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Earlier this fall I spent many hours at the Midwest Genealogy Center reviewing microfilm of church records from Kelpsau, Baden, Germany from the 1600's - 1800's. Initially, I was printing the documents that I was interested in but soon realized that they were just not very readable. I started taking photos, with my digital camera, of the images as they were displayed on the microfilm screen. This method worked best when the lights in the room were very dim or off and the flash on my camera was turned off.
Once I downloaded the pictures from my camera, I was able to use my photo software to lighten, darken and sharpen as needed. I took over 200 photos of images and almost all of them are readable. One of the images I photographed is in this earlier blog post.


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Please join our most experienced network industry leaders during the event:
13:50 Women in TMT Knect The Importance of Gender Diversity in Technology – Gary Heffernan, Accenture EALA Lead for Communications, Media and Technology
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Senior Managing Director - Communications, Media & Technology for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America
Gary Heffernan is Senior Managing Director of Accenture's Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) operating unit in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America (EALA). In this capacity, Gary leads Accenture's EALA P&L for consulting, outsourcing and technology services across all the CMT industries.
Gary has 26 years of experience in advising Fortune 500 companies implement large-scale transformation as well as post-merger integration programs, including strategic planning, operations management, IT and BPO services. In the early 1990s, Gary spearheaded Accenture's earliest outsourcing successes with clients such as British Petroleum, the London Stock Exchange, Bahlsen, Disney and Deutsche Boerse.
Prior to his current role, Gary held several senior leadership positions at Accenture, including Client Account Lead for Telewest, UPC and BT; Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer for Accenture's practice in West Europe; Sales Lead for CMT across Europe and Latin America; and Client Service Group lead for France & Benelux, where he helped build strategic relationships with leading companies such as Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, KPN, Vivendi, EADS, and Philips.
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Prior to joining Accenture, Amol was with Alcatel-Lucent as Senior Director responsible for Asia-Pacific professional services delivery including SDN/NFV. The unit provided Design, Engineering and Delivery of National and International Network Infrastructure and services for Alcatel-Lucent's APAC Customers (Network / Telecom Service Providers).
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Aurelio is the Managing Director responsible for Accenture's Next Generation Enterprise Services offering in EALA. In his role, he is responsible for offering and asset development, sales support, solution architecting and delivery of solutions around Next Generation Enterprise Services, with reference to Europe, Latin America and Africa Telecommunications and Media markets.
With more than twenty years' experience in Consulting, System-Network Integration and Outsourcing-Managed Network Services business, Aurelio's main focus and competence is in the area of Telco Legacy Network Decommissioning, Telco Network Cloudification and Next Generation Enterprise Services.
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Most Transparent White House? No, NYT Exec Editor Says It's The Most Secretive
from the well,-duh dept
"I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush's first term," Abramson told Al Jazeera America in an interview that will air on Sunday.I guess that's what happens when you declare that whistleblowers are "aiding the enemy" even as you pretend to support them. Your administration clams up.
"I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations," she continued. "The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with."
Whenever this issue comes up, I keep going back to the speculation from Daniel Ellsberg a few years ago, in which he noted that while President Bush (the younger) abused his power and bulked up the surveillance state in secretive ways, when push came to shove, he believed that Bush was proud of doing that. President Obama, on the other hand, seems to be embarrassed about the way he's abused the power of the Presidency, and goes to tremendous lengths to try to hide those abuses and excesses. It's pure speculation on the part of Ellsberg, but it certainly rings true on multiple levels.


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More than half of women drink more than the recommended limits during the first three months of pregnancy, a study suggests.
Some 53% of women drank more than the upper limit of two units a week during the first trimester, figures show.
Middle class women are more likely than women from other classes to drink more than the recommended limits during pregnancy, researchers said.
They called for health officials to revise their guidance on drinking in pregnancy after their study showed that even those adhering to the suggested limits are more likely to have problems with their babies than those who do not drink at all.
The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, examined 1,200 women in Leeds who filled out food frequency questionnaires, including information on alcohol consumption during the month before conception and the three trimesters of pregnancy.
They noted that alcohol intake was "significantly higher" before conception, and during the first three months of pregnancy than in the last two trimesters.
On average women who participated in the study drank 11.2 units a week before conception and 4 units a week during the first three months and less than two a week during the the last six months of pregnancy.
Those who drank more than two units a week were more likely to be older, educated to degree level and more likely to live in affluent areas, they found.
Of all of the babies born, 13% were underweight, 4.4% were classed as being of a "low birth weight" and 4.3% were born prematurely.
During pregnancy alcohol consumption was associated with a 100g reduction in birth weight for women consuming more than two units a week during the first trimester, they found.
If a woman drank more than two units a week during the first three months of pregnancy they are twice as likely to have a baby who was born "small for gestational age" when compared to non-drinkers, the researchers found.
They added: "A similar association was observed for preterm birth, where even women who adhered to the… guidance limiting alcohol to no more than two units per week were at risk of having babies born preterm compared to women who abstained from alcohol."
In light of the findings, the researchers called on health officials to revise their guidance on drinking in pregnancy,
NHS guidance says that women should avoid drinking alcohol if they are pregnant or trying to conceive. If they do drink they should have no more than "one to two units of alcohol once or twice a week".
But the study's authors said that the results highlight the need for endorsing the "abstinence-only" message.
"Our findings suggest that women should be advised to abstain from alcohol when planning to conceive and throughout pregnancy," they wrote.
"We found the first trimester to be the period most sensitive to the effect of alcohol on the developing foetus. Women adhering to guidelines in this period were still at increased risk of adverse birth outcomes.
"Our results highlight the need for endorsing the abstinence-only message, and further illuminate how timing of exposure is important in the association of alcohol with birth outcomes, with the first trimester being the most vulnerable period."
Commenting on the findings, Dr Ron Gray, senior clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford, said further research was needed on whether there is any completely safe amount to drink during pregnancy.
He said: "The authors of this new study correctly point out there is conflicting evidence on the foetal effects of consuming up to two units of alcohol per week during pregnancy, but their study does not really help to resolve this conflict.
"The authors investigated alcohol consumption during each trimester of pregnancy and tried to link it to five different birth outcomes (including birth weight and preterm birth). They present data on 1,135 women in the first trimester, 808 women in the second and 384 in the third. These numbers are relatively small for these kinds of studies. This means that the results are less precise than might be achieved with a much larger study. Also, given the high number of different statistical tests performed (around 40) one might expect a certain number of the results to be significant just by chance."
Professor Andrew Whitelaw, professor of neonatal medicine at the University of Bristol, added: "This is further evidence that even moderate amounts of alcohol are toxic to the growing foetus and direct toxicity is further worsened by the increased complications of premature birth.
"As 38% of the women admitted risky drinking (over 10 units/week) before pregnancy and pregnancy is sometimes discovered late, the advice has to be to avoid alcohol completely when trying to conceive."
Dr Patrick O'Brien, spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said: "The findings suggest that even small amounts of alcohol in the first three months of pregnancy may increase the risk of a small impairment to the baby's growth and possibly premature birth.
"This is consistent with RCOG advice that if a woman falls pregnant she should abstain from alcohol during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy because this is a particularly sensitive time for the baby's development.
"However, while the safest approach would be to choose not to drink at all, small amounts of alcohol, not more than one to two units once or twice a week, have not been shown to be harmful after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
"Pregnant women should always consult their midwives or doctors if they have any concerns about their alcohol intake."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "Drinking during pregnancy can be associated with miscarriage, foetal alcohol syndrome and low birth weight.
"Our advice remains that women who are trying to conceive or are pregnant should avoid alcohol - especially in the first trimester. If women choose to drink, to minimise the risk to the baby, they should not drink more than one to two units of alcohol once or twice a week and should not get drunk."
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Harvard Law School's Digital Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic have released a booklet called Newsgathering in Massachusetts, available as free-to-download pdf.
It's an information-packed reference tailor-made for citizen journalists, and it includes coverage of
open meeting laws, public records laws, laws regarding access to courts, and laws regarding protection of anonymous sources.
Massachusetts is an especially interesting state for this area of the law. The Boston-born case of Glik v. Cunniffe, discussed in the booklet, is one of the most important citizen-journalist cases to come down the turnpike in the digital era. In that case, a Simon Glik was arrested in Boston Common for filming the police making an arrest of a homeless man. With the help of the ACLU, he got the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals to recognize a First Amendment right to videotape in public places.
Kudos to DMLP and the Cyberlaw Clinic for putting this together.


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Curbing domestic violence in Hyde County
Hyde County Hotline is a newly formed service with a mission to help eliminate domestic violence and sexual victimization in Hyde County. Based on the understanding that "if you are not safe in your home, it does not matter if your community is safe," Hyde County Hotline is working with other agencies to aid those affected by violence. "Domestic violence is a hidden crippler of families," says Eve Contreras, client service advocate. "Sexual victimization is a robber of dignity. They both can leave physical as well as emotional scars." The service relies on volunteers to make it work best. For information on what service the agency provides and how you can help, contact the office in Swan Quarter.
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Crossing the equator with our mascot Pride the lion!
Welcome to our Africa blog
We hope all our families and friends will log in from time to time to see how we're getting on - and just to touch base. We all know we shall miss everyone and this is one of the ways we hope to keep in touch. And, of course, we shall be logging on to Skype and emailing whenever we get the chance. This is a massive adventure for us all with a shed load of planning , but once you've fallen for Africa you just have to see more. So here we go!
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Going South in Kenya
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There are several European car events that claim the same name as Munich's famous beer festival, and the latest is organized by Bernie Chacon and his cohorts at dubNation.
The idea is to get Los Angelenos out of the city and into the hills for a German-themed Oktoberfest car show and party over a three-day weekend.
It starts on Friday morning with a cruise through the scenic mountains around Big Bear Lake, stopping for lunch and finishing with a meet & greet.
The following day is the main show at the Snow Valley Mountain Resort, which includes People's Choice judging plus an air-ride contest, limbo and Twinkie-eating. The day ends with the official Big Bear Oktoberfest event across from one of the host hotels.
Finally on Sunday, there's a cruise, some slide fun and the trek back home.
The concept is good but the problem with LA is people don't like to travel far, and the worst winter we get is if it rains a lot. We can pretty much get together any weekend of the year, so having a final hurrah before the winter arrives might seem a little redundant to some. Perhaps for this reason, the show was sparsely attended, but those present were the hardcore of SoCal Euro enthusiasts who were prepared to enjoy each other's company in the very pleasant mountain surroundings.
As with any Euro event across the country, air-ride is now the dominant factor, and both AccuAir and Air Lift had sponsored the event, along with fifteen52, 8380 Labs, Rotiform, OEMplus, etc.
Cars on display ranged from hot rod air-cooled to stanced Mk6s, with everything in between. There was a good turnout by the old school crowd, with some immaculate Mk1s and 2s on display, as well as a handful of Volvos, Minis, BMWs, etc.
Hopefully, Oktoberfest can persuade more of LA's rather complacent Euro enthusiasts to make the commitment for 2012 and build this fledgling show into the Wörthersee of the West (good name – it's copyrighted here!).
For more information, visit the OktoberfestEvent page on Facebook.


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Liberty News
Intensive course focuses on transitional pastors
Last week, in response to a growing need across the country, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary launched The Transitional Pastor, a one-week intensive course that trains pastors to lead churches through a change in leadership.
The graduate-level course, catalogued as PLED 997, was adapted from a three-day seminar taught by LifeWay — a division of the Southern Baptist Convention — that licensed the curriculum to Liberty.
According to instructor Don Hicks, Liberty is the first seminary or college to have such a course that is uniquely SBC and deals specifically with the polity of that organization.
"It is a great tool, and I felt called to this area to help," said Hicks, who is a transitional pastor and a Liberty adjunct professor in Religion.
The course focuses on the role of the short-term pastor/consultant who leads a church during the uncertain period between the former and future pastor, which typically lasts 12 to 18 months. "It's kind of like John the Baptist … preparing the way," Hicks said.
The training is an effective solution to deal with forced termination of ministers and destructive church conflict, he said. "The transitional pastor is trying to help them with their conflictual situations and to evaluate their church and help bring healing and direction and encouragement for the future."
An entire day focused on conflict resolution, "which is seven hours more than most seminaries provide in a degree program," said Hicks.
As one of about 700 LifeWay-certified transitional pastors in the country, Hicks is part of LifeWay's initiative to decentralize the training and is now a national trainer on the subject. "Our goal is to train 1,000 transitional pastors over the next five years," Hicks said.
Along with Hicks, Dr. Dave Earley, who chairs the Department of Pastoral Leadership and Church Planting at the seminary, taught sessions on spiritual warfare and church health.
The class attracted 18 students from as far as Los Angeles and Thailand. "That is pretty good for an intensive that is an elective," said Hicks. "It is not required for the D.Min or the M.Div." The average age of attendees was 44, Hicks estimated, with about 18 years of pastoral experience.


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We in the College are going through our collection of old photos too! Here are two from 1985 featuring faculty members Terry Ferriss, "Doc" Bohn, and several unidentified students. Recognize any of them? By what is evident in the photo of the engines lab, it looks like it might have been taken at the annual lawnmower tune-up event, which still happens each spring! Any stories surrounding working that event?
Unidentified Students…Can you Help?
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A little while ago you may remember I signed up to be part of Callapidder's Fall into Reading Challenge where you choose a list of books you would like to complete by 21st of December, I signed up a little late but there was no restrictions on when you could join or how many books you could decide to challenge yourself to read. At the time I was already reading a novel (You can check out my start here) but I had read it before and I felt I was stuck in a reading rut. I had books sitting on the shelf staring at me but none of them seemed to be screaming to be read. I had a vague sense I was neglecting something I loved dearly, the written word but at the same time life was just too busy. I could not spare the time I wanted to give to a book. Being the sort of person that can become so engrossed in a good novel that I forget reality exists can be a challenge when there are mouths that depend on you for feeding and also the lack of sleep from a non sleeping 10 mth old seemed to be keeping my nose out of many a book. I would pick them up read a few pages to only place them back on the shelf to collect dust. I needed a good stiff kick up the bum if I was ever going to start reading again and so this challenge came at the exact right moment in my little world and I jumped on the bandwagon quick as a flash.
I have loved being a part of this challenge! I read two wonderful books that would have otherwise sat on my shelf collecting dust for who knows how many months, years more. But instead I discovered 2 wonderful novels full of adventure, love and pain that I enjoyed reading immensely. You can check out my quick reviews back here.
Part of The Fall into Reading Challenge involves the delightful Katrina asking us reading related questions, I have loved going over to check them out and discuss with other book lovers all sorts of book related subjects. Finding out wonderful things about other readers was insightful and my fav being that I am not the only naughty reader out there who reads in the car at traffic lights, when it's a good book it's just too hard to put down. But there have been many more questions and many more blog posts I have enjoyed reading along the way.
But alas as I lay in bed late at night writing or should I say typing this post I have come to the conclusion that I am not going to finish and prehaps it is due to the fact that along the way I decided to change my last choice. After finishing my first 3 novels (see here if you like) which I decided did not classify as cheating as I had read my 4th choice anyways and I really really wanted to read 'Inheritance' I had been waiting years for this book to come about and could just not resist. But alas it has been sorely disappointing and I am only here (above) but I am still reading. I can not put a book down once I read a certain amount and I have gone past the point of no return and yes the book is getting better, but sadly I have to say this author has lost his way. At every turn he seems to introduce a deus ex machina to solve his plot obstacles, but it is the last in series I have enjoyed until now and I must see it to the end even if that means I do not finish this challenge. Though I have decided that this does not constitute a fail as I achieved what I set out to and that was to get out of my reading rut and get those unread books off my shelf and into my hands and that I did. Not only did I read 3 novels 2 being fantastic I already have another book I am just bursting at the seams to read and so my love for reading has been reignited and I count that as a big Pass for The Fall into Reading Challenge.
I shall be watching Callapidder closely for her next reading adventure and will definitely be joining in!!!
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On Tuesday, we will certainly celebrate the New Year's Day for the year 2013, arguably the most international of all festivals.
What people do not always recognize is that the date of Jan. 1 for New Year's Day is a very recent event. Before the time of Pope Gregory XIII and the reform of the Julian calendar on Oct. 15, 1582, New Year's Day was celebrated differently in many countries.
The Julian calendar, instituted by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C., to reform the very awkward Roman religious calendar, did also have Jan. 1 the new year. It was on this date that newly elected Roman magistrates took their office, and gladiatorial games were held to inaugurate the day in human blood.
However, even in Roman times, some ancient authors regarded the new year as beginning on April 21, the date when they believed that Romulus founded the city of Rome in the year 1, ab urbe condita, aka the year of the foundation of the city. Calendars tend to be based on events which are deemed to be of global human importance. And so, with the spread of Christianity, religious dates came to be seen as more appropriate than pagan Roman usage to establish the counting of the years.
In medieval England, the new year was normally reckoned to begin on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, when Christians commemorated the visit of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce her pregnancy. Other parts of England regarded Christmas Day as the beginning of the new year. In medieval France, Easter Sunday was regarded as the new year, and medieval Russia used the date of Sept. 1.
The Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey, used March 1 until 1918. But Pope Gregory's reforms established a calendar which fixed the date as Jan. 1, and the adoption of his calendar in the 16th century and the years that followed, by various nations, has tended to regulate the date.
Pope Gregory XIII was an odd man to be a reformer of the calendar. Gregory was born as Ugo Boncompagni in Bologna on Jan. 7, 1502. Before being ordained as a priest he had rather a wild life and fathered at least one illegitimate son. He was educated in law, and was summoned by Pope Paul III as a legal adviser and was ordained priest and then bishop and finally made a cardinal.
As a young cardinal he was sent to Spain to represent the holy see to the king and to investigate some charges made against a Spanish cardinal. While in Spain, he became friends with King Philip II, which is rumored to have been a key factor in his election as pope in 1572. The conclave of the cardinals that chose him was one of the shortest in all history, and he was made pope after only 24 hours of discussion.
At his election, Ugo took the name Gregory, in homage to Pope Gregory I, or "the Great," who died in A.D. 604 and who often incorrectly gets credit for the calendar.
Actually Pope Gregory XIII had a long-lasting impact on western Christianity beyond his famous calendar. Gregory absolutely insisted on reforms of church corruption, demanded that bishops live in their home cities, obliged cardinals at the Vatican actually to work for a living, and added a huge number of books to the index of forbidden books, which Catholics could not read under penalty of excommunication.
He founded schools and did much to improve the training and education of the clergy. Perhaps in reaction to his rather wild youth, he led a very simple and austere life. He was also a patron of the Jesuits, and it was in this connection that he came into contact with the Jesuit astronomer Father Christopher Clavius, a German priest who was educated in Portugal.
Clavius was a mathematician and astronomer who was the last of his generation who believed in the geocentric model of the universe, that is, that all planets and the sun orbited the earth. However he was very troubled by this model of the cosmos and he met with Galileo to discuss the younger astronomer's radical views and to compare astronomical notes.
Galileo had a great deal of respect for Clavius, and in particular for his skills at mathematics. Whenever either of the two men published a new book, they always sent the other a copy as a present. As a Jesuit, Clavius demanded and eventually got the support of the Jesuit order for a rigorous use of mathematics and the sciences in all academic curricula, a policy that affected generations of students and their subsequent careers.
Clavius' contribution to the field of mathematics was that he popularized the use of decimals, rather than fractions, as a means of expressing numbers, so that his students were taught to say ".25" rather than "one fourth."
When the Jesuits sent him to Rome for further study, Clavius did the research that led to his proposal in 1579 that the entire calendar be reformed because it was based on an erroneous assumption that a solar year was 365 days long, rather than 365.25. Gregory XIII was convinced by Clavius' proposal and issued the decree Inter Gravissimas, which reformed the Catholic calendar, and after a time, everyone else's.
The lunar crater Clavius was named in his honor, and it is this site which appears prominently in Arthur C. Clarke's novel and Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
At the time, Clavius' reforms made him extremely unpopular, and in Frankfurt there were riots protesting the new calendar, because it deleted 11 days from the calendar to correct ancient errors, and people thought Clavius and the pope were robbing them of days of their lives.
When Jan. 1 rolls around, doubtless we will make our New Year's resolutions and hope for good things to come. But, in passing, as you resolve to eat, drink or purchase less this year, say a tiny thank you to the Renaissance pope and his cranky mathematician academic friend who gave us the New Year holiday.
Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. Write to him at Professing Faith, P.O. Box 8102, Redlands, CA 92375-1302, email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter at Fatherelder.


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Can a Low-Cost iPhone Save Apple?
Actually, does Apple need saving in the first place?
If the following two figures point to a company in poor shape, I don't know if I could bear to look at a healthy one:
- $137 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short- and long-term marketable securities
- Zero debt
Apple's stock price has been tumbling, from a high of over $700 a share just four months ago, to around $450 as of this writing.
What has made investors so nervous?
Perhaps it's because Apple worked itself into such an enviable financial position mainly on the strength of one product -- the iPhone. Sales of the iPhone accounted for 49% of Apple's 2012 fiscal year (ending Sept. 29, 2012) revenue of $156.5 billion. Even more critical, this past August, Business Insider estimated that the iPhone produced almost two-thirds of Apple's profits.
That's a lot riding on one product.
If one still doubts the iPhone, above all other Apple devices, is Apple, consider that sales of Macs (desktops and portables), the computing devices that started it all for the company, totaled just 17% of Apple's 2012 sales - a yearly gain in revenue of 7% compared to the iPhone's 71%.
One problem is that even though the iPhone has been selling at a record pace, it is no longer the only super-duper smartphone on the planet. It isn't even the world's best-selling smartphone anymore. Samsung's Galaxy S III is.
Another has to do with the smartphone market being on the verge of splitting into two main price segments, according to a study from Informa Telecoms & Media, and Apple will have to decide when -- not if -- it will begin producing iPhones at a lower price point.
The emerging marketplaces of the world -- places where carriers do not generally offer cell phone subsidies -- are powering a growing demand for more affordable smartphones. So far, producers of lower-priced smartphones running Google's Android OS, such as Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, and many so-called white label brands, are scooping up the first-time smartphone buyers.
It's no surprise, then, that during Apple's earnings conference call this week analysts were curious about Apple's iPhone pricing plans.
This from Kathryn Huberty of MorganStanley: "It's clear that iPhone 5 did incredibly well in the U.S. ... but ... are you confident that you have all the right price points and screen sizes to fully capture the non-U.S. demand for iPhone specifically?"
And from Chris Whitmore of DeutscheBank: "There seems to be a lot of demand at lower price points for the iPhone. Why not get more aggressive at lower price bands and move down-market in the iPhone business?"
And then this from Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein: "Realistically, how does Apple hold share given that the market segment that -- and price point that you play in is expected to grow a lot slower and you have pretty dominant share in that high-end?"
Apple CEO Tim Cook's answer to that one: "We could put the Apple brand in a lot of things and sell a lot more stuff, but that's not what we're here for. We want to make only the best products."
That would suggest that Apple is not interested in putting out a cheaper but less-featured product, but then Cook made this analogy with Apple's iPod pricing evolution: "I think we've had a great track record here on iPod of doing different products at different price points and getting a reasonable share for doing that. And so, one doesn't -- I wouldn't view these things as mutually exclusive as some might."
Quality and price -- not mutually exclusive -- hmmmm?
Well, maybe then Apple is not ignoring the pricing elephant in the room. With so much for Apple riding on that iPhone, not making plans for taking the low road would seem a costly oversight.
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Kinect Xbox 360 250GB Console Details Released
On Nov. 4 be among the first to get Kinect for Xbox 360 with the Special Edition Xbox 360 250GB with Kinect, available while supplies last. This all-inclusive package includes the Xbox 360 250GB console, a Kinect sensor and "Kinect Adventures" for $399.99 (U.S. ERP). Set up controller-free entertainment in your home with the glossy black 250GB console that boasts 802.11n built-in Wi-Fi, an internal removable 250GB hard drive and touch sensitive controls. Plug in the Kinect Sensor to the dedicated port on the console and load "Kinect Adventures" where you can float in outer space, experience the thrill of roaring rapids and tackle mountaintop obstacle courses. Enjoy controller-free fun with any of the more than 15 games launching with Kinect and experience new ways to enjoy your favorite entertainment.
Xbox 360 paired with Kinect has something for everyone. Play an exciting game of soccer in Kinect Sports go for the ride of your lives with the massive jumps and full-body stunts in Kinect Joy Ride, or adopt a pet tiger cub with Kinectimals. Get the most out of your morning workout with Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. Your virtual trainer will help you meet your specific fitness goals by providing feedback on your form in the comfort your own living room. Gather friends for a dance party, or work on your own moves one step at a time with "Dance Central" by MTV Games and Harmonix. Spend quality time with friends and family around the world through Video Kinect. Watch your favorite movies, TV programs and live sports from ESPN on Xbox LIVE, all with the wave a hand.
Kinect for Xbox 360 will take to the global stage once again at the Tokyo Game Show next week to reveal even more new controller-free games and experiences never before possible.


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Bostic hits Sanford on personal life
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Underdog South Carolina Republican congressional hopeful Curtis Bostic mounted a last-ditch bid on Thursday night to halt former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford's momentum, calling him politically damaged and saying he would risk losing the seat to a Democrat in the general election.
Appearing in a debate at the Porter-Gaud School here ahead of Tuesday's special runoff election, Bostic launched his most aggressive assault on Sanford's personal life yet, telling the Republican crowd, "A compromised candidate is not what we need."
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"Democrats," he said, "are excited at the possibility of taking this seat back."
( Also on POLITICO: Rick Santorum stumps for Curtis Bostic)
Bostic, a former Charleston County councilman who has long been active in the South Carolina evangelical community and the homeschooling movement, had avoided discussing Sanford's home life until now. The exchange came up about an hour into the nearly 90-minute debate, the first of three faceoffs before Tuesday.
Voters, Bostic had said in recent weeks, were already well aware of the events of June 2009, when Sanford lied about and then admitted to having an affair with an Argentine woman — an episode that splintered the former governor's family life and dashed his presidential ambitions.
But with polls showing Bostic heading into the final days as the decided underdog against the better-known and better-funded Sanford, the former councilman turned up the heat.
"Trust is a central issue," he said. "In fact, it's become a central issue in this race."
Sanford — who has cast himself as a candidate seeking redemption — argued that he had acknowledged his faults and that Bostic had done little to clear up lingering questions about his record. He said Bostic had yet to provide the Federal Election Commission with his personal disclosure forms and had not told voters why he missed a series of votes during his tenure on the county council.
( PHOTOS: Mark Sanford's career)
Sanford finished first in a crowded March 19 primary but failed to receive the majority needed to avoid a runoff against Bostic, who came in a distant second. The winner of the runoff will face Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a Clemson University administrator and the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, in the May 7 election.


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Basics & Beyond: 20 Delicious Ways To Cook Chicken for Dinner
What do you reach for, when shopping for chicken? Boneless skinless breasts? Thighs? A whole chicken, legs and all? Chicken is the second most consumed meat in America, just behind beef, thanks to its affordability and ease of cooking. We love how easy it is to find organic, free-range chickens these days; it seems to be the most affordable way to eat sustainable, well-raised meat. But what to do with that wholesome chicken when you bring it home? Do you get in a chicken rut? Well, we're here to offer some fresh ideas from our rich archive of chicken recipes.
Whatever cut of chicken you have, and whether you're cooking on the stovetop, in the oven, on the grill, or in the slow cooker, there's something here for you! From French onion braised chicken, to green coconut chicken curry, to healthier "fried" chicken, to a lemon-brushed roasted bird, here are 20 delicious ways to eat chicken for supper tonight.
• 6 Crispy Chicken Thighs & Warm Bread Salad
• 7 Blackened Beer-Brined Grilled Chicken
• 8 Fake-Fried Chicken
• 9 Master Cleanse Roast Chicken
• 10 Pesto Chicken Tart
• 11 Braised French Onion Chicken with Gruyère
• 12 Hearty Chicken Minestrone
• 13 Braised Chicken with Mojo Sauce
• 14 Lemon Braised Chicken & Beans with Mint Pesto
• 15 Slow-Cooker Lemon Garlic Chicken
• 16 Chicken Tagine with Apricots, Almonds & Chickpeas
• 17 Barbecue Shredded Chicken from the Oven or Slow Cooker
• 18 How to Cook Moist & Tender Chicken Breasts Every Time
• 19 How To Roast a Chicken
• 20 How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock
How To Get More Out of a Rotisserie Chicken
• One Woman, One Rotisserie Chicken, and Five Days: A Menu Plan
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Evening City Tour
On the evening of November 29, ICBI offer exceptional event in wonderful locations in Sri Lanka
On the way you will also learn more about historical and contemporary Sri Lanka and its culture. When possible, the tour ends at the Historical Temple Duration: Approximately 2.5 hours.
Meeting point: June 22, 5.00 pm at the entrance of Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies
Language: English
Dress warm! We also recommend comfortable walking-shoes and an umbrella.
Gala Dinner
• Date: Friday, November 30
• Time: 19.00
• Venue: Faculty of Commerce & Management Studies
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DENTON | Vergie Gallimore Jackson, 88, of Highway 47 East, Denton, died Saturday, March 2, 2013, at Thomasville Medical Center.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Siloam United Methodist Church by the Revs. Scott Davis and Sandy Young. Interment will follow in Mountain View Memorial Gardens.
The family will see friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Briggs Funeral Home and other times will be at the residence on NC Highway 47 East.
Mrs. Jackson was born March 10, 1924, in Randolph County to Ed Gallimore and Lillie Dunning Galllimore. Mrs. Jackson was an active member of Siloam United Methodist Church. She had worked at Thornton Knitting Company and was a homemaker. She was married to J. David Jackson who died Feb. 24, 2008. She was also preceded in death by brothers, Reece Gallimore and Ray Gallimore; and by sisters, Jessie Franks and Mildred Nance; and by a granddaughter, Cindy Lynn Markham.
She is survived by sons, Eddie Jackson and wife Cathy and Tony Jackson and wife Fonda, all of Denton; a daughter, Linda Markham and husband Wayne of Denton; a brother, Robert Gallimore of Lexington; sisters Jeweldean Franks of Denton and Gladys Metters of Lexington; grandchildren Kim Markham and wife Gay, Keith Jackson and wife Jody and Davin Jackson and wife Kathryn; great-grandchildren Kaci, Lindsey and Koby Markham.
Memorials may be made to Siloam United Methodist Church, PO Box 414, Denton, NC 27239; or to Davidson County Cancer Services, 503 West Center St, Lexington, NC 27292.
Online condolences may be sent to www.briggsfuneralhome.com.
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DENTON | Vergie Gallimore Jackson, 88, of Highway 47 East, Denton, died Saturday, March 2, 2013, at Thomasville Medical Center.


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The European Central Bank has deployed a raft of aggressive measures to boost Europe's economy, but stopped short of the one many economists insist would do the most to help: large-scale purchases of bonds.
That could change sooner rather than later, analysts say, if inflation remains low.
Purchases of bonds using newly created money — called quantitative easing — have been used with some success so far by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. They can reduce market interest rates, making it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow, helping growth.
So why not in Europe?
To begin with, the ECB faces technical and practical challenges that other major central banks don't have. It has 18 different government bond markets, raising the question of whose bonds to buy and how many.
Beyond that, creating new money has long faced resistance in Germany, the biggest economy in Europe where central bank stimulus measures are looked upon with suspicion and have a prominent place in public discussion.
But after last Thursday's meeting, things could be shifting.
At a press conference on Thursday, ECB President Mario Draghi held the door open to such bond purchases, suggesting Germany has at least softened its outright resistance. If inflation falls further, analysts think the ECB could start quantitative easing.
"Are we finished?" he said after the decision. "The answer is no."
The ECB is keen to bring up the inflation rate, which at 0.5 percent is so low it raises fears the eurozone will fall into outright deflation, a crippling downward price spiral. The antidote is to take steps to encourage borrowing and lending and increase the amount of money circulating in the economy.
Analysts Joerg Kraemer and Christoph Weil at Commerzbank see a 40 percent chance the ECB will engage in quantitative easing and say speculation will be "constant" in the wake of Thursday. On balance, they expect that the measures the ECB announced will be just enough for the ECB not to have to resort to quantitative easing.
If inflation keeps falling short of expectations, however, they say the ECB is more likely than not to start bond purchases.
Among the list of measures the ECB did take on Thursday was an offer of long-term, cheap loans to banks on condition they lend to companies. That condition aims at making sure the money gets to the economy and helps create growth and jobs. The ECB also cut the rate at which it loans to banks to 0.15 percent from 0.25 percent and imposed an unusual negative interest rate of 0.1 percent on deposits from banks — an incentive for them to loan those excess funds.
Significantly, Draghi said that rates have gone about as low as they can. Typically, central banks must first use up their conventional forms of stimulus before engaging in something as drastic as large-scale bond purchases.
That opens the door wider for large-scale bond purchases.
"The council has exhausted the list of alternatives to QE," Royal Bank of Scotland analyst Richard Barwell wrote, using the shorthand for quantitative easing. He doesn't expect, however, the ECB to start bond purchases unless inflation continues to fall.
Among the obstacles that remain is that bond purchases, which typically drive down the interest yields on bonds, won't provide as much interest relief for companies in Europe as they would in the United States. That's because European companies borrow more from banks than from bond investors.
Another is attitudes in Germany. The head of the German Savings Banks Association, Georg Fahrenschon, criticized the ECB's low rates, saying they were costing savers 15 billion euros ($20.5 billion) a year in lost income. Chancellor Angela Merkel would not be drawn on the topic, saying only she would "take note" of the decision.
And Jens Weidmann, the head of Germany's national central bank who also sits on the ECB's governing council, was quoted by the Bild newspaper as saying it would be "misguided" to start talking about more steps.
"First we must wait to see the effect of what we have decided," he said.
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An uptick in violence leads to a meeting on Easter morning between the Brockton Police Chief Robert Hayden and Mayor Bill Carpenter.
BROCKTON – While many people were in church, hunting for eggs or preparing a ham on Easter morning, the mayor and the police chief were holding a meeting after a deadly shooting in the city on Saturday – the third killing in eight days.
"At 4:45 Sunday morning I was being briefed by the chief of detectives," said Mayor Bill Carpenter. The Easter morning meeting was called by Police Chief Robert Hayden at the police station, he said.
State police and Brockton detectives also attended. It was a large-scale meeting to discuss the most recent homicide investigations. Saturday's homicide comes one week after a violent spree in the city saw one person shot to death in The Lit bar, another victim stabbed to death in downtown and a running shootout and chase on the West Side of Brockton.
"We are not going to rest until the residents feel safe. People need to know we are making every effort to we can," Carpenter said.
Additional weekend police patrols, including state troopers have been working the past two weekends he said.
"We are trying to make a very clear statement that we are not going to tolerate violence," Carpenter said. "We have a squad room full of detectives not home with their families this Easter working on these cases."
A joint press conference with Hayden and Mayor Carpenter to discuss the uptick in violence was scheduled for today at 11 a.m. at the Brockton police station.
"I don't want to sit at home on Easter," Hayden said on Sunday. "I want to reinforce my commitment to the city."
Some of the strategies that police are looking at include putting more police on the street until 3 a.m. during the weekends as well as increasing the dialogue between the police patrols and the detectives, Hayden said.
Christopher Rosario, 25, of Dorchester was shot to death early Saturday morning on Grove Street. Police responded to reports of gunfire there at 2:25 a.m.
They found Rosario shot in a gray Honda sedan that had come to rest against a fence along the Brockton Brightfields solar panel farm. He was was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said he had just left Morabeza Nightclub on Main Street in Brockton and was attacked by someone in a car that pulled up alongside his vehicle, according to the Plymouth County district attorney's office.
The owner of the Honda was the passenger during the shooting and was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center, said police. The district attorney's office declined to give more details about the passenger.
Police found 13 shell casings at the scene. The shooting is being investigated by state police detectives assigned to the district attorney's office and Brockton police.
Ward 1 City Councilor Tim Cruise said Hayden's plans for increased police presence is a good start.
"I'd be very interested to hear more plans and the push to get more patrols on the streets," he said on Sunday.
"We need to get these guns off the streets," Cruise said.
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Curt Riggs of Augusta, was injured in weekend accident.
Curt Riggs, Augusta, remains in critical, but stable, condition in Wesley Intensive Care Unit in Wichita.
Riggs was involved in a car accident, in northern Butler near Potwin on Saturday morning.
The family wishes to thank the community for the many thoughts, prayers, and well wishes for his speedy recovery. Although he may not have any visitors at this time, cards may be sent to his home at 1603 Washington Lane in Augusta.


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Vietnam 'secret army' vets gathering in Connecticut
HARTFORD — Early in the Vietnam War, the U.S. military trained former Maj. Sar Phouthasack in special combat operations and sent him back into his native Laos to put together a local force to patrol the Ho Chi Minh Trail, rescue downed U.S. pilots and conduct sensitive operations behind enemy lines.
Phouthasack was part of the Special Guerrilla Unit, known as the "secret army" that the CIA established to conduct covert operations in Laos, where North Vietnamese forces were operating but U.S. forces were forbidden by Congress to enter.
More than 35,000 local fighters from the unit died in combat in Laos, and thousands eventually relocated to the U.S. and became citizens.
Phouthasack helped organize a daylong event in New Britain on Saturday to honor the special unit of Lao and ethnically Hmong men who were organized and funded by the CIA. About 200 veterans are expected to gather from around the country in an event that is part of the U.S. Department of Defense's multi-year commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
Since arriving in the U.S., the former fighters have not been eligible to receive military veterans benefits. In the coming weeks, unit veterans and the SGU National Headquarters in Windsor, Conn., say they will petition Congress for formal recognition of their service and for U.S. veterans benefits.
"We don't ask for a million dollars or something like that because we know the government doesn't have enough money," said Phouthasack. He said he wants the standard benefits, such as medical care and the option of a military burial.
When the war ended in 1975, most unit members escaped the communist takeover in Laos by fleeing to refugee camps in Thailand before thousands moved to the U.S. Phouthasack served the U.S. military for 20 years in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand before he moved to Connecticut in 1983 with his family and became a U.S. citizen.
Dennis Tarciani, who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War and is a senior adviser at the SGU National Headquarters, said the unit members saved many American lives.
"One pilot was downed 12 times and saved by the SGU each time," Tarciani said. "The SGU were recruited, trained, paid and led by the U.S. government. They feel that they were part of the American military."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy planned to attend the opening ceremony on Saturday, joined by U.S. Reps. John Larson and Joe Courtney, both Democrats, and other U.S. military officials.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT women's volleyball team will begin its 2011 campaign with its first appearance at the two-day Regis College Tournament on September 2. The tournament is one of six the Engineers will be playing in throughout the season in addition to a nine-match NEWMAC schedule.
MIT continues tournament play the weekend of September 9 at Vassar College before kicking off conference action at Mount Holyoke College on September 13. The Cardinal and Gray's first contest in Rockwell Cage is a tri-match with NEWMAC foe Clark University and Simmons College, marking MIT's first meeting with the Boston-based squad.
Pivotal league matches against Wellesley College (September 20) and NCAA Tournament qualifier Springfield College (September 27) sandwich the MIT Invitational which features several of the top teams in New England along with newcomers Frostburg State University and Newbury College.
In addition to competing at the Johnson & Wales University (September 30-October 1), MIT Quad (October 14-15), and Hall of Fame Tournaments (October 21-22), the Engineers will square off in five NEWMAC matches, with the finale occurring on October 29 at conference champion U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
2011 MIT Women's Volleyball Schedule (View as PDF)
Sept. 2 at Regis Coll. Tournament TBA
Sept. 3 at Regis Coll. Tournament TBA
Sept. 9 vs. Stevens Inst. of Tech. ! 6:00 p.m.
vs. Wesleyan University ! 8:00 p.m.
Sept. 10 at Vassar Coll. ! 10:00 a.m.
vs. Montclair State Univ. ! 12:00 p.m.
Sept. 13 at Mount Holyoke Coll.* 7:00 p.m.
Sept. 17 CLARK UNIV.* 11:00 a.m.
SIMMONS COLL. 3:00 p.m.
Sept. 20 WELLESLEY COLL.* 7:00 p.m.
Sept. 23 MIT INVITATIONAL TBA
Sept. 24 MIT INVITATIONAL TBA
Sept. 27 at Springfield Coll.* 7:00 p.m.
Sept. 30 at Johnson & Wales Univ. Tournament TBA
Oct. 1 at Johnson & Wales Univ. Tournament TBA
Oct. 4 BABSON COLL.* 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 11 at Smith Coll.* 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 14 MIT QUAD TOURNAMENT 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 15 MIT QUAD TOURNAMENT 11:00 a.m./2:00 p.m.
Oct. 18 at Wheaton Coll.* 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 21 at Hall of Fame Tournament TBA
Oct. 22 at Hall of Fame Tournament TBA
Oct. 25 WPI* 7:00 p.m.
Oct. 29 at U.S. Coast Guard Acad.* 12:00 p.m.
* New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference game
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Using video to improve teaching -- and support teachers
Much of the discussion related to how new technologies can be used in classrooms in low and middle income countries focuses on the use of PCs, desktops and tablets. Less discussed, I often find, is the strategic potential of various so-called peripheral devices, which are (in my experience) typically only considered within the context of how they can be used to enhance or extend the functionality of the 'main' computing devices available in schools.
Many education systems (for better or for worse) have specific 'hardware' budgets, and, when they are looking to tap these budgets to introduce more hardware into schools, in my experience they often look to buy more of what they already have, supplemented in places by things like interactive whiteboards, or networked printers, as a complement to what is already available in a school.
When talking with educational planners contemplating how to use funds specifically dedicated to purchase computer hardware, I often counsel them to think much more broadly about what they may wish to buy with these monies, within a larger context of discussing things like how such equipment can be utilized to meet larger educational objectives, what sorts of training and maintenance support may be needed, and how the use of this technology can complement other, non-technology-enabled activities in a classroom. As part of such discussions, I often find myself attempting in various ways to challenge policymakers and planners to think beyond their current models for technology use.
One general type of gadget that I only rarely hear discussed is so-called 'probeware', which refers to set of devices which are typically used in science classes to measure various things -- temperature, for example, or the pH level of soil, or the salinity of water. Despite the increasing emphasis in STEM subjects in many countries, and what is often a rhetorical linkage between the use of computers in schools and STEM topics, I rarely find that World Bank client countries are considering the widespread use of probeware in a strategic way as part of their discussions around ICT use in schools. That said, one suspects that such an interest is coming, especially once the big vendors direct more of their attentions to raising awareness among policymakers in such places (much like the interactive whiteboard vendors began to do a half-decade or so ago).
While probeware is a new type of peripheral for many education policymakers, there is another peripheral that policymakers are already quite familiar with, and which is already used in ad hoc ways in many schools, but which rarely seems to be considered at a system level for use in strategic ways. Once you have a critical mass of computers is in place, and in place of buying one additional PC, might it be worth considering (for example) utilizing video cameras instead? Video can be put to lots of productive uses (and some perhaps not-so-productive uses). Considering three concrete examples from around the world may shed some light on how video can be used to improve teaching -- and support teachers.


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The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum is excited to offer a special morning of activities just for Cub Scouts. Scouts will be able to tour the museum's displays of historic carrousel animals, talk with woodcarvers at work, and see demonstrations of how band organ music is produced. Participants will do more than just watch, though, as they practice these skills with activities such as soap carving, making a simple pipe instrument, decorating a carrousel horse, and more.
"Cub Scout Day" will be held Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon (check-in at 9:45 a.m.). Activities are designed for elementary-aged children and are linked to the state curriculum. Scouts will earn an art belt loop and pin by taking part in this program. This is a full uniform event.
Cost for this program is $10 per scout; adult leaders are free. Siblings and other guests pay regular museum admission at the door of $6 adults, $5 seniors or $3 children (ages 2-16). Space is limited to 40 participants, and advance registration and payment are required by Tuesday, Sept. 17. Register through the Boy Scouts of America Greater Niagara Frontier Council at www.wnyscouting.org.
The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum is housed in the historic Allan Herschell Company Factory building at 180 Thompson St., North Tonawanda. For directions and further information about special events, programs, or group tours, visit www.carrouselmuseum.org, call 716-693-1885 or email [email protected].


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MiniVNA ICD
The miniVNA is a small and inexpensive antenna analyzer from mini Radio solutions. It connects to a computer via USB and it can measure SWR, RL, Rs, Z +/-jx, Phase, Cable length, R/L/C in the range 0.1Mhz to 180MHz. It comes with a quite all right control software for windows. There is also a Gnome version of the software called gVNA. Unfortunately, it depends on GNOME, it hasn't been updated for three years now and I have never been able to build it.
This document describes the miniVNA USB protocol that has been reverse engineered from user manuals and available software. The purpose is to have a control reference for writing a new control application for the miniVNA.
Connection Details
|Baud rate:
|Data bits:
|Stop bits:
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Operating Modes
The miniVNA can work in two modes, a reflection mode and a transmission mode:
- Reflection mode – used for measuring various parameters on antennas and cables.
- Opcode: 0
- Both ADCs connected to the bridge
- Transmission mode – used for measuring filters attenuators, etc.
- Opcode: 1
- The second ADC is connected to the DET port
- DDS increment for a 1kHz signal. Multiply the desired frequency in kHz with this constant. If the frequency is in Hz, multiply by 10.737414824. This factor is obtained from the frequency calibration in the windows version of the miniVNA control software.
- Velocity factor??? See windows config.
Command structure
Each command to the miniVNA consists of 4 numbers separated by a UNIX newline character 0x0D.
- The opcode 0 or 1
- The start frequency multiplied by the DDSRATIO (use 0 to turn DDS off)
- The number of measurements to take (if 0 the DDS won't be activated)
- The frequency step size multiplied by DDSRATIO (can be 0)
The miniVNA will respond with the measurements taken:
- The number of samples will be equal to the number of measurements requested
- 4 bytes per sample corresponding to the "phi" and "rl" (see blow)
typedef struct _device_ROW { /* the serial port/usb device */ gushort phi; gushort rl; } DEVICE_ROW, *PDEVICE_ROW;
Frequency Generator
To start a frequency generator, i.e. constant frequency with no sweep
Controller → VNA:
0 # opcode f(kHz)*10737.41824 # start freq 1 # number of measurements 0 # frequency step * DDSRATIO
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Reset by setting the frequency to 0:
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Brandeis students cited as track, softball standouts
Brown named New England Outdoor Track Athlete of the year, Specker named to Academic All-American Division III Softball teamBrandeis University senior Chris Brown has been named the Division III New England Outdoor Track and Field Track Athlete of the Year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Brown had an outstanding senior campaign for the Judges. He is a seven-time University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week in 2011-12, including cross-country and indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. During his outdoor campaign, Brown won the UAA titles in the 800- and 1,500-meter runs. He finished second at the New England Division III championships and third at the ECAC Division III championships in the 800 meters. His time of 1:51.01 in the 800 at New England was the eighth fastest in Division III this season, but Brown saved his top performance for the week in between those two meets.
At the New Balance Twilight Invitational at Bentley College on May 13, Brown won the 1,500-meter race with a school-record time of 3:43.49. It was the fastest time in Division III this season by three full seconds and the sixth-fastest time in Division III history. Brown established a school record, eclipsing the mark of 3:44.90 set by Mark Beeman '85, an inaugural member of Brandeis' Hall of Fame, nearly 30 years ago.
Brown will compete at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 24-26 at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in Claremont, Calif. He will forgo running the 800 and try to win an NCAA title in the 1,500. Brown will be in search of his second All-America honor of 2012, having placed third in the mile run during the indoor season.
Brandeis University senior Marianne Specker has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division III softball first team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA). This is her second year in a row as a Capital One Academic All-America first-team member.
Specker had an outstanding senior year for the Brandeis Judges. She was a first-team All-University Athletic Association selection as an infielder and a third-team All-New England selection. She finished tied for the UAA lead with 41 RBI and was among the top five in the league in batting average (.401) and hits (59).
Specker finished among the Judges' career top 10 in hits (184, 3rd), games played (166, 4th), games started (161, 4th), RBI (111, 4th), total bases (242, 6th) and doubles (34, 8th). The Judges posted a 27-18 record and were runners-up at the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III New England tournament.
In the classroom, she finished with a 3.92 grade-point average in psychology. Specker was also a Phi Beta Kappa member and vice president of Brandeis's chapter of the Psi Chi psychology honor society. She was a seven-time Dean's List and three-time Academic All-UAA selection.
Specker was named Brandeis's Charles A. Napoli Scholar-Athlete and was a recipient of a Joseph M. Linsey Fellowship for postgraduate studies for a Brandeis student-athlete. She will attend Boston University's Ph.D program in sports psychology next year.
Specker is one of two Division III softball players to earn repeat first-team honors. She is the sixth person and second softball player in Brandeis history to earn two Academic All-America honors, and the first with two first-team selections. Brandeis has now had Academic All-Americans selected in each of the past four years and 22 overall.
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"Temporary unresponsiveness" of the 62-year-old, 28,000-hour airline transport pilot probably caused the crash that killed Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and four other passengers on Aug. 9, 2010, said the National Transportation Safety Board at a public meeting May 24.
Why the pilot became unresponsive during the 50-mile flight from a corporate-owned lodge to a salmon fishing camp "could not be established from the available information."
The amphibious-float-equipped turbine de Havilland Otter struck mountainous terrain in a climbing left turn about 10 miles northeast of Aleknagik, Alaska, 15 minutes after departure. Four passengers survived the accident, among them former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe. In an opening statement, NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman summarized the NTSB's findings from "nine months of exhaustive investigation, numerous consultations, and a host of expert opinions."
Minutes before the crash, the turbine Otter, equipped with amphibious floats and state-of-the-art avionics, was reported on course. The pilot, Hersman said, was "highly experienced" and familiar with the route. Days prior, he had lost his son-in-law in another Alaska aviation accident. In 2006 the pilot had suffered a stroke, and in 2008 and 2009 he had received a first-class medical certificate. The pilot had inhibited the terrain awareness and warning system's aural voice and pop-up text alerts.
In a set of 20 conclusions about the crash, the NTSB described the regional flight surgeon's issuance of an unrestricted first class medical certificate to pilot Theron Smith, without certain additional medical consultations, as "inappropriate" considering a stroke Smith suffered in 2006.
To obtain a medical certificate after a stroke, the FAA requires a two-year recovery period or more depending on the severity of the stroke followed by an extensive cardiovascular evaluation and neurological evaluation. The evaluations include an outline of the entire medical history (including family history), results of any testing performed, an electrocardiogram with complete tracings, an exercise stress test, an echocardiogram, a bilateral carotid ultrasound, and a report by a Board Certified Neurologist to include a detailed report of a recent neurological examination among other requirements. Additionally, if the FAA determines that another opinion is required to issue the medical certificate, they can request additional information or submit the airman's information to a consultant for review and advice.
The board could not determine if a medical condition played a role in the accident. It said that the lack of a cockpit voice recorder system hindered determination of a cause of the crash.
The NTSB issued recommendations on detailed annual inspection procedures for emergency locator transmitters, having found during the crash probe that the accident aircraft's ELT had become separated from its antenna. No ELT signal was detected after the crash.
The report criticized the pilot's failure to brief passengers about on-board emergency equipment including a satellite telephone. The NTSB specifically addressed a recommendation to AOPA, urging the association to educate pilots on the importance of providing a briefing on emergency equipment location and use.
AOPA Foundation President Bruce Landsberg said the foundation's Air Safety Institute will address the recommendation with educational resources. "We endorse the board's recommendation [for pilot education], and we will be putting together guidance for pilots of Part 91 operations on preflight briefings," Landsberg said.
The pilot would have had aural and visual warnings of an impending crash about 30 seconds before impact—instead of only about four seconds before the crash—had he not inhibited an on-board warning system, the NTSB said.
Smith's transient incapacitation or impairment could explain the circumstances of the crash, said the NTSB, but it was not possible to determine whether such a condition existed. Neither of the two surviving passengers who were awake at the time of the accident was seated with a clear view of the pilot, the board said in its synopsis.
"What we do not know—and may never know—is what happened in the last three minutes of that fatal flight," Hersman said.
Hersman recognized Smith's contributions to safety of flying in Alaska during his career, and she acknowledged the respect he commanded in the aviation community. "Today's discussions are difficult because aviation in Alaska is safer today than it was in the past, due to the efforts of many of the people on the airplane, including the accident pilot who was known by his fellow Alaska Airline pilots as the 'Legend of Alaska' and who dedicated much of his life, professionally and personally, to aviation safety efforts in Alaska," she said.
The NTSB characterized the FAA's "internal guidance for medical certification of pilots following stroke" as "inadequate because it is conflicting and unclear, does not specifically address the risk of recurrence associated with such an event, and does not specifically recommend a neuropsychological evaluation (formal cognitive testing) to evaluate potential subtle cognitive impairment."
The summary addressed weather systems and information, noting that "widespread Automated Weather Sensor System site deficiencies, if not corrected as expeditiously as possible, will continue to adversely affect the weather reporting network's ability to offer adequate coverage for providing National Weather Service forecasters and pilots with accurate ceiling and/or precipitation information."
A recommendation urged a test program for collecting and relaying real-time weather information from datalink-equipped aircraft to the Alaska Unit of the National Weather Service.


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Northlight Theatre said Monday that the formerly unannounced fifth show of its 2012-13 season will be a new play by Bruce Graham, the author of "The Outgoing Tide," a successful past Northlight production starring John Mahoney and Rondi Reed that's expected to move to New York.
Graham's new play is titled "Stella & Lou," set in a bar owned by the Lou of the title and exploring changing relationships and our desire for companionship. The play will have its world premiere in Skokie in May 2013.


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Pretty or ugly?
in real life physical looks matter A LOT but on the net i don't give a shit since its not like I'm gonna meet them In real life
for me ? a kind hearted person is always enough for me . even if she is ugly or not .
bye and sorry if anyone noticed . : (
The way I was brought up was that physical features always out-do personality. I dont think that way much anymore but I still think I have a bad habbit of going towards someone who has a pretty face with a not so good personality. >.< Old habbits truely are hard to break... To answer the question, I find physical features more attractive than personality at times >.<;
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Although I highly prefer attitude over looks im not going to pretend that beauty doesn't matter to me at all
Goddamn philistine
What I find pretty:
What I find ugly:
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The personality. Sounds cheesy and corny to say, but in the end that's what matters. Looks fade over time, and the only thing you have is far more deep than just your skin. I always look for the personality and that's what attracts me the most, though of course - as a human being you will take in how someone else looks. But still; it's who you are that makes you special.
All the makeup in the world cannot hide an ugly heart.
I have agree with this.
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I will admit i like guys who wear skinny jeans, die their hair like weird colors, and have pretty eyes i know i sound judgy and kinda bitchy but im really not...thats just what i like as far as b/f's go. I also like guys who are funny and can take a joke. Now just as a person or like a friend i dont care what u look like as long as you have a nice personality im cool with you
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Is it bad that the first thing I noticed was the strawberry? famished. Working out sucks.
Upon further inspection though... quite cute.
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A lot of people, myself included, tend to identify and focus on their flaws.
What flaws do you dislike/hate the most? Do you have confidence?
Do you believe in the saying that "you see yourself differently than other people see you"?
What things do you consider to be "pretty" or "ugly" on the opposite sex? (e.g pale skin)
Most people do focus on their flaws, because they are trying to be perfect for those who observe them.
I have plenty of confidence, though I don't think I'm am hot or handsome, I just don't care, someone else' view on me when they aren't perfect themselves has no impact on how I feel.
I do believe that saying.
I'm open to all sorts of women, if I can find at least one thing I like (Facial Features, Body, Personality) I usually just focus on that, and not worry about anything else, I don't see it as a huge thing.
You've been hit by, you've been struck by a smooth criminal!
I'm insecure about my whole body.
Right down to my eye lashes.
But hey.
Sometimes when I look in the mirror.
I think I'm pretty.
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Hmmm seriously attitude personality comes first, but I will admit that I care about looks as most people do. I like fit women, not too skinny not too fat. The face is important for me hard to say what makes a face good but it needs to be. Not too much make up on a girl is pretty big for me. Hmmm other than that I like larger breasts.. but that doesn't make or break by any means. Not that it matters as I am married to a wonderful woman. but thats what I like nonetheless.
MEdia makes people focus on things like these. Yes its good to fix yourself up but dont down yourself over not being 100 percent the best
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Is it bad that the first thing I noticed was the strawberry? famished. Working out sucks.
Upon further inspection though... quite cute.
Haha, at least you didn't notice Carrot Top first!
And yeah, I know that feeling man, so hungry you feel like your stomach is digesting your internal organs and sucking the life out of you. XD
She is quite a cutie, I am a sucker for girls with pretty eyes and a playful smile. XD
Winter Is Coming.
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-dasidorawa wrote:
A lot of people, myself included, tend to identify and focus on their flaws.
What flaws do you dislike/hate the most? Do you have confidence?
Do you believe in the saying that "you see yourself differently than other people see you"?
What things do you consider to be "pretty" or "ugly" on the opposite sex? (e.g pale skin)
Hm.. Well I really don't know what I think about myself. I generally leave up to people who are close to me to judge how I am, but that may be a biased opinion to base myself upon. I don't really concentrate on myself. Flaws.. Obviously if you think something bad of yourself you'd want to change; I guess it really goes down to your self esteem and your courage on how far to judge yourself with the amount of flaws you feel you have.
As for the people who say "I don't care about looks, personality is all that matters", that may be true. But what a lot of people don't know, is that even if you say it and believe it, it will still affect your choices subconsciously more than you realise. There is no denying that we'll leap at any chance to get a hot looking partner; it's what's being called human. Is it not? Besides, people are in the present are beginning to be more conscious about good looks. I mean in the past, in some cultures 'big' woman were the hots. Nowadays media is filled with celebrities with good looks, now it's making a craze for it. It's like a new era. Lol
I can base personality off of one thing though. It is a huge basis whether you are the type of person who wants to settle down and have a loving family. You wouldn't pick someone solely based on good looks to raise a family would you? No, you would pick someone through personality, with a stable lifestyle, caring and strong minded trait.
Pretty or ugly on the opposite sex? For me, I put quite a lot of emphasis on the body of a girl. If I want to hug a girl, I want to hug a girl so that it doesn't feel like i'm going to break her, and so it doesn't feel like hugging a giant marshmallow either. That may have seemed a bit cynical, but i'd rather find someone who can look after themselves.
I only have standards that are equal to what I am. I'm in shape so I want someone in shape. I'm creative and think freely so I want something similar. Granted a great mind can make up for a little chub. A little...
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