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Ford Motor Company is betting big on new technology to help drivers avoid accidents. Most cars on the road today utilize technology like air bags to help you survive an accident, but typically only expensive luxury cars utilized technology that actually helped drivers avoid a crash.
Ford announced a new technology called Collision Warning with Brake Support that is coming in 2009 on certain Ford and Lincoln vehicles. The crux of the system is that it detects an imminent collision via a type of radar and produces a tone over the cars audio system to warn the driver.
In addition to the tone warning, the system also projects a red warning light onto the windshield of the vehicle. At the same time the audio and visual warnings are going off, the system primes the brakes for emergency stop.
Braking is pre-charged and a brake-assist feature is engaged to help the driver get maximum braking force as soon as possible. Paul Mascarenas, Ford VP of product engineering, Global Product Development said in a statement, "The new Collision Warning with Brake Support technology puts us on the leading edge of active safety to help customers detect and avoid possible dangers. Ford will be the first to offer this technology on mainstream models that many families can afford."
Ford is mum on exactly what the Brake Support system entails and how specifically it works. It doesn't appear that the system starts braking the vehicle alone; the driver has to initiate braking. Collision warning with Brake Support isn't the only radar assisted safety system making its way into Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
Ford is introducing Adaptive Cruise Control that will adjust the speed of the vehicle when cruise is engaged depending on proximity to other vehicles. Ford has also announced a system known as BLIS (Blind Spot Information System) that also uses radar.
DailyTech reported this week that Ford introduced a speed limiting key system called MyKey that limits the car to lower speeds when used to start the vehicle. The system is being marketed to parents of teenage children. Interestingly, Bugatti uses a similar system on its exotic Veyron; a special key is needed to get maximum speed from the car.


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Fiat was supposed to make
a triumphant return to the U.S. market with its diminutive and
distinctively styled 500. However, things haven't exactly panned out exactly
the way that Fiat planned according
to The Detroit News.
The 500 is a subcompact that is being pitted directly
against the Mini Cooper (an upcoming
Arbath model will target the Mini Cooper S). On a lesser degree, the 500
also competed with the Smart
fortwo and the upcoming Scion
However, sales of the tiny four-seater are nowhere close to
reaching the lofty goals set by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. Fiat expected to
sell 50,000 500s during 2011 in North America. Through the first seven months
of 2011, Fiat sold fewer than 12,000.
For comparison, BMW AG's Mini brand had total sales of
34,527 through July. The two-door Cooper/Cooper S coupe and convertible models
alone accounted for over 20,000 of those sales.
Laura Soave, head of Fiat North America says that
establishing a dealer network in the U.S. has taken longer than expected which
has contributed to the poor sales. "We have coverage now, so now is the
time for us to turn this up," Soave added.
Two basic models of the vehicles are currently available to
U.S. customers: the 500 (coupe) and the 500c (convertible). The cheapest model
available is the 500 Pop which has a base MSRP of $15,550 (the cheapest Mini
Cooper will set you back $19,400). The Fiat 500 also has good fuel economy for
a subcompact with EPA ratings of 30mpg in the city and 38mpg on the highway
with a 5-speed manual.
Shares of Fiat SpA dropped over 4 percent on the news of
poor 500 sales.

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crunch/crnlib is a lossy texture compression tool and library for developers that distributes and uses content in the DXT1/5/N or 3DC/BC5 compressed mipmapped texture formats. crnlib can compress mipmapped 2D textures and cubemaps to .8-1.25 bits/texel, and normal maps to 1.75-2 bits/texel. crnlib's quality and performance is competitive to transform-based solutions, or other offline/real-time DXTn compressors such as squish or ATI_Compress. crnlib implements a new form of "clustered" DXTn compression, with a compressed texture data format that was carefully designed to be very quickly transcodable directly to raw DXTn texture bits with no intermediate recompression step or individual pixel-level operations. The typical single threaded transcode to DXTn rate is equivalent to 100-250 megatexels/sec. Fast random access to individual mipmap levels is supported.
FontMapper is a font texture generator for game developers. It allows you to turn a font you have installed to a PNG texture of tightly packed glyphs, accompanied by a text file describing the glyphs' properties and texture coordinates. You can read these in a game to render fonts. FontMapper supports Unicode (although only the Basic Multilingual Plane, i.e. the 16-bit codepoints), and each glyph can have its own size, i.e. fonts are not necessarily monospaced. Currently, FontMapper is command-line only, although there might be a GUI frontend in the future.
NeoTextureEdit is an easy to use graph-based procedural seamless texture editor. NeoTexture is the associated run-time generation library. Using continuous basis functions, it can generate arbitrary resolution images without quality degradation. Its main purpose is to produce high-quality textures for real time rendering applications that can be stored in a few kB and synthesized on application startup. But it can also be used to generate off-line images.
TextureBuilder is a program to simplify the task of building several texture formats from six skybox images. The six different images represent the front, back, left, right, top, and bottom sides of a cube. They are combined to either a cross texture with the horizontal part up, a cross texture with the horizontal part down, a sideways cross texture, or a texture set including script files for the Torque 3D game engine.


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The U.S.
Air Force is engaged in Libya right now and it is using mostly older aircraft
like the F-15E to do the heavy fighting and ground attacks. The B-2 stealth
bomber was employed though and in many hostile airspace operations the B-2 would
have been accompanied by the F-22 Raptor, the most capable air superiority
fighter in the USAF arsenal.
However, in Libyan operations the B-2's have apparently flown on a mission without the help from the F-22. Air Force
Times reports that the reason the F-22 wasn't sent along with three B-2
bombers that bombed targets in Libya was a combination of the lack of need and
the limitations of the F-22.
A flight of three B-2 bombers left Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to make
bombing runs in Libya on March 20. Generally, Air Force doctrine would have the
B-2s fly with F-22s for protection from enemy fighters. The Air Force
Times reports that USAF Maj. Eric Hilliard, spokesman for Africa
Command said, "I see no indication that F-22s were used as an escort for
the B-2 nor do I see anything that indicates the Raptor will be used in future
missions over Libya."
Analyst Mark Gunzinger of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis on
Washington said, "Frankly, they [F-22s] might not be needed. Libya's
defenses were not that robust to begin with and were rolled back quite
Other than the F-22s not being needed, perhaps a more telling reason was that
the limited capabilities of the Libyan air force have kept the vaunted fighter on the
sidelines. Libya fields mostly older fighters and the F-22's performance and
capabilities weren't needed. The F-22 also has a very limited capability to
communicate with other coalition aircraft operating in Libya by design. Radio
emission from data links that would enable the Raptor to communicate with other
fighters would also potentially give the position of the stealthy F-22 away.
Analyst Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute said, "The designers
of the F-22 had a dilemma, which is whether to have the connectivity that would
allow versatility or to have the radio silence that would facilitate
stealthiest. What they opted for was a limited set of tactical data
The F-22 as it is now can only communicate with other F-22's via a data links
during flights. Other than the communications issue, the F-22 also has limited
capability to hit ground targets. This is to be expected in an air superiority
fighter. The F-22 is capable of carrying a pair of 1,000-pound Joint Direct
Attack Munitions guided by GPS. It's can't carry the 250-pound Small Diameter
Bombs that the F-15E Strike Eagle and other aircraft can use. The F-22 also lacks
that ability to create synthetic aperture maps of the earth surface that are
used to select ground targets.
There were plans to add the ability of the F-22 to use the Multifunction
Advanced Data-link the F-35 will use, but the finding for that program was
pulled last year. That capability would have come in the Increment 3.2 software
update for the F-22 and would have also added the ability for the F-22 to
target eight ground targets at once.
In 2009,
the Senate also pulled funding for additional F-22 fighters.


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Core Systems: The Walking Undead
Credit union core systems are old, truly antique in computer terms, but they also seem to be immortal in most institutions.
"People have been talking about the death of the core since at least 1995," said Scott Hodgins, a research director with Cornerstone Advisors in Scottsdale, Ariz.
That was the moment when the antiquity of systems running on dying computer languages–
COBOL for instance–came into clear focus, as Windows-based computers accelerated their march to near-complete domination of the workplace.
But not in the back office of credit unions where even today, almost 20 years later, old cores, 20 to 40 years old and older, continue to log transactions.
"The core is the essential organs of the credit union," said David Gibbard, senior vice president at core company EPL in Birmingham, Ala.
And yet, admitted Gibbard, "Most cores are not doing what their credit unions want."
What credit unions want, he elaborated, is a management information system, computers that tell the institution all it needs to know about its members, its lines of business, its opportunities and more.
"That's not what most cores are today," said Gibbard, who said that the opportunity for core providers is to create systems "that let credit unions better understand and better serve their members."
Other experts envision a revolutionary shift away from cores that record transactions to cores that track relationships, that is, "social cores" that let an institution see exactly where it slots in its community and in the lives of its members.
Quite probably something along that line will happen as institutions shift to an off-premise, so-called service bureau or hosted cores, very possibly one that serves multiple institutions simultaneously, suggested Gibbard.
A curious fact about cores is that most provide more power than their institutions need, but they also, paradoxically, do much less than their institutions need, that is, they have severely constrained abilities and flexibility. Shifting to a hosted and shared environment just might solve both issues at a more favorable price point for institutions.
But most credit unions still cling to their old cores and resist shifting to service bureaus, no matter how dazzling the possible computing benefits. Hodgins' advice is to stick with an existing core, regardless of age, until it simply no longer provides what the credit union needs.
And that usually happens only when the institution wants to extend into a wholly new service (perhaps mobile banking) or offer a new line of business (business lending is a for instance of a product line that challenges many legacy cores, said Hodgins). Either way, until the core is broken, don't throw it out, is the advice from Cornerstone.
Core vendors, incidentally, also have few reasons to kill off aged cores. "They are cash cows," said Brad Smith, CEO of consulting firm Abound Resources in Austin, Texas. The vendors are not investing in upgrades, so the service fees that come in mainly fall straight to the bottom line, said Smith.
That leaves neither side motivated to kill off an old core.
Also troubling is that one recent attempt to build a core from the ground up, Fiserv's Acumen, has seemed to stumble to a premature death, with Fiserv opting to buy the aging Open Solutions Inc. DNA core and use it, with some upgrades borrowed from Acumen, as its new flagship core.
A reason for the lagging core development is that shifts off legacy cores are very few in number. There's a handful every year, no more, and that sluggish market has not fueled substantial investment in developing new core architecture.
There also, increasingly, are clever strategies for prolonging core life, mainly by moving functionality off the legacy core and into newer computers.
Mary Nugent, a vice president at systems modernization firm Micro Focus, said that the first thing her company does when it is brought in to tweak a sagging core is hunt for processes to shift off the core. "That is low-hanging fruit with little impact on [members]," said Nugent. The prime worry with any core update is that members will be inconvenienced or worse. Selective off-loading of functions that do not need to be on the core is a generally safe strategy, said Nugent.


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This event is 21 AND OVER. All Mainstage shows are 21 AND OVER. All DCT Shows are ALL AGES. If you are more than 5 MINUTES late to a Mainstage show, your seats may be released.
This team performs 'The Harold': A group of improvisers take a single suggestion from the audience and use it as a springboard to create twenty-five to thirty minutes of scenes, games and monologues.
The iO West is located at: 6366 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028


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Boris Johnson has announced that he will seek to make a Commons comeback as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip at the general election.
The London Mayor put an end to speculation over his plans by confirming that he has applied to be the Tory candidate in the safe seat next year.
Mr Johnson signalled his intention to re-enter parliament earlier this month, a move widely interpreted as positioning to take over from David Cameron as Conservative leader in the future.
However, the Prime Minister has insisted he would be delighted to have the Mayor back in parliament, saying he wanted his "star players on the pitch".
Mr Johnson said today that he hoped to "make the case" that he was the best person to represent Uxbridge & South Ruislip, held by Sir John Randall with a majority of 11,000 in 2010.
" I'm sure there will be plenty of excellent candidates and I hope very much to make my case to the association," he told the Evening Standard.
The Conservative candidate for the seat is due to be announced on September 12.
Mr Johnson has said that if he is elected to the Commons next May he will still serve out his term as Mayor, which ends in 2016.
Mr Johnson previously served as MP for Henley for seven years before leaving to take up the City Hall reins in 2008.
In a sign of potential tensions to come, the Mayor risked infuriating Mr Cameron over the weekend by calling for tougher anti-terrorism laws - including a presumption that Britons travelling to Iraq and Syria without notifying UK authorities are engaged in criminal behaviour.
Downing Street has poured cold water on the idea, stressing that police and security services are not "pushing" for such measures.
Labour's London spokesman Sadiq Khan said: "Boris Johnson's announcement is confirmation of how weak David Cameron is and how out of touch the Tories are.
"When millions of people are struggling under a cost of living crisis, the Tories are turning inwards, jockeying for position in a future leadership contest.
"What Britain needs is a change of direction. For all their squabbles over who leads them, all the Tories offer is more of the same failure."


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Southern Agricultural Households in the United States, 1880 (ICPSR 9430)
Principal Investigator(s): Sutch, Richard; Ransom, Roger
This data collection describes the organization of agriculture and the operation of the Southern economy following the Civil War, with emphasis on the relationship between race and tenure status of farm operators. Economic and agricultural data were compiled from the 1880 Census of Agriculture. Information provided includes the location of the farm (region, state, county, and enumeration district), tenure of the farm operator, number of acres in tillage, meadows, woodland, and other uses, type of crops being farmed and production figures, and the number of various livestock (horses, mules, oxen, cows, sheep, and swine). Additionally, data are presented on the value of the farm, farm implements, livestock, and farm products, and costs associated with fences, fertilizer, and wages. Demographic information drawn from the 1880 Census of Population includes the race, literacy, age, and birthplace of the farm operator, number of people living in the house, and number of people working on the farm.
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Sutch, Richard, and Roger Ransom. Southern Agricultural Households in the United States, 1880. ICPSR09430-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-09-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09430.v1
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- University of California-Berkeley. Center for Research in Management Science
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: agriculture, American Civil War, census data, crops, farming, household composition, households, livestock, national economy, nineteenth century, race, Southern United States, wages and salaries
Geographic Coverage: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Virginia
- 1879--1880
- 1969
Universe: All farms reported by the 1880 Agriculture Census in the 11 Confederate states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The western area of Texas and southern area of Florida were excluded due to lack of settlement in 1880.
Sample: The South was divided into economic regions that were relatively homogeneous, and one or more representative counties were selected from each region. This group of farms was then sampled at a minimum rate of 10 percent, blocks of five farms each being selected with a skip interval of 45 farms.
United States Bureau of the Census 1880 Population and Agriculture Manuscript schedules
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Veusz is a scientific plotting package, designed to create publication-ready Postscript, PDF, or SVG output. It features an easy to use graphical interface as well as a command line interface and can be scripted or embedded in Python scripts. Graphs are constructed in a modular fashion from separate components. Datasets can be interactively modified or created from within the program.
libtld is a library used to extract the TLD from a URI and to check email validity. This allows you to extract the exact domain name, sub-domains, and all the TLD (top level, second level, third level, etc.). The problem with TLDs is that you cannot know where the domain starts. Some domains can use one top-level domain, others use two, etc. However, it may be useful to know where the domain is to have the exact list of sub-domains. For example, if you want to force www. at the start of the domain name if no other sub-domains are specified, then you need to know exactly how many TLD are defined in a URI. The libtld offers one main function: tld(), which gives you a way to extract the TLD from any URI. The result is the offset where the TLD starts. This gives you enough information to extract everything else you need. For emails, the library is capable of parsing a string that represents a list of email addresses to be verified. The verification includes a check of the domain name and its TLD.
YAGF is a graphical frontend for the cuneiform and tesseract OCR tools. It lets you open already scanned image files or obtain new images via XSane (scanning results are automatically passed to YAGF). Once you have a scanned image you can prepare it for recognition, select particular image areas for recognition, set the recognition language and so on. Recognized text is displayed in an editor window where it can be spell-checked, corrected, saved to disk, or copied to clipboard. YAGF also provides some facilities for a multi-page recognition.
Hypercube is a graph visualization tool for drawing DOT (graphviz), GML, GraphML, GXL and simple text-based graph representations as SVG and EPS images. It comes with a Qt-based GUI application and a Qt-independent commandline tool. Hypercube uses a simulated annealing algorithm to lay out the graph, which can be easily parameterized to achieve the desired look.
Knotter is a highly configurable interlace designer. Interlace patterns are a kind of design historically used as a decorations in many places and by different cultures (some examples are Celtic knotworks and Islamic interlaces). Knotter aims to allow its user to design such patterns in an intuitive way and to provide easy ways to integrate the result into external general-purpose graphic software. For this purpose, designs created within Knotter can be saved in a custom human-readable format and exported as Scalable Vector Graphics and in a wide number of raster image formats.
TSPSG is intended to generate and solve "travelling salesman problem" (TSP) tasks. It uses the Branch and Bound method for solving. Its input is a number of cities and a matrix of city-to-city travel costs. The matrix can be populated with random values in a given range (which is useful for generating tasks). The result is an optimal route, its price, step-by-step matrices of solving, and a solving graph. The task can be saved in an internal binary format and opened later. The result can be printed or saved as PDF, HTML, or ODF. TSPSG may be useful for teachers to generate test tasks or just for regular users to solve TSPs. Also, it may be used as an example of using the Branch and Bound method to solve a particular task.
A library for geospatial data file manipulation.
A robust keepalive framework for Linux Virtual Server and router HA.


text: Trinity Lutheran Youth Group is taking orders for Valentines day cookies as a fundraiser. Youth group members will bake the cookies and then deliver them to the sender's sweetheart on Valentines day. There will be two types available: five small to medium size heart-shaped (chocolate chip and sugar) cookies for $5; or one large heart-shaped (chocolate chip) cookie for $10. The sender can specify their preference that they be made with or without frosting, and cookies will be packaged in a Valentines theme with a small card that names the sender. All proceeds raised from the orders will help fund the youth group's travel to San Antonio, Texas in July. For more information or to place an order, contact Jacqueline Chittick at 560-3337. Orders should be made by 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10.


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The letter "e" is the most commonly used Scrabble letter, and in this sentence alone, it is used 15 times. So you might imagine that a medium that is all about words, hip-hop, would be hard-pressed to go through an entire song without using it once. But Andrew Huang, who is famous already for his impressive performances on YouTube, decided to give it a shot, and the result is mind-boggling. Aside from being an expert wordsmith, Huang is also a talented rapper, stringing together such lyrics as "Do you kids miss this stiff fifth glyph?" and "Violin gigs, absurd paid shindigs, and Thursdays." Not only does the song not contain an "e" in it, but the song is even about not using an "e." And Huang's fans are loving it. Commenters have written things like, "These are some of my favorite lyrics you've written so far. Sick flow." It's at 12,000 views on YouTube right now but is sure to gain more purely for those skills.
And as our special guests on the show mentioned, you can check out "The Fuzz" on Yahoo! Screen. And go ahead and hit us up on Facebook, and on Twitter.
And here is some more of Andrew Huang's work.


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The ultimate in camouflage for military purposes would be complete
invisibility. Invisibility has been a major factor in fiction going
back to ancient Greek mythologies to contemporary science fiction.
While we are far away from space ships capable of intergalactic
travel like Stargate Atlantis, a clocking device may be closer than
you think.
Metamaterials refract light at a negative angle, rather than
refracting light like normal materials that can be seen. The
properties of metamaterials allow scientists to bend light around
objects making them invisible to the naked eye. DailyTech
reported on similar technology before when researchers at the
University of Maryland were able to cloak
a small 10 micrometer circle making it invisible to the eye.
While 10 micrometers is incredibly small, the scientists hope to
one day scale the size of the cloak to hide people and objects. This
is exactly what researchers at the Britannia Royal Navy College hope
to do, but on a much grander scale. The scientist
are developing a method to render full battleships invisible to
not only the naked eye, but to radar as well. The researchers also
hope to mask the sound produced by the ships as well as its heat
If the scientists are able to accomplish the goal, it would mean
the British Navy would have battleships invisible to the naked eye,
radar, heat-seeking missiles and that produce no noise. If
successful, the only indication that the ship is coming would be the
water displaced by the ship.


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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition. It is possible to develop epilepsy with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing epilepsy. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk factors for epilepsy include:
Any injury to the brain, either from external (environmental) or internal (medical/metabolic) sources can increase your risk of epilepsy.
Brain injury can be caused by:
- Head injury
- Stroke
- Alzheimer's disease
- Brain tumors
- Heart failure
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure
- Any condition that deprives the brain of oxygen, such as near-drowning
- Sleep deprivation
Infectious diseases, such as:
- Meningitis
- Viral encephalitis
- Hydrocephalus (excess fluid in the brain)
- Celiac disease (intolerance to wheat gluten)
- Metabolic conditions, such as low blood sugar , high or low salt, low magnesium or calcium
In some cases, epilepsy can result from genetic abnormalities inherited at birth.
Different causes and types of seizures are more or less likely depending on your age.
In children, risk factors include:
- High fever
- Poor nutrition
Other factors that can increase your risk of epilepsy include:
Exposure to:
- Lead
- Carbon monoxide
- Other environmental toxins
- Certain illegal drugs
- Overdose or withdrawal of antidepressants and other medications
- Medication interactions
- Alcohol use disorder
- Cysticercosis—an infection caused by a pork tapeworm
Revision Information
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Hey guys, just wanted to take a quick second to let everyone know of a staffing change here at the Raptors Republic forums. After over a year and a half as stellar staff member to our moderation team, we're sorry to hear that Matt52 has decided to step down. Whether you agree with him or not when it comes to Raptors discussions here, you can't take away is passion to debate the Toronto Raptors. I for one with miss his help around here, but understand from time to time its hard to find a balance from the online world to real life. Everyone needs a break at some point.
Anyhow, hopefully we haven't seen the last of him around here, but if it is I just want to personally thank him for his help and contributions as a peer & member here at RR for close to 2 years now.
Thanks again Matt and best of luck in your future endeavors.
P.S. at this moment we won't be replacing Matt on our moderation team, but come later this summer and fall we'll definitely be looking to add new members to the staff. With some of us becoming recent parents in these last couple years, its hard to have eyes and ears on the boards 24-7. So, we'll approach this topic again in a couple months if we feel its required.
Doc and the RR Forms Staff.


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As the only
provider of DirectX 11 GPUs out there, the graphics division of
AMD can afford to take a slower paced approach to product launches.
However, the company has decided to launch one more product just
before Black Friday and the start of the Christmas shopping
"With the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the
fastest graphics card in the world, we've cemented AMD as the
unquestioned graphics leader," said Matt Skynner, Vice President
and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Group. "With the holiday
shopping season right around the corner, the new card, coupled with
the awesome power of ATI Eyefinity technology, is the ultimate setup
for serious gamers."
The Radeon HD 5970 is targeted squarely
at bleeding edge enthusiasts who will settle for nothing but the
best. ATI is moving away from its X2 nomenclature in order to more
fully differentiate its highest end product. It combines two Cypress
cores used in the Radeon HD 5870 together in a single graphics card.
The new card uses a second generation PLX bridge in order to combine
the power of the two chips more effectively.
Using two 40nm
Cypress chips allows the new card to have double the Stream
Processors and ROPs of the Radeon 5870. However, the chips and GDDR5
RAM are only clocked at the same level as the Radeon HD 5850 in order
to conserve power. The board is rated for maximum power consumption
of 294W, and only consumes 42W at idle.
Those concerned more
with performance than power consumption need not worry. The Radeon HD
5970 uses specially screened Cypress chips, and is easily
overclockable to Radeon 5870 levels with ATI's OverDrive technology.
The board is unlocked, so overclockers can go as high as their guts
(and cooling) will allow.
In order to aid overclockers, ATI's
reference board uses proprietary high-performance digital
programmable voltage regulators made by specialty firm Volterra. Pure
ceramic supercapacitors sourced from Japan are used, and real time
power monitoring is available.
The GPUs could be overclockable
to 1GHz and beyond, while the GDDR5
RAM is rated for 1.5Ghz/5Gbps.
There are three outputs on
the card in order to enable ATI's Eyefinity multi-display technology.
Three monitors can be used at the same time using the two dual-link
DVI ports and single mini-DisplayPort. New Catalyst 9.11 drivers have
also been released, adding support for the new cards and Flash
The Radeon HD 5970 is available immediately at
retailers and through the channel for an MSRP of $599. The ATI Radeon
HD 5970 is supported by a wide range of add-in-board companies,
including ASK, Asus, Club 3D, Diamond, Gigabyte, High Tech, MSI,
Sapphire, Tul/Power Color, Visiontek and XFX. It also launches today
in new Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktop PCs.
has been saying that their next generation gaming GPU will be
available before the end of the year, although that has become
increasingly unlikely.
Based on the latest information
available, the Radeon HD 5970 is likely to be the fastest single card
solution for the next six months.


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Texas Congressman Calls for Quick Launch of Private Flood Insurance
A demand by a House Financial Services subcommittee chairman that bank regulators move quickly to facilitate sale of private flood insurance as an alternative to the National Flood Insurance Program is prompting a split in the insurance industry.
The letter by Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, said that the provision's intent "is to reaffirm and support pre-existing requirements that lenders accept comparable private flood insurance policies."
He said that, "I believe that once fully implemented, this provision will further encourage private-sector participation in the flood insurance market and reduce the risk to which the U.S. taxpayer is currently exposed.
"The agencies' timeline to delay implementation for a possible two years after enactment imposes additional and unnecessary risk on the NFIP, and ultimately the U.S. taxpayer."
In his letter, Neugebauer said that prompt implementation of the private insurance provision is one of my highest priorities," said Neugebauer Wednesday in a letter sent to federal banking regulators.
Neugebauer replaced Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., as chairman of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee in this Congress.
The letter was sent to the heads of the Federal Reserve System, the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, the NCUA and the Farm Credit Administration.
Specifically, Neugebauer is requesting "a more formal and regular update of any interagency actions" needed to develop regulations needed to require lenders to accept private flood insurance.
He wants these rules in place before the July 2014 anticipated target date for the rule, Neugebauer said.
He sent the letter as a followup to an April 17 meeting of House staffers with OCC representatives. The OCC charters national banks
Jimi Grande, senior vice president of federal and political affairs for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, said NAMIC was a strong supporter of the provision, which recognizes that private flood insurance carriers can satisfy the mandatory purchase requirement for those who buy homes whose mortgages are federally insured.
"Allowing those insurers who want to offer flood insurance outside of the NFIP to do so will help to reduce the exposure of the NFIP, the federal government, and ultimately the taxpayers, to flood risk. Like Neugebauer, we encourage action on this issue as swiftly as possible," Grande said.
However, in a letter last June as Congress debated the NFIP reauthorization legislation in which the provision is included, the president of the company that handles most of the back office work for write-your-own insurance companies urged caution.
Stephen Harty, president of National Flood Services in Kalispell, Mont., said in his letters to Senate negotiators dealing with the reauthorization legislation that privatization proposals for the NFIP be delayed until the full impact of these on the NFIP could be studied.
He also voiced concerns it would pull from the NFIP flood insurance customers in areas unlikely to flood, thereby raising the cost of NFIP coverage to the people who can least afford it.
And, Harty said, "It is not clear that private insurers have, or would be willing to allocate, sufficient underwriting capacity" for private flood insurance."
Harty said that private insurers will require higher premiums than do current NFIP policies because of different loss ratio tolerances, additional overhead expenses chargeable to the program; and profit expectations.
"The result will be higher prices for homeowners and small businesses," Harty said in the letter.
"The problem here is that the policyholder receives no benefit whatsoever for a higher price: the premium difference between a reinsured policy and current NFIP rates would be entirely absorbed by the reinsurer's profit, expense and loss-ratio expectations."
An insurance industry official said that, currently, only a few insurers write flood insurance coverage. These are mainly the insurers of high-end residential properties, such as Chubb and Lloyd's of London.
In his letter, Neugebauer said the provision was "an essential reform" to the legislation, which was enacted last July. It reauthorized the NFIP for five years and imposed certain reforms aimed at making the program self-sufficient.
Currently, the NFIP owes the Treasury almost $30 billion, primarily because of the costs of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Sandy last fall.
David Barr, a spokesman for the FDIC, the federal regulator of state-chartered banks, said it would not have any comment on the letter because, "We have not yet responded to the congressman."
"I request that your agencies issues a letter of instruction containing interim guidance to lenders stipulating that the blanket rejection of private flood insurance is unlawful and must be discontinued immediately," Neugebauer said in his letter.


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You have an artery on each side of your neck called the carotid artery. This artery brings needed blood to your brain and face.
The blood flow in this artery can become partly or totally blocked by fatty material called plaque. A partial blockage is called carotid artery stenosis (narrowing). A blockage in your carotid artery can reduce the blood supply to your brain. A stroke can occur if your brain does not get enough blood.
There are two invasive ways to treat a carotid artery that is narrowed or blocked. One is surgery called endarterectomy. The other is a procedure called carotid angioplasty with stent placement.
Carotid angioplasty and stenting; CAS; Angioplasty - carotid artery
Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is done using a smal surgical cut.
There are two invasive ways to treat a narrowed or blocked carotid artery. One is a surgery called endarterectomy. The other is carotid angioplasty with stent placement.
Carotid surgery (endarterectomy) is a safe surgery and is almost always the first choice. This is because there is a higher chance of having a stroke during or soon after angioplasty procedure than there is with the open surgery.
As a result, carotid angioplasty and stenting is most often used only when the patient is too ill to have carotid endarterectomy. Other factors may make angioplasty better choice for treatment. These include which part of the carotid artery is narrowed or whether someone has had neck surgery in the past.
For more information see: Carotid artery surgery
Risks of carotid angioplasty and stent placement are:
Your doctor will do a thorough physical exam and several medical tests.
Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, even drugs, supplements, or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the 2 weeks before your surgery:
Do NOT drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery, including water.
On the day of your surgery:
After surgery, your doctor may want you to stay in the hospital overnight so that nurses can watch you for any signs of bleeding, stroke, or poor blood flow to your brain. You may be able to go home the same day if your procedure is done early in the day and you are doing well.
Carotid artery angioplasty may help lower your chance of having a stroke. But you will need to make lifestyle changes to help prevent plaque buildup, blood clots, and other problems in your carotid arteries over time. You may need to change your diet and start an exercise program if your doctor tells you exercise is safe for you.
International Carotid Stenting Study Investigators. Dobson EJ, Featherstone RL, Bonati LH, van der Worp HB, et al. Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2010;375:985-997.
Murad MH, Shahrour A, Shan ND, et al. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of carotid endarterectomy vs. stenting. J Vasc Surg. 2011 Mar;53(3):792-7.
Eisenhauer AC, White CJ, Bhatt DL. Endovascular treatment of noncoronary obstructive vascular disease. In: Bonow Ro, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa:Saunders Elsevier;2011;chap 63.
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Shapewear Fitting Made Easy
Almost every look has, at one time or another, been in fashion, with the exception of bulges. So when designers get together and declare body-conscious fashions the look of the season, we women need to make sure our silhouettes are sleek and smooth. The good news is that achieving such a look no longer requires a girdle of whalebone and canvas. Sheer power fabrics have made possible a whole new line of undergarments that minimize and enhance your figure while providing comfortable support. Shapewear is the answer for any woman who wants to be in control of her shape -- no matter what curve ball the fashion world throws you.Finding Your Personal Shapewear Size
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 1997-2010 -- Concatenated Data [United States] (ICPSR 27541)
Alternate Title: CJRP Concatenated Data
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) was administered for the first time in 1997 by the United States Bureau of the Census, for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). CJRP replaced the Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities, also known as the Children in Custody (CIC) census, which had been conducted since the early 1970s. The CJRP differs fundamentally from CIC in that the CIC collected aggregate data on juveniles held in each facility (e.g., number of juveniles in the facility) and the CJRP collects an individual record on each juvenile held in the residential facility to provide a detailed picture of juveniles in custody. The CJRP, which is conducted biennially, asked juvenile residential custody facilities in the United States to describe each youth assigned a bed in the facility on a specified reference date. For 1997, the reference date was the fifth Wednesday in October. For 1999-2003 and 2007, the reference date was the fourth Wednesday in October. For 2006 and 2010, the reference date was the fourth Wednesday in February. Characteristics of the facility, treatment services, and facility population were also collected. Each record in the data that provides information about a juvenile also includes the characteristics of the facility in which the juvenile was held. Therefore, the CJRP data can be analyzed at the juvenile or facility level. Some state and regional agencies provide CJRP data for more than one facility under their jurisdiction. The census was not sent to adult facilities or to facilities exclusively for drug or mental health treatment or for abused or neglected children. The concatenated data include the seven years of CJRP data in one file. Data were harmonized so that variables present across years are identically named to facilitate analysis.
Series: Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) Series
Access Notes
One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions ; consult the restrictions note to learn more. You can apply online for access to the restricted-use data. A login is required to apply.
The data are restricted from general dissemination and are only available through remote access using the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data's Restricted Survey Documentation and Analysis (RSDA) system. Users interested in accessing these data through NACJD's RSDA system must complete a RSDA Data Use Agreement form and specify the reasons for the request. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal.
Any public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
Study Description
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 1997-2010 -- Concatenated Data [United States]. ICPSR27541-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-02-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27541.v2
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27541.v2
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: census data, correctional facilities, drug law offenses, group homes, juvenile detention, juvenile offenders, juveniles, property crimes, status offenses
Smallest Geographic Unit: state
Geographic Coverage: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (state), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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- 1999
- 2001
- 2003
- 2006
- 2007
- 2010
- 1997-10-29 (fifth Wednesday in October 1997)
- 1999-10-27 (fourth Wednesday in October 1999)
- 2001-10-24 (fourth Wednesday in October 2001)
- 2003-10-22 (fourth Wednesday in October 2003)
- 2006-02-22 (fourth Wednesday in February 2006)
- 2007-10-24 (fourth Wednesday in October 2007)
- 2010-02-24 (fourth Wednesday in February 2010)
Unit of Observation: individual, facility
Universe: Juvenile offenders held in juvenile residential facilities in the United States in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2010.
Additional information about the CJRP and other national juvenile corrections data collections sponsored by OJJDP is available from the National Juvenile Corrections Data Resource Guide.
Individual years of data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) and Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC), a complement to the CJRP data, are available through enclave access. Users interested in utilizing the enclave data must complete an Application for Use of the ICPSR Data Enclave. Additional data in the CJRP Series, JRFC Series, and the Matched CJRP/JRFC Series are available through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data's Restricted Survey Documentation and Analysis (RSDA) system. Users interested in accessing these data through NACJD's RSDA system must complete a RSDA Data Use Agreement.
The CJRP reference date was generally the fourth Wednesday in October. However, the 1997 CJRP reference date was October 29, 1997, which was the fifth Wednesday of the month. Additionally, a set of unforeseen circumstances prevented the 2005 and 2009 mailouts from taking place in October of each year. The census date for these collections took place in the following February.
Sample: The CJRP facility inclusion criteria were as follows: residential facilities in operation on the census reference date (generally the fourth Wednesday in October), public or private (or tribal since 1999) operation, and intended for juvenile offenders (although some hold adults as well). Specifically excluded were: nonresidential facilities, detention centers operated as part of adult jails, facilities exclusively for drug abusers or dependent/neglected youth, foster homes, and federal correctional facilities (e.g., Immigration and Naturalization Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Marshalls, or Bureau of Prisons). Inclusion criteria for individual-level data were as follows: youth under age 21, assigned a bed in a residential facility at the end of the day on the census reference day, charged with an offense or court-adjudicated for an offense, and in residential placement because of that offense.
Mode of Data Collection: mail questionnaire
United States Bureau of the Census questionnaires
Response Rates: Using the number of in-scope facilities (i.e., able to hold juvenile offenders over night) as a base, the CJRP facility response rate was 96 percent in 1997, 100 percent in 1999, 99 percent in 2001, 100 percent in 2003, 100 percent in 2006, 100 percent in 2007, and 93 percent in 2010.
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:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2012-04-09
- 2013-02-28 Additional years of data (CJRP 2007 and CJRP 2010) have been added to the CJRP Concatenated Data.
- 2012-04-17 Staff updated a broken hyperlink in the codebook, the user guide, and the restrictions field of the metadata.
- 2012-04-11 Staff updated a broken hyperlink in the codebook.
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In strategic terms, increasing earning power and efficiency plays a key role in all sectors. Customer focus is enhanced in efforts to generate higher revenues but, at the same time, it is vital for companies to reduce their cost base. Automating the full range of transaction processes is a vital factor in the process. With carefully designed processes and an appropriate branch concept, Wincor Nixdorf achieves maximum solution expertise.


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Holly Fretwell, Leonard Gilroy, Shawn Regan, Reed Watson
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This year, the National Park Service will celebrate its 100-year anniversary with an $11.9 billion backlog in deferred maintenance projects. We explore seven ideas to address the problem as the agency prepares to enter its second century.
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Can public-private partnerships tackle the park maintenance backlog?
Leonard Gilroy
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In the grand scheme, state parks are an amenity that generally falls lower on the state's priority list than education, health care, and corrections.


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This ingenious set of arrangements makes it easy to play solos, duets, trios or quartets with players of different levels of ability! The top line has the melody at a grade 2-1/2 to 3. The three harmony lines below are set at grades 2, 1-1/2 and 1, making it possible for the first- and second-year students to play with more advanced players. The CD accompaniment also offers flexibility. Use it with the full performance to learn your part, then use it with just the rhythm section when you have the tunes down. Titles are: Alegria; American Idiot; Because of You; Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Gonna Fly Now; Hedwig's Theme; Hips Don't Lie; Jumpin' Jack Flash; The New Girl in Town; We Are Family and Wonka's Welcome Song.
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Cherington takes blame for '12, looks forward to '13
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- In a matter of days, when formal workouts begin, the focus will shift to the players.
But after Saturday's informal workout at JetBlue Park, it was Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington who was surrounded by media members during a near 25-minute state-of-the-team address.
Entering his second season as GM, Cherington knows there really isn't anywhere to go but up after a thoroughly-humbling 69-93 season in 2012.
If the Red Sox do go on to exceed expectations in 2013, it's doubtful that Cherington will try to jockey for his share of the credit. But he is very accountable in taking blame for what went wrong last year.
"I think everyone is excited to get to Spring Training for exactly that reason," Cherington said. "We're trying to put 2012 behind us and try and move forward and talk about something new -- which we've been trying to do all winter. I've said it before, it's a collective failure, but I take more responsibility than anyone for it. Last year, we were a long way from living up to what we should be on the field and off the field. It's up to us to make the Red Sox what they should be again. Some of that started and will continue here in Spring Training."
Cherington looks forward to seeing these Red Sox evolve on a step-by-step basis under new manager John Farrell.
"Expectations are that we'll get to know the guys that we acquired this winter better, and John and his staff are going to run a really good camp and we'll get a lot of work done," said Cherington. "And like every other team in baseball, we just want to get the work done that we have to get done and stay healthy. ... I think, as you guys know, [there are] a few areas open for competition. But a lot of the team is in place, and we want to get ready for the season."
Most of the spots in the starting lineup are set. What is up for grabs is exactly how at-bats will be dispersed in left field between Jonny Gomes and other players, such as Daniel Nava and Ryan Sweeney.
Another area of intrigue is the bullpen. Joel Hanrahan is the closer. That much is set in stone. Andrew Bailey is projected to be the eighth-inning stopper. But beyond that, a talented group of relievers will be jockeying this spring to see who gets to pitch in the more important parts of the game.
Daniel Bard is trying to get back on the radar. Junichi Tazawa is trying to build off of his brilliant finish last year. Koji Uehara, Craig Breslow, Andrew Miller, Alfredo Aceves and Franklin Morales are also hoping to be key contributors.
"I think there will be competition in the bullpen for roles, and sort of who is pitching in what spots," Cherington said. "There's a lot of good arms trying to be a part of the bullpen. That's something John and the staff will get a better handle on once we get into camp and get started."
As in any spring, there will be players trying to rebound from either health woes or under-performance. In the case of Jacoby Ellsbury, he's trying to bounce back from both. Adding intrigue to Ellsbury's situation is that he's eligible for free agency following the '13 season.
"Well, Ellsbury is a very talented player and we know what he can do on the field when he's feeling good physically," said Cherington. "We're obviously a better team when he's on the field. We'd love for him to be [with the] Red Sox for a long time. I'm not going to get into anything other than that. I think I've had a good relationship with Jacoby, and I hope that continues."
Though Ellsbury played the entire second half of the season following a right shoulder subluxation on April 13, Cherington thinks his health was the main reason he didn't come close to duplicating his production level of 2011.
"Well, he had a pretty significant shoulder injury that he came back from and was cleared to play," Cherington said. "Even when he came back, he probably wasn't feeling physically quite the way he would want to from a strength standpoint. And then, you get back and you're rushing through a rehab -- and it's not like going through Spring Training. I think his at-bats got better toward the end of the year. I think what he really needed was a good offseason; I think he's had one and I know he's anxious to come into camp and have a good year."
Unlike a year ago, when the Red Sox had two starting-rotation spots up for grabs during Spring Training, there is a clear projected five this time around. Barring injury, Boston will break camp with a rotation of Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, John Lackey, Ryan Dempster and Felix Doubront.
But Cherington knows that the team needs to have contingency plans in place, and he hopes that he'll have the depth he needs in Morales, Aceves, Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster.
"Yeah, I didn't do a good enough job last year in that area," Cherington said. "I don't think it's something that happens in one offseason. You can do some things in the offseason, but it really has to happen over time. Starting-pitching depth can't just come from free agency or one area; it has to come from every avenue. We have to develop pitchers; we have to sign the right guys; we have to trade for the right guys."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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UFCU Confirms It Was DDoS Victim
"We were down for about two hours," said Steve Ewers, chief information officer and a vice president at the $1.5 billion Austin, Texas, institution.
In January, UFCU was also hit by a DDoS attack that knocked it offline for around two and one-half hours.
Patelco, the $3.8 billion Northern California credit union, on Wednesday acknowledged it too was knocked offline by DDoS and, like UFCU, it also suffered a January outage.
In all instances, the perpetrator is believed to be the so-called al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, generally thought to be associated with Iran, although that link has not been substantiated.
In the most recent UFCU attack – which occurred a day before UFCU was scheduled to present details of its January DDoS attack at the NAFCU Technology Conference in Austin, said Ewers – the attackers used "a more sophisticated, more powerful attack than we saw in January," according to Ewers.
In this attack, the attackers "tried to pull down a PDF from our site," generating multiple accesses and huge volumes of traffic. When UFCU detected that and changed the file name, "the attackers reacted very quickly and went after the new file name," said Ewers.
He also said much of the attack volume was generated via zombie servers and data centers that created dramatically more volume than do the typical botnets of hijacked personal computers.
Ewers stressed that in neither case was member data compromised and that there was no fraud committed in association with the DDoS.
Ewers added that, as might be expected, attendee interest in hearing about UFCU and DDoS at the NAFCU event was extraordinarily high. "The crowd was very engaged, very involved," said Ewers.
Ewers indicated that, looking ahead, UFCU has good confidence about its ability to handle future DDoS attacks. He elaborated that UFCU, after the most recent outage, had concluded an agreement with a third-party DDoS mitigation provider.
"We in fact were in negotiation with them when we suffered the second attack." He declined to identify who UFCU had retained.
As with Patelco, "our mobile banking never went down. Members who attempted to access us that way got in," said Ewers.
Ewers added that, with a new mitigation provider in place, UFCU believes it is taking all the right steps in terms of fighting back against DDoS.
He stressed, "We can't say we will be 100% effective because we don't know what attack is coming next. But we are taking the steps to ensure member access to our services."


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Hemingway & Gellhorn Blu-ray
Starring two of todays most acclaimed actors, and directed by Oscar® nominee Philip Kaufman (in his first film for television), Hemingway & Gellhorn tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn (Kidman) and Ernest Hemingway (Owen), following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time from the Spanish Civil War and beyond. Considered by many to be the greatest of all war correspondents man or woman Gellhorns drive and success catapulted her beyond the confines of her marriage into a revered and respected career independent of Hemingways. Epic in scale, with masterfully woven archival footage, Hemingway & Gellhorn offers a unique glimpse at a powerful relationship born and torn by war. Enjoy this Blu-Ray & DVD Combo Pack including both Blu-Ray and DVD versions of the film.
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Ever since cell phones first became popular, a constant among
almost every airplane flight has been an order to turn off your cell
phones. These orders have been courtesy of the in-flight ban on mobile
phones by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), the government body which
oversees air travel in the U.S.
Many saw this ban as an unnecessary inconvenience, given that little actual
scientific investigation had been conducted into fears of interference.
There were numerous proposals to lift the ban or to possibly allow special
lower power phones designed to work in the air.
Now FAA officials have
announced that due to public outcry, they will be dropping the proposals to
lift the ban and announced that the ban would stay in place for "the
foreseeable future."
While the FAA cited public outrage as justification for leaving the ban in
place, the announcement follows research from last year investigating the
phenomena. Last year, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University conducted
a study which was featured in the IEEE Spectrum publication. The
study, surprisingly, was thought to be the first of its kind. It found
that portable radio frequency emitting devices such as cell phones could easily
cause interference in onboard instruments, such as the GPS, greatly raising the
risk of accident or other flight difficulties.
Still, the FAA relied mostly on public opinion on the issue and showed no
indication of being swayed by these recent studies.
In Britain, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Britain's equivalent of the
FAA, found 20 incidents of airplane malfunction between January 2000 and August
2005, which it deemed caused by cell phones.
Despite these result, the European Aviation Safety Agency approved the use of
in-flight mobile phones provided by the communications company ON Air. These
devices transmit weaker signals, hopefully yielding less interference.
Air France, Tap Air Portugal, and Rayanair are among the European air carriers
planning to adopt the technology.
Internationally, many carriers including Emirates and AirAsia are planning to
adopt this technology as well.
In Britain there has been a large grassroots movement to block potential
introduction of cell phones on planes. Among the movements backers is
British parliament member Lee Scott, who is very much against these approvals
and sees the phones as possible security threats. "The Madrid train
bombs in 2004 were set off by mobile phone," Scott elaborated. "What will be
the security implications of everyone having mobiles switched on at 30,000 [feet]?
It can only put even greater pressure on airport security staff."
As world powers ponder on this issue, the truly facet of
this issue is the lack of peer-reviewed scientific research on this topic,
which obviously has greatly implications on citizens' daily lives.
Hopefully in the future, this topic will be more thoroughly researched and
possibly mobile phones can be built to someday safely operate within the
airplane electronic environment. While some may dream of using their cell
phones on planes, for now, they will continue to be banned on American flights
for the near future ... even on the new Boeing
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ABBOTSFORD — There was something cruel this weekend about seeing the fledgling AHL team getting some love, and a packed house of fans for a double dip against the Vancouver Canucks farm team.
And no, we're not just referencing the ridiculous post-game Port Mann Bridge traffic jam; or the way Jordan Schroeder was swallowed up like a walnut pressed into a ball of dough.
The cruelty had nothing to do with the hockey. That was good. Fun and furious on Friday, a 3-2 shootout win for the Chicago Wolves. More plodding on Saturday, but dirty, violent, and emotional, before the Wolves drifted out of the game like they had the Roxy Flu, eventually losing 4-1.
What the Heat wanted they got. Nearly sold out crowds, some drama, intensity, and a couple of memorable performances from some players with promising NHL careers.
The problem? It's not going to last.
What they really need here is impossible, currently. They need the Chicago Wolves every weekend. Heck, every day. They're not back until January. It means more games where two-thirds of the seats sit empty. Too bad because people in the Lower Mainland are missing out on the best hockey being played in North America and No. 2 is a cliff jump, or two, away.
The weekend was but a tease.
But if you were looking to get some NHL flavour, Friday's was the game to be at. It had its moments. The best a Roman Horak breakaway. The centre who played 60 games with the Flames last year, knifed his way through the heart of the Chicago Wolves, before Eddie Lack snuffed out his scoring chance with a brilliant save.
The crowd responded with chants of "Eddie, Eddie, Eddie."
Sure, they were cheering for the visitors. But for a moment, hockey was alive in Abbotsford, even if it is not well.
"I'd often have people tell me I haven't seen the AHL before and they get their first taste of it and are impressed with the skill that's down here," Chicago head coach Scott Arniel said. "It's the desire and the drive these guys have to get to the NHL. Every night they are putting it on the line."
Steve Pinozzotto put it on the line on Friday and had an impressive, edgy performance. He wasn't nearly as good Saturday, but he was game, fighting Chris Breen, who has 30 pounds and five inches on him. He said he didn't hesitate to throw down. Good call with Alain Vigneault hovering in the crowd.
Now, Zack Kassian was a flat-out horse. An agitated, more slender, deceptively quick, powerful horse. He scored two goals, clubbed Joe Piskula Zach McKelvie in fights and put on about six moves in his shootout attempt Friday. This was Kassian at his best. It's also the Kassian that threatens to infuriate you later, because you'll remember weekends like it when he vanishes for weeks at a time.
"I've seen it in spurts," Arniel said of Kassian's game. "But not like that for three periods where he dominated. As you can see, he gets a lot of room. People don't really want to go in the corners when he's out there.
"He's a handful to hold onto when he's playing that kind of game. He showed his skill, obviously in the shootout and on the odd man rush we had.
"That's a power forward game. He's got to recognize it. Part of his maturity is doing it shift-in, shift-out and game-in and game-out. That is the best game I've seen him play."
How can a coach help make sure he plays like that again?
"I've got video now, so I can keep showing him what it looks like," Arniel said.
Maybe this year will be different. Kassian is sleek, having spent an offseason working on both his puck skills and his fitness. It started when the Sedins requested he spend a week training with them at the end of last season. That says as much about Kassian's fitness last year as it does the Sedins' leadership.
Kassian also was sent off to haul ass in Winnipeg and Portland, Oregon where the Canucks flew him and five other players to train at the Nike high-performance centre.
"I feel quicker, obviously," Kassian said. "When you lose some pounds and put on lean body mass and muscle, I feel like I got a step faster."
Maybe he is or maybe it's just the fact those steps are now in the minors.
The Kevin Connauton-Chris Tanev pairing is a promising one, to be sure. One is right-handed, the other left-handed. One is all about offence, the other a smooth defensive-minded player. At times, they flexed their promise. Connauton shouldered Lance Bouma to the ice with ease on Friday. On Saturday, Tanev expertly played a 2-on-1, stripping the puck from Quintin Laing effortlessly and with precision.
Connauton is stronger this year, but his d-zone coverage remains, uhm, a work in progress.
He struggled at times, especially against Sven Baertschi. But so did Tanev.
On one play Friday, Baertschi made Tanev look as silly as you'll ever see Tanev look, when he turned the NHL-experienced defenceman inside out, like he was unravelling a spicy tuna role.
In the end, it was Lack who got the hero treatment from the crowd. They chanted his name in the third and chanted it again after he won in the shootout on Friday.
In the rematch, he faced 41 shots and the players in front of him collapsed. Crowd chanted his name again, even as he lost 4-1. Smart crowd.
"It felt like there were a couple tired heads out there," Lack said.
He was being kind.
It may not be too long before you hear that "Ed-die" chant in Rogers Arena, especially if the Canucks don't acquire a backup goalie when they trade Roberto Luongo.
Is he ready? Hard to say.
"That was the first time, that was pretty special," Lack said of hearing his name rain down.
And he was on the visiting team.
"There's a first time for everything," Lack quipped.


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Upton a natural fit for Braves
By Richard Justice / MLB.com
Upton has matured, too, and he has come to understand what was expected of him. He had to learn on the job because the Rays rushed him to the Major Leagues and watched him grow dramatically through the years.
In 2012, only Mike Trout had a better combination of speed and power among American League players. Upton has made it look routine, averaging 18 home runs, 33 doubles and 39 stolen bases the past five seasons.
Upton is not perfect. Let's be upfront about that. He's not nearly the center fielder Michael Bourn is, and he has averaged 156 strikeouts the last five seasons. Upton also seems to lose focus at times, and there have been games when he didn't seem to be playing as hard as he should have.
One problem with making a judgment about Upton's effort is that he has such a long, smooth stride that he doesn't appear to be running hard, even when he is. Regardless, those instances were reduced dramatically this season. Rays manager Joe Maddon sensed a more mature Upton early in Spring Training and watched it carry right through the season.
Even with Upton approaching his 1,000th game in the Major Leagues, he may have his best baseball in front of him. Down the stretch last season, as Upton delivered big moment after big moment, Maddon was effusive in his praise.
Upton's path to the big leagues wasn't smooth. Tampa Bay made him the second pick of the 2002 First Year Player Draft and had him in the Major Leagues two years later.
Upton was 19 at the time and not ready. That decision seemed more about marketing than baseball, and even though Upton didn't return for good until 2006, he was never allowed to grow and develop with the methodical path up the development ladder.
So some of that growth and development came in the Major Leagues, and it didn't come without some pain. Upton had wild swings of inconsistency, and sometimes frustrated almost everyone.
Through it all, Upton produced. The Rays appreciated that he loved the game and that his competitive fires raged most of the time. There may have been times last season when Upton tried to do too much to compensate for Evan Longoria's absence, but he clearly was all in.
Once Longoria returned in August, Upton put together a monstrous finish, with 18 home runs and 33 extra-base hits in 54 games.
Upton seems a natural fit for the Braves, who were unsure about their ability to re-sign Bourn. During a recruiting trip two weeks ago, Upton impressed almost everyone from general manager Frank Wren to manager Fredi Gonzalez to former manager Bobby Cox with his demeanor and commitment to help the Braves win another championship.
Upton will fit in nicely with a low-key clubhouse built on professionalism and the expectation of winning. He had those things with the Rays, too, so the adjustment will not be dramatic.
As far as the expectations that come with signing the largest contract -- $75 million over five years -- the Braves have given a player, Upton should be fine with that. Baseball's marketplace is changing dramatically as revenues pour in, so the standards are changing, too.
Upton has lived with large expectations from the moment he played his first Major League game. He was always expected to be the next great thing, and so $75 million simply is the next step along the way.
Upton is one of those players the Braves like now, and probably will like even more after he has joined them. He has enormous skills and the desire to be great. Upton is also not without some flaws, but every other player has one or two as well. Once Wren realized that agent Scott Boras seemed likely to take Bourn on a potentially drawn-out odyssey through free agency, he acted quickly to fill the hole in his lineup. He won't regret it.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This guy is definitely a keeper. Great defense tonight, offensively didn't force anything. Plus the lineup of Calderon, Ross, Pietrus, Davis, Johnson looked extremely good.
After not playing in any game since last spring, don't get too worried with him missing those looks, because those are definitely his shots, just trying to get his legs under him. Hit a couple of big shots during some quiet stretches.


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HIV may not cause symptoms for a number of years. The initial infection may result in flu-like symptoms. During this acute HIV infection, the virus is rapidly reproducing, and the body's immune system is mounting a defense. The virus can easily be passed to other people during this period.
Initial symptoms may include:
- Fever
- Extreme, unexplained fatigue
- Swollen lymph nodes in armpits, neck, or groin
- Headache
- Dry cough
- Night sweats
- Rash
- Sore throat
- Joint pain
After these initial symptoms are gone, there may be no symptoms for months to years, depending on your health status and lifestyle choices. It may be 10 years or longer before a person with HIV develops symptoms. Some infected people have had the virus for even longer periods without developing symptoms. Even though there are no symptoms, the virus is multiplying and damaging the immune system and can be passed on to someone else.
Once the virus sufficiently weakens the immune system, the following symptoms may occur over the course of 1-3 years:
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- Development of lots of warts
- Exacerbations of prior conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, and herpes infection
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CUES Calls for Pay Poll Participation
CUES is now calling for online participation in its salary surveys.
The Madison, Wis.-based leadership development association said its CUES Executive Compensation Survey and CUES Employee Salary Survey have been revamped to make participation easier and add more questions and reports.
"The surveys help credit unions determine if their salary and benefit packages are competitive by offering data on executive compensation, benefits and salaries on a wide range of positions, asset sizes and geographic locations," the organization said in its announcement this week.
"By participating in the surveys and providing salary and benefit data, credit unions can make the industry stronger by helping to assure compensation decisions are comparable and based on fact," CUES said.
CUES said while participation and database updates occur year round, those who participate online by April 19 will receive a free report.


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NPD Group released last week its video game sales data for
the month of August. To no one's surprise, the month once again belonged to Nintendo.
The Wii and the DS continued to be top sellers, with Nintendo's home console
holding top spot at 403,600 units and the portable selling 383,000 units.
The big change for August was Microsoft's surge that put the
Xbox 360 past the PS2 and PSP. During the month, the Xbox 360 sold 276,000
units – a considerable jump from July's 170,000.
Sales of the Xbox 360 were clearly boosted by a price cut of
the console enacted
by Microsoft on August 8. Retail prices were cut by as much as $50, making the
Premium console $349, the Elite at $449 and the Core at $279.
Gamers looking to buy into the Xbox 360's impressive fall
line-up may have found the price drop reason enough to pick up Microsoft's
machine. Madden NFL 08 for Xbox 360,
which released mid-August, became the top selling game for the month with 896,600
units, beating the second best-selling PS2 version by over 250,000.
The anticipated release of
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360 sales. Microsoft's marketing machine is firing in all cylinders, devoting
millions of dollars into cross-promotions to reach non-traditional gaming
channels. As a first, 7-11 convenience stores are taking pre-orders for Halo 3 and will be selling the game at
12:01 A.M. on September 25. While at 7-11, gamers may also purchase Game Fuel,
a limited-time Mountain Dew drink branded with Master Chief.
Sony's hardware made up the latter half of NPD Groups sales
list. The PlayStation 2 remained Sony's top seller with 202,000 sold. The PSP,
even only a month shy of release of the slimmer, lighter
hardware managed to move 151,200 units. The PlayStation 3 maintained a
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Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1964 (ICPSR 7310)
Principal Investigator(s): Glock, Charles Y.; Selznick, Gertrude; Stark, Rodney; Steinberg, Stephen
This nationwide study investigated respondents' opinions on current affairs at both the national and international levels. Issues such as morality in the United States, approval of the United Nations, and the positon of the United States in world affairs were explored, as well as attitudes toward the Constitution and individual rights. Respondents were asked about their feelings toward minority groups such as the John Birch Society, communists, and Blacks, with special emphasis on the Jewish minority. Respondents' beliefs about Jews as a group, their contacts with Jews, and their feelings about political and social rights of Jews in the United States were probed. Past treatment of the Jewish people was also explored, and the respondents were asked to compare Jews with other groups in the United States on the basis of ambition, wealth, intelligence, and power. A number of variables assessed the respondents' leisure activities, their religious beliefs and education, and their outlooks on life. Derived measures include indexes such as anti-Semitic beliefs, Index of Jewish contacts, Fascism Scale, Despair Scale, Tolerance of Cultural Diversity Index, Enlightenment Values Scale, Anomie Scale, Political Anxiety Scale, Self-Image Scale, Libertarian Index, and Monism Scale. Demographic data include sex, race, age, education, income, religion, home ownership, marital status, and number of children. The study was received from the International Data Library and Reference Service, Survey Research Center, University of California at Berkeley.
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Glock, Charles Y., Gertrude Selznick, Rodney Stark, and Stephen Steinberg. Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1964. ICPSR07310-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1979. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07310.v1
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Subject Terms: anti-Semitism, Black White relations, civil rights, communism, cultural perceptions, cultural values, electoral issues, international affairs, Jews, John Birch Society, Judaism, minorities, morality, political attitudes, political issues, prejudice, racial attitudes, religious beliefs, social attitudes, social contact, social distance, social issues, tolerance, worldview
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Universe: Adult population of the United States.
After the data were collected, the 61 Jewish cases plus two additional cases were omitted from analysis, but were retained in computation of the frequencies that are given for each code value. These respondents are coded either "Inap." or as missing data. The final number of cases that can be used for analysis, if choosing not to include these respondents, is 1,913, while the total number of cases is 1,975.
This study was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.
Sample: National representative sample. After the sample was randomly drawn down to the block level, quotas were used for the final selection of respondents to balance age and sex and to find additional employed women.
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Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-20
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