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Security personnel working for the Department of Homeland Security may soon be able to remotely monitor crowds for the behavioral signals of a terrorist, using a computer system that scans their pulses, body language, breathing rates, and facial temperatures.
The program, called "Future Attribute Screening Technology," or FAST, works as a combination of custom software and crowd-monitoring body sensors, strategically placed at airports, U.S. border crossings, and other public, high-security areas.
In simulated scenarios, the DHS says FAST is accurate in detecting suspicious behavior in almost four out of five cases. One such trial, run recently at an equestrian ranch in Maryland, paid more than 140 participants $150 to walk through FAST's sensor array; a handful of the participants were given instructions to act shifty, evasive, deceptive, or even hostile. FAST had an effective accuracy rate of "about [78 percent] on mal-intent detection, and [80 percent] on deception," according to spokesman John Verrico.
"We're still very early on in this research, but it is looking very promising," he said.
Individuals detected as suspicious by FAST will be pulled aside for light questioning by security staff. Information processed by the system will never be matched with names, said Verrico, and it will only be used to help security screeners decide whom to question. After that, data from FAST is discarded.
Beyond simply discarding data, Verrico points out that the system is subject to intense privacy controls (PDF).
DHS researchers are designing FAST with mobility in mind, and over the long term would like to roll out portable vehicles for use in concerts, sporting events, and other public gatherings: once the technology is perfected, writes New Scientist's Short Sharp Science blog, FAST trucks could be as common a sighting at public gatherings as "mobile toilets and catering trucks."
The Electronic Privacy Information Center's John Verdi said FAST is "substantially more invasive than screening in airports," calling it a "medical exam" that the government has no right to conduct. Critics are concerned that the program could reveal physical conditions like heart murmurs, breathing problems, and high stress levels – a blatant privacy invasion – as well as set off false alarms.
"What determines your heart rate is a whole bunch ofreasons besides hostile intent," said Michigan State University's Timothy Levine, an expert on deceptive behavior.
FAST appears to be yet another aspect of the U.S. – as well as the rest of the world's – governments' growing fascination with biometric data on citizens: the FBI's "Next Generation Identification" system, currently still in development, seeks to catalogue almost every major identifying characteristic about the U.S. criminal population, including fingerprints, retinal prints, and tattoo/scar markings.
Like the NGI, FAST is still under development and has several years left before it is ready for widespread, public usage – if it even makes it that far. The program is in its second year in development, and has three left to go. USA Today notes that the Transportation Security Administration already has more than 2,000 human screeners doing the same thing – essentially paving the way for their replacement and more widespread deployment by FAST.

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Details on the successor to Comcast's policy of "data discrimination" have emerged, and the majority of its changes will affect the ISP's most gratuitous users.
Rather than targeting a specific protocol like BitTorrent – a policy that riled up technologists and the FCC, despite its "surgical" precision in managing consumption – Comcast's new form of network management will kick in when it identifies a single user "disproportionately" consuming network resources, and will move to throttle their connection for a short while.
"If in fact a person is generating enough packets that they're the ones creating that situation, we will manage that consumer for the overall good of all of our consumers,"' said Comcast senior vice president and general manager of online services Matt Bowling.
Comcast says its new "fair share" system of throttling troublesome customers has so far proven to be fairly effective, particularly when the throttling stays in effect for about 10 to 20 minutes.
Once the time limit elapses, speeds revert to normal.
It doesn't mean a throttled internet experience will be undesirable, however, as Bowling says that users experiencing limited bandwidth will still have an experience on par with "really good" DSL service.
But if a user continues a high level of consumption, "we would have to manage them again."
It appears that Comcast customers will still enjoy an essentially unlimited bandwidth allotment; however the company says it is mulling over the possibility of charging subscribers a higher price for heavier internet use – but, it "[hasn't] made any decisions" yet.
Anecdotal reports from users indicate that the new throttling system is already in place in some territories – and that the old policy of "data discrimination" still appears to be in effect as well.
Comcast has made no indication of the kinds of numbers that would trigger a slowdown, nor any specifics regarding the capacity available for throttled users.
Comcast, with its 14.4 million subscribers, fell into hot water last year when internet users and an AP report discovered that the company was screwing with customers' BitTorrent activities, by essentially cutting them off as soon as a file finished downloading – a potentially toxic condition to the health of the BitTorrent network. Accusations snowballed into an FCC investigation, with both the FCC and Comcast slinging nasty words back and forth for the better part of 2008; the exchange reached its culmination earlier this month, when FCC chairman Kevin Martin officially condemned Comcast for violating the Commissions' tenets of a fair, open internet experience.
Martin also left Comcast an ultimatum, demanding that it disclose its network management practices to the public, and submit a "compliance plan" with details on what it plans to do after it disables its BitTorrent blocking, which is set to happen sometime this year. This announcement appears to satisfy the FCC's demands.


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Gandy's Flip Flop
It's a phrase we have all heard at one time or another, but which fantastic new brand has it inspired? "Gandys" has been created by young brothers Rob and Paul who were tragically orphaned by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Disaster struck for the siblings but this hasn't stopped them from masterminding a superb new brand and making money for an incredible cause in the process.
We've been onto Gandys since the start here at Footasylum and we really can't recommend them enough – not only is this an amazing story but their products are wicked as well!
The brothers behind the Gandys brand had the following to say of what has become a pioneering footwear project;
"We wanted to make something positive from our tragedy and to help other orphans around the world. So for every pair of our flip flops bought by you, Gandys will be donating 10% of the profits to help other children less fortunate in developing countries. We call our mission 'Orphans for Orphans'. Thank you for helping us in this mission."
Gandys flip flops have a distinctive rope strap, super comfy sole and a clean and crisp logo, making them the choice of many this summer. As we look to be enjoying a real summer for the first time in years, there has never been a better time to invest in a top quality pair of flip flops and of course – help people less fortunate in the process. What a winner!
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Amazon.com has been around for years now and offers a wide array of gadgets, electronics, books, and other wares at prices often better than you can find in local stores. The giant e-tailer has become such a popular shopping destination that it is one of the reasons many states are seeking to tax online and digital sales.
One of the most popular products on Amazon.com is one that it makes itself -- the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle is an eBook reader that offers a large screen with high contrast and is about the size of a typical book. Amazon launched the device and was quickly overwhelmed with the product demand leading to significant shortages of the device.
In fact, Amazon was unable to meet the demand and the product was unavailable over the important Christmas holiday shopping season last year. The current Kindle isn't expected to be available until this month, if it is available at all.
Amazon is set to release a new version of its Kindle reader called the Kindle 2. The new reader hasn't been officially announced yet, but according to The Wall Street Journal, today is the launch day for the device.
Only little tidbits of information are known about the Kindle 2, one of which is that it will have a larger screen from the same maker as the original screen. Amazon is also expected to announce something that will put fear into the hearts of traditional publishers. Amazon will have Stephen King's newest novel as an exclusive for its device for an unknown period. The King story reportedly has a Kindle-like device at the heart of the tale.
As for the long and much talked about delays in getting stock of the original Kindle, official reasons haven't been offered by Amazon. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would only say, "We had anticipated strong demand and what we saw was stronger than that. So, we're extremely grateful for that, and we will keep marching forward here."
The Wall Street Journal reports that the screen of the original Kindle and the Kindle 2 are made by Chinese firm Prime View. When Prime View was asked about the delays a spokeswoman told the WSJ, "It wasn't about delivery delay. The sales were just faster than expected."
An analyst from iSuppli, Vinita Jakhanwal said, "Amazon might be managing the Kindle availability as it wants to keep the buzz on its product and improve features and performance with the launch of the second generation product. There doesn't seem to be any specific reason why Amazon was unable to meet the demand with its first generation product."
Amazon has been mum on exactly how many of the Kindle devices it sold so far. Estimates put the number at 500,000 to date based on data from Sprint Nextel, who provides the mobile broadband connection that the Kindle uses to download books wirelessly. Jakhanwal predicts that the Kindle will bring Amazon $1.2 billion in sales by 2010. The hoards of people still waiting for the original Kindle will presumably be receiving the new model, assuming Amazon can make enough Kindle 2 readers.
The Kindle 2 is now official and listed on the Amazon.com site for pre-order. According to the official page, the Kindle 2 is set to ship on February 24 for $359. The device is a bit more than 1/3 of an inch thick, weighs 10.2 ounces, and has integrated 3G wireless connectivity with no monthly fees.
Amazon says that the battery life is 25% longer and pages turn 20% faster than on the original. The new device offers text-to-speech and can read stories to you. The display is a 6-inch diagonal E-Ink unit with a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels at 167 ppi in 16-level gray scale.


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We've seen it before, that Konoha plays dirty when it comes to traitors and spies. Remember Yamato disguising as Sasori?
Rin ran from the village, was meant to be collected by Mist Anbu, but the Anbu were assassinated by Konoha, and Konoha Anbu were wearing the deceased Mist anbu's masks. Just imagine this scene, she thinks she is finally safe, and happily runs towards her home villages Anbu, and one of them takes off his mask. And it is Kakashi. He walks up to her, used Raikiri or Chidori, I'm pretty sure it was still Chidori here, but anyhow, uses it, looks her in the eye, says he knows she has been spying, and tells her he loves her. Then he kills her. This is why he is crying as he does it.
--Enter Obito--
Now I'm basing this all off of a few assumptions, and a fact, but bear with me...
Assumption #1 - Rin was fleeing Konoha with valuable information back to her home village of the mist
Assumption #2 - Rin was a sleeper spy set by the mist
Assumption #3 - Konoha knew that Mist anbu would be waiting to secure her in her flight from the village, so they sent a team of Anbu to kill the Mist Anbu ( thats why it looked like a battle was going on) who were going to collect her, and then put the mist masks on, and waited for her.
The Anbu in this scene (Middle to the right where they state "they still got us" or something along those lines) are ones which were not killed when Konoha assassinated the team to secure her, ones in top image are the disguised Konoha Anbu
Assumption #4 - Kakashi was already in the Anbu, thats why he was there, and he wanted to end Rin's espionage face to face, because he loved her, and wanted to be the one to end it. Thats why he was crying.
Fact - Obito starts screaming his "Woooooaaaaahhhh" after smashing an Anbu mask and seeing..a Konoha Headband here. Notice how he holds the anbu's head still, and then that look of "OH SHIT" comes on his face when he recognizes the Konoha headband. Then he starts going crazyier than before.


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LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web application that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or Postgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized "tokens", so that invitations can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
Kronolith is the Horde calendar application. It provides a stable and featureful individual calendar system with integrated collaboration and scheduling features. It makes extensive use of the Horde Framework to provide integration with other applications. It implements a solid, stand-alone calendar system, allowing repeating events, all-day events, custom fields, keywords, shared calendars, iCalendar support, generation of free/busy information, and managing multiple users through Horde Authentication.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.
Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
A decentralised packaging system.
Small Unix networking tools.


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20 light years from Earth slumbers the red dwarf star Gliese
581. Today a team of astronomers announced an astonishing discovery-- the
star has a planet
which is potentially habitable by humanity.
Over 200 so-called "exoplanets"
-- planets outside our own solar system -- have already been found. But
so far, all of them have suffered from the "goldilocks problem,"
either too hot, too cold, or far too massive to support life.
But the new planet, which so far is only being
called "c," is different. It has an atmosphere, liquid water, a
surface temperature estimated to range from 32 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is roughly five times as massive as the earth but, due to a larger diameter,
has a surface gravity only1.6 times that the Earth's. It's also much
closer to its parent star, having a 'year' only 13 days long. The view
from the surface would be spectacular, with the planet's sun appearing in the
sky some 20 times larger than does our moon.
"On the treasure map of the Universe, one would be
tempted to mark this planet with an X", says report co-author Xavier
Delfosse of Grenoble University. "Liquid water is critical to life as we
know it. Because of its temperature and relative proximity, this planet
will most probably be a very important target of future space missions
dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life."
The team examined 100 different stars using the HARPS planet searcher
at the European Southern Observatory in the Chilean Alps.


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PostgreSQL is a robust relational database system with over 25 years of active development that runs on all major operating systems. It is fully ACID compliant, and has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, Web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box". It is highly configurable and modular. All features are optional and administered via a Web-based interface. Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers, a link directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, a banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile access, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and more. It was formerly named TikiWiki.
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop an all-in-one Internet application suite. It contains an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client with an included Web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat, and Web development tools, and is sure to appeal to advanced users, Web developers, and corporate users. It uses much of the Mozilla source code powering such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird, and Miro.
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book, the equivalent of 1,000+ print pages, covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 382 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. Included scripts are the Game of Life, a Perquackey variant, a Morse code trainer, and an implementation of the Gronsfeld Cipher. This book is suited for both individual study and classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including version 4.2. Note that users of miniaturized single-board computers running Linux, such as the Raspberry Pi and the Beagle Bone, would find this Guide useful for learning and running Bash scripts to explore and expand the capabilities of these small, but powerful machines.
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link manager, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, file attachments, XFN support, support for stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments, blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.
Berkeley DB (libdb) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. It includes b+tree, queue, extended linear hashing, fixed, and variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, database recovery, and replication for highly available systems. DB supports C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, and Perl APIs. It supports key-value pair (NoSQL), SQL, and Java Object formatted data. It is available for a wide variety of Unix platforms as well as QNX, Android, Mac OS X, and several varieties of Windows.
Snort is a network intrusion detection and prevention system. It is the most widely deployed technology of its kind in the world. It performs detection using a variety of methods including rules-based detection, anomaly detection, and heuristic analysis of network traffic. Its rules language is open source and available to the public as well.
Tenable Nessus is a world-leader in active vulnerability scanners. It features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners may be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment.
A Java Swing application to test RESTful Web services.
A structured debug message system.


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WMTime is a Window Maker dock app that displays the time and date and gives you some nice additional features too. It provides a realtime morphing interface (analog <> digital mode), auto-scaled and anti-aliased hands, localization that displays the day and date in various languages, and three user-defined launch commands.
wmphoto+ displays the images in the dockable application window. You can switch the images manually or display them as a slide show. Each image accepts up to two related commands. You can run them using mouse buttons when the application displays the image. Using the alternative configuration directories, you can run a few instances of the program that display the different sets of images.
wmpower+ is Window Maker laptop power management dockable application. It displays the battery status, the number of fans or the fan speed, and CPU temperature, and allows you to switch the power management status of some laptops. It is based on wmpower by Michele Noberasco, which doesn't work with the new kernels starting from 2.6.36.
wminfo is a Window Maker dockable application that displays text format information using the plugin. The standard plugin is a shell script. The plugin writes the information to stdout, and wminfo captures the output and displays it row by row. Using the appropriate plugins, wminfo can display different information obtained from the system or from the Internet.
wmsystemtray is a system tray using the freedesktop.org system tray protocol that was implemented as a Window Maker dock app. It has the ability to display more than one dock window to make room for more tray icons, and the ability to scroll through the icons if more are present than will fit.
A high performance, scalable database modeled after Bigtable.
A .NET component to create PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat.


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have been waiting a long time for "Duke Nukem Forever," and
that wait will be over in a little less than a week. But for some, the wait
ended yesterday when the game leaked onto the internet.
With much anticipation for the new "Duke
Nukem," game players were pushing to get a glimpse of 2K Games' latest
creation in the series. Over the last two weeks alone, several fake "Duke
Nukem Forever" files have popped up all over the web.
But the real deal appeared on torrent sites like BitTorrent yesterday, with the
Xbox 360 version made available by the Scene group "Complex," and the
PS3 version compliments of the Scene Group "Duplex."
This leak could make or break the new game, as gamers who test it will likely
spread the word as to whether it's a worthy buy or not.
"Duke Nukem Forever" will officially release on June 14 for Xbox 360,
PS3 and Windows.
"Duke Nukem" is a video game series that was initially released in
1991 for MS-DOS, and focuses on protagonist Duke Nukem. "Duke Nukem
ll" was released in 1993, and "Duke Nukem 3D" launched in 1996.
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Piracy is stronger than ever in the digital world
today. Movies,
and music
-- none are safe from the reach of pirates. The media typically reports chiefly
on the harmful effects of these crackdowns, but what good might they
yield? This was the angle taken by a recent
study by IDC IT Markets,
which investigated the possible beneficial financial impact of increased
efforts to cut software piracy worldwide.
piracy, which Romania
says is akin the foundation of its statehood, accounts for billions in lost
revenue worldwide. China has a piracy rate of 82%, while Vietnam has a
piracy rate of a whopping 88%. Reducing this piracy by only 10% would
generate $40 billion USD in economic growth and $5 billion
USD in tax revenue for the region, according to the IT firm helping with the
IDC analyst Marcel Warmerdam states, "In a country with a high piracy rate like Vietnam, a local
software entrepreneur is not going to develop software because it will be
stolen. That means high piracy countries don't develop a local software sector
and that's bad because software helps companies become more competitive."
The IDC study also covered 42 other countries. If piracy was cut in these
countries by 10% over the next four years, the study estimated that it would
generate 600,000 high-tech jobs in the U.S. and abroad. It would also
generate $141 billion USD in new revenue and
provide $24 billion USD in new global tax revenue.
Countries could hire IT experts to help fight piracy, which would both
strengthen their economy and foster a high-tech industry, the study
states. It points out that if China cut its piracy by 10%, the additional
IT personnel needed would allow it to surpass the U.S. for the largest IT
workforce. It points out that if Russia did the same, it could surpass
India in IT force size, possibly bringing relief to the economic-stricken
On the home front, a percent reduction would lead to 32,000 new jobs and add an additional $41 billion USD to our economy.
The study does note that most of the jobs created from fighting piracy will be
overseas. Since Asia has by far the highest piracy rates, it would have
the largest job influx with 435,000 new jobs
stemming from the theoretical reduction.
While the study is certainly in the realm of theory, it provides an interesting
perspective on the benefits of cutting piracy in a time when public sentiment
remains very sympathetic towards pirates.


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Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
, earlier this month published an interesting research letter in the peer-reviewed journal
Nature Geoscience
, entitled "
Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth's energy balance
". This letter is significant, as it appears to be the first climatology work to try to extensively model warming from an energy balance perspective. This represents a major step forward in trying to understand a model global warming.
Ultimately, the paper tries to assign a percent blame to mankind for the current warming. However, there is good cause to debate the validity of these final conclusions, given some of the paper's rather naïve methodology. It is here that the paper falls back on the mistakes of some of its predecessors in perhaps oversimplifying the system.
I. Mankind is Contributing to Warming the Earth
Whether it's one trillionth of a degree Celsius or one degree Celsius, there's one thing most scientific-minded observers of the warming debate can agree upon -- mankind is responsible for some part of the Earth's recent warming trend.
Basic physics tells us carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, as is methane. Mankind has emitted a lot of carbon dioxide and methane in the last 100 years, and atmospheric monitoring has shown a discrete rise in levels of these greenhouse gases.
The greenhouse gases trap heat. So mankind is clearly responsible for some quantifiable amount of the warming effect.
Global warming is symptomatic of either an excess incoming energy flow or an deficient outoging energy flow, thus the energy balance is a good means of examining warming.
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The important questions are:
of recent warming (%) is mankind responsible for?
How far can the system go before reaching equilibrium?
It is here, though, that the logical "skeptic" and some climatologists diverge. Some researchers claim that both of these questions have
been, more or less, definitively answered
Scientifically-grounded skeptics
, on the other hand, argue that much of the current work has been simply in fitting
weak models
to data sets, leading to potentially misleading conclusions.
The new work, for its part, does do an admirable job pointing out some of the shortcomings of the current modeling approach. The authors write:
The optimal fingerprint detection and attribution framework provides a rigorous, statistical method to quantify the contributions of different external forcings and internal variability to the observed climate changes. In essence, it is based on a regression of the observations onto model simulated patterns and relies on the spatio-temporal response patterns from different forcings being clearly distinct. The assumptions are that climate models simulate the spatial patterns reasonably well and that regional responses from different forcings can be scaled and combined linearly. The global energy budget is not necessarily conserved and observed changes in the energy budget are not considered. Previous studies showed that observed patterns of surface air temperature provide a constraint on the human contribution to the observed warming.
In other words, past studies have taken temperature observations, assumed that we know exactly how much temperature increase is caused per unit forcing (e.g. per unit CO2), and linearly combined forcings to find a model that fits current temperature rises.
The new work attempts to combine forcings linearly and assumes no additional feedback, much like past works. [Image Source: ETH Zurich]
II. Looking at the Energy Balance
The new work alters this approach slightly, by using the energy balance, rather than the temperature, as the target to fit to. But ultimately its conclusions may be skewed by the fact that it, like its temperature-based predecessor, uses a simplistic approach in which inputs' contributions:
Scale linearly
Are additive
Are of equal efficacy (from the paper: "We assume that all forcing agents have equal efficacy.")
This is a rather simplistic model, although the analysis was complex with "thousands of model simulations".
The paper's ultimate conclusion is that:
Our results show that it is extremely likely that at least 74% (±12%, 1σ) of the observed warming since 1950 was caused by radiative forcings, and less than 26% (12%) by unforced internal variability. Of the forced signal during that particular period, 102% (90-116%) is due to anthropogenic and 1% (-10 to 13%) due to natural forcing.
The authors conclude that man is responsible for 74 percent of warming.
The paper shows that the model was fit well with recent historic temperatures.
[Image Source: ETH Zurich]
The paper claims that mankind is responsible for 74 percent of warming via greenhouse gases,once the offsetting contribution of aerosols is considered. [Image Source: ETH Zurich]
This is a fascinating conclusion, because if correct it provides a much more straightforward assignment of blame to mankind, using what appears to be a more scientifically sound methodology (i.e. the energy balance).
III. The Blame Game -- Maybe Not Quite So Accurate
Unfortunately there are some significant issues with the paper which cause its conclusions to be brought into question.
One notable is the issue is whether the scaled forcings are truly of "equal efficacy". It's quite possible that different forcings could operate fundamentally differently, given where they put their heat (e.g. atmosphere v. ocean, etc.). Problematically, the paper's authors fail to provide much explanation of why they think this approach is truly valid.
Secondly the study's methodology section states that another potentially problematic assumption was made:
It is assumed that the feedbacks are constant over time and the forcing uncertainty can largely be captured by a time-independent scaling factor.
This gets back to question 2 of the big questions previously raised -- "How far can the system go before reaching equilibrium?"
The model essentially is assuming that the Earth is going to sit here warming, without any significant cooling counter-effect being produced. Geological record, as well as scientific common sense would cast doubt on this notion. To give on example, past warming has altered sea currents, leading to a net cooling trend.
Finally, the paper admits that something strange is going on heat balance-wise with the ocean:
Ocean heat uptake for 3,000m depth is also larger, but the model is only constrained using data to 700m depth. Furthermore, uncertainties in ocean heat uptake are large and differences between various reconstructions are significant. The near constant ocean temperature over the past five years are not simulated by the model and its causes remain unclear.
For some reason the ocean temperatures have flatlined. But the papers ignore this data, opting to only use the data that indicates nice, homogenous warming.
The energy balance results are compared with observational data, but the researchers questionably neglect comparisons for the last five years of ocean data.
[Image Source: ETH Zurich]
Thus, at the end of the day while this paper makes some progress in adopting a more sensible metric for quantifying warming (energy balance) and uses some impressive simulation techniques (e.g. the neural network trained to performing the BERN2.5D model Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations), the uncertainty in its conclusions is likely understated.
Is mankind responsible for some amount of warming? Certainly -- again, basic physics tells us this. But is this warming permanent and linearly scaling with greenhouse gas emissions? The answer there is far less certain.
It would be terrifically convenient to blindly accept the paper's conclusion and take it as dogma that mankind is responsible for 74 percent of warming. Unfortunately taking a look at the paper's methodology from an analytical and scientific perspective reveals that doing so is likely folly.
The authors deserve praise for applying the energy balance and for providing explicit qualifications for some of the key assumptions and shortcomings of their work. But the paper does not definitively pin what percent of warming mankind is to blame for. As
X Files
states, "The truth is out there."
[Image Source: Sustainable Blog]
It is important for politicians to bear this state of uncertainty in mind, when deciding on whether to adopt more costly means of "fighting" global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Some methods like
deploying nuclear energy
or funding
novel solar energy research
represent lower cost, lower risk scenarios, in which mankind would still benefit in other ways, even if the warming threat proves overstated. But when it comes to more extreme actions, such as adopting
meat rationing
carbon credits (wealth redistribution) schemes
, it seems a bit premature to resort to such expensive schemes given the lack of definitive understanding.
ETH Zurich [PDF draft]
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Lets wager on him making the all star game...
Lets wager how many double rebound games he has this season,shooting pct....
Lets wager him comparatively to his contemporaries...
Lets wager on him making the all star game...
Lets wager how many double rebound games he has this season,shooting pct....
Lets wager him comparatively to his contemporaries...
Challenge... name a current center with more offensive talent than Andrea Bargnani.
Not so easy is it?
3 centers in the past 10 years have averaged 20+ points in at least one season: Shaquille O'Neal, Yao Ming, and Dwight Howard. (6 if you also include Jermaine O'Neal, Pau Gasol, and Tim Duncan, who have played both PF and C at times.)
AB has a great shot at 20+ this year, and I don't think that's debatable. Why then are we so quick to shoot down the notion that he may in fact be a top 10 center, and a potential all-star at that? Is it just because of his rebounding statistics? If he had 20 and 9 instead of 20 and 5, would it make that much of a difference? (I'm actually really curious about this.)
Seems like a lot of people look straight past the things that he can do and fixate on the things he can't. I would argue that, among centers, Andrea is the best 3-point shooter and shot creator in the league, and probably top 5 in almost every other offensive category.
Yes, his rebounding stinks, and his defence isn't spectacular, but so be it. Every player has their weaknesses. It just so happens that most of the time it's the offensive side of the game that 7-footers have trouble with. Maybe that's why there's always so much hoopla around Andrea... he's different.
Just because he doesn't grab 8 rebounds a game and actually makes his free throws, it doesn't automatically make him a subpar center.
In my opinion, there are only 4-5 centers that are clearly better overall players:
Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol (inteirm C), Joakim Noah, Al Horford, and maybe Roy Hibbert.
In the same class as Bargnani:
Al Jefferson, Andrew Bynum, Chris Kaman, Brook Lopez, Andrew Bogut.
That puts him as high as 5th or as low as 11th, placing him relatively safely inside my Top 10.
Bynum (when healthy), Bogut and Lopez are light years ahead of Bargnani. They can get you 20 points on any given night, grab 10 boards, but also make a difference on the defensive end.
Kaman averaged more ppg last year than Bargnani (he's recovering from injury, this year) AND grabbed 9.3 rebounds per game. He's not a good defender, but he's also not a liability on that end like Bargnani is.
Al Jefferson is probably one of the best low post players in the game, and before his injury, averaged 23 ppg and 11 rpg. Bargnani will never, ever average that. He's a horrible defender, but at least he rebounds the basketball.
Again, it depends what you value. If you overvalue offense, and undervalue defense and rebounding, you might overvalue Bargnani. But defense and rebounding are just as important as offense, and Bargnani is horrible at both of those. Being great at one thing and being absolutely horrible in two other very important aspects of winning doesn't put you in the top ten list. It should put you on the bench.
And, quick, name one center who has ever been considered a top player at the position who has rebounded at a rate as low as Bargnani.
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Bargnani is a top 20 center. No discussion there. He is probably last in the league in defense, and top 5 in offense.
also, those same geniuses saying that PF's like Gasol or Duncan or Bosh or Amare shouldn't be listed are really proving their ignorance since Bargs is "naturally" a PF forced into the C position, but really his game is closer to that of a volume-shooting SG/SF. You can all bla bla bla about points, but at the end of the day you're just proving how 1-dimensional he is. Keep it up the good work.
Last edited by nubreed000; Fri Nov 19th, 2010 at 12:06 PM.
offensive potential doesnt make you top 10 anything....
if you dont start with his rebounding ur bargs argument is dead....
Bargnani is not in the same class as Kaman,Bogut,Al Jeff or Lopez
Bargnani is in the same class as Tyson Chandler,Spencer Hawes,Samuel Dalembert cept hes only better than Spencer Hawes...
Gilbert Arenas is not a good defender, but he's not bad at anything else.
And what is Dirk bad at? His defense is actually not bad. He's not going to make any All-Defensive teams, but he's not a liability on that end. And his 8.5 career rebounding numbers, as well as the fact that he's averaged as many as 9.9 rpg, attests the fact that he's a pretty good rebounder.
As for Peja, he's a fair rebounder for his position and his defense has only been bad since he went to New Orleans and hurt himself. And he's never been a top ten player at his position since then. In Sacramento, his defense was okay, although he certainly never had the quickness to stay with quick players.
None of those players you mentioned are below average in more than one area. Bargnani is.
Like it or not, big man have more responsibility than other players, just as PGs have more responsibility. Big men NEED to rebound the ball. Guards don't.
And he only made 1 All-Star game.
Thanks for bringing him up.
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Did anyone watch Bargnani's past game. He got 4 assists, finally. Some bloggers were complaining about how he didn't pass enough, but his dish for Weems' dunk was awesome!
Rik Smits? His defence wasn't super good. Check out this video. Its just as bad as anything Bargs has done. Well, I guess I shouldn't get too carried away.
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Great article.
Think they are wishing they took him instead of Bosh? Think Bosh liked seeing this one in the Herald this morning??
LOL.. i hope the herald has an article on Delonte's womanizing ways and love of older women
I wonder why they posted this article? Completely irrelevant to them. Anyways nice to see that Bargnani is making a name for himself.
The last 4 games are Bargs best ever - I am not a believer yet. He was garbage in WAS and MIA. But I am open to the idea that he might be a player after all and that is not something I would have said before.
Also remarkable is he is doing it even though they are game planning for him - in other words he is not getting his shots because they are double teaming Bosh.
Last edited by charlz; Thu Nov 25th, 2010 at 10:13 AM.
"I may be wrong ... but I doubt it"
LOL Imagine tomorrow morning on ESPN Rumors we see:
The Heat have offered Joel Anthony and Udonis Haslem for Andrea Bargnani
That was a great article! Let's hope Bargs can keep it going!
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What appears to be happening on the select
Dell models is that when the processor warms up slightly, a
throttling mechanism kicks in, cutting the CPU performance by 95
percent or more. Any running applications are thus slowed to a
crawl -- the computer acts as if it is frozen. The CPU slowly
kicks back in, but even after regaining its composure slightly, only
reaches about 50 percent of the initial clock speed.
users have been complaining about the problems on the company's
support forums. In what appears to be a desperate attempt to
save face, the company has begun banning troublesome complainers and
deleting their posts. One prolific user that has been banned,
"Tinkerdude", has actually release an extensive 59-page
analysis of the problems dubbed "Performance loss during normal
operation in a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop due to processor and bus
clock throttling". That document can be found
here (PDF).
The issues affecting the Studio XPS 1645
appear to be similar, but less debilitating. Its issues seem to
center around an inadequate AC adapter, according to a forum
thread. While Dell hasn't respond to the E6400/E6500
problems, it is shipping beefier replacement adapters to XPS owners
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Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005 (ICPSR 25423)
Principal Investigator(s): Ward, Geoff, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice; Farrell, Amy, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice; Rousseau, Danielle, Northeastern University. College of Criminal Justice
The purpose of this study was to determine whether workgroup racial composition is related to sentence outcomes generally, and racial differences in sentencing in particular, across federal districts. This collection contains information on federal court district characteristics. Data include information about the social context, court context, and diversity of the courtroom workgroup for 90 federal judicial districts provided by 50 judicial district context variables.
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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 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.
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Ward, Geoff, Amy Farrell, and Danielle Rousseau. Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005. ICPSR25423-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25423.v1
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Subject Terms: case processing, court cases, court system, courtroom proceedings, courts, district courts, federal courts, judicial decisions, justice, labor force, race, race relations, sentencing
Smallest Geographic Unit: federal criminal court district
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Study Purpose: Race and criminal sentencing research typically considers only the race of the criminal offender, crime victim, and general population to assess whether and how race influences sentencing and outcomes. Invisible in most accounts are the racial identities and group relations of court workers whose decisions ultimately shape case outcomes, and thus the race relations of sentencing. The purpose of this study was to determine whether workgroup racial composition is related to sentence outcomes generally, and racial differences in sentencing in particular, across federal districts.
Study Design: This collection contains information on federal court district characteristics. Data include information about the social context, court context, and diversity of the courtroom workgroup for 90 federal judicial districts. Information on the social context of the judicial district was compiled using information from the 2000 Census and the 2000 Uniform Crime Reports (available through the FedStats system). Information specific to the court context including data on case processing, court workload information, demographics of each district, arrest data for each district, caseload, criminal case processing time, and proportion of district caseload for different types of crimes was obtained through the Federal Court Management Statistics and the Judicial Business of the United States Courts for 2000 and 2001, which are compiled annually by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Information on the racial demographics of federal court workgroups was collected by the principal investigators. Publicly available data on judge demographics and background was found at the Federal Judicial Center's Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, information on the demographics of federal prosecutors was provided from FedStats, and data on the demographics of federal probation officers and defenders was provided by the Administrative Offices of the United States Trial Courts.
Sample: The sample is comprised of 90 of the 94 judicial districts in the federal court system. Four districts (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and North Mariana Island) were eliminated due to insufficient data available and concern about variation in territorial governance over judicial processes.
Mode of Data Collection: record abstracts
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Description of Variables: The dataset contains 50 judicial district context variables. More specifically, variables include district, population, proportion male/female judges in district, proportion White/Black/Hispanic judges in district, proportion male/female probation officers in district, proportion White/Black/Hispanic probation officers in district, proportion male/female prosecutors in district, proportion White/Black/Hispanic prosecutors in district, proportion male/female defenders in district, proportion White/Black/Hispanic defenders in district, proportion district population White/Black/Hispanic, departure rate for district, proportion district under 18 years of age, proportion of district over 65 years of age, proportion of district unemployed, proportion of district below poverty level, average filing time for district, violent offense rate for district, average felony finding per judge, proportion C felony finding, proportion F felony finding, proportion Black defendant for district. Other variables include Black workgroup (judge and prosecutors only), Black judge index, Black probation index, Black prosecutor index, Black defender index, Black workgroup index-original (judge + prosecutor), proportion of judges in district appointed by democratic/republican presidents, indicator that district is in southern region, female workgroup, full Black workgroup (judge, prosecutor, probation, and defender), and full workgroup index (judge, prosecutor, probation, defender).
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Bhante Sujato is an amazing scholar. He really opened my eyes to a lot of things re: early Buddhism.reflection wrote: I did listen to Brahmavamso, but not to Sujato. I know he is a good scholar, so do you happen to know any talk where he goes into suttas with respect to the topic a bit?
These are some of his talks on Jhana that are worth listening to:
1st is the Sutta Class:
http://santifm.org/santi/download/Class ... _Jhana.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2nd are just talks on Jhana:
http://santifm.org/santi/download/Dhamm ... tJhana.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://santifm.org/santi/download/Dhamm ... _Jhana.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjBzABP8tCg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
also some commentary by Ajahn Brahm:
on Anapansati:
http://media.bswa.org/sutta_study/Brahm ... _10_02.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
on the Anapanasati Sutta:
http://media.bswa.org/sutta_study/Brahm ... _03_14.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hey Daniel I capitalize Jhana because its a factor of the Noble 8Fold Path. I tend towards not adhering to completely proper rules of writing on forums and informal emails... it's more to emphasis the respect in my own mind.Why are you capitalizing jhana? It's not, AFIK, a proper noun. It implies reification.
Brahm and Sujato are way off here. Very narrow interpretation; very typical of Brahm's personality cult, class clown driven hermeneutics (they're good teachers in general, though). Besides, all this hinges on the fuzzy notions of "mind" and "physicallity".... Very silly to nit-pick about absorption. Jhana is easy; learning it's lesson is the hard part.
Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Sujato both make very coherent, convincing & Sutta based arguments for the disembodied type Jhana. I have heard convincing arguments for both 'types' of Jhana in the Suttas... I think peoples interpretations generally boils down to experience.
If you find stable Jhana easy then you are a rockstar and should ordain ASAP!


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David Wood Still Baffles Me.
David Wood still baffles me. He has commented on what I wrote in this Blog entry of mine. Sandlestraps had the first comment there, and he is arguing the same things I am from his Christian Process Theology perspective against Mr. Wood. Here is my response to Mr. Wood (DW):
DW: (1) John gives tons of examples of how horrible and selfish human beings are.
Thank you. We must come to grips with what we are talking about when we're talking about the suffering human beings experience at the hands of other human beings.
DW:(2) I would say that, if God is just, he isn't obligated to protect horrible and selfish people from pain.
That's pretty much all of us, correct? That is, God is under no obligation to help any human being because we are all horrible and selfish people (in varying degrees). Would you say we deserve everything that we suffer? All of us? Including the 40,000 children who die every single day because of malnutrition, which could be alleviated by the food donations of good people, the elimination of tyrannical governments, and a good God sending manna from heaven?
How exactly is this "just" from your perspective as a Christian? I don't see it. God purportedly created us, correct? Do you see an inconsistency within your own beliefs with a supposedly "just" God creating us in such a way that we would be so horrible and selfish in the first place? Do you see an inconsistency with a supposedly "good" God who created us with more freedom to do such things than we could actually handle? If God is as good as one of us horrible parents, he would do the same things we would do, by not giving our children more freedom than they can handle. Good parents do not grant 10 year olds permission to drive the car to the store, nor will they give them a razor blade until they know their children won't hurt themselves or others with it. Why? Because it's the ethical thing to do, that's why, and it's based upon YOUR ethics. Such an ethic can be found within the text of that Good 'Ole Book you love, which purportedly came from your God.
DW:(3) John objects: "But if God is good, he would still give us a perfect world."
If he could've done this as an omnipotent being, then yes he should've done do. I have argued that God could've created us with imperishable bodies in a heavenly world in the first place. Even if this present world isn't perfect, why isn't it better?..that's the real question. We all would expect a much better world than he purportedly created. You yourself must admit this isn't the world you would expect if there existed an all-powerful omnibenelovent God. You are arguing against the goads here, and inside you know it. That's what frustrates you so much, and why you are planning on doing your dissertation on this topic; because it bothers you…because you want to understand it yourself…because you don't have the answers and you want to satisfy your own need to find them
DW:(4) This reflects his own values, not of mine or those of theism.
How so? I've argued from the moral code you yourself believe in the Bible. Good parents act better than the God who teaches them how to love and care for their children.
DW:(5) Hence, John is yet again presupposing his own values in his argument.
Again, not so. You really ought to ignore the ignorance over at Triablogue. Let me add here that what I am doing is what Francis Schaeffer did when he tried pushing someone to see the implications of what that person himself believed. That's what I am doing with you. The fact that you reject my pushing you in the direction I am, doesn't mean I'm arguing outside of the things you believe, at all. You simply misunderstand the nature of what I'm doing, as I think you also misunderstand what your beliefs commit yourself to.
DW:(6) But this means that his argument only works if he's using it against someone who has the same values John Loftus has.
Again, not so. You misunderstand this, and I am very surprised that someone like you doesn't see this for what it is. You should know better than to throw up freshman type of arguments like these. I'll expect you to do better as you become more familiar with the relevant literature. But as I said, your objections here are worthless (sorry but they are). Why don't you think about what I just said here, instead of firing back? I'm trying to help you, but you need to step up a level before I can do so. For until you admit this whole line of reasoning is baseless and wrongheaded, you will not make a Christian contribution to the problem of evil at all.
DW:(7) This is one reason why theists aren't affected by John's argument.
Another reason might be because some theists are blinded by their faith, while another reason might be because some theists are not (or cannot) make the proper distinctions that are necessary (see above).
DW:(8) Thus, John either needs to reformulate his argument so that it doesn't presuppose his own values (e.g. that free will isn't very important, that there's nothing good about creating a world, that rebellion against God isn't very bad, etc.), or he needs to recognize that his argument doesn't work with anyone who has a different value system (i.e. most people in the world).
Exactly why can't I wonder about the nature and value of free will from a Christian perspective? Christians themselves, if they are honest, do this, and they do so inside their own perspective. So why can't I join in their conversation and argue what I do about free will? Plenty of philosophers of religion are atheists. Why can't they argue about the internal inconsistency of the religious beliefs they reject?
Besides, 1) I'm asking for a reason why you believe free will is so important that God will grant human beings this gift even though Biblical morality would argue no one should give someone a gift if he knows said person will abuse that gift? Why does your God forbid one thing and yet do something else here? 2) I'm asking you for a reason why you believe God created this world even though you believe God is the all-sufficient One. 3) I'm asking you for a reason why our sins are such terrible things that God would punish us in the horrible ways we have had to suffer down through the ages. I can ask you for reasons why you believe these things and then question those answers, can't I? Sure I can. You simply cannot respond by asserting that this is what you believe. That's unbecoming the budding scholar you seem to be. You cannot simply assert the things you do here. You must make a reasonable case for your beliefs. The philosophy of religion is about defending what you believe with reasons. What are they? Not doing so will not advance any argument, and you'll offer nothing to the Christian community who may look to you in the future for some answers in the face of the skeptical arguments. Surely you see this…surely.


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Anderson, and Lucas, think they are the best guys on the court as DeMar and Rudy stand around
Anderson, and Lucas, think they are the best guys on the court as DeMar and Rudy stand around
If Lebron is within a meter of Big Val the refs just close their eyes and blow the whistle lol
Val should have just stopped and stood tall. James is going to hit that shot, just try to disrupt it without fouling
I think they could've used Bargs tonight.
JV looks rusty, and like his confidence is slightly shaken because of it. I'm sure his game'll come around as he gets into shape.
At what point does the coaching staff get the memo that Rudy Gay is not a 4th option behind Anderson, Lucas, and DeRozan.
AA & Lucas are obviously having trouble adjusting to their new roles. I can be patient. But you can't win with two "scoring" point guards & everyone waiting at the arch for an open 3. If we keep Bargs we'll have nobody in the key for a rebound.
Bizarre lineup to start the fourth.
James is a little bitch. He thinks he's fouled on every shot
what did Ross do? How come he isn;t getting minutes?
He was fouled. That's why he dropped the ball.
Rudy looks tired. Too many minutes.
It's a bit of a reality check...
Turnovers.....missed jumpers....two consecutive missed 3's. We've seen this before.
We need a point guard.
We need a player with a "back to the basket game."
Get back to the line. DRIVE
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Following this definition of life, viruses typically met the latter two tests,
but failed the first as they only produced a few structural or protective proteins
to encase themselves. This was a primary justification in classing them
as nonliving. However, recent discoveries have troubled this comfortable
notion of the solid boundary between life and nonlife. First, a variety
of parasitic bacteria have been discovered, many of which lack the key protein
enzymes needed to survive outside their host -- another bacteria.
Also, giant viruses have been discovered, which in addition to infection
related proteins, make a variety of other proteins which help it carry out
other processes. On a level of complexity they can surpass the
microbacteria, but they're clearly related to other much smaller viruses.
Now a new piece of evidence supporting that viruses may be somewhat
"alive" has been added -- viruses can catch a virus.
The discovery began more than a decade prior when researchers found a massive
parasite in an amoeba from a cooling tower in Bradford, UK. The little
creature was frozen, as it was thought to be run-of-the-mill parasitic bacteria.
However, upon closer inspection, years later the scientists recognized it as a
virus, with a gigantic genome, capable of encoding over 900 proteins. The
virus was named Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus
(for mimicking microbe). It was over three times bigger than any previous
The discovery brought great excitement to some nontraditional biologists who
had long believed viruses to be living. Says Eugene Koonin of the
National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, "It
was the cause of great excitement in virology. It crossed the imaginary
boundary between viruses and cellular organisms."
Now Professor Koonin, Jean-Michel Claverie, a virologist at the CNRS UPR
laboratories and Didier Raoult at CNRS UMR, made an even more shocking
discovery. The team in 2003 discovered an even bigger virus. They
named this one mamavirus.
The shocker came when they found that a smaller virus with just 21 genes was
associated with the new mega-virus and was infecting it. While the main virus
infected the amoeba, hijacking the amoeba's enzymes and structure to make a
protein factory, the tiny virus, which researchers named "Sputnik"
set to work hijacking this factory and making copies of itself.
The result was the mamavirus got more than just a bad cold -- it produced fewer
and deformed mamaviruses, effectively making it less infective. This
relationship of a viral parasite sickening a host is one only expected by
something living, further evidence that the big viruses might be "alive".
Jean-Michel Claverie on the mamavirus, "There's no doubt this is a
living organism. The fact that it can get sick makes it more alive."
Mr. Koonin adds, "It infects this factory like a phage infects a
bacterium. It's doing what every parasite can — exploiting its host for
its own replication."
Intriguingly the little virus has genes similar to those used by the mamavirus
and mimiviruses for reproduction. This leads some researchers to
speculate the virus could have been created by a failed reproduction by the big
viruses. This also supports the idea of the big viruses as being alive,
as a prevalent theory for the origin of viruses was that they came from
misreplicated bacterial DNA. Further the little virus can transform genes
between big viruses, similar to horizontal-gene-transfer in bacteria.
The new finding may have a big impact on global biology. In plankton
blooms genetic sequences have been found similar to those in the big
viruses. These blooms may be teaming with big viruses, which would likely
have been destroyed by sample collectors' bacterial filters. By impacting
the life and death of plankton the big viruses could impact not only ocean
nutrient cycles, but the global climate itself.
Curtis Suttle, an expert in marine viruses at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver states, "These viruses could be major players in
global systems. I think ultimately we will find a huge number of novel
viruses in the ocean and other places. It emphasizes how little is known
about these organisms — and I use that term deliberately."
The full study on the topic of large plankton viruses can be viewed here, while the
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2014 Trailblazer Award Nominations Still Being Taken
Nominations are still being taken for the ninth-annual Trailblazer Awards from Credit Union Times.
"Each year we seek out the gold standard in credit union management and service for recognition in our Trailblazer program," said Editor/Publisher Sarah Snell Cooke. "And each year, when we look at the nominations that have come in, we find it hard to choose. It's a challenge we consider a privilege, and we appreciate the industry's participation."
Our 2014 winners will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, Feb. 25, during CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C., and each of their stories will be told in print and online in Credit Union Times that week.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, Jan. 10, 2014.
Here are the 2014 categories:
Individual Awards
- CEO of the Year
- Volunteer of the Year
- CFO of the Year
- IT Executive of the Year
- Lending Officer of the Year
- Marketing Executive of the Year
- HR Executive of the Year
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- Outstanding Political Action
- Outstanding Service to the Underserved
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Commodore Perry Federal Credit Union of Oak Harbor, Ohio, is awaiting a ruling from the NCUA's Supervisory Review Committee regarding an exam appeal that alleges that an NCUA examiner harassed employees and retaliated against the credit union after it complained. The appeal is only the fifth heard by the committee in the past decade. None of the previous four were ruled in favor of the credit union.
The $32 million Commodore Perry FCU elevated its exam appeal after it was denied by Regional Director Herb Yolles in August. Thomas Renz, the credit union's president and chief development officer, and CEO Mike Barr said the male examiner harassed and bullied employees, particularly female employees, to the point where the credit union leaders said they worried their organization was legally liable.
Barr said he contacted the NCUA's supervisory examiner and reported the conduct to her. He said he told the supervisor he didn't want to file a formal complaint but did request that the regulator send another examiner to complete the exam.
Instead, the supervisory examiner, who neither Barr nor Renz would identify, passed the information along to the NCUA's Office of Inspector General, which opened an investigation. The examiner was made aware of the credit union's complaints by his supervisor before the examination was complete, Renz said.
"Not surprisingly, when he finalized the exam and issued the report, we found a lot of things were inaccurate, including scores that were downgraded, which we could see weren't justified," Barr said.
Adding to the retaliation charge were "inaccuracies and falsehoods" in the exam report that specifically contributed to the credit union's downgrade to its lowest CAMEL score in history, Barr said.
Barr and Renz then submitted an appeal to Yolles in June, stating that they had the documentation to prove the examiner's findings were inaccurate. They received a letter that denied the appeal, although Yolles did promise to send a different examiner to the credit union for its 2013 exam.
"I was very frustrated because we were never contacted by the regional office to discuss the facts," Barr said. "That's shocking because the entire basis of the appeal is that we can prove the report is untrue. All they did, apparently, was review the examiner's report and come to the same conclusion he did."
So, on Sept. 9, Barr and Renz submitted a 365-page appeal to the Supervisory Review Committee that included documentation they say proves the exam findings are inaccurate. The two said they also requested to appear in person before the SRC, as is their right, but have not yet received a response from the NCUA.
"This is not a case of a credit union being angry about a bad examination score. This is an extremely clear case of retaliation that clearly demonstrates the problem with the NCUA appellate process," Renz said.
Documents provided to Credit Union Times reveal the examiner accused the credit union of not detailing a cost-benefit analysis of existing products, services and facilities; not reconciling bank accounts, particularly before a planned system conversion; and paying more, not less, for outside professional services as a result of the conversion. The credit union also provided documentation that it said proved it did, in fact, complete the due diligence in question.
On Aug. 27, Commodore Perry FCU sent a second letter to the NCUA, detailing five exam issues experienced by many credit unions, including the NCUA's presumption that examiners' findings are correct and the resources required to appeal exam findings. The credit union further asked to meet with the NCUA to discuss how it might improve the process. In a letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Renz said the response letter from NCUA said "the appeals process is good enough."
Barr said despite the frustrating appeals process, the credit union will continue to make its case.
"We remain hopeful that the NCUA Supervisory Review Committee will review our appeal and make a just ruling," he said.
Renz said while the credit union would like to return to its previous CAMEL score, its primary appeal goal is a "fair and just examination, based upon fact."
Renz said the credit union has also shared its experience with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who this summer signed on a sponsor of the Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act, which would allow credit unions to appeal exams to an administrative law judge.
The Ohio Credit Union League's John Florian, vice president of government affairs, affirmed Portman's support of the bill, and added that nine Ohio representatives are also co-sponsors of the House version.
The NCUA's appeals process and high percentage of appeals ruled in the NCUA's favor has created a lack of confidence among Ohio credit unions, Florian said.
Ohio League Director of Media and Public Relations Patrick Harris said while the trade association has not quantified how many credit unions in the Buckeye State have experienced exam issues, some have expressed concerns.
"I think a lot of that comes from the landscape of Ohio," Harris said. "Sixty-six percent of our credit unions are $35 million and under in assets, so some of these smaller credit unions are really having difficulty with NCUA transparency and exam consistency."
As for the NCUA's side of the story, Public Affairs Specialist John Fairbanks said, "We cannot comment on any aspect of any pending appeal."


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Drone strikes are being escalated in Yemen with the fifth attack in the past ten days occurring on Thursday. Reuters reports:
"At least three suspected al Qaeda militants including a local commander were killed on Thursday in Yemen by a strike from an unmanned aircraft, residents and a local official said."
Today, in response, Yemeni tribesmen organized a protest in front of a government administration building. According to Reuters:
"Dozens of armed tribesmen took to the streets in southern Yemen on Friday to protest against drone strikes that they say have killed innocent civilians and increased anger against the United States. …
"One tribesman participating in a sit-in in front of the government administration building in Redaa told Reuters by telephone that at least seven innocent civilians were killed in the recent raids."
Unlike Pakistan, the Yemeni government openly supports the U.S. strikes.
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At the center of the policy push is the
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. Mr. Pachauri has no formal
education in climatology, yet was appointed in 2002 to lead arguably
the world's most influential climatology panel. Since, he has
stirred up much controversy, suggesting that people internationally
up meat to fight climate change and supervising the publication
of alarming climate change predictions.
However, Mr.
Pachauri's days as IPCC Chairman may be nearing an end. Mr.
Pachauri has been forced to retract
an alarming publication in which he claimed Himalayan Glaciers
would melt by 2035. Many in the general public and research
community are calling for his resignation in the retraction's
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the IPCC, is
doing his best to defend his boss's controversial remarks. He
calls them a "human mistake" and comments, "Aren't
mistakes human? Even the IPCC is a human institution and I do not
know of any human institution that does not make mistakes, so of
course it is a regrettable incident that we published that wrong
description of the Himalayan glacier."
Mr. Pachauri's
publication was made more controversial by his harsh criticism of
those who questioned it. He said that climate skeptics used
"voodoo science" and urged the climate research community
and international governments to ignore their concerns.
Mr van
Ypersele, professor of climatology and environmental sciences at the
Catholic University of Louvain defends these remarks. He states, "I would personally
not have used the voodoo science wording. I think humans can
sometimes use words that are a bit too strong but it is certainly not
a reason to ask for the resignation of a chairman who has done an
excellent job. We are trying to do our best, we are going to
reinforce the review procedures so the probability in the next report
of such incidents happening is even lower. But to guarantee a zero
fault product is probably not possible for any human
Perhaps the more troublesome topic, however,
is the report itself. The IPCC 2007 report contained both the
questionable glacier reference and highly questionable conclusions
about global warming creating a bevy of natural disasters.
Before its recent retraction, the report was driving international
climate legislation, including pending legislation in the U.S. that
is estimate to leave
Americans $9.4 trillion USD poorer.
The report was
supposedly reviewed by the IPCC's 2,000 members. Argues Mr. van
Ypsersele, "We are trying to do the best job we can in assessing
the quality information about climate change issues in all its
dimensions and some do not like the conclusions of our work. Now it
is true we made a mistake around the glacier issue, it is one mistake
on one issue in a 3,000 page report. We are going to reinforce the
procedures to try this does not happen again."
He claims
the retraction will not impact the publication's credibility and
stands behind the report's other controversial claims, including the
prediction of natural catastrophe. He states, "I would
like to submit that this could increase the credibility of the IPCC
not decrease it. Why is that? Would you trust someone who has
admitted an error and is ready to learn from his or her mistake or
someone who claims to be unassailable? The IPCC does not claim to be
unassailable, when there is a good reason to admit a mistake we do
it, but for the rest of IPCC conclusions we stand by it very
Mr. Pachauri, who holds advanced degrees in
industrial engineering and economics, has blasted Westerners for
leading an "unsustainable" lifestyle. Curiously,
though, according
to the British newspaper, The Telegraph, "[Pachauri]
enjoys a lavish personal lifestyle; his Delhi home is in the Golf
Links area, the most expensive stretch of residential real estate in
India, and he is famous for his '$1,000 suits'."
Al Gore
and Mr. Pachauri were joint recipients of the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize for their warming work.


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CUNA's Exam Survey Shows Room for Improvement
The good news revealed in CUNA's inaugural national exam survey results is that the NCUA is already addressing key findings such as the overuse of Documents of Resolutions and examiners pressuring credit unions to follow guidance and best practices as if they were regulations.
The bad news is that 25% of responding CEOs said they were dissatisfied with their most recent exam, a number CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel said has room for improvement.
"The rate of dissatisfaction is never going to be zero," said CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel, "but it would be nice to move in that direction
Also from 2013 GAC:
- Feb. 26, 2013 Day 2 Slide Show: Speechifying and Gavel Passing
- Feb. 26, 2013 NCUF Gets $135,000 Gift From CUNA Mutual
- Feb. 26, 2013 Bachus Says Congress May Revisit Durbin, Dodd-Frank
- Feb. 26, 2013 Hensarling Stands by Tax Exemption
- Feb. 26, 2013 Day 1 Slide Show: Brokaw, Chatzky and Award Winners
- Feb. 26, 2013 Kids Add Zing to Wegner Award Winners
- Feb. 25, 2013 Tom Brokaw Promotes Public Service Academies
- Feb. 25, 2013 Chip Filson Announces NCUA Board Bid, Petition Drive
- Feb. 25, 2013 Matz Praises Agency's Ability to Change With Times
- Feb. 25, 2013 CUNA Mutual Debuts AskAuto App at GAC
- On Video: Shell Geismar CEO Has Tech Tools on His GAC Agenda
- On Video: Arizona State SVP Has Washington on His Mind
- On Video: Flying Freeborn to DC for GAC
- On Video: Halleck and Hiking the Hill
- On Video: Muniz's Message to Washington
- Not for CEOs: Successful Succession Topic of GAC Talk
The exam survey, modeled after a programlaunched by the New Jersey Credit Union League in 2012 that targeted all credit unions in Region II, aims to provide CUNA with national baseline figures from which to gauge future trends in federal and state exam processes. CUNA debuted the exam results at its Governmental Affairs Conference Monday in Washington.
The online survey, managed by CUNA and the leagues, was conducted in December 2012 and January 2013, and generated a response rate of approximately 25%, or about 1,500 responses, the trade group said.
Overall, 60% of credit union CEOs surveyed said they were satisfied with their exams compared to the dissatisfaction rate of 25%. Credit unions that reported being dissatisfied with their exams were more likely to be state-chartered credit unions with more than $250 million in assets, and therefore subjected to joint exams. Dissatisfied credit unions also tended to be undercapitalized, with net worth ratios between 5% and 6%, and saw their examiner assign a riskier CAMEL rating after the exam.
The survey also revealed that 43% of respondents received one or more DORs during their last exam. CUNA Deputy General Counsel Mary Dunn said the ability to quantify the use of DORs will be helpful as her trade works with the NCUA to reduce the use of the document. Previously, Dunn said, CUNA was only able to provide anecdotal feedback to the regulator on the issue.
"The biggest weakness in any advocacy program is a lack of actual information and hard fast data that substantiates your claim," she said." This allows us to sit down with regulators and show them what the data indicates, that there are too many DORs out there."
Paul Gentile, CUNA's executive vice president of strategic communications and engagement, agreed with Dunn. He said he launched the survey in New Jersey last year as president of the NJCUL because "credit unions are very vocal about exams that don't go well, which is good, but the problem when advocating for credit unions is those are one-off stories."
After presenting NCUA Director of Examination and Insurance Larry Fazio with the Region II findings last year, Gentile said he was "very pleasantly surprised" with the regulator's response. Exam scheduling problems with New Jersey credit unions were revealed in that survey, and Gentile said the NCUA has already remedied the problem.
The NCUA said it had not yet reviewed the survey results and had no comment.


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In the latest episode, in which Sakura is in, "Medic Ninja In Danger". (Not a filler)
Sakura proves to us that she has overcome the training that Tsunade had given to her in the past.
She already knows how to evade enemy attacks, sense when an enemy is near her, attack at the right moment, when to not keep her guard down, and etc.
Furthermore, I believe that all she has to do now is learn some kick-azz genjutsu.