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Triamterene (Triamterene/ Hydrochlorothiazide) is apotassium-conserving (antikaliuretic) diuretic with relatively weak natriuretic properties. In addition, it is an antihypertensive agent that blocks renal tubular absorption of sodium and chloride ions. Active Ingredient: hydrochlorothiazide, triamterene Availability: In Stock Exp. Date: Approx. Jul 2026 |
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Triamterene (Triamterene/ Hydrochlorothiazide)
Drug Uses
Triamterene pill combines Triamterene and Hydrochlorothiazide. Triamterene ia potassium-conserving (antikaliuretic) diuretic with relatively weak natriuretic properties. Hydrochlorothiazide is a diuretic and antihypertensive agent. It blocks the renal tubular absorption of sodium and chloride ions.
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Use Triamterene as directed by your doctor.
Take Triamterene by mouth with food.
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Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use Triamterene.
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Triamterene is a potassium-conserving (antikaliuretic) diuretic with relatively weak natriuretic properties. It exerts its diuretic effect on the distal renal tubule to inhibit the reabsorption of sodium in exchange for potassium and hydrogen. With this action, triamterene increases sodium excretion and reduces the excessive loss of potassium and hydrogen associated with hydrochlorothiazide. Triamterene is not a competitive antagonist of the mineralocorticoids and its potassium-conserving effect is observed in patients with Addison's disease, i.e., without aldosterone. Triamterene's onset and duration of activity is similar to hydrochlorothiazide.
Hydrochlorothiazide is a diuretic and antihypertensive agent. It blocks the renal tubular absorption of sodium and chloride ions. This natriuresis and diuresis is accompanied by a secondary loss of potassium and bicarbonate. Onset of hydrochlorothiazide's diuretic effect occurs within two hours and the peak action takes place in four hours. Diuretic activity persists for approximately six to twelve hours.
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Store Triamterene at room temperature, between 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep in a tight, light-resistant container. Keep Triamterene out of the reach of children and away from pets.
Do not use Triamterene if:
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you are taking potassium supplements, another potassium-sparing diuretic (e.g., amiloride), or an aldosterone blocker (e.g., eplerenone);
you are unable to urinate or have high blood potassium levels or severely decreased liver or kidney function.
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Link to GVP(Global Volcanism Programme)
The SO2 data and notification service intents to monitor SO2 emissions worldwide, with a focus on SO2 emitted by volcanoes during eruptions. To provide detailed maps and to easier locate SO2 emissions, a set of regions has been defined as indicated in the map above and in the menu map on the left. The pull-down menu on the left lists the centre coordinates of the regions.
The regions as plotted on the above map and on the menu map are 30 by 30 degrees. To facilitate following the motion of SO2 from one region into another, the regions used in the analysis are 5 degrees wider on either side, so that the regions overlap one another: the maps show regions of 40 by 40 degrees.
Two special regions have been defined for the polar areas: the north (south) polar region covers all latitudes above (below) 60 degrees latitude, and thus overlap with the top (bottom) row of rectangular regions.
Since these default regions overlap, a given volcano can appear in more than one region. About half the volcanoes is located in two regions, some 45 in four regions.
Selecting a region from the menu on the left leads to a webpage which shows the volcanoes in that region that have erupted since the year 1800, as listed on the website of the Global Volcanism Programme (GVP). The page futher tells in which of the regions defined by the GVP the volconoes are found.
Note that the Submarine volcanoes (with summits below sealevel) are not considered very important here, as it is very unlikely that their SO2 emissions can be detected. The plots shown on these pages are made with the program IDL. As can be seen for example near the left and right axis of the world graph above, IDL has some problems correctly colouring the continent Antarctica. The boundaries of the countries drawn on the region maps are the political boundaries from 1993.


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I've never - ever - seen someone sue a baker for over $4,300 over a misspelled name on a $55 cake.
If you can't see the video because you're at work, count yourself lucky. Frankly, I was ready to bash my own head in after the first three minutes. That lady gives crazy a bad name.
Oh, and here's the wreck in question - or at least part of it:
The judge reads the baker the riot act over the cracks in the icing, but also points out to the mom that if you saddle your child with a ridiculously spelled name (it's pronounced "Kiesha" but spelled "Keshia") then you pretty much have to expect people to screw it up for her entire lifetime. And so stop sweating the small stuff already.
Good advice all 'round, wouldn't you say?
Oh, and if *I* were that baker, I think I'd have replaced the cake with something a little more appropriate:


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Press Release
For Immediate Release:
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012
Contact: Stacy Erenberg 312 513 1399
Young Women's Empowerment Project releases their NEW RESEARCH entitled DENIED HELP! How Youth in the Sex Trade & Street Economy are Turned Away from Systems Meant to Help Us & What We are Doing to Fight Back
Our Participatory Action Research (done by youth in the sex trade ages 12-23) shows how and why young people in the sex trade and street economy are being turned away from institutions set up to help.
Special Press Briefing
When: May 29th 3pm via Webinar
Time: 3pm-4pm CST/4pm-5pm EST/1pm-2pm PST
Live Event
When: Thursday May 31st, 3pm-5pm
Where: Jane Adams Hull House 800 S. Halsted
What: Young Women's Empowerment Project will give an interactive, multi media presentation that explains their BAD ENCOUNTER LINE findings, and how YWEP is organizing young people to change the way Chicago sees and treats it's homeless home free and street based youth.
The BEL findings demonstrate how institutions such as police, hospitals, social services and schools are harming young people they are supposed to serve and protect. The data from the BEL findings shows many themes of police sexually assaulting youth because of their gender, sexual identity, or lack of ability to fight back for being in the sex trade. One story is " …in a sting set up by the cops. [the officer] got violence with me, handcuffed me and the raped me. He cleaned me up for the police station and i got sentenced to 4 months in jail for prostitution." – anonymous Bad Encounter Line entry
The BEL research was done using a participatory action research model created by and for young people directly affected by the issue of institutional violence and neglect. The BEL data and stories from girls in YWEPs constituency were turned into a zine released quarterly. The BEL research report highlights the finding from the BEL zines collected in 2011.
The BEL report comes from our 2009 research findings which discovered that young people are being denied help from organizations based on their involvement in the sex trade and street economy. because they are homeless, because they are of color and or/ lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. The research also found that resilience is a stepping stone to resistance. YWEP created a campaign to build their own resilience and resistance to institutional violence and to change policies in place that allow us to be denied help in the first place.
For more information about the BEL research release please contact Stacy Erenberg 312 513 1399


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Saying that "it's offensive to me as a woman and as a minority" that Democrats portray the GOP as "the party that hates you" when they reach out to non-whites, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made the case this morning that it's the Republican Party that minorities should be looking to join.
Haley, an Indian-American and first-term governor, told USA Today and Gannett editors that for too long, many minorities "were Democrats because that's where they thought they were supposed to be." But she argued that on the issues that matter most to all Americans — jobs, the economy, debt reduction and national
defense, for example — it's the GOP that has ideas better suited for everyone.
The governor, who has a prime time speaking slot here tonight at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, also said that her party's presidential candidate — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — doesn't need to do more to boost his "likeability" among voters.
"Do I think Gov. Romney needs to be more likeable?" she asked. "No."
Voters don't care, she argued, "who looks the best ... who acts the best ... [or] who looks good holding a baby."
Romney will win, Haley said, by running on his record as a businessman, governor and head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
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Excuse the typos. I'm writing this at 8:50pm (always the procrastinator) wearing fingerless gloves. I'm also wearing Cuddle Dud leggings, flannel pajamas, an extra flannel PJ top, that 1980's looking Hanes sweatshirt in some awful color that was on clearance at Target, and a wool hat that makes me look soooo like a sherpa in Nepal. Seriously....I can get you up that mountain in this hat.
Where am I? Some outdoor cafe on the beach of Southern California?
No, I'm INSIDE THE HOUSE! The heater isn't working and So Cal is going through a major cold spell (for us). And we don't build our houses like you guys in places where you get snow...we don't have R999999 installation and stuff. And, truth be told, we are huge weather wimps. And I'm raising my hand on that one.
Seriously, it is 49 degrees F outside, and I think it is about 50 degrees inside. I have had so much tea tonight that I might float away.
So, here are my Lemon Sable cookies for Tuesdays with Dorie. For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection, Barbara of Bungalow Barbara selected Sablés on pages 131-133 of Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours.
I added lemon zest. They are easy to make and easy to eat. And go great with the gallons of tea I'm drinking!
Aren't these the cutest flowers? My DC friends Racheal, Lee, Caden and their three cute cats sent me these cupcake flowers for my birthday!! And thank you so much for your birthday wishes. I went to Disneyland and got drenched. I'll post about that later...after I warm up and my shoes dry out!
Don't forget to enter My Birthday Giveaway for a subscription to Everyday Food and mystery culinary gift (read: I haven't purchased it yet :) Click here. Deadline Friday!
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Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours, Sablés, pages 131-133.


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From @BillShaikin:
McCourt agrees to sell #Dodgers. Team to be auctioned in bankruptcy court.
UPDATE: Frank McCourt agrees to sell Dodgers (Bill Shaikin, Dodgers Blog)
NOT ENTIRELY UNRELATED: Mark Cuban offered to buy Dodgers, but price was too high (Shaikin, LA Times)
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: From "Frank McCourt to sell Dodgers" by Tony Jackson at ESPNLA.com:
The Dodgers and Major League Baseball issued a joint news release in the wake of the agreement. It read as follows:"The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball announced that they have agreed today to a court-supervised process to sell the team and its attendant media rights in a manner designed to realize maximum value for the Dodgers and their owner, Frank McCourt. The Blackstone Group LP will manage the sale process."


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Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, today won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Life on Mars," which the prize committee calls "a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain."
"Life on Mars," published by Graywolf Press in 2011, is Smith's third published collection. "This news is particularly elating, because I think of the book as a tribute to my father, who passed away in 2008," she said.
Smith, who lives in Brooklyn, first learned of her winning from her husband, who had just read it on The New York Times website. She had just come in from running.
The Pulitzer Prize for poetry recognizes a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. The poems in "Life on Mars" are set in a futuristic place but explore the dark moments of human life on Earth in the present. For example, one poem tells of a daughter imprisoned in the basement by her own father; another focuses on celebrity culture; and another finds the poet herself losing her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.
In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly noted the collection's "lyric brilliance" and "political impulses [that] never falter." A New York Times review stated, "Smith is quick to suggest that the important thing is not to discover whether or not we're alone in the universe; it's to accept — or at least endure — the universe's mystery. ... Religion, science, art: we turn to them for answers, but the questions persist, especially in times of grief. Smith's pairing of the philosophically minded poems in the book's first section with the long elegy for her father in the second is brilliant."
"Life on Mars" follows Smith's 2007 collection, "Duende," which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the only award for poetry in the United States given to support a poet's second book, and the first Essence Literary Award for poetry, which recognizes the literary achievements of African Americans. "The Body's Question" (2003) was her first published collection.
"Tracy K. Smith is an extraordinary poet and a phenomenal teacher, attuned to the nearest heart and the furthest star. 'Life on Mars' is that rarest of endeavors: a third book that surpasses a second book, which surpassed a first book that seemed unsurpassable," said Susan Wheeler, director of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center and an associate professor of creative writing.
Other Pulitzer Prize winners on the Princeton faculty include Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams, professors of creative writing in the Lewis Center; John McPhee, the Ferris Professor of Journalism; Toni Morrison, the Robert Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus; and Paul Starr, the Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and professor of sociology and public affairs.
Smith's numerous awards and honors include holding the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University from 1997 to 1999, and receiving the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a 2005 Whiting Writers' Award. She was also selected to participate in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which recognizes rising artists from around the world. She has taught at the City University of New York, the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.
Raised in northern California by a family that has deep roots in Alabama, Smith started her journey as a poet at Harvard University, where she graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in English and American literature and Afro-American studies. Three years later, she completed an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.
During her time as a student, Smith learned from poets such as Seamus Heaney, Linda Gregg, Mark Doty and Henri Cole, but she singles out Lucie Brock-Broido as her mentor, who inspired Smith's own writing and her teaching style.
She joined the Princeton faculty in 2006.
"It's been a delight to have Tracy with us," said Muldoon in a 2008 Princeton news feature on Smith's intensive workshops at Princeton. "As one of the most engaging, and engaged, of early-career American poets, she brings a very vital worldview to our students."


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When I came across this recipe for blueberry streusel bars with lemon cream filling on The Recipe Girl I added it to my meal plan right away. With blueberries, lemon, crumbs and cream, how can you go wrong? I really like the blueberry and lemon combo and this sounded like a nice take on it. When I looked at the recipe for the cream layer I noticed that it looked a lot like the recipe for key lime pie filling only with lemon so I knew that it was going to be really good. The recipe for the actual bars also looked very similar to the recipe that I use for crumb bars . So we basically have blueberry crumb bars with a lemon key lime pie filling! It just keeps getting better and better. I modified the recipe a bit by reducing the the amount so that it would fit into my 8 inch square baking dish and I replaced some of the flour with whole wheat flour to make it a bit healthier. The bars were really easy to make and they turned out so well! The blueberry and lemon cream combo was amazingly good and the sweet crumb topping finished off the bars perfectly. Tip: For crumb bars like these you want to make sure that you press the bottom layer into the dish well so that the bars hold together.
Blueberry Crumb Bars with Lemon Cream Filling
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter (melted)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 large egg (separated)
- 3/4 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 2 cups blueberries
- Mix the butter, flours, rolled oats, sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl until it forms crumbs.
- Set 1 cup of the mixture aside for the topping.
- Mix the egg white into the mixture.
- Press the mixture into the bottom of a greased 8 inch square baking pan.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile mix the egg yolk into the sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and zest and let it sit.
- Spread the blueberries out over the bottom crust and top with the lemon mixture.
- Bake until the lemon mixture forms a shiny skin, about 7-8 minutes.
- Sprinkle on the reserved crumbs.
- Bake until the top is golden brown and the sides are bubbling, about 20-25 minutes.
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Chandigarh is a city and union territory in India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The city of Chandigarh was the first planned city in India and is known internationally for its architecture and urban design. The city tops the list of Indian States and Union Territories with the highest per capita income in the country at Rs.99,262 at current prices and Rs.70,361 at constant prices (2006-2007). There are about 15 medium to large industries including two in the Public sector, generating a large number of job opportunities. In addition Chandigarh has over 2500 units registered under small scale sector. The important industries are paper manufacturing, basic metals and alloys and machinery. Other industries are relating to food products, sanitary ware, auto parts, machine tools, pharmaceuticals and electrical appliances. Chandigarh IT Park (also known as Chandigarh Technology Park) is the city's attempt to break into the IT world and create host of IT jobs for its people. Chandigarh's infrastructure, proximity to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, and the IT talent pool attracts IT businesses looking for office space in the area. Major Indian firms and multinational corporations to the like of Quark, Infosys, Dell, IBM, Tech Mahindra have set up base in the city and its suburbs offering jobs to thousands of people. According to a 2007 survey, Chandigarh is ranked ninth in the top 50 cities identified globally as "emerging outsourcing and IT services destinations".


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Journal entry: May 4, 1981 (age 12): Birthday
Monday is the worst day of the week to have a birthday. You have to go to school, and everybody is in a bad mood. But today got better as it went on. When I got home from St. Patrick's Middle School, Mom was busy making my birthday cake. She always makes my favorite, which is a two-layer, Duncan Hines yellow cake with chocolate frosting. She also made my favorite dinner, which is her special recipe for spaghetti with meat sauce. The special recipe is actually just ground beef and some McCormick's spices added to Ragu, but I'm a boy of simple tastes.
The gathering for dinner was small – just my parents, my brother, Dan, and me. My oldest brother, Jerry, and his wife, Beth, came over yesterday with a card and gift. My three other brothers, Jim, John, and Bob, all live in Wildwood, New Jersey. They are all in their 20s, and they live together in an apartment that looks like it shares an interior designer with Sanford & Son. Probably the best thing that happened today was getting a birthday package from Bob. He's never really paid attention to my birthday, so it was a shock to see a big manila envelope from him addressed to me.
All three of the New Jersey Mollens work at the same Wendy's restaurant in Wildwood. That particular franchise is owned by retired football star Franco Harris. Harris sometimes brings other pro football players into the restaurant, and Bob managed to get a few autographed photos recently. Apparently, Bob is not a fan of Ron Jaworski, because he sent me an 8-by-10 glossy photo of him, signed "To Bob" and covered with punctures from being pinned to a dartboard. The package also included two photos signed "To Tim" by Jaworski and Dennis "Bigfoot" Harrison. I had no idea who these guys were. At dinner, Dan told me they both play for the Philadelphia Eagles.
"Oh," I said.
Dan asked, "Do you even know who Franco Harris is? He made one of the greatest plays in football history – 'The Immaculate Reception.'" I like to play up my ignorance of sports, so I replied that I didn't see what the dinner after the Virgin Mary's wedding had to do with football. As usual, no one at the dinner table laughed. I've been in a joke vacuum there for about three years.
After dinner, I re-read the funny letter that Bob sent with the photos. It made me feel great that he remembered my birthday and took the time to write to me. He knows very well that I'm not into football, but I was touched by his effort to reach out to me as "one of the guys." I decided that I would sit down and watch a game on TV with Bob sometime – maybe this Thanksgiving. If Bob's favorite team is playing, at least I can enjoy watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Maybe he can get me some of their autographs for Christmas.
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BlackBerry 10 announced. Does Windows Phone have something to fear?
Today, as expected the company formerly known as RIM has announced the availability of BlackBerry 10.
With two new devices, the Q10 (traditional qwerty phone) and the Z10 (traditional slab touchscreen) and an early global launch including all 4 US carriers by March, the Waterloo company has done an impressive mini-comeback.
The question is, is it enough?
What BB10 has going for it
A fairer media? There's little doubt that when it comes to positive PR, BlackBerry has it in spades compared to Microsoft. The media so far has been a lot more enthusiastic or even forgiving of BlackBerry 10 when compared to anything Microsoft does these days. Because of this, BlackBerry can expect to ride a wave of positive press coverage as clearly they are the favored under-dog.
Carriers heart RIM. Likewise with carriers. RIM has always had strong carrier relations and the fact that they can launch on all four US carriers in addition to some major players in the UK is testament to that fact, something for which Microsoft struggles. Windows Phone users (especially on Sprint) have to feel the sting quite a bit today: here's an untested OS and hardware being picked up by Sprint on day 1, meanwhile Windows Phone 8 is coming nearly 8 months after its release.
Legacy. There's a reason why our sister site is called 'CrackBerry'. Users of RIM products are a dedicated bunch and they've been steadfastly holding on for BB10 for nearly two years now. Microsoft rarely gets so much dedication and Microsoft's image is often that of a "necessary evil". Things are changing though for the better since 2012.
Hardware reliability. Say what you will about BlackBerry but much like Palm, their hardware is generally quite good. Not Apple good. Not Nokia good. But better than many Android phones on the market and that bold, almost garish BlackBerry logo emblazoned across the Z10 and Q10 is a reminder that they stand behind their work.
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A messy UI with no central focal point
What BB10 has going against it?
Momentum (the other guy's). Right now Apple and Android are steamrolling back and forth across the mobile landscape, vacuuming up customers left and right. What bits are left over has been going to Microsoft's Windows Phone with 2012-2013 looking to be a turning point for Redmond and their partners.
But even though Windows Phone has failed to "explode", its growth is four times what it was a year ago and had has been very steady for quite some time. With compelling hardware like the HTC 8X and bold Lumia 920 (not to mention the in-between ranges) can BlackBerry effectively compete with just two, conservative and perhaps even generic looking devices?
The OS is boring. Yeah, we're going there. While our friends at CrackBerry are gushing over the new OS and its functionality, we think it's quite bland. It's your typical "Icons everywhere" UI that looks very much like iOS, Android and even MeeGo, is nothing to get excited about.
Will it work well? We haven't had extensive time with it but we're confident BlackBerry did a good enough job that most users will get things done, but it's not a game-changing UI but rather another retread. That may have worked 3 years ago but in today's market you either innovate or move on.
Icon: Been there, done that
No ecosystem or desktop. Bad for enterprise? In reading CrackBerry's review, you'll notice the word "desktop" is mentioned twice--once in regards to a browser comparison, the other about BlackBerry Link (desktop management app).
But BlackBerry 10 has no Office in it, no SkyDrive, no OneNote (though they tried with 'Remember'), no Lync, no GroupMe, no Yammer or no SharePiont. All the apps and services live on the phone with no way to do real time collaboration with people not on your mobile OS.
Sure, Microsoft's Xbox Video is a mess right now on Windows Phone but at least they have a game plan—three screens and a cloud. The idea that you can purchase Xbox Music and Video and play it on your PC, Mac, TV (Xbox 360) or phone gives people what they want: their media everywhere. How will BlackBerry 10 do that?
Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are coming closer and closer together. Whether it is SmartGlass or Office or SkyDrive, the two operating systems will allow users to have a desktop, tablet and mobile phone experience that is all similar. BlackBerry cannot compete with that environment and lacks that synergy.
The App Gap. Lots of attention was focused on how many apps BlackBerry 10 is supposedly launching with. Actually, what we heard a lot of were announcements and companies being "committed" to BB10. That's a bit different than actually having the apps ready. Here are the "big title" apps announced today:
Not bad but not amazing either.
There is no Instagram, no Pandora, Amazon Mobile, CNN, USA Today, Groupon, Netflix, LastPass, uTorrent Remote, Audible, eBay, Fandango, UrbanSpoon, Foodspotting, GroupMe, IMDb, YouTube, TripIt, PayPal, MyFitnessPal and we're guessing a ton more apps that you use on an everyday basis.
In other words, there's no app advantage for BB10 right now and we're doubtful it will surpass Windows Phone anytime soon.
And gaming is downright pathetic. Although we've been harsh and upfront about Xbox gaming on Windows Phone, it is still in a better long term position than BB10 will be…unless you really thing "Where's my Water" will edge out our "Where's my Water".
Excuse me, Is that an iPhone 5?
Hardware is boring. When compared to the HTC 8X or Nokia Lumia 920, BlackBerry's new hardware is not exactly that exciting looking. In fact it's downright generic. Granted, those in business and enterprise may preferred a "toned down" phone compared to a Cyan or California Blue device, but that doesn't mean it's good for regular consumers either. What kid will yearn for the Z10?
Fact is, Nokia and HTC are creating some real works of art when it comes to hardware: beautiful and more than functional. Even the entry level Lumia 620 is one looker of a device. Nokia PureView, PureMotion, Beats Audio, Dolby Headphones, ClearBlack display, wireless charging? All neat and useful hardware innovations available on select Windows Phones. BlackBerry 10? Not so much.
Which leads us to…
Is BB10 more pretty than this?
What's Coming Next. Rumor has it in a few weeks Nokia will announce a new flagship camera phone, possibly sporting a 41MP PureView camera in addition to a new aluminum based body for an updated Lumia look in 2013.
Who doubts that Nokia will continue to out-innovate everyone in the hardware field in both terms of new functions and looks in 2013? BB10 may be all business but Nokia knows style. They also know how to push boundaries.
But we'll let BlackBerry 10 have its day as they do deserve credit for pulling off new hardware and a new OS. We have a feeling though that on February 25th, the world will see some true next generation hardware on a truly innovative OS.
Further reading:
- BlackBerry 10 OS Review (CrackBerry)
- BlackBerry Z10 Review (CrackBerry)
- Blackberry Q10 Hands on (CrackBerry)
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How to install pmxbot
- Download and install ActivePython
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pmxbot is an IRC bot written in python. Originally built for internal use, it's been sanitized and set free upon the world. You can find out more details on the website, http://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot, and especially the wiki https://bitbucket.org/yougov/pmxbot/wiki/Home
pmxbot listens to commands prefixed by a '!' If it's a command, it knows it will reply, take an action, etc. It can search the web, store quotes you, track karma, make decisions, and do just about anything else you could want. It stores logs and quotes and karma in either a sqlite or MongoDB database, and there's a web interface for reviewing the logs and karma.
pmxbot will respond to things you say if it detects words and phrases it's been told to recognize. For example, mention sql on rails.
pmxbot requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. It also requires a few python packages as defined in setup.py.
If using the MongoDB backend, it requires pymongo (otherwise, sqlite will be used).
pmxbot includes a test suite that does some functional tests written against the Python IRC server and quite a few unit tests as well. Just run them from the pmxbot root directory using "py.test" (requires pytest) and it should do it all for you.
Configuration is based on very easy YAML files. Check out config.yaml in the source tree for an example.
Once you've setup a config file, you just need to call pmxbot config.yaml and it will join and connect. We recommend running pmxbot under daemontools, upstart, supervisord, or your favorite supervisor to make it automatically restart if it crashes (or terminates due to a planned restart).
Custom Features
Setuptools Entry Points Plugin
pmxbot provides an extension mechanism for adding commands, and uses this mechanism even for its own built-in commands.
To create a setuptools (or distribute or compatible packaging tool) entry point plugin, package your modules using the setuptools tradition and install it alongside pmxbot. Your package should define an entry point in the group pmxbot_handlers by including something similar to the following in the package's setup.py:
entry_points = { 'pmxbot_handlers': [ 'plugin name = mylib.mymodule', ], },
During startup (and after loading the traditional script-based plugins), pmxbot will load mylib.mymodule. plugin name can be anything, but should be a name suitable to identify the plugin (and it will be displayed during pmxbot startup).
If your plugin requires any initialization, specify an initialization function (or class method) in the entry point. For example:
'plugin name = mylib.mymodule:initialize_func'
On startup, pmxbot will call initialize_func with no parameters.
Within the script you'll want to import the decorates you need to use with: from pmxbot.core import command, contains, regexp, execdelay, execat. You'll then decorate each function with the appropriate line so pmxbot registers it.
A command (!g) gets the @command decorator:
@command("tinytear", aliases=('tt', 'tear', 'cry'), doc="I cry a tiny tear for you.") def tinytear(client, event, channel, nick, rest): if rest: return "/me sheds a single tear for %s" % rest else: return "/me sits and cries as a single tear slowly trickles down its cheek"
A response (when someone says something) uses the @contains decorator:
@contains("sqlonrails") def yay_sor(client, event, channel, nick, rest): karmaChange(botbase.logger.db, 'sql on rails', 1) return "Only 76,417 lines..."
A more complicated response (when you want to extract data from a message) uses the @regexp decorator:
@regexp("jira", r"(?<![a-zA-Z0-9/])(OPS|LIB|SALES|UX|GENERAL|SUPPORT)-\d\d+") def jira(client, event, channel, nick, match_obj): return "https://jira.example.com/browse/%s" % match_obj.group()
For an example of how to implement a setuptools-based plugin, see one of the many examples in the pmxbot project itself or one of the popular third-party projects:
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Web Interface
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Stock investors and business journalists unite each month for one shared, suspenseful moment — the 8:30 a.m. release of the Labor Department's employment report.
The unveiling of the report — so rich with data on job creation, unemployment, wages and hours — can be counted upon to set off a tsunami of tweets. Economists jump in with instant analysis and politicians fire off press releases with reactions.
That market-moving report was due this Friday.
But it won't come out — leaving Federal Reserve policymakers, investors and job seekers scratching their heads about labor-market conditions.
Because of the federal government's partial shutdown, the Labor Department is not releasing its most closely watched report. "An alternative release date has not been scheduled," the Labor Department said Thursday.
Economists will have to try reading tea leaves — or at least examining less-reliable private reports — to get a sense of what the job market did in September.
"You hate to have data delayed because that creates uncertainty," said John Canally, an economist for LPL Financial, a Boston-based financial services firm. Not getting that jobs report "deprives the markets of important information," he said.
Among economists, the monthly jobs report, compiled by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, is considered a "gold standard" report. It has a long history and a broad reach, including information from both employers and members of households.
On Thursday, economists did get one government-generated report with the release of data on initial claims for unemployment compensation. The first-time claims increased by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 308,000 last week. Economists had forecast 314,000 new claims would be filed, so the report suggests the job market was a bit stronger than most people had thought.
That report, based on state data, may continue to be published throughout the shutdown. Unfortunately for economists, other reports from the BLS and Commerce Department will go dark for the duration. For example, on Tuesday, Commerce failed to issue its usual construction spending report. Next Tuesday, it will not be able to release its scheduled international trade report unless the shutdown ends.
The loss of such reports is particularly damaging to investor confidence at a time when the Fed is considering a major policy shift, according to Robbert van Batenburg, market strategist for Newedge, a global financial services firm based in Paris.
For years, the Fed has been holding down interest rates, waiting for signs that the economy is improving. The time for that policy shift is just about now.
But exactly when the Fed will change direction will depend on the strength of the job market. Investors are aware of "the data dependency of the Fed, and the Fed leans toward using government data," van Batenburg said.
Translation: When we all know the Fed is using BLS data to set policy, then we're all on the same page.
If the Fed starts relying on information from less reliable sources, then things will get even more confusing for investors trying to guess what Fed policymakers are thinking.
Even worse, the loss of key government reports means Fed officials are more likely to make a bad call about the direction of the economy, he said. "The more data you have across the spectrum, the better your decision-making," he said.
Still, if the shutdown lasts only a short while, investors and economists will be able to make their forecasts with the help of private reports. The monthly ADP National Employment Trends report, for example, offers an assessment of private-sector jobs issued by the payroll-processing company. On Wednesday, ADP said the private sector created 166,000 jobs in September.
That report is not as complete as the BLS monthly snapshot, which counts government workers such as firefighters and teachers, but it's becoming widely followed as a supplement to the government data.
On Thursday, another closely watched private report was issued. The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said companies announced plans for 40,289 layoffs in September. That's 20 percent fewer job cuts than in August.
Other reports that carry weight among economists include: Standard and Poor's Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Home Price Index; Markit's Purchasing Purchasing Managers' Index; the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Retail Chain Stores Sales Index; the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing ISM index and the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index.
"In the short term, you can live without the government reports," van Batenburg said. But over time, the loss of the best data will erode confidence that the Fed policymakers and investment advisers are making informed judgments. "It all depends on the duration of the shutdown," he said.
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Yahoo and Facebook have agreed to re-sheath their patent swords and play nice — at least for now.
The two companies have struck a broad advertising partnership as part of a deal to end a patent dispute, Kara Swisher reports on the technology blog All Things Digital, quoting "sources close to the situation."
According to the blog, the arrangement involves no exchange of money, but instead a deal for joint online advertising sales and cross-licensing of key patents.
Yahoo filed suit against Facebook in March, claiming the social media giant infringed on 10 of its patents dealing with advertising and privacy controls. Yahoo added two other patent infringement complaints later.
All Things Digital reports that the deal could lead to further lucrative advertising agreements between Yahoo and Facebook.
The Yahoo-Facebook deal stands in sharp contrast to the $550 million that Facebook paid to Microsoft to settle a similar dispute.
According to All Things Digital:
"Discussions to settle the lawsuits — negotiated by Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, among others — began almost as soon as Yahoo's board ousted former CEO Scott Thompson [who had] ... reportedly promised directors that a big financial payoff of many billions of dollars could result from the patent lawsuits against Facebook."
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports today that Levinsohn is short-listed as a permanent replacement for Thompson, along with Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.
The newspaper said that Yahoo "got to know and was apparently impressed with Kilar over the past year after attempting to buy all of Hulu last year."
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Hulu, in an email to reporters, said Kilar isn't going anywhere:
"As has been reported, Jason Kilar has been a focus of the Yahoo CEO search committee. He has graciously declined to be considered," the company said.
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Detectives from London's Metropolitan Police Service conducting an investigative review into the disappearance of the then three-year-old Madeleine McCann released the age-progressed image of the missing girl ahead of her ninth birthday on 12 May 2012.
An INTERPOL Yellow Notice for Madeleine McCann was circulated to INTERPOL's member countries after she went missing from an apartment in Praia da Luz in the western Algarve.
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It's often said that great teachers should be paid more than great athletes. Well, in South Korea, one rock star teacher acting as a free agent makes $4 million. But do highly paid teachers really make kids smarter? Author Amanda Ripley crisscrossed the world to find out. In her new book, "The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way," she tags along with American school kids who left home on exchange programs and landed in classrooms from South Korea to Finland. And she joins us to share what's working and what's not in classrooms around the world. Amanda Ripley, thank you for coming in.
AMANDA RIPLEY: Thanks for having me.
LYDEN: To begin, why don't you remind us where American kids stand with respect to kids in all other parts of the world in terms of how well educated we are?
RIPLEY: American 15-year-olds perform about 26th in the world in a test of critical thinking in math, 17th in science and 12th in reading. And our high school graduation rate is now below that of about 20 other nations.
LYDEN: So it means it's something that we need to address, obviously.
RIPLEY: Yeah. And I think we've tried to address it, in our defense. So many years we've tried and tried, and it starts to feel hopeless. But what's exciting is if you look around the world, you see wild improvement and change. And so we haven't really changed much, but other countries have changed a lot.
LYDEN: You went around the world to look at how well kids were doing. Tell me a little bit about the premise of this. What were you looking for?
RIPLEY: I kept hearing about these countries, you know, that you hear about on the headlines - Finland, Korea - they were outperforming us in education year after year. But I couldn't quite imagine what it was like to be a kid there. What is it actually like, and how do these countries get that way?
LYDEN: Let's start with Korea. You follow a young man to Korea, and you say there were two models that you were looking at. One was the enlightenment model, but Korea was the model of what is grueling.
RIPLEY: Right. That's exactly right. It's kind of an extreme version of the pressure cooker model of education that you see all over Asia where kids go to school all day long, and then they go to tutoring academies all night long, and they study so many hours that they're exhausted when they get to class again in the morning. That is one way to get to the top of the world. I don't think anyone, including everyone I met in Korea, would argue that it's the best way. Eric. Eric had gone from Minnesota, which is one of the highest-performing states in the U.S., to Busan, South Korea. So he thought he knew what pressure and high-stakes testing were, but he did not know, he realized, that there was a whole other league. And it was shocking, really, how hard these kids were working.
LYDEN: What is the hagwon?
RIPLEY: Hagwons are the Korean word for after-school tutoring academy. Tutoring is actually, I think, understating it because it sounds kind of homespun. In fact, this industry is bigger than the public school industry in Korea. It is huge. It is traded on the stock exchange. There's investments for major American banks in this industry because 70 percent of Korean teenagers participate in this world in some manner.
LYDEN: And you focus in your book on a teacher there called Kim Ki-hoon. Tell us more about him.
RIPLEY: This was unlike any teacher I'd ever interviewed in the U.S. First of all, his office was in a luxury sky - high-rise in Seoul, and he had 30 employees. And he makes about $4 million a year. The way he's making that money is through this hagwon industry. He gives a few in-person lectures and then puts them on the Internet and kids pay, like, $4 an hour to see his lectures online. And that's how he's making this money. And he himself is critical of this because it requires some amount of money in order to participate, unlike public school.
LYDEN: Let's contrast that with other kids that you followed. One of them, Kim, from Oklahoma, decides to go to Finland. Why did the Oklahoman want to go there?
RIPLEY: She wanted to see the world. She was curious. She'd never left the United States. She had a single mother who was a teacher in rural Oklahoma where she was born. And she read that Finland had the smartest kids in the world and that they liked heavy metal music and strong coffee and had a good sense of humor. And she said: I want to go there because...
LYDEN: She was 15 at the time.
RIPLEY: She was 15 at the time. She gets placed in rural Finland and ends up in high school there living in - with a host family for one year.
LYDEN: How good were her teachers?
RIPLEY: There were some who were stronger than others. But all of them, she felt like, really wanted to be there. In Finland, getting into teacher training college is as hard as getting into MIT here. It's literally the top 10 percent of applicants are even accepted to begin the process, which is a really critical piece of this. I think the key to Finland's success is that they really went long on quality over quantity. So we educate twice as many teachers as we need. Finland, in the late 1960s, shut down all of its varying quality teacher colleges and moved them into the most elite universities. So right from the beginning, you had the best educated people becoming teachers, which led to all these other great things that we don't always even think about, notably the signal it sent to kids.
LYDEN: What else can we emulate from these examples that would make the American experience better and also make us not 26th in math, 17th in science and 12th in everything else?
RIPLEY: You know, I think it's actually not that complicated, believe it or not. What we want to do is fewer things better. So fewer tests that are smarter, less homework that is more challenging makes kids have to think, even less parental involvement that's more targeted at things that actually lead to learning. I mean, American parents actually do a lot compared to parents in other countries. But those things that they do and the things, by the way, that schools ask them to do are typically not strongly related to raising a kid who's able to think critically and solve problems and make an argument. So you do see that parents are a piece of the solution here, and it doesn't often get talked about. We just say, oh, our parents aren't involved. Well, I think they're involved, just in ways that aren't particularly impactful.
LYDEN: Amanda Ripley is the author of "The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way." Amanda Ripley, thank you so much for coming in and speaking with us.
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This post will serve to collect new attack techniques as they are published. If you think something should be added, please comment below and I'll add them.
"Every year the Web security community produces a stunning amount of new hacking techniques published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and so on. Beyond individual vulnerability instances with CVE numbers or system compromises, we're talking about actual new and creative methods of Web-based attack. The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work."
Current 2011 List
- Bypassing Flash's local-with-filesystem Sandbox
- Abusing HTTP Status Codes to Expose Private Information
- SpyTunes: Find out what iTunes music someone else has
- CSRF: Flash + 307 redirect = Game Over
- Close encounters of the third kind (client-side JavaScript vulnerabilities)
- Tracking users that block cookies with a HTTP redirect
- The Failure of Noise-Based Non-Continuous Audio Captchas
- Kindle Touch (5.0) Jailbreak/Root and SSH
- NULLs in entities in Firefox
- Timing Attacks on CSS Shaders
- CSRF with JSON – leveraging XHR and CORS
- Double eval() for DOM based XSS
- Hidden XSS Attacking the Desktop & Mobile Platforms
- Rapid history extraction through non-destructive cache timing (v8)
- Lotus Notes Formula Injection
- Stripping Referrer for fun and profit
- How to upload arbitrary file contents cross-domain (2)
- Exploiting the unexploitable XSS with clickjacking
- How to get SQL query contents from SQL injection flaw
- XSS-Track as a HTML5 WebSockets traffic sniffer
- Cross domain content extraction with fake captcha
- Autocomplete..again?!
- JSON-based XSS exploitation
- DNS poisoning via Port Exhaustion
- Java Applet Same-Origin Policy Bypass via HTTP Redirect
- HOW TO: Spy on the Webcams of Your Website Visitors
- Launch any file path from web page
- Crowd-sourcing mischief on Google Maps leads customers astray
- Bypassing Chrome's Anti-XSS filter
- XSS in Skype for iOS
- Cookiejacking
- Stealth Cookie Stealing (new XSS technique)
- SurveyMonkey: IP Spoofing
- Using Cross-domain images in WebGL and Chrome 13
- Filejacking: How to make a file server from your browser (with HTML5 of course)
- Exploitation of "Self-Only" Cross-Site Scripting in Google Code
- Expression Language Injection
- (DOMinator) Finding DOMXSS with dynamic taint propagation
- Facebook: Memorializing a User
- How To Own Every User On A Social Networking Site
- Text-based CAPTCHA Strengths and Weaknesses
- Session Puzzling (aka Session Variable Overloading) Video 1, 2, 3, 4
- Temporal Session Race Conditions Video 2
- Google Chrome/ChromeOS sandbox side step via owning extensions
- Excel formula injection in Google Docs
- Drag and Drop XSS in Firefox by HTML5 (Cross Domain in frames)
- CAPTCHA Hax With TesserCap
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Struts2 and property oriented programming with Java
- Abusing Flash-Proxies for client-side cross-domain HTTP requests [slides]
Previous Winners
2010 - 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack
2009 - Creating a rogue CA certificate
2007 - XSS Vulnerabilities in Common Shockwave Flash Files
2006 - Web Browser Intranet Hacking / Port Scanning


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Pearl Jam's rolling rock operas were Steve Gleason's favorite albums growing up in Spokane during the mid-90's. Lead singer Eddie Vedder's trademark growl set the backdrop for a place to escape. Vedder was at the height of his career, and Gleason was a stud linebacker at Gonzaga Prep before playing at Washington State. In advance of Pearl Jam's studio album, Thunderbolt, set for release Oct, 15, the band made a documentary in which a number of celebrities conducted interviews with current band members.
Gleason was diagnosed with ALS in 2011 after a six-year NFL career with the New Orleans Saints. However, he didn't allow the grim diagnosis to deter his lifestyle. He's cultivated a friendship with the Seattle-based rockers while engineering his Team Gleason program that raises awareness about ALS.
In a poignant feature that ran Sunday on ESPN, Gleason sits down with Vedder, communicating through a computer that uses synthetic recordings of his own voice, to ask about fatherhood and leadership.


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As we continue the two-year release cycle for the most popular meet management swim software in the world, we're announcing that the NEW Swim Meet Manager 8.0 is now available!
Meet Manager for Swimming is the most widely-used swimming management software in the world. There are thousands of HY-TEK customers using Meet Manager in over 100 countries and our system has been used in several Olympic Trials, Junior Olympic Trials, and national meets, as well as in tens of thousands of local meets worldwide. Meet Manager for Swimming offers you comprehensive solutions for every aspect of organizing a meet, making sure that not a drop of water is out of place and you spend more time by the pool instead of behind a computer.
Meet Manager Can Run Any Type of Swim Meet
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- Score individual and team points using multiple methods
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- See real-time heat results
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- Follow individuals and teams (flag them as favorites to easily find them again)
- Quickly find the meet and/or swimmer you are looking for with robust search functions
- View psych sheets
- View heat sheets by heat and/or by individual
- View event timelines
- View info easily - no sign-in or log-in necessary
Note: Meets must be running on Meet Manager 4.0 or later, and must have an internet connection.
Meet Manager for Swimming offers a pool full of features that have been specifically designed to make running your meet easy and efficient. The swimming software features a comprehensive online help resource, a meet entry import tool, a meet results export tool, full data access from the Run Menu, and support for an unlimited number of records and time standards. Plus, reports are brilliantly designed and give you the flexibility to translate every word and phrase into virtually any language, which can be exported into multiple formats.
With Meet Manager's unique Run Menu Scoreboard, you are front and center on all the action, with full control over each event and heat. All the information you need is on your screen, allowing you to make instant changes and additions. Quickly manage DQ's, scratches, late entries, relay names, awards, judge's decisions, results and more.
Click here for Product License Options for Meet Manager for Swimming
Meet Manager Start-Up comes equipped to run all aspects of any size swim meet. But if you're looking for more, we've got it. We have add-on options and features you can incorporate into the basic Meet Manager package to take your competition to the next level:
Meet Manager for Swimming Standard Options:
Ribbon/Award Labels
Reward your athletes and give them a sense of accomplishment! Easily print award labels for any event or heat, tailored to the size you select. These labels will ensure that you have professional ribbons to present for 1st/2nd/3rd place, Personal Bests, Standard Achievers and more.
Entry Cards/Labels
Stay organized and know who's who by printing labels or cards listing the entries for your meet (seeded or unseeded).
Meet Manager for Swimming Advanced Options:
Timing Console Interface
Save time and eliminate manual data entry by uploading swim times from your timing console directly to Meet Manager with the INTERFACE module. With a click of the mouse, you can see your swimmers' times displayed next to their lane numbers and names. Splits, backup times, and reaction times are also automatically uploaded and stored in the Meet Manager database. Plus:
- Color coding of heat buttons and lanes to quickly see times that need adjustments
- Option to connect two timers to one computer
- Pad times needing adjustment are flagged and easily changed
- Watch times are stored in the database
- Final times are automatically calculated
- Split times for swimmers and relays can be viewed and edited
The INTERFACE also includes a Meet Event Download feature which allows you to download event numbers and descriptions directly into the timer. This saves you hours of time that would normally be spent manually keying event information into your timing console. The INTERFACE is also capable of importing and displaying relay take-off reaction times, streamlining your swimmers' data even more.
Scoreboard Interface
Keep your audience captivated! The Scoreboard INTERFACE transmits start lists and event results from the Meet Manager database directly to the computer controlling the alphanumeric scoreboard. Quick as lighting, valuable information that swimmers and parents want to see is prominently displayed.
HY-TEK interfaces with the following alphanumeric scoreboards: Colorado Time Systems, Daktronics, Omega and IST. If your club does not use any of these systems, there is a generic scoreboard function which exports the data in a format that enables any scoreboard computer to receive and parse the information for display. The generic scoreboard interface works with Lynx Developer's ResulTV software which can drive any scoreboard, including video boards.
Pro Network/Real-Time Results
With the new Meet Manager Pro Network option, administrators, coaches and officials have access to one central database that stores every piece of information. No more hassles trying to find information that is scattered among different databases and files! As multiple people operate on various PCs to keep the meet running, all information is "networked" so you can be sure that each piece of data is stored in and shared from one location, increasing accuracy and efficiency. Assign permission levels to each user-with four levels to choose from, you can easily retain control over who has access to what.
The Meet Manager Pro Network Option also includes the ability to upload current heat and event results directly to a website in HTML format. Provide real-time meet results directly to the host club's or swim organization's website so parents, coaches and swimmers can watch the meet in progress.
Button Finish Interface for Open Water
With the Button Finish Interface, you can bring your system out in the open! Results for Open Water races can be imported into MM's Open Water module from seven brands of button timers, one brand of stopwatch, and FinishLynx photo finish. For the order of the finish, the OW module offers the option to scan competitor's waterproof barcodes or to manually enter the order of the finish to match the imported times.
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Upgrade to MM 8.0 for MM7.0, MM6.0, MM5.0, MM 4.0, MM 3.0, MM 2.0 and MM 1.4 Customers The upgrade price for MM 7.0 is $269.00. |
Meet Manager (Start Up) Click here for more information |
Ribbon Labels Option |
Entry Cards/Labels Option |
Complete System Includes Start Up & Standard Options above |
The following features all require the Meet Manager Start Up. |
Pro Option Includes the Network and Real-Time Results to the Web features |
The Timing Console INTERFACE ALGE, CTS, Daktronics, IST, Kyrotech, Omega, SST, Wylas |
Button Finish INTERFACE for Open Water |
CTS Dolphin Wireless INTERFACE Backup Mode |
Alpha Scoreboard INTERFACE to Display Names/Results CTS, Daktronics, Omega, Generic |
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- Great Lakes Tritons
- Kennebec Valley YMCA Stingrays
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It's time now for sports and we have to begin with the sad and tragic story. The two-year-old son of Adrian Peterson, the great running back of the Minnesota Vikings died this week apparently of abuse and allegedly by a boyfriend of the little boy's mother. NPR's Tom Goldman joins us. Good morning, Tom.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Hi Scott.
SIMON: Hard to know what to say.
GOLDMAN: Yes. South Dakota police did confirm that Adrian Peterson's son died yesterday from injuries after a reported severe beating. It's rare in this context, the story touching one of the biggest stars in pro sports, but it is a reminder, Scott, that this kind of child abuse really isn't rare. The organization Child Help says more than four children die every day as a result of child abuse in this country, about 80 percent of those kids who die are under the age of four.
SIMON: Let's go back to the field.
GOLDMAN: Yes, hard turn. The National League playoffs began last night - I didn't stay up, couldn't, we've got to work - to the end of a 13-inning game. The St. Louis Cardinals won 3 to 2. And what a game Carlos Beltran had.
I did stay up, Scott and I have to work too, but I'll just let that go.
SIMON: You're tougher than I am, yeah.
GOLDMAN: Yeah, I didn't want to say that. And I got to see Carlos Beltran do what he has done throughout his career. He is an eight-time all-star who has a knack for shining in the post season. It's earned him the nickname "Senor Octobre" in native Puerto Rico. And last night he drove in all three St. Louis runs including the winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning. He also made a key defensive play in the 10th inning, throwing out a Dodger player at the plate from right field.
You know, it was a fitting first game, in that the teams, all four remaining teams in the playoffs actually, including Boston and Detroit in the American League, are so evenly matched. They are power, winning teams. Sports Illustrated calls them baseball blue blood with big payrolls. L.A., Boston, and Detroit rank second, fourth and fifth in salaries. St. Louis a little bit of the outlier with a eleventh, but not that every game is going to be like last night, but expect close series in both these leagues.
And one thing I should add, Scott, one regret some baseball fans have is that Oakland, the Moneyball boys, and Pittsburgh with its great first time in the playoffs since 1992 story are out of the postseason, so no real Davids to play against the Goliaths unfortunately.
SIMON: Oh, well, speaking of David and Goliaths, of course you have the biblical figures that look like the Boston Red Sox with those long beards, but let me - let's hope they don't trip over them on the base pads I want to ask you a question that I hear from people - well, I hear from my wife, but a lot of people, about the Detroit Tigers, OK
How is it the Tigers have become one of the marquee franchises in sports - is there something odd, unbalanced, or admirable about a Detroit team spending millions of dollars to be so good in a city so bankrupt it can't afford streetlights?
GOLDMAN: Ah, but there's always room for sports, Scott. I talked to a couple of sports economists, Andy Zimbalist and Victor Matheson, about this seeming incongruity. They reminded me the Tigers are fortunate to be owned by Mike Illitch of Little Caesar's Pizza fame, a very rich man, and charitable I should mention, with the city of Detroit.
He keeps the Tigers well-funded. Also, the great Detroit metro area still has a fair amount of wealth, people who support the team. The Tigers have a relatively new stadium. Comerica Park is 13 years old, and that still generates good revenue. So. you know, a combination of factors keep this team thriving.
SIMON: Football, now we're at Week 6. There have been some real surprises. I'm thinking of the Cleveland Browns.
GOLDMAN: Well, before we talk about them, how about the Kansas City Chiefs, 2 and 14 last year...
SIMON: They're undefeated, yeah.
GOLDMAN: And one of the three remaining undefeated teams. Also Scott, how about a New York team that stinks and it's not named the Jets?
GOLDMAN: That would be the Giants, you know, Super Bowl champs as recently as two seasons ago.
SIMON: Well, they did play the Bears. What do you expect, OK?
GOLDMAN: The Jets, you know, an embarrassment in the last couple of years are actually not bad. But yeah, let's get to the Cleveland Browns and wipe the egg off our faces. You know, remember, we all had them dead and buried a few weeks ago when they traded supposedly their best offensive player, Trent Richardson.
Since then they've won three straight, which reminds us that running backs to not a team make, and an NFL team is made up of 53 men, not one.
SIMON: NPR's Tom Goldman. Thanks so much.
GOLDMAN: You're welcome.
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"I'm kind of a roughneck, scrappy person. I don't have a lot of talents but fighting is one of them. I'm always up for a challenge and I'll fight through anything."
Sometimes a man is faced with only two choices, neither of them good. That was the case for Chris Camozzi last year when he reluctantly consulted a doctor about extreme pain in his jaw and an inability to chew on anything.
The doc gave the pro fighter two options: A) No solid foods or chewing for six weeks or B) get your jaw wired shut for even longer.
"I chose not to chew anything," said the 24-year-old middleweight, who is slated to clash with Kyle Noke on the main card of UFC 127 later this month in Sydney, Australia. Noke (18-4-1) is an Australian who once served as a bodyguard for the late Steve Irwin, best known as the "Crocodile Hunter."
Camozzi's broken jaw ordeal is a testament to his extraordinary toughness and will to win. The Coloradan suffered the injury during a preliminary bout against Victor O'Donnell on The Ultimate Fighter 11 last year. At stake: a chance to become one of 16 fighters to get into the house and compete for a six-figure UFC contract.
Early in the first round, during a ferocious back-and-forth slugfest, O'Donnell landed a potent right cross to Camozzi's chin.
"I felt a loud pop in my ears," Camozzi said. "But you've got to fight through things. It was nothing that would stop me from finishing."
O'Donnell emerged from the scrap even more damaged, suffering a fractured orbital bone en route to losing three-round affair. Camozzi's injury initially went undiagnosed and he preferred it that way. But his inability to chew any foods soon created a problem.
"I planned on fighting and I tried to avoid going to the doctor," he said. "I think I could've fought. I wanted it so badly that I was willing to do whatever. I figured I could fix it later. You know, pain doesn't usually last forever … But the producers made me go to see the doctor and I was sent home. It was pretty devastating, not knowing if I would get another shot."
Impressed with Camozzi's performance, the UFC tapped him for The TUF 11 Finale and he delivered, winning a unanimous decision over James Hammortree. Note: Camozzi triumphed despite dislocating a shoulder in the first round. He followed that up with a split decision victory over Dongi Yang to run his record to 2-0 in the UFC. Winner of four straight, Camozzi finds himself pitted against another TUF 11 alum whom he considers his mirror image.
"I have a lot of respect for him," Camozzi said. "He was one of the guys on the show that I liked as a person because he wasn't there to be a clown or play up his persona; he was there to fight and win. Too many guys go on the show go and make a jackass of themselves."
Camozzi admitted to being a little more nervous than usual as the showdown with Noke inches closer.
"It makes me a little nervous, which is good. I've only had that feeling in a few fights and the fights where I was nervous have always been my best performances," said Camozzi (14-3). "It means I don't go in there overconfident but I don't go in there scared, either. Being a little bit nervous puts me on my game."
For good measure, Camozzi has a large tattoo across his chest depicting two skulls with a heart valve and a grenade sandwiched in between them.
"I've always been told that I have a lot of heart and I agree," he said. "I'm kind of a roughneck, scrappy person. I don't have a lot of talents but fighting is one of them. I'm always up for a challenge and I'll fight through anything. Like the jaw … in the finale I dislocated my shoulder in the first round and fought through that. The grenade is a reminder of if you're willing to push through anything … grenades will take out anything. Fighters with heart go farther than guys going on just skill."
His track record is proof of that claim. And Camozzi said that as his career evolves he will continue to draw strength and educational value from his broken jaw experience.
"That's given me more urgency to win fights quickly," he said, mindful of making the most of his second go-round with the UFC. "In the end it all worked out well. They gave me another opportunity and I made the most of it."


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