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Average stock prices for both companies have gone up since the end of the second quarter. PRGX added about $1.79 to its price per share, and AVID similarly increased its price per share by about $1.59. Both companies have undergone declining revenue growth percentages in the last five years; PRGX is down by 22.2%, while AVID is down by 6.1%.
PRGX Global Inc. is an Atlanta-based global provider of recovery audit and analytical services. It has served clients in more than 30 countries, and has expanded its services to industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, communications, healthcare, government and travel.
With a GuruFocus Business Predictability Rank of one star, PRGX holds a Financial Strength ratio of 5 out of 10 and a Profitability & Growth ratio of 5 out of 10. Its P/E ratio is 72.9 and its P/S ratio is 1.1.
Avid Technology Inc. holds similar rankings on GuruFocus. Also with a Business Predictability Rank of one star, AVID has a Financial Strength ratio of 5 out of 10, a Profitability & Growth ratio of 4 out of 10, a P/E ratio of 14.2 and a P/S ratio of .5.
Founded in 1987, Avid Technology is a company that develops digital audio and video technology, whose target consumers fit a wide and varied spectrum including film and television production, music, video editing, music, live sound and education. Its brands include M-Audio, Avid's audio solutions branch that develops speakers, microphones and digital DJ systems, Pinnacle Systems, providing software for home video editing, and Sibellius, a software for professional music composition and education.
Blum, whose investment philosophy includes "exercising patience and discipline in waiting for opportunities to present themselves," has also made headlines in the last month for downsizing its stakes in global commercial real estate firm CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE:CBG), selling more than 9 million shares for about $17 per share. This move brought Blum's stake to CBG down to 4%.
Although Blum's last few investment moves involved share reductions, trends do not completely denote a lack of confidence.
Just last June, Blum reported buying more shares of JDA Software Group Inc. (JDA), another member of the technology sector (as with AVID) that targets business growth software solutions, as well as more shares of eResearch Technology (ERT), a software applications provider targeting the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries (as with both AVID in the tech sector and PRGX in the analytical and diagnostics services).


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An excited child running past Austin Barron at the Coshocton County Career Center open house was a reminder to him why it's staged - to bring in the next generation to the vocational school.
The electronics senior, whose home school is River View High School, has been focusing on audio technology where he learns to record music and combine tracks. He would like to be a disc jockey and do audio recording and mixing. He's also looking to study electrical aircraft engineering.
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Originally posted by Amit Agrawal: my gmail account says: "You are currently using 444 MB (18%) of your 2460 MB". What is your current usage of its storage? Do you think we will ever need to delete mails for creating space on our gmail account? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hey Amit i do have a email account on Gmail. Yes its good and the storage space is much high. But other service providers also offer the storage space offered by gmail. rediffmail.com is one of them. currently my used space on rediff is 110221 Kb (5.3% of 2 GB) here also you dont need to delete mails for creating space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks.
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2) the rhyming lists were complete! I constantly catch numerous words that were somehow looked over instead it says no available rhymes for this word, c'mon that's lame! Please fix!
3) the dictionary, example sentence and almost all the add ons are a total rip off and an insult to your customers (I unfortunately bought every one took one look and then immediately regretted each purchase) but I just can't delete yet bc I love the concept so much and if the dictionary add on wasn't a scam and actually worked it would be huge!
Please fix/update and if gladly give 5 stars! Oh and it would be nice to be able to move around/edit/organize the starred word list!
Love the presentation but would like more content
The one thing I hate most about thesaurus apps is that they just throw all the together in one messy paragraph. T-Rex is refreshing in its approach, the adjustable list format is brilliant and it's my go to app.
However, the volume of suggestions offered doesn't even come close to the "English Thesaurus" app, so if I'm not satisfied with T-Rex's suggestions, I fire that one up.
It would be nice to have it all in one app but we don't live in a perfect world. ;) Both apps are reasonable priced and make for a great combination - one for quick, convenient lookups and the other for an in-depth lookup. I recommend getting both.
Does what it claims to do, but definitely not enough for a paid app
Has rudimentary features but has a plenty of room to improve and add on.
More convenient and accessible examples are needed--especially since it is paid for again.
You have to buy the app for an unreasonable price only to find yourself paying for additional essential features which should've been included in the app, like examples feature.
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PETERSON, Myrtle "Mitzie" – The family of Mrs. Myrtle "Mitzie" Cecile Peterson (Hennigar) wish to announce that she entered peacefully into eternal life on Sunday November 18, 2012 with her family by her side at the Cornwall Community Hospital. Left to mourn are her Husband Joseph Peterson. Daughter Charlene Lauzon (Lionel) Grandchildren Andrew Lauzon (Christa), Amanda Lee Lauzon and Great Grand Daughter Payton Lauzon. Special friend Barbara Parette. She will be missed by her many friends and acquaintances. She will also be missed by her feline friend Tika. Mitzie was born in New Brunswick on June 18, 1923 to Thressa Hennigar (Boudreau) and William Hennigar. She is survived by her Brother Jerry Hennigar (Helen) and Sister Clara Boadway (Les). Predeceased by her Parents as well as brothers Joseph Hennigar (Margaret and former marriage Goldie) and Tommy Hennigar (Ester). Sister Virginia Pouliot (Henri) and her best canine friends Sasha & Casey. Mitzie will always be remembered for her happiness in life and always making others feel welcome in her home. Resting at the Wilson Funeral Home822 Pitt Street, Cornwall where visitation will be held on Thursday from 2-4 & 7-9 PM and Friday 8:30 – 9:15 AM. The Mass of the Resurreciton with Commendation and Farewell will be celebrated in St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church on Friday November 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM. Rite of Committal at a later date in Notre Dame Cemetery, Cornwall. If so desired contributions in her memory to Hospice Cornwall would be appreciated by the family. Online messages of condolence may be made in the obituary section of: www.wilsonfuneralhome.ca
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General Electric tipped to win Transnet tenderComment on this story
Johannesburg - South Africa's state-owned Transnet will next week announce General Electric as the preferred bidder to supply it with 465 rail diesel locomotives as part of a R35 billion program, two people familiar with the decision say.
The Johannesburg-based company and the Department of Public Enterprises, which oversees Transnet, yesterday said they will announce "one of the biggest infrastructure transactions in South Africa" on March 17.
They will also announce the preferred bidder to supply 599 electric locomotives, the people said, who asked not be identified because the decision hasn't been made public.
Transnet plans to spend about 35 billion rand to buy the 1,064 locomotives over seven years, Minister of Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba said in October 2012.
The railway, ports and pipeline operator is spending 307 billion rand over the period as it seeks to improve export capacity to boost growth in Africa's largest economy.
Transnet in 2012 agreed to pay China's CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. 2.6 billion rand for 95 locomotives.
General Electric, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, has bid to supply diesel locomotives, spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said in an e-mailed response to questions.
She declined to comment further.
Transnet spokesman Mboniso Sigonyela declined to comment when contacted on his mobile phone today. - Bloomberg News
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She is a senior at Colorado State University, studying journalism and technical communications, political science and English.
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News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has reportedly invited French free-TV broadcaster TF1 to enter News Corp and Telecom Italia's Italian pay-TV operation Stream, a competitor to Canal Plus' Telepiu.
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Journal Sentinel TV and film critic Duane Dudek looks at life on the small and big screen, and some of the cool stuff on both.
Recall debate on WISN-TV highest-rated show of night
Thursday night's televised debate between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett drew nearly twice as high a rating as its nearest competitor, and almost as high a rating as that of the other three network affiliates combined.
The debate averaged a 12.1 rating on WISN-TV (Channel 12) at 9 p.m.
One rating point is the equivalent of 9,100 television homes.
By comparison, the second highest-rated program - the 9 p.m. news on WITI-TV (Channel 6) - averaged a 6.5 rating. The debate helped WISN-TV win the 10 p.m. news contest as well.
"The Mentalist" on WDJT-TV (Channel 58) earned a 5.1, and "America's Got Talent" earned a 3.3 on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
The debate, the last before Tuesday's recall election, was held at Marquette University Law School, and was hosted by WISN-TV public affairs show host Mike Gousha.
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A Lafayette man was injured Tuesday night when his mobile home caught fire.
According to the Lafayette Police Department, the fire began just after 7:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Regis Street. Investigators believe the the fire was cause by flammable liquids inside the engine of an RV.
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Buddy Holly played this Gibson J-45.
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More than 100 historic instruments are part of "Guitars! Roundups to Rockers," the exhibition on display through Aug. 4 at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
One of the guitars is a 1943 Gibson J-45 played by Buddy Holly.
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The Web Is A Very Dangerous Place
"The security industry is in general agreement that the web has grown to become the primary delivery mechanism for malware and other malicious activity" – McAfee, Inc.[1]
The web today is a dangerous place, and it is only getting worse. On top of that, most internet users have no idea how bad it is. Even worse, some users will fool themselves into thinking they are safe when they are not. This article examines the current state of the web, along with shortcomings of traditional solutions.
How dangerous is it out there?
In 2009, McAfee Inc. did a study to try and identify risky websites. The study found that 5.8% of all tested websites were found to be risky, with 4.5% delivering some sort of malicious download. These included browser exploits, also known as drive-by-downloads, which can enable viruses, keystroke loggers (keyloggers), or spyware to be installed on a consumer's computer without their consent and often without their knowledge.[1]
The study also found that the .com domain was the second riskiest of all, behind only .cm (for Cameroon). Why is .cm the most dangerous? .cm sites are commonly used for "typo squatting".[1] The idea is that a user intending to go to facebook.com might accidentally type facebook.cm, causing them to land on a likely malicious site.
Hackers are also very good at getting search engines to guide unsuspecting users to their malicious sites. In the first quarter of 2011, McAfee found that 49% of the daily search terms in the top 100 results lead to a malicious website.[2]
"We find that web-based risk is pervasive and growing" – McAfee, Inc.[1]
Traditional Recommendations
McAfee says the following: "The best way to protect yourself is by maintaining up-to-date, reputable computer security software with safe search functionality."[1]
They also rightly point out that "even the most experienced users need the assistance of a comprehensive security software suite with safe search functionality to more safely search and surf."[1]
While we agree that everyone should have up-to-date antivirus software, we are not confident in the ability of safe search technology to be secure. The underlying principle of safe search technology is that a comprehensive list of all websites can be created that can say if any given site is safe or not. Because there are so many websites, this list would have to be created and maintained by a computer. This computer would have to regularly check every site to see if it found anything malicious.
The problem is that the rate at which new malware is being created is staggering. In just the first quarter of 2011, McAfee identified over 6 million new unique malware samples[2]. The theory that any organization can build a complete list of all malware to use to identify a malicious site is simply impossible. In addition, in the same time frame, they found an average of 8,600 new malicious sites PER DAY![2] As much as anyone may try, it is simply unreasonable to trust that an organization can find ALL of the malicious sites on the web.
How is Light Point Web Different?
When using Light Point Web, you don't have to care if a site is malicious or not. You can view and interact with any site however you want, but it NEVER reaches your computer. While we cannot stop you from voluntarily handing over personal information to a site, we can stop that site from accessing your computer in any way that you don't explicitly authorize.
Accidentally stumbling onto a malicious site by mistyping a website address or clicking a booby-trapped search result or shortened URL is no longer something to worry about.
"The scammers, spammers, phishers, and hackers have stepped up a notch. We all must do the same." – McAfee, Inc.[1]
[1] McAfee: Mapping the Mal Web (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf)
[2] McAfee: Quarterly Threat Report – Quarter 1, 2011


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S&P Revises Cumulus Rating to "Stable."
On Friday, the Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its rating outlook on Cumulus to "stable" from positive. All ratings on the company, including the 'B' corporate credit rating, were affirmed. The outlook revision to stable reflects Cumulus' still high debt leverage, underperformance across several markets, weak long-term fundamentals in radio advertising, and a thin margin of compliance with its total debt leverage financial covenant.
The S&P report says, "The 'B' corporate credit rating reflects the company's very high leverage following the August 2011 acquisition of the remaining stake in Cumulus Media Partners and the September 2011 acquisition of Citadel. We consider the company's business risk profile as "fair" (as per our criteria), because of the company's healthy EBITDA margin and discretionary cash flow generation. The company's "highly leveraged" financial risk profile is characterized by very high post-acquisition adjusted leverage of about 7.4x (including preferred stock), pro forma for synergies anticipated in the third quarter of 2012. We see the potential for weak industry fundamentals to result in revenue erosion over the intermediate-to-long term."
"In the second half of the year, we expect revenue to be flat and EBITDA to grow at a high-single-digit percentage rate due to the realization of cost synergies. We expect that an influx in political advertising revenue will offset a low-single-digit revenue decline in core advertising revenue. Our base case scenario assumes that revenue will decline at a low-single-digit rate in 2013 because of lower political advertising revenue, and pressures on ad rates and margins from traditional and nontraditional media. We believe EBITDA could decline at a low- to mid-single-digit percentage rate in 2013 as additional synergies become more difficult to identify. Although digital represents a growth opportunity for Cumulus, it is such a small portion of the company's revenue that we don't anticipate it will be much of a driver over the intermediate term. We expect the EBITDA margin to contract by up to 100 basis points in 2013, to the low-30% area (which is still better than most peers) because of lower revenue and ongoing investments in sales, technology, content, and the SweetJack social commerce business. Longer term, we see further risks to radio advertising from traditional and nontraditional media, which could put downward pressure on ad rates and margins."
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Former Citroen WRC driver diesComment on this story
Former Citroen World Rally Championship driver Philippe Bugalski has died at the age of 49.
Bugalski, who was originally from Vichy in central France, died following a fall at his home in the Seine-et-Marne region, east of Paris on Friday.
Citroen Racing said: "Philippe Bugalski passed away this Friday at the age of 49. All the @citroen family is sad after losing such a great guy."
The French driver, nicknamed 'Bug', joined Citroen in 1998 and gave the team their first WRC win in 1999 in Catalonia in the Xsara Kit Car, following that with a win in Corsica. He retired from professional rallying in 2003.
"I feel really upset by this tragic news."
Reigning world champion Sebastien Loeb paid tribute to his former team mate, saying: "We've just lost somebody who was incredibly special.
"Beyond his consummate professionalism and talent, I will always remember his human values. 'Bug' was a person with huge spirit, who had time and warmth for everybody. We will all miss him."
Yves Matton, Citroen's team principal, added: "We have just lost one of our own family and our sadness is at the same level as everything Philippe gave to us: immense. We all knew him and he knew everybody.
"He was always in a good mood and loved life more than anybody else. That makes his sudden passing all the more shocking, and above all our thoughts go out to his family and everyone close to him. The whole of the rally community is mourning his loss." - AFP
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Welfare groups hold fears over Liberal Party $3 million fines vow
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- February 05, 2014
A LIBERAL Party pledge to raise an extra $3 million from fines should not be at the expense of needy Tasmanians, welfare groups say.
Opposition Treasury spokesman Peter Gutwein yesterday continued his vow to boost revenue from fines by 15 per cent to help prop up the State Budget.
"We make no apologies for making criminals pay," Mr Gutwein said.
"If you do the crime, you will pay the fine."
But the RACT and TasCOSS have warned any moves to increase revenue needs to strike the right balance.
Last year the State Government pocketed $20 million in revenue, with almost half of the fines coming from police and the monetary penalties enforcement office that looks after parking fines and other traffic infringements.
Tasmania's Council of Social Service chief executive Tony Reidy has warned the move would disadvantage some of the state's most vulnerable.
"TasCOSS views any proposal to increase the level of fines with much concern," Mr Reidy said yesterday.
"Such increases disproportionately affect low income and otherwise disadvantaged Tasmanians.
"Many Tasmanians, through misadventure, find themselves levied with significant fines well beyond their capacity to pay and there is already good evidence around to suggest a discipline of fines is not necessarily the best way to go about moderating behaviours."
He said with between 14 and 24 per cent of Tasmanians living below, or on the cusp, of the poverty line, increasing fines is something that will be beyond the capacity of these families and individuals.
RACT spokesman Vince Taskunas said any government needed to weigh up the differences between revenue raising and creating a deterrent.
"RACT members consistently talk about their negative feelings about hidden speed cameras and this is why we are advocating for higher visibility policing operations rather than speed cameras that are often hidden and have less of a deterrent effect," he said.
Mr Taskunas said fine increases needed to act as a deterrent.
"Just ramping up speeding fine amounts is not going to do it," he said.
"And that is going to upset a lot of our members who see speed cameras as just revenue raisers.
"Simply increasing fines is something the RACT is not advocating.
"We want to see targeting to see if there is a sensible balance between fines and the associated penalties."
He said some areas could benefit from an increase in penalties included infringements for driving without a licence, without registration or while using mobile phones.
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Shirley Williams of Bridgewater Posted at 1:01 PM February 08, 2014
Criminal... Indeed! I take offence to that. I am not a criminal. Yes in my many years of driving I have a couple of blemishes on my licence, but a criminal I am not.
Peter Griffin of Hobart Posted at 10:21 AM February 07, 2014
Anyone advocating income-based fines clearly has no idea about what that would mean as far as implementation goes. ie it would be a bureaucratic mess and would never work properly.
Astrid Malone of Battery Point Posted at 12:57 PM February 06, 2014
So, am I right? Does this proposal suggest that middle and high income earners should be subsidising the traffic fines levied on low and no income earners? Hmmmm.....Possibly, let me think now..... yep.... stupidest suggestion I've heard so far this year.
Peter Walton of Hobart Posted at 9:18 AM February 06, 2014
Can simply not believe that people think a fine should be based on your income! Surely you're not that ignorant to realise that this is unfair. The fine MUST be the same for all. If you can't afford it, then don't break the law. How bloody simple is that! How much you earn is 100% irrelevant to the act of breaking the law and should also be irrelevant to the fine you must pay. And if we're talking about parking or speeding infringements, so what? Don't speed, you won't get booked for going a couple or so kms over the limit but if you can't manage to park legally (how simple is that!?!?!?) or drive at or under the limit - you should NEVER have a licence. It really is that simple.
lindon hays of old beach Posted at 7:16 AM February 06, 2014
As usual its the cars fault not the drivers wouldn't matter Mike Stone if your car was targeted as you put it, if you was keeping within the speed limit for that area, no fine.
Leigh McLean of Queensland Posted at 11:22 PM February 05, 2014
No one is suggesting a special set of rules Lynda Morris 8.23. All we are asking is that the punishment fit the crime. The fine is a significant part of the punishment so a rich person feels it far less than a poor person, as stated by others above. I earn 6 figures so a couple of hundred dollars is not a drama. 5 years ago when living in Tasmania doing a similar job I earned less than half as much and a couple of hundred dollars was a great deal of money.
Elizabeth Hastings of New Town Posted at 9:34 PM February 05, 2014
Well, if you either can't afford, or don't want to pay traffic fines - don't break the law. Very simple really. I'm out in my car almost every day, I've never received a traffic infringement in almost 50 years of driving and I don't crawl around miles under the speed limit. If you're not competent to keep an eye on your speed while also watching the traffic and noticing changing speed limits then you should hand in your licence - it is simply not that difficult!


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Lady Gaga and some of her biggest hits are remixed and reloaded for her latest release, a remix album of her singles aptly titled The Remix, which came out Tuesday (August 3). For this project, a number of dance music's biggest names got the chance to work with Gaga's discography. (It hit the international market earlier this year.)
Songs on the new album were selected from Gaga's releases The Fame and The Fame Monster, and DJs and musicians like Passion Pit and Stuart Price put their stamp on the Gaga sound. Vincent Turner, a.k.a. Frankmusik, who remixed Gaga's "Eh Eh" for the U.S. and international versions of The Remix, says that Gaga has changed the landscape of pop and dance music for the better.
"You very rarely hear from Lady Gaga!" he joked when asked about the singer's reaction to his take on the song. "It's nice to see Lady Gaga pioneering what we all are, which is electronic music.
"Everything nowadays is involved with computers — everything — whether it sounds like it or not is electronic music," Frankmusik added. "She's doing what Annie Lennox was doing 15 years ago, but with her crazy style. That's what was missing. Whether you like her or hate her, you can't dismiss the fact that at least she's given herself an all-around brand like David Bowie did. That's the kind of thing she's doing. I respect that."
Anders SG of Danish group Alphabeat, who worked on a remix of "Telephone" for the international version of the album, admitted that Gaga is paving the way for smaller, underground dance acts to hit the mainstream.
"She's pretty much changed the whole game with her music and her videos and her style and all that," he explained. "It's like blown everybody's minds and it just got more and more crazy and more and more brilliant. It just kept going. I guess she pretty much changed all the rules of pop music. Pretty amazing, actually … it makes way for new types of music to be played on the radio."
So what should pop artists do now?
"If I was Christina Aguilera, Britney and all those, they have to come up with something really, really great now," Anders said. "You can't just copy what she's doing. I guess all those big pop stars are gonna sit there and go, 'What do you do?' "
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Introducing PAYGvsContract.com: Giffgaff Goodybags VS Contract Price Comparison Website
January 14th, 2012
Ever wondered what the cheapest tariff for you is? Our new price comparison website searches across Pay As You Go and contract options.
We are pleased to announce the launch of PAYGvsContract.com – the new price comparison website from Ken's Tech Tips which incorporates both Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly tariffs in one simple and easy-to-use price comparison website.
Why the need for a new price comparison website?
Over the past few years, the mobile industry has changed significantly. With the move towards expensive smartphones devices such as the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy S II, many of us now find ourselves forking out more than ever for our mobile phone calling plans. Additionally, it's now commonplace to pay something for our phones upfront, even when we take out an expensive £35/month or £40/month contract – smartphones are seldom "free" even with these expensive contracts.
The second change in the industry is that many of us are now demanding the flexibility to upgrade our phones whenever we please. The combination of buying a SIM-free phone and taking a cheap tariff from a Pay As You Go provider such as Giffgaff provides a great-value alternative to a Pay Monthly contract, and is often comparable in cost to a contract (see our Giffgaff review). Occasionally these Pay As You Go plans even work out to be even cheaper than their Pay Monthly counterparts.
For both of these reasons, we think the old model of having price comparison websites that deal solely with Pay Monthly contracts or price comparison websites that rank by monthly contract price are outdated. Our new website, PAYGvsContract.com, is the first mobile phone comparison site to incorporate both Pay As You Go and Contract deals into one website and is one of the first to use the total cost of ownership calculation to bring greater clarity to price comparison.
How does PAYGvsContract.com work?
PAYGvsContract.com is a new website from Ken's Tech Tips which incorporates both Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly into one easy-to-use comparison tool. This allows you to find the cheapest and most suitable way of owning a new smartphone regardless of whether the cheapest method would be to Pay As You Go or to take out a new contract. When carrying out a price comparison, users of PAYGvsContract.com are presented with:
- A side-by-side comparison of the costs on Pay As You Go and Pay Monthly.
We find the cheapest Pay As You Go deal and we find the cheapest Pay Monthly deal – then we show you how the total cost of the two options compare. On Pay As You Go, you'd expect to pay more for your phone upfront but this is offset by the lower monthly cost for the remaining 24 months. The first section of the results shows you the cheapest Pay As You Go option and the cheapest Pay Monthly option and how the total cost compares.
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We search through thousands of tariffs and tariff combinations to find the cheapest tariff on each network. Those tariffs are sorted by their total cost of ownership and you're shown a bar-chart comparison of how the price compares between networks. We use a unique "stacked bar chart" layout which allows you to see how the costs break down over the course of your contract – this is useful when considering cashflow and how much you need to pay for your phone upfront.
- Full and clear specifications on the devices.
It can sometimes be difficult to know which phone to go for – do you go for the Apple iPhone 4S, the Samsung Galaxy S II or the HTC Sensation XE? How do the three devices differ in terms of their feature set? Which phone has the best camera, the largest display or the longest battery life? PAYGvsContract.com makes it very easy for you to choose the right phone – the specifications of the phone are integrated straight into the website.
Which phones do you support?
We currently support price comparisons for 11 smartphones with more on the way:
- Apple iPhone 3G S
- Apple iPhone 4
- Apple iPhone 4S: 16GB edition, 32GB edition and 64GB edition
- BlackBerry Bold 9900 Touch
- HTC Sensation XE
- HTC Wildfire S
- Nokia Lumia 800
- Samsung Galaxy Ace
- Samsung Galaxy S II
Which mobile networks and tariffs do you support?
We currently support one Pay As You Go network (Giffgaff) and the all of the major Pay Monthly networks:
- Giffgaff (Pay As You Go). Fully supported, including all of the standard Goodybag packages are supported as well as the new £3/month BlackBerry add-on. This is currently the only supported Pay As You Go option – Giffgaff is by far the most popular option amongst Ken's Tech Tips readers so we thought it was a good place to start. For upfront handset cost, we currently pull in SIM-free prices from Amazon.co.uk (you are able to input your handset prices if you find it cheaper elsewhere).
- Three (Pay Monthly). Fully supported.
- O2 (Pay Monthly). Fully supported, including the choice of different O2 data plans (e.g. The Basics, The All Rounder & The Works).
- Orange (Pay Monthly). Fully supported.
- T-Mobile (Pay Monthly). Fully supported, including automatic choice of flexible boosters when beneficial.
- Vodafone (Pay Monthly). Fully supported.
- Tesco Mobile (Pay Monthly). Limited support. Currently we only support for 16GB iPhone 4S tariffs, though we envision adding support for other phones soon.
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You can carry out a price comparison at PAYGvsContract.com.
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Additional Training Programs
YCCI provides an educational umbrella for the following programs:
Programs for Fellows
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
The RWJ Clinical Scholars Program is for MD fellows interested in community-based research or health policy. Its objective is to prepare physicians to improve health and healthcare in the U.S. This two-year program identifies a select group of physicians who have completed their clinical training and engages them in a rigorous curriculum addressing the principles and practices of research, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to translate research into practice, policy and improved community health. Yale is one of four sites in the country selected in a national competition to offer this fellowship and has been a site for over 35 years. Each year 6-8 Scholars are selected from 30-35 national candidates who represent a full spectrum of disciplines in medicine.
YCCI Community Research Scholars Training Program
The RWJ program is partnering with YCCI to offer community-based research training to Yale investigators affiliated with the Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing. For this purpose, the RWJ program has developed a series of didactic and experiential sessions that run weekly to bi –weekly from July through October. The didactic component is focused on community-based participatory research including qualitative and mixed methods and social and environmental effects on health and ethics. The experiential sessions are specifically focused on working in New Haven, but have applicability to other geographic sites.
Programs for Medical Students
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD)
Under the leadership of James Jamieson, MD, PhD, the MSTP Program trains physician-scientists as basic and clinical researchers who can translate research findings into unraveling problems of human pathobiology. Funded continuously for 30 years by the NIGMS, the Program was recently reviewed and renewed for an additional five years. Yale currently receives funding for 46 positions from the NIGMS, while endowed scholarships support three students and YCCI under the CTSA supports two students whose research is directly relevant to clinical medicine.
The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program for Medical Students
The DDCRF was established in 2001 with Yale as one of 10 US sites. This program supports medical students doing a 5th year devoted specifically to faculty-mentored clinical research. All students in the DDCF Program present their research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Annual Meeting and also at YSM's Annual Student Research Day. Each year approximately 70-80 students apply to this selective program; the acceptance rate is 10-15%. Doris Duke students are eligible for the MD-MHS joint degree program.
Short Term Research Training Grant for Medical Students (T35 HL07649)
This grant from NHLBI is now in its 25th year and supported through 2012. The grant funds short-term (two to three months) research experiences for medical students. Recent follow-up of Yale students supported by this grant has shown that of 259 students who have completed their training, 96 (38%) have been appointed to faculty positions at medical schools. During or shortly after medical school, 142 students have co-authored 376 papers, and all but one student have presented papers or posters at national or regional scientific meetings.
PhD, MHS, MPH and MS for Medical Students
Medical students can enroll in joint MD-PhD, MD-MHS MD-MPH programs or in a one-year MD-MS in Chronic Disease Epidemiology. At any time, YSPH generally has four MD-PhD students and three MD-MPH students. MD-MPH students meet their MPH course requirements during their fourth year and do a thesis that also meets the thesis requirement for the MD degree.
Intensive Pedagogical Experience in Laboratory Research
Taught at the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, this course is given each summer for selected first year medical students, with the cost supported entirely by the School of Medicine. It includes four rotations through different faculty-led, hands-on lab experiences including physiological studies of ion transport; gene expression in a heterologous expression system (Xenopus oocytes); studies in isolated epithelia: immunocytochemistry of co-transporters, Western blots, tissue processing, confocal microscopy; and molecular biology of ion channels and transporters in marine species.
Programs for Graduate Students
Yale School of Public Health
This accredited school of public health also functions as a department (Epidemiology and Public Health, or EPH) within the School of Medicine. The School offers MPH, PhD, and MS degrees.
The MPH program produces leaders in public health research and practice. Students receive a broad education in public health and concentrate in one of eight EPH divisions or programs: Biostatistics, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Health Policy, Health Management and an Advanced Professional program for students with health-related doctoral degrees. YSPH also offers an interdisciplinary Global Health concentration, which may be combines with any divisional specialization. MPH students are integrally involved in public health practice through formal courses and placements in community-based organizations. YSPH offers joint degree programs with the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Forestry & Environmental Studies, Management, Law, and Divinity, as well as the Graduate School. MPH graduates go on to MD or PhD programs or to research or public health practice positions in universities, research institutes, hospitals, national and international NGOs, and local, state and national government agencies.
MS in Epidemiology and Public Health, administered through the Graduate School, emphasizes mastery of skills in an individual specialty area within public health. The MS program includes two tracks: Biostatistics and Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE). The length of study is two academic years for Biostatistics and one academic year for CDE. All students receive research ethics training in their coursework. Graduates in the Biostatistics track have gone on to university and pharmaceutical company research positions and to PhD programs. Students enrolled in the CDE track have generally been faculty members or postdoctoral fellows seeking the skills necessary to conduct epidemiological research, and return to these positions after graduation. In many cases, students in this track attend on a part-time basis, while maintaining their regular position
The PhD program, established in 1915 and administered through the Graduate School, provides mastery of research tools in a specialty discipline (Biostatistics, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Health Policy and Administration, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, or Environmental Health Sciences). The program involves two years of coursework and two to three years of dissertation research. All students take a course in research ethics. Graduates go on to university faculty and research positions, leadership positions in state health departments, and research positions in federal agencies including NIH and CDC.
Yale School of Nursing
YSN is internationally known for excellence in clinical practice, teaching, and research. It currently ranks 12thin NIH funding among schools of nursing. YSN grants the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree and Post-Masters certificates. In 2006, YSN discontinued its Doctor of Nursing Science program and started a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program, officially administered by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The MSN program offers nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse midwifery specialties. The PhD program builds on a long tradition of linking practice and research and emphasizes the preparation of academic nurse faculty prepared to do clinical research. Typically, there are 475 applicants per year for 110 positions in the MSN and PhD programs. YSN has long been known among schools of nursing for its emphasis on clinical research and community outreach. Students strengthen their research networks by volunteering in community agencies and the NIH-funded Centers have active Dissemination Cores that bring YSN's clinical research findings into the community. YSN students and junior faculty participate in the CTSA-funded YCCI Scholar and TL1 programs.
Biomedical Engineering
Yale University's Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) was founded in 2003, with a mission of research and education in translational medicine using the quantitative tools and methods of engineering. It is an academic department in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with an administrative home in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and also a basic science department in the School of Medicine. BME is home to 14 faculty members, of whom eight have primary appointments in FAS and six have primary appointments that are split between FAS and the School of Medicine. BME is a truly interdisciplinary research enterprise that offers educational programs leading to BS, MS, and PhD degrees. Research in BME is focused in three areas: biomedical imaging, biomolecular engineering, and biomechanics. The faculty members in biomedical imaging are engaged in research in MR, PET, and optical imaging, as well as biomedical image analysis and processing. Biomolecular engineering faculty members have research programs in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and cancer nanotechnology. Biomechanics faculty members are studying cardiovascular mechanics, bioreactor design for tissue engineering, and biomaterials. Admission to the PhD program is competitive and selective, with 140 applicants in 2010 from whom 19 (or 14%) were offered admission. BME students and junior faculty participate in the CTSA-funded YCCI Scholar and TL1 programs.
Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP or "Med into Grad" Program) within Yale's Interdepartmental PhD Program in Biological & Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
With the goal of building bridges between traditional graduate and medical training programs, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has provided funds to Yale's BBS PhD program to create a special Medical Research Scholars Program for a select group of students. This training experience includes both medically-oriented coursework and mentored clinical experiences designed especially for PhD students, preparing them to conduct clinically relevant research and work in close collaboration with physicians and physician-scientists. The MRSP integrates graduate students closely with translational and clinical programs at the interface of research and medicine.
Required coursework begins with normal human physiology and organ-based cell biology followed by human pathobiology, an introduction to drug discovery, validation, and clinical trials, and Biostatistics in Clinical Research. Students are also invited to audit selected medical school courses, and participate in the YCCI Research-in-Progress seminars and the annual YCCI retreat.
The centerpiece of MRSP is the two-year Mentored Clinical Experience course, which provides students with in-depth exposure to the science behind human diseases and first-hand encounters with patients. The MCE curriculum provides eight disease-based modules over a two-year span. The strength of this course lies in the philosophy that there is no more powerful teaching tool to reinforce medical knowledge gained from the classroom than mentored exposure and interactions with patients and clinical decision-making. In addition to giving the students a multidimensional opportunity to explore human disease, the MCE course allows the students to form relationships with a superb cadre of physician-scientists. Through these relationships, the students are able to explore research opportunities, make additional connections with other physicians and scientists engaged in disease-related research, and acquire mentors and role models who can continue to advise them as they progress through graduate school.
Approximately 25 incoming BBS students apply to the MRSP program each year, five of whom enter the program. MRSP students come from all eight of the BBS tracks (computational biology, immunology, microbiology, biophysics and biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physiology).


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Just moments ago, iphone_dev on Twitter announced the release of the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1. This is the moment you've all been waiting for folks, the real untethered jailbreak is here. This only works for A4 devices, so we are still waiting on a jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, but if you have one of the devices listed in the title, you can now jailbreak your device untethered on iOS 5.0.1.
Pod2g says on his blog:
Hello, as expected, the Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team have released the A4 untethered for 5.0.1 based on my work.
It is exactly the same set of files, either distributed as a Cydia package for those that are already tethered or a redsn0w bundle for new users.
The jailbreak is available via Redsn0w, which can be downloaded here. Stay tuned for a tutorial, and subscribe below to be notified of any developments.


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Not sure how to use a trainer? Watch how simple it is in our demonstration video.
1: Place the items you want to duplicate in a chest.
2: Close the chest window and "Save and quit to title".
3: Go back into your world and take the objects from the chest.
4: Close the chest window and exit the game using Alt+F4.
5: Open the game again and you will have your items in your inventory and in the chest.
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PSU's Mauti notches conference awardOctober 1, 2012 12:45 PM
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Michael Mauti has been named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for his performance on Saturday against Illinois. It is his second defensive player of the week award this season and the third of his career.
Mauti almost single-handedly could have stopped Illinois on Saturday. He finished with six tackles, half a sack, two interceptions and a forced fumble. He returned one of the interceptions 99 yards to the one yard line.
Mauti also received the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week award for the Illinois game.


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- 16 oz. sour cream - 1 package Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix - Cin Chili mix Add one package of Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix to 16 oz. of sour cream. Add 1 teaspoon of Cin chili mix. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Jalapeno powder. Mix well. Chill for one hour before serving.
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Lincolnshire County Council will save £2.5m a year after joining the East Midlands Public Services Network (emPSN).
The emPSN is an organisation that allows local authorities in the East Midlands to bulk buy a range of IT services and connect to a core network infrastructure supplied by managed service communication provider Kcom. According to the council, this will allow it to replace IT contracts that are about to expire for less than half the original price.
The contract, which also covers broadband services for 349 county schools, was awarded to Kcom after a successful bid in a recent EU procurement process. Kcom has also implemented public service networks for Staffordshire and Dorset County Councils.
"Like any modern organisation, the council needs certain IT services in order to operate effectively. This includes a large-scale computer network to link our different offices and a high-speed internet connection," said councillor Kelly Smith, executive member for finance and human resources.
"Under this new arrangement we'll not only see improvements to these services, but we've also reduced the associated costs by more than 50 per cent. The end result is a much better deal for taxpayers," she added.


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Every single teacher and staff member at Benton Harbor High School got a pink slip in the mail today.
The Superintendent announced the entire high school staff of about 90 people are being laid off as part of a "turnaround plan" to avoid state takeover.
The school is one of the lowest performing schools in the state, falling into the 5th percentile when it comes to graduation rates and academic performance.
Under the plan, which was approved by the state, the administration can re-hire half of their current staff, but must replace the other half with new teachers and faculty.


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The Norwegian Wood Poster CompetitionJuxtapoz // Thursday, 27 Jan 2011
A lot of people are looking forward to the motion picture adapation of Japanese author Haruki Murakami's classic novel Norwegian Wood, being released this March, 2011. We are excited for the original score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, some others are excited because this is like the Japanese Catcher in the Rye turned visual, and budding designers are excited because Don't Panic has created the Norwegian Wood Poster Competition.
The website Don't Panic UK are in charge of the contest, and have produced these guidelines:
If you think you have what it takes to produce a film poster that will attract audiences then this competition is for you.
NORWEGIAN WOOD is a story of love and heartbreak in a time of global instability. As students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment, Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by a tragedy years before, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not – outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident – marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.
- Finished artwork should be 30 x 20 inches, vertical, at 300dpi
- For voting purposes, please upload a 72dpi, RGB version of your design - file should not exceed 1mb
- The competition requires that you include your location and telephone number in your Don't Panic profile
The winning poster will be chosen by a panel that includes Norwegian Wood Director, Anh Hung Tran, Curzon Soho and esteemed film poster designers, All City, and will be rewarded with an official signed NORWEGIAN WOOD poster, a Murakami library, CD soundtrack from the film and a limited edition Stanley Donwood print, as well as having their artwork distributed in Don't Panic packs nationwide.


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Download Android Lollipop Now for Your Nexus 5 or 7
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Originally posted by Eric Lemaitre: What is more, is "asianage.com" a reliable info source, for I never heard about it before ? Best regards.
Originally posted by Jay Shin: In addition to earning 30% less salary, another big problem is that those H-1B aliens are usually not covered by health insurance. This is especially true if the alien is working as a contractor through a body shopper.
Originally posted by Jignesh Patel: Whose photo is this?
Second, why are you bringing up H-1B aliens from Third World countries, when there are tens of thousands of H-1B and other non-immigrant aliens from First World countries who insist on excellent benefits and pay?
Originally posted by Mallika Dhupia: What exactly you mean by bringing H1B from first world nations. Doesn't it prove that you are biased ( or racist to certain extent ..)
Moreover, if few body shoppers are doing something which is illegal you can not generalize to the whole population..
Originally posted by Mallika Dhupia: What exactly you mean by bringing H1B from first world nations. Doesn't it prove that you are biased ( or racist to certain extent ..) Everybody in the world should get equal opportunity irrespective of ethicity,region or anything else. Only criteria should be "whether you are good for the Job ?" . Period. Moreover, if few body shoppers are doing something which is illegal you can not generalize to the whole population..
First off, there's no obligation to have employer-provided health insurance. I am very glad for the fact that I do not have it, and purchase my own tailored to my own needs, just like my housing, food and transportation. Second, why are you bringing up H-1B aliens from Third World countries, when there are tens of thousands of H-1B and other non-immigrant aliens from First World countries who insist on excellent benefits and pay?
If H1 were not abused all H1 applicants would be from the very high end of the market. As they're mostly from the very low end.
Originally posted by Jay Shin: Personally, I am still yet to see any H-1B non-immigrant programmers from the Western Europe. Out of all those H-1B aliens I've personally seen, over 70%-80% are from India (or Pakistan - I can't distinguish them) and the rest are from the Eastern Europe such as Ukraine.
Originally posted by Eric Lemaitre: Hi Jayesh ! No, what that means is that any comparison between the 2 groups is meaningless. If you are comparing salary levels of group A vs B, you have to make sure that the average skill/experience levels of group A and B are the same, otherwise the comparison is meaningless. I might as well "prove" that H1-B workers earn more than American workers because the median salary for an H1-B worker is say, 60K, and the median salary of an American workers is 45K. I know the comparison is meaningless because I am comparing the skill set of H1-B workers is much differrent than the skill set of American workers. To do a proper comparison, I have to make sure that both groups have the same skill set and experience. You are completely right, and I agree technically with you, but this is drifting away from the implicit debate. There are brilliant people everywhere, you guess I didn't attend to offend anyone, so I state clearly what the article strongly suggests without naming it explicitely : according to this article H1B is presently abused to "import" cheaper workers from abroad so as to lower local wages. Of course when you hear "cheap workers" you take it bad as an byword for "inferior" workers, which would be infamous for peoples' dignity, but this is not the point : the point is (still a debate to be argumented, again I don't want to offend anyone) these people are from cheap countries, and considering the lower expected local US wages offered to them tey are certainly chosen as the best for these fixed wages, simple old best price for performance for ratio. So these people are good, the best available for these wages inferior to the prevailing wages they deserve but still superior to what they earn at home. This system, if true and this is the debate indeed, is vicious and harmful to everyone : _ US immigration law is baffled, which is bad anyway. _ alien H1B should be paid at prevailing wages but are not so are stolen a part of their rigtful wages. _ bodyshoppers make huge gains by exploiting people and baffling the law. _ native US citizens see their own wages decrease because of a foul system which doesn't any longer follow the rules. Again this is the core of the debate, is H1B abused or not, don't take it as an offense for anyone, it is not at all the purpose to offend anyone. Best regards.
I'm not arguing against anything you said. All I'm saying is that any intelligent analysis of salaries of H-1B workers would take their experience and skill levels into account. That is something that the article in the OP fails to do. So, it is hard for me to take anything in the article seriously because the author of the article doesn't even attempt to provide a balanced viewpoint.
Originally posted by Eric Lemaitre: Article clearly states (with figures which could be discussed but haven't been denied yet) that H1B in US are frequently paid much below prevailing wages compared to US citizens at equivalent experience levels, which is simply not compliant with the law.
IMHO these 3 measures are perfectly compatible with the spirit of present laws and would make the use of alien labour necessary only when relevant skilled labour cannot be found locally.


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Emails from 2001 between Penn State University's former president, vice president and athletic director discussing what to do about Jerry Sandusky's alleged encounter with a boy in the shower are raising new questions, CNN reports.
The messages from February 26-28, 2001 may illustrate a cover-up by former Penn State president Graham Spanier, then vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley.
University officials "knew they had a problem with Sandusky after a 2001 shower incident, but apparently first decided to handle it using a 'humane' approach before contacting outside authorities whose job it is to investigate suspected abuse," CNN reports.
On June 22, Sandusky was convicted of abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
CNN said it does not have the e-mails but that the alleged contents were made available to them.
In one email, Spanier allegedly acknowledges Penn State could be "vulnerable" for not reporting the incident. "The only downside for us is if the message (to Sandusky) isn't 'heard' and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it," Spanier allegedly writes.
On February 26, 2001, Schultz allegedly writes to Curley that he assumes Curley's "got the ball" about a three-part plan to "talk with the subject asap regarding the future appropriate use of the University facility," ... "contacting the chair of the charitable organization" and "contacting the Department of Welfare."
However, Curley apparently changed his mind and refers to a conversation he had with head football coach Joe Paterno. It's not known what the two discussed.
Curley writes later that he rather just meet with Sandusky, tell him there's "a problem," and that "we want to assist the individual to get professional help," according to CNN.
Schultz and Curley are currently charged with perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse. They have pleaded not guilty.
The new emails could lead to further charges, CNN reports.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general says the nation should follow the state's lead in seizing guns from felons, the mentally ill and others who are not allowed to possess firearms.
In a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Kamala Harris says the state's Armed Prohibited Persons System has led to the confiscation of more than 10,000 illegally held weapons since it was created in 2006.
The computerized system cross-checks five databases to find people who bought firearms but are not permitted to own them. State Department of Justice agents have conducted a series of sweeps, seizing 1,900 weapons last year alone.
California is the only state with such a system.
Harris says in a letter made public Thursday that the nation should adopt California's model to help stem gun violence.
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Modern Vinyl "Masters" vs. CD--My Experience, It Really IS About the Music
Modern Vinyl "Masters" vs. CD--My Experience, It Really IS About the Music
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Due to some recent past experiences in other threads wherein some members (who plainly state their honest dislike of vinyl) claim that modern LPs are just as dynamically clipped as their CD-counterparts, I'd like to take an opportunity to illustrate that this is IME not the case. I've heard it stated more than once that "vinyl is not about the music..it's about the ritual.) This is seemingly just plain-old lazy bias. It can easily be forgiven in that these posters make it pretty obvious that they don't purchase vinyl, let alone compare modern releases to their CD-counterparts.
Here are screenshots from needledrops I've done of some of my favorite recent records. All but one were released in the past two years. Warrel Dane's "Praises to the War Machine" was released in 2008. (As a fun side-note, the vinyl LP came with the CD and was limited to 1,000 copies worldwide.)
I would like to note that I did not cherry-pick these examples. I only have about three more needledrops that I also have a CD copy or iTunes Matched version of. I can upload those as well. It should also be noted that all of these examples are on the heavier-side of the metal genre and probably are far more dense in sound than most other examples from other genres.
I've brought each vinyl recording up to 0.1 under 0 dB for easier comparison. None of the peaks are "pops" or any artifacts associated with the LP medium. Only one had a "pop" that hit the ceiling and I corrected it before applying gain.
Borknagar - "The Earthling" from "Urd" (2012)
iTunes Matched AAC
In Flames - "Ropes" from "Sounds of a Playground Fading" (2011)
(This album is an egregious example of how bad they can make a modern CD sound through destructive normalization.)
Saint Vitus - "Let Them Fall" from "Lillie: F-65" (2012)
(Yes, really. It sounds worse than it looks IME.)
Warrel Dane - "Brother" from "Praises to the War Machine" (2008)
Septicflesh - "Oceans of Grey" from "The Great Mass" (2011)
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The Loudness War is over. Now it's a hopeless occupation.
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I think it should be a bit more clear that we're not really talking about "masters" here, rgtb. I doubt that any of my examples were really "mastered" differently. They appear to be rather destructively normalized on the CD.
I also will have to respectfully and adamantly disagree. I believe those screenshots I exported from iZotope RX2 Advanced more than adequately demonstrate the normalization that is present on the CDs but not on the LPs. I can't talk about how much different it sounds, obviously. It should suffice to say that "information is permanently lost" on the CD that is still present on the LP. I would further add that much of that "information" is percussion. It shouldn't be at all difficult to ascertain that the dynamic range of the former is far less than that of the latter. Usually to the point of complete dissatisfaction of and contempt for the CD version.
I'm no recording engineer, but I can assure you that I'm not merely eyeballing these recordings, but listening to them as well. I'm trying to avoid the TOS 8 violations of talking about the way it sounds. ABXing CD against vinyl would be an experiment riddled with inaccuracy and flaw.
EDIT: I would also like to apologize for the tone I got with you in the other thread. We're all humans and have bad days, but I really could have handled it better. Sorry/Ich bitte um Entschuldigung
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You Can Help Scientists Bring Climate Change into Focus
Learn more about how scientists use old weather data to reconstruct past weather.
Global weather reconstructions from National Maritime Museum on Vimeo.
In order to understand what the weather will do in the future, scientists need to understand what the weather did in the past. That's a challenging endeavor because reliable, historical weather observations can be difficult to find. Information is especially sparse where few people live to collect it, like the middle of the ocean (no offense, Hawaii). In the past half-century, modern technologies like satellites, buoys, and planes have allowed scientists to get around this problem, but they only shed light on a tiny chapter of Earth's climate history. So how do scientists know what the weather was like before modern times for nearly 71 percent of the earth's surface?
Some researchers take samples from the ocean floor which can reveal clues about how the Earth's climate behaved millions of years ago, but these ocean sediment cores cannot resolve year to year weather data, let alone the daily and hourly data on which scientists rely today. Luckily, weather data, particularly air temperatures and pressures, were recorded by mariners in their ship's logbooks as they traversed the globe in the last few centuries. There are at least 250,000 logbooks sitting in U.S. libraries alone, but many more can be found in Asia, South America and elsewhere which collectively represent billions of individual weather observations from around the world. And these data are trustworthy. The sailors and officers who made these observations were well educated, and it was an offense to falsify a log. If scientists could put this data into their modern computer model simulations, they could generate approximate weather maps based on their understanding of ocean and atmospheric physics. By lengthening their record of weather observations, scientists may be able to refine their estimates about how likely future weather patterns may be.
While this may sound like music to a climatologist's ears, there is one monumental barrier to using these data: they're not in the digital format that scientists require. Even worse, no computer algorithm exists yet that can accurately interpret the subtleties of human handwriting, so logbook transcriptions must be painstakingly completed by hand. One ship's logbook transcription could take one person 28 years to complete, and even humans cannot always read one another's handwriting, so it's easy for one person make a mistake. No one has a spare 28 years to complete this work, so how can scientists use this wealth of information? That's where you come in.
An international team of scientists has created oldWeather.org, a subsidiary of the Zooniverse Project that invites people from all walks of life to pour through these logbooks and enter the information into a database. By "crowdsourcing," scientists can dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to transcribe a logbook, and having more than one set of eyes reduces the chances for human error. So far, users, or "citizen scientists," have transcribed more than 43,000 pages of logbooks. This novel approach is a creative way for scientists to efficiently include historical records into their current experiments, and they could certainly use your help! If you'd like to participate and learn about the maritime history – including juicy anecdotes that are captured in each day's log – click here to help. Your fellow scientists and future generations will have you to thank!
Learn more about how Crowdsourcing works:
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My God, a Bush House review page. I never knew such a thing existed on the Internet. I lived there from 2003 to 2005. My room was on the second floor near what is called "the sitting area." It's an open room of it's own with windows that some people yap-yap-yap in. There was one guy there who would not shut up. Every other night one of the building security guards would have to tell him to quiet down because he would giggle and laugh all the time. The only time he did shut up permanantly was when the police dragged his --- out of there in 2006 because he was an ex-con hiding out in the Bush House for 4 years with felony warrants out for his arrest that were 4 years old!
Whether it be the paper-thin walls, or the tiny as can be rooms with just a bed, a closet, and a sink: you can always hear your neighbors wherever they are or whatever they say. And since people are allowed to smoke in the building, that is a constant worry to breathe in.
And even if you rent a living space for up to $550 a month, you are expected to share a communal toilet with at least 20 other renters on whatever floor you're on. Right from the start you will find the sink water is undrinkable. From whatever room on the second floor, when you turn on the faucet you can smell what I was told is "Sewer Gas" that leaks into all drinking pipes. And the stink is unmistakable with whatever filth and grime that is in a building 120 years old!
The drunks and mentally ill live there on their welfare checks and social security. They are simple-minded and inconsiderate to the hilt! God help you if you get into a scrape with one of these cruds, they will harrass and hound you to no end. Cliff Lutter the Head Security Guard was a great guy and so was the younger Ron Krauss, also staff member Sam Riland tried to do his job very well even though he is seventy years old. But times got so bad even they had their hands full. In the 2 years I lived there I saw 14 heated arguments that almost went bad, 8 fistfights that "DID" go bad to the point of men being injured, and one night a man was stabbed greivously in 2005 right outside his room on the first floor leading to the outside because lowlife creeps came to "visit" him. And finally, in 2006 a man was murdered in one of the rooms! Because of a simple "disagreement," two grown men went at it and the next thing you know, one is lying on the floor dead! I'm certain these incidents can all be verified by the Quakertown police. And what management staff they do have, whatever your complaints are they fall on deaf ears!
And as a matter of fact, I went to the police when I hit rock bottom. I was desperate and had no other choice but to stay there at the dreadful Bush House. The Quakertown Police saved my life! The police were the reason I was able to move out of that dreadful rathole. The Chief of Police helped me get in touch with Penn Foundation to get social security for my injuries and anxieties, and he helped find me a new home to live in. I am grateful to the Quakertown Police and their sincere caring beyond words! I just hope and pray they can help other people the way they helped me! Now, I can afford to live in a "real home" in another city that has nothing to do with the awful Bush House Hotel. It's not a Hotel, nor is it a house, it's a rooming building where the worst cast of people can always be found.
The Bush House Hotel was one of the worst experiences I ever had, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody! This is no joke, this is no game. People's health and well-being are at stake here, as mine certainly was! Avoid this God forsaken place like the plague!!!!
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I know who you are dude. I lived in room 203 and you were more crazy them most of the low life scum bags that call that sewer home. You moved to the Red Lion Inn down the street and Jan was the biggest drug & boze abuser going there. I hear she ended up throwing you out of one of her houses because you would like you roomates dog in a closet all the time.
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December 1, 2015
From Ralph Hipp
It was a surreal experience, even in the newsroom.. listening to the police radios during Live at Five Tuesday. We were hearing the stunning police reports, and facing the reality that Topeka High School was on fire.
Very fortunately, it was only a part of the famed, historic school and the apparent roofing materials fire was completely out some 45 minutes after the first reports came in. It was such a relief to see no smoke coming from the intact bell tower by the time we reported live on the fire at 6:00.
If things had turned out to be much worse, I can't avoid asking the horrible question: what if we had lost Topeka High School in the fire. And one week before the Class of 2012 would have begun their senior year!
Please share your thoughts on this wonderful building which thank God, is still there today. Especially your thoughts if you attended school there. Share your memories, share your thoughts about Tuesday, and raise the roof in praise of this first million-dollar school building built west of the Mississippi. Ralph
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