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Today, we released the quarterly security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (versions 10.1.2 and 9.5). The security bulletin and release notes have comprehensive details. This blog post will highlight an important security-related enhancement in this release:
JavaScript Whitelisting Capability
The new JavaScript whitelisting capability introduced in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.1.2) and 9.5 allows JavaScript execution in PDF files based on document trust. If a document is trusted, JavaScript execution will be allowed; but if it is untrusted, Adobe Reader and Acrobat will prevent all JavaScript execution. The trust decision is based on Privileged Locations.
With this capability, two additional admin controls have been added:
- JavaScript Lockdown
- Provides administrators the ability to lock down all JavaScript execution, except when embedded in trusted documents, and prevent users from enabling JavaScript from the user interface/preferences
- AdminTrusted Locations
- Provides administrators the ability to add trusted locations
Please refer to the release notes for more details.
Steve Gottwals, Group Product Manager, Adobe Reader
Priyank Choudhury, Security Researcher, Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET)


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The crew of Atlantis have paid a somewhat awkward tribute to their venerable vehicle, as the US prepares to bid a tearful farewell to the space shuttle programme.
The STS-135 crew members were this morning spared a celebrity wake-up call, instead enjoying a cheery bonjour from workers at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi, which is responsible for testing the shuttle's main engines.
Following a quick blast of Kool and the Gang's Celebration, Stennis workers declared: "Good morning Atlantis, from your friends at Stennis Space Center. It's time to fire up your engines – laissez les bons temps rouler!"
The good times are certainly rolling aboard the International Space Station, with exactly "96 per cent" of the box-shifting from the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module now wrapped. Once the cargo container is loaded with clapped-out hardware and waste from the orbiting outpost, it'll be moved back to Atlantis' cargo bay tomorrow.
The shuttle is in good shape for a final return to Earth, with its General Purpose Computer (GPC) 4 back in "stable operation" following a crash on Thursday. NASA says data processing experts "believe an unknown hardware glitch caused the computer to shut down".
The agency adds: "Commander Chris Ferguson has been asked to reassign GPC 4 to the shuttle systems management role it had served prior to the failure. GPC 1 will serve as the guidance, navigation and control computer. GPCs 2 and 3 will be in the standby mode."
Atlantis has five GPCs, which are hardly state-of-the-art, but built like a brick outhouse to survive the rigours of shuttle operations. NASA has details here. ®


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Broken nose
A broken nose usually heals on its own within 3 weeks. Get medical help if it's not getting better or your nose has changed shape.
Check if it's a broken nose
Symptoms of a broken nose may include:
- pain, swelling and redness
- a crunching or crackling sound when you touch your nose
- difficulty breathing out of your nose – it might feel blocked
- your nose changing shape – for example, it's not as straight as before
You may also have:
How to treat a broken nose yourself
You can usually treat a broken nose yourself. It should start getting better within 3 days and be fully healed within 3 weeks.
- hold an ice pack (or frozen peas) wrapped in a tea towel on your nose for up to 15 minutes, several times a day
- take paracetamol or ibuprofen to relieve the pain
- treat nosebleeds by sitting or standing upright and leaning forward – if possible, pinch your nose above the nostrils for up to 15 minutes
- keep your head upright when lying in bed by adding more pillows – this will help to reduce swelling
- read how to treat minor cuts and grazes – if you have a small cut on your nose
- do not try to straighten your nose yourself if it's changed shape – see a GP instead
- do not wear glasses until the swelling has gone down, unless you need them
- do not pick or blow your nose until it's healed
- do not do strenuous exercise for the first 2 weeks
- do not play sports where your face might be hit for at least 6 weeks
Non-urgent advice: Go to a minor injuries unit or see a GP if:
- your nose is crooked (not straight) after the injury
- the swelling hasn't started to go down after 3 days
- painkillers aren't helping
- you're still finding it difficult to breathe through your nose after the swelling has gone
- you're having regular nosebleeds
- you have a very high temperature (or you feel hot and shivery)
- you have a large cut on your face
Immediate action required: Call 999 or go to A&E if you have a broken nose and:
- a nosebleed that won't stop
- a large open wound on your nose – or something else still in the wound, such as glass
- clear, watery fluid trickling from your nose – this could be a sign of a serious head injury
- a severe headache with blurred or double vision
- eye pain and double vision
- neck pain or a stiff neck – with numbness or tingling in your arms
- a blood clot in the skin between your nostrils (septum) – it may be painful, swollen or block your breathing
- other symptoms of a severe head injury – such as collapsing (passing out) or difficulty speaking
Treatment from a GP
Your GP might prescribe stronger painkillers if paracetamol or ibuprofen aren't helping.
If you have a large cut, a nurse or GP may clean the wound and recommend something to seal or protect it – for example, stitches or strips of surgical tape.
If you have a severe broken nose or it's changed shape, you may be referred to a specialist in hospital for assessment and treatment.
Treating a severe broken nose in hospital
If your nose has changed shape
A doctor in hospital may be able to make your nose straighter using a procedure called manipulation.
You might have to go home and wait a few days for the swelling to go down, but the procedure should be done within 14 days.
Manipulation is done using anaesthetic so that you're asleep or your nose is numbed. It doesn't always make your nose look exactly the same as it was before, but it often helps.
If you have a large wound
The wound will usually be cleaned and sealed with stitches or strips in hospital.
If your nose won't stop bleeding
A doctor may place a soft gauze pad in your nose. The pad will be removed by the doctor a few days later.


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ClassiQuest Science: Logic Stage Biology
Solid Science for the Classical Curriculum
ClassiQuest Science study guides provide a solid science foundation for those using the classical method of education.
ClassiQuest Science study guides contain 36 weekly lessons with coordinated readings, lab experiments and activities for the classical student. The study guides are organized around the classical model, providing a logical progression which parallels the historical development of scientific thought. The program requires reading from multiple sources, research into the important people and discoveries of the scientific field being studied, and exposure to the Latin and Greek roots of scientific terminology.
Logic stage study guides address the evolving educational needs of the middle grade student. The labs provide hands-on activities to develop critical thinking and the technical skills that will prepare the student for higher level laboratory work. Each logic stage study guide is suitable for grades 5 – 8.
ClassiQuest Science study guides eliminate the need for long hours of lesson planning. Each week's work is clearly outlined. Detailed materials lists at the beginning of each guide allow the instructor and student to prepare ahead of time, eliminating the last minute scramble for supplies.
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Publication Date: Oct 14 2010
Page Count: 232
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
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Language: English
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18.7 SQ Episode 030 – Angles in Quilting: Part C PolygonsAugust 21, 2011
We're back with more angles in quilting, and we're tackling the 5, 6, & 8 sided figures – pentagons, hexagons, & octagons respectively.
What more can be said about these blocks?
- These blocks provide lots of challenges to piecing. These shapes are not typically pieced the same way as triangles and quadrilaterals.
- Account for a much smaller share of the quilting pie than triangles and quadrilaterals.
- Think of the general 'shape' of the block overall due to coloring or outlining stars of specific points
Techniques used for these block colors other than piecing.
- applique onto the background
- set in seams (yuk say most of you)
- english paper piecing
- adding two blocks of smaller # of sides together to create these shapes
- subtracting part of a square or rectangle to create these shapes
- (foundation) paper piecing and cutting back a specific angles
Star blocks
5 sided star has 10 sides, 6 sided star has 12 sides, and you guessed it, 8 pointed block has 16 sides!
How to avoid set in seams
Adding two blocks together or subtracting from the corners of a block.
- house block (square + rectangle)
- cut off the top two corners of a rectangular sashing block
- dresden plate w/ curved bottom side
- two trapezoids (half hexagon in quiltspeak) – likely isosceles
- 6 triangles (isosceles or equilateral)
- weather vane piece (squished pacman block) either pieced w/ square & 2 triangles OR two parallelograms butted next to each other
- irregular hexagon, one central triangle, and 3 triangles on the outside could be scalene, isosceles or other based on the shape
- piece of sashing with all 4 corners removed, with the corners on the thin side meeting at a single point
- album / autograph block – square with opposite corners removed.
- 8 isosceles triangles together in the center (think spider web or kalidescope)
- remove all 4 corners from a square shape with the points on no sides matching
Some quilt blocks from EQ7
Pentagons & "pentagon influenced shapes"
Hexagons & hexagon influenced shapes.
Octagons & octagon shapes.
Other things of note:
And look at my Journey Steps on the floor. Doesn't look big enough, does it?
Need to do more.
Also you need to go to SeamedUP and sign up to put in projects. And encourage me to do so too!
And friend me at SeamedUP, scientificquilter. 🙂
Additional Resources:
- Grid notebook mentioned (no it wasn't sent to me, but the link was) by the field geologist, and another grid notebook
- The ecosystem grid notebook I own from the last episode
Pentagon 3D shapes
- pentagon (soccer ball) ball ornament from Lynn at Alamosa Quilter
- another pentagon ball
- pentagon bowl from Katie's Quilting Corner
Pentagon flowers (not 3D), look like GMFG, but more complicated – very pretty!
Paperpieces.com where you find many different card stock weight precut polygons of all shapes.
Link to english paper piecing video (watched w/ the sound off -don't ask why-, hope it's helpful)
Don't you wanna say this in text after this episode? Here's hoping that I remember what this means later and that I didn't inadvertently spell something that is commonly thought of as BAD. If so – sorry, blaming innocence here.
Send me 1 and a half inch light batik strips if you are looking to downsize your strips. (comment or firstname.lastname@example.com)
To see the first 2 podcast show notes in this series, go to Part A: Triangles, and Part B: Quadrilaterals.
Additional Music:
Mevio's Music Alley
- Maori King by Greg Johnson
- By Robinhood76 chalk painting.wav
- By BristolStories u_chimes_short1.mp3


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I like this 'Dragon Man' head sculpt... you hit on a very nice mood/expression in that second pass... patina is wonderful.
It's been interesting to watch your hybrid ZB/Painter style evolve. It all looked a bit disjointed to my eye at first, but it seems like you are homing in on something. Nice to see someone exploring & experimenting in this medium... chasing something original.


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GTA V Launches: What The Latest Game in the Grand Theft Auto Series Does Differently
What does the new Grand Theft Auto bring to the table?
Sept. 17, 2013 -- Grand Theft Auto V, one of the year's most eagerly awaited video games, released today for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A GameStop spokesperson told ABC News that more than 4,000 of its stores had midnight releases, with 1,500 of them going so far as to have a midnight launch party with prizes and food trucks.
Even before the latest game came out, the series had already sold more than 125 million total copies worldwide.
But other than being the latest entry in a successful video game series, what does GTAV bring to the table that's new? Players will see the improvements in the gameplay, like how a gun shoots or how a car handles. But perhaps the biggest change is that players are given not one but three characters to wreak havoc in the fictional city of Los Santos.
Jim Sterling, the reviews editor for video game news outlet Destructoid.com, said that developer Rockstar Games also put more emphasis on the playable characters themselves, rather than have them passively or stoically react to the world around them. "It's more like the supporting characters react to the heroes than the other way around," he said.
One of those characters, Trevor, will certainly elicit reactions from both the denizens of Los Santos and activists in the real world critical of video game violence. According to Sterling, he epitomizes every negative thing that anti-video game activists see in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. "He's a depraved, psychotic, omnisexual sociopath," he said. "I'll be surprised if he doesn't ruffle a few feathers."
Sterling sees it as reflective of pop culture today. "There is a real flavor of 'The Sopranos' or 'Mad Men' in this game," he said. "In American television, there are a lot of shady characters with questionable motivations." However, plenty of pop culture references are explicitly made within Los Santos itself. "There is also a meth cook named Chef that looks like Walter White from 'Breaking Bad,'" said Sterling.
Video games and other forms of media have come under criticism for being too violent and possibly contributing to shooting incidents across the country. Psychologists who specialize in the research of aggression said that it is a much more nuanced topic than a simple question of asking if video games cause violent behaviors.
The Media Violence Commission, a branch of the International Society for Research on Aggression, released a report in June 2012 that characterized the findings of more than 800 different studies on the link between violent media and violent behavior. According to the report, any commentator who says that there is no good evidence for the harmful effects of violent media or, conversely, that violent media is the primary cause of school shootings, does not have the science to back it up.
"Neither extreme is supported by the vast body of research in this domain," the report said in its concluding comments. "What is clear is that exposure to media violence is one risk factor for increased aggression in both the short run and the long run."
Rockstar Games did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Sterling acknowledged that video games can be violent, but he put the onus on the people buying the games. "The emphasis is on the responsibility of the parents to determine what's appropriate for their child," he said. "I would say, just be conscious of who you are buying the game for."


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The one thing seen among all of this year's winners?
"Dividend yield," says Gib Watson, Prima Capital's president and CEO, which probably doesn't come as a surprise, given the desperate search for income in this slow-growth world.
This is the eighth year Investment Advisor has teamed with the Denver-based research firm to announce the best separately managed account managers in multiple categories. Prima, whose planned acquisition by Envestnet was announced in February (closing of the deal is expected in April; see the June 2011 cover story for more about Envestnet), looks for repeatable and sustainable processes in the products and managers they consider as candidates for this annual honor. The products must report to the PrimaGuide research application, have at least $200 million in assets and have tenured management of at least three years. Products and managers must rate highly according to Prima's due diligence process, which uses a proprietary, systematic, multifactor manager evaluation methodology that combines both quantitative and qualitative criteria. There are 13 factors that the Prima analysts consider before recommending the finalists for SMA Managers of the Year, including performance, firm, people, process, style, customer service, tax efficiency and composite.
The goal? To identify two finalists for each award, with one of the finalists being recognized as the primary recommendation.
The categories are: Large-Cap U.S. Equity Manager; Mid-Cap U.S. Equity Manager; Small-Cap U.S. Equity Manager; International or Global Manager; Taxable or Tax-Exempt Fixed Income Manager; and Specialty Manager, which involves a specialty stock, dividend strategy, opportunistic alpha manager, all-cap, go-anywhere or tax-aware strategy.
Unfortunately, no one qualified for the Specialty Manager category this year, but fortunately, two competing firms in one category were so close in the outcome of Prima's due diligence process that both were awarded the prize. It was just one of many pleasant surprises to come from this year's crop.
(Read about the 2011 SMA Managers of the Year.)
U.S. Large-Cap Equity Award
BRC Investment Management
Large-Cap Concentrated Equity Portfolio
Sure, behavioral economics is a fascinating subject in the abstract; something routinely discussed at conferences and featured in magazine articles. It's even broken through in pop culture as the underlying concept driving Billy Beane, Brad Pitt's character in "Moneyball." But how many advisory and money management firms actually employ Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's prospect theory, mental accounting and the other tenets on a sustainable and repeatable basis in the models they've developed?
Denver-based BRC Investment Management does, and it's a major reason they've taken the U.S. Large-Cap Equity award from Prima for 2012. It's even in their name; BRC stands for Bounded Rationality Concepts, which the firm defines as "a modification of the theory of rational choice that takes into account the cognitive limitations of the decision maker—limitations of both knowledge and computational capacity." In plainer English, it's the reason we're too often our own worst enemy, especially when it comes to investing.
"Our strategy is to monetize irrational behavior," says John Riddle, BRC's managing principal and chief investment officer. "In that respect, Kahneman and prospect theory are very important to us."
So how do they do it?
"We can't produce economic forecasts better than the average of the experts, so we play in a different sandbox," Riddle explains. "We instead concentrate on what we think changes the expectations of investors and institutions by focusing on the behavior of security analysts."
Security analysts are tasked with essentially predicting the unknowable, often far in advance, he says. By the very fact that they are human, they tend to rely on things that make them feel good and validate the calls they've made, which often results in a herd mentality when raising and lowering earnings outlooks. This, according to Riddle, is much easier for his firm to anticipate and capitalize on then the vagaries of the global economy.
"We've developed proprietary models of behavior that include raw data that is publically available," he adds. "Everything we do is in-house; we don't use any outside research services. We rank the beta each night and plug the information into our models."
Riddle, along with Sharon Ward, Mark Jaeger and David DuRie, were "lifted out" of financial services and investment banking firm Duff & Phelps in 2005. BRC typically includes 30 to 35 stocks in the portfolio, "because our clients don't need us to diversify away business risk, they need us to find alpha at understandable and sustainable levels of risk."
The firm looks at the tail of a particular industry universe. It then takes a group of stocks in that tail and turns it over to Ward, Eric Butler and Susan Zeeb on its fundamental team. Using the skills of that fundamental team, it can identify what companies in that tail will behave most consistently with its proprietary models. And there is a valuation play; all else being equal, Riddle says the firm would rather buy companies that are cheap as opposed to expensive.
"We don't make big sector bets," he concludes. "Our success comes from the stock selection effect. We want to take a concentrated risk on things we understand, which is analyst behavior."
Large-Cap Equity Award
Santa Barbara Asset Management
Dividend Growth Portfolio
"We believe dividend growth equals capital appreciation," says Jim Boothe. "Therefore we manage a dividend portfolio of 40 companies that generates above-average yield and is balanced among sectors."
Boothe, portfolio manager with Nuveen-owned Santa Barbara Asset Management, is a "player/coach," meaning he takes on analyst duties at the boutique firm with four others.
"We look for clean balance sheets, a competitive advantage, very strong cash flow and a commitment to dividends," he adds.
Santa Barbara Asset Management was founded in 1987, and on Aug. 1, 2005, the firm announced its acquisition by Nuveen Investments. Santa Barbara continues to operate independently with no changes to the investment process or methodology.
According to Prima, the firm's dividend growth strategy's philosophy is to seek total return from both dividend income and capital growth with lower-than-market volatility. Santa Barbara does this by investing in dividend-paying companies using three elements when constructing the portfolio: aggregate dividend yield that is higher than the S&P 500; volatility that is lower than the S&P 500; and identifying companies that grow their dividends.
Prima notes the dividend growth investment process begins by identifying a universe of approximately 5,000 companies. This universe is reduced to approximately 1,000 companies that are currently paying dividends on their equity securities. The investment universe includes both domestic and non-U.S. companies and is generally restricted to companies with a current market capitalization above $3 billion.
Santa Barbara then removes companies that do not pay tax-advantaged dividends, including REITs and limited partnerships, resulting in approximately 800 companies. The firm then applies quantitative screens to identify high-dividend-paying companies by sector and industry, resulting in approximately 250 companies. Additional screens are then applied to identify companies with high dividend growth rates.
From the remaining pool of approximately 100 companies, Santa Barbara applies bottom-up fundamental analysis to evaluate the prospects for sustainable dividend growth and capital appreciation. When selecting companies for the portfolio, the firm evaluates certain factors, including a sound business model, strong overall financial position, earnings growth, return on equity, quality of management, potential for dividend growth, market valuation and the commitment to return cash to shareholders. Using this information, Santa Barbara constructs a diversified portfolio, which generally consists of 30 to 50 holdings with broad sector and industrial representation.
Mid-Cap Equity Award
Geneva Capital Management
Mid-Cap Equity Portfolio
We recused ourselves from voting in the Mid-Cap Equity category, citing familiarity bias. We featured Milwaukee-based Geneva Capital Management on our cover announcing the awards in April 2009, which at the time was the third year in a row it took home the prize. The firm took a few years off to give other managers a shot, but it's back with a vengeance in 2012.
"The firm was founded in 1987, and it's used the exact same investment philosophy ever since," says Michelle Picard, a principal and portfolio manager at Geneva. "This was before anyone really knew what the mid-cap space was. There were no Morningstar boxes back then, and it's only in the last decade that it's come into its own."
They like mid-cap companies, she explains, because they're past the volatile, entrepreneurial small-cap stage and management is focused, yet they haven't reached the large-cap space where growth is harder to achieve due to the law of large numbers.
"We're dedicated to finding that next great company," she says. "One that has above-average earnings and growth with a great management focus."
"We've been able to achieve great returns because of our unwavering discipline to our investment philosophy," adds Scott Priebe, also a principal and portfolio manager at the firm. "Other managers may say they stick to a particular investment philosophy, but their results say something different. Sticking to our philosophy means we perform very well in broad-based bull markets, but not as well in speculative bull markets. But it doesn't matter; we don't change what we do. As a result, we outperform significantly over the long term."
A speculative bull market typically appears near the end of a broad-based bull market, when high-beta, lower quality stocks outperform.
"When you see that large discrepancy between the performances of higher quality versus lower quality stocks is when we begin to lag on a relative basis, like in 1999, 2003 and 2009," Picard says. "But we still have strong absolute returns so our clients are happy. And we have a solid, long-term track record over 25 years."
Both Picard and Priebe count the firm's collegial atmosphere and strong management from founders Amy Croen and Bill Priebe as ingredients in its success.
"We like to have fun, and everyone brings something to the table," Picard concludes. "We have a high level of respect for each other. We have experienced management, but we also have young, fresh faces that have a different perspective that we find helpful."
Small-Cap Equity Award
Kayne Anderson Rudnick
Small-Cap Growth Portfolio
To say it's been a wild ride in the small-cap space is an understatement, which makes Kayne Anderson Rudnick's win in the small-cap equity category all the more impressive.
"We've weathered it well," says small- and mid-cap manager Jon Christensen matter-of-factly. "Research is our life blood; we view ourselves as analysts as well as portfolio managers, and because of our position, we usually talk directly with CFOs at the companies we buy on a consistent basis."
Christensen and his team (which includes co-managers Bob Schwarzkopf and Todd Beiley) look for 25 to 35 stocks that have a sustainable competitive advantage and can develop, protect and nurture their market share.
"We like them to have niche dominance and be self-financing, which leads to high cash flow and low amounts of debt," he adds. "This allows them to generate good returns in good market cycles as well as bad."
And of course he looks for a strong, competent management team, people who are good stewards of cash.
"A lot of these firms have a large amount of cash, and how they handle that cash is very important to us," Christensen says. "There are typically a few things they can do; declare a dividend, buy back shares, reinvest in the business or look for acquisitions. Reinvesting to grow the business is most important to us while acquisitions are the least."
The team, he says, are typical growth investors, but they don't look at the magnitude of growth, because a high magnitude of growth too often can't be sustained.
"Our goal for our investors is to get the returns of the asset class with a lot less risk. How do we do it? We manage risk differently by mitigating business, balance sheet and profit risk, which helps us protect on the downside. We also generate returns differently by focusing on exceptional companies with high returns on capital, great valuations and lots of cash."
The portfolio typically outperforms in a recession, he says. Coming out of a recession it's able to "keep up with the market, while in slow-growth environments (like the one we're in now), the portfolio outperforms as well.
Which is a good thing since, according to Christensen, "we'll be living with this market for quite a while," something that is probably of little concern to his clients.
"We're bottom-up stock pickers that stay fully invested," he concludes. "No cash. If we can't find 25 to 35 good investments for our clients, then we're not doing our jobs."
International Equity Award
Invesco Ltd.
International ADR Growth SMA/Wrap
Truth be told, the voting committee at Prima was so impressed with both of the primary nominees in the International Equity Category that they couldn't pick one over the other, so they gave it to them both. It's a good problem to have and reflects the quality of the management in the space overall.
Three key ingredients— philosophy, team and process—helped Invesco's International ADR Growth SMA/Wrap make this year's cut.
If you haven't heard of Invesco, you're probably living under a rock, but we'll provide the basics anyway. The firm is based in Atlanta and is an independent global investment manager providing worldwide investment management capabilities in a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to retail, institutional and high-net-worth clients around the world.
"We're bottom-up stock pickers," says Clas Olsson, CIO of the International Growth Equity team at Invesco, when describing the philosophy. "We employ EQV, which stands for earnings, quality and valuation, when looking to purchase high-quality growth companies at attractive prices. And we're true active managers; we're not looking to replicate a benchmark."
Olsson says he and his team are long-term investors, with 20% to 30% turnover of the maximum 75 stocks in the portfolio.
"We also have a stable team in place," he adds. "The portfolio management team has worked together for over 10 years, and most of us arrived at the firm in the mid-1990s."
The team is stable, diversified, experienced—and most interestingly—from different nationalities, something that gives them a unique global perspective that differentiates them from other management teams in the space.
"It's very much a team-managed strategy," he generously states. "I get written up and get all the accolades, but we all participate in getting the shareholders' returns. Our process has been in place since 1992, it's been through good market cycles and bad. It's time-tested and it works."
Prima agrees, noting "The Invesco International Growth strategy is a good choice for investors seeking international large cap quality-growth exposure. Lead portfolio manager Clas Olsson has managed the strategy since 2001 and we have a positive opinion of the team that supports them. In terms of style, Mr. Olsson is conservative in his approach to investing in growth companies; thus, we expect the portfolio to generally lag in up markets, but protect in down markets. Overall, the investment team has demonstrated its ability to execute on its stated strategy and Prima has confidence that it will be able to add value going forward."
International Equity Award
Cambiar Investors LLC
International ADR Portfolio
Platform shoes and leisure suits quickly faded (thank God), but one other product of the seventies, Cambiar Investors, founded in 1973, has withstood the test of time, much to the delight of its clients.
"You don't have to find every single great stock out there," says Jennifer Dunne, the firm's international portfolio manager and senior analyst. "But if you put one in the portfolio, it better go up."
The Denver-based boutique firm is 100% employee-owned with roughly $7.5 billion in assets under management. The inception of the ADR portfolio (for which they won the award) was February 2006. The International Equity Fund was launched in 1997 as a trust and converted to a '40 Act fund in 2002. Currently, the ADR overlaps the international fund by 100% (the fund owns two additional names).More impressively, the global investment team averages 18 years experience for each of its 10 analysts.
"Our president, Brian Barish, was the driving force behind the launch of the international strategy," Dunne adds. "We are all sector specialists. We don't rotate; we stay focused on our areas of expertise, which translates to a tremendous amount of trust when it comes to the insight and recommendations we offer."
Cambiar's single investment philosophy, according to Molly Cisneros, the firm's senior vice president, is to find relative value across multiple asset classes.
"However, we're not out there buying cheap for cheap's sake," Cisneros stresses. "We also look for high-quality companies, a quality and experienced management team and low amounts of debt. We feel that last point kept us out of the problems that plagued so many of our competitors in the past few years."
The team's inflection point is one with a one- to two-year time horizon. During the period the position is held, they expect 50% (yes, 50%) of total return—roughly 40% of appreciation combined with roughly 10% of dividend distributions.
"We ask ourselves why a particular valuation is compressed," Dunne says. "Is it structural or transitory? This is where the experience comes in."
The point, she concludes, is to have a very analyst- and research-based process.
"We have between 40 and 50 stocks in the portfolio," Dunne says. "Lots of stocks go up 20% or 30%, but our 50% hurdle really concentrates the mind, and that's something that separates us."
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It's dominated headlines since the crisis began and for good reason; when done right, there is alpha to be had, despite current conventional wisdom about the availability of yield. Gannett Welsh & Kotler is one of those firms doing it right, and the reason the Boston-based money manager's municipal bond strategy took the fixed income award this year.
"We have a top-down/bottom-up approach," says Nancy Angell, GW&K's senior vice president who co-directs the firm's fixed income investments along with John Fox. "In rising interest rate environments, we extend out a bit longer. In declining rate environments, we'll shorten our maturities and take more of a defensive position. We're total-return-focused and our alpha comes from our positioning on the yield curve."
The firm, founded in 1974, is run by CEO and CIO Harold Kotler, a Babson College alum who joined the firm a year later. Angell has been with the firm for 27 years, Fox for almost 22, and four of their five traders have 10 years under their belts.
"We tend to be a bit longer in our duration and more active in our management than many of our competitors," Angell says.
"The muni space is dominated by the retail market," Fox adds. "Retail investors think risk comes from longer durations, but the primary concern is actually reinvestment risk. You have to reinvest at lower and lower rates that continually decrease the investment capital. Recognizing this, our bias has been to worry about deflation, which we've warned our clients about for 20 years."
The firm's competitors, Fox says, buy into client fear about longer-term duration and allow them to purchase shorter-term paper, which increases reinvestment risk.
"Our job, as managers, is to protect principal and income," Angell says. "We've had two years of negative performance in 30 years, and in those two years it was barely negative."
So how do they take advantage of days of record issuance, like those seen in early March?
"That was a technical blip," Fox says. "It created opportunity and was a great time to be buying. There was a nice slate of new issues for us to choose from."
We'd be remiss if we didn't end with one final question—what kind of headaches did Meredith Whitney's famous non-prediction cause for the team?
"It was a headache, but it gave us an opportunity to explain the story of this dire prediction to our clients," Angell says. "And as this wave of massive net redemptions occurred as a result of what she said, we were actually buying. We were able to take advantage of that headline risk."
"It was a high-profile example of a mistake so many others make," Fox adds. "They confuse 'distressed' with 'default,' which are two totally different things. It was nice for us because it all panned out the way we said it would, which built our credibility with clients."
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Assessing the risk of heart attack and stroke among Hispanics
A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicated that many Hispanic/Latino adults living in the United States are at high risk for heart attack or stroke. This risk is highest in men and in older people, born in the US or that have lived in the US more than 10 years, that prefer to speak English, are lower income, or never finished high school.
"The finding that longer residence in the US increases disease risk may seem counterintuitive, but has previously been reported," says study co-author Schneiderman, James L. Knight Professor of Psychology, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Miami (UM).
The study also found that risk of heart attack and stroke among Hispanics is most highly related to smoking and high blood pressure, but other risk factors are important. The treatable risk factors examined were smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. Using national guidelines as a comparison, the study found that Puerto Ricans are the most likely to have three or more risk factors and these usually include smoking and obesity. Cubans and South Americans are the least likely to have diabetes.
The research findings in JAMA come from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, informally called SOL. It is the largest study of Hispanic health ever sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and six other institutes, centers and offices of NIH providing support. SOL's purpose is to determine the health of Hispanics living in the US and to find out the factors that reduce or increase the risk of chronic disease.
The study examined 16,415 randomly selected Hispanic adults living in Miami, Chicago, New York's Bronx, and San Diego between 2008 and 2011. This allowed the SOL investigators to examine the health and disease risk of people from different Hispanic backgrounds including Cubans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Central Americans and South Americans.
"Before today, most of what was known about the extent of heart attacks, strokes and risk factors in Hispanics came primarily from studies of Mexican Americans, who are the largest group of Hispanics living in the US, "says Schneiderman, Principal Investigator of the Miami Field Center of SOL at the UM. "The findings reported today in JAMA show that there are some important differences in risk factors among people from diverse Hispanic backgrounds."
Of the more than 16,000 Hispanic adults in SOL, over 4,000 participants were examined in the Miami Field Center. These participants were recruited from a randomly pre-specified list of addresses in the cities of Hialeah, Miami and Coral Gables. Although slightly more than half of the participants reported Cuban ancestry, the Center also had the opportunity to examine fairly large numbers of participants from Central or South American backgrounds.
"Because the examiners were comfortable conversing in Spanish or English, each participant was able to choose to speak in either language during the examination," Schneiderman says. "Most chose Spanish."
All SOL participants are followed each year. Therefore SOL will be able in the future to determine which risk factors and protective factors directly influence the development of heart disease, stroke, lung diseases and other chronic illnesses. Current plans are for a second examination to be conducted on the present SOL participants between 2014 and 2017 with follow-up continuing until 2019.
"The SOL participants and SOL investigators have developed a strong, positive long-term relationship that will allow the Hispanic community to gain a critical understanding of the status of Hispanic health in the US and the risks and protective behaviors that can influence Hispanic health," Schneiderman says. The study is titled "Prevalence of Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases among Hispanics/ Latinos of Diverse National Backgrounds in the US." Other authors of the JAMA article are Martha L. Daviglus, professor of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago; Gregory A. Talavera, professor of Public Health, San Diego State University; Larissa Avilés-Santa, project officer, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH; Matthew Allison, assistant professor of Behavioral Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Jianwen Cai, professor of biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Michael H. Criqui, professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Marc Gellman, research associate professor of psychology, University of Miami; Aida L. Giachello, professor of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University; Natalia Gouskova, biostatistician, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Robert C. Kaplan, professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Lisa LaVange, professor of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Frank Penedo, professor of Medical Social Science, Northwestern University; Krista Perreira, professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Amber Pirzada, research associate in Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University; Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Paul D. Sorlie, deputy project officer, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, and Jeremiah Stamler, professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University.
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BFF and Baby costars Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth reunited in the front row at today's London Fashion Week Burberry show. Kate rocked a daring studded skirt and trench-style jacket, while Rachel arrived in her own chic look from the line — tell us which outfit was your favorite! The event also drew Anna Wintour and Alexa Chung. You can watch the collection on the runway on FabSugar UK and check out all their updates from the LFW! Kate made her way to England after taking in some of the collections at NYFW. The stylish actress is also trying her hand as a designer with JewelMint, which she launched late last year with her stylist Cher Coulter. Kate's creations are already a hit among her friends, with Rachel recently telling us she's a big fan of the affordable pieces.


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XYIENCE Renews Endorsement Deals With Athlete Ambassadors Mike Escamilla, Dan Hardy, Matt Serra, and Krzysztof Soszynski, and Spokesmodel Amanda Corey The Fastest Growing Energy Drink Brand Continues to Be the Official Energy Drink of the UFC
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The ambassadors will make appearances on behalf of the brand at consumer events as well as at beverage and nutrition trade events. They will also participate in special XYIENCE consumer-oriented promotions and video projects.
"Our team of ambassadors understands and shares XYIENCE's brand philosophy,"
XYIENCE Xenergy also recently extended its sponsorship deal with the UFC, which means that its logo will be positioned inside the Octagon during select Pay-Per-View broadcasts along with other sponsor benefits. Shortly after extending its sponsorship contract with the UFC, the XYIENCE Xenergy logo appeared on the mat of the Octagon during UFC® 156: Aldo vs. Edgar, a sold out Pay-Per-View event on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
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Dan Hardy first joined the XYIENCE team in 2010. He is a native of Nottingham, England, who began studying Tae Kwon Do at the age of 6 and went on to earn his first-degree black belt. With 14 years of traditional martial arts training, the charismatic Hardy then decided to cross-train in other styles, including Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, for which he earned his purple belt under the famed practitioner and coach Eddie Bravo.
Signing with the UFC in 2008, Hardy walked away victorious from his first three UFC matches and quickly became a star in the welterweight division. He earned the distinction as the first British fighter to challenge a UFC title in his 2010 match against George St. Pierre.
A huge fan favorite for his high energy and devastating striking abilities inside the cage, his pursuits outside the octagon have also earned Hardy much deserved recognition. In addition to his work as an artist and his love of classical cars, video games, and hardcore and punk music, Hardy has received awards for his work as a vocal animal welfare activist.
Matt "The Terror" Serra
A part of Team XYIENCE since 2009, former UFC welterweight champion Matt "The Terror" Serra may be best known for his success inside the octagon, but the East Meadow, New York, native is also an accomplished businessman, coach, mentor and family man.
Serra won several titles early in his professional career, but it was his impressive second-place finish in 2000 at the prestigious ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships that garnered the attention of the UFC and led to the offer of a contract. He has gone on to earn several honors as a UFC competitor, including the Welterweight Champion in Season 4 of The Ultimate Fighter and UFC Welterweight Champion for his impressive TKO of Georges St. Pierre, a fight many consider to be one of the biggest upsets in MMA history.
When not fighting in the octagon, Serra and his brother, Nick, run two Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu schools in their home state of New York. Serra believes in giving back to the MMA community by investing in up-and-coming fighters, following the example set by his long-time kickboxing coach Ray Longo. Serra trained with the striking expert for nearly 20 years and credits much of his success to their many hours together.
Krzysztof "The Polish Experiment" Soszyński
Krzysztof Soszyński, who joined Team XYIENCE in 2011, knows what it takes to become the ultimate athlete. While continuously working to reach his own goals as an athlete, he is also committed to helping others reach new levels of health and athleticism. In fact, it's a mission that is quickly becoming his life's work.
Today, he partners with athletes from a wide range of sports using his expertly designed KSOS Training System—a training and nutrition plan he created for professional and amateur athletes. Recently, Soszyński signed another deal with the UFC to be an MMA, kickboxing and strength and conditioning coach as well as a personal trainer at the UFC Gym located in the Los Angeles area.
A native of Poland, Soszyński moved to Canada with his family at the age of 10. A natural athlete, the once professional wrestler went on to play football and soccer at Maples Collegiate and then earned a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
A former Los Angeles Anaconda (IFL) team member, the mixed martial artist signed with the UFC after appearing on Season 8 of the reality television series "The Ultimate Fighter." Victorious in his UFC debut against Shane Primm, whom he defeated by kimura, Soszyński was awarded Submission of the Night.
Soszyński has also appeared in action roles for television series such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,"
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Southern California native Mike Escamilla, who joined Team XYIENCE in 2012, is known for changing the face of BMX street riding. In competitions, he has broken the world records for the longest BMX back flip—measuring 62 feet, 2 inches—and the longest 360 performed on a BMX bike, both at the X-Games 11 in August 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. He's also no stranger to podium finishes—his competition results have spanned from winning first place in the 1996 ESPN X Trail Street Contest to a first-place finish in the '98 Hard Trick Contest at the Goodwill Games.
Today, you can catch Escamilla at his "day job" on Fuel TV, where he co-hosts "Strangers in Danger" with BMX rider Zack "Catfish" Yankush. The pair travels the world, taking part in strange rituals and bizarre stunts, such as eating a live octopus, working as sewer divers in Mexico, and occasionally breaking bottles on their foreheads.
Amanda Corey
Amanda Corey is the 2008 winner of The CW's hit reality television show "Beauty and the Geek." She has appeared in national ad campaigns for brands such as 24-Hour Fitness and Hawaiian Tropic and in magazines such as Glamour and Seventeen. She joined Team XYIENCE in 2010 as the winner of the brand's model search contest.
In addition to modeling, Corey is the CEO and Founder of Thrive Model Management, an Orange County–based agency. She is a huge fan of the UFC and also enjoys spending time with her husband and working out in her free time.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00123708
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This study will classify types of hypertonia in patients with cerebral palsy and determine if the classifications are reasonable in relation to the functional task of walking. Hypertonia is an abnormal increase in muscle tension. It is a common symptom of cerebral palsy that can lead to loss of function and deformity. This study may help scientists improve evaluation criteria for hypertonia and, ultimately, treatment results.
Patients with cerebral palsy who are older than 6 years of age may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with a medical history and clinical evaluation.
Participants are asked to walk in the lab while cameras record their movement. During this test, subjects wear a t-shirt and shorts with their arms and legs wrapped with a soft, rubber-like material. A piece of firm material is attached to the rubber sleeves and small plastic reflective balls are attached to the firm material. Balls may also be attached to the skin, using an adhesive. With the balls in place, the subject walks several times while cameras record the positions of the balls. In addition, small metal electrodes attached to the skin with an adhesive measure the electrical activity in the muscles.
After the walking test is completed, subjects' leg muscle strength is measured with a special device while they perform three activities. First, they sit on a special chair with their leg and foot placed in an apparatus that measures their strength, then lie on their back, then on their stomach, and then stand on one foot holding a bar to balance during part of one activity. During the activities, their reflexes are tested, they are asked to move their legs, and their legs are moved for them.
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Cerebral palsy (CP) affects 0.25% of newborn babies in the U.S. alone each year. Hypertonia (increased joint resistance to externally imposed motion) is a common symptom that limits function in this patient population. It may originate in spasticity, dystonia or rigidity or may be a combination of all these factors. Surgical, rehabilitation and pharmacotherapeutic methods are used to improve functional outcome in patients with cerebral palsy. These treatments are not always effective, and the amount of improvement is difficult to predict. The choice of treatment is based on clinical tests that are not objective, especially in children, and they do not allow for differentiation between various causes of increased joint resistance. As a result, ineffective treatments are offered to patients with different types of movement disorders. The complex torque devices used in research facilities to quantify the resistance of a joint cannot be easily applied in clinical settings. In previous studies, a portable measurement method was developed based on a hand-held force transducer, which allowed for the quantification of biomechanical and bioelectrical characteristics of resistance of a knee joint at different velocities. Using this method, we found different types of hypertonia that had not been previously reported in patients with cerebral palsy. It is not clear to what degree hypertonia restricts an ability to execute selected functional tasks, due in part to the considerable variability in patients with CP. If this variability could be decreased, the relationship between restricted ability and the different types of hypertonia would be easier to determine. Strong arguments exist to consider different pathophysiologies in these different types of hypertonia.
The aim of this non-invasive study is to sub-classify patients with CP based on the type of knee hypertonia, and to determine if the classification is valid during the functional tasks of walking. When validated, it can serve as a predictive model for the relationship between the clinical evaluation at bedside and functional outcome.
To classify hypertonia, the resistance of a knee joint at different velocities in knee flexion and extension and the maximum activation of stretched and shortened muscles are measured with a hand-held force transducer, an electrogoniometer, and surface electrodes in 100 patients with CP. The strength of velocity-dependent hypertonia during passive stretch and position, and/or velocity thresholds will be calculated. The knee extension and flexion muscles will be classified bilaterally as normal, or as one of the four types based on the pattern of activation of stretched muscles. To determine the impact of other impairments on the function, the maximum isometric knee flexion and extension strength and the monosynaptic reflexes of the rectus femoris muscle will be measured.
At the functional level, we will evaluate knee motion during walking. To determine the impact of hypertonia on function, the Spearman R correlation will be used to analyze data in patients within the same class. To determine if the classification holds during walking, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient will be calculated. The significance of differences will be tested at the level of significance alpha less than or equal to 0.05.
It is expected that as a result of this study, better criteria for classifying patients into predictable categories correlated to specific therapeutic responses will be established. In the future, the improvement of differential diagnoses with quantitative methods will increase the effectiveness of treatment by customizing the needs of each patient.
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This study will include children and adult patients with cerebral palsy, patients with dystonia, and able-bodied children older than 6 years of age. Each patient must meet the following criteria:
The patient must have a diagnosis of cerebral palsy or dystonia
The patient must be able to follow the instructions to successfully complete the testing
The patient must be properly motivated and willing to do the tasks.
The patient must be older than 6 years
The patient must score a 2 or 3 on the walking subsection of the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS).
The patient must cease taking medications known to affect spasticity at least 48 hours before the first investigation; however, if any antispasticity medication is longstanding and stable it should be maintained during the entire study.
Inability of the patient to follow the instructions to accomplish the task.
Structural deformities at the level of a knee joint.
If patients are unable to complete all the tasks or conditions they can still be enrolled to complete part of the study.
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At the "World of Capcom" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the publisher announced a final release date for the PC version of Dead Rising 3 -- September 5. I can't wait to see how the modding community changes the game!
The PC game will include the four Untold Stories add-ons, which are unfortunately poor overall. The Super Ultra Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX + α DLC though, is pretty amazing -- hopefully it's cheap on PC (or even available).
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Modeling the Economic Effects of Global Warming with Mathematica
April 13, 2011 — Wolfram Blog Team
Stuart Nettleton, a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, knows the significance of the problem he's examining—he calls it "the biggest problem that we face in the world going forward." His challenge: to develop a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that evaluates the effects of global warming on world economies over 150 years.
With Mathematica, he's making real progress. Nettleton says, "The rapid development environment that Mathematica provides, the ability to do things so concisely and with so much power out of the functional programming and pattern matching and all the things that are the great advantage of Mathematica—that allowed a very rapid development process, so something a panel of experts told me would take a number of people a number of years, one person managed to do most of it in six months."
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Tensions over the counting of votes in Kenya's presidential election continued to rise Thursday as Prime Minister Raila Odinga's camp alleged that results from the Monday polls were being rigged.
Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Mr. Odinga's running mate in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), issued the allegations, contending that the emerging vote tally from a recount that began Wednesday is not accurate.
"We have evidence the results we're receiving are being doctored," Mr. Musyoka told a news conference in Nairobi on Thursday. In several counties, he says, the number of votes cast appears to be higher than the number of registered voters.
The comments come a day after Odinga's rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, charged that British High Commission was meddling in vote-counting efforts. Mr. Kenyatta currently leads the race, with 52.5 percent of votes to Odinga's 42.9 percent. Of 290 constituencies, 141 have been tallied so far in a hand recount that began after an electronic voting system failed Tuesday night.
Full results are expected Friday and a candidate needs an absolute majority to be elected. If no one receives one, the leading contenders will go to a runoff election next month.
But Musyoka said CORD was taking the position that the national vote-tallying process lacked integrity and had to be restarted using primary documents from the polling stations. They called on the electoral commission to immediately stop the current tallying.
The commission, however, says the charges are unfounded.
"It is not true," said Isaack Hassan, chairman of the electoral commission, at a news conference. "We cannot stop tallying because this is a legal process."
Although Odinga's coalition is calling for calm, tolerance, and peace among Kenyans, the remarks about possible vote fraud have reignited the memories of the bungled 2007 general election, when Kenyan poured onto the streets after President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner and Odinga – also a candidate in that contest – said the election had been rigged. Between Dec. 27, 2007, and February 2008, more than 1,000 people died and more than 600,000 were displaced.
This time around, however, leaders appealed to Kenyans to remain calm and return to their normal lives as the electoral body recounts the votes. But many in and outside the government remain cautious.
"I am getting scared," says Wambui Gathua, who sells handwoven carpets in Nairobi. "I don't think these statements are good for peace."
Schools have been closed since last Thursday and are not expected to reopen until March 11. Many bus and taxi operators have chosen to stay off the streets, in part to avoid a replay of 2007, when many vehicles were set aflame or otherwise destroyed in the violent protests.
"This is raising tensions.... Cars are not refueling as usual," says John Mwangi, a gas station attendant in Nairobi.
Meanwhile, religious leaders across the country called on the candidates to help keep the peace.
"We urge the two leading contenders to prevail upon their supporters to maintain peace and remain calm. Call them not to celebrate or mourn the results prematurely," said the Rev. Peter Karanja, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Kenya, in a statement.
The eight presidential candidates – including both front-runners – have committed in public meetings and prayer rallies that they will accept the results and channel poll-related complaints through the courts.


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YOU'RE never too old to try something new. At least that's what the residents at the Henry Cornish Care Centre have been proving.
Residents held their first art exhibition at the residential home in Chipping Norton.
The gallery featured paintings, embroidery, crochet, cross-stitch and knitted pieces.
Andy Andrews, a former engineer aged 101, displayed paintings of famous events including a picture of the royal wedding.
He said "It was a very eventful day. It's the first time I have displayed my art. I like it at Henry Cornish. There is always something going on."
There was also a display of knitting by Dot Blunsdon.
The 87-year-old said: "It was good seeing what other people can create. It's marvellous. I'm going to knit and crochet as long as I possibly can."
The event was part of Dignity and Care, an event stressing the importance of treating older people with dignity.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that it charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its former investment bankers with "pay-to-play" violations involving undisclosed campaign contributions to then-Massachusetts state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill while he was a candidate for governor.
In what the SEC says is the biggest fine it has levied for Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) pay-to-play violations, Goldman Sachs agreed to settle the charges by paying $12 million—$7,558,942 in disgorgement, $670,033 in prejudgment interest and a $3.75 million penalty.
The SEC coordinated this enforcement action with a related action filed by the Massachusetts Attorney General against Goldman Sachs.
Pay-to-play schemes involve campaign contributions or other payments made in an attempt to influence the awarding of lucrative public contracts for securities underwriting business. This marks the first SEC enforcement action for pay-to-play violations involving "in-kind" non-cash contributions to a political campaign.
The SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert in late August noting that SEC examiners have observed practices that raise concerns about firms' compliance with their obligations under MSRB Rule G-37, which clamped down on so-called "pay-to-play" practices.
The SEC says that the case against Neil M.M. Morrison, the vice president in the Goldman's Boston office who solicited underwriting business from the Massachusetts treasurer's office beginning in July 2008, continues. Morrison, according to the SEC, also was "substantially engaged" in working on Cahill's political campaigns from November 2008 to October 2010, and at times conducted campaign activities from the Goldman Sachs office during work hours and using the firm's phones and e-mail.
"Morrison's use of Goldman Sachs work time and resources for campaign activities constituted valuable in-kind campaign contributions to Cahill that were attributable to Goldman Sachs and disqualified the firm from engaging in municipal underwriting business with certain Massachusetts municipal issuers for two years after the contributions."
But Goldman Sachs subsequently participated in 30 prohibited underwritings with Massachusetts issuers and earned more than $7.5 million in underwriting fees, the SEC says.
Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement announcing the fine that "the pay-to-play rules are clear: municipal finance professionals that use their firm's resources to campaign on behalf of political candidates compromise themselves and the firms that employ them."
According to the SEC's orders against Morrison and Goldman Sachs, among the campaign activities that Morrison engaged in for Cahill were fundraising, drafting speeches, communicating with reporters, approving personnel decisions, and interviewing at least one possible running mate. "Morrison at times referenced his campaign work while soliciting underwriting business in an apparent attempt to curry favor during the selection process," the SEC says.
According to the SEC's orders, in addition to his direct campaign work for Cahill, Morrison made an indirect cash contribution to Cahill by giving cash to a friend who then wrote a check to the Cahill campaign. Morrison's campaign work and his indirect financial contribution "created a conflict of interest that was not disclosed by Goldman Sachs in the relevant municipal securities offerings in violation of pay-to-play rules," the SEC says.
The SEC goes on to say that "Morrison himself acknowledged the existence of this conflict in an e-mail to a campaign official, saying, 'I am staying in banking and don't want a story that says that I am helping Cahill, who is giving me banking business. If that came out, I'm sure I wouldn't get any more business.'"


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Recipe from Lynnette Polley of Campbellsville, Ky.
2 cups broccolli florets
1 to 1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
1/2 cup mayo
4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup raisins
handful cashews
Mix mayo, sugar, and red wine vinegar. Stir until sugar is dissolved, pour over broccolli, raisins, and strawberries just before ready to serve. Top with cashews.
This is very, very good. It's always a hit when I serve it. Enjoy!
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Taiwan market: Philips to launch first Blu-ray player
Jimmy Hsu, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES
Royal Philips Electronics on October 29 unveiled the BDP7200 Blu-ray Disc (BD) player for launch in the Taiwan market in November 2008 at a recommended retail price of NT$26,900 (US$808). This will be the first Philips BD player for sale in Taiwan, according to Philips Taiwan.
The BDP7200 features an HDMI 1.3 interface supports 1080p output, Philips Taiwan noted.
The BDP7200 will be sold with a free HDMI cable and 10 free coupons to rent BD movie discs, Philips Taiwan indicated. The inital launch volume of the BDP7200 in Taiwan will be limited to 200 units, Philips Taiwan pointed out.
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*mumble* Show off.
Hmm. Once you get him off do you really want to drink what's in the bottle?
Ribbed for freshness???
I'm willing to bet one meeelion dollars that a woman did not invent that.
Hey.... I've got some of those rings you put around "it". Mine aren't that big.
Jazzzz, I hope you're speaking "proportially" rather than "absolutely"!!!
Uh, "proportionally".
"Professionally"? ? ?
Usually, it's a bad sign if the wine is corked. Now it's a matter of taste.
Jazzz, I'm guessing your 'Saturn' has a moon?
I will never again use the term 'put a cork in it.'
I think I had a friend in middle school that tried that...
Hey, it's not long, but it's skinny........
joke i didn't get until i was in high-school:
why does dr, pepper come in a bottle?
because his wife left him!
Shouldn't that be called the Happy Woman Bottle Stopper?
Hmm. Time to keep an eye out for a rash of "__ was admitted to the hospital to have a bottle removed from his organ" stories.
bwaaaaha, insom. i actually never heard that joke. really.
They should make it so when you turn the little man over, it turns into a wine POURER!!
/Do I have to think of everything?!? Sheesh.
Woman-bottle? Is that the new term for it? I get so behind on lingual fads.
And is that code for wombat battle a.k.a. wombat combat?
and what do you mean by "lingual"?
Naturally, one can "click image to enlarge".
Siouxie told me.
I said rub Mr. D...rub.
How will Siouxie make this work for box wine? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Conner's Barker headed to Kentucky
Quarterback picks Wildcats over South Carolina, Tennessee
The suspense is over for Conner quarterback Drew Barker. On Friday, the senior-to-be announced he will play college football at the University of Kentucky.
"I'd always been dreaming as a little kid, you know, just to be in this position, and it was just awesome," said Barker.
The final decision came down to Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, with new head coach Mark Stoops and the Wildcats ultimately winning out.
"The coaching staff has definitely been a tremendous change," said Barker. "They're dedicated to building a winner there and they know how hungry the UK fans are for a winner, so that's what we're going to try to give them"
Barker is not short on talent. Scout.com ranks him as the seventh best quarterback in the 2014 class, while Rivals.com ranks him as the sixth best pro-style quarterback.
He said during his announcement that he intends to graduate in December and enroll early at Kentucky. Despite the early enrollment, Barker did say that the initial plan is for him to redshirt his freshman season, but that won't stop him from competing.
"I'm going to go in there with the mindset that I'm going to come in there and win the starting job, but you know, like I said, if that doesn't work out, then I'm going to redshirt," said Barker.
Barker finished his junior season with 2,072 passing yards and 1,455 rushing yards. He also tallied 40 touchdowns through the air and on the ground.
He has also committed to play in the 2014 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in January.


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workshops that require air travel, flying is no longer easy
or fun!
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We previously noted that both beef and pork (courtesy of the affectionately named Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus) prices have been reaching new all time highs on an almost daily basis. It is time to update the chart. Below we show what a world in which the Fed is constantly lamenting the lack of inflation looks like for beef prices...
... pork
... and shrimp.
More from Bloomberg:
Prices for shrimp have jumped to a 14-year high in recent months, spurred by a disease that's ravaging the crustacean's population. At Noodles & Co., a chain with locations across the country, it costs 29 percent more to add the shellfish to pastas this year, and shrimp-heavy dishes at places like the Cheesecake Factory Inc. are going up as well.
Restaurant chains, already struggling with shaky U.S. consumer confidence, are taking a profit hit as prices climb. Even worse, the surge is happening during the season of Lent, when eateries rely on seafood to lure Christian diners who abstain from chicken, beef and pork on certain days.
"It's coming at a tough time for the industry," said Andrew Barish, a San Francisco-based analyst at Jefferies LLC. "With the Lenten season, what you'll see out there is a lot of promotions with seafood, and usually shrimp is a big part of that."
In March, shrimp prices jumped 61 percent from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The climb is mainly due to a bacterial disease known as early mortality syndrome. While the ailment has no effect on humans, it's wreaking havoc on young shrimp farmed in Southeast Asia, shrinking supplies.
James Johnson, a Jewel-Osco supermarket shopper in Chicago, has noticed the price increase. He's been cutting back on one of his favorite dishes -- shrimp and potato soup -- because of the cost.
"I haven't made it in a while," the 29-year-old said. "Shrimp looks expensive."
At Noodles, it now costs $3.34 to add the shellfish to a meal of pasta or pad thai, compared with $2.59 last year.
"We still want to at least offer it as choice," Chief Executive Officer Kevin Reddy said in a phone interview. "As soon as the costs begin to normalize, we'll return to the regular price."
Ah yes, because retailers are always so willing to lower costs...
So for all those whose sustenance includes iPads and LCD TVs, or heaven forbid the pink slime known as fast food - you are in luck: the BLS' hedonic adjustments mean the rate of price increase in your daily consumption has rarely been lower. For everyone else: our condolences.
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Is there anyway I can use my UNO do flash my USBasp with the newest firmware from http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/ using my UNO R3 as the ISP ? Will that solve my problem?
Quote from: AlxDroidDev on Feb 18, 2013, 06:59 pmIs there anyway I can use my UNO do flash my USBasp with the newest firmware from http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/ using my UNO R3 as the ISP ? Will that solve my problem?Yes, updating the firmware will solve your problem.Connect the Arduino to the header pins on the USBasp as you would when using the Arduino as an ISP http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP 13 -> SCK12 -> MISO11 -> MOSI10 -> RST/ResetYou also have to short together one of the jumpers at the top of the USBasp to put it into self-programming mode.Upload the latest firmware .hex file using AVRDUDE.
How do I do that, specially specifying that the UNO will be the ISP ? Thanks.
Anyway, I have a USBasp myself and I get the same warning as you, but I just ignore it, it works OK.
Whenever I try to program (either a sketch or burn bootloader on a blank chip) with it I get this message:avrdude: warning: cannot set sck period. please check for usbasp firmware update
avrdude: reading input file "usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex"avrdude: input file usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex auto detected as Intel Hexavrdude: writing flash (4700 bytes):Writing | ################################################## | 100% 1.52savrdude: 4700 bytes of flash writtenavrdude: verifying flash memory against usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex:avrdude: load data flash data from input file usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex:avrdude: input file usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex auto detected as Intel Hexavrdude: input file usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex contains 4700 bytesavrdude: reading on-chip flash data:Reading | ################################################## | 100% 1.21savrdude: verifying ...avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000 0x3b != 0xdbavrdude: verification error; content mismatchavrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 0avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as 0avrdude: safemode: Fuses OKavrdude done. Thank you.
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructionsReading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00savrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950favrdude: reading input file "0xC9"avrdude: writing hfuse (1 bytes):Writing | | 0% 0.00s ***failed;Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.07savrdude: 1 bytes of hfuse writtenavrdude: verifying hfuse memory against 0xC9:avrdude: load data hfuse data from input file 0xC9:avrdude: input file 0xC9 contains 1 bytesavrdude: reading on-chip hfuse data:Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01savrdude: verifying ...avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000 0xc9 != 0x00avrdude: verification error; content mismatchavrdude: safemode: hfuse changed! Was c9, and is now 0Would you like this fuse to be changed back? [y/n] yavrdude: stk500_cmd(): programmer is out of sync
you must add the -u option otherwise avrdude will not change the fuses.
if your fuses are really set to zero the chip is dead and theres nothing you can do short of buying an expensive programmer with 12v capability. try just reading the fuses. that is always safe. if the signature reads ok that means your fuse is not really zero. if you didnt use the -u before then it is not likely fuses were changed to zero. one must be very careful when changing fuses because that is the #1 way noobs brick their avr.
alx is not trying to reprogram his usbasp so none of that is relevant.
as i mentioned before the sck period message has nothing to do with the targets fuses and is an avrdude warning that is to be ignored.
Whenever I try to program (either a sketch or burn bootloader on a blank chip) with it I get this message:


text: LibrePlan is a Web application for project planning, monitoring, and control. It is a collaborative tool to plan, monitor, and control projects and has a rich Web interface that provides a desktop-like user experience. All the team members can take part in the planning, which makes it possible to have real-time planning. It was designed for a scenario where multiple projects and resources interact to carry out the work inside a company. It makes it possible to communicate with other company tools, providing a wide set of Web services to import and export data.


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Francona preparing for instant replay meeting
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Indians manager Terry Francona has not sat down yet to go over the fine print of the new instant-replay rules that go into effect this season. Francona plans on poring over the details in the weeks following a meeting with officials from Major League Baseball.
"We have our session Tuesday," Francona said. "We'll go over there and look at the mechanical part of it. There will be another session in March. Two different sessions. They're trying to walk us through things like how it's going to work, not just the technology, but how the rule actually works. I think it'll ease some anxiety for a lot of us."
For Tuesday's meeting, Francona said he will be joined by general manager Chris Antonetti, bench coach Brad Mills, assistant GM Mike Chernoff and Derek Falvey, the team's director of baseball operations. They will head to Peoria, Ariz., for the first wave of MLB's meetings with teams based in Arizona for Spring Training.
Beginning this season, each manager will start a game with one available instant-replay challenge. If used and upheld, the manager retains the challenge, but will only be able to then use a maximum of two challenges in a single game. If the challenges are used prior to the start of the seventh inning, no more will be permitted. Following the start of the seventh, the umpire crew chief will be in charge of reviews.
Francona was hesitant to give his reaction to the new system prior to learning more about it.
"I don't know it yet," Francona said. "I've never done it before, so that leads to a little bit of anxiety. But once we learn it, that anxiety will go away."