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Update 6/11/2012 with the last viable offering of the PBO going "unavailable" the PBO is officially discontinued. Thread has been going strong for the last 2 years, thanks for everyone who participated, thread is now moved to the "Electronics" forum for existing (and potential) owners to make use of the wealth of information all over the thread.
The following N-adapters are compatible with the PBO:
- AWLL6075 Airlink101
- AWLL5077 Airlink101
- Patriot PCBOWAU2-N
- DLINK DWA-130 HW version E1
- Rokland's
- Zonet ZEW2546
- dealextreme branded (2R1T)
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- monoprice branded EARN CASH BACK
- meritline branded
- TEW-648UB (Rev 1.0)
- TEW-649UB (Rev 1.0)
- Asus USB-N10
- Belkin F5D8053 (v. 5000/6000)
The following wireless Realtek chipsets are compatible with the PBO (11N8709, RTL8187 and RTL8191SU)
Support for the following wireless RaLink chipsets can be added manually to the PBO (RT2571,RT2571W,RT2572,RT2573,RT2671,RT2770,RT2870 ,RT307x and RT3572USB)
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Customizing the PBO: a mini-guide
Initial Setup:
- get the Euro ACRBO or MedeBO latest version from here, make sure you read the background info to know what you are getting yourself into.
- follow the official update instructions here.
Navigation Setup (for ACRBO GUI 1.0 only):
- There is three pictures in post#2
- First to get dropouts for background browsing (without a jukebox): Download Thumbgen (check the thread here and the quick guide here).
- Second to get both dropouts and movie wall (picture 2): Download YAMJ installer here, the quick guide from here and finally further details if needed here.
- Third, to get a much neater looking and faster jukebox than YAMJ (dropouts + wall .. picture 3): Get the TViXiE2Playon!HD (how to here), if you have metafeeds/HDD installed follow the instructions here.
Online Content Setup:
- Install metafeeds and then xLive as described in my post here (this will get you online contents).
- The above assumes that you have HDD installed inside the box, installing metafeeds and xLive without an HDD can be done but requires extending workarounds.
NEW Semi-official Alternative route:
For those interested, I have compiled several custom firmware versions based on the latest PM firmware:
- latest PM firmware so comes with HD-Audio downmix ability (missing from ACR custom firmwares).
- Online access modules from Patriot, ACR, metafeeds, xLive, YouTube(HD), Shoutcast.
- RSS based jukebox.
- YAFFS2 based thus fully moddable (supports optware and all other add ons).
- Compatible with older bootcode 16 unlike the official release.
- Fully functioning without the need to install HDD for metafeeds/xLive.
Might want to also check the excellent hands-on by Midevilshadow here.
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Best RT 1073DD hack box $50 will ever get you ..
UPDATE Oct 1: Been a while since this player sale price ever went above $50, time to update the post title
UPDATE August 25: DD+ chipsets are showing up at most major retailers: ME, NCIX and CC.
UPDATE Feb 3: There is some PBO units that is reported to have the 1073DD+ chipset (HD-Audio capable), apparently all newer stock will have the updated chipset.
Here is what you might know about the PBO:
- Realtek based (1073DD): enormous media compatibility list (same chip inside Asus O!Play, ACRyan PlayON, and the list goes on), DTS/DD stereo downmix.Cons:
- The support community : Excellent user based community, every issue has been addressed and resolved, every possible how to has been written.
- Manufacturer support : whether the PBO is a Chinese clone or not, Patriot memory headquarters are located in California and not half the way across the globe, they are very prompt when it comes to RMA like services.
- Firmware : 6 firmwares already released (latest released late August), with external DVD support, better TV compatibility, HD-Audio downmix support and internet based content.
- Realtek based (1073DD): so and so wireless streaming, no support for BR menus, hardware bug rending it impossible to pass through HD-Audio.
- The support community : Being all fellow owners, they are all supporting the product out of thier own good heart and believe in the box, thus there is no obligation (for them) that your issues will be promptly addressed and there is also no guarantees that it will be resolved.
- Manufacturer support : if your issue isn't hardware related, good luck getting it resolved with Patriot, they simply don't know that much about the software side of the box, its just another hardware unit that they sell and thats as far as it goes.
- Firmware : due to the support point above, firmwares are released whenever they are ready, there is no change/bug/feature list included, NO one knows what issues is a firmware supposed to fix or when is the current reported bugs will be fixed if at all. The firmware released is always as close as it can be to the reference firmware that Realtek supply with the boxes (not that much customization except for PBO logo at the box bootup).
bottom line: though very comparable to any other Realtek based media player the PBO sinks deeply down the list with the lack of development support from the manufacturer and the crippled stock firmware that comes with it.
What you might (most probably) not know about the PBO:
Regardless of the lack of any real investment in the software development of this product, Patriot memory is offering what it can to satisfy their ranting and nagging customers. Thus PM (perhaps because they couldn't care less) has (and continues to release) manufacturer materials that is not typically released to average Joe media player owners.
Results : PM has shared enough knowledge and material with its users that made the box literally "unbrickable" (unless its a hardware failure), while other media players users don't even know what a bootcoder is, PM has released 4 different versions of RT bootloaders for 1073 devices, things like "I have bricked the box during firmware update" are no longer an issue, because you can resurrect your box for $6 of materials and 6 minutes in time. This enabled the PBO owners to liberally experiment with the underlying linux machine on which the PBO interface runs, adding functionality and even fearlessly testing lots of the "unlocked" firmwares available from other boxes (based on similar chipset).
Conclusion: With the proper mods, PBO can easily be cross flashed, and further unlocking lots of features, online content, support for external optical drives, even YAMJ and TVIXIE jukeboxes. Even for those who wont be interested in cross flashing there tons of free applications that will add features like more powerful torrent client, NFS server, UPNP server ..etc. This is all at considerably lower price than all the other RT based players and beside you don't have to worry about sending the box back to china in case you bricked it.
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Memory Express, has the Patriot Box Office media player on a Father's Day sale for $79.99 with free shipping, and no PST as on-line orders ship from Alberta ($83.99 total with GST). They do have retail stores in Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg as well.
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- PBO will accept 2.5" SATA drives (great for on the go usage).
- PBO doesn't have a card reader (but will accept USB one no problem)
- PBO has a metal casing.
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37 weeks, 2 cm dilated, 80% effaced and lost my mucus plug, thinking of taking a little castor oil?
My dr says that at about 39 weeks she might induce me b/c he's so far down and I'm progressing slowly. I've heard mixed reviews on the castor oil subject and not sure. But this pain is getting unbearable and I've had to take my leave at work early. Opinions?
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DON'T do Castor oil. I tried with my last pregnancy. All it did was cause my to have diarrhea, than causing me to get hemroids a week before delivery. The hemroids than made pushing during delivery of my son more painful. DON'T do Castro oil!!!posted 01/06/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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Thank you :) I really wouldnt want to rush it, but it's causing so much pain and had to take leave a lot earlier than anticipated. Just worried about not having him until due date and but struggling with bills until thenposted 01/06/2012 by AnitaDahhling
I thought it would be sex but since you lost your mucus plug.....a lot of walking would be good.posted 01/06/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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There is a reason the medical community abandoned the use of castor oil many years ago! When it's been scientifically studied, there is no evidence it gives any benefit to a mom or baby (meaning it doesn't work). And there is evidence of harm given women have side effects like nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhea. These could lead to dehydration which is not good for your baby. We have to get the message out there to STOP the use of castor oil in pregnant women! Your best bet is with natural labor. Instead of an unindicated medical intervention, ask your doctor to sweep your membranes which is a natural way of encouraging labor. Then if you reach 41 weeks, you could plan for induction then if all is well. Hang in there! You're almost there.posted 01/06/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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The Baytown, Texas-based restaurant chain's maternity leave policy, which forced layoffs after the first trimester of pregnancy, is unlawful, the EEOC said in a lawsuit filed Sept. 26 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston.
Maryann Castillo, who worked at Bayou City Wings from 2008 to May 2011 as a server, bartender and manager, was laid off allegedly due to her pregnancy, according to the lawsuit.
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The suit seeks monetary damages on behalf of Castillo to be determined at trial.
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Best of luck to those who are archery hunting the Opener this weekend. Don't let the Full moon get you down... This buck wouldn't bed until 10am this morning, as was the case with most of the bucks I glassed up.
He was the 4th biggest I saw on the day, but he laid down in a location that was perfect for a stalk. I've never felt so sure that a stalk was going to come together. After watching a number of bucks from a vantage point for about 4 hours, this guy laid down in a small flat with the wind in his face and a big rock at his back. I knew there was a hog trail leading up to the back side of the rock- a hog trail that's used so frequently that it never has leaves, grass, etc. Nice and quiet.
I scampered about 800 yards into the canyon behind him and crept up the trail with the wind in my face. As I was climbing up to the rock he was bedded behind, I suddenly noticed his antler tips sticking out the right side of the rock. He had just stood up and was feeding again. I quickly ranged the rock- 30 yards, putting him at ~32.
I drew just in time before he fed out enough to see me move. Held for a bit until took a few more steps, then Smack. Shot was a touch forward on the uphill quartering away angle. Broke the shoulder and got penetration up into the neck. He made it no more than 50 yards.
Todd H
Congrats, that's a good buck!
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Another fine buck, BSA!
Nice job on an A zone bruiser!
Incredible buck.
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Atta boy Todd!! That's a very nice archery blacktail buddy!! And you saw bigger?!!!
Mike Hoppis
Nice buck!! Early start on 2014 for sure
Awesome. Congrats.
Nice buck! I can't believe your hunting already, heck he looked like he still had a few inches yet to grow! Congrats.
Very cool! Congrats on a successful hunt


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Once trained and registered, every snare they set must be tagged with their own personal ID number – and anyone setting a snare without such a number could face a maximum penalty of six months imprisonment, a fine of up to £5000, or both.
Scottish Gamekeepers Association chairman Alex Hogg added: "As one of the Scottish Government approved training bodies, the SGA has been running training courses since 2010 to ensure those, such as gamekeepers, ghillies, stalkers and wildlife managers, who use snares for legitimate and legal predator control, do so responsibly. "The cost of these training courses is normally between £40 and £48 per person, but in partnership with the SGA and Central Scotland Police, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority is holding two free training events for land managers operating within the National Park, on December 11 at Gartocharn, and Decembr 12 at Ardlui."


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NAGOYA – On the penultimate day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, Harumafuji conquered his demons with a mouthwatering victory over yokozuna Hakuho, capturing his second career title on Saturday.
The Mongolian ozeki improved to an unassailable 14-0 record, while Hakuho dropped to his second defeat and failed in his bid to win an unprecedented eighth consecutive title.
In the day's finale, Harumafuji got a razor-sharp jump at the face-off to get his left hand on Hakuho's mawashi and held on for dear life before reaching deep into his energy reserves to send the grand champion backpedaling out at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
"I feel great. I really wrestled the sumo of my life. I had to use all my power," said Harumafuji, who won his first title since beating Hakuho in a playoff at the 2009 summer basho.
"I've had many troubles and injuries since becoming ozeki but I kept training and got support from a lot of people."
He added: "I plan to do my best in tomorrow's bout as well," he said.
Hakuho had been on track to surpass his record streak of seven successive titles he holds with former yokozuna Asashoryu. But the yokozuna appears to have lost some of his zeal after being the poster boy for sumo for so long.
Ozeki hopeful Kotoshogiku, who beat Hakuho on the 11th day, suffered a fatal fourth loss after he was sent sprawling to the dirt by Wakanosato (8-6) with a beltless arm throw.
Kotoshogiku came into the 15-day meet needing at least 12 wins to be considered for promotion to sumo's second-highest rank but has lost two straight bouts to rank-and-file wrestlers following his tour de force against Hakuho.
In a showdown of ozeki wrestlers, Bulgarian Kotooshu (9-5) prevailed over Estonian Baruto (10-4) with a beltless arm throw as both men went flying over the edge.
Sekiwake Kakuryu manhandled Takekaze (7-7) to pick up a ninth win.
Meanwhile, Brazilian-born Kaisei (5-8) suffered his fourth straight defeat at the hands of little-man Toyonoshima, who improved to 8-6.
The Nagoya meet is the first regular tournament in six months following a match-fixing scandal that broke in February that shook Japan's ancient, revered sport to its very core.


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13 Spectacular Squash Dishes You'll Want to Eat Right Now
It's edible-gourd season.
It's edible-gourd season.
The new menu brings the usual set of fall ingredients, and some interesting updates.
Plus: a Peruvian food cart in midtown, another Oktoberfest option, and more of today's leftovers.
The festival season is on.
Grub Street hunkers down for the cold months with a look at some of the city's best new fall offerings.
Check out what's going to be on every restaurant diner's lips this season.
The menu doesn't necessarily push the season prematurely, but fall flavors represent.
Chef Dan Black comes up with all new dishes and seasonal updates on classic French dishes.
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....to tip over at a stop sign, I can fall quite well with cheap old
platform pedals. I took the Volae out for a little spin last night
after work. It was just before sunset and very peaceful in the
neighborhood. About four miles into a five miler I caught up to
a couple in their mid 20's at a crossroad and once I came to a
stop I managed quite well to just tip over. They probably would
have been concerned about my well being if I wasn't laughing so
hard. We spoke for a couple minutes and went our seperate ways,
today they're probably still laughing.
After work today I'll take another little spin and see how things go.
As promised, here's a couple pics of the Volae with the fenders, rack,
and mirror. I may still need to swap to a longer stem to get the handle
bar to a position of max comfort but the seat and handle bar adjustments
are somethings that I want to address gradually. I'm running 1 1/4"
high pressure tires front and rear, an IRC Metro on the front and a
Kenda Kwest on the back. They're quite nice on the street and I'll find out how
they work on the unpaved sections of the old Towpath along the canal.
The crushed stone is quite well compacted and is no problem for my
1 1/2" tires on the Sun EZ Sport.
The rear trunk is for tubes and tools, cell phone, wallet etc. I just pop it on
whichever bike I happen to use each day. Very convenient.
The pump fits nicely behind the seat and I attached it with a couple of velcro
straps. I carry it the same way on my EZ Sport.
It'll take a little getting used to but I'm looking foreward to a lot of
pleasurable miles on this little beast. Hopefully I won't be laying down
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From: Gleb Natapov (glebn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-30 14:44:53
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Are any of the XRC tmp SVN branches still relevant? Or have they now
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> I ask because I see 4 XRC-related branches out there under /tmp and /
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They are not relevant any more. I'll remove the one I created.


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January 15, 2014
Valdosta, GA - Multiple residences in the city have been burglarized this week. The burglars made off with everything from TVs, to gaming systems, to an electronic cigarette.
Police say they don't have any evidence that the break-ins are connected, but in most cases, a door or a window was left unlocked, which is dangerous, even for short periods of time.
"If you have to go out of town or if you're going on vacation, make sure you keep everything locked. Let some trusted neighbors know you want to stop your mail. Have somebody pick up your news paper. You can actually contact the police department and we will extra patrol your home for you while you're away", says Lt. Kirk, with the Valdosta Police Department.
Lt. Kirk says many burglars pay attention to your schedule and also your garbage to see if you have anything that would be worth selling on the street.
If you have any information on these burglaries, call the Valdosta Police Department at (229) 242-2606.


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Butch Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker on November 14, 1969) is an American recording artist, songwriter, and record producer, best known as lead vocalist and guitarist for alternative rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.
Walker grew up in Cartersville, Georgia and stood out as a guitarist and performer in several rock bands in the 1980s including Bad Boyz and Byte the Bullet. In 1988, he took Byte the Bullet to LA and they were signed to Virgin Records within the year. The band then changed their name to SouthGang and released two albums, Tainted Angel in 1991 and Group Therapy in 1992. SouthGang was one of the first bands to tour China in the early 1990s.
Afterwards, Butch took over lead vocals and with ex-SouthGang members Jayce Fincher (Jay Fincher) and Mitch McLee (Doug Mitchell) formed several bands in the 90s including Floyds Funk Revival, The Floyds, and the popular band Marvelous 3 which had a relatively successful hit with the song "Freak of the Week." After the break-up of the band in 2001 (their final concert was on August 3, 2001 at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in front of their hometown fans), Butch then began a solo career, releasing the albums Left of Self-Centered in 2002, Letters in 2004 and The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites in 2006, and in 2005 played over 200 live shows across both the U.S. and Japan. Butch Walker was recently featured as a headlining artist on the MySpace-promoted Inaugural Hotel Cafe tour, supporting independent artists from the Los Angeles venue of the same name. He has recently created a new band, 1969, which released its full-length debut album titled Maya on April 1, 2008.
Several of his songs have been hits for other artists, including Bowling for Soup's "Girl All the Bad Guys Want". He has written and produced records for such artists as Avril Lavigne, Family Force 5, Bowling for Soup, Pink, Lindsay Lohan, Lit, Simple Plan, Sevendust, Injected, The Donnas, Hot Hot Heat, American Hi-Fi, Default, Gob, Midtown, Puffy AmiYumi, Pete Yorn, Fall Out Boy, Quietdrive, All-American Rejects, SR-71, Rock Star Supernova, The Academy Is... and recently The Cab and All Time Low.
Also, he cowrote and performed on the minor Tommy Lee hit "Good Times" from the Tommyland: The Ride LP.
In late 2005, he released his first DVD, Live at Budokan and ended the year as Rolling Stone's producer of the year. On July 11, 2006, his third solo studio record was released, entitled The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites. It was recorded with his backing band, the Let's Go Out Tonites. His second DVD titled "Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street" was released in early 2008.
Walker was a guest judge on the second season of the American reality television program Rock Star: Supernova, during which Walker aided Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke, and Jason Newsted in selecting a lead singer for the new band, Rock Star Supernova. He later explained his limited participation in the televised show, stating: "I wouldn't give 'em more than one appearance. They edited the shit out of me, kind of made me seem like a kiss-ass. They skipped over the 10 contestants where I had critical things to say."[4] Lukas Rossi was chosen, and Walker produced a self-titled album for the band, which was released November 21, 2006.
In 2007, Walker provided guest vocals on Fall Out Boy's third record Infinity on High, on the track "You're Crashing, but You're No Wave", and co-produced the track "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" with singer Patrick Stump. He also made a brief cameo in the video for "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race".
Walker also appears in The Academy Is... videos for "Slow Down" and "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" as well as the video for "So What" by Pink. He also co-wrote the song "Younglife", which is performed by Anberlin and co-written by them.
Walker also joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. [5] He was also a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards.
Butch Walker began 2008 by setting out many dates for new songs, DVDs, new albums with the band 1969, which he is the bassist and lead singer for, and also a solo record titled Sycamore Meadows. Sycamore Meadows was going to be released on a holiday in the summer of 2008, as Butch stated that he was planning to release something on every major holiday in 2008, but was postponed due to personal reasons until November 11, according to his MySpace blog. The new albums for 1969 and his solo record Sycamore Meadows were to be released on a limited run of vinyl. On February 14, 2008, an audio release of Walker's live performance in his hometown of Atlanta, GA, was released. A DVD of this show followed on March 17, 2008. The DVD and audio are titled Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (Luckie Street is the road the venue at which the show was played, the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA). The release for Maya by 1969 was on April 1, 2008.
Butch signed on to judge a competition called Spin's Hot Pursuit to find an unsigned band for Epic Records/Original Signal hosted on Music Nation.
Butch Walker's new solo album, Sycamore Meadows, was released on November 11, 2008. The first single, "The Weight of Her", and an additional track, "Ships in a Bottle", are available on iTunes. The video for "Ships in a Bottle" documents Butch walking on the grounds of his home on Sycamore Meadows Drive in Southern California after it was destroyed by the wildfires of November 2007.
Butch also appeared on the Ellen show with friend Pink to perform "Here Comes the..." His iTunes sales have rocketed since the appearance.Butch is also touring starting in March.
In January 2009, post-hardcore band Saosin tapped Walker to produce their second album for Capitol Records.
In March 2009, the song "Open Happiness" debuted, a new business venture by Coca-Cola, written by Walker, and featuring Cee-Lo Green, Travis McCoy, Janelle Monae, Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie. This song has a Cantonese cover version by Joey Yung on her new album, A Time For Us, and she is also filming advertisements for Coca Cola in Chinese.
In July 2009, Butch Walker plans to work with Weezer. Butch mentioned working with the band during a radio interview with 99x. He was being interviewed via phone along with Cee Lo from Gnarls Barkley who was in the actual studio.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put together a dedicated group to examine private equity and hedge funds, after the 2010 Dodd-Frank law required the funds to be regulated, according to people. The examiners will look at how private equity and hedge funds value their assets, disclose fees, and communicate with investors.
The SEC regularly examines a range of financial institutions to ensure compliance with federal securities laws. But the regulator's exams have been criticised for missing big violations such as the Ponzi scheme at Ber-nard Madoff's asset management arm. The agency has resp-onded by adding specialist examiners, covering areas ran-ging from financial markets to derivatives, and coordinating among examiners nationally.
The SEC already has examiners who specialise in funds, but historically the agency has focused on public asset managers such as mutual funds that have been highly regulated since 1940. Dodd-Frank required most mid-sized and large private equity and hedge funds to register with the SEC. Many hedge funds and private equity firms hold complex and illiquid investments that are harder to value than those at traditional asset managers. This has spurred the need for specialist SEC examiners. Also, these funds can have complex fee structures that are harder for investors to understand. Ensuring transparency in these funds is a top SEC priority.
The SEC has asked Congress for more resources for fund inspections. SEC chair Mary Jo White told a US House of Representatives appropriations panel that the regulator examined only 9% of registered investment fund advisers last fiscal.


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Images: Camp Leatherneck opens new education center [Image 3 of 5]
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Professor John Nolan of the University of Maryland University College answers a student's question during an introduction course at the education center aboard Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, July 18. The new education center can hold up to 32 students and will offer four classes during the inaugural semester.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - California senior Louie Gagnet qualified for the 2005 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships by taking third place on the one-meter springboard on the first day of the NCAA Division I Zone E Diving Regional held today at Oklahoma Community College. Gagnet had a score of 625.35 to finish behind winner Joona Puhakka from Arizona State (664.55) and runner-up John Collier from Arizona (654.00).
Gagnet was fourth, and Puhakka won the Pac-10 title, on the one-meter board at the recent conference meet.
Gagnet competes on the three-meter springboard tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. CT. The platform diving competition will take place at 1 p.m. CT on Saturday, also in Oklahoma City.
The NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving championships will take place March 24-26 in Minneapolis, Minn.
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Game: Dead Rising 2
Cinema has long been a preferred medium for societies to work through troublesome times. If you look at Hollywood's output since 1970, you'd swear the US won the Vietnam war - and the upsurge in vampire films is pop culture's attempt to deal with the Aids epidemic: blood can be deadly.
Video games might be the next medium to find a social conscience, if Dead Rising 2 is anything to go by.
The plot continues from where the original Dead Rising ended, though the zombie invasion has spread across the US. You play Chuck Greene, whose late wife was zombified and whose daughter, Katey, is infected. Chuck is a former motocross champion who participates in Terror is Reality, a game within the game (which makes up the online component), for money in Fortune City.
Terror is pretty simple: kill as many zombies as you can within a given time. Chuck needs the money to keep buying Zombrex - which prevents an infected person turning into a zombie - for Katey.
Of course, everything suddenly gets out of hand when the zombies break out of their zone. Chuck and Katey have to survive 72 hours before the army contains the outbreak and can rescue survivors.
Moral and ethical choices abound, which makes DR2 more interesting than most of its rivals. Saving others who are not infected boosts your score, but it slows you down - and the clock is always ticking.
It's not only about guns: your weapons are regular items that you combine into some ingenious offensive tools.
The graphics are not up to a second-generation title and the game mechanics can be fiddly.


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Computational Conformal / Quasi-conformal Geometry and Its Applications
Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
AbstractConformal (C) / Quasi-conformal (QC) geometry has a long history in pure mathematics, and is an active field in both modern geometry and modern physics. Recently, with the rapid development of 3D digital scanning technology, the demand for effective geometric processing and shape analysis is ever increasing. Computational conformal / quasi-conformal geometry plays an important role for these purposes. Applications can be found in different areas such as medical imaging, computer visions and computer graphics.
In this talk, I will first give an overview of how conformal geometry can be applied in medical imaging and computer graphics. Examples include brain registration and texture mapping, where the mappings are constructed to be as conformal as possible to reduce geometric distortions. In reality, most registrations and surface mappings involve non-conformal distortions, which require more general theories to study. A direct generalization of conformal mapping is quasiconformal mapping, where the mapping is allowed to have bounded conformality distortions. In the second part of my talk, theories of quasicoformal geometry and its applications will be presented. In particular, I will talk about how QC can be used for registration of biological surfaces, shape analysis, medical morphometry and the inpainting of surface diffeomorphism.
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Applied Disciplines: A Critical Thinking Model for Engineering
R. J. Niewoehner
United States Naval Academy, USA
ABSTRACTRichard Paul's critical thinking model was adapted to the challenge of engineering education, and published in July 2006 as a guide to Engineering Reasoning. Paul's model is briefly described and exemplified by questions engineers ask in practice. This paper describes classroom exercises employing the model which are suitable for undergraduate and graduate engineering program.
INTRODUCTIONThe evaluation of our thinking as engineers requires a vocabulary of thinking and reasoning. The intellect requires a voice. Richard Paul and Linda Elder, from the Foundation for Critical Thinking, have proposed a critical thinking model documented in various sources ([1], [2] and [3]), including over a dozen Thinkers' Guides that apply this model to diverse disciplines (e.g.- [4]).
Engineers and scientists are quite comfortable working within the context of conceptual models. We employ thermodynamic models, electrical models, mathematical models, computer models or even physical models fashioned from wood or clay. Here we apply a model to the way in which we think, an architecture whose purpose is aiding the analysis and evaluation of thought, that we might improve our thought. A new thinkers' guide, Engineering Reasoning [5], applies this model to the engineering enterprise. This paper introduces this Thinkers' Guide as a tool for engineering educators and students, summarizing its content and suggesting several exercises for its use in support of engineering course and project work.
The guide follows Paul's model, providing a framework for analyzing and evaluating engineering reports, designs, graphics, and entire disciplines. It articulates the questions that exemplify maturing engineering reasoning. Several examples are provided of both excellence and disaster in engineering reasoning. The model is also applied to areas which touch engineering such as creativity, craftsmanship, and ethics.
THE PROBLEMElder [6] cites a series of studies indicating that college faculty almost unanimously insist that promoting critical thinking ranks among the primary goals of their work. Lamentably, that same research indicates that few college professors can articulate a substantive understanding of critical thinking, and few can identify the elements of their teaching that specifically develop critical thinking. Reference [6] appeals for the development of a substantive view of critical thinking both within higher education.
A CRITICAL THINKING MODELTo address Elder's observation above, the analysis and evaluation of our thinking as engineers requires a vocabulary of thinking and reasoning. The model that follows is not unique to engineering; indeed, its real power is its flexibility in adapting to any domain of life and thought. Other Thinkers' Guides apply this model to other disciplines. Engineers and scientists are quite comfortable working within the context of conceptual models. We employ thermodynamic models, electrical models, mathematical models, computer models or even physical models fashioned from wood or clay. Here we apply a model of the way in which we think, an architecture whose purpose aides the analysis and evaluation of thought, that we might improve our thought.
The model depicted in Figure 1 depicts Paul's model, which the guide develops, working from the base of the diagram up.
ESSENTIAL INTELLECTUAL TRAITSThe engineer does not work in isolation, but in the context of enterprises, cultures and communities, each of which represents divergent interests and perspectives. Furthermore, no engineer can claim perfect objectivity; their work is unavoidably influenced by strengths and weaknesses, education, experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and self-interest. They avoid paths they associate with past mistakes and trudge down well worn paths that worked in the past. The profession engineer must cultivate personal and intellectual virtues.
These virtues are not radically distinct from those sought by any maturing thinker. They determine the extent to which we think with insight and integrity, regardless of the subject. The engineering enterprise does however pose distinct questions for the engineer in pursuit of such virtue.The humble engineer asks:
FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THINKINGAll thinking entails eight elements, regardless of the domain or subject about which we're thinking. Those eight elements provide a framework for analyzing either our own thinking or the thinking of others (such as in technical reports or designs). The questions below exemplify those posed by the mature engineering thinker, grouped according to the element of thinking upon which they touch.
Universal intellectual standards must be applied to thinking whenever one is interested in checking the quality of reasoning about a problem, issue, or situation. The standards are not unique to engineering, but are universal to all domains of thinking. To think professionally as an engineer entails having command of these standards. While there are a number of universal standards, we focus here on some of the most significant.
- Specific clarity questions in engineering include:
- Are the market/mission requirements clearly stated?
- Have terms and symbols been clearly defined?
- Have the assumptions been clearly stated?
- Do drawings/graphs/photos and supporting annotations clearly portray important relationships?
- Specific accuracy questions include:
- What is your confidence in that data?
- Has the test equipment been calibrated? How/when?
- How have simulation models been validated?
- Have assumptions been challenged for legitimacy?
- Specific precision questions include:
- What are acceptable tolerances for diverse pieces of information?
- Has the test equipment been calibrated? How/when?
- What are the error bars or confidence bounds on experimental, handbook or analytical data?
- Engineers might ask questions of relevance:
- Have all relevant factors been weighed (e.g.- environmental, or marketplace)?
- Are there unnecessary details obscuring the dominant factors?
- Has irrelevant data been included?
- Have important interrelationships been identified and studied?
- Have features and capabilities (and hence cost) been included which the customer neither needs nor wants?
- Specific depth questions include:
- Do models have adequate complexity and detail?
- At what threshold does detail or additional features stop adding value?
- For the engineer, specific breadth questions include:
- Have the full range of options been explored?
- Have interactions with other systems been fully considered?
- What if the environment is other than we had expected (e.g.- hotter, colder, dusty, humid)?
Logical Validity
- For the engineer, specific logic questions include:
- Are the design decisions supported by good analysis?
- Are there hidden or unstated assumptions which should be challenged?
- Appropriate fairness questions include:
- Have other points of view been considered (stock holders, manufacturing, sales, customers, public citizens, community interests, etc.)?
- Are vested interests inappropriately influencing the design?
- Are divergent views given due consideration?
- Have the environmental/safety impacts been appropriately weighed?
The following critical thinking exercises can employ the Engineering Reasoning Mini-Guide [5] as an in class supplement (suggested).
Fostering Intellectual Traits
Engineering students are likely puzzled at first by the suggestion that personal virtues relate to their success as engineers. The criticality of these traits becomes prominent in their interactions as members of teams. Consequently, introducing the standards and using them to foster development, is most effectively done in the context of their efforts to make their teams succeed.
As an introduction to the standards, and prior to commencing team efforts, students should read the descriptions and then discuss ensemble the value of these diverse traits. The questions they specifically want to discuss are why any of these traits will be beneficial to their team's success, and why the absence of these traits will likely hinder the team's performance.
At the conclusion of team projects, or coincident with major milestones (long duration projects), team members can be assigned to write a paragraph in which they identify a vignette in which they saw one of the intellectual traits exhibited in a way that benefited the team, and a second example identifying a vignette in which an individual or team deficit in the intellectual traits hampered team performance. The faculty member or team manager should then collate the vignettes stripping contributors' names (recognizing the team manager may be the subject of either positive or negative vignettes). A group discussion of the results should be included as part of technical debrief.
Employing the Elements of Reasoning
The real power in this taxonomy of thinking is its scalability. A topic as large as an entire course or as small as an editorial in the newspaper or a single lecture can be decomposed using the elements. The student can be asked to decompose a journal article, course topic, textbook chapter or technical report using this framework. Opportunities abound for using the eight elements both in class and outside course-work.
The eight elements can be introduced to the students in several ways. The guide includes a number of templates and examples. The most effective way for the students to become comfortable working with the elements is to review an example and then immediately apply the template to some subject area.
On the opening day of a class, the entire class can be asked to identify the eight elements associated with the prerequisite course, e.g.- "Identify the eight elements associated with the class you finished last semester in Aerodynamics. What was the purpose of Aerodynamics? What question was it trying to answer? What was the point of view? What assumptions were commonly made? What information was brought to bear? What concepts were key? What conclusions were formed? What were the implications of the material you learned?" Once students were given 6-8 minutes to do this individually, they could then share their answers either in small groups, or as a class. They could then be assigned to skim their new text's Table of Contents and decompose the new course according to the same template.
The faculty member is indispensable in keeping the elements close to the surface of the students thinking. This is best done by Socratic interaction in which the questions posed by professor apply to one of the eight elements: "What were the assumptions constraining this approach?" "What implications follow from this development?" "When we started to derive this relationship, what question are we trying to answer?" "What's the source of this insight? Was it theoretical or experimental? What empirical support do we have for this theoretical result?"
At the end of any course segment or at the end of the entire course, the students can be tasked to decompose that chapter's content or the entire course using the 8 elements. At any point during the course, the content of a relevant article can be decomposed.
The value of this practice is helping the student to provide a context for that segment or course. It provides a framework for recalling the importance of assumptions, recalling the big picture question at hand, and moving beyond the direct content to wrestling with its implications.
Teaching the Intellectual Standards
An effective means of introducing the intellectual standards is by means of reciprocal teaching. Using the Engineering Reasoning guide, students should be assigned in pairs to read the descriptions and example questions associated with Clarity and Accuracy (one student assigned to each). They should be given 3-4 minutes to prepare to explain their assigned standard to their partner, including both examples of representative questions from the guide, as well as an example they've created themselves.
In class, the standards provide a template for developing good questions to be posed in Socratic fashion. In doing so, the professor is modelling the thinking of mature engineers through the questions they pose.
Many of us struggled as new faculty trying to identify the most valuable feedback we could provide our students. On technical reports, for example, many of us wonder, "What comments can I provide a student that will best promote their learning from this experience?" The standards provide a ready vocabulary for identifying the weaknesses in student work. Moreover, if the professor's feedback consistently appeals to the standards either explicitly or implicitly, and holds students to those standards, students will be more inclined to embrace the standards as the goal they are striving to achieve.
Ancillary Material
Vignettes in the back of the guide are intended to illustrate both successes and failures in engineering in our critical thinking vocabulary. They are included to foster discussion portraying the results of both excellent and deficit engineering reasoning. Students can be encouraged to research other historical examples and specifically evaluate how the success or failure of a technical enterprise turned on the quality of thought. While we commonly dissect accidents for their technical and organizational flaws, it is also illuminating to evaluate the thinking present in these episodes.
Our students' critical thinking implicitly undergirds all the desired skills found in any engineering syllabus. As with other engineering endeavours, models are invaluable in understanding and articulating the connections and interactions of systems and environments. This paper applied a model of critical thinking to the mind of the mature engineer, with the goal of helping us understand how to describe our own thinking and hence better develop the thinking of engineering students. It also provided a brief list of ideas for directly applying the content to the engineering classroom.
I must necessarily thank Richard Paul and Linda Elder for their decades of work as champions of critical thinking in education. It's been a delight to learn from them and collaborate in the preparation of the Engineering Reasoning guide from which this paper has been adapted.
- Paul, R.W. and Elder, L., Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle, NJ, 2002
- Paul, R.W. and Elder, L., Critical Thinking: How To Prepare Students For A Rapidly Changing World, Foundation for Critical Thinking, Sonoma, CA, 1995.
- www.criticalthinking.org/resources [cited 10 May 2006]
- Paul, R.W. and Elder, L., A Miniature Guide to Scientific Thinking, Foundation for Critical Thinking, Sonoma, CA, 2003.
- Paul, R.W., Niewoehner, R.J., and Elder, L., A Miniature Guide to Engineering Reasoning, Foundation for Critical Thinking, Sonoma, CA, 2006.
- Elder, L. "The State of Critical Thinking Today: The Need for a Substantive Concept of Critical Thinking" The State of Critical Thinking Today [cited 10 May 2006]
Much of this article is a summary of what is included in the Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning, which is under the copyright of the Foundation For Critical Thinking. Any remainder is declared to be a work of the U.S. Federal Government, and is therefore public domain and may not be copyrighted.
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The Construction Roundtable of New Jersey will be holding its Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Dinner on Wednesday, May 19, 2015. This event will take place at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters in New Brunswick. Once again, we are counting on your support in raising funds which will benefit students planning to continue their studies at a four-year institution in New Jersey entering in construction-related fields including Engineering, Design, Architecture or Construction Management.
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Lionel Messi, Cristian Tello and Xavi were all on the scoresheet as Liga leaders Barcelona did the business with a 4-2 victory at Real Mallorca.
Messi's two goals, a Xavi free kick and an excellent strike from youngster Tello were enough to earn three points, although Mallorca had attempted a comeback from 3-0 down at half-time with goals from Michael Pereira and Victor Casadesus.
Mallorca were already on a losing streak in the league and it was a big ask for them to face a Barcelona side looking to put things right after a surprise defeat to Celtic in the Champions League midweek.
In addition Mallorca had to face the Catalan giants with an under strength starting team due to the injuries of regular first team players such as former Barça man Giovani Dos Santos, along with Nunes, Antonio Lopez, Joao Victor and Javi Marquez.
Messi's brace, which saw him beat Pele's calendar year goal scoring record from 1959, took the Argentine up to 76 goals in 2012 for club and country. His second goal was his 20th strike already this season and he now has Gerd Muller's calendar year world record of 85 goals in 1972 in his sights.
Xavi opened the scoring with a fantastic free kick in the 28th minute, after Mallorca gave their hosts a chance to shoot from a set piece - following Jose Luis Marti's foul on Fabregas just outside the box.
Messi made it 2-0 in the 44th minute with a low deflected shot which went straight through Mallorca goalkeeper Dudu Aouate.
Tello took the score up to three before half-time with a superb strike from outside the box, the youngster cutting in from the left to curl a low right footer into the bottom right hand corner of Aouate's net and put Barça well in control.
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Oct. 26, 1999
FRESNO, Calif. - Fresno State Athletic Director Al Bohl announced today that ticket sales for the Fresno State vs. Rice football game, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 6, have reached 35,073. Bulldog Stadium capacity is 41,031.
The Rice game has implications on the 1999 Western Athletic Conference race. The Owls are 5-3 overall and 4-0 in WAC games while the Bulldogs are 5-3 overall and 2-1 in the WAC. Fresno State can claim its first outright WAC title by winning its remaining four games, two of which are at home.
"There is renewed excitement in our community about our football program," said Bohl. "We have had some very exciting home games this season, including two wins in overtime, and a big victory over Colorado State. It looks like we are on track for a sellout in Bulldog Stadium and we want to alert our fans to get their tickets early."
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