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A genital injury is an injury to male or female sex organs, especially those outside the body. It also refers to injury in the area between the legs, called the perineum.
Scrotal trauma; Straddle injury; Toilet seat injury
Injury to the genitals can be very painful. It may cause a lot of bleeding. Such injury can affect the reproductive organs and the bladder and urethra.
Damage may be temporary or permanent.
Genital injury can occur in both women and young girls. It may be caused by placing items into the vagina. Young girls (usually less than 4 years of age) may do this during normal exploration of the body. Objects used may include toilet tissue, crayons, beads, pins, or buttons.
It is important to rule out sexual abuse, rape, and assault. The health care provider should ask the girl how the object was placed there.
In men and young boys, common causes of genital injury include:
Keep the person calm. Be sensitive to privacy. Cover the injured area while giving first aid.
Control bleeding by using direct pressure. Place a clean cloth or sterile dressing on any open wounds. If the vagina is bleeding severely, put sterile gauze or clean cloths on the area, unless a foreign body is suspected.
Apply cold compresses to help reduce swelling.
If the testicles have been injured, support them with a sling made from towels. Place them on a padded cloth such as a diaper.
If there is an object stuck in a body opening or wound, leave it alone and seek medical attention. Taking it out may cause more damage.
Do not try to remove an object by yourself. Seek medical help immediately.
Never volunteer your thoughts on how you think the injury happened. If you think the injury was the result of assault or abuse, do NOT let the person change clothes or take a bath or shower. See immediate medical help.
A straddle injury is damage to the testicle or urinary tract. Immediately get medical help if there is:
Seek immediate medical help if there is a genital injury and:
Teach safety to young children and create a safe environment for them. Also, keep small objects out of the reach of toddlers.
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Monica J. Weil is an organizational consultant and executive coach. She has operated her consulting practice, Lifeblood Consulting Group, Inc., since 2002 and has attracted both large and small life sciences clients such as Biogen Idec, Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, NitroMed, Cardiokine, Boston Scientific Corporation, UCB Research Inc., Epix Pharmaceuticals, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
In addition to her work as a consultant, Ms. Weil has over 25 years of industry experience as an internal organizational consultant and human resources professional in the biopharmaceutical and consumer products industries. Her work in these industries has included recruiting and selection, executive coaching, and international/cross-cultural/cross-functional group and team development. As a result of her first-hand experience, she has acquired expertise regarding the impact of human dynamics on organizational effectiveness, corporate and individual performance, and growth and transformation.
In 2002, Ms. Weil was awarded a Masters Degree from the highly regarded HEC School of Management (Paris, France), granted in conjunction with an International Diploma from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) for successfully completing the innovative graduate degree program: "Coaching and Consulting for Change." Her other educational credentials include an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology and a BA in Mathematics from Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
Joe Tringali has been providing creative, cost effective recruiting solutions and services to the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries for more than two decades. He is a seasoned contract recruiter who has developed overall recruitment strategies for his clients and subsequently worked with internal hiring organizations to meet their staffing requirements.
Joe has provided onsite services to numerous Biotechnology clients, including: Biogen Idec, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Creative Biomolecules/Stryker, TKT/Shire and Genetics Institute /Wyeth/Pfizer. He brings to the client an ability to provide a clear recruitment strategy, identify/source passive and qualified candidates, manage both the candidate and the internal hiring process, coach line managers on marketplace dynamics and the recruiting process, and help the client best position itself and its recruiting message to successfully meet its staffing endpoints His approach is consultative in nature and his diverse client base is a result of his reputation of being knowledgeable and effective, The duration of his recruiting assignments has spanned periods of 6 months to six years (Biogen/Idec). Earlier in his career, he has provided similar services to several defense contractors, including The Analytic Sciences Corporation (MA and DC locations), Honeywell Government Systems, GTE Government Systems, Dynamics Research Corp, and Science Applications International, Inc (SAIC).
When he is not serving a client onsite, Joe operates a highly ethical and successful contingency recruiting firm that serves the Boston Biotechnology community. He works with several clients to help them fill difficult staffing needs in the areas of Research/Development, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs His client list includes firms such as Biogen Idec, Harvard, University, Interleukin Genetics, Genzyme Corporation, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Acambis, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Aeris Therapeutics, Galenea Corporation, BG Medicine, CuraGen, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Joe recruits across most functional disciplines and levels in his business and often his assignments are staff positions at the Director level and above.
In addition, Joe is an invited speaker at several annual scientific conferences and research institutes where he conducts career workshops for the attending scientific community. Conferences/institutes include: The Protein Society, Experimental Biology, American Association of Immunologists, The National Institute of Health (NIH), The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), The Bone and Mineral Society, The Endocrine Society, The Society for Sexual Reproduction, The Biomedical Engineering Society, and The American Society for Human Genetics.

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GLORY 9 New York Live Results and Updates
- Written by Dave Walsh
Glory 9 New York is finally upon us! Tonight in New York City the best Light Heavyweights in GLORY will descend upon New York City for a one night, eight man tournament that is promising to deliver a lot of action. On top of that there are a lot of superb Super Fights for Glory's first outing in the United States, including Daniel Ghita vs. Brice Guidon, Errol Zimmerman vs. Rico Verhoeven and more!
The action starts at 6PM Eastern with the undercard and continues into the main card at 7:30PM Eastern. Join us here at LiverKick.com for all of the updates and don't forget to purchase your live stream from us, as the only place in the United States that you'll be able to see GLORY 9 live is online. We'll be live tweeting the event (@LiverKickdotcom / @RianScalia) and updating on Facebook as well (Facebook.com/LiverKick).
Reserve Fight - Randy Blake (R3 - Decision) Koichi Wanatabe
Reserve Fight - Artem Vakhitov (R1 - KO) Luis Tavares
Super Fight - Anderson Silva (Re - Decision) Daniel Sam
Tournament - Danyo Ilunga (R3 - Decision) Mourad Bouzidi
Tournament - Dustin Jacoby (R3 - Decision) Brian Collette
Tournament - Filip Verlinden (R3 - Decision) Steve McKinnon
Tournament - Tyrone Spong (R1 - KO) Michael Duut
Super Fight - Joseph Valtellini (R3 - KO - Leg Kicks) Francois Ambang
Super Fight - Daniel Ghita (R1 - KO) Brice Guidon
Semi-Finals - Danyo Ilunga (R3 - Decision) Dustin Jacoby
Semi-Finals - Tyrone Spong (R3 - Decision) Filip Verlinden
Super Fight - Wayne Barrett (R2 - TKO) Mike LeMaire
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LIBYA: Humanitarian response continues to scale up
The protection of civilians remains one of the fundamental concerns as fighting wages on in Misrata and
other parts of Libya. Although the exact number of civilian deaths due to the conflict is unknown, human
rights organizations, UNICEF and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have all confirmed civilian deaths, including children as young as nine months, medical personnel and humanitarian workers.
Critical humanitarian needs inside Libya still include medical supplies and personnel, in particular in locations where fighting is ongoing. In most other areas, reports indicate that stocks of food, water and some medical supplies are sufficient for one to two months. However, if the crisis continues, existing social safety networks will be depleted and coping capacities will diminish, increasing needs for basic supplies and services even in areas where the conflict level is low. Preliminary findings of the recent inter-agency multi-sector assessment mission confirmed that the lack of resupply for the regular food provision systems may trigger a food security crisis eastern Libya within as little as two months. Early recommended actions include replenishing food stocks and inputs for local production, and providing assistance to maintain social safety nets and consumer subsidy schemes.
Around 4,700 people still await evacuation assistance from Misrata, including third-country nationals (TCNs), vulnerable people and the wounded. IOM has evacuated 4,100 people so far, and evacuations are ongoing with support from the governments of Australia, the United Kingdom and the European Union. A number of other humanitarian organisations have evacuated people from Misrata. At least 9,870 people have been
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Children & Sleep
There's nothing more challenging than taking care of a new baby. The good news is, as babies grow older, they sleep for far longer periods at a time and soon will sleep through the night. In the meantime, know that erratic sleep schedules and getting up in the middle of the night will be part of your lives for the next few months. So make the most of the sleep you can get – provide yourself and your partner with a restful sleep environment. Sleep in a cool, dark room on a comfortable, supportive mattress. That way, you'll get the best sleep you can, even if it's for shorter periods of time. And learn to sleep when your baby does. It may be tempting to tackle chores while your baby sleeps, but a quick nap will help boost your energy. Sleep is as important to you as it is to your child.
On average, infants need about 16 hours of sleep, toddlers need about 12, pre- schoolers need about 10.5 – 11.5 hours and children six and older need about 9-10. To help make sure your child get the sleep they need, make sure your child's bedroom is conducive to a good night's sleep – your child's room should be cool, quiet and dark and he or she should be sleeping on a comfortable, supportive mattress.
If a mattress is no longer comfortable for you, it's not good enough for someone else – especially your child. As kids grow, they need supportive and comfortable bedding as well. Be sure your children have enough space to move around comfortably as they grow. In addition, your child's first "big girl" or "big boy" bed may not provide enough space or comfort for your adolescent.


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Is anyone else hooked on The Osbournes? It is a reality show on Mtv that follows Ozzy Osbourne around and is funny as s**T !!!
Highlights from Episode 1:
They hook up a new computer/satellite TV system and the guy says the remote is SO easy that they don't even make a manual for it. Next we see ozzy getting nowhere and cursing up a storm trying to work it! "I'm stuck on the f***king weather channel!"
Then the phone rings and he can't find it! Then he finds the phone and can't figure out how to answer it!
Highlights from Episode 2:
Ozzy screams at Sharon for using his towel to wipe up dog ****!
Ozzy thinks the dog therapist urinated on the rug!
"Now I've seen it all, we have a f**king dog therapist. Just get up at 7am and open the damn door and let them out."
"The door was wide open and he STILL took a massive crap inside the house, 3 feet from the door."


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Family: Muridae, Mice and Rats view all from this family
Description A medium-sized, brown, aquatic rodent. Back is dark brown, underside is slightly paler. Black tail is vertically flattened. Long, coarse, glossy guard hairs cover the short, dense, silky underfur. Partially webbed hind feet are larger than the forefeet. Fringes of stiff hairs along the sides of the toes further enhance swimming ability.
Dimensions 41-62cm, 18-30cm, 700-1800g
Similar Species Larger-bodied in the north of their range. Clearly larger than the Round-tailed Muskrat and smaller than the Coypu or Beaver.
Habitat Swamps, marshes & bogs, Beaches, shorelines & estuaries, Lakes, ponds, rivers & streams
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Uses cut vegetation to build rounded houses about 2m in diameter and 1m high; also dens in holes dug into the shore. Crepuscular and nocturnal feeder on a variety of aquatic plants. Common in brackish and freshwater lakes, rivers, and swamps.


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Aarrggh! My Hebrew has turned into Question Marks
I edited a Hebrew HTML file with kedit, but forgot to set the encoding appropriately. The Hebrew was edited fine. However, when I closed it, I realized (after some experimentation) that the Hebrew characters have all turned to question marks. The actual ASCII question mark letter.
I ended up losing the entire document. What the hell? Fury... fury... fury.
To prevent it once and for all, I added this to my .bashrc:
function kedit { LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 /usr/bin/kedit $* }
The reason I don't use an i18n'ed locale by default is because it causes my fonts to become uglier. How lame is that? <sigh />
DocBook continued
Well, Bob Stayton helped me and instruced me the how to modify to the code of the DocBook/XSLT itemizedlist handler to make it propagate the role attribute as a class. Now, it works and I'm happy. Still I think it's a huge mis-feature that role is not propagated for any element.
Version Control Article
My Version control article now has many more comments. Many of them were in the vain of trying to protect CVS and why it should still be used. I think this is not true, and new projects should not start with CVS. I expect CVS to be used in years to come, but be considered hugely deprecated just as RCS and SCCS are still used today, but are also deprecated.
It was referenced on OSNews.com (courtesy of Eugenia Loli-Quero who also contributed to the Better-SCM site and comparison), where there are more comments, and it also hit Whatsup in this feature in Hebrew. There it seems to form a discussion of the Linux Kernel Development Model, why it requires BitKeeper, and whether it's a good thing.
As a result, or just out of word of mouth, I received a great deal of E-mails about the Better-SCM site lately. Someone even sent an addition to put in Visual SourceSafe and CM Synergy to the comparison. (which I bounced because it wasn't a patch to the XML file). I have modified the pages a bit since then. Next, I plan to put its source on a public Subversion repository so people can contribute more easily.
I also started sending a Newsletter about Better-SCM to all the people who contacted me about it. ("Cathedral and Bazaar"-style) It worked pretty nicely so far and I received a lot of useful input. Someone, however, wished to be unsubscribed from it, and suggested I ask before I add someone to the Newsletter. I have to think about it a little, but think I'll go with unsubscribe on demand, given that most people are not very responsive.
Finally, there's now a new mailing list - better-scm-discuss. Several people have joined now, and there was some active discussion. That's good.
I managed to do quite a bit of work on Perl-Begin. I moved its source to a Subversion repository at opensvn.csie.org (which offers a very discreet and unintrusive service, albeit sometimes the connectivity seems slow), and then added a lot of content and changed the CSS somewhat (made it more modular and nicer). Finally, I created a newsletter for it as well, and sent some announcements to the people who contacted me about the site. One of them replied with some useful suggestions. :-)
In any case, I contacted ask and the rest of the beginners workers about contributing to learn.perl.org. Eventually, I found out that perl.org had a hardware failure and so work on learn.perl.org was stalled. What I did do was write a "learn/" section to www.perl.org, which will take some time until it is proof-read, and integrated into the main site. What I did there was simply link to the appropriate places on learn.perl.org and perl-begin.
I'm glad I could find some time to do a lot of really productive work. I missed hacking, and hacking on web-sites, while not being as challenging as hacking on code, is still fun and rewarding.
Check this message of Hackers-IL for a post I made to Hackers-IL in regards to the new and annoying Yahoo Groups limitations. (Hackers-IL is hosted there). There are three possibilities: accept the Status Quo, pay Yahoo Groups for getting a primum service, or move to our own service.
We decided that being hackers, the last option would be best. The problem is that several people have resources at their disposal, but none has the time (except me). So, I went out and contacted sun, one of the beak.hamakor.org.il's admins to host the hackers.org.il domain there. He told us we should send a description of what Hackers-IL is all about to the appropriate list and he'll see if everything can be arranged.
I wrote a charter, which was criticized as being too long to be effective and Arik Baratz wrote a shorter one, which was still very good. I ended up revising both charters and putting them online. We decided we are going to use the shorter charter for contacting the beak admins and for further purposes like that, and the more verbose one for putting on the future site.
The discussion was pretty long, and eventually we debated if it was off-topic or whatever. We reached a conclusion that it was just a "meta" discussion, which was a necessary evil, but that it was still annoying. This was towards the end when everything stabilized, so it just closed the discussion.
Yesterday, I sent the mini-charter in its final form to the appropriate list, with some explanations on what we need in the present and in the future.
Mozilla's Firefox
I'm glad the Mozilla people changed the name of their browser so it won't clash with the Firebird database. I also like the new name. It is almost certainly based on the Biblical story where Samson sets fire to the tails of 400 foxes and drives them to the Philistines camp to throw it into chaos and destruction. There's a nice symbolism with trying to do the same with MSIE, but I don't know how many of the target audience know the Old Testament well enough to realize that.
Still, the name is very cool, even without recalling the story. Of course, I have a feeling that it might start a new trend: Fire+[Animal]. Firecat. Firedog. Firedove. Firebear. Firepenguin. Etc. All these names are very cool, but one will have a hard time distinguishing between them. But who is John Galt?
How Good are my Technion Grades?
I posted a post to the Joel on Software forum about my Technion grades. This seemed to be a mis-calculation as many people took the opportunity to criticize me, claim I was no-good or lazy, etc. They obviously haven't been to the Technion...
Here is the creme de la creme of the discussion by someone calling himself "Caliban Tiresias Darklock":
Shlomi, just a bit of constructive criticism here... and this *is* supposed to be constructive... You come across as childish, inexperienced, and belligerent. Nothing you have written interests me. What little sticks out in my mind is not positive. You sniff at the college for not having a standards-compliant web page, as if anyone really cares. You sneer at CVS for not having a few minor features, as if anyone really cares. You solve a few basic puzzles, and build a presentation generator that you use to create a bad Perl tutorial. Then you come in here and say you know you're a good engineer. Unfortunately, you're not. You're just a competent Perl programmer. But engineers solve problems; if you expect to impress me with your work, do something that's relevant to someone other than yourself. Why in the world would I want to read your ramblings about SCHEME or run some program you wrote to solve mazes? I know why I would want to read *my* ramblings about SCHEME or run some program *I* wrote to solve mazes -- because I'm arrogant and self-involved. I love writing stupid little things for no good purpose, just because I can. Every engineer does.
Maybe I should check the definition of "constructive" in the dictionary again...
Melissa Joan Hart - Pictures
You innocently type "melissa joan hart" into Google and search it for images and what do you get in the first hits? That's right - soft porn.
A few notes are in order. The Google search for MJH (=Melissa Joan Hart) is perfectly fine and clean and leads to various fan sites and pages. Secondly, some of the other pictures in the search are not provocative at all. Thirdly, the first pictures are absolutely horrid, IMO. I don't have a problem with sexual or even provocative photos - some of them are very nice - but these are done in very bad taste. (I guess ESR was right when he noted that most porn is disgusting)
Moreover, this is not entirely an issue of "child-safety", keeping "innocence", etc. I just wish that the Google images search was a bit smarter about this, as the Google regular search is. It is possible that it was the anti-thesis to these pictures that made them get a higher rank.
In any case I found a very nice picture in the first page of hits. Hart (fully groomed) standing among automn leaves. She looks a bit sad, but the picture is very beautiful. Having downloaded it, I noticed it was scanned and of low quality. So I decided to reduce its size using the GIMP. The latter simply opened it in %50 scaling ratio, which made it look very decent, so I just reduced it to this size. Finally, I placed the picture in my Konq+Xmms Virtual Workspace instead of a very nice picture of Gabrielle Anwar, which I had there for several generations now. (I guess it's always time to move on)
Melissa Joan Hart - Silly Etymology
Well, enough Cybersex for now and let's just discuss MJH's etymology. Her full name is "Melissa Joan Catherine Hart". Considering the fact that Catherine is a variant for "Catherina" we can see she has no less than 6 private names:
- Meli (short for Emily)
- Lisa (short for Elizabeth, or Alisa)
- Jo (the "Little Women" short for Josephine)
- Anne
- Cathy
- Rina (a common Hebrew female name meaning sing-song)
Six names for a girl who isn't even thirty yet. (!)
Well, for something a bit more serious. I had some kind of enlightenment in regards to Solving. Now, I simply say that instead of trying to bring the open-source world-like Distributism model into western-world-countries, I am instead going to propose that competing leaders will compete for controlling the countries instead of the "official" elected government. This will create a multi-tude of leaderships all competing for the same niche, and doing so logically and reasonably, instead of one leaderhip who cares more about his public image than about being a honest one.
I revamped the content of the site (without re-writing it from scratch). Then, I linked to it on the IRC in several channels, and also on a web-designers' list I am a member of. From the replies I received, it seems that I did not explain myself correctly enough, and people thought it was Feudalism or even worse. This means something is still wrong there. I still got some useful replies and input. Guess it's time for more revamping... <sigh />


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quote:Maybe in Louisiana.
Fables did fine.
Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique
Upon initial release, Paul's Boutique was alienated commercially for its experimental and dense sampling and lyricism, in contrast to the Beastie Boys' previous album, Licensed to Ill.[11] Music critic David Handelman called the record a "rap opera."[10] While major music publications such as Rolling Stone favored the album's unique name-dropping lyrics and the album peaked at #14 on the Pop Albums chart, Paul's Boutique did not equal its predecessor's commercial success with hip hop fans, as it only peaked at #24 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[22] The album received a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America on September 22 of its release year.[2] Paul's Boutique would go on to sell over 2 million copies by 1999.[2] In retrospect, the album has also gone on to receive much critical acclaim and has been recognized as a landmark album in hip-hop. In a review of the album for Allmusic, contributor Stephen Thomas Erlewine summed the initial reaction to Paul's Boutique and praised the density that the album contains:
Musically, few hip-hop records have ever been so rich; it's not just the recontextulations of familiar music via samples, it's the flow of each song and the album as a whole, culminating in the widescreen suite that closes the record. Lyrically, the Beasties have never been better — not just because their jokes are razor-sharp, but because they construct full-bodied narratives and evocative portraits of characters and places. Few pop records offer this much to savor, and if Paul's Boutique only made a modest impact upon its initial release, over time its influence could be heard through pop and rap, yet no matter how its influence was felt, it stands alone as a record of stunning vision, maturity, and accomplishment.[11]
quote:no, it wasn´t.
Fables was well-received
their best seller to that date
Still haven't heard it.
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Sample P101A, from the Ravensthroat Formation in northwest Canada, is a laminated peloidal cap dolostone. The graded and reverse-graded peloids exhibit low-angle cross laminations easily visible to the naked eye. Peloid deposition reflects conditions in which calcium carbonate precipitation is occuring rapidly and has ...


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A Detailed Breakdown of Surface Pro's Storage Scheme
A side story that's been garnering a lot of attention is the amount of available storage space allotted to Surface Pro owners. The web cried foul when it was discovered that only 23GB of available space would be available on the 64GB model (36 percent of the advertised space), and 83GB on the 128GB (65 percent), but it turns out those figures were based on pre-production models that hadn't been fully optimized. Microsoft cleared the air in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session, and now that the Surface Pro is available to order, the Redmond company decided to provide a few more details.
According to Microsoft, the 64GB Surface Pro has approximately 29GB of storage available for user content, and the 128GB leaves 89GB. Here's how it breaks down:
|Surface Pro 64GB
|Surface Pro 128GB
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Windows (binary system)
|Storage space reserved for Windows
recovery tools
|Available storage reported by File
|Windows 8 Pro and built-in apps
|Available storage reported by File
No matter how you slice it, you'll have at least 49 percent of the advertised storage to play with on the 64GB model, and 75 percent on the 128GB SKU.
As previously mentioned, the 128GB Surface Pro is sold out on Microsoft's website, though at the time of this writing, it shows as being in-stock at Best Buy.


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By Tiernan Ray
With database giant Oracle (ORCL) set to report fiscal Q4 results for the period ending in May on Thursday, after market close, RBC Capital Markets's Matthew Hedberg reiterates an Outperform rating on the shares, and a $37 price target, writing that Oracle's low dividend yield has lots of room to expand.
Hedberg, who is modeling $11.1 billion in revenue last quarter, and 88 cents EPS, more or less in line with consensus, notes that Oracle's dividend substantially trails that of peers, with the group average current yield being 2.3% versus Oracle's mere 0.7%.
A lot of Oracle's cash flow has been going into M&A and buybacks, he notes:
For the previous fiscal year, Oracle's mergers and acquisition activity accounted for 36% of free cash flow, well above the 20% group average when excluding SAP. Shares repurchased accounted for 45% of free cash flow, slightly above the peer group average of 41%, making it the largest use of cash out of the three categories. Oracle's current dividend as a percentage of free cash flow is 9%, roughly one-third of the group average of 27%, excluding the companies with no dividend.
Most of Oracle's cash is overseas, like a lot of techs:
Oracle's cash balance as of Q3'13 was $33.4 billion, or $6.94 per share, and the company's debt totaled $19.8 billion, or $4.10 per share, for net cash per share of $2.84. As of last quarter, out of the $33.4 billion dollars in cash, we believe that approximately $27.4 billion was held by Oracle's foreign subsidiaries, leaving approximately $6 billion of cash held domestically.
But Hedberg thinks there's room for a doubling of the dividend:
With a revenue growth rate below peers, we believe the company could support a dividend at least 2x higher, which we believe would be viewed as a clear positive. A dividend yield of 1.4% (2x the current yield of 0.7%) would be the result of an annual dividend of approximately $0.48 per share, or approximately $2.4 billion. As a reminder, in December 2012, Oracle announced an $0.18 accelerated dividend for Q2–Q4'13. The next opportunity for the board to consider a dividend will be Q1'14 (August), which will be reported in September 2013.
Oracle shares are up 79 cents, or 2.3%, at $34.56.


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Deeplinks Blog posts about DMCA Rulemaking
Internet service providers (ISPs) are the conduits of free expression on the Internet. However, many international and national law and policy proposals, including trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) and others, attempt to make Internet intermediaries the sole arbiter and enforcer of the law instead of courts and judges. ISPs should not be Internet cops. Not only are they not equipped to make such decisions, proposals to make them liable for Internet content end up promoting law enforcement methods that purposefully skirt due process rights.
Last week the Librarian of Congress issued his final decision (pdf) limiting copyright owners' ability to sue you for making full use of the works you buy. The short version: it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the Librarian looked to the future, broadening existing exemptions for extracting clips from DVDs to include clips from movies distributed online, as well. At the same time, the Librarian refused to expand an exemption for "jailbreaking" smartphones to include the smartphone's cousin, the tablet, even though there is little practical difference between the two devices. Equally illogically, the Librarian refused to grant an exemption for jailbreaking video game consoles.
Now the long version.
Every three years the U.S. Copyright Office considers granting exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibition against circumventing measures that control access to digital copyrighted works. The first hearing in the 2012 DMCA rulemaking proceeding is set for this Friday, May 11, and we thought folks might want to know a bit about how the process works.
Ahead of the Academy Awards this weekend, Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, would like to assure you that "Hollywood is pro-technology and pro-Internet." But what does that mean? The comments filed at the Copyright Office this month by MPAA and RIAA, together with the Business Software Alliance, the Entertainment Software Association, and other copyright owners' groups, paint a clear picture of these groups' vision for the future of the Internet and digital technologies.
EFF has asked the U.S. Copyright Office to declare that jailbreaking smartphones, tablets, and game consoles does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and there are only two days left to submit comments to the Copyright Office, or to sign on to letters supporting our exemption requests from video game system hacker bunnie Huang and "Everything is a Remix" filmmaker Kirby Ferguson. We've already heard from many device users who have spoken up to explain why installing the software they choose on the devices they own should stay legal.
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Reading Dave Winer's Scripting News seems to bring out the writer in me. I'm not sure precisely what nerve his work touches, but it encourages me to speak in my voice, and tell my story. I'm not saying my story is particularly exciting, newsworthy, or worthy of your rapt attention. I'm just saying that it needs telling, even if it's just to stroke my own need to tell it.
Then again, opening up our thoughts and feelings through our words might be just as important as opening up our ideas through our code. Ultimately, we're all part of a great conversation. I've suddenly reminded myself of Jonathan Carroll's incredible Outside the Dog Museum. I don't want to give it away, but it deals with the Tower of Babel myth. Carroll indirectly suggests that architects' duty is to draw humanity back together through our work, and to ultimately celebrate our shared divinity in a common language.
If that's part of what we're doing, sign me up. I never wanted my life to be about small things, anyway.


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So they're hoping this becomes a franchise, huh? not gonna happen. This thing is so ludicrously over the top ham fisted action mutton. It tries to be coy and say 'wink wink, we're making fun of the genre' but it ends up taking it's place in line with all the other action tripe out there. it starts off slyly poking fun at 007 by having the guy in a tuxedo completely in a fish out of water situation. Stuffy old agent archetype can't survive in this environment, right?
So then why does the film simply remove James Bond from every scene and insert Xander Cage? Nails random hot chick? check. Snappy patter with head of spy organization (Samuel Jackson is M)? check. tete a tete with goofy gadget meister? check. Falls in love with good bad girl? check. Exotic chase scenes that defy all believibility? check. (What's up with that snowboard scene? Were the FX guys digitally teleporting him away from the avalanche everytime it got too close? I saw his little black dot on the screen jump forward four times.And not inexplicably "speed up". He literally popped forward 10 to 15 feet each time.) Saves the world? check. Ho hum. Instead of a tuxedo, though we get a guady furry coat.
The only difference between this film and 007 is that Bond did it first over and over and over again. And where Bond is suave and cool under fire, X is thuggish and lucky.
It's a two hour adrenaline rush, but don't expect it to revolutionize the genre.


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E-Commerce is an abbreviation for Electronic Commerce. The term basically means using systems that enable you to trade services or products electronically. This is accomplished by using computer networks like the Internet. There are multiple types of technology involved in E-Commerce, including but not limited to systems for data collection, electronic data exchange, mobile commerce, supply chain management, inventory management, internet marketing, or online transactions.
Just as everything else in life, E-Commerce has many advantages and some drawbacks. One of the biggest advantages is the fact that electronic commerce saves tremendous amounts of time as it allows people to complete actions on the Internet that otherwise would need to be done outside of their homes and frequently would involve significant waiting and travel. For example, if you live in the US and are attracted to a nice looking antique in South Africa that is for sale on the Internet, all you need to do is simply enter your name, address and payment method and your purchased item will arrive in your home in a matter of days. You don't have to travel all the way to South Africa, spend money on an airplane ticket, hotels and meals. That would make the purchase quite expensive, wouldn't it? Instead, you can browse a large variety of antiques sold in South Africa that have been displayed on a website on the Internet, and complete your purchase within minutes.
Among the most frequently mentioned drawbacks of E-Commerce that people have shared with us is the overall lack of personal contact between buyer and seller, creating issues with trust when people are asked to give sensitive information such as their names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal facts, in addition to having to separate themselves with their money over products that they cannot personally inspect closely. There are still many people out there that absolutely refuse to shop on the Internet or do any other online activities, fearing potential identity theft problems or having their information sold to solicitors. These are very valid concerns that unfortunately prove the old saying that nothing is ever perfect. You need to weigh the pros versus the cons and make your own educated decision.
Tools Used By E-Commerce Businesses
There are many practices that help E-Commerce companies run their businesses. We will discuss most of them in a greater detail, but for now, we will just mention some of them so our readers can have an idea about constitutes E-Commerce.
- Business-to- business (also known as B2B) selling and buying refers to transactions from one business to another. The example that most often comes to mind is an exchange between a manufacturer and a wholesaler and then between that wholesaler and a retailer. Or a marketing online business performing online marketing for a local dentist.
- Business-to customer (also known as B2C) is pretty self explanatory. These transactions happen less often than the B2B transactions on a daily basis.
- Online retail, called eTail. It means the possibility to buy physical goods on the Internet, via structures known as marketplaces. It was called electronic retail at first, then E-Retail, but then gradually more and more users were dropping the "R" and thus the term eTail is used today, which can be quite confusing to someone who is unfamiliar with the growing online jargon. Virtual marketplaces or virtual storefronts are other names used instead of eTail. Such systems basically build large online catalogues that help consumers browse from a wider variety of goods that they would be able to find in any local store.
- Online marketplaces are platforms that contain products sold by multiple third parities yet the transactions are managed by one marketplace operator. Amazon and eBay are examples. You have probably shopped at least once on Amazon and have noticed how for each type of product there are multiple vendors, yet your money transitions are handled by Amazon.
- E-Commerce businesses gather plenty of demographic information by using social media and various websites. The reason why they do this is mainly for market research. They want to offer their customers better fitted products or services based on each customer's needs as perceived by the type of product or service that they requested. Marketing research is at the core of every business' survival in today's day and age of massive competition and life-transforming technology.
- E-Commerce businesses usually provide secure business transactions by using systems that protect customer data such as credit card numbers from getting into the hands of ill-intended people.
- Shopping carts are the virtual equivalents of the carts you use at the grocery store to gather the products you need and then pay for them together at the cashier instead of paying for each of them separately. which would surely create very long lines of inpatient and very unhappy customers.
- Email marketing is used to advertise new products or services that would improve a person's life in some way. Email marketing, when done correctly, targets very specific segments of the population to sell very specific products or services that would benefit that particular population segment. If the market research has not been done well enough to target a specific kind of customer that currently uses and will likely continue to use the specific goods that are offered, then the email marketing campaign will not be too successful.
- Merchant accounts are online tools to process monetary transactions by E-Commerce businesses when customers buy something. PayPal is an example of a platform that offers several types of merchant accounts to anyone who desires to conduct a business online.
We hope that with the brief descriptions of several of the hundred components that define E-Commerce, you can find some familiar examples that will help you realize that E-Commerce has pretty much become a daily routine and a permanent part of life if you reside in a place that has access to the World Wide Web, also known as the Internet.


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Born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY, Mos Def began rapping at age nine and began professionally acting at age 14, when he appeared in a TV movie. After high school, he began acting in a variety of television roles, most notably appearing in 1994 on a short-lived Bill Cosby series, The Cosby Mysteries. In 1994 Mos Def formed the rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics with his younger brother and sister, and signed a recording deal with Payday Records that didn't amount to much. In 1996 his solo career was launched with a pair of high-profile guest features on De La Soul's "Big Brother Beat" and Da Bush Babees' "S.O.S." A year later, in 1997, Mos Def released his debut single, "Universal Magnetic," on Royalty Records, and it became an underground rap hit. This led to a recording contract with Rawkus Records, which was just getting off the ground at the time, and he began working on a full-length album with like-minded rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek. The resulting album, Black Star (1998), became one of the most celebrated rap albums of its time. A year later came Mos Def's solo album, Black on Both Sides, and it inspired further attention and praise. Yet, aside from appearances on the Rawkus compilation series Lyricist Lounge and Soundbombing, no follow-up recordings were forthcoming, as the up-and-coming rapper turned his attention elsewhere, away from music.
During the early 2000s, Mos Def acted in several films (Monster's Ball, Bamboozled, Brown Sugar, The Woodsman) and even spent some time on Broadway (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog). He simultaneously worked on the Black Jack Johnson project with several iconic black musicians: keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic), guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), drummer Will Calhoun (Living Colour), and bassist Doug Wimbish (the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Living Colour). This project aimed to reclaim rock music, especially the rap-rock hybrid, from such artists as Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, who Mos Def openly despised. What made Black Jack Johnson so anticipated though was not so much the supergroup roster of musicians or even Mos Def himself, but rather the lack of black rock bands. Following the demise of Living Colour, there were few, if any, that had attained substantial success. Mos Def hoped to infuse the rock world with his all-black band, and during the early 2000s, he performed several small shows with his band around the New York area. In October 2004, he finally delivered a second solo album, The New Danger, which involved Black Jack Johnson on a few tracks.
Two years later, after a few more acting roles -- including the Golden Globe-winning Lackawanna Blues and the Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made, both of which were made-for-television movies -- Mos Def released his third solo album, True Magic (2006). A contract-fulfilling release for Geffen, which had absorbed Rawkus years prior, the album trickled out in a small run during the last week of 2006. Bizarrely, the disc came with no artwork and was sold in a clear plastic case -- though its single, "Undeniable," did manage to grab a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. The Ecstatic, released on the Universal-distributed Downtown label, followed in June 2009; at that point, Mos Def had significant acting roles in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind (in which he co-starred with Jack Black) and Cadillac Records (he played Chuck Berry). ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi
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Construction underway on Binghamton University's new engineering and science facility
BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University, State University of New York, today launched construction of its new Engineering and Science building in a ceremony attended by elected officials, local leaders and University representatives. The facility will be located next to the Biotechnology Building, which is part of the University's Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC).
The $66 million, two-story glass, metal and stone building will accommodate the expansion of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. Adding about 125,000 square feet to the ITC, the new building will feature state-of-the-art, flexible research laboratory space, as well as suites for new business start-ups and offices that support the University's ongoing and expanding industry partnerships.
"We are grateful to Governor Paterson, Senator Libous and Assemblywoman Lupardo for their leadership and steadfast support," said Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur. "This is one of the largest projects the University has undertaken and will have significant impact on the education of our students and on the discoveries and innovative ideas of our faculty. Working through the SUNY Construction Fund and drawing from the expertise of our Physical Facilities department, the unique features of this state-of-the-art building will greatly strengthen and enhance our partnerships throughout the region and state."
Funding for the new building was obtained through the efforts of State Sen. Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton, and Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, D-Endwell. It is estimated that the building will provide $112 million in economic impact and support over 1,500 jobs in the region during its construction.
The new building will house the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC). A large rotunda feature will connect the two ITC buildings, offering access to laboratories and fostering closer interactions between departments and the research centers currently housed in the Biotechnology facility.
"With one of the fastest growing programs in New York State, Binghamton is committed to providing high-quality education and research in the engineering and computer science fields," said Seshu Desu, dean of the Watson School. "By adding to the instructional and research infrastructure, this new building will greatly enhance the Watson School's efforts to attract and retain outstanding faculty, staff and students in order to further advance our national reputation."
Through in-house design, planning and construction management, the University has achieved savings that have been redirected to building construction and needed equipment. The building has been designed to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, incorporating passive solar energy for heating, geothermal technology for heating and cooling the rotunda, energy-efficient windows and skylights to allow for maximum use of daylight and the latest technology for heat recovery and humidity control.
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The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Modern Jazz Quartet comprised John Lewis (1920—2001), Milt Jackson (1923—1999), Percy Heath (1923—2005) and Connie Kay (1927—1994). The group was established in 1952, with Kenny Clarke on drums; Connie Kay joined in 1955, and the line-up remained stable until their final recordings four decades later. The MJQ released over 40 albums: the majority for Atlantic Records, but in 1968 and 1969, they recorded two highly-rated albums for Apple, Under The Jasmin Tree and Space. The later was produced in London under the auspices of Apple's first head of A&R, Peter Asher.
It was always the MJQ's purpose to bring jazz to the masses, to make it more accessible. To that end the members wore sharp suits and instead of the smoke-filled clubs that were traditional outlets for live jazz in America, they played concert venues such as Carnegie Hall. The Modern Quartet achieved their aims in terms of crossover appeal, particularly in respect of 'third stream' music, in which they blended classical compositions with their distinctive brand of restrained, improvised bebop.


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The SEC basketball season begins this week. The question is will that make a ripple on the national scene?
While the quality of the league relative to other well-known basketball conferences is often a story line, there's a widely held opinion that SEC is down.
The numbers support that theory, as do some of the early-season results.
For Ole Miss and Mississippi State the start includes a home game and a road game in Week 1, the Rebels at Tennessee on Wednesday and at home with SEC newcomer Missouri on Saturday night, the Bulldogs at home with South Carolina on Wednesday, then at Georgia on Saturday.
SEC coaches spent a portion of Monday's conference call defending the league.
Florida coach Billy Donovan doesn't agree teams should be judged early.
"Teams get better, Donovan said. "You get labeled in November and December, then vice versa, it's also not fair when you get to March, a couple of teams go deep in the tournament, and all of a sudden a league's better than it was. There has to be some balance."
WarrenNolan.com has the SEC rated No. 8 in conference RPI, behind the Atlantic 10 and ahead of the Missouri Valley.
MSU's 59-57 loss to a 4-8 Alabama A&M team that ranks 303 in the RPI is one of the losses SEC coaches must rebut in the quality of play discussion. So are Alabama losses to Dayton, Mercer and Tulane.
MSU begins league play at 5-7 with a 273 RPI.
Ole Miss (11-2) goes into the league season with a 63 RPI, while Tennessee (8-4) checks in with a 73 RPI.
Missouri (11-2) is the SEC's highest-rated team in the AP Top 25 at No. 10. Florida is No. 11.
"With the coaches in this league, teams are going to get better," Donovan said. "I saw it last year with Tennessee. You cannot argue the fact that Tennessee in February and March was a totally different team than in November and December. I think that's what you're going to see this year."


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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Sooooooo tempting. I've never been a premier guild member, but I think I'd do it for this figure. I have nearly all of these Jumbo Kenner figures and am very interested in securing this one. Do the memberships sell out very quickly?
I hear ya there. I've never been a PGM member but that is really tempting.
I used to be a PG member a couple of years ago. It wasn't that membership would sell out, but the exclusives had low production.
As a PGM, I received the 22" Hoth Wampa yesterday. It is so cool - pun intended. I love how you can remove the jumbo figures from their packages without destroying them. And they easily go right back in.


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[Part 8 of an occasional series, updating a blog series I ran in early 2009 to reflect changes in the threat landscape. This series will also be available shortly as a white paper.]
Anti-Virus isn't Total Security
Don't expect antivirus alone to protect you from everything.
Use additional measures such as a personal firewall, antispam and anti-phishing toolbars, but be aware that there is a lot of fake security software out there. This means that you need to take care to invest in reputable security solutions, not malware which claims to fix non-existent problems, or toolbars that are designed to divert you away from the sites you want to visit and towards the ones that generate revenue for adware providers.
That apart, even the best protection might not protect you as well as common sense and caution does: there is no silver bullet in protection in malware, which is why we always advocate multi-layering or defense-in-depth. Specifically, don't fall for the "I can do anything and click on anything because my antivirus will protect me" trap. There seems to be a temptation for people to cluster at one of two extremes.
The danger in both scenarios is that the individual is tempted to substitute one partially successful solution for another. (Some marketing departments may overstate the effectiveness of a product, but that isn't a problem restricted to the anti-malware industry, or even the security industry!)
The trick is not to rely solely on one solution at all: a diverse spread of partially successful solutions may be more successful… However, note that word diverse. For most people, half a dozen antivirus packages on a single desktop machine is likely to cause more problems than it solves… By multi-layering, I mean using a diversity of product types: using multiple antivirus products may catch more specific malicious programs, but the increased detection may not be worth the additional strain on resources and risk of program conflicts, false positives and so on.
Please bear in mind also that malware gangs spend a lot of development time tweaking binaries so that they will evade specific scanners. The more effective a scanner is, the likelier it becomes that it will be targeted in this way. Of course, we monitor these tricks closely and enhance our own detection accordingly, but there is always a risk that such a tweaked binary will reach you before we've received a sample and updated our detection.
For this reason, we're always grateful to receive samples of malware (or indeed false positives) that have evaded our products. For details on how to do this take a look at http://training.eset.com/kb/index.php?option=com_kb&Itemid=29&page=articles&articleid=141
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By Rick Cleveland
JACKSON – Mississippi State is playing in the College World Series for the ninth time in the fifth consecutive decade. Surely, Dudy Noble would be proud.
Clark Randolph "Dudy" Noble, the namesake of State's baseball stadium, was one of the charter inductees of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1961.
Noble was a baseball guy. He coached the State baseball teams even when he was the athletic director, which partially accounts for why State people have always considered baseball so important.
Indeed, Dudy Noble awarded the first full baseball scholarship in Mississippi history to a young pitcher from Shaw back in 1938. His name was David Ferriss. His friends called him Boo.
But Noble did a lot more for State than coach baseball and sign Boo Ferriss. He hired two football coaching legends, Murray Warmath and Darrell Royal. He hired Hall of Fame basketball coach Babe McCarthy, when Babe was out of the coaching business and had last coached at a junior high. He hired Hall of Famer Jack Cristil, State's beloved Voice of the Bulldogs, and gave him this sage advice: "You tell that radio audience what the score is and who's got the ball and how much time is left and you cut out the bull."
That was in 1952. I loved the way Cristil described him more than half a century later. Cristil said he expected to find a young, well-groomed, business-like athletic director. He met a much different guy.
"Dudy Noble was a big man, over 6 feet tall and quite hefty," Cristil said. "He was attired in an old cotton, flannel shirt and baggy britches. He had an unruly shock of gray hair that stuck out."
Noble's looks deceived. He was astute judge of talent. After all, he hired Jack Cristil. At State, Noble was known for doing a lot with a little. He ran a tight ship. He made the most of what he had, but he never had much, at least not from a financial standpoint.
Noble was of humble origin himself. Born in the tiny Hinds County town of Learned in 1893. He attended State (then Mississippi A & M), where he earned 14 varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track. He graduated in 1915, but not before accounting for five touchdowns in a 65-0 victory over Ole Miss. That's still the biggest margin of victory in the history of the two schools.
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Now, here's the part that is hard for so many to believe. In 1917, Dudy Noble became the head football coach at The School Up North – yes, the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss. Noble was the football coach at Ole Miss for two seasons, the basketball coach for one and the baseball coach for two. For the record, Noble's two Ole Miss football teams lost both times they played State.
Noble returned to his alma mater in 1919 and remained there for the next 40 years until his retirement in 1959. He was the athletic director from 1938 until he retired. His first love was baseball and his teams won 277 games and lost 209.
Even though he spent two of the formative years of his coaching career at Ole Miss, he apparently left with no affinity for the his alma mater's arch-rival.
Dudy Noble once told a Tennessee sports writer: "I already know what hell is like. I once coached at Ole Miss."
Yes, and Noble once owned a bird dog, a lazy mutt that refused to hunt.
Dudy Noble named him "Mr. Ole Miss."
Rick Cleveland (rcleveland@msfame .com) is the executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.


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Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are up 80 cents, almost 6%, at $15.25 following a report of an unexpected profit last Thursday, for the company's fiscal Q4 ending February, and comments by the company that it is pleased with initial sales of its Z10 handset running the new BB10 operating system.
There were several notes today following the long weekend, and most involving some adjustment to estimates. There is still a fairly wide disparity among analysts in terms of revenue and loss estimates for this fiscal year ending next February. Some of the themes are a continuation of those raised in initial reports published Thursday afternoon: rising estimates, a more profitable outlook, and uncertainty about subscriber numbers.
Wells Fargo's Maynard Um reiterates an Outperform rating, and a $19 to $20 "valuation range," writing "Gross margins were the biggest surprise in the quarter, beating even the most optimistic expectations, though we see this now as largely the cat out of the bag.
"We believe the implied revenue as well as breakeven EPS guidance for FQ1 could be conservative (we forecast $0.07 EPS)," writes Um, "And believe one key to watch will be the timing of new carrier launches, particularly for the Q10 BlackBerry with keyboard (early vs. late May)."
Passi cuts his revenue estimate from $12.7 billion to $12.52 billion for this fiscal year, but raises his EPS estimate to a 7-cent loss from a prior estimates of a 22-cent loss. The new estimates reflect "a conservative outlook on
BlackBerry 10 (BB10) units, declining hardware ASPs/margins through the fiscal year, and acceleration in subscriber churn," he writes.
UBS's Amitabh Passi reiterates a Neutral rating, and a $13 price target, after cutting his 2014 estimate to $14.56 billion in revenue from a prior $14.94 billion, but raising his EPS estimate to 61 cents from 29 cents. He raised his BB10 unit shipments estimate to 17 million this year from a prior 16.7 million, and now sees operating margin of 2.9% versus a prior 0.8% prediction.
Passi has skepticism positive trends can be maintained:
We question the sustainability of BB10 sell through (2/3-3/4 of sell-in) and margins over the next 2-3 quarters as competitive pressures and the introduction of lower-cost handsets will put downward pressure on margins. Service ARPU trends were confounding. We are not convinced yet BB10 will be a viable platform and remain on the sidelines with a cautious stance and a $13 target.
Michael Genovese of MKM Partners reiterates a Sell rating and a $10 price target, while raising his fiscal 2014 estimate to $12.31 billion from $11.8 billion, and cutting his loss estimate to 14 cents per share this year from a prior 60-cent loss estimate.
Genovese focuses on his estimate that subscriber churn was higher than the 3 million headline decline in subscriber count that BlackBerry reported:
6mn users left the BlackBerry platform in the quarter. BlackBerry reported its first quarterly subscriber decline ever in 3QFY13 when total subs dipped to 79mn from 80mn. The decline accelerated in 4QFY13 with total subs at 76mn, driven by losses in North America and EMEA slightly offset by gains in APAC and LatAm. We calculate that approximately 6mn subscribers switched away from BlackBerry in the quarter compared to roughly 3mn switching to BlackBerry. Assuming a 66.6%/33.3% replacement/new sub split for the over 7mn BB7/6/5 units that sold through suggests the company added 2.5mn BB7/6/5 subs. If we take management's comments at face value that two-thirds to three-quarters of the 1mn BB10 units shipped in 4QFY13 have sold
through and over half of these user come from other platforms, then BlackBerry 10 attracted about 400,000 additional new subs. The net sub math for the quarter ends up as 2.5mn BB7/6/5 subs and 0.4mn BB10 subs added compared to approximately 6mn BB7/6/5 subs lost.


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But some seniors knew that their grandchildren weren't overseas, so the crooks came up with a new variation of the scam. Now the phony grandchild pretends to have caused an accident that injured a foreign tourist visiting the U.S., and claims to be in a local jail until he or she pays the tourist's medical bill. The money needs to be sent overseas because the tourist has returned home to recover.
In both versions of the grandparent scam, the con artist is using a common scam technique: playing on the emotions of a potential victim, in this case a grandparent who wants to help their grandchild. And in both versions the goal is the same: to get the grandparent to wire a large amount of cash overseas.
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down 88 cents at $462.70, reversing yesterday's fractional gain, and ending a four-day streak of gains, at least for the moment. The stock was up, however, briefly, at $465.84.
A couple of the bulls on the stock this morning warned March and June quarters will be softer than the Street consensus is currently modeling, though they expressed hope Apple can turn a corner with investors as it moves toward expected production introductions in the latter half of this year.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster reiterated an Overweight rating on the shares, and a $767 price target, and keeps his estimates intact. He writes that his expectations for the March-ending fiscal Q2 is $41.4 billion in revenue, toward the low end of the company's forecast of $41 billion to $43 billion, and below the consensus $42.77 billion. Apple may have sold 35.5 million iPhones, he thinks, versus consensus for 37 million iPhones. He also thinks Macs will come in light, perhaps 3.8 million units versus 4.2 million expected by the Street. Gross margin may come in at 38%, below the Street's 39% to 40%.
For June, he's modeling $37.6 billion, and thinks the company may forecast $36 million to $38 million, both of which are below the current $39.8 billion consensus.
Probably, the spring won't contain any new products of significance, he thinks, but the stock may be helped if the March report and June forecast "market the turning point as investors look to the back half opportunity":
We previously expected a March/April timeframe event based on Apple's historical product launch calendar, but given that we are nearing April without any substance around details for an upcoming event, we believe the next major event will likely not happen until June (WWDC). Even if Apple were to host an April event, we would not expect the event to have a measurable impact on shares given the event would likely focus on incremental upgrades to iPad and/or iTunes.
Oppenheimer & Co.'s Ittai Kidron reiterates an Outperform rating on the stock, and cuts his price target to $550 from $600, after cutting his estimate to reflect the notion consumers may pause in their purchase of the iPhone and the iPad given speculation of a mid-year update to those products.
Kidron cut his fiscal Q2 estimate to $42.1 billion in revenue and $9.93 per share in profit from a prior $43.9 billion and $10.53. For the June quarter, he goes to $38.3 billion and $8.86 from $41.9 billion and $10.03.
Rumors have been picking up steam:
The national pastime of predicting potential iPhone/iPad release dates is picking up steam and increasingly mid-year focused. Nothing has substantiated, but as news flows, consumers will likely pause purchases awaiting the update [...] With Samsung's [Electronics (005930KS)] Galaxy S4 shipping in 2Q and competition flush with new/upcoming phones (HTC One, BlackBerry (BBRY) Z10/Q10…), we believe Apple faces a compressing iPhone upgrade timetable. Some supply-chain and blog commentary suggests a potential July/August refresh. Competitively a positive, but the unsubstantiated news likely hurts NT vol. anticipating the upgrade [...] A potential mid-year iPad upgrade could also be in the works if Gizmorati is correct (they're expecting a 6/29/13 iPhone5S/iPad5 announcement). We believe the iPad is less sensitive to upgrade angst/purchase delays. However, it's in a similar predicament, needing more frequent updates to keep pace with what appears like a faster Android life-cycle.
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You will have a pretty sharp learning curve to overcome and there will be times when you wish you had your blind or a decoy , but in the end you will have many more turkey hunting skills.
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The Cut: "This really is a buzzed style you tend to see on boys," says Theron's hairstylist Enzo Angileri. "Because it's so easy to wear, Charlize and I have been referring to it as 'freedom.'" The crop—which is closely shorn to the head all around, with slight volume on top—stays feminine thanks to delicate tapering at the sideburns and nape.
What You Should Know: "Bright, dimensional hair color makes the cut more interesting," says Angileri. "And I have to be honest—it looks best on a woman with a gorgeous, proportional body."
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NOTE: Newer firmware 2.5.1 available here.
- Universal real-time nitrate processing algorithm*
- Titanium Housing
- Adaptive sampling intelligence
- Accuracy and stability over range of a wide environmental conditions
- 10 mm pathlength
- Serial data output and a 500 meter depth rating.
- SUNACom Windows / Mac software
*Class based freshwater calibration stock. Specific calibration must be added (freshwater, seawater, high range freshwater).
A Versatile UV Nitrate Sensor for Operation in Diverse Environments
The SUNA V2 (Submersible Ultraviolet Nitrate Analyzer) is a chemical-free UV nitrate sensor based on the ISUS (In Situ Ultraviolet Spectroscopy) UV nitrate measurement technology developed at MBARI. Satlantic has adapted the technology to develop the SUNA V2 to measure nitrate in increasingly more challenging environments including extremely turbid and high CDOM conditions. With improved optics and built-in logic intelligence, the SUNA V2 measures nitrate with industry leading accuracy and stability over a wide range of environmental conditions, from blue-ocean nitraclines to storm runoff in rivers and streams.
The SUNA V2 is the ultimate solution for real-time nutrient monitoring. Every SUNA V2 now comes with our proven universal real-time nitrate processing algorithm, which has been upgraded to include adaptive sampling intelligence that automatically adjusts for signal strength. Also included in every SUNA V2 is a 10 mm pathlength, a class based nitrate calibration, serial data output and a 500 meter depth rating.In addition to these standard features, a wide range of optional features provide the ability to customize the instrument to meet your specific research and deployment needs.
Optional Features
- Reduced 5mm pathlength for high turbidity environments
- Active fouling control
- Internal data logging and scheduling with 2 GB memory
- FullFreshwater & seawater calibrations
- USB communications and data download
- SDI-12 interface
See User's Manual for detailed performance specifications.
|Limit of Detection
|0.5 / 0.2
|0.007 / 0.0028
|Range of Detection
|3000 / 4000
|42 / 56
|Accuracy (greater of)
|0.028 / 0.056
|Precision (short term)
|0.3 / 2.4
|0.004 / 0.034
|Drift (per hour lamp time)
|0.3 / 1
|0.004 / 0.014
|Turbidity Range*
|625 NTU (10 mm pathlength; absent other absorbing species) 1250 NTU (5 mm pathlength; absent other absorbing species)
|Drift (per hour lamp time)
|0.3 µM (SW with T/S corr. processing) 1.0 µM (SW processing)
*Nephelometric Turbidity Units
|Path Length
|10 mm & 5 mm (high turbidity option)
|Wavelength Range
|190-370 nm
|Lamp Type
|Continuous Wave, Deuterium Lamp
|Lamp Lifetime
|900 h
|Input Voltage
|Power Consumption
|7.5 W (0.625 A at 12 V) nominal
|Depth Rating
500 m
|Weight (Acetal/ Titanium)
5.1 kg
1749 cm3
Real-Time temperature-salinity correction available* (0-35o C, 0-40 PSU)
* Requires external T/S data.
Download SUNA V2 Firmware 2.5.1 2.5.1 Firmware
UCI is a graphical software application that makes setup, operation and in field reference checks easy and robust. UCI is the recommended software for HydroCAT, HydroCAT-EP and SUNA.
UCI makes it easy to:
- Configure instrument settings and control the instrument in various operational modes
- Complete reference checks with step-by-step reference check wizards, including PDF reports and reference check file comparison
- Graphically plot engineering units in real time or via file playback
- Prepare instrument for deployment through the use of a step-by-step deployment wizards including creating a PDF report of all settings and notes
- Manage data files and offload data
Download UCI 1.2
What is "adaptive sampling" and how does it work?
The SUNA V2 contains a 256 channel spectrometer that is programmed to integrate for a specific length of time (usually 300 - 500 ms) while sampling to maximize signal. That is, when the SUNA V2 takes a sample, the spectrograph collects UV light for the length of the integration period. In optically dense waters (e.g. high turbidity or CDOM), very little UV light is transmitted through the water and therefore the spectrometer "sees" a much lower signal. The new SUNA V2 is programmed to automatically increase the integration period to compensate for the low light levels. This enables the instrument to collect a strong signal in extreme environmental conditions.
How does absorption from CDOM affect the SUNA V2 nitrate measurement?
The SUNA V2 determines nitrate concentrations from the shape of the UV absorption curve. The least squares curve fitting algorithm uses calibrated extinction coefficients for nitrate and bromide (strong absorbing species in salt water) to calculate the concentration of nitrate from the UV absorption curve. The algorithm also employs a linear baseline correction that accounts for absorption that is not associated with either nitrate or bromide. The linear baseline correction successfully compensates for CDOM absorption in cases where the CDOM absorption is close to linear in the low UV. The composition of CDOM is dependent on the type of drainage area around a particular watershed and is therefore highly variable. As a result, the shape of CDOM absorption curve can vary from region to region. For this reason, the baseline correction does not always successfully compensate for CDOM absorption. In cases where the CDOM absorption curve mimics the shape of the nitrate absorption curve, a positive bias can occur.
The most common approach for correcting a positive bias caused by CDOM absorption is to correlate the continuous in situ nitrate data provided by the SUNA V2 with nitrate concentrations from discrete water quality samples measured in a laboratory. The bias may then be calculated either as an absolute offset or as a factor. In order to provide the most robust correction possible, the discrete sample size should be sufficiently large to allow for comparisons and the relationship between the in situ and discrete concentrations should be highly correlated.
How do I tell if my SUNA is a V1 or V2?
You can identify which model of SUNA you have by the firmware revision it is running. The firmware information can be viewed by either starting the SUNA in a terminal emulator (information is in the start-up banner), or connecting the instrument to SUNACom (information is in top left corner, next to serial number). The first digit of the firmware revision identifies the version of the sensor, ie. firmware v1.9.0 indicates a SUNA V1.
When running my SUNA V2 on the bench, the data shows that the lamp is turning on and off. Why is this happening?
This is a safety feature of the instrument, whereby the lamp is turned off when its temperature reaches 35°C (95°F) to prevent damage from overheating. The SUNA continues to output dark frames while monitoring the temperature, and will restart the lamp once it has dropped back below 35°C. If extended in-lab use is required, immersing the SUNA in a cool bath can prevent this behavior.
My SUNA V2 fails the self-test function when it tries to report the internal voltage measurements?
Although most functions of the SUNA V2 can be accomplished though the USB connection, parts of the self-test require that external power be applied. In this case, connect external power and repeat the test. If the problem persists, please contact Satlantic Customer Support.
How does the free calibration differ from the fresh water calibration?
The included class-based calibration coefficients are average coefficients obtained from our library of historical calibrations. The historical coefficients that are averaged to create the class based coefficients vary by about 10%.
Is an instrument with the class based calibration still within the published specification for accuracy? If not, what is the accuracy?
Instrument specific calibrations are more accurate and correspond to the published accuracy specifications.
The accuracy of the class based calibration is estimated to be 2.2 uM +/- 20%.
Why is the diameter larger?
The diameter is larger because the pressure case wall thickness was increased to improve the robustness of the instrument for more rugged deployments. As a result, the depth rating also increased to be 500 m from the previous 100 m.
- Boyle S., Trickett P., Partington A. & Murray C. (2014) Field Testing of an Optical in Situ Nitrate Sensor in Three Irish Estuaries Biology & Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 114 1-7 doi:10.3318/BIOE.2014.02 Read Now
- Pellerin, B.A., Bergamaschi, B.A., Downing, B.D., Saraceno, J.F., Garrett, J.A., and Olsen, L.D. (2013) Optical Techniques for the Determination of Nitrate in Environmental Waters: Guidelines for Instrument Selection, Operation, Deployment, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, and Data Reporting U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 1–D5, 37 p Read Now
- Pellerin, B.A, Saraceno, J, Shanley, J.B., Sebestyen, S.D., Aiken, G.R., Wollheim, W.M., Bergamaschi, B.A. (2011) Taking the pulse of snowmelt: in situ sensors reveal seasonal, event and diurnal patterns of nitrate and dissolved organic matter variability in an upland forest stream. Biogeochemistry doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9589-8 Read Now
- Sackmann, B.S. (2011) Deschutes River Continuous Nitrate Monitoring. Quality Assurance Project Plan: Deschutes River Continuous Nitrate Monitoring, PUblication Number: 11-03-030 Read Now
- Heffernan, J.B., Cohen, M.J. (2010) Direct and indirect coupling of primary production and diel nitrate dynamics in a subtropical spring-fed river. Limnol. Oceanogr., 55(2), 677 - 688.
- MacIntyre, G., Plache. B, M.R. Lewis., Andrea, J, Feener, S, McLean, S.D. (2009) ISUS/SUNA Nitrate Measurements in Networked Ocean Observing Systems. White Paper Read Now
- Prestigiacomo, A.R. (2009) Nitrate and Bisulfide: Monitoring and Patterns in Onondaga Lake, New York, Following Implementation of Nitrification Treatment, Prestigiacom, A.R, Effler, S.W., Matthew, D.A., Coletti, L.J., Water Environment Research, 81(5)
- Johnson, K.S., Coletti. L.J. (2002) In situ ultraviolet spectrophotometry for high resolution and long-term monitoring of nitrate, bromide and bisulfide in the ocean. Deep Sea Research 49 1291-1305
SUNA V2 Hydro-Wiper
The Hydro-Wiper is an external anti-fouling system fully integrated with SUNA V2 nitrate sensor. The Hydro-Wiper keeps the SUNA V2 sample windows clean for several months even in the most aggressive fouling environments, helping prevent costly site visits for manual cleaning and loss of data.
SUNA V2 Anti-fouling guard
The SUNA V2 anti-fouling guard is a semi-circular piece of perforated copper attached to a plastic armature that fits into the sample chamber. The anti-fouling guard provides passive fouling prevention through the release of copper ions that inhibit biological growth in the area. The anti-fouling guard provides a reliable and affordable approach to increase deployment time, decrease operating costs, and collect high quality data for mooring applications.
SUNA V2 Flow cell
The SUNA V2 flow cell is designed to adapt the SUNA V2 for flow through operations on moorings with pumped flow, ship-board underway systems or for laboratory testing and calibration. The flow cell attaches to the SUNA V2 sample chamber and tightly seals against the optical chamber windows. Nylon barbed fittings are provided to connected the flow cell to available pumped flow.
SBE 5P Pump
The pump module is a compact unit consisting of a centrifugal pump head and a long-life, brushless, DC, ball-bearing motor. The pump impeller and electric drive motor are coupled magnetically through the housing, providing high reliability by eliminating moving seals. The 5P has a 600-meter (1960 ft.) plastic housing.
Alkaline Battery Pack
Satlantic's reliable and user-friendly Alkaline Battery Packs are available in 102 Ah and 51 Ah capacities. The design of the internal battery compartment allows the user to easily change the D-Cell batteries with off-the-shelf replacements. The battery packs consist of an anodized aluminum pressure case, a D-cell battery compartment and a removable end-cap.


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Isleworth Community Play 2012
The Isleworth Community Play came about when we decidided to produce our 2010 school production of the musical Richard Lake and I wrote, Beautiful Dreamer, in the community. The musical is based on interviews we carried out with lifelong Isleworth resident, Eileen Woodbridge, about her childhood in the 1930s. Eileen was full of tales from the times, not least about her several brushes with mortality. Her stories were funny, touching and occasionally tragic. They evoked the era and we were able to draw many parallels with the times we live in now, both for its economic challenges and its technical innovation. The school production drew such accolades from the audiences during its sold out run and seemed to touch them more than previous productions, that we felt it deserved another outing, this time in the community where we felt it really belonged.
Producing the community play was a joy from start to finish. We had a mixed company of over sixty people and an age range of seven to sixty seven. There were students involved from many schools across and out of the borough. There were parents with their children. There were teenagers from different schools. There were experienced performers and novices. This was a promenade production, so an unknown quantity for director, performers and audience alike. It was very exciting during production week. Our audiences laughed and cried, but all of them went home smiling. You can see lots of photographs of the production process from auditions to closing night at our blog site http://isleworthplay.tumblr.com
The text of the play was published, with the full script, rehearsal shots, some of the music and the original transcripts of the interviews, and is available for any interested party by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com.
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