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This week, President Obama called America's "dangerous and growing" income inequality the "defining challenge of our time," and he plans to put the issue of income inequality at the center of his agenda during the remainder of his second term. The president is not alone in his concern about income inequality – there's been a lot of discussion in recent years on the issue, especially concerns about "increasing income inequality." That concern is demonstrated by more than 1 million search results for the term "increasing income inequality" on Google. However, there's apparently not as much attention or concern about "explaining income inequality" (there are only 178,000 Google search results for that term), and that's the topic that this post will attempt to address.
Most of the discussion on income inequality focuses on the relative differences over time between low-income and high-income American households, but it's also instructive to analyze the demographic differences among income groups at a given point in time to answer the question: How are high-income households different from low-income households?
The chart above (click to enlarge) shows some key demographic characteristics of U.S. households by income quintiles for 2012, using updated data from the Census Bureau (here, here and here, and see my previous versions of this analysis for years 2009 and 2010 and 2011).
Below is a summary of some of the key demographic differences between American households in different income quintiles in 2012:
1. Mean number of earners per household. On average, there are significantly more income earners per household in the top income quintile households (2.04) than earners per household in the lowest-income households (0.45). It can also be seen that the average number of earners increases for each higher income quintile, demonstrating that one of the main factors in explaining differences in income among U.S. households is the number of earners per household. Also, the unadjusted ratio of average income for the highest to lowest quintile of 15.8 times ($181,905 to $11.490), falls to a ratio of only 3.5 times when comparing "income per earner" of the two quintiles: $89,169 for the top fifth to $25,533 for the bottom fifth.
2. Share of households with no earners. Sixty-one percent of U.S. households in the bottom fifth of Americans by income had no earners for the entire year in 2012. In contrast, only 3% of the households in the top fifth had no earners in 2012, providing more evidence of the strong relationship between household income and income earners per household.
3. Marital status of householders. Married-couple households represent a much greater share of the top income quintile (77.5%) than for the bottom income quintile (17%), and single-parent or single households represented a much greater share of the bottom 20% of households (83.0%) than for the top 20% (22.5%). Like for the average number of earners per household, the share of married-couple households also increases for each higher income quintile.
4. Age of householders. Almost 8 out of every 10 households (79.5%) in the top income quintile included individuals in their prime earning years between the ages of 35-64, compared to fewer than half (47.3%) of household members in the bottom fifth who were in that prime earning age group last year. The share of householders in the prime earning age group of 35-64 year olds increases with each higher income quintile.
Compared to members of the top income quintile of households by income, household members in the bottom income quintile were 1.6 times more likely (23.5% vs. 14.8%) to be in the youngest age group (under 35 years), and more than 5 times more likely (29.2% vs. 5.7%) to be in the oldest age group (65 years and over).
6. Work status of householders. More than four times as many top quintile households included at least one adult who was working full-time in 2012 (78.2%) compared to the bottom income quintile (only 18.2%), and more than five times as many households in the bottom quintile included adults who did not work at all (67.3%) compared to top quintile households whose family members did not work (12.5%). The share of householders working full-time increases at each higher income quintile.
7. Education of householders. Family members of households in the top fifth by income were six times more likely to have a college degree (77.2%) than members of households in the bottom income quintile (only 12.9%). In contrast, householders in the lowest income quintile were 26 times more likely than those in the top income quintile to have less than a high school degree in 2012 (26.7 % vs. 1.0%). As expected, the Census data show that there is a significantly positive relationship between education and income.
Bottom Line: Household demographics, including the average number of earners per household and the marital status, age, and education of householders are all very highly correlated with household income. Specifically, high-income households have a greater average number of income-earners than households in lower-income quintiles, and individuals in high income households are far more likely than individuals in low-income households to be well-educated, married, working full-time, and in their prime earning years. In contrast, individuals in lower-income households are far more likely than their counterparts in higher-income households to be less-educated, working part-time, either very young (under 35 years) or very old (over 65 years), and living in single-parent households.
The good news is that the key demographic factors that explain differences in household income are not fixed over our lifetimes and are largely under our control (e.g. staying in school, getting and staying married,etc.), which means that individuals and households are not destined to remain in a single income quintile forever. Fortunately, studies that track people over time indicate that individuals and households move up and down the income quintiles over their lifetimes, as the key demographic variables highlighted above change, see CD posts here, here and here. And Thomas Sowell pointed out earlier this year in his column "Income Mobility" that:
Most working Americans who were initially in the bottom 20% of income-earners, rise out of that bottom 20%. More of them end up in the top 20% than remain in the bottom 20%. People who were initially in the bottom 20% in income have had the highest rate of increase in their incomes, while those who were initially in the top 20% have had the lowest. This is the direct opposite of the pattern found when following income brackets over time, rather than following individual people.
It's highly likely that most of today's high-income, college-educated, married individuals who are now in their peak earning years were in a lower-income quintile in their prior, single younger years, before they acquired education and job experience. It's also likely that individuals in today's top income quintiles will move back down to a lower income quintile in the future during their retirement years, which is just part of the natural lifetime cycle of moving up and down the income quintiles for most Americans. So when we hear the President and the media talk about an "income inequality crisis" in America, we should keep in mind that basic household demographics go a long way towards explaining the differences in household income in the United States. And because the key income-determining demographic variables change over a person's lifetime, income mobility and the American dream are still "alive and well" in the US.


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addition: This is the work of Diane Palmer and you can find the original post here as well as many of her other incredible works on her blog and flickr pages.


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The man entered his home and was absolutely delighted when he discovered someone had stolen every lamp in the house.
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i just do not understand this post what even
my dick has a lot in common with the sun
nobody likes looking directly at it?
It gives people cancer?
woAh woah woah
It rises at the crack of dawn?
it disappears at night?
direct exposure often leads to a nasty case of sunburn?
it needs to stay approximately 92,960,000 miles away from me?
nobody will ever touch it?
Some Nigel Thornberry gifs I've collected over a while.
Every so often one of these comes across my dash and I just start laughing hysterically because this meme is simultaneously one of the most pointless yet entertaining things ever.
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Thank you
Why am i laughing so hard?
growing up sucks because you realize $1000 isn't a lot of money
Growing up sucks because you realize $1000 is a fortune.
Growing up sucks because you realize both of these are true at the same time.
Big Daddy & Little Sister - BioShock Crochet
This amazingly well done crochet is sadly not for sale. But maybe if you throw enough money at this talented BioShock fan they'll make you one.
Samuel L Jackson decided that red and green lightsabers were a stupidass decision. \o/
He said it, he said the thing.
this was no accident
How I deal with ignorance.
I like how you block his name in the conversation, but not on the header, haha.


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The shadows playing with the silvery beams,
In devils' imagination her dreams,
Lifted veils and her heart aches for a kiss,
Demon's bride besieged in her nuptial bliss.
Heavy black and heavenly lace to wear,
Taken crudely by the predator,
Cringes as her sister watches in awe,
Waits her turn to be seduced by her mate.
Thus explored and repeatedly provoked,
Bond and tuned to his pleasure and passion,
She moans and cries in the monster's desire,
Bursts to climax tamed by his raw strikes.
Condemned to play second fiddle her heart cries,
Torn between her co-born and the tyrant,
She pleads for her unhampered induction,
Into hell's systematic subservience.


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Aug 16, 2012
Harold C. Wegner
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Today, a 2-1 split panel in the Myriad case, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2012)(Lourie, J.), again reversed the trial court holding that the isolated DNA claims are not drawn patent-eligible subject matter under 35 USC ˜ 101. The decision today follows the Suprme Court GVR Order to reconsider the previous panel opinion in light of Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012).
Back on the Road to the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court petition falls due November 14, 2012 (absent a petition for rehearing en banc and/or an extension of time to file the petition for certiorari). Under this time frame, a successful grant of review would likely place the Myriad case on the Supreme Court argument calendar during its last month of hearings (April 15-17 and 22-24) with a merits decision by the end of June 2013.
Factors Favoring Supreme Court Review: Two factors make it likely that the Supreme Court will grant certiorari in this case. First, the dissent (Bryson, J.) by itself may well garner sufficient votes for review. Second, the answers given to the Mayo-keyed GVR Order at best manifest a serious intra-circuit split on the patent research "preemption" and at worst present a clear encouragement to grant of certiorari.
A 20 Year Iron-Clad Patent-Based Bar to Research (Myriad Majority): Against the Supreme Court view in Mayo v. Prometheus that any patent "preempts" research, the majority presents two arguments, only the first of which deserves any serious consideration from a legal standpoint:
"[w]hen the patent expires, the public is entitled to practice the invention of the patent. That is true of all inventions; during the term of the patent, unauthorized parties are epreemptedf from practicing the patent, but only for its limited term."
The majority thus argues, in essence, that a patent should block any research on a patented invention even to the point of studying the invention or making improvements to design around the patented invention. This view is in direct conflict with Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen IDEC, 659 F.3d 1057, 1072 (Fed. Cir.@2011), as discussed in the next section.
There is yet a second argument that is not felt to warrant discussion. The majority states: "[P]atents are rarely enforced against scientific research, even during their terms."
Intra-Circuit Split, the Classen Majority Opinion: It has been the mainstream view within the United States for 199 years that a patent does not preempt basis research or, indeed, experimentation on a patented invention of any kind. As recently stated by the Chief Judge (quoting a majority opinion where his was the deciding vote):
"[P]atents properly remain a tool for research and experimentation because the system encourages publication and sharing of research results.c[T]he inventor receives a limited term of exclusivity to benefit from commercialization of his invention. c 'The information in patents is added to the store of knowledge with the publication/issuance of the patent.... [It] is not insulated from analysis, study, and experimentation for the twenty years [term] until patent expiration.' Classen [Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen IDEC, 659 F.3d 1057, 1072 (Fed. Cir.@2011)]. Rather, information shared through patent applications is immediately available for others to build upon. It speeds the progress of scientific endeavor. In other words, the patent system's modern benefits facilitate experimentation c."
Momenta Pharms., Inc. v. Amphastar Pharms., Inc., __ F.3d __, __, 2012 WL 3140303 (Fed. Cir. 2012)( Rader, C.J., dissenting)(emphasis added).
Intra-Circuit Splits are Best Resolved within the Circuit: It should hardly be controversial that where, as here, there is a clear split within the Federal Circuit that it is better for the Federal Circuit to resolve this matter en banc than to simply leave this matter up for grabs at the Supreme Court.
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"Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Apollo Nida is NOT a dirty, cheating scoundrel ... so he says.
There have been a slew of stories circulating he's guilty as charged. But Nida tells us ... there's a perfectly good reason why he was spotted in South Carolina on Valentine's Day weekend with another woman -- NOT his wife, Phaedra Parks.
Apollo says the woman was his friend's sister ... a bartender at the club where he was paid to appear. Nida says it's all perfectly harmless ... the majority of his fan base is made up of women ... so naturally that's who he parties with. He insists he's 100% faithful, and there are no sex tapes, no naked pics, no pregnant baby mama to suggest otherwise.
Apollo actually has much bigger fish to fry. He's facing federal charges for bank fraud and identity theft.
Z-list cheating loser, cancel this show
He is a liar. I have first hand knowledge that he slept with a flight Attendant. Strangely enough she was bragging about it to a passenger on the plane and showed pictures on her phone from the night before.
Oh, Apollo. You are prison bound (again).
He fine!!
Since when is fidelity a necessary quality for anyone on a reality show? And no kidding about this guy has bigger fish to fry; he will definitely be faithful when he's doing time in federal prison.
I don't like Phaedra, but I do feel bad for her. I have a feeling Apollo really sunk his teeth into her for one reason, to make his butt look good, to help him fly under the radar while he continues to do what he does. He's a professional criminal.
PS He totally WAS hitting on Kenya.
Seeing that he's likely to be going to prison, I don't think this is really that important.
This con artist needn't worry; he'll get plenty of action when he's in the slammer.
He lies. He's so miserable on the show. You can hear it in his voice when he talks to his wife. He hates her. Lol
LOL, Innocent people say "I didn't do it" not "You can't prove it" you moron.
He's hot til he opens his mouth. Phaedra is pretty, smart, and funny...don't be blinded by looks, get a real man girl!
South Carolina Tmz South Carolina not Nc
Ghetto..... Always was, always will be. Phaedra got lost in his looks. He is rotten on the inside. Go to jail, Apollo, and prepare to bend over. Oh, and get on your knees. It's ***ming!! You must like it, you have a nice life, and you would prefer to pick **** with the chickens.
Why do clubs pay these morons to show up, have a few drinks and pose for a couple of pictures? They don't do anything!


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Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins
Monday 9th June: Life Technologies Lunchtime Symposium / Posters 1001 - 1278 - 9th June 13.00 - 15.30
Nicholas Matzke 1 ,2, Patrick Shih3 ,4
1 National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA,
2 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA,
3 Joint Bioenergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, USA, 4Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Chloroplasts and mitochondria descended from bacterial ancestors, but the dating of these primary endosymbiosis events remains very uncertain, despite their importance for our understanding of the evolution of both bacteria and eukaryotes. All phylogenetic dating in the Proterozoic and before is difficult: Significant debates surround potential fossil calibration points based on the interpretation of the Precambrian microbial fossil record, and strict molecular clock methods cannot be expected to yield accurate dates over such vast timescales because of strong heterogeneity in rates. Even with more sophisticated relaxed-clock analyses, nodes that are distant from fossil calibrations will have a very high uncertainty in dating. However, endosymbiosis events and gene duplications provide some additional information that has never been exploited in dating; namely, that certain nodes on a gene tree must represent the same events, and thus must have the same or very similar dates, even if the exact date is uncertain. We devised techniques to exploit this information: cross-calibration, in which node date calibrations are reused across a phylogeny, and cross-bracing, in which node date calibrations are formally linked in a hierarchical Bayesian model. We apply these methods to proteins with ancient duplications that have remained associated and originated from plastid and mitochondrial endosymbionts: the α and β subunits of ATP synthase and its relatives, and the EF-Tu. The methods yield reductions in dating uncertainty of 14–26% while only using date calibrations derived from phylogenetically unambiguous Phanerozoic fossils of multicellular plants and animals. Our results suggest that primary plastid endosymbiosis occurred ~900 Mya and mitochondrial endosymbiosis occurred ~1,200 Mya.
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Shih, Patrick M.; Matzke, Nicholas J. (2013). "Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(30), 12355-12360. (Scholar | DOI | Journal)
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Zhaxybayeva, Olga (2013). "Anciently duplicated genes reduce uncertainty in molecular clock estimates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(30), 12168–12169. (Scholar | DOI | Journal)
Evolution 2014, Raleigh, NC
Simulation tests of probabilistic models for historical biogeography: DEC and DEC+J
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Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
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Chair: Mario dos Reis
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Simulation tests of probabilistic models for historical biogeography: DEC and DEC+J
Several phylogenetic models for historical biogeography are in widespread use, e.g. character mapping, Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis (DIVA), and Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis (DEC). In addition, new models have become available: BayArea, and the variety of models implemented in the R package BioGeoBEARS. These include DEC+J (which adds founder-event speciation to DEC) and DIVALIKE (a likelihood interpretation of DIVA; a DIVALIKE+J model is also available). There has been very little testing of biogeographical models against simulated data in the situation when the true model is substantially different than the assumed inference model. Also, all of the above models assume that the observed tree is the true tree, ignoring possible missing speciation/extinction events, and dependence of speciation/extinction rates on geographic range. These possibilities are taken into account by the GeoSSE and ClaSSE models, but at the cost of many more free parameters, which may strain typically small biogeographic datasets. To test the accuracy of DEC and DEC+J inference on datasets simulated under different biogeographical and SSE models, I jointly simulated phylogenies and geographic range under 6 macroevolutionary models. The first three assumed speciation/extinction were independent of geographic range: (1) Yule process (pure-birth, no extinction); (2) Birth-Death (BD) process with extinction rate 1/3 of the speciation rate; (3) BD process with extinction equal to speciation. The next three assumed an SSE model where the base speciation rate was multiplied by the number of areas occupied, and base extinction rate was divided by the number of areas occupied. This produced (4) SSE with speciation but zero extinction rate; (5) SSE with with the base extinction rate 1/3 of the speciation rate; and (6) SSE with base rates of speciation and extinction equal. For each of the 6 macroevolutionary models, all combinations of low/middle/high values were used for these biogeographic parameters: d (rate of range-expansion), e (rate of range-contraction), and j (relative weight of founder-events versus traditional DEC cladogenesis events at speciation). The datasets (138 parameter combinations, 100 simulations each with 50 living species) were subjected to inference under DEC and DEC+J. DEC and DEC+J were distinguishable under all 6 models, except when j was very small and d very high. DEC artificially raises d and e when DEC+J is the true model, and shows significantly reduced accuracy in inferring ancestral range. These results indicate that the fact that DEC+J is favored over DEC by many empirical datasets is not likely to be an artefact of missing SSE processes.
Non-null effects of a null range: Exploring parameter estimation in the dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis model
Non-null effects of a null range: Exploring parameter estimation in the dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis model
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Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Location: 301 A
Chair: Elizabeth Wade
Kathryn Massana, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ude.ktu|anassamk#ude.ktu|anassamk (Presenter)
Jeremy Beaulieu, NIMBios, gro.soibmin|ueiluaebj#gro.soibmin|ueiluaebj
Brian O'Meara, ude.ktu|araemob#ude.ktu|araemob
Nicholas Matzke, NIMBioS, gro.soibmin|ekztam#gro.soibmin|ekztam
Parametric models in historical biogeography that integrate geographic ranges and phylogenies have shown to be extremely informative in understanding the geographic range evolution of taxa. One such approach is the dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis (DEC) model, which has been widely used in empirical analyses of the evolution of geographic range using discrete area states. However, local extinction rates are difficult to estimate well in this model. We explore the cause of this as well as a potential solution.
rexpokit and cladoRcpp: R packages integrating FORTRAN and C++ for faster matrix exponentiation and likelihood calculations in historical biogeography
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Open-source software demos and reception for iEvoBio
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Time: 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 402
rexpokit and cladoRcpp: R packages integrating FORTRAN and C++ for faster matrix exponentiation and likelihood calculations in historical biogeography (1219)
Nicholas Matzke, NIMBioS (United States)
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rexpokit and cladoRcpp: R packages integrating FORTRAN and C++ for faster matrix exponentiation and likelihood calculations in historical biogeography
Probabilistic models for phylogeny-based inference of historical biogeography face several computational challenges, especially when programmed in R. The first is large state spaces: for example, an analysis using 10 discrete geography areas has 2^10=1024 possible combinations of presence/absence in each region, and a transition matrix that is 1024x1024. Exponentiating this matrix is extremely slow in standard R matrix exponentiation routines. The R package "rexpokit" integrates the FORTRAN EXPOKIT library, making exponentiation of such large matrices feasible, although not rapid. Further speed improvements are made by parallel processing. A second challenge is enumerating and assigning probabilities to different biogeographical events at cladogenesis. Here, a naive implementation would have to examine every possible combination of ancestor state, left descendant state, and right descendant state, which would be 1023^3, or over 1 billion combinations. Here I made great improvements in speed with algorithms that eliminate impossible combinations a priori, and use of Rcpp for all for-loops. This is implemented in the R package cladoRcpp. I will present quick demonstrations of these calculations, the resulting speedups, and suggest that these packages can serve as relatively simple examples for researchers wishing to integrate FORTRAN or C++ into their R programming.
Rexpokit: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rexpokit/index.html CladoRcpp: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cladoRcpp/index.html Used for historical biogeography by: BioGeoBEARS: BioGeography with Bayesian (and Likelihood) Evolutionary Analysis in R Scripts http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BioGeoBEARS/index.html Examples, updates, and help listserv are at PhyloWiki: http://phylo.wikidot.com/biogeobears
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California's Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into 2012 campaigns targeted by Speaker John A. Pérez, a CIR data analysis shows. Pérez often gave the biggest fundraisers leadership posts and seats on powerful "juice committees."
When Speaker John A. Pérez asked Democrats in the California Assembly to make political donations, how did lawmakers respond? For this report on campaign finance dynamics during the 2012 state election, the Center for Investigative Reporting compiled Democratic lawmakers' donations and analyzed them in the context of Pérez's legislative appointments.
Despite recent settlements with state and federal regulators and a new California law that tightens rules for the mortgage industry, banks and their subsidiaries continue to file invalid documents and foreclose on properties to which they appear to have no legal right, an analysis of thousands of pages of property records and wrongful foreclosure lawsuits shows.
Bank of America has found a way to make money through foreclosures by using a complicated web of subsidiaries. The process begins with a company called ReconTrust, which handles 1 in 5 Bay Area foreclosures.
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Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drugmaker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense-paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2-year period, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.
The chairman of the Chicago White Sox and Bulls is going into the global security business with an eclectic and controversial group of partners tied to the Obama administration, documents and interviews show.
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MWC 2014: Given success of Galaxy smartphones and recall of Fitbit Force, Samsung Gear Fit could rule wearables
Summary: Samsung sells millions of smartphones and dominates the Android market while Fitbit's Force has been one of the most popular fitness bands. The attractive Samsung Gear Fit may be timed perfectly to succeed in the wearable market.
I am a fan of the wristband wearable and Samsung's upcoming Gear Fit looks to have potential to succeed in this market. A device that combines life activity tracking and basic smartwatch functions while also being stylish may have me putting the UP24 and my watch aside.
Fitbit has been one of the most popular wristband trackers and the Fitbit Force is often hard to find in stock. Unfortunately, they just issued a recall due to reported skin irritation so there is an opportunity for someone to step up with a great device.
The Samsung Gear Fit is a sleeker alternative to the new Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo devices just announced yesterday. CNET has some hands-on photos of the Gear Fit.
The Gear Fit is also powered by Tizen and does provide notifications and alerts from your connected Galaxy device. It doesn't have a speaker, microphone, or camera, which sounds perfect to me.
The Gear Fit has a 1.84 inch curved Super AMOLED display and is geared towards the fitness/health market. It connects to the range of S Health apps on Samsung Galaxy devices and tracks steps, monitor your heart rate, and coach you to your goals.
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Luis Suarez is not a normal footballer. Gareth Bale is not a normal footballer. They do things some players can only dream of. They slip through the enemies grasp more times than James Bond, each time giving the ultimate two fingers to the claim that 'dainty, intricate players cannot cope in the Premier League'; 37 goals in 41 league games between them says so.
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:51:18PM +0530, Manik Jindal wrote:
I am a student of IITH pursuing B.Tech (2nd yr., CSE).
I got the following ideas:
1. *Detect vulnerabilities and attack*
nmap can detect applications along with their versions, binded with
If it also tells about the possible attacks, it will be a more better
Attacking option can also be embeded, which requires only a script for
each attck.
*How to implement*
1. Query CVE database with application name and version, which tells
almost all the possible vulnerabilities.
2. List all of them.
3. Ask for an attack.
4. Choose script(if already present in nmap-attack database, may
available on nmap server or local machine) or asks for script file.
5. Attack, by running script.
Hello, thanks for writing. If you haven't seen them yet, please see
Have you looked at Marc Ruef's vulscan script? It matches service
versions against a vulnerability database. What would you do
differently? How will you overcome the challen
2. *nmap for Mobile platforms*
In todays life mobiles have a special character. It will be better to
have nmap for mobiles.
It will give portability to nmap users.
Users can scan networks during travelling, and even at those places where
laptops are not handy to use. And it will be useful at public places where
obviously an hacker do not want to show results to any one.
Its better to develop nmap for Android platform, coz of market
Have you seen the Android build put together by Vlatko Kosturjak? What
would you add to this?
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Help out if you can, anything will help. If you don't have money to donation, at least reblog this around. Lets help this dude out.
oh, wow, thank you. had no clue this post was made too. i really appreciate all the support everyone has given so far. this has been such an overwhelming and scary experience. thank you all so much!
Seeing how many notes this has after just a few hours blows my mind. I really don't think I deserve all the help and support I'm getting, but I swear I appreciate every bit of it. It really means the world to me. Thank you all so much for everything you've done.
I don't know this person, at all. But I'll reblog this anytime it comes across my dash, because I sadly can not help out with donating anything. So spreading the word as much as I can.
Tumblr, if we can get someone a god damn fucking fluffy chicken we can potentially save someone's life.
Fluffy chicken? 500K notes. Brain tumor? Totally ignored by comparison.
$3706! we can do this, you guys, keep boosting!
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cupcake
A play on White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies for my brother.
Note: I chose a vanilla cupcake that has what I would consider a cookie texture. If you don't like that, choose a vanilla cupcake with a lighter texture.
Cupcake (makes 18)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line cupcake pans with baking cups.
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Gently beat in eggs one at a time. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add to the batter one third at a time until just combined.
Fill baking cups 2/3 full. Bake for 15 minutes. Rotate and bake for another 5 or until done. Place pan on wire rack to cool for 5 minutes, turn out cupcakes to cool completely.
White Chocolate Mousse
Beat egg yolks in a small bowl with electric mixer on high until thick and lemon colored. Gradually beat in sugar.
Heat 1 cups heavy cream in sauce pan over medium heat until just hot. Gradually stir half of cream into egg yolk mixture, then stir back into hot cream in sauce pan. Cook over low heat about 5 minutes, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Do not boil.
Stir in baking chips until melted. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours, until just chilled.
Beat 1 1/2 cups heavy cream on high until stiff. Fold refrigerated mixture into cream. Cover and return to fridge to stiffen.
Macadamia Nut Frosting
Beat shortening on high and gradually beat in powdered sugar. Add 3/4 macadamia nut butter, or more to taste. Add salt and vanilla. Add condensed milk one tbsp at a time until frosting is a smooth consistency.
Using a paring knife, cut the centers out of the cupcakes (should look like a cone). Scoop a tbsp of white chocolate mousse into center. If too runny, refrigerate for a few more minutes. Use a pastry bag and piping tip (Ateco plain tip #9) or flat spatula to frost cupcakes. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.


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Madonna della Strada
Organ BlastJoin us in Madonna della Strada Chapel for our organ blast on Wed, Oct 30, at 11:59 PM!
CCC RetreatThe CCC retreat is a Christian retreat focused on buidling relationships with God and otherse. This retreat is affiliated with the Protestant ministries Agape and Ecclesia but is open to everyone on campus!
Sophomore RetreatCalling all sophomores! After almost two full years as a Rambler, you deserve a weekend to unwind. This retreat at LUREC allows sophomore students to come together in the hopes of gaining a deeper personal understanding.
Organ Concert Series
Well-Known Organists to Perform at Loyola's Summer Concert SeriesLoyola's annual Summer Celebrity Organ Concert Series begins June 15, filling Madonna della Strada Chapel with powerful organ music and some of the nation's leading organists.


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Goddess of: the ocean, motherhood and protection of children
Mythology: African
Name means: "Mother whose children are like fish"
Also Known as: Mama Watta (Mother of Water), Mother of Pearls, Mother Ocean, Stella Maris (Star of the Sea)
Representations: change and consistency, the ocean, the moon, motherly love,
Yemaya was a river goddess in Nigeria, and when her people were taken aboard slave ships and sent to America, she went with them- it was then that she became the Goddess of the Ocean. She is considered the mother to all things, and as such was able to cure women of infertility.
After leaving Africa, she became known and worshiped in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Central America, South America and North America- so great was the love for Yemaya.


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Full Disclosure
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This has to be the dumbest statement I have ever heard.
I come from a long history of both hacking, and a meth addiction.
Being clean now from the meth for over 5 years, I can tell you honestly
that During the first month of the addiction you may possibly be able to
maintain, however beyond that, life turns upside down.
It is hard to maintain "hacking" when you cant afford electricity, you
are extremely paranoid, and you cant even remember what day it is.
Meth does not allow one to focus for months on end like you would like
to imagine. It keeps one awake, but it pretty much decimates the mind.
Of course the tinfoil hats and the police scanner might keep the bad
guys away, but it wont make you a better hacker.
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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Steven
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:44 AM
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Subject: [Full-disclosure] Meth and hacking?
"The drugs and the crime fit neatly together; addicts strung out on meth
can stay awake and focused for days at a time, making them expert
hackers and mailbox thieves. And ID theft is easy money, the perfect
income for drug addicts who have no other way to fund their habit."
Expert hackers? WTF?
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Genetic Risk Factor for Premature Birth Found
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a genetic risk factor for premature birth. The risk factor is related to a gene that codes for a protein that the scientists have found helps the body's immune cells recognize and fight Group B Streptococcus (GBS) bacteria.
These bacteria are found in the vagina or lower gastrointestinal tract of approximately 15 to 20 percent of healthy women, but may cause life-threatening infections, such as sepsis or meningitis in newborns, especially those born prematurely.
The study is published online in the May 5, 2014 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
"Pregnant women are universally screened for these bacteria during pregnancy and administered antibiotics intravenously during labor if they test positive to protect the infant from infection," said Victor Nizet, MD, professor of pediatrics and pharmacy and co-author. "Our research may explain why some women and their infants are at higher risk of acquiring severe GBS infections than others."
In the study, scientists identified two proteins on fetal membranes of the placenta that are involved in immune function. One of the proteins (known as Siglec-5) binds to the GBS pathogen and suppresses immune response to the microbe, while the other protein (known as Siglec-14) binds to the pathogen, and activates killing of the bacteria. Siglecs are cell surface receptors found typically on immune cells. They recognize (bind) sialic acids - sugar molecules that densely coat our cells.
"We have one protein that tells the body to attack the pathogen and another that tells the body not to attack it," said Raza Ali, PhD, a project scientist in the Nizet laboratory and the study's lead author.
Scientists believe that the pair of proteins together helps balance the body's immune response to pathogens, by directing some antimicrobial response without provoking excessive inflammation.
"Identifying the dual role of these receptors and how they are regulated may provide insight for future treatments against GBS," Ali said.
Interestingly, the gene for Siglec-14 is missing in some individuals, and the researchers have found that fetuses that lack the Siglec-14 protein are at higher risk of premature birth, likely due to an imbalanced immune response to the bacterial infection.
"We found this association in GBS-positive but not GBS-negative pregnancies, highlighting the importance of GBS-siglec crosstalk on placental membranes," said Ajit Varki, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and study co-author.
For reasons not completely understood, GBS infections are not found in any other animals, including chimpanzees, which share 99 percent of human protein sequences. "The expression of the two siglec proteins on the fetal membranes is also unique to humans," Varki said. "Our study offers intriguing insights into why certain bacterial pathogens may produce uniquely human diseases."
The scientists believe that identifying the mechanisms of siglec protein action may help in designing therapeutic targets against bacterial infections that are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics and could have important implications for other disorders, such as blood clotting, chronic diseases and HIV infections.
Pictured: Group B Streptococcus bacteria (green) are shown binding to siglec proteins (red) that densely cover the surface of human immune cells (human cell nuclei in blue).
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Fruit flies, fighter jets use similar nimble tactics when under attack
When startled by predators, tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets – employing screaming-fast banked turns to evade attacks.
Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of flies after they encountered a looming image of an approaching predator.
"Although they have been described as swimming through the air, tiny flies actually roll their bodies just like aircraft in a banked turn to maneuver away from impending threats," said Michael Dickinson, UW professor of biology and co-author of a paper on the findings in the April 11 issue of Science. "We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, and which is faster than we ever imagined."
In the midst of a banked turn, the flies can roll on their sides 90 degrees or more, almost flying upside down at times, said Florian Muijres, a UW postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper.
"These flies normally flap their wings 200 times a second and, in almost a single wing beat, the animal can reorient its body to generate a force away from the threatening stimulus and then continues to accelerate," he said.
The fruit flies, a species called Drosophila hydei that are about the size of a sesame seed, rely on a fast visual system to detect approaching predators.
"The brain of the fly performs a very sophisticated calculation, in a very short amount of time, to determine where the danger lies and exactly how to bank for the best escape, doing something different if the threat is to the side, straight ahead or behind," Dickinson said.
"How can such a small brain generate so many remarkable behaviors? A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super interesting problem from an engineering perspective," Dickinson said.
The researchers synchronized three high-speed cameras each able to capture 7,500 frames per second, or 40 frames per wing beat. The cameras were focused on a small region in the middle of a cylindrical flight arena where 40 to 50 fruit flies flitted about. When a fly passed through the intersection of two laser beams at the exact center of the arena, it triggered an expanding shadow that caused the fly to take evasive action to avoid a collision or being eaten.
With the camera shutters opening and closing every one thirty-thousandth of a second, the researchers needed to flood the space with very bright light, Muijres said. Because flies rely on their vision and would be blinded by regular light, the arena was ringed with very bright infrared lights to overcome the problem. Neither humans nor fruit flies register infrared light.
How the fly's brain and muscles control these remarkably fast and accurate evasive maneuvers is the next thing researchers would like to investigate, Dickinson said.


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The Underground New York Public Library is a visual library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways.
This project is not affiliated with The New York Public Library
"重力ピエロ," by 伊坂 幸太郎
"Gravity Clown," by Isaka Kotaro
Borrow I Read
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"Практика Трансерфинга," by Петр Рублев
"Practice Transurfing: Waking Up the Overseer, or a New Reality," by Petr Rublev
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"아버지 꽃," by 채종인
"Father Flowers," by Jong-In Choi
Illustrated by Chae-Sook Shin
Read아버지 꽃
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"فيلسوف الإقتصاد : الإقتصاد والحياة اليومية" by ستيفن لاندسبيرج
"The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life," by Steven E Landsburg
In English: Borrow I Read
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Can someone translate the title and provide a link towards the book? Here is a close up of the cover.
"bdud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag gi rgyud las dum bu dang po rtsa ba'i rgyud ces bya ba bzhugs so," by g.yu thog yon tan mgon po
Read It
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"До́ктор Жива́го," by Бори́с Пастерна́к
"Doctor Zhivago," by Boris Pasternak
In Russian: Read До́ктор Жива́го In English: Read Doctor Zhivago
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Care Homes / Nursing Homes with Internet Access in Llanelli
Listed below are the Care Homes / Nursing Homes with Internet Access, such as Gwalia Mynydd Mawr and Gwynfryn, in or near Llanelli.
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Llannon Road, Upper Tumble, Llanelli
Manager: Lisa Kieh
Care Group: Grwp Gwalia
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Gwalia Mynydd Mawr, situated in Tumble, Carmarthenshire opened in March 2013. The state of the art residential and nursing home has been built with a dementia-friendly design. The building… more
Swansea Road, Llanelli
Manager: Jo Perry
Care Group: Tracscare
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Gwynfryn offers a progressive care pathway towards independence. This mental health service provides flexible residential support to adults with complex mental health needs. The guiding… more
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89 Queen Victoria Road, Llanelli
Manager: Michelle Martin
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Tina Huskey, Mumford IndustriesChantal Fryer, Recycling Market DevelopmentSC Department of Commerce
RecyclonomicsSC's mission is to expand and strengthen South Carolina's recycling industry by establishing policy, building networks, promoting market development and leveraging existing infrastructure.
The RecyclonomicsSC vision is for South Carolina to be a national leader in the recycling industry in terms of job creation, investment and providing sustainable markets for recyclable materials.
RecyclonomicsSC is an initiative that brings together recycling businesses and industry who utilize recycled materials in their manufacturing process. RecyclonomicsSC helps promote recycling markets and position recycling businesses as competitive, viable participants in developing jobs, retaining local community employers, generating additional tax revenues and increasing economic development opportunities. New Carolina, South Carolina's Council on Competitiveness, is the steering group for the RecyclonomicsSC; and Sonoco Products, a global packaging company that uses recycled content, is the anchor company for the organization.
RecyclonomicsSC officially launched in October 2007 as the South Carolina Recycling Council (SCRC). Work that led to the formation of the Cluster started long before that, almost fifteen years prior, with the creation of the Recycling Marketed Development Advisory Council (RMDAC). In 2003, New Carolina's vision of creating clusters aligned well with events happening in the South Carolina recycling industry. In 2005, the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control contracted with economists Dr. Frank Hefner and Dr. Calvin Blackwell, both of the College of Charleston, to determine the economic impact of recycling in South Carolina. The final report was issued on June 23, 2006, and was updated in 2014.
In 2011, the organization went through a branding process to create RecyclonomicsSC.
New Carolina, together with the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control partnered in 2014 to commission an updated economic impact study from Dr. Hefner. The results show consistent growth of South Carolina's recycling industry from 2005 - 2013, despite the recession. Other highlights from the report:
South Carolina boasts a strong recycling economy brochureNew Carolina Recycling Co-Champion Chantal Fryer on SC Business Review
New Carolina and the South Carolina's Recycling Council announced in February the release of a new specialty license plate that promotes recycling through the introduction of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" specialty plate. The South Carolina Recycling Council is one of the state's economic clusters supported by New Carolina, and worked to launch the new plates. Available for purchase through the SC Department of Motor Vehicles, proceeds from the plate support recycling efforts in South Carolina through programs run by the Carolina Recycling Association made available to the recycling industry. They also support education and outreach initiatives as well as initiatives to help grow recycling across the state.The South Carolina Recycling Council held a design contest for the specialty plate design and Janice Antley, Mighty Mouse Productions, was the winner of the contest. The Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission provided financial support to the Carolina Recycling Association to be able to advance the funding for the plate production fee. The Carolina Recycling Association plans to develop programs and outreach to enhance recycling's importance as a smart solution to waste management through avoided disposal fees, job creation and investment, and quality of life in the state. "We are excited to promote the new recycling specialty plate to South Carolina citizens and encourage recycling with the message of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle on vehicles traveling in South Carolina and across the United States. Underscoring the message of recycling, each license plate is also made from recycled aluminum,"said Ronnie Grant, chair of the South Carolina Recycling Council.
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Our second day in Tokyo. I got jetlagged and slept way toooo long this morning. Missed hotel's breakfast, but I had some rise balls spared that I could eat. So good!
I tried to eat something that I really didn't know what it was – but now I know: umeboshi….! It was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. I thought it would be sweet like cherry, but no no. I can't even explain what it tasted like, you have to experience it yourself… experience the horror…
On the other hand I like Japanese fluffy pancakes that you can buy at FamilyMarts. They are filled with something that seem to be vanilla cream and… maybe syrup. Taste sweet… very good.
This is outside our hotel.
I'm very curious about this store…
A regular smoking room in Japan… Gosh… I miss the freedom of smoking outside…anywhere… as you can do in Sweden.
Don't run in the subway!
I decided to make a short visit to Shibuya today.
The famous crossing in Shibuya at the Hachiko exit. So many people….
Here is the statue of the famous dog Hachiko, he waited for his dead master to show up at the station for nine years… Poor dog.
A filming team wanted Jessica to act in front of the camera. They asked me too, so I guess they was looking for gaijins… ;-)
Time for some food… I ate some mochi! I love the one with cherry in it!
Then we headed to Akihabara! The electronic city and haven of the nerds… ^^
In Akihabara we socialized a bit with a friend of mine, Toyookasan.
Sign in the batroom. Which button to you push to flush? ;-)
Then we headed to Ikebukuro.
We went to a Japanese restaurant with the singer in the Japanese band I -アイ-
We could order via a technical device at the table, not need for a waitress. ^^
Cassis beer… black currant taste – very sweet and good!
Delicious tuna sushi!
He treated us so much great food.
I like Japanese restaurants when you can sit in a cozy booth like this!
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that deemphasizes geographic proximity in relation to matching by GQ type, trying out alternatives to the proposed sequence of collapsing the combinations of geography and GQ type. The possibility of using a cluster approach to donor selection should be reevaluated using clusters formed for this purpose based on GQ data from the 2010 census. The Census Bureau should also expand its simulation study of imputation methods to include a sufficiently large number of samples capable of revealing significant differences between the imputation-based and the design-based estimates.
In addition to a smaller-than-optimal sample size of GQ residents in the ACS, several questionnaire items exhibit very high item nonresponse rates for some group quarters (GQ) types. For example, income is missing at very high levels for residents of nursing homes, as well as "other institutional" and "other noninstitutional facilities." A strategy of omitting selected items for some GQ types could be preferable to including data that are so heavily underreported. One promising approach to accomplishing this goal is for the Census Bureau to abandon the tradition of using the same questionnaire for very disparate populations.
Recommendation 6-5: The Census Bureau should evaluate the possibility of customizing by group quarters (GQ) type the American Community Survey questionnaire for the GQ population with the goal of reducing item imputation rates, improving data quality, and reducing the burden on the GQ respondents who are required to answer questions that are not applicable to their circumstances. Changes to consider should include omitting or revising some of the questions on the GQ questionnaire for some types of group quarters.
The process of improving estimates of the group quarters and total populations for small geographic areas in the American Community Survey will need to involve not only continued research and development by the Census Bureau but also regular feedback from data users. It is the panel's observation that data users are not yet familiar with the properties of the 5-year ACS estimates for small geographic areas and the limited information that can be provided specifically for GQ residents. If the strategies recommended by the panel and the Census Bureau's research in the near term do not lead to cost-effective ways of improving the ACS estimates for small areas to the satisfaction of data users, then the role of the ACS in providing information about the total population— including residents of group quarters—will need to be rethought.