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Don R. Scifres
September 10, 1946 – present
Scifres, Don R.
Don Scifres is Founder and Managing Director of SDL Ventures, LLC and SDL Capital (2003-present). Other institutional affiliations include Xerox Corporation. His research interests include electro-optics, semiconductor lasers, and light emitting diodes.
September 10, 1946Birth, Lafayette (Ind.).
1968Obtained BSEE, Purde University, West Lafayette (Ind.).
1970Obtained MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Ill.).
1972Obtained PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Ill.).
1972 – 1983Research Fellow and Manager of Optoelectronics, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto (Calif.).
1983 – 2001President and Chief Executive Officer, Spectra Diode Laboratories (SDL), Inc., San Jose (Calif.).
1997Awarded George E. Pake Prize, American Physical Society.
2001 – 2003Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Chair, Board of Directors, JDS Uniphase Corporation.
2003 – presentFounder and Managing Director, SDL Ventures, LLC and SDL Capital, Mountain View (Calif.).
Electrical engineer.
Lafayette (Ind.)
West Lafayette (Ind.)
Urbana (Ill.)
Palo Alto (Calif.)
San Jose (Calif.)
Mountain View (Calif.)
Diodes.
Electrical engineering.
Electrooptics.
Lasers.
Optics.
Physics -- Industrial applications.
JDS Uniphase Corporation
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Chair, Board of Directors.
SDL Ventures and SDL Capital
Founder and Managing Director.
Spectra Diode Laboratories Inc.
President and Chief Executive Officer.
Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center
Research Fellow and Manager of Optoelectronics.
Received 1997 George E. Pake Prize.
Purdue University. School of Engineering
Obtained BSEE (1968).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Electrical Engineering
Obtained MS (1970) and PhD (1972).
Don R. Scifres response to Laser History Project Survey, 1984.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Don R. Scifres, 2007 December 11.
AIP Center for History of Physics responses to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.


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Brady and his bosses have brought contempt upon themselves
In the end, the wonder of it all was that it only took the National Football League about four months to figure out the extraordinary pickle dubbed 'Deflategate' and assess, with obvious pain and equivocation, the requisite punishments. But then there were never going to be any winners in this mess. Nor are there any Solomon's working for this corporate behemoth anymore.
The penalties will please few, which probably makes them as fair as they could have possibly been. Those enamored of this team and its many-splendored Quarterback would have regarded even an arched eyebrow too harsh a reprimand while those who detest both — and their ranks are growing, south of Hartford and west of Worcester —might have considered an indefinite suspension for Tom Brady too soft.
Instead he gets benched four games; not that grave a rebuke, actually. But the damage to his image and his historical standing in the world he loves will be incalculable. Once believed to have conquered his game he'll now be remembered as its most celebrated cheat. The team also got a slap, or two.
But if you're looking for the biggest losers in this mess try the ball-boy and locker-room attendant who got ensnared in the now fabled machinations. About five minutes after the ruling came down, the owner pointedly suspended both indefinitely. Guess we know who Bob Kraft blames.
More complex than meets the eye, this thing will be bickered over ad infinitum; what we're now witnessing being just the beginning. Questions linger and remain intriguing and plentiful.
Q. Okay, for openers how did it ever get to this ridiculous extreme wise guy?
A. Via a long trail of tears stretching about a half century since the National Football League became bigger than General Motors and almost as big as Organized Crime. For the Patriots, the timing was terrible with the many recent controversies raising the ante hugely, especially for the Commissioner. The fact the Patriots were again alleged culprits unquestionably guaranteed a circus although our clever boys from Foxborough clinched that deal by acting stupidly with their now customary institutional arrogance.
Q. Is not the main problem the fact the NFL's rule on how much air should be in these footballs a tad silly? Even if reasonable, how can anyone take it this seriously?
A. Here's how Bill Polian, retired NFL G.M now serving as T.V commentator and one of the game's most learned, respected, and fair-minded men, puts it. "This is not running through a stop sign. This is not speeding five miles over the limit. This is a serious competitive violation that has to be treated as such by the League."
If with a doctored football a single pass is completed that would not have been otherwise or a single fumble is averted that would have otherwise occurred then the difference is significant, even if impossible to prove. In the end, the margin of difference between winners and losers in this game can be infinitesimal. For further affirmation of this point one suggests you re-examine this year's super bowl.
Q. Give me a break, says you. They won that playoff game that's so controversial by five T.D's. It was a stomping, a farce. Any advantage they got from an altered football had to be miniscule, meaningless!
A. It's the law that's been violated that counts not the profit that may or not have accrued to the law-breaker. A charge of armed robbery does not get excused because the thief only got ten bucks. The next time you get stopped for speeding and you argue with the cop that no one got hurt, no damage was done, and no harm resulted so why does it matter, see how far that gets you.
This argument that the game in question was too lopsided for any of this to matter is the most ludicrous of all the positions held by the Patriots and their oft pathetic apologists. Moreover, a lot of teams that have lost close games in harsh conditions to this team in recent years are now wondering if doctored footballs might have been a factor in the crucial plays that proved decisive. They have every right to.
Q. But why do you blame the Patriots for compounding their problems and call their actions, 'stupid'.
A. Ah now, let me count the ways. They could not have botched this case more thoroughly if they'd made it their fervently determined goal to do so. Take Himself, Tom Brady, the Lordly quarterback who long seemed untouchably above the fray and clearly made the mistake of believing that. Not surprisingly Brady, foremost victim in the fiasco, was also the foremost blunderer. He should have kept his mouth shut!
As New York columnist Mike Lupica has vigorously noted Brady could have stymied the entire ordeal at the very get-go by stepping forward when the story broke and humbly taken the blame by saying he had probably 'misled' the ball-boys by harping so much on how he liked his footballs to be nice and soft, inadvertently encouraging them to deflate them a bit too much just to please him. He couldn't get away with that now. But it would have been easy back in January with the added bonus for him of looking like a swell fellow in trying to get the poor working-stiff locker room attendants off the hook, etc. All he had to do was drop an 'aw shucks' or two, look contrite, bite his lower lip, and 'fess-up just a smidge. It would have been over and out quick, leaving only hard-core Pats' bashers fuming.
Instead Brady resorted to righteous indignation. Big mistake and, for such a smart fellow, very dumb! In his stirring professions of absolute innocence he blurted-out all the obtuse equivocations and calculated evasions that now find him being branded 'a liar'. Biggest mistake of all however was Brady's brilliant decision to try thwarting the investigation by withholding his phone, text, and e-mail records, etc., triggering an anvil chorus of alarm bills in the offices of Ted Wells, the very able investigative officer.
Obviously he didn't want Wells to know of his many phone-calls to the attendants in the early hours of the crisis. But that rather naïve strategy flopped.
Q. So you're saying Brady has no one to blame but himself?
A. Not entirely because he had plenty of help. As captain of this ship Bill Belichick could have stepped-up and nobly accepted responsibility while acknowledging the buck stops with him. That would have minimized the problem, swiftly and decisively. Belichick chose not to. Just 'why', is a fabulous question to which we will never have a good answer. Wells went easy on Belichick but his lodge brothers—believing nothing happens on this team that he doesn't know about— won't. Owner Kraft's behavior reeked of condescension bordering on arrogance. His demand for apologies even before an inquiry was mounted was needlessly aggravating. A ridiculous mistake was made when 'alleged' football-deflator Jim McNally was made 'unavailable' to the investigators once it was realized he was leading the cause into hot water.
Only someone at the top of the chain of command could have made that call.
Who? In the end, the entire organization's alternately smug and mocking tone— consistently minimizing the issues —backfired. But Brady, in a streak of hubris further sullied by an all-consuming sense of regal entitlement, takes first prize in this dubious sweepstakes. It's a story as old as time.
Q. Admit it! You're just another Pats-Basher. Everyone is jealous of this team because it's been so great so long.
A. That's the weakest claptrap of all. Only delusional fan-boys who prance around wearing uniform tops bearing the number 12 really believe such nonsense. Great teams are always envied and deservedly so. The yearning to bring them down is feverish and reasonable. The greater the yearning, the greater the measure of greatness. It was so of the Celtics, Canadiens, Yankees, Packers, and Steelers of yore.
But they didn't lead with their chins as these Patriots have, essentially inviting contempt. Lead with your chin and you 'll get it clipped; every bloody time.
Q. So what, praytell, is the last word here, Sir?
A. It was all about 'the cover-up', old Sport. It always is.

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Good cookware is important. It really is. It amazes me how long I've tolerated old, worn out or just plain cheaply-made cookware. Good, quality cookware makes so much difference in my ratio of successes in the kitchen and my level of enjoyment.
A few months back I bought two new baking sheets at a local discount mart. One of them is a large, sturdy metal one made by Wilton. The other one, which was half the price of the first one, was a no-name brand, thin, flimsy piece-o-crap.
I hate that baking sheet. It's going to get handed down to the Honey-Hub for him to use in the garage-man-cave.
I LOVE the Wilton sheet and every time I would bake up a batch of bacon (see recipe below), I had to do two rounds in the oven as one sheet is never big enough for a whole pound of bacon.
I really love every product I have ever bought from Rachael Ray's line of cookware so I decided to go see what she offers in the baking-sheet-arena. SCORE!
I am now the proud owner of TWO of her Oven Lovin' 11"x17" Crispy Sheets. I've used them once now to bake up a batch of bacon and they worked perfectly and cleaned up easy. I would definitely buy them again or give them as a gift. The orange rubber imbedded in the handles make grabbing the sheets an easy, no-slip process.
She also offers it in a 10"x15" size and I will probably add two of those to my collection in the near future. And for those of you who want a whole set, well, she makes that too although the set does not include the large crispy sheet that I bought.
Preheat oven to 350 or 375 degrees.
Line large shallow baking sheet with foil. Do not use the air-bake sheets that have no lip on them. You need the lip to keep the grease in. To do a whole pound of bacon at once, you will need two large sheets.
Lay bacon slices in sheets close together but not touching.
Bake for 10-15 min until done to desired crispiness. I let it go for a good solid 10-11 minutes and then I check on it every minute or so.
Transfer to plate lined with paper towels to drain. Pat down firmly on top with paper towel to soak up extra grease.
Clean up is a snap. Just carefully fold up the foil, keeping the grease inside and throw away. If you want to keep the grease, pull, the foil out and let the grease drip back in to the pan and then pour it in to your desired container.
Pour a drink of some sort and eat your bacon!


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Once Medie was down to 285 pounds, he was advised that he could begin adding previously-excluded, healthy foods, including fruit, back into his diet. What Jennifer and the other coaches did not know is that Medie is originally from Pensacola, Florida and, as he puts it, "Their definition of putting fruit back in my diet and my definition of putting fruit back in my diet is two different things."
"I love fruit," he says, shaking his head, "I grew up in the middle of it. Grapefruit literally laying all over the place. It was nothing to go out there and eat 10 oranges at a time. My mother would bring home five pounds of grapes, and I'd eat four of 'em before she got that other pound in the refrigerator."
Medie's weight loss stalled, and he actually gained 8 pounds at one point. Fruit, of course, is full of carbohydrates, and while it's good for you, overindulging can have notable effects on weight loss. "I really didn't connect the fruit to weight gain, because I was going up and down for five or six weeks, but it was the fruit. I have been fruitless now for five days, and I actually dropped 3 pounds this week."
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Being from Florida also meant that Medie grew up playing golf. "I played ball all my life—football and baseball—and I played golf a lot, except I have been so busy the last four or five years that I haven't gotten to play." Reflecting on those years, he confesses, "I kind of quit playing golf because my shoulder was bad, and everything was just going south because of the weight."
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joined this drop a few days ago and bought a vali 2 to run them. it gets here tomorrow. just checked back in to see that these dont ship till freaking august? I thought I saw april 30 before. guess ill need another pair of phones to use until almost next year!!!!!!!!
can someone recommend sub $100 that sound good but different than these that would pair well with the vali 2?


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Just added to the main features section of the site is a long piece on some of the strangest incidents in the history my home town of Halifax, Yorkshire.
This essay was originally published in Strange Attractor Journal last year, and is presented here with some minor changes (I would still thoroughly recommend buying the original journal, as it's a gem, packed with the odd and inspirational).
The piece, Haunts of the Halifax Slasher, is something of a departure from my usual published work. It's inspired by some of my favourite writers such as Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, and Guy Debord's ideas of psychogeography and dérive - attempts to rediscover and redefine an urban environment through free-floating considerations of the specifics of local history and landscape. Following the examples of Sinclair and Moore in London and Northampton, I've concentrated on Halifax's long and colourful history of violence, hysteria, fear and loathing, as manifest on a walk around and into the town centre.
As the title suggests, the focus of the walk is the strange events of November 1938, when the town lived for in fear of the phantom attacker known as the Slasher (for an introduction to the case, see here). This spins off into other strange and terrible tales, from medieval legends of murderous monks, through the harsh law of the Halifax Gibbet, sundry riots and murders, to more recent incidents asssociated with far-right political activity.
The common thread through much of it is the ease with which rumour and irrationality, fuelled by ignorance, prejudice and social or economic uncertainty, can erupt into psychopathology. None of which is exactly unique to Halifax, but the town's distinct landscape and concentration of strange history makes for an interesting journey.
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This is a tune that I started in 2007. Unfortunately I don't have the plugins anymore to edit the file. I only had a mix of keys, bass, horns and drums.
new sophistication, Kc. Brass a really nice touch. Some pretty flavorful guitar liks too.
Cool rhythm , mixed with those horns, give this a unique and fresh take of 70's funk. Nice guitar work, as always! An enjoyable listen for sure - thanks for posting!
Big smooth sound. I like the guitar tone, too. Good one, KC!
Sweet stuff. A warm and inviting track. The change at 1:22 caught my ear, that gets repeated and works again just as well about 3:00. The fade left me wanting to hear more improv. Thanks for sharing you talents.
Yep, I like it. This bird does fly! Great performance of a great tune!
Great funk-jazz and you know, I love anything this well done that features horns, and they sound darned excellent Cees. All around good stuff, thanks!
Geez Cees ... I love this. Everything sounds great. The chords and composition .... great E piano .... fine guitar work and I'm digging' the horns! Don't need words for this fine instrumental. KC is grooving.
Well done! .... and a fine mix.
Thanks for the download, cheers.
Cool vibe, nice flow, relaxing sounds. Guitars sound Gilmour great.
the horns give this a big band sound. the sparse guitar lines work out well as being the vocal for the song.
Has a sort of latin feel to it with the horns.
Tasty mix of brass and guitar. Some of the horn lines reminded me of Chicago V. The keys work well, too. Nice listen. Thanks, KC. Regards, Peter.


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Black Magik Musik
Black Magik Muzik is a spin off from Big-League Productions, which was run by Adrian Mckenzie, Seani B and myself – Leroy Reid AKA Black Magik. We were best known for The Spanish Fly, Sun Is Shining, and Paradise riddims. Adrian was our single in-house instrumentalist, and based on our productions it would be a fair statement to say that Adrian is currently one of the best instrumentalists in the UK.
I met Seani B when I was a teenager and our friendship was always surrounded by music. He had a sound system in his bedroom; I loved music so it was a natural connection. We used to link up and practice everyday. Seani was the selector; Wingie, Foots and I were the DJs. Sometimes the vibes would be so nice that Seani would DJ as well. Those days were our training ground but as we were having fun it didn't feel like training.
I was practicing long before I met Seani, ever since I can remember I had wanted to be an artist. The first big stage I performed on was U Roy's (THE LEGENDARY FATHER OF DANCE HALL DJ's AND HIP HOP RAPPING) Olympic football ground talent show; I was around twelve years old and I did the show with my ankle heavily bandaged because of an injury I had received earlier that day. I had to leave before the results were announced; I was in so much pain. I found out a couple days later that I had won.
My first rhythm creation was the Spanish Fly; Seani B used it as the rhythm for the Bon Garcon-Shake-Shake remix, we then decided to make a juggling from the rhythm. Adrian took the rhythm and went samba with it; which I have to say is my favourite cut, the rest as they say is history.
It was also around this time I approached Tubby T and explained what we had in mind for Big League Production, he was impressed with our progress and the first song he did for us (Ready Shi Ready) became on of his biggest hits. REST IN PEACE TUBBY T.
My next move was the Sun Is Shining, I wanted to demonstrate our greatness, it would have been easy to create a rhythm but to recreate one such as the Sun Is Shining effectively would cement our status. Paradise was something I heard Adrian playing and fell in love with. The next thing he knew I returned with songs to be mixed, the really great songs on that rhythm are from unknown artists.
The paradise brought my writing to the public in a big way also, the songs I wrote and co-wrote on the paradise received major attention, the Sizzla track The Solution (one of my creations) was very well received. Along the way, I've had the pleasure of writing with the likes of Beenie Man, Machel Montano, Luciano, Tubby T, Tony Rebel, Tony Curtis, Richie Spice & Chuck Fender to mention a few.
I am now on my own but I still have that burning passion and because I have always been told that I make magic happen I think Black-Magik is a fitting name. So with no money but loaded with infinite talent I present the creativity of BLACK-MAGIK.
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It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's (Logan Lerman) Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' (Sean Bean) lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother (Catherine Keener).
As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.


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This week's My Favourite Commute comes from Talk Welly crew-member Chris Vogliano, who remembers discovering the magic of light rail in Seattle.
Being from the sheltered Midwest America (go Cleveland!), a light rail sounded like a transportation device from the future. #Bladerunner.
When I moved to Seattle and realized it was essentially a dedicated rail line to move people around, it seemed a bit revolutionary. That was – until I discovered its full potential.
Seattle buses are lovely when they are on time, but light rails I found, are far superior.
My morning Seattle commute consisted of a (mostly damp) 10-minute walk to my nearest light rail station in Capitol Hill. After descending the seemingly eternal escalator, I was greeted by a shiny, clean, and punctual visit by the light rail. I made sure not to make direct eye contact with anyone, following Seattle protocol (Seattle Freeze – it's a thing) as I entered a bright, modern vessel. Within approximately 5 minutes, I was carted halfway across the city, ending up within steps of my workplace.
The real magic is that the light rail was built underground – meaning it does not succumb to the bloated traffic patterns on the surface. Bar the rare exception of being over capacity, I was able to whip around the city in a matter of minutes – regardless of the hour-long traffic jams that my car and bus commuting friends experienced.
I now admire the utility and functionality of a clean, modern, and affordable transit system that connects the city. Sure, there is still a long way to go to improve the connectivity of Seattle (both via light rail and general humanism), but the progressive push for a centralised system has significantly increased ridership, resulting in less humans in cars on the road.
Do you have a favourite commute? Share it with us!
Do you have a current Wellington favourite? Or a fond memory from another metropolis?


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2011 Philanthropy Hall of Fame Inductees
At the 6th Annual Philanthropy Day Luncheon we are proud to honor the individuals, organizations and businesses nominated by their peers, who have contributed an extraordinary amount of time, money and service to help 'make Charles County the best place to live and give'.
Mary Hancock
Mary Hancock has given an extraordinary amount of time and talent to numerous organizations throughout the county. She serves as the Coordinator and founder of Charles County Project Linus, where they have made and donate almost 20,000 blankets to area organizations; Volunteer Coordinator for the Meals on Wheels Program in Nanjemoy Area; Publicity Chairperson and Historian for the American Legion Auxiliary of Post 82 in La Plata; and, performs a number of volunteer jobs for St. Ignatius Church in Hilltop. Mary tirelessly gives of herself to all and serves as a true example of a person who has dedicated her life to helping others in the community.
Lillian Richardson
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The Slavic Idealists
The uniqueness of the Slavic culture and their positive, aggressive culture-based attitudes has come to the creation of several Slavic idealists. They are generally characterized as "idealists" or perhaps "enlightened radicals". According to leading specialists, the term "idealism" should be available to an attitude which in turn inspire https://mailorderbridez.com/slavic-region/serbia/ a person to achieve a definite ideal, not to shoot for some arbitrary ideal. With this sense, the idealism with the Russian peasantry is a deviation from the Menshevik ideal of socialism mainly because it existed inside the period prior to the revolution.
The Menshevik ideal was "the best of equality, an ideal which we carry in common along with the revolutionary socialist habits of Europe". The idealism of the Russian intelligentsia, on the other hand, inclined inside the aristocratic form of idealism, in opposition to the "liberal-democratic" one common among the Russian propertied course. In fact , when it found economic values, the idealism of the intelligentsia tended to be closer to the ended up nobility than to the middle class. As a result, the Russian intelligentsia, in spite of having varied class skills, held essentially similar economical ideals.
In contrast, the deviation out of the Menshevik idealism occurred during the periods of maximum liberalism, if the cultural idealists started to reassert themselves, and did start to claim the entitlements with the Russian propertied class. It truly is noteworthy that, unlike tolerante idealism, the cultural idealism of the Russian intelligentsia would not express an abstract viewpoint, but it came about out of and integrated the real world encounters and the ideas of the educated classes. Thus, the cultural idealists' boasts to a intensifying, humanist prospect were in reality founded on our existing realities. Unlike liberal idealism, however , the ethnical idealists' idealism involved a significant rejection within the existing buy and its concepts.
The deviation from Menshevization did not occur simply in Italy. In West Europe, also, where the doing work classes proven their own nationwide idealism and manifested a great enthusiasm for your life outside of the approved norms of the age, there arose a significant big difference between the social idealism plus the Menshevization. While the Menshevization tended to conceal the intellectual content material of the ground-breaking doctrines, and also to present on its own as a movements for perceptive freedom and a new world, the cultural idealists' idealism and, to a certain extent, their very own politics, depended to a hugely on the capability of the prepared classes to produce an intelligentsia. The Menshevization failed completely when the plenty, tired of the Revolution and inspired by simply Utopian ideas, took component in the growing ferment with the industrial emerging trend.
In Eastern Europe, alternatively, there as well arose a movement which will, following the fall of the Russian Empire, wanted to create a countrywide identity, which should overcome the nationalistic prejudices and ethically opposite practices of the Russian people. The intellectual levain of the period, especially in Philippines, caused a chemical reaction against the customs of the Russian Empire as well as the materialism that were associated with it. A group of adolescent Russian aristocratic idealists, who were educated in dress constraints similar to the Viennese aristocrats, searched for a national way of life of their own and created the Viennese Volkskulturist activity, which, for that short time, obtained success.
But this kind of idealism rapidly disappeared, after the defeat of your German movement, and the people lost all their faith inside the ideals with the revolution. Thereafter, all looks for a new way of life, which could supersede the old nationalities failed, and each person looked for its national ideally suited, which could be the foremost. Thus came about the problem of settling variations of traditions between international locations. This condition is still to become solved to a great extent. Even in our own intervals, there are many disciplines, which have conceptualized of a union of different cultural systems. Yet, as of yet, no good answer may be provided.
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A: Here's an example of doing this with SimpleXML.
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A: if it is valid XML, you can use about any decent XML parser (SimpleXML for example), unmarshall the source, traverse the tree looking for image tags, try lookup the attribute and set it if it does not exist, and the remarshall the xml ...
should be a 10-liner or so ...
good luck ... :)

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The Waste Pitch
April 30, 2017 /0 Comments/in Baseball, Twins /by Bob Marshall
Twins pitchers are apparently taught, or instructed, to waste a pitch whenever they get an 0-2 count. The theory, I'm guessing, is to see if the hitter, suddenly wary of striking out looking, will expand the strike zone and wave at an unhittable pitch. The 0-2 pitches that Twins hurlers deliver, however, tend to be so low, wide or high that no one ever swings. At best, the pitcher loses some of his advantage. The worst happened the other night to Tyler Duffey, who came on to relieve with the score tied, the bases loaded and no outs. His first two pitches made the Rangers' Elvis Andrus look silly. Instead of trying to finish him off, his "waste pitch" bounced in the dirt and the lead run scored. Compounding the problem, the other runners advanced to second and third, so the infield "had to" play in. The next batter, with one out now, hit what would have been a double-play grounder, but it squirted just past the third baseman, playing in. Result of the "waste pitch": three runs for the Rangers.
Speaking of strategy, I would also question the decision to have the corner infielders play in in that situation. Sano, especially, has quick reflexes and a gun for an arm; from his normal position he could throw out a runner going home a large percentage of the time. What is the counter-percentage, the number of times he doesn't get to a ball because he is repositioned closer to home?
There is one more baseball orthodoxy I would question: when the Twins are leading in the 9th by two or more runs and an opposing batter gets to first base, they don't hold him on and cede a free trip to second base. "The run means nothing," we are told. But the chance to get an out at second base does have meaning. These days there are statistics for everything; so maybe my assumption can be rebutted. I feel, however, that I have seen many more times where an infielder could get an out at second but not at first than occasions where the first baseman made a play only because he was playing off the bag.
5/6/17 PS: Conversely, today a Twins pitcher with two outs and no one on threw an 0-2 slider that caught too much of the plate and ended up in the leftfield stands. Before a third out could be recorded, the Red Sox had eight runs and the game was effectively over. The Twins pitcher, Nick Tepesch, was making his first appearance with the Twins, so perhaps he hadn't gotten the memo.
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Twins in '17
April 7, 2017 /0 Comments/in Baseball, Twins /by Bob Marshall
It is far better to enter the baseball season with no, or low, expectations than to have high expectations that are quickly dashed. SI was not alone in predicting that this year's Twins would have the third-worst record in the AL and even the Minnesota writers were guarded, expressing doubts, especially, about the Twins' pitching. So how much should we raise our hopes now that the Twins have swept the Royals in convincing fashion in the opening three-game series? Their starting pitching was good, their relief pitching excellent, defense flawless and late-inning clutch hitting impressive.
Granted, three games is a small sample and the season will be long, but there is room for optimism. For starters, much of athletic success depends upon confidence and the belief that you can and will win. When you start the season 0-9, as the Twins did last year, it is hard to get that losing mentality out of your minds. When losing is expected, it happens more often. By winning their first three games, the Twins have to be thinking, We can win, which in itself will breed success.
Now, as to the pitching. While there is no Clayton Kershaw on the staff, there are six pitchers who, to my mind, give the Twins a chance every day. Ervin Santana is a consummate professional who knows exactly what he's doing. Hector Santiago gives us hits but limits damage and seems to win more than he should. Kyle Gibson can be very good or not, but when he's good he's a winner. It may take awhile to shake out the rest of the rotation, but Phil Hughes, Adelberto Mejia, Tyler Duffey and Jose Berrios is a sufficient field to work with.
No one can ever predict how relievers will fare in a given season: there are always surprise stars and proven closers who falter. Confidence and the ability to throw strikes are important, and in the first three games all the relievers except the retread Craig Breslow showed potential.
On offense, the best news is the re-emergence of Miguel Sano as a hitter to be feared. He was wondrous in 2015 then disappointed horribly in 2016 and Strib writers questioned his offseason preparation. This winter, apparently, he buckled down and he has the look of a mainstay cleanup hitter. Eddie Rosario and Max Kepler just have to show some progress from their first seasons to be more than acceptable as corner outfielders. The big surprises so far are new catcher Jason Castro and new shortstop Jorge Polanco. Castro, especially, was signed as a defensive upgrade but to date has been the star of the attack, walking six times and driving in go-ahead runs. Polanco is supposed to be a natural hitter, and if he slumps Eduardo Escobar can pick up any slack.
The two big question marks have, curiously, been batting 3rd and 4th in Paul Molitor's lineup: Byron Buxton and Joe Mauer. Buxton is clearly not ready for Major League pitching, and one has to wonder (like Clark Griffith did) if he ever will be. He is extraordinary in centerfield, and putting him lower in the order may allow him to relax and find his stride. It's exciting to see him run and I hope he will get over whatever hump is stopping him; but for now it is excruciating to see him always hitting with an 0-2 count and knowing that a swing and miss will follow. As for Mauer, how long will his reputation and huge salary protect him? He is no longer the hitter who can wait for the pitcher to throw two strikes before he starts to swing. Without power, without speed, and with defenses shifted to cover his inside-out stroke, there is so little margin for error. Will he comfortably slide down to the 6th hole, or 8th?
Anyway, these are the little dramas we will watch as they play out over the summer. It is the soap opera of personalities, not just the game itself, that makes baseball so intriguing. Who knows how the Vikings' left guard is doing? And some games a receiver may hardly be thrown at. But we know, and can watch, every single baseball player and can judge him in isolation, live and die with every at bat.
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During an interview last week with the team behind edX's Greek Hero class (which will air a week from Friday), I had to sheepishly admit that discussion boards were the element of my MOOC classes to which I've dedicated the least time.
For the people managing those discussions, the chance to see input from hundreds or even thousands of students (much of it extremely original and insightful) makes the boards and important (and extremely satisfying) component of the course. But for those of us that hoped the boards would provide an adequate substitute for one of the key components of a traditional classroom experience (regular exchanges with fellow students), discussion forums are a decidedly mixed bag.
I've commented before on the consequence of my just-completed Justice class requiring responses to two prompts per week: dozens or even hundreds of new comments flowing into the boards on an almost hourly basis. Which meant that even when I wrote something I was proud of, or commented on someone else's interesting or provocative posting, by the time I returned to see if a conversation had ensued, whatever I'd posted or replied to had gotten buried in pages upon pages of more recent material.
The consequence of these numbers is that the vast bulk of comments submitted to a discussion board have zero responses, meaning they are part of monologue rather than dialog. And while I chose to treat prompted questions as an assignment to be taken seriously (which meant writing the equivalent of a one-page paper or the type of provocative rejoinder I would have used to mix things up in a live class), so far online discussions have not provided the kind of community I would like to have (especially in an ethics class like Justice where exchanging ideas should be a cornerstone of the learning experience).
All that said, I may have given up on discussion a bit too early (or chosen to push it aside when my courseload got too heavy). But now that my sophomore year is coming to a close with the number of classes that have active discussion boards dwindling to just a few, I've decided to give the forums another try, committing to dedicate at least 30-60 minutes a day to this element of my courses.
I also have a new course starting next week (Coursera's English Common Law) which I'd like to use as an experiment to see if participating in active discussions throughout a class can provide the type of connection to a learning community I've not gotten so far.
My suspicion is that creating a genuine cohort of fellow learners that could simulate the type of interaction you would get in a well-managed live discussion group will require going outside discussion board systems built-in MOOCs that are designed to manage input by thousands of people with differing interests and varying degrees of commitment to a class.
But as the experimentalists among us might say: there's only one way to find out.
Discussion groups is the one area I have found most intimidating in the MOOC environment. I look forward to reading your post on how you handle forming a smaller community. I have a MOOC starting in July and I intend to spend more time dedicated to the discussion board.
Snap – I'm also enrolled on the English Common Law course!
I've found discussion boards of variable utility but certainly an easy way to lose a couple of hours. Some boards were extremely useful – those on most programming courses, for example, have offered loads of practical support. Similarly, the boards on Stat2.1/2.2 (Berkeley's intro to Stats sequence on edX) have been tremendously helpful and warm hearted. I think I have gained most when I have been involved in supporting others – not for any altruistic reason but simply because explaining a point to others is the best way to clarify and embed your own learning.
It's worthwhile remembering that, in general, only a tiny proportion of students will ever post to a discussion board. I seem to remember a figure of fewer than 5% being mentioned of whom an even smaller proportion would ever initiate a discussion. I had a very brief scout around a few boards for the courses and estimate that 10-20% of the posts on any forum come from fewer than ten regular contributors. Considering that these courses typically have enrolments numbered in the tens of thousands that is pretty startling.
Thanks for the great post and follow up comments. This is a great summary of the frustration in using online discussion forums for open-ended group conversation. After having similar frustration, myself and a fellow university colleague have embarked on designing a visual group communication platform aimed at solving the many problems you've mentioned above. This new form of communication will (in theory!) provide a visualized communication structure which resembles a real group conversation, gives graphical weighting to key questions and responses (so that gem of a response that you left is properly read!), and provides a more 'consumable' representation of the group discussion outcome.
We are still very early in the development process of the platform and would be hugely aided by the DegreeofFreedom community's help in clarifying the problems associated with discussion forum use in MOOCs. If you would be willing to assist us in solving this problem for the hundreds of thousands of MOOC learners, we'd love to hear your feedback through the online site we've recently set up (www.smorgus.com) or from any other comments on this post. Really looking forward to any feedback you might have!


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Entries : Wheaton, IL
DuPage County, 25 miles W of the Loop. Erastus Gary arrived in 1831 to develop a farm and mill on the west branch of the DuPage River in Warrenville, several miles west of present-day Wheaton. Gary's neighbors from Connecticut, brothers Jesse and Warren Wheaton, claimed nearly a thousand acres of nearby land in 1838–39. Other settlers from New England soon followed. The settlement was formally incorporated in 1859, and by 1880 the population approached 1,000. The community became the county seat in 1867 following a decade-long contest with Naperville that resulted in a successful midnight raid on the Naperville courthouse for the county records. In 1887, Wheaton began a long-term prohibition of the sale of alcohol.
A Wesleyan Methodist congregation organized in 1843 was the first formal church in the community. The Wesleyans opened Illinois Institute in 1853, which became Wheaton College in 1860. Methodists formed their own congregation in 1853, and Jonathan Blanchard organized a Congregationalchurch (temporarily sub- suming the Wesleyans) in 1860. Baptists, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and others followed shortly thereafter. Following World War II, many new congregations were formed as the population of the community increased rapidly over the succeeding decades from its 1940 level of 7,400.
In 1874 local residents built one of the first public schools in the county that included grades 1–12. Additional grammar schools were built as the population increased: Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell, each in a different quarter of the town. A new high school was added in 1925, Wheaton North in 1964, and Wheaton South (Wheaton-Warrenville) in 1973.
Wheaton was becoming a suburban community. The Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, on land donated by Warren Wheaton, whose name identified the local station. Commuter service became a regular feature of the community. The establishment of the banking house of Gary and Wheaton, a new courthouse, the Adams Memorial Library, and construction of residences and places of business gave evidence of a growing, prospering community at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1902 a second railroad, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric line, connected Wheaton to the Fox River Valley until 1957.
Wheaton was the site of summer residences for some wealthy Chicagoans, offering a course for horse racing and the Chicago Golf Club (the first 18-hole golf course in the United States). The community was also home to several persons of national note: Judge Elbert Gary (founder of U.S. Steel and the city of Gary, Indiana), Senator C. Wayland Brooks, John Quincy Adams (financier and philanthropist), Edwin Hubble (astronomer), Grote Reber (radio astronomer), Red Grange and Vic Gustafson (football players), and Margaret Mortenson Landon (author of Anna and the King of Siam ). Wheaton College, the Billy Graham Center, the Theosophical Society in America, and World Evangelical Fellowship help make Wheaton a metropolitan religious center.
Wheaton, IL (inc. 1859)
Year Total
(and by category) Foreign Born Native with foreign parentage Males per 100 females
1870 998 14.6% — —
985 White (98.7%)
13 Colored (1.3%)
1900 2,345 — — —
1930 7,258 10.0% 63.2% 95
7,118 White (98.1%)
129 Negro (1.8%)
11 Other (0.2%)
1960 24,312 4.2% 17.5% 94
23,919 White (98.4%)
46 Other races (0.2%)
1990 51,464 6.5% — 94
1,373 Black (2.7%)
35 American Indian (0.1%)
1,945 Asian/Pacific Islander (3.8%)
278 Other race (0.5%)
1,035 Hispanic Origin* (2.0%)
49,791 White alone (89.8%)
1,565 Black or African American alone (2.8%)
63 American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.1%)
2,687 Asian alone (4.8%)
11 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone (0.0%)
571 Some other race alone (1.0%)
728 Two or more races (1.3%)
2,023 Hispanic or Latino* (3.7%)
Thomas O. Kay
Burnham, Graham. Wheaton and Its Homes. 1892.
Moore, Jean. From Tower to Tower: A History of Wheaton, Illinois. 1974.
Moore, Jean. Wheaton, Illinois: A Pictorial History. 1994.


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Although the information here suggests planning starts with your junior year, be prepared to begin your graduate school planning as early as possible. Many of the following tasks can be completed in your freshman or sophomore year (e.g. taking relevant coursework for graduate programs to which you are applying, getting to know your professors, etc.).
Keep in mind that the application process for graduate programs (especially Ph.D.) typically begins at the end of the fall semester of your senior year. Applying prior to graduation can help you to secure your placement in a graduate program early. Rejections are common, so if you wait too long you may end up having to take more time off from your academic goals than you anticipate.
Begin researching potential careers in psychology.
Read about faculty interests at your college or university that may be a good fit with your own interests. Read over recent publications and look carefully at faculty web pages to determine the faculty members' most current research projects.
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Review your transcripts to determine whether there are any courses that you are required to take to fulfill your major, and evaluate your GPA. (Most Ph.D. programs look for a GPA of 3.5 or higher in an applicant).
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Design a "Program Application Plan." Make note of specific requirements of programs to which you wish to apply: type of programs offered, minimum GPA/GRE scores, application fees, and deadlines for applications.
Review psychology department web pages of potential graduate programs to which you wish to apply. Request more information specific to the program. Attend open house events, graduate school fairs, and schedule visits, if possible.
Schedule the GRE for no later than October, if your plan is to start graduate school the year after you graduate with your bachelor's degree.
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>The Plan
>From The Belmont Club:
Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States on a YouTube video. The video is taken from the 1982 documentary "No Place to Hide".
Editor's note: All six parts of that documentary are here:
The Weathermen's plans included putting parts of United States under the administration of Cuba, North Vietnam, China and Russia and re-educating the uncooperative in camps in located in the Southwest. Since there would be holdouts, plans were made for liquidating the estimated 25 million unreconstructable die-hards.
The most interesting moment of the video comes when Grathwohl asks the viewer to imagine what it's like to be in a room with 25 people, all of whom have master's degrees or higher from elite institutions of higher learning like Columbia, listening to them discuss the logistics of killing 25 million Americans.
Actually, it's easy. What's hard to imagine is sitting in a room full of plumbers discussing the same thing. The longer I live the less I believe that humanity is able to live without submitting itself to some kind of belief system. Western Civilization decided to liberate itself from a belief in Christ — whose Kingdom was not of this world — and went straight to the altars of Nazism and Communism, whose kingdom was in the camps. People like Ayers aren't atheists, they're true believers. GK Chesterton was right when he said that a man who declares he has stopped believing in God often doesn't mean he believes in nothing. It only means he's willing to believe in anything.
Jean Paul Sarte believed Che Guevara was "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age … [the] era's most perfect man", which just goes to show you can get a fancy diploma from the École Normale Supérieure and still graduate with not an iota of common sense.
Unclogging a drain with a snake is something anyone with a little intelligence and persistence can do.
Planning the death of millions of Americans takes an education.
7 responses to ">The Plan"
A Militia Member | October 23, 2008 at 17:34 |
>Nice folks that our CINC-wannabee hang out with, huh?This crap from Obama that he was only 8 when Ayers did his bombings is a complete cop-out. KNOWING who Ayers was (and has remained-he's unrepentant), he STILL associated with him (and more, probably involving strategizing and active cooperation). In light of the information in the video here, THAT is cause for great fear if he should get into the White House (esp. with super-majorities in Congress).All that I can say about those who would attempt to murder large numbers of Americans for trying to preserve our way of life is: "Weatherman, come and take them!" http://moviesonline.ca/TheFeed/index.php?id=300-laydownyourweaponsMolon Labe!III
Billy Beck | October 23, 2008 at 18:15 |
>"GK Chesterton was right when he said that a man who declares he has stopped believing in God often doesn't mean he believes in nothing. It only means he's willing to believe in anything."I must say it: it pains me to see you headed in this direction.I'm an atheist, C.A. I'm living proof that Chesterton was wrong.
>B: That quote ain't mine – it's Fernandez quoting GKC. I've tweaked the entry to be clear.I happen to believe that there is too much order in the verse to have occurred randomly. But that's me. I stand on my prior comments elsewhere that the Founding generation had both atheists and believers. If there is agreement on principles, then the origins of those principles can be the subject of debate after the barbarians have been annihilated. Forward (I hope)…One other thought: the word "principles" can be substituted into the GKC quote in lieu of God and it remains (becomes?) coherent.
Anonymous | October 24, 2008 at 13:31 |
>"I'm living proof that Chesterton was wrong."There are very few Atheists — or maybe the better word is Materialists — who hold a Christian worldview, the source of individual rights. Materialists who espouse individual rights are espousing a contradiction of their own premises (see Without a Prayer: Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System by John W. Robbins).So in general Chesterton was right, though we are blessed to have a couple of fools on our side (though I'm not sure why).- a Christian libertarian
Vanderboegh | October 24, 2008 at 14:24 |
>Well, Billy, I don't mind having an atheist to tie my flank to. A hungry skeptic ought to be more awake on point than a well-fed Southern Baptist, right?As far as Comrade Ayers, I wrote this to David Codrea when he forwarded the link to me:"You know, there's an original copy of Prairie Fire in my 'Benedict Arnold period' papers at the Ohio Historical Society. I remember reading it and thinking it was too haphazard and "bourgeouis" — full of horseshit and wishful thinking — written by somebody who had little understanding of the "real working class." On Ayres and the Weathermen I was right, but looking back I've got to laugh at how self righteous the serious full-of-shit leftist can be. And boy, was I full of shit back then. ;-)"Of course, I didn't know they'd got as far as talking about disposing of the "dregs of the old society." Not surprised though.However, Billy, I will say that if I can make the journey from commie puke to a Christian advocate of republicanism, hope still springs eternal for you. ;-)Even so, I promise not to proseletize on insecure tactical channels. I'll leave that job to my RTO. ;-)Mike VanderboeghIII
Seerak | October 29, 2008 at 07:14 |
>The longer I live the less I believe that humanity is able to live without submitting itself to some kind of belief system. Then, People like Ayers aren't atheists, they're true believers.Poison as cure, and poison as antidote. Sure, that makes sense. :PWestern Civilization decided to liberate itself from a belief in Christ — whose Kingdom was not of this world — and went straight to the altars of Nazism and Communism, whose kingdom was in the camps.You blew right by 1776. Nice try, but some of us are paying attention. 1776 was the first stop on that great burst of freed minds. But then something happened on the way to a thinking morality: some sonofabitch denied reason in order to preserve morality as the domain of faith/feelings. And lo, the Left was born out of the aborted Age of Reason, spurning God — but not belief itself. Oh, no sir.Planning the death of millions of Americans takes an education.So did planning America.This sort of thing didn't.Evidently, it has to do with what kind of education you have.GK Chesterton was wrong. A man who tells you he has stopped believing, may simply have started THINKING.No one calling himself an American should be talking about "submitting" to anything.
>Folks:Remember – the text above comes from the owner of the Belmont Club, Richard Fernandez.


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Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 40 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZBTB40 gene.
↑ "Entrez Gene: ZBTB40 zinc finger and BTB domain containing 40".
Nakajima D, Okazaki N, Yamakawa H, et al. (2003). "Construction of expression-ready cDNA clones for KIAA genes: manual curation of 330 KIAA cDNA clones.". DNA Res. 9 (3): 99–106. doi:10.1093/dnares/9.3.99. PMID 12168954.
Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE, et al. (2006). "The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1.". Nature. 441 (7091): 315–21. doi:10.1038/nature04727. PMID 16710414.
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Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn't bother Dan Kaminsky, who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet's infrastructure.
Kaminsky made headlines on Tuesday by talking about a major flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), used to connect computers to each other on the Internet. In late March he grouped together 16 companies that make DNS software -- companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Sun Microsystems -- and talked them into fixing the problem and jointly releasing patches for it.
But some of Kaminsky's peers were unimpressed. That's because he violated one of the cardinal rules of disclosure: publicizing a flaw without providing the technical details to verify his finding.
On Wednesday he took things a step further on his blog, asking hackers to avoid researching the problem until next month, when he plans to release more information about it at the Black Hat security conference.
The flaw appears to be a serious one that could be exploited in what's called a "cache poisoning attack." These attacks hack the DNS system, using it to redirect victims to malicious Web sites without their knowledge.
They have been recognised for years but can be hard to pull off. But Kaminsky claims to have found a very effective way of launching such an attack, thanks to a vulnerability in the design of the DNS protocol itself.
On Tuesday, however, Kaminsky held back from disclosing the technical details of his finding.
He said he wanted to go public with the issue to put pressure on corporate IT staff and Internet service providers to update their DNS software, while at the same time keeping the bad guys in the dark about the precise nature of the problem.
A full public disclosure of the technical details would make the Internet unsafe, he said in an interview Wednesday. "Right now, none of this stuff needs to go public."
He quickly received a skeptical reaction from Matasano Security researcher Thomas Ptacek, who blogged that Kaminsky's cache poisoning attack is merely one of many disclosures underlining the same well-known problem with DNS -- that it does not do a good enough job in creating random numbers to create unique "session ID" strings when communicating with other computers on the Internet.
"The bug in DNS is that it has a 16-bit session ID," he said via an e-mail Wednesday. "You can't deploy a new Web app with less than 128-bit session IDs. We've known about that fundamental problem since the '90s."
"Here comes the onslaught of interviews and media explosion for another overhyped bug by Dan Kaminsky," wrote a jaded (and anonymous) poster to the Matasano blog.
Over at the SANS Internet Storm Center, a highly respected security blog, one blogger speculated that Kaminsky's bug had actually been disclosed three years earlier.
Kaminsky, who is director of penetration testing with security vendor IOActive, said that he was "vaguely surprised" by some of the negative reaction, but that this kind of skepticism was vital to the hacker community.
"I'm breaking the rules," he admitted. "There's not enough information in the advisory to figure out the attack and I'm bragging about it."
According to DNS expert Paul Vixie, one of the few people who has been given a detailed briefing on Kaminsky's finding, it is different from the issue reported three years ago by SANS.
While Kaminsky's flaw is in the same area, "it's a different problem," said Vixie, who is president of the Internet Systems Consortium, the maker of the most widely used DNS server software on the Internet.
The issue is urgent and should be patched immediately, said David Dagon, a DNS researcher at Georgia Tech who was also briefed on the bug.
"With sparse details, a few have questioned whether Dan Kaminsky had repackaged older work in DNS attacks," he said in an e-mail interview. "It is not feasible to think that the world's DNS vendors would have patched and announced in unison for no reason."
By day's end, Kaminsky had even turned his most vocal critic, Matasano's Ptacek, who issued a retraction on this blog after Kaminsky explained the details of his research over the telephone. "He has the goods," Ptacek said afterward.
While the attack builds on previous DNS research, it makes cache poisoning attacks extremely easy to pull off. "He's pretty much taken it to point and click to an extent that we didn't see coming."
Kaminsky's remaining critics will have to wait until his Aug. 7 Black Hat presentation to know for sure, however.
The security researcher said he hopes that they show up for his talk. "If I do not have the exploit," he said. "I deserve every single piece of anger and distrust."


On this Motivation Monday, I ask you to forgive this post's lack of originality as I offer my annual dose of Thanksgiving-infused inspiration.
Right up there with the Fourth of July (which takes place in my favorite season), Thanksgiving remains my all-time favorite holiday because it's a day that makes us stop and give thanks for everything good in our lives. And what better way to take that pause than spending some quality time with family, friends…and plenty of yummy food and drinks?
Move it! Don't skimp on the activity this week. Remember, ten minutes of exercise are always better than zero. The bonus is you'll have the mental boost knowing you made an effort prior to the Turkey Day feast. On Thursday, even if you're hosting the holiday fun and can't leave the house, you can pop in an exercise DVD or bang out a Tabata first thing in the morning. Or sneak out for some fresh air and a brisk power walk or abbreviated run. Your gym is open? Great! Try a morning group exercise class or attack some cardio and core work. A few solid planks can make you feel strong before filling your belly with delicious eats.
Eat breakfast! Be sure to eat something sensible on Thanksgiving morning to kick-start your metabolism. If you're not feasting until late afternoon, make sure to follow breakfast with a small lunch or sensible snack so you don't go overboard later. Two ideas: non-fat plain Greek yogurt with a serving of almonds mixed in or a piece of toasted Ezekiel bread topped with a sliced hard-boiled egg and salsa. These protein-rich snacks will keep you feeling full longer than a sugar-infused snack. For me, blending a chocolate Isagenix shake for breakfast is always a surefire way to know I started the day off on the right foot – even if it all goes downhill later!
Mind Your Portions! Use a salad or other small dish for your meal. Start with salad or veggies and then add the turkey. Use the remaining space for the potatoes, stuffing and other starches. There simply won't be as much room left as you'd have on a regular dinner plate.
Savor the Flavor! Eat slowly! If you do clean your plate, wait 10 minutes before going back for round two. This will help you decide if you're really hungry. If you aren't, you'll feel good knowing you had one helping – before moving on to dessert, of course!
Keep Tabs on the Libations! This is the perfect day to follow the every-other-drink-is-alcohol plan. Enjoy a glass of wine, beer or cocktail then have a glass of still or sparking water before moving on to the next cocktail.
Make Doggie Bags! Hosting the holiday feast? Don't be shy about giving some of the uneaten turkey and trimmings to your guests.
I wrap things up by offering heartfelt wishes to all my readers for a very Happy Thanksgiving! With each year that passes, I grow even more thankful for so many blessings including my family, my friends, my health and for the support I receive from my "fitfam," which includes all my loyal readers. One final note: If you end up breaking the calorie bank this Thanksgiving, don't sweat it. Laughter, good food and even some good wine can be the perfect ingredients for a happy holiday as we continue our ongoing journey to have fun, be fit and feel fabulous!
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Despite the sluggish work of cleaning the Ganga under Namami Gange project in Uttarakhand, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat claimed on Sunday that the river will be clean till Haridwar by 2020.
"All drains flowing into the river with untreated sewage will be stopped and the Ganga will be clean till Haridwar by 2020" Rawat said at a media event when asked about the status of the Clean Ganga project in Uttarakhand. He said there was no dearth of funds to clean the river of pollution caused by the discharge of untreated sewage.
An RTI reply by the state government has revealed that the water of the Ganga is now even good for drinking in Haridwar. In comparison, a dip in the Ganga downstream at Sangam in Allahabad, could expose people to levels of the faecal coliform (FC) that are 5-13 times the permissible limit, official data from 2017 shows.
The main stem of the river flows in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal before it drains into the Bay of Bengal.
For decades, towns along the banks of the river in the hills have been discharging sewage directly into the river. According to government data, 23 new sewerage treatment plants (STPs) will be established in the Ganga basin in Uttarakhand while five will be upgraded. The new STPs will have a capacity to treat 6.47 million litres per day (MLD) whereas the five upgraded STPs including two in Haridwar and one in Rishikesh will have a treatment capacity of 53.5 MLD.
A sum of Rs 273 crores has been sanctioned for the 28 STPs and so far Rs 12 crores have been spent. A detailed report shows the official machinery in the state has so far submitted preliminary plans for 21 of the 38 STPs in Rudraprayag, Karnaprayag, Nandprayag, Badrinath and Gopeshwar. This means the actual work in these projects will take more time than expected.
The Prime Minister's ambitious Namami Gange programme was launched in 2014 with a sanctioned budget of Rs 20,000 crore. The first phase of the work is expected to be completed in five years but with more than 36 months already gone, the government is a bit concerned.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttarakhand understands that a faster clean-up will allow the party to showcase some of the work ahead of the 2019 general elections but the chief minister made it clear that cleaning the Ganga is a huge task.
"The Ganga is a huge river. The Ganga basin roughly covers 50 lakh sq kms area and therefore it (cleaning) won't alone happen in next 2-3 years" Rawat said.
Meanwhile Swami Chidanand, head of the Rishikesh based Pramarh Ashram said that seven drains flows directly into the river in the pilgrim town. He said he would be happy "to adopt a drain so that sewerage and garbage could be stopped at the source".
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The NGRBA is currently working on 57 project of sewerage treatment plant in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal with combined capacity to treat 470.53 million liters of sewerage in a day.


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Stunning photos from photo journalist MICHAEL LEVY – photos for 22 of the mammoth 44 song set, presented beautifully.
I am a French freelance graphic designer & photographer living in Paris. I had the chance to "be there" in London, 25 years after my first Cure concert.
I was not accredited as a photographer (hopefully for the next tour !), so i just took one camera in my bag, wishing to be able to capture a few pictures for my "souvenirs". Most of these images were taken from my seat (Door 9, Grand tier 34), with a minimal gear : a standard zoom lens (24-105 f/4).
Seeing them now as a kind of "photographic film" of the concert, I decided not to keep them only for my eyes. Some will say, what the point, it is twenty times the same photo! But the others will observe with attention the different colors, different moods, different attitudes, all the tiny details that change according to the song they play.