Well, my nice DNS service with two secondaries and a primary is all well and good, but my logs are now scattered across three machines. If I want to play with the stats or diagnose a problem or see when something went wrong, I now have to grep around on three different machines.
A side benefit of using syslog to accumulate my dns logs is that they'll now be timestamped so I can do more sophisticated data analysis if I ever get a Round Tuit.
Declare a "facility" in syslog that DNS can write to. For historical reasons (Hi, Eric!) syslog has a limited number of separate facilities that can accumulate logs. The configuration file links sources to facilities, allowing the configuration master to do various clever filtering of the log messages that come in.
Restart both bind9 and rsyslogd to get everything working.
The logging for Bind9 is specified in a file called at /etc/bind/named.conf.local. The default setup involves appending log records to a file named /var/log/named/query.log.
We'll keep using that file for our logs going forward, since some other housekeeping knows about that location and no one else is intent on interfering with it.
Because I have decided to use the facility named local6 for DNS.
In order to make the rsyslogd daemon on flapjack listen to messages from DNS, I have to declare the facility active.
The syslog service on flapjack is provided by a server called rsyslogd. It's an alternative to the other two main stream syslog products – syslog-ng and sysklogd. I picked rsyslogd because it comes as the standard logging service on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, the distros I am using in my house. You might call me lazy, you might call me pragmatic, but don't call me late for happy hour.
Actually, this Makefile ends up in ~/projects/r/rsyslog/flapjack, since waffle and pancake will end up with different rsyslogd configurations and I separate the different control directories this way.
With a restart of each of the appropriate daemons, we're off to the races and the new logs appear in the log file. I needed to change the ownership of the /var/log/named/query.log from bind to syslog in order for the new writer to be able to write, but that was the work of a moment.
Now comes the task of making the logs from the two secondary DNS servers go across the network to flapjack. This involved a lot of little bits and pieces.
First of all, I had to tell the rsyslogd daemon on flapjack to listen to the rsyslog UDP port. I could have turned on the more reliable TCP logging facility or the even more reliable queueing facility, but let's get real. These are DNS query logs we're talking about. I don't really care if some of them fall on the floor. And anyway, the traffic levels on donner.lan are so low that I'd be very surprised if the loss rate is significant anyway.
One more restart of rsyslogd on flapjack and we're good to go.
The next step is to make the DNS name service on waffle and pancake send their logs to the local6 facility. In addition, I had to set up rsyslog on waffle and flapjack with a local6 facility, though this time the facility has to know to send the logs across to flapjack by UDP rather than writing locally.
The change to the named.conf.local file for waffle and pancake's DNS secondary service was identical to the change to flapjack's primary service, so kudos to the designers of bind9 and syslogd for good modularization.
Notice that the @ tells rsyslogd to forward logs to local6 via UDP. I could have put the IP address of flapjack right after the @ or I could have put in flapjack. Instead, I created a DNS listing for a service host named syslog … it happens to have the same IP address as flapjack, but it gives me a level of indirection if I should desire to relocate the syslog service to another host.
With a restart of rsyslogd and bind9 on both waffle and pancake, we are up and running. All DNS logs are now consolidated on a single host, namely flapjack.


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Dell Inspiron Zino HD refresh to include Phenom II CPU, Radeon 5450 discrete graphics options
The Zino HD is Dell's small-form-factor, living-room-friendly desktop and Mac Mini competitor. It appears that there's a refresh on the horizon for the mini-PC, which will include updated processor and discrete graphics options from AMD and ATI.
Written by Sean Portnoy, Contributor on Aug. 3, 2010
Currently, the Zino makes use of older AMD Athlon CPUs and integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics. But Hexus.net found a Dell tech support document that lays out updated specs for the next-generation system. These include AMD Phenom II tri-core and quad-core CPU options, along with newer Radeon 4250 integrated graphics. In addition, there's an option for the Radeon 5450 discrete graphics if you want a little gaming power.
Other specs seem in line with the current Zino offerings: up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray drive option, built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, and a single hard drive slot. In comparison, the Mac Mini uses older Intel Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics, but doesn't offer a Blu-ray upgrade -- and has a much higher price tag.
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MOVIN' ON UP! DEGREE ATTAINMENT RATES ON THE RISE IN FLORIDA'S TOP METRO AREAS
By FutureMakers Coalition June 8, 2015 News
Degree attainment rates are up in seven of Florida's top eight metro areas, according to the Lumina Foundation's latest Stronger Nation report.
Florida has eight of the nation's 100 most populated metro areas in the nation, but last year had only one in the top 50 in degree attainment (Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford). Currently, Florida now has three metro areas in the top 50.
The Florida metro area with the greatest gains was Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, increasing 1.1% to 40.6%. Now the state's most educated metro area, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville leads Orlando (40.6%) and Miami (40.5%) metros by a small margin. To see changes at each of Florida's top metro areas, scroll through the infographic below.


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Artificial intelligence in waste management
Efficient waste management is one of the great challenges of our time—and new digital technologies can make life much easier for municipalities, residents and companies. The spectrum of innovations ranges from smart waste containers to self-learning sorting technologies.
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From smart waste containers to self-learning sorting technologies.
Just as any other sector, the waste and recycling industry is trying to exploit the opportunities offered by digitalization. One example: for a number of years there have been various ideas to make waste containers "smart" by means of sensors, data processing and communication technologies. In many cases, start-ups are at the forefront of this development, for instance the Polish founding team of Bin-e: the young company created an intelligent waste container that uses artificial intelligence to automatically separate the waste into different groups and additionally compress them. A level sensor informs the disposal company when the container should be emptied.
On-demand service in waste management
This "on-demand service", which other companies also offer as a core element of their digital waste management solutions, can already be used in a number of areas—for instance, at depot container sites on public roads or in the industry, for example, for large containers for glass and paper. "However, further analysis is needed to assess whether this sensor technology also has positive ecological and economic effects when used for domestic waste collection," emphasizes Patrick Hasenkamp, Vice President of the Association of Local Utilities (VKU). In the worst case, a demand-driven service could cause more transport operations than the normal collection. Waste containers equipped with level sensors are currently being tested in Bochum and Darmstadt.
Construction site waste management by app
Digitalization can also be the key to completely new, successful business models in the waste management landscape. One such is Wastebox.biz. This app allows (construction) companies to easily, quickly and transparently organize the disposal of their construction waste with the smartphone. In just a few minutes, the program reports orders directly to the nearby drivers of regional waste disposal companies. "This improved logistics system helps to reduce traffic volumes and thus carbon dioxide emissions, especially in cities and municipalities," says Christina Homann, Managing Director of Wastebox Deutschland GmbH. The company is a merger of Veolia and Pink Robin GmbH, a subsidiary of Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG from Austria. The wastebox.biz platform has been in existence in Austria for over three years and on an international expansionary course since its partnership with Veolia in 2018.
Adaptive robot gripper arm sorts lightweight packaging
In plastic recycling, the aim is to further optimize sorting—and to do so as economically as possible. Here too, artificial intelligence is a promising tool for the future. In its light packaging sorting plant in Leipzig, where a sensor-supported robot gripper arm has been tested since November 2018, the Alba Group shows how this can look like. Currently, the task of the fast picker is to distinguish between silicone cartridges and polyethylene packaging and to sort them out—a task that commercially available near-infrared separators, for example, are not capable of. With this innovative system, a sensor unit mounted above the sorting belt scans the incoming waste and detects its characteristics. Instead of following a programmed routine, a software processes the sensor data in real time. The robot arm then receives a command to grab the target object and carry it to the correct container. "The system is capable of learning—and thus it is also equipped for new challenges," says René Ottlinger. The Technical Director at Alba continues: "At best, this technology enables us to react flexibly to changes in the material flow and the entire recycling process."


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Home FRONT PAGE FEATURE SLIDESHOW Sasaki & Associates unveil Master Plan design for Webster University
Sasaki & Associates unveil Master Plan design for Webster University
Haley Luke
Sasaki & Associates unveiled the design to recreate Webster University during two meetings Tuesday, Feb. 21. Sasaki, a firm out of Boston and San Francisco, was hired in July to create a new master plan for the university. The group is nearing the end of the "Documentation Phase" — the third phase of four — to revamp the campus. The plan will be carried out over a span of 15 years or more.
Faculty were invited to the first presentation of the master plan. The session was held in the Library Conference room at 4 p.m., and approximately 25 faculty members attended. A separate presentation was held for the Webster Grove community the same evening at 7 p.m. in the Winnifred Moore Auditorium. Sasaki & Associates elaborated on the areas of the university that would be affected by the plan: academic, residence facilities, parking and transportation, landscaping, dining, student recreation and commons areas.
Over the past several months, Sasaki collected data and research through surveys sent to students, faculty and the Webster Groves community. The overall goal of the design is to increase
ALEX BRANDT / THE JOURNAL Members of Sasaki & Associates present the master plan to faculty Feb. 21.
connectivity of the home campus while effectively using space the university currently owns. It also plans to accommodate the expected increase of enrollment and academic programs. With these goals in mind, the plan calls for co-locating related programs and services in the same facilities.
Based on the survey results, students requested more spaces for socialization. Sasaki proposed a new student center on the corner of Edgar Road and Big Bend Boulevard. The new center could include lounge areas, office spaces, meeting and presentation rooms, the bookstore and an expanded dining area. The Multicultural Center and Counseling and Health Services are also proposed to move from their current location on Garden Avenue and into the student center for centralization.
"Consolidating a lot of different functions that serve students and campus population generally as a meeting space can be a really important achievement. They've done some thinking for us that can create a lot of possibilities and decisions to make," said Bruce Umbaugh, professor in the department of philosophy. The plan also calls for a new 80,000 square-foot building that would house the interdisciplinary sciences departments, which are currently located in Webster Hall along with the School of Education.
The English department, now in the Pearson House, would also reside within this new building. The building would be located behind the proposed student center. The building would provide updated lab facilities, classrooms and offices for the science department.
In turn, the Sam Priest House off Big Bend would be renovated and the Pearson House would be demolished. Some faculty within the English department voiced frustration about Pearson being demolished, as the building is a historic home. Concerns about the English department moving into the new building designated for interdisciplinary sciences also arose because of severe differences in departmental needs.
The district that would house the interdisciplinary sciences academic building and the student commons building would also provide another outdoor quad area for students and faculty to socialize. This landscaping would help connect the area on the east side of Edgar Road with the west side, where the current quad lies. Sverdrup would continue to undergo renovations to accommodate the School of Communications, and the Visual Art Studio would be renovated and expanded. The building could eventually become a student recreation center with a fitness facility and an outdoor area for extra recreation. The current UC would be expanded to become the new building for art students, according to the Sasaki proposal.
To help connect the two quads on either side of Edgar Road, Sasaki proposed a paving treatment that would create safer pedestrian crossing. This paving would slow traffic at the intersection of Edgar Road and Big Bend Boulevard. Slowing of traffic was a major concern for residents of Webster Groves. David and Lynette Andre are Webster Groves residents and expressed worry about potential traffic hold-ups.
"My biggest concern is the traffic. It's already bad now. Unless they come up with an alternative way to get across (Interstate)44 from this side of town, it's going to be pretty tough to get by that road," said David Andre. "I understand what they're trying to do and the motivation, but there has to be a practical alternative."
Plans to expand parking options were also discussed in the presentation. The parking garage would be expanded to the east and more parking spaces would be added where the Kirk House currently is. This would call for destruction of that building. The Andres expressed concern that, even with extra parking on campus, students who do not purchase parking passes will continue to park on residential streets.
"We've been (on Bompart Street) 12 years and we've seen the parking go further and further down our street. We can't even see the end of it anymore," said Lynette Andre.
Within Webster Hall, the School of Education could expand office areas. Offices located in Garden Park Plaza, like Academic Advising and Career Services, could move into Webster Hall. The IT department on campus is currently located in various facilities around campus. The Sasaki design would consolidate all IT-related areas and move them to Luhr Library in Eden Seminary, across Lockwood Avenue.
Nothing else would be added to that location, which relieved residents who believed Webster was planning to expand on Eden property.
"Our original reason for getting involved in this is because we're across the street from the green space (by Eden Seminary). We were worried that there were buildings that were going to be built on that land," said David Andre. "After the presentation, I came away with relief that they were talking about using the Luhr Library and not about taking up green space."
The timeline of construction of any renovations or new facilities is unknown. Sasaki & Associates is currently in the process of communicating the plan with the university and the Webster Groves community for feedback.
"The next step will be to evaluate and make refinements and for the university to direct us to establish the final direction the master plan takes. It all depends on the final decision the university," said Michael Mindlin of Jacobs, an associate of Sasaki. "It's their decision to make."
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Rapid and effective control of agitated patients is crucial for ensuring their safety and proper management. We present a case series of 12 agitated psychiatric patients who were suitable for treatment with inhaled loxapine in the prehospital emergency setting. Two refused its administration and two required additional treatment. Loxapine was effective within 2–10 minutes, with no adverse effects or sedation. In our experience the use of inhaled loxapine enabled rapid and non-coercive control of agitation in most psychiatric patients, allowing us to avoid mechanical restraint and injectable drugs, and facilitating the transportation and transfer of the patients.
The options for managing psychiatric agitation are limited and include verbal de-escalation, pharmacologic control ("rapid tranquilization") and physical restraints.3-8 Although various drugs can be given to control agitation, there is no consensus on which is the best option to manage agitation in the prehospital setting. The route of administration and how to determine which patients require sedation have also been the subject of debate.6, 7 In this regard, in 2012 a workgroup of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry issued a consensus statement about Project BETA, the Best Practices in Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation in the emergency department.5, 9 This consensus discussed the best-practice pharmacologic approaches to use when agitation requires emergency management before stabilizing the underlying etiology. Among them is a new formulation of a previously extensively marketed antipsychotic, inhaled loxapine, considered a good option in cooperative agitated patients in some cases.5 The efficacy and safety of inhaled loxapine has been demonstrated in the emergency and hospital setting,10 although experience in the prehospital field is limited.
We present a case series of 12 agitated psychiatric patients who were suitable for treatment with inhaled loxapine in the prehospital setting by the Zaragoza (Spain) Fire Department EMS from December 2015 to July 2016. Our EMS covers a catchment area of around 700,000 inhabitants. Patients are attended by a team comprising a physician, a nurse and a paramedic.
Inhaled loxapine was used in patients with agitation related to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder. Patients with agitation not related to psychotic disease or with clinically significant acute or chronic pulmonary disease were not treated with inhaled loxapine.
The decision to treat each patient was based on the discretion of the attending physician. The psychiatric diagnosis was either reported by the family or caregiver, by medical discharge report, or already recorded in our files of previously known patients. Clinical diagnosis of agitation due to psychotic disease, absence of respiratory symptoms and absence of overt drug intoxication were confirmed during the verbal de-escalation procedure.
Agitation intensity was assessed on-site with the Clinical Global Impression–Severity scale (CGI–S),11 and with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale–Excited Component (PANSS–EC)12 during the debriefing of each case, back at the EMS base. The PANSS-EC evaluates acute agitation in psychiatric patients and consists of five items: excitement, tension, hostility, uncooperativeness, and poor impulse control. Each item is rated from 1 (not present) to 7 (extremely severe) and total PANSS-EC scores range from 5 to 35; scores above 25–30 correspond to severe agitation in clinical practice. The CGI-Severity scale (CGI-S) asks the clinician one question: "Considering your total clinical experience with this particular population, how mentally ill is the patient at this time?" which is rated on the following seven-point scale: 1=normal, not at all ill; 2=borderline mentally ill; 3=mildly ill; 4=moderately ill; 5=markedly ill; 6=severely ill; 7=among the most extremely ill patients.
Patient characteristics and treatment responses are shown in table. Regarding the severity of agitation, two patients were classified as "mild," two as "moderate," two as "moderately severe," three as "severe" and, finally, three patients presented with "extreme agitation." After initial verbal de-escalation was performed in all patients, inhaled loxapine was offered and administered to all patients except for two, both rated as "extremely agitated," who required mechanical restraint and additional treatment with intranasal midazolam (10 mg) and intravenous haloperidol (10 mg). Most patients (8/10, 80%) received just one dose of inhaled loxapine, which was effective within minutes after administration (mean: 6 minutes, range: 2–10 minutes). Two patients required additional medication (intranasal midazolam) to control agitation. All patients were safely transported and transferred to the hospital within 30–45 minutes. No clinically significant adverse events were observed.
TableCharacteristics and treatment response of agitated patients treated with inhaled loxapine in the prehospital setting.
F, female; M, male; BPD, bipolar disorder; SCAD, schizoaffective disorder; SCZD, schizophrenia; CGI, Clinical Global Impression; PANSS-EC, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale–Excited Component. *Patients no. 4 and 5 refused treatment with inhaled loxapine. †10 minutes after loxapine administration, 5 mg of intranasal midazolam was also administered to the patient. ‡Agitation intensity after midazolam CGI = 1, PANSS-EC = 9. §Agitation intensity after midazolam CGI = 1, PANSS-EC = 6.
To our knowledge, this case series represents the first report of inhaled loxapine use in agitated patients in the prehospital setting. In our experience, inhaled loxapine was rapid, effective, well-tolerated and accepted by most patients, even in those severely agitated.
Agitated patients are seen frequently in emergency medical systems, and the risk of agitation escalating to aggressive and violent behavior demands rapid control of these patients.
This is the first report of an emergency medical services clinical experience using inhaled loxapine in agitated patients in a prehospital setting.
Inhaled loxapine allows a rapid and non-coercive control of agitation in certain psychiatric patients.
In prehospital settings, the use of inhaled loxapine can replace the use of mechanical restraint and injectable drugs, thus facilitating patient transfer to the hospital.
After initial verbal de-escalation, we were able to convince all but two patients to use inhaled loxapine. The two patients who refused treatment were extremely agitated, and it was not possible to avoid restraining them. However, one additional patient who was in the same extreme state was persuaded through verbal de-escalation to use inhaled loxapine. In that case, as in another severely agitated patient, the rapid partial effect of inhaled loxapine allowed us to administer other non-coercive, more sedative medication, such as intranasal midazolam, without restraining them. This reinforces the notion that using non-invasive formulations improves the overall patient experience and furthers cooperation between patients and healthcare providers.
In our patients no adverse reactions occurred and, significantly, we observed no over-sedation. Patients who received inhaled loxapine were easily transported and transferred, calm and awake, to the hospital in a suitable state for a formal psychiatric evaluation and proper treatment. Using inhaled loxapine could result in an improvement of the patient's subsequent clinical management and shorten his length of stay in the ED, alleviating the burden on prehospital and ED staff.
While this case series reports a new approach for the immediate treatment of agitated patients in the prehospital setting, some limitations should be discussed. First, the lack of an active control did not allow for any direct comparison with existing treatments for agitation. And because psychiatric diagnoses were based mainly on family reports and through our clinical assessment during the verbal de-escalation procedure, other psychiatric comorbidities could not be ruled out. Finally, there was no patient follow-up following hospital transfer. Therefore, the absence of intoxication was not confirmed by tests and thus was not assessed.
Despite the limitations noted above, these initial case reports in a prehospital setting indicate that inhaled loxapine may represent an improvement in the management of certain agitated patients in this setting. Therefore, self-harm and associated problems may be considerably reduced. Future studies with a larger number of subjects and comparison with injectable as well as oral medications to control agitation are needed to corroborate these benefits.
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2. San L, Marksteiner J, Zwanzger P, et al. State of acute agitation at psychiatric emergencies in Europe: the STAGE study. Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health. 2016;12:75-86.
3. Zun L. Care of psychiatric patients: the challenge to emergency physicians. West J Emerg Med. 2016;17(2):173-6.
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5. Zeller SL, Citrome L. Managing Agitation associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the emergency setting. West J Emerg Med. 2016;17(2):165-72.
6. Scheppke KA, Braghiroli J, Shalaby M, et al. Prehospital use of IM ketamine for sedation of violent and agitated patients. West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(7):736-41.
7. Weiss S, Peterson K, Cheney P, et al. The use of chemical restraints reduces agitation in patients transported by emergency medical services. J Emerg Med. 2012;43(5):820-8.
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New agency for strategic initiatives to help "talented youth"
Published time: 18 May, 2011 08:47 Edited time: 18 May, 2011 13:55
The agency for strategic initiatives could become a good social elevation mechanism for young people
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that a new innovation agency should be launched at the end of May and a contest be held to choose its head.
The Agency for Strategic Initiatives should be launched on May 25, Putin said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Such an agency could be instituted by the government and would report directly to the prime minister, Putin said.
He floated the idea to establish a body to support innovative initiatives during a conference of the party he heads, United Russia, in Volgograd on May 6.
Putin reminded the ministers that the agency would have three divisions, responsible for new practical initiatives, the assessment of qualifications and promoting social projects for health, arts and education sector employees.
The agreement already exists with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to develop such a qualification system, Putin said, but added that "unfortunately, the work is going slowly."
To support specific projects, the agency will have to build a regional network. As for personnel for the agency, they must be selected by independent experts through a procedure "as transparently as possible," Putin stressed. A special website for personnel selection will be set up for candidates to bid for agency jobs.
Putin suggested that the agency director and the heads of the three divisions be filled through a competition open for all interested people starting on May 25. For that day, the official presentation of the new body is scheduled. The criteria for the personnel selection is successful professional experience and performance.
The new agency could become a good social elevation mechanism for young people because currently many positions suitable for them have been taken, which slows their careers, the prime minister believes.
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QuantumSphere secures patent for new Ammonia production technology
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has approved the patent application of proprietary catalysts producer QuantumSphere for its advanced FeNIX nanocatalyst accelerator technology for ammonia production.
The next-generation ammonia production technology involves application of iron nanocatalysts, applied as a coating onto existing commercial ammonia catalysts, to increase catalytic activity and production efficiency in ammonia synthesis.
QuantumSphere president and CEO Kevin Maloney said: "We are very pleased to receive the notice of allowance from the USPTO for this patent application, which further strengthens our market position to improve production efficiencies in large-scale chemical plants.
"We are very pleased to receive the notice of allowance from the USPTO for this patent application."
"Our growing intellectual property portfolio now protects our proprietary nanocatalyst manufacturing process as well as the commercial end-use application in ammonia synthesis."
QuantumSphere provides proprietary catalysts to boost production and efficiencies of large chemical facilities, such as ammonia.
It supplies products that use its patented technology to produce unique high surface-area catalyst accelerator technology, which improves existing catalyst performance.
According to the company, around $100bn worth of ammonia is produced per year, out of which 80% is used as fertiliser for crop production.
Ammonia production is said to require high amounts of energy, and consumes around 5% of world's natural gas supply.
During the test by QuantumSphere and a partner in early 2015, the technology increased the catalytic activity and production output by 10% to 15%, without requiring any modifications to the ammonia production facilities.
QuantumSphere Operations vice-president Matthew Griffith said: "One key advantage of the FeNIX nanocatalyst coating is that we are enhancing, not replacing, existing technologies.
"By increasing the performance of standard commercial catalyst, we offer a competitive advantage to our partners. This means that we are partnering with, not competing with, key industry players."
The company is now collaborating with Casale for commercialisation of FeNIX technology, which is expected in the second half of this year.
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Title: Salt in Stools is associated with obesity, Gut Halophilic Microbiota and Akkermansia muciniphila depletion in Humans
I have recently completed a Ph.D. degree in microbiology specializing in infectious diseases at Aix-Marseille University, France. I am very much interested in the field of gut microbiome research and antibiotic resistance. I have a dual competence as a pharmacist and microbiologist. I mainly worked in the exploration of the gut microbiota by culture and metagenomics and the implication of the digestive microbiota in metabolic diseases such as diabetes and in infectious diseases. Therefore, I have strong technical skills in the culture and identification of microorganisms, molecular biology techniques, and bioinformatics. I'm one of the pioneer students who worked on the microbial culturomics, a concept initiated by Prof. Didier RAOULT.
High salt intake has been linked to several diseases including obesity and an increased risk of death; however, fecal salinity and the ability of salt to alter the gut microbiota, which was recently identified as an instrumental factor for health and disease, remains poorly explored. We analyzed fecal samples of 1,326 human individuals for salinity and gut microbiota by culturomics and metagenomics. Geographical origin, age, gender, and obesity were tested as predictors of fecal salinity and halophilic diversity. All halophilic isolates were characterized by taxonogenomics and their genome sequenced. Fecal salinity was associated with obesity independently of geographical origin, gender, and age. The first 2 human-associated halophilic archaeal members were isolated along with 64 distinct halophilic species, including 21 new species and 41 known in the environment but not in humans. No halophiles grow in less than 1.5% salinity. Above this threshold, the richness of the halophilic microbiota was correlated with fecal salinity (r = 0.58, p < .0001). Metagenomics linked high fecal salinity to decreased diversity (linear regression, p < .035) and a depletion in anti-obesity Akkermansia muciniphila and Bifidobacterium, specifically B. longum and B. adolescentis. Genomics analysis suggested that halophilic microbes are not only transient passengers but may be residents of the human gut. High salt levels strongly alter the gut microbial ecosystem and are associated with the human halophilic microbiota, discovered in this study. Further studies should clarify if the gut microbiota alterations associated with high salt levels and the human halophilic microbiota could be causally related to human diseases, such as stomach cancer and obesity.


Note that by default, curl uses Connection: keep-alive. In order to make the HEAD method return right away, you'll need to pass Connection: close.
Since curl is often used with REST APIs, restify's plugins include a plugin to work around this idiosyncrasy in curl. The plugin checks whether the user agent is curl. If it is, it sets the Connection header to "close" and removes the "Content-Length" header.
All three handler chains accept either a single function, multiple functions, or an array of functions.
The pre handler chain is executed before routing. That means these handlers will execute for an incoming request even if it's for a route that you did not register. This can be useful for logging metrics or for cleaning up the incoming request before routing it.
The use handler chains is executed after a route has been chosen to service the request. Function handlers that are attached via the use() method will be run for all routes. Since restify runs handlers in the order they are registered, make sure that all your use() calls happen before defining any routes.
Upon completion of each function in the handler chain, you are responsible for calling next(). Calling next() will move to the next function in the chain.
Unlike other REST frameworks, calling res.send() does not trigger next() automatically. In many applications, work can continue to happen after res.send(), so flushing the response is not synonymous with completion of a request.
The difference between the two is that invoking next() with an Error object allows you to leverage the server's event emitter. This enables you to handle all occurrences of an error type using a common handler. See the error handling section for more details.
Lastly, you can call next.ifError(err) with an Error object to cause restify to throw, bringing down the process. This can be useful if you an Error is surfaced that cannot be handled, requiring you to kill the process.
restify routing, in 'basic' mode, is pretty much identical to express/sinatra, in that HTTP verbs are used with a parameterized resource to determine what chain of handlers to run. Values associated with named placeholders are available in req.params. Those values will be URL-decoded before being passed to you.
Would result in req.params being foo and req.params being my/cats/name/is/gandalf.
Routes can be specified by any of the following http verbs - del, get, head, opts, post, put, and patch.
If a parameterized route was defined with a string (not a regex), you can render it from other places in the server. This is useful to have HTTP responses that link to other resources, without having to hardcode URLs throughout the codebase. Both path and query strings parameters get URL encoded appropriately.
"message": "~3 is not supported by GET /hello/mark"
In the first case, we didn't specify an Accept-Version header at all, so restify treats that like sending a *. Much as not sending an Accept header means the client gets the server's choice. Restify will choose this highest matching route. In the second case, we explicitly asked for for V1, which got us response a response from the version 1 handler function, but then we asked for V2 and got back JSON. Finally, we asked for a version that doesn't exist and got an error.
Incoming HTTP requests that contain a Connection: Upgrade header are treated somewhat differently by the node HTTP server. If you want restify to push Upgrade requests through the regular routing chain, you need to enable handleUpgrades when creating the server.
To determine if a request is eligible for Upgrade, check for the existence of res.claimUpgrade(). This method will return an object with two properties: the socket of the underlying connection, and the first received data Buffer as head (may be zero-length).
Once res.claimUpgrade() is called, res itself is marked unusable for further HTTP responses; any later attempt to send() or end(), etc, will throw an Error. Likewise if res has already been used to send at least part of a response to the client, res.claimUpgrade() will throw an Error. Upgrades and regular HTTP Response behaviour are mutually exclusive on any particular connection.
If a content-type can't be determined, then restify will respond with an error.
If a content-type can be negotiated, restify then determines what formatter to use to format the response's content.
If no formatter matching the content-type can be found, restify will by default override the response's content-type to 'application/octet-stream' and then error if no formatter is found for that content-type.
This default behavior can be changed by passing strictFormatters: false (default is false) when creating the restify server instance. In that case, if no formatter is found for the negotiated content-type, the response is flushed without applying any formatter.
The restify response object retains has all the "raw" methods of a node ServerResponse on it as well.
It is common to want to handle an error conditions the same way. As an example, you may want to serve a 500 page on all InternalServerErrors. In this case, you can add a listener for the InternalServer error event that is always fired when this Error is encountered by restify as part of a next(error) statement. This gives you a way to handle all errors of the same class identically across the server. You can also use a generic restifyError event which will catch errors of all types.
// object being passed to res.send, which in this case, is the error object.
// this listener will fire after both events above!
If you want to use custom errors, make sure you have toJSON defined, or use restify-error's makeConstructor() method to automatically create Errors that are supported with with toJSON.
restify-errors provides constructors that inherit from either HttpError or RestError. All HttpErrors have a numeric http statusCode and body properties. The statusCode will automatically set the HTTP response status code, and the body attribute by default will be the message.
All status codes between 400 and 5xx are automatically converted into an HttpError with the name being 'PascalCase' and spaces removed. For the complete list, take a look at the node source.
From that code above 418: I'm a teapot would be ImATeapotError, as an example.
"message": "I just don't like you"
The constructor takes message, statusCode, restCode, and context options. Please check out the restify-errors repo for more information.


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I love strawberry season. There's no perfume in the world as wonderful as driving home from town with a flat of strawberries in a warm car! Love it.
Did you see the finale of Dancing With The Stars? I thought for sure that Giles would win but was quite happy for Shane and Mark. I don't get to vote since I watch it on my computer the day after, but that's good, too, because I'd have a hard time deciding! But that's my "tv" for the season, the only one I watch.


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Nyrstar out to consolidate zinc industry
September 4, 2007 — 9.04pm
Newly formed smelting group, Nyrstar, the world's largest producer of zinc metal, says it is plans to play a leading role in the consolidation of the industry.
Nyrstar was created on Tuesday after Zinifex Ltd completed the transfer and merger of its zinc and lead smelting division with the assets of Belgium's Umicore.
The new company will be incorporated in Belgium and headquartered in London, with operations in Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, China and United States.
The group will also have a 24.9 per cent interest in Padaeng Industry Public Company Ltd in Thailand.
Nyrstar chief executive Paul Fowler said the company expected to take a leading role in the consolidation of the zinc industry.
"As the largest producer of zinc in the world, we expect to play a leading role in the development of the industry, including to consolidate the currently fragmented zinc industry," Mr Fowler said.
Nyrstar is equally owned by Zinifex and Umicore, which are planning to undertake an initial public offer and float the company on the Euronext exchange.
The float is expected to be launched in late October or early November at an estimated value of about $4 billion.
Zinifex contributed 60 per cent of the assets to the new company, but it will be structured on an equal ownership with a payment to be made to Zinifex from debt raised by Nyrstar.
Nyrstar chairman Julien De Wilde said the company's extensive asset base positioned the group in a commanding position to take advantage of the zinc market.
"The creation of Nyrstar builds on the long heritage of zinc production in Belgium and combines it with high-quality assets from Australia and around the world," Mr De Wilde said.
"Our very experienced and skilled team, combined with our extensive asset base, means that we are in an excellent position to realise the potential of the global zinc market."
Nyrstar will also be one of the largest primary lead smelting and refining companies in the world.


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Members of the House,
We were shocked to learn of the despicable attack on the American Consulate-General in Benghazi and of the deaths of the American Ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens, and members of his staff. At this difficult time our thoughts are with our American friends. We mourn Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues. Our sympathy goes out to their friends and loved ones. We condemn the violent attacks on the United States' diplomatic missions in Benghazi and Cairo in the strongest possible terms. We call on the Libyan Government to ensure that these crimes are fully investigated. The perpetrators must receive their due punishment. I strongly urge the Libyan and Egyptian Governments to fully guarantee the security of embassies, consulates and their staff in their countries.
I want to state quite clearly that we will resolutely oppose any attempt to offend the sensibilities of others or to undermine peaceful interfaith relations. However, we are united in our view that the response to such provocations cannot be violence. There is absolutely no justification whatever for the murders of the American Ambassador and three members of his staff, which were confirmed just a few hours ago.
We sense when we talk about the Arab Spring that, in truth, we should be talking about Arab seasons. Just as the freedom movements on our continent were far from identical in every country – and we Germans are especially aware of that – the transition, the movement for change in the Arab world, has not had the same pattern or happened at the same speed or in the same way everywhere.
Some countries chose revolution. They include Tunisia, for example, which despite everything that has still not been put right, are becoming more and more of a model for many other countries and their freedom movements. There are countries such as Egypt which have struck out in a new direction. Despite all the great difficulties it faces, I would like to point out that Egypt has a democratically elected President for the first time in its history. That deserves our respect and recognition despite all the weaknesses and, indeed, things worthy of criticism – I'm thinking here of the role of the German political foundations in Egypt – which we don't like and feel the need to comment on.
In Libya, we see that freedom has not yet taken root, as was made clear by these terrible attacks. We see evolutionary developments in the Arab world; I'm thinking here, for example, of the Moroccans, as well as of the Gulf region. We see that these countries have embarked upon different paths. However, these developments all have one thing in common: they show that people are clamouring for freedom and new life chances. A state which denies its citizens freedom can ignore many things but not demographic developments. These countries have a growing number of young people and they're looking for ways to get on in life. They're not only asking for political and democratic participation but, in truth, also better economic and social opportunities for themselves and their families. We shouldn't forget that the demonstrations in Tunisia were a protest against poverty and repression.
That's why it's important to me – even if we're understandably very much occupied with our own European problems at present – that we don't forget the historic changes currently taking place in our backyard. As we ourselves struggled for democracy in 1989/1990, we have an obligation to stand by nations which are striving for democracy, the rule of law, plurality, and expressly also religious plurality, which are daring to embrace sweeping change. We stand shoulder to shoulder with these transition countries. Even if we ourselves have problems, we haven't forgotten the freedom movements in our neighbourhood.
The situation in Syria is still appalling. We all agree that not only the violence in Syria but also the international community's lack of effectiveness have thrown up many questions.
There's no doubt that Assad's time is up. We'll have to wait and see when exactly he is forced to abandon power. Hopefully, it will be soon. Hopefully, it will be quick. The sooner Russia and China stop supporting the Assad regime, the quicker the violence will come to an end.
We have a strategic partnership with Moscow and Beijing. However, that won't stop us criticizing the obstructive stance adopted by Russia and China in the UN Security Council loudly and clearly.
It's important that we work to bring together and unite the opposition forces in Syria and help them to agree on a platform. It's not enough to simply be the opposition to something, in this case Assad's brutal regime. It's equally important to stand up for something, to point to alternatives and help foster the process of erosion in the regime's inner circle. We're promoting democracy, the rule of law, plurality and, not least, religious tolerance. We want a new Syria, we want a free Syria and we want to help bring it about. However, it must be a Syria in which all religions and all ethnic groups have a place, in which they can practise their faith and live their lives freely and without hindrance. We're therefore also entering into partnerships of values.
We all sense that the Middle East has an extremely testing time ahead. The situation in our immediate neighbourhood is dangerous. Although most members of this House are rejoicing at today's ruling in favour of Europe, it's crucial that we don't underestimate the risks in neighbouring countries. We have to take a closer look and be clear that peace is hanging in the balance. It's not certain that developments in many of these countries will be peaceful. That applies not only to Syria and the ongoing violence there but also to Iran.
Having repeatedly advocated on the international stage during the last few years that we reach out to Iran and state our readiness to enter into negotiations, I say: negotiations are not an end in themselves. We won't accept negotiations which are merely a means of playing for time. A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable to us, not only because we have a special responsibility for Israel's freedom but also because we cannot allow a nuclear arms race to start in the region which will lead one country after another to arm itself with nuclear weapons, with all the risks that involves.
We call upon Iran to comply with international law. Otherwise we'll have to impose tougher sanctions; no other course of action is possible. I want to emphasize and say in all earnest that we want a political and diplomatic solution; it's not too late for that. However, everyone has to be aware that a nuclear-armed Iran is not acceptable. It's not acceptable to Israel, not acceptable to the region and not acceptable if we are to maintain a stable global security architecture.
Finally, I'd like to thank everyone who's worked together with us in the Budget Committee, in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union and in the Subcommittee on Cultural and Education Policy Abroad.
I want to conclude with a comment which goes far beyond the technical aspects of what was said during this morning's debate on the crucial and fortunate ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court: I believe we have to work out together how we're going to rewrite Europe's history, also in the eyes of ordinary citizens. It's not enough to say to young people: Europe is the peaceful answer to centuries of war and confrontation. It's important that we recognize that Europe is not only the response to history, not only the response to the darkest chapter in Germany's history but, in truth, Europe is a community linked by a common destiny, a community with a shared culture.
I've been Foreign Minister for three years now. The increased authority which economic success has brought the new global players, and which I've witnessed during the last three years, has also given them more political clout. No country in Europe can master the challenges of globalization on its own. We can only master them together by pooling our resources. And we can only defend our European model in the face of competition if we enter into partnership with the new global players. We have to put into practice Europe's determination to make it as a European community bound together by a common culture. This is about more than the single market and monetary union.
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Frances J. Head, December 24, 2013. Preceded in death by her husband, Robert P. Head. Survived by her son, R. Steven (Geneva) Head; grandchildren, Robyn Head, Mary Head, Chrissi (Greg) Rodenius, Tim Head; great-grandchildren, Dominik Rodenius, and Arabella Rodenius; brother, Dorris Johnson; sisters, Sue Campbell, Norma Murphy. Visitation will be at Cole & Garrett Funeral Home, Goodlettsville Friday from 4-8pm, and Saturday from 10 am until service time at 12 Noon. Interment Maple Grove Cemetery, Russleville, KY.
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Florida telemarketer, under FTC watch, suffers data breach
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How a bad keystroke can lead you to SpeedUpKit 'scareware'
By Jeremy Kirk
Australia Correspondent, IDG News Service | PT
Dozens of misspelled domain names that spoof major brands are leading unsuspecting PC users to a questionable tune-up application called SpeedUpKit.
Since people are unlikely to seek out the application, its promoters rely partly on people misspelling the domain name for prominent brands to lead them to it. If you try to access the obituary website legacy.com from a Windows PC in the U.S., for instance, but type "legady" by accident, you're likely to end up on a page promoting SpeedUpKit.
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The practice, known as typosquatting, can sometimes violate consumer protection laws or constitute trademark infringement. Big brands police the web for such misspellings, and domain name registrars often try to stop the practice, but it still happens.
SpeedUpKit, which costs US$30, claims to clean registry entries and junk files from a user's PC. But a test of the application showed that it finds hundreds of problems even on a brand new computer.
On a fresh installation of Windows 7, the trial version of SpeedUpKit found 645 issues with the computer's registry. And it flagged the computer's "system registry health status" as "danger" in red capital letters.
Security experts often classify such programs as scareware. They're applications that may have some legitimate functionality, but are really intended to scare non-savvy computer users into buying security products they probably don't need.
Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Wikipedia and the New York Daily News are among the companies that have been targeted by SpeedUpKit for typosquatting, according to DomainTools, a company that provides investigative tools for domain name research.
The domain names were registered by Paul Cozzolino of Boynton Beach, Florida, records show. For example, Cozzolino registered ewwgoogle[dot]com, a variation of google.com.
If browsed in the U.S. on a Windows computer, the site redirects from ewwgoogle[dot]com to systemloginfo[dot]com, which was registered by Cozzolino last month, according to DomainTools. A warning that displays there says the computer's antivirus software may be out of date. Another pop-up says "Please repair MSIE security updates."
If users continue to click through the prompts, SpeedUpKit is downloaded. It offers to fix 10 issues for free, but pushes people to buy the full program.
Cozzolino couldn't be reached for comment despite several attempts by email and phone.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Cozzolino moved from Florida to Portland, Oregon, around October last year. He started a company called CallTactics, which specializes in online advertising and managing inbound calls.
CallTactics worked in part with EZ Tech Support, a Portland-based inbound call center that shut down last week, according to a former EZ Tech employee who requested anonymity.
EZ Tech Support fielded calls from a variety of online advertising campaigns that primarily used adware. In some cases, adware baits people by offering a free utility, such as media player or a security scan, but often pushes paid-for software.
People who called EZ Tech were pushed to buy Defender Pro Antivirus for $300 and a one-time computer servicing for $250.
The FTC has taken a dim view of such schemes. Last November, it filed two federal lawsuits alleging a handful of mostly Florida-based telemarketing and software companies conned people out of $120 million.
The lawsuits alleged the companies falsely convinced people their computers had problems in order to sell them ineffective and overpriced software.
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Is the Professoriate Committing Suicide?
By Ronald Lipsman
Much has been written about the declining number of tenure/tenure-track faculty (TTF) when considered as a percentage of the total instructional faculty on the nation's campuses. That percentage was likely more than 75% several decades ago; it is now in the neighborhood of 30%. (It depends upon whether one computes the percentage based on bodies or instructional hours.)
Let me review the reasons for this shift, then explain why it is a serious problem for higher education, one that I believe TTF have been complicity in creating and perpetuating.
The first reason that is usually cited when the declining TTF issue is explained is cost. If we use the term adjunct faculty (which is widely but not universally accepted) to describe the non-TTF on the nation's campuses, then it is an indisputable fact that TTF salaries far outstrip those of adjunct faculty. At a time when the average TTF salary is approaching six figures – and when "star" faculty often earn more than a quarter million dollars annually, the average adjunct faculty salary is a mere fraction of that, often below $25,000. University administrators are under enormous pressure to keep costs down. Faculty salaries are a huge part of the university budget. Replacing TTF by adjuncts is a tactic that is almost impossible to resist.
A close second among the reasons for the disappearing TTF instructor is the intense competition among the nation's universities to be seen as "one of the best." Universities are judged on the quality of their students and on the quality of their faculty. Regarding the latter, for better or worse, the evaluation is routinely made on the basis of faculty research. Campuses compete to hire and retain the best research faculty and a prime weapon in that competition is the offer of reduced teaching loads. Guess who picks up the slack.
There are a few lesser reasons that reinforce the teaching imbalance between TTF and adjuncts:
Sad to say, but many adjuncts are better teachers than TTF, who, all too often, shirk their teaching duties in favor of their research activities. Furthermore, most research faculty had little teacher training in graduate school, whereas many adjuncts do have such preparation in their backgrounds.
University administrators find adjuncts much easier to manage than TTF; adjuncts are more docile, less demanding and far less likely to question campus initiatives that muck with academic programs.
Many parents have lost faith in American higher education – because of outrageously high costs, worthless degrees awarded to their children and drivel driven into those children's heads by radical (and not so radical) professors. Parents hold the TTF responsible and are not disturbed by their disappearance from the classroom.
The pool of candidates for TTF careers has plateaued as many American youngsters see the requisite credentials as too difficult to obtain and, furthermore, foresee life in a corporate enterprise, small or individually-owned business, or government environment as more accessible and rewarding.
Because of these reasons, some view the declining presence of TTF in university classrooms as not necessarily a bad thing. I disagree. If the trend continues, and the indications are that it will, then the percentage of instructional faculty that are TTF might go as low as 10%. Even at its current low level, it has weakened the faculty as the main branch of the American university. Classically, it was the faculty that ran the university. That is no longer true. The campus agenda – academic and fiscal – is set by university administrators. In a prior essay here I outlined all the negative consequences: polarization of the campus, loosening of academic standards, prohibitive costs, and a major contributor to the next, horrible, fiscal bubble (student debt). Another deleterious consequence is that one of the prime objectives of higher education – namely, fostering interaction between creative faculty and inquisitive students – is drastically undercut.
So the surrender of control of the campus by the faculty to university administrators, both a cause and an effect of the declining TTF percentage, is a shocking and dangerous development. How did this surrender occur? Well, it's not like faculty all over the country woke up one morning and decided to engineer a major change in their job description. No, the process was more nebulous. In mid twentieth century, the campuses of America exploded with huge numbers of new students, new programs, new facilities and of course new personnel. The youth of America saw the good life and good works of university faculty and decided they wanted a piece of that action. The ranks of the TTF grew enormously and for the most part the paradigms of university faculty life remained intact – for a while. But the societal forces that rocked the country in the 60s and 70s had a profound effect on the academy. No tradition was safe. Especially not the traditional mode for the conduct of university life (look at Columbia, 1968 or Cornell, 1969). And here is where the dereliction of duty by the faculty enters the picture. Most faculty were preoccupied with one of two complementary behaviors. Either they were in the vanguard of the cultural and educational revolution that overthrew the ancien regime. More commonly, they were consumed with keeping their heads down and trying to run their academic lives in a traditional way in an attempt to be impervious to the sweeping changes swirling about them. In so doing they missed the revolution and never appreciated that control of the university had been swept away from them. More specifically:
Most faculty were content with rising academic salaries – especially those who really cashed in; faculty paid no heed to the increasing use of low-paid adjuncts to staff courses.
In addition, they welcomed reduced teaching loads and so – to reemphasize – they ignored the campus' compensating action of staffing courses with adjuncts.
Faculty were also happy to emphasize their research at the expense of their teaching. Naturally, they did little to increase their teaching prowess.
Finally, faculty seemed blissfully ignorant of the increasing dissatisfaction among parents, students and politicians regarding the quality of the "product" their "company" was putting out.
In short, far too many faculty were either totally unaware of the changes that were sweeping the campus; or if they were aware, they made no attempt to resist the changes – either because of ignorance or a misguided sense that the changes were redounding to their benefit. They offered little or no resistance to the coup being perpetrated by university administrators. A big part of the coup program was to turn over much of university instruction to adjunct faculty. The TTF was complicit in the coup in that either it completely misunderstood the plans of the revolutionaries or if it understood them, it raised no objection. In the end, the university has been injured, and in the long run the TTF will suffer.
Can that fate be avoided? Only if American institutions of higher education accept a national challenge to restore the percentage of TTF in the classroom to at least 50%. This would ameliorate, and hopefully reverse, some of the negative consequences. But what about the two primary drivers of this phenomenon? Well, if the restorative process was universally adopted, then there would be no effect on universities' ability to recruit and retain exceptional faculty, since all institutions would be living with the same constraints. On the other hand, the renewal process would definitely entail increased costs. Where will the money come from? The traditional sources of campus revenue – tuition, endowments, state support, federal and corporate grants – are largely tapped out. The answer: all those scores of administrators (deans, deanlets, program directors, diversity officers and the multitudes of support staff) would have to go. Wouldn't that be wonderful! A university that values the people who do the teaching and learning rather than those who push papers, issue meaningless reports and set rules that injure the academic enterprise.
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Administrations are starting to hand over a lot of power all right…
To independent contractors. There are businesses that are cropping up all over and "advising" senior administration on fundraising, on facilities planning, on just about anything that administration is getting paid the big bucks to be doing themselves. And I am highly suspicious of their effectiveness.
I worked for an organization that brought in one of these groups for "development" (the euphemism for begging for money.) This group had been touted as wunderbar, and that they had raised ALL kinds of money for (insert major university here.) Let's call them, the Spurious Development Group, LLC. Or SDGL for short.
Well, the reality was that ALL the many that Major University received in donations and GRANTS was counted in the total, even if SDGL has nothing to do with getting the grant. If a department independently applied for a mongo grant and received it, with zip input from SDGL, SDGL took credit for it. And SDGL is not the only group in that field out trolling for moolah from colleges and universities…
(BTW, they made a huge mess where I used to work, and it took too much money to buy off their contract and get rid of them, and undo their mess. But if you look on their website, they still tout all the money they brought it for us–all of which came in DESPITE them, NOT because of them!)
In addition to the contract development groups, there are also contract facilities groups doing much the same things. One school where I recently worked hired some group. Let's call them Spurious Facilities Advisors, Inc, or SFA for short. SFA's website has all this impressive body of work they claimed to have done in their short existence. And the have a list of university clients a mile long. But they employ a handful of people, and even if the octupled their work force, and worked 24/7/365 there are not enough hours in the time since they came into existence and now to have done any serious work with all those clients. They list success stories, about facilities that they don't even get the name right, at schools where the decisions were made well before SFA sprang fully clad in armor from the head of its founder. But they are getting hired to do the job that college administrators SHOULD be doing themselves.
And the list goes on: Housing consultants, academic consultants, student life consultants… And on and on and on. And on…
So, what exactly are these administrators doing to earn their keep?
(From someone who is a junior subjunior assistant underling in the wacky world of college administration.)
Martin Kaufman says:
Well stated. TTF complacency certainly was a major factor; academics are rarely good politicians. But the notion that the education bureaucracy, on campus and in government, can be stripped of its power is, I am afraid, naïve. As a direct witness of one of the seminal events mentioned — I was pseudo faculty [a research associate] at Columbia in 1968 — I saw first-hand the cowardice towards, or naïve cheering-on, by faculty of the pseudo-revolutionaries.
JoeJoe says:
Did you see this little fight between a tenured professor and an adjunct on CHE?
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2014/09/updates-in-academic-freedom/


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It's been nearly three years. Three years of Board Gamers Anonymous. As we reach Episode 100, all four of us come together and celebrate with the biggest list we've ever put together.
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The People's Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol's most culturally diverse neighbourhood.
PRSC began by opening up spaces for street art throughout the neighbourhood, providing a counterweight to the advertising images that otherwise dominate the era. They helped revitalise many derelict buildings and gave the area an image refresh, providing a platform to artists to celebrate provoke discussion and celebrate the cultural heroes to to the area's diverse residents.
"You can chart the takeover of this city by the corporates," explains Chris Chalkley, founder of The People's Republic of Stokes Croft in Bristol. "It's a battle that I never envisaged we would be getting involved with. And basically what this is, this is the physical manifestation of the fightback against globalisation."
From where we're standing, outside the PRSC HQ in the centre of Stokes Croft, the battle looks like a colourful one. And Chris' weapons of war are step ladders, paint, rollers and spray cans. Stretching down the block is a giant public street art wall which gets repainted by a new artist each month – and is the centrepiece of PRSC's efforts to transform Stokes Croft peacefully, through street art.
"When you look at the huge things are happening you think the world is too big for you to have an effect," Chris explains. He looks up to the giant slogan that dominates the yard. "[We Make Our Own Future] was the first thing we wrote back in 2007," he remembers. "It's a slogan that sums up everything: it's up to all of us. Here, we're actually making stuff to make our own future. Everything we do is laden and layered with meaning and is participatory – it's political. Building this creates possibility. It's essentially to be pilots for our own destiny."
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Q: maximum weighted matching with weights being sets Given a set $S$ and a bipartite graph $G$, each edge $v\in E(G)$ covers a subset $S_v$ of $S$. My problem is to find a matching maximizing the number of covered elements, i.e., denote $V$ the set of edges in the matching, we seeks to maximize $|\bigcup_{v\in V} S_v|$.

A: Your problem is NP-complete as we can translate instances of set-covering problems to your problem:
Let $S$ be a family of sets, its members be subsets of $\{1,2,...,n\}$. The set-covering problem is:

Does there exists $m$ members of $S$ whose union is $\{1,2,...,n\}$?

To translate the instance to your problem, construct a bipartite graph with vertices $\{1,2,...,m\} \cup S$ and edges the elements of $\{1,2,...,m\}\times S$. Assign the set $s$ to the edge $(k,s)$, where $k$ is a number and $s$ is a member of $S$. Thus any matching corresponds to $m$ members of $S$, and maximum number of covered elements can be achieved if and only if there exists $m$ members of $S$ with union $\{1,2,...,n\}$.
As the set-covering problem is NP-complete, your problem is also NP-complete.

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Click "Rectangle Tool" on the "Tools" panel and draw a solid rectangle with no stroke.
Click "Type Tool" and type bold text inside the rectangle and click "Selection Tool" and drag across the rectangle and text to select them.
Select "Effect," "3D" and "Extrude & Bevel."
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People who say "It's better to give than to receive" are flat out lying. It's always better to be on the receiving end of any transaction (unless you're receiving insults or incoming fire). Keep that sentiment in mind as you build relationships in the music business.
Several years ago, I took a phone call from a local artist named Mickie. She asked if I had a need for free display banners in exchange for some free ads in the music magazine I published at the time, to promote an upcoming exhibit of her artwork.
I told her I wasn't sure if I could do it, but I'd be happy to discuss it. Before we hung up, she set a time to stop by my office.
Mickie arrived on time for her appointment and immediately pulled out a sketch pad and started asking me questions about the type of banners I might need. I had never given it much thought, really. She talked about the different shapes, sizes and uses: banners that hang over a stage, banners that hang from the front of a stage, banners that hang in front of tables at trade shows, banners that hang from the wall during sponsored events.
We talked about banner lengths, colors, logos ... Mickie even helped me craft a short, catchy slogan to go under my logo. She sketched out possible designs. I began to visualize how these banners would look. After 10 or 15 minutes of this I was excited about the many ways I could use them to promote my business. Best of all, it wouldn't cost me a dime. I was psyched!
As Mickie was gathering her things, almost as if it were an afterthought, she pulled out a small envelope and handed it to me. "Oh, here's a camera-ready ad for my exhibit," she said. "It's sized for your paper and ready to go. If you could run this in the next couple of issues, I'd really appreciate it."
After she left, I felt good about the transaction. I soon realized that I'd been manipulated by a pro -- but I didnt feel used or taken advantage of. Mickie had gone to great lengths to keep my needs in mind and make sure I felt I was getting value out of our relationship. She knew that, by doing this, she would ultimately get what she wanted: a free ad in my paper.
A more close-minded marketer would have approached me by focusing on the exhibit and why the artist deserved exposure ... and might have even asked, "What would I have to do to get a free ad in your paper?" That would have put me in the awkward position of having to figure out how to give this person what he/she wants while satisfying my own needs.
Which method would take you further in your music business relationships?
Think back to a situation in which someone made a great effort to give you something you wanted (keep it clean). How did it make you feel? What effect did it have on your opinion of that person?
Keep that happy state in mind, because it's your job to dole out a heapin' helpin' of that feeling to as many people as you can.
So now that you realize it's better to receive than give, from this day forward, make sure people receive a lot more from you. By doing so, youll end up getting a lot more in return.


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Washington, D.C. - ESGI is proud to announce the hiring of James Turner into Deloitte's National Security Practice. His focus will be to assist the company at the Department of Homeland Security on mission critical national security matters.
Jim joins Deloitte's Federal Practice from Booz-Allen where he spent 13 years. He was the Senior Associate leading market development and engagement teams, delivering strategy and change management services on programs with values ranging from $400 thousand to $22 million.
Jim served 18 years in the United States Navy and joined Booz after retiring as a Naval Officer.
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