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He took $100,000 pay-cut... to up the pay of lowest-paid employees
Mr Raymond Burse chose to have a pay cut of $90,000 to boost the salaries of the lower-paid workers. Photo: Facebook/KentuckyStateUniversity
Talk about paying it forward.
The interim president of an American university, Raymond Burse, elected to take a pay-cut of US$90,000 (S$112,000) to boost the salaries of the lowest-paid campus employees.
It was reported that the US$90,000 will increase the salaries of 24 Kentucky State University (KSU) employees, some of whom were only earning a mimimum wage of US$7.25 an hour. They will now receive US$10.25 an hour.
Burse's annual salary had been set at about US$350,000 and he will now earn US$260,000.
The new salary will remain for future presidents as well.
Burse, who has been praised for his action around the campus, said that this was something he had been thinking for a while.
Setting a very noble example for execs. I tip my cap to you Raymond Burse! pic.twitter.com/OfShZ1w3vT
— Kushaan Shah (@kushaanshah) August 5, 2014
Raymond Burse. Thank you. http://t.co/VFTVJowOM9
— Jodi Barnes (@Jodi_Barnes) August 5, 2014
"This is not a hobby. But in terms of the people who do the hard work and heavy lifting, they are at the lower pay scale," he said.
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/01/3361549/ksu-presidents-gives-up-90000...


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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data
Cloud giants have driven development of new ways to do distributed storage.
Sean Gallagher - Jan 27, 2012 2:00 am UTC
Hadoop DFS
Developed in Java and open-sourced as a project of the Apache Foundation, Hadoop has developed such a following among Web companies and others coping with "big data" problems that it has been described as the "Swiss army knife of the 21st Century." All the hype means that sooner or later, you're more likely to find yourself dealing with Hadoop in some form than with other distributed file systems—especially when Microsoft starts shipping it as an Windows Server add-on.
Named by developer Doug Cutting after his son's stuffed elephant, Hadoop was "inspired" by GFS and Google's MapReduce distributed computing environment. In 2004, as Cutting and others working on the Apache Nutch search engine project sought a way to bring the crawler and indexer up to "Web scale," Cutting read Google's papers on GFS and MapReduce and started to work on his own implementation. While most of the enthusiasm for Hadoop comes from Hadoop's distributed data processing capability, derived from its MapReduce-inspired distributed processing management, the Hadoop Distributed File System is what handles the massive data sets it works with.
Hadoop is developed under the Apache license, and there are a number of commercial and free distributions available. The distribution I worked with was from Cloudera (Doug Cutting's current employer)—the Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), the open-source version of Cloudera's enterprise platform, and Cloudera Service and Configuration Express Edition, which is free for up to 50 nodes.
HortonWorks, the company with which Microsoft has aligned to help move Hadoop to Azure and Windows Server (and home to much of the original Yahoo team that worked on Hadoop), has its own Hadoop-based HortonWorks Data Platform in a limited "technology preview" release. There's also a Debian package of the Apache Core, and a number of other open-source and commercial products that are based on Hadoop in some form.
HDFS can be used to support a wide range of applications where high volumes of cheap hardware and big data collide. But because of its architecture, it's not exactly well-suited to general purpose data storage, and it gives up a certain amount of flexibility. HDFS has to do away with certain things usually associated with file systems in order to make sure it can perform well with massive amounts of data spread out over hundreds, or even thousands, of physical machines—things like interactive access to data.
While Hadoop runs in Java, there are a number of ways to interact with HDFS besides its Java API. There's a C-wrapped version of the API, a command line interface through Hadoop, and files can be browsed through HTTP requests. There's also MountableHDFS, an add-on based on FUSE that allows HDFS to be mounted as a file system by most operating systems. Developers are working on a WebDAV interface as well to allow Web-based writing of data to the system.
HDFS follows the architectural path laid out by Google's GFS fairly closely, following its three-tiered, single master model. Each Hadoop cluster has a master server called the "NameNode" which tracks the metadata about the location and replication state of each 64-megabyte "block" of storage. Data is replicated across the "DataNodes" in the cluster—the slave systems that handle data reads and writes. Each block is replicated three times by default, though the number of replicas can be increased by changing the configuration of the cluster.
As in GFS, HDFS gets the master server out of the read-write loop as quickly as possible to avoid creating a performance bottleneck. When a request is made to access data from HDFS, the NameNode sends back the location information for the block on the DataNode that is closest to where the request originated. The NameNode also tracks the health of each DataNode through a "heartbeat" protocol and stops sending requests to DataNodes that don't respond, marking them "dead."
After the handoff, the NameNode doesn't handle any further interactions. Edits to data on the DataNodes are reported back to the NameNode and recorded in a log, which then guides replication across the other DataNodes with replicas of the changed data. As with GFS, this results in a relatively lazy form of consistency, and while the NameNode will steer new requests to the most recently modified block of data, jobs in progress will still hit stale data on the DataNodes they've been assigned to.
That's not supposed to happen much, however, as HDFS data is supposed to be "write once"—changes are usually appended to the data, rather than overwriting existing data, making for simpler consistency. And because of the nature of Hadoop applications, data tends to get written to HDFS in big batches.
When a client sends data to be written to HDFS, it first gets staged in a temporary local file by the client application until the data written reaches the size of a data block—64 megabytes, by default. Then the client contacts the NameNode and gets back a datanode and block location to write the data to. The process is repeated for each block of data committed, one block at a time. This reduces the amount of network traffic created, and it slows down the write process as well. But HDFS is all about the reads, not the writes.
Another way HDFS can minimize the amount of write traffic over the network is in how it handles replication. By activating an HDFS feature called "rack awareness" to manage distribution of replicas, an administrator can specify a rack ID for each node, designating where it is physically located through a variable in the network configuration script. By default, all nodes are in the same "rack." But when rack awareness is configured, HDFS places one replica of each block on another node within the same data center rack, and another in a different rack to minimize the amount of data-writing traffic across the network—based on the reasoning that the chance of a whole rack failure is less likely than the failure of a single node. In theory, this improves overall write performance to HDFS without sacrificing reliability.
As with the early version of GFS, HDFS's NameNode potentially creates a single point of failure for what's supposed to be a highly available and distributed system. If the metadata in the NameNode is lost, the whole HDFS environment becomes essentially unreadable—like a hard disk that has lost its file allocation table. HDFS supports using a "backup node," which keeps a synchronized version of the NameNode's metadata in-memory, and stores snap-shots of previous states of the system so that it can be rolled back if necessary. Snapshots can also be stored separately on what's called a "checkpoint node." However, according to the HDFS documentation, there's currently no support within HDFS for automatically restarting a crashed NameNode, and the backup node doesn't automatically kick in and replace the master.
HDFS and GFS were both engineered with search-engine style tasks in mind. But for cloud services targeted at more general types of computing, the "write once" approach and other compromises made to ensure big data query performance are less than ideal—which is why Amazon developed its own distributed storage platform, called Dynamo.
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Q: Div that varies in length I am making a site with several image galleries.  Above these galleries is a description of each collection.  However, because each description varies in length, I need the  to vary in size to fit the content, and the  to vary to accommodate the "collection" div.  I don't even know where to start.

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Just apply that class to all of the divs that need to be the same height just make the min-height bigger then your tallest div.

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Is this what you want?
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Use CSS and float left with multiple divs with the gallery class for columns side by side with different heights.

A:  tag is just a container, that you can put there whatever you want that is HTML.
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http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp
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Billie Lourd pays tribute to mom Carrie Fisher on Star Wars Day
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Billie Lourd is marking Star Wars Day by honoring her princess-turned-general mom: Carrie Fisher.
As fans and cast members from around the galaxy celebrate May 4, a.k.a. Star Wars Day, Lourd shared a photo on Instagram of herself as a child, her mother, and a certain fuzzy Wookiee.
Fisher died in December after suffering a heart attack on a plane at the age of 60. (Fisher's 84-year-old mother, Debbie Reynolds, died one day later.) Fisher's death came just one year after she reprised her iconic role as Leia in The Force Awakens, and according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, she had already completed filming on the upcoming installment The Last Jedi at the time of her death.
Lourd herself is a part of the Star Wars universe too, appearing opposite her mother in The Force Awakens as a member of the Resistance. She also made an appearance at last month's Star Wars Celebration, celebrating the beloved franchise's 40th anniversary and introducing a special video tribute to her mother. (Lourd even dressed in all white as a nod to Fisher's original costume from A New Hope.)
"She loved you because you embraced all of her," Lourd told fans at Star Wars Celebration. "The strong soldier she was and the vulnerable side, who fought her own dark side."
For more on Star Wars Day, check out EW's roundup of the other ways celebrities are paying tribute this year to a galaxy far, far away.
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Empirical approaches to detecting the action of natural selection in Drosophila
This dissertation examines two aspects of how natural selection shapes the amount and pattern of genetic variation within and between species: (1) the role of positively selected alleles in shaping the variation within and between subpopulations of a subdivided species and (2) the influence of epistatic selection operating on RNA secondary structures. First, the role of natural selection in shaping the pattern of variation within and between populations of the subdivided species Drosophila ananassae is investigated. To delimit the spread of positively selected alleles and characterize the role of natural selection in genetic differentiation, sequence data was collected from a locus in a region of low recombination for 13 populations, spanning a majority of the species range of D. ananassae. The migration behavior of this selected locus is compared to that of 10 independent neutrally evolving loci and tested against alternative models of natural selection. Second, nucleotide variation at the D. melanogaster bicoid locus is examined. The presence of a large, conserved secondary structure in the 3' untranslated region enables the relationship between RNA secondary structure and patterns of standing variation in natural populations to be explored. Variation within this structure is analyzed with respect to models of compensatory evolution and recent improvements of these models. Evidence suggests that bicoid may be the result of a relatively recent gene duplication in the Dipteran lineage, thus, variation in the bicoid coding region is also analyzed with respect to the evolutionary processes that may be ongoing if this gene is still undergoing diversification and/or refining of its function. Finally, long-range compensatory interactions between the two ends of Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) mRNA are investigated by experimental manipulation. Site-directed mutations were introduced in the D. melanogaster Adh gene in an effort to explain why previous mutational analysis failed to fit Kimura's classical model of compensatory evolution. The results of the mutational analysis indicate that a classical result was not observed due to the pleiotropic effect of changing a nucleotide involved in both long-range base pairing and the negative regulation of gene expression.
Drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila ananassae, genetic hitchhiking, background selection, population subdivision, clines, replacement polymorphism, RNA secondary structure, furrowed, bicoid, alcohol dehydrogenase, Adh, mRNA, translation, long-range base pairing
Baines, John
Baines, John (2004): Empirical approaches to detecting the action of natural selection in Drosophila. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of Biology
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Q: XCode Validation problem Trying to validate an Xcode project. First time around, it went fine; this time around, it claims there are no suitable records found. Yet the provisioning profiles and distribution profiles are all current, not expired, and the bundle IDs match up fine. What can be the other causes of this type of validation response?

A: I have seen where project files can retain, erroneously, the UIDs of old provisioning profiles. Does the error you get show a provisioning profile UID? If so, close your project, then edit the .pbxproj file looking for the UID. If there's a line (or 2 or 3) containing that line, remove it from the project file, being careful not to break the XML! You should probably save a copy of your project file somewhere before you do this, if you are unsure of what you're doing. Alternatively, you could try, using Xcode, to set through its GUI the correct provisioning profile(s) again. This might fixup the erroneous settings you cannot see.


Young Thug's promise for new music came and went ungranted last Friday, and his Instagram post has since been deleted. But there is something on the horizon after all: Complex originally reported on Friday (March 29) and Billboard can confirm that J. Cole will serve as the executive producer on Thugger's upcoming album.
In addition to Complex's report stating that the pair of rap titans have begun recording sessions for the project in NYC, Billboard has heard from sources close to the situation that music from the project could debut at Cole's Dreamville Fest, which kicks off April 6 in Raleigh, N.C.
Cole enlisted Young Thug to join him on the KOD Tour last year, and during a 2018 interview with Angie Martinez at Rolling Loud, he spoke highly of Thugger's unique ability. "If you want to talk about Young Thug as an artist, he's an innovator," the Dreamville CEO said at the time. "If you know skills -- you can call him a mumble rapper all you want -- but if you know skills and you know the art of rapping, that dude is a genius."
As part of Cole's cover story with Billboard last September, Thugger chimed in that his bond with Jermaine goes "deeper than music. It's a vibe." Thug also previewed unreleased music on Instagram from the studio just last week.


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Two People Killed in Crash During Los Angeles Charity Motorcycle Ride
Two people were killed and at least two others were injured Sunday in a pair of accidents on a southern California freeway as a charity motorcycle ride took place, The Los Angeles Times reported.
LOS ANGELES – Two people were killed and at least two others were injured Sunday in a pair of accidents on a southern California freeway as a charity motorcycle ride took place, The Los Angeles Times reported.
It was not immediately known if any of the victims were participating in the annual Love Ride, a fundraiser for autism research. The accidents "happened in the right place, but we can't be sure they were part of the ride," Deputy Ed Jacobs with the California Highway Patrol said.
The first accident occurred at 10:24am local time on the Golden State Freeway near the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Jacobs said.
Two motorcycles and several cars were involved, and at least two motorcyclists were injured. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.
The first accident led to a traffic tie-up that may have contributed to the second, in which a motorcycle crashed into a truck at around 11:12am, Jacobs said.
The driver of the motorcycle and his female passenger, who were not identified, died at the scene.
Three northbound lanes on the Golden State Freeway were closed for more than three hours due to the accidents.
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Security of iMessage System Comes to the Fore Again
The iMessage system, like much of what Apple does, is mostly a black box. The company doesn't talk much about how the system works, and although some security researchers found a couple years ago that Apple could read users' encrypted messages if they so choose, law enforcement has had no luck in getting Apple to open iMessage up to eavesdropping or to decrypt messages.
But it's not for a lack of trying. The New York Times reported recently that the Department of Justice served Apple with a court order demanding the company give law enforcement agents access to a target user's iMessages in real time. Apple officials said that wasn't possible because iMessages are encrypted end-to-end and the company doesn't hold decryption keys. Each user's device holds a private key used for decryption, and those keys stay on the devices. Public keys, however, are distributed by Apple through its proprietary key server.
The way the iMessage system is set up could give Apple the opportunity to provide access to decrypted messages if it wanted to, experts say.
"Your iPhone requests keys from Apple using a connection that's TLS-encrypted, and employs some fancy cryptographic tokens. But fundamentally, it relies on the assumption that Apple is good, and is really going to give you you the right keys for the person you want to talk to," cryptographer and Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green wrote in a blog post analyzing the system.
"But this honesty is just an assumption. Since the key lookup is completely invisible to the user, there's nothing that forces Apple to be honest. They could, if inspired, give you a public key of their choosing, one that they hold the decryption key for. They could give you the FBI's key."
Apple has enabled users to receive iMessages on multiple iOS devices, so there's also the possibility that an attacker–or law enforcement agency–could add a device to a user's account, perhaps by stealing or guessing the user's email password. However, any time a new device is added, the user receives a push notification to her existing devices informing her of the addition. That is a difficult hurdle to overcome for an attacker.
Another avenue for law enforcement could be key substitution, in which an agency gets a warrant for access to a user's iMessages and substitutes its own key for a legitimate one. This doesn't allow mass, passive surveillance on the system, but targeted eavesdropping on a particular user. But it's not clear whether that's a viable method, Green said.
"While it seems pretty obvious that Apple could in theory substitute keys and thus enable eavesdropping, in practice it may require substantial changes to Apple's code. And while there are a few well-known cases in which the government has forced companies to turn over keys, changing the operation of a working system is a whole different ball of wax," he wrote.
Apple officials have said consistently that the company cannot and will not decrypt iMessages.
"Our view is, when we design a new service, we try not to collect data. So we're not reading your email. We're not reading your iMessage. If the government laid a subpoena to get iMessages, we can't provide it. It's encrypted and we don't have a key. And so it's sort of, the door is closed," Apple CEO Tim Cook told Charlie Rose in an interview last year.
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As Moscow moves troops and threatens military action, about 70 Ukrainian government sites were hit. "Be afraid" was scrawled on the Foreign Ministry site.
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The country's FSB said that it raided gang hideouts; seized currency, cars and personnel; and neutralized REvil's infrastructure.
US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran
US Cyber Command linked the group to Iranian intelligence and detailed its multi-pronged, increasingly sophisticated suite of malware tools.