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Some people would pay to hear actor Ian McKellen read the phone book. I'd pay to see Peter Jackson - who is directing him in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - film anything from the Gilgamesh Epic to Roberts' Rules of Order. In The Two Towers, Jackson paints a world in upheaval and depicts the drastic revamping of its codes and traditions. The result is harrowing and inspiring. As escapist entertainment, it's the movie of the year.
This is the rare picture that evokes and revives the spirit of classics from The Wizard of Oz to The Seven Samurai. It thrives on small moments as well as sweeping set pieces. When a snow-white horse answers the call of a Wizard, or a proud brown stallion nuzzles a fallen warrior back to life, we feel tingles on top of tingles. These poetic bits of storytelling are like glittering punctuation marks in a feature-length spell. And when the proliferating forces of destruction swirl around the fragile remnants of humans, Elves and Dwarfs, our pulses quicken, and our sympathies enlarge to include admiration for tainted champions who redeem themselves in action.
In lesser hands, The Two Towers, the second chapter in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, would merely be a multiple chase film. Jackson makes it a mammoth thing of kinetic beauty. He plummets headlong into a series of moral cliffhangers both suspenseful and suffused with tests of character, ethics and loyalty.
The first movie ended with the sundering of the Fellowship of the Ring. This movie puts the surviving members through a whole new set of hoops. Our hobbit heroes, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin), stumble by themselves toward the forbidding realm of Mordor, where they mean to destroy the Ring of Power in the Mountain of Fire. At the same time, the Man Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the Dwarf Gimli (John-Rhys Davies) and the Elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom) follow the trail of their hobbit friends Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd), while orc-goblin hybrids known as Uruk-Hai drag these tiny beings toward the evil Saruman (Christopher Lee).
Saruman, a malignant Wizard who has become the Dark Lord Sauron's partner in apocalypse, builds an Uruk-Hai army 10,000 strong to hurl against his and Sauron's enemies. (The title The Two Towers refers to Saruman's and Sauron's fortresses.) Luckily, Gandalf (Ian McKellen), the valiant Wizard last seen tumbling down an abyss in the Mines of Moria with the fiery demon Balrog, re-emerges white-clad and battle-hardened.
Imbued with the spirit and letter of Tolkien - but not enslaved to them - Jackson heightens the book's dramatic issues with visceral tension. He raises soul-rocking questions at each turn. There's no truth to the notion that The Two Towers draws obvious battle lines between good and evil. One root of the tale is every creature's vulnerability to greed, despair or illusions of omnipotence. Another is the weakness of mortal Man: his inability to resist potent temptations or to withstand forces beyond his ken. The brilliance of the adaptation lies in Jackson's skill at making ambivalence and indecision dynamic and intriguing.
Nowhere is that better demonstrated than in his triumphant vision of Gollum, the hobbit who lost his soul to the Ring of Power and now still hungers for his "Precious." Embodied by a galvanizing performer named Andy Serkis, then computerized into big-eyed and emaciated pink-gray form, Gollum slithers through the movie like a literal worm of conscience. Frodo temporarily tames Gollum into servitude - Gollum calls Frodo his Master and reverts to his erstwhile hobbit name, Smeagol. But Frodo's goodhearted protector Sam senses that this grasping, unformed critter cannot be trusted. There's no sharper cinematic rendering of schizophrenia than Serkis' showcase scene here - a conversation between Gollum and Smeagol. Jackson shoots it dead-on as Serkis delineates the dual personalities with crackling virtuosity and psychological insight.
Visually, Gollum is like a fetus you pray will never reach full growth. Dramatically, he catalyzes a queasy comedy. As written, he's both a crude eccentric and a master of passive-aggressive subterfuge. (He's got a touch of Dickens' Uriah Heep to him.) And Serkis supplies Gollum with a sometimes irritating, sometimes tickling voice and enough vestiges of scared-kiddiness that you can understand why Frodo wishes for the best from him. More important, as Frodo becomes more self-aware, he sees that Gollum is a nightmare image of himself: a spectral example of what happens to a hobbit when he falls in love with the Ring.
It's a victory for Jackson and his eloquently tremulous star Wood that Frodo remains this huge film's center of gravity. His scenes attain dizzying lows and highs in quick succession. The movie's pinnacle comes when he feels the full weight of the Ring and voices his pessimism at its destruction. Sam keeps him focused on the quest. "There is good in the world, and it's worth fighting for," he tells Frodo. The breathtaking force of that scene proves the power of simple language when it's voiced with conviction and set in a framework that makes every word count.
The Two Towers is Shakespearean in its range of empathy and fleetness and in its knowledge that "ripeness is all." Among the new allies Gandalf hopes to gather to his side are the Riders of Rohan, renowned for valor and horsemanship. But the King of Rohan, Theoden (Bernard Hill), has succumbed to a corrupt counselor, Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif). Does Theoden contain enough shreds of his old self for Gandalf to rouse his integrity? Will Aragorn's appeal to virtue prod the King to action when Uruk-Hai swarm at Rohan's stronghold of defense, Helm's Deep?
Hill turns Theoden into a stymied monarch with a stature comparable to King Lear's. His transformation from beaten man to restored ruler is a fabulous combination of outsize acting and spot-on special effects. No dissolve from Mr. Hyde to Dr. Jekyll was ever as transporting. But even after Theoden expels Grima Wormtongue, Aragorn must persuade the King to fight Saruman. Hill's face is the portrait of a moral quandary. He doesn't want his people ravaged in warfare; he needs convincing that their lives will worsen or end if he surrenders.
The way Jackson and company shape the story, the towering Treebeard, an Ent, or shepherd of forests who himself resembles a tree, offers a comic, stirring counterpoint to Theoden. When he takes Merry and Pippin under his limbs, they attempt to enlist him in the crusade against Saruman. But the rhythms of Ents are wondrous slow. Only when Treebeard sees Saruman's scorched earth does he rally his forces - and when he does, the justice meted out by the Ents has a potency comparable to the Flood in John Huston's The Bible.
Fluid in movement and imagery, full-bodied in its feelings and astonishing in its nuances, The Two Towers engulfs you in a world of lyric uplift and soul-shriveling crises. Lovers like Aragorn and the Elf Arwen (Liv Tyler) share a passion overleaping physical boundaries. Catastrophes yield gargantuan humor as well as bold strokes and rending sacrifice. (Rhys-Davies' Dwarf Gimli becomes as instantly and continuously funny as the Wookie in the first two Star Wars films.)
Paradoxically, the hobbits - these modest "Halflings" - tower above everything. After all, The Lord of the Rings is the hobbit Frodo's odyssey. Nestled in their Shire, he and his mates provide a dream of affability. By the end of The Two Towers, you need to see them safely home.
Two Towers
Starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee
Directed by Peter Jackson
Released by New Line
Rated PG-13
Running time 179 minutes
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TORONTO — Steven Bergson was five years old when he picked up his first comic book. It didn't take long until he was hooked.
"Once I came across a comic, I wanted more. [I liked] the colourful superheroes, the super powered good guys beating up the bad guys," said Bergson, a former librarian who never lost his appreciation for comics and graphic novels. "I still read superhero comics sometimes."
As he got older, Bergson, a research administrator at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, began reading an array of comics, including Jewish-themed graphic novels.
"I found it was unusual for them to be out there," he said of Jewish comics like Maus by Art Spiegelman and To the Heart of the Storm, by Will Eisner. "There's a lot more out there than there used to be. I think people are more aware of the new stuff, not the old stuff."
Around seven years ago, Bergson first had the idea to create a Jewish comic anthology – a collection that would bring older Jewish comics together with new stories. But he quickly learned the idea was easier said than done.
"I started with an American Jewish publisher. I essentially got a rejection," he said.
After many years and different publishers, Bergson came across an article in The CJN last October about Andy Stanleigh of Alternate History Comics, which publishes comics and graphic novels. When approached, Stanleigh was more than just intrigued.
"I said, 'Hey, why would anybody pass this up?' (Bergson) has been working on it for the last five or six years. He had the titles and the artists that he wanted to include," said Stanleigh. "He basically handed it off to me."
To fund the project, called The Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1, Stanleigh turned to the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, where his fundraising goal of $50,000 was surpassed by more than $2,000.
While Bergman was surprised by the funds, Stanleigh wasn't.
"I knew it was going to be a really nice, wide-reaching thing," he said.
The project, which should be ready for print in May and released in June, is a mix of newly commissioned stories and older works that are being republished.
Comics from artists like Spiegelman, Eisner, Michael Netzer and Robert Crumb will be included in the anthology, along with a story written by Bergson about a Jew who finds a clever way of dealing with anti-Semitism.
One of the stories included is a little-known piece of Jewish folklore written several centuries ago. The tale is about a modest Jewish virgin who is kidnapped by her city's ruler. When asked why, the ruler explains that he's infatuated with her because of her beautiful eyes. In an effort to keep her virginity, the girl asks to get ready for the ruler in a private room, where she gouges out her eyes. After handing them off to the ruler, she's finally sent home.
While the story is dark, Bergson enjoyed its irony.
"I think the fact that it was ever told at all and the fact that it seems to no longer be discussed tells us something about Jewish storytelling," he said.

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- Acronyms, abbreviations, and symbols: D*0979875
- Key plan, 19.3.2012: D*0979965
- Naming conventions for tunnels and shafts, 17.4.2012: D*0979995
- Flow diagram electrons / positrons, 17.4.2012: D*0990385
- Underground caverns, 17.4.2012: D*0990415
- Chapter 1: Tunnel Cross Section Configuration Study (no costs), Rev 1, 13.2.2012: D*0990585
- Chapter 2: Electrical design and cost report (no costs), Rev. 1, 3.2.20112: D*0979935
- Chapter 3: Mechanical design and cost report (no costs), Rev. 1, 3.2.20112: D*0979905
- Laser Equipment Enclosures (draft Feb 14, 2012): D*0974815
- Dumps (draft Apr 19, 2012): D*0974845
- Electrical (operating peak) power in MW, 13.8.2012: D*0971185
- Thermal load in MW, 4.12.2012: D*0971155
- List of Questions / Basis of Design (Oct 6, 2010): D*0970485
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- Hydrogeologic Study for the Siting and Design of the ILC near Fermilab: D*0975005
- AAA: "Investigating the Single Tunnel Proposal in a Japanese Mountainous Site": D*0994455
- Y. Budagov et al.: "Dubna site investigation": D*0928865
- A.V.Kurnaev et al.: "Results of the preliminary geological engineering
surveys along the supposed route of the ILC": D*0994635
- W. Bialowons, J. A. Osborne and G. Shirkov: "Siting Study for European ILC Sites": ILC-HiGrade-Report-2010-004-1, D*0994485
- W. Bialowons and J. A. Osborne: "Site Selection Criteria for European ILC Sites": ILC-HiGrade-Report-2010-003-1, D*0994535
- C.S. Waaijer: "Guidelines and criteria for an environmental impact assessment for the Linear Collider project at CERN": D*0996465
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Asian Site Documents
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Cost Information
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- Parsons: "ILC RDR Underground Unit Cost Analysis Geotechnical Design Basis": D*0974965
- ILC Tunnel Configuration Study: D*0974935
- Hughes: "ILC Methodologies for Estimating Underground Construction Costs": D*0975915
- Lemley: "Shaft and mass excavation proces developed for FNAL": D*0975885
- "Surface Grouting Cost Model": D*0975965
- Asian region: "Fire safety for ILC single tunnel": D*0899575
- Americas region: "Life safety / fire protection analysis for the ILC": D*0899675
- Americas region: "Fire egress analysis for the ILC", 9.12.201: D*0980055
- CLIC: "Compact Linear Collider: Guidelines on the reduction of fire hazards": D*0899715
- LHC: "LHC fire safety description": D*0899755
- XFEL: "Security and Workplace Safety Concepts for the Construction, Installation and Operation of the XFEL Research Facility": D*0899615
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- Black&Veach: ILC Constructability Review Report (13.3.2012): D*0990555
CAD Models of Tunnel Sections
Electron Source CFS Criteria
- CFS Design Criteria, final TDR draft 2.3.2012: D*0970195
Positron Source CFS Criteria
Damping Ring CFS Criteria
- CFS Design Criteria, final draft for TDR 13.6.2012: D*0960625
Experimental Hall CFS Criteria
RTML CFS Criteria
- CFS Design Criteria, final TDR draft 22.5.2012: D*0970275
Main Linac CFS Criteria
- Cryo Design Criteria for CFS, 13.8.2012, : D*0970445
Klystron Cluster Scheme (KCS)
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- Process water plants (KCS, draft Aug 13, 2012): D*0971245
- KCS Power Load Distribution by Shaft (draft Aug 13, 2012): D*0974885
BDS CFS Criteria
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Not at their best that nightI have seen U2 a number of times on various tours and they always put on a great show. This show was pretty good as well, but the band was clearly a little rusty after the enforced break due to family illness a little earlier in the year. The most memorable moment was Party Girl - where it seemed no-one could remember the lyrics and The Edge kept strumming away while he and Bono tried to remember! That aside, a below par U2 show is way ahead of the best of anyone else. As always it was a privilege to see such a wonderful yet humble band.


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The last few weeks I've been musing about how FPGAs and Verilog are working their way into many embedded systems. I mentioned last time that it is much simpler to describe logic in a high-level language like Verilog (or VHDL) instead of drawing huge schematics. The wires required to hook up even a small CPU would quickly look tangle like a pretzel – or maybe a plate of spaghetti (not to mention real life wires; see Steve Chamberlin's Big Mess 'o Wires computer, for example).
I also mentioned that you have to build a crystal radio before you can start working on a multichannel digital stereo system. To that end, this time I want to show you what some very simple logic circuits in Verilog look like.
A Verilog "program" consists of modules. Modules can contain other modules or basic Verilog statements. Typically, a Verilog program has one of two possible purposes. In some cases, an engineer writes Verilog to simulate a system. A simulation often has commands that you use to write data to a file, for example. It might have specific timing delay information. Frequently, the main part of a simulation looks suspiciously like a C program where the test fixture (or test bench) steps through a sequence of commands.
Other Verilog modules are made for synthesis. That is, some tool is going to parse the Verilog and generate an electronic circuit from it and then further process that circuit to create the programming file for an FPGA. This is, of course, highly vendor-specific and not all tools support all the same synthesis constructs. In general, you will have to use a very particular subset of Verilog if you expect your code to be synthesizable. Frequently, a test bench will instantiate synthesizable modules to test. That's ok. The Verilog simulation can do anything. The synthesis is where certain operations won't work.
Keep in mind, though, there's no official way to tell which kind of module you are looking at. If you know what synthesis tool you are using and you know what statements are not allowed for synthesis using that tool, then the presence of forbidden commands means the module is not synthesizable (by that tool). Even then, some synthesizers simply ignore certain constructs, so it can still be hard to tell if the developer intended the module to be dual-purpose or not.
To start, let's consider a simple circuit that uses two AND gates, each with two inputs. In Verilog, there are at least two ways to accomplish this task. First, you need a module statement that defines the inputs and outputs:
module and_test(output y, input in1, input in2, input in3);
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Markov nominated for Masterton trophy; 'Every time I step on the ice, it's a great feeling' // The Gazette
If there's anyone who knows the long road back from an injury it's Canadiens' defenceman Andrei Markov.
He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee twice and underwent two ACL reconstructions, missing most of the past two seasons.
Markov has been nominated for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to an NHL player who best exemplifies perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to the game.
He was selected as the nominee from the Canadiens in a vote by the Montreal chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. The Masterton trophy winner will be chosen at the end of the regular season by a vote of PHWA members.
"I'm just happy to play the game," Markov, 34, said Monday.
"Every time I step on the ice it's a great feeling. ... I have a big list of the people who helped me over the past two years and thanks to them, too."
Markov has played in all of the Canadiens' 45 games to date this season and has the highest average ice time - 24: 18 - among the team's defencemen. A key fixture on the Habs' power play, Markov got off to a strong start but has struggled defensively of late - his plus/minus differential is minus-12 - as has the team, which is mired in a late-season slump. His 27 points - nine goals and 18 assists - is fourth-highest on the team. He is also tied for fifth in points among NHL defencemen.
"When you talk about perseverance, Andrei is proof of it," said coach Michel Therrien, who noted the veteran defenceman is an important player on the team who they've used a lot.
While every game hasn't gone as he'd like, Markov said he tries to play his best and enjoy every game. "I'm happy I'm healthy right now and I still have room to improve and I'm going to work on that in the future."
There were bad days and good ones when he was injured, but Markov said he tried to stay positive every day, look forward and concentrating on his rehab.
It's "tough to say" Markov said about whether he finds his skating like it was before he was injured. "I don't feel any issue right now on the ice. I feel comfortable when I'm skating. But at the same time you always have room to improve and that's what I'm looking for, to improve my game, to improve who I am and just looking forward."
Bill Masterton played for the Minnesota North Stars. He died two days after being injured in a game in 1968 when his head struck the ice.
Five Canadiens have won the trophy named after him since its inception that year - more winners than from any other NHL team.
Former Canadiens captain Saku Koivu earned the honour in 2002 after his remarkable return to play near the end of the regular season after undergoing chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Max Pacioretty won the trophy last year after an impressive comeback season in which he led the Canadiens in points. In a scary, controversial incident the previous season, Pacioretty was knocked unconscious when his head hit the stanchion near the Boston Bruins' bench as he was checked by defence-man Zdeno Chara.
The other Canadiens to win the Masterton are Serge Savard, Henri Richard and the late Claude Provost.


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WestHash is crypto currency cloud mining service just like its big brother NiceHash. It offers users the same functionality to either sell their hashrate or buy hashrate for the supported algorithms such as Scrypt, SHA256, Scrypt-N, X11, X13, Keccak, X15 or Nist5 as NiceHash does. WestHash is a geographically separated system, running as a whole under global NiceHash master system (our review of NiceHash). WestHash does have an independent market, however accounting, payments and everything else is fully integrated into a single system. WestHash brings are more attractive opportunities for hashrate providers as well as for hashrate buyers, even though the market is located in US West is optimal for hashing power sellers and buyers located in US, Canada and other near regions. While NiceHash is located in Europe and is optimal for hashing power sellers and buyers located in Europe, Russia and other near regions. This does not mean that you cannot use both services, regardless of your location, in fact if you have already registered on NiceHash you can already use your existing account to buy hashing power on WestHash as well. The fact that the two websites have separate markets means that you might get good opportunities for either buying or selling hashrate at either of the two services, so you may have better opportunities to make something extra if you keep an eye on the prices in both places.
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It seems that lately there are just very few new alternative coins worth mining and they are getting fewer and fewer. We are still seeing multiple coin launches every day, but the ones that look decent or even worth checking out are getting less and less. Large percentage for IPO or Pre-mine, no actual reason for a coin's existence or a plan for development, quick POW phase and then POS resulting in mine and dump as soon a the coin hits an exchange. Not to mention that with many people renting their rigs and selling hashrate you can easily get a lot of hashrate to mine a new coin and then you just want to dump the mined coins with profit and then move to the next new launch. All this is driving away people from new coins, but it will hopefully result in the launch of more reasonable coins taking over… just like how the interest in "country coins" has declined. We need quality and not just quantity, we need innovation in order for things to move on. Now everyone is giving empty (mostly) promises about anonymity, but with Darkcoin not doing so well after the recent boom and new coins not being able to deliver on empty promises about anonymity, this is also getting old. So more and more miners prefer to start selling their hashrate with expected stable profit or to mine in multipools with some extra profit and direct payment directly in BTC to save themselves time and headaches. So what comes up next?
NiceHash is an interesting and relatively new service that allows users to sell the hashrate that their mining hardware generates or to buy such to mine a specific coin at a user set pool with one of the supported crypto algorithms. This service however is not a mining rig leasing or cloud mining from a centralized service provider, it is more like something in between these two and the result you get is actually pretty nice as an alternative to the other two services. We have tried the service for both selling some hashrate ourselves as well as buying some to see how are thing and to also get a good idea on how well it operates for both buyers and sellers. We are also going to share some useful tips that we have discovered during our testing of the service, so that you might get a better start should you decide to check it out yourself.
The first impression when you open the website of NiceHash can be a bit misleading if you are not sure what to expect, so we do recommend to start with the FAQ section of the website to learn about the service and how it operates in order to get to know how things work. The FAQ section should give you most of the answers you might have, and you should also check the page with information about compatible software miners with the service and make sure you are using one of the recommended miners in order to avoid possible problems. In short what NiceHash does for you is act as a stratum proxy between you and the pool that your hardware is mining at for the moment. So all you have to do is to set the right stratum server for NiceHash in your miner, depending on the algorithm that the miner uses and just run the miner as usual with your Bitcoin address as a username and enter any password. It is as simple as that and you don't even need to register in order to be able to sell your hashrate, though for buying hashrate you will have to make an account, because you will be depositing Bitcoins that you will use for purchase. Currently NiceHash supports Scrypt, SHA-256, Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor and X11 algorithms and you can purchase hahsrate and point it at the pool you want to mine at if you are buying hashrate. All purchases and payments are made in Bitcoins, no other crypto currency is currently supported by the service. So you can say that when selling your hashrate it is almost as if you are mining in a multipool where regardless of what is being mined you get payed in Bitcoins in the end.
Now, we have started with the buying part where we have decided to get some X11 hashrate as DarkCoin is currently booming, so the interest in X11 hashrate is high at the moment. We have started with depositing a small amount of Bitcoins to our wallet address in NiceHash and we quickly got the deposit available as only two confirmations are required for you to be able to use the deposited Bitcoins for orders. Again, in order to be able to buy hashrate you will need to register as the procedure is a bit more complex and can be even a bit confusing the first time you go through the whole process, but after that it is easier as you know what to do and how.
The page where you create an order is the hardest to go through the first time, especially if you haven't familiarized yourself with the way the service operates and checked how things work with the orders. Here you need to select the algorithm you are going to be purchasing hashrate for, then select how much you are going to pay (you need to have the Bitcoins already deposited and confirmed), the minimum you cans pend for an order is 1 Bitcoin cent (0.01 BTC). You can select to limit the maximum hashrate you are getting per second, something that is a good idea actually, but we'll get back to that in a moment. And then you also need to set the price you are willing to pay in Bitcoins per Gigahash per Day, you can find the current rates for the different algorithms on the front page. Calculating this can be a bit confusing, and you need to be careful and watch how the market price is moving with the currently available orders. Based on your settings you will get an estimation for the total hashrate you will get and the duration you will have the purchased hashrate mine for you. Do note that the service charges 2% fee on the purchase of mining hashrate.
After that you need to enter the pool details, make sure you are setting the right pool that uses the algorithm you are purchasing hashrate for and also make sure to use pools that are working stable and can handle a lot of hashrate coming to them. If you do not limit the hashrate you are going to be getting and you have the highest price you ma end up throwing an enormously high hashrate at the pool of your choice and thus you may bring it down if it cannot handle the load. This is one of the reasons you need to use some sort of a limit to the hahsrate you are going to be using, regardless of the total amount you purchase. One of the nicest things about NiceHash is that you can purchase 1 GHS worth of X11 hashrate for example and have that mining for you for 10 minutes, 60 minutes, a day or more… it all depends on the total amount you are spending and the limit (if any) you have set. So you can purchase ridiculously high hashrate for short period of time and get it right away instead of purchasing just a few megahashes that will mine for you for months – the end result should be similar. The first option of getting a lot of hashrate for shorter time does have some more advantages however as yo do not have to worry about difficulty increase as much as when mining for longer time, but it also has drawbacks. You must always set limits in the hashrate if you are mining for crypto currencies such as Bitcoin or DarkCoin that do have pretty high difficulty and finding block make take up to 30 minutes, an hour or even more. The reason for that is to have the hashrate mine for you for long as if you get some bad luck and the block finding time is over the average your mining profit may be less if you throw a lot of hashrate for just a few minutes. Spreading the hashrate with a limit for longer time would cover better for bad luck at the pool and will also minimize the risk of you bringing the pool down, so do consider setting the limit for hashing speed.
When you activate an order you can see the progress and you can also edit some of the parameters or cancel the order before it is fully executed and get back the remaining Bitcoins that are still not spent. What you can edit here is the price you are paying for GH per Day, though there is a catch here and it is that you can only increase the price, not get it lower than your initial offer. This is a plus for the people selling hashrate, but not so good for maximizing efficiency for people buying hashrate, though you can cancel the order and recreate it with lower price if suddenly the market price for the hashrate drops significantly under your set price. The other thing you can change on the fly is the limit of the hashrate you have set, or if you haven't set one you can add it here. Changing both settings may take a bit before they are activated and if you are changing the limit significantly it may also take a bit longer before the active hashrate adjusts to the new value.
You can also track your order in the list of orders on the homepage, your active orders are marked with blue, so they are easy to spot and keep track of. This is the place where you can track the current market price and especially if you do not want to rent all of the available hashrate, but only some part of it there is no need to set the highest price, with a lower offer you can still get the amount of hashrate you need and as we've mentioned if the price increases you can also adjust it up or cancel the order and recreate it if the price gets lower. It is a wise idea to keep track of the market in order to really get the maximum for the Bitcoins you pay for renting hashrate and if needed do adjustments to your order. Also do check the expected return of investment based on the price you pay and the hashrate you get and if the market price goes too high then you can cancel your order and wait for the price to drop before reactivating the order as in the end you want to end up with more than you have spent.
In our test we have spent 0.01682019 BTC for renting X11 hashrate at 1.1 BTC per GH per Day and the resulting mined DarkCoins wih the rented hashrate was a little over 1.2 DRK which converted on the DRK/BTC exchange rate was 0.01595322 BTC. We could've made a bit more if we have spread our hashrate for longer period of time with a lower limit than and we've started without a limit at first, so initially we got about 1 GHS worth of hashrate thrown at the pool and it was able to handle it. Again we advice to use a limit and not set the limit too high, even better start with a small limit and adjust it based on the results you are getting. Once you make a few orders you will get better, so do the first ones with a small amount so that if you mess up the order parameters the loss will be small in the worst case scenario.
Moving on to the renting part, we have decided to test out renting a single GeForce GTX 780 Ti video card that produces about 4.6 MHS for mining X11 crypto coins such as DarkCoin. Do note however that it is not that wise to rent Nvidia GPUs for X11 hashrate as you need to use ccminer and it currently does not support backup pools, so if NiceHash is not providing work for you the card cannot switch to a backup pool and will stay idle and this is something that you do not want. Still this may not happen if you keep selling your hashrate, unless you decide to set a minimum for the price you are going to be selling your hashrate. Normally, unless there are no orders left your hashrate will be sold, though it might not be at the highest market order for the moment – this is something you can keep track in the status page for your account. Since selling of hashrate does not require you to register at NiceHash you need to find your status page by looking for your username which is also the Bitcoic payment address that you have set at the software miner. Do note that the service applies 2% fee for renting hashrate as well as for buying it, you will notice the subtraction of the fee when payment is processed. Also payments are made few times a day if your balance exceeds a certain minimum, different for each algorithm and you can read about them in the FAQ.
In our first 24 hours selling our hashrate of about 4.6 MHS we've managed to earn 0.00490318 BTC, so not so bad. Do note that the market price was about 1.1 BTC when we started renting the hashrate and in the next 24 hours with the market price increasing to about 2.6 BTC at the end of the period we have earned 0.0079467 BTC or significantly better than for the first day. In fact if you want to make some good profit it may be wise to sell your X11 hashrate than to directly mine for DarkCoin for example as at the moment the interest is high and in the short term you can get more BTC than directly mining for DRK and exchanging them immediately after that or for using a multipool with direct BTC payout.
Our conclusion, NiceHash is really a good alternative to multipools and cloud mining service providers or mining rig leases and if used right it can give you some nice profit, regardless if you buy hashrate or sell your hashrate. It provides you with a great opportunity to mine a lot of a new coin at launch time if you do not have a lot of hashing power yourself or to maximize the profit from the hashrate you currently own easier than to always look for new coins to throw your hashrate at. There are also some things that can still be improved, for example if you have registered to link your account to the selling hashrate functionality and thus be able to use the generated BTC from selling for buying hashrate as well should you wish to do so. Generally however we've had no problems using NiceHash and we like how things are working out already. So if you still haven't checked out the service we do recommend to do so now.
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Of course, he's tackling this little old quarter-mile in a Porsche 911 GT2 RS while a chap in a Ducati 1199 Panigale stands ready in the other lane. Going straight is not as easy as it looks. Having pulled off a few embarrassing quarter miles myself in a Viper and a Porsche 911 Turbo I speak from experience.
Keep at it Chris, and maybe one day the John Force will be with you.


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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Stuck in the Middle
Seem to be in a pattern here: post about something bad in the OR, then something cool. Here's another bad thing, based on a bad thing. Then maybe I'll get off it for a while.
Getting stuck with a needle has never been fun, even before it could be fatal. I've had my share. Converted my hepatitis titer while I was in San Francisco, though I never got sick. If nothing else, sometimes it hurts like hell, right in the middle of a case. Methods to prevent getting nailed are in the category of the desirable. Great minds attend to it. Less than great minds appear to be the ones, so far, to have come up with solutions:
And I couldn't even find a picture of the worst offender: probably got sold just before the sales force slunk out of town. The "safety" part looks like the back leg of a grasshopper, as it slides up and down the needle. Where I work, the hospital bought it by the pantload.
Anyhow, the point is this: laudable as the concept might be, the "safety needles" I've seen and used to date are anything but. Cumbersome, clumsy, and complicated to use, they interfere with the underlying purpose; namely, to inject stuff. Trying to fill up the muscle with local anesthetic through a small incision is all but impossible. So, at least in the operations I'm involved in now, we cut the damn sleeves off, defeating the entire purpose. The good news is that in doing so, we are actually making the procedure safer. The hospital recently completed a study: since the advent of the particular needle used in these parts, needle sticks in operating room personnel have gone UP!!!! Is anyone surprised?
Work-flow. Ergonomics. Energy expenditure: not my bag except in figuring out how to do what I do. But my two-cents worth says: the more complicated the system aimed at simplifying things, the more opposite from effective it is. The more people have to manipulate things in order to make their manipulations safer, the unsafer they get. Paying attention is really all it takes. However: I already admitted to my share of pokes. So, whaddya gonna do? Screwed. Either way.
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- beajerry said...
The only needle sticks I've received have been during vial draws,and it's because of the slipping protection sheaths making things cumbersome to get the needle cap back on.
Many OSHA requirements are similarly unworkable. For instance, you aren't allowed to work on the top level of a scaffold unless it has rails, but if there are rails then working with long materials becomes cumbersome. Therefore the workers themselves are often on their guard against OSHA.
Heavy construction and farming equipment is notorious for having built-in, onerous safety restrictions. Typically the owner loses patience at some point and disables them.
My Sears riding lawn mower will stall in reverse unless you put the key in a special position. No doubt everyone does this, so the only purpose it serves is in court: the plaintiff knowingly put the key in the reverse-enabled position, therefor he acknowledged the danger of driving in reverse.
Scaffolding has stickers on it indicating that it should not be used on a slope!
On the other hand, many regulation are apt and sensible, such as the one requiring that children's furniture and deck rails have gaps too small to imprison little heads.
It's no doubt a complicated balance, but when common sense loses out there definitely a net loss.
- Unknown said...
It was much easier to insert IVs until my hospital converted to a safety IV catheter system. Which meant the patient ended up getting stuck more times. When the OR converted to safety hypos, they were so cumbersome that most of our surgeons asked for the safety device to be broken off. I agree that they make it worse- it's better to use the standard equipment and pay attention.
- DK said...
As a student nurse I pay close attention to everything everyone in the hospital does. Since I have no experience in the non-safety needle world, the safety needles don't bother me (maybe they will later on). However, It's funny to see how few experienced people will engage the safety on the darn things.
Personally I like the lovenox prefilled syringe safety mechanism.
Simplicity is king.
I write software for a living. The interface on my web based software is very simple. All the commands to do any activty are arranged in a column on the left side of the screen. To see them just scroll up and down. My customers love it. They can find what they need. It cuts training time by 60%.
Software interface designers hate the interface on my software. They say things like, it's boring, it's complicated (huh?). Please follow the illogic here. They say it has no structure. Since there is no structure the user cannot be lead thru a series of steps to prevent the user from making a bad decision. The addition of this "structure" ,much like a needle cover, confuses users and increases errors.
The interface on the software does give the users a chance to make mistakes and bad decisions. But I believe users are smart and know thier jobs better than I do. Guess what, the users make very few mistakes after they are trained and understand the software.
Simplicity is king.


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Happy New Year
Some end of the year statistics for all of you:
The total amount of data in the form of torrents the have been uploaded to the site:
Broken down by year:
Here are links to the quarterly and monthly breakdowns.
Of all the data that is seeded, what would it take to download and store it all?
Well lets start with storage.
To store around 6.6 PB of data, you need a lot of disks, lets go with big ones, you will need approximately 500 14TB harddrives. The cheapest 14TB harddrive on Amazon is 336 USD per drive. That will add up to 168.000 USD. This does not include raid for dataprotection or computers to hold 500 harddrives.
To use 500 harddrives you need a place to put them, lets say a few 45 or 60 disk JBOD chassis, that will cost around 15 USD/disk, and you will need 11 or 9 of them respectively. That's another 7.500 USD.
Now you still need a computer, preferably something with alot of PCI-e slots for the eSATA cards the jbod chassis connect to. This will cost another 1.200 USD.
Now that we have all the stuff we need to download and store the data, we need to power it aswell, and that's not going to be cheap, lets say all the computers and harddrives use 9.500W of power, and you pay 12 cents per kWH, thats going to cost you 835 USD/month or 10.000 USD/year just to keep the power on.
There are probably quite a few duplicate files that can be deduplicated using file level deduplication, but rather than buying less disks you are probably better off adding some sort of fault tolerance to your storage.
To download all this data you will need alot of time, or a big fat internet connection.
On a 100mbit connection it would take 19 years to download all contents currently being seeded.
If you are lucky and have a gigabit fiber home you can do it in just under 2 years.
If you can get your hands on a 10gigabit connection, you can get it down to a more manageable two and a half months.
And nether of this is including the average of 1.6 TB of daily uploads which in itself would require one new 14TB harddrive every eight and a half days and an internet connection that can download 25mbit constantly.
Anyone up to the challenge?
Well the nerd-factor of having all this would of cource be huge!
But this is where bittorent shines, as long as we all keep seeding, especially the rarer and older stuff, one or a few don't have to take all the cost, we all contribute a few cents or dollars per month, on internet connections we already have, and unused storage on our computers, and everyone worldwide can continue to enjoy the torrents for years and decades to come.


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Fuld gets start in place of struggling Reddick
OAKLAND -- Struggling outfielder Josh Reddick was noticeably absent from Sunday's starting lineup. So were his trademarked long locks of hair, thanks to an overzealous haircutter on Saturday.
But Reddick's absence seemed to be mere coincidence, and not a result of his 2-for-22 (.100) start to the season. For the series finale against the Mariners and right-hander Erasmo Ramirez, A's manager Bob Melvin inserted early-season sparkplug Sam Fuld into the starting lineup in right field, batting seventh.
Asked about the lineup change, Melvin suggested it was more about Fuld than it was about Reddick.
"He's swung the bat well in his recent at-bats, and I want to keep him fresh," Melvin said of Fuld. "It's a little bit of a balancing act with the roster we have right now."
Fuld, 32, made the A's out of Spring Training after putting together a strong camp as a non-roster invitee. He followed that up by going 3-for-9 with two triples in limited action to start the year.
So with Craig Gentry's imminent arrival to Oakland off the 15-day disabled list, Sunday served as something of an audition for Fuld, who is trying to convince the A's that a five-man outfield could work.
Reddick is not the only A's regular who struggled in the opening week of the season, as Josh Donaldson (.091) and Yoenis Cespedes (.200) were also trying to put an end to slumps.
"When you get off to a slow start, whether it's [Donaldson] or Reddick, sometimes you try to do little bit too much," Melvin said. "You're a guy that the team relies on offensively and you get a little frustrated, but he'll get it back."


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"Sturgeon wrote miraculous short stories … Sturgeon found his urgency directed in becoming the John Dos Passos, the William Faulkner, the Ring Lardner, the James Thurber, the Virginia Woolf of science fiction."
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Black Hat 2011: Drive-by attacks can cause Android privacy leaks
In this video from the Black Hat 2011 security conference, Neil Daswani, CTO and co-founder of Dasient talks about his conference presentation. Daswani and his team demonstrated a drive-by attack on Google Android smartphones using a vulnerability in Webkit and a coding error in Skype. The exploit bypasses the Android platform sandboxing security features, allowing an attacker to take complete control of the smartphone to steal contact information, account credentials and other sensitive data. While the hole used in Webkit has been patched, Daswani believes more weaknesses exist in the browser engine. In addition, Daswani explains the results of his team's behavioral analysis of more than 10,000 Android applications. The study found widespread privacy leaks.
Read the full transcript from this video below:
Black Hat 2011: Android attacks and smartphone privacy leaks
Interviewer: We're here with Neil Daswani. He's Chief Technology
Officer at Dasient. You actually have a talk here at Black Hat, on some of
your team's vulnerability research, as well as some malware analysis. Let's
start with the Android attack that you're going to be talking about. How
serious is this? Give us a few details of what you guys came across.
Neil Daswani: So, I'll be giving a talk on Thursday. And I'll be covering some of
the findings from our team. We have been spending a little bit
more time looking at Android security. There are two key
contributions that we will be talking about. The first is that
if you look at most mobile malware, they've been spreading as
Trojans: programs that do one thing but claim to do
something else. And, if you look at malware distribution on the
web, a lot of malware gets spread by drive-by downloads.
So one question that we wanted to answer is "Is it possible to
spread malware on Android via the drive-by vector?" And so one
thing that the team has done is put together a prototype drive-
by for Android. We'll be talking about that, and how that works.
The second major contribution that we put forth in our work is
that we analyzed behaviorally 10,000 Android applications, and
identified that some of them were conducting privacy violations,
some of them were incurring some negative performance, and some
of them of course had interesting security implications. So,
we'll be covering both the prototype drive-by, as well as the
data that we learned from analyzing the 10,000 Android
Interviewer: Let's talk a little bit more about the prototype drive-by.
It takes advantage of two vulnerabilities, right? One in
WebKit and the other in Skype. I thought that Android has some
security features built in--Sandboxing being one--to kind of
prevent these kinds of attacks. What's going on here?
Neil Daswani: Sure. So, Android has had quite a bit of work put into its security.
That said, the operating system is a piece of software just like
any other, and software has vulnerabilities. So in the
prototype, what we have strived to look at it is that there's
been a lot of different component vulnerabilities--in WebKit, in
Skype, and in a number of other packages.
The question we wanted to answer is "Is it possible to glue
together these vulnerabilities to create a drive-by, much in the
same way that malware distributors do on the web?" We found that
that indeed was the case. And in this particular prototype we
used an issue vulnerability against WebKit as well as one
against Skype to steal the user's IM conversations off the
But one thing that I should note is that when you have
vulnerabilities in software like WebKit, it's possible not just
to steal the user's Skype/IM conversations, but to conduct other
kinds of attacks using vulnerabilities against other client-side
software, as well as against the operating system itself--to
take root access, and pretty much own the device.
Interviewer: Wow. Is this something that has already been patched, or
is this still in the wild, still available?
Neil Daswani: These two vulnerabilities that were used in this particular prototype
drive-by are both known vulnerabilities. That said, they are
patched on some systems but not others. One of the things that
we've been seeing in the Android and mobile device world is that
patching currently takes longer than patching does on desktop/PC
platforms. So, ten to twelve years ago, the world worked and
moved towards getting on a weekly patch schedule, for instance,
for Windows. And because of the complexity of carriers'
networks, operators, and all the different devices, the world is
still getting there. But that said, the good news is that
carriers have the opportunity to help create such a patch cycle
and keep it organized.
Interviewer: In terms of the iPhone, is the iPhone susceptible to drive-
by attacks as well?
Neil Daswani: The iPhone has had a drive-by attack published about it. There's for
instance a site called jailbreakme, and if you go to the
Jailbreak Me site on your iPhone, then supposedly you can get
your iPhone jailbroken just by loading the webpage there at that
site. So, drive-bys seem to be possible on iOS as well. IOS is a
complex piece of software, just like many others. I think that
thus far we haven't seen as many drive-by attacks on these
mobile platforms, but there's nothing to indicate that they
won't be soon to come, because of the fact that the devices are
getting used more and more so for mobile commerce and mobile
banking, and we'll have to work together to keep the world a
safer place.
Interviewer: You mentioned patching, and how it's a little more
complicated for mobile platforms, especially I suppose Android,
right, because there's so many different devices out there, and
then you've got the carrier issue. Is that really what
complicates it?
Neil Daswani: That is one for the things that complicates it. If you look at the
Android world, there are a lot of different carriers, there are a
lot of different devices. Even though the OS is the same, there
are many different versions of the OS. So that makes uniform
patching harder.
At the same time, if you look at the Apple platform, Apple has a
lot more central control. So they are able to do updates and
patches in a more uniform way. It currently requires some level
of user permission. Each of the platforms has their own trade-
off. If you look at the Android platform, just about anybody can
write an application. You don't have to go through a very
complex vetting process. Some may hope that will lead to more
innovation and more applications.
At the same time, it also means that keeping the environment
locked down and keeping security in good shape will probably
take a little bit more work in the Android world. Of course, in
the iOS world, there's more centralization. What that may mean
is that there may be fewer applications that come out due to the
vetting process. But I think it will remain to be seen. We'll
have to see where things go.
Interviewer: Let's move on. This actually brings us to your analysis of
all of these applications, 10,000 Android applications. And you
found some interesting things, some privacy issues.
Neil Daswani: We certainly did. We conducted a behavioral analysis of these 10,000
Android applications and found a couple of things relating to
privacy that I think are definitely worth mentioning. Out of the
10,000 applications that we had analyzed, about 8% of them, or
just 840 of them, were sending the user's IMEI number off to a
remote server. The user's IMEI number is an ID that is tied to
their device, and basically it can tell the remote server things
like how long that user has been using the phone over time. It
can also be used for other reasons. In addition to the IMEI
number leaking in some of the cases, the IMSI number was also
leaked in some amount of the cases.
About 60 applications leaked their IMSI number. And both the
IMEI and the IMSI number could be used to clone the phone and/or
the SIM card that's being used. The reason that's not good of
course is that an attacker could potentially clone a SIM card
and charge calls to that user.
Now, I think that one of the things I should mention is that all
these applications of course do ask for permission from the user
to access these numbers. There are also permissions that get
asked for, to connect to other servers on the internet. But
users very often don't think . . .
Interviewer: They have no idea what these numbers are.
Neil Daswani: . . . about the implications, that's right. They just say "Yes, yes,
yes." I think that while there is a good permissions model in
place, we'll probably have to work together as a community to
make sure that the permissions model used continues to get refined and so
that there are third parties that help assess what all these
applications are doing.
Interviewer: Are some of these applications, are the developers
building these features in maliciously, or is this a case where
some of them are just poorly coding? What's going on there?
Neil Daswani: In most of these cases the application developers themselves probably
are not malicious. They just want to get their applications
built, they want to get them out there, and they often may not
be thinking through all the different privacy implications of
what's taking place. So, for instance, if they need a user ID to
identify a user, there are many other options besides using an
IMEI number or an IMSI number. They could connect to a server
and choose an ID at random. They could use the user's email
address. That would have the advantage, that as the user
switches devices, that user ID would stay with them even as they
go across devices. I think that over time application developers
will become more sophisticated about how they're coding and
building their applications, to not only provide better
functionality but also to maintain more privacy and maintain
more security.
Interviewer: Most of our viewers are enterprises. They're CISO's--security officers
at large, mid-size, even small enterprises. How much should they
be paying attention to what's going on in the mobile space,
especially with the different applications? We hear so much
about vulnerabilities, we hear the issue of mobile malware
coming. Not a whole lot of it yet, but how closely should people
that are in charge of some of these areas in the enterprise pay
Neil Daswani: I think that chief security officers and IT administrators should
absolutely be paying attention to some of these things going on
in the mobile world. For instance, in the Thursday presentation
we're going to be talking about privacy leaks, there's also
other data that could also leak off the device. If you look at
what's been taking place in the mobile malware space, if we look
at the first 6 months of 2011 there has been more mobile malware
released than in the several years prior to that. It's going to
continue to grow.
Chief security officers and IT administrators will need to make
sure that they put countermeasures in place to protect their
corporate data, so that even if mobile malware does come down to
a device--like a Droid drain, which attempts to take root access
on the device, and sends sensitive information about the device
off to a bot master--the chief security officers, the IT
administration can protect confidentiality and the integrity of
their corporate data, even in the midst of all these threats.
It's going to be really important for them to pay attention.
Interviewer: One last question. It seems like security vendors and a
lot for the security software can't really run effectively on
mobile platforms, due to some of the restrictions that both
Google and Apple put on the devices. I've heard some people call
for them to open up a little bit more. Is that really needed in
order for security software to run effectively on these devices?
Neil Daswani: I think the topic of how to protect all these devices from
traditional virus threats is going to be really important to
address. If you look at the operating systems, if you look at
the Android OS, it is very open in many ways. If you look at iOS,
they do provide access to a certain level of things. But I think
that also, before we get into the mechanisms, we need to think
about the general model. If you think about traditional
antivirus for PCs, some antivirus packages have a reputation for
slowing down your PC, and they can become resource intensive.
Now, if you look at the resources available on a mobile device--
in terms of the lower amount of CPU available, the less network
bandwidth available--in order for them to provide protections
we're going to have to think pretty hard about how to make sure
that antivirus protections can come to mobile phones, but
without all the issues from before with regards to performance
as well as detection capability.
We've seen that more and more traditional antivirus software on PCs has
been leveraging cloud-based scanning, so that the resources of
the server can be leveraged in order to help it do a scan
efficiently. And that's for a machine that has a good amount of
capability. If we look at mobile devices, I think it's going to
be even more important to take advantage of cloud-based scanning
techniques so that we can continue to keep the devices safe, but
not incur any performance penalties on them.
Interviewer: Well, Neil thanks very much. Appreciate it.
Neil Daswani: You're very welcome.


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I feel honored to work for a company that recognizes the value of supporting many great charitable organizations that better the lives of countless families. Of the many, Shriners Hospitals for Children hold a special place in my heart, not only for their good works, but for the connection I feel to them because of my brother, James. He was a big kid at heart, who unfortunately knew the pain of multiple hospitalizations and orthopedic surgeries due to a leg injury. I lost a best friend, whose sense of humor and boundless love I treasure, when James died in a car accident in 2009 at the age of 29. In his memory, my family is happy to support the life-changing efforts of Shriners Hospitals.
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Everyone struggles, and this amazing organization helps families get back on their feet and maintain self-sufficiency so hopefully their hard times can be put behind them. This charity states that it's biggest concern is to protect the children. This really strikes a cord for me, as children are our future! They do not have control over the choices their parents make, or the circumstances that may affect them, but are affected by those things nonetheless. I'm proud to be able to say that the company I work for supports a group like this!
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No child should go hungry... In the United States, more than one out of six children lives in a household with food insecurity, which means they do not always know where they will get their next meal from, that just shouldn't be a concern in America. Children shouldn't have to worry about going to school hungry, or being exposed to poor health and stunted growth because they don't have consistent access to proper nutrition. We at EverydayFamily are happy to be part of the solution.
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Natsuhi (ナツヒ, Natsuhi) was a jōnin of Hoshigakure. Both she and her husband had completed the star training.
Years ago, both Hotarubi and Natsuhi completed the star training of their village. After seeing the side effects of the training they stole the star to prevent further damage. However, they were caught by the Third Hoshikage who 'banished' them to keep an eye on the village after promising to stop the star training. Natsuhi and Hotarubi begged the Third Hoshikage to tell their young son Sumaru that they died long ago and gave him Hotarubi's necklace as a gift for him.
Natsuhi was a caring and loving mother who cared greatly for her child and family. She also showed great love towards the village — going as far as to stealing the Star in order to assure that no one would suffer from the side effects of the training ever again.
She had jade-green-coloured eyes and long violet (originally brown) hair. She wore the Hoshigakure flak jacket and shorts.
Natsuhi was a highly skilled and capable kunoichi, often praised by Akahoshi and the Third Hoshikage.
Natsuhi was also one of the few shinobi who was able to complete the highly dangerous star training. She had great skill in the usage of the Mysterious Peacock Method, able to create a rope made out of chakra and also wings to fly. She could use the feathers of her wings for an offensive attack and let her chakra take the form of an animal. Furthermore, she could fuse two attacks of the same kind to greatly improve the power of her own attack. She was able to overpower Akahoshi, the current Hoshikage, which further implies her power and mastery over the village's unique techniques.
With her last breath, she used a Reincarnation Ninjutsu, which allowed her to shortly return as a ghost-like apparition to support her allies. In this form, she was capable of using any moves she could in life, seemingly deflect attacks and be cloned through another's usage of the Shadow Clone Technique.
She was also at least knowledgeable in fūinjutsu, as she tried to seal the star to prevent further misusage.
Part I
Star Guard Mission
By the time Naruto Uzumaki, Tenten, Rock Lee and Neji Hyūga visited Hoshigakure for a mission, Natsuhi stole the star again which forced Akahoshi to take her son as bait. She returned the star, then tried to steal it once again later after Akahoshi forced her to give up the star. She fell for a trap laid by Akahoshi and his henchmen and was killed while trying to ultimately destroy the star using some sort of fūinjutsu. With her final breath, she painted a symbol on the floor with blood that had come out of her mouth. One of Sumaru's tears hit this symbol when he found her, which seemed to have made it possible for her to return in a ghost-like form.
After destroying the building she and Sumaru supposedly died in, Akahoshi implanted the star in his chest, greatly amplifying his chakra. Naruto fought Akahoshi, but was unable to harm him due to his newfound power. However, with her ghost-like form, Natsuhi was able to help Naruto by singing the song that she and Sumaru had been singing throughout the arc. The chakra supported Naruto, allowing him to briefly fly during the battle and to ultimately defeat Akahoshi.
- "Natsuhi" (夏火) means "summer fire". It can also be translated as "summer day" (夏日). As it is in the lullaby, Natsuhiboshi, meaning "summer day star" (夏日星 or なつひぼし), which she sings to her son Sumaru.


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