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Samsung Dives Deeper Into Big Data And The Cloud With Joyent Acquisition: Why This Matters
in Computers — by admin —	June 17, 2016
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Samsung Electronics unveiled that it will purchase Joyent, a U.S.-based public and private cloud provider.
This should let Samsung tap into the growing cloud market, opening up doors for Internet of Things, software services, mobile support and even AI technologies.
The deal is mutually advantageous.
So far, the OEM was lacking in cloud software, which forced it to rely on third-parties. With Joyent aboard, Samsung is ready to self-supply its huge demand for cloud services. Joyent, which will remain as an independent company, will make use of Samsung's global reach to get additional clients easier.
By adding Samsung as a main customer, Joyent makes another step toward achieving the scale it requires to go toe to toe with Google and Amazon in the "rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market."
So far, Samsung has been using Amazon Web Services to cater to its mobile apps and services.
Samsung has evaluated a slew of companies from both the public and private cloud infrastructure before deciding on Joyent, said its Chief Technology Officer for mobile business, Injong Rhee. As the cloud provider features an experienced management team, and seeing how some of the biggest Fortune 500 clients are partners of Joyent, Samsung took a fully committed decision.
The decision comes after Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDS tried several times to craft a proprietary cloud platform. Samsung did put efforts into building the storage service for Galaxy devices, but pulled the plug on the project after the company could not see eye to eye with a third-party storage provider.
Samsung seems to have learned from experience and understands that it is better to simply buy companies that have more know-how on a specific field. In 2015, the OEM purchased LoopPay, which became Samsung Pay, one of the company's big hits from recent years.
Another notable acquisition Samsung made was SmartThings, a startup that focuses on smart home tech. The venture, which still works with a big degree of autonomy inside Samsung's global unit, is now the foundation for the OEM's connected home offering. Samsung purchased SmartThings in August 2014.
"We've traditionally been more focused on hardware, but you're going to see more focus on software and services," Injong Rhee told the Wall Street Journal.
With this purchase, Samsung virtually becomes an anchor tenant for Joyent's solutions, dubbed Triton and Manta. As a reminder, Manta is its object storage technology, while Triton is a container-as-a-service platform.
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text:
package Sub::Identify;

use strict;
use Exporter;

BEGIN {
    our $VERSION = '0.10';
    our @ISA = ('Exporter');
    our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
        all => [
            our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
                sub_name
                stash_name
                sub_fullname
                get_code_info
                get_code_location
                is_sub_constant
            )
        ]
    );

    our $IsPurePerl = 1;
    unless ($ENV{PERL_SUB_IDENTIFY_PP}) {
        if (
            eval {
                require XSLoader;
                XSLoader::load(__PACKAGE__, $VERSION);
                1;
            }
        ) {
            $IsPurePerl = 0;
        }
        else {
            die $@ if $@ && $@ !~ /object version|loadable object/;
        }
    }

    if ($IsPurePerl) {
        require B;
        *get_code_info = sub ($) {
            my ($coderef) = @_;
            ref $coderef or return;
            my $cv = B::svref_2object($coderef);
            $cv->isa('B::CV') or return;
            # bail out if GV is undefined
            $cv->GV->isa('B::SPECIAL') and return;

            return ($cv->GV->STASH->NAME, $cv->GV->NAME);
        };
        *get_code_location = sub ($) {
            my ($coderef) = @_;
            ref $coderef or return;
            my $cv = B::svref_2object($coderef);
            $cv->isa('B::CV') && $cv->START->isa('B::COP')
                or return;

            return ($cv->START->file, $cv->START->line);
        };
    }
    if ($IsPurePerl || $] < 5.016) {
        require B;
        *is_sub_constant = sub ($) {
            my ($coderef) = @_;
            ref $coderef or return 0;
            my $cv = B::svref_2object($coderef);
            $cv->isa('B::CV') or return 0;
            my $p = prototype $coderef;
            defined $p && $p eq "" or return 0;
            return ($cv->CvFLAGS & B::CVf_CONST()) == B::CVf_CONST();
        };
    }
}

sub stash_name   ($) { (get_code_info($_[0]))[0] }
sub sub_name     ($) { (get_code_info($_[0]))[1] }
sub sub_fullname ($) { join '::', get_code_info($_[0]) }

1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

Sub::Identify - Retrieve names of code references

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use Sub::Identify ':all';
    my $subname = sub_name( $some_coderef );
    my $packagename = stash_name( $some_coderef );
    # or, to get all at once...
    my $fully_qualified_name = sub_fullname( $some_coderef );
    defined $subname
        and say "this coderef points to sub $subname in package $packagename";
    my ($file, $line) = get_code_location( $some_coderef );
    $file
        and say "this coderef is defined at line $line in file $file";
    is_sub_constant( $some_coderef )
        and say "this coderef points to a constant subroutine";

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<Sub::Identify> allows you to retrieve the real name of code references.

It provides six functions, all of them taking a code reference.

C<sub_name> returns the name of the code reference passed as an
argument (or C<__ANON__> if it's an anonymous code reference),
C<stash_name> returns its package, and C<sub_fullname> returns the
concatenation of the two.

C<get_code_info> returns a list of two elements, the package and the
subroutine name (in case of you want both and are worried by the speed.)

In case of subroutine aliasing, those functions always return the
original name.

C<get_code_location> returns a two-element list containing the file
name and the line number where the subroutine has been defined.

C<is_sub_constant> returns a boolean value indicating whether the
subroutine is a constant or not.

=head2 Pure-Perl version

By default C<Sub::Identify> tries to load an XS implementation of the
C<get_code_info>, C<get_code_location> and (on perl versions 5.16.0 and later)
C<is_sub_constant> functions, for speed; if that fails, or if the environment
variable C<PERL_SUB_IDENTIFY_PP> is defined to a true value, it will fall
back to a pure perl implementation, that uses perl's introspection mechanism,
provided by the C<B> module.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Sub::Util>, part of the module distribution L<Scalar::List::Utils>
since version 1.40. Since this will be a core module starting with perl
5.22.0, it is encouraged to migrate to Sub::Util when possible.

L<Sub::Name>

=head1 SOURCE

A git repository for the sources is at L<https://github.com/rgs/Sub-Identify>.

=head1 LICENSE

(c) Rafael Garcia-Suarez (rgs at consttype dot org) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.

=cut

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The problem with our health care "discussion!"
Medicare's real beneficiaries: Last week, a tribal discussion broke out, along predictably narrow lines.
Had Obama achieved 7 million insurance enrollments? Or was it really much less?
One tribal group kept saying, "Much less." Within the other tribal group, a multimillionaire and his trusted companions signed up for the role of the clowns:
MATTHEWS (4/3/14): For months, conservative critics have predicted the total failure of the president's health care law. So when the president announced this week the law had enrolled over seven million people into the health care exchanges, did they react with some humility or at least some acceptance? Not quite.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: You have said "cooking the books," the administration. Do you stand by that?
BARRASSO: I do. We still don't know how many people who have gone to the Web site to sign up actually paid.
JINDAL: We don't even know what those numbers mean. We don't know how many of those folks actually paid the premiums.
CRUZ: Well, look, the numbers are a bit of funny math, because they're giving you numbers of who signed up. Those numbers don't reflect, number one, who actually bought insurance and paid their first month's premium.
MATTHEWS: What can you say about these guys, besides they are health care enrollment truthers right now?
Joan Walsh is editor at large at Salon and an MSNBC political analyst, and Michelle Bernard is the president of the Bernard Center for Women.
"Truthers?" In fact, we don't know what the actual number is at this time, or how many of such people will be newly insured.
Nor does it gigantically matter in the longer run. But fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly—and tribal acolytes are going to argue the narrowest current point.
A larger point about our health care "system" was on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. Abelson and Cohen reported some sobering Medicare facts.
Hard-copy headlines included:
ABELSON AND COHEN (4/9/14): Medicare Opens Its Books On Doctors and Payments
One Physician Got $21 Million in 20012—Dozens More Were Paid Millions
A tiny fraction of the 880,000 doctors and other health care providers who take Medicare accounted for nearly a quarter of the roughly $77 billion paid out to them under the federal program, receiving millions of dollars each in some cases in a single year, according to the most detailed data ever released in Medicare's nearly 50-year history.
In 2012, 100 doctors received a total of $610 million, ranging from a Florida ophthalmologist who was paid $21 million by Medicare to dozens of doctors, eye and cancer specialists chief among them, who received more than $4 million each that year. While more money by far is spent for routine office visits than any other single expenditure, one of the most heavily reimbursed procedures—costing a total of $1 billion for 143,000 patients—is for a single treatment for an eye disorder common in the elderly.
Here's how this fits into the larger discussion which never occurs within our clown-run press corps:
Last week, Barasso, Jindal and Cruz were saying that the number will be smaller than 7 million. Chris, Joan and Michelle knew how to reply:
Barrasso, Jindal and Cruz are racists, these tribal clowns pleasingly said.
Handed this simple-minded fare, we liberals grow slow and clueless. With that in mind, let's discuss what we liberals often say about "single payer" or "Medicare for all."
Routinely, we suggest that single-payer would be the answer to the inordinate costs involved in our American health care. As yesterday's front-page report suggests, it tain't necessarily so.
You could create a single-payer system which was absurdly costly. Our country may already have such a system—Medicare itself!
Question: Have you ever seen statistics which show how much we spend per person on health care, as compared to other countries, for people over 65?
We've never seen those statistics, although they may well exist. Let's just say you won't likely see them watching the jugglers and the clowns on The One True Liberal Channel.
We'll take a guess—those statistics would show that we spend much more per person, in that age group, than other developed nations. Yesterday's front-page report did little to make us think otherwise.
Watching Matthews throw R-bombs about will do little to make liberals smarter. (On the bright side, it helps him het richer.) It won't teach us how our society actually works—and it won't teach us how to reach out to the wider population to address the obvious looting which drives these gruesome statistics:
Health care spending, per person, 2011:
United States: $8508
Canada: $4522
Germany: $4495
France: $4118
Australia: $3800
United Kingdom: $3405
Japan: $3213
Spain: $3072
Italy: $3012
Compared to France, $4400 per person was disappearing into the maws of our health care "system." That's $4400 per person!
That's money that disappears from wages. For a family of four, multiply by something resembling 4.
(Liberals and conservatives alike are getting looted this way.)
You'll never hear this from Matthews and Walsh. Matthews and Walsh are looting you too.
Matthews and Walsh are playing a game. The name of their game is "Don't Care."
Posted by bob somerby on Thursday, April 10, 2014
Here come the 2011 Health Care per person spending chart again.
Once again we ask what fact has Bob diappeared since he started using that chart?
We'll give you a hint. It has nothing to do with race.
Another hint. It has nothing to do with the missing "s" in comes or disappeared.
Yes, Finland seems to have disappeared. And Bob made a very big deal about how little per capita Finland was spending on health care when he first introduced this chart.
Bingo, We have a winner. The first time it disppeared I wondered if it was just an error. Now that it has disappeared twice, we see a pattern.
Is this just an error he made once that is now repeating itself due to copying and pasting. Or is Bob, like Maddow in referring to Page "17" instead of Page "117," possible trying to deceive us? We don't know.
We can't possibly know since blog commenters form the key constituent group in "We the People Are Dumb" so Bob won't answser us. Unless we comment on Drum's blog.
Somebody refresh my memory, but when Bob was talking about Finland (and Poland), re: public education and test scores, wasn't one of his points that you couldn't really compare a homogenous society like Finland with a diverse society like the U.S.?
Comparing education and comparing health are surely different.
Never said they weren't.
Just interesting that Somerby looks deep for nuance and further explanation when it comes to such things as Finnish tests scores and female wages.
So, what's your point?
My point is this: Somerby looks deep for nuance and further explanation when it comes to such things as Finnish test scores and female wages.
But per capita health care costs? Just throw out the numbers. There is only one explanation -- looting.
Test scores are not dollar amounts. I do think businesses are looting when it comes to paying women less than they are worth, so I am with you on that one. "Looting" refers to the costs being higher than what they should be because someone is benefitting financially from our system. This is not the first time he has posted on this subject and some of his attitude has been explained at greater length before.
Somerby does not explain who is manipulating our news services, who is paying Maddow and Matthews to disinform us. He doesn't talk about the plutocrats who benefit from the income inequalities in our society, who is benefitting from the neglect of the interests of our underclass. He is consistent in that.
No one is preventing you from offering your opinions about who these unnamed looters might be, why it is happening, how it might be stopped. If you think there is no looting going on (a naive view), you are welcome to explain why costs are high and to defend those costs. No one is stopping you from any of that.
For some reason, you'd rather just carp at Somerby. Wonder why that is.
I am not saying there is no looting going on. I am taking issue with Somerby lazily placing the sole blame for the high cost of health care in the U.S. on "looting" which is a very serious charge.
We have an extremely inefficient health care delivery system in the U.S. And a lot of that is profit-driven. Do we really need all the urban hospital beds, when rural areas are under-served?
Does every hospital need every multi-million piece of equipment?
Does the fact that there are so many uninsured have anything to do with driving up health care costs? Would we lower costs with better preventative care, rather than treating those without insurance in emergency rooms -- the Dubya universal health care plan?
Does our culture factor in? How many gunshot wounds does the typical hospital in Finland treat in a given year?
How about our lifestyle? You ever talk to a visitor from another country? They are astounded that we have fast food everywhere, and that Americans seem to be eating 24/7.
Not to mention our consumption of high calorie soft drinks. And beer.
So yeah, I can think of lots of reasons our health care costs might be higher, IN ADDITION TO deliberate fraud and looting.
But of course, you'd rather defend Somerby no matter how disengenous he gets. Wonder why that is.
cacambo April 10, 2014 at 7:35 PM
It's not a blog about healthcare. It's not a blog about education, per se. It's a blog about media coverage of these issues, among other things. The issue here is that the Finnish test scores get covered ad nauseam while healthcare spending per person is rarely mentioned.
Health care costs per person is rarely mentioned?
Oh good grief! It will take you five seconds to google all kinds of stories about this issue from multiple sources.
Dear boy, just because Somerby says it's so, doesn't make it so. Don't be such a rube. Do some checking -- and some thinking -- for yourself before you take anything he says at face value.
The fact is a comment a few posts back looked up the source of the chart, found it was from OCED, the folks who brought us the PISA test the Finns do well on and Bob loves to deplore. And the chart itself was from an article about Finland. The commenter found that ironic. Bob just disappeared the Finns thereafter. But Bob does not read his comments, right?
I looked at the OECD chart for 2011 and there is no reason to include or exclude Finland. It is little different than the many adjacent countries in the chart, all spending considerably less than the US. He may have included Finland in the past for some specific reason related to his series of education or using Finland as a comparison nation, but omitting it from the list has no implication for the picture conveyed by the numbers.
Trying to gin this up into some sort of complaint about Somerby, some mystery over why it is gone, is just another specious troll complaint aimed at disparaging Somerby.
Unless you can explain why it matters that Finland is no longer on the list, stop bothering people with this silliness.
Bob may have very good reasons for once citing Finland then disappearing said nation without a trace from his chart. We don't know. He doesn't tell us.
But he not only once included Finland, he made a very big deal about the low health care costs in Finland. Then when it came to test scores, he told us how unfair it was to compare Finland with the United States.
After that, Finland is wiped off the face of the health care cost charts.
Again, not being able to read Somerby's mind, we don't know why Finland vanished without a word of explanation.
But it is curious. After all, Finland not being at the bottom of the chart, was not easily and mistakenly lopped off. But then again, this all could be a legitimate health care cost study, done in good faith, though somewhat botched.
Health care costs in Finland are considerably lower than in the US, as are many other nations. There is no reason to include Finland in preference to any of the adjacent names in the chart. It is near the middle in costs. You implied that Somerby did something wrong by leaving it out. What was your point? Why does this matter?
You don't seem to have any reason for pointing this out, other than to say something negative about Somerby. That pretty much defines you as a troll.
I have no doubt that the information on per capita health care costs is available--but that's not the issue, is it. The observation is that Finnish test scores qualify as a MSM meme and health care costs do not. That seems like an accurate observation, although it's certainly empirically falsifiable.
I find myself wondering whether the increased health care spending is specific to health or whether it occurs in all areas of American life. Could you compare food costs this way across countries? There is the Big Mac Index that compares the cost of a hamburger around the world, as an indicator of travel expenses. Some countries (such as Mexico) subsidize basic foods so poor people can eat. We subsidize milk. You could compare costs for education and suggest that our university system is looting because we do not subsidize higher education but do subsidize K-12 (some other countries are the reverse, making parents pay for K-12 but providing free college).
My sense is that economists study this kind of thing. Assuming that there is looting when costs are higher here, without also taking into account a bunch of other factors, is probably not a fair comparison. What would be a fair comparison? I don't know but I bet there is something in the literature about it.
Paperback books cost twice as much in Great Britain. They are looting recreational readers. But that's OK because people there will save on their health care.
I wonder if it ever occurred to Somerby, when he aks you multiply
the per person expenditure by four, that he may be as guilty of demagoguery here as is he claims Democrats might be on the gender
wage gap. The forces driving the cost of health care in this country are not coming from family units that are that average size.
David in Cal April 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM
Bob, I could kiss you! This is a point I've been making for years. For years, there's been a push for some version of government health care, but the arguments in favor of it were always phony. Yes, the US spends a lot more on health care, but we can't fix that problem if we don't know the real cause. From what I know, here are some of the key reasons why health care costs are so much higher than in other countries:
-- Our health care providers get paid better
-- We pay more for prescription drugs
-- Our unique tort liability system not only makes liability insurance cost around 10 times as much as in other countries, but it forces doctors to practice "defensive medicine' - that is provide more tests and more treatment than medically needed in order of avoid being sued later.
-- We do a great deal for premature infants and for dying elderly patients.
Obamacare does little to attack these areas, which is why is isn't a good approach to reducing the cost of health care in America. Sadly, we're stuck with it.
David in Cal, we are glad you wish to kiss BOB instead our royal personage.
We thought about titling this comment:
Your Zarkon Gets Results
We have no objection whatsoever to having this expert once again reproduce his famous chart and repeat one of many questions we first asked over a month ago.
"We don't spend that much per person. It is how much we spend on average per capita. How much of it is spent in the last year off a dying person's life? How does our average per capita spending on health care rank when only spending on those 65 years of age and older is calculated? Are we being looted? Or are we on a spending spree managed (or mismanaged) by our government on unnecessary and/or overpriced efforts to prolong, often in misery, the last year of a person's stay on the planet? We have yet to see BOB do the kind of analysis when he presents this statistic that he demands when someone (read Rachel Maddow) presents something like the wage gap.
If such analysis revealed the biggest problem with American health care costs is the outrageous costs of treating terminally ill elderly, what then? Do liberals really want to revisit the issue of pulling the plug on grandma?
KZ"
TDH February 26, 2014
BOB has had six weeks to do a little research since he cares so much. Sad to see he hasn't. But there was that jam on that very major bridge and all those misimpressions to castigate if not correct as a result.
It isn't clear what you mean by "little" but Obamacare does address several of these areas. For example, it does permit group/organizational negotiation of drug prices to reduce prescription costs, it tries to standardize standard of care to minimize disparities across states, some physician payment limits are imposed. Addressing the difference between the US and other countries with respect to preventative medicine should bring down costs in the longer run.
You need to be aware that demographically the average age in the US is much lower than in comparable countries in Europe, so they may have greater pressures to reduce costs than we do because elderly are a larger percentage of those served by their health care providers.
KZ, next time, post your comment in either Drum's or Dowd's comment threads. Bob might notice it there.
But yes, interesting how Bob says you can't just take raw numbers and throw them out there without further explanation when Maddow does it.
skeptonomist April 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM
Bob apparently doesn't realize that physicians and others in the health-care system have leverage because Medicare is only part of the market - if their demands are not met, they can pull out. Of course Obamacare does not change this greatly. We know that single-payer can work, because it does so in other countries. No other advanced country has our "free-market" system and nobody else has costs remotely as high. Our system doesn't work, the others do - pretty simple.
Our system doesn't work at providing care at a reasonable cost. It does work reasonably well at providing care. Our health outcomes aren't as good as those of several other countries, but part of that may be because of social problems not found in more homogeneous nations (less diversity, less poverty, less tolerance of personal freedom resulting in greater compliance with treatment).
"It does work reasonably well at providing care."
For whom? (Cui bono?) That is the question.
Btw, the American myth that we are some crazily heterogenous country and the rest of the world is full of homogenous populations: b.s. Finland, maybe that's accurate. Germany? France? Great Britain? Peru? Chile? China? India? Well, I'll stop thinking of the countries whose current populations show that our pride in heterogeneity is misplaced.
For what it's worth, Bob is the last place I'd come to learn about the problems with "healthcare delivery"(in the wretched parlance of our day) in the US. Or for media coverage of it. (I really shouldn't say "media coverage": bob only even tries to cover a narrow range of outlets, mostly a few people on MSNBC and the NYT.) mch
The younger average age of the US compared to countries in Europe is a verifiable fact, not an opinion.
"Last week, Barasso, Jindal and Cruz were saying that the number will be smaller than 7 million. Chris, Joan and Michelle knew how to reply: Barrasso, Jindal and Cruz are racists, these tribal clowns pleasingly said."
Ummm, no Bob. Matthews called them "truthers". Truthers are the people who think 9/11 was a U.S. government conspiracy -- that the feds did it, and are still covering up the "truth."
You are perhaps conflating "truther" with "birther". Those are the people who forced the first black president to produce his birth certificate -- both short and long form -- to prove his citizenship. And they still won't shut up.
The racism is about the constant attacks on Obama over matters that would not be an issue for someone else -- that is being considered racist. Somerby didn't misspeak.
"Barrasso, Jindal and Cruz are racists, these tribal clowns pleasingly said."
No he didn't misspeak. He lied.
No, he didn't lie -- because certain liberals have been accusing conservatives like Barrasso, Jindal and Cruz of being racist because of their complaints about Obama's so-called lying. Anyone with two eyes knows the left has been lodging accusations of racism against critics of Obama on the basis that Obama has been criticized more than past presidents because he is African American. Whether that is true is debatable. The fact that such complaints have been made is not in dispute. It is part of the left's rhetoric.
So, I think you are the person lying here.
Anon @ 12:17 AM we would stop a bit short of saying BOBarino lied on this one since Bernard injected a generic element of race into being the source of a broad range of criticism of Obama. and Matthews agreed with her. BOB covered that previously, but not here.
Looking at his specific statement BOB quotes from Matthews here which relates to the three Senators and their comments on ACA enrollment, it is hard to get "racist" from "truthers." And it is unfair to put Walsh in the mix here at all.
We would normally give BOB three "Kesslers" for this one.
But BOB is tying something two of the three did discuss at some point to a specific set of statements which were not part of that discussion. They never used the word "racist"
but BOB did not put quotations marks around it.
We find this remarkably similar in style to a TV infotainer who once said a Police Chief in a tiny New Jersey town replied "essentially" to a suggestion from a cop on the businest bridge in the world that the cops suggestion for traffic diversion was "crazy."
BOB called that "insinuation." I believe he also used words
like "nasty," "slimy" and "pimping." (Check for yourself...2/22/14).
So instead of Three Kesslers, we will give BOB Nine Maddows. (He said three people called three Senators the R word.)
Anon @ 10:11 we are sorry we were typing away when your comment was posted. Let's check your reasoning skills.
Generic "people" of a certain ideology have been accusing other people of a different ideology of being racist. So therefore, when BOB says three specific people said three other people are "racists," even though it is clear they did not do so, it is not a lie because unnamed people have called other unnamed people that name.
BOB has also called blog commenters "dumb." We have noted our agreement with BOB from time to time.
KZ, your concerns are noted.
Perhaps I should have used one of BOBarino's many euphemisms for lying in which one can call a person a liar but then claim he didn't.
And perhaps I should have noted what a swell guy Somerby is in private before I asked how society could tolerate such a person.
It is the Bob Way! But it is also useless to ponder how much money Bob stuffs into his pants from writing this blog.
KZ, you are still confused about who said what. The three people named are conservatives. They are not the ones calling anybody racist. The people using the term racist are not named and are presumably not three in number. They are liberals and they are calling those three conservatives racist because they are critical of our African American president, more so than they would be of a president of a different ethnicity (hence the claim of racism). Bob is referring to those liberal accusations when he talks about the racism of the three conservatives. He manifestly does not consider them racist and he has not ever agreed with the wholesale labeling of conservatives as racists by liberals, on the basis of perceived slights to Obama (slights he usually points out have been endured by many other presidents).
Bob is not lying. You are misunderstanding, misreading, his statement. I cannot know whether your mistake is deliberate or due to a genuine failure to understand, but your attributions are incorrect. I am done pointing this out to you. Nothing is going to make you stop attacking Somerby, so this is a huge waste of time.
People who read Somerby's blog tend to be those who share his value of accuracy in news reporting. That's why it hooks us in when trolls concoct these misinterpretations of Somerby's daily posts. It is hard to let this garbage stand, just as it is hard for Somerby to let the garbage of Maddow, Matthews, and others stand uncorrected.
KZ, please do us all a favor and get a real hobby.
I agree with this. Vermont first put in cost controls and then put in single payer.
It's in the Vermont statute (and to be clear, I agree with it) and it was a condition of the state accepting single payer. Vermont also had a community health care center system in place and people use it. They're clinics. I've used a community health center (for a pregnancy) and I felt I got great, high quality care, but you have to be willing to use a clinic. I don't know that all Americans would do that. We're accustomed to a "private" physician.
No one mentions it.
"Our unique tort liability system not only makes liability insurance cost around 10 times as much as in other countries, but it forces doctors to practice "defensive medicine' - that is provide more tests and more treatment than medically needed in order of avoid being sued later."
This is baloney. Thirty states have put in "tort reform". Texas is one of them. They have more state protections for providers than any other state.
They also have the single most inequitable health care system in the country, and the most expensive care.
Also, we don't have a "tort liability system". It's state law. It's different in each of the 50 states.
One would think all of the people who have been repeating this for 30 years would at the very least understand that, the difference between state and federal. There is no national tort "system". It's state law.
David in Cal April 11, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Anon -- I was involved in liability insurance internationally. Yes, our states vary, but overall the US tort liability system is much more expensive than other countries.
David, no matter what the subject, you claim expertise. This is the logical fallacy known as "appeal to authority."
But please share with us some of that claimed expertise.
How much did the "system" pay out in successful liability claims against medical malpractice? What percentage does that amount to against the total costs of health care in the U.S.
And what percentage of the claims were so unjustified that we need to restrict a victim's ability to sue for medical malpractice?
David in Cal April 11, 2014 at 11:34 AM
The amount paid out for medical malpractice is not a large share of total medical expense. OTOH I have seen studies claiming that the defensive medicine does add a lot to medical costs.
There are all kinds of ideas about what to do about medical malpractice. Most take it for granted that a damaged party must have the ability to receive recompense for his damages. Here's something to consider. Before 1960 or so, it was almost impossible to sue for medical malpractice. Yet, people received medical care.
If I had the power, I'd pass a law allowing patients and doctors to negotiated in advance an agreement that the patient couldn't sue.
I don't know about Rachel Maddow, but I think the reluctance to really look at health care costs has to do with how big our health care system is and how interwoven into the economy it is.
One can start with physicians, fine with me, but then you'd have to go one level deeper and look at all the middle class jobs that are also dependant on wildly inflated costs. For every physician who is ordering a test, there are three nurses and two technicians also working on it.
That's not even getting into prescription drugs and medical equipment manufacturers. Physicians are pulling this huge middle class job train behind them and I honestly think people are afraid to really address costs, because then we'd be talking about shrinking this giant workforce. It would be akin to the "quality revolution" in manufacturing in the 80's and 90's, where productivity went up but wages stayed flat and they dumped millions of jobs. I saw that happen. It was brutal in the rust belt.
That probably has to happen in health care, and it ain't gonna be pretty.
I don't know what to do about it myself.
Not to mention the millions of middle-class folk who work for health insurance companies. The "single-payer" advocates should remember -- as vital as it is to move toward that kind of system -- you can't do it overnight without a staggering loss of jobs.
The "public option" especially that proposed by John Edwards was an interesting way to do it gradually, but even that would not come without the cost of jobs, and lots of jobs. You simply wouldn't move people from Blue Cross/Blue Shield jobs to government "Medicate for all" jobs.
There is no question that nations who have gone to "single payer" deliver quality health care at a much lower cost per capita. No question at all.
The question, however, is how do we move from the system we now have into a more efficient model without costing millions of health-care industry related jobs.
Our blogger needs to remember this when he looks at raw numbers and blames "looting." It is an over-simplistic answer to an extremely complicated issue.
Anon @ 7:46
When one questions the word choice of the OTB one must expect the label of heresy to be applied. "Looting" has been the consistent term applied by BOB to those who charge people money which adds up to the dreadful chart
which always accompanies the word. Some say the notion
that simply saying "Let there be light" turned on a magic switch is simplistic. But simplicity is not a bad thing in simple times for simple folk. Therefore we admonish you
in the words of the loyal followers of the OTB, "go away and troll no more."
We must also consider the impact of Medicare, which has been a boon for the health care industry.
Before 1964, Granny frequently gave us the courtesy of dying when she got sick. Now she goes to the doctor.
Bob might be tempted to call that "looting" since it drives up those nasty per-capita costs.
We, however, are kind of fond of Granny.
Grannies in other countries don't go to the doctor? I doubt that. Somerby is calling our high costs looting because they are so much higher than in other countries, not because of the necessity of paying for health care.
We should also note that the nations on Bob's list pretty much seized the moment and took the initiative to create national health care plans right after World War II -- before the health care system could grow into the extremely complex beast it is today in the U.S..
As pointed out previously when Bob tried to argue that no serious Democratic candidate had ever proposed a "single payer" system, that a rather serious guy named Truman attempted that very thing at the very same time other nations were moving toward national health care plans.
The American right wing screamed "socialized medicine."
That same scream was also heard from a rather famous host of "Death Valley Days" (not to be confused with "Sea Hunt") some 20 years later when another rather serious Democrat going by the intials of LBJ sought to create a "single payer" system to insure older Americans.
Hey,"Centralized Negotiation" is how Health Care prices are so high, not the latter. It is a simple problem with a simple solution. Deregulate and put the prices on the wall. The US is a world leader in cheap, high quality elective surgeries (procedures which aren't covered by insurance). "Centralized Negotiation" is how hospitals are torn down and centralized, how insurance companies are barred from practicing and how I'm prevented from buying insurance and medicine from across boarders.Thanks to all!!!
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Here is a quick dash-off of some free software and utilities that struck my fancy.
Portable Update - free and interesting tool to update your MS Windows system in an isolated environment.
WSUS Offline Update - This is the tool that we use to do almost all our heavy post-image application Microsoft system updating. It was updated to version 8.4 on May 27 2013.
JavaRa 2.2 - SingularLabs JavaRa freeware utility that lets you deploy, update and remove the JRE. Really handy when you are dealing with lots of deployments or think you have a mis-install of JRE causing issues.
TurnedOnTimesView - Nirsoft - new tool from Nir Sofer that reads the Windows Event logs and only reports on those system system launch/shutdown events. Read Nir's utility announcement at his blog. I had been using PC On/Off Time but the freeware version was limited to the last 3-weeks it would report on. The NirSoft version doesn't quite have the nice graphical view but has no limitations at all on the range of event log data it reports, and the NirSoft app allows you to export your data to a file.
Parted Magic - Linux LiveCD - an awesome good tool that seems to be updated every other day. That is a REAL work of love to keep up that effort. Latest version was released June 14 2013 at version 2013_06_15. I used this tool to overcome a particularly interesting image deployment situation recently and it really worked brilliantly well. You will have to wait just a bit for that blog post to come! It was a great "thinking outside the box" solution.
Oracle VM VirtualBox - free - Newly released version 4.2.14 (and matching Extension Pack) came out June 21 2013. See the Changelog for details.
PassMark MemTest86 - Now at Version 4.2.0 released March 18 2013. It's nice to see this perennial RAM tester still supported and being updated regularly. You may also remember Memtest86+ which is very similar, but hasn't been updated in several years. I carry both, just in case.
Running Mac OS X on Windows VMware Workstation - Chris Nackers Blog. While I do Apple iOS quite well on our iPhones and iPad, I don't have any experience on OS X. Last time I used a Macintosh was back when it was a chunky box with a black/white monitor. Seriously! However I am always on the lookout for cool ways and tips to load different OS versions in virtual machines so this well-written guide really caught my eye. Chris Nackers is a neat IT guy and Microsoft MVP. I'm digging RSS feeding his blog. You should too!
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There Are Four Lights: Incident Response - Windows Incident Response blog - I'm always on the lookout to be humbled (and schooled) in better incident response methodologies.
The Tool Validation "Myth-odology" - WIndows Incident Response blog -file under "know your tools".
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It really hasn't made that big a splash in the security news pond; maybe getting lost in all the waves from coverage on our domestic network digital data gathering, leaks in the SS Minnow, and that whole Facebook Shadow Profile data collection fiasco.
Oh, then there is that whole breaking story in the food world that has everyone shocked and a-twitter--How Cronuts Are Driving New York City Crazy.
So it's not surprising that news of the release of a Windows-specific security tool to prevent advanced malware attacks got little notice.
So here you go. Little rock toss into a big pond.
I've got it running on all our home systems as well as all my Windows virtual machines. I've seen no performance issues at all and it is super-quiet; no chatter at all. Accordingly, I would recommend it to all my friends/family-members, especially those who insist on using Internet Explorer and do a lot of work in MS Office applications and documents. It is not a solution to replace any existing anti-virus/anti-malware security software you have, but rather it works to supplement and harden it. I'm running it aside Microsoft Security Essentials (Win 7 systems), Windows Defender (Win 8 systems), and Bitdefender Antivirus Free (Win 8 systems). It works great.
Nuclear Scientists, Pandas and EMET Keeping Me Honest - SANS ISC Diary - great post from Johannes Ullrich detailing just how deployment and use of EMET (v3.5) could have prevented a recent "watering-hole" attack. It's a great introduction on how the EMET software works. Version 4.0 is better.
EMET 4.0 is now available for download - SANS ISC Diary notice/followup.
Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 - Official Microsoft Download Center source. It runs on everything from XP SP3 to Windows 8 platforms, as well as all related Server OS's as well.
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Microsoft's EMET 4 adds even more malware-blocking power - Betanews overview of the tool.
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Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 final is out - Ghacks.net - Nice review and overview of the EMET 4.0 features.
Not impressed enough yet to download?
Well, did I mention it has "skins" so you can change the theme to some pretty snazzy color schemes?
Seriously, if you spend any time on the Web (particularly in IE) and run a Windows system, then you really should consider deployment of this tool. Just take the default configuration settings to get started, then you can tweak away and add additional protection coverage after you read the manual.
It's been quite a while since my Video-Editing Resource Roundup back in 2009. Check that link out for a recap, though quite a few have disappeared in the time since that post first was written.
There are tons of resources, but these (beyond the Microsoft ones that come on/with Windows) are the primary free versions that I am playing with nowadays.
Lightworks - Wow. This one still amazes me. The free version is a bit stripped down with some of the supported features but for most wanna-be video-editors, it's a great place to get your feet wet and have the water go quickly over your head. Download. The newest version requires activation, but you can register for a free account to activate it.
Avidemux - free and no-frills video editor do to basic cutting/filtering/encoding. Latest version is 2.6.4 released May 09 2013 so it is still being updated regularly. Good place if you want an alternative video editor but don't need all the bells and whistles of the big-boy-toys.
VirtualDub - video capture software that also lets you do pre/post processing. Pretty cool if you don't want to use the manufacturer's software that come with the video device.
Ok. In the time it took me to work on that last post (mostly), I was able to cycle some laundry through the machines AND get my VMWare Player build of Windows 8.1 up and running.
It tossed me a few curves, but nothing that big a deal.
I tried the new and updated "Windows Start button" all for five minutes before ditching it for the free IOBit StartMenu8. Went on with no issues. Tossed on Google Chrome (Dev), FreeCommanderXE beta, dropped some snazzy wallpapers on to cycle through, added Process Explorer to run in the system tray, and while I kept Windows Defender this time, I supplemented it with Microsoft's EMET 4.0.
That's it for now, more tweaking and testing and twisting it in the weeks to come. Expect some follow-up Windows 8/8.1 posts as well around here.
Wi-Fi, Web, and Networking Security Headaches Galore - Pineapple Flavored!
Introduction to Determined Adversaries and Targeted Attacks: Tim Rains, Director, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, provides background information on these types of attacks and set the context for the rest of the video series.
Mitigating Pass-the-Hash Attacks: Patrick Jungles, Security Program Manager, Trustworthy Computing, explains what a Pass-the-Hash attack is and some tested mitigations to help manage the risk associated with credential theft attacks.
Anatomy of a Cyber-attack Part 1: Sean Finnegan, CTO of the Microsoft Consulting Services Cybersecurity Practice, walks through a typical targeted attack, step by step, describing how attackers perpetrate these attacks.
Anatomy of a Cyber-attack Part 2: Sean Finnegan finishes his briefing on how determined adversaries commit targeted attacks.
Importance of Securing Active Directory: Bret Arsenault, Microsoft CISO, discusses the importance of protecting your Active Directory in the context of target attacks.
All great videos to watch on your own or with your IT team for a mini training & discussion session.
DNSQuerySniffer - DNS queries sniffer - New free app from Nir Sofer's Nirsoft factory that shows the DNS queries sent by your system (x32/x64 bit flavors are available).
toolsmith: Visual Malware Analysis with ProcDOT - HolisticInfoSec - I'm still getting my courage up to start working with this gem that mind-melds Process Monitor data with GraphViz. Super cool.
Deep Dive Packet Analysis (by Hansang Bae) - Sharkfest 2013 session- Video presentation on using and analyzing challenging network issues.
Microsoft Message Analyzer Beta 3 Released!
The next beta version of Microsoft's answer to Wireshark is out.
It is a far and different animal from the old MS Network Monitor platform and takes a lot of work getting used to.
Tip: you have to be registered on the Microsoft Connect site to get the non-public download. I have been from some time but when I tried to find the actual MA Beta 3 bits for download on the project page, I couldn't find them. I looked, waited a few days, looked some more, nada.
Finally I backed out a bit and found a "new" (3rd) "Message Analyzer, Network Monitor and Protocol Test Suites" product program listed that I wasn't joined to. I joined it and there were the bits. Ok…I guess that was my bad by assuming that just because I had joined a particular Product, that other Programs could be added without me realizing it. Oh well.
Note: I believe it requires a Windows 7/8 platform as well as some .NET packages. It definitely doesn't seem to be supported on XP. Come-on team, time to upgrade that OS!
inSSIDer for Home - MetaGeek - This seriously-updated edition of inSSIDer really rocks! This is the free version for home users but they also offer a super-cool Office version that has some additional graphing and reporting features, Finally they also offer some super-beefy enterprise-level Wi-Fi assessment and troubleshooting software tools. Neat stuff here.
HeatMapper - Ekahau's free Wi-Fi coverage mapping tool for homes and small offices. Simple registration required for the free download. Current version 1.1.4 (March 03 2012) with Win8 Consumer preview support.
WifiInfoView - free NirSoft tool to capture information on Wi-Fi networks that are broadcasting in your vicinity. This version works on Windows Vista - Windows 7/8. Not XP, however.
WirelessNetView - free NirSoft tool that also captures broadcasting Wi-Fi network details. This one does run on XP.
Wireless Network Watcher - free NirSoft tool that shows who is connected to your wireless network.
Stay safe and remain watchful!
Time to empty out the "to-blog" hopper again.
In this edition, critical and curious security-related posts. Culled from the Web buffet bar over the past few weeks.
Meanwhile…we are installing Windows 8.1 Beta in a fresh VMWare Player build. Details to follow.
Camjacking: Click and say Cheese - Egor Homakov's Blog - I took the challenge on my locked-down and highly updated/patched Win7 system and the browsers installed (IE/FF/Chromium) and didn't experience the vulnerability. I think that's a good thing!
Windows 8.1: High-performance behaviour monitoring for Defender -The H Security - Note: I cannot find any info if these features will be eventually bundled/included in the Microsoft Security Essentials builds or not. This GSD post has some tips for tweaking Windows Defender configuration in Windows 8: Advanced Tips for Windows Defender with Windows 8.
Parents--make sure your kids view this TED presentation--no matter what their age.
Children--make sure your parents view this TED presentation--no matter what their age.
Employers--consider sharing with your employees.
Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo - TED.com - video appx 6 min.
Just for my reference….moving on.
So, to answer your question, the "mt=8" in iTunes links simply identifies it as being of type 'Mobile Software Applications'.
For the commenter above, in case you haven't figured out, ls=1 means the URL will try and open iTunes and follow the link. If ls=1 is not included it will simply load the web page for that particular media asset.
Q: what is the safari safe browsing data when you sync you phone after the iOS 5 update??
Here is an updated listing, semi-categorized, of iOS iPhone apps I'm using on my iPhone 5. I've had it now for just over six months and I have really jumped on the value and convenience it and the applications have provided me. Don't know how I lived without a smart-phone for so long.
All links will be to the iTunes App Store page unless otherwise noted. I've updated the permanent link on the sidebar under "Claus's Toolbox".
I'm only listing Apps that I use (or plan to purchase relatively soon for use). This post is for me to self-reference and primarily be a way to recommend/share Apps with the few family and friends who have iPhone discussions with me.
free = free. May or may not be ad-supported. That said, if it is ad-supported or pop-up in-app notifications to upgrade to a paid-version are too annoying or obtrusive, the app is deleted.
$ = $.99 to $2.99 range.
$$ = $3 to $7.99 range.
Note that when posted, some apps may be on a special pricing discount for holiday or promotions. I'll try to keep an eye on things but it's only a rough guide.
"Default" apps that come installed/bundled with the iOS don't get listed.
I have a few great Apps I won't list for privacy reasons; banking/insurance/shipping/specific shopping/vendors, etc. Just because you don't see those listed, doesn't mean I don't use them.
Finally, just because all these apps fit on and run on my iPhone 5 (64 GB), currently iOS 6.0.2, doesn't mean they will all fit on your own iPhone.
Finally, I don't know the impact iOS 7 will have on this list. I generally/guardedly like what I am seeing and hearing on iOS 7 but time will tell.
Reeder - free (for now) though I gladly and joyously paid $ for it a few months ago before it became free. Now supports "standalone" RSS feeds rather than one of many supported on-line RSS services. The addition of that feature makes it my #1 Valca-cool app of awesomeness. Power to the People! You are brilliant and you are the master, Mr. Silvio Rizzi! You are a Rock Star for adding that feature! Enough said.
Wave Alarm - free (note I sprung for the in-app $ paid version). Wakes me up every day!
Fantastical - $$ - I love the at a glance calendar event layout view (missing in Agenda) but lack of reminder support is serious. -2 on the scoring. Still becoming friends with this app.
Weather Underground - free - (I paid $ for a 1-year in-app removal of ads) "realtime" radar data map display makes this app priceless to me! + it comes with lots of tropical weather (hurricane) tools and links so I may not need to purchase a hurricane-specific app.
WeatherMap+ - $ - Super cool forecast data projections. Awesomeness!
NOAA Hi-Def Radar - $ - beautiful image quality but radar data lags from several to +5 min behind current time. I want near real-time radar data please!
Documents by Readdle - free - I love I can connect wirelessly between PC and iPhone for document transfers.
ESPN ScoreCenter - free - (using again after registering for free account).
Teslameter 11th - $ - cheap EMF/magnetometer detector.
These are the primary "hardware" items I use (or will be using) with my iPhone. Note: Price rating system suspended here. Do the research if you are curious.
Bluetooth Headset, Jabra WAVE - Got this in lieu of a Jawbone ERA. The reviews were good but the two factors that really sold me on this replacement headset for my battered Jawbone were the ability to connect/pair it to TWO iPhones at once (I now carry two, one from work and one is my personal) so hands-free car-driving is a joy again…and the fit around my ear due to the design means it stays fast and put when I am working and playing…no sag like the Jawbone ear loop does after a while. Highly Valca recommended device. Call quality is quite good (my own experience and feedback from family/friends on the far end).
Lightning Digital AV Adapter - Lightning to HDMI - Apple Store (U.S.) - Hey Mom, seen movie (insert title here) yet? Nope? Want to watch it right now off my iPhone on your HDMI TV? Great! Let's go!
Jawbone (version 2) - (obtained back in 2008) - still running strong, though highly battered. Now retired but still works in a pinch.
These are apps that I previously had on my iPhone but later upgraded to purchased versions and/or removed to make way for another/different version of the same app function. They are still highly recommended.
Byline - $ - dropped for now as they don't support "standalone" RSS feed reading and Google Reader has gone bye-bye which is what I used with it for feed reading.
Thanks for the upgrades, Xfinity, now keep off my lawn unless you pay to maintain it.
Do we toss our residential POTS land-line phone service and move to a digital solution or not?
Two months ago I finally got too frustrated and after a great sales marketing presentation by a spectacularly patient and kind Xfinity customer service rep, took the plunge.
We had a Comcast/Xfinity HD cable package (no premium channels), a HD DVR unit lease, standard broadband Internet service, a cable broadband modem lease, and two "still free-for now" digital signal converter boxes. I think that bill for all that was around $175/mo.
Thanks to her "no-bull" (honest I've been watching our new bill like hawk) customer service pitch, I jumped on an Xfinity "triple-play" package bundle and now get all this for $190/mo.
Unlimited Nationwide telephone voice-calling with no long-distance charges.
Upgraded broadband Internet speed tier.
I even added another HD receiver (at an add-on cost being counted in that monthly bill amount) for kicks and grins and late-night HD bedroom movie watching as well.
So not only did I save me some serious money (when removing the POTS line cost each month from our budget), I was able to add additional features/services and still come in less than my previous cable/phone bill combined (including all the taxes, surcharges, & fees). And for a sysadmin network geek, the extra bandwidth speed is better than on the biggest pipes we have at work!
Yes..that's fairly typical now the Valca residence. Win7 wired connection on Gigabit capable Ethernet port/switch over Cat-6 cabling.
Wi-Fi speeds across our 802.11n home router on laptops and iOS devices are about 1/2 that speed, but still pretty freaking good (IMHO).
Even Lavie jumped on board and has been a firm enthusiast of the switch.
We were a bit nervous about porting the home phone # we have had over to the new digital phone service. We've held that number longer than we've been married! So for a month we carried both the POTS service and a temporary new digital phone service # to confirm the quality of the digital line was good. It was. With some trepidation, we went through the # porting service with an Xfinity customer service rep on a Saturday, and the following Saturday it was completed…no extra charges. Yea!
Now I have one more partial billing cycle with our old POTS service provider to cycle through and I think that ends that relationship. Wow.
I think I understand the actual network deployment model though all the "hype" and sensationalism, but I'm still not convinced I like it. I am (BTW) still paying a $7.00 broadband/phone modem rental fee each month as part of my $190/mo bundled service plan.
I'm sure they can segregate the bandwidth on my "pipe" so it doesn't impact my download speeds for phone/movie/network content and leave me with increased pingtimes and jitter.
I'm sure they can segregate the network traffic so others cannot snoop on our own private traffic.
I just don't like the idea, so please keep your "pubic" Xfinity customer hot-spot traffic off my leased router.
Now here's an idea, Xfinity. If you decide to do that, comp me the price of the modem-rental fee I am paying you each month to get the services I am already paying you for to leverage "free" Wi-Fi coverage access for other strangers who are your paying customers. If you want to let them use the hardware I have the privilege of leasing from you so they can get in the broadband carpool lane with me, then at least have the courtesy to pay for their gas.
That would be a closer "win-win" for both of us.
I get to see my bill drop just a bit and you get to extend your roaming Wi-Fi access across our neighborhood for other Xfinity guests.
As of right now, our current Xfinity provided modem does not support Wi-Fi. I know because I didn't want it (and asked for a modem model without it) as I run and manage our own private Wi-Fi network downstream from their cable broadband modem. That's not to say I may not have to have another forced "upgrade" down the road, but for now it isn't an issue.
Think about it Xfinity. Otherwise I might have to invest in my own Xfinity approved (sans-Wi-Fi) DOCSIS Device. Now that I think about it, that was my most recent soap-box rant. See what I did about the previous one and that service provider when I finally dealt with it?
P.S. Hey Xfinity, since we are talking, when can I expect my new cloud-based X2/XI3 DVR unit from you? I doubt I'll see a price drop on my bill, but I guess if it is at least as 50% more energy efficient than my current Cisco HD DVR monster that makes so much noise when the HDD spins up it scares small children, that might be something…and that Comcast version of Apple's AirPlay feature sounds pretty handy considering I just bought a pricy Apple Lightning-to-HDMI adapter to watch HD media off my iPhone 5 on my HD TV.
I have been a longtime fan of Mozilla Thunderbird as my primary home desktop email client.
I've tried a number of alternative ones but just haven't been convinced they offer me anything that T-Bird isn't providing.
One side-enjoyment that I have is collecting fun and fascinating links I think my family members might enjoy based on their interests and hobbies. My RSS feed list is pretty large and expansive and I usually find material for them without trying.
Once every few weeks I'll sort the saved bookmarks and categorize them in Firefox, then I will copy the lot in the Bookmark Manager and paste them into a new message composition window in Thunderbird.
That works great but there is a single "space" between each of the links.
I like to split each URL link out on it's own line and sometimes it's hard to see just where that space is.
I could (temporarily) ramp up the font size formatting of the message content to make it more visible for the editing work, but that seemed silly. Could I just "zoom" the view up instead?
I looked and looked (and even tried some T-bird Add-ons) but they just didn't work like I wanted, nor could I find a zoom control.
Ctrl + |scroll wheel| Command + Control + |scroll wheel|. In the message reader only, with Ctrl + "0" |Command| + "0", you can reset the zoom to 100%.
Windows users…if you are viewing a message in the reading pane OR composing a message in the new message composition window, press and hold the "CTRL" key while scrolling your mouse wheel up or down, the viewable text size increases or decreases. This does NOT change the actual font size coding of your message…just how large it is displayed for you you.
To reset the view size back to "100%" normal size -- in the reading pane view only -- press "CTRL" key and "0".
Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a reset method in the composition window so you will have to "CTRL" + scroll-wheel it back to what looks like your normal size.
On my system with Thunderbird version 17.0.7, it appears the zoom level you set is persistent. Meaning that if you close the zoomed/shrunk composition window, any new composition windows you open will retain that last zoom setting. YMMV.
P.S. -- Yes I hear you giggling at me Alvis with my "old-man" eyes…I'm blaming it on my HD 1920 x 1080 15.6-inch spanking-tastic super-fine laptop display. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!


On regular visits, Dr. Grandi will always check your spine to monitor your improvement and to determine when to begin decreasing the frequency of visits. After all, as your pain decreases, the number of visits should also decrease.
After the first and second visits, the regular visits become shorter, usually between five to ten minutes. However, we always have time for your questions or concerns. So, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Dr. Mitchell Grandi personally thanks you for stopping in and someone can assist you with making your next appointment on the way out!
Please don't think the shortness of a regular visit lessens its value. With the groundwork already laid, we can quickly check your spine and nervous system, adjust you, and get you on your way. But, like a regular workout at the gym, each visit builds on the ones before. If you miss too many visits, we lose the positive momentum and the pain starts creeping back.
We understand that your time is valuable and that life can be extremely hectic. So we do everything possible to be on time and to keep you from waiting. We have appointments available during lunchtime and up until 6:00 PM so that you are able to schedule your visits and not miss time from work.
Call our Windsor chiropractic office to get started with chiropractic care today!


If anybody knows an easier way, please let me know.
in the application context when using missing properties an exception will be raised while in the servlet context there will not.
The index got silently truncated. And, at least on the surface, everything worked.


Lone Star Park opens its 2019 Thoroughbred Racing Season on Thursday, April 18 for a 44-day run and has 13 stakes races on the schedule worth a combined total of over $1.1 million dollars.
The stakes action will kick-off with the featured $50,000 Bluebonnet Stakes on opening night. The six and one half furlong contest on dirt is for Texas-bred fillies & mares, 3-yr-olds & up.
With an added $100k to the purse, the now $300,000 Grade 3, Steve Sexton Mile, for 3-yr-olds & up headlines the 2019 Stakes Schedule. The 23rd edition of the event will run on Sunday, April 28. Past winners include Bee Jersey (2018) and Mor Spirit (2017) both of which went on to win the $1.2 million Grade 1, Met Mile at Belmont Park. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has trained winners of this event a record four times, and horses sent by Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen have won it three times.
Track officials are excited to introduce new to the stakes line-up this year, the inaugural $100,000 Lone Star Park Turf Stakes for fillies & mares, 3-yr-olds & up. It will be contested on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27.
Two dates will celebrate Texas-bred horses with four stakes each. Saturday, June 23 is Lone Star Showcase Day featuring the divisional Texas Stallion Stakes for 2-yr-olds. They are the $65,000 Staunch Avenger Division for colts & geldings and the $65,000 Pan Zareta Division for fillies. Both divisions will be run at five furlongs on dirt. Also featured are the $50,000 Wayne Hanks Memorial Stakes for Texas-bred 3-yr-olds & upward at six and one half furlongs on the main track as well as the $50,000 Lane's End Danny Shifflett Scholarship Stakes for fillies & mares, 3-yr-olds & upward at seven and one half furlongs on turf.
Stars of Texas Day, presented by Highlander Training Center is Sunday, July 14 and will feature four stakes. The $50,000 Valor Farm Stakes for Texas-bred fillies & mares, 3-yr-olds & upward at six furlongs on dirt, the $50,000 Assault Stakes, presented by Highlander Training Center, for Texas-bred 3-yr-olds & upward at one mile on the turf. Also scheduled are two divisions of the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity which are the $100,000 fillies division and the $100,000 colts & geldings division. Eligible horses are 2-yr-olds which are graduates of the 2019 Texas Thoroughbred Associations Two-Year-Olds In-Training Sale and all Accredited Texas-bred horses. Each futurity division is five and one half furlongs on dirt.
For the complete schedule please refer to the chart below.
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Uncle Daddy
Ralph Fletcher
Clarion Books
Print (Hardcover)
Uncle Daddy is a young adult novel written by Ralph Fletcher, first published in 2001. It won a Christopher Medal in the Books for Young People, ages 10–12 category in 2002.
1 Plot summary
5 Outside websites
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River's father left his wife and son when the son is three years old. He goes out to get a pizza and does not come back. His mother's uncle moves in and becomes "Uncle Daddy". Rivers is living a normal life for a nine year old boy when his father returns after being gone for six years. The return of Rivers father threatens to tear the family apart until Uncle Daddy has a near fatal heart attack. Rivers and his parents come together to support Uncle Daddy.
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Uncle Daddy won a Christopher Medal in the Books for Young People, ages 10–12 category in 2002.[1][2]
↑ "The Christophers, Inc". Archived from the original on 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
↑ Cara Falcetti; Blanchard, Mary Warner (2006). Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. pp. p90. ISBN 0-313-32884-6. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: Extra text (link)
Sutton, Roger (July/August 2001). Horn Book Magazine Vol. 77 (Issue 4): p450. ISSN 00185078.
Piehler, Heide (May 2001). "Uncle Daddy (Book Review)". School Library Journal Vol. 47 (Issue 5): p149. ISSN 03628930.
Hurst, Carol Otis (August/September 2001). "Into the Unknown". Teaching Pre K-8 Vol. 32 (Issue 1): p110. ISSN 08914508.
Johnson, Nancy J (March 1, 2002). "Intergenerational". Reading Teacher: p602. ISSN 0034-0561.
Outside websites[change | change source]
Ralph Fletcher's website
Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uncle_Daddy&oldid=6559625"
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Introduction to the book "Radical Forgiveness" by Colin Tipping, and the five stages of Radical Forgiveness.
The tools of Radical Forgiveness—a series of quick, effective, and easy-to-use techniques and processes including "Fake It 'Til You Make It," "Collapsing the Story," "Satori Breathwork," and more.
I'm a daughter, a sister, a friend, a wife, and a mother of two boys with personalities as different as day and night who are also two of my greatest teachers. I grew up in Jeddah, the western region of Saudi Arabia, moved to Dhahran, the eastern part in 2002, lived in Houston, TX and Seoul, South Korea, to come back in 2013 to live in Dhahran again. I have experienced and learned from the east and west…literally!
My learning journey has taken me, so far, into Biochemistry, non-profit, stress management, and Nia to name a few. Each field has given me a different outlook and experiences that I have yet to discover how it will all link up and help me in achieving my life's purpose. I strongly believe that every degree, certification, belt I earned, books I've read, and teachers I've been honored to learn from, have been there for a reason and helped me in becoming the person I am today.
I am currently a certified Nia1st Degree Black belt teacher, certified Health Coach, Radical Living Coach, and Ageless Grace Educator.
My mission is to guide and help others take control of their life by taking small steps that will lead them to the best life they aspire for themselves. Understanding that everyone is unique and need different strategies and needs is at the core of my approach. A specific mission for me is to encourage people to reconnect with their bodies through movement and dance. I look forward to the day when I fulfill my dream of becoming a dance/movement therapist.
Coffee and books! Can spend endless hours with those two ?
Getting to know people and having meaningful conversations.
Discovering, listening, and dancing to music.
Organic, fair trade, and natural products.
Organic farming and sustainable living.
Social Responsibility and benefit cooperations.
Become a B Corp consultant.
Create a community of women supporting each other.
Visit all my Nia friends around the world.
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Q: If $u\in F$ is Transcendental over $K$, $F$ an extension field of $K$, Show every element in $K(u)$ not in $K$ is transcendental over $K$. Doing some problems out of Beachy's Algebra text, I came across that problem, and I'm at a loss how to show it without a bit of hand waving. Do I make some statement about spaces, and prove by contradiction?
Ie. Suppose there exists an element $v\in K(u): v\not \in K$, such that $\exists$ minimal $ q(x)\in F[x], s.t. q(v)=0$. Since $v\notin K$, $v$ may be expressed as the linear combination of $au+b$, where $b$ is some element in $K$, and $a\ne 0$. Then the minimal polynomial in $K(u)$ has form: $q(t)=(t-v)=(t-(au+b)u),$ and $K(v)=(v-v)=0$.
This feels like possibly too much work or too little rigor for a relatively simple question, am I missing something?

A: If $\frac {m(u)}{d(u)}$ solves a polynomial of degree $n, p(x) \in K[x]$, then multiply through by $d(u)^n$ to find a polynomial in $K[x]$ with $u$ as a root, contradicting the assumption that $u$ is transcendental over $K$.

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Critics Blast Bar Committee Over Baby Bar Veto Letter
Opponents of California's "Baby Bar" exam are objecting to a State Bar committee's lobbying to retain the test, given to 1Ls in unaccredited law schools. Critics say a letter the bar examiners sent to Governor Gray Davis requesting he veto pending legislation does not say that the request was not adopted by the bar's Board of Governors. Bar officials say the letter doesn't mislead.
By Mike McKee | Updated on September 12, 2000


The N.C. General Assembly convenes for the third time this year on September 12, after a several-week summer hiatus. The primary reasons stated for this second special session (the first involved redistricting and gubernatorial veto overrides) include dealing with proposed constitutional amendments and legislation relating to election laws. That would include two particularly contentious pieces of legislation: the proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage in the state (HB 777), and another press to circumvent the governor's veto of HB 351 in order to require photo ID for voters in the state.
And although this special session is planned to be only four to five days long, there is the possibility of a third special session later in the fall if the state's redistricting plan doesn't pass federal muster. The costs of reconvening the budget-conscious Legislature are estimated to be $50,000 per day, according to the Gov. Bev Perdue's website.
Meanwhile, the legislative doors will be wide open mid-September to take action on a number of constitutional amendments filed this session. In addition to the amendment to provide a constitutional definition of marriage as "the union of one man and one woman at one time," there are proposals to limit legislators to four consecutive terms; limit terms for the speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate to two legislative general assemblies; require a three-fifths vote of the General Assembly to levy taxes; and establish a constitutional limit to general fund expenditures — among other proposals (see below).
Constitutional amendments must pass in the legislature by a three-fifths majority in both houses, and then must receive a majority of the popular vote in the following general election. Any amendments approved now by the Legislature would be voted on by the general electorate in 2012.
Two members of the WNC legislative delegation have received the 2011 Sunshine Award from Democracy NC: Republican Sen. Tom Apodaca of Hendersonville and Republican Rep. David Guice of Brevard. The award went to 13 Republicans and 9 Democrats this year who turned in "superior" reports about who gave them campaign donations and how the money was spent. Each winner filed his or her 2009-2010 campaign report on time and in an accessible format; identified the purpose of 99 percent of their expense items over $50; filed 48-hour reports for large donations received shortly before the November election; and submitted electronic reports for receipts of more than $100,000.
"At a time of intense partisan wrangling, it's great to see so many legislators across ideological and party lines who respect the public's right to know how money flows during elections," said Bob Hall, executive director of the nonpartisan organization, in a website statement.
HB 61 (Speaker/Pro Tem Term Limits): Limits terms of speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate to two legislative general assemblies. WNC co-sponsors: Republican Reps. Philip Frye (Avery/Caldwell/Mitchell/Yancey), David Guice (Henderson/Polk/Transylvania), Chuck McGrady (Henderson).
HB 158 (Limit Legislators to Four Consecutive Terms): No person will be eligible for more than four consecutive terms in the House or Senate. (Filling a vacancy constitutes a "term.") No WNC co-sponsors.
HB 188 (Taxpayer Bill of Rights): Establishes a constitutional limit to general fund expenditures. WNC co-sponsors: Republican Reps. Frye, Tim Moffitt (Buncombe), Roger West (Cherokee/Clay/ Graham/Macon).
HB 641 (Education Governance Amendment): Increases the size and composition of the State Board of Education; changes include replacing the lieutenant governor as a board member with the president of the Senate, and adding three members appointed by the House and three members appointed by the Senate. WNC primary sponsor, Guice.
HB 777/SB 106 (Defense of Marriage): Provides that marriage is "the union of one man and one woman at one time" and that "no other relationship shall be recognized as legally valid by the state." WNC co-sponsors: Reps. Frye, Guice, West; Republican Sens. Tom Apodaca (Buncombe/Henderson/Polk), Jim Davis (Cherokee/Clay/Graham/Haywood/Jackson/Macon/Swain/Transylvania), Ralph Hice (Avery/Haywood/Madison/McDowell/Mitchell/Yancey).
HB 784 (Three-fifths Vote fo Levy Taxes): Requires a three-fifths vote for the General Assembly to levy taxes. WNC co-sponsor, Moffitt.
HB 800: (Preserving the Right to Secret Ballot): Guarantees a right to secret ballot voting for authorization of employee representation by a labor union. WNC primary sponsor: Moffitt.
HB 823 (Governance of Dept. of Public Instruction): Makes the superintendent of public instruction a member of the State Board of Education and requires the superintendent to make all state-level appointments necessary; adds at-large member to the board and requires all at-large appointments be made by legislature; requires governor to appoint chair. WNC co-sponsor: Rep. Moffitt.
HB 913 (State Savings Fund): Establishes a state savings account that could only be used to offset a decrease in annual revenue or make one-time outlays for capital projects. No WNC co-sponsors.
SB 591 (Horton Independent Redistricting Commission): Establishes the Hamilton C. Horton Jr. Independent Redistricting Commission. No WNC co-sponsors.
And takes away the right for a simple card check. Bravo, GOP!
Just give up and get over it and let people do who they want to do. FFS, it doesn't hurt you, it doesn't hurt anyone you know. It doesn't hurt anyone. There's not a single rational reason to deny people the right to marry based on as idiotic a concept as gender.
The bit in italics. That's why it's funny.
Thanks Nelda for reminding us there's more to news than the latest tweet about the latest rally to protest the previous latest rally about something totally inconsequential.


It's funny how this song keeps coming back around. It came on when I was in the car on Monday night, and the tears started rolling. I have more to say about it, but right now doesn't seem like the right time.


In this post we are sharing a PDF of Banking Awareness which is very useful for IBPS PO and clerk 2017 Examination. This pdf is compiled by Oliveboard and forwarded to us for sharing with QMaths followers. You may download it from the link provided below.


The day was hot and palpable. The two-week lull seemed to have arrived as Cabins spent a more mellow time in camp and prepared for the stellar trips planned ahead.
We said see ya later to Cabin 4 as they set out to the Kinsman Range today! They were excited to be going hiking for 3 days, sleeping under the stars in their tents.
This morning Cabin Woodshed made a commemorative plaque for their kickball win against ZA. They are also plotting to play another epic game later this week.
Cabin 3 did some arts and crafts in the morning, carving and painting boxes. After they played some board games and did some reading.
Cabin 7 played card games all morning with Wils and then played some Gaga!
The climbing tower was used once again by Cabin 2 and Lael. Each camper was able to get to the top of each route!
Cabins 10 and ZA went to Bald Ledge for a day of rock climbing. From the top of the ledge, you can see Lake Ossipee and a majority of Freedom. What a great spot for climbing!
Everyone went to splash around in the lake in the afternoon to cool off after yet another hot day. Cragged ball was played for After Supper Super leading into an energetic Assembly.
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Finally a very portable and economical way to record procedures in High Def for teaching and documentation.
Straight Digital Output – No conversion!
I think these folks are going to sell a bunch of these to dentists and with more sales, the prices will come down.