Virtually every computing device in the world is made unsafe by the latest disclosures on Central Processing Unit (CPU) vulnerabilities.
The CPU is most often described as the "brain" of any computing device. It is a hardware chip that executes the step-by-step instructions laid out in any computer program that is running on the device and orchestrates the rest of the hardware in the device to achieve the intent of the program. The operating system and applications that run on it are all computer programs that depend on the CPU to carry out their instructions. The CPU is also depended on to provide the separation necessary to ensure that an application (that may be rogue) cannot steal data from the operating system kernel or other applications.
It is like putting each application into its own container with opaque walls, so that a misbehaving application is not able to "see" or affect what other applications are doing. Should such a separation be broken down, malware can then read the memory contents of the operating system or other applications and can potentially get access to critical data such as encryption keys, passwords, and transaction information. Going back to the container analogy, it is like having peepholes in the separation walls, allowing a rogue application to observe what other applications are doing, and thereby obtaining information that it is not supposed to have.
The first vulnerability, Meltdown, breaks down the memory barrier between the operating system and the applications that run on it. This enables malware to access data from the operating system memory, including sensitive data from other applications. As Meltdown affects Intel chips released since 2010, millions of PCs, laptops, cloud servers, and smartphones are vulnerable to it.
Spectre includes two different vulnerabilities that make use of a CPU optimization technique called speculative execution. Almost all modern CPUs use speculative execution to achieve higher performance. As a result, Spectre has a wider impact than Meltdown. Intel, AMD, and ARM chips are known to be affected by it. This pretty much covers the entire population of computing devices in the world. Although Spectre is technically different from Meltdown, the effect is similar - memory isolation between applications is broken down, allowing malware to access data that is leaked from other applications.
So far, although there have been no known cases of criminals making use of these CPU vulnerabilities, it does not mean that we are safe because the nature of the vulnerabilities makes it difficult to detect such attacks. Another thing to note is that these vulnerabilities, in the context of a cloud service provider, can allow malware affecting one cloud customer to gain access to data of other cloud customers, as long as the cloud instances are served by the same underlying CPU.
SingCERT, like many other similar organizations around the world, has recommended that software updates be applied to mitigate the CPU vulnerabilities. These software patches can come in three levels. The first is the CPU or processor level, which can come in the form of a firmware update from CPU vendors such as Intel. The second is the operating system level, which can be a Windows patch for laptops or an Android upgrade for smartphones. The third is the application level, for applications and browsers. So, for best protection against the vulnerabilities, users and companies should apply all the patches as they are released.
However, there is a downside to applying these patches as the effectiveness of the CPU optimizations may then be reduced, resulting in computer slowdowns of 5% to 30%. The actual amount of performance degradation will depend on the processor and other characteristics of the machine, as well as the operating system and applications.
Do these mean that consumers should refrain from performing banking or payment transactions while waiting for software updates to be made available by the respective vendors? Fortunately, consumers in Singapore can be re-assured that cutting-edge technology is securing most of their critical banking, payment, and government applications against such attacks.
Many of these apps already have critical personal data and encryption keys stored and processed within a virtual vault that is also known as a "virtual secure element". Within the context of the application container analogy, this is like introducing a safe within each application, so that critical data can be kept in the safe, without worrying that other applications can observe the data through peepholes.
As an example, some mobile banking apps today have the ability to generate one-time passwords (OTPs) for two-factor authentication, doing away with the need to send OTPs via SMS or to key in the OTP displayed on a hardware token. These apps make use of the virtual secure element to securely store the secret key that is used for OTP generation. The virtual secure element ensures that this secret key will not be leaked to any malware exploiting the Meltdown or Spectre vulnerabilities.
The same virtual secure element technology is also used by mobile banking apps to store secret keys and confidential data for payment transactions. When payments are made, the most critical processing is done within the virtual secure element, which makes it secure regardless of whether there are vulnerabilities in the underlying operating system or CPU.
As a result, many mobile banking apps in Singapore like DBS digibank and UOB Mighty already enjoy strong security with the virtual secure element technology provided by V-Key that stands up to the most malicious hacks. Besides the secret key for OTP generation, other sensitive data and cryptographic keys for payments are also similarly protected. Users can safely perform banking transactions as usual without fear of critical data being stolen by malware, as long as they continue to be vigilant about social engineering attacks such as phishing and baiting.
Traditionally, security vulnerabilities were mostly found in software, creating a wrong impression that hardware is more secure than software. These latest vulnerability disclosures show that hardware can be vulnerable too, and the impact is immeasurable. Most security practitioners advocate multi-layered security defence. Security vulnerabilities will continue to be discovered and patched at all levels. With the use of novel technologies such as virtual secure element, anti-tampering, and obfuscation, users and organizations do not have to totally rely on the security of the underlying operating system or hardware processor and can remain protected against single points of weaknesses.


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Will "Redskins Rule" Or LSU/Bama Predictor Determine Election Winner?
By Jon Rapoport November 6, 2012
As Americans take to the polls on this Election Day, it is interesting to consider that the outcome of the presidential race may have already been determined, depending of course on who you talk to.
A call to Governor Mitt Romney's Boston headquarters might invoke a reference to the Washington Redskins 21-13 home loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. According to the "Redskins Rule," when the franchise based in our nation's capital goes down in defeat, during their final home game before Election Day, the non-incumbent party wins at the ballot box. But, if the Skins prevail, the incumbent party successfully retains their place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Since the Redskins relocated to Washington in 1937, this rule has played out a whopping 17 out of 18 times.
The lone exception took place in 2004, when the Green Bay Packers took down the Redskins 28-14. Despite the loss, President George W. Bush (the incumbent) won a second term, after defeating Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.
While supporters of Governor Romney are rejoicing, as a result of the Panthers win, folks at President Obama's Chicago headquarters may gleefully point to the outcome of last weekend's marquee college football attraction.
Saturday night, top ranked and defending national champion Alabama pulled off a thrilling 21-17, late-game victory over LSU. Since 1984, in seasons when LSU wins this SEC battle of heavyweights, the Republican nominee has won the presidential election. But, when the Crimson Tide triumph, the Democratic candidate is crowned champion of that year's election contest.
This phenomenon has taken place on seven consecutive occasions.
While polling data, economic numbers and national security considerations often tell the story of where an election will break, it might be easier for pundits to simply look at the world of sports for all the answers.
Or, maybe these are completely random and coincidental trends.
Either way, come Tuesday night (or later), we'll all find out for ourselves.
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When a developer decides to take the leap into freelance work, she will quickly find herself needing to learn things she never expected. There's quarterly taxes. There's finding new clients on your own. There's negotiating for payments. There's contracts. By becoming a freelancer, you are no longer just a specialist. You are also a business owner—and the business is you.
You have to become an administrator, a marketer, a writer, a communicator, and you have to still meet all those deadlines that pile up as you add clients.
This can be a big burden, and, at first it can be overwhelming, but there are great tools like AND CO that can help ease the burden and allow you to focus on what you're best at.
Good question, Jon. Let's take a look.
AND CO is, essentially, your on-the-go administrative assistant (the CO stands for "Chief Operator"). It's an app, but through that app, you can communicate with your CO, a real, live human being who is there to assist you with all your freelance questions. It's easy to use and the COs are quick to respond, knowledgeable, and have access to a fount of information, including tax deductible related inquiries.
So, what else can a developer do with AND CO?
Imagine you're having a busy day. You've got a few deadlines, you have to run to the grocery store, pick up the dry cleaning, and pay that parking ticket you've had sitting on your nightstand for a month. For many freelancers, every day looks pretty much like this. Invoicing isn't exactly the most exciting, or beneficial, use of your time when, with AND CO, you can pull out your phone and shoot off a text to your CO to ask for an invoice to be sent in just a few seconds.
Perhaps the best part is that the CO keeps track of the invoices that you sent out to clients, automatically following up, and, if the client doesn't meet the payment terms, the CO will send another invoice that includes any additional fees incurred because of delayed payment.
This allows you to automatically receive business related transactions, file expenses, and keep track of your business records in one simple tool. AND CO also can help you categorize business related expenses (as well as determine what is a legitimately deductible expense for tax purposes). They will provide you with monthly expense and income statements, remind you when quarterly taxes are due, and help you to calculate how much is due each quarter. End of year income statements can also be generated.
Tax information can be overwhelming for a freelancer, especially if you come from more traditional employment where all you need is your w2 and a few hours to file once per year. Then, when you begin freelancing, you find yourself in a situation where you need to start filling out 1099s, track expenses and income, and file taxes quarterly. It's certainly not the most fun part of being a freelancer, but with some help from AND CO, you can keep your records straight and make the process go as easily as possible.
And that guy was pretty much the original multi-talented freelancer, wasn't he? How much more could he have accomplished with a CO in his pocket!
It seems like AND CO is always coming up with some new way to expand its offerings for freelancers. One of the most useful new features, which will only improve with time, is the ability to check out whether people recommend certain clients. Or, maybe more importantly, whether they warn you against certain clients. By leaving reviews for your freelance gigs, you help other freelancers make better decisions, and when they leave reviews, it helps you. Even though freelancers work apart, and often work solo, we can still benefit from working together. AND CO helps to bridge that gap between you and the world outside your home office.
All that AND CO does for a freelancer comes down to this crucial factor: It saves you time. Time that you can spend reaching out to potential clients, or exercising, or binge watching Stranger Things. The point is, your time is the most valuable thing you have. If you can make just as much money from your business while saving yourself a ton of time, why wouldn't you?
The decrease in stress alone can make you more focused on your projects, instead of on the administrative tasks surrounding them. Sometimes trying to do too much can be detrimental—and knowing when to outsource can be crucial to anyone running a business, from Fortune 500 CEOs to sole proprietor developers.


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Is 'leaning in' the only formula for women's success in science?
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Don't wait to be invited or encouraged to make a career in science, engineering or technology, Frances Arnold advises the young women she teaches at the California Institute of Technology. If you're a scientist, she says, you should know how to solve a problem. "Bemoaning your fate is not going to solve the problem," she says. "One has to move forward."
The female pioneers who changed STEM forever
Twenty-year-old Rosalyn Sussman cut a steely, solitary figure in September 1941 as she started her doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. "I was the first woman to have a graduate assistantship in physics there since 1917," she recounted to biographer Eugene Straus. She was the only female faculty member among 400, and there were no women's bathrooms in the lab facilities — a major inconvenience, especially during the many nights she spent sleeping on the floor of the lab. Despite her confidence and persistence, even Rosalyn couldn't have predicted that she would graduate several semesters early, make the jump to medicine, develop a revolutionary technique in the field of endocrinology, and win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977.
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Tech pioneer Ken Coleman talks diversity
As a pioneering African-American in the land of tech, Ken Coleman has earned the respect of venture capitalists and the friendship of presidents. And yet as a black man in America, Coleman shudders when police lights flash. "When I'm stopped I want to say, 'I'm not what you think, I've got an MBA, I live in Los Altos Hills, I own a home in Maui.' I want to say that," says Coleman, 69. "Because I know through experience that person might have an image of what I might be and view me as dangerous. And to not feel that way would be foolish."
Morgan State University builds
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Morgan State University recently received a $23.3-million BUILD award, one of 12 announced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to university sources, this funding is the second largest in its history and the highest yet from the NIH. The NIH Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program is a set of experimental training awards designed to learn how to attract diverse students into biomedical research and encourage them to become contributors to the NIH-funded research enterprise.
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The effect of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers is a topic of perennial debate. According to "Foreign STEM Workers and Native Wages and Employment in U.S. Cities" (NBER Working Paper No. 20093), extending visas to more STEM workers increases the wages of native workers and does not affect the employment of other groups, although it does raise housing costs for college-educated workers.
How to land your dream job by the end of the year
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If you've been job hunting, I'm willing to bet you're considering tuning out your job search for the holidays and starting again in the new year. Job searches take a long time, and why start now before everyone's on vacation for two weeks, right? Not really. With an eye on the prize and smart strategies (gathered from our best job search tips of all time), you can land a job by Christmas. Here's how.
How to get more black men into science
In the 1980s, when Freeman A. Hrabowski III was vice provost at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, he visited public schools to speak with boys of color about academic achievement. The children often reacted defensively. "What did we do wrong this time?" they would ask. Their skepticism and suspicion made it clear they were accustomed in school to being associated with undesirable behavior.
Analysis: We are making a difference in tech diversity
We are making a difference. Slowly but surely there are signs the tech industry is addressing its woefully inadequate record on racial and ethnic diversity within its ranks. USA Today launched its Inequity in Silicon Valley coverage earlier this year to start a national conversation about the lack of blacks and Hispanics in high tech and the deep challenges faced by people of color in Silicon Valley. Our intent was to shine a searing light on a complex, thorny problem that most tech companies have been loath to discuss or acknowledge publicly for years.
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Q: I am getting an error - no module named for Import ta-lib in Python on Mac I  am getting the following error in Jupyter Note Book when running the code below in Python.
import talib

I get the following
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-20-29b7d6c547d4> in <module>()
      4 import numpy as np
      5 import tensorflow
----> 6 import talib
      7 import _talib
      8 import alpaca_trade_api as tradeapi

ImportError: No module named 'talib'

I am running Anaconda on a MAC
I have looked at all of the existing questions on this and found nothing.
When I use the PIP freeze command I see the following library and version
TA-Lib==0.4.17
The folder talib exists in the following path
anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages

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World Bank meet: G20 agenda should add development - WB
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) -- The Group of 20 leading economies faced demands Friday to do more for the developing world as their finance chiefs gathered to work on an agenda aimed at fending off future crises.
The talks in this southern port city by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other top finance ministers focus on setting an agenda for a summit in Toronto later this month -- and years beyond.
The leaders face myriad demands as they search for consensus on how to reshape the global financial system and avert a "double dip" back into recession due to the European sovereign debt crisis.
"The G-20 needs the rest of the developing world for reasons of self-interest," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a World Bank managing director, said at a conference Friday on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting.
She noted that growth in developing countries is forecast to average 6 percent this year -- twice the rate for rich countries.
"G20 countries need new sources of demand. The developing world has the potential, and it has the people," she said. "The G20 must recognize this and give development the central place it deserves in its agenda."
Managing the European debt fiasco and resulting market turmoil has recently overshadowed longer term efforts to reform banking regulation and set up financial safety nets for countries emerging from crisis.
"This crisis presents a new threat to the global economy. Just when we thought we have turned the corner, there are new clouds on the horizon," said Okonjo-Iweala.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday praised the steps Europe is taking to deal with the crisis but said the challenge was in the execution.
"They have laid out a very strong program and they are starting to put that in place and it is starting to get a little more traction," Geithner said in an interview with CNBC while en route to Busan.
The G-20, founded in 1999, evolved into a global crisis management forum with the 2008 collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers and the resulting turmoil in financial markets. It now needs to set an agenda that will promote sustainable long-term global growth, said Asian Development Bank chief economist Jong-Wha Lee.
He and other speakers said the big economies can generate jobs by channeling investment into filling the gaping need for better infrastructure in developing countries, while also ensuring they rebalance growth at home to help make capital more affordable for crucial productive uses.
Justin Lin Yifu, a World Bank chief economist and vice president, said private companies, wary of risks, need support to pursue opportunities in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
Recovering funds stolen through corruption, providing aid for trade and greater market access for poor countries to sell their goods and services in richer countries are other key priorities, the experts said.
South Korea, which emerged from poverty to become a technology and industrial powerhouse, assumed the rotating G-20 chair this year and will convene a summit in November in its capital, Seoul. It favors including development in the G-20 agenda.
The finance ministers, who last met in Washington in April, are looking to shore up confidence in financial markets and in a nearly $1 trillion bailout plan for ailing European economies, hoping to stave off any wider damage to the world economic recovery.
They are preparing a communique to be issued Saturday at the conclusion of their meeting.
Not all agree with the idea of having the G-20 manage global development. Some worry that expanding its agenda further will make it less effective.
"We don't want an organization whose agenda is too big to succeed," said Ifzal Ali, chief economist of the Islamic Development Bank.
Agreement also is far from certain on proposals for a bank tax, for setting new standards on how much capital banks need to protect against a future financial crisis and erecting "financial safety nets" to help emerging economies vulnerable to financial flows.
The U.S. and Europe favor a bank tax to pay for future bailouts, but others such as Canada and Australia oppose it given that their banks weathered the global crisis intact.
Geithner declined to say if the U.S. wants the G-20 to adopt a global target of 12 percent of an institution's assets being held as a capital reserve -- one option being considered. That would represent an increase from a current U.S. target of around 8 percent.
"We want to find a balance between making sure that these firms run with much more conservative, much stronger cushions against loss in future crises," he said, refusing to say what target was being considered.
Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer, Friday June 4, 2010
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Leeds United can today confirm the signing of Japanese International midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi.
The 21-year-old has successfully completed his medical and becomes the first Japanese player to sign for the club.
Ideguchi joins the club from J1 League side Gamba Osaka for an undisclosed fee and has penned a contract at Elland Road until the summer of 2022.
Capped 10 times by Japan, Ideguchi has also netted two international goals and could represent his country at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer.
The midfielder will now join Spanish Segunda Division side Cultural Leonesa until the end of the season.


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The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche
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A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the strange girl Edvarda comes into his life.
Sverre Lyngstad's superb translation of Hamsun's 1894 novel restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Knut Hamsun (1858–1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff's assistant, laborer, store clerk, farmhand, and streetcar conductor in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. His first novel, Hunger (1890), was an immediate critical success; he went on to write the novels Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917), the last of which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
Sverre Lyngstad (1922–2011; translator, introducer, notes) was a scholar and translator of Norwegian literature and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He translated five of Knut Hamsun's works for Penguin Classics—Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917)—and was honored by the King of Norway with the St. Olav Medal and with the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
"Knut Hamsun's writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive." —Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review
"The story [Pan] tells is as gripping as ever, and its descriptions of nature remain original. The work contains a harmony found only in the highest types of poetry; it is actually poetry set in prose, and boasts the best traits of each." —Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: September 1st, 1998
Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Minimum Grade Level: UP
Fiction / Fantasy / Romantic
Literary Collections / European / Scandinavian
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Hadoop and Big Data: Ready to Cross the Chasm?
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The union of Hadoop and Big Data are passing out of the early adopter stage, but what happens next is debatable.
It's rare for a technology and concept like Hadoop and Big Data to take off with the speed that they have, more so with a technology and concept as big and complex. Hadoop was an internal project at Yahoo just five years ago. Now, companies are betting their business on Big Data.
The challenge, though, is for the products to mature. And much like those silly cheese commercials on TV, Hadoop needs to mature as well. It's one thing for techies with Java skills to download the source code from the Apache Foundation and conduct internal experiments. But if that's all there is, that would have guaranteed that Hadoop never got beyond the propellerheads.
For the union of Hadoop and Big Data to grow and thrive it has to do like every other concept or product and "cross the chasm," as defined in Geoffrey Moore's definitive 1991 book on marketing. Crossing the chasm means making the leap from a few early adopters, almost always very technically advanced who can work with the product on their own, to the masses on the other side of the chasm. If you make it, you're Linux. If you fall short, you end up like CORBA.
As far as Gartner is concerned, Hadoop and Big Data are at the point beyond early adopters and ready to make the leap to the other side, but not just yet. In a survey conducted last month of almost 300 enterprise IT decision makers, 54% said they had no plans to invest in Hadoop technologies in the coming year, but that means 46% are ready to pull the trigger or already have. All things considered, said Merv Adrian, the Gartner research VP who conducted the survey, that's not bad.
"I'm not surprised, because in terms of maturity of the market, Gartner believes we are just finishing the early adopter stage. And there is a natural pause reflected in a lifecycle when mainstream adopters start to look at what early adopters have already taken in. All kinds of questions come up," he said.
The hype cycle is about the trigger – some disruptive technology coming into the market. In the early days, the fact that a given technology is rough around the edges and needs new skills is accepted by early adopters willing to put up with it to take advantage of being first. But it needs more to make it to the next level.
Hadoop and Big Data: Rejected?
One reason why the disinterest in Hadoop/Big Data is so high is some companies have tried it and decided they didn't need it. It's not an uncommon characteristic of early adopters that they get into a tech because it's the bright shiny object and want to see what it's good for and play around with it, but not have any use for it. Then it becomes a technology in search of a solution.
"When we ask people why they are not interested, the reason we heard the most was we haven't identified something we need to use this for. We don't need it or we have a technology that's adequate. Or they say no one has presented us with a business case," said Adrian.
Randall Barnes, senior cloud architect at 2nd Watch, an AWS managed services partner, said that about 25% of his clients tried Hadoop and/or Big Data and didn't want it, which he said is higher than most other new technologies.
"Hadoop has a much higher rate of customers deciding not to pursue it than others, but the vast majority of customers we work with are pleased and do commit to move into the next phase," he said.
Aside from the business case, there was also the cost, Barnes added. In looking at what it would cost to retool their developer teams and developer processes, match their existing IP with ETL and other data requirements, some customers felt the cost of a migration shift was higher than the benefits.
Finally, one of the biggest obstacles he's encountered is just getting familiarity and having a broader audience participate in the evaluation and experience and try to understand how it will benefit to have this new workload or app stack. In other words, Big Data still doesn't have a perfect pitch. "There is this barrier to getting this [concept] into a form the IT department or decision makers can get their hands around it," he said.
Adrian said that while 54% of people he surveyed have not made a decision on Hadoop and don't plan to invest in the next two years, that number is not going to hold through the next two years. "As you move into the trough, you move into the mainstream where people have different assessments and have expectations that early adopters don't have. They want more fit and finish and easier to use and security," he said.
What's happening now is buyers are looking for more than just the software download. They are looking for things that show the Hadoop stack and offerings are maturing. He made it clear Gartner is not going to predict their change, it's going to report their change.
And change is coming. If you look at the stuff announced at the recent Hadoop Summit, there were deployment utilities, deployment services, security services, monitoring services and more. "These are the kinds of things mature enterprises want. They don't want to hear a bunch of guys in the Silicon Valley are writing this code and it will be available next week," said Adrian.
Prakash Nanduri, co-founder and CEO of Paxata, a Big Data development and deployment firm, agreed with Adrian's contention that Big Data and Hadoop are at the chasm crossing phase, but thinks it will go quicker than Gartner does.
The biggest challenge, though, is the oft-documented problem of finding the talent to get the job done. There is a huge shortage of people with Big Data skills, and they can command top dollar. "The top challenges we hear from organizations using Hadoop today, number one is obtaining skills and capabilities, number two is figuring out how to get value out of it," said Adrian.
In fact, he argues that the technology is way ahead of the skills. "The truth is today, the Hadoop stack is very competent and capable of doing things people want to do with it. The tech is ready for the kinds of things most people are thinking of doing. Some researchers say skills are not a problem. They are dead wrong. Skills are definitely a problem," said Adrian.
Enterprise companies with large services divisions like IBM and HP and pure services firms like CSC and InfoSys are training people as fast as they can, but you don't create a data scientist overnight. "People can't write the algorithms, never mind implement them. Some large systems integrators are turning down jobs because they can't provide the resources," said Adrian.
That's been 2nd Watch's experience, which has had to turn down some projects, according to Barnes, due to a shortage of talent. For most of the Hadoop or Big Data-type projects, 2nd Watch has a longer lead time because those few individuals with the appropriate skillsets are booked longer than a typical project. So the company is hiring bright talent and training them.
Adrian believes Hadoop will eventually live up to its hype. "It's a more cost-effective approach hitherto unexploited information than is available. It represents an opportunity we haven't exploited. As it becomes more available and more manageable for the enterprise class it will be adopted," he said.
But he added Hadoop will change, too. "Two to three years from now, people could be talking about their Spark stack, that's entirely possible. These things continue to change. The answer to what is Hadoop is different today than it was two years ago and will be different two years from now. I think it has legs and will be here for quite some time," said Adrian.
Barnes said interest is growing, slow but steady. "It has got the mindshare. A lot of the conversations we have are with key decision makers all the way up to executive level are very aware. They're familiar with it and the promise. We're having interesting conversations for the possibilities of it. It's not just mining usage logs or parsing for fraud detection anymore," he said.


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The Pulse of the Prairie
Kayla March 14, 2006
Pulses are widely recognized as a good source of protein, starch, fibre and B vitamins, and are considered a healthy part of a balanced diet. These legumes are valued as high-protein livestock feed, whether as seed, for grazing, as hay or as silage. Similarly, legumes are ideally suited to feeding the soil and as a healthy part of a balanced rotation.
On the prairies, the most commonly grown pulse crops are field peas and lentils, though dry beans, chickpeas, faba beans and soybeans also have a place. Organic seed is readily available for field peas and lentils but more difficult to find for the others.
Field peas
Saskatchewan has long been the world's leading exporter of field peas, so it's not surprising that organic farmers on the prairies often turn to field peas as the legume in their rotation. Both yellow and green field peas are grown and sold as both food and livestock feed. The classic food use is in split pea soup, though of course more innovative cooks have developed a greater repertoire of pea recipes. Pea seeds contain up to 25% crude protein, so they are much valued as livestock feed. Much of the prairie organic pea crop is exported, especially to Europe, but a small local market exists for food and especially for feed.
Field peas are best suited to black and grey soil zones on the prairie, where moisture is less limiting and high temperatures are less frequent. Field peas can be grown in the drier regions if seeded early to avoid excessive heat during flowering.
Field peas are often grown at a point in the rotation where nitrogen is limiting. Legumes are able to partner with bacteria to obtain nitrogen from the air. This gives them a tremendous advantage against weeds in low nitrogen soils.
Field peas also withstand mechanical disturbance very well. When damaged, the pea plants are often able to re-grow from nodes underground. This gives the pea another advantage in weedy fields, where harrowing, rod weeding or rotary hoeing can be used to good effect. Many producers feel that leafy peas are more competitive with weeds than the semileafless varieties, perhaps because they let less light through the canopy. Research results have been inconsistent. Semileafless peas often resist lodging better, and this too can improve weed competition.
Powdery mildew is a common disease of field peas in the prairies. Often considered minor by producers, it can reduce yields by 10–15% on average, and the release of spores during harvest can be a risk for combine fires and grain dust allergies. The easiest way to avoid powdery mildew is to select a resistant cultivar. Field peas are relatively free from insect attack, and are not a preferred food of grasshoppers.
Field peas can be used as forage at the early bloom stage, or for winter grazing on pea stubble. They can also be used as a valuable green manure. Usually the plant material is incorporated into the soil at early bloom. With adequate moisture, field peas can provide over 190 kg/ha (170 lb/ac.) of nitrogen and a yield of 30–40 bu/ac. Smallseeded peas, such as the 4010 forage pea, are available at a lower cost per acre.
The lentil is a relatively recent introduction to the Canadian prairie. From humble beginnings in the 1970s, lentil production has grown to the point that Saskatchewan is now the world's leading exporter of lentils. Organic farmers produce a variety of lentil types, including large-seeded greens, medium-seeded greens, smallseeded greens, French greens and reds.
Lentils are primarily grown for food. Dhal, or split lentil, is a staple in India. Lentil recipes are abundant, and range from soups and salads to casseroles and baked goods. Because of their small size and flattened shape, lentils cook quickly. Lentils average 22% protein, and are an important source of fibre, vitamin A and a variety of minerals.
Lentils are best suited to brown and dark brown soils on the prairie. They are somewhat drought tolerant, but they do not tolerate flooding or waterlogged soil.
Lentils are a relatively short stature crop, and a notoriously poor weed competitor. They are best grown at a time in the rotation when weeds are under control, after a strong competitor such as fall rye, oat or barley, or following a green manure. Harrowing lentils is possible, but lentils are more susceptible to damage than field peas.
Lentil breeding on the prairies has focused on disease resistance and quality. Today it is possible to find varieties, especially of reds, that have dual resistance to ascochyta and anthracnose. Beyond these varieties, disease is manageable through rotation, isolation and the use of high quality seed.
Lentils can be highly susceptible to grasshoppers, which are especially damaging at flowering. It is not recommended to grow lentils in years when there is a forecast for a high risk from grasshoppers.
Lentils are not generally grown for forage; the straw is of high feed quality, but the amounts produced are low. The very smallseeded black lentil was developed as a green manure. With adequate moisture, it can produce up to 145 kg/ha (130 lb/ac.) of nitrogen, at a relatively low cost per acre. A good yield is 25–30 bu/ac.
Dry beans, chickpeas and soybeans
Organic producers grow relatively few acres of dry beans, chickpeas and soybeans on the prairies. Dry beans and chickpeas are used almost exclusively as food; dry beans primarily in soups and chili; chickpeas primarily in hummus, falafels, salads and as flour. Soybeans are valuable in both the food and livestock feed markets.
These specialty pulses require special care. Dry beans are limited by temperature. The plants are very sensitive to frost at both seedling and seed set stages, and they require warm temperatures for active growth. Likewise, soybeans tend to require a longer, warmer season than is reliable on the prairies. Both are high-value, high-risk crops.
Chickpeas are better adapted to the drier brown and dark brown regions of the prairie. A major limitation with the chickpea is its susceptibility to disease, especially ascochyta. Organic producers rely on a disease prevention strategy, including clean seed, rotation and isolation for success with this difficult crop.
Faba beans
Faba beans (also known as fava beans) are currently grown on few acres on the prairies, but recent breeding efforts may change that. The benefits of the faba bean have not been accessible to producers because the very large seed size results in a very high seed cost. The goal is to bring seed size down to that of a pea, with a seeding rate of one bushel/acre.
Faba beans have tremendous potential as a green manure. With adequate moisture, faba beans and associated bacteria can fix as much nitrogen as an established alfalfa or sweetclover stand, about 300 kg/ha (270 lb/ac.) of nitrogen. Most pulses will use available nitrogen from the soil before partnering to fix nitrogen. According to Bert Vandenberg, pulse breeder at the Crop Development Centre in Saskatoon, the faba bean always produces a positive nitrogen balance; it always adds nitrogen from fixation and is the most efficient nitrogen-fixer of the pulse crops.
Faba beans may be ideally suited for flexible cropping in cool and moist areas such as the black and grey soils. The plant has good frost tolerance, and can be harrowed after it reaches 5–15 cm (2–6 in.) in height. Faba beans make excellent forage or high protein silage. If the plant is swathed for forage or silage in early August, and if there is late season moisture, it can continue to grow and fix nitrogen well into the fall. Alternately, if allowed to go to seed, it averages about 30% protein.
Dr. Vandenberg suggests that faba bean is "delectable" to grasshoppers, and suggests that it would make an excellent bait crop for lentils. A producer could seed lentils at the usual time in a grasshopper-prone area, then later seed the faba bean. At the stage when grasshoppers do the most damage to lentils (during flowering) the faba bean would be a much more attractive crop to the grasshoppers, deflecting them off the lentils.
Small-seeded, relatively inexpensive faba bean varieties will soon be available. Organic producers may just find them "faba-lous."
Pulses in partnership with bacteria can pull nitrogen from the air within the soil and incorporate it into plant tissue. This vital interaction provides a valuable, highprotein feed for us, for livestock and for the soil. On the prairies, there are several options that make the most of this pulse potential.
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Los Angeles Historic Preservation
The Santa Monica shotgun house is all that's left of a vanished way of life
But it's also a glimpse of a possible future—an example of how to live simply but well
By Patrick Lee@ripleycal Mar 31, 2017, 10:35am PDT
Patrick Lee
Houses like the Santa Monica shotgun house were once as common as seagulls at the beach. They were tiny board-and-batten cottages along the strand where, late in the 19th century, families spent a weekend or a week or a season away from the stifling heat of Pasadena or Downtown Los Angeles.
By 2000, there was only one preserved shotgun house left near the beach, at 2712 Second Street. It was in the process of being torn down when preservationists and the city of Santa Monica stepped in, stopped the demolition and relocated it, first to the airport, then to a city storage yard, then to a more permanent site a couple of blocks away from its original location on Second Street.
Now the Santa Monica shotgun house will receive a 2017 Preservation Award from the Los Angeles Conservancy on May 3 to recognize its historical significance. The house—which is now the Preservation Resource Center of the Santa Monica Conservancy—is the last structure of its kind locally, representing a way of life that has disappeared.
Its preservation is an example of the way a community can pull together to save important structures before they vanish from Southern California completely, erasing our connection to the past.
"This is just an incredible story of perseverance and a community group coming together to save the house that was just threatened, and it wasn't just threatened once, but multiple times in its recent history," said Adrian Scott Fine, the LA Conservancy's director of advocacy.
It wasn't just threatened once, but multiple times in its recent history.
Shotgun houses were a Southern California version of the small houses that popped up in the South, such as those in New Orleans, where they remain ubiquitous. (Some historians believe they are called "shotgun" houses based on the African Yoruba word for house: "togun.")
They were called shotgun houses, some think, because of their arrangement: Three or four rooms in a row, front to back, with doors between them aligned so that you could fire a shotgun through the front door and hit nothing all the way back.
They had ample windows to let the light in, but little else: no electricity, no gas, no plumbing, not even interior walls in many cases. But they had charm: Queen Anne-style diamond-shaped shingles on the front of a gabled roof, a cozy covered porch with a bit of Victorian-era scroll work.
By the 1890s, there were hundreds of these 400-square-foot houses at the beach, connected by a boardwalk, about a mile south of the 2,000-person village of Santa Monica, within walking distance of the Santa Fe railroad depot in Ocean Park, surrounded by nothing by sun and sand and open space.
Then things changed. People wanted larger, more permanent homes on the increasingly valuable beach property. Some of the shotgun houses were torn down. Some were picked up and moved a couple of blocks inland; they had no foundations anyway.
The town expanded. More shotgun houses were razed. People who still had them fixed them up: Added interior walls, kitchens and bathrooms, electrical wiring, plumbing. They expanded them with more rooms. The shotgun houses became unrecognizable.
The Shotgun House at 2712 Second Street in 2000.
Tom Zimmerman via Santa Monica Conservancy
By the 21st century, the Santa Monica house was all that was left. It was painstakingly preserved and restored as far as possible and now stands as an example of a lost way of life, said architect Mario Fonda-Bonardi, a board member of the Santa Monica Conservancy.
"They're in with, like, log cabins, sod houses, and adobes," Fonda-Bonardi told Curbed. "They're houses built by people, and the big selling point is they're simple and easy to build, and they all have the same basic floor plan. ... Two hundred years ago, they came in through the Caribbean in New Orleans. They worked their way up to Mississippi, up the Ohio Valley, and then they went viral, wherever you needed housing quick, cheap and fast: lumber camps, migrant farm laborer housing, mining camps, Civil War barracks, Boy Scout camps."
The Santa Monica shotgun house almost didn't survive, and the community's efforts over more than a decade—detailed by the LA Conservancy—stand as an example of how historic buildings can be salvaged and repurposed.
No one loves a new building. Everyone loves an old building.
"To get to this point now where they have saved it, preserved it, and found a really wonderful reuse for it, that is no small feat," Fine said. "It's a small house, but it's a big undertaking that this group achieved here, and that's in large part why we really wanted to recognize them and give them the kudos that they deserve."
Moving the Santa Monica shotgun house in 2014.
via Santa Monica Conservancy
Residents of housing-strapped Southern California can also see in the shotgun house a glimpse of a possible future, the harbinger of the current tiny house movement and a 19th-century example of how people can live simply but well.
"In other places around the country, they are designing and building new shotguns and rehabbing shotguns, because they're still viable, and it's not the same issue in terms of the land being so valuable and being the problem in terms of viability," Fine said.
It's a national trend: New houses have been shrinking since hitting a size peak in 2007, according to the National Association of Home Builders, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. LA-based KB Homes reported that the average size of houses has fallen nearly 20 percent since then.
"Eventually, all of history repeats itself," architect Fonda-Bonardi said. "So now we have very small apartments being built all over the city. People are living in 250-square-foot apartments, and this is 400 square feet in the basic plan. So this might be luxurious compared to what you could rent today."
Why was it important to save the Santa Monica shotgun house?
"You have to understand where you've been to understand where you've come from and where you might be going," Fonda-Bonardi said. He added: "No one loves a new building. Everyone loves an old building. A lot of people have had experiences. They've lived. They've died. They got married. They had babies. People get bonded to old houses. When you erase that, it's like ... cultural Alzheimer's. We don't know who we are. We don't know where we came from."
The Santa Monica shotgun house/Preservation Resource Center at 2520 Second Street, Santa Monica, is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
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High school mates, I miss you!
Chinese styled reunion dinner.
At Restoran 88, OUG; 8pm.
With 15 handsome guys and pretty girls, stuffing ourselves around one table.
7 dishes, along with wine. The celebration has just begun!
It had been so long since I last ate pork =X
Just a month of not seeing them, everyone seems to have led their new life and undergoes positive changes.
But one thing doesn't change--- The vulgars.
Hahahs! Long time of not hearing these already xD! Thanks for inviting me to this wonderful dinner!
Separated; The four of us who struggle our life in PLKN camps.
It seems like their camps have more social ills than mine,
and I am so glad and fortunate to be placed to Kem PLKN Paya Indah for God's sake.
It is almost H-E-A-V-E-N when to be compared to others.
Hahas. He finally agreed to take photograph with his SHINY head :D
Nice experiencing bald head in National Service.
Hair grows quickly, if you realize (:
We chatted till almost midnight at the restaurant, until the workers told us to leave coz' they need to tidy up the place already. Khuan Jin couldn't gather with us there, but he called via 3G from Penang to see us ;D How nice of him!
Headed to Fung Soon's house after the reunion dinner.
Cheekuan and Vivian didn't come along coz' they need to go back to their hometown early in this morning.
Darlings are busy chatting and taking photographs, but… Spellman was sitting there, emo-ing.
I hope the rainbow over the clouds could appear in your heart soon ♥
I really talked a lot throughout the night!
Perhaps it is because I hadn't been speaking that much of Cantonese for the past month.
The night ended as soon as more and more people are going home.
As usual, Yang fetched me home, and reached home around 1.45am.
Slept around 2.30am last night this morning (first time of sleeping that late in 2010 so far!).
And have had to cancel the outing with Steven coz' I was darn exhausted.
Lastly, thanks Vivian, the great organizer for bringing me this much of fun!
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BrewCap: Crew Sticks to This Weekend's Motto
Sep 08, 2018 by Charlie in Uncategorized
Milwaukee Brewers welcomed the San Francisco Giants for the weekend after a strong series against the Chicago Cubs. Milwaukee's motto should be 'Take care of business.' This is a team you should beat two out of three at least and continues to keep things rolling as they have in the past couple of weeks. Brewers did just that on Friday. They won 4-2 thanks to a big double from Jesus Aguilar, and Milwaukee is now 12-5 in their last 17 and now 1.5 games up on St. Louis.
Player of the Game: Jesus Aguilar – We haven't seen many big moments from Zeus in the second half. It was almost expected that he would cool off, but Aguilar delivered one here. Two outs in the seventh inning, tied game and Aguilar serves up a two-run double to right field. Brewers didn't need much more offensive help after that one.
Silver Star: Josh Hader – The kid had it rolling tonight. Hader came in for Anderson in the sixth inning and shut down the Giants. He struck out five of the six batters he faced in 35 pitches and no one got on base against him. We haven't seen the elite stuff from Hader in awhile, and it appears that Craig Counsell's plan of the one to two games per series is working out just fine.
Honorable Mention: Ryan Braun – Braunie hit his 15th homer of the year. There's an outside shot he can get to 20 homers, which would be pretty awesome for him. He slugged one in the first off Derek Holland and spooked the Giants moving forward. They walked Braun three times including twice of the intentional variety. Jonathan Schoop had a very rough game making San Francisco pay.
Next up: Gio Gonzalez makes his Brewers' debut on Saturday night at Miller Park. He will face a Giants team that's struggling of late losers of their last six. Chris Stratton gets the ball for San Francisco. Stratton has been a wreck against lefties this year, so, expect a lefty-filled lineup on Saturday night.


FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank (ECB) took the ultimate policy leap on Thursday, launching a government bond-buying programme which will pump hundreds of billions in new money into a sagging eurozone economy.
The ECB said it would purchase sovereign debt from this March until the end of September 2016, despite opposition from Germany's Bundesbank and concerns in Berlin that it could allow spendthrift countries to slacken economic reforms.
Together with existing schemes to buy private debt and funnel hundreds of billions of euros in cheap loans to banks, the new quantitative easing (QE) programme will release 60 billion euros ($68 billion) a month into the economy, ECB President Mario Draghi indicated.
By September next year, more than 1 trillion euros will have been created under the QE, the ECB's last remaining major policy option for reviving economic growth and warding off deflation.
The flood of money impressed markets: The euro fell more than two US cents to $1.14108 on the announcement, and European shares hit seven-year highs.
"All eyes were on Mario Draghi and he has delivered a bigger bazooka than investors were expecting," said Mauro Vittorangeli, a fixed income specialist at Allianz Global Investors, adding that the news marked "an historic crossroads for European markets".
The ECB and the central banks of eurozone countries will buy up bonds in proportion to its "capital key", meaning more debt will be scooped up from the biggest economies such as Germany than from small member states such as Ireland.
The prospect of dramatic ECB action had already prompted the Swiss central bank to abandon its cap on the franc against the euro. Denmark cut its main policy interest rate on Thursday for the second time this week after the ECB announcement, aiming to defend the Danish crown's peg to the euro.
Draghi has had to balance the need for action to lift the eurozone economy out of its torpor against German concerns about risk-sharing and that it might be left to foot the bill.
Economists noted that Draghi had said only 20 per cent of purchases would be the responsibility of the ECB. This means the bulk of any potential losses, should a eurozone government default on its debt, would fall on national central banks.
Critics say this casts doubt over the unity of the eurozone and its principle of solidarity, and countries with already high debts could find themselves in yet deeper water.
"It is counterproductive to shift the risks of monetary policy to the national central banks," said former ECB policy maker Athanasios Orphanides. "It does not promote a single monetary policy. This path towards Balkanisation of monetary policy would signal that the ECB is preparing for a break-up of the euro."
Tensions broke out as the ECB's meeting got under way with French Finance Minister Michel Sapin firing a broadside at Berlin.
"The Germans have taught us to respect the independence of the European Central Bank," he told France Info radio. "They must remember that themselves."
A German lawyer who has been prominent in attempts to halt eurozone bailouts said he was already preparing a legal complaint against the bond-buying programme.
Draghi said the ECB's Governing Council had been unanimous in agreeing that the step to print money was legally sound. There was a large majority on the need to trigger it now, "so large that we didn't need to take a vote".
"There was a consensus on risk-sharing set at 20 per cent and 80 per cent on a no-risk-sharing basis," he added.
One eurozone central banking source said five policy makers opposed the expanded asset-purchase plan: The central bank chiefs of Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Estonia, along with executive board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger, a German.
Guntram Wolff, head of the Bruegel think tank, said the plan's size was impressive. "But the ECB has given the signal... that its monetary policy is not a single one. That's a bad signal to markets and a bad signal to everybody in the eurozone."
The ECB is trying to push eurozone annual inflation back up to its target of just below 2 per cent; consumer prices fell last month, raising fears of a Japanese-style deflationary spiral. But there are doubts, and not only in Germany, over whether printing fresh money will work.
Most eurozone government bond yields are at ultra-low levels and the euro had already dropped sharply against the dollar. Lower borrowing costs and a weaker currency could both help to boost economic growth but there is a question about how much further either can fall.
Asked if the ECB had a Plan B, Draghi responded: "We just presented Plan A, and we have Plan A. Period."
The ECB could create the basis for growth, he said, but he put the onus on governments to follow.
"For growth to pick up... you need structural reforms," he stressed. "It's now up to the governments to implement these structural reforms. The more they do, the more effective will be our monetary policy."
Draghi was echoing the view of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said: "Regardless of what the ECB does, it should not obscure the fact that the real growth impulses must come from conditions set by the politicians."
A plunge in the price of oil has thrown central bankers into a spin worldwide. Canada cut the cost of borrowing out of the blue on Wednesday while two rate setters at the Bank of England dropped calls for tighter monetary policy as inflation has evaporated in Britain.
The ECB has already cut interest rates to record lows. Earlier, it left its main refinancing rate, which determines the cost of eurozone credit, at 0.05 per cent.
Greece and Cyprus, which remain under European Union (EU)/International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programmes, will be eligible for the ECB programme but subject to stricter conditions.
"Some additional eligibility criteria will be applied in the case of countries under an EU/IMF adjustment programme," Draghi said.
The move comes just three days before an election in Greece where anti-bailout opposition party Syriza is on track to gain roughly a third of the vote.


Rajani flinched but refused to cow down. Shivering Rajani clutched at her hands, forcing herself to sit still.
They sat in complete silence for endless minutes.
Harsha's phone rang. Stony faced and staring ahead, he let it ring.
The phone rang shrill and insistent – the ringtone grated on Rajani's shrieking nerves. It was all she could do not pick it up and throw it out of the window.
Rajani heaved a sigh of relief. But it was short lived.
Her phone rang. It was her MIL.
Rajani gritted her teeth. She too wouldn't pick it up – if Harsha could ignore his mother's call, why couldn't she?
She wouldn't pick it up.
She held out her phone to him.
But he ignored them both.
"Yes Mummyji." She put the phone on speaker and held it up.
With a screech they were off.
Rajani felt victorious. She had shown him! Who the hell did he think he was? Her lord and master?
Well he could have another think! She gloated.
Rajani's victory was sweet but ultra short.
Bindified and decorous enough to qualify as a Goel Bahu she was allowed to join the gang high on spirits and tambola. She declined the drinks but couldn't back out of the game, which went on and on. She tried to amuse herself playing with the numbers on her card but they too started blurring and she nodded off. She edged towards a corner and curled up into a little ball and closed her eyes. But someone or the other would shake her awake every other minute or so and she would find Harsha glowering at her.
"Don't you bring my parents into it!" She flared up.
Incensed and insulted Rajani opened her mouth to retaliate in kind but Sunaina came in and nixed her plans.
Holi itself wasn't any better.
If anything it was worse.
Holi for the Goels was the highlight of their humdrum lives. A free for all, a bit of harmless fun and way to enhance family bonding, where each of them participated with full fervor and enjoyment.
It was Rajani's problem that she found it a disgusting and gross violation of her personal space and privacy. Leering discolored unidentifiable faces cornered her and clasped her close to their drenched bodies while hands covered with boot polish, gentian violet, and other unidentifiable muck slid up inside her kurta and groped her. Rajani shrieked in revulsion and screamed her protests, but was drowned out in the shouts of revelry and celebrations.
Holi hai bhai holi hai; bura na mano Holi hai.
Rajani squirmed, pushed and shoved her way out of the clutches of one pair of arms only to land in another pair of eager arms and wandering hands. She looked for help to her MIL but she was in the thick of things, high on bhang smothering someone with her ample bosom. Rekha too was living it up with Kuldeep – or was it someone else?
Rajani looked desperately for Harsha but he was nowhere to be seen. Or probably she couldn't recognize him in the melee. Seeing her chance, Rajani ran towards the stairs of the terrace but a body detached itself and barred her way.
He locked the door and vanished.
In the silence and emptiness of the house, Rajani felt a rush of overwhelming gratefulness and love for her hero and savior. He had come through when she needed him the most.
She scrubbed herself clean and attempted to wash off the feel of the slimy hands all over her body.
"Papa, please relax. I am okay. Harsha was very supportive." Comforted and soothed by her father's reaction, Rajani felt generous, forgiving.
"No Papa please don't! What if he takes offense? Let it be." Rajani coaxed and soothed her father into subsiding – for the moment. Feeling light almost euphoric when the merry gang traipsed in Rajani rewarded Harsha with the widest and most brilliant smile yet. Rajani could swear that she saw the glimmer of an answering smile through the layers on his unrecognizable visage.
"You should have gotten married to Harsha!" Rajani giggled and sobered as the morning's memory returned. "His family plays Holi with no holds barred. It was so awful Shikhs, I don't know what…" she gasped as the phone was snatched away. She looked up to find Harsha glowering at her.
"No!" Rajani jumped up. "No you got it all wrong! I was just…" But Harsha had left the room, with her mobile phone.
Feeling terribly guilty Rajani tried to corner Harsha. She had to justify herself. She had to! She wasn't doing anything wrong! She was just sharing her thoughts, like she had done for so many years now.
"Harsha listen to me please, Harsha," she begged and pleaded but he was in no mood to be placated. And there wasn't much scope or time.
Needless to say, that visit did not end well. Yet it wasn't as bad – Harsha had shown a kinder side and things could have ended on a good note but for that unfortunate incident, which was entirely her fault. She could accept and live with that. She continued to apologize for it until Harsha gave in and said 'it's okay'.
Honestly, what's Suryakant so pissed off about????? What an irritating man! Bet he'll be the first one to do a turnaround if Rajani takes him up on his offer to come back home. You're destroying my faith in humanity, Dahlia- no I'm not impressed by the flash of humanity displayed by Harsha. He probably didn't want anyone touching his unsullied (and untouched by him) bride.
I like playing with colours in Holi but I hate people taking advantage of the festival and behave badly( I am being polite here). Rajani is too quick to forgive Harsha.
Yes she is quick to forgive which is not always a good thing. Appreciate your noticing – thanks!


With an apparent alarming growth in the number of serious and fatal incidents involving motorbikes, which is greater than the growth in the number of vehicles being sold, the Director General of the DGT, Gregorio Serrano, has announced several measures that will help improve the safety of motorcyclists.
Among them, the implementation of an 'INVIVE' plan for motorcycles in collaboration with the different owners of the roads, to identify those sections of the road network with high incident rate, where special measures to reduce incidents could be adopted.
In addition, the plan will involve the installation of new complementary information signs on some roads which will provide more information of dangers along the route for motorcyclists.
Serrano also announced the continuation of the progressive implementation of the emergency call system ('eCall') in motorcycles and the connectivity between vehicles and the road, with the imminent start-up of the platform DGT 3.0, which will also benefit motorcyclists.
During the conference where these plans were announced, participants highlighted the importance of making progress in road safety education, driver training and awareness. With this objective, the DGT and ANESDOR will collaborate in a plan for the training of motorcyclists.
ANESDOR has highlighted how the technological advances in motorcycle manufacturing have accelerated over the last two decades, and so the importance of renewing the fleet on the roads is crucial in order to take advantage of these developments not available in older vehicles. On average, the motorcycle fleet on the road is 15 years, and so far older than those motorbikes with the latest technology installed.
In addition, to improve the training of motorcyclists, ANESDOR proposes granting quality certificates to training centres, incentives for conducting driving courses (obtaining driving licence points for example) and has designed the 'Viva la Moto' initiative, to reduce the number of incidents where motorcyclists have been involved.
On the other hand, the DGT themselves have been monitoring statistics of motorcycle related incidents since 2012, where 46% of incidents occurred without the intervention of any other vehicle.
The DGT also concurs that the progressive aging of the vehicle fleet in the last decade is a factor for consideration, however, more worrying is the data regarding the consumption of substances among deceased motorcyclists: 26% of all motorcyclists killed in incidents in 2016 would have tested positive for alcohol, and 17% for drugs.
During the conclusions, patron of the Pons Foundation and former director of the DGT, Pere Navarro, said that "the bike is not a problem but a reality that must be managed" and has predicted that "2017 will be the first year in the that the number of vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists) who are victims of traffic accidents will be greater than that of the users of the four wheels".
Fundación Pons and ANESDOR have developed a decalogue of proposals to increase the safety of two-wheel drivers and all users of the road.
Resources. In 2016, motorcycles account for 15.2% of the total number of vehicles, but fatalities have grown to 22%. It is recommended that the agencies involved in road safety dedicate a proportion of attention and resources equivalent to the representativeness of this percentage of its victims.
Strategic Road Safety Plan. It is recommended that, 10 years after its approval, the plan be revised and updated to adapt it to the new circumstances. In addition, we would recommend including an Urban Road Safety Plan, which facilitates practical application at the municipal level.
Regulation of the motorcycle. The development of a Vulnerable Users Law is recommended. It is also recommended that, in the agencies responsible for road safety, both on the road and in the city, an official be appointed, who is a motorcycle user, as a reference in the field of motorcycle travel and in permanent contact with associations of motorcyclists.
Extension of "zones 30". The promotion of traffic calming policies or "zonas 30" is recommended because of its significant impact on the safety of motorcyclists, which means acting on speed and improving coexistence with other modes of travel.
Parking on public roads. It is recommended to organise and increase the availability of parking spaces for motorcycles on public roads in our cities, establishing objective criteria to ensure that a proportion of the available area equivalent to the quota of the vehicle fleet.
Awareness, road safety education and coexistence. It is recommended to increase road safety campaigns, informing of the specific risks suffered by moped drivers and motorcycles in the city due to the actions of other users and their vulnerability in the event of an incident.
Safe driving courses. It is recommended the development of a quality certificate through which the Administration accredits the rigor of the schools and the quality of the training courses; accompanied by incentive measures for the user.
Professional drivers. The road safety of the motorcycle must be included in the occupational risk prevention plans. It is recommended to manage before the State Foundation for Employment Training the inclusion in its catalogue of continuous training subsidised by the corresponding offer of training and training for motorcycle delivery workers.
Equipment. It is recommended to open the debate with the associations of motorcyclists on the possible obligation of the use of gloves, and to transfer the message of the importance of the suitable equipment to minimise the injuries in case of an incident.
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Q: Windows 2008 R2 - shadow copy management and retention This has bothered me over the years and I'm dealing with it again now.  I've never quite understood the full black magic that is Shadow Copies/VSS.  I get it to the extent of what it does and how to initially set it up and set the schedules on the volumes.  I also understand its role in backups.
Scenario
To simplify it, I'll stick with a single volume in my environment.  I have the following schedules enabled:
1 - M-F 7am starting on 4/14/13
2 - M-F 12pm starting on 4/14/13
3 - 1st day of the month at 9am starting on 6/11/13

The Use limit for that volume's shadow copies is 25,599MB (25GB).
The volume is 250GB and has 44GB of free space.
Going backwards from today I show all the correct times/schedules for shadow copies back until 7/29/13.  It doesn't go back further, and there isn't a 7/1/13 monthly copy.
I'm pretty sure I remember reading there is a 64 copy limit before the oldest gets overwritten.  This makes sense since I count exactly 64 copies currently in the list.

My Questions

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*Is there a way to change this 64 copy limitation?

*Can I prevent monthly copies from being overwritten somehow and let it overwrite just the "dailies" instead?

*Does MS or others provide a way to manage shadow copies in a more granular fashion than the basic scheduling on the volume, etc. that I've already done above?  ie. the ability to tell it "keep only the previous 4 weeks of this schedule" or similar.

My goal is to get to a point where i can have 12 "monthlies" and the previous month twice "dailies" (for a total roughly of 72 copies it would seem).
I have "real backups" using Commvault Simpana but it's so much easier to deal with a restore from shadow copies for simple file shares.

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*Yes you can change the limit up to 512 shadow copies per volume, by using the MaxShadowCopies registry key.  You will probably also need to adjust the amount of storage space VSS is allowed to use with vssadmin.exe Resize ShadowStorage. (You may configure Shadow Copies for a volume to back up to a separate volume, such as one with more space. Again, vssadmin.exe is your friend here.)

*No.

*No.
VSS on its own works well, but it's pretty basic.  Most good enterprise backup solutions make use of VSS on Windows machines. But to get those really granular and fine-tuned retention policies, you'll need to use a more thorough backup solution.

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My goal is to get to a point where i can have 12 "monthlies" and the previous month twice "dailies" (for a total roughly of 72 copies it would seem).

As you already have noticed, the automatic VSS removal mechanism would always remove the oldest shadow copy/copies and does not allow you to configure a more sophisticated retention scheme. It also seems impossible to set a "no delete" mark on a particular shadow copy set.
To overcome this, you might disable (or at least increase) the space limit for shadow copies and purge them in a periodical script according to your needs by either invoking the diskshadow executable or employing the win32_shadowcopy WMI class. It would be most conveniently called before a new VSS copy is created through the task scheduler of your system.