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Aiptek's PocketCinema V10, is a pocket-size media player projector equipped with 3M's revolutionary miniature projection technology, which can project a 50-inch image. The display content can come from a cell phone, iPod, Wii or other video capable device via the 3-in-1 AV jack. The device can also playback videos and photos from the 1GB internal memory or the SD/MMC/MS Pro card. The V10 supports JPEG, ASF, AVI and MPEG-4 formats and features a stereo speaker and built-in battery.
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A new phenom is hitting the enterprise known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and it will have a huge impact on our jobs in the next five years.BYOD sounds simple: let employees choose their own devices and software and let them use their personal devices like smartphones and tablets, too.
What's wrong with that? If I want to use my own iPad or smartphone for work — and I paid for it — my company should be jumping for joy, right?
Not exactly. IT needs to protect the company's network from viruses and to protect sensitive data from being lost or stolen. Most companies have a legal obligation to protect this stuff.
And your iPad is a threat because it can be lost or stolen.
It happens all the time. Last month, an iPad that belonged to a hospital worker was taken from the worker's car. It contained names, addresses and test results of patients. The hospital issued letters warning patients and had to explain why employees were running around with patient data on unsecured devices.
I don't work for a hospital, so how can that kind of thing apply to me?
This is a universal problem because employees are starting to use their own devices for work in record numbers. Forrester Research estimates that 21 million office workers are using their own smartphone for work. Some 11 million are buying their own work laptops and 3 million bought tablets for work.
The IT department can't always see those devices and what data is stored on it. They don't know what files will wind up on Dropbox or other cloud services.
Should companies simply forbid people to use their own devices?
Those days are gone. Today's workforce is full of people who have been raised on technology. They wouldn't let IT choose their tech for them anymore than they would let IT choose their food.
What's to be done?
A company may still pay for devices, but might let users choose from a longer list of options. This means that IT has to support a wider range of devices if they break, and to keep them patched and updated so the bad guys can't hack them.
IT also needs to buy mobile device management software which tracks devices, encrypts them, locks them and can sometimes wipe data from them remotely if they are lost or stolen. This software is available from big vendors like IBM or Sybase and smaller ones like Zenprise, AirWatch (and lots of others).
This isn't perfect either. Employees would have agree to install it on personal devices used for work.
A rock and a hard place? Can't we do better than that?
Yes, especially over time. Enterprises can opt to deliver all of their software over a cloud connection so nothing gets stored on the device. It's a concept called desktop virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructure. VDI has traditionally been slow, clunky and expensive to use, especially for Windows. But new technologies are arriving that will make them better (like Cloud Paging).
HTML5 is also coming. This is the next generation for Web pages. It delivers rich, multimedia applications in the browser. More and more apps will run in the browser. Users can access them from any device.
Eventually, the IT department will be very different than it is today. It will be like a personal corporate app store. Employees will be able to choose which apps they want to use for their jobs from a list that IT provides and on any device they want. Employees will create their own "personal clouds" on their devices … all their work and non-work apps accessed from one device, most of it stored in the cloud, with IT in control of the ones used for work but maybe not the device itself or the other apps.
Within the next five years a new crop of devices will arise that help, too. Forrester analyst Frank Gillett calls these "frames." They will be smart devices that can take voice and gestures commands and will act as a bridge between our personal devices and our personal clouds.
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Mets respond to injuries with rout of D-backs
Nieuwenhuis homers, has three RBIs after being recalled
PHOENIX -- Perhaps the Mets were simply unleashing their frustrations. At the tail end of a grueling three-city road trip, the Mets learned Tuesday that they would have to make do without Juan Lagares, whose strained right hamstring landed him on the disabled list, and Curtis Granderson, whose body was still sore from crashing into Chase Field's right-field fence the day before.
They responded not with self-pity, but their most furious offensive attack of the season. By the fourth, the Mets had already scored a season-high nine runs and knocked D-backs starter Bronson Arroyo out of what would end up being a 9-0 rout on Jackie Robinson Day.
"That was good to see," outfielder Eric Young said. "That was good to see from all standpoints."
Routinely attacking Arroyo early in counts, the first three Mets to face the veteran all hit safely. Young came around to score first, on Lucas Duda's RBI fielder's choice. Then Daniel Murphy came home on Andrew Brown's sacrifice fly, and Duda scored to make it 3-0 on Kirk Nieuwenhuis' two-out hit.
"They were aggressive really early on," Arroyo said. "I expected a bit more patience from that ballclub, but I've pitched well against them in the past and maybe they wanted to just change things up."
In his first game subbing for the injured Lagares in center field, Nieuwenhuis added a two-run homer to key a six-run fourth, made a diving catch to rob Mark Trumbo of a hit in the fifth, rapped out yet another single in the seventh and made a fine running grab of A.J. Pollock's fly ball to end the bottom half of that inning.
"It was good to be back, for sure," Nieuwenhuis said, crediting his improved offensive approach in the Minors in part to getting married last winter. "I put a lot of work into my swing this offseason, just trying to be more relaxed. I think I play better that way, for sure. Playing uptight, I don't do well that way at all."
His contributions may have been the loudest of any Met, but Nieuwenhuis was hardly alone. Young, for example, collected three hits, scored twice and drove in two runs. Murphy also recorded two hits and scored twice. David Wright's multihit game extended his personal hitting streak to seven. And all of that damage occurred before the end of the fourth.
The final result was a foregone conclusion, considering Jenrry Mejia was pitching as well as the Mets were hitting. Retiring the first nine batters he faced, Mejia departed only because a blister popped on his right middle finger -- but not before completing five scoreless innings with three strikeouts and two walks. He needed only 77 pitches to do so.
"Until the blister started to act up, he threw the ball very well," manager Terry Collins said. "I feel terrible for the poor guy, because certainly he's shown everybody every time he's ever been out there where he's healthy, that he's got the stuff to be a winner at this level. We've just got to somehow keep him staying out there."
With the victory, the Mets climbed to .500 for the first time this season, while assuring themselves a winning nine-game road trip through Atlanta, Anaheim and Phoenix -- a daunting schedule that concerned Collins prior to departing. With one game to go at Chase Field, the Mets could finish as strong as 6-3 on the trip and return home with a winning record.
Perhaps more importantly, the victory proved that the Mets can win in a depleted state. Before landing on the DL, Lagares was their best overall player, adding serious offensive value to what had always been an elite defensive profile. Due in part to the absences of him, Granderson and Chris Young, Tuesday's lineup included four players -- Eric Young, Brown, Nieuwenhuis and Omar Quintanilla -- whom the Mets did not expect to be everyday starters at the beginning of the season.
For Nieuwenhuis in particular, the game provided a critical platform to show that Lagares is not the organization's only center fielder with a bright future.
"Three years ago at this time, Kirk Nieuwenhuis was the talk of this organization -- a guy that people thought was going to be an offensive center fielder who could run, play the game the right way, add some power," Collins said. "Some injuries have kept him down a little bit. Hopefully this is his chance to come up and produce."


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Agents play to win at PIANJ/PIANY Joint Annual Conference
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey and Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc.s Joint Annual Conference was a success, with nearly 2,000 agents, company representatives, exhibitors and other insurance industry professionals. The Northeasts largest gathering of insurance industry professionals was held June 13-15 at the Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, N.J.
The conference offered attendees the opportunity to participate in educational seminars; attend social events, including a networking reception and recognition banquet; and view the latest insurance products and services available during the expanded trade show.
"Insurance professionals face a wide variety of changing issues in todays marketplace," said Kevin M. Ryan, CIC, PIANY president. "And once again, the Joint Annual Conference delivered the cutting-edge knowledge agents have come to depend on from PIA to enhance their businesses, as well as giving them the opportunity to share ideas with industry colleagues."
The conference opened Sunday, June 13 with the PIANJ Annual Business Meetings, where PIANJs new board members were installed, including newly elected President Donna M. Cunningham, CPIA, co-owner and president of ADP/Statewide Insurance Agencies Inc., Cedar Knolls, N.J. During her inaugural remarks at the Monday night awards banquet, Cunningham talked about her experiences with the association: "Joining PIA was one of the smartest moves [our agency] made," she said. "We must continue to strengthen the independent agency system in order to guarantee its perpetuation."
Both associations honored some of the industrys most dedicated professionals at Monday nights banquet. In New Jersey, PIANJ past President Jack Lynn, CIC, CPIA, account executive for Brown & Brown of New Jersey, Glassboro, N.J., received the Distinguished Insurance Service award in recognition of his more than 30 years if work on behalf of the American agency system. Lisa Tepper, regional president for the downstate New York/New Jersey region of Travelers Insurance Co., was honored as Company Person of the Year for her commitment to professionalism and service. Paul Monacelli, CIC, CPIA, PIANJ past president, CEO of ADP/Statewide Insurance Agencies Inc., Cedar Knolls, N.J., and recipient of last years Community Service award, received a special presidential citation in recognition of his extensive work in Nicaragua, building homes for the less fortunate.
PIANY also presented several awards. Mark LaLonde, CIC, CPIA, AAI, vice president of Bailey, Haskell and LaLonde, Oneida, N.Y, was named Professional Agent of the Year for his excellence and achievement in insurance marketing and service, his personal commitment to professionalism and his contributions to PIA and the community. Additionally, PIANY past President David Isenberg, president of the D.C. White Agency, Long Beach, N.Y., received the Distinguished Insurance Service award in recognition of his history of service, dedicated leadership and attention to the concerns of independent agents and their clients.
This years conference offered attendees access to nine diverse education sessions, which began Sunday, June 13 with the timely session Navigating generational gaps in your agency and in the insurance marketplace, led by PIANY President-elect Donna Chiapperino. The course gave attendees a look at how generational differences impact todays Main Street agent.
Steven D. Lyon, CPCU, CIC, CRM, AAI, ARM, AIS, CRIS, taught two courses: Exploring business income and Insurance to value and adequate liability limits. Sheldon Hansen, CIC, CRM, presented Current economic trends and their effect on the insurance industry and Issues in insuring coastal properties. Jack Monahan, CIC, CLU, ChFC, CPIA, AAM, taught agents the Economics of customer service: retention, referrals and E&O and addressed a common concern in So, you want to go paperless! Cathy Trischan, CPCU, CIC, AU, AAI, CRM, CRIS, rounded out the course load with her own dual sessions: Data breach-privacy compliance and coverage and Ethical issues in E&O.
The conference also included an expansive industry trade show, featuring more than 190 exhibitors. The event concluded on Tuesday with the New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals 26th Annual Fun Run to benefit the Special Olympics New Jersey along the boardwalk, hosted by the New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals. The five-kilometer race raised more than $143,000 for SONJ. The NJYIP and PIA have raised more than $2.6 million over the past 26 years for SONJ.
For more information, visit the event website at http://www.pia.org/events/conf/nynj/index_ny.shtml.
PIANJ and PIANY are trade associations representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout their respective states.


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text: Egyptian Dreams - Ancient Egyptian Discussion Board :: View topic - First Complete DNA Sequencing Of Mummies - Ancient Egypt - Egyptology Forum Click on the logo to visit the shop Egyptian DreamsAncient Egypt Discussion Board FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in First Complete DNA Sequencing Of Mummies Egyptian Dreams Forum Index -> Mummification View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message LutzPharaohJoined: 02 Sep 2007Posts: 4154Location: Berlin, Germany Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:50 am Post subject: First Complete DNA Sequencing Of Mummies Johannes Krause, et.al : Ancient Egyptian Mummy Genomes Suggest an Increase of Sub-Saharan African Ancestry in Post-Roman Periods. - In: Nature Communications 8. - 2017. - Article Nr. 15694 : Quote: Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Particularly, in the first millennium BCE Egypt endured foreign domination leading to growing numbers of foreigners living within its borders possibly contributing genetically to the local population. Here we present 90 mitochondrial genomes as well as genome-wide data sets from three individuals obtained from Egyptian mummies. The samples recovered from Middle Egypt span around 1,300 years of ancient Egyptian history from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period. Our analyses reveal that ancient Egyptians shared more ancestry with Near Easterners than present-day Egyptians, who received additional sub-Saharan admixture in more recent times. This analysis establishes ancient Egyptian mummies as a genetic source to study ancient human history and offers the perspective of deciphering Egypts past at a genome-wide level. Greetings, Lutz._________________Ägyptologie Forum (German) Back to top LutzPharaohJoined: 02 Sep 2007Posts: 4154Location: Berlin, Germany Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:53 pm Post subject: " Rare mummy DNA has revealed clues about the relatives of ancient Egyptians " (Wired - Victoria Woollaston, 31.05.2017) Quote: Researchers recovered ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE Egypt's location; its close links with Africa, Asia and Europe, its rich, documented history, and the preserved remains of its mummies make it the ideal testbed for the study of ancient populations. However, the accuracy of the DNA extracted from these mummies has been the subject of much scepticism. ... ... Now, an international team led by researchers at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, has recovered and analysed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome-wide nuclear data from three individuals. Nuclear data is significant because, at its most simple, it is inherited from all ancestors, while mitochondrial DNA stems from the maternal line only. ... ... "Especially for admixture and ancestry analysis, it is important to look at as many informative/variable positions in the genome as possible to obtain a complete picture." ... ... When compared with more recent DNA, the study also revealed modern Egyptians share approximately eight per cent more ancestry on the nuclear level with Sub-Saharan African populations than with Ancient Egyptians. ... ... "This study counters prior scepticism about the possibility of recovering reliable ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies," said the international team in a statement. "Despite the potential issues of degradation and contamination caused by climate and mummification methods, the authors were able to use high-throughput DNA sequencing and robust authentication methods to ensure the ancient origin and reliability of the data. The study thus shows that Egyptian mummies can be a reliable source of ancient DNA, and can greatly contribute to a more accurate and refined understanding of Egypt's population history." ... Greetings, Lutz._________________Ägyptologie Forum (German) Back to top LutzPharaohJoined: 02 Sep 2007Posts: 4154Location: Berlin, Germany Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:57 pm Post subject: " The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies " (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 30.05.2017) " The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies " (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 30.05.2017) " First complete genome data extracted from ancient Egyptian mummies " (University of Cambridge - Research News, 30.05.2017) " Scientists thought ancient Egyptian mummies didnt have any DNA left. They were wrong " (Science - Lizzie Wade, 30.05.2017) Greetings, Lutz._________________Ägyptologie Forum (German) Back to top RobsonVizierJoined: 08 Jun 2006Posts: 1009Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:53 am Post subject: Afrocentrists go berserk. Back to top LutzPharaohJoined: 02 Sep 2007Posts: 4154Location: Berlin, Germany Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:59 am Post subject: I am afraid about as well ... Even if it is not (yet) necessary. The samples all come from a single cemetery, and it is not a cemetery in Upper Egypt. In order to make general statements for the whole country, other similar investigations are certainly necessary, I think? 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RAYMOND, Minn. - After explaining how technology-driven, prescription fertilizer methods make economic and environmental sense because fewer chemicals are applied to farmland, Noah Hultgren invited Matt Dean to climb into the cab of a John Deere combine.
Even though there was too much snow to harvest corn and the combine was in a heated shop, Dean got the rundown on how the mammoth machine operates and then followed Hultgren outside to see a grain dryer that was reducing the moisture content of already harvested corn.
For the suburban lawmaker, one of many candidates running for Minnesota governor, the tour of Hultgren's fourth-generation farm near Raymond in central Minnesota was an opportunity to learn about agriculture and hear the concerns of real farmers.
Dean was one of eight gubernatorial candidates that accepted the Minnesota Corn Growers Association's invitation to tour a working corn farm during the harvest season.
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The goal was to "engage gubernatorial candidates early on in the process" to help them understand agriculture's big picture by seeing some of the first-hand details of life on the farm, Bilek said, adding that some candidates already had a strong farm connection and others had not spent much time on a farm before.
Dean's one-on-one farm visit Wednesday at the Hultgren farm was the last of the Corn Growers' organized visits.
The other participating candidates - Chris Coleman, Keith Downey, Erin Murphy, Rebecca Otto, Phillip Parrish and Tim Walz - toured farms last month in different parts of the state.
Hultgren - who like the other farm hosts is on the board of directors for the Corn Growers Association - said farmers "wanted to have the opportunity to just sit down with some of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties to discuss how growers are working to raise our crops and also caring for our resources."
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He hopes the farm tours will "open some eyes" and "play a role in the decision-making" of whoever is elected governor.
While sharing coffee and homemade bars in the farm's office, Hultgren and his brother, Nate, and father, Duane, talked about conservation practices and how farmers are "good stewards" of the land.
"We want to preserve the land as well as we can," Noah Hultgren said. "It's not only environmentally better but it's expensive not to."
They also told Dean, a Republican member of the Minnesota House from District 38B, that property taxes and regulations can hinder farm growth.
Dean said he appreciated hearing about the pressure farmers experience and the "difficulty in being able to just keep a farm going and to pass it to one generation to the next."
Instead of imposing "overreaching" legislation, Dean said lawmakers should take the lead from farmers.
Farm policy "shouldn't come from St. Paul - it should come from Greater Minnesota," he said.
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"You better go before we leave because we're not stopping."
Sounds like a fair warning before a road trip, but it's that kind of authoritarian driving that keeps people from discovering the oldest settlement in Australia. Sound crazy? It's not.
ABC reports that an Australian man, Clifford Coulthard, looking for a bathroom stumbled across 49,000-year-old evidence of Australia's oldest human settlement. So next time someone tells you that they can't stop because they're "making great time," remind them that there are ancient civilizations to be uncovered.
"A man getting out of the car to go to the toilet led to the discovery of one of the most important sites in Australian prehistory," said Giles Hamm, an archaeologist and PhD student at La Trobe University.
"The site, known as Warratyi, shows Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country around 49,000 years ago," says ABC. "Some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought."
Coulthard and Hamm were surveying gorges in the area when they made the discovery, so it helps to kind of know what you're looking for. Regardless, the excavations at the site have been successful, thus far. The crew has found 4,300 artifacts and 200 bone fragments dating back 46,000 to 49,000 years ago.
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TUESDAY, April 28, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- As the death toll from swine flu in Mexico rises and new cases appear in the United States and elsewhere, it's easy to get caught up in a sense of mounting dread.
But experts in influenza and infectious disease say the exact level of danger from the virus is still far from certain.
"This is something of concern [but] I think we should hold back on calling it a real threat," said David Topham, co-director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center. "We always have to take these things seriously, but we have a very good system in place to respond."
Another expert agreed.
"The gravity of the situation will not be clear for a few more days till we find the extent of the cases and the number of countries involved and explain why we haven't had any deaths in the U.S," said Dr. Scott R. Lillibridge, a professor with the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health in Houston and executive director of the university's National Center for Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response.
The real verdict on just how dangerous this outbreak might be will hinge at least partly on seeing how the disease spreads in the United States, along with expected announcements from the World Health Organization as to how many other countries are affected, the experts said.
So, as can happen in these situations, "the panic is a little bit undue," said Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "There are many facts that we don't know."
Looming large among the unknowns: Why is the virus causing more severe illness in Mexico than in the United States? Why have the only deaths reported been in Mexico? Why is mortality concentrated among young, healthy adults? Will the swine flu acquire more lethality as time goes on? And will the virus have a seasonality to it, like the "regular" flu?
Most of these questions have no solid answers -- at least not yet -- but there are some intriguing possibilities.
The death rate from the swine flu in Mexico (149 by late Monday) hovers at about 7 percent of the more than 1,900 so far thought to be infected -- a percentage that's alarmingly higher than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which is thought to have killed about 2.5 percent of infected persons.
But this early in the outbreak, no one really knows the true extent of the Mexican outbreak, the experts noted, so that 7 percent figure might well be too high.
"We don't know the total number of people exposed," Topham said. "It could be many more people exposed, so we're only hearing about the ones who got really sick and died," he explained.
It's also not clear if all the deaths attributable to swine flu were actually caused by the virus.
"The strain in the U.S. seems to be the same as in Mexico, but in Mexico we've not had confirmation of all those hospitalizations or deaths," Lillibridge said. "We're comparing apples and oranges."
And to put things into perspective, even with the death toll in Mexico, the swine flu does not appear to be as dangerous as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which appeared seemingly out of nowhere in 2003.
"SARS had high human-to-human transmission, there was a high death rate and no treatment," Horovitz noted. With the swine flu outbreak, "we're not talking about anything like that," he said.
In fact, all 40 U.S. cases so far have been mild or the patients have recovered, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
And, in absolute numbers, the death toll is still nowhere near the roughly 35,000 lives snatched each year by the regular "garden variety" seasonal flu, Horovitz pointed out.
But could this outbreak morph into something more alarming?
"We just don't know yet," said Dr. Mark Metersky, spokesman for the American College of Chest Physicians and a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. "It's early in the outbreak."
Metersky pointed to a 1976 outbreak of swine flu that erupted at Fort Dix, N.J., caused a scare, but then quickly petered out with one death.
Perhaps the most disturbing trend in the Mexican outbreak is the fact that it is primarily young adults who are dying. That's not typical, experts said.
"It is usually people who are weakest, at extremes of age, very young and very old who succumb to influenza and this is a little bit scary because this is a pattern we saw in the [flu] pandemic in 1918," Metersky said.
On the upside, there's a good chance that swine flu may not stick around for long in northern climes, at least not this year. "This will probably have seasonality similar to the one of the regular flu," Topham said. He pointed out, however, that the regular winter flu is never quite gone, because as it wanes from the Northern Hemisphere, it re-establishes in the Southern one.
U.S. health officials declared a public health emergency Sunday in response to the swine flu outbreak, and the number of confirmed cases nationwide had doubled by Monday to 40. The 20 new cases all came from the New York City high school that had previously reported eight cases of the infectious disease.
Some of the U.S. cases, all of which so far have been mild, involved people who had recently returned from trips to Mexico.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, believed to be the source of the outbreak, authorities continued to take dramatic steps over the weekend -- including suspending public gatherings -- to try to contain the swine flu outbreak.
U.S. health officials have reported that they have 50 million doses of the antiviral flu medication Tamiflu. A quarter of those doses were being released to states, if needed.
"The benefits of antivirals are twofold," Lillibridge explained. "In treatment, to shorten the illness and promote recovery at an earlier time and to prevent complications. Second, it can be used in prevention. If you have been exposed to someone who has swine flu, [the drugs are] 70 to 90 percent effective if taken early enough."
Steps have also been taken to perhaps devise a vaccine against this strain of swine flu.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza. Swine flu does not normally infect humans. However, human infections do occur, usually after exposure to pigs. Symptoms resemble those of the regular flu, including sore throat, coughing and fever. The strain of swine flu circulating in North America appears to be a combination of pig, bird, and human flu strains, experts say.
What You Can Do
For right now and for the next few days, the only people who need to worry about infection are those who have been in Mexico or those who have been around people who have visited that country, said Dr. Mark Metersky, a spokesman for the American College of Chest Physicians.
Experts say precautions against catching swine flu are similar to those recommended for the regular flu, including the following:
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In the first two games at the brand new stadium of the team for which we have directed a considerable amount of our psychic energy over the last 26 years, the home team has been outscored 29-8. When a baseball team is blown out, it is often to referred to as a "football score;" the final tally was so high that one would think a football team had notched it. Allow us to refute this notion. There were no 15-3 or 14-5 games in the NFL last season. Mercifully.
Anyway, much to the chagrin of Cardinals fans everywhere, we'll be back at this again tonight: One more game at the new Busch. At this point, we are simply cheering for competitiveness: The Cardinals have been down 6-0 in the third inning of two consecutive games now. That is a difficult hole for even the most rabid fan to pull themselves out of. The game was over — again — before we'd opened the second beer.
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After the shot, Russ Howard, Glenn's older brother who does colour on the TSN broadcasts, remarked that despite his record in this 2017 Tim Hortons Brier, Glenn Howard might be curling the best he has been this season.
Uh, did we mention Glenn was 3-8 following an 8-3 loss to New Brunswick in Thursday night's draw.
"I'm glad he said that," he said of his big brother, a curling and Canadian Sports Hall of Famer, "because we've really played well this week.
"The record doesn't support that, but every game that we've lost, the tight ones, the other team is like 95 per cent."
That was evident Tuesday morning, in a 7-6 extra-end loss to Quebec. In that game, Howard curled a nifty 92 per cent. Problem was Jean-Michel Menard was a lights-out 97 per cent.
"You're like, 'Holy cow!'" he said. "What do you do about that."
Entering Thursday's night draw, Howard was fourth amongst skips, curling at 84 per cent. His long-time third, Richard Hart, was third amongst vice-skips at 86 per cent.
Howard is 54, and Hart is 48.
Their younger front end is comprised of lead Scott Howard, Glenn's son, and second David Mathers.
"I'm still just as spry and ready to go as if I was 24," Glenn cautioned.
Howard is a first-ballot Hall of Famer when he finally does decide to put away the broom.
This is his record 17th appearance at the Brier, and he's won four of them – in 1987 and 1993 as third for Russ, and two as skip and in 2007 and 2012.
He also won world titles in each of those years.
In addition to the victories, Howard has finished second seven times and third on three occasions.
Not saying the curlers weren't great in Howard's heyday, but this particular Brier field has 14 previous Brier winners, and nine Olympic gold medalists.
"The competition these days is amazing," he said.
"But we're right there. Take the Newfoundland game. With the exception of one end that got away from us (three in three), we were right there with them.
"And that's what you do. You go out and do your best every night, which is what we've been doing.
"I'm really proud of the guys. Really proud. We've played really well in this Brier, and we don't deserve the record, but that's the way it is."
Howard will finish with a sub-.500 record in St. John's, just as he did at the 2016 Brier in Ottawa (4-7).
But don't look for him to slide away from the game just yet.
"Are you kidding me?" he said. "Not at all. I'm loving every minute of this. I just love being out there on the ice.
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A rose by any other name …
Apparently marketing does make a difference, at least in the mutual fund world, notes Matthew Heimer on MarketWatch's Encore blog.
"With interest rates having cratered as a result of the Federal Reserve's post-recession stimulus policies, retirees and other investors have been scrambling to find investments that will produce the income they aren't getting from Treasuries and other low-risk bonds," Heimer writes.
As proof, he points to a tweet on Wednesday from Morningstar's Fund Spy Russ Kinnel, the firm's director of mutual fund research:
"For past 12 mo, the amount of $ flowing into funds with "Income" in their name is 3X larger than funds without "Income" in their names," Kinnel posted.
"After my own quick and unscientific look at Morningstar's database, two thoughts come to mind," Heimer adds. "First: Funds with "income" in their names seem particularly likely to be actively managed (and thus more expensive than, say, index funds or ETFs)."
And second?
"A lot of income funds invest in the sorts of assets that have been getting clobbered as rates have started to rise–think utility and telecom stocks, real estate investment trusts and (of course) bonds."
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|HEK293-CNG-Gs-HuPDE2A cell line is a hypotriploid human cell line, which has been transfected with a Human phosphodiesterase 2A, cGMP-stimulated (PDE2A) to allow stably express of the human PDE2A. It is an example of a cell line transfected using our proprietary CBTGS gene screening and amplification system.
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=== Tray Applet ===
=== Tray Applet ===
The applet '''firewall-applet''' visualizes the firewall state and also problems with the firewall for the user. It can also be used to configure settings the user is allowed to change.
=== Graphical Configuration Tool ===
=== Graphical Configuration Tool ===
Revision as of 19:27, 5 May 2012
- 1 Dynamic firewall with FirewallD
- 1.1 Why A Firewall Daemon
- 1.2 The Daemon
- 1.3 Static Firewall (system-config-firewall)
- 1.4 Planned and Proposed Features
- 1.4.1 D-BUS Interface
- 1.4.2 Firewall Abstraction Model
- 1.4.3 System and Session (User) Configuration
- 1.4.4 Permanent and Temporary Configuration
- 1.4.5 Tray Applet
- 1.4.6 Graphical Configuration Tool
- 1.4.7 Command Line client
- 1.4.8 Support for ebtables
- 1.4.9 Support for conntrack
- 1.4.10 User interaction mode
- 1.4.11 Network zones: Network security model
- 1.4.12 User policy support
- 1.4.13 Port metadata information (proposed by Lennart Poettering)
- 1.5 Firewall Rules
- 1.6 Useful Extensions
- 1.7 Development Phases
Dynamic firewall with FirewallD
FirewallD is a service daemon with a D-BUS interface that provides a dynamic managed firewall.
Why A Firewall Daemon
The current firewall model is static and every change requires a complete firewall restart. This includes also to unload the firewall netfilter kernel modules and to load the modules that are needed for the new configuration. The unload of the modules is breaking stateful firewalling and established connections.
The firewall daemon on the other hand manages the firewall dynamically and applies changes without restarting the whole firewall. Therefore there is no need to reload all firewall kernel modules. But using a firewall daemon requires that all firewall modifications are done with that daemon to make sure that the state in the daemon and the firewall in kernel are in sync. The firewall daemon can not parse firewall rules added by the ip*tables and ebtables command line tools.
The daemon provides information about the current active firewall settings via D-BUS and also accepts changes via D-BUS using PolicyKit authentication methods. SELinux access restrictions are also planned.
The Daemon
Applications, daemons and the user can request to enable a firewall feature over D-BUS. A feature could either be one of the predefined firewall features like services, port and protocol combinations, trusted interfaces/hosts/network areas, port/packet forwarding, masquerading, icmp blocking or even a custom rule. The feature can be enabled for a certain amount of time or can be disabled by again.
New chains for virtualization, network settings, services, ports, masquerading, port forwarding, icmp filtering and virtualization are added to make the firewall setup more flexible, safe and robust. Adding a rule with the firewall daemon to one of these chains will most likely not interefere with rules of other chains. The order of the chains and how they are used is fixed.
The netfilter firewall helpers, that are for example used for amanda, ftp, samba and tftp services, are also handled by the daemon as long as they are part of a predefined service. Loading of additional helpers is not part of the current interface. For some of the helpers onloading is only possible after all connections that are handled by the module are closed. Therefore connection tracking information is important here and needs to get into account.
Static Firewall (system-config-firewall)
The actual static firewall model with system-config-firewall will still be available and usable, but not at the same time as the daemon is running. The user or admin can decide which firewall solution should be used.
At install time, firstboot or first network usage, there will be a selector for the firewall solution to use. If the firewall daemon will be used, it will disable the ip*tables services and also add the disabled option for system-config-firewall. The configuration will stay intact and s-c-fw can be enabled simply with "lokkit --enabled" again.
The firewall daemon is independent to system-config-firewall, but should not be used at the same time.
Planned and Proposed Features
D-BUS Interface
The D-BUS interface gives information about the firewall state and makes it possible to enable, disable and query firewall settings.
Firewall Abstraction Model
Adding an abstraction layer on top of ip*tables and ebtables firewall rules makes adding rules simple and more intuitive. The abstraction layer needs to be powerful, but also simple, which makes this not an easy task. A firewall language has to gen invented for this. Firewall rules have a fixed position and querying generic information about access state, access policies for ports and other firewall features is possible.
System and Session (User) Configuration
The firewall system configuration is the base configuration for the whole system and can be altered with the session (user) configuration. The session configuration can be limited by policies and the system administrator.
Permanent and Temporary Configuration
Permanent firewall settings are settings, that still exist after a reboot and service restart. Temporary settings will be lost after reboot and service restart. A firewall service reload will restore all settings, permanent and temporary.
Tray Applet
The tray applet firewall-applet visualizes the firewall state and also problems with the firewall for the user. It can also be used to configure settings the user is allowed to change.
Graphical Configuration Tool
The configuration tool firewall-config is the main configuration tool for the firewall daemon. It supports all features of the firewall, but firewall settings of libvirt and also NetworkManager are readonly.
It also makes it possible for the administrator to change system and user policies.
Command Line client
firewall-cmd provides (most of) the configuration features of the graphical tool for the command line.
Support for ebtables
ebtables support is needed to fullfill all needs of the libvirt daemon and to prevent access problems between ip*tables and ebtables on kernel netfilter level. All these commands are accessing the same structures and therefore they should not be used at the same time.
Support for conntrack
Conntrack is needed to be able to terminate established connections for features that get disabled. For some use cases it might not be good to terminate the connection: Enabling of a firewall service for a limited time to establish a persistent external connection.
User interaction mode
This is a special mode of in the firewall the user or admin can enable. All requests of applications to alter the firewall are directed to the user to get notified and granted or denied. It is possible to set a time limit for the acceptance of a connection and to limit it to hosts, networks or connections. It can be saved to behave the same in the future without notification.
An additional feature of this mode is direct external connection attempts on preselected services or ports to the user with the same features as the application initiated requests. The limitation on services and ports will also limit the amount of requests sent to the user.
Network zones: Network security model
Network zones define the level of trust for network connections. A public WIFI network connection for example should be untrusted, a wired home network connection should be fairly trusted.
The network security model can be selected initially at installation time, firstboot or when the first network connection gets established. The model describes the trust level of the whole network environment, the host is connected to, and also defines what to do with new connections.
There are different initial zones:
- Home / Work - Public - Connection specific
The home or work zone has the highest trust level. All incoming connections are allowed. The public zone on the other hand is fully untrusted. No incoming connection is allowed. The connection specific model requires that the user tunes the trust level of a connection according to the needs. The default is untrusted.
The user or administrator is able to define new zones or adapt initial zones to change the behaviour according to the needs.
The network security model makes it possible to have one trust level for all connections or to have several connections with different trust levels.
User policy support
The administrator can define which users are able to use the User Interaction Mode and can also limit the firewall features, that can be used with it.
Port metadata information (proposed by Lennart Poettering)
To have a port independent metadata information would be good to have. The current model with a static assignment of ports and protocols from /etc/services is not a good solution and is not reflecting current use cases. Ports in applications or services are dynamic and therefore the port itself does not describe the use case.
This metadata information could be used to form simple rules for the firewall. Here are some examples:
allow external access to file sharing applications or services allow external access to music sharing applications or services allow external access to all sharing applications or services allow external access to torrent file sharing applications or services allow external access to http web services
The metadata information here could not only be application specific, but also a group of use cases. For example the "all sharing" group or the "file sharing" group could match all sharing or file sharing applications, for example torrent file sharing. These are examples, therefore it might be that they are not useful.
There are two possible solutions to get metadata information in the firewall:
The first is to add it to netfilter (kernel space). This has the advantage, that it can be used by everyone, but also limits the use. To get user or system specific information into account, all these need to be implemented in kernel space also.
The other one would be to add this to a firewall daemon. These abtract rules could be used together with informations like the trust level of the network connections, the user decision to share with as specific person/host or the hard rule of the administrator to forbid sharing completely.
The second solution would have the advantage that new metadata groups or changes in incorporation of trust levels, user preferences or administrator rules would not require to push a new kernel. Adding these kind of abtract rules to a firewall daemon would make it much more flexible. Even new security levels woule be easy to add without kernel updates.
Firewall Rules
Netfilter firewalls are always susceptible to rule ordering issues, because a rule does not have a fixed position in a chain. The position can change if other rules are added or removed in a position before that rule.
In the static firewall model a firewall change is recreating a clean and sane firewall setup limited to the features directly supported by system-config-firewall / lokkit. Firewall rules created by other applications are not integrated and s-c-fw / lokkit does not know about them if the customs rules file feature is not in use. Default chains are used and there is no safe way to add and remove rules without interfering with others.
The dynamic model has additional chains for the firewall features. These specific chains are called in a defined ordering and rules added to a chain could not interfere with reject or drop rules in chains that were called before. This makes it possible to have a more sane firewall configuration.
Here are example rules created by the daemon in the filter table with ssh and ipp-client enabled inthe public zone:
*filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD_ZONES - [0:0] :FORWARD_direct - [0:0] :INPUT_ZONES - [0:0] :INPUT_direct - [0:0] :IN_ZONE_public - [0:0] :IN_ZONE_public_allow - [0:0] :IN_ZONE_public_deny - [0:0] :OUTPUT_direct - [0:0] -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j INPUT_direct -A INPUT -j INPUT_ZONES -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i lo -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -j FORWARD_direct -A FORWARD -j FORWARD_ZONES -A FORWARD -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A OUTPUT -j OUTPUT_direct -A IN_ZONE_public -j IN_ZONE_public_deny -A IN_ZONE_public -j IN_ZONE_public_allow -A IN_ZONE_public -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A IN_ZONE_public_allow -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A IN_ZONE_public_allow -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
Used is a deny/allow model to have a clear behaviour and at best no rule interferences. Icmp blocks for example will go to the IN_ZONE_public_deny chain if set for the public zone and will be handled before the rules in the IN_ZONE_public_allow chain.
This model makes it more easy to add or remove rules from a specifig block without interfering with accept or drop rules from another block.
Useful Extensions
At the moment there are sysctl settings that are not properly applied. This happens if the module providing the setting is not loaded at boot time when rc.sysinit runs or it the module gets reloaded at runtime. Another example is net.ipv4.ip_forward, which is needed for example for specific firewall settings, libvirt and also user/admin changes. If there are two apps or daemons enabling ip_forwarding only if needed, then it could happen that one of them is turning it off again without knowing that there is anotherone, that still needs it tuned on.
The sysctl daemon could solve this by having an internal use count for settings, that will make it possible to turn it off or go to the previous setting again if the requester reverted the request to change it.
Development Phases
These phases are planned and might change over time according to requests and needs.
Phase 1: Fedora 15
Fedora 15 will contain the proof of concept implementation with some enhancements as a preview and test version. It will not be installed and enabled by default.
The list below contains the actual state in the GIT repo (2010-12-22):
- Nearly all system-config-firewall features are supported. Custom rule files are not supported, but simple custom rules with the custom interface
- iptables, ip6tables and ebtables are supported
- Simple tray applet showing the firewall state, can also enable and disable firewall services
- Command line client
- Tray applet and command line client can not handle libvirt and NetworkManager rules
- No permanent firewall features (rules will be lost with service restart and reboot, but service reload keeps rules)
- System, but no session (user) configuration
- The firewall-config utility is not functional
- sysctl changes for ip_forwarding are not implemented
- Access conflicts of ip*tables and ebtables rules are not solved
- firewalld check in system-config-firewall version 1.2.28
Phase 2: Fedora 17 (planned)
- D-BUS interface cleanup and extensions
- Finalize firewall-applet and firewall-config
- Permanent and temporary firewall rules
- Zone support
Phase 3: Fedora 18 (planned)
- User Interaction Mode
- User Policy Support
- Enhanced interface for services like libvirt and also applications
- Maybe: Reimplementation of the server in C with system and session configuration
Phase 4: Fedora 19 (planned)
- Port Metadata Information (requires bigger system changes)


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Plan sponsors are re-evaluating their investment lineups over the next 12 months, according to the DC Investment Manager Brandscape report by Cogent Research.
Cogent presented findings from the report Tuesday in a webinar. The survey was conducted online in March and April among 600 401(k) plan sponsors.
Among the "intriguing" findings, according to Linda York, vice president of the syndicated division at Cogent and lead author of the report, is the change expected for next year. "We found that plan sponsors anticipate considerable activity in terms of DC investment changes in the coming year," she said. More than half said they were making changes in the next 12 months, "a substantial increase compared to just one year ago."
Furthermore, 10% of plan sponsors said re-evaluating their investment menu was their top priority for the next 12 months, and more than a third said it was in their top three priorities. "Notably, 45% also cited concerns over reducing plan costs as a key priority," York said.
"With all this attention being paid to plan investments and increased activity anticipated in terms of changes, it's really critical for asset managers to match the right product and investment objective to each segment's needs," York said.
From a product perspective, "mutual funds are clearly the product of choice among DC plan sponsors, and most of the anticipated activity will occur in this product category." Thirteen percent of sponsors said they would add traditional mutual funds to their lineup over the next 12 months, and 9% said they would add indexed mutual funds. "Passive funds actually rival active funds in terms of their future growth potential," York noted.
Nearly 40% of plan sponsors said helping their plan participants reach their retirement goals was a priority, the report found. "It follows that products design to provide retirement income are on the radar screen for many," York said. Over a quarter of respondents already offer such products, and 35% are interested in exploring options.
According to the 2012 study, 36% of plan sponsors automatically enroll participants into a default investment, most commonly a target-date fund, York said. "Given the popularity of these options, a competitive target-date fund offering is essential for asset managers who want to garner more DC assets."
Most sponsors use the proprietary TDF from their provider, but the report found about a quarter are using a custom option. Twenty-nine percent of small firms use a custom TDF and 24% of mega-firms use one.
Regarding asset classes, respondents showed the most interest in emerging markets, with 13% saying they would add or increase those offerings in the next 12 months. Ten percent were looking at increasing cash and cash-equivalent options, and 9% said they were increasing their offerings in active and passive U.S. public equities. "We see the most interest in these passive options among the mega plan sponsors," York said.
"As competitive pricing information becomes more readily available, plan sponsors appear to be feeling pressure to focus more on plan fees," York said. Nearly a third said they're using fee disclosures for benchmarking purposes and a quarter will use them to negotiate lower fees. "The larger the plan, the higher the likelihood of future negotiation either lower fees or lower cost share classes," York said.
When asked why they would drop a DC manager, the most commonly cited reason was underperformance compared to benchmarks. Sixteen percent cited lack of communication or responsiveness as a reason to drop their DC manager. More than a quarter said they would reduce the number of managers in order to reduce fees and expenses. "Clearly, fee sensitivity has been heightened and will likely play an important part in shaping plan investment design for some time to come," York noted.
Check out 401(k) Expenses Dropped in 2012: ICI on AdvisorOne.


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Win £500 of new season hush fashion!
If your autumn wardrobe is looking a bit meh, listen up! There's a whole collection of super-chic hush clothing up for grabs in our stonking new £500 giveaway. Er, wanna win?
Rare is the day when someone at Muddy HQ isn't wearing something from hush. To say we're fans of the online British fashion label known for its stylish, laid-back daywear is an understatement. Basically our office is awash with star-print jumpers and trainers and while we've not had an instance of full-outfit twinning yet, it's only a matter of time. (We'll post an Insta snap when it happens).
So we are absolutely THRILLED to have a super-duper new giveaway for you, in partnership with hush – one lucky Muddy newsletter reader will win a whopping £500 voucher to spend on a new season wardrobe. Yup, really. Just imagine, the phrase "I've got nothing to wear" will never once cross your lips this entire autumn/winter season.
Your only problem will be narrowing down your wish-list – there are a LOT of gorgeous pieces in the AW18 collection. And while the label is best known for its loungewear – chic joggers, slouchy T-shirts, soft cashmere jumpers and so on – the new season goodies have all bases covered, whether you're lolling on the sofa, whizzing through the school run, in the office, on a date or tearing up the dancefloor after too many Aperol spritzes. With an expanded design team, including new design director Sheila McKain-Waid (formerly at Jaeger) working alongside founder/creative director Mandy Watkins, it feels like the label has a turbo-charged verve, confidence and scope. Wanna have a peek at our Muddy top picks for AW18? 'Course you do…
The elegant print midi and maxi dresses caught our eye – and there's a pattern for every taste this season. You can toughen 'em up a bit with a leather biker jacket and trainers or boots. How about this cobalt blue beauty (£99)?
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Not forgetting, of course, the hush old faithfuls, including new riffs on the best-selling "LOVE" jumpers (£85) and grown-up sportswear that's so chic you can wear it to work.
So you see why you need to enter this giveaway RIGHT NOW?! Good luck!
The closing date is midnight on Wednesday 19 September 2018 and the winner will be announced on Monday 24 September 2018. Click here for the full terms and conditions.
38 comments on "Win £500 of new season hush fashion!"
Have admired Hush from afar for quite some time… these pics have inspired me to indulge myself. Looking forward to Autumn already ; )
Awesome. Love Hush's relaxed style. Big fan of dresses and skirts with ankle boots, slouchy, cosy weekend wear and cool tees. Claire x
Excited and hoping to be very lucky!!!!
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Really imaginative cutting-edge designs yet suitable for all ages. Quirky yet quality!
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I'd love to win this and treat my daughters to some of these gorgeous clothes. Maybe me too!
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Love the new seasonal animal prints in the collection. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Goodbye LBD, hello Zebra print and kitten heals.
Loving the vibrant colours.
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love the green goddess frock, and other lovely prints
So many great items to choose from
My Hush PJs bought last year are my favourite thing ever – and I'm so glad the nights are now chilly and I can wear them again!
Hush has gorgeous high-quality clothes but they're slightly out of my price-range as a teacher trying to save for my first home! Would so appreciate new pieces to refresh my wardrobe
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I love it all would love to win and share with friends 😍
What a fab prize, fingers crossed!
Don't all rush to win some Hush…..so there's more chance for me! 😜
Loving all the Autumnal clothes. My favourite season. Boots,knits, coats. Would love to win this and get my wardrobe full of these gorgeous clothes 🤞
Love the designs and materials – just so cool & comfortable Xx
Gorgeous well made and designed clothing for all occasions, from lounging to partying. Loving ths autumn's collection. Would be over the moon to win, fingers crossed.
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Love Hush and had some great things from them in the sale. Looking forward to adding some autumn/winter items to my wardrobe
please pick me – dream prize!! 🙂
Not ordered yet but lots of appealing jumpers!
Im in desperat need of a new wardrobe and love these clothes
Sitting in my Hush cozy dark blue star pyjamas as I type 😊
Very stylish for a smart classic look that does not date and wardrobe pieces that will be wearable for years to come in modern colours and quality fabrics.
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Professor Michael Webb Named Contributing Author for THE CAR IN 2035
POSTED ON: March 6, 2013
"The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future focuses on the car, the street, and public policy in Southern California. In this collection of essays and images, the car is viewed as both a challenge and benefit to our neighborhoods, cities, and suburbs.
Despite rising fuel prices, the automobile will be Southern California's primary form of transportation in 2035 because the region's population will continue to be dispersed widely, and the car offers the best access to the area's tremendous diversity of economic, social, recreational, and cultural opportunities. But the infrastructure will need to accommodate a heterogeneous mix of modes of transportation, including more cars on the road than today." - Actar D Publishing


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Remember 2008? To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of times for managed futures funds and the worst of times for almost every other strategy. Managed futures posted a 15.4% gain that year versus the S&P 500's stomach-wrenching 38% decline. But a closer look reveals a more complicated story, one that is just as relevant in 2013 as it was in 2008. This so-called performance dispersion was so great that more than 20% of commodity trading advisors dissolved their businesses that year. In other words, while managed futures was a winning strategy in 2008, plenty of managed futures funds lost money and disappeared altogether.
Performance dispersion measures the range of performance results of funds or managers within a sector and can vary enormously among asset classes. Traditional, long-only mutual funds that are in the same investment style category tend to display relatively little performance dispersion. Their results may be tightly clustered because they primarily "hug the index."
By contrast, hedge funds, managed futures and other alternative investments typically exhibit much greater performance dispersion, not only among the various strategies but within those strategies. Among the different hedge fund strategies in 2012, those specializing in mortgage-backed securities were up an average 16%, while short-selling funds were down 17%. Alternative investment fund managers consciously try not to replicate indexes and generally rely on manager skill, or "alpha," to produce superior returns.
Take a look at Figure 1. It compares the range of the top and bottom quartiles for the average rates of return of large-cap value mutual funds (as tracked by Morningstar) with managed futures funds (as tracked by the Altegris 40 Index) through November 2012. The distance between the returns of the best- and worst-performing large-cap value mutual funds is relatively small compared with the distance between the returns of the top- and bottom-performing managed futures funds. It is important to note that mutual funds may be subject to different investment restrictions and regulations that impact their performance.
How do you avoid investing with the bottom quartile? I've talked about the art and science of selecting managers in an earlier column. It involves a lot of factors, performance being just one of them and by no means the most important. We delve into how managers achieved their returns and how much risk they took to get there. We want to know how long they've been in business and if a manager's interests are aligned with those of the clients. We want funds with large assets that have lived through various market cycles.
In our experience with alternatives and managed futures funds, the size of the fund or its years of existence do not guarantee success. We have seen big performance dispersion even among the largest managed futures fund managers. To reduce the risk of picking a poorly-performing outlier, we think it's more prudent to use a multi-manager approach over a single-manager approach.
Large performance dispersion does not mean investors should avoid managed futures or alternative investment funds. Because they have a low correlation with traditional stocks and bonds, these funds can play an important role in a diversified portfolio while offering the potential for positive returns. However, even those pursuing the same strategy can achieve widely divergent results. Performance disparity elevates the importance of selecting best-of-breed managers, especially in managed futures funds.


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Momentum Builds for New Program in Health Care Facilities
Shaping the future of health care through building design is the aim of the new Graduate Certificate in Health Care Facilities. The two-sided program, launched just under a year ago, benefits those with a health care background, but no grounding in facilities, as well as those with design and facilities knowledge, but little experience in health care.
Appropriate for professionals and master's students in architecture, interior design, health care and public health, the fully online graduate certificate is a unique way to gain expertise in a specialty area with high market demand.
The certificate program was jointly developed by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED), the College of Public Health and the College of Nursing. Enrollment began last fall, and program coursework is drawn from all three colleges. With 20 required credit hours, the program can be completed in one year with full-time enrollment, and the flexible curriculum facilitates part-time enrollment as well.
"Professionals across architecture, nursing and public health are concerned about environments, both in care facilities and communities, that make an impact in care delivery and save money and lives in the long run," says Jonathan VanGeest, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management, who supported the new program's development. "The certificate is extremely relevant to all three disciplines and allied fields," he adds.
"The intent is to foster learning from multiple viewpoints, including patient care, environmental health and physical, psychological and even cultural perspectives," observes Douglas Steidl, dean, CAED. "However, the program also focuses on the facility aspects of health delivery and how this specifically influences both quality of care and efficiency of providing that care," he adds.
The architecture classes explore emerging trends and the latest technology regarding the functional, regulatory, aesthetic and financial aspects of health care facility design. The nursing and public health courses concentrate on health care terminology, concepts, culture, relationships and underlying principles.
"Most certainly, the certificate taken as a whole provides invaluable expertise, but all master's students should consider these courses – the cross-disciplinary content will absolutely help them better understand how to maximize efficiency of treatment and quality of patient care," says Steidl.
"Disease control is not limited to hospitals and their locations," Steidl observes. "Students in these courses learn how the physical environment generates disease and also how facilities can combat disease. For example, staircases used to be a focal point in grand old buildings. They handled the flow and were attractive, but elevators and purely utilitarian stair towers for fire escape became the standard. Having stairs is now a health consideration in the physical environment, because taking stairs has cardiovascular benefits," Steidl says.
"Architecture practices in Northeast Ohio are clamoring for us to provide education in health care facilities," says Steidl. "Just look at our region. We have exceptionally strong local health care providers, and with Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, we have global institutions," he remarks. "Many local firms attribute some 50 percent of revenues to health care design and want their professionals to have a greater knowledge in this field," he explains.
VanGeest agrees. "Both the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have identified the intersection of public health and architecture/urban planning as increasingly important, an opportunity for innovation and a growing sector of the economy," he advises.
In addition to the graduate certificate program, CAED is planning to offer a Master of Health Care Design degree for those holding an undergraduate degree in architecture or interior/environmental design. This degree, pending approval by the Ohio Board of Regents, will begin with the online courses required for the graduate certificate and culminate in a studio capstone project. "The intent is to look at ways to improve health care and to more efficiently deliver those services through facility design. It will be the only degree of its kind in Ohio," says Steidl.