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Nine Security Patches To Come on Tuesday
By Jabulani Leffall
Expect nine patches in Microsoft's August security update, according to an advanced notification from Redmond, which suggested that five "critical" and four "important" bulletins will be seen on Tuesday.
The potential heavy hit comes after IT pros reel from two off-cycle Microsoft security bulletins released just last week. From a patching perspective, it's as if July slid into August without a break.
The usual suspects are expected to appear in the August slate, including remote code execution (RCE), elevation-of-privilege and denial-of-service risk considerations. All the fixes will be for Windows and related components.
What's unique for this month will be a critical cluster fix involving Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, and BizTalk Server. This particular security bulletin likely will raise eyebrows among security pros, since Visual Studio and ISA Server were both patched in July.
Critical Patches
Microsoft provided a preview of the five critical fixes expected in its monthly security update.
The first critical fix will be for Office Web Components in Microsoft Office 2000 and 2003, as well as in Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006. However, this fix also relates to Visual Studio .NET 2003, ISA Server 2004 and 2006, plus BizTalk Server 2002. The patch is designed to thwart RCE exploits in all these different products.
The second critical fix will address RCE exploits in supported Windows OS versions ranging from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista, as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008. It also will plug holes in the Windows Client for Mac, which is a remote desktop function allowing users to connect to Windows-based workstations on a Mac.
Critical fix No. 3 only affects Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The fourth critical patch affects all supported Windows OS versions.
The fifth and final critical patch will be for Outlook Express and Windows Media Player on every supported Windows OS version.
Important Patches
Microsoft also provided a peek at some of the important patches to expect next Tuesday.
Important fix No. 1 will have elevation-of-privilege considerations. Left unpatched, hackers may be able to use this vulnerability to promote their user status, or that of their automated proxies, to super-user status on a given system. XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 are all scheduled to get this patch.
The second important bulletin also will be an elevation-of-privilege patch. It will affect every Windows OS except for Windows Server 2008.
The third important item will deal with Redmond's .NET Framework for Vista and Windows Server 2008. It's designed to stave off denial-of-service attacks. Left unpatched, the exploit could leave administrators and Web developers locked out of the system.
The fourth and final fix in the important roster of security bulletins will affect all supported Windows OSes. It's designed to hold RCE exploits at bay in an as-yet-unspecified Windows component.
IT pros can expect to be kept busy with this upcoming August security update. Only the .NET Framework patch will not require a restart, according to Microsoft.
Meanwhile, IT pros can get a jump-start on Redmond's nonsecurity updates coming this month through Windows Update, Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services. A good place to start is this knowledgebase article.
Jabulani Leffall is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times of London, Investor's Business Daily, The Economist and CFO Magazine, among others.


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There is an expression: "walking on air." It generally means a person is so happy, his or her feet don't touch the ground. Or that is the way the person feels.
I had this feeling once. It lasted a few months. I could not shake it. I tried, but I continuously felt, literally, that my feet were not connected to the ground.
It was after I had been accepted into a juried exhibition in New York, where Anne Umland, Curator, Painting and Sculpture Department for the Museum of Modern Art had selected one of my pieces for New York exhibition.
I had just started painting seriously, after I had left my full time job in Advertising. I had been in the studio constantly for a few years, working. I saw the ad for this show, applied and got in.
A lot of artists work hard. I am just one of them. Even a former professor of mine said, when I complained of this euphoria, (because, believe me, it became annoying not being connected to the ground!) "Enjoy it now! It won't last!" Thinking how harsh he was, I kept painting and working.
Nothing on that great a scale has happened since. Similar career achievements and experiences have approached it, but never again did I get that feeling.
"Afloat." Ceres Gallery. New York. Solo Show.
Frito wrappers cut out. Floating across a background of Aspen trees. Some of these pieces have been sold (a lot actually), but this one was purchased by some very dear friends of mine. It will soon hang in their home in Los Angeles.
Now is a good time to bring up subject matter vs overall aesthetics.
These pieces, one by one, were completed with the main concern being, how the composition, color and design hold the piece together. How each collage "flows" within the square format. I do love the themes of natural disasters, bizarre juxtapositions, and pop imagery. But the main concern always is how each element in the piece "works" to contribute to the total image.
In this blog, I am commenting "after-the-fact" as a viewer. I am looking at these collages anew, long after I have completed them, so my take on them, (assigning meaning to them, etc.) is from a detached take, not from me, the artist.
"Afloat" Image. Ceres Gallery. New York Solo Show.
This one is shown in its exhibition frame. I am back in town and have access to all my photos. This was intentionally done as a "Close-Encounters" thing. The traveling lights in the distance. About to land.
My solo show loomed ahead and subject matter was undecided.
I had been working on a video. I worried about focusing only on the video for the show. Working under pressure is never good. And doing animation is meticulous. Being meticulous and being nervous don't go together.
I should not admit this, but looking back, I really don't think making them was FUN. All principles of doing art were involved. And certainly, when I hit 26, after slaving away, the rest seemed to be a torturous number. Looming in the distance.
Much like these space crafts about to land.
This is an unframed collage from my solo show "Afloat". Ceres Gallery. New York. Photo taken in my studio just after I finished it. My love of water. Joyful feeling of the man in front of the wave. Reminds me of childhood times in the summer.
"Afloat." Solo show. Ceres Gallery, New York. This one was one of my first collages In the series. I used the wrappers from cotton balls to make some of the bubbles. I think this one works well inside the square in a circular way. Your eye goes around and returns to the laughing baby. Compositionally, probably my best.
"Afloat" image. Ceres Gallery, New York. My solo show. I am building a new studio and have been dealing with sub-contractors now for two months. While this is going on, I see the new blank walls and I feel the need to reflect on work completed.
This piece includes a tornado. Striking an innocent village in the snow. Blue sky. Another one of my collages cut from magazines. ("Afloat" used no computer imagery or manipulation.) Perhaps I choose to talk about change and beginning anew because of this image. And, of course, what is going on in my life.


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Great companies are dependent on great employees. It is every employer's dream to have committed, skilled workers to keep the company running at optimum levels. But this doesn't happen by accident — it takes careful evaluation to select the best candidates. A lackluster job description and a few vague interview questions won't cut it!
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Even the most rigorous hiring process is doomed to fail unless you have a qualified pool to pick from. In the job listing, be clear on the required skills, education, and experience. Figure out where you want to list this job, even using open house days to give people a feel for the environment.
Referrals from current employees can help bring in talent of a similar calibre as well. Use social media to your advantage; roughly 90% of companies use LinkedIn to recruit, so join the club, but also branch out to other forms such as facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Recruiting passive candidates (those not actively seeking new roles) can be rewarding, especially for senior roles. However, it may also require extra effort and dedication to coax them out of their current role.
Making eye contact is good, but this is a little intense.
Make the hiring tests relevant to job
The interview process is the true litmus test when it comes to hiring capable employees. Don't ask magic bullet questions, but instead focus on questions that highlight the candidate's skills, attitude, and potential to grow.
If relevant, include practical tests that require candidates to show how they problem solve and adapt, since how they present themselves in an interview may differ, whenever possible, bring in more people to help with the interview. Different people can pick up on a variety of things, and this can be valuable when it comes down to choosing the right person.
It also gives you a chance to see how the interviewee interacts with others, so don't be afraid to be more social and interact with them on a personal level.
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Hiring a good fit for the company involves more than just evaluating skill and qualifications. Every company has its own unique culture, so it is important that new hires are able to work with and contribute to that environment.
Is your office dog friendly? Make that clear. Do you have remote work capabilities? Ensure you hire an independent worker who doesn't need constant supervision. Match your employees to the environment for optimal chances of success.
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Here is the same problem with rows and columns permuted with just a click into block-triangular format. If a matrix has good block-triangular structure, then the model is likely to perform well when solved with the new Branch-and-Price solver.
For models with more than 10,000 variables or constraints, the speed of rendering of the display has been improved by several orders of magnitude.
The @INSERT function has been added, which allows the dynamic addition of set members to derived sets. This is handy for applications in which the definition of a set of objects is complicated.
LINGO now supports callable procedures. Callable procedures are similar to CALC sections, however, unlike CALC sections, procedures may be called and executed multiple times.
There is now a simple command, @INTEGRAL( ), for computing the numerical integral of a function over an interval.
The Beta-Binomial and Symmetric Stable distributions have been added to the list of supported distributions. Stochastic programming models may also specify random variables as having either a Beta-binomial or Symmetric Stable distribution. The Beta-Binomial is useful in Bayesian analysis involving the Binomial distribution, e.g., in designing sampling plans for new drug trials. The Symmetric Stable is sometimes used to model the movement of prices in financial markets.
A number of new functions have been added to convert dates to and from scalar time, where scalar time is defined as the number of seconds since midnight 1 Jan 2000. These functions are helpful when you need to perform date arithmetic in your models. Among other things, these functions are useful for answering questions of the form, "If the my flight leaves Chicago at 10:30 am on June 21 and the flight to Beijing takes 13 hours, what will the date and local time be in Beijing when I land, and will I be able catch a local flight at . . .?".
LINGO 14.0 and What'sBest! 12 can take advantage of computers with multicore processors. The multicore extensions are of two types: concurrent and parallel. Concurrent algorithms run two or more different serial algorithms on multiple copies of the same model, using a separate thread for each algorithm, terminating as soon as the winner thread finishes. Parallel algorithms, on the other hand, parallelize computationally intensive portions of the serial algorithm to distribute the workload across multiple threads. Solvers with multicore extensions include Barrier, Global, Integer, Linear, Multistart and Stochastic.
In addition to the solvers, LINGO's model generator has also been extended for multicore support. Model generation times for large models can be reduced up to as much as 50% when compared to previous releases.
The solution finding heuristics have been improved significantly. Simple rounding and the feasibility pump now use bound propagation to improve the current path to a new feasible MIP solution.
New polishing heuristic to improve the best MIP solution using a pool of previous obtained MIP solutions and the current relaxation. This leads to better MIP solutions faster on many problems.
Multithreading can lead to speed improvements from 1.5 to 3.0 times on difficult problems using 4 threads rather than 1. For easy MIP problems, e.g., < 600 seconds, multithreading may give not much speedup.
The Multistart solver has been improved significantly, achieving speed factors up to 2X compared to the previous version. The likelihood of getting the global optimum has also improved by 10-15% over a wide range of nonconvex models.
Multithreading often leads to speed improvements from 2.0 to 3.0 times when using 4 threads. Speed improvements tend to improve as the model size and the number of multistarts increase.
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. with Odd-Roar Bakken and Terje Flessen from the Norwegian Prog Band ADVENTURE
. Do you listen other Progressive Rock bands and did they influenced Adventure?
Adventure: Yes, we have always listened to a lot of other bands. Progressive bands, hard rock bands, mostly stuff from the seventies. Bands like Jethro Tull, Camel, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Kansas. We also like a lot of the 90's stuff like Arena, IQ, Flower Kings and Dream Theatre. With Adventure we try to maintain our own sound, though. We don't want to copy anybody else.
Are there plans for the future? What can the fans of progressive rock expect with the
releasing of Adventure fisrt CD from within?
Adventure: Our plans for the future is to start recording our second album. We hope to get a record deal soon, so that we can get the financial support. The first album was financed by ourselves, that's why it took so long to complete it. People who buy this record can expect progressive/ symphonic rock with a lot of diversity, sometimes very heavy like Dream Theatre, sometimes very soft and melodic like the best of Camel. On top of this we try to include Norwegian folk music themes, like Jethro Tull do.
Are there Plans for some Gigs in side and out side Norway?
Adventure: At the moment there's just the two of us (Terje and Odd-Roar), so we don't have any plans for live-gigs right now. Adventure is just a studioproject these days.
What's the meaning of the title "Adventure" for the Band and can you tell us a little bit
about the stories behind all the songs?
Adventure: It means a musical adventure,a journey through music.We want to create different moods in our music. The music should fit the lyrics and vice versa.
THE MOTHERLAND (tracks 1-6) tells a story about a guy who leaves his homeland (Norway) in search of a better life in the U.S.A., only to find out that he was better off in Norway. RIVERS OF GOLD, THE UNEASE 1&2 and DISTANT DREAM were originally one song called THE MOTHERLAND back in 90-92. LONGING FOR HOME(96) and THE WEE HOURS (90) were later included in the whole story.
INTO THE DREAM is another song from the same period (90-92) written by me (Terje Flessen). It had different lyrics in the beginning but our singer at the time (Egil Moe) came up with some amazing new fantasy-like lyrics. This was the first song recorded for this project and a lot of people's favourite (mine, too!!).
NEW ADVENTURES was the last song completed for this album. It is made up of an older song by Odd-Roar called LOST PARADISE (the end part) and a new piece of music written by me. The lyrics are dark and moody as always! It's about mankind digging it's own grave (like destroying the rainforest).
SEASONS. Seasons have come and gone, mankind's just another one. The lyrics says it all, really. This was also put together by individual songs written over the past 10-15 years!
SUNRISE. A classic guitar piece by Odd-Roar. SUMMER BREEZE. An old reworked demo, written by me (Terje Flessen). LAST DAYS OF SUMMER is an instrumental piece I wrote when my mother passed away. WINDS OF FALL 1 is another old song by Odd-Roar and Nils Larsen (our old bassist), later reworked. WINDS OF FALL 2&3 and WINTERFREEZE are new pieces written for this project. WINTERSTORM was originally an old song I wrote in the 80's called MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. It appeared on a 1992-demo, only the chorus was kept for this recording. A NEW DAY is a new piece of music. SPRING IN THE AIR is also a new song I wrote for this project, one of the few tracks with positive lyrics on this album!!!!
THE FINALE part is a theme from an old song from the early nineties. We found it very catchy, so we used it here. That's about it!!!
How does Adventure feel about the debut-CD?
Adventure: Our first album is just a collection of demos, really, so we're very pleased with the way it turned out. We plan to start recording another album as soon as we have the financial support.
In your opinion how do you see the current progressive rock scene?
How do you think 21st century progressive rock will be? Still alive or dead?
Adventure: The progressive rock-scene today is rather healthy, new bands are emerging all the time. I find it hard to believe that progressive rock ever will have the same position it had in the seventies when bands like Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes and Jethro Tull were high in the charts. It's very difficult for smaller progressive bands to tour because they don't have the financial backing of a big label, so the fans have to settle with listening to the records!!
I think there will always be a progressive rock-scene. There will always be somebody who wants to play or listen to intellegent rock!
Why Did Adventure write in side the CD cover: "This Album is dedicated to all fans of
Progressive Rock around the world"?
Adventure: We wanted to dedicate the album to the faithful followers of progressive rock around the world. We love you all!!
Would you like to say anything to the Progressive Rock fans?
Adventure: Please support the new progressive/symphonic bands without major label deals, so that they can continue making great records for the fans of this kind of music. We would love to visit Brazil one day!!!
Odd-Roar Bakken - Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Lead Guitar and Backing
Terje Flessen - Lead Guitars, Rhythm Guitars, Acoustic Guitars and Bass Guitars
Vebjorn Moen - Lead Vocals and Backing Vocals.
Stein Egil Bratland - Drums and Backing
Elisabeth Nilssen - Flute
Stine Mostervik - Flute
Adventure Home Page
http://home.no.net/advent1/
Odd-Roar Bakken: Started playing in bands in 1977,mostly straight hard rock. Met up with Torkel Aune: drums and Nils Larsen; bass in 1990 and started to play progressive rock Odd-Roar played guitars only at this time. Started to play keyboards in 1990 when guitarist Terje Flessen joined. Adventure wanted a more symphonic sound so keyboards was a necessity. Other keyboardists were tested but didn't work out. These days Odd-Roar plays acoustic guitars and the occasional leadbreak besides playing keyboards and singing backing vocals. Odd-Roar even plays mandolin on the track "The Wee Hours".
Terje Flessen: Started playing guitar around 1980. Played in various hobby projects From 1983-1990,mostly '70's inspired hard rock. Met up with Odd-Roar, Torkel Aune and Nils Larsen in 1990. Terje's biggest hero is German guitar GOD Uli Jon Roth. Terje started to write more progressive/ symphonic material when teaming up with Odd-Roar, Nils and Torkel. A lot of the material on "Adventure" dates from this early period (90-92).
Adventure have always had problems with finding the right vocalist. A lot of different singers were tried out and various demos were recorded (90-92).
The best vocalist in this period was Egil Moe who is featured on a demo from 1992. An early version of "Summer Breeze" appears here. Egil is also responsible for most of the lyrics to "Into The Dream". Unfortunately the band split up in 1995 due to musical differences and family-duties. After the split-up Terje and Odd-Roar decided to continue working together because they shared the same taste in music and had the same goal, to release a great symphonic/ progressive cd. They had the material but needed a great singer. Then in 1996 they finally found him.
Vebjørn Moen: Vebjørn is a very experienced vocalist .He has been in various bands for more than 20 years. These days Vebjørn is vocalist/ guitarist in a band called "Jan Borseth's". They have released several albums in the nineties and play local dancehalls most weekends. They play a very commercial dance orientated kind of music. Vebjørn had never sung prog./ sympho- rock before singing with Adventure. Vebjørn is just a part-time member of Adventure and doesn't take part in the song writing process. He has the perfect powerful voice for Adventure so he will definitely be a part of Adventure's future.
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Too early lost 'midst duties too severe!
A wanderer came, and sought the poet's grave.
And rais'd this fond memorial to his fame.
"In the execution of the portrait, Mr. Chantrey has been eminently successful: it is a striking likeness of the man; but the style and beauty of the sculpture may be compared to the best works of Grecian artists; and in the manner of executing the medallion, the sculptor has been guided by the purest models of taste. The works both of Grecian and Egyptian sculptors afford examples of relievos protected by being, as it were, imbedded within an excavated surface. The hieroglyphic sculpture is all of this kind; and the paterae of a similar nature."


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Re: Active Shooter Training revisited
Quote from: Cicero on March 14, 2018, 02:45:07 AM
One comment I heard was that the handout was objectionable. Have yet to see same, so withholding judgment.
That was version 1...youth-appropriate version was rapidly issued. The original referred to using alcoholic beverages, among other things.
FWIW: I presented the material as the monthly CD, alongside safety and it was very well received by the cadets.
For the most part, they agreed with Eclipse: The "Counter" or "fight" is primarily intended for adults, but if hiding
or running isn't an option, they'd throw a desk, or anything else they can grab. They all agreed, without prompting, that being backed into the store cupboard or similar was a very bad option.
Indeed one handout by a reputable source was more adult orientated than youth orientated. It was "recalled" for that reason.
On another note, the Chaplain Corps was tasked the day following this tragic event by the National Commander to put together this session for our cadets. Normally, lesson material takes a while to develop. This lesson, in a quick response to the tasking by Maj Gen Mark Smith, was in the field in less than 2 weeks.
Disclaimer: Not to be confused with the other user that goes by "Chappy"
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https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality
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Quote from: ol'fido on March 20, 2018, 04:06:40 PM
It's the media "echo chamber effect" https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/dec/04/echo-chambers-are-dangerous-we-must-try-to-break-free-of-our-online-bubbles. Some call it the barnyard chicken peckin' effect... For the urbanites among us, chickens will start pecking on an unlucky victim until it finally succumbs to the negative attention. Other folks just say "I know what I know, please don't confuse me with the data".
There have been 12 school shootings in the 11 weeks of 2018....
The author of this article may be accurate, but that's because he's narrowed the telescope so much that the VAST majority of school shootings don't fit within his sample.
A quick calculation of the list of ALL school shootings by decade, I see that the 90's had 62 school shootings, the 00's had 63 and the 10's have had (so far, with 21 months still remaining in the decade) 149.
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And, by the way.... Sandy Hook wouldn't be included in the author's sample because there were less than 4 injuries. Even though there were 28 deaths.
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Quote from: Fester on March 21, 2018, 01:56:39 AM
Unfortunately, this is an issue in studying gun violence. What constitutes a school shooting. There are no official definitions of a school shooting. Some sources, especially the ones that cite high school shooting numbers, have a definition of any shooting on school ground. For example, they include a suicide on school ground at 1 am as a school shooting. Another is a clear gang violence shooting in a school known for gang violence. More strict definitions use the at least 4 dead (not including the shooter) definition.
Thus, yes the author of the previous uses a strict definition to fit his political bias, other groups use a rather broad definition in order to fit their political bias. So, everyone is correct "from a certain point of view".
Please see this reference, which I think present a rather fair and unbiased look at the definitions, the many of them:
http://www.politifact.com/california/article/2018/feb/28/how-are-school-shootings-defined/
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No, there hasn't. That's an inflated number purposely used to mislead people who don't know any better.
Let's use real simple criteria: a school shooing is an incident where a student was shot on school grounds. The drug deal on the playground in the middle of the night, the suicide in the parking lot, the drive-by where the building was hit, the little girl who pulled the trigger on the SRO's gun - they don't count.
The real number is 4, not 12. But that number doesn't scream from the headlines as effectively. Yes, that's still too many, but at least it's an honest number.
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Quote from: EMT-83 on March 22, 2018, 10:37:04 AM
It also doesn't advance certain ideologies and agendas. Inflated numbers go farther and add more meat for Anti-Constitution attacks.
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Now who's messing with the numbers for their own gain?
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I would say the number of shootings doesnt matter. If you are the one being shot at, it doesnt matter where you are, (we can exclude the suicide example) the principles remain the same. Run, Hide, Fight it is a pretty simple version. There is a video you can download. Its free. There are also formal classes that can be put on (mostly by Law Enforcement... CRASE)
The reality (sad?) is that it is a risk that we all face, and CAP meetings and activities are no different. It doesnt matter your political view on the why ([darn] millennial's) or the how (AR-15's are evil); keep those parts out of the discussion on focus on what to do when/if it happens. My personal opinion is that every activity should have a FOUO type of evacuation and re-unification plan in the event of an incident, and that every participant should know the R.H.F. type of plan just as much as they know the fire alarm plan and the tornado plan or earthquake plan.
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Quote from: sarmed1 on March 22, 2018, 04:22:31 PM
We might also remember that violent events at schools are really in the minority... while school related events have great shock value that attracts attention and enhances readership, 2/3 or more of active shooter events occur in other settings. Any 'soft' target for violence... i.e. unprotected by limited access and/or guards ... could benefit from some prior "what if" thinking and planning. We should also remember that bombs remain a weapon of choice for some evil doers. And that swords, knives, and other weapons are used to attack individuals or groups of people.
^ Which is why you don't increase or change specific plans or expectations in reaction to any one event or incident.
Governments have limited resources, but more importantly limited reach and power, while at the same time
the general public has a literally infinite amount of time and resources to find weaknesses and new exciting ways
to do bad things.
Anything reasonable, which doesn't infringe on rights or come with an expectation of behavioral change
by the general public, should be done immediately, but when you start using specific incidents to justify
government expenditure, legislation, or having to tell people "no", then you have to approach it in rational,
fact-based ways that remove emotion and feelings from the discussions.
Otherwise you risk wasting a lot of time to no result, while the "real problem", whatever that actually is,
continues to exist.
If you die in a plane crash, you proved to be statistically 100% vulnerable to airline safety, however that doesn't
change that air travel as a whole is at historical lows, any more then the first autonomous vehicle fatality
means that autonomous cars are inherently unsafe, either.
Parkand saw someone who was essentially a "peer" use the school's safety systems against the very
people they were meant to protect. You can't shelter in place at the same time a fire alarm is going off,
right? Or do you? That's probably a more important topic to figure out then some of the other, louder
things in the news.
What about emergency exits? Should every classroom in the US be required to have an exterior door exit?
As it stands today, everyone is basically locked in with the bad actors.
Again, probably more important in just about every incident then metal detectors and
security glass, at least once bad things have started.
"Advocates" do not generally like math when math doesn't agree with their advocacy, but that doesn't change the
math.
It's impossible to be prepared for "everything" (ORM actually teaches that as a core principle), you can only be
informed, live with your head on a swivel, and not ignore the warning signs which inevitably have been
pre-cursors of nearly all of these incidents.
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4. Right.
1/20 - 1 killed on campus of Wake Forest.
1/22 - 1 injured on campus of Italy High School.
1/22 - 1 injured. Shots were fired from a truck in the parking lot of NET Charter High School, targeting a crowd of students during lunch time. One student was slightly injured, apparently from injuries unrelated to gunfire. One person was arrested in connection with the shooting.
1/23 - 2 killed, 18 injured at Marshall County High School when 15 year old opened fire during school hours.
2/1 - 5 injured when 12 year old girl negligently discharged a firearm.
2/5 - 1 injured when a student at Oxon Hill High School was shot in the parking lot.
2/14 - Parkland.
3/2 - CMU shooting (questionable according to your definition.)
3/7 - 1 killed, 2 injured at Huffman HS in Birmingham, AL when a gun was discharged in the school building during school hours.
3/14 - 2 killed, 1 injured at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
3/20 - 1 killed, 2 injured at Great Mills HS in Maryland.
Which of these 11 are the 7 you don't consider "school shootings," EMT-83?
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NC 12-year-old to school board: 'I don't understand how you can be a pedophile and keep your job'
by: Alex Guarino, WECT
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – Parents packed the New Hanover County School Board meeting Tuesday, demanding for superintendent Tim Markley to be removed.
Many of those parents and even a 12-year-old girl spoke out about the school sex scandal.
This all comes after investigators arrested Roland Grise band teacher, Peter Frank.
Frank is charged with a dozen felony sex crimes against female students.
It's the third arrest of a school system employee on these types of charges within the past two years.
This was the second time this week the board met and did not mention the sex scandal. The meeting left parents more frustrated than ever after the board failed to discuss Peter Frank or any administration issues.
Dozens took to the podium during the public comment period.
"I am here today as a constituent, as a voter, and as a concerned parent to call for the resignation, the immediate resignation of Superintendent Tim Markley, Chairwoman Lisa Estep, and the following board members, David Wortman, Jeanette Nichols, Bill Rivenbark, Nelson Beaulieu, and Stephanie Adams, leaving Judy Justice the only person to sit on this board, therefore, making her Madam Chairwoman," said one parent.
Peter Frank (New Hanover County Sheriff's Office)
"We're done with excuses and we're done with blindly sending our children to schools you govern where they are clearly not safe," said a social worker.
"It looks like things are being covered up," said one mother.
Almost every person who spoke called for the termination of Markley or board members.
"I call for the immediate termination of Tim Markley and I call for an investigation into all board members as well as all admin in the district," one speaker said.
Warrants: NC middle school band teacher committed sex crimes with student this school year
NC middle school band teacher charged with 12 felony sex crimes involving children
"We call for the immediate termination of our superintendent for his role in over two decades of corruption and covering up child sexual abuse. We call for a complete change in leadership from top to bottom," said another.
Hazel Eyles, a 12-year-old Murray Middle School student, stood in front of the board and hundreds of community members to read a statement she wrote herself.
"I asked my mom if I could speak tonight because, although I haven't been directly impacted by this issue, I don't understand how you can be a pedophile and keep your job," she said. "If I do something bad at school I could be suspended or expelled, but if a teacher does something to a child, they keep their job. People should be held accountable if they do something wrong, and the teachers that have hurt these kids were not held accountable."
Roland Grise Gifted Education Specialist Kendra Harrison also was at the meeting Tuesday. She said she feels like this is a top-down issue.
"One of the things that we really pride ourselves on as teachers are the relationships we build with our students and their families and for this board to allow that to be taken away in a second, it's absolutely devastating," Harrison said.
She talked about the devastation it has caused the school and the students.
"I have never been embarrassed to say that I work at Roland Grise. I've spent the majority of my career in that school, this is my ninth year there and I was embarrassed to wear my badge," Harrison said. "You would question if you could even put this on your resume for heaven's sake. The educators that I work with every day are dedicated, they're smart, they're caring, we're obviously not in this for the money. We love what we do, and it's a shame that someone would take what we've spent our life's work on and turn it into the spectacle that it's become."
Despite repeated calls for Markley to be removed, he's still on the job.
Another high ranking school administrator, though, is not. Dr. John Welmers, the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources resigned.
No reason was given.
In fact, it did not come up during the meeting. Welmers' resignation was announced in a press release sent during the meeting.
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Spotlight on Sahih al-Bukhari
Rocking the foundations of Islam
A Moroccan court has recently banned a book named "Sahih Al-Bukhari...The end of a legend" by Rachid Aylal, which openly criticises the famous hadith collection. Some Moroccans are outraged by the censorship, others by the content. By Safaa Shibli
The verdict, which was returned by a court in Marrakesh, mentions that the governor of the city has deemed some of the book's pages a threat to the "spiritual security" of the citizens, saying the contents contradict common religious norms.
The ruling is the latest in a series of bans witnessed by the Moroccan arts and culture scene recently. A few months ago, Kama Sutra, a piece by artist Khadija Tanana, was removed from the Tetouan Centre of Modern Art. Kama Sutra includes illustrated sex positions inspired by the renowned Arab heritage book "The Perfumed Garden" by Tunisian Muḥammad Al-Nafzawi. The removal of Tanana's piece was widely seen as staggering by Moroccan intellectuals.
Following the release of his book about Al-Bukhari, Rachid Aylal became the target of vicious threats. Some of these threats were made in public while other critics ridiculed the contents of the book. Aylal revealed that his book-signing event in Marrakesh had also been barred upon the order of the city's governor.
Mostafa bin Hamza, head of the Baath Islamic Institute for Sharia Studies, has undermined the book and labelled its writer "ignorant". He has also offered a financial reward to anyone producing a work of research that acclaims Al-Bukhari, unlike Aylal's book which strips the prominent Sheikh of his sacred aura.
Defamation and death threats
"Even before the book was published, I began receiving dozens of death threats on a daily basis, phone messages from anonymous numbers and fake Facebook accounts on Facebook," admits Aylal. "I don't know why these people think that Islam is represented by a single person."
Rachid Ayal: "Some people are trying to drag Morocco down into a swamp, suppressing a whole range of freedoms. But it wonʹt work. Morocco chose its path a long time ago and there is no way back... especially with the 2011 Constitution, which was a huge victory for Moroccans"
After the book was banned, Aylal had no option but to depend on a few trusted associates to handle delivery of the book to buyers in utter secrecy. They would conceal copies of the book to avoid confiscation, a process that Aylal has described as a "struggle".
"The book will be delivered to buyers, whenever and wherever they want, despite the ban and against all the odds," says Aylal, who has since managed to increase the number of secret distributors.
Commenting on the verdict, Aylal said: "If the book of Sahih Al-Bukhari is considered to be Islam, then the Prophet – peace be upon him – did not fully deliver the message. According to this logic, for 200 years after his death Muslims remained without the full version of Islam and it was Al-Bukhari who made it complete."
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Franceʹs new Mediterranean initiative
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Comments for this article: Rocking the foundations of Islam
The title of the article
The title is ridiculous. Yes, it is reductionist to say that one man, the narrator Bukhari, means Islam. It is also reductionist to imply, through the title of the article, that a book refuting al-Bukhari rocks the foundations of "Islam". It seems that the writer has a narrow definition of what "Islam". Islam as history, social norms, psychological sets, belief, way of life, unity and contradiction, multitudes (from Dakar to Bali). I think before making such a statement, the writer should have listed the "foundations of Islam".
Anonymous16.06.2018 | 21:20 Uhr
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CoE 'strongly' urges Turkish authorities to release Demirtaş
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By Turkish Minute
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on Thursday adopted an interim resolution "strongly urging" Turkish authorities to assure the immediate release of imprisoned Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş.
Demirtaş was co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) when he was arrested in November 2016. He has been behind bars since then despite a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling in November 2018 that Demirtaş's pre-trial detention was political and ordering his release. Turkish courts refused to implement the ruling, and a regional appeals court in Turkey subsequently upheld a prison sentence handed down to Demirtaş for disseminating terrorist propaganda.
The Committee of Ministers, referring to ECtHR judgments from 2018 and 2020 which had found that the detention of Demirtaş pursued the "ulterior purpose of stifling pluralism and limiting freedom of political debate" and ordered his immediate release, expressed "profound concern that the applicant has been continuously deprived of his liberty since November 2016."
The resolution underlined that Turkey is obliged to take measures to restore Demirtaş, as far as possible, "to the position he would have enjoyed had these violations not occurred," saying that such measures should be "compatible with the conclusions and spirit of the Court's judgment."
The ministers also "expressed the strong hope that the [Turkish] Constitutional Court concludes its examination of the applicant's complaints in the shortest possible timeframe and in a manner compatible with the spirit and conclusions of the [European] Court's judgment."
Demirtaş was an outspoken critic of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, before he was jailed. He ran in the presidential elections of 2014 and 2018 as a rival to Erdoğan. Demirtaş conducted his election campaign from jail for the 2018 election.
Today, the Council of Europe said it would launch disciplinary action against Turkey for refusing to free prominent activist and businessman Osman Kavala.
The Committee of Ministers decided on the move over Turkey's repeated refusal to comply with a 2019 ruling by the ECtHR to release Kavala from prison, it said in a statement. The committee is responsible for overseeing the implementation of verdicts from the court.
The CoE will start the so-called infringement proceedings, used only once before in the organization's history against Azerbaijan in 2017 over its refusal to release a dissident.
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THE GLOBAL PICTURE
Stressed and unhappy children become stressed and unhappy adults. Across the world there is general expert consensus that it is somewhere between economically worthwhile and globally imperative to invest more heavily, as a proportion of both local and national spend, in the very earliest months and years of life.
The OECD compares measures of child well-being in six dimensions: material well-being, housing and environment, education, health and safety, risk behaviours and quality of school life. According to it "no OECD country performs well on all fronts". (OECD, 2009).
Worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders. Half of all mental illnesses begin by the age of 14 and three-quarters by mid-20s. Neuropsychiatric conditions are the leading cause of disability in young people in all regions, (WHO, 2018)
An estimated 43 percent—249 million—of children under five in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at an elevated risk of poor development due to extreme poverty and stunting, (The Lancet Series, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, 2016)
Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. Most of the world's population now live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2016. Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. (WHO, 2018)
Finland was the top ranking country in the 2018 World Happiness Report, with the top ten positions held by the same countries as in the last two years, although with some swapping of places. Four different countries have held top spot in the four most recent reports- Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and now Finland. All the top countries tend to have high values for all six of the key variables that have been found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity.
By the time the average child is eighteen years old, they will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence and 16,000 murders
(Facts and Figures About Our TV Habit. TV Turnoff Network).


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3 takeaways from IU's 71-68 victory over Maryland
Zach Osterman
Indiana at Illinois, 9 p.m. Wednesday, BTN
BLOOMINGTON – Buoyed by Juwan Morgan's quick return from injury, Indiana won a nail biter Monday, beating Maryland 71-68.
Two late Josh Newkirk free throws helped seal the win, which moves IU to 12-8 overall, and 5-3 in Big Ten play. Here are Three Reasons Why coach Archie Miller's team pulled out a win:
► BOX SCORE: IU 71, Maryland 68
Morgan made it back
IU's leading scorer and rebounder rolled his ankle in the first half of IU's loss at Michigan State on Friday. No topic generated more concern among Indiana fans over the weekend than whether Morgan would be healthy by Monday.
There was, it turned out, not much to worry about.
Morgan stretched, warmed up and started as though nothing had happened in East Lansing. He played 36 minutes, scoring 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting and defending well in the post. He took over the game's final minutes at both ends, hitting key free throws, drawing fouls and cleaning up the boards.
Miller said pregame Morgan hadn't practiced in the two days between Michigan State and Maryland, but he added Morgan's second-half absence Friday was as precautionary as it was forced.
With another tight turnaround, and a trip to Illinois on Wednesday, the Hoosiers will hope Morgan came through the Maryland game unscathed.
Robert Johnson rebounded
Not from a poor performance. If anything, Johnson was IU's lone bright spot in the Michigan State loss.
But Johnson's eight rebounds Monday night were eye-catching, considering the improvement he's shown on the glass recently. Johnson had tallied 25 rebounds in the Hoosiers' previous four games as well.
It's noteworthy for two reasons.
First, with Morgan still likely somewhat limited by the ankle, Maryland commanded the glass Monday. The Terrapins finished plus-11 in rebound margin, making Johnson's boards all the more important.
Second, and more broadly, Miller has challenged his guards to be more of a force on the boards since De'Ron Davis was lost for the season. This five-game stretch comes directly on the heels of Davis' injury.
Johnson is scoring as well as he has all season. He's also giving Indiana rebounding help it badly needs.
The turnover battle
IU committed 12 and scored 20 points off giveaways. Maryland committed 18 and only scored 14 of the same points.
It's a simple stat, but a relevant one. Indiana has spent much of this season eradicating the turnover problems of the last one. Monday night proved the kind of performance wherein that pays off.
Follow IndyStar reporter Zach Osterman on Twitter: @ZachOsterman.


My 22 years in higher education follow 22 years in the U.S. Navy, so navigating by the stars was a skill I had to practice years ago. So your metaphor resonated with me.
Like those days at sea years ago, we need a navigable path … but we also need to steam around the obstacles and stay on course towards the end goal. So, for me, there is equal emphasis on the long term goal as well.


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Nokia Expands its 1830 Optical Portfolio
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, Nokia
Nokia today announced an expansion of its flagship 1830 optical product family to help operators to scale their networks across premises access, metro aggregation and long haul data center interconnect (DCI).
Highlights of Nokia's new optical innovations include:
The Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Demarcation (PSD) is a carrier-class network demarcation device supporting Ethernet and wavelength services. It cost effectively extends metro optical networks to the customer premise, enabling resilient, high-capacity access to cloud services while providing end-to-end service assurance.
The Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Interconnect (PSI) integrates the super coherent technology of the Photonic Service Engine 2 (PSE-2s) into a data center physical and operational form-factor, delivering the highest proven optical performance and flexibility available in a purpose-built DCI platform. Its unique modulation formats maximize spectral efficiency and distance for metro, long haul, and subsea networks.
New 100G line cards for the 1830 Photonic Service Switch address the high-capacity, low latency aggregation required to connect cloud service consumers to metro colors and edge data centers. Powered by the PSE-2 Compact (PSE-2c) metro-optimized 100G digital signal processor, the new 100G OTN and packet cards efficiently transport packet and OTN services in a compact, cost-effective form factor.
All new capabilities will be available in the first half of 2017.
http://www.nokia.com
ADVA Intros Direct Detect Open Optical Layer for DCI
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, ADVA, OLS
ADVA Optical Networking introduced its direct detect open optical layer for Internet Content Providers and Cloud Network Providers who want to avoid the expense of traditional coherent solutions.
The new solution, which is a key expansion of the ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect platform, is available in two distinct formats. It can either be bought as an Open Line System (OLS) in a disaggregated manner or as a complete solution that includes the terminal and the line system.
ADVA Optical Networking said one compelling feature of its OLS is its SmartAmp technology that enables direct detect transmissions to be transported up to 100km. By disaggregating the terminal functions from the line system, customers are able to evolve and optimize each network layer separately. Not only does this lead to significant savings in regards to footprint and power, but it also means that wavelengths can be used with any terminal equipment, such as switch routers or classic transponders.
"Our FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ helped change the DCI market. It transformed people's expectations. Since its launch, we've continually innovated and driven forward our vision for the OLS," said Christoph Glingener, CTO, COO, ADVA Optical Networking.
http://www.advaoptical.com/
EchoStar XXIII Blasts into Orbit in SpaceX's
Thursday, March 16, 2017 EchoStar, Satellite
The EchoStar XXIII successfully launched into geostationary transfer orbit from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
EchoStar XXIII is a highly flexible Ku-band satellite based on Space Systems Loral's 1300 platform with four main reflectors and multiple sub-reflectors supporting multiple mission profiles. Initial commercial deployment of EchoStar XXIII will be at 45° West, and the Satellite End of Life (EOL) Power is 20 kilowatts (kW).
"This is the third satellite built for EchoStar by SSL to be placed on orbit since last June," said John Celli, president of SSL. I would like to thank EchoStar, SpaceX and our own engineers and technicians who all worked as a team to make this launch a success."
http://www.echostar.com
NeoPhotonics launches 1310nm Lasers for 100G QSFP28
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, Components, Neophotonics
NeoPhotonics has announced general availability of high power 1310 nm lasers and laser arrays qualified for applications in low-cost, non-hermetic packages for 100 Gbit/s silicon photonics-based QSFP28 modules targeting the data centre market.
NeoPhotonics stated that the new lasers and laser arrays are designed to address the need for custom high-power and non-hermetic lasers that provide the light source for silicon photonics-based transceivers providing 100 Gbit/s connectivity within the data centre. The company added that deployment of these transceivers delivered in standard MSA formats such as CWDM4, CLR4 and PSM4, typically in a QSFP28 form factor, is currently underway.
To support the emerging silicon photonics ecosystem, NeoPhotonics has developed and qualified according to the Telcordia GR-468-CORE Issue 2 standard, a range of high power, uncooled lasers and laser arrays for a number of major silicon photonics transceiver manufacturers.
NeoPhotonics' new lasers are designed to provide an efficient, high power light source that leverages a specific implementation of silicon-based high speed analogue and digital electronic devices and photonic components. The high power 1310 nm CW DFB lasers are qualified compliant with Telcordia GR-468-CORE Issue 2, which encompasses criteria including damp heat testing for powered non-hermetic devices. The products are production ready.
NeoPhotonics noted that its lasers are designed with a focus on three key customer requirements: the need for high optical power output, ranging from 40 to 7 0mW, for both NRZ and PAM4 modulation; proven reliability in non-hermetic packages to meet the volume and low cost requirements associated with mega-data centre applications; and custom features to allow the use of automated laser attach and alignment methods to help reduce assembly costs.
Regarding the products, Tim Jenks, chairman and CEO of NeoPhotonics, said, "These uncooled, high power non-hermetic CW DFB lasers and laser arrays are a key component for… emerging 100, 200 or 400 Gbit/s silicon photonics-based transceivers for data centre switching applications… the new lasers illustrate the wide ranging applications for NeoPhotonics' advanced hybrid photonic integration technology, efficiently combining high power InP laser technology with partners' silicon photonics modulator technology".
https://www.neophotonics.com/press-releases/?newsId=2254102
London Internet Exchange Picks Ciena for DCI
Thursday, March 16, 2017 Ciena, Data Centers, DCI, Linx, UK
London Internet Exchange (LINX) has deployed Ciena's Waveserver stackable data center interconnect (DCI) platform for connecting its data centers throughout London.
LINX has 11 points of presences (PoPs) across London, with more than 740 members connecting more than 70 different countries. LINX offers its members cost-effective and high-capacity links between its data centers to efficiently exchange traffic between a large number of diverse international peering partners.
Ciena said its Waveserver, LINX can provide multiple terabits of connectivity between its Harbour Exchange, Equinix LD5 and Interxion locations, enabled by the platform's massive capacity and density—400 Gb/s of line capacity plus any mix of 10G, 40G or 100G of client Ethernet services up to 400 Gb/s, in a compact, one rack unit form factor.
http://www.ciena.com
German service provider Exaring deploys ADVA FSP 3000 for 100G
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, ADVA, Exaring, Germany
ADVA Optical Networking announced that German digital service provider Exaring has deployed its technology in what is believed to be Germany's first fully integrated platform for the delivery of IP entertainment services.
Based on the ADVA FSP 3000 solution, Exaring's new national backbone network is designed to transmit high-quality, on-demand TV and gaming services to approximately 23 million households across the country. The 100 Gbit/s core transport infrastructure deployed for Exaring, which also features the FSP Network Manager to provide high service availability, has a total of over 12,000 km of fibre. ADVA noted that its long-term partner dacoso designed and installed the network.
Exaring's new 80-channel optical transport system provides high capacity and low latency performance and will be used solely for the transmission of IP entertainment applications, including new technologies such as UHD 8K TV.
ADVA noted that the dedicated, high-capacity DWDM network for on-demand streaming and multi-player gaming will help Exaring to bypass Internet bottlenecks and deliver delay-free services to its customers. The flexible architecture is additionally designed to enable Exaring to quickly integrate and roll-out new services.
In November 2016, ADVA announced today that New England-based fibre communications provider 186 Communications has deployed its FSP 3000 in the northeast U.S. to expand its fibre backbone and address growing demand from broadband providers and enterprise customers.
Last December, ADVA announced that Columbia College Chicago had deployed the FSP 3000 platform for a 100 Gbit/s optical transport network designed to eliminate reliance on managed services and to enable the college to offer e-learning classes. The DWDM network connected the college's ten campus sites and featured low-latency, Layer 1 traffic protection.
http://www.advaoptical.com
Luxtera Partners with TSMC for Next Gen Silicon Photonics
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, Luxtera, OND, Silicon Photonics
Luxtera, a global provider of silicon photonics solutions, announced that it has partnered with TSMC for the manufacture of next generation silicon photonics solutions designed for future cloud, mobile infrastructure, enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) platforms.
Under the agreement, Luxtera and TSMC are developing a new silicon photonics technology platform designed to provide more than double the optical link performance and four times the raw data throughput of competing silicon photonics solution on the market. The new silicon photonics platform will also enable full SoC integration of optical interconnect with the CMOS logic for applications such as network switch, storage or compute.
Luxtera stated that combined with TSMC silicon manufacturing capabilities and scale, its silicon photonic designs can enable optical interconnects that offer significantly higher performance at lower cost and power consumption to address the requirements of future data centres and 5G mobile networks.
Luxtera's latest platform will be used in a suite of next generation silicon photonics solutions to deliver 100 Gbit/s per lane optical interconnects, starting with 100GBase-DR and 400GBase-DR4 transceivers in 2018, and subsequently expanding to include other standards-based solutions for 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 Gbit/s and 1 Tbit/s optical interconnects.
In addition, complementing the new silicon photonics technologies, Luxtera will leverage TSMC's 7 nm CMOS process to deliver high performance with low power across its product portfolio.
http://www.luxtera.com
In September 2016, Luxtera announced it had shipped more than one million silicon photonics PSM4 transceiver products designed for applications in cloud computing data centres. The Luxtera 100 Gbit/s PSM4 optical transceivers include four independent transmitter and receiver channels integrating phase modulators, photodetectors, waveguides, grating couplers, electrical re-timers and control circuitry, powered by a single integrated laser.
Mellanox: 100G Transceiver Shipments Ramp Up Quickly
Thursday, March 16, 2017 100G, Mellanox, OFC17
Mellanox Technologies reported that it has shipped more than 200,000 VCSEL and silicon photonics transceiver modules to serve the growing demand of hyperscale Web 2.0, cloud, and enterprise 100Gb/s networks. The modules are delivered in the QSFP28 form factor as Active Optical Cables (AOCs) or as standalone pluggable transceivers.
"The 100Gb/s optical transceivers market has ramped very quickly and we have ramped our optical manufacturing capabilities with it, and are shipping multiple product families in high volume," said Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development and general manager of the interconnect business at Mellanox. "Multi-mode optics are the most cost effective solution on the market today to connect 25G and 100G Ethernet servers and switches over shorter data center reaches. For longer reaches, customers selected our silicon photonics-based PSM4 transceivers as the most cost effective, highest configurable, single-mode transceiver available."
Recently, Mellanox announced that is has shipped over 100,000 Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables for 100Gb/s networks. DAC are used to link servers and storage to Top-of-Rack switches; typically less than 3 meters in length. Transceivers and AOCs offer lengths up to 2km.
http://www.mellanox.com
OE Solutions Unveils 10G CWDM SFP+, 10/25G Transceivers
Thursday, March 16, 2017 #OFC17, OND, Optical
South Korea-based OE Solutions, a supplier of optical transceivers for communications applications, has announced the release of extended reach 10 Gbit/s CWDM SFP+ transceivers and high-density transceivers, including 2 x 10 Gbit/s compact SFP+, 4 x 10 Gbit/s QSFP+ and 25 Gbit/s SFP28, for wireless fronthaul applications.
CWDM transceivers
OE Solutions' new CWDM SFP+ transceivers which offer support for 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, as well as CPRI-2 to CPRI-8 for wireless network applications, utilise cooled DFB laser diodes combined with wide dynamic range APD detectors and proprietary circuitry to enable reach of up to 20 km for wavelengths up to 1611 nm.
The industrial temperature grade, extended reach transceivers are available for CWDM wavelengths from 1471 up to 1611 nm and complement the company's standard line of DFB-based 10 Gbit/s CWDM transceivers for wavelengths from 1271 to 1451 nm to provide a total of 18 channels.
The company noted that extended reach transceivers with directly modulated DFB lasers offer a cost effective alternative to EMLs for access network applications such as for wireless fronthaul and Ethernet service delivery.
The OE Solutions extended reach 10 Gbit/s CWDM SFP+ transceivers are currently sampling, with volume production scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2017.
New high-density transceivers
The industrial temperature grade high density transceivers are designed to enable high port densities in radio access network equipment to support the roll-out of next generation wireless infrastructures.
OE Solutions noted that in 2017 it is estimated that the number of 10 Gbit/s CPRI ports deployed will increase rapidly and exceed the total of all lower rate ports installed. In addition, the use of 25 Gbit/s transceivers is expected to significantly raise wireless fronthaul capacity over the next 12-18 months. Both of these developments are driving demand for physically denser solutions, which can be cost effectively addressed by increasing the number of wavelengths per transceiver cage and the bit rate per wavelength.
The new high-density transceivers being introduced by OE Solutions are as follows:
1. A 2 x 10 Gbit/s multi-rate (1270 and 1330 nm) bidirectional compact-SFP+ solution for distances up to 20 km.
2. A 4 x 10 Gbit/s multi-rate 850 nm QSFP+ device offering reach of up to 300 metres.
3. A 25 Gbit/s 1310 nm SFP28 solution with multiple rate and protocol options for distances up to 10 km.
The new high-density transceivers are currently sampling, with volume production due to commence in the second quarter of the year.
http://www.oesolutions.com
Arvizio Targets Augmented Reality Software
Thursday, March 16, 2017 Arvizio, Canada, Start-ups
Arvizio of Ottawa, Canada, a developer of software solutions enabling augmented and mixed reality experiences, has announces the launch of the company and the completion of an initial funding round and opened its global headquarters in Ottawa.
Arvizio offers what is believed to be the first enterprise-class mixed reality server platform designed to enable real time collaboration and 3D visualisation across locations utilising platforms such as Microsoft HoloLens and other mixed reality devices.
Arvizio was co-founded in Ottawa in 2016 by Jonathan Reeves, current CEO, Alex Berlin, the company's president and COO, and Borys Vorobyov, current CTO. Mr. Reeves previously served at CloudLink Technologies (acquired by EMC), founded Mangrove Systems (acquired by Carrier Access), Sirocco Systems (acquired by Sycamore Networks) and Sahara Networks (acquired by Cascade communications).
Previously, Mr. Berlin was a founder and served as CEO of CloudLink Technologies, was co-founder and CEO of AFORE Solutions (acquired by Kuatro/Jabil) and chairman of Ambercore Software. Mr. Vorobyov previously founded SightPower, a company focused on large scale spatial data analysis and 3D visualisation, and co-founded Ambercore Software.
Arvizio has a team of experienced technology professionals with expertise in the areas of 3D spatial data processing, secure network communications, IoT and artificial intelligence (AI) and is applying this expertise to create advanced mixed reality solutions. By combining collaboration and 3D visualisation techniques, the company offers solutions that target a range of industry verticals, including healthcare, industrial, enterprise and education.
https://www.arvizio.io/