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If you're confused by the exploding netbook market then fear not. We explain all you need to know about these low-cost, low-power laptops and help you decide which is right for you.
Somewhat important: operating system
Windows XP is pretty much the standard, with some flavours of Linux available for most netbooks. Linux runs extremely fast by netbook standards. And its low overhead helps keep the retail price low on these little machines.
But each netbook vendor deploys Linux differently on the systems it sells; most vendors also include a customised menu interface to streamline the user experience, and these menus can be obtrusive, limiting productivity.
For your first netbook, unless you're already interested in Linux, you may want to go for a model with Windows XP preinstalled. The cost difference is usually minimal, and XP is relatively speedy even on netbooks. Don't, however, expect Windows Vista to run on a netbook's puny processor.
Somewhat important: software
For the most part, Windows XP netbooks carry very little onboard software. A few machines we've seen came preloaded with OpenOffice.org - the free Java-based office suite - but most netbooks we've examined require you to download, on your own, the software you want to use.
Somewhat important: hard drive
Let's be clear: You're not going to find a terabyte hard drive on a netbook. But you can find models with reasonable amounts of storage space. We've tested models with drives as small as 60GB, and some with drives as big as 320GB. Most netbooks offer drives in the 120GB to 160GB range, which should be adequate for your storage needs.
Somewhat important: processor
Netbooks are cheap for several reasons, and one of those reasons is the paltry processors they pack (an Intel Atom CPU in the 1.6GHz range is typical). That said, competition is on the way. AMD's Athlon Neo CPU is a step up (as seen in HP's Pavilion dv2) and we're still waiting to hear word of netbooks sporting nVidia's Ion platform.
Somewhat important: installed memory
Another reason netbooks are cheap is because they don't pack very much RAM. Look for 1GB of RAM. Anything more is beyond the realm of the standard small netbook.
Somewhat important: wireless connectivity
You might expect a machine called a netbook to deliver wireless broadband and constant connectivity, but you'd be wrong. Most netbooks do offer 802.11g wireless, which is more than adequate for basic needs; you'll also find 802.11n wireless as an option, though it's rare. If you crave wireless broadband performance, make sure that your netbook of choice includes a PC Express card slot or a USB port so you can buy a wireless broadband card.
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Rapid-fire debate questions flushed surprising answers from Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck Monday night, with Bennet opposing a treasured union bill and Buck endorsing big pieces of health care reform.
After more than a year of equivocating on the Employee Free Choice Act, which would greatly ease union organizing, Bennet said: "I would not support the language in that bill."
Buck, meanwhile, said he was in favor of many individual ideas included in the controversial health care reform bill, even though he has also said he wants to repeal it. In a series of "yes" or "no" questions, Buck said he is in favor of insurance portability, covering pre-existing conditions on health insurance and covering preventive services. Buck did say he opposes covering adult children on their parents' policies and believes the bill as passed is unconstitutional.
"You know, until the very end, Ken Buck was almost for the health care reform bill," Bennet said at the end of the list of questions, posed as part of the 9News/Denver Post debate co-hosted with the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs.
"Yeah, but I didn't agree with the other 2,400 pages and the 16 tax increases," Buck responded.
Buck followed up by repeating his call for repeal, saying the provisions he opposes include the "1099" tax-reporting requirements that small businesses find onerous and the alleged 16,500 IRS agents needed to enforce the bill. Independent fact-checking organizations have debunked that claim about the IRS.
The debaters did not go after each other as vehemently as they did last week in Pueblo, although they did underline differences on foreign policy.
Buck offered a more awkward phrasing of a claim he has made before — that Afghanistan will never look like the West: "It's a fundamental mistake to assume that people as backward as the Afghans are going to be able to build the industrialized nation and the democracy that it takes to achieve what we would consider a Western-style democracy."
Buck said his biggest disagreement on Afghan policy is Bennet's and President Barack Obama's calling for troop withdrawals to begin next summer. "I don't think we signal to our opponents when we're going to bring our troops home," Buck said.
Bennet repeated his claim that the only thing the U.S. can do effectively in Afghanistan is stamp out al-Qaeda and help Pakistan's military secure its nuclear weapons from terrorists.
"If we say we are going to stay there until the Taliban is defeated, that's the same as saying we are going to be there forever," Bennet said. Buck has said he wants U.S. troops to fight Taliban extremists as well as al-Qaeda.
Asked about inconsistencies in their campaign statements so far, Buck said he is refusing to take a stand on the "personhood" amendment in the general election. He said some people interpret Amendment 62 as stopping common birth control, a point Democrats hammered him with based on his stated support of the measure on a candidate questionnaire in the primary. "I am not going to get into the weeds on a state amendment," Buck said.
Bennet said he has been consistent in calling for pay-as-you-go legislation while also voting for expensive new bills. He said health care reform is paid for with long-term savings, and he said he extended unemployment benefits as an emergency spending measure that violated pay-as-you-go because "for a lot of our folks, there is an emergency."

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And yea, it was really sweet seeing Anna and Pearl reunited. As much sweetness and "happy endings" as we got in this episode though, I think we viewers are in for a really rough ride, these last few episodes (I assume it'll be 10 and a break as usual?)
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She appeared on 'The X Factor' as Cheryl Cole's assistant at judge's houses but now it looks like Kimberley Walsh is jumping ship to rival show 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Kimberley is rumoured to be joining Strictly Come Dancing this year. [Copyright Rex]
According to The Sun, Kimberley is set to join the star studded cast when Strictly returns next month.
A show insider told The Sun: "When we heard she was interested we were thrilled. Now everyone's dying to see her moves. She's a great name for us to have got"
Since Girls Aloud took a break in 2010, Kimberley took some time out from the music industry to pursue her childhood dream of performing on the West End.
Landing a role as Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical, Kimberley garnered rave reviews and in the process picked up some professional dance lessons.
Needless to say we can't wait to see Kimberley put her lessons to good use and strut her stuff on the dance floor!
[Related article: Girls Aloud reunion confirmed by Nadine Coyle]
[Related story: Cheryl Cole flirts with Tom Daley]
When Cheryl was judging on the X Factor, Kimberley and band mates Nicola and Sarah were regular audience members so we expect to be seeing a lot more of the girls on Saturday nights if Kimberley does join the show.
2012 now looks to be a very busy year for Kimberley with Girls Aloud due to be reuniting to celebrate their 10th anniversary by performing at this year's Royal Variety.
Girls Aloud are due to be reuniting for their 10th anniversary this year. [Copyright Wenn]
Other stars who are rumoured to be taking part in this year's Strictly include Westlife's Nicki Byrne, Olympians Victoria Pendleton and Steve Redgrave, model Jerry Hall and presenter Fern Britton.
It was announced earlier this year judge Alesha Dixon's empty seat had been filled by professional dancer Darcey Bussell.
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well, you could also downgrade to 2.0.1 using itunes 7.5 in DFU mode, restore with custom firmware, made with pwnage or winpwn of course, and then simply update to 2.0.2 i did one phone today just like that [i\'m unlocking phones in my city.. also the people tend to restore to the newest version instead of simply upgrade :)) ..but it\'s ok.. i\'m making money on this]
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Nope. It is still unlocked but asks to be activated. Thus do not update, but wait for new winpwn that supports 2.0.2.
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If you update via iTunes - you will loose Cydia and Installer. But it will be still unlocked. I don\'t use Cydia or Installer personally and find the Apple Store much better. If you need Cydia or Installer - you will have to wait for the dev team to release the pwn tool.
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Where is the Cydia & Installer gone after the update??? Can I jail break it somehow?????
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I have successfully done that. For awareness, I had an iPhone 2G running on firmware 2.0.1. I has updated to 2.0.1 using winpwn. This time I just used itunes update feature.
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American Desperado
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|Memoir, Crime, Military
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American Desperado is a 2011 book written by journalist Evan Wright and Jon Roberts, a subject of the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys.
Publisher's Book Description[edit]
In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright began a series of conversations with criminal Jon Roberts (née John Riccobono). Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de facto "transportation chief" of the Medellín Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic. Roberts seemed to be a prodigy of criminality, but one with a remarkable self-awareness and a fierce desire to protect his son from following the same path. American Desperado is Roberts' no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a soldier in Vietnam, returning to New York to become—at age 22—one of the city's leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel's most effective smuggler. The roster of Roberts' friends and acquaintances reads like a Who's Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega. Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed of 180 miles per hour, shared his bed with a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6"6" professional wrestler called "The Thing" as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so powerful that he attracted the attention of the Republican Party's leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted by the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda. Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and one of the most audacious criminals ever is a crime book that also reads like a dark social history of America.[1]
Doug Stanton, wrote, "Imagine if Mister Kurtz from HEART OF DARKNESS sat down with Dick Cavett for a little chat about the nature of good and evil, empathy, fatherhood, violence, drugs, power, self-knowledge, women, family, the hero versus the anti-hero, freedom, imprisonment... Reading AMERICAN DESPERADO is like being in a sumptuous ballroom somewhere and somebody lets loose a cobra across the cold, shiny floor – 'Oops, there it goes, watch the hell out!' Jon Roberts, the hero/anti-hero of this tale, is a shape-shifter: you can't really draw a bead on him even though his voice and Evan Wright's voice are singular and bell-clear; the story is a giant pane of smoked glass the color of silver and violet, and the story seems to change colors as you read. What is true is that, try as you might, you can't really put this book down."[2]
Jerry Stahl described it: "American Desperado is the first great crime book of the 21st Century. Dangerous, darkly hilarious, hair-raising, and terrifically written, Wright's prose spills over with the kind of insane, brilliantly rendered detail and dialogue that make you want to call people at four in the morning and read out loud. Imagine a literary mash-up of Capote and Carl Hiaasen, Joan Didion and Elmore Leonard - with something all the author's own: the heart and guts to place himself in the real-life world of non-stop menace and imminent violence, riding side by side with a killer so matter-of-fact vicious that murder itself is as unremarkable as the tasty breakfasts he loves to cook for houseguests. Fans wondering how Evan Wright would top himself after his balls-out performance in the Iraq War classic GENERATION KILL can rest assured. In this portrait of the original Cocaine Cowboy, Wright has once again walked in the shadow of death and emerged, not just alive, but with a story so compelling, so flat-out, what-happens-next riveting you can forget about sleeping, eating or talking to loved ones until you claw your way to the last indelible page... How fearless and brilliant a writer is Evan Wright? If Hemingway were alive, he'd probably want to punch him in the face. "[2]
A 2009 Miami New Times article reported Jon Roberts worked for a time as a police informant, quoted court records indicating Roberts assaulted and injured several police officers after he had claimed to have renounced crime and noted an arrest for domestic violence. The article also includes threats Roberts made to the reporter who interviewed him.[3]
Paramount Pictures is going to adapt the novel into a feature film, William Monahan will write the script, Peter Berg will direct and Mark Wahlberg will be starring the film.[4]
- ^ American Desperado by Jon Roberts and Evan Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill - Book - eBook - Audiobook - Random House
- ^ a b Amazon.com: American Desperado: My Life-From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset (9780307450425): Jon Roberts, Evan Wright: Books
- ^ "Jon Roberts: Cracked Cowboy" - Page 1 - News - Miami - Miami New Times
- ^ "Mark Wahlberg And Peter Berg Sign On To Paramount's 'American Desperado' Adapted By William Monahan For Start Early 2014". deadline.com. June 27, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.


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In Soundbooth CS5 Essential Training, author Jeff Sengstack demonstrates how to record, edit, optimize, and enhance audio using the professional tools in Adobe Soundbooth CS5. This course covers basic audio edits, such as trimming, fading, and panning clips, removing unwanted noise, enhancing audio with special effects, and creating stereo blends from multiple tracks. An overview of recording hardware and a detailed explanation of core audio concepts are included as well. Exercise files accompany the course.
When you hear audio, it's always analog. When you work with audio in Soundbooth, it's always digital. The difference is that analog sound consists of sound waves, continuous sound waves with variations of air pressure, whereas digital sound is just a bunch of numbers, numbers that when connected, approximate, closely approximate the original continuous sound wave. There was a time, not to long ago when all recordings were analog. Sound would hit a microphone, the diaphragm in the microphone would vibrate, and depending on the speed of the vibrations, it would send voltage changes to a recording device, like a magnetic recording device or a vinyl record where it would lay down continuous sound waves.
Well these days, almost all recordings are digital. Analog sound is converted into samples, numbers that simply represent the amplitude, the volume level at that particular moment. Nothing in an individual number in the sample really equates to the original sound and to me, that's just mind boggling. Let me show you what I mean. So here is that a440 waveform that I have used in other movies, and you look at it and it looks a smooth, so called analog wave, the way you would expect sound to look if you could see it.
But in fact, it's not a smooth wave. It's a bunch of discrete numbers, little dots, little samples they call it. Let me zoom in on that. I will show you what I mean. I am just going to go a little bit at a time here and you will see that that the wave is going to start breaking up into little pieces. Each of those pieces is a sample. It's just a number, a number, in this case, that can range from around -32,000 up to about 32,000, a spread of about 65,000. So that's all these little samples are - just numbers. You can hear it, if you drag your cursor across it, because the folks who designed Soundbooth let you hear it, but otherwise this would just be a number and would not represent anything in terms of the quality of sound. But when you drag your current time indicator, it's actually sampling sound from both sides of that line and letting you hear it, that in fact, it's just the number that represents amplitude.
This number down here would be something less than zero because it's below the crossing point here, as I call it. This number over here, would be something greater than zero, representing an amplitude of higher pressure, lower pressure, higher pressure. And that's what all digital sound is is just a bunch of numbers, spaced out evenly over time, that represent amplitude. Let me show you something from the Help file that gives you a better indication of how that works. The Sample rate determines the frequency range that you can have for your sound and the sample rate that we are used to, mostly likely, is the CD Sample rate, which is 44,100 Hertz, 44,100 samples per second, uniformly spread out over time.
So, that means in one second, when you record audio, from analog audio to digital audio, it's sampled 44,100 times per second and you get 44,000 individual numbers that range from something high or something low, indicating the amplitude. And that 44,100 samples per second allows you to hear between zero waves per second to 22,050 waves per second, or Hertz as it's called. That's the frequency range of human hearing, basically, from 0 to 22,000. In fact, few humans can hear up to 22,000 cycles per second.
So, this gives you the full range humans can hear and that's why it was selected for CDs, for some other reasons as well, but this particular reason was that's within the human hearing range but the thing is at high frequency, the reproduction is not necessarily perfect and some audio folks might argue that point, but I will show you an example of what I mean later. But right down here, you notice that DVDs are up to 48,000 Hertz and high-end DVDs, like Blu-ray, can be up to 48,000 Hertz, which is way above human hearing, but what that means is at the peak of human range, around 20,000 Hertz, the quality of the audio there will be more accurate than the quality of audio is here at that range.
Let me go back to Soundbooth to show you what I mean. Now I am going to look out the whole view here. I want to go to this high frequency zone and move over there. Over here, the frequency is about 14,080 cycles per second, which is not 20,000 as I mentioned for the CDs, but it's approaching that. So, we have basically 14,000 or so waves per second that are being sampled at 44,000 samples per second. So, let's zoom in on that. I will keep on zooming in on it over here.
As I zoom in here, you can begin see the waveform. Now notice this is each sample, and there are about four samples per wave. So, how can it be that four numbers, it's all these that are numbers, can represent the entire waveform? And if I even raise the decibel level, which makes the amplitude much higher, it's still four samples in that little area. Yet somehow, they are now defining a louder tone at that frequency. And the way this works is when you change your digital audio to analog, when you change it from what you see on your screen to actually hearing it coming out of a loudspeaker, which is done using hardware or software called a digital to analog converter, it's taking each of these samples and analyzing what came before and what came after and filling in the gaps using interpolation.
It's not entirely accurate. Theoretically, it's accurate, but practically it can't completely, accurately reproduce the sound with only 44,000 samples per second, but it's pretty close. But you can see it's just the bunch of little numbers there. Let me talk about what those numbers represent. Those numbers have what's called a bit depth and for CD, that's 16 bits. That means 16 bits per number, which allows you have the number that ranges between 0 and 65,000, but in terms of audio, it's actually -32,000 something to -32,000 something because audio is high pressure and low pressure.
So, the range has as many as 65,000 different values, but if you want to have a higher amplitude, you want to have more decibel-range in your audio, you need to record your audio at a higher bit depth. So, the best bit depth, as you can see here in this little graphic from the Adobe Soundbooth Help file, shows you that at 32 bits, you have a range of 192 decibels, which is way, way beyond what humans would be willing to withstand. But 96 decibels is really not the full range of, let's say, a symphony orchestra, which has very, very quiet passages and then very, very loud passages.
So if you want to have that full range of recording and you are recording on something besides a CD, if you are going to output this thing to a DVD, for example, or Blu-ray, then you want to record it at higher bit depth so you will have a full dynamic range, each sample has a potential to have a much wider range of numbers so you have a greater dynamic range for your final output. Let me get back to one more thing. I want to show you the organ here. The organ is very complex. I'll zoom out a bit. Notice that the waves are very complex yet when these waves were sampled and converted into digital samples, they're still the same number of samples per second.
So, if I zoom in on this, you will see that even a complex waveform is made up only by these discrete little numbers, yet when they are played back, it plays back and sounds like the original organ. I don't think anybody could discern the difference at this 44,100 sample rate. (Organ playing.) So, that's basically how digital audio works. It's a collection of discrete numbers that represent only amplitude, but when you put them all together, it comes out sounding like the original sound.
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CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 1979 vol.1 Issue No.02 - February
Issue No.02 - February (1979 vol.1)
pp: 125-126
Y. T. Chien , Guest Editor, Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Theodosios Pavlidis , Guest Editor, member of the Association for Computing Machinery and Sigma Xi, member of the editorial committee of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS OF PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENC
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Paralemmin-1 is over-expressed in estrogen-receptor positive breast cancers
Paralemmin-1 is a phosphoprotein lipid-anchored to the cytoplasmic face of membranes where it functions in membrane dynamics, maintenance of cell shape, and process formation. Expression of paralemmin-1 and its major splice variant (Δ exon 8) as well as the extent of posttranslational modifications are tissue- and development-specific. Paralemmin-1 expression in normal breast and breast cancer tissue has not been described previously.
Paralemmin-1 mRNA and protein expression was evaluated in ten breast cell lines, 26 primary tumors, and 10 reduction mammoplasty (RM) tissues using real time RT-PCR. Paralemmin-1 splice variants were assessed in tumor and RM tissues using a series of primers and RT-PCR. Paralemmin-1 protein expression was examined in cell lines using Western Blots and in 31 ductal carcinomas in situ, 65 infiltrating ductal carcinomas, and 40 RM tissues using immunohistochemistry. Paralemmin-1 mRNA levels were higher in breast cancers than in RM tissue and estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors had higher transcript levels than ER-negative tumors. The Δ exon 8 splice variant was detected more frequently in tumor than in RM tissues. Protein expression was consistent with mRNA results showing higher paralemmin-1 expression in ER-positive tumors.
The differential expression of paralemmin-1 in a subset of breast cancers suggests the existence of variation in membrane dynamics that may be exploited to improve diagnosis or provide a therapeutic target.
- Kutzleb, C, Petrasch Parwez, E, Kilimann, MW (2007) Cellular and subcellular localization of paralemmin-1, a protein involved in cell shape control, in the rat brain, adrenal gland and kidney. Histochem Cell Biol 127: pp. 13-30 CrossRef
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- Paralemmin-1
- Breast cancer
- Estrogen receptor
- Tissue microarrays
- Splice variants
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- Katerina D Fagan-Solis (1)
- Kristin E Williams (1)
- Joseph M Gozgit (1)
- Sallie Smith-Schneider (2)
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- Christopher N Otis (3)
- Giovanna M Crisi (3)
- Douglas L Anderton (1)
- Manfred W Kilimann (4)
- Kathleen F Arcaro (1)
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- 1. University of Massachusetts, 637 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01003-9298, USA
- 2. Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute, 3601 Main Street, Springfield, MA, 01107, USA
- 3. Department of Pathology, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, 01199, USA
- 4. Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University Biomedical Center, Uppsala, S-75124, Sweden


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In Argentina, a town in Rio Negro province prevented a Chinese company from signing a 30-year lease for nearly 800,000 acres of farmland on the grounds that agriculture on that scale would interfere with traditional cattle-raising in an area steeped in the gaucho, or cowboy, myth. The order blocking the lease said the deal would have forced the local people to watch their history and tradition "flow as if draining the blood from our soil for the destined ports of others."
Still, many farmers in New Zealand are acutely aware of the importance of China, which has become by far the largest buyer of the country's dairy products.
Over the past decade, New Zealand's trade with China has more than doubled as a percentage of GDP, and China has overtaken the U.S. as New Zealand's second-largest export market after Australia.
"The whole question of foreign investment is always an emotional one," says Brian Hanna, the mayor of Te Kuiti, another Waikato town, and a farmer himself. "I think land is important. But we can't have our cake and eat it. We need overseas investment and we are not big enough to sustain our own economy at the moment."
Around the globe, there remains a more existential fear: that China is buying up farmland to ensure food supply for its 1.3 billion people. But Xu Jianguo, China's ambassador to New Zealand, says Chinese investors simply see a market opportunity.
In fact, he says China's strategy is quite the opposite. No other country would have the ability to feed China in a food crisis, he says, and any dependence on other countries could be used as a weapon against China.
"With the improvement of Chinese people's living standards and welfare, we do have high-end consuming needs," Xu says. "Yes, we do import a lot of red wines from France and dairy products from New Zealand. But that volume compared to the total needs of the Chinese market is ... "
He laughs, trying to find the English language analogy to describe something so tiny.
Perry reported from the Waikato region in New Zealand. Associated Press writers Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong, Jack Chang in Mexico City, Joe McDonald in Beijing, Karl Ritter in Stockholm and Alan Clendenning in Madrid contributed.
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- According to Steve Mullin, president of the Washington Roundtable, a group that supports the measure, "Charter schools haven't been on the ballot in eight years, and in terms of public policy and politics, eight years is a really long time."[3]
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- Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn stated, "I believe the initiative is flawed because it goes around the constitution. I do not believe the superintendent of public instruction would have a role in the constituting of a charter school or decommissioning of a charter school."[4]
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- The News Tribune of Tacoma stated, "The most important reforms can be achieved without charter schools – but charters are an indicator that education leaders are willing to do whatever it takes, willing to pull every lever within reach. A state that forbids the opening of even a single one is a state that's way too comfortable with an intolerable status quo."[5]
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It was reported by the Seattle Times that Bill Gates had funded the initiative drive and the drive spent nearly $6 a signature to paid signature gatherers.
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- ↑ Seattle Times, "Wash. education groups file charter initiative", May 22, 2012
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Initiative Measure No. 1240", Retrieved August 17, 2012
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Charter-school debate's 4th round no less intense", August 29, 2012
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No. 1 Florida beats South Carolina 72-46
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Michael Frazier II got one directive from his Florida teammates against South Carolina — whenever he saw daylight on the court, let the ball fly.
The result was a school-record 11 3-pointers — the most ever in a Southeastern Conference game — and career-high 37 points as Frazier helped the top-ranked Gators move a game away from a perfect SEC regular season with a 72-46 victory over South Carolina on Tuesday night.
"They told me if I got a crack to let it go," Frazier said.
That was the easy part for Frazier, the sophomore who frequently found himself open and made the Gamecocks pay.
"Somehow, some way we didn't express to our players that Michael Frazier can shoot the basketball," South Carolina coach Frank Martin said.
The Gators (28-2, 17-0 SEC) are a game away from going undefeated in the SEC, something no team not named Kentucky has accomplished since Alabama's 14-0 run in 1956. Florida coach Billy Donovan shrugged that off, preaching his players will take the same approach to Saturday's Senior Day meetings with the Wildcats as they have each game all season.
"I still think there's things in front of this team," he said. "We can't get wrapped up in the moment."
Frazier's performance topped the 1986 mark of Florida's Joe Lawrence, who had nine against California. It was also the most ever in a league contest, although Rotnei Clarke hit 13 in 2010 and Alex Dillard made 12 in 1994 but both Arkansas players did it against non-conference opponents.
Frazier didn't feel anything special in warm-ups, but knew he was onto something with his five 3-pointers in the first half.
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"We were just really amazed at how open he was getting and how he kept knocking them down," Florida center Patric Young said.
No other Gator reached double digits in points.
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Frazier blew past his old career best of 21 points set earlier this season against Texas A&M. He was 11 of 18 from 3-point range while the rest of the Gators were 0 of 13.
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The Mass. Dept. of Fish and Game's Division of Fisheries and Wildlife announces this survey will take place tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 13, from 9 am.. to 3 p.m. People are encouraged to report any bald eagle sightings to the Westborough Field Headquarters, Dr. Tom French, at 508-389-6300, or visit the website. Good luck to all of you birders out there tomorrow!
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What if your doctor's only training involved reading books, doing online simulations and writing exams? How much would you trust in their expertise and abilities? What if we learned to drive in a simulator and then were set lose right away on the streets? How many more accidents would there be?
Anyone who learns to drive must learn by driving. Our doctors learn by doing, by working first with cadavers and then real patients, under supervision. It makes sense right? We know with these very differing skills, one that almost anyone could do and one that very few will do in their lifetime, when an activity is high risk we seem to understand the necessity for real experience.
However when it comes to teaching kids, frankly adults too, everyone looks to create simulations, to make up fake situations and play your way through. Well no wonder that doesn't fully translate to a financially literate society. First, the simulation is often written by people who have no professional or practical experience in finance, or the management of other people's money. Second, the best practices are often based on ideal scenarios because they are made up. Not a whole lot of making students go fake bankrupt while teaching money in class right?
I spent last Monday and Tuesday at Turning Tides in 21st Century Education. It was quite the event. I talked about the definition of financial literacy, citing the 10 things a student would know if they were financially literate when they graduated from high school. I did two book signings. One of my favorite childhood authors whose books I still read to my son bought my book and got me to sign it. And I was invited to sit in on a brainstorming session with some influential people in the education and finance space to discuss how we could create financially literate students. It was a brilliant experience, and I was honoured to participate.
As I drove home from the last session I was thinking about how we learn other skills that come with very dangerous consequences if we don't master them, and it struck me. We need real life experiences to enable true literacy and it's going to take the community, the families, the students and the schools involved if we are to improve the current state of personal financial literacy. So what we really need are financial cadavers. The question is now is, what would that look like? What would we use to create these real-life learning opportunities in a way that the lessons would stick and be applicable for life?


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Martina Hingis backed up her claim that she is "improving every week" with a stunning 6-0 6-0 victory over Cho Yoon-jeong at the Pan Pacific Open.
Hingis, who returned to tennis last month after retiring in 2002, took just 33 minutes to seal a first-round win over her Korean opponent in Tokyo.
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The Swiss, a four-time winner of the event, was never troubled and dropped five points in a 14-minute first set.
The Swiss star made her return to Grand Slam tennis at the Australian Open last month and reached the quarter-finals of the singles as well as winning the mixed doubles.
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Earlier, second seed Elena Dementieva claimed her first victory of 2006 with an unconvincing 2-6 6-1 7-5 second-round win over Katarina Srebotnik.
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Wendi C. Thomas' May 29 column "Assembly earns dubious award" gets my "Intelligent and Gifted Blather" award. She uses her admirable skills to again disparage what I support and appreciate. I say God bless the Tennessee General Assembly for a job well done. They made Tennessee safer, laid the groundwork for a revival in education, and took steps to stop the organization responsible for the murder of unborn citizens. They also made a move to reclaim the word "gay" for the next generation of Tennesseans.
Conservatives, Ms. Thomas, are not to blame for the double meaning of the Grizzlies player's name. Darn straight.
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Expectant mom Snooki is already sporting a fuller figure and it was on full display when she stepped out with her reality TV co-star JWoww in Jersey City.
The pint-sized TV star was dressed down in a velour top, jeans and bright red moon boots as she filmed scenes for her spinoff show Snooki and JWoww vs. The World.
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But despite her casual attire Snooki – who just a couple of months ago boasted about her 17 pound weight loss – couldn't hide her rounder tummy.
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Better Living Through Sorcery; New Broom Sweeps Witches' World
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Published: October 26, 1998
From broom closet to book jacket comes an evolving literary definition of the thoroughly mainstream witch: a teen-age girl casting economy spells on crabby teachers, or a sleek Wiccan high priestess with a coven, a law degree and the three press agents to promote the resulting spiritual memoir.
''Why am I writing this book?'' said Phyllis Curott, 44, a New York lawyer with her own practice and a Circle of Ara coven, whose ''Book of Shadows'' shares with readers her religious enlightenment as well as mugwort potions for psychic dreams. ''You don't want to get hate mail, but you make choices. And I feel that we're at a critical moment in our history, and I really deeply believe that people may change their attitudes by reading about an educated professional who is a witch.''
To achieve this goal, she has carefully cultivated an image as a hip, upwardly mobile witch, wearing a strappy brown Morgan LeFaydress and wispy blond hair for her dust jacket, Donna Karan for the publicity photos. She hired one independent public relations agency to promote her book among readers of New Age spiritual books, another to work with the mainstream audience. A media coach provided her with tips on demeanor and earthly sound bites.
''The most important thing is to shine the light of truth on this and dispose the negative stereotypes of the green-faced hideous hag,'' she said. ''What I'm hoping to reveal is that behind the mask of an evil witch is the ancient and very beautiful face of the goddess.''
And so are an assortment of other young and middle-aged witches whose rising literary output of self-help titles and memoirs is propelled, in part, by a yearning for social acceptance and a growing demand for information about the highly individual, nature-based folk religion of Wicca, which worships ancient deities and, as one author put it, has suffered from ''centuries of bad press.''
The wide assortment of books has reaped some authors six-figure advances and contracts with large publishing houses. Other writers complain that literary openness has cost them friends and, in some cases, day jobs that augmented meager royalty checks.
Increasing demand has also inspired some smaller publishers to stack their lists with witchcraft titles and to haunt New Age trade shows and witch camps and retreats in search of new talent and themes that are reaching, and in some cases targeting, an audience of teen-age girls.
No title has actually soared on a broomstick to the top of a best-seller list, but publishers large and small have found that many of the books are steady perennial sellers. Over the last two decades, the literature has evolved from academic and scholarly books to more practical titles that women are willing to buy, said Karen Bouris, director of marketing for Harper San Francisco.
In the late 1980's, sales of Wicca titles averaged 3,000 to 4,000 copies a year at the Carol Publishing Group, but in the last two years, sales have increased, with some of the popular titles selling up to 40,000, said Steven Schragis, the publisher.
''Every morning, I put a spell on Random House and Simon & Schuster, using nothing you can't buy in a regular grocery store: Velveeta, paprika and Orange Crush,'' joked Mr. Schragis, who has expanded the company's list of Wiccan titles from 2 to 29, including guides for men, young witches and gardeners.
But no spell could stop the large publishing houses, which are also pursuing literary witches. In November, Bantam Books is to publish ''Circle Round,'' Starhawk's how-to book on raising a second generation of witches, while Harper San Francisco is promoting its ''fun and empowering'' guide, ''Be a Goddess!''
For $9.99, St. Martin's Press is offering ''The Supermarket Sorceress's Enchanted Evenings,'' by Lexa Rosean, who manages Enchantment, a white-magic shop in Manhattan. The paperback provides easy-mix recipes for spells concocted from widely available ingredients. (Apartment-hunting spell: tinfoil, cinnamon, salt, sugar, bread, pennies.)
Witches Who Make Their Own Rules
With its lack of a central hierarchy and rigid rules, the earth-based religion of Wicca draws members from a mix of movements: feminists, environmentalists and New Age seekers who worship the gods and goddesses of nature by casting sacred circles and celebrating the changing seasons. This leaves wide room for interpretation of rituals, some dating back to pre-Christian religions, others rising from merely mundane modern issues like dealing with a balky computer mouse.
''The rituals today come from a variety of places,'' said Helen Berger, an associate professor of sociology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, who has written a book about modern witchcraft. ''These are very avid readers who have recreated older practices throughout the world and usually mixed them with modern issues and concerns about gender equity. Some of the rituals come from people's re-creations or from movies and novels and poetry.''
Wicca members tend to be white, college-educated, middle-class women, many of whom have families, said Ms. Berger, who said the religion was becoming more institutionalized as the members aged. ''It was fun to be an outsider and a witch in their 20's,'' she said, ''and now they are in their 40's and they want acceptance for their children.''


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MANILA, Philippines—Three out of every four global fund managers are bullish on equities this first quarter of 2013, with the remaining quarter keeping a neutral outlook, based on the latest fund managers' survey by British bank HSBC.
The survey showed that 75 percent of fund managers have an "overweight" view towards equities this quarter, much higher than the 40 percent share in the previous survey in the fourth quarter of 2012.
An "overweight" view is a recommendation to buy stocks in excess of a model index or portfolio while the "underweight" view refers to the opposite.
No fund manager is underweight on equities, the survey said.
Over six in 10 fund managers (versus 30 percent in the previous quarter) are "underweight" on cash as an asset class, while over a third (versus 20 percent previously) are "underweight" on bonds. No fund manager holds a positive outlook on bonds or cash for the first quarter.
"The bearish sentiment of global fund managers towards cash this quarter underlines potential opportunities in the market. They are looking at stronger prospects in equities and selective fixed income markets, based on valuation and on the back of improving economic indicators in the US and China," said HSBC's regional head of wealth development for Asia-Pacific Vineet Vohra.
Those who held overweight views on North American equities constituted 75 percent of respondents, given the relatively resilient US economy. This share increased from 60 percent in the previous quarter's survey.
Also, more fund managers are holding a positive outlook towards Asia-Pacific excluding Japan equities as their ranks increased to 42 percent this quarter from 33 percent in the previous quarter. Those who are upbeat on greater China equities also increased to 50 percent from 43 percent.
"The survey also highlights regions that continue to offer strong growth opportunities in the new year. Signs of economic recovery in the US and the bottoming out of China's economy are pointing to potential upside in North American and Greater China equities." In terms of bonds, high yield and emerging market bonds continue to be favoured by the majority of respondents as investors continue to look for yield in a prolonged low-interest environment," HSBC's Vohra added.
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