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2011 will likely be remembered as one of the most infamous periods in IT history from a security standpoint. From attacks by Lulzsec and Anonymous to questions about mobile device security, 2011 had plenty of ulcer-inducing security episodes. The new year will likely have its own share of security headaches, and Symantec Senior Intelligence Analyst Paul Wood recently posted his take on what IT professionals may be losing sleep over in 2012.
First on Wood's list is the continuing threat from advanced persistent threats (APTs) that target business and government infrastructure. Wood points out that many companies aren't paying attention to critical infrastructure prevention (CIP) programs developed by state and federal governments:
"A recent Symantec Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Survey found that companies are generally less engaged in their government's CIP programs this year when compared to last. In fact, only 37 percent of companies are completely or significantly engaged in such programs this year, versus 56 percent in 2010."
We've written a lot about mobile security issues in 2011, ranging from multiple cases of malware targeting Android devices to controversy around Carrier IQ, a company that develops programs that track subscriber data for wireless carriers. Woods quotes a Gartner report that indicates more that 461 million smartphones will be sold by the end of 2011, surpassing PC sales for the first time in history.
The growth of cybercrime is another security trend to be wary of for 2012, with large criminal organizations developing tactics and strategies to separate businesses from their most important data. Woods sees that trend continuing in 2012:
"Cybercrime's spread from the criminal underground to the business mainstream was highlighted by a surge in targeted attacks. Symantec's November Intelligence Report shows that targeted attacks are becoming more prevalent in 2011. Large enterprises, with more than 2,500 employees, received the greatest number of attacks, with 36.7 targeted attacks being blocked each day during 2011."
The last security trend Woods pointed to was the need for improved SSL security, pointing to instances where forged SSL certificates where used by cybercriminals to carry out additional attacks. "All this has caused enterprise and consumer customers alike to begin demanding better SSL security, which started pushing CAs and website owners to further implement protections against social engineering, malware and malvertising," Woods writes. "The popularity of mobile device use and the proliferation of cloud services within the enterprise further exacerbated potential vulnerabilities and showed the increased need for reliable, strong authentication."
I'd add a few more security trends of my own to the list put together by Woods, including growing concerns about how cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging social media to obtain personal information from users. The increasing use of social media in the workplace by IT workers is also becoming a serious issue, and will undoubtedly be on the minds of many IT pros and CISOs next year.
So what security concerns will be keeping you up at night in 2012? Feel free to add a comment to this blog post or contribute to the discussion on Twitter.
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Rudy Giuliani 2008Official site of his defunct presidential campaign
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Rudy Giuliani Biography
Rudolph W. "Rudy" Giuliani was the New York City mayor who became internationally famous for his proudly defiant reaction to attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Giuliani, a 1968 graduate of New York University School of Law, began his political career in 1970 as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney. After a period in private practice in Washington, D.C. and a stint with Ronald Reagan's Department of Justice, Giuliani was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1993. Aggressive and ambitious, he made headlines by prosecuting Wall Street wheeler-dealers such as Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken and Marc Rich. He ran for mayor in 1989 and lost, ran again in 1993 and won. In spite of a successful run as a tough-on-crime mayor who improved city government, Giuliani's troubled personal life and long history of political squabbles dominated the headlines in his second term. Tabloids exploited public feuds between Giuliani, his wife, Donna Hanover, and his girlfriend, Judith Nathan; a series of police brutality cases were public relations disasters; and a potential run at the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton was aborted when Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
After the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center, Rudy rose to the occasion, and in the absence of President George W. Bush, whose whereabouts were unknown for several hours, it was Giuliani who was the voice of authority on American television. His response was hailed internationally and earned him the nickname of "America's Mayor." His term as mayor ended soon after, and Giuliani went into business and hit the lecture circuit. He ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, but left the race after finishing behind Mitt Romney and John McCain in early primaries.
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Giuliani married Judith Nathan in 2003. She is his third wife; he was previously married to Regina Peruggi (1968-82) and to Donna Hanover (1984-2002). He has two children with Hanover: Andrew (b. 1986) and Caroline (b. 1989)… Marc Rich, a billionaire prosecuted by Giuliani in 1983, fled to Switzerland rather than stand trial. Before leaving office in 2001, Bill Clinton issued a presidential pardon to Rich. Among Rich's lawyers over the years was Lewis "Scooter" Libby, later the chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney and the subject of an indictment in the Valerie Plame investigation.

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We are very excited to replace our 7.5 year old machine with the new version. Who has one besides Barry? I want to start an offering to share patterns between us; I have over 8,000 jobs and 1,500 drill patterns in my system that will work. We can also get all of the Lindberg from the factory for example and I can work on other brands.
This is the start of an on-line platform that will allow anyone with the machine to search for a complicated Oakley that Barry already figured out or an amazing facet one of us creates. We are a small non-competeing group and should help each other.
Who own's an ME-1200 or want's to buy one and join the fun!
It is a cool toy and we will have lots of fun!


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Preparing Julian's version of Scoutfly to ship out. Fixed a bunch of DRCerrors, but there are still a few. Nothing major. Just some spacing androuting angle errors.
Fixed a bug in the switching power supply circuit where diode was connect to FB instead of SW for the 5V supply. Also changed an inductor value.
Made changes that Abe recommended:Fixed SHDN pin connection.Changed inverter voltage level from 5V to 3.3V.Modified PB Controller to have value displayed.TODO: Address concerns about shutdown timing and switch power loss.
Added a new push button controller circuit. Uses new IC instead of solid state machine because there was no room for solid state machine circuit. Preformed changes that Abe recommended. Routed new circuits. Board should be ready to send back out to kwoo.
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Clemson University has a long history in my family.
My great-grandfather graduated from there in 1918, my paternal grandfather went there, my maternal grandfather was the Dean of Science, both my parents attended the school and so did both of my sisters.
But Clemson also has a touch of film history.
In 1973, Clemson, SC and Anderson, SC were the filming locations for the movie �The Midnight Man,� starring and co-directed by actor Burt Lancaster.
In the film, Lancaster plays ex-con Jim Slade who starts working as a night watchman at a local university, Jordan College. The film also stars Cameron Mitchell, Susan Clark and Catharine Bach has a small role.
My mother grew up in Clemson and was a junior at Daniel High School in Clemson during the filming of �The Midnight Man.�
�I remember when the news came out that they were looking at Clemson and a few other places for filming, everyone thought it was very exciting,� said Lisa Pickens, mother of Comet Over Hollywood.
Filming locations included areas:
-The campus of Clemson University such as inside Tillman Hall
-Driving down Highway 123 and goes into a bar in Anderson, SC
-The Anderson, SC courthouse
-Cameron Mitchell exercises in Riggs Field, which was Clemson�s second football field from 1915 to 1941 and now is the university�s soccer stadium
-Lancaster gets off the bus in front of Clemson�s post office which is now Mell Hall, Clemson�s Housing Office.
-Swimming pool scenes were filmed in Holtzendorff Hall
�A lot of people thought they should use the balcony of our house,� said Barbara Evers, writer and aunt of Comet Over Hollywood. �I don�t remember why. As far as I know, they never considered it.�
Several locals were used in the filming, including classmates of my mother, Lisa Vogel Pickens, and my uncle Henry Vogel.
�Your Mom heard they were holding auditions in the basement of the Post Office (Mell Hall). She got permission, and we went,� Evers said. �We never found the place where auditions were being held. Your Mom was sure excited, though. She ran down the stairs of the Post Office.�
During the filming of �Midnight Man,� Lancaster was heavily drinking and getting up at 5 a.m. to start filming, according to the Kate Buford book �Burt Lancaster: An American Life.�
�I remember Burt Lancaster stayed in the penthouse of the Clemson House, Clemson�s nicest hotel which now is a dorm for students,� Pickens said. �He complained about the mattress and wanted a king size bed. Friends of my parents, the Whitlocks, let them use their king size mattress. I have no idea why they would do that.�
Filming took six weeks, according to �Burt Lancaster Excites Clemson Campus,� a Feb. 25, 1973, article from the Herald-Journal.
At the time, the Town of Clemson had approximately 5,500 people living there and the university had 9,700 students, according to the article.
�Boys at the dormitory window applauded at the end of the scene. Lancaster responded with a smile and then pointed out that one of the boys had a woman with him,� said the Herald-Journal article.
Unfortunately, �Midnight Man� didn�t do well. Both Evers and Pickens recall being disappointed that the film received bad reviews.
�You hope it will do well since it was filmed in your hometown, but it didn�t,� Pickens said.
Other movies filmed in the Upstate of South Carolina include the George Clooney comedy �Leatherheads� (2008), filmed in my hometown of Greenville, SC, and �Radio� (2003) filmed in Walterboro, SC.
�The Midnight Man� was shot from February 1973 until March 1973 and was released on June 10, 1974.
There was a premiere at the Astro Theater in Clemson on March 14, 1974.
�I thought it would be exciting to go to the premiere but Lancaster didn�t show up, so I didn�t go,� Pickens said. �Even in small Clemson, I never ran across the actors.�
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Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the scene of the horrific shooting that wounded her and killed six people two years ago, uttering only about a dozen words Wednesday in her first public event at the site since the rampage as she urged senators to pass background checks for gun purchases.
Among them: "Fight, fight, fight."
Giffords spoke to reporters in the parking lot of a Safeway grocery store in Tucson to promote tougher firearm regulations. The Democrat was among 13 people wounded in a 2011 shooting rampage there as she met with constituents. Six people were killed.
"Be bold. Be courageous," Giffords said Wednesday. "Please support background checks."
She placed a white bouquet on a memorial outside the supermarket honoring victims of the shooting.
Other survivors joined Giffords at the news conference, along with her husband, Mark Kelly.
Giffords and Kelly have returned to the Safeway previously to visit the memorial, but Wednesday marked their first public event at the store since the shooting.
Kelly said that if the background checks they're calling for had been in place, the man who opened fire at the store never would have been able to buy a gun.
"The least we can do is a very commonsense thing to make it more difficult for criminals and the mentally ill to have access to firearms," Kelly said.
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A gun control group started by Giffords and Kelly began airing a new television ad in Arizona and Iowa Tuesday calling for background checks.
Sheriff's deputies were at the event to provide security.
Jared Lee Loughner, 24, was sentenced in November to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years, in the shooting. The rampage happened at a meet-and-greet event organized by Giffords outside the grocery store on Jan. 8, 2011.
A federal judge originally ruled Loughner was incompetent to stand trial. After more than a year in treatment, Loughner was ruled competent, the case proceeded, and he entered guilty pleas.
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Facebook's new ephemeral messaging app, Slingshot, was accidentally placed in Apple's App Store before being yanked by the social network.
Slingshot, an app that Facebook developed to challenge Snapchat, lets users share photos and video as well as write messages, according to the Verge. Like Snapchat, the photos and video disappear after viewing. However the app appeared suddenly Monday and was yanked quickly from the App Store.
Facebook admitted that the app appearing in the store was a mistake.
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"Earlier today, we accidentally released a version of Slingshot, a new app we're working on. With Slingshot, you'll be able to share everyday moments with lots of people at once. It'll be ready soon and we're excited for you to try it out," a Facebook representative told the Verge..


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Grilled Cheese with Pepperoni and Pickled Cherry Peppers
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I've expressed my love of pepperoni and pickled peppers as a pizza topping in the past. The combo of salty cured pork fat, heat, and a sweet-tart hit from the pickled peppers is a tough act to beat.
It works equally well as a filling for a grilled cheese sandwich.
To get the most out of my pepperoni, I like to microwave it on some paper towels beforehand so that the slices crisp up, giving you a bit of crunch with each bite. If you want to go all out, you could crisp the pepperoni in the skillet, saving the fat to toast your bread later on.
For the pickles, you could go the homemade route, but store-bought pickled cherry peppers, banana peppers, or pepperoncini will work just fine. If you really want to turn up the heat, pickled jalapeños might do the trick.
For an extra blast of heat, you can use some pepperjack cheese. In this instance, I instead went with some Colby, a slightly more flavorful but still super-melty cousin of American cheese singles.
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text: Offices & Workspaces January 20, 2015 13 Double-Duty Offices Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Save This Print This Comment Inspiring multiuse spaces. White walls brighten up a lower level. Designer and homeowner Barbara Purdy maximized space in her basement by arranging furniture into distinct zones. A small desk adds a quiet work area without taking up too much floor space. A mix of sofas and chairs provides plenty of seating for movie nights. Watch an Online TV tour of this basement, plus see more Double-Duty Offices. Matching patterns create continuity. To freshen up an office nook in a living room, add an upholstered corkboard behind the desk in the same fabric as throw cushions to ease flow from one area to the next. For more design and decorating ideas, browse our Quick Home Makeover Tips photo gallery, plus read an interview with this homeowner here. See more Double-Duty Offices in our photo gallery. A piece of art anchors an office area in a living room. Homeowners Lindsi Mandelbaum and Lorne Rose delineated a bright space near the patio doors for a small desk. A large contemporary painting above the desk makes the office area feel grounded. The living room in their narrow single-storey townhouse isn't large, but white walls and a clear coffee table make it appear more spacious. See more Double-Duty Offices in our photo gallery. An oversized table serves as a desk, too. In designer Mazen El-Abdallah's narrow townhouse, a large walnut table bolted to the wall acts like a built-in and works overtime as both desk and dinner table. A Serge Mouille light doubles as sculpture. See more Double-Duty Offices in our photo gallery, plus see video tours of El-Abdallah's main floor and second floor. A multitasking kitchen side table is the perfect spot for a laptop. A corner of the kitchen has been set aside as a work space: this grey tin side table makes a stylish desk and ties in to the dark grey linen fabric on the island chairs. A small nook in an entryway is enough space for a small desk. "Built-ins are great, but sometimes it's fun just to throw it all together and see what happens," says designer Wendy Williams Watt. In The Real Housewives of Vancouver star Mary Zilba's weekend home, temporary installations give her room to move and create. By leaving space for freestanding pieces like this desk, the focus can be on one beautiful lamp or vase. See more Pets & Interiors in our photo gallery, plus see more Double-Duty Offices. Multiuse furniture allows for a work space, lounge area and guest beds. An old apothecary cabinet in designer Karen Cole's guest bedroom opens up in several ways, including a drop-leaf desk. Antique twin beds loaded up with brightly patterned throw pillows offer an inviting spot to curl up and read, but can be made up as guest beds within minutes. Bold art and antique rugs contribute to a space that's as cosy and useful for Karen as it is for her guests. Watch a video tour of Karen's house, plus see more Gorgeous Guest Rooms and Double-Duty Offices. Smart furniture placement at a cottage leaves room for a desk. Custom-made beds in this former schoolhouse-turned-cottage work as seating by day and as a sleeping area for guests at night. The worn desk and chair continue the schoolhouse theme. Ever-so-common in the city, small dens can be used for home offices and guests. Striped wallpaper helps move the eye up and across the ceiling, making this tiny den appear larger. The thrift store lamp base (with a Jonathan Adler flavour) looks like a million bucks thanks to a coat of white spray paint. See more Double-Duty Offices in our photo gallery, plus more photos and an Online TV tour of this home. No den? No problem. A small desk in a bedroom can work overtime for accessories and a laptop. The neutral scheme found throughout designer Christine Ralphs' home continues in the principal bedroom, accented with bold hits of black. A small mirrored desk reflects light below the window. See more Interiors By Lloyd Ralphs Design and Double-Duty Offices. A desk positioned in front of windows creates a bright space to work from home. Apply colour directly to the walls with paint or wallpaper. Or leave the backdrop neutral and play up juicy-toned accessories like pillows and drapes, like designer Sabrina Linn did here in her cheery bedroom. Either way, a carefully chosen palette can change the look of a room like nothing else. How To First decide what your room needs. More light? More warmth? If you choose to paint, plan to do the whole area instead of colour-blocking just one wall. For less of a commitment, consider painting or wallpapering large canvasses or wood panels and hanging or leaning them against the wall. Bring in accent colours in finishing touches such as pillows, throws, rugs, curtains and trays. See more Double-Duty Offices in our photo gallery. Plus, watch an Online TV tour of this loft and browse photo galleries of the interior and patio transformation. A mostly unused attic can become a quiet home office. Homeowner and stylist Deb Nelson eked out a work area in the attic's guest bedroom by tucking a table she made herself below the eaves. Find more inspiration in our photo galleries of Amazing Attics, Double-Duty Offices and Cosy Winter Cabins. A large attic can accommodate both a guest room and home office. Tucked into the top floor of the 2009 Princess Margaret showhome, this small room can easily accommodate a guest for a short stay. A low daybed was the right choice for this narrow space. A desk placed near the window is practical for guests who wish to unpack their luggage and can be used by family members as a home office when the room isn't occupied. Get more ideas in our Gorgeous Guest Bedrooms photo gallery, plus see more Double-Duty Offices. Author: CHP Admin Photographer: Angus Fergusson Tags: condo den Desk guest room home office Office work space


text: Tenchu is a colorful platformer for your PC, in which we will rescue different monsters from captivity. The game features a great cartoon style graphic design, with excellent animation and amusing sounds. The plot is twisted around the golden eggs stolen by the hijackers of the magical color root system. In addition, the robbers hid in different parts of the cell locations with fabulous little animals.


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Ancelotti: Man Utd title out of reach
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has told Louis van Gaal he will find it extremely hard to win the title with Manchester United next season.
Van Gaal has been tasked with bringing the glory years back to United following last year's seventh-place finish under David Moyes.
Ancelotti did the double in his first season at Chelsea but, even though he rates Van Gaal highly, the Italian thinks it will be difficult for the Dutchman to lift the trophy at the first time of asking.
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"They signed really good players this year but to build a team is not so easy,'' Ancelotti told a new conference on the eve of Real's friendly against United at Michigan Stadium.
"The Premier League is a very competitive league and it will not be easy to win it the first year because there are a lot of teams who are really competitive and they want to win."
Ancelotti dodged a question on whether he was approached by United following Moyes' sacking.
"These are rumours that usually happen to the manager,'' he said.
The former Chelsea manager thinks the United hierarchy chose wisely when they appointed Van Gaal, though.
"He is a good, very experienced manager," Ancelotti said. "He had a fantastic experience in all the countries he worked in and he will do a fantastic job at Manchester United.
"He had fantastic World Cup with Holland and is a manager that doesn't have anything to learn."
The build-up to Saturday's game has been dominated by talk of potential incomings and outgoings at the European Champions.
Ancelotti said there was "no news" about Angel Di Maria, the Argentina winger who has been linked with United and Paris Saint-Germain.
"Angel will come back on Aug. 5 as was scheduled before the World Cup," Ancelotti said.
The Italian dodged questions about the futures of goalkeeper Diego Lopez, who could leave if, as expected, Keylor Navas signs for the European champions.
The former Roma player also refused to give any details about Raul, Real's record-appearance maker, who is reported to on the verge of rejoining the club in an executive role.
"I don't have any news about Raul or this topic," Ancelotti said.
Saturday's game against the Red Devils on the outskirts of Detroit seems somewhat inferior to the clashes Ancelotti has enjoyed against United with Chelsea, Juventus and AC Milan.
But, given that over 109,000 are expected to attend, Ancelotti is looking forward to what he expects to be a tough match.
"It is never a friendly with Manchester United," the 55-year-old said. "We are happy and honoured to play. It's the last game of our tour.
"We want to go finish well and go back to prepare for the Super Cup. We need to play a good game on Saturday because we are playing a really fantastic team."
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LONDON (AP) — Serena Williams is returning to the tour after nearly a year off because of various health issues.
Williams will begin her comeback at a grass-court tournament in Eastbourne, England next week. She then will defend her title at Wimbledon, which begins June 20.
Williams has not played an official match since winning her 13th Grand Slam title at the All England Club last July.
A few days after that victory, Williams cut her foot on glass at a restaurant. She wound up having two operations because of that and later was treated for a blood clot in her lung.
"I am so excited to be healthy enough to compete again," Williams said in a statement released by her agent. "These past 12 months have been extremely tough and character building. I have so much to be grateful for. I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support. Serena's back!"
Shortly after winning her fourth Wimbledon singles championship last summer, Williams hurt her foot while in Germany. She played in an exhibition match in Belgium against Kim Clijsters days later. But when she returned to the United States she had the first of two operations for her injury. The second surgery was in October, and she said she spent 10 weeks in a cast and 10 weeks in a walking boot.
The 29-year-old American was diagnosed in February with blood clots in her lung. After that, she said she needed treatment for a hematoma — a gathering of blood under the skin — on her stomach.
She returned to practice in April, an event she announced via Twitter, posting a picture of herself on court in a pink bodysuit.
Williams' older sister Venus, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, also is returning to action after an extended injury absence. Venus Williams has been sidelined since injuring her hip during the Australian Open in January, but her agent said last month she was on track to play at Eastbourne and Wimbledon.
When healthy, the Williams sisters have dominated women's tennis for much of the past decade. In addition to their 20 total major singles titles, both have spent time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings.
At Wimbledon, the sisters have combined to win nine of the past 11 championships. In that span, the sisters played each other in four of the finals at the All England Club.


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|Parallelization strategies to deal with non-localities in the calculation of regional land-surface parameters
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|Schiele, S., M. Möller, H. Blaar, D. Thürkow, and M. Müller-Hannemann
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|Flow direction, High resolution elevation models, Multi-core, Parallel processing, terrain analysis, Threads
Hand in hand with the increasing availability of high-resolution digital elevation models ({DEM}), an efficient computation of land-surface parameters ({LSPs}) for large-scale digital elevation models becomes more and more important, in particular for web-based applications. Parallel processing using multi-threads on multi-core processors is a standard approach to decrease computing time for the calculation of local {LSPs} based on moving window operations (e.g. slope, curvature). {LSPs} which require non-localities for their calculation (e.g. hydrological connectivities of grid cells) make parallelization quite challenging due to data dependencies. On the example of the calculation of the {LSP} 'flow accumulation', we test the two parallelization strategies 'spatial decomposition' and 'two phase approach' for their suitability to manage non-localities. Three datasets of digital elevation models with high spatial resolutions are used in our evaluation. These models are representative types of landscape of Central Europe with highly diverse geomorphic characteristics: a high mountains area, a low mountain range, and a floodplain area in the lowlands. Both parallelization strategies are evaluated with regard to their usability on these diversely structured areas. Besides the correctness analysis of calculated relief parameters (i.e. catchment areas), priority is given to the analysis of speed-ups achieved through the deployed strategies. As presumed, local surface parameters allow an almost ideal speed-up. The situation is different for the calculation of non-local parameters which requires specific strategies depending on the type of landscape. Nevertheless, still a significant decrease of computation time has been achieved. While the speed-ups of the computation of the high mountain data set are higher by running the 'spatial decomposition approach' (3:2 by using four processors and 4:2 by using eight processors), the speed-ups of the 'two phase approach' have proved to be more efficient for the calculation of the low mountain and the floodplain data set (2:6 by using four processors and 2:9 by using eight processors). There, more non-localities in flat areas (e.g. filled sinks and floodplains) occur.


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After successfully compiling and building my mainline Kernel (22.214.171.124) under my Ubuntu 10.04 with these headers I was wondering: how to make this kernel on startup, so I can choose which one to boot?
I have GRUB2 (grup-install -v says: 'GNU GRUB 0.97') installed.
I tried this:
sudo make install
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luky@ubuntu1004:/usr/src/linux-184.108.40.206$ sudo make install
sh /usr/src/linux-220.127.116.11/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 184.108.40.206 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
System.map "/boot"
Here's my /boot folder:
luky@ubuntu1004:/boot$ ls
abi-2.6.32-24-generic System.map-2.6.32-24-generic
config-2.6.32-24-generic System.map-188.8.131.52
config-220.127.116.11 vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-24-generic
grub vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic vmlinuz-188.8.131.52
I would NOT like to have to manually change GRUB's config files.


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An hour of excellence was undone by 30 minutes of mediocrity as Kingstonian fell to a 2-1 home defeat to play-off rivals Canvey Island on Saturday.
Their ninth defeat of the league campaign means they drop to seventh.
With Wealdstone, Concord Rangers and Lowestoft looking odds-on to take three of the four play-off spots, the fight is now on for the final place.
Manager Alan Dowson admitted that the next few weeks will prove crucial to hopes of promotion.
"It's a must win now," he said of Tuesday's match at Harrow.
"We've got games in hand on Canvey and we've got to win them. If we play like we did in the first 60 minutes today, we'll be fine."
Indeed this was a game Kingstonian dominated and never looked like drawing, let alone losing, after Andre McCollin opened the scoring in 24th minute.
Lewis Taylor, so often the driving force of the K's midfield in recent weeks, made a characteristic burst through the centre and sent a perfectly weighted pass into McCollin's path. The striker opened up his body to knock the ball left-footed past the advancing Ashlee Jones.
It was his 15th goal of a fine season. McCollin had already had a superb effort saved on to the crossbar while Paul Vines missed a sitter from two yards out as K's attacked with verve and purpose on a bitterly cold afternoon.
The pattern continued after the break, with Vines denied by another brilliant Jones save while the returning Ian Gayle looked to be keeping a lid on Canvey's occasional forays forward.
Then, out of nowhere, the game turned. Tom Bird and Kieran Murphy collided under a high ball to let Kevin Dobinson through, who squared to a grateful James Rowe to score.
And with 10 minutes remaining, Ryman League chaos theory struck again, when Bradley Woods-Garness finished from 6 yards out to give the Gulls all three points.
"There's not much wrong. Performances have been good," said Dowson.
"We were outstanding at the back, doing everything right, and then suddenly it's two defensive mistakes… by my left-back and centre-back which were laughable really.
"Then Canvey upped their game because our lads thought 'we can't believe this, we've been on top for so long'."
After the trip to Earslmead tomorrow night (Tuesday), K's host East Thurrock United at home on Saturday.


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Saving Sarah: Satan worship, sex abuse, and Dr. Martin Stein
The little girl's memories were vivid and horrifying: being raped by her father at age two, watching her father and stepmother bury animals alive in satanic rituals, and seeing babies boiling in a cauldron while adults stirred the pot. But were they true?
The Albemarle County Department of Social Services believed enough of them to rule against her father and put his name in the central registry of child abusers. While the child was clearly tortured by those memories, she wasn't the only one in pain. Today, that little girl's father, Tom Manuel, and his wife, Kathleen, know firsthand what hell is like, but it's not because they worship Satan. They say the instrument of their suffering resides right here on earth and goes by the name Dr. Martin Stein.
The trouble starts
Tom Manuel remembers exactly when his nightmare began: 1993, three days before he was due to pick up his then-12-year-old daughter, Sarah, for Christmas vacation. With no warning, Tom and his new wife, Kathleen, received a letter from his ex-wife's attorney denying them all visitation with Sarah. For months, Tom and Kathleen– whose son, Jack, was then just seven months old– fought to learn why his visits had been terminated. In April 1994, they got a terrifying answer: Sarah had memories of the couple participating in grotesque satanic rituals. Even worse, she claimed her father had sexually abused her from her earliest years.
Three-year-old Sarah, years before the trouble started.
Things hadn't always been bad between Sarah and her father, however.
Tom and Sarah's mother divorced when Sarah was four, but for two years all three continued to reside in Charlottesville. Tom and Sarah, by both of their accounts, continued to enjoy a close relationship and did so for several years after the divorce, even after Sarah and her mother moved out of town.
Sarah, now a woman finishing college in northern Virginia, says the serious problems began after her mother remarried.
Sarah became depressed and her mother sought psychiatric treatment for her. At age 10, Sarah was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and soon after was hospitalized for an emotional disturbance. Though her mother divorced her second husband, Sarah's troubles weren't over.
When Sarah was released from inpatient treatment at Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, her mother, Susan Jones, switched her daughter's treatment to Martin Stein, a well known psychiatrist who, according to the Virginia Board of Medicine's records, has a medical degree from Yale.
Things quickly went from bad to worse.
According to Sarah, Stein told Susan that Sarah's problems were serious. But he could help.
After diagnosing Sarah with progressively more serious disorders– depression, anxiety, separation anxiety, epilepsy, and finally Multiple Personality Disorder (now called Dissociative Identity Disorder)– he placed Sarah in his treatment program, with sessions conducted in a space attached to his office. Sarah says the goal of the program was to elicit repressed memories of incest and abuse.
"He was really grotesque about what he would talk about," she says. Sarah claims that Stein showed her and the other patients pictures of adults engaging in explicit acts of oral and anal sex, animals copulating, and in one instance, a woman having sex with a dog.
Although she was only 11, she says that didn't stop Stein from behaving inappropriately with her. "He was obsessed with me," she says. "He was constantly touching me, massaging me, and talking about my breasts." Though she says he never attempted to have sex with her, on one occasion, she says, he placed his hand on her developing chest.
Anyone who thinks her claims sound farfetched need look no further than the Sunday, September 28, edition of The Washington Post. In an extensive cover story, Stein's impact on several families is described in horrifying detail.
In one case, Stein was separately treating several members of one family– a clear breach of ethics, according to the Post and a report by the Virginia Board of Medicine.
After years of taking heavy doses of multiple drugs, one of his patients, 49-year-old Anita Kratzke, was found dead in her bed. According to the Post story, Stein signed the death certificate without an autopsy, preventing any investigation into the cause of her death. Her husband, Robert Kratzke, has permanent brain damage and has had to relinquish his high-paying government job as an engineer. Doctors now attribute his problems to years of heavy and inappropriate medication prescribed by Stein. The Kratzkes' youngest son, Chris, just seven when he began treatment with Stein, lost years of his childhood to hospitalizations and alleged over-medication. All of this was reported by the Washington Post and is verified by the medical board report.
According to the Board of Medicine's report, Stein's treatment of at least 10 patients was "contrary to sound medical advice." A layman might put it more bluntly.
In addition to the Kratzke case, the Board reported that Stein prescribed the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin to several patients, including a heroin addict. He prescribed 30 different medications to another patient without considering possible drug interactions, failed to keep "complete and accurate records," and encouraged that patient to sell her home and allow him to oversee her considerable financial holdings.
Stein had sexual relations with that adult female patient and used "hypnosis, suggestion, massage, and psychotropic medicines to evoke memories of childhood abuse. Said memories are not corroborated and have, in at least one instance, been disproved by objective evidence," the report reads.
The latter behavior corresponds closely to Sarah's description of Stein's "program." Over the course of two years, Sarah was placed in the program, often "from morning until night." During that time, Stein also prescribed heavy medication for her, she says. Sarah and her father report that under hypnosis and the simultaneous influence of as many as 10 or 12 different prescription medicines– including Ritalin, Ativan, Valium, Lithium, and an epilepsy drug, Tegretol– Sarah's "memories" emerged.
Her mother, now living in northern Virginia, and who declined to be interviewed for this story, was also being treated by Stein, Sarah says, and believed in his treatment methods.
"He had my mom totally convinced of it," she says.
A loving father
While Sarah was miles away and under Stein's care, Tom and Kathleen were getting information, little by little, about her situation. The stress, Tom recalls as he recounts his experience, became nearly unbearable. One afternoon, after hearing a new accusation– that he and Kathleen had been burying animals in their yard– they arrived home to find that a large hole had been dug and then filled in.
"We were shaking," says Kathleen, who explains they worried that someone was trying to frame them. Though an explanation was forthcoming– the cable company had been digging on their property– their fear didn't subside. And Sarah's accusations became ever more bizarre.
"At one point, she said that I had worn a nursing bra and made her nurse from me," Tom says.
In addition to recalling witnessing her grandmother having sex with cats, Sarah said Tom and Kathleen's 1993 wedding had been a satanic ritual, with a fire, and cult members dancing and pointing at her while singing, "Roses are red, violets are corny, I look at you and I get horny."
There had been a fire at their wedding, Kathleen says, but they took the idea from a midsummer celebration at Ash Lawn in which participants burned small bundles of straw as a symbol of putting cares and worries behind them and starting fresh– not quite an homage to Lucifer.
"It was obvious to us and everyone else we knew that these allegations couldn't be true," Kathleen says.
Unfortunately, several people believed Sarah's accusations.
"State of abject terror"
As Tom and Kathleen continued to fight for visitation, Dr. Stein took Sarah's claims to the authorities: Albemarle County's Child Protective Services.
The case was assigned to a social worker named Carol Goodpasture, who went to Fairfax to interview Sarah and Susan. Though Sarah says she refused to talk during two initial visits, the third time she broke down.
Under hypnosis, and in front of Goodpasture and Albemarle County Detective James Bunch, Tom says Sarah repeated her ghastly claims against him. Goodpasture labeled Sarah's case a "'founded' Level 1 disposition of sexual abuse," the most serious type.
In a May 10, 1994, letter, Goodpasture informed Tom that his and Sarah's names had been entered into the Virginia Department of Social Services' "Central Registry" where they would remain on file for "the longest retention time," 18 years. The letter says this listing is not meant to be a "punitive measure," but "serves simply as a tracking system and is strictly confidential."
Sarah's father, Goodpasture wrote, could appeal the decision.
Convinced that it would be only a matter of time before his name was cleared, he offered to take a polygraph, or lie detector, test.
"You'll take drugs to pass it," Goodpasture allegedly replied. When Tom offered to simultaneously take a drug test and the polygraph, he says, Goodpasture's response was equally quick: "You'll train to pass it." At his lawyer's behest, Tom withdrew his offer to submit to the test.
"I couldn't win," he explains.
Goodpasture's supervisor, Judy Randle, says no one at the agency can comment specifically on the case, citing confidentiality.
And though Tom agreed to have his CPS records released to The Hook, the agency declined to turn them over by press time because the request was being reviewed by the County attorney's office.
Randle did agree to speak generally, however. A CPS case worker, Randle says, must perform "collateral interviews" with anyone relevant to a child in question. That would include psychiatrists, teachers, spouses, and anyone else who might have information material to the case. Failure to perform such necessary interviews before labeling a disposition "founded" would constitute negligence, Randle says, and would negate the offending case worker's immunity at trial.
Tom says the investigation was not thorough. Kathleen says if Goodpasture had conducted such interviews in their case, they would have raised at least reasonable doubt.
"A lot of [Sarah's] claims would be difficult to prove or disprove," says Kathleen, but some, such as the couple's supposedly "satanic" wedding, could easily have been checked.
"It was a beautiful ceremony," says Keith Stevens, a guitar teacher who once worked with Kathleen, a piano teacher. Stevens, who performed the music at the Manuels' wedding, recalls nearly 100 people gathering at a friend's Earlysville home for the ceremony, which was performed by a minister from Unity Church, a Christian denomination.
CPS did, however, investigate one of Sarah's allegations.
In the course of her interview with Goodpasture, Sarah alleged that her father had also molested her first cousin, Ashley, one year older than Sarah, and who lived in Chesapeake.
According to Ashley and her mother, a Chesapeake social worker suddenly appeared at Ashley's middle school accompanied by a police officer and took the eighth grader out of class without her parents' knowledge or consent.
Despite interrogation from the social worker, which occurred in May 1994, Ashley held fast to her answer: Her uncle had never touched her in any inappropriate way.
"They kept pushing and pushing for the answer they wanted to hear," said Ashley when she spoke about the situation a year later in testimony before the Virginia General Assembly. Her mother, Tom's older sister, Kim Nozzarella, also spoke.
"I was very angry to find that in America my child could be removed from class and then be interrogated and coerced by strangers for alleged abuse that did not even presumably occur in my home," Nozzarella told lawmakers. "I feel that my rights as well as those of my daughter were violated."
Other family efforts to clear their name included making contact with a weekly Charlottesville newspaper, which– circa 1995, when Sarah was still making her abuse claims– chose not to publish the story.
Today, Kim Nozzarella says it's been terrible to watch her younger brother, whom she describes as a "gentle, docile man," suffer over these past 10 years. And she says she's still outraged by the methods Child Protective Services used in gathering information against him.
Indeed, CPS does have broad discretion, and– as Tom points out– its officers have immunity from prosecution– unless, as Randle says, negligence can be proven.
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, sponsored by then-Iowa Senator Walter Mondale in 1974, gives public agencies broad discretion.
"They can come into your house and take your children away without a warrant," says Tom. "You'd have to go to court to get them back."
Tom says Detective Bunch told him he could be arrested at any time because there was enough "evidence" to indict him.
"We were in a state of abject terror," says Kathleen. "We were sleeping in our clothes."
The arrest never came.
Battle for a child
As their fears of immediate prosecution abated, Tom and Kathleen focused their energy on re-establishing visitation with Sarah. It would not be an easy battle.
"We were in court every couple of weeks at times," says Kathleen.
In the spring of 1995, a year and a half after Tom's last visit with his daughter, a judge ordered psychiatric evaluations of Tom, Susan, and Sarah.
Harrisonburg-based clinical psychologist Mario Dennis performed the evaluation. He spoke to The Hook with Tom's consent.
"Some of the allegations were so fantastic that they– even if true– would have been difficult to believe," says Dennis. Most importantly, he adds, "There was simply no evidence of any psychological disturbance that would correlate with the allegations against him."
Sarah, age 10, with Tom and Kathleen.
Though Tom says all three were eventually given a clean bill of mental health, it was clear to him the problems were far from over.
This time, postage stamps were the clue. Tom had sent Sarah two cards– one for Valentine's Day, and one for her birthday in mid-March. Kathleen had purchased stamps with a picture of a hand signing "I love you" in American Sign Language. "They thought we were sending more Satanic messages," Tom says incredulously.
October 1995 found Tom at his wits' end. "We were emotionally and financially drained," he says, noting that he and his wife had spent $60,000 on legal bills in just two years.
On October 11, recalls Tom, "I prayed to God for Sarah and said, 'She's in your hands now.'"
The very next night, the phone rang.
"Sarah called," he remembers, smiling. "Both of us were crying. She'd been trying to say, 'None of this ever happened,' but Stein had been threatening her with more hospitalizations."
Sarah still remembers those threats.
"When I would say, 'My dad never touched me,' Stein would tell me that if I couldn't remember, I'd be put into a hospital where I'd be raped every day," she says. When she tested Stein's resolve by refusing to "remember," she says he followed through on the threat and put her in a hospital isolation unit for 48 hours.
Uphill battle
After Sarah's call, Tom and Kathleen hoped that the nightmare would soon be behind them. In 1995, the couple filed a complaint against Stein with the Virginia Board of Medicine, but it languished until 1998, when the Board finally dismissed it without any action against the psychiatrist. Tom still wonders what would have happened if they'd treated his complaint differently.
"Nine of the 10 people in the recent complaint started treatment with Stein after 1995," he points out.
As it was, Stein was free to continue practicing. And his influence on Sarah's mother and her relatives ran deep– they still believed that Tom had victimized his daughter.
The tide was turning for Tom, however. With Sarah's testimony absolving Tom– and the recommendation of a court-appointed guardian, a lawyer working solely for the child– Judge Jannene Shannon restored Tom's visitation with his daughter in December 1995.
Susan quickly appealed the decision.
Out of money, Tom decided to handle his defense in the appeal himself. For more than a year, starting in October 1996, he was a man obsessed.
"I'd get up every morning," he recalls, "and figure out 'What motion can I file today?'"
In addition to handling the appeal, Tom and Kathleen filed a third-party malpractice suit against Dr. Stein in October 1997. Although he was planning to represent himself in that case as well, Tom says, the constant trips to Fairfax courts, the costs of hiring expert witnesses, and the fact that such a case had never been won in Virginia led him to drop the suit.
As for the custody appeal, he stayed on task.
An engineer by trade, Tom set to work learning the law, and his hard work paid off. In December 1997, exactly four years after the ordeal began, he won the appeal and was able to start rebuilding his relationship with his daughter. Sarah was nearly 17.
Hope for the future
Although her past is unlike most young women's, Sarah says she is living a "normal" life. Now 22, she's finishing her degree in sociology and is engaged to be married. But getting to this place has been– and continues to be– difficult.
Fortunately, she has found a counselor whom she trusts.
"I was having a lot of problems with flashbacks," she says.
She's also burdened with guilt about the suffering her family has been through. "I feel terrible about it," she says. "He's been through so much with this too," she says of her father.
Tom and Kathleen, however, don't hold her responsible.
Nine-year-old Sarah (middle right) says of her cousin Ashley Nozzarella (middle left), "I was really close to her as a kid. I'd really like to be close to her again." Also pictured: Sarah's cousins Chris Nozzarella (top) and Jennifer Nozzarella (bottom) holding Andrew Long.
"She was a child," says Kathleen, "and she was no match for Stein." Their relationship with Sarah, all three agree, grows stronger every day.
The same cannot be said for Tom and Kathleen's relationship with Sarah's mother, Susan, with whom they have had no contact for years. Sarah says that despite the revelations about Stein, Susan still believes that Tom did something untoward.
Tom, having battled colon cancer for the past 14 months, would like to put the whole situation behind him. A week after the Post story appeared, Tom sent a letter to Susan's father, who had supported Susan in the custody dispute. In it, Tom requests "healing for Sarah's sake."
"There will come a day when Sarah gets married," he wrote. "Sarah deserves the support of both sides of her family, and I hope and pray that you and your family members will be supportive and respectful of those wishes and at a minimum be civil towards her and my family."
Tom also sent a letter to Stein.
"I do not call you a doctor, because as a doctor you are called to first do no harm," Tom wrote. "You have caused harm to many, if not all, of your patients... I pray that you seek the help you need, not from a doctor like you but from one who follows sound medical principles."
It's unlikely that Stein will practice medicine again.
"The conduct that was described in that report is horrendous, inexcusable," says Bob Nebiker, director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions, the umbrella organization of the Virginia Board of Medicine.
A September 28 cover story in The Washington Post detailed Stein's alleged misdeeds.
Last October 11, Stein's license was suspended for one year following the Board's findings. However, Nebiker insists that there was no harsher penalty available at the time.
"It was the same effect as revocation," says Nebiker. "In either case, the physician could apply to have his license reinstated after one year." That policy has now been modified to distinguish clearly between suspension and revocation, Nebiker says.
Through his attorney, Rockville, Maryland-based Geoffrey Gavett, Stein declined all comment on the allegations.
Nebiker says there is no record at this time of an application from Stein for reinstatement of his medical license.
And though Fairfax County police opened an investigation into the death of Stein's patient Anita Kratzke, that case has been closed, according to Fairfax police spokesperson Courtney Young. "That's a civil matter now," she says. The Washington Post reported that Fairfax detective Robert Murphy told Kratzke's husband, Robert, in an email, "I believe the only way we could have known the truth was with an autopsy, which Dr. Stein thwarted when he signed the death certificate."
Sarah says she'd like to see Stein punished. "I think he's a danger to other people," she says. "Losing his license isn't enough."
Vengeance, however, doesn't seem to run in the Manuel family. Like her father, Sarah would like to put the past behind her and to see her family heal.
"I'm really okay," she says.
Sarah, age 2.
"It was obvious to us and everyone else we knew that these allegations couldn't be true," says Kathleen Manuel.
Two corrections have been made to the online version of this story:
* the alleged statement made to Tom Manuel that he could be arrested at "any time" was originally misattributed, and
* an attorney's last name was misspelled.


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I looking for an article that I read once but cannot find now.
The author described his approach for error messages: instead of displaying (and logging) a code (e.g. 987345345EXRTET), he would always display (and log) a series of words (e.g. dolphin pancake Wednesday), and that series would uniquely identify the error in the logs.
Users inevitably found these error messages novel, refreshing, intriguing, memorable, and useful--useful because if they ever needed to talk to Support about something, the tech support could immediately find the occurrence of that error by searching that particular string.
Did anyone else see that article (or could you flesh out this approach better so that I could actually implement it)?


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CRESTVIEW � Coming off a 17-14 loss to Navarre last Friday night, Crestview High School�s football team has lost three games by nine points.
CRESTVIEW � Coming off a 17-14 loss to Navarre last Friday night, Crestview High School�s football team has lost three games by nine points.
First-year Bulldog coach Tim Hatten knows the formula for success isn't complicated.
"We've had three tough losses in a row," he said. "You have to find a way to win the close ones and that's the bottom line. To win the close ones you have to make less mistakes than the other team and to this point we haven't done that.
"Fourteen points is not enough to win at any level. The bottom line is if we can't average 28 or 35 points with what we do offensively, we should. But for whatever reason we have breakdowns in a lot of different areas and we've got to keep watching film and keep correcting our mistakes and stay the course."
Crestview has been one play away from a win in each of the three losses.
"You don't ever want to be proud of the fact that you are in every game, but at the same time you don't want to get blown and that hasn't happened to us," he said. "They don't give you prizes in football for being close."
The Bulldogs (1-3) host Okaloosa County rival Fort Walton Beach (2-2) at 7 p.m. Friday. The Vikings are coming off a 27-7 loss to Rickards.
Hatten knows how important it is for the Crestview players to get a win after three close calls.
"I think we are moving in the right direction," he said. "We just have to make sure that we show some progress in the wins and loss category and the kids need that more than anything else."
The Vikings present their own set of challenges with star receiver Marquese Davenport leading the offense.
Hatten said the Viking quarterbacks get rid of the ball quickly so the defense will have to be ready for plays that develop in a hurry.
Hatten expects the Viking defense to line up in four-man front and try to pressure the quarterback.
"We need to be able to control that pressure, not only running the ball, but throwing the ball," he said. We are going to attack the areas we think they are weak at or where they give us a bubble and a little bit of an advantage and kind of go from there."
Hatten said it's important to get the ball to Emmanuel Reed in an open space. He also wants to get more touches for Jaylynne Robinson.
As has been the case the last two weeks both Khalil Foster and Corey Armstrong will see time at quarterback.
"We will continue to play two quarterbacks and see which one can do this (best run the offense)," Hatten said. "When Khalil is not at quarterback he's a great receiver and he's proven that when he's gone in and made a play at receiver."
Hatten believes the Bulldogs will eventually come around on offense and maybe it will happen Friday against the Vikings.
"More than anything we just have to do what we do," he said. "We have to play defense and win the kicking game."
Who: Fort Walton Beach at Crestview
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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I have a quick question, we are redesigning and putting some of the sites inside a Panel (asp.net) so when the main link is click then it will show a list of other links underneath it.
Are this links seen by the search engines and picked up by the search engines?
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:37 AM
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 04:57 AM
Crawlers don't tend to execute code, but Google lets you submit XML sitemaps which will get all content indexed.
Look at the Google Webmaster tools.
Look at the Google Webmaster tools.
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