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"Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time." Winston Churchill
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Who killed the grown-up?
Scott has commented about Diana West's excellent new book The Death of the Grown-Up. Diana's basic argument is that we have become a nation of perpertual adolescents. We can't say no and we don't know right from wrong (or, what is almost the same, to the extent that we do know we refuse to insist on this knowledge). This state of affairs caused the "conservative" side to lose the so-called »
UCLA violates California's ban on racial discrimination
California law (Proposition 209) prohibits the use of race as a factor in, among other things, admission to public universities. If this article in the New York Times Magazine by David Leonhardt is accurate, UCLA is violating California law. It's doing so by preferring African-American applicants under the guise of preferring low income students. We know that these preferences are racially based because, according to Leonhardt, as low income black »
He who laughs last
Hillary Clinton has a chilly disposition and a chilling laugh. Starting with the Sunday talk show circuit last Sunday, she put the laugh on display in a big way. What is it about that cackle? In today's New York Times, Patrick Healy treats it as a subject deserving of serious attention. On the one hand, the laugh signifies Clinton's effort to simulate a normal person. On the other hand, it »
"Battlespace Preparation"
We noted here and here the phony attacks on Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly by "Media Matters," a Soros-financed cog in the Clinton machine. These attacks were completely without merit, yet they garnered a remarkable amount of play in the mainstream media. Glenn Reynolds connects the dots between these scurrilous attacks and the 2008 election: IT'S NOT A "SMEAR" — it's better understood as "battlespace preparation." And the target is »
The Dreaded "Religious Right" Rears Its Head
Salon reports breathlessly that the "Religious right may blackball Giuliani." This is, of course, the kind of headline that liberals delight in; it reflects their conviction that the Republican Party is dominated by a sinister cabal of Christians. That's an odd way to think of Christians, in my opinion, but there you have it. The actual story is less dramatic than Salon's headline. A meeting of the Council for National »
Bombs Away?
The Guardian has an entertaining account of John Bolton's speech before a Conservative Party gathering in England. The article is titled "Bolton calls for bombing of Iran," and it sounds like that's more or less accurate: "I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is. "Because life is about choices, I think we have to »
Combat Deaths Continue to Drop
It looks as though September will have the lowest U.S. death toll in Iraq in 14 months. September also represents the fourth consecutive monthly decline in deaths of U.S. service personnel. It seems remarkable that a strategy involving a more aggressive use of a larger number of troops could result in fewer fatalities, but that appears to be the case. I don't know how to explain it other than by »
The Columbia outtakes
Filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's "Indoctrinate U" premiered in Washington this past Friday at the Kennedy Center via American Film Renaissance. In advance of the premiere Deroy Murdock profiled Maloney in "Move over, Michael Moore." Also of note regarding the film are the Washington-based Express's interview with Maloney and Bill Steigerwald's interview with Thor Halvorssen. While filming "Indoctrinate U," Maloney attempted to interview Columbia students on campus. He was stopped by »
Young guns of the House GOP
I meant last week to get to the Weekly Standard articles on the young members of the House Republican leadership including Fred Barnes's profile of "The leader," House chief deputy minority whip Eric Cantor. Over the past few years that I have seen Cantor speak in Minneapolis, I'd been wondering when someone in the national media was going to take note of this obviously rising star. I wrote briefly about »
Hollywood: A Bronx cheer for, round 5
In round 5 of the dust-up between Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein in the Los Angeles Times over Hollywood politics, Ehrenstein shows up but otherwise throws in the towel. Andrew looks back on the week's exchange with Ehrenstein and lobs a few parting provocations in the form of an Academy Award acceptance speech. Andrew's performance should give heart to those in the business who share his views that they have »
A phony convergence
Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post has written a piece called "For a Democrat, Options in Iraq Could Be Few," in which he suggests that the vision of the leading Democratic presidential contenders may not "differ markedly from that of the Bush administration." I suppose it's possible that one or more of the three leading contenders would pursue the Bush administration's policy of using our troops to crush terrorist and »
He wasn't supposed to take it personally
Justice Clarence Thomas has written an autobiography called My Grandfather's Son. The book ends with his swearing in as a Supreme Court Justice. It covers in detail Thomas's confirmation hearings, in which he was accused at the last minute of sexually harassing Antia Hill years earlier. Hill had not complained about Thomas's behavior at the time or for years thereafter (there was no mention of any of this when Thomas »
Best line of the day
From columnist Paul Greenberg, a long-time observer of the Clintons: Whenever I grow soft on the new Hillary Clinton — the termperate, moderate, responsible senator who does her homework, ably represents her constituents, and respects those who may disagree with her — it occurs to me that maybe I'm just engaging in the willing suspension of disbelief. I used to fall for every new Nixon, too. »
Duke Apologizes
Earlier today, Duke President Richard Brodhead apologized for his, and Duke's, failure to support the three falsely accused lacrosse players: "Given the complexities of this case, getting the communication right would never have been easy," Brodhead said. "But the fact is that we did not get it right, causing the families to feel abandoned when they were most in need of support. This was a mistake. I take responsibility for »
No Newt Is Good News
Just days after sounding as though he would likely jump into the Presidential race, Newt Gingrich announced today that he is out. His spokesman said that Newt will not run in 2008, because it will not be legally possible for him to explore a Presidential bid while continuing to run his nonprofit organization, American Solutions. This rationale seems odd in a couple of respects, but I think Gingrich's decision is »
How the left lies; one more example
Responding to another Hillary Matters smear, this one of Bill O'Reilly and this one dutifully regurgitated by CNN/MSNBC, Juan Williams speaks up to explain "What Bill O'Reilly really told me." Williams and O'Reilly also discuss the smear in the video below. Juan Williams's most recent book (the occasion of his appearance on O'Reilly's radio show) is Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black »
In search of realistic realists
Unrealistic realists such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and John Mearsheimer think Iran a conventional power that can be deterred by mutual assured destruction. They do not seriously attend to the most obvious features of the Iranian regime, such as words spoken and deeds done. Caroline Glick examines the message of Ahmadinejad's speeches during his visit to New York this week. Glick notes the inattentiveness of the media to Ahmadinejad's words and »


text: Cure the data deluge by keeping it simple By Christopher Hosford. Published on February 19, 2013. Marketers increasingly feel pressured to look into Big Data, unified databases and developing a "360-degree view" of their customers. But faced with the enormous onslaught of questions that brings about, some observers are suggesting that marketers should reframe their goals. "The data is ugly, overwhelming," said Sandra Zoratti, VP-marketing at imaging and electronics company Ricoh Co. "No one knows how to tackle it and nobody wants to. Every company tells me two things: One, that they don't have the data. But everyone has the data. And two, that they're doing analytics but aren't applying them. We're data-rich but insight-poor." Zoratti said to avoid being overwhelmed it's best to start simply. In a previous position—as VP-global solutions marketing at InfoPrint Solutions, a joint venture between Ricoh and IBM Corp.—Zoratti worked with hotel chain Best Western International on its direct response marketing. Best Western, with more than 4,000 hotels in 80 countries, owned so much customer data that "we honestly were so overwhelmed by all the things we could do that we just had to say, "Stop,' " she said. In response, Zoratti's team developed a 30-day fall promotion and set it up on a mere spreadsheet. A statistical test was performed on two types of content, one set that was "dynamic" and tailored based on prospect data, with the control group receiving static content. Delivered to 100,000 recipients, the half receiving the dynamic content showed a 30% improvement in revenue, 39% uptick in the number of stays and a 500% increase in applications for a Best Western MasterCard. "This was our first foray into data-driven marketing 101, and the results blew us away," Zoratti said. "Importantly, Big Data means taking small steps. If you don't figure out the first step, you can't figure out the journey." "Big Data means taking small steps," she said. "If you don't figure out the first step, you can't figure out the journey." Reinforcing the need for simplification is the state of marketers' data itself, according to Experian QAS' "Data Quality and Customer Experience" report issued last month. The online survey, conducted in December, polled 804 executives and managers who focus on data management. The results: More than 90% of respondents suspected their customer and prospect data might be inaccurate, that they have duplicate data within their systems and that they've been negatively affected as a result of contact data-accuracy issues. "The first thing that grabbed me was the percentage of our customers who knew they have data-quality issues," said Tom Schutz, senior VP-general manager at Experian QAS. "The idea of a "360-degree view' of the customer is jargon. Big Data is a broader term, designed to dial things down and understand your constituency in a more sophisticated manner." Lattice Engines is a Big Data marketing company that offers a number of predictive analytics solutions. But Shashi Upadhyay, Lattice CEO, agreed that even when marketers are armed with the best technology available, the notion of a perfect, one-to-one understanding of each customer may be far-fetched. "That's the core problem with Big Data," Upadhyay said. "Nobody has stepped in and said, "What does a marketer actually have to do, and how do we make it easy for him?' " As for the 360-degree idea, Upadhyay said, "At best it's a 180-degree view of the customer; but who really needs to know everything about the customer? For example, the biggest predictor of churn is whether someone is using your product or not. If you can see who's using the product every day, you can create a nice dashboard of who's likely to churn." Stephen Guerra, director-vertical market at LexisNexis Group, said he thinks that the long-sought-after "complete" view of the customer is simply not obtainable. "We have found that the more choices we give our marketing customers about accessing the 300 million contacts in our database, the less they use the system," said Guerra, speaking at the Direct Marketing Association's Email Evolution conference in Miami Beach this month. "So we ask them to tell us big questions, or just one—such as, "Who is most likely over the next few years to switch insurance companies?'—and pose it in human language." Often it's the basics that matter most—and are neglected just as often, according to a study by contact list-building company NetProspex Inc. Its "B2B Marketing Data Benchmark Report" released last month, analyzed the company's customer and prospect databases containing more than 100 million contacts throughout 2012, grading such areas as record duplication, record completeness, phone connectability and email deliverability. The assessment found that more than 50% of companies had an overall data health score below 2.7 on a 5-point scale, putting their data firmly in the category of "unreliable" or "risky." "The Big Data word is daunting," Ricoh's Zoratti said. "But do we have to know all the data? No. Just start with one campaign with a single overarching goal, such as acquisition, retention or reactivation. Limit the data you have, and set up a test. Start bare-bones, and take it forward from there." Most Popular In this article: BtoB

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SAP Mentors Program Frequently Asked Questions
What is the SAP Mentors Program?
The SAP Mentors Program is a global advocacy program that identifies and recognizes exceptional and high-value members of the larger SAP ecosystem.
Who is an SAP Mentor?
An SAP Mentor is someone who is a top community influencer of the SAP Ecosystem. Most of the approximately 160 mentors work for customers or partners of SAP. All of them are hands-on experts of an SAP product or service, as well as excellent champions of community-driven projects. SAP Mentors have the following attributes:
- Expertise in an SAP product or service
- Collaborative attitude
- Good communication skills
- Employed at a partner or customer of SAP
- Interested in improving products and services of SAP (as well as the relationship of SAP with its customers, partners, and prospects)
- Proactive engagement
See the SAP Mentor Magic Foundation to learn more about these attributes.
What do SAP Mentors do?
SAP Mentors engage in collaborative activities in their area(s) of expertise that proactively improve or influence products and services of SAP. They also encourage and foster the relationships between SAP and its customers, partners, and prospects.
How does one become an SAP Mentor?
- SAP Community members can nominate their peers to become SAP Mentors.
- After nomination, a selection process takes place 2-3 times a year by the SAP Mentors Advisory Board (a representative group of SAP Mentors).
- Shortly after the nomination process, new SAP Mentors are announced.
- Every year, each Mentor's voluntary contributions from the last 12 months are reviewed and evaluated. The SAP Mentors Program requires quality, quantity, and level of impact of those contributions to the larger SAP ecosystem. As SAP considers its Mentors to be top community influencers, we are careful to ensure that each and every one meets these high standards.
- The SAP Mentor status can be revoked before the year is up.
What are the benefits of being an SAP Mentor?
SAP Mentors are offered unique opportunities to access SAP senior management as well as early access to information on products and programs. In addition, Mentors enjoy greater visibility in the online communities and at SAP events such as SAP Tech Ed and SAPPHIRE NOW Mentor benefits include the following:
- Recognition as an SAP expert
- Icon next to their name in the SAP Community Network profile
- Invitation to SAP events
- VIP Access to SAP information
- Private SAP Mentors collaboration group
- SAP Mentor only webinars with SAP subject matter experts, SAP executives, and decision- makers
- VIP Seating at SAP TechEd and SAPPHIRE NOW


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NSA Concerns Give Chinese Server Maker a Boost
Inspur Is Taking Market Share From IBM, Other U.S. Rivals in China in Wake of Snowden Revelations
BEIJING—A Chinese company that once made computer accessories is seeking to rival International Business Machines Corp. as a top provider of big-ticket computer servers in China.
Its strategy, in part: Bring up Edward Snowden.
Inspur Group Co. is using Chinese worries about U.S. gear as part of its effort to take market share from IBM, Hewlett-Packard...


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The Bearkat football team rolled into the NCAA Division I Championship game with a 14-0 record and a No. 1 national ranking.
The baseball team climbed as high as No. 20 in the national polls, winning the Southland Conference regular season championship. The team followed up with an at-large berth in the 2012 NCAA Baseball Championships, reaching the finals of the Houston Region.
The women's bowling team again earned a high national ranking and basketball, volleyball, soccer, softball, tennis and track and field all saw post-season success.
"Definitely, it was a great year to be a Bearkat," Sam Houston State director of athletics Bobby Williams said. "Since men's basketball won its first Southland Conference championship in 2000, we've had a lot of success in our 17 sports programs.
"But this season the three big home football playoff victories and baseball earning its first national top 25 ranking have been a catalyst to bring excitement about Bearkat athletics to an all-time high."
In the 13 seasons since the 1999-2000 school year, Sam Houston State has won 16 regular season conference championships, six Southland post-season tournament titles and made 11 NCAA tournament appearances.
The Bearkats became the first and only team to win the Southland Conference Commissioner's Cup (symbolic of the league's men's and women's combined all-sports leadership) three years in a row (2005, 2006, 2007). Sam Houston also won two Southland Men's All-Sports cups (2000, 2007).
By contrast, during the 1990s, the Kats won seven league championships, made four NCAA playoff trips and won two post-season league tournaments.
"We've been fortunate to hire a group of talented coaches who have recruited quality young men and women to represent our university," Williams said. "We've also had outstanding leadership from our university administration providing the support necessary to achieve on the field."
The 2011-12 season began with the Sam Houston rolling to 14 consecutive football victories and its first out-right Southland football title. The Bearkats were the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoff and advanced to the National Championship Game in Frisco.
Record crowds saw the Bearkats defeat Stony Brook, Montana State and Montana in NCAA playoff games at Elliott T. Bowers Stadium. And millions more watched on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3.
Men's basketball made its 10th consecutive Southland Conference post-season appearance. The women's basketball team played in the Women's Basketball Invitational. The softball team was runner-up in both the Southland regular season standings and the tournament. Women's bowling earned a No. 9 national ranking. Women's tennis, volleyball and soccer all reached the semifinals of their respective league post-season tournaments.
Baseball put the cap on a great year by winning its first Southland regular season title since 1989. The diamond crew took the title in spectacular fashion, winning 10 of their 11 league weekend series with three conference sweeps. The team tied the record for Southland wins in one season (24) and posted a 13-game winning streak that was the longest in the program's NCAA Division I history.
The baseball team equaled its best finish in an NCAA Regional by knocking off No. 1 seed Rice in the semifinals to earn the program's second regional finals appearance.
"It's a big achievement to reach the NCAA as the post-season tournament champion, but when you can get an at-large bid, that speaks volumes about where your program is," Williams said. "It shows the respect the program has nationally and the success we've had against the quality teams we play."
With all the success, Bearkats in all the sports received post-season honors. Willie Fritz and David Pierce were named as Southland Conference "Coach-of-the-Year" in football and baseball, respectively. Ten Bearkat student-athletes received All-America recognition and 37 were named All-Southland Conference.
"It's amazing what football, basketball and baseball can do for an athletic department and the university," Williams said. "All sports are important and we have 17 quality programs. But football, basketball and baseball are so high-profile. When they have success, it takes everyone to another level."
The most exciting aspect of the winning marks in so many of the sports programs is that almost all of the teams fielded young squads dominated by underclassmen. Football, for example, returns 50 lettermen this fall. Baseball lost only five players from its roster.
The athletic department also continues to improve its physical plant. Current projects include replacing the chair back seats for the 2012 football season and are in the process of securing funding for new video boards for the football, basketball, softball and baseball facilities.
Williams said other projects he would like to have completed within the next five years include an athletic/alumni events center, a renovated press box for Bowers Stadium, an indoor practice facility and a sports complex containing facilities for soccer and tennis.
"Hopefully, the success that all of our programs are getting will grow our alumni base as far as donations and ticket sales so we can build these facilities within the next five years," Williams said.


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From July 16 to July 22, the Jamestown Police Department responded to 500 calls for service. Of those calls, officers performed 243 security checks of vacant homes, businesses and public buildings.
The police also responded to 17 medical or fire calls, four automobile accidents, six animal complaints resulting in one citation being issued, 11 parking complaints and seven alarms. There were 64 traffic stops, resulting in 11 traffic citations being issued. Eight of the tickets were issued by officers assigned to a state enforcement campaign.
Donel Pemberton, 26, of Girard Avenue, Newport, was charged July 18 with a warrant issued by the U.S. Marshals. Police Chief Ed Mello said he recognized Pemberton from a photograph from the U.S. Marshals, who earlier alerted Mello that Pemberton may be in the area. Mello arrested the defendant as he approached a bus stop near Davis Street. Pemberton was transported to the police station where he was later released to the custody of U.S. Marshals.
Marco V. Delvecchio, 18, of Cobblestone Terrance, Coventry, was charged July 21 with driving with an expired license. According to police, Delvecchio was stopped for speeding on Route 138. He was issued a court summons and released. A court date was scheduled for Aug. 2 at 2nd Division District Court in Newport.


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Alright, "Star Trek" fans, the wait is over — the wait to download the new "Star Trek" app, that is.
With only about 100 days until J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek Into Darkness" opens in theaters (but really who's counting?), the new app is now available for free download in the U.S. and Canada for iOS and Android at Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store.
Designed to appeal to hard-core "Trek" fans and more casual users, the "Star Trek" app comes with between 30-40 missions, with eight to 10 available at any given point and the option to skip missions that don't seem especially interesting. New missions will become available every week.
Some missions will involve scavenger hunts, such as finding and scanning the latest "Star Trek Into Darkness" poster or visiting an AMC theater; some tasks will use an audio scan function to recognize when users are watching "Star Trek" content on TV or elsewhere and reward them with points. Some tasks will only be able to be completed inside certain areas.
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The app also aggregates news articles about "Star Trek Into Darkness," in addition to offering access to exclusive interviews and photos as well as extended versions of trailers and movie clips.
Hero Complex got an early look at the app, sitting down at Paramount with director of product development Mitch Lusas, for a guided tour of what looks to be a fun foray into Abrams' universe.
"This app is like the Star Fleet Academy," Lusas said. "You start off as a cadet, and you complete these missions. As you complete each mission, it will disappear and a new mission will come up. You'll advance in your rank, you'll unlock content and there will be some other exclusive things that will come up as well."
"The higher you get in your rank, the more content you will actually unlock," Lusas continued, "things like potentially extended versions of some videos we might be releasing. We'll also have some information that's exclusive coming to this app."
Like, say, details about the top-secret villain Benedict Cumberbatch will play, the man now known as John Harrison?
"For people who are diehards, they're going to find hints in here," Lusas said. "There are going to be hints. His character is fun."
The launch coincides with Sunday's Super Bowl game; a new extended trailer is set to debut during the second quarter of the game.
Starting late last year, Paramount began steadily releasing new material — a poster, a teaser, a trailer, the first nine minutes of the film — to help stoke excitement among fans for Abrams' follow-up to his 2009 big screen reboot of the beloved sci-fi franchise.
The news that Abrams will now be taking the helm on an upcoming "Star Wars" movie in addition to his "Trek" duties certainly made the filmmaker an even hotter topic of conversation in the genre world, though not everyone was overjoyed by the idea that one man could hold such sway in both universes.
Still, Abrams has earned plenty of goodwill from fans who enjoyed his big-screen reboot of the beloved television and movie series. With 2009's "Star Trek," he won over a new generation of audiences with a broadly entertaining and accessible take on Gene Roddenberry's venerable cast of characters — and satisfied hard-core fans by creating a place for Leonard Nimoy to appear as Spock alongside Zachary Quinto's new take on the beloved Vulcan.
Lusas is confident that "Star Trek Into Darkness" will live up to the hype.
"I can say this, J.J., he's got a great story," he said. "I think fans are going to love it. Being a Trekkie, I'm super stoked. He's able to give attention to every one of the characters and then create some really great plots. This one, it's going to be a really great film."
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Candidates for the presidency should be thoroughly vetted. That is why voters deserve full disclosure of how Mitt Romney's wealth was accumulated and invested, his offshore investments and the nature of his financial relationship with Bain Capital since his retirement. This information goes to the core of Romney's character and values.
The Republican presidential candidate and former governor released 20 years of tax returns when he was vetted for the vice presidency in 2008 before John McCain picked Sarah Palin. In his 2012 bid for the presidency, Romney has made public his 2010 tax return and expects to release his yet-to-be-completed 2011 return.
But Romney's refusal to release his tax returns for the most important years of building his wealth at Bain Capital raises a legitimate concern: Did he build his wealth through aggressive tax strategy that is questionable at best?
Romney's financial affairs lack transparency by design. President Obama fought for tax reforms eliminating special loopholes for the wealthiest, to pay down the deficit and protect the middle class, yet Romney is comfortable exploiting those loopholes, while on the stump he is promoting tax cuts.
• On his recent trip abroad, Romney skipped Italy, for good reasons. Bain Capital, with Romney as CEO, made about $1 billion in a leveraged (minimal cash outlay – low-risk) buyout of an Italian company. Bloomberg News reported that Bain funneled its profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate way to avoid taxes in other European countries. The buyer, Italy's biggest telephone company, now is valued way below what it paid Bain and other investors for the business. The shock waves of this transaction are still felt in Italy.
• In Romney's self-directed individual retirement account, he used heavy leveraging and a "blocking company," thereby avoiding the "unrelated business income tax" normally imposed on such gains in IRAs. His IRA's growth to $100 million is astounding in light of contribution limits of $30,000 annually. On its face, the IRA was likely funded in part with stock shares valued well below market.
• Presidential candidates generally avoid betting the U.S. dollar will lose value by speculating in Swiss francs. Yet such speculation was the stated purpose of Romney's "blind" trust Swiss bank account, which was closed in early 2010. Was the income reported on earlier tax returns? Did Romney timely file disclosure forms to the Treasury Department?
• Romney's large accounts held in "family trusts" raise the question whether gift taxes were paid and required disclosures were made.
• Romney's apparent disdain for tax obligations is clear from his role in Marriott International's abusive tax shelter activities. From 1993 to 1998, Romney was head of the audit committee of the Marriott board of directors, with responsibilities that included tax planning. The so-called "Son of Boss" tax shelter helped Marriott sell $81 million of mortgage notes, reporting a $71 million "tax loss." Romney was an insider with perspective on the motivation and lack of substance in the transaction, fully understanding the tax avoidance game. Romney reportedly was the board member most familiar with the transaction.
This shelter, used by Marriott and others, represented one of the largest tax-avoidance schemes in history, costing the U.S. billions in lost tax revenues. In 2008, the U.S. Federal Court of Claims ruled against Marriott, which appealed and lost again. The appeals court sided with the Department of Justice, calling Marriott's transactions "fictitious," "artificial," "spectral," an "illusion" and a "scheme."
Voters should know if Romney has done any more than take advantage of legitimate tax breaks not available to common folks.
Maria Magers Roberts retired from the U.S. Treasury Regional Counsel's Office of Appeals after 30 years. She worked on settlement of disputed tax cases, both corporate and individual. She lives in Park City.


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Lays the foundation for new methods and applications of carbohydrate click chemistry
Introduced by K. Barry Sharpless of The Scripps Research Institute in 2001, click chemistry mimics nature, giving researchers the tools needed to generate new substances quickly and reliably by joining small units together. With contributions from more than thirty pioneering researchers in the field, this text explores the many promising applications of click chemistry in glycoscience. Readers will learn both the basic concepts of carbohydrate click chemistry as well as its many biomedical applications, including synthetic antigens, analogs of cell–surface receptors, immobilized enzymes, targeted drug delivery systems, and multivalent cancer vaccines.
Click Chemistry in Glycoscience examines a broad range of methodologies and strategies that have emerged from this rapidly evolving field. Each chapter describes new approaches, ideas, consequences, and applications resulting from the introduction of click processes. Divided into four sections, the book covers:
- Click chemistry strategies and decoupling
- Thio–click chemistry of carbohydrates
- Carbohydrate click chemistry for novel synthetic targets
- Carbohydrate click chemistry in biomedical sciences
Thoroughly researched, the book reflects the most recent findings published in the literature. Diagrams and figures throughout the book enable readers to more easily grasp complex concepts and reaction processes. At the end of each chapter, references lead to the primary literature for further investigation of individual topics.
The application of click chemistry to carbohydrates has tremendous implications for research. With this book as their guide, researchers have a solid foundation from which they can develop new methods and applications of carbohydrate click chemistry, including new carbohydrate–based therapeutics.
FOREWORD vii
PREFACE ix
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii
1 Paradigm and Advantage of Carbohydrate Click Chemistry Strategy for Future Decoupling 3Roman Bielski and Zbigniew J. Witczak
2 Thio–Click Chemistry in Glycoscience: Overview and Perspectives 33Zbigniew J. Witczak
3 Free–Radical Thiol–ene and Thiol–yne Couplings as Click Processes for Glycoconjugation 45Alessandro Dondoni and Alberto Marra
4 The Development and Application of Clickable Lipid Analogs for Elucidating and Harnessing Lipid Functions 79Michael D. Best
5 Clicking Sugars onto Sugars: Oligosaccharide Analogs and Glycoclusters on Carbohydrate Scaffolds 107Maria Laura Uhrig and Jos´e Kovensky
6 Click Multivalent Glycomaterials: Glycoclusters, Glycodendrimers, Glycopolymers, Hybrid Glycomaterials, and Glycosurfaces 143Carmen Ortiz Mellet, Alejandro M´endez–Ardoy, and Jos´e Manuel Garc´©¥a Fern´andez
7 Toward Imaging Glycotools by Click Coupling 183Yves Chapleur, Christine Vala, Franc¸oise Chr´etien, and Sandrine Lamand´e–Langle
8 Bioorthogonal Reactions for Labeling Glycoconjugates 211Fr´ed´eric Friscourt and Geert–Jan Boons
9 Sweet Sucrose Macrocycles via a Click Chemistry Route 235Mykhaylo A. Potopnyk and S©©awomir Jarosz
10 Neoglycoprotein Synthesis Using the Copper–Catalyzed Azide Alkyne Click Reaction and Native Chemical Ligation 253Joanna M. Wojnar, Dong Jun Lee, Clive W. Evans, Kalyaneswar Mandal, Stephen B. H. Kent, and Margaret A. Brimble
11 Biomedical Applications of Click –Modified Cyclodextrins 271Zhenshan Jia, Rakesh K. Singh, and Dong Wang
12 Triazolyl Glycoconjugates in Medicinal Chemistry 293Rama Pati Tripathi, Pratibha Dwivedi, Anindra Sharma, Divya Kushwaha, and Vinod Kumar Tiwari
13 Click Chemistry Applied to Carbohydrate–Based Drug Discovery 325Vanessa Leiria Campo and Ivone Carvalho
ZBIGNIEW J. WITCZAK, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University. He has published over ninety research papers and holds six patents. His research focuses on carbohydrate synthons, including levoglucosenone and L–arabinose, as templates for carbohydrate–based therapeutics. In 2000, Dr. Witczak was awarded the Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry.
ROMAN BIELSKI, PhD, is Senior Scientist at Value Recovery, Inc., Partner in Cheminnolab, LLC, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wilkes University. His research investigates the origin of homochirality, modification of carbohydrates, solutions to environmental issues, and sustainability. As part of his achievements, Dr. Bielski co–developed a method of enantiomers′ resolution, which might have been involved in prebiotic homochirality, since it would not require the use of chiral compounds.


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Severe periodontal disease: Take a moment to lift the lip
DVM: Will you describe the characteristics of severe periodontal disease in dogs and cats?
Harvey: The major characteristic of severe periodontal disease is the reaction of the body to plaque and calculus buildup. The longer extensive buildups are present, then the more likely it is that there will be not just gingivitis – inflammation of the tissue – but a more harmful response where the body's own tissues are melting away as a result of the inflammation. That is the problem with severe periodontal disease. If you eliminate the plaque and calculus, then you can stop the inflammation. Meanwhile, there may not be a mechanically stable tooth in place.But the local immune response is different between individuals so that one dog may have a lot of calculus buildup on it's teeth and have very little signs of infection, while another dog may have a lesser amount of calculus present, but the teeth may already be loose.
This points to the need for, and the value of, a routine visual examination which I hope would be done any time a pet comes in for any reason. It takes only a moment to simply lift the lip to see what's going on with the upper teeth – those are more likely to be severely affected in animals with periodontal disease. It gives you an excellent sense of what's going on in the mouth. If what you see is disease and a lot of calculus then, clearly, there is need for some professional intervention. If not, then there's no further need beyond opening the mouth. But the critical point is to get the process started no matter the reason for the animal being on the exam table.
DVM: How can chronic medical conditions complicate the treatment of periodontal disease?
Harvey: There are clearly some conditions that will adversely affect the health of the mouth. For example, in chronic renal failure the increased urea level in the blood affects urea levels in saliva. When the urea in the saliva breaks down to ammonia, this causes the nasty smell in the mouth which you find in dogs that have severe renal disease. But this can also be severe enough to cause chemical burning of the tissues in the mouth. Further, the chemically difficult environment suppresses the local defense mechanisms and makes mouth tissues that are much less able to fight off infection. And in diabetic animals, the elevated blood sugar means there's more substrate in the mouth for bacteria to feed on.
There's also a danger that periodontal disease may mask a primary medical problem. Particularly in middle-aged or older dogs with halitosis, it's critical to look at the overall health of the dog before starting to treat the periodontal disease. If people have a sense from their own dental treatment of what's going to happen to their pet, then that needs to be expanded to include a discussion about anesthesia and how to manage it. The first requirement for veterinarians is to justify the preoperative tests that are necessary. If I'm going to put an animal under anesthesia, particularly if it's middle-aged or older or if it's showing any kinds of symptoms like polydipsia, polyphagia, not eating, losing weight or throwing up, then it's an easy decision.
The health of the dog is the major determinant of what we can do, how long we have to do it, how involved the anesthesia will be and what kind of support we need to provide during that anesthesia. And in some dogs that means we look to extraction as a way of dealing with oral infections in the most dependable manner. We have to consider the whole patient rather than just what would be best for likelihood of healthy retention of the teeth.


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Peregrine Financial Group Inc.'s $20 million corporate headquarters and its 22-acre Cedar Falls, Iowa, site can be put up for sale, a federal judge said.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in Chicago today granted, with no one opposed, a court-appointed receiver's request to retain Woodland Hills, California-based GA Keen Realty Advisors LLC to help market the building.
"The receiver believes the sale of the property may prove difficult," Randall Lending, an attorney for receiver Michael Eidelman, said in a Feb. 20 court filing seeking permission to start that process. Lending cited the building's size, its location and what he called its "unique nature."
Peregrine Financial collapsed last year after the commodities firm's founder, Russell Wasendorf Sr., revealed in the course of a failed suicide attempt that he'd been stealing from the business and its clients.
Accused of taking more than $200 million, he pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to 50 years in prison last month.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Wasendorf and the firm in Chicago one day after the July suicide attempt and hours before the firm filed for bankruptcy.
Eidelman was then appointed by Pallmeyer to liquidate Wasendorf's assets, which included a Chicago lake shore condominium that sold for $1 million in December, an Italian restaurant, a publishing company and a part of a construction business, for the repayment of creditors.
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In 2008, Wasendorf Construction LLC built the two-story headquarters for the commodities firm. Peregrine's now former office has an all-glass exterior, 48,250 square feet of space, floor coverings of natural stone, carpet, cork and bamboo, geothermal heating and cooling and holds a gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, in recognition of its leadership in energy and environmental design.
It's also encumbered by a $6.3 million mortgage held by U.S. Bank NA, according to the receiver's filing. The bank has the right to utilize that credit should it decide to bid on the property, according to the Feb. 20 court filing.
"I felt the employees would be proud of it," Wasendorf, the firm's founder and chief executive officer, said on the video celebrating the opening of the office in 2009.
While a sale price for the property hasn't been established, the receiver proposed that GA Keen oversee an auction on or by May 31 and a court-approved closing by June 14.
"Due to the unique nature of the Property, the status of the Cedar Falls/Waterloo real estate market and the likely list of buyers for a building of this size and quality, sale of the property will likely require significant marketing efforts to obtain a successful bidder to purchase the property," Lending said.
The case is U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Peregrine Financial Group, 12-cv-5383, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).
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In this week's 10 questions and answers, we take a look at the extraordinary life of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. Apologies for missing last week's 10 questions and answers slot, we were caught up in work for new site design.
Question 1: When and where was the Queen Mother born?
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother was born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in London on 4th August 1900 to Claude, Lord Glamis (later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in Scotland), and his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. The location of her birth remains uncertain, but reputedly she was born either in her parents' Westminster home at Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, or in a horse-drawn ambulance on the way to a hospital.
Question 2: What was early life like for Elizabeth?
Elizabeth's early life was rather typical of any aristocratic family. When Elizabeth was 14, Britain declared war on Germany, starting what would be initially known as The Great War and later World War 1. Four of Elizabeth's brothers were serving as officers in the Army during the war. Fergus, an officer in the Black Watch Regiment, was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Elizabeth's home, Glamis Castle, was turned into a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, which Elizabeth helped to run (putting one rather in mind of Downton Abbey).
Question 3: How did Elizabeth meet Prince Albert (later George VI)?
Prince Albert and Elizabeth allegedly originally met at a children's party, later getting together. Elizabeth refused Prince Albert's first two marriage proposals for fear of "never, never again [being able] to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to". When he declared he would marry no other, his mother, Queen Mary, visited Glamis Castle to see for herself Lady Elizabeth. She became convinced that Elizabeth was "the one girl who could make Bertie happy", but nevertheless refused to interfere. At the same time, Elizabeth was courted by James Stuart, Albert's equerry, until he left the prince's service for a better-paid job in the American oil business. Eventually, Elizabeth conceded and agreed to marry Albert.
Question 4: What role did Elizabeth play in the Abdication Crisis in 1936?
When Edward VIII, Albert's brother, announced that he would abdicate from the throne to marry his lover Wallis Simpson in 1936, as next in line to the throne, Albert would be King and Elizabeth would be his consort. Albert never wanted to be King and when he found out that he was to be King, he apparently sobbed on Queen Mary's shoulder for a whole hour. Nevertheless, Albert stood up to his duty, unlike his brother, and according to many sources, Elizabeth was a tower of strength to Albert throughout his accession and beyond. On 11th December 1936, Edward VIII abdicated as King and Albert acceded as King George VI and Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth, Queen Consort.
Question 5: What did Elizabeth do during the Second World War?
At the outbreak of WW2, Elizabeth began to take up a vital role in keeping up the spirits of the entire nation by visiting bomb damaged areas of London. She and the King were seen as figures of solidarity and strength by the British people. She explicitly refused to leave London and when Princess Elizabeth and Margaret were offered a safe haven for the duration of the war in Canada, she famously said: "The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave." – When Buckingham Palace itself took several hits during the height of the bombing, Elizabeth was able to say, "I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face."
Question 6: Is it true Elizabeth took up pistol practice in the Palace?
Yes! During World War 2, Elizabeth took up pistol practice inside the Palace in case she had to make a 'last stand against the enemy'. This was taken up during the early stages of what was known as 'the Phoney war' where it was thought the Germans may make a descent on Britain and that the best way to counter this fear was to equip and train the Queen in the use of a revolver.
Question 7: Is it true Adolf Hitler called her the 'most dangerous woman in Europe'?
That could well have been. Many sources document Hitler as having called her, "the most dangerous woman in Europe". This referred to the fact that Elizabeth was playing an important part in rallying the nation and acting as a symbol of resistance against German forces. The Queen played a tremendous role in boosting British morale. Though when she turned up to many bomb-damaged sites initially, wearing expensive clothing, she caused quite a stir, for obvious reasons, though this soon died down as Elizabeth explained: "if the public came to see me they would wear their best clothes, so I should reciprocate in kind".
Question 8: What happened at the death of her husband?
When King George VI died on 6th February 1952, her daughter became Queen Elizabeth II. She then became the Queen Mother and played an important role in supporting the new Queen and, where necessary, advising her on her new office using her own experience. Initially the Queen Mother refused to move out of Buckingham Palace to make way for the new Queen, though eventually gave way and moved to the very nearby Clarence House, which is now the residence of the Prince Of Wales.
Question 9: The Queen Mother's different titles are confusing, what were they?
When Elizabeth was born, she was born as 'The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon'. When Elizabeth's father acceded to the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, she became 'The Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon'. When she married Prince Albert, she became 'Her Royal Highness The Duchess Of York'. When Albert acceded as King she became 'Her Majesty The Queen [Elizabeth]'. When Albert died, she assumed the title of 'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother' which she remained for the next 50 years until her death in 2002.
Question 10: Did she live to 100? When did she die?
Queen Elizabeth lived until the age of 101 (yes, she did get her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen). On 30 March 2002, at 3:15 pm, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at the Royal Lodge Windsor with her surviving daughter Queen Elizabeth II at her bedside. She had been suffering from a cold for the last four months of her life. At the time of her death, she was the longest-lived member of the royal family in British history. This record was broken on 24 July 2003, by her last surviving sister-in-law Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, who died aged 102 on 29 October 2004.


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A few weeks ago Facebook blocked me for several days for adding too many friends too quickly, saying that I was abusing the system. I didn't understand how friend requesting people who were free to turn me down at the click of a mouse would be a crime, so I e-mailed Facebook and received the following response:
You received a warning because Facebook's security system detected that your friend requests were being ignored at a high rate and volume. Unwanted contact with strangers is not allowed on Facebook because it makes other people feel unsafe. Facebook is a place to interact with people you know in the real world.
Along with this warning, you may have received a block from sending friend requests. If you are unable to send friend requests, please note that these blocks can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. For security reasons, we are unable to provide additional information about this system.
Going forward, do not send friend requests or messages to people you don't know. Doing so may result in your account being permanently banned from Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your cooperation going forward. Thanks for your understanding.
I'm sorry but I call BS on all of that… Firstly Facebook is a networking site, meaning that it is absolutely acceptable to make friends with strangers who share similar interests to you. According the Merriam Webster dictionary, the term 'networking' means 'the exchange of information or services among individuals, groups, or institutions; specifically: the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business'.
I am not trying to sell anything, but like most people I have my passions and interests, so I have joined groups that reflect those interests. I have a Facebook page and I have a blog, both of which deal with mental health issues. The many people who accept my friend requests have their own pages and blogs too, and guess what? We help one another by joining each other's groups, liking each others pages, reading and commenting on each other posts and even clicking on each other's links. No one gets hurt and networking is an activity that benefits all involved.
Secondly, those who do not wish to be friended by a stranger are free to ignore our requests, end the friendship and even block us if they so choose. Thirdly, the part about being ignored at a high rate is simply a bare faced lie, because I checked and most of the twenty people I friend requested that night, just moments prior to being banned, actually accepted my friend request.
So here's my theory as to why Facebook doesn't like us to make too many friends too quickly: The greedy company want us to pay for their advertising, rather than doing our own networking ourselves. It's pure and simple good, old-fashioned GREED!! After several days my ban was lifted, but with a warning that if caught transgressing again I may have my account blocked indefinitely. Well, I have put a lot of work into my profile and fan page, and if they disable my account I will be destroyed.
Facebook is already successful, it is not fair that they are trying to keep everyone else down. Facebook is successful because of people like you and me, and they need to show us the respect that we deserve. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to effectively convince Facebook to amend their greedy and improper practices, then please, we all need to hear from you!!! **
Being fairly new to Facebook, at first I didn't want to waste my time on it. My wife and kids started a page for me, so I tried it. Found many friends and past and present friends found me. Sometimes things would pop up, you and 12 other people have this person in common. I would send out a request, and have had great luck having them come back as friends.
Before Facebook, if you wanted to meet someone, you just asked. Sometimes they put out their ban and sometimes not. That was the end of it and no matter what, life was still the same and did go on. Facebook gave me a 2 day suspension from seeking and adding friends. There was no, "this is what you did to bring on this action", just a list of things that might have brought this on. It's a little like your guilty of something, and there is no such thing as innocent, or do we even care less.
When you get a friendship request, there are options to take such as not accepting the request. Or perhaps blocking the sender from accessing your page anymore. I don't know how this whole thing works into "freedom of speech" or "freedom of opinion". But even though I have not drank in a few years, I still remember that you could ask a girl's phone number in a bar, it either worked out or it didn't, no harm, just move on.
The only way to know if you're going to make a friend is to ask. Many of my friends were made by this thing called introduction, something that was quite common before computers. There is known reason to be punishing people without even allowing the god given, constitutional right to know what "exact" infraction they have committed. Even if you sign an agreement to something, it must not overstep any boundaries which may considered questionable or may violate all or part of constitutional boundaries.
If a person cannot ask the simple, harmless question, would you like to be friends. Without fear of some 50 year old high school prom queen, bitter in life, or just still very stuck up, wanting to make someone else's life equally sad. The "the do not except", "do not allow", and "block this person from my page", are all great tools. I do wonder how many people have fallen victim to "your guilty and this social network couldn't care less if you like it or not", mentality.
In my spare time I will be researching the basis of my own questions and concerns. Meanwhile you may want to look into a better way of informing people what their "exact" violation was before you instill any kind of retribution. We are not little children, if we make a mistake simply explain it to us what it was, and we'll fix it. If somehow you could get the letter into the proper hands at facebook, I would greatly appreciate it. In my opinion, they have done a pretty good job of insulating themselves from any negative feedback. Shame on them.
Here is the latest message I have sent to Facebook after being disabled with no warning and for no reason since I have not violated any terms or conditions. Facebook doesn't provide its users with a useful means to contact them with any issues and doesn't communicate back with you when you do use their means.
I have researched that there are hundreds and thousands of folks in the same boat as I am and this is poor customer service. I have been left no choice but to use any means to get the word out about this before it happens to many more. Please back up your photos, videos, contacts and everything else important to you because you can be cut off at any time without resolution.
Hello. Over the past week I have send numerous reports about my account being disabled. the help feature and this reporting system have not been helpful. I do not know why I have been disabled so I cannot pinpoint how to take action but contacting Facebook is not working. I received a standard answer on my first complaint about the issue which said that you couldn't help me until I provided the correct email address because the one I provided did not match an account that was disabled. This email address is the only one I have ever used to log into my account which leads me to believe that there is a serious security issue here.
Without warning in the middle of using my page last week it was disabled and the only reason I was alerted to it was when attempting to log in. This came one day after I logged into a computer at Best Buy while deciding on whether to buy one or not and I believe I logged off successfully. I can only imagine that may be my account was broken into. I have never posted any inappropriate content and have only been warned a time or two about adding my friends too quickly. This is hardly a reason to disable me without warning or explanation. I have been cut off from communication with important friends and family.
Almost 800 friends who have been contacting me asking why I deleted my page and worried about me. I have also lost a lot of personal and irreplaceable content to include 80+ photo albums with thousands of photos, videos, poems I've written myself. All very important to me. I am urging Facebook to respond and contact me with resolution to this issue. I would like my account enabled and restored to the position in which it was when my service was interrupted.
An explanation on why this interruption in my life occurred would be appreciated and if I did something wrong a warning would suffice unless I was erroneously accused of something in which case a chance to refute it would be ideal but in either case a resolution instead of cutting me off would be more of a way to handle a customer. I am a Chief in the Navy going on 21 years and work in customer service. While researching this issue it has come to my attention that hundreds of users suffer from the same situation that I am in. There should be away to improve this aspect of your service.
With all the major companies who sponsor and use Facebook and keep it running improvements should always be looked at. No company wants to see that a business they are part of is treating their loyal customers this way. It isn't good for business. A company should always have a way for its customers to contact them, email, phone, a help desk of some sort of which Facebook has none and the help portion of the site yields no results.
I have been patient, sending messages repeatedly to get someone to talk to me with no result. I am not opposed to trying to resolve my issue and at the very least bring light to it through any channels necessary such as spreading the word through my hundreds and thousands of Sailors as well as the army, marines, air force and coast guard or going to the local media to start with but I would like to resolve this issue privately with Facebook since I thoroughly enjoy the service.
I have been loyal and even supported Facebook by spreading the word to family and friends and spending money on certain portions of Facebook. I urge you to please communicate with me and resolve this issue so I can continue to use this service and have access to my personal files and contact with my family and friends.
PALO ALTO,, CALIFORNIA -- The unaired dark side of Facebook, or should I call it "Disgracebook." The reason I say the unaired dark side of Facebook is because I have yet to see anything announced on the prime time major news outlets about the disgraceful way Facebook treats its members. The Internet is bursting at its seems with unhappy disabled Facebook members who have posted thousands of complaints everywhere it is possible to post complaints about Facebook's complete lack of customer service and mean spirited disregard for concerns, questions and feedback from members and former members.
On the founder of Facebook Fan Page the founder states "I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share." I am glad he says he is "trying etc." because, in my opinion, he certainly has NOT accomplished his mission. Facebook is one of the most closed undemocratic uncaring unsocial business operations since the formation of the Gestapo. Facebook operates carte blanche without regard of a due process of rights for members Facebook deems unworthy to be members of its social network service and therefore, disables their account.
Facebook justifies its policy and actions under the euphemism of "protecting members" from "repeated actions that could be construed as spam," and from anything Facebook makes up as a threat to its security. Facebook is an omnipotent uncaring broadly defined automated bureaucratic security service mechanism with unpublished specific rules that are violated without knowing it. If this is not Gestapo like policy, I guess I do not know what it is because it certainly is unAmerican to say the least!
Furthermore, Facebook is not a social network service. When joining Facebook you are, in reality, joining a money making "computer program" complete with automated responders but is set up to look like a social network service operated by real people. Is it any wonder Facebook members are treated with total disregard for being feeling thinking real people?
I have yet to know of a computer program that is able to feel and or to reason. When someone calls Facebook you are treated rudely and crassly informed to use their computerized automated services which do not reply when used or quickly transferred to an automated answering service to which there is no reply.
I urge anyone interested to please research what I am informing you of because I assure you the situation I have explained is the truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. Until the media takes notice of and makes public "Disgracebooks" inhuman treatment of people Mark Zuckerberg and his staff and money making computer program will continue to fill up trenches behind Disgracebooks California headquarters with unworthy disabled members.
One final comment. If Disgracebook is treating its foreign members as poorly as it treats its domestic members Disgracebook is not only giving itself a black eye it is giving the United States of America a black eye. Is there anyone out there who cares enough to tell the world about Facebooks dark side?
Facebook has repeatedly shut down my page feed, News Feed and now removed my favorite groups. Seems they are monitor those who do not follow their Liberal leanings. They even removed my son's page feed. If there are others who are experiencing this let's start a worldwide opposition. Publish your ideas how to retaliate against this.
Let's stop the Freedom of speech invasion.
Don't get ripped off like I did. I got taken for 95.00 for a gift I won while playing games on face book. I won a Geneva watch and they needed info to charge me shipping and handling agreed to that sorta on January 23, 2010. Now February 5th I see they took additional money from my account in the amount of 88.99 for the total amount of 95.00. Tried to contact co. No one works there. Imagine that. My name is **. I only agreed because it said I won it. I surely wouldn't have bout a 95.00 watch especially after I received it and saw how cheap and ugly it was. Thank you.
I am just curious why Facebook (and other large companies) can't figure out how to have an email verification system in place before activating an account. I was enjoying a relaxing evening when somebody opened a Facebook account and used my email address. Within 2 hours I received 153 emails concerning my new Facebook account from all my new "friends" and whatever other activity was going on. I found the first email that came from Facebook stating that if this is not your account / wrong email please let us know. Well that link didn't work that night for some reason.
How complicated could it be to have an email address verification before the account is activated? My resolution. I logged in, said I lost my password, Facebook sent me a way to restore my password and I closed the account. Somebody else is also probably upset because all their work and stuff is gone. Personally I feel that I received 152 SPAM EMAILS from Facebook due to their lack of a proper system to verify email addresses.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA -- Recently, there has been a lot of posting about a seriously shameful situation in Bulgaria regarding their routine torture and killings of stray animals. The posts have centered around a courageous German Shepherd dog, Borko, that was beaten repeatedly and paralyzed, and the threats to the kind Doctor that has "adopted" Borko and other strays.
Anyway, a recent update asked for continued donations and sharing of the story. So, I posted that I put it on Pinterest to reach more people about the rescue effort, and the post disappeared. Since I was also watching t.v., I assumed that I had forgotten to save the post. I reposted the info, and it immediately disappeared again, while I was watching! This made me angry, so I posted and asked Facebook if they were so insecure that they couldn't even handle the MENTION of another social networking site. And, of course, that disappeared!
After a few more jabs at FB, I gave up and moved on... But, it still burns my, er, makes me angry to think that they are monitoring all our posts, so there is no privacy, and they can delete anything they want. Oh, now that I think of it, they have previously refused to delete offensive posts which had graphic sexual content and cursing! Can anything be done about their abusing the rights of their customers?
Someone on Facebook went on my Facebook page without my consent, the person change my password on June 26, 2011 at 1:03pm. This person is causing a lot of problems because she reads the message in the chat box and is cursing my friends on Facebook and she is making a public scene on Facebook. I need something to be done about it, she has invaded my privacy.
Right now am trying to get a new password with the help of my auntie and it's not going through and am upset about it. I even call the cops and they say they can't do anything about it. What can you do about this situation? The person who violated my rights name is **. I have to give name because I need to go on Facebook that is part of my daily life. I can't even get into my email address and that where I get most of my contact. How can someone be so evil.
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS -- I bought a charm of magic using my credit card. It says I have it yet it does not work. That was a month ago, no one has responded to my 20 plus emails to Facebook support the app complaint center or anyone else. This is a ripoff.


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I have an extraordinary fondness for The Norton Reader, though some of that fondness is, as they say, extra-textual. The textual fondness is that I think it's a wonderfully generous selection of stuff -- in fact, I like it so much I've assigned the book in classes, and if I ever taught such a class again, I'd almost certainly use it again. The extra-textual fondness is entirely for John C. Brereton, one of the main editors of the book, who, almost exactly one year ago, had the excellent taste to marry one of my best friends and mentors.
So I care a lot about The Norton Reader.
And I like essays.
Thus, while my students were taking tests this afternoon, I thought about essays to recommend to the folks at the NR. My thoughts are all a-jumble on this topic, though, because I hardly know where to begin.
I had four immediate ideas, though:
- For years, I have wished someone would anthologize John Leonard's essay "A Victim of Surprises", which I've frequently used in classes to demonstrate all sorts of different things (I mentioned the essay in my eulogy for Leonard).
- The essay I have used most frequently to demonstrate certain types of rhetoric and argument is "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" along with a photocopy of the letters page of the NY Times Magazine the following week. I would love a book to include both.
- My favorite edition of Best American Essays is the one edited by David Foster Wallace. Heck, Wallace's introduction itself would be a good thing to include (although I also like "Consider the Lobster" which is already in NR. Actually, I'd support a whole "Essays By David Foster Wallace" section of the book...) There's very little in the book that wouldn't be useful in NR. At the very least, Jo Ann Beard's "Werner" should be a shoe-in.
- The NR should not ignore the online world. The context of rhetoric in our time is one that has moved more and more online, for better and/or worse. There are marvelous, professional online venues now -- and not just well-known-by-everybody spots like Salon, but also Strange Horizons and Quarterly Conversation and Rain Taxi Online and a gazillion other places that I don't happen to have written for. There are also all sorts of brilliant individual voices available via blogs (cf. the sidebar of this site). A book like NR would enter the current century if it were able to integrate such voices into its canon. But the key would be to avoid presenting the online world as if it's just like print. Two items particularly come to mind: The ability of blogs to use hyperlinks in all sorts of different ways, and the addition of comments from readers to not just blogs and opinion pieces, but even newspapers. If a book is really going to show the progression and potential of rhetoric, it can't ignore this, and it can't approach it in a superficial and cursory way.
Helon Habila on Dambudzo Marechera(Those are just things I happen to have easy access to at the moment, so reflect my particular interests and prejudices, but I'm just making quick suggestions, not editing a whole book, so there's no attempt to be comprehensive or balanced.)
Louis Menand on cultural prizes
Barbara Ransby on Hollywood's Africa problem
"Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace" by Danah Boyd
Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia
"How to Write about Africa" by Binyavanga Wainaina
"The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism" by Jonathan Lethem
Tim Wise on institutional racism and the SAT
Mark Liberman on "Sexual Pseudoscience from CNN"
"The Color of an Awkward Conversation" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Obscenity Rap" by Geoffrey Nunberg
David Skinner on Webster's Third
"The Talking Helix" by Patricia J. Williams
"Being Poor" by John Scalzi and Nick Mamatas
Stanley Fish on norms and deviations
"The Gamble" by Samuel R. Delany (PDF)
"Gin, Television, and Social Surplus" by Clay Shirkey


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Acer's Timeline series of laptops was one of the first to emphasize long battery life in a slim, but full-powered system. Since the first Timeline laptops hit in the first half of 2009, many other PC makers have been able to match thin designs with long battery life and decent performance, making the Timeline at least somewhat less distinctive.
That said, the latest version, the 13-inch Acer Aspire TimelineX AS3820T-5246, is a competent Intel Core i3 laptop with good looks and performance, and battery life that's very good, but doesn't radically outpace the competition.
At $729, it's at the lower end of the thin 13-inch price scale. A largely comparable Toshiba Portege P705 costs $829, and adding discrete graphics, as in the Asus U33J, can run $999 or more (although both of those models have snazzier designs and sturdier build quality).
The black brushed-metal lid and thin design make the TimelineX a snazzy but subtle looker. The dull gray interior wrist rest and border, however, remind us more of dry business laptops; the system would probably look better with an all-over black design rather than a two-tone look.
Since its original release, the ranks of slim 13-inch laptops have grown, including recent systems from Toshiba and Asus (such as the previously mentioned Portege R705). That may make the TimelineX less one-of-a-kind, but the system does a good job of fitting in a large keyboard/touchpad combo for its size.
The wide, and widely spaced, flat-topped keys are of a style unique to Acer, and may take a little getting used to for those used to standard island-style keys. That said, we liked the extra surface area of the individual keys, and the extra-large right Shift key in particular. After an hour or so, our fingers got used to the key spacing and our typo rate declined back to its normal level (which is still pretty high). The keyboard tray also includes a single quick-launch button, which can be programmed to launch just about any application, but there are no discrete media control keys.
The touch pad is a decent size, but nowhere as large as the ones found on 13-inch MacBooks or even HP's 13-inch Envy. Acer pioneered mutlitouch gesture support on the PC side, and in addition to the usual two-finger scrolling, we also liked the use of a circular finger pattern (starting from the top right corner) to scroll through long documents or Web pages, and two fingers flicked horizontally to go forward and back in your browser history. That said, all of these moves require a much more exact finger placement than on a MacBook, making them less useful, as they require some real concentration to use properly.
The 13.3-inch display has a 1,366×768-pixel native resolution, which is standard for most laptops with 11- to 15-inch displays. That's a good middle ground for Web surfing, movie watching, and document creation, and the screen itself was clear and bright, even from extreme angles. The built-in speakers have a Dolby Home Theater label on them, but they sound like standard laptop speakers to us–meaning they're fine for casual use, but an immersive music or movie experience will require headphones or external speakers.
When it comes to thin 13-inch laptops, the two sides of the aisle one can fall on are optical drive or no optical drive. Though the extra-thin MacBook Air does not have one, the not-quite-as-thin Toshiba Portege R705 does. The Acer TimelineX also omits the optical drive, which seems a bit dodgy, considering it's thin, but not incredibly so. At the same time, we never missed it, and we find that the optical drive may be the least-used laptop feature for many people.
Under the hood, this is an Intel Core i3 system, which means it's more than fine for everyday computing, and we ran into no slowdown or stuttering while Web surfing, watching online video files, or working on office documents. Benchmark performance was nearly identical to the Portege R705, which also has an Intel Core i3 CPU.
The Intel integrated graphics aren't going to do much for gamers, but causal and social games play fine. Booting up the built-in benchmark on Street Fighter IV, we averaged around 12 frames per second, which is not exactly playable, but an indication that older games should run decently.


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I. In Focus This Week
Voter registration cards provide info, but are they necessary?
Are the pocket-sized pieces of paper the wisdom teeth of elections administration?
The phone calls and office visits trickled in at first, but soon enough there was a flood of phone calls and visits from concerned Guadalupe County, Texas voters fearful that their voter registration had expired.
According to Elections Administrator Sue Basham a perfect storm of issues created the confusion for voters.
Texas requires that voter cards expire on odd-numbered years, so all the cards in Guadalupe County had a Dec. 31, 2011 expiration date on them. With Basham and other elections administrators waiting for the state to complete redistricting before they can send new voter cards, voters still don't have new cards in-hand.
Add to all of that an enterprising email hoaxster who began a chain email telling voters that not only were their cards expired, but that their registration had expired as well, and you get a lot of confused voters.
Basham said her office had to help dozens of voters understand that their registration had not expired. When similar situations arose in counties across Texas, the secretary of state's office got in on the act and put out a press release.
"Although it took time to explain to the voters that they were still registered to vote and the reason for the confusion, our main concern was the fact that the voters were worried that we had cancelled their registration and they had never had to reregister before," Basham said. "With all the changes that are occurring now with redistricting and a huge election year ahead, we were more concerned for the voter and the unnecessary worry it had placed upon them."
The National Voter Registration Act requires states to send out acknowledgement notices when someone newly registers, updates their registration or reactivates an inactive registration. But after that, it's up to individual states and localities to determine when they send out voter cards and in what format.
With the more and more people relying on the Internet for their information and with elections budgets straining from coast to coast could voter registration cards issued outside of the scope of NVRA become a thing of the past?
Although we're not there yet, Basham does envision a time when the cards would no longer be necessary.
"I can see a time where the state will have a secure website where voters will be able to make changes online and will have an option to print information on voting precincts and districts for their information," Basham said. "While I can imagine a time where most of this will become automated, there will always be circumstances where voters will still need help in making changes, but it would certainly cut down on costs for counties and the state as a whole."
Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE at Tufts University said that although his group has no solid research about whether or not young voters rely on, let alone even keep their voter registration cards, he does agree that young people are more used to being online and that they may be particularly resistant to having to produce a paper card.
A completely unscientific survey of voters under the age of 25 in the Washington, D.C. area found that most of the young people asked — all of whom are registered voters — wasn't even sure what the voter registration card was, let alone having one in their wallets.
Scott Doyle, Larimer County, Colo. clerk and father of the vote center said that his voters still rely on their voter cards even though voters can vote at any of the counties vote centers.
"Our voters do still rely on voter cards and carry them in their wallets and pull them out handily while voting/changing registration or whenever they think they may be of use," Doyle said. "I tell you that with this caveat; voters that usually have cards/mailers with them are of an age in their 40/50's on up. The younger generation(s) here in Colorado State University town hate the paper and I suspect that it would be very difficult to find any of them with the paper on their person."
Doyle noted that not all 40/50's and up voters carry them but he said it is sort of surprising how many they see from that age group.
This year, following redistricting and to save money, Doyle said that instead of sending out multiple elections mailers, the county will only be sending out one mailer near the June primary.
For vote-by-mail states, the states are still required by the NVRA to send out the cards initially, but some states, like Washington are considering making changes to when they send out voter cards in other instances.
"A bill currently pending in the Legislature would eliminate the requirement to send out notices when the jurisdictions change, such as due to an annexation or merger of jurisdictions, or due to redistricting," explained Katie Blinn, director of elections for the state of Washington. "In our state, the voter registration notice is not notifying the voter of his/her poll site, only notifying him/her that she is registered and which jurisdictions represent that residential address."
And in the District of Columbia, which recently sent out new voter registration cards to all voters, it wasn't an issue with late arriving cards or expiration dates, or whether or not people got cards at all, it was with the quality of the paper for the card.
"I was annoyed at the flimsiness of the new card, the need to cut it out and fold it, and the likelihood that the print will come off on the plastic sleeve in my wallet," said Keith Ivey, a District voter who Tweeted his displeasure with the new cards to the District Board of Elections and Ethics.
According to Alysoun McLaughlin with the DCBOEE, the card that Ivey received is a temporary card that is only accurate for a period of time during redistricting. New, permanent cards will be issued when redistricting is complete, but McLaughlin is not sure if those cards will be on heavier card stock or regular paper.
McLaughlin did note that the city was able to reduce the costs to about half by using the 20-lb, non-scored paper.
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By the design of Gibraltar's flagship series bass pedals, when you take it out of the box, you just know this thing is going to do everything your foot wants it to. It's got a new stealth design on the pedal board and a solid aluminum stabilizing "rock" plate. The main concern with any pedal however, is feel.
The 9611 Direct-Drive system uses solid linkage to create a seamless, fast-paced feel drum pedal. The cam shape and linkage combine to deliver power and speed with seamless response.
Feel is where the genius of the Gibraltar design teams shines bright. These drive systems come with loads of adjustability so you can tune and fine tune to perfection.
Each adjustment can be made efficiently and on-the fly either by hand or with one of the 3 tools stored on board. Spring tension is easily adjusted from ridiculously high rebound to super floppy with the turn of a thumbscrew at the base of the spring. Beater travel distance can be tweaked with a drum key. The axle at the point under which this clamp grabs is also knurled for non-slip operation. This also provides for indexed tuning and is marked with three lines as reference points. Beater height is also set with a drum key and memorized with a memory lock. The lock makes quick work of setting up the pedal and ensures perfect positioning every time. The bass drum hoop clamp is tightened by a wing nut, conveniently positioned at the right side of the pedal board. Say goodbye to bloody knuckles from trying to reach under your pedal to attach it. And as if all of that weren't enough, the position of the beater can be moved laterally with a quick turn of an Allen head setscrew if you plan to use the pedal with percussion brackets.
The no-nonsense design of the Intruder pedal shows these things mean business. The base of the pedal is now solid aluminum with a strategically placed bead in the middle. This ensures maximum rigidity while keeping the overall weight to a minimum. Attached to this plate is also the on-board tool storage with the included drum key and two Allen wrenches. The pedal board is also aluminum, eliminating any possibility of flex. Choice areas machined out of the pedal board save weight and add to the stealth look. The uprights of the Intruder pedal, when looked at closely have a slight curve backward (away from the drum head) to put the axis of the beater in a more perfect location than a traditionally designed upright. These uprights are bearing loaded for maximum fluidity. Also loaded with a die-cast bearing is the upper attachment of the spring to the axle. Putting a bearing in the spring ring minimizes wear and eliminates friction, adding again to the fluid motion. Each of these features enables the drive system to put maximum power to the beater (or beaters).
These bass drum pedals come pre-assembled for plug-n-play operation. Simply drop in the beater and your ready to get kickin'. The beaters are 2-sided for two vastly different sounds. A curved felt side or a flat plastic side will suit any genre of music. Combine that with a pivoting head and you get a perfect strike regardless of the size of your bass drum. Each pedal also comes with its own gig bag for safe transportation.
The no-bull design of the Intruder drum pedal is all about power and efficiency. The Intruder brings to the table both and looks good doing it. They will definitely knock your socks off.
Gibraltar Intruder Direct-Drive Single Bass Drum Pedal Features:
* Direct Drive system uses solid linkage to create a seamless, fast-paced, responsive feeling pedal
* The cam shape and linkage combine to deliver power and speed with seamless response
* Pedal board height adjustment independent of spring tension or beater angle
* Fast Rocker hub spring assembly with die cast bearing Spring Ring
* Fixed aluminum Rock stabilizer plate with rubber non-skid surface
* Dual-surface, balanced, self-aligning beater with patented non-slip memory lock mechanism
* Comes with fully padded carrying bag (GSPCB)


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Today Qualcomm announced the keynotes and agenda for their Uplinq 2012 mobile developers conference and we are celebrating the event by giving away a free pass to one of our readers. The conference will be held June 27-28, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel and will cover the Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, HTML5 and Brew platforms.
Qualcomm's developer network, QDevNet, will also sponsor a pre-conference Mobile CodeFest & Hackathon on June 26 for hardcore coders. The event will include device giveaways, provide coders hands-on, deep-dive training on how to exploit leading mobile technologies to create extraordinary user experiences. The hackathon will end with a lightning round of presentations, with judging and awards totaling more than $50,000 immediately to follow.
Uplinq 2012 keynote speakers and breakout sessions
Keynote speakers include:
- Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chariman and CEO of Qualcomm
- Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box
- Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, charimand and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation
- John Hering, co-founder and CEO of Lookout
Super session topics this year are:
- How Do Developers Take Control of Their Destinies in a Cross-Platform World?, a fireside chat between Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm Internet Services, and Ben Wood, director of research for CCS Insight
- Snapdragon Processors Powering the Next Million-Dollar App, presented by Raj Talluri, senior vice president of product management for Qualcomm
Uplinq 2012 breakout sessions will cover such topics as:
- Growing the Ecosystem: The Future of HTML5 Web Apps
- Designing Graphics & Gaming Apps Across the Snapdragon S-Class Tiers
- MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) LTE Gaming
- Developing Connected, Proximity-Aware Apps with AllJoyn
- Drive Consumer Engagement with Vuforia
- Premium, Freemium, Bundles & More: The Evolution of Brew App Business Models
- Harness the Rise of the Machines: FastCV, Accelerating Mobile Computer Vision
- Trends in Technology & Digital Content in Education: An Untapped Market
- The Windows 8 Platform for Metro Style Apps
- Diving Into the Windows Phone Market: Should I Make the Jump?
- Nokia's Inside Track for Developers to Leverage Its Devices, Reach & Relationships
- Tapping into the Next Generation of Location-Based Applications
- Accelerating your Android Application with Renderscript and LLVM
Get 30% discount on admission
The registration price for Uplinq 2012 is US$375, but our readers can get 30% off using a special coupon code. The price includes registration for the pre-conference Mobile CodeFest and Hackathon (limited to 300 coders). The Uplinq 2012 registration page can be found at www.uplinq.com/user/register.
Uplinq 2012 30% discount code: UB2012
Win a free pass to Uplinq 2012
As we mentioned above, we also have a free, 1-time pass to give away to one of our readers. If you live in the San Diego area and are able to attend, just leave a comment below to be entered to win. We are looking for someone who has experience with Android development, so include a link to any apps you have published in the Google Play Store to increase your chances of winning.


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Where 2009-10 Happens: Reason #10 Why We Love College BasketballPosted by zhayes9 on October 28th, 2009
Shamelessly cribbing from the very clever NBA catch phrase, we here at RTC will present to you the Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball as we gear up toward the start of the season in about two weeks. We'll be bringing you players to watch for this season and moments to remember from last season, courtesy of the series of dump trucks, wires and effluvia known as YouTube.
#10- Where 75-Footer Happens


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The MS in Computer Science degree program offers intensive preparation in design, programming, theory and applications. Training is provided for both academically oriented students and students with professional goals in the many business, industrial and governmental occupations requiring advanced knowledge of computer theory and technology.
Courses and research are offered in a variety of subfields of computer science, including operating systems, computer architecture, computer graphics, pattern recognition, automata theory, combinatorics, artificial intelligence, database design, computer networks, programming languages, software systems, analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, parallel processing, VLSI, computational geometry and design automation.
A comprehensive program of evening courses is offered, providing both part-time and full-time students with a convenient means to either earn a master's degree or to select individual courses of interest.
The University maintains a large network of computer facilities, including PCs, Sun work stations and specialized computers for research within the program. All major computers on campus are linked by an Ethernet network.
In addition to computer science faculty, many other individuals at the University are involved in computer-related work in the physical and social sciences and in various areas of business and management. Computer science students with an interest in these important application areas thus have ample opportunity to consult and work with talented faculty from a wide range of disciplines.
School: Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Program: Computer Science
Catalog page: MSCS
Degree requirements: Bachelor's degree which includes two semesters of calculus and one semester of linear algebra
GPA: Minimum GPA of 3.0 (last 60 semester credit hours). GPA in quantitative courses of at least 3.3.
Test score required: Yes
GRE revised scores of 308, 153, 155 and 4 for the combined, verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing components, respectively, are advisable.
Letters of recommendation: Required
Applicants must submit three letters of recommendation from individuals who can judge the candidate's probability of success in graduate school. Use the electronic request form in the graduate application to submit the letters. Contact the graduate academic program department if you have any questions.
Deadlines: University deadlines apply.
Other application requirements:
Applicants are admitted on a competitive basis.
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For Advising:
Eric Moden (for Master's students)
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Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Office - ECSS 4.231
Graduates of the program seek positions such as: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Software Programmer, Programmer Analyst, IT Consultant in public and private sector, Computer Systems Analyst, Database Administrator and Network Systems and Data Communication Analyst.
See Bureau of Labor Statistics for detailed salary information on these careers. Another great resource is the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
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