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|Dev: Data Design Interactive
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Destineer
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
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|Release: Feb. 17, 2009
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|Players: 1-2
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Bad Wii games are a dime a dozen. Okay, they actually cost a lot more than that, but they shouldn't, and Battle Rage: Mech Conflict accomplishes the dubious feat of proving that, once again, this game would be more accurately priced at five-sixth of a cent rather than at its going rate of $19.99.
Before playing, its easy enough to get excited. Publisher Destineer touted it as the first console game to work with 3-D glasses (not quite a true claim, but close), and how could a third-person shooter with beat-em-up elements go entirely wrong? Oh, and did we mention youre playing as a mecha? As it turns out, the 3-D functionality didnt make it into the final game (word has it therell be another version that works with the dorky-looking spectacles), and even a simple shooter with cool robots can go completely awry.
Its surprising the title is such a mess, because its so simple. The entire game consists of one-on-one matches between robots in various arenas. You can move, jump, shoot, melee attack, and use various power-ups.
So many problems bring down this basic setup that its hard to know where to start. Probably the most frustrating issue is the controls. You aim by pointing, a la Metroid Prime 3, only its indescribably inferior to the system in that modern classic; it just seems harder to control, and it feels a little bit jerky. Also, the melee attacks are all handled through various waggles of the Nunchuk; as is usually the case in second-rate Wii games, these inputs work maybe half the time, and even when they do work, theyre impossible to time with any precision.
Also, since the view is strictly over-the-shoulder, it can be hard to point your mecha in the right direction to hit the other guy hand-to-hand, so locking on with the C button is almost required to do any damage with your melee attacks. Fortunately, the enemy A.I. is bad enough that immediate and accurate actions wont always be very important; the opponents have the odd habit of facing away from you a lot. Bear in mind, though, that youll still be dying often, even on the early levels. Despite their low artificial IQs, the enemies have a knack for delivering powerful blows when youre not looking. One of the mechas we fought even managed to hit us almost immediately every time we spawned. It was like he knew where wed be or something.
The over-the-shoulder view, combined with the fact that falling out of the arena costs you a life, creates another annoyance as well; since you cant see what youre standing on, its hard to avoid the edges. This is especially an issue right after you spawn, as a movement in the wrong direction can cost you another robot right away.
The sound also stands out as particularly awful. The pew-pew shooting noises sound like they come from an arcade game from the 㥘s, giving the entire game an amateurish, dated, and unserious vibe. The music is, unsurprisingly, cheesy synth-pop, though there are a few decent rock guitar riffs thrown in here and there.


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One of the things which inspired the "Dear Imprudence" column here at FWD was the Savage Love column from 30 April, 2009, in which a reader sent in a letter politely asking Dan to stop using "retarded" as an insult. abby jean kindly covered "retarded" for the Ableist Word Profile, explaining the origins of the word and why it's not appropriate to use, in case you need a refresher. I know that this column is old, but I thought that I should profile it, since it's pretty much a shining example of what we're talking about when we talk about bad advice.
Here's my thing with Dan Savage. He infuriates me. A lot. His persistent fat hatred is extremely upsetting. His assaults on so-called "PC culture" are irritating. But, every now and then, he actually gives good advice. Really good advice with which I agree, which is why I read Savage Love pretty regularly even though it makes me want to scream sometimes. In fact, I almost profiled him for a "Getting It Right" column recently, but couldn't bring myself to do it, because of the "leotarded" column.
So, let's review. In case you need to be reminded of why so many people strongly dislike Dan Savage…
A reader wrote:
Stop using the word "retarded" as an insult, Dan. I know it can be hard to break a verbal habit, but make an effort. Perhaps you should have a "retard jar" that you put a dollar in every time you use the word. When the jar is full, send the money to the Special Olympics.
Whatever you do, though, try to remember that you have lots of listeners and readers who have loved ones with mental disabilities, and we don't want to hear you misuse the word "retarded." Please don't tell me to read or listen to other people if I don't like what I hear. I want to read your column and listen to your podcast, but without the put-downs directed at people with mental disabilities.
The Real Other Sister
Dan responded:
I'm going to turn over a new leaf, TROS, and make a conscious, conscientious effort to break myself of the bad habit of using the word "retard." But I don't think the "retard jar" is for me. Instead, I'm going to use a substitution for the word. From now on, instead of saying "retard" or "that's so retarded," I'm going to say "leotard" and "that's so leotarded." I won't be mocking the mentally challenged, just the physically gifted. I will pick on the strong—and the limber—and not the weak.
Oh, Dan, you are so funny! My sides are aching! Oh, wait, I think that's just indigestion.
Advice columnists, as a general rule, tend to be pretty prickly when called out by readers. A notable recent example appeared in "Ask Amy," when Amy shamed a rape victim, was called out on it, and basically said "I don't see what the big deal is." Honestly, sometimes I think that advice columnists print letters critical of their responses specifically so that they can be mean to the person who sent the letter.
In this case, Dan's mocking response made it clear that he didn't give two figs for the fact that he was hurting people with his language use, and that his "solution" to the problem was to create a portmanteau which "won't be mocking the mentally challenged." I'm sure Dan is well aware of the fact that "-tarded" words work as insults because they evoke social attitudes about people with disabilities, whether or not "re-" is prefixed. His answer was basically a big, fat, "fuck you" to the disability community (with a bonus "weak" for extra points).
What's interesting is that Dan certainly does recognize how the use of words like "gay" and an assortment of racial epithets which I can't bring myself to type is harmful. So it's not that Dan does not understand the power that language has, and the impact which it has on social attitudes. He just isn't interested in the power of ableist language, which is actually a pretty widespread problem in social justice circles in general. People who would never let a word like "fag" or "bitch" cross their lips will freely say that something made them "crazy" the other day or that they saw a "lame" movie last week.
Dan had a great opportunity here to do some thinking, talk about the power of language, explain why "retarded" is wrong, apologize, and say that he won't be using it anymore. Instead, he decided that more benefit would be provided if he insulted the reader and came up with an oh-so-hilarious variation on "retarded" to start using.
That's a terrific message to send to all your readers, Dan! Way to go!

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muffinman42 wrote:12 spartans got trapped by a Rock?!
Wow they must move slow.
Silverdream wrote:MOST UNLIKED BY SILVERDREAM
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spartan117 wrote:well Ranger, mc is 7,2" and a space marine is like 7,10" 8, so not much of an advatage (consitering a brute is like 10,8")
spartan117 wrote:as for armor, im not saying power armor sucks but mc is better:
6:mc armor WITHOUT shield is VERY strong, it is a titainom alloy with a super tough crystill layer.. an energy sword could not cut throu it in the book
spartan117 wrote:7:the shield, did you see the whole six hunter shot thing? thats like maybe a 40k plasma rifle or necron heavy gauss rifle so a 75cal bolter wont kill him easaly
spartan117 wrote:8:mc can survive space rentery
spartan117 wrote:9:space marine power armor is tough but it can have holes punched in it makeing said marine easyer to kill
spartan117 wrote:10:in one book mc take out more than 45-50 brutes and I think brutes are some what like marines (huge, tough, realy strong,)
spartan117 wrote:sooo I mean iv played lots of 40k and when have you seen one marine(not an HQ like a chaplian or chapter master) take on a whole two or three squads by him self??
spartan117 wrote:even in books the normal marines are not that good
muffinman42 wrote:I want a 5" hero now.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
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In 2007, the congressional attempts to reform our broken immigration system led to an intense debate that played itself out on the cable and network broadcasts. In addition to the race-baiting perpetuated by some anti-immigrant commentators, conversations about immigration in the media often left stereotypes and misinformation unchecked.
But that was only the tip of the iceberg. On the Internet and in local communities, the ugly side of the immigration debate became even uglier. Comparisons of undocumented immigrants to terrorists, murderers, and rapists were commonplace in these arenas. We applaud the directors/producers of "9500 Liberty" for shedding some light on how ugly the debate can get in one community, and how a community can organize to fight back.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Momentum Magazine Adding San Francisco Section
Photo above is of Mia Kohout (Momentum's
Director of Advertising & Marketing) with
her Soma Buena Vista (built by
American Cyclery).
By Dustin Jensen.
Canadian-based Momentum Magazine (the magazine for self-propelled people!) has included extra pages of local content for their copies distributed in Vancouver. This month they are launching local content versions of Momentum in Chicago and San Francisco. Can't wait to see it. Momentum will have Bay Area Launch party on Thursday, May 28 at Exit 154 (154 7th St betw. Howard and Mission).
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Concerns Raised About Aaron Swartz's Prosecution And The Wikileaks Connection
from the fishing-expedition dept
We've already discussed how Wikileaks bizarrely outed Aaron Swartz as a possible source, and that's leading to other speculation as well, including a question as to whether or not the grand jury investigation into Swartz was really more about the fishing expedition against Wikileaks, rather than the whole MIT/JSTOR effort. The Emptywheel blog (linked above) notes that Swartz's defense indicated it was aware of a much deeper investigation concerning Swartz that went beyond MIT and JSTOR to Twitter, Google, Amazon, the Internet Archive and possibly more -- and asked the government to turn over such materials:
Given all of that, it's leading some to wonder if this was more about the big fishing expedition a grand jury has supposedly been working on for quite some time, trying to sniff out anything that can be used against Wikileaks. There is no confirmed connection to the Wikileaks investigation, but Emptywheel notes some oddities in the timing -- such as the grand jury investigation into Aaron seeming to ramp up just as it appeared that the big Wikileaks grand jury was coming up empty. In fact, as Emptywheel showed in a different post, it looked like the investigation into Swartz was going absolutely nowhere... until the grand jury suddenly showed renewed interest long after the arrest. The post notes that the Secret Service didn't even bother searching the laptop onto which Swartz had downloaded the JSTOR material for weeks after getting involved in his case.
These paragraphs request information relating to grand jury subpoenas. Paragraph 1 requested that the government provide "[a]ny and all grand jury subpoenas – and any and all information resulting from their service – seeking information from third parties including but not limited to Twitter. MIT, JSTOR, Internet Archive that would constitute a communication from or to Aaron Swartz or any computer associated with him." Paragraph 4 requested "[a]ny and all SCA applications, orders or subpoenas to MIT, JSTOR, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Internet Archive or any other entity seeking information regarding Aaron Swartz, any account associated with Swartz, or any information regarding communications to and from Swartz and any and all information resulting from their service." Paragraph 20 requested "[a]ny and all paper, documents, materials, information and data of any kind received by the Government as a result of the service of any grand jury subpoena on any person or entity relating to this investigation."
Swartz requests this information because some grand jury subpoenas used in this case contained directives to the recipients which Swartz contends were in conflict with Rule 6(e)(2)(A), see United States v. Kramer, 864 F.2d 99, 101 (11th Cir. 1988), and others sought certification of the produced documents so that they could be offered into evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 803(6), 901. Swartz requires the requested materials to determine whether there is a further basis for moving to exclude evidence under the Fourth Amendment (even though the SCA has no independent suppression remedy).
Moreover, defendant believes that the items would not have been subpoenaed by the experienced and respected senior prosecutor, nor would evidentiary certifications have been requested, were the subpoenaed items not material to either the prosecution or the defense. Defendant's viewing of any undisclosed subpoenaed materials would not be burdensome, and disclosure of the subpoenas would not intrude upon the government's work product privilege, as the subpoenas were served on third parties, thus waiving any confidentiality or privilege protections.
But what happened in between the arrest and the sudden decision to really look into Swartz? The DOJ drew a big, fat blank against Wikileaks. The timeline:
- Swartz was arrested on January 6th, 2011.
- On February 9th it was reported that the Justice Department had drawn a blank on anything it could use to go after Wikileaks.
- That same day, February 9th, the Secret Service suddenly got around to issuing warrants to search Swartz's hardware
I will say that I'm far from convinced there was a full connection here. There is way too much speculation and conjecture and it is quite possible (even probable) that the timing is all a coincidence. But the timing is at least worth noting, since it seems that more and more information keeps coming out about this.


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Troubleshooting an Image Update
From DocWiki
To troubleshoot an image update, see the following sections:
Information About Log Files
The Log4j file is used as the logging facility for the Cisco Configuration Engine server and the image server. The property file is located at: <INSTALL_DIR>/CSCOcfgs/conf/logs.properties. You can control the logging behavior by editing the logs.properties configuration file. This file is located at:
cd $CISCO_CE_INSTALL_ROOT/CSCOcnsie/conf.
The default level for logging is set to Debug. Accepted values are Debug, Info, Warn, Error, and Fatal.
- /var/log/CNSCE/imgsrv/imgsrv.log—Contains log messages from the server concerning the actions that you have performed that pertain to images, such as creating, updating, or deleting images. This log file also contains detailed message exchanges between the image server and devices during image distribution and activation.
- /var/log/httpd/*.log, /var/log/CNSCE/tomcat/*.out, *.txt, *.log—Contains log messages related to the status of the web server
- /var/log/CNSCE/websvc—Contains log messages related to the web service APIs
- /var/log/CNSCE/imgw/*—Contains log messages related to the IMGW
Cannot Activate Image
Problem: You are trying to activate an image but cannot activate it.
Possible Cause: This problem can occur if the activation template does not contain the correct configuration. If the activation radio button is not checked when you associate the image with the device.
Solution: To resolve this problem, make sure that the configuration is correct. Then try again to activate the image. Make sure the box is checked when associating the image with the device.
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Solution: To resolve this problem, make sure that the image information matches the image that you have downloaded.
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House Passes H.R. 327 "Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002"
On June 18, 2002, the House of Representatives agreed to the Senate amendment and passed H.R. 327, the "Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002," by a vote of 418-0. The bill had passed the Senate on May 22, 2002 by unanimous consent. The President is expected to sign the legislation.
The legislation contains the following provisions:
Facilitation of Compliance with Federal Paperwork Requirements
- Would require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to publish annually in the Federal Register, and make available on the internet, a list of regulatory compliance assistance resources available to small businesses.
- Would require Federal agencies to establish one agency point of contact to act as a liaison with small businesses with respect to collection of information and control of paperwork.
- Would require Federal agencies to make efforts to further reduce the information collection burden for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees.
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- Would establish a task force made up of representatives of designated agencies and headed by the designee of the OMB Director to:
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AGAINST THE STREAM Tomorrow June 21, 2009 at 11 AM
Tomorrow at 11 am I will be speaking at Against The Stream (aka Dharam Punx, aka Noah Levine's place). Here is the into about the place from their website:
Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society is located in a historic building in East Hollywood, one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the city. It is on the corner of Melrose and Berendo, near LA City College and Vermont Avenue where you can find many small restaurants, bakeries and shops.
4300 Melrose Avenue
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Remarkable Wall Street scandals
Everything from muppets to failed IPOs to a suicide attempt made 2012 a banner year for financial scandals and bizarre happenings. There were so many, in fact, that it was hard to narrow down the list. Here's a look at 10 prominent Wall Street misdeeds that won't soon be forgotten. By Kensey Lamb and Siemond Chan


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Assigned: Apr. 2
Due: Apr. 23
This is actually an experimental assignment, rather than a programming assignment. The assignment is to run three machine learning algorithms --- linear regression, Naive Bayes, and a decision tree algorithm --- over a given data set and compare the accuracy of the output for given data set and compare the accuracy of the output for different sizes of training sets.
The WEKA system is a package of machine learning resources developed by Ian Witten and his research group at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). The code is written in Java, and is available on the Web. (This link above is my local copy. The original package, if you want to get it, is here.)
There are three main types of resources available in WEKA:
There is also an online tutorial on WEKA available in PDF format.
This assignment will involve the "auto-mpg" data set from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Data Repository. The file contains parameters of various makes of cars from various years. The task is to predict the miles per gallon. (Use the version at the course web site, not the version at UC Irvine.)
The auto-mpg data set is in ARFF format. It contains the following parts:
You can find all of the WEKA material in the
weka directory
in the class Web site. If you want to run it on your own machine, then
1. Download the file weka-3-0-2.jar
2. Expand this using the command "jar xvf weka-3-0-2.jar".
3. Further expand the new file "weka.jar" using the command "jar xvf weka.jar". (The README file says to use "jar -jar weka.jar", but that didn't work for me.)
Or you can just download the files you need for this assignment (a small subset of the entire directory).
4. Download the training set auto-mpg.arff and the test set auto-mpg-test.arff
Alternatively, you can run the code from an ACF5 account by changing directory
cd /home/e/ed1/weka/weka-3-0-2and then running the code as described below.
You can run the code from an account on the Sun system by changing directory
cd /usr/httpd/htdocs_cs/courses/fall00/G22.3033-001/weka/weka-3-0-2and there you can find directories with the various WEKA programs in Java, which can be run as described below.
If you have any trouble with this, please let me know as soon as possible. Don't wait until the day before the due date to make sure that you can find this code.
Step 1: Eliminate the nominal field "origin" using the command
java weka.filters.AttributeFilter -i data/auto-mpg.arff -o ~/auto-mpgA.arff -R 8and similarly for the test file.
Note: Here and throughout, I've written these commands so as to create a new file "auto-mpgA.arff" in your home directory. Of course, you can call them and put them whereever you want.
Step 2: Create subsets of the training data with 5, 10, 15, and 24 elements. Create 3 subsets of each size. A random subset of size 5 can be created using the command
java weka.filters.SplitDatasetFilter -i ~/auto-mpgA.arff -o ~/auto-mpg5a.arff -N 48 -S 1The argument -N 48 means that the data should be divided into 48 folds. As there are 240 instances in the data, that gives a data set of size 5. Create the other training files analogously. (Note: The different training files need not be disjoint.) The argument -S 1 gives a random number seed, so as to get a random choice. Of course, you should give a different seed for each training set you create.
Step 3: Run the linear regression algorithm over the different partial training files and the complete training file, and evaluate them over the test file. The linear regression algorithm is run using the command:
java weka.classifiers.LinearRegression -t ~/auto-mpg5a.arff -T ~/auto-mpg-testA.arff -c 1 -S 1
Step 4: Create a plot where the x-axis is the size of the training set (5, 10, 15, 24) and the y-axis is the average accuracy, measured by mean absolute error, over the three sample sets of the specified size.
Step 5: Define the similarity of two hypotheses to be the sum of the absolute values of the difference of corresponding coefficients. For instance, given the two models
mpg = -1.5 * cylinders - 1 * accelleration + 0.75 * year + 1.0 and mpg = -1.0 * cylinders - 0.8 * accelleration + 1.0 * year + 0.8the difference between these two models is defined to be
|-1.5 - (-1.0)| + |-1 - (-0.8)| + | 0.75 - 1.0 | + |1.0 - 0.8 | = 0.5 + 0.2 + 0 .25 + 0.2 = 1.15.
The average similarity of a set of three hypotheses H1, H2, H3, is the average of simiarity(H1,H2), similarity(H1,H3) and similarity(H2,H3).
Create a plot where the x-axis is the size of the training set and the y-axis is the average similarity of the hypothesis generated for the training sets of that size.
Step 1: Discretize the classification attribute mpg in both the training set and the test set into 4 bins using the command
java weka.filters.DiscretizeFilter -i data/auto-mpg.arff -o ~/auto-mpg-d1.arff \ -b -r data/auto-mpg-test.arff -s ~/auto-mpg-test-d1.arff -B 4 -R 1
Step 2: Discretize the remaining attributes training set and the test set into 2 bins using the command
java weka.filters.DiscretizeFilter -i ~/auto-mpg-d1.arff -o ~/auto-mpg-d2.arff \ -b -r ~/auto-mpg-test-d1.arff -s ~/auto-mpg-test-d2.arff -B 2 -R 2,3,4,5,6,7
Step 3: As in part 1, step 2, create subsets of the training data with 5, 10, 15, and 24 elements. Create 3 subsets of each size.
Step 4: Run the Naive Bayes algorithm on the various discretized training sets, and test them on the discretized test set. The command is
java weka.classifiers.NaiveBayes -t
-T ~/auto-mpg-test-d2.arff -c 1
Step 5: Create a plot where the x-axis is the size of the training set (5, 10, 15, 24) and the y-axis is the average accuracy, measured by percentage correct, over the three sample sets of the specified size.
Step 6: Redo step 2, but discretize the remaining attributes into 4 bins rather than 2 (change the argument of -B to 4). Run Naive Bayes again. Compare the results of the two discretizations.
java weka.classifiers.j48.J48 -tThe flag -M 3 requires that nodes with 3 or fewer instances are not further split. Report on the accuracuy as in step 5 of part II. Also, discuss the output hypotheses. How much do the trees differ, and how do they change as the training set becomes larger?
-T ~/auto-mpg-test-d2.arff \ -M 3 -c 1


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Martins Dukurs wins again, closing in on title
IGLS, Austria (AP) — Martins Dukurs of Latvia won his fourth consecutive World Cup skeleton race Saturday, moving closer to the seasonlong points title and remaining eligible for a huge bonus payday.
Dukurs' winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russia's Alexander Tretiakov.
Lativa's Tomass Dukurs was third, 1.41 seconds off the pace.
The U.S. had three sleds in the top eight, with John Daly placing fifth, Matt Antoine finishing sixth and Kyle Tress taking eighth.
By posting the fastest time in both heats, Martins Dukurs remained in the running for the FIBT "Triple Crown." If he is again the fastest in both heats in the World Cup season-finale at Konigssee next weekend, just as he also did at St. Moritz a week ago, he would win a bonus of about $135,000.
Martins Dukurs also opened up an 80-point lead over Tretiakov in the seasonlong points chase. But Russian sliders are not expected to compete in the World Cup finale, and will head to the Sochi Olympic track for some additional training instead before other nations arrive early next month.
That means all Martins Dukurs needs to wrap up no worse than a share of what would be his fifth consecutive overall World Cup title is a 12th-place finish next weekend. And he's finished at least 12th in each of his last 43 World Cup races dating back to early 2009.


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Medium flow controller
Sierra Instruments announced the global introduction of its Smart-Trak 50 Series Medium Flow Controller. The new mass flow controller increases the maximum flow range of the award-winning Smart-Trak 50 Series from 50 slpm to 200 slpm. Sierra's new 200 slpm controller is designed for OEMs who require higher mass flow control capability.
The 50 Series Medium Flow Controller, said Matthew J. Olin, president of Sierra Instruments, was developed early last year for a "high volume OEM customer who has a furnace purge application that requires accurate Argon flow control. They've been using the 50 Series in their furnaces to stabilize gas mass flow and temperature." Measurement repeatability has improved yields.
The 50 Series builds on the same core sensor, LFE and valve technology found in Sierra's flagship Smart-Trak 100 Series. The 50 Series has a standard accuracy of +/- 1.5% of full scale that works for nearly all common semiconductor purge and carrier gases. A flexible and powerful direct-acting frictionless-hovering control valve sets it apart from the competition by minimizing leak-by, while offering +/- 0.25% repeatability.
In contrast to the many wetted parts of CMOS and MEMS flow sensors, Sierra uses its advanced 316L stainless steel platinum-wound capillary sensor technology to deliver the highest reliability, repeatability and stable accuracy.
The Smart-Trak 50 Series offers flexibility and simplicity of operation. Both analog and digital inputs and outputs are available, enabling the 50 Series to work with older analog systems or the newest multi-drop digital tools. Field adjustment of zero and span enable the small adjustments in calibration necessary to align with on-site process conditions.
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Adam Lambert splits from boyfriend
The former American Idol star confirmed the news on Friday (05Apr13), revealing he and Sauli Koskinen had been growing apart.
He says, "It's been kind of on its way out in the last couple of months.
"Sauli and I remain really good friends, and I know it's a cliche thing to say. But it's totally true. I just gave him a coffee and bagel earlier today. He's a great person and we've had an amazing couple of years together. Things have just run their course."


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A Love of Old Materials: A Breathable Kitchen in Charleston
What do you get when you pair a 19th century house in Charleston, South Carolina, with a pair of young designers and their talented friends? A low-key, modern living space that pays homage to the historical area while drawing on the skills of local craftsman, particularly in the kitchen.
A local Charleston woodworker built all the kitchen cabinetry and open shelving out of birch plywood with poplar faces, while the overhead lighting fixtures were constructed by a friend of the couple. The community spirit had the feel of a "modern-day barn-raising," as Dwell magazine wrote in their profile of the home. But this love of old materials and old ways of doing things was exactly what the couple had in mind all along;
It was our love of the old materials that dictated a lot of the renovation decisions... We didn't want to overshadow or alter those elements in any unnatural way. We wanted the space to feel warm but spare, with a mixture of old and new.
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The fight against fear
July 30, 2012
By Alexandra Kocik
U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – Thirty-five feet above the dark lake, a Cadet balances precariously on a 6-inch-wide beam by holding her arms out from her sides. As she steps gingerly down from a small block set in the center of the beam, she stumbles forward, falling to one knee. Her comrades below gasp as she grabs the ladder on the opposite side of the beam to avoid falling further. The Cadet bows her head and makes the sign of a cross before flashing a smile to the cheering crowd below. Slowly she ascends the ladder to the next challenge.
The water confidence course at the Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) marks the final test before Cadets graduate. Retired 1st Sgt. Jorge Rivera is a member of the cadre overseeing this site, which has one important goal.
"The purpose of this course is to test Cadets' personal courage and ability to overcome their fear of water, heights or both," Rivera said. "Two of the activities here must be passed to graduate from LDAC, so a small percentage finds this site stressful because of their fears.


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Softball Wins Two at Purchase
Game 1 - Farmingdale State - 11, Purchase College - 2 BOXSCORE
Game 2 - Farmingdale State - 13, Purchase College - 2 BOXSCORE
Purchase, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State softball
team won both games at Purchase College this afternoon, improving
to 28-4 overall and 11-1 in the Skyline Conference. The Rams took
the opening game 11-2 and won the second game of the doubleheader
13-2. The Panthers fell to 15-9 on the season, 4-6 in the
In game one, Farmingdale State scored five runs on five hits in the top of the second inning, opening up an early 5-0 lead. Freshman shortstop Jennie Angelone (Howard Beach, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) would single and later score on a wild pitch in the bottom of the second for Purchase; however, the Rams would add a run in the third and five more in the fifth, winning the game on a run rule.
Freshman first baseman Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) led Farmingdale State going 2-for-4 at the plate, with four runs batted in and one run scored. Freshman left fielder Rebecca Richman (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) had two hits, two RBI and two runs scored, while freshman third baseman Shelby Martin (New Paltz, N.Y./New Paltz), sophomore shortstop Nicole Farber (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot), junior second baseman Lauren Poplawski (Levittown, N.Y./Island Trees) and senior outfielder Kristina Cirillo (Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood) each had two hits in game one for the Rams. Sophomore Heather Buckshaw (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) pitched a complete game, allowing only two runs and striking out seven for Farmingdale State.
In game two, the Rams had 15 hits and scored five runs in the top of the fifth, breaking a 2-2 tie. They would break the game open, adding six more in the following inning.
Farmingdale State was led by Martin who went 3-for-4 at the plate, including a grand slam in the top of the sixth inning. Martin is now second on the team with three homeruns this season. Freshman outfielder Kaitlin Keenen (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) hit a homerun and had three runs scored for Farmingdale. Freshman pitcher Hope Zino (Bayshore, N.Y./Bay Shore) allowed four hits and two runs over six innings, improving to 13-1 on the season.
The Rams next will travel to Ramapo College for a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday, April 23rd at 3:30pm.


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Asylum seekers looking for sanctuary in Kirklees from war and persecution in their own countries are not treated like human beings when they get here, according to a charity worker.
Liz Brooke, who works for 611 Asylum Work, said tough government measures were heaping "trauma upon trauma" for people who have often already been subjected to violence, rape and intimidation.
The concerns of asylum support services based in Kirklees were highlighted by councillors ahead of Kirklees Council's full council meeting which was on Wednesday. A motion called on Kirklees to follow seven other local authorities in asking the government to provide more support for asylum seekers. People come to Kirklees from many African countries, Afghanistan, Syria and North Korea.
Asylum seekers are provided with accommodation and around £5 per day to survive while their applications are processed, but many applications are initially turned down, leaving them with nothing.
Mrs Brooke and Coun Peter O'Neill (Lab, Batley West), who has signed the motion, believe that destitution – withdrawing all support from asylum seekers – is being used as a deliberate policy to stop them coming to the country.
Last year there were 33 destitute asylum seekers in Kirklees, though Coun O'Neill said there could be more, while 270 more were being supported by the Home Office. Mrs Brooke said: "I would like asylum seekers to be treated with some dignity. At the moment they have no rights, they are nothing."
Coun O'Neill said: "There is not enough support at the moment, particularly for children. A lot of these people already have physical and mental problems due to what they have been through. They need more support not less."
Services such as 611 Asylum Work, based in Huddersfield, and Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield, provide accommodation, hot meals and general support.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 20th Jan 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by fylfot
Castle and RISC OS Open discuss there plans for the gradual unveiling of an open source RISC OS over the next twelve months. They explain their reasoning behind some of the source code restrictions in their licence. "Castle's Jack Lillingston opened the presentation with a brief run through of his company's products before outlining the shared source initiative - which is designed to get the source code to RISC OS 5 out into the open for free, and encourage third party developers to improve it. Steve then took over to explain more about how the project will be organised, and how they need donations to keep going."
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The giant fish tank inside the Dubai Mall sprang a leak Wednesday, pouring water out into the halls, and stranding some shoppers inside an elevator for 45 minutes, while others scrambled to reach dry ground. Emergency response teams rushed to the scene to repair the crack, as 100 retail shops near by closed for business and custodial personnel worked to contain the flooding.
Everything about the famous tank, which has been a big draw with visitors, is massive. It contains more than 2.6 million gallons of water and over 33,000 fish, including 400 sharks. It offers the largest acrylic viewing panel of any aquarium in the world, at roughly 892 square feet , and with a thickness of nearly 30 inches, it remains unclear how the crack developed.


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Follow the last 2 years of the Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard World Championships including the 15th Anniversary race in 2011. Program features highlights and stories from both years including Jamie Mitchell's quest for 10 in 2011.
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|Captured in this film is the Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard World Championships, a 32 mile open ocean race that is the pinnacle event of the sport of paddleboarding. The film features both the 2010 and the 2011 15th anniversary race highlighting not only Jamie Mitchell's unprecedented 10th consecutive win and Connor Baxter's record breaking win on an SUP in 2011 but also up close and personal conversations with legendary waterman and women from around the world. The Channel, known as the graveyard of bones, is at all times scary, dramatic and beautiful. It connects the island of Molokai to the island of Oahu. Get inside the race thru the minds of the athletes and enjoy the up close and personal stories that emerge from the event.
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Helen M. Pavlock
Helen M. Pavlock, 88, of 209 Glen Mayo, Johnsonburg, died Thursday evening, Nov. 4, 2010 at Elk Regional Health Center in St. Marys.She was born on Dec. 23, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of the late Louis and Mary Machcoviak Majewski.On Oct. 25, 1941, she married Bernard R. Pavlock, who preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 1988. Formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, she resided in the Johnsonburg community for the past 68 years. She was a graduate of John Adams High School in Cleveland and a member of Holy Rosary Church in Johnsonburg and the Rosary Altar Society. She had been employed by Dr. Minteer as a bookkeeper, and had formerly worked at the Market Basket, Notarianni's Grocery, Stackpole and the Johnsonburg Municipal Authority, all in Johnsonburg; Manno Corp. and Ridgway Hospital in Ridgway; and Sylvania and Sears in St. Marys. She is survived two sons, Richard S. Pavlock and his wife, Mary, of St. Marys; and Robert L. Pavlock and his wife, Susan, of Burley, Idaho; six grandchildren, Bernie, Doug and Scott Pavlock, Amy Layton, Rose Beach and Steven Pavlock; and six great-grandchildren, Henry Pavlock, Kolby and Kamille Pavlock, Mackenzie and Cade Layton and Alexandra Beach.Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Robald J. Pavlock; a brother, Chester Kolojek; and two sisters, Martha Jezierski and Adeline Pivinski.A Mass of Christian Burial for the late Helen M. Pavlock will be conducted at Holy Rosary Church on Monday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. with the Rev. David J. Wilson, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Holy Rosary Cemetery in Johnsonburg. Friends will be received at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home, 401 Chestnut St., Johnsonburg, on Sunday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. If desired, memorial contributions should be made to the Johnsonburg Community Center or to the Johnsonburg Public Library.


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November 27, 2012 17:02 ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 27, 2012) - TrueContext Mobile Solutions Corporation (TSX VENTURE:TMN) ("TrueContext" or the "Company"), a mobile data solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a commitment letter with BDC Capital Inc. ("BDCC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Business Development Bank of Canada, for a $1 million five-year secured term credit facility bearing interest at a fixed rate of 8.5% per year. The credit facility provides for the disbursement of funds in stages, subject to the Company achieving specific milestones. In addition, the commitment letter contemplates that BDCC is entitled to receive: (i) post-year-end annual royalty payments commencing for the 2015 fiscal year until maturity, such royalties to be based on the Company's consolidated annual gross sales; and (ii) a bonus payment upon the occurrence of certain change of control events.
The net proceeds from the credit facility are intended to be used for operations and working capital purposes. Completion of the financing is subject to the negotiation and execution of definitive loan and security documents.
Further details regarding the financing will be available in the Company's public filings at www.sedar.com.
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NVCC gets formal campus in Danbury
DANBURY -- Naugatuck Valley Community College's city location on Main Street has been elevated to a degree-granting institution.
This news comes as the two-year community college moves closer to fulfilling a plan to triple the size of its facilities.
Danbury already is home to Western Connecticut State University, which awards four-year and advanced degrees, and has an agreement with Naugatuck Valley that makes seamless the transfer from the two-year program to Western.
The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education approved the application for the school, whose main campus is in Waterbury, to elevate its Danbury site from just offering courses to a degree-granting campus. The Danbury location will be known as the NVCC Danbury Campus.
"This is huge," NVCC President Daisy Cocco De Filippis said Monday. "We are so happy to be in Danbury and try to help make a difference in the community."
The college started offering course offerings in the city in the fall of 2009 and had more than 1,000 students enrolled in credit-bearing courses in fall 2013.
The state Board of Regents approved the school's proposal to offer associate's degrees and certificates in Danbury in May 2013, De Filippis said, and now, a year later, the accrediting board approved the Danbury center as an instructional location that offers associate's degrees.
She said once such an institution offers a complete degree, it is considered a campus.
"This is great news," Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said Monday. "It's good for the city. There are a lot of people who are taking advantage of the Naugatuck programs, both young students and nontraditional students. It's an affordable alternative."
In the letter of approval, the commission "commends Naugatuck Valley Community College for its proposal to establish an institutional location in Danbury, Conn., that provided evidence of diligent planning and thoughtfully addressed each of the 11 standards."
De Filippis said the accrediting board evaluated the school's programs, the support that is available to students, and the number of part-time and full-time faculty.
She said the board will make a site visit, too.
Meanwhile, the aim is to move from a 6,000-square-foot site across from Danbury Library to an 18,000-square-foot facility in the city by fall 2015, she said.
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text: Stefan, Done, we hope. AlignIO/meme.pm passes its tests whether or not there's a strand column. Now if you'd like to put it through its paces with real scripts that would certainly help, but for the moment I can't do much more, and the Alignment objects look reasonable in the debugger. Brian O. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Kirov [mailto:skirov at utk.edu] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:41 PM To: Brian Osborne Cc: bioperl-l at bioperl.org Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Deprecating Brian, My question is if we need another meme parser? If you think this is necessary I can add them... What do you think? Stefan Brian Osborne wrote: >Stefan, > >If you want to help with meme tests just add them to AlignIO.t, it's the >section at the end. > >Brian O. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Stefan Kirov [mailto:skirov at utk.edu] >Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:41 AM >To: Brian Osborne >Cc: bioperl-l at bioperl.org >Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Deprecating > >Brian, > >Brian Osborne wrote: > > > >>Stefan, >> >>I took a look at AlignIO/meme.pm and fixed some obvious problems but I >> >> >think > > >>it's possible that the file used in the tests, t/data/meme.dat, may not >> >> >have > > >>all the information I need to debug the module (and I don't have meme >>myself). >> >> >> >I don't think there were tests for AlignIO/meme.pm. Anyway id there are >I am not able to find these. t/data/meme.dat is a test file for >Bio/Matrix/PSM/IO/meme.pm. But as this is presumably the same format >AlignIO/meme.pm should read.... > > > >>Question: is "strand" ever stipulated in the meme output file? >>There's no "+" or "-" indicated in meme.dat. This file is the result of an >>analysis of DNA, so I'm a bit surprised not to see some indication of >> >> >strand > > >>(and the code, before I modified it, was using a regexp that attempted to >>capture strand information). Can you enlighten me here? Here's one of the >>relevant sections: >> >> >>Sequence name Start P-value Site >>------------- ----- --------- --------------------- - >> >> >- > > >>-- >>6603 1311 2.59e-15 GGCGCATTGA >>CAGAAAAATTGAATTCCCACCCCCC AATGAGGAGG >>83796 1284 2.59e-15 GGAGGATTGA >>CAGAAAAATTGAATTCCCACCCCCC AACGAGGAGG >>20218 938 6.34e-12 TTTTTGGTAA >>CCTTAAAATAAAATCCCCACCACCA CTTTTAAAAA >>10657 1685 8.70e-12 GGCCCGCGCG >>CAGACAAAGACATTCCACAGCTCCC GCCCCCTCCA >> >>Perhaps when one runs meme with DNA one can tell it to just do 1 strand, >>rather than both? >> >> >> >You are quite right on this. I had somewhere an example with strands... >I'll find it (or regenrate it) ASAP and send it to you. I will try to >rewrite the tests for meme (other one) for the new test file. > > > >>This would explain the absence of strand information, but >>it means the regexp changes depending on this mode. Again, I don't have >> >> >meme > > >>or use meme, so you're going to have to tell me, or send me output files >>with and without strand stipulation. >> >>Brian O. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Stefan Kirov [mailto:skirov at utk.edu] >>Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 6:33 PM >>To: Brian Osborne >>Cc: bioperl-l at bioperl.org >>Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Deprecating >> >>I wonder if anyone uses *Bio::AlignIO::meme*. Last time (year ago) it >>did not work for me and I have not seen anyone committing changes.... >>Stefan >> >>Brian Osborne wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>Bioperl-l, >>> >>>Any objections to my adding Bio::Tools::RestrictionEnzyme to the >>> >>> >DEPRECATED > > >>>file? It was replaced by Bio::Restriction a while ago. >>> >>>Along the same lines, is there anything else that should be deprecated? >>>Bio::Tools::GFF? >>> >>>Brian O. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Bioperl-l mailing list >>>Bioperl-l at portal.open-bio.org >>>http://portal.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>Stefan Kirov, Ph.D. >>University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory >>5700 bldg, PO BOX 2008 MS6164 >>Oak Ridge TN 37831-6164 >>USA >>tel +865 576 5120 >>fax +865-576-5332 >>e-mail: skirov at utk.edu >>sao at ornl.gov >> >>"And the wars go on with brainwashed pride >>For the love of God and our human rights >>And all these things are swept aside" >> >> >> >> >> >> > >-- >Stefan Kirov, Ph.D. >University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory >5700 bldg, PO BOX 2008 MS6164 >Oak Ridge TN 37831-6164 >USA >tel +865 576 5120 >fax +865-576-5332 >e-mail: skirov at utk.edu >sao at ornl.gov > >"And the wars go on with brainwashed pride >For the love of God and our human rights >And all these things are swept aside" > > > > -- Stefan Kirov, Ph.D. University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5700 bldg, PO BOX 2008 MS6164 Oak Ridge TN 37831-6164 USA tel +865 576 5120 fax +865-576-5332 e-mail: skirov at utk.edu sao at ornl.gov "And the wars go on with brainwashed pride For the love of God and our human rights And all these things are swept aside"


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West Penn Allegheny Health System lays off 262 employees
West Penn Allegheny Health System lays off 262 employees
Highmark's West Penn Allegheny Health System is off 262 workers and eliminating 200 vacant positions.
The company says in a Friday release that the cutbacks include every level of the workforce, but few are related to direct patient care. Some executive positions were also eliminated.
Spokesman Dan Laurent says the layoffs are part of efforts to restore the financial health of five West Penn Allegheny hospitals.
Insurer Highmark, Inc. acquired the hospital group in April. Highmark is based in Pittsburgh and the five hospitals are all in western Pennsylvania.
West Penn Allegheny will have 10,300 employees following the layoffs.


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a large town in northeast illinois, west of chicago. Pop. consists of over 85,000 people. Includes one of the largest (and cleanest) malls in america, (Woodfield). Most schools are taught by educators with a masters and doctorite in teaching. Places of interest: Prairie Center for the Arts, Septemberfest, and Woodfield Mall. High Schools: Schaumburg High School (home of the saxons); and James B. Conant High School (home of the cougars). Schaumburg is also named after a city that resides in Germany, so it makes sense that most of the residents are german. The happiest place on earth!
1. Yesterday I went to Schaumburg and shopped at Woodfield Mall.
2. I go to Schaumburg High School, and I run on the cross country team.
2. I go to Schaumburg High School, and I run on the cross country team.
by shapplemapple November 12, 2006
A Northwest suburb of Chicago. It has a population of approximately 75,000 and is on the 2007 list of top 10 places to live in the US. It is near Woodfield Mall, the mall with the most shopping space in the country. It is also host to a number of restaurants and a great deal of other businesses and stores. It includes housing from affordable to very high end with excellent school districts. Most high school students who live in Schaumburg go to Schaumburg HS in Schaumburg, Conant HS in Hoffman Estates (a neighboring town), or Hoffman Estates HS. Towns near Schaumburg include Hoffman Estates, Barrington (in all varieties from Barrington Hills to South Barrington), Invernes, Rolling Meadows, Palatine, and Hanover Park in addition to a few more. With decent traffic conditions Schaumburg is less than an hour drive from Chicago.
by Richard Feynman June 01, 2007
Schaumburg is quite possibly the best place to live in North West suburbia. Those who visit Schaumburg will find new development every where, including a beautiful and thriving Town Square, affordable to very upscale housing, and Woodfield Mall (need I say more?) Education opportunities in Schaumburg inlcude Blue Ribbon winning elementary schools, progressive junior middle schools, and high schools that achieve above state and national standards educationaly and compete with the best athletically. If it's arts and entertainment your looking for, Schaumburg is home to many community ensembles and theatre programs and hosts big name artists year round. The people of Schaumburg are modest, well rounded people who choose not to boast, but to let the strengths of the population and city speak for its self.
I'm going to Schaumburg this weekend on a business trip and I'm staying at a 4 star hotel, going out to eat at one of the many fine restaraunts, and finishing all of my holiday shopping. And I'm never going back to Libertyville.
by kbrajabroniehonie2 December 08, 2005
buy the domain for your travel blog
Possibly the worst place on earth. Identical to every other suburbia just like it. All the houses were built in the 60's or 70's, falling down, and excatly the same as the house next to it. The only people living in this wasteland are old people and middle aged narcs with their preppy sons and daughters. All the kids play soccer, ride in huge SUV's that are totally unneccicary because its not excatly like schaumburg is in the middle of no where, and go to identical schools because the town was to cheap to hire different archutects. it is soon to be the future slum of america just like every other clone suberb out there.
Schaumburg, Illinois has got to be the worst place on earth. They should tear it down.
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MySpace wins lawsuit against Spamford Wallace
Serial nuisance fails to defend case
MySpace has won a lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford (Spamford) Wallace. The social networking website gained a default judgment against Wallace after he failed to turn over documents or appear in court, CNet reports.
Wallace was sued in March 2007 over allegations he orchestrated a phishing scam designed to harvest MySpace login credentials. He was further accused of spamming messages to MySpace users designed to tempt them into visiting porn- and gambling-related websites. The scam began in late 2006 and netted at least $555,850, according to court papers from the US District Court in the Central District of California.
In May 2006, Wallace and his firm Smartbot.net were ordered by a federal court to pay fines of $4m over a spyware-related scam prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission. As previously reported, FTC lawyers have asked a federal judge overseeing this settlement to find Wallace and his cohorts in contempt for violating the terms of the settlement agreement. Whether the MySpace settlement will strengthen their hand remains unclear, but attempts to force spammers and black hat crackers like Wallace to turn over their ill-gotten gains are notoriously difficult. ®


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Everything Old Is New Again... Including Some Of The Exact Same Startups
from the bubble-redux dept
Today we have what appears to be a first -- which is a company presenting itself as being "new" with a "new" idea, where it looks like both the company and the idea are actually somewhat old. The company, Ether.com, announced its product today to great fanfare on various blogs. The idea is pretty straightforward. You can set up a price at which people can call you. So, if you're an expert in something, you could, conceivably let people call you to pick your brain for a set price for a set time period. Does this sound familiar? Well, it certainly sounds like a web-based version of 1-900 numbers. And, if that sounds familiar, you may recall that greatly overhyped Keen.com hit the scene in late 1999 offering what sounds to be... um... the exact same thing (with over $70 million in funding): anyone could set themselves up as an expert to be called for a fee. It didn't take long before Keen basically became an alternative to the 1-900 system, and rather than "experts" selling their time (as the company pitched when it launched) many of its customers were in the phone sex and psychic hotline business. Okay, so Ether.com is following the same original Keen business model... except the relationship is even closer than that. Ether is Keen. They're both a part of Ingenio, mostly known now for it's pay-per-call advertising service. Emails sent to Techdirt asking for a briefing even came from the keen.com domain. It's just that they've relaunched the old business model with a few minor tweaks, a new brand, and a story for bloggers. It sounds nice to bloggers, too, because who wouldn't want someone to pay them $50 to speak to them on the phone? The problem, though, is actually finding anyone willing to pay out that kind of money to talk to you -- which is why the original Keen plan switched to sex and psychics. So, is there anything actually different this time around that will make the old Keen business model work? And, we go back to our advice from Demo: Don't pretend what isn't new, is new. At least admit the background, especially if it's the same company, and clarify what's different this time around.


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by Elaine Viets My Dead-End Job mysteries are funny and traditional. My Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries are sweetly cozy. I loved writing both those series. But sometimes, a writer wants more than sweetness and light. I wanted to go back to the back to the dark side, where I started. My new series featuring… Read More


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(except for that rumored fan's choice assortment)
Quote from: Brian on October 16, 2006, 11:06 AM (except for that rumored fan's choice assortment)It's not rumored, have you seen the polls at RS?
They should just give him articulated legs, it would add more articulation & a better figure.
Finally. Is that the last "movie" clone to be made?
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 24, 2013) – The ETSU volleyball team looks to extend its home win streak to 11 straight matches Friday night when the Bucs host USC Upstate inside Brooks Gym. First-serve is set for 7 p.m.
The Bucs (15-7, 9-1 A-Sun) are coming off a four-set home win over Mercer Tuesday night, and the Blue and Gold have won 14 of their last 15 matches inside Brooks Gym.
- Despite dropping its first home set of the season, ETSU still managed to pull out a four-set win (27-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-17) over Mercer on Tuesday.
- Senior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) notched her third straight double-double after leading all players with 21 kills and added 12 digs. Junior Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) and sophomore Khadijah Wiley (Columbus, Ga.) combined to hit .364 in the match, while junior libero Katie Muey (Alexandria, Ind.) tallied a match-high 17 digs. Hardy ended with 13 kills (.321 attack percentage) and four blocks, and Wiley hit a match-best .438 (8-1-16) and had seven blocks.
- As a team, ETSU held Mercer to a .158 attack percentage (47-24-146), and the Bucs out-blocked the Bears, 12-11, marking the 18th time the Blue and Gold have out-blocked the opposition this season.
- The Spartans (3-17, 3-8 A-Sun) are coming off a sweep over Kennesaw State on Tuesday night and have split their last four matches.
- USC Upstate, who ranks ninth in the league in attack percentage (.140), hit a season-best .336 (47-10-110) against the Owls, while also holding Kennesaw State to a .078 clip (32-23-116).
- The Spartans lead the A-Sun in digs per set (15.85), while Kayla Eversgerd is sixth in kills (3.43), Morgan Page is sixth in digs (3.91) and Lexi Gober is ninth in assists per set (8.92).
- Since joining the A-Sun, ETSU is 8-3 all-time against the Spartans and the Bucs have won five of the last six matches.
- ETSU is 4-1 all-time against USC Upstate inside Brooks Gym, with the Blue and Gold sweeping the Spartans the last three meetings in Johnson City.
- Last month, the Blue and Gold swept USC Upstate in Spartanburg. Devine led all players with 22 kills and hit .463, while Hardy added 11 kills (.588 attack percentage) and seven blocks. Junior Ivey Rice (Johnson City, Tenn.) hit .600 (7-1-10) and totaled 13 digs. As a team, the Bucs hit .408 (50-10-98) and held the Spartans to a .083 percentage (27-18-109).
- Live stats for Friday's match will be provided through StatBroadcast, by visiting ETSUBucs.com. Live stats can also be accessed on your mobile devices and tablets by visiting BucsStats.com.
- Twitter updates can be accessed by following @ETSUVolleyball and @ETSUAthletics.
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- Meredith Hardy enters Friday's match needing just seven blocks to break the all-time Atlantic Sun record. Currently, Rachel Templin, who played at Campbell from 2003-06, holds the mark at 422 blocks.
- Hardy is also 157 kills shy of reaching the 1,000-kill club. In 87 career matches, the junior middle blocker has accumulated 843 kills, and Hardy is on pace to reach the prestigious club at the end of this 2013 season.
- Jamie Rutledge (Kingsport, Tenn.) is 100 assists shy of moving past Nani Emerson (2005-06) for fifth all-time in assists at ETSU. Rutledge has 2,444 assists in 75 career matches played.
- Megan Devine needs 43 digs to move into the top-five of ETSU leaders in digs. The reigning A-Sun Player of the Year has 1,345 career digs in 122 matches played.
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Suppose you are developing an application in MATLAB—an image processing program, for example, or financial data import/export. Testing has shown that the application gives the correct results, but the elapsed time for all or parts of the application seems too long. How do you make the application run faster?
First, you must figure out where the time is being spent and locate the parts of the application that take the most time. To do this, you can use the MATLAB Profiler, which automatically instruments your code and measures the frequency and relative elapsed time within and across functions (see the MATLAB User's Guide for guidelines on profiling for improved performance). To further analyze critical sections of these slower parts, you can create a simple test program and measure the absolute elapsed time of those sections.
Second, you must obtain a precise measurement of absolute elapsed time. MATLAB provides two sets of functions for measuring absolute elapsed time:
clock and
etime, and
tic and
toc. The
clock and
etime functions use dates to track elapsed time, and are useful if you need accuracy to only .01 second. Originally, the
tic and
toc functions relied on
clock for the time and had the same accuracy. This article describes the decoupling of
tic and
toc from
clock and the improvements that give
tic and
toc the highest accuracy and most predictable behavior.
What Makes a Good Instrumentation Tool?
A good instrumentation tool:
- Measures something useful
- Is easy to use
- Has low overhead
- Does not skew your results
- Does not interfere with scaling your problem
- Provides accurate results
What Is Time and How Is It Measured?
You expect time as measured on your computer to be uniform, in standard units like seconds, and accurate enough to be used to measure short computations. What limits the uniformity and accuracy of time measurement on your computer? To answer this question we must first understand what time is and how it is measured on a computer.
We perceive and witness time as a succession of transient nows. We attach a measurement to each now. By international agreement, the difference between two nows, or the elapsed time, is measured in seconds. The device that measures each now we call a clock. Real clocks depend on counting the repetition of a uniform and stable physical process, such as the swings of a pendulum, or the vibrations of a crystal, or the periods of the radiation from an excited atom. Each repetition is called a tick. The number of ticks per second, or the frequency, is measured in hertz.
The best clocks have a high frequency and very stable repetitions, or low drift. The current best clocks use the atomic frequency of radiation from an excited Cesium atom (~9.2*109 hertz), which has defined the second since 1967 and is the basis of International Atomic Time (TAI). Neither people nor computers use TAI time directly; they use local time or corrected Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is defined by international agreement based on the mean solar day with corrections. UTC time is corrected TAI time with constant second duration. All units larger than a second are variable. Leap seconds are added periodically to account for the slowing of the earth's rotation.
A computer system is constructed with its own internal clocks; the number and variety depend on your particular hardware. The hardware architecture probably includes several CPUs, or cores, all running at different speeds. Your operating system may run on your hardware or depend on hardware virtualization. Your operating system provides various time services that rely on access to hardware clocks. Some return values are synchronized with external clocks; others are not. For example, to return results in TAI Seconds requires synchronization with TAI sources. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) can be used to do this via the Internet, but maintaining consistently high accuracy is difficult because of server delay variability [1]. Special client/server software is required to smooth out the variability, and OS providers have not agreed on a solution. As a result, those internal clocks on your computer system can appear to have an effective frequency of only 102 hertz (10 milliseconds).
Measuring Elapsed Time Using
tic and
Wall clock time is the best way to measure elapsed time performance. It is simple to understand and, with careful use, can show consistent changes in performance on a particular hardware or software platform. Increasing the accuracy of the underlying clock enables meaningful measurements using shorter computations and opens up opportunities to assign a performance number to a computation using fewer trials. This can mean better-performing test suites.
Before R2006b, the MATLAB
tic and
toc functions were connected to
clock. Each
tic command would get the current time as a local time date vector generated by
clock and save it. The
toc command would call
clock again to get the current time and subtract it from the saved local time date vector to get the elapsed time.
Clock calls a time service using API provided by the operating system: the
GetLocalTime function on Microsoft Windows and the POSIX.1-2001 (IEEE Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments)
gettimeofday and
localtime functions on Linux and Mac OS.
clock values suffer from several problems. Special handling must be used at the daylight saving time boundaries. On Microsoft Windows, the UTC time service used by the
GetLocalTime function has known low accuracy and, under certain conditions, can give negative elapsed times between successive calls to the service. Because other applications of
clock, such as
date, did not require higher accuracy, we did not attempt to improve the limited accuracy and non-uniform behavior of
clock, but instead focused on improving
tic and
Creating More Accurate Time Values
Our goal was to create more accurate time values for each
tic using units as close as possible to standard seconds. We elected to stay with known interfaces, which compromised the requirement of keeping the units as standard seconds [2]. On Linux and Mac OS, we stopped converting to local time and used the
gettimeofday function directly. On Microsoft Windows, we opted for a pure local time service, using
QueryPerformanceCounter and
QueryPerformanceFrequency functions, with units in approximate standard Seconds.
With R2006b, the
tic and
toc functions started using these time services. The output from each service can be used to form a 64-bit counter value that is saved as a
tic value. When
toc is called, the service is called again, and a difference is formed with the last
tic value. That difference is divided by a frequency and returned as the elapsed time. The frequency used for
gettimeofday is 106 hertz. The frequency of the clock used by the
QueryPerformanceCounter function is returned by the
QueryPerformanceFrequency function.
Here is a simple way to see the resolution of
>> tic; toc Elapsed time is 0.000001 seconds. >>
By comparison,
etime returns 0, as its resolution is not fine enough to detect the very short time interval.
>> t =clock; etime(clock,t) ans = 0 >>
Accuracy issues such as the one caused by daylight saving time have been removed on all platforms. Handling leap seconds is still an issue on Linux and Mac OS, however. In addition, the counters underlying the services—for example, the counter in
gettimeofday—may be less than 64 bits wide. By 2038, the number of seconds since the Epoch (January 1, 1970) will exceed its capacity of 32 bits.
Hardware-Dependent Behavior
These time services can show hardware-dependent behavior. For example, on modern Intel architectures there is a timestamp counter (TSC) register on each CPU. This 64-bit register is incremented on each CPU cycle. We considered using a service to drive
tic and
toc using the RTSC instruction that reads the counter, giving very low overhead access to a clock with frequency in the gigahertz (109) range. Unfortunately, it failed as a general solution. The power management software on laptops often slows down a CPU to preserve battery usage and control chassis temperature. In addition, in multiple CPU configurations the TSC values on different processors may be different, and the RTSC instruction may not read the same processor at the
tic and the
toc steps, causing random results.
The time-service APIs hide the platform dependencies. For example, the
QueryPerformanceCounter function uses the best high-resolution counter configured by the operating system. This means that if the TSC cannot be used, it will use the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) clock, which has lower resolution. In rare cases, the operating system selected the wrong clock, and
tic and
toc appeared to be broken. Operating system configuration or processor driver patches can be applied to make
tic and
toc work correctly. MATLAB does not need to be fixed.
In summary, use
tic and
toc to measure elapsed time in MATLAB, because the functions have the highest accuracy and most predictable behavior. The basic syntax is
tic; … computation … toc
where the
tic and
toc lines are recognized by MATLAB for minimum overhead.
tic and
toc syntax was extended in R2008b to allow multiple nested
tic and
toc counters. Note that the new syntax that lets you save the counter from
tic and pass it to
toc, like
REPS = 1000; minTime = Inf; nsum = 10; tic; for i=1:REPS tstart = tic; sum = 0; for j=1:nsum, sum = sum + besselj(j,REPS); end telapsed = toc(tstart); minTime = min(telapsed,minTime); end averageTime = toc/REPS;
can result in extra overhead. This issue will be fixed in a future version of MATLAB.


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Article Summary: This article provides information about how to view Exchange 2010 Certificate properties through Exchange Management Console and PowerShell
In the console tree, click Server Configuration.
Select the server that contains the certificate, and then select the certificate you want to view.
From the action pane, click Open.
You can view information about the certificate on the General, Details, and Certification Path pages of the Exchange Certificate dialog box.
Using PowerShell you would use the following command to view the porpeties of the Certificate
Get-ExchangeCertificate 0271A7F1CA9AD8A27152CCAE044F968F068B14B8 | fl
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Buddha Previous Broadcasts
KQED World: Sat, Dec 16, 2017 -- 5:00 PM
Two and a half millennia ago, a new religion was born in northern India, generated from the ideas of a single man, the Buddha. He was a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a big, shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth. He said only that he was a human being who, in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, had found a kind of serenity that others could find too. Award-winning filmmaker David Grubin tells the story of the Buddha's life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. This documentary draws upon the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha's life in art rich in beauty and complexity. His biography is also tracked geographically across the sweeping landscapes of northern India. The testimony of contemporary Buddhists -- including Pulitzer prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- provides insight into the ancient narrative. To tell his story is to understand his teaching. And to understand his teaching is to gain new insight into what it is to be human.
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Milk & Cookies Playgroup with Julie Mudd
It's your social hour! You'll find camaraderie and understanding amidst your fellow sleep-deprived, diaper bag toting, spit-up splattered friends. Build your village and connect with the families in your community! Julie will answer questions, offer new tips and techniques, discuss developmental expectations, and a new topic of discussion every week. Do you need some tips with your breastfeeding relationship? Do you want to talk about baby wearing, returning to work and pumping, schedules or sleep routines? Let us not forget the laughs! As a CLC, sleep coach, CBE we can cover LOTS of stuff! Minimum of 8 participants please.