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Cybercrime rises
PwC has released a new survey that indicates, cybercrime is the second most common type of fraud reported by financial firms, more than double the level across other industries. According to the report, 39 percent of financial services companies that suffered from economic crime last year said they had been hit by cybercrime, compared to 17 percent in other industries.
Tags: J.J. Green , Cyber Security Report
Senate Intelligence Committee finalizing version of cyber sharing bill
The bill would conform, mostly, with the House's most recent Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Both the House and Senate bills are trying to find common areas to incentivize private sector companies to share information on any malicious code their firms encounter, both by providing them with liability protections that would shield them from lawsuits that could otherwise follow from sharing information with competitors or with the government, and by convincing them that federal agencies are capable of securely communicating threat information between the private and public sectors.
Tags: technology , Congress , Senate Intelligence Committee , House Intelligence Committee , Mike Rogers , Saxby Chambliss , Dutch Ruppersberger , Keith Alexander , NSA , DHS , Mike McCaul , Jared Serbu
Agencies exploring the right balance between open data, security
HHS is using big data to improve the cybersecurity of their systems, but also using a layered approach to protect the information. Commerce wants to improve the governance and usability of its data. USDA is creating a big data strategy.
Tags: technology , big data , HHS , Kevin Charest , Commerce , Simon Syzkman , NSF , Fen Zhao , USDA , Charles McClam , information sharing , Jason Miller
Thrift Investment Board picks SAIC to run IT services
The FRTIB awarded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) a five-year, $224.5 million contract. SAIC beat out several competitors including incumbent Serco.
Tags: technology , acquisition , contacting , SAIC , SERCO , Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board , IT services , Jason Miller
DHS building actionable response plans for cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
Building off a project to assess the nation's overall cyber capabilities, the Department of Homeland Security has begun drawing up plans for how it would respond in the event of a range of cyber emergencies affecting critical infrastructure.
Tags: DHS , technology , critical infrastructure , National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center , Larry Zelvin , Jared Serbu
DHS warns of online scams ahead of the Olympic Games
Homeland Security officials are warning fans of the Olympic Games to be wary of online hackers, who take advantage of highly-publicized events and popular news stories to entice users to click on malicious links that download viruses or prompt for credit card information.
Tags: Olympics , Cybersecurity Update , malware , DHS , technology , Federal Drive
"Emerging Technologies" Cybersecurity - Geospatial - Big Data - Virtualization - Mobility Trends
December 13th at 12pm
Program will discuss Updates & Progress on Emerging Technologies (Cybersecurity-Geospatial-Big Data-Virtualization & Mobility Trends), Best Practices & Benefits of Technologies, Challenges or major hurdles to still overcome, and A Vision for The Future.
Tags: Jerry Davis , Joseph Klimavicz , Frank Konieczny , Martin Roesch , Gary Newgaard , technology , Federal Executive Forum , Virtualization , Nick Combs
DHS buys software as part of Einstein 3 deployment
The department signs an enterprise license agreement for messaging software for all civilian agency networks as part of the intrusion detection system. Congress gave DHS $443 million for cybersecurity in the 2012 budget.
Tags: technology , DHS , Jason Miller
New cyber strategy coordinates $1B in R&D efforts
The White House released the new plan to focus on four broad areas to improve cybersecurity in the government and in the private sector. Howard Schmidt, the White House cyber coordinator, said agencies will issue RFPs and RFIs to meet the strategy's goals.
Tags: technology , Howard Schmidt , Office of Science and Technology Policy , research and development , Jason Miller
NIST, DHS trying to tame cyber workforce definitions
Agencies, vendors can comment until Friday on the draft standard describing cybersecurity workers. A common definition will help agencies classify who is a cyber worker.
Tags: cybersecuirty update , workforce , Government Business Council , Hord Tipton , (ISC)² , DHS , Peggy Maxson , Angela Curry , National Initiative for Cyber Education , NIST , Emily Kopp


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Definition of thigmotaxis in English:
Line breaks: thigmo|taxisPronunciation: /ˌθɪgməˈtaksɪs
- The motion or orientation of an organism in response to a touch stimulus.More example sentences
- It has been found, however, that Typhlichthys subterraneus does have a strong thigmotaxis and keeps the top of its head touching and parallel to surfaces.
- Both fight control and thigmotaxis involve mechanoreceptive inputs from different parts of the body.
- If correct, phobotaxis, strophotaxis, and thigmotaxis are thus consequences, and not the causes, of the observed movements.
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- The thigmotactic behavior observed in the preliminary studies confirms the high priority of defensive behaviors.
- Note that most anterior cirral pairs develop in one anlage with a row of thigmotactic cirri on the left side; and about ten posteriormost pairs develop in one anlage each with one transverse cirrus.
- Thrips adults and larvae are thigmotactic, preferring to hide in complex plant parts, flower buds and other folded tissue where they are difficult to detect and to reach with insecticides.
early 20th century: from Greek thigma 'touch' + taxis.

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Rated 3 out of 5 by Twinn2013 All the guest rooms need dated ASAP!
Nice location with a lot of rooms in downtown Philadelphia. They just finished updated their lobby not so long ago in 2013, now it's time to updated ALL your guest rooms please.
All the reviews about how dirty, smelly and TORN the carpet in the guest rooms are 100% correct to the teeth. The management really need to take care this issue as soon as possible. Parking super expensive in the hotel, but for the weekend only $6 all day. Alternative for cheaper parking is across from the hotel, in after 5pm, out by 9am only $5. I was in 5pm and out next day 2pm was only $18 compare to hotel between $36-$40 for self park.
January 10, 2014
Rated 2 out of 5 by CsquaredV EXPENSIVE
I feel like this hotel is VERY expensive especially given the time of year. Refrigerator and Wi-Fi access in the room costs Extra, parking is $20 per day, and the hotel is nothing extraordinary. I use the hotel because of the convenience to the conference, but if I was visiting the city for another reason, I would not stay here.
February 24, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Purrkins Staff was very helpful
I really enjoyed my stay in Philadelphia because of the staff and my room in the hotel. when I had a problem with the constant sound of music from the room next door (which wasn't that loud just annoying when trying to sleep) the assistant manager fix it right away and gave me a coupon for breakfast for my inconvenience.
March 5, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by mooseman Great Location
This hotel is in a great location, just a little of of city hall.
The hotel elevators are quick, the staff is friendly and courteous and willing to help.
The room I stayed in could have been a little cleaner. There was some kind of blue sill string (I think) on the ceiling and there was only half a roll of toilet paper left in the room.
March 3, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by FilthAbounds Not a Fan
Traveling every week, I found this hotel to be one of the dirtiest I have ever stayed in. I found the prior guests hand written vacation schedule on a napkin on top of the bath mat. In addition, the towels were worn and falling apart. Carpet was extremely dirty throughout the hotel. Clearly this room and hotel need cleaning and updating. VERY DISAPPOINTING. I would not recommend nor would I stay at this hotel in the future.
March 1, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by PhillyDoc Friendly, helpful staff
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February 14, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by JillyVa Great staff!
I thoroughly enjoy staying at your hotel. One of your managers, Peter, is EXCELLENT! Personable, helpful, friendly - I can't say enough about him! Although I was disappointed that the concierge lounge only offered breakfast on weekends, Elsie Riddick (I think was her last name) was also EXCELLENT. She was helpful and when a coffee situation needed fixing - she fixed it! Thank you to both of these employees for making me smile and being so kind!
February 24, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by HotelPhilly No sleep
I was there this past weekend for a long and exhausting fitness conference. Saturday night next to our room with a group of men that would not be quiet -- talking, partying, etc. We called to front desk many times, security did come and talk to them, but after they left, they continued. We were not able to sleep. The walls are thin as paper and heard everything. Not an enjoyable weekend.
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- Pour fat or juices over (meat) during cooking in order to keep it moist: slip herbs under the skin and baste the chicken constantly (as noun basting) keep any remaining sauce ready for bastingMore example sentences
- Always heat your marinades before basting meat or poultry.
- Mop sauce gets its name from a utensil similar to a small string mop that the chuck wagon cook would use to baste meats, literally mopping on the sauce while cooking.
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- I use a turkey baster as it gives me more control than using measuring spoons… Make sure you scrape the mixture from the sides and bottom of the pan.
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- Tack with long, loose stitches in preparation for sewing: baste the zip under the edges so that it is concealed (as noun basting) stitch in place over the bastingMore example sentences
- Turn the lining inside out to enclose seams and baste the lining loose edges to the suit front at the leg openings, neckline and armholes.
- The ribs have a tendency to slip, so pin or baste well prior to stitching the seams.
- Substitute basting tape or basting-adhesive glue stick for basting stitches whenever practical, even for holding zippers in place.
late Middle English: from Old French bastir 'sew lightly', ultimately of Germanic origin and related to bast.
Line breaks: bastePronunciation: /beɪst
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Nancy Pelosi: Congressional pay cut would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs
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In any real-world performance-based pay system guided by rules of efficiency, effectiveness, accuracy, competence and return on employee investment, Nancy Pelosi and many of her colleagues would not only have stopped getting paychecks long ago, but they'd probably have been accused of stealing $16 trillion worth of office supplies. Unfortunately, we're not talking about the real world, but the ever-expanding Fantasy-Land.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs.
"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded."
The comments were made in the context of the looming sequester, which would force across-the-board cuts affecting most federal offices, including Congress. With lawmakers nowhere near a deal to avert those cuts, federal agencies are bracing for ways to absorb them with minimum damage to programs and personnel.
In other words, a pay cut is beneath their pay grade. The rest of the country, not so much.
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I can't say enough about the pitch detector. It's one of the most incredible tools available for potential musicians, and I don't say that lightly.
Would-be singers will as always love this game, and it's a must have if you are collecting the series.
From rock to pop to the genres in between, Karaoke Revolution Party has got it covered.
Since the first volume of Karaoke Revolution, the series has been known as a great party game for the PS2, and the addition of this title just enhances an already astounding series.
There's simply no way to please everyone when it comes to a song list, but damned if Harmonix and Konami didn't try.
The huge song list coupled with the EyeToy make this great fun for all ages. [Dec 2005, p.106]
This is everything I've wanted the franchise to become. [Dec 2005, p.161]
If you've gotten burned out on Karaoke Revolution games by the previous sequels, Karaoke Revolution Party will bring you back.
New features improve on the game and while I wish there were more varied songs offered from the start, this is probably the best Karaoke Revolution game to date.
One advantage of dancing in a karaoke game is the music is better. I would rather dance to "Play That Funky Music" than to the grating songs that riddle games like Dance Dance Revolution.
Easily the most fun you'll have singing outside of the shower, Karaoke Revolution Party takes the next logical step for the franchise and delivers what's probably the strongest showing of the series yet.
Cancel the carolers--this is the only entertainment you'll need at your holiday party.
The minigames in this feel somewhat wasted and limited, but the party modes themselves can be a lot of fun, adding some definite multiplayer mayhem to the title.
It's certainly nice to have a real focus on multiplayer this time around—especially since that's when the game will see the most use, anyway—but the loss of the campaign mode is a real downer.
Harmonix's own "Guitar Hero" is still tops--mainly due to its cool factor--but if you need to entertain a rowdy group at your next gathering, nothing says hours of good times like Karaoke Revolution Party.
The finest and most fun karaoke game on any console and even rivals many PC-based karaoke programs.
We only have on question: Are you ready to rock? [Nov p.92]
All in all, Karaoke Revolution Party is a dish best served up with a bunch of friends, a case of beer and a lack of inhibitions.
Like all Karaoke titles, this is a must buy for anyone from the tone deaf to the singing experts.
Karaoke Revolution Party makes a good party game, especially if you've got all the necessary peripherals, but it's no greater than the song list, which is too diverse for its own good.
First, I had a problem actually singing and performing the songs well, and second, I managed to cheat my way through most of the songs by humming really loudly.
Great variety in song types, but the same old issue of actually knowing and liking the songs inside and out stands. The game lives up to the Party moniker if used in those situations, but as a single-player experience, it's a bit weak.
If anything, Sing and Dance is a good idea on paper, but absolutely flawed in its execution. Arrows are laid side-by-side, making the more difficult patterns a pain to read correctly, and having to focus on scrolling arrows while watching your singing pattern (to make sure the game is recognizing it correctly) is incredibly counter-intuitive.
As you might expect, it's great for parties, but the solo modes leave a bit to be desired. [Dec 2005, p.126]
Dancing and singing simply takes too much coordination, and the steps aren't timed well enough with the music to make them feel as natural as they should've.


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Actually, worst of all is that, post-lightning strike, they have superpowers. Rachel has x-ray vision and can see through any and everything, while Kel has super strength that has him unwittingly putting his fist through doors. Suddenly Rachel doesn't think Kel looks as "platonic friend" as he used to; suddenly he looks hot and stud-ly and yummy, and she is interested in adding some benefits to that friendship. Kel has worshipped her from afar for years, and while he'd certainly like some benefits, too, it seems that her interest is dependent on his superpowers. He won't have those forever, right? And when they're gone, she will be too. Not a road he wants to go down.
They banter, they flirt, they flirt heavy. Then, suddenly, 200 pages in, comes a completely different book. There are bad guys, and guns, and implicit (well, actually pretty explicit) threats of rape. What the hey? Where the heck did this come from?
I confess – this would have been an entirely different experience if I hadn't read an uncorrected proof without back cover copy. The mystery of what had happened to Kel and Rachel kept me reading. The answer, when provided, seemed just plain duh-stupid. What is worse is that it's all spelled out in the back cover copy see in bookstores. Jeez. At least I had the mystery to keep me going.
In fact, once the mystery is out of the way, the shortcomings become evident, the most serious of which is in the writing style. The author has a way with words, and it is frequently not a good way. It is at times awkward, if not actually ungrammatical. While I can't cite the exact rules being violated, I'm pretty sure there are rules being violated. Like: Gripping my hips, his head fell back against the couch. Was his head gripping the hips in question? Or: My insides trembled as much as my fingers when I cupped his jaw, stroking his chest with palms that felt hot and achy. Is the jawbone connected to the chest bone?
Jarring sentence structure is nothing next to the jarring genre switch. When given a couple of off-beat main characters, a cartoon cover with a wacky-cool typeface, and a ridiculous fantasy scenario involving superpowers, one does not expect to be looking down gun barrels and trying to escape disgusting and deadly bad guys in Chapter 18. Moreover, if one hopes to triumph over said bad guys, it is not a good time to 1) seduce your partner, or 2) be so hell-bent on telling him that you love him that you throw a monkey wrench into the escape plans, or 3) keep up the witty banter and sassy attitude with either your partner or yourself, inner-monologuedly speaking.
What I did love, what hooked me in the beginning, was that witty banter and those sassy attitudes: Rachel more of the sassy, and Kel more of the witty. His voice had a particular rhythm and cadence that was both authentic (to shamelessly stereotype Californian dolphin trainers) and appealing. This was most evident their his spoken dialogue, including a funny bit on the use of the word "fine," but also apparent in the inner monologue, of which we get quite a bit, as the first-person POV switches back and forth. I also liked his beta-male-ness, the glasses-and-geek deal, refreshing after endless alphas.
These characters were almost enough to make me overlook the silly errors that one hopes could be caught before printing, like: Rachel is a "spec" mural painter – spec as in, I'll paint this and you'll buy if you like it? But isn't it already on their building? And it's SeaWorld without a space and BlackBerry with two big Bs. And two of the characters got momentarily switched into different couples near the end…
Give me the zany chick-lit, or give me (credible) paranormal, or give me action/suspense – but please, not all at once. Even great characters can't overcome these odds to score more than 3 hearts.
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In what may be the largest settlement of its kind, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to pay $755,000 to settle the wrongful termination claim of Gary J. Aguirre, the attorney who headed the SEC's insider trading investigation of Pequot Capital Management until his firing in September 2005.
A judge with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the federal agency with jurisdiction over Aguirre's termination claim, issued an order today finalizing the settlement. The settlement sum equals Aguirre's pay for four years and ten months (the elapsed period since his September 2005 discharge), plus his attorneys' fees. Aguirre agreed to dismiss two related cases against the SEC.
Government Accountability Project Legal Director Tom Devine stated "Unfortunately, this large settlement is the exception that proves the rule. Until Congress provides real protections for financial regulatory employees such as Aguirre, existing law will remain the best excuse for government regulators to turn a blind eye."
The SEC's settlement with Aguirre comes one month after the SEC filed insider trading charges against Pequot, its founder, Arthur Samberg, and David Zilkha, a former Pequot employee, based on facts uncovered by Aguirre. Pequot and Samberg paid the SEC $28 million to settle the charges against them. The case against Zilkha continues.
In August 2007, two Senate committees published a scathing 108-page report criticizing the SEC's decision to fire Aguirre and close the Pequot investigation, which included Pequot's suspected insider trading in securities of 20 publics companies.
The Senate report chronicles Aguirre's promising career at the SEC, including management's decision to give him a two-step pay raise at the end of his first year for "consistently [going] the extra mile, and then some."
But the praise vanished when Aguirre tried to subpoena an elite Wall Street banker, John Mack. His supervisors blocked the subpoena, telling Aguirre that Mack had "juice" and "political clout."
Aguirre's July 27, 2005, email to his supervisors explained why the Mack subpoena was essential and expressed concern that "treating Mack differently is [not] consistent with the Commission's mission." The Senate Report tells what happened next: "Just days after Aguirre sent an e-mail to Associate Director Paul Berger detailing his allegations, his supervisors prepared a negative re-evaluation outside the SEC's ordinary performance appraisal process."
One month later, the SEC fired him without warning. The Senate report concluded that Aguirre's "termination appears to be merely the culmination of the process of reprisal that began with the August 1 re-evaluation."
Approximately one year after the Senate report, SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz delivered his own report on Aguirre's firing to then-SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. Kotz recommended that Aguirre's supervisors be disciplined. To date, neither the current SEC Chairman, Mary Schapiro, nor Cox, has done so.
The Pequot investigation appeared to have run its course when the SEC released its "Case Closing Report" in December 2006, explaining its decision to close the entire investigation, including Pequot's trading in Microsoft options, without filing charges.
But Aguirre did not stop his Pequot investigation. He continued to collect and piece together the evidence that Samberg had used illegal tips to trade options on Microsoft stock. In April 2008, Aguirre obtained a court order forcing the SEC, over its objection, to turn over to him key records of its Pequot investigation.
In late 2008, Aguirre uncovered the last pieces of evidence necessary to prove an insider trading charge against Pequot, Samberg, and Zilkha. On January 2, 2009, Aguirre sent a letter to SEC Chairman Cox enclosing the new evidence.
Aguirre's 16-page letter explained how this new evidence, when combined with the evidence uncovered by him in 2005, proved that Samberg had used illegal tips in directing trades in Microsoft options, generating $14.2 million in profits to Pequot hedge funds under his management. But still the SEC would not file a case.
On May 26, 2010, Aguirre filed papers in his FOIA case seeking an order directing the SEC to release additional Pequot records to him. He argued the SEC had to turn over the records under FOIA, because it had filed no case against Pequot or anyone else. Early the next morning, the SEC filed charges against Pequot, Samberg, and Zilkha. The allegations closely track the facts stated in Aguirre's January 2, 2009 letter.
Asked how he feels about the settlement, Aguirre replied, "I think it's fair to the public that the SEC pays for my work over the past four years and ten months, since it generated $28 million to the U.S. Treasury. But it's a shame the team I worked with at the SEC did not get to complete the Pequot investigation. The filing of the case in 2005 or 2006, before the financial crisis, would have been exactly what Wall Street elite needed to hear at the perfect moment: the SEC goes after big fish too."
Dylan Blaylock is Communications Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower advocacy organization.
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Many of your sentiments are shared by those at Sense on Cents, which writes,
SEC Settles with Great American Gary Aguirre, or Wall Street-Washington Incest Personified.
http://www.senseoncents.com/2010/06/sec-settles-with-great-american-gary-aguirre-or-wall-street-washington-incest-personified-strongly-recommendedi/ -
Hat's off to Gary Aguirre not only for a job well done, but also for the tenacity to stay the course.
But what about the biggest fish of all, the infamous John J Mack?!
Mack got away with thievery and remains free as a bird; free to continue operating the slippery way he always has!
And what about the obviously-corrupted management team - a phrase I use very loosely - that deliberately blocked Gary Aguirre at every pass? Why haven't these thugs been dealt with? This reeks of corruption and is clearly unacceptable!
With this sort of cover-up crap happening high up within the primary regulatory agency formed to supposedly prevent such garbage; is it any wonder why the public now correctly perceives Wall Street as the sewerage system it is?
Also, we should all be asking these important and relevant questions: Why is Gary Aguirre receiving only a paltry $ 755,000 when the SEC walked away with a cool $ 28 million that it never would have seen a dime of had it not been for his efforts? And, what about the $ 19 million or so that Pequot Capital Management made trading on insider knowledge of the GE Capital-Heller Financial merger; knowledge illegally provided by crooked tipper John J Mack?
Mary Shapiro, if after this mess you still do not believe it is necessary to CLEAN HOUSE, then in the opinion of this seasoned observer you should promptly step down!
With Much Deserved Disgust,


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Oprah.com | September 04, 2008
Medications, toxins and alcohol are just some of the things pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers may expose themselves to without realizing the negative effects these substances can have on their babies. Dr. Oz talks with Dr. Gideon Koren, author of
The Complete Guide to Everyday Risks in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
, who answers some of women's most common questions about pregnancy:
Before I found out I was pregnant I drank alcohol. Is my baby at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome?
"There is no correlation between mild drinking before you [knew you] got pregnant and fetal alcohol disorder," Dr. Koren says. However, he says
to drink during pregnancy is one of the worst things women can do to their unborn children.
I have morning sickness and need relief. Will an over-the-counter or natural remedy hurt my baby?
Dr. Koren says ginger has been proven as a mild natural remedy to ease morning sickness and small amounts of non offensive food can also help women fend off vomiting. For women who get so sick they cannot get out of bed, Dr. Koren says a combination of an antihistamines and vitamin B-6 can help. Before you take such a remedy, Dr. Koren says you should talk with your own doctor about exact dosage.
I want to paint the nursery before my baby arrives. Is it safe to be around paint fumes?
Dr. Koren says he usually weighs on the side of safety and tells women to have the baby's father paint the room. "In all fairness, if a woman is painting a room and she didn't know she was pregnant, that is not exposure to cause harm to a baby," he says. In general, Dr. Koren says most household products and cleaners
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Precision DAC and watchdog improve analog output safety
Providing safe state operating conditions for the analog outputs used in many industrial-controller applications
The need for safe states in industrial applications is critical when system-level failures occur. A feature-rich precision D/A converter (DAC) and microprocessor (µP) supervisory circuit with watchdog timer can be used to assure that analog outputs default to a known midscale or zero-scale level.
Circuit operation
Common analog-output control signals used in industrial controllers, programmable-logic controllers (PLCs), and data-acquisition systems (DAQ) include a 0 to 5 V, 0 to 10 V, ±5 V, ±10 V, and 4–20mA current loop. To ensure safety integrity, the analog-output control signal should default to a known midscale or zero-scale safe state in response to a μP or system failure. For additional safety, analog output modules often employ optocouplers to provide galvanic isolation between the μP and analog output signals.
Requirements for analog output safety and reliability are met by the Figure 1 circuit. When a μP failure, optocoupler failure or undervoltage condition is detected by the supervisory circuit (U3, the MAX6303), the analog output of the 12-bit DAC (U2, MAX5120) is set to zero-scale. This circuit also improves mean time between failure (MTBF) by reducing the number of I/O pins at the μP and by eliminating an optocoupler.
Three DAC features enable the circuit to meet the safety-critical functions: an asynchronous reset input (active–low CLR), a user-selectable reset-value input (RSTVAL), and a user-programmable output (UPO). These built-in features also eliminate the need for an optocoupler, reduce the number of I/O pins at the μP, and eliminate external discrete circuitry. The μP supervisor includes a resistor-programmable reset input threshold, a capacitor-programmable watchdog timer, and a reset timeout period.
Here is how the circuit works. As DAC codes range from 000hex to FFFhex, the analog output voltage (VOUT) ranges from -10V to +10V. Op amp U1A (MAX9944) is offset by the DAC's internal 10ppm/°C precision bandgap reference; output op amp U1B (MAX9944) is configured as a buffer with a gain of 4.
Output voltage for the circuit is calculated as:
Where NB is the numeric value of the DAC's binary code; VREF is the internal reference voltage; G is the gain of U1A; and RF/RIN is U1B's gain-resistor ratio.
Microprocessor supervisor U3 monitors the isolated supply voltage (VISO) through its VCC pin. It also monitors μP activity at the WDI pin with UPO and generates a reset output command through active-low RESET. A resistor-divider at RESET IN (U3 pin 1) determines the reset-level voltage threshold (VTH). Similarly, the reset timeout period (tRP) and watchdog timeout period (tWD) are determined by capacitor values at SRT and SWT. Connect WDS to VCC to enter extended mode, lengthening tWD by a factor of 500. The following equations calculate values needed in the circuit:
Where VTH = 1.22V and VRST is the adjustable reset threshold voltage:
CRST = tRP/2.67
Where CRST is in pF and tRP is in μs; CSWT is in pF and tWD is in μs. Therefore:
CSWT = tWD/(500 × 2.67)
If VCC fails or if the μP locks up and cannot toggle WDI, then U3 asserts the active-low RESET output which resets U2 through its CLR input. This action resets U2's output to the condition set by RSTVAL (to midscale in this case, which produces 0V at VOUT). In normal operation the µP must update U2 at intervals less than the programmed watchdog timeout period (tWD). In this manner the UPO output toggles WDI, meaning that UPO "kicks the dog" at WDI. Note that after the reset timeout period (tRP), active-low RESET releases CLR but the DAC output remains at midscale until updated.
The switch between U3's RESET IN and GND terminals allows the user to command an emergency shutdown. Other devices to consider for the watchdog function are the MAX6316 series and MAX6369 series, both of which offer fixed timeout periods and are available in SOT23 packages. Also, the DAC's unipolar and bipolar modes allow it to produce all common analog-output control signals.
Improvements to safety integrity can be realized with the special features of a precision DAC and watchdog timer µP supervisor. Together these devices can provide safe state operating conditions for the analog outputs used in many industrial-controller applications.
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Convergence is the key to staying ahead in the technology game, so it's no surprise that printer vendors are offering more and more printers that do quadruple duty as scanner, copier, and fax machine. Today, Lexmark caters to the back-to-school shoppers with a handful of new All-in-Ones that are competitively priced but include all the features you'd find in their larger counterparts.
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Most of these multifunction wonders start at around $100, but Buy.com is offering the Lexmark X8350 for $59.99, shipped, after a $50 mail-in rebate.
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This is my first news, and I would like to speak about my last trip: The Cimaï. Two weeks ago, I did Treblinka: 8b, it's an old, but really nice route. I'm so happy I've done it, because it's a legendary route in France.
Warm-up route: Rodéo, 7a.
This week-end was the Vertik-trip, a Belgium competition. Some climbers were invited for this challenge of ultime problems and routes. Working the morning, and ultime try in the evening in front of a crazy public. I did third for the boulder problem, and first in the route. With my total of points, I won the competition. Edu Marin was second and Gabor Szekely third.
Congratulations to the organizers for this great event.
Well, Alex, Ju and I just arrived in Hampi... Oaouh!!! It's so beautiful, but in the same time so hot: the summer season is ending. This is not the best for climbing, neither for my fingers... But anyway the landscapes are amazing, as the temples.
We can only climb at night, it's a short space of time: hope it's going to be enough to make some problems. There are boulders as far as the eye can see.
Liv's passport has been lost, so she's going to fly to bombay only on Sunday with Evrard. Everything is going to be OK...
I'm in Bombai with Julien Nadiras and Axel Ballai. We've just arrived from Geneva, and we'll take a bus this evening to Hampi (about 20 hours to go...).
There is a lot of poor people here, it's crasy to see that. I'll try to give you some news during my trip.
All the children are happy in front of the camera.
The time runs out very fast here, but we found some news boulders like this one: A good swing and a good spot for this really nice boulder...
Today was a good day, we found out lots of new problems. We are getting used to the climat: this is not easy, our fingers' skin is hurt. Well anyway, I made a 8a and a 7c flash.
The landscapes are amazing: as movie sets.
New day, new spots, and new pictures...
My skin is so bad, but I'm so happy to climb here, that I go until the blood. All the day we meet new people and we climb together on new and classic spots.
David from switzerland in " Goan curner" a classic but so nice bulder.
Hampi is really the sanctuary of rock climbing. You can see boulders on 360°, this is an amazing landscape.
Everybody is friendly and curious, it's funny when they ask why we wear those mats for going climbing. Poverty is omnipresent, and we can always see any bare children on the dirty ground.
I'm following my trip with Liv and others guys.My skin is better, and now I can do some hard boulders between 7c and 8a.
A new bulder by Axel.B, maybe 7c
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Liv on the Sackline, not so easy but in progress...
Last week, I went with the french team to Cuenca (Spain), for a training course.
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"But I wouldn't make a habit of taking them without hydration. I did it by accident the other day. I was relying on water fountains, took the GU as I walked to the fountain ... and the fountain was broken." JakeKnight, Quoted from Gu thread I'm going to assume this was on one of your less than intelligent runs? I'm going to assume that "the other day" was, in fact, the other day & not today?? I'm going to assume that Gu or no Gu, your ass is parked on a couch with a bucket o' ice, a bottle o' ale & Stripes in the dvd player & NOT, I repeat, NOT out running any 10k's??? Man, do I sound like the mom that I am or what????
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i know the rule of how to use have and has, but what if i said : the teacher .......... class or stanly ........... a dog
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Please look at my amendments to your post, which are all in red. Remember to capitalise the word "I" at all times and to put the words/sentences you are querying in quotation marks so they stand out from the rest of the post.
As billmcd said, you said "I know the rule". So please tell us the rule and then tell us how you would apply it to your two sentences.
Remember - correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier to read.
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The rule is :
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December, 2004 -- As 2004 draws to a close, one cannot help but reflect on the strength of lamb prices this year and the possibility of expanding lamb demand. Feeder-lamb prices hit an annual high of $112/cwt. in direct trade in August; live slaughter-lambs hit $1/lb. twice in the year; boxed leg prices reached $2.78/lb.; and average retail prices surpassed $5/lb. Imports also continued their upward trend, reaching 50 percent of the U.S. lamb market on monthly comparisons so far this year. Import prices, typically lower than domestic prices, also were strong ? and even surpassed domestic prices occasionally.
Tight supplies undoubtedly contributed to the high prices. As test of whether demand is expanding is what happens to price levels when lamb production expands and imports increase. If prices fall, then demand is steady, not expanding. If prices hold their strength as supplies expand, then demand most likely is expanding.
Feeder-lamb prices in direct trade averaged $105.76/cwt. between January and October, compared to $98.25/cwt. during the same period in 2003, and an average $78.72/cwt. between 1999 and 2002. Continued weak corn prices due to a record harvest helped keep feeder-lamb prices high.
Slaughter-lamb prices typically begin to increase toward the November and December holidays after a seasonal lull. This year, prices began to rise seasonally in October, but lost momentum and fell during the last week of October. Average live slaughter-lamb prices, San Angelo, averaged $90.56/cwt. in September, but rose to $91.40/cwt. in October. The October 2003 average was $91.15/cwt. Formula prices on a carcass basis (75-85 lbs.) were $178.97/cwt. in September, but fell to $175.79/cwt.-- lower than the $176.95/cwt. seen last October.
By contrast, the gross carcass value started to strengthen in late August and has not lost momentum. The carcass value (cutout) has been volatile throughout 2004, but has generally trended upward. Packers and breakers may be taking larger margins as the live-to-carcass margin widens.
The gross carcass value rose from $216.81/cwt. in September to $221.05/cwt. in October. Year-to-year October prices also were up, from $211.30/cwt. Rack and shoulder prices were down, but loins and legs were up. Higher boxed lamb prices reflect possible strong demand at retail.
The eight-rib rack, medium, fell from $481/cwt. in September to $475.36/cwt. in October, compared to $493.95/cwt. last October. Shoulders, square cut, were $169.02/cwt. in September, 166.70/cwt. in October, compared to $152.95/cwt. last October. The leg, trotter-off, was $209.33/cwt. in October, up from $193.86/cwt. in September. The leg gained year-to-year from $193.30/cwt. last October. Loins, trimmed 4x4, were $433.32/cwt. in September and rose to $436.64/cwt. in October, compared to $422.27/cwt. last October.
A drop in mutton production may reflect increased retention of replacement ewes. In the third quarter of 2004, 2.56 million lbs. of mutton were produced, down from 2.60 million lbs. in the third quarter 2003. Domestic mutton production is not down due to increased exports of sheep and mutton. Live sheep exports to Mexico totaled 58,350 head in January through August 2004, compared to 130,828 head in the first eight months of 2003. During January through August 2004, lamb variety-meat exports to Mexico totaled 253 metric tons, down from 1,070 metric tons during the first eight months of 2003.
Indeed, producers have been retaining ewes. Replacement lambs increased 3 percent for 2004, the first increase in more than 5 years (USDA/ERS 10/18/04). Numbers probably would have been higher, but a persistent drought in the West has led to some continued culling of breeding ewes.
Mutton imports have been increasing, which may be an indicator that U.S. mutton demand is strong. Total mutton imports increased from 18.7 million lbs. in January through August 2003 to 28.6 million lbs. during the same period in 2004.
Increasing imports challenges the United States? market share of lamb. During January through August 2004, lamb imports averaged 43 percent of lamb availability (domestic production and imports), up from 39 percent during the same period in 2003. During April through June, this percentage averaged around 50 percent. January through August 2004 imports were 105.5 million lbs., up from 89.70 million lbs. during the same period in 2003.
Imports are likely to continue to offset production declines in early 2005, but U.S. production may get a boost from increased supplies. Australia is in good shape to export to the United States because its drought has eased and its lamb productivity is up. The USDA Economic Research Service anticipates that per capita lamb consumption will rise from 1.1 lbs. in 2003, to 1.2 lbs. in 2004 and 2005 (USDA/ERS 10/18/04). This does not necessarily mean that USDA believes lamb demand is expanding. Increased per capita lamb consumption can mean that more lamb may be sold at lower prices, not higher prices (which would be the case of expanding demand). Expanding demand is the key for the sheep and lamb industry to grow and to induce investment in the industry.
Retail prices held steady throughout the summer, but were a lot higher than a year ago. The January through August 2004 average feature-weighted retail price was $5.04/lbs., up year-to-year from $4.56/lbs. The average retail price in June 2004 was $5.37/lbs., $5.39/lbs. in July and $5.37/lbs. in August.
Domestic retail lamb prices softened from $5.33/lbs. in June, $5.29/lbs. in July and to $5.28/lbs. in August. The January through August 2004 domestic retail price averaged $5.01/lb., up from $4.57/lb. over the same period in 2003. (Recall that domestic prices may also include imported products that are not labeled as to the country of origin.)
Imported retail lamb prices increased from $5.45/lb. in June, to $5.73/lb. in July before falling to $5.61/lb. in August. The January through August 2004 imported retail price averaged $5.16/lb., up from $4.52/lb. over the same period in 2003.
The pelt market took a hit in October with prices falling 30 cents for Fall Clips and No. 1 pelts. Increased availability of skins and recent hot weather in Australia were thought to be contributing factors to the weakened market, as well as light international demand.
The USDA Packers and Stockyards Program recently released its annual statistical report, updated to 2002. One factor that caught my eye in the report is that the share of carcass-based purchases in total purchases by all packers had actually dropped instead of increased. Carcass-based purchases are lambs purchased on the basis of carcass grade, weight, yield, guaranteed yield, lean percent or some combination thereof.
In the late 1990s, about half of all purchases were bought on a carcass basis. That share rose to 70 percent in 2001, but fell to 60 percent in 2002. Whether this is the beginning of a trend or a symptom of increasingly short supplies and high prices is unknown. If supplies are short, packers may not be able to source all the lamb they want through negotiated contracts (and thus most likely carcass-basis purchases) and must search for lamb in auctions. However, this explanation doesn?t hold because the portion of purchases through auctions has also declined. The portion of sheep and lamb bought in public markets (auctions) continued to shrink from about 18.5 percent in 1990, to 10.9 percent in 2001, to 10.1 percent in 2002. As expected, the share of purchases though non-public markets rose to about 90 percent of all purchases in 2002.
Another explanation is that the value of live lamb exceeded the value of lamb computed from carcass-based formulas. Average prices in 2002 exceeded averages in 2001. Unfortunately, little is known about the details of the different formulas used to price lamb and the proportion of each method used. In the cattle industry, producers are more apt to sell on a live basis when prices are high because they don?t have to worry about quality (yield grades or quality grades) or possible penalties for condemned cattle. They also may prefer the immediacy of payment when prices are high.
Hopefully, the portion of carcass-based purchases is not a declining trend. Live purchases do not value lamb according to its quality. Live purchases also do not allow for information regarding quality of meat to be transmitted back to the producer and therefore challenges a marketing system that aims to be responsive to consumer needs.
October Wool Market Holds
October?s wool market remained strong (some called it ?resilient?), despite the relatively weak U.S. dollar in 2004 and the corresponding strength of the Australian and New Zealand dollars. The robustness of the market may also reflect the strength of China?s market, as well as strong demand for carpets and interior textiles.New Zealand is the leading producer of carpet wool fiber and India is the leading exporter to wool floorcoverings with 28 percent of the market share (Woolmark 10/29/04). The United States, United Kingdom and Asian markets led the demand, followed by markets in China, Europe and the Middle East. The United States? imports of wool floorcoverings have increased annually since 1997.
Demand for wool from China continues to support the wool market. Higher-valued wool (or part wool) apparel led Chinese export growth. Australian raw and semi-processed wool exports to China increased 71 percent in August compared to the same time last year. China's retail sales grew 13 percent between January and September (Woolmark 10/29/04).
Australian exports between January and October were up by about 40 percent. Elders Wool Marketing Manager Maurie McNeil said there were several reasons for the rise: Increases in Chinese retail sales, the replenishment of very low stock levels in China and the preparation of the removal of United States and European Union textile quotas in January 2005 (Australian Broadcasting Corp. 10/18/2004).
The margin between U.S. and Australian wool continued to narrow in 2004 -- reflecting perhaps domestic and international competition for U.S. wool. In 2000, Grade 64s wools were 32.5 percent less than Australian wools, and Grade 56s were 48.6 percent less (ASI 10/29/04). However, by July 2004, 64s were only 4 percent less than similar Australian wools, and 56s were only 18.5 percent less.
In the United States the wool market remained seasonally slow during October. Grade 70s wool lost 10 cents in October at $2.40/lb. Grade 58s lost 12 cents/lb. at $1.63/lb. in October, while other grades lost around 4 cents/lb. Warehouse trading reported that 20-24 micron wool fell 15 cents/lbs. (clean) from mid- to late-October. Micron 28-33 fared better, increasing 20 cents/lb.
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February 24, 1943
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Yeah...it would be interesting to know And from my side an adding: Does smb know what kind of perfume did Elvis wore?
I was wondering if anyone might know what kind of hair products Elvis used in the 50's as well as the 60's and 70's??? I have read this before, but can't remember.
Yeah...it would be interesting to know And from my side an adding: Does smb know what kind of perfume did Elvis wore?
Yes...you called, honey?
i've heard that elvis often wore BRUT as his cologne
"Whitout a song, the day would never end"
Is it possible to get it nowadays?
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i have a variant of it, you can buy it on ebay.com and similar websites
"Whitout a song, the day would never end"
He also used Old Spice talc and Colgate toothpaste - in the 60s at least Not sure about the hair products. I've also read it in the past but can't recall.
Here's a related thread: http://www.tcb-world.com/showthread....highlight=Brut
I would like to know more about what Elvis used on his hair in the various stages of his life.
In the fifties he used Royal Crown Hair Dressing, which was made in Memphis. You can still buy that stuff at drugstores around here. It's really cheap, too.
Somebody (it might have been D.J. or Scotty) told about how back then Elvis would use two different products on his hair--one for the top and another for the sides and back. I think Wildroot might have been one of them.
It appears that in the sixties he mostly got away from the "greasy kids' stuff", favoring a very controlled dry look, which I would guess was accomplished mostly with hairspray.
For the Comeback Special, it looks like he might be wearing Vitalis or a similar hair tonic. It looks shiny and as if it's got some hold, but as soon as he starts moving, it starts falling out of place.
I don't think I've heard before what he used in the seventies. Though at times I'd say it's a safe bet that he was using hairspray, for the most part his hair looks a lot more natural.
Anyone know more about this? (I'm interested, of course, because I just know that if I can use whatever he did, any hairs I have lost up there will immediately sprout back and style themselves into the TTWII look.)
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He dyed his hair with Miss Clairol #51 "Black Velvet" professional dye...I'd assume in the '70s (don't know when the line was on the market).
He definitely let his hair go a lot wilder in the '70s (it's messed up in most concert photos, of course, but even offstage he tended to wear it kind of shaggy and not overly controlled), which was quite a contrast to his near obsession with it being perfect in the '50s.
I'm a roving roustabout...
I believe Larry Geller recently wrote a book about hair, and espacially how he treated Elvis's hair. I'm not sure if it is an interesting read...
without a song, a man ain't got a friend,
without a song, the road would never bend,
without a song, so I'll keep singing the song.
Someone can tall for sure what he wore in the 68 Comback in the standup shows, or where can i found information about it?


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The way the Knicks were passing and shooting and defending and taking care of the ball and just doing everything couldn't last. We knew that. We were waiting for a letdown game, and in a way, this was at least half a letdown game. And yet...they beat a 4-1 Mavericks team by ten.
Initially, the Mavs weren't in on the Knicks' "okay, we're gonna stop hitting so many threes now" agreement, but they came around eventually, Meanwhile, the Knicks managed to generate over 100 points of offense despite cooling off from downtown (they still shot 36 percent, so I wouldn't say they were cold) and shooting miserably from the free throw line. They weathered the hot shooting of O.J. Mayo and company, tightened their interior defense as the game progressed, and stifled Dallas in the second half.
Carmelo Anthony led the way with a very bossy 31 points on 22 shots in 29 minutes while J.R. Smith chipped in a huuuuuge 22 points off the bench. His play really saved a reserve unit that struggled in the first half.
I'll do a much more detailed recap in this morning. For now, enjoy the fact that we and the Knicks will remain the only undefeated bros in the NBA until Tuesday. This is still pretty nuts.


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