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Workplace Violence Policy HR Policy #80-105
Expectations and Purpose
Western Kentucky University seeks to maintain a working environment in which individuals are treated with common courtesy, respect and professionalism and which is free from acts or threats of violence. The University has established a zero tolerance policy for threats, violence and any acts, physical or otherwise, that may create an intimidating and disruptive work environment.
The purpose of this policy is to clearly establish expectations of all employees and to establish guidelines and protocols for the handling of threats or acts of violence should they occur. This policy applies to threatening behavior or acts of violence against employees, students, visitors, guests or other individuals who are a part of the campus community.
This policy covers every employee of the University, whether full-time, part-time, regular or temporary, student employees and anyone employed by or who is an agent of Western Kentucky University. It covers all employees while engaged in any activity related to employment with the University, whether on University property or elsewhere.
Individuals who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action that may include termination, arrest and prosecution.
Workplace violence is any intentional verbal or physical contact affecting the workplace that causes any individual to reasonably fear for his/her personal safety, the safety of his/her family, friends, co-workers and/or property. For purposes of this policy the following definitions apply:
· Threats: A "threat" is an expression of intent to cause physical or mental harm to another individual. Such an expression constitutes a threat without regard to whether the person communicating the threat has the ability to carry it out and without regard to whether the threat is current or future based.
· Physical attack: A "physical attack" is any unwanted or hostile physical contact with another individual such as hitting, pushing, kicking, shoving, throwing objects or fighting.
· Intimidation: "Intimidation" includes such actions as stalking or similar actions, either verbal or physical, which are intended to create fear or coercive action.
· Property damage: "Property damage" is any intentional act intended to damage or destroy property owned by the University or its employees, students, vendors, visitors and guests.
· Stalking: To "stalk" means to engage in an intentional course of conduct directed at a specific person or persons, which seriously alarms, annoys, intimidates, or harasses the person or persons, which serves no legitimate purpose, and which would cause a reasonable person to suffer mental distress.
The University reserves the right to utilize the definitions contained in KRS 508.130, 508.140, 508.150 and/or any other appropriate Kentucky statutory definition, in its discretion.
Examples of workplace violence include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Physically or verbally threatening another individual
· Intentionally destroying University property or another individual's property
· Harassing, threatening or profane comments, conversation, phone calls, letters, e-mails, or other written communications
· Stalking
· Threatening physical harm or similar intimidation either directly or indirectly, present or future oriented
· Instigating and/or encouraging violent behavior by others
· Advocating the illegal possession and/or use of firearms, bombs, weapons or other items of destruction
· Threatening or attempting to commit suicide
Warning Signs
There are no exact methods to predict when an individual will become violent. One or more warning signs may be displayed before a person becomes violent. A display of such signs should serve to provide advance warning of potentially violent individuals. Warning signs may include the following:
· Irrational beliefs or ideas
· Fascination with weaponry and/or acts of violence
· Drastic changes in belief systems
· Displays of unwarranted anger
· Inability to take criticism
· Expressions of a plan to hurt self or others
· Fear reaction among coworkers/customers
· Expressions of hopelessness or heightened anxiety
· Violence toward inanimate objects
· Lack of concern for the safety of others
Requirement to Report
All University employees are responsible for notifying designated officials of any threats or acts of violence that they have witnessed, received, or have been told that another person has witnessed or received. Even without an actual threat, employees should report any behavior they have witnessed which might be regarded as threatening or violent, when that behavior is job related or might be carried out on University property or in the context of employment. Employees are responsible for making this report regardless of the relationship between the individual who initiated the threat or threatening behavior and the person or persons who were threatened or were the focus of threatening behavior.
Following are general guidelines for determining appropriate reporting of threats or acts of violence:
Level I: Situations in which a supervisor would use standard issue-resolution techniques such as counseling, referral and discipline. Examples include minor altercations, belligerent attitude toward other employees or customers and disruptive behavior. At minimum, Level I situations should be reported to the employee's immediate supervisor for resolution. Level I incidents are typically not reported to the designated University officials unless the supervisor determines necessary.
Level II: Situations wherein an assessment is required to determine if there is imminent harm or danger and a determination on a specific course of action. Examples include threats; verbal or written expressions of a desire or intent to harm or hurt other employees, guests or customers; intimidation; sabotage and damage to or theft of equipment or property for revenge. Level II situations should be reported to the WKU Chief of Police or Director of Human Resources. The WKU Chief of Police or Director of Human Resources, as applicable, is responsible for notifying the appropriate Senior Divisional Officer of Level II events.
Level III: Situations in which Police or other law enforcement intervention is necessary. Examples include clear acts of violence against other employees, guests or customers and obvious threatening behavior where a reasonable person would be led to believe or conclude that immediate harm is possible. Level III situations should be reported to the WKU Chief of Police. The WKU Chief of Police or Director of Human Resources, as applicable, is responsible for notifying the appropriate Senior Divisional Officer of Level III events.
Designated University officials for receiving reports of threats or acts of violence are:
Mitch Walker, WKU Chief of Police
Parking Structure Building
(270) 745-2458
Tony L. Glisson, Director, Human Resources
G-25 Wetherby Administration Building
(270) 745-5360
If the designated University officials are not available, employees should report the threat to their immediate department head. At anytime there is a perceived immediate threat of violence, employees should immediately contact the WKU Police at 270-745-2548.
Protective Orders, Restraining Orders (Temporary or Permanent) and Domestic Violence Orders
Employees who apply for or obtain a protective, restraining, or domestic violence order which identifies or includes University property as being protected areas, must notify their department head and provide to their department head a copy of the petition and declarations used to seek the order, a copy of any temporary protective or restraining order and a copy of any protective or restraining order which is made permanent. Department Heads are responsible for immediately providing copies of such orders to the WKU Chief of Police and Director of Human Resources.
Employees who have had a protective, restraining or domestic violence order entered against them which identifies or includes University property as being restricted areas, must notify their department head and provide to their department head a copy of the petition and declarations used to seek the order, a copy of any temporary protective or restraining order and a copy of any protective or restraining order which is made permanent. Department Heads are responsible for immediately providing copies of such orders to the WKU Chief of Police and Director of Human Resources.
Discipline, Referrals and Return to Duty
Employees who are determined to have violated this policy are subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. The University will take reasonable action to make referrals for counseling and/or medical services as appropriate. Prior to return to duty, individuals determined in violation of this policy may be required to complete a fitness-for-duty evaluation by the Medical Director, WKU Health Services, or other qualified individual or health service provider. The Medical Director also serves to review and coordinate medical information from outside medical providers.
General Provisions
The University encourages all employees to be alert to the possibility of threats and acts of violence on the part of employees, former employees, students, former students, customers and strangers. The University will handle any report of violence in a confidential manner, to the extent permitted by law and policy, and will release information related to such reports only on a need-to-know basis. The University prohibits retaliation against or harassment of individuals who act in good faith by reporting real or perceived behaviors or violations of this policy.
The University prohibits individuals from making deliberately false or misleading reports of violence or threats of violence under this policy. Individuals who make such reports will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
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Living Mosaics Worship Service
November 3, 2024 @ 11:15 am - 12:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 11:15 am on Sunday, repeating indefinitely
Sundays, 11:15 a.m. | Church Lawn or Rodney Chapel*
September – May (Regular Schedule)
The Living Mosaics service takes place in a more intimate setting that allows for a variety of creative expression — visual art, diverse musical styles, and more interactive liturgies. This smaller, less formal worship service invites the gathered community to nurture relationships with God and one another. The scripture passage and sermon are the same in the sanctuary and Living Mosaics worship services.
*Weather permitting, the Living Mosaics service will be held in the side yard along Clayton Street (the fenced-in area across the sidewalk from the Community Garden) for the beginning of the program year. Once the weather turns too cool to gather outdoors, and in cases of inclement weather, we will worship in Rodney Chapel.

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A retired NYPD sergeant told Insider that Nashville's "timely" release of information about the deadly mass shooting has been "textbook."
Nashville Police Department via ReutersNashville school shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale was being treated for an unspecified emotional disorder before Monday's massacre at a private Christian school—a medical condition Hale's parents thought should've disqualified Hale from owning weapons at all, police revealed Tuesday.Despite the disorder, cops said Hale, 28, was able to legally build up an arsenal of seven guns that were kept hidden at home—three of which were used to mow down six people at The
The late night host had the receipts on the ex-president's Texas rally.
All eyes were on Bronny James during Tuesday night's McDonald's All American Game. That's to be expected when you're the eldest son of LeBron James.
Former FBI agent Nicole Parker pointed out a pattern in school shootings following the attack in Tennessee.
When violent crime threatened his Tacoma neighborhood, Bill Foulk enlisted the help of his fellow Army Rangers. The gangs weren't prepared for what came next.
Afghanistan's rulers the Taliban claim to have rehabilitated hundreds of vehicles the US said it destroyed in its chaotic withdrawal in 2021.
The Nashville school shooter messaged a friend minutes before the massacre saying "one day this will make more sense" because they had "left more than enough evidence behind".
Former United States Senator and SNL alum Al Franken names the funniest senator, and it is not who we expected.
Photo Illustration The Daily Beast/Nashville Metropolitan Police/LinkedInThe suspect accused of storming a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday morning, killing three kids and three adults, has been identified as a "quiet" 28-year-old former art student who once attended the church-based school.The Nashville Metro Police Department identified the suspect as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was shot dead by cops just 14 minutes after The Covenant School first called police to report an activ
Steve Kerr could not believe his eyes after a certain Steph Curry one-handed dime late in the Warriors' win over the New Orleans Pelicans.
It seems not all of the Trumps like to go out and rub elbows. Even since Donald Trump was elected president, sources and close pals claim that Melania Trump reportedly likes to stick with her family, rather than go out to party in elite social circles. Specifically, she likes to keep close to her son […]
All it takes is 10 minutes to make.
A California mom and her 7-year-old son were both found dead following a search that began after the woman's 3-year-old child reported them missing.
Twitter on Tuesday restricted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) congressional account for seven days after she repeatedly posted an image of a poster about a rally called "Trans Day of Vengeance." Greene tweeted about the event after three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville. Police say…
Following Monday's news of a shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Tennessee, several celebrities took to Twitter to point their frustrations at politicians and demand the need for stricter gun control laws. A 28-year-old Nashville woman killed three children and three adult staff members at the Covenant School before she was shot and […]
"We're doing something majorly, majorly wrong," the host of "The Story" said to her colleague following the mass shooting at a Nashville school.
"Under DeSantis's watch, the Sunshine State has not exactly been a workers' paradise," writes William Kleinknecht.
Back in January 2015, 'Full House' cast member John Stamos revealed wanting to get Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen fired from the ABC show because of their behavior.
The female protester began arguing with the couple before she allegedly threatened them.


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'Pinterest for Men' Is a Terrible Idea
Typical men: As soon as they see something women have, they have to have it for themselves. Like thong underwear and mangagement rings. So it is with a couple of Pinterest clones which aspire to be "Pinterest for men."
Pinterest is the Mormon housewife's image bookmarking service of choice; it's reportedly 82% female. But the male-dominated tech geek scene has mocked Pinterest with such fervor that it's become obvious they're super jealous that they don't have a place to organize and share all their fun home decorating and cooking ideas.
Now they have two options, though they both suck to the point that they might actually be jokes. Manteresting looks like Tumblr designed by a professional Xbox player hopped up on Mountain Dew Code Red. Gentlemint is essentially a wholesale rip-off of Pinterest, but instead of low-fat turkey burgers and well-organized closets it's populated with bacon cheesburgers and well-organized tool chests.
But why do we need these sad virtual man caves? Men: You can do all this on Pinterest, with the added benefit of not appearing so insecure with your masculinity that you fear just creating a profile on a social network that's largely female will cause breasts to sprout on your chest and lust for expensive thigh-high leather riding boots to fill your heart. And, anyway, you probably already are on a female-dominated social network: 62% of Facebook activity is driven by women. Get over yourselves, dudes. Maybe you'll even learn a little about closet organizing.


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New research for Debt Advisory Centre reveals that over quarter of Scots relied on borrowed money to fund part or all of their big day.
UK wide, the research reveals that younger people are the most likely to say 'I do' to debt, with 58 per cent of couples aged 18-24 and 52 per cent of those aged 25-34 borrowing to pay for their wedding or civil partnership.
In contrast, only 11 per cent of those aged 45 and over borrowed money to finance their nuptials.
Whilst two thirds of couples borrowed less than £5000, one in 10 borrowed £10,000 or more to pay for their wedding.
Almost a third (31 per cent) of those who borrowed money to finance their wedding say that they are still paying it off.
Looking back, 17 per cent wish that they hadn't borrowed anything at all and a quarter (26 per cent) wish they'd borrowed less.
The Debt Advisory Centre has some tips for those planning a wedding:
1. You should always think carefully before borrowing, and this is just as true when thinking about borrowing for a wedding. Starting married life can be a stressful time and the additional finance pressure of debt can add to that.
2. Set a firm wedding budget that you know that you can afford, and stick to it. Don't be lured into spending more to create the "perfect day".
3. Think about the other costs that can often arise in the early years of a new marriage. These often include saving the deposit for a house, or the costs (and, often, income drop) associated with starting a family.
4. If you do decide to borrow think carefully about whether you can afford the repayments – not just now, but for the life of the loan.
5. Be sure to shop around to ensure that you borrow as cheaply as possible.
Debt expert Melanie Taylor, of Debt Advisory Centre, said: "Although it's no surprise that many Scottish couples are borrowing to fund their big day, the statistics on lingering debt are worrying and it is striking how many of those that borrowed wish that hadn't, or had borrowed less.
"While there is increasing pressure to 'keep up with the Joneses', its vital to ensure any repayments will fit well into your married life. A house purchase or a new baby on the horizon could leave you struggling with your debt.
"There are thousands of ways to keep costs down without compromising on your special day. From DIY favours to thrifty seating solutions, the internet is awash with money saving ideas and advice for brides and grooms to be.
"It's a sad fact that many of the people that come to us for debt advice do so because their relationship has broken down – and financial pressures often play a part in this."


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ntptrace determines where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets its time from, and follows the chain of NTP servers back to their master time source. If given no arguments, it starts with localhost. Here is an example of the output from ntptrace:
% ntptrace localhost: stratum 4, offset 0.0019529, synch distance 0.144135 server2ozo.com: stratum 2, offset 0.0124263, synch distance 0.115784 usndh.edu: stratum 1, offset 0.0019298, synch distance 0.011993, refid 'WWVB'
On each line, the fields are (left to right): the host name, the host stratum, the time offset between that host and the local host (as measured by ntptrace; this is why it is not always zero for "localhost"), the host synchronization distance, and (only for stratum-1 servers) the reference clock ID. All times are given in seconds. Note that the stratum is the server hop count to the primary source, while the synchronization distance is the estimated error relative to the primary source. These terms are precisely defined in RFC-1305.
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For a long time, more than 60 years of Open Company "Zavod Vulkan" are the manufacturer of completing materials for a bottom of footwear, rubber technical items and crude rubber mixes for direct inflow on footwear. Since 2000 the enterprise introduces into production a line on manufacturing of figured elements мощения from rubber which have found the use at building of ice skating rinks, the open areas of supermarkets and so on.
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High technical potential and availability of the experimentally-research centre has allowed to create at the enterprise diverse quality production of with allowance for constantly varying requests of the existing market.
To the enterprise the international prizes "For Quality and Technology" were awarded. Since 1999 the new stage of history of the enterprise has begun it is work as a part of enterprise "Praveks", one of the largest commercial corporations of Ukraine.
Our enterprise, Open Company "Zavod Vulkan", closely co-operates with the shoe enterprises, developing perspective styles of the formed soles under sketches and curves of customers. The enterprise has a plot on production of the pressed forms and allows to update range of manufactured production operatively.
The warranty of constant stability and actual shipment, high quality of production, give the chance to the enterprise to expand the business ties with partners constantly.
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For the past 15 years web analytics has been namely about
one thing, counting. Counting is very important and as an industry we have become
infatuated with it. Never before could a medium really count what was happening with it. Attributable media was and
continues to be truly revolutionary.
Attribution quickly formed the business models for the new medium
— traffic buying, affiliate marketing (have we forgotten how Amazon got to be
Amazon), SEO and Email are all channels that emerged based on one principle.
You could count what you got in return.
In measured media, performance becomes its driver and thus
optimization became the obligatory next progression. However for much of
digital media, namely site content/user experience & display advertising, it
has been a long slog towards optimization. A medium capable of being optimized
to deliver persistent relevance may only be (by my best estimate) about 5%
Of course if we want to look for optimization inspiration we look at Google. Paid Search serves as our shining example of what
optimization is capable of. Many are trying to emulate their models for
success but search is only a small piece of our digital experience.
Still, there is one important lesson we can take away from search. We can
optimize the medium up to the point of diminishing returns. This is simply
amazing. Yet, most "experts" and certainly C-level execs don't even realize this
is possible. Most clients will not believe it. But it is an economic law (and one that data and ad exchanges will put to the test).
Not to be lost in all the dashboards and spreadsheets is what
we are counting – the experience of people. Performance is based on the actions
that control the medium – content, experience and people's response. There is
of course the ability to optimize the buy-side however if we have learned anything as performance marketers it is that the sell side
optimization factors most highly into optimization. In this regard we can simply define our goals as optimizing the presentation and delivery of content.
This feedback loop is one reason the web experience has the
amazing ability to be optimized and should improve for years to come…if we can
get there. Optimization is hard. It requires some measure of testing and
analysis — from bidding systems to creative performance. And data is a funny
animal. There is no such thing as a perfect data set and often there are outliers.
As we've seen this past year, even the world's best systems are unable to
prevent market forces from skewing predictive models to the point of rendering
them useless.
There is also the "Predictive Paradox." As we witness
everyday in real-life people's behavior is simply unpredictable over short periods
of time. Yet incredibly and more often than not, over longer periods of time
the differences in behavior normalize without significant variation. What this
means to behavioral marketers is two things: 1) it is really hard to accurately
assess wins that take place over short periods of time & 2) it is really
hard to improve results by a large margin over a long period of time.
The other difficulty with optimization besides statistical
significance is quality of data — how much noise is in the data set. Optimization
of ads or any content has so much to do with the surroundings. Content, layout,
visitor source, visitor familiarity with site, and probably about another
hundred or so factors. With so much noise the more complex the testing the more
false positives in the numbers. Yet for some reason we've been led to believe
complexity is sexy when in fact it is accuracy that is sexy.
There is one last thing we should never forget as we spend
more time optimizing digital media and it may be the most important aspect. Counting
tells only part of the story – it tells you what people did. It does not tell
you why. It does not provide
answers or shed light on the actions people never realized they could take. To
a large degree these answers can only be achieved through testing methodologies
and observational research. Be wary of any predictive or targeting system not
continually validating its assumptions with these methods…and good luck optimizing.
Previous Relevant Posts:
Expert Guide to Multivariate Testing Success
Capturing the Gorilla: New Ways to
Quantify the Value of Search
On-Site Targeting: Crawl, Walk, Run Strategy
The Power of Brand to Influence Outcomes or Why Brands Will
Always Rule Digital


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Something interesting recently happened in Washington, D.C. Really, no joke.
A for-profit company galvanized its customers via the Internet and social media to intervene on its behalf with the city council. And guess what? The company and the customers won.
There may be other on-demand personal transportation services that can be hailed from your smartphone, but we're talking about Uber here.
The gist of the issue was that Uber was catching-on with DC-area consumers and eating into the local taxi business. That prompted the taxi industry to lobby the city council for a bill amendment that would artificially raise Uber's minimum price to five times that of a taxi. Uber fought back the clever way.
The company's co-founder and CEO issued a blog post and urged loyal users to reach out to the city council. He made it very easy by listing the member's name, phone number, email; and where possible, direct link to send them a personal tweet.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "within hours, inboxes were flooded with thousands of email complaints. Uber didn't post a form letter on its website, so all the emails were personally composed by consumers." The city council backed down.
Uber tallied the impressive accomplishments in a subsequent blog post, titled Never Underestimate the Power of #UberDCLove, including:
- "More than 50,000 emails sent to DC Councilmembers by constituents and Uber supporters;
- More than 37,000 tweets about "Uber" (6,500 mentioning "Uber DC" specifically)."
This is the power of the Internet today. And it's a strong example of how a business can use the net to engage with its customer base and drive change, even with a governmental body. Uber didn't need to hire expensive lobbyists. They just told their customers what was happening and gave them the tools to take their own action. Great stuff!
Activate a customer-first mindset, and be clever and smart with your Web and social media communications.
Harvey Chimoff is a hands-on marketing leader and business-wide collaborator who builds marketing capabilities in B2B/B2C organizations that drive customer success.


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It's been the same story, 10 weeks running: Better luck next time, pal.
Could Friday turn the tide for the twice-weekly Mega Millions drawing, which has rolled over 20 times now since the 45-state lottery generated a winner?
As always, it's anybody's 1-in-259 million guess, CNN's Christine Romans reports.
Those are the odds of winning Friday's estimated $400 million jackpot.
Although five tickets in Tuesday's drawing matched the first five numbers, netting $1 million each, none of the tickets purchased for Tuesday's measly $344 million jackpot matched all six numbers.
Mega Millions estimates Friday's jackpot will be the fifth-largest in North America. And while it is a whopping big pile of money, Friday's projected jackpot wouldn't qualify to move into the ultra-tony neighborhood occupied by the record draw.
That $656 million jackpot, won on March 30, 2012, was split by winning tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland.
The Mega Millions jackpot numbers will be drawn Friday at 11 p.m. ET.


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As promised I´m revealing today the nature of the thing that I´ve been tormenting you with yesterday 😉
But first I want to thank you for your lovely suggestions and comments!
After having been asked for a clue by my dear friend Divya, whose awesome blog dedicated to Travel, Food and Art I besiege you all to visit, I added that the thing depicted is in fact edible.
This made my new friend Pierr Morgan think of a Pretzel instead of a French Horn or Tuba, both of which she had to think of earlier and which I absolutely loved as suggestions 😀
Whereas my trusted accomplice in crime when it comes to Count Harecula, Phil Ryan, of course has guessed the hidden nature of the thing right away but was too good a sport to spoil it for the rest of you 😉 (Later on he stated that he kind of doubted my sanity when proclaiming a baby alien to be "ordinary" and "edible" 😀 )
But I can assure you all, that the thing in question is indeed quite ordinary (at least around here), edible and even healthy!
It is…
A cauliflower!!!
Here´s the whole picture I showed you just an excerpt of:
This was the last stage of my editing fit, before however, it looked liked this:
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You see, there´s art in nearly everything, we just need to open our eyes and minds a bit more to grasp it… 🙂 and the will and silliness to test the boundaries of our editing softwares 😉
I´m not sure if I´m right about the following, but it occurs to me that the curve of the stalks could actually follow a phenomenon called the Fibonacci sequence. You can find similar structures in nature, for example in the arrangement of sunflower seeds or pineapples; or manmade: the Swiss Re Tower – The Gherkin – in London (whose official name is 30 St Mary Axe after its address), designed by Sir Norman Foster, who actually had been inspired by exactly the same things.


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A bunch of other features such as vscsiStats, tech-support mode for authorized users (other than root), and boot from SAN are now available.
One new feature that may be attractive to some environments is Total Lockdown. It's a feature that forces all host management to be performed through vCenter. The direct console user interface (DCUI) or yellow/grey screen is available in this configuration, but there is an option to disable the DCUI. So, now it is possible to not be able to manage the host from the ESXi perspective. Out-of-band mechanisms like virtual power buttons (on the HP iLO and Dell DRAC) can shut down the ESXi server, though ungracefully.
Administrators will be happy to hear that we can now do four concurrent vMotion events on 1 Gigabit Ethernet networks. Should 10 Gigabit Ethernet be in use, this number increases to eight concurrent vMotion events.
I'm not exactly crazy about the version 4.1's memory compression feature. The compression of the memory pages before swapping makes for a more efficient transfer in and out of swap space, but like many administrators I find myself well-provisioned on memory resources. In fact, in most environments I'm not even overcommitting anymore, thanks to favorable RAM costs for servers compared to a few years ago. I'm also somewhat irked that we do not have a fix to the PVSCI driver that is coming in Update 3, but this is only affecting a small number of installations.
Overall, I'm happy for the release and will be swiftly upgrading all environments. How about you?
Posted by Rick Vanover on 07/13/2010 at 12:47 PM5 comments
All of the major server vendors have firmware updates for the hosts that we use for VMware ESX, ESXi, Hyper-V or other platforms. It is especially important considering that if you contact your hardware vendor for support, the first thing they will request os that you update your servers. Do you stop at the servers? Not really.
Keeping updated also applies to the storage controllers and hard drives of your SAN for your virtual infrastructure. This is a much trickier and less than comfortable experience for storage that is in use. Servers, on the other hand, update very painlessly with vSphere's maintenance mode or Hyper-V live migration.
Updating the Hyper-V server is easy, as the Windows online firmware updates will run seamlessly. For ESX and ESXi systems, you'll likely need to reboot the host into a special environment to update the drive. You can do this either with a boot CD-ROM or USB key that loads a special environment just for updating the firmware (BIOS) of the server. For VMware ESXi systems, you can check your BIOS level without rebooting the server by logging directly into the host, as in Fig. 1 (you can't do this through vCenter, ironically).
Figure 1. With ESXi, you can check your BIOS level without rebooting if you log directly into the host. (Click image to view larger version.)
In this example, I can determine the date stamp for the BIOS type (D21) in the case of this server, which is the current rev of the BIOS.
The server makers put a lot of effort into the QA process for BIOS and firmware development for servers and storage. This was evident at the recent HP StorageWorks Tech Day where were given a peek into part of the firmware test process for servers and storage.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 07/08/2010 at 12:47 PM10 comments
The first change is how sessions will be offered and scheduled. The new arrangement as I understand it will be that there will be fewer sessions offered more frequently. This is in response to attendee feedback that they can't get the sessions they want to attend.
The second change is that the two VMworld events are scheduled close to each other. VMworld in San Francisco is Aug. 30 through Sept. 2 and the Europe show in Copenhagen runs from Oct. 12-14. Historically, VMware has worked to have some major announcement at each event. With the events scheduled close to each other, that pressure is reduced.
I'll be at VMworld in San Francisco this year and I'm coming with a new perspective on the event. Basically, I'm of the opinion that we are at a make or break point with Hyper-V virtualization. VMware's server virtualization market share can only go down. This is somewhat unfortunate because I still think VMware has the superior solution, yet history has shown that Microsoft in the long run will win. I can very clearly remember how Novell NetWare (version 3!) was a superior product to Microsoft for file serving, yet the market went in Microsoft's direction. Application support was ultimately the killer for NetWare; I am watching the market carefully nowadays.
Aside from my soapbox rant, I am looking forward to VMworld. Primarily, I think the partner ecosystem for VMware is maturing, and I'm excited to see what is available in person.
Will you be attending VMworld this year? What do you look forward to at the event? Share your comments here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 07/07/2010 at 12:47 PM1 comments
Recently, one of the basic features of VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) came up as a reminder to help virtual machines perform better. One of DRS's features is the ability to set separation or combination rules. Historically, I'd use a separation rule to keep virtual machines spread around so that should one host go offline, the impact is not too great.
DRS combination rules, or "keep together" configurations as they are called in DRS, can be just as helpful. You see, if you configure a DRS rule to keep one or more virtual machines on the same host; you may in fact lead to a substantial performance gain.
Take, for example, a client-server application that has clients that connect to a Web server that interacts with an application server and a back-end database server. If all three virtual machines (Application, web and database) are configured with DRS to be on the same ESX or ESXi host, you can greatly increase the intra-VM traffic between these systems.
When VMs are on the same host, the VM to VM traffic does not use the physical switch ports to send network traffic. This traffic doesn't actually leave the virtual switch, and thus will use CPU cycles for network traffic. I won't quantify my results, but will say that it clearly leads to increase overall application performance when they each have this benefit.
The DRS rules are configured as part of the cluster settings (see Fig. 1).
Using DRS rules to keep virtual machines together complicates things in a sense. The primary complication would be, the loss of a host would fully impact the application. Conversely, the entire solution may be rendered useless should one of the components be offline anyways.
A smaller issue may arise by using DRS rules in that it complicates the DRS algorithm, although vSphere is enterprise-class and it should not be an issue.
As a general recommendation, overly complicated DRS rules are likely not a best practice, as things can get complicated in larger clusters and in situations where host capacity is reduced.
Have you noticed DRS combination rules helping out VM-to-VM performance for applications that contain multiple VMs? If so, share your experience here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/29/2010 at 12:47 PM1 comments
While VMware for most situations will point administrators to the vSphere Client for tasks like this, techies like you and I still want knobs to switch and dials to turn. The ESXi host has log files, though slightly different than what you may have worked with in ESX. There are three main log ones for ESXi:
Ironically, I observed that the hostd.log's first line reads "Log for VMware ESX, pid.." even though it is ESXi. Getting to the log files can be done a number of ways. One of the two ways that I will share to access the logs is to use my previous monthly how-to tip on how to use the command line interface for ESXi.
The second and likely the easiest way to get direct access to log files is to use the built-in host Web transfer engine. If you browse to https://esxi.rwvdev.intra/host (esxi.rwvdev.intra is my ESXi host, insert your host name here) you can access the critical files on the host using local authentication (root or other users set up; see Fig. 1).
Note that I do not have the vpxa.log file listed, as the host is using the free ESXi and does not have the vCenter agent installed.
Deciphering the logs is an entirely different beast compared to Windows or application logs that you may be familiar with. The best resource to decipher these logs is the VMware Communities family of Web sites, as well as any active support contract with VMware that you may have for your installation base.
Do you use these two ways to access the logs most frequently? Or do you also use the centralized options, PowerShell tools, host screen or other mechanisms? Share your comments here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/24/2010 at 12:47 PM2 comments
Though the material is presented to show that Microsoft is not immune to virtualization challenges with infrastructure that you and I face, I take a few issues with the points raised. Primarily, Microsoft has one fundamental advantage to almost everyone else in the world: Microsoft licensing costs. I would assume that Microsoft's internal licensing costs are much less than that of the rest of the world, and possibly zero. This is a big distinguishing factor that isn't raised in the material.
The other thing I take issue with is that at one point in the video, it is mentioned that Live Migration with Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V is the centerpiece of a private cloud offering. Migration as a centerpiece? I had to listen to that section twice.
But the one thing I really was scratching my head on the most was the concept of a maintenance node. In their blade server implementation, one of the 16 blade server hosts was allocated to the role of a maintenance node. This presented 15 active hosts in the blade enclosure once the maintenance node was accounted for. This is a fundamental difference than my VMware background and I've never done anything like that, but I do see the operational benefit to have extra capacity on demand for maintenance. It isn't additional available for extra compute capacity or memory, however.
There are plenty of good nuggets in the material. One section links to how Microsoft maintains high availability for the Microsoft.com Web site architecture. These are good design principles that anyone can roll into their environments. Of course, we all cannot design to the level of the Microsoft's of the world, but it is nice to know how they do it.
What is your impression of Microsoft's implementation for Hyper-V for Microsoft.com?
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/22/2010 at 12:47 PM5 comments
This week I had a chance to peek into the world of storage for virtualized infrastructure during HDS Geek Day, a series of briefings from Hitachi Data Systems. (Disclosure: HDS Geek Day was an on-site blogger event in San Jose, Calif. Read my full blogger disclosure here.)
As a blogger, I came in with an open mind and no preconceived notion about HDS storage products. What I do know, however, is that my short list of top-notch storage bloggers knows a lot about HDS and generally speak well about them. This includes Devang Panchigar, Chris Evans and Nigel Poulton; all of whom were at the event.
One of the sessions in day one that discussed some future technologies around HDS's vision for virtualization caught my attention, and it's not available in the form of a product yet. The idea was to leverage storage technologies for storage efficiency for multiple virtual machines versus a technology like linked clones or primary de-duplication. This session was presented by Miki Sandorfi, chief strategist for file and content services at HDS.
What caught my attention was to have integration with the virtualization stack to use storage technologies to provide disk usage efficiencies that would work with all virtualization products. This integration would use storage snapshots and virtual disk versioning to provide storage savings that resemble de-duplication on disk.
This object store versioning technique would use snapshots and versioning on the storage system to provide disk usage savings for virtual machines. The obvious example is a VDI implementation where the source disk is very similar. There would not be delta VMDKs or differential VHD files, only versions of the file system object and shapshots.
Do you want your storage managing the differential data sets of virtual machines (desktops or servers), or would you want the virtualization engine to manage the task? Share your comments here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/17/2010 at 12:47 PM4 comments
StorageVIEW queries the ESX or ESXi hosts for this data directly and is not very aggressive in its polling interval. It has all of the markings of being an application that runs on a dedicated system (or at least dedicated monitor) to give a visual green or red indicator for the busiest datastores based on the thresholds configured.
One additional plus for StorageVIEW is that you can run it from your desktop (Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc.) and pass explicit permissions to the host or vCenter Server. Even with the configurable thresholds, StorageVIEW doesn't do too much other than change the color of the associated datastore. This isn't the tool to have e-mail alerts, pages or automatic Storage vMotion events to evacuate a datastore.
The tool also works with the free ESXi server installation. Be sure to get this tool while you can to see if your datastores could be rearranged based on this information. Too frequently, virtualization administrators put virtual machines on datastores solely based on storage consumption in terms of GB on disk (even I am guilty here). In effect, we're only approaching storage for vSphere in a unidirectional fashion by focusing on free space.
While StorageVIEW is free to give a peek into what is going on per datastore, it should not be the only tool used to see how you are doing on your storage. But for something that's free, it does a good job reporting where the host is at. StorageVIEW is available for download from the VKernel Web site.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/15/2010 at 12:47 PM1 comments
I've got a few wish list items that I'd like to see in VMware vSphere. These are based primarily on day-to-day tasks coupled with a preference to do everything in the vSphere Client. I'd like to see vSphere offer the following:
Storage vMotion to allow single VMDK migration and change to thin-provisioned discs. This can be done with PowerShell finesse, and a single VMDK migration can be done with the SVMotion remote command-line option, but we are at a point where it should be available in the vSphere Client. Ironically, the Andrew Kutz plug-in for VI3 did allow this functionality sans the thick-to-thin options.
FT virtual machines to protect against single instance storage. This is quite the lofty wish, but I would love to see FT functionality include an option to replicate storage to another VMFS data store. Ideally, this datastore would be on a separate storage controller or storage network. While FT protects at the host level, we are still locked on the single instance of the virtual machine on the storage. In my dreamboat armchair architect mind, it is a modified version of existing storage migration and changed block tracking features. To be fair, some hairy topics will arise when dealing with logical issues (array parity errors) on the storage system compared to hard failures.
Improved free virtualization offering. I'll make it very simple: Citrix and Microsoft have superior free virtualization offerings. There is definitely a market for free virtualization, and it does lead to bigger virtualization implementations. On a recent Virtumania podcast, Gartner analyst Chris Wolf and I agreed that the free offering by Citrix and Microsoft are leading in this category. In my dreamy world of an improved free offering, I'd see vCenter manage multiple hosts and virtual machines without all the features of the licensed editions.
Crawl the Microsoft stack. System Center and other Microsoft offerings are crawling around in VMware environments. Is it time to return the favor? To be fair, it would be a tremendous task to select applications and operating systems to manage within vSphere as well as a monumental political storm. This could include integration with Microsoft Clustering Services to fail-over systems based on infrastructure events.
Just ideas for what vSphere could do better.
What ideas do you have for vSphere and have you shared them in the online forum? Share your comments here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/15/2010 at 12:47 PM5 comments
When it comes to describing virtualization in terms of virtualized desktops and servers, it can be tricky. Desktops can logically be defined as a group such as a call center or remote workforce. Quantifying server virtualization can be easy or not easy. I'd love to say that I am 100 percent virtual for all servers, but I can't quite say that.
What I can do is quantify my percentage of virtualized servers in terms of eligible systems. It is easier to determine an eligible system by defining an ineligible system. An ineligible system is one that cannot be made virtual for one of the following reasons:
With these ground rules, I will make statements like "I am one system away from being 100 percent VMware virtualized in data center X for all eligible server systems." In most situations, infrastructure heroics can't change the hard-stop issues of the above three scenarios with the exception of the small data center. It doesn't make sense to me yet to have a hypervisor with one virtual server on it, even with direct attached storage. A remote site with two servers is a different story.
How do you answer the question: "How virtual are you?" Share your comments here.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/10/2010 at 12:47 PM4 comments
It is always a good idea to check prices on small upgrades for the host infrastructure. Based on list prices, you can add about 1 GB of RAM for about $50 for many common server models. Of course, this depends on the type of slot availability on each host server. We still see 8 GB memory modules commanding a premium, but 4 GB modules are quite affordable. I use the Crucial store all the time to quickly get a street price on memory for the particular server in question. These prices closely align to HP, Dell and IBM prices, as they may source their material from Crucial. I have also purchased server memory from Crucial on numerous occasions and it has always worked for me first time.
When memory is added to a host, you should do a burn-in test of the new modules for about 24 hours. An ESX or Hyper-V host will use memory in the system in a more comprehensive way than a traditional application server, so you want to ensure you do not have any issues from the start. In fact, VMware says that most of the Purple Screen of Death (PSoD) messages are due to bad memory modules.
Since Windows Server 2008 has become a mainstream product, we see more virtual machines with a higher memory requirement. The Standard version of Windows Server 2008 R2 can have a maximum memory allocation of 32 GB. For Windows Server 2003 systems (still very prevalent in the data center), the maximum memory allocation for the x86 Standard Edition is 4 GB, much to the secret rejoicing of virtualization administrators.
In my virtualization practice, I keep getting an upward push in memory requirements. Do software vendors really need their products to have 8 GB, 16 GB or more memory? I will provision to the supported requirement, but closely monitor usage. After that, all bets are off!
Have you given your VMware or Hyper-V hosts a memory boost mid-life? I've done it a few times and it is a good way to boost host capacity without adding hosts and licensing, especially in light of the current guest operating system landscape.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/08/2010 at 12:47 PM5 comments
All of that I can live with, but what really has burned my stomach over the years is the invisible inventory that is reserved with admission control. Admission control is the overhead that is reserved, which I refer to as invisible; to provide the compute and memory capacity to pick up the workload on virtual machines that are disconnected from a host.
Admission control is a complicated beast with the default settings being 'good enough' for most installations. If you have a small cluster, you may find yourself running up into brick walls, where admission control prohibits you from powering on additional virtual machines.
In those situations, it is time to consider two key configuration points. The first is to set HA rules that specify which virtual machines are to be powered on in an HA event. There can be clear examples, such as development systems not being set to power on during an HA event.
The other strategy is to set custom admission control values on the cluster's HA settings (see Fig. 1).
You have two options for setting HA admission control options: percentage of cluster resources and specifying a failover host.
In the case of a smaller cluster, you may find yourself wanting to go the percentage route. This way a single host, which may represent 50 percent, 33 percent or 25 percent of the total available compute and memory capacity contained in a two-, three- or four-node cluster, respectively. A single host reserved in the invisible inventory associated with admission control is a significant hit to the total resources without a break in your licensing costs. If individual virtual machines are assigned an HA action and a percentage of cluster resources is set for HA admission control, you can configure the reserved inventory to be more in line with your requirements.
Likewise, if you have a larger cluster that may include servers of mixed configuration (faster processors or more RAM), you may want to designate a specific host to act as the failover node.
The default option of one host failure to reserve for an HA event can be overly cautious for many environments. If admission control errors start to show up, reconfiguring HA in one of these two ways coupled with individual virtual machine response configurations will address these limits.
Posted by Rick Vanover on 06/03/2010 at 12:47 PM2 comments
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Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about Force
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Education training youth sport > Vocational training
1) Objective
To support and complement the policies and activities developed by and in the Member States in the area of continuing vocational training.
2) Community Measures
Council Decision 90/267/EEC of 29 May 1990 establishing an action programme for the development of continuing vocational training in the European Community (Force).
3) Contents
The programme covers the period from 1 January 19 19to 31 December 1994.
Definitions of terms: "continuing vocational training": any vocational training engaged in by a worker throughout his working life; "undertaking": large, small and medium-sized undertakings, regardless of their legal status or economic sector, and all types of economic activity; "training body": all types of establishment engaged in vocational training, including autonomous economic organizations and professional associations; "worker": any person having active links with the labour market, including the self-employed.
- to encourage investment in continuing vocational training and improve the return from it, in particular by developing partnerships;
- to encourage measures in those economic sectors or regions where access to, or investment in, such training is inadequate;
- to encourage innovations in the management of continuing vocational training, methodology and equipment;
- to support transnational and transfrontier projects and the exchange of experience;
- to identify better ways of forecasting requirements in terms of qualifications and occupations.
The programme comprises a common framework of guidelines designed to support and complement the measures adopted by the Member States, together with a number of transnational measures implemented at Community level. The aim is to contribute to promoting the convergence of initiatives by the Member States which seek:
- to improve the conditions for workers' mobility;
- to enable the least qualified workers to benefit from training;
- to promote effective equality of opportunity for men and women and to ensure that all workers who are nationals of Member States are afforded equal treatment as regards access to continuing vocational training;
- to strengthen incentives for undertakings, particularly small and medium-sized ones, to invest in continuing vocational training;
- to seek to improve the forecasting of trends in qualifications.
The Commission must implement the transnational measures which are aimed at workers in undertakings, taking account of the differing needs and situations which exist in the Member States. Transnational measures include:
- an exchange scheme to promote the rapid dissemination of innovations;
- the design and development of transnational or cross-border pilot schemes;
- establishment of a European network of transnational operations;
- sectoral and statistical surveys and analysis of contractual policy and trends in qualifications and occupations.
The Commission ensures that there is consistency and complementarity between the Force and other Community programmes. It draws upon the assistance of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and is also assisted by an advisory committee, which it keeps informed about the development of the programme.
4) Deadline For Implementation Of The Legislation In The Member States
Not applicable.
5) Date Of Entry Into Force (If Different From The Above)
6) References
Official Journal L 156, 21.06.1990
7) Follow-Up Work
Council Decision 92/170/EEC of 16 March 1992 (Official Journal L 75, 21.03.1992) amending Decision 89/657/EEC (Eurotecnet) and Decision 90/267/EEC (Force), setting up an advisory committee on education and continuing training covering both Force and Eurotecnet.
On 27 July 1997, the Commission adopted its Final Report on the Force Programme [COM(97) 384 final, not published in the Official Journal]
This report complements the interim report prepared by the Commission (document COM(94)418 final of 13 October 1994) that set out the development of the FORCE Programme from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1993.
This final report, while summarising the overall implementation of the FORCE Programme between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1994, focuses more specifically on the issues related to outcomes: evaluation, exploitation, monitoring and dissemination of the results, and the conclusions to be drawn for the development of Community policy in the field of continuing vocational training (CVT).
The programme was made up of two sets of measures:
- a "common framework of guidelines" aiming at the promotion of common targets between the Member States;
- secondly, the transnational measures backing up the Member State initiatives
At the core of the transnational measures is the principle of the transfer of knowledge, innovation, experience and know-how throughout the Community, on the basis of active partnerships between companies, the social partners and research and training institutes. FORCE provided the first testing ground for a collaborative approach to the development of Community continuing vocational training policy and practice.
The report focuses on the results of the transnational measures, i.e. pilot projects and research projects.
Three calls for proposals were announced during the life of FORCE, resulting in the selection of 720 projects (out of a total of some 2400 submitted). Priorities for the projects were their contribution to investment in continuing vocational training by companies and access to it for all groups of workers; the direct involvement of companies in priority, particularly SMEs, and of the social partners; the design, development and implementation of training plans as part of companies' business strategy; the significance of the transnational partnerships. Some 56% of the results of the transnational projects received a 'Transnational Product' label for their training product.
The 720 projects selected under the three calls created a highly significant transnational network of companies, social partners, training institutes and public authorities for the transfer of expertise and innovation in continuing vocational training. The network comprises over 7000 members of which 50% are companies, in large part SMEs or groupings of SMEs, and some 15% represent the social partners.
The 'research' projects comprised the four Sectoral Surveys of continuing vocational training plans, the analysis of contractual policy on continuing vocational training, the Statistical Survey of company continuing vocational training, the Reporting System – access, quality and volume of continuing vocational training in Europe – and the European Continuing Training Report. Together these activities provide a concentration of data on national systems and practices and a substantial fund of information for both sides of industry, companies and policy-makers at all levels.
The report summarises the programme's approach towards dissemination of the project results, the main findings of the continuing vocational training statistics (CVTS), and the links between continuing vocational training and other Community policies (structural policy, transport policy, industry). It also contains an overview over the funds allocated during the lifetime of the programme amounting to 83.4 MECU and a list of main publications.
Finally, it repeats the main conclusions of the final external evaluation highlighting many of the undoubted strengths of the FORCE Programme. In particular:
- Project contractors and partners were overwhelmingly positive about the benefits they enjoyed from participating in the programme.
- New CVT knowledge was generated through project-based needs analyses, networks and surveys and studies.
- Innovations occurred in the way training was delivered in many projects, in particular through a new focus on work-based learning.
- The transnational dimension of FORCE has been strong both with regard to transnational goals and awareness and in terms of co-operation between partners.
- Most projects reported that they achieved their immediate objectives and dissemination activity was among project partners.
- The programme was able to involve large numbers of SMEs, either through intermediary bodies or as pilot "test sites".
- The structuring of the publications ensured comparability at a European level about national CVT policy and enterprise CVT practice.
- FORCE was perceived to have reinforced and supported Member State CVT policies and to have been one of the most important sources of experience for a number of successor European programmes including LEONARDO and ADAPT.
The FORCE Programme was inevitably less successful in achieving some of its objectives and its potential results were not always fully realised. In particular:
- Knowledge from FORCE surveys and studies was not widely taken up by FORCE partners.
- There is a lack of evidence so far of uptake of training outputs and products by intended beneficiaries.
- There was an under-representation of beneficiaries with labour market disadvantage.
- FORCE experience tends to confirm that the European training market is not yet well developed.
As a conclusion it can be said that the FORCE Programme has achieved certain tangible results in relation to the investment made and the available resources. In particular, enterprises have featured prominently in the projects, genuine transnational training partnerships have been set up, a systematic policy for comparable information on national continuing training systems and arrangements has been devised, and a substantial contribution has been made to the development of knowledge on training practices, especially through the sectoral surveys and networks. This is due mainly to the fact that the Programme formed part of the strategy for the development of continuing training, encompassing national policies and Community activities (Social Dialogue, Access, Objective 4, etc.).
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Tyler Perry Didn't Like 'Prometheus' So He's Writing His Own Sci-Fi Movie
Reaction to 'Prometheus' was mixed – some people loved it and some people hated it. Well, you can count Tyler Perry as one of the ones who hated it and he's going to do something about it: he's going to make his own sci-fi movie. (Yes, we're still talking about the guy who dresses as the sassy fat old grandma in those movies.)


text: On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:45:41AM -0400, Frech, Andre (ISSAtlanta) wrote: | Steve and Stuart, | | Excellent work. I appreciate your efforts in developing this draft. I do as well. I have to say I'm very pleased with the willingness of so many people to move forward to address these issues. Thanks especially to Stuart, Steve and Andre for stepping forward to draft language. Dear <treaty drafters> We are a group of security experts who participate in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Initiative. This project is a collaboration between a range of responsible computer security experts and companies to develop a common industry-wide set of names for the many different vulnerabilities known in computer systems. As such, we represent a cross-section of the technical community which works on computer security vulnerabilities. As security experts, we have some technical concerns with respect to Article 6, which appears to be vague with respect to the use, distribution, or possession of software that could be used to violate the security of computer systems. We note that it is critically important to the advancement of science and engineering techniques for computer security professionals to be able to test software looking for new vulnerabilitities, determine the presence of known vulnerabilities in existing systems, and exchange information about such vulnerabilities with each other. Therefore, most professionals and companies in this field routinely develop, use, and share scripts and programs designed to exploit vulnerabilities. In addition, these exploits are often included in commercial tools used by systems administrators and security experts to test the security of their systems. It is technically very difficult or impossible to distinguish the tools used for this purpose from the tools used by computer criminals to commit unauthorized break-ins. Further, important tools and techniques are regularly revealed by previously unknown individuals or groups. To criminalize their research and educational activities would be to slow the important progress of computer security research. We do not intend to challenge the idea that breaking into computer systems is wrong, but to ensure that laws are not made driving underground new research. (Should we mention Stackguard here? It wouldn't be available without exploit code.?) We are concerned that Article 6 may prevent, impede, or criminalize such responsible development and use of exploit tools. This would greatly limit the ability of systems and security administrators to test and validate the security of their systems, either through the use of freely available research tools, or with commercial tools, as are sold by several of the organizations involved with CVE. We ask that the treaty drafters recognize the legitimate and important role that the creation of demonstration code plays in advancing the security field. We ask that the treaty be re-worked so as to not chill or limit ethical and important research. If, instead, the treaty is used to ban any use of exploit tools, we fear that this will be very counter-productive. Since computer criminals are currently largely beyond the reach of effective law enforcement, they will not be much impacted by new laws banning their tools. (I think that this language is counterproductive, and suggest: If the treaty causes to be banned the creation or use of exploit tools, without recognition of their valuable role, then communication and research will be stifled, and many young security enthusiasts who today behave unethically will be made into criminals, and lose their opportunity to mature and grow into valuable members of the community. We urge that appropriate laws criminalizing the misuse of such tools replace the ownership or creation clauses. ) More contraversial: We urge that appropriate laws criminalizing the misuse of such tools replace the ownership or creation clauses, and further that the Council fund research into ways to encourage companies to produce more secure software, such as, but not limited to, recinding warranty law exemptions, requiring recalls of bad software, etc. Adam "Organizational affiliations are listed for identification purposes only, and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the affiliated organization." | > - I suggest that Board members should be able to decide whether to | > list themselves individually, i.e. without their organizational | > affiliation. | > | > | > Signed, | > | > Adam Shostack, Zero-Knowledge | > Scott Blake, BindView | > Steve Christey, MITRE | > | > MemberN, OrganizationN | > MemberN2, OrganizationN2 | > ... | > Member N+m, [no organization listed] | > | > ... and X other members of the CVE Editorial Board [names withheld] | >


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All faculty and staff.
The College will reimburse an employee for necessary travel expenses incurred while on approved College-related business including overnight lodging, meals and local transportation costs. An employee shall use good judgement and discretion when incurring such expenses.
Employees who use their personal automobiles on approved College-related business will be reimbursed on a cents-per-mile basis as designated by the Business Affairs office for travel expenses incurred or the current market price for coach air transportation for such trip, where applicable, whichever is less.
With the approval of the employee's supervisor, an advance for travel can be arranged through the Accounting office.
To be reimbursed for expenses, the employee must obtain and complete an "Expense Report" form (available from your department supervisor or from Campus Services), have it signed by the employee's supervisor and submit it, together with the proper receipts, to the Accounting office.
A travel advance is obtained by requesting funds, on a "Direct Payment Voucher," from the Accounting office. After the trip, and within thirty (30) days, receipts must be submitted to the Accounting office with an "Expense Report" form. The employee must refund any extra money advanced or will subsequently receive reimbursement for additional expenses over the amount of the advance.
Fines incurred for traffic or parking violations are the responsibility of the employee.
The College reserves the right to determine the amount of reimbursement where expense items are extravagant or questionable in nature.
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Oprah Is the Media's Most Generous Boss
Are you a boss? Do you want to be beloved? Do you know what Oprah just gave to every single staffer of O, the Oprah Magazine?
Nat Ives reports that Oprah paid a little visit to Hearst yesterday and "gave every staffer an Apple iPad, a leather iPad case with the staffer's initials, and a check for $10,000, regardless of how long the staffer had worked there." Huh. What will other media bosses give their staffers, for presents? Well, it's just a privilege to work here.


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Presidential strut is iconic inaugural moment
January 15, 2013
By JESSICA GRESKO
(WASHINGTON, AP) — At some point on Inauguration Day, if all goes as expected, the president's limousine will slow to a stop on its journey down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. A Secret Service agent will open the rear passenger door, and the newly sworn-in president and the first lady will emerge from his car for a several-minute stroll. The crowd will cheer. Barack Obama will wave.
And though the tradition dates only to President Jimmy Carter, it has already developed an air of inevitability and predictable patterns.
Charlie Brotman, who has been the announcer for the inaugural parade for decades, says the crowd never tires of the moment. When it happens, the 85-year-old says, spectators can expect to hear him saying something like this over the loudspeakers: "Ladies and gentleman, here's what the parade is all about. The president of the United States is walking right in front of you."
Carter wasn't thinking about starting a tradition when he decided to walk the mile-plus parade route in 1977. The idea wasn't even his. Before the inauguration, a Wisconsin senator sent Carter a letter suggesting the new president walk the route to set a good example for physical fitness. Carter initially dismissed the idea as silly, but soon reconsidered. He wrote in his memoir, "Keeping Faith," that he "began to realize that the symbolism of our leaving the armored car would be more far-reaching than simply to promote exercise."
"I wanted to provide a vivid demonstration of my confidence in the people as far as security was concerned, and I felt a simple walk would be a tangible indication of some reduction in the imperial status of the president and his family," he wrote.
Carter told only a few people of his plan, including the Secret Service, and spectators were shocked when he emerged from the limo. At first, revelers seemed to think something was wrong with the car. Then, they realized what was happening.
"There were gasps of astonishment and cries of 'They're walking! They're walking!'" Carter remembered in his memoir.
No other president has again walked the entire route, a trek that took Carter 40 minutes. His successor, Ronald Reagan, is the only modern president to skip the stroll. Reagan and his wife, Nancy, stuck their heads out of their limo's sun roof during part of the drive in 1981, and Reagan didn't have a chance to walk after his second inauguration in 1985: that parade was canceled because of cold weather.
The next four presidents, two Democrats and two Republicans, have all pounded Pennsylvania Avenue pavement. They generally walk at least the last block to the White House, though the length and the timing of the strolls have varied. Once the president and his wife emerge, however, the script is similar. Waving, thumbs-up-giving and hand-holding are standard, and the first lady always seems to make the trek in heels. Even rain or cold don't seem to dissuade presidents. George W. Bush braved wet weather and temperatures in the 30s to walk with his wife, Laura, in 2001.
Whether children accompany their parents is hard to predict. Amy Carter, then 9, jumped and danced down the street with her parents. Chelsea Clinton joined her parents in 1997 when she was 16.
More predictable is a heavy Secret Service presence. Former agents say the parade can be a security challenge, mainly because everyone knows the route, and the street is less secure than the limo. But agents also understand the president wants to get out and be seen, says former agent Joseph Petro, who wrote a book about his years protecting presidents. Agents take a host of precautions, including leaving the limo doors open, just in case the president has to get back inside quickly.
During his last inauguration, the Obamas walked about six blocks. The president and first lady left their limo near the National Archives and Records Administration building, where the original Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are displayed. After walking several blocks, Michelle Obama in green heels, they returned to the car briefly. They re-emerged for the last stretch to the White House, to a second round of wild cheers.


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Top Items:
Charles Wiles / Google Mobile Blog:
New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites — Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party developers …
Don Reisinger / Mashable!: Google Helps You Find Yourself (And Other Stuff Too)
Carlo Longino / MobHappy: Location-Based vs. Context-Aware
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net: Google Helps Location-Enable Apps For The Phone And PC
Dennis Bournique / Wap Review: Google Gears Opens Up Mobile LBS
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Google Announces Mobile Geolocation API for Gears
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek Weblog: Google Offers Up Gears Geolocation API To Make Web Sites Location Aware
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Google's Location-Aware API Opens Up
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: AIM Finally Released for Windows Mobile
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: APIs for Finding Location
Brian Heater / AppScout: Google Intros Location-Based API
Steve Block / Google Code Blog:
Two new ways to location-enable your web apps
Two new ways to location-enable your web apps
Discussion: TechCrunch, InsideRIA, Webware.com, webmonkey, techno.blog and Google Blogoscoped
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Google Offers A Geolocation API For Gears (But It Only Works On Windows Mobile)
Andre Charland / InsideRIA: Google Provides Location to web and mobile apps
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: Google offers location services to Web sites
Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey: New Google APIs Know Where You Are — Google is moving deeper …
Dion Almaer / techno.blog: Where are you? Using the new Ajax ClientLocation API
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Releases Geolocation Features for Ajax API, Gears
Gears API Blog:
Gears 0.4 is here!
Gears 0.4 is here!
Discussion: The Universal Desktop and Ajaxian
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop: Gears' new GeoLocation API is very slick
Brad Neuberg / Ajaxian: Gears 0.4 + Mashup of Gears and Google App Engine
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: JavaScript performance boost coming to Firefox
Discussion: InfoWorld, Brendan's Roadmap Updates, Webware.com, Ajaxian and InformationWeek
Paul Krill / InfoWorld: Mozilla boosts JavaScript performance
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
Ben Galbraith / Ajaxian: JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox)
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Mozilla Unleashes TraceMonkey For Firefox
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? — Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. — Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company …
Discussion: Rev2.org, Webware.com, Download Squad, Blog World Expo Blog and Mashable!
Craig Agranoff / Rev2.org: Ma.gnolia Opens Their Source
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Bookmarking service Magnolia opens up its source to all
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad: M2: Ma.gnolia to go Open Source
Jacob Morgan / Blog World Expo Blog: Ma.gnolia, Going Open Source
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking
Discussion: David Risley, HorsePigCow, Computerworld, OStatic blogs and The Inquisitr
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Microsoft details plans for new social bookmarking tool
Mike Gunderloy / OStatic blogs: Ma.gnolia Looks to Open Source for the Future
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: Ma.gnolia goes open source
If you build it... Lively, Google's virtual world, has been a flop — IT SOUNDED like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by making them accessible through a web browser. Millions of people log into virtual worlds such as World …
Discussion: broadstuff and Laurel Papworth
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: REAL LIMITS TO VIRTUAL WORLDS
Laurel Papworth / Social Networks: World of Warcraft and Second Life
Mark Evans:
Google's Swings and Misses — The Economist has an article looking at how Lively, Google's attempt to establish a foothold in the virtual world market, has flopped. — To be fair, it's far too early to determine whether Lively is a failure given it was only launched last month …
OpenSSH blacklist script — Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network …
Discussion: eWeek, Zero Day, Computerworld, The Register and Security Bytes
Larry Seltzer / eWeek: Red Hat Digital Keys Violated By Intruder
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day: Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach
John Fontana / Computerworld: Red Hat admits breach of its servers, Fedora
John Leyden / The Register: Red Hat hack prompts critical OpenSSH update
Dennis Fisher / Security Bytes: Intrusions hit Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com: Red Hat, Fedora servers compromised
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
A Comprehensive List of Ultraportables, Netbooks, Mini-Notebooks, Or Whatever You Call Them — When the Asus Eee came out, the market was simple. There was only one tiny, cheap laptop so you knew which one was for you. That was less than a year ago, but things move quickly in the tech world.
Discussion: PalmAddicts, GottaBeMobile, I4U News and Liliputing
Matt Faulkner / GottaBeMobile: Full List of NetBooks From Liliputing
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Over 40 Netbook Specifications listed in sortable Database
Brad Linder / Liliputing: Announcing the updated liliputer list/database
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple's Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans — It intends to make at least 40 million iPhones in the next year; selling so many will hinge on global success and fixing connection glitches — Forecasting iPhone sales is one of tech's toughest guessing games. Since Apple's iPhone 3G came storming …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone Buzz, 9 to 5 Mac, mocoNews.net, TG Daily, Gadget Lab, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, TUAW and p2pnet
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Apple Plans To Sell A Lot Of iPhones Next Year. But How? (AAPL)
Brenda Stokes / iPhone Buzz: Apple will make 40 million iPhones next year
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple - no ceiling for iPhone sales
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily: 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Apple's Big Plans: 40 Million More iPhones in the Next Year
Steven Sande / TUAW: Analyst: 45M iPhones in 2009
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone 3G: Now serving 660 million potential customers
iPhone 3G: Now serving 660 million potential customers
Discussion: Infinite Loop, iPhone Savior, TidBITS, GigaOM, Computerworld Blogs and TUAW
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: Apple makes iPhone available in 22 more countries today
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS: iPhone Now Available in 43 Countries
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs: Orange in Poland hiring actors to wait in line for iPhone launch
Dave Caolo / TUAW: Orange pays Polish actors to line up for iPhone
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Who should be USA's CTO? — Today I visited Larry Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things. — He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that very few other people have.
Discussion: VentureBeat, TomsTechBlog.com, The Inquisitr and Valleywag
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat: The latest Xbox feature — voter registration
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: Dave Winer for CTO of the United States
Paul Boutin / Valleywag: Valley's alpha geeks vie for Obama's CTO spot
Aaron Swartz / Raw Thought:
How To Launch Software — 37signals recommends that software developers pursue what they call the Hollywood Launch. They don't give any argument for this method, except perhaps the title (as if Hollywood was a business you should try to imitate?) — I guess the idea is that you're supposed to do it since 37signals says to.
Microsoft TechNet:
Desktops v1.0 — Introduction — Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you're not using.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, Digital Inspiration, Lifehacker, Download Squad and CyberNet
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Microsoft offers new virtual desktop software
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: Extend Your Screen with Microsoft Desktops …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Verizon Zapped: Must Inspect Every N.Y. FiOS Installation For Unsafe Wiring — Karma stinks. While Verizon's been tooting its horn all week because Apple iPhone owners have had major problems using rival AT&T's wireless network, the Albany Times Union reminds us that no telco's perfect:
Larry Rulison / Albany Times Union: Verizon's fiber-optic system rollout hits snag
Poor earning virtual gaming gold — Nearly half a million people are employed in developing countries earning virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found. — Research by Manchester University shows that the practice, known as gold-farming, is growing rapidly.
Discussion: Industry Standard, PSFK and TechnoLlama
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Industry Standard: Virtual world economy drives developing world economy
Joel Horowitz / PSFK: Virtual Goods Sustaining Poor
Andres Guadamuz / TechnoLlama: Farming gold for development
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Akamai Shares Jump On Buyout Chatter. But Who's Buying? (AKAM) — Akamai Technologies (AKAM) shares are up 6.3% today to $24.02 on "renewed takeover chatter." — With a $4 billion market cap/$3.7 billion enterprise value, the content delivery network could be an easy acquisition …
Om Malik / NewTeeVee: Akamai Up On Idle Chatter
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee and Tea. And if he has his way, mobile phone users will know as much about each other as readers now know about him.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Intel shares MacBook Air love with new small-footprint CPUs — In the blizzard of paper coming out of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), there was one announcement yesterday that has been virtually overlooked. Even Intel gave it only a cursory mention, stating [Dadi] "Perlmutter also introduced …
Discussion: Crave, AppleInsider, Gizmodo and MacRumors
Michelle Thatcher / Crave: IDF news and the end of back-to-school: The week in laptops
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Intel Opens Door for Army of MacBook Air Clones


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(binary) C10CK app in App Store!Thursday, May 12th, 2011
My second (personal) iPhone app, C10CK, is now available in the App Store. It is a clock which displays time using binary notation – the same way everything is (eventually) stored in a digital computer. I've been using a binary clock since a staff member of ITP passed this past year and several alumni recalled stories of the binary clock she kept on her desk and would happily explain to anyone who asked. I now keep a binary clock on my desk and think of her when people ask me what it is. (more…)


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GitHub this week is introducing its GitHub Traffic Analytics service, providing users of the popular code-sharing site with information about where viewers of particular repositories are coming from and which content they are viewing.
With the Web analytics capability, developers with projects on GitHub can find out how many viewers of their project are coming from sites like Google or stackoverflow.com; previously, developers on GitHub only had access to such information as questions being opened.
"Now, when you have a project on GitHub, you also get to see how many people are visiting your repositories everyday and where they are coming from, where they hear about your project," said Brian Doll, who heads up marketing at GitHub. "You might find your project is being talked about on a public forum, and that's interesting to you has a developer." Information provided on which content is being accessed could assist developers with prioritizing issues in their project, said Doll.
The service provides for better social interaction among developers, said analyst Michael Cote, of 451 Research. "Before GitHub, most of the community around code was pretty faceless: It was just forum posts, not really passive users and lurkers around the code," Cote said. "With things like this and GitHub as a whole, developers can get a better sense for who's interested in their work."
GitHub Traffic Analytics was implemented via a custom analytics tier built internally. In 2008, GitHub briefly had a traffic graph capability that provided information on page views, but the new service is more sophisticated, Doll said.
This story, "How am I doing? GitHub lets developers visualize project stats," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.