The Angry Left is a term that refers to a group of people in American politics who have a liberal viewpoint, hence the term "left", and are very angry with the current presidential administration, hence the "angry."
President Bush acknowledged the Angry Left in his address at the 2008 Republican National Convention, saying "If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry Left never will."
The Washington Post profiles Maryscott O'Connor, a member of the Angry Left whose web logs are described as "one long, sustained scream."
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President Bush acknowledged the Angry Left in his address at the 2008 Republican National Convention, saying "If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry Left never will."
The Washington Post profiles Maryscott O'Connor, a member of the Angry Left whose web logs are described as "one long, sustained scream."
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This is a partial list of network management systems.
* Alcatel 5620 Network Manager & Service Aware Manager
* Argus open-source network and systems monitoring software
* Attachmate NetIQ AppManager & SecurityManager
* AutoScan-Network - AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application
* Blue Coat Proxy Servers for WAN Optimization and Web cache
* CA NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP - IBM z/OS Mainframe Network Management
* CA NetMaster Network Management for SNA - IBM z/OS Mainframe Network Management
* CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management
* CA Spectrum (formerly Aprisma Spectrum)
* Cacti- network statistics graphing tool.
* Castle Rock Computing SNMPc- Network monitoring and reporting system.
* Cisco Active Network Abstraction A network resource management platform for large networks
* CiscoWorks CiscoWorks Lan Management Solution Manages enterprise switching networks
* Cisco Network Analysis Module Analyzes live network traffic
* Comarch Comarch OSS Suite
* DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform for IPTV, HFC broadband, satellite and broadcast ecosystems
* ECI Telecom LightSoft Multidimensional Network Management System
* Ericsson OSSRC - Operations Support System, Radio and Core
* Everest NMS End to End Network Management Software Provider
* Fidelia NetVigil - Enterprise application, server and network management
* FireScope BSM - Web 2.0 Enabled Business Service Management, Network Monitoring and Management Software by FireScope, Inc.
* Fluke Networks Visual Performance Manager (VPM)
* Ganglia - an opensource distributed monitoring system for HPC clusters and grids
* Hewlett Packard OpenView framework
* Hewlett Packard HP OpenView TeMIP
* Hewlett Packard SiteScope
* Hyperic Open source application, system and network monitoring software for web-based applications
* IBM AURORA Network Performance Profiling System
* IBM Tivoli NetView
* IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM)
* IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
* Intellipool Network Monitor
* IPHost Network Monitor Mail, web, database, and other servers monitoring tool
* LabTech Affordable network management and help desk system for MSPs, IT solution providers, and Corporate IT environments.
* LoriotPro Software Professionnal snmp manager and network monitoring solution
* Lucent VitalSuite Network and Service Management Software
* Lucent Navis Optical Management System (OMS)
* ManageEngine OpManager
* Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
* MOATIS Wide Area Management Services (managementasaservice.com)
* MRTG
* Nagios open source application
* NetBoss Service Assurance and Element Management
* NetDirector open source change and configuration management
* Netdisco Web-based network management tool targeted at large corporate and university networks.
* NetQoS
* NOCOL/SNIPS Open source network management solution
* NetFlow Monitor from CESNET
* Nokia Open EMS
* Nortel Enterprise Network and Service Management
* Nortel Enterprise Network Management System
* Nortel Enterprise Policy Manager
* Nortel Enterprise Switch Manager
* Nortel Proactive Voice Quality Management
* Network Administration Visualized (NAV) from Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* ODCNMS Open DataCenter Network Management System released under the GPL.
* Observer Free software network monitoring platform with BSD license.
* - Open Source Network Management Tools
* OpenNMS Open-source network management platform released under the GPL.
* OpMon OpServices´s IT Governance platform.
* OPNET Technologies Sentinel software for network configuration auditing and change validation
* OPSView Opsview enterprise network and application monitoring software
* Opsware Opsware Network Automation System (NAS).
* Osmius The Open Source Monitoring Tool: From servers to applications, from temperatures to stock shares.
* PacketTrap - Network Management Software Provider.
* Pandora Flexible Monitoring System - Monitoring Open Source flexible and customizable software. GPL
* PathSolutions Switchmonitor Network Performance Monitoring System
* PRTG Traffic Grapher
* PolyMon - Open Source network monitoring running on Windows
* PrefixNE Network Management Software by Prefix IT Ltd.
* ProCurve Manager (PCM+) Comprehensive Management Software for products by ProCurve Networking by HP (base version free)
* Rackwise Data Center Manager - Management of physical datacenter infrastructire
* Raritan Computer's CommandCenter NOC
* ServersCheck Monitoring Software agentless & browser based systems monitoring software
* Siemens Integrated Network Management Services / System by Siemens
* SNM open source application
* Snort Open Source intrusion detection system
* SolarWinds Network Management Software Provider
* Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management
* StorageIM - Free Network Monitoring Software for Storage Resource Management
* SysUpTime Network Monitor Free Edition
* TTI Telecom Service Assurance, Netrac Product Lines
* DNA (Dynamic Network Abstraction) by Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems)
* WhatsUp Gold Network monitoring solutions
* ZABBIX open source application and network monitoring solution. *nix, Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL. GPL
* Zenoss commercial open source applications, server, and network management solution
* Zyrion Traverse - Enterprise application, server and network management
* Alcatel 5620 Network Manager & Service Aware Manager
* Argus open-source network and systems monitoring software
* Attachmate NetIQ AppManager & SecurityManager
* AutoScan-Network - AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application
* Blue Coat Proxy Servers for WAN Optimization and Web cache
* CA NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP - IBM z/OS Mainframe Network Management
* CA NetMaster Network Management for SNA - IBM z/OS Mainframe Network Management
* CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management
* CA Spectrum (formerly Aprisma Spectrum)
* Cacti- network statistics graphing tool.
* Castle Rock Computing SNMPc- Network monitoring and reporting system.
* Cisco Active Network Abstraction A network resource management platform for large networks
* CiscoWorks CiscoWorks Lan Management Solution Manages enterprise switching networks
* Cisco Network Analysis Module Analyzes live network traffic
* Comarch Comarch OSS Suite
* DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform for IPTV, HFC broadband, satellite and broadcast ecosystems
* ECI Telecom LightSoft Multidimensional Network Management System
* Ericsson OSSRC - Operations Support System, Radio and Core
* Everest NMS End to End Network Management Software Provider
* Fidelia NetVigil - Enterprise application, server and network management
* FireScope BSM - Web 2.0 Enabled Business Service Management, Network Monitoring and Management Software by FireScope, Inc.
* Fluke Networks Visual Performance Manager (VPM)
* Ganglia - an opensource distributed monitoring system for HPC clusters and grids
* Hewlett Packard OpenView framework
* Hewlett Packard HP OpenView TeMIP
* Hewlett Packard SiteScope
* Hyperic Open source application, system and network monitoring software for web-based applications
* IBM AURORA Network Performance Profiling System
* IBM Tivoli NetView
* IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM)
* IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
* Intellipool Network Monitor
* IPHost Network Monitor Mail, web, database, and other servers monitoring tool
* LabTech Affordable network management and help desk system for MSPs, IT solution providers, and Corporate IT environments.
* LoriotPro Software Professionnal snmp manager and network monitoring solution
* Lucent VitalSuite Network and Service Management Software
* Lucent Navis Optical Management System (OMS)
* ManageEngine OpManager
* Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
* MOATIS Wide Area Management Services (managementasaservice.com)
* MRTG
* Nagios open source application
* NetBoss Service Assurance and Element Management
* NetDirector open source change and configuration management
* Netdisco Web-based network management tool targeted at large corporate and university networks.
* NetQoS
* NOCOL/SNIPS Open source network management solution
* NetFlow Monitor from CESNET
* Nokia Open EMS
* Nortel Enterprise Network and Service Management
* Nortel Enterprise Network Management System
* Nortel Enterprise Policy Manager
* Nortel Enterprise Switch Manager
* Nortel Proactive Voice Quality Management
* Network Administration Visualized (NAV) from Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* ODCNMS Open DataCenter Network Management System released under the GPL.
* Observer Free software network monitoring platform with BSD license.
* - Open Source Network Management Tools
* OpenNMS Open-source network management platform released under the GPL.
* OpMon OpServices´s IT Governance platform.
* OPNET Technologies Sentinel software for network configuration auditing and change validation
* OPSView Opsview enterprise network and application monitoring software
* Opsware Opsware Network Automation System (NAS).
* Osmius The Open Source Monitoring Tool: From servers to applications, from temperatures to stock shares.
* PacketTrap - Network Management Software Provider.
* Pandora Flexible Monitoring System - Monitoring Open Source flexible and customizable software. GPL
* PathSolutions Switchmonitor Network Performance Monitoring System
* PRTG Traffic Grapher
* PolyMon - Open Source network monitoring running on Windows
* PrefixNE Network Management Software by Prefix IT Ltd.
* ProCurve Manager (PCM+) Comprehensive Management Software for products by ProCurve Networking by HP (base version free)
* Rackwise Data Center Manager - Management of physical datacenter infrastructire
* Raritan Computer's CommandCenter NOC
* ServersCheck Monitoring Software agentless & browser based systems monitoring software
* Siemens Integrated Network Management Services / System by Siemens
* SNM open source application
* Snort Open Source intrusion detection system
* SolarWinds Network Management Software Provider
* Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management
* StorageIM - Free Network Monitoring Software for Storage Resource Management
* SysUpTime Network Monitor Free Edition
* TTI Telecom Service Assurance, Netrac Product Lines
* DNA (Dynamic Network Abstraction) by Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems)
* WhatsUp Gold Network monitoring solutions
* ZABBIX open source application and network monitoring solution. *nix, Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL. GPL
* Zenoss commercial open source applications, server, and network management solution
* Zyrion Traverse - Enterprise application, server and network management
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/Tony_%22Dizz%22_Grier
A native of Port Chester, New York, Tony Grier was their first NBA draft pick (San Antonio Spurs). A college basketball career and a book "A Raging Bull:Chasing the Big Time" are to his credit.
Born in United Hospital on July 20, 1960. Grier became a playground legend on the court first displaying his super-talent at Port Chester High School and later at the University of South Florida.
His book became a local best seller in Tampa, Florida and he continues to speak throughout the country about education and college athletics. He has a sincere loyalty to his hometown and made sure his first book signing was at the Port Chester Library.
A native of Port Chester, New York, Tony Grier was their first NBA draft pick (San Antonio Spurs). A college basketball career and a book "A Raging Bull:Chasing the Big Time" are to his credit.
Born in United Hospital on July 20, 1960. Grier became a playground legend on the court first displaying his super-talent at Port Chester High School and later at the University of South Florida.
His book became a local best seller in Tampa, Florida and he continues to speak throughout the country about education and college athletics. He has a sincere loyalty to his hometown and made sure his first book signing was at the Port Chester Library.
Space-time theories of consciousness relate the geometrical features of conscious experience, such as viewing things in space-time at a point, to the geometrical properties of the universe itself.
Background
Space-time theories of consciousness have been advanced by Arthur Eddington, John Smythies among others. The concept was also mentioned by Hermann Weyl who wrote that reality is a "...four-dimensional continuum which is neither 'time' nor 'space'. Only the consciousness that passes on in one portion of this world experiences the detached piece which comes to meet it and passes behind it, as history, that is, as a process that is going forward in time and takes place in space".
In 1953, C. D. Broad, in common with most authors in this field, proposed that there are two types of time, imaginary time measured in imaginary units (i) and real time measured on the real plane.
Different types of time are introduced in these hypotheses because they can interact mathematically in the equation of spacetime to produce no separation between two points. The equation of spacetime gives the spacetime separation () between two points as:
:
In recent years this has been interpreted as a dynamical equation but when it was first formulated it was interpreted as a geometrical equation, specifying actual separations. The geometrical interpretation arose because it was proposed that the minus sign was the result of multiplying by where i is the square root of minus one (See Einstein (1920)). It can be seen that for any separation in 3D space there is a time at which the separation in 4D spacetime is zero. Similarly, if another coordinate axis is introduced called 'real time' that changes with imaginary time then historical events can also be no distance from a point. The combination of these result in the possibility of brain activity being at a point as well as being distributed in 3D space and time. This might allow the conscious individual to observe things, including whole movements, as if viewing them from a point.
It should be stressed that, although not impossible, the simple geometrical interpretation of spacetime using imaginary numbers is no longer widely accepted in physics. It is however often used to simplify calculations and is implicit in the Wick rotation.
John Smythies proposes that there are extra dimensions for arranging things that form a separate "phenomenal space of consciousness". The phenomenal space would be a physical instantiation of Descartes' Res Cogitans, the point from which he proposed things in the brain were seen.
Alex Green has developed an empirical theory of phenomenal consciousness that proposes that conscious experience can be described as a five-dimensional manifold. As in Broad's hypothesis, space-time can contain vectors of zero length between two points in space and time because of an imaginary time coordinate. A 3D volume of brain activity over a short period of time would have the time extended geometric form of a conscious observation in 5D. Green considers imaginary time to be incompatible with the modern physical description of the world, and proposes that the imaginary time coordinate is a property of the observer and unobserved things (things governed by quantum mechanics), whereas the real time of general relativity is a property of observed things.
In 2001, Elizabeth Rauscher developed a detailed theory of an eight-dimensional complex Minkowski space in which such phenomena as remote viewing would be possible as well as apparently being able to view things at a point.
These space-time theories of consciousness are highly speculative but have features that their proponents consider attractive: every individual would be unique because they are a space-time path rather than an instantaneous object (i.e., the theories are non-fungible), and also because consciousness is a material thing so direct supervenience would apply. The possibility that conscious experience occupies a short period of time (the specious present) would mean that it can include movements and short words; these would not seem to be possible in a presentist interpretation of experience.
Theories of this type are also suggested by physical cosmology. The Wheeler-deWitt equation describes the quantum wave function of the universe (or more correctly, the multiverse). This equation does not involve time. Time was explained by Bryce De Witt by dividing the multiverse into an observer with measuring devices and the rest of the universe. The rest of the universe then changes relative to the observer. This introduction of time results in the occurrence of space-time, gravity and the rest of the observed material world. As the famous cosmologist Andrei Linde puts it:
Predictions
Proponents of the "Space-time theories of consciousness" assert that they make predictions, and are thus to be distinguished from pseudoscience. These predictions are not known to have been tested specifically.
The empirical theory of Alex Green predicts that a small part of the brain such as the centromedian nucleus will be sensitive to mechanical deformation and topical application of general anaesthetics, that cognitive experiments will demonstrate the creation of models of the world by the cerebral cortex that form the input to conscious experience and that consciousness is involved in the maintenance of the global stability of brain activity.
The theory of Elizabeth Rauscher predicts that certain psychic phenomena, in particular remote viewing will occur. This prediction has been examined but the existence of remote viewing is not accepted by mainstream scientists.
Background
Space-time theories of consciousness have been advanced by Arthur Eddington, John Smythies among others. The concept was also mentioned by Hermann Weyl who wrote that reality is a "...four-dimensional continuum which is neither 'time' nor 'space'. Only the consciousness that passes on in one portion of this world experiences the detached piece which comes to meet it and passes behind it, as history, that is, as a process that is going forward in time and takes place in space".
In 1953, C. D. Broad, in common with most authors in this field, proposed that there are two types of time, imaginary time measured in imaginary units (i) and real time measured on the real plane.
Different types of time are introduced in these hypotheses because they can interact mathematically in the equation of spacetime to produce no separation between two points. The equation of spacetime gives the spacetime separation () between two points as:
:
In recent years this has been interpreted as a dynamical equation but when it was first formulated it was interpreted as a geometrical equation, specifying actual separations. The geometrical interpretation arose because it was proposed that the minus sign was the result of multiplying by where i is the square root of minus one (See Einstein (1920)). It can be seen that for any separation in 3D space there is a time at which the separation in 4D spacetime is zero. Similarly, if another coordinate axis is introduced called 'real time' that changes with imaginary time then historical events can also be no distance from a point. The combination of these result in the possibility of brain activity being at a point as well as being distributed in 3D space and time. This might allow the conscious individual to observe things, including whole movements, as if viewing them from a point.
It should be stressed that, although not impossible, the simple geometrical interpretation of spacetime using imaginary numbers is no longer widely accepted in physics. It is however often used to simplify calculations and is implicit in the Wick rotation.
John Smythies proposes that there are extra dimensions for arranging things that form a separate "phenomenal space of consciousness". The phenomenal space would be a physical instantiation of Descartes' Res Cogitans, the point from which he proposed things in the brain were seen.
Alex Green has developed an empirical theory of phenomenal consciousness that proposes that conscious experience can be described as a five-dimensional manifold. As in Broad's hypothesis, space-time can contain vectors of zero length between two points in space and time because of an imaginary time coordinate. A 3D volume of brain activity over a short period of time would have the time extended geometric form of a conscious observation in 5D. Green considers imaginary time to be incompatible with the modern physical description of the world, and proposes that the imaginary time coordinate is a property of the observer and unobserved things (things governed by quantum mechanics), whereas the real time of general relativity is a property of observed things.
In 2001, Elizabeth Rauscher developed a detailed theory of an eight-dimensional complex Minkowski space in which such phenomena as remote viewing would be possible as well as apparently being able to view things at a point.
These space-time theories of consciousness are highly speculative but have features that their proponents consider attractive: every individual would be unique because they are a space-time path rather than an instantaneous object (i.e., the theories are non-fungible), and also because consciousness is a material thing so direct supervenience would apply. The possibility that conscious experience occupies a short period of time (the specious present) would mean that it can include movements and short words; these would not seem to be possible in a presentist interpretation of experience.
Theories of this type are also suggested by physical cosmology. The Wheeler-deWitt equation describes the quantum wave function of the universe (or more correctly, the multiverse). This equation does not involve time. Time was explained by Bryce De Witt by dividing the multiverse into an observer with measuring devices and the rest of the universe. The rest of the universe then changes relative to the observer. This introduction of time results in the occurrence of space-time, gravity and the rest of the observed material world. As the famous cosmologist Andrei Linde puts it:
Predictions
Proponents of the "Space-time theories of consciousness" assert that they make predictions, and are thus to be distinguished from pseudoscience. These predictions are not known to have been tested specifically.
The empirical theory of Alex Green predicts that a small part of the brain such as the centromedian nucleus will be sensitive to mechanical deformation and topical application of general anaesthetics, that cognitive experiments will demonstrate the creation of models of the world by the cerebral cortex that form the input to conscious experience and that consciousness is involved in the maintenance of the global stability of brain activity.
The theory of Elizabeth Rauscher predicts that certain psychic phenomena, in particular remote viewing will occur. This prediction has been examined but the existence of remote viewing is not accepted by mainstream scientists.