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Apple has
one of the most popular smartphones on the market with the iPhone. The part
that is so impressive is that Apple has managed to become one of the largest
smartphone makers in the world on the back off relatively few iPhone SKUs whereas
other makers like Nokia have hoards of devices to offer.
Apple is looking to broaden its appeal reports Bloomberg. Bloomberg cites
sources familiar with Apple's plans that claim Apple has a cheaper
and smaller smartphone in the works. The device is said to be about
one-third smaller than the existing iPhone 4. This could well be the long
rumored "iPhone nano".
The source claims to have seen a prototype of the device last year and notes
that the device was a prototype and Apple often develops prototypes that never
launch. The source also claims that the smartphone has no Home button like the
current iPhone uses and Apple is looking at a sales price of about $200 with no
subsidies and no contract needed from carriers.
would make this phone one seriously popular handset on pay-as-you-go networks.
Bloomberg reports that the smaller and cheaper second iPhone model
is a move by Apple to grab more of the market to stave off the growing Android
threat. Analyst Charlie Wolf from Needham & Co. in NYC said, "Instead
of targeting 25 percent of the global mobile-phone market, Apple would be going
after 100 percent."
Apple already owns 32.9% of the smartphone market as of Q4 2010 and a second
phone that sells without a contract at a lower price would make that percentage
grow. The smaller and cheaper handset would also allow Apple to target
countries where consumers buy cheaper devices such as India and China.

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Dutch football association visits INTERPOL to boost sports integrity cooperation
LYON, France ‒ Senior officials from the governing body of football in the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB), have met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble at the world police body's General Secretariat to discuss cooperation with INTERPOL's Integrity in Sport Unit.
With INTERPOL having agreed a 10-year initiative with FIFA in May 2011 to better tackle corruption in football, collaboration on developing and implementing a global training, education and prevention programme against irregular betting and match-fixing topped the agenda during the KNVB visit.
The Dutch delegation, which included Gijs De Jong, Head of Competitions, KNVB, Tjeerd Veenstra, Director of De Lotto, and Wouter Boshuis, Integrity Officer, KNVB, were updated on the objectives of the programme, including improved awareness and understanding of irregular betting and match-fixing, the strategies used by its perpetrators, and the methods to detect and counteract them.
"We need to work collectively to combat corruption in football and to keep our sport clean. National authorities must work together to combat match-fixing, especially with young players, and in this effort cooperation with INTERPOL's global network and Integrity in Sport unit is important," said Tjeerd Veenstra.
"As one of the founding members of FIFA, the KNVB's long history and leadership in safeguarding footballing standards means it is a key player in collective efforts to stem corruption in football," said Secretary General Noble.
"The problem of match-fixing poses a danger to more than just the reputations and livelihoods of sports professionals and associations; match-fixing has now become a global threat with large amounts of money used for other illegal activities, and a concerted approach is therefore crucial," added Mr Noble.
The KNVB's Gijs De Jong said: "We are delighted to have had the opportunity to meet with Secretary General Noble and INTERPOL's Integrity in Sport team. Integrity and fair and honest competitions are the most valuable goods in our sports and we need to do everything to protect them and prevent match-fixing. The Royal Netherlands Football Association therefore looks forward to hosting soon a workshop in the Netherlands, involving the country's relevant organizations to share experiences, good practice and ways of enhancing training, education and prevention of match-fixing."
In 2011 INTERPOL created its Integrity in Sports unit, which has already brought together specialists from law enforcement, sports and the betting industry for expert meetings and held the pilot national training workshop for police, players, referees, regulators and academic institutions in Finland in April 2012.
By the end of 2012, training will be provided to referees and assistants for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. An online learning programme will also be launched as a preventative tool for players who may be targeted by criminals seeking to manipulate the outcome of a game.
Throughout Euro 2012, in addition to the deployment of an INTERPOL Major Events Support Team to Poland and Ukraine, INTERPOL also ran operation SOGA – short for soccer gambling – targeting illegal football gambling across Southeast Asia.
The three previous SOGA operations conducted in the region during major soccer tournaments have resulted in nearly 7,000 arrests, the seizure of more than 26 million US dollars in cash and the closure of illegal gambling dens which handled more than two billion dollars' worth of bets.
The visit to INTERPOL by the Dutch governing body of football came a day after the president of one of Turkey's top football clubs, Fenerbahçe, was sentenced to more than six years in prison for match-fixing.


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The study was based on 17 first- and
second-grade elementary school teachers, along with 52 boys and 65
girls. At the beginning of the school year, researchers learned
boys' and girls' math achievement didn't correlate depending on the
attitude of their teacher.
Boys weren't affected, but
girls who began to believe boys are naturally
better at math yielded lower grades.
"We are not sure
whether it's something overt, whether it's non-verbal behavior or
perhaps (teachers are) not spending much time on the subject,"
said Susan Levine, University of Chicago psychology and human
development professor, co-author of the "Female Teachers' Math
Anxiety Affects Girls' Math Achievement" study. "It's
not just a teacher's knowledge of the subject, but there' something
about their feeling about the discipline."
This is a
significant problem since there is a high demand for scientists,
engineers and mathematicians, as these are in-demand jobs that
help stimulate the economy. However, men continue to
dominate the engineering and IT jobs, and researchers believe it's
detrimental to research to "dismiss 50%" of researchers
because they are women.
The National Survey of Science and
Mathematics Education indicates more than 90% of all elementary
school teachers in the U.S. are women -- an inadequate level of
mathematics study is required to receive a teaching certificate,
which is something that may be addressed in the future.


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Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 1C (ICPSR 8091)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
Summary Tape File (STF) 1 consists of four sets of computer-readable data files containing detailed tabulations of the nation's population and housing characteristics produced from the 1980 Census. This series is comprised of STF 1A, STF 1B, STF 1C, and STF 1D. All files in the STF 1 series are identical, containing 321 substantive data variables organized in the form of 59 "tables," as well as standard geographic identification variables. All of the data items contained in the STF 1 files were tabulated from the "complete count" or "100-percent" questions included on the 1980 Census questionnaire. All four groups of files within the STF 1 series have identical record formats and technical characteristics and differ only in the types of geographical areas for which the summarized data items are presented. STF 1C contains summaries for the United States as a whole, regions, divisions, state or state equivalents, standard consolidated statistical areas (SCSAs), standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), urbanized areas, county or county equivalents, places of 10,000 or more people, minor civil divisions of 10,000 or more, and congressional districts. The number of data records in each file varies by state. Housing items tabulated include occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, contract rent, value, condominium status, number of rooms, and plumbing facilities. Population items include demographic information such as age, sex, race, marital status, Spanish origin, household relationship, and household type.
Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States] Series
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United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 1C. ICPSR08091-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08091.v1
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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, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's exo zombies reanimate a familiar format
Advanced Warfare's exo suits manage to bring an undead format back to life. Dave Cook welcomes zombies back to Call of Duty.
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Dave Cook dons his Exo suit to find the new Havok DLC maps a great change of pace for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Cheer up: it's only a game
Flame wars, trolling, forum arguments and fanboy format armageddon have been reignited with the coming of the latest console generation, but sometimes we all just need to chill out and remember that they're only games. Right?
Assassin's Creed: Unity is a "new narrative start" for the series
Assassin's Creed: Unity marks the beginning of a new narrative arc for Ubisoft's franchise. Bye bye Desmond.
Check out this Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth map analysis
Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth will launch July 15, and our resident Battlefield expert Westie has published a video that analyses some previously-released footage of the next DLC expansion and the fourth drop Final Stand. Check it out.
Yoshida weighs up Sony's PS4 line-up versus Microsoft's Xbox One slate
PlayStation 4 had a solid showing at E3 2014, but many gamers and critics out there were impressed by Microsoft's TV, entertainment and suit jacket-less conference. Sony president of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida has commented on the PS4's current slate, and what's on the horizon.
"Crazy" Borderlands 3 concept scared Gearbox Software
Borderlands 3 has apparently triggered some big and crazy concepts over at developer Gearbox Software. CEO Randy Pitchford hasn't confirmed that the game exists, but he has stated that thinking about that grand concept has left the studio feeling scared.
Beware, Lords of the Fallen will be killing you from October 31
Lords of the Fallen has been dated for a October 31 launch by Deck13 and CI Games. The RPG comes from Witcher 2 producer Tomasz Gop and has a lot in common with Dark Souls. We mean this in a good way, of course.
Cliff Bleszinski's new game is "new take on an old favorite"
Boss Key Productions announced its partnership with publisher Nexon America for Cliff Blesinzki's new free-to-play arena shooter. But what is it? Well, Bleszinski himself has shed a small ray of light on whatever codename Bluestreak is.
Don't rule out Epic's Fortnite on PS4 & Xbox One just yet
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Amazingly, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a very loud game
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No Man's Sky will have a "traditional" multiplayer component as well
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This new Battlefield 4 update rebalances ahead of Dragon's Teeth - patch notes
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Japanese gamers have to get "Gore Mode" DLC to play The Evil Within uncensored
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As for Portland shopping Roy, I don't think they would be that stupid, but if Portland doesn't do well this year, they might very well be ready to deal.
I'm listening to the fan 590 and E Smith is talking to Micheal Wallace of the Miami Herald and has reported that there is an apparent 4 team deal in the works with the Raptors getting a mix of young players and draft picks. It's good to hear that there is still a chance of something going down that will end up with the Raptors getting some assets.
Yea that is true, but BC is stuck in the old hand style of being a general manager. I fully expect him to try and rebound Bosh's departure with a big name.
I'm also of the opinion that it is better for the young guys to get playoff experience and dabble in mediocrity rather than build a culture of losing and possibly get trapped in a perennially lottery bound 30 year rebuild like the Clippers.
I wasn't of this opinion when the raps were trying to make the playoffs this past season, but the East is wide open this year and if they can add a point guard there is no stopping them from going deep into the first round.
You think its a coincidence that the best GM in the league, Sam Presti didn't go after any free agents and quietly resigned the soon to be best player in the game.
The only purpose of cap space should be to resign your own players and take on other teams bad contracts in return for picks and young talent. When Presti got Kurt Thomas and two numbers ones from Phoenix, it signaled to me the end of an era and the dawn of a new phase of basketball and any team that used it cap space to sign guys not named Wade or Bron are sadly still using the obsolete model.
Simple, if Houston throws in Ariza or Battier in the deal in the direction of the Raptors, the deal gets done.
obviously that's not what they 're offering in the 3.5 million salary.
Toronto would get Ariza or Battier , their first round pick back, plus a trade exception of around 7 millions or so;
This has already been posted and added as a Hot Topic on the front page.
I'll lock this up.
Positive sign for a S&T - Marc Stein just tweeted that Charlotte is "highly motivated" to get Beasley. One would think that if any coach could get him to get serious it would be Larry Brown. Though I guess he never responded to Pat Riley's old-school approach.
Riley wasn't the coach. Being around Larry Brown day by day should be a positive thing for him.
LeBron stays and Chris Paul joins him.. via trade
Mediocrity is far, far worse than a season or two in the lottery without the right players. I like the Raptors young guys, but they simply don't have the pieces to be anything but a mediocre team without a true elite talent.
The Clippers were a team mismanaged and they drafted badly, which is why they have been bad for so long. Same with Golden State or most teams that have been perennial lottery teams.
Either you have the confidence you're a good enough GM to be able to rebuild the right way and do it fairly quickly (2-3 years) or you simply don't have confidence in your abilities, and that's not a good sign.
And I like what Sam Presti has done in Oklahoma, and that is the model Colangelo should be using, but let's not canonize the guy just yet. So far, his team hasn't made it past the second round and if he hadn't lucked out and grabbed Durant, they wouldn't be anywhere close to where they are now. Let's see what Presti over the next 2 or 3 years. Right now, RC Buford has to be the guy with the best GM title.
Yeah. I agree with that sentiment (the Tim W sentiment). I would say we should look to the Indiana Pacers as the team we should avoid being. Never terrible, never great leaves them always in the middle of the draft. I will never, ever argue for tanking or losing to get a higher draft pick, but you also - if you want to develop your young talent - have to play your young talent and let them get you the best they can. If that means you end up as at the bottom, at least you're not there with a team of veterans. You pick yourself up, get better in the offseason, and hit her again.
You need to build your team that way, or build one you think can win a championship, if not now, then at some point. No sense in building a team that you know will never take you past the first or second round at best. Championship or nothing - now or in the future. That's the way all GM's and all players have to look at it.
And, most importantly, you have to believe the players you've assembled can take you there. Otherwise it's all just a waste of time.
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I FEEL SAD FOR ONE PERSON WHO IS UP among the MEGASTAR: DWIGHT HOWARD
NO ATTENTION... he's much better then BOSH no doubt. NOTHING FOR HIM...
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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.
Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979 (ICPSR 8185)
Principal Investigator(s): Spelman, William; Brown, Dale K.
This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975 (ICPSR 7760). Information is included on 4,095 reported incidents of aggravated assault, auto theft, burglary, larceny/theft offenses, forcible rape, and robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police between April 21 and December 7, 1979. There are four files in this collection, one each for Jacksonville, Florida, Peoria, Illinois, Rochester, New York, and San Diego, California. The data are taken from police dispatch records and police interviews of citizens who requested police assistance. Variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch time, call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller, response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the call originated. Variables taken from the citizen interviews include respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller, witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim, number of victims, identification of suspect, and interaction with police.
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One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.
The 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
Spelman, William, and Dale K. Brown. Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, 1979. ICPSR08185-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08185.v1
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Subject Terms: assault, auto theft, burglary, citizen crime reporting, larceny, offenses, police citizen interactions, police protection, police reports, rape, robbery, victims, witnesses
Geographic Coverage: California, Florida, Illinois, Jacksonville, New York (state), Peoria, Rochester (New York), San Diego, United States
- 1979-04-21--1979-12-07
- 1979-04-21--1979-12-07
Original ICPSR Release: 1985-03-18
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Interesting read:
Best dancer: "Me and Quincy Acy. I've got pretty much everything; I'm versatile with it. I can give you the Dougie, I can give you the Kid 'n Play, I'll take it back old school, new school, whatever you want. Me and Q always dance during the pregame just to try to get ourselves going. Q's from Dallas, so he's got the D-town boogie."
Best dressed: "I'd have to put myself in there. I'd have to put John Lucas in there. I'm more of a grown-up dresser, not flashy. I like nice stuff, but it's not like jewelry and all that. Lucas is smaller, so he can get away with a lot of different looks. He's like a little rapper."
Best nickname: "Lucas is 'Easy Bake.' Every time he comes in the game, he starts heating up quick, so it's easy bake. I don't think fans in Toronto know that."
Biggest gym rat: "I think DeMar [DeRozan] is in the gym a lot, working on his game, shooting or whatever. He's probably better than a lot of the other guys. I'm always either one of the earliest or I'm always the latest."
Coolest car: "DeMar and Amir [Johnson] probably have the nicest cars. Panamera, Maserati -- anything you think of, they're rocking it. Amir's got something on one of his trucks. I don't know if it's matte black or charcoal, but it's pretty slick."
Funniest: "Amir Johnson or MP, Mickael Pietrus. You never know what to expect out of them. They might say something crazy or just you never know what they're thinking at any given time. You can be talking about something totally different, and they'll ask a question just off the wall, like, 'You know it's snowing outside?' and we're talking about basketball. Something like that. They love watching music videos, so on the plane instead of watching movies, they'll be watching like 25,000 videos. I don't even know what they're watching, but they're over there jamming for about an hour and a half. I bought those noise-cancellation headphones, so I can just fall asleep. You've got to have them."
Future coach: "Kyle [Lowry] is pretty good. He always has a pretty good feeling how teams are defending, and what's going to be open and what's not open. He's pretty good about that."
Most inspirational: "Maybe me. I just tell them, 'Leave everything out on the floor, so at the end of the game, we're not saying I wish I woulda, coulda, shoulda. Whether the outcome is win or lose, we left everything out there.' I'm definitely one of the top veterans. I'm second to the oldest now. We don't have an older team like the Knicks. Our oldest guy is 31."
Most interesting pregame routine: "Some guys, if they don't play good or shoot good in the first half, they'll change their shoes. Lucas changes his shoes. They won't go from like a Jordan XI to a XII; they'll go to a whole different shoe. They'll go from Jordan to KD [Kevin Durant], or KD to Kobe [Bryant]. I have no clue if that works out for them; you've got to ask them. Some guys pray right before they go out. We have a team chaplain; every team has that. Some guys have to use the bathroom before the game [laughs]. Some guys get taped at a certain time."


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One of the newest developments in massively multiplayer
online games is the sale of virtual goods. Players who have spent hours working
for and accumulating items may wish to sell them for real-world money. Outside
of in-game avenues, one of the more popular ways to sell ones in-game currency,
items, property and characters is to list on eBay. But according to what the
popular auction site had to say, sales of virtual items will soon be
Speaking with Slashdot,
Hani Durzy of eBay explained that future auctions for virtual goods from online
games would be delisted "for the overall health of the marketplace." Durzy
points to eBay's existing policy for selling digitally delivered goods and
items: "The seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property,
or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner."
eBay may be concerned about potential legal ramifications if
a games publisher becomes unhappy that a third party is profiting intellectual
property that it does not own. Sales of virtual goods are still currently permitted
on eBay, but according to Durzy, the company will begin to delist such auctions
in about one month's time.
"Any policy decision we make...has to do with...basically a
good buyer experience and good seller experience on the site," said eBay
spokesman Hani Durzy to CNET.
"We want people to continue to come back, and we want people to have good user
experiences on the site."
The policy on virtual goods, however, will not apply to Second Life, which eBay has exempted
from its ban. Second Life publisher Linden Lab has tried to make it
clear on multiple occasions that its product is not a game, at least not in the
same sense of that The World of Warcraft
"If someone participates in Second Life and wants to sell
something they own, we are not at this point proactively pulling those listings
off the site," Durzy said. "We think there is an open question about whether
Second Life should be regarded as a game."


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Gazebo Including new materials
From The Player Project
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Including new materials in gazebo
This tutorial is a copy of the tutorial written by [Luis Manso] and can be found here [pdf].
When Gazebo is executed it tries to open "~/.gazeborc" in order to read its configuration paths.
The following is its default content:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <gazeborc> <gazeboPath>/usr/local/share/gazebo</gazeboPath> <ogrePath>/usr/local/lib/OGRE</ogrePath> </gazeborc>
From now on it will be assumed that the name of the Gazebo user is USERNAME and that its home directory is /home/USERNAME. Thus USERNAME should be replaced with the corresponding user name.
first step
is to create the directory where the material file and textures will be stored. In this tutorial the directory '~/.gazebo/' will be used. Feel free to use any other directory, but make sure to make the corresponding changes in further steps.
Make sure that /home/USERNAME/.gazeborc exists (do not mistake ~/.gazeborc for ~/.gazebo), and has USERNAME as its owner:
- If it does not exist it, write the following lines inside it using the unprivileged user that will run gazebo:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <gazeborc> <gazeboPath>/usr/local/share/gazebo</gazeboPath> <gazeboPath>/home/USERNAME/.gazebo</gazeboPath> <ogrePath>/usr/local/lib/OGRE</ogrePath> </gazeborc>
- If it does exist but the user is not USERNAME, change the file owner to USERNAME by running:
sudo chown ~/.gazeborc USERNAME
- In any case, make sure that the .gazeborc file contains the previous six lines (replacing USERNAME with the regular user name, of course).
second step
Once the .gazeborc file is set, the .gazebo directory must be filled with the following directory tree:
/home/USERNAME/.gazebo/ `-- Media/ `-- materials/ |-- scripts/ `-- textures/
Textures will be placed in '.gazebo/Media/materials/textures/' , and the gazebo material file must be placed in '.gazebo/Media/materials/scripts/' . After storing the texture files in the textures directory and filling the Gazebo.material file, the .gazebo/ directory should look like this:
/home/USERNAME/.gazebo/ `-- Media/ `-- materials/ |-- scripts/ | `-- Gazebo.material `-- textures/ |-- x.png |-- y.png `-- z.png
The 'Gazebo.material' file should contain a node for every texture. Entries look like the following:
material TextureName { technique { pass { texture_unit { texture texturename.png } } } }
In order to know more about material files see: [http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Materials].
At this point, according to the previous example, 'TextureName' should work as material within Gazebo world files.


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Also, Stuckey is garbage....
Man, poor Jose....It's hard to imagine him signing with anyone but a winner in the offseason.
Ppl really need to move on.
I'm betting on Dallas, because he still would want to be somewhere where he can get paid, possibly win and have a large role.
Im happy with the trade and have moved on but some like to keep tabs on former Raps and for Calderons debut game why not chat about it? no harm done.
Ya hope Calderon signs with a team planning to make a deep run but Detroit does have 3 solid pieces to work with. Completely outclassed in this game. Cant wait for the Raps to play NY!
already a 20pt lead for NY, jose still on the bench
he cant be happy about having to pass to Charlie V again lol
jose cash money on his first 3
Every time I watch a knicks broadcast, "Clyde" Frazier uses the phrase "dishing and swishing" at least once...he's pretty bad
11pts, 1 reb, 0 assists at halftime
I cant watch this anymore lol goddam. Why did analysts say we lost the Gay trade again? lol
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'World must better prepare itself for emerging cybercrime threats', INTERPOL Chief tells prestigious meeting in India
NEW DELHI, India ‒ The Head of INTERPOL has said that there is 'a dramatic discrepancy' between the immediacy of Internet communications and current measures to support law enforcement's fight against cybercrime.
Speaking on Friday at the D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture, attended by A.P. Singh, Director of India's Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and Shri V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that inadequate legislation and lack of resources were major impediments to fighting cybercrime.
"Even though a real breakthrough in fighting cybercrime might be possible once a substantial number of countries have updated their legislation and when more countries devote resources for police to develop greater technical expertise, INTERPOL and the world cannot wait for such an idyllic situation," said Secretary General Noble.
"That is why INTERPOL is working with its member countries to devise innovative approaches against cybercriminals," added the Head of INTERPOL.
With cybercrime not even officially recognized in many countries, Mr Noble cited how terrorists of the cyber age can now exploit advanced technologies, such as the terrorists behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks who used encrypted communications via mobile devices to coordinate their attacks.
"Until countries update their national legislations and agree to develop a legal framework to facilitate international cybercrime investigations, police will therefore need to remain creative in working with their colleagues from abroad," said Mr Noble.
In this respect the audience heard how INTERPOL was working with its 190 member countries for a coordinated approach in targeting cybercriminals, as highlighted by the recent INTERPOL-coordinated Operation Unmask in South America and Europe against the hacker group Anonymous, which, Mr Noble reminded the audience, has threatened to shut down the Internet on Saturday 31 March as a form of protest.
To overcome some of the legal hurdles to a proper international investigation, INTERPOL decided in Operation Unmask to directly involve the prosecutors in the countries concerned to ensure that available evidence would be admissible in court. This allowed for the shared information to be included in the ongoing investigations.
To date, 31 persons have been arrested since the launch of the Operation Unmask in February, with hundreds of items of IT equipment and mobile phones seized, as well as payment cards and cash.
The INTERPOL chief also highlighted a case where INTERPOL's National Central Bureau (NCB) in New Delhi received information from the INTERPOL NCB in Luxembourg concerning individuals in Kerala State believed to be trawling websites depicting child sexual abuse.
The information ‒ including names, IP and full postal addresses of persons from across the state ‒ was passed on to the Kerala State Police, who acted swiftly upon the intelligence and arrested 20 individuals who were regularly frequenting child sexual abuse websites.
With India having implemented one of the most advanced legislations regarding online child sexual abuse, this success story, concluded Secretary General Noble, demonstrated how effective and secure information-sharing at the global level, and the implementation of adequate legislation, were essential to fighting cybercrime.


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CUBUS Solutions and Redstone Consulting Join to Market 'Skip-A-Pay'
Coming up short around the holidays? What if you could skip that next car payment without late payments or credit dings?
Enter Skip-A-Pay, a software application developed by Livermore, Calif., online banking developer CUBUS Solutions that integrates into a credit union's core system and fully automates the process of approving a member's request to skip a pending payment.
Before Skip-A-Pay, it might take a credit union employee a half hour or longer to process and input a skip a payment request, said John-Ashley Paul, CUBUS CEO. With Skip-A-Pay in place, it takes no time because the process is fully automated, he said.
At the $3.4 billion, Huntsville, Ala.-based Redstone Federal Credit Union, Skip-A-Pay went live Thanksgiving Week and in three weeks, it has processed more than 1,000 skips, said Harry Gunsallus, CEO of Redstone Consulting Group, a CUSO wholly owned by RFCU and formed to market the technology innovations it develops.
Gunsallus added that Skip-A-Pay generated more than $35,000 in fee income for RFCU in those three weeks (Skips are charged $35 per instance, a rate that is determined by the institution).
In all of 2011, RFCU Had processed only 700 skips, said Gunsallus. "We generated more pure net income from this in three weeks than we did in all of 2011."
An upshot of its successful debut of Skip-A-Pay is that Redstone Consulting entered into an agreement with CUBUS to market Skip-A-Pay widely in the credit union and community bank communities, said Gunsallus, who's also the big Alabama credit union's senior vice president of technology and operations support.
Every financial institution that installs the software has the ability to toggle the risks it is willing to take and to determine eligibility criteria. At RFCU, for instance, a member who has ever been late paying on a particular loan will not be approved to skip a payment. Other institutions may wish to set different criteria and that flexibility is built in.
"Every financial institution executive is looking for new non-interest income," said Gunsallus. "If you can charge a fee the member perceives as value add, it's a game changer."


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Logiclic is a home automation solution. It has just a little kernel (Servlet in Java), and you can add a Manager to this kernel and access it via a Web browser. The manager can exchange services like Tini management, I2C driver, X10 Driver, Switcher Manager, Thermometer, LCD control, etc. With this modular part, you can make your own solution of home automation. It features a neuronal manager and a scripting manager. Documentation is in French.
xopus is a browser-based (Mozilla, IE) in-place WYSIWYG XML editor. It works similarly to a word processor, and uses XSLT stylesheets to transform the XML to user-presentable HTML and XML Schema to preserve the XML validity. A commercial version with table, rich text, and enumeration editing is available as well.
The Lightweight Java Game Library is a native binding for OpenGL and OpenAL written with game developers in mind. It allows the full OpenGL and OpenAL APIs to be exposed without the penalties associated with competing methods, nor the limitations of APIs such as Java3D. Tutorials and demos are available, and Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X are supported.
Palm and Pocket PC Movie List is a database add-on for the DEPReader PDA application. It provides an extensive list of and data on the most popular movies and names from the world of movies. It makes it easy to browse through more than 31,000 entries on the most popular movies, actors, actresses, directors, producers, writers, and movie characters. A single tap is enough to display all the movies in which an actor is starring or find all the people involved in a movie.
Card Monsters lets you play a creatures, instants, and sorceries. You to play the game against a computer-controlled opponent. Currently there are over 300 cards, and you can play in constructed, sealed, and draft mode. The program can automatically download all of the card pictures. The GUI is basic but very usable.
IXThemes is an implementation of innovative methods in the development of qualitative modules and themes for PHP based Open-Source CMS (content management systems) such as WordPress, XOOPS, Drupal, ImpressCMS, and EXM System. It also develops modules and themes for PHP based Open-Source e-commerce software such as PrestaShop.


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Assessment of a Program of Public Information on Health Care Reform, 1992-1993: [Wichita, Kansas, and Des Moines, Iowa] (ICPSR 6066)
Principal Investigator(s): Daniels, Sally; Kully, Andrew
The purpose of this data collection was to assess the impact on public opinion of an informational program on health care reform in the United States. This educational campaign, designed and carried out by the Public Agenda Foundation with the cooperation of various media and community organizations, was intended to inform the public in targeted communities about the condition of the United States health care system, particularly regarding cost and accessibility of health care, and various reform initiatives being debated by policymakers. A pre- and post-treatment survey design with controls was used. Surveys were conducted in Wichita, Kansas (the treatment community) before and after the program was administered in that city. Parallel surveys were conducted in Des Moines, Iowa (the control community), where the program was not introduced. In both cities, respondents were asked their opinions about the cost of health care, access to health care, and health care reform, including willingness to pay more taxes for health care. In addition, respondents were queried about the status of health insurance coverage for themselves and their families, and how satisfied they were with the health care services that they and their families had received in the last few years. The surveys also solicited opinions concerning other issues, such as crime and drug abuse, the economy and unemployment, race relations, the quality of public school education, pollution and the environment, alcoholism, and homelessness. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, marital status, education, employment, and family income.
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Managing MJ: Francona recalls summer with Jordan
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Terry Francona was not going to miss the opportunity to send some birthday wishes to an old friend. He pulled out his phone on Sunday, found Michael Jordan's number and shot a text message to the basketball legend.
"I got a text right back," said Francona, smirking. "There were a couple curse words in there that you can't quote me on."
Jordan turned 50 on Sunday, making anyone who remembers his days as an NBA superstar feel a little bit older. That Francona and Jordan became close was an exercise in pure chance. Nearly two decades ago, when Jordan retired from basketball for the first time, he decided to try his hand at baseball.
For that one season, Francona was Jordan's manager with Double-A Birmingham in the White Sox farm system.
Over the past couple of weeks, as Jordan's milestone birthday spawned a multitude of TV and magazine specials, Francona has been peppered with requests to talk about the spring and summer of 1994. On Monday, the Indians' manager dove headfirst into the topic once again.
Francona said he never minds talking about Jordan.
"Shoot, where do you want me to start?" Francona said. "I love him."
A good place as any to begin is Jordan's first day in Birmingham.
Coming off three straight NBA titles with the Bulls, it goes without saying that the then 31-year-old Jordan had become accustomed to a certain style of living. Upon reaching his new Minor League town, Jordan's first question to Francona was about the team's travel arrangements. He wanted to know if the team flew to each road city.
"I said, 'No, man. We bus everywhere,'" Fracona recalled. "He goes, 'OK, cool,' and then he said, 'Is it nice?' I said, 'No, it stinks.'"
The next day, there were four buses lined up in a parking lot for Francona to inspect. Jordan had them brought in as potential replacements. Francona stepped into the first one, took a look around and could not help but laugh.
"It was a bus for like a rock band," Francona said. "I remember he was all proud. I was like, 'Hey man. My seat's good, and yours looks OK, but what about the other 25 guys?' So we kind of dismissed that bus."
They settled on a brand new bus among the fleet, and Jordan scrawled his signature on the door. He did not have to pay for the bus, and neither did the ballclub. There was a handshake agreement that -- after the season was over -- the bus would be given to the group that provided it to Jordan and his Barons teammates.
It became known as the Jordan Cruiser.
"I remember getting questions like, 'How's the wet bar?'" Francona said, laughing. "It was just a new bus."
Francona remembers Jordan as a coachable player with an unmatched desire to win. There was one point when Jordan was mired in an awful hitting slump -- it should have been expected given that he had not played baseball since high school -- and Francona called him into his office on the road in Memphis.
The slump was eating at Jordan and Francona did what he could to lift his spirits.
"I said, 'Hey man, look, you need to remember who you are and why you're doing this,'" Francona said. "'You're making yourself miserable.' And I think it helped. I said, 'Look, you're not like the rest of these guys,' because he was beating himself up.
"I've seen him break tennis rackets, break a ping pong table. He didn't take losing very well."
Francona read the rumors about why Jordan stepped away from basketball.
Much was made of Jordan's reported compulsive gambling issues, which came to the public surface in '93. That was also, however, the same year that Jordan's father, James Jordan, was murdered. It has been well documented that Jordan's dad had dreams of his son playing in the Major Leagues.
Jordan told Francona there was even more behind his decision.
"He was having a hard time with basketball," Francona said. "He said he'd show up to the arena, he'd put his headphones on, he'd play the game, answer the media and leave. To this day, I think for that one year, I think trying to get a hit in Memphis or Birmingham meant as much to him as what the NBA used to."
In 127 games that season, Jordan hit .202 with three home runs, 17 doubles and 51 RBIs for the Barons. He stole 30 bases, but he also struck out 114 times and made 11 errors in the outfield. In the Arizona Fall League, Jordan hit .252 with the Scottsdale Scorpions.
Jordan was raw, and his stats were rough in spots, but Francona is quick to remind that this elite basketball superstar was starting baseball from scratch on the professional level.
"If he would've been willing to give it a couple more years," Francona said, "he would've found his way to the big leagues. First of all, if you tell him no, he's going to find a way to make it be yes."
Francona did get to see Jordan's superior skill on the basketball court, too.
Jordan got wind of a pickup game between Francona and two of his Birmingham coaches, and joined the group for some "shooting around." Francona's apartment complex at the time had a concrete basketball court and word quickly spread through the neighborhood that Jordan was out shooting hoops.
"Next thing you know, here comes the neighborhood," Francona said. "So we start playing a pickup game, and it was getting rough. There was a big guy -- you could tell he was an ex-college player -- and he was pushing [Jordan] around."
M.J. did not take this lightly.
Jordan dribbled to mid-court, sweat dripping from his face, the basketball under his arm, and he pointed at the man brave enough to get rough with him.
"He says, 'I'm going right there,'" said Francona, whose eyes widened at the memory. "And I'm thinking my managing career is over."
Jordan charged forward, bounced the basketball just once and then went airborne.
The next thing Francona remembers is seeing Jordan standing over the other player, while the rim -- ripped away from its hinges -- dangled from the backboard above.
"I was like, 'Oh my God,'" Francona said. "I was glad I saw that. But then I was like, 'Game over! We're going home!'"
Jordan returned to basketball the next spring and then he won three more championships with the Bulls.
Francona is thrilled that, for one year, their paths crossed on a baseball diamond.
"You get thrust into a position just by luck," Francona said. "You're learning on the run so fast, how to talk to the media and be organized. It was just a whirlwind.
"I'm very fond of him. He was really good to me. I'll always be a big fan."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Warm day. Cold drinks. Close friends. Combine these three ingredients and good times are sure to follow.
Enjoying a beer - or whichever alcoholic beverage you prefer - with friends is a pastime many have shared.
Less common is the case of Doug Jorgensen and Shiloh Higgins, two friends who make a living selling beverages to others.
Yesterday, Jorgensen and Higgins celebrated their second anniversary running Smitty's Liquors together. They bought the Highway 491 business on March 1, 2011 from longtime owners Gary and Gloria Schmidlin - the "Smittys" who gave the store its name.
Both guys have local roots. Higgins was born and raised in Cortez, and Jorgensen transplanted here midway through high school when his father retired from military service. They graduated from Montezuma-Cortez High School with the Class of 1999, and like many small-town teenagers, flew the coop to expand their horizons and see the wider world.
Seeking adventure, they went separate ways at first, but eventually reunited in southern California where Jorgensen had found work at a skateboard retail company called Pharmacy.
With the skate business booming in sunny southern California and beyond, Pharmacy was looking to expand. Jorgensen and Higgins jumped at the opportunity to open a new store in Las Vegas in 2005. It was there they became better friends.
"We knew each other since high school and kept in touch. We'd hang out (in California), but we grew closer in Vegas. We had no choice, really - we didn't know anybody else," Higgins says.
Life in the fast lane was, as they put it, "a blast," but in 2010 Jorgensen and Higgins found themselves looking for an exit.
After a decade away, the peace and quiet of the Four Corners called them home.
"I just wanted to get reacquainted with a slower-paced lifestyle. The city is overwhelming. It can wear you down quick," Jorgensen says.
There wasn't really a plan except to "enjoy nature and the outdoors." But he quickly discovered that too much free time made him restless.
"I think you need a job for stability, for day-to-day balance," he says.
Higgins returned to Cortez a few months later, and together they approached the Schmidlins about buying Smitty's.
"I remembered they had tried to sell a few years prior," Higgins says. "When we came back, the sign was taken down but I figured they would still be interested."
So the two buddies decided to check it out.
Some consultants are adamant: running a business alongside a friend is asking for trouble - for both the business and the friendship. What if the friends disagree on strategy? What if sales drop, debt piles up and they start pointing fingers? Is it not better to keep personal and professional spheres separate?
"I'd heard horror stories about going into business with a friend," Higgins says. "But we have the same interests, the same goals and vision. We've had no problems. Nothing to complain about."
Jorgensen said it hasn't been awkward at all.
"Finding a (compatible) business partner is one of the hardest things to do when launching a business. Finding someone you trust and can rely on 100 percent is tough," he says. "But me and Shiloh are on the same page. We have different styles and personalities that fit together well. If I leave for any length of time, I trust things here will get done."
They haven't faced much adversity yet. Sales are good and still climbing. The slow economy has been a non-factor, perhaps reflecting the popular viewpoint that alcohol is one of the few recession-proof industries.
"We've beat our (profit) goals both years," Higgins says proudly.
The transition from boards to booze was pretty seamless, they added. Retail skills they'd picked up at the skate shops came in useful here too.
"Communicating with suppliers, keeping your stock fresh, talking to customers and helping them find what they need - it's all similar," Higgins says. "If you can sell one product you can sell another."
The two men have made a concerted effort to breathe new life into Smitty's. The exterior, with its nondescript brown siding and faded billboard sign, looks much the same as before. Inside is where the transformation stands out. They ripped out the aging particle board shelves and replaced them with new metal ones. They applied a fresh coat of paint. And most importantly, they expanded and diversified the merchandise.
Higgins estimates that inventory has tripled. They've brought in more varieties of beer, vodka and whiskey, and made a special push to bolster the wine selection.
"We want to offer everything from the low-end stuff, where people don't care what it tastes like, to high-end bottles that might stick around on the shelf for a year waiting for the right buyer," he says. Jorgensen and Higgins both stressed that their upgrades were not meant to slight the Schmidlins, who made their own mark by renaming Smitty's and turning it a full-fledged liquor shop. Prior to their ownership the building was mostly an RV supply store with only a small fridge for beer.
As for future improvements, the two friends want to make the storefront more inviting and refurbish the towering billboard sign. The twin forces of time and weather have rendered it only partly legible now. On the topic of signs, Higgins divulges his admiration for Cork 'n Bottle's eye-catching, lit-up display on Main Street.
"Maybe something like that," he says, the creative wheels turning.
But he knows that people like to see things stay the same.
"Although people might be upset with us if we changed things up too much. They get nostalgic about the way a place has always looked," he says.
One of the most gratifying aspects of the job, Jorgensen and Higgins agreed, is establishing good-natured rapport with regular customers.
Many who enter are greeted by name, and some with inside jokes.
At the counter, while ringing up purchases, the witty banter and gossip continues. Customers fill Doug and Shiloh in on the latest news about town: comings and goings, breakups, hookups, jobs lost, grisly injuries, exciting catches from a recent fishing trip, the weather.
People seem free to share about every topic imaginable, similar to the way loose-lipped bar patrons open up to a sympathetic bartender.
Knowing their customers on a personal level helps the hours go by quickly, Higgins says.
"As new owners, it took us a while to win people over. But I think we have for the most part," he says. "Now they tell us everything on their minds."
One customer, Jennifer, decides to comment on Jorgensen's scruffy, unkempt appearance on her way out.
"Everyday you look more and more like a lumberjack," she observes.
He knows it, and is none too happy about it.
"The beard is annoying. There's no plus to it. At this point it just gets in the way. I can't even ride my motorcycle without bugs getting stuck in there," he laments, explaining that he's three months into a bet with his brother and friend (not Shiloh) to see who can go longest without shaving.
So far his resolve is holding.
"I don't want to lose the money," he says.
Another woman hobbles in with a brace wrapped around a busted ankle. She needs a bottle of Pinot Grigio. "You should have called. We would have brought it over," Higgins says.
"It's my first day weight-bearing," she replies. "I had to get out of the house."
"OK. Just call if you need anything," he offers, helping carry the bottle out to her car.
The ebb and flow of customer traffic continues on - a colorful assortment of characters, a microcosm of life in Montezuma County. For all their diversity, they walk in with a common purpose: picking the right drink to suit the occasion. With a little help from Doug and Shiloh, they find it.


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Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS) in Taiwan, 2000 and 2006 (ICPSR 3792)
Principal Investigator(s): Weinstein, Maxine, Georgetown University; Goldman, Noreen, Princeton University; Chang, Ming-Cheng, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Lin, Hui-Sheng, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Chuang, Yi-Li, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Peterson, Christine E., RAND Corporation; Glei, Dana A., Georgetown University; Hurng, Baai-Shyun, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Lin, Yu-Hsuan, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Lin, Shu-Hui, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Liu, I-Wen, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Liu, Hsia-Yuan, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Lin, Shio-Jean, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Wu, Chun-Ming, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Hsiao, Mei-Ling, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion; Wu, Shiow-Ing, Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion
The Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS) in Taiwan, 2000 and 2006, provides information regarding the health and well-being of older persons in Taiwan. Taiwan has undergone rapid demographic, social, and economic changes, becoming a highly urbanized and industrial society with a growing population of persons age 65 or older. SEBAS explores the relationship between life challenges and mental and physical health, the impact of social environment on the health and well-being of the elderly, as well as biological markers of health and stress. The study collected self-reports of physical, psychological, and social well-being, plus extensive clinical data based on medical examinations and laboratory analyses. Examination of health outcomes included chronic illnesses, functional status, psychological well-being, and cognitive function. Questions regarding life challenges focused on perceived stress, economic difficulties, security and safety, and the consequences of a major earthquake. Biological markers were used to identify cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic process measures, immune-system activity, the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis, and sympathetic nervous system activity. Two rounds of biomarker data collected in 2000 and 2006 were complemented by face-to-face interviews with the participants. Demographic and background variables included age, sex, education, ethnicity, occupation, and residency.
Additional information about the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study can be found at the Georgetown University Center for Populations and Health Web site.
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Weinstein, Maxine, Noreen Goldman, Ming-Cheng Chang, Hui-Sheng Lin, Yi-Li Chuang, Christine E. Peterson, Dana A. Glei, Baai-Shyun Hurng, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Shu-Hui Lin, I-Wen Liu, Hsia-Yuan Liu, Shio-Jean Lin, Chun-Ming Wu, Mei-Ling Hsiao, and Shiow-Ing Wu. Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS) in Taiwan, 2000 and 2006. ICPSR03792-v7. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03792.v7
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- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R01 AG16790, R01 AG16661)
- Taiwan Department of Health. Bureau of Health Promotion
- Taiwan Provincial Government
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: aging, biomarkers, cognitive functioning, diet, disease, health behavior, health status, illness, leisure, life events, life satisfaction, medical evaluation, medical history, medications, mental health, older adults, physical condition, physical limitations, psychological wellbeing, social environment, stress, urinalysis
Geographic Coverage: Taiwan
- 2000
- 2006
- 2000-07--2000-12
- 2006-08--2007-01
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: All individuals in Taiwan aged 54 and older in 2000. A younger refresher cohort was added in 2006 of those aged 53-60.
The data include multiple missing data designations. Please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for additional information on nonresponse codes regarding the coding of missing data before performing analysis.
All study documentation has been made publicly available for this study.
The variable RESPL_ID is a unique respondent identifier and can be used to link respondents between the 2000 SEBAS and 2006 SEBAS.
The variable QTYPE tells whether the respondent was drawn from the 1989 Elderly study sample (Cohort B), 1996 Near-Elderly study sample (Cohort A), or the 2003 Refresher sample (Cohort C) from the Taiwan Survey of Health and Living Status of the Near Elderly and Elderly.
The data for SEBAS 2000 contain the strata variable STRATA00, which describes the urban/rural groupings used in drawing the original sample. The data for SEBAS 2006 contain four strata variables: STRATA00, STRATA06, STRATA, and STRATURB. STRATA00 is the sampling stratum for 2000 SEBAS, and STRATA06 is the stratum of PSU in 2006. STRATA describes the urban/rural groupings used at the time of sampling, and STRATURB is the urban stratum for sampling purposes. Please refer to the ICPSR User Guide for additional sampling information.
Additional information about the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study can be found at the Georgetown University Center for Populations and Health Web site.
Study Purpose: This collection sought to examine the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of change in biological measures and health.
Sample: SEBAS is an extension of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study of Aging (TLSA), which began in 1989 with follow-ups approximately every three years. The original 1989 sample was nationally representative of Taiwanese aged 60 and older, including the institutionalized population, and was drawn as a multi-stage probability sample. In 1996, the survey was expanded to include a sample of persons aged 50 to 66 (Cohort A), who were under-sampled relative to the original cohort (Cohort B). Thus the 1996 survey contains a sample of all Taiwanese aged 50 and above, who were then re-interviewed in 1999. In 2000, a national sub-sample of respondents to the 1999 wave of the TLSA was selected randomly for the SEBAS. The sampling plan was an extension of the original design implemented in 1989, with oversampling of urban residents. Thus, SEBAS 2000 represented a national sample of Taiwanese adults aged 54 and older. The SEBAS 2006 sample started with the SEBAS 2000 respondents who had completed both the interview and the health exam. In addition to this panel component, a refresher cohort of those aged 53-60 in 2006 (Cohort C) was added to ensure the SEBAS 2006 comprised a representative cross-section of the Taiwanese population aged 53 and older. Like in SEBAS 2000, urban residents were oversampled. The sampling fraction for Cohort C was the same as Cohort A, thus among all three cohorts in the SEBAS 2006, Cohort B (the oldest) is over-represented. Please refer to the ICPSR User Guide for additional sampling information.
Weight: The data are not weighted. The SEBAS 2000 dataset contains a cross-sectional weight variable, WGT_EXAM. The SEBAS 2006 dataset contains two cross-sectional weight variables, WGT_1284 and WGT_1036, and two longitudinal weights, WGT_757 and WGT_639. Please refer to the ICPSR User Guide for additional information on weighting.
Mode of Data Collection: cognitive assessment test, face-to-face interview, on-site questionnaire
Response Rates: The response rate for SEBAS 2000 was 92 percent and there was a response rate of 87 percent for SEBAS 2006. Please refer to the ICPSR User Guide for additional information on response rates.
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:
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Original ICPSR Release: 2003-07-30
- 2014-06-17 One variable in the 2006 dataset has been revised. All documentation has been updated.
- 2014-05-15 The data and documentation include updated and additional variables.
- 2012-01-06 All data and documentation for the study have been updated. The data collection from 2000 has been revised, and an additional data collection from 2006 has been added to this study.
- 2007-03-06 Documentation has been updated.
- 2007-01-30 The setup files and documentation have been updated.
- 2006-11-21 Stata files have been added.
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Is Porsche finally ready to take the leash off the Boxster and Cayman? Let's hope so, although a turbocharged 2.5 liter four cylinder with 350 horses is hardly as great as putting the upcoming 991 GT3 motor in the Cayman/Boxster platform for a real razor sharp racecar or allowing the Cayman/Boxster to utilize the range of 911 motors that already exist.


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That aside this incredibly simplistic and naive "team record" argument is used so often here. Hasn't anyone debunked this yet, or are you just listening to what you want? You do understand that basketball is a TEAM game, right? Tell me, have you not been critical of management & coaching over this period? How about the other 14 player mixes over those 6 years? Have you been critical of them? I'd say the answer to all 3 is a resounding YES. Yet you put the team win/loss record on Bargnani that he doesn't contribute to a "winner"?
Based on this silly reasoning of yours, Paul Pierce was garbage/useless/"no impact on making (his) organization a winner" for 4 years prior to KG and Ray joining him. Not a rookie, starting with his 3rd year in the league, his team's winning percentage over 4 years was 42% with the last year being a 24 win season. By comparison, the 6 year won/loss record by the Raptors TEAM, that you cite, was 43%. If you exclude last years abomination of a season (no training camp, insanely compressed schedule, his absence when they did worse than with him), the previous 5 years the team winning percentage was 45%.
So based on your reasoning, Pierce was bad for the Celtics and he contributed to winning even less than Bargnani has done. Is that a good judgement of Paul Pierce? There are plenty more such examples if you're still unable to see the silliness in judging a player's value by his team's bare record. Here's a quick one: in Michael Jordon's (the best of all time) first 3 seasons, his TEAM'S winning percentage was 44%. Was he not a winner? They didn't become a "winner" until he had Pippen (another HOFer) and Horace Grant on his team, just like Pierce wasn't a "winner" until he had 2 HOFers on his team.
Using bare individual statistics ignores many key contributing factors in judging a player. That's bad enough, but using bare team stats (win/loss) to judge an individual's value is beyond silly. There's much about Bargnani to criticize, but the original "0-9 record" argument, as well as this larger "team win/loss" is unnecessary grasping at empty straws.
Getting back to the original implication about the Raps doing better without his scoring, the team record over the 6 years you speak of says very differently, contrary to your "Not really"
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pooka, what are you talking about? Dude, Bargnani's box score statistics are awful. His advanced metrics are awful. The team hasn't improved with him here or won. I don't need to cherry pick stats. Using any measure available, the guy is a below average player.
Is the Raptors awfulness all his fault? No, never said that. Colangelo is ultimately responsible for the crappy roster and second rate coaches but Bargnani certainly hasn't done anything to help turn it around. In fact, a big part of the reason for the failure here has been the insistence on making him a focal point of the rebuilding efforts when he wasn't capable of filling that role. Again, is that his fault? Only in the sense that he never rose to the occassion.
I can't speak for anyone else but I've never been a Bargnani fanboy or hater. He is what he is. Given a defined role (like Mitchell gave him his rookie year) and making him a mere complimentary piece might work but it won't work here. It's too late. Again, it's not all his fault but he hasn't exactly helped either.
Trade Bargs + Derozan + 2014 1st round pick for Kevin Love + Alexey Shved from the Wolves.
With bench Ross, Fields, Amir as our primary bench. Perhaps sign a veteran big to backup Val and a decent backup PG.
I jumped in here because despite all the criticism that can be justifiably leveled at AB, the "0-9 when he scores 20+" was flawed anecdotal evidence that offers nothing of value to a discussion when presented as a stand-alone "point". That's been well "proven", if you will. You then countered with changing the topic to his not contributing to a winner based on nothing but the team's win/loss record over 6 years. I pointed out how flawed that simple reasoning is. Now you want to expand it to yet another argument. No mas!!!!
You don't like what he delivers to our team. I don't like what he delivers to our team. We differ on how useful it is to re-hash the same old arguments over and over and over. Apparently we also differ in the validity we assume in points that I think are misguided interpretation of stats to support an agenda/narrative. If that works for you, I'm glad it offers you some comfort.
BARGNANI STINKS!!!!!!!! there, I tried, but somehow that doesn't contribute much to the "winner" (as in me gaining something from being a fan) attitude I try and maintain, that is illustrated by my signature.
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Prior to the big trade, moving Jose and ED out, Gay in, the Raps played 46 games, compared to your 33 game sample for Bargs. Using the same participation criteria to evaluate Lowry's effectiveness over that span:
As starter:-------- 3-15 .166
Off the bench:---- 7-8 .466
Did not play:------ 7-6 .538
Does this mean the Raps are much better when Lowry doesn't start, and better still when he doesn't play at all?
What I mean is taking a few games out of lowrys career doesn't mean anything
We are pissed because bargnani has regressed and were clearly better without him
*sigh* manipulation of useless "facts" to unnecessarily support the daily whining and bitching agenda (basketball is fun isn't it). It's worthy of the finest political spin doctoring! Yet with providing a clear example of how silly it is, some see my response as defense of Bargs (doh, see any forests lately?), while Matt either still doesn't get it or sticks to his guns like a mule on steroids wearing blinders, or both.
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If you could find me any shred of evidence to the contrary, I'd appreciate it. But thus far you have done the p00ka 2-step and turned it in to unrelated comparisons to Gay and Lowry.
Show me something that does not support the overall argument that "Bargnani makes the Raptors a worse team this season."
Looking forward to what you find.
Anyway, having read it I just want to say that I think everyone is missing a point here.
p00ka is saying that these facts are being taken out of context to support whatever argument a person has. While this is absolutely valid, the overall point is that these stats support ALL the points discussed.
in other words, your breakdown of lowry's record with the team above does not prove nothing, but the opposite. It proves that the Raptors have a worse record with Lowry starting than when he is on the bench. That's a fact. They were more successful when he was injured and played with jose as the starter. That's also a fact
Now, the reasons why could be a variety of factors including the distribution of minutes to other players like lucas, or the strength of schedule, attitude problems etc. that have nothing to do with lowry's ability as a player.
Same with Gay, if the raptors or 0-3 or whatever when he has 4+ steals, it does not mean nothing, but is probably reflective of the way we played defense that game (more gambling, etc.) and not his ability as a player.
Some of these stats mean more than others, so more weighting should be given to some. For example, Lowry as a starter is more important than Gay getting 4+ steals in a game, because Lowry starting happens every game.
At the end of the day, however, it is difficult to argue with the fact that EVERY measurement mechanism, EVERY STAT, etc. all point to the same thing: our team has been mostly worse with Bargnani on the floor.
Strength of Schedule, teammates in and out, etc. all factor in, there is no question, and it would be stupid to say otherwise.
But there is NO COMBINATION of players, NO strength of schedule, NO amount of minutes, and NO amount of Primo Pasta that have made Bargnani effective this year. This is ultimately what Matt is saying.
In Sum: if a person does not want to use common sense to plainly see that Bargnani's shot selection, help defense, rebounding passing, and even shooting has been terrible this year and ergo made our team worse....
There is no stat, no metrics, no ANYTHING that you can twist and turn to say that we are in anyway a better team with him on the floor.
So, you can use the argument that "STAT X" is not a good way to measure how he makes us worse, which is what p00ka did. But like Matt said, there is a PLETHORA of stats which prove this point. Pick whichever one and be at peace with it.
Or just turn on the TV and watch the guy play for 5 minutes....either way
This isn't about arguing the merits of AB and what he represents to the Raps, good or bad. If you want to rant every other day about your opinion of Bargs, you know you'll have plenty of followers, so have at it with whatever "advanced stats" you can muster, if that does something for you. I wish you lots of fun doing so, but please don't confuse the "stats" you presented in this thread, which is what I responded to. as anything other than advanced (for the slow witted anyway) manipulation of anecdotal information to support your agenda. I gave you a perfect example of how the exact same type of information can be used to paint a picture of someone else, that is nowhere near what you want to hear, and you choose to take that as a comparison of players, rather than an example of how the data you did use in this thread is nothing but spin doctoring of manipulated data to feed the fire.
"Show me something that does not support the overall argument that "Bargnani makes the Raptors a worse team this season."
Looking forward to what you find."
I don't know if this is simply not getting the point, or a common technique I've noticed at RR: re-direct the conversation into something you feel you can win. I don't need to go looking to find the information you look forward to, because I have zero interest following you down the change of path. You have lots of people here who will gladly hold your hand and dance down that path with you, as they do every day. Though I would suggest using the type of numbers that you'd accept being applied to others too. I think it's silliness applying those type of numbers to anybody, but if you feel they're valid for one, then they're applicable to others, which you clearly don't accept,,,,,,, because it doesn't fit the script.
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