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New Hope Project: Income and Employment Effects on Children and Families, 1994-2003 [Restricted Use] (ICPSR 30282)
Principal Investigator(s): Huston, Aletha, University of Texas-Austin; Miller, Cynthia, Manpower Demonstration Project; Duncan, Greg J., University of California-Irvine; Bos, Johannes M., American Institutes for Research; McLoyd, Vonnie C., University of Michigan; Weisner, Thomas, University of California-Los Angeles; Granger, Robert, William T. Grant Foundation
The New Hope Project gathered information on respondents over eight years using several data sources. This collection consists of three datasets: (1) Adults, (2) Child and Family Study (CFS) Parents, and (3) Youth. Information was collected on respondent's employment history, job characteristics and security, other sources of income, feelings about respondent's financial situation, material hardship, respondent's access to health care, as well as experiences with the New Hope program. Furthermore, families with at least one child between the ages of 1 and 10 at initial random assignment were selected for the Child and Family Study (CFS). The CFS independently surveyed parents/primary caregivers and up to two focal children when applicable, and collected information about the parents' and the child's well-being. Additionally, teachers of school-aged children were mailed surveys and asked to rate the child's performance and behavior. Demographic variables include age, gender, race, nationality, citizenship, educational attainment, employment status, income, marital status, parent-child relations, and household composition.
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Study Description
Huston, Aletha, Cynthia Miller, Greg J. Duncan, Johannes M. Bos, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Thomas Weisner, and Robert Granger. New Hope Project: Income and Employment Effects on Children and Families, 1994-2003 [Restricted Use]. ICPSR30282-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30282.v1
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This study was funded by:
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD 2 R01 HD036038-08, NICHD 5 R24 HD042849)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Helen Bader Foundation
- Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: activities of daily living, after school programs, aspirations, attitudes, bullying, child care, child health, child rearing, children, economic aid, economic conditions, education, educational background, employee assistance programs, employment, employment practices, goals, health care, health care access, health insurance, household budgets, household composition, household expenditures, household income, human behavior, income, job history, job satisfaction, living arrangements, living conditions, neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood conditions, parent child relationship, parental attitudes, parents, participation, perceptions, poverty, records, social behavior, standard of living, stress, tax credits, tax records, welfare services, work attitudes
Smallest Geographic Unit: none
Geographic Coverage: Milwaukee, United States, Wisconsin
- 1994-08--2003-01
- 1994-08--1995-12 (Random assignment)
- 1996-12--1998-01 (Two years after random assignment)
- 1999-12--2000-01 (Five years after random assignment)
- 2002-12--2003-01 (Eight years after random assignment)
Unit of Observation: household, individual
Universe: All adults over 18 years of age residing in one of the two target areas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose household income was at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level and who were willing and able to work at least 30 hours per week.
This collection has been minimally processed by ICPSR due to the size of the datasets. ICPSR versions of Stata data and ready-to-go files have not been provided.
The data were originally produced by the University of Texas at Austin. The original collection of the quantitative data was administered by Westat and Survey Research Management; Ethnographic fieldwork: Thomas Weisner, Lucinda Bernheimer, Eli Lieber, Victor Espinosa, Christina Gibson, Eboni Howard, Katherine Magnuson, Jennifer Romich, Dvarti Syam. Special collaborators include Julie Kerksick, Tom Back, Sharon F. Schulz, Don Sykes; The State of Wisconsin; Milwaukee County; Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development; Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services; Wisconsin Department of Revenue; and the Milwaukee County Department of Human Services.
For additional information on the New Hope Project, please refer to the MDRC New Hope Project Web site.
Study Purpose: The New Hope Project was created to offer services and benefits to low-income households including job search assistance, a monthly earnings supplement, and subsidized child care and health insurance.
Study Design: Over 1,300 individuals (Primary Sample Members - PSMs) were enrolled based on particular criteria and then randomly assigned to either (1) the New Hope program group; eligible to receive the program's benefits and services for three years, or (2) the control group; not eligible to receive program benefits and services.
Please refer to the MDRC New Hope Project Web site for information on sampling.
Mode of Data Collection: cognitive assessment test, face-to-face interview, self-enumerated questionnaire, telephone interview
Please refer to the "Processing Notes" section of the ICPSR codebook for information on data sources.
Description of Variables: Dataset 1 (All Adults) - approximately 9,800 variables; Dataset 2 (CFS Parents) - approximately 9,800 variables; Dataset 3 (Youth) - approximately 13,300 variables.
Response Rates: The overall response rate for the two-year survey was 80.0 percent for the full sample; 79.3 percent for the Child and Family Study (CFS). Of the CFS sample, 77.9 percent had at least some usable child data. Of the school-aged children (aged 5 years or older), 61.8 percent had at least some teacher data available. 75 percent of parents and 72 percent of children in the CFS provided at least some responses to the five-year surveys. Of all children who responded, 63 percent had at least one teacher who responded to the five-year teacher survey. The response rate for the eight-year survey was 80 percent.
Presence of Common Scales: Woodcock-Johnson Achievement Battery: Letter-Word Identification, Passage Comprehension, Applied Problems, and Calculation scales; Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D); HOME measure; Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS); Social Skills Rating System (SSRS).
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Original ICPSR Release: 2013-04-03
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Nuclear power has received a lot of criticism
lately due to the 9.0-magnitude
earthquake that rocked Japan on March 11. U.S. Senators urged
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to repeat the inspection of nuclear
power in the United States after it was already deemed safe, and French
President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a global
nuclear review after visiting Japan.
all of these negative reviews, there
are also many advocates who see the benefits of cheap, clean and
reliable nuclear power as an alternative energy source. U.S. President Barack
Obama even embraced
nuclear energy in last year's State of the Union address.
No matter
which side you're on, many can agree that safety comes first, and now, federal
regulators are concerned about the safety of an Alabama nuclear plant after its
emergency cooling system failed.
Browns Ferry nuclear power plant is located near Athens, Alabama and is run by
the Tennessee Valley Authority. A valve on its residual heat removal system was
stuck shut, which prompted in-depth inspections by the NRC.
to reports, there have been previous problems
with the valve. Originally, the valve failed sometime after March 2009, but
wasn't identified until October 2010 when the plant was being refueled. The
valve was fixed at that time, and was labeled as a manufacturer's defect.
Despite the plant's effort to fix the valve and inspect all others like it, the
NRC criticized the plant for not finding the valve issue sooner through routine
valve was repaired prior to returning the unit to service and Browns Ferry
continued to operate safely," said Victor McCree, the NRC's Region ll
administrator. "However, significant problems involving key safety systems
warrant more extensive NRC inspection and oversight."
Had there
been an emergency, the NRC worries that the faulty valve could have prevented
the emergency cooling systems from working correctly. For this reason, the NRC
will continue to review the safety culture, organization and performance of the
results of this inspection will aid the NRC in deciding whether additional
regulatory actions are necessary to assure public health and safety," said
For the
time being, the NRC has issued a red finding against the Brown Ferry nuclear
plant, which is the most
severe ranking given to a plant for inspection. Only five red findings
have been issued in the U.S. in the past decade. It is unknown whether the
Tennessee Valley Authority will appeal the finding from the NRC at this time.

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Accidental drowning is one of the leading causes of death in young children. Swimming lessons may seem like the best way to prevent drowning. However, organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that parents think beyond swimming skills to promote overall water safety.
Starting Earlier
The AAP emphasizes the importance of teaching children how to swim. There has been controversy though, as to what age lessons should start. The AAP's current position is that children ages 1-4 may be less likely to drown if they have participated in swimming lessons. They advise parents to decide whether to enroll their children in lessons based on the child's:
- Exposure to water sources for swimming
- Emotional development
- Physical abilities
- Health conditions
However, the AAP has many other helpful suggestions that parents should consider to prevent drowning.
Touch Supervision
In its policy statement, the AAP recommends parents use "touch supervision" with infants, toddlers, and weak swimmers. This means parents should always be within an arm's length when their children are in or around water. Bathtubs, wading pools, water-filled ditches, and even buckets can pose safety risks for young children.
Parents of older children and more advanced swimmers also need to stay alert and avoid distraction as they monitor children in the water. In fact, the American Red Cross advises swimmers of all ages to always swim with a buddy and not to allow anyone to swim alone.
Danger in the Backyard
Tragically, many children under the age of 5 years drown in their own backyard pools. The most effective way to prevent your children from drowning in the pool is to have a fence around a pool. Even children who take swimming lessons have difficulty transferring what they learn in swimming lessons to a situation in which they enter the pool unexpectedly.
If you have a pool, follow these prevention guidelines:
- Enclose pool, even above-ground pools, with a non-climbable fence that is at least 4 feet high.
- Attach self-closing, self-latching gates to fences, and make sure the gates open outward. Toddlers try to open things by pushing on them.
- Place locks on windows and doors leading to a pool or hot tub area.
- Seal off doggy doors leading to a pool area.
- Use a rigid pool cover.
- Equip the pool with a shepherd's hook and lifesaving rings.
- Keep a telephone near the pool.
- Get training in CPR and infant CPR.
Additional safety guidelines:
- Do not use swim aids, like inflatable arm bands, as they can deflate.
- If you are taking your children to a beach or lake to swim, be sure that there is a lifeguard on duty.
- Anyone around water should know how and when to call for emergency medical services.
The bottom line is that there is no way to "drown proof" your child. But, there are "layers of protection," like swimming lessons and pool safety measures, that can lower your child's risk of drowning.
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Michael Woods, MD, FAAP
- Review Date: 10/2017 -
- Update Date: 11/05/2015 -


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A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop erectile dysfunction with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your chance of developing erectile dysfunction. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk factors include:
The incidence of erectile dysfunction rises with age, with about 5% at age 40, to 15%-25% at age 65 and older.
Certain medical conditions can increase your risk of erectile dysfunction, including:
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Arteriosclerosis—hardening of the arteries
- Chronic kidney disease
- Cirrhosis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Prostatitis
- Peyronie's disease (bending of the penis caused by scar tissue)
- Endocrine disorders (hypogonadism, hyperthyroidism , hypothyroidism , hyperprolactinemia, Cushing syndrome )
- Neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis , peripheral neuropathy , and stroke
- Myotonic dystrophy
- High blood pressure
- Psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety , depression , schizophrenia
- Psychological problems (stress, personal relationships, new partners)
Trauma, whether through an accident or surgery, can increase your risk of erectile dysfunction. Trauma includes:
- Vascular surgery
- Urologic surgery, such as prostate surgery
- Pelvic surgeries (particularly for prostate cancer)
- Spinal cord injury
Certain behaviors can increase your risk of erectile dysfunction, including:
- Alcohol use
- Illegal drug use, such as heroin and marijuana
- Anabolic steroid use
- Heavy smoking
Certain medications can increase your risk of erectile dysfunction, including:
- Antihypertensives
- Antihistamines
- Antidepressants
- Tranquilizers
- Antipsychotics
- Histamine blockers
- Nicotine
If you suspect a medication may be affecting your sexual functioning, talk with your doctor. Do not stop taking a medication without talking to your doctor first.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Adrienne Carmack, MD
- Review Date: 03/2017 -
- Update Date: 03/15/2015 -


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Homemade Christmas Gift Thread
Welcome to the Amazon deals thread. Find all the latest deals or share the deals you've found. Remember that prices rise & fall constantly on Amazon, sometimes within hours or even minutes, so if you see a good deal, act fast! Amazon is also notorious for inflating the List Price of an item to make the deal look better, and sometimes it's not even a deal at all. Compare at competing retailers before you buy.
1. NO Referral links.
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3. If we happen to have a price error posted on here and it falls through please take your complaining to the complaint department. LINK


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text: Of all the trade rumors that we've heard in the last month due to the trade deadline, this is probably one of the last trade I would have expected. According to RealGM, the Kings will receive Patrick Patterson, Cole Aldrich and Toney Douglas while the Houston Rockets will acquire Thomas Robinson, Francisco Garcia, Tyler Honeycutt and 2nd round pick. During the summer, Daryl Morey was an absolute joke of a GM that basically destroyed his roster to get Howard, but now, he looks like a pretty good GM! First, trading for an all-star in Harden. Now he's acquired the 5th overall pick in a stacked draft. Thomas Robinson might have been a tough season as a rookie, but he still has tons of potential to be pretty good in this league. A future lineup of Lin, Harden, Parsons, Robinson, and Asik looks pretty good in the future. As for the Kings, who the hell is running their front office? IMO, I would never trade a player with such big potential for role players. Anyways, there are also things I don't understand about this trade. Firstly, why the hell would you include a 2nd round pick. This just shows how desperate the Kings' franchise is! Not to mention showing how disorganized the franchise is. Secondly, why the hell would you want these players? Aldrich is a center that can't really play defense. At most, a 2nd string center in the NBA. Patrick Paterson is an undersided PF who can shoot threes. Toney Douglas is a scoring PG who just shucks shots. You have enough points guards in Brooks, Thomas, and Fredette. Are they the new Minnesota Timberwolves? All jokes aside, as of now, it looks like the Rockets just complete fleeced the Kings. The whole trade depends on how well Robinson and Patterson develops. To be honest, as a Raptors fan, I wonder if we could have done anything to get Thomas Robinson with a trade involving Bargnani. With Patterson, you don't know what you are going to get. He's got potential too but it's not complete developed. Bargnani needs a new change in scenery and can give you 20PPG and 4RPG in a good season. There is no guarantee that Patterson can give you same offense. Anyways, a Cousins and Bargnani is pretty interesting. I wouldn't mind having Robinson on this team. He's young, has major potential, he has a motor and can rebound. IMO, the Kings gave up on Robinson way too early! Thoughts?


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CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has gone online, becoming the world's largest operational particle collider. The LHC was the result of $9B USD and years of collaboration from researchers worldwide. It promises to unlock great mysteries such as the Higgs boson and deeper insight into how antimatter behaves.
The launch did have its share of hassles. First, researchers were alarmed by death threats from fearful observers who worried the device would generate huge black holes, despite reassurance from the world's top scientists that any tiny black holes that did arise would quickly evaporate. Second, according to CERN officials, late last night the LHC was experiencing some "small electrical problems".
None of these issues could put a damper on the launch though and it continued on schedule. It turned on at 9:30 AM CEST and at 9:49 AM the first beam of protons was fired through the first 3-km of the 27-km ring. It took 48 seconds to generate the pulse.
Firing ramped up and by 10:25 AM the proton beam was travelling the entire track. The tests went quicker and had fewer issues than expected. Counterclockwise beams are currently being tested.
CERN expects the LHC to be fully operation and unlocking the mysteries of the universe within a few months based on the strong initial testing. After the counterclockwise tests, the next step will be to perform the first atom smashing later this month, colliding two proton beams together.
Expect to hear much more news about the world's largest particle accelerator in the near future.


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Even though automakers and environmentalists are pushing new
electric and hybrid electric cars, claiming less pollution to make our Mother
Earth unhappy with our wasteful ways, it seems they come with demons of their
own. Well, maybe not so much.
The media has certainly been filled with talk of the cleaner cars lately.
Everything from MIT's City Car
to the Lightning Car
Company's 700HP sports car to Chevrolet's
Equinox fuel cell SUV which DailyTech
got to take for a little spin this January. What's the deal? Well, obviously if
you have cars running on electricity, they aren't churning out megatons of air
and water pollutants each year. Well, the cars won't be, but the whole
"where does the power get made to power the cars then" quandary can
be fought with later.
Today we'll make note of a much stranger side effect of all these silent,
battery and (noble) gas driven people movers. From the University of Texas at
Austin comes research projecting that there's going to be a pretty large
quantity of one of our most precious natural resources gobbled up by these
electrics. No, it's not oil, trees, hydrogen or even indium - we're talking
about water.
It's not much of a shocker, it's true. Water is probably our most precious resource,
but barring evils like pollution and hydrolysis, it's one of Earth's most
abundant and easily renewable. So we make a bit more steam, what's the big
deal, right? Let's let the research speak for itself for a moment.
compare figures from literature and government surveys to calculate the water
usage, consumption, and withdrawal, in the United States during petroleum
refining and electricity generation. In displacing gasoline miles with electric
miles, approximately 3 times more water is consumed (0.32 versus 0.07–0.14
gallons/mile) and over 17 times more water is withdrawn (10.6 versus 0.6
gallons/mile) primarily due to increased water cooling of thermoelectric power
plants to accommodate increased electricity generation. Overall, we conclude
that the impact on water resources from a widespread shift to grid-based
transportation would be substantial enough to warrant consideration for
relevant public policy decision-making. (PDF)
Wow. 10.92 gallons of water per mile. It's a pretty
staggering number. Thinking that my daily commute used to be about 40 miles,
not including zipping around town for random things, that's more than 400
gallons in one day. That's probably more than the average person uses all week
between hygiene and self hydration.
On the whole the conclusion they come to isn't exactly life-threatening, but it
could become a problem, as they point out, for areas where water shortages are
already experienced yearly.
In reality, a study like this doesn't really say much about how much pollution
we can or can't stop by converting to electric person delivery, other than the
inflated power generation, and subsequent water requirements, that will be
needed to charge all these cars (we weren't going to talk about that though).
But it does point out a much simpler fact that though we may think we're
heading in the right direction by cutting down our toxic pollution output,
sometimes we forget to think about the simple things we might be sacrificing on
the way.


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Intel and Apple has been working together on the Light Peak interface, and Apple has
introduced the standard as "Thunderbolt"
on its latest array of MacBook Air, MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac mini products.
If you can get past the $50
cables that are required for connecting peripherals to your computer, Light Peak actually shows a lot of
promise as witnessed by Sony's
implementation on the VAIO Z's Power Media Dock.
Belkin never misses an opportunity to jump into the latest
craze with computer accessories, and the company was showing off its new
Thunderbolt Express Dock today at IDF. Tucked away at the bottom of a display
case, and overshadowed by some more prominent offerings from Pegasus was the
tiny little dock.
The Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock features three USB
ports, a Thunderbolt port for daisy chaining, a Firewire port, and a GbE port.
This is basically the same port setup that's found on the new 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display.
For Apple users looking for expanded port offerings via the
Thunderbolt port and don't want to pay $999 for the functionality, the Belkin
Thunderbolt Express Dock will come in handy. We don't have any pricing or
availability for the dock yet, but we can be sure that it won't cost anywhere
near $999.
Now, will Belkin include a Thunderbolt cable to hook the dock up to your
computer instead of making you have to pay an extra $50?


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Spirikaitis Still At Large; Authorities Turn to Public for Help
As of 4:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday, former Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union CEO Alex Spirikaitis was still at large and authorities in Cleveland pleaded with the public to assist in his capture.
"We are really making a plea to the public to look at his picture and if they see him or have any idea as to his whereabouts, to give us a call," FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson told Credit Union Times.
The FBI has released Spirikaitis' driver's license photo in an attempt to apprehend him.
Local police apparently were in a standoff with Spirikaitis on Tuesday evening after arriving at his home to arrest him at around 8 p.m. However, when authorities entered the home the next morning, he was not there.
Anderson said when police approached the home Tuesday evening, Spirikaitis' relatives "gave every indication" the CEO – accused of embezzlement in the failure of the $23.6 million credit union – was inside.
"Family members left the house with us and we thought, from the information we gathered, that he was not going to willingly come out," she said.
For safety's sake in the residential neighborhood, Anderson said authorities waited until daybreak for tactical teams to move in. Additionally, Anderson said, the home is "huge," which played a part in the decision to wait until daylight before entering.
The official charge – making false credit institution entries – is an unusual one. Anderson said the charge falls under the embezzlement category, and because it is one that could be quickly proven, FBI officials utilized the charge so authorities could quickly execute an arrest warrant.
Still, Anderson said authorities did not expect Spirikaitis to pose a flight risk.
The FBI agent also said Spirikaitis may have not acted alone.
"This is a very early on investigation, so we have a lot more work to do," she said. "If people have information about Mr. Spirikaitis and his whereabouts, but also about any dealings that occurred (at the credit union), and wish to come in and talk about it, we're more than open to that."
The Ohio Department of Financial Institutions seized the Cleveland credit union Friday after determining it was insolvent and had no prospect for restoring viable operations. The DFI named the NCUA liquidating agent.


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Vt. plans DUI courts to reduce repeat offenders
MONTPELIER -- Vermont plans to set up DUI courts to reduce the number of repeat drunken drivers by treating their addictions to alcohol, a move that is expected to save lives and money, Gov. Peter Shumlin said Monday.
Similar to the three drug courts already operating in the state, judges would monitor the treatment of people with a second or third DUI offense and could impose sanctions and rewards. The offenders would be convicted and sentenced. After they've served a mandatory sentence they could work out a deal with the judge to return to court on a regular basis to account for their progress and treatment as a condition of their probation. If they violate those terms, they lose that benefit and are incarcerated.
"There is something about returning on a regular basis to court to speak to the judge that nationally we have learned makes a significant difference in helping people recover from addiction," said Robert Sand, the Windsor County state's attorney will be leaving that position to set up the courts.
Sand has been working with criminal justice professionals in Windsor County on such a court -- called a DUI treatment docket. The system is expected to take its first cases in 30 to 60 days, Sand said. He hopes to see a statewide DUI treatment dockets in three years.
Of the 77 fatal crashes in Vermont last year, 23 were alcohol related.
"I think it's important to emphasize that repeat DUI offenders have maimed and killed innocent Vermonters for a long time," said Shumlin.
"Anything that I can do as governor and that we can do as an administration to make Vermont roads safer while we deal with addiction in a smarter and more effective way is good news for Vermonters and good news for Vermont taxpayers," he said.
Vermont already is reducing its rate of young inmates. The number has dropped from 2,074 in 2003 to 938 in June of 2012.
The DUI courts will help to reduce those numbers even more, as well as a plan to merge the Community High School of Vermont and the Vermont Correctional Industries programs to offer inmates better training to succeed when they're released, Shumlin said.
The proposal -- which is expected to save about $600,000 a year -- will offer training in independent living, post-secondary planning and workforce development.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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DeMar you're shooting too well from the 3, we need you somewhere around the mid 20's like our leader.
Jose. JOSE!! what did I tell you about free throws, you close your eyes before you get to the line or else you're never gonna get down to 55% like Landry.
We're never gonna improve unless you guys learn to play like our alpha dog. At least his girlfriend is hot though right, that's worth absolutely nothing.


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Hybrid vehicles are considered by many carmakers to be a jumping off point for fully electric vehicles once battery technology improves. Hybrids save drivers on fuel and produce fewer emissions as well.
Typical hybrid vehicles -- like the Toyota Prius -- are small cars designed for average consumers. However, larger vehicles like FedEx delivery trucks can accommodate hybrid technology as well. FedEx has announced that it has added 92 new hybrid trucks to its delivery fleet. The addition of the 92 new hybrid trucks brings the total number of hybrids in the FedEx fleet to 264.
Prior to the addition of the new vehicles FedEx had 174 hybrid delivery vehicles in its fleet. FedEx says that its hybrid fleet has logged more than 4 million miles since it was introduced in 2004 and has reduced the amount of fuel used by 150,000 gallons and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1,521 metric tons.
That is the same as removing 279 cars from the road each year according to FedEx. The FedEx vehicles in question are converted standard delivery vans and were created during the last six months. The conversion process created 50 new temporary jobs in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. The converted hybrid vehicles replaced the standard engine, fuel tank, and drive shaft with a hybrid-electric system produced by Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation and Eaton Corporation. All of the vehicles converted by FedEx were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven.
"The conversion of these standard FedEx trucks into hybrids is the latest milestone in our drive to advance and adopt hybrid technology into our fleet and the broader industry," said John Formisano, vice president, Global Vehicles, FedEx Express. "FedEx and our suppliers have demonstrated that converted hybrids are a viable, lower-cost option compared to purchasing new hybrids. We now need government incentives to end a Catch-22 situation: Production volumes are low due to high cost, and costs will only come down with higher production volumes."
The new hybrid vehicles will mostly be placed into service in California in the LA, San Diego, and San Francisco areas. FedEx says that incentives in place in California helped make it possible to add the hybrid vehicles to its fleet.


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10 games in...ups and downs...nailbiters and blowouts.
Who has surprised you the most so far? Good or bad.
Personally, I'm floored by Bosh. I was never a hater, but I wasn't a blind lover either. He is as determined as a dog going after a bone so far and I've become a big fan of how he isn't showing up the officials any more. Sure, he is going inside more and drawing contact, but doing so without always looking for a call goes a long way in the unwritten law of officiating.


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copyright the Chronicle March 26, 2014
by Paul Lefebvre
MONTPELIER — Regional and local planners are expected to be the big losers in a bill to open up the siting process for ridgeline industrial wind projects.
Scheduled to appear on the Senate floor, the bill was rerouted to the Senate Committee on Appropriations Tuesday as negotiations continued behind the scenes to strike a compromise and keep it alive.
"Unfortunately, regional planning is one of those things we're probably not going to wind up with," said Senator John Rodgers of Glover during a telephone interview Tuesday.
One of the stated purposes of the bill was "to strengthen the role of planning commissions and local selectboard and planning commissions in the siting review process for energy facilities by giving greater weight to their recommendations and plans."
But at the end of the day, that's not likely what's going to happen.


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Honda may
be a little behind company's like Chevrolet and Nissan when
it comes to the development of greener vehicles, but the automaker is
playing catch-up by announcing their plan
to release an electric vehicle (EV) and a plug-in hybrid in
the U.S. and Japan in 2012. Honda also announced that its next
generation Civic Hybrid, which is to be released in 2011, will
feature a lithium-ion battery pack.
likely that Honda will join its rivals like Nissan and GM by
releasing an all-electric vehicle build around a lithium-ion battery
pack. Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito said that its
all-electric vehicle would be aimed at "commuters with a
relatively short cruise range."
has no future unless we achieve significant reduction in CO2
emissions," said Ito. "The next 10 years will be a true
test for Honda's survival."
recent interest in electric vehicles isn't its first crack at greener
technology, though. The Tokyo-based Honda makes the CR-Z and the
Insight hybrids, and there are plans underway to build a plant in
Yorii, Saitama near Tokyo specifically for Earth-friendly models.
Honda aims to begin production at this plant in 2013. In addition,
there is talk about Honda building yet another plant in Yokkaichi,
Mie Prefecture, but there is no set date for production.
carmakers will be releasing electric vehicles in 2012 as well, such
as Toyota, who is teaming up with Tesla Motors Inc. to build an
electric version of Toyota's
RAV4 crossover. Several others are releasing (or have released)
their EV's as soon as this year, such as Nissan's Leaf and
the Mitsubishi iMiEV.
so many others hopping on the EV bandwagon, it makes sense that Honda
would follow. But critics have made accusations in the past
saying that Honda was "disinterested" in electric vehicles,
which Ito denies. With the lack of details given in Honda's EV
announcement, some are still unsure of Honda's intentions.
plan is for a product that is two years away," said Toshiyuki
Fukuda, a freelance auto writer that is skeptical of Honda's latest
announcement. "Maybe it just wants to ride on the EV boom."
plans to improve their gas-electric lineup by introducing many small,
hybrid models within the next year, and will expand Japanese
production by aiming for emerging markets like Indonesia, Africa,
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Don Cohenour Appointed Permanent Missouri League President/CEO
Don Cohenour, who was named interim president of the Missouri Credit Union Association in November, has been appointed to the permanent president/CEO post by the trade's board of directors.
He succeeds Mike Beall, who left MCUA to become president/CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association. "Don Cohenour is the ideal candidate to continue driving the strategic direction of the organization," said Dennis Pierce, MCUA's board chairman, in a CUNA release. "Don's knowledge of credit unions combined with the strength of relationships built throughout his tenure will ensure MCUA maintains a strong connection with its membership."
Cohenour is an 18-year veteran of MCUA, having previously served as chief membership officer. In that role, he managed field representatives, served as an executive field representative with all member credit unions and provided overall responsibility for credit union relationships.
He also was responsible for credit union staff and volunteer development, consulting services, professional development, and all product and service sales in the state. "I am looking forward to my new role with MCUA and my continued work with credit union advocates throughout the state," Cohenour said. "The initiatives we set in motion make this an exciting time to lead the organization and make the credit unions of Missouri grow."


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A little note I posted on FB I thought I would share:
Remember the 4 Raptor games this season where the refs screwed us over in the final seconds? Well the Raptors finished 4 games shy of the playoffs this season. How ironic. And we can sit here and talk about how they should have won a bunch of other close games down the stretch, true, but nothing sucks as much as the NBA holding our fate in their hands, and ultimately crushing our hopes in their fists. Oh, no apology needed NBA, you're too busy assuring the Lakers make it.
An interesting side note is that the raps have actually had three seperate 5-game winning streaks this season (FOUR if you count the preseason too). I have no proof at my fingertips, but I'm pretty sure that's the first time in their history they accomplished that. Congrats!
Amir developed into a solid pro, Jonas is blossoming, and hopefully Demar, Rudy and Kyle can keep it together next year like they did at the end of this season. Maybe we even get a surprise trade for Primo Pasta and get something decent in return!
It's disappointing to be out of the playoffs for another year, especially when we invested in them as season ticket holders, but (as always lol) hopefully next year they get over the hump. Sad to see them go for a few months but at least this means one fantastic thing - SUMMER!
Hang in there Raptor fans.
As up and down as the season has been, and considering the start we endured, the record really isn't too bad, and we came SO close to the playoffs despite all the negatives. I even feel like if we hadn't given up around the 70 game mark, it woulda been interesting today regarding the 8th seed. As I said in the message, a lot of positives to take away from the season. It was an interesting one to say the least.
P.S. Haven't been around these parts too often lately so I don't know if all of this has been posted somewhere else. Lock/remove if you must... when I am around I see a lot of negativity so I thought a little bitter sweet post is what the doctor ordered


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BLS: Inflation Holds Steady in January
The U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the consumer price index remained unchanged January for the second month in a row. Increases in housing, clothing, airfare costs, medical care and entertainment were offset by a seasonally adjusted decline in energy prices, the department said in a release.
Catalyst Strategic Solutions Chief Strategist Brian Turner said Friday that core prices, which exclude commodity-driven food and energy elements, rose 0.1%, the biggest monthly gain since May 2011, which follows a 0.1% increase in December.
"This shows the impact that a 1.7 % decline in energy prices has on the overall inflation reading," he said.
The BLS also reported wholesale inflation rose 0.2% in December with core prices increasing by an equal amount. Compared to a year ago, wholesale inflation has increased at a 1.4% pace with the core prices up 1.8%.
Turner said that in its Jan. 30 statement, the Federal Reserve said, "Inflation has been running somewhat below the (Open Market) Committee's longer-run objective, apart from temporary variations that largely reflect fluctuations in energy prices."
The Fed also has said inflation must remain below 2.5% before it would contemplate raising the overnight target rate.
"The low inflation profile should help to keep money in the hand of members, but probably less than the impact that higher payroll taxes has diluted," Turner said. "Consumer spending is about two-thirds of the nation's GDP, which experienced a -0.5% contraction last quarter."


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Raptors aren't going to get a 1st round pick this year unless they lose the rest of the season. There's one guy in this draft that intrigues me and i think fills a need and he's projected to go in the 10-20 range. Doug McDermott.
Raptors need a 3pt shooter and McDermott is a GREAT shooter. He also have a post up game and is a very smart player. I've always been a fan of him, been following him since last year. Heck, i took Creighton as one of my Final Four team this year.
So what do you guys think would it take to get a pick in that range?
Areas the Raps need to address in the offseason in my opinion is 3pt shooting and i still think they need a starting PF. Although Amir is starting to change my mind about acquiring another big. But 3pt shooting for sure is one area they need to upgrade.


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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.
Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1987: Alabama, Alaska, California, Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia (ICPSR 9287)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by arrest) through final disposition, regardless of whether the offender is convicted or acquitted. Information is provided on arrest, police action, prosecutor action, level of charges, charges filed by the prosecutor, type of counsel, pretrial status, type of trial, sentence type, and sentence length. This allows researchers to examine how the criminal justice system processes offenders, to measure the changing volume of offenders moving through the different segments of the criminal justice system, to calculate processing time intervals between major decision-making events, and to assess the changing structure of the offender population.
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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS), 1987: ALABAMA, ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, DELAWARE, GEORGIA, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, UTAH, VERMONT, AND VIRGINIA. Compiled by the Regional Justice Information System. ICPSR09287-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2005-08-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09287.v3
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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example.
Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line, with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data. Their target market is shell scripts that need date calculations or calendar conversions, and as such they are highly pipe-able and modeled after their well-known cousins (e.g. dtest vs. test, or dgrep vs. grep).
SquidTL allows proxy administrators to manage proxy users: define how much time users can spend on a specific Web site, block sites, limit total time users can spend on the Web daily, and watch users' activity. For example, you can limit the use of Facebook or other social networks with per-user rules or IP. It has a small memory footprint and very fast execution. Management can be done with a smart Web-based administration GUI.
timekpr will track and control the computer usage of your user accounts. You can limit their daily usage based on a timed access duration and configure periods of day when they can or cannot log in. With this application, administrators can limit account login time duration or account access hours. It has support for GNOME, KDE, and XFCE and uses time and access Linux PAM modules. It is currently limited to Ubuntu only.
tstime is a command that is similar to the time(1) command, but in addition to the runtime, it also prints the highwater memory usage (RSS+VMEM) of the controlled process. tsmon is a command that prints the runtime/highwater memory usage of every process that exits on the system until the tsmon is quit. These programs use the taskstats delay accounting interface of the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Gameclock is a fairly simple application designed to track the time spent thinking by the players during a chess game. Various clock engines are available (speed chess, fisher chess, board games, or hourglass). The graphical interface is keyboard-driven and is intended to be minimal and simple. The code is made to be extensible to other game types.


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AMD finally appeared to be gaining traction
around the end of 2010; it is doing well with its graphics offerings, delivering its first "Fusion" CPU/GPUs,
and preparing for a spring launch of its latest high-power
CPU architecture Bulldozer. But a sluggish response with regards to the
mobile sector, including tablets cost
AMD CEO Dirk Meyer his job. Mr. Meyer was shown the door (made to
resign), replaced by current CFO Thomas Seifert as interim CEO.
Now two more top AMD executives have either quit
or been forced out.
The first is Robert Rivet [profile],
AMD's chief operating officer. He was AMD's chief financial officer from
2000 to 2008. In 2008 he switched from the CFO post to the COO post.
He was replaced as CFO by Mr. Seifert.
The second executive is Marty Seyer [profile],
senior vice president of corporate strategy. Mr. Seyer's efforts largely
focused on the server and IT sales angle, managing the microprocessor unit.
He joined the company in 2002.
AMD is claiming both executives left to pursue
"other opportunities". Writes [press
release] a company spokesperson, "Having made significant
contributions to the company over the years, Bob [Rivet] is leaving to pursue
new opportunities. He will remain through a brief interim period to help ensure
a seamless transition. Like Mr. Rivet, Mr. Seyer is also leaving AMD to pursue
new opportunities and will stay on for a brief period to ensure a seamless
In Mr. Seyer's case, more likely he, like Mr.
Meyer, was outed. Under Mr. Seyer's watch server sales slumped.
States Doug Freedman, an analyst with Gleacher & Co., comments to
the EE Times, "It's hard not to think that the heat in the
kitchen got to him."
With Mr. Rivet, the situation is less clear-cut.
He may have been bitter about being overlooked for the interim CEO
position. Or he may have been forced out. Or he may really have
left to pursue a more promising opportunity. No one seems quite sure in
that regard.
One has to wonder, though, how much these
departures will hurt AMD's prospects in the electronics industry. Or
perhaps they will be just what the company needed -- jump starting right when
it has its biggest opportunity, with Intel struggling
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EDITORIAL: Will the White House Finally Grow the Backbone to Digitally Counterattack China?
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Hack on The New York Times is latest incident to illustrate China's dominance in the new era of warfare, and the U.S.'s inaction
In the campy remake of the 1980s classic
Red Dawn
, MGM last year recast the titular enemy as not the Soviet-era Russians, but the Chinese. The movie may have been panned, but it did have one thing going for it -- it was uncomfortably close to reality.
I. A New War
China is unlikely to ever raise its guns or tank barrels on the U.S. It does not need to. The ultimate goal of all conquest is money, power, and influence. Today we stand on the brink of a new age, an age in which warfare has moved from trodden soil into the buried tracts of internet cable beneath it.
Today any country still has to deal with the far more familiar face of physical threats, be it "terrorists" or domestic dissidents. These threats will surely persist for a time, as much of the world -- for example, large tracts of the Middle East -- still exists in a pre-industrialized state. Even in regions with some digital capabilities like Iran, access is stifled under crippling walls of censorship and poverty, leading citizens to take up traditional, terrible blood-filled methods of conflict.
But if we listen careful, we hear the sound of change. The time of physical battles is coming to an end. Because in every way digital war is far superior to the wars of yore.
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In digital war, a wily adversary can cover their tracks. They can attack silently behind a wall of official denials, while tasting the sweet spoils of conquest. They don't have to face the public relations backlash that bombs and missiles evoke.
In traditional war, even the victor is left with a terrible legacy. To borrow a crude analogy, they may eat cake, but they must pay dearly for the cake. In digital war, the cake is free. The cake is on the house.
II. Not a Gentleman's War
We are in the early stage of the era of cyberwarfare, an era that overlaps with the closing of the era of traditional warfare. And the dawn of the new epoch marks the end of a cherished comfort of the last several decades -- the "gentleman's war".
Certainly, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the countries on the receiving end of aggression by the U.S. or Russia were in some ways as bloody as the scores of decades before. But there was a small comfort in that the people running these wars were refined, educated sorts. They might harbor as much malice as their brutish predecessors, but they masked it under layers of refinement, and to some extent even if the idea of the gentleman's war was a mere charade the actors did begin to believe their art to be reality. Officers did become more respectful and atrocities by the "civilized" powers proved fewer and more far between.
Washington D.C. is still stuck behind the outdated ideal of a gentleman's war in the digital era.
[Image Source: U.S. Congress]
But the dawn of cyberwar invites the dark characters in society back to the party. The ideal warrior in ancient times was obedient to his master to a degree, but had a powerful body, good instincts, and a ruthless, malicious bloodlust.
Similarly, cyberwar in its early stages won't be dominated by the "gentlemen" of our time; it will be fought and won by the darkest of digital barbarians, the blackest of black hats. In the U.S. we tend to perceive black hat hackers as a force working against the government interest. In reality, this situation exists simply because the U.S. does not make great efforts to court its most malicious, destructive black hat hackers.
The U.S. falsely believes that the era of digital warfare will be polite and civil. Its digital legion is largely filled with book-educated upstanding young men and women, many of which never broke through a firewall or cracked a password they hadn't been permitted to in their lives. These people will be ill prepared to face what is to come.
But a greater problem is that the controlling powers of the U.S. government -- Congress and the White House -- refuse to acknowledge that we're at war and that our enemy also happens to be our second largest trading partner, a rather awkward arrangement.
III. The New York Times is the Latest Victim of Chinese Cyberwarfare Unit
Across the Pacific Ocean, about 2,500 years ago, a brilliant strategist named Sun Tzu was born in the empire than would one day be known as China. Today, it is perhaps unsurprising that the land that gave rise to one of the world's most brightest military minds of all time today is the
master strategist
of cyberwar.
This week
The New York Times
that it had been attack by hackers, which its security contractor Mandiat traced with high likelihood to an elite Chinese cyberwarfare unit, likely housed with in People's Liberation Army. The attack was precipitated by
a piece
chronicling how the family of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao had accumulated a fortune worth $2.7B in U.S. dollars, a fortune which they are hiding behind friends and shadowy partnerships.
The New York Times is China's latest victim. [Image Source: AllThingsD]
The honesty and detail of
response was unusual and refreshing. Most corporations have sought to deny such reports to save face. The Times was blunt -- they were attacked in their own headline's words by "hackers in China". But as unusual as that proclamation was, the attack itself was not really that unusual.
I have covered cybersecurity for five years. And while my vision pales in comparison to the likes of author William Gibson, who first speculated cyberwar in his science fiction masterpiece
The Neuromancer
, I can see some things clearly. And I have seen that
we are at war
IV. Trail of Casualties Grows Long, as U.S. Refuses to Fight Back Decisively
The Times
intrusion was not the first attack on U.S. journalism, and it will not be the last.
The Times
report cited sources as saying a similar attack occurred against
last summer, following a similar exposé.
In 2008,
repelling a major attack
from Chinese IPs in the wake of a story about Tibet. In 2011, Chinese hackers
struck at online petition site Change.org
after a petition was launched to free an imprisoned Chinese artist. That same year
Chinese hackers struck Google
Inc.'s (
) Gmail service, looking to scoop the accounts of Tibetan dissidents. China's state-run newspaper mouthpiece then
proceeded to threaten Google
for stating the obvious -- that the attacks originated from Chinese IPs.
financial institutions and research firms
have been targeted. Secrets have been stolen, which could richly reward the Chinese financially.
State-sponsored Chinese hackers have allegedly attacked a deluge of U.S. targets.
[Image Source: Asia Society]
Lockheed Martin Corp. (
) -- a top defense contractor -- was reportedly
infiltrated by Chinese hackers
in 2011. Lockheed never officially acknowledged the much-publicized incident, but in 2012 it did warn that its subcontractors
were being targeted
by similar efforts. Mandiat suggests that "several" top defense contractors have had intrusions in recent years.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
was hacked with Chinese IPs communicating with infected thermostats and internet printers. The
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
has been hacked
multiple times
. U.S. Embassies
have been attacked
. The
U.S. Department of Defense
been targeted
by persistent attacks
by the Chinese
. The White House's
own networks
have been attacked.
V. Who's Lying? The U.S. or China?
Reportedly, China embraces those ill elements of its society, as outline above -- the most ruthless black hats -- delicately courting them and funneling their destructive expertise against their economic and ideological rival, the U.S.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) amusingly asserted as recently as 2011 that China was "
20 years behind
" the U.S. in military technology. Perhaps that is an honest assessment if one considers the official face of China's military -- traditional weaponry.
But China's most deadly weapon to American freedom and to the American economy is one it refuses to acknowledge -- its elite team of hackers. In a response to
The Times
piece, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei
in Beijing, "The competent Chinese authorities have already issued a clear response to the groundless accusations made by the New York Times. To arbitrarily assert and to conclude without hard evidence that China participated in such hacking attacks is totally irresponsible. China is also a victim of hacking attacks. Chinese laws clearly forbid hacking attacks, and we hope relevant parties takes a responsible attitude on this issue."
Clearly, someone is lying.
Or more aptly put, either the Chinese government is lying, or a whole bunch of prestigious U.S. institutions have formed some bizarre league of deceit.
The Times
is the most read metropolitan newspaper in the U.S. and has won more Pulitzer Prizes (108) for journalism than any other newspaper.
VI. U.S. Security Witnesses a Rape
But if you don't trust them, what about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)?
U.S. Cyber Command
leader and NSA director
Gen. Keith Alexander
made the information public on Tuesday in a briefing to the
Senate Armed Services Committee
, in which he testified, "I can't go into the specifics here, but we do see [thefts] from defense industrial base companies. There are some very public [attacks], though. The most recent one was the RSA exploits."
"We need to make it more difficult for the Chinese to do what they're doing. Intellectual property isn't well protected, and we can do a better job at protecting it."
The U.S. Cyber Command has been unable to effectively counterattack China. [Image Source: Reuters]
A VP at a top security firm Intel Corp. (
) subsidiary McAfee likens one such digital campaign, which sources trace to China, as digital "rape". Yet, the U.S. government sits largely idle as it and its people are attacked.
To be fair, the White House and Congress have both expressed some interest in development defensive capabilities and word is offense is also on the table. But currently the number of staffers is telling -- the U.S. Cyber Command only employs
around 500 brave souls
. That number will rise to 4,500 in the next few years, but that is simply not enough.
VII. Constitution Demands Self-Defense
The U.S. is at war. And fumbling in responsive defense measures is not acceptable. Digital dragonfire must be met with fire.
The U.S. is perfectly capable of unleashing a powerful and unaccountable digital counterattack on China. Simply allocate money to some ambiguous defense fund. Hire black hats. Route your attacks through multiple domestic and then local foreign IPs. Attack relentlessly. (That's what China does.)
It might cost $50B USD, it might cost $500B USD, but when you're at war, if you worry too much about costs you find yourself under the boot. And the U.S. is treading dangerously to meeting that fate.
The Constitution is unequivocal in what the government's duty is.
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
, the foundation of the U.S. government, clearly grants Congress the power:
[Image Source: EL Civics]
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
The U.S. Congress has been
ineffectual in legislating funding
and creating proposals outlining a sensible digital "common Defense" of the nation -- i.e. a "militia" (say, competent contracted security officials) or a digital age army (such as
China has built
In other words, when it comes to their Constitutional responsibility to protect the U.S. against invasions -- including cyberinvasions -- both parties in Congress have failed. The White House and Congressional Republicans and Democrats have largely failed (thus far) their oath to uphold one of the most important principals of the Constitution -- national defense.
But the blame rests partially on the American people and media.
The Times
, countless security firms, and many brave voices in the government itself are liars. Or we're at war. It is a new kind of war, but don't be mistaken -- it is a war still.
The media and the American people must demand a response. The days of bowing to China must end. China may be our second largest trade partner and intimately tied to the U.S. economy, but we are just as crucial to China and yet they have no problem silently attacking. So why should we?
Is it somewhat immoral for the government to attack China and then lie about it, if asked? Maybe by some absolute judgment. But until the world finds a higher moral ground, the U.S. must defend itself in whatever way necessary. War, after all, is an ugly thing, and will be in the digital era.
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The Hampton Roads, Va.-based law firm Kaufman & Canoles announced Tuesday partners Andrew Keeney and Dustin DeVore have been selected to co-chair the firm's new credit union team. The firm said in a release the team was formed to respond to a growing credit union industry, where regulations are constantly changing and credit unions are expanding their reach geographically.
"As credit unions grow, their need for new legal services increases," Keeney said. "They require a broader range of legal services than ever before. Until now, those needs were not being entirely met. At Kaufman & Canoles, we've established a team with the depth and experience to meet those needs. I'm thrilled about this opportunity for the firm and our clients."
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Construction Companies Most Likely to Default: Sageworks
Among private companies that are likely to default, those in the construction industry topped the list, according to new data from research firm Sageworks Inc.
The average probability for default for construction companies from Dec. 31, 2010, to Dec. 31, 2011, was 5.73%.
While the industry was ranked first among all private companies tracked in Sageworks' database, construction companies showed significant improvement from Dec. 31, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2012, at 3.79%.
Rounding out the list of private companies that were likely to default during the time periods of Dec. 31, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2012, respectively, were:
- Manufacturing 3.34% 3.37%
- Wholesale trade 3.47% 3.45%
- Retail trade 3.95% 3.63%
- Professional, scientific and technical services 4.70% 4.60%
"The average probability of default we are showing for private companies in our database is consistent with the sales performance and profitability we've reported for those companies," said Libby Bierman, an analyst with Sageworks. "Their revenues and profit margins continue to increase, though maybe not at the high rates we saw after the recession and in 2011."
One bright spot is that privately held U.S. companies, on average, have a slightly improved credit position than a year ago, according to Sageworks.
Using a predictive statistical model to evaluate privately held companies in Sageworks' proprietary database, the firm said it found that the average probability that a private company would default in the next year was 4.40% for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, compared with 4.51% for the year-earlier period.
"It makes sense that more profitable companies with less debt on their balance sheets will be a lower credit risk. A tenth of a percent change may not seem significant, but it is a move in the right direction," Bierman said.


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Braves' system filled with plenty of top righties
Teheran, Sims, Graham pace strong group of Minor League hurlers
By Evan Drellich / MLB.com
The future success of every Major League team lies largely in its Minor League pipeline. With that in mind, MLB.com is looking at each team's farm system, from the Top 20 Prospects to under-the-radar types.
A year ago, the upper crust of the Braves' system featured three right-handers: Julio Teheran, Arodys Vizcaino and Randall Delgado.
Teheran is the last man standing now. The Justin Upton deal included Delgado, and Vizcaino was shipped to the Cubs at the non-waiver Trade Deadline as part of the deal for left-handed pitcher Paul Maholm and outfielder Reed Johnson. But Teheran, again MLB.com's No. 1 Braves prospect, is the leader of a new set of three right-handers atop Atlanta's system.
Teheran has a chance at a rotation job this spring, while J.R. Graham (No. 4) is near ready and Lucas Sims (No. 3) is coming down the pipeline.
"I think we're still a very strong system," assistant general manager and director of player development Bruce Manno said. "You know, we're pleased with what we saw out of the Draft last year in Lucas Sims and [No. 6] Alex Wood. You use the system in two different ways -- you use it to either replenish your Major League team or to acquire players to do that."
Really, though, the Braves have much more than just a trio of arms on the way. Guys like 2012 second-rounder Wood, a left-hander, lefty Sean Gilmartin (No. 5) and righty Mauricio Cabrera (No. 7) add up to six pitchers in the top seven of MLB.com's list.
The lone exception? Catcher Christian Bethancourt, who's 21 years old and slots in at No. 2. A fractured left hand ended his 2012 season early, leaving him to only half a season at Double-A Mississippi, but he's in line to be Atlanta's starting catcher a year from now.
"I think if he would have been able to complete the full season there, I think it would've made a world of difference for him," Manno said of Bethancourt. "He's fine [health-wise], he went and played winter ball in the Dominican and was able to kind of make up some at-bats, so that helped quite a bit with the time he missed. He's a player who we really like his defensive ability, and offensively we think he's going to continue to improve. We have to see where he is in his development in the spring before we decide what's going to happen to him [level-wise], because we just don't know without the full sample of a season last year."
As far as Teheran, the Braves believe he can win a job on the big league roster this spring. His delivery got out of whack last year, and after he was so good in 2011 -- 15-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 144 2/3 innings at Triple-A Gwinnett -- he had some growing pains that Manno does not believe are unusual. Teheran just turned 22 in January.
"Sometimes you go through some growing pains and players will start to -- for whatever the reason, whether it's mechanical, whether it's mental, whether it's physical," Manno said, "they may face a little more adversity the second time around. It's not a bad thing. ... We think he's ready and we think he's got a chance to be one of our five starters."
Top 20 prospects
Sims, who turns 19 in May, is the youngest of the group after Atlanta drafted him 21st overall in 2012 out of Brookwood High School in Snellville, Ga. He won't be ready this year, but his talent and performance have him this high on the list. Sims struck out 39 in 34 innings in Rookie-level ball. He will likely head to Class A Rome to start the season, Manno said, although the final determination comes later.
"I think he's going to be real good for us, but with any young pitcher, it takes time," Manno said. "It takes time to develop. So that's something that we'll get a little better feel for going into Spring Training and so forth. We're excited with the skill level that he brought. … I think for right now, I think we'd say his opportunity may come at [low Class A]. And then again, that depends on how far along we think he is during our camp."
Wood, 22, also came out of Georgia, but as a college draftee, so he's a bit closer. But he hasn't pitched above Rome yet.
The 23-year-old Graham, meanwhile, should be knocking on the door soon. Any questions about Graham's size have been silenced by his radar readings and performance: He went a combined 12-2 with a 2.80 ERA and 110 strikeouts between Class A Lynchburg and Mississippi in 2012.
braves' top prospects
|Julio Teheran
|Christian Bethancourt
|Lucas Sims
|J.R. Graham
|Sean Gilmartin
Outfielders Matt Lipka and Todd Cunningham are the leading position players on the list behind Bethancourt, and Lipka's transition from shortstop to center field went as well as can be. However, a torn hamstring shortened Lipka's season to 51 games.
Joe Terdoslavich, No. 15 on the list, is moving to the outfield after a switch to third base didn't pan out. He still may play first base as well.
"We're going to to go ahead and let him play some outfield," Manno said. "It's one of those things where the more positions he can play, the better increase to his value. Being a switch-hitter, he's a great National League player with what he can do. … Our goal for him right now is he'll be playing on the Gwinnett club and he'll be playing somewhere, maybe some outfield, maybe first base."
Under the radar
The Braves' sixth-round Draft choice in 2012, Josh Elander is also switching positions, from catcher to the outfield. He hit four home runs with a .366 on-base percentage in 36 games in Rookie-level ball. Said Manno: "After having an opportunity to look at him behind the plate, with what we have in front, we just felt like he swings the bat really well and we wanted to take advantage of that." Elander will be 22 in March.
Right-hander John Cornely, 23, struck out 81 in 51 1/3 innings as a reliever for Rome. "[He has a] fastball, slider, good arm," Manno said. "[He] really came on late and improved."
Atlanta's 13th-round pick in 2012 and a closer at Appalachian State, righty Nate Hyatt combined for a 1.46 ERA in 24 2/3 innings across two stops in in his debut, including Rome. He's 22.
Hitter of the Year
Evan Gattis, 26, has the best power in the system, and while where he plays might be a question, that won't matter for a Hitter of the Year honor. He led the Venezuelan Winter League in slugging at .595.
Pitcher of the Year
Sims could do some damage at the lower levels of the Minors, but from the inside, the Braves might well view Graham as their best prospect.


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One of the major keys to Windows 7's great
success and massive rebound from the disappointment
of Vista was the incredibly
popular public beta test program that launched at the Consumer
Electronics Show in January 2009. Two years later Microsoft is well on
the way to releasing
the successor to the popular Windows 7, Windows 8, and it's reportedly preparing
for a new beta program.
Softpedia reported last week
that it received "Windows 8 Build 6.2.7959.0 Milestone 3 (M3)", an
important preliminary build. Compiled March 7, 2011 (based on the name
string of the full build of the release), if authentic the build indicates that
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
is closing in on Build 8000 -- typically the build at which it launches a beta.
to CentrumXP, developers now have access to
"Build 6.2.7996.0.winmain_win8m3.110429-181" in the winmain_win8m3
branch. The number in its build string (110429) indicates a release date
of April 29, 2011.
That means that by now the Build 8000 may be
compiled and almost ready to go. It still remains to be seen, though, if
the rumors are true and this is a beta build.
One thing that calls that theory into question is
the rumor that Microsoft will be working on Milestone 3 from February to July.
A finished build in May is way ahead of that schedule and doesn't quite
add up.
According to rumors and leaks, Microsoft will wrap
up Milestone 3, move on to a single beta, and finally air a release
candidate before a commercial launch in late 2012/early 2013.
Microsoft appears to be transitioning to a
slightly faster release cycle, similar to what Apple does with OS X.
Whether that shorter release cycle will be accompanied by lower upgrade
pricing remains to be seen.
The company is expected to possibly release the
beta code to the broader developer community (only select developers have the
current Milestone builds), and possibly announce a public beta at
the Professional Developers Conference 2011 (PDC 2011) September 13–16,
2011, in Anaheim, California.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bills Windows 8 as his
company's "riskiest product". A preview that leaked about a
month back showed a GUI similar to Windows 7, but with Microsoft
Office's Ribbon inserted
in new locations like the Windows Explorer. Builds have also been seen
running on ARM CPUs, which look to begin displacing Intel Corp. (INTC)
and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s (AMD)
x86 designs in mobile computers and servers over the next several years.


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Inability to share photos, fingerprints and DNA of escaped Afghan terrorists presents global security risk
LYON, France – The escape of hundreds of dangerous prisoners, including members of the Taliban, from an Afghan prison has again exposed a major global security gap - Afghan authorities have not been trained or equipped to take, store and access photographs, fingerprints DNA of dangerous terrorists for sharing internationally, the head of INTERPOL has warned.
During the night of 24 April, nearly 480 prisoners were broken out of the Sarposa prison in Kandahar by the Taliban, the same jail which saw the mass escape of nearly 900 inmates in June 2008 and for whom INTERPOL has still not received identifying information for circulation to the global law enforcement community.
INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said with countries spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year in Afghanistan, the ongoing failure to train and equip Afghan authorities to collect, store and share basic law enforcement information such as photographs, fingerprints and DNA was 'an unacceptable gap in global security.'
"It is simply shocking that three years after the largest prison break in Afghanistan history, including of convicted terrorists, there is no data to be shared with law enforcement regionally and globally in the event of an escape," said Mr Noble.
"Until this glaring and serious void in the world's anti-terror efforts is filled, no country can consider itself secure from criminals and terrorists who are essentially being given the opportunity to travel internationally, elude detection and to engage in future terrorist activity," warned the INTERPOL Chief.
"Once our National Central Bureau in Kabul confirmed the breakout, the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters immediately alerted the neighbouring countries, but with no strong identifying information, such as photographs, fingerprints or DNA available to law enforcement on the ground, their efforts are significantly hampered," said Secretary General Noble.
"At the G8 Meeting of Justice and Interior Ministers in 2007, I said that any country which fails to take appropriate measures at the national level when dangerous prisoners escape would be harshly criticized and accused of malpractice, and there is no reason why this should be any different at the international level," concluded the head of the world police body.
In 2006, INTERPOL's General Assembly adopted a resolution underlining the need for member countries to alert the global law enforcement community to prison escapes of suspected terrorists and other dangerous criminals.


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When it comes to robots on the battlefield, the U.S.
military has a virtual skunkworks of contraptions roaming the ground and air.
In December, DailyTech
reported on the iRobot
PackBot which can detect enemy AK-47 gunfire via its Robot Enhanced
Detection Outpost with Lasers (REDOWL) system. Just a few months ago, iRobot showed off its
SUGV Early (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle) which weighs in at 30 pounds --
this is compared to 44 pounds for the iRobot PackBot.
The U.S. Army is stepping up things in the battlefield robot
arena dramatically with its new Special Weapons Observation Remote
reconnaissance Direct action System (SWORDS). Three
SWORDS robots were deployed in Iraq and their capabilities put human
soldiers out of harm's way.
Each robot can carry up to three M249 machines guns which
are controlled by a soldier through a remote terminal. This means that every
shot fired will have to be approved by a human -- the robot will not start
firing without prior authorization.
As of today, no shots have been fired by
the robots on the battlefield.
"Anytime you utilize technology to take a U.S. service
member out of harm's way, it is worth every penny," said John Saitta of
Smart Business Advisory and Consulting. "These armed robots can be used as
a force multiplier to augment an already significant force in the battle
The Army is pleased with the three SWORDS robots that it now
has, but has requested an additional 80 for combat use. Unfortunately for the
Army, additional funding has not been approved for the purchase.
"As [soldiers] use them and like them, I've heard
positive feedback, they want 20 more immediately. It's a shame we can't get
them to them," said SWORDS program manager Michael Zecca.


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TuffTuffnuttt, it took me 15 min to come up with entry of this thread and I failed dramatically !
Anyway, I was wondering what Dreams you people have and what do you do to fulfill them?
Talking about small dreams, not world domination, Lottery win or getting super powers.
I personally achieved few so far 1. Move to Asia 2. Asian GF 3. GFX work.
Next step : Okinawa, Japan: Yonaguni Monument ''thrue Naha, Okinawa''
trip cost's ap 120,000 Y = 1,500$
This tour will highlight the mysterious underwater ruins and the amazing drift dives on the reefs of Yonaguni. During the months of January through March we have the added thrill of diving with schools of hammerhead sharks.
Day One: Arrive Naha, check-in hotel, relax
Day Two: 830am flight to Yonaguni, check-in hotel, 2 dives on Yonaguni
Day Three: 3 dives on Yonaguni, all meals on Yonaguni
Day Four: 3 dives on Yonaguni, all meals on Yonaguni
Day Five: 3 dives on Yonaguni, all meals on Yonaguni
Day Six: Fly back to Naha and onward..
we have so little time and live, work takes it all :mad: