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Marriott Data Breach: What You Need To Know

Heads up if you’ve stayed or made reservations at a Marriott or Starwood property over the last decade. A major security issue was just announced and the scope of the problem is actually quite astonishing. Here’s what you need to know about the Marriott International data breach.

Marriott Data Breach

What is the Marriott Data Breach?

On November 30th, Marriott International announced that the private information of up to 500 million guests became compromised. The breach is one of the largest in history and brings up a variety of concerns regarding consumer privacy safety.

They noted that an internal tool recognized a data breach in September, but wasn’t able to confirm the issue was part of the Starwood database until November. Further investigation revealed that the problem has happened since as far back as 2014 and that the exact breadth of the issue isn’t yet known.

Who is Affected by the Marriott Data Breach?

To be blunt, 500 million people is a lot. If you’ve traveled on business in the past or regularly stay at the hotel chain’s properties, your personal data is likely compromised. Additionally, those who merely made reservations but never actually stayed the night are also included in the breach.

According to NBC News, Marriott also reported that for 327 million of those people, the information includes some combination of a name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences. Encrypted credit card information is also likely stolen, but the company isn’t yet sure if the thieves were able to reveal account numbers.

An additional report also suggested that employee information might have even been compromised, especially in situations where workers took advantage of employee discounts to stay at hotels around the globe.

What is Marriott Doing After the Data Breach?

While the initial statement from the company was vague, they have taken steps to improve the situation by hiring the public relations firm Kroll. Those concerned about being part of the Marriott data breach may check for more information at a website provided by the hotel chain.

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is opening an investigation into the incident, citing the company headquarters in his state as the reasoning for his inquisition. Additionally, New York planned to look into the incident and other states where the company has properties are likely to follow. There is no word yet on how the breach is being reviewed internationally.

Furthermore, within hours of the news, a class action lawsuit for 12 billion dollars was filed by Ben Meiselas of Geragos & Geragos. The suit is on behalf of two plaintiffs who feel duped by the company not immediately admitting there was a security issue. In other cases in the past are any indication, there’s likely to be a settlement out of court soon.

What Can Other Companies Learn from Marriott’s Data Breach?

At this time, it is hard to tell what other companies can learn from Marriott International’s data breach since news of the incident is still relatively recent. Other companies have faced similar issues in the past, such as Yahoo’s admission earlier this year that the three billion accounts had information hacked and Under Armour’s data breach of 150 million MyFitnessPal user accounts. Those companies were able to provide customers with free credit monitoring to try to earn back trust, but time will still tell on how it affects each firm’s reputation overall. Both have made attempts to increase application cybersecurity.

In short, if you have made a reservation or stayed at a Marriott Hotel or Starwood property in the last few years, it is wise to invest in some version of identity theft monitoring. Also, consider additional discussion and concerns with your lawyer general and by making a claim on Marriott’s data breach website.

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We paused at little river cities along the way in which and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four toes or extra of water islanded the houses. Then, as our airplane descends, the islands take on the semblance of an oversize Monument to Earth, a pure Stonehenge that rises from the underside of the ocean and has us spell sure until we land.

Walk the Milford Observe, take pleasure in a boat cruise by the serene waters, or try your hand at kayaking by way of the dramatic landscapes. The island has quartz seashores: Many first-time guests are amazed by the powdery white sand masking Anna Maria Island seashores.

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Our Lady of Good Counsel School is licensed to operate a Morning and After School Care Program which is licensed by the State of Hawaii. The program provides a safe place for our students who need adult supervision after school hours. Students enrolled in the program are also enhanced socially, emotionally, and physically as they interact with peers from other grade levels.
We acknowledge the hardship that working parents face with child care. Morning Care begins at 6am and is offered for an additional fee. The preschool tuition includes morning care

The school also recognizes that our students have many talents that need to be discovered and/or guided. With volunteers and dedicated staff members, we have several programs that are offered to students.

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Catholic School League:

Students in grades 4 – 8 are invited to try out for basketball, volleyball, and track events. Our student-athletes are instilled with the values of sportsmanship, school spirit, and a positive attitude that is reflected in their play and support for each other.

Chess Club:

Students in grades 4 – 8 meet during their lunch recess to challenge each other in chess. Tournaments are held during the school year.

Girls of grades 2-8 learn spirit, poise, and coordination in this cheerleading sport.

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Students of all levels explore theater and build confidence, communication, self-control, and expression.

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Students explore the Korean language and culture.

Students practice proper skill and methods of singing.

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This building blocks program is periodically offered after school through our partner, Bricks 4 Kids.

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Students in grades 4 – 8 are invited to try out for the percussion group. Selected students practice during their recess break and share their talent during our weekly school Mass.

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I and a few other will be playing this amazing event at the ‘London Tobacco Docks’ (Canal Side) on the 18th of June. The event is free and includes street parties, big lunches, games of football and bake offs!

Other Confirmed acts include Mikie Kitaruth, Ross Lowe, Megan Vienna and My Good Man William!

This is a very worth while cause with an ideology that is very much needed at present. Following the event, all the players will go on to play at The Prospect of Whitby at 6pm! Contact me directly for any questions or details!

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Ubisoft Announces E3 2018 Press Conference Date And Time

E3 2018 is only two months away and if you want to see what games are in store for exhibition, publishers and developers are posting up their press conference times well ahead of the event, including companies like Ubisoft. The company has revealed its press conference date and time for this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Ubisoft will attend E3 2018 and will likely show off new games at the event. If you want to see what the company will show off at the big expo, the press conference date and time has been posted up for you to look over.

Furthermore, Ubisoft has announced on Twitter that it will show up at this year’s E3 with a stage presence on Monday, June 11th, 2018. The company’s event will be held at 1:00 P.M. PT at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, Californa:

“Save the Date, #UbiE3 is coming! Join us on June 11, from 1pm PT. More to come, stay tuned…”

As seen above, Ubisoft notes to “save the date,” to get folks hyped up. Sadly, the tweet provides no further information as to what will appear since we have to “stay tuned….”

The good news is that we know what will appear at this year’s E3 when Ubisoft shows up thanks to a news update the company posted in early March.

Ubisoft had announced The Division 2, a sequel to the 2016 MMORPG-like looter-shooter, on March 8th. Ubisoft shared very little information about the second iteration. However, more details will drop during E3 2018.

In addition to the above, The Division 2 creative director, Justin Gerighty, confirmed that a fuller reveal “with tons of information” is planned. There will be no further announcements from now until then.

As for other titles to be showcased at this year’s E3 at Ubisoft press conference remains unknown. With all of that said, what would you like to see at this year’s E3 event from Ubisoft?

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Hyderabad, Aug 25 (UNI) Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) floor leader Vijaya Rama Rao today demanded that the government adopt a resolution on Telangana and vote on the issue in the Assembly.

Immediately after the house was adjourned, TRS MLAs led by their floor leader staged a dharna in front of the Speaker's chamber in the Assembly. Mr Rao later told mediapersons that the government should allow a debate on Telangana and adopt a resolution this session.

He alleged that the government was cheating the people of Telangana by saying sufficient money was allocated for development of the backward region. He demanded the government also conduct voting on Telangana to know how many members supported the separate state in the House.

Mr Rao said Telangana was a sentimental issue of three crore people living in the backward region and facing discrimination in all sectors for 50 years.

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ESCONDIDO, Calif, and Las Vegas - April 8, 2019 – One Stop Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSS), a leader in specialized high-performance computing, has introduced the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 GPU Render Accelerator platform and Video Recorder platform at the 2019 NAB Show being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Nokia Lumia 1020 – Let the smartphone camera revolution begin! #ZoomReinvented

NokiaUS just uploaded this short promo video on their YouTube Channel for the AT&T Nokia Lumia 1020. It’s a fairly simple video, but does well to show off the device, it’s camera/zoom functions, and the Camera Grip accessory.

The catchy beat really works, so that’s a plus for Nokia. Also the first thing you see is the camera, which really provides initial focus for the average viewer if they so happen to stumble upon the ad. In fact, the camera is shown predominantly on multiple occasions. It also gives insight to the user controls for Nokia Pro Camera and the real-time adjustable settings. The Camera Grip is shown as well, giving a quick glimpse at the extra battery power it provides for the device. The actors are silent and used only as subjects for the photos as they play a game of basketball, a great way to show off how the camera can freeze action and still provide amazing detail and zooming capabilities. There’s no voice-over or anything, but why should there be when you can let the device speak for itself?

Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera

The video provides no links, is viewable only in 480p, and has AT&T branding at the end, so I can assume that this is already being used or will be used in TV advertisements? It would be nice, as I’ve always been fond of Nokia’s YouTube promos, which is more than I can say for their actual advertising efforts outside the internet. And the Nokia Lumia 1020 deserves all the attention and marketing prowess it can get.


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Denis Suárez (signed)

Can’t moan if we’re getting him for around £10M.

Think we should be stockpiling different profiles of midfielders anyway. It doesn’t sound like he’ll be a starter but given his age, it looks like a low-balling gamble, which I’m fine with.

Probably Emery wants it to happen.

Has great potential according to FIFA.

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I reckon he’s amazing and should finally be that Vieira-type ballwinner replacement we’ve been missing since 2005

Saw someone post this on Twitter and thought I’d share it. It’s a basic insight into D.Suarez from a Barcelona perspective.

More or less what I expected. Not excited if I am honest… I guess the hope is that he did well under Emery previously and has potential, but never got many chances. Age is ok and if less than 10m, we’ll see. Hope he can turn into something more than another squaddie.

So a Barce fans long analysis is Barce shouldn’t sell and thinks he’s suffering from lack of game time.

After watching a fair bit of youtube clips I am impressed with his technical ability and Barcesque passing, touch and movement.

For the money this is cracking buy imo

A week back when Liverpool smashed us there was a huge backlash with people saying we needed to take the Liverpool approach to transfer activity in the windows.

Isn’t there aspects of this sort of deal aligning with what Liverpool did when they bought Coutinho at the time?

I don’t know a huge amount about Suarez but for the figures being quoted, and with the age he’s at - this isn’t an outrageous gamble at all is it?

No, some people just love a moan on here haha

Coutinho was a player with immense talent who didn’t reach his potential at Inter. Admittedly he was much younger, but Suarez is in the same hemisphere when we’re looking at profile of signing. Player who hasn’t fulfilled potential (though not as high a ceiling as Coutinho) and is available for a good price from a top club.

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These are the kind of signings that we should be making, just like Andre Gomes who is excelling at Everton Suarez is clearly better than what he’s been able to demonstrate at Barca.

When you look at our pauper midfield I don’t know how we can be turning our noses up at this kind of signing to be honest. Ideally we take him on loan and sign him after a successful spell, however, considering the figures being quoted it’s not a huge gamble to take him on permanently now.

Thanks guys. Feeling better after reading through more and looking at it from different perspective… looking forward to watching him.

You’re welcome. Now step into my office so I can sell you the Mustafi dream :grin:

Yeah too much PTSD to overcome on that one :facepalm:

It kind of is but Coutinho was much younger. It’s more like when Real were potentially selling Isco and like when they sold Morata or Mata or like when Barce shifted Deulofeu. Even Cesc and Bellerin are examples of sorts but alongside those there is that other Barce kid that didn’t make it here. There’s mixed results with those players

Suarez at least has had a break out season before getting the Barce deal.

I’m ok with it because he theoretically has high resale value. But I’m done getting excited about signings unless there is a very good reason.

With a name like that, we should snap him up right away.

For the very same reasons, I wish we hadn’t signed Amaury Bischoff, as he may have been related to Eric.

(Yeah, thank God I ain’t the Arsenal manager)

My thoughts as well. Haven’t seen him much but I also think that if you buy a 24yo who has a few years at Barca he’s probably not going to drop much in value anyway, we could perhaps pass him on in a couple of years if it doesn’t work out and we’re not getting Arthur anyway lol

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That’s a good reason to sign Amaury no? :arteta:


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Stimulate childrens interest in music with the 8 tone Rainbow Xylophone from Classic Toys. The Rainbow Xylophone is well presented with beautiful colours (just like a rainbow) and offers superb sound qualities only found from quality wood. Size of Xylophone: 35cm Length X 20cm Width X 7cm Height

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Soothe & Surprise Nature Light™ uses a combination of soothing classical melodies, nature sounds, songs, and a calming light play to help relax baby and send them off to a peaceful slumber.

The unit also features a built-in sound sensor that activates soothing melodies when baby awakes. A variety of light play settings, time settings and musical settings allows parents to customise this adorable crib toy to baby's specific needs. Playtime is over, it's time for bed, dreamy time awaits you now lay down your head.

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Batteries: Uses 4 X "C" Batteries (included batteries are for demo purposes only . Not long life batteries).
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PPE is used to reduce exposure to hazards in the workplace and is usually recommended for workers in the field, but should never be used as the only effort to protect employees.

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The top of the hierarchy of hazard control includes elimination and substitution, which mean you physically remove or replace the hazard. Even though these are considered most effective, they are usually the most difficult to accomplish. Existing processes make it tough to find a way to eliminate or replace a hazard.

The middle and most favored option is to use engineering controls. The aim of engineering controls is to isolate people from the hazard. Engineering controls are designed to remove the hazard from the source before it ever comes into contact with an employee by reducing the source of exposure. Rather than removing or replacing sources of hazards, engineering controls work to modify equipment and processes to reduce the source of hazards. An example of an engineering control would be a ventilation system that removes vapors while an employee works.

The bottom contains administrative controls and PPE. These two methods of hazard control are considered the least effective and should never be used alone to prevent hazards and protect employees.

Administrative controls essentially change the way people work. This option works from the side of the employee rather than the equipment or process. Through administrative controls employees spend restricted time in work areas, among other rules, while hazards are not actually removed or reduced.

PPE is found at the bottom of the hierarchy of hazard controls because it is designed to protect the employee once the hazard comes into contact with them, not prevent the hazard from happening. Personal protective equipment should be considered the last resort for employers and their employees and should be an aid used along with existing hazard protection processes to protect an employee when hazards are not already well controlled.

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Migrating My Six-Pack To Air Manager

Air Manager from Sim Innovations is a great product that lets you design custom flight simulator panels for display on PC, Mac, Android, and iPad screens. I’ve used the iPad version for some time to display panels for some of the aircraft in the sim, and it works very well. My complaint has been that the iPad version is limited to the instruments available in their instrument store. There are over 500 of them, and nearly all of them are free to use, but they don’t all match the airplane I’m using or my panel, which is black.

As a result, over the past two weeks I have paid for and have been working with the desktop version of Air Manager. It’s much more powerful that the mobile version, and lets you customize instruments. Doing so means being good with PhotoShop (or good enough), but more important, means knowing your way around basic Lua code and scripts — and that is something I barely understand.

But I have been playing with it, and have come a fair way in modifying some of the free instruments to create my own panels. One is a C172 panel that better matches the instrumentation of the Skyhawk I rent, and which has black instrument backgrounds to better match my sim’s black panel. It looks like this:

That was an easy modification. I just changed the light settings on the backgrounds for the steam gauges so they were grey/black.

A more significant bit of work has been modifying the default Air Manager Avidyne panel so it more closely matches and works like the actual Avidyne Entegra PFD in the Cirrus I’m flying. The actual panel looks like this (not from the airplane I use — I found this image on the Web):

… whereas the default Air Manager panel looks like this:

… and after spending some time with PhotoShop and working with the Lua script, I now have a panel that looks like this:

I’ve moved the left data block down below where it is in the real plane, and added the engine data block on the other side. That scripting was all straightforward. More complicated (at least to figure out, as the code is simple) was the data block for the GPS data. I had to figure out how to have it display the full name of the next waypoint, and found some clever code to convert the time enroute estimate to hours:minutes:seconds. And finally yesterday I was able to create the power percentage at top left. X-Plane has a dataref for total power for the airplane in watts, and another for current power in watts. Some math created the power percentage, and it seems to accurately change with mixture and altitude. Given that all Cirrus power settings are in percentages, this data block was important for the panel to work well for my IFR training. There is more to do, but this is a great start and I hope to keep working on it, and at some point I will upload it to the Air Manager store so others can use it.

In terms of running these panels, I can’t do it on the iPad as the iPad player is limited to instruments in the store. So I pulled out an older Microsoft Surface I have, cleaned it up and updated its Windows, and installed on it Sim Innovations Air Player software. This lets me send any panel I create in Air Manager to the Surface where it can talk to X-Plane. I’ll now be mounting that Surface where the iPad used to be in my panel. I’ll post and update when it’s up and running, but so far the tests look great.

A Switch In Platforms

I made the decision earlier this week to do my IFR training in this SR-20. I had a flight in it last month, and another this week, and while it is more expensive per hour than the other airplanes I’ve been flying I believe it’s the right platform for me long term. As I’ve done more research on Cirrus I’ve been particularly impressed with the focus on safety and the very strong pilot community, embodied by COPA, the association for Cirrus pilots and owners. I’ve joined it, and have already learned a lot about general aviation just from reading its forums. I also very much like the tone of that community: everyone uses their real names, the disagreements are extremely civil, and folks are beyond helpful.

COPA also runs a series of proficiency programs, called CPPP’s, several times a year that include flight and ground schools and can count as FAA Wings training credit. There’s one in Lakeland, FL next weekend and I’ve enrolled in the ground school. I’m really looking forward to it.

Finally, I’ve configured the sim to model an SR-20 using Jason Chandler’s Cirrus package. I find the flight model excellent, and you get both SR-20s and SR-22s in the package. I tried the vFlyte SR-20 but it was difficult to remove cockpit objects so they weren’t visible in my monitors. That vFlyte package would be better for VR use, though. Air Manager for iPad has a basic Avidyne panel (which the SR-20 I’ll be flying uses) that I can run in the sim. It works well, but lacks a lot of the data the real thing presents, so this weekend I’ll be looking into building my own via the Air Manager desktop app. I’ll keep you posted on that experiment.

A Better Set Of Lua Scripts For Rotary Encoders In X-Plane

A few years back I posted a LUA script I had modified for increasing the speed with which a rotary encoder can change something like a heading bug in X-Plane. While you can assign a rotary encoder — either one you place in your sim or maybe one of the dials on a Saitek FIP — to change a heading bug by having it send a keyboard stroke to the simulator, that process moves the bug very very slowly, and this old script speeded that up.

Last week I noticed that the script I used to change my OBS via a rotary encoder was no longer working in FlyWithLua. In trying to find the source of the error I found new posts in this post at the .ORG in which Adamo posted a link to a .ZIP file which has improved scripts for a variety of different bugs you might want to sent via an encoder: Heading, Airspeed, Altitude, VClimb/Descent, OBS, etc. They work GREAT, and are worth downloading if you want this functionality in your sim. The link to the .ZIP file is about half-way down the thread.

A Very Different Reality With X-Plane 11.32 Beta

I wrote a few days back about my struggles with the 11.3 beta series of X-Plane, with the primary issue being repeated crashes and inconsistent device (e.g. FIPs via SPAD.neXt) performance. Since that time I updated the power plan of my PC (which for some reason had reset to a default setting) and updated X-Plane to the 11.32 release candidate, and suddenly, to my great surprise, I am experiencing simulation bliss. Performance is good — 30 to 60 fps using a frame-limiting plugin (not 3jFPS but another one which slips my mind at the moment) — smooth, and more important, no crashes and no wonky device performance. SPAD.neXt is working great, Air Manager is working great, the Flight Illusion stack is working great, and the RealSimGear 430 is working great. It’s blissful. More important, with PilotEdge I have now had two very helpful simulated-IFR training flights to augment my real-world IFR training. I’m happy as can be. I don’t know what did the trick, perhaps it was the release of 11.32, but I’m not asking why. I’m just enjoying the sim.

Also, for those who have asked about my preference of VR vs. the physical sim cockpit, my thinking is as I had suspected it would be a few months back: while VR feels much more like flying and is a much better experience in terms of sight pictures, the fluidity of being airborne, etc., I have no doubt that I will be using the physical cockpit as my first choice for IFR training at home. Being able to use the GNS 430 (just as in the real-world), manage charts, etc. is, at least so far, a better training experience for me and just more like what I do in the real airplane. I’ll post more about this as my training continues and my thinking evolves, but so far that’s how it’s shaping up.

I Spent Time In A Sim Today – And It Counted

My first time using flight simulation software was sometime in the 1980s on the green screen of an Apple IIe. That interest eventually led to my building the Basement Sim, most construction of which happened three years ago this week. So it seems apropos that today I spent 1.5 hours in a sim and was able to enter it in my logbook as counting against the requirements for my instrument rating.

The short story is that one of the CFI’s at my flight school recently bought a federally-approved sim and has it on the virtual line for student training. We were originally set to spend a couple of hours in a Cirrus SR-20 today (I’m getting checked out on the SR-20), but weather was IFR so we jumped in the sim instead. 1.5 hours later – and a failed attitude indicator, failed vacuum pump, failed airspeed indicator, and a shot of smoke in the cockpit later – we had 1.5 hours of simulated IFR time for the logbook. With this sim I can count 20 hours of sim time against my instrument rating, and I plan to make the most of it. And it should only get better, as today they installed PilotEdge on the sim.

My impression is that the time I’ve spent in my own sim was very helpful in this training. The CFI felt I handled the instrument work better than most people just beginning their instrument training, and I was quite comfortable on the instruments. The big learning today, aside from many technical coaching points the CFI gave me along the way, was the distraction partial panel can cause. The urge to glance at your attitude indicator or directional gyro is quite real, and when you do and it is failed it gives a very incorrect signal to the brain that is likely in opposition to what the other instruments are telling you. I can see why folks might carry some post-it-notes to stick over a failed instrument in real-world flight. But that, too, is something I can simulate in my own rig, and flying around in IMC for a while with a failed attitude indicator is on my list of things to do.

One final impression was how useful it was to have a CFI throw you emergencies and failures. You can set X-Plane to fail systems randomly across a particular time frame, but you do know to some extent that it’s coming. I plan to do this at home, but I also left thinking that it’s probably money well-spent to have a CFI put you in a sim and just throw crazy stuff at you once a month. I can’t believe that would make you worse as a pilot.

(And the best part of today was when he had my flying partial panel with a failed attitude indicator and airspeed indicator when the sim threw me carb ice on its own – but a quick pull of the carb heat fixed that particular problem.)

An Update On 11.3 – And Progress

I spent some time digging into the Windows Event Log and saw that my most recent X-Plane 11.31rc1 crash involved the crash of an obscure (at least to me) video driver. My NVIDIA drivers are current, but in researching the situation I found a post noting power management problems as a possible cause of that specific driver crash. I checked my power management settings and, lo and behold, somewhere along the path of mandatory Windows updates they had been reset from “Bitsum Highest Performance” to “Balanced.” I set them back to highest performance, and the next VR flight was (1) stable, and (2) much better performance. I will hope this resolved the issue. The real test will be setting up the physical sim and it’s many associated devices. I’ll post an update when I do.

Finally Answering Some Questions

I have been quite absent from here lately. The holidays were a time to focus elsewhere, and with the new year my aviation interest was focused entirely upon preparing for my checkride. Since then I have been flying to remain proficient, have started my instrument training, and am busy with work. But today I’m answering questions in the Q&A section, and if you had posted one there, thank you for your patience.

For Me X-Plane 11.3 Is A Mess

This is not a post I wanted to write. X-Plane has been a great experience for me, even with the betas. But now it is a mess, and has been since around RC4 or RC5 of the 11.3 beta. The physical cockpit has been virtually unflyable. For a while things worked well until I touched the throttle, at which point I’d get a total hardware crash – to reset, not to desktop. I tried all the standard steps: pref deletion, cache deletion, removal of all plugins, and even a clean and separate install. No joy. I thought I’d isolated the problem as a customized aircraft file, but even with default aircraft, clean install, no add-ins: crashes. Less predictable, and no longer tied to the throttle, but crashes nonetheless. And there is nothing useful in the logs. (And graphic performance in the physical cockpit, with it’s 3-4 monitor setup, has also not been great in 11.3, with me getting about the same performance in 11.3 with my 1080ti as I used to get in earlier releases with my 980ti – but I’d gladly trade lower settings for a stable system.)

So today, after another crash in the physical cockpit, I thought I’d try VR. I had moved away from my VR setup and back to the physical sim to make practice easier for my real-world instrument rating, but thought I’d run with VR and see how it goes. And it was a different story. Graphic performance was excellent – a solid 45 frames and smooth, even with high settings. And with AviTab and my Navigraph sub I was using charts in the VR cockpit without difficulty as I simulated an IFR flight from KSNA to Carlsbad. And then, about half way to the Oceanside VOR from KSAN, crash. At least this one was to desktop. Again nothing informative in the logs.

I will note that I am now running 11.31rc1, hoping that the beta had squashed some of the prior bugs. But as of now, my sim is not reliably flyable. This is very disappointing, especially after several years of excellent reliability from X-Plane. And reading the forums, I’m not the only one. This is a buggy release, in my view, and I can’t wait until they have moved passed it.

But there is good news: in VR I found that if I looked down just at the instruments the experience was very similar to wearing foggles whe simulating instrument conditions in the real-world. So I have that going for me …


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#57610 by gtjr92
Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:08 am
Hey OOMA support I would like to request that my call waiting be disabled.
If possible I would like a call that comes in when the phone is in use to be sent to voicemail.
Also if possible I would like a different message sent to the other caller. Something like the person
you are trying to call is on the phone, please leave a message at the tone.

Also I got an email about the latest firmware update, it states Purevoice was now enabled via new firmware, however I did not see that in the release notes listed in the forum here. Is that because Pure Voice is server side or did the purevoice update not go through??

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:47 am

Your request is in the queue waiting to be processed. Once disabled, 2nd incoming would go to vmail.
There is no option to have 2 greeting messages active.

Purevoice is controlled on the server side.

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Top 8 Tips For Going to the Doctor

Hey friends!  Happy Sunday!  This week’s topic:  Going to the Doctor!

Remember, it is our job to take care of ourselves on a daily basis by making good food, fitness, and lifestyle choices… but, you should visit your doctor at least once per year to check in and see how you’re doing with all of those choices.  This applies to both women AND men, my friends.  I know a lot of guys who think they’re off the hook because they don’t see an OB/GYN… not true, gentlemen!  Everybody has a body, and that body needs a peek by a professional.  Let me ask you this:  can you see your own back up close and not in the mirror?  If you can, then you are an acrobatic genius!  My point?  A professional knows what to look for, where to look for it, and if something doesn’t look right… and they can see places on your body that you can’t 😉

And, hey, if you truly are the picture of health (and I hope you are!), you will gain some bragging rights at your visit each year!

So… is there really a “best” way to visit your doctor?  Absolutely!  The key is to be prepared.  Here are my top 8 tips to help you go to the doctor the “best” way you can!

1.       Make an appointment.

I know, it seems like a silly step, but if you don’t make the appointment, you won’t go.  Appointments give you accountability; and quite honestly, it is imperative in 2019.  Most people can’t just drop in to the doctor’s office and happen upon an available time slot.  Schedule a couple of months in advance so you’re sure to get an appointment that suits your schedule, and then put it on your calendar.  For me, it’s something I do every March, and I start scheduling in January.  All of my doctor’s appointments happen the same month, as it makes it easy to keep track (teeth, eyes, OB/GYN, and primary MD for me… who’s on YOUR team?!).

2.      Submit for a sick day or PTO.

Yes!  Some of you lucky winners have employers who pay you to go to the doctor!  You won’t know unless you ask though, so check in with your boss and find out about your benefits and how to claim them.  There, I just made you some money.  You’re welcome.  😉

3.      Make a list.

This is a big one!  You think you will remember what you want to talk about… but, you probably won’t.  You’ll inevitably miss something, possibly the most important thing… and then you will have to make another appointment, pay another co-pay, and fiddle with your calendar at the last minute.  Do you ever go to the grocery store without a list?  Did you get home with everything you needed?  Usually not.  You missed the most important ingredient for dinner, didn’t you?  It’s okay, we all do it.  But don’t do that with your doctor!  Not only does a list help you touch on all the topics of concern, but it also helps to structure the time of your appointment.  Remember: doctors are busy folks just like you and I, and they too are constrained by the clock.  A list helps you and your doc address everything that needs addressing while being respectful of each other’s time.

4.      Check it twice.

No joke!  Check that list.  Say you’re a generally healthy person, but you had a couple of vague symptoms that you wanted to ask about.  Unless those symptoms are active, you healthy person, you… you will probably forget to ask.  For example:  maybe you tend to get headaches, but they have been coming more often and stronger… but, you don’t have a headache when you go to the doctor, so it’s not at the forefront of your mind.  After all, you have had headaches before, right?  Well, it is still important to address, as your doctor may want to further investigate.  So when you check your list, be sure to include the things that you might otherwise write off.  It’s always worth a mention.

Also… make sure to actually bring your list with you!

5.      Understand that Google did not go to medical school.

It’s okay if you want to do some research online, and it is very natural to do so these days.  I get it.  HOWEVER, do not self-diagnose or skip going to your doctor because you “found it online.”

Google is not a doctor, nor did Google ever claim to be.

Please do not scare the life out of yourself by searching something online and assuming the worst.  Your doctor IS a doctor and DID go to medical school.  You can seek information prior to your appointment if you so choose, but don’t go putting the cart in front of the horse.  Your doc will help you get to the bottom of whatever is concerning you.

6.      Know what the stupid questions are.

I get choked up with this one.  As a nurse, I’ve had so many patients preface questions with, “I know this is probably a stupid question, but…”  and I have told them EVERY TIME:

The only stupid questions are the ones that aren’t asked.

So, when you visit your doctors, remember this:  they are doctors, you are not (unless of course, you are!  But even then, your role is now of the patient, and we in healthcare know how collaborative the field is, so it’s always great to get another professional perspective.).  In other words, doctors don’t expect you to know everything they know, and they WANT you to ask questions; they want to teach you, explain things, and ease your concerns.  They really do.  If you feel like they don’t, then it’s time for another doctor.

7.      Advocate for yourself.

This is huge.  If there is something that is worrisome to you, do not be embarrassed or afraid to ask for further evaluation or testing.  If you feel it is being written off as something unimportant, but you still have a concern, it is completely okay to seek a second opinion.  The visit with your doctor is a conversation; it goes both ways.  You are a team.  You decide together the plan of care, YOUR care.

8.      Follow up.

Yes!  You’re not done when you leave the office, my friend.  You will likely have labs and/or other tests to complete… and then you have to check back for your results.  Some doctors call you, others have patient portals (I LOVE THESE!), and some may request that you call in for your results.  So, be sure to find out how to obtain your test results, and schedule follow up appointments as needed.

There you go, my lovelies!  With this handy little guide, you will no longer dread or put off those appointments, right?!

Remember your health is in YOUR hands!!!

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Recent Oregon Motor Vehicle Accidents Result in Serious Injuries and Deaths

A number of recent, unrelated Oregon motor vehicle accidents have resulted in catastrophic injuries and deaths. On Sunday, a 62-year-old Roseburg motorcyclist’s leg became severed below the knee when he became involved in a hit and run accident near Fair Oaks.

On Monday, police arrested Oakland resident Billy Whitehead for felony hit and run, driving while suspended, and reckless driving. Motorcyclist John R. Granholm sustained his catastrophic injuries when his motorcycle and Whitehead’s Toyota Corolla collided. Granholm flew off his bike, crashed into the car windshield, and landed on the pavement. As of yesterday morning, Granholm, who was admitted to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland, was listed in critical condition.

Near Sandy, an Eagle Creek mother and daughter were killed on Saturday in a motor vehicle collision on Highway 26. Oregon State Police say 42-year-old Pamela Benson and 11-year-old Clarice Marie Benson were pronounced dead at the Oregon crash site.

Preliminary evidence indicates that Benson’s Toyota Corolla was struck on the driver’s side by a 1987 Toyota R Runner. Boring and Sandy fire department workers had to extricate the SUV driver, 18-year-old Estacada resident Daniel Ingle, from his vehicle.

Last week, a 40-year-old Grants Pass man died on Monday after he was hit by at least one motor vehicle on Interstate 5 close to Merlin. Police are investigating the Oregon pedestrian death.

If you were involved in an Oregon traffic accident with an insured motorist, an injured driver, a drunk driver, a hit and run driver, a distracted driver who was talking on his cell phone or text messaging, or any other kind of negligent driver, you should contact an experienced Portland car accident attorney today. Having an Oregon personal injury law firm that is on your side can make a huge difference in terms of how much financially recovery you can obtain from all liable parties.

Hit-and-run deaths near Merlin spur OSP probe, Mail Tribune, April 28, 2009
Hit-and-run crash severs man’s leg,, April 27, 2009
Identities released in Sandy double-fatal accident, Oregon Live, April 26, 2009
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Target closes in on bringing urban-style store to Portland's Galleria full sizeTarget this month submitted images to Portland planners showing a store at Portland's Galleria building, at Southwest 10th Avenue and Alder Street.

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has its bull's-eye on the Galleria in downtown Portland.

Images submitted to city planners this month show a red-clad Galleria building featuring Target, with the company's logo next to the word "city" in a nod to an urban design for the typically suburban retailer.

Target officials, with the help of

, last summer began sniffing around Portland for a new location. The Galleria emerged as a leading candidate.

The images confirm that the Minneapolis-based company and Galleria officials are working on a deal. They discussed the preliminary design at a pre-application conference.

A representative for the

, which owns the Galleria building at Southwest 10th Avenue and Alder Street, declined to comment, citing a confidentiality agreement. A spokeswoman for Target also would not elaborate.

"I am not in a position to talk about any specifics as they relate to Portland other than that we are actively talking to the city," Molly Snyder said.

Adams also declined to comment, saying he's not up to speed on the plans.

Developers in the past decade have sought to bring the retail giant to the city core -- perhaps to the central east side as part of a Memorial Coliseum overhaul or to anchor a proposed Burnside Bridgehead project. The new plan follows a chance meeting between Adams and a company real estate executive at a seminar in Los Angeles.

Target already has 15 stores in the metro area -- three in Portland, all in suburban-style settings -- where sizable parking lots and 120,000 square feet await shoppers.

The company is launching smaller operations called CityTarget. Officials plan CityTarget openings next year in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Snyder said the CityTarget stores will offer an edited assortment of merchandise for urban living, such as balcony-size patio furniture and exclusive designer selections. And they'll be in densely developed locations, with the Seattle store set to open near

"We also anticipate devoting more space to grocery to provide urbanites with the groceries they need, especially fresh food," she said.

In Portland, preliminary design documents submitted to the city call for about 39,000 net square feet dedicated to retail sales within an 85,000-square-foot store.

The first floor of the Galleria would remain largely intact -- with

restaurant remaining -- but would include loading ports for Target trucks and a stockroom. The fourth floor houses the Sandford-Brown medical program and the Le Cordon Bleu's culinary school is on the fifth floor.

Target retailing would begin on the second floor and continue to a larger area on the third floor, according to the preliminary design.

Outside, on the corner of 10th and Alder, window arrows below Target bull's-eye sign would guide customers to an entrance.

Should the Galleria project move forward, Target officials probably will remain silent. Snyder said the company typically doesn't comment on new stores until it closes a real estate transaction, and official announcements tend to come about a year before a store's opening.


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Once Upon a Farm Gives Parents the Best in Organic Baby Food

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We’d all love to say that we make our baby’s food at home from scratch, but for a number of reasons, sometimes that just ain’t happening. That’s what Cassandra Curtis realized several years ago: since then, she's given parents an organic baby food option that's just as healthy, just as transparent, and just as delicious as homemade with Once Upon a Farm.

Curtis' journey began when she was a new mom herself; after attempting to make all of her first daughter's food at home from organic products, she realized that there had to be an easier way.

“All I could find at the store was shelf-stable baby food, and I wanted to be able to give her the highest nutrition possible,” she says. “At the same time, I was working, and I found it a big challenge to be in the kitchen on Sundays, spending four hours or more trying to make her food for the week.”

With the knowledge that millions of other parents must be in the same boat, Curtis decided to see if there was an easier way to provide fresh, high-quality, organic baby food to families.

“I did a lot of research and decided to test it out in some farmer's markets in San Diego," she says. With rave reviews from both parents and little ones, she connected with co-founder Ari Raz, and together, they launched Once Upon a Farm in 2015. Less than a year later, their organic baby food found a home at Whole Foods, and the company has not stopped growing and innovating ever since.

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It was important to Curtis that all of the vital nutrients in the fresh, organic produce be conserved in the final product: studies have shown that many major brands are lacking in these crucial elements, thus contributing to parents' desire to make organic baby food at home.

For Once Upon a Farm, the solution came in the form of high-pressure processing technology (HPP) instead of thermal pasteurization, which shelf-stable baby food products use.

“Shelf-stable baby food is heated at least two times above 185 degrees in plastic packaging,” Curtis tells Food Tech Connect. “This kills the essential vitamins, nutrients, and healthy bacteria that are critical for babies’ healthy growth and development and can also release pseudo estrogens into the food through the heating of the packaging.”

HPP technology, which is also used for cold-pressed juice products, not only improves the nutrient profile of the company's organic baby food, but it also makes for better flavors and a lower sugar content: seeing as the products are not heated to high temperatures, the natural sugars present in the fruits and vegetables are not condensed. The final products taste fresher and are closer, nutrient-wise, to fresh produce.

The company’s product line is currently comprised of twelve different organic baby food, including Mama Bear Blueberry, Wild Rumpus Avocado, and Green Kale & Apples. The recipes are baby-approved for flavor, and they're also specially designed with help from Dr. Laura Jana, pediatric advisor, Dr. Randy Worobo, food safety adviser, and Dr. Jill Castle, childhood nutrition expert, to make sure they're ticking all of the necessary nutritional boxes, including a healthy dose of healthy fats.

“That’s super important for babies,” says Curtis, “Because breast milk is comprised of a high-fat content, and when they’re transitioning over to solid food, it’s important to have that component in place."

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Given the team's innovation and drive, it's no surprise Once Upon a Farm quickly they attracted quite a bit of attention, notably former Annie’s CEO John Foraker, who, three years after Annie's was purchased by General Mills, was looking for a way to get back into a small food start-up and let his entrepreneurial spirit thrive.

He and actress Jennifer Garner, who is also an ambassador for Save the Children, discovered the product in 2017.

“We had about a three-hour meeting," recounts Foraker, "And interestingly really connected on social impact and how the food business can make positive social change by educating kids about real food and addressing food deserts.”

In September, they joined the team and set out to help Once Upon a Farm grow and realize all of its potential, specifically with regards to wider retail distribution and innovating new lines for older children between the ages of five and seven.

“There's a lot of natural and organic kids' food," explains Foraker. "But there's not a lot of natural and organic kids' food that are truly better for you.”

He feels that this is a place where Once Upon a Farm can fill a void and help parents feed their kids truly better food.

Transparency is Key

Once Upon a Farm is truly committed to transparency at all levels of its production. The company website makes it easy for parents to see where their kids’ food is coming from, and Curtis notes that, “Traceability will definitely continue to be a huge part of our philosophy.”

Transparency is especially important when it comes to allergens, particularly for small children. Curtis notes that Once Upon a Farm is careful to make sure that there is no contamination between production runs.

But the company is also constantly informing itself about new developments in allergen science and the ways in which these developments may contribute to changes or innovations in the product line. Curtis specifically cites recent research from the American Academy of Pediatrics showing that it might be better to introduce children to some sort of tree nut between four and six months of age to ward against allergies developing later.

“We do still make sure to not have any peanuts in our products at this point,” says Curtis, “But that could change as this paradigm shift is happening around tree nut exposure in little ones.”

In addition to what's inside the package, Once Upon a Farm is committed to ensuring that its squeeze packages are up to snuff from a sustainability standpoint. The company has partnered with TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that upcycles the pouches into new products, to facilitate this for busy parents. To take advantage of this partnership, consumers just order an envelope from TerraCycle, fill it with up to 100 empty pouches, and send it back to TerraCycle, free of charge.

“We're going to continue to really try to push the envelope in that area,” explains Foraker. “There are some communities where our stuff is not as recyclable as others, and we really want to be a leader at the front end of getting big packaging companies to apply science to bring better solutions to the table.”

Once Upon a Farm products are currently available in certain Whole Foods, Fairway, Hy-Vee, and Kroger stores as well as online, and given the company's exponential growth, this organic baby food will likely soon be available in a store near you.

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Dan Kenary of Harpoon Brewery Continues to Make Great Beer

October 4, 2018
Independent and employee-owned harpoon is the second largest brewery in Massachusetts, behind Boston Beer Co. Now 32 years young, it’s also Massachusetts’ oldest, continually operating brewery. Ranked 16th largest craft brewer in the U.S. last year, the staying power of this brewery is impressive.
With returning holiday favorites like Harpoon Winter Warmer and UFO Winter Blonde, as well as new collaboration beers like the highly anticipated Dunkin’ Coffee Porter, Dan Kenary and company have plenty of innovation on the docket to carry the portfolio into 2019 and beyond. Harpoon continues to stay true to their motto: Love Beer. Love Life.
Here are 10 things Kenary wants you to know about Harpoon…
1. Harpoon is an independent, employee-owned craft brewery. But, Kenary says that even before they became employee owned, they already had the right mindset. “We were focused on working together to grow a company that would outlast any of us. When we added ownership to that, it changed the dynamic entirely. For the employees, it’s a real financial incentive to succeed.”
2. Harpoon is currently available in 27 states and Puerto Rico.
3. Kenary says he doesn’t worry too much about staying relevant in a crowded beer market, rather he focuses on staying true to what he and his team do well. “It’s really easy to feel like you need to do everything. That’s a tremendous amount of pressure – and it’s just not a feasible expectation. Our founding vision was to make great beer fun.”
4. Harpoon’s collaborative brews began as a result of their annual, employee beer trips. “Everyone who works here for five years gets to travel to Europe for a week,” says Kenary. “And they get to go again on certain anniversaries after that. More often than not, we find breweries that we love while we’re traveling.”
5. Their latest collab with Dunkin’ Donuts, available in October, grew out of an existing friendship. “We had crossed paths with the Dunkin’ team over the years – at conferences, events, etc., and found we had a lot in common. We had worked together on some small projects over the years – a pilot batch for our Beer Hall, for example – but over time we started to think bigger. We couldn’t be more excited to launch Dunkin’ Coffee Porter.”
6. This year Harpoon introduced three hazy IPAs – Juicer 1, 2 and 3 – but they’re only available in New England because Kenary says, “The reality is these beers are hard to make, and they are a challenge to distribute. More than other styles, freshness is key. We’d love to see these available in markets throughout our footprint, but if we can’t guarantee freshness, we just won’t do it.”
7. Harpoon Winter Warmer, the first craft seasonal on the East Coast, will be back this November for its 30th year. This seasonal classic is a rich combination of holiday spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, with a hearty, malt backbone.
8. For the 10th year, Harpoon and local volunteers will decorate the Women of Change House in Philly for the holidays, through the Harpoon Helps charity initiative. Women of Change is a safe haven residence for women. It’s part of the Project Home organization, where residents are offered personal recovery services, healthcare, education, social enterprise and employment opportunities.
9. In 2019, Harpoon will introduce some traditional styles that will round out their core lineup, as well as a few things that are “unlike anything we’ve seen anyone else do before,” Kenary says. “It’s the most ambitious year we’ve had in a while, and it’s more than 18 months in the making.”
10. If Kenary could only drink one Harpoon beer for the rest of his life, it would be, “Harpoon IPA, without question. It has all the flavor and complexity I love about beer, but it’s balanced enough to be sessionable.”
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We have prepared these GCSE AQA-style exam practice papers to give you a helping hand – and to promote the Orwell Youth Prize (registered charity 1156494).  We ask in return that you consider doing one of the following:

  • Tell students about the Orwell Youth Prize. The theme for 2018-19 is ‘A Fair Society?’.
  • Encourage students to develop their written work so they can enter the Prize. One way of doing this would be to give them a chance to redraft the writing section of one or both exams, making that an entry for the Prize.
  • Develop the written work of students, either inside or outside lessons. They can write in ANY form for the Prize (maximum 1000 words for Years 9-11 and 1500 words for Years 12-13).
  • Host an Orwell Youth Prize workshop at your school or college. Find out more here or email admin@orwellyouthprize.co.uk

One word of advice.  The materials will be less familiar to students than a typical GCSE exam – and the content is certainly at the more demanding end -so it may be worthwhile giving students a very brief introduction to Orwell and some aspects of the Second World War period before setting the exam as practice.

We hope you find these materials useful – and we welcome feedback on them or any aspects of the Prize.

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International Energy Agency reports on Irish energy policies

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DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland got its report card on the country's energy policies on Monday.

A mixed review, the report, the first in seven years, was nonetheless welcomed by the government.

Ireland has successfully advanced the transformation of its energy sector, led primarily by the power sector. In 2017, about a quarter of the country’s total power generation came from wind power, the third highest share among all 30 IEA member countries, according to the latest review of Ireland’s energy policies by the International Energy Agency.

The Irish electricity system can already accommodate up to 65% of variable wind and solar generation, without risking security of supply. This is one of the highest shares globally, and a testimony to the country’s innovation and research capacity.

Ireland’s overall energy system remains  heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and with energy consumption projected to rise with population growth, Ireland will need to meet its future energy needs through low-carbon and energy efficient solutions in order to keep carbon emissions in check. Ireland is not on course to meet its emissions reduction and renewable energy targets for 2020, which means that reaching its 2030 targets is also in question.

"Ireland has become a world leader in system integration of renewables thanks in large part to strong policies and commitment to innovation" said Paul Simons, IEA Deputy Executive Director, who presented the report in Dublin,  Ireland on Monday. "Building on this success, we advise the government to urgently implement additional measures and monitor  their  progress to get the country back on track to meet its long-term climate targets."

Efforts to manage emissions could include building on the success of its broad set of existing energy efficiency policies and the many new policies that have come into force since 2017, supported by a substantial increase in funding. Ireland’s commitment to efficiency is highlighted by its decision to host the IEA’s 4th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency in Dublin in June this year.

Decarbonising heating in buildings is a particular challenge for Ireland because of a highly dispersed population living in single-family dwellings, which, compared to other IEA countries, still feature a high share of individual oil-heating systems. As Ireland has already achieved significant reductions in energy intensity, attention should now shift to switching from fossil fuels towards more renewable energy sources in heat production.

Since January 2019, all new buildings must install renewable energy systems to ensure that the expansion of the building stock does not lock-in carbon fuel consumption. Decarbonising heat in the existing building stock is more challenging; especially in the rental sector. In its report, the IEA recommends a two pronged strategy: complementing attractive financial incentives for landlords along with the introduction of minimum energy efficiency standards where needed.

Moving towards a low-carbon energy system will also ease concerns over Ireland’s security of supply, given its limited domestic hydrocarbon resources and geography that makes a full integration into larger European energy markets challenging.

Ireland is one of the few countries that taxes all carbon fuels, an effective instrument for reducing demand and enhancing energy efficiency. But the carbon tax rate has not changed since 2014 and, with rising living standards, its impact on customer behaviour is weakening. The IEA encourages the Irish government to introduce an automatic upward adjustment of the tax when pre-set emission targets are not met.

"The International Energy Agency's review confirms that while recovery has seen some improvement in take up of renewables and in energy efficiency, Ireland has not broken the link between economic growth and prosperity and greenhouse gases. It highlights the major changes Ireland needs to make in how we heat our buildings, on how we move around and how we power our grid," Ireland's Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton said Monday.

"The all of government plan will provide the clear targets and the policy roadmap which we need. However, the first challenge is to secure widespread buy-in across our entire community on the vital importance of the journey which we need to go on. This can only be achieved by all sections of our community working together."

Ireland became a founding member of the IEA, when it was established in 1974. The IAE is an agency of the OECD.

Every few years, the policies of the 30 individual member countries are reviewed in-depth by a team of peers led by the IEA. The process of review by peers not only supports member countries' energy policy development and mutual learning, but it also encourages exchange of international best practice and experience.

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NVIDIA CEO: Atom Is Going to Hurt Software Industry

Currently, NVIDIA is really missing out on the netbook market, which is dominated by all-Intel platform designs. NVIDIA has finally woken up to this reality, and the outspoken cofounder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang, has launched an all-out campaign to promote his company’s Ion platform – and he isn’t shy of flinging some poo to Intel and netbooks in general.

NVIDIA’s Ion platform combines the well-known Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor to the GeForce 9400M GPU, providing a powerful graphics core in netbooks (in fact, the same GPU powers Apple’s new MacBook). While release dates are as of yet unknown, the platform is supposed to arrive in the coming months.

In any case, NVIDIA is in a precarious position. Basically every netbook sold today is an all-Intel machine, from the graphics core down to the processor. Considering the use-case of most of these netbooks – quick, on-the-go computing – most users probably won’t need a really powerful GPU. The screen is mostly the limiting factor here. This obviously hurts NVIDIA, because they see a fast-growing market they’re not part of.

So what do you do when you missed a major market explosion because you were caught sleeping on the job? Well, you do what all other big companies do in the same situation: you start talking said market down (see Apple and AMD). Huang does so by the book, and leaves no stone unturned. However, in doing so, his complaints borderline on clinging-to-straws. About netbooks, he says:

The Atom platform is creating an installed base that doesn’t run modern applications. It doesn’t run anything well from Electronic Arts, it doesn’t run anything well from Adobe, it doesn’t run anything well from Microsoft. I just mentioned the top software companies in the world. So in a way, the Atom platform is creating an installed base of PCs that’s going to eventually hurt the PC software industry.

I think we all have to be very thoughtful about the proliferation of PCs that are inferior to what people think a PC should be, yet still is a PC.”

Despite the fact that his claims are debatable, at best, one also has to wonder if, assuming his complaints really are true, they actually have any relevance to people buying netbooks. Is the prime reason you buy a netbook to play the latest and greatest Electronic Arts game? Do you buy it to do serious Photoshop editing?

To me, it simply seems as if NVIDIA is a little scared it won’t ever make serious inroads into the netbook market, especially now that Intel’s second generation Atom processor will have the GPU on-die. Ati obviously doesn’t have this problem, being part of AMD and all.

Curiously, Huang has a lot of nice things to say about Via’s Nano platform. “Nano is a fabulous processor. You could argue that it’s architecturally one generation beyond Atom,” he states, “The amount of software and hardware outside of the CPU is so much, unless you have tier-one capabilities, you can’t build a tier-one-capable machine. That’s really VIA’s weakness. They don’t have the resources to build the GPU in the system to be competitive.”

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