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In a forum post earlier this week, I made the assertion about stamina:
I completely disagree about Stamina being "situational." It is hands-down your best survivability stat, period.
A commenter offered the following question in response:
I wonder how you come to this opinion and whether the assessment can be quantified? There was a similar debate about stamina vs mastery at the start of Cata but it was never subject to numerical analysis. ….
But would it be interesting to include variations in stamina in the kind of simulations you've made to compare mastery, haste, etc? In your analytic work for Cata weighting stats you excluded stamina and I can see how there is an apples and oranges problem comparing it with TDR type stats. But in the simulations, it might be possible to usefully appraise it. Afterall, there's only a limited variation in stamina we can achieve via gems and trinkets at current gear levels. For the kind of incoming damage you've been simulating, how often would trading that stamina for more haste or mastery or whatever, save you or kill you?
As I was writing the response, I realized it's an interesting enough topic that it would be worth expanding into a full blog post. A slightly edited and cleaned-up version of my response follows:
Stamina and Secondary Stats: Will it Blend?
There are a few key differences between now and Cataclysm. First, let's make it clear that Effective Health has generally been the driving force behind tanking since the end of Burning Crusade. Stamina stacking in Ulduar/ToC/ICC was the default gear path, apart from gimmick fights where you wanted a block-capped set (ex: heroic Anub'arak). The name of the game was "survive as much spike as possible" because you were usually in danger of getting two-shot by a boss.
Cataclysm was supposed to change that, and it did to a point. We worried a lot less about dying from back-to-back melees. But spirit scaling failed to make healer mana a real constraint, so we ended up not caring much at all about total damage taken. Which meant that our deaths were generally due to spikes, rather than trickle-down "deaths by a thousand cuts." It shifted our view from "need to survive two boss attacks in a row" to "need to survive 5-6 seconds with minimal healing," but not to "need to reduce damage taken to preserve healer mana." And the solution to a 5-6 second spike window is still EH.
We stacked mastery instead of stamina for a few reasons in Cataclysm, but the primary one was EH-related. Shaving 30% off of every attack is almost like having ~43% extra health (1/0.7=1.429). So we stacked a lot of mastery because it was, in effect, an EH stat – it made all of our stamina much, much more powerful, and made our damage intake smoother. In statistical terms, we reduced the variance in our damage intake with respect to our health pools.
The fact that mastery was very good for TDR didn't hurt, but it wasn't the reason we stacked it – otherwise we'd have continued with doge and parry once we reached block-cap. After reaching cap, what did most hard-mode tanks actually do? Stack more stamina! There are a variety of reasons why, including more spike survivability, better interaction with magic damage, and the fact that stamina is often a better mana-saving stat than TDR stats are anyway.
MoP has changed things, but not very much. Healer mana is certainly being stressed in these early raids, but not because of tank throughput. In fact, I'd argue that tank throughput has not seriously stressed healer mana in any encounter released after Icecrown Citadel. A healer who's sole job is "heal the main tank" isn't going to run out of mana unless they're severely undergeared or not playing very well (i.e. not used to the damage patterns on the fight). Or, in the healers' defense, they could be healing a very bad tank that isn't using their mitigation tools effectively.
So we're in pretty much the same state that we were in Cataclysm. We care about spike deaths that occur over 3-5 boss attacks, or 4-10 second windows. There are a few edge cases, of course. Heroic Feng on 25-man, for example, can hit you twice simultaneously for 200k each, or 400k burst damage in a tenth of a second. And he can do this every ~2 seconds, making 3-second windows very dangerous. But in general, we still care about spikes, not TDR. Hit and expertise reduce the frequency of spikes. Stamina reduces the magnitude of those spikes with respect to player health. Both are important, but point-for-point Stamina does a better job of combating spikes.
It's value obviously varies based on your situation: when you're undergeared, it's very valuable; when you're slightly over-geared, it becomes less valuable. People frequently talk about gearing strategies like "stack stam till you have 'enough' health for the boss," but I think that they're misleading themselves. 'Enough' is nebulous – should it be 2 attacks? 3 attacks? 4? 5? – and I think stamina retains its value fairly well even above 'enough,' both because of the added survivability and because of its under-appreciated benefits to healer mana.
Unfortunately, it's very hard to quantify any of that without building a simulation that literally re-creates WoW. My damage-smoothing simulations don't include stamina at all, because they don't include health at all. They just calculate the distribution of damage output the boss produces over time so we can see how large the spikes get and how much each stat reduces the frequency of those spikes. If we want to include stamina in those situations, we run into some significant issues:
- How much health do we choose as a baseline? This basically depends on how over/under-geared we are for the encounter at hand, which varies from player to player and from week to week.
- What do we do if the boss kills us during a spike? Do we keep running as usual, or terminate the sim and track this information (i.e. +100 stamina reduced deaths by X, +100 haste reduced deaths by Y, etc.)?
- How do we model healing? In the steady-state, your healers are producing more HPS than the DPS the boss is subjecting you to, otherwise you'd die very quickly on every pull. But that healing isn't constant – it comes in discrete chunks (heals/ticks) at a variety of intervals (HoTs, heals with varying cast lengths) and at different magnitudes (having an excess of HoTs on the pull vs. a healer forgetting to heal you vs. a healer dying).This is probably the biggest problem, because there's no one solution. Every tank has a different healing team, manned by different players, who heal differently. No one model can properly encompass how an "average" raid team heals, and it's dubious at best to even define an "average" in that sense.
There are more issues, but even on this short list we've hit one that's been plaguing theorycrafting for years. I remember having discussions about how to model healing as far back as early WotLK, Mel's blogged about it before, and even to this day it's a question that hasn't been settled. If you model a "perfect" healer, the tank almost never dies. So you want to model an "imperfect" healer, because tanks tend to die when someone makes a mistake (healer or tank). But how do you model "bad" play when that sort of play is inherently inconsistent and varies from player to player and encounter to encounter?
As such, we're stuck with some "hand-waving" (meaning "not rigorous") arguments for how to relate Stamina to other anti-spike stats. I certainly don't feel confident enough to say that I can "prove" Stamina is more valuable than hit or expertise, at least not numerically. I can at best make some good logical arguments why I think it's better, and support that with a limited amount of evidence from logs, experiences, discussions with healers, discussions with other tanks, and so on.
I think it's fairly telling that most tanks in the top 100 have traditionally gemmed for all-out Stamina, because they're going into the fights fairly under-geared and prefer EH over everything else. But even that data point is limited in scope – not all top-tier tanks are theorycrafters, and in general they trust their gut and go with what seems to work. In practice, I think that they could be almost as successful gemming Spirit, because their success hinges far more on their sheer skill than it does on what 5 gems they choose. These players are so damn good at this game that the minor differences between gemming stamina, avoidance, or control stats isn't going to make or break their progression.
So in short, we really can't come up with a clear numerical relationship between stamina and control stats like hit, expertise, and haste. At least, not without writing a simulation with AI advanced enough to impersonate 25 flawed raiders making mistakes in a non-uniform, slightly randomized, slightly deterministic manner. That's the sort of task that's well beyond the limit of "easily modeled." You could spend years doing a Ph.D. thesis on artificial intelligence and WoW raiding and still not have a suitable model for that behavior. The best we can do is make some educated guesses about how much we should value the two stats based on what we know, what we can deduce logically, and what we can surmise from browsing logs.


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Today I got in another 38 minute work out day two of the 3 in 1 workout. See below for details of the workout. I did switch up the beginning lift to bench press instead of push ups with resistance band. The bench press to me is a staple of working out; I know that there is some that say you don't need to do bench press. Well to me one of the easiest ways to see that you are getting stronger over time is when you go from lifting 175 to 225. I also like to lift consistently when it comes to heavy weight. What I mean by this is lifting a challenging weight the same number of reps for x sets. For example in today's workout I did 5 reps of 225 for 4 sets a total of 20 reps at 225 with a minute rest between each set. I could have push the first set to 8 rep but that would have tapped me out for the other 3 sets. Buy going with a lower number I was able to more reps over a greater number of sets. Instead of burning myself out on the first set. This method has helped me increase my overall strength. Remember different things work for different people. Give it a try for yourself. I always say that the enemy of change is the monotony of repetition mix it up! Below is a shot from this morning's workout, the 90lbs of steel shot.
Bench Press:
Set Reps Weight
1 5 225
2 5 225
3 5 225
4 5 225
Back Squat | Barbell:
Set Reps Weight
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Stiff Leg Deadlift | Dumbbells:
Set Reps Weight
1 8 75
2 8 75
3 8 75
Bent Over Row | Barbell:
Set Reps Weight
1 8 135
2 8 135
3 8 135
Push Ups:
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The Catlins is a sparsely populated area in the south of New Zealand's South Island. The Catlins comprise rugged coasts with wide deserted beaches, endless green hills, wild weather and lots of marine wildlife such as sea lions, penguins and dolphins. These landscapes alone are reason enough to venture to that rather remote area of the country, but there are many more attractions waiting for its visitors.
1. Road trip on the Southern Scenic Route
As mentioned above, the most important thing in the Catlins is to enjoy its many varied landscapes and natural attractions, so make sure your road trip on the Southern Scenic Route (the tourist highway linking Dunedin, Invercargill and Te Anau) accommodates for enough little stops here and there to take in massive deserted beaches, the isolation, and remoteness, take pictures of the windswept trees or beautiful bays hosting sea lions and dolphins.
2. Visit Curio Bay
Curio Bay is famous for its petrified forest and wildlife attractions. The tree fossils can be seen at low tide and are over 160 million years old. You may also get to see yellow-eyed penguins in Curio Bay. And for the sports enthusiast, Curio Bay's very own little surf school provides everything a novice surfer needs to successfully stand on their board after only one afternoon of riding the rather docile but regular waves in this beautiful, remote spot.
3. Visit Invercargill
Spending a day in Invercargill can be a welcome change from the hours or days of driving through the vastly unpopulated areas of the Catlins to enjoy a bit of civilisation. Queens Park, with its botanical gardens, is well worth a visit, as is Invercargill's museum, the Southland Museum, and Art Gallery. It is host to special exhibitions, including a section dedicated to Burt Munro, the famous New Zealand motorcycle racer, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the film The World's Fastest Indian.
4. Visit Nugget Point and Slope Point
Visit one of New Zealand's oldest lighthouses at Nugget Point. From the car park, it's a beautiful 30-minute walk on a path leading visitors along the cliffs to the lighthouse and viewing platform. You may also spot seals and yellow-eyed penguins in the area.
Slope Point is the South Island's southernmost point. Beyond the steep cliffs, there's only water, a few tiny uninhabited islands and then the Antarctic. The much-photographed signpost is accessible by foot only. It's about a 20-minute walk on a path through farmers' meadows from the car park.
5. Visit the Purakaunui Falls
These waterfalls are easily accessible from the nearby carpark on a well-built path leading visitors through beech and podocarp forest. The viewing platform allows for stunning views of the waterfalls that cascade over 3 tiers.
6. Visit the Cathedral Caves
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7. Visit The Lost Gypsy Gallery
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IBM chief engineer talks green storage
IBM engineer Clod Barrera discusses the growing energy crisis in storage, the need for better power efficiency metrics and the future for "green" products.
On the heels of a billion-dollar investment from IBM last week in a new "green" storage program, Clod Barrera, engineer and chief technical strategist, IBM Storage, sat down with SearchStorage.com to discuss energy efficiency, power consumption and cooling issues, all of which are becoming hot issues (literally and figuratively) in the storage industry.
What are the 'green' issues particular to storage systems?
Clod Barrera: There is a very large appetite for storage capacity and increasingly a large appetite for quick access to data, so a lot of customers are talking about backing up to disk rather than on tape, and disk is of course much more power hungry than tape. There's more and more talk about online archives. People are talking about petabytes of spinning disk to accomplish this. Disk array controllers and [storage area network] SAN switches and host bus adapters for storage will also become more and more power hungry over time as speeds increase.
The simple projections of where this goes over time become quite daunting. The trend is clear -- if the storage industry is going to both meet the demands users have for high-performance access to information and not let the power bill get out of control, we're going to have to do some innovation.
Do storage arrays from different vendors really draw different amounts of power? How significant is that?
Barrera: One of the discussions we're having within SNIA is how to get really good numbers for that purpose. The simple answer is yes, of course, since different arrays are designed by different people for different purposes, but we do not have enough of a standard yardstick to determine the goodness or badness of any particular box compared to another. There actually is considerable variability. Currently within SNIA, the first project is to establish a set of yardsticks, what do you measure and how, and also how many do you need. One good one is watts per gigabyte stored, but there are a lot of environments where customers don't deploy on the basis of watts per gigabyte or dollars per gigabyte, they deploy against ops per second. So you probably need a watts per ops per second yardstick for true high-performance transactional environments, and maybe you need a watts per gigabyte per second for streaming environments and maybe a different yardstick for archival environments.
We need to argue this out, and we need to do it quickly because we're better served by experts deciding what the right metrics are instead of using a single number that's not a good basis for comparison. We also ought to have a certification process somewhere so your box can be measured and verified by a third party and then we'll really know.
How realistic is that, though? It's not in a vendors' best interest to have real numbers come out, especially if trying to sell storage hardware.
Barrera: Once everyone knows real numbers, the race will be on to build better products for customers. If you have 20% more efficiency, you can compute what it's worth in dollars for the customer and compute a better margin. I personally think there will be enough social and regulatory pressure so that these yardsticks will come into existence one way or another. My goal is for an organization that knows how to do this, like SNIA, representing the right entities, to decide what those yardsticks need to be. I think there'll be plenty of help from the rest of the world on the enforcement process.
What trends do you see in storage hardware and data management for green issues over the next year?
Barrera: To me the single biggest rock in the pond early is going to be the notion of measurements and standards. Once measurements are in place, you're going to see significant innovation to drive down power consumption and drive up heat efficiency -- the nice thing about numbers is they encourage a lot of behavior. The technologies that will be important over the next year, however, are all already in place -- things like storage virtualization, which drives up utilization, information lifecycle management [ILM], which moves data to lower power media and data deduplication and reduction. It will probably take about a year to get the right measurements in place, another year for best practices and over time products will get better and better. We'll probably have a good place to look back from in five years.
What options does IBM have in terms of 'greener' components for storage systems? What's on the roadmap in storage?
Barrera: There are power efficiencies to be had at the hardware level, just build a more efficient box. Silicon guys are working on those problems. We in the storage industry tend to inherit those technologies.
Deduplication is starting to show up around the industry particularly in archival data. It takes a fairly large amount of computational horsepower, but it's getting cheaper and cheaper, and when you start talking about large amounts of storage, the value for taking that step is going to be there. It'll happen specifically by application types because it turns out that with different applications there are different processes. The use of the intelligence that you have in computers to save the smallest amount of data and commit the least amount of watts when you do operations is going to be an ongoing effort.
IBM is still holding back on adding deduplication to its virtual tape libraries [VTL]. Is there any kind of timeframe there yet?
Barrera: We think the onus on IBM is that by the time we bring a new technology to market, it has to be perfect. Startups get away with more than we can. They perform a great service in the industry as technology trailblazers, but customers buying from us expect nothing unexpected. So it's important to us to make sure things are really ready.
What's the ultimate solution to energy problems in the storage industry? An alternative energy source? Different data recording technologies?
Barrera: First of all, electricity is what all this stuff is going to be based on. There's one discussion to be had around where electricity comes from, and burning fossil fuels better not be the answer for very much longer. Within the data center itself, we've been in this lust for performance and availability of data. We're going to add another lust, and that's going to be energy efficiency, and those things will find their relative importance compared to one another. It will become a new arena for competition between vendors and that's how you will see improvement.
What about replacing spinning drives with solid-state memory?
Barrera: With today's technologies, that's really only possible where the goal is to achieve a certain level of performance if I have a relatively small capacity requirement, like the kind of memory you need in cell phones. Solid-state disk is actually going the wrong way in terms of power utilization today, but there are things coming, a variety of technologies being talked about in terms of storage-class memories. The idea of those taking over for disk technologies are five and probably more like 10 years away. Disk drives are going to be around for a lot longer yet and so will tape.


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Growl is quite popular on Mac OS X for notifications and is beginning to catch on in Windows as well. We added Growl for Windows support to Chanalyzer 4 and Chanalyzer Pro for new networks and transmitters and are planning to add more notifications soon. Check out Growl for Windows at: http://www.growlforwindows.com
If you haven't used Growl it's been cloned by Tweetdeck, Pandora and a few other apps... there little popup messages look like Growl notifications. Growl is great, because it's a system-wide notification platform that all apps can register with and then send notifications to. This keeps things consistent and allows for some cool tricks... like forwarding New Transmitter notifications from Chanalyzer Pro to your iPhone (using Prowl, which is a $2.99 iPhone app).
After installing Growl for Windows, run Chanalyzer Pro and it will register with Growl. Then right-click on the tiger paw icon in the system tray and select Open Growl. Click on the Applications icon in the main menu across the top. Then select Chanalyzer Pro and configure the notification settings as you see fit... I recommend setting New Transmitter notifications to sticky when idle.
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Team Great Britain on verge of greatness with track cycling, soccer on tap
LONDON — Track cycling gets in full swing Thursday and the Brits should dominate like no other sport. Sports Illustrated projects Team GB to win two golds, a silver and a bronze in the five events.
But where else Team GB is excelling is soccer. Since they invented the sport, it shouldn't be a shock except the Brits historically have never given two pence for age group soccer which, essentially, is what Olympic soccer is.
The men's and women's teams both have made the quarterfinals and they've become the hottest ticket in the Olympics. Millennium Stadium was filled with 70,438 fans to watch the men beat Uruguay, 1-0, Wednesday. The women drew 70,584 for their 1-0 upset over Brazil Tuesday.
But in this country, the Premiership holds king. And the Brits have long memories. Playing for Uruguay was Liverpool's Luis Suarez who was lustily booed for his racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra. The offense landed Suarez an eight-game suspension.
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Manager Terry Collins hopes Batista clears waivers and accepts an assignment to Triple-A Buffalo. The team dumped him to make room for reliever Elvin Ramirez.
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How Alabama Became College Football Paradise
Alabama head coach Nick Saban's team, the defending national champion, is building the only dynasty in college football. WSJ's Matthew Futterman discusses how Alabama's football culture and a relentless recruiting strategy put this team on top. Photo: Getty Images.
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Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University women's basketball team battled back from a double-digit deficit but went cold in the game's deciding moments en route to a 54-49 Ohio Valley Conference loss to SIU Edwardsville, Monday night, at the Dunn Center.Austin Peay (5-13, 0-6 OVC) trailed by 10 points with 18:55 remaining in the second half an SIUE basket by CoCo Moore. The Lady Govs then went on an extended 15-2 scoring run that lasted 7:25 to take a 34-31 lead with 11:11 left. Freshman Alexis Hardaway had six points during the burst while senior Meghan Bussabarger hit a three-pointer to give Austin Peay the lead.
SIU Edwardsville (9-10, 3-4 OVC) allowed Austin Peay to lead for 58 seconds, scoring the game's next four points to regain the lead. Austin Peay would again briefly lead for 47 seconds after sophomore Shelby Olszewski's three-pointer gave it a 39-38 lead, but SIUE made two free throws to gain the lead for good with 7:33 left.
The Lady Govs did not allow the Cougars to run away and hide – keeping the deficit within four points the game's remainder. Senior Leslie Martinez hit a three-pointer with 3:29 left, cutting the lead to 50-49, but it would be Austin Peay's final points of the night.
SIUE dominated the first half thanks to a 31-12 rebounding edge in the period, including 11 offensive rebounds that it turned into 13 second-chance points. Austin Peay did not help its cause when it went over eight minutes without a field goal in the period, but saw SIUE expand its lead to only nine points during that span. The Cougars would settle for a 27-19 halftime advantage.
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At a ceremony held at the Denver Art Museum, Mountain States regional office of the Anti-Defamation League presented its 2014 Civil Rights Awards to House Speaker Mark Ferrandino and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Ferrandino was honored for championing passage of the Colorado Civil Union Act in 2013, making Colorado one of 20 states, plus the District of Columbia, to offer recognition to same-sex couples.
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You know for First timers they are the best all female team ever. Charla and Mirna finished 6th before all-stars. Lyn and Karlyn 3rd and Dustin and Kandice 4th so that makes them the best All-Female team ever!
You never know. Dustin & Kandice won the most legs of any all-female team. Debbie & Bianca looked like a threat in TAR7 after winning the first leg, but fizzed out in the next leg. I do feel an all-female team will win the US version. If Zab and Joe Jer can win in TAR Asia (granted, some of the tasks in that season were more mental than physical giving them an edge over Sandy and Francesca), someone from the US can win this version. Dustin & Kandice and Jaime & Cara were close relatively speaking.
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BlackBerry's new smartphone, the Z10, has pretty good reviews so far.
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- You can only look up directions between your current location and the place you'd like to go. You can't look up two different addresses and find directions between them.
- The interface is difficult to figure out.
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Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary race last week to unknown Tea Party candidate David Brat in a stunning upset, possibly shaking up this year's midterm congressional elections. Editorial cartoonist Steve Sack suggests Cantor was bitten by a group he had previously supported, while Nate Beeler says Cantor's defeat spells fear for House leadership.
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The Jewish month of Elul, which preceeds Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, is a time of reflection, self-evaluation and and return. I want to share with you this wonderful piece written by Hazzan (cantor) Natasha Hirschhorn of Congregation Ansche Chesed in Manhattan:
There is a story about Satan, known as an "accuser" in Jewish tradition, who gathered his assistants together one day to talk about the most effective method of destroying the meaning of people's lives.
One said, "Tell them there is no God." Another suggested, "Tell them there is no judgment for sin and they need not worry." A third proposed, "Tell them their sins are so great they will never be forgiven."
"No," Satan replied, "none of these things will matter to them. I think we should simply tell them, 'There is plenty of time.'"(Chasidic)
When I first read this story, I felt the proverbial finger pointing straight at me – an accomplished procrastinator… But while I've always experienced a fair amount of guilt accompanying my shifting deadlines and to-do lists that never see their items crossed off, I felt the Satan's judgment was too harsh… Can my delays in action truly be affecting the very meaning of my life?
This year as I was doing physical therapy for my back, I discovered an unpleasant truth. It turned out that the very exercises I found the most difficult and painful were the ones my body needed the most in order to heal and get stronger. According to Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, our souls going through Teshuvah, repentance, must operate on a similar principle – "To give money, for instance, is for some of us a molehill, whereas to apologize for having offended someone is a mountain. Now beware if you offer a sacrifice to God, make sure that you offer what really costs you dear, for God would not appreciate a fool's deal".
We may feel the need for a personal Teshuvah all year long, but our tradition really makes us face the challenge in the 40 day stretch from the beginning of Elul until Neilah* . This time period seems to highlight both a search for the meaning of it all, and a sense of urgency – the Book will be sealed, the Gates will be closed… In other words, our process of introspection must be honest and thorough, but it has a deadline!
The understanding that the task of true Teshuvah can't be easy by definition, combined with the finite amount of time to accomplish it, can feel simply overwhelming. The one Gate that is the most difficult for me to enter, may be the only one leading me to my higher self… Even with 40 days to go, how can I hope to find a way in before the Gates close?
Perhaps, given the not uncommon propensity for procrastination, the very existence of a deadline ensures that we begin the process at all… The circular nature of the calendar reminds us that having made it at the last Neilah doesn't guarantee us the coveted insider's spot in the coming year. Each time we must begin anew; to enter the last month of the year ready to challenge our souls and to seek the Gate – ever elusive and yet, ultimately, within our reach. Each Elul, we must begin the spiritual labor with both a sense of urgency and a feeling of hope. And, through this difficult journey, we pray, to rediscover the meaning of our lives.
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The worldwide network of German schools abroad is designed to cater for the needs of Germans who are working abroad and who want their children to have a German education. Most of them are "contact" institutions today and admit children from the host country and other nations, allowing them to get to know Germany, its culture and language.
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The Central Agency for Schools Abroad is currently providing personnel and financial support to 140 German schools in 72 countries with about 82,000 pupils. These schools are attended by 60,000 non-German children and thus have a direct impact on the societies of the host countries. Around 600 teenagers are being prepared for commercial careers in technical and vocational colleges using the German dual system.
In total, more than 2000 German teachers are currently on secondment to the supported schools. In addition, there are more than 6900 local teachers. In 2011, the seconded teachers were financed from the Federal Foreign Office schools fund to the tune of 152.5 million euros and around six million euros were provided from the Federal Foreign Office construction fund.
In addition to the 140 German schools abroad, the Federal Foreign Office is currently supporting 1100 schools around the world which offer the German Language Certificate of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (DSD). In 2051, some 377,0700 pupils were taught German at these schools and a total of around 74,000 of them took German-language and German and international school-leaving exams there.
Some 14,500 of them took the exam for the Stage II German Language Certificate (DSD II). By passing the DSD II, school-leavers around the world meet the German-language requirements for university-level education in Germany.
The teacher secondment programmes play a significant role in ensuring that the German language is now a fixture in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as in the territory of the former Soviet Union (CIS states). There, as well as in the Baltic states and Mongolia, German teachers ensure that German as a foreign language can be introduced and further developed at schools which offer the German Language Certificate and that subjects can be taught in German.
German schools abroad create alumni networks
Around two thirds of pupils at German schools abroad come from the host countries. Many go on to attend German universities and retain links to Germany in their future careers. This leads to networks on which foreign policy, exports and culture can be based. To exploit that potential to an even better extent, the German Government, via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), has since 2001 offered full scholarships to study in Germany to the best non-German school-leavers. Experience has shown that these young students are high-fliers in their chosen disciplines. This, in turn, is evidence of the high quality of German schools abroad.
Within the framework of the "Schools: Partners for the Future" initiative, the DAAD scholarship programme for graduates of German schools abroad and partner schools was expanded significantly in 2008. The number of full grants for study in Germany was doubled from 60 to 120 and was advertised internationally for the first time. Another novelty is the BIDS programme (BetreuungsInitiative Deutsche Auslands- und PartnerSchulen), a support initiative for German schools abroad and partner schools which is aimed at German universities.
The goal is to improve direct contact between German universities and the schools abroad and partner schools to attract more students. Assistance is provided in the form of motivational scholarships, personnel for intensive support as well as contributions in the shape of equipment or travel expenses to foster cooperation with specific schools abroad and/or partner schools.
For German firms the network of German schools abroad is a major factor in the secondment of staff and their families. The schools take this into account and, wherever possible, react to changes in political and economic priorities.
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When we home energy folks decided to identify "building performance" as a description for our work, little did we know what a Pandora's box we opened. This identification now requires us to look at everything that affects a structure's total performance. And yes, that includes the interior surface materials we use in those structures. Performance related to energy efficiency and comfort has now expanded into the kinds of stuff we use to finish the structure. Even if your particular work is focused on energy matters, it requires you to have a clear sense of what is going on in the rest of the structure, because inevitably there will be a connection between them. Early on, our energy work generated questions about moisture control, and that led to mold, which was an indoor air quality issue. Then we discovered that our heat ducts could be the transport mechanism for much of the mold found in our basements and crawlspaces. That leads to the focus of this article. (The presence of basement mold was the most critical finding in the Healthy House program we developed here in Cleveland after the death of infants suffering from ...
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The following is a guest blog post by Anna Drachenberg, Founder and CEO of HIPAA Risk Management.
Our firm has been helping dentists and other healthcare providers with their HIPAA security compliance for several years. Based on our customers' experience, many dentists lack healthcare IT partners who are committed to data security and HIPAA compliance. Unfortunately, this lack of commitment appears to be an epidemic across healthcare IT, and healthcare providers and patients need to demand a change.
In our recent alert, Dentrix Vulnerabilities and Mitigation for HIPAA Compliance, we described two major vulnerabilities we've had to assist our clients in mitigating in order to protect their patients' data and comply with our clients' HIPAA security policies. Our regulatory and data security experts were concerned, on behalf of our clients, with the way Henry Schein handled these two issues. More concerning, this seems to be a trend with many healthcare IT companies.
From the article, "In October 2012, it was reported to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) that all Dentrix G5 software was installed with hard-coded credentials to access the back-end database." Pretty serious, right? The National Vulnerability Database gave this a severity score of 5.0 and an exploitability score of 10.0. In the CERT notification you can see that the vulnerability was credited to Justin Shafer, not the vendor, Henry Schein, and there are several months between the time that the exploit was reported (11/22/2012) until Henry Schein released a fix for the issue (2/13/2013). Read the linked article for more details on the fix Henry Schein provided.
In a time when most industries are embracing security and offering "bug bounties," many in the healthcare IT industry are trying to ignore the problem and hope that their customers are ignoring it, too. Take the recent panic over hackers controlling airplanes. What did United Airlines do? Offer a bug bounty that pays out in airlines miles that can be redeemed for free tickets. Most software and IT companies offer similar bug bounty programs and actively cooperate with independent security professionals. These companies know that every bug that is found before it is exploited can save millions of dollars and improve their product.
I'd like to challenge all of the blog readers today to find a healthcare IT vendor who has the same approach to security. For that matter, do a search on CERT vulnerability database or the National Vulnerability Database for any healthcare software or product you know or general terms like medical, hospital, healthcare. Surprised at the lack of issues reported and fixed? Are we really supposed to believe that the healthcare IT developers are superior to other industries?
Note: The only results in a search I did on 5/30/2015 of the National Vulnerability Database for "Epic" returns vulnerabilities in the Epic Games Unreal Tournament Engine. It is good to know that my video game company cares about my data security.
Everyone who purchases, administers, and uses healthcare IT systems and software deserves vendors who are committed to security. Consider for a moment – the customers of these products are the responsible parties for ensuring the security of the data they put in to these systems. Although the change to business associates under the HIPAA Omnibus Rule puts more liability on some of these vendors, the covered entity is still ultimately responsible and takes the hit to its reputation. Patients, the ones who experience harm when these systems are breached, have to rely on their doctors and other healthcare providers to ensure that the healthcare IT software and products are secure. I don't know about you, but I really hope that my physician spent more time in medical school learning about medicine than he did about encryption.
It's time for all of us in the healthcare industry to demand that our vendors have the same level of commitment to security as the healthcare providers who are their customers. It's time for all of us as patients to demand that these vendors improve the security of the products used by our healthcare providers.
One last note. In our alert, we link to Dentrix's notice on the type of "encryption" they offer on one of their products. From Dentrix's article:
"Henry Schein introduced cryptographic technology in Dentrix version G5 to supplement a practice's employee policies, physical safeguards and data security. Available only in Dentrix G5, we previously referred to this feature as encryption. Based on further review, we believe that referring to it as a data masking technique using cryptographic technology would be more appropriate. Regardless of what you call it…"
To your clients, it matters what the federal government "calls" it, and they don't call it encryption.
About Anna Drachenberg
Anna Drachenberg has more than 20 years in the software development and healthcare regulatory fields, having held management positions at Pacificare Secure Horizons, Apex Learning and the Food and Drug Administration. Anna co-founded HRM Services, Inc., (hipaarisk.com) a data security and compliance company for healthcare. HRM offers online risk management software for HIPAA compliance and provides consulting services for covered entities and business associates. HRM has clients nationwide and also partners with IT providers, medical associations and insurance companies.


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DogTrackingSystemDirect.com is a website that sells to hunters the top dog tracking systems. These gps and radio telemetry systems help hunters locate their hunting dogs while hunting.
Hunter that uses dogs,
Most are male,
Age 30+ with biggest grouping at 35 to 50 years of age
60% white, 14% black, 20% Hispanic
Fairly wealthy (60,000 to 100,000)
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The banner is going to be on the main page of my site.
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Once the downloads folder is open, locate the downloaded file and run your normal anti-virus scan on it. Once you're happy it's free of viruses, run the installation file. Now Windows will probably throw up another warning similar to the one below:
At this point you either trust me (and my company, Spacejock Software) and click 'Yes', or you click 'No' and delete the installer. That's up to you - just bear in mind I set up this website almost twenty years ago, and if I was offering dodgy software someone would have closed it down by now, wouldn't they? I'm also an author with over a dozen novels in print, and my reputation matters to me!
2) Follow the prompts to set it up. (The defaults are fine)
3) Locate the Spacejock Software entry in your start menu. The program you just installed will have an entry there. Click the program icon to run it.
4) If you get an error message about a missing framework, visit microsoft.com and download the dotnet 2.0 runtime.
* Why are all these warnings pointless? Because dodgy security certificates have been issued in the past, making genuinely harmful software appear legit and above-board!
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By the Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
What goes before a fall? The Good Book says 'Pride'. "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18) What is pride, anyway? The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines pride as 'overweening opinion of one's own qualities, merits' and 'proud' as 'haughty, arrogant'.
Roget's Thesaurus speaks of the double-edged nature of pride. Many people use the term to refer to satisfaction in their children's accomplishments, or to self-respect. But Roget's Thesaurus reminds that pride is also connected to "arrogance, haughtiness, insolence, loftiness, lordliness, overbearingness, presumption, superiority, narcissism, vanity, egotism." Hence we see the origin of the 1960's slang phrase "ego trip".
Why is pride spoken of as the first of the seven deadly sins? Perhaps because pride causes us to forget our Maker: "your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, the land of slavery." Pride is basically non-productive and unteachable: "Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice". (Proverbs 13:10) Pride is self-destructive: "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom."(Proverbs 11:10) Pride is the spirit of the mocker: "The proud and arrogant man-"Mocker" is his name; he behaves with overweening pride." (Proverbs 21:24). In High School, many 'Big Men on Campus' become proud and mocking while they are 'the big fish in a small pond'. But things change when they go into the real world. Pride goes before a fall.
The most difficult thing about pride is that it is like bad breath: easy to detect in others, and hard to detect in ourselves. Pride has to do with a sense of entitlement, that we deserve everything that we have, that the world owes us a living. The most famous human being once said in Mark 7:22 that pride comes from within our hearts and actually makes us unclean (non-kosher). Pride separates from others, by seducing us into thinking that we are better than others. Pride is the root cause of every caste system, every class system, and every system of racial hatred. That is why the Good Book says: "Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited." (Romans 12:16) Pride goes before a fall.
Pride makes it very difficult to admit our need for anyone else, even God himself. Pride feeds the illusion that we are completely independent and self-sufficient. That is why Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God's Kingdom. Yet real breakthrough happens when we admit our need, our helpless and powerless over life's struggles.
CS Lewis' wife, Joy Davidman, resisted her need for God for many years. She writes: "God had been stalking me for a very long time, waiting for his moment; he crept nearer so silently that I never knew he was there. Then, all at once, he sprang. For the first time in my life I felt helpless; for the first time my pride was forced to admit that I was not, after all, 'the master of my fate'."
Pride and humility are total opposites. That is why both James and Peter quote Proverbs 3:10 that "God opposes and resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Let me ask you a question: Do we really want the Maker of the Universe to be opposing and resisting us? Yet that is what is guaranteed if we don't deal with the pride issue. God will resist us at work, at home, in society. Pride may not be a big deal to us, but it certainly is to God. Why is God so opposed to pride? Because it cripples our ability to really love others around us. As the famous poem in 1st Corinthians 13 puts it, love is not proud. Why are so many people successful in business and failures at home? Pride goes before a fall.
Pride, like alcohol addiction, is cunning, baffling, and powerful. It is almost impossible to destroy head-on. The secret to taming one's pride is gratitude and thanksgiving. As John Fischer puts it, "a thankful heart cancels out pride and arrogance. No need to judge other people when you are thankful for who you are. No need to measure yourself by and compare yourself to others when you are thankful for what God has done in your life." Gratitude is a deep sense that life is a gift from a gracious giver. Gratitude is best expressed by the ancient words: "All things come from You, O Lord, and of your own have we given You."
My prayer for those reading this article is that each of us will gratefully lay our pride and self-sufficiency down at the foot of our Maker.
The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, BSW, MDiv, DMin
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Here is what Dr. Colin Read, Prof. of History, Huron University College, London, Ontario has to say about David Porter's new book From Almondsbury to Aylmer: The Pearce Letters.
History is about the great, the good, and the not-so-good: kings and queens, prime ministers, prelates, merchant princes, and the like. David Porter's From Almondsbury to Aylmer: The Pearce Letters provides yet another powerful antidote to this tired and tiresome argument and hence should be read widely, especially by the historical illiterate, too many of whom occupy positions of power. Those who would argue, for example, that Sir John A. "built" the Canadian Pacific Railway, even though he worked not at all on it, not even swinging the sledge hammer that drove the last spike, would benefit mightily from immersing themselves in this well-produced, well-written, well-illustrated, well-mapped volume about "ordinary folk" on either side of the Atlantic who, like unrecorded multitudes, led lives of consequence. The ordinary is ever significant.
The principals of Porter's piece are, in the first instance, William and Emma Pearce who left the southwest of England in 1852, settling, first, in Malahide in Elgin County, where they joined, according to the 1851-2 census, 176 others from England and Wales then in that township. Chain migration had played its part in their coming, as friends had preceded them and made them aware of the possibilities inherent in the new land. Pushed by the prospect of landlessness in Almondsbury and attracted by the pull of real property, William and Emma struck deep roots in Elgin, eventually acquiring a farm in the west part of Yarmouth, not far from Aylmer. With deft strokes, author/editor Porter sets the scene, establishes needed context, tells the tale, and provides genealogical data. The key part of his book, however, consists of the twenty-five letters discovered in the 1960s between the Pearces and their English relatives, especially William Pearce senior. Though nibbled by mice, these letters provide a rich banquet for those interested in real people who populated a world that is receding in time and memory yet connected still to the present.
On the latter score, does any of this sound familiar?: the call of greener pastures with its promise of land and prosperity, the heartbreak involved in family members leaving for distant places, the fragility of life, the search for solace in the face of death through the promise of life eternal in heaven in company with the newly-departed. All this and more, as the author/editor points out, is to be found in these letters. Particularly poignant is the family falling-out that developed over a small bequest left to William by his departed father, despite the elder William's having done all he could to assure that his three sons would be treated fairly. The journey to this particular family hell was clearly paved with good intentions.
From Almonsbury to Aylmer provides the stuff of lives lived, far more than do many accounts that have those deemed "historically important" swaggering upon the world's stage.
For an index of names in the book see the Elgin OGS web site page on the book.


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