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MBA Rankings
The Best Undergraduate Business Programs
by: John A. Byrne on April 04, 2014 | 54,901 Views
For the fifth straight year, the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business won the top spot on Bloomberg Businessweek's ninth annual ranking of the best U.S. undergraduate business schools.
The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce ranked second, also for the fifth consecutive year, and Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management ranked third, for the third year running. Boston College's Carroll School of Management and Olin Business School at Washington University, St. Louis rounded out the top five.
The bigger news, perhaps, was that Indiana University's Kelley School broke into the top ten this year, climbing to No. 8 from 13th. Kelley's move was fueled by scoring a first place ranking on the magazine's employer survey. A total of 132 U.S. undergraduate business programs are included in the 2014 Businessweek ranking which was released today (April 4) on Businessweek.com at businessweek.com/2014undergradrankings.
WHERE'S HARVARD AND STANFORD?
Undergraduate rankings of business programs differ substantially from those of full-time MBA offerings largely because some of the biggest players, such as Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, do not offer undergraduates a business major. That said, the biggest perennial surprise in the BW ranking is Wharton's showing which this year slid to seventh place from fifth, although Wharton is often considered as having the best undergraduate business program in the world.
In fact, U.S. News & World Report, which ranks undergraduate business schools based on a survey of deans and senior faculty at each undergraduate business program, puts Wharton first, followed by MIT, UC-Berkeley and Michigan, all tied for second place. New York University is in fifth place. Yet, none of those schools even make the Top 5 on the BusinessWeek list of the best U.S. undergraduate business schools.
In many cases, there is a wide divergence in the two rankings, which can largely be attributed to the differing methodologies used to compile the lists. In contrast to U.S. News' survey of deans and faculty, BusinessWeek's ranking is based on five components: student assessment (30%), academic quality metrics (30%), employer opinion (20%), median starting salary (10%), and a "feeder school" score (10%), which reflects how many students undergrad programs send to top MBA programs. The academic quality metrics include average SAT score, average class size, student/faculty ratio, percentage of students with business-related internships, and average number of hours students spend on coursework per week.
Those metrics understandably result in often dramatic differences between the two rankings. BusinessWeek's No. 4 school, Boston College, is ranked 22nd by U.S. News. The University of Richmond's business school, which finished 17th on the BW list, is in 58th on the U.S. News ranking. And though Wake Forest University's undergraduate business program comes in 11th, according to BW, it's 34th when U.S. News assigns its numbers (see our table on the following page).
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Some of the employee accounts of Wipro—one of India's top IT services firms—may have been hacked due to an advanced phishing campaign, reported Reuters, quoting the company. The company had launched an investigation to contain any potential impact, the report added.
The report was based on Wipro's response to a Reuters query regarding the breach after cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity said Wipro's systems had been breached and were being used to launch attacks against some of its clients.
"We detected a potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign," Wipro said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
KrebsOnSecurity, citing anonymous sources, had said that Wipro's systems were being used to target at least a dozen customer systems.
"The company also said it had retained an independent forensic firm to assist in the investigation. Wipro did not say which clients, if any, had been compromised," said Reuters.


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Brutal Truth ist eine Grindcore-Band aus New York City, USA. Gegründet 1990 vom Ex-Anthrax und Ex-Nuclear Assault Bassisten Dan Lilker, bestand sie bis zur Auflösung 1999 und formierte sich wieder im November 2006 um am EyeHateGod Tribut-Sampler For the Sick mitzuwirken.

Bandgeschichte
Die ersten Platten veröffentlichten Brutal Truth beim Label Earache Records, 1992 Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses und 1994 Need to Control, ebenso eine EP namens Perpetual Conversion, sowie eine 7"-Single mit dem Song Godplayer. Während dieser Zeit wurden auch von den Songs Ill-Neglect, Collateral Damage und Godplayer Musikvideos gedreht.
Aufgrund von Differenzen wechselten Brutal Truth von Earache Records zu Relapse Records und veröffentlichten dort das Minialbum Kill Trend Suicide, das Album Sounds of the Animal Kingdom, und eine Live-Doppel-CD namens Goodbye Cruel World. Darüber hinaus veröffentlichte die Band mehrere Split-7"-Singles auf kleineren Labels, welche aber meist ausverkauft und sehr schwer zu bekommen sind.

2001 zeichnete das Guinness-Buch der Rekorde Brutal Truth für das kürzeste Musikvideo mit dem Clip Collateral Damage aus, der 2,18 Sekunden lang ist und aus 48 Fotos besteht.

Diskografie

Alben
 1992: Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
 1994: Need to Control
 1997: Sounds of the Animal Kingdom
 1998: Goodbye Cruel World (Best-of)
 1999: Choice of a New Generation
 2009: Evolution through Revolution
 2011: End Time

EPs
 1992: Ill-Neglect
 1992: Perpetual Conversion
 1994: Godplayer
 1996: Kill Trend Suicide
 1998: Machine Parts
 2000: For Drug Crazed Grindfreaks Only

Split-CDs
 1996: Split mit Spazz
 1997: Split mit Rupture
 1997: Split mit Converge
 1999: Split mit Violent Society

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website
 Band bei Relapse Records

Einzelnachweise

Deathgrind-Band
Band (New York City)

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SEO is a crucial part of your marketing strategy. You should always be aiming to help your brand's website to organically soar up the search engine rankings, and there are several steps you can take to help achieve this. While social media presence does not constitute a direct cause of improved search engine rankings, it does still hold an important influence.
Activities on social media help to get your brand noticed; adding links to your posts helps to drive traffic to your site. This boost in traffic feeds into search engine algorithms, helping your brand to rise up the rankings. Social media is, therefore, a key component of your SEO efforts. Let's take a look at 12 ways your social posts help to improve your SEO!
Quality content gets noticed, particularly on social media. If your company has a knack for creating beautiful visuals to share on Instagram, insightful posts on Facebook, or useful tweets on Twitter, you'll help to build a positive impression about your company.
Once you've successfully created a buzz around your content, it's an opportune time to draw your audience to your website. Make sure to include direct links that are pertinent to the content you post, as well as the preferences of your audience.
On Instagram, there's a swipe-up feature within stories, that allows a direct link to a specific web page. Make it easy for your audience to convert a social media like into a meaningful engagement on your site.
While the size of your social media audience doesn't have a direct influence on your search engine rankings, there does exist a correlation between popularity on these platforms and interest in the related company's website. Again, this depends on your brand's ability to facilitate the transformation of social media engagement into visits to your website.
Even if they are impressed with high-quality social media content, busy people are unlikely to spend time searching for the creator independently. Use direct links in posts and company bios to make it straightforward for your audience. This simple action helps to convert social media impressions into clicks on your website. Harness the power of your audience to boost your search engine rankings.
Visibility is good, but if people don't make a connection with your brand, it's a wasted opportunity. A viral hit is useless if it doesn't facilitate that elusive meaningful engagement. Good social media content will always include a clear reference to the creator. Make sure to use watermarks as far as is appropriate, just in case your content is shared by a third party seeking to cash in on the buzz.
It's also worthwhile to pursue any third party accounts you notice sharing your content. There's no need to be aggressive, but an assertive request to have your work properly credited and linked is beneficial for both parties; they'll be able to continue sharing it, and you'll receive the recognition you deserve – possibly from a more abundant audience than your usual posts.
By improving awareness of your brand, and using that awareness to create further engagement with your brand, your comprehensive online presence, including search engine rankings, will receive a boost.
When it comes to SEO, backlinks are revered almost as a holy grail. When another website links back to yours, it's taken as validation that your content is worth noticing. Search engine algorithms pick up these interactions and adjust rankings based upon them. In short; the more backlinks you can secure, the further up the search engine rankings your website will soar.
How can social media posts help to influence this relationship? It's all about the quality of what you post. Well-written articles, insightful infographics, engaging visuals, and pertinent video content all make a contribution, as long as you are including links to everything you post.
On Facebook, simply copy and paste a link to expanded or relevant content. On Instagram, regularly update your bio link, and use the direct link and swipe up function within posts and stories. Tweet a dazzling headline, graphic, or video, and make sure to include a link back to your website.
Don't forget; when other brands or individuals share your social media posts, they will also be sharing your links. A retweet or share is tantamount to an approval of the content it contains. The traffic generated has a tangible impact on your search engine rankings. Although it happens in a roundabout way, social media posts certainly do have an impact on your SEO efforts.
As we've discussed in some of the points above, the key to making social media content work for your SEO is to encourage meaningful traffic to your website. What do we mean by that? Essentially, you don't want visitors to pop in for a few seconds, then move onto something else. You want to grab their attention and inspire them to spend time browsing more of your online offering.
Keeping your audience engaged is certainly a challenge, but it's perfectly doable. The most important aspect of this endeavour is to create content that is pertinent, useful, and versatile. You may have visitors who don't wish to read a wall of text; in that case, you can transform your blog posts into infographics.
You might also have visitors who are commuting and don't have the time to watch an entire video; a bullet list of the key points gives the information in a snappy and convenient format. Cater to a wide range of people, and you open yourself to an audience that will consistently deliver traffic to your website. This, in turn, helps your site to rise up the search rankings. Every interaction matters.
Don't forget that there's an important location element to search engine rankings. Think about the last time you searched for a restaurant, shop, or sports facility; what did your search engine deliver? Local results first and foremost. A good search engine won't send you to a hardware store thousands of miles away, even if it gets great traffic!
It's crucial, therefore, to focus on content that is pertinent and engaging to your local market. If you operate from one area, this is straightforward. Demonstrate that you have the local knowledge; celebrate your sports teams' success, acknowledge high-profile events, be present at pertinent shows and fairs, and make reference to in-jokes that only the local community will know!
Taking a location-focused approach to your social media content can help to drive local traffic to your website. This feeds into search engine algorithms, helping your website to climb the ranks in your area.
Even if you have a national or international customer base, this doesn't prevent you from making waves at a local level. Utilise your local teams, and be engaged with what's happening where your customers and visitors live.
Create content that demonstrates your identification with, and appreciation of, their lifestyles. This will encourage them to continue engaging with your brand, make regular visits, and help to drive your website up the search engine rankings, even if your HQ is on the other side of the world!
Don't get stuck making just one kind of content. The beauty of social media is that it offers a completely blank canvas. You're not lumbered with producing bland, written articles. Create a visual impact with relevant images embedded within the text of an article, use beautiful flat lays or product demonstrations on Instagram, and create video content that packs a punch for YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Make everything you create shareable, and deliver it at a high quality that encourages your visitors to share with their friends. Tap into the exponential potential of your network's network. You might not feel confident creating content in an unfamiliar format. That's absolutely fine. We'd encourage you to experiment in your own time and finesse new skills, or enlist the help of a freelance expert.
If, for example, you'd love to produce video content for your brand, but you don't think your skills are up to speed, there are some fabulous tutorials to be found on YouTube and creator blogs. You may also be able to find online courses that you can complete from any location or local classes that help you to benefit from face-to-face learning.
Once you have the skills down (or, at least, you can find your way around video editing software), you'll have the tools to start creating. Don't forget; learning is a lifelong skill. If you don't know how to apply a green screen effect in Final Cut Pro; no problem! Just type what you want to go into YouTube and there'll be dozens of videos from editing experts. And don't forget; they too had to start somewhere!
When you diversify your content, you encourage interaction with a wider audience. As we mentioned previously, reading a wall of text might not be convenient for some visitors. The more you switch up your formats, the better your chances of making that elusive connection.
Once a visitor has your content in mind, they're more likely to come back. Convert social media interaction into website visits, and you'll soon be moving up the rankings.
Think about the brands you follow on social media. Let's say you follow one news broadcaster; their tweets are on your timeline, their video clips show up when you open Facebook, and their images are present on your Instagram feed.
If you want to make a more thorough check of the news headlines, where are you most likely to go? Of course, to the broadcaster, you follow on social media. The connection is firm in your mind, between social media interaction and the decision to visit their website.
The more of an impact you make on your social media audience, the higher their likelihood to seek out your website. The boost in traffic helps to enhance your search engine standing.
Foster a community spirit around your brand. Inspire your followers to not only interact with you, but with one another. Making people feel included and appreciated within your community encourages them to continue engaging with your brand, and ultimately, choosing you first.
It's also a good idea to reward your community with exclusive deals and special offers. Promote them on your social media, with direct links to the relevant products or services, and you'll notice a boost in traffic. Do this on a regular basis and your website's standing will rise up the search rankings.
Don't forget to interact with your followers on social media! It's all well and good putting out content for your audience to consume, but the deeper connection comes from positive interaction. Make sure to reply to comments, answer questions, and respond professionally to feedback – good or bad.
Demonstrate that you value and respect your social media followers and you'll leave a lasting impression upon them. This will, in turn, prompt your social media community to choose you first when searching for brands in your sector. The more this happens, the better your search engine standing.
As you can see, social media presence and SEO are not distant entities, but partners that help to keep your brand competitive. To learn more about social media marketing and how it can strengthen your digital marketing campaign, contact us today. We work with budgets of different sizes to get your business the results it needs.


In our company we strongly believe in the power of Notes and Domino (see my previous blog post). And now it's time to show what can be done with this fantastic team. After weeks of silence (personally for me and my blog) it is now time to leave stealth mode. Using the latest cutting-edge technologies that are available with the most current 8.5.2 stream of Domino we've build a full mobile device management solution for iOS devices!
If your company runs IBM Lotus Domino and uses IBM Lotus Traveler you maybe have recognized that IBM doesn't deliver add-on administrative functions for your mobile device experience. That's the point where we startet. First we created midpoints traveler.rules, our realtime black- and whitelisting Traveler add-on which although allows a decentralized administration. But that isn't enough. Our customers asked for mobile device management (mdm). And high in priority for the most exciting and business-ready iOS.
over-the-air deployment of security settings, WiFi, VPN, Traveler, LDAP, certificates etc.
Automatic enrollment for your WiFi and VPN certificates with our own Domino-based SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Process) tooling.
Full integration into your existing Domino infrastructure. That means: automatic assignment of settings based on Notes user names and groups!
Automatic creation and enrollment of Domino Internet certificates (for the device and the person documents). Forget about internet password authentication for IBM Lotus Traveler and your Domino websites!
Additional management capabilities for security and monitoring!
So – if your company is looking into mobile device management and runs IBM Lotus Domino – give it a try. It runs very smooth and integrates full into your existing infrastructure (repeat: no additional hard- or software, no additional administrative interface, "just" Notes and Domino).
Interested people should drop me a mail to rene dot winkelmeyer at midpoints dot de or visit our website http://www.midpoints.de.


There's much more to Fire Island than what is seen by passing visitors. Miles of beautiful beaches make this little slice of island a summer paradise, yet in cherishing the unforgettable summers, we also remember those who are missed.
On Nov. 26, 2016, the passing of Robert 'Bobby' Chinkel left his family devastated, as well as the Village of Saltaire, Fair Harbor Fire Department, and neighboring Fire Island communities deeply saddened. That it happened over Thanksgiving weekend, further added to the sorrow.
His story will be told and never be forgotten for all he had done for his community.
Bobby was an ex-chief and 44-year member of the Fair Harbor Fire Department. Remembered for his Christmas party pig roasts with eggnog, friends and family of Bobby had endless stories to tell. Continuing to reminisce, Henrickson told of walks across the frozen bay, fires on the ice with the iceboats, and the midnight snowplow runs in Saltaire Village when Fire Island blizzards hit.
Kane Thornberg of Don Thornberg Building Corp. in Fair Harbor also had great memories of Bobby. "I would often see him walking around down town Fair Harbor before 7 a.m. cleaning up after the party the night before. Every bottle cap and beer can would be picked up off the dock before most people were even awake. No one paid him to do this, and no one even asked him to.
Robert Chinkel retired from the Village of Saltaire after suffering a heart attack in December of 2015. Last September he led his daughter, Meredith, down the aisle, arm in arm, as she wed Nick Sterz.
His wife, Kathleen; their daughters, Meredith and Caroline; and sisters Marcia Stark, Meggin Hyams-Chinkel, Michele Hurley, Claire Chinkel, and Susan Burns survive him.


His shopfront is Antica Macelleria Cecchini, his butchery selling all sorts of meat products.
It's a pity I couldn't buy some back home.
There's a mini-buffet of crostinis, salami and lardo (mashed into a paste).
I dared not to eat too much of it for fear of the feasting later.
I bought back some of their salt and it is amazing. Makes for great gifts and excellent for seasoning your own steaks back home!
Dario has 3 restaurants: Dario Doc, a hamburger "fast food" joint; Solociccia, a restaurant utilising all the more exotic cuts and parts of the cow; and finally Officina della Bistecca, where the steaks run wild!
Where possible, we get seated outdoors. I thought it might be too hot outside but actually the mountain air was cooling and perfect for al fresco dining.
It's just rows of long shared tables.
It's just 5 courses of meat, but apparently it's endless as the waiters go around asking if you want more of each dish.
Chianti crudo, or as Dario likes to call it, beef sushi! Raw beef minced up with lots of lemon juice and good quality EVOO.
Really blew my mind because this was the first time I had beef tartar that was so good!
Carpaccio di culo – seared rump carpaccio.
And here is the man himself! You know when he's coming because he toots a hilarious bicycle horn and starts hollering what I suspect is his tribute to the bistecca.
Bistecca Panzanese – this is just a normal steak from Panzano.
Bistecca Fiorentina – this is the "main course", the T-bone steak. The photos aren't amazing since they cut up the steaks into smaller chunks but the original pieces are really huge! And you can even request for the bone to gnaw on.
Fagioli all'extravergine – one of the sides, Tuscan beans drowning in EVOO. I tried not to eat this so that my stomach had space for the beef.
Burro del Chianti. This is what Dario calls Chianti "butter" but it's really lardo that's been whipped and mashed into a paste, then infused with herbs and black pepper.
Since it's "butter", it used in the same way too – piping hot baked potatoes were served and we were guided to slather the lardo in between the halves and wait for it to melt. You can probably already imagine how good this was without any words from me!
If you love steak and you want a different experience from the usual steakhouses (even in Italy), Panzano in Chianti is just an hour or so away from Florence via bus. It will take up most of your day but it will probably be worth the trip there.


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Y2K: The Movie, reviewed and debunked
Oh boy, what a flick. Bad from the first to the last.
By Mitch Ratcliffe | November 22, 1999 -- 00:00 GMT (16:00 PST) | Topic: Tech Industry
Oh boy, what a flick. Bad from the first to the last. It leaves me asking, "What if people actually believe it?" So, just in case you've been taken in by any of the myths in NBC's "thriller" movie, here's my review/debunking of the events portrayed….
Myth # 1: "Be grateful it's only a test…." The simulation at the beginning of the film implies that a simulation of an airline flight would identify problems with an actual airline. Nope - the simulation does not include the "300 miles of wire and circuits" in an airplane. The simulator is unaware of the components of the plane, so the computer simulation of the cockpit would not have identified a problem in, say, the airline. Likewise, cutting power at the airport would not cause a power failure on an approaching airliner.
Moreover, air traffic control testing has not revealed any problems like those depicted, even when they used real clocks turned ahead to December 31, 1999. This testing has included real planes flying through simulated date changes.
Myth #2: There is a concerted effort to track the Y2K bug around the world, but the movie misstated things. The government needn't track air traffic control performance around the globe, because it is set to a single global time.
Myth #3: As a Northwesterner, I feel compelled to say that my neighbors are not inclined toward chain link fencing, nor razor wire, except in certain remote areas. Ronny Cox, who plays the kindly father of the Y2K genius, wouldn't be living next to this kind of person in suburban Seattle. More likely, he'd be next door to a former Microsoft employee.
Myth #4: The Federal Reserve's Y2K cash reserve, about $200 billion, is enough for more "enough cash for every family in America to live for one week." In fact, it's enough for every family to live on $365-a-week for five weeks.
Myth #5: Ken Olin's character, "the smartest man in the world," says that someone who says that they know what will happen on New Year's Day "is a liar." Except for the extremists who don't have any sense of perspective, it is easy to estimate what will happen on New Year's Day, both globally and locally. The analogous statement, that no one can know what will happen tomorrow, is literally true - you don't know what surprises are afoot, but a well-studied problem like Y2K does provide ample evidence to know there won't be a disaster in 2000.
Myth #6: No one is "at the controls" for Y2K. It has been a distributed problem, not something that can be centralized.
Myth #7: An F-18 aircraft, which is "flying a routine mission" when it crashes, experiences a sudden, massive systems failure. A pilot at the controls of such a plane would not lose control of the aircraft due to Y2K, and the jet engines would not fail. McDonnell Douglas, the maker of the F-18, has conducted tests and found no date-dependencies that would affect the performance of the aircraft.
Myth #8: The Marshall Islands will not greet the "new millennium" on January 1, 2000. It will do so on January 1, 2001.
Myth #9: ATM withdrawals and bank withdrawals will not be limited to $20 or $100, respectively.
Myth #10: Sydney, Australia, has tested its power grid and production systems, and have found no problems, even in testing real post-Y2K dates by turning clocks ahead.
Myth #11: The cascading power outage, where the crash of one power generation plant brings down another and another, until none are left operating, is a mythical concept. Also, the comment that "if they crash, we crash," about the French power grid, is silly, because the physical character of the grids is not where problems could occur. The management of the grid, in software and human skill, is the determining factor. Embedded chip problems, which have proven to be miniscule - less than one-half of one percent of embedded systems were found to be at risk from Y2K failure - are well documented in the U.S. power grid and would not cause a crash simply because a similar grid in France failed.
Myth #12: The cascading failure across the "entire Eastern seaboard," and the comment that "we've lost 911 in Boston." There's a question that begs asking: How did these people create an interconnected logistics network capable of collecting all this data in real-time without fixing the Y2K problems along the way? The control center and network Ken Olin's team is using would cost as much as the federal government spent on Y2K repairs to assemble and manage.
Myth #13: The first casualty. Emergency surgery will be the only surgery going on at midnight on New Year's Eve. The "sudden fetal distress" indicated by the baby monitor in the hospital is normal for births. It happens when a monitor slips, not just when Y2K strikes. While some medical equipment is Y2K susceptible, hospitals plan to staff bedsides where they are in use. A doctor would not decide to "cut her for no good reason," as portrayed in the film, but would check vital signs first.
Medical equipment is largely ready and will be monitored for problems.
Myth #14: "They all died." The design of a nuclear plant is not as complex as indicated. It is controlling a complex process, but largely electromechanically. The monitors and equipment in the control room of a nuclear plant are providing feedback to engineers, but if they failed they would be overridden by analog meters that would sound an alert if, for instance, the core began to overheat. The engineers would be able to control the plant, as they did at Peach Bottom Nuclear Reactor in Pennsylvania during a computer failure earlier this year (during a Y2K simulation - the problem was caused by a mistake by an engineer who mis-set a clock). In all the nuclear disasters the world has seen, the staffs have not been killed en masse in minutes or hours.
Myth #15: The domestic jet over Washington, D.C., is one of the craft certified by Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and AirBus Industries to be Y2K ready. No system on-board a U.S. jet would cause a failure of the onboard power and instruments. Moreover, the plane would not be running "on fumes" because a delay of a couple hours.
The instruments on the jet are portrayed as misreading the altitude. Testing of onboard systems has demonstrated no date-dependency in altimeters and other navigational equipment.
"It worked for Lindbergh." Olin's character lines up a battalion of trucks to light a runway for the last jet in the air over the U.S. The important thing to understand about Y2K is its random character. The confluence of onboard problems, in this case the navigational system failing, and on-the-ground problems, is a very dramatic stretch. The problem with the film is its central theme - what if everything predicted by Y2K doomers come true? Only a fraction of problems predicted will happen, mostly in isolation and with negligible impact on every day life.
At this point you may be thinking Mitch is hedging. At ZDY2K, we've never said that there wouldn't be problems, only that the problems will be scattered and well managed. At worst, Y2K will be an inconvenience. "Y2K: The Movie" portrays a world where, for some reason, the Y2K specialists are, and seem to have been, helpless observers at the apocalypse.
Local note: Unfortunately, local advertising here in the Seattle area included poorly-produced Y2K food supply commercials. With the food supply intact, the critical systems across the U.S. at the ready, it will be unfortunate for those people who are suckered by this film if they react by purchasing a year's worth of canned and dried food. The local ad, which is tagged "There won't be any bread lines if we all have our own bread," runs twice during the movie.
Myth #16: "Locks in prisons are computerized." This problem, which is stated inaccurately, has been widely studied in the U.S., and there are no penal computer systems that will allow the doors to cells to spring open.
Myth #17: "The board might also think it's 1900." Nick Cromwell, played by Olin, says the control board of a nuclear plant may be confused by the date change, explaining that it may be looking backward in time 100 years. The reality is that the computer, if it has a Y2K problem, thinks it is the year "00," not 1900. Cromwell may be the smartest man in the world, as the script says, but he's not very accurate. In fact, he's downright dramatic.
Myth #18: "The reactor's in over-drive." Nuclear plants have electromechanical controls and manual controls that allow the engineers to shut down the reaction. The evacuation begun with more than an hour before a core breach would not include the plant staff, who would stay to operate the controls manually. The mechanical problem preventing the water from flowing to the core would be solved not by fooling the computer into "thinking" it is a different date, but by turning a valve by hand.
Myth #18, amplified: "HAL-9000." Nuclear plants are controlled by people. Computers do not take over the controls and refuse to relinquish them. The reactor in the movie has been told "to make more electricity" than is needed. If so, it would cause an imbalance in the local grid, causing circuits to break and closing off the connection to the plant. Regardless of what year the computer "thinks" it is, the mainframe would also be aware of the circuits closing. If that didn't cause it to shut down the reactor, overriding the order to generate more electricity, those people sitting in the control room still have the ability to override the computer.
Myth #19: Fun fact to know and tell: Having been through an emergency in the state of Washington, the police are the ones who drive through the streets asking people to leave. However, the National Guard is at the ready for problems, though they would not likely show up to lead an evacuation with M-16s.
Advertising Opportunity! Hey, if not Y2K, how about Arnold Schwarzenegger in "End Of Days." Neat, now I don't have to worry about Y2K, just Satan!
Myth #20: I'll handle this myself. Why does Ken Olin's character need to go into the containment building of a nuclear plant he doesn't run and has never visited? One of the key ideas to keep in mind about Y2K: There are millions of people out there who know their jobs and how to do them, even in the face of Y2K. Nick Cromwell, the hero of Y2K: The Movie, wouldn't know one valve from another.
Myth #21: "The gauges down here are saying the same thing." Nick feels a pipe with his hand and says the gauges in the containment building are reporting inaccurate information. Yet, the gauges he's looking at are analog gauges, which have no computer components or date-dependent features.
Myth #22: "I'd rather be last than wrong on this one." The news team is portrayed as heroically dedicated to sourcing their reports - no rumors, just fact. This is television congratulating itself, but the furthest stretch in the movie so far. TV news teams would be all over this, rumor or not.
Myth #23: "Hit it with a hammer!" Gawd, Ronny Cox brought Apollo 13 back. Thank God no one's lost a puppy or kitten yet. The most obvious solution, to look at the pumps that haven't been bringing water from Puget Sound is the last thing anyone thinks of? Any plant engineer could tell you that, if you turn a valve and nothing happens, you trace the system backward toward the water source to find the problem. No wonder there's a meltdown about to happen, these people are worse at running their nuclear plant than Homer Simpson (and, yes, I know, this is a line from the movie).
Myth #24: You can't open tanks of compressed gas in a sealed oil drum. The drum would burst from the increasing pressure inside long before the idiotically explosive conclusion to the nuclear drama. See, you even get your non-digital myths busted with ZDY2K.
Myth #25: You can't trust your hacker friends. "Mom, I was terrified. Chaos and Clipper ditched me." Hackers are just as human as anyone else, and that Ronny Cox is dynamite when he points with timely joy at the lost family and smiles. Parents everywhere are finally going to take the dangers of online friendships seriously after that poor girl was abandoned by her friends.
Myth #26: Nick Cromwell is left hanging on the line when power goes out in LA. Here, again, is the problem with the film. Olin's character is supposed to be "at the controls" of the national Y2K effort, yet the problems have orbited his location.
Nothing in life is as dramatic as this movie. I'd been thinking it might be kind of funny and I've been disappointed, except for the moment when Nick is spotted on video camera running outside the containment building moments after an explosion and my wife shouted, "Look, Timmy, it's Lassie!"
Y2K: The Movie shouldn't cause any panic, because it was so indescribably silly. But, in the absence of knowledge about Y2K, or in the clutches of Y2K doomers, there is a real chance that some people will be frightened. Hopefully, they'll get the straight story from reliable sources before they act irrationally to prepare for the disaster portrayed by NBC tonight. Mitch gives it two thumbs down, for bad script and stupid mythology.
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Frank is a Seattle-based actor and former president of the Theatre Puget Sound Board of Directors. He is a general partner of One Lump or Two Productions, a developer of new theatrical works. He is a graduate of Harvard University and trained with Shakespeare and Company. He has worked with ACT Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Public Theater, Taproot, Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, ArtsWest, Harlequin Productions, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Capitol Hill Arts Center, Theater Schmeater, Sound Theatre Company, Next Step Theatre Group and The Microsoft Theatre Troupe. Before concentrating on acting, he was director of interactive media at Chedd-Angier and worked as a senior program manager in interactive television and as the group program manager for the MSN entertainment and family product unit at Microsoft.
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Sajith condemns Basil's remarks on public service | Sri Lanka News
Condemning the remarks made by Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa that public service is a burden to the nation, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa today alleged that the government is preparing to dissolve the public service in Sri Lanka, either directly or by indirect means.
'The Minister of Finance has stated that the public service has been over widened to the extend that now the country can no longer bear it and the public service is a burden to the country. We believe that this is also the stance of the government and we condemn that statement with contempt. It is clear that the government is preparing to dissolve the public service in Sri Lanka, either directly or by indirect means" Mr. Premadasa said in a statement.
'The Minister who presents a popular proposal of raising the retirement age in Public Service from 60 to 65 in the Budget, says the very next day that the public service is a burden to the nation. The minister who violates his own opinion the next day is acting in accordance with his own ridiculous budget proposal. We are not surprised to witness this treatment of the government to public servants, who are crowned at the altar during election period,"
"The opportunistic nature of the government is made very well manifested today in its position to see public servants as a burden to the country even before the end of current pandemic. It has forgetten the commendable and indomitable intervention of the public service in catastrophic situations," Mr. Premadasa added. (Yohan Perera)


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Taku Sugimoto at SIMF
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This year the Seattle Improvised Music Festival brought in Taku Sugimoto from Japan. Regular readers of this blog will know that I've been a long time follower of Sugimoto's work though certainly have not followed him everywhere he's gone. Regardless of the end product, the journey has always been fascinating and it's always been worthwhile to keep up with his current activities. I've managed to see nearly all of the musicians in the small modern improv scene that has dominated my interests over the last decade but Taku Sugimoto has always managed to slip out of my grasp. So I was particularly pleased that SIMF brought him by this year.
Empty Bass
Taku Sugimoto wasn't the only non-Pacific Northwester that SIMF brought in this year, and they did do sixteen sets over four days all told. I've really moved into a space where I try to not over consume music, both in buying of physical objects but also in how much I hear. I've come to find it a lot more valuable to let music that I find really compelling to sink in, to not immediately overwhelm it with another piece. So I only saw nine of those sixteen sets and even that was too much in my mind. Each night that I went I'd come home and put up a short report onto Google+ of the Sugimoto set from that night. I'm going to collect those here, perhaps slightly expanded and with a couple more photos. I should not that the lighting was low and overall my photos were fairly bad.
Mark Collins, Mara Sedlins, Taku Sugimoto, John Teske
Thursday February 9th, apart from being my birthday, was also the second night of SIMF 2012 and the first of three nights with sets featuring Taku Sugimoto. On this night we had a world premier Taku Sugimoto composition: Two Contrabasses, Viola and Guitar. The performers were Mark Collins and John Teske handling the contrabasses, Mara Sedlins playing the viola and Taku Sugimoto handling the guitar. I really enjoyed the piece, it was mostly long bowed tones from the strings and Sugimoto cycling through eBow, muted plucked strings, chords and then open plucked single notes. Dynamics were low throughout and stayed in a single register giving it a kind of Feldman-ish feel. The string players almost always seemed to bow in one direction which I assume was for a particular timing or sound. The slow, soft bowing the the occasionally dry percussive elements of Sugimoto's playing also made me think of Jacob Ullman's A Catalog of Sounds. Good piece, afterwards I had to leave without seeing the next two sets as I wanted to let this one settle through me.
Taku Sugimoto and John Teske
Friday February 10th featured a solo performance by Taku Sugimoto. This was of course going to be interesting as Sugimoto solo has gone anywhere from him continuously playing scales, to playing only a handful of notes over the duration. Tonight though he stuck with his recent practice of sticking to composition and performed Michael Pisaro's Melody, Silence. This was a nice piece like most of Pisaro's compositions. It was made up of single plucked tones that were sometimes allowed to fully decay, other times strung into simple near melodies. These different modes of operation cycled and between then they were interspersed with short segments on the eBow. There wasn't a ton of silence, the longest sections when he'd pick up the eBow. In that regard it reminded me more of how John Cage would use silences in the number pieces which were mainly short (though still longer than you'd normally find in a "classical" piece) and seem more about allowing each sound to be allowed to breathe. Taku's touch on the guitar is really quite good, he'd gently pluck the strings giving a rich, full tone that was really compelling in and of itself. The hollow body guitar he uses has a particularly nice sound for what he does. The piece wasn't too long, I'd say maybe twenty minutes and it definitely kept me captivated throughout.
Taku Sugimoto performs Michael Pisaro's Melody, Silence
Saturday February 12th was the final night of the festival and the only night that Taku Sugimoto engaged in improvisation playing in a quartet with Gust Burns, Jeph Jerman and Tyler Wilcox. As they were setting up Taku put stools on either side of the rear stage with (at least on my side) a wine bottle on it. He poured out a glass of this wine into a styrofoam cup. On stage Jeph scatted about his collection of items: a small zither, some mallets, a radio, small speakers, rocks and twigs. Gust opened the lid of the grand piano but had none of his usual dowels (perhaps he is post-dowel now). Tyler simply had a chair and his sopranino sax. Wilson Shook came on stage to announce the group and that the lights would be turned off.
Jeph Jerman, Gust Burns and Tyler Wilcox
The group played in the near darkness with only the exit signs and the light through the chapel stained glass windows coming in. Playing in the darkness seems to always lead to even more hushed music than normal and it was very low dynamics throughout. Jeph rattled things and tapped on the floor, Tyler emitted very quiet mostly short tones and Gust held back for quite a while. Taku wandered around and shined lights on things. At first seemingly just on the crowd but then on a mic stand with his hat on it. Later he had a shoe on the mic stand. Jeph placed an eBow on his zither and let it run for some time, first high, then low then high again. Tyler would match this for brief intervals creating sections of beating tones that was quite nice. Gust began playing single notes, fairly high and usually damped fairly quickly. Taku walked to my side of the stage and place a blinking green light that was shaped like a glow stick into the bottle of wine. At this point a regular beeping sound began, but if this was something of Taku's or one of Jeph's little toys I don't know. It beeped for a while as Taku was behind the rear stage curtain playing with a white light.
Wine bottle, stool
Taku also had a red light in his belt and eventually he made his way to the opposite side of the stage and set it up (presumably also in a bottle). So on either side of the stage a red and green light was blinking away. Jeph finally removed the ebow and seem to focus more on rustling sounds and wobbling rocks. Gust was still just playing the occasional single note, now more mid-range. Tyler was doing a bit more hissing sounds at this point. Taku shined his light on the back of the heads of the audience a bit but then made his way to the back where he returned to the show on the mic stand. He placed his flashlight in another mic stand and proceeded to manipulate the shoe for a bit, slow lowering it and then rotating it. This was cast as a huge shadow on the screen that is behind the stage curtain. This was the climax so to speak and after he cut that light I think he only projected lights once more for a short time. The musicians were slowly winding down as well, though of course it had never gotten more intense then the eBowed zither. At the end they just sat in the dark for a bit making no sounds. Eventually Tyler said thanks and it was done.
Great performance, I really enjoyed it. While the theatrical stuff was really engaging what I think made it completely compelling was that there was great music throughout.
Tags: Gust Burns, Jeph Jerman, John Teske, Mara Sedlins, Mark Collins, Seattle Improvised Music, Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Seattle Improvised Music Festival 2012, SIMF12, SIMF2012, Taku Sugimoto, Tyler Wilcox


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Muslim Women in Washington D.C. Organize Pray-Ins for Gender Equality in Mosques
Rick Cohen
July 11, 2011; Source: USA Today | Sometimes the most courageous actions by ordinary people involve doing what most of us would think is simply normal, but in certain contexts, exposes people to virulent, vocal attacks. USA Today published a very moving op-ed by a former Wall Street Journal reporter who, with Muslim women friends of hers, attempted to enter the Islamic Center in Washington D.C. to pray like any other Muslim — rather like any other male Muslim. Women are not allowed to enter the Islamic Center through the central front door like male worshipers. Woman are supposed to enter through a side door and go into a basement area separated from the main area designated for men.
One of the women, Fatima Thompson, has been leading a "Pray In" campaign to convince Washington-area mosques to give women the same rights they had in the 7th century when the prophet Mohammad allowed women to pray in the same main hall — the musallah — of a mosque just like male worshipers without being hidden by partitions. During previous Pray-ins, police charged the women with trespassing and threw them out. At this Pray-in at the Islamic Center, the women weren't thrown out, but their prayers were accompanied by "shouts and insults" from male worshipers.
These women are challenging the practice of many mosques that "relegate women to small, dingy, secluded, airless and segregated quarters with their children" or even "prevent women from entering," as described in a 2005 study. Don't take this as a critique of mosques. This writer remembers during his youth attending Orthodox synagogues that segregated women in cramped balconies separate from and barely visible to male worshipers.
Despite the focus of these Pray-ins on mosques, the issue isn't tied to a specific religion. Thompson and her companions are really raising a question of gender rights at places of worship.
While gender rights are protected in many kinds of tax exempt organizations, they are not protected in places of worship. According to Marc Owens, the former director of the tax exempt organizations division of the Internal Revenue Service, when it comes to gender rights in mosques, "Muslim women are essentially in the same place as Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and 1960s when the courts hadn't yet established public policy against racial discrimination."
Is gender discrimination in tax-exempt religious institutions an issue for legislation and regulation because of their use of tax deductible charitable resources? Or is it that charitable contributions or not, the rights that religious institutions give or deny women are matters of religious doctrine and not governmental intrusion? How would NPQ Newswire readers react if "gender" was replaced with the word "racial?"
One of the most striking parts of this article involved a moment of shock the author, Asra Q. Nomani, had when the group of women Pray-in activists were stopped at the Islamic Center. She realized that her eight-year-old son who had accompanied her had more right to enter the musallah than she did. Should federal law, empowered by churches' use of charitable deductions and possession of tax exemptions, be called on to break down the barriers of gender apartheid in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish halls of prayer?—Rick Cohen
Rick joined NPQ in 2006, after almost eight years as the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). Before that he played various roles as a community worker and advisor to others doing community work. He also worked in government. Cohen pursued investigative and analytical articles, advocated for increased philanthropic giving and access for disenfranchised constituencies, and promoted increased philanthropic and nonprofit accountability.
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The very friendly Brookside Golf Course in Ashland, Ohio, offers students at Ashland University a great chance to unwind from their studies. Played mostly by the local community, this pleasant course is open to the public. The Clubhouse is small and inviting and offers snacks for players and some golf supplies.
One of the main challenges on the Brookside Golf Course are brooks that cut across the fairway; I love this roofed bridge show in the photograph! Other challenges include variations in height (see photo below), surprisingly wet fairways and slow greens due to the unusual 2014 rains, all those beautiful trees along the fairway, and sand traps that are ordinarily easy to miss.
The rains weren't really a problem for us, we just put on our wet weather gloves and continued along our way. Luckily for us the lightning and thunder was brief, the rains very light, and quickly disappeared. Most other players also continued.
The above photo shows why many golfers walk this course which is like a park almost. After paying fees, golfers practice a fee putts then check in at the starter then play with few delays.
The golf course at Rock Springs Ridge Golf Course, Apopka, FL is still suffering from the economy in the form of weeds in the fairway, but the greens were in good condition and the course mowed and sand traps maintained. Both restrooms mid-nine were operational. The cost when we played in October 2013 was $20, so it was a good golf green fees and golf cart golf deal.
One of the major ways Rock Springs Ridge challenges the golfer is their use of Live Oak trees mid course and protecting the green as seen in the golf photograph above and to the left.
To place the ball near the flag on the green in the photograph above requires chipping below the tree but over the sand trap.
To get past the trees mid fairway in the golf photograph to the left requires that the ball travel over the tree or under the branches or if luckly, finding the air and going through the live oak.
What club to use? To chip over a tree, use a pitching wedge with the face almost parallel to the ground. To drive beneath the trees, use a three wood or four iron, or use a club that is almost 90 degrees to the ground.
Other challenges at Rock Spring Ridge Golf Course include the heavy turf and moguls on a few of the holes, as well as hidden fairways, hidden greens, and water hazards.
The restaurant at the Rock Springs Ridge Golf Clubhouse was open on Saturday, offering up tasty 8 oz. burgers, chicken tenders, fries, and the usual sort of golf food.


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Attorney bills could expose nonpublic cases
Public defender invoices in conflict with state's efforts to give young people facing criminal charges a clean slate
Justin A. Hinkley, and Matt Mencarini
LANSING – Michigan's process for paying court-appointed attorneys has created a conflict between the state's efforts to give young people facing criminal charges a clean slate and its desire to disclose the ways taxpayer dollars are spent, legislative officials and others said.
When young people are sentenced on certain crimes, some laws, such the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, allow judges to grant defendants the opportunity to keep their records clean if they serve prison time in a special facility or complete special probation and stay out of trouble in the future.
A majority of those young people are represented by public defenders, who are appointed by judges but submit invoices to whatever county they're working in to get paid. Those invoices often include defendants' names, including defendants who were granted privacy through HYTA and other programs.
Because county spending records are subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act, the names of individuals whose criminal history is supposed to be hidden could be released or counties could be forced to perform costly, time-consuming reviews for possible redaction before releasing them to the public.
The HYTA statute specifies which agencies are supposed to have access to HYTA records, and county finance departments — and the privately contracted auditors who review their bills — are not on that list. But attorneys couldn't get paid without submitting their invoices to the counties, and detailing which cases they worked on helps counties verify the bills. Counties spent nearly $74 million on public defense in 2013, according to the State Court Administrative Office.
"This might be something worth looking at in the context of FOIA reform, something that was certainly unintentional but … may undermine one of the purposes of HYTA," state Rep. Kurt Heise, R-Plymouth Township, who sponsored one of a few bills that expanded HYTA last year, said last week.
HYTA and similar programs are designed to prevent lifelong penalties for youthful indiscretions. If the offenders meet the demands of the court and do not reoffend, no conviction is entered on their record and their case file is made nonpublic. Employers running background checks are not supposed to be able to find a record of those court proceedings.
It's a popular avenue for courts increasingly focused on forgiveness and cutting down the prison population: In 2014, 319 defendants spent time in jail on HYTA status and 3,257 were on probation through HYTA, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Lansing-area defense attorney Edwar Zeineh said he tells clients the purpose of HYTA is to allow them to earn a clean criminal record and legally tell potential employers they haven't been convicted of a crime. He added that, in his mind, nobody outside the criminal justice system — police, prosecutors and judges — should have access to those records. He said he's had several clients whose HYTA-protected cases were disclosed in the Michigan State Police's publicly available background check database.
"I think it conflicts with the intent of HYTA," he said. "... If this is an issue, I would start changing the way I tell clients HYTA protects them."
But trials create numerous documents in multiple places, and there hasn't been much conversation about which specific documents should be made nonpublic.
"It's something that has come up but not something I can recall being particularly discussed," said Bruce Timmons, a longtime and recently retired state House staffer who worked for the Judiciary Committee shortly after HYTA became law in the 1960s.
"We didn't get down into the weeds on that," said state Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright, D-Muskegon, who sponsored another of the HYTA expansion bills last year.
The Michigan Association of Counties hasn't addressed the issue, either, spokesman Derek Melot said.
The State Journal became aware of the issue when it sought to review invoices from court-appointed attorneys working in Lansing-area courts. Two counties agreed to make the records public for free and without redaction, but Ingham County originally sought more than $3,000 to review and redact the thousands of invoices, partly because the names of defendants in nonpublic cases could appear on the records.
LSJ seeks release of Ingham County billing records
Through the State Journal's appeal to the county board of commissioners, the county agreed to provide the records for about a third of the price. But county officials also admitted to the board that the design of the records was flawed and they would look into changes.
State Court Administrative Office guidelines to local courts about handling nonpublic records say "all proceedings regarding the disposition of the criminal charge and the individual's assignment as youthful trainee shall be closed to public inspection," but don't detail what counts as a "proceeding" or address attorney bills at all.
Court rules list "vouchers and payments (including attorney fee payments…)" as court accounting records, which are not among the records specifically listed by court rules as open to the public.
Courts are not subject to FOIA, but the invoices are maintained by counties, not the courts. Counties are subject to FOIA, and the state constitution specifies that government financial records are open to public inspection.
Attorney bills are not the only place where the names of defendants in nonpublic cases appear. Their names proliferate on online court schedules and in digital court records before the cases are made nonpublic. And the trials happen in open court before HYTA or other status is granted, meaning defendants' names are often reported in news stories before the case is closed.
Heise said the matter is probably best left to courts and counties to solve, but it would be beyond the government's reach to close up every document that may go floating on the Web. Court administrators and lawmakers are constantly trying to update rules and laws to keep up with technology and balance the needs of privacy with government transparency, he said.
"In this day and age, I can probably find dirt on anybody I want to," Heise said. "It's always a process of continuous review and cross-checking to see what's working and what's not. It's a balancing act and we have to deal with that every day in the Legislature."
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