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- Covid in Scotland: Licensed trade warns of 'battle' to survive
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- Martin Bashir: BBC journalist 'seriously unwell' from Covid
- Brexit: UK to ban more EU citizens with criminal records
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Sat Nam Dear Global Community,
We hold in deep prayer our friends and family and all those affected by the recent earthquake in Japan.
As we strengthen our nervous systems and connect with our breath we can meet the demands of this time of accelerated personal and global change.
Let's stay connected now more than ever.
Peace to all, love to all, light to all.


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Discover the abundance and diversity of the lands, forests, memorials, and battle sites administered by the National Park Service. Published in May 1958 as half of a two-map presentation on national parks, this map also includes Canadian parks with an inset map of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Coverage Area: United States, southern Canada


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Beyond "Bitter Twitter": Crowd-Photography for the Cyber-Tahrir Square
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, July 10 2012
"This election may be remembered as the Bitter Twitter campaign," former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon said recently. With both campaigns avoiding offering any big new ideas, he predicted that "we are likely to see the next [few] months as a furious and relentless exchange of messages that aren't much longer or deeper than 140 characters."
Is that all that can be said about the daily Twitter wars between the Romney and Obama camps? To get a bigger picture — or rather, as you will see below, to get several bigger pictures — I turned to Marc A. Smith, chief social scientist with the Connected Action consulting group, who has long studied computer-mediated collective interaction. For the last few years, he and his colleagues have been doing what he chirpily calls "crowd photography for the cyber-Tahrir Square," using a sophisticated network mapping tool called NodeXL they've developed as a free extension to Excel. And the graphs they make offer a whole new way of seeing the connections among people, events and ideas as they coalesce online. Here, for example, is the conversation online when the "pink slime" controversy was at its height. Here's a chatter map for the controversy over "Fast and Furious" when Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa recently locked horns.
But how to read them? Take this snapshot of the public conversation on Twitter after the first day of this year's Personal Democracy Forum conference. Here, Smith got data on 711 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained the hashtag "#pdf12." Users are clustered together if they have lots of connection to each other, based on who follows whom, who replies to whom, and who mentions whom, and then each cluster is given its own rectangle based on those users having used similar hashtags in addition to #pdf12, with those listed in order of prominence.
Blue lines are links NodeXL builds when one user mentions, replies to or retweets another. Green lines represent people who follow each other. The "isolates" — in this case in the bottom right — are users who don't connect to others on the graph. "Reading" the graph (which I did with Smith's help), you can learn several things about the social landscape of the #PDF12 community.
There are three major subgroups that were tweeting from and about PDF12. First and largest, in the top left corner, are the open-government folks, whose top three hashtags after #PDF12 were #opengov, #opendata and #OGP (for the Open Government Partnership). At the center of this cluster, not surprising, you can see the Twitter avatars of power-tweeters like O'Reilly Media's Alex Howard (@digiphile), who covers open government and open data on a daily, even hourly, basis.
The second group in the top left are the PDF progressives, netroots folks who had likely just attended the annual Netroots Nation conference in Providence, RI. Their usage of hashtags like #NN12 and #ows (Occupy Wall Street) is a sure giveaway of their closeness to each other.
And third, in the bottom left corner of the graph, are the PDF netheads (you can recognize Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc, for example) who were paying closest attention to issues like online privacy, SOPA and PIPA.
A few additional observations are in order. First, there's not a lot of hierarchy to this community of individuals. There are lots of bilateral connections between people, as evinced by all the crosshatching green and blue lines. Second, the relatively large number of "isolates" in the bottom right corner is a good sign, Smith told me. It suggests that #PDF12 was also reaching beyond its core audience, and shows that we're not a completely "built-out" network. In other words, that there's room for growth. Network maps for other conferences, he says, often show that they're just speaking to themselves. And finally, the small cluster at the bottom of the middle of the graph indicates that there were probably some people using "pdf12" in their tweets during the conference who had absolutely nothing to do with the event, but maybe had some other common point of contact, such as linking to this document: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/pdf12/recuento-eleccion.pdf.
Axelrod vs Fehrnstrom
Now take a look at how the Twitter conversation coalesces around two leading online surrogates for the Obama and Romney campaigns, David Axelrod and Eric Fehrnstrom. Axelrod is the Obama campaign's senior strategist; Fehrnstrom is one of Romney's senior campaign advisors. I asked Smith to run NodeXL against a recent list of Twitter users who either mentioned @davidaxelrod or @ericfehrn, and this is what he found.
Obviously, Axelrod's network is different than Fehrnstrom's. He has more than 103,000 followers on Twitter, compared to Fehrnstrom's 13,000. And he tweets more often, roughly 5-6 times a day, while Fehrnstrom tweets at most two or three times. As a result, their NodeXL graphs cover very different time periods. For Axelrod, it just took 13 hours on July 6th to accumulate 790 users who mentioned "davidaxelrod" in a tweet. It took 10 days, from June 27 thru July 6, to accumulate a similar number (876, actually) of users who mentioned "ericfehrn."
Here's the snapshot of Axelrod's Twittersphere around July 6th. You can view a high-definition "zoomable" version of the graph here.
What's immediately apparent from the network of Axelrod mentioners is a) how polarized it is, and b) how much the pro-Obama side looks like a broadcast network, while the anti-Obama side looks like a dense community. The polarization isn't surprising; Smith says this pattern repeats across many NodeXL scans on topics touching on American politics. The most active people in online politics are from the passionate poles of our two-party system; this is not news, but there are some hints in these particular graphs that the online right is different than the online left, at least on Twitter. More on that in the moment.
First, the pro-Obama side, which is distinguished by people using Obama-friendly hashtags like "yeswewill" and "bettingonAmerica" as well as anti-Romney terms like "bainmitt" and "whatsmitthiding." If you zoom in closely on the people near Axelrod who are interrelated (the green clump in the upper right quadrant around him), you'll find other media players like Ben Smith (@buzzfeedben), Michael Scherer of Time (@michaelscherer) and Ben LaBolt, an Obama spokesman (@benlabolt). But the rest of the network of mentioners around Axelrod aren't part of the media insider circle--there are just lots of Twitter users who follow the Obama campaign's senior adviser who talk him up.
There's a lot of blue lines in this graph — remember, those are links NodeXL builds when one user mentions, replies to, or retweets another. Green lines represent people who follow each other. Given how well known Axelrod is on Twitter, it's not surprising to find so many people who mention him but don't follow each other — hence the prominence of the blue over the green. This is another indication that his reach online is more like a broadcast network or a brand than an interlaced community.
"There is an 'audience' cluster and two 'community' clusters," Smith explains. "Most blue lines (replies, mentions, retweets) point in to the 'community' clusters in which there is significant amounts of mutual connection. The community clusters are dense, while the broadcast or audience cluster is sparse with little interconnection. Axelrod has a powerful broadcast ability and his messages reverberate within the community clusters."
On the top right we have people who are good bets to be anti-Obama, given their prominent use of the "top conservatives on Twitter" hashtag #tcot, as well as anti-Obama terms like "fastandfurious" — a reference to the Justice Department scandal — and "obamatax." This group has no obvious hub, but it's also densely inter-connected. This is typical of conservatives who are heavy Twitter users; a lot of people joined the service starting in early 2007 who were looking for new leadership on the right, and along the way they all found each other.
Now let's look at Eric Fehrnstrom's Twittersphere. A zoomable version is here.
As noted above, comparing Fehrnstrom's online footprint to Axelrod's isn't apples-to-apples. He's not as well-known, he's not on TV as often, and he isn't as big a Twitter user. Unfortunately for the purposes of this article, there isn't an exact parallel to Axelrod in the Romneyverse, at least when it comes to their online activities. So, caveat emptor, this isn't meant to suggest that what one man is doing online is somehow "better" than the other. They're each interesting but for somewhat different reasons.
Again, the most obvious finding from looking at people mentioning "ericfehrn" on Twitter is that they're a polarized group. The ones on the left hand side of the graphic are mostly pro-Romney; the ones on the right are mostly pro-Obama. We know this from the hashtags they're using in common: "obamacare," "obamatax" "fullrepeal" and "teaparty" for the Romneyites; and "p2" "aca" and "whatisromneyhiding" for the Obamanauts. (Smith has noticed that few Republicans ever say "Affordable Care Act," by the way.) On the Obama side of the split, you can zoom in and find individuals like Donna Brazile and Paul Begala, well-known Democratic partisans; on the other side you can find GOP stalwarts like Matt Lewis and Justin Hart.
Interestingly, you can see some signs of Fehrnstrom having a small "broadcast" footprint in the arc-like groups of Twitter users on the outer edge of the left-hand cluster. These are people like the much bigger circle around Axelrod, who mention or retweet things that "@ericfehrn" says, but who aren't really connected in a more intensive way as a community of people who know each other.
Don't Think of an Echo Chamber
When I first reached out to Smith, I thought that mapping the Twitter relationships of political power players like Axelrod and Fehrnstrom might demonstrate just how much Twitter was intensifying the insider culture of Washington and elite politics, to the chagrin of people like Mark McKinnon. But after looking at these graphs, I'm not so sure that that is the only thing going on with Twitter and the presidential campaigns.
Yes, there are a lot of A-list types showing up on these two graphs, the sort of people who have given the Washington-centric White House Correspondents Dinner its current reputation as the "nerdprom" for the media-politics elite, plus some hardworking journalists who are just doing their jobs. But at the same time, there's a much bigger network of influential voices in the political Twittersphere around the Romney and Obama camps, as is reflected by centrality in the graphs of people like @ttjemery ("Christian and conservative" with 29,000 followers), @daggy1 (a self-described "enemy of socialism" with 27,000 followers), or @gaypatriot ("America's leading gay conservative voice"). And this active and highly networked set of people clearly leans right; none of the top independent progressives on Twitter happen to show up as significant participants in these two snapshots.
What that suggests is that after you get past the daily "Bitter Twitter" back-and-forth games that these campaigns surrogates are playing with each other and the Beltway media, there's a large secondary group of political activists, most of them conservatives, who are also engaged in chewing on the daily give-and-take of the presidential campaign. A lot of these people know and relate to each other via Twitter. If progressive activists were as engaged on Twitter, then presumably we'd see the same kind of dense green cloud in interconnections around Axelrod on the pro-Obama side of his graph as we do for Fehrnstrom on the pro-Romney side of his. Arguably, the fact that Axelrod is much more of a "celebrity" online may explain some of this difference too.
NodeXL is a powerful tool for exploring the social landscapes of public conversations about all kinds of topics, but it takes time and effort to develop the visual literacy needed to make sense of these graphs. Or, as Smith puts it, "it takes time to go from seeing something that looks like bug splatter on my windshield to 'oh, that looks interesting.'" Over the coming months, we're going to keep exploring this terrain with Smith's help, as he has kindly offered to run some queries on techPresident's behalf. (He also does customized research for a modest fee.) What would you like to explore? We can visualize the network around a person or group of people, a term or hashtag, even a url. The zeitgeist awaits.


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When Christmas rolls around I have many traditions when it comes to decorating and such, but I also try to mix things up a little here and there. This year, since I have the iCarver at my disposal, extra ideas popped into my head and I was able to try a couple different things. I made a couple wood stockings and custom cookie cutters.
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Part of what prompted this blog was having a iCarver 40-915X from General CNC. I've thought about starting a blog about my prop building/collecting experiences but didn't take the leap until the iCarver gave me the perfect excuse. I could document the process of learning to use it and and the way in which a CNC router can expand a prop maker's capabilities. Continue reading
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Myself and a couple other members of the Toronto Prop Party took part in this years Toronto Mini Maker Faire to show off some of our props and talk about how we make them. I also was showing off the iCarver 40-915X (made by General CNC) that I have been using for the past month or so.
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Starting when I was young I loved making things, which lent itself naturally to my desire to make props from my favourite tv shows and movies. Along the way I've learned much from some great friends and had the opportunity to work on props professionally as well. This blog is going to be a discussion about my love of, or perhaps more accurately obsession with, props, toys, and just plain cool stuff. The focus will be mainly on how I make props and prop replicas, the tips and tricks I have come across, but will likely also stray into discussing other cool props, kits, and more! I am hoping to be able to post at least once a week, as time permits, or as I have projects to discuss. Continue reading


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This has become quite the hot topic in the gaming world lately. Are used games killing the game industry? We all know piracy is a bad thing for developers. But what about preowned games? The people making the game dont get a cent from this. At least with piracy the pirates need to jump through all sorts of hoops and still are at risk of getting popped. But with used games everything is above board. But the people making these games still lose out. Its such a problem that many developers have started using the Online Pass where only new copies can play online for free while preowned copies must purchase the online pass for a price making the money saved on the game irrelevant.
Some devs like Bethesda have tried combating this by offering premium DLC that they think will keep people from selling their copies. But will this really work. Go into gamestop and ask how many used copies of skyrim they have.
Now i used to get the occasional used game. But the more i released what was going on the quicker i stopped. I still will buy used games occasionally, but only on certain types of games. The last used game i bought was COD MW2. I think we can all agree that Activision deserves to get the ****ty end of the stick in most cases.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1859 - 1940
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The 20th Century and Beyond
Frank W. Taussig (1859-1940), American economist, taught at Harvard, and worked on international trade. His articles and books on tariffs, both in theory and in careful empirical studies of industries and history, became the foundation of how modern trade theory is taught today. He was editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.


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Julian Assange's TV Show to Premiere Next Week
Julian Assange: His History and Story
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has completed filming episodes for his upcoming TV show "The World Tomorrow," which will air on Tuesday, April 17, on the Russia Today (RT) network.
Assange, who is the subject of a grand jury investigation in the U.S., will be hosting a series of conversations with "some of the most interesting and controversial people alive in the world today," according to a statement attached to WikiLeaks's Twitter page.
Assange filmed the series over the past two months at his temporary home in England, where he remains under house arrest.
Although it will originally air on Russia's RT network, the show will also be available online and is expected to come to more networks in the near future.
"The World Tomorrow" will be a 12-episode series with a range of guests, from politicians and revolutionaries to artists and visionaries.
"The world's last five years have been marked by an unrelenting series of economic crises and political upheavals," the statement reads. "But they have also given rise to the eruption of revolutionary ferment in the Middle East and to the emergence of new protest movements in the Euro-American world."
Assange believes the aim of the show is "to capture and present some of this revolutionary spirit to a global audience."
"My own work with WikiLeaks hasn't exactly made my life easier, but it has given us a platform to broadcast world-shifting ideas," he said.
Although Assange remains under house arrest, he hasn't been shy about staying in the public eye. He recently played himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons. He recorded his lines while under house arrest and was directed remotely.
Assange continues to wait for the ruling of Britain's Supreme Court regarding the possibility of extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges.
He also recently announced plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate.
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- Pundits speculate Sen. Elizabeth Warren could oppose Hillary Clinton for 2016 run
- Julian Zelizer: Predictions of left-vs.-center war among Democrats are misplaced
- He says a progressive message is crucial to the heart of the Democratic Party
- Hillary Clinton has strong ties to business but also believes in social safety net, he says
Over the past week, speculation emerged that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might not be the only prominent Democrat running for the nomination for president in 2016. Her "inevitable" path to the nomination is once again being questioned.
In The New Republic, Noam Scheiber launched the debate with an article titled, "Hillary's Nightmare? A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies With Elizabeth Warren."
Scheiber focuses on the possibility of the Massachusetts senator running on a campaign centering on the issues of economic inequality, restoring the middle class and regulating Wall Street.
"What we need is a system," Warren has said, "that puts an end to the boom and bust cycle. A system that recognizes we don't grow this country from the financial sector; we grow this country from the middle class." Comparing such a contest to the race between Barack Obama and Clinton in the 2008 primaries, the article suggests that Warren could re-energize liberal Democrats who feel disillusioned by the past five years.
Watching this unfold, some commentators have predicted that a civil war might be brewing between the progressive and moderate wings of the party.
David Frum, the insightful commentator and CNN contributor who has been a prominent critic of what tea party Republicans have done to his GOP, warned that "where Democrats have scored successes since 2010, those successes have been owed less to Occupy-style militancy, and much more to the seeming unquenchable determination of Republicans to render themselves unelectable."
Competition within the party doesn't have to be a negative; Democrats could turn this to an advantage that helps candidates who enter the race to focus and refine their message about the economy in a way that would make for a powerful campaign theme.
It would be a mistake for Democrats to think that the entry of Warren, or a candidate similar to Warren, into the race would somehow create problems or even a "left-center" divide.
The notion that dealing with economic inequality represents the "progressive" wing of the party as opposed to the mainstream is an extremely flawed way for Democrats to think of their party. Painting Warren's concerns as being to the left ignores how tackling these kinds of economic challenges have been at the heart of the Democratic Party for almost a century. Mainstream Democrats have usually done best when they have kept their eye on these questions and put forth policies that address the problem of middle class security.
During the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt made this the centerpiece of his New Deal. Most of his policies centered on providing economic support, such as creating old age pensions, protecting unions and providing unemployment compensation as well as creating public jobs to help Americans make it through the crisis of the Great Depression and to serve as a foundation for their future.
The policies revolved around a vision of "moral capitalism," according to the historian Lizabeth Cohen. His programs proved to have widespread appeal and provided the foundation for a durable coalition of industrial workers, farmers, progressive activists and African-Americans that would last for decades.
During the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson continued along these lines by tackling the problem of economic inequality through programs that aimed to bolster the strength and size of the middle class. The war on poverty sought to help the poor become self-sufficient and enter the marketplace.
Medicare guaranteed that middle-class families could count on health insurance when they retired and wouldn't be overwhelmed by medical costs of their parents. Federal education assistance offered affordable loans to Americans who wanted to attend college and money for local schools to ensure that all children received an adequate education. Food stamps provided food security for struggling families. Civil rights laws gave African-Americans access to public space, employment opportunities and voting rights that were central to full citizenship.
While Republicans rebounded as controversy over Vietnam and the war on poverty grew, the programs in fact survived and remained quite popular. Republicans have either learned to live with them and, in some cases, have expanded them.
Democrats in Congress were often able to succeed in the Age of Reagan by fighting back against Republicans who try to dismantle the welfare state.
Starting in 1982, Democrats regained their footing in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections based on campaigns about economic fairness. When congressional Republicans conducted a full-scale assault on Medicare and other programs in 1995, President Bill Clinton stood his ground and rebounded to a landslide r-election victory the following year.
Indeed, Clinton, usually tagged as a hard-core centrist, devoted considerable energy to the cause of middle-class America. In his 1992 campaign, he hammered away at President George H.W. Bush for his inability to deal with the recession and failure to sympathize with the economic concerns of average Americans.
While Clinton couldn't persuade Congress to pass his health care reform that aimed to broaden access and lower costs in the insurance system, he did find support for smaller measures, such as the State Children's Health Insurance Program, that have proved to be popular.
Despite the characterization of Hillary Clinton as a market-based centrist, she has frequently addressed these themes throughout her career, including while in the Senate, and in 2008 made it clear that she would be a president who fought for the middle class.
While Clinton, as her critics have said, has ties to the financial community and is not in any way an opponent of big business or big finance, she has also been a strong defender of the social safety net and programs that help the middle class grow.
In 1978, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy warned his party about veering too far to the center under President Jimmy Carter.
In words that Democrats should heed, Kennedy said: "We are heirs to a great tradition in American public life. Our party took up the cause of jobs for the unemployed in the Great Depression. Our party took up the cause of civil rights for black and brown Americans, and the cause of equal rights for women in America and the people of the District of Columbia." Although Kennedy did not win the nomination in 1980 (for many reasons outside of his policies), his speech offers an important message for Democrats thinking about 2016.
It would be a mistake for Democrats to break off into opposing camps, with some tackling these so-called "leftward" issues and others sticking to the "center." A better bet, based on the record, would be to put these questions front and center in the primaries and see which candidate offers the best and most aggressive response to the challenges that have faced middle-class Americans in recent decades.


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If you've downloaded bootcamp drivers for Macs to run Windows 7 or 8, but have done the download in Windows, you may be stuck on how to open the downloaded BootCampESD.pkg file you've now got.
The answer is to get a copy of 7-zip, which is free, and which is your 'Swiss army knife' to open the Apple .pkg and .dmg files and the ISO file inside.
- Launch 7-zip
- In 7-zip, open the BootCampESD.pkg. Inside you'll find a Payload file and a few other files. Double click the Payload file.
- Inside is a folder, which you double click. Inside that another folder, which you double click. Inside that … just keep clicking down the levels of nested folders.
- Eventually, several levels down, you'll get to a file called 0.Apple_ISO or some such.
- Now, extract this o.Apple_ISO to the desktop (or somewhere) and rename it to Apple.ISO.
- Now, either: Mount it by double clicking it—should work in Windows 7—or else by getting hold of PowerISO or similar; OR use 7-zip again to open this ISO file, and extract the contents to a folder.
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Obama signs bill creating new nat'l park in Calif.
Pinnacles National Monument, a 40 square-mile site that includes caves and towering volcanic rock formations popular with climbers, became the country's 59th national park on Thursday.
President Barack Obama signed the bill creating the park.
The new park holds cultural significance for several Native American tribes and is also home to the endangered California condor.
A condor re-establishment program has been in place at Pinnacles since 2003. Every fall, captive-bred condors are released into the wild.
In 2010, for the first time in more than a century, a condor chick successfully hatched there. The park now manages a population of 32 free-flying condors. Other wildlife includes bobcats, cougars, coyotes and wild turkey.
The site in Central California was declared a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908.
The bill to make it a national park was introduced by California Democrats Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein in the Senate and by Democratic Rep. Sam Farr and Republican Rep. Jeff Denham in the House.
The park designation will help increase the number of visitors and boost area tourism, Boxer said.
The legislation also renames the current Pinnacles Wilderness as the Hain Wilderness after Schuyler Hain, an early conservationist whose efforts led to the establishment of the monument.


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Siteimprove Announces Immediate Acquisition of Consultancy Firm, Marketing Lion
apr 27, 2017
Copenhagen, Denmark – April 27, 2017 – Denmark-based SaaS company Siteimprove is proud to announce the acqui-hiring of the local consultancy firm Marketing Lion. This acquirement is a great success for all parties involved, particularly Siteimprove, whose product development team looks forward to benefiting from the internal expertise of the company's talent.
Marketing Lion founders Kamran Jamshidi and Kristian Humle Lauritsen worked for Siteimprove on a consultancy basis since November 2016. During this time it became apparent to Siteimprove Founder and CEO Morten Ebbesen that they had a wealth of knowledge to bring to Siteimprove.
"I was extremely impressed with their expertise, particularly their knowledge of how to work with partners and large enterprise companies, which is a market area we at Siteimprove are continuing to aggressively pursue. That being said, we have no plans to move into offering consultancy work," said Morten Ebbesen.
Effective immediately, Kamran Jamshidi and Kristian Humle Lauritsen, along with five of their previous Marketing Lion employees, have joined the company. Kamran and Kristian have both been announced as Directors of Product Development, while the other employees have joined various departments within the company.
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Naturalness problems that could be signaling the necessity a completion of an effective field theory with the introduction of an otherwise overlooked ingredient. The cosmological constant problem can be seen as a signal that the EFT for gravity, general relativity, is not correctly including the gravitational properties of the vacuum. Starting from the discussion of the a possible solution to this naturalness problem for a cc-like term in a BEC analogue model, I will briefly discuss how this particular mechanism can be extended, albeit in a preliminary form, to more genuine quantum gravity models like GFT, connecting in particular the problem of the determination of the gravitational couplings (and hence the hierarchies involved) to the appearance of a semiclassical space-time


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Supervisors Scott Wiener and London Breed have proposed an ordinance to allow the San Francisco Public Utilities Power Commission's Power Enterprise to sell hydroelectric energy from the Hetch Hetchy dam to retail customers — particularly large real estate developments. Sup. Wiener and Breed say the ordinance would both generate revenue for the PUC and further the city's overall goal of achieving a 100 percent greenhouse-gas free power mix.
But how well does it fit into the city's other clean energy goals? Some advocates of an existing citywide green energy plan worry that this new effort could cause a far more ambitious program to fall by the wayside.
For more than a decade, city government has been working toward implementing a clean energy plan through CleanPower SF, which aims to meet the city's goal of 100 percent clean energy by allowing all San Francisco residents the choice of switching to a green power mix through the city-administered program, instead of remaining with PG&E. But CleanPower SF hangs in limbo, largely due to opposition from the SFPUC board, appointed by Mayor Ed Lee–whose regular meetings with PG&E officials have raised eyebrows.
The legislation proposing to broaden the sale of SFPUC's hydroelectric power supply seeks to tackle some of the problems CleanPower SF might have addressed had it not been stalled. A press statement from Wiener noted that it aims to help build a large enough customer base for the SFPUC to generate sufficient revenues to maintain city infrastructure, as well as meeting the city's overall target of 100 percent clean energy by 2030.
"My concern is that the Mayor's office will say it's something that will supplement CPSF [CleanPowerSF] and say that's enough," said Jason Fried, Executive Officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission. "I want to make it clear that it [proposed ordinance] is really meant to compliment CleanPower SF."
But just exactly how—and how much—the proposal would complement CleanPower SF is still up for debate. Fried said Wiener's new proposal complements CleanPower SF because it ultimately gives people more choices. "I don't know how you can argue with giving people more choices," he said.
But the legislation is targeted at large, private developments, rather than renewable energy options for community members. Which is why Fried emphasized that proposed ordinance shouldn't been seen as a replacement to the city's existing Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program, CleanPower SF.
Eric Brooks, a long-time advocate of CleanPower SF, insists the legislation would complement CleanPowerSF only if, "CleanPowerSF was given first right to purchase Hetch Hetchy power from the PUC." This would allow the ordinance to focus on community members rather than just large, private developments, he said.
"Being able to balance different types of power like solar, wind and hydro, and being able to furnish consistent hydro power during high usage together would also help keep rates lower so that the CleanPowerSF can deliver power at lower prices," he added.
Officials from the Sierra Club echoed Brooks, saying that the Sierra Club "supports the legislation in concept," but requests that the legislation incorporate the ability for CleanPower SF to purchase Hetch Hetchy power from the PUC Power Enterprise. "You have to look at it as peeling customers away from PG&E," said John Rizzo, Sierra Club's political chair. "The more you do that, the greener we can become."
Although Brooks said he plans to meet with Sup. Wiener regarding how the ordinance could work in tandem with CleanPower SF, officials from Sup. Wiener's office indicated that the ordinance is inherently separate from CleanPower SF. "[The ordinance] doesn't further or hinder CPSF [Clean Power SF]," said Andres Power, Wiener's legislative aide, who was involved in drafting the legislation. "It's neutral from that perspective."
Responding to questions about the legislation's relationship with Clean Power SF (and whether or not collaboration might be a good strategy), Jeff Cretan, another of Sup. Wiener's legislative aides, said, "Innovative solutions can come from multiple directions." He further explained that, if passed, the legislation "could prove how other clean power initiatives can be successful."


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States Seek To Nullify Obama Efforts
" Infuriated by what they see as the long arm of Washington reaching into their business, states are increasingly telling the feds: Keep out!
Bills that would negate a variety of federal laws have popped up this year in the vast majority of states – with the amount of anti-federal legislation sharply on the rise during the Obama administration, according to experts.
The "nullification" trend in recent years has largely focused on three areas: gun control; health care; and national standards for driver's licenses. It's touched off fierce fights within the states, and between the states and the feds, as well as raising questions and court battles about whether any of it is legal."


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DRHOOK- The buzz: Nothing takes the sting out of dengue
Mosquitoes! I hate them. There can be 100 people in a room and one mosquito, and I will be the only one in that room bitten. Once bitten, twice– not shy, itchy! I used to swell up from mosquito bites like Tom Cruise's ego. I have a can of "Off!" everywhere I go– even that little blue thing that blows "Off" around (although my niece said I look like a goober with it).
Can mosquito bites make you sick?
Dengue is the number-one mosquito-borne viral disease in the world: over 50 million infections a year.
Dengue is most common in hot climates like Southeast and South Central Asia, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Usually in this country we have seen dengue only in people who have traveled to these areas. However, Florida has now reported cases of dengue!
About 3-14 days after someone is infected, symptoms start. Dengue presents in different ways depending on age, the virus type, and the way the person reacts to the virus. So illness can range from just a mild fever to a life-threatening case of shock.
Kids under 15 years of age often have minimal symptoms or don't have any– although if ill, they are more likely to die from dengue. (About 25,000 people die a year from dengue, mostly kids.) Adults, on the other hand, can have the classic dengue symptoms: sudden fever, headache, pain behind the eyes, body aches, and joint aches. The fever lasts about a week, and to make things worse, fatigue follows for weeks. Rash can occur, more often in women, for some reason.
People infected a second, a third, or even a fourth time with a different strain of dengue can have GI problems like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. (Yes, there are several strains of dengue, and so people can get sick again from those darn mosquitoes. To make things worse, subsequent infections make the previously infected person even sicker.)
When can dengue cause more trouble than you can imagine? Bleeding problems from dengue can cause nosebleeds, GI bleeds, and uterine bleeds. Purpura (bruises all over the body) is a bad sign. Out of control vomiting can lead to dehydration and vomiting blood. Fluid can start leaking into the abdomen and chest, which is bad news because it makes it hard to breathe, hard for the heart to pump, and the blood pressure drops like WorldCom stock.
Rarely, liver failure occurs in dengue. Kids with dengue who take aspirin can get liver failure known as Reye's syndrome. Also, rarely, the brain and nervous system can be affected to cause paralysis, brain inflammation, seizures, and loss of feeling. (Wow, now I really hate mosquitoes.)
Diagnosis is usually made on a clinical basis, i.e. no labs or tests. Blood tests can confirm dengue but aren't used much around the world. Most places with dengue don't have the means to do the tests.
Cure? No cure. There is just supportive care. No vaccines exist because these viruses are trickier than a crooked politician.
I have a sneaky suspicion, since dengue is now in the U.S., that scientists are going to work on a vaccine to fight this potentially lethal virus. In the meantime, mosquito-bite prevention is all we have. Make sure there's no free-standing water around the house where mosquitoes can breed, wear protective clothing, apply DEET, and consider getting a bat house.
Could you imagine if laryngitis were spread by mosquito bites? Would we be silent about finding a vaccine or cure?
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with an interesting website, drjohnhong.com. Email him with your questions.


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Getting a divorce might be the most emotionally exhausting process you will ever encounter. Unfortunately, the process can also end up costing you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, particularly depending on Florida's specific regulation and requirements. There are, however, preventative measures that you can take to minimize the economic damage. If you're wondering how to save money while going through a divorce in Florida, read on.
Understand the Legal Process
Once you and your partner have decided that getting a divorce is the best option for your relationship, you should consider learning the legal factors and implications that will transpire throughout the endeavor. There are local Florida laws you should understand, which can potentially save you money simply by understanding them.
A common example of this includes avoiding extra legal fees simply by submitting the required legal documents to the appropriate location the first time. Depending on the jurisdiction where your case will be handled, take a look at the corresponding webpage. Often, Florida courthouse websites will have checklists and forms readily available for anyone to use, at no cost. Print these out and review them before contacting a legal professional.
Florida laws about marital and divorce procedures can be quite complex. Obtaining a report from someone who has experienced the process can make things easier for you. Speak to family friends or acquaintances who have gone through the process. Speaking to someone who has gone through a divorce process, especially one that also took place in Florida, can help you understand the procedure. You may be able to ask them questions or they may offer tips and advice which helped them. Getting someone else's perspective can also give you an opportunity to see things you might not have otherwise considered.
One of the most beneficial aspects of knowing the process before you even begin it is that you will be able to compile a list of questions and concerns you can ask your attorney, which undoubtedly could save you money. Being prepared will not only ease and potentially speed up the process, it can also help the entire ordeal be less strenuous.
Be Mindful
While your friends and family members might have a certain experience in regard to the divorce process, even following the same Florida regulations, it is still in fact their divorce process. The only one who will be able to tell you with exactitude what will emerge out of your case is the qualified attorney you have hired.
Consider Mediation
A mediated divorce can be significantly cheaper than disputing your case in court. It is also less costly than hiring two separate attorneys who will negotiate the divorce terms on behalf of both parties. A mediated divorce will usually involve a single Florida attorney who will then serve as a neutral negotiator for both individuals. This attorney will help the divorcing couple separate in a realistic and agreeable way. The divorce process can be a complicated matter. Every divorcing couple will try to find what works best for them. If mediation is not convenient, other less costly options include:
Have a Professional Appraise Your Belongings
Another great way to prepare is by having a professional appraise all of your assets. Items which should be appraised include, but are not limited to:
An attorney will likely have you do this, so having it done beforehand will take away any time pressures which will help you find a reasonably priced professional to make these assessments. Staying ahead will not only save you money, it will also contribute to a more peaceful and relaxed state of mind during such a turbulent procedure.
Call Your Therapist, Not Your Attorney
There are so many emotions involved in a divorce procedure. Divorcees should seek others outside of the relationship to vent to when experiencing emotional distress. If the divorce process is getting the best of you, do not call your attorney every time you feel upset. Most attorneys will charge an hourly rate which can quickly amount to hundreds of dollars. If you feel angered or frustrated about a certain situation developing in the midst of the divorce, call a therapist. A therapist can help you process your emotions, which is much better for you (and cheaper) than venting to your attorney. Many therapists are also covered by most health insurance companies, which will bring the cost down to a minimum.
Unless it is Completely Inevitable, Do Not Change Your Attorney
You may feel like changing your attorney halfway through your divorce process. Perhaps you discovered that he or she was not the right fit for you. If this is the case, know that changing your attorney once the process has begun can be very costly. The change will also undoubtedly be time consuming and could set the entire process behind. It's best to stick with the same divorce attorney throughout the process if possible.
The Bottom Line
A Florida divorce can easily be as expensive as it is traumatic. This is especially true if you must go through a trial to resolve differences over the assets you and your soon-to-be former spouse shared. Keep in mind that if you are looking for how to save money while going through a divorce, there are several money-saving methods available.
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How to List Largest Files & Largest Folders
Finding largest files and largest folders can be really handy in the disk cleanup process. While there is no built-in Windows option to do this there is a FREE Folder Size application that provides this information.
Folder Size is a small disk analysis utility that has also portable version that does not require installation. Listing the largest files and folders is just one of the many handy options of this neat little tool. It can print directory contents, scan network drives, folders, removable media, display the results in pie or bar charts, export the results to Excel, CVS, PDF, EMF, XML, JPG and other file formats.
Download and install Folder Size. Once the application is started select the drive or folder that should be scanned. The scan process is extremely fast and should be complete in seconds, but of course that depends also on the drive/folder size and speed. Once the scan process is complete all the files and folders are listed with their sizes and detailed information. See below how this looks.
Largest Files Report
The Largest Files Report is accessible from the toolbar where you can choose the type of report that is displayed in the details view. By default the application displays the "Files and folders" report which is similar to the one of Windows Explorer, but provides details for the sizes of the folders, the count of files and sub-folders inside and many more. In order to activate the Largest Files report, click the arrow next to the currently active report type and select "Largest files". (see the image on the left).
The report in this mode looks like the one on the picture above, but includes the top 50 largest files in the currently selected folder and all its sub-folders. Additional column displays the path for every file.
Selecting a different folder from the folders list on the left instantly updates the report with the largest files that are located inside. There is no need to scan anything further.
Largest Folders Report
The Largest Folders report is the same as the Largest Files report, but lists the largest folders inside a folder or drive and all its sub-folders. All the information is presented in a neat report that can be exported in multiple file formats or can be printer or saved for further analysis. There is also a graphical representation with Pie and Bar charts and can be used for navigation too.
The top 50 largest folders are listed here too with their properties and sizes.
Mixed Largest Files and Folders Report
This is a combination of the above two reports and displays a mixed list of the largest files and folders. There are plenty of options that can be accessed via the context menu in all reports. There is an option to locate the file or folder in Windows Explorer, show the properties dialog, copy the path to the selected item, delete the item and many more. The option to remove the item from the list gives an opportunity to evaluate the results of deleting it. If and item is removed it can be easily restored by invoking "Rescan" on the parent folder that owns it.
While there are some similar applications Folder Size is FREE and provides the most accurate results in the shortest time. It is small and does not require much disk space and does not install any services or components that may slow down the system for a feature that is not used daily. Folder Size is a "must have" tool for the disk cleanup process. MindGems Inc. provides also some other popular tools some of which have free versions too. There is a free duplicate file finder and web gallery software, duplicate image finder and duplicate mp3 finder. The screen shots above are created with Easy Screen Capture.


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By the end of this month Sun Microsystems will release the first developer version of OpenSolaris in its "Project Indiana" incarnation.
Up to this point, customers have had to work for Sun's open source Unix operating system by being forced to download the code and then build the OS. With Project Indiana, Sun wants to dish out an easily installable OS and turn around updates of the software every few months – in a Fedora-like fashion. Sun would also like to show off some of its engineering muscle in the process, which is where one of Project Indiana's first major features comes in.
The October developer release will include Sun's Image Package System (IPS). (The name may change by the time Sun issues a proper Project Indiana release in March.) IPS serves as Sun's homegrown answer to the software package managers common on Linux systems. IPS will tap into Sun servers and then present users with various pieces of software than can run on OpenSolaris. It will also handle the installation of that software.
Sun, however, thinks it's going past today's Linux package managers by having IPS tap into fancy bits of Solaris. For example, IPS can use Sun's ZFS file system to let users rollback to a previous version of the operating system if an upgrade goes wrong.
A developer site details some additional features expected with IPS - "The image packaging system, is an attempt to design and implement a software delivery system with interaction with a network repository as its primary design goal. Other key ideas are: safe execution for zones and other installation contexts, use of ZFS for efficiency and rollback, preventing the introduction of incorrect or incomplete packages, and efficient use of bandwidth."
The IPS revelations came this week courtesy of Sun's chief OS strategist Ian Murdock – of Debian fame – who was speaking at an Open Summit held at the company's asylum (read the book) in Santa Clara.
It seems tough to get too excited about a package manager, and we wonder why it took Murdock's arrival to push something like Project Indiana. Shouldn't Sun be able to think up things like this at a quicker clip? Well, yes.
What, after all, is the point of crafting something meant to compete with Linux if you're not going to make it easy to download and install.
Murdock responded that it takes time to build a new culture around an operating system. He told us this is about altering the internal decision making process and then moving that "out to the community as well."
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In my opinion, bad decision on Judge Trombley's part in returning any dogs to Frederick Acker. Despite expert testimony by the animal control officer, state dog warden and a respected local veterinarian as to the passive animal cruelty that existed with the freezing conditions, lack of water, small cage sizes where the dogs were kept night and day, Trombley chose to return "large" dogs to the same conditions that existed prior to the seizure of all of Acker's dogs. The smaller dogs are at present spared from joining the unfortunate "large" dogs.
Animals are not "rescued" when they are taken by a rescue-hoarder. The ACO, state warden, vet all spoke for the dogs and they are to be commended for their efforts. Again, In my opinion, The failure in my opinion lies with the Judge. Once returned to Acker these unfortunate animals will have no one to speak for them.
Governor Malloy's latest fleece the taxpayer gimmick: the electricity 'auction" that will "save" me $65.00 a year. I have a better idea. Stop adding a 'tax" on both my electricity bill and my phone bill which subsidizes electricity, phone service for the poor. More than $65. could be realized in my pocket for this. All in favor call your representative!
Governor Malloy wants to eliminate the car tax to "help" the working class poor. HAHAHHA. The truth has come out. Homeowners will have to one way or another pay more in taxes to make up for the loss of revenue. Those who pay rent will see their rent go up as the landlord will pass along any tax increases to his tenants. the only ones who will benefit will be those who live in HUD subsidized apartments, housing complexes as their rent will not change one cent. Not that all of them bother to register their vehicles, insure them or pay taxes as it is.
Poor decision to return some of the dogs to Mr. Acker. However altruistic his motives were perceived by the judge, the fact remains that ALL of the dogs were in freezing temperatures, without water, many in too small cages, not just the wee little ones. to give that man back ANY dogs will just keep the abuse (and I DO believe being cold, etc) is abuse. I believe there is a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
Three cheers for Dr. Ben Carson who had a lot to say at the National Prayer Breakfast and a lot to learn for Barack Obama if he was willing to listen.


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When Britney Spears is not stepping out from rehab, it seems like she's in there shopping online. Over the weekend, Spears, who checked into Promises treatment center in Malibu last Thursday, went on an online shopping spree at Intuition, an L.A. fashion boutique and one of her favorite haunts (check out her previous visit here). Among the four large shopping bags of loot, PEOPLE has learned, was a pair of red Denim of Virtue skinny jeans, $170, a lavender halter dress by Tart ($200), a Rich and Skinny miniskirt, $145, and a Rory Beca silk tunic dress, $215. Since Spears couldn't pick up the clothes herself, her mom, Lynne, did the honors and dropped the bags off during one of her visits. We guess it's part of Brit's retail therapy.
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After three years of accumulating data from park and recreation agencies across the country, PRORAGIS now shows national trend data on vital statistics such as budgets, staffing, programming, and facilities. And wow, some of these trends are really stark (staffing levels are almost half what they were a few years ago, especially at larger agencies) while others are more upbeat (capital budgets are bouncing back). Check out how your agency compares in our annual special report.
Even research on a smaller scale than PRORAGIS provides tangible results for park and recreation agencies. Today's researchers use new technology and new techniques to quantify the benefits of parks and recreation to communities—hard numbers that can justify budget, programming, and facility decisions, whether at the departmental or local government level. Explore some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls, meet some up-and-coming researchers actively working on answering the field's most pressing questions, and listen in on the Network Buzz about how agencies are using research to improve their operations.
Well, we didn't tumble over the fiscal cliff but that doesn't mean the road is exactly smooth for the next Congress. New challenges sometimes bring new opportunities, like securing stable funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund State Assistance Program, fixing the flaws in the last transportation bill, and passing new initiatives for urban parks and connecting children to nature. See what's in store for parks and recreation legislation in this month's Advocacy column.
Regular readers of the Law Review column are familiar with how assumption of risk from open and obvious hazards provides some liability protection for landowners such as park agencies. But what about when the hazard is on an active playing field? How much responsibility do players have to look out for their own safety?
Finally, we asked golf course managers and superintendents around the country to share their machinery wish lists for 2013. Even cash-strapped courses are finding creative ways to finance their dream machines, while keeping their current equipment running as smoothly as a putt across a freshly rolled green.
Read these stories and more in the January issue of Parks & Recreation!
Elizabeth Beard is the Managing Editor for Parks & Recreation magazine.


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- 22MB installed cache
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- No Operating System Installed
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For medium to large enterprises, and managed and cloud service providers, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 is the optimum 2U, two-socket server. It's engineered to deliver high performance with great CPUs, low-latency NVMe drives, and high-power GPUs.
70.50 lb(s)
Security features:
Power-on and admin password
Trusted Platform Module, TCG 1.2 compliant, upgrade to 2.0 via UEFI setting Optional TCM in China only
Optional lockable security bezel
Systems management:
XClarity Controller Standard, optional upgrades to Advanced or Enterprise are available
Energy Manager
XClarity Administrator
Lenovo Capacity Planner
Provisioning Manager
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ENERGY STAR Qualified: YesEPEAT Compliant: YesEPEAT Level: EPEAT Bronze
Chassis Form Factor: 2U RackmountColor: BlackWarranty Information: On-siteWarranty Period: 3 years
Processor support:
Up to two 205W Intel Xeon Scalable family processors, Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. Up to 28 cores at 2.5GHz, up to 3.6GHz with 4 cores. Two processors are connected with two UPI (Ultra Path Interconnect) links up to 10.4GT/s
GPU support:
Up to two optional GPU, requires riser card with PCIe x16 slot
2nd GPU requires 2nd CPU
Supports Intel Xeon Phi 7240P, NVIDIA Quadro M60, or Quadro P100
Cache Memory (installed): 22 MBRAM (installed): 32 GBRAM (max): 3000 GBRAM Technology: DDR4 SDRAM
32GB (1x32GB) 2666MHz RDIMM DDR4 SDRAM, upgradeable to 3TB.
There are twenty-four DIMM slots. One slot is occupied by a removable 32GB module; the other slots are open.
Memory notes:
Each processor supports up to twelve DIMM slots with six channels
Up to 2666MHz DDR4
RDIMMs, LRDIMMs, and 3DS RDIMMs are supported but cannot be intermixed
-M suffix processors support 1.5TB memory per socket
non -M suffix processors support 768GB memory per socket
ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing
Memory maximums:
RDIMMs: Up to 768GB (24x32GB); two processors
LRDIMMs: Up to 1.5TB (24x64GB); two processors
3DS LRDIMMs: Up to 3TB (24x128GB); two -M suffix processors
Video memory: integrated Matrox G200 graphics in XClarity Controller
There is no operating system pre-installed.
Operating systems supported:
Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2012 R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4/7.3/6.9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3/12 SP2/11 SP4
VMware ESXi 6.5U1/6.5/6.0 U3
OS Provided: No Operating System Installed
CD/DVD Type: No Optical Drive
3.4"h x 19.0"w x 30.1"d
Expansion slots:
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Option 4: PCIe 3.0 x8/x16 ML2 (slot 1 and 3), FH/HL
Option 5: (2) rear 3.5" disk bays; (12) 3.5" models only
Slot 4 (onboard) PCIe 3.0 x8; LP
Slot 5 (riser card 2) PCIe 3.0 x16, FH/FL; requires 2nd CPU
Slot 6 (riser card 2) PCIe 3.0 x16, FH/HL; requires 2nd CPU
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(8) 2.5" SATA/SAS HS bays
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(12) front 3.5" SATA/SAS HS bays with maximum (4) AnyBay, or;
(8) front 2.5" SATA/SAS HS bays with maximum (4) AnyBay, or;
(16) front 2.5" SATA/SAS HS bays with maximum (8) AnyBay, or;
(24) front 2.5" SATA/SAS HS bays with maximum (4) AnyBay
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Optional (1) or (2) internal M.2 SSD for boot; dual M.2 SSD supports mirroring
(1) XClarity Controller USB connector
(1) XClarity Controller network connector
(2) Power in
Network interfaces:
(1) Dedicated management port
(1) LOM slot for customized LOM with up to (4) RJ-45 or SFP+ ports; up to 10GbE
Wake-on-LAN and NC-SI are available on Port 0 of LOM
Optional ML2 or PCIe adapters are supported
ML2 adapter requires riser card with ML2 slot
Storage controller:
930-8i adapter, 12Gbps SAS interface, SATA/SAS drive type, 2GB cache, flash backup, supports RAID levels 0/1/10/5/50/6/60/JBOD.
# Power Supplies Installed: 1# Power Supplies Supported: 2Power Provided: 750 watt(s)
(1) 750W platinum hot-plug power supply; support for 2 maximum.
Power supply support:
Up to two redundant hot-swap 550W/750W/1100W/1600W 80 PLUS Platinum
qualified AC power supplies, or;
Up to two redundant hot-swap 750W Titanium qualified AC power supplies 750W Titanium and 1600W Platinum are 200V - 240V; others are 100V - 240V
For single processor models:
Five fans (4+1)
For dual processor models:
Six fans (5+1)
# Processors Installed: 1# Processors Supported: 2Chipset Type: Intel C624Data Bus Speed: 2666 MHzNumber of Cores: 16-coreProcessor Features: Intel Turbo Boost TechnologyProcessor Manufacturer: IntelProcessor Model Number: 6130Processor Speed: 2.1 GHzProcessor Speed (Boosted): 3.7 GHzProcessor Type: Xeon Gold
Networking Protocol: Gigabit Ethernet
Compliant Standards: EPEAT Bronze
Hard Drive Capacity: 0 GBHard Drive Interface: SAS, SATAHard Drive Type: Hot-swapStorage Controller RAID Level: JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 50, RAID 6, RAID 60Storage Controller Type: SAS 12.0 Gbps, SATA
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When I pulled up to my house today, I could see the edge of a yellow mailing up sticking up between the glass door and my front door. Yes! That meant I had a book! Gathering my purse, lunch bag, school bag, and the Irish Soda Bread a student gave me this morning, I mentally ticked off the possibilities. Could it be a review copy of Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls? Or maybe something I don't even know about yet?
When I opened the glass door, struggling to hit the remote control button on my keys that unlocks the house, the mailing envelope fell to the concrete of the porch. I teetered on the edge of the porch as I juggled my school bags and tried to kick the package into the house. I saw the return address, Random House, and couldn't figure out what book it could be.
Once I was in the house, I dropped my bags in the kitchen and went to retrieve the package from the front hall. Hmm, a light package, so definitely a paperback, and maybe an ARC. Tearing open the flap, I let out a little yelp of joy. Perfect Fifths: A Novel by Megan McCafferty! I love, love, love this series and have been waiting impatiently for the final novel in the series to come out. It's not due out until April 14th, but I was holding a review copy in my hands.
It's been about 6 hours since I came home and opened the package. I can't bring myself to begin the book. The final book in a series is such a bittersweet moment- I can't wait to find out what happens with Jessica and Marcus, but I also don't want it to be over yet!
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VANCOUVER— Roberto Luongo's remarkable save in the dying seconds of the Olympic semifinal game against Slovakia is being called The Glove from Above.
And if Canada is to beat the United States on Sunday for the men's hockey gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Games, he might have to make a few more just like it.
"It is for moments like that you play the game," Luongo said of his larcenous save with nine seconds left in the third period that kept Slovakia's Pavol Demitra from tying the game. "When you're a kid in the streets, you play for moments like that. You try to imitate those moments and I'm happy something like that happened."
How long his happiness lasts depends on what happens Sunday. It is the biggest game Luongo has ever played.
"We all have these opportunities in our career to make a name for ourselves and he has that opportunity," Team Canada head coach Mike Babcock said. "Some people may think that's pressure. I think that's just the opposite. Who wouldn't want to be great?"
Luongo does, and desperately so.
A win would add to the Glove from Above legend, which has already been burnished by poor TVcamerawork.
To fully appreciate Luongo's effort, one has to hunt down four separate angles — and the only angle that reflects the greatness is the overhead view.
"For me personally, I'm excited to play," Luongo said. "It's a great game, it's a lot of fun and it's an unbelievable stage. This is what you work your whole career for."
Luongo said he hasn't thought about what would have happened if he didn't make the Demitra save. He hasn't thought about losing on Sunday, either.
Luongo will get the start because he's been able to do what Martin Brodeur could not: make a series of game-deciding saves.
"Those are the best moments," he said. "Those are what define goaltenders, in a way. Being on such a big stage — the Olympics at home in Vancouver — the whole setup is what made it so much fun."


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Zipcar might seem like a fairy tale entrepreneur story.
Two moms who met when their kids attended the same kindergarten come up with a zany idea for a car-sharing service in Cambridge Mass. Robin Chase and her partner wrote up a business plan and started with $67.
The business exploded over the next decade. Today, Zipcar was purchased by Avis Budget Group for nearly $500 million.
But the ending isn't quite what you'd expect.
While Avis Budget is paying a premium of 50 percent for the company, Zipcar's founders are not among the largest shareholders. In a recent interview, Chase said she still had "some shares" in the company. (Read more: Cities That Are Minting Millionaires)
A spokesman for Chase declined to comment on her holdings. She stepped down as CEO in 2003 and has launched another car-rental service in France.
People close to the company said that shortly after Zipcar was launched, Chase controlled more than half of the shares. An early round of capital raising brought her share down to around 20 percent. But the real share-killer was a round of financing the company did in 2002, when the capital markets were reeling after the dot-com bust and 9/11.
That investment round brought her shares down to around under 10 percent. By the time the company went public in 2001, Chase owned around 3 percent of the company, these people said. It's unclear how many shares she sold after the offering, or how many shares were owned by other family members.
Paul Davis, a former Zipcar boardmember and early investor, said that while Chase may not have hit the jackpot with today's deal, she's done well over the years.
"Longtime friends ask, 'Did she make $100 million off this deal?' She didn't. But she's done fine."
(Read more; Top Towns for Sales of $10 Million Homes)
Another beneficiary is Robert Kagle, a board member of Zipcar and venture capitalist who invested in the company. His more than five million shares will be worth nearly $20 million more after the deal, according to company share information.
Did Chase cash out too early or cheaply?
Maybe, or maybe not. The company's shares were trading at more than $29 a share shortly after its IPO in April. The deal price is still less than half that value.


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With a whimper: Giant closes at 6pm Thursday
A few seconds after ordering a Hook journalist off the premises, the manager warned customers– both of them– over the public address system that it was now 5:55pm and time to bring all purchases to the front. He didn't mention that it was the last and final day for the Giant store; but with the shelves mostly denuded, and fresh foods all gone, he probably didn't need to.
The Giant grocery store at Seminole Square locked its doors five minutes after this warning, marking the end of one of Charlottesville's major stores, and officially consigning the once-thriving grocery to history's dustbin after a spate of competition and a big decision by a parent company. The final customer politely asked not to be photographed, but she did show off her purchase: a set of bamboo skewers for 25 cents.
In the end, Giant was skewered by competition from Harris Teeter, Kroger, and the nearby Whole Foods, as well as by the imminent openings of Fresh Market and Trader Joe's.Read more on: giant grocery store
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This is sad, but they were as much to blame for their own demise as the Competition - after the change of ownership to the new corporate parent, the offerings and prices went downhill.


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Just Lonnie And Bengie
Thanks to the impeccable Bill Francis at the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, I can now merge my correct memory of the 1984 World Series with the official record, and confirm that until Bengie Molina appears for the Rangers in the first game of the World Series tomorrow, Lonnie Smith of the 1985 Royals will remain the only player in baseball history to play in a Series against a team for whom he also had played in the same season.
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Pretty interesting story, thank you. Wonder if the pay was 50/50? In either event, not a bad way to collect…
What I wonder is: we often see teams go up against a former teammate/catcher in the regular season, like the Yanks against Jose Molina on the Jays, and there doesn't seem to be much of an advantage for the catcher's new team. When the Astros were going up against the Dodgers could Brad Ausmus tell the Dodgers how to hit Oswalt? I think advance scouting would tell you things like which pitch Lincecum throws to a left-handed hitter in a 2-1 count. The bigger deal with Big Money, as Giants fans called him, is the old line about how you always want to beat your former team. He'll have extra motivation to hit one out.


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Maximize Your Time Off From School
College life can be tense and a bit stressful at times. Students who excel in college are self-disciplined and know how to manage their time. The constant managing of time and priorities does not suddenly stop when your vacation starts it's an ongoing process.
Here are 10 ways that you can maximize your time when you are off from school:
1. Review what you have learned
Although your classes may all be completed for the quarter (or the semester), it's not a bad idea to review what you've just learned over the course of many weeks. Reread your notes, papers, tests and skim through the books you've just read. Finalize the imprinting of fresh information in your mind so that you can retain what you've learned over the long term.
2. Read ahead
If you already know what courses you will be taking in the upcoming quarter, start reading ahead. If you are going to have some time to kill, might as well get a jump start on your upcoming classes. Contact your professors and collect copies of syllabi. Purchase your materials and begin reviewing them before your class begins.
3. Go back to your roots and reconnect with family and friends
Go home. Say hi to the family and reconnect with old friends. College isn't about severing all of your previous ties. Keep up your network and pay the people you love a visit.
4. Stick around and explore the town
Forget about going home. Stick around and explore your college town. Find new places to buy groceries and new bars to frequent. Take a mini-road trip to some nearby destination that you've always wanted to see. Take your time off of school as an opportunity to experience your surroundings.
5. Travel
Drive cross-country or travel abroad. See the world, or a tiny piece of it. Take your new outlook on life and expose yourself to different peoples and places. Visit a destination or place of interest that you have just studied. Travel with a partner, in a group, or go venturing off on your own.
6. Get an internship
Find an internship in the field that you are studying. Supplement your classroom work with real life on-the-job training. This way when you graduate, you will already have solid academic and professional experience.
7. Lay the groundwork for future employment
Explore your career interests. Market yourself and your abilities. Try to find an organization that you want to target for employment once you've graduated. Find out what the minimum professional and educational requirements are for the specific job that you are interested in. Take measures to fulfill those requirements before you graduate.
8. Explore the course catalog and schedule of classes
Get lost in the pages of your course catalog. Map out different schedule scenarios. Find out if that class you really want to take is offered in alternate academic years, and then plan your schedule accordingly. Pick a focus in your major and consider all the courses that you'd like to take. You'll be surprised how quickly your time in school will fly by, so you need to construct a solid schedule.
9. Apply for scholarships
Find some more money. Buy a book or do Internet research. Apply for as many scholarships as you can. Each application may seem like a bit of a hassle, but the results could seriously alleviate any financial burdens you may have accrued.
10. Just relax and take a break
Don't do a damn thing! You've spent months cramming, pulling off all-nighters, and wowing you professors with your polished intellectual abilities. You've earned a break, so enjoy it, and come back to school refreshed and ready for anything.
If you utilize your vacations properly, you will be a better student. Just remember not to stress out too much. Whether you are in school or not, you are in control of your life, so make the most of it.