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"Survivability of Autonomous Microgrid during Overload Events." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2018)..
"A sample-autocorrelation-based approach for monitoring power-system damping from ambient synchrophasor data." 2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). Morgantown, WV: IEEE, 2017..
"On the Scaling Property of Power Grids." Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS). 2017..
"Simulation results for the pacific DC intertie wide area damping controller." 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). Chicago, IL, USA: IEEE, 2017..
"A system response persistence measure for use in ambient data monitoring." 2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). Morgantown, WV: IEEE, 2017..
"Scheduling maintenance for reliable transmission systems." 2016 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D). Dallas, TX, USA: IEEE, 2016. 1 - 5..
"Small signal stability analysis and distributed control with communications uncertainty." 2016 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM). Capri, Italy: IEEE, 2016. 1284 - 1291..
"Stability guarantees for primary frequency control with randomized flexible loads." 2016 American Control Conference (ACC). Boston, MA, USA: IEEE, 2016. 2328 - 2333..
"Statistical analysis of transmission line capacities in electric power grids." 2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). Minneapolis, MN, USA: IEEE, 2016. 1 - 5..
"Stochastic AC optimal power flow with affine recourse." 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Las Vegas, NV, USA: IEEE, 2016. 2431 - 2436..
"Stochastic Interchange Scheduling in the Real-Time Electricity Market." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2016) 1 - 1..
"Students' simple method for determining the parameters of an AC signal." 2016 57th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON). Riga, Latvia: IEEE, 2016. 1 - 7..
"Subsynchronous Resonance Monitoring Using Ambient High Speed Sensor Data." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 31.2 (2016) 1073 - 1083..
"Supervisory system for a wide area damping controller using PDCI modulation and real-time PMU feedback." 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). Boston, MA, USA: IEEE, 2016. 1 - 5..
Scoping Study on Research and Priorities for Distribution-System Phasor Measurement Units. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2015. LBNL-1003915..
"Sensitivity-based line outage angle factors." 2015 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). Charlotte, NC, USA: IEEE, 2015. 1 - 5..
"Stochastic coordinated transaction scheduling via probabilistic forecast." 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. Denver, CO, USA: IEEE, 2015. 1 - 5..
"Stochastically Optimized, Carbon-Reducing Dispatch of Storage, Generation, and Loads." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 30.2 (2015) 1064 - 1075..
"Structured Optimization for Parameter Selection of Frequency-Watt Grid Support Functions for Wide-Area Damping." International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids 11.1 (2015) 69-94..
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"A Scalable Stochastic Model for the Electricity Demand of Electric and Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 5.2 (2014) 848 - 860..
"A Sparse Representation Approach to Online Estimation of Power System Distribution Factors." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2014) 1 - 12..
"Synchronous phasor-like measurements." 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE, 2014. 1 - 5..


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Local Investors Expect at Least One to Two More Years Before Recovery is Realized
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to a new Charles Schwab survey, over half of Houston investors think the recession will continue for at least another year. Only 6 percent believe the recession has already ended.
While an increase in unemployment is an indicator that the recession is over from an economic perspective, survey respondents note it is one of two personal indicators that the recession is in fact not over. For 25 percent of respondents, the defining moment for the end of the recession will be when people begin finding jobs again. Another 26 percent of Houstonians will feel the recession has ended when it no longer dominates the news.
"Despite the recent increase in investor confidence, we're hearing from many of our clients that they don't feel they can move out of recession mode to recovery mode," said Paul Lebouef, financial consultant at Charles Schwab in Houston. "We're helping each client cope with the economy by revisiting budgets and adjusting portfolios to better reflect their risk tolerance."
Houstonians Devise Own Bailout Plan
Houstonians have proven committed to making moves that lessen the burden caused by the market environment over the past two years:
- Living below their means: Nearly half (47 percent) reduced everyday living expenses, with the same percentage now preparing more meals at home
- Home is where the heart is: Almost one in four (24 percent) delayed or canceled a vacation
- Lean on me: 22 percent helped a family member with money
- Staying put: Almost one in five (18 percent) delayed selling or buying a house
- Living in the now: 20 percent decreased the amount of money going to retirement accounts
"While we're happy to see the Houston community's proactive approach to their finances, we're concerned that the recession has impeded the retirement planning of many," said Lebouef. "Successful retirement planning requires ongoing vigilance and dedication, particularly in difficult financial times. A financial consultant can often provide the necessary guidance to keep investors on track, and we encourage Houstonians to visit a local Schwab branch for a free financial check-up and ensure their plan still fits their risk tolerance, income and timeline."
You Don't have to Go It Alone
Houston investors have access to a broad range of Schwab resources:
- Local assistance for clients, including free workshops about financial basics, fixed income investing, research and trading, and retirement and estate planning. For more information, visit www.schwab.com/houston and find a branch near you
- Free financial check-up, for all, with a financial professional. For more information, visit www.schwab.com/houston to schedule an appointment at a local branch
- 24/7 phone support
- New Client and Rollover concierge programs to make transitioning to Schwab easy
- Timely market insights provided online at www.schwab.com/marketinsight, as well as emailed regularly and published quarterly in On Investing magazine for clients
For More Information
Schwab clients are encouraged to reach out to their Financial Consultant to get more specific advice around their situations or take advantage of our complimentary consultation. For those who do not have a Financial Consultant or are not yet a Schwab client but would like to learn more, one of our Investment Consultants can help. Please call 800-548-8100 to get started. For a list of local Schwab branches, please visit: www.schwab.com/houston.
About the Survey
The Charles Schwab "Recession and Financial Advice" Survey was conducted by Koski Research between Dec. 2 and Dec. 11, 2009 using an online study, average about 10 minutes. Survey respondents had a minimum of $2,500 in an investment or retirement account in the Chicago (250), Houston (256) and Seattle (250) areas.
About Charles Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation (Nasdaq:SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 7.7 million client brokerage accounts, 1.5 million corporate retirement plan participants, 722,000 banking accounts, and $1.42 trillion in client assets. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Named "Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Self-Directed Services" by J.D. Power and Associates in 2009, its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services. The Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC) provides banking and mortgage services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com. (0110-0890)
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Things To Do
- Create new mirror clean-up script.
- grep HOWTO? requested by biberao
Zenoss Snippets
o=dmd.getObjByPath("/zport/dmd/Locations/Funtoo Loft/Desk/Lower Shelf/Right")
- Set up own NS for IPv6, have foo.funtoo.org delegate to it.
- Set up radvd on the master node.
- For VE's, enable IPv6 and have them use stateful address autoconfiguration to get an IPv6 address based on their MAC address.
- For each VE, create a DNS entry for their IPv6 address. This will allow users to get to their box directly via IPv6.
- For legacy IPv4, use an ugly port-forwarding solution with socat or haproxy?
OpenVZ HOWTO
First, find an unused VEID by typing ls /vz/private -- pick the next unused number, such as 109. Next, find a template by typing ls /vz/template/cache. Now:
# vzctl create 106 --ostemplate funtoo-openvz-core2_64-funtoo-current-2011-08-22 # vzctl set 106 --applyconfig unlimited --save # vzctl set 106 --netif_add eth0,,,,brlan --save # vzctl set 106 --name oleg --save # vzctl set 106 --hostname oleg --save # vzctl start 106 # vzctl enter 106 (in VE) oleg # rc-update add dhcpcd default (in VE) oleg # rc
Done! The VE now has network access via a private IP address and NAT (bridged.)
the python eclass design has some problem. For example, twisted depends on zope-interface, and it can be installed. but it may not be built for python-2.7. So the dep will be satisfied, but python still needs a rebuild. Solution would be to have multi-package support (multi-slot), dynamic slot.
2010 Volkswagen GTI MK6
I own a 2010 Volkswagen GTI. This section contains my personal notes on the car.
Rear seat removal: www.golfmk6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17927 Ohlins MKV kit: www.worksevo.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=198_266_270&products_id=1749
Weights (Euro-spec, from vw.com):
- Golf 2.5L Manual 2,968 lbs
- Golf 2.5L Manual 3,023 lbs
- Golf TDI Manual = 2,994 lbs
- Golf TDI DSG = 3,041 lbs
- Golf GTI Manual = 3,034 lbs
- Golf GTI DSG = 3,080 lbs
Note: VW lists no difference in 2-door and 4-door vehicle weights.
Golf MK6 DriverGear Springs
- Golf TDI 4-Door Manual or Golf 2.5 4-Door Manual = 5K4071677A
- Golf TDI 2-Door Manual or Golf 2.5 2-Door Manual = 5K3071677A
- Golf TDI 4-Door DSG = 5K4071677B
- Golf TDI 2-Door DSG = 5K3071677B
Note: There are no DriverGear Golf springs made specifically for the GTI.
Audi S3 Intercooler
The Audi S3 intercooler (Audi part number 1K0145803P) can be used to replace the stock VW intercooler, and forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4561165-Well-the-S3-intercooler-fits-the-TSI-just-fine..../page6 is reported to result in very significant power gains that exceed that of a downpipe upgrade. The Audi S3 intercooler, while visually similar to the stock GTI intercooler, is slightly deeper and has significantly more surface area and less restrictive airflow.
Total cost for this upgrade is approximately $280 for the upgraded intercooler ordered online from a discount Audi parts supplier, plus about $10 for additional parts (bolts and hose clamps) that are available at a local hardware store:
- 9 ea. 6mmX1.0X16mm bolts (Home Depot) ~ $3.30
- 2 ea. #36 2 3/4" ideal hose clamps (Home Depot, plumbing section) ~ $2.00
Installation time is approximately 2 hours, and it is easier as a 2-person job. The installation steps involve cutting the factory OEM hoses about 2" and using the hose clamps to install the hoses to the intercooler. These steps are detailed in forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4561165-Well-the-S3-intercooler-fits-the-TSI-just-fine.... this VWVortex post. goapr.com/support/trans_fsi_ic_manual.pdf APR's intercooler installation instructions may also be a helpful resource for installing the S3 intercooler.
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It is a common myth that "quality" auto manufacturers design a car's chassis to be extremely rigid. The reality is that this is not true, and things like doors and open spacious cabins tend to create weak points in the rigidity of the chassis. Automobile manufacturers simply ensure that the car's chassis is sufficiently rigid for the driving style of the typical consumer and has sufficient rigidity to meet current safety regulations and ensure passenger safety. Any additional chassis rigidity that exceed these requirements tend to drive up manufacturing costs and weight without providing meaningful benefits to the typical consumer, and the typical consumer cares much more about fuel economy and engine horsepower than chassis rigidity when making a purchasing decision, so there is generally no benefit to the manufacturer to design a car with an extremely rigid chassis.
For this reason, automobile chassis tend to be designed to be "rigid enough" for the average driver on average (good quality) roads, but no more. Some purpose-built cars such as the Honda S2000 are built with very rigid chassis designs from the factory; however, these vehicles are the exception rather than the rule. Even so, cars like the Honda S2000 have weak points in various places (in the case of the Honda S2000, the convertible design introduces some flex in the rear-mid chassis area directly behind the driver, and front underbody X-braces are popular for address a weakness directly below the engine.)
The point here is that unless you are buying a supercar or true race car, it is very likely that the rigidity of your chassis can be improved significantly, to the point that it will make a significant improvement in handling, vibration/harshness, and general "feel".


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Forget-Me-Not, blooming in early spring, and reaching 6"- 8" tall.
Chinese Forget-Me-Not (Cynoglossum amabile), while not a true Forget-Me-Not, has very similar flowers and habit. It grows 12" - 24" tall and will bloom into summer. Excellent for moist, shady areas, as a bulb cover, and early cover for rock gardens. Deer resistant.
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When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks before average last frost or as soon as soil can be worked. Also sow in early fall for early spring bloom the following season (fall planting may be more effective in warm climates)
When to start inside: 4 to 6 weeks before transplanting outside.
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Last November, it was no contest. Hampton's defense outscored Norcom by itself, and the Crabbers polished off a 24-0 win in the Eastern Region Division 5 semifinals.
It was a similar story the previous year when Hampton dominated the Greyhounds 28-0 in the quarterfinals.
But going into Friday night's game at Portsmouth, this time in the second week of the regular season, Crabbers coach Mike Smith isn't banking on another blowout. In fact, he knows being shut out two years in a row could be a source of motivation for Norcom (2-0).
"I don't know if we beat them that soundly," Smith said. "But we have shut them out the last (two) years, so they might try to redeem themselves. We're going to try to repeat it."
Of the eight games between the Peninsula and Eastern districts this weekend, this is the most compelling. Smith and Norcom counterpart Larry Archie, whose team finished 10-2 last season, agreed to play a two-year series.
Hampton is 13-3 against the Eastern District since 2001 with all three losses coming in the postseason.
We meet again
Also on Friday night's docket is Maury at Woodside. It'll be the sixth time these teams have met since September 2007. The Wolverines have won all five, four by at least three touchdowns.
Woodside and Maury first signed to play each other in 2007. The series was renewed in '09 and then '11.
"We got them good last year, but it's generally been a competitive game," said Wolverines coach Danny Dodson, whose team won 35-0 in 2010. "We've have a good relationship with Maury and we saw no reason to stop the series."
Speaking of Woodside: Sophomore Malik Gray dislocated his kneecap in warmups prior to the Menchville game. Dodson said Gray is walking and hopefully will play this season.
Bad start
Denbigh finished 10th in the PD last season in rushing defense by giving up 264 yards a game. In Friday's 60-20 loss to Booker T. Washington, the Patriots were torched for 450 yards on the ground.
"They had some guys who are really talented," Denbigh coach Marcellus Harris III said. "But we helped them out with a lot of mistakes. We've been working on them ever since to hopefully prevent them from happening again."
One problem is that Denbigh isn't very big up front. Another is that of the front seven, Harris said four are in their first year of playing football.
Good and bad
On its two touchdown drives last week against Warwick, Phoebus totaled 180 yards on 20 plays. On their remaining seven drives, the Phantoms had 88 yards on 33 snaps. Not to mention 12 penalties for 116 yards.
"Those drives were picture perfect," quarterback Eric Enderson said of the two that produced touchdowns. "We have to do it like that on every drive."
Last November, it was no contest. Hampton's defense outscored Norcom by itself, and the Crabbers polished off a 24-0 win in the Eastern Region Division 5 semifinals.


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But I think I will be taking a break from the blog for a bit. I am frustrated with it because I don't have enough time to devote to make it really good. For now I am still snapping pictures of my eats and we'll see if I feel differently about it at the end of the week. Until then, thanks for reading and check back. This may just be a break and not the end.


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In spite of its rapproachement with the West over the past few years, Libya has always remained the North Korea of the Arab world, its regime as paranoid and closed and prone to unpredictable violence as the Kim dynasty of Pyongyang. And now that the reign of Muammar Gaddafi is imploding, all the totalitarian horrors in his armory both weapons and propaganda are being hauled out for open warfare. What was always a kingdom built on fear has become even more so as state-sponsored terrorism rules the streets of Tripoli. Few dare to speak openly, but TIME reached a Libyan in Gaddafi's capital by phone who, for a few minutes, was willing to speak his mind.
"Samir," 27, a medical student in Tripoli, says he opposes Gaddafi but that, like many others, he does not dare to venture out into the streets for fear of shoot-on-sight orders, which he believes have been issued to the dictator's militias. "No one is going out today the only people outside are Gaddafi supporters, who are celebrating. Actually, I have no idea what they're celebrating," he says, using the deadpan black humor he says he developed as a political activist.
"Most people of Tripoli are locked away in their homes," Samir continues. "People are scared. There's a shortage of food, but what can you do? Militias have been sent out to roam the streets in cars, and they'll shoot anyone they see walking around. This is what Gaddafi is doing to try and stay in power: kill as many people as he needs to. It's going to be a massacre. It'll either happen in the streets, or they'll come to people's homes. It's going to be a massacre if the international community doesn't step in and do something about it."
He replies with no small dose of sarcasm when asked if the militia activity or people's reaction to it after they had taken to the streets earlier in the week was in response to Gaddafi's speech on Tuesday night. "I don't know," he says. "I didn't watch the speech, and I don't know if many Libyans did. We've had to listen to this man for 40 years now, and we're sick of it. We know what he's going to say. Or used to. Now he's gotten so insane so clearly psychotic that it's gotten more difficult to predict exactly what he'll say. But we know what he'll do, because this is a bloody, murderous regime. In fact, you can't really call it a regime. There is no state, there's no real government. It's more like a mafia family that runs everything using the gangs and armed squads it has put together to enforce its will and attack people who disagree. In fact, I'm putting myself in danger just talking to you, but I have to do it. People have to know what's going on, and just how horrible this man and his allies are. The rest of the world has to know the kind of hell life is for Libyans every day."
Samir says that even as the protest movement has grown, there has been increasing "anger at the international community for not doing anything but making speeches. We're getting very angry about that. The worst is Europe especially Italy which is now more worried about the threat of mass immigration than it is over seeing even greater numbers of Libyans massacred by Gaddafi in the coming days. That kind of reaction is exactly what Gaddafi wants when he threatens to just let people leave. Why is Europe reacting that way? Why doesn't it back the poor, oppressed Libyan people instead?"
Samir is equally emphatic about the warnings now rising including in a major editorial on Wednesday in France's right-wing Le Figaro about the popular uprisings in the Arab world being exploited by Islamists who will step in and take over. "I heard this being expressed just last night on the BBC it's total bulls___!" Samir says. "I'm absolutely secular, as are most Libyans. We've got too many problems to deal with to waste time on religion. How can people imagine societies that are rising up to overthrow bloody dictators would turn around and let oppressive Islamists take over? The idea is more freedom, more liberty, more democracy, not swapping one kind of repression for another."
Samir makes it clear that he has stayed on the phone longer than is safe but takes one more question: What does he think will happen now? From the outside, the protesters in Tripoli appeared to be on their heels, leaving the streets to the militias and Gaddafi supporters. But the east of the country seemed to be lost by authorities, and Gaddafi's hold on power in the capital was weakening as more members of the ruling elite threw in the towel as the Libyan Interior Minister did on Wednesday.
"Yes, the east is now entirely free," says Samir, "and Gaddafi won't get it back, so this is very, very good. Now Gaddafi is focusing on Tripoli and surrounding areas. He's using his security forces, militias, his private gangs. There are rumors he's now bringing in more mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa via Algeria. He's going to try to keep Tripoli or crush everyone trying. I don't know how it will turn out. When you look to the east, there's hope. But here, right now, there's mostly fear."


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The Bob Dylan Rankings have been on an extended hiatus, but they're back today—in honor of Dylan's 70th birthday— with "Down the Highway," from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. It's something of an odd selection: In addition to not being a particularly memorable song, it's also incongruous with Dylan hitting an age so neatly associated with old age. "Down the Highway" is a playful and undeveloped song, and in some ways immature.
Nevertheless, "Down the Highway" allows us to delve into one of the most ubiquitous motifs of Dylan's now seven-decade-long life: the road. What, after all, is Dylan's obsession with highways? Continue reading


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CARSON, Calif. -- We're just several hours away from the final Superclásico of the year and here are a few links to get you to kick off.
Read Larry Morgan's game preview of the Superclásico, focusing on bouncing back from last week's defeat to the Seattle Sounders
Meanwhile, Scott French discusses the impact that new Chivas USA midfielder Shalrie Joseph will have on the match.
Lastly, once the game begins, follow the action along with me on MLSsoccer.com's live chat and also, I'll be answering one select question from the Galaxy's Facebook page tonight so leave your comments and questions there.
PREDICTED LINEUP: Saunders; Franklin, DeLaGarza, Gonzalez, Dunivant; Jimenez, Juninho, Sarvas, Magee; Donovan, Keane


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The Brazilian government began an investigation on Monday into whether telecommunications firms operating in the country cooperated with the US as part of a spying program that has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations.
Anatel, the government agency that regulates the telecom sector in Brazil, said it's working with federal police and other government agencies on the investigation.
The O Globo newspaper reported this weekend that information released by the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden showed Brazil is the top target in Latin America for the NSA's massive intelligence-gathering effort aimed at monitoring communications around the world.
Brazil isn't alone in its concern; London-based advocacy group Privacy International filed lawsuit on Monday over alleged spying of internet and phone users in Britain. Earlier, official in Germany, France, Hong Kong and other nations lodged complaints.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the nation would raise the issue at the 193-country UN International Telecommunications Union and also at the UN Commission on Human Rights since the "fundamentals" of human rights include "freedom of expression and the right to privacy."
"If there was any involvement of other countries, of other businesses that aren't Brazilian, then it's certainly a violation of our sovereignty, without a doubt, just like it's a violation of human rights," Rousseff said. "Now, we have to look at things without pre-judgment, we have to investigate."
Brazilian regulator Anatel said in its statement that "it's worth clarifying that the confidentiality of data and telephone communications is a right guaranteed by the constitution, by our laws and by Anatel's regulations. Its violation is punishable in civil, criminal and administrative realms."
The O Globo article said the NSA collected the data through an undefined association between US and Brazilian telecommunications companies. It said it could not verify which Brazilian companies were involved or if they were aware their links were being used to collect the data.
On Monday, O Globo reported that the US had a significant data centre in Brasilia for the collection of intercepted global satellite communications until at least 2002, based upon the Snowden document it's seen. The documents didn't indicate if that still exists.
Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told reporters in Brasilia that he "has no doubt whatsoever" Brazilian citizens and institutions were spied upon.
"Even the European Parliament was monitored - you think that we weren't?" he said. "We have to verify the circumstances in which this occurred, the exact way and when."
Bernardo met on Monday afternoon with US Ambassador Thomas Shannon.
"He denied that there is such monitoring here in Brazil, he said that there never was a data centre and that there is no agreement with Brazilian companies to collect data in Brazilian territory," Bernardo said afterward, according to the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency.
The O Globo article printed Sunday said that "Brazil, with extensive digitalised public and private networks operated by large telecommunications and internet companies, appears to stand out on maps of the US agency as a priority target for telephony and data traffic, alongside nations such as China, Russia and Pakistan."
The report did not describe the sort of data collected, but the US programs appear to gather what is called metadata: logs of message times, addresses and other information rather than the content of the messages.
US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro and originally broke the Snowden story in the Britain-based Guardian newspaper, where he writes a regularly blog, co-authored the Sunday report in O Globo.
In an interview with the Globo TV network, Greenwald said the Snowden documents show that the US was using Brazil as a "bridge" to gather data on better-protected states where it cannot gain direct access, but whose traffic may pass through Brazil.
"We don't have access to China's system, but we have access to Brazil's system," Greenwald said, speaking Portuguese. "So, we collect the traffic in Brazil not because we want to know what one Brazilian is saying to another Brazilian, but because we want to know what someone in China is saying to somebody in Iran, for example."
Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota expressed "deep concern" about the monitoring of Brazil and demanded explanations from US diplomats. On Monday, he said the conversations with the Americans were "encouraging" but that "we need to deepen the discussions."
Patriota reiterated that Brazil was looking at how to take measures at the United Nations "that would guarantee not just privacy, but also the respect and the citizenship of states when it comes to the use of information technology and cyber security."
In Washington, the US State Department declined to comment on the alleged intelligence activity.
"As a matter of policy, we have been clear that the United States does gather foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations. I can tell you that we have spoken with Brazilian officials regarding these allegations," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. "We plan to continue our dialogue with the Brazilians through normal diplomatic channels. But those are conversations that, of course, we would keep private." -


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AutoLISP for cabinets anyone?2/13
Has anyone written autolisp routines to draw cabinets in 3D in autocad?
I've begun the process and it is very powerful. I'm looking for a group of experienced users to share ideas with.
Thanks for any replies!
I have used lisp for various things such as panels, drawer boxes and creating cutouts for access panels. I also use lisp to add extended data to parts so that the part has the information attached when it is time for to create a cutbill.
I have not done full cabinet drawings using lisp, tut do believe it could be done without major issues.
Of course the more complex cabinets would be much more involved than simple boxes.
I've worked out parametric routines to do most of our boxes ... the way we like them. Going to add functionality next to include drawer boxes based on cabinet size/drawer glide brand etc as well as proper hole placement. All parts have associated xdata for part name material W-L-T including 3D orientation.
That said if anyone has a good lisp function to extract xdata and send that information directly to excel I'd really appreciate a hand on that.
I switched to using VBA over LISP with 2002. While I still use a lot of old lisp utilities, I rarely write new ones.
I currently use a VBA "order entry" type system that draws and exports cabinet part .dxf files along with a .csv cutlist, that I process with AlphaCAM.
I agree with you on the VBA idea. I started with lisp because it seemed easy. I'm going to switch over to vb.net to do the rest of my coding soon. Of course I have to learn how to program vb.net but I'll figure it out.
That's why I started in LISP because it was relatively easy and I got results quickly.
Do you happen to have a VBA script that will read/export xdata?
Yes, I do, but it's been a few years since I looked at it. I have a VBA macro that exports g-code for my hombuilt CNC. I use Xdata to assign feedrates and other cnc data to polylines. I'll see if I can find a sample to post this weekend.
I'm currently learning Visual Basic.net by writing as standalone app. That's what I'll use for the next major Autocad project I do.
In my case I use LISP to do things to aid our other software. I use Smartlister to export part information to a csv file and generate part drawings for Router-Cim.
As far as using VB vs AutoLisp, I do not write code on a daily basis and AutoLisp was fairly easy to pick up and I have been able to accomplish what I need so far.
A question for you. How is you XYZ data generated? Is this the actual part size? How far do you hope to take the process? (To a bill of materials or all the way through production using drawing and parts to generate code for a cnc.
I use smartlister as well. So I can get the data to csv files but if I want to create additional xdata, I can only export what smartlister exports at this time.
I've written code that will update any of the fields that smartlister updates.
As far as the xyz data of a part or WLT is concerned, the parts and 'drawn' using mathmatical parametrics that I've set up. Delcare things like side thickness, top bottom thickness etc. The routines request user input of the height width and depth of cabinet how many doors/drawers and then draws the cabinets based on the parameters I've created. Works great so far. I've also found a way to update the ORIE data for smartlister so that the parts are oriented correctly and that doesn't have to be done manually. Mirroring however can mess that up I think.
As for how far will I go with it? Well for my shop the lisp routines work great, but I don't want to be on AutoCad 2004 forever so I'll be looking into VB.net to see if I can repeat what I've created in AutoLISP and make my routines a bit more powerful. Only limited by my imagination, time and what I know and don't know about coding properly ...... steep learning curve but I'm tired of dealing with expensive software that only does 80% to 90 % of what I want. Besides this is fun. You can draw anything in CAD .... you just need to get the information back out efficiently. Where most parametric programs go wrong is that they are parametric. Not that that is bad, it just limits you to the 80 to 90%. Being able to combine parametrics with the ability to draw any shape and size of any part on the fly and still get all of the relevant information for all parts is the ultimate goal.
It sounds like you have taken this a bit further than me. I have yet to conquer the ORIE setup and write it correctly so it is to the liking of Smarlister.
In terms of additional data you would like exported. Do you currently use all the fields in Smartlister? If not it would be possible to write a LISP to put that xdata in one of the Note/Comment fields in Smartlister. That way when you export the information the additional xdata is included when you create the csv with Smartlister.
Getting the ORIE field to read correctly is relatively easy via lisp. I can update all the fields from smartlister and no, I don't use them all but I might. So I'd like to create new fields also that I could store data in and have that info go to excel. Of course I could probably just export the smartlister data and then write routines in excel to do what I want to. Basically I want to create an end to end that assigns labor times to each part for all of the different processes. For example: labor to make each piece of a five piece door. Labor to assemble the door. Labor to sand and prep the door. Amount of finish material per door. Labor for the finishing processes of the door. Ultimately I want the drawing to dictate the cost of the entire project. As I write, and I've been thinking this for a while. What I'm really needing to do is to draw the cabinets with all parts and then export all the data to excel. After that I need to create an excel spreadsheet that also analyzes all of the parts and assigns time and cost of material to the parts so that I can get as close to an accurate cost of the job as possible, adding overhead and margin to the project. Because I could include all parts of the job in the drawing doesn't mean I should add all that functionality to the drawing. The estimating part should not be done in CAD. That should be done in excel. That said, my goal is to create something that could go from estimate to real shop drawings very quickly. Using the power of both programs I am sure this could be done. One of the hardest things to do is estimate times for a job accurately without knowing within reason how much material and how much time every process takes.
If you could draw quickly via parametrics, then I know you could get there and refine our estimates, then use those estimates in the shop to measure efficiency of our process and labor hours so that our margins are maintained.
Michael; I suggest you visit theSwamp.org if you haven't already.
The best CAD programmers anywhere. A right friendly and helpful bunch.
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Michael...how detailed do you want to get with your cabinets? I made a LISP routine for someone here once before for a simple cabinet drawings. I still write very complex and versatile LISP programs to this day, I mix both traditional LISP and VLISP.
Do you have an example of what you are trying to archive?
Post here or email me.
I'm thorry, but I couldn't rethitht think a thoftware named lithp was funny. Upward and onward fellow makers.
Michael...how detailed do you want to get with your cabinets? I made a LISP routine for someone here once before for a simple cabinet drawings. I still write very complex and versatile LISP programs to this day, I mix both traditional LISP and VLISP.
Do you have an example of what you are trying to archive?
Post here or email me.
I'm thorry, but I couldn't rethitht think a thoftware named lithp was funny. Upward and onward fellow makers.


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It's been known for some time that Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," about a New England town looking for two missing kids, will kick off the festivities. This year will also feature screenings of "The Paperboy," a crime thriller from Lee Daniels starring Zac Efron, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey and Nicole Kidman; "Lawless," starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy as Depression Era bootleggers; "Mud," from writer-director Jeff Nichols, about an escaped con (McConaughey) who enlists the help of two boys in an effort to get back to the woman he loves, played by Reese Witherspoon; and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis," starring Robert Pattinson as a billionaire who spends a day in a limo in New York City. And that's just the films in competition.
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With the score tied 61-61 and less than four minutes remaining, the Terps used a Bob Kessler lay-in to take the lead. Bob O'Brien then knocked down a 35-foot jumper to send the crowd into a frenzy as the Terps held on for the win, 68-64. Kessler finished with a game-high 26 points in the marquee victory.
Statistically Speaking
- Junior Dez Wells is averaging 18.0 points on 56 percent shooting in road games, including 81 percent from the charity stripe.
- Sophomore Seth Allen has scored double-figures in 4-of-6 games since returning from injury, and had a season-high five rebounds versus Notre Dame.
- Maryland is 8-0 when leading at the half.
- Maryland is 9-0 when opponents shoot below 40 percent
- Maryland is 9-0 when holding opponents below 70 points.
- Maryland is 10-3 when outrebounding opponents.
Last Time: Buzzer-Beating Thriller
Alex Len dropped in a missed shot by teammate Pe'Shon Howard with 00.9 seconds left, giving the Terrapins a 51-50 upset victory over No. 14 North Carolina State in the teams' lone meeting last season on Jan. 16, 2013.
Howard drove the left side and came up short on a 5-footer, but the 7-foot-1 Len grabbed the ball in front of the rim and eased it through the hoop. NC State's last second heave fell short as the Terps won.
Len, with 10 points, was the only Terrapin to score in double figures. Maryland led for much of the game but needed Len's basket to end NC State's 10-game winning streak.
Coming off a stunning upset of then-No. 1 Duke, the Wolfpack trailed by 10 points with 9:34 left. Brown hit a jumper with 1:41 remaining to put North Carolina State up 50-49, and neither team scored again until Len's game-winner.


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I'm writing an app that allows people to edit text data together in a single edit box over a network connection.
On each keypress by the user in control over the edit, a message is sent telling them which char was pressed at which point the receiver's edit calls a CEdit::OnChar(ch, 0, 0); to simulate the keypress in his window.
I am quite perplexed with the situation at hand for the reason that the code is quite simple and straightforward.
In my OnChar(), CNetEdit::OnChar(...), I have a messagebox displaying what nChar was passed before my CEdit::OnChar(...) call and it is indeed what was sent from the client, but the call does seemingly nothing!
When I type directly into the edit, the call works fine.
I have tried other variants in the code, but to no avail. For example:
Please tell me you have some type of hint as to what I could be doing wrong. Thanks much in advance.Code:void CNetEdit::OnChar(UINT ch) { OnKeyDown(ch, 0, 0);// call CNetEdit's messagemapped func //or OnChar(ch, 0, 0);// call CNetEdit's messagemapped func //or CEdit::OnKeyDown(ch, 0, 0); //or CEdit::OnChar(ch, 0, 0); }
I have altered the public accessor function that calls the protected OnChar() to accept the nRepCnt and nFlags of the keypress, but there is still no change...
Okay, I actually made it work. I kept trying to call my messagemapped OnChar() func which wasn't working, but using a PostMessage(WM_CHAR,...) did work.. I still don't understand what the problem was, but it is working.. If you know, please explain. Thanks.


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Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome - An Anthology - Ian Plant
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Macquarie University
Dr Ian Plant is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities. He studied Classics (including Ancient Greek and Latin) and Ancient History at the University of Canterbury, where he completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr Katherine Adshead and Professor Kevin Lee. He taught at the University of Western Australia before taking up the post at Macquarie. His fields of research are Greek history and historiography, especially the study of Thucydides. He also works on women writers from Ancient Greece and Rome, and more recently on Egyptian religion in Greek and Latin writers. He teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, Mythology, Greek Heroes, Women Writers, Thucydides and Herodotus. Among his current research projects are: Thucydides and the writing of history Greek and Roman writers on Egyptian Religion-a project he is working on in collaboration with A/Professor Boyo Ockinga. Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome.


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Sometimes players just have a bad season. Martin was good for stretches last season, so odds are he's not "washed up." But the fact that he was playing in a role he was not accustomed to, perhaps had an undisclosed injury, or even a simple lack of confidence could have been the reason why.
My guess is that he corrects the problem, to a large degree, this season. He's a veteran and a pro who came out of perhaps the best defensive system in the history of hockey. Odds favor him being better this season, just saying.


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Spoiler Alert - If you are a male in this family, you likely don't want to read this post until after we have opened presents!
In the sake of making this a homemade Christmas, Sylvia has been busy with her crafting time. Under the watchful eye of her teacher, the young apprentice hones her craft. Hopefully the finished product gives joy for years to come.
Elf in Training
Spoiler Alert - If you are a male in this family, you likely don't want to read this post until after we have opened presents!
Friday, December 24, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 12:41 PM 0 comments
Pine Cone Bird Feeder
Since Trinity was over to celebrate her B-Day with Jamie, she was able to partake in a little craft time with Sylvia as well.
Sylvia carefully applying peanut butter to the pine cone (I think I may need to discuss with Jamie the fact that Sylvia is using a sharp knife for this task - but that is for another time)
Once the peanut butter is applied, some scoops of bird seed over the top will make a tasty bird treat.
"I can do it myself Mom!!!"
Dad also got in the mix when Sylvia and I hung our bird feeders with care... now we wait for the birds to feast on the tasty creation!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 8:49 AM 0 comments
Getting Comfy
Sunday, December 19, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:21 PM 1 comments
Snow Day
Like most of Minnesota, we got hit hard with snow on Saturday. Because of the crazy wind, it was hard to tell how much we really got, but it was between 16 and 20 inches.
Sylvia spent most of the weekend on this side of the window, mostly because of the wind chill factor. She did stay busy organizing the window clings.
While the front entry was shoveled out twice yesterday, there was a large drift covering the door again this morning.
A view from the garage looking at the large snow mountain for the neighborhood kids to play on. They were busy digging tunnels and setting up their winter fort.
Even with my neighbor blowing out our driveway twice, it was still quite the exercise moving all of the white stuff around... I am quite certain I know what Santa is bringing this guy.
Sunday, December 12, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 3:25 PM 0 comments
Minnie the X-mas Elf
Sylvia is such a big fan of her Micky Mouse scrubs and ears... I think she wears her ears almost every night.
The first night we brought the tree home, she was helping out quite a bit. She was even unscrewing the lightbulbs from the string of lights. So much for the C9 sized lights. After she went to bed, Jamie and I swapped them out for the traditional sized ones.
Of course Sylvia gets her own 'baby' sized tree. Don't you think she is proud of it!??!?!?
Her "I'm really, really excited my eyes are closed" look was shown again tonight when she was DRINKING the ketchup from the little cup at Wendy's. I almost lost my dinner! YUK
Thursday, December 9, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:54 PM 1 comments
Winter Cabin Fun
Last weekend the family made the trip out to Cokato to check on the progress and do a bit of work on the property as well.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 12:05 PM 0 comments
Rice Crispie Eating Skunk
(in my defense, the costume was like 90% off...)
Also noted in this picture is Sylvia's new habit of closing her eyes when she is SUPER happy. So the question remains - is she happy because of the rice crispie bar or the skunk costume?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:45 AM 0 comments


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"A nineteenth-century version of The Sting… Crichton fascinates us." –The New York Times Book Review
"A work of intelligence and craftsmanship… Written with grace and wit." –Los Angeles Times
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The knitting circle will have its next meeting at the labs on Saturday, March 9th from 4 to 7pm. The knitting circle is open to knitters of all skill levels. It provides a social and collaborative workspace, and help is available for people just starting out. Meetings are held on the second Saturday of each month.
All attendees are encouraged to bring their own supplies, as only a few spares are available. Attendance is free for members, and €2 for everyone else. All money goes to the upkeep of the Labs. Any questions can be directed to maraley42 [at] gmail [dot] com.


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The Toughmate 33 Tablet Always-On is tough, sleek, lightweight and is the perfect complement to your TOUGHBOOK 33 Tablet. You can experience increased facilitation, access to important ports and openings, and easy transportation of your machine by using this as your Tablet Always-On carrying case. The battery can be changed without having to remove the machine from the case. Stays on 24/7 to help reduce damage caused by accidental drops as well as scratches and dents from everyday use. Users can carry the Toughmate 33 Tablet Always-On via the machine's built-in handle, or by connecting the included shoulder strap to the D-Rings on the case. An optional user harness provides hands-free use, while the included hand strap allows for operation while moving around your work space.
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The Lexington Cemetery reflects the social and economic changes that have taken place in Lexington-Fayette County. Within its gates lie people of different political, economic and social standing, race, and religion. Below are names of many individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the betterment of their community.
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Need a few websites to fill in sponge time? Here are Holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them:
- 12 Days of Christmas
- Holiday collection
- NORAD Santa
- Penguin Show
- Reindeer Orchestra
- Holiday—North Pole Academy
- Holiday—match game
- Holiday hangman
- Holiday—Math Facts
- Holiday Crossword
- Holiday Hangman II
- Holiday—find the word
- Holiday—Design a Gingerbread House
- Holiday Elf Games
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor of a K-6 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, creator of two technology training books for middle school and six ebooks on technology in education. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter's journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blogger, a columnist for Examiner.com, Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-weekly contributor to TeachdHUB and Write Anything. Currently, she's editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.


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Is Organic Food Necessarily Safer?
That's the question New York Times reporters Kim Severson and Andrew Martin raise in a terrific piece in today's paper. Here's the paragraph that really hit home:
The plants in Texas and Georgia that were sending out contaminated peanut butter and ground peanut butter products had something else besides rodent infestation, mold, and bird droppings. They also had federal organic certification.
Yikes! What's going on here? Am I the only person who bought a product made with organic peanut butter because I thought it was safer?
Here's what serious eaters need to know:
Although the rules governing organic food require health inspections and pest-management plans, organic certification technically has nothing to do with food safety.
Haven't we all pondered these very issues when we've been food shopping in the last month? A few weeks ago I bought a package of Newman's Own Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, surely one of life's most readily available treats. I thought about whether they contained tainted peanut butter but ultimately concluded that the fact they were organic meant they couldn't possibly be.
They weren't tainted. In fact, they were just as delicious and nutritious as ever, but Severson and Martin's piece made me realize how faulty my reasoning was. According to them, "So far, nearly 3,000 products have been recalled, including popular organic items like Clif Bar and Cascadian Farm."
What can serious eaters conclude from this episode? That organic processed food is still in fact processed, and the organic label doesn't guarantee its safety. Which means that the federal government needs to get a better handle on both organic and nonorganic food safety.
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Just over 13 hours into the government shutdown Tuesday, President Obama spoke out to urge Congress to pass a budget.
"My message to Congress is this, pass a budget. End the government shutdown," Obama said in a speech in the White House Rose Garden. "Pay your bills. Prevent an economic shutdown. Don't wait, don't delay, don't put our economy or our people through this any longer."
Repeatedly calling it a "Republican shutdown," Obama said Congress "demanded ransom just for doing their job."
Congress failed Monday to pass legislation that would fund the government — making this the first time the government has shut down since 1996.
Obama said the shutdown was caused by House Republicans and is about "rolling back our efforts to provide health insurance to folks who don't have it."
However, as Obama pointed out, the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented Tuesday.
"The irony that the House Republicans have to contend with is they've shut down a whole bunch of parts of the government, but the Affordable Care Act is still open for business," Obama said.
Healthcare through Obamacare is available on healthcare.gov and more than one million people have visited the site today, Obama said.
"For the 15 percent of Americans who don't have health insurance, this opportunity is life-changing," he said, adding most uninsured Americans will be able to sign up for health insurance and pay $100 or less each month.
Obama went on to again encourage Congress to come together and pass a government budget in order to not further harm the economy.
"Congress generally has to stop governing by crisis," he said. "They have to break this habit. It is a drag on the economy. It is not worthy of this country."


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Are you the kind of person who likes to build its own furniture? Do you like to recycle your old stuff to give them a second life?
The staff at Equity Point Lisbon had a great idea and turned a suitcase into a different book shelf that fits perfectly the common room of the hostel.
We have posted the pictures of all the process at Facebook so you can do it yourself at home.
I love the idea and how it fits Equity Point Lisboa's common room decoration, don't you?


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Not so long ago the dollar was the world's only reserve currency. Everything else was one (or several) steps down in terms of safety and liquidity, and major financial institutions acted accordingly, accumulating dollars for the risk-free parts of their portfolios. Global demand for dollars was, as a result, effectively infinite, which meant the US could borrow whatever it wanted, secure in the knowledge that the Treasury bonds it created would find willing buyers.
But quietly, over the past couple of decades, the dollar has been joined at the top by the euro, yen, pound sterling and Swiss franc. And now the list of legitimate reserve currencies has expanded to include Canadian and Australian dollars:
Aussie, Canada dollars termed reserve currencies
LONDON (MarketWatch) — The Australian and Canadian dollars, the world's leading commodity-rich currencies, are being formally classified as official reserve assets by the International Monetary Fund, marking the onset of a multi-currency reserve system and a new era in world money.
In a seemingly innocuous yet highly portentous move, the IMF is asking member countries from next year to include the Australian and Canadian dollars in statistics supplied by reserve-holding nations on the make-up of their central banks' foreign exchange reserves. The technical-sounding measure, reflecting growing diversification of the world's $10.5 trillion of reserves, is likely over time to exert wide-ranging impact on world bond and equity markets.
Expanding by two the list of officially recognized reserve assets from the present five — the dollar, euro, sterling, yen and Swiss franc — signals a new phase in the development of reserve money. For most of the past 150 years, the world has had just two reserve currencies, with sterling in the lead until the First World War, and the dollar taking over as the prime asset during the past 100 years.
Sterling — although still the world's third reserve currency on IMF figures, just ahead of the yen — has been in relative decline since the Second World War. The birth of the euro in 1999 has turned the European single currency into the world's No. 2 reserve unit, but it is now officially accepted that the dollar and the euro share their role with smaller currencies.
Enshrining in official thinking a development already evident among reserve managers and on private markets, in a sense, does no more than catch up with reality. However, the IMF step has both practical and symbolic importance and will likely promote further asset diversification among official and private asset managers.
The popularity among central banks of the Australian and Canadian dollars, which have been relatively strong even against the firm U.S. dollar during the past few years, reflect their stable economic growth and intact banking systems since the financial crisis, as well as the influence of Australian and Canadian commodity resources. On informal estimates, worldwide official foreign-exchange holdings in each of the two currencies probably are around $60 billion.
The Chinese renminbi, the Korean won and the Singapore dollar are being held by a relatively small number of central banks. There are no Asian currencies (apart from the yen) on the new IMF list, reflecting their still very low use as official assets.
The renminbi has attracted widespread attention as a possible future reverse currency. But it's still some years away from attaining that status, primarily because it is not fully convertible. Although held in appreciable quantities by 10 to 15 central banks around the world, the Chinese money lags as a reserve currency behind not just the Australian and Canadian units but also some Scandinavian currencies.
People's Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan said at the weekend: "For the central bank, the next movement related to the yuan [renminbi] is going to be reform of convertibility … We are going to realize it, we are moving in this direction, we need to go further, we will have some deregulation."
Zhou, who will have completed 10 years at the central bank next month, is widely expected to retire shortly. The focus will be on how much scope the Chinese Communist leadership gives his successor to pursue further financial liberalization.
The importance of the dollar has diminished, from a peak of 71.5% of declared reserves in 2001 to just under 62% by 2012. Outside the five standard reserve currencies, the importance of "other" currencies has risen, from a low of 1.3% in 2001 to 5.3% by end-June 2012, amounting to $310 billion.
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Categorizing Canadian and Australian dollars as reserve currencies makes sense when you view those countries in terms of gold, oil, sunshine and other resources per citizen. By that measure, each Canadian and Australian dollar is backed by a lot more real value than are the currencies of the paper-dependent societies like the US, Europe and Japan. If, as seems likely, we're in the early stages of a shift away from financial assets and towards real things, the relative strength, and currency exchange rates, of the better-run resource-based economies will keep improving, making their currencies less risky and more profitable investments.
Note that the Chinese renminbi (aka the yuan) and Singapore dollar aren't on the list. But they will be soon, with China now the second biggest economy (and an aggressive importer of gold) and Singapore becoming the preferred destination of global savings (especially gold storage) now that Switzerland has been cracked by the IRS and other tax authorities. See China's next step in yuan overhaul is convertibility.
Gold, meanwhile, is once again being accumulated rather than dumped by central banks, and has already, arguably, replaced the dollar as the most coveted reserve asset. This, by the way, is simply a return after a 40-year absence to the place gold has occupied since the beginning of recorded history.
What does this mean for the dollar? First, a lot of central banks and trading firms will sell dollars to buy those other currencies and gold in order to make their portfolios reflect evolving financial realities. That selling pressure will, other things being equal, lower the dollar's relative value, which is another way of saying that the US might not be able to borrow infinite amounts of money going forward, forcing us to either cut annual deficits far faster than is currently planned or pay a higher interest rate on future borrowings, which would increase future deficits.
The US, in short, will finally be subject to the same economic laws as lesser countries, with the same result: excessive debt and money printing lead to currency crisis which leads to depression.
Source: Dollar Collapse


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The Premier League is stepping up it attempts to prevent pubs and clubs from screening live matches via foreign TV channels.
The League has been building cases against a number of premises in recent months over what it believes are breaches of copyright.
Around 100 prosecutions are being considered nationwide with the first set to be heard before the end of the month.
It is significantly cheaper for pubs and clubs to pay for foreign channels than it is to subscribe to the Premier League's official UK broadcasters, Sky Sports and BT Sport.
Foreign stations might also show matches not being screened in the UK, most notably those kicking off at 3pm on Saturdays.
In 2012, the European Court of Justice ruled in favour of Portsmouth landlady Karen Murphy, who had been using a Greek TV decoder in her pub.
Yet while the ruling made clear it was not illegal to obtain a TV subscription from anywhere in the EU, the Premier League were backed on issues concerning copyright.
The matches themselves are not protected by copyright, but any surrounding media works such as logos, graphics, pre-recorded highlights or the Premier League anthem are.
Any use of these without the Premier League's permission could therefore be construed as a breach.
Premier League spokesman Dan Johnson said: "We are stepping up our actions in this area and there are a number of reasons for that.
"One was the clarity we got from the Karen Murphy case in terms of copyright protection.
"It was written up as if we lost but in essence we won. It was a pyrrhic victory for Karen Murphy.
"A second reason is that we have just entered into a new contractual period with Sky Sports and BT Sport.
"It is important to protect the investment they are making in Premier League football, which not only benefits Premier League clubs but cascades right down the footballing pyramid to the grassroots."
A private investigations firm, ID Inquiries, has been working on behalf of the Premier League.
Johnson said: "We have committed to a significant number of visits and over the course of a season we will make approaching 5,000.
"We have undertaken nearly 4,000 and out of that we are looking at 100 prosecutions in the pipeline.
"We want to educate and discourage publicans from using these foreign systems.
"We will give the full information and give publicans and licensees the opportunity to cease using the equipment.
"If they choose not to then obviously they run the risk of being prosecuted."
Richard Munden, a barrister at 5RB chambers and an associate of legal advice service myBarrister.co.uk, can see how copyright could be infringed.
Penalties could include a fine, loss of licence or even jail, although much would depend on the individual circumstances.
Munden said: "If you have got a Greek decoder and can get the signal there is nothing illegal about that.
"The question is are you infringing copyright by broadcasting it in public?
"Prima facie yes you are. Not if this only applies to the game, the commentary or the crowd noises etc, but to any of the graphics, the Premier League anthem or any of the things that come up at half-time, that sort of thing."
In theory this could lead to a situation where pubs could attempt to cover up parts of the screen or turn down the volume, as then they would not be doing anything illegal, but that might not be practical.
From a legal perspective it also presents an intriguing situation where this could be considered as finding a loophole to counteract the other loophole the Premier League is relying on in terms of copyright.
Simon Clark, head of intellectual property at Berwin Leighton Paisner, said: "This is a curious loophole since the UK Copyright Act includes an express provision which states that it is not an infringement of copyright in a film or broadcast to show it in public to a non-paying audience.
"Perhaps some pubs will try showing the broadcasts with the sound turned down and covering up the parts of the screen which display the logos and graphics?"


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Gov. Rick Perry, who suspended his presidential campaign Jan. 19, is asking the Federal Election Commission whether he can put leftover money into a political action committee – possibly a Super PAC.
As another alternative, he asked the FEC in a letter dated Feb. 13 and released Thursday whether he can put the money into his state gubernatorial campaign committee, Texans for Rick Perry.
The letter from Perry's campaign treasurer, Salvatore Purpura, said that Perry received a total of approximately $270,000 that was designated for the general-election campaign. He couldn't spend any of that on the primary.
His campaign sent letters to general-election contributors asking them to allow their contributions to remain in the account and be used "for purposes consistent with the Committee's proposed new non-connected PAC status."
As of Feb. 13, Purpura wrote, contributors had asked for at least $100,000 to be refunded. Others gave their permission for the new use of nearly $30,000.
I've asked Perry's camp if there was other money left in his account. His spokesman, Ray Sullivan, had previously said that Perry had significantly depleted his resources before exiting the primary race.
The Sunlight Foundation wrote that heading a powerful PAC could help Perry "maintain a high political profile and lay the groundwork for another national campaign."
Perry's inquiry drew attention from Politico, which wrote that erstwhile candidates usually create "leadership PACs that allow them pay for political staff, travel the country and dole out contributions to favored candidates – all of which helps them keep themselves in the political spotlight and curry favor for potential future runs."
Politico wrote:
"Super PACs, which were spawned by a 2010 federal court ruling, could be used to maintain a political staff and fund a politician's travel, but not to make donations to candidates. On the other hand – unlike leadership PACs, other more traditional PACs or campaign committees – super PACs can accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations and unions. Conceivably, a Perry super PAC could accept huge contributions from wealthy donors and their companies and spend that cash on ads supporting Gingrich or other allied candidates."


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A Washington state corrections officer reportedly faces bigamy charges after Facebook's "Friends You May Know" feature suggested his two wives become friends.
Alan L. O'Neill was originally married in 2001, but had moved out by 2009, The Associated Press reported, citing charging documents. The couple never filed for divorce and by December 2011, O'Neill changed his name and got remarried.
While on Facebook, wife one saw a friend "suggestion" that she connect with O'Neill's new wife. She also found a picture of her estranged husband with his second bride, cutting their wedding cake, according to the AP.
Within an hour, the first wife was on the phone with her mother-in-law. O'Neill, 41, later stopped by wife one's apartment and told her he'd fix the problem, but she alerted the authorities, according to charging documents.
"Facebook is now some place where people discover things about each other that end up reporting that to law enforcement," Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told the AP.
O'Neill, formerly Alan Fulk, has been a Pierce County corrections officer for five years and if convicted, could face a year in jail. He's due in court later this month.


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What are the differences between the Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com trees when using TreeSync™?
In Family Tree Maker you can create a variety of notes: person, research, fact, relationship, media, and source citation. When you upload a tree to Ancestry only person notes will be included; they can only be viewed by people you have invited to your online tree.


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Two promos for Disney XD's new Star Wars cartoon Rebels have finally been released, giving up us our first look at the show in action! At a glance it looks like Clone Wars, except we don't recognize any of the characters. Also, the promos' narrator seems to be a bit of a pyromaniac.
He keeps talking about sparks and igniting while newly revealed character Ezra scampers around his sleepy, wheat-covered planet, until he witnesses a fight between a Rebel ship and some TIE Fighters above. It's reminiscent of one of the deleted scenes from the first Star Wars movie, which featured Luke staring up at the movie's opening space battle through his space binoculars. Ezra sounds suspiciously spunky here, but as long as he doesn't whine about picking up power converters in the first episode, he'll be doing better than Luke.
Also, that Rebel Alliance/Phoenix logo is pretty sweet. I am very much looking forward to spending my money to purchase merchandise with that symbol on it.