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Deloitte Life Actuary Senior Consultant in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Life Actuary Sr. Consultant
Deloitte Consulting s Human Capital practice is a leading global advisor and implementation partner working with companies, governments, and organizations around the world. Our goal is to improve our clients organizational results and impact by focusing on challenges at the intersection of business and people.
Work you ll do
As a Deloitte Consulting Life Actuary Sr. Consultant in the Insurance practice of Deloitte s Human Capital group, you will provide technical and analytical support in a consulting environment. The job functions include the following:
Primarily responsible for producing and managing technically oriented work across a number of practice areas, including statutory and GAAP reporting, mergers and acquisitions, embedded value, and financial projections.
Will also be involved in market and technical research, data resource and tool development, recruiting, training, and strategic planning.
Be a team player who works well both with internal and client personnel and is expected to continue progress towards the FSA designation and stay in compliance with the Actuarial Study Program.
May lead small to medium sized teams
The team
Organization Transformation
The Organization Transformation practice is about transforming the organization (and the benefits providers that serve them) to support its business strategy. This involves helping our clients move from where they are today to where they need to be in the future. It could include changing the organization s culture, modernizing specific functions, re-designing the organization structure, and will require a combination of change management actions to execute the transformation. To enable our success, it will be critical to use data and insights to inform better ways of working together.
Bachelor s degree
4 years of Life Actuary experience
Successfully passed 4 actuarial exams
General knowledge of life and annuity products
Travel at least 50%. (While 50% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice.)
4 years of experience working in an insurance company or consulting environment
Experience leading small to medium sized teams
Proficiency with MS Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Familiarity with life insurance reserve calculation requirements and mechanics
Experience with actuarial projection system
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Team player who enjoys working with multiple teams
Enthusiasm for serving clients and helping to further develop our consulting practice
How you ll grow
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center. at https://zoomforth.com/s/deloitte/du#home
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.
Deloitte s culture
Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy, happy lives. Learn more about Life at Deloitte.
Corporate citizenship
Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our people and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities. Learn more about Deloitte s impact on the world. at http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/deloitte-corporate-citizenship.html
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Category: Actuarial
About Deloitte
As used in this document, Deloitte means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.


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Saffron Chicken and Rice With Golden Beets From 'The New Southern Table'
While it may not have the superstar status of other quintessentially Southern ingredients like country ham or collards, rice is a vital part of any Southern table, especially in the low country region around the Carolina coast. Brys Stephens's chapter on rice in his cookbook, The New Southern Table, explores varieties and preparations of the grain from everywhere from Thailand to his own home state of South Carolina. (Carolina Gold rice is prized for its creamy texture and sweet flavor.) His recipe for chicken and rice borrows flavors from Persian cuisine and is imbued with the floral fragrance of saffron. Hearty slices of golden beets echo the color of the saffron-tinted rice while grounding the flavor with deep earthiness.
Why I picked this recipe: Chicken and rice is a wonderfully comforting dish; building it with floral saffron made the dish perfect for spring.
What worked: I loved the pureed carrot and aromatics trick, as it kept the bright golden color intact while infusing the rice with a soft vegetal sweetness.
What didn't: The beets weren't totally cooked through by the time the rice and chicken were done. Next time, I'd slice them thinner (around 1/4-inch thick).
Suggested tweaks: You could use red beets instead of golden, but the dish will turn purple. A better bet would be to use sliced carrots.
Reprinted with permission from The New Southern Table: Classic Ingredients Revisited by Brys Stephens. Copyright 2014. Published by Fair Winds Press. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:serves 2 to 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour and 10 minutes
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- 2 1/2 (570 ml) cups water
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- Kosher salt and black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads
- 3 large or medium golden beets, peeled
- 1/2 medium-size carrot, chopped
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1 medium-size shallot, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 piece ginger, 2 inches (5 cm) long, peeled and minced
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) olive oil
- 1 tablespoon (14 g) unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 cup (185 g) basmati rice
- 1 teaspoon (6 g) kosher salt
Bring the water to a bare simmer. Season the chicken thighs generously all over with salt and pepper. In a small bowl, soak the saffron threads in 1/4 cup (60 ml) of the hot water. Cut each beet into 8 pieces if using large beets, and into 6 pieces if using medium-size beets. Place the carrot, celery, shallot, garlic, and ginger in a food processor and purée.
Heat the olive oil over medium-high heat in a large, heavy skillet, and add the butter. When the butter stops foaming, add the chicken thighs, and brown well, 2 to 4 minutes per side. Remove the pan from the heat, and transfer the chicken to a plate.
Return the pan to the heat and add the puréed vegetables and the red pepper flakes, and cook, stirring often, 2 to 4 minutes, until fragrant. Add ½ cup (120 ml) of the hot water and scrape up the brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Add the rice and 1 teaspoon (6 g) kosher salt to the pan, and stir to coat.
Nestle the chicken thighs and beets into the rice mixture. Add the rest of the hot water and the saffron with its soaking liquid to the pan. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover, and simmer 20 to 30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Add a little more water to the pan if it dries out before the chicken is done, or if too moist, turn up the heat at the end to evaporate any excess liquid. Remove the pan from the heat, and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes before serving.
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Tour the Atlanta Botanical Garden
HGTV paid a visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, where we soaked in the garden's lush grounds and the atmospheric Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory.
Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana Goes Vertical
Take your garden vertical by suspending your containers with simple metal cable. This wall of Kalanchoe blossfeldiana seems to hover in space in the lobby of the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory.
Ctenanthe burle-marxii leaves
Ctenanthe burle-marxii is a native of Brazil, and thrives in semi-shade and humid areas. This example is growing in the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Fuqua Orchid Center.
Echeveria runyonii
The upward swept, blue-gray leaves of Echeveria runyonii stand out in containers with other succulents.
'Purple Sunset' pomegranate
Fruit of 'Purple Sunset' pomegranate (Punica granatum) hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree. This example is planted in the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Edible Garden.
Succulent Containers
A sunny patio at the Atlanta Botanical Garden is the setting for this display of varying-sized containers with an assortment of succulents that include Dyckia 'Black Gold' (clockwise from foreground), Yucca 'Color Guard', Euphorbia 'Sticks on Fire', Echeveria runyonii, and Kalanchoe 'Flapjacks'.
Rose Grape (Medinilla myriantha)
Though the flowers of the Rose Grape plant (Medinilla myriantha) look like grapes, they aren't. They are, however, striking in the way they hang in panicles among the plant's deep green leaves.
Striking Pair
The golden color of Euphorbia 'Sticks on Fire' stands out against the soft colors of Echeveria runyonii.
Succulent Patio
Succulents make the perfect patio plant in warm areas like Atlanta that can experience long stretches without rain. This arrangement at the Atlanta Botanical Garden uses the soft edges of Kalanchoe 'Flapjacks' to contrast with the spike-like appearance of Yucca 'Color Guard'.
Lizard on Winterberry
A lizard enjoys sunning itself on this Winterberry Holly in the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Ornamental Pepper
Need a lively plant for your patio container? Consider the ornamental pepper Capsicum annuum 'Aurora', which produces small, brilliantly-colored fruit.


text: News & Events / News print News View All Faculty Alumni Students General RSS Feeds YEAR 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 « Back 02.15.13 International Business Law Center Hosts SEC Commissioner Troy A. Paredes On February 1, Brooklyn Law School faculty, alumni, and current and former Fellows of the Block Center for International Business Law gathered at the Down Town Association for a "Fireside Chat" with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Troy A. Paredes, moderated by Professor Dana Brakman Reiser. Commissioner Paredes spoke on a range of topics including the rule-making process at the SEC, implementing rules pursuant to the JOBS Act and Dodd-Frank, and the global securities market. With respect to rule-making, Commissioner Paredes emphasized the need for the SEC to establish thorough processes, which should include both data and cost-benefit analysis. In order to facilitate good decision making, he explained, there must be a full analysis of the range of outcomes, the consequences of each, and the potential trade-offs. He added that he strongly believes in a retrospective review. "Just as important as the factors that go into the pre-decision making stage is the post-decision review, which can help the SEC learn from its mistakes as well as its successes," he said. Commissioner Paredes applied these factors to a currently hot issue: high frequency trading. Going forward, he urged the SEC to take action driven by proven data, not as a reactionary response to the glitches in the system. According to Commissioner Paredes, research shows that high frequency trading is making a contribution to the equity markets. Therefore, the focus should be on what it is that drives the need for trading to be faster. He suggested that if the answer is that the current regulatory regime is the cause, perhaps the solution is in amending the rules rather than hindering such trading. Commissioner Paredes also discussed the global securities market in the context of the flow of people and capital across borders. "The ramifications to the U.S. securities markets would be detrimental if global issues were not taken into account," he said. Those who understand the complex interplay of contemporary global securities recognize that overburdening investors in the U.S. will send them elsewhere, he explained. He then listed several important factors to consider, including duplication of securities regulation, conflict between different regulation schemes, and the cumulative effect of multiple regulation schemes. Ending on a somewhat cautionary note, Commissioner Paredes stated that he was doubtful that Dodd-Frank will play a role in preventing the next financial crisis. He questioned whether there is a real consensus as to the cause of the most recent financial crisis and cautioned that the factors going forward are not likely to be the same. By Cassandra Vogel '13 Email this article Share Read the latest issue of Brooklyn Law Notes


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We can agree on that. I expect the transition will take much longer than a decade.GRA wrote:I will repeat how I summed things up: regardless of the specific changes that will or won't happen, the next decade or so will see the greatest changes in the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation in 1980.
Yeah, I expect any effort to put stuff on the trailers will have significant growing pains. At the same time, I expect the need to harvest energy while on the road will ultimately win out. Time will tell.EVDRIVER wrote:There sure are many issues with PV on a truck rook, vibration to start.


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Details have emerged about the security fixes that came bundled with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the latest version of the open-source productivity suite.
Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, released last week, included fixes for three security vulnerabilities, all rated as "important". The trio included an integer overflow error involving problems in handling embedded images and a memory overwrite bug connecting with importing WordPerfect files. Both of the flaws might be used as a means to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems, providing hackers are able to trick prospective marks into opening booby-trapped files. The third vulnerability involves what would appear to be a less serious program crash bug involving the handling of malformed PowerPoint files.
Both OpenOffice.org 3.3 and the beta versions of 3.4 are affected by all three flaws, which get patched with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the first release of the software under new management after Oracle handed over the project last year.
In related news, the Apache Software Foundation announced that downloads of the software had crossed the one million milestone since the release of the software. ®


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By the Ohio National Guard Public Affairs Office
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio National Guard's Joint Task Force 73 will conduct a Fully Operational Capability exercise, Aug. 11-15, at Owens Community College's Center for Emergency Preparedness in Perrysburg Township to test its ability to support local and state civilian authorities during a Homeland Defense/Homeland Security event.
This FOC exercise is based on a scenario of a natural disaster striking the Toledo area. It will test the task force's ability to command and control its units and their ability to alert, assemble, deploy and operate in support of civil authorities, such as incident commanders and the Ohio State Emergency Management Agency.
The exercise will involve more than 300 Ohio National Guard personnel as well as local first responders and role players. Units participating in the exercise are based in Columbus, Kettering, Middletown, Chillicothe and Toledo.
"This exercise ensures the Ohio National Guard is prepared to deploy ready units to accomplish federal, state and community missions and, in conjunction with other local, state, and federal agencies, facilitate a seamless, effective response to any incident," said Maj. Gen Greg Wayt, Ohio's adjutant general.
The Ohio National Guard has available a number of units capable of providing equipment and personnel in the event of an emergency, including the Joint Task Force 73, which comprises several Ohio Army and Air Guard personnel from across the state, including the 52d Civil Support Team, the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package, and National Guard Reaction Force/Quick Reaction Force within its task organization. These units are ready to deploy on a moment's notice with specialized Homeland Defense/Homeland Security capabilities in terms of communications, CBRNE response and security.
"The JTF73 as a headquarters provides the citizens of Ohio with an all-hazard military response," said the task force commander Brig. Gen Jack Lee. "Establishing and demonstrating Full Operational Capability assures our adjutant general that we have the baseline skills to effectively manage our units in an emergency. It is all about preparedness and our mission is to be prepared for a no-notice, any-time, any-where response."
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ALBANY -- Within just days of local lawmakers casting votes that are expected to spell the fate of the Albany County Nursing Home, a veteran legislator has put forward an idea that would send the issue straight to the voters. Saying the future of the nursing home is the type of issue that lends itself to direct public involvement, County Legislator Gil Ethier, D-Cohoes, is proposing that the status of the facility remain unchanged until a countywide referendum can be arranged. "I think this is the type of thing we should put before the voters and let them decide," Ethier said. "We could have the people decide whether they want to pay an extra $100 a year, or whatever it would be, to have the county keep running it. It would probably pass but that way everyone would know the cost and what the money is going for." Ethier's suggestion comes after several months of political jostling pitting County Executive Dan McCoy against a band of increasingly independent legislators who have raised a series of sharp questions about McCoy's plan to lease the county-owned nursing home to a private operator. McCoy maintains that leasing the home is a money saving move that is essential for the county's long term fiscal health. "We had been working on an agreement that will conservatively save $80 million, while also ensuring that the home stays in operation and gets critical renovations that have been put off," the county executive said in a recent letter to lawmakers. Critics of leasing the home have suggested that the county executive's financial estimates are overblown and that it is not practical to lease the home by July 1, 2013. "The fact is that the company they have chosen to negotiate with (Upstate Services Group) still doesn't have a Certificate of Need from the state or a license to operate the county's nursing home," said County Legislator Ray Joyce, D-Albany. "From what we have been told by the county attorney it could take 12 to 14 months to get state approval, so this leaves us facing the possibility of hundreds of nursing home residents being put out on the street in the middle of the summer. That's a real problem." Along with the nursing home controversy, the $568 million annual budget proposed by McCoy seeks to raise property taxes by 8.9 percent countywide. On Nov. 29 the county Legislature's Audit and Finance Committee approved a budget with a less than 8 percent tax hike that includes funding to keep the nursing home county-run throughout 2013. The full Legislature will meet tonight to vote on the committee's proposal.
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By: The Capital Times
Madison police are warning recycling companies not to buy scrap from disreputable or unknown sources, trying to stem off increased thefts of metal which is costing the community hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lt. Mark Brown, head of the Blue Net Burglary Task Force, said law enforcement agencies are taking steps to ensure compliance by recycling companies with an anti-theft state law, requiring the firms to take extra precautions when purchasing scrap from unknown sources.
The police department conducted a press conference Monday to announce the increased crackdown on scrap metal thieves and the increased vigilance of and hoped for cooperation by scrap dealers.
The efforts will include surveillance of scrap metal yards and spot checks of purchasing records, with companies not in compliance referred to the district attorney's office for review.
Dealers are required to maintain records on everything from seller identification, time and date of purchase, number and state of issuance of the license plates on the vehicle bringing the metal to the yard and a description of the items including weight and what the scrap looks like, if it's in bars, ingots, cable, rods, tubing, wire, etc.
The dealers also have to make their records available to law enforcement officers.
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Sauteed Broccoli with Garlic, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan
Sauteed Broccoli with Garlic, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan
(Makes 4 servings, recipe slightly adapted from The Best Vegetable Recipes.)
1 lb. broccoli florets (about 5-6 cups)
1 1/2 T olive oil
2 T pine nuts
2 cloves garlic, sliced very thin (or more if you're a garlic fan)
1/4 cup chicken stock (I used my homemade chicken stock, but you can use canned chicken broth)
1-2 T fresh grated parmesan cheese
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Heat 1 T olive oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, add pine nuts and cook 1-2 minutes, until barely starting to color. Add broccoli florets and saute, stirring constantly, until broccoli turns bright green, about 2-3 minutes.
Move broccoli and pine nuts to one side of pan, add the remaining oil and garlic slices and cook until garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute.
Turn heat up to high, add chicken stock, stir, and cover pan and cook about 2 minutes, or until broccoli is slightly tender. Uncover and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until all the liquid has evaporated and broccoli is fork-tender, about 3-4 minutes longer. Sprinkle broccoli with freshly-grated parmesan and season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Serve immediately.
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Spring 2011 New York Fashion Week: Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang Ditches the Black "Uniform," Goes Light for Spring 2011
>> When Alexander Wang took a trip to check out the retail contemporary floors, he was struck by the fact that "everyone's doing the same skinny jean, long tee, leather motorcycle jacket. It's become a uniform. Too much." It was time for a change. So no more of the "urban thing of a pair of tiny shorts and a big top —the inverted triangle," he said. "We turned it upside down this season."
He also did without black for Spring 2011: "I thought it's time to do something optimistic and pure." Which meant that his models — including Karolina Kurkova, Agyness Deyn, and Omahyra Mota in a runway return — went without makeup and had their eyebrows bleached and what looked like White-out applied in their hair.
The collection had a construction theme — pieces derived from painter's overalls, worker's boots, and duct tape detailing — reflective of Wang's current state of mind: he just added a new floor to his office, is renovating a Tribeca apartment, and is working on his first retail location. And it marked the debut of his first in-house print, made by having his staff and interns doodle on a 5-foot-by-5-foot sheet of paper in the studio.


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The Rwandan government's plans to restore the country's lost forest lands and boost national development, show real political commitment to deal with ecosystem degradation and its impacts on the rural poor, says IUCN. IUCN urges other countries to recognize the potential of healthy forests for sustainable economic growth.
Rwanda has enjoyed relatively strong economic growth recently but it still remains one of the world's poorest and most densely populated countries with 320 people per square kilometre. Of these 85% make their living from subsistence farming of degraded lands. Rwanda's forest cover diminished rapidly in the 1990s due in part to poor forest management and land use conflict. Functioning ecosystems, which provide numerous services and new employment opportunities, are at the heart of the country-wide reforestation initiative, launched today at the United Nations Forum on Forests.
"Rwanda's announcement today is the biggest commitment a country can make to restoring degraded landscapes – investing in nature and lifting people out of poverty," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. "If other countries follow Rwanda's leading example, we could be witnessing the beginning of the largest natural restoration initiative the world has ever seen, bringing us a step closer to realizing our vision of a greener world economy."
The aim of Rwanda's Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is to achieve a country-wide reversal of the current degradation of soil, water, land and forest resources by 2035. The Rwandan government, IUCN, the Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests and others will work together towards delivering forest restoration at the landscape level designed to achieve sustainable agricultural production, low carbon economic development, adequate water and energy supplies, and new opportunities for rural livelihoods. Safeguarding the nation's rich wildlife, such as the Critically Endangered mountain gorilla, is also part of the commitment.
"Past actions can have a profound effect on lives and the environment, as we can witness all over the world," says Jan McAlpine, UNFF Director. "But what makes Rwanda exceptional, is the country's willpower to rebuild people's lives, restore their land and show the world that restoring damaged ecosystems is possible."
Recently released data indicates that there are approximately 1.5 billion hectares offering opportunities for forest landscape restoration with Asia and Africa holding the largest promise - each with about 500 Million hectares available for restoration and without impacting agricultural activities.
"We want to make sure that our environment can sustain all the economic activities identified as main drivers of the national economy," says Stanislas Kamanzi, Rwandan Minister of Land and Environment. "We need expert advice, which, strengthened by local knowledge, will enable the development of landscape strategies and will translate existing political commitment into real and rapid action on the ground."
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- Bios now selfchecks itsself at boot, a red screen is displayed if an error is found.
- Changing the system type will make the system reboot when exiting settings.
- Opening the ingame menu should now pause CD audio, it should play again once closed.
- Overhauled the backup memory manager to improve usability.
- Formatting the backup memory no longer clears unibios region settings.
- Updated to include 68k exception error handling.
- Made the white flash on opening and closing the audio player program box shorter.
- The finger pointer now disapeers when the Universe Bios settings dialogue is open.
- The Insert CD dialogue box now clears when the Universe Bios settings dialogue is opened.
- Stopped entry into unibios features after pressing start to load game from radio screen.
- Hopefully stopped entry to ingame menu at points where used tiles will be corrupted.
- Hopefully fixed rare case of ingame menu graphics not showing if entry just before a game game requests files to be loaded from CD.
- Fixed reset on entry into the cheat database if the loaded game is Fatal Fury 3.
- Fixed severely corrupted ingame menu if the loaded game is Last Hope.
- Stopped the ingame memory viewer accessing ranges that cause a system reset.
- Stopped the ingame menu being accessible on the radio screen after quitting a game.
- Added large font to ingame menu for World Heroes Perfect, Overtop and Zintrick.
- Added fix to correct the color brightness (bug/protection) when in Euro region.
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- Fixed rare issue that caused blank screen on boot if no data loaded or no key code used.
- Stopped the ingame memory viewer accessing ranges that cause system resets.
PC-2-NEO related only
- Some CDZ systems can now take advantage of the faster loading speed options.
- 2UP joystick passthrough handled better on PC-2-NEO screens.
- Fixed a minor issue with the progress bar on initial IPL file load in some games.
- Fixed NeoTurfMasters blank screen after first hole loading if CD audio used.
- Fixed bad tiles in PC-2-NEO when accessed from the CD ingame menu if the loaded game is Samurai Shodown RPG.
- Fixed corrupted font in PC-2-NEO when accessed from the ingame menu if the loaded game is either World Heroes Perfect, Overtop or Zintrick.
- Improved the Crossed Swords 2 gold cheats.
- Added NeoTurfMasters 'Unlock Scotland' cheat (press D on course select screen).
- Added a Viewpoint 'Simultaneous Play' cheat.
- Added more Iron Clad cheats.
- Added some Last Hope cheats.
- Added cheat for 'Samurai Shodown RPG' to unlock Omake mode.
- Added Infinite Magic cheats to Kabuki Klash.
- Added hidden character cheats to Zintrick.
- Added 'Show SP commands OSD' cheat for Samurai Shodown 4
- Added cheats for 'Metal Slug 2 Turbo'
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- Fixed Ninja Combat 'Max Power' cheat typo.
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AEK Athens HC, who reached the Men's Challenge Cup Final in the previous season, will face an Israeli opponent AS SGS Ramhat Hashron in the Last 16 after the draw in the European Handball Federation's headquarters in Vienna determined all eight pairings of the next phase.
Markus Glaser, the EHF Chief Sports Officer, conducted the draw, which also pitted HC Neva Sankt Petersburg against MSK Povazska Bystrica from Slovakia or CSM Bucuresti against HC Dukla Praha.
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Think Tesla is revolutionizing the car world with battery-swapped electric luxury cars? You might be surprised that everything old is new again.
The auto industry in the late 1800s and the early 1900s was filled with tiny companies building a few cars then quickly going out of business. No idea was too strange, because no one knew exactly what a car was supposed to be yet. What it all meant was that engineers tried out every crazy idea they could. Many failed, but most of the technologies we think of as 'new' in cars were first tried (unsuccessfully) at the dawn of the automotive age.
Here are just ten of today's 'groundbreaking' ideas that are really decades old, suggested by Jalopnik readers.
10.) Automatic High Beams
Headlights that dim when another car comes the other way seem to be a very modern convenience, but back in 1952, GM debuted what they creepily called the 'Autronic Eye' for Oldsmobile. It had a sensor that detected when another car was shining its highlights on your car, then dimmed your headlights automatically. You can read the whole brochure here.
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9.) Swivelling Headlights
Headlights that turn with the car, or just turn with the steering wheel seem to be one of the hot new features for luxury cars these days, but Citroen had them on the popular DS back in the 1960s. The first company to debut the technology was the streamlined Czech Tatra back in 1935.
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8.) Retractable Hardtops
The new McLaren 12c Spider remains impressive because its retractable roof is carbon fiber, and when the top is up, most people can't tell the car is a convertible. Mitsubishi and Mercedes brought this idea back into the modern age int eh early '90s, but it goes all the way back to the 1934 Peugeot 601 Éclipse. It was thought up by the legendary French dentist/war hero/car designer Georges Paulin.
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7.) Hybrids
If you think gas/electric hybrids started with the Prius, think again. Porsche actually designed one for the long-gone Austrian car company back in 1900. It was called the "Mixte-Wagen" and it had electric motors in the wheels, and a battery charged by a gasoline engine.
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6.) Electric Luxury and Racing Cars
Hybrids aren't new, but high-power electric luxury and racing cars are even older. Before 1900, most luxury cars were actually electric, since they were smoother, safer, and quieter. Early race cars, like the world's first car to break 62 miles an hour, were sometimes electric as well.
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5.) Push Button Starters
It's hard to impress your friends by pushing the starter on your Aston Martin, mostly because you can even get push-button starters on Hondas these days. Push starters were popular with sports cars through the '50s, and before the nineteen-teens cars didn't even have ignition keys.
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4.) Self-Leveling Suspensions
We love the McLaren's linked hydraulic suspension, but you could get self-levelling Citroens back in the mid-1950s. The first was the '54 Traction Avant, but the first dramatic use was on the '55 DS. The British Motor Corporation got similar 'hydrolastic' suspension in 1962, and Rolls-Royce licensed Citroen's system in 1965.
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3.) Regenerative Braking
There wasn't really been a need for regenerative braking in modern cars until the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius brought hybrids back. The first car to recharge its battery with the brakes was Louis Krieger's front-wheel-drive electric horseless carriages. Krieger started buildng EVs back in 1894 in Paris with no less than eight distinct regenerative braking modes.
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2.) CVTs
Continuously Variable Transmissions are firmly in the mainstream new. You've been able to get them on Nissans for a few years, and even the upcoming Corolla will have an infinite-speed transmission. The first company to popularize "rubber band drive" was the Dutch DAF in the late 1950s. The first car to have a CVT was built by Milton Reeves back in 1896, derived from his saw mill transmission invented in 1879.
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1.) Battery Swapping
Tesla is in the news these days for introducing a system for swapping depleted batteries for fresh ones on the Model S. They were far from the first, though. The Electric Vehicle Company (exciting name, to be sure) had a whole fleet of electric battery-swapped taxi cabs running in New York City in the late 1880s.
The idea was that the cabs would drive around until they were running out of juice, then return to a central station where the EVC had a warehouse full of freshly-charged batteries on reserve. The taxi would drive onto a little platform, and a technician would swap the old battery out for the recharged one. The company ended up spending so much money keeping their own battery-swap technology going that their cabs grew too old, obsolete, and expensive to maintain. They went bankrupt in 1907.
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Nathusius's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) is a small bat, with long wings (2). It was not known to breed in Great Britain until as recently as 1997 (4). The fur on the back is reddish brown during summer and moults to a darker brown in winter. The belly is a lighter, yellowish-brown throughout the year (2). The wing membranes, tail and short triangular ears are blackish-brown (2).
Bats are the only true flying mammals. In Britain they are insectivorous (eat insects), and contrary to popular misconception they are not blind; many can actually see very well (8). All British bats use echolocation to orient themselves at night; they emit bursts of sound that are of such high frequencies they are beyond the human range of hearing and are therefore called 'ultrasound' (6). Bats listen to and interpret the echoes bounced back from objects, including prey, around them, allowing them to build up a 'sound-picture' of their surroundings (6). Nathusius's pipistrelles produce echolocation calls at frequencies between 38 and 70 kHz (5). They emerge during early dusk (2) and hunt with fast manoeuvrable flight, for flying insects (2).
Mating takes place between late July and early September (2), during this time a single male defends a mating territory of three to ten females against other males (2). Fertilisation is delayed until the following spring (8), as females store sperm inside their uterus (womb) during hibernation (4). In April and May maternity roosts of 50 to 200 females form (2). Two young are normally produced in late July, which are able to fly at four weeks of age (2). In autumn, many individuals undertake a migration to the southwest in order to escape the worst of the winter weather (8); occasionally individuals have covered distances of more than 1,000 kilometres in parts of Europe (6). This bat is known to live to a maximum of seven years (2).
Nathusius's pipistrelle occurs mainly in central and eastern Europe, with possible populations in Spain, Portugal, and Scandinavia. There are few records from Britain, all of which have been from south England (5). Breeding colonies are known in Lincolnshire and Northern Ireland (6), and the discovery of populations of Nathusius's pipistrelle is becoming more frequent (7).
A species of woodland, parks, and more rarely areas with human settlement (2). Nathusius's pipistrelle is often found in riparian habitats (6). Maternity roosts occur in hollow trees and bat boxes, and hibernation takes place in crevices in cliffs, walls, hollow trees and caves (2).
Nathusius's pipistrelle is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1). In Great Britain, all bats are fully protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) as amended, and by the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations (1994). An agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe (EUROBATS) under the auspices of the Bonn Convention, also known as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) is in force, and all European bats are listed under Appendix II of the CMS (3).
Like all bats, Nathusius's pipistrelle is vulnerable to a number of threats, including the loss of roost sites; hollow trees are often felled if thought unsafe or 'untidy'. Habitat change and loss, affecting the availability of insect prey and causing the fragmentation of feeding habitat is a serious problem for many bats, furthermore pesticide use has devastating effects, by causing severe declines in insect prey abundance, and contaminating food with potentially fatal toxins (3).
In Britain, bats benefit from a comprehensive level of legal protection (3). Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is illegal to intentionally kill, injure, take or sell a bat, posses a live bat or part of a bat, to intentionally, or in England and Wales, recklessly damage obstruct or destroy access to bat roosts. Under the Conservation Regulations it is an offence to damage or destroy breeding sites or resting places. Fines of up to £5,000 per bat affected and six months imprisonment are in place for these offences (9). Several species of bat also benefit by the public putting bat boxes up. Research and proposals for conservation action have been made for this species under the Agreement on the Conservation of Bats in Europe (part of the Bonn Convention, or Convention on Migratory Species). This work will help to protect the transboundary habitats of this migratory species (10).
For more on British bats, their conservation and how to help:
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Fashion scare: Clancy book wreaks havoc in Mall
It's 11am in Fashion Square Mall, and as shoppers flock through Victoria's Secret, a sudden spray of bullets takes down three women, their limp fingers making one final caress of the lace-trimmed nighties as they slide toward the floor.
But the rampage doesn't end in intimate apparel. Teenyboppers sporting dangly hoop earrings tumble to the ground, felled by a barrage of bullets unloaded by an Islamic terrorist named Zuhayr. As the bloodbath continues, several UVA students bolt shrieking from Sam Goody, cursing their sudden urge to snag new tunes to ignite their next fraternity bash.
Sound ludicrous? Well, just jet over to your nearest bookstore and flip to chapter 13 of Tom Clancy's latest novel. Released August 11 and still firmly ensconced on bestseller lists, The Teeth of the Tiger puts our own Fashion Square Mall all over the map. Not to mention blood all over the corridors.
The story– fictional, thankfully– has raised a few eyebrows locally. Why Charlottesville? Why Fashion Square?
"I wish I could say I was flattered, but we're not pleased," says Misty Parsons, Fashion Square's director of marketing. "It's such a crazy plot."
The plot follows the Hendley Associates, a terrorist-fighting team of Wall Streeters who put down their manila folders to turn to their true passion: fighting terrorism. And although the "The Campus" is composed of men with experience in the CIA and other government agencies, the members distinguish themselves as a group willing to bypass the rules of society in their quest for vengeance.
While The Teeth of the Tiger proves a thrilling read for some locals, it has aroused ethical concern in others. William Anderson, Chair of the Charlottesville Peace and Justice Center, puts it in the context of the ideals of our predecessors.
"Ancient Greeks did not portray violence on stage," he says. "There were certain principles that guided them."
But alas, G.P. Putnam's Sons publishing is not the Theater of Dionysus. Putnam/Clancy spokesperson Michael Barson offers no comment on why actual Charlottesville sites were chosen as locations in the violent novel.
While they may seem to be simply a cornucopia of consumer goods, Belk, Kay Jewelers, and even Auntie Anne's pretzels have been hijacked as the setting for Clancy's Islamic terrorists to wreak their mayhem. Even the former Dunkin' Donuts on Route 29 makes the page when a cup of coffee provides the malevolent Zuhayr with a caffeine high and sparks his rampage in the lingerie store. (Despite their store's prominent status in Clancy's bloodbath, the local Victoria's Secret employees declined to comment.)
Yet fictional violence has a way of sparking discussion. Just ask bestselling author and Charlottesville resident John Grisham, who in 1996 spoke out against Oliver Stone, director of Natural Born Killers, a graphic 1994 film that allegedly touched off a spate of copycat crimes.
The most well known incident began March 6, 1995, when teenagers Sarah Edmondson and Ben Darras watched Natural Born Killers multiple times. A day later, in Hernando, Mississippi, Darras murdered William Savage, and Edmondson shot and paralyzed a convenience store cashier in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
In 1996, Grisham, a friend of Savage's, supported the paralyzed cashier, Patsy Byers, in her lawsuit against Stone and Time Warner Entertainment, claiming that the movie had inspired the young couple's rampage. Writing in his now-dormant Oxford American magazine, Grisham claimed that Stone had glamorized "casual mayhem and bloodlust." According to Grisham, "The last hope of imposing some sense of responsibility on Hollywood will come through another great American tradition, the lawsuit."
Grisham compared Stone's work with the famously flawed Ford Pinto, an early 1970s vehicle that frequently exploded on impact.
Through an assistant, Grisham declined to comment for this story.
Bethel College philosophy professor Andrew Gustafson isn't concerned about the influence on local audiences of violence in a popular novel. He's more worried about the psychological effects of media coverage of actual violence and the way he believes it has inoculated young people against the shock of mass murder in movies and fiction.
"So much of our pursuits have become animal-like," he warns. "The media must take some responsibility."
The Peace Center's Anderson agrees. "Every creator, every person who serves the public, should render that service with the public welfare in mind. Regardless of whether an act is legal or illegal, if it results in bad consequences, the same ethical standards should apply– the standard of public good."
Clancy is no novice when it comes to setting mayhem in actual places. His 1991 bestseller, The Sum of All Fears, features Arab terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb at the Denver Superbowl.
Despite the fragile state of the nation post-9/11, the producers of the movie– starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman– brought the story to theaters in 2002 with minor plot changes: They moved the attack site to a football stadium in Baltimore. The public didn't seem to mind. Ticket sales exploded, and the domestic gross soared to $118.5 million.
Although The Teeth of the Tiger will join Clancy's other widely read novels such as The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger on bookshelves in many American homes, some people object to the entire premise.
"I'm weary of this genre of literature because of the degree to which Clancy is able to paint a lively picture that terrorism could happen here," says Helena Cobban, a fellow at UVA's Institute for Practical Ethics. "It tends to stir up people's fearfulness even more when it's a place you know."
Albemarle County's sheriff, law and order diehard Ed Robb, cites the Constitution's freedom of speech in response to Clancy's novel. (On the topic of terrorism, he warns, "We must stay alert.")
"It is not a threat to the town," says Albemarle County Police Chief John Miller. "Fiction is fiction."
Clancy might actually have romped around Charlottesville's shopping quarters to research his latest novel– he's spoken at the University of Virginia.
Clearly, innocuous settings like vineyards, the Skyline Drive, or Chris Greene Lake in midwinter just don't cut it. It was on Route 29– under consumerism's bright lights– where Clancy seems to have had a vision that transformed the reality of the terrorist threats into gory hometown fiction. Why Charlottesville? Why Fashion Square?
Clancy isn't talking.
Tom Clancy: The man who shot up Charlottesville
The Teeth of the Tiger, shown here for sale at the Hydraulic Road Kroger.


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California closes tax loophole on multistate companies
California voters have approved closing a corporate tax loophole that Democratic lawmakers weren't able to pass through the Legislature.
Proposition 39 was approved in balloting Tuesday.
The Yes on Prop. 39 campaign was largely funded by nearly $30 million from billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer. Steyer says it was an issue of tax fairness.
Proposition 39 closes a provision that allows multistate corporations to choose between two tax formulas. By using just one formula, the state will generate about $1 billion a year.
The Legislative Analyst's Office has estimated the change result in up to 40,000 more jobs in California.
There was no formal opposition campaign but some business and anti-tax groups argued that repealing the tax break would make California less business friendly.


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This is apparently a thing everywhere but I never heard of it until I moved to Chicago. Yesterday was Paczki Day. Paczki is a Polish donut type thing that were made on the Tuesday before Lent to use up all the lard, sugar, fruit and other things you can't having during the fast. I don't fast or partake in Lent but I sure as hell love a Polish donut. Maybe a little too much. Maybe I ate like 3 of these things and then I heard my heart struggling to pump. I love and hate this town at the same time.
Word has it that "I, Frankenstein", the big screen adaptation of the the graphic novel with the same name, will be dropped in 3D this coming September. Now before you all go getting moist over this you should know that the film wasn't actually shot in 3D, Lionsgate will be doing all the magic in post production. So in other words it's going to suck and they're going to want 4 or 5 extra bucks for it at the theater.
David Hewlett, better know as "oh hey that guy" from a bunch of horror flicks is stepping behind the camera with a new film titled "Debug". The film is about, and stay with me here, 6 computer hackers who have to battle a rouge artificial intelligence program that wants to be human. All kidding aside that sounds like the worst movie ever. There's nothing funny about that.
And the "Zombieland" casting train keeps on chuggin. Has anyone ever used that analogy before? Man, that is awsome right? Frakin bad ass train that does casting. I'm like a freakin poet. Anyway Maiara Walsh has landed the lead role, AKA the one Emma Stone played in the original film. I'm calling this an upgrade because Stone looks like a frog and if you try to tell yourself that you think she's hot then you're only kidding yourself.
NBC is apparently making a "Dracula" series and Thomas Kretschmann has been cast as Van Helsing. I don't know who he is and this show will be canceled almost immediatly. Watch for it.
If you're going to stalk your ex wife it's best to do it while wearing full body armor and holding a Valentines Day card. Cause that's sweet. Also carrying a gun and machete though is kind of nuts and you'll go to jail for sure. It's a real fine line.
SOUTH CAROLINA! Raise up, take your junk out, tell the cops it fell out when they try to arrest you! No one else remembers that song? It was awesome. I've used this joke before haven't I.


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Mostly because calling it a 'friedman' is just a bit too obscure to be proper black humor; calling it a 'keynes' actually maligns a guy who would be freaking out over what Obama's done to his economic policy*; and calling it a 'fiat' will cause people to confuse it with the car**.
Anyway, basic details here (H/T Jim Geraghty): if you're not familiar with what's going on, essentially there's a movement among the innumerate wing of the left-pundit class to have the President 'pay' for the debt ceiling by having the Treasury mint a platinum coin or coins (that last bit is usually carefully not emphasized) of one trillion dollars apiece. The government deposits the coins, they use the money to pay their bills… Continue reading I propose calling the Trillion Dollar Coin a 'Gresham.'


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The Drill Down is off this week, but until we return next week, here is a flashback to our very first episode, released July 28th, 2007, featuring the podcast's original panelists, Andrew Sorcini, and Social Media experts Muhammad Saleem & Reg 'Zaibatsu' Saddler.
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Last week, Cowboy beat reporters wondered why Bennett was absent from the first few days of mini-camp. Bennett admitted yesterday he sprained his ankle doing "jump-ball" drills. Today, a cellphone pic self-portrait of him posing in the shower arrives.
The always entertaining MediaTakeout has the pics, but chose to place a comic book-style starburst over the offensive parts, so those of you worried about being blinded by Martellus' meat wand can click without fear. If you stroll through the MTO comments you do find out his stuff is"NOT ASHY" and you can still see the tip dangling below the censor if you stare at it for more than a minute.
Also of note: MTO originally identified Bennett as ESPN NFL analyst Marcellus Wiley. *Meat-peepin' ain't easy.
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San Antonio's Iron Rattler shut down after fatal Arlington ride
The Iron Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio remains closed as officials investigate what led to a fatal accident on another roller coaster at the company's Arlington theme park.
Fiesta Texas spokeswoman Sydne Purvis said Monday that the decision to close the attraction was made late Friday after officials heard about the accident in Arlington. According to Dallas-area news outlets, the 52-year-old woman was thrown to her death from the Texas Giant at Six Flags over Texas about 7 p.m. Friday.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office reportedly said that she died of "multiple traumatic injuries due to (a) fall from a roller coaster." The Dallas Morning News said relatives identified her as Rosy Esparza, though the coroner's office has identified her as Rosa Ayala-Gaona.
The Iron Rattler, which debuted in May, is "somewhat similar, although not identical" to the Texas Giant, Purvis said, describing them both as hybrid roller coasters made from a combination of wood and steel.
"They're not identical in configuration, and in a number of other ways, the roller coasters are different," Purvis said.
It wasn't clear early Monday how long the Iron Rattler would remain shuttered. Purvis said the decision was made as a precaution. Six Flags over Texas officials told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the Texas Giant will remain closed until the end of an in-house investigation into the woman's death.
The Iron Rattler is a revamped version of the theme park's original Rattler, a 20-year Fiesta Texas landmark that was retired in August 2012. The Iron Rattler runs on new steel tracks and rails added to its iconic predecessor's wooden structure.
The redesign increased the original coaster's drop from 124 feet to 171 feet, upgraded the drop from about 61 degrees to a much steeper 81 degrees and added 5 mph to the ride's top speed. The old Rattler's top speed was 65 mph. The Iron Rattler's is 70 mph.
On June 12, 2007, Hailey Kuhn, 14, fell off a rollercoaster platform and was paralyzed while waiting in line to ride the Poltergeist at Fiesta Texas.
An Express-News investigation found that Texas ride owners told state officials that more than 1,800 people were injured on or near amusement rides from 2000 to 2008 — an average of about 230 per year. Most victims suffered only scrapes and bruises, and the official tally of injuries has declined over the years. But there have been painful mishaps — at least 120 people broke bones; nearly 60 people had teeth chipped or knocked out; and four people suffered amputations.
Staff writers Neal Morton and John Tedesco contributed to this report.
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Stainless Games' colorful candy take on the classic strategy game RISK gets even stranger today, as the developer reveals the third faction joining humans and cats in the battle for global domination: Robots.
The first shots in the battle of RISK: Factions were fired in January, when the feline and human factions were revealed, cementing the particular brand of wackiness that Stainless Games is bringing to this Xbox Live Arcade game firmly in place. Now the clank of heavy metallic feet can be heard, marching across the map, ready to expose both feline and non-feline for pussies they truly are.
I mean come on, this is robots. Barring a confusing speech by a Starfleet captain, they're unstoppable. They lack human emotion, which gives them an advantage over the fleshies, and have you ever seen a cat react to a vacuum cleaner? There's no battle there. Just the shrill cries of kittens dying in droves.
RISK: Factions is slated for release this summer on Xbox Live Arcade. We eagerly await the introduction of ninjas.


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Sprinter's School Record Highlights Final Day of Cal/Nevada Track and Field Championships
Senior Jacqueline Rose was named the female track athlete of the meet after winning the 400-meter dash on Sunday. Courtesy: UCSD
After registering several impressive results on the opening day of competition on Saturday, it was more of the same for UC San Diego on Sunday as the Tritons posted a pair of top 11 finishes at the 2012 Cal/Nevada Collegiate Championships.
Competing against some of the best collegiate programs from California and Nevada, UCSD finished eighth out of 19 teams in the men's competition, while the Triton women placed 11th in a 20-team field.
UC Santa Barbara scored 132 points to win the team title on the men's side, while San Diego State finished with 130 points to claim the top spot in the women's competition. UCSD scored 43 points on the men's side and finished with 37.50 on the women's.
"This was really a great meet for us," women's head coach Darcy Ahner said. "I thought we had a lot of outstanding performances against very strong competition. We will really look to build off of this effort heading into the last half of the season."
Senior sprinter Jacqueline Rose had the big highlight for the Tritons on Sunday, winning the 400-meter dash with a school record time of 53.30. Her mark, which surpassed Christine Merrill's 2010 time of 54.76, was good enough for an NCAA Division II automatic qualifier in the event.
The San Jose native was voted the female track athlete of the meet for her performance, becoming the second straight Triton to take home the award. Kelly Fogarty earned the honor after winning both the 100 and 200 at the Cal/Nevada Championships last season.
"It was really exciting to see Jacqueline's elevation to the next level today," Ahner continued. "She had a very strong performance and beat out some great sprinters from D-I schools."
The women's 4x400 relay team took third place as Sabrina Pimentel, Lauren Irish, Deyna Roberson and Rose teamed to post a final time of 3:43.89 against a field that featured teams from Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine, Long Beach State, UCSB and Cal State Fullerton. The time ranks No. 2 all-time at UCSD.
CSUN won the event with a time of 3:39.42.
Irish also scored for the Tritons in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing sixth with a final time of 62.52.
On the men's side, Ka Wai Ng finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 49'2". Zach Nagengast was sixth in the discus throw with a toss of 154'6", while Dustin Harris placed sixth in the 800-meter run at 1:53.55.
Next up for the Tritons is the 2012 Sun Angel Track Classic, which is scheduled for April 6-7 on the campus of Arizona State.


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This exercise plays two beats of rhythmic patterns presented melodically, that is, with pitch content to make it more memorable and resemble melodic fragments. The rhythmic patterns use quarter, eighth, and sixteenth division of the beat.
The user writes their answers on a piece of paper, (which is easier than entering buttons!) For levels 1-3, the user should write "1 e & a 2 e & a 1" representing the sixteenth note division of each beat. While listening to the fragment, the user should put a slash through each division in which a new note begins. From these slashes, the user should determine how best to beam these beats. There are certain conventions for beaming discussed in the SonicFit theory lessons, but it may be just as helpful to see the correct answers and learn how each patter is beamed. Hit the "show answer" button to see where slashes were accurately placed and the corresponding notation.
This exercise can be done long before learning about beaming. Developing the skill of slashing on the division can and should begin well before learning the proper way to notate the result. This will develop skills that will be very beneficial when taking the next steps.
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Former interim U.N. ambassador and leading neocon John Bolton went on Fox News on Friday and sounded the alarm bells over Russia's pending delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr reactor. If Israel plans to attack Bushehr, Bolton said, it must act now because allowing the Russians to load nuclear fuel rods at the site will make Iran "essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf."
"The fuel will be loaded on Aug 21. This is the start of the physical launch" of the reactor, said Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Rosatom, the Russian Energy State Nuclear Corp. "From that moment the Bushehr plant will be officially considered a nuclear-energy installation." Russia is currently operating under a $1 billion contract with Iran and has worked for over a decade on the reactor.
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As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has the right to build nuclear reactors for its civil energy needs. Iran has long claimed that its nuclear program is for peaceful power-generation purposes and would help free up oil and gas resources for export, thus generating additional hard-currency revenues.
Bolton and the neocons refuse to accept that the facility will produce nuclear energy and insist it will be used to create nuclear weapons. According to Bolton, once the reactor is operational, it is only a matter of time before it begins producing plutonium that could be used in a nuclear weapon. "And in the normal operation of this reactor, in just a fairly short period of time, you could get substantial amounts of plutonium to use as nuclear weapons," Bolton told Fox.
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As usual, Bolton and the neocons — with the helping hand of Fox News — are only telling part of the story. As Russia notes, the project is under close supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Moreover, Iran has signed a pledge to ship all the spent uranium fuel from Bushehr back to Russia for reprocessing, thus ruling out the possibility that the uranium could used to manufacture nuclear weapons. Bolton did not mention this during his Fox News interview.
Fox News, which claims to be "fair and balanced," made it sound like Iran will control the spent uranium from the plant, not Russia, thus providing yet another bogus argument that allows the neocons to push for an attack.
It should be noted that John Bolton does not believe Israel or the Obama administration will move to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the Russians begin to load fuel into the reactor on July 21.
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Apocalypse Planned for Tabula Rasa Shutdown
The latest (and last?) Friday news post on the game's website details a powerful alien race called the Neph, which along with the evil Bane have discovered wormhole technology, ensuring "wave after wave of Bane troops without rest or respite." Reads the urgent communique:
We request that all military personnel begin fortifying defenses at every AFS base in preparation for a massive Bane assault. If enemy troop movements are as large as we fear, and the Neph are truly prepared to lead all out war against us, this may be our last stand. Penumbra has been informed of the situation and is standing by on the use of their last resort weapon. We can not afford to be complacent or uncertain, but if it is truly our destiny to be destroyed, we are taking them all with us.
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There's nothing like the threat of multiple sovereign defaults and near-zero economic growth to dim a region's investment attraction, so it's no wonder that Europe has been about the last place anyone wants to put their money lately.
While still a great place for vacations, just about everything that could go wrong economically for Europe has gone wrong: multiple sovereign bailouts, a recessionary economy, inflexible labor markets, large government bureaucracies, and a persistently strong common currency that has prevented ailing nations from devaluing their way out of trouble to name but a few.
With all of that to contend with, it comes as something of a surprise that European equity have posted strong gains for the year to date, even as the region's economic activity slows.
The European Central Bank's move in December to provide low interest loans to banks has had the dual affect of easing concerns about a credit crunch caused by the banks hoarding cash to stay solvent, and lowering short term interest rates that will hopefully help stimulate borrowing and presumably growth. Also, government officials and private investors have reportedly reached an agreement to avoid a default on Greece's sovereign debt, which could have forced Greece out of the euro and undermined the solvency of the region's banks.
While still well aware of the region's problems, S&P Capital IQ has turned more positive on Europe recently, citing the overwhelmingly negative sentiment among investors and the ECB's move to ease pressure on banks.
"We have become incrementally more positive," says Robert Quinn, S&P Capital IQ's chief European equity strategist. "Our core message is: don't chase the market, but don't not be in it." In view of his outlook, he recently upgraded his recommendation for European information technology stocks to overweight, and cut the defensively-postured telecom sector to marketweight.
Euro-ETF Plays
If you want to "be in it," there are of course many different ways to go. There are currently more than 20 exchange traded funds focused on Europe, though most of them are individual country funds. For a broad exposure to Europe from an ETF, it would be hard to beat the Vanguard MSCI Europe ETF (VGK), which tracks the MSCI Europe Index of about 460 stocks. The fund has $6.1 billion in assets (across multiple share classes including a traditional mutual fund) and has average daily trading volume of more than 2 million shares. U.K.-based companies have the largest geographical allocation, with about 36% of assets as of year end 2011, followed by France at 14% and Switzerland at 13%.
With so much turmoil in the region, however, the benefit of an active manager makes sense.
There are about 20 different mutual funds targeting the European region that are currently open to new investors and not designed for institutional clients. Over the past three years, their performance ranges from an average annual total return of more than 30% to less than 10%. Net expense ratios vary from about 1% to 1.8% for Class A shares.
Among these funds, three stand out for their combination of strong historical performance, low costs, and four or five star ranking from S&P Capital IQ's fund ranking methodology.
Over the past three years, the Invesco European Small Company Fund (ESMAX) has delivered the second best performance (for Class A shares) among all Europe region funds, with an average annual return of 22.6% as of February 8.
Launched in August, 2000, the $113 million fund has delivered a 5.96% average annual return since then. As of January 31, its holdings were mostly industrial (36.3% of assets), consumer discretionary (15.9%) and information technology (13.2%) companies. Geographically, the U.K. was the largest allocation at 33%, followed by Ireland (16%) and Germany (10.2%). Its largest holding (3.8% of assets) at the time was Kier Group, a U.K.-based construction and civil engineering firm.
For those looking to own larger, better known companies, the T. Rowe Price European Growth Fund (PRESX) has a top 10-holdings list stocked with household names. The largest of its 65 holding as of January 31 was British energy company BG Group. Its 17% average annual return over the past three years is in line with other top performing funds, and its costs are below average.
The fund has about $640 million in assets, and has delivered an annual total return of 6.7% since it opened in October, 2005. The U.K. was its largest country exposure, with about 36% as of year end 2011, followed by Germany and France each at about 14%.
A third alternative is the Invesco European Growth Fund (AEDAX), which was the third best performing European region equity mutual fund over the past three years with an average annual return of 18.6%.
The weighted median market capitalization for its holdings was $7.8 billion, compared with about $900 million for its sister small cap fund. It has delivered an average annual total return of about 11.2% since it opened in November, 1997. As of year end, its largest holding was UK bookmaker Paddy Power.
S&P Capital IQ Senior Editorial Manager Vaughan Scully can be reached at [email protected]. Send him your ideas for mutual fund and ETF stories.


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Ohio gov talks tax cuts, criticizes materialism
Kasich: Cutting taxes not 'some campaign deal'
Gov. John Kasich is stressing the need to cut Ohioans' taxes while maintaining that money does not buy happiness.
The first-term Republican made the comments Thursday in wide-ranging remarks at the Ohio Newspaper Association's convention in Columbus.
Kasich, who is up for re-election in November, said that reducing taxes was not just "some campaign deal."
Kasich said any tax cuts had to be a balance of achieving economic growth and ensuring the state has what it needs to function.
The governor emphasized that he didn't see anything wrong with accumulating wealth, but he said he firmly opposes materialism.
Kasich also told the industry group that he is writing another book, and the former Fox News commentator says he would eventually like to return to the media.


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