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College notes
USC College of Arts and Sciences administrator named
president of the SC Association of Alumni Directors
Ann Cameron, director of external relations for the University of South Carolina's College of Arts and Sciences, has been named president of the South Carolina Association of Alumni Directors (SCAAD).
Cameron will serve a two-year term that began June 1. Cameron, who joined the university in 1983, oversees the College of Arts and Sciences' alumni program, which has more than 60,000 alumni. SCAAD membership comprises alumni directors for all institutions of higher education in South Carolina.
Arnold School researcher Durstine
Becomes USC's third Citation Award recipient
Dr. Larry Durstine, of the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, has been recognized with the prestigious Citation Award of the American College of Sports Medicine.
The Citation Award recognizes "significant and important contributions to sports medicine and/or the exercise sciences. These contributions may include, but are not limited to, research and scholarship; clinical care; and/or administrative or educational services in sports medicine or exercise science."
Durstine is the chairman of the Arnold School's department of exercise science and past president of the ACSM. He is internationally recognized for his research on lipids and lipoproteins; physical activity, physical fitness, and health; cardiac rehabilitation; and exercise management for chronic diseases and disabilities. His studies have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Heart Association and private foundations. Among his many honors and awards, Durstine received USC's Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor Award and the Governor's Distinguished Professor Award, both in 2005.
Two other USC exercise scientists are past recipients of Citation Awards: Dr. Russ Pate in 1996 and Dr. Steve Blair in 1994. Like Durstine, Pate and Blair also are past presidents of ACSM.


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First of all i used google but didnt find a solution for my problem.
I have started with this tutorial: "Installing BackTrack 4 Pre Final in VMWARE"
I disabled my firewall but I still cant a working Bridged Network connection.
My VM Image Setup (made like shown in the tuto)
Bridge connection and the rest on default
Bridged Networking error: Host USB device connection disabled
I am using the ALFA AWUS036H Wan device
PS: I would post images but links are disabled (first post)
thx for help

subset: commoncrawl


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best part is, i wrote this entire thing off my Android S1's stock speech to text(which if you didn't know, is the first Android phone from way back in the day)
There's no doubt Android is catching up. Although I'm truly grateful for all our iPhone devs that work so hard to make jailbreaks possible (<suckup>and MMI for the news & support of course! </suckup>), you have to wonder where Apple will be in a year's time if they continue to insist on what software we can and cannot have on our phones. It's an insult to our intelligence that all this non-Apple-approved software can be installed on a stock Android without even needing to root. I'm not sure that a larger 1280x720 pixel screen (that only matches what Android has NOW) will be enough to convince me to buy an iPhone 5 in 10 months time...
Samsung as a company is laughable, Samsung is for people who can't afford the high end stuff.
I don't get why most of you can't just appreciate good technology and products regardless of the logo.
Grow up, get a life and stop being so stupidly and blindly loyal to one company.
The quality of the reader community and staff articles on the site are on a terrible downward spiral that seems to be accelerating. The news about Jailbreaking a tweaks are still interesting but everything else tends to just be trashy, childish flaming of Apple competitors to serve as click-bait.
By the way, You fanboys owe a lot more to Samsung than you care to admit.
i love how you always hear how apple is so good at updating.. yeah they update the old phones to the new versions and exclude 50% of the improvements without reason. i4 cant run siri.. sure ipad1 cant have siri sure.. ipad one cant have multi touch.. sure.. whats the point in having the latest os when the only main inprovement is the number in the system info section..
i am glad i am off the apple teet.. love my out of date infuse..
I understand that someone's phone of choice is that persons own opinion, but the way Samsung attacks it's rivals customers is pathetic. My entire entertainment center is Samsung products, and since they started making these ads, I've regretted ever purchasing anything that has their name on it.
And big deal they have native turn by turn navigation app. You can buy a decent one in the AppStore for $3. That singlular feature isn't enough to tout about, let alone make a commercial out of. Out of all the people buying phones, that'll probably convince 3 people to buy a Samsung.
But at least it's not a commercial about pure specs.
I own both the iphone 4s and galaxy s2 and sorry for apple fans , but the s2 is better than the iphone , its hard to use the tiny screen of an iphone after using the sammy , but we all know steve was against a larger screen , so if the iphone 5 or whatever its called has a larger screen then its the first iphone and apple product thats against steve job's wishes and will be the first move for apple away from the jobs era
apples update are more to stop jailbreak exploits than anything else. Take away those and maybe 2 updates a year? iphone are like living in a house with 1 door and only apple gets to say who can come in. android lets the owner decide. kind of makes you feel like you actually own the device. i use to be a ibot, but have since seen the android light. i still like apple products, i still get paid to jailbreak. so keep on selling them iphone and ipads.
The Samsung ads are lame. How people wait in line overnight or for days for a Samsung phone.. Oh right that would be zero.
Apple doesn't include turn by turn directions cause a) there's a several apps for that b) most people who have iPhones can afford to have a Nav System in their car


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Here are some fun facts about one of our newest Laser Pegs employees!
We have an amazing team of people here at Laser Pegs who are constantly working hard to create the best possible products for your family to enjoy. We are also lucky enough to bring new people onto our team all the time who are truly passionate and enthusiastic about our one-of-a-kind products.
Here is a Laser Pegs Employee Profile on one of our new 3D Generalists, Jorge Ernesto.
1. What was it that attracted to you to Laser Pegs and made you want to join their team?
When I first saw the job advert and specifications, I knew I will be doing lot of different things. That is what motivated me to join the team. I have worked in some creative environments before, but sometimes you get stuck doing the same thing over and over again without any more motivation than a paycheck at the end of the month. This job was different. It had a little bit of everything: motion graphics, animation, concept and prototyping, video games and more. That was a powerful reason for me to want to join!
2. What will you be doing in your role as a 3D Generalist? Is there anything about the job you are most looking forward to?
Some of the things I am most looking forward are 3D graphics and content for an animated movie. Basically, I enjoy everything related to computer graphics.
3. What is your favorite toy or kit made by Laser Pegs?
I feel I kind of fall in love with whichever project I'm working at the moment. Right now, now my favorite Laser Pegs are the Sidekick toys and a lot of you will know why very soon!
4. What was your favorite toy to play with as a child?
A trompo (a whipping top that was very popular in Latin America), without a doubt! Since I was a kid, I was fascinated with the way they were crafted from a single piece of hard wood. Competing with them among friends required the best trompo you could get and a lot of skill. Some kids even named their favorite ones!
5. If you could make any animal or figure into a Laser Pegs model, what would you most like to create?
I think I would try to go for an abstract approach or create geometric shapes, just like the ones we have in the lobby. I think it would be challenging and fun.
6. What is a fun fact about yourself that you think Laser Pegs fans would be interested to know?
Some time ago I used to work as an Air Traffic Controller. I used to love that job until I started helping in the creation of an Airport maquette for training purposes. At that time, I didn't have any 3D modeling skills but after following a couple of tutorials, I managed to help prototyping the structure. I borrowed a rudimentary PC and some 3D software, then I started growing into everything related to computer graphics. I then quit my job and left to Scotland to study 3D Design!


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In addition to Joel's uncanny blending ability, he has privileged access to many of the best and as yet undiscovered fruit sources in the Napa Valley. Joel Gott wines are therefore remarkable values, offering gobs of classic California fruit, good structure and excellent balance.
Of course, Joel is also the proud proprietor of Gott's Roadside, Napa Valley's red hot retro-chic "hamburger joint" on Highway 29, and most recently, in San Francisco as well. Robert Parker once proclaimed a meal at Taylor's one of the finest meals of the year in the Wine Advocate! View all Joel Gott Wines
About Other California
California has nearly 100 American Viticulture Areas (AVAs) and accounts for almost 90% of wine production in the United States. In our section of Other California, we include wines from smaller AVAs as well as wines from the California AVA. Here are a few smaller AVAs you may see on the label:
Livermore Valley AVA, located right outside of San Francisco and home to wineries such as Wente.
Lodi County AVA, an AVA further east of San Francisco and known for its excellent, old-vine Zinfandels.
San Francisco Bay AVA, a sprawling AVA that covers Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, to name a few. Wine that holds only the California AVA is typically a wine that includes grapes from a number of different AVAs, which leads to the general labeling of the wine as California. This does not denote the quality of the wine, only the diversity of where the grapes originate.
About California
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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LONG BEACH — Long Beach city leaders on Tuesday green-lighted a study of port-connected air pollution effects on nearby neighborhoods.
The City Council also gave a 10-year key tenant loan extension to the developers of Marina Pacifica, a mixed commercial-residential area near Alamitos Bay. Both pieces of legislation were approved unanimously.
The "Air Quality Impact Zone" plan, proposed by council members James Johnson, Suja Lowenthal and Robert Garcia, will evaluate existing studies on Port of Long Beach-connected air pollution in West Long Beach, Los Cerritos, Wrigley, Central Long Beach and downtown. The evaluation would also examine noise, light and aesthetic effects, engage the public, and develop a master plan to use in key planning documents.
"I believe just as we approach our budget problems from a long-term perspective, ... we should also approach things like air quality from a long-term perspective," said Johnson, who initiated the measure.
Alamitos Beach resident Brian Ulaszewski spoke in support of the plan, saying that responses to port effects have so far been reactive rather than proactive.
"With a comprehensive plan," Ulaszewski said, "there is the opportunity to not only mitigate these impacts but to heal wounds to make things better for the future."
Johnson said a plan could lead to millions of dollars in local, state and federal dollars to help allay port impacts. Work will be conducted with existing staff resources.
In other business, the 10-year loan extension approved by the council for Marina Pacifica LLC continues a prior 15-year, $750,000 so-called key tenant loan made by the city in 1997.
A key tenant loan binds the borrower to operating a business at a specific location for the loan's term. Interest accrues, but no payments are made unless the premises are vacated. If that happens, the borrower owes the balance.
The Marina Pacifica loan expired Jan. 1. Company leaders asked to keep the loan on the books for business benefits.
Also on Tuesday, the council agreed to pay $210,000 to a Long Beach man to settle a lawsuit he filed after a police officer accidentally shot him in 2008.
Alejandro Roon, then 19, was standing in line on Dec. 26, 2008, in Eddie's Junior Market at Pacific Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway when an officer confronting a suspect drew his weapon and mistakenly fired a single shot.
An attendant working that day said the bullet ricocheted off the floor and hit the customer in his leg. Roon was treated at a hospital for a minor wound in his right leg.
A jury awarded him $263,500 last March. The city appealed before agreeing to the lower figure.
Both the City Attorney's office and the Police Department this week cited personnel restrictions when declining to give information about the involved officer or any disciplinary action related to the incident.
A police source said in 2008 the officer had been with the department for 2 1/2 years.
eric.bradley @presstelegram.com, 562-714-2104, twitter.com/EricBradleyPT


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Ayanna Howard's Dream Job
Ayanna has designed robots that can think for themselves.
What she did at NASA
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she developed the next generation of Mars rover. Through artificial intelligence, this robot will be independent-minded enough to explore the Martian terrain on its own, without having its every move programmed by a human. On a future mission to Mars, Ayanna's robot will be able to collect and analyze data and samples that may help determine whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Where she works now
Ayanna is teaching and researching at Georgia Tech, working to discover new ways that robots can help both in space exploration and in assisting people on Earth.
B.S. in electrical engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
How she became interested in engineering
Inspired by the TV show "The Bionic Woman," in which a severely injured woman attains extraordinary powers through artificial (bionic) limbs, Ayanna decided at age 11 that she wanted to create artificial limbs for people. She planned to go to medical school, but discovered she hated biology—especially dissecting frogs. Then she heard about robotics and realized that, if she became an engineer, she could do exactly what she wanted to do.
Volunteer work
Ayanna developed a math and science mentoring program for junior high school girls. She's also volunteered as a computer tutor at a shelter for battered women.
She likes traveling and going to see live jazz bands. Ayanna also loves watching science fiction movies and cartoons with her son.
"Don't be afraid to learn the basics, and definitely keep your imagination alive. After all, engineering is about bringing new things to life!"
Watch her video
See a great video of Ayanna and her Mars robot on PBS's Dragonfly TV.
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Major funding for Engineer Your Life provided by The National Science Foundation and Northrop Grumman Foundation. Additional funding provided by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr and the United Engineering Foundation (ASCE, ASME, AIChE, IEEE, AIME).


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|Synopsis Home
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2 Chronicles
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 27
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Chapters 29 and 30
Chapter 31
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Chapter 33
Chapters 34 and 35
Chapter 36
Jehoshaphat's piety and prosperity
Jehoshaphat, his son succeeds him, and begins his reign by walking faithfully with God. He strengthened his kingdom against Israel, an enemy more dangerous by their example than by their strength. When anything pretends to be in connection with God and to acknowledge Him, there is no safety except in judging it with a spiritual judgment -- which can only be formed through a just sense of God's honour-making no terms with that which pretends to be connected with Him, and treating it as an enemy. This is what Jehoshaphat did at first; and, as he did not walk in the ways of Israel, Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand. Blessed of Jehovah, he takes away the high places and the groves, and seeks with much faithfulness and zeal to instruct the people in the true knowledge of the Lord; Jehovah preserves him from war, and some of the nations even become tributary to him on account of his power.
Prosperity Jehoshaphat's snare: affinity with Ahab
In many respects this is a more beautiful picture than anything we have yet read in the history of the kings. But this prosperity becomes a snare to him; and it bore most bitter fruits when his real piety was not present as a counterpoise.
The prosperity with which God had blessed him in consequence of his faithfulness made it worth while to seek alliance with him, and rendered it more difficult to attack him. Thus at ease, Jehoshaphat on his part joins affinity with Israel. His prosperity put him in a condition to do so in a manner which made the alliance honourable. The human heart, when it is not kept by God, can act generously with respect to the evil which it fears not; but this is not charity. Outwardly Jehoshaphat is faithful to Jehovah, but the wrath of Jehovah is upon him.Synopsis by John Darby


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Serves 12.
Bake and cool your favorite cake recipe or cake mix in prepared 9 x 13 baking pan. Arrange cake on foil-wrapped cake board. Spatula ice cake with white buttercream icing, making the top slightly thicker.
Using largest teeth on triangle comb, comb an arch in the top half of the cake top. Spray red, yellow, green and violet stripes with Color Mist. Spray the remainder of the cake top and the cake sides with blue Color Mist, allowing some of the white buttercream to show through.
Add tip 18 white buttercream zigzag puff clouds at the ends of the rainbow. Add tip 233 green grass buttercream bottom border.


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LISTEN: MAKJ and Lil Jon team up for 'Let's Get F*cked Up'
A new festival season calls for a new party anthem, and rising star/Evolution Radio resident MAKJ and pop superstar Lil Jon have come together to bring forth a new tune to rage to.
[Listen to MAKJ every Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Evolution]
The two have teamed up for a brand new collab titled "Let's Get F*cked Up." The song boasts addicting synths, a driving bassline, wrapped around Lil Jon's vocal "let's get f****d up!" and "let's get loco."
The track already has had support from the likes of Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, Showtek, R3hab, and DJ Snake.
"Let's Get F*cked Up" is set to be released on Beatport March 17th and on itunes March 18th via Ultra Music - just in time for Miami Music Week/Ultra Music Festival!
Check it out below (*Warning: Explicit language)


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Toshiba Mobile Display (TMD) has developed a 7-inch low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) TFT LCD panel for vehicle-mounted and industrial uses, which enables multi-touch input on the display screen without the need for additional installation of a touch panel.
The technology enables an integrated touch panel function by forming the display pixel electrodes and TFT within the LCD panel using LTPS TFT technology and creating a detecting circuit for electrostatic capacitance changes between the electrodes and the peripheral object. Compared to conventional LCDs with an external touch panel, the thickness is reduced by 57% to approximately one millimeter, the weight is reduced by 48% to 225 grams and the surface reflection ratio is reduced by 10%, TMD said.
TMD said this technology is developed in response to the increasing demand for in-cell touch panel LCDs with the touch panel function integrated in the LCD panel for further reduction of thickness, weight and environmental impact.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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the real john terry
As for sledge
How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies
Look at both accounts and tell me which one looks more real. Read the tweets. He is offering Robbie Savage out for tweeting shit about him not just tweeting rubbish.
The 4real one has been on there for about 9 months and isn't verified. This new one says it is getting verified soon.
He just replied to me again saying I knew nothing about why the England team was shite. I asked him why they were shite.
*waiting for next reply*
I'm no gynecologist but I know a cunt when I see one.
The replies are coming thick and fast.
On Sunday 4th July 2010, @JohnGTerry1980 said:
@andysledge Have you never made any mistakes in life? You only know what your little brain is told by tabloid papers. What is your job by the way??
He just asked if I'd ever made any mistakes?
I said I'd made loads but none of them have ever effected the hopes and dreams of an entire nation.
Wants to know my job too. Obviously can't read my profile.
I'm no gynecologist but I know a cunt when I see one.
At best you are trolling his PA, at worst a random 8 year old.
Come to think of it, if it is fake and you are being baited, surely you are the one being trolled
Last edited by simonmobiledisco; 05-07-2010 at 03:14 AM.
sorry what have i actually done to either be classed as a troll or a random 8 year old?
sledge you thought you were doin the trolling your getting trolled theres hundreds of fake accounts it's people who have nothing else to do but make fake twitter accounts of celebrity's


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Across the U.S., a haphazard system of lax laws, minimal oversight and almost no accountability puts guns in the hands of security guards who endanger public safety.
No statewide standards govern how local governments' pay is set, leaving the public in the dark about whether top officials are paid appropriately for the job and the community.
California's strawberry growers rely on heavy amounts of dangerous pesticides to deliver fruit year-round at an affordable price. But the health and environmental problems that come with those chemicals have threatened the foundation of a $2.6 billion industry.
This documentary investigates a terrifying aspect of the drug wars along the U.S.-Mexico border: the recruitment of child soldiers by the notoriously violent Zetas gang.
A California company accused of counterfeiting screws for spinal surgery went broke in 2013. But by then, it had sold millions of dollars in medical hardware to a nationwide network of surgeons.
Last week's attack at the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo reignites the debate on the role of religion in acts of terrorism.
Authorities found a live pipe bomb along a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pipeline last month in Hinkley, California. The company informed its employees, but it never told town residents.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said it will conduct an internal investigation after a CIR report documented opiate overprescription and other issues at the Tomah VA hospital.
This week, California regulators ruled that farmers must restrict their use of chloropicrin, a toxic pesticide widely used to prepare soil for planting. The state's use of it increased 650 percent from 1991 to 2012.
Curious about your child's day care center? Search for detailed state records for facilities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, in addition to the information already available for Santa Clara and Napa counties.
Politicians from both parties and government bureaucrats are rushing to look into allegations of overmedication, retaliatory management practices and preventable overdose deaths at a Wisconsin VA hospital, revealed by CIR.
The American satire publication The Onion has published its share of gag news stories criticizing fanatical Islamists. But the Charlie Hebdo gunmen likely would have had a tougher time carrying out a similar attack in the U.S.
Despite 11 complaints of excessive force against him during his decade with the Atlanta Police Department, former Officer Nicholas Dimauro easily became an armed security guard in Georgia.
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Launching on Jan. 5, "Broken City Poets" is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four high school students who are challenged to use poetry to make sense of their bankrupt, gang-ridden city.
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With today's launch of Hired Guns, CIR embarks on an exploration of guns in America that will continue in 2015.
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posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 2:38 pm
I'm writing a paper that deals with LCA's with a CFA. I'm looking for paper(s) that have used this approach. I'm finding it rather simple to explain the LCA process, but not as easy to explain the process with a latent variable developed in a CFA process. In other words, I performed example 7.17 with my data and I want to ground this in some type of literature. Thanks in advance
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 2:48 pm
ex 7.17 is a CFA mixture model. Bengt is currently writing several papers on this topic and you may want to send him an email about this to request a relevant paper - if this is understanding your question correctly.
posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 12:52 pm
Thank you. I have just a few more questions. I just finished reading Lubke and Muthen (2005). So, now I'm interested in developing my step-by-step plan. In my case, I have one latent variable that is indicated by 7 observed variables that I want to examine for heterogenity. If I'm understanding the step-by-step plan correctly, we are to develop 3 models. Model 1 no restrictions on the model at all across the classes. Model 2 restrictions on the intercepts only across the classes. Model 3 restrictions on the factor loadings, intercepts, and residual variances across the classes. This will allow us to better understand the heterogenity of the latent variable across classes. Is this correct? Or am I missing something?
My concern is writing this for a nontechnical audience. That is, at the end of the day what do we have? one, two, or three classes?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 4:41 pm
These steps would apply to continuous factor indicators. I would do all parameters free, factor loadings equal, factor loadings and intercepts equal. Not all disciplines would require residual variances to be held equal for measurement invarinace. To test heterogeneity, you can test the equality of the factor mean and variance.
Jamie Vaske
posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 3:13 am
I am estimating a second order latent class growth analysis, where the first order latent model is a CFA of three factors ("measured by" three indicators) at three time points, and then the second order latent model is an LCGA of those factors. I have successfully established measurement invariance and estimated the model, but I am having trouble graphing the results.
If I use the TYPE = PLOT3; SERIES RISK94 RISK96 RISK98(*) or SERIES RISK94(0) RISK96(1) RISK98(2), I receive the error:
"ERROR in PLOT command Time points for process 1 are not all continuous, all categorical, or all latent as they should be." (RISK94-98 are the names of the latent factors);
Is there something special I have to do in the SERIES command to get the observed and estimated means for the factors? I've also tried leaving off the (*) and (0, 1, 2) and I will not get the option to look at means.
Thank you for your help! It is much appreciated!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 5:35 am
Please send the full output and your license number to
Maksim Rudnev
posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - 8:38 am
I am conducting a Latent Class Analysis with random intercepts (which allow the mean on all my items to be different across individuals and in a way accounts for acquiescence). I am not sure if it works exactly like method factor in CFA. So I made two different models:
(Model 1)
USEVARIABLES = v1-v10;
CATEGORICAL ARE v1-v10;
CLASSES = c(3);
F1 BY v1-v10@1;
(Model 2) the same, just added a new line in MODEL:
F1 with c@0;
Why the second model asks for numerical integration?
Which model should be used to account for random intercept?
If the model 1 is used does it really mean that F1 is allowed to correlate with c?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:10 pm
Please send the outputs for both models and your license number to
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4. For loving-kindness should not be developed at first towards the following four kinds of persons: an antipathetic person, a very dearly loved friend, a neutral person, and a hostile person. Also it should not be developed specifically (see §49) towards the opposite sex, or towards a dead person.
7. But if he develops it towards a dead person, he reaches neither absorption nor access. A young bhikkhu, it seems, had started developing loving-kindness inspired by his teacher. His loving-kindness made no headway at all. He went to a senior elder and told him, "Venerable sir, I am quite familiar with attaining jhána through loving-kindness, and yet I cannot attain it. What is the matter?" The elder said, "Seek the sign, friend, [the object of your meditation]." He did so. Finding that his teacher had died, he proceeded with developing loving-kindness inspired by another and attained absorption. That is why it should not be developed towards one who is dead.
Path of Purification, Ñāṇamoli translation, pages 291-292.
Is there any explanation for why, if the object metṭā is directed at does not exist, then access concentration or beyond does is not achieved? It's sounds like, to reach access, you somehow need to 'connect' to the object(person), and therefore if the object doesn't exist, you don't get there? After all there are other mediation subjects that are not living beings (e.g. kasina) and they can lead to jhāna. So as long as one can generate metṭā in themselves, why does it matter if the person it is directed at really exists or not?


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By Lesli Nolen
May 2010
I have been writing this column for about a year now and in that time I have had many comments about my articles. But I have received the most comments about the October 2009 issue which featured "Common Sayings Have Biblical Origins," so I thought I would post some more. I hope you enjoy and please keep your comments and suggestions coming. I love hearing from you. Write me at
or P.O. Box 2678, San Angelo, TX 76902.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Meaning: The notion that for every wrong done there should be a compensating measure of justice.
Origin: From the Code of Hammurabi. Hammurabi was King of Babylon, 1792-1750BC. The code survives today in the Akkadian language. Used in the Bible, Matthew 5:38 (King James Version):
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."
A man after my own heart
Meaning: A kindred spirit—someone I can agree with. One of identical character or belief.
Origin: The term originates from the Bible (King James Version):
Samuel 13:14:
"But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee."
Acts 13:22:
"And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will."
Ashes to ashes
Meaning: We come from dust; we return to dust.
Origin: "Ashes to ashes" derives from the English Burial Service. The text of that service is adapted from the Biblical text, Genesis 3:19 (King James Version):
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
The 1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer indicated the manner and text of the burial service:
"Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the Body by some standing by, the Priest shall say, 'Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.'"
The term has been used frequently in literature and song lyrics. "Ashes to Ashes" is the title of a 2009 BBC television series. It was also used as a song title by David Bowie in 1980, which included one of his best-known lyrics:
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Bite the dust
Meaning: Fall to the ground, wounded or dead.
Origin: Given the many B-feature cowboy movies in which the bad guys, or occasionally the pesky redskins, would "bite the dust," one might expect this to be of American origin. It isn't, though. The same notion is expressed in the earlier phrase "lick the dust," from the Bible, where there are several uses of it, including Psalms 72 (King James Version), 1611:
"They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust."
The earliest citation of the 'bite the dust' version is from 1750 by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett , in his Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:
"We made two of them bite the dust, and the others betake themselves to flight."
Homer's epic poem, "The Iliad," was written in around 700 BC. Though later written down in Greek, it was translated into English in the 19th Century by Samuel Butler whose version contains a reference to the phrase in these lines:
"Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him."
Most likely it was Butler's use of the phrase rather than Homer's.
Good Samaritan
Meaning: Someone who, with no thought of reward, compassionately helps another in need.
Origin: The expression derives from the Biblical parable, Luke 10:30/33 (Miles Coverdale's Version, 1535):
10:30 Then answered Jesus, and sayde: A certayne man wente downe from Jerusalem vnto Jericho, and fell amonge murthurers, which stryped him out of his clothes, and wounded him, and wente their waye, and left him half deed.
10:31 And by chauce there came downe a prest the same waye: and whan he sawe him, he passed by.
10:32 And likewyse a Leuite, wha he came nye vnto the same place and sawe him, he passed by.
10:33 But a Samaritane was goynge his journey, and came that waye, and whan he sawe him, he had compassion vpon him,
The figurative use of the term began in the 17th Century. In 1649, Peter Chamberlen published a book, "The Poore Mans Advocate, or, Englands Samaritan."
Let There Be Light
Origin: This is one of the best-known phrases in English. It is a translation of the Latin fiat lux and appears in the opening lines of the Bible, in Genesis I . This was first printed in English in Miles Coverdale's Bible, 1535:
1 In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:
2 and ye earth was voyde and emptie, and darcknes was vpon the depe, & ye sprete of God moued vpo the water.
3 And God sayde: let there be light, & there was light.
4 And God sawe the light that it was good. Then God deuyded ye light from the darcknes,
5 and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.
Modern bureaucracy-speak over-wordiness was compared unfavourably to the beauty and clarity of the original by the journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke. In his acceptance speech for the "Best Speaker of English" award in 1998, he gave an imagined U.S. government representative's version of Genesis 1:3:
"The Supreme Being mandated the illumination of the Universe and this directive was enforced forthwith."
The root of the matter
Meaning: The essential or inner part of something.
Origin: From the Bible, Job 19:28 (King James Version):
"But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the Root of the matter is found in me?"


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The Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra, in residence at Southeast Missouri State University, provides the Southeast Missouri region with five to six orchestral concerts per year. The symphony performs the standard symphonic orchestra repertoire from the Baroque era to the music of today, and has presented a number of regional, national, and world premieres. Additional free concerts, tours, and educational events are presented by the symphony orchestra each season. Its artistic director is Dr. Sara Edgerton of the Department of Music at Southeast.
Now in the fourteenth year of its highly successful subscription series, the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra has collaborated with nationally and internationally-acclaimed guest artists, such as Mark O'Connor, Grammy Award Winning Violinist; Allen Vizzutti, Trumpet Virtuoso; Jack Gibbons, internationally-acclaimed concert pianist; David Halen, Concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Mark Sparks, Principal Flutist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Rhonda Larson, Grammy-Award Winning Concert Flutist; and Neal E. Boyd, 2008 winner of America's Got Talent. The Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra has also commissioned and presented a number of world premieres, including River by Robert Fruehwald (2009: concerts in Missouri and in China) and Two Brothers by Jim Stephenson (2013: concerts in Missouri and Illinois).
The Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra has toured nationally and internationally, including a concert tour of the East Coast (May 2013), with concerts in Midtown Manhattan (at St. Peter's Church), and at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, Virginia (just outside of Washington, DC). The orchestra has also given concerts in China under the auspices of the American Celebration of Music, performing in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, as well as on the Great Wall of China.
The Southeast Missouri Symphony sponsors two competitive young artist competitions each year: a pre-collegiate Rising Star Concerto Competition (now in its fifth year) and the collegiate Concerto and Aria Competition (now in its twenty-third year). The Concerto and Aria Competition is open to all music majors and minors who are currently enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University. The Rising Star Competition is open to all pre-college string players who wish to compete for the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra. Winners of these competitions perform as soloists with the orchestra during one of the symphony's subscription series concerts at the River Campus.
Admission to the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra is by audition only: please contact Dr. Sara Edgerton at the Department of Music (email@example.com) for more information.
These merit-based scholarships are available to qualified violin, viola, cello, and string bass students who participate in Southeast's orchestra, the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra. Auditions for the Southeast Missouri Symphony Scholarships will take place on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University on the first Saturdays in the months of February and March. Audition information can be found by clicking the link. To apply for a Symphony Society Scholarship award, please fill out our online Music Scholarship Application.


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Oh, no they didn't!
The feud between Carl Icahn and William Ackman had its first made-for-reality-TV moment. The two billionaire money managers spent 30 minutes on Friday hurling insults and accusations at each other during a live broadcast.
The men have been engaged in a dispute over a deal from a decade ago, and are on opposite sides...


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im thinkin about goin to Salisbury after i graduate this year, would like to take a class that has to do with the ocean, like marine biology or somthin, anybody know of a carrer that has to do with the ocean?
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im thinkin about goin to Salisbury after i graduate this year, would like to take a class that has to do with the ocean, like marine biology or somthin, anybody know of a carrer that has to do with the ocean?
if I may,...this is a little off topic,...but.
I want to give some sincere advice to those in college and those getting ready to attend one.
What ever you do, never give any professor a reason to poop on you.
There are far to many people with advanced degrees that know next to nothing about some of the most simplest things. They may call it liberal arts, but what that means is that you have no rights what so ever, to speak your mind or to have a hint of any type of views (conservatives should never speak your mind) other then the ones They think are the correct ones. Many will lie and go so far as to try and ruin your future if they can. Just like life, there are pieces of trash everywhere, and many have a PH. D. before their name. Never allow yourself to fall for the idea that they know something or even more then you. But never let them know that. Do all your work, on time and never argue any point. Always document everything, by email or notes to yourself sent to yourself through email.
Many teaching have never had any real life experience in their fields, and many times the reason they are teaching is that they could not handle the real world of work.
Yes there are many GREAT and Wonderful Professors, and many times you will see their classes over run by students who want to attend them. But trust me, never put yourself in any position where you are at odds with any of them.
Outside of pulling a Black OP on them, you options will be very limited.
It makes no sense really,... at the college level we have always been told that opposing views are what drives research and study in all fields, however, many times the opposite is true. There is nothing worst then some worthless *uck that has really never done anything other then gaining tenure......they truely are a nightmare.
Always ask around first before you sign up for your classes, it will help you. Remember, once they get tenure they are accountable next to no one.
Thank you for allowing me to vent off topic...and by the way, not that I know much, I am approaching a PH d,....credit count wise. so I have seen the good and the bad, and so far it seems as though the bad is real bad when you see it. best of luck, and yes in the end it is worth it.
don't know why i didn't mention this in my earlier post, but i lived with 3 kids in raleigh who were all east carolina graduates... ECU is in greenville, nc and only about 1.5 hours to a lot of breaks on the outer banks.
realistically though, you should be going to university to pursue a professional career in something you would enjoy... not to surf. that's just wasting your time and money. if you can do both, then great. personally i ditched surfing for 4-5 years to get a good engineering degree from an inland school... i think your future career should be a higher priority than riding waves :rolleyes:
for undergrad, check out ramapo college. its actually a pretty good school, right up there around tcnj. its in north jersey but it only takes a little over an hour to get to monmouth.
or you could just go to monmouth u which is right in long branch... they have some ocean-y, marine-bio classes i believe.
good luck!!
Why are you here living... to follow the 'American Dream' and get that 'big degree' and 'high paying job'? I just think you should do what the **** you want regardless if it not the best choice. You are alive, a person, to live, so go do what you want... surf for the rest of your life...
Sorry for my rant....
Stockton is right by A.C.
Stockton is 15 minutes from AC, 30 from LBI or OC. It's one of the cheapest and by 2010, they will have mega-renovations done and will be really nice.
Salisbury is a great school and has a core group of surfers. About to graduate here myself and have loved this school since day one.
As for what xgen had to say, i agree to an extent. Many professors have degrees in fields which they have never used. Meaning that they never actually have been in the real world, holding a job that puts their degree to use. Some go straight from college to get the masters, then on to the docterate without any actual expierience. Oh and you can tell the difference for sure.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Thanks Fiona! I am ordering the book and it will be special because I
"know" someone who knows the author!
-----Original Message-----
From: Fiona Rae [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:34 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: RE: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia report
I think I can help here. The great Chemistry teacher that I am lucky
enough to work with, Valerie Ludwig Lechtanski, has written an inquiry
science book of labs called Inquiry-Based Experiments in Chemistry. It
is published by Oxford University Press and is in the brand new Science
Kits catalogue for $19.95. You can also find it on Amazon.com. I love
the fact that sample student write-ups are provided along with common
student pitfalls. This might be a great jumping off point for starting
inquiry labs.
PS Val only gets 50c per book so I am not trying to "sell" the book for
-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Lester [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:43 PM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: RE: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia report
Thanks Al,
Do you have any websites or any tips on how to find these labs?
-----Original Message-----
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of Al Evans
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:07 AM
To: email@example.com
Subject: RE: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia report
Thanks for the feedback. I am doing the National Board
Certification this spring and it really stresses inquiry learning. I
recommend their material if you want to learn more about doing inquiry
labs. They are easy to find on the web. I do labs, and they are open
ended, but are not inquiry, so I am having to learn some new tricks
myself. Good luck with your quest!
-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Lester
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:51 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: RE: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia report
Dear Al,
I agree with you. I need to hear more of this type of
feedback. I teach in Virginia and I am doing this workshop alone. I
did not realize how it would help me remember what teaching was all
about. I am in a state that has standardized tests and it seems as
though everything is about a 50 question test at the end of the year. I
have found myself doing more and more lecture to cover the material (and
still not always finishing). It is not rewarding for me or the kids, I
am sure. These videos have given me a boost to do the more of the
investigative activities. It is tough when they do not prep and are
clueless but I need to change what I am doing. I have been teaching for
22 years and the last 5 have been very stressful and challenging. I
need to remember how fun it was to have activities where kids go..."Oh
YEAH...I get it!" I need to encourage more thining outside the box. I
have regimented myself within the box in fear of not covering what I
need to. Thanks for encouraging me and listening as well!
-----Original Message-----
From: email@example.com
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of Al Evans
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:55 PM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: [Channel-talkchemistry] RE: Georgia
We discussed as much methodology as content
tonight, a first. Some had negative reactions to vague leading
questions which students struggled with. We thought the question asked
by the girl in the mixing of ethanol and water about the possibility of
alcohol evaporating was not given enough attention by the teacher. This
was great to remember something that had been done previously and to
apply it to this new situation and should have been rewarded. Further a
great teaching moment was lost when the students could have brainstormed
about how to decide whether evaporation was a problem by doing another
experiment! For example, mix ethanol and ethanol and see if any
disappears. Or weigh the mixture and see if any has gone. We must
celebrate independent and creative thought whenever it occurs, whether
it is right or wrong, otherwise it will disappear. We liked the
reminder that many students are still in the concrete reasoning stage
and need specific visible examples like the nuts and bolts illustrating
partial ionization. I am hoping some of the group will stop lurking and
post clarifications, expansions and/or rebuttals to my report!
Al Evans
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text: Hi all, I have a web player which I'd like to allow others to use - as long as they have a valid license file which I would issue to them. I'd like my web player to 1) read the license file from the local folder var www : WWW = new WWW (pathtolicensefile); 2) grab the text from the file WWW.text www.thisdomainname.com email@example.com AFEJUTRDWS1KLA3QSCF3TG6JI24OLM5 3) check the current domain name and make sure it matches the domain in the license WWW.url 4) Process an MD5 using the domain and email plus a few unknown vars e.g. domain+"//"+xtravars+"\\"+email and if the generated MD5 matches the (AFEJUTRDWS1KLA3QSCF3TG6JI24OLM5) MD5 from the file then we allow the web player to run - otherwise we throw a license error. 5) I'd also need an admin app for generating license files to send to clients. I have done this sort of thing in other languages but not in javascript within Unity. Has anyone done this before and may be able to assist? Its a project for schools and I don't have much of a budget but I could certainly send a few PayPal dollars if someone could assist. Thanks JeffAU


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Get Vmware or Parallels. Virtual Pc sucks.
Backtrack will not move the mouse in virtual pc 2007.
please help me
Get Vmware or Parallels. Virtual Pc sucks.
I felt like bending the bars back, and ripping out the window frames and eating them. yes, eating them! Leaping, leaping, leaping! Colonics for everyone! All right! You dumb*sses. I'm a mental patient. I'm *supposed* to act out!
alternatively save yourself the money and at the prompt "boot:" type "bt i8042.noloop" and press enter and it will allow you to use the mouse,
This is a known kernel issue in the newer kernels and from what i have read Both VMWare and VirtualPC emulate a PS/2 style mouse that are not getting found by the kernel.
you can read more about it on this tutorial that tells you how to get it working in ubuntu ( and permanently fix the problem on a HD Install)
arcanecode dot wordpress dot com /2007/10/18/installing-ubuntu-710-under-virtual-pc-2007/
and this page
arcanecode dot wordpress dot com /2007/04/25/ubuntu-704-and-virtual-pc-2007-mouse-issue-workaround-sort-of/
sorry, i'm not allowed to post URLS yet because i don't have enough posts yet


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"Hope Virus" spreads through Jazma Forum reviewWednesday, June 30th, 2010
4 out of 5 star review for Hope Virus and Zedura Magazine
On Hope Virus: "The ending here is well completely unexpected. You will never see it coming. It is though the perfect ending to one of the weirdest and strangest stories to come along in a while. Herbert Miles is a fantastic character in an even more fantastic world."


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Des Moines, Iowa • The historic $500 million Powerball jackpot is all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this year to build jackpots faster, drive sales and generate more money for states that run the game.
Their plan appears to be working.
Powerball tickets doubled in price in January to $2, and although the number of tickets sold initially dropped, sales revenue has increased by about 35 percent over 2011.
Sales for Powerball reached a record $3.96 billion in fiscal 2012 and are expected to reach $5 billion this year, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Des Moines, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, the group that runs the Powerball game.
There has been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot already has reached a record level for the game. It's the second-highest jackpot in lottery history, behind only the $656 million Mega Millions prize in March.
It took nine weeks for the Mega Millions jackpot to get that high, before three winners from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland hit the right numbers, each collecting $218.6 million for their share of the split.
With soaring jackpots come soaring sales, and for the states playing the game, that means higher revenue.
"The purpose for the lottery is to generate revenue for the respective states and their beneficiary programs," said Norm Lingle, chairman of the Powerball Game Group. "High jackpots certainly help the lottery achieve those goals."
Of the $2 cost of a Powerball ticket, $1 goes to the prizes and the other dollar is kept by the state lottery organization, said Lingle, who also is executive director of the South Dakota Lottery. After administrative overhead is paid, the remaining amount goes to that state's beneficiary programs.
Some states designate specific expenditures such as education, while others deposit the money in their general fund to help supplement tax revenue.
The federal government keeps 25 percent of the jackpot for federal taxes.
Most states withhold 5 percent to 7 percent. There's no withholding in states without a state income tax such as Delaware, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Texas. A New York City winner would pay more than 12 percent because the state takes 8.97 percent and the city keeps 3.6 percent.
A single winner Wednesday choosing the cash option would take home nearly $300 million before taxes.
Powerball and Mega Millions games are seeing jackpots grow faster and higher in part because the states that play both games agreed in 2010 to sell to one another.
Both games are played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands. The larger pool of players means jackpots roll over to higher numbers faster, which tends to increase the buzz about the jackpots, which increases sales. It all can result in higher jackpots sooner.
Still, just seven of the top 25 jackpots occurred after January 2010 when the cross-selling began. That points to the unpredictability of games of chance such as lotteries. It still comes down to the luck of the numbers.
It has been proved that once the jackpot reaches a certain threshold more players buy.
Nearly $30 million in tickets were sold between the Wednesday and Saturday drawings for most of October. Once the jackpot hit $100 million on Oct. 27, $38 million worth of tickets were sold by Oct. 31. As the jackpot grew to more than $200 million on Nov. 17, sales surged by nearly $70 million by the next Wednesday. Then the jackpot reached more than $300 million on Nov. 24, and ticket sales over the next four days surpassed $140 million.
Lottery official Strutt said the chance of getting a winner this Wednesday is approaching 60 percent.
Working as planned
Gathering steam • There has been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot already has reached a record.
Revenue boost • The potential for a big win means higher revenue for states, because once the jackpot reaches a certain threshold, more players buy. Of the $2 cost of a Powerball ticket, half is kept by the state lottery organization.
Sales spike • It's possible more than $1 billion in tickets will be sold by the time the drawing is held Wednesday.


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It takes a lot to please Geelong coach Chris Scott, and a 6-1 start to the AFL season won't quite do it.
The Cats resisted a spirited Richmond comeback to hold on for a five-point win at a sodden MCG on Sunday, shooting out to a 35-point lead in the second quarter before prevailing 11.15 (81) to 12.4 (76).
They are level on points with Hawthorn and Port Adelaide, the other two sides to have impressed the most this year, and enjoy a bye in round eight.
"I'd prefer that we were seven-zip to be honest, I think we should win every game we play if we play at our best," Scott said, still ruing a loss to the Power in round six.
"But I've got high standards.
"If you take a step back ... it looks pretty good.
"We're pretty content we're in a good spot, but well aware we need to improve."
Key defender Harry Taylor, who clutched an impressive five contested marks against the Tigers despite the heavy rain and wind, suggested that hadn't happened recently.
"We haven't played well the last two weeks," Taylor said.
"Our key guys got up and lifted when we needed them (against Richmond)," he added, singling out a fantastic goal from skipper Joel Selwood that started the scoring in the fourth term.
Selwood barged through a pack and kicked truly from the cusp of the 50m arc, only for Trent Cotchin to reply with a captain's goal of his own that reduced the Cats' lead to six points.
Geelong young guns Jordan Murdoch and Taylor Hunt provided clutch goals in response and that was enough, with the siren sounding as Sam Lloyd celebrated his third goal that put the Tigers within reach of the lead.
"It wasn't a cracking game by any stretch," Scott said of his side's smallest and least breathtaking win of 2014.
"We've been outstanding at times in the first seven weeks, but at other times we've been pretty average.
"So therein lies the challenge, to make sure we can maintain that outstanding footy for longer."
Richmond failed to kick a goal until there were five-and-a-half minutes left in the opening half, but from that point on rediscovered their run and dare.
However a fifth defeat ensured coach Damien Hardwick's overriding emotion was disappointment.
"We lost, you commend the effort but the result is still unacceptable," Hardwick said.
Tigers veteran Chris Newman suffered a calf injury and is likely to spend at least three weeks on the sidelines.


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NetWizard's Blog has a post on the start-up work on a standard mail abuse reporting format:
A draft discussion note: Reducing One Aspect of the Digital Divide Connectivity (Introducing the FiberAfrica Proposal a Leapfrog Open Access Network), by Rahul Tongia
The UK communications regulator OFCOM has done one of the first public consultations on the regulatory implications of Next Generation Networks (NGN), particularly with regard to BT's 21CN NGN initiative. The consultation document, entitled Next Generation Networks - Future arrangements for access and interconnection (overview,complete) explores the implications of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) for access and interconnection arrangements in the UK. The responses to the consultation are available here.
In BT's response to the consultation, it indicates some of its views on 21CN regulation:
Finally BT observes that some key aspects of the strategic positioning, NGN access and interconnect, are not addressed in Ofcom's questions. We wish to point to the following specific points.
We would expect that NGNs will blur many of the boundaries all of us in the industry currently take for granted. For example, the distinction between "operators" and "service providers" will diminish; and one could foresee an increase in pan-European alternative providers leveraging their IP infrastructure using next-generation interconnection more effectively. Further, as the barriers to market entry are lowered through technology advances and open standards, we would expect many new entrants to change the landscape - some with innovative value propositions and others by identifying and exploiting new arbitrage angles.
We believe end user customers will soon demand seamless, any to any interworking between mobile and fixed networks. Operators will require the ability to roam on, and interconnect to, other national and international fixed and mobile networks in order to facilitate the provision of next generation services. The regulatory regime needs to become more technologically neutral and focus on economic bottlenecks, irrespective of the underlying network technology.
We believe that innovative services will be heavily reliant on intelligent interworking to provide coherent services. Therefore, cross platform access (including roaming and interconnect) to intelligence capabilities will be essential in ensuring further development of services and competition in the convergent marketplace.
BT is disappointed to see the level of potential regulatory intervention and micromanagement, both in commercial and technical terms, demonstrated in this Consultation. This is particularly inappropriate as it followed so soon after the second phase of the Telecoms Strategic Review, which promulgated a deregulatory agenda and a focus on regulating only bottlenecks. This Consultation also includes some substantive inconsistencies of approach which will need to be addressed.
It is critical that the outcome of this - and any later - consultation processes should be a regulatory regime which rewards investment and does not leave BT with a significant proportion of the 21CN investment risk, whilst distributing the investment returns across the industry. Ofcom will wish to consider this issue as they contemplate the responses to the Consultation.
The ITU Strategy and Policy Unit, in cooperation with the ITU-T and ITU-D, is organizing a workshop on NGN Policy and Regulation in February 2006.
Red Herring reports that: Vonage will spend $10 million to start providing 911-style services for its customers, partly by using Verizons infrastructure to connect callers with emergency dispatchers, the VoIP provider announced Wednesday. The investment is Vonages first substantial attempt to close the companys emergency calling gap. The cash is a relatively low price to address a shortcoming.
[via Fergie's Tech Blog]
The Struggle over Internet Governance: Searching for Common Ground at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford: Agenda, Draft Position Papers for Discussion Forum, Attendees.
CommsWatch has a post on the challenges to content regulation with convergence:
"It is not obvious why, in a news item today, the "Guardian" should highlight the challenge to conventional regulation of broadcasting posed by the growing trend to put broadcast material over the Internet. After all, it was 20 January 2005 when Ofcom published its Annual Plan for 2005/06 which contained the following statements:
There [i]s obviously a theme here: Ofcom wants a debate on Internet content and it intends to encourage, facilitate and inform such a debate. It is now up to broadcasters, Internet service providers, and others to engage in that debate. Today's "Guardian" piece suggests that the issue has "come to a head" because of the European Commission's review of the Television Without Frontiers Directive. However, it was 21 March 2005 when the new European Commissioner Viviane Reding used a speech to the Council of Presidents of UNICE in Brussels to state:
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is hosting a 3-day workshop on anti-Spam strategies from 3-5 May 2005. The workshop is conducted as a result of the last ASEAN Telecommunications Regulatory Council (ATRC) meeting in Vientiane, Laos (July 2004) where the ATRC has agreed to the setting up of a Working Group (WG) to work on anti-SPAM measures led by MCMC.
The programme and presentations at the European Electronic Communications Regulatory Forum held 13-14 April 2005 in Barcelona are available [via ERO and my weblog]
AfrISPA appoints regional carriers As part of its aim to establish true inter-country connectivity within the African continent, the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) has appointed two organisations as regional carriers. Transtel and the Africa Online/SkyVision JV are the two bidders that successfully met AfrISPA's criteria to provide an African regional Internet traffic solution, in order to remove the current dependence upon overseas carriers and to promote the establishment and growth of African regional data carriers. The establishment of a network of Internet exchange points (IXPs) within Africa would also result in reduced costs, improved speeds and the improvement of the Internet backbone within Africa as a whole.According to AfrISPA, Africa Online will offer a fully meshed network, which uses proven and reliable VSAT technology to provide point-to-point connectivity between IXPs. It will also utilise existing terrestrial links between certain countries, such as Kenya and Tanzania, making it possible to create regional hubs whose component countries can share one VSAT link and so reduce installation costs even further.From IT Web [via my weblog]
The Australian Government Information Management Office has recently released A Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies". [via Slashdot]
The ITU-D e-flash is a regular update on some of the activities of the ITU's Telecommunication Development Sector. It provides information on the sector's activities and links to upcoming events, workshops and useful background information. The latest edition includes:
The Economist Intelligence Unit has published its annual e-readiness ranking of the word's largest economies. Currently 65 countries are assessed on their ability to promote and support digital business and information and communications technology (ICT) services. A country's e-readiness is essentially a measure of its e-business environment, a collection of factors that indicate how amenable a market is to Internet-based opportunities. The ranking allows governments to gauge the success of their technology initiatives against those of other countries. It also provides companies that wish to invest in online operations with an overview of the world's most promising investment locations. The 2005 rankings
A more comprehensive method is ITU's Digital Access Index (explanation here in English, French and Spanish).
[via Information Policy]
Richard Stastny has a post on his take on the 1-2 May 2005 ITU-T workshop on NGN in collaboration with the IETF in Geneva at ITU headquarters.
Update: he has some further thoughts in a later post on the different visions of NGN.
This article by Ian Peter looks at competing views of the historical origins of the Internet and gives his views how this relates to Internet governance.
Dissemination and Acquisition of Knowledge in a Mobile Age (PDF), Paper Abstract (PDF), presented by Lara Srivastava, ITU Strategy and Policy Unit, 28 April 2005, Seeing, Learning and Understanding in a Mobile Age, Institute for Philosophical Research - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary). The conference website and other papers are available here.
The ITU-T has published an overview of its widely deployed VoIP standards suite for cable networks, standardized in ITU-T Study Group 9.
Richard Stastny in his VoIP and ENUM has an interesting post on the debate as to whether "SIP is dead" versus Skype versus NGN:
Exploring the Reality of eCommerce Benefits Among Businesses in a Developing Country by Alemayehu MOLLA
The use of e-commerce by businesses in developing countries is related to the potential benefits of participating in international value chains, increasing market access and reach, improving internal and market efficiency, and lowering transaction costs. Belief in such benefits has led to the adoption of e-commerce by some businesses in these countries. However, the questions of what and how much benefits businesses in developing countries are actually reaping from their e-commerce investments are not well covered. This paper attempts to explore the real benefits of e-commerce based on data from 92 businesses in South Africa. The findings indicate that e-commerce benefits are by and large limited to improving intra- and inter-organisational communications. Strategic benefits such as improving relationships across the value chain, increasing market reach, and reducing market, operation and supply chain management costs are not as widely found as the standard model of e-commerce would have us believe. These findings support the argument that cautions against an over-optimistic view of e-commerce for developing countries.
From Institute for Development Policy and Management [via my weblog]
Business Inaction Could Lead to Cybersecurity Law U.S. businesses for years have urged the government to let them set computer-security standards of their own, but their inability to do so could now prompt Congress to step in, experts say.Those who worry that regulation may stifle innovation say the business community may have already missed an opportunity to prove the government's help is not needed. "The market is in a much better position to respond to this challenge ... but corporate America has not provided evidence across the board that they've taken this issue seriously enough to protect consumers," said Bob Dix, a lobbyist for Citadel Security Software Inc., who until last year handled cybersecurity for a congressional subcommittee. The private sector is under scrutiny after a string of incidents at data brokers, retailers and other businesses exposed at least half a million U.S. citizens to identity theft.The business community for years has argued that any government regulations would quickly become outdated in a rapidly changing field, and a 2003 Bush administration plan called on the private sector to set its own standards.Working with the the Homeland Security Department, an industry-led task force issued a set of guidelines in April 2004 that called for company chief executives to take direct responsibility for their computer systems. One year later, only two companies have adopted the guidelines: Entrust Inc. and RSA Security Inc., whose chief executives co-chaired the task force.Corporate lawyers warned that any public security promises could open the door for lawsuits in the wake of a security breach, said Entrust CEO Bill Connor.From Reuters [via my weblog]
The latest EU Competition Policy newsletter has an article on pages 8 - 15 entitled State aid rules and public funding of broadband:
In the recent months, the Commission had the opportunity to assess several projects involving public support to broadband development. The considerations developed in this article reflect the Commission's conclusions in the ensuing decisions and aim at providing guidance on how to design forms of intervention that do not raise competition concerns. A word of caution is, however, necessary. These are the first decisions on State aid relating to broadband projects: the present views might evolve in the light of further experience and in view of the quick pace of economic development and technological evolution in the sector.
[via EuroTelcoblog]
Netcraft has announced it is making available a phishing feed: "Netcraft is now making available the list of phishing sites reported by the Toolbar community and validated by Netcraft as a continuously updated feed suitable for ISPs, hosting companies, enterprises, and other companies that operate mail servers and web proxies, or network monitoring systems." [via Fergie's Tech Blog]
The new Recommendation is destined to influence further application areas including but not limited to the following:
The presentations from last month's ITU-T Cybersecurity II Symposium, hosted by RANS in Moscow, are now available, including presentations from:
The May/June 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine has an article entitled Down to the Wire by Thomas Bleha with the summary:
Russian security authorities should be given broader powers to control telecommunications and the Internet, argues Dmitri Frolov, of the Federal Security Service's Information Security Center.
Frolov spoke Thursday in the Federation Council, or Russia's upper house of parliament, at a panel discussion devoted to telecommunications and Internet regulations.
The Federal Security Service proposes setting new rules for Internet providers so that it could prevent the spread of extremist ideas, track down illegal online operations, and get access to databases with mobile telephone subscribers' details, such as e-mail addresses, Frolov said. There should be compulsory registration of mobile phone users with Internet connectivity.
The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications is opposed to the idea of adopting a separate law on Internet operations. Speaking at today's panel discussion in the Federation Council, Deputy Minister Boris Antonyuk said the use of the Internet could be regulated by more general laws already in effect, including those dealing with advertising, the protection of consumer rights, and administrative offenses.
[via Fergie's Tech Blog and RIA Novosti]
The information society: Measurements biased by capitalism and its intent to control-dependent societiesa critical perspective, Sara Hyder
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) has published its statistics on the number of Internet Users in FY2004. Over 75 million Japanese access the Internet through mobile phones. [via my weblog]
ZDNET Australia is reporting that Australian regulators have signed an agreement with Asia-Pacific nations to step up the war against spam.
Twelve Asia-Pacific communications and Internet agencies have joined the Australian Communications Authority in signing a memorandum of understanding -- the Seoul-Melbourne Anti-Spam Agreement --on cooperation in countering spam.
ACA acting chairman Bob Horton said the memorandum was "focused on sharing knowledge, information and intelligence about known sources of spam, network vulnerabilities, methods of spam propagation, and technical, educational and policy solutions to the spam problem".
Other agencies involved include:
The new document is based on an agreement signed in late 2003 between the ACA, the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) -- since renamed the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) -- and the Korea Information Security Agency.
Furthering cooperation among international initiatives in countering spam will also be discussed at the ITU's upcoming WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity which will begin with a countering spam day as a following up to ITU's meeting in July 2004 on countering spam.
Intel Corporation has announced the availability of its first WiMAX product, providing equipment manufacturers and carriers the ability to deliver next-generation wireless broadband networks around the world. In addition, several service providers worldwide announced plans to begin commercial WiMAX trials based on Intel silicon products later this year, giving consumers and businesses a glimpse at this emerging wireless high-speed broadband technology. Key equipment providers also announced WiMAX solutions based on Intel's product..
The Register (via Wireless Watch) had a recent review of the WiMAX Summit in Paris, France and the related standards debate.
The other view is that the market needs to move to mobility more rapidly, by offering pre-standard networks that provide most of the functionality promised for 'e'. This strategy rests on the belief - or hope - that the mobile standard will come to market rapidly and that the leap from its predecessor will be a simple one.
In related news, only days before a deadline for its first licensing fee payment, South Koreas Hanaro Telecom announced Tuesday it will forego a license to roll out a WiBro mobile broadband network (based on 802.16e technology). Hanaro was one of three Korean operators granted licenses by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in January. "We still believe WiBro is commercially viable. We plan to grant the remaining licensee withdrawn from Hanaro to an eligible hopeful, MIC director general Kim Dong-soo said.
[via my weblog, The Register, MIC]
CAPTEF (Conférence des administrations des postes et des télécommunications dexpression française ) Member States adopted a declaration recognizing the importance of the fight against spam at a meeting held in Paris between the 29th and 30th of April 2005. The main purpose of this meeting on "CAPTEF Internet" was to present the various methodologies adopted by the Member States for securing information systems, fighting spam and managing Internet domain names.
The final declaration emphasizes the collection of national contacts responsible for different areas in the fight against spam, which is to be disseminated to international organizations (OECD, ITU, etc.), and the reinforcement of cooperation and international coordination for sharing information on legislation, specific country needs, and anti-spam technologies.
Nineteen countries are currently members of CAPTEF: Benign, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Central Africa, Congo, Côte.d'ivoire, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Maurice, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Chad, and Togo. Six other countries: Algeria, the Comoros, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia, and Democratic Republic of Congo take part as observers.
For further details, see Direction du développement des médias.
FCC Chief Wants 911 Service for Internet Phones: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said on Tuesday he would soon propose requiring Internet-based telephone providers to offer their customers emergency 911 dialing services.After hearing reports of consumers having trouble getting through to the police when dialing from an Internet telephone, known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), Martin said he wanted to address the problem quickly.Calls to 911 with traditional telephones provide emergency service dispatchers with the caller's number and address. VOIP providers have limited access to the systems connecting those calls to primary emergency lines and location information is not always available."I immediately asked our staff to develop a plan to address this issue," Martin said during a House subcommittee hearing. The proposal would "hopefully require they (VOIP providers) have 911 services being provided," he said.After the hearing, Martin told reporters he planned to offer a proposal to the other three FCC commissioners so they could vote on it in May, possibly at the May 19 FCC open meeting.He declined to offer more details about his plan. Martin said since the FCC insulated the Internet phone carriers from many state regulations, the agency had an obligation to act.
In related news, Verizon announced on Tuesday that it would start making its 911 network in New York City available to all voice over Internet Protocol providers this summer.
From Reuters and News.com [via my weblog]
Cybercrime Costs Billions But How to Report It? Cybercrime costs societies billions of dollars every year, but it is not easy for European citizens to report that their digital identity has been stolen, according to anti-virus software companies and police.Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) three weeks ago estimated the nation's cost of computer crime at $4.7 billion a year. Yet common computer break-ins such as hacking, phishing and identity theft must be reported to the local police.Britain's police offer online forms for citizens to report "non-emergency minor crimes" including theft, criminal vandalism and damage to motor vehicles, but there is no special category for computer crime.Elsewhere in Europe, citizens are also mostly referred to local police forces to report these crimes."It really is a problem. These crimes are global, but citizens work with local police. Most of the police are trained to catch bank robbers rather than Internet robbers," said Mikko Hypponen at anti-virus company F-Secure in Finland, where citizens have to report to local police.Dutch police have admitted that most are ill equipped to deal with cybercrime."Victims of high-tech crime experience this every day," wrote Pascal Hetzscholdt, policy adviser of the Dutch police's digital investigation unit, in a recent article for a police detectives magazine."When reporting a crime, they find that the police have big problems with taking and processing the technical aspects of the incident. Police and the public prosecution also have trouble estimating the importance," Hetzscholdt said.Weak police skills lead to low interest, others say. From Reuters [via my weblog]
UK laws are failing to deter spam: UK spam laws are failing to stop spammers, say campaigners. According to anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, loopholes in UK law render legislation useless in the fight against spammers. The majority of spam originates from the US but there are a handful of hardcore UK-based spammers. Since the law came into force over a year ago no UK spammers have been fined or prosecuted.Internet service provider AOL is becoming frustrated by the lack of effective anti-spam laws in the UK. "While the volume of spam originating in the UK may be lower than many countries, strong anti-spam legislation sends the right signal," said a spokesman for AOL. "We would like more legal avenues in the UK to hit spammers where it really hurts - in the pocket," he said.The problem lies in loopholes which effectively give spammers the right to spam any address in the UK, said Steve Linford, who heads up Spamhaus. "British law allows spammers to spam business addresses and it is up to spammers to determine whether an address is a private one or a business one," he told the BBC News website. "Apparently the Department of Trade and Industry was told that British businesses wanted spam, although we have never heard of any," he said.The job of enforcing the spam law falls to the Office of the Information Commissioner, which admits that it finds it hard to deal with the problem. "It is hard to prove anything because it is difficult to track spammers down. The power of the Information Commissioner is sadly limited although he is calling for greater powers," said a spokesperson.Even if the Information Commissioner manages to track a UK-based spammer down, the penalty of fines up to £5,000 is not harsh enough thinks Mr Linford. "Some spammers make that amount in a day," he said. UK spammers account for less than 2% of all junk e-mails with the lion's share of spam coming from the US.From BBC via [my weblog]
ENISAs Seat Agreement signed in Heraklion: ENISA Seat Agreement was signed today in Heraklion, Crete, by ENISAs Executive Director, Mr Andrea Pirotti, and Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr Anastasios Nerantzis, in the presence of the Greek Prime Minister Mr Kostas Karamanlis. High level representatives of the Greek Government and Parliament attended the event as well as representatives from the Foundation for Research and Technology, FORTH, and from the ENISA Management Board. From ENISA [via my weblog]
A Refutation of Metcalfe's Law (PDF) and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections by Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly.
There have been and continue to be controversies about interconnection policies of ISPs. A particularly sensitive issue is the frequent refusal of large ISPs to peer (roughly speaking, exchange traffic freely without payment) with smaller carriers. (The refusal of AOL to interconnect instant messenger systems is very similar.) This behavior has often been attributed to abusive exploitation of market power. But there may be a more innocent explanation, based on the economic value that interconnection generates. As we show in Section 2, if Metcalfe's Law held, then interconnection would produce equal value for any two network, irrespective of their relative sizes. Hence refusal to interconnect without payment would have to be due to either obtuseness on the part of management or strategic gaming. However, if network value scales like n log(n), as we argue (or by most other rules of this type, the quadratic growth of Metcalfe's Law is very unusual in this regard) then relative gains from interconnection depend on the sizes of the networks. In this case the smaller network gains considerably more than the larger one. This produces an incentive for larger networks to refuse to interconnect without payment, a very common phenomenon in the real economy.
ITU-T is hosting a workshop on IPv6 organized in cooperation with the European Unions IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee (IPv6 EU TF-SC) and the IPv6 Forum. Here is the advanced programme.
Taking place in Geneva, between 22 to 23 June 2005, the event will examine the current status of IPv6, with regards to rollout, policy, technology and applications. An additional aim will be to promote awareness of IPv6 to countries where Internet use is relatively low. The workshop will also follow-up on recent comments sent to the Director of ITU-Ts secretariat, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) on the management and distribution of IP addresses. .
The March 2005 issue of Business Communications Review, pp. 2021 has an interesting article entitled Which NGN? that debates different visions of the future of the Internet:
Architecturally, the ITUs NGN relies heavily on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework, developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)/3GPP2 for 3G/UMTS and CDMA mobile networks. The IMS has been extended to cover wireline facilities, to create a converged, seamless mobile user experience. The ITU NGN also mandates IPv6, and uses traffic prioritization end-to-end to deliver service quality. It requires reservation and commitment of network resources before connections are established.
Although the article suggest a conflict of vision on NGN standards, this post also notes that the ITU and IETF are exploring ways of cooperating on NGN standardization. Both ITU's FGNGN (Focus Group on Next Generation Networks) and Study Group 13 (Next Generation Networks) are meeting in the coming weeks at ITU to advance NGN standardization.
The latest issue of the WDR e-Brief, an electronic newsletter with pointers to the latest news from the World Dialogue on Regulation is available:
Telecommunications Magazine has an article on ITU's recent Ubiquitous Network Societies workshop.
Bleepblog has news of the Skype VoIP Cyberphone.
The World Summit in Reflection: a Deliberative Dialogue on WSIS brought to you by the journal Information Technologies and International Development and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.
According to an article in The Australian, the Australian Communications Authority will launch a year-long trial starting May 5, 2005 of ENUM, in conjunction with Australia's internet administration authority, AusRegistry.
Research paper: On selecting a technology evolution path for broadband access networks, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 72, Issue 4, May 2005, Pages 449-470, Soo-Hyeon Yoon, Moon-Gil Yoon and Jinjoo Lee
From The Arizona Republic:
"It's the next Internet scam, and it could be the most menacing.
The reason: Even experienced Internet users can become victims and not know it.The ploy is called pharming - a play off "phishing," the previous Internet fraud - and it involves highly skilled hackers who secretly redirect users' computers from financial sites to the scammers' fake ones, where they steal passwords and other personal information. Even the Web address looks the same."
"It's the next Internet scam, and it could be the most menacing.
The reason: Even experienced Internet users can become victims and not know it.The ploy is called pharming - a play off "phishing," the previous Internet fraud - and it involves highly skilled hackers who secretly redirect users' computers from financial sites to the scammers' fake ones, where they steal passwords and other personal information. Even the Web address looks the same."
According to new ITU research, here are the top 10 mobile operators by proportionate subscribers in the world, as of December 2004. China Mobile is in first place with over 204 million subscribers.
WorldSummit2005.org in an article entitled Internet Governance Debate Moving to Next Stage reports that the Working Group on Internet Governance just completed its third meeting in Geneva at the United Nations.
"The discussion is now moving from mapping the internet governance landscape of institutions and stakeholders towards assessments and recommendations. Mondays session was conducted as an open consultation, yesterday and today the group was meeting in private. Expectedly, a few conflicts surfaced again, which mainly circled around the role of different stakeholders, the question of a new organisational framework, and the multilateralization of the core Internet resources. But progress can be observed."
"The discussion is now moving from mapping the internet governance landscape of institutions and stakeholders towards assessments and recommendations. Mondays session was conducted as an open consultation, yesterday and today the group was meeting in private. Expectedly, a few conflicts surfaced again, which mainly circled around the role of different stakeholders, the question of a new organisational framework, and the multilateralization of the core Internet resources. But progress can be observed."
Niklas Zennström's keynote presentation (PowerPoint) entitled A Vision For Global Telephony from the Voice on the Net Canada 2005 conference. [via Jeff Pulver Blog]
The Australian Communications Authority Vision 20/20 project's final report is available on the project website. The Vision 20/20 project was a foresight project, designed to develop a greater understanding about the future of communications and the consequences for regulation. Following the preliminary report released in August 2004, the final report:
The project has been a collaborative project, with approximately 200 people in Australia and internationally having participated through interviews, workshops and discussion. The Australian Communications Authority hopes the report will contribute to strategic thinking and discussion about future regulatory approaches within government, industry and the wider community. The project and presentation page now includes notes from a Telecommunications & Disability Consumer Representation (TEDICORE) workshop held in November 2004.
Houlin Zhao, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector presented ITU and IPv6 (PowerPoint) at the Global IPv6 Summit in Beijing on 5 April 2005. In a related article in China Daily entitled IP Address Supply Facing Crunch.
VoIP and ENUM, Om Malik and Stuart note that Lenn Pryor, Channel 9 founder, is leaving Microsoft and joining Skype. VoIP and ENUM also points to news of SkypeMobile in MobileMag:
At the Voice On the Net (VON) conference in Toronto, Skype Technologies co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom reported that a mobile version of Skype will be available this year.We will encourage hardware manufacturers to deploy Skype on their devices. said Zennstrom. SkypeMobile for mobile devices (our unofficial name for the new Skype) will be targeted to hardware manufacturers for integration into new dual-mode (GPRS + WiFi) mobile devices once made available to carriers. Our guess is that whichever manufacturer will adopt Skype first is the platform SkypeMobile will be released for.
At the Voice On the Net (VON) conference in Toronto, Skype Technologies co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom reported that a mobile version of Skype will be available this year.We will encourage hardware manufacturers to deploy Skype on their devices. said Zennstrom. SkypeMobile for mobile devices (our unofficial name for the new Skype) will be targeted to hardware manufacturers for integration into new dual-mode (GPRS + WiFi) mobile devices once made available to carriers. Our guess is that whichever manufacturer will adopt Skype first is the platform SkypeMobile will be released for.
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