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Russia strengthens its hand in Central AsiaPosted: 20/12/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, John Drennan, Russia and Eurasia, US | Tags: Central Asia, Dushanbe, Kyrgyzstan, Manas, Tajikistan, US bases, Uzbekistan Leave a comment
By John Drennan, Research Assistant, IISS-US
Russia is using military aid and basing deals to shore up its strategic position in Central Asia, ahead of NATO's 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan. A $1.1 billion military aid package to Kyrgyzstan was finalised recently, and in November Moscow announced a plan to provide $200 million in Russian assistance to upgrade Tajikistan's air-defence system.
The Russian government has also signed two new deals trading economic assistance for basing rights in Central Asia. In October, the Tajik government agreed to extend the lease on Russia's base in Dushanbe until 2042, in exchange for a nominal sum plus military training and better access to the Russian labour market for Tajik citizens. (Currently, almost half of Tajikistan's GDP comes through remittances.) In September, Moscow announced a 15-year extension of its air base in Kyrgyzstan in return for $489m in debt settlement and an agreement for energy infrastructure upgrades. Kyrgyzstan's parliament officially ratified the agreement on 13 December.
These developments strengthen Russia's position in Central Asia at a time of great uncertainty about the future role of the United States, which has had a basing footprint in the region as part of NATO's campaign in Afghanistan since 2001.
Life post-Taliban: solving local grievances keyPosted: 13/12/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Alexa van Sickle, Defence | Tags: DDR, demobilisation, disarmament, peace processes, reconciliation, reintegration, reintegration shura, Taliban Leave a comment
By Alexa van Sickle, Assistant Editor
As NATO prepares to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, a key part of the transition to Afghan security leadership will be persuading members of the Taliban insurgency to reconcile with the government in Kabul. The Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme (APRP) designed to do this has so far encouraged 5,000 insurgents to give up their weapons, according to Major General David Hook of the Royal Marines.
Hook told the IISS this week that only 20% of Taliban interviewed as they entered the programme claimed to be fighting for ideological reasons. Often, they were motivated instead by local grievances.
'Part of the design of the APRP was to address these local grievances,' said Hook. 'If you address [the grievance] locally, you can pull them in.' This was particularly important because analysis also showed that more than 75% of ordinary fighters remained within 20 miles of their village. About 78% of all those joining the APRP process said they did so because they were tired of fighting.
The APRP, an Afghan-led social reintegration process backed by international funding, is one of three related reconciliation-and-reintegration 'tracks' in Afghanistan, alongside political negotiations towards a 'grand bargain' between the government and Taliban leaders, and so-called 'high-level reintegration' seeking to persuade insurgent leaders to stop fighting the government and support it instead.
Staying on-message in AfghanistanPosted: 15/11/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Alexa van Sickle, South Asia | Tags: 2014 Afghanistan security transition, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, green-on-blue, ISAF, Koran-burning, NATO Leave a comment
By Alexa van Sickle, Assistant Editor
Despite their objections to the proliferation of mobile phones and social media among the Afghan population, the Taliban are increasingly adept at using them, says former ISAF spokesperson Major General Carsten Jacobson (above). Afghan Taliban tweeting 'is quite a challenge, one that we have tried to counter', he said at the IISS this week, adding that this was obviously not an easy task for a military organisation. (This Washington Post article has more on the subject.)
A media-savvy Taliban was just one of the challenges facing ISAF during Major General Jacobson's time as the organisation's spokesperson from June 2011 to May 2012. Responsible for coordinating ISAF's message on its activities in Afghanistan, he found that the subject of the security transition from NATO to Afghan forces defined his tenure. Very soon after Jacobson took up his post, then-ISAF commander General David Petraeus (who resigned as CIA head last week) announced that the US would begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, with the goal of a full drawdown by the end of 2014.
Transition meant not just an effective transfer of administration in security and government but also in civilian matters, Jacobson said. 'Transition is the key driver of everything that happens … [it should be] an Afghan process driven from the bottom to the top … from villages to provinces.'
India's foreign policy in a globalised worldPosted: 12/10/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Drugs, Mona Moussavi, Pakistan, South Asia, Terrorism | Tags: Afghanistan, foreign policy, globalisation, India, Pakistan, security Leave a comment
By Mona Moussavi, Editorial Assistant
India's foreign policy is an 'enabler' in the country's transformation, Ranjan Mathai, the Indian foreign secretary, said at the IISS last week. At the Keynote Address to the Fifth IISS–Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Dialogue, the foreign secretary discussed Afghanistan's 'neighbourhood' towards 2015 and beyond, emerging Arab developments and the ways in which the India-UK strategic relationship could grow.
Mathai said India is increasingly 'plugged in' to a globalised world, and that a peaceful periphery is essential. Almost half of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is now linked in one way or another to foreign trade, up from 20% in the 1990s. Specifically, India depends on 'energy and critical raw materials from abroad'.
Afghanistan – A bloody weekend, but not necessarily a tipping pointPosted: 19/09/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Ben Barry, Gulf and Middle East Security, Terrorism | Tags: Afghanistan, ISAF, NATO, Taliban 1 Comment
By Brigadier Ben Barry, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare
It has been a week of bad news from Afghanistan, after further 'green-on-blue' attacks, fallout from video protests sweeping the Middle East and NATO announcing a temporary retreat. But in reality, the picture is more nuanced and there are reasons to be optimistic – provided tensions arising from the video can be diffused.
The headlines have suggested setbacks to the joint NATO/Afghan strategy of transition to Afghan leadership of security and withdrawal of NATO combat forces by the end of 2015. In addition to the violent protests against the provocative 'Innocence of Muslims' video, there was a well-planned and determined attack on the UK/US base at Camp Bastion in which six US and UK troops were killed by men in Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) uniform.
NATO's announcement that 'in response to elevated threat levels…ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] has taken some prudent, but temporary, measures to reduce our profile and vulnerability to civil disturbances or insider attacks' has resulted in a reduction of low-level tactical partnering with the Afghan forces below battalion level has caused a predictable flurry of commentary and speculation in Western media.
Mullah Omar's Eid messagePosted: 19/09/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Ben Barry, South Asia | Tags: Afghanistan, ISAF, Kabul, Mullah Omar, NATO, Taliban, terrorism Leave a comment
By Hameed Hakimi, Research Assistant, Armed Conflict Database
A statement released by Taliban leader Mullah Omar to mark the end of Ramadan conveyed a tone of optimism for the Taliban's tactical achievements, as well as a vision for the future and a statement of commitment to the Afghan people. In the following weeks, facts on the ground have challenged both Mullah Omar's assessment of Afghanistan and his claims about the Taliban's intentions. But these realities should also serve as a reminder that ordinary citizens face conflicting messages and broken promises from both the Taliban insurgency and Afghanistan's political leadership.
Mullah Omar's Eid-ul-Fitr message was published on the Taliban's website on16 August 2012. In 34 points, it set out his vision for a post-2014 Afghanistan, and reiterated the movement's criticisms about the presence of Western troops and the government in Kabul. For those who lived under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a direct message from the reclusive Mullah Omar is a rarity. During its control of the country until 2001, the Taliban leadership's communication with ordinary Afghans was restricted to public order commandments and moral judgments on points of Sharia law.
Is Tashkent clearing the decks for the US?Posted: 16/07/2012 Filed under: Afghanistan, Dr Nicholas Redman, Russia and Eurasia, US | Tags: Afghanistan, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, CSTO, Islam Karimov, Karshi-Khanabad air base, Tashkent, transit routes, Uzbekistan 1 Comment
By Dr Nicholas Redman, Senior Fellow for Geopolitical Risk and Economic Security
Uzbekistan has once again suspended its membership of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the alliance of former Soviet states that also includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Tashkent is saying it took this step because it wishes to develop relations with Afghanistan bilaterally, rather than as part of the CSTO bloc, and because it opposes efforts to deepen military cooperation within the CSTO.
Yet Uzbekistan's fellow CSTO members suspect the decision has more to do with a wish by President Islam Karimov to reopen the Karshi-Khanabad air base to US forces.


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23 October 1864: "my Dear I will tell you tru we will not have aney fighting to do this fall and by next spring the war will be over."
Item description: Letter, 23 October 1864, from Joseph H. Young to his wife Anna Eliza Young. Young was from Mifflin County, Pa. and served in the 184th Pennsylvania Regiment. Item citation: From the Joseph H. Young Papers, #3695-z, Southern Historical Collection, … Continue reading
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18 September 1864: "I believe a great many have left our Country for the North lately. I heard forty left Goldsboro last week."
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14 July 1864: "Who would have thought then that he would never return."
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2 June 1864: "ALL PASSES without exception, that have been given to persons to visit the Banks and fish in the Sounds, are hereby revoked."
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24 April 1864: "If I could only look in upon you (wherever you are) I could cheer up and not have the blues again tonight. I wonder where you are and what you are doing?"
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5 August 1863: "Isaac, Henry and John were left behind to take their chances. Sarah and Diana ran away, and I suppose are with the Yankees…"
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14 June 1863: "The captain, without hesitation, acknowledged her to be a Confederate vessel and stated his cargo to consist of liquors, medicines, drugs, and provisions, with probably some articles for the rebel Government."
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12 June 1863: "we have been living entirely on credit, & obliged to remove one daughter from school."
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7 May 1863: "AN APPEAL For The Sick And Wounded Soldiers"
Item Description: In this broadside, members of the Salisbury [N.C.] Way-Side Hospital committee call for donations of "provisions, medicines, delicacies for the sick, and money" to help care for wounded and sick soldiers. The appeal ends with a call to … Continue reading
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4 March 1863: "Every day of my experience in teaching adds to my firm conviction that, if faithfully done, 't'is the most laborious of all employments…"
Item description: Letter, 4 March 1863, from Thomas L. Norwood to uncle Walter Waightstill Lenoir about how uncomfortable Thomas was with the idea of being a teacher like others in his family. Item citation: From the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, … Continue reading
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Jan 13, 2014, 08:17 PM
Laminate flooring
After many discussions, ( okay arguments) I tiled half of the basement floor. The other half is laminate. " it creates two separate spaces!" ( whatever) before the tiles were installed I was promised that I wouldn't be taking them up in the near future ! Well , it's been four years and she wants the tile gone! Words of wisdom, I can be right, or I can be happy!
My question is. if the height of the existing tile and laminate are the same, can I simply go over both with the new floor? Or is it best to remove everything?
Jan 13, 2014, 09:13 PM
Probably can if it is a non-substrate attached flooring such as laminate. Just use a underlayment help on the joints of the tile. Not sure of a moisture problem if you had used a moisture barrier the first time around with the laminate.
Jan 13, 2014, 09:15 PM
like stacking cake too high, this can lead to disaster.
why not just chip out the tile and continue the laminate that way? rent a demo hammer, with a bull point to crack out the first tile, and a big flat chisel bit to get under and pop the other tiles.
sig: if this is a new economy, how come they still want my old-fashioned money?
Jan 13, 2014, 09:19 PM
Definitely best to remove the tile. If the laminate is a floating floor then there is no choice - you do not want to install one floor on top of a floating laminate.
The other issue is height - any doors and trim will need to be redone if you stack on top..
Jan 14, 2014, 11:24 AM
"right or happy?" great question, not sure if the DIY Board is the right place.
If you pull-up the tile, is the current laminate still in stock and would the new laminate look diff fron the 4 yr older worn laminate? Hey, Two-Tone, it still could be two separate like places.
Depending on the size and budget, if the old lamimnate cannot be matched, I would redo the whole thing...good luck
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Keyloggers are one particularly dangerous type of malicious software (and sometimes hardware) which essentially record and transmit all key press activity. This allows resourceful hackers the chance to record passwords, login credentials, credit card information and much more. There are many ways to prevent your computer from contracting such harmful applications, but what do you do after the fact? Sometimes, it's even necessary to perform sensitive transactions on a public computer. What do you do when you want to thoroughly ensure that your information, including keystrokes, is not being recorded? Oxynger KeyShield is a virtual keyboard for Windows that offers many protection features, namely it prevents Trojans, spyware and even keyloggers, from collecting your information.
What is it and what does it do
Main Functionality
Oxynger KeyShield is a secure virtual keyboard for Windows that is designed to prevent unauthorized programs and software from logging sensitive information entered. In addition to protecting from Trojans, spyware and keyloggers it also prevents any applications from taking screenshots of the interface during use. It implements a different key layout for each install of the application, which works to prevent keylogging tools from recording key strokes. To translate, if you were to install KeyShield on two different computers, they would both use different keyboard layouts instead of the traditional QWERTY style. This also holds true for different users on your computer, as each of them get a different layout when using KeyShield.
- Virtual keyboard that protects sensitive data from keyloggers, Trojans and spyware
- Also prevents screenshots from being taken of the keyboard
- Every install gets a different layout, including alternate Windows users
- Works with a huge amount of third party applications, see this list
- There's no portable version available, this would be a great app to lug around on a flash drive
- Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- Does not list Windows XP as a supported OS
For starters, Oxynger KeyShield requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 in order to function properly, so ensure that it is installed before you try using KeyShield. In addition, 'Desktop Composition' must be enabled in Windows 7 in order for the virtual keyboard to work. This can be enabled or disabled from the Windows Control Panel, and also in the properties window accessed by right clicking on the KeyShield icon.
One of the biggest issues with KeyShield right out of the gate is that there's no portable package available. This is certainly discouraging because it would be great to store the application on a flash drive for portable use everywhere. It would be especially useful when browsing public computers and those other than your home machine. Unfortunately, it's only available via a traditional install package.
Coincidentally, the unique screenshot protection measures made it difficult for me to collect samples of the virtual keyboard. When trying to capture a screenshot of the keyboard, either through screen cap software or just pressing the print screen button, the results will show a blank window. As you can see from the screenshot, the image capture protection works just as advertised.
There's not much to say about the layout of the keyboard. Right when you open the application you're presented with a very simple virtual keyboard that can be used to type or submit information. There are no additional settings to configure, and there are no special function keys. Of course, you do have access to virtual versions of the tab, caps, shift, home, end, enter, directional arrow and backspace keys. The layout does not change everytime you use it, so don't worry about not being able to get used to the weird location of the keys. It only offers up a different layout each time the application is installed, or for other users.
You can close the keyboard at any time, since a dedicated icon remains in the system tray. Right clicking on the icon will bring up a context menu with several options, one of which allows you to recall the keyboard.
Obviously, it's not meant for you to type out your next novel. Instead, the application runs in the background so you can recall the keyboard at any time. It's designed specifically for entering passwords, credit card information and pretty much anything sensitive. Any information you wouldn't want collected by a third party, is what you would type up with KeyShield.
For reference Oxynger KeyShield uses nearly 2MB of RAM while running (2,000KB). It's relatively light on system resources, in fact light enough to leave running in the background without any kind of a performance loss.
Conclusion and download link
Oxynger KeyShield is a virtual keyboard for Windows that protects entered information and keystrokes from being recorded by keyloggers, Trojans and spyware — all malware in general. It also prevents third party applications from capturing screenshots of the keyboard in use. In other words, it's pretty much locks down your input (i.e. what you type) from being accessed by malicious parties of any kind. I wouldn't recommend using this keyboard at all times because it can get quite cumbersome; instead it's only meant to be used when entering sensitive information. To facilitate this usage, the program runs quietly in the background until you need the virtual keyboard. You can recall it any time thanks to the system tray icon.
Overall, check out this program if you are worried about keyloggers and such. Also be sure to check out Zemana AntiLogger and KeyScrambler.
Price: Free
Version reviewed: 1.04
Supported OS: Windows (Vista, Seven, Eight), no official XP support listed
Download size: 1.15MB
VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/47
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Another party already has your (everyone's) personal data. It's called the NSA.
Would it be paranoiac to worry if Oxynger itself may be able to copy my passwords and identity?
Is there any way to make sure there is o little something in the program which may send my personal data to another party?
Requiring any .NET framework is always a negative. Software writers apparently can't help themselves.
Still no new OS to replace winOS. Come on, Coders. The world is ready and MSFT is shaky.
This installed OK, and it works great in Chrome, but it does nothing in TrueCrypt. I had to do a web search to find out Desktop Composition is enabled by default (link below). Any suggestions for making this work with TrueCrypt? Thanks.
Desktop Composiyion must be on, does that mean that the program does not run in W7 starter?


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Jennifer Lopez returned to the Bronx in the video for "Same Girl," and now she's teaming up with a rapper from her hometown. Over the weekend, the pop diva hit the studio with Bad Boy's own French Montana.
French posted a photo of himself with J.Lo, tweeting, "#samegirl @jlo #staytuned #southbronx #working."
Just last week, J.Lo dropped a teaser for her "Same Girl" video. The full song, penned by Chris Brown, is expected to premiere any day now.
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Before there was Anheuser-Busch InBeV (BUD), Molson Coors (TAP) or SABMiller (SAB), there were regional brewers, whose beer flowed directly into the local conscience. While Pittsburgh stuck with Iron City, Chicago kept Old Style and Texas is still tied to Lone Star, decades of profit padding and cost-cutting let labels like Narragansett, Rheingold and Schlitz fade to pale imposters prior to recent revivals.
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From Jeff LahtiOur Family will be visiting California the first week of April. Any experts out there have any advice for the best days of the week? I assume Tues-Thurs are the best, but we are thinking about Sunday because of our other plans. Is this vacation suicide?
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From Danny BernardKnott's is never that busy this that time of year, so you shouldn't have to worry too much. Aside from that the other factor is weather. Roller coasters are h**** in the rain.
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From Robert NilesDisneyland is the key (assuming you are going there). It's the only park with significant crowds. So plan your trip to be at Disneyland during a school day, and you'll be fine. You can visit any other park at any time. (With the exceptions, of course, of Legoland, which is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the school year, and Magic Mountain, which is closed weekdays during the winter.)
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Sporting KC snap Fire's unbeaten streak
Losses on a home field are never to be taken lightly, but the Fire's 2-1 defeat against Sporting Kansas City at Toyota Park on Sunday couldn't have been more ill-timed.
It came on the same day that the Fire introduced bobble-heads honoring defender Austin Berry. It also came on the same day that striker Mike Magee was named to Major League Soccer's All-Star team, which will face AS Roma at Kansas City's Sporting Park on July 31. And, it also came before the biggest home crowd (17,735) of the season.
Gone is the nine-game unbeaten streak across all competitions as well as a 4-0-2 run in MLS matches that had put the Fire in playoff contention after a dismal start to the season.
The Fire, continuing a dangerous trend of starting matches too slowly, allowed two goals in the first eight minutes. This time the Fire (6-8-3) couldn't recover, and Berry was naturally upset.
"We have to have the mentality of being the first to challenge for the ball and not let it bounce," he said. "The older guys and leaders need to make sure everyone is ready to go, and I think we were. We just weren't tight enough, just not sharp enough for the first 10 minutes."
Magee got one of the goals back before halftime. It was his 11th MLS tally of the season, which moved him into a tie with Marco DiVaio of Montreal for the lead in the Golden Boot race. Magee has scored in a goal in every match but one since coming to the Fire, and in the one miss he assisted on a game-winner.
Continuing his all-about-the-team approach, Magee refused to talk about individual accomplishments afterwards. But he had plenty to say about his team's play, and none of it was nice. Logan Pause and Jeff Larentowicz may be the ones wearing the captain's armbands this season, but there's no question who the real team leader is.
"We started playing like (expletive) and finished worse," said Magee. "All I'm thinking about is how badly this loss feels at home in front of our biggest crowd that we've had since I've been here. We literally laid down."
Falling behind isn't new to the Fire, but the way the team retaliated this time was.
"We felt the game was tied or we were winning. We were just going to sit back and be content," said Magee. "Unfortunately we were down 2-1, so it wasn't a very good game plan. It's déjà vu. We've been saying it after every game that eventually (allowing the first goals) was going to catch up to us. Obviously this time it did."
The Fire's play against SKC (8-5-6) could have ramifications in the next MLS match, on Sunday at Vancouver. The Fire will be without defender Gonzalo Segares and midfielder Daniel Paladini in that one. Segares went over the limit on yellow cards when he drew one against SKC. Paladini was handed a red card for a late game tackle. Both infractions require one-game suspensions that will kick in against the Whitecaps.
Before going to Canada, the Fire will play before its biggest crowd of the season so far -– and most likely its biggest crowd of the season in Bridgeview. Mexico's Club America is coming on Wednesday for the lone international friendly of the season.
Fire officials are expecting a standing room only crowd of over 20,000, but not a repeat of Club America's preseason match against Mexican rival Chivas of Guadalajara last week. That one, played in Las Vegas, resulted in a brawl.
Fire-Club America won't be like that, based on previous spirited matches between the teams, and it'll certainly be a better example of exhibition soccer than that produced at Soldier Field on Saturday night. The Messi & Friends vs. The World event was a fiasco.
The match, one of a series planned to raise money for featured Argentine superstar Lionel Messi's charities, was planned as a top dollar event. When ticket sales were lower than anticipated the prices were lowered three weeks before the match, but parking was a hefty $40 on Saturday and promoters said 25,000 tickets were sold. Some paid in excess of $2,000 for a meet-and-greet with Messi afterwards.
What they got was something of far lesser value. Messi's team won 9-6 against a "World" all-star team that included 10 Northwestern University players. One of them, alum Matt Eliason, scored on a bicycle kick. It was a spectacular goal, one replayed on highlight films shown by TV outlets. That was the only good thing about this exhibition. Messi left the match in the 69th minute and departed the stadium without doing post-game duties with the fans or media. Chicago soccer doesn't need exhibitions like this one.
Fourth of July festivities did produce two big wins, a 6-0 romp by the U.S. nationals against Guatemala in San Diego, and the Chicago Red Stars' 1-0 upset of the Western New York Flash in the National Women's Soccer League. The Red Stars (4-6-3), who knocked off one of the strongest teams –- the Flash is 6-3-4 , visit the Washington Spirit on Wednesday.
The U.S. romp over Guatemala was a fine tuneup for a tournament that really matters -– the CONCACAF Gold Cup. It'll be conducted through the U.S. in July with the championship match on July 28 at Soldier Field. The U.S. faces Belize in its first Gold Cup match on Tuesday in Portland.


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The choice of AMD or NVIDIA graphics is constantly becoming a difficult choice for enthusiasts thanks to an almost level playing field as a result of strong competition between AMD and NVIDIA.
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Add in board partners are constantly releasing custom design graphics cards which squeeze every bit of performance and cooling for both brands equally.
HAWK - MSI's second highest model line (there is Gaming, Hawk and Lightning) offers strong overclocking and tweaking without being too intimidating to the enthusiast who isn't into modding or custom cooling. Their latest version is no exception.
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Out of the two cards, neither was the outright winner. The winner, however is the consumer. Read on to find out why.
These cards cater for a more enthusiast audience who are familiar with tweaking their graphics card's clock speeds and voltages It would be fair to call both cards reviewed here heavy duty high performance parts. Both offer full voltage adjustments which are not available on reference cards.
While the cards themselves are fascinating, the actual retail bundle leaves much to be desired. The usual 'throw-away' driver/application/norton anti virus CD, a generic quick start guide and DVI-VGA adapter are bundled.
It would have been beneficial to the enthusiast target buyer to include some extra adapters or cables as ASrock and Sapphire do.
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"The line between public and private in the health sector is extremely blurry". This statement crops up frequently in developing-country health policy discussions. It is so often voiced - and so rarely examined - that most people believe it is true. But it isn't.
What is blurry, unfortunately, is peoples', even experts', thinking and discourse on funding, payment, service delivery, and ownership. If you are not clear about which part of the system you are talking about - then it is easy to get confused (and easy to confuse your listeners as well). Likewise, if you are clear about which part of the system, and which activity, you are talking about, the boundaries are very clear. Below is my contribution to enhanced clarity.
Another area, where confusion often reigns unchallenged relates to forms of private ownership of business or activities in the health sector. There are three fundamentally distinct options: non-profit ownership; for-profit small business; and, for-profit corporation. These can be distinguished in the following way:
By being clear about which part of the health system is under discussion, it is easy to distinguish whether it is public or private. By being clear about the specific organizational form of a private entity, it is much easier to understand the incentives faced by the provider. Such distinctions are critical to understanding the organization of health systems and the incentives associated with that organization.
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Sylvie Pekarova, a 33-year-old pharmaceutical researcher in Prague, has no debt. She doesn't even own a credit card.
Consumers like Pekarova have helped the Czech Republic avoid the fate of the euro region, which is grappling with a debt crisis now into its third year. With private borrowing at half the euro region's average, the country now boasts interest rates that are lower than 10 of the currency-bloc's 17 members. That's helping the government's drive to sell benchmark Eurobonds, which started this week.
"It's this feeling that if something goes wrong, you don't want to be stuck with debts you don't know how to pay back," Pekarova, who lives in a rented apartment in central Prague, said in an interview. "Borrowing money for things like going on a holiday doesn't make sense."
Debt aversion in the central European nation has smoothed the acceptance of government austerity at a time when governments from Athens to Madrid are trying to persuade their voters to embrace more spending cuts. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges southern Europe to cut debt and spending, Czech borrowing costs are now the lowest among the European Union's ex-communist states and close to those in Belgium, a higher-rated euro member.
The Czechs began meetings with bond investors Feb. 13, before a planned sale of a benchmark Eurobond worth as much as 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion), the first time the country would tap international markets since September 2010. With yields near record-lows, Deputy Finance Minister Jan Gregor said last month he expects the deficit cuts to secure better terms in the sale than others in the region.
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The yield on the Czech Eurobond maturing in 2021 fell to a three-month low of 3.580 percent as of 4:27 p.m. in Prague today, 1.89 percentage points above the German bund with similar maturity and near its Sept. 30 all-time low of 3.479 percent. The yield on Eurobonds issued by Poland, the EU's largest eastern economy, was 4.795 percent. Belgium, a euro-region member, returned 3.497 percent on similar debt.
Emboldened by an AA- credit rating at Standard and Poor's, the fourth-highest investment grade and better than half of the euro region's members, the Czech Republic was the only eastern member to reject the EU's fiscal compact last month. Prime Minister Petr Necas said he's "not afraid of isolation" over the move.
'Right Response'
Stimulating the economy with a larger budget deficit during the 2009 global credit crunch was "absolutely the right response to the crisis," Dmitri Barinov, who helps manage about $2.3 billion in emerging European debt at Union Investment Privatfonds in Frankfurt, said in e-mailed answers to questions on Feb. 13. "Then in 2011, they managed to decrease deficit to around 4 percent, which is reliable."
Even with a credit boom after the country entered the EU eight years ago, Czech banks hold the most savings relative to debt among the bloc's eastern members. Deposits are 37 percent higher than loans, compared with 15 percent in neighboring Slovakia, a euro member, central bank data show. Savings were 7 percent less than loans in Poland, 27 percent lower in Hungary and 48 percent short in Latvia.
This offers protection for Czech banks against a funding freeze from their western owners, according to UniCredit SpA. Lenders, including Erste Group Bank AG and Societe Generale SA, which control about three quarters of the region's banking industry, are selling assets and raising capital to meet more stringent capital and liquidity requirements, curtailing credit to households and businesses in the east.
'Safest Country'
"In a world where investors increasingly focus on bank deleveraging, we think the Czech Republic would actually come as the safest country in the region -- but also probably in the whole EU," Gyula Toth, a Vienna-based strategist at UniCredit, said in a Jan. 20 report. "This is due to the fact that its banking sector is operating with the lowest level of leverage."
Household debt in the Czech Republic was 54 percent of income in 2010, according to data compiled by Eurostat, the EU's statistics institution. That compares with gross debt-to-income ratio, a gauge of indebtedness in relation to the ability to pay back debt, of 99 percent in the 17-nation euro region.
Historical Phenomenon
Czech caution with balancing savings and debt is similar to neighboring regions such as Austria, central bank Vice-Governor Mojmir Hampl said in a Feb. 7 interview. Much of the country was under the control of Hapsburg rulers from the 16th century, becoming part of the Austrian Empire in the 19th century.
"The tendency to save more than take loans is a historical phenomenon in the Czech Republic, which can be traced as far back as the data are available, to the 19th or the end of 18th century," Hampl said.
The Czechs' penchant for saving over taking debt has also been encouraged by inflation slowing more quickly than in other former communist countries during the transition from the centrally-planned economies after 1989, Hampl said.
Inflation slowed to less than 10 percent in 1994 and price growth has since stabilized below that mark, with the exception of 1998. Consumer price prices in Hungary rose faster than 10 percent every year until 2001.
Debt Aversion
Aversion to debt is also a central theme in Necas' program. His 18-month-old government has cut state subsidies, reduced public wages, raised the value-added tax and increased the retirement age to overhaul public finances and slow an increase in government debt, which, at 38 percent of gross domestic product in 2010, was less than half of the EU average.
The coalition Cabinet plans to cut the public-finance shortfall to less than the EU's limit of 3 percent of GDP by 2013, even as the economy slipped into recession in the second half of 2011 and a worsening economic outlook threatens to curb budget revenue. It wants balanced public finances by 2016. Pekarova, speaking at an old mill turned bar near the Prague Castle, approves of thrift.
"I don't want to be accumulating debt," she said. "I want everything I buy to be paid for by what I earn."
--With assistance from Krystof Chamonikolas in Prague. Editors: Alan Crosby, Balazs Penz
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