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With the arrival of the Motorola Droid and the Apple App Store milestone of surpassing 100,000 apps, the buzz around mobile apps has never been louder. All of this, mind you, in a little more than a year since the App Store launch.
But will mobile apps reach even greater heights? The popular answer is "yes," although significant hurdles lie ahead.
Currently, Apple dominates the nascent mobile app market with 115,000 apps, according to Mobclix, which tracks mobile trends and operates a mobile ad marketplace. iPhone owners collectively download 100 million apps per month, whereas Android and RIM owners download 20 million and 300,000 per month, respectively, according to Mobclix data. Put another way, the average iPhone user (amazingly) downloads 11 apps per month.
The onslaught of mobile app downloads shows no signs of slowing, either. The recently released Motorola Droid already has 10,000 apps that run on it. Hot Droid apps include Twidroid for twittering, Meebo for Android for instant messaging, Google Voice for Mobile (which was banned from the App Store), among others.
The iPhone's many game apps has made the smartphone a serious competitor to standalone game devices like the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. Android is also emerging as a strong mobile gaming platform, even outperforming Apple, according to Mobclix. Apple has shown market leading strength in social, entertainment, utility and navigation apps.
According to market research firm Gartner, the top 10 consumer app areas for 2012 will be: money transfer, location-based services, mobile search, mobile browsing, mobile health monitoring, mobile payment, near-field communication services, mobile advertising, mobile instant messaging, and mobile music.
Nevertheless, mobile apps face a few giant obstacles on their path to stardom. One hang up has nothing to do with smartphone innovations and killer apps, rather it's the wireless coverage that many mobile apps depend on to deliver great customer experience.
One of the most popular iPhone regions is the San Francisco Bay Area, which is also home to a majority of iPhone app developers and, of course, Apple itself. But try tapping into AT&T's 3G coverage while shuffling down Market Street in San Francisco. It's almost impossible, rendering critical mobile apps that need the Internet to perform their functions practically useless.
What's the problem? Verizon advertisements aside, AT&T does have 3G coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area. But the 3G network is as gridlocked as the Bay Bridge during commute hours. Consider this freakish stat: Since 2008, AT&T's network in the San Francisco area has experienced a 3G data traffic increase of 2,000 percent. "Californians' appetite for mobile broadband is unprecedented," said Loretta Walker, AT&T's vice president of external affairs for the Bay Area.
Hoping to get a handle on the problem, AT&T has invested nearly $65 million (£40m) since 2008 to upgrade some 850 cell sites and improve its 3G wireless network in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's a race of sorts to help iPhone customers gain better 3G wireless connectivity, improve performance and enhance in-building coverage.
Lacklustre coverage is a threat to smartphones everywhere, and so AT&T plans to upgrade its 3G network nationwide with HSPA 7.2 technology, which should deliver considerably faster mobile broadband speeds. The upgrades are planned to begin in the fourth quarter, with completion expected in 2011, AT&T says. In the hot zone that is the San Francisco Bay Area, AT&T plans to roll out HSPA 7.2 next year.
Another hurdle: the mobile apps themselves. While iPhone apps are all the rage today, there's the risk that they will burn out like so many tech fads. Or maybe they'll simply carve out a niche in the great computing universe, far from the prophesised paradigm shift.
"Yes, iPhone has a lot of momentum, unquestionably," Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, told CNET at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference earlier this week. "But I think the phenomenon we're in right now is the app phone. And if you look at the depth of apps that are on these phones, they're not very deep. It's not like Office or AutoCAD, where there are just thousands of man years that have gone into developing these apps. They're relatively thin apps that are companions to some service."


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Along with appearances by Anna and Elsa, the pavilion will also be updated with a new gallery exhibit in the Stave Church at the entrance to the pavilion.
The Magic Kingdom's Celebrate the Magic projection show will also be updated to include a new 'Frozen' sequence.
You can see 'Frozen' in theaters from November 27 2013.

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There is good news to report: The idea that "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution" is finding greater acceptance over time. But there is also bad news, namely growing confusion over who really is a moderate Muslim.
This means that the ideological side of the war on terror is making some, but only limited, progress.
The good news: Anti-Islamist Muslims are finding their voice since 9/11. Their numbers include distinguished academics such as Azar Nafisi (Johns Hopkins), Ahmed al-Rahim (formerly of Harvard), Kemal Silay (Indiana), and Bassam Tibi (Göttingen). Important Islamic figures like Ahmed Subhy Mansour and Muhammad Hisham Kabbani are speaking out.
Organizations are coming into existence. The American Islamic Forum for Democracy, headed by Zuhdi Jasser, is active in Phoenix, Arizona. The Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism appears to be genuinely anti-Islamist, despite my initial doubts about its founder, Kamal Nawash.
Internationally, an important petition posted a month ago by a group of liberal Arabs calls for a treaty banning religious incitement to violence and specifically names "sheikhs of death" (such as Yusuf Al-Qaradawi of Al-Jazeera television), demanding that they be tried before an international court. Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries rapidly signed this petition.
With time, individual Muslims are finding their voices to condemn Islamist connections to terrorism. Perhaps most outstanding is an article by Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, a Saudi journalist in London: "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists," he writes, "but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims…. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women."
Other analysts have followed al-Rashed's example. Osama El-Ghazali Harb writes from Egypt that "Muslim and Arab intellectuals and opinion leaders must confront and oppose any attempt to excuse the barbaric acts of these [terrorist] groups on the grounds of the suffering endured by Muslims." From Virginia, Anouar Boukhars holds that "Terrorism is a Muslim problem, and refusal to admit so is indeed troubling."
The bad news: There are lots of fake-moderates parading about, and they can be difficult to identify, even for someone like me who devotes much attention to this topic. The Council on American-Islamic Relations still wins mainstream support and the Islamic Society of North America still sometimes hoodwinks the US government. The brand-new Progressive Muslim Union wins rave reviews for its alleged moderation from gullible journalists, despite much of its leadership (Salam Al-Marayati, Sarah Eltantawi, Hussein Ibish, Ali Abunimah) being well-known extremists.
Fortunately, the authorities kept both Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf Islam out of the United States, but Khaled Abou El Fadl got through and, worse, received a presidential appointment.
Even anti-terrorist rallies are not always what they seem to be. On November 21, several thousand demonstrators, some of them Muslim, marched under banners proclaiming "Together for Peace and against Terror" in Cologne, Germany. Marchers shouted "No to terror" and politicians made feel-good statements. But the Cologne demonstration, coming soon after the murder of Theo van Gogh on November 2, served as a clever defense operation. The organizer of the event, the Islamist Diyanet Ileri Türk-Islam Birlii, used it as a smokescreen to fend off pressure for real change. Speeches at the demonstration included no mea culpas or calls for introspection, only apologetics for jihad and invocations of stale and empty slogans such as "Islam means peace."
This complex, confusing record points to several conclusions:
• Islamists note the urge to find moderate Muslims and are learning how to fake moderation. Over time, their camouflage will undoubtedly further improve.
• Figuring out who's who is a high priority. It may be obvious that Osama bin Laden is Islamist and Irshad Manji anti-Islamist, but plenty of Muslims are in the murky middle. An unresolved debate has raged for years in Turkey whether the current prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, is an Islamist or not.
• The task of identifying true moderates cannot be done through guesswork and intuition; for proof, note the US government's persistent record of supporting Islamists by providing them with legitimacy, education, and (perhaps even) money. I too have made my share of mistakes. What's needed is serious, sustained research.
Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and the author of several books, most recently Militant Islam Reaches America. You may visit his website by clicking here and purchase his books by clicking here.
(This article courtesy of the Middle East Forum.)


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So... these things have made me discover the clarity and resolution freak in me. My more colored FXT-90's and SR-60i's, though more sonorous and thick in note, just can't satisfy the clean, all-encompassing, balanced and technical sound that the B2's sing with my music. I didn't expect myself to like the analytical sound signature, but boy was I wrong.
Agree, I love my HJE 900 and MS1i but the B2 its the real deal in terms of clarity and doesnt seem to be lacking anything unless you a/b with the some bass monsters like the Eterna.
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Drug makers shore up their guard in wake of ACCME rules
Novartis and Wyeth executives say they are taking a hard look at CME grant applications as the industry absorbs new guidelines for commercial support from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).At a CME industry forum Wednesday in Philadelphia, organized by the Healthcare Marketing & Communications (HMC) Council, Novartis' Marty Putenis voiced concern over a resolution the ACCME standards that provides for removing a CME speaker because his or her commercial interest relates to the course content.
"The resolution should match the degree of conflict," said Putenis, executive director, healthcare compliance, adding that this is not necessarily the view of Novartis. "It strikes me as draconian to put a gag order on a pharmaceutical company if they have legitimate contributions to an issue."
ACCME, in a subsequent clarification, has suggested other resolutions that preserve speaker participation, like review of CME content by commercially disinterested peers. Putenis said medical-education firms accepting Novartis money must subject peer review and disclose
how financially dependent they are on Novartis.
Wyeth has formed a department to administer the CME grant process, said Anthony Iacono, assistant vice president, marketing and sales support.
"Providers, faculty, [medical education and communication companies] and supporters are wise to take every precaution necessary to ensure the integrity of independent education," he advised. Iacono predicted longer review times for grants. Eric Peterson, president of the North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies (NAAMECC), said resolution of conflicts of interest has not spelled major trouble for his
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The delight of duplicity and disguise has always been the comic propellant in Oscar Wilde's secretly subversive comedy, but this London import takes it to ridiculous extremes -- mostly to the good -- at ART.
The delight of duplicity and disguise has always been the comic propellant in Oscar Wilde's secretly subversive comedy, but this London import takes it to ridiculous extremes — mostly to the good — at ART.
Ridiculusmus — aka actors David Woods and Jon Haynes — tackle all the trivial-pursuing roles, certainly a challenge when there's an ever-changing pair of characters playing verbal tennis with Wilde's witticisms, but seemingly insurmountable when the stage is populated with up to six characters at a time. But that's the fun, the mess and the absurd point of this virtuosic conceit and its admirable physical execution. In the past "Earnest" has been reimagined to include a Lady Bracknell in drag and even made a musical. But Ridiculusmus makes Wilde's surreal artifice in the face of reason and morality the very point of its comedy. It's an especially wild approach to the playwright's satire on the hypocrisy of the aristocratic code of conduct. Here the aud is a co-conspirator with the performers as they ignore the conventions of society — not to mention the theater — in their effort to make clownish anarchy of the twits and wits of class-driven English society. The show brings to mind another cuckoo company: Charles Ludlum's Ridiculous Theater, which took classic genres and twisted them into hilarious comic pretzels. In a way, this could be "The Mystery of Earnest Vep," where the fun is in the outrageous lengths to which a pair of actors go for their comic art. But with Ludlum's "Irma Vep," the source material was far from prime. Here the boys aren't quite in the same camp — although they do slip into that mode on occasion (especially David Woods' eyebrow-acting Cecily, who sounds like a Valley girl's take on Bette Davis). Unlike Ludlum's scattershot comedy, however, Wilde's lines are pure gold and the play's structure, pace and purpose are precise. While landing quite a few Wilde moments, Ridiculusmus misses many as well; on occasion one simply yearns for the real — not just the surreal — thing. The men often make up for it in sheer energy, nerve and some delicious between-the-lines playfulness. Still, pushing way past two hours, the forced and crude hilarity often flags and in the end we share the actors' exhaustion. However, the production introduces us to a pair of terrific talents. The lithe Haynes is upper-crust crisp as Algernon, sublimely frilly as Gwendolyn and a jittery delight as Miss Prism. The towering Woods plays the petulant Jack, the libidinous Cecily and a blase butler. They both share Lady Bracknell's bird-topped chapeau, and when the action gets too fast and furious the actors simply let their petticoats, cutaways and hats do the talking (along with a couple of puppets, dummies and coat racks that serve as stand-ins). Helmed by Jude Kelly, it is still an amusing show with moments of inspired lunacy. This romp should find further venues on these shores where auds are likely to welcome a less earnest "Earnest." Others, however, may prefer a tamer Wilde.The Importance of Being Earnest
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Mass.; 556 seats; $50 top
An American Repertory Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Oscar Wild, devised and edited by David Woods, Jon Haynes and Jude Kelly. Directed by Kelly. Choreography, Marcelle Davies.
Sets and costumes, Zoe Atkinson; lighting, Joanne Currey; music and sound, Woods, Haynes, Kelly, Lawrence English; production manager, Rebecca Rees. Opened, reviewed Dec. 27, 2006. Runs through Jan. 14. Running time: 2 HOURS, 20 MIN.
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First Gulf Bank Selects SunGard for Integrated Risk Management and Basel II Compliance
First Gulf Bank (FGB), one of the UAE's leading financial institutions, has selected SunGard, the global leader in integrated software and process solutions for the financial industry, to provide a full risk management framework for capital calculations and compliance protocols laid down in The Basel Accord known as Basel II.
FGB will use SunGard's BancWare solution for Basel II regulatory capital calculation and reporting requirements as well as asset/liability management (ALM), to help the bank measure and manage balance sheet interest and foreign exchange risk. SunGard's market risk management solution, Adaptiv will provide market risk management for off-balance sheet issues. The integrated solution will help FGB achieve an enterprise-wide, risk exposure view.
"Our growing business, increased exposure and increased regulatory requirements have created the need for an independent risk-management solution," said Arif Shaikh, FGB's Chief Risk Officer. "By providing an integrated solution for Basel II and risk management, SunGard will help us expand our on and off balance sheet risk management capability and enable us to produce regulatory compliant reporting that meets the requirements of both the Basel accord and the Central Bank".
The integrated solution will help FGB perform capital calculations for both the Standardised and Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approaches to credit risk management under the Basel II framework, and for Standardised market risk calculations. These solutions will help FGB evaluate its market risk at origination, thereby assisting it to achieve reliable, real-time measurement and proactive management of its risk position.
Andreas Hug, Managing Director for SunGard's BancWare business unit in Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "With the sealing of this accord, First Gulf Bank has clearly taken a market leading position in a growing regional bank trend to invest in an enterprise-wide risk management framework from a single solution provider. SunGard, with support from our local partner Advanced Financial Solutions, will deliver an entire risk management solution in a time and cost-efficient manner."
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Top 40 Predictions about Insights & Analytics for 2017
Tuesday, December 27, 2016, 20:06 pm 5 Comments40 Insights & Analytics thought leaders offer their predictions for 2017.
1,000,000 Apps: Yes, 2011 Was The Mobile Tipping Point
Friday, December 2, 2011, 4:00 am 2 CommentsDespite reaching critical milestones such as global ubiquity of mobile coverage, 30% global penetration of smartphones (over 60% in the U.S.), overtaking the PC in shipments, and this week reaching the milestone of 1,000,000 apps available in the marketplace some naysayers hold on to the idea that the mobile revolution is an isolated event, not an evolutionary leap. In this post I'm going to try to put the arguments to rest and prove that 2011 was the tipping point.
Step 2: Surveys Aren't Your Only Quantitative Data Source
Monday, November 14, 2011, 19:55 pm 2 CommentsRather than grow larger and larger panels with dozens of profiling questions repeated over and over, perhaps we should find new ways of identifying qualified participants. With some very basic filtering and analysis of my customer database, for example, I can reach response rates in excess of 30%. By targeting followers of relevant brands on Twitter, I can do the same in those cases where I need to reach outside my CRM system.
Analysis & Predictions Regarding the Confirmit & Kantar Acquisitions
Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 18:26 pm 2 CommentsThe strategic consolidation trend in market research continues, with two interesting announcements today. The first was the news that online survey software giant Confirmit was acquiring mobile research pioneer Techneos. The second was that Kantar had acquired the long on the auction block GMI and was rolling them into their Lightspeed panel offering.
Both make sense for a variety of reasons, and both are very telling about how Confirmit and Kantar read the future of the industry. I also will be so bold as to make a prediction for the next steps Confirmit and Kantar will make to build off of these acquisitions within the next six months. Let's look at each one.


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Some time ago I watched a discussion between Sam Harris and Craig, and I must admit, I'm confused about this "relative morality" concept. After a little research (very little though) I found this one site that said things about rape always being wrong and somehow that proves god exists. I'm really lost here. Not that that argument makes sense, but I still don't understand the whole point about arguing over this. Can someone please help me with this? I joined this community in hopes of learning more, so it's time to start, huh?
I apologize for my bad English and ignorance, but appreciate all the help I can get.
"Morality pertains to defining right and wrong behavior." No, it would be more accurate to define morality in terms of right and wrong behavior themselves, not on defining right and wrong behavior.
Morals are prescribed. In being moral, the only question is how best to conform to the prescription.
An ethical person has a more difficult job, which is that of looking at possible choices in their context and making a decision based on those considerations as well as the consequences of his action.
The moral Christian will obey his father even if what his father tells him to do is something that may cause pain and/or harm to others. He may oppose abortion based on Thou Shalt Not Kill by viewing the death of the foetus as a kind of murder whereas the death of the mother in childbirth is natural and God's Will.
Both of those would be analyzed in a totally different way by an ethical person than by a moral person.
Everything is objective in some sense much in the way that "Everything exists once properly categorized" (e.g., unicorns exist as mythical beings).
"Morals are prescribed. In being moral, the only question is how best to conform to the prescription."
The other side to that is how best to write the prescription.
Hey I just wanted to put my input in. Some people might read your post and think that, that's what Christians think. I'm a Christian so I'm typing this for people out there and yourself. I think you missed some Christian values while posting about a moral Christian. Anyways...A moral Christian is obligated to obey God first and he/she in obedience to God first, would disobey his/her father in committing sin. When it comes to authority, God is always at the top. So no I think you got it wrong. For the next one about abortion vs a mom dying during childbirth... big difference. One is murder and the other is ideally sacrifice. Think about this... say someone pulled a gun out on "Bob" and was about to shoot you... Bob's mom out of love for him, pushes him away but she get's killed in the process. Mom dies because he loved his son that much. She was willing to risk her own life for him. This is God's will yeah, acts of love...and a mom giving child birth willing to risk her life for her child, that's God's will, acts of love. To be willing to lay down our life for another person, in love for that person, is a showing of love. In that context that I gave... that's God's will. Any other context you make up.... I'm not talking about that. I'm talking the context I'm giving which is in Christian Faith and which is something you were talking about. So yeah there's some Christian values you missed. The values are: God's authority and Love. A mom sacrificing herself in childbirth out of love for her child would be ideal in my opinion which is rooted from God's will. Thanks for reading.
So I was even more curious about the little dilemma you think was there and I looked through a Christian site on the topic and sure enough I found 2 great verses that show what I mean about obeying parents... you don't ALWAYS have to obey them... Ezekiel 20:18-19
18 "But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
So you see... it all goes back to obeying God. The reason why were to honor our father and mother and in other verses it says to clearly obey them... is in obedience to God. In the verses I pointed out above.. it's clear that obeying those fathers as defined in verse 18. Then in 19, God speaks and say "I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;"
Another nice verse says this...Acts 5:29 29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men.
Father and mother are just mankind.... we ought to obey God rather than men. Again it all goes back to obeying God.... the reason why honor your father and mother exist in the first place is because of obedience in God, ya know the God of Love, Truth, Justice and everything that's good. So yeah, hope that helped.
18 "But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
So you see... it all goes back to obeying God. The reason why were to honor our father and mother and in other verses it says to clearly obey them... is in obedience to God. In the verses I pointed out above.. it's clear that obeying those fathers as defined in verse 18. Then in 19, God speaks and say "I am theLord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;"
It seems whatever you want to do, obey your parents or not, you can find a Bible passage that explicitly or, by interpretation, allows you to justify doing anything you want. Strangely, either way you're obeying God, aren't you?
Short answer to your post is..... context
Long answer to your post... is no of course its not anything I want to do, it's just a matter of how its done... its like violence... some people out there might think "cauing pain" is always wrong... nomatter what... but I think its clear that it can sometimes be wrong and sometimes be ok. I dont have to tell you how causing pain can be wrong. I think we can all imagine some examples of that easily. But how can it be good? Self-defense, Surgery, Child-birth, ... or how about a life and death situation where say... you went mountain climbing and a boulder fell on your arm and you couldnt get out... your best choice of survival would be to cut off your arm... causing a lot of pain. Would that be evil? How about Self-defence? Surgery? Child-birth? Are they evil because pain is being caused? Of course not... like-wise in obeying parents, context, the reason why is what really matters. As far as I understand that's I think at the moment.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
-George Bernard Shaw
Living for someone takes a different kind of understanding than dying for someone. I mean, once you've decided to be here living, it becomes personal, full of purpose, meaning, conflict and guts. But you can die for almost any reason and the living will evaluate it in some positive manner, even though as far we can prove, it makes no difference to the dead.
@Lucas - I see nothing wrong with your English, you should hear my Brazilian Portuguese!
I think the fact that the Bible is replete with examples of God approving rape (and murder) illustrates the concept of "relative morality" quite well.
The thing is that although the Bible exists, "god" doesn't exist. So, who was 'approving rape (and murder)'? Is it still being approved? If it's not still being approved, then why does it still happen?
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As for Poker, continue to run pretty good since I've been back. As I've mentioned, I've won two tournaments at Harrahs, then placed fourth, and then stone bubbled day 2 at the Beau Rivage 50k guarantee and stone bubbled a small tournament at LaBerge. Besides a couple of painful interactions with Moe Moeini at the Beau (and I mean that as a compliment to him), I've been happy with how well I've been generating chips without hands. I think teaching at the last couple of WSOP Academys in New Orleans was just as helpful to my game as it was to the students there.
I've gotten so much out of doing those hand labs I will gladly do them every time I get the chance. I have a great respect for the WSOP Academy and the success of its students. One of the biggest things I've learned through teaching is to pull the trigger in spots were I might just be a little too cautious previously. As I told the students, and really reinforced with myself, its far better to make mistakes, in my opinion, by being too aggressive instead of being too passive. Now, when I find a marginal spot where I think I could get something through instead of being cautious I pull the trigger. It's amazing how many chips are just there to be taken, and how important it is to jump all over weakness when you sense it. And the more experience you get the more you recognize it.
Also pokerwise, Monkey has selected me to be one of the finalists for his package to the Main Event. I'm honored and think highly of the other names he's mentioned, I'm in pretty good company. I will probably buy shares regardless if I'm selected or not. As they say it's good just to be nominated. I do feel I'd do great in a deep stack event at the WSOP against bad players. Really, I'm chomping at the bit to have a chance to play a WSOP main event against the massive field where one unlucky hand won't cripple me and I can be even more selective in attacking spots.
Generally, the few WSOP-C/1k regional main events I've played I've gone deep in the tournaments and have a lot of day twos to my name. This structure is even better and I'm well suited for it. I think I play really well against bad players. I don't know if I'd be the best candidate if was an elite field (though I'm not scared of anybody), but as the Main Event plays I love my chances to cash and to go deep. No offense to some of the skilled players I play with in the weeklies where I grind results regularly, but the rest of the field in those are pretty exploitable, thankfully allowing me to beat the high rakes and turn profits. They are also a great proving ground for learning how to best bad players.
To be honest the terms of Monkey's deal with just 35% to the player is a bit low and almost prohibitive to doing it. I've talked to people in general about the idea and they suggest with travel and expenses it could add up. Also, it's a far lower price than I normally sell myself at. But then again it's a chance to play in a WSOP Main Event.... I made a pledge to myself a couple year ago to try every new opportunity (within reason) that's presented to me. It's led to a lot of fun and profitable experiences, and because of that pledge I think ultimately if I was selected, I'd do it. By the way, I think this a great concept and I applaud Monkey for coming up with it.
And to be clear, I'm not whining about the 35%, because it is what is, I get it. Monkey's giving two or three players a shot a Main Event seat mining his list of backers and stakers. He wants to give his guys a great price and they are taking on players that don't have a personal relationship with or any loyalty to... this sounds reasonable on both fronts. Similarly, I have a crew of great people who have invested in me in the past, many repeatedly, and I would want to give them freebie pieces of myself as gratitude should I play a Main Event. If I satellited my own way in a non package event that's mandatory and always in the back of my head. With the 35% I don't have a ton of room, but I would do something if selected. The freebies might not kick in until a certain pay jump or something just so I could recoup my travel costs and then split up the profit on my end. Nonetheless, I'd offer my previous investors some sort of freeroll (so I guess I wouldn't even be getting the full 35%).
Anyway, these are all great problems to have and I hope to have, as I'm sure all the candidates would. Read Monkey's blog for more details...
On to soccer...
So, the U.S.A. advanced out of their group. They did something no other team that played their first or second game in the sauna/hotbox/rainforest "city" Manuas did and that was advance. The only team to win their next game after Manuas, thankfully was Portugal which beat Ghana to our benefit. Everybody else lost their follow up game and in the games I watched all their announcers talked about them looking tired at the end. Consider our opponents Germany also had an extra day of rest I was worried we'd get slaughtered. We didn't get much of the ball but the 1-0 loss is fine. We looked gassed and I'm glad we were still somewhat in it. Sure I'd rather a win, or a draw (though it'd be meaningless), but we qualified and in tournaments sometimes that's enough.
Up next is Belgium, a team that dismantled us in a friendly within the last year I think 5-1 or 4-0. Whatever it was it was gross. They have a ton of young talent that the smaller European countries seem to take turns in getting every 20 or 30 years. They call them Golden Generations and for the most part these veins of talent tend to disappoint on the World Cup stage. Somehow the bigger "soccer" countries which just reload, Germany, Italy, Holland, and to a lesser or perhaps, newer, extent France and Spain go the deepest. But Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Czech Republic, Denmark, and now Belgium all take turns being special for a few years. If you rank the 16 remaining teams they are probably in the top half (considering they are a 1 and us a 2 that's fair, though we are probably real close to top 8 as well.).
So, it'll be an upset if we win, but we are certainly good enough to pull it off. I think it'll be a lot closer to the Portugal game than the German game, and with some extra rest we'll look good. I doubt Jozy Altidore will be back or really able to contribute anything more than ten minutes.
On the whole I'm happy with the world cup, and it becoming a bit of a cultural touchstone. So strange considering I used to watch the USA play qualifiers in front of empty seats in places like Hershey, Pennsylvania against opponents like El Salvador (and be an underdog). Now it's so popular it's getting push back as being too trendy. It's a weird world we live in. Soccer fans are a defensive bunch, and I try not to be one, but to give some perspective for twenty years this sport was played in the shadows, even when it was on ESPN it was the one sport the commentators openly mocked when covering it, so we've developed a little bit of a thin skin. The irony is now they mock soccer fans for being too defensive as though we didn't go through years of low hanging fruit abuse. In sports coverage, taking shots at soccer has always been the old reliable and unoriginal cheap shot. Now it's mocking soccer fans. Too hipster, too thin-skinned, too fadish, too whatever. Thankfully, most of the dinosaurs that really roasted the game have gone extinct (with the exception of that idiot Dan Shaunessy), and even the people that hate soccer (hey, I get it, some things aren't for everybody) at least respect it a little more or kind of "get" the world cup even if they are bored by the game.
That's said as Americans our last few international competitions (mens and women) have been like soccer on heroin. Late goals, crazy results and twists of fortune that happen in injury time are what makes this game exhilarating... but reality is more times then not you get games like Germany-USA today. Hopefully, some people trying out the game will stick around and build this national soccer culture. Every couple of years we'll have a major soccer tournament in the summer to watch, it's better when it resonates.
I've seen the trolling by Ann Coulter and Keith Olbermann too. Funny, those two opposites can agree on one thing that's bad for the country... soccer. Olbermann's main beef is it's confusing obtuse qualifications to the knock out stage. He's a baseball guy it must be so hard for him to get you can advance in a tournament despite a loss. Not like the college world series doesn't employ an equally obtuse double elimination tournament which sometimes becomes a series between two teams and then becomes a new double elimination tournament where the previous eliminations don't count. Or the pro teams don't play series and you can lose as many as three games to one opponent and still win. Yeah... it's different but it's not that hard to get. Or somehow bad for rewarding teams that don't win all their games.
Olbermann also is tired of the chorus of soccer proponents saying "Soccer is coming. Soccer is here." The irony is soccer proponents like myself don't say that. It's the rest of the mainstream media that says that or make some sort of prediction based on temporary popularity but when guys like Keith direct their mockery at the sport, they attack the fanbase (who as mentioned are long marginalized and mocked) as though it's them that are making these predictions. Well, many of them take the bait every time and stupid inconsequential soccer debates ensue. I could care less if people like the sport. It's grown to the point I can watch it any time I want and that's enough for me. If you want to join in on the fun. Good for you. If you don't I get it. I turn the channel when pro baseball comes on and several other sports that make my eyes glaze over. Oddly, unlike soccer haters I don't go out of my way to mock those sports and nor do I fault people who enjoy watching them. It's not for me.
As for Coulter's race baiting and insulting of immigrants and deciding to use soccer as a frame to spew her hate through. Yawn. Another pundit who sold out and now just says things merely to shock and get the spotlight on herself for as long as she possibly can. She's the Skip Bayless of politics. I've no use for her. Regardless, Coulter and Olbermann have one thing in common besides soccer, those wet noodles don't like change of any sort. I'm sure when boxing writers or horse racing scribes saw their sports dying they lamented the new sports like baseball or football as awful. Things change pretty quickly and upon a time Cycling was the most popular sport in our country, and I know this is a shocker for a small window at the dawn of the depression.... soccer also held that role. It's a little historical footnote sports journalists have buried. Google it, even if you don't like soccer it's quite interesting footnote in history to see how and why the future NFL survived the Depression and though soccer, which in some places was outdrawing it at the time, did not. Whoever the Ann Coulter and Keith Olberman and Dan O'Shaugnessy of their times were had to be equally whiny as their sports (soccer, cycling, and horse racing) faded into irrelevancy.
Anyway, rant over... go USA.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $151,500 in fines against the WACO Equipment Co. of Columbus for alleged willful and serious violations of federal workplace safety standards following the death of an employee in September, 2006.
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This adoring portrait of the now 91-year-old and still-ebullient musical star best known for originating the title role in "Hello, Dolly!" is the latest showbiz-themed documentary from Dori Berinstein ("Gotta Dance"). The film follows Carol Channing as she prepares for the Kennedy Center Honors salute to composer Jerry Herman between flashes back to her early career, rise to fame, most famous roles and signature songs and the ups and downs of her personal life.
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Lucy Walker ("Devil's Playground," "Waste Land") nabbed her second Oscar nomination for this short documentary about survivors of the Japanese tsunami. With a soundtrack by Moby and striking home video footage of the storm, this film offers a look at the process of learning to rebuild in the aftermath of a major tragedy.
Reviewing the film here at Indiewire, Eric Kohn found that it is "especially remarkable for the way assembles a series of downbeat memories into the slightest hint of optimism for the survivors' abilities to make it through each new day." Airs after "Birders: The Central Park Effect," at 9pm.
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42.3 percent – The Wolves' effective field goal percentage from outside the paint, worst in the league.
Effective field goal percentage = (FGM + (0.5*3PM)) / FGA
League average from outside the paint: 46.0 percent
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Basically, the Wolves were the worst jump-shooting team in the league. The Pistons and Nuggets each had a lower raw field goal percentage from outside the paint, but shot better on threes. Minnesota ranked 13th in mid-range shooting percentage, but 27th on corner threes and 30th on above-the-break threes, the only team that shot less than 30 percent on those.
Thanks to Nikola Pekovic (303 buckets in the restricted area) and Andrei Kirilenko (207), the Wolves were strong at the basket. But they just couldn't space the floor or make defenses pay for double-teaming Big Pek.
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Team | FGM | FGA | FG% | EFG% |
Minnesota | 1,262 | 3,513 | 35.9% | 42.3% |
Chicago | 1,293 | 3,570 | 36.2% | 42.5% |
Orlando | 1,303 | 3,629 | 35.9% | 42.9% |
Charlotte | 1,240 | 3,427 | 36.2% | 43.0% |
Phoenix | 1,403 | 3,796 | 37.0% | 43.3% |
Here are some of the gory details:
- Alexey Shved led the team with 288 3-point attempts and made just 29.5 percent of them. Among qualified players, he was the second-worst 3-point shooter in the league, ahead of only Monta Ellis.
- 15 different Wolves attempted 3-pointers last season and not one of them shot them at the league average (35.9 percent) or better. The best of the group was J.J. Barea (34.6 percent).
- Ricky Rubio ranked last in the league, by far, in EFG% (38.6%) among players with 500-plus FGA. Part of that comes from being a poor finisher at the rim (44.3 percent in the restricted area), but he struggled from the outside as well.
On Feb. 24, the Wolves outscored the Warriors 62-36 in the paint, but lost by a point because they shot a brutal 6-for-35 from outside it. Rubio was 0-for-6 from outside the paint, Kirilenko was 0-for-5, and Luke Ridnour was 4-for-12.
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A healthy Kevin Love will make things better. After registering an effective field goal percentage from outside the paint of 47.9 percent over his previous two seasons, he dropped down to 35.7 percent last season, dealing with an injury to his shooting hand.
Kevin Martin will obviously help, too. Of 150 players who attempted at least 300 shots from outside the paint, Martin ranked 12th in effective field goal percentage at 55.4 percent. Not only will he shoot better than anyone on last year's Wolves, but he'll take some minutes from the poor-shooting Shved.
Of course, the Wolves also added Corey Brewer, who was just barely above Shved on the 3-point shooting list at 29.6 percent. Coach Rick Adelman might want to give Brewer a little less freedom to shoot than George Karl did.
Love and Martin will make the Wolves a better offensive team. The bigger question may be on defense, where they've lost Kirilenko and Greg Stiemsma.
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OffRtg = Points scored per 100 possessions
DefRtg = Points allowed per 100 possessions
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An arsonist set a car alight in a quiet Tauranga suburb last night.
Tauranga police confirmed they were investigating the "suspicious" car fire in Hairini.
Senior Sergeant Mark Holmes said the fire was suspicious and police believed it to be arson.
The car was parked on Harrisfield Rd when it caught alight about 11.50pm yesterday.
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I wonder what
happened to Israel, by which I mean the actual country and its seven million
It still exists,
thank God, but one would hardly know it from the way its supposed supporters
discuss it in the United States.
Take the
brouhaha last week that started with this article in Politico.
Its thesis was that some leading progressives are no longer part of a "pro-Israel"
consensus and are trying to move the Democratic Party in an anti-Israel
This would, of
course, be big news if it were true.
But it isn't and
the only evidence presented in the piece is that many progressive bloggers oppose
a preemptive war against Iran. Additionally some argue that many of the people who
promote military confrontation with Iran -- and oppose diplomacy -- are following
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's lead on the issue.
This is hardly
controversial. No one seriously denies that AIPAC has been pushing "crippling sanctions" against Iran for
years with the insistence that, if those fail, war would be the only recourse. Along
with its cutouts in Congress, it strongly opposes dialogue as a means of resolving U.S. differences
with Iran over its nuclear program.
Additionally, many
progressives make the indisputable case that many of the neoconservatives who
are itching for war with Iran are the same people who promoted the war with
Iraq. (The Council on Foreign Relation's Max Boot
is perhaps the most obvious example.)
Another charge, made
against me, is that I habitually use the term "Israel Firster" to denounce
those who are promoting Israel's positions on Iran and other issues over those
of the United States. For some reason, that drives the right crazy although
they consistently denounce both President Obama and his policies with almost obscene relish while consistently fawning over Netanyahu and his policies of the
Can anyone argue
with the assertion that for neocons Obama is always wrong and Bibi is always
right? Not only that, they denounce those who dare criticize Netanyahu over
anything while never ever letting up on Obama. How can it be that the prime
minister is always right but the president is always wrong?
But I need to
offer a clarification. By the term "Israel Firster, I do not mean that right-wingers
and neocons who advance bellicose Middle East policies are putting the
interests of Israel first.
Far from it. They
are putting the interests of Binyamin Netanyahu and his hardliners first. After
all, if they were putting Israel first, they would not be promoting policies
(such as war with Iran or the perpetuation of the occupation) that could very
easily lead to Israel's destruction or, at least, to its losing its Jewish
The people I
call "Israel Firsters" are, in fact, Netanyahu Firsters.
After all, many
of these people were anything but "Israel Firsters" when the late Yitzhak Rabin was
pursuing peace with the Palestinians or when Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert were
considering plans that would have returned most of the occupied territories to
the Palestinians with Jerusalem converted into a shared capital. On the
contrary, they fought these prime ministers, usually in conjunction with right-wing
Republicans in Congress.
One might ask: why
are progressives who care deeply about Israel never deemed Israel Firsters. (Think
of people like those in J Street and Americans For Peace Now who devote their
lives to achieving peace for Israel.)
The answer is
simple. Peace in the Middle East is clearly in the interests of both the United States and Israel.
In the
mid-1990's an American could have gone out to the town square shouting devotion
to Rabin and no one would have blinked. And the reason was that Rabin was
almost as pro-American as he was pro-Israel. He recognized that advancing an
end to the Middle East conflict would have primarily benefitted Israel, but
also its best friend and backer.
That is why,
shortly after his 1992 election, he told AIPAC that he would not be needing its
services as interlocutor with the Bush (and later Clinton) administrations.
Knowing that the agenda he intended to pursue (peace) would be strongly
supported by the United States, he intended to speak for himself. He did not
need anyone to pressure Congress. (See this in Jewish magazine, MOMENT).
In fact, the
whole business of strong-arming the American government only comes into play
when the right is in power in Israel (unfortunately, that has been almost all
the time since an Israeli rightist murdered Yitzhak Rabin). An Israeli
government that pursues peace does not need pressure tactics, achieving support
for its goals and generous U.S. aid without them.
The bottom line
here is that it is important not to allow the right to highjack Israel's cause.
For the right, Israel is all about maintaining occupation, ensuring Israel's
regional hegemony, and fighting a civilizational war with Muslims.
For us, Israel
is about... Israel. Its creation in the wake of the Holocaust -- the return of
Jews to the place where their history began -- was right and inevitable. Israel's
sole purpose, as I see it, is to be a sanctuary where Jewish children are safe.
It has served that purpose well.
But that will
not continue if Palestinians continue to suffer under occupation or if Israel
and Iran go to war. Jewish children will not forever be safe if Palestinian
children aren't. Nor will they be safe if a war with Iran (and Hezbollah)
spreads into the Israeli heartland.
The hawks don't
care much about that.
For them, Israel
is some kind of macho symbol rather than a place with real people who just want
to live in peace and security. That is why I have to conclude that the term "Israel
Firster" is a bit imprecise. There is no evidence that these people care about Israel
at all.


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Hydro crews take a look at a smouldering hydro pole along Dewdney Trunk Rd. in between 207th St. and 210th St. Monday morning.
A hydro pole fire shut down Dewdney Trunk Road in Maple Ridge Monday morning.
The small fire began around 6:15 a.m. near 207th Street and could not be extinguished for several hours as B.C. Hydro worked to shut off the electrical grid.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Temple Square, Utah's No. 1 tourist attraction with 5 million annual visitors, will be part of a worldwide marketing campaign aimed at bringing more tourists to the United States.
A film crew for Brand USA, a joint partnership between the U.S. government and the private tourism industry, recently visited Salt Lake City to begin work on a video to promote Utah.
The LDS Church's Mormon Newsroom blog posted an item Wednesday about the upcoming video.
The blog item said the video will include a segment on Temple Square with interviews with some of the Mormon sister missionaries who greet visitors in multiple languages each day on Temple Square and Neil Wilkinson, the head of Temple Square Hospitality.
Brand USA's "Discover America" ad campaign, supplemented by a partnership with Google and YouTube, has boosted intent to travel to the United States by 22 percent, according to a recent study.
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This little doll just turned "2″, and I was so excited to help capture this fun time in her life. She was so full of energy, it brought back all of the those memories of chasing after a two year, and how much energy it takes. This age has always been one of my favorite ages. They are smart and funny, and so full of life and so very perfect.
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I absolutely loved taking Nicole's senior pictures. She wanted to do two different sessions. One out on her families property in the country, and the other in the city. Nicole has stated that she wants to live in the city when she is grown, but to be honest, I could not help but be envious of the beautiful country acreage that has been in her family for several generations. We then did an "Urban" session and she really came into her own. I've started calling her "city slicker" She will someday miss those quiet country days.
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text: Peyton Manning Does His Part To Make Sure Papa John's Will Continue Haunting Your SundaysTom Ley10/26/12 5:04pmFiled to: Papa John'sPeyton ManningAll real meatsNflNewsFootbal34EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Good news, everyone! America's favorite lipless pizza huckster is teaming up with America's favorite robustly foreheaded quarterback in order to bring as many annoying pizza commercials to your television as possible. Advertisement From the Associated Press:Manning became the newest franchisee for Papa John's pizza, signing a deal to own 21 stores in the Denver area Friday, the same day the pizza maker also announced it had signed a multi-year contract to continue as the official pizza of the NFL and the Super Bowl. Terms were not disclosed.[...]"The pizza category is fun. Our founder has fun when he gets into the commercials," [Papa John's chief marketing officer, Andrew Varga] said. "You throw Peyton into that mix with the NFL platform and it makes it easy to execute lighthearted commercials that are very much in character for both."Papa John's commercials have long been the worst thing about watching football on Sundays, and now we are doomed to see even more of them, featuring Manning as the company's go-to pitchman. Even someone as affable as Manning can't make the promise of "all real meats" sound enticing, though, and it won't belong before he gets enough of John Schnatter's stink on him to become completely unlikable. Advertisement [NFL]Reply34 repliesLeave a reply


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Around Britten - works for solo cello by Benjamin Britten, John Tavener and Matthew Barley / Matthew Barley, cello1 CD / Signum Records / 2013-01-01 Works: Benjamin Britten: Suite for solo cello no 3, Op. 87; Greensleeves, folksong arrangement for high voice & piano; The Salley Gardens, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. I); The Holy Sonnets; Gloriana;...Performers: Barley, Matthew American Record Guide, July/August 2013 Here is another concept program. It opens with the Britten Suite 3, written for Rostropovich in 1971. In this work, the...continue... read more
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text: Amplify is a co-ed a cappella group of 14 members, founded in 2012 at Wheaton College. The first group of its kind, Amplify has pursued an informal spirit of performance, including vocal improvisation and audience participation, while maintaining musical excellence. Past performances include the Uptown Getdown, hosted by Wheaton in Chicago, and the Motown Revue at Wheaton College. Amplify explores both contemporary and traditional styles of music interpreted through a cappella singing, and focusing on a theme of unity and togetherness. It culminates the hard work and focus of the group every year at the spring concert. Amplify's year-end concert in 2013 was a campus sensation, drawing more than 300 students and members of the public. Amplify is also involved in the community of Wheaton and the surrounding area through volunteer performance. The members of the group are listed below. The year-end concert will be held in Pierce Chapel on April 26th, 2014, at 9:30 pm, and will be $3 per ticket. Pierce Chapel is located directly across from Edman Chapel and is adjacent to the Conservatory building on Wheaton College campus. Tickets will be available at the door, or for advance purchase in Lower Beamer during the preceding week. For more information, contact Sarah Macolino. Auditions are held at the beginning of every fall semester. Audition dates for vocal percussionists and all voice parts will be announced at the beginning of each school year. Sarah Macolino '15, Soprano Corinne Elliot '15, Soprano Amanda Brandimore '14, Mezzo-soprano Becca Hamilton '16, Mezzo-soprano Sarah O'Connell '14, Alto Annie Huddleston '16, Alto Eugenia Kang '16, Alto Ryan Lau '15, Tenor Ben Weidemann '17, Tenor Silas Helm '17, Tenor Christian Reed '15, Bass Aaron Rapp '15, Bass Robin Kong '17, Bass Gray Martin '16, Vocal Percussion


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Direct microwave link
Near 3 Gc, atmospheric losses and restrictions on potential performance are small. At the same time, much larger apertures can reasonably be contemplated for ground-based than for satellite-borne receivers. Thus, a direct spacecraft-to-earth link is the obvious choice for a microwave system.
Suitable components for such a system have been under progressive development and only modest advancement in the state of the art should be required to permit information rates on the order of 106 bits per sec. Note that for the extrapolated antenna gains considered, a 10-W space vehicle transmitter would be sufficient. Indeed, the penalty paid for a microwave system is in the size of transmitting and receiving antennas needed to achieve the desired performance at moderate transmitted-power levels.
Direct optical link
To provide an essentially continuous direct optical link between a spacecraft and earth, multiple ground stations evidently would be necessary (i.e., several times the number needed to provide the requisite angular coverage). The number of additional stations required will depend on the statistical weather conditions at the specific sites available. The availability of enough good sites could, in principle, result in an over-all cost saving because of the smaller installation cost of an optical receiver.
Coherent 10-μ system. For coherent reception, the CO2 laser wavelength at 10.6 μ lies very near the performance peak of Fig. 4. Coupled with the high efficiency of the CO2 laser, this wavelength is an obvious choice for a coherent optical system. It is evident at this wavelength that multi-element apertures may be required in very high data rate systems. However, at 10.6 μ the (S/N)B product for each element is more than sufficient to phase-lock the local oscillator to follow the low-frequency signal-phase distortions imparted by the atmosphere. The elementary signals then can be correlated at the heterodyne difference frequency to provide a useful signal-to-noise ratio at the information bandwidth.
A total effective aperture diameter of about 2 meters, consisting of say 33 elements, would equal the performance of the 3-Gc system considered (100-meter receiving antenna diameter). The number of elements could be reduced somewhat by using larger, but less efficient, elemental apertures. However, implementation of such a system would not be trivial and substantial increases in other parameter values would need to be considered for high data-rate links.
Noncoherent 10.6-μ system. Noncoherent detection of 10.6 μ is thermal-noise limited. The sensitivity of the detector in this mode is about three orders of magnitude less than in the coherent mode. (Because the limiting noise is independent of the signal, the actual degradation factor depends on the square root of the signal-to-noise ratio, which is taken here to be 10.) In as much as atmospheric phase correlation lengths, do not restrict the elemental aperture area, a single large "photon bucket" may be used. But practical fabrication tolerances and detector dimensions will set an upper limit on noncoherent aperture diameters.
If a σ/D ratio comparable to that postulated for the 100-meter microwave antenna could be achieved for an optical reflector, diameters as large as 50 meters, sufficient to match the performance of the microwave link, might be feasible. (Because the limiting noise level is determined to a large extent by stray capacitance at the detector output, division of the aperture into elements with separate detectors could degrade performance severely.) In spite of the reduced complexity, the much greater aperture area required for noncoherent as opposed to coherent reception at 10. 6 μ makes this system unattractive.
Noncoherent 0.5-μ system. The communication link performance indicated in Fig. 4 discourages wide-band coherent detection in the visible region of the spectrum for a ground-based system in view of the short-phase correlation distances.
However, the situation is somewhat improved for noncoherent detection. For a system operating at approximately 0.5 μ a photomultiplier detector can provide essentially noise-free quantum detection. As compared with coherent detection at 10.6 μ, detection sensitivity will be down by a factor of two due to the higher quantum noise limit for noncoherent detection; another factor of about 2.5 is needed to account for the lower quantum efficiency of the photoemissive detector surface; a further loss factor of 20 is due to the increase in quantum noise level with frequency.
Sky background illumination will cause additional degradation depending on receiver field of view and aperture size. For an optimized system this might be as low as 3 dB. The total sensitivity indicated is about two orders of magnitude worse than that of a coherent 10.6-μ receiver but an order of magnitude better than a noncoherent 10.6-μ system.
However, a 0.5-μ system suffers from a major disadvantage: present lasers in this region of the spectrum are only 0.1 percent efficient. Barring discovery of a new laser material, over-all system performance would be over an order of magnitude below the low level anticipated for a noncoherent CO2 (10.6-μ) system. While direct solar pumping of the laser might give a small improvement in over-all efficiency, the improvement would not overcome the basic deficiency of the laser.
Higher laser efficiencies are available in the near and intermediate infrared at 0.84 and 2.1 μ. But over-all system performance at these wavelengths is currently lower than at 0.5 percent when refrigeration requirements and poorer detection sensitivities are taken into account.


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Should I be Concerned About an Itchy Nipple?11/15/2007 |
One of my nipples has red and raised itchy patch on it. I have tried everything from lotions, to anitbiotic cream, to anti itching cortisone creams. Nothing helps. Should I be concerned?
What you describe could represent any of a number of benign (non-cancerous) skin conditions. Rarely, however, an itchy, scaly nipple can signal a more serious problem, called Paget's disease of the nipple. This is a condition which can mean that there is a breast cancer somewhere in the breast. So although this is not too likely, I would recommend a good exam by a dermatologist or a breast surgeon, as either type of doctor can do a small biopsy of the scaly area if needed. This would determine if you have Paget's. And you should have mammograms, as well.
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