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The government wants to extend its influence over appointments of top civil servants. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude argues that giving ministers the power to personally appoint public officials will improve accountability and speed up major policies and projects.
However, the civil service commission – an independent body established to safeguard the impartiality of the civil service – and the first civil service commissioner, Sir David Normington, fear this risks politicising the civil service and undermining the principle of selection based solely on merit.
The commission put forward two proposals on expanding ministerial influence in recruiting permanent secretaries. The first was to formalise the recruitment panel's powers to seek and take into account the views of the relevant minister – a process which reportedly takes place informally anyway. The second was to allow the prime minister or secretary of state to choose between two candidates of equal merit.
The public administration committee today concludes that the first option should be adopted. Backing Normington, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the committee, says, "the danger is that this [second] proposal would encourage an expectation that the government of the day is entitled to choose its permanent secretaries."
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Carlsbad Caverns National Park closed early Wednesday because of flooding along the Walnut Canyon Park Road.
All [auth] visitors and employees are being evacuated from the cave and visitor center and escorted down Walnut Canyon Park Road to Highway 62/180.
The park road is passable at this time, but more rain was expected Wednesday night.
All events including the Bat Flight Program have been cancelled.
The potential for flooding has been higher than usual in Carlsbad Caverns National Park after a large fire that burned much of the vegetation along the park road in June 2011.
Officials say the park had received more than 2 ½ inches of rain as of 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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Just came back from a visit to the Science Leadership Academy high school in center city Philadelphia. I was a guest instructor in Marcie T. Hull's art class where I gave a demonstration of graphic recording (AKA visual notetaking).
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During last night's Oscars ceremony, satirical publication The Onion called 9-year old actress and nominee, Quvenzhané Wallis, a "cunt" via its Twitter page.
By: Justin Allen, AFROPUNK Contributor
As a Black male, I was at first hesitant to write this. It is not my place to speak for Black women and girls. I was raised by a Black woman and my closest friends are Black women. I have listened to their experiences and have learned to see the world through a critical perspective that is sensitive to and considerate of their experiences. I write this with respect to them and all Black women.
Many people on Twitter dismissed the Tweet, given the publication's frivolity. What the sender of the Tweet did not consider was the social context in which they used this word, particularly given Wallis' race.
Our society does not value Black women and girls. Throughout media and social interactions their physical appearances are often exoticized, eroticized, objectified and fetishized when they are not scrutinized in relation to white beauty standards. Their individual personalities and achievements are obscured by stereotypes of aggression and their intelligence, called into question. Such racist sexism is evident in such incidences as Regis Philbin smacking Nicki Minaj's butt on national television, theoveremphasis on Gabby Douglas' hair during the 2012 Olympics, Dutch publication Jackie referring to Rihanna as the ultimate "nigga bitch" and a movie such as Dutch romantic comedy Alleen maar nette mensen (Only Decent People) in which Black women are depicted primarily by their breasts, behinds and showed growling in a manner akin to wild animals.
Wallis has encountered success in a racist and sexist movie industry that finds it appropriate to cast Angelina Jolie as biracial journalist Mariane Pearl, Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone and in which Viola Davis' commentary on racism within Hollywood was hushed by a panel of white actors. Wallis triumphed last night, regardless of the actual awards. The Onion's tweet echoed in many Black women the ever-present racist misogynist sentiment that we all must work to undo—the sentiment that works to counter the success of Black women and girls and deny them their humanity.
Another point that many Twitter-users pointed out was how many peoples' reactions to this tweet would have been less unbiased or more vehement if Wallis were white. This point is best supported by the public's reaction to Kanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift's speech at the 2009 VMAs. West received backlash to the point of President Obama calling him a jackass. And somehow the fact that a 9 year-old Black girl was called a "cunt" last night is, to many, somehow excusable.
To Quvenzhané Wallis, stand with your head raised high.
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Out of all your pics , this one I don't get the pun !!!
It's not really a pun, it just symbolizes hypocrisy, he shelters from other people's shit yet he does to others the thing he shelters from.
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"I haven't seen anything like this in the 10 years I've been doing this work," said Leslie Wilson of the Michigan-based One-to-One Institute, a nonprofit that provides technology guidance to schools and districts nationwide. "Did they have a desired goal beyond the ever-present, 'We want our kids to be 21st-century learners?' Why do we want every child to have an iPad? Because it will do what?"
Many school districts now want to get their rollouts right from the start and are calling to ask, "How do we prevent going down the same path as these major debacles out there?" Wilson said.
In Los Angeles, the district and school board disagreed over whether or not students had been allowed to take the devices home and who was responsible if they were lost or stolen. And some teachers still question the purpose of high-priced tablets.
Just 36 percent of 255 teachers polled strongly favored continuing the iPad initiative, and the majority said they did not have enough training, according to results of a recent anonymous survey by a Los Angeles board of education member and employee unions. Survey participants teach in the 47 schools that have received iPads so far.
Other school districts also are learning from bad experiences. The Fort Bend school district in Texas put the brakes on its $16 million iPad program in October after a review showed the program had "unrealistic goals" and did not meet state standards.
The Guilford County school district in North Carolina is delaying a tablet program paid for with a $30 million Race to the Top grant from the U.S. Department of Education. They had to return some 15,000 Amplify tablets this fall after many of the chargers overheated, among other problems.
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Some school districts might take a page from Houston, where teachers received iPads so they could learn how to use them before students get devices in their hands. Los Angeles is considering this strategy for the second phase of its rollout.
That idea makes sense to Scott Himelstein, interim director of the University of San Diego's Mobile Technology Learning Center, which studies how mobile devices in classrooms affect teaching and learning.
"That's smart, because you really need time to plan for this and get staff used to the technology," Himelstein said.
Advocates for using iPads as teaching tools are quick to point out they are only effective if teachers are well trained. Otherwise, they might simply be used as replacements for textbooks and worksheets.
"We have decades of historical evidence demonstrating that what people do with technology is to extend existing practices at great cost, with very little learning gained," said Justin Reich, co-founder of EdTechTeacher, which trains teachers in how to use technology in the classroom.
In Miami, assistant superintendent Sylvia Diaz says her district decided to follow San Diego's example, where it took six years to get a device into the hands of each student.
"We're going to take baby steps and get this right," said Diaz.
Miami-Dade has a few small mobile technology programs up and running in the district already. The most recent plan is to hand out devices to seventh- and ninth-graders for use in social studies classes. If the program is a success, it will be expanded to other grades and subjects.
For any new program to work, teachers need professional development and technical support, she said. The district recently announced that it will equip all classrooms with a digital science curriculum and provide training for teachers on how to use it.
Above all, Diaz stresses the importance of making sure the instructional purpose of using iPads is clear—an issue that has gotten lost amid Los Angeles' troubles.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British left-wing leader Ed Miliband hoped to win more votes by inviting a TV crew into his home. Instead his election rivals have gleefully seized on the revelation that the would-be "man of the people" has two kitchens in his 2 million pound home.
With around two months to go before what's expected to be an unusually close national poll, Miliband is now facing a barrage of jeers from Britain's mainly right-wing press who claim the face of the main opposition party is a hypocrite for campaigning on a promise that he understands the working class.
"Exposed: Eddie Two Kitchens," said a headline in the right-leaning Sun newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch, on Friday. It has long mocked the Labour leader as a socially awkward left-wing nerd.
Criticizing someone for having two kitchens may sound odd to non-Britons. But in a country still obsessed by the remnants of its class system, by house prices, and by the gap between the rich and poor, it carries a peculiar political force.
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Trend Micro was the first to release updates to its virus detection software that would eradicate such Windows-based
trinoo agents as
troj_trinoo and
wintrinoo; other antivirus companies quickly followed. The company has also published information on how to detect and remove the Windows-based DDoS tools manually.
BindView, a company that provides administrative and security tools, has released updates to its Zombie Zapper program, a tool that helps fend off denial-of-service attacks. The program works by duplicating the command a cracker would send to the attacking DDoS agents (called zombies) to stop the packet attack. In the downloadable configuration, Zombie Zapper sends the default message zombies expect to hear from their masters when told to cease an attack.
Although Zombie Zapper hasn't yet been tried out in the field, it has performed well in simulations, according to security analyst and BindView Razor team member Mark Loveless. Loveless is also known in security circles as Simple Nomad.
The tool has been released free and accompanied by source code so that security professionals can alter the stop-attack message in cases where a cracker has altered an attack tool's default settings. The stop-attack command can be salvaged from an attack program by using disassembly or other methods. As new agents and agent messages are discovered, they will be added back into the original Zombie Zapper source tree.
Currently, Zombie Zapper can send cease-and-desist orders both to Unix- and Windows-based zombies. The tool should be downloaded in advance of an attack.
When used in conjunction with new tools such as Zombie Zapper, a solid set of security practices can do the most to protect computers from becoming unwitting dupes in DoS attacks.
Loveless explains, "For the most part, most operating systems off the shelf are insecure. You do have to go in and tweak them up a little bit," no matter what you are running.
But while security is not necessarily an operating system-specific issue, there are important OS-dependent differences to keep in mind.
"It's a lot harder to secure NT than it is to secure Unix," according to Loveless, and he says that Windows 9x is even more difficult to secure. "The main thing that users of Windows 95 and 98 can do," says Loveless, is to "make sure they keep up with antivirus software. If they are in a corporate environment, they need to be behind a firewall ... and there are even firewall products available for home use."
Fennelly agrees that personal firewalls are probably the best protection Windows users can employ. She adds that Tripwire, a sort of computer-intruder burglar alarm that has long been available for Unix and Linux, is now available for Windows NT.
"There are a lot of different things, [such as] routing and firewall rules, that are not necessarily specific to Unix," Loveless says. "These will certainly help in the NT world, and the Windows world in general."
Windows users should also follow the advice commonly given to Unix and Linux users: they should turn off unneeded services, close ports, and take other precautions to secure their computers from intrusion and misuse.
"I would advise anyone who's in a corporate environment to at least have a scanner," says Loveless. "A security scanner will scan your systems and tell you where you've got holes and flaws, and where you need to be fixing stuff. And it will do it remotely -- you can set it up and scan all your corporate systems. [BindView's] Hacker Shield isn't the only one; there are a number of others."
According to YTCracker, believed responsible for having altered several federal government Websites late last year with a message calling for better security on the part of administrators, "Users with dial-up modems aren't at risk" in the way media reports would suggest. Rather, the DDoS attack tools are more of a threat to someone, whether business or home user, who has a full-time connection to the Internet.
YTCracker has since donned a white hat and now works as a security consultant. "People -- even the casual user -- should think again about what information they put online, or in their computers, more carefully than they do now," YTCracker says.
"Users also need to be in contact with [their ISP] and make sure that their ISP is taking some kind of precautions," says Loveless. "There are things like filtering techniques that ISPs can do to help prevent a lot of this type of denial of service traffic. If the ISPs [and corporate sites] prevented outbound forged packets, [which can allow a malicious user to falsify his or her machine's IP address to avoid detection], that would kill three-fourths of this problem."
But even once you are secure, your work is not done. "Keep an eye on advisories," YTCracker says. "Everyone should be up to date on security. Take care of your systems as you would your home. And separate the myths from the facts. Malicious hackers can't break in and take advantage of your systems unless you let them."
Additional Resources:
- Zombie Zapper download site, from BindView Development
- DDoS security alert, Trend Micro
- Summary information on
troj_trinoo, from Trend Micro
- "Internet Connection Security for Windows Users," Steve Gibson, Gibson Research
- "Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks," SANS Institute
- "Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks," RFC 2267, The Internet Society
- "TFN2K -- An Analysis," Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower, Axent Technologies
- Index of distributed attack tools, Packet Storm
- "Distributed Denial of Service Defense Tactics," BindView Razor Team, BindView Development
- "Packet Flooding Denial of Service Attacks," CERT Coordination Center
- "CERT Advisory CA-2000-01 Denial-of-Service Developments," CERT Coordination Center


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Stetson's Roland George Investments Program (RGIP) bond portfolio, yielding 11.7 percent for 2012, has won two national competitions: the RISE competition hosted by University of Dayton, and the GAME competition hosted by Quinnipiac University.
Stetson students and the RGIP have placed first in the GAME competition every year since it started three years ago. In the RISE competition, Stetson has placed first in 10 of the 13 years the competition has been around. Stetson took second place the other three years. More than 100 universities participate in each of the two competitions. (Photo: K.C. Ma, standing at right, assists students in the Roland George trading room at Stetson University.)
"George students know that they represent a proud 33-year tradition and a life-long exclusive club, because of the long consistent winning record," said K.C. Ma, professor of finance, Roland George Chair of Applied Investments, and director of the Sarah George Investments Institute.
In each year's competitions, the winner is determined solely on the audited, actual portfolio performances on real money investments for the previous year. The RGIP portfolios began in 1980 with $500,000 and now value at over $2.9 million. Although it was not a winner in 2012, the RGIP stock portfolio was up 12 percent.
"Managing the $3 million Roland George portfolios helps jump start students' careers by at least five years, because our money is as real as others," said Ma.
More information on the RGIP can be found on its website and in this article on Stetson Today.


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7pm: NZ 40-0 (15 overs) - Ambrose is having a stinker of a day and puts down a tough-ish catch down the leg-side as Redmond tickles Broad off his pads. England's misery is compounded as Vaughan goes down in instalments at mid-on and allows a How shot to go for four.
That's stumps and with NZ trailing by just two runs, we have in effect a one-day club match. terrysmith2104 please e-mail email@example.com with your postal details as you are a lip salve champion. We're back at 10am tomorrow and I think I have a signed book to giveaway.
6.45pm: NZ 32-0 (11 overs) - Pitches middle and off, straightens and hits Redmond's pad in front of off. A classic left-arm slow bowler's delivery but umpire Taufel shakes his head. He decides to hit his way of trouble by smacking Broad back over his head for a second boundary.
6.30pm: NZ 22-0 (6 overs) - They've got the bunting out in Otago as a Sidebottom half-tracker is dispatched square on the off-side by Redmond who avoids the dreaded debut pair. Jamie How has meanwhile hit three boundaries on both sides of the wicket and that prompts Vaughan to bring Monty into the attack.
6.15pm: NZ 7-0 (3 overs) - The Kiwis are minus 35 without loss. Redmond is on a pair and has the unnerving sight of a small child in a green t-shirt, running across his line of sight just as Sidebottom is about to unleash an 80mph boomerang. He remains on nought.
5.50pm: England 319 (111.3 overs) - WICKET!! Vaughan smears a slog sweep straight down James Marshall's throat on the mid-wicket fence. Vettori gets his name on the Lord's board with a Michelle (five-for), Vaughan goes for 106 and England lead by 42 on first innings.
5.45pm: England 318-9 (110 overs) - WICKETS!! Sidebottom edges Mills to Taylor at second slip as the ball leaves the left-hander a fraction and Monty only last two balls before a bat-pad off Vettori is snaffled by Daniel Flynn. Vaughan is left with Jimmy Anderson.
5.30pm: England 316-7 (108 overs) - Vaughan has never been out in the nineties and he lifts Vettori through mid-wicket for his 11th boundary and his 18th Test century. The ton came up off 204 balls in 287 minutes and is his sixth hundred at Lord's which ties Graham Gooch's record. Well played Sir!
5.15pm: England 299-7 (105 overs) - Ryan Sidebottom is no bunny and he annoys Oram by steering him wide of third slip for his first boundary.
We are up to seven no-balls with is good news for terrysmith2104's mouth. He is on the brink of offering arviemail outside for a fist fight due to the latter's love of slap and tickle 20-20 cricket.
5pm: England 288-7 (100 overs) - ENGLAND LEAD!! There are 28 overs left in the day but unless Vaughan and the tail cut put on another 100 tonight this will surely be a draw.
4.45pm: England 276-7 (96 overs) - Vaughan hits Vettori for a hat-trick of boundaries through the offside but the returning Oram strikes. WICKET! The big man gets one to comes back up the hill, it clips Broad's inside edge and then pad en-route to off-stump and he departs for 25.
4.30pm: England 261-6 (93 overs) - Bounce and movement away from Vaughan by Southee and James Redmond dives one-handed away to his right at second slip but can't hold on. Broad then edges just short of Taylor at second slip but drives straight down the ground and through the covers emphatically to bring up the fifty partnership. He's in far better nick than Collingwood.
4.15pm: England 250-6 (90 overs) - Could be a long final session with 44 overs scheduled and play can go on until 7pm. Some people have got homes or fields to go to. If the history of Test cricket had started on March 14 then Broad would be averaging nearly 107 now.
3.45pm: England 239-6 (85 overs) - Vaughan's fifth boundary off Southee - a delicious cover drive. If the attractiveness of Test batsmen were akin to woman then the England skipper would be a Jessica Alba, Alastair Cook would be a Jessica Lange. I'll let you ponder that analogy over tea.
3.30pm: England 233-6 (83 overs) - A particularly hirsute Chris Cairns in the crowd with a beer, probably regaling his dismissal of Chris Read four years ago on this ground when he induced the England keeper to duck a slower ball. Meanwhile his Notts colleague Broad looks like all that work in the back garden with his old man has worked, he's looking very comfortable.
3.15pm: England 218-6 (78 overs) - Vaughan completes his 19th Test half-century off 125 balls. A quick look at his wagon wheel exposes a jam centre and the vast majority of runs through mid-wicket, 32 in question. The England skipper has punished anything straight.
3pm: England 208-6 (75 overs) -WICKETS! Vettori gets one to turn up the hill and Collingwood edges to Ross Taylor at first slip. Tim Ambrose then departs first ball as he shoulders arms to a delivery that drifts back into him and umpire Taufel lifts the deadly digit as it would have pegged back off-stump. Luca is on a hat-trick but Stuart Broad survives.
What a shame arviemail missed it all as he was watching the rain come down in the IPL.
2.45pm: England 203-4 (73 overs) - Southee obviously fancies a week down the Trafford Centre rather than playing at Old Trafford next week. His figures are 10-0-44-0 as he is clipped through mid-wicket by Vaughan once more before Paul Collingwood finds the boundary with a Chinese cut. Unlike compatriot Edmund Hillary, he is struggling with the slope.
2.30pm: England 191-4 (70 overs) - LAVISH. No Cowers has not been replaced by the ghost of Mark Nicholas but it's the perfect description of a Vaughan cover drive off Southee. He also whips the teenager off his pads to the fence but then escapes a very good lbw shout against Martin. Umpire Bucknor looks and looks but then shakes his head - would have hit top of middle.
Johnfisherbideford is not licking his lips in anticipation, we've just had the fourth no-ball of the day - blame Gwyneth's fella.
2.15pm: England 180-4 (66 overs) - WICKET! Martin has pulled another ripsnorter out of his locker to dismiss Bell. Not much Sherman could do to a delivery that bounces and seams, he plays down the line but edges through to McCullum off the top of the bat.
2pm: England 177-3 (63 overs) - Vaughan has been seeing it like a marble for Yorkshire this season but he clips Southee through mid-wicket for his first boundary. It took him 53 balls but who is counting - apart from me.
1.45pm: England 163-3 (59 overs) - Massive shout by Vettori from the second ball after lunch. Ian Bell is still digesting his HobNobs and is lucky that an inside edge saves him. Tim Southee on at the other end.
1.30pm - Attention LIP SALVE FANS. No more entries please. There were five no-balls yesterday and we have had 3 so far today. johnfisherbideford (3) will be hoping for some cautious front foot action for the rest of the day. The other entries are: mike_deacon2003 (4); terrysmith2104 (7);
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1pm: England 160-3 (57 overs) - A nice square drive from Ian Bell off Oram and The Shermanator is off and running with a boundary. LUNCH - A mixed morning for England on a good track. I'll leave you for half an hour with this pearl of wisdom from swads43: "the kiwi bowlers do not look that much of a threat to the upper england batting IMHO."
12.45pm: England 153-3 (54 overs) - WICKET! The wheels are falling off, well at least the front left one. Daniel Vettori had only bowled 11 overs on tour before today and he simply delivered a straight one and Kevin Pietersen completely plays down the wrong line and is palpably lbw. Even Steve Bucknor was quick to lift his finger there.
12.30pm: England 148-2 (51 overs) - WICKET! Strauss goes lbw to Oram, it pitches just in line with leg stump and would have hit the top of middle. Correct decision by umpire Taufel.
12.15pm: England 133-1 (46 overs) - Martin to Strauss turns Martin off his legs for a single and that brings up his 12th Test fifty from 151 balls. He's here for a long time, not a good time. Meanwhile Ian Botham has just revealed he went out for tapas with McCullum last week - any Patatas Bravas anecdotes welcome, Sunday feedback is always destined to be slow.
Noon: England 125-1 (43 overs) - Michael Vaughan clips Mills through mid-wicket to get off the mark, Jacob Oram is into the attack and we can all celebrate by having a drink because it's drinks. Where's the Um Bongo machine in the press box?
11.45am: England 121-1 (40 overs) - WICKET! A flurry of activity as, like many of you last night no doubt, Strauss attempts an unconvincing pull but manages to get four uphill and then he guides Chris Martin past backward point for his sixth boundary. The seamer hits back though with a beauty to remove Cook, bowling wide of the crease and getting one to pitch and leave the left-hander who edges through to Brendon McCullum behind the stumps.
11.30am: England 105-0 (38 overs) - Strauss gets a thick edge down to the third man boundary off Kyle Mills and then 26 dot balls. No rush yet, chaps.
mattheweugenefarrell it's dryer than a cream cracker convention. Get yourself down to St John's Wood, mine's a pint of Pernod.
11.15am: England 101-0 (34 overs) - It's a sundries safari this morning, five leg byes and two no-balls (there's a hint there if some viewer wants smooth lips) and this opening pair put on their first century partnership.
11am: Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook stride out before a small-ish crowd, everyone must still be at church or not got home from last night's dancing emporium. What do you need on a day like this, the answer is Yahoo! lipsalve - a pot to give away for the person who predicts how many no-balls we have today.
10.45am: And the pitch report - it looks a belting wicket and a very good surface for batting. Kevin Pietersen, on whether there is a chance of a positive result, says: "I don't know, I'm not sure." Well that's upbeat.
10.30am: As it's Sunday, we do not have any cranky quotes from Simon Hughes from the papers but here's Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph: "Primarily England's bowling is short of firepower and has to be beefed up. If two swing bowlers cannot roll over New Zealand in damp May at Lord's, they are not going to dismiss Australia in a hurry next July, not with conventional swing. Matthew Hoggard's injury is convenient in that it allows England to call Durham's Graham Onions into their 12 for the second Test. Onions has the pace to spice up England's attack, but he is not much of a batter. England's tail would be more like ciabatta, a staple diet for opposing bowlers, if he, Monty Panesar and James Anderson were all to play."
10.15am: Here's the utopia scenario for England - score 328 in 90 overs, get 150 ahead, then declare, knock a Kiwi batsman over tonight and bowl them out in two and a half sessions tomorrow. EASY!
10am: "Sunshine came softly through my a-window today," we're playing a bit of Donovan in the press box as two dank days are cast aside. It's bright, it's clear and we should get a full 98.4 overs in today.


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Alcatel OT-907D
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|Device type
|Feature phone
|Smart phone
|Android (2.3.3, 2.2)
|4.35 x 2.39 x 0.50 inches (110.4 x 60.6 x 12.1 mm)
|3.39 oz (96 g)
the average is 5.4 oz (154 g)
|3.76 oz (107 g)
the average is 5.4 oz (154 g)
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|2.8 inches
|3.1 inches
|240 x 320 pixels
|240 x 320 pixels
Pixel density
Pixel density - The pixel density of a display represents the number of pixels over an area of one inch. It's measured in "pixels per inch", or ppi. The higher the number, the more detailed and good-looking the display is.
|143 ppi
|127 ppi
Technology - There are two main screen technologies currently used in phones and tablets: LCD and AMOLED. The former usually features a light source and liquid crystals, while the latter is based on organic light-emitting diodes. Newer LCD variations like IPS-LCD and Super-LCD allow for very accurate color reproduction and very wide viewing angles, where no significant image quality loss is observed. Current AMOLED screens differ in such a way that they can exhibit much more saturated colors (sometimes too much) and incredibly high contrast levels, which is due to black color being completely black in AMOLED displays.
|Screen-to-body ratio
|45.52 %
|Proximity sensor
|2 megapixels
|3 megapixels
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|Smile detection
|Shooting Modes
|Burst mode, Panorama
|320x240 (QVGA) (15 fps)
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|Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227
Processor - The processor is the main computing component of a phone and is a major factor when it comes to the overall speed of the device. Some more powerful smartphones use dual-core and quad-core processors designed to deliver greater performance.
|Single core, 600 MHz, ARM11
|Graphics processor
|Adreno 200
|Built-in storage
|Storage expansion
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|1200 mAh
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|User replaceable, Li - Ion
|Talk time
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the average is 26 h (1581 min)
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the average is 20 days (476 h)
|Talk time (3G)
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the average is 44 h (2632 min)
|Stand-by time (3G)
|18.3 days (440 hours)
the average is 25 days (589 h)
|FM, Stereo, RDS
|850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
|850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
|900, 2100 MHz
|HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s, UMTS
|Multiple SIM cards
|2 slots
|Phone features
|Accelerometer, Compass
|Music ringtones, Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Silent mode, Speakerphone
|Haptic feedback, Music ringtones (MP3), Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone
|Other features
|Voice recording
|802.11 b, g, n
|Mass storage device, USB charging
Positioning - This field shows the positioning systems supported by the device. There are three main types: GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS. GPS - This is one of the most widespread global positioning technologies, developed and maintained by the U.S. government. It uses satellites in order to detect your location. Works best in clear weather. A-GPS - A-GPS stands for Assisted GPS and is the industry standard for positioning and navigation. "Assisted" means that it can use local wireless networks, in addition to satellites, for quicker and more precise localization. GLONASS - GLONASS is a global positioning system, developed by the Russian Federation. It's very similar to GPS, but isn't so popular in cell phones.
|Computer sync, OTA sync
|Officially announced
|26 Jan 2011
|Regulatory Approval
FCC approval
FCC approval - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions. Every wireless phone device that is sold in the U.S. has to be tested and approved for sale by the FCC.
|Date approved
Date approved - Shows the date when the particular phone is approved by the Federal Communications Commission
|15 Dec 2010
|FCC ID value: A3LGTS5570 link
FCC measured SAR
FCC measured SAR - Working closely with federal health and safety agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FCC has adopted limits for safe exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy. These limits are given in terms of a unit referred to as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), which is a measure of the amount of radio frequency energy absorbed by the body when using a mobile phone. The FCC requires cell phone manufacturers to ensure that their phones comply with these objective limits for safe exposure. Any cell phone at or below these SAR levels (that is, any phone legally sold in the U.S.) is a "safe" phone, as measured by these standards. The FCC limit for public exposure from cellular telephones is an SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg).
|1.30 W/kg
|1.03 W/kg
|Measured in
|1900 MHz
|0.70 W/kg
|0.44 W/kg
|Measured in
|850 MHz
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Michael Cherkasky has never shirked difficult assignments. A former New York County district attorney and mob prosecutor, in 1995 Cherkasky served as the adviser to an Orange County, Calif., grand jury charged with examining allegations of derivatives fraud that brought the well-heeled county to near-bankruptcy. In 1997, he helped monitor a hotly contested Teamsters Union election. When he accepted the top job at Kroll Inc. (KROL ) in May, 2001, he had accepted yet another rough gig. The troubled risk-management consulting and security-services company was losing money and struggling to capitalize on a disappointing merger.
Flash forward, and Cherkasky has Kroll on a roll. In the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, Cherkasky managed to bring in Kroll's first net profit since 1998. And he has promised great things for 2003 -- a pledge based mainly on the early success of an ongoing corporate renovation that expunged poorly performing divisions and two key acquisitions. Investors are eating it up, bidding Kroll skyward 25%, to $20.45, over the past four weeks.
Wall Street's consensus is quite bullish. Five of the 10 analysts covering the stock call it a strong buy, and four others rate it a buy. "I like these guys. I like the story. I like everything that they're doing. And I like the direction they're headed," says David Gold, an analyst at independent small-cap research company Sidoti & Co. (Neither Gold nor Sidoti owns shares of Kroll, and the firm does no business with Kroll.)
It's easy to see why Gold is enthused. In fiscal 2002, Kroll posted net sales of $289.2 million, up 39% from $207.9 million in 2001. Despite two acquisitions that powered much of this growth, Kroll's cost of sales increased by only $22.3 million, less than half of the additional revenue coming from the acquisitions.
All told, Kroll bagged $16.4 million in profits for the year, vs. a loss of $21.4 million in 2001. In the key metric of continuing operations, Kroll clocked $19.4 million on the plus side, vs. a loss of $11.4 million for 2001. Those are impressive numbers, considering that benchmark stock indexes have fallen all year, and corporate profits have looked anemic at best (see BW Online, 4/7/03, "Organically Growing at More Than 15%").
Founded by Jules Kroll, this small shop has grown into a global provider of investigative and risk-consulting services. It now has five separate units. Consulting offers business investigations and forensic accounting. The corporate advisory and restructuring unit advises troubled companies. Technology covers electronic discovery and data recovery for legal cases. Background screening offers employee checks and other due diligence on key personnel or partners. Finally, the security unit provides corporate-security consulting and secure facility design services.
It has taken longer than many observers thought for Kroll to benefit from the upsurge of homeland-security concerns triggered by September 11. Many analysts figured it would chalk up major gains from reactions to the terrorist attacks. Ironically, new business was slow in coming, as Kroll -- along with the bulk of its rivals -- got sandbagged by a stumbling global economy. But thanks to two deft acquisitions in 2002, Kroll morphed from a merely healthy company to a growth machine.
In June, Kroll paid $150 million in stock to purchase Ontrack Data International. Ontrack has proprietary technology and a consulting team that helps law firms and law enforcement recover data and sift through it for court cases. In September, Kroll paid $153 million in cash and stock to buy Zolfo Cooper, a boutique provider of corporate-turnaround and restructuring-consulting services. Stephen Cooper, the firm's founder, is the now acting CEO of failed energy giant Enron.
Ontrack is highly profitable and growing quickly, while Zolfo Cooper has operating margins higher than 30%. That's significantly higher than the 19% operating margins for the whole of Kroll. Collectively, those two units accounted for the lion's share of Kroll's growth in 2002.
It might sound like Kroll is buying growth, a dicey game that can spook investors. But it had respectable growth before these deals came along. "If you throw out all the acquisitions, they [grew] internally 16% last year and will grow at that same rate this year. They're able to put north of 20% to the bottom line," says Brian Ruttenbur, analyst at Morgan Keegan & Co. (Neither he nor his firm own the stock, nor has Morgan Keegan done investment-banking for Kroll.)
Cherkasky says the development of synergies between his business units will generate new growth. If Kroll sells forensic-accounting services to a law firm that also needs someone to pick apart subpoenaed computer hard drives, Kroll can help. And if a company Kroll is aiding with fraud investigations ends up slipping into Chapter 11, Kroll can offer restructuring services.
"We think we have some scalable businesses here," says Cherkasky, who believes Kroll can push operating margins to 20% by the end of 2003 and above that in subsequent years. Since no single client is responsible for more than 5% of revenues, Kroll isn't overly dependent on any one kind of work.
By some accounts, Kroll may be headed for a sell-off. Short-sellers, who borrow shares and hope to benefit from their decline, hold nearly 15% of Kroll's outstanding stock. Most of the time, short-sellers have a good reason to dislike a stock.
However, Gold says 3 million or so of those shorted shares are held by two large institutions hedging the Kroll convertible-bond issues they hold, which makes them atypical. In fact, aside from those two big short positions, most holders of the borrowed shares are reversing their positions -- a bullish sign.
Gold points out that the number of shorted shares fell by 300,000 during the latest reporting period. He's optimistic enough to have a $29 target price on the stock. That would be a 42% jump from where it closed Apr. 4, which is perhaps a bit ambitious considering the uncertainty surrounding the economy and when the war in Iraq will end.
Not everyone thinks Kroll is poised for a big run. The recent 25% gain may be all it sees -- at least for this year, says Goldman Sachs equities analyst Chris Hussey. On Apr. 1, he downgraded Kroll to market-perform, the equivalent of a hold rating in Goldman-speak. (Goldman has done investment banking work for Kroll in the past. Hussey owns no shares, and he doesn't know if Goldman owns any shares or is currently doing any investment banking with Kroll.)
Nothing is wrong with the company's performance, he says, but shares have become too dear in the near term, trading at 18.6 times future earnings.
Hussey may have a point, but for now he's in the minority. And if the consensus outlook on Kroll is on target, this stock could outperform the market in 2003.
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Wow, I just signed the papers for my new car and the wait is going to pretty much do me in unless I go into a 2 month deep sleep. I had to special order the config I wanted. I have been on the BMW site looking at all the features of my 2013 750i all day today. And it's only day 1. UGH
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1) For those of you who have special ordered, how long does it take to get the car? They are saying 8-12 weeks but I really need more detail than that! I am getting my production number tonight hopefull for the order. Will it give me a more specific date? Will it get here before Xmas? I got the 750i with Msport and the Executive package and the B&O system. No other extras.
2) How do you enter destinations into the nav while driving using a cursor? Is that possible? We have a touch screen on our car now and it's easy to just scroll ahead on the map and enter a destination as we drive down the freeway. But I didn't see any "freeform" way of using the map. I am assuming this is possible? Can I search POI while driving and enter those (like a Starbucks or gas station) easily? Or is it a pain?
3) Is anyone using the new dictation feature to send emails? Or is it really inaccurate and silly? I sometimes spend a LOT of time in the car in traffic so this would be nice. Is it possible to do this while driving or will it lock me out?
4) Do I pay for the traffic info after a certain time? How much is it? I know the XM radio is free for a year.
5) How often will I need to change break pads and tires for normal wear and tear? Does the 0 maintenance program cover brakes? I know it doesn't the tires...
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I was sitting at the light in the center lane and to my right was an E46 M3 was sitting there all by himself. Just before the light turned I was like "I should move over to his lane and see if he wants to go". Just as I was making my move over the light changed and the dude got on it and I was busy turning the AC off and trying to roll the windows down. Well the lane that he and I were in was a merge lane (hence the reason he was the only car in that particular lane).
All of a sudden I look in my rearview and there's a burgandy/maroon colored Civic racing up in back of me and I still wasn't close to the M3 just yet. So he rode my bumper for a sec and since I was already in 2nd at 4k rpms I punched it thinking I'd just get rid of the pesky Civic and catch up with the M3.
Well, holy****, I couldn't pull away from the Civic. I couldn't even gain an inch. He was so close to me, in fact, that when I shifted to third I missed shifted and he almost rear ended me. So, I paused for a sec (while ryin g to get it in gear) and then punched it again right after I hit 3rd and mildly pulled and then I let off since we were approaching a shopping center (and my wife was yelling at me too). He slowed down too right next to my window and all I could here was the "distinctive" whine of a turbo coming from his car. Folks, this thing was one very loud turbo
His car was so freaking loud I think he must've been dumping right after the turbo underneath the engine bay. We both slowed for a sec and I said to his passenger "turbo, right?" as I pointed at the carbon fiber hood of the Civic. They were both like yep
Anyhow, I droppped it in 2nd after we passed the shopping center and waited for him. We both punched it but neither of us were pulling on each other at all. By the top of second we were coming up on traffic and we had to slow down again. At that time, he must've saw the M3 that was up ahead. My wife was furious about the whole thing so I had to call it quits.
The Civic pursued the M3 and they got to an opening. I could cleary see the M3 go WOT as you could see fuel enrichment dump out of his exhaust tips. The Civic was right behind him and with in a couple of seconds had run down the M3 and made the pass. It looked like they did that a couple of times and the Civic was clearly faster than the M3. You just got to think the M3 driver was like WTF!
All in all, the turbo Civic today was the fastest car that I've raced besides FAST LN's 359WHP Camaro SS - see: SS vs. WRX For an AWD car my WRX isn't too bad from a roll and I bet that the Civic today thought he was going to take me out, just like most every WRX he comes across. Oops!


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. college freshmen these days are a serious lot. A survey released on Thursday said first-year students report spending a record low amount of time partying and socializing compared to previous generations and that many are highly focused on their education and planning for graduate studies.
The survey produced by the University of California, Los Angeles, which detailed students' high school habits and their initial perspectives and experiences at college, also found the lowest self-reported rates of alcohol and cigarette use in 30 years among first-year students at four-year colleges and universities.
The 49th annual "American Freshman" study indicates the first-year college students, who grew up during an economic downturn, are working toward financial and educational success and appear less concerned with having a good time.
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Abby Wambach's broken leg is a "huge blow" to the chances of the U.S. women's Olympic team winning gold in Beijing, writes Andrea Canales, especially for a roster already robbed of experienced players such as defender Cat Whitehill and midfielder Leslie Osborne. But while many of the players that Coach Pia Sundhage takes to the Olympics will be young and untested, the team no longer relies so heavily on Wambach as its goal-scoring source as it did under previous coach Greg Ryan.
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phase issues with mounting 2 ribbon drivers next to each other?
Im working on a DIY ribbon project and would like to be able to reach 80hz (with at least a 48dB, if i got a PC xover than 96dB+) with an 84" x 2" midbass/midrange ribbon crossed over at 3500hz to a 84" x 1/2" ribbon.
I will have 2 rails of magnets per driver, so 4 7 foot rails of Neodymium N50+ per tower.
1st rail: S-N
2nd rail: N-S
3rd rail: S-N
4th rail: N-S
there will be a void between both lines where both South poles will be focused within a gap
could I place another 2" ribbon within this gap? would I get cancellation? If I reversed the phase, could I get around this?
how much excursion can I expect from a ribbon? Is there any place I can purchase aluminum embedded on mylar?
I dont have the necessary funds to purchase enough drivers for a midbass/bass array, so I have decided on purchasing 4 of those Acoustic Elegance IB 15s for $400 and mount them dipole (2 per tower) on an H-Frame and cross them over at 80-100hz to minimize the issue of them integrating with the line array
You'll probably want to download a free copy of FEMM 4.01 and simulate your ideas before you build.
I think you will find that any non-symmetric sharing of magnetic fields creates a modestly non-symmetric field in gap and hence modestly non-symmetric forces on the ribbon(s). You'll have to decide between cost savings/SPL and a perfectionist target.
I favor a MT with the T on the inside soundstage over a MTM or MMT ribbon linesource topology. Correctly sizing and constructing one good M seems to work best.
The motor design and suspension will determine the max excusion on a midrange ribbon. A good M design can achieve +/- 0.1"
For diffraction control, the front bezel shape and possible use of wool felt are good areas to experiment with.
how much displacement would I need with a dipole setup at 80hz?
I read in a previous thread that it requires 375cm^3 of displacement for 80hz @ 110dB for monopole speaker, is that peak to peak or just xmax?
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[B]how much displacement would I need with a dipole setup at 80hz?
84" x 2" ribbon on an 18" wide x 84" long dipole baffle could reach 107db SPL @1m with +/- 0.1" excursion, a total of 266 cm^3 of volume displacement. You will need to get clever with your motor design and ribbon construction to reach this goal.
how much would I gain by making the baffle 24"?
the motor design on a ribbon is pretty straightforward from what ive read (J.V. Verhagens book + threads over here), other than using super powerful magnets (neodymium n50-n55) and lightweight diaphragms what can I do?
what did you do for your bass ribbons? You mentioned you were able to achieve 80-3000hz with a 48dB XOVER.
would a mylar ribbon with aluminum embedded be considerably better capable for maximum excursion?
How high could I go with the 15s (-6dB) and not get integration problems with the ribbon (linesource -3dB)?
Putting the midrange ribbon linesource in the center of a 24" baffle increases the SPL by about 1.2db over an 18" baffle.
My ears favor the tweeter ribbon linesource right on the inside baffle edge, and the midrange ribbon linesource next to the tweeter, separated with a 0.25" woof felt . A line array of standard woofers next to the ribbons tilted slightly outward provide the bass with the same wave launch as the linesources. In this configuration, widening the baffle from 18" to 24" would increase SPL about 0.6db.
I've never gotten good integration even at 80Hz with a couple woofers on the floor. My ears like a woofer line array next to the ribbon linesources. If you family can live with a 84" x 24" wide baffle, you may want to consider just mounting 2-4 of your 15s IB woofers on this baffle to create a bass line array.
my plan was to mount the AE IB 15s on the baffle, 2 per baffle.
Could I mount them each at the bottom on top of each other? or would I need 1 at the very top?
thadman, there are free programs on the web like edge and baffle diffraction simulator you can use to model your ideas. I was surprised by the large smoothing effects a 4"-5" radius on the baffle sides made in the simulations.
Even at 80Hz I would try to mount the 2 woofers 1/3 *84 from top/bottom to optimize the line array effects and minimize floor bounce effects. 80 Hz wavelength ~ 170 inches, quater wavelength ~ 42". For dipoles I favor using woofers with Qts between 0.57 and 0.71 plus electronic equalization. My ears think the high Qts woofers have poor mechanical control of transients.
can you recreate the line array effect with DRC?
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Wholesale Seller Job Description
Wholesale Seller Job Description
A person selling merchandise to retailers and various other businesses is known as a wholesale seller. He makes the job of a retailer easy as the retailer does not have to deal with hundreds of manufacturers. A wholesale seller is not restricted to one type of industry and sells the same kind of product of different companies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- A wholesale seller supplies various products to retailers. They deal directly with the retailers.
- Their duty is also to check the stock and if required record items.
- Wholesale sellers selling electronic and mechanical products also help in installing and maintaining it.
- They have to streamline the inventory and also keep the system in order.
- Some wholesale sellers also suggest the kind of advertising technique required or how to display a product.
- At the end the day a wholesale seller sometimes needs to keep a track of the total sales done and the expenses incurred.
- Some wholesale sellers arrange credit terms for customers as well.
- In order to keep pace with competition, they have to attend seminars, conventions and sales meetings.
Skills and specifications:
- A wholesale seller should be flexible, as their job may not have fixed working hours.
- They should have good servicing skills in order to stay ahead in the competition.
- They should be able to bear pressure and meet deadlines.
Education and Qualifications:
It is not necessary for a wholesale seller to have any specific degree, but wholesale seller selling technical products may be required to have an engineering degree or a technical training.
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