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"Surplus" is a word Californians haven't heard in the same sentence with "government" in a very long time. But now the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office is forecasting a budget surplus of $5.6 billion by 2015. By 2018, it's expected to grow to $9.6 billion.
You can almost see the politicians in Sacramento rubbing their hands together, Democrats plotting to fund new programs and Republicans envisioning a tax cut. (That's just fantasy, since the GOP holds no power, but they can dream, right?)
But hold on. It's not really a surplus.
California is tens of billions of dollars in debt, largely as a result of the last recession. There are a few places where targeted increases in spending might make sense — for example, in mental health care — but the vast majority of this money should be used to pay down debt and to set aside a cushion against the next recession.
Mac Taylor, the legislative analyst, laid out a proposal to do that last week. He recommends the state set aside $8 billion by 2016, which would buffer the hit to the budget that would come from a moderate recession. That's crucial. A rainy-day fund will protect schools from deep cuts, ensure the most vulnerable among us can still get medical treatment and help provide the stimulus spending necessary to keep a future recession from turning catastrophic.
Taylor also recommends paying off what Gov. Jerry Brown calls the "wall of debt," money borrowed over the past decade or so from schools, other governments and investors. The budget passed last summer called for that number to go from its current level, $27 billion, to about $5 billion by 2017. This year's windfall would enable the state to pay it all off by the following year, freeing space in the annual budget for additional spending from then on.
The state also has tens of billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities. Taylor recommends paying down $10.5 billion of them by 2020 — a good start, but just a fraction of what's needed.
Californians can thank their Legislature, Gov. Jerry Brown and themselves for this enviable position. Lawmakers made tough choices in the past few years, cutting crucial services for some of the most vulnerable state residents. And voters passed Propositions 30 and 39 to bring in billions in new revenue. Just imagine what could happen at the federal level if lawmakers in Washington adopted this kind of balanced approach.
California is in a much better position now, but it won't return to full fiscal health until it pays down its debt and prepares for the next recession. To do that, lawmakers will need to resist the impulse to squander these hard-fought gains, no matter how compelling the needs.


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Network appliance raises the bar for NAS/SAN convergence
The FAS900 series breaks new ground in bringing together file and block storage.
- Michael Desmond, MSDN Magazine
Data demands placed on businesses continue to grow and IT managers are responding by expanding storage, both in storage-attached networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) solutions. But this two tier approach, which balances performance, reliability and cost to suit specific missions, comes at a growing price. IT managers must manage two or more distinct and incompatible storage infrastructures, inviting spiraling costs and complexity.
Over the past 18 months, software and hardware vendors have released solutions aimed at closing the gapbetween block-based SANs and file-based NAS solutions. While none has bridged the SAN/NAS divide, the FAS900 series of converged devices from Network Appliance comes close. The FAS960 and FAS940 products offer in one box the file-based I/O functionality of NAS devices and the block-based I/O capability of SAN solutions. More importantly, the FAS900 series offers a unified environment, providing a common management console and dynamic allocation for both block- and file-based storage.
In effect, Network Appliance is promising seamless integration of both NAS and SAN storage. Network Appliance's motives are easy to understand: The Yankee Group estimates that at $7.44 billion, SAN revenues will triple NAS revenues this year and still more than double them in two years. The attraction for users, however, is a device that's more flexible, yet easier to manage, than a dual environment.
|Bringing file and block together
"You can run blocks for those applications that absolutely require block I/O. And you can run file I/O as well and eliminate a whole bunch of servers," says Alan McLachlan, senior systems engineer for integrator ASI Solutions in Sydney, Australia. "Not only do you get more users per server. You can get rid of a whole bunch of servers."
But initial reports suggest that storage managers are not likely to adopt the Network Appliance approach to meet all of the demanding performance and reliability requirements of today's SANs. Rather, it will find favor for important parts of the storage infrastructure ill-served by current technology.
Courting convergence
Network Appliance isn't the first vendor to offer NAS and SAN connectivity in a single device. Products like the EMC Celerra, the IBM 300G, and NetApp's own F860 and F820 filers can connect to clients and servers via Ethernet on one side, and to a SAN-based disk array over Fibre Channel links on the other. These so-called NAS gateways, or NAS heads, allow IT managers to house all data-be it file- or block-based-on a single array of disks on the SAN. Consolidating disk storage around a single platform can help cut disk procurement costs and whittle down complexity.
The bits behind a NAS gateway may reside on a common physical platform, but still manage and access those bits distinctly. NAS-based storage occurs on specifically demarcated disks, with accesses traversing both the NAS device and the SAN. SAN accesses, meanwhile, bypass the NAS gateway entirely. Unfortunately, the additional layer adds complexity and introduces bottlenecks on the NAS side. More important, IT managers must employ distinct management consoles and tool sets to manage NAS and SAN-based data and resources.
The FAS900 series overcomes this by unifying the physical and logical storage environments in one device (see "Bringing file and block together"). As with NAS gateways, all storage resides on the SAN disk array. But where NAS gateways provide a portal for file-based I/O into the SAN array, the FAS900 series serves as the common access point to the array for both NAS and SAN operation. To do this, the device provides native block and file based I/O inside the device.
"One of the reasons I think this is an interesting system is because it allows the customer to take advantage of their infrastructure," says Mark Santora, vice president of marketing for Network Appliance. "They can move storage from IP to Fibre Channel at will. They don't have to copy and move data around. Just take that disk, move it over there, and boom."
Thinking inside the box
Much of the converged functionality is found in Network Appliance's Data ONTAP 6.3 software, the operating system inside the FAS960 and FAS940 devices. At the core of Data ONTAP is NetApp's Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL), file system. WAFL was designed as an extensible file service that can natively implement multiple protocols, including NFS, CIFS and HTTP.
NetApp achieves SAN/NAS integration by extending virtualization already present within the operating stack. While NAS devices virtualize disk access by filtering application calls through a file system, SANs access the physical disk interface. Virtualizing the disk interface and cache management layers for both file and block I/O operations allows NetApp to put both SAN and NAS functionality in a single package.
Randy Kerns, senior partner at storage industry research firm The Evaluator Group, says the approach is a smart one. "What they've done is put another abstraction layer inside their operating system to handle the different interfaces for remote file serving vs. block access for Fibre Channel. But everything underneath is the same software they've had previously in their filers."
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The virtualized approach promises to resolve some of the thorniest SAN management issues, including rigid volume handling and troublesome LUN assignments. The FAS900 series layers LUN management over the storage virtualization layer in the stack. This allows the FAS900 series to deliver to SAN-aware applications and utilities the information they expect, while preserving a rich, hybrid environment on the back-end disk array. Buffer caching, RAID management and disk management all occur behind this abstraction layer.
Santora stresses that all protocols - including SAN protocols - are supported natively in the Network Appliance stack. Rather than emulate protocols, the FAS900 devices work directly in the protocol itself. The abstraction layer handles translating calls to and from the disk array.
"Our Windows interface is at the data level. If you want a Windows only system, you can get one from us, it's native. If you want an NFS or Unix implementation, you can do that. It's native. The same thing with Fibre Channel, it's native. If you want to build a Fibre Channel SAN with my system, go ahead."
A matter of focus
Not every SAN player is impressed by what Network Appliance is promising with the FAS900 series. EMC spokesman A.J. Ragosta contends that the one-stop-shop approach in the Data ONTAP operating system waters down functionality and exposes multiple single points of failures in the new appliances.
"I'd say what NetApp is doing is surf and turf for storage," says Ragosta. "You have one processor running two very different functions and trying to do them both well. You are getting an OK piece of steak and an OK piece of fish."
Ragosta contends the FAS900 architecture lacks redundancy and availability features critical to a high-stakes SAN environment. He singles out the pointer system used by Data ONTAP to establish the location of files written to disk. A power failure or other disruption during a write operation could force users to take both the NAS and SAN offline while re-establishing lost pointers.
"Any time there is a problem with the NAS and you take it down to fix it, you are taking down your SAN as well, and vice versa," Ragosta says. "There's another vector of potential failure. If one has any kind of problem that needs maintenance, you're affecting performance and availability for your other solution."
Kerns agrees that the current FAS960 and FAS940 devices won't find their way into data centers today.
"For the customer, it's just another SAN solution," Kerns says. "But it's a complete SAN solution-a SAN in a box-in that the interface and controls are all in one package. What they did makes perfect sense."
Kerns expects the FAS900 line to get early traction in the area of Windows consolidation, enabling managers to deploy a simple SAN to replace hard-to-manage NT file servers using direct-attached storage. Consolidating the Windows environment has some challenges. While most such environments are file-intensive, and therefore good NAS candidates, newer versions of Exchange Server and SQL Server are not NAS friendly. Integrated SAN/NAS capabilities are one way to address that problem.
Broadcom Corp. is a case in point. The maker of chips for broadband devices stores the majority of its data on a variety of NAS devices from Network Appliance. The company also manages a SAN, which is used to provide block-level access to SQL Server and Exchange.
"The new product line, from a SAN/NAS convergence perspective, allows me to start tearing down the one SAN implementation I have going here," says Ken Venner, vice president and CIO of Broadcom. "I just personally prefer the ease of implementation and use of NAS. Though with this particular product we're going to take a look at this to see which direction we'll go moving ahead."
While Venner may have a preference for NAS, what about traditionally demanding SAN environments? Critics wonder if loading on the NAS side of the device might degrade performance on the SAN side, and vice versa.
Arun Taneja, senior analyst with Enterprise Storage Group calls the performance issue "totally open right now," citing the lack of comparative SAN benchmark results.
As for file performance, published NAS benchmarks, seem to show impressive scalability in the FAS900 line. The SPECsfs97_R1.v3 benchmark published by the SPEC Organization, reveals that the number of operations per second more than doubles when comparing the FAS940 to NetApp's older FAS825. Performance more than triples on the FAS960.
Rick Hulsey, system design engineer at Southwest Airlines, says his team has gotten similar results from internal benchmarking. Southwest Airlines has deployed a cluster of FAS960 devices and expects to add more as storage demands grow. Hulsey credits the Network Appliance WAFL file system for the impressive results.
"Unless you get a very large number of disks and make a lot of very wise choices about striping the data, you'll have a very difficult time optimizing the file system better than WAFL does it," Hulsey says.
Yankee Group Senior Analyst Jamie Gruener expects Network Appliance will challenge SAN leaders like EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, and Hewlett-Packard. Simplified management, a more open solution set and the prospect of sharply lower total costs of ownership make Network Appliance a vendor to be reckoned with, Gruener says. The strategy that should get some traction with budget-strapped IT managers seeking lower lifecycle costs.
Jerome Wendt, senior SAN analyst at First Data Corp, says the cost of managing storage far exceeds procurement costs. "For every dollar you spend on storage, you are going to spend another seven dollars managing it."
The unified management interface of the FAS960 and FAS940 may offer IT managers a way to shave that figure. Because the Network Appliance devices treat block and file level I/O in exactly the same way at the disk interface, the same software can be used to address both NAS and SAN management.
Filling the holes
One area where Network Appliance has a lot of work ahead is in interoperability. At the launch, the company announced an OEM agreement with Fibre Channel switch maker Brocade Systems to integrate its products into the FAS900 series solution set. The agreement includes both the 2 Gb/s Brocade SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fabric Switch and the SilkWorm 3200 Entry Fabric Switch. The deal is a critical one for Network Appliance, which needed to show it is ready to deliver a complete solution to SAN customers.
Network Appliance also announced extended partnerships with Veritas and Oracle, with the aim of illustrating its commitment to providing full-line network storage solutions. But with operating system support limited to Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris, it's clear Network Appliance has work ahead of it.
It's early yet, but Gruening expects Network Appliance will deliver on its promise to turn the FAS900 series into a supported SAN/NAS convergence solution. "It's not in [Network Appliance's] best interest to make this a lock-in strategy. They are saying to their customers that whatever you have in there at the storage management layer we can work with," Gruening says. "This is like the first chapter of a new book for them. I think they are gunning for the data center, but they are doing it in a way that is a very tiered approach."

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El Capitán will stay in North Texas, as FC Dallas pounced with three second half goals to beat a 10-man Houston Dynamo for a 4-1 victory in the 25th overall meeting of the Texas Derby.
Tied 1-1, the game changed in the 60th minute when David Horst slid in to tackle Fabian Castillo on the sideline. The Dynamo defender caught the Colombian from the side and referee Ricardo Salazar went directly to his back pocket, ejecting Horst for the tackle.
Before Houston could recover, the game was out of reach. Mauro Diaz put in a cultured free kick a minute later that found former Dynamo midfielder Je-Vaughn Watson, who headed home what would be the winning goal on the night.
Houston controlled the opening hour of the match, and created most of the chances, before the red card transformed the game. With a man advantage Dallas punched the gas, pressuring the outgunned Dynamo and scoring twice more.
Defending a corner kick in the 68th minute, Giles Barnes glanced a header into his own goal to double Dallas' lead. The Dynamo forward was tracking to clear the ball and his attempt found only the back of his own net.
Watson furthered the demise of his old club in the 70th minute, racing into the box and slotting home a shot to clinch a 4-1 Texas Derby win for the visiting Hoops.
In the 80th minute Jair Benitez was called for fouling Kofi Sarkodie at the edge of the penalty box to give the Dynamo a penalty kick opportunity and a chance to narrow the lead. Boniek García struck the ball to the left but FC Dallas goalkeeper Chris Seitz was up to the task, diving to reject the Honduran and keep a lopsided 4-1 final.
For the second week in a row Houston was a participant in their own demise, as Ricardo Clark brought down Mauro Diaz from behind in a sea of players near the penalty spot to give Dallas their first serious scoring chance. Michel stepped to the spot and struck a well-placed shot to make it 1-0 in the 31st minute.
10 minutes later Clark atoned.
After three unsuccessful corner kicks, Brad Davis earned a foul at the end line from Fabian Castillo. After taking his time to get up, Davis found Clark at the back post and the World Cup veteran made no mistake, placing his header inside the post and out of Seitz's reach to even the score at 1-1.
Clark's goal had a residual downfall, however, as it was Castillo's foul that led to Davis' departure. The World Cup hopeful left the match just three minutes after the goal due to a right leg injury.
The win keeps Dallas undefeated (4-0-1) and atop the Western Conference while Houston suffers their second loss in as many weeks (2-2-0).
Houston Dynamo (2-2-0; 6 points) vs. FC Dallas (4-0-1; 13 points)
MLS regular season
April 5, 2014 – BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX
Attendance: 22,202 (sellout)
Scoring Summary:
FC Dallas: Michel 2 (Penalty) 31
Houston: Ricardo Clark 2 (Brad Davis 2) 41
FC Dallas: Je-Vaughn Watson 2 (Mauro Diaz 2) 61
FC Dallas: Giles Barnes (Own goal) 68
FC Dallas: Je- Vaughn Watson 3 (Mauro Diaz 3) 70
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, David Horst (ejection – 60), Corey Ashe; Andrew Driver (A.J. Cochran 62), Ricardo Clark (Warren Creavalle 85), Boniek Garcia, Brad Davis (Tony Cascio 45); Will Bruin, Giles Barnes
Unused substitutes: Tyler Deric, Mark Sherrod, Omar Cummings, Servando Carrasco
FC Dallas: Chris Seitz; Zach Loyd, Matt Hedges, Stephen Keel, Jair Benitez; Michel, Hendry Thomas (Victor Ulloa 71); Fabian Castillo, Mauro Diaz (Peter Luccin 79), Je-Vaughn Watson; David Texeria (Blas Perez 66)
Unused substitutes: Raul Fernandez, Danny Garcia, Nick Walker, Moises Hernandez
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Jermaine Taylor (caution) 22
FCD: Hendry Thomas (caution) 37
HOU: David Horst (ejection) 60
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Assistant Referees: Peter Manikowski, Mike Kampmeinert
Fourth Official: Mark Kadlecik


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7.2 Channel Network Ready Elite Receiver
featuring Class D3 Amplification
- Update: Spotify® Connect now available
- 4K Ultra HD Upscaling/Pass-Through
- Network ready with AirPlay®, HTC Connect™, Pandora®, and vTuner® Internet radio
- Multi-Zone Control for 2 HD Zones and 1 Powered Zone Audio
The Pioneer Elite SC-72 AV Receiver. Class D3 Power and Connectivity That's Custom-Install Friendly
The new SC-72 receiver is perfect for custom home entertainment installations. Its robust aluminum front panel and insulated dual chassis houses the power and finesse of Class D3 amplification. This fully equipped AV receiver delivers Elite's advanced connectivity in a multi-zone receiver with features to match its performance.
Designed for Today's Lifestyle—Connecting You with Your iPad®, iPhone® and iPod®
The SC-72 is right at home with Apple® devices, thanks to Made for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad certification. Easily connected with your normal charging cable, your Apple handheld device connects without the need for a dock. And with the SC-72, plug-and-play has never been easier, because it charges your Apple device too. You can even enjoy music enhanced with album art, enhancing the iTunes® experience.
When you receive a call, your iPhone will mute the music so you can talk. Use the iPhone directly, or push a single button on the SC-72's front panel to switch control to the included preset remote and an intuitive, full-color GUI.
Elite Makes AirPlay® Easy
Pioneer's partnership with Apple means you enjoy effortless AirPlay connectivity through Apple devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod. Network share your music with DLNA® and Windows 8®, stream your favorite artists straight from your PC or Mac® with Pandora®, or listen to a world of content with vTuner® Internet Radio.
Up front, plug a memory audio device into the USB port—in seconds—for music or photos. And of course, this Elite receiver is Bluetooth®- and WiFi-ready with Pioneer's optional AS-BT200 Bluetooth adapter and AS-WL-300 WiFi adapter.
With the SC-72, you need never interrupt your entertainment. Listen to your favorite music in your car using your iPhone, leave your car mid-song and walk into your home. Using the AirPlay App on your iPhone, select the SC-72. Powering up automatically, it continues right where you left off. And the SC-72 supports network audio sources in Zones 2 and 3, allowing you to send music to other rooms. With AirPlay, there's really no reason why your iTunes music has to be restricted to your computer.
HTC Connect™ Lets Android Sound Better
The SC-72 brings enhanced convenience and enhanced sound quality to the entertainment experience for users of HTC's Android™-powered HTC One series smartphones. With HTC Connect, you can stream high-quality, WAV-format files for an effortless, out-of-the-box audiophile experience. Finally, audiophiles who demand serious sound can enjoy their music—with CD-quality resolution—using their HTC smartphone. HTC Connect makes your music sound as good as it can be.
Spotify® Connect
Spotify Connect is a Premium feature that lets you play and control Spotify on your devices. Choose music on one device and listen on another. At home, hit play on your mobile and hear high fidelity sound on your AV receiver. You can also control the music from your mobile phone. Update your AV Receiver
Windows® 8 Certified
Windows 8 Play To feature makes it easy to stream your favorite music stored on your PC to our new line of networked AV Receivers. Don't limit your media experience to your laptop speakers. With the Windows 8 Play To feature and Pioneer's new networked Receivers you can enjoy your media library on the biggest speakers in the house.
Seamless Connection to PC Music Files or Internet Radio
The SC-72 opens up a new world of networking. A rear panel Ethernet port allows full integration into your home network, and with Windows 8 and DLNA 1.5 certification, a whole new level of entertainment options are at your fingertips. With 192kHz/24-bit WAV, FLAC and AIFF file compatibility, network streaming audio playback is now attainable for the true audiophile. Stream your AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV and FLAC music files from your PC, laptop or smartphone to your home theater system.
With vTuner, the SC-72 connects to thousands of Internet radio stations from around the world. You can also access Pandora radio services complete with on-screen album art and music information. An optional AS-WL300 wireless adapter is also available for your wireless network convenience.
Downloading Pioneer's exclusive Air Jam application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices allows up to four Apple devices to be paired via Bluetooth®. Choose songs from your device to add to the group playlist to playback on the SC-72. Do you like a song your friend added? Select it and buy it from iTunes, or watch the music video on YouTube®.
Your Smartphone and Bluetooth Make Beautiful Music
The SC-72 is ready for wireless Bluetooth audio from virtually any A2DP profile Bluetooth device. Untether yourself from cables and inputs with the Pioneer AS-BT200 Bluetooth adapter, and enjoy enriched quality with Sound Retriever AIR technology, created specifically to enhance Bluetooth audio.
Elite Class D3 Amplification. Where Power Meets Precision
The Elite SC-72 is an audiophile's dream, delivering 7 channels of cutting-edge Class D3 amplification designed to reproduce music and soundtracks with uncompromising realism.
Engineered for perfectionists, the revolutionary amplifiers inside the SC-72 feature a direct signal path with no noisy EMI filters, feedback loops or current limiting. Rated at 170 watts x 7 channels at 6 ohms with two channels driven, the SC-72 delivers abundant power, and significantly more simultaneous multi-channel power than the competition.
A/B amplifiers simply cannot match the efficiency of Class D3 as their power output per channel diminishes rapidly when more channels are added to the workload. This kind of unprecedented power capability allows you to appreciate the full dynamics from any media source in a way never before possible. Playing formats like Blu-ray Disc, Class D3 takes high-resolution multi-channel Dolby and DTS soundtracks to a whole new level of realism and impact. Unlike regular amps, Elite Class D3 amplifiers are 4-ohm certified, so they safely power those low-impedance speakers that other receivers aren't made to handle.
And because the amplifiers in the SC-72 are Class D3, they run cooler than conventional Class AB designs, using just a fraction of the energy while delivering more power with all channels driven.
Ultimate Sound Control with Advanced MCACC®
The SC-72 supports formats like Dolby TrueHD® and DTS-HD® Master Audio to give your Blu-ray Disc™ soundtracks unsurpassed audio quality. Pioneer also includes all of the Dolby and DTS surround formats best suited for the wide variety of entertainment sources, including the newest DTS® Neo X format.
Imagine having your own sound engineer precision-tuning your system to your living room—that's what Advanced MCACC processing is like. Pioneer's Advanced Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration system (MCACC) provides an optimized, multi-channel listening experience calibrated and customized specifically to your room by measuring every speaker's connection, and noting size and distance from the listening point, sound levels and timbre.
To eliminate the distortion caused by jitter during conversion, Pioneer's PQLS technology allows the SC-72 to use its own high precision clock and adjust the transmission rate of bitstream sound data from a compatible Blu-Ray player, insuring every note and nuance is faithfully reproduced.
The SC-72 takes the multi-channel audio experience to a whole new level with four advanced, sound-enhancing virtual speaker modes. Virtual Depth is designed to complement 3D movies. Virtual Height creates sound effects from above your main front speakers, creating virtual height speakers ideal for gaming enthusiasts. Virtual Wide creates a seamless blend between your front and back speakers. Virtual Surround Back replaces your back surround speakers, freeing you to use the surround amplifier to drive a second zone, or bi-amp the front speakers. Virtual speaker modes can be applied together or separately. Filling in areas where minute details were left out during the compression process, even compressed audio like WMA, MP3 and AAC is enhanced with another Pioneer exclusive, Advanced Sound Retriever.
Whatever the Source, Advanced Qdeo® Video Processing is Picture-Perfect
By leveraging extensive video engineering expertise, Pioneer makes home theater a truly immersive experience. The new SC-72 supports Ultra HD (4K) pass-through and upscaling. Qdeo video-processing technology and provides video conversion from composite and component video to HDMI® for a single-wire high-definition audio and video solution, as well as up to 1080p/24fps video scaling for an exceptional picture regardless of the source, creating natural and noise-free video for maximum performance and flexibility.
And with Pioneer's Advanced Video Adjust, you'll experience the very best in both high-definition and standard-definition signals, with a complete suite of advanced image adjustments designed to fine tune each video source for the finest possible picture.
3D-Ready with the Latest HDMI®Technology
The SC-72 supports the latest HDMI specifications. So not only do you get the most out of your existing movies and music, with the SC-72 you're prepared for the new generation of 3D video content. With 8 HDMI inputs (7 rear + 1 front) and 2 outputs, you've got plenty of connectivity options for the growing number of high-definition sources available.
BD Link for Blu-Ray Disc Playback That Excels
The built-in BD Link technology of the SC-72 maximizes the fidelity of high-bandwidth, high-definition Blu-Ray Disc playback from a compatible Pioneer or Elite Blu-Ray Player. BD Link Sound Retriever and BD Link Stream Smoother work together to ensure total fidelity from the original source, with no visual artifacts or out-of-sync audio at full HD resolutions, even in the fastest action scenes.
Transform Your Apple or Android Device into a Powerful Remote Control
Pioneer's free iControlAV2013 app turns your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad device or select Android devices into a powerful remote control by communicating with the SC-72 wirelessly through your home network. The all-new iControlAV2013 is fully redesigned, incorporating everything from basic volume and input selection to advanced features like EQ adjustments and Internet Radio control. iControlAV2013 for iPad includes enhanced features like vertical and horizontal orientation, intuitive control of music from networked PCs as well as Internet radio control, and an intuitive finger-EQ-adjust screen; simply draw the EQ curve to your desired sound preference. New Sound Explorer gives you easy access to experiment with the many powerful sound enhancements the SC-72 offers, like Hi-Bit 24, Auto Phase Control Plus, and Virtual Speaker modes.
Easy Set-Up with AVNavigator
Imagine an owner's manual that actually communicates with your receiver. Or that asks you what sources you'd like to connect and how you'd like to configure your speakers—then walks you through the process as you do it.
An industry-first, Pioneer's AVNavigator is an interactive owner's manual that takes all the guesswork out of setting up your receiver. AV Navigator uses your networked PC, MAC or iPad to communicate directly with the SC-72, walking you through speaker set-up, Advanced MCACC room calibration, sound optimization, firmware updates and more.
Full-Color On-Screen Graphical User Interface
All of the SC-72's advanced control and connectivity options are made even better with a full-color user interface via HDMI on your connected TV, allowing you to effortlessly navigate through the SC-72's menu.
Your Ultimate Custom Home Theater Solution
With its durable aluminum front panel, the SC-72 is built to last. This receiver delivers versatile custom-installation solutions for home entertainment, with Multi-Zone capability that lets you set up three great systems. Enjoy home theater in the living room, television in the bedroom and serious music listening in the den.
Because Pioneer is dedicated to custom installation, our relationships with custom-control partners like AMX®, Control4®, Crestron® and other leading brands let users and installers integrate the Elite SC-72 into whole-house systems. All this plus support for Pioneer Apps, third-party control devices, custom-ready detachable power cord, and IR in/out for universal remotes make the Elite series the ultimate answer in custom home entertainment.
- Class D3 (Direct Energy HD)
- 7.2
- VSX Model Power Rating Only
- VSX Model Power Rating Only
- 130 Watts
- 210 Watts
- 660 Watts
- Yes
- 290 W/0.1 W (standby)
Handheld and Internet
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes (iPhone 5/iPad/iPod)
- iControlAV2013
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- MP3, WMA, AAC, Apple Lossless, 192kHz / 24-Bit WAV, FLAC, AIFF, DSD
- MP3, WMA, AAC, Apple Lossless, 192kHz / 24-Bit WAV, FLAC, AIFF, DSD
Decoders & Formats
- Texas Instruments Aureus
- Yes
- 192K/24Bit
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Multi- Channel
Soundfield Calibration
- Advanced
- 6
- Auto / Plus
- Yes
- 9
- Yes
- 1/2 Inch
- Yes
- Yes
Listening Modes
- Yes
- Multi-Channel
- Direct / Pure Direct
- 15 + Headphone Surround
- Yes
- Yes (Focus/Wide)
- Yes
Audio Features
- -
- Yes (Front Panel USB)
- Hi-bit24
- Yes
- Multi-Channel / Auto with ARC
- Yes
- Yes
- 2 Channel
- Yes (800 ms)
- Yes
- Front Channel
Video Processing
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Marvell QDEO
- Yes
- Yes
- YNR, CNR, BNR, MNR, Detail, Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Chroma, Black Level
- 8 In ( 7 Rear, 1 Front) / 2 Out
- 1 (Front)
- 2 In (Assignable) / 1 Output
- Front USB / Composite Video
- Yes
- 4 In / 1 Out
- 1 In
- 2 In / 1 Out
- Preout 7.1 ch (9.2 ch terminals)
- Yes
- 63
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Album Artwork (HDMI only)
- HDMI HDZone Audio & Video / Powered Zone 2 AV / Zone 3 Audio
- ZONE 2 AV (Composite), Subwoofer, Volume, Balance and Tone
- ZONE 3 Audio, Volume and Balance
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The Power 100, the annual ranking of the most powerful people in New Jersey business by NJBIZ, has become a must-read in the state.
After all, the power players always want to know where they stand.
For the third consecutive year, Governor Chris Christie tops the list.
How can he not? From pushing through legislation to closing down lanes on a bridge, everything in the state goes through his office.
But Christie is not the only politician on the list: State Senate President Stephen Sweeney is there, as are U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker. And then there's up-and-coming star Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City.
Of course, nothing is bigger in the state right now than health care, so it's no wonder that so many hospital executives (such as Hackensack's Bob Garrett), insurance leaders (such as Horizon's Bob Marino) and government leaders (such as Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd) are on there, too.
Developers? Building buildings and building businesses is the key to growth, so Michele Brown (the head of the state's Economic Development Authority) and developers Jon Hanson, Steven Pozycki, Chris Paladino, Emanuel Stern and Mitch Hersh all earned spots in the rankings.
Then there are the CEOs: PSEG's Ralph Izzo, Merck's Kenneth Frazier, Goya's Robert Unanue and Campbell's Denise Morrison are among the company heads on the list.
Of course, it is Super Bowl week here in New Jersey, so sports figures certainly play a part: Franchise owners John Mara, Woody Johnson and Josh Harris are on the list, as is Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann.
Who else is on there? And in what order?
Check out the slideshows for all the answers.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
Open bugs in Rockbox
From: <tracker_at_rockbox.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:03 +0100
Flyspray contains 245 open bugs:
1 days old: e200v2 - mkamsboot cannot patch bootloader since r30937
4 days old: FLAC 32 bits 96khz surround 5.1 file not playing
5 days old: Unneeded mass storage accesses with dircache off
6 days old: Sansa e280v2 shutting down when connected to PC
6 days old: m4a files skip in mid playback. always same point, files are not corrupt.
10 days old: Pause (and resume) on headphone unplug not working on iPod Nano 1G anymore
10 days old: Sansa Clip Zip incorrect function on "Back" button
15 days old: Clipv2 - Rockbox duplicates samples - effectively halves samplerate
18 days old: unable to view filelist when renaming folder in iPod 5.5G
20 days old: Sansa Clip+: PANIC occurred when dircache is enabled
21 days old: APE with CUEsheet playback issues
23 days old: iPod 3g firewire handling prevents charging whilst running rockbox
33 days old: Bluetooth dongle interface faulty for ipod video color 30GB (Sennheiser BTD300i, Kokai i10s)
33 days old: Clip+ have noise when play .ape files
35 days old: need substitute to /.rockbox/skin_buffer_size.txt
36 days old: software hold switch doesn't work properly on clip+
40 days old: Sansa Fuze V2 Screen Goes Black in while using Rockbox?!
41 days old: Android: Unable to resume playback after pausing/closing the app.
46 days old: No SD card in current build
48 days old: Sansa Clip+ CPU/LCD noise while recording
54 days old: Error ATA -82 I can not enter my rockbox device
55 days old: Android: yesno popup causes freeze on some situation
66 days old: skinned lists tags needs adding to the manual
74 days old: Playback freezes when using big speed or pitch change
75 days old: pdbox - Buffer access out-of-bounds: aiffhdr.a_samprate
75 days old: Voice files created but don't match voice prompts with items in menu
76 days old: Can't set time of day clock on mrobe mr500i
78 days old: Upside down becomes backward on H10 display
83 days old: WPS/FMS string space bug introduced by r30302
83 days old: Cover art does not change when using playlist
90 days old: Database fails to commit on Fuze v2 fresh SVN build
95 days old: AAC files from BBC won't play on Clip+
97 days old: it freezes on the 'saving tagcache' process
100 days old: Dircache shuts down when closing a file that was opened prior to reloading the dircache
106 days old: rockboxdev.sh fails if tcsh is shell
106 days old: Sansa Clip v2 FLAC playback skips regularly
106 days old: channel configuration and playback speed
108 days old: Sound garbled on wma tracks
125 days old: Fuze V1 locking when transferring files Rockbox 3.9
128 days old: Wake Up Alarm to Recording Screen Goes to FM on Nano 1g
132 days old: Griffin iFM Radio Receiver for iPod (5th Gen) NOT Detected.
134 days old: Rockbox crashes after initializing database
139 days old: wrong offset on bookmark
149 days old: APE codec random loud noise during playback
170 days old: Duplicate database entries
173 days old: Crossfade On Manual Track Change In Shuffle Only Mode of Crossfade
182 days old: Data abort when queuing all songs from an artist with only one song
185 days old: iPod 3G screen flickers after boot and resuming playback with nothing to resume, no warning
185 days old: Rockbox Utility V1.2.10 doesn't let me create voice files
190 days old: FM Radio Screen Lines Don't Scroll
206 days old: Autoresume feature can start from wrong offset due to resurrection of old runtime stats
209 days old: Load Last Bookmark Broken Sanza Fuse v2
215 days old: Sansa Fuze randomly unmounts on OSX
218 days old: Building rbspeex is broken on Cygwin
218 days old: Ticking noise in the radio screen
218 days old: WPS on startup doesn't work on iPod Video
220 days old: Sansa Clip+ cracking noise in left channel
225 days old: Ipod 5.5g Freezes
228 days old: disktidy crashes in the simulator
229 days old: iPod Nano 2G Freezing on USB / Charging
229 days old: Rockbox have the channel "left-side-right" when playing back
233 days old: iaudio m3: display/screen goes blank after a while and never recovers
235 days old: random_folder_advance_config and symbolic links
242 days old: Scrollwheel and Textviewer Idle Timeout
243 days old: Empty menus lead to NULL pointer access
244 days old: Android: OGG, SPX, MP3 playback problem
245 days old: %?if do not work with %pc or %pt as operands
246 days old: Gigabeat F20 touchpad unusable with high sensitivity
247 days old: Inserting microsd during boot up freezes rockcbox on Clip+
248 days old: Album Art corrupted since 3.8 with some WPS
249 days old: screendump problems caused by r29445
253 days old: Shopper manual entry is totally useless
256 days old: WMA Pro decoding fails for Winamp generated files, probably ASF related
256 days old: touchregion changes arent in the manual
261 days old: Player and Filetransfer freeze during USB file transfer
262 days old: Controls lock up after going back from another application when a native Android screen is shown
262 days old: IPOD 5G RB 3.7.1 issue with ONKYO DS-A1
269 days old: EQ settings changed via Touchscreen setting_inc & setting_dec are not reflected in the sound output
282 days old: No SD-Card support in USB mode after boot
283 days old: iPod nano 2g charger detection
284 days old: Background noise with Sansa ClipV2
286 days old: mpeg video player bug
289 days old: Annoying flash memory access noise with Sansa Clip+
291 days old: Android does not handle keypresses correctly - potential fix but I can't java
301 days old: Worse sound during the recording in FM Radio
301 days old: Filesystem corruption after entering USB mode
304 days old: Mikmod segfaults when playing a directory which contains a mod file
312 days old: Set of ogg vorbis files will not play
315 days old: clip+: sound messes up (popping) with certain songs
316 days old: Rockbox tries to open files "-.kbd", "-.sbs" and "-.rsbs"
320 days old: Cowon D2+ touchscreen: coord distortions at the edges
326 days old: M:Robe 500: Touchscreen works with glitches
327 days old: calendar.rock day of week is off-by-one
330 days old: Clip+ non zero output when paused
347 days old: Themesite not accepting %T with setting_inc or setting_dec
347 days old: Rockbox makes my screen-reader freeze.
363 days old: Since using lamp plug-in the backlight and wheel light are incompatible
363 days old: Battery reports 0% charge even after fully charged in Rockbox 3.7 - iRiver H300
1 years 3 days old: warning about \float_at_addtolists when building manual
1 years 3 days old: odd %s behavior following %Vf tags
1 years 6 days old: [Sansa Clip+) Rockbox doesn't stop recording when battery is very low
1 years 6 days old: sometimes rockbox restarts and battery gets empty when changing tracks
1 years 9 days old: Next Track indicator not working reliably
1 years 28 days old: Resistor plugin - led resistor calculator does not wait for keypress
1 years 30 days old: manual, sansa clip+: No keys for actions
1 years 33 days old: Messages and Heads up display fonts are unreadable in doom
1 years 37 days old: Data abort In sansa Fuze v2 when I insert 2 albums to the playlist
1 years 54 days old: Recording gains on Clip+ are very quiet, yet exhibit massive clipping
1 years 62 days old: Website doesn't distinguish between "stable" and "released" targets
1 years 70 days old: Rbutil detects wrong drive as iPod.
1 years 71 days old: Last.fm scrobbling when nothing listened to
1 years 72 days old: Early USB broken (no statusbar & crash after disconnect)
1 years 85 days old: Theme Editor doesn't render Vf/Vb correctly
1 years 93 days old: Manual doesn't tell you where to put album art for targets with pictureflow but no AA on WPS
1 years 93 days old: Sansa e200v2 progressbar lags when backlight activated
1 years 102 days old: backlight fade in and fade out times missing from config file options
1 years 108 days old: ipodpatcher sometimes fails when attempting to write rockbox to OSOS on ipodnano2g
1 years 116 days old: Bookmarks from tagcache don't work
1 years 127 days old: Volume needs to be turned down on FM radio when voice is reading items associated with FM radio.
1 years 127 days old: ONDA VX777 volume in FM-Radio
1 years 134 days old: WPS is not loaded if the .wps file is not in the WPS directory
1 years 143 days old: Display in FMS screen didn't update correctly
1 years 157 days old: Wrong playlist order after moving tracks to position right before current
1 years 159 days old: Auto-Change Directory crashes hardwarecodec players
1 years 164 days old: last Arabic character in a line appears as the first for some cases
1 years 164 days old: bidi orientation
1 years 164 days old: Volume is turned up to the maximum when the battery level gets very low
1 years 177 days old: stop playing when switch hold to off on SA9200
1 years 178 days old: PictureFlow segfault when showing tracklist or playing - fixed.
1 years 195 days old: Skipping and stuttering in low bitrate .WMA files
1 years 202 days old: not able to move in DOOM!
1 years 210 days old: Rocboy isn't playable for Rom that have a size of more than 1m
1 years 216 days old: FLAC with CUEsheet playback issues (reopening of FS#7354)
1 years 225 days old: sansa fuze v1 scroller doesn't obey 'first button press enables backlight only'
1 years 227 days old: H120 not start original IRiver Firmware with LCD Remote holding Rec + Play
1 years 233 days old: music pause on buffer refill - FS#10919 not completely solved
1 years 264 days old: Gigabeat F halts occassionally when resume or USB plugged in
1 years 267 days old: Brickmania: Game doesn't load well
1 years 267 days old: rockbox doesn't employ software charge monitoring on 3G
1 years 270 days old: ipod 3G doesn't automatically enter disk-mode for usb connection
1 years 275 days old: block on the last top line grows with lines removal in the bottom
1 years 276 days old: Click when pausing/resuming with fade/max precut settings on
1 years 280 days old: c200 v1 LCD doesn't turn on when changing Backlight setting from Off to On
1 years 284 days old: Rockboy Nano2g sound
1 years 290 days old: Stereo Click
1 years 295 days old: Can�t open any .txt files which larger than 1M!
1 years 307 days old: Can't load Rockbox on Cowon D2 from SD
1 years 309 days old: Changed default codepage is applied only afterl reboot
1 years 322 days old: no track will play after playing a deleted, semi-buffered track
1 years 333 days old: Manual: Code duplication
1 years 341 days old: iPod Mini firmware often starts with alarm set and shuffle play enabled after using Rockbox
1 years 353 days old: Rockbox will get stuck in the main menu if disconnected from the car adapter
1 years 361 days old: Some problems about the clickwheel and USB connection
1 years 364 days old: ROLO issues on ARM v4/v5 targets
2 years 7 days old: Rockboy Scrollwheel sensitivity
2 years 20 days old: Tag DB Never Builds
2 years 22 days old: Audio player selection is not visible while window is out of focus
2 years 24 days old: Peakmeter on ipod 5g using too much CPU (replacing FS#10527)
2 years 33 days old: Rockbox panic: I1E+Level6
2 years 36 days old: Hitting new button as old button is released doesn't release old button
2 years 49 days old: Deleting files in USB mode can confuse resume playback/bookmark functionality.
2 years 66 days old: Aliasing when playing MIDI files on iPod 5G
2 years 85 days old: Wrong value used when changing scroll bar width
2 years 103 days old: Doom Gets a Data Abort Error
2 years 103 days old: flac_seek may fail after 10 frame_sync attempts
2 years 119 days old: Build failure the uisimulator using MinGW.
2 years 124 days old: MR-100 requires reset if the hold switch is engaged after turn-on but before rockboot loads
2 years 124 days old: iriver H10 freezes up with scroll pad stuck up and back light flashing then shuts off
2 years 131 days old: FM Radio Tuner quality compared to OF
2 years 135 days old: volume controls broken in FM radio mode
2 years 142 days old: Setting Recording directory copies and renames the directory
2 years 143 days old: Chessbox playing errors and crashing
2 years 143 days old: Flickering backlight when removing hold with backlight fading
2 years 149 days old: bad voicing in the chinese language
2 years 152 days old: bugs with pitch screen
2 years 153 days old: ipod doesn't show connecting to PC
2 years 201 days old: Cannot charge iPod from Rockbox on low battery
2 years 204 days old: LCD sleep can theoretically happen after the backlight turns on again
2 years 207 days old: License of firmware/export/usb_ch9.h is unclear
2 years 217 days old: Directory skip hangs iaudio x5
2 years 217 days old: Clicking noise on Gigabeat S only when battery is fully charged and DC is connected
2 years 223 days old: Scrolling doesn't pause at the top or bottom of a list on 2nd Gen iPod
2 years 235 days old: fast changing time indicators when pausing with fading on
2 years 236 days old: database_changelog corrupted/wrecked
2 years 239 days old: latest nat sort fix still sorts wrong
2 years 257 days old: H10 5G MTP bootloader can't be built from configure
2 years 258 days old: USB connection not made when action_userabort() is used
2 years 259 days old: iAudio X5L remote erratic starting with build from 20090211
2 years 260 days old: Ipod Accessory bug reports
2 years 262 days old: "First Keypress Enables Backlight Only" broken on 5G and probably other clickweel iPods
2 years 271 days old: iAudio M3 does not charge *ever* using Rockbox
2 years 282 days old: When cutting and pasting, overwriting doesn't work
2 years 292 days old: RB sometimes forgets where it is in a playlist and that shuffle is on
2 years 305 days old: Single Mode Bootloader fails reboot on updated Gigabeat S.
2 years 305 days old: Premature and multiple storage_sleep() in buffering.c
2 years 309 days old: "Beep" sounds very distorted and fuzzy.
2 years 319 days old: Playback skips and hangs badly on iPod Video 80GB on start up
2 years 326 days old: Resumes incorrect file after deletion from directory
2 years 333 days old: Sound sometimes doesn't work on mr100 if booted without headphones plugged in
2 years 351 days old: SNES player missing tracks on certain SPCs
2 years 355 days old: rockbox.ipod not found
2 years 362 days old: PLAY and STOP buttons should be universal (where possible)
3 years 14 days old: Idle Poweroff doesn't exactly poweroff X5
3 years 21 days old: Freeze when playing multi-track OGG files
3 years 21 days old: severe screen corruption on H300
3 years 44 days old: Playback from cuesheet not scrobbled
3 years 47 days old: FM tuner reception fades over time
3 years 50 days old: Rockbox (and bootloader) mistakes battery for USB.
3 years 63 days old: playback engine gets confused by multiple simultaneous button presses
3 years 87 days old: Rockbox hardlocks while recording
3 years 93 days old: r18234 - core + plugins shouldnt be calling opendir() directly...
3 years 115 days old: The number of characters included in the Sazanami-Mincho-Regular font are few.
3 years 115 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files (Gaps/Skipping) - Example included
3 years 122 days old: Switching APE tracks no longer works on H120
3 years 123 days old: flac decoder doesn't handle truncated files nicely
3 years 125 days old: RBUtil reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn't
3 years 148 days old: Database initialization hangs if there's no music file on the player
3 years 162 days old: iRiver H340 skips when battery low
3 years 165 days old: AC3 playback does not work for single ripped songs
3 years 205 days old: compilation error due to GNU core utils BLOCK_SIZE value (and suggested fix)
3 years 215 days old: Equalizer is adding high noises
3 years 228 days old: Broken Manuals are Poorly Handled
3 years 228 days old: Extra button press required to continue browsing menus
3 years 232 days old: Freeze/Long duration when auto-creating bookmark if there's no free disk space left
3 years 260 days old: Backlight does not turn off when hold switch is on
3 years 267 days old: Sansa C240 Dock Line Level Audio disabled
3 years 273 days old: FM Recording disk thrashing
3 years 281 days old: Rockbox hangs on boot if disk full
3 years 320 days old: power button does not exit the recording menu on a Sansa c240
3 years 321 days old: Idle Poweroff only reboots my 1G iPod
3 years 364 days old: Slow scrolling in file view without CPU boost
4 years 17 days old: Selecting a buffered track in the current playlist forces a rebuffer
4 years 28 days old: Shows Ata Error instead of charging screen.
4 years 35 days old: Disable shut down on Rockpaint for iPod & Suggestions
4 years 42 days old: Anti-skip buffer doesn't work correctly on read errors
4 years 67 days old: Strange behaviour after Disk Full error while recording
4 years 84 days old: Charging screen broken on V2 Recorder
4 years 102 days old: Radio disappears from menu!
4 years 114 days old: Small weaknesses in FM-radio on iAudio X5
4 years 145 days old: First keypress sometimes gets eaten (but configured not to do so)
4 years 156 days old: remote volume up keypress sometimes causes directory skip (iriver h140)
4 years 219 days old: Recording on iPods have weird noise
5 years 195 days old: can't turn on iriver with the h300 non-lcd remote
5 years 202 days old: Keypad HOLD doesn't let go until scrolling is used
5 years 257 days old: H300 USB Bootloader Mode not working properly
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GUEST COLUMN: California right in outlawing gay 'conversion'
Jerry, a 23-year-old gay Texan, endured seven years of so-called "conversion therapy" starting at the age of 13. One of the most humiliating "treatments" entailed being taken to Nevada, where prostitution is legal, and forced to perform sex acts -- which he found revolting -- with female "sexual healers" who were twice his age.
Now, in one state at least, young people like Jerry will be protected from such traumas masquerading as "therapy."
California sent a powerful message to the rest of the country when it recently became the first state to ban "conversion therapy" for minors. The law, which takes effect on New Year's Day, could help end conversion therapy nationwide and has already inspired similar legislation in New Jersey. "These practices have no basis in science or medicine," said Gov. Jerry Brown. "They will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery."
It's about time. Advocates of this dangerous practice -- also known as "reparative" or "ex-gay" therapy -- claim it can make gay people straight. But it's junk science.
All major American medical, psychiatric, psychological, and professional counseling organizations have rejected conversion therapy as flawed and dangerous. Following "treatment," patients often report increased anxiety, depression, and in some cases, suicidal thoughts. "There is simply no sufficiently scientifically sound evidence that sexual orientation can be changed," the American Psychological Association has declared.
The damning evidence is getting harder and harder to ignore -- even among some who have been conversion therapy's biggest champions.
John Smid, the former executive director of a prominent conversion therapy organization, repudiated the practice last year. He said he hadn't ever met "a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual."
That's a remarkable statement from someone who served on the board of Exodus International, a group representing about 270 conversion therapy ministries. Smid also oversaw Love in Action, a Tennessee outfit where treatment included teaching men how to throw a football and change motor oil. In 2007, three former Exodus leaders issued an apology after witnessing the "isolation, shame, fear and loss of faith" caused by conversion therapy.
Earlier this year, retired psychiatrist Robert Spitzer recanted his own study, which had long been cited as proof that people can change their sexual orientation. Spitzer now believes his earlier conclusions "don't hold water."
The dangers of conversion therapy reach far beyond individual traumas. It promotes the belief that homosexuality is simply a behavioral issue and posits that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are deviants who voluntarily engage in behavior they know is wrong and could easily find happiness with opposite-sex partners. This unscientific framework feeds hate and bigotry.
It can also spur bullying, violence, and suicide. A recent analysis of 14 years of federal hate crime data by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where I work, found that LGBT people are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the country.
But despite the growing body of evidence against it, conversion therapy advocates keep peddling their toxic message. Even worse, they're targeting children and teens -- often recommending that parents force their children into treatment.
"Every single day when I attended conversion therapy, I left a little more destroyed than I was before I went in that room," Jerry, who doesn't want to reveal his last name, told my colleagues about his experiences as a teenager. He also said that he attempted suicide several times.
In all of his years in therapy, Jerry says, he never met a single person who ultimately changed his or her sexual orientation. "It was all a scam that did nothing but cause deep emotional scars that took me years to overcome."
Now that the truth about conversion therapy has become clear, state licensing boards must vigorously enforce regulations to stop therapists from employing this junk science. And more states need to follow California's lead.
It's time to call a lie a lie.
Christine Sun is the Southern Poverty Law Center's deputy legal director and the head of its LGBT rights project:


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Network Access Control: Endforce's Enterprise 2.5
Endforce's Enterprise 2.5
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Price: $7,500 per server, $40 per client
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Endforce Enterprise meets organizations' needs for secure network access control, featuring broad application support and enforcement options.
While organizations wrestle with the implications of Cisco Systems' NAC, Microsoft's NAP and Trusted Computing Group's TNC standards, noncompliant devices--particularly mobile ones--are a problem they need to address now. Endforce Enterprise 2.5 provides impressive endpoint checking and enforcement options for companies struggling to enforce network access security policies for their nomadic workforce.
Endforce Enterprise automates the process of defining, assessing, enforcing and reporting endpoint security compliance. Users can be alerted for voluntary compliance, or be denied access and quarantined--either through removal from the network or dynamic reassignment to a sandboxed VLAN.
Endforce Enterprise provides both agent and agentless options, although only the agent provides some of the higher level enforcement functions, such as local blocking whereby no outbound packets are allowed except in a defined quarantine zone. The agents run on Windows devices only (98 through the upcoming Vista).
A clientless ActiveX Web agent can be used to assess other OSes, unmanaged endpoints (a home PC or kiosk computer) and other network devices. Assessments are typically performed at remote login, boot time and periodically thereafter on an admin-defined schedule.
With or without an agent, Endforce Enterprise offers the choice of DHCP- or 802.1X/RADIUS-based enforcement. The DHCP infrastructure can be used to quarantine noncompliant and rogue endpoints, and assign alternate gateways, DNS servers or static routes to the Internet. Endforce Enterprise's utilization of 802.1X is an attractive option for companies that have upgraded their infrastructure.
Out of the box, Endforce Enterprise provides support enforcement for more than 400 applications, including popular security products from Symantec, McAfee, Cisco, CA, Sophos, Trend Micro and, of course, Microsoft. It can check for AV applications and signature files, antispyware, personal firewall applications, OS service packs and OS patches. You can also custom-define elements, including prohibited elements that should not be present. We would like to see more predefined prohibited applications, with set group categories for types of banned items that can be selected en masse.
Endforce Enterprise provides a straightforward Web interface to define policies. You can specify the installed and running versions of software required by policy, the presence of specific files and/or registry keys, and security patches or service packs. Policies can be defined to insist that applications must not only be installed but actually running on the endpoint device.
There are more than 500 point-and-click options, mostly drop-down combo boxes.
Exec Summary
- DHCP and 802.1X enforcement
- Broad app support
- Agent/agentless option
- Windows-only agents
Policies can be saved and used as templates for different organizational groups within Active Directory, Windows NT user groups, RADIUS and LDAP.
The application server requires Windows 2003 and uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for its database. Installation is well-documented; the documentation includes sections covering specific SQL Server, IIS, Internet authentication and optional RADIUS proxy settings. Agents are installed and distributed via .msi. A helpful troubleshooting guide is included.
Endforce offers several prepackaged reports; we easily customized reports to show which hosts within our test bed were problematic.
In this still-young market, with a number of independent players and acquisitions by heavy hitters like Check Point Software Technolo- gies (Zone Labs) and Symantec (Sygate), Endforce Enterprise is a viable choice, offering widening application support and enforcement options that anticipate how the NAC/NAP/TNC scenarios will play out.
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Brunello Cucinelli has designs on fashion and philanthropy
When you see it at a distance, clothing by Brunello Cucinelli looks like the cool, casual sportswear that Americans love to live in.
But view these designs up close, touch the cashmere, zip up a jacket, tie a scarf around your neck and you'll feel the all-out luxury. If this line were a car, it would be a Ferrari rather than a Ford, so any comparison to L.L. Bean or Timberland just doesn't hold up.
From its start in the Umbria region of Italy in the late 1970s to its global distribution today, the brand has become synonymous with fine quality and a throw-away ease. Brunello Cucinelli, now 58, continues to be the brand's best ambassador and supporter of cultural institutions in Solomeo, the small town where it is based. They have seven stores in the U.S. and more shops-within-a-store, such as in Denver's Andrisen Morton. The longtime local menswear retailer Saturday hosted a fashion show for the Cucinelli brand that was part of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation gala.
Among those attending from the company was Massimo Caronna who has worked with Cucinelli since the mid-1990s. "We believe in getting involved in the community," whether that's in Italy or America, said Caronna, who is the company's president for the U.S. and Canada.
Caronna said the clothes mirror Cucinelli's own style and interest in designs with great quality and creativity. "It's his closet, a way to dress seven days a week."
The colors are warm and muted: gray flannel, camel, slate blue, burnt orange, sage. Buttery leather and four-ply cashmere are easy to touch, harder on the wallet (prices in the men's line go from about $400 for shirts to coats in the four figures). What you won't see is black or anything hard-edged.
"Men today want to dress in a modern way; they don't want to look like their fathers," Caronna said. Top items are sport jackets that fit close to the body and have only partial linings, casual jackets that might reverse from leather to nylon, sweaters in four-ply cashmere, spread-collar shirts and cargo jeans.
The women's line is equally luxurious and also body-conscious, Caronna said. "Women want to look chic and sexy and young. They want to look put together whether they are taking the kids to school or going out at night."
Chunky knits, fur-trimmed jackets, sweater dresses, cuffed shorts worn over tights and satin skirts are among the key items.


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Nicknamed La Grande Boucle, often shortened to just Le Tour, the Tour de France is the world's greatest bike race and biggest annual sporting event.
The Tour de France was founded in 1903 as a publicity vehicle for the newspaper l'Auto and is now owned by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) which also owns l'Auto's descendent, French sports newspaper l'Equipe and promotes numerous other bike races including the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic and the Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain).
Over 23 days in July, the Tour comprises 21 days of racing — known as stages — and two rest days that give the riders a chance to recover. The terrain that stages traverse varies from relatively flat to the high mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees.
Most stages are 'mass-start' with the whole race starting together, and there are usually one or two time trial stages in which riders race against the clock, either individually or as a team.
The Tour's overall leader is determined by aggregate time and wears a yellow jersey. The colour echoes the yellow paper used for l'Auto but was not introduced until 1913 or 1914.


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Ledger Dedications
Francesco di Marco Datini in late 14th century Italy opened a new ledger with the dedication:
"In the name of God and of the Virgin Mary and all the Saints of Paradise, that they may give us grace to do right both for body and soul."
His factor, Monte d'Andrea, followed this with the ten command-ments—"not always to be observed, perhaps—but there at the head of the ledger they stood."
Origo, Iris, The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini, Penguin Books, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1963, p. 279.


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Just as Passover is about the story of the Jewish peoples' exodus from Egypt, there is a (less epic) story behind this post as well. In putting together our Passover menu, we were hyper-aware of the fact that the Passover meal comes with many rules and rituals, and in the interest of getting it right, we sought help from a few of our practicing friends (hi, Rivka!). Though the debate was friendly and genial, debate there was! Turns out, as with so many religious events, peoples' Passover traditions are both widely varied and closely held.
This menu is a suggestion, a delicious idea -- we've stayed away from the mixing of meat and dairy, and of course, from leavened bread, but we've included a roasted meat, which is a no-no in some sects -- so take our menu as a starting point. Feel free to adapt it, to cherry pick, and tell us about your Passover traditions in the comments!
Tuscan Onion Confit by merrill
Marinated Cauliflower by Kayb
Moroccan Carrot Salad with Harissa by Cordelia
Roasted Broccoli with Smoked Paprika Vinaigrette and Marcona Almonds by arielleclementine
A Medley of Roated Potatoes with Homemade Za'atar and Aleppo Pepper by onetribegourmet
Leg of Lamb with Garlic Sauce by ChefJune
Alice Medrich's New Classic Coconut Macaroons by Genius Recipes
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Katia Kapovich
My half-brother had dark sad eyes, wheaten hair
and the same gorgeous skin his mother had.
He was cute and smart and innately kind,
unlike me at his age, according to our father.
Five years younger than me,
Tim attracted all the love
my father had frozen in his heart
when I was growing up.
Tim was brought up on my old books.
He did better than I with poetry,
reciting by six some "grownup" verses
which I couldn't memorize at eleven.
At eight he wrote a poem
at the back of his math exercise book
and forgot about it.
It was a love poem
with an underlined dedication, "To A."
It so happened that I knew who A was.
The poem read as follows:
"I loved and missed her so much
that I forgot what she looked like,
and when she entered the classroom
in the morning, I did not recognize her.
I did not recognize her long face,
nor her slow neck, nor her skinny hands,
I had completely forgotten her green eyes."
It was quite a work of art, in my opinion,
but I told him that to sigh about
legs and necks and eyes
was sentimental and girlish.
He listened to me with dry eyes
and then tore out the page and threw it away
into the wastebasket.
He never wrote poetry again, but I did.
At fifteen I wrote a short story
which had some success and was even
published in a teenage literary magazine
called "Asterisks." It was around that time
that I stopped visiting my dad's house
after I realized
that everything about this boy
put me down, humiliated me
and filled me with jealousy.
I would meet dad on one condition:
if he wanted to see me,
he had to come to my place
or to stop by at the artsy café,
where my older friend Lena and I
would go after school
to sip strawberry milkshakes.
One day my father
came to my school during class hours
to take me to a hospital: the night before
my half-brother had gotten sick.
We arrived in the middle of the doctor's rounds.
The waiting area was noisy
and smelled of urine and medication.
Dad had gone inside,
I waited for him to call me in.
Through the door left ajar
I saw a row of iron bunks with striped mattresses.
Tim's was next to the door.
He lay leaning on a big gray pillow,
a glass of water in his hand.
The doctor wanted him to take a pill,
but he wouldn't hear of it.
He was willful, obstreperous,
he pushed away the hand of medicine.
"I want that ship, that ship …" he whined.
"What ship?" My father turned pale
and stared at the doctor. "Can't you see?
The green one, over there!" cried Tim,
inserting his finger in the glass of water
where a green ship, a three-funneled steamer,
was slowly sinking at the time.
From Gogol in Rome, 2004
Salt Publishing


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Looking for Haunted Collector cast updates around the web, here's what I found:
Haunted Maxcy gets Hunted for Ghosts (6 November 2013)
This article describes an investigation and presentation by Brian J. Cano and Chris Mancuso at Maxcy Hall at the University of New Haven.
"Cano and Mancuso spoke about their experiences with the different types of tools, and how situations differed from one location to another. They discussed the most haunted locations they've been to, and weren't hesitant to mention ghost-hunting experiences that didn't work as planned. Some locations simply didn't result in the evidence that they had hoped for, but as Cano says, "If it made you think about things you didn't before, then it was successful'."
Ghost Stories Told in Waverly (20 October 2013)
Great article describing a presentation and investigation with Brian J. Cano, Chris Mancuso, and Jason Gowin. Worth noting, at the end of the article:
"The crew then began to leave, but not before taking some unconventional precautions. To ensure the spirit didn't attach itself, Mancuso, no longer the skeptic he thought he was, imagined himself surrounded in white light as he backed away."
Old mirrors may harbor spirits, says John Zaffis, at Examiner.com (25 April 2013)
This article is at a website with annoying pop-up ads that froze my browser. So, here's the crux of the information, from that site:
"According to Zaffis, this is more common with old mirrors. Because the reflective layer of the mirror was painted on, there is a gap between the two layers. Spirits, he says, can get trapped between the two layers of the mirror and be unable to move on." [Link]
That seems to be true. Among well-known haunted mirrors are old mirrors at the Myrtles Plantation (LA), Driskill Hotel (Austin, TX), Hollis Historical Society (Hollis, MA), and many university rest room mirrors connected with the "Bloody Mary" legend.
To learn more about haunted mirrors, see The Mystery Behind Mirrors. It's good reading.
Photos from John's Museum of the Paranormal, at Atlas Obscura
"The collection contains artifacts from all over the world and run the gamut from innocuous artifacts such as a china set and a painting of a clown on velvet to more sinister-looking items, like tribal masks and a ventriloquist dummy…" [Link]
The Bizarre Science Behind Your Favorite Horror Films, at PolyMic, references John in an article.
This article talks about the "haunting" case in Connecticut and quotes John Zaffis about demonic possession and paralysis. Unfortunately, the article author then attributes all paranormal paralysis to the very normal phenomenon of sleep paralysis.
It's important to eliminate simple sleep paralysis in these cases. However, it's dangerous to attribute all such symptoms to abruptly interrupted REM sleep. Facile dismissal of alarming symptoms is one reason many demonic cases aren't identified early enough.
What Scares John Zaffis?, at Geek Nation
This isn't what it sounds like. In fact, I didn't see anything in this article that actually frightens John. However, it's a good interview from 2012 and worth re-reading. It reinforces John's views and what he tried to convey in the TV series. (But, as we all know, down-to-earth sensibility isn't as exciting as TV shows think they need to hold viewers' interest.) [Link]
Syfy cancels Haunted Collector TV show.
A comment from the webmaster:
As John Zaffis' Halloween tweet said, the Haunted Collector show has been cancelled by Syfy.
At Halloween, John's tweet said, ""hi all just letting you know haunted collector will not be coming back sorry to all our fans."
On one level, I'm really disappointed. Thanks to the cast, Haunted Collector was one of the few ghost-related TV shows that maintained a reasonable level of integrity in the ratings-driven entertainment field.
The loss of this show is significant. Many fans — including me — are not happy. We're angry with the production company and the network.
Other networks — including PBS, CW, and more — have been busy, getting larger audiences for their shows via Hulu Plus, Netflix, etc. It looks like Syfy is behind the times. It's been MIA in the digital TV revolution. That's kind of ironic, given the theme of the network.
That makes the cancellation of Haunted Collector even more annoying. The network and the production company could have made better choices.
For more insights, read Brian Cano's blog post about the cancellation. It's especially disappointing to see how the cast got the news.
Seriously, getting a show cancellation notice by email is even more sleazy than ending a romance by email. I'm sure less professional things happen in Hollywood, but this is a vile reflection on those in charge of producing the show.
So, you'll see this website transform over the coming weeks. (In the interim, it may look kind of disorganized.) I'm shifting the focus to the careers of the stars of Haunted Collector. I've known John and Brian for years, and I'm confident they have great adventures ahead.
I hope you'll continue to follow the cast of Haunted Collector as they move on to better projects.
Like you, I wish each of them great success with whatever they do, next.
John Zaffis has appeared on George Noury's Coast-to-Coast AM radio show many times. You can see the full list of shows at the Coast-to-Coast website:
John Zaffis – Guests – Coast to Coast AM
Here's one of John's most recent recordings from the show:
Demonology & Haunted Objects (22 Aug 2013)
Also, be sure to see some of the photos John shared. They're creepy, haunted objects from his museum. Here's the link: John Zaffis: Haunted Objects.
The Haunted Collector TV series returned in June 2012.
We expected…
Visit Syfy for a brief preview video! (Not sure if they've kept the video online. They seemed to be in a hurry to abandon this great series once they grew tired of it.)
Join Jeff Belanger for 30 Odd Minutes with John Zaffis, as they talk about haunted objects.
Recorded in November 2010, we're not sure how this one slipped beneath our radar, but here's the link anyway.
Jeff Belanger » Episode 50 – Haunted Objects with John Zaffis
In Episode 50 we talk haunted objects with demonologist and paranormal investigator John Zaffis. Zaffis has been investigating the paranormal for over 35 years. He got his start working with his aunt and uncle, renowned …
Jeff is almost always a kidder, but in this episode, he and John discuss demonology and other dark topics from the paranormal world.
John talks about his spiritual and paranormal family roots on both sides of his family.
Talking about demonology, John stresses the importance of ruling out normal and medical causes for what looks like a possession or demon attack.
Then, John and Jeff discuss haunted objects, from Grandma's jewelry to ritual objects, and why those objects can hold ghostly (or demonic) energy. John displays some haunted objects he brought to the 30 Odd Minutes studio, and even Jeff admits he's a little creeped out by them.
It's a good interview, worth watching for 30 Odd Minutes.
The Haunted Collector show is filming Season Two. Looks like the team will be on the road pretty close to the holidays. With recent blizzards in the U.S., we hope their journeys are safe.
In Brian J. Cano's new blog, we learned that the show has been filming at a Florida location. Thanks to a WKTV (Utica, NY) news report, we learned that New York's Hulbert House is also one of the Haunted Collector's investigation sites this season.
We found more info about Hulbert House online.
The Haunting of Hulbert House – CNY Paranormal – LITE 98.7
The Hulbert House was built in 1812 in Boonville, NY. Since it was built, Hulbert House has been active as an inn, and was at one time one of…
And this brief report:
Historical Sites in The Hulbert House 106 Main Street Boonville …
We believe this site to be an active location…
We also found this 10-minute video from a Hulbert House investigation by NNY Shadow Chasers.
What is it about places called Boonville? We found references to hauntings in Boonville, Indiana and Boonville, Missouri, too.
Here's an old video with an odd, ghostly figure in it, apparently filmed at a cemetery in Boonville, Indiana. (One viewer mentioned Millersburg Cemetery "out by the local mines.")
Watch that 1-minute video, then re-watch it, looking for what's highlighted in slow motion at the end. (We spotted the figure at the tree before we got to the slo-mo section. If that's a real video, it's pretty good.)
Then there are hauntings in places called Bonneville, including North Bonneville, Washington. (Don't get us started about the strange legends of the Bonneville Salt Flats between Utah and Nevada.)
We've heard rumors of ghosts in the ghost town of Caribou City, Bonneville County, Idaho. Unlike many Idaho ghost towns, Caribou City has enough remains (one cabin but no roads) to make it a preservation issue.
That sounds too rural for any but the most intrepid ghost hunters, especially with no credible ghost stories yet. We may have to wait for a "ghostly ghost towns" reality series.
But we digress.
We're looking forward to Haunted Collector Season Two, and hope to have more updates about locations.
If you have additional information to share, leave a comment below.


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