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On Monday, Microsoft and Yahoo invited search marketers and vendors to an all-day overview of the upcoming Microsoft-Yahoo Alliance. Here are some of the highlights from the day.
Timeline. Both MS and Y reps assured us that they are on schedule for a full rollout of the Alliance by October. November and December is the "protected holiday period" that is so key to search marketers, and the Alliance is on target to have all US and Canada PPC advertisers moved over to the shared platform by October. API migration will also be complete by then.
Interface improvements. Advertisers have shared their wish lists for both Yahoo and MSN's web UIs for a while now, and the two engines have definitely heard the feedback. Some of the enhancements PPC advertisers can look forward to are:
- Negative keyword expansion beyond 1026 characters
- Negative keywords at ad group or campaign level
- Campaign performance dashboards
- Web import options of any format – Google, Yahoo, or MSN
- Significant upgrades to the adCenter Desktop tool
- Search network controls – can choose just owned & operated properties, or search partners
- Reporting upgrades, including removal of the 92-day time limit
- Enhanced conversion tracking options, including revenue tracking
Team members also clarified roles for Yahoo and Microsoft under the Alliance:
- Primary lead for all transition-related activities
- Assist with budgeting and account structure to help you prepare
- Creation of new accounts and IOs as transition approaches
- Strategic insights for ad copy, optimization, match type selection, etc.
- Post transition account optimization
- Microsoft Optimization resource on adCenter accounts leading up to transition
- Transition resource for the Y account manager
- Continue to support display advertising
All in all, it sounds like things are progressing on schedule, and the process is well thought out – great news for advertisers!
Postscript: I've received clarification from Yahoo on the timing of the switchover. They said, "Our primary focus is to provide advertisers with a quality transition experience while protecting the all important holiday season. If we don't believe we can do both in that timeframe, we will wait until 2011."
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Hi all,
this is my problem:
I have a class "Szenario" that is declared like this:
publicclass Szenario : INotifyPropertyChanged {
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
// some code for Properties, private fields and methodsprotectedvirtualvoid OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName) {
if (PropertyChanged != null)
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
This class creates similar classes in its constructor. It contains some Properties bound to controls by Binding. The object to serialize is a CurrentItem of an ObservableCollection<Szenario>. All Binding works flawlessly.
When trying to serialize an object of that class after it has been updated at least once in either direction thru Binding the serializer throws the exception:
Type 'System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventManager' in Assembly 'WindowsBase, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' is not marked as serializable.
The PropertyChanged delegate in fact contains a Property pointing to the EventManager mentioned in the throw-message after the first update of any bound Property.
Is there anybody who can help?
Answer 1
You should most likely flag your PropertyChanged event with
If the main usage is to serialize out of, back into, a WPF application, the event manager will resubscribe when the object is added back into the observable collection.
Answer 2
Hello Reed,
thank you for your help. I have tried the following
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
Do you know an alternate syntax to specify the Event more like a field?
Answer 3
You can use [Field] attribute to your PropertyChangedEventHandler.
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
Answer 4
Hello Reed,thank you for your help. I have tried the following[NonSerialized()]
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
Unfortunately the compiler does not like this construct. It diagnoses: "Error 1 Attribute 'NonSerialized' is not valid on this declaration type. It is only valid on 'field' declarations. "
Do you know an alternate syntax to specify the Event more like a field?
Regards Uwe
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
With events, the syntax required is:
publicevent PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;


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It is no coincidence an Audi A1 is running around Canada with testing gear affixed and engineers in chase. The automaker is presently holding a "Fascination of Quattro" event in Montreal to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the famous drivetrain, but also used the venue to unwrap and evaluate an all-wheel-drive A1 Quattro prototype.
In only a few months time, the Audi A1 has led a storied life. Upon introduction last August, Audi expected A1 sales to be around 30,000 units at the end of 2010. By mid-December, German publications estimated deliveries at 20,000 vehicles, and suggested a high price tag (around $21,000 base in Germany) may be to blame.
Recently, A1 sales expanded into global markets, excluding China and South America. As a result, production was boosted to an estimated 120,000 units per year.
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This list is going around facebook.
I don't have daughters but I try to hand out this kind of motherly advice every time I meet young ladies. Here's my version:
1. At least once in your life you should go for it. Cut your own hair. Use sharp scissors, a second mirror, and have fun with it. It's just hair! Hair grows.
2. Never use bleach and ammonia together. For crying heck, what are you even trying to clean that you're trying these two chemicals together? We live in the future. Get a flipping Magic Eraser.
But also, by the time you are 18 I hope you will understand enough about chemistry to know that the best case will make Chlorine gas and that stuff isn't kidding around. Apparently you can also change the ratio to produce explosive toxic rocket fuel-levels of excitement. Don't do that unless you have a good reason.
3. Learn how to use a fire extinguisher. Obviously good advice given your impulse to mix things that lead to exothermic reactions.
4. Don't play manipulative little games with people you care about. Don't fish for complements or set them up to say the wrong thing (ie "Do you love me?" or "does this tanktop make my elbows look pointy?"). That's crappy and unfair.
5. Good friends are the ones who can make you laugh and who think you are amazing even if your ass is big, even if your boyfriend took off with Suzy, even if you accidentally burned her skin with ammonia and bleach.
6. When you ask a man, "What are you thinking?" and he replies "Nothing.", he was thinking about you doing some craaaaAaazy sex thing.
7. Pizza is delicious! It's one of the top 20 reasons for living on planet Earth. Go for whole wheat crust if it's an option, go easy on meat ingredients, add a ton of vegetables. If you get it from a national chain it'll be really salty, so drink a lot of water.
8. Learn how to use jumper cables and then hang out in parking lots in the winter. Great way to meet guys. "Looks like you need me to jump you…" WINK.
9. Men look at other girl's boobs. Maybe you should look at girl's boobs too? You never know what you might be into. You're only 18.
10. Drinking is fun, but don't rely on it for a good time. Have friends who are a lot of fun to be around even when everyone is sober. The only time I ever felt compelled to drink alcohol straight from the bottle was when I was at a party and ended up trapped talking to a girl who was so boring I thought I might die. There were no clean glasses. It was drink that shit or stab her in the face with a pen. I regret nothing.
11. Budgeting is good. Budgerigers are better. Badgers are not good. Budgets and budgies, not badgers. Badges are sort of neutral, although they can pull holes in your shirt if you're not careful.
12. Separating laundry out into all different categories is a scam. Use cold water, don't over do the soap, regular wash, low-heat dry, and boom. All of your clothes can be washed in harmony.
13. Smoking's gross. Don't do smoking.
14. No one knows what they want to be when they grow up. Just get a damned engineering degree and use the money you earn to pursue whatever you love to do.
15. Boys are human beings, just like girls. Don't be intimidated by anyone of any gender. Don't change yourself to impress or please them, don't spend time with anyone who tries to make you feel ashamed of who you are.
Bonus! 16. Don't fall for all the marketing hype. The only skin care products you need: Hot water, a washcloth, and moisturizer.


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There arent any games revolving around a ragtag group of rebels made up of a warrior, a robot, a giant mole, and a smelly, old, blind man, and if there was one, its wouldnt be as good as Armed and Dangerous is. This is the second game from the relatively new Planet Moon Studios whose only other game was Giants: Citizen Kabuto. The games introduction doesnt reveal very much of the back story in the beginning, oddly the manual reveals more. Armed and Dangerous takes place in some sort of alternate medieval universe as it has the medieval setting, but it also has guns and robots. The story is somewhat of a Robin Hood style one, as it involves an evil king and his oppressive army, lots of peasants and villages, and the group of rebels (your group) known as the Lionhearts who saves the peasants. Your main goal is to get back the Book of Rule, which is an all powerful book that you need to stop the evil king. Unfortunately, when you get the book back, its transformed by Rexus power in the Book of Basket Weaving, and you cant transform it back without help. The Lionhearts consist of Roman, the warrior leader whom you control, Q the tall, goofy tea drinking robot, Jonesy the sarcastic giant mole, and Rexus, the smelly, old, blind man, with powers. You find out more about the story through cutscenes, which happen at the end of each level, and also happen to be some of the funniest moments in gaming history.
At its core, this game looks like your generic third person shooter, but its a lot more than that. In the game Roman is mostly running and gunning, but sometimes he is in a turret and defending a base against swarms of the kings army flooding towards him. Youll mostly find yourself busy shooting as many enemies as you can, while switching guns on the fly, and deciding when you use which weapon. The shooting is solid, and sometimes requires you to think, as to not destroy peasant building, or kill animals, both of which hurt your score. Unlike other games such as Medal of Honor, the turret based shooting missions in Armed and Dangerous are incredibly fun, mostly due to the sheer amount of enemies you must repel. You are not in some slow moving vehicle shooting a slow, boring machine gun at stupid troops, youre stationed in an unlimited ammo turret defending against a literal ocean of enemies, which makes the gameplay that much more hectic and fun. In some of the later levels you also take control of a jet pack, which helps you get across some of the more massive maps much easier. You get various objectives in the game, some of them involve just getting to the end of the level, others require you to blow up something, or drop off peasants at their houses, which should not be confused with the horrid escort missions that plague other games.
The level design usually consists of a fairly wide open level, in a different environmental setting, such as a snow covered winterland, the tops of mountains, mines, forests, and many more. Despite the different environments, the objectives remain largely the same, which isnt necessarily a bad thing. The levels are covered with enemy grunts, snipers, jet pack toting humans, barracks which release many enemies, missile launching structures, and even giant robots, which all serve to make your mission all that much more difficult. The level design and structure will change as you progress through the game, which adds variety to it. Each level also contains a pub, which is where you go to get health for you and your crew, get new guns, and more ammo. The AI isnt the best, but its nothing bad, as you will sometimes see enemies dodge and use tactics against you. You do have help in some missions from Q and Jones y who provide cover fire for you. You can tell them to defend an area or defend you by the push of two buttons. Sadly, those simple tactics alone are better than all of the tactical attempts made by Brute Force, as they work the way theyre supposed to, and they work well.
The unique and varied weapons are probably the best part of the game, next to the frequent humor. The game contains the generic machine gun, rifle, sniper rifle, rocket launcher, and even a cannonball launching mortar, but those have been used for ten years, and hardly need an explanation. The first obscure weapon you receive is a giant corkscrew known as the Topsy Turvy bomb, which you jam into the ground, and hang on as the world turns upside down sending the enemies falling into the sky, and then falling back to the ground when things turn right side up again. One of my favorite obscure guns you will receive is a Shark Gun. The Shark Gun fires a shark which travels through the ground, and then comes up and eats an enemy, and then moves on to another. I just wish that there were more of these weapons as around halfway through the game, you dont get any new ones, which makes it only about four obscure weapons.
Solid is one word to describe the graphics in Armed and Dangerous. They hardly utilize the full extent of Xboxs power, but they look decent enough to pass for an Xbox game. The textures are pretty Dreamcast-like, and the color seems sometimes washed out and muddy. The characters themselves dont look too spectacular either. There is a wide variety of well designed, creative characters, but they dont look very nice at all. The draw distance and the sheer scale of everything going on simultaneously more than makes up for the lackluster graphics thankfully. Cutscenes are presented in real time, rather than CG, which allows you at certain points to see how ugly some characters really look. The graphics are disappointingly average, when compared to the rest of the game which is all above average. The best part about the graphics is the explosions which are lavishly detailed, and look great. Luckily though, graphics do not make a game good, gameplay does, which Armed and Dangerous does very well.
The sound in this game is very well done. Everything from the gunshots, to glass breaking, to wildlife, to the explosions sounds great. The footsteps reflect what surface youre walking through, whether it be snow or water, which is a great detail. The music in the game mostly consists of what seem to be Irish ballads, but they all have a distinct European sound to them, which add to the immersion factor of the game. The voice acting is very British, as is the humor, which is good news for Monty Python and Mr. Bean fans. Its clear the game is in a European setting due to the dialogue, in addition to the scenery. The game is loaded with hilarious moments, which is almost every cutscene and sometimes in game as well. Some funny instances in the game occur when you return peasants to their home and theyll have a conversation with the life whom theyre returning to such as Honey, guess what happened to me today! You turned gay?. Its rare that you find a game this funny thanks to real humor, as most games are loaded with unfunny, and just downright stupid things resorting to failed attempts at humor with stupid gross-outs, sex jokes, and other stuff of the sort. The game is genuinely funny, with excellent voice which just improves upon the experience.
The controls are great because they follow a formula that works, set up by Halo. They are responsive and fluent, which help aid the impressive gameplay experience. Since it uses an excellent and already established formula, its very easy to pick up and play. The controls have two settings, but my preference and the default are as follows:
Left joystick - Move
Right joystick - Aim/Look
D-pad left/right - Switch guns
D-pad up/down - Switch grenades
A - Jump
B - Grenade
X - Reload
Y - Action
L - Zoom
R - Shoot
White - Have Q and Jonesy defend area
Black - Have Q and Jonesy defend you
Start - Pause
Back - Nothing
The games replay value is put a bit into question, due to the somewhat odd choice of keeping this a one player only game. This game just begs for co-op play, and it wouldve significantly added to the replay value of it. It seems a bit odd with 3 characters (including you) going at once that this game doesnt feature some sort of co-op play. Armed and Dangerous is average length for this type of game (10 - 15 hours), which is good, but more couldnt hurt, since the game seems to be over too soon. There are unlockables which can be achieved throughout the game, when you pick up tokens, which add new levels and cheats such as big head mode. Unlockable levels is a good idea as they are very fun to play through, and more just extends the replay life. The game also supports downloadable content for even more levels, which is a beneficial thing, and can add hours to play. Even without downloadable content, the game is still a solid affair, with many fun levels that you will play again. The replay value is an overall good affair since it adds unlockable goodies as well as many new levels, but being more than one player wouldve helped even more.
This game is what Brute Force shouldve been, fun. Armed and Dangerous is an excellent third person shooter, thats funny, contains many unique weapons, and is a joy to play. The gameplay is varied and thus doing its best to stay fresh. The unique weapons themselves are great and make this title separate from the rest of the genre due to their uniqueness. While the game isnt anything special to look at, it sounds great, and is absolutely hilarious to listen to. The controls are easy to pick up and play, thanks to using an excellent control setup, which has withstood the test of time. The replay value is exceptional as well, and since the levels, fun factor and gameplay are so excellent, youll probably be replaying multiple times. Armed and Dangerous is a superb game that doesnt take itself too seriously, yet it retains all the qualities that a good game needs to possess. I didnt test any of the downloadable levels or secret ones, and even without those, this game was a joy, all the way through. This is a great game, thats unique, funny, and a joy to play, and its sure to please anyone who enjoys comedy or just like shooting and blowing stuff up.
Gameplay: 8.7
Graphics: 7.4
Audio: 9.5
Controls: 9.6
Replay: 8.3
Overall: 8.5
Armed And Dangerous - Ntsc
Started by Barnolde , Mar 02 2004 06:50 PM
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Posted 02 March 2004 - 06:50 PM
Posted 02 March 2004 - 08:52 PM
Saw a pc mag give it 3/10
Saw a pc mag give it 3/10
Posted 23 March 2004 - 04:28 PM
I've only played a few levels of this game, so here's my take on it.
First impressions: my eyes weren't visually assaulted (that's a good thing) and i have a weapon I can use as a sniper rifle which I just love. I'm glad they keep track of how many head shots u make hehe
Killing more baddies, blowing stuff up.. woo hoo.. My favorite gun, aside from the sniper rifles, has got to be the shark gun hehe As I stated earlier I haven't explored this game deeply so I haven't had a chance to try out the rest of the weapons or different sort of levels.
I like the turret guns. Too bad all the ones I've used don't rotate as far as you'd like; they're usually facing away from where the baddies are coming from :\ I thought the level where u shoot a bunch of well... dots was interesting.
This game totally reminds me of serious sam. Only difference between these games is there's dialogue cutscenes and some semblance of a story with goals you've got to do.
After a while of playing I got bored with the game. The cutscenes sometimes are too long; like they are trying to be humorous in that monty python sort of way but it seems they're trying too hard to be silly.. failing miserably.
But if you like blowing stuff up with lots of people to kill with interesting weapons, this game just might be for you.
First impressions: my eyes weren't visually assaulted (that's a good thing) and i have a weapon I can use as a sniper rifle which I just love. I'm glad they keep track of how many head shots u make hehe
Killing more baddies, blowing stuff up.. woo hoo.. My favorite gun, aside from the sniper rifles, has got to be the shark gun hehe As I stated earlier I haven't explored this game deeply so I haven't had a chance to try out the rest of the weapons or different sort of levels.
I like the turret guns. Too bad all the ones I've used don't rotate as far as you'd like; they're usually facing away from where the baddies are coming from :\ I thought the level where u shoot a bunch of well... dots was interesting.
This game totally reminds me of serious sam. Only difference between these games is there's dialogue cutscenes and some semblance of a story with goals you've got to do.
After a while of playing I got bored with the game. The cutscenes sometimes are too long; like they are trying to be humorous in that monty python sort of way but it seems they're trying too hard to be silly.. failing miserably.
But if you like blowing stuff up with lots of people to kill with interesting weapons, this game just might be for you.
Posted 25 March 2004 - 03:09 PM
i agree with the mag 3/10 there are many better shooters out there
Posted 25 March 2004 - 07:49 PM
|QUOTE (pxpx @ Mar 25 2004, 05:09 PM)
|i agree with the mag 3/10 there are many better shooters out there
Thanks for your valuable in-depth insight.
The shooting part isn't so great, but the rest of it is excellent.
Posted 26 March 2004 - 12:44 PM
I haven't heard of this game before, but I loved Giants:Citizen Kabuto - and judging by the screenies, this game seems to be pretty similar to it. I guess I'll give it a shot.
BTW, awesome review Barnolde.
BTW, awesome review Barnolde.
Posted 27 March 2004 - 10:55 PM
I loooved this game. There are NOT many good console platform shooters nor many good platform shooters at all. This one was quality, well made, and damn funny (one of the few games I laughed outloud at ever). It was just fun to play, I beat it in 2 sittings, just couldn't stop playing. You used the machine gun a little too much, but eventually the game got HARD and tootk some old fashion skill. You had to learn how to use the weapons, never use the sniper but the rocket launcher instead, and many other little tricks you learned. Quality game, I give it a 9/10.
Posted 02 April 2004 - 07:07 AM
|QUOTE (pxpx @ Mar 25 2004, 05:09 PM)
|i agree with the mag 3/10 there are many better shooters out there
Its not meant to be a shooter as such... more of an action/adventure, with shooting. I love the game, I've yet to finish it, but I've never played a game so much in a short perios of time as I have with this. I hope LucasArts throws up some more games like this.
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Not all websites are looked at the same, and not all networks are analyzed the same by Google. But I would say that in the game of risk vs reward, the SEO you know is probably playing more on the side of risk.
Once any of the websites ranks consistently, you might get human inspection from Google and competitors. :)
When it comes to "big" keywords, you bet that they have humans watching and evaluating the SERPs.
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In fact, I would say its more of a problem if Google penalised such situations. A consumer of such services might like to be able to roam between gaming sites, comfortable in the fact they are all run by the same operator, presumably an operator they trust.
Its only when you start sneaky interlinking-for-SEO that the big G should aim their counter-measures at you.
Similarly, don't try to give your sites an artificial boost by interlinking. How you balance these two is up to you, but I'd err on the side of "if its good for my user, its good for me".
Golden rule: EVERY LINK YOU HOST, MUST TO TO AN ON-TOPIC SITE- preferably an on-topic page
That means if I own 100 domains and think that Domain #101 fits in
If GOOGLE thinks it fits, analysis of similar situations suggests you should be fine, but there are caveats.
First amongst them is that each of those sites should enjoy a independant backlink profile, and that Site101 should have links other than from Sites(1-100). Homogenous backlinks look spammy.
Otherwise, if its done above board, you are unlikely to get penalised. The links probably will have less pop than other links, but actual penalties are unlikely.
A "penalty-like occurance" may be evident down the line. That's because the links will likely be fully counted to start with, then the association discovered, links devalued, ranking lowered. Not a penalty- your site is higher than if the links were never there, but lower than if the links were independant. Removing the links hurts the site further. I suspect this phenomena is behind the vast majority of "my site just got penalised" stories we get.
Disclaimer: The above is speculation. It fits with my experience, though I appreciate it is not SEO Orthodoxy. YMMV. Forum advice is no substitute for personal experience.
If in doubt, test
my competitor dominates the SERPs for serious keywords, based on a pyramid of themed sites spread across only 4 or 5 servers
Google.co.uk by any chance? Big thing over here. One guy in the legal industry actually has each site as a different keyword in the navigation panel for each website. A network of 22 domains all with practically identical navigation panels linking to each other.
Amazing! Ranks just under us for most but above us for some. That's impressive considering that it took 3 years and 10,000+ backlinks for us to get to that spot whilst he's just tailored the 22 domains with 100 backlinks to each to cover the same ground as our 1 site.
Manual inspection? Maybe in the US where such things get media attention ... doubt there is a UK inspection team ... our results are the biggest load of spam you've ever seen.
doubt there is a UK inspection team ... our results are the biggest load of spam you've ever seen
They certainly are. Obvious (and surprisingly small) networks of 'directories' and 'blogs' being used to get 1st place trade/professional town/city rankings all over the shop.
Google.co.uk by any chance
I've saw similar in the UK, where there's a 'main' site with the brand name, and brand-location child domains.
Out of 1100 backlinks shown for the main site, hundred's are the child site, which are on the same class C and obviously the same 'entity' creating the site (a couple of dozen per IP). They rank fairly well too, for a lucrative market. To be fair they're a large company, but on the other hand one site would've been just as practical for users.
From the human POV, it can 'seem' less spammy when it's a well known brand or big industry player.


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The downsizing of the Amherst Town Board from six members to five has been given what appears to be a final green light after years of contentious debate.
The board voted Monday not to mount a legal challenge to a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the downsizing to go ahead. "We shouldn't be wasting our time, energy and resources on this appeal," said Council Member Mark A. Manna, who proposed the legislation. "It's just silly."
The appeal would have challenged State Supreme Court Justice Tracey A. Bannister's recent ruling that canceled a special election to keep the board at six members.
Surprisingly, Supervisor Barry A. Weinstein, who was in favor of the special election, said he agreed with Manna that the town should drop the appeal. "It's not worth the money, and it's not worth the time," Weinstein said. "I can live with the decision."
Weinstein, who is being challenged by Manna for the supervisor's post in November, said the scheduled downsizing of the board would take place as planned.
Amherst residents voted overwhelmingly in 2010 to downsize the board from seven members to five, but it was not carried out all at once.
One board seat was trimmed when Weinstein was elected supervisor, and the second was scheduled to be eliminated at the end of this year.
But Weinstein and the Republican majority on the board this year argued that the sixth seat should stay because the board worked well together.
They called a special election asking residents to vote on the matter before town Democrats successfully challenged the notion in the courts.
Town leaders had said they would appeal Bannister's ruling and filed a notice of appeal but reversed course Monday night.
Deputy Supervisor Guy R. Marlette was the lone board member to maintain his support of the appeal.
"There is absolutely no harm in appealing and getting a higher court's ruling," Marlette said. "This was a politically motivated challenge."
The decision means one board seat will be eliminated at year's end. Two board seats – both held by Republicans – are up for election this year, and neither incumbent is expected to run.
Nearly every sitting board member has changed his or her position on this issue since it was brought up in 2010.
Weinstein ran for office on a platform that included board downsizing, and Manna was once stridently against it.
"I'm no saint on this downsizing thing, but at some point my opinion on this becomes irrelevant," Manna said. "We have to listen to the people."
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More than three years after the global financial crisis, its effects continue to reverberate around the world's financial markets. The emphasis of concern may have shifted from the banking to the sovereign sector, but the underlying issues for corporate treasuries remain the same: quantifying the real creditworthiness of all counterparties, assigning and managing appropriate counterparty dealing limits, and monitoring changes in creditworthiness with the necessary speed and sensitivity so that effective and timely responses to any sudden deteriorations may be made.
Sovereign debt issues amongst the weaker eurozone countries and the United States' narrow avoidanceof a politically-provoked technical default – followed by an unprecedented downgrading by Standard& Poor's – have caused uncertainty in the markets. Today's global economy means that companiesoperating in financially strong areas and sectors are not immune to the risks of direct or indirect exposureto less creditworthy counterparties, whether they are corporate, banking or sovereign institutions. Theserisks may be experienced directly, because of the multinational nature of many companies' businessoperations, or indirectly through the knock-on effects transmitted through the banking sector. Credit riskis encountered in treasury exposures, in investments, and in the commercial receivables book, so thecorporate sector should be included in the analysis, in addition to the sovereign and banking sectors.
Accordingly, a key element of prudent corporate treasury management is the evaluation of theapproaches to counterparty risk management that are presently attracting interest among the world'scorporate treasuries, combined with the modification of treasury policy to implement improvementsappropriate to the organisation.
More and more treasuries are now supplementing the use of classical credit ratings to evaluate counterparties' creditworthiness with faster-moving and therefore more sensitive indicators – it is salutary to recall that Lehman Brothers carried an investment grade 'A' rating from Standard & Poor's at the time of its collapse in 2008. In the more recent case of credit deterioration of some Eurozone countries, credit ratings were again found lacking as leading indicators of the mounting problems, with several commentators stating that the eventual downgrades came too late to be of real value to the investment community.
The rating agencies seem to have sharpened their response in the unfolding of the sovereign debt issue – but can the use of credit ratings alone now be regarded as best practice for corporate treasuries? Financial institutions have led the way in developing new, more effective approaches to credit evaluation. In the corporate treasury sector, the adoption of a range of market-linked measures has become best practice in the evaluation of counterparties' creditworthiness.
One of the most widely adopted measures is tracking counterparties' credit default swap (CDS) spreads. In fact, the performance of Lehman Brothers' equity price and CDS spread both operated as accurate leading indicators of a rapidly deteriorating credit status in the weeks preceding the actual failure.
CDS spread monitoring is the basis of the recommended methodology of the US Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) for assigning a monetary value to non-performance risk, as required under FAS 157. It is appropriate to note that very few corporate treasuries actually use the CDS as a hedging instrument – the volatility that makes the CDS such a sensitive monitoring measure makes its use unattractive to the majority of corporates. In addition to CDS spread monitoring, there are several other measures for counterparty credit monitoring: these include equity and bond prices and indices, probability of default factors published by expert third parties and working capital ratios. Most now accept that no single indicator on its own can adequately answer the risk management objectives of treasury.
Corporate treasurers now enjoy a wealth of options in terms of tools to evaluate and monitor the performance and creditworthiness of their counterparty universe, so that they can supplement credit ratings with faster-moving indicators, as appropriate for their business-risk profile.
Today's credit management requirements are complex and the effectiveness of solutions depends on their integration with existing treasury technology, allowing the entire exposure to be monitored and sudden deteriorations for a given counterparty (or counterparty grouping) to be signalled via alerts and reported in real time, or at least on demand. The risk factors adopted as policy at a given treasury may be built into a number of treasury management system (TMS) functions, including mark-tomarket valuations and, for companies with US reporting obligations, for FAS 157 compliance purposes.In terms of counterparty risk management, the chosen risk factors may be applied to the allocation and management of counterparty trading limits, and to the continuous monitoring and analysis of counterparty exposures.
The actual solution mechanism can be highly automated, so that monitoring and the issuing of any necessary alerts can take place without direct human intervention. This provides a strong degree of management assurance that counterparty exposures are being objectively and effectively monitored. The setting up of the automated solution will include a straightforward configuration process that links and integrates the TMS's risk management functionality with a reliable source of the selected risk indicators, such as equity prices and CDS spreads. Once the integration has been set up, the required data may be automatically "pushed" into the TMS whenever changes occur, or automatically "pulled" into the TMS at a pre-defined frequency, or imported on demand. Once the information has been updated, the TMS can automatically apply the changes in all relevant areas, including valuations, limit assignments and counterparty exposure analysis, so that all information reported by the TMS fully and accurately reflects the current situation. The provision of the necessary integration tools and automated functions to provide secure, hands-free counterparty exposure management is a standard feature of today's treasury technology.
When corporate treasuries are determining the details of any upgrade to their counterparty exposure management infrastructure, they will naturally evaluate the required investment against the benefits of operating a best practice solution. One key factor is the objective determination of the level of counterparty risk that they are carrying versus the requirements of treasury policy, and then deciding, for example, whether it is appropriate to implement a hands-free, real-time solution, as opposed to an on-demand arrangement. The detailed cost justification will be specific for each corporate treasury, because of individual differences in policy and business profile, as well as differences in the size, location and quality of counterparty banks and issuing entities. The implemented policy may well be determined for reasons other than pure counterparty creditworthiness, such as the existence of important lending and other commercial relationships. So there may be radical differences in the appropriate level of risk management solution that should be adopted by corporations of similar type and size.
This article has outlined some of the considerations and approaches to counterparty exposure riskmanagement that organisations are taking in today's corporate treasury industry. They will be ofinterest to corporate treasurers in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, in their evaluation of routes forachieving best practice operations in this sensitive and important area. A strong solution means that theorganisation will be in a position to receive accurate early warning of an emerging creditworthiness issuewith a counterparty or group of counterparties, in any sector (sovereign, bank or corporate), ensuringthese organisations are competitively positioned to define and execute any necessary remedial action –perhaps in the early stages of a crisis when the speed and precision of the response may well be criticalto success, as recent experience shows. Implementing an optimal technology solution for counterpartyexposure management cannot of course eliminate the endemic risks and uncertainties of the financialmarkets – but it can certainly help with more assured navigation into the future.
John, you make a really good point and from a vodenr perspective, I believe that regulators have gone too far. With multiple CCPs established across geographies, the concept of central clearing is quickly defeated. Additionally, with more stringent collateral management requirements, establishing an infrastructure to calculate calls in near real-time across several CCPs will come with a hefty price tag. Regulators should consider mandating one CCP to each asset class like the DTCC was for equities and listed FIs here in the U.S. There is some traction being made. For instance regulators are trying to create a body that would oversee cross jurisdictions like AFME for the FX asset class. However clearly there is still much more that needs to be done. If regulators took a more centralized approach, they could still achieve the core goal of central clearing (reduction of systematic market risk) while ensuring consistency and ultimately reducing costs.Marcela 02 June 2012, 9:45 pm


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Trendy and eye-catching hairstyles are part of every era's fashion statement. Let's take a look at how women styled their lovely locks to complete their look during 1938 to 1940.
Hairstyle has been an integral part to a fashion statement, the "crowning glory" that makes or breaks a certain look. During the 1930's, short hair was fashionable among women; they usually had their hair styled in curls, but smooth at the crown so hats can fit perfectly. The curls either framed the face or adorned the top of the head. It was also around this time that the permanent wave hairstyle—or perm, as it is more popularly known—began to emerge and became popular.
Towards the early 1940s, short hairstyles such as page-boy bobs were still stylish, but shoulder length curls and pompadour-style puffs or rolls along the forehead also became popular.
Thanks to LIFE's extensive collection of photographs from the yester-decades, we can now take a look at the trendy hairstyles that defined much of the fashion statement from 1930s to 1940s:
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1930 - 1945 in Fashion -- Wikipedia
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In the rich tradition of desperately needing something Mets to fill the days during the All-Star break, I just watched a video from SNY's Mets Weekly (via Metsblog) in which Mets players are interviewed about their pre- and post-game meals. And wow, did the Wilpons go the whole nine yards with the kind of spread they put out for their players. No penny-pinching there.
As a matter of fact, the Mets' home clubhouse is bordering on food porn. No wonder they play so well on the road; at home, they must be aching to end the game as quick as they can just to get at that food, that beautiful, beautiful food. I want it. I need it.
But I digress.
Toward the end of this heartwarming, hunger-inducing video (at, oh, the 2:26 mark), one Mike Pelfrey drops this bomb on us: "When I'm pitching... I eat once a day, and I eat at 4:30 or 5 -- I'll eat a sandwich and some chips, and that'll be it."
Who's been letting this happen? This is terrible. No wonder Pelf starts looking like he's tired two innings into every start. Can we get this guy a protein shake or something? He's going out there starving and he thinks he's gonna go eight innings? On what energy?
Silly us, we all thought that it was just Pelfrey's Type B personality and lack of a put-away pitch that was keeping him from the success expected of a first-round draft pick. No, it's that by the time pitch No. 40 misses high and outside with two out in the second inning, the man is dizzy and shaking from hunger.
Something needs to be done. I've been a fan of The 7 Line and its very successful Please Stay Jose and Don't Trade Reyes t-shirts/campaigns, but they've missed the boat on this one, so I'm picking up the baton, or whatever boats have that's like a baton. You get the point.
In case you don't get the point, here it is: Just as we have exhorted the Mets to keep Jose Reyes for their own good, we must take up arms and tell Fred Wilpon, Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins this: Feed Mike Pelfrey. Seriously, feed the guy. Put him on the Benny Agbayani diet. Hell, put him on the David Wells diet (chips, beer and American League batters, according to Sports Illustrated), but without the cannibalism.
Pitching on an empty stomach is like drinking on an empty stomach. Have you ever drank on an empty stomach? Just don't. That's all I'll say about that.
If we can all come together and feed Mike Pelfrey, maybe we could be reading stories about his first All-Star Game selection by this time next year instead of, say, stories about how we need to force-feed him. I think we will all be happier as Mets fans and as human beings if that happens.
I should make t-shirts or something. After all, I felt so strongly about this that I spent literally minutes making the "Feed Mike Pelfrey" logo. Note to self: Trademark that.


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It's a ying and yang thing coming up at Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Some beer drinkers will prefer the casual, outdoor walk-about venue of the fifth annual Maui Brewing Festival Saturday, May 18.
Others will want to be waited on at the sit-down Maui Brew Fest Dinner that will precede the festival from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 17. Of course, those who want a taste of yin and yang, may want to indulge in both events.
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The festival will be detailed in an upcoming Scene issue. As for the elegant sit-down dinner, it will be staged in the scenic Morgado Hall & Lanai upstairs at the MACC.
"This beer education celebration will feature cuisine of the New Americas by Cactus Bistro Chef-Owner John Memering of Kailua on Oahu," says Marketing Director Karee Carlucci.
"Each of the five creative courses will be paired with specialty craft beers by Maui Brewing Co. of West Maui."
The men will be on hand to introduce the courses and explain the pairings. Learn from these masters how well handcrafted beer goes with fine dining as you savor and sip.
Begin the evening with the Czech-style Pau Hana Pilsner, then dive into gazpacho verde with island grown Persian cucumbers, avocados and tomatillos; and He'eia Samoan crab ceviche as you sip Belgian style La Perouse White.
Next comes Big Island hearts of palm with local watercress, radish and shaved Manchego cheese - paired with newly released Lemongrass Saison beer. Kiawe-grilled shrimp parrilla with Kula corn and roasted jalapeno flan will go perfectly with India Pale Ale, American-style.
The entree is Maui Cattle Co. beef short ribs braised and served with Aloha B'ak'tun beer, an Imperial Stout. Dessert is roasted Maui pineapple/ apple banana empanada with dulce de leche and rum-spiked crema with Chinwig on Bourbon beer.
Both the festival and the dinner are fundraisers for the MACC, and net proceeds benefit its programs. You must be 21 and older to attend.
Cost of the dinner is $140 per person, including tax and gratuity. For reservations, call 242-7469, or visit www.mauiarts.org.


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I do appreciate that it's not just me who has gotten frustrated at this point. I just don't even know what to do with myself!
I think those 'other' women who are able to think about anything else are in denial that there is a birth imminent. See, you're doing great!
Well, I can promise that there is no denial about a birth being imminent. I may be in denial about the possibility of going past my due date, but I like to err on the side of preparedness :)
Yeah, you're definitely nesting to the max. Hope that baby comes soon!
I was pretty sure that's what I was doing :) I can't wait to meet him/her! There's so much I don't know about this babe!
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The Thing's impact on modern improvised music can be compared to that of Peter Brötzmann's trio on For Adolphe Sax (featuring Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, widely considered the country's first improviser). Gustafsson and Co. continue that tradition but bring a higher level of musicianship and a more diverse musical background. The two segments on the live album are medleys of three songs each, tunes by such "free musicians like Joe McPhee, Charles Tyler, Don Cherry and David Murray. Augmenting these are two songs from The Thing's other current interest, garage band music (old-style with Norman Howard and new school with The White Stripes).
There are all the violent shrieks and wails one expects from Gustafsson, the polyrhythmic, Paul Lovens-ian drumming of Paal Nilssen-Love and Flaten's updated Mingus style. But there also are enough quiet, almost introspective moments that highlight each musician's technical facility and make the louder portions even more forceful.
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What makes the disc especially interesting is the wide tonal range of the baritone and how that range is applied to Gustafsson's varied techniques. The music is not just melodic or harmonic; it is percussive and ambient as well. An improvisational master class.
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Tracks: Old Eyes; Haunted; Cha Lacy's Out East; Aluminum; Awake Nu; Dewey's Circle.
Personnel: Mats Gustafsson: baritone sax; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: bass; Paal Nilssen-Love: drums.
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A chukar, a type of partridge, was observed picking grit along Route 97 north of Waterford on Jan. 4. Iceland and glaucous gulls, often referred to as white-winged gulls, were reported this week from the Lake View Landfill and Presque Isle State Park. A northern saw-whet owl was in the pines on Presque Isle State Park on Tuesday and Wednesday. A rather late ruby-crowned kinglet was seen on Pine Tree Trail on Jan. 4. A very hardy chipping sparrow and eastern towhee have been visiting feeders all week in Waterford and near North East.


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Naltrexone is a special narcotic drug that blocks the effects of other narcotic medicines and alcohol.
The combination of morphine and naltrexone is used to treat moderate to severe pain when around-the-clock pain relief is needed for a long time period.
Morphine and naltrexone may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What are the possible side effects of morphine and naltrexone (Embeda)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; chest pain, anxiety, pounding heartbeats, fainting; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
Less serious side effects may include:
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is the most important information I should know about morphine and naltrexone (Embeda)?
You should not use morphine and naltrexone if you have ever had an allergic reaction to a narcotic medicine, if you are having an asthma attack or if you have a bowel obstruction called paralytic ileus.
Do not use morphine and naltrexone if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) in the last 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur, leading to serious side effects.
Before taking morphine and naltrexone, tell your doctor if you have a breathing disorder, liver or kidney disease, low blood pressure, a thyroid disorder, curvature of the spine, gallbladder or pancreas disorders, a blockage in your stomach or intestines, Addison's disease, enlarged prostate, urination problems, a seizure disorder, a debilitating condition, mental illness, a history of head injury or brain tumor, or a history of alcoholism or drug addiction.
Morphine and naltrexone may cause addiction or withdrawal symptoms in a newborn if the mother takes the medication during pregnancy. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using morphine and naltrexone.
You should not breast-feed while you are using morphine and naltrexone.
This medication may impair your thinking or reactions. Avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how morphine and naltrexone will affect you. Do not take morphine and naltrexone with other medicines that can make you sleepy or slow your breathing. Dangerous side effects may result.
Do not drink alcohol while you are using this medication. Dangerous side effects or death can occur when alcohol is combined with morphine and naltrexone. Check your food and medicine labels to be sure these products do not contain alcohol.
Do not crush, chew, or dissolve the medicine pellets inside an extended-release capsule. If possible, swallow the pill whole. Crushing or chewing the medicine pellets would cause too much of the drug to be released at one time, which may cause a life-threatening overdose.
Never take morphine and naltrexone in larger amounts, or for longer than recommended by your doctor. Tell your doctor if the medicine seems to stop working as well in relieving your pain.
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NEW YORK — Every week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks.
But they're not shadowy criminals: They're students training to become "white-hat" hackers, experts to help business and government agencies protect their data from cyberattacks that have become an almost daily occurrence.
"It's the new espionage. Spies operate from behind keyboards now," says Evan Jensen, a senior at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and one of the leaders of the Hack Night events where about two dozen students hone their hacking skills.
Since actual hacking is illegal, the students can't just sneak into a webpage and poke around for learning's sake. So industry experts, professors and the school's very own "Hacker In Residence," Dan Guido, collaborate to create exercises that expose the students to real-world hacking scenarios.
Guido, who runs his own cybersecurity firm, will walk students through one of the most common means hackers use to gain access to a computer network — attacks on the software of a browser like Internet Explorer. In June 2011, Google said it had traced to China a cyberattack that attempted to access hundreds of Google email accounts.
Guido uses the case, much of which has been made public, to recreate the exploit, having students map out step by step how the hacker was able to access a desktop computer and infiltrate the company's network.
While bigger schools such as Georgia Tech, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon are known for their cybersecurity programs, experts say Brooklyn-based NYU-Poly is now considered among the best schools for training students with hands on, mission-critical cybersecurity skills.
That's due in part to Hack Night, an active cybersecurity club and an annual hacking competition each fall that the school bills as the largest in the country.
"Every one of the faculty, every one of the undergraduates and every one of the graduate students is engaged in real-world exercises," says Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training organization. "They come out having actually developed and tested their skills."
Paller says the need for cybersecurity experts with real world training is severe — a 2012 report he co-authored found that the Department of Homeland Security alone needs 600 such experts.


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The Board of Registration in Nursing (Board) wishes to inform you that, the Healthcare Workforce Center (HWC) has established the Massachusetts Loan Repayment Program for Health Professionals. The HWC mission is to improve access to health care in the Commonwealth by supporting policy making and programs which will assure optimal supply and distribution of primary care and other health professionals.
The goal of the program is to provide educational loan repayment as an incentive for health professionals to practice in communities where significant shortages of health care providers and barriers to access have been identified.
The Board has added a link to the HWC to the Board's website at www.mass.gov/dph/boards/rn under "Related Links".
This information is provided by the Division of Health Professions Licensure within the Department of Public Health.


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Yesterday (Wednesday)= Round 2 day 3 no alcohol
L: ~4 oz ground beef, onion/pepper/cabbage stir fried in butter, 1/4 c. greek yogurt, 1 c. pineapple
D: 1 c. spinach, almost 8 oz. tuna!!!, homemade mayo
exercize: none
Today (Thursday)
B: no
S: 12 oz latte, 1 chocolate covered coconut macaroon (I know, but it was worth it)
L: 2 bites of liver, ~6 oz ground beef, onion/pepper/cabbage stir fried in butter, 1 apple
exercize: 1 hour dogwalk
7 Day Weekly Averages
daily calories: 1325
carbs: 88 (26%)
protein: 82 (25%)
fat: 69 (47%)
alcohol: 4g (2%)
So the good news is that I ate more protein this week. The bad news is I also ate more carbs. I know where they are coming from. I have at least 1-2 servings of fruit every day, usually an apple. The apple alone has 25g carbs. I find it ironic that on a site called "Mark's Daily Apple" most people are not eating an apple a day. To be fair though, I do seem to have at least one sugary cheat per week. It seems sort of hopeless to me to ever get below 50 g carbs daily.


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I am tempted to entitle Michael Lopp (Rands In Repose) 'Best Blogger All Times'.
But probably only for nerds and Las Vegas fans. If you've never read Las Vegas Guide, start here. It's an absolute must to read this. Even if you think knowing Vegas.
Rands had already earned the respect of every nerd years ago, with his Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder essay.
Folks, I'm a nerd. I need rapid fire content delivery in short, clever, punch phrases. Give me Coupland, give me Calvin'n'Hobbes, give me Asimov, give me The Watchmen. I need this type of content because I'm horribly afflicted with NADD.
Folks, this isn't multi-tasking. This is advanced case of Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder. I am unable to function at my desktop unless I've got, at least, five things going on at the same time. If your count came close, you're probably afflicted, as well. Most excellent.
And his latest essay, The Nerd Handbook, is another winner.
Your nerd lives in a monospaced typeface world. Whereas everyone else is traipsing around picking dazzling fonts to describe their world, your nerd has carefully selected a monospace typeface, which he avidly uses to manipulate the world deftly via a command line interface while the rest fumble around with a mouse.
The reason for this typeface selection is, of course, practicality. Monospace typefaces have a knowable width. Ten letters on one line are same width as ten other letters, which puts the world into a pleasant grid construction where X and Y mean something.
The ability to instantly context switch also comes from a life on the computer. Your nerd's mental information model for the world is one contained within well-bounded tidy windows where the most important tool is one that allows your nerd to move swiftly from one window to the next. It's irrelevant that there may be no relationship between these windows. Your nerd is used to making huge contextual leaps where he's talking to a friend in one window, worrying about his 401k in another, and reading about World War II in yet another.
Oh, go read it yourself! NOW!.
Personally, I am still ignoring the facts: I'm no nerd! And I will never be.
But hardly anyone is as quotable as Rands In Repose. And it's weirdly annoying to realize, admit, how often I can just hold hands up, reading Rands's essays. Even though I don't like toys and gadgets. Well not your typical nerd toys/gadgets. :D
In the meanwhile, until I accept the truth… I'll just look forward to another truth. One I fondly agree with.
As a side note: People can be relevant. As long as they trip the relevancy flag. When, we'll engage heart and soul. The right person probably is the relevancy flag impersonated. ;-)
Edit: After re-reading it once more, I luckily am glad that my social skills ARE better than portrayed in the essay. When the other people deserve my attention.
Edit 2: The title of this entry, Someone Just Wrote A Manual Of Me, really disturbed me. Some points in the entry are totally not me, mainly the social skills factor. I edited the title.


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ATLANTA -- Reliever Billy Wagner and the Atlanta Braves have agreed to a $7 million, one-year contract.
Wagner gets $6.75 million in 2010 and the deal includes a $6.5 million club option for 2011 with a $250,000 buyout. The option would become guaranteed is he has 50 games finished next season.
The 38-year-old left-hander missed most of last season following elbow ligament replacement surgery on Sept. 10, 2008. He returned to the New York Mets on Aug. 20, reached 96 mph in his first appearance, then was traded to the Boston Red Sox five days later.


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Biology 101 Final Study Guide
After fertilization, the trophoblastic blastocyst produces ______ so that progesterone levels remain high enough to maintain the endometrium (uterine lining)
HCG, corpus luteum
Between weeks 12-14 of a pregnancy, progesterone is no longer produced by the _____ but is produced by the _____ instead.
corpus luteum, placenta
A condition when a diploid organism has different allelic forms of a particular gene is the definition of a:
Heterozygous condition
The discharge of blood during menstruation of the human female indicates
Wall of the uterus is being shed
The failure of chromosome and/or chromatids to separate normally during m-something can cause:
Extra chromosomes in gametes AND gametes lacking chromosome AND Down's syndrome
Fertilization of the human egg occurs:
After the lining of the uterus is thicker and filled with blood AND after ovulation
The genotype of an individual with a dominant phenotype can be determined by
Test cross AND cross with an individual with the recessive phenotype
In humans, normal skin color is dominant to albino skin; a cross between two albino people results in:
All albino offspring
In the normal ovarian cycle, the endometrium continues its growth and is maintained in its thickened condition by the presence of
The pill prevents conception most likely by:
altering the hormone level of the female and inhibiting ovulation
The probability of parents with the genotypes (Mm) x (Mm) having an offspring with the genotype (mm) is:
The time of menstrual flow, or period, in a normal human female occurs:
Approximately two weeks after the egg is released from the ovary
Tubal ligation and vasectomies do not interfere with normal sex drive since:
hormone production is unchanged
Which of the following statements is correct for both spermatogenesis and oogenesis?
They produce haploid (n) cells


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ipc vs socket prg
what is different between ipc and socket programming .
when we use ipc?
when we use socket programming?
Re: ipc vs socket prg
IPC is for communication between processes. Let me recommend Beej's guides; there's one for each.
Re: ipc vs socket prg
what about socket prg
Re: ipc vs socket prg
can we communicate with remote system using only ipc?
Re: ipc vs socket prg
As I mentioned, Beej has tutorials for BOTH. I suggest your read them or something similar. When a person posts multiple posts in a row (particularly on frequent occassions) I know that person is shooting from the hip. By that, I mean not thinking clearly and thoroughly, but just tossing each random thought at the forum. That is a waste of our time, and yours.
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Timeline of World War 1
Created by bphjrl on Nov 17, 2010
Last updated: 11/23/10 at 06:39 AM
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During World War I, Schenck mailed circulars.
It said the draft was a wrongly motivated capitalist system.
means a cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiations.
Money Spent
$196.5 billion is how much money it would be in this time period.
Death Tolls
65 million fought, 20 million wounded, 9-10 million died.
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty which ended World War I between the Allied and Triple Powers and Germany.
Woodrow Wilson's 14 points are 1. No secret treaties 2. Freedom of the sea 3. Foster free trade 4. Reduce arms 5. Rethink colonial polocies 6.-13. Self -Determination 14. League of Nations- Prevent of stop war
France-George Clemenceau, British- David Lloyd George, Italy-Vittorio Orlando, United States-Woodrow Wilson
War Industries Board...
responsible for wartime contracts and industrial production from 1917 to 1919.
Its purpose was so that war will not break out. The person who it was Woodrow Wilson.
New countries from Russia - Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia New country from Austria-Hungary - Yugoslavia New countries from Turkey - Artvin, Kars, Igdir
These acts stopped people from speaking out against the government. They were later destroyed because this went against the freedom of speech.
Statistics say that no woman for combat.
Women were most likely to be nurses.
Men were mostly pick for the harder jobs
America joined the War mainly of the U-Boats sinking boats and drowning innocent people so Woodrow Wilson declared war and Germany April 2, 1917 then 4 days later United States joined the war.
A note sent from Germany to Mexico to join an alliance against USA and if they join then they would get back their land USA took away from them and they would also get
African Americans were the victims of the Great Migrations, they moved from South to the North urban areas, discrimination caused most of the reason why the moved North.
It was Woodrow Wilson versus Charles Evans Hughes.
Wilson had won because he had tried to "Keep us out of war."
People had thought Hughes had won.
CPI is Committee on Public Information, creator is George Creel. CPI was a government agencystarted in the United States during the First World War with the aim of supporting the war effort.
Stops all ships that carry "war supplies" to Germany
761 were rescued, 1,198 perished and Germany was the only one to blame.
August 3, 1914 Germany invaded Belgium
France, Russia, Britain & it's Empire were Allies.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and Romania were Central Powers.
The weapons that were new to the world for fighting were Rifles, Machine Guns, Poison Gas, Zeppelin (a.k.a. Blimps), Tanks, Flamethrowers, Planes, Cannons, and Torpedoes.
Women even though were not allowed to fight in the war the still did important things to win the war like be nurses and other jobs.
The four reasons of starting the war are Imperialism (control weaker countries), Nationalism (devotion to the interest and culture of one nation), Militarism (development of armed forces), and the Alliance System (formal agreement or union between nations).
Horrible conditions starting with...
1. Disease.
2. Lice, Rats.
3. Hard weather training.
4. "No mans land."
5. Barbed wire.
6. "Trench foot" etc...
Assassinated by Serbian nationalism who wanted to start an outrage which they had hoped Serbians would be united again.


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Adam Wesoly| Feb 19, 2013
IPv6 in automation engineering - new horizons in communication technology
Guest article by Reiner Plonka, System Manager, Siemens AG
Distant horizons. We are in the year 2013 and are finally able to address and communicate with all devices using a uniform Internet protocol... A vision, a nightmare or is this already reality?
IPv6 data traffic is increasing
The potential for addressing IP nodes with the current Internet protocol v4 has reached its limits. New services and more nodes can only be reached using the new Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6). The operating systems have already been able to handle this for many years, but IPv6 has not yet succeeded in making the real "breakthrough" in user data traffic. However, this breakthrough is now about to happen.
This is evident, for example, from a large Internet node such as the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Average IPv6 data traffic there is currently still in the range of 0.5 percent as compared to IPv4. However, IPv6 data traffic has increased more than three-fold since May 2012 – from 2 Gbps (Gigabits per second) peaks to up to 6.6 Gbps. Consequently, it is now time to offer appropriate support for automation technology.
Free white paper on IPv6 in automation technology
In the white paper "IPv6 in automation technology", we describe the basic configuration of an IPv6 address and the differences to IPv4, and we provide practical examples of how an IPv6 network can be set up using Siemens products. These examples cover all aspects related to applications: from connection of existing IPv4 plants via a Simatic NET OPC server to direct data communication of a CP 1543-1 with an IPv6 FTP server in IT. Simply read the white paper and try it out for yourself!
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In April, when Tanya Rivera first approached me about 2 Wants to Know doing an Internet predator sting, I was a bit hesitant. Though as the father of a young daughter, I want to get every one of these "perverts" off the streets we can.
I was worried about how the chats were going to be done. Other news organizations that have tried this, they did the chatting. Luckily for me, we have a steadfast rule, we will never lie to anyone. This kept me from having to be the one of posing as a young teen online.
Tanya contacted the Guilford County Sheriff's Department, and they moved forward immediately on it. The Sheriff allowed us to observe the process every step of the way. The entire operation would be under their control. We were just flies on the wall.
Tanya and I were invited to the first task force meeting. We were actually surprised when we walked into the conference room at the Sheriff's Department and saw the room completely filled. During the meeting, we were asked what we hoped to get out it.
The original plan was to begin chatting online and have people come two days in September to a specified location. At which point, 2 Wants to Know would confront the individuals.
As it turned out, the predators couldn't wait to meet the Sheriff's decoy, a 14-year-old girl. One of the people portraying the 14-year old girl was a very large male deputy who we kept calling him "Jill" as a joke. We even suggested he should walk up and go, "Hi, my name is Jill," when arresting someone.
Soon after the deputies started chatting online, it wasn't long before they called us to come down for the first arrest. At this time, it was going to happen in a public place.
Needless to say, I was anxious. At the morning briefing which we were allowed to observe, we were given the specifics about the person and privy to some of the things said in the chat log. Many of which, I cannot and will not repeat. The chats would turn anyone's stomach.
The Sheriff's Department is extremely professional. They planned for every contingency. It is impressive the means they use to cover an area to make sure the deputies and the public are safe. You don't really know what type of person it is who is going to show up. They could be armed.
I sat in a restaurant parking lot observing the meeting point with Colonel Powers, who was in charge of the Predator Sting. We had a limited description of the vehicle. It created a lot of nervous moments every time a car fitting the description entered the area.
In the end, it was a letdown, and I have to say I was mad. I was not mad because we didn't get the video or such for the story. I was upset because I wanted to see the person arrested. If he wasn't arrested, it means he is still out there.
Over the next week, we had several meets set up where nothing happened.
Finally, the location was selected by the Guilford County Sheriff's Department. Deputies set up all their video equipment, and 2 Wants to Know set up their recording devices.
Then the first person was arrested, a college professor from NC A&T. Then, a fire captain from Kernersville came to the location.
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FREMONT - The gentlemanly sport of vintage base ball goes "celebrity" at 2 p.m. Sunday as Spiegel Grove Squires play an exhibition match with the Celebrity All Stars.
Assembled for this one-time-only match, the All Stars team includes Sandusky County law enforcement officers, educators, businessmen and city officials. Play takes place in Squires Field, located behind the Hayes Museum.
Admission is free.
Hayes Presidential Center is located at Hayes and Buckland avenues, Fremont. For more information, call (419) 332-2081.


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The public is invited to a movie night focused on Alabama's 1901 constitution, the largest in the world.
The two short documentaries - "It's a Thick Book" and "Open Secret" - depict both the historical development and writing of the constitution and the current absurdity of the dysfunctional document, which holds Alabama in its past.
Attendees will have a full understanding of the how's and why's of the Alabama Constitution.
The movies will be shown on October 28 at 7 pm at the Madison County Democratic headquarters, 2835 N. Memorial Parkway NW. Refreshments will be served.
"It's a Thick Book" is about the how's and why's of the Alabama Constitution as a whole.
How did the constitution come about?
Why, on statewide voting ballots, do we vote for things in counties that have no affect on our county?
Why does current land use-based tax assessment reduce our state's revenues?
How do neighboring states balance their tax income sources while Alabama's system is regressive and places an unfair burden on the poorest?
In this very enlightening movie, one frustrated student on a quest to better understand the constitution interviews a number of experts.
"Open Secret" is a reenactment of the writing of the 1901 State Constitution. This is taken from the transcripts of the Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, to which delegates from all over Alabama came to participate. This movie is a frank depiction of the attitudes and intentions of the writers of the constitution.