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Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (HEPESE) Wave 6, 2006-2007 [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas] (ICPSR 29654)
Alternate Title: Hispanic EPESE, 2006-2007
Principal Investigator(s): Markides, Kyriakos S., University of Texas-Medical Branch; Ray, Laura A., University of Texas-Medical Branch; Angel, Ronald, University of Texas-Austin; Espino, David V., University of Texas-San Antonio. Health Science Center
This dataset comprises the fifth follow-up of the baseline Hispanic EPESE (HISPANIC ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1993-1994: [ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS] [ICPSR 2851]). The baseline Hispanic EPESE collected data on a representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican Americans, aged 65 years and older, residing in the five southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The primary purpose of the series was to provide estimates of the prevalence of key physical health conditions, mental health conditions, and functional impairments in older Mexican Americans and to compare these estimates with those for other populations. The Hispanic EPESE provides data on risk factors for mortality and morbidity in Mexican Americans in order to contrast how these factors operate differently in non-Hispanic White Americans, African Americans, and other major ethnic groups. The public-use data cover demographic characteristics (age, sex, type of Hispanic race, income, education, marital status, number of children, employment, and religion), height, weight, social and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related health problems, health habits, self-reported use of dental, hospital, and nursing home services, and depression. Subsequent follow-ups provide a cross-sectional examination of the predictors of mortality, changes in health outcomes, and institutionalization, and other changes in living arrangements, as well as changes in life situations and quality of life issues. During this 6th Wave, 2006-2007, reinterviews were conducted either in person or by proxy, with 921 of the original respondents. This fifth follow-up includes an additional sample of 621 Mexican Americans aged 75 years and over with higher average-levels of education than those of the surviving cohort, increasing the total number of respondents to 1,542. By diversifying the cohort of those aged 75 and older, a better understanding can be gained of the influence of socioeconomic and cultural variations on the lives and health of older Mexican Americans.
Series: Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) Series
Access Notes
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.
This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).
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Markides, Kyriakos S., Laura A. Ray, Ronald Angel, and David V. Espino. Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (HEPESE) Wave 6, 2006-2007 [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas]. ICPSR29654-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-02-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29654.v1
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This study was funded by:
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: demographic characteristics, ethnicity, health behavior, health problems, health status, Hispanic or Latino Americans, life expectancy, living arrangements, mental health, Mexican Americans, mortality rates, older adults, population characteristics, quality of life
Smallest Geographic Unit: census tract
Geographic Coverage: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, United States
- 2006--2007
- 2007-02--2008-02
Universe: Adult Mexican Americans aged 75 years and older living in the 5 southwestern United States of Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.
The Resource Book of the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly may be obtained from earlier Hispanic EPESE collections (i.e., ICPSR 4314, 4102, 3385, 2851).
Users of these data should note when doing analyses -- the scales for the following items should be reversed: X6CESD4, X6CESD8, X6CESD12, AND X6CESD16.
Hispanic EPESE, 1993-1994 (ICPSR 2851), was modeled after the design of -- ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1981-1993: [EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, IOWA, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 9915) and ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE ELDERLY, 1996-1997: PIEDMONT HEALTH SURVEY OF THE ELDERLY, FOURTH IN-PERSON SURVEY [DURHAM, WARREN, VANCE, GRANVILLE, AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA] (ICPSR 2744).
The first follow-up of the baseline data (Hispanic EPESE Wave II, 1995-1996 [ICPSR 3385]) followed 2,438 of the original 3,050 respondents, and the second follow-up (Hispanic EPESE Wave III, 1998-1999 [ICPSR 4102]) followed 1,980 of these respondents. The third follow-up, Hispanic EPESE Wave IV [ICPSR 4314] followed 1,682 of the original respondents. The fourth follow-up, Hispanic EPESE Wave V [ICPSR 25041] followed 1,167 of the original respondents.
For the variable SHEAR65, the value labels correspond to the questionnaire provided. The variables NOGG7SYS6, AAMED62A, AAMED63, and BB1E6 are found in the codebook but not in the dataset. For the variable WCORR612, all values are set to system missing. A discrepency between the codebook and dataset exists for the following variables: SBP_AVG6, DBP_AVG6, U63M, BB2A6, and HH7C6. Total n for the variable SBP_AVG6 in the codebook is listed as 1272 but should be 1271. Total n for the variable DBP_AVG6 in the codebook is listed as 127 but should be 1270. Variable U53M in the codebook should be listed as U63M. Label(2)Don't Need Help for variable BB2A6 is listed as 1071 but should be 1016. Total n for the variable HH7C6 in the codebook is listed as 1322 but should be 1323.
A consistent decimal precision of two places was used in this dataset to maintain consistency between previous waves of the HEPESE data collection [ICPSR 2851, 3385, 4102, 4314, 25041].
Sample: This study utilizes a complex, multistage sample design. Please consult the user guide associated with previous waves of this study for further information regarding the sampling methodology.
Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
personal interviews with subject or proxy
physical assessments
Response Rates: Wave 1 -- Baseline: 83.0 percent, Wave 2 -- 1st Follow-up: 86.8 percent, Wave 3 -- 2nd Follow-up: 83.3 percent, Wave 4 -- 3rd Follow-up: 80.6 percent, Wave 5 -- 4th Follow-up: 73.8 percent, and Wave 6 -- 5th Follow-up: 79.29 percent.
Presence of Common Scales: MMSE, CES-D, IADL, ADL, CLOX, CAGE, Neighborhood items from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study (Sastry 2006), from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (Sampson et al. 1997), and from The Social Cohesion and Trust scale (Sampson 1997).
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Original ICPSR Release: 2012-02-23
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One of the biggest controversies in the environmental community is the topic of nuclear power. Some see it as the best short-term hope for clean, affordable alternative energy. Others are fearful of the waste that is associated with older reactor designs. Despite modern reactor designs recycling much of the spent fuel and being built with safer designs, these fears remain.
The net result is that despite a couple pending applications, the U.S. is stuck with aging nuclear reactions, which indeed play to critics worst fears -- lacking much of the safety and waste recycling of modern designs.
Elsewhere, though, times are kind to the nuclear industry. China, in particular is looking to join France and Japan in providing a large portion of its power from nuclear energy. The nation, which currently relies heavily on coal power, is including nuclear development in a diverse program which also includes massive solar and wind power growth.
Concrete was just poured at the site of a new reactor in Sanmen, China, built by the Westinghouse Electric Company, The Shaw Group Inc., China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation, and the Sanmen Nuclear Power Company of China National Nuclear Corporation. The reactor will be the first of four 1,100 MWe reactors built.
The new reactor, the Westinghouse AP1000, is an extremely advanced design which focuses on modularity and automation, as well as safety and optimum fuel use. It is classed as a Generation III+ reactor and is the only such reactor to receive Design Certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
In total, the four reactor project will cost the nation approximately $8B USD. However, it will put them in a position of nuclear leadership, with no other nation currently employing this reactor design, the latest from Westinghouse. Westinghouse President and CEO Aris Candris states, "Completion of concrete pour is a major milestone that visibly moves the Sanmen project from the design and discussion stage to the construction stage. More importantly, by getting this project underway on schedule, we are further helping to ensure that baseload electricity generation will begin at this plant as intended in 2013."
Some Chinese feel less than comfortable about the new reactor, though, stating that their country's people are being used as test rats for unproven designs (source in Chinese). Regardless, construction appears geared to continue as planned.
The U.S., despite strong opposition, in coming years may roll out an even more advanced reactor design, with Georgia Power Company reaching an agreement late last year to construct two Revision 16 reactors in Vogtle, Georgia. There are, in total, twelve such pending Combined Construction and Operating Licenses (COLs) filed for, though the go ahead from government regulators still remains. The proposed plans may have to survive heavy legal pressure from anti-nuclear groups if they hope to advance. Thus the status of the U.S.'s nuclear future remains significantly more questionable of that of China.

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The PSP
Go introduced in October was supposed to introduce new options to
the PSP line. Sold concurrently with the latest PSP-3000, it replaces
the UMD with 16GB of flash memory. This allows gamers to have
around a dozen games with them without having to carry around discs
and swap them out when they want to play a different game.
and videos can also be stored, allowing the PSP Go to compete
somewhat against Apple's iPod Nano. Additional storage is provided
via Memory Stick Micro (M2) flash cards. 16GB is the largest size
available at the moment, but there are smaller sizes available. The
M2 format tops out at 32GB, and there are rumors that Sandisk is
working on such a card based on 32nm technology.
The PSP Go is 35% smaller and 16% lighter than the PSP-3000. The
screen is smaller, but retains the same pixel count as the
PSP-3000. This allows the PSP Go to have a higher pixel density and a
sharper image. Unfortunately, the battery is also smaller, and only
allows for 3-5 hours of gaming.
This still makes it a
viable option gaming option for commuters who carpool or take public
transit and are looking for some entertainment. This is a very
large market in Japan, and a large percentage of people on Japanese
subways can be seen with a DS Lite. Sony is clearly targeting urban
professionals more than teenage gamers.
A recent trip to Asia
meant that I was faced with a 15 hour flight with limited
entertainment options. I picked up a PSP Go along with a
few games like Gran Turismo, GTA: Liberty City Stories, God of
War: Chains of Olympus, and Rock Band. Downloading games
via WiFi is pretty slow, and the best option is a broadband
connection and transfer via USB cable. Charging through a USB port is
possible, but a charge from an AC adapter is required
if the battery is depleted.
The PSP Go fits
perfectly in a suit jacket pocket, and I now find myself playing with
the PSP Go whenever I'm early for a meeting or waiting in line. I
used to carry around a Nintendo DS, but having all of my games loaded
on the PSP Go is much more convenient.
Holding the PSP Go is a
little bit awkward at first because of the sliding screen and takes a
little bit of getting used to. Gamers with large hands may want to
try one out for themselves before making a purchasing decision.
biggest criticism so far for the PSP Go has been on price. NAND flash
prices have doubled in the last six months due to demand from SSDs
and portable media players. Price for flash memory had been
forecasted to go down, not up.
A Sony representative pointed
out that the PSP Go is only around $50 more than a 16GB iPod Nano,
and is much more fun. However, Sony can afford to subsidize
the PSP Go, since the move to digital downloads will allow
the company to reduce the cost of manufacturing, packaging, and
distributing games.
The PSP Go will be most attractive to highly mobile professionals
who are buying their first PSP or seeking the greatest portability.
There are still many people who don't have a PSP, or are looking for
a better gaming experience than Apple's iPhone or the Nintendo DS
Lite. Those who have an investment in UMDs or are price-sensitive
will want to stick with the PSP-3000.


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EE Times' Silicon 60: Hot startups to watch
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EE Times latest Silicon 60, our list of emerging startups, adds 17 innovators in version 14.0. (Our version 13.0 list, from April, is here. The newcomers include EDA, memory technology and processor companies along with sensors and haptics, wireless communications, power semiconductors, optoelectronics, audio and security.
Silicon 60 companies are selected based on a mix of criteria, including: technology, intended market, maturity, financial position, investment profile and executive leadership. Most importantly, they're emerging companies we believe are important to follow. The version 14.0 newcomers are highlighted in red.
ActLight SA (Lausanne, Switzerland), founded in 2010, by Serguei Okhonin, is a fabless semiconductor company developing designs and intellectual property for the combination of light and logic on silicon chips, including the use of CMOS for optical conversion for use in energy harvesting. www.act-light.com
Adapteva Inc. (Lexington, Mass.), founded in 2008, Adapteva is a lean startup that has developed the Epiphany architecture of multicore processors. Adapteva, led by founder Anders Olofsson, is targeting defense and mobile consumer applications. The company claims to have reached break-even point with less than $2 million of investment. www.adapteva.com
Adesto Technologies Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was founded by CEO Narbeh Derhacobian in 2006. The company is developing a nonvolatile memory based on programmable metallization cell technology licensed from Axon Technologies Corp., a spinoff of Arizona State University. The company is backed by Arch Venture Partners and Applied Ventures amongst other venture capital companies. www.adestotech.com
Amantys Ltd. (Cambridge, England) was established by former ARM executives in 2010 as a power electronics company. The company aims to use digital control to transform power electronics in medium- and high-voltage applications. The company is backed by Moonray Investors and ARM Holdings plc. www.amantys.com
Ambiq Micro Inc. (Westlake Hills, Texas) founded in 2010, is a fabless chip company developing low power wireless processors based on ARM architecture and mixed-signal systems. Investors include Cisco Systems and ARM Holdings. www.ambiqmicro.com
Andes Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), founded in 2005, is a developer and licensor of 32-bit processor technology and associated SoC platforms intended for a variety of embedded applications. The companys U.S.-trained founders are aiming Andes cores at the borders of markets owned by established licensors such ARM, MIPS and Tensilica. www.andestech.com
Ausdia Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is a timing verification EDA company formed in 2006 which commenced product development in 2008. The company's TimeVision product is a timing constraints development tool intended to help with static timing analysis and sign-off for complex system-on-chip designs www.ausdia.com
Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont Calif.) is a attempting to bring to market a form of magnetic random access memory for memory and storage applications. Founded in 2006, the company received $30 million in venture capital funding in mid-2012. www.avalanche-technology.com
Brite Semiconductor (Shanghai) Corp. (Shanghai, China) was founded in 2008 in Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park. It is an SoC and ASIC design company that pulls together intellectual property, foundry, test and packaging technologies to create custom silicon for its customers. Brite is backed by local foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. and Open-Silicon Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.). www.britesemi.com
Calxeda Inc. (Austin, Texas) was founded in 2008 under the name Smooth-Stone and is developing server-on-a-chip processors based on multiple ARM processor cores. The company has received $48 million in investments from venture capital funds and strategic investors including ARM, ATIC and Texas Instruments. www.calxeda.com
Cognivue Corp. (Gatineau, Quebec) was spun off in 2009 from Korea's MtekVision to focus on so-called cognitive processing, that is, parallel processing engines optimized for tasks like image recognition and identification. CogniVue provides SoCs, software and IP to capture, analyze, and render video and images for smart cameras. www.cognivue.com
Cosmic Circuits Inc. (Bangalore, India), founded in 2005, is a licensor of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property circuits cores. The company provides a broad spectrum of IP ranging from power management, audio and voice to data converters, clocking circuits and analog front-end subsystems. www.cosmiccircuits.com
Cyclos Semiconductor Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.) was founded in 2006 as a spin-out from the University of Michigan. Based in Berkeley and Ann Arbor, Cyclos delivers resonant clock mesh semiconductor IP, design automation tools, and design consulting services for resonant clock mesh designs that can reduce the power consumption of clock circuits on ICs. www.cyclos-semi.com


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The focus is on the requirements of seamless operation of the branch or store self-service infrastructure and the optimization of customer-oriented processes in these two environments. As part of the entire solution portfolio, our software offer is oriented toward optimizing IT and customer business processes at banks and retail chain stores. In the process, the issues of openness, integration and support for international expansion among banks and retailers take center stage, along with a homogenization of the IT landscape and the extension of software to include new functions that concentrate on added value for the end customer.
In order to expand its software business, Wincor Nixdorf has created a global network of local Solution Competence Centers. This ensures a worldwide infrastructure for distributed portfolio development and at the same time a locally-oriented implementation, updating and integration of the solutions in customers' IT landscapes. Close cooperation with our customers on site ensures that Wincor Nixdorf is deeply involved in the further development of the business processes of its customers and can work with them on the rapid development of solution proposals.


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all the fuss over global
warming and alternative energy, the continued loss
of biodiversity is being largely overlooked and forgotten.
And the trend may claim its highest profile victim to date in just a
couple decades, say conservation groups.For at least a
million years tigers have roamed the forests and jungles of Asia,
ruling the top of the food chain. But today Tigers are facing a
final bow from the world they once ruled as their habitats have been
destroyed and their numbers slashed by poaching. At
the start of the twentieth century there were an estimated 100,000
tigers, according to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), an
environmental advocacy firm that studies the unique species.
Over the course of the last century those numbers shrank and several
subspecies -- the Bali, Javan, and Caspian Tigers -- went
extinct. The WWF has released a new
report estimating that there are now only 3,200 tigers left
in the wild in India, Southeast Asia, Russia, and China. They
estimate that within a generation tigers will become
extinct in the wild, if drastic action is not taken to conserve
them.Sybille Klenzendorf, director of the WWF-US species
conservation program comments, "There is a real threat of losing
this magnificent animal forever in our lifetime. This would be like
losing the stars in the sky. Three tiger subspecies have gone
extinct, and another, the South China tiger, has not been seen in the
wild in 25 years."World Bank, a multinational financial
institution that provides loans to developing countries, is
partnering with the WWF in a push to save the beasts. Keshav
S. Varma, program director of the World Bank's Global Tiger
Initiative comments, "Unless we really crack down on illegal
trade and poachers, tigers in the wild have very little chance. If
the tigers disappear, it is an indication of a comprehensive failure.
It's not just about tigers. If you save the tiger, you are going to
save other species. It provides an excellent indicator of commitment
to biodiversity. If they survive, it shows we are doing our job
right. If they disappear, it shows we are just talking."Despite
the fact that so few tigers remain, demand for their body parts is at
an all time high on the Asian black markets. Crawford Allan,
director of TRAFFIC-North America, which monitors the trade in
wildlife, comments, "The demand for bones and skin, meat, and
even claws and teeth ... is driving a major crime campaign to wipe
tigers out in the wild."Lixin Huang, president of the
American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine has teamed with the
WWF to try to fight Chinese natives from using tiger parts in their
traditional remedies. States Huang, "Traditional Chinese
medicine does not need tiger bones to save lives. What we are
dealing with is an old tradition, an old belief that tiger wine can
make their bones stronger. That is not medicine, that is from old
tradition."The WWF's ambitious goal is to try to get the
tiger population doubled to 6,400 tigers in the wild by 2022.
To do that, they say they will need $13M USD a year and cooperation
from the governments of Bangladesh, China, Europe, India, Indonesia,
Nepal, Russia, the United States, Vietnam, and the Greater Mekong
region, which stretches across Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand and Vietnam.


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Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study (ASAPS), 2001-2006 [Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis] (ICPSR 28641)
Alternate Title: Improving and Evaluating the D.A.R.E. School-based Substance Abuse Prevention Curriculum
Principal Investigator(s): Sloboda, Zili, University of Akron
The Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study (ASAPS) was a randomized field trial designed to test the effectiveness of a new school-based substance abuse prevention program called Take Charge of Your Life (TCYL). The program consisted of two curricula, one for middle schools and the other for high schools, which were delivered through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education network of law enforcement officers (D.A.R.E.). TCYL was developed building on existing D.A.R.E. seventh/eighth grade and tenth/eleventh grade curricula and applied principles and strategies suggested by published literature on effective drug abuse prevention programming and effective middle and high school curricula design. ASAPS was conducted among a 2001-2002 multi-site cohort of seventh graders who were followed for five years until the 2005-2006 school year when they were in the eleventh grade. The first TCYL curriculum was delivered in the treatment schools when the students were in seventh grade and the second was delivered when they were in the ninth grade.
Over the five-year study period, the treatment and control students responded to seven self-administered surveys: (1) at baseline in the seventh grade, (2) post-intervention in the seventh grade, (3) in the eighth grade, (4) pre-intervention in the ninth grade, (5) post-intervention in the ninth grade, (6) in the tenth grade, and (7) in the eleventh grade. Topics covered by the surveys include normative beliefs, social skills, attitudes toward drug use, and self-reported use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit drugs. The ASAPS data also include measures of implementation fidelity of the seventh and ninth grade TCYL curricula, which were obtained from trained observers who rated the D.A.R.E. officers' delivery in the classroom. The fidelity measures encompass content coverage and instructional strategy.
This data collection comprises two data files, both with public- and restricted-use versions. The first (the Main Data File) contains the students' survey responses and the seventh grade curriculum fidelity measures, while the second (the 9th Grade Officer Observations Data) contains the ninth grade curriculum fidelity measures.
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Sloboda, Zili. Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study (ASAPS), 2001-2006 [Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis]. ICPSR28641-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-02-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28641.v2
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: adolescents, alcohol, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug education, marijuana, substance abuse, tobacco use
Geographic Coverage: Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Newark, St. Louis, United States
- 2001--2006
Universe: Middle and high school students in the United States.
Zili Sloboda is Director of Research and Development, JBS International, Inc.
To achieve diversity of study participants, the study was conducted in school clusters in and around Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, and St. Louis. In all but one case in New Orleans, each cluster comprised one high school and its feeder middle schools in a single school district. Altogether, 83 school clusters were randomly selected and randomized to the treatment (42) or control (41) conditions. About 34,000 seventh graders were enrolled in the schools recruited for the study when the study began in 2001. Consent was obtained for 19,529 of them to participate in the study: 11,314 treatment and 8,215 control students. Only public schools were recruited.
The baseline survey was completed by 17,325 students. Over the study period, 19,200 students completed at least one survey, with 10,434 completing the final survey in the eleventh grade.
Mode of Data Collection: self-enumerated questionnaire, on-site questionnaire
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- 2012-02-29 The 9th Grade Officer Observations Data (Datasets 3 and 4) have been added to the collection. In addition, the data collection instruments for the 9th Grade Officer Observations Data and the lesson plan for Lesson #6 of the seventh grade curriculum have been added to the codebook.
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Staff Tasting: Spring Brook Farm's Reading and Tarentaise
At the end of March, Jeremy Stephenson, head cheesemaker at Spring Brook Farm in Vermont, visited our Cambridge shop. He led a staff tasting on the Friday evening, sampled out to customers on Saturday and, along with several other amazing domestic cheese and beer producers, taught a class that afternoon. It was a busy weekend!
The Friday evening tasting was attended by staff members from all areas of the shop. We tasted Spring Brook Farm's Reading and Tarentaise – the latter at four different ages. Three of the wheels were from February, 2011 and the last wheel we tasted was a "Reserve" wheel, about 2 years old.
Jeremy kicked things off by giving us a bit of background on the farm. Turns out, it began as an initiative for the Farms for City Kids Foundation. The farm serves as an outdoor learning space for children living in an urban environment. Through group tasks – such as caring for the farm animals, planting and maintaining a vegetable garden and making maple syrup – students develop their ability to work as a team. Ranging between the ages of 8 and 12, the children typically stay on the farm for about a week at a time.
The cheesemaking operations at Spring Brook came a bit later but were also designed with education in mind and were launched in collaboration with Thistle Hill Farm. The cheese house, built in 2008, has a glassed-in viewing area so the students can watch the cheesemakers at work. The equipment was imported from France and included copper vats, much like those used to make Parmigiano Reggiano (as a side note, before becoming a cheesemaker, Jeremy imported parm, making this seem somehow especially appropriate!). Last year, the farm produced about 80,000 pounds of Tarentaise and 20,000 pounds of Reading.
Spring Brook is home to more than 100 Jersey cows and roughly 40 of them are milked. Jerseys produce great cheesemaking milk – it has a higher fat content, usually about 4-6% as compared to, for example, Holstein milk which usually rings in at roughly 3-3.25% fat.
Reading and Tarentaise are made with raw milk, inspired by traditional cheeses of the French Alps. Indeed, the cheesemaking operations at Spring Brook have a very strong French influence – a French cheesemaker was consulted both on the construction of the cheese house and on the cheesemaking itself. He continues to visit each year, to help nurture the Spring Brook program. Jeremy said he was shortly expected at the farm for his 2012 visit.
At the staff tasting, we started with the youngest Tarentaise and worked our way up in age. The first two samples were only a day apart in terms of production, with the third being a mere 10 days older. The fourth, as mentioned above, was a two-year-old wheel. Tarentaise is a washed-rind, cooked curd cheese and is generally aged between 5-12 months.
Staffers remarked on the variation in flavors, even between the cheeses produced in the same month. This isn't terribly surprising when sampling a raw milk cheese – since the good bacteria in the milk is not killed off by pasteurization, unique flavors, specific to what the cows had been eating before they were milked, are more likely to present themselves. This is why it is a good idea to taste all of your cheese before you buy it, particularly if it is made with raw milk – each wheel of cheese can be a little different from its fellows and tasting helps to make sure that the cheese still falls within your "love it!" parameters. When Jeremy asked what we thought of the cheese, comments that were heard, included: "a lot like Comté," "tastes like toast or bread," "nutty," "delicious," "spicy finish on the Reserve" and "horseradishy."
We also tasted the farm's Reading – a cheese not too dissimilar from Raclette. Aged about 4-4½ months, this cheese is more pliant than Tarentaise, to some extent a function of its youth (cheeses of this type lose moisture as they age and tend to harden as a result). Very buttery and a little milder than Tarentaise, this cheese is a great melter and is ideal for mac and cheese.
After taking questions from staff members, Jeremy shared some of his favorite pairings with Spring Brook cheeses: Belgian beers, Cabernet Franc based wines and white wines. He also told us about a delicious fondue he had made, combining Reading and Tarentaise. We're certainly game to try it!
A big thank you to Jeremy for making the trek from Vermont and sharing his cheesemaking expertise with us!


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This is the first part of a series detailing my experiences with netbooks. All products mentioned were purchased at retail by the author.
Netbooks have been out for almost a year and a half. Their portability and low price make them attractive to a whole new market of people who won't or can't purchase laptops.
Sales are expected to top 35 million this year, and Intel may be starting to regret introducing them since they are now cannibalizing high-margin notebook sales, thus lowering their ASPs (Average Selling Prices).
With my return to writing, I needed a solution that was portable, lightweight, had long battery life, and came with rugged storage. It was time for a netbook, and I figured I might as well blog about it.
Since I do a lot of travelling, I need something with a Solid State Drive (SSD) for the highest level of mechanical reliability, whether I'm on a plane, on the subway, in a truck, or in the field.
My regular notebook is a Lenovo T500, which I like because of its Hard Drive Active Protection software. It stops the hard drive from spinning if it detects motion in any axis, with user definable thresholds.
Performance is not a big issue, since I will be mostly using it to write articles. I do like to multitask and keep multiple windows open, so a RAM upgrade might be in order.
Unlike most notebooks, which are generally desktop replacements and plugged in most of the time, netbooks need maximum battery life for maximum usefulness.
The most important feature for me is battery life. I'm looking for something in the eight hour range, which should last me for a weekend in the field or a week of commuting. Weight and size are also important to me. If they weren't, I probably won't be getting a netbook.
So, I'm looking for something with a 6-cell battery, SSD, and a nine-inch screen.
My choices are narrowed down to the Acer Aspire One AOA110-1698 and the Asus Eee PC 901, both with Atom N270 processors, 8.9 inch screen, and 6-cell batteries.
The Aspire has less battery life (by an hour), but has an extra 512MB of RAM soldered on. The 901 has only 1GB in a single SODIMM slot, but is upgradable to 2GB, the maximum supported by the chipset.
Acer's model is wider by an inch. This makes the keyboard a little bit easier to type on since the keys are bigger. The Aspire has a 0.3 megapixel webcam, but the 901's webcam has 1.3 megapixels.
The Aspire One, however, is $100 cheaper.
After considering my usage model, the superior specs of the Eee PC 901 have won me over.
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battery life from phones, laptops and cameras.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
in Erlangen have teamed up with scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for
Physical Measurement Techniques IPM and the Fraunhofer Institute for
Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research IFAM to devise a way
to power electronic circuits by using body heat.
The researchers were able to construct a method of turning
body heat into electricity using the same principal as thermoelectric
generators (TEG) made from semi-conductor elements. TEGs extract electricity
from the temperature difference between a hot and cold environment.
Researchers from Fraunhofer say that typically a temperature
difference of several tens of degrees is needed, but that the temperature
difference between the body and the environment is only a few degrees.
That means that with such a small temperature difference,
the amount of electricity generated is very low voltage. The TEG can deliver
200 millivolts when most electronics require one or two volts to operate.
"We combined a number of components in a completely new way
to create circuits that can operate on 200 millivolts," says Peter Spies,
manager of this sub-project at the IIS. "This has enabled us to build entire
electronic systems that do not require an internal battery, but draw their
energy from body heat alone."
With all the current recalls on batteries from Nokia and the huge recall last
year of Sony made notebook batteries, alternative
methods of powering electronic devices are a huge area of research. Whether
this body heat power technology works or not, it is only a matter of time
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Acer isn't exactly a name that quickly
comes to mind when think of smartphones, but the company is looking
to change that rather quickly with a new Android-based device.
The unnamed smartphone sports a huge
4.8" display with a generous 1024x480 resolution (21:9 aspect
ratio). If the large screen isn't enough to impress, the smartphone
also features a full metal body with subtle engraved patterns.
When it comes to hardware specs, all
the usual suspects are here including a 1GHz Snapdragon processor,
8MP rear camera (with LED flash), 2MP front-facing camera, HDMI-out,
and an accelerometer/gyroscope.
Connectivity duties are handled bier
HSDPA, 802.11n, and the emerging Bluetooth 3.0 standard.
Acer calls its latest device "100%
Smartphone, 100% Tablet", and you'll be able to find out more
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The smartphone market is booming and the most popular of the smartphones is the Apple iPhone. With the sales figures the touch-enabled iPhone is racking up, it's no surprise that virtually all of the cell phone makers have rushed devices to market to compete with the iPhone.
One of the competitors that many had high hopes for was the Blackberry Storm. The Storm was the first touch screen device to come from Blackberry. Unfortunately for Blackberry, the Storm received some of the worst reviews of any Blackberry device.
The problem according to many users is that the Storm is besieged with bugs that hamper performance and results in overall sluggish performance. RIM, the maker of the Blackberry handsets, didn't apologize for the problems with the handset. Rather RIM co-chief Jim Balsillie said that scrambles to launch products on time and software glitches are part of the "new reality" of making complex phones in large volumes.
Smartphone users are to assume, according to Balsillie, that it is normal for a device that barely functions to be rushed out simply to meet the Black Friday shopping rush. The Wall Street Journal reports that people familiar with the matter say that RIM moved 500,000 Storm's in the first 30 days after its November 21 launch.
By comparison, the Apple iPhone 3G moved 2.4 million units in its first quarter on the market. The iPhone now holds about 16.6 percent of the global smartphone market. Balsillie says that RIM considers the Storm an overwhelming success and is making 250,000 devices per week to keep up with demand.
RIM is working to fix issues with the Storm and to add features that users have asked for. One of the complaints that will be addressed in future updates is that users can't type on a full keypad in portrait mode, which only allows a keypad with multiple letters at this time. Verizon, the exclusive carrier for the Storm, and RIM released a software update to address some of the early issues with the Storm that the companies claim fixed many of the early complaints users had.
As for returns, Verizon won't issue a specific number. However, a Verizon spokesman said that the rate of returns for the Strom is in the single digits (percentage wise) and the spokesman says that is normal for any smartphone.
Sources close to the launch say that Verizon and RIM rushed the Storm to market before the software was fully vetted in an attempt to get the Storm into stores in time for holiday shopping, despite glitches in the software and the stability of the operating system.
The Storm's operating system was reported to have been a challenge for RIM because the OS was optimized for Blackberry devices that used keyboards, click wheels, and trackballs for navigation rather than a touch screen. Part of the OS tweaks made was to integrate compatibility for the accelerometer that changed the orientation of the screen when the phone was rotated.


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Meticulous Showalter does everything for a reason
Manager and GM Duquette believe they've built a lasting contender
By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Nothing happens by accident here.
Not the inspirational words painted on the walls in the home clubhouse. Not the flags hanging in the hallway, representing all the home countries of the players on the roster. Not the posted depth charts of each American League East team. Not the bumper billiard and ping-pong tables that encourage camaraderie. Not even the casual conversations among players and coaches, educated as they are by the player bio pages handed out for staffers to study.
Every last detail about the City of Sarasota Sports Complex during the Baltimore Orioles' Spring Training is monitored by Buck Showalter in some way, right down to the infield dirt over at Field 4 (which, Showalter will proudly tell you, is retaining rain water much better since some Camden Yards grounds crew members were brought in to address it).
So if you're tempted to dismiss the Orioles' magical 2012 season -- one largely built on one-run, two-run and extra-inning victories -- as an unrepeatable product of luck, remember this:
Things happen for a reason around here.
"With the preparation that Buck brings to the clubhouse," said catcher Matt Wieters, "it's only a matter of time before guys buy in. You put the work toward it, and you're going to get the results eventually."
None of us -- and not even the most optimistic Orioles fan -- was smart enough to predict the results that would unfold in 2012, when the O's won 93 regular-season games, eliminated the Rangers in the Wild Card Game and took the Yankees to the brink in the ALDS.
So, please, let's not bother to offer such predictions about this next installment of the O's.
Let's just acknowledge that Showalter and general manager Dan Duquette have built something special here, with the contract extensions through 2018 to show for it. And let's also offer the opinion that a winter devoid of big-ticket moves does not preclude the O's from doing something special again in the year ahead.
"A lot of the players we picked up last year," said Duquette, while watching Friday morning's round of bullpen sessions, "we picked them up to be with our team for a couple years, not just last season. So our fans understand we were returning our core players. That's a legit middle of the lineup, legit rotation and a good bullpen. This was a team fans embraced because of the work ethic and the determination to win close games. So they like the team. They were just getting to know them late in the season. And we felt good bringing most of the group back."
What the Orioles bring back, most prominently, is that aforementioned middle of the order -- Wieters, Adam Jones and Chris Davis. Jones and Davis each eclipsed the 30-homer mark in 2012, and Wieters has seen his RBI total increase each season of his big league career, up to 83 last season. The organization already rewarded Jones with a long-term extension last year, and it stands to reason that Wieters is next.
The need for another bat was considered vital this winter. And it might emerge as a particularly pertinent need if the rotating cast at designated hitter -- Wilson Betemit against right-handers and Danny Valencia, Russ Canzler and Steve Pearce all potential options against lefties -- doesn't pan out. Or if second base, where the oft-injured or otherwise concussed Brian Roberts is using this spring to attempt another comeback, turns out to be a black hole.
What then?
Well, it's not too late to rule out a trade that deals from the depths of the O's organizational strength -- starting pitching. Especially if some club has arms that come up ailing in camp and desperation kicks in.
As it stands, the O's have somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen bodies in the mix for five rotation spots. And that doesn't count the potential Jair Jurrjens reclamation project, now that Jurrjens signed a Minor League deal with the club (unsurprisingly, Showalter had a jersey waiting for him while the negotiations dragged on).
Wei-Yin Chen (12-11, 4.02 ERA in 2012) and Jason Hammel (8-6, 3.43) lead the rotation group in terms of experience (Chen was the only member of last year's club to log more than 20 starts). Miguel Gonzalez, Chris Tillman and Steve Johnson are next in the pecking order, based on last year's results (the three combined for a 3.15 ERA from July 7 on).
Beyond that group, the O's have Zach Britton, Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta and Tommy Hunter in the mix, with the possibility that Matusz and Hunter, in particular, could become bullpen options after successful stints there last season. And then, of course, there are the limelights of the O's farm system -- Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman, the No. 4 overall picks from each of the last two Drafts. They're coming soon.
This list doesn't even include Rule 5 pickup T.J. McFarland, a 16-game winner in 27 starts at the Double-A and Triple-A levels last year, and Zach Clark, a 15-game winner in the upper levels last year who saw notable gains in velocity. Duquette, for one, is intrigued by both.
"We have a very competitive group of pitchers," Duquette said. "So we have some depth. We just don't have a great deal of experience."
Some regression is almost undoubtedly on tap in some areas of the roster, and who knows if the O's can repeat the magic transactional touch that helped them routinely overcome injury and adversity last year.
But this club does figure to benefit from the return to health of Nick Markakis, who will likely return to the leadoff spot, and Nolan Reimold. Most notably, a full season from Manny Machado, who helped the O's transform into a stellar defensive unit in the second half last season, presents a ton of upside.
In a less-tangible sense, the experience of last season's Wild Card ride has further fostered the upbeat and confident attitude that emanates from the O's clubhouse.
"The successes in baseball are built on individual performances," special assistant Brady Anderson said. "So a guy like Chris Davis comes in [last year], and his big league career is uncertain. Now he's coming off a 33-home run season. When you have the confidence off those individual performances, there's an aura about the camp that's more positive."
There is also an aura of professionalism and preparedness that extends from Showalter's famous attention to detail. Showalter has noted that when the O's held their first pitchers and catchers meeting this week, Wieters, Hammel, Johnson and reliever Pedro Strop were lined up in the first row of seats, ready, attentive and inquisitive. It was a small thing that, naturally, did not go unnoticed by the skipper, who values player input at all levels.
"There's no hazing that goes on here," Showalter said. "It's, 'You're wearing the black and orange? All right, let's go.' It's beautiful. It's a club that polices itself, stays in reality and has tunnel vision."
This did not happen by accident.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Yesterday, DailyTech
reported on the news that the plethora of Android-based
smartphones on the market have finally jumped ahead of Apple's iPhone
in the United States. The numbers pegged Android's market share at 28
percent while smartphones running iPhone OS were a bit further back
at 21 percent.
We never expected Apple to respond to
NPD's numbers -- the company is usually "above" such
responses and marches to its own drumbeat. However, the news picked
up steam all across the internet yesterday and Apple felt the need to
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison gave
a statement to John Paczkowski which he posted
on his Digital Daily blog:
This is a very
limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey
and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod
touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1
percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android
on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales
growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming
this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime
Paczkowski makes a point of noting that
while NPD's numbers don't give a snapshot of the global smartphone
market and only surveyed 150,000 customers, Apple isn't exactly being
straightforward either. The Apple spokeswoman points out that over 85
million iPhone and iPod touches have been sold, despite the fact that
the iPod touch is in no way a smartphone -- in actuality, only
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path can be used to manipulate a colon-separated list of paths contained in an environment variable such as PATH. New paths can be added either to the beginning or the end of the path list, paths can be removed from the path list, and several checks can be made on the paths contained in the path list. All duplicate paths in the list are removed.
SAC performs login accounting, just like the ac program but with total, per day, per user and per tty. It also performs average usage, hourly profiling, login listing, login clipping and raw wtmp reporting as well as tons of other options. SAC supports Tacacs 3.x/4.x and most Radius accounting files.
KOSd is a modified version of Ascend's RADIUS (derived from Livingston's) daemon that supports GECOS password files in another location than /etc/passwd. The path to the file is configurable in a C file. It's great for segmenting dial-in and email-only users on a dialing pool, supporting both Max units and Xylogics (now Bay) servers from a single password file, and probably others. It will probably work with Cisco or Livingston servers as well by changing the dictionary file and turning off the -DASCEND extensions within the makefile, but you may need to experiment. This product is totally unsupported.


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Hard to relay the info without quoting the entire article, so here's the first paragraph.Source: http://hoopplustheharm.carmellabs.ne...melo-about-it/If you live under a rock, allow me to be the one to enlighten you on what every NBA fan has been talking about today. There is a very good chance that Carmelo Anthony is part of a 4-team megatrade that will see him suit up this season as a member of the New Jersey Nets. The other two teams involved are reportedly the Utah Jazz and Charlotte Bobcats. Keep in mind that this trade is not yet confirmed. But let's take a look at the gains and losses each team faces, starting with the Nuggets.
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story about U.S. Army Intelligence officer, SPC Bradley Manning's arrest
received a lot of attention, which perhaps is not surprising.
It had all the trappings of high drama -- a young military officer
leaking confidential media onto the internet, computer crime, and
national security.Immediately after writing the story, we
contacted Adrian Lamo, the man who turned in Manning, to try to get
his perspective on why Manning is in his current legal predicament
and why he felt the need to turn him in. Lamo graciously
responded and we conducted a phone interview, gaining a lot of
insight along the way.Lamo, who currently works as a
journalist and security expert, says that the situation was anything
but ordinary. He states, "People confess federal crimes to
me every day and I don't turn them in. But those cases didn't
have this kind of national security risk."He says that
Manning's initial leaks might have been justified. He says,
"Certainly, releasing the gun cam footage would have been
something I would have done in his place."The gun cam
footage referenced came from a 2007 attack on unarmed civilians who
were mistaken for having weapons. The civilians were
journalists and the weapons turned out to be actually camera
equipment. A Reuters employee was killed in the attack.
A second attack in 2009 was also leaked and showed another strike,
this time in Afghanistan, which killed apparently defenseless
civilians.However Manning's desire to leak went beyond just a
quest for the truth. He stated that Manning was "pending
discharge" and "not a routine discharge". This
discharge was in no way related to his leaking activities, but Lamo did not
wish to divulge the reason, out of respect for Manning's family.He
says that Manning basically was "disillusioned with the system,
had internet access, and saw a solution that was far easier"
than pursuing channels within the government.Lamo says the
point where Manning crossed the line was when he leaked the
diplomatic cables. According to Lamo, "He described them
as not particularly damning, but he just wanted to release it
regardless. He talked about creating chaos in the U.S. foreign
policy."As much as Lamo says he hates the abuse and
overuse of the word "nation security", he says that the
leak constituted a real threat. He points out that the
diplomatic cable contained conversations that would likely be taken
out of context, much like what would happen if your full email
record was leaked and all your friends, family, and coworkers found
out what you were really saying about them. Lamo states, "On
a scale of nations [the creation of] a hostile environment can cost
Lamo says he has repeatedly likened Manning's activities to "a kid playing with a rifle, shooting shells in the air", commenting "sooner or later someone is going to get hurt"
He says that suggestions that he somehow owed the government information are utterly ridiculous. He says that you can easily gain access to his plea agreement from his 2003 arrest (for hacking into Microsoft and New York Times servers) and there was no provisions in it that he would "do anything of the sort". He also points out that he successfully completed probation and has no obligations to the government. He says that they wanted him to "sign a form" not to discuss this information, but that he refused to do so, which is how he was able to talk to first Wired and now DailyTech on this subject.As far as general
thoughts on the topics of leaks, he says he generally stands by
Wikileaks. He says that despite repeated attacks on him and
fellow security expert Kevin Poulsen by Wikileaks director Julian
Assange, he still supports and donates to the site. He says,
"Wikileaks is an important source, regardless of who runs
it."He adds, however, that it needs "more oversight". He suggests a model like is used in a missile silos -- have a couple people screen every decision to post, rather than leave that discretion to just one person. That way, "common sense" would hopefully prevail and someone would prevent the leaking of information that would pointlessly endanger countries.That
said, he also adds that he would suggest that those looking to leak
in the future consider first going to news agencies with
information. He says he is not aware of the Washington Post,
for example, ever endangering the national security of the U.S.
He also encourages people in positions like Manning to contact him or
other experienced individuals before they act, not after.He
continues, "Informing on him was a very hard decision for me,
one of the hardest I have ever made. I was also arrested
[around] his age, so I know what it's like."Asked if
Manning had a future and could one day be successful, Lamo responds,
"Absolutely. If nothing else, he can get a book deal out
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The Epoch Init System is an init system for Linux designed with ease of configuration and non-intrusiveness in mind. It has no external dependencies besides libc and pthreads on a Linux 2.6+ system, though a working /bin/sh is suggested. It's suitable for large and small Linux distributions, but was designed with a focus on smaller Linux systems. It's features include a log system capable of recording boot events before the filesystem is made writable, ASCII runlevels, a convenient, single configuration file setup, automatic hostname setting at boot, automatic virtual filesystem mounting (think /proc), PID file support, stuck job killing during bootup and shutdown, integrated color greeting banner support, and automatic service restart support, to keep vital services running at all times.
Finit is a small SysV init replacement with process supervision similar to that of daemontools and runit. Its focus is on small and embedded GNU/Linux systems, although it is fully functional on standard server and desktop installations. Finit is fast because it starts services in parallel; it then supervises and automatically restarts them if they fail. This can be extended upon with custom callbacks for all services, hooks into the boot process, or plugins to extend the functionality and adapt Finit to your needs. Finit is not only fast, it's arguably one of the easiest to get started with. A complete system can be booted with one simple configuration file.
Gujin is a PC boot loader that can analyze your partitions and filesystems. It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), files (*.kgz) and bootable disk images (*.bdi), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot. It boots the Linux kernel using the documented interface, like LILO and GRUB, so it doesn't need any other pre-installed bootloader. It can also directly load gzipped ELF32 or ELF64 files, with a simple interface to collect real-mode BIOS data. There is no need to execute anything after making a new kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the "/boot" directory, with a standard name. Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible.
pmtr starts your application daemons (not the system daemons) at system boot and lets you dynamically add, remove, or edit jobs at runtime. What makes pmtr different from sysvinit and similar systems is that all your jobs are defined in one configuration file, and the syntax is friendly.
Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home routers/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet access have been shut down.
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system.
/etc/net represents a new approach to Linux network configuration tasks. Inspired by the limitations of traditional network configuration subsystems, /etc/net provides built-in support for configuration profiles, interface name management, removable devices, full iproute2 command set, interface dependencies resolution, QoS, and firewall configuration frameworks. /etc/net provides support for the following interface types: ethernet, WiFi (WEP), IPv4/IPv6 tunnels, PSK IPSec tunnels, VLAN, PLIP, ethernet bonding and bridging, traffic equalizer, Pent@NET, Pent@VALUE, SkyStar-2, TUN/TAP, OpenVPN TUN/TAP, usbnet, and PPP. Due to its modular structure, support for new interface types can be added without overall design changes.
A backup software system.
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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: Flying Fox, Thresher
just brew it! wrote:
kit even though only one stick was bad, so the system I was building was down for the count.
Flying Fox wrote:But as JBI said there may now be corruptions lurking within. You never know if some corrupted data has been written the registry or files. It is now up to how paranoid you are.
Waco wrote:So you got a newer board that likely is a bit more picky with older higher-voltage DDR3 and you blame the manufacturer? Did you try different speeds, voltages, etc?
Synchromesh wrote:Of course I blame the manufacturer. My memory wasn't overclocked at all, it ran on all-stock settings. That should work regardless of picky boards or anything else. And it did for a year until it went bad.
just brew it! wrote:How do you know for certain that the motherboard isn't going bad instead?
Synchromesh wrote:just brew it! wrote:How do you know for certain that the motherboard isn't going bad instead?
I ran the new RAM they sent me in same slots. It ran memtest overnight with no issues whatsoever. So it's unlikely to be a board problem.
tanker27 wrote:Again, I have to ask if the ram in question is listed on the Mobo manufacturers QVL? If not, then yes, expect some issues.
Savyg wrote:I haven't done any research mind you, but I've never liked the Corsair RAM in the box I was given a few years ago.
I'd replace it but the gains to be seen from faster RAM on the triple channel i7s is pathetic, so why spend the moneys.
I want to though. Eventually.
Synchromesh wrote:It's all DDR3 standard and it should work regardless.
Chrispy_ wrote:Corsair do more testing than the bargain-basement generic RAM so it's still a better bet, but what you're really paying for with Corsair modules is Corsair's lifetime support and RMA system, which is much better than the equivalent service you'd get by buying generic RAM.
Bauxite wrote:Also ECC modules go bad just as much in my experience, it is really for uptime against inevitable bit flips screwing your data or crashing the system, not hardware redundancy. (there is an advanced type of protection for the latter, but only in $$$$$$$$$$$$ kind of systems)
Bauxite wrote:They will only correct for single bit errors, when chips or modules truly fail, they fail HARD. Boot up and the board doesn't see it anymore, or massive errors on anything inside a particular address range.
Bauxite wrote:(there is an advanced type of protection for the latter, but only in $$$$$$$$$$$$ kind of systems)


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Day 15: Share a handcrafted gift
Last holiday season, American Idol winner Kris Allen visited Zakale Creations in Kenya — a small business that hand-crafts new items out of old ones and brings them back to life. Today, we challenge you to do the same!
Today's challenge: Make a handcrafted gift for someone.
"He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!' Then he said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'" —Revelation 21:5
Making old things new
Last year, we traveled with American Idol winner Kris Allen to Kenya as the host of our True Spirit of Christmas tour.
Our first stop was to visit the Huruma slums in Nairobi, home of John Mucheru from Zakale Creations, who offered some memorable encouragement: "If God gives you a talent, that talent doesn't belong to you."
John's wisdom was appropriate, considering the gift that Kris was giving by spending the holiday season away from his family in order to use his talents and influence to bring help and hope to those in need.
This year, as a tribute to Zakale Creations and their mission to recycle and bring things back to life, we want to recycle John's story so it can bring joy to your lives.
Today's challenge mirrors the sentiment of "Zakale." We encourage you to make a handcrafted gift for someone. Bake some cookies, find a project on Pinterest, or even draw something on a napkin. Recycle the resources God has given you, add your own creativity, and bring joy to others. Make sure to comment below on what you ended up creating!
At the top: Kris Allen learns to make a Christmas ornament at Zakale Creations. (Photo: Jonathan Lo/World Vision)
When you purchase a giraffe Christmas ornament for someone special, you also make a donation to help where most needed! Hand-made from recycled materials by Zakale Creations artisans in Kenya, this is one of our Gift Catalog items that gives twice.


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"I am still reeling from The Dovekeepersfrom the history Alice Hoffman illuminates, from the language she uses to bring these women to life. This novel is a testament to the human spirit and to love rising from the ashes of war. But most of all, this novel is one that will never be forgotten by a reader."Jodi Picoult
"In her remarkable new novel, Alice Hoffman holds a mirror to our ancient past as she explores the contemporary themes of sexual desire, women's solidarity in the face of strife, and the magic that's quietly present in our day-to-day living. Put The Dovekeepers at the pinnacle of Hoffman's extraordinary body of work. I was blown away."Wally Lamb


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Reviews for Building Chocolate Bridges
Thanks you so much for your assistance in making our Teambuilding event a success. A special thanks to Gene and Sharon for their warm and humorous introduction. They really softened up the crowd and brougth out the laughter in my collegeaus. They are extremely talented in their profession and I would recommend them to anyone. The event brought about a comic relief and informative approach to how teamwork benefits us as an individual and as a group. I thank you very much for sharing with us.
– AW, GlaxoSmithKline
Philly Hops truly made our meeting memorable. The team building activity that Philly Hops conducted for us was both exciting and educational for our guests. Philly Hops took control of the entire activity for me. All I had to do was bring the group! I am very thankful to the Philly Hops team for all of their hard work. Thank you!
– JM, Penny Ohlmann Neiman
Thank you and Ray for the great team builder. Everyone really enjoyed it, we had a lot of fun and laughs.
– B.B, Sanofi USA………
Reviews for Chocolate Therapy
Thank you you so much for such a great team building event. Our team highly appreciated it. Our activities and discussions were not only entertaining and engaging, but also very insightful. They helped us to learn more about individual styles of our colleagues, team work and creativity. We would highly recommend PhillyHops to others and hope to continue our collaboration going forward.
– O.S., AstraZeneca
Jim and I would like to thank you for excellent entertainment that Phil provided yesterday. Our team had a lot of fun! Our people are still talking about the games we played and about the short scenes every group presented. It was very funny. Ray does a great job!!!!
– LG, Bayer
It went very, very well. It was great for the attendees to have some fun, & stress relief as well as having them think outside the box to hone their competitive edge.
– Vanessa, Otsuku
Reviews for Adventure's Map
First let me say THANK YOU for such an incredible ?team building? experience. The staff enjoyed the time they spent with you and your team, and I echo their sentiments. While we all loved the Adventure Map activity, we also enjoyed the experience with the warm up/team building challenge Helium Stick. To this day, we have translated that experience into our day to day work routine and have resolved that as a team we can move mountains if we would only listen clearly to the leader!!!!!!!!! So I thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us?..it was a fun day!
S.B, VP, Pennsylvania Convention Bureau
Reviews for Anything Goes Treasure Hunt
Philly Hops provided great customer service and was very accommodating. Our team loved the Treasure Hunt, and thought it was really engaging and fun. We?d definitely recommend it for a fast paced, team building exercise that provides a lot of energy and reinforces collaboration and team work.
– HD Johnson & Johnson
I just wanted to thank you and your staff for facilitating a fun and enlightening teambuilding event. The MC set the stage for the day by immediately getting everyone engaged and laughing. The photo scavenger hunt proved to be a big success and now the pictures are proudly displayed in our break room. It was evident that you did your research on the town prior to the event and it was very much appreciated.
The goal of the day was to get to know others in the department and work together as a group. Our planning team feels our goal was achieved because of the positive feedback we received and the fact that team members are still talking about some of the "photo- shoots" taken that day.
– Sharon S. Merck & Co., Inc.
Our department had so much fun! Each team had unique experiences to share, and the situations that were given were funny and novel, which allowed each team to be creative. Our event leader kept the mood upbeat and energized, and gave clear instructions/expectations. We had a blast, laughed a lot, and it brought our department closer. In fact, several team members asked where I found Philly Hops as they are considering using them for other events, and everyone was talking about it the next day at work! Thanks for helping us create an outstanding event!
– JN, Daiichi Sankyo Inc.
Reviews for Tapas Mixer
I'd like to thank you for organizing our Cooking Tapas Event. Everything worked out well. Gene was a professionalist. Team really enjoyed cooking and also listen to his stories. Please pass out sincere thanks to Gene.
-Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
My team had a wonderful time making the Tapas with your Chefs. They were both excellent. Again many thanks for your patience and willingness to work with us on a very short notice.
– V.R., Zeolyst
Reviews for Video Treasure Hunt
I wanted to take the time to thank you for an enjoyable and successful team building event on April 30 @ Hyatt Morristown. I received positive feedback about the exercise, your attention to detail and the way you provided everyone with a way to interact/communicate with each other. The end result we learned how to have fun and not take everything so seriously. We could not have asked for a better outcome. Looking forward to a continued relationship and future team building events with Philly Hops. Thank you for everything.
– Leo Pharma
The client was T-H-R-I-L-L-E-D!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for your support of my recent team-building event. Your assigned facilitators were extremely effective in getting the team energized and engaged from the outset. Equally important, I truly appreciated the manner in which Remo was able to translate the "fun" part of the activities to the business imperative I was seeking to emphasize – the importance of employee collaboration and engagement, and timely decision making. I look forward to working with Philly Hops in the future!
– CS, Bristol Myers Squibb
It did everything I wanted it to do, barriers were brought down and people got to have fun. We used the words that he left us with for the rest of the meeting. Thanks!
– L.B., Kraft Foods
Reviews for Cake Wars
Go Team Building, a Philly Hops Company, provided a fun, unique teambuilding event for our small group. They took care of every detail and tailored the task to the team's current business needs and challenges. The facilitator was energetic and kept the group focused the entire time. People commented on how much fun they had in such a short period of time, and everyone learned about each other?s strengths. I would recommend Go Team Building to anyone looking for a custom experience!
– C. M. Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Reviews for Innovation Treasure Hunt
I cannot thank you enough for a wonderful event on Wednesday. The feedback from my group was absolutely tremendous and we thoroughly enjoyed not only the activity but the presenter (forgive me I'm not the best at names!). He was the perfect balance of enthusiasm and practical application.
Thank you for your kind support and helpful suggestions. Would definitely recommend Philly Hops!!
– K.C., AstraZeneca
Reviews for Grand Prix Slot Car Racing
Philly Hops was: 1. Very responsive and attentive to our needs and expectations. 2. Good engagement and participation. The right balance of learning and fun. 3. Great delivery!
– Linde
Overall, everyone had a great time and really learned a lot…..They really enjoyed working together in teams and getting to know more about the people that they don?t normally work with on a day to day basis. It was also noted that after the activity people felt more comfortable around each other.
Reviews for You're In The Game
All I can say is WOW! Our team-building event, "You're in the Game" that was held in mid-July was a huge success thanks to you and your outstanding facilitator Rob Fletcher. The afternoon was filled with energy, excitement and of course friendly competition amongst the teams.
Due to the team dynamics on the new N-Zone program here at Wawa, I was very anxious and a bit nervous about how everyone would interact with one another. Rob did an amazing job engaging the whole team in a series of "Ice Breakers" which really paved the way for an awesome afternoon!
I have received so much positive feedback from the event and I can't wait to work with you to plan the next one. Thank you so much for making our initial team-building event a huge success!
– D.D., Wawa Food Markets
Reviews for Wine Maker's Challenge
Philly Hops did such a wonderful job planning and executing events for our MBA internship program. Their attention to detail and customer service are the best that I've experienced. The MBAs that we hired full-time still rave about the fun we had at the Philly Hops events.
– CM, GlaxoSmithKline
The Wine Team Building Program was everything I wanted it to be! I never laughed so hard in my life!
– Elke, Event Organizer, GE Water & Process Technologies
Thank you for your help in putting together the Express Scripts wine tasting event last month. Everyone had a great evening and enjoyed the event very much! It was great working with you and I'm particularly grateful for your ability to accommodate us on such short notice as well as for the professionalism exhibited by everyone connected with the event. The MC, sommelier and restaurant staff were wonderful, as was the food and wine!
– Express Scripts
Thank you to you and your training team for a completely successful Team Building on Tuesday. The response from our managers was enthusiastic and unanimous. The program addressed all the goals we discussed during the planning phase, and the exercises were pertinent, instructional, and entirely entertaining. Our Wine tasting, blending and marketing segment provided a great conclusion to the day, inspiring creativity and laughter from beginning to end. Compliments to you, Jennifer and Gene for a job well done. I will whole heartedly recommend Philly Hops for future team building events.
– K.S., Aramark
Our Wine Maker?s Challenge event was a success for several reasons:
Philly Hops is a Top Notch Professional company willing to customize the program to our needs. They employ courteous, professional and helpful people to present an event second to none!
I highly recommend Philly Hops for your next team building event. You will not be disappointed! We will continue to use them for our future events.
– LP, Pfizer Inc.
Reviews for Healthy Teams Professional Cookoff
The cooking dinner activity was more than a terrific teaming exercise?we cooked a 5-star meal. Great fun! Thanks!
– PM, Project Manager, Leadership Development
I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for the wonderful event earlier this month. The time that you took to understand our client group and our retreat team building objectives paid off handsomely. Not only were you and Gene well prepared, but you did an excellent job of facilitating us through the cooking experience. The group had a fun, special evening that exceeded our expectations and brought home the team building themes so important to our work this year. The bonus was the wonderful menu and the delicious food!
Many thanks,
– RJ, The Napa Group
I?d like to thank you and your team for creating and delivering an incredible teambuilding event for our management team. We all thoroughly enjoyed cooking our own meal; it was a positive and unique experience that we will remember for a long time.
I would recommend your company to anyone who is looking for an exceptional teambuilding event. You listened to us and heard our requirements, brainstormed ideas with us and then took everything from that point and turned around an excellent product in approximately two weeks.
Our cooking event was initially met with skepticism by our team, but you quickly turned our team around and got them excited about the task of cooking dinner. Once we got down to business, there was no stopping this team. We created and ate a great-tasting meal.
At the conclusion of the event, our team realized that we are able to achieve anything we put our minds to. Cooking was a task so far removed from our daily work activities, yet we were able to rise to the challenge and achieve our desired results as a team! We discovered positive things about each other that we normally wouldn?t in the work environment and the activity definitely resulted in a greater sense of camaraderie amongst the team.
Please feel free to have any of your prospects contact me for a reference.
Best Regards,
– Greg G., IXOS Software, Inc.
Everyone had a terrific time at our cooking team building exercise. I have been to a lot of team building events in my time, and I have never heard so many people be so positive about one. I got so many compliments from the attendees. Almost unanimous approval is hard to come by. I really appreciate all your efforts to make this work?being flexible about using the country club, talking our Sr. VP out of making it a competition, etc?.You made me look good!!
People enjoyed it so much; I have had requests for the hors d?ouerve recipes. Would it be possible to get a copy that we can post on our intranet for the attendees to download?
Best regards,
B. K., Endo Pharmaceuticals
Reviews for Other Team Building Event
Betty– What I value in you…your persistence, ingenuity, attitude (always a "can-do" type of attitude), and the way you treat your clients. I just know that anyone I recommend to you will be treated well and handled professionally. I like your integrity and high standards. You're someone I feel I can trust completely, and that's so important in our business.
– Peter Grazier, Team Building Associates
Just wanted to Thank you both for a wonderful day. We received so much positive feedback! It truly exceeded our expectations and it was a pleasure working with you.
– Chris Nunn, Merck & Company
Betty Robinson is a joy to work with — tremendously responsive and totally professional. A Gem! This was our third event with Philly Hops — each one topping the one before it. I can't think of a thing I would have added or changed but if I could I know I could count on Betty to do it.
– JM, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
I sincerely appreciate the quality of the programs and service that you provide employees from Glaxo Smithkline. Your programs are different from most vendors and that is what we particularly like when we are looking for events for our employees. You take time and customize according to the needs of our groups. Several of those that I have recommended you to have commented to me that they were very pleased with the programs that you set up for them. Many of these events were targeted for our employee?s teambuilding efforts and from what I understand from the feedback it certainly achieved their goals.
My thanks to you for addressing the leisure and team building needs of our employees and I continue to look forward to working with you.
– CD, GlaxoSmithkline
How can I begin to express the gratitude I have for you and for all your hard work on the Avaya Communications event we did in June? You absolutely outdid yourself and my only hope is that I?ll have another event ?soon? on which we can work together!
Your attention to what our needs were throughout the planning of the event was outstanding and you handled everything with what seemed to be great ease! You exceeded my wildest expectations? and then some! For that I am truly thankful.
Your thoroughness with planning, securing and executing the arrangements required was incredible. From transportation and costume-guided tours for 500 guests as they made their way to Memorial Hall for the party, to actors greeting guests upon arrival and later performing the re-enactment of the signing of the Declaration of Independence ?everything was handled with meticulous professionalism!
I applaud you and all those you hired to make this happen. It was an affair to remember. I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
– VP, Culinary Concepts, Inc


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Jonas spotted in Toronto!
Anas Aziz @AnasAziz_
Me and future @Raptors all-star, Jonas Valanciunas! I'm probably the first brown guy he met in Toronto LOL http://pic.twitter.com/kds0MGxQ
Jonas spotted in Toronto!
Anas Aziz @AnasAziz_
Me and future @Raptors all-star, Jonas Valanciunas! I'm probably the first brown guy he met in Toronto LOL http://pic.twitter.com/kds0MGxQ
Hey! It looks like robo-kleiza can bend all the way to the ground. That's got to be a good sign.
I've said this numerous times but I think that McKechnie signing was huge.
For those who don't know McKechnie is the guy with the matching hair and shoes.
Could someone make this thread sticky? It's one of the most popular ones here anyway, and it's only going to get more popular as the new season is coming nearer and nearer.
Raptors quietly hoping Valenciunas not in Olympics.Raps source "he needs to get into NBA mode in summer league.its a big adjustment for him"— Mark Jones (@MarkJonesESPN) July 1, 2012
"I'm playing summer league in Vegas instead of the Olympics" will be a tough sell in Lithuania for Jonas. Remember that basketball is the number one sport there and the Olympics is the top tournament. I would rather see JV going up against Pau Gasol and Tyson Chandler in London than Miles Plumlee and Tyler Zeller in Vegas.
Well, it's probably someone with a 'source', so they must be correct. And everyone in the media knew who the Raptors were going to pick, so they got some real good sources ...
Anyways, if it's true, they certainly won't exect Valanciunas to withdraw from the team, but they'll hope Lithuania doesn't qualify.
Anybody else realized how Hibbert is now widely regarded as one of the best centers in the league while averaging only 12 and 8? He is getting a MAX DEAL for 12 and 8!! Even Asik is getting paid a fortune for just having a big body and active hands.
I don't know about you guys but I'm feeling reeeeal good right now about Jonas Valanciunas. Some are actually expecting him to average around 12 and 8 in his rookie season.
However the numbers play out next year, I think it's safe to say that it's incredibly realistic to say JV will become one of the best centers in the league come 3 years. Disagree?
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Valanciunas will be a top 3 C in the league
Valanciunas might be a top 3 C in the league.
Valanciunas should be a top 5 C in the league.
Valanciunas will be a top 10 C in the league.
Give him a few seasons, patience and love.
Centers are so overpaid, Deandre Jordan is geting 10mil a season and all he does is block shots and dunk twice a game, Mcgee will probably get a lot and his bball iq is negative, and hibbert is certainly not worth of a max deal, man he couldnt even outplay a miami heat frontline 5inches shorter than him. I really hope JVs next contract is reasonably priced.
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Rural District, TIPS Final Rules on Tap for Feb. 21 NCUA Board Meeting
The NCUA Board will vote on two final rules during its Feb. 21 meeting, one that will expand the definition of "rural district" for field of membership purposes, and a second rule that will grant credit unions the ability to invest in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.
The board will also consider the NCUSIF's quarterly report.
The expanded rural district definition, first proposed in September 2012, would increase the current 200,000 person threshold if the area contains less than 3% of a state's total population.
The TIPS proposed rule was also introduced in September. During that meeting, NCUA Associate General Counsel Frank Kressman told the board that TIPS pose no risk to principal, saying the value would never fall below the original investment.
The board's open meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the NCUA's Alexandria, Va., headquarters. Following the open meeting, a closed door session will involve a final rule that will add supplemental standards of ethical conduct for NCUA employees.


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