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Culture is a conglomeration of various factors and social frequencies that reflects a corporate community of individuals. Language reflects something generally considered exclusive to the human race – having produced elaborate political and civil structures, and economic interactions. Language has been called to basic fundamental unit of a culture. From it, individual cultures’ characteristics can be ascertained – as can be seen with the Hieroglyphics extracted from the Rosetta stone. Language represents more then just the literal words however – it also may contain contextual detail intended for the recipient.
Take Koine Greek, for example. While language obviously includes more then just the written form, the ancient Greeks exhibited then unprecedented detail to supplement their written knowledge with what has been identified as “parson code”. This language is an exquisite example of culture on display in written form. Without considering lingual phonology (we can’t hear the ancients actually talk today), we can articulate the grammar, morphology, and vocabulary they used. While much can be said of the gender, case, and syntax; the vocabulary alone provided greater depth of meaning then in our modern era. The Greeks had two common words for our one designation for “word”: “Logos” and “Rhema”. Another would be “love”, of which at least four are commonly known. Vocabulary carried often carried with it an emotional dimension not often found in our communication today.
It is often assumed that logical deductions, numerical analysis, and mental computation of information against mentally stored facts is the sole indicator of intelligence. This is simply not true. Harvard Gardner, in a 1991 paper, produced insight into seven different intelligences that people may possess. These include: Visual-spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, and Logical-mathematical (nine are now known). Being beings harnessing remarkably complex bodies, we have the capacity to develop a wondrous range of skills, abilities, and proficiencies. Language is, in fact, one of the skills that may be developed, but people obviously may develop other areas. The fact remains: language is the key to learning and developing. Language permits sharing and expression.
The late Mayan culture made headlines years back for their calendar system, which was far different from our presently-used Gregorian calendar, following the Earth’s orbit of our sun. The calendar made measurements of days, apparently accumulating to a climax, rather then allowing for future years not directly indicated in the system.
One thing that has always fascinated me about cultures is the stories they tell. They reach back to the dawn of civilization. Not only are Deity pantheons worthy of noticing, but the preserved literature that surrounds them. I remember first hearing of “The Epic of Gilgamesh” in a Western Civilization class, and being ripe with curiosity at the passion of cultures to preserve their legends and civil developments. Obviously, The Judeo-Christian Bible (probably the most qualitative and quantitative, manuscript-wise) is another example, uniquely interesting, since the ancient language of Hebrew has been resurrected among Jews. The stories preserved in these texts are the stories from the perspectives of people from within the culture. Homer’s attempts and illustrating Greek history shrouded in more conspiracy and poetic art then anything else. Yet even Homer brought a highlight of ancient Greek culture to later define the later cultures that absorbed it. The Roman pantheon did little to change the Greek pantheon outside of the deities’ names.
Language has influential power. It isn’t just written or spoken – it is a means of expression. Body language is a surprising underecognised means of communication utilized in our present culture. The technological advance of social media apps have produced a society that has the highest levels of government intently watching the digitalized quips and trivials feuds of coach potatoes. It must also be acknowledged that historically, religion and mythology held a huge sway over the culture. While technology may have quelled the abject fear of distant deities, technology has also begun to move towards taking the place of mythological and philosophical ideas. Artificial Intelligence is an entity written in code. In the end, language is a medium of communication and expression. A data holder, not a soul bearer.

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21 Jan How do list contents of directories in a structure like format under Linux operating systems? You need to use command called tree. It will list. Linux. To run TreeView X you will need to download and install wxWidgets. For Linux I recommend wxGTK. Please use the stable release, not the development. Note that the code for TreeView X is now available from Google Code. to display phylogenetic trees on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms.
Baobab - GTK, using pie-charts, a treeview and a treemap. Comes with GNOME. GdMap - GTK, with a treemap display. Filelight - KDE, using. 7 Apr Tree command is available in the default repositories of most Linux will give you a nice graphical tree view of the directory structure. You can. is this what your looking for tree, should be in most distributions (maybe as an optional install)? ~> tree -d /proc/self/ /proc/self/ |-- attr |-- cwd.
29 Dec Linux and Unix tree command information, examples, and help. TreeView is a program that allows interactive graphical analysis of the results from Cluster. TreeView reads in matching *.cdt and *.gtr, *.atr, *.kgg, or *.kag files. Tree is the command that will show you the tree view. sudo apt-get install tree. then just type tree from the terminal. And tree -d will list only the. 3 Mar For example, here's a tree view of /etc/X11 dir. linux tree x11 dir screenshot screenshot of Linux 「tree」 command. Tree view is. Installing Treeview. Requisites. Treeview is written in java using J2SE It makes It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, Compaq Tru64 Unix and MS Windows.
When it comes to file explorer, I think Tree View is efficient way to navigate inside folders, especially if one has several sub-directory levels. Older versions of. 28 Jan start atom. open a file so the gets some content in the treeview; right click in the tree view lee-dohm added the linux label on Jan 28, 30 Dec This script displays tree view of the directory on linux terminal.; Author: Sandeep_Vaniya; Updated: 23 Apr ; Section: Shell and IE. 18 May Hello everyone:), So right now I have the tree view enabled but its really a Beaver with Cinnamon DE and Linux Mint 18 Sarah Cinnamon.

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Meet Angel! Isn’t she just gorgeous? This little girl will definitely brighten up your days. She will be the talk of the town. Wouldn’t you just love to make this sweet pup yours today? Angel is more than ready to shower you with all of the love she has to offer. Make Angel a part of your family and you will not be able to imagine your life without her.
Angel is a must have baby girl just look at her rich deep chocolate color, chocolate nose and cutest docked tail. She is of of three females in this litter of four. She has the cutest docked tail. Her soft hair will entice you to run your fingers through it. She is toy size Havapoo so estimated adult weight is 6.8 lbs unlike regular Havanese that weigh 18-22 lbs he is ready to steal your heart!
Paying Paypal as family and friends to pay my account is my email: stacy@tlcpuppylove.com memo put Havapoo Male puppy Angel.

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Hello and welcome to the Battlefield Clan "WaffenBrueder Kassel [WBKS]"
Please read the server rules before you play with us! Unfortunately, you can not hear all the gameplay when you play yourself. If there should ever be a rule violation on our servers, InGame speak to one of our members or admins to clarify the situation.
You feel "unfairly" treated or would like to report an "incident", then please contact us. Just write us an email, join our TS³ or post in our forum.
You want to become [WBKS] member and have been at least 18 years old or want to fight against us with your clan in a funwar? No problem, please fill in our Join Us or our Fight Us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.
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JLe72: @ROSENBLUT: Guten Morgen, welchen Server?
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Nikita97: Warum komme ich als VIP nicht auf den Server BF3 norules metro?
kisselandras: why is admin banned?
Jhoval_24: good I am Jhoval_24 a new member would like to know where I can report to a player?
It bothered me all the time and he complained about spawncamp noob and other nonsense.
It seems that he does not understand how to play really with the mobile gunner or at least that I know in battlefield 4 the mobile gunners attack from afar.
I hope that you at least report it for annoying behavior or that you will be out for a few days to see if you learn to respect other players.
Elfe1090: please wrote in our forum if you want to report someone... or use the teamspeak or our discors..
Hallo Zockerfreunde, jeder Spieler, der vom 15. April bis zum 30. April für einen VIP-Slot spendet, bekommt einen 30 Tage Multi-VIP-Slot für alle unsere BF3 oder BF4 GameServer GRATIS! Weitere Oster-Event's werden hier in kürze bekannt gegeben... Wir wünschen Euch allen "Frohe Ostern" und viel Spaß auf unseren GameServern. Hello soldiers HUAH! Each donation between April the 15. and 30. will get a 30 Day's Multi-VIP-Slot on all our BF3 or BF4 GameServer's for FREE! We will post more Easter-Event's here soon... We wishes you all a "Happy Easter" and have fun on our GameServer's.
SCUM - [WBKS] startet ein neues Projekt mit eigenem Gameserver!
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Unsere GameServer sind fast immer 24/7 voll und die Warteschlangen sind teilweise ziemlich lang. Wenn Du nicht "ewig" auf den Serverbeitritt warten möchtest, hast Du hier die Möglichkeit,uns eine Spende in Höhe von monatlich 1,50€ zukommen zu lassen. Als Dank dafür erhältst Du von uns einen VIP- bzw. Privat-Slot auf einem [WBKS] Gaming-Server Deiner Wahl. Wir freuen uns natürlich auch über allgemeine Spenden, als Unterstützung für unsere GameServer!

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The flush mounted KC-06 joystick allows an undisturbed dashboard design.
The fine mechanical design warrants a smooth operation and due to the low pivoting point the operator’s hand can rest on the dashboard, thus enhancing ergonomics. The special engineered design provides solid feel for enhanced joy-stick operations under all conditions.
KC-06 joysticks come as X, XY, or XYZ types, all available with a IP22 or IP56, the latter having a protective harmonica type of sleeve. Standard signal transmitter for each direction is a single 5KOhm potentiometer.

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Following numerous complaints on web forums and to their own support, Seagate have admitted a problem with their 7200.11 1.5 TB drives and released a firmware fix to address the problem. Over the past several weeks, users have been reporting their hard drives freezing while in use, sometimes for tens of seconds at a time.
Users of Mac and Linux systems and those using the drives as part of a RAID array have been particularly affected, with some RAID controllers taking the freeze as an indication the drive has failed and removing it from the array. This occurring to two or more drives in a RAID-5 array or three or more drives in a RAID-6 array could cause failure of the entire array necessitating downtime and a rebuild of the array – which may take considerable time given the large size of the disks.
Early reports on the new firmware suggest it does solve the freezing problem, though at the cost of a 10-20% drop in performance. The firmware fix is available by contacting Seagate support.
If this problem has affected your systems or RAID arrays rendering them inaccessible or making your valuable data inaccessible, we can help. TRC Data Recovery are experts at recovering data from Mac and Linux systems and RAID arrays from all RAID controllers and operating systems.
Not all Seagate 7200.11 drives will have or need firmware updates but it is always wise to check. Just ensure that your data is properly backed up before attempting to upgrade your drive's firmware as there is the potential for data loss when dealing with any hard drive on such a low level.
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Actress Drew Barrymore loved visiting late actress Carrie Fisher and is "proud" that she survived her famous parties.
Barrymore says that she always enjoyed visiting Fisher, who died in December 2016 at her Los Angeles home, but admitted her bashes could be wild, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I loved going to her house. It was like a hacienda type of like beautiful home off of Coldwater Canyon, very Los Angeles. She just had a very open home. I'd been there for parties, her office in the daytime. It was classic, Spanish, California - sunshine, orange groves and creativity," Barrymore said on a show.
"Hell yes, oh yeah! They were legendary parties. I'm proud to say I came and went because I feel like a lot of people stayed. I remember Garry Shandling being weird in the driveway. And I was like, 'I'm so glad I'm going home! I'm so glad I'm surviving these kind of nights'," she added.

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In 2009, the Geneva Forum and the Governments of Germany, Norway and Switzerland launched a joint initiative aimed at assessing the current Confidence-Building Measures CBMs of the Biological Weapons Convention BWC and at identifying ways to strengthen them. Consisting of three workshops held between 2009 and 2010, this initiative aimed at contributing constructively to the thorough review of the CBMs that the 2011 Review Conference of the Convention has pledged to carry out.
The Geneva Forum cordially invites you to the launch of the workshops report, Preparing for a comprehensive review of the CBM mechanism at the Seventh BWC Review Conference, authored by Filippa Lentzos and R. Alexander Hamilton of the BIOS Centre (London School of Economics). The briefing will present some of the key conclusions of the workshop discussions, as well as offer an opportunity to exchange views on how best to contribute to the CBM debate that will take place in 2011.
Sincerely, Silvia Cattaneo, Coordinator, The Geneva Forum.

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FOSTER, R.I. -- Recruits at the 2013 Rhode Island State Police Training Academy in Foster learn defense tactics, including how to correctly utilize force, within the context of the law and when they are in a hands-on situation, during the fourth week of training.
The 22-week course, which began in mid-July, will culminate with a graduation ceremony on December 13. During their training, recruits are tested both mentally and physically to become Rhode Island state troopers.

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Cries of “no racism, no fear, refugees are welcome here” rang through Belmore Park and Parramatta Road on Sunday afternoon, as the annual Palm Sunday ‘Say Yes to Refugees’ Rally commenced. The crowd gathered to protest the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in offshore detention centres by the Australian Government.
The main rally began at Belmore Park and made its way to Victoria Park. The USyd Student Contingent gathered at Railway Square at 1 pm, accompanied by students from universities across Sydney.
Speakers at the main rally included Wiradjuri elder Bronwyn Penrith, refugee Shukufa Tahiri, and Reverend John Barr. Many prominent unions, such as the Teachers Union, were also present in the crowd.
The rally has historically been held on Palm Sunday, a day that traditionally marks the beginning of the Holy Week preceding Easter. This year, twenty other rallies have also been being held across Australia this Sunday.
Many speakers urged the crowd, to additionally consider the policies of political parties in the lead up to the upcoming federal election on May 18.

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Paul tell us in Thessalonians, “Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, and are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other” (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13).
We all know how important it is to support our pastors while they are serving our churches, but it is equally important to support our pastors and their families in their retirement as well. There are many ways to support our pastors such as showering them and their families in regular prayer, love and encouragement. And now, you can show your support for our retired (and current) pastors by purchasing an “I Love My Pastor” wristband. All proceeds for the wristbands will go to the Old Pastors Retirement Fund (formerly known as P.R.O.P.). Wear your support proudly and fashionably!
Wristbands are being sold through the online store at seventhdaybaptist.org for $4 each or 3 for $10.


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Consider some modern twists for this opulent blossom.
Orchids are often seen as a luxurious and classic bloom to use in weddings, but the flower can also fit in well with more modern-styled nuptials – not just traditional or glamorous. There are thousands upon thousands of species of the bloom, so there are plenty of colors and styles to choose from in order to make sure it fits your vision. When people think of orchids as a wedding flower, they usually picture lush cascading bouquets or opulent centerpieces with crystal detailing. If that’s the look you are going for, great! However, if that doesn’t sound like your style and there is a sentimental reason you want orchids included in your big day, there are other options.
See how brides use peonies in their wedding décor and discover ways to include purple accents in your bouquet.


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The Name of the Parasha is Terumah. Before discussing this Parasha, lets discuss another topic.
Sunday of the next week or Motzei Shabbat is Zion Adar - the birthday and the Hilulah of Moshe Rabeainu. Please schedule some extra time on Motzei Shabbat to connect to the energy essence of Moshe Rabeinu.
How do i do that you ask?
Please review my general discussion about Hilulot or death anniversaries of Tzadikim on our blog at this Hilula Link.
For Moshe Rebeinu the study includes reading any aspect of the Chumash but especially any part of Devarim - Deuteronomy. It also includes the Zohar sections titled Raya Mehemna (Faithful Shepherd). These sections are Moshe Rebeinu teaching Rabbi Shimon and are especially relevant to the energy of Zion Adar. Also a Kosher "Book of Chanoch". This is because Chanoch became Metratron (do not pronounce this name) and Metratron is the higher soul of Moshe Rabeinu.
There are 9 spaces in this Parasha. In the frame of returning light (The cause is an action in the physical that causes the light to flow from the spiritual to the physical) 9 represents Chochma or wisdom. In the frame of Direct Light (The cause is spiritual bringing light to the physical) 9 represents Yesod which is the channel to Malchut.
On the physical story level, this Parasha deals with the Mishcan spelled Mem Shin Caf Nun Sofit. When one "looks into the Name MishCan" one can see some very revealing secrets.
Mishcan is usually translated as Tabernacle or Sanctuary. The Kings Shlomo and David (did some of the preparation) built the Temple following this pattern that is revealed in this Parasha. See Kings 2 for confirmation about this. There are 2 possible Shoreshim (roots) for this Name. One is Shin Caf Nun Sofit which gets translated as a verb to house, to lodge, to settle, and the like. This is usually the way it is understood.
There is another possible Shoresh which is Mem Shin Caf Sofit. This root is translated as to draw, to drag out, to prolong, and to pull. It is this root that helps us understand the discussions among the Sages about the question: Was the Mishcan supposed to be built or was it built only as a cure for the Sin of the Golden Calf.
This Parasha is out of chronological order. The building of the Mishkan happened after the Sin of the Golden Calf but it appears before it, in the Torah. This teaches and confirms the adage that HaShem provides the cure before the disease.
The disease of the Children of Israel even up to today is the desire to receive for oneself alone which manifests in our Golden Calfs. The cure is the Mishkan. By listening to the Torah reading this week we receive the vaccine against prolonging our own personal process of tikune/correction. Please do not miss the reading this week and next as they are both related to this vaccine ( to not drag out our process).
The story in this Parasha sounds like a vocal description of a set of blue prints. The question we need to ask is why do i care if there are 50 sockets or 11 curtains or that the table is 5 cubits square? How does that impact my life today?
Please know that each number given in this Parasha is a metaphor for a spiritual law which also manifests in our physical world, natural law, and science. Even if we do not have the wisdom today to connect these numbers to natural law or science does not mean that there is not a connection.
Here are some clues or hints to help you make these connections. 50 relates to the fifty gates of Binah or understanding. 11 relates to the inclusion of the negative system within the Tree of Life. 5 represents all of the worlds both spiritual and physical.
Let us return to the question, Did the Mishcan need to be built if we do not build our golden calves? This is up to you to answer for yourself. It is possible to complete ones Tikune in 1 lifetime; Most of us take much longer because we build golden calves. Then we need a Mishcan. Otherwise we do not.
Do we need a physical Mishcan? Again that is up to you. The Sages explain the Prophecies about the 3rd Temple as indicating that their will be animal sacrifices and the need for the phsyical 3rd Temple. Other Sages teach that it is a metaphor for the essence. Which do you prefer? A shorter process that is internal or a lenghtier process that is external and includes the phsyical Temple being built.
Kabbalah teaches that consciousness controls. Where is your consciousness? Are you seeing yourself in the mirror (one view of the world is to see yourself as the cause of everything that happens to you. In this view the people who come into your life at whatever involvement are there for you to be able to "see" yourself. This means when you "see" other people doing something, it is a picture of your Midot (traits) for you. In essence the person in your life is a mirror so you can see yourself more clearly) of your friends and family or are you still seeing your friends and family as the cause of your troubles (Has V'Shalom). Accepting your responsibility for where you are in your life is the first step in building the place in your heart for HaShem to reside. This is the only Mishcan that is necessary. . . unless you want it the other way!
Please look at Chapter 26 verse 28. The translation can be "The middle bar inside the planks shall extend fom end to end". There are 9 words in this verse just as their are 9 spaces in the Parasha. There are 37 letters in this verse. 37 is number relating to concealedment and also to the upper worlds.
Another translation more in tune with the Hebrew is "And the Design of the Mainstay in the middle of the Planks is to flee from end to end".
When reviewed with the information provided by the number of words and letters, one can say that this verse is teaching a spiritual truth relating to a process. The spiritual truth is "always remain in balance. Always enjoy the process". Can you say that you enjoy the unhappy moments in your life exactly the same as you enjoy the happy moments of your life? Most of us can not. A Tzadik does. Why! Because he has internalized the truth that everything comes from his actions. He accepts his responsibility in all that happens to him... not just the enjoyable times but all that happens to him comes from the "Boomerang Law of cause and effect".
This spiritual law says that what ever one's actions come back to him/her. Good actions come back Good, Bad actions come back Bad. Of course this is after the Upper courts review his actions and determine how much space (time) someone has for doing Tshuvah so that a negative decree does not have to impact him.


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The Canada India Foundation hosted its first annual gala dinner in Toronto Canada on April 18, 2008. The dinner honoured Sam Pitroda as the recipient of the Canada India Foundation Chanchlani Global Indian Award. This award will be presented annually to an outstanding Indian who has demonstrated global leadership, vision, and personal excellence, which has made all of us of Indian origin extremely proud of our heritage.
His Excellency, Dr. Abdul Kalam, (President of India from July 25, 2002 to July 25, 2007) was our guest of honour. CIF is pleased to announce The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada delivered the keynote address.
Prime Minister Harper and Dr. Kalam joined CIF in presenting the first “CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award” to Mr. Sam Pitroda, along with a prize of $50,000 to be directed to charity. Mr. Pitroda was selected as the recipient of the “Global Indian Award” for his role as Chairman of the Knowledge Commission in India, his innovations as the holder of over 100 patents, and for his immense contribution to revolutionizing India’s telecommunications industry.
Canada India Foundation also invited Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to join over 400 leaders from the Indo-Canadian community as we celebrated excellence and acknowledged our community’s success.
The dinner was co-chaired by Ramesh Chotai, President of Bromed Pharaceuticals, Anil Shah, President and CEO of Ni-Met Resources and David Singh, Chairman and CEO of Destiny Group of Companies.
Sam Pitroda is an internationally respected development thinker, telecom inventor and entrepreneur who has spent 40 years in Information and Communications Technology and related human and national developments. His experiences include private and public sectors and governments around the world.
Credited with having laid the foundation for and ushered India’s technology and telecommunications revolution in the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda has been a leading campaigner to help bridge the digital divide. During his tenure as Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda headed six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, Dairy and oilseeds. He was also the founder and first chairman of India’s Telecom Commission.
He was also chairman of India’s National Knowledge Commission reporting to the Prime Minister. The commission’s mandate is to offer a series of recommendations to the government on access, concepts, creation, application and services related to knowledge to help build excellence in the education system to meet the challenges of the 21st century and increase India’s competitive advantage.
He owns close to a 100 patents. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of handheld computing because of his invention of the Electronic Diary in 1975. He was also among the pioneers in digital telephone switching technology in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The decade of 1990 saw Pitroda explore the world of mobile phone-based transaction technology and telecom developments in emerging markets.
A widely travelled man, Pitroda is a much sought-after speaker at top international events. He has had speaking engagements around the world on diverse themes.
Pitroda divides time between Chicago and New Delhi.


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Clone it? Sure. Beat it? Maybe. Why not build your own AWS?
This article belies an almost total ignorance of the breadth of services that AWS provides. Has the author actually used it in anger or is this article based entirely on reading a couple of announcements?
"Is it true, then, that anything AWS can do, I can do better? No. Yes, there may be a handful of things that are trickier, more expensive or a bit more involved than keeping things internal, but the benefits will generally be worth the effort and cost."
That paragraph doesn't even make sense.
Agreed. Hard to believe there's no mention of the AWS uptime guarantees either - try achieving that in-house.
AWS guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on.
Where is the trustworthy 3rd party audit of any claims?
AWS and GCP both have SLA guarantees. If they miss it, they pay you. You can't get that on prem.
The last four on prem places I worked had multi-year up-times with no failures.
It's been many years since I've seen flaky kit which kept crashing. These days its poorly tested applications causing the problem and no up-time guarantee is going to help there.
"The last four on prem places I worked had multi-year up-times with no failures."
You must have been working with some unusually competent shops. I used to sell on prem gear. It was rare to have a storage system outright fail, but not terribly uncommon to have some unexplained performance degradation or integration issue (e.g. upgraded firmware on the Brocade switches, now servers can't find storage). When you think about all the time and money companies spend designing, testing, talking about HA/DR, having a guarantee is pretty handy.
"This article belies an almost total ignorance of the breadth of services that AWS provides."
Indeed. Take RDS - yes, you could do it with your favourite DB, bodge some scripting around replicas and backups, bolt on Tungsten etc... but you'd still be trying to make it reliable six months later.
Or Kinesis - anyone who's actually used Kafka in a production environment knows how unpleasant that is.
Or EMR - ever tried installing Hadoop from rpm? Think you can do it in 5 mins?
The list goes on. AWS (and GCS and Heroku) are just so much easier to use than doing it yourself.
Look at how all the big FTSE 100 IT departments and GDS are trying to replicate AWS and dismally failing.
"Look at how all the big FTSE 100 IT departments and GDS are trying to replicate AWS and dismally failing."
Agree. I have seen a number of botched "I'm going to build an X like Google/Amazon" projects. I try to tell them that the could just log on to a console and all this stuff is already built. We'll have it up and running today and it will be way less costly than what they are up to.
ARe there any functional Openstack deployments outside of Rackspace renters?
Openstack has been a yuge failure .. it defeats the entire concept of "the cloud" because it requires those expensive , nasty skilled employees to maintain it , and expensive hardware.
"Baffling"? I don't think so. I know what that sentence says.
Overall the article was pro-cloud and pro-AWS, so I don't know why you are making out the author has got a downer on AWS. I thought the message was, there is little you can't do yourself, but it's often a lot easier to let them do it, but you still have some responsibilities. As a regular cloud user, that sounds right to me.
Oh right, I think I misread.
"Yes, there may be a handful of things that are trickier, more expensive or a bit more involved than keeping things internal, but the benefits will generally be worth the effort and cost"
From the perspective of this application developer I can't think of _anything_ that's easier to do _properly_ in-house than in the cloud.
Even a simple small office NAS is a PITA to manage compared to Box/Dropbox/whatever.
Perhaps that is why you are an application developer and not a sys admin/storage/hardware guy.
The take away from this, is that there is no single solution to an IT problem. You have to consider the environment you're working in. Hopefully, this idea isn't new. I suspect, however, too many people are seduced by marketing cool aid.
One size doesn't fit all?
There are pros and cons to both solutions and it really depends on a clients existing infrastructure, financial position vs their medium/long term business & IT objectives. The article, while brief, tries to cover these challenges and whilst it cannot run into depth all the services that AWS offer, I felt that it was a fairly balanced piece.
What it doesn't cover, is the bit in between. Which has the potential to offer you the best of both worlds. The benefits of on-site infrastructure, with the value of cloud consumption models and services. These will be coming thick and fast over the next 12/24 months with companies like HyperGrid (with Nutanix soon to follow I'm sure) leading the way.
Did you know you can make your own candles? Get some wax, wick, melt the wax, dip the candles. You can probably make your own wax and wick as well.
Same applies to the pencil.
Why not keep sheep and knit your own clothes?
This article completely ignores the economies of scale. And specialisation.
If Amazon/Google/MS are hosting hundreds of thousands of servers then it makes sense that I can spin up a shared VM on those servers, which will probably not be 100% utilised (the VM, not the server). Heck, I can even shut down my perf test environment when I'm not doing perf testing, and stop paying completely. On prod, I can spin up extra app VMs when I need them using auto-scaling, and then spin them down when demand drops. And then I stop paying. And lots of other reasons too.
Re: Make your own candles!?
The article makes the point that in a business that prefers capital spending, buying your own kit might be a better fit than leasing AWS kit.
But this ignores the fact it isn't just *kit* you have to think about. It's the people that operate the kit. It's the place the kit lives and the power and cooling it needs. It's the software running on the kit. It's the orchestration of services on the kit. It's the software that does the orchestration, and the management of that... and so on and so on.
No wonder we have companies who get into so much trouble, because they think that IT is just about hiring boxes off the cloud or buying them instead.
As an AWS user in a small team, the idea of returning to the days where I had to manage *all* of the concerns that I get from AWS - not for free of course - but for a reasonable fee.... It fills me with horror.
More people use cloud then less people buy hardware which will probably increase cost pushing more people to the cloud. Large companies will just start making their own hardware for their cloud or purchase hardware companies.
Less hardware being used means less people able to use the hardware as less jobs.
Then the cloud is your only way of working.
I doubt that fee will still be reasonable then.
Ive had quotes recently that make renting a flat and kitting it out look dirt cheap.
Even if you want multisite redundancy.
Cloud is miles cheaper though. Id much prefer to have my own infrastructure to manage but unfortunately datacentre pricing doesnt allow for this.
In my honest opinion the datacentres are killing the datacentres. This is why they're gradually closing down.
Ive just migrated a client from their racks in Milton Keynes to Azure (yeah, I know, but its a .NET shop) because EasyNet have decided to shut up shop up there.
Thanks to this, ive managed to save my client a staggering £50k a year.
That massive saving is the only reason I've managed to avoid a cut in fees. If the price was like for like im sure id have had to take a hit due to the perceived reduction in IT management overhead. To the beancounters out there, just because its easier doesn't mean theres less work only less obstacles.
So yeah, it's a weird world right now. The DCs pricing is killing the desire for company owned hardware but is sufficiently high enough so as not to kill off engineers.
A junior dev is far less than £50k. Especially .NET ones.
The going rate in London is around £35k salaried. £250 a day contracted short term.
Competition for Jnr Dev roles is high right now in London. Its a buyers market.
I personally have 15 years experience and I am generally only seeing around £400-£450 a day contract rates.
Are they really doing things we couldn't – and don't – do ourselves?
Nor are IBM, Oracle, Google, Microsoft or any cloud service.
Ultimately they are doing it to make a profit.
Sometimes it makes sense to use them, other times it makes sense to do it in house.
Re: Are they really doing things we couldn't – and don't – do ourselves?
Every business is doing everything to make a profit, but it is still a better deal.
An analogous situation is asking if you can build a car with ordered parts as well as Toyota, Nissan, etc. Could you build a working car? Sure, assuming you have automotive skill. You are never going to get the volume pricing as low as the major auto makers though, even with the automakers profits built in, and they have the process of building the car nearly fully automated for cost and quality. Even if you build your car, now it is on you to do all of the break-fix. You can call the parts suppliers if something breaks, but they are just going to say the problem isn't with their part (see EMC, Cisco, HP, etc support).
or another one is that everyone is already a cloud network user through your teleco provider. For some reason everyone would scoff at the idea laying fiber between their sites instead of using an MPLS or the like from their teleco because the cost/complexity of laying fiber is high, yet they think it is perfectly reasonable to build data centers at tens of millions in cost. Everyone gets the cloud value proposition with respect to their network, just because they are accustomed to thinking of their network as being run by a teleco. The way it has always worked.
All that stuff that apparently is a doddle to stitch together - keep stitching , because its a never ending job of stumbling over bugs, applying patches and updates, creating enhancements, and working out what root cause in a morass of interconnected custom stuff broke the system.
I know a LARGE company that thinks they can build their own cloud infrastructure because (apparently) the others arent doing it right. So far, 18 months in and circa 50 people (this aint no tinpot org) they've achieved zilch, zero, nada in terms of actual computing infrastructure their users can use. Who are instead just buying stuff from AWS and Azure that, well, it just works and is here now, not in 'alpha stage one in 3 montsh time' (its always in 3 months time). Note, this is not on premise implementation they are doing, they are setting out to build a full generic cloud with all the charging, the scaleability, the fault tolerance and so on.
They dont and never will have, the economies of scale and the deep technical expertise, nor the clout that a large cloud vendor has to batter errant suppliers into submission. They'll see this eventually once they realise that several tens of millions of pounds on people to implement "free" software, is more expensive than just buying it off the shelf. Especially since they will never likely ever release anything usable and they'll have spaffed it all away.
AFAIK none of the people in charge of this grandiose vanity project build their own cars or houses, they just buy a ready built one, yet if its computing, apparently its different.
This project sounds like it was never intended to generate any business. Sadly, with R&D credits there are investors that pile money into a dead end project just for the tax break.
I feel sorry for the suckers employed by this outfit, they think they're safe.
Lots of good points here, but I would add that the last few places I've worked, the datacentres and comms have come bundled with a list of risks as long as your arm. X isn't resilient, but we aren't pay £y millions to fix. Z hardware is end of life, but no-one can be bothered to pay to upgrade it. Datacentre A is running low on space and power. Datacentre B now has a business that stores flammable materials next to it. With the cloud, all this is not our problem. Add that to the beancounters ability to map actual use/benefit to cost via the PAYG model, and there's a lot that's attractive about the cloud.
With the cloud, you get a list of risks as well -- you just don't get to read them.
Just wait for a hurricane to hit AWS-East and you'll see what I mean.
Possibly true for AWS. Not sure, don't use them.
Some of the things cloud providers are doing though you just cannot build on premise. Look at Google Cloud Platform. Google uses a 2 petabit/s (yes, petabit) interconnect network in their data centers. You can't buy that on your own from Cisco or Juniper. It was invented by Google. Google owns the world's largest IP network with 200 or so PoPs and caching data centers in every corner of the world (why YouTube videos don't need to buffer). You can't do that on your own unless you want to start laying transoceanic cables. Google uses custom hardware tip to toe for security and cost reasons. You can't do that... or at least not at a reasonable cost.
Also, one of the biggest advantages of cloud is that you pay for actual utilization in near real time, not your once every year peaks. That can be huge. If you are a retailer building out infrastructure because on Black Friday your workload is 10x the average, you have a ton of infrastructure idle most of the year. You never really know where your peak will be either so it is just common practice in infrastructure sizing to take what you think you'll need and add 20%. You don't need to do that in cloud.
Yeap .. Google and Amazon, maybe even MS, have deep deep deep pockets of cash to build just about anything they want using the best new products available .. compared to lagging behind followers players like IBM, HP and Oracle who likely stand up a DC with spare parts waiting for someone to purchase some cloud time.
There is a lot of truth in your piece. One major issue with AawS is the complexity of their pricing. Glacier for example.
Most of prvate cloud products really haven't taken off yet.. why buy HW and hire a staff to run it when the entire stack can be outsourced to AWS and pay pennies on the dollar ? Rackspace isn't doing that well managing private OS deployments either.
VMware and vcloud is the largest deployment of inhouse cloud computing. I suspect products like Mesosphere DC will have more success that AWS clones have.


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What Next After Presidential Apology on Bududa?
We all know that the executive delivered an apology over the Bududa mayhem and the line minister threatened to resign, but what exactly went wrong with the relocation program that was started over eight years ago? Sabiti joseph explores the story behind actions in the office of the prime minister that led to loss of lives and what appears a possible corruption scandal about to come to the surface.


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The garage is the storage place for tools but can you always find the right tool that you’re looking for? You would if it was in a tool box. The tool box shouldn’t become a version of the “junk drawer.” It should be for all your most frequently used tools to go. If you want to really get organized, then consider one of the industrial rolling tool boxes like you would find in any auto mechanics garage.
Even though a majority of garages are attached to the house, they don’t always get the same HVAC treatment as the rest of the property. That’s why you should have a space heater in the winter and oscillating fan in the summer. It won’t always be convenient to open the garage door so you want to keep it cozy while you tinker.
Garages are notoriously for bad lighting. Very few have windows so any light that comes in has to be provided by overhead lights. The single bare bulb might not cut it. That’s why you want to hang additional strips of light so you’ll never be in the dark when working in the garage.
Your garage is going to become the family’s “storage locker.” There is just no way to avoid that. But there is a way to keep it organized and that begins with utilizing wall storage. This can take many forms. One side could be dedicated shelving and plastic bins while the opposite wall can be a peg board for hanging everything from a bike to a chainsaw. The good thing with both of those options is that they’re adjustable.
Speaking of storage, you can also look up for more space. There might be a chance to build loft shelfing for those items that aren’t always in use like summer sports gear or holiday decorations.
Every drawer and box in your garage needs a label. This will let you know in a glance just what you’re keeping and where it is. As an added bonus, you get to invest in a label maker. Who doesn’t love that?
Finally, the best thing you can do to get your garage organized is to get rid of the clutter. That will be easy because as you’re looking for a permanent “home” for all the things you’re keeping, you’re going to come across all the stuff that can go. Once cleared of the clutter, you’ll open up a lot more space… and for more stuff!

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There’s nothing better than grilling in the summer….well actually, there IS something better. Summer grilling with wine! This recipe perfectly pairs the two. You may want to try it with your favorite Temecula Valley Cabernet for your 4th of July BBQ.
Brush the outside of the steak with oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill the steak over high heat until browned all over, 8 to 10 minutes. Turn the steak 4 times as it cooks. Move the meat away from the direct heat and grill for 15 to 20 minutes, or until an instant-read thermometer registers 125 degrees F for medium-rare. Remove from the grill and let rest 5 minutes before slicing. Slice against the grain into ½-inch thick slices and drizzle with the Cabernet-Shallot Reduction.
Danza del Sol Winery ~ 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon – Aromas of cherry and vanilla compliment a very bright and fruity flavor profile with a hint of black currant.
Frangipani Estate Winery ~ 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon – Bright cherry, sage, and licorice.
Miramonte Winery ~ 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon – Bright cherry and blackberry notes, accented with sweet, toasted cedar nuances, and a thin line of fresh mocha.

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I hope you’re January is still positive & in full swing! But if not, you’re not alone. I am noticing that January is already moving so quickly & most days are already accounted for. With a crazy holiday season bleeding into the new year, I feel like I didn’t quite get the positive jump start that I wanted. I still don’t have my planner 🤦🏼♀ , I haven’t quite finished focusing in on my goals, & even my typical workout routine is on the back burner! And as I have so many many things on my mind, I feel like I am having a hard time focusing on what to tackle & what needs my attention first. I am very naturally someone who stays decently organized, focused, driven, & put together. But not currently haha!
So if you are feeling anything like me right now, here are a few tips I hope will help you! They sure have helped me!
Income: based on after taxes so we actually know how much we will be able to spend.
Charity : so so incredibly important to us. While their is such thing as a 10% rule, we make this decision more on an intentional basis. Some months are better than others & when we can give more, we do so! But we make it significant to our lifestyle because it is truly that important.
Gym : currently using the Kayla Itness App!
Pharmacy : cvs, walgreens, ulta.
Allowance : Kevin & I each have an allowance to use on whatever we choose for the month!
Miscellaneous : hair cuts, birthday gifts, pet needs, etc.
2. When it comes to getting ready during a busy season of life, keep it simple. Go for base pieces that easily layer, match, and blend. Stick with decently comfortable shoes, and solid go to pieces. Wear your favorite outfits multiple times (I promise no one will notice!), and immediately put on comfortable clothes when you come home. Wear your flattering sweater staples, pieces like high-waisted jeans that make every outfit put together, & just remember to add one accessory everyday. I promise you will look incredibly put together. Just try not to gravitate towards large lounging sweaters for daily wear ;).
3. Choose new intentions, not new goals. With new intentions, you are changing your mindset about things, not setting unattainable goals. Intentions change mindset, and mindset changes actions. Decide the things in your life that are either lacking attention, or new ideas you would like to set focus on.
I hope these few ideas will help even in the slightest way! As I find new ways to better my life, be more productive, and help with the small things, I will continue to share them!


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Oh my goodness I love this girl!! So quick crazy backstory on our families… When I was pregnant with my Eri, we were in “baby class” at the hospital where we were going to deliver. We were at a hospital 30 minutes away from where we lived but somehow ended up chatting with this couple that was also from Smithfield – Emma’s mommy and daddy! Small world, right?? So fast forward a few years, I end up buying a bunch of completely random kid things from someone on one of those facebook buy/sell/trade sites. James would usually meet this lady while I was on a shoot in Smithfield so I never got to actually meet her. After a few times, we figured out that it was Emma’s mom! Again, small world! Turns out Emma and Eri danced at the same dance studio too! Danielle and I became friends and we invited them to church with us one weekend and all of our kiddos got to hang out. The rest, as they say, is history and now Emma and Eri are BEST BUDDIES!! I never would have thought 10 years ago that the strangers we met at baby class and didn’t see again for years would be some of the greatest blessings in our lives. But God’s got a funny way of putting people in your life just when you need them most!
This girl is so, so precious and I’m so glad I can call her and her family our best friends. She is such a beauty inside and out. I’m so incredibly thankful she and Eri and such great friends. She is so thoughtful and caring and polite… An amazing big sister and beautifully sensitive soul… Smart and funny and the best smile!! Happy (a little bit late) 10th birthday, Emma!!! We love you and your family so much!!!
What sweet photos of Emma!!


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I have spent time solving an issue with host profiles on several environments running on vSphere 5.1 and HP BL460c G6 blades, to be specific. These blades have two local SAS drives in a RAID-1 configuration. This logical drive is used for installing ESXi and provides in a VMFS datastore.
Sadly, this did not solve my issue. I solved this by disabling the storage configuration on a higher level.
After applying this configuration everything turned green! The items I disabled did not affect our iSCSI storage configuration, which was my only concern.
Hopefully this post will help some people solve their host compliance issues without spending too much time. Thanks for reading!


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Given the lack of viable alternatives, the most effective means to protect healthcare entities from cyber-attacks must come from within the industry. The industry has proven its inability to self-regulate its cybersecurity practices in order to stay up-to-speed with current threats. Fortunately, an applicable legal regime—HIPAA—already exists and, while there are currently gaps in the legal framework tailored to cybersecurity, tightening certain mandates will put the healthcare industry on a sound path.
151. Point Landing, Inc. v. Omni Cap. Int’l, Ltd., 795 F. 2d 415, 419 (5th Cir. 1986); see Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e).
152. See generally, Wellington, supra note 138.
153. Michael Lee et al., Electronic Commerce, Hackers, and the Search for Legitimacy: A Regulatory Proposal, 14 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 839, 873 (1999).
154. See generally Duncan B. Hollis, An E-SOS for Cyberspace, 52 HARV. INT’L L.J. 373, 397–404 (2011) (discussing reasons why it is difficult to identify actors behind cyber-attacks).

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When Does the Extreme Emotional Pain and Grief of Your Husband's Infidelity go Away?
After being crushed by the discovery of your husband's infidelity, it's normal to feel a range of emotions like extreme emotional pain and grief. Understandably you want to make the hurt go away so that you can live again.
But the question you should really be asking is not when the pain will go away, but rather how you can make it go away. Yes, with time the pain will lessen. But just waiting on time alone and not actively working to heal the pain of infidelity is not going to do you any good.
I can tell you from personal experience that learning of your spouse's betrayal can turn a normal, sound person into an emotional wreck pretty quickly. You can become so distraught that you cannot concentrate on anything else except the affair. It consumes your every waking moment.
You want to, but it seems that you just can't shake the overwhelming feeling of grief and sadness that has taken hold of you and keeps you from functioning day to day. You may even get to the point where you just feel like giving up on life altogether.
Ask most experts and they'll tell you there are specific steps both the cheater and the betrayed spouse need to take in order to heal after an affair and rebuild a more meaningful relationship. Follow the protocol and you will heal from the devastation.
What will happen if you don't do anything?
If you do nothing, the pain could go on forever. As a matter of fact, the pain of your husband's infidelity can burden you for years to come if you don't actively seek out guidance to deal with it. In order for you to move on, you need to find a way to let go of the pain and all the other negative feelings that are crushing and exhausting you.
At this point you may have no idea how to process your painful emotions and thoughts. So let's talk about some ways to do that. At a time when your emotions are in overdrive, you may not feel up to doing anything or making any decisions. You may not even feel like getting out of bed or eating. But do these things you must for the health of both you and your marriage.
Look after yourself first. You need every bit of strength (both emotional and physical) to deal with this crisis. Start eating healthy foods, not junk foods. Now I know you may not feel like eating or up to cooking, but make yourself do it. Do something nice for yourself. Treat yourself to a manicure, pedicure or even a day at the spa.
Exercise. Do some form of exercise, whether that be walking, running or joining a gym. It will take your mind off things for a bit and it'll also do you good, both physically and emotionally.
Tap into your support network. You can also pour your heart out to a trusted and supportive friend, family member or even your clergy. Join an infidelity forum on the Internet where you can tell your story and get encouragement and support from people who are going through the same things that you are going through right now.
Get individual counseling. Talking to a trained professional can really help you put things into perspective, and you can freely express your thoughts and fears in private. Trying to fix things on your own will be very difficult but a counselor can help you work through your issues and help you make decisions.
Take control of your feelings and get help to deal with the pain. Realize that you don't have to let your spouse's betrayal paralyze you for the rest of your life. You didn't do anything wrong. Your spouse is the one who cheated. You had no control over what he did. The only thing you have control over is how you react to his cheating.
Look at it this way. If you were to slip and fall, would you remain there on the ground being angry and in pain? Absolutely not. You'd be a little embarrassed if someone saw you fall and may be a bit bruised or even seriously hurt. But you'll get up just the same and get help for whatever injury you sustained.
My point is, just like you're not going to lay where you fell forever, neither do you want to go on hurting and being in pain over your husband's affair forever. This is not meant to trivialize what you are going through. But rather to help you get clarity and put things into perspective.
Look, the sun will continue to rise and set and the seasons are going to change. Life goes on. Don't give up on life because of something you had no control over. Believe it's possible to heal from the pain and grief of your husband's affair and actively work toward it.
What baby step can you take now to ease the pain?
Trying to do too much at once can leave you feeling overwhelmed and so you might decide to do nothing at all. Take it one step at a time. Just pick one thing and do it. Whether that be talking things out with a trusted and supportive friend or family member or getting individual counseling. Take action and I can promise you that the pain will gradually fade until it becomes a distant memory.
C Mellie Smith knows from first-hand experience the pain of dealing with an unfaithful spouse. Visit her blog at: http://www.infidelityhealing.com/ to download your free "Overcoming Infidelity" kit and get started on the road to recovery.
All of the pain can be completely erased along with the negative memories of the infidelity within hours to days with the Mind Resonance Process (MRP).


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The pensions system is not working for many working people.
Over the last couple of months we have published a series of blogs showing the problems many workers have in getting enrolled in a pension scheme; the risk they bear of investment markets turning against them; and the continuation of this uncertainty into retirement.
We have suggested that there are elements of successful overseas pensions systems that provide useful pointers to UK reform.
But it would be a mistake to think that a foreign system can be imported wholesale, or that any one change is a complete solution in itself. For example, greater collective risk pooling is of little benefit if pension contributions don’t rise. But, likewise, savers and their employers won’t put more money into pensions, unless that money is working as hard as possible.
So in this final post discussing the pensions lottery, we set out nine steps towards a better pensions system. Some are small short-term improvements. Others could take time to have an impact but would make a major difference to the lives of future retirees.
It should be noted that, while it is clear that successful pensions systems have more generous state pensions than in the UK, our focus here is on the many options available for improving the workplace set-up.
We showed in our previous analysis that large numbers of people in sectors such as farming, hospitality and retail are not enrolled in pension schemes. This is despite new rules rolled out from 2012 obliging employers to enrol workers in retirement savings schemes.
Eligibility restrictions introduced at the beginning of automatic enrolment have, partly due to the impact of unrelated changes such as big increases in the income tax threshold, led to millions of people being excluded. In fact, nearly as many employees are deemed ineligible for auto-enrolment as are eligible.
Abolish the earnings trigger with employer contributions paid from the first pound of earnings.
One of the biggest causes of exclusion is the earnings trigger. An employer only needs to enrol someone into a workplace scheme if they earn more than £10,000 for any single job. That means that millions of low-paid workers, most of them women, are excluded. The system is particularly unfair on those doing multiple jobs that together add up to £10,000 but currently receive nothing.
Abolishing the earnings trigger would instantly bring low earners into the system and remove any incentive there is for employers to keep wages below the trigger level.
We regard this as a more effective way of bringing those with multiple jobs into the system than seeking an arrangement to determine which employers might be responsible for contributions.
Scrap the complicated qualifying earnings system.
Currently, pensions contributions only have to be levied on a band of earnings between £5,876 and £45,000.
If an employee earns £20,000 their qualifying earnings would be only £14,124 and the effect is even more disproportionate for people on lower incomes. So for someone on £10,000 a year, only £4,124 of their earnings are pensionable. Even when minimum pension contributions rise to 8 per cent in 2018, just 3.3 per cent of their total salary would be contributed.
Part time workers with more than one job are particularly affected because the qualifying earnings deduction applies to each job.
Levying contributions on the entirety of a worker’s pay packet would simplify administration and boost saving.
Reduce the starting age for contributions.
The current arrangement, which only requires workers to be enrolled into a pension scheme from age 22, risks disadvantaging those who enter the workforce rather than pursuing higher education. And starting to save earlier makes it more likely that an individual has sufficient pension for retirement. A lower starting age for auto-enrolment could simplify administration for employers. Those for whom saving is not appropriate or desirable can opt-out.
There is widespread agreement that even when minimum pension contributions rise to 8 per cent from 2019, this will be inadequate for a decent retirement. Yet many employers, especially those who previously offered no pension scheme, pay in only enough to comply with the law. It is estimated estimates that two thirds of those enrolled in pensions in 2030 will be on minimum contributions.
Trade unions have long supported the stance that pension contributions should be at least 15 per cent of salary, including 10 per cent from an employer and five per cent from the wage packet of an employee.
We have shown that the amount that a saver in a defined contribution pension scheme has amassed by retirement can vary enormously depending on what happens to financial markets.
What is apparent from examples overseas is that large-scale schemes are both more efficient and more able to invest in a range of assets, thus better enabling it to withstand the vagaries of investment markets.
Too many good quality pension schemes were allowed to wither away from the 1980s onwards. Those defined benefit pensions, that pay a pension based on a member’s salary and length of service, that remain are doing the job we need pension schemes to do. More than 90 per cent of people currently accruing benefits in DB schemes are likely to have a decent standard of living in retirement.
More than one in eight defined benefit schemes (13 per cent) remain open to new members, ensuring that both old and new workers can build up entitlement to good quality retirement provision. Maintaining these is a priority because they ensure that both younger and older workers have access to good quality pension entitlements.
More than 90 per cent of people currently accruing benefits in DB schemes are likely to have a decent standard of living in retirement.
There is a very strong case for a differentiated regulatory regime for open DB schemes. Such a regime might allow greater flexibility on valuations and greater scope for benefit changes as long as a scheme remains open to new entrants. This should be supported by adding to the Pensions Regulator’s remit an objective of seeking to maintain and promote good quality DB pension schemes.
It is frequently claimed that low costs should not be pursued in pension saving at the expense of good returns. Yet the financial regulator has found quite categorically that higher charges are not a predictor of higher performance.
Yet, the cumulative effect of costs is enormous. A one per cent annual charge will consume nearly a quarter of a saver’s pension pot over their working life.
And trading excessively can cost members money. There is evidence that if managers held onto their investment more, they could save as much as 20 per cent of the costs paid by members.
There have been moves to place higher requirements on fund managers to disclose the full range of costs and charges to pension schemes. These are still in their infancy.
There is a strong need for a data standard for collecting cost data from pension funds in the UK and from their providers (asset managers, custody banks, consultants and so on), overseen by an independent body that can verify the accuracy of the information supplied.
But transparency is only of benefit if it leads to reduced charges.
There are upwards of 35,000 DC pension schemes in the UK. Many are too weak to negotiate a good deal from suppliers, such as fund managers. Transparency might be of little benefit to them.
A recent study of Dutch pensions found that a fund that has 10 times more assets under management, has on average 7.67 basis points lower annual investment costs. These economies of scale are solely driven by management costs.
International evidence also suggests a link between fund size and a more diversified portfolio. Translating this into improved performance can lead to big gains for investors. An increase of 1.5 percentage points in yearly investment returns would increase their pots by 46 per cent to 62 per cent.
The establishment of large investment funds, such as is occurring in defined benefit pensions with the Local Government Pension Scheme might help improve returns and cut costs if DC pensions were given access to such .
Some consolidation in workplace pensions is likely to come with automatic enrolment. The likes of state-backed NEST and People’s Pension, while relatively small today, have the potential to become very large indeed. Almost half of those automatically enrolled have been enrolled into master trust schemes like these. This will be aided by increased regulation of schemes that could prompt some to close down.
But policy action will be required to accelerate this process.
One option is to strengthen requirements on the chairs of trust-based DC schemes. The government is currently considering moves to require the chairs of trustees of trust-based DC schemes to publish details of costs and charges in their annual statements.
Additionally, requiring them to justify whether the current size and scale of their scheme is sufficient to produce good value for members might hasten the consolidation of sub-scale schemes.
Collective Defined Contribution pensions are like traditional defined benefit pensions without a promise and without an employer guarantee.
Instead the risks (and benefits) of investments or longevity not turning out as expected are shared between scheme members.
Like DB pensions all savings are paid into a pool, with all pensions paid from the same pool.
Unlike DB there is no pensions promise. Instead, CDC pensions have a target pension that they seek to pay, though unlike most annuities the intention is that benefits are indexed.
That in 37 of the past 57 years, a collective pension would have outperformed the individual pension.
That the variability of the pension, and thus the risk the saver would have taken, would be lower with a collective rather than an individual pension.
Primary legislation already provides for CDC in the UK. However, the regulations to bring it into operation are yet to be completed.
We agree with the Work and Pensions Committee that there is a strong case for encouraging the provision of schemes that retain some of the best features of company schemes in an age when many employers do not want the long-term commitment of providing a DB scheme.
So-called pensions freedom has left retirees vulnerable to the corrosive impact of inflation, sharp drops in investment returns) and the hazard of living longer than they expected.
The key to giving savers a better chance of good outcomes is for the establishment of default pathways. These would be well-researched, good value, securely governed solutions that would be suitable for most savers. Those who wished to pursue an alternative approach would be free to do so.
We see little appetite among most providers to be first movers in developing such products. Some will be understandably wary of setting a saver on default journeys that they might later say was not optimum for their circumstances. It is therefore the role of government and regulators to ensure that all savers have access to a default retirement pathway.
This would take the lessons from auto-enrolment in the accumulation stage - namely that inertia is a major driver of behaviour – and apply them to decumulation.
The likely shape of such pathways would match the combination of income drawdown and deferred annuities described by NEST in its retirement blueprint.
However, there could be a role for Collective Defined Contribution schemes to provide a mixture of longevity risk pooling and continued access to real returns.
The aim of this series of blogs has been to set out the challenges facing today’s workers in securing a comfortable and secure retirement. And to explore ways of overcoming them.
We have shown that pension reform has not been settled. There is much more to do.
But there is not one change that will magically make the system work for all working people.
The steps set out above are our suggestions for how future progress could be made.
But we continue to be open to further engagement and ideas.


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I guess I could watch the webcast but is it a install on your server plus the child plugins or is it a hosted one with child plugins.
All is on your server Luke. you are welcome.
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I think i'm going to do sort of a recap of what happened this week later today or tomorrow, but i just wanted to mention some things that's been going around in the fandom lately.
First of all, people are talking about trending som Larry-related #'s and tagging Harry in them on Saturday. I'm not into that thing, because trending topics on twitter won't get management to suddenly let them come out.
I know they need to know that there's support, but i believe they do. They have proven multiple times that they go through the Larry-tags on twitter anyways (check my twitter explanation if you need proof).
Then there's also the fact that the "always in my heart"-tweet has reached 829.835 retweets as of right now.
And then i kind of want people to enjoy this guy from BB16 because he ships Larry big time while trying to hide his own love for a man. Just another ship to jump on board if you like.


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It's no secret that mislabeling is rampant around the world. Recent studies estimate up to 30 percent of seafood served in restaurants and sold in supermarkets is actually something other than what is listed on the menu or label.
Why mislabeling happens is a little squishier. Fraud, human error or marketing ploys -- combined with an often multicountry traverse from boat to restaurant -- make it possible you are eating a different fish than what's on the menu.
"One of the motivations and hopes for this study is that we can help inform people who are trying to exert their consumer power to shift seafood markets toward carrying more sustainable options," said co-author Christine Stawitz, a UW doctoral student in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and the Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management program.
"We found a lot of diversity in conservation status across taxa," said co-author Margaret Siple. "Depending on what you order or purchase, you can get a fish that is more endangered than what you ordered, or something that is actually of better conservation status. What we want to emphasize is how diverse these differences are."
The study didn't examine the potential reasons behind this, but the researchers speculate that while it could be intentional mislabeling to rip off consumers, it is just as likely restaurants and markets are serving and stocking fish they think match the label, but are cheaper, more plentiful options. A white-fish filet can look like any number of species, they explained, and substitutions could happen anywhere in the supply chain.
The new study also summarizes which fish are most likely to be mislabeled and of those which varied the most in conservation status between true fish and mislabeled fish. For example, snapper is one of the most frequently mislabeled fish. Its conservation status is vulnerable to endangered -- meaning its population isn't doing well -- but the fishes most often substituted for snapper are considered critically endangered.
Results from this study could be useful in helping consumers make sustainable purchasing decisions by avoiding fish that are most likely to be mislabeled. That list is led by croakers, shark catfish (or "basa"), sturgeon and perch. Consumers can also look out for fish commonly replaced with species that are not from sustainable stocks. Examples include eel, hake and snapper.
These results could also help seafood certification efforts such as the Marine Stewardship Council and the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch focus efforts on fisheries that are most likely to be mislabeled, the researchers say. The Marine Stewardship Council certifies fisheries for sustainable fishing practices and follows seafood from the port to markets. This study offers information about where mislabeling might happen when products aren't tracked through the whole chain of custody. A fish often travels from the port to processors and several distributors before reaching the end market, and this change of hands is likely where mislabeling happens, the new study found.
"We hope this study can help regulators understand where in the chain of custody they should be putting their efforts," Siple said.
This study was funded by the UW's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and the Washington-British Columbia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
For more information, contact Stawitz at cstawitz@uw.edu or 206-617-2060 and Siple at siplem@uw.edu or 206-661-8403.


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Medi-Caps Institute of Technology and Management took its first step in July 2000. Within a short span of nine years the Institute has attained a strong footing amongst all the technical colleges of Madhya Pradesh. It is situated on a beautiful hillock, on Agra-Bombay National Highway, 15 Km. away from Indore city, a historic town, now known as the commercial, industrial and trade capital of Madhya Pradesh.
B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engg.
Medicaps Insitutute of Technology & Management is being affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya(RGPV),Bhopal, the Technical University of Madhya Pradesh and approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. Medicaps aims to create an environment conducive for learning and overall growth. Inspired by a passion for excellence, the Institute believes in the philosophy of Universal brotherhood, offering all its students an equal platform for performance. Institute’s chief objective is its endeavor for unparalleled growth. Its peaceful and serene site is perfectly suitable for serious learning.


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The association claimed that PUBG has resulted in students performing poorly in the recently conducted class X and XII board exams.
PUBG Mobile, one of the most popular games these days that has been a rage among the cell phone users particularly teenagers, maybe in fresh trouble as a request has been submitted by the student body for the game to be banned in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
As per a report in Pristine Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Naik to ban the game with immediate effect. The governor has not commented on the issue yet.
The JKSA has claimed that the mobile game is very addictive especially when it comes to teenagers, going as far as comparing the game to a drug. The association has also claimed that the game has resulted in students performing poorly in the recently conducted class X and XII board exams.
While JKSA chairman Abrar Ahmad Bhat termed the game as "future spoiler," the deputy chairman Raqif Makhdoomi said, "The game should have been banned immediately after the poor performance of 12th and 10th class results but still we haven’t seen any action. The addiction to this game has become more concerning than addiction to drugs as we get to see youngsters 24 hours on their mobile phones and playing the game and doing nothing."
This is not the first time that PUBG Mobile has been in the news in Jammu and Kashmir for all the wrong reasons. Earlier this month, a fitness trainer in the state was reportedly admitted to a hospital after he injured himself as he started hitting himself while playing the game. The doctor treating this patient had said, "The patient is unstable at the moment and has partially lost his mental balance."