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E! Entertainment's "The Soup" franchise is cooking up a new sports-flavored edition for sibling cabler Versus.
"Sports Soup," which bows 10 p.m. Oct. 14, will be shot in L.A. and produced by the team behind "The Soup." Comedian Matt Iseman has been tapped to host.
The half-hour "Sports Soup" will air twice a week on Versus, Tuesday and Thursday nights, and promises an irreverent look at the sports world.
" 'Sports Soup' will offer viewers an undistorted glimpse into sports," said Marc Fein, exec VP of programming production and business operations at Versus. "It's our way of providing a voice to sports fans as the show will say what we are all thinking but no one is actually saying."
Like "The Soup," which skewers entertainment media, the new show will pull clips from a wide range of sports media — in this case, pregame and postgame shows, press conferences, local stations and other sources.
Iseman serves as a host on "Clean House," which runs on E! sister Style Network.
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Team 5 Investigates has uncovered stunning new information about alleged sex abuse at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club.
Sources told Team 5's Kathy Curran that four more people have come forward alleging sexual abuse, and a new allegation has surfaced against another former employee at the club.
Suzy Nauman told Team 5 Investigates she was concerned about the safety of her own children and warned the club more than a decade ago. She's frustrated that nothing was done until now.
"This is one very ugly thing that we know about now that I've suspected since 1994," said Nauman.
She said it's a dark secret that's been kept under wraps for decades at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club--allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of former program director William "Sully" Sullivan, who worked at the club from 1964 to 2002. Sullivan has since died.
Nauman was concerned about the safety of her own children and said she warned the club about Sullivan after a friend told her he was victimized when he was a little boy back in the 1970s.
"He said Sully had him get out of the swimming pool and had him come to his office. He said he had to check him, you know, underneath his swimming suit and proceeded to feel his private parts," said Nauman.
In an open letter from the club's executives, they said "the safety and well-being of your children is and has been our primary concern."
The club said it learned about the allegations in 2011, but police weren't notified until last month.
The letter said they "promptly hired a third-party to conduct an independent investigation" and that they were "deeply troubled to discover that similar allegations of abuse had been made concerning Mr. Sullivan."
Nauman told Team 5 she's frustrated her warnings were ignored.
"Other than the secretary saying, 'Oh, that's disgusting' and acting to have the director call me, I don't remember any real response. I did say to them he cannot be alone with kids," Nauman said. "I think any institution that has had pedophiles or suspected pedophiles there, if people looked the other way, I think it needs to come out for the health of the institution and protection of children."
Derek Curran, the executive director of the club, didn't want to comment on the new allegations.
Police are still investigating, trying to figure out what happened, who knew about the alleged abuse and why it wasn't reported to them until now.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office said it has received information from the public since these allegations were brought to light and would like anyone who has information to give them a call at 781-897-8400.


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Winter weather advisory issued for parts of Kansas, Missouri
Cold temperatures and rain expected in the area overnight could bring a few snowflakes and even light accumulation to some parts of the Kansas City area, particularly areas to the north.
The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for parts of northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri until 1 a.m. Monday.
"There's a chance that some of our counties may be touched by Old Man Winter one more time," KMBC 9 chief meteorologist Bryan Busby. Counties up near the Iowa and Nebraska borders are expected to have the best chance of seeing some accumulating snow.
Snow totals are expected to be an inch or less for Kansas City.
"A dusting, but that may be generous," he said.
Spring is still 10 days away, but Busby said it will feel like spring later this week, a process that starts when clear skies return.
"As we go through the daytime hours on Monday, things start to clear out once again," Busby said.
He predicted temperatures will make a slow bounce into the 50s and 60s by midweek.
"Flip flops are probably coming out on Friday," he said.
Stay with KMBC's FirstAlert Weather Team and KMBC.com for the latest on your weather.


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St. John's Episcopal Church in Youngstown recently presented the Youngstown Free Library with a check in the amount of $475, an outreach donation from the proceeds of the church's annual Strawberry Fest in June and its August rummage sale.
Over the years, St. John's has provided financial support to many different groups, organizations and institutions that serve the community. Pictured here are parishioners Karran Swayze and Mary Wieland of St. John's with library director Jan Gilgore. Gilgore said the money will be used for much-needed library materials for the children's room, and thanked the congregation for its generosity.


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A couple of weeks ago my girls attended a birthday party for one of their friends who loved art. I had a big bag of art supplies wrapped up and ready to go as a gift when I realized that I did not have a watercolor pad in there or anything she could use her new supplies on! So my daughter Lila and I made this art journal for her:
It was very simple to do. First I cut several sheets of 9″x12″ watercolor paper in half (9″x6″) then I found some chipboard that came on the back of a paper stack and cut it to 2-9″x6″ pieces. Lila chose paper to adhere to the covers. I punched the paper and covers with my bookbinding machine and inserted comb binding. You can do this with a bookbinding machine (tutorial here) or a heavy duty paper punch like a Crop-a-Dial (tutorial here). You can also use binder rings,2 would be plenty for a 6″ span. I used only watercolor paper because it went with the gift I was giving but you could use drawing paper, charcoal paper, bristol board, cardstock or even typing paper, mix it up!
So you might be wondering what I put in the gift bag for art supplies…OK here is my top 10 list of art products for kids (most aren't even that messy!) And no, I did not fit all of these in a bag, it was an assortment of Blendy pens/paints and paintastics for an 8 year old.
- Blendy Pens, man these are cool! They are like Copics for kids. You can touch the tips of the pens together then color with one of the markers and you get a cool gradient of color. It's awesome! And they come with papers with resist designs on them so you color and a pattern appears under the color. I have bought my own children many sets of blendy pens and they are a hit every time. It even comes with a bulb atomizer (airbrush) so you can spray apply the marker. I recommend getting them at ACmoore with a coupon.
- I love the Color Loco Brand so much I have to add Blendy Paints and Blendy pencils, Dotsa and Spraza to the list. Just plain fun and lots of juicy colors. You might want a set for your grown up art box too!
- Elmers Paintasticks. These are a paintbrush filled with liquid watercolor. They come in a variety of kits but if you can get a big pack of the colors I highly recommend it. I like this product for stampers too because after the paint is gone you can refill it with paint or ink OR with water for a waterbrush. They are low mess but still real watercolor paint. Again, this is a product I have purchased my my kids (and refilled!)
- Again from Elmers I like the Squeeze and Brush paints for preschoolers. My kids loved these from ages 2-5. And you can clean out the brush and refill it with tempera paint when it is used up. There is no waste. It can be messy but hey, with a toddler everything is messy.
- A rugged Easel. I bought my son a wooden easel with canvas bins at the bottom when he was 4. It had a roll of paper you could pull out and draw on. He loved it! It had a chalk board on one side and dry erase on the other. My kids still use the dry erase board every day, they write on it, draw, play games, it is so funny! A great investment. I paid about $30 for it at ACmoore because I used a coupon. I see these quite often at resale and thrift shops too.
- Play-doh. My kids are 7 & 9 and they still love it. They even like to make it.
- Sculpey 3 polymer clay. I like sculpey 3 because it is soft and easy for kids to mold. You can use any of those old play doh molds and cookie cutters on it too. I say ages 5 and up with supervision and the adult does the baking.
- Any of the Made by Me craft kits available at Wal-Mart. Typically I avoid Wal-Mart at all costs but for those times when you need groceries, baseball cleats and a birthday gift and you only have 45 minutes to shop it is a godsend. The made by me kids have all you need to complete the craft and they are well done. I really like the bead loom (ages 9 and up…I say 9 and up cuz I like to play with it too!) or the pony bead key chains (6 and up) as my favorite.
- A stash of basic supplies. Want to see joy on a kids face? Fill a bag with glitter, pom-poms, pipe cleaners, google eyes, fun foam stickers, colored paper, buttons, yarn, rhinestone, and glitter (did I say glitter twice…good!) Oh and the brighter the better!
- This might be a little beyond the basic birthday gift but I bought my daughter Lila this easel last year for her birthday: It is oak, very well made and had drawers inside it to hold all of her paints and bushes and it comes with a full set of watercolors, oils, acrylics and oil pastels. I retails for $150 but Artist Supply warehouse usually has it on sale for around $50 and that is what I paid for it. It folds up easily because it sits on a table and hose no legs to deal with like the typical French easels. It is a great pic for a serious child art prodigy… 🙂 (No, I am not THAT mom) It is really a great kit, just make sure the kids knows not to eat paint, this is really not a childs kit but I think any "artsy" kid would love it.
Well, there you have it, my pics for the best crafty gifts for kids. I'm sure any budding artist on your list would love any of them. Have a great Sunday and til next time happy crafting!
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Dr. Edward Hansen, professor of geology and environmental science at Hope College, will spend August to January conducting research in Sweden through an award from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
Hansen is the fifth member of the Hope faculty to receive one of the awards in the past five years. Vicki Ten Haken, associate professor of management, held one of the awards earlier during the current school year to teach and conduct research in Krakow, Poland. Dr. Victor Claar, associate professor of economics, spent the 2006-07 school year teaching at the AmericanUniversity of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, through a Fulbright award. In 2004, Dr. William Cohen, professor emeritus of history, and Dr. David Klooster, professor of English, received Fulbright awards to teach in Japan and Austria respectively.
Hansen will be learning research techniques in support of his ongoing investigation of the movement of sand dunes along the southeastern coast of Lake Michigan across the past 5,000 years.
Working collaboratively with student researchers, Hansen has been exploring the history of the dunes from as far south as Michigan City to as far north as Muskegon, with particular focus on the dune complex in the Holland area. He has worked on the research since about 1998.
Through the Fulbright support he will be working in the laboratory of a researcher at LundUniversity in Sweden who has pioneered a technique for studying storm history, a methodology that Hansen hopes will help his research team answer questions they have regarding West Michigan's sand dunes.
"We've been puzzling over the fact that we can't explain by lake levels alone the behavior of sand dunes in Michigan," he said. "I'll be learning the techniques and then will bring them back to Hope so that our students can learn them and we'll apply them to the storm history of the Great Lakes."
Also while in Sweden, Hansen will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, which is only about 45 minutes away, to meet with a research team that has been studying sand dunes in Europe.
His Fulbright-supported work has developed from another project based in Sweden. This month and next month, he and three students are working with researchers from LundUniversity and from the Geo Forschungs Zentrum in Potsdam, Germany, to map metamorphic rocks and structures in Sweden's Halland Province. Metamorphism, the process by which rocks are transformed by heat, pressure and chemically active fluids in the interior of the earth, was Hansen's original primary research focus, and he has continued to work on the topic even while continuing his sand dune investigations. He originally visited Sweden to follow up on reports of rocks that were similar to others that he had previously studied in India and in the course of talking with colleagues there learned about the storm-history researchers.
If the metamorphism project goes well, it, too, could become on-going. "The hope is that if we can get good results doing this, then we'll try to set up a continuing project," Hansen said.
It is an active summer abroad for students in the department. Another student is conducting research in Argentina with geologist Dr. Arancha Pinan-Llamas.
Hansen has taught at Hope since 1984. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1990 and to full professor in 2000. He served as chair of the department from 1995 until 2001. He was president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters during the 2005-06 school year, with his service to the academy also having included serving as a member-at large on the executive committee and leading the section in the geological sciences.
He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 with a B.S. in geology, and completed his doctorate in the geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago in 1983. After completing his Ph.D. he continued to work with his thesis advisor as a research associate for a year.
The flagship international educational program sponsored by the U.S. government, for more than 60 years the Fulbright Program has sponsored the exchange of students and scholars between the United States and many other countries around the world through a variety of initiatives to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world." The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to more than 140 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
Hansen will be on an academic-year sabbatical leave while in Sweden. Following his Fulbright-supported research, he plans to spend a month and a half in Berlin doing work related to his research on metamorphism, followed by time in Minnesota conducting additional work related to his sand-dune research.


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2011-12: Named Northeast Conference Swimmer of the Week on Nov. 8...Placed in the top three in all seven of her events at the NEC Championships: Finished first for the third consecutive year in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 4:53.71...Took first place in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:50.20...Helped the 800 yard freestyle relay team earn second place with a time of 7:25.80...Placed second in the 1,650 yard freestyle with a time of 17:10.66...Helped the 400 yard medley relay team earn second place with a time of 3:52.19...Helped Central earn second place in the 400 freestyle relay and third in the 200 freestyle relay with times of 3:27.40 and 1:36.32, respectively...Achieved several other top performances throughout regular-season meets.
2010-11: Earned gold in the 500 freestyle for the second consecutive year at the NEC Championships…Captured a silver medal in the 100 and 200 freestyle events.
2009-10: Won the 200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle events at the NEC Championships as a freshman…Also helped the Blue Devils 800 free relay team earn gold and to a silver medal relay…Named NEC Co-Outstanding Swimmer and Rookie for her performance at the meet...Set NEC record for the 500 free, 4:52.56…Earned NEC Swimmer of the Week honors, Jan. 12.
Before Central: Comes to New Britain as one of the first ever Connecticut State Open Champions to join the Blue Devils. A USA Junior National qualifier, Friedmann can swim and score in many events at the conference level and will greatly impact the championship meets.


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Hello Steve,atariancom wrote:I've had some fun, have been having problems partitioning sd card with latest hd drive version 9, I get can't write to boot and can't write to root. It gives me 3 partitions! That's a 4 meg, also tried with 8 meg and 2 meg.
It does a 128meg sd in compatible windows mod fine.
So is it hd driver or CE? So I tried hd driver on ultrasatan and that partitioned fine. So I can get around the problem, but would be nice to be able to do it within CE.
Tried it on a mega ste tos 2.06 and an ste under 1.62 & 2.06 same result.
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Wednesday Wheelers clubrun (cancelled)
Date: Wednesday 8 Apr 2020
Time: 10:00am
Location: North Baddesley
Riders start in groups of 12 according to speed and ability with most groups stopping for refreshments – distances will vary depending upon the group. Ask the group leader the anticipated distance and sign on before you start the ride.
Please bring a pump, spare inner tube(s) and tools. We request that you use mudguards in wet, muddy conditions. Riders are requested not to use tri-bars or headphones when riding with the Club.
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Not everything that happens during the NBA lockout is bad: Delonte West makes his job applications public, Delonte West makes his broken-down Ford Bronco public, Chris Paul goes on Family Feud, and—provided that they cover up the Adidas logo on their shirts—Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire get to hang out with a puppet named Grover on public access television.
Amar'e, it's clear, has been dreaming of this moment since the day he became too old to watch Sesame Street; Carmelo has taken the "just smile" cue far too seriously and seemingly cannot do anything but, well, smile. If there were an Emmy for "Most Consistent Blank Smile Through The Entirety Of A Performance," Carmelo would absolutely win.
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But wait! That's not all! For the low, low price of €145, you can also:
...shake to change music/pictures/wallpaper of this phone, which will take you to fashionable experience. There are still comes with QQ, Bluetooth, Games, video player/recorder and E-book and so on. Bluetooth earphone can only support the master SIM card calls but not the slave SIM card calls.
Incidentally, according to Favordeals.com, people who bought this phone also bought the Porsche Car Style Cell Phone With Camera and TF Card (it looks like an alien sex toy with some chrome tape on it) and the not-trademark-infringing-at-all Car Shape Cell Phone Dual SIM Standby. These people are doubtlessly fashionable and keeping up with the nowadays events. Would that we could say the same.
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Stock Spams and Scams
You may have received "spam" or junk email recommending you invest in a stock, perhaps even invest in that stock before it is first publicly offered for sale in an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Federal and state laws protect consumers from misleading and unwanted spam. There are also regulations on the content of these messages that involve securities and what the senders must tell you. In spite of these laws and regulations, stock spams continue to pose a risk to investors. This Investor Alert explains how to spot and protect yourself from spam problems.
What Is Spam?
Spam is unsolicited electronic mail sent to a large number of addresses, usually advertising some product, service, business, website, scheme or strategy. Stock spams are the electronic equivalent of a boiler room sales operation in which someone who doesn't know you tries to sell you securities, like penny stocks, or puts aggressive—and suspect—messages on an electronic message board to spur your interest in a company.
Is Spam Regulated?
Federal legislation was enacted in 2003 to combat spam and a majority of states now have laws designed to control spam. You should know that although spam is regulated in a number of ways described below, many aspects of it are unregulated.
Federal Laws
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act) requires unsolicited commercial email messages to be labeled and bans false or misleading header information. It also prohibits deceptive or misleading subject lines and requires that emails give recipients an opt-out option (an ability for the recipient to stop receiving future commercial messages from the sender). The law also requires commercial email to contain clear and conspicuous notice that the message is an advertisement or solicitation, and contain the emailer's valid physical postal address.
State Laws
Numerous states have laws prohibiting unsolicited commercial email and false or misleading routing information. Many states also prohibit the distribution of software designed to falsify routing information. In addition, many states also require that the spam identify the sender and tell how to opt out of getting more spam from that sender.
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Enforcement
More than a decade ago, the SEC created the Office of Internet Enforcement specifically to fight Internet fraud, including schemes using spam. The SEC requires online communications touting or recommending stocks to disclose the person or entity that paid for the communication, including the amount and type of the payment. The SEC has brought scores of enforcement cases since August 1995 that involve violations of the law using spam. The SEC has investigated a variety of email frauds such as:
- "Pump and Dump" scams where messages are sent urging readers to quickly buy a stock, based on a future company or economic development. The message senders may be insiders or paid promoters who gain by selling their shares after unsuspecting investors pump up the stock price.
- Pyramid schemes where promoters claim that they could turn a small investment into a large investment within a short period of time, but participants make money solely by recruiting new participants into the program.
- "Risk-free" or "guaranteed" investments in exotic-sounding investments. There is no "risk free" investment. Offers of "guaranteed" investments should be viewed very suspiciously.
- "Inside information." Someone claims to have inside or non-public information about a company or product that will soon send the stock price soaring. This information is almost always false and designed to get people to invest when they otherwise wouldn't. In any event, trading on "inside information" can be a violation of the law.
- "Off-shore" deceptive investment schemes from another country targeting U.S. investors. Any foreign fraud is difficult for U.S. law enforcement agencies to investigate or rectify.
- False promises of pending initial public offerings (IPOs). In one such case, a private company message announced its upcoming SEC-approved IPO. The company raised money fraudulently by offering "free stock" credits if you paid an administrative fee and saying that you could redeem your stock credits for common stock when the company completed the IPO. The SEC did not approve the offering, and the company never took real steps to issue an IPO.
For more detail on these scams, see the SEC's Internet Fraud: How to Avoid Internet Investment Scams.
Brokerage firms regulated by FINRA and their employees must abide by applicable federal and state anti-spam laws. In any communication with the public, FINRA rules require that a member identify itself and that investors be given enough information to make a sound investment. FINRA rules also prohibit statements making promises.
Remember, though, that FINRA can only regulate the actions of registered brokerage firms and their employees. While all U.S. brokerage firms have to be registered with FINRA to do business with the public, most problem spams are likely sent to you by non-regulated businesses or individuals.
Problem Spams FINRA Has Seen
Touting a Stock
The most common types of investment-related spam are those touting a stock. Remember that "tout" means to peddle in an aggressive or persistent way, but it also means to give a tip or solicit a bet on. These touts are sometimes made as part of a pump and dump scheme. Many touts look like they are giving unbiased news about an investment, but the spammer may own the stock and want others to buy it so the spammer's stock will go up in price. Absolute strangers will not offer you a genuine "deal of a lifetime."
Touts and Other Spams on OTC Bulletin Board and Pink Sheet Stocks
Most touted stocks are infrequently traded, not well known and can move up or down in price quickly. They are usually quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) or in the Pink Sheets. The OTCBB and the Pink Sheets are quotation mediums for broker/dealers that contain quotations for thousands of over-the-counter stocks not listed on any of the major stock markets. Neither the OTCBB nor the Pink Sheets require the companies to meet set minimum assets or revenues. Neither the OTCBB nor the Pink Sheets is an issuer listing service or a stock market, and they should not be confused with The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. or with a national securities exchange. To learn more about the differences, go to the OTCBB website. To learn more about the Pink Sheets, go to the Pink Sheets website.
All companies that are quoted on the OTCBB—but not the Pink Sheets—must file financial and other information with the SEC or another regulatory authority. You can check out an OTCBB company's SEC information on the SEC website.
Pre-IPO Spam
Many problem spams and other Internet advertising involve IPO and pre-IPO investing. Pre-IPO investing is buying private placements of shares of stock in the hopes of selling the shares for a profit when the company goes public. Many of the statements in pre-IPO spams are promissory—no one knows if the company will actually do the IPO.
Some of the red flags in pre-IPO spams are predictions of large price gains, promising the ability to "get in on the ground floor," and offering examples or projections of very profitable IPOs.
There are many risks of buying privately placed shares, especially when none of the company's stock is publicly traded. You cannot be certain when or even if the company will ever take steps that could result in a public market for the securities. This means that you cannot be sure that if you purchase pre-IPO you will be able to sell your shares even if the company goes public, since privately purchased shares come with restrictions. It is difficult to determine a fair market value for the investment. Pre-IPO companies are often new and untested companies without revenue, a real product line or experienced management. So even when they are legitimate, they are highly risky.
Spotting Problem Spam
Problem spams frequently include:
- Price targets or predictions of exponential growth in a short period of time.
- Rumors of coming major news such as "inside" or "confidential information," an "upcoming favorable research report," a "prospective merger or acquisition," or the announcement of a "dynamic new product." Sometimes spammers say what the "news" is going to be.
- Standard corporate developments, like contracting with a supplier, presented as if they are major events.
- Mention of large, unnamed corporate partners.
- Popular terms, such as Internet or biotech, to increase the impact of the message.
- Urgency, such as "You must act now!"
- "Guarantees" that you will not lose money on a particular securities transaction.
- Unusually high yields or returns—significantly higher than available alternatives—on a dividend or interest-paying instrument.
If You Get Spammed
A high-pressure sales pitch can mean trouble on the phone or on the Internet. Do not believe anyone who tells you, "Invest quickly or you will miss out on a once-in-a lifetime opportunity." If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Regulators strive to protect investors as a whole and do not start cases for the sole purpose of getting money back to you following a fraud. You can hire a lawyer to try to get your money back, but you need to know that recovery is rare. By far the best protection is to stay away from bad deals in the first place. You, the investor, are in the best position to protect yourself.
Investigate before you invest. Find out who sent the message to you. Ask whether the claims can be documented. Verify whether the claims are true before you send a nickel of your money.
If you are suspicious about an offer or if you think the claims might be exaggerated or misleading, contact the SEC Investor Complaint Center. Use FINRA BrokerCheck to check if the firm or individual spamming you is currently or formerly registered with FINRA or a national securities exchange, or with a current or former investment adviser firm, or by calling our BrokerCheck hotline at (800) 289-9999. If you think that the problem spammers may be registered with FINRA, you can file a complaint at FINRA's Investor Complaint Center.
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The good news kept coming for the Rutgers men's basketball program today when highly regarded point guard Jerome Seagears became the latest member of the Scarlet Knights' blockbuster 2011 class.
The 6-foot-1 Seagears, who is ranked No. 99 overall and No. 21 among point guards by Rivals.com, gave a non-binding commitment to head coach Mike Rice. He joins a haul that already was ranked No. 12 nationally.
"I'm definitely excited," Seagears said. "We've got a lot of great talent coming in."
A senior at Flora MacDonald Academy (N.C.), Seagears plays for the D.C. Assault AAU program, which has ties to Rutgers associate head coach David Cox. He is known as a strong ball-handler and defender with an aggressive edge.
Asked to describe his strengths, Seagears said, "definitely a leader, athletic, versatile. I like to get everybody involved." He considers himself a pure point but said, "I can definitely play off the ball."
Seagears had visited Seton Hall, Cincinnati and George Mason and also held offers from Maryland, Arizona and Boston College, among others. He said it came down to Rutgers and Cincinnati.
"It was the relationship I had between the coaching staff, from Mike Rice to Coach Dave. It was a great vibe for me there," he said. "It's going to be a great experience starting a new era."
Seagears is the second elite point guard to sign on for next year. St. Anthony point guard Myles Mack (ranked No. 119 by Rivals) committed three weeks ago. Seagears said he didn't know Mack but was looking forward to playing with him. "We're going to work off each other and succeed," he said.
They will be joined by 6-foot-8 Kadeem Jack (No. 33), 6-9 Derrick Randall (No. 139) and 6-6 Malick Kone. Kone is a D.C. Assault teammate.
Rice still has two open scholarships for next year. Their commitments are not iron-clad until the fall signing period in early November.


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Gay marriage: The issues before the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has a lengthy menu of possible outcomes to choose from in deciding the legal challenges to California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Here are the possibilities and how they may affect the right to marry for same-sex couples:
Proposition 8 case
-- The Supreme Court could take the most sweeping approach, finding that a state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the equal protection rights of gay and lesbian couples. Such an outcome would effectively wipe out laws in 37 states that now expressly forbid gay marriage.
-- The justices can endorse the Obama administration's so-called "eight state" solution, which argues states such as California that provide full benefits to same-sex couples but nevertheless ban marriage are running afoul of anti-discrimination protections. While that would not end all state bans, it would be a large step toward making it increasingly difficult for states to continue to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
-- The court could adopt the narrow reasoning of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found Proposition 8 unconstitutional because it stripped away a previous right to marry in California. Such a ruling would legalize gay marriage in California, but it would not apply to other states.
-- The justices could take a states' rights approach and find the courts should not be in the business of deciding the issue, leaving it to the political process on a state-by-state basis.
-- The Supreme Court can duck the central question of deciding a state's right to ban gay marriage. The court has asked both sides to address whether the backers of Proposition 8 have the legal right, or standing, to defend a state ballot initiative when the governor and attorney general have refused to do so. If they do not, then the Supreme Court would have no legal controversy to consider and the case would return to its 2010 status, when a federal judge declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
There may be further legal tangles in that event, but it would likely open the door for same-sex marriages in California.
Defense of Marriage Act case
-- The court could find it is unconstitutional to deny federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples who live in states that have legalized same-sex marriage. That is what a federal appeals court in New York found in the case that justices are now reviewing.
-- The court could take this approach without striking down the act entirely, or it could issue a more sweeping ruling that the law must be invalidated.
-- The court could uphold the acta, concluding, as its supporters argue, that Congress had a right to define marriage in 1996 and that the federal government can determine eligibility for benefits without trampling on state interests.
-- As with the Proposition 8 case, the Supreme Court can save for another day a decision on the Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality. The court has asked for arguments on whether House Republicans can defend the law in place of the executive branch. If the court determines it does not have legal jurisdiction to consider the Republicans' arguments, the lower court ruling remains intact for now, invalidating the act in part of the country but leaving the main legal issue unresolved.


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Fourth-ranked US wireless operator T-Mobile has become the latest mobile carrier to join Canonical's Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG), bringing the group's total membership to 13.
"T-Mobile USA reaches almost 300 million American consumers and business people today," Canonical said in a statement on Thursday. "As a member of the CAG, T-Mobile USA will join discussions to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones."
The move makes T-Mobile the second US carrier to participate in the Ubuntu smartphone effort, after market leader Verizon Wireless signed up in June.
Other members include China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Everything Everywhere, Korea Telecom, LG UPlus, MTN Group, Portugal Telecom, SK Telecom, Smartfren, Telecom Italia, and Telstra.
As members of the CAG, carriers "have the opportunity to be a launch partner and gain the right to ship Ubuntu in markets they serve," according to Canonical's Ubuntu phone website.
Not that there's much to ship, so far. Canonical has been working to transform Ubuntu into a viable smartphone platform for more than half a year now, but progress has been slow and handsets running the OS in its current form function as little more than developer prototypes.
There haven't been many signs of support from hardware makers, either. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been pitching manufacturers a unique, hybrid computing model, in which an Ubuntu phone will function as a full-fledged Linux PC when it's plugged into a keyboard and monitor.
"The phone makers I speak to are excited about this," Shuttleworth says – but they don't seem to be so excited that they're kicking in funds to make it happen. Instead, the erstwhile space tourist has launched an unprecedented $32m (£20.8m) crowdfunding campaign to build his pilot device, the Ubuntu Edge.
"This is an interesting exercise in working with the phone industry to see if we can connect to an early-adopter crowd," Shuttleworth says.
Unfortunately, the effort doesn't appear to be going all that well. Despite a strong start, donations to the project have slowed, and according to consulting firm Open Analytics, it has little chance of reaching its funding goal.
Even so, Canonical claims the Ubuntu Touch OS itself will be ready to ship for smartphones and tablets by the fourth quarter of 2013, should any manufacturers choose to preload it on more-typical hardware.
While they wait, T-Mobile and the other CAG members will meet to discuss such issues as how to build a developer ecosystem around the mobile Ubuntu platform, how to avoid platform fragmentation, and the best ways to implement payment processing and revenue sharing models, among other topics.
They'll also try to figure out how best to market Ubuntu to consumers. The carriers are hungry for an alternative to Android's market dominance, but with rival open source platforms Firefox OS and Tizen nipping at its heels, Ubuntu enters an increasingly crowded market, and it can afford few missteps. ®


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Just as Irish novelist Flann O'Brien out-Joyced James Joyce with his mind-bending masterwork "At Swim-Two-Birds," Irish playwright Arthur Riordan takes the sort of too-true-to-be-real story that is catnip to Tom Stoppard and proceeds to fold, spindle, and verbally mutilate it into a high-spirited — if occasionally aggravating — pastiche in "Improbable Frequency," now in its local premiere with Strawdog Theatre Company.
O'Brien himself appears as a character — albeit as Myles na Gopaleen, one of several monikers adopted by the man who was christened Brian O'Nolan. So does British poet John Betjeman, along with his teddy bear that provided the inspiration for Sebastian Flyte's Aloysius in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." And a crazy cat named Erwin Schrodinger (after the Austrian physicist) is also running around, chasing skirts and particle waves with equal relish.
Funny thing is, just as Joyce, Lenin, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara were all in Zurich during World War I, prompting Stoppard's "Travesties," O'Brien, Betjeman, and physicist Schrodinger were all in Dublin during the early days of World War II. (Betjeman was actually gathering intelligence on the IRA.) This provides the matrix for Riordan's pun-laden spy thriller with songs, in which buttoned-down Tristram Faraday (Michael Dailey), a "cruciverbalist" or crosswords expert, finds himself undercover in Dublin.
There he tries to untangle a web of deceptions that, in addition to the aforementioned luminaries, involves the IRA, a reedy-voiced radio announcer who may be transmitting secret messages to the Germans despite Ireland's official neutrality, a sultry fellow secret agent, and a rosy Irish lass named Philomena.
A hit in 2004 at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Riordan's piece features an infectious Celtic/pop score by Bell Helicopter (aka. Conor Kelly and Sam Park), performed live in director Kyle Hamman's production by a sterling four-piece band under the inspired musical direction of Mike Przygoda. Ranging from barroom ditties to electronica, the songs indulge in the same over-the-top wordplay that drives a great deal of Riordan's script. (It's obvious that he's spent a lot of time with O'Brien's novels, where goony quasi-scientific footnotes and alternative realities run amok.) A song in the first act, "Be Careful Not to Patronize the Irish," manages to name-check just about every stereotype in the book about Emerald Isle denizens, while also underscoring the fragile relationships between the Irish and English during the war that the former referred to as "The Emergency."
Granted, this sort of self-conscious smarty-pants display of linguistic brio sometimes plays better on the page than the stage, and Hamman's staging in the low-ceilinged Strawdog space, despite a clever flexible set by Joanna Iwanicka, sometimes feels trapped in the layers-upon-layers of cultural references and cross-references. But the cast, all of whom except the admirably understated Dailey play multiple roles, deliver delicious silly-putty portrayals.
Jason Grimm nails both the fey Betjeman and the quavery announcer, and Scott Danielson provides comic heft for Myles and Muldoon, the IRA thug. Christina Hall and Sarah Goeden offer two sides of feminine wiles as sex-bomb Agent Green and fresh-faced Philomena. Though Riordan's story may appeal most strongly to O'Brien fans (which I most decidedly am), I suspect that the performances here will grow more assured over the run.
As it is, "Improbable Frequency" more often than not provides a welcome blast of high-brow gooniness to melt the late-winter blahs.
When: Through March 31
Where: Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N. Broadway
Running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Tickets: $28 at 866-811-4111 or strawdog.org


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Last week, we kicked off our new LOLVogue feature with a nidded scarf, fork earrings and an invisible Vespa. Then, on Monday we unleashed a new pack of LOLVogues — including a blank page from the September issue in need of a caption. There have been dozens of submissions deserving of praise (an honorable mention goes to Jezebel reader "slap.dance!" for the double-entendre'd: i gets high on camera. i pwnd k8 mozz.) but only one, of course, can be crowned the winner. After the jump, we mock-up the gold-medalist:
Congratulations to PinkSoxHat, who will receive a coupon for a couple of McDonald's cheeseburgers. May you eat them in the best of health as you dream of a Wintour wonderland.
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Here's a gang of new shots from Anthony Hopkins' new film "The Rite" which comes out on January 28th. The film revolves around a skeptical student at an exorcism school and features the most disappointing panty raid you've ever seen.
Now sit down kids and I'll tell you about how video games used to be played on the PC and were mostly just a lot of pointing and clicking. And by far my favorite of the genre was "7th Guest" which will be landing on your iPhone and iPad in the near future. Of course I never saw a reason to have an iPad until now and I refuse to pay for one just to play a 20 year old game, but still, this is awesome news.
Joe R. Lansdale, the guy who wrote "Bubba Ho Tep" among other things, will see his heartwarming zombie story "Christmas with the Dead" made into a movie sometime next year. Yet more proof that if you wait long enough you'll never have to read another book again.
Here's a trailer for the Swedish ax murderer flick "Blood Runs Cold". Apparently the film was shot on a budget of just 5k, but honestly it looks so good you can hardly tell. Which is a bummer because I wanted nothing more in this world than to make some sarcastic comments about the Swedes. You win this round!
A man in San Diego is under arrest after he barged into his father's room and attacked him with a samurai sword. There is absolutely no reason anyone should be allowed to own a samurai sword. If you have one sitting on your mantel then you're really just waiting for a friend to get drunk and stab you, and guess what, you'll deserve it.
Now this is more like it. A drunk teen in Connecticut is being brought up on charges after assaulting her father with a Christmas Tree. Mean? Yes, but check out the picture of her and tell me you haven't fallen in love with her hair. Tell me! That's right I didn't think so.


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As a standard $999 performance PC, the Gateway FX6850-51u and its fast Intel Core i7 2600 CPU is a fair deal. The problem is that the stylized case suggests that this is a gaming PC, but despite its fast chip, an anemic graphics card holds back its 3D performance. This PC will provide a speedy nongaming experience, or serve as a respectable upgrade platform. We just wish it didn't feel like such a cynical, unbalanced take on a budget gaming desktop.
Functionally speaking, the FX6850-51u's case has some useful features. We like the removable hard-drive bays that slide out through the front panel. The media card reader juts out conveniently from the front-facing upper corner, and the gadget tray on the top of the system is always welcome.
On a store shelf, though, this PC, with its red case lights and its molded plastic "armor" plating, clearly has the gaming demographic in mind. Unfortunately, it lacks the components to offer compelling PC gaming performance.
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|Intel P67
|3.4GHz Intel Core i7 2600
|4.0GHz Intel Core i5 2500K (overclocked)
|8GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|1.5GB Nvidia GeForce GT 440
|1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 560Ti
|Hard drives
|1TB, 7,200 rpm
|1TB 7,200 rpm
|Optical drive
|dual-layer DVD burner
|Blu-ray/DVD-burner combo
|Operating system
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
It's possible that Gateway has designed itself into a corner with its FX-line. Vendors typically use the same case for at least a few CPU generations, and with a less stylized design, the FX6850-51u would make a reasonable system for home productivity or consumer-level digital media editing. Its Core i7 2600 CPU is the current flagship processor in Intel's second-generation Core family (aka Sandy Bridge), and with 8GB of RAM and a lower-end GPU with plenty of video memory, this system is competitively priced at $999. As you can see on our application performance tests below, it will handle Photoshop, video rendering, and other media tasks better than some of its more expensive competition.
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Our primary problem with this system is that despite its up-to-date CPU, its low-end GeForce GT 440 graphics card can't muster enough 3D power to post even 60 frames per second on Far Cry 2, our least demanding gaming test.
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|1,600 x 1,200 (high, 4x aa)
|1,280 x 1,024 (medium, 4x aa)
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|1,920x1,200 (DirectX 10, 4x aa, very high)
|1,440x900 (DirectX 10, 4x aa, very high)
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|2,560x,1,536 (DirectX 11, very high)
|1,920x1,080 (DirectX 11, very high)
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BEIJING — China allowed its yuan to sink to an 11-year low Monday after President Donald Trump sent jittery financial markets tumbling by announcing new tariff hikes and threatening to block American companies from doing business with this country.
The escalation in the fight over trade and technology prompted warnings that chances for a settlement were disappearing.
The yuan declined to 7.1468 to the dollar, a relatively modest change from Friday's low point of 7.0927 but its weakest rate since January 2008. The yuan has lost 6.5% from this year's high on Feb. 28.
Chinese leaders have promised to avoid "competitive devaluation" to hold down export prices in the face of Trump's tariff hikes. But regulators are trying to make the state-set exchange rate more market oriented. That allows investor jitters about the tariff war to push the yuan lower.
Trump announced more tariff increases Friday on Chinese goods and said he was ordering American companies to stop dealing with China. He said later he was threatening to use emergency powers under a 1977 law that targets rogue regimes, terrorists and drug traffickers.
That came after Beijing announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of American imports in retaliation for earlier U.S. increases.
"This tit-for-tat escalation shows how unlikely a trade deal and de-escalation have become," said Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics in a report.
Chinese have hardened their position, especially after Trump imposed curbs in May on technology sales to telecom equipment giant Huawei, China's first global tech brand.
"It does not appear likely they will yield in the face of more economic pressure," said UBS economists Tao Wang, Ning Zhang and Jennifer Zhong in a report.
A weaker yuan would help Chinese exporters cope with U.S. hikes tariffs. But it also would hurt China by making it costlier for real estate developers and others to repay billions of dollars in foreign debt.
Trump said Friday he would raise planned tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods from 10% to 15%. The U.S. Trade Representative said tariffs already imposed on another $250 billion in Chinese imports would rise from 25% to 30% on Oct. 1 following a public comment period.
That was in response to Beijing's announcement of tariff increases on $75 billion of American imports. The government said it also would go ahead with penalties on imports of U.S.-made autos and auto parts that were announced last year but suspended while the two sides negotiated.
The Chinese government said those increases would take effect in two batches on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. That matches the timeline for Trump's plan to extend tariff hikes to $300 billion of Chinese imports.
The latest U.S. tariff hikes are "based on irrational arrogance and enthusiasm," the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said Sunday.
Chinese government spokespeople have appealed to Washington to reach a compromise to end the dispute that threatens to tip the global economy into recession. That came after Trump warned Americans might need to endure economic pain to get long-term results.
Negotiators met last month in Shanghai and are due to meet next month in Washington. But they have given no sign of progress.
The two sides are deadlocked over how to enforce any deal. China insists Trump's punitive tariffs must be lifted as soon as a deal takes effect. Washington says at least some must stay to make sure Beijing keeps any promises it makes.
Chinese exporters have been battered by a plunge in sales to the United States, their biggest and richest foreign market. But communist leaders are resisting pressure to roll back plans for government-led creation of global competitors in robotics and other technologies.
Europe and Japan echo U.S. complaints that Beijing's industrial plans violate its market-opening commitments and are based on stealing or pressuring companies to hand over technology. Some American officials worry they might erode U.S. industrial leadership.
The weakness of the yuan, also known as the renminbi, or "people's money," is among U.S. grievances against Beijing. American officials complain a weak yuan gives Chinese exporters an unfair price edge in foreign markets and helps swell the massive U.S. trade deficit with China.
China's central bank sets the exchange rate each morning and allows the yuan to fluctuate by 2% against the dollar during the day. The central bank can buy or sell currency — or order commercial banks to do so — to dampen price movements.
The People's Bank of China allowed the yuan to fall past the politically sensitive level of seven to the dollar early this month. Previously, economists had expected the central bank to put a floor under the currency at that level to avoid spooking financial markets.


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Calgary, AB – Calgary International Airport (YYC) celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the White Hat Volunteer program today. Representatives of The Calgary Airport Authority, members of City Council and YYC airport partners joined together to celebrate this significant milestone and to thank the volunteers for their many years of service to the airport community.
The White Hat Volunteer program began in 1991 with 49 individuals, dressed in the now famous white Stetson and red vest. Over the last 20 years, this program has grown significantly, boasting over 240 volunteers who greet and offer a warm western welcome to the millions of passengers who travel through Calgary every year.
"YYC's White Hat Volunteers are a testament of Calgary's spirit of volunteerism and truly embody the meaning of western hospitality," said Stephan Poirier, Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for The Calgary Airport Authority. "Our volunteers are an important part of the passenger experience and we are extremely grateful for their hard work and dedication in making YYC one of the best airports in the world."
Since 1991, hundreds of White Hat Volunteers have served the airport community by greeting passengers, welcoming conferences and conventions, escorting dignitaries and VIP's, and shuttling passengers needing assistance in the YYC Club Cars. Together these individuals have contributed over 700,000 volunteer hours and have performed more than 2,500 White Hat Welcome Ceremonies with over 8,000 participants. They help and personally interact with more than 1 million passengers per year.
"The service they provide is invaluable, and they continually go above and beyond to serve the travelling public. We look forward to seeing the program continue to grow over the next several years, with many more milestones in our future," said Poirier.
The Calgary Airport Authority is a not-for-profit, non-share capital corporation incorporated under the Alberta Regional Airports Authorities Act. Since 1992, it has been responsible for the management, maintenance and development of Calgary International Airport and Springbank Airport under long-term lease from the Government of Canada.
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Cuban Matings
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- Author: Jojo Brown
- Page: 154
- Word Count: 38500
- Publication Date: November 29, 2010
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Max and Anna are on holidays and both on the prowl. Max wants to add as many notches to his bedpost as possible in the two short weeks. Anna needs to find a way to let go of the past and come back to her self. Could this Cuban holiday be the answer to these best friends' quests? Will they still be as close afterward? Warning: Contains one small m/m scene With secondary character
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May 15th, 2014
9/11 Museum film stirs controversy
New York (CNN) - Thursday's opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York was 13 years in the making.
Museum officials consulted hundreds of people - survivors, relatives of the victims, rescue workers, community leaders and others - as they determined what should be included in the exhibits occupying the halls beneath the footprints of the Twin Towers.
While that effort has been applauded by many for being a fitting, emotional telling of one of the darkest days in U.S. history, it is not without its controversies. Among them is a seven-minute film entitled "The Rise of Al Qaeda."
The documentary tells the story of the growth of a worldwide terrorist organization. The film, which features video of al Qaeda training camps and previous attacks, plays next to a room where photos of the 9/11 attackers are on display.
The inclusion of that story is not the problem. But the use of words like "jihad" and "Islamist" in the narration prompted some Muslim Americans and others to call for edits.FULL STORY
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text: I'm trying to get special characters from a text box object. With a standard text box I get nothing but simple text. With a RichText box I can at least get the string delimiter (vbCr vbLF) which I don't need. If, however, I enter a string like "ABC^L" where ^L is Ctrl-L (octal 12 or 0C hex), the ^L character is not in the buffer returned to me. All I get is the ABCvbCr-vbLF. I guess the system "thinks" it is doing me a favor striping off useless characters. Problem is they aren't useless to me. Any suggestions?


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In a debut of sorts at IMCA's annual conference in National Harbor, Md. on Tuesday, TD Ameritrade demonstrated its new thinkpipes platform for AdvisorOne. Thinkpipes is an "advanced, highly customizable trading platform for advisors that is designed to meet their trading needs for equities or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as those looking to start or expand their use of options strategies," said Bob Mahoney, director of technology product management for TDAI.
The platform is based is based on its thinkorswim technology, the options trading platform acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2009 and integrated into other company offerings in August of last year.
Mahoney ran through its tabbed-page design to view streaming quotes, charts and order executions, all with an eye towards letting the advisor "drill down to get needed information and as specific as possible in the trades they make. It uses drag-and-drop functionality, which enables advisors to build customizable screens to view account and market data in a way that best meets their individual needs. Filtering enables advisors to search for specific assets across multiple accounts, or view expiring option contracts.
"Advisors can now experience potential cost savings on streaming market data delivered to their desktop," Mahoney said. "Thinkpipes offers advisors with real-time Level II quote data to provide insight of a stock's depth and price action throughout the trading day. Whether it's a perspective from 20 years to 20 seconds, advisors are able to analyze historic market data using more than 150 available chart studies and indicators."
It also allows advisors the ability to monitor the day's news as it happens within the thinkpipes homepage with live streaming CNBC programming.
"We were interested in getting in with this product at the beta testing level," Kim Camarda, president of Camarda Financial outside of Jacksonville, Fla., said when contacted by AdvisorOne. "We knew and used thinkorswim, and had been since around the time that it was acquired by TD Ameritrade. Thinkpipes is geared more towards active trading, more so than the Veo platform, which is what we wanted. It's a faster and cleaner technology than Veo, and the screen structure gives me the ability to see more."
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Welcome to all the Got Books? event visitors and a special hello to my regular readers. I'm Janelle, and this is my Brimful Curiosities blog. Sometimes children's books...sometimes not - that pretty much sums it up for those not familiar with my little corner of the blog world. We read a lot of children's books in our home. Some of those books we review. Sometimes we do crafts. And once and awhile at night, when all is still and quiet, I read a lot of everything else.
So, here's the deal. This summer has been far busier than I expected. With last minute vacations, all the summer activities and children that want to spend every last minute of the day outdoors, I haven't had as much time for blogging or reading. I've encountered difficulties trying to find the time just to post my weekly Full to the Brim Children's Book Giveaway posts (by the way, if you like giveaways, be sure to check them out). That means I have a stack of books that I'm hoping to review soon and many more in the to-be-read pile. And, to top it off, my list of want-to-reads grows larger every day as I read all those awesome reviews out there. I couldn't decide what to giveaway for this event or what book(s) I wanted to highlight, so I'm keeping it simple and leaving that decision up to you.
For the Got Books event, I am giving away a children's or YA book of your choice $20 or under from Amazon.com. (Winner specifies their choice of book after contest ends.) But to enter for your chance, you must answer the following question:
We have about a month left of summer before school starts. What new book (published in 2010) should my young children and I read together before our summer vacation ends? Or, what new 2010 book would you recommend I read during one of my late night, quiet moments sans children?
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I just finished a logic mapping of all cpu pins between the working and the faulty cpc's. I found differences for the above pins:SIGNAL PIN BAD A13 3 all FLASHING REDA14 4 all FLASHING RED YELA15 5 all FLASHING REDD2 12 YG /INT 16 G /IORQ 20 R /BUSAK 23 R GND 29 GSo, as it seems there are differences mostly on some pins of the address bus where instead of having constant light of all 3 leds,i got flashing (with a period of ~10Hz) red and red yellow leds. So, does this mean the problem lies to os/fw rom chip or any of the other larger chips (8255, AY Sound chip etc) might have problem too?Btw, robertm, as i have a rather big expecrience using 3.5" floppy drives with a cpc, i can tell you for sure that almost ANY 3.5" 1.44mb IDE floppy disk drive for pc, can be directly connected using a ribbon cable! Only thing you need to do is to connect pins 1 and 2 for the "ready" signal! Of course you can also put switches for making the external drive "A" or "B" (pins 23,24) and choosing side of disk (pins 3,4)!I'm making such ribbon cables for some years now, and i have tried dozens of different floppy drives, up until know all seem to work just fine! ;-)
But how do you manage something like this:Monitor a UART signal, trigger on a particular word and show what's on the data and Address bus for the next 5 seconds.I know how to do this on a proper logic analyser and it's typical of the type of test I might need to do, but I've no idea how I'd do it with just 8 channels unless I repeated the test several times and even then I would be unsure of the results.Bryce.
Well the simple answer is 'with FPGA'. Back in the 80's we didn't have FPGA! and we seemed to manage with our dungy old 20MHz oscilloscopes.
I am also not limited to pocket money and cutting the neighbours grass to earn money
Technically, that is a logic analyser, but it's far from what I would consider "decent". It might just be enough for the job here, although it would be much more complicated and slow compared to using a proper logic analyser and it definitely wouldn't be enough to fault find anything even slightly more complicated. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wanted to regularly fault find digital circuits. Of course a real logic analyser is going to set you back a lot more, but it's worth it if you intend making electronics your hobby.
A digital oscilloscope would be a marvelous tool indeed, but at the moment i can't afford for something like that. The logic tester on the other side, seems more interesting, and if i could make all those checks you mention, then i might get one!
Off course, as I said earlier, it all boils down to how much you intend to use it and how complicated your target device is. If you intend doing regular fixing / developing then I'd still recommend spending a little more and getting a semi-decent MSO. That way you have an oscilloscope and analyser that will serve you well. Something like this will get you a lot further than those low-cost USB solutions:
Edit: Just looking at the offer for the USB analyser on ebay again I noticed a "deal killer" in my opinion: The input impedance is 100K!! That means that connecting this to a circuit has quite a large influence on how the circuit reacts. This would probably be ok for the CPC, but definitely not for anything else. An analyser should have at least a 1Mohm impendance. They also don't mention the voltage range it works in, which is a bit worrying. Is there a page where all the specs are listed?
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WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- Last time a non-white, under-50 junior senator with some name recognition ran for president it worked out pretty well for him. Appearing on ABC News' This Week, Florida Senator Marco Rubio said if it's his time to play that part for the Republican party, he's ready.
"I mean, I'll be 43 this month, but the other thing that perhaps people don't realize, I've served now in public office for the better part of 14 years," Rubio told ABC's Jonathan Karl. "Most importantly, I think a president has to have a clear vision of where the country needs to go and clear ideas about how to get it there."
Part of Rubio's "clear vision" is to cut what he sees as wasteful spending on programs to combat and curb climate change.
"I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it ... and I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy."
If he does run in 2016, Rubio said unlike Rand Paul he will not try to seek reelection to the senate
"I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out."
When asked about his consistently-declining approval rating, Rubio joked it off.
"It's probably the TIME cover jinx, just like the Sports Illustrated jinx," he said, alluding to a TIME Magazine cover story that ran over a year ago.
ABC's interview was held in in New Hampshire, where Rubio spent last week fundraising and stumping to GOP groups and donors.