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Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) vol.8 no.1 Grahamstown Mai. 2008
Were Nietzsche's cardinal ideas - delusions?
Eva M. Cybulska
Nietzsche's cardinal ideas - God is Dead, Übermensch and Eternal Return of the Same - are approached here from the perspective of psychiatric phenomenology rather than that of philosophy. A revised diagnosis of the philosopher's mental illness as manic-depressive psychosis forms the premise for discussion. Nietzsche conceived the above thoughts in close proximity to his first manic psychotic episode, in the summer of 1881, while staying in Sils-Maria (Swiss Alps). It was the anniversary of his father's death, and also of the break-up of his friendship with Wagner, the most important relationship in his life. Despite having been acquainted with these ideas from reading philosophy and literature, Nietzsche created them de novo and imbued them with very personal meaning. Surprisingly, he never defined or explained his cardinal thoughts in his published writings, perhaps because rationally he could not. A resultant hermeneutic vacuum provoked an avalanche of interpretations in secondary literature. But could these ideas be delusions? A current definition of delusion is challenged, and an attempt is made at a limited comparison between delusion, scientific/philosophical doctrine and poetic creation. It is also argued that psychosis is a way of re-living trauma, and delusions can therefore be seen as a form of reasoning that helps to make sense of the world in a state of psychotic disintegration. Far from being false beliefs, delusions are a true expression of one's innermost feelings and pain, albeit indirectly. The relationship between early parental loss and repeated trauma, psychosis and creativity is also explored.
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Partition Recovery
- Recover deleted or lost Partitions (FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP).
- Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.
- TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).
See Also
- "fdisk /mbr" restores the boot code in the Master boot record, but not the partition itself.
Data Recovery
- BringBack offers easy to use, inexpensive, and highly successful data recovery for Windows and Linux (ext2) operating systems and digital images stored on memory cards, etc.
- Runtime Software's RAID Reconstructor will reconstruct RAID Level 0 (Striping) and RAID Level 5 drives.
- Claims to have a program that can read the "bad blocks" of Maxtor drives with proprietary commands.
- Erol allows you to recover through the internet files erased by mistake. Recover your files online for free.
- Data carving runs on multiple threads to make use of modern processors
- Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
- Scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer definitions and extracts matching files from a set of image files or raw device files. Scalpel is filesystem-independent and will carve files from FATx, NTFS, ext2/3, or raw partitions.
- EnCase comes with some eScripts that will do carving.
- A virtual filesystem (fuse) implementation that can provide carving tools with the posibility to do recursive multi tool zero-storage carving (also called in-place carving). Patches and scripts for scalpel and foremost are provided. Works on raw and encase images.
- A shared library that allows carving tools to use zero-storage carving on carvfs virtual files.
- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory.
- RevIt (Revive It) is an experimental carving tool, initially developed for the DFRWS 2006 carving challenge. It uses 'file structure based carving'. Note that RevIt currently is a work in progress.


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Riley is a happy little dog. He licks and wiggles, and seems to smile with joy when taking his turn on veterinarian Amber Toews' laser therapy table at the Hillsboro Animal Clinic.
"Riley wasn't always this happy," Toews said. "He used to have back problems and ear problems. He had a chronic ear infection, probably caused by allergies, but he was miserable."
Toews used cold laser therapy to stimulate the little dachshund's own bodily defense system to awaken, come to the site of the problem, and create an immune system response.
"The dog doesn't actually feel anything," Toews said. "It might get just a little warm in the area where I am passing the laser over, but they don't seem to mind it at all."
Toews said laser therapy in animals was not something she learned about in veterinary school at Kansas State University. Rather, she was grateful to get on-the-job training from Norman Galle, DVM and owner of the Hillsboro Animal Clinic. She has worked at the clinic since Sept. 2011.
"I'm guessing that not a lot of rural clinics offer this technology," she said. "Laser therapy for animals is becoming more mainstream in large population areas, but Dr. Galle has always been very quick to put technological advances into practice."
While the actual plan of treatment is different for every dog, cat, or even goats, sheep, cows and horses, that might benefit from laser therapy treatment, Toews said there is an induction phase, followed by prescribed sessions.
"We follow certain standards, but tailor it to fit each animal's needs," she said. "With Riley, we weren't sure if the laser would help his ear problems, so we did a test phase where I treated one ear, but not the other. Then we compared results, monitoring how he acted and how his owner thought he felt. Pretty quickly we started treating both ears because there was a noticeable difference."
Toews said when Riley first came to her, he had trouble walking and moving because of back trouble. He now jumps and wiggles like a young pup. He also spent a lot of time scratching his ears, whining, and shaking his head.
"When I examined him, I noticed a lot of dirt and debris in his ears," she said. "Some owners of dogs with ear problems will also notice a foul smell."
During Riley's induction phase, his owner brought him in every other day for a week. After that, he came in once a week for a month.
"The actual laser therapy doesn't take long at all," Toews said. "I just pass the wand over the area a few times for a few minutes, and that's all. The body is stimulated to do the actual healing."
Toews said she wears protective eye-gear when using the laser wand. She also is careful to keep the beam from crossing the treated animal's eyes or interfering with any known cancerous areas.
"We have to be careful because if there are cancerous cells, it could stimulate growth in that area too," Toews said. "For the most part, it is a very safe procedure, and animals heal very quickly from it."
Toews said she used laser therapy in spay and neuter jobs on cats and dogs, and in declawing procedures, because the treated animals healed quicker than from traditional methods.
"Using laser therapy actually takes a little longer for the declawing surgery," she said. "But I won't do it any other way because the cats heal so much faster. They are just miserable for days after a regular declaw, but with laser therapy they are using normal litter and walking around the first day."
Toews said vets at Hillsboro Animal Clinic also used a surgical laser on cattle and other large animals.
"It's a different wand than the cold laser therapy we use on the small animals, but it follows the same concept," she said. "We use the laser to cut tissue, skin, remove tumors or cancer. There is just so much less inflammation, less pain, with laser surgery that they heal much faster."
Toews said she thought the clinic's laser therapy also worked on humans, and likely was the same type of treatment used on athletes.
"I tried it once on myself," she said. "I don't know if it was just in my head, but it really worked. I noticed a significant relief of pain."
For now, Riley is the best indicator of laser therapy success in animals. Judging by his sparkling eyes, fast-moving tongue, and wiggly body, all systems are a go and laser-therapy has accomplished a significant amount of pain relief and healing for the little dachshund.
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Businesses that have been apprehensive or unsure about transitioning their Microsoft applications to the Rackspace Open Cloud can feel more at ease now that we've added Microsoft Active Directory administrator support to our Managed Cloud Fanatical Support. The new support options include installation, configuration, monitoring and patching and troubleshooting; support features that were previously only available to our dedicated hosting customers.
For more details of what is supported, check out the Knowledge Center article "Managed Cloud Windows – Sphere's of Support."
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Moving your Active Directory Domain Controller and other applications to the cloud has additional advantages as well. Cloud computing resources costing significantly less than dedicated infrastructure, meaning you can architect your environment to perform better and be more fault tolerant with each server appropriately sized for the role it plays in the environment as opposed to having one larger dedicated box forced to play multiple roles.
So, since Active Directory does not require a significant amount of resources a 1GB Managed Cloud Server at $0.18/hr should be sufficient. However, keep in mind that best practices still encourage deploying a minimum of two Active Directory Domain Controllers in the environment for redundancy.
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Generally speaking, when using RackConnect, all ports are usually allowed from the Cloud Servers to the dedicated servers. But if you have specific compliance requirements, like PCI, then only specific ports must be allowed and the RPC dynamic range ports must be "pegged" on each domain controller.
Keep in mind that cloning or re-building your Domain Controller from a snapshot is not supported by Rackspace and is discouraged by Microsoft. Microsoft's best practices says to not recover a Domain Controller from a back-up, but rather build a new one and allow the built-in replication to bring the Domain Controller up to the appropriate level, hence the recommendation for two.
Also, you'll still have a problem when you try to rebuild from the snapshot; the rebuild will run into a conflict when it tries to set a local password since Domain Controllers do not have local accounts. If you would like a more in-depth explanation on this, check out the Knowledge Center Article about Why Password Reset Fails on a Domain Controller.
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XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XML. The idea is to separate out the back-end (getting the listings) from the front-end (displaying them for the user), and to implement useful operations like picking out your favourite programmes as filters that read and write XML documents.
At present there are back-ends grabbing TV listings for the following countries
Australia Belgium and Luxembourg Brazil Argentina Britain and Ireland Croatia Denmark Estonia Europe Finland France Hungary and Romania Iceland Italy Japan Netherlands North America Norway Portugal Reunion Island (France) South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland
See XmltvWorldDomination.
There are filters to sort the listings by date, to remove shows that have already been broadcast, and a couple of programmes to organize your viewing by storing preferences of what shows you watch. There are a couple of back ends to produce printed output.
This software is still being developed and most of the tools are command-line based, but at least many of them have manual pages. See the XmltvStatus page for information about which grabbers currently work correctly.
File format
The format used differs from most other XML-based TV listings formats in that it is written from the user's point of view, rather that the broadcaster's. It doesn't divide listings into channels, instead all the channels are mixed together into a single unified listing. Each programme has details such as name, description, and credits stored as supplements, but metadata like broadcast details are stored as attributes. There is support for listings in multiple languages and each programme can have 'language' and 'original language' details. See XmltvFileFormat.
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latest version is 0.5.51
tv_grab_eu_epgdata: new European grabber (commercial) tv_grab_es_miguiatv: new grapper for Spain
tv_grab_nl,tv_grab_nc,tv_grab_no (use tv_grab_no_gfeed)
XMLTV.pm: add Programme->Video->Quality attribute IMDB.pm: misc fixes tv_grab_br_net: adapted for changes on the grabbed website tv_grab_eu_epgdata : add "people" and "series id" tags tv_grab_es_laguiatv: Fix for site changes tv_grab_fi: misc fixes for site changes tv_grab_fr: update for site changes tv_grab_it: add new data source and speed improvment tv_grab_na_dtv: misc fixes tv_grab_re: misc fixes tv_grab_uk_rt add title/subtitle processing for consistant programme info, add support for timeshifted and part-time channels, improve support for non-english characters and bad characters
And of course bugfixes and polish.
Source code
The main release is Perl source code, which can be installed and run on Unix systems. Get copies from Sourceforge: XMLTV file releases. There is an 'xmltv' release containing the source code, and lower down the page 'xmltvprereq' which is a tarball containing the Perl modules needed. It's up to you whether to install the modules from packaged versions, from xmltvprereq, or individually from CPAN. But packages (eg RPMs) provided by your operating system vendor are usually the best bet.
To keep up with development, you can browse the latest CVS or get a checkout. Because Sourceforge may be down, and even when it's working the anonymous CVS access may lag a day behind the latest checkins, you can look directly at my xmltv working copy. If you're nosy and want to see what stuff I watch, have a look at the personal/ directory.
There are also nightly snapshot tarballs and sometimes an alpha-release Windows executable.
Windows users are strongly advised to use the pre-build EXE as installing all the prerequisites is non-trivial. For those want to give it a go, instructions are in CVS under the DOC directory. (EXE_BUILD.HTML) Those instructions can be used for both building xmltv.exe as well as a local install. If anyone wants to try the painful busines of compiling xmltv.exe for Windows directly from source (CVS), you will find instructions here http://www.kudos.byethost15.com/freeguide/
Packaged versions
These packaged versions for various operating systems may not necessarily be up to date with the latest xmltv source release. However they are usually built within a week or so.
For most Windows users, who may not wish to install perl and the necessary libraries, there is a 'binary' release created by Robert Eden. This combines all the different xmltv programs into a single wrapper xmltv.exe. It is released as part of the XMLTV project, so get it from Sourceforge as above. See XmltvWindowsExecutable.
For Mac OS X there is an xmltv package as part of the Fink project, maintained by Justin Hallett. Latest version appears to be 0.5.31.
For various Red Hat/Fedora Linux versions Axel Thimm has made some RPM packages for xmltv. They are may also work on Mandriva Linux.
Debian GNU/Linux's xmltv source package produced by Chris Butler generates four binary packages: libxmltv-perl, xmltv, xmltv-gui and xmltv-util.
For Gentoo, the list of available versions can be found at packages.gentoo.org
Mailing lists
Posting to the lists are restricted to list members only. For quick response, be sure and sign up before posting using the email address you will post from. (you can disable emails if you read via gmane)
|Low-traffic announcement of new releases
|General user questions about xmltv (not third-party software)
|Development discussion and patches
|CVS commit logs
Sourceforge trackers
Being notified of new releases
If you do download a copy, please subscribe to the xmltv-announce mailing list so you can find out when new releases happen. Since websites change their format without warning, a new release might be needed at any time!
Information for Developers
Information is available on HowtoUseGrabbers, HowtoWriteAGrabber, and HowtoSubmitAGrabber.
Notes on UK/ROI Radio Times listings
The tvgrabuk_rt grabber gets machine-readable data from the radiotimes.com site. They would like me to point out that all data is the copyright of the Radio Times website and the use of this data is restricted to personal use only.
Other stuff
RFC 2838 suggests a way of storing channel names based on the existing DNS hierarchy (though the channel names are not Internet hostnames). XMLTV has adopted this idea as a way to store globally-unique channel names, though at present not all the listings-grabbers use it. We have the channels.xml file (whose format is described by channels.dtd) to map between internal channel IDs and human-readable names.
An interesting side effect of keeping a preferences file listing programme titles is that you can crunch through the file later to see what words in titles you like and don't like, and what words occur most frequently in TV show titles. See A totally unscientific analysis of words appearing in British TV programme titles.
On March 14th 2002 Ed gave a on XMLTV.
TV CHECK is an application distributed with XMLTV that generates a HTML report highlighting schedule changes and bonus episodes of your favorite shows.
tv_grab_eu_epgdata is a new grabber that covers many European countries for a nominal cost
?XmltvGrabberChannels is some work in progress to organize which channels are best fetched by which grabbers. If you use one of the xmltv grabbers, feel free to update it. Related Projects
It's intended that the XMLTV-format output be used by other applications, including schedule viewers and PVRs. Also, there are some listings grabbers which aren't included in the official XMLTV distribution. See XmltvRelatedProjects.
The ?XmltvUnrelatedProjects are things which don't use the XMLTV format but are somehow connected to TV listings. Sourceforge
Please look at our Sourceforge project page. You can file bug reports there, or just send questions to the xmltv-users mailing list. Authors and copying
The maintainer of the xmltv project is currently Robert Eden. To get in contact use one of the mailing lists mentioned above. The project code (particularly the different grabbers) was written by many people. The manual page of each program should list its authors.
If you have a question about a grabber for a particular country, it is probably best to contact the grabber's author. And then you can write in your own language instead of English. But feel free to cc the xmltv-users mailing list anyway.
These programs are free software; you may distribute them under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 or (at your option) any later version. (See the file COPYING.)
But I do not place any restrictions on files conforming to the DTD or on programs reading and writing the XMLTV format (even if the law gave me the power to do so). You are free to use the XMLTV file format (or variants of it) for any purpose. The DTD itself is copyrighted and GPLed (it's arguably a literary work), but that does not imply that I have any copyright interest in files you create by following its instructions. -- ?EdAvis
There is no warranty for this software, see the file COPYING.


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GSN has renewed hit series "The American Bible Challenge" for a second season.
Religious competish skein, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, is the gameshow cabler's highest-rated original series of all time and features contestants competing based on their knowledge of the bible. Net ordered nine one-hour episodes for season two, slated to bow next year.
"You hear a lot about networks 'taking risks,' but so few really do it," said Tom Forman, CEO of RelativityReal. RelativityReal produces the reality show. "We were thrilled when GSN truly tried something new and exciting with 'The American Bible Challenge,' and we couldn't be happier that viewers responded."
"Bible Challenge" preem in late August landed GSN 1.7 million viewers. Season one is currently still airing Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Since its debut, the "Bible Challenge" brand has extended across platforms with the launch of "The American Bible Challenge Game" for iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle and Facebook.
"The American Bible Challenge" is exec produced by Forman and Embassy Row's Michael Davies along with J.P. Williams and Jennifer Novak. Nick Stuart and Maura Dunbar are consulting producers for multi-faith coalition Odyssey Networks. Foxworthy also serves as a producer.


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Scaffolding is a wonderful metaphor - and the brilliance of it shows in how it transcends the original area of code generation where it was introduced in Rails. It can be applicable to any reusable software component meant to be temporary support and to be replaced later. An example of that are code samples in manuals - you copy them just to have something working, but then you modify it and nearly completely replace the original code. And since nothing is universal and no library is ideal - it can be used as a generic measure of how well a library supports this iterative development style. And this brings me to the question - what are the qualities of a good scaffolding? One is that it needs to be gradually replaceable.
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On Scaffoldings
Scaffolding is a wonderful metaphor. Was it invented in Ruby on Rails? I am not sure about that - but nevertheless it is RoR that popularized it and undoubtedly it was one of the engines of it's popularity. It is very "Agile" - like a programming sprint - it implementa a feature in the most simplistic way that can possibly work - but instead of a programming team doing the work the code for that feature is generated.
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There are few worse feelings than getting ready to play a new game and finding your wireless controllers are filled with dead batteries. This is a problem easily avoided by making sure your junk drawer is filled with spares, but wouldn't it be great to not have to worry about it at all? Energizer has a solution for your battery woes, and its charging technology is the ultimate in convenience: you simply place your Wiimote down on the pad and walk away. But does it work?
Inductive charging moves electricity through a magnetic field, and allows batteries and other devices to be charged without any exposed metallic contacts or wires. The Energizer Wii Remote Flat Panel Induction Charger slams a bunch of expensive-sounding words together for the name, but it's actually quite simple—you simply put the battery packs into your Wiimote, plug the flat panel into a wall socket, and then you put your Wii Remote onto the panel whenever you'd like to charge your controller. A red light turns on to show the charger has a connection and turns green whenever the charge is completed.
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There is a small magnet in the base that helps keep the Wiimote in the right place, so putting the controller down in the proper position is simple. The technology works with a naked controller, and the controller fits even with a MotionPlus and plastic condom connected. The whole set-up ensures you always have a charged controller: when you're done playing, you put the controller down on the black charging pad, and when you'd like to play again, just pick it up. Our review model had room for two controllers.
The charging pad is stiff plastic and metal, and feels solid and high-quality in your hand. This is what you'll be putting on your entertainment center, so it's a good thing it's not completely ugly. There is a subtle etching of the Wiimote on the matte charging pad itself so you know which way to place the controller... if at any point you were confused. The battery packs themselves slide into the battery cavity on the controller and also replace the back panel of your controllers, so you'll want to be sure to keep your original battery panels around somewhere.
The battery packs actually come with some interesting features: you'll be able to hit the internal button to reconnect the controllers to your console by pushing on a now-external button with a pen or any other slim object. This feature was mandatory as you can't remove the battery pack without the controller turning off, but it's also rather convenient on its own. The packs cannot charge on their own, the light simply blinks when they're placed on the pad; they need to be attached to a Wiimote in order to draw a charge.
We did run into a few snags while testing this device. The lights sometimes have trouble telling if the charge in the remote is completed; in a few cases, by simply moving a fully-charged remote from one side to the other the light would change from green to red, although my Wii would say the controller has a full charge. The majority of the time, however, the product was able to tell if the controller was charged or needed some time on the base.
The whole set-up feels like something from the future, and even after extensive use it proves to be a great addition to your gaming setup. You put your controller down on the base after installing the battery pack, and every time you pick it up you know you'll have a full charge. I'm a supremely disorganized person when it comes to batteries, to the point where when I invite friends over they'll pick up a pack of AAs just to save us all the headache. I just wish it worked with my 360 or PS3 controllers.


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WirelessSender will hold some metadata like packet destination, pan, andchannel, and will publish a WirelessPacket (also, addedmesssages/WirelessPacket.msg) to /wireless/sendSo far, lacks proper documentation and static functions similarly named...


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Find those reading glasses and take a comfy seat. Gov. Jerry Brown's administration on Monday released more than 34,000 pages detailing his plan to divert water away from the Delta through two giant tunnels.
Find those reading glasses and take a comfy seat. Gov. Jerry Brown's administration on Monday released more than 34,000 pages detailing his plan to divert water away from the Delta through two giant tunnels.
Whether anyone really will read the entire tome, of course, is doubtful.
But the release of the documents does mean the public soon will have its first formal opportunity to comment on the $24.7 billion plan, which has been under development for seven years.
A series of public meetings is scheduled, including one in Stockton on Jan. 21.
The release of the plan marks the first time since the old Peripheral Canal debate of the late 1970s and 1980s that a formal proposal has been made to "isolate" a portion of the fresh water flowing into the estuary, the largest on the West Coast.
San Joaquin County officials were just beginning to review the plan Monday, a spokeswoman said.
But already, they were skeptical about where the process would lead.
"How many people will actually read through thousands of pages of technical jargon and nonsense in order to figure out how the project will affect their communities?" San Joaquin County Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller said. "Truth be told, this public comment period is really just a charade. Based on the experience of the Delta, it is unlikely that proponents will take into consideration any input from people who don't agree with them."
Informal drafts of the plan were released earlier this year, and at first glance Monday, it appeared the new version was substantially the same.
The 40-foot-wide tunnels would take water from the Sacramento River near Hood to existing export pumps near Tracy, about 35 miles to the south. Construction would take nearly a decade.
The project could improve water supplies some years for cities and farms as far south as San Diego, although the consequences of climate change and California's growing demand for water also could result in similar or even lower deliveries than they receive today, the new documents show.
The tunnels are only one aspect of the so-called Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which also seeks to improve the environment by converting more than 100,000 acres of farmland into habitat for fish and wildlife. There also are measures proposed to control exotic weeds, reduce predatory fish and improve water quality in the Stockton Deep Water Channel, among others.
State Natural Resources Secretary John Laird on Monday called it a "rational, balanced plan to help meet the needs of all Californians for generations to come."
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After years of considering how to maintain its educational courses and with this initiative as a catalyst, CSC is pleased to announce that it has introduced a defined process for review and update of all educational course material. Recognizing the both the importance and the urgency, the CSC Board of Directors has established the Education Maintenance Task Team (EMTT). The inaugural volunteer members of the EMTT are Mitch Brooks, FCSC; Brian Colgan, FCSC, RSW; Tom Dunbar FCSC, RSW (Committee – Chair) and David Wilson FCSC, RSW . An ongoing committee; these members will serve a 3 year term (of which 2 in this group will serve up to 4 to prevent total committee replacement in the same year) providing both consistency as well as strong foundation of knowledge and experience for us to draw upon.
As many of us remember, at one time CSC offered only one course, which over the years has gone under various names and finally after several re-writes, reviews and updates became what is now called the Principles of Construction Documentation (PCD) course. This has been the "legacy" course from which has grown our current multi disciplined offering. From the original course, we developed our first educational stream with the RSW-1, RSW-2 and RSW-3 courses. With it came some concerns about the amount of repetition in these courses, and the depth of the repetition was very dependent on the abilities of the course instructors.
In the early to mid 1990's, CSC recognized that to better serve the needs of its diversified membership; there needed to be three separate streams of education. The RSW stream already served the specifier community, but CSC needed to added educational streams for contract administrators and technical representatives. Therefore it was decided to add the Certified Construction Contract Administrator (CCCA) and the Certified Technical Representative (CTR) educational stream to accompany the existing RSW stream.
However, before they could do that, it was determined that the RSW-1 course would be turned into a basic course to serve all three streams of education. The PCD course was developed and shortly after, the Construction Contract Administration (CCA) and Technical Representative (TR) courses were developed. Most recently from the original RSW-2 and RSW-3 offerings, two new courses titled Specifier-1 (SP-1) and Specifier-2 (SP-2) have evolved. This is a very brief summary of how we have evolved to offer five courses.
In an effort to better the offering, CSC has concerns about the amount of "repetition" in the courses. Some of this can be attributed to the original "legacy" document which was intended to tell people in the industry everything that they ever needed to know about specification writing. The other contributing factor is that until recently anyone could take any course at any time in any order, simply for educational purposes. By default this meant that much of the basic information about the construction industry which was contained in the PCD course had to be repeated at the beginning of the other courses.
However, all of that changed when CSC decided that the PCD should be a prerequisite to all of the other courses. By doing so, it now gives us the opportunity to edit the courses so that there is a lot less repetition.
Most people who participate in CSC education only get exposed to a single course at any given time. However, if one steps back and looks at all of the courses together, both inconsistencies and repetition are evident. While the most recent courses developed, Specifier-1 and Specifier-2 are very similar in style to each other, they are completely different from the earlier developed other three courses. Although we understand an argument can be made for whether the "Specifier" courses are the right way or the wrong way to go, what we can agree upon is that at a minimum all CSC courses should have the same "look and feel" regardless of when they were introduced.
When we say "look and feel" what we are really saying is that we want to establish the CSC brand, and we want the courses to identify that brand. Currently some of the courses have Student Manuals, while others have Learning Manuals. Some have Instructor's Manuals, others do not. Some have supplementary information, others do not. Regardless of the "content", the supporting slide presentations differ substantially in both visual appearance and format for each of the courses. Furthermore we will review, identify and correct the technical content of the courses as we also acknowledge that it too contains inconsistencies which are unacceptable and do not meet the standards we have established.
With the continued popularity of CSC online versions of courses a gradual evolution of difference has also grown which in itself has been different from what we have seen happen in the classroom versions. Regardless of delivery medium, the level and content of education delivered by CSC should be consistent for us to be satisfied with the quality of offering.
The five courses that CSC now uses for both education and as part of the certification process have basically not been well maintained since their inception. Although over the years there have been a few reviews and updates of some of the courses, most of those have been limited to grammatical and spelling updates, not a concerted effort and a continuous maintenance plan.
The EMTT has been tasked with making the material more consistent from course to course, bringing all of the courses up to the same standard, ensuring consistency of language and terminology and establishing a regular review, update and maintenance regime.
At this time EMTT has had several working sessions and plans to continue to meeting every 3 - 4 months until the initial tasks are complete. The Task Team has developed a course content matrix; comparing all of the education programs and have analyzed that matrix for inconsistencies between the courses and have compared the content of each course to the content of the PCD course. From this comparison the Task Team developed a basic action plan and is now in the process of developing a list of planned changes, additions and deletions for each course.
It was originally anticipated that they would work on the courses in a specific order and release each of them as they were reviewed corrected and completed. However it was soon realized that to do so would cause more problems than it solved since all of the courses are so interdependent of each other and, in particular, interdependent on the content of the PCD course.
As a result it has been decided to hold off on any single publication update until all of the courses have been raised to the same standard and all of the courses are consistent with each other. The plan does however include the publication of "errata" which will assist instructors on giving the most up-to-date information as courses are changed, and before the final publication of the updated course materials.
After the courses are updated and published, the EMTT will set up a regular maintenance schedule for all courses meeting on an annual or semi-annual meeting basis as required to maintain the courses at the new established.
As you can appreciate, this is a massive task, and given its enormity will not happen overnight. As the process progresses, the EMTT will also be involving other CSC members and industry professionals to advise the Task Team as ad hoc members to assist in fulfilling the mandate. The EMTT is also seeking support from CSC Chapter instructors and Education Officers and would be pleased to receive any suggestions or concerns related to maintenance, corrections, additions or deletions required for any of the courses.
You can send information or queries directly to the EMTT at firstname.lastname@example.com, or contact the EMTT Chair or any of the EMTT members noted above directly. The EMTT is grateful for your support and will attempt to address all comments or concerns.
Thomas Dunbar, FCSC, RSWFormer EMTT Chair


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Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who said two weeks ago that a government shutdown "might be necessary" as a step to curb federal spending, said in an interview published Friday that Congress "will raise the debt ceiling."
"We will raise the debt ceiling. We're not going to default on our debt," Cornyn told The Houston Chronicle's editorial board. He added, firmly, that "we're not going to default."
Cornyn joins a growing list of conservatives that appear to be backing off on a potential debt-ceiling fight, arguing that the risk of default is not worth it. Rep. Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans are discussing a possible short-term increase in the nation's borrowing limit.
Cornyn told the Chronicle that prioritization of payments in the event the U.S. breaches the debt ceiling could work, "but my hope would be that we would not even go there."
Two weeks ago, Cornyn wrote in a Houston Chronicle op-ed that it was "unacceptable" that Obama has said he won't negotiate over the debt ceiling:
[Obama] has already signaled an unwillingness to negotiate over the debt ceiling. This is unacceptable. The president should immediately put forward a plan that addresses these deadlines, and he should launch serious, transparent budget negotiations.
The biggest fiscal problem in Washington is excessive spending, not insufficient taxation. Tax cuts didn't cause this problem, so tax increases won't solve it. If we don't reduce spending and reform our three biggest entitlement programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — then we will strangle economic growth, destroy jobs and reduce our standard of living. With the national debt above $16 trillion, and with more than $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities hanging over us, our toughest fiscal decisions cannot be postponed any longer.
Cornyn concluded in that op-ed by writing that a partial shutdown might be necessary "to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country, rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain."
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Asa Griggs Candler purchased the business from John Pemberton over a three-year stretch (1888-1891). He then tirelessly worked to build the franchise. He, for example, passed out coupons for free samples and made sure that participating apothecaries were outfitted with all manner of Coke-branded fixtures. As a result, more and more people began visiting drug-store counters and ordering the new drink. Candler is also famous for selling the U.S. bottling rights for Coke to two Chattanooga, TN lawyers for the meager sum of one dollar. The move partly reflected a mistaken belief that consumers wouldn't really take to portable drinks. To Candler's credit, though, it also meant that the company wouldn't be on the hook for building out a costly network of bottling operations around the country.
Reflecting near insatiable demand for Coke, the number of bottlers rose from just two in 1900 to nearly 1,000 twenty years later. The growing popularity of Coke gave rise to countless imitators, prompting the company to emphasize the authenticity of the Coke brand in its advertising and other marketing. With that in mind, it sponsored a design contest for product packaging. The winning contour bottle design, patterned after a popular hoop skirt of the day (1916), remains one of the company's enduring trademarks.
Robert Woodruff took over the reins in 1923 and led the company for nearly 60 years. He began the process of transforming Coke into a global brand, through product tie-ins with international events like the Olympics. Meanwhile, his commitment to American GIs during World War II had the company shipping portable bottling plants to battle fronts in Europe and Africa, further establishing Coke's global presence. Woodruff is generally credited with introducing such beverage-industry innovations as the six-pack and the standardized in-store cooler. During his tenure, the company also began to roll out new products. Fanta hit the shelves of U.S. stores in 1955. Sprite (1961), TAB (1963), and Fresca (1966) followed soon thereafter.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the company struggled to increase sales and profits, partly due to emboldened competition in the U.S. market. PepsiCo (PEP), for one, became much more formidable and wasn't shy about calling out its chief rival. In a now famous series of TV ads, it claimed that consumers overwhelmingly preferred the taste of Pepsi to Coke in double-blind taste tests. Coke's own internal tests reportedly yielded similar results.
The onslaught from Pepsi led to one of the most controversial moves in the company's history, namely the reformulation of the 100-year-old Coke recipe and the April, 1985 launch of New Coke. New Coke scored high in taste tests but was, itself, an unmitigated flop with consumers, prompting the company to bring back the old Coke (now named Coca Cola Classic) less than three months later. Ultimately, nostalgia for the Real Thing led to a strong resurgence in company sales, raising some to posit that New Coke's flop was the biggest success of Roberto Goizueta's tenure as Chief Executive. The launches of Diet Coke and Cherry Coke are just two of the inarguable triumphs of Goizueta's watch.
Coca-Cola purchased Glaceau, the maker of Vitaminwater, for $4.1 billion, in June, 2007, marking the biggest acquisition in the company's history. The move greatly expanded the company's portfolio of "still" (non-bubbly) beverages, amid an ongoing consumer shift toward juices and bottled water. More recently, the company purchased the domestic bottling operations of its largest affiliated partners, largely ending the traditional separation between concentrate supplier and bottler that has existed ever since Asa Candler famously sold Coke's U.S. bottling rights for one dollar.
Today, Coca-Cola is the world's largest soft-drink company and owner of some of the most recognizable brands on the entire planet. On any given day, 1.6 billion servings of Coke, Sprite and other company-marketed offerings are consumed by people in over 200 different countries. Going forward, the company faces numerous challenges, including shifts in consumer tastes and increasing backlash against purveyors of "empty calories". Still opportunities abound in so-called "functional" beverages and in emerging markets.
All told, Coca-Cola remains a worthy investment option for conservative investors. Over the past five years, the total return on these shares has lagged slightly behind that of the Value Line (Arithmetic) Index, and a similar pattern could very well prevail to 2016-2018. The stock, though, also carries significantly less risk than the typical equity in the Value Line universe. It gets our Highest rank (1) for Safety and our top score (100) for Price Stability. Also, the beverage maker typically pays out about half of its annual income in cash dividends, making KO shares a solid selection for current income.At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Here's a great piece on something that Van introduced many of us to, in the past.
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Condition Black wasn't part of Cooper's original system either, but was added by the U.S. Marine Corps. When you reach Condition Black, your heart is beating faster than 175 BPM. At this level of arousal, a fighter — even a well-trained one — experiences catastrophic breakdown of mental and physical performance.
In addition to tunnel vision, auditory exclusion, and deterioration of complex motor skills, other symptoms are present in Condition Black.
Most fighters will experience bladder and bowel voiding — in other words, they poop and pee their pants. In high-stress, life-or-death situations, sphincter and bladder control just aren't a priority for your body. Moreover, it wants to get rid of as much waste as it can so you're in a better position to fight or run.
At this point, the decisions your physical body makes are overriding any cognitive ones. Lt. Col. Grossman actually discusses this issue in great detail in On Combat. While many soldiers and fighters won't admit publicly that they messed themselves, in anonymous surveys conducted after WWII, one-quarter of soldiers admitted they peed themselves during combat and one-eighth admitted to defecating. Grossman believes the number was likely even higher than that.
Extreme vasoconstriction is also typically present in Condition Black. Vasoconstriction is when the blood vessels narrow to constrict blood flow. In life-or-death situations, your body wants most of your blood to stay near vital organs and large muscles that can be used to fight or run.
One benefit of this is that if you were to sustain a wound, vasoconstriction helps limit the amount of bleeding you experience. Extreme vasoconstriction causes people to look "white with fear" as all the blood has been shunted away from the skin's surface to more vital parts of the body. While this is a survival mechanism, it unfortunately leads to deterioration of complex motor skills.
.Another physical reaction is that your forebrain (the executive part of your brain) shuts down and your more primitive middle brain takes over.
Grossman calls this the "puppy dog" brain. Without executive functioning, you're susceptible to irrational fighting or fleeing. As an example of this type of irrational behavior, many soldiers fighting in the frontlines of WWI and WWII reported seeing comrades run out from behind protection and into enemy fire without any rhyme or reason. As Grossman puts it, "in Condition Black you can run and you can fight like a big, hairless, clawless bear, but that is about all you are capable of doing."
In that same study conducted by Dr. Artwohl mentioned above, he found that a very small percentage of police offers experienced freezing, or temporary paralysis during a deadly force encounter. In these cases, the body doesn't fight or run, it just stops cold, leaving the fighter very vulnerable
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A year ago I made a post about Pepper's Ghost. It began with, "Who has not been scared and at the same time excited by a ghost story or the inexplicable appearance of an apparition. Fascination with ghosts and the afterworld have gripped audiences for centuries. Our appetite for such titillation seems insatiable. Ghost shows are nothing new. Writers, magicians, and lanternists have long used the popular fascination with ghosts and apparitions for their advantage. From its earliest inception the magic lantern has employed ghost figures to frighten and to entertain audiences. Some of the very earliest magic lantern images in the last part of the 17th century were of ghosts and demons. Calling forth such figures reached a new height in the late 1700s and early 1800s largely due to two showmen and their shows. The Fantasmagorie shows, popularized by Belgian showman Éttiene-Gaspard Robertson and the Phantasmagoria shows of magician Paul de Philipsthal, called forth apparitions onto the screen. Their shows ingeniously employed rear projection. The lanternist was hidden from the audience behind the screen. In a darkened room the images would appear on the screen as if from nowhere. By moving the lantern, the figure could be made smaller or larger such that the ghosts would appear and then menacingly approach the audience."
A recent purchase of the book Aufschlüsse zur Magie aus geprüften Erfahrungen über verborgene philosophische Wissenschaften und verdeckte Geheimnisse der Natur (1790) by the German writer Karl von Eckartshausen has brought me back to the idea of the appearance of phantoms and ghosts. Eckartshausen wrote about a wide range of topics including alchemy, mysticism, and magic. In this book he describes how to create a ghost illusion and the first print illustrates the ghost figure hovering over a pedestal. The second illustrates how Eckartshausen employed a hidden magic lantern to project an image off a mirror to create the effect.
I can't resist including two more engravings from Eckharsthausen's book although they are not of a ghost projection, but rather of what must have been a remarkable trick. Eckhartshausen would, he states, take someone for an evening stroll and at some point would turn toward a wall and mysteriously and probably frighteningly, a figure would appear on the wall. The print illustrates the trick at the moment of the projection. The other engraving shows the lantern that was employed and was hidden under his coat. You can see the ingenious plunger used to extinguish the light and the carrying stick used to light the lantern. If it actually worked it must have been wonderful.
Now back to the tale of ghost projection. Éttiene-Gaspard Robertson certainly was aware of the work of Eckartshausen and created his own ghost effects. The image below is the frontispiece from Robertson's Mémoires Récréatifs, Scientifiques Et Anecdotiques (1831) and shows the impact of the appearance of apparitions on an audience. The second illustration from a book published in 1811 shows a ghost projection with the lanternist hidden behind the screen.
Those wanting to learn more about ghost shows and Phantasmagoria entertainment should read Mervyn Heard's book Phantasmagoria, The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern.
I have put a number of prints and broadsides relating to the Phantasmagoria on my web site.


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Auchentoshan 1976 (Aged 28 Years)
Whisky Review: Auchentoshan 1976 (Aged 28 Years) 91.5/100
Single Cask Single Malt Whisky
A Review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted February 13, 2010
The Auchentoshan Distillery is somewhat of an anomaly amongst Scottish Distillers. It is the only Scottish Distillery that triple distills their entire core range of whiskies. Triple distillation is common amongst Irish distillers but extremely uncommon for a distillery producing Scottish single malts. The result of the triple distillation is a more laid back easy-going whisky which is perhaps more floral, but also perhaps less robust in character than traditional single malts. This easy-going style perhaps makes the Auchentoshan Distillery a perfect example of a Lowland Scottish Whisky and a very approachable malt for novice whisky drinkers.
The 28-year-old, Auchentoshan 1976, I am reviewing on the other hand is not necessarily a whisky for novices. The long time spent aging in an oak hogshead cask and the high bottling strength (47.5%) is sure to have produced a whisky with a stronger character and a little more intimidating flavour profile than a typical Auchentoshan Whisky.
The whisky is a Single Cask bottling, distilled in 1976, which is available at CSN Wine and Spirits in Calgary, Alberta. The store purchased the entire cask of 156 bottles and has approximately 20 bottles left in stock. I was given a sample to review here on my blog by the Store Manager, J.P. Sandhu, who had spent some time with me on a lazy Friday afternoon allowing me to sample some of the great selections of rum and single malt whisky which were available in his store.
This is what I learned from my sample.
In the Bottle 4/5
The bottle presentation is pretty standard fare for these single cask whiskies and has me neither overly pleased nor overly displeased. The whisky arrives in a nice display box which protects the spirit from light and makes a bit of a splash in the liquor cabinet. The bottle is a typical style whisky bottle with a label that is smart and crisp but not what I would call inspiring. The date the whisky was distilled is identified as 1976, and the cask number is identified as 1115. My sample bottle is numbered 0087. Based upon the price point of the whisky I would like a little more detail. The maturation cask is identified as a hogshead, but I am left to wonder as a purchaser whether it is American or European oak. This may seem like a niggle but it really isn't, a refill sherry cask will have an entirely different nature than a refill bourbon, and when buying these 'super premium' whiskies the consumer should have as much help as possible to make a purchase decision that suits their palate.
In the Glass 9/10
The whisky displays a golden amber hue in the glass which is a bit closer to copper than it is too yellow. When I swirl the glass and check the legs I find them to be almost nonexistent. What small legs I do find are thin and trickle very slowly back into the glass. This is actually expected as the whisky is bottled at 47.5 % alcohol by volume. These higher 'cask strength' offerings generally do not have a rich oily texture, as the higher amount of alcohol dominates the consistency of the liquid.
The initial nose is full of lemon citrus and orange peel. A nice floral bouquet is evident in the glass as well with herbal qualities and a rich taint of heather. I sense a light peat aroma which begins to gain steam and turns smokey as the glass decants. Oak and vanilla have also began to build in the breezes which are speckled with scents of pine and moss. The fully decanted glass becomes rich with sherry notes, dried fruit, and deep baking spices. This is one of those glasses you can just nose and nose and nose.
In the Mouth 56.5/60
The initial entry into the mouth brings forward a lovely light chewy peat with rich floral smokiness. I guess I would call this a whisky lover's whisky, because when you have cracked open the flavours from under the peat and smoke you are rewarded brilliantly with smoky sweet prunes and raisins, sugar rich dates, ripe fresh apricots, and some lovely caramelized sugars with baking spices. There is so much here to enjoy; the smoke turns to treacle in the mouth; a light brine evolves; and if you look for it, a fleeting iodine scampers amongst the other flavours.
In some ways this sounds like I am describing an Islay rather than a Lowland; but, the whisky is definitely Lowland in character. None of the flavours I encountered were aggressive or demanding. The whisky stays approachable and delicious throughout the journey across the palate.
In the Throat 13/15
This Auchentoshan has a smokey dry finish filled with cocoa. There is just a light burn which is expected at the higher alcohol strength and just a hint of bitterness at the end which forced me to deduct a point.
The Afterburn 9/10
This has been a rather impressive dram of whisky. The flavour is superb and the oak and sherry smoke hold up well in the whisky without either becoming the dominant force. This allows the sweetness in the malt to develop adding a rich layer of flavour to the experience. There is just a bit of challenge initially working through the higher alcoholic bite and the initial smoke. But what follows is a rich flavourful reward.
You may read some of my other Whisky Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Pairings:
Rather than suggesting a recipe for the Auchentoshan 1976, I would like to suggest a couple of nice pairings to consider when enjoying this whisky.
The first pairing is rather obvious but I will suggest it anyway. Cut up some rich dark chocolate. Choose a variety that is perhaps leaning towards the bittersweet. Add a few drops of water to the whisky to open the flavour, and enjoy a small piece of chocolate between drams.
The second pairing while not as obvious is just as delicious. Cut some small wedges of lightly smoked Gouda cheese and serve them with a dram of the Auchentoshan whisky. Again a few drops of water added to the whisky to open the flavour is lovely.
As always you may interpret the scores I provide as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be more familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
7 Responses to "Auchentoshan 1976 (Aged 28 Years)"
September 19, 2012 at 12:15 am
My name is David Fraser,my dad (David Fraser snr)was the still man in 1976 when that 28yo was barrelled.we lived in the cottages at the time and I remember everything about the distillery,it was my playground for about 11 years.I'm 45 now and every now and again I relive my childhood through a glass or two of Auchentoshan.
February 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Hello, sir,
My name is Mark Dermul and I'm an avid (albeit somewhat recent) Auchentoshan collector from Belgium (as you can deduce from my website). I have quite a few samples still ready for tasting, but not this 1976 (I do have the 1975 21 year old and 1978 18 year old as well as a 1966 31 year old). The sample you tasted seems to be a rather exclusive bottling that I cannot find in Belgium (or Europe for that matter). If Mr Sandhu would be willing to send me a sample (I'll gladly pay him for it), I would be eternally grateful. Slàinte!
February 13, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Dang, I wonder how much a bottle of this would set one back. Sounds very nice.
The more I think about it, the more it strikes me as odd that you don't assign more weight to the aroma of the whisky. I tend to be a scent-oriented person and to me the smell is almost or just as important as the taste and finish. But I'm sure your scoring sysem is the one that works best for you. I ripped off Jim Murray's system and I find it helps me rate whiskies more thoroughly, rather than arbitrarily assigning a score out of 10 or 100.


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A shorter show this week as Greg gets ready to go to Interop in Las Vegas next week. We look at recent events and talk generally about network with Tom Hollingsworth, Brandon Carroll and Greg Ferro.
Amazon AWS outage.
People need to start realizing that just parking your infrastructure in the cloud doesn't make it redundant. There is additional planning and design work. Network engineers and architects don't just make this stuff up, as the people who undoubtedly lost their jobs because of this fiasco are now learning.
According to this post by Jeremy Gaddis, it would appear that a wayward engineer was attempting to upgrade IOS on a device and jumped the gun on downing another section of the network, triggering a waterfall of failure. A cautionary reminder that you can never anticipate the human element:
Sony Playstation Network
Playstation Network goes down and gets pwned. If you thought AWS was bad, Sony managed to exposed 77 million people in one shot. The whole backbone of their online distribution network went down and they couldn't do anything about it. To add insult to injury, it appears customer data was readily available from the hack. As of today, there are approximately 2.2 million credit cards up for sale, all with the critical CVV codes. Compartmentalization, anyone?
IPv6 / IPv4 NAT – Hang our Heads in Shame
RFC 6146 – Stateful NAT64 and RFC 6147 – DNS64. I think there's a lot of discussion around these two. It appears that someone is of the opinion that the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 won't happen without a little hand holding. I think these people are the same ones that still take chewable vitamins. Yes, it's a bitter pill but you had best get used to swallowing it.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6146 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6147
IPv6 and Microsoft Teredo
- Host to Host, Host to Router, Router to Router.
- Teredo is Host to Host, relies on public gateways of someone elses/anyones servers
- not HA
- not reliable
Teredo is described in a Microsoft technical note – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457011.aspx.
Teredo uses what has become a relatively conventional approach to NAT traversal, using a simplified version of the STUN active probing approach to determine the type of NAT, and uses concepts of "clients", "servers" and "relays"
The choice between the terms "transition" versus "coexistence" has engendered long philosophical debate. "Transition" carries the sense that one is going somewhere, while "coexistence" seems more like one is sitting somewhere. Historically with the IETF, "transition" has been the term of choice [RFC4213] [RFC5211], and the tools for interoperability have been called "transition mechanisms". There is some perception or conventional wisdom that adoption of IPv6 is being impeded by the deficiency of tools to facilitate interoperability of nodes or networks that are constrained (in some way, fully or partially) from full operation in one of the address families. In addition, it is apparent that transition will involve a period of coexistence; the only real question is how long that will last.
Thus, coexistence is an integral part of the transition plan, not in conflict with it, but there will be a balancing act. It starts out being a way for early IPv6 adopters to easily exploit the bigger IPv4 Internet, and ends up being a way for late/never adopters to hang on with IPv4 (at their own expense, with minimal impact or visibility to the Internet). One way to look at solutions is that cost incentives (both monetary cost and the operational overhead for the end user) should encourage IPv6 and discourage IPv4. That way natural market forces will keep the transition moving — especially as the legacy IPv4-only stuff ages out of use. The end goal should not be to eliminate IPv4 by fiat, but rather render it redundant through ubiquitous IPv6 deployment. IPv4 may never go away completely, but rational plans should move the costs of maintaining IPv4 to those who insist on using it after wide adoption of IPv6.
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Cajon Mediano
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The Mediano and Chico Cajones are designed especially for kids. Without sacrificing authentic sound qualities, the smaller body offers kids a safe and secure sitting position and optimal playing conditions. Both models have two playing areas. Playing the bass and snare sound on one side – snare sounds are being created with a snare wire system – the other side can be used to create percussive conga-like sounds!