "When you're doing mission-critical stuff and you're in the field, these things can fail," says Alex Hinds, CEO of BlueNomad, Redwood City, CA, developer of the BackupBuddy program for Palm devices. "So if you don't have access to a desktop, laptop or modem, it's convenient to have a backup available to you on a card." Lose the PDA, however, and you're out of luck.
Managing data on PDAs gets serious when you start connecting them directly to a server and begin synchronizing, downloading or backing up data. Most often, companies choose the server option for simple group scheduling or contact management. "The application already exists on the device - a Palm, a Pocket PC, a Symbian, a RIM - all of them already have e-mail, a calendar and a contact manager," says Warner. "And obviously, groupware systems like Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange are already there, so no one has to create an application or a database on the back end."
Pushing PDAs to the edge
A few bold businesses, however, have begun deploying mobile versions of real enterprise applications on PDAs. Naturally, the notion of tiny, easily misplaced devices carrying valuable enterprise data - or worse, providing remote access to enterprise applications - gives IT nightmares (see "Seven ways to secure a PDA"). To support sales or field forces, however, some companies see real benefits in forging ahead.
Steve Allocco, a project manager for Pyxis Consulting, Wellesley, MA, chose Synchrologic's Mobile Suite of synchronization and management software to deploy a CRM application on PDAs for a major financial institution in the northeastern U.S. A full client version of the app was already on laptops, but less than a third of the 60 mutual fund wholesalers for whom it was intended were using it. "They were sending out a lot of data, which was taking a long time to transfer," Allocco says. Worse, the wholesalers found the laptops too bulky and the app too complex to use in the field.
Pyxis proposed a simple alternative: Push a small quantity of targeted sales information about the accounts wholesalers regularly deal with and display that data, such as spouse's names, sales data, etc., in a simple custom application running on a Palm handheld. Pyxis used Synchrologic's data and file synchronization servers to extract updated information from the CRM database every night and downloaded it to wholesalers when they synched up every morning.
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Last year, an estimated 250,000 cell phones and PDAs were lost in airports, according to the Gartner Group. The consequence of misplacing most of those devices was no worse than losing a day planner. But some small, unknown percentage contained critical data and access to enterprise applications.
Securing PDAs with sensitive data - or access to it - should be taken seriously. Basically, you need to apply the same rigor to PDA security that you would to any other enterprise-class device, with a clear security policy and a uniform suite of security software. Consider the following:
1. Password protection. Enforce alphanumeric passwords with no less than seven characters. Adding gestures, supported by some security software, can make break-ins nearly impossible. Several products - such as Trust Digital's Policy Editor or IS/Complete's PDA Restrictor Enterprise - enable you to manage password policies for groups of PDAs or reset individual passwords remotely.
2. Asset tagging. Slap on non-removable labels and bring PDAs into your asset numbering system. You'll avoid confusion when storing, distributing and repairing devices as well as discourage theft. You'll also be far more likely to get PDAs back when employees leave the company.
3. Lost and found. Just as with laptops, it never hurts to display contact information when a device boots. Alternatively, for those who want to remain anonymous, IDstrip.com prints stickers that have a toll-free phone number and a unique numeric identifier.
4. Encryption. PDA file encryption packages such as Trust Digital's PDA Secure abound, offering algorithms ranging from MD5 to 512-bit Blowfish.
5. The bomb. With some software, such as Asynchrony Software's PDA Defense, a destruct sequence can wipe the PDA clean - if the device isn't synched in 48 hours or in the event of too many password attempts in a row.
6. Biometrics. Fingerprint identification is available for PDAs - Applied Biometrics' PINprint Pilot will do the trick, among others. Signature recognition is less accurate, but Communication Intelligence's Sign-On provides a inexpensive solution for Pocket PCs and Palm devices.
7. VPN connection. Better combine top-notch password/encryption with this one. Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 comes with VPN capability built in; Palm devices require an add-on client such as Certicom's movianVPN.
Rather than pay for PDA modems, the client opted to use the modems on the wholesalers' existing laptops to transfer data between the server and PDA client. This provided free security, since the laptops were already connected to the home office via VPN. And the Synchrologic suite offered another security benefit: the ability to change passwords from the server management console in the event a PDA was lost or stolen.
But the nagging problem of dead PDA batteries was an even more pressing issue than security. "When they're dead too long, you lose all the data," says Allocco. "We were sending down databases that were about 1.5MB. How do we get that back out to them?" Rather than deploy flash modules to back up read-only data, Allocco's solution was to create the PDA version of a bare metal recovery disk on the server that, in the event a user's storage got wiped out, would send out the application first - and then a refresh of the entire database.
Allocco solved another common difficulty with handhelds: People load them with games until they run out of memory and call the help desk. Worse, users tend to be dishonest about what they've installed. The Mobile Suite's management module not only let Allocco see a PDA's contents when the user synched with the host, but he could also delete stuff. "Next time they synched," says Allocco, "they would be looking for Tiger Woods Golf for a very long time."
The wireless workhorse
Enterprise applications running on handhelds are still the exception. But handhelds that serve field service workers have been around for decades. When those devices are used for data collection, the integrity of that data has a direct impact on the bottom line.
Last year, Saul Cohen, vice president of information technology oversaw the development of a new field service application for U.S. Fleet Services in Horsham, PA. The company has 60 branch offices in 28 states and provides on-site, truck-to-truck fueling services to such companies as FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Nabisco. Cohen's project was to automate the process of recording the details of truck refuels, a paper affair subject to errors by truckers and whoever keyed in the data.
Cohen came up with a wireless handheld application that required zero manual data input. The hardware of choice was a Pocket PC equipped with an 802.11 network card and a barcode scanner. For each delivery, all the driver had to do was scan the barcode that had been pasted on the customer truck then download data from the truck's fuel gauge, which was also 802.11-enabled. When the truck rolled back into the garage, it communicated with an 802.11b access point installed there that hooked the handheld to the corporate WAN and uploaded the data for the day.
Along the route, delivery data was collected in a SQL for a CE 2000 database on the Pocket PCs. Cohen used XTNDConnect Server from Extended Systems to send out daily route information, push new application versions and configure devices remotely. Storing everything on 128MB CompactFlash cards ensured data integrity. Moreover, every time a driver completed a delivery, they needed to print a receipt before the transaction was complete. Each driver had an extra battery and the Pocket PC rode in a recharging cradle in the truck when it wasn't being used.
Getting control and keeping it
Despite Cohen's best efforts at making the application easy, he discovered that the biggest problem was training. At one point, he even rode shotgun and coached drivers en route. There's a lesson to be learned from that: Outside the office, more responsibility for making things work inevitably devolves to the user, because you have reduced power of enforcement and less ability to help. To ensure data integrity, explicit policies and procedures for remote users - and in some cases training - are absolute necessities.
That fact shouldn't discourage your efforts to make everything as automated as possible for far-flung users. But particularly in lean times, you need to choose management, synchronization and backup solutions that cause the least IT disruption possible. As Pyxis' Allocco puts it: "You keep your central organization. We're not trying to decentralize IT. We're just trying to extend information that makes sense."
Fortunately, off-the-shelf solutions abound. The market leaders in backup and groupware generally supply just enough remote options to make setting up a specialized package seem like more of a hassle. On the other hand - particularly with PDA applications - only specialized or custom-written software provides exactly what you need and integrating it with your existing system makes the most sense. Either way, remote data demands to be taken seriously. As Jeff Warner from Extended Systems says: "The device is always much more disposable than the data that's on it."
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CHICAGO -- A long red scratch on the left side of Alexei Ramirez's forehead was visible during his media session following the White Sox 4-3 victory over the Indians on Sunday at U.S. Cellular Field.
Ramirez certainly wasn't complaining or feeling any pain, for that matter. Call it a welcomed battle scar.
Ramirez's walk-off home run against Cleveland closer John Axford (0-1), coming with one out and Jordan Danks on second, turned a potential heartbreaking loss into an uplifting victory and sent the shortstop into a helmet-slapping, frenzied celebration as he crossed home plate. The White Sox (7-6) claimed a series victory from the Indians by taking three of four contests.
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dhedberg wrote:exxos wrote:*drools*
Nice! Where do you have your PCBs manufactured?
Badwolf wrote:I have no immediate need for any myself, but I'm pretty sure if I had, making my own SIMMs would never had occurred to me.
I just wanted to tip my hat and say what a simple and sensible solution, especially if they can become an item in your shop or a made-to-order offering. Top work.
AdamK wrote:Could you do 16MB simms?
exxos wrote:Had no problems doing these. Largest problem was finding the DRAM ICs.
dhedberg wrote:exxos wrote:Had no problems doing these. Largest problem was finding the DRAM ICs.
May I ask what your source for the DRAM is? I understand if you don't want to reveal it... just thought it would be worth asking at least.
exxos wrote:A lot of them are FPM simms, I tried a bunch of them a while ago and they didn't work.
exxos wrote:Also parity simms which are not great.
joska wrote:If they did not work then it was not because they were FPM SIMMs. The majority (all?) of 30 pin SIMMs are FPM and works perfectly fine in the STE. You probably know this, because the DRAMs used in your own SIMMs are also FPM
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spiny wrote:I (clearly) know very little about such things, but would modern 'faster' chips help with the other upgrades, like the boosters and TOS replacements? or is RAM just not a bottleneck?
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- Students can opt – Organon of Medicine, Materia Medica, Repertory, Homeopathic pharmacy, Practice of Medicine, Pediatrics or Psychiatry as Main subjects of their PG specialty. PG will be awarded in that subject
- They must opt and appear for the examinations in either – Organon of Medicine, Materia Medica, Repertory as their Subsidiary subject.
- As in the past they have to appear for Research Methodology, History of Medicine & Statistics as a separate paper after one and half year.
- Candidates of Organon of Medicine, Materia Medica, Repertory and Pharmacy has to study and appear for examinations in Practice of Medicine in Part. 1 & Part.II examinations.
- For Practice of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychiatry students – Materia Medica is compulsory. Plus they have to appear for an examination in either Repertory or Organon of Medicine in Part. I MD
- In Part.II Examinations- there are two papers on the concerned specialty, One paper in Practice of Medicine and One paper in the subsidiary subject.
- For Practice of Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychiatry students – two papers on the concerned specialty, One paper in Materia Medica and One paper in the subsidiary subject.
Pass Mark
No Marks but Pass or Fail
The students shall be declared "Pass" if he gets 40% marks separately in theory & Practical including Viva-voce examinations along with 50% aggregates in each subjects.
Relaxed norms related to Institute
- An institute running BHMS courses for consecutive 5 years are eligible for running PG Courses
- At least two teachers in the concerned specialty required
- One full time professor or Reader only required
- One Lecturer on full time basis
- In Psychiatry & Pediatrics – two assistance or attendants only required
- 250 patients – OPD + IPD per day
- One bed embarked per student in addition to BHMS course
- Student – Guide Ratio – 3 : 1 in case of Professor
- Student – Guide Ratio – 2 : 1 in case of Reader
- Student – Guide Ration – 1 : 1 in case of Lecturer with 8 years teaching experience
- The supervisor or Guide shall be from the same teaching institute only
The Organon of Medicine, Materia Medica, Repertory syllabus are same for both Main and Subsidiary. No clear cut demarcation. It seems to be difficult to concentrate on the concerned specialty – for example a Matertia Medica main students if opting Repertory as the subsidiary subject- he has to study he entire Repertory syllabus of the Repertory Main(Specialty) student.
Any way this syllabus is more beneficial to Homeopathy comparing to previous syllabus
Download the revised Original Gazette Notification PG Homeopathy regulations 2012 :
Hindi : www.similima.com/pdf/pg-homeo-regulations-2012-hindi.pdf
English : www.similima.com/pdf/pg-homeo-regulations-2012.pdf


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While the NCUA has not yet released the 4th Quarter 2012 5300-data for all CUs, it is available for many CUs on an individual basis.
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Dec 31, 2011: 4,918,250
Mar 31, 2012: 7,623,506 <– Merger with a smaller CU
Jun 30, 2012: 7,607,091
Sep 30, 2012: 7,906,605 <– 1st full qtr w/KickStart
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