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TROY -- The Troy Victorian Stroll marks its 30th year as the region's premier free holiday event. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Troy's historic downtown will offer more than 100 free family friendly attractions, including musicians, dancers, storytellers and culinary delights. A popular highlight of the Stroll is the annual window-decorating contest, open to businesses and residences in downtown Troy. Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce Vice President Claudette Thornton said this year's participants showed unparalled creativity as they imaginatively transformed their display windows into scenes from this year's Nutcracker Suite theme. She said "Although yet to be announced, gift certificates to Troy restaurants will be awarded to winners who placed in one of three categories: Best of Show, Traditional Holiday Spirit and Most Whimsical." The windows have served as an effective draw for active and window shoppers alike. Goldsmith Chris Robinson of JK Bloom Jewelers has created the retailer's window entry in the contest for a third year. Following the Nutcracker theme, Robinson chose to depict scenes from the ballet, including the character Clara dancing with the Nutcracker, some ballerinas dancing, mice and gingerbread men having a battle with one of the dancers, and the classic Christmas tree scene, under which are displayed gifts of jewelry pieces for sale at Blooms. "It took me about two weeks to gather all the parts and two days to put it in the window." Also available will be the seventh in a series of pewter Troy Victorian Stroll ornaments, designed by goldsmith John Bloom of Troy's JK Bloom Jewelers. The limited edition ornaments are numbered and available at JK Bloom Jewelers, located at 21 Third Street. In business since 1981, Bloom and his wife Kathy have participated in the Victorian Stroll event annually since 1999. Bloom said "It's different every year; we've had a great response from the people who use it as a collectible." Kathy Bloom said "This year's is a Christmas tree, with the little Troy man in the center, which has come to represent the Victorian Stroll. Believe it or not, this is the thirtieth Stroll. He was created by Sarah Teach about five years and has become the symbol of the Stroll. He's a happy Uncle Sam, with his arms outstretched welcoming everyone." The Blooms make the model and the actual ornaments are then crafted by a Rhode Island company. Throughout the afternoon, visitors to Troy's shops, boutiques and galleries can come in out of the cold to warm up at one of Troy's many eateries. Owner Chris Krystallis opened the Greek House two years ago at 27 3rd Street. The family operated business that serves traditional Greek cuisine welcomes Victorian Strollers to stop at the tables that will be placed in front of the restaurant to enjoy Greek pastries and the belly dancer that will be entertaining all afternoon. Down at Pfeil Hardware & Paint at the corner of 3rd and State Streets, Troy resident Gordon Lattey created one of three display windows at the home retailer that Assistant Manager Bob LaPointe describes as "Not just your average hardware store." Lattey said, "The window honors the National Guard and citizen soldier and sailor. It honors those who can't be home for this event. I'm an avid collector, and Jeff Pfeil, the owner, asked me if I would put together a window honoring the soldiers." LaPointe said that Pfeil himself is a Vietnam veteran. A few aisles down on the right, an end cap features a display of remote control toy Black Hawk helicopters, suitable for ages eight to adult. The iconic war machine used during the Tet Offensive in January of 1968 in South Vietnam will be remembered by Baby Boomers as representative of images burned in their memories of those years. LaPointe said, " Jeff Pfeil is known to be proficient at using the remote control to fly the helicopter around his house and the area." Song stylist Mitch Fraser will entertain from the balcony at Pfeils from 1 to 4 p.m. LaPointe said "The Victorian Stroll has traditionally been our biggest shopping day of the year, so we're hoping this year won't be any different." For more information, visithttp://www.victorianstroll
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Ive been hitting a dead end at all corners trying to figure this out and hoping you guys can help me. First, here is my server hardware:
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I removed all the exterior dell plastic casing and installed additional fans and have an external PSU controlling the two additional hard drives and a blu-ray drive. Ive been using it as a very basic file server.
Heres what I would LIKE to do though...
Im going to be running Cat5e cable throughout my entire house and moving the server to a central location. I have a network that consists of three laptops and three desktop pcs that me and my wife both use at various times. Ideally I would like to setup a system of roaming accounts that would follow us on no matter what machine we were logging into. So if she logs into the laptop, then later on logs into a desktop computer her information is always the same from machine to machine. Basically I need to know if Home Server can handle this task or if its far more incredibly complicated than I think...Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:30 AM
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You can achieve most of what you want by redirecting folders to the server, but true roaming profiles such as you're looking for aren't something that Windows Home Server really supports..
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:20 AMModerator
In addition to what Ken has posted, you can centralise your EMail but in an unsupported way. I have hMailServer installed on my WHS2011 server and access the centralised EMail storage using IMAP Clients on each of my family PCs.
Phil P.S. If you find my comment helpful or if it answers your question, please mark it as such.Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:16 AM
Roaming profiles are really the effect that Im after. Can Server2008r2 do this? Im not opposed to the added cost if theres no way to make WHS do what I want.Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:16 AM
Windows Server 2008 can do it as part of an Active Directory domain. I won't swear to it, but it's likely that Windows Small Business Server Essentials can do it as well; SBSe is built on the same code base as Windows Home Server, and is capable of acting as a domain controller.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:02 AMModerator

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Reforms in Kan. liquor laws on legislative table
Poll shows some residents oppose expansion of liquor sales
Kansas lawmakers are once again facing a proposal to let grocery and convenience stores sell wine, liquor and full-strength beer. But supporters of existing laws are ready for this year's fight with a poll showing most Kansans are on their side.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported the poll of 500 likely voters in 2014 was commissioned by a coalition called Keep Kansans in Business. The group represents the interests of the state's 750 locally owned liquor stores, which now have the exclusive right to sell anything other than wine coolers or so-called weak beer.
Two-thirds of those surveyed by the national research firm Public Opinion Strategies said they oppose the expansion of liquor sales to grocery and convenience stores. About the same number said the change would be bad for the Kansas economy.


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Things have always been rocky for Paterson since he was thrust into the governor's office when Eliot Spitzer was forced to admit a penchant for high-priced call girls. (Hey, better than low-priced street walkers, right? No? Okay then.) From day one it was a dubious start, what with the revelations that he dabbled now and again in both the booger sugar and extramarital dalliances. And then there was the whole Senate coup that jeopardized the Democrat's control of both the Assembly and the State Senate. And the entire budget proceedings have been a total mess.
And pretty much from the time he took office, Paterson has had to defend his seat from potential contenders, opportunistic political sharks who smell the blood in the water, and are circling the governor's manse in Albany measuring the windows for curtains and checking to make sure all of their furniture will fit in the parlor.
And then there was (and still is) the recent Aqueduct debacle, with allegations that the choice of AEG to operate the lucrative racino was nothing more than a little political back-scratching at best, a backroom deal to make well-connected individuals rich, at worst. We'll have to let the Feds straighten that one out.
That's already a pretty rough go at it for your first year or so, but now that pesky New York Times is letting rumors circulate that it has the grandaddy of all Paterson stories, facts so salacious that were they to make it into print their revelation would be so explosive, Paterson would have no choice but to curl up in the fetal position and rock back and forth, quietly muttering "mommy, mommy," until folks in white lab coats pulled up in their van and carted him off. At the very least, he would have to resign.
We have to tell you, goslings, were it us, we would have thrown in the towel if people began to just speculate that we admitted to being big fans of the Twilight movie, but that we had never actually read the books and were just jumping on the vampire bandwagon to impress a twenty-something goth girl who works at the local Starbucks, let alone all of the tribulations Paterson has been forced to endure.
But Paterson is a tougher cookie than Pol Position can ever hope to be. Tales of his physical prowess abound not only in Albany, but across this great country, like the time he created the Rocky Mountains locking horns with his great ox, or how he created the Great Lakes while wandering aimlessly in a blinding white blizzard. Or was that Paul Bunyan?
Anyway, Paterson's pretty tough, as evidenced by his quotes in recent weeks about his eminent demise. Take this recent quote for example:
"The only way I'm not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box. The only way that I'll be leaving office before then is in a box."
Whoa, if we didn't know any better, we would have thought that was a Clint Eastwood quote from The Outlaw Josey Wales, or at least Every Which Way But Loose. And then there's this nugget:
"I'm running for governor in 2010, and anyone that thinks they're bad enough to beat me better get in soon because they're running out of time."
Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em!
Anyway, we like the tough love from the tough gov. We're looking forward to an all-out brawl come this fall.


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In Memoriam: David L. Sloan
The printing industry is saddened by the loss of David L. Sloan, manager of technical service at Polymeric Imaging Inc. He passed away August 11, 2006.
Sloan was born Feb. 8, 1949 in Kansas City, MO and lived in the area for most of his life. Sloan's early work in the printing industry included employment at K.C. Coatings from the late 1960s to 1985. He then worked at Midwest Coatings until 1987 and joined Sericol that company acquired Midwest Coatings. He left Sericol in 2004 to manage technical service at Polymeric.
Sloan's colleagues remember him as the cornerstone for customers in need of technical assistance, someone with vast knowledge who could answer an array of questions, and a mentor who was eager to share his considerable experience. He also helped the company's research group make product adjustments to meet customers' needs—an ability that earned him the reputation of being the key to getting things done in the lab and production office.
"For those of us who had the privilege to know David, it was very clear that he was special," says Michael Plier, Polymeric's executive vice president. "David was genuine.... He was an anomaly—one of a kind. We will all miss him dearly."
Sloan was a veteran of the United States Navy. He served aboard the U.S.S. Coral Sea. Fishing, cooking, and sports were among his many hobbies. He is survived by his daughter, Angie McCoy of Lenexa, KS; his father, Dale Sloan of Warsaw, MO; his brother, Don Sloan of Merriam, KS; his sisters Sheryl Garnett of Overland Park, KS, Janet Cooper of Lenexa, KS, and Carol Wilson of Laurie, MO; former wife, Deanna Boyd of Shawnee, KS; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother, Betty McClure.


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As you may have noticed from last week's recipes, I am a big ginger fan. I also like to use crystallized ginger in cookies. This is a heartier cookie than your typical Ginger Crinkle.
1-1/2 cups flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
¾ cup chopped crystallized ginger
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon ginger
1 cup sugar
½ cup applesauce
¼ cup oil
½ teaspoon vanilla
Combine all dry ingredients. Make a well in center. Whisk together sugar, applesauce, oil and vanilla. Add to flour mixture and stir until just moistened. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough into balls and roll in sugar. Place on lightly greased cookie sheets and bake for 15 minutes. Let set for 1 to 2 minutes on pan; them remove to wire racks to finish cooling.


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LINGERIE tycoon Michelle Mone and her husband are to separate.
A statement released through law firm Harper Macleod said the split is "amicable" and that no other parties are involved.
Mrs Mone, from Glasgow, is the creator of the Ultimo bra and co-founder of MJM International with her husband.
Last year the mother-of-three was presented with an OBE for services to the lingerie industry.
The statement released through lawyers said: "It is with regret that we intimate that Mr Michael J Mone & Mrs Michelle G Mone OBE have decided to separate. There are no other parties involved and the split is amicable.
"Michael and Michelle's focus will be the welfare of their children, which is their main priority.
"They will continue to work together in their business MJM International. This is a private matter and they would appreciate their privacy and that of their family being respected at this difficult time."
Mrs Mone ranks among the UK's most successful businesswomen and her designs can be found in department stores worldwide.
Model Helena Christensen, ex-Spice Girl Mel B and model and actress Kelly Brook have all appeared in advertising campaigns.


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A nine-fight lineup is set for Thursday's Bellator 30 event following the preliminary-card additions of middleweights Josh Clark (3-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. John Troyer (10-6 MMA, 0-2 BFC) and heavyweights Ron Sparks (5-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Greg Maynard (2-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
Bellator 30 takes place Sept. 23 at Fourth Street Live! in Louisville, Ky.
The main card, including a Jeremy Horn vs. Bryan Baker headliner, airs on FOX Sports Net.
Also set for the televised main card are the organization's bantamweight-tournament semifinals of Ed West (14-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) vs. Jose Vega (9-3 MMA, 2-0 BFC) and Bryan Goldsby (12-12 MMA, 1-1 BFC) vs. Zack Makovsky (10-2 MMA, 2-0 BFC). The two winners meet next month to determine a tournament winner and Bellator's first-ever 135-pound champion.
The other televised bout pits Jacob McClintock (6-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC) against Brent Weedman (16-5-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC), who's won eight straight fights. The winner gets a spot in Bellator's upcoming season-four welterweight tournament.
As as is typical with Bellator cards, Thursday's event is heavy on local talent. The "Local Main Event" pits Louisville-based Troyer against Clark, who hails from the Lexington area.
Sparks, meanwhile, fights for the first time in more than a year after numerous bouts fell apart. The most recent was slated to take place this past weekend in King of the Cage, but opponent and boxer Ray Mercer was forced out of the HDNet-televised headliner with an injury.
Rounding out the prelims are featherweights Thomas "T.J." Barber (3-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. B.J. Ferguson (5-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC), middleweights Mike Fleniken (3-2 MMA, 0-1 BFC) vs. Jeremiah Riggs (1-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC), and middleweights Stoney Hale (3-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) vs. Mike O'Donnell (2-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
For more on Bellator 30, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Progress for Wisconsin: One election at a time
WISCONSIN - August 10, 2011 -
With voters in two Senate districts voting for change on August 9, the following can be attributed to Mary Bell, a Wisconsin Rapids teacher and president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council:
"The historic recall elections represent a movement to elect leaders who represent Wisconsin values. Across the state, citizens spoke up – and voiced their frustration at the direction this state has been heading under the leadership and extreme agenda of Scott Walker. Wisconsin deserves better – and high turnout across the state sends a loud wake-up call to the Wisconsin Legislature that the public is watching – and is concerned about the need to restore fairness and balance to the Legislature."
"Flipping two Senate districts clearly indicates progress has been made – and that's a credit to voters for helping Wisconsin take a strong step forward in the battle to uphold the middle class."
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The Airbus A330-300 is the biggest bird in the Brussels Airlines fleet and mainly operates flights to and from North America and the African continent. This twin-engine aircraft delivers high-quality comfort to all those on board and offers the latest-generation entertainment systems. Benefiting from continuous investment over the last decades, this iconic airliner remains Brussels Airlines' top choice for long distance flights.
Front row offering the best view, but already taken by your pilots.
Sit back, relax and enjoy some pampering and a great service high above the clouds. A wonderful experience in our Business Class is awaiting you.
Our Premium Economy Class cabin focuses on comfort, personal space and hospitality. Offering you a more enjoyable flight experience in a quiet and separate area.
Excellent cabin features make flying with Brussels Airlines your best choice for a comfortable journey.
Mainly considered as the little brother in the Airbus A320 family, the A319 is also the smallest bird in our Airbus fleet. With a seating capacity holding up to 141 guests, this twin-engine aircraft offers the same comfort and quality as its bigger variant. One of the main strengths of the Airbus A319 is its flexibility, being able to land on shorter runways and having a higher maximum range to also easily reach our destinations in northern Africa and the Middle East.
The Airbus A320 is one of the most successful and versatile jetliners cruising the blue skies. This twin-engine single-aisle aircraft flies to both short and medium-range destinations, spread in all corners of Europe and even beyond. Airbus' A320 has opened up a new exciting way of travelling, and at Brussels Airlines, we've made this experience even more fun and colourful. Have you already spotted our special liveries?
When is a plane more than just a plane? When it has Belgitude. Since 2015, Brussels Airlines has been proudly turning its aircraft into soaring celebrations of Belgian Icons.


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A Phase IV Study in Subjects With Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00046163
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Study was terminated due to poor enrollment)
First Posted : September 23, 2002
Last Update Posted : November 6, 2007
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We are seeking male and female patients to voluntarily take part in a clinical research study. Patients must be aged 18 or older and diagnosed with symptomatic orthostatic hypotension (low blood pressure while in the upright position) due to Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, pure autonomic failure or autonomic neuropathies (i.e. neurogenic orthostatic hypotension). Symptoms of low blood pressure include dizziness, lightheadedness, changes in vision and generalized weakness upon standing. The main effect of the drug being studied is to increase blood pressure in the upright position so symptoms will decrease.
The purpose of this clinical study is to further assess the clinical effect of high dose midodrine hydrochloride (ProAmatine®), an approved treatment for orthostatic hypotension. During the course of the study, participants will receive either ProAmatine® or a placebo. Assessments will be made using questionnaires that measure symptom and activity levels. Blood pressure in the lying down, sitting and standing positions will be measured. Patients will also complete standing time assessments. They will be asked to remain standing without moving until they feel sufficiently lightheaded, or dizzy, or feel faint so that they would feel more comfortable sitting down.
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|Drug: midodrine hydrochloride (ProAmatine®)
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|A Phase IV, Multi-Center, Double-Blind, Parallel Group, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Assess the Clinical Benefit of Three Doses of Midodrine Hydrochloride (ProAmatine®) in Subjects With Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension
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- The male or female subjects must be 18 years of age or older and ambulatory. (Subjects must not require assistance with a walker or wheelchair to perform regular daily activities at all times.)
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum beta HCG pregnancy test at screening and baseline.
- The subject has been diagnosed with symptomatic orthostatic hypotension due to Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, pure autonomic failure or autonomic neuropathy (i.e. neurogenic orthostatic hypotension).
- The subject manifests one of the following symptoms while standing or has a history of one of the following when not treated for orthostatic hypotension: dizziness, lightheadedness, feeling faint or feeling like they may black out.
- The subject is willing and able to undergo the procedures required by this protocol including morning office visits, assessment completion, protocol compliance and participation in the wash-out period.
- The subject has signed an Institutional-Review-Board approved written informed consent form prior to any study procedures taking place.
Exclusion Criteria:
- The subject is a pregnant or lactating female.
- The subject has pre-existing sustained supine hypertension greater than 180 mm Hg systolic and 110 mm Hg diastolic.
- The subject is taking medications such as vasodilators, pressors, diuretics, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers, combined alpha and beta-blockers, MAOI's, herbals or specific mixed effect medications.
- The Principal Investigator deems any laboratory test abnormality clinical significant.
- The subject has a diagnosis of any of the following disorders at the time of screening: pheochromocytoma; cardiac conditions including: congestive heart failure within the previous 6 months, myocardial infarction within the previous 6 months, symptomatic coronary artery disease, history of ventricular tachycardia, or uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias; thyrotoxicosis; uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (uncontrolled defined as a HgbA1c greater than or equal to 10%); history of cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack (TIA) or symptomatic carotid artery stenosis within the previous 6 months; history of coagulopathies; pulmonary hypertension; severe psychiatric disorders; renal failure (Creatinine equal to or greater than 2 times the upper limit of normal)
- The subject has a concurrent chronic or acute illness, disability, or other condition that might confound the results of the tests and/or measurements administered in this trial, or that might increase the risk to the subject.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00046163
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|Suncoast Neuroscience Associates, Inc.
|St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Neurological Associates of Delaware Valley
|Upland, Pennsylvania, United States
|United States, Texas
|Diabetes & Glandular Disease Research Associates, PA,
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Weekend Plans: Breakfast at Bark
The only bad thing about "breakfast" at haute hot dog shop Bark in Park Slope? That it's only served on Saturday and Sunday. This chorizo sandwich ($8), the housemade sausage crispy-edged and plenty juicy, is served on a butter-browned English muffin with pickled jalapeños, egg, and a mellow avocado sauce—it's warm and cool, spicy and creamy, juicy and crunchy all at once.
Also tasty? The French toast ($8) made from Amy's Bread brioche, downright custardlike on the inside and smothered in sparingly sweet strawberry preserves...
... and the biscuit with gravy ($5), its crispy-edged biscuit soaked through with sausage flavor. It's not as light as we like our biscuits, but smothered in this gravy, we're not complaining.
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A Vision for Better Education: Areas of Surprising Agreement
A Vision for Better Education: Areas of Surprising Agreement
Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the National Convention of the Parent Teacher Association
Austin, Texas
June 20, 2014
I'm thrilled to be here and thank you so much for that kind introduction. Under Otha's extraordinary leadership, together with your state leaders and members, the PTA has been a vital force in raising expectations for every single child in this country.
You are helping people get the information they need about new, higher learning standards that many states have adopted – and about community eligibility for free meals.
You have helped raise funds for cash-strapped schools, and spotlighted creative arts. And you have been a very thoughtful voice for discipline policies that treat every child fairly.
Parents are precious, precious assets in education, and you help our nation's schools treat them that way. I join America's educators and families in a heartfelt thank-you.
So please give President Thornton and all of yourselves a round of applause.
As Otha said, I'm first and foremost a dad. We have a daughter going into the seventh grade, and a son going into fifth grade.
They're finishing school, actually, today.
When I was home Wednesday night, before I left for San Antonio, at dinner my wife and I talked with them about what were their best learning opportunities this school year – what was the most fun, and what they got the most out of.
It was really interesting – and not surprising – that it wasn't the traditional "sit in a row with 25 or 30 desks and hear the teacher lecture them."
So my son said, what he really enjoyed this year, was the chance to work a little bit ahead of grade level in math by using technology. He talked about how fascinating it was to learn how to operate a flight simulator as part of one of his classes.
My daughter, who's in sixth grade, going into seventh, she talked about the chance to be part of a Constitutional Convention – to have that debate, and to learn about the Civil War and again, rather than having to get a lecture, they had a Civil War Day where students, almost like at the college level, they got to pick which class they go to during the day. They had a bunch of different options.
One option was what it was like to be a child during the Civil War, what were children's roles during that time. They had a chance to see their clothing, go in a tent, touch the weapons, and experience those things. They had a mock trial for Mary Surratt, who was maybe, maybe not, an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth – they debated that, and they decided she was guilty.
But it's those kinds of opportunities that I think are so special. And why are those experiences so important? Because I think all of us – all of us as parents – want our children to be inspired, to be challenged, to be active participants in their own learning.
And here's why this matters so much:
Every child – every student -- deserves an education that will prepare her for the future. And more and more, success in the real world won't be just about what you know, but what you can do with what you know.
It will be about your ability to make connections among ideas, to communicate them, and to be able to work in diverse groups to create, to analyze, and to find solutions to complex problems. It will be about a child's ability to understand technology not as an end in itself, but as a tool for a task.
Yes, knowledge matters, but not in a vacuum. It has to be connected with inquiry and problem solving.
Those skills will be precious currency for young people who might change jobs a dozen or more times across their careers. And the best jobs for our children, as columnist Tom Friedman has written about, will actually be the jobs they invent themselves.
Fluency with critical thinking, readiness for life-long learning – that's what will matter. That's what my wife and I want for our children.
And after thousands and thousands of conversations all over the country, I am more convinced than ever that's exactly what most parents and most teachers want for our nation's children as well.
Making that happen at scale – for the many, and not for the few – that will take real action.
If you remember only one thing from what I say today, please make it this: to prepare our children for the real future that they'll face, public education has to change. It has to evolve. And there is growing agreement in this country about what we need to do.
There's growing agreement on the results-driven improvements we can make right now to ensure a truly effective education for every student. There is growing agreement about how best to prepare every student for success in college, careers, and life.
Those changes have begun in many, many communities throughout this country. But there's also tough work ahead. It won't happen fast enough without the support of people like you, who are so committed to our nation's children.
So I'm going to lay out what that change looks like, and where I think we agree. And I'm also going to ask for your help.
This change isn't about pleasant platitudes or airy aspirations. These challenges that have been decades in the making. But it's urgent for us to take action now. Because we all benefit if all students receive an education that truly challenges and motivates them. And we will all live with the consequences if they don't.
Let me ask you two questions.
If you could, please raise your hand if you're better off than your parents were.
Now, the second question – maybe the tougher question – please raise your hand if you think your kids will be better off than you are today.
Around this country, a lot of people wouldn't raise their hands on that last one right now, because they are worried that our children won't inherit a better America than the one we did.
We all want our kids to go further, to have more, than we have, to have a secure future. I know that's what my wife and I want. But many people question whether they can deliver on that future for their kids.
And as parents, that uncertainty and that worry, sometimes gnaws at us. It keeps us awake some nights.
Parents see children in places like Germany and Korea and China racing past ours educationally, and they suspect kids from those countries will be better positioned than ours in a globally competitive economy.
These worries are my worries, too. And they're backed up by facts:
Compared to 1970 and 1990, more young adults now live with their parents, and more are poor.
Fewer than one in three high school sophomores from middle-class families -- and just one in seven from low-income families -- go on to earn a bachelor's degree.
And in the last generation, the average tuition at a public four-year college more than tripled -- while the typical family income has barely moved.
The statistics shouldn't surprise us. In many ways, the education system we have today was designed for a time when higher education was simply a privilege reserved for the elite. Those days have to end.
Other countries have retooled their education systems to meet that challenge; we are just beginning to.
Quality education can no longer be just for the wealthy few. Every student – no matter where they come from, what zip code they live in, or challenges they face – they desperately need and deserve the opportunity to truly learn and to be successful.
This fall, as we prepare for a new school year, we face a seminal moment in public education: for the first time in our nation's history, our Department projects that America's public schools will enroll a majority-minority student body. Our collective future depends on meeting the needs of all students, and particularly those minority students, better.
Let me be clear: our challenges are not isolated to poor or minority students. The absolute fact is that all students – regardless of race, income and geography – must learn at higher levels if we expect to catch up with our international competitors and to pass them by. No one – no one -- is exempt from the call for educational improvement.
We owe it to each and every student to provide her the best possible skills and preparation for the new global economy. The schools she attends must look as different as her world will.
So let's talk about what school needs to look like – and what we need to do to make that happen.
First, school must be a supportive, joyful and safe place. For most of our young people, our schools are absolutely all of those things. But for a tragic number, schools have become a place of deadly violence.
A year and a half ago, I thought this country had to have reached a turning point with gun violence and schools. I thought that after the horrific massacre at Newtown, Connecticut, things could never be the same.
Sadly, I was wrong.
Since then, in just the past 18 months, there have been 70 – 70 – school shootings on our school and college campuses, resulting in 36 deaths, including 22 students and two teachers. What ought to shock us, and jar us to act, has only become more routine.
This level of violence, of death, of heartbreak, and of devastation of families, simply doesn't happen in countries like Japan and England and Australia and Canada. And I refuse to believe, that's based on how they value their children more than we do.
I promise to work with anyone, anywhere, to keep our children safe and free from fear.
Collectively, that's the least that we can do.
Ensuring that schools are safe places for children to learn – that's our first job. But let's talk about what learning must look like to get every child ready for an innovation-driven world.
To prepare our young people for success in careers and life, we must prepare all of them for some form of college. That's never been the case before. Why is it today?
College does a lot more than prepare young people for work – but the economic facts alone are compelling. In the last generation, pay has climbed substantially for those with a bachelor's degree, and more for those with additional degrees – while it has actually fallen for those with only a high school diploma.
What does that all mean? According to M.I.T. economist David Autor, a male college graduate who entered the labor force in 1965 could expect to earn $213,000 more over a lifetime compared with someone with just a high school diploma.
By 2010, that pay differential reached $590,000. For women, the college advantage also more than doubled, to $370,000 from $129,000.
David Leonhardt, the Pulitzer prize-winning economics writer, reports that the pay gap between college graduates and everyone else has reached a record high: college grads today earn 98 percent more per hour.
He writes, and I quote: "For all the struggles that many young college graduates face, a four-year degree has probably never been more valuable."
In the years ahead, some form of postsecondary degree or credential will serve as the basic entry ticket in this economy. Today, our schools do a pretty decent job of persuading our kids to go to college – but a poor job of preparing them to succeed once they are there.
We can't accept that. Every student in America must be prepared to compete with – and actually to lead – the rest of the world.
As people invested in our kids and in our country, everyone here has a shared mission: to make sure that every student, everywhere, receives an effective education.
It's a mission that we can all agree on, and it's one that matters immensely.
That mission starts with access to high-quality early learning opportunities. We must help our babies enter kindergarten ready to be successful. It's the best investment we can make.
That mission continues with a great school – a school ready for the future. Schools ready for the future share seven key factors:
First, inspiring, effective, well-supported teachers; second, high standards; third, engaged parents and families; fourth, motivated students; fifth, courageous, committed, accountable leaders; sixth, a safe, secure classroom environment; and finally, access to modern technology.
For the many, many schools that already have the ingredients for success, let's celebrate them and learn from them and empower them to achieve even more.
For schools that need help getting there, let's provide real and meaningful help now. Because I think we can all agree on so much of what we need to do.
Let's start with a huge area of agreement, and that's around teachers.
Great teachers and great leaders matter more than anything else in school. I think everyone here would agree that we must do even more to respect, reward, and retain them.
We have to stand up for great teachers. We have to celebrate them and create pathways and opportunities for them to shape and nurture the next generation of teacher talent.
While we know that, as a nation, we don't always act on those beliefs. If we did, we would provide teachers with better resources. We would pay them a lot more. And we would train and support them better.
Doctors, top managers and pro athletes all have access to excellent coaching, informed by solid data. They receive top-notch training and ongoing development to hone their skills.
Together, let's work to make all those elements the norm in teaching – better training, better resources, better support, and smarter accountability, tied to better information about student progress.
Part of great teaching is personalizing instruction, meeting the needs of 30 or more individual students – that's a huge, complex task.
Let's make sure teachers have access to the technological tools that can help them meet that challenge– and make sure that student data remains secure and private.
In schools, and school systems, that are serious about preparing our children for the future, mastery of learning – rather than time spent sitting in a seat for a particular class –will become the deciding factor in when the student is ready to move ahead. That means schools will need better ways to assess students' continual progress.
Parents need to know that, as well. Parents have the right to know whether their children's schools are in fact teaching them what they need to know – and they deserve better information than what comes from today's simplistic bubble tests.
Smarter assessment means providing teachers, students, and families more timely and useful information – while taking less time out of the school day. Where schools and school districts test excessively, they should cut back.
And where schools are spending too much time prepping for tests, they should cut back there as well. Great teaching, that's what leads to real learning and strong results in assessments – not time spent on test prep.
Support and evaluation for teachers should take into account student growth and gain – as one part of a mix of measures including things like observations, surveys or portfolios of student work.
When asked, parents strongly support that idea. Better information means more thoughtful, targeted, and effective support—and nobody gains when school systems treat all teachers as indistinguishable. In fact, some systems actually devalue the critically important and complex work that teachers do, every single day, on behalf of our children.
Schools ready for the future also set high expectations for learning.
Thanks in large part to efforts the PTA led, 43 states will be moving forward this fall with new, higher, better academic standards that they chose. That's a sea change in the right direction, and I thank you for your leadership.
As I travel the country, teachers constantly tell me that higher standards offer an opportunity for them to innovate and be creative—and to focus on critical thinking and problem solving, skills that our children desperately want and need.
Yet, on standards, misinformation is circulating. So let me just take one minute to go through the facts.
First, teachers and principals will always, always decide how to teach and what books to read – everything that happens in classrooms. No bureaucrat in Washington will change that. Ever.
Second, state leaders, parents, principals, policymakers, and education experts from across the country came together to develop these college- and career- ready standards.
Third, higher standards of learning give parents more information about how well their neighborhood schools are performing.
Change is always hard, and raising the bar is never easy. The transition to higher standards has been difficult in places, and communication and support for teachers have sometimes fallen short.
But it is clear to me that principals and teachers who have worked through this transition together are finding enormous rewards and better serving their students.
Let me just give you one quick example. A few months ago, I visited Orchard Gardens, a school in Boston that has made an amazing turnaround under an arts-focused turnaround effort. In just a few short years, Orchard Gardens has gone from being one of the worst schools in the city of Boston to a school today that has a waiting list, with families trying to get in to that school.
I talked there with an amazing eighth-grade English teacher named Andrew Vega. Andrew said the transition to the higher standards was tough and scary at first, but it ultimately opened up huge opportunities for him and his students.
In an article he wrote, he said he is now — and I quote — "a better — and happier — teacher than I've ever been."
Of course, students will need more than just the traditional academic skills in English, Math, and Science. They'll need to study history, languages, and have high-quality arts instruction.
They'll need to be physically active and civically engaged. They'll need to be challenged to work hard – and as parents, we have to support that work ethic.
As parents, we know that grit, resilience, patience, and many other skills can have just as great an effect on our students' long-term prospects as their math and reading – their academic -- skills.
Schools ready for the future will help them develop those skills and habits as well. And that work must begin in the early years – one more reason we must give every child in America the opportunity to attend high-quality preschool.
But it's not enough for our children to be college-ready – they also have to be able to afford to go to college. College must be in reach for every hardworking family in America.
That's why we are doing all we can to make college more affordable for every student and family.
The President and I have embarked on a comprehensive college cost agenda to ensure students are not taking on unsustainable debt, and families have the information they need, and the transparency, to make good decisions.
And to keep debt from overwhelming our young people, we are proposing to expand the Pay As You Earn plan, which caps student loan repayments at 10 percent of monthly income, to all Direct Loan borrowers.
Let me be very clear: we simply can't do this alone. This has to be about shared responsibility and mutual accountability. States must reinvest in higher education. States cut their investment. Universities jacked their tuition up. Colleges must do a better job of containing their costs and building cultures that focus not just on access – yes, access is important, but it has to be about completion and graduation at the back end.
And as we move forward, we will constantly strive to be a better partner, and to work with the recognition and the clear understanding that what matters most will never, never be ideas that come from Washington.
What actually matters most is great, exciting ideas from around the country, putting all these pieces together to build schools that are truly ready for the future.
You can see it in places like Leslie County High School in Hayden, Kentucky – a place so rural that some students travel 30 miles just to come to school. In 2010, that high school was ranked 224th out of the state's 230 high schools.
Leaders, parents, and educators joined forces with extraordinary commitment and a laser-like focus on data. Just a few short years later, today, that school – that was ranked 224th -- is now ranked 16th in Kentucky, and graduates 99 percent of its students.
You can see it in Los Angeles at the Incubator School, where teachers blend on-line and in-person instruction and coding – which is so important for the jobs of the future -- is now a core skill, taught to all 11 year olds.
I saw it at New York's Harbor School, where students prepare for college and career simultaneously -- learning subjects from marine biology to boat building.
And I saw it at El Paso, at Transmountain Early College High School. Students there, the vast majority low-income and Latino, can earn a high school diploma and an associate's degree in four years without paying a nickel of college tuition.
I visited a biology class there, where 13- and 14-year-olds, high school freshmen, are taking college-level classes for college credit.
Leadership matters. Opportunity matters. High expectations matter.
Nationally, we're seeing the impact of the hard work and commitment of teachers, families and students.
Our nation's high school graduation rate today stands at 80 percent – the highest in our country's history. I want to thank you so much for contributing to that success.
I'm pleased to report that dropout rates are down dramatically -- since 2000, the dropout rate has been cut by more than half for Hispanic students, and by more than a third for African-American and low-income students.
College enrollment has hit record levels as well. Reading and math scores for fourth- and eighth-graders are at their highest level since the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the NAEP exam, began.
The improvements that we are seeing should make us all hungry to do more.
These big changes are hard. But is an immensely important moment –not an easy one.
Teachers and principals are working to usher in the largest changes our schools have seen, literally, in decades. If it feels like things are moving fast, that feeling is right: it's because they are. If we can begin making these improvements now– we owe it to our children to do it, to not wait.
Collectively, you've already shown your commitment. You demonstrate it every single day … from teaching students every day to volunteering to helping with homework to reading to your children at night. You know what's at stake for them, for our communities, and for our country.
As a nation, we have so much more to do. Our nation needs your help. Our communities need your help. And our children need your help.
In conclusion, I ask you to hear my remarks as a call to action.
Like your organizational motto says, every child needs one voice.
I ask you to be a voice for higher expectations, for elevating the teaching profession. I ask you to be a voice for supporting educators as they strive to make their schools ready for the future – to transform them into the schools our students need to succeed.
I ask you to continue to work with urgency and with courage to make these important changes a reality for every single child.
I'm excited to do this work together.
Thank you so much, and I look forward to your questions.


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Veritat Advisors, the brainchild of Wharton professor Kent Smetters, may have been the smartest advisory platform for serving the mass market but it was surely also the among the smallest.
Now, in a rare combination of brains and brawn, LPL's newly created subsidiary NestWise has acquired Veritat Advisors and plans to scale up the startup's robust financial planning platform to reach the underserved middle market.
NestWise, a newly formed and wholly owned subsidiary of LPL, on Tuesday announced plans to use Veritat as the chassis on which to build a vehicle that can reach an estimated 32 million middle-class households that have the financial ability to save.
In an interview with AdvisorOne, Smetters (left), who will serve the new venture as a consultant after completion of the sale in the third quarter, said LPL's financial and personnel resources offered the key missing elements his startup lacked.
"The real advantage that the new platform's going to have is a lot more marketing support for the advisors and a skilled group of people who are not coming in part time [as were a number of Veritat employees]; they're all-in," he said.
Smetters added he saw "very little overlap" in this marriage of LPL's business acumen and Veritat's unique automated yet personalized financial planning approach.
"What we bring to the table is technology and a lot of thought about what clients want and what advisors want," Smetters said. "What NestWise brings to the table is lots of industry experience about what motivates advisors and lots of marketing to help them acquire clients."
With Tuesday's acquisition, the recently formed LPL New Venture officially becomes NestWise, which will operate Veritat under the new NestWise brand. Veteran LPL executive Esther Stearns will have day-to-day responsibility for the new venture, which rolls out in the fourth quarter.
Stearns, formerly president of LPL Investment Holdings, told AdvisorOne that NestWise's essential mission of providing affordable personal financial advice for the mass market matches that of Veritat, and does not overlap with LPL, whose advisors target mass-affluent and high-net-worth investors.
"When I first met Kent, I was absolutely struck by how much his beliefs aligned with NestWise," Stearns (left), one of AdvisorOne's Top Women in Wealth, said. "Kent has built the tool that is really optimal for this market."
Smetters' platform, the subject of an extensive report by AdvisorOne earlier in the year, is based on using both technology and personal service to provide objective, transparent and comprehensive financial advice based on principles of academic finance.
"The academic side of it very much stays," Smetters says, including helping middle-class investors prioritize through goals-based investing and modeling risk in a more sophisticated way than mere Monte Carlo analysis, he added.
While that "chassis" remains the same, Stearns says NetWise will add to the structure in three main areas. First is a "consumer education program, which will really be able to help [investors] identify what is most important to them," Stearns said.
The second addition will be "professionaly designed managed portfolios," which are fee-based. "Some will be based on strategists from outside the firm and some will be based on the work of NestWise investment managers," Stearns said, adding "they will be specifically tailored cost-effective options in this marketplace."
The third key expansion will be in the area of training and development of financial advisors, which will be particularly important given Stearns' expectation that many of them will not have previous experience as financial advisors.
"They will be entrepreneurially minded people who have a good way with people and who want to build a good business," Stearns said. "We think there's a lot of second-career opportunities."
Beth Stelluto, NestWise's chief marketing officer, says Veritat will continue to operate normally until the new firm's launch. "We're aggressively moving toward the close," she told AdvisorOne. "The important thing is that Veritat will remain in place until we officially launch NestWise in the fourth quarter."
Neither NestWise nor Veritat disclosed the terms of the sale.
Smetters, in addition to his consulting with NestWise, will continue his role as a full-time professor at Wharton. His entrepreneurial foray into the financial advisory business was based on his view that the middle class remains an untapped market with a great pent-up need for financial advice.
He says NestWise will carry on that vision. "[Veritat] continues as an RIA. The basic model maintains; and the mission maintains," he said.
Adds Stearns: "We are all about how we develop new financial advisors to [provide] personal financial planning to the mass market."
Check out story on Smetter's Veritat, Wharton Professor Gives Advisory Model Radical Makeover, at AdvisorOne.


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SOLIHULL, England, June 14 (UPI) -- Police in Britain said a man was warned for using the 999 emergency number to complain a prostitute was not as attractive as advertised.
West Midlands police said a dispatcher at the Solihull, England, call center took a call Tuesday evening from a man who said he wanted to report a prostitute for "breaching the Sale of Goods Act" by claiming to be more attractive than he found her to be when he met her at a hotel parking lot, The Telegraph reported Friday.
"When he raised this issue with the woman concerned, she allegedly took his car keys, ran away from the car and threw them back at him, prompting him to call police," a police spokesman said. "An officer in the Solihull contact center advised the caller that no offenses had been committed by the woman and that soliciting for sex was in fact illegal. Despite the man refusing to give his details, police have been able to identify him and have sent him a letter warning him about his actions."
The man was advised that charges of wasting police time can carry prison sentences of up to six months, the spokesman said.


text: wmarsh 5 Posted January 26, 2011 Hi all! We finally succeeded in getting Mobility Radeon HD 4xxx working with QE/CI This thread originally was a forum for those who did not give up and continued to work towards a solution. We were told it was impossible but we did not give up. Persistence has brought success. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1444321 Please post your ideas and contributions. New user mucha first attained full QE/CI -- and posted a guide. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1655182 Kizwan is collecting fully working patches here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=0#entry1660086 What if the screen is blurry with "white lines" once you enable QE? Or strange colors (with 10.7 or 10.6.7MBP kexts) Sorry, no fix yet The consensus is the best bootloader for this method is chameleon trunk, modified so that your card is supported with GraphicsEnabler. Get the code from here: http://code.google.com/p/chameleon/source/checkout Modify the code in trunk by finding file /i386/libsaio/ati.c Search for the 2nd instance of your device id in the file change: { 0x10029552, "Peregrine"} , to: { 0x10029552, "Flicker"} , (or whichever FB you want) then recompile and use your new binary (there are some precompiled binaries posted -- no promises about one for your card and your FB) You need a controller (eg. ATI4600Controller.kext) with your dev id added to info.plist. (In Lion and 2011 MBP 10.6.7 the FB may also be specified in its info.plist, and you may find the FB to modify in its executable) You need Developers Tools installed, unless someone you trust tells you the offset in the executable where to change. You need a hex editor (I use 0xED) unless someone gives you a pre-edited kext You will need bcc9's radeon_bios_decode tool to figure out the sensid for your card, posted here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=0#entry1647625 This tool is very useful, and also gives you good information about encoders You need an extracted VBIOS to use it -- see next paragraph You may need dong's RadeonDump tool and RadeonHD.kext for this method. RadeonHD only works for 4xxx and below and only arch=i386 I find I can get dmesg from RadeonHD without setting debug=true or verbose=2, therefore leaving screen usable. for tool google "dong VBIOS" download vbios.zip from 1st link (not necessary if you can extract your vbios with gpu-z in Windows and use Linux or bcc9's tool for dmesg) dong looks like he is about to post an updated RadeonHD -- available here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1660427 Alternate way to get dmesg (thanks crazybirdy!) through Linux -- this should work for 5xxx and 6xxx (Purpose is to get dmesg so you can figure out you encoder/decoder values) http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1657630 Checcco recommends (and I have confirmed) you get MUCH MORE INFORMATION than any other method by pushing F6 then escape when booting ubuntu, then add "radeon.modeset=0" without quotes to boot options Look in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log Our thanks to dong (for his RadeonHD.kext we have tried to obsolete and his tool) to bcc9 for inventing the method and decoding sensid. to mucha for decoding the tranmitter/encoders to dong for explaining why EDID is not loaded by AppleFramebuffer to kizwan and crazybirdy and c0ke for their help and to checcco for expanding this to 5xxx The GREEN Apple is normal for certain GPUs -- thank you hjs89 1 micato reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Alongside a plethora of other new gadgets, Sony is debuting two new Android handsets: the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Both phones will feature a 5-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, and 13MP fast-capture camera with Exmore RS, which can also capture HDR video.
The Xperia Z, referred to as the "true, super phone experience" at Sony's official CES press conference, features a 5-inch Full HD 1080×1920 Reality Display fueled by the Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2—the same engine featured in Sony's 1080p televisions. The handset also sports an asynchronous Snapdragon S4 with 2GB of RAM, NFC-enabled screen mirroring, and a dust and water-resistant chassis.
Besides the life-resistant casing, the Xperia ZL features almost all of the same components. No pricing or availability is currently available for either device, but Sony says they will begin shipping this quarter. We'll have a hands-on with both handsets once the show floor opens.


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A team from Google's fraud-detection group has started its own software as a service venture for spotting transaction fraud quickly based on rule sets and that also learns as it goes to improve its hit rate.
Simility examines online transactions to identify indicators of foul play and assigns them risk scores from 0 to 1. Customers can use the information to shut down transactions it deems suspect.
The Simility Fraud Prevention Platform service is available starting next week after a six-month private beta.
The service is aimed at online marketplaces and retailers and on financial institutions and can cut down the number of false positives these businesses now generate using manual analysis of transactions, says Rahul Pangam, the company's co-founder and CEO.
The platform analyzes the computers from which transactions are coming in order to detect those that are being used by fraudsters to fire off multiple bogus transactions. That function, called Device Recon, can detect factors such as browser and plugins, Flash version, browser language, location and operating system to create a fingerprint of the machine. When the same fingerprint comes up over and over, that increases its risk score, he says.
Customers' analysts check out the risk scores and can dig into the reasons behind them in order to decide whether to cancel transactions coming from suspect computers, he says. As they gain confidence in the platform they can more quickly pull the trigger on transactions whose scores exceed a certain threshold.
The platform includes a plain-language rule-making utility for customers to set parameters they want used to catch bogus transactions. It also includes a machine learning engine that seeks out correlations among attributes of known fraudulent transactions. These learned indicators are worked into the algorithms that formulate the risk scores, Pangam says.
Sorting through a vast amount of transaction attributes to discover some of these indicators is beyond the capability of human analysts due to the sheer volume of data, he says.
An important part of the platform is that its analysis engine can be tuned to each customer, making it sensitive to attributes unique to that business's transactions, Pangam says. "That's much more effective than a single detection model," he says.
The platform includes a workbench where customers can view scores and also carry out analysis on their own. For example, they can look for patterns based on physical location of where suspect transactions originate to see whether there's indications of a larger fraud network.
Simility's three co-founders all worked together at Google as did five other early employees. The company has a mix of operations experts, data scientists, data analysts and engineers to put together the pieces of the platform.
Founded two years ago, the company has $7.2 million in funding from Accel Partners, Trinity Ventures and angel investors.
The company charges .5 cent to 6 cents per transaction depending on the volume of transactions and the sophistication of the analysis performed.


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NBA : Miami beats Timberwolves on monday night 97-81
Nothing seems to stop Miami.
The days go by and look for the reigning NBA champion.
Dwyane Wade had 32 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, LeBron James shrugged off a sore left knee to score 20 points and grab 10 rebounds, and the Miami Heat earned their franchise-record 15th straight victory with a 97-81 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.
Chris Bosh added 11 points and nine rebounds, and James played 35 minutes despite being listed as a game-time decision with a twisted left knee.
Derrick Williams had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Ricky Rubio had 14 points, eight assists, six steals and five rebounds for the Timberwolves. J.J. Barea had four points on 1-for-11 shooting and was ejected in the fourth quarter after getting a Flagrant-2 foul for a hit on Heat guard Ray Allen.
Minnesota was down six points with eight minutes to play when Barea was ejected. The Heat then went on a 17-5 run to put away the game.


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My Testimony Grows
1. When I kneel to pray,
I know that Jesus cares.
And if I pray with faith,
The Lord will hear my prayers.
For Jesus says to us,
"If you remember Me,
And do the things I do,
Your testimony grows."
2. When I read God's words,
Of all that He has done,
I know that Jesus lives,
And loves us, ev'ryone.
When I remember Him,
Do all He says to do,
I know His words are true.
My testimony grows.
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Music: Lynn Lund
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Composition Date: 1991-04-01
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3500 Series Rotors
1/2" Inlet Part-Circle Rotor Pop-Up Sprinklers
The 3500 Series Rotor is an easy to use short to mid-range 1/2" gear-drive rotor, offering value and convenience for residential applications. Utilizing a simple flat-bladed screwdriver, the 3500's arc adjustment is quick and easy.
This versatile rotor offers an attachable nozzle tree with six superior performing Rain Curtain nozzles and the convenience of reversing full and part circle operation (up to 360 degrees) in one unit. Plus, a nozzle removal feature and easily removable filter screen makes maintenance a breeze.
All of this, an affordable price and a 3-year factory warranty makes the 3500 Series one rotor that is easy to use, easy to buy and tough to beat.
- Top-adjust arc adjustment requiring only a flat-blade screwdriver.
- Shrub and 4" models available.
- True 4" (10 cm) pop-up (measured from center of nozzle).
- 40- 360° Arc Part-Circle arc rotation and reversing Full-Circle rotation in one.
- Attachable nozzle tree of six Rain Curtain™ nozzles.
- Radius adjustment screw allows up to 35% radius reduction without changing nozzles.
- Quick Check Arc/Fast Forward.
- Dual action, positive stop wiper seal protects internals from debris and assures positive pop-up and retraction.
- Self-adjusting stator does not require replacement when changing nozzles.
- Water-lubricated gear-drive design for durable, reliable operation.
- Easily removable filter screen.
- Nozzle removal feature.
- Arc setting factory preset at 180° for installation convenience.
- Optional non-potable cover for easy identification of reclaimed water.
- Optional Seal-A-Matic (SAM™) check valve holds up to 7 feet (2,1m) of elevation change, to prevent puddling and erosion caused by low head drainage.
- Precipitation rate: .37 to .72 inches per hour (9 to 18 mm/h)
- Radius: 15 to 35 feet (4,6 to 10,7 m)
- Radius may be reduced up to 35% with Radius Reduction Screw
- Pressure: 25-55 psi (1,7 to 3,8 Bars)
- Flow Rate: .54 to 4.6 gpm (,12 to 1,04 m 3/h)
- 1/2" NPT female bottom threaded inlet
- Reversing Full-and Part-circle adjustment 40° – 360°
- Pop-up height shrub: 4" (10,2 cm)
- Overall body height shrub: 6.6" (16,8 cm)
- Exposed surface diameter: 1.16" (2,9 cm)
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Romney mines for former Obama supporters
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- In a presidential campaign filled with sharp criticism, this may be Mitt Romney's softest sell: persuading people who voted for Democrat Barack Obama and now have some buyer's remorse to back the Republican instead.
"We led with our hearts and our dreams that we could be more inclusive than America had ever been, and no candidate had ever spoken so beautifully," former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, who recently switched parties, told the Republican National Convention. "But dreams meet daybreak."
Davis, who seconded Obama's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008, was the personification Tuesday of a bloc of voters who backed Obama four years ago but who now are disenchanted.
Romney is trying to lure these voters into his fold, and courting them was a theme of the first full night of his national nominating convention.
Republican nominee Romney is taking care not to insult these voters, whose support could be critical in key states where the race is tight. He is gently asking them to reconsider their past support of Obama, if they're not already.
"Ask one more person to join us, who supported President Obama four years ago and didn't get the change they deserved," Romney told an audience in Chillicothe, Ohio, this month.
He featured some of these disillusioned Obama voters in a short video at the convention Tuesday.
Among them: Debbie Smith of Iowa. "As the co-owner of a small business, I'm not supporting Barack Obama this time because I just don't see things getting better," Smith says in the video.
The 51-year-old from Des Moines helped launch Obama on the path to the presidency. The lifelong Democrat supported him in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, which Obama won. The win established him as the Democratic front-runner.
But Smith was unimpressed with Obama's handling of the debate over federal health insurance legislation in 2009 and then came to think he was not taking the growing federal debt seriously.
Like millions of voters in 2008, Smith had hoped in voting for Obama that his call for bipartisanship in a bitterly divided political environment would come to pass. Obama was able to cobble together a coalition of voters that also included disaffected Republicans turned off by the Bush administration's spending patterns.
Smith is not angry, just disappointed in changes she did not expect.
"I don't want to tell people who to vote for," Smith said in an interview. "I just want people to do their homework."
Romney's campaign is hoping to win over people like Smith in battleground states such as Iowa and Ohio, where the race is viewed as very close.
Iowa is symbolic because, after Obama won the caucuses, he carried the state in the general election by 9 percentage points, the biggest winning margin there in a quarter-century.
Romney's hoping he can also lure back those independents and moderate Republicans who walked away from the GOP for Obama.
Iowa is one of seven states where polls show neither Obama nor Romney has a significant advantage. The others are Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia.
Another member of that voter group Romney's trying to lure is Ashley Bell of Georgia.
The lawyer was an Obama supporter in 2008. His wife, Lauren, was a delegate to the Democratic convention that year.
He said he respected that Obama, as a candidate, opposed requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance, a position he would change in signing the 2010 health care law, which includes a health insurance mandate.
Bell, who is African-American, said he voted for Obama because he viewed the Democrat as a pragmatist. He did not support Obama because he is black, although he was proud to back the first black president.
"We were excited in the moment. And we still have an affinity for the guy," Bell said. "But we had to look at the big picture."
Aides to Obama's campaign declined to comment about the Romney campaign's effort to woo the Democrat's past supporters. But they noted that Davis, who served four terms in the House, voted with Democrats 95 percent of the time before he left Congress in 2010.