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WASHINGTON — Democrats are counting on New England to help them pick up Republican-held Senate seats on Nov. 6 and construct a barrier against losses in Nebraska and elsewhere that could erase their majority.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has stopped spending money in Maine, where former Governor Angus King, an independent, leads in the polls and is viewed as probable to side with Democrats if he wins.
In Massachusetts, Republican Senator Scott Brown faces a strong challenge from Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, as the state is poised to easily support President Obama over Mitt Romney.
Republican hopes of taking the seat in Connecticut are fading. Democratic Representative Chris Murphy has steadied his campaign against former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who spent $50 million on an unsuccessful bid in 2010 and $42.6 million and counting this year. McMahon's less-than-stellar debate performances and the state's Democratic tilt have undercut the Republican candidate's prospects.
''If New England could tip the Senate's balance to the Republicans, it would be fairly earth-shattering,'' said Rob Gray, a veteran GOP consultant in Massachusetts. ''The real question is whether these races will be close-but-no-cigar for Republicans.''
In Senate math, the loss of two seats in New England complicates the GOP calculation for majority control. Republicans would have to gain a net of six seats while holding suddenly uncertain Indiana, or a net of five seats if Romney wins the presidency. Democrats currently have the edge, 53 to 47, including two independents who caucus with the party.
There are 23 Democratic seats and 10 Republican seats on this year's ballots.
Republicans are optimistic they can make it add up and they point to fresh enthusiasm for Romney and the party ticket. After weeks of pure toss-ups, Republicans say North Dakota and Wisconsin are trending GOP though still close, Montana remains tight and the contest in Ohio has narrowed, due in large part to the roughly $20 million in negative ads against Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
In a late move, the Republicans invested $500,000 in Pennsylvania, where some polls show a tight race between first-term Senator Bob Casey and Tea Party-backed businessman Tom Smith, who has invested more than $16 million in his bid. The state has been considered safely Democratic for much of the year.
Republicans and Democrats expect Nebraska to switch to the GOP despite the candidacy of former Senator Bob Kerrey, and Virginia to stay close, with the outcome of the presidential election crucial to the final count.
That's not so in Florida. Romney has grabbed a slight lead in polls, but there are no signs that it has helped Republican Representative Connie Mack in his race to unseat a two-term Democrat, Senator Bill Nelson. In the most telling development, outside Republican groups bailed on the Senate race at the beginning of October and there is no indication they will resume spending in the closing days.
Privately, Republicans fret about Indiana, unsure about the political damage from Republican state treasurer Richard Mourdock's debate comment that pregnancy resulting from rape is ''something God intended.''


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April 19, 2013
TV Ad Campaign Urges Michigan Lawmakers to Protect Voting Rights and to Halt Effort to Repeal Dove Referendum
A new TV ad campaign airing throughout Michigan is urging state lawmakers to oppose legislation that would take away the rights of Michigan voters to have a say on any new hunting and trapping seasons of protected wildlife species, including mourning doves and wolves.
May 11, 2012
The HSUS Condemns Iowa Governor's Power Grab on Lead Shot Rule
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, issued a statement condemning Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's executive order to unilaterally repeal a Natural Resources Commission science-based rule to ban the use of toxic lead ammunition for dove hunting.
March 12, 2012
Animal Advocates Gather at Pennsylvania Capitol to Lobby for Animal Protection Legislation
Citizens from across Pennsylvania participating in Humane Lobby Day 2012, met with lawmakers at the Capitol on behalf of legislation to reduce animal suffering in the state. Top-priority measures would ban the private possession of exotic animals as pets, prohibit the use of carbon monoxide chambers to euthanize animals, and outlaw live pigeon shoots.
March 23, 2011
Statement on Iowa Legislature Passing Bill to Allow Mourning Dove Hunt
The HSUS expresses its disappointment that the Iowa Senate and House of Representatives have voted to allow the target shooting of mourning doves for the first time since 1918. This bill repeals nearly a century of dove protection policy in Iowa, yet lawmakers rushed it through the process without hardly a word of debate or a serious vetting of the issues.
March 21, 2011
Majority of Iowa Voters Oppose Dove Hunting by Two to One
A statewide survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. has revealed that a 54 percent of Iowa voters oppose opening a dove hunting season while only 25 percent support.
November 3, 2009
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May 28, 2009
Minn. Legislature Adjourns With Victories for Animals
The HSUS thanks Minnesota lawmakers for their work to protect animals in the 2009 legislative session.
May 14, 2009
The HSUS Urges RI Senate Committee to Protect Doves from Target Shooting
The HSUS thanks the R.I. Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee for hearing testimony in support of a bill to protect doves from target practice.
February 11, 2009
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Minnesotans will assemble at the state capitol Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass animal protection bills.

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The Broadway Theatre was operated and managed under Proctor Marsh Theatres. The theatre closed in the 1960's and was later used by Hunts Department Store. The balcony level was the children's department. The department store closed in the 1980's.
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This c1940 photo belies a cavernous interior inside Muskogee's Broadway Theatre;
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Shown on this web page is a 1904 architectural drawing for Muskogee Opera House (AKA-Broadway Theatre). During the construction faze the hotel portion had been redesigned into Hunt's Department Store,
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The school sketch opened as Washington Grammar School and burned to the ground in early 1950.
Here is a March 1921 ad from the Muskogee Times-Democrat:
Courtesy of ken mc, here is a 1921 newpaper ad for the Yale Theatre -
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To look at a 1922 picture of Proctor and Marsh standing in front of their Broadway Theatre go to this link and type in "joy boys"
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Street View was updated too far east. The address 211 is displayed on the lower building that is just past the end of the building with the concrete canopy over the sidewalk.
An article on Muskogee's theaters in the summer, 2000, edition of 3 Rivers Historian, published by the Three Rivers Museum, says that the Broadway Theatre was built in 1912 by Fred Turner, who hired George Procter to act as manager and Hugh Marsh to operate the projector. Procter and Marsh took a lease on the theater in 1923.
The article doesn't mention the Broadway ever having been called the Muskogee Opera House, in addition to saying that it was built in 1912. Neither can I find any references to the Muskogee Opera House on the Internet, other than those at Cinema Treasures. Perhaps the 1904 Opera House project was only a proposal that was never carried out.
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Several times in earth's history continents have collided to form supercontinents only to later break apart. Geologist Ross Mitchell discusses a new study in Nature that predicts in 50 to 200 million years time the Americas and Eurasia will collide to form a supercontinent over the Arctic.
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This passenger growth in July is due to the expansion of the Brussels Airlines intercontinental flight offer (to Africa and USA) following the introduction of a new destination (Washington) in June and the increase of frequencies on existing African destinations. Because of this substantial capacity growth on the long-haul network, the overall seat occupancy factor slightly decreased as expected in this start-up period. The seat occupancy factor on the European network increased with 2,4 percent points to a total of 78,8 percent.
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Ballantine nixes project after 'careful consideration'
(CNSNEWS) — Paula Deen's publisher has canceled a deal with her for multiple books, including an upcoming cookbook that was the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, following her admission she used a racial slur.
Ballantine Books announced Friday it would not release "Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up," which was scheduled for October and was the first of a five-book deal announced early last year. Interest in it had surged as Deen, who grew up in Albany, Ga., and specializes in Southern comfort food, came under increasing attack for acknowledging she had used the N-word.
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University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
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I actually had a feeling the Bengals would have a tough time with this game. They always seem to have issues with QBs who can run and OLs that use a cut blocking scheme. They had a couple opportunities to bust the game open early that they didn't take advantage of and it hurt them in the end.
I must say though. That pass to Chris Henry was a thing of beauty.
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This Bengals team is missing something. I know the defense is bad, but there's something else I can put my finger on that's lacking in this team.
And I'm officially tired of Chad Johnson. He needs to just shut and play or find somewhere else to play. He's talented, but he's not so talented that the Bengals would be in trouble without him. He was funny for a while, but his act has gotten tired with this fan. He's become a distraction and it's moved beyone clever to "me first". It wouldn't bother me a bit if he's shipped out after this season.
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And the Bengals should win that game at home...always. ATL is not that great of a team. Their D is sorry...talk about not adjusting on defense, shoot, we didn't even adjust on offense. It was indeed a poorly coached game.
What ever happened to Marvin being a defensive genius? Sure would like to see it.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
As for all the dogging of the defense, the coaches and the like, I must have been watching a totally different game. I am a diehard Bengals fan, but the Falcons are a dangerous team. The NFC South is really going to be a dogfight. The only valid criticism I have seen so far is the disappearance of Rudi after the first quarter. The D is what it is. They decided they would make Vick beat them with his arm, and gosh darn it if he didn't do exactly that.
The Bengals loss today will be worth it if the Stillers lose to the pitiful Raiders.
The only thing that would have made it better would have been if they hadn't beat the Cardinals last week.
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tr, What I saw was an inexistent pass rush giving Vick all day to throw the ball. A line that didn't create ANY holes. A defense that allowed Vick to go something 7-19 with over 100 yards on 3rd down. It didn't matter if it was 3rd and 16, they converted it. What I saw was the Bengals play pretty poorly at home today.
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
The two things that drove me crazy about this game was the Defense made no adjustments and the offense does their own thing there is no tam game plan.
They tried to flood the secondary and have Vick force it in somewhere, it didn't work so they shoud have started blitzing him and make him make quicker decisions.
The Offense always does their own thing. Today would have been a great day to pound Rudi(They didn't prove they could stop him) and keep Vick off the field. All Bob cares about if throwing the ball all over the place.
Why does Rudi come out of the game every third down??? We throw every third down. Third and 2... throw it, third and... three throw it, third and 12...run it.
No team plan that I saw or ever see.
If anyone is to blame for this game it is the entire defense for failing to execute. The Bengals scored a respectable 27 points. The D consistently gave up big plays that allowed the Falcons to control the tempo of the game.
I'll agree with you that I thing something is missing form this team on offense, but I point to Carson Palmer and the O-Line. I think that the combination of injuries on the OLine and Palmer's discomfort behind that line have lead to an offense that can still explode, but still seems to still be somewhat out of sync. Palmer's accuracy is somewhat off from last year. The OLine can't seem to pick up blitzes regularly. They forget that Rudi Johnson plays for them or else they mistake him for Chris Perry and ask him to make sideline sweeps rather than bust it up the middle where he excels.
As far as Chad Johnson goes, I think he did rather respectable for himself today. He had 6 rec. for 78 yds. and 1 TD. He also got an extra 15 yards and a first down for drawing that unsportsmanlike conduct penalty early in the game. I have no problem with that kind of production and I personally enjoy his light-hearted trash talk.
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Shock loss hair vs transplanted hair growth
I am just wondering whether any shock loss hair that is likely to come back after a HT, will it regrow the same rate as your transplanted hairs or both at the same time?
I am now at 9 weeks post HT and seems like I am seeing some regrowth of my existing hair shed, due to shock loss.
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The existing hair that is non DHT receptive recycles very similiar to the transplanted hair. Transplanted hair taken from various donor regions is considered to be terminal hair and non receptive to DHT as well. They both behave very similiar regarding their growth cycles. And I am referring to follicle behavior.
The exisitng hair within the recipient area or what we refer to at times as "native hair" is usually subject to DHT and therefore subject to the debilitating effects of DHT. These ill effects include a slower growth cycle, meaning, the follicles can be slower to return to the growth phase because as they fulfill each growth cycle, the hair comes back weaker, thinner in hair shaft diameter, and even begin to lose pigmentation. The future growh phases become slower and shorter in duration and eventually hair production shuts down altogethor.
This is why we often inform patients to give their respective procedures a full 12 months to evaluate. The 12 month post-op period provides enough time for both DHT receptive and non DHT receptive hair follicles to cycle back to their growth phase to where they are both providing visible coverage.
The new emerging growth is also intermittent so the follicles sprout up at various intervals, not all at the same time.
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Ive read that it's possible to permanently lose some native in the HT process if it was on the way out anyway. (Hair that might have stayed in for a few more years until the next natural cycle!). I've seen a lot of pics of guys with a thinner general area near transplanted hairs (that was looking more natural pre-HT). So in the end they have more hair in the front for instance, but right behind it the shockloss took some natural density away for good. ...or am I mistaken?
Maybe not for everyone but for some?
I generally tell my patients that if they have any shock loss of the original/native hair that some will be temporary and some will be permanant. The hairs that are very weak and unhealthy will likely be lost , but that healthier hair that fall out post operatively due to shock will grow back at the same time or sometimes a little sooner than the transplanted hairs. When they call me and say they think the transplanted hairs are already growing I explain the them that the hairs that are growing first are likely the shocked hairs.
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Possibly the transplanted follicles take a bit longer to show emerging new growth because they are getting established (healing) in a new environment of blood supply whereby existing native hair follicles are already established and connected to their blood supply.
Just a thought.
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I often wondered while my huge shockloss was growing back was the hair I'm seeing shockloss regrowing or ht hair but I never could tell. Check my blog in link below to see month by month shock to regrowth.
Update I'm now on 12200 Grafts, hair loss has been a thing of my past for years. Also I don't use minoxidil anymore I lost no hair coming off it. Reduced propecia to 1mg every other day.
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Jean-loup Gailly On gzip, go, And Mandrake 84
1) bzip2 Support
by Aaron M. Renn
When is gzip going to provide (transparent) support for bzip2 files and the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm?
Will BW be an algorithm option within the gzip file format itself ever?
I have worked very closely with Julian Seward, the author of bzip and bzip2. The goal was to integrate a Burrows-Wheeler algorithm inside zlib 2.0 (upon which gzip 2.0 is based). One of the requirements was to avoid the kind of arithmetic coding used in bzip because of both patent and decoding speed concerns, so Julian wrote the Huffman coding code now used in bzip2. Another requirement was to put the code in library form and Julian did that too.
Unfortunately, Julian decided to release bzip2 independently instead of staying within the gzip 2.0 project. It was mainly my fault, since I couldn't spend enough time on the other parts of the project, and the project was not advancing fast enough. Since Julian left, the project progressed even more slowly, and new blood is obviously necessary, because other responsibilities no longer leave me enough time for gzip. If you're an expert in data compression, e-mail me to convince me that you are the most qualified person to turn the zlib/gzip 2.0 project into an overwhelming success :-)
2) The Data Compression Book
by drudd
I am a happy owner of The Data Compression Book (2nd Ed). With the increasing availability of compression routines within libraries (Java's GZIP streams spring to mind), does this make your book a little unnecessary?
Should software authors continue to write their own compression routines, or simply trust the versions available to them in library form?
I can see some definite advantages to library code, i.e. the ability to upgrade routines, and having standardized algorithms which can be read by any program which utilizes the library.
The compression routines in The Data Compression Book were written mainly for clarity, not for efficiency. The source code is present to help understand how the compression algorithms work. It is not designed to be used as is in other software packages, although it does work if efficiency is not a concern. Consider the book as teaching material, not as a data compression library distributed in printed form.
This doesn't mean that the book is unnecessary. Good data compression libraries don't appear magically; their authors had to learn compression techniques one day. If the book helps one person to get started in the data compression area and this person later writes a great compression library, the book will have been useful.
Judging by the success of my zlib data compression library, I think that a vast majority of software authors prefer using an existing library rather than reinventing the wheel. This is how the open-source model works: building upon the work of others is far more efficient than rewriting everything.
3) Compression patents
by Stephen
The compression world has many patents, notably for Lempel-Ziv compression as used in GIF. What is your view on companies patenting non-obvious algorithms for such processes as data compression?
The worst problem is companies patenting obvious algorithms. There are far more patents on obvious ideas than patents on really innovative ideas. In the data compression area, even something as basic as run-length encoding (replace "aaaaa" with a special code indicating repeat "a" 5 times) has been patented at a time where this technique had been well known and widely used for many years.
It is distressing to see the U.S. patent office granting such patents, in contradiction with the law requiring an idea to be both novel and non-obvious to be patentable. Philip Karn has made a good analysis of the problem.
Patents on non-obvious algorithms are a different matter. One view is that algorithms should not be patentable at all, whether obvious or not. This used to be the case, until the US patent office started to grant patents on methods which were nothing else than pure algorithms. I'm afraid that a switch back to the original situation is extremely unlikely.
Several reforms are necessary:
- The patent term should be significantly shortened, at least for algorithms. The patent system was designed to benefit society as a whole, ensuring that new ideas would eventually be made public after a limited period of time instead of being kept as trade secrets. But 20 years is incredibly long in the software area. Granting a monopoly for such a long time no longer benefits society.
- The non-obviousness requirement should be applied much more strictly. A little bit of common sense would avoid a lot of patents on trivial ideas.
- Prior art should be checked more thoroughly. Even non-obvious ideas should not be patented if they have been in use for several years already.
4) A question about Mandrake...
by Mr. Penguin
As we all know, at first Mandrake was little more than a repackaged version of Red Hat. That's changed a bit with the newer versions. My question is this: to what degree will Mandrake continue to differ from RedHat and will there ever be a "developer" version (i.e. one that is centered towards those who are a bit more technically competant)?
That's changed more than a bit. Our distribution is now completely made by us. Believe me, doing everything ourselves represents a significant amount of work. Few people understand how much work is involved in making an independent distribution. We have our own development teams producing things like our graphical install DrakX, our disk partionner DiskDrake, management of security levels in msec, hardware detection with Lothar, etc... Our packages are more recent than those of Red Hat and have more functionality (such as supermount support in the kernel). Red Hat is now even copying packages made by MandrakeSoft (e.g. rpmlint). I hate having to speak like a salesman here, but it is really unfair to say that Mandrake just repackages RedHat; this is simply not true anymore.
Have you looked at Linux-Mandrake 7.0? It does include a developer version. At install time, select the option "Custom" then "Development". You will get all necessary development tools. We, as developers, use our own distribution :-)
5)Why is Mandrake better than Red Hat?
I guess that you have at least a little something to say about this.
Is the 586 optimization enough to justify Mandrake's position? Are you especially proud of any of the architectural differences between the distributions (from what I have been told, the Apache-PHP layout is quite a bit different).
How do feel about the steps that Red Hat has taken to change their distribution in reaction to yours?
Mandrake is far more than Red Hat plus 586 optimization. It is an independent distribution. (See the answer to A question about Mandrake above.) We have enhanced some packages (such as the kernel or Apache) to provide additional functionality for users.
It's clear that Mandrake pushes Red Hat to improve its own version and nowdays Red Hat includes some development from Mandrakesoft. There is a coopetition: Red Hat and MandrakeSoft both benefit from the same open-source community, but they compete for the customer. This coopetition is fully beneficial for the Linux users since we both need to constantly improve our version. We just make sure that Mandrake stays ahead :-)
by Uruk
I noticed that you allowed the people who make the Winzip product to incorporate code written for Gzip. I think it's cool that you did that, because it would be horrible if winzip couldn't handle the gzip format, but at the same time, what are your thoughts about allowing free software code to be included in closed-source products?
Just out of curiosity, (tell me it's none of my business if you want to and I'll be OK with that) did you receive a licensure fee from the company that makes Winzip for the code?
I started writing compression code simply because my 20 MB hard disk, the biggest size one could get at the time, was always full. I didn't write it for money. Even after I got a bigger hard disk, I continued writing compression code for fun. In particular I was not interested in writing a Windows interface. This is why I allowed my code to be used in Winzip. I received exactly 0$ for this.
The zlib license also allows it to be used in closed-source products. This was an absolute requirement for the success of the PNG image format, which relies on zlib for data compression. If we had used a GPL license, Netscape and Microsoft Explorer wouldn't support PNG, and the PNG format would be dead by now. I also received 0$ for zlib, if you're curious...
Even though I allowed my code to be used in closed-source products, I am a strong supporter of the open-source model. That's also why I work for MandrakeSoft. The open-source model is getting so much momentum that it will in the end dominate the software industry.
7) What about wavelets? by Tom Womack
The Data Compression Book was an excellent reference when it came out, but there are some hot topics in compression that it doesn't cover - frequency-domain lossy audio techniques (MP3), video techniques (MPEG2 and especially MPEG4), wavelets (Sorenson video uses these, I believe, and JPEG2000 will), and the Burrows-Wheeler transform from bzip.
Do you have any plans for a new edition of the book, or good Web references for these techniques? BZip is covered well by a Digital research note, but documentation for MPEG2 seems only to exist as source code and I can't find anything concrete about using wavelets for compression. The data is all there on the comp.compression FAQ, but the excellent exposition of the book is sorely lacking.
These are all very worthy topics, and Mark Nelson and I would like to incorporate them into a new version of the book someday. However, the decision to produce a new version is taken by the publisher, not us.
Note also that these are all very big topics, and it would be quite easy to write an entire book on each one. I don't think they will fit well in a chapter or two. Covering JPEG in one chapter was difficult, and Mark Nelson has been criticized for not describing the specifics of the standard algorithm.
You can find some Web references here and there, in addition to the comp.compression FAQ.
8) Compression software
by jd
It is a "truism" in the Free Software community that code should be released early and released often.
However, much of the software you've written has started gathering a few grey hairs. Gzip, for example, has been at 1.2.4 for many, many moons, and looks about ready to collect it's gold watch.
Is compression software in a category that inherently plateus quickly, so that significant further work simply isn't possible? Or is there some other reason, such as Real Life(tm) intruding and preventing any substantial development?
(I noticed, for example, a patch for >4Gb files for gzip, which could have been rolled into the master sources to make a 1.2.5. This hasn't happened.)
I knew this question would come when I accepted a Slashdot interview. But I had to face it :-(
In short, you are completely right. While working on gzip 2.0, I continued to maintain gzip 1.x, accumulating small patches, and answering a lot of e-mail. But I was hoping to be able to release gzip 2.0 directly, without having to make an intermediate 1.x release. See my answer to the question bzip2 support concerning the state of gzip 2.0 and the Real Life interference. I'd be glad to hand over all my patches for 1.2.4 to the person who can help me getting the gzip 2.0 project to full speed.
9) Proprietary algorithms
by Tom Womack
The field of compression has been thronged with patents for a long time - but patents at least reveal the algorithm.
What do you think of the expansion of trade-secret algorithms (MP3 quantisation tables, Sorensen, RealAudio and RealVideo, Microsoft Streaming Media) where the format of the data stream is not documented anywhere?
The hardware specifications for some video cards were kept as trade secrets. As a result, the XFree86 project couldn't support these cards. Increasing pressure from users who didn't buy those cards because they couldn't be supported has led the manufacturers to release the hardware specifications, and those cards are now well supported.
Similarly, I think that pressure from the open-source community can become strong enough to force companies to open their formats. We're not completely there yet, but I believe that the open-source model will win in the end. Even a giant like Microsoft starts considering Linux as a real threat.
10) Go and Compression
by Inquisiter
When I think of a game like go or chess, I think that each player develops there own algorithm to beat their opponent. If you agree, what relationships or similarities do you see between your intrest in Go and your intrest in compression?
What a nice question!
Even though the rules of go are very simple, the complexity of go is astonishing. The best go programs can be beaten by a human beginner. The search space in go is so large that is impossible to apply the techniques that are so successful in chess. Professional go players never evaluate all possible moves. They are able to compress an enormous amount of information into a relatively small number of concepts.
Where a human beginner would have to painfully examine many possibilities to realize that a certain group is doomed, and would most likely fail in the process, a go expert can immediately recognize certain shapes and can very quickly determine the status of a group. One gets stronger at the game by reaching higher levels of abstraction, which are in effect better compression ratios. A professional go player can elaborate concepts that an average player would have great difficulties to understand.
Current go programs are overwhelmed by the amount of information present in a game of go. They are unable to understand what is really going on. Since brute force techniques can't work in go, programs will only improve by compressing the available information down to a manageable level.


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Morrigan is one of the most mysterious characters to grace the Dragon Age universe. The seductive mage keeps everyone guessing about her true intentions, and knows more than she lets on. If the cheers following her appearance in Dragon Age: Inquisition's E3 trailer are any indication, fans are glad to have her back. With so many questions lingering, including Morrigan's whereabouts since performing the dark ritual to conceive a child, Inquisition is her chance to return to glory. Not only do we catch you on to speed on Morrigan, but we also sat down with BioWare to discuss the creation of one of the most-discussed Dragon Age characters and her role in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
How Morrigan Came To Be
Lead writer David Gaider's initial vision for Morrigan was vastly different from the defiant and vociferous woman he presented in Dragon Age: Origins. Strangely enough, Gaider first wrote Morrigan much like her nemesis: Flemeth, the woman who raised her. "Remember meeting Flemeth and she's talking in circles and kind of out there? I had Morrigan kind of the same way," says lead writer David Gaider. "She would never give you anything straight."
Gaider wanted players to wonder what she was talking about every time she opened her mouth, but soon decided with the team that the whimsical Morrigan just wasn't working. Gaider had to completely rewrite her, and he liked the idea of having a character speak obtusely, so he came up with a compromise. "I decided rather than make her like Flemeth, [I'd] make her a teenage girl who just resents her mother. [She's] completely blunt because she doesn't like that her mother talks in circles," Gaider says.
With one hurdle for Morrigan overcome, the team was on to the next: Finding the perfect voice. BioWare considers this one of the most critical elements to a character. "Morrigan took forever to cast," Gaider says. At one point BioWare settled on a different voice actress, but like Morrigan's initial conception, decided she just wasn't working for what they envisioned. But then Claudia Black (the actress who portrays Aeryn Sun in Farscape) came along in an unexpected way. "She did not actually audition for Morrigan," Gaider says. Instead, Black sent in a recording she had done to let BioWare know she'd be interested in future projects. "We listened to it and were like, 'that would be perfect.' And of course I watched Farscape, so that was just great," Gaider recalls.
Even with time away, Black came back for Inquisition's trailer and delivered exactly what BioWare needed. "She falls right into that space again and she just has that whiskey voice that works so well," Gaider says. "Every now and then you get a voice actor who just hits it out of the park the first time and makes what you wrote better," Gaider adds.
The Morrigan We Know
Fans quickly became captivated by Morrigan's mystique and sharp tongue, especially in her banter with fellow party member Alistair. Part of what makes Morrigan tick is her backstory and position within the Dragon Age world. Magic is feared in Thedas, and as a way to have keep their power in check, all mages are required to enroll in the Circle of Magi. Unsurprisingly, Morrigan refuses to comply, making her an apostate – a rogue mage – isolated from civilization. Morrigan's upbringing is drastically different than most characters you encounter in Dragon Age, and she clearly hasn't had many interactions or relationships with others because of it.
Most noticeably, Morrigan has a strained relationship with Flemeth, but Morrigan is unsure if the witch is actually her mother. When your caretaker is a legendary shapeshifting witch who is rumored to kill men through fear alone, it's hard not to pick up on her tactics and resent her power. Whether Morrigan or Flemeth can be trusted is a lingering question, as they always seem to have ulterior motives.
Morrigan's cryptic personality has worked well for the story and something Gaider deliberately wanted. "I had Morrigan talk a lot about herself in Dragon Age: Origins, and considering how [Origins] ended, players walked away thinking, 'how much of that is true?'" Gaider says. "You'd be foolish to recognize [her enigmatic qualities] and then not have her take advantage of it, right? She knows the power that she has..."
Morrigan presents players with a big choice before the final battle against the Archdemon in Origins. She claims that a certain dark ritual would allow her to conceive a child and save a Grey Warden from having to make a grave sacrifice. She explains that the essence of the Archdemon, once it is slain, will go into the unborn child. Morrigan believes the child will then have the soul of an Old God. Male players are given the option of conceiving a child with Morrigan themselves, but even if they refuse, the other Grey Wardens of the world may not have the same resolve. After the final battle, Morrigan leaves and the child's fate is unknown.
Morrigan's departure to continue her mission was something Gaider felt strongly about. "From my perspective, making a strong female character is about having her have her own agenda," Gaider says. "The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny."
Up next: Morrigan's place in Dragon Age: Inquisition....
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Oh, and to the PPs, I think she said that they are looking for a house that is halfway *between* NorthernCity and SouthernCity, not in SouthernCity. So they're presumably selling the house in SouthernCity to pay for it. (Maybe we should dub the city the new house will be in Midway or something to avoid confusion?)
I think there's a lot of jumping the gun here. You might buy a house if it's still on the market in 2 months? That seems like a pretty slim chance of buying a place...so I'm not sure why you needed to worry Rien and Mark about it just yet.
I might send her a PM asking her if she really wnated to leave people with the impression that you had done them a disservice when they had enjoyed place to live that only cost them utilities.
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Top dog: Husky mascot travels to two Final Fours
Maybe it's compensating for something, but for a little state, Connecticut tends to do things big.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce 2008 analysis, Connecticut has the highest per capita personal income in the nation. Growing up in Connecticut, I've heard all the knocks: You know you're from Connecticut if your family has more cars than legal drivers … if you own a polo shirt for every day of the week … if your family flies a UConn flag and has two UConn bumper stickers.
In keeping with its tradition of excess, Connecticut basketball made profits of more than $6 million in 2008, and this season it is sending two basketball teams to Final Fours.
Which led my Connecticut-educated brain to wonder, if the men's and women's hoop teams are both dancing to a title, how does the Huskies' mascot manage his time? After all, if you grew up in Connecticut, you surely know that UConn's hallowed husky mascot's name is Jonathan (and you were devastated when you heard the news that a ruptured-spleen mishap ended the days of "The Husky Slide" across the Civic Center floor).
We called up the athletic department in Storrs in hopes of getting a peek under the hood of Jonathan's head, but alas, it is strict policy of the athletic department to "keep the mystique of the husky." That's why, said UConn spokesman Mike Enright, the student mascots aren't allowed to talk to the media.
Fair enough, but the questions still remained: How does the Husky do it? Like St. Nick making the magical rounds, I envisioned a sled dog in the sky cruising from Detroit to St. Louis. I just had to know. Luckily, UConn cheer coach Neal Kearny was willing to provide some how-tos of Jonathan, even while guarding the who's who.
OK, how does the Husky do it?
Kearny: Actually, there are seven individual husky dogs at the university. There's one for men's basketball, women's basketball, football, soccer, volleyball …
So you have one mascot for the men's team and one for the women's team?
Yes, we have to. We have two totally separate cheer teams, too. The blue team and the white team, and they each have their own husky mascot.
Is it hard to find seven worthy husky dogs -- er, student mascots each year?
It's hard to narrow them down. I had over 60 kids try out this year.
What's the tryout like to be the UConn husky?
We have them put on the suit, see how they look in it. Then we have them show us happy, show me sad, that kind of stuff. We give them scenarios, much like an acting tryout for a part -- we are down by two, we launch a 3-pointer at the buzzer and it goes in, what's your reaction? Or, show me your reaction to a crying kid.
How do you select the top dog for the big games?
Performance through the year and interaction with fans at games determines that, plus their class year. The best mascot can choose if they want to go with the men's team or the women's team. This year, he opted to go with the women.
No wonder they're undefeated -- they have the very best sixth man. Does the mascot travel with the team or are they left to shop Priceline with a mysterious fuzzy carry-on?
No, they fly chartered flights with the team and their dry-cleaned suit.
How much does a husky suit cost, anyway?
About $2,500 per suit.
You've been the coach for 22 years. How many Husky suits have you seen come and go?
Um, they last about 2 or 3 years. We get a new one almost every year, and the old ones are rotated.
Expensive threads, someone to pick up your dry cleaning, chartered flights -- the husky dogs have it pretty good.
Yeah, and one of their favorite perks is that they're outfitted by Nike, too. Just like the rest of the team.
OK, just give me something to go on about these Final Four-bound mystery mascots. What are they like? Are they athletes? Gymnasts? Just dog lovers?
Well, our mascots don't do too much stunting with the cheer team, they're only hoisted up in pyramids, so the kids are more actors than gymnasts. One of the husky mascots is a puppetry major, and two actually work at Six Flags as costumed characters, so they really have a sense of animation. One husky is an actuary science major, one's a biology major and I have a psychology major, too. So there's a lot inside all those suits. But we like to keep it that way.
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Barr Ks 12, Bears' season ended by Rams
After trying to survive over an hour rain delay and 12 strikeouts, the Bunker Hill baseball team's season is over.
The Bears lost to Starmount at home on Friday. The Bears finished with a 26-2 record.
Impressive in victory was Starmount pitcher Alex Barr, who struck out 12 batters and allowed four hits in six innings pitched.
The Rams (17-8) went up 2-0 in the top of the second inning. After third basemen Tanner Mathis reached base on a two-out single, catcher Jake Barr hit a two-run homer off of Bears' pitcher Jeremy Null.
The Rams added two more runs in the second and third innings. Alex Barr scored on a sacrifice RBI from left fielder Connor Vanhoy in the second inning.
The fourth run of the game for the Rams was scored in the top of the third. After reaching base on a leadoff walk, center fielder Eugene Billips was plated by designated hitter Wesley Cockerham.
After an hour and a half rain delay, the game resumed at 9:41 p.m.
Starmount added four runs in the fourth inning, as Billips, Cockerham, Dillon Dobson and Jake Barr scored.
The Bears struggled from the plate all game long. Through four innings, Bunker Hill's lone hit came from Null. He doubled in the fourth inning.
Every batter in the Bears' lineup had at least one strikeout in the game, and Jake Barr had at least two strikeouts in each of the first five innings.
Bunker Hill rallied in the seventh inning with three runs off of Jake Barr.
However, reliever Dillon Bray came in to close out the game and earned a game clinching strikeout of the final Bears' batter.


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Dam project completion date pushed back to 2019
JONES TWP. – The completion date to the extensive East Branch Dam repair project has been pushed back to 2019, two years later than originally anticipated. The $280 million project entails constructing a full-length, full-depth concrete cutoff wall through the dam to reduce risk and restore the dam to normal operation. On Wednesday morning representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District reported the delay during an East Branch Dam Safety Project Stakeholders meeting.According to Mike Rattay, East Branch Dam project manager, the Corps is "not quite there" in the review process of cutoff wall proposals."This process has taken longer than anticipated," Rattay said.


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Danielson Superior Court Judge Michael Riley today sentenced Carmen Rentas, 22, to ten years in prison, suspended after four, with five years of probation on one count of first-degree arson.
A Willimantic woman will serve four years in prison for setting her North Windham apartment complex on fire in 2011, displacing more than a dozen residents and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Danielson Superior Court Judge Michael Riley today sentenced Carmen Rentas, 22, to ten years in prison, suspended after four, with five years of probation on one count of first-degree arson.
"This could have been a crime of appalling dimensions," Riley said, as Rentas sobbed and shook. "It's amazing there were no injuries."
On the morning of November 7, 2011, emergency crews responded to a fire at the Windham Heights subsidized housing complex on Jeffrey Road, a blaze Rentas admitted setting, said Assistant State's Attorney Andrew Slitt.
"She told police she used a lighter to light the curtains on fire while holding her child, with the intent of burning her apartment," said Slitt, who asked Rentas be given a 20-year sentence, suspended after five. "She then called 911 on the pretense that the fire was an accident."
Slitt said Rentas ignited the fire in response to eviction proceeds. He said Rentas also told authorities she "dreamed" of setting the fire on three occasions.
The fire caused $257,786 in damages, $25,000 of which was not covered by insurance. Sixteen residents of the fully occupied apartment building were displaced, Slitt said.
During the sentencing, Rentas' mother, who heard the proceeding with the aid of an interpreter, cried and sobbed.
Matthew Davis, Rentas' public defender, said his client, who has no prior criminal convictions, suffered from a host of psychological issues, including post-partum depression, post traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.
"This was an impulsive, immature decision," Davis said. "There was no premeditation here. The flick of that lighter was a cry for help, not a threat."
He argued for a fully suspended sentence for Rentas, or one that substituted home confinement to prison, recommendations Riley rejected.
"She needs to be called into account for her actions," Riley said. "There is no sense of responsibility, to endanger that many people."


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When John Madden was an NFL color analyst, he frequently used to say that winning was a great deodorant.
The former Oakland Raiders coach meant that sometimes when teams won games, the victories at least temporarily masked their deficiencies.
So we have the case of the 2012 New York Jets. Their unimpressive 7-6 victory Sunday over the Arizona Cardinals raised their record to a less-than-mediocre 5-7, yet kept alive their fledgling playoff hopes.
After months of speculation that a controversy between Mark Sanchez and first- year Jets' quarterback Tim Tebow would materialize, it never did. However, an ineffective Sanchez was pulled in the third quarter against the Cardinals in favor of Greg McElroy, who led the Jets on their game-winning drive.
The uncertainty at quarterback (head coach Rex Ryan declined Monday to name a starter for this Sunday's contest at Jacksonville) makes the Jets look like anything but a contender, however it's not as far-fetched as it may seem at first glance.
Considering that the Jets' final four opponents (Jacksonville, Tennessee, San Diego and Buffalo) all have losing records, it's possible for New York to remain in contention until the final day of the season.
While qualifying for the postseason should generally be the goal of all NFL teams, arguably the worst thing that can happen to the Jets' organization would be a five-game winning streak to close the regular season.
Sure, the 9-7 record would be a one-game improvement over last season. Yes, it would give the Jets a shot at gaining the No. 6 seed into the AFC playoffs. What it would mostly do, however, is provide a temporary application of deodorant that could end up canceling - or at least delaying - the rebuilding process the Jets sorely need to begin.
It wasn't all that long ago that the Jets appeared on the verge of a Super Bowl. They made back-to-back AFC Championship Game appearances in the 2009 and 2010 seasons, even doing so with a 9-7 record in 2009.
So, why can't the Jets make similar magic happen with another 9-7 finish this year? It's simple: They just aren't as good a team as they were back then. They've yet to win two consecutive games.
Much of the lineup is the same, but aging linebackers Calvin Pace, Bart Scott and Bryan Thomas have lost a step or two. A season-ending injury to all-world cornerback Darrelle Revis has prevented the Jets' defense from gambling with the kinds of blitzes Ryan and defensive coordinator Mike Pettine routinely dialed up in previous seasons. The result has been a virtually non-existent pass rush.
New York still prefers the kind of Ground and Pound attack it featured in 2009 and 2010, but the '09 team had a dependable veteran running back in Thomas Jones. The '10 squad had a solid replacement for Jones in LaDainian Tomlinson.
When Tomlinson retired after last season, he was not adequately replaced. Neither was elite blocking fullback Tony Richardson, whose retirement prior to the 2011 season left a leadership void, as well.
New York's offensive line play, despite the presence of Pro Bowl fixtures Nick Mangold and D'Brickashaw Ferguson, has deteriorated. The retirement of right tackle Damien Woody has turned that position into a turnstile. Former second- round draft pick Vladimir Ducasse has been more of a project than expected, unable to crack the starting lineup in three seasons.
Sanchez, the oft-criticized quarterback, was at his best in the playoffs during his first two seasons, winning four postseason road games and playing effectively in two AFC title game losses.
The perception is that Sanchez has regressed substantially since then. Two things for certain are that his protection has worsened and his receivers are less polished. Still, the erratic Sanchez hasn't taken the kind of step forward that the franchise had expected, and he hasn't shown the ability to make players around him better. Now he might even lose his job to McElroy, a former seventh-round draft pick.
Compared to the Jets' playoff teams in 2009 and 2010, this Jets team is inferior in every phase. In fact, the 2012 Jets rank near the bottom of the NFL in passing offense, total offense, rushing defense and pass rush.
A wild-card berth into the playoffs would put the Jets on the road for a first- round game against an AFC divisional champion (New England, Baltimore, Houston or Denver). What are New York's chances of beating any of those teams?
Here's a hint: The Jets are 1-6 against teams that are currently .500 or better. They've been outscored 179-114 in those games. Take away a 35-9 win over Indianapolis, and the Jets have been outscored 170-79 in the six losses to contending teams. Three of the defeats - the ones to San Francisco, Seattle and the home loss to New England - have been by a combined 85 points.
Rather than staying the course and being a fringe contender, the Jets would benefit from a makeover. They have some good things to build around. If Revis returns to form from his torn ACL next season, he will combine with Antonio Cromartie to give the Jets' the top cornerback tandem in the league.
Also, recent drafts have given New York potentially solid defensive linemen like Muhammad Wilkerson, Quinton Coples and Kendrick Ellis. Mangold and Ferguson could still be excellent building blocks for the offensive line. If he returns from a foot injury that has sidelined him most of this year, Santonio Holmes will again give the Jets a legitimate playmaker at wide receiver.
Inside linebacker David Harris isn't worth the $10.9 million salary the Jets would owe him next season, but he's a solid player. Demario Davis, a third- round draft pick this year, will be the heir apparent to Scott at the other inside linebacker spot.
However, the Jets are in desperate need of a pass rushing outside linebacker, with Pace and Thomas likely on their way out. They could also use youth at safety, and they clearly need playmakers and offensive line reinforcements.
Since Sanchez is guaranteed $8.25 million next year, he will almost surely be back. Still, it would behoove the Jets to look for his successor. If a legitimate competitor for Sanchez's job (and, no, that doesn't mean McElroy or Tebow) pushes him to finally reach his potential, then it's a win-win for the Jets. It would be foolishly optimistic, however, to ignore the position this offseason and just hope that Sanchez figures it out.
With so many holes to fill, the best-case scenario for the Jets' long-term success would be a high draft pick in April. Georgia's Jarvis Jones looks like he'd be the perfect replacement for Pace, but Jones is probably going to come off the board in the top three picks. The Jets won't be drafting that high.
If the Jets run the table and sneak into the playoffs as the No. 6 seed, needed rebuilding will be put on hold. Worse yet, the "deodorant" might falsely give the Jets' front office the idea that they are still a win-now team that just needs a couple of roster tweaks to finally experience its Super Bowl dreams.
If New York somehow sneaks into the playoffs, it would draft no higher than No. 21.
Realistically, the Jets' biggest obstacle to reaching the playoffs will be their need to run the table. Even though none of their final four games are daunting, the Jets' mistake-prone, inconsistent play makes it difficult to envision them finishing the regular season with a five-game winning streak.
However, let's say that they do win out and end up 9-7. In that scenario, their projected win over Buffalo would guarantee the Bills at least eight losses.
The Miami Dolphins are 5-7, but they have road games against San Francisco and New England on their remaining schedule. At least eight losses are likely.
The Cincinnati Bengals are 7-5. If they lose their final two games (at Pittsburgh and home against Baltimore), that would give the Jets a tiebreaker edge over them on the basis of better conference record.
The Indianapolis Colts are in the driver's seat for a wild card at 8-4. Still, they have both meetings with Houston still on the schedule. If the Colts end up 9-7 -- which would require an additional loss to either Tennessee or Kansas City -- the Jets would beat them in a tiebreaker by virtue of a head-to-head win.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are 7-5, with the return of Ben Roethlisberger still up in the air. Provided they finish at least 9-7, they'd win a tiebreaker over the Jets because of their head-to-head win in Week 2. Then again, New York could still make the playoffs along with Pittsburgh, provided the Jets go 9-7 and knock out Miami, Cincinnati and Indianapolis in the tiebreakers mapped out above.
Hey, if you're a Jets fan, you're in a quandary. Watching your team bounce back from a 4-7 record to get to the postseason would be a considerable achievement. It would be kind of interesting to see a team that has been this year's media whipping boy get the last laugh.
On the other hand, a Jets postseason run would figure to be a one-and-done situation. Worse yet, it could prevent the franchise from making the wholesale changes it needs to have a chance to become a legitimate championship contender in the future.
Jeff Saukaitis is a former Sports Network writer/editor who has been a professional sports writer since 1985.


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The rich are usually rich for a reason. So do annuities even get their attention when it comes maximizing their investment goals?
A recent industry consumer study showed that almost 7 out of 10 annuity buyers have a household income of less than $100,000 a year. Without getting into an argument of what the definition of "rich" is (I'll let our politicians do that!), it is obvious to an annuity critic like me that the annuity industry continues to target middle America. There are also some underlying reasons why wealthy investors have, for the most part, decided to stay away from most annuity offerings.
Here are the facts from a recent annuity ownership study of millionaire investors with $1 million to $5 million in investible assets. With a little over $200 billion of annuities sold in 2012, below are the % of annuities owned by this group:
- 22% of all variable annuities;
- 20% of all fixed annuities.
Surprisingly, people that have between $100,000 and $1 million in investible assets are even less likely to own annuities. They own:
- 15% of all variable annuities;
- 17% of all fixed annuities.
The study shows that the more complex and confusing an annuity is, the less likely a wealthy investor will buy. However, the local annuity lunch seminars or annuity internet-video ads use that same complexity to sell the annuity "dream" to the middle class. I always tell people that if you can't explain the product in detail to a total stranger or child, then you should not buy it. Unfortunately, common sense doesn't rule with the uninformed investor. The dream of "it sounds too good to be true" is the basis for way too many annuity sales.
Below are the primary reasons, in my opinion, that most wealthy investors aren't buying the current annuity sales pitch:
- Not willing to lock up their money in long term deferred annuities (which represent over 85% of all annuity sales);
- majority of products aren't easy to understand or transparent enough;
- built-in and hidden fees are too high.
The rich, like everybody, are interested in solving for longevity risk and transfer-of-risk strategies in general…and simplistic annuities could be a logical solution. From a non-annuity standpoint, the need for liquidity and not missing possible market growth opportunities are the primary reasons that most wealthy investors don't buy annuities. As I said in my recent article calling for annuity industry changes, the well-deserved negative stigma that annuities have earned could be turned to positive with some logical steps that I laid out.
There are some annuities that the rich currently use. I've listed them below and the reasons why these strategies are attractive to them:
Single-premium immediate annuities & longevity annuities
The original design is still the best design. Single-premium immediate annuities solve for income now, and longevity annuities (a.ka. enhanced deferred immediate annuities) solve for income later. These pure transfer- of-risk lifetime-income products are the most efficient way to combat outliving your money. These annuity structures are easy to understand, have ultralow fees and commissions, and can combat inflation with attachable cost-of-living increases built into the policy.
No-load variable annuities
This product solves for the top two concerns that the wealthy have concerning annuities: Opportunity cost and liquidity. Pure no-load annuities have full liquidity from day one, the upside potential of market growth, along with the power of tax deferral. Because they are no-load, you are never going to be informed about these great products by advisers because there are no commissions.
Charitable-gift annuities
This is the perfect hybrid annuity for the wealthy because it provides a lifetime income, a potentially large tax deduction, and a philanthropic aspect of helping a specific charity. This type of annuity allows you to structure the lifetime income to start immediately or at a specific time in the future.
A recent financial poll by Nationwide Financial showed that wealthy investors are increasingly open to learning more about annuities and other tax advantaged products. With politicians continuing the ongoing "evil rich, fair share" arguments, tax-deferred annuities will increase in popularity…but only if the annuity industry provides easy-to-understand and transparent solutions.
The annuity industry is constantly talking about the need to educate the public about the value of owning an annuity. Currently, I agree with them because over 85% of annuities sold are very complex variable annuities and indexed annuities with long surrender periods. Most of these annuities are so hard to understand that agents end up focusing on a few sizzle points in combination with the typical fear-and-greed, string-pulling sales pitch.
Wealthy investors are going to demand value, simplicity, and transparency before they seriously consider annuities as a viable addition to their portfolio. Hopefully carriers will start offering these simple solutions so that everyone can have access to more pro-customer annuities. It is going to happen. The sooner the better.


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Highlights from Win over Princeton
Harvard takes its unbeaten Ivy mark on the road for the last two games of the first round of Ivy play. The Crimson heads to Yale Friday night and Brown Saturday before back-to-back home weekends to close out February.
Last Time Out
Harvard won two Ivy tests on the weekend, including snapping Princeton's 22-game conference win streak Friday night. The Crimson held of Penn, 88-84, in double overtime Saturday to stay undefeated conference action.
Emma Markley has 21 points, six rebounds, four steals and two blocks in the winning effort. Brogan Berry (17), Victoria Lippert (16), and Christine Clark (13) all scored in double figures.
Harvard shot 50 percent for the game and lead 35-34 at the half. Penn won the battle of the boards, 40-34. Alyssa Baron had 38 points for the Quakers.
Home Sweet Home
The Crimson, which is 7-1 at home this season, posted a 12-1 record at Lavietes Pavilion in 2009-10, which was the best home record since going unbeaten in 1997-98.
Another Win in the Books
Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith picked up her 450th career coaching victory against Cornell Jan. 29. She is one of 36 active Division I coaches to have 450 wins under their belts.
Harvard and the Ivy League
Harvard is 232-152 all-time against its league foes. The Crimson hold the lead in all seven conference series with the closest series record coming against Dartmouth. Brown and Dartmouth have both won 31 games against the Crimson.
Strong Start
Harvard is off to its best start in league play since the 2002-03 season. The Crimson is 5-0 in Ancient Eight play.
Win Streak
The Crimson has seven wins in a row and is just one victory away from equaling last year's eight game win streak.
The Brown Series
Saturdays' game is the 71st meeting between Harvard and Brown. The Crimson has faced the Bears more than any other team in the league and leads the series, 39-31. Harvard has won eight straight against the Bears.
The Yale Series
Harvard leads the all-time series with the Bulldogs, 41-27, and has won four straight. The Crimson has won six of the last seven meetings.
Won't Happen Twice
The Crimson has not lost back-to-back regular season Ivy League games since the 2003-04 season.
On the Line
Christine Matera has started 47 games in a row for the Crimson. Brogan Berry has a streak of 62 straight games with at least one assist. She has one or more hand outs in 76 of the 77 games she has suited up for. Berry has 66 straight games with at least one point. Victoria Lippert has scored in 49 straight games.
Top-10 Lists
Emma Markley moved into 10th on the all-time rebounds list at Harvard after the Crimson's win over Columbia (Jan. 28). She has 589 rebounds to her credit. Markley is 10th in scoring with 1,178 career points.
Brogan Berry is sixth on the all-time assists list. She has 356 to her credit.
Welcome to the 80s
Harvard is 36-1 since 2004-05 when scoring 80 or more points in a game. The Crimson went 33-0 when scoring 80 or more until its 101-80 loss to Dayton (Dec. 30). Prior to that the last time Harvard scored 80 points and did not pick up the win was Jan. 10, 2004 against Dartmouth (93-88).
Moving On Up
Brogan Berry is sixth on the all-time career assists list with 356 handouts. She is 46 away from tying Heidi Kosh '91 who is fifth with 402. Jennifer Monti '02 holds the program record of 558.
1,000 Point Scoring Watch
Brogan Berry enters the weekend with 955 points, needing just 45 points to become the 15th player in women's basketball history at Harvard.
If Berry accomplishes that feat before the end of the season, it will be only the second time in Crimson history that two players reached 1,000 points in the same year. Deb Flandermeyer '93 and Erin Maher '93 did it during the 1992-93 season.
Double OT
Harvard played just its fourth double overtime game in program history against Penn Feb. 5. The Crimson last played the extra 10 minutes against Northeastern Dec. 9, 2009. Harvard is 4-0 when it goes to double OT.
Lighting Up the Scoreboard
Entering the week, Harvard was first in Ivy League scoring putting up 74.2 points per game, 4.5 better than second-place Princeton.
The Crimson ranks 26th in the nation in scoring as well.
The Right Touch
Four of the top-10 scorers in the Ivy League standings don the crimson and white. Brogan Berry is second (14.4 points per game), Victoria Lippert is third (13.6 ppg), Emma Markley is sixth (13.1 ppg) and Christine Clark is 10th (11.6 ppg).
Stellar Free Throw Shooting
The Crimson is shooting 77.3 percent from the free throw line, best in the Ivy League and eighth in the nation.
Christine Clark is second in the Ivy League with an 85.5 clip from the charity stripe, while Berry is fourth, shooting 82.4 percent.
Going Deep
The Crimson leads the Ivy League in three-point field goals made per game, averaging 6.9 per contest this season.
Unbeaten When...
Harvard is unbeaten when allowing between 50-59 points, when it has more assists, when it is shooting 35 percent from downtown, on Friday nights and against the America East.


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Teradyne Grants SEMI License to the Standard Test Data Format (STDF) to Develop Industry-wide Datalog Standards
SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 1, 2010 – SEMI announced that Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) has granted a world-wide royalty-free license of Standard Test Data Format (STDF), and any intellectual property rights, to SEMI to use, distribute, modify and support STDF. Under the supervision of SEMI International Standards, the license of STDF will ensure standards development and new products using STDF and future extensions will be unencumbered by IP ownership conflicts.
Advances in technology make it imperative to collect and diagnose detailed structural semiconductor test data during high-volume manufacturing to improve yield, test quality and overall test efficiency. However, multiple datalog formats and lack of industry standards prevent efficient use of test data across multiple test platforms and IC designs. This license represents an important milestone in the semiconductor test industry by enabling a more efficient, industry-wide application of STDF and future STDF extensions in the maintenance and development of test programs and other semiconductor test products. The demand for comprehensive datalog standards is greater than ever as IDMs, foundries, and outsourced test and assembly firms are looking to lower costs, improve test quality and speed implementation of test strategies across multiple test platforms and EDA vendors.
"This action will encourage increased participation in standards development activities from a broader section of the industry and enable broader adoption of STDF around the world," said Jonathan Davis, president of the Semiconductor Business Unit at SEMI. "This is an important milestone in industry collaboration for the semiconductor test industry. With Teradyne's support, important and valuable international standards can now progress utilizing the well-regarded STDF solution."
The Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test (CAST), a SEMI special interest group, formed a working group on SDTF in 2008 as a successor to a previously independent standards group. Through the group's efforts, a new, standard extension for logging memory fails in STDF has been developed. The format is currently in ballot by SEMI International Standards for international adoption as an industry standard. The SEMI CAST working group on STDF, comprised of members from the ATE, EDA, OSAT and the IC industry, is currently evaluating continued development and enhancements of STDF.
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When Brandon Davis is ready to practice medicine, he hopes to do so in his home- town of Maysville, Mo.
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The program, called Primary Care Resource Initiative Program (PRIMO), gives students financial support in exchange for agreeing to work and practice in health professional shortage areas after they complete their medical training. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) designates the areas.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — More than a thousand people picketed ABC's Burbank headquarters over the weekend to protest a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show in which a youngster said the United States could resolve its debt to China by killing everyone in the Asian country.
The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17hwOWJ) reports that Saturday's demonstration was peaceful and no one was arrested.
Kimmel and ABC have apologized for the Oct. 16 "Kids Table" segment and the network says it will not air again.
Kimmel began by asking a panel of children how the United States should resolve its $1.3 trillion debt to China.
After one youngster shouted, "Kill everyone in China," Kimmel chuckled and replied, "That's an interesting idea."
The show prompted an angry petition to the White House website that lists more than 100,000 signatures.
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May 6, 2009 > Letter to the Editor: Union City budget cuts
As a concerned resident and tax payer in Union City, I feel I have to speak out on the City's proposed budget cuts. A few months ago, we voted on a public safety parcel tax (Measure K and then recently Measure UU). I feel that I have been misled at best and at worst lied to! Measure UU was supposed to secure our Police and Fire Departments, the big campaign issue that I supported and am now paying for was NO CUTS. Now my taxes are higher to pay for what? The City Manager's staff report says that to avoid catastrophic cuts in other City departments, cuts must be made to public safety. Why was I lied to?I understand that the financial state of the city has changed, but if there have to be cuts in the Fire department, why are the women over 40, with many years of service with the city, targeted? Where are the other options? Why haven't things like other alternatives to lay-offs been considered? If revenue is such a big concern, why is the part of the Fire Department that brings in revenue being cut, isn't that the area that should be maintained or expanded?J.R. ChafeUnion City


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The PIXMA iP2770 caught our eye with its unconventionally sleek styling. It's a dedicated photo and document printer with printing resolutions of up to 4800 x 1200dpi at 2 picolitres. Recommended retail price is a very affordable S$79.
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Penalizing Authors for Issues Other than Content Quality
Before e-readers came along, it wasn't uncommon to pay $25 or more for a new hardcover version of a book. With e-readers, the same book is available for as little as $10. While e-books don't require manufacturing, in the traditional sense, or shipment, there's still value attached to the book. But a certain expectation has been established, price-wise, and when you, or your publisher, violate that expectation, you can be prepared to suffer the consequences.
The latest to feel the wrath is TOR author Robert Jordan. A Memory of Light, a book written Brandon Sanderson (Jordan is dead), is available in hardcover for $34.99. It's the final book in Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and the e-book version will not be released until April. The book has 284 reviews in Amazon (as of 1/10), and 155 of them are one-star. Most of the one-star reviews take issue with the decision to delay the release of the e-book.
Of all the reviews on the first page, only one deals with the quality of the book–and that actually deals with the quality of the book itself, rather than the writing. Several called Jordan's widow or authors, publishers, and retailers greedy. Sanderson's blog says the decision to delay the e-book was made by Jordan's widow Harriet, who wanted to make sure the last book in the series would hit number 1, as all the others have. Sanderson also says the decision isn't about money "for her, as the monetary difference between the two is negligible here."
Perhaps her cut is negligible, but for readers, the difference between $34.99 and whatever the e-book will cost isn't. That having been said, more than half of the reviews for this book are one-star because of this business decision.
When RJ Ellory admitted to faking reviews against his competitors, there was a great outcry about the purity of on-line reviews. Ideally, they should be from real readers based on the actual book itself. They should from people who've read the book. They should be real.
While these one-star reviews aren't in the same class as Ellory's sock-puppetry, they aren't from people who've actually read the book. They are from people complaining about pricing. Given that Jordan's widow made the decision, this isn't one of those cases where the author is the innocent victim of a business decision they didn't control. But this is the exception.
The reality is, customers have more choices than ever before. If they don't want to wait for the e-book, or they don't want to pay more than $9.99, the have options. They can get the book from the library. Or they can get a pirated version. Considering Jordan's genre and its audience, one suspects there's probably an electronic copy available somewhere on the Internet for free, now.
As a writer, little of this seems right to me. The review should be based on the quality of the book, not the decision to delay e-book publication. And the reader does not have the right to expect books to always cost $10 or less. But the economic reality dictates otherwise.
It's all part of the re-ordering of this industry that's currently happening. And it's not going to stop because we think it's wrong.
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Mrs. Jordan tried to rape the readers and got slammed for it. I don't see the problem. As for the star rating system – it's pretty easy to see the reason the commenter gives for the star. It didn't take any effort for you to see the commenters were giving one star for the extreme price point. It isn't any more effort for anyone else to do the same. What's really happening here is a lack of understanding between comments and reviews. Reviews relate to the quality of the product. Comments are – like this one – comments. If the people buying your book can read for comprehension (and one would assume a person buying a book could do just that), they'll figure out pretty quickly that one star for insane pricing is different from one star for wooden characters and act accordingly. As an aside, although I love the Wheel of Time series, I own none of it in hardback. Why? The hardbacks were always way overpriced, and they didn't publish the softcover for two years. As a matter of principle, I don't support people who try to rape me. In other words- business as usual for the Jordans. PS. Did you know that Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon?
Robert Lynch permalinkJanuary 14, 2013 11:59 pm
I see no problem with holding back on the e-book. Long before e-books came to be, it was common practice to hold back paperbacks for a year or more. We may not have liked it, but we accepted that if we didn't want to shell out the high price of the hardcover, we would have to wait–or go to the library, as someone else mentioned. It's a business first, and the idea of business is to make money. You can go to the theater and dump $10 – $20.00 per ticket the day a movie is released, or you can wait till half the world has seen the movie, and then rent it for $5.00 and watch it with the whole family. That's the way the world works.
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Apropos of the blow dealt to Wall Street excess by the financial reform bill just passed by the Senate, here's another piece of Wall Street excess that should probably get regulated. Business cards. They've gone totally off the rails. As my favorite scene from American Psycho shows, we must rein in these out-of-control practices before more kittens get stuffed into ATMS. [More]
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Hello guys,
I am writing a small app (using SWT). Basically it has several modes of work, and depending on the mode some buttons lock on and off.
For all of this I use a window with all of the buttons but sometimes I have to switch back and forth between this program and other programs. This is not the best way and not very comfortable.
I have tried to keep the window on top, but yet again, since there are quite some buttons it takes a lot of place and I have to move it from time to time so it would not obstruct the desktop view.
And so comes the question: Would it be possible to integrate all of those buttons to windows taskbar (i.e. like in windows 7 when you hover over a Skype icon you get ability to select your status or when you hover over media players icon you get playback controls so you can control those programs without activating them). JavaTB-1.png
Alternatively, would it be possible to dedicate entire row in a taskbar for this program and add all of the buttons to it. JavaTB-2.png
Do you have any other ideas how to make the app more convenient? I am using Windows 7 but this app should work on XP.
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ESA already has an active educational programme, but we want to take that further, to do more, to reach more students, more teachers, and thus to foster a broader and deeper understanding of the of the benefits, challenges, and importance of human spaceflight.
To do this, we have launched the ISS Education Programme, and with it a range of educational activities for primary, secondary, and university students in ESA's 17 Member States. The Fund will support the ISS Education Programme.
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text: Rafael Lillo is one of the pioneers in Mexican comics. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Carlos, and began his career as a painter. On 5 July 1908 he published the first installment of 'Las Aventuras de Adonis' in El Mundo Ilustrado. The comic about a grumpy bulldog and his wealthy chubby owner, was one of the first Mexican comics to use speech balloons. Later in its run, it was retitled to 'Las Desventuras de Adonis' ('The Misadventures of Adonis').


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