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Physics, Astronomy & Meteorology
James P. Boyle, Chair
Science Building 273, Midtown campus
(203) 837-8856
(203) 837-8320 (fax)
Robert Eisenson, Associate Chair
Science Building 277, Midtown campus
(203) 837-8989
(203) 837-8320 (fax)
TBA, Department Secretary
Science Building 324, Midtown campus
(203) 837-8669
(203) 837-8320 (fax)
|A. Chance
|J. Boyle, Chair
|D. Dawson
|R. Eisenson, Associate Chair
|A. Owino
The goal of the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology is to provide students the opportunity to understand the physical laws governing the universe. The fundamental relationships between energy and matter are studied, from the age of the ancient scientists through the eras of Newton and Einstein and up to the present day. Applications are made to the fields of astronomy, earth and planetary sciences, electronics, engineering, meteorology and to the many branches of physics, from classical mechanics to quantum nuclear physics. In addition to experiencing practical applications of the laws of nature, students develop an understanding of the role of science and technology in contemporary society.
Consistent with the university's mission to serve as an accessible, responsive, and creative intellectual resource for the people and institutions of Connecticut, the Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology endeavors to provide a complete and current education in the principles and applications of physics, astronomy, earth and planetary sciences and meteorology, in ways that accommodate the students' backgrounds and career objectives.
To accomplish this mission, the Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology:
- Stresses an understanding of the fundamental relationships between matter and energy and the various transformations between them.
- Provides an understanding of the relationship between classical and modern physics and their application to the more applied disciplines of astronomy, earth and planetary sciences, and meteorology.
- Provides students with the experimental and theoretical background necessary to pursue careers as teachers in earth and planetary sciences.
- Provides undergraduates with the theoretical and operational background necessary to pursue careers in broadcast meteorology and weather forecasting.
- Maintains an active and publicly responsive program of outreach and extension through the WCSU Observatory and the Meteorological Studies and Weather Center.
- Provides students with the opportunity to gain real-world, hands-on experience while developing professional skills in forecasting, nowcasting, and consulting meteorology through academic internships offered through the Meteorological Studies and Weather Center.
- Develops the professional skills required by broadcast meteorologists by supervising students who produce and present weathercasts as part of on-campus radio and TV programming.
- Provides students with a breadth of working knowledge about aspects of the earth and planetary sciences (such as climate change and remote sensing) as well as the opportunity to develop marketable skills (such as familiarity with instrumentation, data analysis methods and software) through coursework, research projects with faculty and departmental internships.
- Provides students with pre-engineering training and the necessary skills to enter various technical fields.
- Provides laboratory and research experiences using modern instrumentation and data reduction techniques.
- Fosters critical thinking, creativity, computational and analytical skills through laboratory exercises, course assignments and personalized research experiences.
- Provides a personalized learning environment for our students through faculty-supervised research opportunities, student-faculty research collaborations, student internships, and individualized instruction.
- Supports science education efforts in regional schools and for the public, through open houses, lecture series, activities sponsored by student clubs and other special events, and by collaborations between department faculty and other science educators.
- Fosters the growth and development of its faculty through research, attendance at professional meetings, publication and presentation of scholarly work, and support of research initiatives.
- Expresses a strong commitment to public service by collaborating with regional elementary, junior and senior high school educators to promote science education.
Degree Programs In Physics, Astronomy & Meteorology
Bachelor of Arts
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Bachelor of Science
Secondary Education: Earth Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences Option
Secondary Education: Earth Science, Meteorology Option
Minor Programs
Earth Science
Bachelor of Arts in Earth and Planetary Sciences (B.A.)
The earth and planetary sciences degree gives the student both a broad and detailed working knowledge in the major areas (astronomy, geology, meteorology, oceanography) of the earth and planetary sciences. This is accomplished through experiential and inquiry-driven learning, exposure to current research topics, the use of modern equipment and guidance in experimental techniques by experienced faculty. Emphasis is on well defined and frequently assessed performance goals such as critical thinking and mastery of concepts, and on the development of marketable skills including: project design and reporting, and the use of modern programming languages and software, instrumentation and methods of data analysis. Research experiences are available through student-faculty collaborations and internships in astonomy, meteorology, oceanography and planetary sciences.
Students must complete all general education requirements, the courses and credits listed below and additional free electives to total a minimum of 122 semester hours, including exercise science and foreign language. To fulfill the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science requirments for the B.A. Earth and Planetary Sciences degree, students must take General Chemistry 110/111 (8SH) and MAT 171 or 181 (Calculus I) in addition to the major requirments listed below.
Major Core Courses (46-47 SH))
ES 110 Physical Geology
AST 150 General Astronomy
MTR 150 Meteorology
PHY 110, 111 General Physics I & II
MAT 182 Calculus II
CS 140 Introduction to Programming or CS 143 Visual Basic
ES 210 Introduction to Physical Oceanography
AST 231 Introduction to Planetary Sciences
EPS 331 Practicum in Earth and Planetary Sciences Research
AST 405 Planetary Physics
EPS 450 Senior Research in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Major Elective Courses (12 SH minimum)
PHY/ENV 136 Energy
CS 170 Computer Science: Language I
CS 205 or higher course (CS 166 or CS 200 with approval)
EPS 220/221 Seminar in Earth and Planetary Sciences (may be taken twice in different semesters)
MTR 440 Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing
EPS 490 Advanced Topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Sample Four-Year Sequence Earth and Planetary Sciences Major
Freshman Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|CHE 110 General Chemistry I
|CHE 111 General Chemistry II
|MAT 181 Calculus I
|MAT 182 Calculus II
|AST 150 General Astronomy
|MTR 150 Meteorology
|CS 140 Intro to Programming
|EPS 220 Seminar in EPS I
|General education course
Sophomore Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|PHY 110 General Physics I
|PHY 111 General Physics II
|ES 110 Physical Geology
|AST 231 Intro to Planetary Sciences
|General education course
|General education course
|Free elective course
|General education course
|HPX 177 Fitness for Life
Junior Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|ES 210 Intro to Physical Oceanography
|EPS 221 Seminar in EPS II
|CS 200 Applied Topics
|EPS 331 Practicum in EPS Research
|General education course
|General education course
|General education course
|General education course
Senior Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|AST 405 Planetary Physics
|EPS 450 Senior Research in EPS
|EPS 490 Advanced Topics in EPS
|MTR 440 Atmospheric Physics & Remote Sensing
|General education course
|General education course
|General education course
|General education course
Course Restrictions
For a complete list of prerequisites, corequisites and other restrictions for all courses, please consult the Course Description section of this catalog.
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of their studies in Earth and Planetary Sciences:
- Students will be able to understand scientific concepts including the use of scientific method, and develop problem-solving skills.
- Students will demonstrate competence in the use of computers for graphical analysis of data, manipulation of databases, numerical modeling and internet researches.
- Graduating seniors will demonstrate competence in research project development, execution, completion and reporting.
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology (B.S.)
The meteorology degree provides its students with a broad background of fundamental skills in meteorology, mathematics, computer science, physics, and chemistry and allows them to enter professional employment in both public and private sectors. A student completing the B. S. Meteorology degree will have the necessary expertise and have met requirements to seek employment with the National Weather Service or other government agencies, apply for graduate school in the physical and environmental sciences, and get jobs with a wide range of private sector employers who value students with a solid, quantitative science degree. The B.S. Meteorology degree can also be an excellent background for students choosing to further their education in business or other professional graduate schools. Students who choose the Broadcast Meteorology option will also get media experience with weekly live radio forecasting and doing on-camera television weathercasts in our department TV studio as a member of The Western Weather Team, our student team of broadcast meteorologists. We have an impressive record of placing graduating students in on-camera meteorologist positions. Paid undergraduate research assistantships are available for qualified students with our faculty. Practical experience is available to students through paid employment in the Meteorological Studies and Weather Center.
Students must complete core courses in mathematics and computer science, physics, astronomy, earth science and meteorology. Also, students must choose an additional broadcast option in meteorology.
- Core Courses in Mathematics and Computer Science (17 SH)
CS 140 Introduction to Programming or CS 143 Visual Basic
MAT 120 Elementary Statistics
MAT 182 Calculus II
MAT 281 Calculus III
MAT 282 Ordinary Differential Equations
- Core Courses in Physics (8 SH)
PHY 110, 111 General Physics (Calculus-based) I & II (8 SH)
- Core Courses in Earth and Planetary Sciences (8 SH)
AST 150 General Astronomy or ES 110 Physical Geology
ES 210 Intro to Physical Oceanography
- Core Courses in Meteorology (36 SH)
MTR 150 Meteorology
MTR 230 Weather Analysis and Forecasting I
MTR 231 Weather Analysis and Forecasting II
MTR 240 Climatology
MTR 310 Atmospheric Thermodynamics
MTR 311 Atmospheric Dynamics
MTR 340 Mesoscale Meteorology and Numerical Forecasting
MTR 370 Internship in Meteorology or MTR 450 Senior Research in Meteorology
MTR 430 Meteorological Instrumentation
MTR 440 Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing
- Additional elective option in Broadcast Meteorology (9 SH)
MTR 330, 331 Operational Forecasting and Weathercasting I & II
Choose one of the following:
THR 260 Voice and Diction
COM 268 Public Communication
COM 310 Business and Professional Speaking
Course Restrictions
For a complete list of prerequisites, corequisites and other restrictions for all courses, please consult the Course Description section of this catalog.
Sample Four-Year Sequence Meteorology Major
Freshman Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|WRT 101Composition I
|Writing Intensive Course (WI)
|COM 160, 161, 162 or 163 COM skills
|CS 140 Intro to Programming or CS 143 Visual Basic
|MTR 150 Meteorology
|MTR 240 Climatology
|MAT 181 Calculus I
|MAT 182 Calculus II
|HPX 177 Fitness for Life
Sophomore Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|PHY 110 Gen. Physics I
|PHY 111 Gen. Physics II
|MTR 230 Weather Anal. & Forecast. I
|MTR 231 Weather Anal. & Forecast. II
|AST 150 Astronomy or ES 110 Geology
|MAT 120 Elem. Statistics
|MAT 281 Calculus III
|MAT 282 Ord. Diff. Equations
Junior Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|CHE 110 Gen. Chemistry I
|CHE 111 Gen. Chemistry II
|MTR 310 Atmosph. Thermodynamics
|MTR 311 Atmosph. Dynamics
|ES 210 Intro. Physical Oceanography
|General Education course
|General Education course
|General Education course
|General Education course
|Free Elective course
Senior Year
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|MTR 430 Meteor. Instrumentation
|MTR 440 Atmos. Phys. & Rem. Sensing
|MTR 340 Meso. Meteo. & Num. Forecasting
|MTR 370 Internship or MTR 450 Senior Research
|General Education course
|General Education course
|General Education course
|General Education course
|Free Elective course
|Free Elective course
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of their studies in Meteorology:
- Student interns will be able to use meteorological skills to make an operational weather forecast
- Students will demonstrate competence in graphical display and internet researches of weather information to the general public via the electronic media.
- Graduating seniors will demonstrate competence in professional communication of complex scientific information to the public and also be presentable
Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education-Earth Science (B.S.).
See the Department of Education and Educational Psychology within the School of Professional Studies.
Minor in Astronomy
Nineteen semester hours of astronomy or physics courses. Advisement must be through the department Chairperson.
Minor in Earth Science
Eighteen semester hours of courses noted as earth science or earth and planetary sciences. Advisement must be through department chairperson.
Minor in Meteorology
Twenty-one or 22 semester hours of meteorology courses. Advisement must be through department chairperson.
Minor in Physics
Twenty semester hours of physics including PHY 110, 111, General Physics (Calculus) I & II and 12 semester hours by departmental advisement.
Program in Engineering Technology at Central Connecticut State University
Students are advised of an accredited engineering and engineering technology program leading to a bachelor's degree at Central Connecticut State University. For further information, speak with Dr. Alice Chance, WCSU Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Meteorology, or review the CCSU catalog.


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LONDON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Michael Phelps ended an Olympic career like none other Saturday, winning on the biggest sporting stage of all for the 18th time.
He and his American teammates closed out a dominating weeklong performance during which the United States won 30 swimming medals, 16 of them gold.
Phelps teamed with Matthew Grevers, Brendan Hansen and Nathan Adrian to win the 400-meter medley relay. Phelps, taking his turn on the butterfly leg as the third swimmer in the water for his team, began his 100-meter trip behind a Japanese rival and finished it in front.
Adrian did the rest, making sure Phelps went out a winner.
The 18 gold medals for Phelps while he swam in the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympics are twice as many as any other athlete has won in the history of the Games. His total of 22 medals is the record by four.
The American women also won their medley relay and had they not done so it would have been a massive shock.
Each of the U.S. swimmers -- Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt -- won gold in their individual specialty during the Olympics and when they joined forces they broke the world record with a time of 3:52.05.
Among them, those four American women collected 12 gold medals in London.
The other two finals on the last day of Olympic swimming were won by Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands in the women's 50-meter freestyle and China's Sun Yang in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle.
Sun, world record holder and overwhelming favorite in the long-distance race, survived potential disqualification when he dove into the water before the starting tone rang out.
Judges ruled that a sound in the swimming arena could have distracted him and he was allowed to climb back onto the starting block.
He then lowered his own world mark by more than 2 seconds while swimming a time of 14:31.02.
Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia, who won the race at the 2008 Olympics, finished second this time.
Kromowidjojo added the 50-meter gold medal to the one she won in the 100. Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus finished second in both races.
Australia and Japan switched places in the two relays -- the Australians finishing second in the women's event and third in the men's. Japan was second in the men's and third in the women's.
The Japanese had an interesting swimming experience during the Olympics. They didn't win a single race but they finished second on three occasions and they wound up with eight bronze medals.

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Officers are heading out to clampdown on speeding and nuisance drivers in Wirksworth.
Police have received reports about young drivers causing a disturbance around Ravenstor Road, Wood Street, Nether Gardens and the Co-operative store car park on Harrison Drive in the town.
They have been gathering near homes and leaving their engines running and speeding around the area. Officers are now increasing patrols in the area to tackle the problem.


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its a mental thing. For some reason we just look like a COMPLETELY different team away from home.
wins against dallas, green bay, and new england but loses against arizona, st Louis and detroit. Barely beat carolina. This team is a joke on the road thats why i never count on them to come through on the road


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DENVER (AP) – Colorado senators were expected to take final votes Monday on several gun-control measures, including on magazine ammunition limits and expanded background checks.
The chamber was debating five of seven bills in the Democrats' gun-control package. Other measures included a gun ban for people accused of domestic violence crimes and a ban on online-only gun training for a concealed carry permit. The final measure would revive background check fees for gun purchasers.
Republican Senate Leader Bill Cadman said the Democrats have an "anti-gun agenda" and that the measures they sponsored wouldn't make Colorado safer. Speaking against the domestic-violence bill, Cadman said Democrats believe "guns are the problem in society and not the people that use those guns."
The gun measures were given initial approval Friday after more than 12 hours of debate.
Two parts of the Democratic gun package were pulled because of lack of support. Those were a liability measure for gun owners and a concealed-weapons ban on college campuses.
Even without the two most divisive Democratic proposals, the gun-control package attracted plenty of opposition. Gun-right supporters were especially steamed about the magazine ammunition limit, which has prompted at least one company to threaten to leave Colorado. Magpul, an accessories maker in Erie, has said it will ship hundreds of jobs out of state, even though the ammunition bill was amended to allow Magpul to keep making the magazines for out-of-state sale.
Republicans have complained that Democrats are wrong to limit ammunition magazines over Magpul's threats.
"Jobs, jobs, jobs _ all leaving Colorado," Republican Sen. Scott Renfroe said last week.
Republicans are also deeply opposed to the bill to expand required background checks to private sales. Democrats changed that bill to exempt short-term loans among relatives. But Republicans insist that any move toward universal background checks is a move toward gun ownership registration.
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Talk coincides with launch of his newly published official papers
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose leadership of the world body earned him the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver an address at The City College of New York 10 a.m. Friday, February 8. His talk will cover the challenges he faced as secretary-general and the future of the United Nations. It coincides with the launch of his published official papers, which are held at City College.
The speech, titled "Kofi Annan: Insights into a Challenging Decade and the Future of the UN," will be delivered in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, and is free and open to the public. It is presented by the Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service.
Lynne Rienner Publishers published Mr. Annan's collected papers as a five-volume set following a six-year joint CCNY-Yale University project. Jean E. Krasno, initiative director for multilateral diplomacy and international organizations with the Colin Powell Center, headed the project.
The collection offers an organized historical record of selected public and declassified papers of the former UN chief, Dr. Krasno said. It makes the breadth and depth of his work accessible to scholars, students and policymakers, she added.
"Mr. Annan is a pivotal leader who focused the world's attention on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, confronted human-rights issues in Africa and has served as a tireless peacemaker in critical conflicts, most recently as the joint special envoy to the Syrian crisis," noted Dr. Krasno, who also directs CCNY's graduate international relations program.
The papers reveal the Ghanaian-born diplomat's pivotal role in settling conflicts, she added. "They demonstrate Kofi Annan's unique ability to negotiate settlements and to find peaceful solutions in conflict situations. And they lead us to understand why he was selected as joint special envoy to Syria."
Dr. Krasno noted that Mr. Annan led the United Nations (1997-2006) at a very important period in international relations, spanning the end of the Cold War and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "He also holds a unique position because he established new expanded norms for the international community in terms of their role and responsibilities," she said.
The collection also highlights Mr. Annan's leadership in focusing the world's attention on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, his evolving and increasingly concrete anti-poverty efforts and his work to confront human-rights issues in Africa. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his role in establishing a global AIDS fund for developing countries.
Mr. Annan authorized the CCNY-Yale project, enabling access to papers that otherwise would have been locked up for 20 years in UN archives, in accordance with the organization's policy. The volumes include public papers, such as speeches, declassified internal notes between Kofi Annan and his advisers, and off-the-cuff encounters with the press.
About Kofi Atta Annan
Kofi Atta Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He was the first UN head to be appointed from within the ranks of the organization. His tenure spanned the post-Cold War era and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mr. Annan was credited for instilling fresh impetus in the United Nations in conflict resolution and preserving peace.
After five years in office, Mr. Annan and the United Nations were awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee applauded the Secretary-General and noted that he "had been pre-eminent in bringing new life to the Organization."
Born in Kumasi, Ghana, in what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast, Mr. Annan was educated at a Methodist boarding school where he said he was taught that "suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere." He attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., on a Ford Foundation scholarship, and graduated with a BS in economics in 1961. He also studied at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Annan earned an MS degree in management from MIT in 1972.
A United Nations official for most of his professional life, Mr. Annan joined the organization in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer for the World Health Organization. He was involved in Ghana's tourism industry in the mid-1970s, but later returned to the UN. On March 1, 1993, he was appointed undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, a position he held until he began his term as Secretary-General in 1997.
In an unprecedented move, the Security Council and General Assembly reappointed Secretary-General Annan to a second term in June 2001 instead of waiting until late in the year, as is usual. He completed his ten years in office on December 31, 2006. Mr. Annan remains active in world affairs, and was instrumental in obtaining the agreement for a coalition government in Kenya that ended the violence following the country's December 2007 presidential elections.
In 2012, Mr. Annan was named special envoy to Syria by both the United Nations and the League of Arab States to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict there. He remained in the position for six months, stepping down in August 2012. He currently directs the Kofi Annan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
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33 U.S. Code § 3 - Regulations to prevent injuries from target practice
[Authority to adopt regulations.] In the interest of the national defense, and for the better protection of life and property on the navigable waters of the United States, the Secretary of the Army is authorized and empowered to prescribe such regulations as he may deem best for the use and navigation of any portion or area of the navigable waters of the United States or waters under the jurisdiction of the United States endangered or likely to be endangered by Artillery fire in target practice or otherwise, or by the proving operations of the Government ordnance proving grounds at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, or at any Government ordnance proving ground that may be established elsewhere on or near such waters, and of any portion or area of said waters occupied by submarine mines, mine fields, submarine cables, or other material and accessories pertaining to seacoast fortifications, or by any plant or facility engaged in the execution of any public project of river and harbor improvement; and the said Secretary shall have like power to regulate the transportation of explosives upon any of said waters: Provided, That the authority conferred shall be so exercised as not unreasonably to interfere with or restrict the food fishing industry, and the regulations prescribed in pursuance hereof shall provide for the use of such waters by food fishermen operating under permits granted by the Department of the Army.
[Detail of vessels to enforce regulations.] To enforce the regulations prescribed pursuant to this section, the Secretary of the Army, may detail any public vessel in the service of the Department of the Army, or, upon the request of the Secretary of the Army, the head of any other department may enforce, and the head of any such department is authorized to enforce, such regulations by means of any public vessel of such department.
[Posting and violation of regulations.] The regulations made by the Secretary of the Army pursuant to this section shall be posted in conspicuous and appropriate places, designated by him, for the information of the public; and every person who and every corporation which shall willfully violate any regulations made by the said Secretary pursuant to this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.
[Venue and jurisdiction of offenses; procedure.] Offenses against the provisions of this section, or any regulation made pursuant thereto, committed in any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States where there is no court having general jurisdiction of crimes against the United States, shall be cognizable in any court of such place or Territory having original jurisdiction of criminal cases in the place or Territory in which the offense has been committed, with the same right of appeal in all cases as is given in other criminal cases where imprisonment not exceeding six months forms a part of the penalty, and jurisdiction is conferred upon such courts and such courts shall exercise the same for such purposes; and in case any such offense be committed beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any court having jurisdiction thereof, the offense shall be deemed and held to have been committed within the jurisdiction in which the offender may be found or into which he is first brought, and shall be tried by the court having jurisdiction thereof.
Undesignated pars. 1 to 4 of this section are from sections 1 to 4, respectively, of act July 9, 1918, popularly known as the "Army Appropriation Act of 1919".
Undesignated pars. 1 and 2 of this section superseded similar provisions of act Aug. 8, 1917, ch. 49, § 8, 40 Stat. 266.
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Coast Artillery changed to Artillery under authority of section 306(a) of act June 28, 1950, ch. 383, title III, 64 Stat. 269. Section 306(a) of act June 28, 1950 was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in section 3063 continued the Artillery as a basic branch of the Army.
For transfer of certain functions insofar as they pertain to Air Force, and to extent that they were not previously transferred to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force from Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40 [App. A(55)], July 22, 1949.
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The US Secretary of State's budget-request speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March was, as might have been expected, tedious and slow going.
Her remarks on funding for climate-change programmes, therefore, were calculated (42 minutes in) to straighten her audience's back and command its attention:
We have a lot of support in the Pacific Ocean region. A lot of those small countries have voted with us in the United Nations.
They are stalwart American allies. They embrace our values… [and] we are in a competition for influence with China.
I'll just be — let's put aside the moral, humanitarian, do-good side of what we believe in, and let's just talk, you know, straight Realpolitik.
We are in a competition with China.
Take Papua New Guinea, huge energy find, to go to one of Senator Lugar's very strong points. ExxonMobil is producing it [LNG]. China is in there every day in every way trying to figure out how it's going to come in behind us, come in under us.
They're supporting the dictatorial regime that unfortunately is now in charge of Fiji.
They have brought all of the leaders of these small Pacific nations to Beijing, wined them and dined them.
I mean, if anybody thinks that our retreating on these issues is somehow going to be irrelevant to the maintenance of our leadership in a world where we are competing with China that is a mistaken notion.
With the obvious proviso that no public pronouncement, whatever the official's apparent candour, can be taken as a straightforward expression of private opinions and strategic priorities — as though arcana imperii were artlessly disclosed without heed to audience or consequences — here some conclusions may safely be drawn.
Washington is indeed disturbed by Beijing's ability to exert political influence, and meet other objectives, through the offer of credit and provision of funds to states in the southwest Pacific and elsewhere.
Take the US diplomatic cable dated 19 June 2009, sent out of Beijing, and titled 'PRC/SOUTH PACIFIC: INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION OF REGIME IN FIJI AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHINA'.
A Fijian embassy official in Beijing, the State Department contact Filipe Alifereti, confided that Chinese economic and development assistance (both 'project assistance' and cash grants, including one of 10 million RMB) had won it a degree of influence among the Fijian elite.
Beijing, he claimed, 'valued Fiji as a useful transit point and for its proximity to important shipping lanes':
Beijing was privately candid about linking development assistance and economic engagement with "guaranteed" political support on issues of interest to China…
Alifereti asserted that there was little need for the Chinese to push directly for political support from Fiji on issues of Chinese interest, because such support was "guaranteed" and China's interests were well-understood by Suva. He indicated that such political support was a simple consequence of the enormous economic influence China had on the island.
In addition to assistance, trade and investment ties, the Chinese government was providing Fijian government officials with training on a range of skills in China, Alifereti reported. This included training military officials, a practice that began after the 2006 coup, he added.
The influence in regional capitals of China's foreign ministry and Navy — and investment abroad by its companies acquiring productive assets in strategic industries — has grown sharply in recent years.
This blog has shown previously the disquiet this has prompted in the chancelleries of Washington, Canberra and elsewhere, provoking figures charged with strategic policymaking, and alarming media commentators and academic theorists.
While vexation is commonly voiced, a quick glance at a map does not show obvious reason for their unease. The US Navy retains unchallenged dominance of regional sealanes, its Pacific fleet graciously accommodated in ports from Okinawa to New Zealand. The US Treasury and State Department's influence over local authorities is, likewise, seemingly boundless.
Yet recent regime change in Timor-Leste, military intervention in the Solomon Islands and attempted isolation of the Fijian leadership has not succeeded in maintaining the existing power balance in the southwest Pacific, responsibility for which had been delegated by Washington to the Australian deputy sheriff.
Thus, newspapers have reported that the Dili government's dispute with Australian firm Woodside Petroleum over the Sunrise natural-gas processing plant could see the international treaty governing development of the offshore field overturned before development ever begins.
At the July 2009 ASEAN summit, one month after the above diplomatic cable was sent to Washington, Canberra and Wellington, Secretary Clinton declared that 'the United States is back' in the East Asia-Pacific region.
This return has been accompanied by a characteristic mode of public-diplomatic presentation, repeated faithfully in the newspapers.
As Clinton's Senate testimony makes clear, officials denounce what they see (or affect to see) as the Beijing elite's search for a Platz an der Sonne (often described in these very words), including naval expansion and quest for secure energy supplies.
This, the US and their allies tremble, will inevitably lead the Chinese leadership to naked aggression, just as it did for Wilhelmine Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.
The historical comparison is regularly made.
"The Next Empire", a 2010 article in The Atlantic, described Chinese outward investment in copper mines and railways in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of southern Africa:
The truest intellectual forerunner of China's strategy seems to be a plan once pursued by Germany. Before its defeat in World War I, Germany's leaders had dreamed of a continental empire, a Mittelafrika stitched together by railways stretching from Dar es Salaam to the Atlantic Ocean…
Germany's railway schemes were driven by intense competition with Britain. Although China may claim to be a new kind of power, its plans, too, have always had a strategic component, including rivalry with the West, and lately a desire to circumvent the regional economic powerhouse, South Africa, and ultimately control the markets for key African minerals.
But the comparison is not apt.
What is described both by Clinton, in her Senate testimony, in The Atlantic article, and in a April 2011 report by the Lowy Institute on loans to Pacific countries, is Chinese export of funds and the acquisition of stocks of foreign productive assets, which then allows Beijing to exert political influence and meet strategic objectives.
This practice of net capital export is only open to countries, such as China and Germany, that persistently export more commodities than they import and run a surplus on the current account.
But this prerequisite was not met by the Kaiser's Germany, which had balance of payments difficulties. It was because the gaining of influence through capital export was closed as a policy option that genteel figures like Bethmann Hollweg resorted to aggression and the seizure of territory.
In the decades before the First World War, Imperial Germany sought to add Angola and Mozambique to its existing territorial holdings in Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Namibia, Kamerun and Togoland.
At the time Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese possessions. But the Portuguese government was massively in debt. In order to secure loans from foreign creditors, it was willing to put up its African colonies as security.
The deepest capital markets in those days were in London and Paris. In 1898 and again after 1911, Whitehall and the Wilhelmstrasse secretly negotiated to partition Portugal's African possessions between themselves in the event of a default. (More recently the crippled Portuguese state has been bailed out in return for agreeing to privatize state assets.)
But in the first event Lisbon's finances recovered, and in the second case agreement could not be reached.
Germany was left empty-handed, powerless to act alone (the British Foreign Office had understandably been less eager to conclude a deal).
To the east, as well, stakes in the Ottoman Public Debt were mostly held by French and British creditors, granting the Quai d'Orsay and Whitehall strategic influence.
Thus the Ottoman Finance Minister reported to the German Ambassador that 'Germany could not expect to be treated the same as France. The latter had, through the granting of the loan, saved Turkey from a desperate situation while Germany, the power on which Turkey had placed all her hopes, had failed her completely, not only financially but also politically.'
Ultimately, access to Persian, Mesopotamian and Caucasian oil rested on this.
Before the Great War broke out, Deutsche Bank and the construction firm Philipp Holzmann AG had reported an 'unavoidable breakdown of negotiations' in extending the existing Berlin-Constantinople railway to Baghdad.
The outline concession for the project had been granted in 1899, and in 1903 a supplementary agreement allowed construction to extend to Basra, with the German firms granted authority to make exploratory bores for oil, and given options on confirmed discoveries around Mosul. The line was to be built in separate 200 kilometre sections.
But by 1913 Germany's financial resources were such that it could not support completion of this project while also pursuing Ottoman-Balkan deals to supply arms, develop civilian and military port facilities, etc. The steel and armaments firm Krupp could not raise a loan for a planned Ottoman-Bulgarian arms deal on the Berlin market while Deutsche Bank refinanced its work on the Mesopotamian railway.
Britain and France, with their more liquid money markets, were able to produce funds for loans, German influence thereby losing out irretrievably.
Thus, in the years before war broke out, Turkish battleships were built in British shipyards by firms such as Vickers (two super-dreadnoughts, due for delivery in August 1914, were famously confiscated by the First Lord of the Admiralty). Meanwhile British leverage over the Porte's public finances assisted the rise of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which together with part-British firm Royal Dutch/Shell secured control over Persian and Mesopotamian oil.
The same was true for achieving Rathenau's strategic goal of a Mitteleuropa, set out as war aims in the September programme: Belgium ceding to Germany a coastal strip on the North Sea, the Netherlands annexed, France subordinated (with the Longwy-Briey iron-ore basin seized) and Russia's European territory turned over.
This subordination of the European economy to German strategic imperatives (which has since been achieved peacefully) could not, at the time, be accomplished except by force.
So in general there seems to be an inverse relation between capital export and naked aggression. The latter is the policy resorted to when economic influence wanes or is no longer sufficient to keep out competitors.
Today, as Clinton's opening remark makes clear, this describes the condition of the United States, which has become a net borrower, unable to pay for its imports with matching exports. Its political leadership, and the propertied classes that control it, must therefore rely on coercive means to preserve their international position relative to rival firms and territorial states.
The latter, on the other hand, can go on achieving export surpluses, with a corresponding buildup of overseas assets and supplicant borrowers, granting them 'guaranteed political support on issues of interest.'
This does take a peculiar form.
Since many US and European manufacturers have shifted production to low-wage China, and the material form taken by the Chinese export surplus is primarily consumer goods, Chinese capital cannot be exported to the US or Europe productively, i.e. as intermediate or capital goods.
And US firms (e.g. Walmart) and their subsidiaries do own foreign assets in China. They may own plant outright, or hold controlling shares in plant, employ workers in Chinese factories, hire equipment, etc. But the stock of buildings and machinery for these factories hasn't been manufactured in the US then shipped over. It has, by and large, been produced in China, as have the consumer goods that make up the real wage of the workers employed in these factories.
And, because the US runs a net trade deficit, the local currency necessary to purchase these assets is not obtained from the Yuan receipts of US firms exporting to China. Instead it is converted from dollars which are taken on as IOUs by the Chinese central bank, with these holdings then converted into US government assets, financing the arms expenditure of the Pentagon.
Chinese capital export to the US and Europe thus takes the unproductive form of credit, financing public spending and funding household loans to allow purchases of Chinese consumer-good exports. (Due to this, and to the advent of funded pension schemes, US financial markets remain by far the world's largest and most liquid).
But there is export of productive capital assets, too. Aside from high-profile cases like Lenovo's takeover of IBM's PC division, this has been concentrated in strategic raw materials, and thus towards acquisition of assets in countries like Kazakhstan, Iran, Sudan, Zambia, Australia, Indonesia, Venezuela and (following Sinopec's purchase of Addax Petroleum) Nigeria.
In short, Chinese firms can finance their railways and mines in southern Africa, and Beijing can afford infrastructure projects in Timor-Leste and the 'wining and dining' of people like Frank Bainimarama, in ways that the German Empire could not.
Washington, on the other hand — to 'maintain its leadership' and prevent its rivals 'coming in behind and under' it — must rely on force.
In the First World War, as now, the grand strategic prizes did not lay in the deserts of the Kalahari, the swamplands of the Caprivi, or even the more mineral-rich territory of southern Africa.
They dwelt in Persian Khuzestan (where in recent years the Chinese National Petroleum Company and Sinopec have negotiated production licences with the Tehran government), the oilfields around Basra (where the largest fields are allocated to ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and CNPC, remaining stakes are divided between mostly British, Dutch and US firms, but where more importantly the US has 50 000 troops, in addition to its various garrisons dotted around the Arabian peninsula), and the Caucasus and Caspian Basin (where the discovery of Tenghiz and Kashagan has raised the stakes, where NATO has recently intruded, which region is subject more generally to Russian-US strategic manoeuvring, e.g. in Georgia and Chechnya, and where, finally, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is something to watch).
It is in these territories that the State Department and the Pentagon have been most eager to plant occupation forces, establish large bases and overthrow governments.
Before this brazen and lawless Drang nach Osten, Beijing's reliance on dollar diplomacy and penetration through loans and capital export can seem strategically unshrewd and hopelessly effete, much as the British and French political class and military High Commands once appeared mysteriously deferential and transfixed, during the first half of the twentieth century, by the expansionism, spiked helmets, and Nietzschean grandeur of their counterparts in the German Reich.
By extending hundreds of billions of dollars in credit, while the Pentagon undertakes its wars and 'limited kinetic actions' throughout the geostrategic Heartland of the World-Island, aren't the Bank of China, the Chinese state and the Chinese capitalist class merely funding their own strategic encirclement?
Yes, but the overriding aim for the moment seems to be obtaining technical know-how through compulsory technology transfer.
The key concern here, it seems, is in developing a domestic industrial base to allow production of Beijing's own aircraft carriers (the nearly-complete Shi Lang is a refitted Russian purchase), carrier-based fighter aircraft (the new J-15), and ballistic-missile submarines (of which the PLAN still has limited numbers). Today this level of naval development (i.e. being able domestically to build fleets of capital ships from which expeditionary air power can be projected) is a necessary attribute of a first-rate imperial power.
Only once this capacity is achieved, presumably, will the strategic middlegame be over, a prospect, properly considered, which ought to inspire dread.


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The Hamas government in Gaza has redeployed security forces along its borders with Israel to prevent rocket fire, an interior ministry official said Tuesday.
Islam Shahwan said that the interior ministry's role is to "secure and fortify the home front and the agreements approved by resistance factions to realize our people's interests, security and stability."
The "resistance in Gaza will not allow the occupation to violate the ceasefire which had been reached after the occupation was defeated in the 2012 battle," he added.
Days earlier, a security source in Gaza said that Hamas had withdrawn a special security force tasked with preventing rocket fire at Israel.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told AFP that while the 600-strong rocket-prevention force was removed, regular security forces remained in place.
The force was removed in protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza.
On Jan. 21, Hamas said it had deployed forces in Gaza to "preserve the truce" with Israel that ended the last major confrontation in November 2012.
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians and injured 41 in attacks on Gaza in January, Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for Gaza's Ministry of Health, said last week.


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it was a long hard few days.
we have moved many times.
but this was the first time in 5 years, and the first time in my 40's and i am SO not the young stronger inexhaustible girl of my 20's or 30's even.... this move took its toll. it is nearly done. this week is cleaning out the old, finishing up the school year, and creative organizing in our smaller new digs. i love that we are on the 3rd floor. the light and breezes that flow through this home are amazing and once we all get a chance to really settle in here i already feel it is going to be filled with so much goodness. this weekend we were tired, and a bit grumpy, and maybe a little dehydrated even... sunday started rough, we were all weary and sore, i had to get a big grocery order, he had to unbox more stuff than we knew what to do with. i wasn't feeling well at all. i laid down for what i thought would be a few minutes and in no time that turned into a 2 hour nap. you know the kind, the drooling on your pillow kind. obviously my body was sending me a not so subtle message. when i woke we cooked our first dinner in our new home. that felt nice. and then we ended up here, in the grass, in the late day sun that was amazing...and i felt better.


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Private clients who have stood by UBS through repeated scandals will have their faith tested by theSwiss bank's admission of rate rigging, investors say.
Chief executive Sergio Ermotti is winding down much of UBS's riskier investment banking arm and believes a return to managing money for the global rich will allow it to earn its way out of trouble.
But the jewel in the crown of the disgraced bank will only keep its lustre if it maintains the trust of millionaires keen to park their fortunes in the safest possible hands.
"UBS has been involved in an endless series of incidents in the last couple of years and it will take some time - several years without more damaging news - to restore trust," said one Zurich-based investment manager with a stake in the bank.
UBS was fined $1.5 billion by a posse of international regulatorsafter admitting manipulation of the Libor interest rate, a global benchmark which underpins financial transactions worth trillions of dollars.
Criminal charges could be brought against staff for their role in fixing rates and a probe by Hong Kong's de facto central bank into alleged misconduct could yet lead to further fines in 2013.
With its reputation under attack, investors say there's no way of knowing how many risk-conscious clients will stick around while UBS atones for its Libor sins.
"Judging whether individual clients, charities or foundations will leave the bank as a result of this is very difficult to say," said Neil Wilkinson, portfolio manager at Royal London Asset Management.
"The money flows we have seen in Q4 so far would suggest not. But reputational hits like these are difficult to manage and tricky to measure," he argued.
A UBS spokesman on Thursday declined to comment further on the bank's Wednesday statement that it expected net new money into its wealth management businesses to be positive in the fourth quarter.
UBS is the world's number two wealth manager by assets, with $1.55 trillion, second only to Bank of America which runs $1.67 trillion for its clients, according to an industry survey compiled by private banking consultancy Scorpio Partnership.
The bank's wealth management business delivered record results in the third quarter of 2012, with pre-tax profits of 600 million Swiss francs while the group suffered a 2.2 billion francs third quarter net loss.
One London-based private banker at a rival global institution said his customers were typically most concerned about the solvency of the bank when choosing where to put money.
Nevertheless, reputation comes a close second on the list of considerations and there could be a lagging effect of Wednesday's fine on UBS's flows of client assets, he said.
"People care most about the financial stability of the institution...because they are worried about losing their money. With reputation, it's more about 'Do I want to be associated with them?'. So it's a longer term decision," he said.
The private banking industry continues to reel from the fallout of the financial crisis which saw many of the global rich lose money on investments their bankers had recommended, such as Bernard Madoff's multi-billion dollar ponzi scheme.
(Read More: UBS Traders' 'Humongous' Libor-Fixing Boasts)
UBS's penance for its role in Libor rigging adds to a litany of embarrassments both to itself and across the industry.
The Swiss bank's private banking staff have already had to hit the phones appeasing clients and telling them their money was safe after rogue trader Kweku Adoboli lost the bank $2.3 billion in a trading mishap which later landed him in jail.
UBS is not the only bank who has been forced to defend its reputation in recent times.
Earlier this year, ex-Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith published a scathing resignation letter in the New York Times which said some executives referred to their customers as 'muppets', British slang for idiots.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said a review of emails and employee documents did not turn up evidence to support Smith's allegations.
Private banking sources hit by such episodes insist clients remain loyal despite tarnished reputations.
A senior executive at Barclays' wealth division said clients were unperturbed by the bank's own crisis after it was fined earlier this year for its role in the libor rate fixing affair and only one individual closed their account.
"What was really interesting about the time was client support was off the chart," the executive said.
A senior Goldman Sachs banker reported a similar trend after Smith's expose of alleged contempt for clients, denying any backlash apart from "the odd sarcastic thing about muppets".
But Cath Tillotson, managing partner at Scorpio Partnership which researches the wealth management industry said while top bankers may put a brave face on the individual mishaps, the industry is steadily losing credibility with its key customers.
"Everybody I sit down and talk to at the moment in private banking is in the depths of despair. It's not been an easy year... Institutions have been more focused on regulation than on clients," she said.
Millions in assets that would have gone to investment portfolios run by wealth managers have already been driven elsewhere, said Tillotson, with London property, private equity and gold among the main beneficiaries.
UBS shareholders will be watching closely in early 2013 for earnings statements that shed light on whether its Libor fines have prompted worried clients to move their bulging accounts.
"If they can navigate this period successfully, the business looks attractive," said Paras Anand, European equities head at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, one of UBS's biggest shareholders.


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Fortis injects a dose of movies
The next time you fall sick, and go to a Fortis facility for treatment, you might be able to catch a movie too.
Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, will start screening movies from tomorrow. The non-commercial venture could morph into a potential revenue model. The cinema at Fortis Memorial Research Institute will initially have 36 seats and screen three to four movies daily.
With this, the hospital chain owned by billionaire brothers Shivinder and Malvinder Mohan Singh is moving beyond offering elite food joints, bookstores and mini spas on its premises.
A senior Fortis official said the cinema would be managed internally. "The concept is to provide an ambience to heal. We are trying to create a new era of wellness where, while we medically take care of super-critically ill patients, such services are a means and mechanism to positively distract attendants of patients from the stress and provide them with recreational activities of their choice," the Fortis official said.
If successful, Fortis could build similar movie halls in its other facilities, she added.
Fortis is not the only corporate hospital exploring innovative ways to provide incremental services, primarily for the affluent. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, for instance, has set up a gift shop and a communication centre customised to cater to its international patients, besides branded food joints. Max Hospital has book stores within its complex. Fortis has mini-spa, a Baskin-Robbins outlet and Australian Joost juice bar.
The attempts are to have special boutique hospitals offering comfort and convenience to people willing to pay. Last year, for instance, Hinduja Group opened a boutique Hinduja Healthcare, Mumbai, with an exclusive 100-bed multispeciality facility. The hospital has chrome fittings, marble floors and LCD TV-equipped rooms. The luxury facility also boasts of a multispeciality unit, five operation theatres, and cardiology, radiology, cath-lab and haematology departments, as well as a 26-bed intensive care unit. Such services are "paid-for".
Experts said though such incremental services might not necessarily generate huge revenue for hospitals, they certainly give the facility an edge.
Deloitte Touche's Senior Director, Strategy and Operations Consulting, Charu Sehgal said: "This primarily means moving to the next level of combining clinical care with additional services because people who can afford it want such luxurious facilities. Apart from earning revenue, such services certainly help hospitals attract high-profile and elite patients."
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Buddy Dyer easily held off three challengers to win a third full term as mayor of Orlando on Tuesday, while three of his allies on the City Council also won another four years.
Dyer earned 57.8 percent of the vote, propelled in part by the strength of an aggressive absentee-ballot campaign.
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Kingston HyperX H2O PC3 16000 3x2GB Cas 9 Review
Finding the right system memory for your needs is akin to finding that proverbial needle in the haystack if you are looking within a very narrow niche. The Kingston HyperX H20 line is a set of memory that does fit in the minority niche of users who are water cooled enthusiasts. However, this segment has been growing by leaps and bounds, as the amount of equipment and parts to get into this traditionally high end enthusiast arena become more numerous. Water or liquid cooling has never been an inexpensive proposition, but you could get by with some ingenuity and mechanical aptitude. Now all you really need is some time to sit down and read about how to make it happen so you have a good idea of what works and what doesn't and then fill your shopping cart with the required parts. At this point, you can liquid cool just about anything inside your computer from the obvious CPU and GPU to the motherboard components, power supply, hard drives, and even the memory. Water cooling equipped memory straight from the manufacturer has been very limited. However, Kingston has gotten into this game with the introduction of its HyperX H20 series of modules to compete with the likes of OCZ's Flex series modules. Kingston has introduced three sets of memory in this line up that range from a 3x2GB 2000MHz set that is rated for operation with latencies of 9-10-9-27 at 1.65v on the Intel socket 1366 platform, up to a 2x2GB set designed to run at 2133MHz with latencies of 9-11-9-27 with 1.65vs as well. Each of these modules comes equipped with an XMP (Extreme Memory Profile), if reaching memory speeds of 2000MHz plus seems like a daunting task. If water cooling is your thing then this set of modules is right up your alley, so let's see how this set from Kingston performs.
Closer Look:
The Kingston HyperX H20 comes in a traditional blister pack that houses three 2GB DDR3 modules. The ribbon across the front of the package features the Kingston and HyperX logo with the label below having the part number and technical details. The rear of the packaging has nothing of interest to mention — most of the attention is focused on the unique looking memory modules.
This set of modules from Kingston is part of its new HyperX H20 line that features a cooling tube attached to the heat spreaders to increase the thermal load that the heat spreaders can remove, giving you added piece of mind when bumping the voltages up above the 1.65 volts that Intel suggests as a maximum applied voltage. This set of modules carries part number KHX2000C9AD3W1K3/6GX. This part number is for a 3x2GB set of DDR3 modules rated to run at 2000MHz with latencies of 9-10-9-27 using just 1.65 volts. There is an XMP programmed into the SPD chip to make reaching the designed settings a breeze. Traditionally, the HyperX line has had a blue heat shield and has come in a number of varieties, including the large finned T1 design that is all the rage with memory modules now. With this series, Kingston goes one step further and integrates a method to cool these modules down with a water tube that makes contact across the tops of the heat shields.
Curiosity got the better of me when I saw the screws that hold the outer heat shield to the memory modules. By removing these two screws, you can get a good look at how this cooling solution works. The black outer shield clamps onto the main heat shield and draws the heat into the water tube to be carried away and dispersed to the atmosphere by the radiator in a water cooled system. Mixing metals has always been one of those things that you are not supposed to do in a water cooling loop to prevent galvanic corrosion. The water tubes are chrome plated, but eventually you will wear through to the base metal. In this case, the base metal looks to be aluminum after a quick hit with a file, even though it seems to weigh more than an aluminum piece of this size should weigh. The water tube has a radiused inlet that directs the flow of water into the tube rather than a harsh squared off opening.
With rated speeds of 2000MHz, this set of modules should do well by comparison, but will the looser latencies have an effect on performance? Let's find out — but what review is complete without the obligatory beauty shot?


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After a year in which junk bonds were anything but junky, the outlook for high-yield fixed income is about to get murkier.
Just as the stock marketrally suddenly is looking tired and vulnerable, the surge in prices for riskier corporate debt appears to have run its course.
The space is probably a victim of its success as much as it is endangered by an uncertain time ahead, analysts say.
With the presidential election over, market focus will turn to mediocre corporate earnings, an uncertain climate in Washington and the possibility of recession lurking ahead. (Read More: Why US Economy May Be Headed for Another Recession)
"Despite the favorable liquidity conditions and the demand for yield, we expect to see U.S. high yield names begin to underperform investment grade credit and US [Treasurys] as we head into 2013," Thomas Tzitzouris, fixed income strategist at Strategas, said in a recent analysis of the group.
Strategas cut high yield to an underweight position in its recommended portfolio, basing the move on several factors. (Read More: Fixed-income market outlook.)
The firm sees a near-certainty of a recession as 2013 begins and believes investors need to prepare for a "fiscal cliff shock" related to government negotiations over how to avoid the series of tax increases and spending cuts set to take place Jan. 1.
While Tzitzouris said there could be a good re-entry point later in the year as the economy stabilizes, he recommends investors back off for now.
"With the U.S. likely moving towards a recession in the first half of 2013 [the fiscal cliff shock], and top line growth and earnings margins now both seemingly heading lower, it seems that U.S. corporate sector spreads may be about to begin a move higher in the next few quarters," he said.
Higher spreads between junk bonds and safer instruments indicate a greater level of corporate default risk. That would come with more difficult business conditions that a recession and a less-friendly business tax climate would impose. (Read More: Obama to Insist on Tax Increase for Rich)
The high-yield performance in 2012 has been nothing less than stellar, with yields falling below 7 percent as prices rose. The Barclays Corporate High Yield Index stood at 6.60 percent on Friday.
Investors are increasingly turning toward exchange traded funds to play in the high-yield arena.
The iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate fund has returned about 9 percent in 2012 and is up on average by more than 10 percent over the past three years. The $16.63 billion fund yields 6.78 percent, according to Morningstar.
For deep-pocketed investors, the Federated Institutional High Yield Bond has been a stellar performer, returning 12.8 percent this year and yielding 7.33 percent. The fund, however, requires a $1 million minimum investment.
Whatever the choice, high yield has been a favorite space, though one about to be tested.
"There's been a lot of verbiage from various big gurus saying high yield is overvalued, don't touch it with a 10-foot pole," said Marilyn Cohen, founder of Envision Capital Management in Los Angeles. "My counter to that is, 'All right, so you're going to sit in cash or T-bills or corporate bonds, which are trading at lower yields than Treasurys.'"
Indeed, the search for yield away from the government and investment-grade corporate debt has been the driving force behind the junk surge.
"If you're careful and nimble — those are the two operative words — high-yield is the only place that offers yield. It isn't high yield, but it's yield," Cohen said. "There are no bargains in junk bonds, there are no bargains anywhere. There are no bargains in the stock market. All these markets have been wrung out."
Cohen advises investors to look for "good quality companies in which you understand the business."
Among her recommendations are offerings from Hertz, Smithfield Foods and Hanes. In the ETF space, she favors the Peritus High Yield fund, which has returned 12.5 percent and yields 8.37 percent, though its expense ratio is high at 1.35 percent
"Keep it simple," she said.
Cohen also believes high yield should take on a smaller portion of investor bond portfolios, with an allocation of no more than 20 percent.
How well the negotiations over the fiscal cliff go in Washington likely will go a long way in determining the extent of the economic slowdown, and the future for high yield. (Read More: Fixing 'Fiscal Cliff' Will Mean 'High, Higher' Taxes: Gross)
Investors should keep duration shorter, within seven years or so, and focus on industries "that aren't going to go defunct" with the inevitable popping of the bond bubble, said Keith Springer, president of Springer Investment Advisors in Sacramento, Calif.
Springer likes DD-rated bonds, and citedAllyFinancial as one company whose debt is worth a look.
"The fiscal cliff will see them at least kick the can down the road," he said. "I don't think that's going to affect the high-yield market that much. If you're yield-starved you have to go somewhere."


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
MGM MOD DVD of the Week: Busting
In the film's opening sequence, Michael Keneely (Elliott Gould) and Patrick Farrel (Robert Blake) bust a high-end hooker named Jackie Faraday. Keneely is the smirking smartass while Farrel is the tough guy. These guys are a tad unorthodox as evident by the way a routine undercover assignment in a gay bar erupts into chaos when one guy (Antonio Fargas) gets too fresh with Keneely. The Faraday bust seems like a pretty open and shut case until their boss tells them that she got released thanks to a phone call from someone with juice.
Something about the hooker case doesn't sit well with Keneely and when he checks out Faraday's client book after it's been entered into evidence he notices it's missing all the pages with her clients. Naturally, the case is dismissed for lack of evidence and the two vice cops know something is rotten. They decide to pursue it further by digging deeper despite the opposition that mounts, including smug local crime boss Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield).
Elliott Gould and Robert Blake make an intriguing team with their contrasting acting styles. During the '70s, Gould epitomized disheveled cool and continues that look with the bushy mustache, unkempt hair and rumpled attire that he sported in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970). He adopts a laidback attitude and is always ready with a joke. Much like his take on Philip Marlowe in Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), Gould's cop treats everything as a joke on the surface but underneath he cares about doing his job, especially when it comes to the corruption he and Farrel uncover. In contrast, Blake, with his tight t-shirts and muscular build, is all intensity and no bullshit attitude. They play well off each other and adopt a shorthand that makes them believable as long-time partners. They have a nice scene together in an empty bathroom where their characters reassess what they're doing and if they should continue to pursue a case where the odds are clearly stacked against them.
Journeyman cinematographer/director Peter Hyams has had a checkered career with the unnecessary sequel 2010 (1984) and generic thrillers like The Presidio (1988) littering his filmography but Busting may be his best film and oddly influential. When it came to crank out cop shows on television, producer Aaron Spelling used Hyams' film as a template, even lifting several sequences out of Busting and using them in Starsky and Hutch. Hell, Hutch even wears the same kind of varsity jacket that Gould's character sports in the film. Hyams, who also wrote the screenplay, clearly did his homework as the film has a scuzzy authenticity that is almost tangible. Apparently, he did a lot of research, interviewing hookers, pimps and cops in order to make sure he got everything right.
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Theatrical trailer.
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Man, I haven't seen this one in decades! So right, too, that it's one of those 70s crime/buddy gems from the era. Great to know that at least some MOD has taken it up for more people to learn about it. Thanks, J.D.ReplyDelete
Saw this a few years ago, around the same time that I saw the more beloved FREEBIE AND THE BEAN, and like the Hyams film better.ReplyDelete
It's interesting that Blake's character takes such a back seat to Gould here, a year after starring in his own cop opus, ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE. In that light, it's not all that surprising that Blake took the cash and migrated to his own television series, BARETTA, the next year. In retrospective interviews, Blake has expressed regret at leaving movies to do television work for half a decade.
Since I'm a big fan of both Gould AND Blake, I was disappointed that things weren't more evenly balanced between the two characters in terms of import to the story. As opposed to the other buddy movies, where each guy has moments where he dominates / gets laughs / etc., Blake really does play second fiddle to Gould, who was, admittedly, more of an icon / counterculture star than Blake was.
Also noteworthy is the fact that Hyams is one filmmaker who directed both a prototype cop buddy film (BUSTING) of the '70s and later contributed a film (RUNNING SCARED) to the cop buddy cycle of the '80s, a sub-genre directly spawned by the grittier '70s variants. RUNNING SCARED is similarly overlooked and overshadowed by the likes of BEVERLY HILLS COP, 48 HRS., and LETHAL WEAPON, just as BUSTING is often overlooked within the '70s pantheon.
BUSTING highlight: the protracted pursuit centered in the labyrinthine outdoor food market...this was VERY impressively staged and shot.
Been meaning to check this one out for a while; it looks right up my alley– and I had no idea it was on MOD yet, either! As always, a great write-up, J.D.ReplyDelete
SOunds like a must see. I'd imagine it's well worth it just to see Gould and Blake together. I'd never even heard of it until your review, so thanks for the heads up!ReplyDelete
I had never seen this film until the MOD came out and enjoyed it immensely! Yet another fantastic buddy cop crime film from the '70s.
Ned Merrill:
I dunno how I'd rank BUSTING up against FREEBIE AND THE BEAN. I like both a lot but maybe BUSTING gets the edge thanks to Gould.
Good point about Blake taking a backseat to Gould. As you point out, Gould was the bigger star at the time so that's probably why he gets more screen time but I still love how they play off each other.
I also dig RUNNING SCARED. Something of a guilty pleasure as you don't find to many fans of it but I do like the chemistry between Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. And, interestingly, Hyams applies the gritty look of BUSTING to RS.
The BUSTING highlight you cited is also my fave. So well-staged!
Sean Gill:
Thanks! I think you will dig this film. It is right up yer alley.
Brent Allard:
I also think you'd like this film. It is definitely worth a look, esp. if you're a fan of Gould and/or Blake.
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Nice post! Definitely one of the most underrated films of the 70s, and one of the best! Seems like most people like my favorite scene, the supermarket chase. The score is kick-ass also. I streamed it on Netflix then said screw it and picked up the MOD. Well worth every penny! http://turafish.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/cool-as-vice/ReplyDelete
Thanks! It sure is an underrated film. I hadn't heard of it until recently but was really glad to discover it as it has become one of my fave films. Elliott Gould was on fire during this decade and this is one of his best performances, IMO.


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|2012-05-22, 16:13
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Location: United Kingdom
Age: 29
One thing I can agree with you on Kaioshin, and that is Minami Kuribayashi isn't really that great of a singer If you aren't really that sold on this song, then I'd recommend not giving White Star a listen.
Still, I think that on the musical front, the Gundam franchise had always had generally fantastic music (with a few exceptions) and that modern music, even pop, can be utilized effectively and just as well (if not better at times) than ballads. It depends largely on the ability of the composer and how well the music is used in the show to make it work, and I think the first ED is good.
Now don't get me wrong, it's not bad, some of the tracks are still pretty nice to listen to (the second track I found to have a really nice theme) and the tracks are longer (a criticism I had with the first OST is that some of it's best tracks were really short) there is more variety to them (I think some of the music on the second OST sound like it came from a westerner ) and I honestly like how the first track (the main theme for AGE-2) sounds, even if it is just a techno version for the 100 year old tale (but then again, I have yet to meet a variation of the first OST's 1st track that I didn't like) and I think that it still gets across the same theme of the epic, heroic, century spanning tale the song has, just with adding a bit more of an edge to it (possibly to make it sound more ''rebellious'')
But overall, it's a really disappointing effort by Yoshikawa. Even after dropping my expectations down a lot (since I understood he had a very tough act to follow) this just wasn't on the same level as the previous soundtrack.
|2012-05-25, 10:12
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|2012-07-11, 09:15
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Official Soundtrack Vol.3 (Release Date: July 11th 2012, Price: 3300 yen)
1. ガンダムAGE-3~覚醒 - Awakening of Gundam AGE-3
2. 遥かなる時 - Become Much More
3. コアファイター - Core Fighter
4. 破滅の風 - Wind of Doom
5. 光と影 - Light and Shadow
6. リアリティー - Reality
7. ファントム3 - Phantom Three
8. 新たな武器 - New Weapons
9. 激情 - Passion
10. 迫る影 - Approaching Shadow
11. 作戦航行 - Navigation Operations
12. キオのテーマ - Kio's Theme
13. 暴虐の街 - City of Violence
14. イノセント - Innocent
15. 悲しみを駆けろ - Running Across the Sorrow
16. アッシュ - Ash
17. Gセプター - G Scepter
18. ラ・グラミス - La Glamis
19. 守るべきもの - Things to be Protected
20. 確執 - Feud
21. 果てしなき戦い - Endless Battle
22. 運命の兆し - Signs of Destiny
23. 戦艦バロノーク - Baronoku Battleship
24. 絶望の淵で - In the Depths of Despair
25. アビス隊 - Abyss Corps.
26. 生まれ来る命 - Life We're Born To
27. 疾走 - Sprint
28. 野望の果て - End of the Ambition
29. あなたが教えてくれた - You Told Me
30. 命燃やすとき - When Life Burns
31. 決戦の日 - Sun of Battle
32. sharp ♯ (TV Version)
33. My World (TV Version)
34. 君と僕はそこにいた (TV Version) - You and Me Where There
35. REAL (TV Version)
36. WHITE justice (TV Version)
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|2012-07-15, 20:42
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Opening 4 is definitely much better than Opening 3, but I really liked the new ending. It might actually be the best one of the show with it's only competition possibly being the second one. Time will tell. As of now like with all Gundam series I've got my tentative opening/ending rankings:
|2012-07-15, 23:53
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Why is it so popular to show off destroyed Gundams in a show's ED? SEED's EDs was nothing BUT the cast standing or floating around the ruined Gundams, Gundam 00's fourth ED featured the Gundams shot full of holes, and now AGE's latest ED has the AGE-1, 2, 3, and FX torn apart in space.
|2012-07-16, 15:12
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Does anyone know the name of the two tracks that play during the AGE-FX's deployment in episode 40 and if they are on the 3rd OST or not. Suddenly the music in the show has gotten really good again after a kind of lacklustre second volume
|2012-07-16, 18:45
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I quess that's the theme of FX and also the main theme for the fourth arc, it be the first track pf 4th OST.
I'm also looking forward to the pre-OP intro of the next ep, there's a high chance that we get the new intro as well as a new song for the fourth arc.
|2012-07-17, 05:00
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Location: West Virginia, USA
Age: 28
Holy shit we will have character songs from Flit, Emily, Woolf, Arisa, Asemu, Zeheart, Romary and Yurin! One volume will be released next month on the 8th containing the first gen cast above while volume two will obviously feature the second gen.
Saw them on CD Japan my body is not ready especially for Arisa's song. T_T
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|2012-07-17, 08:10
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The latest Age ost is great, the main theme is as great as the last two, and the rest of the soundtrack (that I've heard at any rate) is easily some of the best bgm the series has had since Flit's arc. Going back to a more orchestral style was a great move.
|2012-07-18, 01:04
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I always hate the full versions of the songs. (alot of up and downs of the song)
TV-size is where it's at, where they take the best parts of the song.
But AGE OP4 is definitely the best. Been listening since the episode came out. Better than all of 00.
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Newegg's 'Screw Patent Trolls!' Strategy Leads To Victory
from the standing-up-to-bullies dept
However, Newegg chose to fight it, and despite losing at the district court level (in East Texas, of course), the Appeals Court has invalidated all three patents. Incredibly, the East Texas court had refused to let Newegg make the argument that the patents were not valid.
At district court, the judge hadn't even let those invalidity arguments go to the jury, stating there wasn't "sufficient testimony" on obviousness, and that it would be "very confusing" to them.That's fairly incredible. The validity of a patent is a key issue in any patent trial, and for a judge to reject it even being brought up for being "too confusing" to a jury is astounding. Thankfully, the appeals court completely rejected not only that idea, but the patents as well -- and it means that some other recent verdicts in favor of Soverain are now dead as well.
Mullin's article also highlights some of the bogus nature of Soverain:
Mullin also includes a fantastic interview with Lee Cheng about why Newegg was willing to do this. It's worth reading in full, but here's just a snippet:
It's all a sham. Court records show Soverain hasn't made a sale—ever. The various voice mailboxes were all set up by Katherine Wolanyck, the former Latham & Watkins attorney who is a co-founder and partial owner of Soverain. And the impressive list of big corporate customers on its Web page? Those are deals struck with another company, more than a decade ago. That was OpenMarket, a software company that originally created these patents before going out of business in 2001. It sold its assets to a venture capital fund called divine interVentures, which in turn sold the OpenMarket patents to Soverain Software in 2003.
"Thank you for calling Soverain technical support," says Wolanyck, if you press option 2. "If you are a current customer and have a tech support question, please call us at 1-888-884-4432, or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com." That number, like the "customer support" number on Soverain's contact page, has been disconnected.
Patent trolling is based upon deficiencies in a critical but underdeveloped area of the law. The faster we drive these cases to verdict—and through appeal, and also get legislative reform on track—the faster our economy will be competitive in this critical area. We're competing with other economies that are not burdened with this type of litigation. China doesn't have this, South Korea doesn't have this, Europe doesn't have this.Of course, once again, we wonder how companies like Amazon, who "settled" with Soverain, paying them tens of millions of dollars, feel about this. Why is it that the companies who settled over patents later declared invalid aren't able to seek their money back? Seems only fair.
Just in our experience, we've been hit by companies that claim to own the drop-down menu, or a search box, or Web navigation. In fact, I think there's at least four that claim to 'own' some part of a search box.
It's actually surprising how quickly people forget what Lemelson did. [referring to Jerome Lemelson, an infamous patent troll who used so-called "submarine patents" to make billions in licensing fees.] This activity is very similar. Trolls right now "submarine" as well. They use timing, like he used timing.
Then they pop up and say, "Hello, surprise! Give us your money or we will shut you down!" Screw them. Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that.


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Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon played Timothy Fenwick Jr., an expert at "College Bowl" who, in a drunken stupor, ends up inside a manger scene in his underwear. Bacon would go on to become one of Hollywood's most dependable and durable actors, appearing in such films as "Footloose" (1984), "A Few Good Men" (1992), "The River Wild" (1994) and "Mystic River" (2003). He would return to Baltimore in 2008 to film "My One and Only" alongside Renee Zellweger; his most recent film was 2011's "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
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