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The State Department is set to make a new policy giving gay partners of U.S. diplomats many of the same benefits as married couples.
The Washington Posts reports a draft memo lists the benefits that unmarried gay and heterosexual partners will be eligible to receive, including paid travel to and from overseas posts, emergency travel to visit sick or injured partners, and emergency evacuation for medical or security reasons.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the change in policy is "the right thing to do." She said the current policy harms U.S. diplomacy, and that denying same-sex couples equal benefits is "unfair and must end."
The State Department previously said the Defense of Marriage Act kept it from offering benefits to the families of gay diplomats.
Meanwhile, the White House is pushing ahead with plans to allow gays to serve openly in the military. The news comes despite reports from inside the Pentagon that repealing "don't ask, don't tell" is a low priority for the Defense Department.
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Conflicting Codes and Codings: How Algorithmic Trading Is Reshaping Financial Regulation
Marc Lenglet
IREBS - European Business School Paris
May 1, 2010
Contemporary financial markets have recently witnessed a sea change with the 'algorithmic revolution', as trading automats are used to smoothen the execution sequences and reduce market impact. Constantly monitored, they take an active part in the shaping of markets, and sometimes generate crises, when 'they mess up' or when 'they do not want to work', as traders say. Made of scripts (IT code), algorithms are designed to replicate trading patterns: to be accepted, they have to 'behave' according to different sets of texts (regulatory texts framing the marketplace). In this article, we draw on ethnographic fieldwork in order to describe algorithms and discuss the different facets of these widespread objects. We return a controversy articulating around the detachment of trading practices from traders, and its reattachment into a specific financial object. We then raise a few questions relating with the framing of practices: what does this shift in the organisation of trading activities generate on the daily routines taking place in trading rooms? Is it possible to make codes (algorithms) comply with codings (rulebooks and codes of conduct)? How does such 'equipment' matter to the marketplaces, and what exactly does it imply for the development of future regulation in the market space?
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Keywords: : Algorithmic trading, codes, financial markets, practices, regulation
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama --This year's Class 4A boys cross county state championship meet is a rematch seven years in the making.
In 2005, Randolph won the first of seven straight state titles, topping the Class 3A-4A division. UMS-Wright of Mobile finished 10 points back in third.
The teams went separate ways the next year. Randolph won two more 3A-4A crowns before reeling off four consecutive 3A titles. UMS competed in 5A in 2006-07, then dropped to 4A, where it has won a state championship four straight years.
Both teams are in 4A this year and will clash Saturday at Oakville Indian Mounds Park.
UMS boasts the runners with the two fastest 4A times in the state this season in Robert Hope (15:30) and Chase Tan (16:07). But Randolph coach James Terwilliger believes the Raiders' depth will prove to be the difference.
"We feel like, after their second guy, we can pretty much fill it in with our five guys," said Terwilliger, who feels this is his strongest Randolph team. "They're third, fourth and fifth are not as strong as our next five. It's still going to be close. I think we're only a 8- or 9-point favorite."
Randolph is led by Grant Ginsburg and Michael Gross, who have the fourth and fifth fastest 4A times, respectively, this season. Ginsburg (16:40), a tennis standout, has excelled in his first season as a runner. Terwilliger described Gross (16:41) as the hardest worker he's ever coached.
Randolph's girls are expected to be among the teams competing for second place behind heavily favored and three-time defending state champ UMS, which has four of the state's five fastest runners.
The Pope John Paul II boys and girls teams return to state after each finishing runner-up to UMS last year.
Other metro teams competing at state include the Huntsville boys and girls, Bob Jones boys and girls (third place last year), Grissom boys and Buckhorn girls in 6A; and the Westminster and Madison Academy boys and girls in 3A.
Scottsboro's girls highlight the storylines for non-metro teams. The Wildcats are aiming for their 12 straight championship and 18th title in the last 19 years.


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The Many Scarves of Darren Aronofsky
The 'Black Swan' director enjoys his neckwear.By Willa Paskin
The 'Black Swan' director enjoys his neckwear.By Willa Paskin
The competition on the red carpet can be as interesting as the awards race itself.By Emily Watkins
We also have the list of cold, cold winners.By Vlada Gelman
A new look!By Amanda Dobbins
Vulture's taken a look at the newest crop of contenders and the careful narrative crafted for each.By Lane Brown and Kyle Buchanan
Let us know who you think needs to have a serious talk with their stylist tomorrow.By Alex Rees
Insulting winners 'The Social Network' and 'The Kids Are All Right,' White made for an uncomfortable evening.By Mary Kaye Schilling
"If you want me to make you feel something, that's not hard. I'll choke a kitten in front of you, and you'll feel something," said Lucas, according to David O. Russell.By Willa Paskin
Comparisons to Stanley Kubrick were de rigueur in 2010. Which ones are the most apt?By Bilge Ebiri
"She has that spongelike intelligence with her body. She's obviously smart, but there are a lot of smart people who can't move."By Rebecca Milzoff
Who's up? Who's down?By Lane Brown
And it will not be a sequel to 'X Men Origins: Wolverine.'By Mike Vilensky
Have any awards contenders picked follow-ups as unwisely as Eddie Murphy once did?By Kyle Buchanan
So who will take it?By Mike Vilensky
Plus: Matthew Broderick and Casey Afflect join 'Tower Heist.'By Avi Zenilman
"[Aronofsky's] going to make it fantastic. There's going to be some meat on the bones. There'll be something to think about as you leave the theater, for sure."By Bennett Marcus
Plus: Johnny Galecki joins Justin Timberlake on 'I'm.Mortal.'By Avi Zenilman
Natalie Portman, start working on your Lois Lane.By Kyle Buchanan
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I'm typing this from a McDonald's to let my friends here know. I'll be back next week. Monday or Tuesday. With all the work, and being sick I'm glad it will be over soon. Hope everyone here is doing well. I'm making it I guess bought Neptunia Mk2 and been playing that to keep sane among the work and stuff. I like it despite how its supposed to be awful. Pretty much feel the same way about it as I do about Resident Evil 6. Anyways I'll try typing up an actual blog when i get back. See you all then :)
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Not having internetPosted: Nov 08, 2012 12:00AM PST by ngamer-90
Sucks huh? Damn I remember when I typed a comment and a blog from Mc D's in 2010 when I moved, from my DSi, I'm suprised it actually worked. Well get well soon and we'll see ya back when you get better and stuff, and atleat you have games to keep you sane till you get back :P
HyperPosted: Nov 08, 2012 12:00AM PST by Cary Woodham
I didn't think the Hyperdimension games were THAT bad. Mugen Souls is worse.
Good to hear from ya.....Posted: Nov 08, 2012 12:00AM PST by BanditReturns2
I never thought of RE 6 being all that bad as well, but I have a history of liking games others hate. I found another game through someone's blog on here which I can't find now but the game is awesome old-school called "Hotline Miami" on Steam and at GoG.
Keep your wits about you-nya , my dear-nya...Posted: Nov 08, 2012 12:00AM PST by madhat
Work tend drive your insanity meter rather quickly-nya . espescially when you have to deal with customer's stupidity-nya . *Sigh* , if only I can achieve orgasm just as quickly...
Let's pretend that I didn't say that-nya...
Here's a vid to distract y'all-nya...
BummerPosted: Nov 09, 2012 12:00AM PST by XextralifeX
Well see you next week.
glad to hear you're back soon!Posted: Nov 09, 2012 12:00AM PST by jbgoldengun
But put your health above us, by all means. Also, Neptunia Mk2... One of my favorite games. My first multiple ending game where I got all of them. I love the games so much, can't wait for Neptunia V (It's the next game, and the V means Victory, not 5. Cause ya'know, they can do that, haha.). It should be out this February or March if they follow their past pattern. The series just kind of embodies everything I could want in a game. The main reason Neptunia gets called bad is because, in a sense, it's high-brow humor. It's very self-referential, and doesn't hold back to any of the game industry being their prey. It's just really unique, and I think too many people take it too seriously.And out of curiousity Kay, which ending is your favorite? And which girl? The endings were all similar to me, it seemed, but of course the Demon Sword end kinda threw me off. Most likely, my favorite girl is Noire overall, especially with her outfit, and, um... assets, but Vert and Nepgear are very close behind. Thinking of it now... Nepgear SHOULD be my favorite, cause my girlfriend is actually a lot like her, but... Noire is just... Noire, haha.
KaylynPosted: Nov 09, 2012 12:00AM PST by temperance
You were sick? I do hope you're feeling better. There's nothing worse than being sick and having to work through it.
By the way, I agree that there is a lot to like about Neptunia Mk.2. I just wished the game's combat system and characters were properly balanced.


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Professor Dave Moore
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My personal ambition is to contribute to knowledge of the way hearing changes during the life span and to help develop interventions that will lead to better hearing. My research career can be roughly divided into three phases, united by a constant interest in the development and plasticity of hearing. My early work was on the neurophysiology of the higher levels of the auditory system. Next came an interest in the effects of deafness on the morphology, connections, cell biology and neurophysiology of the auditory pathway. For the last decade, I have been primarily interested in auditory behavioural neuroscience, both in humans and animals. Throughout my work on hearing, I have been fascinated by how the auditory system changes in response to environmental influences. These influences include genetic factors regulating maturation, maintenance and degeneration, external sources regulating sound passage and transduction in the ears, and other, non-auditory sources that modulate the way in which sound is perceived. I think my most gratifying professional experiences have been seeing many of my students and post-docs make their own significant contributions to science, medicine and commerce.
Journal Articles
Moore DR, Zobay O, Mackinnon RC, Whitmer WM, Akeroyd MA (2016) Lifetime leisure music exposure associated with increased frequency of tinnitus. Hearing Research, in press (Abstract available to view)
Brewer CC, Zalewski CK, King KA, Zobay O, Riley A, Ferguson MA, Bird JE, McCabe MM, Hood LJ, Drayna D, Griffith AJ, Morell RJ, Friedman TB, Moore DR (2016) Heritability of Non-Speech Auditory Processing Skills. European Journal of Human Genetics 24(8), 1137-1144 (DOI)
Jones PR, Moore DR, Shub DE, Amitay S (2015) The role of response bias in perceptual learning. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition 41(5), 1456-70 (Europe PMC )
Nuttall HE, Moore DR, Barry JG, Krumbholz K, de Boer J (2015) The influence of cochlear spectral processing on the timing and amplitude of the speech-evoked auditory brain stem response. Journal of neurophysiology 113(10), 3683-91 (Europe PMC )
Jones PR, Moore DR, Amitay S (2015) Development of auditory selective attention: Why children struggle to hear in noisy environments. Developmental psychology 51(3), 353-69 (Europe PMC )
Amitay S, Moore DR, Molloy K, Halliday LF (2015) Feedback valence affects auditory perceptual learning independently of feedback probability. PloS one 10(5), e0126412 (Europe PMC )
Barry JG, Tomlin D, Moore DR, Dillon H (2015) Use of Questionnaire-Based Measures in the Assessment of Listening Difficulties in School-Aged Children. Ear and hearing 36(6), e300-13 (Europe PMC )
Dawes P, Cruickshanks KJ, Moore DR, Fortnum H, Edmondson-Jones M, McCormack A, Munro KJ (2015) The Effect of Prenatal and Childhood Development on Hearing, Vision and Cognition in Adulthood. PloS one 10(8), e0136590 (Europe PMC )
Dawes P, Dickinson C, Emsley R, Bishop P, Cruickshanks KJ, Edmondson-Jones M, McCormack A, Fortnum H, Moore DR, Norman P, Munro K (2015) Author's reply to "Understanding visual impairment in UK Biobank" (Cumberland et al, 2015). Ophthalmic & physiological optics 35(1), 107-8 (PubMed)
Dawes P, Emsley R, Cruickshanks KJ, Moore DR, Fortnum H, Edmondson-Jones M, McCormack A, Munro KJ (2015) Hearing loss and cognition: the role of hearing AIDS, social isolation and depression. PloS one 10(3), e0119616 (Europe PMC )
Vlaming MS, MacKinnon RC, Jansen M, Moore DR (2014) Automated screening for high-frequency hearing loss. Ear and hearing 35(6), 667-79 (Europe PMC )
Dawes P, Cruickshanks KJ, Moore DR, Edmondson-Jones M, McCormack A, Fortnum H, Munro KJ (2014) Cigarette smoking, passive smoking, alcohol consumption, and hearing loss. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 15(4), 663-74 (Europe PMC )
Dawes P, Dickinson C, Emsley R, Bishop PN, Cruickshanks KJ, Edmondson-Jones M, McCormack A, Fortnum H, Moore DR, Norman P, Munro K (2014) Vision impairment and dual sensory problems in middle age. Ophthalmic & physiological optics 34(4), 479-88 (Europe PMC )
McGarrigle R, Munro KJ, Dawes P, Stewart AJ, Moore DR, Barry JG, Amitay S (2014) Listening effort and fatigue: what exactly are we measuring? A British Society of Audiology Cognition in Hearing Special Interest Group 'white paper'. International journal of audiology 53(7), 433-40 (PubMed)
Amitay S, Zhang YX, Jones PR, Moore DR (2014) Perceptual learning: Top to bottom. Vision research 99, 69-77 (PubMed)
Ferguson MA, Henshaw H, Clark DP, Moore DR (2014) Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss. Ear and hearing 35(4), e110-21 (Europe PMC )
Jones PR, Moore DR, Shub DE, Amitay S (2014) Learning to detect a tone in unpredictable noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 135(3), EL128-33 (PubMed)
Ahmmed AU, Ahmmed AA, Bath JR, Ferguson MA, Plack CJ, Moore DR (2014) Assessment of children with suspected auditory processing disorder: a factor analysis study. Ear and hearing 35(3), 295-305 (PubMed)
McCormack A, Edmondson-Jones M, Fortnum H, Dawes P, Middleton H, Munro KJ, Moore DR (2014) The prevalence of tinnitus and the relationship with neuroticism in a middle-aged UK population. Journal of psychosomatic research 76(1), 56-60 (PubMed)
McCormack A, Edmondson-Jones M, Mellor D, Dawes P, Munro KJ, Moore DR, Fortnum H (2014) Association of dietary factors with presence and severity of tinnitus in a middle-aged UK population. PloS one 9(12), e114711 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR, Edmondson-Jones M, Dawes P, Fortnum H, McCormack A, Pierzycki RH, Munro KJ (2014) Relation between speech-in-noise threshold, hearing loss and cognition from 40-69 years of age. PloS one 9(9), e107720 (Europe PMC )
Saleh SM, Saeed SR, Meerton L, Moore DR, Vickers DA (2013) Clinical use of electrode differentiation to enhance programming of cochlear implants. Cochlear implants international 14 Suppl 4, S16-8 (PubMed)
Jones PR, Moore DR, Amitay S, Shub DE (2013) Reduction of internal noise in auditory perceptual learning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(2), 970-81 (PubMed)
Amitay S, Guiraud J, Sohoglu E, Zobay O, Edmonds BA, Zhang YX, Moore DR (2013) Human decision making based on variations in internal noise: an EEG study. PloS one 8(7), e68928 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR, Füllgrabe C (2013) Cognitive contributions to hearing in older people. Journal of Hearing Science 2, 58-60 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Rosen S, Bamiou DE, Campbell NG, Sirimanna T (2013) Evolving concepts of developmental auditory processing disorder (APD): a British Society of Audiology APD special interest group 'white paper'. International journal of audiology 52(1), 3-13 (PubMed)
Zhang YX, Barry JG, Moore DR, Amitay S (2012) A new test of attention in listening (TAIL) predicts auditory performance. PloS one 7(12), e53502 (Open access article)
Amitay S, Zhang YX, Moore DR (2012) Asymmetric transfer of auditory perceptual learning. Frontiers in psychology 3, 508 (Open access article)
Moore DR (2012) Stroke recovery and sensory plasticity: Common mechanisms? Developmental psychobiology 54(3), 326-31 (PubMed)
Halliday LF, Taylor JL, Millward KE, Moore DR (2012) Lack of generalization of auditory learning in typically developing children. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research 55(1), 168-81 (PubMed)
Molloy K, Moore DR, Sohoglu E, Amitay S (2012) Less is more: latent learning is maximized by shorter training sessions in auditory perceptual learning. PloS one 7(5), e36929 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR (2012) Listening difficulties in children: bottom-up and top-down contributions. Journal of communication disorders 45(6), 411-8 (PubMed)
Millward KE, Hall RL, Ferguson MA, Moore DR (2011) Training speech-in-noise perception in mainstream school children. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 75(11), 1408-17 (PubMed)
Ramirez-Inscoe J, Moore DR (2011) Processes that influence communicative impairments in deaf children using cochlear implants. Ear and Hearing 32(6), 690-8 (PubMed)
Hind SE, Haines-Bazrafshan R, Benton CL, Brassington W, Towle B, Moore DR (2011) Prevalence of clinical referrals having hearing thresholds within normal limits. International Journal of Audiology 50(10), 708-16 (PubMed)
Halliday LF, Moore DR, Taylor JL, Amitay S (2011) Dimension-specific attention directs learning and listening on auditory training tasks. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 73(5), 1329-35 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR (2011) The diagnosis and management of auditory processing disorder. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 42(3), 303-8 (PubMed)
Murphy J, Summerfield AQ, O'Donoghue GM, Moore DR (2011) Spatial hearing of normally hearing and cochlear implanted children. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 75(4), 489-94 (Europe PMC )
Ferguson MA, Hall RL, Riley A, Moore DR (2011) Communication, listening, cognitive and speech perception skills in children with auditory processing disorder (APD) or Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 54(1), 211-27 (PubMed)
Irving S, Moore DR, Liberman MC, Sumner CJ (2011) Olivocochlear efferent control in sound localization and experience-dependent learning. Journal of Neuroscience 31(7), 2493-501 (Open access article)
Irving S, Moore DR (2011) Training sound localisation in normal hearing listeners with and without a unilateral ear plug. Hearing Research 280, 100-108 (PubMed)
Moore DR (on behalf of the BSA APD Special Interest Group) (2011) What's in a name? APD by any other name would not smell so sweet. International Journal of Audiology 50, 496
Moore DR, Cowan JC, Riley A, Edmondson-Jones AM, Ferguson MA (2011) Development of auditory processing in 6-11 year old children. Ear and Hearing 32, 269-285
Edmondson-Jones AM, Irving S, Moore DR, Hall DA (2010) Planar localisation analyses: a novel application of a centre of mass approach. Hearing Research 267(1-2), 4-11 (PubMed)
Moore DR, Ferguson MA, Edmondson-Jones AM, Ratib S, Riley A (2010) Nature of auditory processing disorder in children. Pediatrics 126(2), e382-90 (Open access article)
Nodal FR, Kacelnik O, Bajo VM, Bizley JK, Moore DR, King AJ (2010) Lesions of the auditory cortex impair azimuthal sound localization and its recalibration in ferrets. Journal of Neurophysiology 103(3), 1209-25 (Open access article)
Bajo VM, Nodal FR, Moore DR, King AJ (2010) The descending corticocollicular pathway mediates learning-induced auditory plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 13(2), 253-60 (PubMed)
Amitay S, Halliday L, Taylor J, Sohoglu E, Moore DR (2010) Motivation and intelligence drive auditory perceptual learning. PloS One 5(3), e9816 (Open access article)
Barry JG, Ferguson MA, Moore DR (2010) Making sense of listening: the IMAP test battery. Journal of Visualized Experiments 44, e2139 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR, Shannon RV (2009) Beyond cochlear implants: awakening the deafened brain. Nature neuroscience 12(6), 686-91 (PubMed)
McGraw PV, Webb BS, Moore DR (2009) Introduction. Sensory learning: from neural mechanisms to rehabilitation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 364(1515), 279-83 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR, Halliday LF, Amitay S (2009) Use of auditory learning to manage listening problems in children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 364(1515), 409-20 (Europe PMC )
Moore DR (2008) Reverse translation: clearing a path from bedside to bench. Nature 454(7202), 274 (PubMed)
Halliday LF, Taylor JL, Edmondson-Jones AM, Moore DR (2008) Frequency discrimination learning in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(6), 4393-402 (PubMed)
Hawker K, Ramirez-Inscoe J, Bishop DV, Twomey T, O'Donoghue GM, Moore DR (2008) Disproportionate language impairment in children using cochlear implants. Ear and Hearing 29(3), 467-71 (PubMed)
Sumner CJ, Palmer AR, Moore DR (2008) The need for a cool head: reversible inactivation reveals functional segregation in auditory cortex. Nature Neuroscience 11(5), 530-1 (PubMed)
Moore DR, Ferguson MA, Halliday LF, Riley A (2008) Frequency discrimination in children: perception, learning and attention. Hearing Research 238(1-2), 147-54 (PubMed)
Moore DR, Shepherd RK (2008) The auditory brain--a tribute to Dexter R.F. Irvine. Hearing Research 238(1-2), 1-2 (PubMed)
Palmer AR, Hall DA, Sumner C, Barrett DJ, Jones S, Nakamoto K, Moore DR (2007) Some investigations into non-passive listening. Hearing Research 229(1-2), 148-57 (PubMed)
Bajo VM, Nodal FR, Bizley JK, Moore DR, King AJ (2007) The ferret auditory cortex: descending projections to the inferior colliculus. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 17(2), 475-91 (PubMed)
Moore DR (2007) Auditory processing disorders: acquisition and treatment. Journal of communication disorders 40(4), 295-304 (PubMed)
Moore DR, Amitay S (2007) Auditory training: rules and applications. Seminars in Hearing 28(2), 99-109 (Abstract available to view)
Amitay S, Irwin A, Moore DR (2006) Discrimination learning induced by training with identical stimuli. Nature Neuroscience 9, 1446-8 (PubMed)
Amitay S, Nelson A, Hawkey DJC, Cowan JA, Moore DR (2006) A comparison of adaptive procedures for rapid and reliable threshold assessment and training in naive listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119, 1616-1625 (PubMed)
Bajo VM, Nodal FR, Bizley JK, Moore DR, King AJ (2006) The Ferret Auditory Cortex: Descending Projections to the Inferior Colliculus. Cerebral Cortex 17(2), 475-491 (PubMed)
Devlin JT, Sillery EL, Hall DA, Hobden P, Behrens T, Nunes RG, Clare S, Matthews PM, Moore DR, Johansen-Berg H (2006) Reliable identification of the auditory thalamus using multi-modal structural analyses. NeuroImage 30, 1112-1120 (PubMed)
Moore DR (2006) Auditory processing disorder (APD) ? Potential contribution of mouse research. Brain Research 1091, 200-206 (PubMed)
Moore DR (2006) Auditory processing disorder (APD): Definition, diagnosis, neural basis, and intervention. Audiological Medicine 4, 4-11 (Abstract available to view)
Hartley DE, Moore DR (2005) Effects of otitis media with effusion on auditory temporal resolution. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 69(6), 757-69. (PubMed)
Amitay S, Hawkey DJC, Moore DR (2005) Auditory frequency discrimination learning is affected by stimulus variability. Perception and Psychophysics 67 (4), 691-698 (Abstract available to view)
Bajo VM, Moore DR (2005) Descending projections from the auditory cortex to the inferior colliculus in the gerbil. Journal of Comparative Neurology 486(2), 101-116 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Rosenberg J, Coleman JS (2005) Discrimination training of phonemic contrasts enhances phonological processing in mainstream school children. Brain and Language 94(1), 72-85 (Abstract available to view)
Hawkey DJC, Amitay S, Moore DR (2004) Early and Rapid Perceptual Learning. Nature Neuroscience 7 (10), 1055-1056 (DOI)
Hill PR, Hartley DEH, Glasberg BR, Moore BCJ, Moore DR (2004) Auditory Processing Efficiency and Temporal Resolution in Children and Adults. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 47, 1022-1029. (Abstract available to view)
Roberts JE, Hunter L, Gravel J, Rosenfeld R, Berman S, Haggard M, Hall J, Lannon C, Moore DR, Vernon-Feagans L, Wallace I (2004) Otitis media, hearing loss, and language learning: controversies and current research. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 25, 110-22 (Abstract available to view)
Vale C, Juiz JM, Moore DR, Sanes DH (2004) Unilateral cochlear ablation produces greater loss of inhibition in the contralateral inferior colliculus. European Journal of Neuroscience 20, 2133-2140 (Abstract available to view)
Devlin JT, Raley J, Tunbridge E, Lanary K, Floyer-Lea A, Narain C, Cohen I, Behrens T, Jezzard P, Matthews PM, Moore DR (2003) Functional Asymmetry for Auditory Processing in Human Primary Auditory Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 23(37), 11516-11522 (Abstract available to view)
Hall DA, Moore DR (2003) The salience of looming sounds. Current Biology 13, R91-R93 (Abstract available to view)
Hartley DEH, Hill PR, Moore DR (2003) The auditory basis of language impairments: Temporal processing versus processing efficiiency hypotheses. International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, S137-S142. (Abstract available to view)
Hogan S, Moore DR (2003) Impaired Binaural Hearing in Children Produced by a Threshold Level of Middle Ear Disease. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 4, 123-129 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR (2003) Cortical neurons signal sound novelty. Nature Neuroscience 6, 330-332 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR (2003) Auditory Neuroscience - Impace on Audiology. Iranian Audiology 2, 87-88
Moore DR, Amitay S, Hawkey DJC (2003) Auditory perceptual learning. Learning & Memory 10, 83-85 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Hartley DEH, Hogan S (2003) Effects of Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) on Central Auditory Function. International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology 67S1, S63-S67. (Abstract available to view)
Rosenberg J, Moore DR (2003) Winning Game. Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists June, 5-6 (Abstract available to view)
Hartley DEH, Moore DR (2002) Effects of conductive hearing loss on temporal aspects of sound transmission through the ear. Hearing Research 177, 53-60. (Abstract available to view)
Hartley DEH, Moore DR (2002) Auditory processing efficiency deficits in children with developmental language impairments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112, 2962-2966. (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR (2002) Auditory development and the role of experience. British Medical Bulletin 63, 171-182 (Abstract available to view)
Russell FA, Moore DR (2002) Ultrastructural effects of unilateral deafening on afferents to the gerbil medial superior olivary nucleus. Hearing Research 173, 43-61 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR (2001) Sensorimotor training and special education - Can practice make perfect? British Journal of Special Education 28, 138-141 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Hogan S, Kacelnik O, Parsons CH, Rose MM, King AJ (2001) Auditory learning as a cause and treatment of central dysfunction. Audiology & Neuro-Otology 6, 216-220 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Rothholtz V, King AJ (2001) Hearing: Cortical activation does matter. Current Biology 11, R782-R784 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Schnupp Jan WH, King AJ (2001) Coding the temporal structure of sounds in auditory cortex. Nature Neuroscience 4, 1055-1056 (Abstract available to view)
Tierney TS, Doubell TP, Xia G, Moore DR (2001) Development of brain derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 immunoreactivity in the lower auditory brainstem of the postnatal gerbil. European Journal of Neuroscience 14, 785-793 (Abstract available to view)
Hartley DEH, Wright BA, Hogan S, Moore DR (2000) Age related improvements in auditory backward and simultaneous masking in 6 to 10 year old children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 43, 1402-1415. (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR (2000) Auditory neuroscience: Is speech special? Current Biology 10, R362-R364 (Abstract available to view)
Mossop JE, Wilson MJ, Caspary DM, Moore DR (2000) Down-regulation of inhibition following unilateral deafening. Hearing Research 147, 183-187 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Hine JE, Jiang ZD, Matsuda H, Parsons CH, King AJ (1999) Conductive Hearing Loss Produces a Reversible Binaural Hearing Impairment. Journal of Neuroscience 19, 8704-8711 (Link to website)
Moore DR, King AJ (1999) Auditory perception: the near and far of sound localization. Current Biology 9, R361-R363 (Abstract available to view)
Russell FA, Moore DR (1999) Effects of unilateral cochlear removal on dendrites in the gerbil medial superior olivary nucleus. European Journal of Neuroscience 11, 1379-1390 (Abstract available to view)
King AJ, Jiang ZD, Moore DR (1998) Auditory brainstem projections to the ferret superior colliculus: anatomical contribution to the neural coding of sound azimuth. Journal of Comparative Neurology 390, 342-365 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, King AJ (1998) What can auditory neuroethology tell us about speech processing? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, 276-277 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Kotak VC, Sanes DH (1998) Commissural and lemniscal synaptic input to the gerbil inferior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology 80, 2229-2236 (Abstract available to view)
Moore DR, Rogers NJ, O'Leary SJ (1998) Loss of cochlear nucleus neurons following aminoglycoside antibiotics or cochlear removal. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 107, 337-343 (Abstract available to view)
O'Leary SJ, Moore DR (1998) The development of cochlear sensitivity to aminoglycoside antibiotics. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 107, 220-226 (Abstract available to view)
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Edited Books
Rees A, Palmer AR, Moore DR (2010) Oxford University Press Handbook of Auditory Science. From Volume 2: The Auditory Brain (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010)
Moore DR, Palmer AR, Hall DA, Sumner CJ (2007) The Listening Brain. From Special Issue of Hearing Research (Elsevier, 229; Issues 1-2, 2007)
Book Sections
Barry JG Moore DR (2014) Evaluation of children's listening and processing skills (ECLiPS). From Evaluation of children's listening and processing skills (ECLiPS) (MRC-T, London, 2014)
Tremblay K, Moore DR (2012) Current issues in auditory plasticity and auditory training. From Tremblay K, Burkard R (Ed.), Translational Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (Plural Publishing, San Diego, 2012)
Halliday LF, Moore DR (2010) Auditory basis of language and learning disorders. From Plack CJ (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science, Vol. III. Hearing (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010) (Link to website)
Mattock K, Amitay S, Moore DR (2010) Auditory development and learning. From Plack C (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science, Vol. III. Hearing (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010) (Link to website)
Cowan JA, Rosen SM, Moore DR (2009) Putting the auditory processing back into auditory processing disorder in children. From Cacace AT, McFarland DJ (Ed.), Current Controversies in Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) (Plural Publishing Inc, San Diego, 2009)
Moore DR, Devlin JT, Raley J, Tunbridge E, Lanary K, Floyer-Lea A, Narain C, Cohen I, Jezzard P, Burton MJ, Matthews PM (2004) Effects of Long Term Unilateral Hearing Loss on the Lateralizatoin of fMRI Measured Activation in Human Auditory Cortex. From Syka J, Merzenich MM (Ed.), Plasticity of the Central Auditory System and Processing of Complex Acoustic Signals (Kluwer-Plenum , , 2004)
Moore DR, King AJ (2004) Plasticity of binaural systems. From Parks TN, Rubel EW, Popper AN, Fay RR (Ed.), Development and plasticity of the auditory system. Handbook of auditory research. (Springer, , 2004)
Moore DR, Hogan S, Culling JF, King AJ (1998) Effects of conductive loss on binaural hearing in humans and animals. From Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing (Whurr, , 1998)
Conference Proceedings
Amitay S, Jones PR, Zhang Y-X, Halliday LF, Moore DR (2013) Auditory learning: Uncorking performance bottlenecks. Proceedings of ISAAR 2013: Auditory Plasticity – Listening with the Brain. 4th International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (Abstract available to view)
Nuttall HE, Heinrich A, Moore DR, de Boer J. (2013) Do cochlear mechanisms explain the noise-disruption of the auditory brainstem response to speech. Acoustics
Moore DR, Ferguson MA, Riley A, Halliday LF (2008) Auditory processing disorder (APD) in children. 1st International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR 2007 Centertryk A/S , 281-290
Moore DR (2005) Auditory learning: Implications for speech perception. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, London (Abstract available to view)
King AJ, Parsons CH, Moore DR (2003) Plasticity in the neural coding of auditory space in the mammalian brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 97, 11821-11828
Pallas SL, Littman T, Moore DR (1999) Cross-modal respecification of callosal connectivity without altering thalamocortical input. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 96, 8751-8756 (Abstract available to view)


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Marubeni Citizen-Cincom was founded in 1984 to market and service Citizen's CINCOM family of Swiss-type turning centers. This venture represents the amalgamation of two of Japan's largest and most highly regarded companies, Marubeni Corp. and Citizen Watch Company. Marubeni began operation more than 140 years ago as a rural trading company specializing in yarn and textiles. Today it is one of Japan's nine largest trading companies, which together account for more than 40% of Japan's exports and 60% of its imports. It actively trades more than 30,000 products and services, including textiles, chemicals, machinery, energy, and a broad spectrum of consumer products. It employs more than 10,000 people, maintains almost 200 offices in 82 countries, and generates revenues of $79 billion annually.
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The A32VII, with its enhanced standard equipment package, provides a production-ready, value-for-the-money manufacturing solution.
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Marubeni Citizen-Cincom to Raise the Roof at IMTS
A new second level will allow more ground-level space to showcase the MCC Tech Center in its IMTS booth.
Automatic Lathe Promotes Faster Cycle Times, Ease of Use
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom presents six Miyano machines including the Miyano BNE-51MSY fixed-headstock type CNC automatic lathe.
Process Control in the Medical Shop
For this shop, successful delivery of medical and dental components is about proper process and machine tools that can handle the job.
Marubeni Hosts Open House
The company is celebrating the expansion of its North American headquarters in Allendale, New Jersey.
Hardinge and Marubeni Showfloor Demos at PMTS 2015
On Wednesday, April 22, Harding and Marubeni Citizen-Cincom Inc. welcome visitors to see the machines they have on display go through their paces.
Laser and Conventional Machining All in One Machine
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom's Laser System L2000 is incorporated into a Cincom L20EIX Swiss turning center.
Marubeni Citizen Hosts Celebration at IMTS for 30 Years in U.S.
Guests were treated like family at the Shedd Aquarium dinner and reception.
Swiss-Type Lathe Offers B Axis and Removable Guide Bushing
Marubeni Citizen-Cincom will introduce its L20 Type XII Swiss-type lathe featuring B-axis controllable rotary tools.
Hitting the Target with Creative Workholding
While growth has been steady in its Swiss operations, this archery equipment supplier's most drastic improvements have come at the hands of the workholding systems on its VMCs.
CNC Programming Software Increases Precision and Speed
Programming by hand was once a reality for IM Torneria (Bologna, Italy). However, when projects with complicated components became the norm for the shop, it was obvious to the company that CAM was needed.
L20XII Swiss-Type Lathe Offers B Axis and Removable Guide Bushing
The L20 Type XII, part of Marubeni Citizen-Cincom's L Series Innovation lineup, contains B-axis controllable rotary tools.
Medical Machining is in the Genes
Sometimes it's difficult to stay away. This company is an example of a precision machining family that simply can't stop doing what it does.
Things are Hot in Japan: Week 2
After a somewhat gypsy-like first week, three hotels in 5 days, we settled into the Marriott in Nagoya as our base of operations for Week 2's plant visits.
A Swiss Shop's Next Generation
The shallow talent pool of available skilled machinists can be an even bigger obstacle to the shop that is rapidly growing. Perhaps the best solution is to attack the problem from within.
Marshall Manufacturing Chosen to Produce DrillStops
Marshall Manufacturing Company was chosen by Dr.Emil Verben to manufacture DrillStops.
Grinding on a Swiss
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Swiss-Type Lathe, Bar Machine Offer Flexibility
The Cincom M432VIII Swiss-type lathe and Miyano BNA-42MSY multitasking bar machine will be among 13 other machines showcased by Marubeni Citizen-Cincom.
Optimizing B Axis on Gang Tool-Based Swiss Machines
This technological innovation has been increasing in popularity as well as multitasking sophistication.
Stepping Up to Unattended Machining
Lights out, unattended machining is a goal for many precision machined parts manufacturers. For many parts using easily machined materials, the process is fairly straightforward. However, this Ohio shop uses a systematic process to maximize unattended machining of more difficult materials.
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"This special entree is always on our Easter table, and i serve it for other events throughout the year," notes Christy Porter of Centennial, Colorado. "I first tasted this delicious lamb at a dinner party given by a friend."
- 1 boneless leg of lamb (4 to 5 pounds)
- 1 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary or 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Cut leg of lamb horizontally from one long side to within 1 in. of opposite side. Open meat so it lies flat; trim and discard fat. Place lamb in a large resealable plastic bag. In a small bowl, whisk the mustard, soy sauce, oil and seasonings. Pour 1 cup of marinade over lamb. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate overnight. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
- Drain and discard marinade. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Prepare grill for indirect heat using a drip pan.
- Place lamb over drip pan and grill, covered, over medium-low heat for 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hours or until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a meat thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°). Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing. Warm reserved mustard sauce; serve with lamb. Yield: 9 servings.
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O-3's reside in the fat, they are healthy. All the PUFA's are in the fat. The only significant, objecetive difference between grain fed and CAFO meats is the decreased Omega 3's in grain fed cows. A few fish oil capsules takes care of that.
I re-read my post, sorry, it seems clear to me.


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DETAILS:On December 16, 2012 at about 1:01 A.M., California Highway Patrol officers observed a vehicle that had driven off of the roadway and collided into a fence of a business located on Victoria avenue, south of Doris Avenue. When officers made contact with the driver, a male (name withheld), 22 years of San Leandro, Ca, they found him to unresponsive. EMS personnel responded to the scene and pronounced the solo driver dead at the scene.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the Camaro was traveling southbound on Victoria Avenue at a high rate of speed. As it approached Doris Avenue, the vehicle attempted to make a lane change and lost control. The vehicle veered to the right and sideswiped a Nissan Frontier, driven by Joseph Ocachea of Port Hueneme. The vehicle continued out-of-control and careened off of the road and into the fence. Ocachea was not injured.
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Before or after we started?
Like... um... stop trying to fit your old lifestyle into your new one?
LOL, yup, been there, done that. You figure it out. That's half the fun of baking!
like, for instance, coconut flour can NOT be substituted one for one with regular flour, and that you should expect to, oh, TRIPLE your liquid in your recipe! I made my standard cupcake recipe with coconut flour, and instead of being a smooth pour-able batter, it was as thick as gellato!
any other tips and tricks people have learned over time with primal eating that no one told you?
Before or after we started?
Like... um... stop trying to fit your old lifestyle into your new one?
LOL, yup, been there, done that. You figure it out. That's half the fun of baking!
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yeah, my cupcakes turned out pretty good, not sweet enough for my hubby, but as it's my birthday, I made them to my tastes.
Also, people DO tell you that your tastebuds change, and you taste sweet way more, and they are NOT lying! WOW what a difference!
Yeah, eventually fruit tastes like straight sugar, and right now I'm going through a "holy cow why is everything so salty?" phase
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Bacon is too salty now
"Thanks to the combination of meat, calcium-rich leaf foods, and a vigorous life, the early hunter-gatherers were robust, with strong skeletons, jaws, and teeth." - Harold McGee, On Food And Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Seasoning cast iron is not as easy as everyone pretends it is.
That your poop may go through a crazy transition phase :P
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how annoying it can be to have to cook so often
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reached $64 million. An impressive total, but that lags in comparison to the pace of the response to last year's earthquake in Haiti . Donations there were three times the amount in the same time period. What's behind the fewer donations
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I presume they're doing Mason masonry to help re rebuild Haiti into this scum bucket hell hole it's always been. And and ..... morbid. Can you imagine those temperatures right after the earthquake with all those bodies that had to be dug out and how rancid
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Nancy E. Bone,
Jack Dangermond, Commissioner
R. Evans Hineman, Commissioner
James V. Hirsch,
Robert King,
C. Lawrence Meador, Commissioner
Keith Rhodes,
LTG Sidney ("Tom")
Weinstein, (USA ret),
Kevin O'Connell,
Dr. Joseph Markowitz,
Steve Comer,
Capt. Steve Monson, USN,
Rahul Gupta,
Dana Johnson,
Charles Kelley,
Martin Libicki,
Julie Jones,
John Ivicic,
As might be expected, the Commission met frequently in plenary sessions where it heard briefings from current and former Executive Branch officials from defense and intelligence organizations, congressional staff present at the creation of NIMA, and representatives from the commercial sector. The majority of the information was gleaned from NIMA officers, who were exceptionally responsive, and from NIMA's customers--military and non-military, operational and intelligence organizations, and other civil (non-defense) organizations--who all were unsparing of their time to help the Commission in its work.
In the course of its deliberations, the Commission journeyed beyond Washington as and when necessary, most often to meet with NIMA's consumers on their home ground and to visit commercial and industrial partners.
The Commission, as commissions often do, found it useful to organize itself into working groups for the purposes of digging deeper into particular issues and making most efficient use of the diverse expertise represented on the Commission. The working groups were
TPED Working Group--reviewed the logic of TPED, its current state, and its acquisition management. Its first challenge was defining TPED--or USIGS modernization--and understanding its scope. Another challenge was to understand whether the program to replace IDEX-II imagery workstations had run aground, and if so, why. An emphasis on architecture and multi-INT issues rounded out its program.
Management Working Group--considered, inter alia, the respective roles of the DCI and SECDEF, the authorities and responsibilities of the Director of NIMA, and a variety of workforce issues.
Commercial Working Group--focused on the entire spectrum of "commercial" issues:
Clean Sheet Working Group--spawned a "Clean Sheet Working Group" to investigate what NIMA would look like if reinvented free from its legacy information systems. The Working Group chose to focus on NIMA's information architecture largely because of the business that NIMA is in. But there was an important secondary reason. NIMA is about to embark on a major TPED acquisition initiative, which will, for better or worse, define its information architecture for a decade or two to come.
There have been a number of insightful studies of NIMA, of which the Commission took full advantage. At least nine studies of NIMA, some classified, some not, have been conducted in the last few years. Some of these studies had a very specific focus, while others took a broader review of NIMA, as has this Commission.
The preparation of this report prompted us to review some of the major themes that emerged in those efforts and how they relate to our own. Virtually every one of these studies envision NIMA as a smaller, elite, and mission-driven organization in the future. They also envision an important role for NIMA in US information dominance, derived both from imagery and geospatial information. Prominent among the earlier studies and again addressed here are the following themes:
The Commission has two observations related to these recommendations and the challenges inherent in them:
First, while NIMA's transformation is still incomplete, and progress against some of the goals mixed, the Commission observes progress in virtually every area. For example, while the Commission has a number of comments and recommendations about NIMA's acquisition and technology issues, we do find demonstrable progress across the period of these studies in the NIMA Acquisition and Technology Directorate. Second, and in light of our own recommendations, the Commission suggests that it is time to let NIMA get on with implementing the recommendations made by this and prior panels. The continued study of NIMA drains resources from those staff who must interact with task forces, and from those who must implement what is an increasingly clear set of issues required for NIMA's transition to a more effective agency.
The Commission had the full support of the Community Management Staff (CMS)--including the personal help of the Hon. Ms. Joan Dempsey, the Hon. James Simon, and the ASD(C3I)--again, including the personal support of the Hon. Art Money, and Capt. Steve Monson, USN.
NIMA itself provided immeasurable support, starting with the personal attention of General King, Director of NIMA, without whom the report would not be the same. His staff and management team were equally unstinting in their support.
The Commission was ably aided by RAND's National Defense Research Institute, which studiously recorded critical items of information from the briefings and researched special topics for the Commissioners. The special studies included:
Commercial Imagery Policy: This study assessed the overall state of progress within the United States on imagery commercialization, including an assessment of input factors to the second-generation licenses under National Security Council consideration during the Commission's tenure. The study analyzed NIMA's Commercial Imagery Strategy in light of this situation, and made recommendations about its future course.
"National Versus Tactical" Issues: This classified study assessed the US imagery collection strategy in an area of high contention for collection resources, in order to understand whether there is an imbalance between strategic targets and tactical targets. This study also included a number of analytic experiments designed to look at how changes in collection strategy-such as changes in collection priority, platform, or sensor--would impact overall collection volume as well as collection against strategic and tactical targets in the given area.
Outsourcing: This study looked at NIMA's strategic vision and the role of outsourcing within it. It assessed the tensions between NIMA's attempts to modernize (partially) through outsourcing and more traditional perspectives on production both at NIMA and within the NIMA customer base. It mapped the role of outsourcing-and the mechanisms to implement it-from NIMA's strategic plan and business plans through its outsourcing strategy and outsourcing processes. The study also analyzed the effectiveness of NIMA's outsourcing processes in the areas of mission support and geospatial products, including the "make-or-buy" decisions associated with them.
TPED Acquisition: This study examined the acquisition strategies being used by NIMA to acquire the hardware, software, and other equipment needed to support the agency's role in tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TPED). It looked at the dominant characteristics of NIMA acquisitions-such as the emphasis on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, use of open architecture, and the level of integration challenge-the dependent factors for NIMA's acquisition strategy, and an assessment of three systems that NIMA is presently acquiring in light of those factors.
RAND also provided tailored support to the Commission's Working Groups. Among the inputs to the Commission were papers and briefings on the following topics:
"Clean Sheet" Paper: RAND coordinated the various inputs of the Clean Sheet Working Group into a document, entitled "An Alternative Scenario for NIMA: Strategy, Structure, Process, and Technology." Portions of this paper have been incorporated directly into this report.
Briefing on Organizational Cultures: This briefing for the Management Working Group identified the key internal and external factors influencing NIMA's emerging organizational culture, including the extent to which NIMA's component cultures-military, mapping, and intelligence-create challenges for current attempts to merge imagery and geospatial analysis. The study postulates three alternative futures for NIMA, including the culture/capabilities mix implications for each of them.
Paper on Geospatial Technologies: This paper, entitled, "The Integration of Geospatial Technology and Information into Our Everyday Lives," identified current trends in geographic information systems and other geospatial technologies, and a future vision of the geospatial marketplace. It identified the changing role of user communities, data issues, and standards as important elements of that marketplace. The NIMA Commission's Commercial Working Group was a co-sponsor of this paper, along with another RAND sponsor.
Copies of these RAND studies will be made available to the Director of NIMA. A complete list, for the record, of those individuals and organizations with whom the Commission met is available in the appendix of this document.
| Executive Summary and Key Judgments
| Introduction | NIMA
from the Beginning
NIMA in Context | Two-and-a-Half Roles for NIMA | The Promise of NIMA
NIMA and Its Stakeholders | NIMA and Its "Customers" | Is There a "National vs Tactical" Problem?
NIMA and Its Peers and Partners | NIMA and Its Suppliers | NIMA Management Challenges
NIMA's Information Systems | NIMA Research and Development
NIMA and Its Information Architecture | Recommendations | Appendix A
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RANGOON — Following an outcry over the revelation that the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) is paying a steep rental fee to a former military official, other international organizations operating in Burma are facing calls to be transparent about their rental arrangements in Rangoon.
Last week, Unicef admitted that it pays US$87,000 per month for its office in the up-market Golden Valley neighborhood of the former capital, and confirmed that the property's owner is related to a former general—thought to be former Agriculture Minister Nyunt Tin.
Some organizations have followed Unicef's lead in revealing information on their rental of properties in Rangoon. The World Health Organization (WHO) admitted it is paying almost as much, $79,000 per month, for its Rangoon office.
The Unicef story—first reported by The Irrawaddy—has brought into public discussion the issues of Rangoon's soaring property market, the concentration of ownership of properties among former military officials and their associates, and the transparency of foreign aid organizations.
Vicky Bowman, the director of the Myanmar Center for Responsible Business, said she was "disappointed" that a UN agency would enter into such an arrangement.
"It is very disappointing to see them paying such high prices to anyone, and especially when a former general owns the property," Bowman, a former UK ambassador to Burma, said during this week's Dateline Irrawaddy program.
While there are few properties to choose from for such organizations, Bowman said it was positive that Unicef's rental cost and the identity of the recipient had come to light.
"Now we know [Nyunt Tin] is earning about a million dollars a year," she said. "He is subject to income tax, which is about 20 percent in Burma. So, he should pay $200,000 to the government."
Following last week's Unicef disclosure, The Irrawaddy approached a number of other international organizations requesting information on their rental of properties in Rangoon.
The WHO, which is also a UN agency, told The Irrawaddy its office on Pyay Road in Mayangone Township is rented at a cost of $79,000 per month. The price tag means the agency is paying $948,000 a year for its office, more than one-tenth of its total annual budget in Burma of $9 million.
Rumor has it that the property is owned by the Burmese military's Commander in Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, or someone in his family. But a WHO representative denied it in an email to the Irrawaddy.
"It belongs to a landlady Daw Khin Nwe Mar Tun," the representative said.
Similarly to Unicef, the WHO explained that following the Burmese government's order for UN agencies to move out of Traders Hotel (now Sule Shangri-La) last year, the agency conducted a wide search for suitable properties in Rangoon.
"Finally, the present property was identified [and] found suitable also in line with UN security standards," the WHO said.
"The rental cost was high, in line with current market rates of astronomical rents but the building was taken after careful and due diligence. Though it was not to our desirable cost, but the best rate that were available and suitable at the time."
The European Union's Burma mission, which rents an office in the Hledan Center as well as a residence in Rangoon, declined immediately to declare its rental arrangements.
In reports that could not be independently confirmed, sources told The Irrawaddy that the EU ambassador's residence, close to Inya Lake, belongs to a family member of the late Burmese dictator Gen. Ne Win.
The Asian Development Bank, which does not rent a standalone property but hires office space in the Union Business Center near Kandawgyi Lake, also declined to give details of its rental arrangement.
Smaller UN agencies have come forward with details of their office rents.
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS said the villa it shares in Kamaryut Township costs $11,500 per month.
"We share the space with two small UN supported entities/projects so UNAIDS pays $9350 per month," Country Director Eamonn Murphy said by email, explaining that due diligence had been conducted on the property's owner.
"No known links were found to members of the former military or current government."
According to Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, his agency "rents office space at the cost of 12,000 USD per month for 30 staff" in Bahan Township.
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Observers said it was likely that Unicef was not alone in renting from someone with connections to Burma's former military regime.
Kyaw Lin Oo, the executive director of the Myanmar People Forum Working Group, said a shortage in the supply of properties in Rangoon had driven up prices and left international organizations with sparse choice of properties.
"Most houses in the better locations in Rangoon are owned by former military generals and cronies," he said, adding that international NGOs would face the same difficulty.
"Most of the INGOs and UN agencies have to rent their houses. There's no choice, so such aid money is going into the generals' pockets," Kyaw Lin Oo said. "Rich people are getting richer and richer."
Aung Myo Min, director of Equality Myanmar, also told The Irrawaddy it was likely that many international organizations and NGOs were paying high rents to people linked to the former military regime.
"The problem in Burma is while such NGOs and INGOs are renting houses, some don't know who is the real owner," he said.
"Mostly, there is no ownership under the general's name. They might use some other name, so [the renters] don't know. We have to be cautious about this issue."
While he agreed that it was difficult for international organizations to avoid the situation, Aung Myo Min said the high cost paid to rent offices risked undermining the work that aid organizations do in Burma.
"I always object to some international organizations whose costs are higher than the amount that reaches the people," he said.
Instead of establishing offices in Rangoon, UNICEF and WHO should just operate their businesses from Bangkok office. After all, Bangkok is only an hour flight away. The two million dollars annual rent from these organizations can be put to better use for the poor and needy people in Burma. I wonder what the overhead rate is for these organizations. Besides rent, there are salaries, allowances, etc., etc. Hmmm, I'd better think twice before making a donation to UNICEF. If UNICEF and WHO must be in Burma, they should rent a place cheaper and closer to Naypyidaw, perhaps in Meiktila or Pyinmana. Instead of fancy and posh offices, a makeshift tent would do and it would be more fun that way. Don't you think so?
The Outcry is not the 87.000 $ US rental a month but the fact that these building block is owned by the Myanmar better Yangon Government and U Myint Swe should explain why he charges that much , WHO is just next door ,,, so the German Embassy got also a rental increase to 80.000 $ US a month ,in Yangon this needs also an investigation by the german Tax money protectors
Some Groups Pockets are filled here only , that compiun d was started during Khin Nyunt time and than taken by Myint Shwe s Yangon Gov
Do they need that much rental fee is really all rental fee for the housing or hidden corruption, as in the 90 ties a house of a top General as rented for 10.000 $ Us when a same one cost only 400 $ US clear what system is behind or , Mr Thein Sein here is a need to check who is the owner and where the money goes ???? At least for a clean Government
All UN agencies are depending on contributions and donations monies of various countries. They should understand when they give rent in Myanmar and not stay in a luxury life style.
real estate are in the hands of crony-oligarch -th e prices of real estate is three times as expensive as new york-www.kyisinplb.blogspot.com
UN General Assembly needs to tackle this issue. If its agencies keep wasting donated funds this way, who will want to donate in the future? If the UN Agencies are focusing to occupy shiny office spaces, they are not worthy to work for UN and to serve the needy. It seems like UN is as corrupt as Myanmar regime.
It is amazing that so much money is spent on them to meddle in the affairs of our country without understanding the roots of the problems!
Set an example. Move to Thanlyin, Dala, Insein, or Danyin Gone. You will be respected more. Rent an acre of land that belong to monasteries and build to your liking [very cheap and fast].Than Lyin is good. Get that Meik Sit Htan Taw , you can get cheap fine toddy water too, so you an perform better on your projects. Do not overdo it like our former Emperor Tabin Shwe Hti.
Please kick these dictator minions from UNICEF and UN agencies out of Burma. We can help ourselves more than they can here right now. While 95% Burmese live in thatch houses, why these rogues chose a life of luxury and wastage? And make the owners of the houses also responsible if they are found to avoid taxes and also charging exorbitantly, driving up the rental money and causing endless suffering to people who earn through their blood and sweat.


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The cases were brought before Judge Joan Campbell of the 248th District Court who dismissed all charges due to lack of evidence. However, the felony charges were later reinstated by a Houston grand jury. Garza told me that the latest development of uncovering an infiltrator came to a head at a discovery hearing on Monday, August 27, but is the result of months of hard work by many including his attorney, National Lawyers Guild's Greg Gladden.


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> Two years ago I noticed that PC World were selling off Psion 5mx at
> £199, and decided that I needed a spare as mine was showing signs of
> wear & tear. (cracks in case etc.) However, PC World pointed out that as
> I had a business account with them (which I'd never used), I could have
> a 15% discount. Then offered me an extended guarantee for £30. So no
> extra costs than I had 'budgeted'. In the light of the cracks in my old
> Psion (and my earlier 3a had gone the same way) I went for it.
> I retired the old Psion and started using the new one. Well, last
> November, I had some problems with the power supply - switching on reset
> the power. "Oh!", I thought, "cable problems." The case was also
> showing small cracks around the hinge.
> I rang the guarantors who said ring Psion. Psion said fax us the
> guarantee. Nothing happened. After Christmas I chased Psion. "Fax us
> the guarantee" they said. Nothing. I rang "You were supposed to ring us
> back after faxing us!" they said. ;-) They found the fax, arranged
> collection to go to their repairing company Concord Logistics in Milton
> Keynes.
> Two weeks later I have received a nice new 5mx - well it looks new -
> they seem to have changed everything except the serial number! New
> screen - no scratches, new case - no cracks, new cable - they say, new
> board because of power problems.
> Now my temporary unretired old Psion that has been serving me well for
> the last two months goes back into retirement and I start with a new
> Psion.
> Thanks to PC World for selling me an extended guarantee, thanks to Psion
> Teklogix for repairing it.
> Good eh? ;-)
> Mike
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Yup, same here with a prolonged Dixons guarantee.
First repair worth of 180 euros, second of 165 euros... and the guarantee
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If you are buying a new TV you are wise to buy a smart TV, and there are plenty to choose from. But if you have a slightly older flat screen HDTV then I am sure the picture is still awesome and it has lots of life left in it.
Did you know that you can also make your HDTV a smart TV without spending too much – and there are quite a number of available options. If you're ready to get smart, ask yourself this: how smart do you want your TV to be? In other words, what functions that are not traditionally on a TV would you now like to see on the big screen?
The simplest solution to making your TV smart is hooking up your computer to it. Even if your computer doesn't have an HDMI connection, you can get adapters to connect either the TV HDMI to your mini DVI port (typically for macs) or using your SCSI monitor connector (typically on PCs). By connecting directly to your TV you can essentially use it as a large monitor, allowing you to browse the Internet, stream videos, show your personal movies and pictures, play YouTube videos, Netflix, or any other applications that reside on your computer. This is a really simple way to make your TV a smart TV, the only issue is you can't do it wirelessly. You need a long cable so you can keep the computer far enough away to drive the content.
Another basic option is using gaming consoles, such as the XBOX or Playstation. These are probably the most expensive options (and even these don't cost that much), but you will get some amazing gaming graphics with a wide variety of fantastic games of all types. Many people don't realize that today's gaming console can do so much more than just play games. For instance the Sony PS3 is also a high quality blu-ray player, and it has wireless Internet connectivity so you can watch Netflix, YouTube videos, as well as access to a lot of online gaming platforms. You can also use it to load much of your own content off your computer through their USB ports so you can display your own photos and movies on the big screen. XBOX allows you to do the same type of additional "smart" fun things, and they are both very simple to connect to your system.
Another option comes from many manufacturers that have produced their own "smart" box designed to connect directly to your TV as well as the Internet, and provide a lot of additional features and functionality. They are typically very easy to setup in just a matter of minutes. Connecting to your TV is easy using an HDMI and/or component video connection, and to your surround sound system through either an optical connection and/or basic RCA connectors. These "smart" boxes include Roku, Sony's Internet Box, WD Live, Apple TV and more. Some of the additional features of these devices is that you can wirelessly connect to your computer to display content like photos, videos, movies, etc. In addition, most of them provide access to YouTube, Netflix, Flickr, Picasa, and a variety of other Internet applications. You can also get current movie releases (on a pay for basis), free music channels, sports channels, and view your Facebook, Twitter, and other popular sites with your TV.
So if your drooling over the latest Smart TV's but you aren't ready to consider your nice flat screen as obsolete yet, seriously look at the various add on boxes that will get you just what you need. I think these options are at least as good, and in some ways better because you can choose what smart features you want by selecting the right box, whereas if you buy a smart TV you are stuck with what is installed on that model TV. Consider what you really want to do with your TV, and I am sure you can find the right box that will do it within a pretty reasonable budget.
They are all very easy to install but if you still aren't sure you can always contact Geek Squad.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you have any questions you can also ask the thousands of people who visit our community forums.
By Tom Brauser, Editor Home Theatre
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