There are enough differences between the Android tablet and smartphone interfaces to make the platform a bit confusing. With that in mind, I thought I would point out some of the main UI differences and how to know what to look for on the tablet version of the Android platform.
Android 3.x (Honeycomb) is the Android platform for large screen devices (tablets). Android 2.x (Gingerbread) is the Android platform for smaller screen devices (smartphones). The devices I'm using as examples are the Verizon Droid X and the Toshiba Thrive tablet. The Droid X doesn't have a vanilla Android interface, but it's still an outstanding device and offers many fine examples of how these differences appear.
NotificationThe notification system is probably the change that will effect most users. The cause for this change was simple — real estate. With the size of the smartphone screen, it was necessary to have a notification system that was non-intrusive and could be easily hidden — thus the "drag bar"style. If a notification occurs, the user simply drags the bar from the top to the bottom to check it (see Figure A). Figure A
Simply pull down the notification bar to reveal alerts.Now, on the tablet version of Android, the notification system has been revamped and relocated to more closely resemble a standard desktop system. Figure B illustrates how the new notification system works. Instead of using a drop-down bar, the notifications appear in the notification area, waiting for you to tap on one to reveal its information. Figure B
Here, you can see a Gmail email alert that I've tapped on to reveal.
In order to get rid of a tablet notification, you have to tap the notification to open the associated application or tap the X on the far right of the notification popup.
To be fair, we're comparing apples to oranges, but the notification system on the tablet version of Android is by far the more user-friendly of the two. However, seeing as how the smartphone take on the notification system is cramped by size, the drag-bar style does get the job done.
MultitaskingIt's possible to multitask on both Android smartphones and tablets, but they handle it quite differently. In order to change to a different smartphone application, press and hold the Home button, which will bring up the Recent list (see Figure C). Figure C
The Recent list shows the most recently used applications. You can fire up one of those applications by tapping its icon.With the Android tablet, you'll find a much closer-to-true take on multitasking. On the home screen, you'll see a small square icon near the bottom left corner. If you tap that icon, all currently running applications will appear in a vertical bar (see Figure D). Select the application you want to switch to, and that app will appear on screen. Figure D
The Android tablet offers much closer to true multitasking than the Android smartphone.
Application SettingsIn the smartphone platform, you have to open an application and then tap the Menu button to reveal the Settings icon or menu (see Figure E). Figure E
This is the menu for the Android browser application, where the Settings can be accessed.The Settings button on the Android tablet is actually found in the Application window (see Figure F). In the upper right corner, you'll see an icon with horizontal lines. Simply tap that icon to reveal the application menu, which includes the Settings entry. Figure F
As you can see, it's also possible to open up an incognito browser window from this menu.
For the Android smartphone platform, widget sizing was completely up to the widget designer. Many of these widgets would install different sized variations, so the user could add a small, medium, or large widget on their home screen. The tablet interface makes a huge change on this by allowing the resizing of widgets on the screen. Now, not all widgets have this capability yet. But for those that do, in order to resize them, follow these steps:
- Add the widget to the home screen
- Long-press the widget
- A handled box will appear (see Figure G)
- Grab any edge of that widget and drag it to the size you want
- Tap outside of that widget to save the size
Only official Google widgets are "resize-aware" at the moment.
As I mentioned, only the official Google widgets can do this. All other widgets must have this feature worked in by the developers.
There are quite a few more differences between the two versions of Android, but the ones I highlighted above will help Android smartphones users get accustomed to the Android tablet platform. Have you found a difference that has tripped you up? If so, please share your experience with your fellow TechRepublic readers in the discussion thread below.
Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic and Linux.com. He’s an avid promoter of open source and the voice of The Android Expert. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen.com.


Diving fails: How it went wrong for defending Olympic champ
DIVING is supposed to be graceful and skilful.
But when it goes wrong it can be the complete opposite.
It can also bring a world of pain for the divers, both physically and mentally.
But what is also does is give us all a laugh (or cringe).
Our favourite is the last one, if you allow for some poetic license.
Ilia Zakharov, Russia
He was a favourite for a medal in Rio after taking a gold in London four years ago.
But any aspirations Ilia Zakharov had of repeating that effort went awry with this effort in the semi-finals in Brazil.
The Olympic champion got straight zeros for this epic fail and missed out on the final.
Stephan Feck, Germany
The German diver was someone who was expected to do well in London in 2012.
But he would have got all zeros for this horror effort.
We are not sure if those are twists or if he is practising his break-dancing.
Whatever, this is another that goes in the basket of "oh no".
Just another laugh out loud moment.
Greg Louganis, USA
This was definitely in the painful bracket.
The gold medal favourite in Seoul 1988 caught the edge of the board with his head when trying to qualify for the final.
Louganis' head split open and blood spilled into the pool but after being stitched up, the American returned to produce the best dive of the preliminaries to make the final.
He showed his class to take out the gold.
John Smith, Great Britain
Smith was another favourite but decided to put two fingers up at the authorities by producing this effort.
The youngster bears an uncanny resemblance to British comedian Peter Kay but you make your own mind up.


SECURITY EXPERTS have warned of a phony browser extension masquerading as Adblock Plus and serving users invasive online ads when it was supposed to be blocking them.
SwiftOnSecurity warned of the fake extension via Twitter on Tuesday, some time after it had managed to sneak into the official Google Chrome Web Store and attract over 37,000 users. By that time, the damage was done.
If you're wanting to know how to spot it, the only difference between the extension, called "AdBlock Plus", and the real deal is the capital B in the name. It also came from a developer who had called itself Adblock Plus, for that extra air of authenticity.
Legitimate developers just have to sit back and watch as Google smears them with fake extensions that steal their good name pic.twitter.com/3Tnv4NtY9t— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 9, 2017
Since its discovery by SwiftOnSecurity, Google has removed the malicious extension, but that doesn't help those who have already downloaded it.
To see if you have the real Chrome extension or not, make sure it's from adblockplus.org and that it's listed as an extension in the store, and not an app.
Those who have downloaded the fake version can easily delete it, however. All you have to do is go to the hamburger menu on Chrome, click "More tools", then select "Extensions" and click on the trashcan icon next it.
The fact that the extension was able to infiltrate Google's security raises concerns for the future, as to how the company will prevent similar add-ons from doing the same
"There's no way their Chrome team is happy with this extension vetting/moderation situation," SwiftOnSecurity tweeted.
In a blog post, the real Adblock Plus added it was glad the fake extension was pulled down, but added: "It's a bit troubling, of course, that it made it in there in the first place."
Google is yet to comment as to why it wasn't able to distinguish the difference between the genuine and phony extensions. µ
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Security firm warns that IoT devices are the next target
But don't go expecting any new MacBooks


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StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder has given a clear indication that you’re going to be playing the strategy game sooner rather than later.
“We don’t want to lie about the Beta, and we don’t even want to lie about the next Battle Report,” he said in response to an FAQ question about release timings.
“When we know a date (for anything) for certain, we’ll let you know. Hang in there. We’re in the final stretch.”
Browder’s comments come after Blizzard COO Paul Sams said the RTS’s beta was to start in the “coming months” in Acti Blizz’s Q4 earnings call last week.
The game will be launched on a “basic version” of the new, hugely anticipated version of Battle.net.
There’s no date on the game as yet, obviously. Thanks, StarCraftWire.


“Greed’s been good to me!” crows Jake (Mat Nakitare), a young trader in Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money, now revived by PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage II. Certainly, greed was good to Churchill, providing the material for this blissfully cruel satire of 1980s London. Churchill’s take is fizzy as champagne, noxious as cyanide. Subtitled A City Comedy, and composed largely in couplets and quatrains, it both pays homage to a jaded 17th-century literary form and critiques a modern financial one, the explosion of the financial services industry in Thatcherite London.
But PTP’s co-artistic director Cheryl Faraone is only somewhat good to Churchill—or to greed. To her credit, she manages a large cast on what is likely a tiny budget and helps them find their rhythmic way through Churchill’s playfully vulgar poetry. The plot is tough to follow even on the page: a twinned narrative of an attempted hostile takeover and a trader’s suicide (or is it murder?). If Faraone doesn’t do much to clarify the story, perhaps Churchill doesn’t want it overly clear. Scilla (Tara Giordano), our morally dubious stockbroker heroine, celebrates the joyous disorder of the trading floor: “It’s like playing a cross between roulette and Space Invaders.”
More worryingly, the production looks cheap, a problem with a script so emphasizing excess. While there are some gestures to the ’80s in terms of costume and make-up, it neither feels fully a period piece nor does it resonate with the financial world of today as much as it ought to. Typical of PTP, the performances are varied to the point of distraction. Some are expert (David Barlow as a smiling Yank strategist, Megan Byrne as an unscrupulous arbitrageur), others dire.
The play boasts two musical numbers (with lusciously rude lyrics by Ian Dury), here reduced to spasmodic cabaret. As the actors shout “Quick! Prick! Yes! No! Cunt!” they jerk their bodies in parodies of trading-floor semaphore or orgasm. This awkward choreography reaps a titter from the audience, but it never really captures the sex-money-death collision that feeds the script. With its focus on egoism, aggression, immediacy, and blinkered thinking, Churchill’s play anticipates the crash of the late ’80s and our own 20 years on. But you won’t feel those consequences in the PTP version. Faraone highlights the play’s sneering appraisal of late capitalism, but not the dark heart that beats just beneath all the rollicking, bollocking bluster.


DUBAI- Hesham Abdulla Al Qassim, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Emirates NBD
, today rang the market-opening bell to celebrate the listing of a US$750 million conventional bond on Nasdaq Dubai.
The issuance underlines Emirates NBD
’s commitment to growth and expansion, building on recent developments that include increasing its international branch presence, enhancing its digital strategy and investing further in core businesses. Emirates NBD
recently announced net profit reached AED6.17 billion in the first nine months of 2017, up 15 percent from the same period in 2016.
Emirates NBD is the largest issuer of conventional bonds on Nasdaq Dubai. with a total nominal value of 5.03 billion US Dollars from eight listings.
The bell-ringing ceremony took place in the presence of Essa Kazim, Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre, DIFC, and Chairman of Dubai Financial Market
, Abdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of Nasdaq Dubai
, Shayne Nelson, Group Chief Executive Officer of Emirates NBD, and Hamed Ali, Chief Executive of Nasdaq Dubai
Al Qassim said, "The high international profile and excellent regulatory framework provided by Nasdaq Dubai
make the exchange the ideal platform for our bond listings as we raise long-term funding to support our financial services business in the UAE and internationally. Our close relationship with Nasdaq Dubai supports the continuing growth of the UAE as a regional and global centre of financial services activity." Conventional bonds listed on Nasdaq Dubai.from all Dubai-based issuers now total 9.08 billion US Dollars, with listings from overseas totalling 4.26 billion.
© Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2017.


The March job figures were just released by the Department of Labor, and the news is unambiguously good. The payroll figures show that 162,000 jobs were added on a seasonally adjusted basis in March. The gains were broad-based, with every major industrial sector adding jobs except information and financial services. The increases also come on top of upwardly revised employment figures for January and February.
There was some expectation that hiring for the Census might be a major jobs driver this month, but this does not appear to be the case. Of the 162,000 jobs that were added, 123,000 were private sector jobs. Government employment was up, but gains in federal government jobs were partly offset by losses in state and local government jobs.
The unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent; however, this mainly reflected an increase in the number of people who were in the labor force. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the proportion of people who were employed rose as did the proportion of people in the labor force (those who identify themselves as working or looking for work).
Overall, the employment figures appear to be on the right track. However, it will take many years of these types of gains to recover all the jobs that were lost during the Great Recession.


From time to time, I feel JUST like these comics:
specially these days, when I am kind-of doing-plans, and trying to guess what I have done until now...
Sometimes I wander... if I had taken another path.
But most probably, I would be asking the same question. Time always run out.


Toyota 86 Series Race 3: Wilson Security Sandown
"It was looking good from the start after gaining a few spots.
But with an exhaust failure causing power issues later in the race. It
was a hard slog at the end, we were getting eaten alive on the
straights" - Kane.
Driver Kane Baxter-Smith was happy with the racing enjoying battles with Leanne Tander and John Goodacre.
Race 2 was disappointing for Team BSR after car 81 ran us off the road
at Turn 1 from the start of the race, the resulting damage caused the
ABS to fail and reduced straight line speed.
This is what the crew chief had to say: "I don't like fixing cars at the race track, (add exploitive deletives)"... - Tim Broad
Race 3 had tricky conditions with the race starting on a wet track, we
started from 26th and managed to push forward conservatively to finish
"It was important to keep the car clean for Bathurst in a couple of
weeks time... We pushed forward without making contact with a single
car" - Kane Baxter-Smith
The team were pleased with the result: "We made some last minute changes to suit the wet conditions, and the resulting setup was perfect for the conditions" - Pamela Baxter-Smith
The team is celebrating a clean car for Bathurst with the event only 2 weeks away!


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For those of you in Japan, you can still catch re-runs of the NHK documentary that I was on in Hi Vision.
BS Hi-Vision TV
Monday, July 24 15:00 - 15:49
Wednesday, July 26 00:00 - 00:49 (in other words, late Tuesday)
The regular NHK broadcast has been postponed until
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Please tune in!


NL Cy Young Award Rankings: Brandon Beachy Moves Up, Chris Capuano Looks in
Another week brings more shuffling among the top contenders for the NL Cy Young Award.
Keeping the list at five is difficult, with so many pitchers having excellent seasons. Putting these rankings together sometimes feels like trying to shut the door on an attacking horde of zombies. (Lance Lynn wants in!) At the very least, we might need a bulletin board with index cards to move around.
Clayton Kershaw gets squeezed out this week, though giving up seven earned runs in 12.2 innings is certainly not terrible. Seven walks is a bit of a concern, however. So is getting batted around by the Brewers and Astros, two of the worst teams in the NL.
As always, your suggestions for who should be included among the top contenders are welcome. But here are the players we think are the best candidates for the NL Cy Young Award this week.
Honorable Mention: Chris Capuano, Los Angeles Dodgers
If Clayton Kershaw wants to know why he got bumped from our NL Cy Young rankings this week, he might want to chat with one of his teammates.
Is Chris Capuano one of the best pitchers in the National League? I doubt anyone would consider him one of the elite arms, certainly not an ace. Yet his numbers are so good right now that it feels like they have to be mentioned here.
Capuano's 2.14 ERA is currently the third-lowest among NL starting pitchers. His WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) of 1.00 is tied for the fourth-best in the league with Kershaw. Opposing batters are hitting .190 against him, which ranks third. And with 58 strikeouts in 63 innings, his ratio of 8.3 Ks per nine innings is the best of his career.
There is a little bit of deception behind those numbers. Capuano is helped by a Dodgers defense that Fangraphs says is the best in the NL. His FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) of 3.27 and an xFIP of 3.90 confirm that.
While mentioning a pitcher's wins as a measure of success is a quick way to get shouted down these days, it's worth noting that Capuano's seven wins are tied for the second-most in the majors. Most of those victories have been logged against lackluster competition (Padres, Pirates, Cubs Astros), but Capuano does have wins over the Braves and Nationals on his belt too.
Maybe this is the last time we'll see Capuano in these rankings. But the season he's having is definitely worth mentioning.
5. Zack Greinke, Milwaukee Brewers
Last week: Honorable Mention
We were ready to boot Zack Greinke from these rankings after he was shelled for seven runs and 10 hits in 2.1 innings by the Arizona Diamondbacks, in one of his two starts this past week. That was pretty awful.
But Greinke came back in his next outing and held the Dodgers to one run over six innings. So we just couldn't quit him.
Greinke is throwing strikeout stuff on the mound. His 69 strikeouts rank fourth in the NL, and if he maintains his current ratio of 9.6 Ks per nine innings, it would be the second-best mark of his career.
Yet Greinke is giving up a lot of hits. He's averaging more than a hit allowed per inning, with 70 in 65 innings. That doesn't seem to mesh with the number of strikeouts he's racked up.
But a deeper look into his numbers reveals that Greinke is getting punished by the Brewers' defense, which ranks among the bottom third of major league teams. His 2.04 FIP and 2.50 xFIP are far lower than his 3.46 ERA.
If Greinke's fielders caught the ball more behind him, his numbers would look even better than they already do.
4. Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals
Last week: No. 2
Taking the biggest drop in this week's NL Cy Young Award rankings is Stephen Strasburg, who looked like the front-runner for the honor in the season's first few weeks.
Strasburg has won his past two starts, but he labored in each of them and hardly appeared dominant. Maybe that has something to do with the competition, as he faced the Orioles and Braves, two of the better teams in baseball. But it's also beginning to look as if Strasburg is getting tired.
In his past three starts, Strasburg has pitched five innings or less. Prior to that, he pitched at least six innings in each outing. The Nationals were already keeping a close watch on his innings and pitch counts as he tries to build up back to full strength two years removed from Tommy John surgery. But Strasburg is confirming that he's not yet ready for a heavy workload.
A good test for Strasburg will be his scheduled Friday start against the Braves. How will he fare against an opponent seeing him in consecutive starts, let alone one that has one of the best lineups in baseball?
3. Brandon Beachy, Atlanta Braves
Last week: No. 5
Maybe we've been a bit harsh on Brandon Beachy in these NL Cy Young Award rankings. High strikeout numbers show dominance over opposing hitters. But with 51 in 66 innings, Beachy doesn't have as many as the other top pitchers in the NL.
A 3.18 FIP and 3.98 xFIP show that he's being helped out by a Braves defense that ranks among the top third in the majors. If only Zack Greinke was getting that kind of help in the field.
Yet changing his approach, pitching to contact and more efficiently, instead of trying to blow away batters, is clearly working well for Beachy. His 1.77 ERA leads the big leagues by a rather substantial margin. His 0.94 WHIP ranks second in the NL, while an opponents' batting average of .182 is also second-best in the league.
Beachy has lost his past two starts, but he faced stiff competition in the Reds and Nationals. And it's not like he was bombed in either of those appearances. In 12 innings, he allowed five earned runs. He also struck out 12 in those two games, so he can get batters to swing and miss when he needs to.
Maybe he just needs to stay away from Great American Ball Park, where he gave up three homers and a season-high four runs to the Reds.
2. Cole Hamels, Philadelphia Phillies
Last week: No. 4
Perhaps I tipped my preferences in an earlier blog post when I predicted that Cole Hamels would eventually win the NL Cy Young Award this season. However, at this point, he's not quite the best pitcher in the league.
But he's pretty darn close. Hamels' 72 strikeouts rank second in the NL. His current ratio of 9.2 Ks per nine innings would be the best rate of his career, if he can maintain it through the rest of the season.
Hamels isn't walking many batters either, issuing only 14 in 10.1 innings. Perhaps staying in the strike zone is why he's allowed 57 hits thus far. The Phillies' defense hasn't been terrible, ranking in the upper third of major league teams. So when opposing batters do make contact, those balls are apparently dropping in for hits.
The left-hander has also been a workhorse, pitching 70.1 innings in his 10 starts. That's the fourth-highest total in the NL. He'll need to keep shouldering the burden for the Phillies now that Roy Halladay is out with a strained right shoulder. But Hamels was already pitching like the team's ace, so he should be more than capable of the responsibility.
1. Gio Gonzalez. Washington Nationals
Last week: No. 1
Staying on top of our NL Cy Young Award rankings for the second straight week is the left-hander who is absolutely dominating the senior circuit.
Gio Gonzalez leads the National League in strikeouts with 79. Only Justin Verlander has more among major league pitchers. But Gonzalez's ratio of 11.5 strikeouts per nine innings is the highest in baseball.
Opposing batters are hitting just .156 against Gonzalez. That's the lowest average in the majors—and by a rather significant margin. His .094 WHIP is second in the NL, just one percentage point higher than Matt Cain.
If those numbers weren't enough of an indication that batters aren't touching Gonzalez's stuff, consider that his 4.8 hits allowed per nine innings leads the big leagues.
The Nationals won't have to worry about Gonzalez wearing down through the season, either. He pitched 200 innings in each of his past two seasons with the Oakland Athletics.
As with Strasburg, Gonzalez will face the Braves in back-to-back starts, so it will be interesting to see how he fares against a lineup that just saw him. But in his previous outing against Atlanta, Gonzalez struck out 10 and allowed just one hit in seven innings. He will very likely be just fine.


Black Lives Matter?Randall Holcombe • Thursday October 5, 2017 10:52 AM PDT •
Last year I put up a blog post on the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that the movement had a valid complaint about the excessive and too often fatal use of force against unarmed and too often innocent blacks. I believe I received more comments on that post, both positive and negative, both on this website and through private correspondence, than on any other of my posts.
A year later, I still agree with the BLM argument that excessive force has been used against blacks partly because of their race. The BLM movement has probably done some good by publicly airing the issue, and likely has restrained some law enforcement officers who otherwise might have been overzealous in their actions.
My perception is that their arguments about overzealous police actions against blacks is correct, partly because in the internet age I’ve seen videos that appear to confirm it. I also think the argument has the moral high ground in arguing against abuse of government power. And, I think their complaints about excessive use of force by the police is powerful enough to gain sympathy from everyone, regardless of race.
Thus, I am disappointed that the BLM movement has lost its focus on excessive use of force by police, and gone on to project an us-against-them mentality, which will always be a hard sell when the “us” is in the minority.
This story describes a BLM organization that is explicitly anti-free speech, and that claims “liberalism is white supremacy.” Actions like this undermine the group’s appeal to a broader audience, and therefore undermine its efforts to call attention to and reduce police brutality.
If the BLM movement is saying “we don’t want the police killing us on the streets,” I’m completely with them, and they should get widespread support on that message. But if they are shutting down campus lectures, protesting against free speech, and projecting an us-against-them message where us is blacks and them is everyone else, it’s easy to see that they are unlikely to get the support of everyone else.
A year ago my thought was that the BLM movement had a valid complaint, and I still think so. On that one issue, they should get lots of support. That’s where the BLM movement started, but it has lost its focus, and regrettably so, because it weakens their ability to make progress on the very real issue of excessive use of force by the police.


Last month at the McSpedden Library our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders participated in our December book clubs.
For the 5th graders, I led this book club and we read The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke. This is one of our Bluebonnet books this year about a young girl named Nere who discovers that she is part of a a science experiment where they bio-engineered her lungs to be able to breath water as well as air. She and a group of other genetically modified kids find out they are part of “The Neptune Project,” which aims at creating a new human society in the ocean, far away from the dangers of land. However, the dangers of the sea are just as deadly.
For the 4th and 5th graders, they came on Friday mornings and met with our Independence student Sruthi who led them in the book Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein. I know I enjoyed seeing Sruthi lead the students in this book club and I think the kids really enjoyed this book!
December Book Club Participants


Identifying the key audience for your website content is obviously important. But there are a few points to consider: although your marketing may be directed to top level corporate clients, speaking to them using direct, well-written English is so much better than cloaking the points in shrouds of irritating clichés and buzzwords that disguise the message rather than tell the message.
A business, small or large, should have first-class succession planning. Especially when you are dealing with clients who are paying you to produce publications for them, if the knowledge management falls down in any aspect of the process, it can destroy client confidence in you and the product.
All about [sic] … fully
Do you know what [sic] means?
It’s the latin term sic erat scriptum. Usage is [sic] in square brackets and sometimes the word is italicised. It means that the quote has been transcribed exactly as it was found in the original source, complete with erroneous spelling or nonstandard presentation. And you probably all know this anyway.


Even though the core architecture remains the same for both xenapp and presentation server they had introduced some new concepts and feature in xenapp.
1. Moved many configuration items from citrix advanced configuration tab to citrix policies and stream lined it like Microsoft GPO.
2. Added many HDX policies to support multimedia
3. Introduced VM hosted application which works with xendesktop
4. Added windows 7 user experience to published desktops
5. Added worker group concept
6. Increased security features linked with Microsoft UAC & Microsoft RDS
7. Added VM provisioning feature via provisioning server


(Do we know what we leave for future generations?)
Not to any alarming degree, no.
(How do we fix it with what we know and with what we have?)
I think if we leave the man made system to its own inclinations, we'll be enslaved by our adherence to it.
Why don't we change the way we exist, become a kinder gentler beast reflecting our true nature?
(Why are the people suffering so disproportionately?)
Because you don't want everyone suffering, do you? I mean, can you imagine every single human on the planet suffering? The foul noise alone would be monstrous. Yet, if no one suffers, then what's to keep the privileged from losing their shit when they break a nail or miss a putt?
If you continue to spin your belief to remain beholden to the past, instead of adapt it to the present, you'll soon have spun your tale so tightly that you'll have nothing to spin nothing changeable. All is stagnant in a world at war...
Okay, now that you are both in the “agree to misunderstand” mode,
Take off those damned corporate clothes- you should know enslavement’s code!
It ain’t white, it ain’t black and it ain’t brown!
Problem comes from bein’ a Nigger for Nike or a Redneck for Remington!
Problems arrive when we choose our weapons as entertainment!
When every dumbass human goes fuckin’ blind!
It ain’t sublime!
It ain’t fine!
It’s a crime!
Wake up cracker!
Wake up nigger!
Wake up all you fools rushin in for a dunk
Or a shot at a trophy
for making the most junk!
They don’t give a shit what color or hue,
They just want to use you,
use your shame to divide and conquer two!
Both improsoned in their human rolls, wardens and prisoners, didn’t you know?
It’s like Hell has rooms for different levels of ignorance
when we all go together to our never end entrance!
Wake up! You’re both enslaved,
not because your an ignorant racist,
but because you’re ignorant!
Can’t you see?
You’re just like Me
We find ourselves in a bit of a spiritual pickle. On the one hand we are believers born, disbelief comes when we enter the world and see what has been done, but we are powerless against those we need for survival so early, newly born, and fall hook and bootstrap in lockstep with the system that has been about our enslavement to it. We’ve little choice since it is obvious, though we may or may not worship it, it is our ruler.
How can we rise up when the weight of the shackles of Laws bent on ownership of humans themselves is so much heavier than the rising is capable under such a lode? How? More like WHEN, the HOW unfolds with the cascading story, now not then. The how’ll come to its precipitous timing.
If we understand ourselves, we’ll be content in the instinct for Home, our Spirit will be grateful when the last battle is dead and forgotten.
We are such feeling blah blah beasts, like empathy inexplicably became the monster under our beds that we never talked about for fear of bein…
Citizens being fearful, let’s say of the changing population demographics in the US, is problematic. Of course, fear has many masks, so some, in their resistance, will arm themselves to the teeth, others will make idle threats of moving to Canada, etc, while others will do their best to ignore the reality altogether, all the while maintaining a deep resentment for those they deem intruders upon their freedoms, their way of life, their jobs, their religion, even their conscience.
All of the aforementioned are without breath, without thought and cannot foment change, for they are stagnant, old and unmoved and have been around since the first ships landed on these bright and gleaming shores.
Another group of citizenry will embrace the change and try to find ways to bridge any growing divides. I’d imagine that this last group will be the majority, though they may not be as recognizable as those whose fears make the “news”, those whose rage devolves into an advertisement for more wars, y…


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Our friends at DataCore ran a press release yesterday positioning the new release (v8.1) of SANsymphony-V as a “storage hypervisor.” On the surface, that may just sound like some nice marketing spin, but the more I thought about it, the more sense it made – because it highlights one of the major differences between DataCore’s products and most other SAN products out there.
To understand what I mean, let’s think for a moment about what a “hypervisor” is in the server virtualization world. Whether you’re talking about VSphere, Hyper-V, or XenServer, you’re talking about software that provides an abstraction layer between hardware resources and operating system instances. An individual VM doesn’t know – or care – whether it’s running on an HP Server, a Dell, an IBM, or a “white box.” It doesn’t care whether it’s running on an Intel or an AMD processor. You can move a VM from one host to another without worrying about changes in the underlying hardware, bios, drivers, etc. (Not talking about “live motion” – that’s a little different.) The hypervisor presents the VM with a consistent execution platform that hides the underlying complexity of the hardware.
So, back to DataCore. Remember that SANsymphony-V is a software application that runs on top of Windows Server 2008 R2. In most cases, people buy a couple of servers that contain a bunch of local storage, install 2008 R2 on them, install SANsymphony-V on them, and turn that bunch of local storage into full-featured iSCSI SAN nodes. (We typically run them in pairs so that we can do synchronous mirroring of the data across the two nodes, such that if one node completely fails, the data is still accessible.) But that’s not all we can do.
Because it’s running on a 2008 R2 platform, it can aggregate and present any kind of storage the underlying Server OS can access at the block level. Got a fibre channel SAN that you want to throw into the mix? Great! Put fiber channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) in your DataCore nodes, present that storage to the servers that SANsymphony-V is running on, and now you can manage the fibre channel storage right along with the local storage in your DataCore nodes. Got some other iSCSI SAN that you’d like to leverage? No problem. Just make sure you’ve got a couple of extra NICs in the DataCore nodes (or install iSCSI HBAs if you want even better performance), present that iSCSI storage to the DataCore nodes, and you can manage it as well. You can even create a storage pool that crosses resource boundaries! And now, with the new auto-tiering functionality of SANsymphony-V v8.1, you can let DataCore automatically migrate the most frequently accessed data to the highest-performing storage subsystems.
Or how about this: You just bought a brand new storage system from Vendor A to replace the system from Vendor B that you’ve been using for the past few years. You’d really like to move Vendor B’s system to your disaster-recovery site, but Vendor A’s product doesn’t know how to replicate data to Vendor B’s product. If you front-end both vendors’ products with DataCore nodes, the DataCore nodes can handle the asynchronous replication to your DR site. Alternately, maybe you bought Vendor A’s system because it offered higher performance than Vendor B’s system. Instead of using Vendor B’s product for DR, you can present both systems to SANsymphony-V and leverage its auto-tiering feature to automatically insure that the data that needs the highest performance gets migrated to Vendor A’s platform.
So, on the back end, you can have disparate SAN products (iSCSI, fibre channel, or both) and local storage (including “JBOD” expansion shelves), and a mixture of SSD, SAS, and SATA drives. The SANsymphony-V software masks all of that complexity, and presents a consistent resource – in the form of iSCSI virtual volumes – to the systems that need to consume storage, e.g., physical or virtual servers.
That really is analogous to what a traditional hypervisor does in the server virtualization world. So it is not unreasonable at all to call SANsymphony-V a “storage hypervisor.” In fact, it’s pretty darned clever positioning, and I take my hat off to the person who crafted the campaign.


New grants to support South Australia’s LGBTIQ community
Applications are now open for $50,000 worth of new State Government grants to fund projects aimed at improving the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer South Australians.
Communities and Social Inclusion Minister Zoe Bettison said eligible, not-for-profit community organisations can apply for up to $10,000 for projects that help to promote social inclusion.
"The grants program aims to increase the capacity of community organisations to improve
outcomes for LGBTIQ South Australians," Ms Bettison said.
"Improving outcomes and increasing opportunities for LGBTIQ people is critical to achieving an inclusive society which in turn enhances the well-being and prosperity of the whole community.
Ms Bettison said applicants are encouraged to develop resources or strategies that; address issues facing people in the LGBTIQ community, increase community acceptance and reduce discrimination.
She said preference will be given to projects that promote inclusion in line with the priorities outlined in the South Australian Strategy for the Inclusion of LGBTIQ People 2014-2016
This includes the areas of:
- social and emotional well-being
- employment opportunities
- awareness and education
- inclusive service delivery
- engagement with LGBTIQ communities
"The South Australian Government is committed to building a society where everyone feels safe and where diversity is valued and celebrated," she said.
"Grants will be given to eligible organisations that demonstrate a sound understanding and experience of working with the LGBTIQ community."
Applications close at 5pm Friday, 19 December 2014.
To view the grant guidelines or to apply online go to www.dcsi.sa.gov.au/services/grants-for-organisations.
For further information on the grants, contact the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion on (08) 8415 4348.


If you are a fan of the Chicago Cubs or Bears, 2009 has been an insufferable year. After a swift exit from the '07 and '08 playoffs, the Cubs made us long for the chance to witness another three game sweep by gimping their way to a surprisingly respectable looking record of 83-78. Well, at least they're not the Pirates.
Conversely, 2009 was an incredible year for music. Animal Collective's demographic spanning triumph, Merriweather Post Pavilion dropped on us before January was over, with critics and fans alike pre-maturely hailing it as the album of the year.
Bookending their successful year, Animal Collective released the chilling five song EP Fall Be Kind digitally in November. Between these two releases the music community was treated to French indie rockers, Phoenix's most popular album to date (though not as good as 2006's It's Never Been Like That) with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.Released on the same day, Grizzly Bear followed up their critically acclaimed Yellow House with the delectable ear candy of Veckatimest. An impeccably crafted collection of songs.
These were just a few of the highlights of 2009. For the rest, here are my favorite albums of the year:
25. Vitalic - Flashmob
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
23. YACHT - See Mystery Light
22. Deastro - Moondagger
21. Passion Pit - Manners
20. Atlas Sound - Logos
19. Handsome Furs - Face Control
17. Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
16. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery
16. HEALTH - Get Color
15. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
14. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
12. the xx - xx
11. Girls - Album
10. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
9. Dan Deacon - Bromst
8. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
7. White Rabbits - It's Frightening
6. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Washed Out - High Times/Life of Leisure EP
3. Fuck Buttons (sorry Mom) - Tarot Sport
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
So yes, after being dubbed "album of the year" back in January, I still think Animal Collective delivered the year's best record. It is nearly impossible to pick between Veckatimest and MPP though, to be honest. Overall I was more impressed with Veckatimest, but that can be explained by fact that I was not a huge Grizzly Bear fan going into the album and was simply blown away, combined with my incredibly high expectations for Animal Collective.
Veckatimest stands apart because of its amazing instrumentation and attention to detail. The way the music flows and the perfection of its players will send shivers up your spine; the climaxing crescendo of "I Live With You," or the impossibly catchy harmony of "Two Weeks," to a seesaw of guitars trading places with the quiet peacefulness of "Fine For Now," the list is endless for what makes this album so good. However, from beginning to end I still preferMerriweather Post Pavilion.
Animal Collective created songs on MPP that are infinitely repeatable. "Summertime Clothes" is a joyous and surprisingly radio-ready jubilance of life. A recurring theme on this album and a large part of the band's progression is the deep, consistent bass that anchors this song. Grungy guitars give way to synths that bounce from ear to ear like Pong on crack as Avey Tare sings of sneaking out in the middle of the night with his lover, "when the sun goes down we'll go out again!"
Opener, "In The Flowers" sets the stage with synths gurgling to life, soon joined by a slightly haunting piano. Tare then sings softly for two minutes about seeing a "dancer in a field who was high from her movement" until at 2:31, the bottom of the song drops out as your speakers are pummeled with a thumping bass line that coalesces with simmering synths to ride the song home. The puzzled half-smile one will wear after hearing "In The Flowers" melts into a state of euphoria as Noah Lennox, aka "Panda Bear," begins the opening lyrics of the glorious "My Girls." This is simply a song that not one human being on Earth would not enjoy. There are many Animal Collective songs that are loved by fans but would be hated by 9 out of 10 listeners. This, however, is not one of those songs. Catchy as hell, pleasing to the ears and impossible not to tap your toes to, "My Girls" is the song of the year.
The rest of the album features the most gorgeous AC song to date, "Bluish" while also boasting the grooving "Lion in a Coma" as well as standout and perfect album closer, "Brothersport." Innovative as ever, and their most accessible album yet, Merriweather Post Pavilion is a natural and welcome progression for the band. That accessibility, however, may be the only gripe one may find as there is no "Grass" or "For Reverend Green" on this album, two of my favorite and, to some degree, more abrasive AC songs. It's a small quibble though, given the quality of the new material. From start to finish, Animal Collective consistently deliver on Merriweather Post Pavilion; not one song is a misstep. Download this now, if you do not have it already.
Nearly as unique sounding as Animal Collective, each of Dan Deacon, Micachu and Bibio released incredibly strong albums featuring multiple standout tracks. As far as debuts go, and there were a multitude of good one's this year, a band can't do much better than the xx or Girls who released vastly different sounding but equally easy to enjoy LP's. Continuing the theme, Karin Dreijer Andersson released her debut as Fever Ray, icily distilling the sound of her other band, The Knife, into a brooding yet pleasing collection of songs. Later in the year, Alan Palomo released Psychic Chasms, the Neon Indian debut that will hook you with one listen. Horribly named The Pains of Being Pure at Heart similarly released a debut filled to the brim with late 80's/early 90's sounding indie pop goodness. Finally, the sophomore effort of Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport, was one of the most cohesive and alarmingly attention grabbing albums I've ever heard. A truly great year for music.


Pistons Legend Rick Mahorn and the Detroit Pistons Foundation hosted the 11th Annual Black History Month event and scholarship competition on Tuesday, February 9, at The Palace of Auburn Hills. The event invites Michigan high school seniors the opportunity to compete for a combined total of $55,000 in college scholarships.
Local high school seniors, one chosen by each participating high school, presented an original interpretation of the contest theme, Embracing Diversity, in front of fellow classmates, teachers and a panel of community leader judges for scholarships toward higher education. Through a chosen artistic medium (speech, poem, dance, music, etc.) contestants shared the effect diversity has on everyday life.
Senior, Bre’Ona Law-Williams of Detroit International Academy for Young Women, was awarded a Microsoft Surface tablet, a Tim Horton’s gift card, Pistons Tickets, and the grand prize, a $25,000 scholarship. Bre’Ona plans to attend Marygrove College in the Fall.


Ellen Katz sends along this guest post:
- In his post yesterday, Guy Charles observes that several of the justices in NAMUDNO were animated by their deep suspicion of Congress. Neal Katyal and Debo Adegbile cited record evidence as supporting and justifying particular congressional findings and beliefs, but these claims rang hollow to Justices convinced that Congress made no actual findings and held no actual beliefs beyond a conviction that it would reauthorize this thing no matter what. The record, in their view, was assembled not to inform and guide decisionmaking but instead to justify a preordained result. Observe Justice Scalia’s query to Debo: “Do you ever seriously expect congress to vote against a reextension of the Voting Rights Act?”
Guy rightly links this skepticism about Congress with suspicion the Justices voiced last week in the New Haven firefighters case where several of the Justices seemed convinced that New Haven couldn’t be trusted to assess whether the disputed test was a BFOQ, because these Justices believed the city was going to throw the test out once the racially disparate impact was identified. A particular racial outcome was desired and it was going to be achieved, no matter what, or so some Justices seemed to believe.
If a majority of the Justices pursue this line of thinking, both Ricci and NAMUDNO are lining up as plausible sequels to Bush v. Gore, decisions in which the Court so mistrusts a democratically accountable actor that it denies that actor the deference that it would seemingly otherwise be due. In Bush v. Gore, this sentiment manifested itself not in the substantive equal protection holding, but instead on the question of remedy, namely the Court’s refusal to remand the case to the Florida Supreme Court. In both Ricci and NAMUDNO, judicial mistrust is more likely to shape the substantive holdings– in Ricci, by racheting down the amount (and perhaps whole eliminating) race consciousness as a permissible consideration under the Equal Protection Clause, and in NAMUDNO, by racheting up dramatically what Congress must show before reauthorizing (and possibly enacting) civil rights legislation.


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In connoisseur school, a UO’s Brendan Bohannan didn’t buy into a thought that microbes were simply weird, little organisms that play by their possess rules. So he set out to weed information from them, generally about their purpose in a environment.
Through collaborations in a UO’s Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the Biology and a Built Environment Center and META Center for Systems Biology since nearing during a UO in 2006, he also incited to exploring a influences of microbes on both a outward and inside of humans and animals.
His latest research, published recently in a early book of a Proceedings of a National Academy of Sciences, supposing what is arguably a initial glance — during a elemental investigate turn — during microbial dispersion inside any species. Of course, during a UO that was finished inside zebrafish, a investigate indication pioneered here.
Dispersal refers to a transformation of microbes from one place to another.
“I used to consider that dispersion is not critical to microbes,” pronounced Bohannan, a highbrow of biology. “They are so tiny, they can sunder anywhere. An aged adage says that all is everywhere and a sourroundings selects. As researchers, we began to find differently. This emanate of dispersion has now re-emerged as we ask about microbial communities inside animals.”
In a specifically devised experiment, led by former doctoral tyro Adam R. Burns, now a postdoctoral researcher during Stanford University, zebrafish with poor defence systems swam and dined with other zebrafish with normal defence systems. In brief order, their tummy microbiomes became similar.
The National Institutes of Health-supported investigate was finished in a UO’s META Center for Systems Biology.
“We have prolonged famous that diseases can be caused by a transformation of microbes between individuals, though a microbiome has frequency been approached this way,” Bohannan said. “We were extraordinary if a delivery of microbes is adequate to explain a transformation that we see in a microbiome combination among sold fish.”
The group found that in a churned community, a tummy combination of a zebrafish converged. Surprisingly, Bohannan said, fish lifted alone as partial of groups of a same kind — immune-defective or immune-intact — also had tummy communities identical to those lifted in churned groups. All they common was a H2O in their tanks and food.
“This outcome suggests that a transformation of microbes does some-more than usually brew microbes between opposite fish, though it also selects for sold microbes that are generally good during relocating from fish to fish,” Bohannan said.
While a investigate looked usually during a ability of fish to sell microbes, it suggests that microbiome transformation among opposite people competence also be shabby by a transformation of microbes.
When people come together for a category or a meeting, for example, they might skip with a microbiome that is rather opposite than when they entered, Bohannan said.
His newest research, he added, was hatched as an thought in a 2012 paper in a biography Science, though how to proceed it experimentally was elusive.
“The thought behind this investigate came from all of us,” Bohannan said. “It was desirous in partial by a thought that we can consider of microbiomes as internal communities that are connected by dispersal, or meta-communities. This paper is a miracle for all of us in a META Center.”
Source: University of Oregon
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
VIX printed black exhaustion candle and big early morning drop was mostly recovered. So still with slight bias to upside. With expectations very low for euro resolution, any news could push things up a lot. Now trapped in narrow range and a close out of the zone will probably indicate much more strength in that direction.
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Along with this story is another, also regarding illegal aliens and their entry into our country, and its been up for sale to the highest bidder. You will find a portion of this story at the bottom of the post with a link address.
One question, how many terrorist have already made it into our country? A serious question, which no one in our government can even answer. What are our leaders thinking!
On the heels of a federal agency’s revelation that Islamic extremists and Mexican drug cartels have joined forces to smuggle weapons and terrorists into the country, Texas’ top Homeland Security official confirmed that terrorists have indeed been arrested crossing the Mexican border.
The Lone Star State’s director of Homeland Security, Steve McCraw, shed a scary light on the severity of the situation at the southern border by officially disclosing that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing into the state through Mexico in recent years.
U.S. officials and illegal immigrant advocates have vehemently denied a terrorist threat from the southern border, insisting that those who cross are merely desperate, humble and hard-working people seeking the American dream and willing to do jobs most U.S. citizens won’t even consider.
Here is one of those individuals.
Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, said Wednesday she was unaware of any border arrests of people with terrorist ties. An ICE spokeswoman in San Antonio did not return phone messages left by The Associated Press. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Lloyd M. Easterling was unable to comment.
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Border Protection officer (Ronald Merker) worked at the passport control section in Miami International Airport and federal authorities say he accepted $1,000 a pop from foreigners, many of them South American, in exchange for allowing them into the U.S.
An immigration officer since 1983, Merker took bribes from at least four Brazilians and possibly dozens more over a two-year period. The illegal aliens would go through the line designated only for United States citizens at the airport’s busy Concourse E.
Three other men were also charged in the same ring for bringing the illegal aliens who bribed the officer into the country. The ringleader (Clodoaldo Ribeiro) was also charged with illegally reentering the country after being deported, fraudulently obtaining a U.S. passport and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
This week theme at "corner view" it's "music". I love bands and fanfares, maybe because they bring me happy memories of my childhood in South America where bands play in every event, (even funerals!). Here in Italy are a tradition during the festivities of the patron saint or in events like the Rome Marathon, as in the two first pics, and the last one, a trombone who reflects the tower of the city where I live, during the festivities of the patron saint last March.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Well, this week I've been terribly busy with housekeeping, so haven't had the time to go to Via Condotti to peek at Gucci's shop!lol
I went, instead, to the weekly market near home, cheaper than Gucci's!. I love the colors and the smell of fresh fruits and vegetables; and the typical mediterranean way to offer the products: just shouting!lol