What kind of laboratory are you outfitting? This question helps to categorize seating in terms of componentry, finishes and special options such as the need for bleachable or antimicrobial upholstery, easy-wipe-down configurations vs. higher rated clean room and/or electrostatic performance packages, etc.
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Guidelines for good use of the service.
If your seat is equipped wiht a safety belt, you are legally required to fasten it dureing the journey.
Art. 117 of Road Traffic Regulations (Royal Decree Law 965/2009).
Children over 4 years of age must travel with a valid ticket.
It is not permitted to smoke inside de bus.
Eating or drinking on the buses is not permitted.
Passengers must wear shirts ans shoes when travelling by bus.
It is not permitted to travel with animals except for a guide dogs as well as small pets which are carried by their owners in an appropriate container. Owners must ensure that these small animals do not create any annoyance or disturbance due to noise or smell.
Please request in advance for next stop.
Passengers travelling with a push chair are requested to fold it up. In coaches with luggagge compartment: place in the luggage compartment before boarding the bus. In urban busses without luggage compartment: take i ton board using exclusively the front door to enter.
You are requested to give up clearly marked priority seats: please give up these seats for passengers with special needs.
1) THEY ARE COMPLETELLY PROTECTED by a bike cover or a bike transport bag in order to prevent damage to the rest of baggage.
2) The PASSENGER'S HAND LUGGAGE WILL HAVE ABSOLUTE PRIORITY on bicycles in the vehicle luggage compartment. Therefore, they will be charged at last minute before departure.
3) The MAXIMUM NUMBER of bicycles is 1 per trip.
Section 76.2.d of the Regulations on Land Transportation.


Trees down at Rychleby trails 2019-04 season opening - Duration: 8 minutes, 14 seconds.
Ako skočiť Bunny Hop po Slovensky (Slovak language) - Duration: 2 minutes, 28 seconds.
How to Bunny Hop a Mountain Bike in detail (English language) - Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds.
Yet another junk clip from GoPro Hero7 Black - Duration: 51 seconds.
Round and round... on a pump track. (Also 3rd video to show issues of GoPro Hero7 Black) - Duration: 114 seconds.
GoPro Hero7 Black - 2nd test = all kinds of new issues - Duration: 61 seconds.
GoPro Hero7 Black - A simple test that didn't go well at all. - Duration: 2 minutes, 1 second.
The worst "flow" trail I've ever ridden - Duration: 9 minutes, 1 second.
Riding with all the gurls and the best instructors! (Diva Trail Camp 2018) - Duration: 4 minutes, 27 seconds.
Slowly learning to hop around on them flowy trails! (Jedovnice trail no.3) - Duration: 4 minutes, 23 seconds.
Exploring local steep black trails - Duration: 7 minutes, 51 seconds.
He keeps overshooting everything! - Duration: 5 minutes, 23 seconds.
Trails #01 - The first ride with Camber, rain, roots and mud. - Duration: 13 minutes.
Trails with Camber #02 - Night ride after two weeks of rain? - Duration: 10 minutes.
Trails with Camber #03 - Horny monsters and swimming in the river. - Duration: 8 minutes, 17 seconds.
Trails with Camber #04 - I found humans and took some pictures. - Duration: 3 minutes, 22 seconds.
Trails with Camber #05 - First try Snow ^_^ - Duration: 18 minutes.
Trails with Camber #06 - Racing the snow! ò_ó - Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds.
Trails with Camber #06 - Racing the snow! (The whole story) - Duration: 23 minutes.
Trails with Camber #07 - Racing the snow again, with friends! - Duration: 18 minutes.
Trails with Camber #08 - Around the dam (a bit of technical riding) - Duration: 17 minutes.
Trails with Camber #09 - Rychleby 2018-04 - Tajemny & Obelix - Duration: 9 minutes, 41 seconds.
Trails with Camber #10 - Rychleby 2018-04 - Superflow - Duration: 22 minutes.
Trails with Camber #11- Roots and ded trees! Hop over them all! - Duration: 8 minutes, 15 seconds.
Rides with Camber #01 - All the stairs! - Duration: 7 minutes, 29 seconds.
Rides with Camber #02 - All the drops! - Duration: 6 minutes, 21 seconds.
Rides with Camber #03 - "BikeRide through Brno" event - Duration: 108 seconds.
Rides with Camber #04 - Sidewalk sessions with DustyBetty 01 - Duration: 2 minutes, 51 seconds.
Rides with Camber #05 - A bit of this, a bit of that... - Duration: 15 minutes.
Rides with Camber #06 - I'm back at it, again! - Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds.
Rychleby 2018-04 - Dirt jumps in the base camp - Duration: 3 minutes, 9 seconds.
The Dirt Jump Doggo! (Bike Festival Koprivna 2018) - Duration: 50 seconds.
Mountain Biking diaries #11 - He doesn't have brakes or something... - Duration: 61 seconds.
Mountain Biking diaries #13 - Just worshiping the Camber. - Duration: 3 minutes, 25 seconds.
Mountain Biking diaries #14 - Minitrail and landing session? - Duration: 5 minutes, 43 seconds.
Mountain Biking diaries #15 - Coder's Rant and getting lost... - Duration: 20 minutes.
Mountain Biking diaries #16 - Testing a GoPro mount on my backpack? - Duration: 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
Bike Check - Rhea's Specialized Camber - Duration: 13 minutes.
Rychleby 2018-04 - Duration: 41 seconds.
Mountain Biking diaries #17 - Bike Festival Koprivna 2018 (wounded, no riding) - Duration: 4 minutes, 9 seconds.
Rhea's playground - Duration: 116 seconds.
Bike & Gear ~ check? :] - Duration: 15 minutes.


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Mobile Devices, Tablets & Phones
Tablets and tablet convertibles powered by Intel Atom processors and running Windows 8 deliver a highly intuitive and responsive experience using touch, keyboard and mouse or a pen, while providing capabilities such as Intel Burst Technology, Intel Hyper-threading Technology. Utilizing the multitasking capability of Intel architecture, people will experience incredibly fast response, allowing them to swiftly load and switch among their favorite applications.
Enhanced Security, Collaboration and Software Support in the Enterprise
Intel is enabling a choice of innovative mobile designs for the enterprise, including those powered by Intel Atom, Intel Core, and Intel Core vPro processors. Intel architecture provides corporations with the flexibility and compatibility they are used to, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) coupled with the personalized productivity that people crave.
Intel tablets with Windows 8 support the millions of existing applications, devices and
full-featured components used within corporations and include the security and manageability
features corporate IT managers demand. Additionally, these devices easily integrate into existing
corporate infrastructures, providing the ability to join a domain, access shared network resources
and run both new Windows Store apps and familiar Windows desktop applications side by side.
The Intel Atom Processor Z2760 tablets deliver the mobility and experience that business users desire and set a new bar for addressing IT demand for built-in security and manageability with Windows 8. The new Intel Atom Processor Z2760 is built to seamlessly integrate into a business computing environment. Intel Atom Z2760 offers Secure Boot and firmware-based Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT).
Intel Core processor-based tablets with Windows 8 will provide the intelligent performance and responsive power for the most productive and personalized employee experience. In addition, tablets based on the Intel Core vPro processors deliver the most
comprehensive and flexible enterprise-class hardware-assisted security, manageability and virtualization capabilities for business computing.
With Intel vPro technology, Intel Core-based processors provide remote system access and management, regardless of power or OS state, and offer the most robust set of security features including Enhanced Intel Anti-Theft Technology, Intel Secure Key, Intel OS Guard, Enhanced Intel Identity Protection Technology, and Intel Trusted Execution Technology.
Intel is actively engaged with a broad cross-section of the software ecosystem to provide the best experience possible for applications running on Intel-based devices. With over 7,000 member companies, the Intel® Software Partner program helps support optimization efforts by concentrating resources, references, and tools for software optimization into key Technology Focus Areas. Additionally, through the Intel® Software Network, developers can connect with communities, tools, training and events to help deliver more efficient, higher-performing software to the market more quickly.
Trace Hagan
Trace is a starving college student studying Computer Science. He has a love of the English language and an addiction for new technology and speculation. When he's not writing, studying, or going to class, he can be found on the soccer pitch, both playing and coaching, or on the mountain snowboarding.
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L'Atelier Tupi-Tupi art jewels still get a publication of Vogue.
The artist Gaia Petrizzi is confirmed as the heart of made in Italy button.
in which once again is the nature to predominate, with leaves, flowers and a bee in metal with wings painted by hand.
And 'one of suio trips to France that the artist has selected the elements that make this luxury jewel.
His meticulous research was held in the various antique markets that thrive both in Paris, precisely the Marché de Saint Oven, which in Nice, where you should spend a day at the wonderful Marché aux fleurs.
The second creation revisited by Vogue jewels is a jewel of art of unique and special art.
An original bracelet that brings us back to mind the sublime creations of Picasso.


Wow! Its been a long time since I posted anything. I wish I had a good excuse, but I don't. BUT I have been busy doing things and one of those things is something that was on my 13 in 2013 list.
I know! Its April, Kim. We've all forgotten about our New Years resolutions! Well... I have not .... at least I am trying not to.
So one of my goals for 2013 was to finally learn how to crochet. I am a knitter and I am decent at it. I have a shop and everything. BUT I always wanted to expand my talents by learning to crochet. I've tried over and over and it just never stuck. I think the issue has been not that its hard but I am such a constant knitter that I would learn the basics in crochet and then get an order or another project and soon forget what I learned. So I wasn't able to practice or complete the learning. The slow down of purchases in my shop and the increase in wanting to create certain items using crochet helped me FINALLY learn how.
This little guy was my first finished project.
Isn't he cute? I wasn't a huge fan of the colors but I honestly just grabbed an appropriate weight yarn that i knew i didn't need for a future project. He's about 3-4 inches tall. I was pretty proud of him. I found the pattern here.
My next project was a little more complicated and a big risk. The daughter of one of my closest friends here in the city was turning 7 and LOVES my little pony. I was racking my brain, trying to figure out what to get her. I thought about trying to make a my little pony but I was way too new to crochet to figure it out so i set off on a google search and found a pattern that seemed just the right speed for me. I spent the next week making this little beauty.
For one of my first projects, I think she turned out pretty great. I know I have some learning still to do and if i made this again, I'd make some changes but i am pretty proud of her.
After seeing one of my instagrams of the pony, a friend of mine asked me if I could make something for her. It was something I had never seen before but was able to find some similar patterns online.
I am proud of myself for finally learning how to crochet. I see now why people think it is easier than knitting. Its definitely more versatile when creating items like the above. I love the look of knitted items but crochet definitely allows you to more easily make more complex looking items with basic stitches.
Do you crochet or knit? If so, I'd love to see what you are working on or some patterns you love. Link them in the comments below or feel free to email me.


It's been a long time since I've packed an overnight bag let alone for a week-long holiday. Before I moved in with my boyfriend I was an overnight bag pro but these days, not so much and I can't deny that I have the tendency to overpack so the prep for our week away was intense. A question that often slides in my DM's is about the more practical clothes I wear as I know all too well that when it comes to that type of clothing is that often it's not the most stylish option out there so bridging the two can be difficult And I've been meaning to do a round up of the most loved practical clothing pieces for a while so this post is the perfect opportunity to do that as well as give you a little packing list just incase you're going on an adventure anytime soon.
You might recognise this coat because I also have it in navy and although I know buying the same thing in two colours probably isn't the smartest choice I love these jackets so much. They're not the most amazing option for the minus temperatures we often have in the UK but for the end of Winter and going into Spring it's absolutely perfect as it still keeps you toasty and warm due to sherpa lining in the hood and around the chest but it's breathable for when it's warmer but you still need a jacket. This coat is waterproof too which is a must for any outerwear I own these days as even though I don't make a habit of going out in the rain if the forecast isn't correct (like usual) it's nice to know I'm going to be kept dry. Camel doesn't seem like it would be the most practical colour but even with dogs who like to put their paws on me more often than I like dirt seems to just brush off which is perfect.
These were an investment purchase for me last year and I am so, so glad that I spend the extra money on them because they are absolutely beautiful. During our holiday I switched between these and my Muckboot (gifted) boots as they're perfect for more difficult walks where there might be some deep puddles. Before these arrived I was terrified that they'd be an absolute nightmare to wear in but not once have I had a blister from these, even on seriously long walks they've still been incredibly comfortable. I would say if you have a really high arch in your foot then you may struggle slightly as they're quite a flat boot but it's not something that causes me a lot of issues. I love that they're not only practical but they're smart boots too as that's exactly what I wanted from an investment buy as I can wear them for plenty of occasions as I'm hoping they'll be something that stays in my wardrobe for years.
When it comes to going for a long walk there is absolutely no way that I'm going to wear jeans so leggings it is for me. I don't think I'm quite at the stage of wearing walking trousers yet so I opt for the closest thing to sweatpants I feel ok wearing out of the house. I've had the Lululemon Align Pants couple of years now and they're still going strong (which is surprising for the number of times I've worn them). They feel like butter they're so soft and are incredibly lightweight but they still keep me wonderfully warm when I need them to and breathe when it's a little warmer. These are ridiculously expensive for leggings and I'm not sure I can ever say they are truly worth that amount of money but they are undoubtedly the best leggings I own, by far.
Whenever I take my camera on the go this is what I reach for as it's a backpack that fits everything I need and more without turning into a cavernous sack due to all it's compartments (I find the ones on the side particularly useful). And if you do want to use this for a camera bag and you're not carrying a huge amount of kit you can buy inserts to keep your stuff safe and organised. I purchased this bag nearly 4 years ago now and I'm so glad I did. However, I will say these bags are not the best if you're carrying a serious amount of weight as the straps aren't that thick so you might find it slightly uncomfortable but otherwise they're ideal and it's not hard to see why they're so popular. Again, a pricey item but one that has certainly paid for itself now in terms of cost per use.
Striped breton (for warmer days or as a layering piece).
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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE PRACTICAL CLOTHING PIECES?


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 The last response received by the operation's connection.
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 The data received during the request.
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 The string representation of the response data.
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Tag Archives: Gilligan's Island
Islands of Identity
Why do I do the things that I do?
No man is an island. John Donne the English poet stated that. And Ernest Hemingway quoted it… and wove it into his stories as a major theme… and proceeded to try to disprove it. We need other people. I married an island girl from the island of Luzon in the Philippines. She may have actually needed me too, though she will never admit it.
When I was a young junior high school teacher in the early eighties, they called me Mr. Gilligan. My classroom was known as Gilligan's Island. This came about because a goofball student in the very first class on the very first day said, "You look like Gilligan's Island!" By which he meant I reminded him of Bob Denver, the actor that played Gilligan. But as he said it, he was actually accusing me of being an island. And no man is an island. Thank you, Fabian, you were sorta dumb, but I loved you for it.
You see, being Gilligan on Gilligan's Island was not a bad thing to be. It was who I was as a teacher. Nerdy, awkward, telling stories about when I was young, and my doofy friends like Skinny Mulligan. Being a teacher gave me an identity. And Gilligan was stranded on the Island with two beautiful single women, Mary Ann and Ginger. Not a bad thing to be. And I loved teaching and telling stories to kids who would later be the doofy students in new stories.
But we go through life searching for who we are and why we are here. Now that I am retired, and no longer a teacher… who am I now? We never really find the answer. Answers change over time. And so do I.
Filed under artwork, being alone, feeling sorry for myself, finding love, humor, insight, Paffooney, strange and wonderful ideas about life
Tagged as artwork, Gilligan's Island, humor, island girls, paffooney, teaching, the search for identity
November 28, 2020 · 6:52 pm
I mentioned the other day the G-word from when I started teaching. I mean, Fernando was guilty of starting it with his comment, but it caught on fast. Before I knew what had hit me, every kid in Frank Newman Junior High School was calling me Gilligan. I was, in fact, thin and somewhat gangling as a twenty-five-year-old teacher, and I suppose I did have a goofy sort of smile, and a rather childish innocence (compared to the vato locos I was teaching at the time). You can see for yourself. This is a high school graduation picture of me, but I didn't change much in the seven years of schooling that passed before they dubbed me Gilligan. Alright, the horn-rim glasses were mega-nerdy, I admit. I only wore that style until they didn't make them any more.
The reason the name bothered me was because they were trying to use it to gain power over me. The more they irritated with it, the more they could make me mad, the more they could get away with calling me that and only making the principal laugh about it when I tried to report the misbehavior, then the more they could control whether we actually learned anything or not during class. (The principal, at only four foot eight in height was dubbed "Papa Smurf", and the History teacher, Mr. Stackwell was known as "El Pato" (Spanish for the duck) because of the way he walked and the fact that his face reminded even me of Donald Duck.) But I did eventually observe that other teachers would ignore and even smile about it when they were called their own nicknames. (Thank you, Mr. Stackwell, for giving me that example.) I learned that I could accomplish more by owning it. My classroom became "the Island" or "Gilligan's Island". And we began feasting on cooked coconuts of learning. I regularly pointed out that on his show, Gilligan often got the attention of the movie star, Ginger, and the farm girl Mary Ann. There were benefits to being a single guy with two available girlfriends on a tropical island. (I even tried the two-girlfriends-at-once thing in real life, but that's a horror story for another day.)
El Loco Gongie often accused me of speaking Martian to the class because I used a lot of words that were, to his small mind, too big to be real words. So I owned that too. I would put groups of five big words on the chalkboard (or, at least, words they thought were big) and spent time each week expanding their vocabulary with "Martian words". I learned to fill dangerous down time when the class wasn't doing anything else with "puzzlers", trick questions or thinking games. I asked them to answer difficult questions like; "You are in a room with four southern exposures. Each wall has a window in the center of it. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?" (I promise not to tell you the bear was white… oh, uh, well, anyway, you can still figure out for yourself why that is.) We began to have a lot of fun on Gilligan's Island (Room 2 in the south hallway of Frank Newman Junior High in Cotulla, Texas). Diamantina even told Papa Smurf that I was "funny". Of course, Papa Smurf had a long talk with me later about why teachers shouldn't be funny, at least before May of their first year. But I learned that when she had told him that I was funny, she meant my class was enjoyable and she was happy to be there. Funny equals learning. That was the most important lesson Gilligan's Island taught me.
Filed under humor, Paffooney, teaching
Tagged as autobiography, education and humor, Gilligan's Island, humor, learning styles, Martian words, Paffoonies, teaching
Sit Right Back And You'll Hear A Tale…
There was a time when students who hated me and wanted to ridicule me called me Gilligan. I was young and thin and dorky, and they really wanted to belittle me. Well, I started calling my classroom "the Island" and they soon realized that Gilligan was on a deserted island with at least two beautiful babes who were also single. (Yes, I did for a while have two girlfriends at the same time in real life… Well, I did. It's not completely untrue!) The joke got turned back on them. Kids started to like the class. Some, who learned a lot, began calling me "Professor" instead. We went coconuts for a while. I could say "no pun intended", but it wouldn't be true.


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Q: Processing CSV file using C# I am creating a CSV Importing tool (comma separated). I am trying to make this importing tool as generic as possible , so that it can process any CSV File.
I have almost finalised the tool , but came across one file which I am finding it difficult to process.
How can I process the file with data in following format?
column1,column2,column3,column4,column5
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alex,p,22323,23232,hello
mike,t,"121212,232323,4343434",33432,hi
guna,s,"2423,2332",whats
cena,a,34443,33432,up

Since the file is comma separated, and one of its value is comma separated as well between identifier "value,value,value"  I am finding it difficult to process.
How can i tackle this issue?
I donot have control over CSV file. So I cant change the format

A: As per @dtb... use a CSV parser. If you reference Microsoft.VisualBasic then you can:
var data=@"column1,column2,column3,column4,column5
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alex,p,22323,23232,hello
mike,t,""121212,232323,4343434"",33432,hi
guna,s,""2423,2332"",whats
cena,a,34443,33432,up";

using (var sr = new StringReader(data))
using (var parser =
    new TextFieldParser(sr)
        {
            TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited,
            Delimiters = new[] { "," },
            CommentTokens = new[] { "--" }
        })
{
    while (!parser.EndOfData)
    {
        string[] fields;
        fields = parser.ReadFields();
        //yummy
    }
}

This deals with quotes correctly.

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Today I wanted to raise a topic about how to become a full-time blogger and what is it like to be a successful one. Many of you asked me about it before, so I think, it's the perfect time to talk about it. To be honest, there are a lot of things you should know if you are considering blogging full-time, but I will name the most important ones.
These are some golden rules you have to remember if you really want to be a successful blogger. Know your brand story! Yes, your blog is your brand. So be serious when it comes to your brand and show the right story to the audience. Your Blog is sort of an online magazine for brands, companies and readers. It's a daily dose of inspiration. To be honest, no one actually cares about your personal life. So you have to build a business, a real brand out of your Blog. You own brand.
But before you do that, ask yourself, who is your ideal reader/follower? It's very important to know who you're speaking to and what's your main message. If you post about fashion and beauty, keep doing it and don't post about your baby/family/parenting and stuff like that. Don't mix topics. No one wants to see that unless you're already a celebrity. Be clear about your business and the work you do.
One of the most valuable parts of your work as a blogger is time. Yes, being a full-time blogger is an extremely time-consuming process. You have to plan your work schedule in such a way to have the necessary supply of materials for a few weeks in advance. This, sometimes, can be quite tricky. No matter, if it's summer or winter, a busy week or a vacation, you have always keep your eye on your workflow and post exactly in time, because your readers are waiting to be entertained. Yes, entertainment is a keyword!
It really does not matter, which type of blogger you are, you have to be active and attend in such events, that can be claimed by your readers. It's not enough to do OOTD posts or to describe your makeup routine, you have to be as much action on your own field as possible. And don't be scared to make contact first. Nothing terrible will happen if you write a letter to the organisers of the event and introduce yourself. Otherwise, how do they even know about your and that you exist?
How to become a full-time blogger? Being a full-time blogger is all about the communications, and not only online ones. Find the time to go out and meet up with the other bloggers, whether on the events or other occasions. It can be really helpful, because you can share the information with people, who can exactly understand your problems and worries and, of course, share with you some bits of advice. Just remember an easy rule – it's always better to start communication first, so you have an advantage.
Leave comments on the blogs, you like, join the Blogger communities or Facebook groups, and it will be easier and easier every time. The more you interact with other bloggers and their blogs the more likely they are to interact back and come visit your blog.
The main and, let's say, the golden rule of all this story is – if you want to be followed by other people, you have to follow them first. This is just a simple rule of reciprocation that is common on all social media formats, whether you want to increase Twitter followers or to attract people to your Facebook page. So, instead of just uploading photos and expecting people to come to you, you also have to put yourself out there.
In other words, you have to be active 24/7. Yes, it's a very hard work, but no one tells you that it would be easy. So just go ahead and search for users and brands that share your interests. For example, if you would like to increase your Twitter followers, try to look for tags like #styleinspo #effortlesschic #fbloggers #bbloggers #lbloggers and follow these people. Or find some Facebook communities, related to your interests. Believe me, there are a bunch of them. It's very simple. The more you engage the more exposure you'll receive. And the next step would be not only growing your following but making a revenue out of your blog.
Once you start to take your blog seriously, you will have a whole bunch of questions about what to do to improve your blog and to make it more attractive. How to become a full-time blogger? A lot of people think that the hardest part is getting started. But they're totally wrong. The hardest part is to keep moving and to set up your blog in such a way that you can keep it updated regularly. And don't forget to keep improving your own skills – start to increase your SEO knowledge, learn how to work with Google Analytics, explore new programmes and features, which can help to make your job easier. Always move towards your dream, even if you don't feel confident sometimes. Because you know what? The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
Yes, this is your so-called competition. Therefore don't let it screw you up, fight for your Blog, improve it as much as possible, don't be afraid to risk sometimes. And believe me, it's worth it!


"It has been almost 2 years since Radar joined the Family. And has he ever.He fell in love with his big brother, Kayak a 14 yr old Alaskan Malamute and Kady a 7 yr old All American right from the start. They love him too.There is never a dull moment with these three. He is such a fun little guy, very loving and is spoiled rotten.
He has done very well in Agility these past 10 months. In AKC he is in Excellent A in Standard and Jumpers with Weaves. Only needs one more Q in Standard for his AX. In USDAA needs one more Q in Starters Standard for his Agility Dog title. All other classes are in the Advanced level.In Advanced Pairs and Snooker needs one more Q then on to Masters ! He loves Agility.


Currently in development in my workshop is a new power supply. It is a 5 volt 3 amp unit and because it is single voltage and uses a proper transformer, it is not legal to sell it in the European single market or in some states in the US (and maybe Australia?).
I must admit that this has been on my pile of things to do since 2015, and poor old Phil must be losing patience by now ( ) and so to restore his faith I decided to write about its progress here.
Logic/digital chips run on 5V (and some on 3.3V), and it would seem like many devices, this might not use any intermediate regulation (other than if 3.3V is required) and relies on the 5V from its supply being a good stable 5V.
If you were to try supplying a 5V circuit from say a 12V supply what would happen? Well, if the device has no overvoltage detection built-in, it would break!
One good thing about the EU, is it thought about things like this, and legislated on it, but in an abstract way. Now, in Yorkshire we have a reputation of calling a ***** a ***** (political correctness prevents me from using the actual word here).
Because of the abstract way the legislation is formed, manufacturers of such devices may not have understood what it means, and so I have to assume they didn't, and put into the power supply what they may not have done at their end.
And that is overvoltage protection such that if part of the power supply failed and decided to output more than 5V, it will shut down and prevent catastrophic destruction of the device it is powering.
When making power supplies for ones own products this is not an issue, but making an aftermarket power supply one needs to think about such things.
Anyway, after much frustration (the world seems to be getting that way these days) I was able to find/decipher what I was looking for in the form of a chip and external MOSFET required to perform the action.
So, it should comply in that respect, but it is still against legislation to actually sell it. However, by providing another output voltage, it becomes legal. And because nobody actually wants another output voltage - they just want the 5V - we can make that voltage anything we want, and it makes sense to use a voltage which appears somewhere in the circuit. And so I will designate a pin on the output connector as one of those. Hey presto! It then complies!
More on its progress shortly.
Bitzie users can also rejoice then? I could use this together with the Lautus powerwire product to provide a lift in performance.
This PSU could be an upgrade for Raspberry Pi users as well. The Digi + Pro and DAC+ Pro convertor boards for the RPi need 5V and 3.3V supplies. If this is within the scope, then would you please add me to the list for a unit.
I have previously LM723N based regulators with BD140 as "output" device for (higher) current capability. These sounded quite good, but didn't have the benefit of professional design and measurement, which I'm sure your PSU will benefit from and therefore be a significant improvement.
Will my choice sound better? I would doubt that. They're all much of a muchness, and all seem to have very similar specifications. I know great claims are made by little firms who make power supplies, especially when using adjustable types. I read somewhere where Mr Ahem of Such and Such Co made a big meal of his discovery that using a 10uF capacitor between the adjust pin and ground made a huge improvement, and his fanbase loved him for it. I had to laugh - it's on the device's data sheet, and has been since they first came out sometime in the late 70s. I remember using the same technique in the 1980s.
Will my choice sound better? I would doubt that.
Add to the layout considerations the choice of the most appropriate components, then you have the reason why your design might well sound better.
I'll watch with interest how this develops and ultimately hope to benefit with a new PSU.
5V and 3.3V at the same time? OK, that's the other output then.
5V 2.5A + 3.3V 500mA would suit my needs, don't know what others may need.


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Charles Russell: Legacy 10 to encourage more giving launched today - Spear's Magazine
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Charles Russell: Legacy 10 to encourage...
Charles Russell: Legacy 10 to encourage more giving launched today
2nd November 2011 by Spear's
Today sees the launch of Legacy 10, an initiative designed to encourage more of us to leave legacies to charities under our Wills
Today sees the launch of Legacy 10, an initiative designed to encourage more of us to leave legacies to charities under our Wills. This comes off the back of the Government's proposed changes to the inheritance tax regime for those individuals leaving at least 10% of their net estates to charities by Will.
Robert Blower, Partner in the Private Client team at law firm, Charles Russell, comments on today's launch:
"Currently, any gifts to charity are free of inheritance tax, whether they are made during someone's lifetime or under their Will. This will remain the case if the new rules are enacted which are intended to be effective for deaths after 5 April 2012. The difference will be however, where an individual leaves at least 10% of their net estate to charity under their Will, the remainder of their net estate will be taxable at the rate of 36% instead of the usual 40%.
"Whilst the tax incentives to encourage charitable giving by Will are to be welcomed, and a raft of wealthy entrepreneurs have already pledged to leave 10% of their estates to charity, it remains to be seen whether the proposals will discourage lifetime giving for those who are likely to have taxable estates. This is because any lifetime gifts to charity will not be taken into account for the purpose of satisfying the 10% test.
"Further, the legislation will have to be very carefully drafted to ensure that a 4% reduction in inheritance tax offers sufficient incentive for individuals to structure their Will in such a way so their estate can benefit from the proposed new regime".
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Scaling up program committees
As a follow-up to my earlier post on scaling up the number of papers that conferences accept, I wanted to comment on the reviewing load imposed on program committees. Ken Birman and Fred Shneider have a thought-provoking article on this topic in May's issue of CACM (thanks to Yuiry Brun for the pointer). They touch on many points, but one issue they do not explicitly consider is the possibility of increasing the size of the program committee itself to reduce the workload.
The figure below shows the size of the program committee and the number of submissions for the last few years of SOSP and OSDI (OSDI 2002 is left out since I could not find data on the number of submissions). Note that I am not counting program chairs in the PC size, since presumably they do not shoulder the same burden for paper reviews (indeed, they have a much harder job).
I also estimate the number of reviews by each PC member, assuming that -- on average -- every paper gets four reviews. This is a guess and it may in fact be closer to 3 reviews per paper, but many conferences are now doing at least two reviewing rounds, so this seems reasonable. Split the difference if you like. I happened to be on the OSDI 2004 PC when the number of submissions spiked, and indeed I did have to review around 45 papers. (My average review length for that year was 60 lines of ASCII text, or around 3.5 KB per review -- you do the math -- I worked my butt off.)
As the figure shows, in the last couple of years, program chairs have caught on that it is time to increase the PC size to compensate for the increased number of submissions. Prior to 2007, the typical PC size was 12 or 13, whereas in the last couple of years it has spiked to 26, 31, and 33 (for SOSP 2009). Some conferences have adopted a "light" and "heavy" PC model in which the "heavy" members get more papers to review and have to attend the PC meeting.
In general I think it is beneficial to increase the program committee size, within reason. The classic model that the PC was mainly comprised of a "wise council of elders" seems too limiting and, as Ken and Fred point out, cannot scale. Looking at the last few OSDI and SOSP PCs, they are fairly diverse, with quite a few names that I haven't conventionally associated with these program committees, whereas prior to about 2002 there was far more homogeneity. This practice widens the scope of the community and gives more people an opportunity to help shape the direction the conferences take. This is a good thing.
By Matt Welsh at April 29, 2009 1 comment:
Scaling up conferences
Many prestigious conferences in systems and networking -- such as SOSP, SenSys, and SIGCOMM -- constrain themselves to a single track over two and a half days. This limits the number of papers that can be presented at the conference to around 25-30 at most, assuming 30-minute talk slots.
The problem is that the field has been growing, but the publication venues have not. This means it is becoming increasingly competitive to get a paper accepted to one of these venues. You can check out the stats for yourself here. Although the stats are not yet on that page, SIGCOMM 2009 accepted only 10% of submitted papers. Conference publications in top venues are now a highly prized commodity, and one that is becoming increasingly valued over time. Unfortunately this leads to spiraling inflation, in the sense that the harder it is to get a paper accepted, the more it is seen as a superhuman achievement ("Wow! You got a paper into SIGCOMM!"), causing more people to submit more papers to the conference: a vicious cycle.
This value inflation is evident in the CVs of the hotshot graduate students on the job market last year. Several of us on the hiring committee were amazed at how many freshly-minted Ph.D.s were coming out with multiple papers in places like SOSP, OSDI, and NSDI. Clearly there is a lot more weight placed on getting those papers accepted than there used to be. When I was a grad student, publicatons were important, but nobody pushed me to publish relentlessly -- I submitted papers when I had something to submit. (I'll admit this was not very strategic.) Somewhere along the way the ante has been upped considerably.
Of course, this is a "great" thing for those lucky few who are successful at publishing at these venues. (To be fair, I count myself as part of that cohort.) But it does little to foster the community as a whole. Grad students need publications in top conferences to be taken seriously for faculty jobs. Junior faculty need them for tenure. If the conference venues become more and more selective, I don't see how we can sustain growth in the field as a whole. It seems to me that the number of papers accepted at conferences needs to keep pace with the number of new faculty and students entering the field. Either that or we need to reset our expectations of what constitutes making a research contribution.
There is also a potential loss to the diversity of the research community. Getting a paper into SOSP or NSDI takes a substantial investment of money and time. Research groups with more firepower (like, say, Microsoft Research) have a much easier time than those who might have good ideas but fewer resources. I don't have hard data to back this up, but it feels that it is increasingly rare to see papers from anything other than "top ten" universities and labs in the top venues. One thing that would help would be a quota on the number of papers that a given institution or author could submit to a conference, much as the NSF does for some of its programs. (It seems that everyone I know at MSR is working on at least least three papers for every major deadline. This is insane.)
Now, I am not suggesting that conferences lower their standards. But we need to decide what is reasonable and scale up as the community grows. One way to scale up is to create new venues, but this is not very cost-effective: it is expensive and time-consuming to run a conference, and who has time to go to so many events each year? Accepting a few more papers once you already have the whole program committee in the room incurs much less overhead.
This may mean going to multiple tracks, having shorter talks (my preferred solution), or not presenting every paper at the conference orally. As much as people bemoan multi-track conferences, every "single track" conference is really double-track: there is the track of people who stay in the room and listen to the talks, and the track of those who stand in the hallway and chat.
Finally, it's clear that paper quality varies over time, and it seems unlikely that any specific target for acceptance rates (say, 25%) makes sense for a given conference in a given year. But I think we should take a hard look at where we are headed, and ask whether we shouldn't open up the field more by devaluing the currency of the conference paper.
By Matt Welsh at April 28, 2009 6 comments:
Abolish universities? Not so fast
The NY Times is carrying an editorial today from Mark C. Taylor, the chair of the Religion department at Columbia, saying that we need to rethink the structure of graduate education, and universities as a whole, to make them more relevant in today's world. The article is generally thought-provoking, but dead wrong when it comes to science and engineering. Unfortunately, the article does not qualify its statements as being relevant only to the humanities and social sciences, which is too bad considering that some readers might extend this flawed line of thinking to apply to other fields.
I'm surprised the author would be so careless to say things like:
"Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market..."
"Young people enroll in graduate programs ... all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments." [Emphasis mine.]
What planet is this guy from? What he really means is that in the areas of "religion, politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, art, religion and philosophy" (the author's all-encompassing list of the realms of human thought that apparently really matter) it is damned hard to get a decent job after graduate school, and I agree. But this has little to do with the situation in the sciences and engineering, where graduate students go on to a wide range of careers in industry, government, military, and, yes, academia.
I grant that it is possible that we are headed towards a brick wall in these other fields. According to the latest Taulbee survey, Ph.D. production in Computer Science has been skyrocketing, at its highest levels since the survey was started. However, far more students are going into industry than academia. Even for students dead set on a faculty position, many can get a job straight out of graduate school -- postdocs are still the exception rather than the rule. This situation could change, but I'm not sure it's time to end universities as we know them. Religion departments are maybe another matter.
NSDI 2009, Day Three
Today is the last day of NSDI 2009 here in Boston. The conference was great this year, and the community is clearly going strong. My only regret is that, the conference being in Boston, there was no excuse for me to go out cavorting with my colleagues until the wee hours. (Not that this stopped my grad students...)
My favorite talks from today:
Softspeak: Making VoIP Play Well in Existing 802.11 Deployments
Patrick Verkaik, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta, and Alex C. Snoeren, University of California, San Diego
This paper is about improving the performance of VoIP flows in wireless networks, which can be very negatively impacted by bulk TCP and UDP traffic. I liked how this work looks at something other than bulk throughput as the only performance metric for a wireless network: this paper focuses on the MOS scores for the VoIP calls. The basic idea is to allow the VoIP stations to use a shorter contention window and aggregate downlink traffic across multiple VoIP stations. It's a clever idea and very well evaluated in the paper, although it seems fairly complex and would require substantial changes to the clients and APs to support. I was surprised how many questions were asked after the talk. I raised the question about what happens with multiple TCP bulk flows. Given that a single TCP flow is so badly impacted by VoIP, it seems to me that multiple TCP flows would really hammer the VoIP traffic.
Making Routers Last Longer with ViAggre
Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis, and Tuan Cao, Cornell University; Jia Wang, AT&T Labs—Research
Cheeky title aside, this paper focuses on the problem of reducing the size of the expensive FIB memory in Internet routers as the routing table sizes increase. The key idea is to partition forwarding responsibility so that each router only maintains routes to a fraction of the IP address space. This can be supported on unmodified routers by using separate "route reflectors" that filter the routing tables on behalf of the routers themselves. Of course, this approach requires encapsulation and tunneling since intermediate routers don't have the complete routing information.
Ironically, the talk just before this (NetReview: Detecting When Interdomain Routing Goes Wrong) dealt with detecting BGP misconfigurations -- the ViAggre approach adds even more complexity and potentially creates a nightmare for someone trying to debug their network (or, at least for Andreas). That said they've thought hard about how to make this deployable in practice.
By Matt Welsh at April 24, 2009 No comments:
NSDI 2009, Day Two
NSDI marches on. A couple of my favorite talks from today:
Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
Benjamin Wester, University of Michigan; James Cowling, MIT CSAIL; Edmund B. Nightingale, Microsoft Research; Peter M. Chen and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan; Barbara Liskov, MIT CSAIL
In this paper, the authors propose to permit clients to speculate on the result of a replicated operation assuming the response from the first server is correct. Although this seems like an obvious idea, it's well executed here. Of course, it requires that clients also implement checkpoint and rollback in case the speculation was incorrect. To avoid side-effecting operations from triggering before the true result of the speculation is known, dependent requests can carry a predicate tied to the result of a previous speculation; this effectively forces a "collapse of the wave function" (as I think of it), forcing the servers to finalize the agreement.
Studying Spamming Botnets Using Botlab
John P. John, Alexander Moshchuk, Steven D. Gribble, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
Botnets are a huge problem and are responsible for a great deal of spam and DDoS attacks. This paper focuses on the problem of intercepting malicious binaries and observing a botnet's behavior in a safe environment. (This is not a trivial problem: 10 bot instances running in their sandbox generate 6 million emails a day!) It turns out that many botnets propagate through social engineering rather than exploiting security holes in software. Therefore the authors collect binaries by intercepting spam. Some clever techniques are involved, such as the use of network connection fingerprints to determine if two potentially malicious binaries are the same (a simple hash on the binary won't work). They also test binaries to see if they do VMM detection by running one instance under a real Windows XP machine and another on VMWare, and compare the network signatures they produce.
This was a very cool talk (and I can't wait to read the paper). My only concern is that the authors might find a few tough guys with Slavic features carrying Kalashnikovs outside of their offices one day...
NSDI 2009, Day One
NSDI is happening this week here in Boston. This years' conference has 32 papers (selected out of about 160 submissions) and there are more than 240 attendees, which is an NSDI record. The topics this year are pretty diverse, including content distribution (which seems to be a euphemism for "P2P"), software-defined radios, botnets, and of course the mandatory session on BFT.
A couple of highlights from my favorite talks today.
TrInc: Small Trusted Hardware for Large Distributed Systems
Dave Levin, University of Maryland; John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, and Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research
This paper proposes to add a small trusted hardware component (which they implement as a smart card), incorporating a counter and a key, providing provable attestation for state updates performed by a node participating in a distributed system. This can be used to prevent a malicious or selfish node from "equivocating" by sending different messages to different peers. For example, the authors show how this can prevent attacks on BitTorrent where a node lies about what chunks of a file it has received in order to increase its own download capacity.
HashCache: Cache Storage for the Next Billion
Anirudh Badam, Princeton University; KyoungSoo Park, Princeton University and University of Pittsburgh; Vivek S. Pai and Larry L. Peterson, Princeton University
This paper develops a Web cache that uses far less memory and storage than conventional caches. The idea is to provide an effective caching solution for use in developing countries with poor Internet access and little access to high-end hardware. They employ a bunch of clever techniques to reduce the overheads and trade off storage, memory, and performance. To be honest, I never thought that Web caching could be sexy again, but this paper proved me wrong.
Making Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems Tolerate Byzantine Faults
Allen Clement, Edmund Wong, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin; Mirco Marchetti, The University of Mondena and Reggio Emilia
This paper deals with the "elephant in the room" that most BFT systems don't provide acceptable (or any) performance if some nodes are actually faulty. The authors describe Aardvark, which is designed to provide robust BFT rather than just peak performance in the best case. I like the authors' shift in priorities in developing their system to focus on robustness. Kudos for using "Big MAC Attack" as the title of one of the slides.
The poster and demo session was just afterwards, though being completely beat after a long day I decided to head home.
By the way, why don't conference hotels train their staff not to make a huge racket immediately outside of rooms where presentations are happening? The last three conferences I've been to have been disrupted by noisy hotel staff yelling at each other and moving dishes around outside of the conference hall. You would think they would somehow be aware that they are just next door to a roomful of 300 people trying to listen to a talk.
Brown project spamming MediaWiki sites
A few weeks ago I noticed some very strange looking pages showing up on the TinyOS Docs Wiki which I maintain. These pages contained what appeared to be ASCII-encoded binary data of some kind, although the format was not anything I recognized. Cursory searches for what might be causing this turned up nothing, so I ended up spending a couple of hours locking down the site to prevent malicious edits.
Turns out this was (what appears to be) a student project from Brown called Graffiti which is intended to provide a kind of encrypted, distributed filesystem (I gather, since the paper isn't available) on top of "public" MediaWiki sites. (I should point out that the bogus pages on my site did not have the explanatory message at the top saying that they were related to this project - I guess this was only added in a later version of their code.)
The authors seem to be reticent about the trouble they have caused, but a comment that previously appeared on the project page suggests that they don't quite get why this is such a problem:
03/09/2009 - Rejection!
Our paper got rejected from IPTPS. One of the main points brought up by the reviewers was that our system was not a true peer-to-peer system. Most reviewers also seemed appalled at the idea of commandeering abandoned websites in order to store illegal content. Nevertheless, we are not deterred and will be searching for the next workshop/conference that is bold enough to take on the ideas of the Graffiti project!
(Seen on this discussion board.)
Now, while the idea of a distributed filesystem riding on top of "open" sites is cool, the way the authors went about this is problematic. Just because some MediaWiki sites are open doesn't make it OK to spam them with bogus pages for the purpose of doing your research -- I am sure this violates both the terms of service of Brown's network as well as the networks of those sites they spammed.
There are better ways to evaulate this system than to hammer on unprotected wiki sites without permission. They could have used PlanetLab and run their own wikis to evaluate the system's scalability and robustness. They could have asked permission from site owners with a promise to clean up after themselves after the experiments were run. I hope the authors are kidding about the "bold enough" comment above. It suggests they underestimated the legal and ethical issues raised by spamming open sites just to get a paper published, nor the amount of hassle they have caused sysadmins of the affected sites. I just hope they learned some kind of lesson from this.
Rumors of the death of newspapers have been greatly exaggerated
A lot has been said lately about the decline and fall of the newspaper industry. In the last week I've seen at least two TV interviews with newspaper publishers moaning that blogs (ahem) can't provide the same quality of reporting as they can. Yet, they give newspapers away for free, online, which seems to me to be a race to the bottom. If everything is free, how are readers supposed to value the reporting provided by newspapers over what they can get from the Huffington Post or (God forbid) Digg?
Look, if newspapers want to stay in business, they have to start charging money for online access. It's as simple as that. The trick is balancing revenue from subscriptions with revenue for online ads driven by "free" access. The NY Times ran an experiment a couple of years ago where they started charging for "prime" content such as the editorial pages. In the end they pulled the plug since they were losing hits. But the question is not how many hits - it's dollars per hit that matter. With web browsers like Firefox making it trivial to block online ads, a site can't continue to rely on ads alone to keep the business afloat.
This is going to require some creative pricing models. Personally I'd like to see newspapers make the current day's stories free, but require that you be a subscriber to access the archives. If I email a link to a story and the recipient doesn't read it that very day, well, too bad, they need to sign up to get access. A (generous) free trial period will lure people in. This model can work. I pay something like $5 a month for Angie's List yet I access the site only a couple of times a year. Mostly it's because the opportunity cost of not having access to the site is high when I need it (i.e., to find a good plumber when my dishwasher explodes). Same goes for sites like the NY Times. If someone emailed me a link to Bittman's latest recipe for chocolate chip waffles and I couldn't read it, I would just have to subscribe, now wouldn't I?
Another model would be to bundle access to a wide range of online publications together, much like you get when you sign up for cable or satellite TV. The NY Times, Boston Globe, WSJ, Wired, Salon, etc. should form subscription packages where you get access to all of the sites for "one low monthly payment." Just like I can't watch anywhere near all of the 200+ channels I get with my DirecTV subscription, most people can't consume all of this content, so it gives consumers the appearance of getting a lot more than they are paying for.
Newspapers aren't going anywhere fast. But they do need to get with the times and reset readers' expectations that you get what you pay for.
Don't believe the netbook hype
The NY Times is running an article today on the rise of netbooks, which are roughly defined as cheap laptops using low-power chips, sometimes without a hard drive. Of course, the terminology is fuzzy and confusing.
The article claims that netbooks are poised to eat into the conventional laptop and PC market in a big way, mainly because they're cheaper. I don't buy it.
The potential game-changer for netbooks is that companies traditionally associated with the cell phone market are bringing out new processors and other components that bring the cost and power consumption down. The low-cost and low-power ARM chips don't run Windows, so some netbooks run a stripped down version of Linux (though where did the NY Times get the idea that Linux costs $3 versus $25 for Windows XP?). And many current netbooks are too puny to run "real" applications -- by which I mean things like PowerPoint, games, or playing a DVD.
Now, I'm a big Linux advocate, but I don't buy the idea that just because netbooks are cheaper, they're going to take over a significant chunk of the market. If history has taught us anything, it's clear that Intel and Microsoft will bring down their prices and power consumption profiles to compete in this space. At the end of the day, it's software that sells devices, not price or power consumption. It's wrongheaded to take the technology-centric view that because the technology changes, users will follow suit and go along with a stripped-down sub-laptop that can't run real software. We've seen this before (anybody remember WebTV?) and it hasn't worked out. The Nokia n770 "Internet Tablets" are another classic example of a device that never took off in a significant way -- just because you can build something like this, doesn't mean that anybody wants it.
So I think the industry should look at where netbooks fit in with user needs. I'm hoping Apple does a netbook (a rumor that keeps circulating) since the iPhone OS is, in many ways, an ideal netbook platform -- and the amazing growth of the iPhone app market says a lot about its capabilities. And, knowing Apple, they'll put the user first, rather than the technology.
Update: David Pogue has a great video on the Great Netbook Compromise.


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*www.websitea.com displays an img tag with a src attribute of www.websiteb.com/image.aspx?id=5 and style="display:none"

*www.websiteb.com returns an clear image, in addition to a cookie with a name of referrer and value of 5 (created server-side from validated querystring.)

Would the cookie be created on domain www.websitea.com or www.websiteb.com?
Currently I'm sure a series of redirects with querystrings and to achieve cross-domain cookies, but I came up with this image idea a little ago. I guess I could also use an iframe.
Thanks!

A: The cookie would be created for websiteb.com.

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Someone mentions using a 1x1 image for tracking across domains.

A: The cookie is created from the request to websiteb.com so yea... the cookie goes to websiteb scope

A: You're on the right track. As others have mentioned, the cookie would be created for websiteb.com.
To overcome issues with IE you'll probably need to ad a Compact Privacy policy.
Start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537342.aspx and Google for the rest.

A: Ok looks good. Tested in all browsers. Added a P3P tag for IE6, not sure if it was necessary though.
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What an unspeakable and undeserved privilege it is to stand in this pulpit again and look out on you, the flock that the great Shepherd has called me to feed. I am thrilled to be back with you. Thank you for your great generosity in letting me be away for those months. I don't know how long the Lord will give me to live. But I do know that as long as I live, those eight months will bear fruit in my soul, in my marriage, in my family, and in my ministry. My prayer and my hope is that you will be nourished by that fruit.
As I was leaving back in April, I said that it was time for a spiritual reality check for these four things: my soul, my marriage, my family, and my ministry. So I wrote a report about the leave of absence, addressing these four things, which will be published as my annual report, and which you can read at Desiring God. I won't say it all again here in this message, but it might be helpful to say a little, before we turn to God's word.
The work that God is doing in my own soul and the work he is doing in our marriage are almost indistinguishable, because all sin is sooner or later relational. I said when I left that I wanted to set the sights of my Holy Spirit gun (Romans 8:13) on species of pride in my life. All sin is rooted in pride. So let me be more specific.
I would name my most besetting (and I hope weakening) sins as selfishness, self-pity, anger, quickness to blame, and sullenness. And all of these have been most often manifest at home, more than anywhere else. So for these eight months, I have tried to go deep and to go hard after the roots of these things. The Lord has revealed himself in his word in some very precious ways. He has also retaught me some very basic strategies for putting to death the uprisings of sin in my heart.
Time will tell, and Noël will tell, and you will tell, whether the progress I have made is deep and durable, or not. I pray it is. How God is doing these things will, no doubt, weave its way into messages and writings in the months and years to come. I hope they will be of benefit to your own soul and your relationships — whether single or married.
So let's begin that process with a sermon on prayer. What has God been teaching me about prayer in this spiritual warfare, and how might it make a difference in your life? I choose to focus on prayer because it's the close of our annual Prayer Week, and because it has been with me during the whole leave of absence — both as a steady cry to God for his help in our souls and marriage and family and ministry, and as a recurrent focus of reflection and thinking. I prayed a lot, and I thought a lot about praying.
I love the prayers of the Bible. They shape my own prayers more than anything else. I love the prayers of Paul in Philippians 1:9–11, and Ephesians 1:16–21 and 3:14–19, and Colossians 1:9–12. I love the prayer of Jesus in John 17. And I love the whole book of Psalms, which is the inspired prayer book of the church — filled with such a range of emotions that the cry of our heart in almost any experience can find words in the Psalms.
But the prayer in the Bible that has gripped me most during this leave is the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:9–13. This is probably because, in God's providence, I was memorizing the Sermon on the Mount with many of you. So week after week I was reviewing Matthew 6 in my mind, and so saying the Lord's Prayer over and over.
As I thought about it and prayed it, it had an effect on the big picture of my life, and it had an effect on the nitty-gritty, daily wrestlings in my life. I hope it will have a similar effect on you as you pray it.
The Lord's Prayer is very true to life in this sense. Life is a combination of spectacular things and simple things. In almost everyone's life there are breathtaking things and boring things. Fantastic things and familiar things. Extraordinary things and ordinary things. Awesome things and average things. Exotic things and everyday things. That's the way life is.
We are asking God to bring about these three things: cause your name to be hallowed; cause your kingdom to come; cause your will to be done as it's done by the angels in heaven.
You can see the difference — and feel the difference — between these two halves. The first three petitions are about God's name, God's kingdom, God'swill. The last three are about our food, our forgiveness, our holiness. The first three call our attention to God's greatness. And the last three call attention to our needs. The two halves have a very different feel. The first half feels majestic and lofty. The last half feels mundane and lowly.
In other words, there is a correspondence between the content of this prayer and the content of our lives. The big and the little. The glorious and the common. The majestic and the mundane. The lofty and the lowly.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, "God has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." I take that to mean that the world and the human soul are iridescent with wonders linked to eternity. And yet our humdrum, ordinary, mundane experiences of this world keep us from seeing the wonders and from soaring the way we dream from time to time. Even we believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God — even we say, "We have this treasure in jars of clay" (2 Corinthians 4:7). Our spirit is alive with God's Spirit, but our bodies are dead because of sin (Romans 8:10).
That's the way life is. And that's the way this prayer is — iridescent with eternity and woven into ordinary life.
Verse 9: Father, cause your great and holy name to be honored and reverenced and esteemed and treasured above all things everywhere in the world (including my heart).
Verse 10: And cause you glorious, sovereign, kingly rule to hold sway without obstruction everywhere in the world (including my heart).
Verse 10: And cause your all-wise, all-good, all-just, all-holy will to be done all over this world the way the angels do it perfectly and joyfully in heaven — and make it happen in me.
That's the breathtaking part of the prayer. And when we pray it, we are caught up into great things, glorious things, global things, eternal things. God wants this to happen. He wants your life to be enlarged like that. Enriched like that. Expanded and ennobled and soaring like that.
Verse 11: Father, I am not asking for the bounty of riches. I am asking for bread. Just enough to give me life. I want to live. I want to be healthy, and to have a body and a mind that work. Would you give me what I need for my body and mind?
Verse 12: And, Father, I am a sinner and need to be forgiven everyday. I can't live and flourish with guilt. I will die if I have to bear my guilt every day. I have no desire to hold any grudge. I know I don't deserve forgiveness, and so I have no right to withhold it from anyone. I let go of all the offenses against me. Please, have mercy upon me and forgive me and let me live in the freedom of your love. And, of course, we know now what Jesus knew when he said this. He knew he would also say of his death: "this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matthew 26:28). When we pray for forgiveness, we expect it not merely because God is our Father, but because our Father gave his Son to die in our place.
Verse 13: And Father, I don't want to go on sinning. I'm thankful for forgiveness, but, Father, I don't want to sin. Please, don't lead me into the entanglements of overpowering temptation. Deliver me from evil. Guard me from Satan and from all his works and all his ways. Grant me to walk in holiness.
That's the earthy part of the prayer. The mundane, daily, nitty-gritty struggle of the Christian life. We need food and forgiveness and protection from evil.
And I think these two halves correspond to the two things said about God in the way Jesus tells us to address him at the beginning in verse 9: "Our Father — in heaven." First, God is a father to us. And second, he is infinitely above us and over all — in heaven. His fatherhood corresponds to his readiness to meet our earthly needs. His heavenliness corresponds to his supreme right to be given worship and allegiance and obedience.
For example, in Matthew 6:32, Jesus tells us not to be anxious about food and drink and clothing because "your heavenly Father knows that you need them all." In other words, Jesus wants us to feel the fatherhood of God as an expression of his readiness to meet our most basic needs.
And then consider Matthew 5:34, where Jesus says, "Do not take an oath . . . by heaven, for it is the throne of God." In other words, when you think of heaven, think of God's throne, his kingly majesty and power and authority.
Holiness — deliver me from evil.
In other words, it seems to me that the great designs of God are first and mainly about God. His name being hallowed, his will being done, his kingdom coming. And the rest of the prayer is how I can be fitted to serve those great designs. My bread, my forgiveness, my deliverance — my health, my hope, my holiness — are for the purpose of being part of God's great purposes to glorify his name and exalt his rule and complete his will.
But there was one more exegetical insight that came as I pondered and prayed this prayer again and again during the leave of absence. There is something unique about the first petition, "Hallowed be your name." It's not just one of three. In this petition, we hear the one specific subjective response of the human heart that God expects us to give — the hallowing, reverencing, honoring, esteeming, admiring, valuing, treasuring of God's name above all things. None of the other five requests tells us to pray for a specific human response of the heart.
If you combine this fact with the fact that this petition comes first, and that the "name" of God ("hallowed be your name") is more equivalent to the being of God than is his kingdom or his will, my conclusion is that this petition is the main point of the prayer and all the others are meant to serve this one.
In other words, the structure of the prayer is not merely that the last three petitions serve the first three, but that the last five serve the first.
Nothing is more clear and unshakeable to me than that the purpose of the universe is for the hallowing of God's name.
His kingdom comes for that.
His will is done for that.
Humans have bread-sustained life for that.
Sins are forgiven for that.
Temptation is escaped for that.
Lord, grant that I would, in all my weaknesses and limitations, remain close to the one clear, grand theme of my life: your magnificence.
Here is the sum of the matter. Sooner or later life almost overwhelms you with pressures and problems — physical problems (give us daily bread), relational and mental problems (forgive us our debts), moral problems (lead us not into temptation). And what I want you to see is this. You have a Father. He is a thousand times better as a Father than the best human father. His fatherhood means he cares about every one of those problems, and he beckons you to talk to him about them in prayer, and to come to him for help. He knows what you need (Matthew 6:32).
That's the way we usually attack our problems. And so we should. We attack them directly. I have this financial problem, or this relational problem, or this bad habit problem. Father, help me. That is right and good.
But Jesus offers us more in this prayer. There is more — not less than that, but more. There is an indirect attack on our problems. There is a remedy — not a complete deliverance from all problems in this life, but a powerful remedy — in the first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer, especially the first one.
God made you be a part of hallowing his name, extending his kingdom, and seeing his will done on the earth the way the angels do it in heaven. In other words, he made you for something magnificent and for something mundane. He made you for something spectacular and for something simple. He loves both. He honors both. But what we fail to see often is that when we lose our grip on the greatness of God and his name and his kingdom and his global will, we lose our divine equilibrium in life, and we are far more easily overwhelmed by the problems of the mundane.
In other words, I am pleading with you not to lose your grip on the supremacy and centrality of hallowing the name of God in your life. I am urging you from the Lord's Prayer that you go to God for bread, and for healing of relationships, and for the overcoming of besetting sins, and for the doing of God's will, and for the seeking of God's kingdom — all of it, all the time for the sake of knowing and hallowing, reverencing, honoring, valuing, treasuring God's name (God's being, God himself) above all things.
Keep your feet on the ground. That's why the second three petitions are there. But let your heart rise into the magnificence of God's global will, God's kingdom, and most of all God's holy name — his being, his perfections.
You may not see it clearly now, but I testify from the Scriptures and from experience, there is more deliverance, more healing, more joy in the hallowing of his name than perhaps you ever dreamed. Let's pray all year in the fullness of this prayer.
John Piper (@JohnPiper) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, and most recently Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship.


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Employees at an Amazon Fulfillment center in Alabama are the latest group of workers to try and organize at the online retail giant. On Friday, the warehouse workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board. They are hoping to join the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union (RWDSU).
If the workers are successful, they would be the first Amazon warehouse in the United States to organize. The warehouse included 1,500 full and part-time warehouse workers.
"Your authorization card, it tells the federal government that you would like the opportunity to organize in your workplace," Allen Gregory, secretary of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union Council of Alabama said to the workers in a November 5th video posted on Twitter. "When you see an organizer in a shirt that looks like this, give this card to them. Support your co-workers. This card is about dignity, respect, and fair treatment in your workplace. It gives you the opportunity to say, 'Hey, Amazon, we would like a seat at the table.'"
Amazon has gone to great lengths to stop workers from organizing. UCOMM previously reported that the company was looking to hire full-time union busters. Now a new report from Motherboard, finds that Amazon is going back to some 19th-century tactics to stop organizing by hiring real-life Pinkertons.
According to two dozen internal documents, Amazon has hired Pinkerton operatives to assist the companies Global Security Operation Center, which is tasked with monitoring workers to ensure that organizing doesn't take place. Pinkerton's were guns for hire that companies hired in the late 19th and early 20th century to stop workers from organizing. They would often get violent with workers and were involved in incidents like the Homestead Strike, where 16 men were killed, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in US history where 100 people were killed. Due to the company's history of fighting unions, the name Pinkerton has become synonymous with strikebreaking.
The company's work with Amazon should raise alarm bells as they are working with the Global Security Operations Center which closely monitors labor issues and organizing efforts within the company. Members of the division receive regular updates not only on organizing going on in their area but throughout Amazon's footprint, including the exact date, time, location, number of participants, and what happened. This includes in parts of the world like Europe where many Amazon workers are organized and include a summary of what took place at the meeting.
According to an internal report, in November of 2019 Pinkertons have already been sent in to infiltrate a job site. The report says that they were deployed to a warehouse in Poland to investigate an allegation that management coached job candidates so that the manager could hire his own people to run the warehouse, instead of people who were more friendly to the company.
A spokesperson for Amazon has confirmed that the company has hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency telling VICE "We have business partnerships with specialist companies for many different reasons—in the case of Pinkerton, to secure high-value shipments in transit," she said. "We do not use our partners to gather intelligence on warehouse workers. All activities we undertake are fully in line with local laws and conducted with the full knowledge and support of local authorities."
"It's not enough for Amazon to abuse its dominant market power and face antitrust charges by the EU; now they are exporting 19th-century American union-busting tactics to Europe," Christy Hoffman, general secretary of UNI Global Union, a global federation of trade unions that represents more than 20 million workers, told Motherboard. "This is a company that is ignoring the law, spying on workers, and using every page of the U.S. union-busting playbook to silence workers' voices."
"For years people have been comparing Big Tech bosses to 19th-century robber barons," she continued. "And now by using the Pinkertons to do his dirty work, [Amazon CEO Jeff] Bezos is making that connection even clearer."
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This analysis was produced sometime beginning as early as 2004 through to the present. I've had one or more machines analyzing more or less continuously throughout this entire period. Of course the earlier software was not so good by today's standards, but it was produced by engines which were among the best at the time. This project started with Fritz 7. I tried to keep current, so I upgraded to Deep Fritz 8 upon its release. Around the time Deep Fritz 10 came about, I upgraded again to the newer program. I was much more pleased with Deep Fritz 10 than 8, but 8 was neat as it could make use of multi-processor CPUs.
Yes, some of the earlier analysis may be sub-optimal by today's standards. Over time, I expect some the earlier analysis to be superceded by more recent analysis. Indeed, there are several pages within the wiki that do have both early Fritz analysis as well as more recent analysis by Stockfish. I leave the old analysis as an artefact.
I face the need to economize the time I have available, as well as the the CPU time I have available. Sometimes this means not analyzing a position for which I already have old Fritz analysis. I haven't yet spent time uploading analysis for certain positions, even though I do have analysis. The newer analysis is, at the present, quicker and easier for me to upload, which entails adding markup (it has been an easier task to automate formatting the newer analysis). This results in something of a First In, Last Out effect, with newer analysis accounting for the majority of recent uploads. This beneficial because, as you noted, and I believe correctly, some of the older analysis is sub-par by today's standards.
5...c6 (Ziegler Defense), it is true, is a very solid and troublesome defense for the BDG Gambiteer. If the BDG ever get's truly busted/refuted, I wouldn't be surprised if it is found in the Ziegler. I've found some extremely strong variations in which White is reduced to walking a fine line with few viable options. From what I've found, White nevertheless always can secure the draw. Whether or not a player could find that one saving continuation in real time and under time controls is less certain.


Workers compensation coverage is a unique type of protection for your business. In the case that someone is injured on the job, they are going to seek workers compensation to help them get by as they are getting well. When an employee files for workers compensation, it is up to your business to make sure that it is paid. If you don't have this type of protection against employee accidents, then you could be sued for the damages.
It is unfortunate, however, that the cost of workers compensation has to be such an incredible concern to so many businesses. Most states, however, do require it so that workers can be compensated in the case they are injured or made ill on the job. It does not matter if a business is small or larger, if there are employees the business needs to have this form of protection.
Before workers compensation existed, employees would have to take legal action against their employers in order to be compensated for injuries or illness caused on the job. But today, the laws that are in place cover a wide range of areas to ensure that employees and their families are compensated accordingly. For instance, a family can be given death benefits if a worker is killed on the job. Lost wages and medical expenses are also payable forms of compensation, but it's important to know what isn't covered by this kind of insurance.
Failure to carry workers compensation coverage means that the employer is vulnerable to having to pay these costs out of pocket and may also have to pay penalties to the state for not carrying this protection. The penalties are meant to deter employers from failing to have the coverage because an employee should not have to go through the legal system in order to receive their compensation. This can take longer than it should. Because this takes longer than it should, it could be very likely that the employer would have to pay more than if the employer simply had workers compensation coverage.
And as you can see, workers compensation is regulated by the individual states. The federal government does not have a hand in regulating this protection. Most states also work with private insurance, while some have state funds, but private does give employers within those states more options.
As an employer that most likely does business in a state that requires workers compensation coverage, you do need it. However, not every business type is required to purchase protection. For instance, sole proprietorships and partnerships are not required, but if you have employees it may be a good idea. Even if you do not believe tat an accident could occur, the unexpected can always happen. If you are a sole proprietor or partner in a business, you may want to cover yourself although it is not required.
Here is a scenario to consider: If you are a sole proprietor and you hire someone to come in and install a new phone line into your business, that person could make a claim against you if he or she is hurt and they are not already covered under workers compensation. Anyone you hire to work for your business could file a workers compensation claim if they are injured while doing work for you.
So if you are not already covered, you need to obtain the coverage needed so that you can protect yourself financially. Workers compensation coverage is affordable. It does not have to break the bank. Plus, you will be complying with the law if you live in a state that requires your business type to carry it.