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Looking for a way to put more cash in your pocket? Refinancing your home is a great way to modify your home loan payment and make it better fit your budget. Whether you're looking to take advantage of low mortgage refinance rates or to change the terms of your loan, it can be a smart move. Of course, refinancing requires some upfront fees, so you'll want to do the math to be sure they're covered by the eventual savings.
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· All properties you own, including addresses, estimated value, annual taxes and insurance.
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Of course, the documents required by your bank to refinance mortgage terms could vary somewhat from this list. But, this is still a good place to start when you're preparing to refinance. Once you've completed the refinance process, you'll have peace of mind knowing that your mortgage is best suited to your finances.
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Doctor Thorne Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode One
Synopsis: 1855. When Doctor Thorne's penniless niece, Mary, is excluded from the wedding preparations of her childhood playmate, she probes her uncle for the truth of her birth. She is devastated to learn that she is the illegitimate child of his late brother. It seems she has neither breeding nor fortune. This is a problem, as Mary and the heir to the Greshamsbury Estate, Frank, have fallen in love.Frank is under strict instructions from his over‐bearing mother, Lady Arabella, to save his family from financial ruin by marrying money. Frank's mother schemes to separate the two lovebirds, encouraging her son to woo the wealthy American heiress, Miss Dunstable. Meanwhile, Doctor Thorne acts as both physician and business advisor to railway millionaire, Sir Roger Scatcherd, in whose hands the fate of Greshamsbury lies, and who is rapidly drinking himself into an early grave. Tom Hollander, Rebecca Front and Ian McShane star in our brand new three-part drama Doctor Thorne, which has been adapted for TV by Julian Fellowes.
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Just like the signature states, average gaming & entertainment. Future projects will involve Reviews & Top 10's. So once Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale comes out, that'll be one to list in the future to review (I won't notified it by a thread since I'm not a Thread Creator type of guy).
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Hillary: The Next FDR
Brent Budowsky: It is time to resume discussion about the possibility of a political realignment that would make Democrats the leading national political party for a generation.
Dreaming of Hillary in 2016?
Victoria Defrancesco Soto: If the Democratic primary were to be held today Hillary Clinton would receive 57 percent of the vote with Vice President Biden coming in at a distant second with less than 20 percent.
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Brent Budowsky: Elizabeth Warren is the honorable, principled, unbought, unbossed and incorruptible champion of the men and women of the 99 percent.
10 Most Read This Week Led by Reich's "Obama-Clinton Ticket"
As he often does, Robert Reich topped our weekly chart during this vacation week with his article discussing the advantages of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton for November's election, with Joe Biden moving to State.
My Political Prediction for 2012: It's Obama-Clinton
Robert Reich: Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that's been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.
Pennsylvania: The Kidneystone State
John Peeler: Joining the conservative chorus against Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the federally sponsored mortgage giants, Gingrich has had trouble explaining his receipt of $1.8 million over several years as a consultant to Freddie Mac.
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Brent Budowsky: Pledges such as the Norquist pledge should be flat-out discarded, as a matter of policy and principle, by all legislators, to achieve a bipartisan agreement at a time of economic crisis.
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The Heliosphere and the Subprime crisis - Ch. 3 - Of Cereals and Prime Numbers
São Paulo, Tuesday, 2nd, September, 2008
It was twenty past seven a.m. when police detective Paulo Silva de Oliveira parked his car in front of his house in a middle-class neighborhood in São Paulo.
After twenty two years as detective he was still doing night shifts very often, he thought. That was the way it had to be, since Paulo had been working for the last ten years in the missing people division of the department. And most of the cases were solved during the night.
This case he was working now was total waste of time. In the last two weeks twelve people (six men and six women) had been abducted late at night and were set free early next morning, with no signs of violence and nothing stolen or missing. The only weird thing was that the victims did not remember anything regarding the abductions and - strangest of all - had their hair completely shaven. Otherwise, though, they were physically fine and followed on with their lives.
The case was a joke because Paulo had seen this happen before, in the end the abductees happened to know each other and made part of some cult or religion or something like that. Real waste of time and resources.
Paulo was not the kind of near-retirement cop one might expect. The man was not collecting ex-wives, did not have problematic kids, or even had a drinking problem. As a matter of fact he was very well married to Margarida, a nurse, which was his sweet soulmate. They had two sons, José was an oddly mature sixteen year old, and Antonio which was seven.
Antonio had always been the center of the attentions. Being born exquisitely intelligent (he had learned to read at the age of two), he had problems fitting in traditional schools and getting along with other kids. Arranging special education was unthinkable even when considering their combined paychecks.
With a lot of stimulation and a good sense they had done what was possible. Antonio was specially gifted in math and they arranged for him weekly meetings with a graduate math student, for example.
Paulo entered the house through the back door, which led directly to the kitchen where Antonio was watching the news on the tv and having his breakfast alone - Margarida and José had already left for the day.
-"Hello there, good morning!" Paulo said.
-"Morning dad..." Antonio replied with his mouth full of cereal and milk.
-"What are the news?" Paulo asked serving himself some coffee and staring at the tv.
-"The heliosphere is shrinking and nobody seems to know why. We could all be dead by the end of the month, except for the roaches of course...".
-"The helio...what?" Asked Paulo getting ready for another science lecture he would not understand.
-"It is a protective shield around the solar system that prevents harmful cosmic radiation from hitting the Earth and messing up with our DNA... It is a very nice thing and it is getting weaker so we should..."
-"Jesus!...We are turning this tv off right now, mister." Paulo said laughing and walked to the tv.
-"One more thing!" Antonio shouted.
-"Look at this cereal commercial" Antonio said as the news ended and a cartoon started with a stupid song and a purple elephant.
Antonio continued: - "It always shows in minutes of an hour which are prime numbers, like 7:02, 7:07, 7:19, 7:23... In any sequence, but always prime numbers on the minutes."
-"And there is more...," the boy continued "In the news paper this DeliCrunch cereal ad with the purple elephant also only shows on pages which are prime numbers... see 2, 5, 7 and again in the 11, and so on!"
-"So what do we make of that?" Paulo asked feeling very tired now.
-"It could be something like a behavioral trigger, the right image on a specific sequence, can trigger something on susceptible individuals" the boy replied.
-"Jesus! No more internet for you as well! This afternoon we are going to play some soccer young man!" Paulo said and left to sleep.
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I was awoken by sounds in the woods, but in no time things turned into absolute chaos.
The minute I heard that first twig snap, I jerked my body up and quickly observed the area around me. Nothing.
But in a matter of seconds, groups of woodland creatures came running out to were we had set up camp, ready to start attacking. Everyone except Flare stood up and immediently started grabbing weapons. Just as everyone had gotten their hands on a weapon, Flare awoke, shouting, "We're under attack!"
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The creatures didn't hold back. Grace was down in a couple of minutes, so Melody and Flare carried her into a cove. Thankfully, Melody was back soon. It was almost impossible for two girls to fight off that many woodlands. But as I was fighting, something caught my eye. I looked over the shoulder of a elk to see a moose running into the forest. I don't know why- but I decided to follow it. I yelled to Astrid that I would be right back and she nodded.
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A baby is found in a basket on the grounds of a small-town museum during their annual Folk Festival. Twenty-two years later, a homeless man is murdered in the exactly the same spot. Connection? Or coincidence? Peace Morrow, the foundling, now an adult working at the museum, is haunted by this question and thus begins a quest that explores the nature of family, of loyalty and responsibility. As she tries to reconstruct the victim's history, his story becomes entangled with her own search for family roots. Her journey leads her through the dusty boxes in the museum's storage area, to an antique market in a tiny hamlet in northern Pennsylvania, and, ultimately, to the innermost reaches of her own heart.
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Alan from the UK writes:
I can't send emails or replies or forward from my Tablet how can I put this back to normal? It happen suddenly by reporting there is an error and telling me to try again, I try again but keep getting the same report. The help line I've tried is not helpful to me.
I'm not sure what type of tablet you have. The instructions below are for Android, but similar steps could also troubleshoot on an iPad.
First of all, do you have a good, stable Internet connection when you're trying to send and receive e-mails? Check your signal strength or when that error happens, try going to a website and see if it loads.
You don't say if you are using an e-mail client app or an app specifically designed for your mail provider. If you are downloading e-mail using an e-mail client, it could be that your e-mail settings have somehow been accidentally changed. You'll want to go in and check them.
Tap settings and look for Accounts. Choose Email.
You'll need to find the settings for your account. This will vary depending on your device. For my device, I tap Settings under Common Settings.
Then tap my account again.
Scroll down to Server Settings and tap Outgoing Settings. If you were having issues receiving e-mails, I'd suggest check the Incoming Settings as well.
Check to make sure everything is set up correctly. If you don't have the information for you ISP saved somewhere, you can probably look it up on their website or call customer service to verify.
If the settings are correct and the problem persists, you could try uninstalling and reinstalling the mail client if it's an app that will uninstall. (The client could be part of your version of Android) If you're using the e-mail client built into Android, you could try factory resetting your tablet, but you would have to re-download all of your apps and set up your accounts again.
You could also try downloading a different mail client app to see if that works any better. If you're using a specific app designed for your e-mail provider, such as the Outlook.com or Gmail app. I'd also suggest uninstalling and reinstalling it.
Make sure you are accessing your mail with an e-mail client app or through an app designed for e-mail and not trying to get your mail through the browser on your tablet. Apps are optimized to work with tablets.
You might also try retrieving e-mail from a different e-mail address to see if the issue has something to do with your ISP.
I hope one of these solutions helps.
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You should have played… Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball
What? I hear you ask. Yes, that's right Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball for the SNES. Allow me to explain.
Bill Laimbeer was part of the notoriously rough Detroit Pistons team that won two NBA Championships in 1989 and 1990. He then went on to become a coach in the NBA and won numerous other accolades. Unless you're a fan of late 80's NBA that's not really important. What is important is that his name, and 'likeness', were used for the first ever basketball game to be released for the Super Nintendo. There was no fanfare, no rapturous praise installed and no "Game of the Year" awards. In fact, I struggled to find any historic reviews at all, only finding two links on Wikipedia in which one reviewer stated:
"Ill-conceived controls, annoying sounds, and a number of other faults mar what could have been a guilty pleasure"
However, load it up now and you might be pleasantly surprised. There's no denying that it looks awful, the music is terrible and the controls come in 8 movements only, but, it has an undeniable charm.
I came across this game when playing some old SNES roms with a close friend. We were just mucking about with 2 player stuff. The usual, Bomberman, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2. He was good at Street Fighter, I was good at Bomberman, and we're both bad at Mortal Kombat. It was a fun night, but little did we realise how much better it was going to get when we found the hidden gem that is Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball. Having a bit of a chuckle at the name we loaded it up to its Blood Dragon-esq opening screen.
And decided to give it a go. The game told us that the year was 2023 and that Bill Laimbeer has become the new commissioner of the NBA and throws out the rulebook. Contact is allowed, mines, bombs and other weapons litter the court and anything goes. Well, you can't go offside for some reason because you know, that breaks NBA protocol, but I digress. We immediately started to play, the first few games were tame. Hits here and there, little bit of banter. Cheering the 3 pointers. 30 minutes later and we had become hardened veterans of Bill's sick twisted game. Expletives were echoed around the living room, celebrations shook the building and the anger level was high. You FIGHT when you play Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, you throw your minions around the screen attempting to knock the ball loose, you curse their entire families when they miss shots, and you want to elect them as president when they manage to score that miraculous shot in the dying seconds. You are happy when you win, but you know that it came at a cost!
What made the 2 player experience of Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball incredibly entertaining and competitive? It's simplified control scheme. One button to launch yourself at the ball carrier when you are on defence, one button to pass if used with a directional key and one button to shoot. All bound to the same button. We were both beginners and experts within 5 minutes and it felt good. This wasn't like going up against a StarCraft Pro, or some Counter Strike wizard. Winning or losing purely came down to strategy and understanding of how far your guy would dive for the other guy.
We played this for hours, and I honestly think we tied victories by the end of it, but it was a whole load of fun. Thinking back it does bring a few questions that I think merit discussion in the age of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Why do we focus on having our tie-in titles be so serious? Granted this was the age of Shaq Fu, and that endorsed games were big business. What's stopping us in today's age. Why can't we have games like Ron Burgundy's News Simulator or Leonardo Di Caprio's Quest for an Oscar? Instead, we're told that games that star celebrities need to be serious. Beyond Two Souls and The Last of Us for example. I can appreciate that the industry has grown with the age of its audience, but surely we need games for fun. I know that Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball and Shaq Fu would have been developed to be serious titles, designed to generate revenue for their endorsed stars, but can't we have a bit of fun with this?
Have we went backwards with mechanics and is this a good thing? This is more of a concern outside the world of Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball but I feel it merits mention. This is a game that could very easily be adapted to tablet or smartphone. It would work well on this platform given its simplistic controls, I just fear that we are becoming a world of tappers. For all that is good, just have a look at Flappy Bird.
When was the last time you picked up a 2 player game and were both good at it straight away? Nidhogg is probably the closest game I've seen to having this effect, but let's be honest. Give someone 5 hours on Nidhogg and put them up against someone that's never seen it before, they're going to get absolutely slaughtered. There's no tricks with Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball, no front flips over opponents, no speed boost abilities. Yeah, it might not be an in-depth title but for what it is, it works well.
Maybe I'm on my soapbox screaming about how I want my multiplayer experiences in games to be. Maybe I'm being far too nostalgic for my own good. Maybe, just maybe, we need more games like Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball.


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"Dude, WHAT is going on?" came one distressed text message before Daniel's phone was shut off and he lost all his contact information, both church and personal. From what we later heard, any distraught people who were concerned about what had happened (Say, Daniel's young interns or the volunteers on his team), were directed to keep quiet and go to Pastor Gavin if they needed to know more. One friend told us that when she called the church office and demanded to talk to someone she was informed that Gavin was on vacation. He had apparently left the scene completely, some time after the firing meeting. Pastor Chase Bowler was the man in charge. He was certainly quite active on our email and now calling us on my phone, continuing to threaten about the receipts.
"Daniel," I said. "Maybe we should go to the elders and let them know what went down?"
"Babe, I have been in communication with one of the elders, Tim Shoeman, through this whole idiotic mess. The elders are the ones who chose Chase and Gavin. They know these men and they want these men in charge. There is absolutely no reason for me to go to the elders."
"Well," I tried again. "Everyone seems to think Chase is such a great guy. They can't know him, really, unless they're really that low and dirty that they want someone around who will do their dirty work for them. I mean, even a non-Christian organization cares about the law. We could report Crossway to the Labor Board. They can't withhold our vacation pay!"
Chase had sent over an email, forwarded from Ned, listing out a few items that still needed to be returned to the church. Daniel returned the email, explaining that some of the items listed could be found in the closet outside of his former office. In addition, Daniel informed them of an entire shoot's worth of gear that still needed to be returned, but we hadn't yet had the chance. These things had been stored in our basement since there wasn't a lot of room at the office.
Pastor Chase seemed to feel that he and Ned had egg on their face. To discover that Daniel knew much more about the church gear and where it was stored at, and was willing to also reveal other items that they hadn't known about, seemed to make him even more angry. A very nasty email was sent to us, insinuating that Daniel intended theft, saying, "This really calls into question whether you ever intended to return any of this gear!"
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These items included our computer. When Daniel had first been hired with Crossway, he had requested to be able to use his own computer for much of the video work. This was a top of the line PC that had many state of the art software apps added to it, which Crossway had no budget to purchase at the time. He'd gotten an "Okay" and this computer had been humming away for almost two years, pumping out sermon opener after sermon opener. It had also never received any IT service, as a result of the fact that Ned would never answer any requests to fix IT issues that Daniel put in. Recently, the computer had begun to under perform. A few bugs were cropping up here and there.
Daniel mentioned this problem to Gavin in one of their many meetings. Gavin had said, "We need to remedy this: Absolutely, let's get your computer taken care of!" Knowing that Ned would never deal with it, Daniel took some of his own budget money and had the computer rebuilt with outside Tech assistance.
Even though it had originally been ours, Chase insisted that since it was rebuilt on the church's dime, and he had not approved of the expense, it now belonged to Crossway. At one time, the software on that computer had been worth over $6,000 of our own money that we had invested. But, it had been rebuilt on Crossway's money, and the software technicality didn't seem to be something we could legally fight, since it diminishes in value as time goes on. So our computer went in the car with everything else and to the church it went.
So far, I had kept all this latest business off of my Facebook page. I had received a message from Pastor Dean, telling me I should not be posting my frustration about the church on Facebook. "I just want to encourage you not to use social media to make your hurts public..." I didn't necessarily care what Pastor Dean thought, but I DID care a great deal about my own motives and trying to act in a Christ-like manner. So, I went to Jesus about it.
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"Lord, you know what is going on better than anyone. Religious people are telling me to keep mum. I don't want to, but I will do what You say. Father, if You're okay with me posting about this injustice on Facebook, You let me know. I will wait on you."
That following Sunday, Daniel and I went to Eastside church. We received two words there, again from people who did not know all that we were facing. The first was a Bible verse from Ezekiel 2:3-7, where God was speaking to the prophet:
"He said, "Son of man, I'm sending you to the family of Israel, a rebellious nation if there ever was one. They and their ancestors have fomented rebellion right up to the present. They're a hard case, these people to whom I'm sending you—hardened in their sin. Tell them, 'This is the Message of God, the Master.' They are a defiant bunch. Whether or not they listen, at least they'll know that a prophet's been here. But don't be afraid of them, son of man, and don't be afraid of anything they say. Don't be afraid when living among them is like stepping on thorns or finding scorpions in your bed. Don't be afraid of their mean words or their hard looks. They're a bunch of rebels. Your job is to speak to them. Whether they listen is not your concern. They're hardened rebels."
Well, that seemed appropriate. Then, during the worship, Natalie came up to me with her iphone and Bible app. She handed it over to me to see.
"I just think this is for you," she said softly. It was Acts 16:37:
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That was good enough for me. I had my answer. I went home after church and pulled up Facebook.
My new status read: "So, we were fired on the spot with no unemployment, and they're withholding our last check and vacation pay. But if I say anything about it here, I'm "out of line"? Well, let it be known, Christina Morrison is OKAY with being out of line in this organization!
Once again, there was flood of outrage from our family and friends. People were expressing anger that a church would be so corrupt and that pastors could be so heartless. For Crossway, which values appearances above all, perhaps this was an awkward time. It's hard to know for sure.
Although he still did not wish to speak to them in person, Daniel decided to send an email to the elders. He told them pretty straight, referencing Bible in every line. He told the elders that their hands were filthy. That this whole business was laid at their feet. The responsibility for the evils that had been perpetrated against us and others were on them and they would have to answer to God for it. Needless to say, it was a strongly worded email.
A day or so later, Daniel received an email back from Tim Shoeman. The elder asked if Daniel would come to speak to him, and two other elders who were open to hearing "what God had to say".
I remember asking Daniel once more, "Are you sure you're not supposed to go talk to them?"
"I'm telling you, I have nothing to say to those men. I already said it in the email," he answered. But being Daniel, he went upstairs for some quiet time and talked to God about it. About 30 minutes later, I went to check on him. He was sitting on our bed, reading the Bible and his face was calm and at peace.
"I guess I will be going in to talk to them, Babe. God just gave me a word for them."
Link to The Jeremiah Burden, Part Ten: http://glimmercat.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-jeremiah-burden-part-ten.html
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"Jadz, you know I've missed you," I muttered weakly. Tears started to fall down her face, "we need to talk."
She looked into my face, battered as it was, "what is it?"
"When our parents split up, when I went to live with Dad, he never got over her, over mum," I shuddered at the memories, "I remember the drinking and I told him to stop but I was silly and I didn't understand so he beat me with a belt to get the message in," I could remember each strike on my back, each scar I could place in order, "but he said he couldn't live without her and that I was a reminder of it all," I could see the tears coming faster, "I only wanted to help him but he locked me in the cellar and told me he never wanted to see me again.
"I lived amongst the earth, I never saw him again, he never fed me, but I was fine so I think he knew, or I hope so..." I pondered this for a moment, "anyway I heard him talking to people, they wanted to take me away and he didn't care but I didn't want to leave dad so..." I scrunched up my eyes, "I brought the house down and killed them all.
"I ran away then to find Sapphire but I know they followed me, they said I was a danger to myself and everyone else, but that's just silly isn't it," I smiled cheerfully, "I don't need help," I felt Jadia hand on my own, "anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that all this is my fault," I said finally, little emotion on my face, "and if it's my fault then I have to fix it I suppose," she looked at me confused, "bye bye sis," I smiled up at her.
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Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits.
This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas: new devices built using novel physics, new ways of organizing units within computers and even algorithms that use new or existing systems more efficiently. To help coordinate new ideas, Sandia National Laboratories has assisted organizing the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Rebooting Computing held Oct. 17-19.
Researchers from Sandia's Data-driven and Neural Computing Dept. will present three papers at the conference, highlighting the breadth of potential non-traditional neural computing applications.
"We're taking a stab at the scope of what neural algorithms can do. We're not trying to be exhaustive, but rather we're trying to highlight the kind of application over which algorithms may be impactful," said Brad Aimone, a computational neuroscientist and co-author of one paper. Historically, neural computing has been seen as approximate and fuzzy, he added; however, Sandia researchers in their papers aim to extend neural algorithms so they incorporate rigor and predictability, which shows they may have a role in high performance scientific computing.
The three papers are entitled "Overcoming the Static Learning Bottleneck — the Need for Adaptive Neural Learning" by Craig Vineyard and Steve Verzi; "Computing with Dynamical Systems" by Fred Rothganger; and "Spiking Network Algorithms for Scientific Computing" by William Severa, Ojas Parekh, Kris Carlson, Conrad James and Aimone.
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The brain is continually learning. "While we do learn in school, our learning doesn't stop when school ends. Instead, our brains are continually adapting through processes, such as synaptic modifications. However, most machine-learning algorithms learn once and are done," said Vineyard, a computer scientist.
Most so-called machine-learning algorithms have a learning phase and a separate testing and operation phase. This is really time consuming. Ambitious — and challenging — attempts to develop algorithms that learn continuously also run the risk of the algorithm "learning" something that's wrong, Vineyard said.
His paper argues for continual learning and suggests the use of game theory — the mathematics of logical decisions, such as when to take out the trash and when to hope your roommate will do it for you — to bring precision to the decision of when an algorithm should learn.
What are dynamical systems anyway?
A dynamical system is an equation that describes how things change with time. A simple dynamical system is a function that describes the movement of a grandfather clock's pendulum. "The idea behind using dynamical systems for computation is to build a machine such that its dynamics — which has to do with the structure of the machine or the structure of the math — will lead it to the answer based on feeding it the question," said Rothganger, a computer scientist.
Both our brains and, in a way, conventional computers are dynamical systems: They find answers just based on the question and how the computers are constructed, said Rothganger. His paper proposes that if researchers think of a traditional scientific computing problem, matrix decomposition, as a dynamical system, they could solve them rigorously on neuro-inspired systems.
"There's a lot of potential and also a lot of risk in the idea I'm working on," said Rothganger. If his idea works, "it would provide a point of unification between neural algorithms and traditional numerical algorithms."
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The third paper identifies three hand-crafted algorithms that use the careful arrangement of spiking neuron-like nodes to perform precise computations. In the brain, each neuron is connected to many other neurons and uses spikes of electricity to communicate. Severa, a mathematician, and his co-authors took inspiration from these aspects of the brain.
An example of these innovative algorithms is a kind of flow estimation called particle image velocimetry. By taking two pictures of dust motes moving through the air and figuring out how far they moved in the time between photos, researchers can determine the speed of the air and any local eddies. This can be done on a conventional computer using fancy math, but Severa's method uses the massively parallel nature of neurons to calculate all the possible shifts efficiently, he said.
"By carefully designing your networks and the properties of your neurons, you can do exact things," said Severa. "You can push the envelope of what you can expect a neural network to do."
Whether the future holds neuro-inspired computers in your cellphone that understand phrases like "Show me a cute picture of Fluffy" and "Order my favorite Chinese food," or if neural computers can also work alongside future quantum computers in solving tough math problems quickly, computing needs to be reinvented, and soon, said Aimone. By bringing together experts in many different disciplines, he said the International Conference on Rebooting Computing aims to nurture new ideas and spur this revolution.
Funding for all the projects was provided by Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Developmentoffice. Two projects also were part of the Hardware Acceleration of Adaptive Neural Algorithms (HAANA) Grand Challenge.
The broader rebooting computing effort
Sandia employees are among the organizers of the IEEE's Rebooting Computing initiative and the conference. Sandia's Chief Technology Officer Rob Leland will give the conference kickoff talk on the history of innovation in computing. Sandia researchers Erik DeBenedictis and Matt Marinella are members of the conference program committee.
DeBenedictis, Sapan Agarwal, Jeanine Cook and Michael Frank also are presenting four papers on low-energy logic and memory. Christopher DeRose and Tony Lentine are presenting a paper on optical communications.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed new, nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits that enable computer chips to perform multiple functions with fewer transistors. These integrated circuits can be manufactured with "off the shelf" fabrication processes and could lead to novel computer architectures that do more with less circuitry and fewer transistors.
Moore's law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years in order to keep up with processing demands. Previously this goal has been addressed by shrinking the size of individual transistors so that more could be added to the chip. However, that solution is quickly becoming untenable, and the semiconductor industry is looking for new ways to create better computer chips.
"We're reaching the limits of physics in terms of transistor size, so we need a new way to enhance the performance of microprocessors," says Behnam Kia, senior research scholar in physics at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the work. "We propose utilizing chaos theory – the system's own nonlinearity – to enable transistor circuits to be programmed to perform different tasks. A very simple nonlinear transistor circuit contains very rich patterns. Different patterns that represent different functions coexist within the nonlinear dynamics of the system, and they are selectable. We utilize these dynamics-level behaviors to perform different processing tasks using the same circuit. As a result we can get more out of less."
Kia and NC State colleague William Ditto, professor of physics and dean of the College of Sciences, worked on the conception, design, development and fabrication of an integrated circuit chip that contains working nonlinear circuits to perform multiple different digital computations.
Traditionally, transistor-based circuits perform one task each. Computer processors operate by routing each instruction and its operands to the appropriate transistor circuit on the integrated circuit that implements that specific instruction. In Kia's design, the transistor circuit can be programmed to implement different instructions by morphing between different operations and functions.
"In current processors you don't utilize all the circuitry on the processor all the time, which is wasteful," Kia says. "Our design allows the circuit to be rapidly morphed and reconfigured to perform a desired digital function in each clock cycle. The heart of the design is an analog nonlinear circuit, but the interface is fully digital, enabling the circuit to operate as a fully morphable digital circuit that can be easily connected to the other digital systems."
The researchers have produced an alternative approach for computing that is compatible with existing technology and utilizes the same fabrication process and CAD tools as existing computer chips, which could aid commercial adoption.
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Sloboda said the voting process is going on in accordance with the Electoral Code, adding that no violation of law has been recorded.
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The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League is a Canadian junior ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association, Ontario Hockey Federation, and Hockey Canada. The league was created in 2007 through the merging of the Western Ontario Hockey League, Mid-Western Junior Hockey League, and Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League to dissuade "player raiding" from teams in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. The skill level of the league is regarded as comparable to Junior "A", but the league will not consider joining the Canadian Junior A Hockey League for at least a couple seasons.
Twenty-five of the twenty-six of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League come from southwestern Ontario and one team comes from upstate New York.
In the late 1990s, the Western Ontario Junior B Hockey League began complaining about their top level players being pulled from their teams at trade deadline time by Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League clubs without permission or compensation. The view in Southern Ontario is that Junior "A" and Junior "B" are the same skill level. In fact the OPJHL was known as the Central Ontario Junior B Hockey League until 1993, as well the Metro Junior A Hockey League which folded in 1998 was a Junior "B" league until 1991. The difference between the OPJHL and the MetJHL when compared to the Western, Mid-Western, and Golden Horseshoe leagues is that the OPJHL and MetJHL are Greater Toronto Area-based teams for the most part, while the other three leagues are more rural in nature.
During the 2006-07 season, the general managers of all Ontario Hockey Association Junior "B" teams came together and voted unanimously to merge and create the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League effective for the 2007-08 season. The GOJHL will become the sole competing body of the Sutherland Cup, which once had as many as eight leagues competing for it at one time.
The 2007-08 season has started off not as planned for the GOJHL. The management of the Mid-Western league resigned and needed to be replaced, and with a lack of organization due to the short time the new management had to get organized the MWJHL had to opt out of an interlocking schedule. As a result, the entire GOJHL will go without an interlocking schedule for 2007-08. The 2008-09 season will see the complete liquidation of all three divisional managements and a single body will be put in place for all three divisions as well as an interlocking schedule between all three divisions.
In the future, the league has stated that it will pursue club expansion, a reconfiguration that will move the league from three to four divisions, and possibly a move to join the Canadian Junior A Hockey League in future years.
On September 8, 2007, the Cambridge Winterhawks and the Guelph Dominators played the first ever game since the inception of the GOJHL. Despite leading 2-0 and outshooting Guelph, the defending Sutherland Cup Champions allowed five unanswered goals to drop the game 5-2. On May 3, 2008, the Tecumseh Chiefs finished a four game sweep of the Elmira Sugar Kings to win the first ever GOJHL championship.
On September 24, 2008, the GOJHL hosted its first ever interdivisional regular season game between the Golden Horseshoe's Wheatfield Jr. Blades and the Western's London Nationals in London, Ontario. The Nationals won the game 6-2.
In April of 2014 the league had its request for reclassification to Tier II (Junior A) denied by the Ontario Hockey Association. The league has resubmitted the request in 2016 to become the second Junior A league in the province for the 2017-18 season. The denial in 2014 and other factors have the league and its members threatening to leave the OHA and Hockey Canada if the new request is denied.
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Alderson Made Wholesale Roster Changes Nine Months Later
The New York Mets have gotten off to a wretched start that has seen them dip to 12 games below .500 in early-June. The early optimism of a club that could potentially earn a Wild Card berth if everything clicked is as far gone as a Rob Carson fastball.
The club demoted LHB Mike Baxter, LHP Rob Carson, and LHB Ike Davis on Sunday night following the club's 8-4 loss to the Miami Marlins. Jonathon Niese pitched a respectable game in allowing three runs over 6 2/3 innings and left with a lead that was promptly severed by one pitch from Scott Rice in the seventh inning.
The struggles of the team are now well chronicled. The club sparked against the Atlanta Braves on May 26th -A brief two weeks ago- winning the series finale against the National League East leaders before sweeping a four game set from the New York Yankees. It was a step back toward respectability, yet the club finds themselves exactly where they stood two weeks ago: 12 games under .500 and struggling to find reason for optimism.
Last offseason, Sandy Alderson addressed the need for "wholesale roster changes" to occur over the course of the winter to support the club's most obvious needs: The bullpen and outfield. When Alderson made the assertion, few believed that Ike Davis and first base would eventually become a desperate vacancy. At 26-years-old, it's truly puzzling how Davis' fall has truly been a symbolic measure of the club: There's tremendous potential that at times flashes, but ultimately continues to underperform.
The New York Mets organization took a huge step yesterday by demoting Ike Davis. Whether the timing was too late or not is now irrelevant, but the fact remains that those who don't perform will be held accountable for their actions. Davis could very well be the future of the franchise at first base, but that doesn't give him the right to hit .164 through the first two months of the season and expect to have a strong second half. In baseball, just as with business and life, past results are not indicative of future successes and baseball is naturally a results oriented business. Davis' job is to produce in the middle of the lineup while playing stellar defense at first. He has done neither in 2013, but that doesn't mean that he'll be written off. His story is still developing much like this Mets club that desperately is trying to grasp it's footing on stable ground.
The changes are simple, yet very significant. 28-year-old Josh Satin will have his first opportunity to make a true impact against major league pitching and he has done nothing but support the notion that he deserves the chance. He has mashed to a .306/.421/.491 in Las Vegas this season and is two seasons removed from a 43 double campaign. He probably won't be the long term solution at the position, but the Mets are making the correct move in allowing him to play solely because he has earned the opportunity to do so. Satin would have to fail to a huge extent to produce worse than Davis did thus far this season, and therefore he is an assumed upgrade.
Collin Cowgill is no stranger to Flushing, but he'll be a welcome addition to an outfield thirsty for offense. He has hit .267/.358/.442 with five home runs and six doubles. He has plus defense in corner positions, adequate defense in center field, and is another option atop the lineup. Cowgill received all of 12 official at-bats before being removed as the everyday center fielder, and while he won't be anointed the everyday center fielder this time around, he'll have the the opportunity to earn his way into the position to become it.
Josh Edgin represents something very similar to Collin Cowgill. His struggles early in the season cost him the opportunity to get a prolonged look with the big league club, but his recent performance was much better than that of Rob Carson's big league offerings. Edgin has struggled in the minor leagues but has seemed to regain his footing as he has thrown five consecutive shutout innings, punching out five.
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According to Larry Ponemon, founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, "this is the first study to link a consumer's perceptions of a company's ability to protect his/her personal information to specific companies and brands." Ponemon adds that "because consumers are becoming more concerned about identity theft and the safeguarding of their personal assets, a low privacy trust score could provide companies with an early warning signal that their reputation and brand loyalty might be in jeopardy."
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Respondents were asked to answer questions about "personal information," namely "information about yourself and your family," which includes "name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, Social Security number, other personal identification numbers, access codes, age, gender, income and tax information, shopping information, account activity and many other pieces of information about you." Respondents then were to address "privacy trust," namely, "your belief that the company is honoring its privacy commitments to you, and keeping your personal information safe and secure," including the company's "commitment not to share your personal information unless there is just cause or you have given your consent."
The survey yielded practically 31,000 individual company ratings with respect to 187 different companies. It was from these ratings that the top ten grouping was revealed. The second ten of companies that are trusted for privacy protection are Disney, Bank of America, Harley-Davidson, Johnson & Johnson, US Bank, Fidelity, E-Loan, VISA, Apple and Washington Mutual.
When asked, "what worries you most if your personal information was leaked to individuals or organizations that do not have a right to this information?," responses were: identity theft 76%, spam 58%, loss of liberties 48%, junk mail 37%, telemarketing abuse 36%, stolen assets 32%, public embarrassment 22%, and stalking or spying activities 21%. In answering the question, "how important is privacy to your information sharing decision?," responses were: very important 19%, important 62%, not important 10%, and unsure 10%.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – For Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, who Wednesday received his award as co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, giving poor children a better chance in life has been his "passion" since as a youngster he saw a boy cleaning shoes instead of going to school.
Satyarthi, a soft-spoken, trim 60-year-old, has for decades been at the forefront of the drive against child labour in India, home to the largest number of working children in the world, according to the charity ChildLine.
"This prize is important for the millions and millions who are denied a childhood," Satyarthi said in Oslo on the eve of the prize-giving.
The award has sparked new awareness about child labour, he said, adding, "Consciousness is the beginning of change."
"There are children who are sold and bought like animals," said Satyarthi, an admirer of the pacifist teachings of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi.
"There are children who are born and live in situations of conflict and terror."
He paid effusive tribute to his peace prize co-winner Malala Yousafzai, praising her as "the bravest child we can think of".
The married father of two, who lives modestly in New Delhi, told AFP in a recent interview he believes child labour will be wiped out in his lifetime.
But for that goal to be achieved, "You, me, everyone must take a stand," he said. "That means saying 'no' to products made by children."
Satyarthi, who freely concedes he's an optimist, added while India has "hundreds of problems", it also has "millions of solutions."
The number of child workers worldwide has fallen by one-third since 2000, but still remains as high as 168 million children, according to the International Labour Organization.
The tally of child workers in India is a matter of debate, but UNICEF, the UN children's agency, estimates around 28 million Indian children are employed.
The son of a police officer and born in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Satyarthi said he was inspired to help when aged six he saw a boy his age, who could not go to school because his family was too poor, cleaning shoes.
He trained as an electrical engineer at the behest of his practically minded family but could not resist his true calling.
"I was not born to remain an engineer – the passion from my childhood was to work for children," Satyarthi said.
In 1980 he founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, which rescues children working in horrifying conditions.
He also started Rugmark, now called GoodWeave International, which tags carpets as child-labour free and heads the Global March Against Child Labour, which unites 2,000 social groups and unions in 140 nations.
He said the challenge ahead is starkly clear, "Every child in the world must be free to grow up in a peaceful, protected environment. We have to create such a world."


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