Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Kelly Clarkson Covers Katy Perry, Britney Spears Hits


Kelly Clarkson's recent tour rolls on, with covers of Katy Perry, Britney Spears hits (as well as one from .fun) marking some of her recent highlights.

Not that those three songs are shabby to start with, but the American Idol winner makes anything sound terrific. She needs to do a cover album!

Here's Kelly performing Britney's old school "Everytime" in Las Vegas ...

... and Katy Perry's current smash "Wide Awake" ...

... and after the jump, .fun's "We Are Young" ...

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Spain's La Manga Club achievements recognized on 40th ...

La Manga Club and The European Tour have both come a long way since they launched in 1972 and Tour chief executive George O'Grady has joined the chorus of approval for the Spanish resort as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

The award-winning five-star complex was one of the first places to become a regular tournament venue during the Tour's early years and O'Grady was quick to acknowledge the role it has played in helping promote European golf on a global stage.

La Manga Club hosted the Spanish Open for five years in a row between 1973-77, South African legend Gary Player was the resort's first director of golf while Spanish superstar Seve Ballesteros was its touring pro between 1980-85.

In a specially-recorded video message, O'Grady said: "I would like to congratulate everyone connected with La Manga Club for reaching their 40th birthday.

"The European Tour has every reason to thank La Manga Club for, firstly, elevating the Spanish Open in 1972 onto the global stage. Witness the first three winners Neil Coles, Jerry Heard and the great Arnold Palmer from the United States.

"La Manga Club has played a great role in the success of The European Tour. Our qualifying school was staged there for six years and in all that time our players have kept coming back to the resort because of the facilities you have.

"Congratulations again, thank you again. You have really played your part, together with the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, in making The European Tour the successful body we are today. Muchas gracias!"

O'Grady is the latest top name in golf to pay tribute to La Manga Club as it builds up to a special birthday weekend at the start of November - the culmination of a series of events to celebrate its anniversary.

Player sent his own personal video message of congratulations - which will also be played at the anniversary weekend later in the year - last month while American legend Arnold Palmer and world number one Luke Donald, who learned to play golf at the venue, have also praised the resort.

Set in an area three times the size of Monaco, La Manga Club is renowned for its first-class range of facilities and has played host to some of the leading names in sport and leisure over the years.

In addition, as well as offering a wide selection of sports academies to children, the resort will be hosting the Lee Westwood Golf Academy, Real Madrid Football Camp and Daley Thompson Athletics Academy this summer where budding sports stars of the future can improve their skills.

La Manga Club boasts unrivalled facilities as a sport and leisure venue including three 18-hole championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses, more than 20 bars and restaurants and is great fun for children.

For more information or to book call 00 34 968 17 5577, email reserve@lamangaclub.com or visit www.lamangaclub.com.

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La Manga Club - www.lamangaclub.com - is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars.

La Manga Club has hosted both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of almost 40 years of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades and its membership of the luxury Preferred Hotel Group.

La Manga Club was the region of Murcia's candidate to bring the 2015 Solheim Cup to Spain. The resort has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf. It is currently the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association and in the second year of a three-year agreement to host the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.



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India goes gaga over shooter Gagan Narang

LONDON: Gagan Narang is a tall, portly, fair man with red cheeks. He looks like a successful businessman with a relaxed, nonchalant air about him.

The 29-year-old had serious business to attend to on Monday morning. He came to the Royal Artillery Barracks at 9am near Woolswich Arsenal with his air rifle in tow at the 10m hall, and made it do some serious talking at station No. 15.

Three hours later, he was in the final hall and went through a roller coaster ride before firing his last shot and then turning around to wave in relief as a packed hall roared in thunderous approval.

The man from Hyderabad had got that "huge stone off my chest" on his way to clinching India's first medal at the London Games here, a priceless bronze. Beijing gold medallist and defending champion Abhinav Bindra failed to make the final, slipping in the final series with three 9s, succumbing to time pressure.

Narang had won the Asian gold, the Commonwealth gold and even the World championship gold. This was what he wanted desperately. His eyes had spoken volumes four years ago in Beijing when he tied for the eight spot but missed the final berth on a count-back. "My time will come", they said. Well, there were no countbacks on Monday, no nerves, no misgivings -- just plain, simple fearless shooting. And Narang's eyes were shining in relief when he walked out into the mixed zone, a huge smile on his face.

He started off slowly, with perfect scores (100) in the first two series in qualification. Bindra was already finishing his third round. He was fourth and Bindra 10th. Soon, Bindra moved up to seventh after the fourth series while Gagan stumbled. He missed his seventh and last shots in the third series for a 98 and slipped to the 11th spot.

His coach Stanislas Lapidus said something, and he nodded and was back at his business. He was back at No. 6 after the fourth series of 100. He clung on it as the countdown began. "10 minutes to go," said the referee. That was enough for him to finish his series with another perfect score. 598/600 was a brilliant score and he was third in the qualification. He has done the perfect bit (600/600) before but this was a different stage altogether. Bindra had by then picked up his rifle and walked away.

With qualification scores added in the finals, Narang had given himself a shot at the gold. The first two - Italy's Nicolo Campriani and Romania's Alin George Modoveanu - were just a point ahead.

The final, comprising of 10 shots each, swung like a yo-yo. Narang started with a 10.7 and the crowd roared as he moved up to the second spot. His next shot was a poor 9.7 and he was down to fourth.

He then followed it up with 10.6, a 10.7 and 104 and was third, just 0.1 point behind the Italian. He slipped to fourth again after a 9.9 with his seventh spot. Tension was mounting and Narang shot a shocking 9.5.

"It's over man," said an agonizing journalist sitting in the front row. Well, it was not. The others too succumbed to pressure. Narang followed it with a 10.3 and with China's Tao Wang and Dutchman Peter Hellenbrand breathing down his neck, he finished with a 10.7, kick-starting celebrations in the hall packed with Indian journalists, fans and officials.

Narang, unlike Bindra did not hide his emotions. He waved, blew kisses and smiled on the podium like a young boy who had got a long cherished prize - it was a coveted medal and long due.

Critics, these past few years, made him a medal contender and then hanged him saying he was mentally not tough enough. He went into a shell four months ago, refusing to talk to journalists. He refused to reply to mails from Hanover before coming to London. On Monday, he was willing to talk to anyone who chased him, hugged him, kissed him. As he later said, this medal has made him complete.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

London commuters warned of busy Olympic day

London's public transit authority reminded commuters to plan ahead for busy roads and transit on the first working day of Olympic events, but there were few signs of trouble early today.

Transport for London took to Twitter to say roads and transit will be "exceptionally busy" on the third day of the Summer Games.

According to The Associated Press, there were few signs of trouble early Monday, with rail lines operating properly and some highways experiencing lighter traffic than expected.

"Journey into work, thankfully seamless and rather pleasant," said commuter Aysem Monaco on Twitter.

Leon Daniels of Transport for London said everything was going well, and downplayed the scenes of long lines of cars crawling into the city.

He said there are always queues on some of the main roads coming into London on a Monday morning.

"But they're just about where we'd expect them to be, anyway. We're content with that."

But Steve McNamara, of the cab drivers association, said those traffic jams prove that planners have failed.

"They're constantly appearing on news reports telling you all is well, whilst pointing at screens of gridlocked traffic," he said. "What they say and what you see are two totally different things."

Transit authority gives heads-up on 'hot spots'

London's subway, the Tube, saw some delays and suspensions last week, while road traffic was also disrupted by Olympic lanes reserved for athletes and officials.

The transit authority is trying to ease any inconvenience by providing tips on planning routes, updates on travel disruptions and a list of transit "hot spots" expected to be busier than usual.

The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), which has been taking heat over empty seats at some venues in the early days of competition, says there are 34 Olympic venue. Sporting events are taking place in venues across London, from the Olympic Park in the east, to Wimbledon and Wembley Stadium in the west.

The Games opened Friday night with the opening ceremony.

Canada earned one medal the first two days of competition, a bronze in women's three-metre synchronized diving, on Sunday.

With files from The Associated Press

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/30/london-transit-olympics.html?cmp=rss

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Twitter Breaks the Cycle

Today in international tech news: Twitter traffic gets the blame for Olympic cyclists' transmitters not sending signals, which forced one TV commentator to use his watch to estimate times. Also, Bloomberg is still in Internet timeout over its report on a Chinese politician's wealth; Korean is hit with anther round of hacking; Google admits to hoarding info in the UK, and more.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

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If someone in your household has long hair or you bathe shedding pets often, use a hair trap in the shower to prevent annoying clogs in the drain. There are a variety of models to fit different drain styles, but they all work by preventing hair from entering the drain and getting stuck in the trap.

Update your kitchen. Something like this can increase the value of your home. This can be a simple project or a large one depending on what you want to do. If you just want to install a new sink that can be quite simple to do. Look at what you can fit into your budget before jumping into it.

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Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a dangerous cross-platform Trojan horse that provides criminals with full control over infected machines and can render a system non-operational. The malicious application, dubbed BackDoor.DaVinci.1, runs both in Windows and Mac OS X. Notably, the version for Mac OS X for the first time features rootkit technologies to hide the Trojan?s processes and files.

BackDoor.DaVinci.1 is developed and sold by HackingTeam which has been in business since 2003. This malicious program is a multi-component backdoor that includes a large number of functional modules, such as drivers that use rootkit technologies, to hide the application in an operating system.

BackDoor.DaVinci.1 is spread as the AdobeFlashPlayer.jar file, signed using an invalid digital certificate. On July 23 a user sent this signed applet to Doctor Web for analysis.

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The file determines the OS type and saves and launches an infected application in the compromised system-currently, Doctor Web?s virus analysts have Trojan samples intended for Windows and Mac OS X. It is known that a version targeting mobile platforms also exists.

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The malware features a modular architecture: the main backdoor component is supplemented with an encrypted configuration file and rootkit drivers. These drivers enable the malicious application to hide its presence. All Trojan versions use the same configuration file containing the modules? settings.

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BackDoor.DaVinci.1 allows criminals to gain full control over an infected computer. In addition, the Trojan saves and transmits information about the infected machine to criminals, acts as a key logger, can take screenshots, and intercept e-mail, ICQ, Skype messages and data captured by a microphone or video camera connected to a computer. In addition, the backdoor has a large set of tools to bypass anti-virus software and firewalls, so it may run unnoticed in a system for a long time. Interestingly, BackDoor.DaVinci.1 for Mac OS X is the first instance of malware for the platform that uses rootkit technologies to hide its files and processes.

HackingTeam criminals call their brainchild a 21st-century weapon and sell BackDoor.DaVinci.1 as a remote control and espionage solution. The Trojan poses a serious threat to users, because it not only intercepts any information on the infected computer but also gives criminals full control over a compromised system, so that they can render it non-operational, for example, by damaging or removing its components.

Despite BackDoor.DaVinci.1 developers? claims that this malicious application can withstand any modern anti-virus program, Dr.Web for Windows and Dr.Web for Mac OS X detect and successfully remove BackDoor.DaVinci.1; therefore, Dr.Web users are well protected against this threat.

Related stories:

  1. New Trojan for Mac OS X
  2. Doctor Web has analyzed the world?s smallest banking Trojan
  3. Doctor Web warns users about malicious spam spreading a dangerous Trojan
  4. New Trojan horse threatens Facebook users
  5. Criminals gain control over Mac with BackDoor.Olyx

Source: http://www.dataprotectioncenter.com/antivirus/drweb/cross-platform-trojan-controls-windows-and-mac-machines/

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India struggles to control ethnic violence in Assam

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Many drugs remain legal after "bath salts" ban

(AP) ? People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can't seem to keep up.

Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals that mimic the effects of illegal stimulants.

The drugs are often sold at independent stores in misleading packaging that suggests common household items like bath salts and plant food. But the substances inside are mind-altering drugs that have been linked to violent behavior.

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law earlier this month that bans the sale, production and possession of more than two dozen of the most common bath salt drugs. But health professionals say that there are so many different varieties that lawmakers are playing catch up.

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Money-saving tip No. 203: Cut down on costly drinks

Coffee, soft drinks, and other beverages can drain thousands of dollars from your annual budget.

By Trent Hamm,?Guest blogger / July 24, 2012

Cans of Coca-Cola and Diet Coke are shown in a cooler in Anne's Deli in this 2011file photo from Portland, Ore. Soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages can be a treat, but as a regular part of one's day they can become costly.

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When I was fresh out of college and enjoying my first post-college job, I pretty quickly established a daily routine for myself (particularly in 2004 and 2005).

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I would stop at a coffee shop for breakfast and enjoy a $5 drink to start the day.

I?d drink a soft drink or two in the afternoon at work ($1 each out of the vending machine).

On my way home, I?d sometimes stop for another coffee (another $5), often in the coffee shop area in my favorite bookstore.

Some nights, I?d go out for drinks with coworkers or friends (another $10 at least).

The total for this was $10 to $30. Every single weekday. Multiply that out by 50 weeks, five days a week, and we?re looking at $2,500 to $7,500 a year disappearing in the form of beverages.

That was a significant portion of my salary. No wonder I was in debt.

I?m going to be the last person to tell you that it?s not completely fine to have a coffee or a soft drink or a hard drink as an occasional treat. I enjoy them all as treats myself.

The key word there is?treats. You only need water to hydrate yourself. Other beverages are extra pleasures, and when extra pleasures become routine, they become expensive.

The challenge with a change like this is that?beverages are often a part of our life routine, and it?s very easy to be defensive about our routines.??Give up my morning coffee? I?d rather die!? I?ve heard these kinds of refrains many times.

Just remember, though, that?every beverage you enjoy that?s not tap or drinking fountain water is an extra expense.?Every time you make the choice to drink something else, it?s costing you money.

Perhaps one choice isn?t that expensive. Even three or four choices a day might not be too much, at least for that day. However, when you look at that over the span of a year, as I did, it adds up to a whole lot.

The key is to?make better choices in individual situations.?When you?re tempted to drink a coffee or a soda, drink a cup of water instead. When you pack a cooler for a road trip, put some water bottles in there instead.

Make a couple better choices each day and stick with them, and soon those choices will become routine. When they become routine, you?re spending less money without a second thought, and that money can go toward achieving whatever goals you desire.

This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available?at Amazon?and at bookstores everywhere.?

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Aquino urges Philippines to unite on China

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Automotive chargers are for automobiles, not motorcycles


It happened yet again. A guy went to jump start his motorcycle with a car charger, and it must have had one of the auto boost modes, and poof, there goes all the lights and electronics in the bike. You would be amazed at the amount of damage that was in the radio I just finished working on. That's two this week.

You can use these chargers for their low current modes for quick charging if you monitor them and take them off in a short period of time, but that's it.

Here is what happens:

High current chargers are not voltage regulated. Regulating that much current is prohibitively expensive. Instead, what the designer does is roughly estimates about how much current the dead battery can absorb, then switches in a much higher voltage, sometimes as high as 25-30 volts. (no load voltage) The vehicle never actually sees that much voltage because the high current going to the battery saturates the circuitry and pulls the voltage down to a manageable level.

The problem with using a motorcycle battery for this is that a bike battery can't absorb current at a rate as high as a car battery. When that happens, the higher input voltage does not sag like the designer intended it to. The result is blown capacitors, corrosive electrolyte from the capacitors all over the place, rusting the electronics, and if you are unlucky, you blow out semiconductors everywhere.

Even inexpensive chargers have automatic boost modes now. Do not ever attempt to start a bike with one, or you could very easily end up with thousands of dollars in damage to your bike's electronics.

Just a friendly warning.

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Distributed and Cloud Computing: Instructor materials now available

July 23, 2012??[MK] Todd

New! Instructors? resources now available

Visit our textbook resource site to obtain materials designed to facilitate the classroom experience, including:
  • PowerPoint slides to enhance lectures
  • Solutions for selected exercises in the book
  • All figure files for instructors to incorporate in their own presentations

About the Book:

From the leading minds in the field, Distributed and Cloud Computing is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, the book exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems. It will teach you how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, providing comprehensive coverage of distributed and cloud computing, including:

  • Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization
  • Clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications
  • Designing systems as web services
  • Social networking systems using peer-to-peer computing
  • Principles of cloud computing using examples from open-source and commercial applications

Using examples from open-source and commercial vendors, the text describes cloud-based systems for research, e-commerce, social networking and more.

Features:

  • Complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing
  • Includes case studies from the leading distributed computing vendors: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more
  • Designed to meet the needs of students taking a distributed systems course, each chapter includes exercises and further reading, with lecture slides and solutions available online

Table of Contents

Part 1: Systems Modeling, Clustering and Virtualization

Chapter 1: Distributed System Models and Enabling Technologies

1.1 Scalable Computing Service over The Internet

1.1.1 The Age of Internet Computing

1.1.2 Computing Trends and New Paradigms

1.1.3 Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

1.2 Technologies for Network-based Computing

1.2.1 Multicore, Many-Core and Multithreading Technologies

1.2.2 GPU Computing To Exascale and Beyond

1.2.3 Memory, Storage and System-Area Networking

1.2.4 Virtual Machines and Virtualization Middleware

1.2.5 Datacenter Virtualization for Cloud Computing

1.3 System Models for Distributed and Cloud Computing

1.3.1 Clusters of Cooperative Computers

1.3.2 Grid Computing Infrastructures

1.3.3 Peer-to-Peer Network Families

1.3.4 Cloud Computing over The Internet

1.4 Software Environments for Distributed Systems and Clouds

1.4.1 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

1.4.2 Distributed Operating Systems and Software Tools

1.4.3 Parallel/Distributed Programming Models

1.5 Performance, Security, and Energy-Efficiency

1.5.1 Performance Metrics and System Scalability

1.5.2 Fault-Tolerance and System Availability

1.5.3 Network Threats and Data Integrity

1.5.4 Energy-Efficiency in Distributed Computing

1.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Chapter 2: Computer Clusters for Scalable Computing

2.1 Clustering for Massive Parallelism

2.1.1 Historical Cluster Development Trends

2.1.2 Design Objectives of Computer Clusters

2.1.3 Fundamental Cluster Design Issues

2.1.4 Analysis of Top-500 Supercomputers

2.2 Computer Clusters and MPP Architectures

2.2.1 Cluster Organization and Resource Sharing

2.2.2 Node Architectures and MPP Packaging

2.2.3 Cluster System Interconnects

2.2.4 Hardware, Software, and Middleware Support

2.2.5 GPU Clusters for Massive Parallelism

2.3 Design Principles of Computer Clusters

2.3.1 Single System Images Features

2.3.2 High-Availability Through Redundancy

2.3.3 Fault-Tolerant Cluster Configurations

2.3.4 Checkpointing and Recovery Techniques

2.4 Cluster Job and Resource Management

2.4.1 Cluster Job Scheduling Methods

2.4.2 Cluster Job Management Systems

2.4.3 Load Sharing Facility (LSF) for Cluster Computing

2.4.4 MOSIX ? An OS for Linux Clusters and Clouds

2.5 Case Studies of Supercomputyers and MPP Systems

2.5.1 Tianhe-1A: The World Fastest Supercomputer in 2010

2.5.2 Cray XT-5 Jaguar : The Top Supercomputer in 2009

2.5.3 IBM RoadRunner: The Top Supercomputer in 2008

2.5.4 Nebulae: China?s First Petascale Supercomputer

2.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Chapter 3: Virtual Machines and Virtualization of Clusters and Datacenters

3.1 Implementation Levels of Virtualization

3.1.1 Levels of Virtualization Implementation

3.1.2 VMM Design Requirements and Providers

3.1.3 Virtualization Support at the OS Level

3.1.4 Middleware or Library Support for Virtualization

3.2 Virtualization Structures/Tools and Mechanisms

3.2.1 Hypervisor and XEN Architectures

3.2.2 Binary Translation with Full Virtualization

3.2.3 Para Virtualization with Compiler Support

3.3 Virtualization of CPU, Memory and I/O Devices

3.3.1 Hardware Support for Virtualization

3.3.2 CPU Virtualization

3.3.3 Memory Virtualization

3.3.4 I/O Virtualization

3.3.5 Multi-core Virtualization

3.4 Virtual Clusters and Resource Management

3.4.1 Physical versus Virtual Clusters

3.4.2 Live VM Migration Steps and Performance Effects

3.4.3 Migration of Memory, File and Network Resources

3.4.4 Dynamic Deployment of Virtual Clusters

3.5 Virtualization for Datacenter Automation

3.5.1 Server Consolidation in Datacenters

3.5.2 Virtual Storage Management

3.5.3 Cloud OS for Virtualizing Datacenters

3.5.4 Trust Management in Datacenter Design

3.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Part 2: Computing Clouds and Service-Oriented Architecture

Chapter 4: Design of Cloud Computing Platforms

4.1 Cloud Computing and Service Models

4.1.1 Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds

4.1.2 Cloud Ecosystem and Enabling Technologies

4.1.3 Infrastructure-as- a-Service (IaaS) Model

4.1.4 Platform- and Software-as-a-Service (Paas, SaaS)

4.2 Datacenter Design and Interconnection Networks

4.2.1 Warehouse-Scale Datacenter Design

4.2.2 Datacenter Interconnections Networks

4.2.3 Modular Datacenter in Truck Container

4.2.4 Interconnection of Modular datacenters

4.2.5 Datacenter Management Issues

4.3 Architecture Design of Compute and Storage Clouds

4.3.1 A Generic Cloud Architecture Design

4.3.2 Layered Cloud Architectural development

4.3.3 Virtualization Support and Disaster Recovery

4.3.4 Architectural Design Challenges

4.4 Public Cloud Platforms: GAE, AWS and Windows Azure

4.4.1 Public Clouds and Service Offerings

4.4.2 Google Application Engine (GAE)

4.4.3 Amazon Web Service (AWS)

4.4.4 Microsoft Windows Azure

4.5 Cloud Resource Management and Exchanges

4.5.1 Extended Cloud Computing Services

4.5.2 Resource Provisioning and Platform Deployment

4.5.3 Virtual Machine Creation and Management

4.5.4 Global Exchange of Cloud Resources

4.6 Cloud Security and Trust Management

4.6.1 Cloud Security Defense Strategies

4.6.2 Distributed Intrusion/.Anomaly Detection

4.6.3 Data and Software Protection Techniques

4.6.4 Reputation-Guided Protection of Datacenters

4.7 References and Homework Problems

Chapter 5: Service Oriented Architectures

5.1 Services and Service Oriented Architectures

5.1.1 REST and Systems of Systems

5.1.2 Services and Web Services

5.1.3 Enterprise Multi-tier Architecture

5.1.4 Grid Services and OGSA

5.1.5 Other Service Oriented Architectures and Systems

5.2 Message-Oriented Middleware

5.2.1 Enterprise Bus

5.2.2 Publish-Subscribe Model and Notification

5.2.3 Queuing and Messaging Systems

5.2.4 Illustrative Examples of Middleware

5.3 Portals and Science Gateways

5.3.1 Science Gateway Exemplars

5.3.2 HUBzero? Platform for Scientific Collaboration

5.3.3 Open Gateway Computing Environments OGCE

5.3.4 Summary and Future Developments

5.4 Discovery, Registries, Metadata, and Databases

5.4.1 UDDI and Service Registries

5.4.2 Databases and Publish-Subscribe

5.4.3 Metadata catalogues

5.4.4 Semantic Web and Grid

5.4.5 Job Execution Environments and Monitoring

5.5 Workflow in Service-Oriented Architectures

5.5.1 Basic Concepts of Workflow

5.5.2 Workflow Standards

5.5.3 Workflow Architecture and Specification

5.5.4 Workflow Execution Engine

5.5.5 Example of a Scripting Workflow System

5.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Chapter 6: Cloud Programming and Software Environments

6.1 Features of Cloud and Grid Platforms

6.1.1 Cloud Capabilities and Platform Features

6.1.2 Traditional Features Common To Grids and Clouds

6.1.3 Data Features and Databases

6.1.4 Programming and Runtime Features

6.2 Parallel and Distributed Programming Paradigms

6.2.1 Parallel Computing and Programming Paradigms

6.2.2 MapReduce, Twister and Iterative MapReduce

6.2.3 Hadoop Library from Apache

6.2.4 Dryad and DryadLINQ from Microsoft

6.2.5 Sawzall and Pig Latin- High-Level Languages

6.2.6 Mapping Applications to Parallel and Distributed Systems

6.3 Programming Support of Google App Engine

6.3.1 Programming the Google App Engine

6.3.2 Google File System (GFS)

6.3.3 Bigtable, Google?s NOSQL system

6.3.4 Chubby, Google?s Distributed Lock service

6.4 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Programming

6.4.1 AWS Platform and Service Offerings

6.4.2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2

6.4.3 Amazon Simple Storage Service S3

6.4.4 Amazon Elastic Block Store EBS and SimpleDB

6.5 Microsoft Azure Programming Support

6.5.1 Azure Cloud Platform

6.5.2 Programming Azure

6.6 Emerging Cloud Software Environments

6.6.1 Open Source Eucalyptus and Nimbus

6.6.2 OpenNebula, Sector/Sphere, and OpenStack

6.6.3 Manjrasoft Aneka Cloud and Appliances

6.7 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Part 3: Grids, P2P, and The Future Internet

Chapter 7: Grid Computing and Resource Management

7.1 Grid Architecture and Service Modeling

7.1.1 Grid Categories and Service Protocols

7.1.2 Resource Aggregation and Virtual Organizations

7.1.3 Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)

7.1.4 Data-Intensive Grid Service Models

7.2 Case Studies of Grid Computing Systems

7.2.1 National Grid Development Projects

7.2.2 The NSF TeraGrid in The USA

7.2.3 The DataGrid built by European Union

7.2.4 The ChinaGrid Design Experiences

7.3 Grid Resource Management and Brokering

7.3.1 Resource Management and Job Scheduling

7.3.2 Grid Resource Monitoring ? The CGSV Experiences

7.3.3 Service Accounting and Economy Model

7.3.4 Grid Resource Brokering -The Gridbus Experiences

7.4 Middleware Support for Grid Resource Management

7.4.1 Open-Source Grid Middleware Packages

7.4.2 The Globus Toolkit Architecture (GT4)

7.4.3 Globus Containers and Resource/Data Management

7.4.4 The ChinaGrid Support Platform (CGSP)

7.5 Grid Security Infrastructure in GT4

7.5.1 Grid security Trust Models

7.5.2 Authentication and Authorization

7.5.3 Globus Security Infrastructure (GSI)

7.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Chapter 8: P2P Computing with Overlay Networks

8.1 Peer-to-Peer Computing Systems

8.1.1 Basic Concepts of P2P Computing Systems

8.1.2 Fundamental Challenges in P2P Computing

8.1.3 Taxonomy of P2P Network Systems

8.2 P2P Overlay Networks and Properties

8.2.1 Unstructured P2P Overlay Networks

8.2.2 Distributed Hash Tables (DHT)

8.2.3 Structured P2P Overlay Networks

8.2.4 Hybrid P2P Overlay Networks

8.3 Routing, Proximity and Fault Tolerance

8.3.1 Routing in P2P Overlay Networks

8.3.2 Network Proximity in P2P Overlays

8.3.3 Fault Tolerance and Failure Recovery

8.3.4 Churn Resilience Against Failures

8.4 Trust and Reputation Management

8.4.1 Peer Trust and Reputation Systems

8.4.2 Trust Overlay and DHT Implementation

8.4.3 PowerTrust ? A Scalable Reputation System

8.5 P2P File Sharing and Copyright Protection

8.5.1 Fast Search, Replica and Consistency

8.5.2 P2P Content Delivery Networks

8.5.3 Copyright Protection Issues and Solutions

8.5.4 Collusive Piracy Prevention in P2P Networks

8.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

Chapter 9: Ubiquitous Computing with Clouds and The Internet of Things

9.1 Cloud Trend To Support Ubiquitous Computing

9.1.1 Use of Clouds for HPC and Ubiquitous Computing

9.1.2 Large-Scale Private Clouds (NASA, CERN, etc.)

9.1.3 Cloud Mashup for Agility and Scalability

9.1.4 Cloudlets for Mobile Cloud Computing

9.1.5 Review of Science and Research Clouds

9.2 Performance Metrics for HPC and HTC Systems

9.2.1 Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC)

9.2.2 Performance Metrics for HPC Systems

9.2.3 Quality of Service of HTC Systems

9.2.4 Workload Characterization for Performance Prediction

9.2.5 Benchmarking MPI, Azure, EC2, MapReduce, Hadoop

9.3 Enabling Technologies for The Internet of Things

9.3.1 Internet of Things for Ubiquitous Computing

9.3.2 Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)

9.3.3 Sensor Networks and Zigbee Technology

9.3.4 Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

9.4 Innovative Applications of The Internet of Things

9.4.1 Applications of The Internet of Things

9.4.2 Retailing and Supply-Chain Management

9.4.3 Smart Power Grid and Smart Buildings

9.4.4 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

9.5 On-Line Social and Professional Networking

9.5.1 Online Social Network Characteristics

9.5.2 Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Social networks

9.5.3 Communities and Applications of Social Networks

9.5.4 Facebook: The World?s Largest Content-Sharing Network

9.5.5 Twitter for Microblogging, News and Alert Services

9.6 Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems

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The decision to stop smoking is one that many people think about. There are many reasons why people want to quit and just as many reasons why they are not successful. Increase your chances for success with the tips and techniques from this article. You may find that the you are more successful since you have these tips to help you.

To help you quit smoking, some people say that eating low calorie snack foods is very effective. Try purchasing mini carrots, cut up broccoli, cauliflower, dried fruit, low calorie cereal, or sugar-free candy. Consuming any of these items when you have the desire to smoke can help control cravings and keep your mouth busy.

When you decide to quit smoking cigarettes, throw away all of your ashtrays, lighters, empty packs, and other smoking paraphernalia. Keeping these items around can be triggering during your weaker moments, and removing them from your surroundings will make it easier for you to think of yourself as a non-smoker.

In addition to quitting smoking, you should also cut back on foods and drinks that trigger nicotine cravings. For example, you will be more vulnerable to your nicotine addiction when you drink alcohol. If you regularly drink coffee when you smoke, then you should cut back on that too to reduce craving-inducing associations.

To fully prepare yourself with the struggles of quitting, know exactly what to expect before you start. Know how soon you can expect symptoms of nicotine withdrawal to kick in, and know all of the possible symptoms you could experience. This will also help you to anticipate your strongest cravings and most likely pitfalls.

If you have quit smoking in the past but started back up, only to want to quit again, this time you need to come up with a plan of action. Write down everything that caused you to relapse in the past so you are better prepared to handle these issues as they arise going forward.

Think about signing up for motivational emails or text messages when you want to quit smoking. Oftentimes, people fail to quit because they lack the motivation or encouragement to do so. These messages will give you that push you need when you feel as if you want to give up.

It is a fact that many smokers wish they could quit. Many may try and get discouraged. If you have failed before, don?t be discouraged. Take what you learned from that failure and combine it with the tips and techniques from the article above and you may find that success can be yours.


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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Wellness and Safety-It Tends to make Fantastic Cents ...

Well being and Safety-It Tends to make Great Cents

Data shows that small organizations that have health and safety procedures in spot lessen their injury and illness expenses by 20 percent as well as as much as 40 percent. Almost 95 percent of business owners report that well being and safety applications have a positive impact on the company?s bottom-line according to a current survey. Of this group, 61 percent say their return-on-investment is 3 dollars for every 1 dollar they invest in improving workplace safety. Additionally, businesses which have working well being and safety applications in place have seen employee absenteeism drop in half.

A properly planned well being and safety system is obtainable even for smaller corporations. By way of example in this worst to 1st scenario, a modest manufacturing company was forced into putting a well being and safety system in spot or be shut down. They began by carrying out an audit, identified and controlled hazards, showed working procedures, and had to keep their injury rates below the national typical for their sector. Immediately after they had implemented their well being and safety program, they had a lot of years with not a single injury and saved greater than $45,000 on insurance premiums. The firm was even recognized with an award for their safety record. The owner, Rick, mentioned ?Our well being and safety program has helped us safeguard our workers, maintain compliance, hold our essential personnel working for us, and has saved us genuine money to place back into our corporation.?

Wellness and safety is no longer just viewed as a good notion, but a vital investment inside the business? long term success. Mounting costs of unhealthy workers along with the expense and disruption of staff turnover is turning lots of little business owners to health and safety. The payback in wellness and safety applications comes in the form of: enhanced productivity, fewer insurance and worker?s comp claims, less absenteeism, reduce in accidents, reduced staff turnover, increased employee morale, and leads to a better business reputation and customer loyalty.

Unhealthy and absent staff are pricey. Corporations incur direct expenses including worker?s comp payments, disability fees, replacement personnel, gear damage, and also lost productivity.

By getting a well being and safety plan in place, employers also safeguard themselves from liability in employee?s injury in getting exposed to unidentified hazards in the workplace. Employers is often charged in injuries induced to untrained employees. An unhealthy may also threaten the safety of other individuals such as fellow staff, the organization owner, and even the customer in the business.

In starting a system, there wants to become commitment. Employers should get a feeling on the seriousness of this new procedure. The organizing ought to be a partnership amongst the enterprise owner and employees. To be able to actively engage all aspects with the on-going course of action in the company, the program must take into consideration all the significant well being risks in all of the places on the workplace to meet the demands of all employees.

Deciding on whether to have a health and safety program really should be clear. Wellness and safety issues within the workplace expense the business enterprise owner directly and even in lost opportunity. A transform to creating the business enterprise safer will result in an a lot more positive bottom-line.

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