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By Todd Bernhard on Thu, 02/10/2011
Today, millions of new users are joining the iOS ecosystem, thank to the Verizon iPhone, and for many it will be there first introduction to iTunes and the App Store. Those of us who have lived with an iPhone for years take many things for granted, but I thought I'd point out some of the idiosyncrasies in iTunes for our new friends.
First, you cannot sync wirelessly. Yes, three years ago, my old Nokia phone could sync my media wirelessly and I took it for granted. Maybe Apple wants to sell docks and cables or they just don't have their cloud act together yet, or they realize that people store a ton of apps, music and movies on iTunes and it would take forever to transfer over Bluetooth or WiFi. But I'd like the option.
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The App Store is a mess. The categories are crowded with unrelated apps. Apple hasn't really added any categories despite growing to 350,000+ apps. For example, today in Lifestyle, the Confession app is #1 followed closely by Mixologist and several Sex Positions apps. Apple should have an Adult/17+ section (or filter) and consider more categories like Religion, Cooking, etc.
Don't believe everything you read in the reviews. I won't name names, but I know of several developers who write their own fake reviews on a grand scale. They've also taken to writing bad reviews of competitor's apps, and recommending their own within the review! Even rankings are suspect. One developer has created a separate business that pays people to buy their app and others, just to increase rankings. I recommend you find a reliable site like AppShopper.com or 148apps.com to do your searching and to find recommendations.
Nothing is perfect, including the App Store, iTunes or even the iPhone. But it's pretty darn good and getting better. Welcome aboard!


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Hi, Are there any truly 100% effective explorer replacements- i.e. such that explorer never then appears in normal use?
OK tinjaw - let me feed my ravenous toddlers and I'll create a poll while they're burping contentedly to themselves and are held captive by Dora the Explorer...
It's apparently quite hard for an explorer replacement to really be a complete explorer replacement- i.e. to ensure explorer NEVER appears when you don't expect it.
Your poll better have an option called something like "I use all of the above File Managers"
Dora the File Explorer ? What episode? The Two Panes?
as a good DC netizen, i have duly casted my vote.. btw, Darwin it should be Altap/Servant Salamander.. as "Servant" is freeware while the paid version has been changed to "Altap"..
Well, I'm using one of those TC 'distros'. It's called ultima prime, and it comes with all kind of plugins and programs to handle basically any file association. it's almost an entire OS in itself. And no, I didn't have to spend any time configuring it; everything worked out of the box.http://tcup.pl/index.php?l=en
As for the lizard, I'm holding on tight. He's not going anywhere!
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(Updates with comments on demand for 2nd generation ethanol)
By Marcelo Teixeira
PIRACICABA, Brazil, July 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Raizen secured deals to export cellulosic ethanol to Europe at a 26 percent premium over conventional ethanol prices, the company's head of sugar, ethanol and energy, Joao Alberto Abreu, said Wednesday.
Raizen, a joint venture between local conglomerate Cosan SA and Royal-Dutch Shell Plc, has seen interest for all of the second generation ethanol it can produce this year at a premium of 0.30 reais/liter ($0.35/gallon) over conventional ethanol, Abreu said, attributing the strong demand to environmental concerns abroad.
For now, however, Raizen only plans to start building additional second generation ethanol capacity after production costs for cellulosic biofuel become competitive with conventional ethanol costs, Raizen Chief Executive Vasco Dias said earlier on Wednesday.
The company inaugurated its first second-generation biofuel plant in Piracicaba on Wednesday.
The plant currently produces cellulosic ethanol at about 1.40 reais a liter, compared with 1.15 reais/ltr for conventional ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol costs are expected to converge on conventional costs in 2017 and drop below them in 2018, Raizen executives said.
The Piracicaba plant has been operating since December but is still struggling to overcome some of the early obstacles such as excess sand in the machinery and high enzyme costs. The plant can produce 26 million liters a year and plans to expand capacity to 42 million liters/year in October.
It is only expected to produce 10 million liters in 2015, however, as it works through operational kinks.
Raizen hopes eventually to build eight second-generation ethanol plants along side some of its existing conventional sugar and ethanol mills over the coming years.
Writing by Reese Ewing; Editing by Bernard Orr


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|[TenTec] Digital Speech Processing & Pegasus
|firstname.lastname@example.com (George, W5YR)
|Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:42:15 -0600
Mark, historically speaking, processing at audio baseband has not proved to be all that effective in enhancing articulation and improving effective S/N for SSB signals. True, it can be highly effective in increasing average power, which is alright is one is willing to accept that most of the increase comes from distortion products within the baseband. It is for that reason primarily that audio "compression" or clipping has fallen into disrepute and is seldom used in linear systems such as an SSB transmitter. FM rigs can benefit from direct audio processing, as can AM rigs to an extent, but not SSB. Over the years a number of r-f clipping and filtering systems have been developed and marketed, most of which I have had an opportunity to work with. My pick of them all has been the Comdel processor which generated from baseband audio input an SSB signal at a 500 KHz suppressed carrier frequency. This signal was then heavily clipped and filtered at 500 KHz to remove all the distortion products which theoretically should all lie outside the original audio passband. Next, the clipped and filtered signal is heterodyned back to baseband with the same oscillator that was used to generate the 500 KHz SSB signal, thus avoiding any frequency-shift distortion. The resulting audio signal is then amplified and low-pass filtered and output to the mic input of the transmitter. The audio output when used with speech is of notably higher average power with a minimum of distortion if the increase is held to about 6 db to 9 db. It is possible to obtain 10-15 db increase but the distortion by then is noticeable to the ear. At 6 db, a sine wave input is indistinguishable from the Comdel output, the distortion is that low. Several systems of that type have appeared over the years: DX Engineering, Waters, and others no longer around. TenTec used to make a similar product that I understand was quite effective - I do not know if it is still being made; I doubt it. The reason is that most modern rigs now incorporate some form of "processing" if for no other reason that to be able to make the marketing claim in the specs. Usually this takes the form of mild compression of the signal somewhere along the IF chain. The one completely audio processor that was both effective and low-distortion was the Vomax made by Maximillian Associates. I mention this especially since it represents an approach that you perhaps might want to explore for implementing in the computer with .wav files as input. The Vomax was a "split-band" processor that functions altogether at baseband. The incoming mic signal is split into four adjacent audio frequency channels, and the signal in each channel is clipped and filtered as with r-f processing. Then, the magic comes when the clipped and filtered multi-band signals are adroitly recombined with minimum distortion to produce a baseband output with improved articulation and a modest increase in average power. The limit to its capability, as with the others, lay in how much distortion you were willing to accept for how much power increase. I have used all of these types on the air usually with outboard units. I may be wrong here, but I have been told that the Icom PRO implements a form of split-band audio processing within its DSP core. And I have heard that the PRO II has improved upon this to generate a true r-f clipped and filtered signal in DSP. If you have access to old issues of Ham Radio Magazine, the prototype of the Vomax was a feature article sometime in the early 70's as I recall. Later on, QST published an updated design using the same approach but by a different author. So, perhaps all this trivia may encourage you to pursue some form of speech processing capablity in your software. I would be leery of simple "dynamic limiting" however. Unless done with fairly long time constants, in which case the effectiveness is impaired, then the effective clipping of the audio signal generates distortion products that remain within the audio baseband signal. I suspect that you will also find it advisable to afford the user with means to tailor the audio chacteristics of the input and/or output signal in your processing. Standing out in a pileup is not done readily with a broadband, but beautiful sounding, SSB signal with tons of bass content. Please keep us informed on your progress. Speech processing was a hobby within a hobby for me back in the 70's when I designed and built an r-f processor for my Heathkit SB-401 transmitter that was quite successful. 72/73/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better! QRP-L 1373 NETXQRP 6 SOC 262 COG 8 FPQRP 404 TEN-X 11771 Icom IC-756PRO #02121 Kachina #91900556 IC-765 #02437 All outgoing email virus-checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 Mark Erbaugh wrote: > > As I continue my work on my own custom Pegasus control software, I have now > incorporated the ability to play .WAV files through the aux input. This will > allow me to use the computer as a digital voice keyer. > > However, I think that I can take advantage of some sound processing software > on the computer to customize the .WAV file to give it more punch. Other than > doing some dynamic limiting to increase the average power, are there things > that can be done to increase the chances of standing out or at least being > heard in a pileup? Is there a model of HF propagation that can be used to > experiment with the effects of various enahancements?
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New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave its ex-post facto approval to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and agreement with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan for cooperation in the field of sports.
The MoU was signed in July, 2015.
India's bilateral exchange programmes in sports with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan will help in expanding knowledge in sports science, sports medicine and coaching techniques, the government said in a statement.
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About Craft Los Angeles
Tom Colicchio's Craft in New York City received the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant nationwide in 2002 & five years later brought Craft across the country to join the other "top chefs" in Los Angeles. His new American dishes marry the finest ingredients, haute cuisine and family-style service. Under the execution of Chef de Cuisine Andrew Gavalla, Craft features produce from local organic farms, all-natural meats & day-boat seafood. With the award-winning architectural design of Bentel and Bentel & under the glow of filament bulbs, diners share dishes that celebrate 'single' ingredients, expertly & simply prepared.
Awarded Three and a Half Stars by S. Irene Virbila of the Los Angeles Times, she states:
"The menu offers a master class in contemporary American cuisine. You won't find recipes with 17 ingredients or unnecessary frills. Each dish relies on simplicity & elegance, superb ingredients & expert execution to make its point."
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
American, Contemporary American, Vegetarian / Vegan
Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:30am - 2:30pm
Happy Hour Monday-Friday between 3:00 PM and 5:00
: Monday - Saturday: 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Cross Street:
between Avenue of the Stars and Century Park East
Dress Code:
Smart Casual
Price Range:
$31 to $50
Payment Options
AMEX, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Pay with OpenTable, Visa
Phone Number:
(310) 279-4180
Farm to Table, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies)
Parking Details:
Valet is available on the south side of Constellation Blvd (between Avenue of the Stars and Century Park East). You may also self park in the Century Park Towers and receive a validation from our staff.
All parking requires validation.
Self parking is available at lunch, $3 for 3 hours. At dinner, no charge, no time limit.
Valet is available at lunch for 3 hours, and for dinner with no limit, both $10.
Public Transit:
Olympic Blvd. & Century Park East stop on the 728 Bus
Executive Chef:
Andrew Gavalla
Banquet, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, BYO Wine, Corkage Fee, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking, Outdoor dining, Private Room, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Special Events & Promotions:
Large parties can be accommodated in the private dining room, patio or by buying out the entire restaurant.
Please contact Anna Morini for further details, email@example.com or at 424.204.7485
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At craft the private dining possibilities are endless! From business and personal occasions, wedding receptions, bridal showers, baby showers, birthdays, wrap parties and other celebrations.
Craft Los Angeles Ratings and Reviews
We were four for dinner on a weeknight and had a good experience. The service is friendly and reasonably prompt, the food imaginative and good, the venue very pretty with all the twinkling outdoor lights. The noise level was OK; we had no problem holding a conversation. The restaurant is quite pricey; well over $200/couple, with $30 corkage fee for wine. Finally, I do not like the "shared-plates-everything extra" format, which is why the bill gets as high as it does; I feel that I am eating at a very expensive buffet, rather than fine dining.
The service was so above and beyond fantastic I can't say enough positive remarks. And the ambiance was great to make a birthday feel special, but still maintain conversation without shouting. Goes without saying the food was exquisite. One of the best (if not most) memorable, top-notch dining experiences in LA.
Arrived at 6:30, one hour prior to our reservation and enjoyed drinks in the bar. At 7:30, we asked to be seated and were told we'd have to wait for our guests to arrive. Once seated, we ordered Octupus (over cooked and dry), Mashed potatoes (excellent), Carrots (excellent), and Rib Eye Steak at $106.00. It was ordered medium-rare but it came medium well...dry and hard. We asked for another and the waiter said okay begrudgingly and that it would take 45 minutes as he rolled his eyes. Moments later, we noticed him nearby chatting to another waiter while they both stared at us. Fifteeen minutes later, he brought another steak and while it was cooked properly, it was room temperature. Desserts were good. With all the great steak places in LA, I'd definitely pass on this one.
I love Craft! I'm sorry it's not closer to where I live. The food is superb, but I have to say the service is outstanding. The staff was extremely attentive, my water was never empty, the food arrived piping hot. Just absolutely friendly staff.
The food was to die for. We had the mixed mushrooms, tahgiatelle with short ribs, wow, and avocado salad. Dessert was superb and they keep giving us little free appetizers and pre-dessert desserts. And a muffin to take home! We always come back to Craft for our special celebrations.
Always a good choice for a special dinner. Service is wonderful without being overbearing. They pour the wine properly - a little at a time. There is always an amuse-bouche first and a plate of small sweet treats after dessert. The bread is fabulous. Delicious octopus appetizer and my husband's steak was delicious. A lovely memory for our 57th wedding anniversary.
Definitely a business lunch spot only. Made the mistake of coming on a weekend night. Food came out at all at once in a hurry and plates were cleared even with food still left on them. I can see this being appropriate for a busy lunch crowd, not on a weekend night when it claims to be a small-plates restaurant. All of our first courses came at once: oysters, beet salad, and pork belly. I've never been to a restaurant that served oysters with other food at the same time, nor have I ever been to a small-plates restaurant where the wait staff and kitchen didn't thoughtfully pace and serve the small-plates in a logical order. Then came the rest all at once - overwhelming our table: mushrooms, potatoes, scallops, short ribs, and roasted cauliflower. Again, such strange service. We were so stuffed, and we had asked the waiter when ordering if we were ordering the right amount of food and he said yes. I appreciate when servers are more thoughtful and responsive. I think it's just used to a bustling business lunch crowd and can't downshift for the weekend. Food overall was unremarkable. So many other great restaurants out there. Won't go here again.
My husband and I took another couple there to celebrate her birthday, and could not have had a more pleasurable experience. They printed a "Happy Birthday" and her name on our menus, they provided her with birthday cake and everyone there wished her a happy birthday. The food was delicious, the service was fantastic, I would definitely recommend.
The service and ambiance of the restaurant were nice. The restaurant was vibrant with local beverly hills and century city entertainment types.
The food at Craft is a 3 of 10 at best. The food was underwhelming. The service was good but I do not go out to a "finer" restaurant on a Saturday night for good service and a poor meal.
The one bright shining star was the Kale salad we had - yes the salad was the best item we ate. The complex balance of fresh pair, candied walnuts and the greens set inside a tangy dressing were delightful and delicious.
The Ricotta Cavatelli with chanterelle mushrooms had 7-10 mushrooms. While very tasty, you were mostly eating plain cavatelli.
The Ahi Tuna was served well done versus rare (even when requested rare). The flavors in this dish were refreshing but the fish was overcooked taking away from what could have been a highlight of the meal.
For a writer who eats scallops all over the world, I would have to say this was perhaps the worse scallop I have ever eaten. While perfectly seared and cooked, the scallop itself had little no flavor, tasted like the chef took a scallop and seared it without any seasoning or sauce. The sauce it was served with was more of a fish broth with no flavor than a sauce of any kind. The manager attempted to re-fire a second scallop. The second attempt was unfortunately worse than the first. The second dish resulted in an overcooked and over salted scallop. Chef's have off nights, but this scallop should be removed from the menu if they continue to serve it this way.
The cauliflower and shishito peppers we had were cooked perfect and had lots of flavor, but again, you do not want to go out to dinner and have your salad and vegetables be the best food you ate.
I eat at and review restaurants for a living, Craft, once a shining star in Century City clearly has lost its luster. There are far better restaurants in Century City and nearby Beverly Hills. Do not waste your time or money on this one.
Wonderful service, great food with a beautiful yet casual ambiance. Our waiter Jim was very good. We were very well taken care of by the restaurant manager Matt. He was attentive and kind. Checked in on us to make sure the food was good and that we were enjoying our evening. Really great staff. One of my westside favorites. Thank you, Craft!
My wife and I went to Craft Los Angeles to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. What a treat! Everyone knew it was our anniversary (I was asked if we were celebrating a special occasion with they confirmed my reservation.) They even printed a personalized menu for us as a keepsake. The food was incredible and the service was the best. Thanks for making our special evening that more special!
One of best restaurant experiences I have had in a long time. The service could not have been better an the food was excellent. Everything from making reservations to the printed personalized menus and the amazing chocolate birthday cake made the dining experience memorable. My thanks to the entire staff
We got 7 dishes a cocktail and a glass of wine for our anniversary dinner. Out of the 7 dishes two were great, two were good and 4 were average to not good (no flavor). The cocktails we got were fantastic, really top notch. The glass of wine was good too. The service was amazing. The bill after tip was over $350, which I wouldn't mind paying for a special occasion if the food is amazing. Ultimately I left with the feeling that I could have gone to several places nearby and paid $150-200 for the same quality meal or better. I didn't hate it but I won't go back.
Great design and atmosphere. Food is good for LA standards. Could be more creative. Gnocchi were good but not outstanding. Our fish was too dry but the duck was excellent. The chocolate dessert was a bit dry too. Great wine list.
A bit quiet for a weekend night.
Overall good.
This is definitely our favorite steak house. Amazingly delicious, high quality food, steak cooked right on, amazing salads, delicious appetizers, smashed potatoes are a must try, and exquisite desserts. Pleasant staff, love the ambiance. Customer centric staff in every aspect; you'll feel right at home. ;)
I took a client to Craft for a business lunch. My request was a quieter table for two of us. They accommodated us with a booth on the end. I like the natural light that comes into the dining area. The service is fantastic. It's isn't too big of a challenge eating vegan in LA, but I am a little self-conscious of appearing fussy in front of a client. However, as soon as I mentioned I was vegan, the server made an awesome entree suggestion not on the menu. Oh, thank you. This place is definitely a splurge. My company paid the tab of $130 for two salads, two entrees, a latte, tip/tax included. And I parked in the garage, which was $37 on my corporate AmEx. I made the error of passing up valet parking, which I believe would be more economical. Regardless, great experience.
Poor coordination at the Maitre D'. Called to make a slight adjustment, which was accepted, only to arrive at the restaurant and be advised that they didn't have tables at the time that we had just changed to...maybe they should have said that in the first place when we called. But they were quick with a solution and the food and service were fine. Loved the side vegetables and mushrooms in particular. Very nice wines by the glass, at a good price.
I've dined at Craft restaurants across the nation and this was by far my least favorite visit. This was my first time to Craft LA & it did not live up to the high expectations set by my other visits in NYC and Las Vegas. Both the service and food were surprisingly average at best. With so many options in Los Angles I'm not sure if this will be on my places to return to on my next visit here.
There was not much offered for a Ladies LIGHT lunch. They used to have a chicken salad but the only salad we could order was the Roasted Beet. After we all tasted the "strange" taste of the beets, the waiter informed us they were Pickled Beets. I don't recall that on the menu description. Then one of the girls ordered a replacement of an Arugula salad..he took her beets away. The other 2 were barely tasted. We had 1 seafood entree..what is kumamoto, kusshi, shigoku? 5 guests..2 enjoyed, 3 did not.
$7.00 for an iced tea? Way overpriced. In general, beautiful restaurant but choices limited for light lunch and prices way high.
The restaurant offered very great service with complimentary food to the table. The food was good, and the view of the Central Plaza set the mood for the entire restaurant. The environment was relaxing and mellow. I would recommend this place to someone looking to celebrate a special occasion, have a nice business meal, or to those who would like to experience a calming dinner.
Excellent restaurant, we were worried that many other restaurants created by a great chef but then left under the supervision of another chef, the food would be just on par... We got extremely surprised how great the food was. Just amazing from start to finish! Highly recommend it!
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3. Carroll HS, Southlake, TX [3]
Defeats The Woodlands by 24 points at Nike South Invitational featuring state powers.
4. American Fork HS, American Fork, UT [4]
Takes six of top seven places in regional with state meet coming up on Oct. 17.
5. St. Xavier HS, Cincinnati, OH [7]
No major meet since Sept. 24 ranking.
6. Dowling Catholic, W. Des Moines, IA [18]
Wins multi-state Griak Invitational by 63 points over Bismarck (ND).
7. St. Xavier HS, Louisville, KY [10]
Second to CBA at Great American, ahead of O'Hara (PA) and array of other top teams.
8. Los Alamos HS, Los Alamos, NM [21]
Continues hot streak with Desert Twilight victory in Arizona by 56 points over California-ranked Great Oak.
9. Cardinal O'Hara HS, Springfield, PA [5]
Wins Delaware County with 19 points after third at Great American behind CBA and St. Xavier (KY).
10. Arcadia HS, Arcadia, CA [8]
Holds out top unit at Central Park Invitational after winning Stanford Invitational by 98 points the previous week.
11. The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands, TX [9]
Second to Southlake Carroll at Nike South Invitational.
12. Carmel HS, Carmel, IN [11]
Wins conference meet with five runners in top 10.
13. York HS, Elmhurst, IL [12]
No major meet since Sept. 24 ranking.
14. Fayetteville-Manlius HS, Manlius, NY [13]
First major meet this Saturday at Manhattan Invitational Eastern States race at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx with CBA defending its title.
15. Stillwater HS, Stillwater, MN [16]
Decisive victories in Alexandria and Victoria Lions meets against state powers.
16. Jones College Prep, Chicago, IL [15]
Wins Chicago Marathon Northside-Southside Challenge on last 2.62 miles of Sunday's marathon route.
17. Chantilly HS, Chantilly, VA [NR]
Wins Octoberfest meet by 45 points at Great Meadows after fourth at Great American, 18 points behind O'Hara (PA) and 101 points ahead of Tennessee power Brentwood.
18. Kamiakin HS, Kennewick, WA [14]
Second to North Central at Richland Invitational with 29-second spread for 5K.
19. California HS, Whittier, CA [NR]
Wins Clovis Invitational by 10 points over Trabuco Hills and 29 over Dos Pueblos on state meet course at Woodward Park.
20. Bismarck HS, Bismarck, ND [17]
Distant second to Dowling Catholic at Griak meet.
21. North Allegheny HS, Wexford, PA [25]
Wins Pittsburgh Central Catholic Invitational with 27 points as 5 harriers place in top 10 with 14-second spread.
22. Mountain Vista HS, Highlands Ranch, CO [22]
Holds out top runners at Doherty Invitational.
23. Cleveland HS, Rio Rancho, NM [20]
No major meet since Sept. 24 ranking.
24. Herriman HS, Herriman, UT [23]
No major meet, preparing for Oct. 17 Utah state championships.
25. Davis HS, Kaysville, UT [24]
No major meet, preparing for Oct. 17 Utah state championships.
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1. Christian Brothers (NJ)
2. Cardinal O'Hara (PA)
3. North Allegheny (PA)
4. Bishop Hendricken (RI)
5. Henderson (PA)
6. La Salle (PA)
7. Danbury (CT)
8. Don Bosco (NJ)
9. Lowell (MA)
10. Hillsborough (NJ)
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2. The Woodlands (TX)
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4. Kingwood (TX)
5. Strake Jesuit (TX)
6. Flower Mound (TX)
7. College Park (TX)
8. Marcus (TX)
9. Timber Creek (TX)
10. Boerne (TX)
(Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia)
1. St. Xavier (KY)
2. Chantilly (VA)
3. Brentwood (TN)
4. Belen Jesuit (FL)
5. Broughton (NC)
6. Blacksburg (VA)
7. Tatnall (DE)
8. St. Pius Catholic (GA)
9. Lexington (SC)
10. Severna Park (MD)
(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio)
1. St. Xavier (OH)
2. Carmel (IN)
3. York (IL)
4. Jones (IN)
5. Milford (MI)
6. Lyons Township (IL)
7. Ft. Wayne Carroll (IN)
8. Westfield (IN)
9. O'Fallon (IL)
10. Blue Springs (MO)
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin)
1. Dowling Catholic (IA)
2. Stillwater (MN)
3. Bismarck (ND)
4. Stevens Point (WI)
5. Madison West (WI)
6. La Follette (WI)
7. Edina (MN)
8. Sioux Falls Lincoln (SD)
9. Fremont (NE)
10. Wayzata (MN)
(Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming)
1. American Fork (UT)
2. Los Alamos (NM)
3. Mountain Vista (CO)
4. Cleveland (NM)
5. Herriman (UT)
6. Davis (UT)
7. Fairview (CO)
8. Fort Collins (CO)
9. Mountain View (UT)
10. Desert Vista (AZ)
(Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington)
1. North Central (WA)
2. Kamiakin (WA)
3. Nathan Hale (WA)
4. Seattle Prep (WA)
5. Central Valley (WA)
6. Eisenhower (WA)
7. Gig Harbor (WA)
8. Lewis & Clark (WA)
9. Henry Jackson (WA)
10. West Valley (AK)
1. Arcadia
2. California
3. Dos Pueblos
4. Vista Murrieta
5. Loyola
6. Mount Carmel
7. Saugus
8. Palos Verdes
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The superannuation sector has for years been the largest protected beast in the Australian corporate landscape. No other industry has enjoyed such largesse, mandated by the government, with so little intervention.
Retirement schemes have been allowed to roam with impunity, grazing on rich pastures seeded by a system of compulsory contributions that ensures that at least 9 per cent of the national wage bill is injected into super funds each year. Add the 9 per cent super guarantee to other forms of pretax and after-tax contributions, and the industry collects more than $110 billion a year.
But now the government, conscious that many fund members have the wool pulled over their eyes even as they are forced to put a sizeable portion of their savings away for up to 50 years, is turning on the sector and demanding it starts to service investors properly. The surprise is that it's taken so long to turn a light onto this industry and make it sing for its supper.
The good reason for keeping the industry well fed is that it will support an ageing population and keep as many as possible off the government pension.
However, the big question is: just how much of the government goodies are being eaten by the industry on the way to its members? Just look at the figures. Today's $1.3 trillion will grow to more than $6 trillion by 2035. It is unbelievable that, with so much government-mandated money going in their direction, the funds have not been much more accountable and that their workings remain so opaque.
This past week Financial Services Minister
"There is no doubt that the single focus on Cooper was costs," says Financial Services Council chief executive
If the reforms work, they will save members collectively hundreds of millions of dollars in fees. According to Shorten, the retirement savings of a 30-year-old earning an average wage will be boosted by $40,000 over their lifetime.
Some of the measures, particularly those aimed at encouraging the industry to process contributions electronically, should also save the industry millions of dollars as unnecessary waste is removed.
Other reforms will cost the industry dearly. Fund executives and trustees will have to work much harder to earn their keep and retain the right to act as a funnel for super contributions.
For some in the wealth industry, the outlook is even more bleak if the Cooper measures are coupled with a separate set of reforms now being negotiated between the financial services industry and the government, which are designed to remove conflicts of interest from the financial planning sector.
Together, these changes represent the biggest shake-up to the super industry since compulsory contributions were introduced by former prime minister
Unbeknownst to the majority of members, retirement schemes are akin to locomotives, powering a gravy train whose passengers include specialist asset managers, administrators, financial planners, asset consultants and wholesale fund distributors.
Most super fund head offices house a small team of managers and outsource most of their activities. In the vast majority of cases, the actual investing is done by external fund managers, who are often selected by external asset consultants. And contributions are processed by external administrators.
Each service provider happily takes its share of fees from the super pool. Some charge a flat fee but many insist on a percentage-based fee or (and sometimes in addition to) a performance fee. Still others demand a commission, which means they earn a fee for the life of the product.
Under the MySuper regime, one of the key recommendations of the Cooper review, which was largely adopted by the government, much of this fee flow will dry up.
MySuper is a new-look, low-cost default fund that in time will be the only option that can be offered to savers who don't want to make an active choice about how their super is managed. And this is the vast majority. It accounts for about 55 per cent of those of us who are in a pooled fund.
Rather than MySuper being just another option that can be chosen, it will eventually account for a huge portion of total super assets.
MySuper funds will not be allowed to charge members entry fees, any exit fees must be equal to the costs involved in allowing someone to leave a fund and advisers will be banned from receiving a commission.
This will force financial planners who recommend MySuper products to charge clients in a more transparent way.
There will also be standards governing performance fees paid to specialist fund managers.
There is no suggestion that retirement schemes must stop paying percentage-based fees to asset managers, which means that stock pickers and the like will continue to receive a pay rise every time the market rises.
Still, as
Another key feature of MySuper is that trustees will be given a "specific duty to deliver value for money as measured by long-term net returns, and to actively consider whether the fund has sufficient scale".
This unassuming paragraph from the government's response to the Cooper report may seem innocuous enough but the consequences are potentially wide-ranging.
A requirement to deliver value for money clearly puts the emphasis on costs.
Given investment management fees are a large proportion of the total fees charged by a fund, these are an obvious place for trustees to start in their attempt to justify their existence.
This is likely to lead to a move away from so-called active management, a style of investing that involves employing highly paid professionals to select investments that they hope will outperform the market.
The alternative is a passive-style fund that uses a piece of software to buy a pool of stocks and replicate an underlying index.
Cooper is clearly a fan of index investing. He rejects claims by active managers that over time their funds will outperform index funds, including an estimate by research group Chant West that the average return for a passive fund over the past seven years was 5.8 per cent, against 6.3 per cent for an actively managed balanced fund.
"Over 30 to 40 years, will active funds beat the market?" Cooper argues.
The rights and wrongs of active management aside, the industry accepts that the Cooper report will accelerate a trend towards the use of more passive managers – which means less fee income for those highly paid stock pickers.
According to another research company, SuperRatings, the average investment management fee paid by super trustees in the year to June 30, 2010, was 0.76 per cent, up from 0.69 per cent the year before.
The figure is likely to start falling in a brave new fee-conscious world.
Earlier this month HOSTPLUS, an industry fund which caters to employees in the hospitality and tourism industries, launched a passive balanced fund that charges just 0.036 per cent in management fees.
That will no doubt focus a few trustees' minds as they gather around the super board for their monthly meeting and consider their value-for-money proposition.
A second impact of the value-for-money requirement is the greater emphasis on a fund's size.
The super industry is a scale game. It doesn't take that many more executives to run a fund with $30 billion of assets as it does to operate one with $300 million. Larger schemes simply tap bigger numbers into their computers and send out more annual reports.
So small funds tend to charge higher fees because they have fewer members to cover costs.
In a post-Cooper review world, small funds will have to justify to the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority why they are happy to continue charging higher fees. Many will find the exercise just a little tricky and go off and find themselves a suitable partner.
Mergers will cut the fee flow to service providers even further. Larger funds will be in a position to screw down the fees they pay service providers.
Meanwhile, the requirement to focus on after-tax returns, and report fees and investment returns in a standardised format will mean members can see much more clearly how much they are paying – and what they are getting in return for their buck.
And so, gradually, the protections now offered to the super beast will disappear.
"In our view, the mandating of MySuper is a negative for fees across the industry," concludes AMP equity analyst Richard Coles.
An administrative overhaul of the sector will also help stem the fee leakage.
Allowing trustees to use tax file numbers to locate lost and forgotten accounts should lead to a sharp reduction in the total number of individual accounts from the current 33 million (for just 11 million members). Fewer accounts will reduce a fund's total fee income, which could be catastrophic for smaller schemes.
Active discouragement of antiquated practices such as a lack of standardised forms and sending contributions by mail should also reduce fees, even if it is at the expense of Australia Post.
This is not to say that the proposed reforms are a panacea for all the super industry's woes. And, disconcertingly, the government wants endless consultation with industry to finalise the details.
But at least the fee load borne by the super locomotive should get a whole lot lighter.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Observations and notes from a brief glimpse at the Ohio State freshmen during a split-squad practice that opened training camp on Sunday morning:
Meyer locked in
The Buckeyes coach made clear he was ready to turn the page from all the offseason chatter and get back to focusing on football, and he obviously enjoyed being on the field and working with his players.
From the start, Meyer was energetic and engaged frequently with the young players he was finally getting to coach for the first time. And if for some reason the newcomers weren't aware of the high expectations and the standards for a program that will enter the season ranked second in the nation, Meyer called a pair of huddles in the first 20 minutes of the workout to impress upon them what he's looking for and expects in the buildup to the opener on Aug. 31 against Buffalo.
The message was hard to ignore, and Meyer certainly had been impatiently waiting to deliver it.
Speed it up
The periods open for media viewing didn't provide much of a look at the talented freshmen actually playing football, and because they were limited to just helmets and no pads as well, there's only so much that could be gleaned from their first morning on the practice fields at Ohio State.
But when they had a chance to dial it up and stretch their legs, the emphasis on acquiring more speed on signing day in February does appear to have paid off for the Buckeyes. Dontre Wilson seems to glide around and makes everything look smooth, and touted newcomers such as Vonn Bell, James Clark, Corey Smith and Gareon Conley all looked the part of burners capable of providing that upgrade Meyer and his staff were looking for on the recruiting trail.
They all still need to put pads on and compete against the veterans to show what they can truly do, but lack of speed shouldn't be an issue.
Special deliveries
Running backs coach Stan Drayton repeated himself over and over to drive home the point. Anybody looking to make an impact right away had better be ready to lend a hand in the kicking game.
"Fastest way you get on the field," Drayton said. "Special teams."
The Buckeyes give those units top priority and treat it as a responsibility earned instead of scraps for players not contributing on offense and defense. Drayton stressed that numerous times for anybody within earshot as the youngsters started practice. Ohio State appears to have already tabbed three guys as potential options to help out by getting their hands on the football, with Wilson, Clark and Jalin Marshall all taking turns simulating punt returns.
Missing in action
Donovan Munger wasn't on the field Sunday morning, and he might not be for a few more weeks as he apparently deals with an academic issue before he can report to the team. The Buckeyes still expect the 6-foot-3, 290-pound defensive lineman to be part of the squad this season and he was listed on the latest roster, but he'll likely have some ground to make up and will be missing valuable reps that could have potentially helped him push for a spot in the rotation.
New punter Cameron Johnston also didn't practice with the morning bunch, with Ohio State instead opting to have him work with the veterans in the afternoon. The Australian is expected to slide into the starting spot right away after his signing this summer, and working later would give him a opportunity to build a rapport with the returning long-snappers.


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STEPHEN BEARD: Foreign banks have been among the biggest casualties of the subprime debacle. UBS of Switzerland alone has already written off more than $40 billion in toxic assets.
Peter Hann is a former American investment banker and now a lecturer at the Cass Business School in London. He can understand why American taxpayers may not want to bail out foreign banks.
PETER HANN: The Royal Bank of Scotland, the Union Bank of Switzerland or Credit Agricole, they took risks like everybody else. They're big, sophisticated organizations. Why should the U.S. taxpayer support their shareholders?
Nevertheless, Hann supports the global reach of the bailout. He says that as the dominant force in the global economy, the U.S. had to take a broad approach.
Economist Andrew Hilton agrees, but says U.S. taxpayers shouldn't -- and won't -- shoulder the whole burden.
ANDREW HILTON: Other governments will be forced to do something similar, perhaps not on such a grand scale. But something similar.
No foreign government has stepped up to the plate so far. But, says Peter Hann, they could be induced to do so. Paulson could insist on the U.S. getting a large equity stake in all the foreign banks that it bails out.
HANN: Certain foreign governments might not like Paulson's bank to own a major share, and that might encourage them to contribute to the process and buy the securities themselves rather than let Paulson's bank do it.
Hann says the condition of an equity stake might even make the Paulson plan more palatable to the beleaguered American taxpayers.
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Sentido awarded Best New Product and Best of Show at CEDIA EXPO 2014
At CEDIA EXPO 2014 in Denver (CO), the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) and home automation magazine Residential Systems both honored Basalte's touch-sensitive switch Sentido. This wide recognition gives the Belgian company a head start in its first steps into the American market.
At CEDIA EXPO 2014 in Denver (CO), the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) and home automation magazine Residential Systems both honored Basalte's touch-sensitive switch Sentido. This wide recognition gives the Belgian company
For their Manufacturer's Excellence Awards, CEDIA formed a panel of home technology professionals that represent both the sales and installing branches of the home automation
Praising the innovative control and timeless design, the judges chose the Sentido keypad as
a Best New Product. The most important selection considerations were the technological
innovation of the product, its value to the technician and his business and how it benefits to the
client's lifestyle.
Additionally, a panel of anonymous professional integrator judges evaluated entries for the
Resi Best of Show Awards. Undercover visual inspections on the CEDIA EXPO show floor
convinced them of the added value Sentido brings to the American home.
Klaas Arnout, Managing Director of Basalte, is pleased with the international recognition. "As a
young company, we find it very important to structurally invest in innovation and design. These
awards serve as a huge motivation for our entire team."
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Sentido is a touch-sensitive keypad with a sleek and minimalistic European design that brings light
switches to enter a new era. "The separate touch-sensitive surfaces create a unique and easy way to
control various functions, such as lights, curtains and blinds." states Klaas Arnout. "Touching more
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multi-touch function makes light control highly intuitive and user friendly."
The use of high-grade materials not only results in a pure design. The wide variety of qualitative
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Each year, the North-American Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association organizes CEDIA EXPO. Yet again, this annual fair proved to be a vital venue for international home technology decision makers to connect and experience the latest and greatest the industry had to offer.
For the third year in a row, Basalte participated in CEDIA EXPO. Last year, the Belgian design company already wowed visitors with their sleek Eve frames for the Apple iPad. Now, Basalte introduces their touch-sensitive keypad Sentido in the American market in integration with Lutron® Homeworks QS.
In addition to Sentido, Basalte also launched new innovations to its Eve frame range. Next to the frames for all iPad generations, Basalte now also provides home automation system integrators with an elegant Eve frame for iPod touch. In home automation systems, the iPod touch can be used for a wide variety of applications for both residential and commercial purposes.
Finally, Basalte also launched their table base for the iPad Air. This elegant support for the Eve Air comes in two finishes: polished and brushed aluminum. Additionally, the table base comes in two versions, where each one is optimized for either landscape or portrait mode. Just like with Eve touch, the table stand can be used in both residential as commercial applications. For example in a kitchen to quickly review recipes or to register guests at a hotel reception desk.


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International Trade and Financial Integration: A Weighted Network Analysis
In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploit- ing network analysis. Our results show that, by combining binary and weighted network analysis, it is possible to deliver more precise and thorough insights on the topological structure and properties of the international trade and financial net- works (ITN and IFN). We find that the ITN is more densely connected than the IFN and that the degree of international financial integration varies with asset type. Our results also indicate that richer countries are better linked and form groups of tightly interconnected nodes. This can be seen as a sign of the persistent relevance of local relations. Yet, the growing importance of global links is testified by the disassortative feature of both the ITN and the IFN: poorly connected nodes tend to connect to central ones and use them as hubs to access the rest of the network.
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Vestige of Life
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Satake's grandparents left the house they had lived in for many years. It contains their memories as well as hers. There are the memories of her childhood, and many photographs taken by her father. Satake recorded the house everytime she visited and using these materials, she attempts to reconstruct her memory.


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West End Rotary steps us with 5th annual 5k Bear Run and Fun Walk
West End Rotary will hold its fifth annual 5k Bear Run and Fun Walk on Sunday, June 10 at Pleasant Valley High School in Brodheadsville. Registration starts at 8 a.m. The race starts at 9 a.m.
Awards will be given to the top overall male and female finisher as well as to the top three finishers in eight age groups. There will also be awards for the top three walkers.
The registration fee is $20 with discounts for students and families. Participants will receive a bag of incentives and gifts as well as a technical tee shirt in either a men's or women's size. There will also be a raffle drawing and refreshments after the race.
"When we started the Bear Run five years ago, it became an instant hit," said Race Director Kevin Noll. "The only local race in the Brodheadsville area has drawn many members from the immediate community. The race has a small town, homegrown feel to it, and Pleasant Valley makes for the perfect venue."
The race has also become popular since organizers added the walking option and student and family discounts. "We've had registrations from families of two, three and even four and more members. They like the idea that whether they walk or run the entire family can participate."
Proceeds from this year's event will benefit community projects as well as Girls on the Run, a nationwide program that encourages preteen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running.
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The Pro Race 3 cylinder is complemented perfectly by the single-ring piston by manufacturer Vertex, with a 47.6mm diameter and anti-wear graphite coating. A cylinder gasket kit and cylinder spacers for adjusting squish clearance are included.
The Metrakit 70cc Cylinder Kit "Pro Race 3" Derbi Euro 3 (D50B0) is definitely one of the most powerful 70cc kits; we recommend adding the Pro Race 70cc crankshaft and the Pro Race 3 exhaust to get a well-balanced set-up. We also recommend a 24mm or 28mm carburetor for even more power.
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Name "Metrakit Cylinder Kit ""Pro Race 3"" 70cc Derbi Euro 3 (D50B0)" Item No. MK800D2536 Brand Metrakit Homologation No Homologation No Displacement 70cc Stroke Original Conrod Length Standard Product Line Hyper racing Material Aluminium Engine Type 2-stroke Cooling Type LC Bore 47,6 mm Piston Pin Original Number of Piston Rings 1 Cylinder Head Included
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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for Pin Oak Charity Horse Show Association, Katy, TX, USA
Pin Oak Charity Horse Show has long been one of my favorite charities in Houston. I remember loving this "event" as a child growing up here. As luck and love would have it I came to be a volunteer with the charity. After volunteering with them for a year, they asked that I stepped up to be a Board member and I was thrilled. Over the past couple of years I have seen what Pin Oak does for the community in its own special way. People come from all over the nation to ride at this charity horse show and all the while all proceeds benefit Texas Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House. The children from local schools come out and tour the horse show and get to see all the actions. Pin Oak volunteers and Board Members plan art days and visits to the hospital during the year. Sometimes we even bring a long a miniature horse for their enjoyment. Having my own small children, I realize what kind of impact Pin Oak has on my medical community. Having a horse show which so many people have as their passion be beneficial to our children's well-being is wonderful. Pin Oak has been a pleasure to support and volunteer for over the past years. I am personally looking forward to watching it continue to grow and strengthen with time.
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The impact that they make in the hospital. Pin Oak Charity Horse Show was responsible for building Texas Children's Hospital. It continues to play a role in committed pledges and support of Texas Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House.
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Continue to seek more volunteers for year round support at all events. Get the word out that although the horse show is the catalyst for our donation a volunteer does not have to be a horse person to help out with the charity.


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Before adding a machine to an existing cluster, ensure that the node has all of the necessary hardware correctly installed and configured, including an operational physical connection to the private cluster interconnect.
For hardware installation information, refer to the Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS or the hardware documentation that shipped with your server.
This procedure enables a machine to install itself into a cluster by adding its node name to the list of authorized nodes for that cluster.
This procedure provides the long forms of the Sun Cluster commands. Most commands also have short forms. Except for the long and short forms of the command names, the commands are identical. For a list of the commands and their short forms, see Appendix A, Sun Cluster Object-Oriented Commands.
On a current cluster member, become superuser on a current cluster member.
Ensure that you have correctly completed all prerequisite hardware installation and configuration tasks listed in the task map for Adding a Cluster Node.
Start the clsetup utility.
# clsetup
The Main Menu is displayed.
Type the number that corresponds to the option for displaying the New Nodes Menu and press the Return key.
Type the number that corresponds to the option to modify the authorized list and press the Return key. Specify the name of a machine that can add itself.
Follow the prompts to add the node's name to the cluster. You are asked for the name of the node to be added.
Verify that the task has been performed successfully.
The clsetup utility prints a "Command completed successfully" message if it completes the task without error.
To prevent any new machines from being added to the cluster, type the number that corresponds to option to instruct the cluster to ignore requests to add new machines and press the Return key.
Follow the clsetup prompts. This option tells the cluster to ignore all requests over the public network from any new machine trying to add itself to the cluster.
Quit the clsetup utility.
Install and configure the software on the new cluster node.
Use either scinstall or JumpStartTM to complete the installation and configuration of the new node, as described in the Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS.
The following example shows how to add a node named phys-schost-3 to the authorized node list in an existing cluster.
[Become superuser and execute the clsetup utility.] # clsetup [Select New nodes>Specify the name of a machine which may add itself.] [Answer the questions when prompted.] [Verify that the scconf command completed successfully.] claccess allow -h phys-schost-3 Command completed successfully. [Select Prevent any new machines from being added to the cluster.] [Quit the clsetup New Nodes Menu and Main Menu.] [Install the cluster software.]
For an overall list of tasks for adding a cluster node, see Table 8–2, "Task Map: Adding a Cluster Node."
To add a node to an existing resource group, see the Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS.


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ELON � The sounds of rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles were commonplace for Toorialey Fazly.
Throughout his life, the land he called home had been torn by violence, first because of a Soviet invasion that lasted almost a decade, and later by a brutal civil war caused by local warlords hungry for power, which led to a NATO and U.S. intervention in 2001.
It was a reality most Afghans could not escape, and one that took some time for Fazly to leave behind, even when he was thousands of miles away in a small American town attending Elon University. There were nights during those first days when the smallest sound woke him up. He would listen quietly, ready to grab the knife he kept next to his pillow at his off-campus apartment. It was the only weapon he had. It was the environment he was raised in.
But that was four years ago. Dozens of eye-opening experiences later, Fazly is getting ready for life after college. He graduates Saturday from Elon with degrees in economics and international studies (with a concentration in the Middle East) and a new perspective on life. For what started as just a college stint became a life journey that has touched him � and those around him � in unexpected ways.
�If I summarize all my four years in a few words, I was living in a paradise,� Fazly says in confident English that still contains the traces of an accent. �It might sound like an exaggeration, but from what I�ve lived with, these four years have been about education � and a paradise.�
DESPITE ALL THE uncertainties that surrounded him throughout his life, Fazly never let fear define him. On the contrary, he defied it all his life. He defied it after his father fell sick when he was only 17 years old, forcing him to become the provider for his mother and younger siblings. He defied it when he left behind everything that was familiar for a chance to gain an education in the United States, and then again once here, when an accident almost took his life and left him with serious injuries.
�There is one philosophy that helps me with every problem in life,� Fazly says. �If I face a problem, I tell myself, �This is not the end of the world, this is not the dark night that you are living. Tomorrow there will be a bright day for you. Just be patient.��
He never doubted that one day he would attend an American university. In fact, he had been working for that opportunity since an early age. After the death of his father, Rahmuddin, Fazly considered leaving school to start working, something his mother, Raqiba, wouldn�t allow.
�It doesn�t matter how much we suffer; I don�t want you to leave learning, leave school,� he remembers her telling him. �Finish your education; education is key.�
And so he divided his time between school and work. He attended classes until noon and worked the rest of the day doing whatever was available � sorting almonds, painting houses. Throughout his middle and high school years, whenever schools were closed because of political unrest, his mother arranged for him to take private English classes and made sure he attended regardless of the circumstances.
He remembers one particular day, when he was in the sixth grade. He and a friend were returning home from English class when they heard the sound of bullets hitting the concrete wall they were walking alongside. They immediately hit the ground and hid in a ditch. When they got up, they discovered the body of a woman who had been walking just steps in front of them. The sight of her white dress covered in blood still haunts him. He was crying when he got home. His mother consoled him and sent him to school the next day.
Looking back, Fazly appreciates his mother�s determination, for it was his knowledge of the English language that helped him land a job after high school with an American company that provided law enforcement training to the Afghan police. The position led to a job as the scheduler for the president of Afghanistan.
By that time, Fazly had started taking classes at Kabul University and was looking for opportunities to go West. A trip to Washington as part of his government job opened the door he had been looking for. Through a series of fateful encounters, Fazly found out that Elon University was interested in admitting Afghan students. He applied and eventually received the Pavlov Endowed Scholarship, which is awarded to international students.
But the admission process wasn�t easy. Susan Klopman was Fazly�s first contact at Elon. Then vice president of admissions, she worked with him to get all his paperwork ready before he arrived in America. It was post-9/11, which meant new regulations and hurdles to jump.
�We were admitting a student from a country whose background was very difficult to verify,� she recalls. �I kept putting myself in his place. I�ve never mastered a second language, been alone in another country, suffered financial constraints, been uncertain about my future.�
Klopman decided to take a chance on this young man who, though older than most first-year students, was so intent on learning. Four years later, she is still happy she did.
�It was a learning experience,� she says. �He�s enormously brave to have done what he did, but he�s also an inspiration. He was willing to risk so much for an education.�
It didn�t take long for people to discover Fazly was not a typical first-year student, says Fran�is Masuka, who works with international students at Elon. He had world experience; he had been in the world of grown-ups. He was organized and more independent than regular students. He was older and didn�t need much assistance.
And so he was placed in a nearby apartment complex where he could have more privacy. Little did anybody know that decision was going to play a part in one of Fazly�s greatest challenges during his time at Elon.
ONLY 15 DAYS after arriving on campus, Fazly was riding his bike to class when he was struck by a car on West Lebanon Avenue in a hit-and-run incident that made major news in area media outlets because the driver, Robin Stanfield Ragsdale, had a history of similar events. He was taken to Duke Hospital by helicopter with a broken neck and leg. Masuka was one of the first people to meet him at the hospital.
�Usually, someone who was hit and had a broken vertebrae is in a panic,� he says. �But what I found is a relaxed patient. He was not under medication at the time. He was reassuring us that everything was OK. That�s not something you usually see in students.�
In March of 2011, Ragsdale entered a guilty plea in Alamance County Superior Court and was sentenced to 15 to 18 months in prison.
For Fazly, there was no other alternative but to be courageous and rely on his faith. There was no bitterness, no resentment.
�I�m a big believer in God, so I know God has always helped me, and no matter what, he would be with me all the time,� he says. �It was not easy, but I knew I would be fine, that I would be walking again. I knew that.�
That certainty allowed him to cope with the countless doctor visits and procedures that followed. It also led him to the decision not to tell his mother about the accident until he saw her face to face; he knew there was nothing she could do except worry.
When he went home that summer, he told her everything. He showed her a file with all his medical records. He showed her the X-rays and other reports detailing how they put screws on his head so he could wear a halo. She didn�t say anything, only cried. She was angry. The next morning, she thanked him for keeping the news from her.
Fazly not only survived the accident. He thrived after it. Before coming to Elon, he didn�t care whether people liked him. The devoted Muslim expected to encounter distrust or even hatred. Whatever happened, he was determined to finish his degree and make one or two friends along the way. What he didn�t expect was the level of love, attention and care he received.
�The Elon community became my family,� he says. �It became my second home, a beautiful home away from home.�
Fazly adapted well to Western culture, and to Elon�s in particular, says Carolynn Whitley, who works in the department of political science, where Fazly has spent countless hours in the past four years as a student, office worker and research assistant. He embraced differences. He welcomed interactions with people from different races, faiths, ethnicities and countries.
Phil Smith, then with the chaplain�s office, saw this firsthand as the two worked closely to provide more programs to Elon�s growing Muslim student population and as they developed more interfaith opportunities. Fazly was the first student to apply to the Better Together multifaith living-learning community. He was paired with Mason Sklut, epitomizing what the community was all about, Smith says � a Muslim from Afghanistan and a Jew from Charlotte, who lived together and learned from each other across and in spite of perceived cultural and religious boundaries.
All those interactions taught Fazly valuable lessons.
�They opened my eyes to see everything that I come across from a different perspective than the one I had before,� he says. �The education that I�ve received from Elon changed my whole life, and it put me on a different track.�
He even met the woman he will marry through Elon while studying abroad last spring in London, something that brings a smile to his face.
SOME MIGHT SAY Fazly got lucky. But if you ask him, he would tell you luck had nothing to do with it. Everything happens for a reason; nothing is coincidence. Everything happens through hard work, if you are willing to seize the opportunities that come your way.
�I believe that God gradually brightens up every morning, that God shows us a way to succeed and a way to victory,� he says. �My life has been like that as well.�
Fazly�s positive attitude has left an indelible mark on those with whom he has come in contact. He taught Masuka to be young at heart, not to worry too much or want to be in control of everything. Sometimes you have to let things go, Masuka says, and something good will come out of it. Klopman, on the other hand, has learned not to let fear control her, to boldly take the challenges ahead. �It�s been a great friendship, and I can�t wait to see what the future unfolds for him,� she says.
Fazly, too, is looking to the future. He already has a job lined up for after graduation, but longs to return to his country, just not right now. Things are uncertain for a person in his position � with ties to the previous government, educated in the West, looking for a unified Afghanistan. Still, he remains optimistic that the recent elections are a sign democracy will prevail and Afghans can build on the few but priceless achievements from the past 12 years, with the support of the international community.
Fazly sees himself working for an international organization or for his country in 10 years, living with his family in a house they can call their own, but above all, helping anyone who needs a hand. That�s just how he was raised. Even when things were tough at home, he managed to help those less fortunate than he.
�If I did it with empty hands,� he says, �with full hands I could do it better.�


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php_mt_seed finds possible seeds given the very first PHP mt_rand() output after possible seeding with mt_srand(). With advanced invocation modes, php_mt_seed is also able to match multiple, non-first, and/or inexact mt_rand() outputs to possible seed values. php_mt_seed is written in C with optional SIMD intrinsics (SSE4.1/AVX, XOP, AVX2, MIC) and OpenMP. On a modern quad-core CPU, it is able to search the full 32-bit seed space in one minute (or in just seven seconds on Xeon Phi).
phundament is a Yii module for implementing content management. It includes a widget manager for content management, CKeditor 3 with a custom file manager, an interface that can be customized with jQueryUI themes, user registration, widgets for HTML content, blog postings, submenus, and more. It is easy and efficient.
Pito is a set of C++0x header libraries to facilitate writing system call interceptor libraries based on LD_PRELOAD wrappers. The program "pito" is also provided for loading Unix commands with such wrappers. This system is capable of passing command line arguments to loaded plugins for easy configuration. Pito is supplied with a powerful system call sandbox library to prevent modifications to supplied filesystem locations and a system call logging library.
Pkviz is a tool for plotting and cycling through and animating a series of network packets captured by tcpdump. What makes it unique is that the packets' structure is visualized, not any labels and not time itself. Pkviz takes each byte in a packet and plots it out end-to-end, left-to-right, from the first byte to the last. How high the dot gets plotted depends on the value of the byte: bytes with a value of 0 are at the bottom and those which are 255 (0xff) – the maximum value of a byte – get plotted at the top. This might not be interesting for one packet, but that changes when you start looking at thousands of packets. Pkviz can cycle through thousands of packets in the set so you can see what happened on the wire.
plugdaemon is a load-balancing "plug" proxy. It allows you to forward TCP connections to one or multiple hosts, using load balancing or failover, and to route the connections through an HTTPS proxy. Access control is done by source interface or by originating IP. Outgoing connections can be bound to a specific IP address.
The Horde notes/memos application.
A flexible cellular automaton editor.


text: John F. Kerry – Secretary of State: "As we mark the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year, the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices highlight the continued pursuit of "free and equal dignity in human rights" in every corner of the world. Based on factual reporting from our embassies and posts abroad, these Congressionally mandated reports chronicle human rights conditions in almost 200 countries and territories. The reports draw attention to the growing challenges facing individuals and organizations as governments around the world fall short of their obligation to uphold universal human rights. I have seen firsthand how these reports are used by a wide range of actors – by Congress in its decision-making processes surrounding foreign security sector assistance and economic aid; by the Department of State and other U.S. government agencies in shaping American foreign policy; and by U.S. citizens, international nongovernmental organizations, foreign governments, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, scholars, and others who are committed to advancing human dignity. Governments that protect human rights and are accountable to their citizens are more secure, bolster international peace and security, and enjoy shared prosperity with stable democratic countries around the world. Countries that fail to uphold human rights can face economic deprivation and international isolation. Despite that simple truth, these reports show that too many governments continue to tighten their grasp on free expression, association, and assembly, using increasingly repressive laws, politically motivated prosecutions and even new technologies to deny citizens their universal human rights, in the public square, and in virtual space. This is evident in our report on Syria, where the government has committed egregious human rights violations in an ongoing conflict that has claimed more than 100,000 lives, displaced millions, and created an opening for violent extremists that continues to endanger regional stability and our own national security."


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Former District 54 state Rep. Suzanne Gratia-Hupp is the speaker for Wednesday's Central Texas Republican Women's dinner meeting at the Wildflower Country Club in Temple.
Her book, "From Luby's to the Legislature: One Woman's Fight Against Gun Control," will be available for purchase.
Registration begins at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. Program starts at 7 p.m. Dinner is $25 per person.
The meeting is open to the public, but reservations are required.
RSVP by calling Zenia Warren at (254) 526-9305 for reservations.


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That's some serious ram and storage space
by Ken on Jul.24, 2013, under General
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Ubuntu Edge Teased: Has 4 GB of RAM, 125 GB of Storage, Is Capable of Ubuntu and Android Dual Boot
Earlier this year, Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd showed us the upcoming version of Ubuntu OS which seems to be capable to bring an unified experience on tablets, PCs, and smartphones. Ubuntu…
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This looks interesting
by Ken on Apr.28, 2013, under General
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The design is nicknamed the 'sandwich'. Pretty apt given it looks yummy! #ubuntu
Is This The Coolest Ubuntu PC Ever Built?
German hardware company Cirrus7 are gearing up to release a new Ubuntu-powered PC. The aluminium-cased Cirrus7 Nimbus is tiny, measuring just 22cm x 22cm with a height a smidge over 5cm.
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My List of Useful Applications
by Ken on Feb.23, 2008, under Linux
An excellent site from what I've seen thus far. Thanks to "linuxtechie"
My List of Useful Applications
Posted by linuxtechie on January 5, 2008
I've decided to make a list of applications that I've found to be helpful/handy. Some of them may be little know, some may be well known. So without further ado:
This one isn't in the Ubuntu repos, but there's a repository on the home page. This has got to be the best Bluetooth manager for GTK. Coupled with many of the other Bluetooth utilities such as gnome-vfs-obexftp, this is a very powerful application. You can inquiry for devices, keep a list of favorites, send files, and even browse your device right through Nautilus.
I've found this to come in handy a lot. It's a little color chooser that lets you pick any color on your screen along with a ton of preset colors you can choose from.
sudo apt-get install gcolor2
More than once I've found myself disappointed by Sound Juicer. It doesn't have a whole lot of options and, for me at least, the resulting audio files came out very poor with lots of pops and click due to scratches. Then I found Grip. Grip is a very light weight yet highly configurable CD ripper. It can rip in many formats and, the best feature in my opinion, it has Paranoia. No it's not a suspicious application . It will detect and auto-correct any pops or clicks during the encoding process that result from the unavoidable CD scratches. After ripping a few CDs with Grip I was very pleased with the outcome. Not a single pop or click.
sudo apt-get install grip
Brasero is the official Gnome CD burning application. Previously I've used Gnomebaker but now I've switched to Brasero. Brasero is the up and coming CD burning application. Sadly the Gnomebaker project appears to be dying. It's capable of multi-session data CDs, auio CDs, copying CDs, burning CD images, and erasing CD-RWs. I've seemed to have better luck with Brasero than with Gnomebaker or the Nautilus CD burner.
sudo apt-get install brasero
Sound Converter
Ever needed to quickly convert an audio file? This is a great application for just that. It can convert the most common audio file types. The application is pretty much straight forward. I've found it to come in handy a lot of times.
sudo apt-get install soundconverter
Gnome Schedule
Gnome Schedule is a little graphical front end to Cron. It's very useful if you need to run something at a certain time. You can schedule events recurrently or one time only.
sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule
Nautilus Image Converter
This is another very useful little app. Nautilus Image Converter is a little extension for Nautilus that lets you resize and rotate images. A lot of times I've needed to resize an image and found opening the Gimp a bit overkill for that. Now I can just right click on an image and resize or rotate it in seconds.
sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter
This is a great little app. It just like Top only it shows a lot more information. You can sort processes by different categories, kill processes and much more.
sudo apt-get install htop
Conky is a very light weight, highly configurable system monitor. I've found Conky to be extremely handy. I love having all my system stats right on my screen at all times. It's very easy to catch any run away process. There's a huge thread in the Ubuntu forums full of people's conkyrc files. I feel lost without Conky
sudo apt-get install conky
Gmountiso is very useful for mounting .iso images. Ubuntu can do this natively through the terminal, however if you don't know the commands this is a very helpful application.
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I want to calculate the average, median, mode and range of some numbers. It's supposed to read the numbers from a file.
The file got:
I am stuck with the average.....Code:int numbers[]={53,2,3,5,59,7,11,13,17,41,53,41,19,23,29,31,53,7,37,53,41,43,47,53}
Gives me an error for the "while {" line. No idea if this would work. anyway. Any input is appreciated.Code:#include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #include <fstream> using namespace std; int main() { int average; int median; int mode; int range; int numbers; ifstream inFile; inFile.open("C:\Users\Sven\Desktop\data_for_proj1.txt"); if (!inFile) { cout << "Unable to open file"; exit(1); // terminate with error } average = numbers /24; inFile.close(); cout << "The average is: " << average << endl; return 0; }
I just edited the while out. Now it should be better...I guess. But it still gives me tis error:
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Not quite SLR question...
This is not really an Olympus SLR thread but it's for a good cause and I know everyone here knows what they're taking about so please indulge me:
My girlfriend and I are in the early planning stages of a trip through the centre of Australia (which I'm eagerly waiting to photograph :). She's studying Australian and indigenous history and so we were planning on visiting some rather remote aboriginal settlements that some of her former classmates are working in which I also thought would be great photographic opportunities... Anyhow, knowing a little about what is like to grow up in a quiet country town (though nothing this remote) I'm pretty sure the kids will be quite interested, particularly at the school we are visiting and I thought rather than just taking photos I could get the kids taking some photos too.
My plan is basically to get some second hand half decent point and shoots for the kids that I can show them how to use / teach them a little about photography with and then leave at the school or community centre when we leave. I'm quite curious to see what they will be interested in and photograph and the idea is that some of the photos will make it back to my girlfriends uni for all the interested students to get a bit of an idea about what life is like for the kids up north in as well as just being a nice idea for the kids themselves.
So my question is what relatively cheap cameras would be best for this?
So far I've decided that tough cameras are the go since they will be living somewhere hot, very dusty and in the care of school kids. Also with standard ports and memory cards, so mini usb for recharge and data and SD or micro SD cards. Also ideally I would get several identical or nearly identical cameras so the kids and teacher only have to learn one set of menus and controls.
I'm thinking the Olympus tough series cameras would fit the bill but I would love some input from everyone on what might work better, other possible requirements or any tips or hints they can think of.
The reason I'm thinking second hand is simply so I can get a few more (plus they would be hard to return for warranty 1000kms from the nearest camera shop) but if there's a reason to buy new then that's fine too. There's several months to go so plenty of time to eBay yet but at the moment I'm not quite sure what I'm after.
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Prevention and Screening
Information about the pap test (smear), interpreting results and follow up testing, including colposcopy.
Information about HPV and it's role in cancer development.
Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure and Cone Biopsy are procedures used to remove abnormal, pre-cancerous, or cancerous cells from the cervix.
An interview with Dr. Christina Chu regarding HPV vaccination.