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FAIRFIELD, Maine — A 10-year-old girl has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a 3-month-old baby girl last month.
Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway of Clinton died on July 8 while under the care of a baby sitter in Fairfield. Maine State Police declared the death a homicide on Wednesday.
The infant's mother, Nicole Greenaway, said a toxicology report stated that a medication was found in her infant's system which was the same as the medication taken by the 10-year-old girl, who is the daughter of the baby sitter.
"She [also] suffocated her by putting her hands over her face," Greenaway said Thursday night. "There are bruises all over her face."
The mother of the 10-year-old declined to comment Thursday night, referring inquiries to her attorney, John Martin of Skowhegan. The Bangor Daily News is not naming the mother in order to protect the identity of the juvenile charged with manslaughter. Police have also withheld the girl's name.
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland would not disclose how the girl caused the baby's death.
"We're not discussing her role or getting into any more details on her identity, although we feel she is responsible for the baby's death," said McCausland. "Manslaughter was the appropriate charge."
Martin, the 10-year-old girl's attorney, was served with a court summons Thursday afternoon, McCausland said in a press release. The girl is scheduled to appear in Skowhegan District Court on Oct. 22.
Martin did not return a phone message left by the Bangor Daily News on Thursday afternoon.
Nicole Greenaway said the 10-year-old is the daughter of a woman she works with at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville. Greenaway said the woman was baby-sitting Brooklyn before she died.
"I'm definitely glad they're finally doing something," Greenaway said earlier Thursday in a telephone interview. "I just didn't know when they were going to do it. [The last couple of days have been] pretty overwhelming."
Greenaway, who has three other children, ages 2, 15 and 16, said the last two months have been full of "a lot of heartache and a lot of patience."
The 10-year-old girl is now in custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, McCausland said.
"The decision on charging the girl was made after consulting with the attorney general's office," said McCausland. "The state medical examiner's office continues to work on the case."
McCausland said the girl is the youngest person in Maine to be charged with manslaughter in at least 25 years.
"I have not done any research farther out than that," he said.
The death of any child under age 3 automatically triggers an investigation in Maine.
The baby's parents live in Clinton and had arranged for the child to spend the night at the baby sitter's Fairfield home, according to The Associated Press.
Emergency officials arrived just six minutes after receiving a call in the early morning hours that the child was unresponsive and not breathing.
Augusta lawyer Walter McKee, who has defended juveniles charged with manslaughter, said such cases can follow two paths. The case can stay in juvenile court or be transferred to Superior Court, where the juvenile would be tried as an adult.
McKee represented Patrick Armstrong, who in 2005, at the age of 14, struck neighbor Marlee Johnston, 14, in the back of the head several times with an aluminum baseball bat in Fayette. Armstrong pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2006 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison with all but 16 years suspended.
But McKee said he couldn't fathom how a 10-year-old could be tried as an adult.
"Regardless of what court it goes to, there would be significant issues of whether the child had the brainpower to have the state of mind to commit the crime," said McKee. "This is a hotly discussed topic now."
McKee said the brain of a prepubescent child, such a 10-year-old, is far less developed than that of an adult.
"It's not [an] apples and oranges [comparison]," he said. "It's apples to carburetors — the furthest away from a fruit you can get."
McKee said there have been cases in which a juvenile is placed in a juvenile detention facility, such as Mountain View Youth Development Center in Charleston, until the age of 21 and then is transferred to an adult prison.


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In 19th century records, Botpalad was abbreviated "B.palad."
Moritz's father was Ferencz Farkas and his mother was Sara (Hermina) Gross, as shown in the excerpt below. Way over to the right on the photo is the notation "B.palad." Bingo!
Botpalad has a statue of Kossuth Lajos, one of the heroes of the Hungarian independence movement. And Moritz's children were active in the Kossuth Association in New York City, as I've written in earlier posts.


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Charles Mitchell had a rough film session Wednesday. Coach Mark Turgeon chewed him out for general laziness, imploring the freshman forward to up his effort and awareness.
"I think every mistake he pointed out was me," Mitchell said with a chuckle moments after the Maryland men's basketball team notched a 70-53 win over Georgia Southern before 10,282 at Comcast Center on Saturday night. "He got after me so bad."
It didn't take Mitchell long to move forward. Playing against a handful of friends and acquaintances, the Marietta, Ga., native provided relentless energy off the bench en route to a career-high 13 points and 11 rebounds in the Terps' fourth straight victory.
Of course, Mitchell's memorable night was merely part of a much larger storyline. Just as they've done multiple times this season, the Terps relied on superior size and depth to wear down an unheralded opponent and capture a convincing home win. Mitchell led five Terps in double-figure points, and Maryland's bench outscored the Eagles' reserves, 37-9.
That depth allowed the Terps to go on a 19-7 run to open the second half, putting the game out of reach for a pesky Georgia Southern squad eager to earn a milestone win. It also helped the Terps overcome a stingy zone defense, as well as solid nights from Eagles guards C.J. Reed (15 points) and Eric Ferguson (13 points).
"It wasn't really a fun game to be a part of," Turgeon said. "But in the end, our guys won."
For much of the first half, the Terps' first loss in more than three weeks seemed a realistic possibility. Georgia Southern hit three 3-pointers to take an early 9-1 lead, forcing Turgeon to call a timeout less than 3 1/2 minutes into the game. Mitchell responded with three quick baskets, and freshman guard Seth Allen's 3-pointer gave the Terps their first lead, 12-11, with 11:10 remaining in the first half.
Turgeon's squad traded baskets with the Eagles and entered halftime with a 29-26 lead. It was the third straight game the Terps led an unheralded nonconference opponent by 10 or fewer points after the first 20 minutes of play.
"We were sluggish out there basically the whole first half," Terps guard Logan Aronhalt said. "We've been doing that the past couple games, coming out without any energy."
Desperate for a spark, Turgeon shuffled his lineup to start the second half. Mitchell and guards Seth Allen and Aronhalt joined usual starters Nick Faust and Alex Len in a group that presented the ideal mix of outside shooting and post presence.
Mitchell used his massive frame to create space for offensive boards. The 7-foot-1 Len regularly dunked on his diminutive defenders, scoring nine of his 10 in the second half. And the Eagles' increased focus down low helped Aronhalt hit all four of his 3-point attempts as he finished with a season-high 12 points.
When Aronhalt netted his final 3 of the night with about 5 minutes remaining, the Terps held a 64-48 lead — their largest advantage to that point of the game. The two teams exchanged blows until the final buzzer, and the Terps left Comcast Center with their third double-digit victory in their past four games.
Turgeon called the win "dysfunctional" during the postgame news conference. After all, Georgia Southern — a program that hasn't had a winning season since 2005 — gave the Terps all they could handle for the first 20 minutes. They forced them into costly turnovers, bothered point guard Pe'Shon Howard and drained necessary jumpers.
But yet again, the Terps' talented 10-man rotation wore down a squad thin on playmakers. And as for Mitchell? He made his case for a bit less attention in Sunday's film session.
"I'm going to do whatever it takes to help my team win," Mitchell said. "If that meant showing energy tonight, that's what I was going to do."


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"I mean, really… I don't understand how people develop gambling addictions." I said simultaneously pulling the lever on a noisy, flashing slot machine and taking a sip of my free cocktail inside the casino of the MGM Grand. "Seriously, who would want to throw their hard-earned money away on a game where the deck is stacked so strongly against them?"
"It makes only good sense to me to play a little with some money that you don't mind losing, have a little fun while doing it… and if you happen to win… all the better… and if you lose, oh well. It was expected." I continued to chatter on while mindlessly pushing the minimum bet button on another machine. "It's all about having fun without losing control, ya know?"
Thus, Lee and I continued on this way, sipping rum and tequila, hopping from machine to machine, casino to casino placing minimum bets and watching our money go up and down. We won some, we lost some. Playing conservatively was fun because we got to continue gambling and enjoying free adult beverages without feeling like complete degenerates on the verge of losing the house, the car, the boat or the very shirts off our backs.
Energized from the free-flowing booze, neon lights and Billboard Hot 100 music pumping overhead, we carried on, never giving a single thought to the 21 straight hours we'd been awake. I was feeling pretty good, enjoying the Vegas vibe and feeling rather prideful that I apparently had the keen ability to "gamble" without falling prey to its fabled, seductive qualities.
And then I saw it.
There in the distance—like a shimmering oasis in the desert—standing high above the other slots and table games was THE machine. The Sex and The City slot with its fluid pink neon and sparkling diamond marquee called to me. "Ooo!" I shrieked "I HAVE to play that machine. It's fate!" (I was obviously not yet aware that these machines were ALL OVER Vegas. I saw it as a sign that I'd spotted it at all and thought it MUST be the only one.)
I slid into the luxurious, leather seat and pushed a fresh 10 dollar bill into the slot. The minimum bet was a quarter… which I tried and had no luck. So I increased my bet to 50 cents—increasing my odds either way. Still I had no luck. So I took a big chance by betting a full dollar and Ding! Ding! Ding! I hit some sort of "win" because the numbers in my balance kept flying up, up and up right along with my excitement and adrenaline. Mr. Big was talking sweet to me now!
Before I knew it I had turned that $10 into $85. Now I realize that's a small win for all you real life gamblers out there, but it's a BIG Win for this Vegas virgin. For it was then that a peculiar thing began to happen. A massive struggle started to take place in my brain. The "sensible" part of me thought: "You just turned $10 into $85 dollars by sitting on your @$$ and pushing a button!! CASH OUT, CASH OUT, CASH OUT and take the money! You made a PROFIT tonight. See the cashier, gather your winnings and put it in your wallet now! You're AHEAD!!"
But the "other" part of me… the part that was dizzy from adrenaline and blinded by the blinking lights and Mr. Big's sweet nothings in my ear thought things like: "But what if you kept going and made MORE? What if you're sitting here and on some sort of hot streak! Keep going! Imagine if that $85 were $400!?!"
I allowed myself to free fall blissfully and carelessly into the world of What-If. And I pushed the button again. And I lost a little. And I pushed the button again. And I lost a little more. And I pushed the button again. And I lost a little more. It was at this point that I set a limit for myself. Fifty dollars. I would NOT allow myself to dip below $50. Fifty dollars was still a nice profit considering.
Until I GOT to fifty dollars. And I didn't want to stop. $50 wasn't good enough anymore. I once had $85. I HAD to get back to $85. I COULD get there again. All I needed was a little more luck. So I pushed on and kept playing and kept losing. I dipped below my own "red line" and now there was no going back. A ritual had begun to develop in the ORDER in which I placed my bets. I felt a little queasy when my balance fell to $20.
"I can get it back! I can get it back!" One side of my brain started chanting as I frantically continued pushing the buttons. "You HAD $85 at one time you miserable loser! GET OUT NOW!" the other side shouted back. And then I knew. This was exactly how "IT" happened. "It" being the reason why otherwise sensible people quote: "Throw their hard-earned money away on games where the deck is stacked so strongly against them." The house is SUPPOSED to win. This whole grown-up playground here in the middle of an otherwise giant, vacant sandbox is DESIGNED to win.
Throughout the remainder of my Vegas vacation I would learn to love blackjack — winning some and losing some. I would toss around phrases like "Bad Mojo" and "Good Juju" as though I had used them all my life. I would play swim-up blackjack at the pool with a bunch of rowdy kids from LA… later drying off my chips from a winning turn at a table that had "good vibes" and spend much of my wedding night parked on a stool in New York, New York playing video blackjack.
In case you're wondering… I eventually walked away from the Sex and The City slot with $45 that first night… a bit more wary of the allure of friendly wagering and with a bit of an adjusted attitude and a healthier appreciation toward the seductive qualities of that twinkling oasis in the desert… And I absolutely cannot wait to board the next nonstop flight back out there.


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Hugh Jackman is in the news this week just as I find in the distant past before even the pre-Talking Movies archives a review of one of his best films.
Every magic trick has three acts, every film has three acts, and Christopher Nolan has wittily combined the two by playing a three-card trick on the audience. Set in 1890s London The Prestige follows the professional rivalry and very personal enmity that develops between magicians Borden (Christian Bale) and Angier (Hugh Jackman) after Borden is responsible for the death of Angier's wife (a tragically underused Piper Perabo) in a magic trick gone badly wrong.
Christian Bale brings his usual intensity to the role but as always so completely inhabits his character that, despite the presence of fellow Batman Begins alumni Michael Caine and Nolan, you will not think of his Dark Knight once as you watch his poor cockney try to upstage the aristocratic Jackman. Jackman is surprisingly good playing an equally driven and fairly unpleasant character while in support Michael Caine is reliably solid and the tragically overused (by which I mean she appears in the film) Scarlett Johansson is reliably pouty. Caine is pitted against Bale's character, which for film critics with a chronic inability to focus makes some scenes look amusingly like an act-off over who has the best cockney accent. It has to be said on balance that Bale manages to out-Caine Sir Michael Caine himself. David Bowie could really have stirred things up on this front but he performs his cameo role as Niklos Tesla in a restrained Serbian accent.
The extreme lengths the magicians Borden and Angier are willing to go to in order to sabotage each other will make you wince and are genuinely shocking, one image at least should haunt you for weeks. But, as with all Christopher Nolan films, it is the telling of the tale and not the compelling tale itself that makes the film extraordinary. Narrated by both Borden and Angier the film is a Chinese box of narrative tricks. Christopher Nolan and his brother and screenwriting partner Jonathan Nolan are after all responsible for the intricately structured Memento, one of the defining films of the decade, as well as the frighteningly intelligent blockbuster Batman Begins.
M Night Shyamalan's biggest success had one twist at the end that took people's breath away. There are at least four twists scattered throughout The Prestige which will make you feel as if you've been punched in the stomach so completely do they reorder your understanding of what you've already seen. Which makes it damnably hard to write about without ruining the joy of its structure. When this film ends you will feel cheated. In a way that's part of the trick. The real fun comes over the next day and a half when you realise 'oh that's what that scene meant' and 'so that's why he said that'. While you're waiting for The Dark Knight go see The Prestige and be the victim of masterful cinematic sleight-of-hand.


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Hot off the press! The environmentalist are taking off strong on the first day of the year as they have secured the coastline from these awful recreational and commercial fishermen that are "destroying the coastline."
Three of five regions in California are closed to any fishing for perpetuity (forever)! 1,100 miles of coastline, mostly in southern California!
No other stated reason than they want to protect the "underwater parks" and to restock the fish supply! That was it! Based on what? Wasted false and inaccurate scientific data?
What if they just decide to do this anywhere? Let's say Bradley County! No fishing in the lakes! Starting tomorrow! Think anybody would care? I can tell you by past examples of federal intrusion into our lives our elected officials will not say a word, because they fear they will fall out of favor with the givers of grant money! During the last love fest over the Chattanooga Regional Growth Plan, they cut off anything that may dangle from their mid section!
Why do we allow this? I gaurantee you we are not to far off from the day when we will not be able to fish our waterways! The EPA is all over us now! It is just a matter of time and when they do!
When that day comes and it will, and it makes you really mad, make four phone calls immediately when you have to hang up the pole and tackle! First call me and say "you said it was coming, just because my childish ego wants you to know I knew! Second call should be to your mayors x 2 and the elected councils and commissions and say "why did you remain silent and complicit?" , third call to our State Representatives Kevin Brooks, Eric Watson and Mike Bell and say "why didn't you stop this while it was still in it's infancy and was that little bit of grant money worth our freedom!", fourth call to your momma, cause you are going to need a shoulder to cry on!
Limits on coastal fishing take effect
COUNTY: Waters off Peninsula are among newly protected areas.
By Melissa Pamer, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/01/2012 01:00:00 AM PST
Updated: 01/01/2012 09:56:59 AM PST
Part of Point Dume off Malibu, where a canyon and kelp reef provide a fish nursery, will be protected under a new law. (Michael Owen Baker / Staff Photographer)
Starting today, fishing will be halted or limited in some 15 percent of Southern California's most bountiful ocean waters under a new landmark environmental protection initiative.
From Point Conception in Santa Barbara County south to the Mexico border, more than 350 square miles of open sea will become state marine protected areas. These underwater parks, the result of a long-running planning process that often pitted fishermen against environmentalists in a passionate tug-of-war, are meant to protect crucial marine habitat and boost fish stocks.
Los Angeles County will see two marine protected areas on the edges of Santa Monica Bay: off Point Vicente and Abalone Cove on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and off Point Dume in Malibu.
"It's hugely important," said Sarah Sikich, coastal resources director with the environmental advocacy group Heal the Bay. "We're very excited that the MPAs that have been worked on so deeply over the past several years in Southern California are finally taking effect."
But most fishermen aren't so excited.
Joel Greenberg, chairman of the Southern California chapter of the Recreational Fishing Alliance, said there's broad reaction among recreational and commercial fishermen to the new MPAs.
"There's everything from `Oh, my bacon didn't get fried' to real misery because their best fishing grounds appear to be closed for perpetuity," Greenberg said.
A longtime fisherman, Greenberg maintains that despite dozens of public meetings, the process in the end was "top down" – meaning the closures were imposed by state officials despite the outcry of many fishermen.
Sikich and Greenberg were among 60-plus stakeholders who began meeting in 2008 to debate, draw and redraw boundaries of proposed closure areas as part of the implementation of a 1999 law called the Marine Life Protection Act. Meetings of a committee overseeing the process sometimes drew more than 1,000 attendees.
In December 2010, the state Fish and Game Commission approved boundaries for MPAs in the South Coast region, the third of five regions along the state's 1,100-mile coastline to undergo the process. Densely populated and heavily used, the Southern California coast proved especially contentious.
The final decision, approved on a split vote and billed as a compromise between fishing and environmental groups, left some unsatisfied. Overall, 37 new protected areas were established, extending to the edge of state waters, 3 miles from the coastline.
Battles were intense over Rocky Point on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a prime fishing spot that has some of the most pristine habitat in Southern California, and over Point Dume, where a submarine canyon and kelp reef provide a fish nursery and rich waters for anglers.
Ultimately, Rocky Point was left open while a less productive area off the Peninsula will be protected.
About 15 square miles off Point Vicente will be closed to fishing; an adjacent 5 square-mile conservation area at Abalone Cove will allow some spearfishing and take of squid, as well as some commercial fishing.
Greenberg questioned whether the state would create a "poacher's haven" by creating additional responsibilities for fish and wildlife wardens without providing new funding and resources.
Jordan Traverso, a spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Game, said there are 75 wildlife officers in Southern California, along with three large patrol boats and fleet of skiffs. Patrols are deployed to best protect state resources, she said.
Beginning today, enforcement is at the discretion of wardens and can range from a warning to arrest, depending on the situation, she said. Fishermen, she said, are generally "self-regulating."
Witnesses to poaching or polluting are encouraged to call the department's confidential tip line at 888-DFG-CALTIP.
"We've done our best with outreach," Traverso said. "I'm sure that there will be different challenges. I don't think we have any expectations of things that can't be overcome through education."
Funding for wildlife enforcement in Gov. Jerry Brown's 2012 budget will be unveiled in coming weeks.


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Amazon.com builds brick-and-mortar presence with card-swiping device
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) unveiled a $10 credit-card reader and mobile app for brick-and-mortar businesses on Wednesday, marking the latest step by the U.S. online retailer to expand its presence in the physical world.
The move pits Amazon against a slew of rivals, including startup Square, which popularized a payments dongle that allowed small- and mid-sized businesses like food trucks, coffee shops and personal trainers to quickly accept credit and debit cards.
The new point-of-sale system, called Amazon Local Register, would give Amazon crucial data on how U.S. consumers shop offline. More than 90 percent of U.S. retail sales still take place in physical stores, according to U.S. government data.
Amazon hopes to court small businesses in part by charging lower fees than Square and eBay Inc's (EBAY.O) PayPal unit. Those who sign up for Amazon's program before Oct. 31 will be charged 1.75 percent for each card swiped until January 2016.
For those who sign up after October, Amazon will take a 2.5 percent cut of each card swipe, still less than Square's 2.75 percent flat transaction rate and PayPal's 2.7 percent.


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Enemy [Mild Spoilers]: when a history lecturer spots his doppelgänger in the background of a movie scene he becomes increasingly fascinated by the actor. Quite a difficult film to articulate, this probably falls vaguely under the 'Psychological Thriller' banner. There's a deliberately slow and intense build up, magnified by a doom-laden score that the intensity relies heavily on. This is completely Jake's film, as we see him pull off playing two people, and then each character 'impostering' the other (Imagine Face/Off^²). Stylistically, there's an intense amber hue for the duration, which I didn't really see the point of – or understand. Naturally, there's a lot of playing around with duality, repetition, mirrors, doubles, from the get-go, and although the film's not explicitly wrapped up (the ending is a bit of a mystery/clusterfuck) there are a lot of clues and lines in there; namely that our lead may have a split personality. Definitely the least accessible film since he started working with 'big' names; this bleak, tense, and dark thriller is the perfect appetiser for Arrival; and lays out the "un film de Denis Villeneuve" style that he's kept right through to his current, mega-budget films.
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Zemlin, ecosystems and pushing Penguins
Open ... and Shut Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth - a friend and my former boss at Canonical - has never had much love for rival Linux vendor Red Hat. So when he labelled Red Hat Enterprise Linux "legacy" technology during his keynote at LinuxCon in Barcelona, Spain, this week, aligning it with Solaris' faded glory, it was perhaps not surprising.
What was surprising was that over 1,000 people showed up to an event to talk about Linux, a technology that is hardly legacy but is such a well-understood staple of enterprise computing that one wonders what all those people had to talk about.
After all, despite obligatory meanderings into cloud computing and Black Swans, much of the discussion was on nitty gritty Linux subsystems and drivers, with fascinating titles like kdump on the Mainframe and Video4Linux2: Path to a Standardized Video Codec API and Status of Linux Tracing.
No, I wasn't the target audience for the conference. But I respect greatly what the Linux Foundation has done to keep the Linux conversation vibrant for the developers and other IT people who are its target demographic. I've written before about what separates good open source foundations from bad ones, and the Linux Foundation is as good as they come.
What sets it apart? For one thing, it's never been shy about branching out. Through the Linux Foundation Labs initiative, the Linux Foundation has managed to remain part of the broader open-source conversation. Most are directly related to Linux but some, like OpenMama, pushed the organisation into middleware.
Such moves have not always been welcome. I've criticised the Linux Foundation for getting beyond its roots and getting in the way of its sponsors. By taking sides with MeeGo, for example, the Foundation threatened to undermine its credibility with other Linux-based mobile projects.
Nor does it help the Foundation's credibility when the projects in question fail. Tizen and MeeGo, for example, promised to extend the Linux Foundation's influence into mobile, but the projects have withered on the vine.
Maybe that's not accidental. No, I'm not suggesting that the Linux Foundation purposefully kills off its Labs projects. Rather, I suspect Jim Zemlin, the Foundation's executive director, is very clear about what his primary mandate is: Linux advocacy and development. So while the Foundation may attempt to nurture other projects, Linux is always going to be the big name on the marquee, not OpenMama or Tizen or any particular variant of Linux.
Which, when one thinks about it, is how other foundations like the Apache Software Foundation are run. Apache, too, doesn't guarantee the success of its projects. It simply provides good infrastructure for that to happen.
Zemlin and the Linux Foundation, however, go one step further. Zemlin is an active advocate for Linux, constantly in the news and on his blog, whether ripping on patents, taking pot shots at Microsoft Windows, or talking up Linux in automobiles. In other words, he helps to make the Foundation's brand bigger, giving it more credibility within the development community and, perhaps particularly, the sponsoring vendor community. No one has raised money more successfully for an open source foundation than Zemlin has.
Which is why more than 1,000 people showed up to talk about technology that we thought we understood. The Linux Foundation, through its light stewardship for Linux development and its active advocacy for the Linux ecosystem, has kept Linux part of the active conversation about open source. Not just where it has been, but where it is going. ®
Matt Asay is vice president of corporate strategy at 10gen, the MongoDB company. Previously he was SVP of business development at Nodeable, which was acquired in October 2012. He was formerly SVP of biz dev at HTML5 start-up Strobe (now part of Facebook) and chief operating officer of Ubuntu commercial operation Canonical. With more than a decade spent in open source, Asay served as Alfresco's general manager for the Americas and vice president of business development, and he helped put Novell on its open source track. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). His column, Open...and Shut, appears three times a week on The Register. You can follow him on Twitter @mjasay.


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"Watch what God does, and then you do it,
like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.
Mostly what God does is love you.
Keep company with Him and learn a life of love.
Observe how Christ loved us.
His love was not cautious but extravagant.
He didn't love in order to get something from us
but to give everything of Himself to us.
Love like that."
Ephesians 5:1-2 The Message
The "butterfly effect" suggests that the whir of air released by a butterfly's wings can magnify over time to release a power that can affect weather patterns thousands of miles away. An unnoticed, seemingly insignificant action can intensify to a storm of consequence. Yes, it may take a long time, but it still ripples into the big story God has planned.
Every act of kindness we make causes a reaction which causes even further reactions. Sometimes these acts will be noticed and appreciated, and other times they aren't. But God still uses them, regardless of the lack of acclaim.
Sometimes it feels like we don't make a difference in the world, but we do. One act of kindness at a time. Years ago in a Bible Study using The Purpose Driven Life, I met a single mom who day after day washed bedding in the dark basement of a hospital. She was certain she did not have a purpose that glorifies God. She wondered – What difference do I make in this world?
She woke me up to how much I don't appreciate the work behind blessings I take for granted. Those same clean, crisp, white sheets I have laid on in a hospital bed were washed by a woman who thought she wasn't making a difference in the lives of anyone. In reality, her quiet, unnoticed flap of wings has made a greater difference than she will ever realize.
When Heaven Is for Real first came out, a friend bought two copies to share with others. I received one copy and shared it with some neighbors whose lives were touched by it. One neighbor bought a copy and also passed it around, and that person was so impacted that she bought her own copy to share with others. God works wonders from a simple act of kindness and caring. A flap of the wings and the power releases.
It has been years since I watched the movie Pay It Forward, but the impact of it still resounds in my heart. Trevor came up with an idea for a seventh-grade assignment. He would pass on an act of kindness to three people, and each of them in turn would pass on a good deed to three more. His seemingly insignificant act stirred up a whirlwind of kindness in his school, his community, and even spread to other communities. The ending shocked me, but it portrays reality. Not all people accept or pass on kindness. Still, that doesn't stop the difference our kindness continues to make on others.
Even a smile, a kind word, a door held open, or some other small gesture can sprinkle hope into someone's heart, whether it's a family member, friend, or a stranger. And whether or not they're noticed or appreciated, acts of kindness not only affect those around us today, but by God's grace they ripple on and shape the lives of others even years from now.
Now consider… If one pair of wings can gradually intensify into a storm, imagine what we can do together.
"What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful." ~ Mother Teresa
"Try a Little Kindness"
by Glen Campbell


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Militants attack Christians in Egypt, killing at least 28
CAIRO — Masked militants riding in three SUVs opened fire Friday on a bus packed with Coptic Christians, including children, south of the Egyptian capital, killing at least 28 people and wounding 22, the Interior Ministry said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, the fourth to target Christians since December, but it bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group. The attack came on the eve of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Islamic militants have for years been waging an insurgency mostly centered in the restive northern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, although a growing number of attacks have recently also taken place on the mainland.
The assault happened while the bus was traveling on a side road in the desert leading to the remote monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Maghagha, in Minya governorate, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) south of Cairo where Christians account for more than 35 percent of the population, the highest ratio in any province.
Security officials quoted witnesses as saying they saw between eight and 10 attackers dressed in military uniforms and wearing masks. The victims were en route from the nearby province of Beni Suef to visit the monastery.
Security and medical officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters, said the death toll stood at 28 but feared it could rise. According to Copts United news portal, only three children survived the attack. It was not immediately known how many of the victims were children.
Arab TV stations showed images of a badly damaged bus along a roadside, many of its windows shattered and with numerous bullet holes. Footage of the bus's interior showed blood stains on the seats and shattered glass.
Ambulances are seen parked around the bus and bodies are lying on the ground, covered with black plastic sheets. Another video purported to show about 10 bodies of mature men lying on the sand on the side of the road with pools of blood around them. Children hysterically screaming could be heard in the background.
The surge in attacks targeting Christians in Egypt has added to the challenges facing President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government as it struggles to contain the insurgency while pushing ahead with an ambitious and politically sensitive reform program to revive the country's ailing economy that already has sent the cost of food and services soaring.
There was no immediate word from the government on how it intends to stop similar attacks from taking place, but it is likely to heighten security around churches, monasteries, schools and annual pilgrimages to remote Christian sites across the country.
On Wednesday, Egypt blocked access to nearly two dozen websites it said were sympathetic to militants or spreading their ideology.
"The growing number of these terror attacks is not at all reassuring," Father Rafic Greiche, spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic church, told a local television station.
El-Sissi called for a meeting with top aides to discuss Friday's attack. Last month, he declared a three-month state of emergency following twin suicide bombings that struck two churches north of Cairo on Palm Sunday. In December, a suicide bomber targeted a Cairo church. The attacks left at least 75 dead and scores wounded and were claimed by IS, which later vowed more attacks against Christians.
Late last month, Pope Francis visited Egypt, in part to show his support for Christians in this Muslim majority Arab nation following the December and April attacks.
During the trip, Francis paid tribute to the victims of the December bombing in Cairo's St. Peter's church, located in close proximity to Cairo's St. Mark's cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He visited the church, where he joined in prayers the spiritual leader of Egypt's Orthodox Christians, Pope Tawadros II, and leaders of other Christian churches in Egypt.
Following the pope's visit, IS vowed to escalate attacks against Christians, urging Muslims to steer clear of Christian gatherings and Western embassies, saying they are targets for the group's followers.
Egypt's Copts, the Middle East's largest Christian community, have long complained of discrimination, as well as outright attacks, at the hands of the country's majority Muslim population. They account for about 10 percent of Egypt's 93 million people. More recently, some Christians have complained that the government was not doing enough to protect them.
They rallied behind el-Sissi, a general-turned-president, when he in 2013 ousted his Islamist predecessor Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood group. Attacks on Christian homes, businesses and churches subsequently surged, especially in the country's south, the heartland of Egypt's Christians.


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From October 2011 onwards, thousands of protesters and villagers living around the Russian-built Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the southern Tamil Nadu state, are blocking highways, staging anti-nuclear demonstrations and hunger strikes, preventing further construction work of the nuclear power plant, and demanding its closure.
Because they distrust the assurances given by the Central Government regarding safety, and fear the disasters that could arise from
- environmental impact of nuclear power generation
- radioactive waste
- nuclear accidents
The phrase "nuclear accident", immediately brings to our minds the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi (in Japanese dai-ichi means "number one"), after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. This disaster culminated in a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and release of radioactive materials into the environment.
The devastation at Fukushima Dai-ichi is the largest nuclear disaster since the catastrophic nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986.
The agitation in Kudankulam
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), which was initiated in 1988 by an Inter-Governmental Agreement signed on November 20, 1988 by former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two nuclear reactors.
The agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project started as low-key protests by anti-nuclear protesters. About 20,000 residents of Kudankulam and surrounding villages marched out to show their support for the activists. More than a thousand local fishermen joined them and announced a strike in support of the protests.
The anti-nuclear protesters have stated specific reasons for opposing the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). They say, "More than 1 million people live within the 30 km radius of the KKNPP which far exceeds the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board's (AERB) stipulations. It is quite impossible to evacuate this many people quickly and efficiently in case of a nuclear disaster at Koodankulam", etc.
"Fukushima has greatly helped our agitation," said S.P. Udayakumar, activist and leader of the voluntary People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE). For 20 years, Udayakumar has led PMANE on a campaign against the Koodankulam project.
"The nuclear plant is unsafe" and "the safety analysis report and the site evaluation study have not been made public. No public hearing was held. It's an authoritarian project that has been imposed on the people," he said.
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), the top government agency to ensure safety standards, conducted a safety audit of India's NPPs a few months back. Despite all clear certificates, anti-nuclear activists and experts have called for an audit by an independent body. They say that given the non-transparent nature of India's state-controlled nuclear energy sector, there is no way to estimate whether safety issues will be carefully followed.
Anti-Nuclear protests and Hunger Strike
An indefinite hunger strike was started by the anti-nuclear protesters on September 11, 2012. With the hunger strike becoming a serious threat to the health of 127 participants, negotiations between the protesters and the state government of Tamilnadu began on September 15, 2012, but it soon reached a stalemate. The protests and the hunger strike ended twelve days later with J. Jayalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, announcing that the state government would adopt a resolution against launching the nearly completed nuclear power plant. She fulfilled her promise the following day.
On Thursday, September 22, 2012, the Tamil Nadu Cabinet passed a resolution urging the Center to halt the work on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project until the fears of the local population over the safety of the plants are allayed. The 12-day fast by the anti-nuclear protesters came to an end following assurances by Ms. Jayalalitha.
Rt. Rev. Yvon Ambroise, Bishop of Tuticorin Roman Catholic Diocese, came to the protest venue at Idinthakarai on Thursday and offered fruit juice to those who were on hunger strike. He addressed the gathering and explained in detail the demands put forth during their meeting with Ms. Jayalalithaa in Chennai on the previous day. The Bishop said:
"We urged the Chief Minister that the State Cabinet pass a resolution demanding the permanent closure of the KKNPP and appealed to her to withdraw cases against some of the protesters during the agitation. We also appealed to her to draw a comprehensive alternative energy policy, which should make sure tapping of non-conventional energy sources at the optimum level so that the environment and people living near such power generation units do not get affected. Since the Chief Minister's replies satisfied us to the maximum possible extent, we agreed to withdraw the ongoing indefinite fast."
S.P. Udhayakumar, leader of PMANE gave the details of various meetings to be held in Madurai and at Samithoppu in Kanyakumari district to decide on the future course of action against nuclear programmes in the country. "We'll even lay siege to the KKNPP in the near future to ensure its permanent closure," he said.
Before the protesters left the venue they vowed that even though the fast had come to an end nevertheless they would intensify their struggle against the Union government in the days to come.
However, the sprawling pandal erected for the protest is yet to be dismantled. "It will be there till the Union government gives a satisfying reply to our demands. If not, the pandal will come in handy for us again," said S.V. Antony, president, Uvari panchayat.
This agitation by the anti-nuclear protesters forced Ms. Jayalalitha to make a u-turn on her plans to add six reactors to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant which already has two reactors constructed, though not yet operating.
Ms. Jayalalitha wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging the government to put the expansion on hold until local concerns were addressed. People have been "agonized, disturbed and gripped by a fear psychosis due to the scope and magnitude of the issue in the wake of the Fukushima mishap," she wrote.
Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam, convener of Government of India's Experts Group (EG), which did a survey of the safety features in the plant, expressed his willingness to hold discussions with the anti-nuclear protesters.
On December 2, 2011 PMANE released a press statement welcoming Dr. Muthunayagam's willingness to hold discussions with them.
Press Release
The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomes the statement of the Central Government's Experts Group (EG) convener, Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam, that expresses the group's willingness to hold discussions with the scientific team of the PMANE.
We request Dr. Muthunayagam to suggest a few possible dates and venue for such a meeting as soon as possible. We would also request him to arrange a visit of the KKNPP site for all the 28 members of our scientific team.
It is also pertinent to remind him of our request for some of the basic documents on the KKNPP project such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Site Evaluation Study, Safety Analysis Report, VVER Performance Report, Detailed Project Report (DPR) and all other relevant documents for reactors 1 and 2 in order to facilitate our scientific team's meaningful dialogue with the Central and State teams.
We would also take this opportunity to insist that the work on the two reactors be halted as demanded by the Tamil Nadu Government's Cabinet Resolution even as we are engaged in a dialogue process.
S. P. Udayakumar, Ph.D.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has also been filed against the government's civil nuclear program at the Apex Supreme Court. The PIL specifically prays for the "staying of all proposed nuclear power plants till satisfactory safety measures and cost-benefit analyses are completed by independent agencies".
In February 2012, Mr. Udayakumar sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for insinuating that the anti-Kudankulam protests were funded by United States and Scandinavian non-government organisations.
The pro-government scientific community
The anti-nuclear protestors themselves have enough detractors who rally and protest in favor of commissioning this nuclear power plant. Here are some views by the scientific community on this issue.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, after visiting the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on November 6, 2011, asserted that there is no need for any panic. "The third generation nuclear reactor is totally safe and is a boon to the people," he said.
He emphasized, "I am a scientist, I am a technologist, I support nuclear energy along with solar and wind power as it is a clean and green energy which is very much required for the country's rapid growth now".
He further added that the reactors located at 13.5 m height would not be effected even by a Tsunami nor would an earthquake threaten them, as Kudankulam is not within any seismic zone. The scientists have taken into account all these natural calamities before designing and fabricating the plant. While 99% of the spent fuel would be processed for reuse in the reactors, the remaining one percent would be converted and protected within a thickly walled underground concrete containment and no waste from the reactor will be dumped in the sea.
Former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India Dr. M.R. Srinivasan said that one should never compare the Fukushima plant with Kudankulam and added "The Fukushima plant was built on a beachfront, but the Kudankulam was constructed on a solid terrain and that too keeping all the safety aspects in mind. Also, we are not in a tsunami prone area. The plants in Kudankulam have a double containment system which can withstand high pressure. At least, Rs 14,000 crore has been spent. If we don't operate the plant immediately, it will affect the economic stability of our country."
In mid-November 2011, Mr. Srinivasan speaking on the 'Current scenario of nuclear power' at a meeting organized by the Press Information Bureau said that since options like gas, solar and wind energies are expensive, one should never say 'no' to nuclear energy, "If we don't go ahead with nuclear plans, we wont be able to supply electricity to an aspiring population of India. So it's necessary that the 15-member committee, appointed by the Centre, discuss every point of it with the people," he said.
A center panel constituted by the Government of India, which did a survey of the safety features in the plant, said the Kudankulam reactors are the safest and fears of the people are not based on scientific principles. The panel's convener Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam, also added that the protesters have asked for some documents which are not related to the safety of the reactor hence he suspects the very nature of their questions.
Nuclear scientist and principal scientific adviser to the federal Government of India Rajagopala Chidambaram has said "We have learnt lessons from the Fukushima nuclear accident, particularly on the post-shutdown cooling system," and added Fukushima nuclear accident should not deter or inhibit India from pursuing a safe civil nuclear program.
Recent Developments
In early January 2012, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for the first time admitted that the deaths of some employees and their dependents at the Kalpakkam nuclear site situated about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Chennai, were caused by multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer linked to nuclear radiation. The DAE acknowledged that nine people, including three employees working at the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam died of multiple myeloma and bone cancer between 1995 and 2011. The DAE did not willingly divulge the details. This information came to light in response to a Right to Information inquiry from October 2011. The DAE had previously stonewalled all previous requests for information.
"While the prime minister (PM) accuses NGOs funded from abroad of trying to sabotage the 'state-of-the-art' Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KKNPP), various studies carried out by government agencies as well as experts suggest that the site is unsafe for a nuclear project.
The website DNA in an article titled "DNA investigations: Kudankulam's lurking dangers" published on Feb 28, 2012, says:
"The studies reveal potential threats to the nuclear reactor campus from near-shore tsunami, volcanic eruptions, and Karst (vulnerable landscape). DNA has a copy of the reports submitted by the agencies and experts,"
An expert committee appointed by the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday submitted its report on the safety aspects of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNNP) to Chief Minister Jayalalitha, marking a crucial stage in the debate over the project. Ms. Jayalalitha in the wake of the acute power shortages in the state, which certain quarters say has been artificially created (see Press meet – Artificial Power cuts in Tamilnadu), has made a u-turn once again by favouring the commissioning of the plant. "In accordance with (today's) cabinet decision, immediate steps will be taken (to facilitate commissioning) of the plant," she said in a statement, breaking her silence over the issue.
S.P. Udayakumar reacted:
"Of course, we feel cheated by the chief minister J. Jayalalithaa. She has been using us. She encouraged us all these days and allowed us to carry on with the protest. I visited the chief minister's office twice and met her and also visited the collector's office. Even then, there were cases against me. Why didn't the police arrest me then? She has let us down… But yes, I felt we were deceived. We were tricked. But I could a sense a pattern, a build-up in the direction of the state government's reversal of its decision to support the protesters. When I met the chief minister for the first time she was very cordial. I had a one-on-one talk for 45 minutes. But the second time she did not even talk to me. So the state government's decision was not entirely unexpected. It was only delayed by seven months."
There is a general opinion in Tamilnadu that to win the Sankarankoil by-poll Ms. Jayalalitha acted as a sympathizer of the anti-nuclear protesters and now that her party (AIADMK) had won the by-poll she doesn't need them anymore.
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- Well said Mr. Udaya Kumar … (tvaraj.wordpress.com)
- The Great Indian Nuclear Maya (tvaraj.wordpress.com/)
- Jaya's U-turn: approves Kudankulam nuclear plant (ibnlive.in.com)
- We feel cheated by the chief minister: Udayakumar (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- Thousands of Anti-Nuclear Protesters Face Police in India, 200 Arrested | Common Dreams (2012indyinfo.com)
- Anti-nuke activist Udayakumar declares personal assets to public (theweekendleader.com)
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- Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (en.wikipedia.org)
- Work resumes at Kudankulam nuclear power plant (ibnlive.in.com)
- Countrywide Day Long Solidarity Hunger Strike and other protest actions in Solidarity with People of Kudankulam (kractivist.wordpress.com)
- Kudankulam: A brief history and a recent update (kafila.org)
- Kudankulam: 11 protesters held on sedition charges (thehindu.com)
- Kudankulam plant can be made gasoline-based: formal Naval chief (thehindu.com)
- How safe Kudankulam nuclear power reactors are (thehindu.com)
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- DNA investigations: Kudankulam's lurking dangers (dnaindia.com)
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- Dr. Abdul Kalam's Misguided Faith in Kudankulam: Prof. T Shivaji Rao (dianuke.org)
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We've finished the latest version of the NYC ABC "Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War" and it's available for viewing (and download) by clicking on the tab at the top of this page. This update includes updated mini-bios, photos, and address changes for several prisoners.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend has been acquitted of two charges of obtaining drugs for her by fraud and deceit, including use of false names.
Superior Court Judge Robert Perry also dismissed part of a conspiracy count against Howard Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, ruling there was insufficient proof that the two men conspired to obtain controlled drugs through fraud and deceit.
But in his ruling Wednesday, Perry allowed the balance of that conspiracy charge to stand and said the bulk of the 11-count complaint would go to the jury for verdicts. Attorneys were scheduled for closing arguments on Monday.
Stern, Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to prescribe, administer and dispense a controlled substance to an addict. They are not charged in Smith's 2007 overdose death.
Perry accepted arguments by the defense that because Stern is not a doctor, he would not have known if there were problems with the legality of prescriptions written by Kapoor.
"I don't think there's evidence that a layperson knows it's illegal to write a prescription in another name for a celebrity," the judge said.
Defense lawyers had hoped for more dismissals based on the judge's critical comments regarding the prosecution's case through the trial. Perry previously indicated some charges would likely be dismissed.
"I think there are weaknesses in the prosecution's case," Perry said Wednesday. "But my inclination is to let it go to the jury."
But the judge also raised the unusual prospect that if he does not agree with jury convictions, he has the option to change the verdicts or order a new trial. He said he has done this in other cases.
Stern's lawyer, Steve Sadow, expressed alarm at that prospect, saying, "Once it's post-verdict, the whole scenario changes. My client would lose his license. The doctors would lose their licenses."
The judge said he had to be "mindful that certain issues are left for the jury, unless there is a total absence of evidence to support it."
The judge also grilled prosecutors intently, explaining repeatedly that to get a conviction, "you need a specific intent to violate the law." Lawyers for Stern, Kapoor and Eroshevich argued that no such intent had been shown because their clients were trying to help a woman suffering from intense pain.
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Hypervisors often get overlooked as a technology in favor of the flashier concept of virtualization, but you can't get to the fun of virtualization until you understand what a hypervisor does within a computing system.
While the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing may now seem like old hat within the IT infrastructure, that wasn't always the case, and it is hypervisor technology that has helped drive innovation in the world of cloud computing.
Hypervisor definition
A hypervisor is a process that separates a computer's operating system and applications from the underlying physical hardware. Usually done as software although embedded hypervisors can be created for things like mobile devices.
The hypervisor drives the concept of virtualization by allowing the physical host machine to operate multiple virtual machines as guests to help maximize the effective use of computing resources such as memory, network bandwidth and CPU cycles.
History of hypervisors
In the late 1960s and through the 1970s, most virtualization and hypervisor work was seen on mainframe computers developed by IBM, for use in building time-sharing systems, testing new operating system ideas or even exploring new hardware concepts. The virtualization aspect allowed programmers to deploy and debug without jeopardizing the stability of the main production system and without having to deploy additional costly development systems.
Jumping ahead to the mid-2000s, hypervisors took center stage when Unix, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems began to utilize virtualization technologies. Reasons for the growth of hypervisors and virtualization included better hardware capabilities, which would now allow a single machine to do more simultaneous work; cost-control efforts that led to consolidation of servers; improved security and reliability due to hypervisor architecture improvements; and the ability to run OS-dependent applications on different hardware or OS environments. In addition, in 2005, CPU vendors began adding hardware virtualization to their x86-based products, extending the availability (and benefits) of virtualization to PC- and server-based audiences.
Benefits of hypervisors
Even though VMs can run on the same physical hardware, they are still logically separated from each other. This means that if one VM experiences an error, crash or a malware attack, it doesn't extend to other VMs on the same machine, or even other machines.
VMs are also very mobile – because they are independent of the underlying hardware, they can be moved or migrated between local or remote virtualized servers a whole lot easier than traditional applications that are tied to physical hardware.
Type 1 hypervisor: Bare metal
There are two types of hypervisors, creatively named Type 1 or Type 2. Type 1 hypervisors, sometimes called "native" or "bare metal" hypervisors, run directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and manage the guest VMs. Modern hypervisors include Xen, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, Oracle VM Server for x86, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware's ESX/ESXi.
Type 2 hypervisor: Hosted
Type 2 hypervisors, sometimes called "hosted hypervisors," run on a conventional OS, just like other applications on the system. In this case, a guest OS runs as a process on the host, while the hypervisors separate the guest OS from the host OS. Examples of Type 2 hypervisors include VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop for Mac.
In the enterprise data center space, consolidation has resulted in three major vendors on the hypervisor front: VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems.
Containers vs. hypervisors
In recent years, container technology has grown in popularity as a possible replacement for hypervisors, as they can place more applications into a single physical server than a virtual machine can.
"VMs take up a lot of system resources. Each VM runs not just a full copy of an operating system, but a virtual copy of all the hardware that the operating system needs to run. This quickly adds up to a lot of RAM and CPU cycles. In contrast, all that a container requires is enough of an operating system, supporting programs and libraries, and system resources to run a specific program," says Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in this 2016 Network World article.
Security concerns and practical uses of VMs, however, mean that containers won't necessarily replace hypervisors/VMs, but rather companies will use a combination of both, according to Vaughan-Nichols. On the security issue, some feel that containers are less secure than hypervisors, due to containers only having one OS that applications share, while VMs isolate not only the application, but the OS as well. If an application gets compromised, it could attack the single OS in a container, affecting other applications. If an application in a VM gets compromised, only one OS on that server would be affected, not other applications or OSes on the VM. Marvin Waschke writes about this issue in this InfoWorld blog post.
Hypervisor security concerns
While hypervisors can be considered more secure than containers by some measures, that doesn't mean there aren't security concerns associated with hypervisors. For example, in theory hackers can create malware and rootkits that install themselves as a hypervisor below the OS. Known as hyperjacking, this process can be more difficult to detect, as the malware could intercept operations of the OS (for example, entering a password) without anti-malware software necessarily detecting it, because the malware runs below the OS.
Debate continues whether it would be possible to detect the presence of a hypervisor-based rootkit. Some have implemented the concept – the SubVirt and Blue Pill malware – while others have demonstrated a hypervisor-layer anti-rootkit called Hooksafe, which provides generic protection against kernel-mode rootkits.
Hypervisor expansion
The concept of hypervisors hasn't just been limited to server operation. Storage hypervisors, for example, take the same concept and apply it to data storage. A storage hypervisor can run on physical hardware, as a VM, inside a hypervisor OS or within a larger storage network. Just like hypervisors, a storage hypervisor can run on specific hardware or be independent of the hardware.
In addition to storage, hypervisors are key for other virtualization efforts, including desktop virtualization, OS virtualization and application virtualization.
Embedded hypervisors
Embedded hypervisors support the requirements of embedded systems. These are different from hypervisors that target server and desktop applications. The embedded hypervisor is designed into the embedded device from the outset, rather than loaded subsequent to device deployment.
While desktop and enterprise environments use hypervisors to consolidate hardware and isolate computing environments from one another, in an embedded system, the various components typically function collectively to provide the device's functionality. Mobile virtualization overlaps with embedded system virtualization, and shares some use cases.


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Welcome to the WSO2 Carbon 4.4.11 documentation! WSO2 Carbon is the award-winning, light-weight, service-oriented platform that includes all WSO2 products. It is 100% open source and is delivered under Apache License 2.0. Consisting of a collection of OSGi bundles, WSO2 Carbon hosts components for integration, security, clustering, governance, statistics, and other features in the middleware space.
You can find out about the products of the WSO2 Carbon platform from the official WSO2 product documentation. See the sections given below for information on Carbon.
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The United States fortunately is not part of the ICC, but that is not stopping the court's chief prosecutor from threatening to prosecute American soldiers. This is not a debate about U.S. policy in Afghanistan, but rather a critical fight over national sovereignty vs. global governance. The international bureaucrats presumably would like to seduce the United States into becoming a signatory. The second option, from their perspective, would be to slowly but surely constrain U.S. sovereignty by getting America to behave as if it was bound by the court. The potentially explosive final option is what would happen if the ICC explicitly went after an American serviceman without the prearranged acquiescence of Washington. Ideally, any President – even Obama – would defend the Constitution in that situation and tell the ICC bureaucrats to go jump in a lake:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague. The ICC's chief prosecutor, though, has no intention of waiting for Washington to submit to the court's authority. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has jurisdiction—at least with respect to Afghanistan. …the chief prosecutor says he is already conducting a "preliminary examination" into whether NATO troops, including American soldiers, fighting the Taliban may have to be put in the dock. …Asked repeatedly whether the examination of bombings and torture allegations refers to NATO and U.S. soldiers, Mr. Ocampo finally stated that "we are investigating whoever commits war crimes, including the group you mentioned." …Mr. Ocampo remained tight-lipped about the specifics of his preliminary examination. Asked whether waterboarding—a practice that simulates drowning without causing lasting physical harm—is a form of torture produced a telling "no comment." Yet if the Obama administration considers this practice torture, one has to wonder if the ICC's chief prosecutor would give it his stamp of approval. There is also the issue of whether Predator strikes of unmanned drones targeting terrorist leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan—as carried out in the very first week of the Obama presidency—are part of the bombings he's looking into. Mr. Ocampo chuckled and answered evasively. "We have people around the world concerned about this," he said… Although the prosecutor's preliminary examination may not result in a formal investigation of Americans, the mere potential of a legal confrontation between the court in The Hague and Washington should be disconcerting to the White House, not to mention to all Americans.


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Ruaha National Park Safaris
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This Safari covers the highlights of Tanzania: the migration in the Serengeti, the stunning Ngorongoro Crater and the wild and adventurous Selous Park. At the end of this trip you will relax on a pristine beach in Zanzibar
Experience wildlife safari in stunning and less visited
national parks of Southern Tanzania with abundant wildlife and spectacular sceneries. Visiting Ruaha, Mikumi and Selous incl 1 day walking safari. Camping or Lodge
Cultural tour in the Southern Circuit of Tanzania get freely mix with tribal people to practice their lifestyle, and unique exciting wilderness and the biological wealth of God's Garden.
Enjoy seeing different wild animals during game drives, on a boat safari and or walking safari to in Udzungwa, Ruaha and Mikumi National Parks and Selous Game Reserve.
Visit churches in Dar Es Salaam, view wildlife in Mikumi National Park and Ruaha National Park. Plus tour Uwemba Mission in Njombe, visiting vocational center, leprosy center.
Visit FEMA, an organisation of women formed between to town Feheirm in Germany and Matamba Village combined with biking to Ruaha Camp. Game viewing and walking safari.
Experience the remote and little-visited part of the country with abundant wildlife. This safari explores the magnificent and inspirational national parks Southern Tanzania.
Ruaha is famous for its abundance of elephant - boasting to have the highest population of any East African National park. It is also a top destination for birdwatching,
Experience the remote and little-visited part of the country with abundant wildlife visting Ruaha National Park, Mikumi and Saadani National Park, Tanzania's first coastal wildlife sanctuary, plus 2 days on the beach
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This past Sunday evening, I was interviewed on The Pink Atheist podcast/radio show. The topics of discussion were the vaccine survey research I was involved with and the importance of promoting a good pro-vaccine message, as well as talking about some of the physics behind various crazy demonstrations I perform both in and out of the classroom.
Click the link below for the full audio of my interview, which starts at the 20:25 mark. Enjoy! 🙂


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Religion News: EU court says religious symbols can be banned by employers
The top court of Europe recently ruled that workers can be banned from wearing religious symbols while at work. The European Court of Justice ruled on a case of a woman who alleged that she was fired from her job as a receptionist at a security company in Belgium due to religious discrimination for wearing her hijab. The court ruled that the company did not discriminate against the woman. "An internal rule of an undertaking which prohibits the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination," the court said in a statement. The case addressed alleged Muslim discrimination, specifically, but the ruling also affects all other religions as well. In reference to the security company, the court said, "The rule thus treats all employees to the undertaking in the same way, notably by requiring them, generally and without any differentiation, to dress neutrally." The court said as long as a company bans all religious symbols, there is no religious discrimination.
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Majority of Evangelicals disapprove of women pastors
According to a new study conducted by the Barna Group, most Christian groups did not have a problem with women serving in leadership roles, but only 39 percent of Evangelicals approved of women serving in leadership roles. Researchers found that 71 percent of Protestants, 80 percent of Catholics and 62 percent of "practicing Christians" approved of women in leadership roles.
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"The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully" by Frank Ostaseski
Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. "The Five Invitations" is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In "The Five Invitations," he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation.
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get: Advanced degree of a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, much like a Ph.D.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, the religious makeup of Albania is:
— Muslim: 56.7 percent
— Roman Catholic: 10 percent
— Orthodox: 6.8 percent
— Atheist: 2.5 percent
— Bektashi: 2.1 percent
— Other: 5.7 percent
— Unspecified: 16.2 percent
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baptism [Gr., =dipping], in most Christian churches a sacrament. It is a rite of purification by water, a ceremony invoking the grace of God to regenerate the person, free him or her from sin, and make that person a part of the church. Thus, baptism is usually required for membership in the church. In Roman Catholic and Anglican theology baptism is also held to confer an indelible character on the person, requiring him or her to worship. Formal baptism is performed by immersion (as among the Baptists) or by pouring or sprinkling water on the person to be baptized. This ceremony is accompanied, in churches that accept the dogma of the Trinity, by a formula asking the blessing of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In some churches the child is baptized soon after birth and has sponsors (godfather and godmother) who make declarations of faith in his name. The rite is sometimes called christening, and this term is applied especially to the giving of a baptismal name. Other churches withhold baptism until the person is relatively mature. Some Protestant groups, such as the Religious Society of Friends, reject all outward baptismal rites. Similar customs are known in many non-Christian cultures. The baptism of Jesus himself can be considered part of the founding of the Christian Church.
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Few months ago, Microsoft has announced new Phone Client for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016. With today's NAV 2016 general availability, we can check it. First, NAV has new icon; sails no longer exist. This is new set of icons:
And now again, Phone Client. You can download new NAV 2016 App for iPhone from Apple iTunes. Also it is possible to download from Google Play and Windows Store. You just need to type "Dynamics NAV" in search and you can easy find them. Download them and type your service, username and password. Finally, you can use NAV on all devices and all systems. It looks line:
If you've just installed NAV 2016 from Partner Source, you can check how it looks like using Web browser. You just need to add phone.aspx behind .. /WebClient/ (smilar as for Tablet Client emulation) and change the size of browser to emulate phone size; and you don't need a HTTPS certificates. You will see that Phone Client looks awesome and everything works fine and smoothly. And you can use camera from your phone directly in NAV, for example for document capturing. But for this feature, you have to use this app from phone, because camera cannot be emulated from your browser.
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I woke up to this sunrise today, a reminder that every day brings us a fresh chance to embrace, improve and enjoy this wonderful gift we call life.
It's been a tough couple of months for me, and for others who want to encourage tolerance and empathy. I'm looking for positive ways to deal with my concerns about the direction in which my country is headed, and I hope that you are too. Lucky for me, my sister, who is full of good ideas, had a suggestion for me.
With her encouragement, I reviewed, edited and sorted through the 159 posts on this blog and put the best of them into a new book called "Face Painting for World Peace." This short (121 page) volume of essays attempts to be both humorous and thought provoking as it examines what I like to call "intra-species harmony" (aka world peace) from a wide variety of angles.
The eBook is available for FREE on Smashwords, for a short time. Soon it will be published on Amazon as well, and distributed by Barnes & Nobel, Apple and other retailers, at which point I will be required to charge ninety-nine cents. This is not intended to be a money making project; I have pledged to donate half of all proceeds to "Doctors Without Borders".
Here is the description:
I am passionate about the cause of the world peace. From early 2012 on I have maintained a blog in which I often write about empathy and peace. I have arranged these short essays in book form, to be published for Christmas 2016. A lot has changed in the world over the past four years, but what has not changed is how I continue to cherish time with those I love, and how others do the same throughout the world. This book is my holiday card; my way of wishing hope, joy and peace to every human on earth, with no exceptions.
Please download, please enjoy, and please share with others. Meanwhile, I will try to wake up every day during this coming year, catch a glimpse of that beautiful dawn, and then seek out positive ways to add my voice to the chorus still being sung by those who believe that kindness should guide our politics, our words and our actions. I invite you to sing along, too.


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Parkwood Estate
Described as a testament to inter-war era architecture, Parkwood estates is a rare and shining example of homes developed during and after the first world war. The family home of Samuel McLaughlin from 1917-1972 (founder of General Motors Canada), the mansion took three years to build, complete with early 20th century design of the interior.
Over the next three decades the gardens were meticulously constructed by three different architects to reflect the design of the home and classic English gardens of the era. Avid horticulturists and landscapers, the gardens are designed with a high degree of formality close to the home and less formality away from the property revealing a immaculate lawns. Subdivided by cedar hedges and garden gates visitors are prompted to walk through the gardens in-order to view the entire estate. Gardens close to the property correspond to either a terrace or a room in the house. These include the Italian Garden, the Sundial Garden, the Summer House and the Sunken Garden.
Today the gardens and estate have been restored to their setting in the 1930s and are commonly used as a site for weddings year round.


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Strangely, officers arrest Copts; roof collapses after Muslim suspects set fire to church building.
ISTANBUL, July 17 (Compass Direct News) – Villagers in Ezbet Basillious, Minya suspect local police in Egypt of corruption and collusion after two Copts were arrested for an arson attack on their own house church on Saturday (July 11).
Egyptian State Security Investigations (SSI) officers later arrested three Muslim suspects in accordance with eyewitness testimony that local police had ignored. The suspects were seen entering the Church of St. Abaskharion Kellini with cans of kerosene and leaving it shortly after, shouting "Allahu Akbar [God is great]."
The two Copts who were arrested, 35-year-old Reda Gamal and Fulla Assad, 30, are still in custody.
Suspicions of police collusion come not only from the inexplicable arrests of the Copts but also from the lack of police presence while the church was burning. Guards who were stationed outside the property had left their posts, and according to some reports they had moved to a nearby café and were drinking tea while the property burned.
"It sounds like a pre-arranged situation, that they [the arsonists] knew this was the agreed time, [when] the guards were away," a source told Compass. "Mahmoud Muhammad Hussein, the head guard, and Mustafa Moussa, one of the village guards, were heard telling people, 'Say Reda set fire to the church.' So the local police were involved."
The attack in Ezbet Basillious, 90 kilometers south of Cairo, took place shortly before noon. The perpetrators entered the building where the church met using a connecting door from an adjoining residence. The fire cracked walls and caused the roof to cave in.
It took police two hours to arrive at the scene, according to Suleiman Faiz, a local schoolteacher.
Three Copts were taken to the police station, initially only for questioning – Gamal, Assad and Assad's 75-year-old mother-in-law. Assad and her mother-in-law live in a home next to the house used by the church, and it was through their connecting door that the attackers entered the locked building.
The two women were present in the house at the time and witnessed three men carrying cans of kerosene. Mary Abdelmassih, a reporter for the Assyrian International News Agency, said the arsonists threatened them at knife-point to remain quiet and not call for help.
After questioning, Assad and her mother-in-law returned home. The following day Assad was arrested, and at press time she and Gamal were still being held.
"This Copt, Gamal, they took him as a pawn in order that later they could twist the church's arm to give up its rights," Abdelmassih said. "This happens every time, there is no change in the scenario at all."
Buildings in Egypt require government permission to be used for religious gatherings, and typically churches find it very difficult to obtain.
Officials promised the Abaskharion Kellini house church a prayer license on July 3 that would enable the building in which it meets to be used as a place of prayer; the congregation has struggled in vain for 30 years to construct another church building for worship. Having received verbal assurance that a prayer license would be granted for the building in which it met, the diocese's bishop held a consecration service there, and SSI officials then closed the house church and placed it under guard pending formal permission.
The attack marked the third recent incident of violence against the Coptic community in Minya, with new church premises being the precipitating factor in each case. Muslim mobs on June 6 attacked a building in Ezbet Boushra-East on suspicion that it would be converted into a worship place, and the same thing happened on July 3 at a building in Ezbet Guirgis Bey.
"People are really fed up, and if they lose patience there will be fighting in the streets," a source who requested anonymity told Compass. "A lot of young people are getting so exhausted from this persecution that they might do anything; they've had enough."
Schoolteacher Faiz, 34, told Compass that initially the attack on the Abaskharion Kellini house church made him and others angry.
"You can imagine the amount of anger one would have to a very unfair situation like this," he said. "Equality and justice for everybody is essential. We love Egypt and would like it to take its place among the respectable nations on earth."
Faiz said he hopes some day Egypt becomes free of corrupt police in order to have full freedom of religion.
"We trust that these little actions and these little conspiracies from low-ranking police forces, and those who have infiltrated police with radical ideas, which are against the country's interest, are found out and corrected," he said. "Because we still trust the higher ranking people in leadership."
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Del Maguey mezcals are some of the easiest to find in Southern California. Their single village series is stocked by many premium liquor stores. We sampled three of them. Except for the Tobala, they are named for the village in which they were made. The Del Magueys lack age statements which leads me to believe they are unaged or blanco mezcals.
Chichicapa, 47.8% alcohol
This was my favorite of all of the mezcals we tasted. It has a distinct smoky flavor, almost comparable to an Islay Scotch. The smoke and agave flavors are beautifully interwoven in a way that made me want to keep sniffing and sipping.
Minero, Santa Catarina Minas, 49.2% alcohol
The Minero is very tangy and fruity with some sweetness. This was probably my least favorite of the three, but had a very distinct flavor that others may like.
Tobala, Wild Mountain Maguey, 46.1% alcohol
Unlike the other mezcals on this list, Tobala is made with the tobala variety of agave as opposed to the more common espadin variety. The Tobala had some smoke but the more dominant flavor was fruit. Clocking in at about $120, it's almost double the price of the Chichicapa and more than double the Minero.
Los Danzantes, Reposado, 42% alcohol
Smoky and smooth this reposado (rested - aged from six months to one year) mezcal had a very sophisticated feel to it. In the Scotch realm (all things must be compared to Scotch) I'd compare it to a smooth Speysider, though it did have some smoke. I found it very pleasant...one of my favorites. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it in California...this bottle came from New Mexico.
El Señorio, Reposado, 38% alcohol
This smoky mezcal does not appear to be available in the US but was purchased in Oaxaca by my brother-in-law on a recent trip. It has very good smoke and great agave flavor, though it lacks some of the subtlety of Los Danzantes and is less powerful than Chichicapa. It's also con gusano (there's a worm in the bottle) which is frowned on by mezcal purists, but doesn't seem to make this stuff taste any less good.
I hope you have enjoyed our brief journey into mezcal, and if you haven't tried it, I hope you will. I leave you with this Oaxacan saying:
Para todo mal, mezcal.
Para todo bien tambien.
For all that is bad, mezcal.
For all that is good as well.
Next Week: Back to Whiskey on Wednesday