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By Mark Newman / MLB.com
Signups are under way as the 11th year of watching live games on MLB.TV continues Monday with four more Spring Training exhibitions: Yankees at Orioles (1:05 p.m. ET), Tigers at Phillies (1:05), Cubs at Dodgers (3:05) and Nationals at Mets (6:10).
More than 200 live Grapefruit and Cactus League games come with a subscription to MLB.TV Premium ($129.99 yearly or $24.99 monthly) or basic MLB.TV ($109.99 yearly or $19.99 monthly).
Tuesday's MLB.TV fare will feature Yankees at Phillies (1:05) and D-backs (ss) at Angels (3:05). Wednesday's slate features Orioles (ss) at Yankees (1:05), Cardinals at Mets (1:10), Giants at Angels (3:05) and Red Sox at Orioles (ss) (7:05), and that will be followed by five live streams on Thursday.
See the MLB.TV Spring Training schedule for full listings from Florida and Arizona, as you ease into a routine that will include all 2,430 live out-of-market regular-season games.
The MLB.com At Bat 13 app is available now with a suite of new features across iPhone, iPad, supported Android smartphones and tablets and Kindle Fire, so it is also time to enjoy Baseball Everywhere. MLB.TV Premium subscribers again may upgrade to At Bat for free, unlocking all premium features. Fans also may subscribe to At Bat for the one-time annual fee of $19.99, covering the entire season through the World Series. iOS users may pay $2.99 per month with the recurring billing offering.
Fans accessed 1.2 million live audio and video streams of the first available Spring Training games this past weekend across supported wired and wireless devices, representing an increase of 53 percent from last year's opening weekend of games. At Bat was downloaded 1.7 million times, a figure not reached until the app surpassed two million downloads on Opening Day 2012 (April 5), 37 days after its release and en route to the record-setting 6.7 million app downloads.
Some of the first things you'll likely see in the early going include Monday's first MLB.TV night game of the year; the MLB.TV debut of the reigning world champs from San Francisco; and stars like Albert Pujols; Dustin Pedroia; Robinson Cano; Adam Jones; David Freese, Prince Fielder, Chase Utley, Starlin Castro, Andre Ethier, David Wright and Martin Prado.
"It's been fun to watch, because of the progression of technology," said R.A. Dickey, whose debut for the Blue Jays on Monday is not on MLB.TV but can be heard live with MLB.com Gameday Audio. His mother, Leslie Wheeler, has been able to watch all his starts on MLB.TV since about 2006. "One, because it brings the gift of baseball into so many more lives. That's what's first and foremost -- it's awesome. Secondly, it gives my mom a chance to watch every time I pitch, which probably should be first."
Yes, a tradition is returning now.
"I signed up for MLB.TV three or four years ago and have never looked back," said Peter Drozda, a market-research analyst in the Milwaukee area and an MLB.TV Premium subscriber who follows the Red Sox (his lifelong favorite), Brewers and Royals. "I love that MLB.TV gives me every significant game, marquee pitching matchup and Vin Scully radio broadcast in the palm of my hands, regardless of where I am at the time.
"I use MLB.TV on my iPhone and/or iPad when I'm at the office or out of town, and on my Apple TV at home. I am eagerly counting down the days until I have a full slate of games waiting for me to turn on when I arrive home at night, and am even more excited to have day games to listen to while at work."
Drozda's story is a familiar one, as today's audience in this MLB.TV and Netflix culture increasingly watch programming on multiple platforms, a far cry from the days when everyone sat on a couch and tuned in a glowing appliance to watch the exploits of Ted Williams, Rod Carew, Ryne Sandberg and Steve Carlton.
MLB.TV Premium will continue to support a growing variety of mobile and connected platforms, including those listed on the MLB.TV devices roster. Additional distribution platforms for MLB.TV live streaming will launch this season, and each will be announced as it becomes available.
Premium subscribers get exclusive access to log in and watch live games over connected devices, such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and they also can use the popular home-and-away feature to select which broadcast they want to see.
Get HD-quality video, thanks to speed detection that delivers high def on any size monitor. Alternate Audio Options allow you to overlay the home or away team's radio broadcasts over live video feeds or use the "Park" option to enjoy the ballpark's natural sounds. Pause and rewind or fast forward live games. Use Clickable Linescores to go directly to any at-bat or half-inning of a game. Watch up to four games simultaneously.
Take advantage of Picture-in-Picture to choose one game and track another or watch in-game highlights simultaneously in a secondary window. Track the location, type and speed of every pitch. View real-time highlights and player stats that automatically load into the media player, instantly launching a Picture-in-Picture window with one click. Customize a list to feature entire fantasy rosters and receive on-deck notifications to watch live look-ins for each player.
Many MLB.TV subscribers are displaced fans who use it to watch their favorite teams. MLB rightsholder contracts require a blackout radius in each market, but Drozda is among the many examples of fans who still find MLB.TV necessary as a fan today regardless of locale.
"Though I have my favorite teams, I'm a fan of the sport first and foremost, and will watch any game involving any teams, as long as it's live baseball," Drozda said. "In fact, I'd almost rather watch a great midseason pitching duel between two aces or two hot lineups facing off than an average midseason game involving my favorite team."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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WAUREGAN, Conn. (Nov. 29, 2012) — Stephien Dugas, owner of Long Pond Storage, located at 19 S. Walnut St., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the storage business she has been operating since 2008.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Teens can earn a chance to board Lady Gaga's Born Brave Bus when the singer's tour stops in St. Paul next month.
The St. Paul Public Library is featuring A.S. King's book about bullying, war and family, "Everybody Sees the Ants," under its Read Brave program. Teens who read the book and respond to it have a chance to get on board the Born Brave Bus when Lady Gaga comes to Xcel Energy Center on Feb. 6.
Responses must be submitted digitally but can range from poetry to photography. The library is accepting responses from Jan. 19 through Feb. 1.
The Born Brave Bus is tailgating outside Lady Gaga's U.S. concerts and giving young people a place to learn about anti-bullying, suicide prevention and mental health services.


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Larry Roth left his role as the head of Advisor Group, the 6,000-rep independent broker-dealer network owned by AIG, on Thursday to become CEO of Realty Capital Securities, the nontraded REIT broker-dealer and wholesaler arm of RCS Capital led by Nicholas Schorsch.
With parent company RCAP Holdings' June announcement that it was buying independent broker-dealer First Allied Securities, industry observers wonder exactly what prompted Roth to make his big jump and what he'll be up to at Realty Capital Securities.
"My move is all about the opportunity at Realty Capital and not at all about the Advisor Group and AIG," Roth said in an interview with ThinkAdvisor late Monday, when he retired from his role as chair of the board of the Financial Services Institute (hosting its Financial Advisors Summit this week in Washington, D.C.). "Realty Capital has been hugely successful in the last several years in growing alternatives-based products and distribution and its business of nontraded REITs and taking a number of those investments public."
In his former role as head of Advisor Group and its IBDs — FSC Securities Corp., Royal Alliance Associates, Sagepoint Financial and Woodbury Financial Services — Roth says he had been watching and interacting with Realty Cap.
"I've become well acquainted with the firm and its senior management," he said. "They are building something that has not been in the market, especially in the independent contractor space, in a big way in the past."
Part of his new job will be to help the firm build an alternatives platform for independent and other advisors that includes some proprietary and third-party products, both in real estate and other areas.
RCS' operations include the distribution of direct-investment offerings, like public nonlisted real estate investment trusts and business development companies offered by American Realty Capital (ARCP), as well as mutual funds. RCS also serves as an investment bank in the direct-investment channel; it worked as an advisor on $13.7 billion in equity listings and real estate mergers and scquisitions over the past year, according to the company.
"Based on what I've done in the past and on the current momentum of the team, I see it as an excellent time to be joining them," the executive said. "I'm getting in on the ground floor in many ways."
Roth, who has been in the financial services industry for more than 30 years, says that in many ways, his new post is the perfect fit: "It's the right time, I have the right business skill set, and it's super exciting."
In 1990, Roth took over the ownership of Vestax Securities and expanded the independent broker-dealer to include more than 700 advisors before selling it to ING Group and becoming CEO of ING's U.S. Retail Group.
In 2001, he left ING to become a managing director at the New York-based M&A advisory firm Berkshire Capital Corp., where he worked for five years before joining Royal Alliance as its president and CEO.
Certainly, top managers at RCAP and RCS agree. "His experience and strategic vision will contribute meaningfully to RCS' ability to grow its business and expand its role as the pre-eminent open architecture distribution platform for nontraded publicly registered securities," Schorsch, executive chairman of RCAP, said in a press release.
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In terms of Roth's distribution tasks, he says he'll be mainly focused on the independent channel. "Our core business is with independent contractors," he said.
"It's a three-legged stool, with IBDs, as well as banks/financial services and more recently RIAs," Roth said. "The wirehouse channel will be the fourth leg, and we are just beginning to build it out … and expect to have some announcements about this in the first half of 2014."
In the RIA channel, RCS works with Schwab and Fidelity. "We are talking to other clearing firms and expect to do more business with more custodians in the future."
To complement expansion on the distribution side, "we're building more products to do this, while adding products managers and wholesalers," he noted.
Broadly speaking, Roth says, American Realty will continue to offer realty-based products as it adds a full line of other alternative investments, about 60% of which will come from third parties. "Stay tuned over the next 60 days," he said.
The executive compares RCS' business model with those of KKR and Blackstone, which take private REITs public. The firms manufacture their own products, and they also work via joint ventures and distribution with third parties, while using their own investment banks to support their own growth and the business momentum of their partners.
"It seems complex, but it's actually pretty simple and is about providing an opportunity for everyone to do well," he said. "It looks like a full-scale financial services model in the alternatives space, which is very exciting."
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Some might say the world of REITs, nontraded REITS and other alternatives can get too exciting.
The news of Roth's new role broke last week, just one day after securities regulators in Massachusetts said Royal Alliance and five other independent broker-dealers had to pay total fines of close to $1.5 million associated with their REIT sales; in addition, Royal Alliance had to pay restitution of $125,000 to investors of these products. In May, Royal Alliance was asked to pay $59,000 in restitution and a $25,000 fine over improper sales of nontraded REITs.
In addition, the group is looking more at "quality product design" and "reasonable pricing" for investors, as well as "identifying places in the market where investors and up can make money in the coming years," he says.
"It's also about working with investors to get in and out of products as the market changes rather than investing at the end of a good cycle," said Roth.
He adds that he's fully confident that American Realty Capital can successfully define the alternatives space for those in the mass-affluent market and above. "It's why I'm so exciting about joining this group," Roth said.
As for the business he leaves behind, "Advisor Group is in excellent shape," he noted. "It's having its best year ever in many ways… and will be fine in the future."
Check out Roth's Exit From Advisor Group: 'A Big Deal' on ThinkAdvisor.


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Amazon launched its latest Kindle eReader recently
with a lower price point. The catch, however, was that users would be bombarded
with ads while the device was sitting idle. The surprising thing for many when
the new Kindle launched was that it was only $25 less than the version that
doesn't require ads. The big question on many minds was if consumers would buy
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unique Amazon features like one-click purchasing, Amazon Prime service, and its
recommendation engine. More consumers considering buying a tablet say that they
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Hi all! As you might have guessed from our low profile recently, there's lots brewing here in the FunOrb team and it's good to be able to give you an update.
First of all, we're glad to see that so many of you are enjoying Arcanists in high-resolution fullscreen mode and with resizable windows. Arcanists isn't the only game planned to receive the high-resolution treatment, though: Armies of Gielinor and Zombie Dawn updates are in the pipeline for the coming months, and we know you're going to love them.
But updates aren't all we're working on. Mod Crispy has recently been working with Mod Ken and Mod Thaddeus to put the finishing touches to a game that's rather close to my heart, because it's the first game I worked on after joining the team in February. If you like the idea of racing through macabre temples to collect coins and valuable idols - and who wouldn't? - then keep your eyes peeled for a release in the very near future. Says Mod Crispy:
It will be to my great joy to see Tom Bracer take his final steps to stardom. I penned his story a good 2 years ago. Finally we'll share with you the madness that's been kept under lock and key for so long. Over a year ago, Mod Cloud and myself started this project. After only a month or so, I moved on to other projects including the Armies of Gielinor campaigns. Since coming back to Tom Bracer, Mod Sporx, Mod Shade, Mod Thomas and Mod Iain have all worked on it too. Starting with Mod Cloud, allow me to bad mouth the lot of them [cut! - Ed.]
On a sad note, we've had to make a tough choice about Pirate Empires, which turned out to be a far larger project than we have the resources for at the moment. It was a hard decision to cease development of the game, but we realised we were essentially trying to produce a mini MMORPG, and we would have had to devote almost the entire development team to it in order to finish it. This would have meant putting all other projects on hold. The good news is that by cancelling Pirate Empires, we can bring you great new content for the games you already love, as well as bringing you new games on a more regular basis.
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These last few weeks, the game has been going through early QA testing, with the finishing touches being added for a summer members' beta release of this real-time, multiplayer spaceship building and combat game. Right now, you can fly around, bolt a ship together (attaching hull pieces, weapons, defences and more), and fight your friends. And last week I added the ability to save your favourite ship as a blueprint. Once you have a blueprint, you have the option to rebuild it using nearby debris during a match, or spawn it in specialblueprint combatmissions.
Expect to see the fruit of Mod Dunk's hard work in a few weeks' time.
There's more - much more - in the pipeline (including Mod Wars), but I don't want to give away all our secrets just yet. Stay tuned, and you'll hear more later. ;-)
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INTERPOL and International Commission on Missing Persons join in offering support in identification of victims
LYON, France – INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has condemned the two terror attacks in Norway, and described the suspect's wearing of a police uniform in the shooting at the youth camp as 'particularly appalling'.
Secretary General Noble said that INTERPOL's full resources were at the disposal of the Norwegian authorities investigating the bomb blast in Oslo in which current reports state seven people died, and the subsequent shooting on the nearby island of Utoya where more than 80 people have been reported killed.
"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the family and friends of those who have been killed and injured, and INTERPOL has offered its full support to the Norwegian authorities investigating these horrific incidents to identify any other individuals who may have assisted or been involved," said Mr Noble.
"I have contacted INTERPOL's Executive Committee delegate for Europe, and Norwegian police official, Petter Dyhre to personally assure him that our global resources and expertise are at Norway's disposal," added the head of the world police body.
"That the suspect now in custody impersonated a police officer is especially sickening. Abusing the Norwegian police uniform which is associated with trust and professionalism, no doubt to lull the victims into a false sense of security, was particularly callous," said Mr Noble.
INTERPOL also has contacted its Disaster Victim Identification network in which Norway is a strong participant and is liaising with the International Commission on Missing Persons to identify any additional areas where specialist assistance can be provided.
"On behalf of the International Commission on Missing Persons, I would like to extend my sincere condolences to the people of Norway," said ICMP Director General, Kathryne Bomberger.
"Together with INTERPOL, ICMP stands ready to provide assistance, should Norway request it, in identifying persons killed in Friday's attacks," she added.
"Norway's police and emergency services have consistently assisted INTERPOL member countries in responding to disasters and tragedies worldwide, therefore we especially want to make clear our desire and willingness to help Norway in a time of need," concluded Mr. Noble.


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This will be more to read than a lot of threads, but please bear with me, you will be happy you did, even if you disagree with me. Thank you for reading.
Flash way back to the battle between Madara and Harashima. We know that Madara survived that battle, barely alive, and since that battle, has been stuck to the Gedu statue this entire time, until meeting Obito. When Obito arrived, Madara told him, that he just appeared in the cave suddenly. You may say that Madara brought him there. However, this is EXACTLY what happened to Madara after his battle with Harashima There were both on the verge of death, and was transported to the Gedu statue.
So, who brought both of them there. I believe it is the remaining essence of the 10-Tails, after the SOT6P took its chakara and divided it 9 ways, trapped within the Gedu statue. However, when the SOT6P sealed the 10-Tails, the Senju side of him used for the seal, unintendedly resulted in the sprout. Thus, ZETSU was BORN.
The 10-Tails is obviously upset, and will stop at nothing to become whole again. Suck in a statue, with its only connection to the outside world being a comparatively weak parasitic clone. The 10-Tails faced a dilema, the only person able to make him whole, the SOT6P is now dead. The 10-Tails knew that the Uchia and Senju blood line together, was the only way to obtain the Rinnengan. After waiting generations, the 10-Tails found its opportunity. He saved Madara from death, and used Zetzu to copy the chakara of both Madara's and the remaing traces of Harashima. Now having the copied chakara, the 10-Tails has the ability to create the rinnengan. Prior to this Zetzu just observed the world, learning the secrets of all the nations. Including the incredible chakara of the Uzumaki clan. Now, the 10-Tails is keeping Madara alive solely to continue using Madara's sharingan. The 10-Tails is now able to go out and try to get control of the tailed beasts, by putting in motion, the formation of Akatsuki. I believe that the secret behind the Uzumaki clan, is that it could possibly be a dilution of both the Uchiha and Senju blood lines. It would explain how Naruto appears to use abilities of the SOT6P. It is for this reason the 10-Tails chose Nagato to wield the Rinnengan. By doing this the 10-Tails has the man power and key through the rinnengan to start capturing the transferring the chakara back from the Bijuu.
Now to put this in perspective. I am saying that Madara has his goal, and Obito has his goal... BUT... so does the 10-Tails...
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The problem with any hot technology in the security world is that the desire to raise a product above the competition seems to invariably lead to boastful claims. Such claims make the technology a high profile target for hackers, and with the bright minds in the field, it takes little time to take many supposedly "unbeatable" countermeasures down. Thus was the case with RFID, recently shown to be extremely insecure, and now it appears that at least some types of biometrics are headed down the same path.
Nguyen Minh Duc, manager of the application security department at the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center at Hanoi University of Technology, is scheduled to demonstrate at Black Hat DC this week how he and his colleagues used multiple methods to hack top biometric facial recognition products and gain easy access to systems.
He and his colleagues hacked Lenovo's Veriface III, ASUS' SmartLogon V1.0.0005, and Toshiba's Face Recognition 220.127.116.11 systems, which come on the companies' webcam equipped laptops. These Windows XP and Windows Vista laptops use the webcams to scan the user's face, and if it matches the stored image, analyzed by an algorithm, it will log the user on. Facial recognition is considered by many in the security world to be less of a hassle then fingerprints and more secure than passwords.
The Vietnamese researchers showed that the tech might not be such a good idea, though, by using multiple means to crack it. The simplest way was to simply use a picture of the person to spoof the webcam into thinking it was the user. Given the ready availability of images on sites like MySpace and Facebook, this seems to be an easy route to access.
The researchers also showed that they could use a brute force attack generating multiple random fake faces to eventually gain access, for lack of a picture to use the easier route. States Profesor Duc in his paper on the hack, "The mechanisms used by those three vendors haven't met the security requirements needed by an authentication system, and they cannot wholly protect their users from being tampered."
He continues, "There is no way to fix this vulnerability. ASUS, Lenovo, and Toshiba have to remove this function from all the models of their laptops ... [they] must give an advisory to users all over the world: Stop using this [biometric] function."
He and his colleagues will be releasing a suite of tools for hacking facial recognition software at the Black Hat DC conference. The key to using spoofed images, he and his team found, was simply tweaking the lighting and angle of the photo until the system accepts it. Describes Professor Duc, "Due to the fact that a hacker doesn't know exactly how the face learnt by the system looks like, he has to create a large number of images...let us call this method of attack 'Fake Face Bruteforce.' It is just easy to do that with a wide range of image editing programs at the moment."
He breaks down the weakness further, stating, "One special point we found out when studying those algorithms is that all of them work with images that have already been digitalized and gone through image processing. Consequently, we think that this is the weakest security spot in face recognition systems, generally, and access control system of the three vendors, particularly."
Many government efforts in the U.S. and elsewhere are looking to use facial recognition software as a means to identify citizens in motor vehicles or at sensitive public locations like airports.


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Source - Click hereChris Bosh can thank Kevin Garnett for a happy homecoming.
On Saturday, Garnett gave East coach Stan Van Gundy some subtle advice.
"He said, Hey, play me the first time out each half. Its Chris hometown, so give him a lot of minutes," Van Gundy said. "So I was glad we were able to do that. I thought it was great."
"Chris played very well," Van Gundy said. "It was obvious not just with his numbers, but with the way he was playing, running up and down the court with great energy, that this day was important for him."
Bosh finished with 23 points, the third-highest total for the East, and also had 10 rebounds and a couple of crowd-pleasing dunks.
Although he didnt start, he played more than 29 minutes, the most of any player on either team other than LeBron James (32 minutes) and Dwyane Wade (31 minutes).
Making the moment even bigger was the crowd of 108,713, the most ever to watch a basketball game.
"He played extremely hard, so Im very happy for him," Van Gundy said.
"[Playing in front of] 108,000 people in his hometown, a double-double and the winning points, I thought it was a great day for him."


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Call me a sucker, but I still want to see Bargnani play with the "new Raptors" before any moves get made, if possible.
I think from a basketball and business perspective (business I really don't care about though as I am not cutting the cheque) the Raps can do better than amnesty Bargnani. While his value is not high, I think he could return something of use.
I think that amnesty should be reserved for Kleiza.
Gay would not even our best wing, let alone best player. Fields, Davis, Johnson, Calderon and Lowrey are all look more productive for the stats.
But he is a really good player. I wouldn't trade Fields for him, or give on Ross yet, but DeRozan for sure, no problem. Obsiously Bargnani, but doubt that would help the deal, reluctantly Calderon, ok.
I wonder if Gay is the best we can get for Calderon+DeRozan though?
Trades I would make:
Calderon: He is an expiring contract we can always resign him in the offseason, if we can get something for him why not?
Calderon + Davis for Rudy Gay: I would not normally be in favor of trading Davis but this is pretty much a Davis for Rudy Gay swap if we consider Calderon is a free agent. We are taking on a bunch of salary but MLSE has tons of cash it is time for them to spend it, look what they did with the Blue Jays, I think MLSE, Rogers, and Bell want to win, and they have deep pockets.
Bargnani: If a decent deal presents itself that improves the team.
I would not trade Derozan, Ross, JV, Lowry. I think these guys are our future. One note on Derozan he seems to beat the epicenter of this positive vibe we are getting from the team, he looks like he is assuming a leadership role. I would not trade him as it might mess with team chemistry, besides that he is playing great.
"Defense wins championships."
Davis is a good player, he deserves to be traded for Rudy Gay.
I still would not do it. I like what Davis has shown this season, hate to be the prick that moves him elsewhere. He has been a good raptor.
Rumors of bargs to PHX and grizzlies apparently want Jared Dudley... I see potential in calderon +davis to memphis and bargs to PHX... could be great deal for the raps, i wish we could keep Davis but if our culture is becoming as good as we think it is, we could get him in (1-2 not sure) years when his contract is up. Wishful thinking of course, however i could not pass up on Gay. People forget hes the focus night in night out for his team. The pressure he would take off Derozan would be incredible.
On a side note i would hate to see Alan Anderson go i have seen so many good things from him and could see him being a excellent backup 3man for this team for the future. I think we have a lot of pieces but one we are clearly missing is an All star. IMO we have to boarder line all stars in Lowry and Demar but Gay is a proven all star already. The athleticism on our wing positions would be un believable and would love to see a 5 wing rotation (with some time being split at 4) with demar ross anderson field and gay.
He's athletically gifted, but as I said earlier, his overall shooting efficiency is equivalent to AB's and his 3P shooting is equivalent to DD's, and that's with guys like Z-Bo and Gasol taking defensive attention away from him!! Hell, he's not even a good defender, yet fans want the Raps to give up assets and pay this guy what they pay both DD and AB combined? IMHO, it makes zero sense, when most criticism of BC has been that he jumps too often at quick fixes and needs to be patient with a slow build. Damn, I see a very nice wing rotation of DD/Fields/Ross developing, with Anderson keeping them all honest.
I'm all in favour of using assets to improve, but don't see Gay as a good move at all.
They've been fun to watch, but if there is an opportunity to improve the team long term you have to take it. At the end of the day only 3 of our victories are against teams over .500 (Indiana, Houston, and Portland). The rest of our victories are against mostly bottom feeders (Orlando x 3, Clevland, Phoenix, New Orleans). We've also got a few wins agains teams like Minnesota, Detroit and Philli, whom are contenders for playoff spots I suppose, but the win agains Minni and Philli was with key players out I beleive.
Giving up Davis for Gay makes no sense to me. He will be a rental and nothing else. If the guy isnt happy in Memphis, he wont be happy here unless we are going to the finals. That wont happen in the 2 year window we have. I would rather have Ed Davis for those years than this over payed malcontent.
Try and move expiring contracts and dead weight like bargs and see what we end up with. That should be the priority. Dont give up players that make quantum leaps in their game for 2 year expensive rentals.
From the free agents, who is worth $10M? I think Millsap. But then what happens to ED/Amir? At SF, I don't see anyone worth $10M. I like Wright though. What about backup PG? If you go SG what happens to DD or Ross? C? Again, what about ED/Amir/ and now JV?
Because I'd rather play Lowry more. Because Jose won't accept a backup role with less money. If he did, sure, am all for it.
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As this book goes to press, the question remains as to whether broker-dealers who give investment advice will be subject to the same fiduciary standard as RIAs. The Dodd-Frank Act did not resolve the issue of which financial services professionals will be held to a fiduciary standard. The law authorized the SEC to impose a fiduciary duty on registered representatives who provide investment advice to clients. Before doing so, however, the SEC was required to conduct a six-month study of the fiduciary issue as it applies to RIAs and broker-dealers. The SEC's report recommended that a strict version of the fiduciary standard be imposed on broker-dealers. It also recommended that regulations be harmonized to achieve a more consistent regulatory regime.
According to Melanie Waddell's December 9, 2011 posting on AdvisorOne, Mary Schapiro of the SEC indicated in an interview with Bloomberg that the Commission will publish a proposed fiduciary rule in 2012. Schapiro is quoted as saying that the fiduciary rule will be business model neutral, meaning that brokers working with retail investors will be permitted to charge commissions and sell proprietary products. The Dodd-Frank Act stated that charging commissions and selling proprietary products do not, by themselves, breach the fiduciary standard. Until that proposed rule is published, the fiduciary issue will remain unresolved.
Along with the fiduciary standard issue, we really do not know if state securities regulators will have enough resources to effectively regulate currently registered firms, as well as RIAs making the transition from federal to state registration. The level of oversight will certainly differ from state to state. In some states, examinations may be very intense to show RIAs that examiners mean business. State securities regulators may believe they need to send a message that non-compliance will not be tolerated.
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- Imposing user fees on SEC-registered investment advisors to fund their examinations
- Authorizing one or more self-regulatory organizations (SROs) to examine, subject to the oversight of the Commission, all SEC-registered advisors
- Authorizing FINRA to examine dually-registered investment advisors and broker-dealers for compliance with the Investment Advisers Act
States securities regulators may also be looking for new sources of revenue to make up for budget shortfalls. Aside from user fees imposed on RIAs, states may quickly fine investment advisors who violate securities laws and rules.
In his testimony on November 16, 2011 before a Senate subcommittee, Carlo di Florio, director of the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), testified that only eight percent of RIAs were examined in 2011, and 38 percent of SEC-registered investment advisors have never undergone an examination by the Commission. He told the Senate panel that OCIE will not have sufficient resources in the near or long term for effectively conducting timely examinations of RIAs, even with more advisors becoming state registered.
Although the number of SEC-registered investment advisors is likely to go down, the amount of assets they manage will be much higher. OCIE will also have new responsibilities, such as the registration and examination of previously-unregulated entities. For example, because of the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC will now regulate municipal advisors. A municipal advisor is any person or entity providing advice to or on behalf of a municipal entity or undertaking a solicitation of a municipal entity with regard to municipal financial products, investment advisory services, or the issuance of municipal securities.
Compelling Reasons to Be Compliant
On November 9, 2011, the SEC announced that the Commission filed a record 735 enforcement actions during the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2011. Investment advisors and companies were the target of 146 enforcement actions—a thirty percent increase over fiscal year 2010.
According to a report from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) published on October 19, 2011, there were 3,475 enforcement actions during the previous year—a 51 percent increase in enforcement actions brought by state securities regulators. In addition, regulators initiated many investor protection actions by removing or barring investment advisors and registered representatives. In 2010, actions taken by state regulators resulted in 3,242 licenses being withdrawn, denied, revoked, suspended, or subjected to conditions.
It is doubtful that enforcement actions will decline in 2012, especially if fines become a new source of revenue for securities regulators. According to NASAA's enforcement report, states levied fines or penalties of $171 million in 2010.
No matter how much the regulatory environment changes, RIAs can cope with these new developments by being committed to compliance. At every firm, the attitude toward compliance of the people at the top sets the tone for other advisory personnel.
It is very common for investment advisors to believe their job is finished after a document, such as a contract, has been approved from a compliance perspective. The problem with that approach, however, is that an RIA's compliance obligations change as a result of new rules and regulations. Furthermore, as an RIA's business model changes, the firm must address any new compliance risks. More than likely, the RIA will need to revise its Form ADV, policies and procedures, contracts, and other documents. As we saw in Advertising Advisor Services and Credentials, previously-approved website content may become misleading as an RIA's strategy, personnel, and assets under management change.
Investment advisors should not be lulled into a false sense of security by having few issues arise during prior compliance examinations. A typical SEC deficiency letter warns RIAs that other compliance problems may exist, even though they were not pointed out in the document. Deficiency letters clearly state that RIAs should not assume they are in full compliance with federal securities laws or other applicable rules and regulations, even if their exam went smoothly. Many RIAs will be examined by a new regulator who might have a very different perspective on the quality of their compliance program.
Like quality improvement programs for other than advisory services, the process is ongoing. An RIA's compliance program must be constantly evolving—addressing new regulatory challenges and protecting investors. Ultimately, an effective compliance program can help an advisory firm be more efficient and potentially increase customer satisfaction. In the end, that makes good business sense for an RIA.
Compliance and Ethics
The ultimate compliance goal is to help ensure that everyone associated with an advisory firm acts ethically at all times. In a speech at the NSCP National Meeting on October 17, 2011, di Florio said that ethics is fundamental to the securities laws and an effective regulatory compliance program. Mr. di Florio also stated that, "ethics are not important merely because the federal securities laws are grounded on ethical principles. Good ethics are also good business. Treating customers fairly and honestly helps build a firm's reputation and brand, while attracting the best employees and business partners. Conversely, creating the impression that ethical behavior is not important to a firm is incredibly damaging to its reputation and business prospects. This, of course, is equally true for individuals, and there are plenty of enforcement cases that tell the story of highly talented and successful individuals who were punished because they violated their ethical and compliance responsibilities."
As the story goes, Bobby Jones, the legendary golfer, was playing in the 1925 U.S. Open at the Worcester Country Club, and was getting ready to hit his shot, his club caused the ball to move ever so slightly. Jones called a two-stroke penalty on himself, even though no one else saw the ball move. He lost the tournament by one shot. When he was lauded for his honesty, Jones replied, "You may as well praise a man for not robbing a bank."
The ideal investment advisor will follow Jones' example. Advisors and RIAs should do the right thing, even when regulators are not looking over their shoulders.


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I had no doubt that my recent response concerning Leigh Waggoners tolerance for homosexuality would be criticized. After submitting my comments I feared something worse that nothing of the grace of Christ would be understood. Jesus had a zero tolerance policy for any infraction of Gods moral Law. But he also communicated that faith and repentance garners the forgiveness of a God whose grace goes deeper than any persons sin can ever dive. Just as Gods judgment is not prejudiced against any type of sin, neither is his grace withheld from the same when we humble ourselves, acknowledge our sin and plead upon His grace. The power of that grace was demonstrated in the horrific death Christ endured on the cross to pay the debt we owe to God. That is what I failed to communicate in my response.
By the way, the Bible has faced over 200 years of severe criticism and has faced every challenge thrown its way. That explains why it is still the most powerful book ever written. But of course, if it is divinely inspired, that is the real explanation. I rest the strongest case on the fact that it has transformed countless lives for nearly 2,000 years.
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Last week, the trial of four admins from The Pirate Bay, the world's largest torrent site, concluded. The result was a stunning defeat for the pirates, with a guilty verdict and a sentence of over $3M USD in damages (to be paid to Warner Bros., Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures) and a year in jail.
Now new revelations have surfaced. It turns out the judge presiding over the trial, Judge Tomas Norstrom, was a member of two Swedish copyright protection groups. He confirmed his affiliation this week, which first surfaced in Swedish Radio reports.
The affiliation represents a relatively clear conflict of interest, given that the prosecution lawyers consisted of three lawyers of similar affiliations. Peter Althin, who represented Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde in the case, is demanding a retrial. He states, "This is completely new to me. It is reasonable that we should have known about this before. It is a clear case of bias."
After successful actions against Kazaa and Grokster, two popular P2P clients, copyright lawyers are eager to trying to take down The Pirate Bay, which boasts over 22 million users. And it appears they had a fully loaded deck to do it with the trial of the administrators, as they had control of the Judge and the prosecution.
All four defendants will appeal the guilty verdict Friday. It is likely that all of them will request a retrial as part of that appeal.
Judge Nordstrom, meanwhile, defends his record, claiming he was completely unbiased. He admits he is a member of The Swedish Association for Copyright and Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property. He also admits he worked with Monica Wadsted, who represented the American movie industry in the trial, in resolving internet domain name disputes. Despite these close ties, though he insists the trial was clean. He states, "I don't think there are any circumstances that have made me biased in this case."
Meanwhile, Pirate Bay ringleader Peter "brokep" Sunde was quick to poke fun at the judge's affiliation, calling it "quite remarkable". He sums up the trial, in comments to the AP, in one word -- a "farce".


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(Note: This is based on Kisame, spewing water everywhere at the start.)
So, what does Kisame have?
Raw Speed
Both Shippuden encounters with Gai has shown us that is pushed to open nearly all the gates for him to match and overwhelm him, despite being someone who focuses almost solely on high-speed taijutsu.
Kisame easily dodged Gai's attack just previous to this and at this point managed to quick fire a jutsu at Gai and carry on escaping. He has also been shown to match Bee's speed prior to this, albeit barely.
Monstrous Endurance and Strength
During his encounter with Asuma, he was able to easily match Asuma who was using two chakra blades and using maximum effort, whilst Kisame was wielding Samehada with one hand, holding it at the tip.
He has even survived Hirudora; despite it being a one-hit kill technique.
Even after that, he broke out of Yamato's stocks and stopped Aoba from reading his mind.
Abnormally high levels of Chakra
Named "The Tailless Tailed Beast", many characters have commented on his large chakra supplies. Neji commented on the fact that his chakra supplies are comparable to that of Narutos.
Moving on to Sandaime Raikage...
Monstrous Endurance and Strength
Manage to fend of 10,000 Shinobi for three days straight presumably without any aid from pills.
He's also managed to repeatedly restrain the Hachibi when it's Jinchuriki lost control.
High levels of Chakra
He has shown us that he can use one of the Treasured Tools, Kohaku no Jouhei, which he used to seal the Hachibi.
Proficiency with Lightning
Able to use the Lightning Armour, his famed dangerous Hell Stab technique and his Black Lightning, few are able to match his Lightning prowess.
So, who wins?
I believe Kisame wins, why? For the most part, they can cancel each other out but, there is one problem for the Raikage. Lightning's unique relationship with Water. Water can conduct and empower Lightning techniques and essentially throw the attacks users back at them, for this reason alone, Kisame wins.


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No, you didn't just misread the title to this article.
BiTMICRO Networks is moving forward with plans to announce
an 832GB SATA 2.5" solid-state disk (SSD) at this year's Consumer
Electronics Show.
The new 832GB SSD is a part of BiTMICRO's E-Disk Altima family
and uses multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory to increase storage
densities. BiTMICRO claims that the drive will "deliver sustained rates of
up to 100 MB per second and up to 20,000 I/O operations per second."
"This latest product pre-announcement seeks to
establish BiTMICRO's commitment to deliver solid state storage in all market
applications," said Rudy Bruce, BiTMICRO's Executive VP for Marketing and
Sales. "We are excited to offer E-Disk Altima SATA flash solid state drive
as a PC and enterprise storage alternative offering the best-in-class capacity,
performance and reliability."
The 416GB counterpart to BiTMICRO's newest SSD entry was announced
in early September 2007. At that time, BiTMICRO said that samples of its
E-Disk Altima family would ship in Q1 2008 with production availability coming
in March 2008.
BiTMICRO has since revised that forecast and projects that
samples of the E-Disk Altima will be available during Q2 2008 with production
models ranging from 32GB to 832GB coming in Q3 2008.
Pricing hasn't been announced for the massive 832GB drive,
but expect to pay a pretty penny. Considering that 128GB SSDs can hover around
the $4,000 USD mark, it's not too far-fetched to project that an 832GB SSD
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One of the biggest factors in solar power remaining an expensive power source, despite constantly improving efficiencies, is the inherent cost of materials and processing for solar cells made of polysilicon. Cutting these costs could make the solar power the preferred energy source for mankind, but thus-far there has been little high-performance designs made with cheaper processes or materials.
Now University of California, Berkeley researchers have created a new type of solar cells that may offer exactly that -- lots of solar energy with low processing and materials costs. The new type of solar cells are composed of tiny nanopillars in a thin film layer atop aluminum foil. The foil is enclosed in a protective layer of transparent, rubbery polymer.
The total materials costs are quite low, and the production costs, while not fully determined also look promising. Ali Jarvey, an electrical-engineering and computer-sciences professor who led the work, cheers, "You won't know the cost until you do this using a roll-to-roll process, but if you can do it, the cost could be 10 times less than what's used to make [crystalline] silicon panels."
The cells use a nanofilm of cadmium telluride with uniform 500-nanometer-high pillars of cadmium sulfide laid on top of it. Other thin-film solar cells with pillars have been made before, says Professor Jarvey, but they have relied on more expensive deposition techniques. Further, the new cells have an efficiency of 6 percent in transforming sunlight into electricity, where past designs had efficiencies of less than 2 percent.
Silicon-based photovoltaics still have the cell beat in efficiency with 20 percent or more in commercially available designs; however, they are extremely pure, expensive crystalline silicon. Impurities can cause electrons to get trapped in the semiconductor, so the expensive process of making this high quality crystal material is unavoidable for that design. Purity is much less of a cost concern in the new design.
Creating an equivalent amount of power would require three times the area (panels) of photovoltaic cells, given their respective efficiencies. This means that given the cost estimates, solar power costs could be cut to a third of the current levels.
Another key advantage of the new design over traditional photovoltaic panels is flexibility. Traditional crystalline panels would break if flexed. The thin film nanopillar cells, though, can be rolled and unrolled with ease.
The new design essentially divides silicon's responsibilities. The thin film material absorbs light and generates electrons, while the pillars conduct the electrons to the circuit and help to trap light. As electrons have a shorter distance to travel to reach the pillars they're less likely to get trapped by defects, and thus crystal quality is less of a concern.
Currently the cells are produced using a relatively cost-effective anodizing design to grow the pillars on a thin aluminum foil film, the bottom electrode. The thin semiconductor film is then layered over the pillars and a top electrode of copper and gold is layered thinly to complete the circuit.
Two key areas of improvement are the top film and the production process. Adopting a roll-to-roll production system could speed up the assembly and make it cheaper. Also, currently the gold only allows half the sunlight to enter the cell as its semi-opaque. Replacing the gold with a transparent material like indium oxide could double the efficiency to 12 percent or more, while not significantly impacting the cost of materials.
States Professor Yang, "(The) architecture is most important--materials we can continue working on. The beauty of this paper is the demonstration of how well the architecture works."
The research appears in this month's edition of the journal Nature Materials.


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We know that the main reason that made Obito evil is the Death of Rin...
Because of the death of that girl Obito actions where:
- To kill his clan ( basically his family maybe even his real family )
- Trying to destory konoha and all the people that he helped during his time in Konoha (the old people etc)
Obito hurt alot of people but he could NOT KILL KAKASHI THAT LET RIN DIED OR KILLED RIN ! :shrug: WTF ?
My main point is that all of this happen because Obito lost the one that he loved Rin.... yet he KILLED other people who he LOVED and was proud of them.... like his clan... The Uchiha clan !
We know Sasuke that also walks this path.... Sasuke atleast whants revenge by KILLING the ones that are responsabile for the death of Itachi and the Uchiha Clan !
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Visit to NATO HQ of the NATO Regional Cooperation Course (NRCC-6)
On 7 October 2011, the NATO Regional Cooperation Course (NRCC) visited NATO Headquarters on a Field Study visit, organised by the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division (PASP).
The sixth NATO Regional Cooperation Course (NRCC-6) was welcomed at NATO Headquarters by Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, who briefed about NATO's political agenda.
The group then received briefings on NATO's New Strategic Concept, the Mediterranean and the Middle East by Mr. Nicola de Santis, Head, Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Countries Section, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, on NATO's new Partnership Policy by Dr Jarek Skoniezka, Senior Director, Integration, Partnership and Cooperation Directorate, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, on NATO's Military Cooperation in the framework of the Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative by Colonel Giuseppe Di Maio, MD& ICI Section Chief, Cooperation and Regional Secruity Division, International Military Staff, and on NATO's Military Command structure by Brigadier General Patrick Wouters, Deputy Director Plans and Policy, NATO International Military Staff and on NATO's Operation in Libya by Major General Marcel Druart, Director Operations Division, NATO International Military Staff.
The visit also included a series of high-level meetings with Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Chairman of the North Atlantic Military Committee, with H.E. Ambassador Carlos Miranda, the Permanent Representative of Spain on the North Atlantic Council, with H.E. Ambassador Riccardo Sessa, the Permanent Representative of Italy on the North Atlantic Council, and with Mr Joseph Manso, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States of America on the North Atlantic Council.
The NRCC is a direct response to NATO's HOSG decision in Riga in 2006 to launch the NATO Training Cooperation Initiative with the countries from the Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), and the success of the NRCC is demonstrated by the growing interest from regional states, including Saudi Arabia in it. The sixth NATO Regional Cooperation Course (NRCC-6) has 25 participants, from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Tunisia, Kuwait, UAE, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.


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First Tech Rolls Out New ATM Fleet
The $5.6 billion, 356,000-member First Tech Federal Credit Union in Palo Alto, Calif., said it has completed the installation of a new fleet of 114 customized ATMs.
The NCR machines include dip card readers and envelope-free deposits that can take multiple checks and cash at one time and check images on printed receipts. Users also can set preferences, such as favorite fast cash amounts and receipts.
Some of the machines also have hooks for hanging handbags, coats or dog leashes, and cup trays that double as a check-signing station, First Tech said. Anti-fraud features include requiring a separate PIN validation for each transaction.
"This prevents the common practice of walking away from the ATM without completely ending a session," First Tech said in the announcement.
"To us, this wasn't just a machine upgrade, but an experience upgrade. Instead of flashy, non-functional features, we've created an ATM that is efficient, secure and allows our members to make quick, monetary transactions and get on with their daily lives," said Doug Marshall, the credit union's chief membership officer.
First Tech partnered with Atlanta-based NCR and Companion Systems of North Salt Lake, Utah, to customize and brand the new fleet. First Tech members can use their ATMs and others in the CO-OP network free of fees.


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Last month Amazon announced that it was taking preorders of its Kindle 2 eBook reader, the follow-up to its original eBook reader than burned up sales charts. The new reader, available for $359, came with 2 GB of memory -- enough to store 1,500 books -- and a 25 percent longer battery life.
Still, as impressive as the Kindle 2 is, it is easily outdone by Fujitsu's FLEPia. FLEPia, first announced in 2007, is based on a color eBook reader concept first built at Fujitsu in 2006. Out in only a couple weeks -- but only in Japan -- the reader features an eye-catching 8-inch XGA screen capable of displaying 260,000 colors.
It also has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and up to 4GB of storage via SD card to boot. Lack of expandable/swappable storage was one major complaint about the Kindle. The tablet is also only half an inch thick, runs for 40 hours on a charge, and can be commanded by either touch screen or button input.
The device features a full install of Windows CE 5.0, in addition to a standard eBook display. With the slow refresh times of E-Ink (1.8 seconds per full wipe), using the OS may be a bit impractical. Still, it adds even more to the already impressive package.
The downside -- and there's only really one -- is the price. The FLEPia will break the bank at 99,750 Yen (about $1,010 US).
The unit ships across Japan on April 10. No plans to release the unit in the U.S. have been announced.


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Quality of American Life, 1971 (ICPSR 3508)
Principal Investigator(s): Campbell, Angus; Converse, Philip E.; Rodgers, Willard L.
The purpose of this study was to survey Americans about perceived quality of life by measuring perceptions of their socio-psychological condition, their needs and expectations from life, and the degree to which those needs were satisfied. The data were collected via personal interviews from a nationwide probability sample of 2,164 persons 18 years of age and older during the summer of 1971. Closed and open-ended questions were used to probe respondents' satisfactions, dissatisfactions, aspirations, and disappointments in a variety of life domains, such as dwelling/neighborhood, local services (e.g., police, roads, and schools), public transportation, present personal life, life in the United States, education, occupation, job history/expectation, work life, housework, leisure activities, organizational affiliations, religious affiliation, health problems, financial situation, marriage (including widowhood, divorce, and separation), children/family life, and relationships with family and friends. In addition to broad questions about satisfaction with each of these domains and their importance to the respondents, specific sources of gratification and frustration are explored. Other questions focused on life as a whole and the extent to which respondents felt they had control over their lives (e.g., rating of various aspects of life, (dis)satisfaction with life, personal efficacy, and social desirability measures). Personal data include sex, age, race, ethnic background, childhood family stability, military service, and father's occupation and education. Observational data are included on housing and neighborhood characteristics as well as respondents' appearance, intelligence, and sincerity. An instructional subset of this study is also available (see ICPSR INSTRUCTIONAL SUBSET: QUALITY OF AMERICAN LIFE, 1971 [ICPSR 7516], also prepared by Campbell, Converse, and Rodgers.) It includes questions representative of the major areas covered in the original, longer survey. A related dataset, QUALITY OF AMERICAN LIFE, 1978 (ICPSR 7762), continues the survey conducted in 1971.
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Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, and Willard L. Rodgers. Quality of American Life, 1971. ICPSR03508-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03508.v1
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Subject Terms: attitudes, dissatisfaction, family life, friendships, happiness, health behavior, home environment, job satisfaction, leisure, life plans, life satisfaction, lifestyles, living conditions, occupational status, optimism, personal adjustment, personal finances, pessimism, psychological wellbeing, quality of life, recreation, social behavior, social life, social networks
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Sample: A national multistage area probability sampling of 2,164 persons (weighted to 9,561) was used. The 74 sample points, located in 36 states and Washington DC, included the two standard consolidated areas (New York/Northeastern New Jersey and Chicago/Northeastern Indiana), the ten largest SMSAs, and non-SMSAs that were either single counties or county groups. First stage stratification of SMSAs and counties was carried out independently within each of the four major geographical regions -- Northeast, North Central, South, and West -- each of which received representation in proportion to population.
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Join the flood and help save lives
Every day, 2,000 children die from diarrhea caused by unsafe water. World Vision is the chosen implementing partner of Flash Flood for Good, a social media movement to bring clean water to children. Join the movement!
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When I traveled to El Salvador with my church two years ago, the missionaries we worked with and their staff went to great lengths to keep our team protected from a host of threats.
There were the obvious ones, like crime and violence, and aside from someone breaking into their center and stealing the safe that held our passports, they succeeded in that regard. But there were also unseen threats, like bad water. They knew our bodies were susceptible to what their water contained, so while not convenient, they protected us at all costs.
They constantly replenished our water supply. We walked most places or crammed 20 sweaty, smelly people in a 15-passenger van when we did drive. We had team members chasing children, working under car hoods, cooking in small kitchens using wood-fired ovens, and playing soccer — all day. In short, we were hot, thirsty, and tired, so the cool sensation of clean water on our tongues traveled down our parched throats to refresh our tired bodies like nothing else.
Because of that, we sometimes drank too much water and ran out, but the staff always made extra runs to the store to immediately get more.
They would also rise hours before everyone to wash, multiple times with purified water, all the produce they would serve us for meals that day. And after every meal, they used boiled and purified water to painstakingly wash each utensil, plate, and pot, ensuring not a single microbe would harm their guests.
As a result, none of us got sick. Well, I may have eaten one — or 10 — too many greasy pupusas, the traditional dish, which led to a not-so-pleasant first night there — but the water didn't do me in.
But two years later, I now work for World Vision, and I read stories about people who aren't protected from dirty water's diseases.
Take, for instance, Kuma in Ethiopia. Kuma has trachoma, a disease damaging his vision that's caused by a lack of water. The water his family does fetch three times a day is brown, and animals defecate in it. Once, Kuma accidentally swallowed a leech that was in the water and had to go to the hospital. As if his own health issues weren't enough, add the emotional anguish of his little, 20-month-old baby girl dying from a waterborne disease.
Families like Kuma's don't have a team replacing their bad water with good to protect them. They can't wash all the bad microbes from their food and dishes. And the water they drink doesn't refresh their desert-like throats or run coolly through their body, refueling them. It attacks them, makes them sick and, sometimes, kills them.
My stomach churns when I read these stories.
But I also get excited about solutions, like the upcoming Flash Flood for Good campaign.
You see, President Bill Clinton, and his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, with Procter & Gamble, recently visited a World Vision community in Rwanda. They were able to see the impact we're making by reaching a new person with clean drinking water every 30 seconds.
On Sept. 24, the Flash Flood For Good Campaign will be launched at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City. This starts a 72-hour social media "flood" of tweets and posts from celebrities like Matthew McConaughey, Colbie Caillat, Morgan Freeman, and many others with a simple message: join the flood, give $10.
Just $10 can give a child clean drinking water for a year. One way World Vision makes that happen is by using P&G water purification packets. All the money that Flash Flood for Good raises will go solely toward World Vision water programs in some of the most-needed communities in the world. These packets transform water from brown, contaminated, and potentially deadly into clear, clean, and healthy water in minutes. They can protect children and families from waterborne diseases like dysentery, diarrhea, worms, and cholera. Simply put: these packets can save lives.
My missionary's team protected me, and while you and I can't be there physically to protect people like Kuma, we can still help protect them by joining the flood. As soon as I heard about it, I signed up through Facebook, and now that you've heard, I hope you will too.
Learn more about the Flash Flood for Good.