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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Wow - we made it home for the holiday! Our family here kept worrying about whether we would make it home in time for Thanksgiving - we kept telling the PA's and nurses @ Swedish to set extra places @ the table for us! I still can't believe I'm home! Can't kiss Mark - since my bottom lip is extremely swollen!
The great news is - I think I finally stopped oozing, so I don't have to keep dabbing that area anymore. You cannot imagine what a relief that is - that was getting old, keeping an eye on that to make sure it didn't create another wound! Whew!
Thought you might enjoy some more photos of our confinment @ Swedish! Take Care!
P.S. Justin was absolutely the best nurse I had on the 4th Floor! He is one of those people that love their job and do it well! Celia still has a couple photos that I would like to share - but we'll do that later! Courtney was also a great nurse - she was very easygoing! Then of course once I was moved to the 6th Floor, (Monday) I got to see Saba! She always asks for Mark! I also had another excellent nurse on this floor that I had had before - Dave! He was on my "dream team" my first emboization - sorry didn't get a photo!
My Sister ... (Chapter 2)
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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My Sister, my Friend - Chapter One (chapter)?
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Greetings to everyone!
As some of you know, I was scheduled for an embolization last week @ Swedish Medical Center in CO and that Celia would make the trip with me! I was excited about our trip because I knew we would get to see Shalon and Celia had been wanting to meet her! Shalon also sees Dr. Yakes and Dr. Reed for her facial AVM! We arrive in Denver in the morning, got our car rental and then shopped and had lunch. Normally I see Dr. Reed the day I arrive, but for whatever reason, he was not able to see me.
We finally go check in @ the hotel and found the room was very hot inside! We called the front desk to have someone check it out. Anyway, all night, I felt like my ear "drained" some and I was just not feeling my best! Celia tried to hurry the next morning to get ready so we could get to the hospital as soon as possible! I have a high pain tolerance, but turns out that I had a fever as well and I was just miserable! The ladies in Admissions were shocked to see me crying when I walked in, as I'm always upbeat! Anyway, I get an IV put in once I'm in Ambulatory Care and "wait" to see what is going to happen. I felt so rotten, I didn't even want to hold Saba or anything. Turns out since I had a fever - that my procedure was canceled! That was fine by me - I was very anxious about finding out why my left eye gets puffy! After being admitted, Dr. Yakes ordered me having an ultrasound and a CT Scan of my avm area.
Dr. Reed - Head of Voice & Swallow Inst. (that I didn't get to see @ his office the day before) came by my hospital room the next morning and did an exam. Yeah, that long scope up my nose (twice!), so I told him, "I don't like you anymore Dr. Reed"! So @ this point, we know I won't have a procedure, and the doctors have not agreed on what is causing my puffy left eye! I was put on some IV Antibiotics and was told I would not be let go without first finding out what the problem was. Which is just as well - no one here ever wants to touch me here in town because of the AVM!
Celia was glad to know that @ least I was in the right place to find out what the heck was going on! Our plans changed so completely - but there was nothing for us to do but listen to the doctors! We of course had to give up our return flight for Thursday evening. I kept thinking of more days w/the car rental and hotel too!
Since two days of IV antibiotics were not improving my look, Dr. Yakes group decided to send in the big guns. The doctor for Infectious Disease and Control came in and checked out the situation. He suggested a different and much stronger antibiotic and said we would have to stay another few days! I just burst into tears - I wanted to go home! Celia and I knew I had to be there - but that sure didn't make it easy to hear it! We missed our families! Meanwhile, the lab came by to draw blood on @ least 4 occasions because of the wompa antibiotics I was on - making sure they weren't hurting my liver or something! Do you know the whole trip I had 11 needle sticks? Five of those were IV's! Yikes! Oh! Mark reminded me - that with the groin stick for the angiogram - that would bring the needle sticks to a dozen during this trip!
Finally, we were seeing an improvement in my puffy eye and at least had some answers, but not the one we wanted - when can we go home!
Poor Celia, stuck watching me getting stuck w/needles was no fun for her either! She never once complained - she brought in almost every meal - as the hospital food was terrible! Celia had to get us some essential items @ Wal-mart since we had only packed for an overnight trip and this turned into a complete week in the hospital! She really cheered me up by putting up a poster of "Edward" from the movie TWILIGHT on the wall of my room! We were going to see the movie when it was released, but no one was releasing us from the hospital! We kept getting comments on it - most of the nurses had either read the book or had seen the movie! Celia got us some Rook cards, so I taught her to play Hand and Foot. Once we knew we were stuck for a few days, we made the best of it! See photos! She bought me a pink nightgown and even some cute clothes for my bears!
Did I mention that on some mornings it was 27 degrees and Celia had to scrape ice off the windshield - that is not the norm for us in S. Texas! I never left the room once I got in the hospital, so I didn't share in some of the "fun" she was having! There is a Greek restaurant that she brought in food from - also from Ricos Pizzeria - yum! Whole Foods Mart also became a frequent stop for food - it's not far from the hotel.
Ok, back to the miserable part were were experiencing. I wanted my dressing changed on my face because I had been wearing the same one already a few days. I could just tell that some of the nurses would not know what to do, so I got them to page the wound care therapist @ Swedish that has helped me before. Well, I had a bleed while she was trying to change it out! I was sooo disappointed in how that was done! One of the nurses got scared when she saw all the blood on a towel that the therapist was using to stop the flow of blood. By the following day, I told Celia that between she and I we would change my dressing better on our own. We were eating lunch, when ... you guessed it! Another bleed! The nurse on duty that day was impressed @ how quickly I got it stopped. We got all my supplies and got it redressed! Whew! I had been put on the Cardiac Floor as that is the only room that was available! Last time I had an embo - I stayed in recovery because there was no room! I had asked if a room came open I wanted to be moved to where more of the nurses had experience w/Dr. Yakes patients!
I knew Shalon was in the area - she was arriving the day I was to be discharged. I called her on her cell phone and she said she would stop by w/her sister Taryn before going to see Dr. Reed! Well, right before she stopped by, is when I had that bleed! See photo of Shalon and myself!
I want to say it was that night, that Dr. Yakes P.A., Rhonda came by and said since I was doing so much better as far as the puffy eye and no more fever - to get more "bang for my buck" I should go ahead and have a procedure in the morning! We opted to go for it - because if I hadn't, then I would let the avm get ahead and we're the ones that need to keep ahead of it!
Monday morning, I was moved to a room on the 6th floor, so my tech got to be Saba! See photo of Saba w/namesake! I would be taken to OR right from my room and then brought back there after the embolization. Rhonda said she would suggest to Dr. Yakes that he go easy on me due to my trauma I just had w/the puffy eye. No, he goes there and hits me with 22 cc's of alcohol! I heard I lost 10 cc's of blood during the procedure. I remember being in recovery and Dr. Yakes stopped by my bed and asked how I was, saying I was his sweetheart. Dr. Yakes was telling this to Rick (my favorite Recovery Room Nurse) who also claimed I was his sweetheart. Ok guys, I know what you're doing! One hits w/the ammunition and the other has to soften the blow! I could not have endured this much alcohol after what I'd already been through, if Rick hadn't been right there for me! He is very conscientious of my comfort level, thirst and pain level! Thanks so much Rick - you are awesome!
So ... back to the room and I still couldn't believe how much alcohol Dr. Yakes used! My eye was completely swollen shut (here I had just gotten it open from the trauma I had just got through w/the skin infection)! Did I forget to tell you that Dr. Yakes also did an angiogram - he usually does that every 3rd visit, but I just had it done last time! That means haveing to lay still in bed w/out bending my leg @ all until they tell me I can get up!
So, since I'm usually kept overnight for observation, I knew we could leave in the morning! Celia goes back to the hotel for the night. In the morning, she repacks everything, gets my prescription(s) filled and then comes to pick me up! We head out to return the car rental and catch their shuttle to the airport. We had just gotten off the shuttle when it took off w/my carry on bag! Yikes! Celia was able to get it back - so we went inside and started trying to get through security! We were flagged because our tickets had been purchased so quickly and only one way. We were dying to just get on the plane and get home - not having to have all these special screenings! My face is oozing some alcohol from an injection site, and if I don't keep dabbing it, it will burn a new wound in the area! With all that to worry about, and Celia making sure I'm ok while she carrys 2 totes from Whole Foods, my carry on and her purse, plus my eye shut - I just wanted to stop the insanity! So... finally, finally we have landed in Houston, where by the way we had to switch airlines, so we got them to ride us around in one of those carts - otherwise there was no way to make it w/all our junk! Had to go through security once more! Not too bad this time. Couldn't believe when we actually landed and had arrived in Corpus Christi! As we deplaned, I bumped my chest into the seat in front of me or something, and one of the lenses popped out of my glasses! Never did find it, so now I have to go get some new frames! I just wanted to be home with my husband for some love and comfort after our ordeal! I was happy to see all the Fossums be there for my sister Celia! It was great to see her boys and of course Greg! Mom and Vicente made it to the airport w/my Mark as well!
I remember laughing w/a co-worker a while back, about those items @ the store, about items that said, "My sister, my friend" - and wondered whether I would one day be @ that place, feeling that way about Celia. Well, I can honestly that day finally arrived after so many years. I told Greg never to underestimate his wife - she was a real trouper for me when I was so miserable and kept everything together! That was one tough procedure we didn't anticipate, but we made it! The longest week of our lives it seemed - but we did it! Thanks to all of you with your prayer, love and support and of course the Grace of God - we made it!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I have a lot to be grateful for so .... goodnight!
Cyndi Schuman
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Embolization time!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Hi Family and Friends!
How is everyone? I'm almost ready to leave again for Colorado! This time, Celia will accompany me! In fact, we will try to hook up with Shalon and her sister Taryn! Shalon arrives the day we leave - but we'll have time to see each other for a bit! We'll definitely take pictures and share them with all of you!
Celia and I leave early on Tuesday morning and arrive in CO mid morning. I can't wait to get there - I have been in a lot of pain lately and the area under my left eye is back to being puffy again! My favorite part of the trip is being wheeled in to surgery and being put "under" - that way I feel no pain and just get some good rest! Next thing I know I'm waking up in recovery and hoping I see my nurse buddy Rick! If he's there - I've got it made in the shade! He will go above and beyond to make sure I am comfy, cozy and pain free!
I usually see Dr. Reed (the head/neck doctor)the day we arrive, but for whatever reason, my appt. w/him was canceled! My procedure will be the following day - Wednesday, @ Swedish Medical Center of course. I get booted out of the hospital the following morning - Thursday! About the time I'm being ousted from the hospital, is when Shalon will be arriving - so we're hoping to meet for lunch somewhere - before we have to return the car rental and head for the airport! Our flight leaves @ 5pm, but we need to be there @ least 2 hours before our flight leaves! I'm already missing Mark and I haven't even left yet! Sniff, sniff, boo hoo! I'll be talking both the kids with me, Saba and Rulon! Between Celia, the kids and a good book, I should survive missing Mark so much! Never mind the needles, alcohol and whatever Dr. Yakes has in store for me, huh? I love the whole group up there in CO - so I know I'm in good hands! Thank you everyone, for all your prayers and support! Love and hugs to Lupe from choir! I just spoke w/her this evening, she is a dear friend that keeps us in her daily prayer, as do so many of you! All of you should be proud to say you are a big part of a very special journey! Just think how wonderful it will be when it's all over and we can all say we did it together! Much love to all!
P.S. I'm putting in a photo of my little Saba - she is such a doll and I get so many compliments on her!
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Here we go again!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Hi Folks! I can tell you now that this won't be a humorous blog, just a boring, factual one! Late Saturday night I had a bleed. Nothing major, because the surgicel stopped it. Enough though to get blood on my neck and around the neckline of my night shirt! Had a long day @ work on Monday - came home, got comfortable and in bed to get some rest! As usual, if I sit still too long, I'll fall asleep (due to so many meds that make me drowsy), so I woke up @ 745pm to the phone ringing. It was Mark and he was @ the grocery store wanting to know if I needed anything. He got home and I ended up watching TV in the living room, trying to catch up w/some shows on the dvr, and fell asleep! By this time, Mark was in the bedroom, and I woke up and felt that my neck was damp. I could feel the back of my hair was a little sticky, so I knew what that meant! I went to look in the bathroom mirror and sure enough - I could see on my wound dressing that I was having a bleed! UGH! I went to get Mark, we got the wound care bag and got the dressing taken off. Yup - a stream of blood was coming out! I was trying to put pressure on the area, but not before I got blood all over the front of my nightgown! Mark put some surgicel on the area that was bleeding and got it stopped! Got myself cleaned up and my nightgown soaking and Mark redressed the wound. Each day the area below my left eye is getting puffier too. If I can just get through the week, it's almost time for another procedure next week! I'm really hoping I won't have a bleed @ work or on the plane en route to Denver, like what happened during our last trip! This trip I will be accompanied by Celia! As always, all your prayers and well wishes are appreciated!
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March 27th, 2014
Congratulations to Wright Robinson for his award for his work with tamarisk beetles! See the story by Moab Times-Independent below or click on the link above.
Wright Robinson of the Grand County Weed Department recently received The Utah Weed Control Association's Biological Award for 2014 for his work with releasing the tamarisk leaf beetle to reduce the number of tamarisk trees along Grand County waterways. Robinson was presented with the award at the March 18 Grand County Council meeting.
Tim Higgs, supervisor for the county weed control department, accepted the award on Robinson's behalf during the annual Utah Weed Control Association meeting in February in St. George. Wright was unable to attend because he was giving a presentation at the Tamarisk Coalition Conference in Grand Junction, Colo.
Wright started the tamarisk beetle bio-control project in Grand County in 2007 as a test project to help reduce the number of non-native tamarisk trees along the Colorado River in Grand County, according to Higgs.
"He did not know anything about bio-control of tamarisk with beetles. He began following the spread of tamarisk beetles and response of tamarisk plants that summer and continued his monitoring through 2012," Higgs said. "In the summer of 2013 the focus of the tamarisk project shifted to a comprehensive mortality study at 80 sites across Grand County."
Higgs said Wright also closely monitored the impacts of the tamarisk leaf beetle on other plant species.
"He did notice large numbers of beetle larva on greasewood at a couple of locations," according to Higgs. "We watched these plants closely and realized there was little to no feeding taking place on them."
Higgs said Wright's work has provided useful data about the effectiveness of the beetle project, and has also helped quell concerns from property owners and others in Grand County and across the state.
"Soon after the release of beetles in Grand County people within Utah and beyond were saying negative things about the releases. Because of the work Wright and others have done, the impact that the beetles have had in meeting our goal of controlling the spread of invasive tamarisk plants has changed the attitudes of many of them," Higgs said. "We are now hearing many more positive comments than negative ones. Some large landholders actually want to let the beetles do the work for them in remote areas."
Wright has given 15 presentations about his work to professional and general audiences in places such as Denver, Grand Junction, Reno, Albuquerque, Price and Moab, Higgs said. He is currently working with three professors at the University of Denver to publish the results of the data that has been collected by the Grand County Weed Department.
Wright has also worked some on a gall midge bio-control project with Russian knapweed. He will be working more this year with all of county's biological control agents, Higgs said.
Wright will give a public presentation about the effectiveness of the beetles in controlling tamarisk at the Moab Information Center, located at the corner of Main and Center streets, on April 10, at 7 p.m.
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Nov. 15, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The Old Dominion women's rowing team closed out the fall on Sunday at the Rivanna Romp held at the Rivanna Reservior against a seasoned field including host and 2010 NCAA Champion Virginia, as well as Duke and Pennsylvania.
"The racing this weekend demonstrated improvement over the fall," said head coach Dan Garbutt." We will look to find another level over winter training."
The Lady Monarchs' Varsity 8 "A" finished its race in eighth place, clocking in with a time of 14:36.01, while the "B" boat placed 12th in the field with its time of 15:21.27. Virginia claimed the top three spots of the race with the Cavaliers' "A" boat capturing the top finish with a time of 13:22.87.
The Lady Monarchs also had a pair of entries in the Varsity Four. Old Dominion's "A" took 10th in the race, finishing the course in a time of 16:33.06, while the "B" boat finished in 14th with a time of 16:51.80. The Cavaliers took six of the top seven finishes with Virginia's "A" racing to a first place finish time of 15:40.35.
In the Novice Eight, the Lady Monarchs took fifth by crossing the finish line in a time of 17:04.77. Penn won the Novice Eight in a time of 14:58.28.
The Rivanna Romp was the final race for the Lady Monarchs this fall. The ODU women's rowing team will be back in action during their Spring Break Training Trip in March when they travel to Austin, Texas and face the University of Texas. The spring schedule will also feature the Lady Monarchs on the water hosting the University of Miami and traveling to the Knecht Cup, Bucknell/Colgate, the Colonial Athletic Association Championships, and the Dad Vail Regatta.
Rivanna Romp - Final Results
Varsity Eight:
1. UVa 'A' (13:22.87)
2. UVa 'C' (13:55.65)
3. UVa 'B' (13:56.60)
4. Penn 'A' (14:04.10)
5. Duke 'A' (14:05.74)
6. UVa 'D' (14:31.67)
7. Duke 'B' (14:35.73)
9. Penn 'B' (14:38.53)
10. Duke 'C' (14:41.71)
11. UVa 'E' (14:57.38)
Varsity Four:
1. UVa 'A' (15:40.35) 2. Duke 'A' (15:43.64) 3. UVa 'B' (15:50.11) 4. UVa 'C' (15:50.18) 5. UVa 'D' (15:51.13) 6. UVa 'E' (15:58.13) 7. UVa 'F' (16:22.51) 8. Penn 'C' (16:23.32) 9. Penn 'B' (16:25.71) 10. ODU 'A' (16:33.06) 11. Penn 'A' (16:35.79) 12. Duke 'C' (16:47.57) 13. Duke 'B' (16:51.25) 14. ODU 'B' (16:51.80) 15. Penn 'D' (16:56.00)
Novice Eight:
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2. Duke 'A' (15:23.76)
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I had a chat with one of our neighbours the other day. He said he was representing a few of them and wanted to complain about the noise levels and vandalism by Forest people that were in the garden on Friday night.
He said that the old picnic bench had been trashed and it had been there for years. I suspect that it wasn't trashed deliberately as an act of vandalism but more an accident. Someone probably sat on it and it gave way, then everyone there probably had a good laugh about it. I did look at the garden and it was fairly messy with the bench thrown into the grass, bits of wood lying about, wine bottles and old cans too.
Anyways he said that he didn't want to make a fuss and likes what the Forest is about but can we please be more considerate of the fact that we share this space.
So if you ever use the garden please remember its shared! Keep the noise down and clear your rubbish away. We should tidy this up too as part of our big building blitz.
If anyone sees or knows of a picnic bench going spare or sees one on freecycle please grab it. It would be nice to replace the old one.
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A look at some large recalls in the U.S. auto industry:
_ Oct. 10, 2012: Toyota announces the largest single recall in its history, 7.43 million vehicles globally to fix faulty power-window switches that can cause fires.
_ April 14, 2011: Ford bows to government pressure and expands a recall of the popular F-150 pickup truck to include almost 1.2 million vehicles. Company says it will fix defective air bags.
_ Jan. 21, 2010: Toyota announces U.S. recall of 2.3 million vehicles to fix gas pedals that can stick and cause unintended acceleration. The company ends up recalling more than 14 million cars and trucks globally to fix sticky pedals or floor mats.
_ Oct 13, 2009: Ford Motor Co. adds 4.5 million older-model vehicles to a long list of those recalled due to a defective cruise control switch that can cause fires, pushing Ford's total recall due to faulty switches to 14.3 million. The series of recalls, which began in 1999, becomes the largest cumulative recall in U.S. history.
_ Sept. 29, 2009: Toyota recalls 3.8 million U.S. vehicles to address problems with a removable floor mat that could interfere with the vehicle's accelerator and cause a crash. Recall is expanded to 4.3 million vehicles on Nov. 25.
_ Aug. 2000: Bridgestone Firestone recalls 6.5 million tires. At least 271 people are reported killed and hundreds more injured in accidents involving Firestone ATX and AT tires, which were widely used on Ford Explorers. Safety officials discover tires were prone to losing their tread, causing rollovers. Ford separately recalls more than 10 million tires, and the crisis leads to congressional hearings and the passage of the federal TREAD Act in 2000 to spot safety defects earlier.
_ March 2004: General Motors recalls 4 million 2000-2004 pickups worldwide because their tailgates can break without warning. The culprit: common cables that hold the gates in place can corrode or fracture. GM officials say they received reports of 134 injuries.
_ March 1996: Ford recalls more than 8 million 1988-1993 cars to replace defective ignition switches in the largest single U.S. recall at the time. The switches can produce electrical shorts, causing engine misfires that led to stalling, as well as and brake and steering failures. The problem is implicated in hundreds of vehicle fires, and as many as 11 deaths and 31 injuries. Ford faces multiple lawsuits
_ May 1995: Eleven manufacturers recall 8.9 million vehicles sold from 1986 through 1991 for Japanese-made seat belt defects, because of concerns the buckles sometimes jam or fail to latch or unlatch. NHTSA, which has been investigating the belts for nine months, says it received hundreds of complaints about the belts, including some 90 injury reports. There are no reports of fatalities.
_ April 1993: NHTSA asks General Motors to recall 4.7 million 1973-1987 full-size pickup trucks with side-mounted fuel tanks.
_ Sept. 1987: Ford recalls 4.3 million 1986-1988 model cars, trucks and vans, including some of its most popular models. Ford says the recall follows 222 reports of engine fires caused by a failure of couplings used to connect fuel lines. Eight people were hurt.
_ Feb. 1981: GM recalls 5.8 million 1978-1981 cars and light trucks for replacement of two bolts that could fail and send the vehicles out of control. The automaker says it had received reports of 27 accidents that resulted in 22 injuries, none of them serious.
_ 1980: The U.S. government allows Ford to mail warning labels to owners of more than 20 million 1970-1980 cars and light trucks with automatic transmissions that can slip into reverse, thus avoiding the largest safety recall in automotive history. The dashboard stickers advise drivers not to leave the vehicle with the engine running, to use the parking brake and to make sure the transmission has been placed in park. However, NHTSA considers the warnings a recall. NHTSA finds that slipping transmissions caused 6,000 accidents resulting in 1,710 injuries and 98 deaths.
_ 1973: GM recalls 3.7 million cars from 1971-1972 due to an engine shield problem that could cause stones to lodge in the steering mechanism.
_ 1972: Ford recalls more than 4 million 1970-1971 models because the shoulder belts could break free of the buckle.
_ 1971: GM recalls 6.7 million 1965-1969 Chevrolets to fix faulty engine mounts.
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Curator Adam Rosen writes "Happy 30th Birthday" using version 1 of MacPaint on an original 128K Macintosh computer at the Vintage Mac Museum in Malden, Mass., Jan. 18, 2014, ahead of the 30th anniversary of the original Macintosh computer.
On Jan. 24, 1984, Apple launched the very first model of its now-famous Macintosh personal computer. The Macintosh 128K retailed for $2,495.
Read on to see how the Mac has evolved in the last three decades.
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Thirty years ago, Apple released the Macintosh, and the company was never the same.
The model pictured here is actually the Macintosh 512k, which nearly identical to the original Macintosh introduced in January 1984, but with an increase in memory from the 128K shipped on the original model, earning it the nickname "Fat Mac."
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The next evolution to the Macintosh form factor was the Macintosh SE, which brought dual floppy disk drives to the Mac and dropped that phone cord port on the lower front panel in 1987.
A later revision to this design, the SE/30, was voted as the "Best Mac Ever" by a panel of Macworld contributors.
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At the same time, Apple eschewed multicolor designs in the consumer desktop category with the introduction of the white plastic iMac G4 in January 2002.
This model also introduced the concept of a flat-panel display atop a flexible arm and base, which held the electronics.
This striking design holds the most powerful computer Apple had ever made at the point it was introduced in 2003. That design was required, however, because of the significant heat thrown off by the G5 processor.
Apple and IBM were unable to crank the G5 processor up to 3GHz as Jobs had promised, setting the stage for Apple's second great architecture shift.
Apple's attempt at minimalism surfaced with the Mac Mini in 2005, a small spare box sold with no peripherals for just $499.
The Mac Mini has never been a huge seller, but it is a favorite of Mac hobbyists who like to modify their machines or use them as home-entertainment servers.
The 2008 version of Apple's MacBook lineup was based on a new unibody design cut from a single block of aluminum. Also noteworthy is the single-button trackpad, in which the trackpad itself is the mouse button.
The dynamic design revision of the Apple Mac Pro, which went on sale at the end of 2013, has been compared to many things.
The basic model of the distinctive workstation includes a 3.7 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with a 10MB memory cache, 12GB of 1866MHz DDR3 error-correcting memory, dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics chips with 2GB of video memory each, and a 256GB SSD whose flash memory is connected via the PCI Express bus for faster performance than ordinary SATA-connected SSDs.
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I loved this pillow from Rue Magazine,
and made a copycat version in purple.
There's my styling assistant again :)
You are so clever. I love to read your blog:)ReplyDelete
It's looking so good! $12 sounds like a job for a can or two of paint, and bunches of goodwill frames =) Can't wait to see how it turns out!ReplyDelete
Her room looks awesome so far, love the pillows!ReplyDelete
i REALLY like that you threw the purple in there. not for maddie's sake, but it would have been boring to have the obvious coral or something. very chic.ReplyDelete
You did a great job with the pillows and your fabric choices are perfect; you have such a great eye for color in all your projects, sewing and painting alike. I recently made my first pillow and was able to tackle the zipper issue because I found a great tutorial that I believe may show an unorthodox tip for zippers that makes it sew easy ... its posted on my blog under "Pillows Made By Me".
love it love the color... you should watch a youtube video on invisible zippers... super easy they just look scary, they are the only kind of zippers i do now.ReplyDelete
I do the same thing with envelopes and money stashes for projects...it keeps u on budget and forces u to be creative!ReplyDelete
This room turned out beautifully! I love the "love" pillow!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing! What a perfect room for a perfect cutie pie!ReplyDelete
Love it all! The room looks perfectly lovely.
P.S. Will you please teach me to sew so I can be amazing like you? ;)
love it!ReplyDelete
and i agree with lisa's commentReplyDelete
I love the room! It's beautiful. Good for you for sticking to the budget. It's not always easy to do. Your daughter is adorable.ReplyDelete
I love making pillows and this one is really cute! I love the "love" font too!ReplyDelete
her room looks amazing, nat! great job! and i do all my pillows that way...i'm super lazy with that. but it works swell. i love the love pillow!ReplyDelete
Wow, I love what you did with your daughter's room! It's so peaceful and pretty! She's adorable, too. :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Loving your LOVE pillow... very sweet room :)
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This is beautiful! I'd love for you to join my brand new linky party! http://www.coffeeandtheirkisses.com/2011/10/stitch-n-niche-saturdays-linky-party-1.htmlReplyDelete
LOVE your "love" pillow. I'm intimated by sewing zippers as well. You're not the only one!ReplyDelete
her room is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait to see what you do with the last $12. I have had great luck finding great frames at the DI. I've also been seeing a lot of the cute pictures all over the lovely world of pinterest!ReplyDelete
"Love" the pillow! You did a great job!ReplyDelete
Very cute! I love the "love" pillow.ReplyDelete
The pillow is adorable!ReplyDelete
Such a cute pillow! I love your daughter's room!ReplyDelete
It's beautiful, Natty! I love the fabric on the duvet and of course, that PILLOW!ReplyDelete
Great pillow, and the room looks great, thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
What a cute pillow! I used to be scared of the invisible sipper, but now it is all I use when sewing the girls dresses. You tube has the best videos to make it easy. I have been looking for jenny-lind beds for my girls room, the ones they have now are bunk beds broken down and they take up so much space. Where did you get yours? All the ones I'm finding are so expensive.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous room!! I love the colors you used and I am seriously jealous over her spindle bed! Fabulous job! (I found you via 320 Sycamore!)ReplyDelete
Funny - my daughter has the same Dwell bedding and I don't love it either. Unfortunately, she does, so it looks like it may be here to stay for a while. Love the new room!ReplyDelete
HI, do you remember what font you used for the LOVE pillow? thanks!
HI, do you remember what font you used for the LOVE pillow? please email it to me. firstname.lastname@example.com thanks.:) love your DIYs by the way.:)ReplyDelete
I'd also love to know the font you used for this. firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Love the yellow chair the pillow is on..... Where is it from? Looks like that cute canary pattern.....ReplyDelete
I would also love to know the font you used for the pillow firstname.lastname@example.com Thank you!ReplyDelete
Super cute, what's the font? I'm thinking of doing it for a baby name reveal on stockings for grandparents house.
I have been wanting to make this pillow for awhile now, what font did you use? firstname.lastname@example.com
Can you please tell me what don't you used for the love pillow? I love it! firstname.lastname@example.com
I am dying to make the Love pillow for my master bedroom. Could you please email me the name of the font you used? email@example.com Thanks!ReplyDelete
it looks like i have the same question as others. what font did you use to do the pillow? thanks!ReplyDelete
I was so long ago, I don't remember :( Lame, I know.Delete
Here is where you can find that actual pillow.
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The list shows that 17 of the top 20 most energy efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology. The list includes supercomputers from China to Germany and the United States that are being used for a variety of applications such as astronomy, climate prediction and pharmaceutical research. IBM also holds 65 of the top 100 positions on this list.
Energy efficiency, including performance per watt for the most computationally demanding workloads, has long been a core design principle in developing IBM systems. IBM systems are the most energy efficient as well as the most affordable. Energy efficient supercomputers allow IBM clients to realize critical cost savings by lowering power consumption and reducing expenses associated with cooling. For example, clients seeking to achieve petascale performance who deploy systems based on IBM Blue Gene/P -- which is over 40 percent more energy efficient than other supercomputers on the market (1) -- can realize savings on energy in excess of $1 million dollars a year.
The most energy efficient systems in the world for the second time are three QPACE systems based on the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor. Germany's Julich Supercomputing Centre, University of Regensburg and University of Wuppertalare are all tied for the top spot on the Green500 list. The systems each produce more than 773 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per watt of energy.
IBM offers the broadest range of generally applicable supercomputers represented on the Green500 List including Blue Gene, Power servers, System x iDataPlex, BladeCenter and hybrid clusters.
Mississippi State University (MSU) operates the most energy efficient x86-only cluster on the list, which ranks 9th overall on the Green500. Housed in MSU's High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2), the IBM iDataPlex-based cluster provides five times the performance of the University's previous, non-IBM cluster while consuming half the power. The University is using iDataPlex together with IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger, which actually helps to cool MSU's entire datacenter.
MSU's iDataPlex cluster supports a broad set of multi-discipline research projects from aerospace and fluid dynamics to hurricane modeling in the U.S. Gulf. The cluster is the largest supercomputing resource MSU has ever had and will allow University researchers to tackle more complex problems, such as running code used by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for shuttle and propulsion system analysis.
"Our IBM iDataPlex cluster will allow us to accelerate the University's important research -- including collaborations with government agencies and corporate entities -- while minimizing our power and cooling costs and taking up less space," said Trey Breckenridge, high performance computing resources and operations administrator for MSU's HPC2. "This fits with MSU's environmentally conscious mission and ensures we are making the most of the University's resources."
MSU's cluster consists of three complete iDataPlex racks. The average client using three racks of iDataPlex with the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger can expect to save $16,000 per year in energy costs (2).
The Green500 list is published by Green500.org. It takes the top 500 supercomputers in the world from the TOP500 list and ranks them in the order of energy efficiency.
More information about the Green500 List is available at http://www.green500.org
More information about the TOP500 List is available at http://www.top500.org
More information about IBM and HPC Solutions: www.ibm.com/deepcomputing
(1) Based on the TOP500 list announced May 31, 2010.
(2) Compares 6 iDataPlex (504 servers) racks with the water cooled IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger to 12 standard air cooled racks (504 servers). iDataPlex (84 server) rack power = 23.9kW. Standard rack (42x 1U servers) power = 12.8kW. Assumes $0.10 kW-h rate and 24hr x 365 day operation.
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The week after returning from vacation a number of things usually happen. You have to catch up on all of the sleep you missed; you have to get back into the routine of your normal life, and (at least in my case) you have to enter a state of depression due to getting back into the aforementioned routine in life.
Another thing that usually happens in that first week back from vacation is you begin to mentally catalog your vacation memories. Having done a great deal of this I have come to the conclusion that we were brave to go on vacation in the first place, not because of the current state of the world, but because we chose to go on vacation as a family.
My parents, two of my sisters and their families, one of my brothers and his family, my children and myself all went to North Carolina for a family reunion. And while we were there we all stayed in the same house together. Seventeen of us in the same house. The remarkable thing about that is that not only was there never a need for law enforcement, but we returned home still caring about each other.
Some of it could have to do with the fact that the house we stayed in was less a house and more a mansion. We had the chance to stay on a beach house in Nags Head, a small town on the coast of North Carolina. We were fortunate because this beach house was big enough that you could fit my house in the laundry room and still leave plenty of space for a washer and dryer. So, if we did get on each others nerves, we could still find some personal space without having to leave the house.
During a week of being together I think we all learned some valuable lessons about traveling as a large group. Some of those lessons include: A) You have to be patient; B) you have to be organized; C) No matter how patient and organized you may be, you're still going to get lost.
The second day we climbed into our rental vans and decided to do a little sight seeing. Not wanting to become lost and because the men were doing the driving (excluding even the possibility of asking for directions) we carried two-way radios in our rental vans so we could keep in constant communication. Having these radios proved invaluable on the occasions when we lost eye contact with the other van.
"Van One, this is Van Two, we're lost. Where are you?"
"This is Van One, we're lost as well, over."
"Van One, this is Van Two, describe your surroundings."
"This is Van One. We're on a narrow road with trees on either side of us and there's a bunch of people looking at us like we're stupid tourists, over."
"Affirmative Van One. We're seeing the same thing so we should be right behind you."
But aside from getting lost virtually every time one of us got behind the wheel, we generally had a good time. Not to say we had a great time, because in order to have a great time I think we would have needed multiple vehicles, all heading in opposite directions. That's because we were a group composed of adults, children, men and women, which means that no matter what you are doing, there's going to be somebody unhappy.
Which is fine. Because through it all we went as a family, we got lost as a family, and we came home as a family…all without police intervention of any kind.
Getting Lost in Vacation Land
The week after returning from vacation a number of things usually happen. You have to catch up on all of the sleep you missed; you have to get back into the routine of your normal life, and (at least in my case) you have to enter a state of depression due to getting back into the aforementioned routine in life.


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MOSCOW – Russia has banned its airlines from flying over Syria after a civilian plane was reported to have come under an unspecified threat in Syrian airspace.
The ban was announced Tuesday by the state air transport agency, Rosaviatsiya.
The previous day, the Transport Ministry said the crew of a Nordwind charter flight carrying 159 people from the Egyptian resort of Sharm-al-Sheikh to the Russian city of Kazan saw war activities on the ground that endangered the plane. The aircraft landed in Kazan safely.
Russian officials did not describe Monday's threat, but Rosaviatsiya's statement noted that some airlines "continued to operate in the airspace of the country in which hostilities are using missiles."
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Tucked away in the rolling hills of Izmir, on Turkey's Aegean coast, men and women harvest the grapes of Nif Vineyards. It's a young winery run by a young woman, Gaye Ozcan.
"We are such a new company, such a new wine brand," Ozcan explains. "2013 was going to be the first year for promoting and launching our wines."
If Ozcan seems worried, it's because she is. The country's new alcohol law makes it illegal to advertise or promote alcohol "under any circumstances."
"Of course I was planning to do many tastings and events to get in contact with my potential consumers," Ozcan says. The promotion ban is a big blow to her budding business.
Ozcan is only 27, yet she has spent the past 10 years building the winery with her dad. After being the only girl from her high school to study agricultural engineering in college, Ozcan went to San Francisco to get her master's degree in enology — the science of wine making.
While she was there she got a lot of questions about how she could produce wine in a Muslim country. At first, she says, she was a little offended. "OK, yes this country is Muslim, but we are democratic and liberal. I am proud that this country has that flexibility, that, you know, I'm a Muslim, I'm a winemaker, and it's not conflicting," she says.
But that seems to be changing quickly. "Now I'm finding it hard to defend my country in the same way as I did a couple of years ago," she adds.
As Ozcan's team bottles hundreds of this year's vintage Nif wines, she is reminded of how the new regulations have put her in a really tight spot. While Ozcan can court other professionals in the wine business, she doesn't really have any way to get to consumers. Even storefronts are supposed to take down alcohol ads visible to the public.
For wine, it's all about making your brand stand out from the rest, and Ozcan says the restrictions cover everything she could do to get Nif's name out there. "I can't have people taste my wine, to see how it's different from the other ones. I can't talk about it; I can't give brochures; I can't even show my wines on my website; I can't make events like wine tasting," she says.
If companies are found violating the law, they can be charged anywhere from $2,500 to $250,000. Ozcan isn't the only one facing a new reality with the promotion ban.
Deniz Huysal, the Editor-in-Chief of TimeOut Istanbul, said the Turkish version of the magazine lost 20% of their ad revenues because of the new rules. A magazine about life in the city, TimeOut also regularly recommends restaurants, bars and cocktails.
"You can't create anything that's going to 'enhance the wish to consume more alcohol,'" says Huysal, so they will have to be more careful about what they recommend. "I'm not sure how much would entice a person to go and consume. That's pretty broad, you know."
Until they can figure out exactly what could get them into trouble, TimeOut Istanbul's English edition has suspended a popular column that recommends Turkish wines from the country's burgeoning boutique industry. But it's not just small producers feeling the squeeze. The big boys could be in trouble as well.
Raki is a traditional Turkish liqueur made from anise seed. Yeni Raki is Turkey's biggest brand, and is often advertised in some pretty exciting commercials. Ads often feature raki playing a big part in a night out on the town with friends and family, as they clink glasses and sing along to music over the course of the evening.
Yeni Raki's parent company, Mey Icki, is owned by Diageo, the world's largest producer of spirits. When asked about Turkey's new promotion and advertising ban, a company spokesperson said they're still committed to their business in Turkey, and they see plenty of value in their Turkish products. They said net sales have been up 8 percent so far this year.
But it's hard to see how that will continue. Yeni Raki — and Turkey's largest beer brand Efes Pilsen — used to sponsor concerts and festivals. Now, their brands can't be visible in public, or on TV. When images of alcoholic beverages do show up, they must be blurred, the way Turkey does for cigarettes, which is exactly the comparison the government is making.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan explained earlier this year that his government is banning the promotion of booze — as it did with the promotion of smoking — to keep people safe and healthy.
But Ozcan doesn't buy it. She says there are lots of things dangerous to people's health, but unlike booze, they are not forbidden in Islam. "If you consume something too much it can harm you. Like fast food, isn't that harmful? It's harmful. It's like all that fat, trans fat," she says. "Do they have labels? Do they warn kids about that? Do they have any restrictions on advertisement on McDonalds or Burger King or any kind of thing? They don't."
At this point, Ozcan says she feels abandoned by a government that gave her a license to produce something she can't promote anymore. She and the rest of Turkey's alcohol producers will probably have to start looking abroad to sell their products.
On the bright side, says Ozcan, maybe it is a good thing that Nif wines go global sooner rather than later.


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Should European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi fail to come up with an effective tactic to quell market fears over the eurozone crisis, it could make the situation worse than ever.
That could be a tall order, however, as Germany persists in opposing the notion of a banking license for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which has been pushed by Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy as a means of combating the crisis despite Germany's opposition. Amid the controversy, both the ECB and the Bank of England (BoE) left rates and strategies unchanged.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that after Draghi's bold words about protecting the euro last week, markets expect him to deliver some sort of drastic action to do so and to relieve pressure on bond yields, which have climbed steadily higher for Spain and Italy.
However, German officials immediately voiced opposition to the notion that the ECB could buy bonds on a large scale, saying that it was not its mission to do so. The opposition from within her own party makes it that much harder for German Chancellor Angela Merkel as well. She has said publicly she would support saving the euro but has not provided details on policies she would back.
Monti challenged German officials Wednesday by saying that the ESM would be granted a bank license. In Helsinki to meet with Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen of Finland, Monti pushed the envelope with Germany and said in a news conference, referring to the bank license strategy, "I think this would help, I think this will in due course occur."
Monti is on a persuasion mission among the leaders of the eurozone to push for more drastic strategies that could be more effective in fighting the crisis. He had already been to Paris to meet with officials there, and was headed next to Madrid on Thursday to meet with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann had said after Draghi's promise to keep the euro together "whatever it takes" that the ECB should not exceed its mandate to fight inflation. He also emphasized Germany's importance in setting common strategy in the eurozone.
Economy Minister Philipp Roesler of Germany said in the report after a weekly cabinet meeting, in which he stood in for Merkel, "The chancellor and we have discussed it and we are united that a bank license cannot be our way." He added, "Fiscal discipline and economic reforms have to be the way forward. Other ways are not suitable."
Monti, however, was critical of German and other insistence on austerity and surrender of control as the price for assistance to countries struggling with unsustainable bond yields. He attacked the lack of decisive action to bring down yields, and indicated that the repercussions of a lack of action on the part of European officials could include a change of attitude in Italy. At a Helsinki press conference, he was quoted saying, "If the spread in Italy remains at this level for some time, then you're going to see a non-EU-oriented, non-euro-oriented, non-fiscal-discipline-oriented government in Italy."
He also said, "I only wish by the way that all components within the European system of central banks displayed the same degree of respect for the independence of the ECB as heads of governments do."
Italians have begun to turn against the euro as the effects of the debt crisis drag on. However, despite Italy's budget difficulties, Monti said that it would not need a bailout, although the country may want Europe's rescue funds and the ECB to buy its bonds so that yields come down to a more manageable level.
He was quoted saying, "Italy does not seem to be in need of any particular help, certainly not for the rescue of its economy nor for its budgetary needs. Italy may need help perhaps in relation with the slow pace which markets recognize the efforts taken and the results achieved by Italy or other countries for that matter."
Jonathan Tepper, a partner at London-based investment research firm Variant Perception, said in the report, "The question is whether the Germans and the Finns have the stomach for a much looser ECB policy that is more suited to the south, and so far we haven't seen much appetite for that. Neither seems to want to budge."
Finland, despite Monti's efforts, has also thus far been reluctant to support broader aid in the crisis. It demanded collateral for its share in the Greek rescue package and is determined to protect its AAA rating. It has also indicated that it will ask for collateral should a rescue of Spanish banks become necessary.
Katainen was quoted saying after his meeting with Monti, "We have been very critical on secondary market operations by rescue funds as we don't believe that's the right way to use money." However, he acknowledged that the current state of sovereign bond markets was "not normal," and "some sort of European solution" was necessary.
Whatever the resolution, officials at the ECB on Thursday declined to change the benchmark interest rate and left it at its current record low of 0.75%. At the BoE, QE was also left unchanged by the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, with the quantitative easing target at 375 billion pounds ($585 billion). The committee also left its benchmark rate at 0.5%, unchanged from its last meeting.


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Recovery with Internal Bleeding
Have you suffered from HELLP syndrome or had a pregnancy complicated by an underlying disorder? Discuss your concerns here
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Hope her recovery continues to go smoothly - keeping her in my thoughts.
Mother to baby boy Lee born 12/3/2011 after emergency induction at 38weeks following diagnosis of severe atypical HELLP syndrome. Having come within hours of losing both our lives every smile is a celebration.
Baby sister Paige c-sectioned at 38 weeks with no signs of HELLP :)
Baby sister Paige c-sectioned at 38 weeks with no signs of HELLP :)
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Wonderful update. Right before surgery they did a CT scan and there was no longer any evidence of bleeding! She is still in serious shape though.
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I don't have a good answer for you, but I will be thinking of your friend. Please keep us posted on how she is doing. As you know, HELLP is very dangerous, but there are a few posters on the forum who have survived being this sick. It can happen. Thoughts and prayers to your friend.
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A friend has a severe case of HELLP. She delivered her 24 week baby last Thursday when her blood pressure went out of control. She has not recovered well. Today we heard she had a deep blood clot in her groin, that her kidneys were not functioning well. Now she has been rushed to surgery with internal hemorrhaging. I know this is very, very serious. What does the research say on recovery from a case this bad?
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Infant Gradings
12th March, 2016
Event Description: The children from the Thetford Ju Jitsu Club will be grading during their normal lesson.
Date: 12th March, 2016
Time: 09:30-10:30
Location: Breckland Leisure Centre & Waterworld, Croxton Road, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1JD
Age range: 4-8 years of age
Dress code: Please ensure that the children are dressed in their Ishin Ryu Ju Jitsu uniforms and belts.
Last Booking Date: 27th February, 2016
Presentation Date: 19th March, 2016
Special Instructions: We have always extended a warm welcome to the parents, grandparents, and family of our children. Please feel free to bring your video recorders and cameras to record this special event for your children.


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In 2012, Canada's Ministry of Justice established the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia (IIOBC) to raise public confidence in police oversight, accountability, and transparency. The civilian-led body investigates officer-related incidents that result in death or serious injury in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). It reports to the Crown Counsel if there is reason to believe an officer committed an offense under the Police Act. Officers employed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Transit Police, Special Provincial Constables, and Tribal Police are all subject to IIOBC jurisdiction.
IIOBC's staff includes investigators, corporate, and supporting staff. To fulfill its function, IIOBC deals with highly sensitive information in reports, audiotapes, photos, video, location details, and third-party accounts. As of January 2015, over 80 cases were conducted. Public reports only reveal the names of officers and involved parties when those names are already part of public record. In all other cases, the protection of individual privacy is a primary concern.
Internal audits are an important step in gauging the security status of IIOBC. The organization is a target for hacktivist attacks due to its affiliation with government and the nature of its caseload. Recommendations emerging from a February 2015 audit prompted the organization to search for an IT security officer who could evaluate and implement more security products. "When I came to work for the IIOBC network, I took the approach that the network had already been breached," said Richard D'Souza, the new IT security expert at IIOBC. "Many IT managers think their networks are safe, but they don't understand the threats that are lurking underneath the surface."
"Deep Security is a solid product that has many powerful features and is well positioned as a leading enterprise product in the market."
Richard D'Souza,
IT Security, Independent Investigations Office of BC
After coming to IIOBC, D'Souza saw a need for a layered defense to protect against external threats and advanced malware, to protect communications made from desktops, and to prevent targeted email and phishing campaigns from reaching users. D'Souza also saw the need to monitor insider threats, which could range from accidental misconfigurations and visits to unsafe websites to intentional acts. "When attackers are in your network, you need to know when the malware entered your environment, what assets were compromised, and how much data was infiltrated out," said D'Souza.
To protect its virtual environment and add a layer of defense on top of its Check Point firewall, IIOBC chose Trend Micro™ Deep Security™. D'Souza was familiar with Deep Security's scalability in virtual environments from a proof of concept performed at another organization when he was working on that company's super data center project. "Deep Security is a solid product that has many powerful features and is well positioned as a leading enterprise product in the market," said D'Souza.
"The quickest win for us was to roll out all the Deep Security modules and use them on servers and desktops. It was easy to do, and we were protected within two weeks."
Richard D'Souza,
IT Security, Independent Investigations Office of BC
Deep Security had the capabilities to meet audit recommendations, and it was already in-house. IIOBC was using the anti-malware feature on servers but had not unlocked other features of the product. It was also using Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ to protect desktops. "The quickest win for us was to roll out all the Deep Security modules and use them on servers. It was easy to do, and we were protected within two weeks," said D'Souza.
IIOBC uses all Deep Security modules to protect its environment: anti-malware with web reputation, intrusion prevention, bidirectional host-based firewall, integrity monitoring, and log inspection. Deep Security integrates with Trend MicroTM Smart Protection NetworkTM to quickly identify viruses, spyware, and malware. IIOBC can set custom levels of protection based on the latest global threat intelligence for web reputation. "We use a high setting to block web pages that are dangerous or suspicious. If Trend Micro hasn't checked a website through Deep Security, we do not allow our staff access to the site," said D'Souza.
IIOBC added a firewall to servers and put firewalls on all desktops as part of a layered defense. "In the unlikely event a threat bypasses all the layers, takes over a machine, and tries to attack other machines, we will pick it up," said D'Souza. Intrusion prevention offers visibility into attacks the firewall misses. Its virtual patching capability allows IIOBC to quickly push protection to desktops and servers. "We can't patch all systems all the time, but when attacks like Heartbleed and Poodle happen, we can quickly shield ourselves from those threats," said D'Souza. Log inspection satisfies auditors with a record of who logged into the system, while integrity monitoring detects changes in core files.
Some of the IIOBC laptops spend relatively long periods of time in the field. In these cases, IIOBC uses Deep Security as a Service (DSaaS) to keep laptop protection up-to-date. DSaaS is the cloud based version of Deep Security that provides security for cloud instances. "We wanted updates, signatures, and the ability to control each machine in terms of policy," said D'Souza, who expects to manage onpremises security through DSaaS in the future. "Our data is always going to be here in Canada under our possession. But we see promise in moving the management of security into the cloud with Deep Security as a Service."
To comply with audit recommendations and protect the confidentiality of classified information, IIOBC needed endpoint encryption. D'Souza knew Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption by reputation for its ease of integration with Windows Active Directory and its FIPS-compliant technology. He requested a trial, which required importing test users into the Endpoint Encryption server, then deploying the agent on laptops. Laptops were de-crypted with BitLocker, then re-encrypted with Endpoint Protection. "We can log into Active Directory and Endpoint Encryption with the same set of credentials. And the cache works really well," he said.
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Chelsea, an eleven year old girl, who just happens to have severe autism, welcomes us into her life. Seeing kids on the playground and at the park playing games, she expresses her desire to get to know some of them. However, she explains that social interaction can be tricky for her. She clarifies some of the behaviors and challenges that she faces while comparing them with issues all kids face.
While discussing sensory issues, she uses examples that are kid-friendly and might make a typical child think, "Hey, I experience that too!" She reveals the life of a visual thinker and discusses visual reminders that we all use. She explains that idioms are very confusing to people who think in pictures. In addition, Chelsea discusses issues of eye contact and explains echolalia. She helps readers see that she's not so different after all and creates opportunities for other kids with autism.
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One of the worst problems in qmail is that it accepts messages for non existent users and then sends back a bounce to the sender. This is the perfect setup to be exploited by a spammer. I'm using the qmail-tls port configured with vpopmail on FreeBSD.
There might be some patches that make qmail use the vpopmail command line tools directly to check if a user exists before accepting messages but I either didn't find them or thought that using the SMTP Plugins patch is more elegant and gives me more flexibility (It might be slower but this was not a high traffic server so I didn't care).
The SMTP plugins patch adds hooks at all STMP stages and the plugins can use those hooks to accept or reject a message based on the data in the smtp statements sent by the sender.
I used the Qmail-SPP - Vpopmail check user Script written by Werner Maier.
The only problem was that I had to patch the source code for qmail-tls with the qmail-spp patch and there were quite a few rejects because of the other patches applied by freebsd ports system.
I managed to adapt the code to make this patch work and here is how I did it...
First I built the original freebsd port:
- cd /usr/ports/mail/qmail-tls
- make config # pick up the options you want here ... I needed tls, smtpd-auth,vpopmail and a few others
- make
- make install
This will also install the files and then after we apply the spp plugin we just copy the modified file ( qmail-smtpd )
Next step if to download the qmail-spp plugin into /usr/ports/mail/qmail-tls/work and apply it.
- cd work
- tar -xzpf qmail-spp-0.42.tar.gz
- cd qmail-1.03
- patch -p1 < ../qmail-spp-0.42/qmail-spp-smtpauth-tls-20060105.diff
This will give you some rejects but don't worry because you'll fix them with my next patch : [download id="10"]
- patch < qmail-tls-spp-freebsd.patch
- make
- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan stop
- cp qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin
- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan start
At this point qmail-smtpd should have smtp plugins working and we can set up the vpopmail user verifier script.
- cd /var/qmail
- mkdir plugins
- fetch http://www.maiers.de/qmail/vpopmail_check_recipient.sh
- chown root:qmail vpopmail_check_recipient.sh
- chmod 755 vpopmail_check_recipient.sh
Now edit vpopmail_check_recipient.sh and make sure the correct paths to vpopmail directory ( /home/vpopmail on freebsd ) are set in the script.
To test it, connect to smtp and try to send a message to an nonexistent account, you should see a reject message instead of the usual "ok".


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- Businesses should focus less on their competitors and more on alternatives.
- They also should focus less on their customers, and more on non-customers, or potential new customers.
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Adapted from "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management" by Alan Murray, published by Harper Business.
The rapid pace of innovation and change in recent years has led scholars and executives to search for an approach to strategy that is more dynamic than Harvard Professor Michael Porter's classic "five forces." One of the most successful efforts to do so is the book "Blue Ocean Strategy," by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
While avoiding use of Mr. Porter's name, Mr. Kim and Ms. Mauborgne nevertheless attack him head on, arguing that the "five forces" analysis is a formula for remaining in "red oceans," where the sharks compete mercilessly for the action. The key to exceptional business success, they say, is to redefine the terms of competition and move into the "blue ocean," where you have the water to yourself. The goal of these strategies is not to beat the competition, but to make the competition irrelevant.
Among the examples they cite is Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian company that redefined the dynamics of a declining circus industry in the 1980s. Under conventional strategy analysis, the circus industry was a loser. Star performers had "supplier power" over the company. Alternative forms of entertainment, from sporting events to home entertainment systems, were relatively inexpensive and on the rise. Moreover, animal rights groups were putting increased pressure on circuses for their treatment of animals.
Cirque du Soleil eliminated the animals and reduced the importance of individual stars. It created a new form of entertainment that combined dance, music and athletic skill to appeal to an upscale adult audience that had abandoned the traditional circus.
Instead of "five forces", Mr. Kim and Ms. Mauborgne talk about "four actions" that can help you create a blue ocean strategy. The actions are found by answering these questions:
— Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated? In the case of Cirque du Soleil that included animals, star performers, and the three separate rings.
— Which factors should be reduced well below the industry's standard? Cirque du Soleil reduced much of the thrill and danger associated with conventional circuses.
— Which factors should be raised well above the industry's standard? Cirque du Soleil increased the uniqueness of the venue by developing its own tents, rather than performing within the confines of existing venues.
— Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered? Cirque du Soleil introduced dramatic themes, artistic music and dance, and a more upscale, refined environment.
Mr. Kim and Ms. Mauborgne argue that businesses should focus less on their competitors and more on alternatives; they also should focus less on their customers, and more on non-customers, or potential new customers.


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- An overview of the Excel Power BI Tools
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Node.js on RPi
Node.js works on Rapsberry Pi. Currently, it is possible to install Node.js version 0.6 using apt-get. If you want a more recent version, you will need to compile it.
Install Node.js 0.6
Simply call:
apt-get install nodejs
Install latest version of Node.js
Go to Nodejs.org and copy the source code download url. In my example: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.2/node-v0.10.2.tar.gz
Create a file called install-node.sh and paste the folloing code:
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.2/node-v0.10.2.tar.gz tar -xzf node-v0.10.2.tar.gz cd node-v0.10.2 ./configure make sudo make install
Node that in your case, you may need to change the bold parts according to the version you want
After that, you can check that Node and NPM are properly installed using the following command lines:
node -v
should reply v0.10.2
npm -v
should reply 1.2.25
The compilation will run for 1 or 2 hours on RPi. If you are doing that using ssh connection, you may want to install screen: It will allow you to close the ssh connection without killing the conpilation process. See http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_screen
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Hi, i've spotted that relative paths don't work.
For example, there's a StatePath in config file:
I tried to fill it like
StatePath=.\Saves\ but it does not work. Althought, it always worked in other emulators so I request to implement it in the next version to make it portable to be able to launch it without folders reconfigure from any computer.
The other way to implement it is to include local variable containing EXE launch path, like %regenpath% to be usable from settings.
By the way, thank you for the great emulator you've developed, it has best sound(!) and compatibility! I've compared a lot, the sound is awesome.
Relative paths (regen.ini)
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Yesterday, Daily Item photographer Rob Inglis and I went to Knoebels in search of people to talk about what makes the park one of the best in the nation, as documented on the Travel Channel's new rankings which puts the park at #2 in the country.
We were having fun and enjoying a day out of the office when it came down to crunch time, aka when Rob was force to confront his fear of heights on the Ferris Wheel in order to get an arial shot of the park.
It wasn't pretty for a minute there.
Here's the journey, which of course I had to capture on film:
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