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Tepesch wins MLB debut, Rangers beat Rays once more
Arlington, TX – Nick Tepesch turned in a sensational major- league debut and received plenty of support from his Texas teammates as the Rangers cruised to a 6-1 victory over the slumping Tampa Bay Rays at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
Tepesch (1-0) yielded just one run and four hits while striking out five batters before being removed with one out in top of the eighth. The rookie retired 12 consecutive hitters before surrendering a single to Kelly Johnson followed by a Desmond Jennings double in his final inning of work.
"It was a confidence booster," Tepesch said. "I'm extremely happy with how it went tonight."
Lance Berkman was the offensive star in Texas' third straight win and sixth triumph in seven outings following an Opening Night defeat, going 3-for-4 with a two-run single. Elvis Andrus also drove in a pair of runs for the Rangers, while Leonys Martin finished 2-for-3 and scored three times.
Jennings recorded two of his team's four hits in the setback, the third in a row for the Rays and second straight in this series. Roberto Hernandez (0-2) was hit with the loss after permitting six runs -- five earned -- over 6 2/3 innings.
"It's so early in the year you really can't get concerned," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
Tepesch did encounter some issues early on, walking three batters to load the bases with two outs in the second before striking out Johnson to end the threat. Jennings reached the right-hander for a leadoff double in the third, and later came in on Ben Zobrist's ground out to give the Rays a 1-0 edge.
The Rangers answered with a pair of runs in their half of the frame to move in front.
A walk to Martin and an Ian Kinsler single put two men on for Berkman, who knocked home both runners with a flare into right-center field that dropped in over a diving Zobrist from second base and enabled a hustling Kinsler to cross the plate uncontested all the way from first.
Hernandez encountered no trouble in the fourth before running into problems an inning later, with Martin starting things off with a base hit and Andrus singling up the middle to bring home the rookie two batters later.
Andrus then stole second, took third on a Berkman single and scored on Adrian Beltre's grounder for a 4-1 Texas advantage.
Tepesch made the lead stand by dominating the middle innings, setting down 12 batters in a row after James Loney opened the fourth with a single. That streak and his night both came to an end after Johnson and Jennings each reached consecutively, but reliever Robbie Ross got out of the jam by retiring pinch-hitter Sean Rodriguez and Zobrist to keep it a three-run game.
Texas put the contest out of reach in the bottom of the seventh. Singles by Martin and Kinsler followed by an Andrus ground out tacked on another run, with the last scoring when Loney misplayed a grounder off the bat of David Murphy.
Game Notes
Tepesch became the 14th pitcher in Rangers' history to win his big league debut, with both Yu Darvish and Justin Grimm accomplishing the feat last season ... Hernandez has now lost six consecutive decisions to the Rangers and fell to 2-9 lifetime against Texas. His last win over the Rangers took place while with Cleveland on Aug. 22, 2008 ... Tampa Bay went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position, one night after going 2-for-12 in such situations in Monday's 5-4 loss to the Rangers ... The Rays announced prior to the game that pitcher Jeff Niemann will undergo shoulder surgery on Wednesday and will likely miss the entire 2013 season.


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Putting this here to satisfy AP lawyers.
Judging by the one-dimensional coverage coming out of the West Bank today, it seems that Associated Press photographers have decided that today is Checkpoint Day.
And considering that wire coverage out of there is 100% unoriginal pack journalism, Reuters follows suit. As does AFP—In fact, the French agency takes the lead by far.
Could it be that there's absolutely nothing else going on in the West Bank that's worthy of attention today?
I'd argue that it's more likely that we have way too many photojournalists in the region that have a preconceived message to tell.

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Review
The joy of overclocking a CPU comes from the knowledge that you have bought a lower end product and have gotten the performance of a higher priced, higher end product for a much lower price. But by doing so you usually put more voltage into the CPU than you would have when buying the higher end model, thus shortening the lifespan some say. But if you are on the three to six month enthusiast upgrade plan, longevity is not a big concern. So why not buy the lower model and clock it on up? That's just what I will be doing with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. As the littlest of the quad core Yorkfields, it has less L2 cache (6MB versus 12MB) a lower clock multiplier (7.5 versus 8 and up) and the lowest clock speed at 2.5 GHz. What it does share with its bigger brothers, the Q9450, the Q9550 and the QX9650, is the 1333MHz FSB speed and quad core architecture. Will the lower amount of L2 cache hinder performance? Will the lower clock speed be competitive with the 65nm Q6600? Will the lowest multiplier of the group hinder its overclocking potential? All these questions need answers, so let's get started!
Closer Look:
The retail packaging for the Q9300 is unchanged from that of the Q9450 and slightly different from the Q6600. The font of the package highlights the fact that the Q9300 is indeed a 45nm product. The rear panel has a brief snippet about the warranty and motherboard compatibility.
The top panel shows the Q9300 through a plastic window. For those enthusiasts who shop based on the stepping and specific codes on the PCB, then this is ideal for you. For the rest, you can see what you are getting. The side panel includes much of the information that can be gotten from the chip view. The production code, batch/ FPO number, and date packed are items you can check on this panel.
By pulling the plastic enclosure out, you can get a view of the stock heatsink and the detailed product information. The CPU heatsink sent out with the Q9300 is noticeably thinner than that which came with the 65nm quad core CPUs. With the lower voltage required to run this CPU, Intel probably figured that the additional heatsink material would not be needed.
As the lowest speed rated 45nm Quad core Yorkfield processor, the Q9300 has some big shoes to fill. It features a 1333MHz bus speed running with a 7.5 clock multiplier to give a final clock speed of 2.5GHz, just slightly higher than the 65nm Q6600 and 166MHz slower than the Q9450. What it does not share with the rest of the family is the 3MB of L2 cache per core of the Q9450 up to the QX9770. It only has 1.5MB of L2 cache per core for a total of 6MB versus 12MB or even the 8MB on the Q6600.
So just how well will this littlest of the of the quad core Yorkfields perform? How will it overclock? Well, let's find out!


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Despite Superstorm Sandy, NYC tourism remains strong
By Rande Iaboni, CNN • Updated 30th November 2012
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The crowd of festival goers at a holiday market in New York City's Columbus Circle Friday seemed to support the message city tourism officials have been spreading far and wide: The Big Apple is open for business and welcoming its usual influx of holiday visitors.
Superstorm Sandy's wrath a month ago will cost New York state $41 billion, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but tourists have largely been unfazed by the storm, which caused very little damage to Midtown Manhattan, the hub of the city's magical holiday attractions.
That's no doubt a relief to those who wondered if tourists would be skeptical about visiting the Big Apple after the storm brought the city to a standstill at the end of October.
"Absolutely not," said Michigan visitor Kelly Coll, 48, who has traveled to New York this season for the last 14 years with friend Tiffany Moen, 46. "The storm did not affect our plans at all," Coll told CNN on Friday afternoon.
In fact, New York City is on track for a record number of tourists this year, according to George Fertitta, CEO of NYC & Co., the city's marketing and tourism association.
Lady Liberty faces a massive clean up effort after Superstorm Sandy. CNN's Zoraida Sambolin surveys the damage.
Superstorm Sandy victims say they've been denied insurance. Should they be getting payouts? CNN's Deb Feyerick reports.
The tourism association estimates there will be around 52 million tourists this year, up from last year's 50.9 million.
"Ninety-five percent of all of our hotels, attractions, restaurants and transportation are completely back to normal," Fertitta said. "For all intents and purposes, visitors should not feel deterred from coming to New York. NYC is open for business."
Some tourists say media coverage of recovery efforts in the city encouraged them to make and keep plans to visit.
"I was not skeptical at all because of everything I had seen on television," said Roger Archut, 30, a first-time visitor from Germany. Storm damage in New York City was portrayed as "under control."
John Murphy, 54, visiting from Ireland with his wife, shared a similar story. Coverage of the storm indicated to him that the area most crucial for holiday attractions, Midtown, home to Fifth Avenue and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, was "well maintained."
New York City hotels are running and fully prepared for the holiday rush of tourists, officials say.
"Hotel occupancy is strong and there have been no cancellations due to apprehension from Hurricane Sandy," said Lisa Linden, spokesperson for the Hotel Association of New York City, representing just under 300 hotels in the area.
Yet just because tourism is expected to reach an all-time high this year doesn't mean some businesses aren't hurting in the aftermath of the storm.
At the southern tip of Manhattan in the hard-hit Financial District, Harry's Café & Steak, a popular eatery with visitors during the holiday season, still struggles.
"There has definitely been a decrease in business," owner Peter Poulakakos told CNN on Friday. Many restaurants rely heavily on the holiday season for a huge portion of their yearly income.
"Get the word out that we are here and ready to serve!" Poulakakos said.
Despite declines, many remain hopeful that business will pick up in the coming weeks.
"The one to two weeks before Sandy were very hard because many tourists didn't want to be here during the storm," said Diancoumba Mamadou, who works for Pedicab NYC, a business almost completely reliant on tourism.
"But thankfully, now it is beginning to get back to normal and hopefully will continue on that path."
If the record-breaking estimates from NYC & Co are any indication, that path will certainly continue.
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One of the first places most people tend to think about when considering boosting SQL Server performance are the settings of SP_CONFIGURE.
Yet, when you examine the details of the recent TPC-H benchmark by HP and Microsoft, you'll see that there really weren't a very large number of changes to what are typically default settings within SP_CONFIGURE. The following parameters were changed from their default values:
name minimum maximum config_value run_value
affinity mask -2147483648 2147483648 -1 -1
affinity64 mask -2147483648 2147483648 -1 -1
allow updates 0 1 1 1
lightweight pooling 0 1 1 1
max worker threads 128 32767 2048 2048
max server memory (MB) 16 2147483647 120000 120000
min server memory (MB) 0 2147483647 118000 118000
network packet size (B) 512 32767 32767 32767
recovery interval (min) 0 32767 32767 32767
show advanced options 0 1 1 1
query wait -1 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647
Most of these settings seemed immediately reasonable to me. For example, it's well known that lightweight pooling should only be attempted under extremely stressful loads and that, even then, it's probably not going to yield a performance boost. But when Lightweight Pooling does help, it tends to help a lot. On the other hand, I'd experienced first hand that tinkering with Max Worker Threads can degrade your performance when you thought a change would instead help performance. I can only imagine that it was used here because the known workload for each worker thread was precisely gauge and understood before the test was even attempted. In those cases where I was doing high-end benchmarking, we didn't know the workload very well in terms of overall workload, although we did know the individual SQL transactions the end-users would be running.
The 120GB of RAM doesn't surprise me, nor does the specification of both the Min and Max server memory. You might not be aware of this, but in highly stressful workloads, defining the upper and lower bounds of SQL Server memory can yield a performance benefit. Evidently, SQL Server doesn't have to spend as much time figuring out how much memory it needs, whether to request more memory or not, and in turn paging is reduced. Paging, as you probably know, is a bigger performance drag. So any opportunity to reduce paging is going to help in a big benchmark like this.
I'm not really sure how the network packet size adjustment would help. I'd like to hear your theories. At present, I'm guessing that by forcing a larger network packet size, SQL Server would gulp down SQL transactions in larger groups thereby maximizing the overall intake of SQL transactions to the system.
The two final settings worth discussing, Recovery Interval and Query Wait, are both set to the maximum configurable value. Why? Well, it's a well known technique in large, public benchmarks like this to defer as much IO as possible until the very end. In fact, in previous benchmarks by many database vendors including Microsoft and Oracle, automatic checkpointing is disabled and a single checkpoint is explicitly issued as one of the final actions in the benchmark run. This enables all of the disk spindles to spin up at one time and flush the entire cache to disk at once, thereby providing the very biggest IO performance gain possible. I believe that the Recovery Interval, which interplays directly with checkpointing, was set to its maximum allowable value for precisely this reason. Furthermore, with SQL Server taking in SQL transactions in bigger clumpers (per the larger Network Packet Size setting discussed a moment before), I theorize that the Query Wait value had to also be increased so that all of the huge batches of SQL transactions wouldn't time out.
So what are your thoughts on the SP_CONFIGURE settings?


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West Wyalong Movies brings to life local stories about development, about people and institutions from a bygone era using old photographs, home movies, archival footage, illustrations and interviews.
Since 2008 West Wyalong Movies has produced four historic documentary DVDs – West Wyalong Movies, West Wyalong Movies 2, Tractors, Trains, Headers & Hay and our latest production "When the News was Local, The Wyalong Reels". We are hoping to produce a series of "When the News was Local "of other regional towns.
West Wyalong Movies is about using our heritage to save our heritage. It's also about gathering and sharing stories from the past so they are never lost. The majority of proceeds from the sale of our DVDs are used to support community projects.


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The Rapids become the second MLS victim of the Thunder in the 2005 US Open Cup tournament. Minnesota defeated Real Salt Lake 6-4 on July 14. Two of the six Thunder's goals that night were also scored by Tarley.
The first scoring opportunity came for the home team in the first minutes of the game when a cross into the heart of the Rapids area met the head of a Thunder forward whose header was blocked by defender Nat Borchers. The rebound landed at the feet of John Menyongar whose shot went just inches wide of Joe Cannon's right post.
In the 16th minute a quick shot by Rapids forward Alain Nkong met the well-positioned Thunder goalkeeper Joe Warren who was able to control the ball.
It was once again the home team who put on the pressure in the 22nd minute when Menyongar's shot from eight yards out forced Cannon to make a diving save to maintain the 0-0 tie.
Minnesota midfielder Jay Alberts fired two shots in the 32nd and 33rd minutes that tested Cannon once again. The 2004 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year's catlike reactions cleared the danger.
It was Luchi Gonzalez with a shot from 20 yards out that seriously tested Warren for the first time in the game. Warren was forced to make a diving save on Gonzalez's shot.
The Thunder successfully struck in the 38th minute when forward Melvin Tarley beat Cannon from the top of the penalty area. Tarley unleashed a powerful shot after receiving a pass from Nathan Knox.
Gonzalez combined with Nkong again in the final minutes of the first half but his close range shot was stopped by Warren.
Tarley scored again for the Thunder in the 47th minute when he picked up a loose ball inside the Rapids' penalty area. Cannon made the save on the initial shot but was unable to hold onto the ball and the rebound was one-timed by Talley beating Cannon for the second time of the evening.
Guy Melamed came close to netting the first goal for the Rapids in the 67th minute when his powerful shot from 30 yards out was again saved by Warren.
Nkong netted the first stike for the Rapids only two minutes later when he buried a long shot. The Cameroonian international received a ball form Eric Denton in the 69th minute before controlling it and unleashing a shot that beat Warren to his right post.
Tarley netted his third of the night in the 72nd minute when he beat Cannon to his left post.
A volley from 11 yards out by Rapids defender Hunter Freeman in the 75th minute found Warren well-positioned to maintain the 3-1 Minnesota lead.
Tarley scored his fourth and final goal of the match in the 76th minute after receiving a pass inside of the Rapids' penalty area before beating Cannon with a close range shot.
The Thunder now advance to the next round of the tournament to face the Kansas City Wizards who defeated the Des Moines Menace 6-1 on Wednesday night.
2005 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 4th Round Match
Colorado Rapids at Minnesota Thunder
Colorado Rapids Man of the Match: Alain Nkong
COL- Alain Nkong (Eric Denton 69')
MIN- Melvin Tarley (Nathan Knox 38'); Melvin Tarley (Jay Alberts 47'); Melvin Tarley (Unassisted) 72'; Melvin Tarley (Unassisted 76')
COL- Denton 33' (Y);
MIN- None
COL- Joe Cannon Ricky Lewis (Hunter Freeman 50') Nat Borchers Ritchie Kotschau Terry Cooke (Dan Gargan 66') Guy Melamed Leo Cullen Eric Denton Alain Nkong Luchi Gonzalez (Jean Philippe Peguero 50') Jeff Cunningham (Wolde Harris 59')
SUBS NOT USED: Byron Foss Mike Petke
MNT: Warren; Knox Wilson C. Dombrowski; Juarez Tenoff (T. Dombrowski 71) Alberts Lara (Friedland 63) Schmidt; Menyongar (Matteo 76) Tarley (Paye 81)
SUBS NOT USED: Platter Branan Brunt
Colorad Shots: 12 Fouls: 9 Offside: 0 Corners: 1
Minnesota: Shots: 14 Fouls: 9 Offside: 3 Corners: 1
Cannon (Colorado):Shots faced: 14 Saves: 7 Goals allowed: 4
Warren (Minnesota): Shots faced: 12 Saves: 5 Goals allowed: 1
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FROSTPROOF | The City Council has agreed to take part in just part of Polk Works' 2013 employment initiative, "Race to Place."
FROSTPROOF | The City Council has agreed to take part in just part of Polk Works' 2013 employment initiative, "Race to Place."
Rather than agree to do all seven tasks suggested to them, the council has agreed to take part in just three:
Listing all open city positions on the Employ Florida System.
Listing with Polk Works that applicants will need both an application and r�sum�.
Providing Polk Works with a primary contact to receive updates on the initiative.
However, the city has no open job positions now, City Clerk Sarah Adelt said Tuesday.
When jobs become available, they are advertised in newspapers and listed on cityoffrostproof.com under the "employment opportunities" tab, Adelt said.
City job applications require a completed application form to be dropped off with Adelt at 111 W. First St., she said. Forms are also available at the city web site.
City Manager Tenny Croley said Monday that Polk Works hopes to place 10,000 people in jobs between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2013.
Polk Works wanted the city to go into partnership, she said, but she suggested to the City Council that Frostproof limit its participation.
Requests from Polk Works included requiring all applicants to register in Employ Florida's online system to apply for any open city positions and having city staff screen them for membership before interviewing them.
Another suggestion included providing Polk Works business services staff with the link to the city's online application so Polk Works can include job referral instructions that would automatically redirect applicants to Polk Works' site.
Finally, Polk Works asked the city to plan to buy a $250 table at the "Race to Place" celebration on Aug. 22, 2013.
Council members agreed that they couldn't participate with any of those requests.
Phil Attinger covers the Babson Park, Dundee, Frostproof and Lake Wales areas and may be reached at 863-401-6981 or email@example.com.


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01 February 2010|
Written by Dave Pankew | Photos by Jacob Leveton
The one thing we can count on seeing at every SEMA Show is improvement. It was truly impressive to see new hardware and products on display from the aftermarket despite a tough economy. Their were many impressive builds from the outrageous mid-engine V8 Genesis Coupe by Rhys Millen to the Canadian-built Super Cuda powered by a twin turbo V10 topping out at 208 mph. We even saw a couple of past PAS features with enough tweaks to consider them fresh but then there was K&N, who took one of their former features and tore it up to create a Time Attack assassin.
K&N Engineering Inc. of Riverside, California is famous the world over for providing performance filters with effective filtration for anything that moves. Their dominance in the marketplace means that they have the funds to do just about anything they want. K&N has a substantial facility in the 909 that houses a skunk works that boasts a huge shop and R&D area where the magic happens. Our main man there Nestor Cabrera gave us the inside scoop on this G35 and, had we not heard it directly from him, we never would have believed it.
This particular G is actually one that K&N has had since 2003. The final round of modifications was not only extreme also represented the final tweaks they would make to the car since this is the third version of its existence. The final version you see here was purpose built to make a statement on the road course ahead of the pack.
The project got underway by completely stripping the vehicle, sandblasting it and seam welding the chassis. All of the metal was removed forward of the strut towers and replaced with tubing for weight reduction and to set the stage for custom wizardry. The block was machined, balanced and blueprinted before the cylinders were plugged with CP Pistons slugs. The pistons were bolted up to Pauter forged Chromoly rods pushing a knife-edged crankshaft. The heads were ported and polished then filled with SuperTech stainless steel intake valves and Inconel exhaust valves. The assembly was then bolted back with ARP studs sandwiching Cometic headgaskets.
The twin turbo system was a major consideration for a critical balance of response and power. A Jim Wolf Technologies (JWT) system was chosen featuring quick-spooling Garrett GT30 turbos. Air is hauled in with a K&N Series 69 intake and flows around the engine with custom intercooler piping by K&N. The compressed air is chilled with twin Bell intercoolers, before heading through an Accufab throttle body and custom K&N plenum. Any excess air is vented by a monster TiAL blow-off valve to prevent surge on the high RPM compressor wheels. To fuel the fire, K&N technicians added a custom fuel system using an Aeromotive S1000 pump, fuel pressure regulator and RC Engineering 750cc injectors. Post combustion, the fumes are channeled into JWT downpipes connected to a custom K&N stainless steel exhaust.
After the AEM wideband was installed and the AEM EMS standalone connected, the G was fired up. The tuning commenced on the K&N dyno and the final numbers had the K&N crew feeling pumped. The car put down a respectable 512 whp with 440 lb-ft. of instant response to rocket out of the corners and keep pulling until it was time to brake. More jam meant that the driveline needed a boost and K&N pulled no punches by installing Tilton gear. A Tilton 4.5-inch triple plate sintered metallic clutch was installed along with a Tilton ultra lightweight flywheel. But the clutch didn't get installed into the questionable Infiniti 6-speed box but rather a Tremec Dodge Viper tranny modified to fit. The power is transmitted from there through an Inland Empire Driveline aluminum driveshaft, a Quaife LSD and Driveshaft Shop stage 5 axles.
Since the build was meant to be used on the track, the running gear was carefully selected and tuned. A set of KW Suspension Competition coilovers were selected for ride height and dampening tweaks. A Speedway Engineering front sway was installed to eliminate roll and STILLEN upper control arms were installed to play with the rear camber. Additionally, STILLEN rear trailing arms, toe arms and custom lower control arms were blended in. To maintain rigidity, some SPL Parts differential bushings and solid sub-frame mounts.
K&N didn't cut any corners on the grip gear. The team selected Volk RE30s in matte black measuring 18 x 9.5-inches up front, and 18 x 10-inches in the rear. The official tire sponsor is still being discussed and they have specified they will be running a DOT R-Comp 265 mm up front with 295 mm rears or possibly a full slick. Lurking behind the spokes are StopTech ST45 4-piston calipers with 355 mm floating rotors. Clamping down on the rotors are Hawk Competition pads pushed by hydraulics filled with Motul RBF600.
During the extensive chassis modification a Redline Time Attack-spec cage was added. The multi-point Chromoly cage adds to the rigidity of the car and ramps of the safety for the driver. A pair of Sparco Pro 2000 racing seats were added and draped with Sparco 5-point harnesses. A Sparco Competition 260 steering wheel handles the drive inputs and a B&M short shifter was added to bang the next gear. To relay engine vitals, a Racepack Digital Dash replaced the cluster, complete with a datalogger for the team to dissect the numbers.
Up next were some of the more important considerations in order to reduce weight and to manage the air flow to keep it glued to the track. Seibon was contacted to pitch in with their carbon fiber: hood, fender, trunk and even doorskins to shave off precious pounds.
A G-Stream adjustable carbon fibre wing was added for downforce along with a Competition Performance front splitter to reduce lift. Before Race Design plastered on the vinyl, the pivotal piece was the Viral Sport front bumper, which Cabrera informs us is the only one in existence
With the right team, the funds and the facilities, the K&N crew was sure to build a monster. Although a wealth of aftermarket parts exists, K&N decided to fabricate a lot of items to showcase their capabilities right down accessories like the billet battery tie down! They have certainly outdone themselves with this build and if they contract a ringer behind the wheel, they should do some damage in 2010. Whether it is Redline Time Attack or any other track event, look for the G35 to cause a ruckus in Unlimited RWD.
Owner: Nestor Cabrera/K&N Engineering Inc.
Location: Riverside, California
Vehicle: 2003 Infiniti G35
Power: 512whp/440lb-ft
Engine: Nissan 3.5L VQ35DE
Wideband UEGO Controllers
Tilton 4.5-inch Triple Plate Sintered Metallic Racing Clutch
Tilton Performance Nissan Lightweight Flywheel
Tremec T56 Dodge Viper 6-spd with Adapter Plate and QuickTime Steel Bell Housing
Driveshaft shop Level 5 Axels
Inland Empire Driveline Service Custom Aluminum Driveshaft
Quaife LSD
SuperTech Stainless Steel Black Nitride intake Valves
Inconel 751 Nickel Base Exhaust Valves
Jim Wolf Technologies Twin Turbo System
K&N Intake 69 Series Intake System with Custom Intercooler Plumbing
Accufab 75mm Throttle Body
K&N CNC Billet Plenum Design Intake Manifold
Aeromotive Pro Series Boost Reference EFI Regulator
Jim Wolf Technologies Camshafts
Bell Custom Twin Intercoolers
TiAL Blow off Valve
RC Engineering 750CC Injectors
Pauter 4340 Vacuum Chrome Moly Forged Connecting Rods
96mm CP Forged Pistons
CP Plasma Moly Ductile Iron Piston Rings
Cometic Head Gasket
ARP Head Studs
Jim Wolf Technologies Cast Turbo Manifold
Jim Wolf Technologies Downpipe
Custom K&N Exhaust
Rays Engineering Volk Wheels RE30 in Flat Black; 18x9.5-inch (f), 18x10-inch (r)
Stop Tech ST45 4-Piston Calipers
355mm 2-Piece Floating Slotted Rotors
Hawk Competition Pads
XRP Stainless Steel Braided Lines
KW Automotive Competition Coilover System
KW Automotive Custom Springs
Speedway Engineering Sway Bar
STILLEN Upper Control Arms
STILLEN Rear Trailing Arms
STILLEN Toe Arms
STILLEN Custom lower control Arms
SPL Parts Differential Bushings
SPL Parts Solid Sub-Frame Mounts
TEIN inner and out tie rods
Viral Sport Front bumper
Seibon Carbon Fiber Fenders
Seibon Carbon Fiber hood
Seibon Carbon Fiber Doors
Seibon Carbon Fiber Trunk
G-Stream Adjustable Wing Aero Spoiler
Competition performance Products Front Carbon Fiber Splitter
Carbon Fiber Rear ¼ Windows
Custom Graphics by Race Design
Racepack Digital Dash and Data Logger
B&M Short Shifter
Sparco Competition 260 Steering Wheel
AEM Air/Fuel Gauge
Competition Roll Cage
K&N Engineering Inc.
KW Suspension
SPL Parts
Motul Lubricants
Sparco USA
Optima Batteries
Rays Engineering
Volk Wheels
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Paris, 18 Apr 2006
Graz, Austria – 'Planet Earth – Exploration from Space' is a new exhibition illustrating the unique contribution satellite images offer to Earth exploration and the possibilities of up-to-date satellite technology. The exhibition, supported by ESA, has been organised within the Space Conference for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and takes place at the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria, from 19 April to 11 June 2006.
Satellite images have changed the way we view the Earth and have allowed us to gain a better understanding of the planet. These new perspectives of Earth from space have become an integral part of our society, offering new scientific results and various concrete applications for daily life. The exhibition will also address how sustainable the effects of environmental changes on the planet's appearance are.
The organisers – Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, one of Austria's biggest research institutions, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Province Steiermark – have created an exciting world, based on geo-remote sensing via satellites, on two levels of the museum. The organisers are supported by ESA, EUMETSAT, Graz University of Technology and AustroSpace and the Association of Austrian Space Industries. Visitors can learn about the breathtaking possibilities of up-to-date satellite technology and enter a journey-through-time as the exhibition highlights the history of observing the planet starting with atlases and globes then moving to aerial images and sensors via balloons to today's satellite images. The exhibit shows impressive models of ESA's environmental satellites ERS and Envisat, the experimental communication satellite Artemis and the Launcher Ariane 5.
Particular interest is put on Austria's remote-sensing applications, with a broad area dedicated to land cover describing the accurate acquisition of areas regarding dimension and exploitation method. Aerial photos and satellite images are important decision-making aids for the country which is characterised by a hard-to-access mountain landscape and increasing tourism. Other topics include the evaluation of agricultural changes through colonisation, agriculture and tourism and the monitoring of ice glaciers. The exhibition presents unique holograms produced from processed satellite data, which show the Earth's changes following natural disasters. For example, the devastating damages of the Asian Tsunami in December 2004 are illustrated with before and after satellite images of the area. Visitors can also view live images of the Earth out of geostationary orbit provided by the European weather satellite Meteosat's acquisition station. There will also be multimedia applications featuring ESA and the European GMES-initiative as well as a competition with prizes for 'little' researchers.
One of the highlights of the exhibit is the virtual voyage. Equipped with 3D glasses, viewers of the animation fly over computer animated virtual three-dimensional landscapes. The videos, produced with IMX cinema technology, allow the audience a detailed impression of the quality of high resolution satellite imagery. The exhibition is being organised within the framework of the European Union conference on the GMES initiative (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), which takes place on 19 and 20 April at Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz. GMES is a joint European Commission/ESA programme for the extensive monitoring of Earth with sensors supported from Earth and Space, in order to provide politicians and experts with data for various political decisions related to environmental, economic, transport and security issues – comprising both global problems like monitoring the compliance of international climate conventions and the provision of information for local authorities to locate disasters or emergencies.
ESA, responsible for the space component, is developing a series of different satellite missions and an overall data acquisition system for all existing European and national missions. The GMES programme is in the implementation phase and is expected to be completed in 2007/2008.
The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 10.00 till 18.00 and on Thursday from 10.00 till 20.00.
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Seib & Wessel: Cyber Terrorists Target U.S.
WSJ reporter Siobhan Gorman says the recent cyberattacks have revived concerns over U.S. vulnerability to foreign hackers. A key concern: how the government and business sector can defend themselves against future attacks.
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SOURCE: Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.
October 12, 2012 16:05 ET
Previously Reported Data Demonstrated Study Met Primary Endpoint and Achieved Significant Clinical Benefit on 6-Minute Walk Test
Previously Reported Data Demonstrated Study Met Primary Endpoint and Achieved Significant Clinical Benefit on 6-Minute Walk Test
CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - Oct 12, 2012) - Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT), a developer of innovative RNA-based therapeutics, announced today that data from a Phase IIb study evaluating eteplirsen, an investigational treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), will be presented Saturday, October 13th at the World Muscle Society in Perth, Australia. Principal investigator, Jerry R. Mendell, M.D. of Nationwide Children's Hospital, will present the data in an oral presentation of the abstract titled, "Results at 48 Weeks of a Phase IIb Extension Study of the Exon-Skipping Drug Eteplirsen in Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)." Dr. Mendell will present tomorrow from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. WST UTC +8 hours/2:30 to 4:00 a.m. EDT.
The presentation will describe new and previously reported efficacy and safety data from the Phase IIb study examining 48 weeks of treatment with eteplirsen in boys with DMD. Results from the Phase IIb extension study confirmed that treatment with Sarepta's lead exon-skipping compound, eteplirsen, met the primary efficacy endpoint, increase in novel dystrophin, and achieved a significant clinical benefit on the primary clinical outcome, the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) over the placebo/delayed treatment cohort.
Additional data to be presented includes:
Dr. Mendell's presentation will be posted on the Sarepta website in the "Events & Presentations" section after the session is completed.
About Study 201 and Study 202 (Phase IIb Eteplirsen Study)
Study 4658-US-201 was conducted at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Twelve boys meeting the inclusion criteria being between 7 and 13 years of age with appropriate deletions of the dystrophin gene that confirm eligibility for treatment with an exon-51 skipping drug, received double-blind IV infusions of placebo (n=4), 30 mg/kg of eteplirsen (n=4), or 50 mg/kg of eteplirsen once weekly for 24 weeks (n=4). Muscle biopsies for evaluation of dystrophin were obtained at baseline for all subjects, and after 12 weeks for patients in the 50 mg/kg cohort and after 24 weeks for patients in the 30 mg/kg cohort. Two placebo patients were randomized to the 30 mg/kg cohort and two placebo patients were randomized to the 50 mg/kg cohort. This study design allowed Sarepta to investigate the relationship of dose and duration of eteplirsen treatment on the production of dystrophin over the course of the 24-week study.
Study 4658-US-202 is the extension study to 201 and continues to assess the long-term safety and efficacy of open-label eteplirsen. The four placebo patients were rolled over to open-label eteplirsen at week 24, with six patients on 30 mgs/kg, and six patients on 50 mgs/kg. Third biopsies occurred at 48 weeks in the original study 201 treated patients, and at 24 weeks, the same time point, in the original placebo patients. 6MWT was performed at 32 weeks, 36 weeks, 48 weeks and will continue to be performed every 12 weeks going forward.
About Dystrophin
Dystrophin, a large structural protein, is critical to the stability of myofiber membranes in skeletal, diaphragmatic and cardiac muscle, protecting muscle fibers from contraction-induced damage. Loss of functional dystrophin destabilizes the dystroglycan protein complex, impairing its localization to the muscle membrane, and compromising the integrity of the membrane structure. The absence of functional dystrophin results in muscle membrane breakdown with muscle fibers being replaced by adipose and fibrotic tissue.
About the 6-Minute Walk Test
The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was developed as an integrated assessment of cardiac, respiratory, circulatory, and muscular capacity (American Thoracic Society 2002) for use in clinical trials of various cardiac and pulmonary conditions. In recent years the 6MWT has been adapted to evaluate functional capacity in neuromuscular diseases and has served as the basis for regulatory approval of a number of drugs for rare diseases, with mean changes in the 6MWT ranging from 28 to 44 meters (Rubin 2002, Wraith 2004, Muenzer 2006). Additionally, published data from longitudinal natural history studies assessing dystrophinopathy, a disease continuum comprised of DMD and Becker muscular dystrophy, support the utility of the 6MWT as a clinically meaningful endpoint (McDonald C, et al, Muscle & Nerve, December 2010) in DMD. These data show that boys with DMD experience a significant decline in walking ability compared to healthy boys over one year, suggesting that slowing the loss of walking ability is a major treatment goal.
About the Statistical Methodology
The Mixed Model Repeated Measures (MMRM) test was used for all statistical analyses of the 6MWT results, including for all subgroups. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) for ranked data was used when the assumptions of normality of the dependent variable (the change in 6MWT distance from baseline) were violated. The inclusion of the two patients with extreme scores due to rapid progression in the ITT population (n=12) resulted in a violation of the normality assumptions of the Change from Baseline in 6MWT data, and thus required the use of ANCOVA for ranked data. The exclusion of these two patients from the mITT population (n=10) resulted in the 6MWT data becoming normally distributed and the MMRM statistics exhibiting much improved residuals and fit statistics as compared to the ITT population. As such, the estimated mean values and their associated p-values for the mITT population were slightly different from those for the ITT population.
About Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Eteplirsen
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked rare, degenerative neuromuscular disorder causing severe, progressive muscle loss and a premature death. One of the most common fatal genetic disorders, DMD affects approximately one in every 3,500 boys worldwide. A devastating and incurable muscle-wasting disease, DMD is associated with specific errors in the gene that codes for dystrophin, a protein that plays a key structural role in muscle fiber function. Progressive muscle weakness eventually spreads to the arms, neck and other areas. Eventually, this progresses to complete paralysis and increasing difficulty in breathing due to respiratory muscle dysfunction requiring ventilatory support, as well as cardiac muscle dysfunction leading to heart failure. The condition is terminal, and death usually occurs before the age of 30.
Eteplirsen is Sarepta's lead drug candidate that is designed to address the underlying cause of DMD by enabling the production of a functional dystrophin protein. Data from clinical studies of eteplirsen in DMD patients have demonstrated a broadly favorable safety and tolerability profile and restoration of dystrophin protein expression. Eteplirsen uses Sarepta's novel phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO)-based chemistry and proprietary exon-skipping technology to skip exon 51 of the dystrophin gene enabling the repair of specific genetic mutations that affect approximately 13 percent of the total DMD population. By skipping exon 51, eteplirsen may restore the gene's ability to make a shorter, but still functional, form of dystrophin from messenger RNA, or mRNA. Promoting the synthesis of a truncated dystrophin protein is intended to improve, stabilize or significantly slow the disease process and prolong and improve the quality of life for patients with DMD.
Sarepta is also developing other PMO-based exon-skipping drug candidates intended to treat additional patients with DMD.
About Sarepta Therapeutics
Sarepta Therapeutics is focused on developing first-in-class RNA-based therapeutics to improve and save the lives of people affected by serious and life-threatening rare and infectious diseases. The Company's diverse pipeline includes its lead program eteplirsen, for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, as well as potential treatments for some of the world's most lethal infectious diseases. Sarepta aims to build a leading, independent biotech company dedicated to translating its RNA-based science into transformational therapeutics for patients who face significant unmet medical needs. For more information, please visit us at www.sareptatherapeutics.com.
Forward-Looking Statements and Information
In order to provide Sarepta's investors with an understanding of its current results and future prospects, this press release contains statements that are forward-looking. Any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," "intends," "potential," "possible" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements about the development of eteplirsen and its efficacy, potency and utility in the treatment of DMD and the potential for the creation of novel dystrophin to lead to significant clinical benefit over a longer course of treatment.
These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Sarepta's control. Known risk factors include, among others: clinical trials may not demonstrate the safety and efficacy of eteplirsen and/or Sarepta's antisense-based technology platform; treatment of patients with DMD using eteplirsen over a longer duration may not lead to significant clinical benefit; and any of Sarepta's drug candidates, including eteplirsen, may fail in development, may not receive required regulatory approvals, or be delayed to a point where they do not become commercially viable.
Any of the foregoing risks could materially and adversely affect Sarepta's business, results of operations and the trading price of Sarepta's common stock. For a detailed description of risks and uncertainties Sarepta faces, you are encouraged to review the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sarepta does not undertake any obligation to publicly update its forward-looking statements based on events or circumstances after the date hereof.
Sarepta Investor and Media Contact:
Erin Cox
425.354.5140Email Contact
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Erin Cox
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CRESTVIEW � Plans are in the works for another busy summer at Twin Hills Park in Crestview. The park will host a variety of youth sports camps ranging from fishing to volleyball.
CRESTVIEW � Plans are in the works for another busy summer at Twin Hills Park in Crestview.
The park will host a variety of youth sports camps ranging from fishing to volleyball.
All of last year�s instructors will return for another year, except for soccer instructor Phil Rose, whom Crestview High School boys soccer coach Scottie Milton will replace.
Parks and Recreation Department supervisor George Hillsman said Milton�s selection arose because they want to use local high school or middle school coaches whenever possible.
"With coach Milton doing our camp this year, you will have someone from the city helping these kids, as opposed to someone outside eventually trying to be pulled out of the city," Hillsman said. "From what I've been told, quite a few players that went through the other camps are now down in the south end (of the county) playing for the other guys. So we want to keep our home-grown (athletes) home."
Hillsman said the number of camps give aspiring athletes numerous opportunities to find sports they enjoy.
"You may have a kid that has been playing a team sport all of their short life and then they may go into something like tennis, which is an individual sport, and find out they excel more at it than they do in a team sport," he said. "I think the more things a child can learn the better they are. It will give you a shorter period of time to find out if that's what they really want to get involved in and if that's what they are going to try and excel in.
"A lot of times I've seen kids sign up for a sport and a week or two into it � not even a game � into practice and they said, 'Mom, dad, this isn't for me.' And the parent had lost the money. And money is hard to come by these days."
Camps � which range from $30 to $45 � begin June 17 with the girls basketball camp and the first of two volleyball camps. Shoal River Middle School boys basketball coach Mitch Buckelew will lead the girls basketball camp and the boys basketball camp. The girls camp is open to girls ages 7-12.
Other events are as follows:
�Boys basketball camp: July 8-12, for ages 7-9 and 10-12.
� Kelly Buckelew will lead volleyball camps for ages 9-11 and 12-14.
� Second volleyball camp: June 24-28.
� Soccer camp: June 24-28 for ages 4-5 and 6 and up.
� Fishing camp, with Crestview High School Outdoors Education teacher Ernie Martin: June 25-28. For ages 5-12; limited to the first 20 kids to register. Campers under 9 must have a parent with them.
� Tennis camp: July 8-12. Early session for kids 6-8 and later session for those 9-12. Moya Moore, a former Crestview High School tennis standout who now plays for Birmingham-Southern University, will lead the camp.
TheParks and Recreation Department and the Crestview Police Department will offer a free bicycle safety course on June 18 and June 20, among other free activities.
Registration for football, cheerleading and soccer runs through June and ends July 11.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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License revoked for former Bryant band teacher accused of sexual assault
The Arkansas State Board of Education confirmed to The Saline Courier today that a former band teacher at Bryant High School had his teaching license revoked during a Monday meeting.
The 36-year-old James Chad Green resigned from his position with the Bryant School District on Oct. 24 and voluntarily surrendered to authorities on Oct. 31. He was charged with first-degree sexual assault and was released from the Saline County jail under a $25,000 sheriff's bond.
Sgt. Todd Crowson of the Bryant Police Department previously confirmed with the Courier that Green had been under investigation since December of 2011 and said the case was referred to the Saline County Prosecuting Attorney's Office on Oct. 16.
Crowson told the Courier in January that the victim was 15 when the alleged incidents occurred. He also said the department received "full cooperation" from the Bryant School District.
"Student safety is a high priority for the Bryant Police Department and for the school district, which is why we are doing a thorough investigation," Crowson said in January.
Green is the second Bryant instructor to be charged this year with sexual assault. On Oct. 3 former ninth-grade English teacher Courtney Speer voluntarily surrendered to authorities at the Saline County jail following accusations that she had had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old Bryant High School student.
The 31-year-old Speer was formally charged with six counts of sexual assault of a minor. Speer was released from jail under a $20,000 sheriff's bond and is scheduled to appear in Benton District Court on Dec. 18.
Speer has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old Bryant High School student. The case stems from a joint investigation involving both the Benton and Bryant police departments because incidents allegedly occurred in both jurisdictions — in the school parking lot in Bryant and at Speer's home in Benton. She is facing several felony counts of sexual assault in the first degree.
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IT Management Slideshow: How To Innovate
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 07-02-2010
There's a big difference between "invention" and "innovation," according to David Croslin. He should know. He holds 25 patents and served as chief technologist within HP's communications, media and entertainment division. In his new book, Innovate the Future (Prentice Hall), Croslin offers these ten steps to ensure the success of new products - wisdom that translates from consumer markets to enterprise IT.
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REPUBLIC REPUBLIC – Republic Junior High School has named first quarter honor roll students.
High honors, 3.5-4.0
Eighth-graders — Makenzie Hill, Noelle Johnston, Perry Walling, Richard Walling.
Seventh-graders — Ian Hamrick, Megan Helms, Marissa Hines, Megan Marshall, Angelina Newman, Joleen Nush, Aleah Rydell.
Honors, 3.49-3.00
Eighth-graders — Emma Blickenstaff, Tiffany Byington, Brittany Johnson, Destiny Meneley, Elizabeth Reeves, Carlie Rittel, Cassie Walling.
Seventh-graders - Michael Brown, Odeal Edwards, Tandice Fletcher, Mason Harmon, Elizabeth Hill, Mackenzie Hutton, Jacob Schreier, Morgan Severns.
Curlew School honor students
CURLEW – Curlew has released its first quarter honor roll.
Students have to earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher to be listed.
Seniors – Cole Chamberlin, Talia Donihue, Kolten Fanning, Gustavo Ferrari, Alyssa Goree, William Knutz, Natalie Miller, Molly Reynolds, Olivia Volluz and Kaylee Wahlstrom.
Juniors – Hannah Bushnell, Carley Cooper, Michael Cooper, Haleigh Gibson, Lindsey Gibson, Coby Grumbach, Hannah Halbach, Jerad Hastings, Natasha McIrvin and Wyatt Walker.
Sophomores – Nathan Agent, Gunner Brown, Kammy Donihue, Jessica Eberly, Kyle Engebretson, Sean Gillen, Jaimee Keenan, Kieran Poore and Daniel Tresham.
Freshmen – Bethany Boyce, Liam Chamberlin, Stormy Duncan, Caroline Elmes, Echo Haddenham, Michael Mumford, Anthony Prichard and Troy Romig.
Eighth-graders – Shelby Ahlson, MeganJoe Beedle, Isabelle Bushnell, Justin Hanks, Sydni Jess, Brittney Mycoff and Truman Spooner.
Seventh-graders – Kayla Engen, Allena Goree, Tyler Haddenham, Gunnar Hilderbrandt, Emmett Kjolseth, Jakob Pyeatt, Nicole Ringstad and Amara Wentz.
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Privacy remains one of the main activities of the Consortium in the area of social responsibility. Privacy has many different aspects in W3C:
At least since Alan Westin wrote his famous books
Privacy and Freedom
(1967) and
Databanks in a Free Society (1972), Privacy has been a
sustained challenge for computer science. Computing provides powerful tools
that can be used for the good and for the bad of humankind. W3C has started
work on Privacy with P3P and has continued
to explore the Privacy challenges since then. The current highlight is the work
on Do Not Track.
There is no obvious end to the Privacy challenge on the Web. Nearly 10 Years
after the completion of the work on P3P, much of the research in the area of
privacy, accountability and data handling is still heavily influenced by the P3P 1.0 Recommendation and the P3P 1.1 Working Group Note. Even the
Tracking Protection Working Group regularly addresses issues of transparency of
data collection that could be solved by P3P rather than by Do Not Track.
The very successful PrimeLife project allowed to explore new technologies like anonymous credentials, new policy languages and how to integrate the value of privacy into Specifications. With the Project's support, we were able to organize many interesting workshops:
It can be concluded that people need a venue for general privacy discussions related to the Web. All attempts to limit the discussion to a specific policy language or a very narrowly focused interest were rather detrimental to the overall quality of discussion and the success of the venue. This is now addressed by the Privacy Interest Group that runs the public-privacy mailing-list.
The Privacy Interest Group (PING) has stabilized. It not only serves as a platform for the urgently needed broader Privacy debate and exploration concerning the Web Platform. PING also serves as an excellence center for Privacy review of works of other Working Groups. PING has already worked successfully with the Device API Working Group to help with the Web Application Privacy Best Practices. PING works on the Privacy implications of the Encrypted Media Extensions work and also on privacy considerations for SysApps.
High attention is still given to the
Do Not Track header initially
promoted by CDT and implemented for the first time by Mozilla. After the
Microsoft Web
Tracking Protection Member Submission, W3C Staff held a successful Workshop on Web Tracking and User
Privacy at Princeton University on 28-29 April 2011 that led to the
creation of the W3C Tracking Protection WG that is now scheduled to produce the
Preference Expression Specification to define the header & protocol and
the Specification
on Tracking Compliance and Scope to define the meaning of this header.
W3C is already looking beyond this first definition of
Do Not Track.
The W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and
Beyond was held In November 2012 in Berkeley, CA. It concluded that we are
on Track with
Do Not Track, but should remain supportive of the
tail of the Web, including blogs and smaller Web sites. There is a need for
standards in further increasing transparency in privacy, such as improving
privacy notices with supporting icons or reputation mechanisms.
The discussions around Privacy remain high up on the political agenda on both sides of the Atlantic. While the discussion around Do Not Track in the US matures into a pragmatic compromise, the European debate around the new EU Regulation on data protection is increasing its heat. W3C operates as a focal point of wisdom for the Web in both debates and stands for pragmatic and responsible solutions. This position, in turn, allows W3C to keep out of the confrontation and cater to its role as a platform for compromise and agreement. W3C thus is often cited in the debate by the senate and other governmental bodies in the US. In Europe, W3C congratulated the Rapporteur of the European Parliament for the introduction of Amendment 108 that allows standards to be declared conformant to the future regulation by the Commission upon advice of the data protection board. This could allow Do Not Track to operate in Europe with legal certainty, once the regulation and tracking protection specifications finished, and the recognition procedure accomplished.
The P3P Specification Working Group delivered multiple important milestones for the Web. The most important documents are listed here:
We hope that the Tracking Protection Working Group will deliver Last Call
Drafts on
Do Not Track by July. The Privacy Activity has also a
horizontal dimension that will be managed by the Privacy Interest Group that
coordinates over the public-privacy mailing-list.
|Team Contact
|Tracking Protection Working Group
|Matthias Schunter, Justin Brookman, Carl Cargill
|Nick Doty
|Chartered until 31 December 2015
|Privacy Interest Group
|Christine Runnegar, Tara Whalen
|Nick Doty
|Chartered until 1 December 2016
This Activity Statement was prepared for TPAC 2014 per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.Wendy Seltzer, Privacy Activity Lead


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