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I have been researching about Speech Recognition and I have decided to take the MFCC approach to solving this problem of detecting whether someone is saying either "Yes" or "No". So as mentioned before (My steps so far):
- Read in Audio File
- Split the Audio Signal into blocks (600 samples, 30msec long)
- Strip the blocks that do not warrant consideration (Total Energy / Zero-crossing)
So I am going to construct the MFCC based on this paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4083.pdf) and it has the following steps:
1) Pre–emphasis
2) Framing
3) Hamming Windowing
5) Mel Filter Bank Processing
6) Discrete Cosine Transform
7) Delta Energy and Delta Spectrum
This makes sense to me (Kind of) and I am going to research into each of these steps. BUT should I perform the MFCC on the resulting blocks that I have already done with (steps 1, 2, 3) at the top of this question, or, should I not carry out these steps and just start from the beginning and compute the MFCC and will I still be able to implement a Hidden Markov Model?
The other question is, if I split the signal into "Frames" (2D vector) will the resulting MFCC be a 2D vector, or a 1D vector?
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Former 3x Krazy emcee Keak Da Sneak is releasing his latest album, Mobb Boss two Tuesdays from tomorrow. The scratchy-voiced rapper who's worked with Jake One and Mistah F.A.B., along with being featured on E-40's 2006 hit "Tell Me When To Go" spoke briefly to HipHopDX on the album.
"[Mobb Boss] is dropping on [May] 18th through Yurps World [Entertainment] and Select-O-Hits. From start to finish, this album slaps with all the beats from my platinum homey Big Hollis," said Keak. Hollis, also a rapper, has worked extensively with Bad Azz, MC Eiht and Layzie Bone.
Keak will reunite with Welcome To Skokland collaborator, and fellow '90s Bay Rap veteran San Quinn on Mobb Boss. "I got San Quinn on two songs on this album, but I don't have a lot of features on this project, so my fans can get to hear more of Keak."
The rapper added that he may return to his 3x Krazy roots. "Right now, we are looking at the possibility of doing another 3x Krazy album this year too." Although Keak was tight-lipped about the details of reuniting with B.A. and Agerman, the group has been out of commission from releasing albums since 2000. The trio spent the second half of the '90s releasing three LPs and one EP, featuring appearances from The Luniz, Swoop G and the late Seagram.

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A leading pro-government activist was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand's northeast, a stronghold of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as a state of emergency began in the capital where protesters are trying to force her from power.
The morning after the government issued the 60-day emergency decree, an unidentified gunman opened fire with an AK47 assault rifle on Kwanchai Praipana, a leader of Thailand's pro-government "red shirt" movement and a popular radio DJ, as he sat outside his home reading a newspaper.
The attack in Udon Thani, about 450 km (280 miles) northeast of Bangkok, is the most significant violence outside the Thai capital in nearly three months of anti-government protests and illustrates the risk that the turbulence plaguing Bangkok could spread to other areas of Thailand.
Several governments have warned their nationals to avoid protest areas in Bangkok, among the world's most visited cities. China called on Thailand to "restore stability and order as soon as possible" through talks.
Police said they believed the shooting in Udon Thani was politically motivated.
Kwanchai leads thousands of red-shirted supporters in Udon Thani, a province of about 1.6 million people in the heart of the country's mostly poor "Isaan" region, a rugged northeastern plateau that is home to a third of the country's population and has staunchly backed Yingluck.
Just days earlier, he had warned of a nationwide "fight" if the military launched a coup.
"From the way the assailants fired, they obviously didn't want him to live," his wife, Arporn Sarakham, told Reuters. Police said they had found 39 bullet cases at the house. The gunman and a driver fled in a pickup truck.
On Tuesday, he told Reuters that if the military attempted a coup: "I can assure you, on behalf of the 20 provinces in the northeast, that we will fight. The country will be set alight if the soldiers come out."
So far the military, which has been involved in 18 actual or attempted coups in the past 81 years, has kept out of the fray. The police are charged with imposing the state of emergency, under orders from Yingluck to treat protesters against her government with patience.
Paul Chambers, director of research at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs in Chiang Mai, said the emergency decree was designed largely to give Yingluck legal protection if there is violence and the police step in.
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Lansing schools are investigating ways to balance the budget by the June 30 deadline. The district says 85 percent of its budget goes towards funding salaries and benefits. That means layoffs are unavoidable.
Lansing is looking at cutting 100 positions, which could include the loss of more than 40 teachers.
School officials say reductions in state funds, rising health care costs, and an expected 400 student drop in enrollment for next year are to blame for the budget hole.
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We all want to change for the better
Change: it's something we all want to embrace, but something we tend to shy away from. We all want to change for the better. We read articles about personal development, read self-help books, and try to replace bad habits with goods. We try to make ourselves look slimmer, write better, sound smarter. We all know our flaws and want to overcome them – but why is it so hard to actually make that leap into becoming the person we want to be?
Change is difficult, and it's cumbersome. When it comes down to it, we are creatures of habit, and we're driven by our past responses; it's incredibly hard to change our behavior when we've been operating a certain way our whole lives. Social change is the same way. Most of us are not naturally altruistic people: we want to take care of ourselves first, and our close loved ones, before we can think of helping all those other abstract people out there. We're taught self-preservation rather than altruism. Our ancestors, the hunter-gatherers, had to fend for themselves by killing enemies and taking what they needed to survive. This spirit, this legacy of self-preservation has become a habit, ingrained into us over the years.
But beyond this: why is it so difficult to get some people to care? Why is it hard for us to begin doing simple things daily to go green? Why is it so difficult for more people to volunteer their time on weekends, or donate to a nonprofit? It's incredibly difficult to make people change their behavior and focus on these types of causes.
Why should you change?
The root of this doesn't lie in habit, though: it's something more – lack of understanding of why social change is that necessary. If you were told you were going to die in a year unless you worked at a non-profit, you would join a non-profit as fast as you could. But the thing is: social change is that critical, that important. Not just for those living in poverty or lacking basic civil liberties. Not just for those being helped: but for those doing the helping – all of us.
Why is helping someone thousands of miles away so important? It's because we are all truly, deeply interrelated. We can't separate their poverty from our success. My success depends on the success of a farmer in India, or a small entrepreneur in Mali. By making the world better as a whole, I'm improving my own life. By improving the economies of developing countries, we here in the U.S. are finding more emerging markets to export to. By helping Somalia establish a stable government and helping Somalian fishermen, we are preventing piracy attacks on U.S. ships. By educating children in poor areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, we are helping to reduce extremist Islamic ideology that recruits future terrorists. Helping others helps us. Good karma comes back to help you when you need it. This isn't selfless altruism: it's the virtue of selfishness.
You and me, we're in this together now
Most of the world's greatest leaders in the past have understood how interlinked we all are, and why we have to work towards change:
"I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern. Not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, although you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all of those who helped you get to where you are, although you do have that debt. It's because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. And because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential – and become full-grown." – Barack Obama
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change cannot be ignored
Ultimately, the world is so deeply interconnected that we simply can't ignore this fact. We all have to work towards social – and environmental change – if we are to save ourselves and leave a better world for our children. The problem is that most people don't realize how necessary social change is. This lack of understanding about how critical social change is and how it affects us all – is one of the roots of why people are so reluctant to change. If we all realized how deeply improving the world and the lives of others' improves our own lives and the lives of our children, we would all be taking more action to change the world.
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numbers of threads: is there a maximum?
is there a maximum number of threads which can be written in a Gauss source code?
it is not unlikely to have 256, 512 or even 1024 cores machines in the near future -- actually they already exist for few happy number crunchers. Then, I would like to scale my 8 threads code up to the same number of cores.
is it possible? or would I knock into the maximum number of lines a Gauss code could include? they are 2500, aren't they?
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There is no limit to the number of threads you create in a GAUSS program.
There is also not a limit to the length of a GAUSS program. There is a limit to the number of GAUSS global variables that you create. This used to be 2500 by default. Current versions of GAUSS have it set to 5500 by default. This number can be increased by the user as high as he or she would like. It is controlled by 'maxglobals' in the gauss.cfg file.


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-Which do you like better ALL INCLUDED pricing, or ALA CARTE pricing?
-What company lost millions in dollars and customers, then gave their CEO a 100% pay increase?
-And How to raise prices for your products or services and not lose business
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1. Is Ala Carte ruining the Airline Industry? Add on fees initially kept the cost of the air ticket down. They have creeped up, along with increased fees. Is air travel a unique industry for pricing? http://www.telegram.com/article/20121230/NEWS/112309994/1002/business
- Lon: No fees on Southwest
- Everyone else subsidzes elite flyers on major airlines. They pay no fees.
2. Double you're prices and see the CEO double his pay. NetFlix CEO Reed Hastings gets $4million now. $10-$20 monthly subs or $8/mo. We can complain, but only cable TV providers might listen — and laugh.
Lon: Consumers need to demand more, people complain but don't change their behavior which is why companies get away with this stuff.
At some point, we all have to raise prices for our products or services. This is a lose-lose situation: I hate having to re-explain or re-sell why I'm valuable at a certain price, and certainly my customers our advertisers here don't JUMP at the opportunity to spend more.
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Catching a hot player at the beginning of a streak is an art form in fantasy baseball. Hot players can single handedly shift a week in head to head leagues while they're able to grab precious points in roto leagues towards the end of the season. Luckily, you're dealing with the Monet of the waiver wire and finding your streaking pick up is just a read away.
Percentage of players available taken from Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball leagues
All stats accurate as of 8/21
Coco Crisp (OAK-OF): 24 percent owned- Crisp has been on an absolute tear of late, ranking as the 2nd best fantasy player over the last two weeks by smashing his way to a .412 AVG over his last 51 ABs. Crisp, known for his speed, has also added two homers and nine RBI over the last two weeks to complement his six steals. Crisp is 20 for 22 on steal attempts this season.
Ryan Raburn (DET-1B,2B,OF): 15 percent owned- After injuries ravaged the Tigers offense to offer little protection for AL MVP candidate Miguel Cabrera, Raburn entered the 3 hole in front of Miggy, enjoying fat pitches and producing as one of the hottest players in the game right now. Four homers and eight RBI in the past two weeks is evidence Raburn is enjoying his time hitting in front of Cabrera. The multiple position eligibility combined with his low ownership makes Raburn a smart add coming down the stretch.
Jim Thome (MIN-UTIL): 7 percent owned- A blast from the past, Thome has provided a strong season for the 1st place Twins after turning it on of late. Always a classic source of power, Thome has cracked four homers over the past two weeks, driving in 10 runs while maintaining a .357 AVG. While the utility position eligibility holds him back a bit, Thome could be a resourceful add for owners looking to add power to their lineup.
Homer Bailey (CIN-SP): 7 percent owned- The epitome of a post hype sleeper, Bailey failed to live up to expectations after the Reds selected him with their 7th pick in the 2004 amateur draft. Flash forward to the present and Bailey has yet to fully reach those expectations but is beginning to show signs of life his last two starts. Bailey has tossed 13 innings of one run baseball over his last two starts while striking out 10 and only walking two batters.
Brian Duensing (MIN-SP/RP): 24 percent owned- Since the Twins moved the middle reliever into the rotation, Duensing has embraced the role and given the Twins a much needed push in August. Over his last 24.1 innings as a starter, Duensing has allowed four runs while pitching into the 7th inning in each of his last three starts. Owners looking for a spot start can ride the hot wave Duensing has provided for the Twins. Owners are advised that his next start come @ Texas, one of baseball's best offensive ball clubs.
Ryan Madson (PHI-RP): 23 percent owned- Never underestimate the impact of clean innings from middle relievers in fantasy baseball. Madson hasn't allowed a run since July 29th, posting 12.1 scoreless innings while punching out 21 batters over that stretch while picking up a rouge win along the way. Owners looking for leaner, meaner ERA and WHIP numbers look no further than the Phillies 8th inning man.


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MARTINS FERRY - Jeff Sabatino could almost see it coming.
While his team led 17-16 after one period, the Purple Riders strained for every point they scored, like they usually do, while the Red Devils still managed 16 despite a rough start shooting the ball.
"We had to work so hard the whole game, while St. Clairsville scores almost effortlessly," Sabatino said. "It's hard to work that hard for 32 minutes and you've got to attribute a lot of that to St. C. because they play pretty good defense, but they don't get nearly enough credit for how well they defend."
The Red Devils (11-2) eventually found the range, continued to receive balanced scoring, and the Purple Riders (3-8) eventually wore down with "fatigue," leading to a deceiving 70-52 Red Devils' runaway.
"In our last seven or eight games, we've played everyone tough until (Tuesday night)," Sabatino said. "We looked a little like the Linsly game where we played well for two-and-a-half quarters and they had more energy than we had. They were in another gear late and that was the difference."
St. Clairsville, which has won 10 in a row since a loss at Indian Creek in early December, took the lead for good in the second quarter and gingerly pulled away thanks to the offensive spark supplied by juniors Dan Monteroso, Riley Carlton and Adam Jeffries.
"You can go through the whole game and point to times where each of the guys we played did something to contribute," St. C. coach Kim Clifford said.
"It really didn't seem like we had that kind of gap. I think the kids understand it's all about the next possession and the cliche about playing one possession at a time is so true because that's what allowed us to sneak away."
After allowing the Riders 17 in the opening period, the Red Devils limited the hosts to the same total in the middle two periods, which allowed a one-point deficit to turn into a 10-point lead, 44-34, entering the final quarter.
According to Clifford, there were no serious defensive adjustments, but it was more about desire.
"I think we just played a little harder and we emphasized that if you're not shooting it real well, you'd better be relying on your defense," Clifford said. "We came out and didn't shoot very well or defend very well, which is a really bad combination, but I think the kids eventually understood what they understood what they had to do."
Monteroso scored 11 points in the first half, but became more offensive minded in the second half. He scored nine in the third and then capped his 33-point outing with a 13-point fourth quarter, which included a dunk off a perfectly thrown lob by Jerrid Marhefka.
For a stretch, it appeared as if Monteroso was in a game of 1-on-1 with Ferry junior Cody Schau, who continued to impress. He scored a team-high 25, including a break-away flush in the second quarter.
"There was a stretch in the second half where we had about eight empty trips in a row after we hadn't hardly any the whole game," Sabatino lamented. "That was probably the difference because they hit a couple of 3s and once it got to double figures, we really had to get out and chase them."
Along with Monteroso, Carlton hit both of the bonus baskets in the third and Jeffries came up big in the fourth, scoring six of his 14 in the final stanza.
"Even though (St. Clairsville) doesn't play that many guys, they wore us down," Sabatino said. "But, I thought we did a lot of good things against a good team, but we just ran out of gas."
Marhefka, who was saddled with foul trouble, finished with seven points. Junior banger Joel Giffin also donated solid minutes on both ends of the floor.
Schau's offense was complemented by Tyler Strama, who scored 14 points. Sophomore Robert Vargo added nine off the bench.
St. Clairsville will look to take another step toward sewing up a home game in the upcoming OVAC Tournament on the road Friday at Buckeye Local. The Purple Riders have a busy weekend ahead, travelling to Indian Creek Friday before playing host to Union Local the next night.


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Join Chris del Moro and crew at the final awareness evening. Live performance by Band of Frequencies, silent art auction and "Minds in the Water" film screening. Tickets are now available. Mission Bay Yacht Club, San Diego, from 5pm Sunday 23rd October. Tickets are $15 pre-sale online or $20 at the door.
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Every year the town of St. Paul comes alive with the flavors of the region during Clinch River Days. Highlights include river and railroad lore and history, photography, symphony and bluegrass, carnival rides and games, educational wetlands, nature walks, endangered mussel nursery demonstrations, birding, kayaking & canoeing, caving and more. Lots of live music, the annual classic car show, kids fishing tournament, contests, magic, civil war reenactments including a Confederate Ladies Tea will entertain and amuse. And, stop by the wine tend for samplings from local vineyards and a craft brewery. For those who enjoy a good foot race, the annual Sugar Hill 5.5K will get your heart pumping.
Celebrate a scenic river that is home to rare & endangered fresh water mussels & more varieties of fish than any river in the northern hemisphere in one of Virginia's newest designated bird and wildlife regions. Schedule a canoe trip, take in a fishing demonstration, or hike on the eight miles of maintained trails along the Clinch River. Nearby is Lake Estonoa, a nationally acclaimed student-based wetlands and outdoor educational center. Many new events and activities have been added to this year's offering - there's something for everyone at the Clinch River Festival!
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PC Tools Internet Security is a product published by PC Tools that provides protection against online threats. It costs $49.99 for a one year subscription for up to 3 PCs.
The operating systems it works with includes Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP.
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I have a class implementing List interface and storing data in an array of Objects. Now I need to write Iterator method for my class. How to get started ? I thought about writing a subclass implementing Iterator interface. Object of the class will have parameters of current index and last index. At each call to next/hasNext those parameters will be modified. Is this approach correct ? But then there is a problem with remove() method, since it should allow to delete object of class calling my iterator. How to solve this ? Also what should happen in iterator() method of my main class ?
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If you're a jetBlue Airways American Express cardmember [3] then check your inbox, chances are you received this email about their Friends Fly Free program [4]. Basically you call in 1-800-JET-BLUE, book your flight for anytime between May 1st and June 21st (book between march 27th and April 21st), and your friends flies free.
I don't have this card but the perks look only so-so. There's an annual fee of $40 (standard for airline mileage reward cards) but you need to spend $20,000 to earn a free flight (there are vendors that give you double points and you start off with 25 points, or the equivalent of $5000 spent). It might be worth it if you're planning on a coast-to-coast flight and can use jetBlue.
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Utilities are deploying millions of smart meters across the globe for energy, water and gas metering and expecting over 300 million smart meters globally in next few years. These meters require networks to be secure, reliable and scalable.
To help utilities monitor and manage smart meter events, alarms, and data, IBM is launching Intelligent Metering Network Management software for greater visibility, control and automation of the smart metering infrastructure. The IBM software taps data captured from smart meters – on service availability and assurance – then correlates it according to policies and thus gain greater insight enabling operational improvements. When data events fall outside the normal patterns, the IBM offering can automatically trigger customer service to create a work order or for staff to review the issue and take the appropriate actions. By doing this, IBM software can help detect and even prevent network faults. Furthermore, with more insight into the location of faults, the utility can manage their services more efficiently with fewer truck roll outs.
IBM Intelligent Metering Network Management provides an end-to-end service management approach with real-time monitoring of the wide variety of devices residing on the transmission and distribution networks. The solution enables utility companies to create a 'manager of managers' by integrating service management for multiple devices and networks into a single network operations view.
To read more about this new solution recently announced at Pulse 2011, please click visit the Intelligent Metering Network Management webpage.
zEnterprise Is Here!
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Yes. I used an exclamation point. Because this is that exciting! (there it is again)
The zEnterprise is, as we call it, a "smarter system." It's fast. It's scalable. It's efficient. It's reliable. It's secure. Most important, it's highly manageable.
With that, IBM Service Management on System z is a single service management engine to give you the visibility, control, and automation needed to deliver quality services, manage risk and compliance, and accelerate business growth.
Together they will assist our customers in innovating their business; and that's what it's all about.
The road to a Smarter Planet is going to take systems and software that can be used to create a Smarter Data Center. It's worth your time to read more about it. There's a ton of press coverage (point your favorite search engine at "zEnterprise" and it's dealer's choice on articles). Twitter is already trending with #zEnterprise from analysts, IBMers and customers. And, I've also put some ibm.com links below.
That said, in honor of the new announcement I give you a tribute to an old Jeff Foxworthy bit and a little something we like to call "You might be a not so Smarter Data Center." (and feel free to add yours to the comments section).
Here goes:
Long Term Evolution, It's The Jam
Noah Kuttler 110000SVNJ email@example.com Tags:  netcool service-management tivoli 1 Comment 2,504 Visits
New York reached 100 ºF yesterday and it is currently 91 ºF down here in Austin.
Which is why "inside" inside is the place to be.
And while you're inside, you might want to be sure to watch the newest on-demand webcast "IBM Service Management Jam- Long Term Evolution."
Here's the abstract on the webcast:
Stay cool.
In the News: IBM Unveils the ISM Library - Smart accelerators, high ROI
Kimberlee Kemble 120000GMAV email@example.com Tags:  ism-library service-management integrated-service-manage... accelerators 1 Comment 3,208 Visits
A rose by any other name...OPAL (the Open Process Automation Library) is now the Integrated Service Management Library, and you're invited to the grand reopening!
Your friendly roving Integrated Service Management reporter
Meanwhile, Back At The Largest Software Development Lab in North America
Noah Kuttler 110000SVNJ firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  software ibm masslab 1 Comment 3,445 Visits
There's a great line in the movie Armageddon where Bruce Willis' character Harry Stamper describes NASA as, "...a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking stuff up and somebody backing them up!"*
The interesting thing about putting smart people in a room. They think stuff up. They get things done. They put people on the moon (and in this case, save the world from an asteroid collision).
Which is probably why IBM has 70 of these rooms for our software around the globe and today we opened the largest one in Littleton, Massachusetts.
The IBM Mass Lab is IBM's largest Software Development Lab in North America. Deval Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts along with Steve Mills (Senior VP of IBM Software) and Alistair Rennie (General Manager of Lotus and the site executive) where there for the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Here's a link to the official press release.
As a customer, what does this mean for you? Well, it's 3,400 smart people in a room solving problems. It's men and women, as the press release describes it:
"...creating software that manages some of the world's most complex process and infrastructure problems such as modernizing and automating the world's physical infrastructures -- from railroads, water management, food traceability and healthcare modernization."
So. To recap. While we can do plenty of things in the IBM Mass Lab, helping the Celtics beat the Lakers in Game 7 is unfortunately out of our hands.
*yes, I made the quote SFW.
TRUE Integrated Service Management Story. Read it. Believe it. Benefit from it.
Jennifer Dennis 110000CSRM firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  rqm integrated-service-manage... #ibmsoftware provisioning omegamon tpm ccmdb tivoli rational and manager rtlm itm rpt architect ibm access #ibminnovate taddm itcam assurance rativo system monitoring identity srm #ibm 1 Comment 5,248 Visits
What I am about to share here is a true story about Integrated Service Management. I changed the name of the customer to Customer because I didn't ask permission to use Customer's real name. So you'll just have to believe me :oD
Oh, What a Better Web We Need
Once upon a time, Customer needed to test the interoperability of hardware, software, operating systems and customer solution stacks for new product releases. Customer needed to coordinate multiple global teams working on an abundance of machines. With thousands of operating system instances in test, Customer faced an enormous management challenge. Growth over time resulted in homegrown tools from many teams that did not interoperate, making data collection difficult. Visibility into tasks assigned to global teams was limited, and often resulted in duplicate testing and lost productivity. In addition to standardizing tools and improving workload tracking and visibility, Customer sought to automate as many repetitive processes as possible, improving productivity and freeing up engineers for more complex testing work.
Integrated Service Management to the Rescue!
The solution for Customer included a RaTivo integration of Rational Quality Manager (RQM) and Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) to allow automatic provision of test machines with the required test configuration, saving Customer manual work and time from request to provision. Additionally, Customer applied Rational Test Lab Manager and Tivoli Application Discovery and Dependency Manager (TADDM) to discover available test lab machines and display the list in RQM, saving Customer test time as all the information is displayed one tool.
All's Well that Ends Well
You can't argue with these results. Customer directly benefited from Integrated Service Management by:
Need to See It to Believe It? Get in on the Action at Innovate 2010.
Visit these Pedestals showcasing Integrated Service Management at Innovate 2010, June 6-10, 2010.
Furthermore, you can attend sessions in the Integrated Service Management track that reveal how to:
Re: In the News: Make your Buildings Smarter with IBM Asset Management
Kathleen Holm 2700009BHX firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  asset-management service-management facilities-management 1 Comment 2,675 Visits
In response to: In the News: Make your Buildings Smarter with IBM Asset ManagementGreat blog about smarter buildings! The Service Management article is excellent too. I'm looking forward to your weekly updates.
In the News: Make your Buildings Smarter with IBM Asset Management
Kimberlee Kemble 120000GMAV email@example.com Tags:  service-management asset-management facilities-management 1 Comment 2,667 Visits
In April 2010, IBM conducted an online survey of over 6400 adults working full- or part-time in office buildings in 16 major US cities. The survey showed that "US office buildings have failed to keep pace with the revolution in automation that pervades modern life. While cars, transportation systems, electrical grids and other systems are being instrumented and interconnected to be more efficient and user friendly, the majority of office buildings remain rooted in the past. As a result, this intelligence gap is taking a measurable toll in lost productivity and unnecessary spending."
It starts with a better way of managing those buildings: IBM Maximo Asset Management.
Maximo delivers holistic, end-to-end tracking and monitoring of all assets, at every point in their lifecycles. It helps make building facilities management simpler, faster and less expensive—thus essentially transforming buildings into smart buildings, capable of delivering their full potential to your organization. Specifically, Maximo can:
Of course, there are many more examples of how Maximo can help you manage your facilities more efficiently and cost effectively, all of which enable a shift from facilities maintenance to facilities management, from a reactive stance to proactive stance, resulting in improved asset performance, longer asset life and ultimately more sustainable - and, dare I say - smarter buildings.
For more information on how Maximo can make your buildings smarter, read this Service Management in Action article.
Signing off for this week,
Your friendly roving Integrated Service Management reporter
In the News: IBM X-Force Threat Reports
Kimberlee Kemble 120000GMAV firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  security service-management integrated-service-manage... x-force 1 Comment 2,921 Visits
It almost goes without saying, but, hey, I'll say it anyway...Security is top of mind for everyone these days, no matter your industry, no matter the size of your organization - and even on a personal level, too. You certainly don't have to be a security manager to be concerned about security, particularly internet security.
Case in point: Which of the following internet vulnerabilities is keeping you up at night these days?
1. Malware
2. Phishing
3. Spam
4. Patches
5. Remote access
Perhaps a more precise answer would be "All of the above plus a few more."
So, how can you stay ahead of these types of threats - understanding what the most critical and recurrent vulnerabilities are and what you can do to prevent them? One excellent source of emerging information is the IBM X-Force Research and Development team. For more than a dozen years, these security specialists have tracked well over 40,000 different vulnerabilities, from Trojan horses to malware to Web spoofing, and documented them in the world's largest and most comprehensive threat database.
The IBM X-Force researches and monitors the latest internet threat trends, develops security content for IBM customers, and helps advise customers and the general public on how to respond to emerging and critical threats. Twice a year, the team releases a detailed report discussing the latest security complexities. These reports are far more than just abstract information. They are actionable intelligence, designed to lead to more comprehensive security and a better business outcome. Take a look at the latest report.
For more information about how the IBM X-Force research can help your organization (and perhaps even keep you from losing sleep worrying about security threats), check out this Service Management in Action article.
Signing off for this week,
Your friendly roving Integrated Service Management reporter
Exploring the Changing Role of the CIO at CIOsynergy
Kathleen Holm 2700009BHX firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  al_zollar service_management ciosynergy 1 Comment 2,200 Visits
Al Zollar, General Manager of Tivoli Software, will be attending CIOsynergy,
Some of the insights Mr. Zollar will be sharing come from the CIO study
The CIO study underscores the fact that the role of the Chief Information Officer is changing dramatically. In addition to being IT experts, today's most successful CIO's are also business leaders who are actively engaged in setting strategy, enabling flexibility and change, and solving business problems, not just IT problems.
As the lines between business and IT blur, CIO's recognize the critical role service delivery plays in how their companies do business and generate revenue. And, as the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, the way services are designed, delivered and managed is rapidly changing too.
Physical assets are being transformed into smart, digitally-aware assets that can receive and emit data and connect with one another, allowing people, systems and objects to communicate and interact in entirely new ways.
As a result of the interconnection of these instrumented and intelligent devices, great breakthroughs in service innovation are creating new opportunities for people and businesses worldwide.
With these new opportunities also comes increased complexity and risk. And this puts new requirements on our business and technology infrastructures.
CIOs are faced with important objectives that often seem to clash: How can we support the introduction of new services while avoiding the disruption of existing services? How can I reduce costs while improving services? How will I balance the need to influence business strategy with the need to provide top-notch IT support? To respond to these conflicting objectives, successful CIO's are blending three pairs of roles that seem contradictory, but are actually complimentary. At any given time, a CIO is:
Integrated Service Management can help CIO's achieve their dual focus of IT expert and business leader. Integrated Service Management helps the:
Find out more about the changing role of the CIO.
Read the CIO Study.
Visit CIOsynergy.
Learn more about Integrated Service Management and how it can help CIO's excel as business leaders and IT experts.
Integrated Service Management in Action
Kathleen Holm 2700009BHX email@example.com Tags:  ibmpulse pulse2010 integrated-service-manage... pulse service-management 1 Comment 2,386 Visits
In his keynote address yesterday, Al Zollar talked about how customers are leveraging Integrated Service Management. Capital Region of Denmark in Copenhagen, is in the process of leveraging Integrated Service Management to track missing assets, improve maintenance schedules and get their company back on track.
Capital Region of Denmark is a conglomerate of hospitals with data distributed across three different storage tiers and four sites, with an online disk capacity of 500 Terabytes and backup and archive data exceeding 1.5 Petabytes.
They have solved their storage complexity issues with Integrated Service Management and are managing their entire storage infrastructure with only four people.
He also talked about how the U.S. Air Force is leveraging Integrated Service Management. The U.S. Air Force defense and intelligence network manages the operations of nine major commands, nearly 100 bases, and 700,000 active military personnel around the world. They are leveraging Integrated Service Management solutions to design and deliver a cloud infrastructure with unprecedented levels of security and resiliency.
It's not just a vision for the future--it's happening now. Integrated Service Management can help your company get past the complexity and risk you deal with on a daily basis.
IBM Tivoli Foundations- A quick overview
Kathleen Holm 2700009BHX email@example.com Tags:  ibm service-management tivoli 1 Comment 1,808 Visits
I wanted to better understand the new
Tivoli Foundations includes two appliances announced on
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager offers turn-key performance and availability monitoring for mid-market companies. It allows them to restore a service that is experiencing performance and/or availability problems with the shortest mean time to recovery possible.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager also delivers real-time information allows an organization to visualize service performance and health across their network, server, middleware and application components enabling them to effectively manage risk and improve service quality.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager helps clients optimize their resource allocation and reduce cost by giving them the ability to identify underutilized resources and reallocate them to support new business operations. At the same time, risk is reduced by anticipating resource over-utilization and generating proactive events and reports against resources that do not have the capacity to address growing business needs.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager comes with out-of-the box best practice monitoring policies that track IT Infrastructure health against pre-defined thresholds. This allows organizations to quickly and proactively identify and respond to problems and issues before critical applications and customers are impacted. Overall service is improved by restoring the service or application that is experiencing performance problems with the shortest mean time to recovery possible using autonomic capabilities to fix problems before human intervention is even needed. Reducing problem determination time decreases cost and allows organizations to spend more resources focusing on business innovation and creating competitive advantage.
Tivoli Foundations Service Manager provides service desk capabilities that allow mid-size companies to handle help desk calls, track problems, and make changes that prevent existing problems without creating new ones. It also provides a self-service, searchable knowledge base that delivers fast answers to common IT problems.
In addition, Tivoli Foundations Service Manager delivers dashboards that provide real-time performance views and out-of-the box content including workflows, templates, key performance indicators (KPIs), queries and reports targeted for mid-size clients.
The Tivoli Foundations Service Manager appliance-based service desk solution helps mid-market clients reduce their costs by optimizing the productivity of operations personnel through its built-in problem solving tools, providing operations a way to increase the efficiency of its service support functions. The robust self-help portal which is populated with best practice resolutions to common problems, gives end-users a way to quickly resolve problems on their own without having to involve any additional personnel.
Managing risk is key to small and mid-market clients that have extremely limited IT skills in-house. The Tivoli Foundations Service Management solution ensures process compliance by integrating standards-based incident and problem management processes resulting in a repeatable and consistent service support process.
Tivoli Foundations Service Manager delivers streamlined standards-based incident and problem management processes that enable rapid service restoration and improved overall service quality. It provides real-time visibility to end users on priority, urgency, and impact of problems, incidents, and service requests. These built-in survey capabilities allow organizations to track and trend overall end-user satisfaction with their operations and creates a closed loop environment where overall service quality can continually be improved.
For more information, check out the datasheets IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager, and IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager.
How IBM Service Management can tame the complexities of SOA
Kathleen Holm 2700009BHX firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  soa service-management 1 Comment 1,888 Visits
Because service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a strategy many organizations are adopting in order to respond more quickly and cost-effectively to customer needs, I really wanted to understand what it was all about.
After reading many articles and talking with a number
of subject matter experts from
Definition of SOA: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a method for breaking down large applications and business processes into smaller "services" and a system for linking them on demand so they can be reused to create new applications and business processes.
While not elegant or profound, this definition helped me understand how SOA
provides organizations with a dynamic infrastructure that allows them to break down large applications and business processes into smaller, loosely-coupled "services" that can be reused to create new applications and respond quickly to customer needs. The result is a simplified, more powerful infrastructure in which services can dynamically scale to meet changing organizational needs or workloads, while reducing cost and management complexity.
With the tremendous value SOA provides also come new challenges. Some of the challenges include managing the complexity of deploying interdependent services, ensuring compliance with multiple service level agreements for the same service, checking for the proliferation of duplicate or overlapping services, and protecting a SOA application and data from unauthorized access to name just a few. Meeting operational goals in a SOA environment requires a new approach.
That's where
I've enclosed a link to an excellent webcast--Service Management for SOA: Go the Extra Mile—that explores in more detail how Service Management can help tame the complexities of SOA.
I-TUP, You-TUP, Were All Up for ITUP
Robert Pickard 060001RDA2 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  itup service-management itil composer process 1 Comment 5,149 Visits
As names go, neither IBM Tivoli Unified Process nor its acronym ITUP is among my top 10. They just dont fire the imagination or clearly describe its purpose like, for instance, Conan the Barbarian or Floyd the Barber. Now those are names that say something.
Yet more than 17,000 people are registered users of ITUP, a Web-based service management tool, which is now in its eighth release. And to be fair, it would be hard to come up with snappy name that captures what ITUP can do, which cant be described in a few words.
For example, ITUP is often touted for its ability to make ITIL actionable. Say what?
Okay, lets break it down. ITIL the Information Technology Infrastructure Library -- is a few volumes worth of best practices on how to manage IT infrastructures, based on hard-won, real-world experience. Many of us in Tivoli have gone through a few days training to become ITIL-certified, which gives you a general understanding, a nice certificate and healthy respect for it.
But the challenge with ITIL has always been, how do you take that general wisdom and apply it to real-world situations at a particular organization? Thats where ITUP comes in. It takes ITIL from concept to reality by mapping those best practices to the people (by their specific roles), processes, information and technology (right down to the names of specific IBM solutions) that customers use, or can use, in their organizations. It serves as a roadmap to help customers understand how to actually implement ITIL best practices and a service management approach and see the real value they can gain. It even shows how ITIL best practices can fit in with other models, such as CoBIT and eTOM.
ITUP is based on the collective experience of thousands of IBM engagements, is continually updated to keep current with the latest version of ITIL, and its free. Theres also a product version of ITUP, called ITUP Composer, which takes customers beyond the understanding phase into the actual implementation phase.
I think an ITUP demo is worth 1,000 words, especially mine, and fortunately, weve got a good one. Check it out, and then maybe we can start a naming contest for the tool. Maybe ITUP the Implementer? ITUP the Eighth and Counting? ITUP the Actionable-izer? This name stuff is harder than I thought.
Pulse Schmulse: Orlando's nice but then there's Nice
wendy whalen 0600014P1G firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  assurance service telemanagement-forum service-provider netcool 1 Comment 2,669 Visits
My name is Wendy Whalen and Ill be posting entries to this IBM Service Management blog on a regular basis. Part of the Tivoli Communications team, I edit IBM Service Provider News, among other things. I came to Tivoli in 2006 by way of the Micromuse (Netcool) acquisition (and to Muse in 2005 via its Quallaby (Proviso) acquisition).
Chances are, you've heard about the smashing success of Pulse, the new IBM user event that debuted in Orlando in May. But another key event for IBM Service Management ran at the same time: TeleManagement Forum Management World 2008 - Nice.
Who cares about some Tele-Something Something event on the French Riviera? Well, many service providers using Tivoli Netcool and Vallent solutions do, for starters. That would be telcos, wireless operators, cable and multi-service operators , etc. TMF is THE major industry organization for CSPs.
So about Nice in May: The Forum announced its 2008 Award Winners, divided into seven categories. We were entered in the Best Practices for Suppliers category. And oh yeah, we won. For our eTOM customization and real world application for T-Com Croatia - beating out AMDOCS, HP, Netcracker and two entries from Telecordia.
We also announced that Canadian CSP TELUS recently selected ReachView, an Alcatel-Lucent company, to implement a solution based on IBM Tivoli Netcool software.This deployment makes TELUS Alcatel-Lucent's 100th customer to use Tivoli Netcool software.
What's more, Nortel announced a new service assurance solution incorporating IBM Tivoli Netcool VoIP Manager, the first IBM integrated service quality, fault and performance management offering for carrier VoIP networks.
How cool are we? We didnt even go to Nice last year.
Is it just me, or does Nice say a lot about how far we have come in our commitment to CSPs in just one year?


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Images: 117th CSSB returns home [Image 35 of 36]
Photo by Master Sgt. Mark Olsen
Brig. Gen. James J. Grant, left, Director, Joint Staff, welcomes home Command Sgt. Maj. Hermengildo Devarie, 117th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard, at West Trenton, N.J., where the 117th was welcomed home by family, friends and New Jersey National Guard leadership from a nearly yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Jan. 20, 2013. The nearly 70 soldiers of the 117th transported supplies to more than 45 forward operating bases and combat outposts covering more than 2 million miles. The citizen-soldiers served as the battalion headquarters for six subordinate units at Regional Command-South in Afghanistan. (Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
This work, 117th CSSB returns home [Image 1 of 36], by MSgt Mark Olsen, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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A master's in political science isn't exactly a recommended step to becoming a professional photographer. But for NY based Amy Stein, it was just part of the natural progression toward finding her voice. Amy's diction reflects her sharp intellect and a critical mind, which translates to the sociopolitical commentary of all her photographic series. Whether planting taxidermy animals in contrived interactions with humans for her "Domesticated" series or combing highways for roadside mishaps in "Stranded," Amy's work is rooted in a solid conceptual foundation. A seemingly objective photograph may address the failure of the Bush administration, preconceptions of gun ownership, or innocence and ignorance in Harlem. And for this she will long have a space on gallery and museum walls. —Kirsten Incorvaia
Q: Did the subjects for "Women with Guns" realize that the series started as a critique? How did the relationships you developed with the subjects change your viewpoint?
I started the project because I was curious about gun culture and wanted to challenge my own biases. I did not set out to criticize gun owners or stage them in negative light. The more time I spent with gun owners, the less mystified I became by guns. The exotic sheen rubbed away and I began to see them more as objects of utility than political emblem.
Obviously, you can't escape the fact that guns are a highly charged political issue in this country and I think the work has succeeded on some level because it is so apolitical. It serves as a Rorschach test for the personal politics of the viewer.
Q: Explain why you grew up partly in Karachi, Pakistan and partly in DC.
I grew up in Karachi because my parents were in the US Foreign Service and they were stationed there during the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto years. There was a coup in 1977 and we came back to the US. I was there during most of my formative years (age 2-7).
I was born in DC and spent my first two years there before we moved to Pakistan. After we returned I spent the next eleven years in DC and consider it my "hometown."
Q: What is your most vivid memory of Pakistan?
There was a horrifying roach attack that still haunts me to this day, some fabulous birthday parties, and lots of great memories with Faisal, the head of house and my very dear friend. But, my most trenchant memory was the night intruders broken into our house.
We lived in a fenced compound that housed all US Foreign Service staff. Each house was equipped with a guard that came at night to protect your home. One night, robbers jumped the compound fence and knocked out our night guard. They pumped some kind of sleeping gas into our house and then used a welding torch to cut a round hole in the flower-patterned iron bars that covered my bedroom window. That night my mom happened to be away, so I slept with my dad in their big bed. My dad woke disoriented from the gas and was surrounded by Karachi police. He forgot that I was in the bed and rushed to my bedroom to find me gone. He freaked out because this type of robbery was common and often the robbers would take a child for ransom. After his head cleared some more he remembered that I was in his bed. I was still out from the gas, but had a similarly disorienting experience of coming to and being surrounded by lots of adults in uniforms. For all their crazy capering the robbers only got away with some jewelry and liquor.
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A Blue-backed manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola); belongs to the Pipridae family (Manakins). This family is characterized for having lek mating systems in which males congregate to give elaborate unique and complex courtship displays to attract females. Specifically, the Blue-backed manakin has obligate cooperative male displays. Males give a loud "pichrr" song above the dance perch that is used to attract females to the dance arena. Individual males may give this song, but often 2 or sometimes 3 males synchronize their songs as they perch within a few meters of each other. After a bout of "pichrr" songs, a pair of males (usually the alpha-beta) fly to the main dance perch and begin a cooperative dance display which consists of a joint backwards leapfrog dance, and synchronized hops with "wrang" calls. After several minutes of a joint display the alpha male will emit a high toned note that dismisses the cooperative display and the beta male flies to a nearby perch; the alpha male immediately performs a solo dance in front of the female for several minutes. This combination of coordinated and solo display may be repeated several times before copulation occurs with a visiting female.
Why males participate in obligate cooperative displays when one partner receives no apparent direct benefit has yet to be fully understood. Some studies have demonstrated direct, though delayed benefits, to beta males which included rare copulations, ascension to alpha status, and female lek fidelity. Other studies showed that non-mating males might benefit from increasing their competence at displays through song practice. Thus, other factors, such as improved performance in song and dance components, are likely explanations for male cooperative displays in this species.
My MS thesis will specifically address questions related to coordinate singing of Chiroxiphia pareola. Specifically, I will test the long-term developmental hypothesis, which proposes that singing competence increases with age and status of males in the lek, with partners converging on congruent song by practicing or copying.
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This former fishing village, nestling in a sandy bay, is now a seaside resort. Not far away, the pink granite ruins of New Slains Castle, built c 1600, stand on a clifftop. Inland is the visitor centre for the Sands of Forvie and Ythan Estuary Nature Reserve. The dunes and mudflats are used by waterfowl for wintering and as a breeding ground.


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That system, in effect since 1935, sounds pretty good -- until you look at what happens along the way.
Once an employer gets wind of the union effort, it begins pressuring employees to oppose the idea, usually arguing that a company needs flexibility that a union contract would take away. The workers conducting the campaign are often fired. This is illegal but commonplace, in part because the only penalty is that the employer must rehire the union supporters with back pay.
That, too, sounds pretty good. But the process of investigating an illegal firing and holding a trial can take a year or more, by which time all the other workers see that union supporters get their asses canned -- the most effective anti-union message of all.
Congress is considering a proposal to simplify the system. Instead of conducting workplace elections, the Employee Free Choice Act would enable workers to join a union simply by getting signatures from a majority of workers.
Republicans and businesses, of course, oppose the idea. U.S. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) is expected to vote against cloture, effectively keeping the bill from going to a vote, according to Margaret Priebe, communications director for the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council.
"So the Senator's position is actually even worse than being against the bill," she says. "He's against even allowing a fair vote on the bill."
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is coming to Cincinnati Wednesday to pressure Voinovich to change his position. Sweeney is scheduled to address 500 union leaders and grassroots activists at Duke Energy Convention Center at noon. For more information about how to support this legislation, call the Cincinnati AFL-CIO at 513-421-1846.
Crew Leaving Troubled Museum
The president of a controversial Cincinnati museum, criticized for overspending while at the same time it seeks taxpayer subsidies, is leaving his job. Spencer Crew is resigning as president of the cash-strapped National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Although his last day hasn't yet been set, he'll become a professor in January at George Mason University near Washington, D.C. Also resigning is Love Collins, the museum's vice president of advancement, who will depart Thursday.
The announcement about Crew's departure comes less than a month after John Pepper, the retired Procter & Gamble CEO who is trying to help the museum solve its financial problems, made the dubious claim in an article in The Cincinnati Enquirer that he doesn't remember anyone connected with the facility ever promising not to seek public subsidies once it opened.
Salaries paid to Crew and Collins have been pegged as excessive by people opposed to the Freedom Center's request to receive city and state subsidies. Salaries for Collins and Crew together totaled more than $500,000, according to 2005 records.
Opened in 2004, the Freedom Center ran up a $5.5 million deficit in its first year. The museum later cut about $3 million from its annual budget and called on Pepper to help raise $10 million for an endowment. Cincinnati City Council last month approved giving $800,000 to the museum to help pay off $25 million in construction debt, and the museum is in line to also receive state funding.
An effort is under way to review placing a property tax levy on the ballot in the future that would provide money to several local institutions, including the Freedom Center.
The Freedom Center commemorates the safe houses and secret routes, known as the Underground Railroad, that slaves used on their way to northern free states in the 19th century. Many such stops are located throughout Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
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This is my first post, so before I ask my qn, just wanted to say how impressed I am with Zimbra so far. It's really an incredible piece of software!
My qn is as follows....
I'm trying to figure out a way to import a multiple line value into a user's zimbraMailSieveScript attribute so that they we don't have to use the GUI to enter multiple mail rules.
I understand that the command should be something along the lines of
zmprov ma <accountname> <attribute> <value>
But the zimbraMailSieveScript usually looks something like this:
zimbraMailSieveScript: require ["fileinto", "reject", "tag", "flag"];
# virus
if anyof (header :contains "to" "virusalert@" )
fileinto "/virus";
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if anyof (header :contains "subject" "hishing" )
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Is there a way to refer zmprov to a file to grab the whole value needed? I tried using '\n's in case that worked (as suggested in another thread) but that didn't work.
If there's another easy way to set multiple rules, please feel free to let me know. (For example, would doing an ldapmodify directly to the ldap server work?).
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No love lost between this two!
Newsflash: A re-homed local mongrel dog has been caught on camera abandoning her pre-loved toy bear. Donna the local mongrel refused to share her bed with the teddy bear, so much so that she was willing to give up the bed to the bear. When asked why she thought the bear too repulsive to be near, Donna replied that she couldn't sleep with the bear there and the human clicking away on her phone camera on the other end. The human cannot be reached for comment.
Not only Donna is rehomed in our flat. Most of Donna's toys including this bear are pre-loved too. When we first took Donna home, she did not tear up her toys on the first day, no. It took her some weeks, but that meant we might have to have a toy budget for her to replace her toys, say every couple of months. I took to scouring the Internet and with a stroke of luck found this kind lady trying to sell a whole lot of stuffies at such a low price, we picked up a whole load off her! She had gathered them so that she could sell them at the SPCA junk sale to help the animals there, but the junk sale was cancelled. Imagine that we should turn up at her door step picking up her toys for our dog!
We never did need to replace that load of toys, Donna stopped ripping them up so much so they were always mend-able and playable again.
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Chicago Bulls and Team GB ace picked as a reserve for the Western Conference team
British sport has received a record six nominations for the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards.
DALLAS left defending NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers on the ropes with a 93-81 victory on the road.
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic were unanimous selections to the 2009-10 All-NBA First Team.
Eastern Conference First Round:
Results from 18 April 2010
The Chicago Bulls lost to the Atlanta Hawks last night without injured Team GB star Luol Deng.
Local hero Dirk Nowitzki can't wait to play in front of an NBA record crowd of 85,000 in Dallas tonight.
Despite Luol Deng's game high 27 points on Tuesday night, the Bulls were overpowered 103-101 by an improving New Jersey Nets team.
The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant were today named as the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday 16 November to Sunday 22 November.
British basketball star Luol Deng inspired the Chicago Bulls to an 83-81 win against the Milwaukee Bucks last night in the NBA.
Germany will be without Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki at next month's European Championship in Poland.
THE NBA will have new champions this month after the Dallas Mavericks joined the Miami Heat in the Finals, starting on Thursday.


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Chennai, India (SportsNetwork.com) - The season-opening Chennai Open lost
its' No. 3 seed on Thursday when Fabio Fognini exited his first draw of 2014.
India's own Yuki Bhambri was leading Fognini 6-1, 5-5 when the Italian retired
on the hardcourts at SDAT Tennis Stadium.
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quarterfinals via walkover when Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu pulled out of their
scheduled match, and sixth-seeded Spaniard Marcel Granollers handled Indian
Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-4 to reach the round of eight.
Chennai serves as a tune-up for the Australian Open.
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The Chubb Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals. The company operates through three segments: Personal Insurance, Commercial Insurance, and Specialty Insurance. The company is member of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index.Chubb has increased dividends for 45 years in a row. The company announced a 5.70% dividend increase in February 2010, plus a 14 million share repurchase initiative.
Over the past decade this dividend stock has delivered an average total return of 5.90% annually.
The company has managed to deliver a 13.30% average annual increase in its EPS between 2000 and 2009. Chubb is expected to earn $5.30 share in FY 2010, followed by $5.60/share in FY 2011.
The Return on Equity has remained around 15% for the latter part of the last decade, after falling to as low as 2% earlier. Rather than focus on absolute values for this indicator, I generally want to see at least a stable return on equity over time.
Annual dividends have increased by an average of 8.70 % annually since 2000, which is slower than the growth in EPS. The disparity is mostly due to a gradual decrease in the dividend payout ratio and the billions of dollars the insurer has spent on stock buybacks.A 9 % growth in dividends translates into the dividend payment doubling almost every eight years. If we look at historical data, going as far back as 1984, Chubb has actually managed to double its dividend payment every nine years on average.
The dividend payout ratio has been on the decline, and is still much lower than my 50% threshold. 2001 and 2002 stick as outliers, since earnings per share were lower on high underwriting combined ratios. A lower payout is always a plus, since it leaves room for consistent dividend growth minimizing the impact of short-term fluctuations in earnings.
Currently Chubb is trading at 9.20 times earnings, yields 3.10% and has an adequately covered dividend payment. In comparison rival Travelers Cos (TRV) trades at a P/E multiple of 8 and yields 2.90% , while Cincinnati Financial (CINF) trades at a P/E multiple of 9 and yields 5.90%. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is also a competitor to Chubb(CB), although it trades at a P/E of 22, and does not pay a dividend. The company does spend a lot of its cash flow on stock buybacks, which could prove beneficial in the long run since it could provide above average dividend growth over time for the same effort. I like the company and its business model. Insurance companies like Chubb (CB) are a way for investors to fill in the need for exposure to the financial sector, after several high profile payers like Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) cut their distributions.I believe that the company is attractively valued at the moment; thus I would be looking forward to adding to my position in Chubb (CB).
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The Wildcat Shoe by La Sportiva is a stable, neutral, extremely well cushioned trail running shoe: our most cushioned trail running shoe.
Built on the FriXion X-Axis rubber outsole the Wildcat digs into any surface for excellent traction and added cushion. The single density midsole provides excellent cushioning and is coupled with a plush LaSpEVA 2.4 mm lasting board. A great all around trail runner for people looking for great stability and cushion.
The Wildcat is a stable, neutral, extremely well-cushioned trail running shoe with a 12mm heel-to-toe drop. Built on a FriXion® X-Axis rubber outsole, the Wildcat digs into any surface for excellent traction and added cushion. The single density midsole is coupled with a plush LaSpEVA 2.4 mm lasting board to provide sublime out-of-the box cushioning. If stability and cushioning are what you seek, the Wildcat is a great all-arounder.
Innovation with passion. That's the mantra of La Sportiva, the Italian sport shoe company from Ziano di Fiemme whose iconic yellow boots and shoes can be found on mountainsides worldwide. The majority of La Sportiva footwear is still produced in their small, 150-person factory in the heart of the Italian Dolomites, where the spirit and heritage of master alpinists like Walter Bonatti and Reinhold Messner lives on.
The Wildcat Trail Running Shoe by La Sportiva is a neutral shoe designed for runners who want great stability and extra cushioning in every stride. Trail running is all about avoiding the obstacles, while moving forward and a good trail shoe helps you do that without getting hurt. With the FriXion X-Axis rubber outsole, you can dig into the deepest mud and still get excellent traction throughout the push-off.
The midsole has a single density cushioning and with the added plush factor of the LaSpEVA 2.4mm lasting board you get a shoe that takes on the impact instead of your knees. Supportive, solid and cushioned.
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When I was looking for a good general use summer-time shoe, I had three basic requirements. First, they had to look cool. I know this is subjective, but these work really well for me. In fact, I think they look better in person than in the stock photos. Second, they had to breathe extremely well. There is nothing more annoying and uncomfortable than hot feet, especially when hiking or running. These are absolutely wonderful in that department. If there is a strong enough wind, you can feel the air blowing on your feet. I've used these for trail running and hiking and my feet stay nice and cool. Third, they had to have a strong but grippy sole. A nice big piece of rubber on the toe guards against kicking into anything unexpected. The soles are strong, yet provide plenty of shock absorption while running. Nice and cushy.
Trail running shoes should be a perfect combination of a hiking boot and a running shoe and these fit the bill. I generally wear a size 9 (8.5 in Salomons if that helps) and the sizing is true to size. I have used these for trail running and hiking and they work amazingly well. Exactly what I was looking for. I find myself wearing these for casual use quite often. This is my first experience with a La Sportiva product. Based on these shoes I would certainly consider their other offerings.
I was looking for a breathable 3-season hiking shoe that would be able to get wet and still be comfortable without that squishy feeling you get with most of the waterproof/Gore Tex hiking boots. I was worried these shoes would not offer enough protection on those rocky areas and would not be sticky enough on slick surfaces but I have put them through the ringer on some brutal terrain and these shoes get the job done with comfy feet at the end of the day. I've used them for about 200 miles now to include many wet, rocky trails, bushwhacking for miles through moss covered rocks and thick spruce and heading down brooks with cold water and wet, slippery rocks everywhere. These shoes have taken everything I can dish out (including a Mt. Whitney summit in CA and a Mt Washington summit in NH) and they are the most comfortable, breathable pair of hiking shoes I have ever owned. Even a full day of hiking in wet conditions did not produce those "prune" feet at the end of the day, these shoes let the air in. I will definitely buy them again.
The only thing you have to watch out for is they seem to run a little small, I'm usually an 11. The 11 1/2 were too tight, but the 12 fits great.
When I wore out my crosslites and found my bouder x approach shoes gave me blisters after about 5 miles on the trail, I was on the hunt. I wanted something I could trail run in, but also walk 20+ miles with no issues and scramble over talus or up 3rd, maybe 4th class. The Wildcat is a great shoe. It has La Sportiva's characteristically narrow fit, a great heel box that really locks you in, relatively sticky rubber (compared to other trail runners) and a very breathable mesh upper. The toe bumper is a must on rocky trail and talus and while this one is small, it protected my feet from more than one stubbed toe. Going from the crosslite up to this you immediately notice the high heel to toe drop and beefy heel. This is no minimalist, crossover or barefoot running shoe. It's also heavy compared to the crosslite. My size 47 weighs 29oz for the pair. Compared to an approach shoe, the mesh upper clearly wont last as long as leather and you dont get a full rand around the shoe to protect it. Anyway, for now it's a good compromise. It's a shoe I can walk or run in for 20+ miles, classic sportiva fit, relatively stiff sole to protect from rocks on the trail.
I've used these for more than a year now and I'm thoroughly disappointed. These shoes are probably the least stable shoes I've ever used on uneven terrain. Every time I go out for a hike or run, it's a gamble on whether I'll role my ankle or not. My street shoes would be better equipped.
If you're running full-bore on somewhat even terrain, momentum will keep you somewhat stable, if you're just hiking or are on uneven trails, these shoes are outright dangerous.
They also have the worst grip of any shoes I've ever tried. I do a fair bit of scrambling to get to climbing starts, and these shoes are dangerous for those as well. I have to switch to my climbing shoes just to do scrambles everyone else does in their hiking shoes, because I'm afraid these will outright slip off some of the terrain I try, and leave me at the bottom with a broken neck.
Not recommended at all, unless you're only running flat fire trails.
I have only run a couple of times in these shoes so far. I only run in the mountains on pretty ruff trail and these shoes offer durable protection. Their sole is a bit on the stiff side which offers good protection but hinders a natural stride some. The soles will likely soften with age. My main complaint about these shoes is the toe box. It is too narrow across the metatarsal heads and puts the squeeze on your fore foot. Also the toe box has a shape which is not anatomically friendly. It results in your big toe hitting the front of the shoe on sustained downhills and causing a fair amount of toe jam. Also, I have 42.5 in these, I typically wear a 42, and they still seem tight. Maybe I should have tried a 43 but it seems to be a width issue not length. I bought the Patagonia Tsali 2.0 a couple of months ago and have done a number of 15+ milers in those and the fit is much better but they haven't held up very well, mainly the toe catches on rocks and begins to slowly peel the sole. To be fair, I do run mostly fourteeners and high alpine rocky terrain and never less than 10 miles. I wish one of the companies combined the strengths of these two shoes.


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Is your child gifted?
BY Fiona Baker
Is little George a genius? Is baby Poppy a prodigy? Mums and dads are often right when they suspect their child has special talents
Even the most pragmatic parent will at one time or another think their progeny is a prodigy.
Usually it is in those first few years, when their bundle smiles earlier than others in mums' group, or can make the sound of a puppy on cue at family functions. But what are the chances your child really is gifted and talented – and how can you tell?
The general consensus among gifted and talented associations – and there is one in every state – is that teachers can expect to find one super-smart kid in every class. Statistically, about three per cent of children fall into the "gifted" category.
How to tell
In the most basic of terms, to gain access to special programs in schools, giftedness is defined as those whose abilities place them in the top two to 10 per cent of their age peers.
The IQ test remains a "reliable" measure for intellectual giftedness, according to Rosemary Hammerton, president of the NSW Association for Gifted and Talented Children. She sums up the traits of a gifted child as "advanced reasoning, rapid learning, extensive vocabulary, perfectionism, a high degree of curiosity and a strong sense of justice".
Mums and dads are usually the best spotters of genius. According to several studies, up to 90 per cent of parents who go to the trouble of getting their child assessed for giftedness are right.
"In the early years, a parent may observe milestones – walking, talking or reading – are earlier than other children, or that their child is very eager to learn, asks probing questions and can focus for long periods on activities they enjoy," Hammerton says.
"In primary school, a teacher may comment on the child's general knowledge, vocabulary, advanced problem-solving abilities or sophisticated sense of humour."
But instinct alone is not enough for identification. Hammerton urges parents who think their child could be gifted to undertake a formal identification process through the help of a gifted and talented association.
Born or bred?
US neuroscientist Dr Sam Wang, who recently co-authored a book called Welcome To Your Child's Brain (Oneworld), says much of our IQ potential is written in our DNA.
"Parents can contribute by picking a good community for the child to grow up in. But they have remarkably little sway on so many aspects of a child's brain growth," he says.
"Much of what you do for your child, you already did, in the form of genetics."
Trials and tribulations
Spotting a prodigy is not always as easy as "early walker/early talker plus high test marks equals gifted kid".
Hammerton points out these children are not always the top scorers on tests, "so it can take an astute teacher to differentiate the bright, high-achieving child from the truly gifted child".
Carmel Meehan, president of the Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Chidren, adds: "Some gifted children do not pick up reading or writing quickly, because a learning difficulty may mask their giftedness."
Parenting challenge
The highs and lows of parenting are magnified with a gifted child, Hammerton says.
"Gifted children will argue incessantly and with frustratingly accurate recall and logic. They can be more sensitive than other children.
"But parents will also say that parenting a gifted child is an extraordinarily satisfying journey of growth and joy."
Check out Fiona Baker's blog on parents' obsession with having a gifted child.


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The article "Improved Survival After Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest in Noncardiac Surgical Patients" by Girardi and Barie1 in the January issue of the Archives is a worthwhile addition to the few articles on the subject that address the issue via a survey of large numbers of cases from a single institution over a relatively long time span.2 The Invited Commentary by Flint3 overlooks the fact that, after correction for type of operation, the ratio of cardiac arrest to number of operations has not changed appreciably over the last 35 or 40 years. The central problem is that while anesthetic agents and adjuvant drugs have changed, one invariant has remained, the so-called anesthesia record.
Although it is true that during anesthesia one observes the patient, important decisions are not made on the basis of any one instantaneous observation but rather on the basis of the information accrued from the
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