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Ok, here's a crazy idea. Everybody loves dunks, and executing them in a game is at least as difficult and rare as making a 3-pt shot, in my opinion. It takes skill and toughness to be able to finish at the rim. This should be rewarded, I propose, with making dunks worth 3 points instead of 2-pts like any old layup or mid-range shot.
Can you imagine the collisions at the rim? Guys like Demar would now have a strong incentive to go hard instead of settling. Of course, the fact that the Raptors might have the one of the best dunking lineups in the NBA also factors into this for me. But still, if I'm paying to see JJ Redick or Terrence Ross, I'd take TRoss 10 times out of 10. Not sure why the league should favor smaller guys who can shoot it from deep.

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text: |Science@Work II showcases Ohio people, applying in everyday life, the Physical Science concepts that instructors are teaching to their students. The target populations for Science@Work II are grade levels 8, 9, and 10. Each module title contains the entire uncut video, a content segmentation aligned to the current Ohio Educational Content Standards, a closed-captioned file, and a descriptive video file. It is WBGU-TV's goal to expand the reach of these programs to students with different learning styles and students with disabilities.


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lftp is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program. Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. Additional protocols supported: FTP over HTTP proxy, HTTPS and FTP over SSL, BitTorrent protocol. IPv6 is fully supported. There are lots of tunable parameters, including rate limitation, number of connections limitation and more.
aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.
SALI (Sara Automatic Linux Installer) is a tool that allows you to install Linux on multiple machines at once. It support several protocols for downloading by way of aria2 to install a machine. For example, BitTorrent and rsync are supported. SALI originates from SystemImager and still uses the same philosophy. It is a scalable method for performing unattended installation. SALI is mostly used in cluster setups.
KTorrent is a BitTorrent application that allows you to download and share files using the BitTorrent protocol. Key features include queuing of torrents, global and per-torrent speed limits, previewing of certain file types, importing of partially or fully downloaded files, file prioritization for multi-file torrents, selective downloading for multi-file torrents, kick/ban peers with an additional IP Filter dialog for list/edit purposes, UDP tracker support, support for private trackers and torrents, support for µTorrent's peer exchange, support for protocol encryption (compatible with Azureus), support for creating tracker-less torrents, support for distributed hash tables (DHT), support for UPnP to automatically forward ports on a LAN with dynamic assigned hosts, support for webseeds, scripting support via Kross, and interprocess control via DBus interface.
PeerProject is a versatile peer-to-peer filesharing client and file manager. It's intuitive and aesthetic while supporting many networks and features, including BitTorrent, G2, Gnutella, eDonkey, DC++, IRC, HTTP/FTP, and more. It's a mainstream fork of Shareaza p2p, for Windows and WINE.
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A group of hackers have scammed Microsoft out
of $1.2 million after finding a way to generate new Microsoft Points out of old
point codes.
Points is the currency for online stores such as the Games for Windows - Live
Marketplace, Zune, Windows Live Gallery and the Xbox
Live Marketplace. There are plenty of sites that provide free Microsoft
Points, but it's rare to find one that is authentic.
But on
March 7, a team of hackers did
some damage to Microsoft's pocket when they developed an
algorithm that allowed them to use old MS Points codes to make new ones. They
then created a website that allowed anyone to do the same just by refreshing
the page.
Each time
a user refreshed the page, a new 160 point code would be available. Eventually,
a heavy amount of traffic to the site yielded problems, which caused a 404
error message.
was able to pull the plug on the site, but still ended up losing $1.2 million
in MS Points. No announcements have been made in regards to what Microsoft
plans to do about this.
The Escapist magazine posed the question
as to whether Microsoft has a way of distinguishing which points are legitimate
and which are counterfeit, so Microsoft could ban those who try to use the hack
versions, but it is unknown whether the consumer electronics and software giant
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First there was Black Friday, then came Cyber Monday - both with the goal of kicking off the Christmas shopping season. Now, though, there is a season-opening shopping promotion with a healthier focus and more of a community orientation: Small Business Saturday, this year Nov. 24.
Black Friday is so named because it is supposed to begin the season in which retailers make their profit, traditionally recorded in black ink. It began as the Friday after Thanksgiving Day but has now crept back into the holiday itself. A number of national retailers opened as early as 8 p.m. on Thursday and plan to stay open until late today. Consumers line up early in the hope of getting good deals on merchandise discounted for the event.
Of course, all retailers hope to profit from Christmas sales. But the real focus of Black Friday has become big box stores and national chains. Those benefit the economies of small towns primarily through sales tax payments. Profits go elsewhere.
Cyber Monday is worse. A marketing term for the first Monday after Thanksgiving, the idea is to encourage consumers to shop online by offering discounts and special deals through Internet retailers. But with online purchases there is often no sales tax paid to local governments, no local jobs outside of FedEx and UPS, and the profit goes who knows where.
With all that in mind, American Express came up with the idea of Small Business Saturday to encourage shoppers to support small, local businesses. Coming between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it too is meant to launch the Christmas season, but with an emphasis on brick and mortar stores in the community.
The point, of course, is to support our friends and neighbors and ourselves. Shopping at local small businesses keeps more of our money in our community, both through sales tax revenue that funds the programs and projects that benefit us and through the wages paid and local spending generated by those businesses.
Of course, many local retailers offer season-opening sales just like the big boxes, so consumers can benefit as well. And as part of its promotion of the day, American Express is offering its card holders incentives to participate. (See: www.shopsmall.com.)
But the real gain is for the community. U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, chairs the House Small Business Subcommittee on Energy, Agriculture and Trade and is a cosponsor of a House Resolution in support of Small Business Saturday. The owner of a small business himself, he put it this way:
Small businesses are responsible for the creation of seven out of 10 new jobs (on average) in this country, and are vital to our economic recovery. Small Business Saturday is a great way to get a jump on holiday shopping while supporting those community businesses, stimulating the local economy, and strengthening Main Street.
The Small Business Administration also supports the idea. In urging participation, SBA Administrator Karen Mills, writes that more than 100 million people were part of Small Business Saturday last year.
Explaining her support, she said, By shopping small, we can help Americas small businesses do what they do best: grow their businesses, create good jobs, and ensure our communities are vibrant.
Enjoy the good service and better feeling of shopping small.


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INTERPOL joins Frontex operation in Romania against Black Sea crime
CONSTANTA, Romania – Under the umbrella of the INTERPOL Integrated Border Management Task Force (IBMTF), INTERPOL has assisted Frontex in an operation to check travel documents used by passengers travelling through the Romanian port of Constanta, a major port on the Black Sea.
Frontex, the European Union agency for external border security, deployed international expert groups as part of itsJoint Operation Focal Point Sea 2013initiative in order to assist Romanian Border Police to check passports, establish the purpose of foreigners' visits, and check the authenticity of documents.
With the aim of disrupting people smuggling and trafficking networks that provide lost or stolen travel documents to illegal immigrants or organized criminals, more than 11,000 searches were undertaken on INTERPOL's Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) and Nominal databases during the four-day operation (5-8 August).
The SLTD holds information on more than 38 million travel documents reported as lost or stolen by 166 INTERPOL member countries. The Nominal database contains some 154,000 records on known international criminals or missing persons.
IBMTF takes the lead in coordinating INTERPOL initiatives involving border security and is responsible for planning and coordinating border security management policy; enhancing the capacity of border security in INTERPOL member countries; developing partnerships with international organizations and the private sector; and allocating resources to border security initiatives.


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If you want corruption to end, you have to end the charade that corruption is only about you personally not taking a bribe. If corruption is happening right in front of your eyes and you do nothing ab out it, it is passive abetment of corruption.We know that both Manmohan Singh and AK Antony are personally incorruptible, but corruption flourishes right under their noses (2G, CWG, Coalgate, Vadragate). But they either refuse to look at it, or pretend they have not noticed. They are only bothered about their personal reputations, not the country.However, is providing a cloak under which big-time corruption takes place any less corrupt than actually taking a bribe?In the current UPA dispensation, where power and responsibility have anyway been divorced – with power residing with Sonia Gandhi and responsibility with the government – we now have a situation where "honest" people like Manmohan Singh and AK Antony are used a cover for corruption. We are essentially being told that since they are honest no corruption can take place when they are the No 1 and No 2 in the UPA government.This excuse will not wash anymore. In government, responsibility cannot be evaded by claiming you didn't take a bribe. If you know someone has taken a bribe, morally you are equally guilty for not acting to prevent it. If you cannot or will not prevent corruption, you have to carry the can for corruption.
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I do not believe that either Manmohan Singh or AK Anthony is corrupt or helps protect the corrupt. In fact, it is convenient for critics of both these worthies to accuse them of shielding the corrupt in the Congress or the UPA, because this is the closest that one could get to tarnishing their reputations. Since they are both above suspicion, accusations are hurled at them any time someone in the ministry is tainted. So far, after years of such accusations, no slur has stuck to either. In the current era of hypercompetitive news media, it is well nigh impossible to hide transgressions. If either was corrupt, or even complicit, there would be a comment, a notation or a signature uncovered, and they would have been caught. They haven't.Because neither is corrupt and neither is shielding the guilty.
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A 155-page report issued
in November 2009 by the Augustine Panel made a number of
recommendations on which direction to steer NASA in the future. The
recommendations included 1) hitching rides into space using
spacecraft from other nations or private contractors, 2) keeping the
Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs alive, albeit
in more limited roles, and 3) shifting the focus from returning to
the moon and instead aiming for Mars.
The Augustine Panel also made it clear
that the estimated $145 billion cost to return to the moon by 2020
would not be possible given NASA's $18.7 billion yearly allowance for
all operations.
According to a new
report by Space News, it appears that the Ares 1 launch
vehicle and the Orion crew capsule may be put on the chopping block.
President Obama is not expected to give NASA the $1 billion increase
in its yearly budget that had been hoped for to help further develop
the Ares program.
President Obama's 2011 budget for NASA
aligns closely with the recommendations of the Augustine Panel. The
budget calls for the the use of commercial spacecraft and rockets to
carry astronauts into space instead of relying on the behind
schedule, cost-overrun Ares program. Another Augustine Panel
carryover is the decision to bypass the moon and instead gun for
near-Earth asteroids and onward to Mars.
The Wall
Street Journal says that the efforts to initialize the
private sector -- including startup firms -- for carrying astronauts
into space will be a "multi-year, multi-billion-dollar
initiative". Private firms are expected to receive roughly $200
million during the first phase of the program. The total amount doled
out within the first five years could balloon to more than $3.5
billion according to sources familiar with the details of the budget.
The funds for the private ventures would be pulled from NASA's yearly
$18.7 billion budget.
Industry stalwarts like Boeing and
Lockheed Martin are expected to benefit from this new initiative, but
smaller firms like Space
Exploration Technologies would also be vying for NASA dollars.
Not surprisingly, there is opposition
to the there mere mention of NASA outsourcing crew vehicles to the
private sector. Charles Precourt, a senior exec at Alliant Tech
Systems remarked that such proposals are "really radical"
and that they are "extremely high risk". In addition,
Precourt said that whatever option is selected for the future
direction of NASA must be accompanied by a subsequent increase in its


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County commissioners found a sympathetic ear in U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton when they expressed concern Monday about a chicken-like bird that's been making headlines for over two months.
The Republican Congressman immediately brought up the Gunnison sage-grouse, and preempted many of the commissioners' concerns.
Tipton said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's "one-size-fits-all approach" is unsustainable.
The federal agency first proposed adding the bird to the endangered species list in January.
The grouse's population is estimated at 4,600 birds across seven landscapes in western Colorado and eastern Utah. If the bird receives an endangered listing, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will designate about 350,000 acres of Dolores, San Miguel and San Juan (Utah) counties as "critical habitat."
Local ranchers are up in arms about the grouse being granted an endangered status and fear efforts to protect the bird will infringe upon their property rights.
Tipton wants the federal agency to give each county a specific number the local bird population needs to reach in order to be classified as "recovered" and get taken off the endangered species list.
"We need measurable results," he said.
The commissioners asked Tipton what could be done about the grouse being listed as endangered.
Tipton said he recognizes that the sage-grouse is an issue for ranchers who depend on the bird's habitat to feed their cattle, and he wants state and local conservationists to be in charge of the effort.
The commissioners have leapt full bore into the sage grouse issue despite Montezuma County not having any critical habitat - it stops at the Dolores County line.
Commissioner Larry Don Suckla said their involvement is, in part, out of rural county solidarity - "we know how devastating this (listing) would be for our neighbors," he said - and in part because they are concerned about southward creep.
"The Farm Service Agency...is adding incentives to plant sage on new (Conservation Reserve Program) sign-ups in Montezuma County. That's a red flag," said commissioner Steve Chappell.
Suckla added: "We know how the government works. It always seems to expand."
The commissioners also brought up access to public lands, or as they see it, a lack thereof.
Tipton told a story about a veteran who used to fly-fish on public lands, but is disabled and can longer access the spot where he used to fish.
"Let's not forget the most vulnerable population of our society in getting access to some of these areas," Tipton said.
Tipton supported opening additional public lands so disabled individuals and older generations who have hunted and fished on the land for generations can access it.
"They have a lot more of an emotional tie than you might expect," he said.
In an interview with the Journal, Tipton said he plans to reintroduce two bills he sponsored last session, including a wildfire management bill that gives states and counties more control over mitigation. The other would allow small hydroelectric units in irrigation ditches to generate electricity.
He said he is hopeful both will pass, particularly as the state gears up for fire season.
Journal Staff Writer Luke Groskopf contributed to this story.


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knew that Apple was really into a closed box approach when it came to
the iPhone, but we didn't realize it was this closed.
At a Ford
Fiesta press event, Ford engineers confirmed that the
upcoming MyFord
Touch -- the latest version of SYNC won't interface with the
iPhone for a full year.Apparently Research in Motion (makers
of the Blackberry) and Google (makers of the Android OS) both
embraced Ford's recently announced AppLink
initiative, which allows smartphone apps to link to the car and
be controlled by the same controls as the primary SYNC
platform.Working with engineers at RIM and Google, Ford has
developed to separate APIs, which app developers can use to quickly
get their apps working with MyTouch. Ford engineers tell us
that Pandora, the popular internet radio service, got their app fully
Ford-ready in only 3 days on the Android platform.So what
about the iPhone, the third-place player in the U.S. market?
Well, support for the iPhone won't come for a full year more (till
the 2012 model year). When pressed for more info, Ford's
engineers revealed to us that this was because Apple was requiring it
to install special computer chips in-vehicle to let the MyTouch
system know that it was dealing with "trusted apps".Despite
having fully working demos, Apple won't let Ford into its circle of
trust until the vehicles get the special authentication chips. In
our analysis
piece on why the iPhone recently
fell behind Android (unless you follow Apple's logic
and count
the iPod Touch as a phone), we discussed that one key problem for
Apple is its lack of openness when it comes to apps.
disappointing that while Android and BlackBerry owners will get to be
enjoying internet radio and more in their SYNC and MyFord Touch
vehicles, Apple is leaving its customers in the dark for some time.
When it comes to AppLink there's not
app for that on the iPhone and there won't be one for some time,
thanks to Apple's circle of trust.


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Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development, 1992-1997 [United States] (ICPSR 4551)
Principal Investigator(s): Schneider, Barbara, University of Chicago
The Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development was designed to gather a holistic picture of the adolescent experience. To understand how young people form ideas about their future, the study considered not only what adolescents' aspirations are, but also how they may be influenced by family, peer groups, schools, and their communities. Data were collected within adolescents' three major social environments: schools, families, and peer groups. The study gathered information from 12 sites over five years, to examining such research questions as: (1) how young people of various ages and family backgrounds differ in their conceptions of work, (2) what learning opportunities families with different economic circumstances provide for their children with respect to work and careers, and (3) how schools influence educational expectations and career formation. Data were collected from focal students using the experience sampling method (ESM), an in-depth interview, and a battery of questionnaires. The questionnaires included: (1) the Teenage Life Questionnaire, a modification of instruments used in the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:1988-94), (2) a Friends Sociometric form, which provided detailed information about the respondents' peer groups and social ties, and (3) the Career Orientation Survey (COS), which measures respondents' knowledge about jobs and occupational expectations. Cohort students were also administered the questionnaires but did not participate in the ESM or in-depth interviews. All instruments were administered to focal students in Years 1, 3, and 5. In addition, in Year 2, in-depth interviews alone were administered to focal students. In years 1, 3, and 5, a separate group of cohort students were administered the questionnaires. Parts 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, and 12 consist of the Teenage Life Questionnaire data. Parts 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, and 14 consist of the Career Orientation Survey data. Parts 5, 10, and 15 consist of the Experience Sampling Method data. The in-depth interview component will be released by ICPSR as restricted data at a later time.
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pollution is becoming more and more of an issue all over the world,
prompting several automakers to develop greener vehicles with fewer
carbon emissions. With cities like London, which recently violated
the European Union's (EU) air
pollution guidelines by having 36 "bad air" days this year
when the EU only allows 35, it's no wonder auto companies like Toyota
are creating environmentally-friendly vehicles like the plug-in Prius
(which in recent tests was able to travel 62 miles per gallon).
plug-in Prius achieves 13 miles of all-electric range and additional
mileage from the hybrid system. According to the Inside
Line team,
it will be sold at a base price of $27,550, which is a $4,000 premium
the company's original Prius.
the plug-in
Prius has several advantages, it also has a few points against
it. For instance, achieving 62 mpg isn't really a huge feat for
the plug-in since the traditional Prius is able to reach this through
hypermiling. Also, the plug-in owner would have to drive 215,100
miles to make up for the additional cost to start, and when the price
charging is included, it will likely cost more to own a plug-in
version of the Prius because of it's dependency on the cost of
a few downfalls, Inside Line agrees that the plug-in Prius is
"one of the best hybrids available." Vehicles like these
could certainly help situations like London's, where the EU is coming
down on them for air pollution problems that have overstepped certain
equipment in London recorded the
city's 36th "bad air" day after finding dangerous
levels of minute airborne particles. According to EU guidelines, the
city is only allowed to have 35 of these "bad air" days and
London is now the worst polluted city in Europe.
latest breach is yet another wake-up call for the mayor of London and
the government," said Sarah Ludford, London Liberal Democrat
MEP. "Research has shown that airborne pollution in London could
be responsible for up to thousands of premature deaths a year; this
is an invisible
public health emergency."
consequences of violating these guidelines are hefty fines and
several court cases. London's government has requested an exemption
from air quality guidelines until 2011 in hopes of repairing the
problem, especially in time for the 2012 Olympics.
pollution is bad for our health," said Janez Potocnik, European
Commissioner. "It reduces human life expectancy by more than
eight months on average and by more than two years in the most
polluted cities and regions."
EU is growing tired with London's lack
of contribution to bettering city air quality, as the city
has neglected to follow the guidelines since 2005. In addition,
several critics have protested London's ability to receive any more
exemptions or extensions, hoping it will press the city to take


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The Cultural Arts Master Plan has been developed to strengthen the arts community in Richardson by building synergies among the various performance arts groups and enhancing the existing arts facilities in the area.
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text: I like Casey's thinking on Bargnani's rebounding issue and the genius of it is pretty simple, really. It's just getting him focused on the task itself instead of smothering him with a desired (and necessary, one way or another, you've gotta figure) end result. I say 'smothering' only because for a guy like Bargnani, being told that he's GOT TO get eight or ten rebounds every game could be way more daunting (and knowing Bargnani, maybe stifling) than what WE'D all figure it should be. So instead of getting him to gaze at the top of the mountain, telling him 'that's where you've gotta get to', Casey gets him to look at the foot of the mountain and tells him to just focus on that first easy step, hoping the right habits finally begin to implement themselves in his own head. If it takes, it could be the beginning of good things for him. And us.


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Ok, we've been seeing a "lot" of cases recently.
So far I have 10 known cases of people whose coins were stolen (someone logged in on the account using their password, traded USD for BTC, withdrew all the BTC). Considering we have now over 60000 accounts (2 months ago we had 10 times less), this seems to be a problem coming mainly from users.
Problem is many have been posting in various places (forums, reddit, twitter, irc, etc) causing a lot of fear among users when the problem is still fairly limited.
As I already replied you, your funds were stolen by someone logging in onto your account with your password. Your funds are right now on a bitcoin address and have not moved since then.
As a reminder we assume no responsibility should your funds be stolen by someone using your own password.
The coins stolen from Mt.Gox were not stolen using any CSRF exploit... [the thieves] logged in on users account using the correct login and password. We have logs showing the loggin succeed on first try.
The idea of shutting down the Bitcoin exchanges when they heat up is just as repugnant to the central idea of Bitcoin as central banks are. Markets do get emotional at times, but that is something we all understand and accept. Shutting down a market is an artificial move that is in opposition to the concept of a free market. If an exchange took up such a policy, it would only incentivize the creation of new exchanges without such an artificial policy. If I can't trade my Bitcoins on Mt. Gox because it has "shut down," I'll simply go to another exchange that hasn't shut down. Even if all the currently existing exchanges colluded to shut down together, they would simply be granting enormous leverage for a newcomer to take all their volume. The concept of artificial market limits has no place in a free economy and cannot stand in one.
The bitcoin will be back to around 17.5$/BTC after we rollback all trades that have happened after the huge Bitcoin sale that happened on June 20th near 3:00am (JST).
Service should be back by June 20th 11:00am (JST, 02:00am GMT) with all the trades reversed and accounts available.
One account with a lot of coins was compromised and whoever stole it (using a HK based IP to login) first sold all the coins in there, to buy those again just after, and then tried to withdraw the coins. The $1000/day withdraw limit was active for this account and the hacker could only get out with $1000 worth of coins.
Apart from this no account was compromised, and nothing was lost. Due to the large impact this had on the Bitcoin market, we will rollback every trade which happened since the big sale, and ensure this account is secure before opening access again.
We will address this issue too and prevent logins from each users. Leaked information includes username, email and hashed password, which does not allow anyone to get to the actual password, should it be complex enough. If you used a simple password you will not be able to login on Mt.Gox until you change your password to something more secure. If you used the same password on different places, it is recommended to change it as soon as possible.
I have hacked into mtgox database. Got a huge number of logins password combos.
Mtgox has fixed the problem now. Too late, cause I've already got the data.
Will sell the database for the right price.
Send your offers to:
TradeHill has recently learned that a large number of user accounts at a competing Bitcoin exchange have been compromised. Because of the possibility that our users may have used the same password on multiple exchanges, we will be halting the ability to trade or withdraw funds for a few hours. We hope this will give all of our users time to reset their passwords if needed. You can reset your password by clicking on your username in the upper right of the website. This merely a precaution, and we do not have any evidence that our site has been compromised in any way. More info soon.


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When crafting new regulations around polarizing practices such as gas and oil development, the script is predictable. Environmentalists call for stringent rules and balk at those that do not go far enough in protecting air, water, lands or wildlife. Industry advocates decry any hindrances on their activities as burdensome, costly, and a threat to jobs and, therefore, the state economy. The regulatory body, in this case the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, sorts through the rhetoric according to its political make-up and in the best of scenarios, splits the difference to benefit the largest number while dissatisfying the fewest.
That is not what happened with the newest set of rules designed to protect groundwater in areas where gas and oil drilling occurs. Originally intended to provide clear-cut, statewide standards for ensuring that groundwater is not contaminated by drilling - through leaks or contamination by drilling-related chemicals - the rules adopted by the COGCC on Monday are instead unclear and milquetoast in their effectiveness, despite industry claims that they are sufficiently onerous to drive activity out of Colorado.
At first blush, the new requirements seem OK. They call for testing of up to four water wells situated near a proposed gas well site, with follow-up testing at various intervals after the gas well is installed. But environmentalists rightly point out that there might be a great many more water wells than four surrounding a proposed drilling site, and that limiting the testing to drilling activity misses some potentially significant sources of contamination such as compressor stations, pipelines and holding tanks.
The rules also miss the mark set by Gov. John Hickenlooper when he called for them to be crafted, with a consistent, statewide protocol for protecting groundwater. The new requirements do not apply to the Wattenberg Field northwest of Denver, where there are more than 17,000 wells and thousands more in the works. The COGCC justifies this exemption citing local testing requirements, but if the goal is a blanket rule, this one misses the mark.
The industry's predictable position that the new requirements will make it cost-prohibitive to recover the state's abundant gas and oil resources is unconvincing. It makes sense, though, for industry to make those claims.
After all, it is in the business of making as large a profit as it can, and any impingement on that bottom line is unwelcome. It would irresponsible for the industry not to advocate on its own behalf, but the COGCC must be able to discern between legitimate concerns and those that are little more than rote.
In their typecast role, environmentalists are calling the new rules a farce. While they may fall short of being as effective as the COGCC is touting them to be, the regulations are not completely devoid of merit. By providing some baseline water well testing, as well as some follow-up monitoring, there will be a growing body of knowledge surrounding how drilling affects groundwater. That is not a bad thing, but it is far from the broader good the rule could have accomplished.
Regulating is inherently a political process that must balance competing, if not polarized interests. It is not easy work, but that should not dissuade those engaged in from making difficult decisions that might leave one party upset. If it means protecting Coloradans' health and that of the state's environment, there is every reason to spend significant political capital.
The COGCC underinvested in its new rule.


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This is what I ended up with for two dough balls:Flour (100%): 619.18 g | 21.84 oz | 1.37 lbs Water (63%): 390.08 g | 13.76 oz | 0.86 lbs IDY (0.25%): 1.55 g | 0.05 oz | 0 lbs | 0.51 tsp | 0.17 tbsp Olive Oil (1%): 6.19 g | 0.22 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.38 tsp | 0.46 tbsp Total (164.25%): 1017 g | 35.87 oz | 2.24 lbs | TF = 0.1015 Single Ball: 508.5 g | 17.94 oz | 1.12 lbs Seem right to you? I'm still a little uncertain what I'm doing when it comes to the calculators.
Guess it doesn't really make any difference. Kosher?
My process is essentially what Peter has outlined in the past. Kneading in the machine for a couple of minutes, kneading by hnad for a minute, balling it and into the cold to rise. Before preparing it I remove it from the fridge, cover it and allow it to come to temp. I don't let it come fully to room temp, but closer to 60 or so. I had some issues in the past with it being completely unmanageable when fully brought to room temp.
Thanks for the feedback. I had no luck at all trying to stretch a warm crust. It became very difficult to manage. I've had much better luck working with them when they're still a bit cold like you said.I suppose that my big question mostly has to do with all of the crust bubbles. I've never had one that had quite so many while it was cooking. Is that an indication of a yeast content that's too high?
I mentioned in the first post that I don't use a stone, but rather prefer a screen. I know, I know, blasphemy, but there's nothing more infuriating to me than to spend days working on this only to have is stick to the peel or fold over when it goes onto the stone. Not to mention the 45 to an hour preheat time. No thank you.We're living in a rental place at the moment and I'm trying to get used to the stove. It maxes out at 500. Baking time for that one was 7 minutes. The oven heat seems to be pretty inconsistent to me. Part of the crust was dark and part was pale. You can see what I mean in the picture below. The last one I did around 8 - 8 and a half and parts of the bottom burned.


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Fiji a leader in global police cooperation, says INTERPOL Chief
Mission to Suva concludes tour of South Pacific region by head of world police body
SUVA, Fiji – With Fiji the most active INTERPOL member country in the South Pacific region, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said the country set an example for effectively combating transnational crime.
During his first-ever mission to Fiji, Secretary General Noble met with Minister of Defence Joketani Cokanasiga and Commissioner of Police Brigadier General Ioane Naivalurua, in addition to visiting the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) in Suva which provides the crucial link in ensuring the national police can access INTERPOL's global tools.
The head of the world police body pointed to Fiji's arrest of a French national wanted for child sex offences as part of INTERPOL's Operation INFRA-SEA (International Fugitive Round-Up and Arrest – South East Asia) in 2012.
Fiji's swift response in dealing with a drug alert issued by INTERPOL in April 2012 in relation to methamphetamines trafficking from Africa to the South Pacific was also commended by Mr Noble.
"Fiji clearly recognizes the added value of being an INTERPOL member and the country, its citizens and visitors are reaping the benefits of the country's active involvement in global police cooperation," said Secretary General Noble.
"Not only does Fiji provide fast and efficient support to the INTERPOL global network, but its law enforcement authorities have also shown their willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty in assisting other South Pacific countries, even when they are not a member of INTERPOL," said Mr Noble, highlighting a recent case where assistance was provided to Vanuatu.
The INTERPOL Chief also said as the only South Pacific country to have a seconded officer at the General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France, working side by side with police officers from around the world, Fiji had further strengthened its position among the global law enforcement community.
Mr Noble's visit concludes his mission to the South Pacific region to reinforce international police cooperation against transnational crime, build capacity and extend the use of INTERPOL's global law enforcement tools, services and operational support infrastructure to frontline officers.
During his six-day mission the Secretary General met with senior policing and government officials across three countries – Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Fiji - bringing the total number of INTERPOL member countries visited by the INTERPOL Chief to 163 since he was first elected to the post in 2000.


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RCR training is now part of funding requirements of both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). RCR is increasingly viewed as an essential component of research training, regardless of a researcher's source of funding. There is an RCR course specifically tailored to research administrators and additional CITI courses for those serving on the IRB and IACUC.
To fulfill the Responsible Conduct of Research requirement, complete the module on Social & Behavioral Research – Basic course.
Other modules available that may interest you include:
All researchers, faculty, students, and staff conducting research involving the use of human subjects, or accessing their private identifiable records, must complete the mandatory CITI trainings before IRB approval is granted and the research is initiated. To fulfill this CSULB Protection of Human Subjects requirement, complete the module on Social & Behavioral Research – Basic course.
Other modules available that may interest you include:
To fulfill the minimum CSULB requirement for IACUC protocol submission, complete the module on "Working with the IACUC" Course. The IACUC may require additional modules depending on the nature of your research. All personnel who will be working with the animals must be listed on the protocol and must be trained.
Other modules available that may interest you include:
Specific electives applicable to your research that are offered for your selection include:
The CITI Conflicts of Interest course offers basic background in the elements of the federal regulations on financial conflicts of interest and of strategies to apply in their practice.
At the conclusion of this activity learners will be able to:
If you have any questions regarding CITI or need guidance in the registration and course selection process, please contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Research Compliance specialists.


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Nicki Minaj Readies 'Roman Reloaded — The...
Roman returns this fall. One year after releasing her sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Nicki Minaj has announced plans to re-release the project. She made the official announcement on the red carpet at the VMAs.
"I'm releasing my album in November called Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up," she told "E! News."
The repackaging will include new material, with the first single to arrive next week. "I'm putting lots of new songs on there and I'm actually going to drop my new single like next week," she said, while teasing, "Barbz, you are gonna spaz. You are gonna love it. You are gonna go crazy!"
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IBM is taking a cue from nature to build the next generation of
computer chips. IBM borrowed the natural pattern-creating process that
forms seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel to help create next-generation
chips. The method forms trillions of holes to create vacuums as insulation
around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside the chip.
Today, chips are manufactured with copper wiring surrounded
by an insulator, which involves using a mask to create circuit patterns by
beaming light through the mask and later chemically removing the parts that are
not needed.
The new technique skips the masking and light-etching
process, opting to use a vacuum gap – misleadingly referred to as airgaps – as
an insulator. IBM scientists discovered the right mix of compounds, which they
poured onto a silicon wafer with the wired chip patterns, and then baked.
This concept occurs in nature for the formation of snowflakes,
seashells and tooth enamel. The major difference is that IBM has been able to
direct the self-assembly process to form trillions of holes that are all
similar, while the processes that occur in nature are all unique.
This process provides the right environment for the
compounds to assemble in a directed manner, creating trillions of uniform,
nano-scale holes across an entire 300 millimeter wafer. These holes are just 20
nanometers in diameter, up to five times smaller than would be possible using
today's most advanced lithography technique.
Once the holes are formed, the carbon silicate glass is
removed, creating a vacuum between the wires allowing the electrical signals to
either flow 35 percent faster, or to consume 15 percent less energy. A vacuum
is believed to be the ultimate insulator for what is known as wiring
capacitance, which occurs when two conductors, in this case adjacent wires on a
chip, sap or siphon electrical energy from one another, generating undesirable
heat and slowing the speed at which data can move through a chip.
"This is the first
time anyone has proven the ability to synthesize mass quantities of these
self-assembled polymers and integrate them into an existing manufacturing
process with great yield results," said Dan Edelstein, chief scientist of the
self-assembly airgap project. "By moving self assembly from the lab to the fab,
we are able to make chips that are smaller, faster and consume less power than
existing materials and design architectures allow."
IBM boasts that its self-assembly nanotechnology process provide
the equivalent of two generations of Moore's Law wiring performance improvements
in a single step. The self-assembly process already has been integrated with
IBM manufacturing line in East Fishkill, New York and is expected to be fully
incorporated in IBM's manufacturing lines and used in chips in 2009. Furthermore,
this new technology can be incorporated into any standard CMOS manufacturing
line, without disruption or new tooling.
The chips will be used in IBM's server product lines and
thereafter for chips IBM builds for other companies, for example, the Cell
Broadband Engine found in the PlayStation 3 and various servers.
Over the past few months, IBM has had a number of major chip
technology announcements and demonstrations that the company claims will extend
Moore's Law. In December, IBM announced the first 45nm chips using immersion lithography
and ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics.
In January, IBM announced high-k metal gate,
which substitutes a new material into a critical portion of the transistor that
controls its primary on/off switching function. In February, IBM revealed its
on-chip memory technology that features the fastest access times
ever recorded in eDRAM. Then in March, IBM unveiled a prototype optical
transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds at least eight-times faster
than optical components available today. More recently, IBM developed a new chip stacking technology that shortens wire lengths inside chips up to 1000 times.


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say size doesn't always matter; so can Dell's spunky
5-inch Streak measure up to Apple's much larger "magical"
9.7-inch iPad? Dell is betting it can and will unleash the
mini-tablet computer in the UK first next month and then will soon
follow up with a summer U.S. launch.The pint-sized tablet
runs Google's powerful Android OS and represents the first true
challenge to the iPad, which sold over
1 million units in its first month on the market. The
unit packs an equally fast 1 GHz processor and more memory than the
iPad (408 MB of DRAM v. 256 MB of DRAM on the iPad). Unlike the
iPad, it offers swappable batteries and two microSD slots for a total
capacity of 64 GB (with two 32 GB microSD cards), the same as the
iPad.The slick mini doubles as a jumbo phone or e-book
reader. It comes with 3G functionality and 16 GB of flash
memory built-in. It also packs GPS and two cameras (like the
next generation iPhone or HTC EVO 4G, one is rear facing, one is
front-facing for video chatting).Pricing has not yet been
announced, but the phone will launch early next month in the UK
through Carphone Warehouse and O2. That launch places it in
position to offer strong competition to the iPad, which hits the UK
on May 28.The UK launch will be followed later in the month
with a wider rollout across the rest of the European Union.
Then later in the summer -- perhaps in July or August -- the unit
will hit the U.S. market. A U.S. carrier has not yet been
officially announced for the tablet.Tavis Butler of
Dell comments on
the launch, "This is a data device first and a voice device
second. This is the first in a family of devices."Indeed,
Dell has a 7-inch and 10-inch designs in store. Those designs are
expected to run Google operating systems, but their hardware specs
remain a mystery at present. Dell is eager to pounce on the
booming tablet market, which analysts predict could become bigger
than the netbook market.Ben Wood of analyst firm CCS Insight
comments, "This year our estimates suggest that there will be
1.3 billion mobile devices sold around the world. Dell wants to
get into this space. How can any PC maker not afford to?"Some
analysts are skeptical of the Streak's promise, but some are offering
up glowing praise for the challenger. IDC analyst Will Stofega,
who has tried out the device told Reuters,
"It's portable and mobile. You can put it in your pocket. It
is interesting and infinitely usable."The Streak will
have full access to the Android Marketplace. This is different
than past Android tablets from smaller manufacturers, which Google
declined to provide help in access the App Market. By gaining
access to Google's 50,000+ app library, the device can offer a
legitimate challenge to Apple's iPad which sports compatibility with
the 150,000+ iPhone apps, and the growing numbers of dedicated iPad


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Hammaad Munshi, a schoolboy in Great Britain, has been convicted under Britain's new anti-terrorism laws. Now 18, he was just 15 when first arrested, making him the youngest terrorist ever convicted in that nation.
He was charged with "making records of information likely to be useful for terrorism". What information exactly? Munshi downloaded "How-To" guides from the Internet on making napalm and other explosives, information on the use of poisons, and details about world airports.
Munshi will be sentenced next month. His attorney has been told prison time is "unavoidable".
For the record, I've long been critical of the United Kingdom's coddling of its radical Islamic minority. Munshi and the rest of his jihadist cell are clearly a threat to peaceful society. I'm not concerned that action was taken, but rather the justification for that action. He wasn't charged, nor even accused of actual intent to commit a terrorist act. Rather, he was found guilty of possessing information -- of knowing too much for his own good.
In a modern society that runs on information, illegalizing the possession of certain kinds of knowledge is a very slippery slope. As a college student in the 1980s, I myself downloaded much of the same information Munshi did -- though it came from online BBSes rather than the then-nonexistent Internet. I certainly had no plans to kill anyone. If Munshi had such plans, he should have been charged with them, rather than what he was.
When arrested, Munshi was found to be carrying two packets of ball-bearings; the shrapnel of choice for home-grown bomb builders. A bomb-making charge could have been chosen. There was also evidence that he was guilty of incitement to violence. None of these charges were chosen though; the possession of information statute was selected as the one most likely to succeed.
Your average murder mystery novel contains a number of ideas on how to kill someone without leaving evidence. Many action novels have a wealth of information on knives, guns, and explosives. By these new anti-terror laws, reading the wrong book can now be judged illegal. Britain -- the historical home of the humanist movement -- is revealed as a nation fast-retreating from individual liberties. The thought police are back.
Germany and France have long had their own versions of censorship. Whistle a tune loved by the Nazis, or try to claim the Holocaust death count is overstated, and you can wind up facing prison time. But Britain has gone beyond this, in criminalizing knowledge, rather than specific actions.
Asia, Africa, and South America have never been especially known for their respect of human rights. If the Western world gives up on individual liberties, it seems unlikely that anyone else will carry the torch.


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On April 1, three Montezuma County newspapers will make operational changes based on the corporate goals of their parent company, Ballantine Communications, Inc., and on the expected loss of Saturday mail delivery.
The change most visible to the public will be a reduction in frequency of the Cortez Journal from its current three-day-a-week schedule to two, Tuesday and Friday. In the current Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday schedule, nearly 2,000 copies of each edition are distributed by mail. On Feb. 6, the U.S. Postal Service announced that Saturday mail delivery would cease in August.
Current subscriptions will be extended to reflect the reduced frequency, and the price of renewals and the price of new subscriptions will be lowered.
"We are renewing our focus on local content," said Journal publisher Suzy Meyer. "We don't plan to reduce the number of locally reported stories. We'll cut back on publishing material that our readers can get from a variety of other sources.
"Publishing on Tuesday and Friday offers the best opportunities for advertisers, and we will be updating news content on the website daily."
The Mancos Times will continue to be published each Wednesday. Beginning April 4, the Dolores Star will be published on Thursday rather than Friday, a return to the schedule it held for many years. Although the two newspapers will continue as separate publications, editing responsibilities will be consolidated.
Ballantine Communications CEO Richard Ballantine said the changes were necessary, but he also said that the Journal will continue to be a valued part of the community.
"We believe that with a publication early in the week and one at the end, readers will continue to be pleased with the breadth of local coverage that the Journal provides," he said.
Ballantine announced in February that he would be stepping down from his position later in the spring. The company hopes to have a new CEO in place in May.
Advertising and page design for all BCI publications will be centralized in a design hub at the Durango Herald.
Robin Allmon, whose duties have included serving as design manager in Cortez, will become production manager. All of the group's newspapers will continue to be printed at the Journal production plant. Printing of the Herald moved to Cortez in 2002.
The Journal office will remain open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The latest changes will result in layoffs for eight Journal staff members: four in the news operations and four in advertising design departments. Two employees will transfer to other positions within the company, and employees who are laid off will be eligible to apply for open positions in any of the four BCI newspapers.
Layoffs will be effective at the end of March, and all affected employees already have been notified.
BCI's newspapers have been supported in part by the company's telephone directory business. As digital advances have cut into the profitability of print publications across the country, BCI is trimming its newspaper operations. Layoffs also were conducted at the Herald.


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Italy's head of criminal police visits INTERPOL ahead of Rome General Assembly
LYON, France – Italy's Director General of Criminal Police and Deputy Director General of Public Security, Prefect Francesco Cirillo, today met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters to discuss security measures aimed at enhancing international cooperation against cross-border crime.
With Rome hosting the 81st INTERPOL General Assembly later this year (5-8 November), the visit by Prefect Cirillo provided an opportunity to review preparations for the conference which will cover key security issues such as transnational organized crime, human and drug trafficking, terrorism, corruption, cybercrime and stolen works of art.
The role of international law enforcement cooperation and the global tools and services INTERPOL provides its 190 member countries against international crime will top the conference agenda.
During his meeting with Prefect Cirillo, Secretary General Noble underlined Italy's 'strong leadership' in international law enforcement cooperation, and said INTERPOL's General Assembly in Rome was set to determine the international security agenda 'at a time when globalization has seen the expansion and diversification of transnational crime'.
The General Assembly is composed of delegates appointed by the governments of member countries. As INTERPOL's supreme governing body, it meets once a year and takes all the major decisions affecting general policy, the resources needed for international cooperation, working methods, finances and programmes of activities. It also elects the Organization's Executive Committee. Each member country represented has one vote.


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Sumi's journey from horror to new hope
In February, advocates won a huge victory when the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) passed Congress with broad bipartisan support. The TVPRA allowed the U.S. government to partner with the government of Bangladesh to pass its own anti-trafficking law in 2012.
Now, the fight begins to ensure that this law is funded and that the United States remains a leader in the global cause to end modern-day slavery, continuing to partner with countries like Bangladesh.
Learn more about the TVPRA -- and read the story below, which shows what we can accomplish together with the help of this legislation. (Story by Sujet Chisim, World Vision Bangladesh)
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Every year, more than 25,000 women and children are trafficked out of Bangladesh. Many of them are lost forever. Sumi* is one of the few children lucky enough to return home before she fell into what is known as modern day slavery.
"I do not want to recall those terrible 28 days of my life. It was horrible," says Sumi, 9, a fourth-grade student in the primary school next to her village, who has two sisters and one brother.
"They are the most inhuman and brutal people that I have ever met in my life."
Last July, a relative came to Sumi's house. He stayed there for two days and was warmly welcomed by the family. The very next day, he asked Sumi's mother if he could take Sumi to a wedding feast. But Sumi's mother, Lutfunnahar, did not allow her to go with him.
But the relative convinced Sumi to go anyway, and they left the house unnoticed.
"Hearing the news that she was missing, I became mad, could not think of what to do, where to find her," says Lutfunnahar. "Our only prayer to [God] was 'just give her back.'"
Two days after her abduction, the relative informed her parents by mobile phone that he had kidnapped Sumi. He demanded 200,000 taka (over US $2,500) to bring her back.
The family could not afford her ransom. Sumi's father, a day laborer, was at a loss.
By this time, Sumi had heard that her captor was planning to take her out of Bangladesh into India, a bordering country where more than 300,000 Bangladeshi children are directly involved in the sex trade and many more in various forms of forced labor.
"Hearing their discussion about trafficking me in India, I was frightened and asked them to send me back home, but they beat me brutally," Sumi says. "They threatened to kill me with a Botti [knife] if I said that again."
There was nobody to help her.
Meanwhile, Sumi's parents informed World Vision staff and community leaders about the incident. After hearing what had happened, World Vision helped them file a complaint and build a court case.
After gathering testimony and evidence, police issued a warrant against Sumi's abductor. The police started searching for the kidnapper; and within a short time, they identified the spot where Sumi was being held.
A police team raided the area and found the missing girl, who was very sick.
"They did not serve me food regularly," Sumi said with a moan. "They did not even provide me water to drink. They forced me to grind red chilies and ginger. They even [forced] me to do heavier work than I could carry."
Now, she gives thanks to God. "[It was] He who gave me back to my parents."
Little Sumi did not forget to show her gratitude to World Vision and its sponsorship management committee for giving her a new life. For Sumi and her family, it is a cause for joy that the criminals were arrested and held accountable.
Sumi is now attending school regularly and is very happy to have returned to normal life. She is grateful that her friends and family have accepted her as before.
Moreover, the community is much more aware of issues like child trafficking and child rights now.
"I feel blissful when I see Sumi smiling, gossiping, playing with her friends, and going to school happily," her mother says. "I have heard people saying that girls are a burden, but to me, they are a precious jewel to keep in warmth."
Still, the poor mother laments in silence, asking a question that would undoubtedly haunt the mind of any parent in her situation: "Is Sumi truly safe?"
*The child's name has been changed to protect her identity.
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Sumi's mother still worries about whether her daughter is safe. Tragically, because of human trafficking, hundreds of millions of children worldwide are not. This is why the Trafficking Victims Protection Act is such a critical law. The programs it supports aren't a significant part of the federal budget -- just 0.003 percent of it, to be exact.
But they help fight modern-day slavery through critical interventions like support services for trafficking survivors; resources for law enforcement and prosecution; and funding for prevention programs, both domestically and internationally. Through the tools provided in the law, many more people like Sumi can see their story go from hopeless to hopeful.
Contact your members of Congress today. Ask them to support strong funding to fight modern-day slavery through the TVPRA.
You can also make a one-time donation to provide support for a formerly exploited child, like Sumi. Your gift will help bring safety and prevent further exploitation through measures like vocational training, education, counseling, and more.
Want to build a personal relationship with a vulnerable child? Sponsor a boy or girl in Bangladesh today. Your love and commitment will help a child stay in school and avoid tragic outcomes, like trafficking and exploitation.


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Since you guys seem to take caution on what Brotherston says, I'm gonna quote everything NOT said by him.
Every time the Toronto Raptors have spent four seasons in the lottery, they have returned to the post season and it looks like it could happen again. While Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo's last four lottery draft picks have generated a fair amount of buzz and controversy, it's the acquisition of two starters from teams that finished ahead of them over the past couple of years that give them hope for next season.
HOOPSWORLD takes a look at the 2012-2013 Toronto Raptors:
Five Guys Think…
There's a lot of hope and optimism surrounding the Toronto Raptors right now. It's not baseless as they've had a productive offseason. They didn't lose much. What they did lose, they made upgrades in their place with Jonas Valanciunas, Kyle Lowry, Landry Fields, John Lucas, Terrence Ross, and Quincy Acy coming aboard. With them the team is much better assembled to play head coach Dwane Casey's style of basketball. Although their 23-43 record last year didn't show it, they made some key improvements under Casey's guidance. If they can build on those while the new players get quickly acclimated, a run at a lower seed in the playoffs is quite possible. However, they play in the deepest division in basketball. Every team in it is better than they are, but that doesn't mean they still can't be in the top eight in the East.
5th Place – Atlantic Division
– Yannis Koutroupis
This is the season Toronto Raptors fans have been waiting for since 2007-08, the last time the team made the playoffs. Actually, this might be the year Raptors fans have been waiting for since their founding in 1995, as this year's team could be the best ever assembled. This year Dwane Casey will have a full training camp, and in that camp he will have a full complement of healthy players, including the highly-anticipated Jonas Valanciunas, incoming point guard Kyle Lowry, and freshman swingman Terrence Ross. Competition for minutes will be fierce, and once this team takes the court they will be even fiercer. They play in the toughest division in the NBA, but if all goes well the Raptors will make their triumphant return to postseason play, regardless.
5th Place – Atlantic Division
– Bill Ingram
The Toronto Raptors had a very busy offseason. After winning just 23 games last season, the Raptors added a number of key contributors such as Kyle Lowry, Jonas Valanciunas, Terrence Ross, Landry Fields and John Lucas III in an effort to make a playoff push. Toronto has the talent to compete for one of the final playoff spots in the Eastern Conference, but their success will depend on whether they can develop chemistry and get through the transition period that comes with adding so many significant pieces. The Raptors play in the arguably the toughest division in the league, but they'll likely be in the playoff hunt for much of the season. The Raptors are very optimistic heading into this season and they've made it very clear that they want to be a playoff team. It's possible and the team is certainly heading in the right direction.
5th Place – Atlantic Division
– Alex Kennedy
The Atlantic Division looks like the toughest division in basketball next season, with five teams that have a legitimate shot at making the postseason. Toronto might be the least likely in the eyes of some, but I'm of the belief that Kyle Lowry will make a huge difference in that starting lineup, and the addition of Rookie of the Year candidate Jonas Valanciunas will also mark a turning point for this organization. Dwayne Casey is a really good coach, and unlike last year, he could actually have the players he needs to make a serious run at the postseason.
4th Place – Atlantic Division
– Joel Brigham
There is a genuine reason for Raptors fans to be optimistic heading into the 2013 season. The team has stockpiled a plethora of young capable talent on its roster and as a result the team's chemistry amongst its core can rival most teams in the league. The arrival of talented point guard Kyle Lowry and rookie big man Jonas Valanciunas gives the team even more talent on the depth chart at head coach Dwane Casey's disposal. The team should remain relevant in the playoff mix for much of the season before falling just short, which should make anticipation for the 2014 campaign worth the wait for Raptors fans.
4th Place – Atlantic Division
– Lang GreeneWhat Needs To Be Said On Opening Day….
For too long, this franchise has been associated with uncommitted defensive play. Last season we made major strides in this area. I am counting some of our longer tenured guys, Andrea and Jose, to continue to set the tone for a commitment to defense in Toronto. Our returning players, along with Kyle and Landry, give us new pieces to continue our improvement. We don't have three superstars to carry our offense, so we need to bring a blue collar attitude on the defensive end in order to see playoff basketball. This past season, we finished 12th defense. This year, our goal is the top eight. Let's take the next step and bring playoff basketball back to Toronto.
– Anthony Macri and Brett Koremenos


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Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Public Use Data] (ICPSR 31622)
Principal Investigator(s): Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Columbia University; Garfinkel, Irwin, Columbia University; McLanahan, Sara S., Princeton University; Paxson, Christina, Princeton University
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study follows a cohort of new parents and their children and provides previously unavailable information about the conditions and capabilities of new unwed parents and the well-being of their children. Mothers and fathers were interviewed in the hospital shortly after the birth of their children. The baseline questionnaires for mothers and fathers include information on (1) prenatal care, (2) mother-father relationships, (3) expectations about fathers' rights and responsibilities, (4) attitudes toward marriage, (5) parents' health, (6) social support and extended kin, (7) knowledge about local policies and community resources, and (8) education, employment, and income. Follow-up interviews gather additional information including (1) access to and use of healthcare and childcare services, (2) experiences with local welfare and child support agencies, (3) parental conflict and domestic violence, and (4) child health and well-being.
The first four waves of this study (1997-2003) have been archived and are available for download at ICPSR-DSDR. Nine-Year Follow Up (Wave 5) data can be found through the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study page on Princeton's website.
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Study Description
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan, and Christina Paxson. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Public Use Data]. ICPSR31622-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31622.v1
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31622.v1
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This study was funded by:
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (043407)
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD036916)
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: child care, child health, child rearing, child welfare, children, demographic characteristics, domestic responsibilities, families, family relationships, fathers, marital status, marriage, parents, unwed mothers
Smallest Geographic Unit: city
Geographic Coverage: Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, California, Chicago, Corpus Christi, Detroit, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Jersey, New York (state), New York City, Newark, Norfolk, Oakland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Richmond, San Antonio, San Jose, Santa Ana, Tennessee, Texas, Toledo, United States, Virginia, Wisconsin
- 1997--2003
- 1997--2003
Unit of Observation: individual
Additional publications using the Fragile Families data can be found on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Web site.
Sample: This national study uses a stratified random sample of all United States cities with 200,000 or more people. The stratification was not geographic; rather, it was according to policy environments and labor market conditions in the different cities. The sampling occurred in three stages: First cities, second, hospitals within cities, and third, births within hospitals. The total sample size is 4,700 families, made up of 3,600 unwed couples and 1,100 married couples. The data is representative of non-marital births in each of 20 cities, and is also representative of non-marital births in United States cities with populations over 200,000. Follow-up interviews with both parents take place when the child is 12, 30, and 48 months old. Data on child health and development is collected from the parents during each of the follow-up interviews, and in-home assessments of child well-being are carried out at 30 and 48 months.
Weight: A fully-documented weight file is included with the data.
Mode of Data Collection: coded on-site observation, cognitive assessment test, face-to-face interview
Response Rates: Response rates were: 90 percent of mothers, 75 percent of fathers.
Presence of Common Scales: PPVT/TVIP, Walk-A-Line, Q-Sort, Woodcock-Johnson Letter-Word Recognition Test, Attention Sustained Task
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
Original ICPSR Release: 2011-11-28
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Just when you thought that things had
quieted down a bit on the Palm front, this interesting bit of news
just came across the news wires. Earlier this morning, it was
reported that Matias Duarte, the man who lead that team that
developed the webOS UI, was leaving Palm. At the time, no one knew
where Duarte was heading following his departure from the mobile firm
that was recently
acquired by HP.
However, All
Things Digital is now reporting that Duarte is heading to
none other than Google. Google confirmed that Duarte will join the
company as the User Experience Director for Android.
Google is gaining quite a bit of
momentum in the smartphone market and Android-based smartphones
recently bolted ahead of Apple's iPhone according to numbers
from marker research firm NPD. The company is also taking
the fight straight to Apple and RIM with new features in Android
2.2 including native tethering/Wi-Fi hotspot, support for Adobe Flash
10.1, faster application performance, and over the air syncing for
apps and music.
The addition of Duarte is a great boon
for Google as its stock Android UI could definitely use a bit of
polish. Some manufacturers take care of this themselves by developing
their own "user experiences" such
as HTC's Sense, but it would be nice to see a more sleek
interface come straight from Google and Duarte seems like the right
man for the job.
Duarte was on
stage during CES 2009 to show off the Pre during its official
unveil. At the time, Duarte poked fun at the iPhone's lack of a
keyboard and user-replaceable battery. In the end, Palm's Pre (and
it's little brother, the Pixi) ended up being a sales
dud on both Sprint and Verizon's network. However, webOS has been
the real star of the show and is destined
to live on in future products from HP.


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CO-OP Financial Service Rolls Out Virtual Branch App
CO-OP Financial Services, the payments CUSO which is the parent of CO-OP Network and CO-OP Shared Branching, has released an app for Android and Apple phones that it says will make a "virtual branch" available wirelessly.
Dubbed "CO-OP Sprig," the new service's first stage will allow members of credit unions participating in shared branching to move funds between their accounts or other members' accounts via smartphone. In addition, members with the app on an iPhone will be able to make deposits via the app.
Future versions of the app will allow for money movement to out-of-network accounts as well as deposit making capability on the Android platform and an option to use the app at participating retailers at point of sale.
CO-OP emphasized that the money moved in with the app will be moved in real time and not through the automated clearing house method, eliminating that typical delay between when the money is sent and when it is received.
Some credit unions already are using the app, including the $92 million Northwest Resource FCU of Portland, Ore., and the $8.2 million Cal Center Credit Union of Ontario, Calif.
"CO-OP Sprig was extremely easy to implement, for both the credit union and our members," said Jim McCarthy, Northwest Resource president/CEO. "The clean and easy-to-use interface can be accessed from a mobile phone or tablet or PC, providing members with account access from virtually anywhere."
Linda Pettit, CEO of Cal Center, said, "Our members, particularly those between the ages of 25 and 40, are finding our credit union the perfect financial solution to their lifestyle and needs. Without the mobile product, we would not have been able to capture this market as soon as we would have wanted to."


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When the iPhone first came out, there were those who labeled it sure to fail. The initial hardware -- and initial OS (1.0) -- left much to be desired. While employees might have pleaded for the stylish-looking new phone, which doubled as a music player, business owners by and large chose to stick with traditional offerings like Blackberries.
Then came the iterative improvements to the iPhone. First there was the iPhone OS v2.0, the iPhone 3G, and the introduction of the App Store. And more recently, there was the announcement of iPhone OS v3.0, and rumors of another hardware update. Somewhere along this way some businesses, which had formerly been doubters, became believers.
A new report from Forrester research, titled "Making iPhone Work In The Enterprise: Early Lessons Learned" looks at three companies that have come around and embraced the iPhone -- Kraft Foods, Oracle, and Amylin Pharmaceutical.
It finds that two main factors have driven the companies to embrace the iPhone: user satisfaction and the promise of the application platform. The report states, "If the iPhone is just another messaging device, then don't bother with it. (But) it can be far more because it is a capable platform for mobile applications. The right sponsor will have a mobile scenario that needs supporting, perhaps a view of much needed third-party applications, or at least a vision for how to get more information to mobile workers."
Looking at the first factor -- user satisfaction -- the report finds that employee requests were a major factor in deciding to adopt the iPhone. Employees wanted the iPhone, rather than Blackberries, no doubt thanks to its stronger music, gaming, and internet browsing capabilities. What the companies discovered was that by giving the employees what they wanted, the employees were more motivated to explore the phone on their own. At all three companies, active wiki communities to troubleshoot problems had been created and managed by employees. This in turn made interactions with IT less frequent and more positive, cutting cost and hassle.
Another strong draw was the application platform. While the enterprise software market for the iPhone is still relatively young, with 30,000 programs in the App Store, there are some useful tools out there. Best of all, the platform is easy enough to develop for that businesses can create their own custom-tailored applications.
However, challenges still remain. The iPhone's integrated messaging and calendar programs are weaker than the Blackberry's. Furthermore, central IT management tools for the iPhone are also nonexistent, whereas RIM provides the Blackberry Enterprise Server Suite as a streamlined IT management solution. Finally, security is also a major concern. Employees with iPhones tend to use them more for personal business, putting corporate data at risk. The iPhone's VPN setting also makes many companies uncomfortable with letting them inside the corporate firewall (though a fix for this is likely in store in OS v3.0).
In short, the iPhone has managed to score a few big early adopters, thanks to its improved business viability. While adoption is going well at these firms, it still has a ways to go, though, before it can truly hope to see broad adoption across the business community.


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