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The lowlifes that are perpetrating this abomination, it seems, are somehow embedding the browser hijacking code into ads that are served up through Google's banner ad program. Most of the Google ads you'll see on OSNews are text ads, but they also have programs for graphical banner ads and, apparently something called a video ad, which I've never looked at.
Since Google's AdSense ad program isn't really very customer-service-oriented, I haven't been able to talk to an actual person about it. Everything is highly automated, which is probably the reason that someone has been able to abuse the system like this. But I was able to ban the ads, URL by URL. But every time I banned one, it seemed that another would appear. The following were reported: Drivecleaner, Driverclean, Errorsafe, Systemdoctor and Winantivirus. After a while, I realized that there was a way that should put an end to the cat and mouse game, and I disabled the Google banner ads altogether. I won't re-enable it until Google solves the problem. If anyone sees any recurrence of browser hijacking, please let us know.
It seems I may have slandered Google. It seems that it may not have been the Google system that the offending parties had hoodwinked into running these spyware ads. It was another of my ad partners. They spent the weekend running an audit of all of their advertisers, and they think they've narrowed it down to one suspect, and the problem ads should now, finally, be gone for good. I'll reiterate my earlier entreaty to let us know if you see any further instances of pop-ups, takeovers, or attempted spyware installs.
A Note About Advertising
While I'm on the subject, I thought I'd take a moment to address the issue of ads. I read all the comments on this topic with great interest, and appreciated the many kind comments that demonstrate patience with problems like this and appreciation for what we do here.
I also read the comments by people extolling the virtues of Adblocking mechanisms. As I am constantly reminding our advertising partners (who do all the legwork of selling and billing, etc, in exchange for a hefty portion off the top), OSNews readers are sophisticated technologists, and so our ability to serve advertising is dependent on their good graces. If the ads become too intrusive, OSNews readers are capable of fighting back. I consider my role as the main guy in charge of advertising to be the guardian of that trust.
It can actually be a tough balancing act. The reason that you see so many distracting and intrusive forms of advertising online is because the advertisers and their agencies, the ones spending the money, foolishly think that the best way to get their point across is to shove it down your throats. They're constantly pushing for larger and more intrusive advertising. Consequently, our advertising partners, feeling the pressure, push on me to include these more intrusive ads. And I have to push back.
Long time OSNews readers would be able to recall times when we've momentarily succumbed to these pressures, but overall we have learned that the good-will that we lose from our readers is worth more to us than any incremental revenue we might bring in. We don't accept pop-up, pop-under, page takeovers, text-underlined context link ads, ads that make noises, or things that fly across the screen, and definitely not browser hijacking, spyware installing ads. If you ever see ads like that on OSNews, let us know, and we'll do something about it.
Since we do outsource the day-to-day handling of the ads, we do have to react to slip-ups when they occur, rather than heading them off beforehand. For that, we're always sorry when it annoys the readers.
Revenues from our advertising efforts go to our rather substantial monthly dedicated server rental, bandwidth, and system maintenance costs, as well as providing a budget for covering OSNews' staff expenses, including the occasional new laptop, various important gadgets and other office supplies, and travel to the occasional tradeshow or event, and every once in a while, travel costs of meeting with each other in person. OSNews staff is scattered across the globe. Interesting fact: I've been working with Thom Holwerda for a couple years now, and I've never met him in person. Hopefully soon, the OSNews advertising money will go toward flying him from The Netherlands to the US for a long-delayed job interview. There are no salaries. If we had to pay a market rate for all the OSNews editors and contributors, there would be no OSNews. We'd each have to make way below minimum wage (and keep using our old computers, because the hardware budget would go bye bye).
So thanks to everyone who doesn't give us a hard time about the ads. They're essential to our site's continued existence. But I take that sacred trust seriously, and I think that those many readers who have emailed over the years to complain about a particular ad or blunder like this week's can attest that we take those reports seriously and always try to do something about it. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any feedback about our ads or other partnerships like our price comparison search.
And hey, if you like OSNews, and want to support us, and to support the types of advertising that you find useful and not-annoying, click on the ads from advertisers that respect you as a consumer, because that click increases OSNews' standing in their eyes. All our ads, except the Google ones, are paid per-view, so clicks don't make us more money, but they do ensure that the advertisers keep renewing, and helps our ad partners see the wisdom in pushing back against intrusive ads.
On the other side, clicking on a Google ad results in per-click revenue for OSNews, so looking for interesting things in the Google ads can certainly keep the servers running at OSNews. Keep in mind, though, that a click on a Google ad also costs that advertiser money, so don't click on them willy-nilly just to support us. That's not fair to them.
And if you're online shopping, using our price comparison search or our Amazon.com link brings us in a little each month too. Bookmark them, and we'll love you!
To those OSNews readers who use ad blocking: we still love you, and we welcome your contributions to the community. But repent! They're not so bad, the ads we run. Honest!
To those OSNews readers who use ad blocking and are inveterate trolls incapable of engaging in civil discourse: stop coming to our website!
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Ideal measurements are described in quantum mechanics textbooks by two postulates: the collapse of the wave packet and BornâÂÂs rule for the probabilities of outcomes. The quantum evolution of a system then has two components: a unitary (Hamiltonian) evolution in between measurements and non-unitary one when a measurement is performed. This situation was considered to be unsatisfactory by many people, including Einstein, Bohr, de Broglie, von Neumann and Wigner, but has remained unsolved to date.
The quantum measurement problem, that is, understanding why a unique outcome is obtained in each individual run of an experiment, is tackled by solving a Hamiltonian model within standard quantum statistical mechanics. The model describes the measurement of the z-component of a spin through interaction with a magnetic memory. The latter apparatus is modeled by a CurieâÂÂWeiss magnet having N â« 1 spins weakly coupled to a phonon bath.
The Hamiltonian evolution exhibits several time scales. The reduction, a rapid decay of the off-diagonal blocks of the systemâÂÂapparatus density matrix, arises from the many degrees of freedom of the pointer (the magnetization). The registration occurs due to a phase transition from the initial metastable state to one of the final stable states triggered by the tested system. It yields a stationary state in which the apparatus and the system are correlated. Under proper conditions the process satisfies all the features of ideal measurements, including collapse and BornâÂÂs rule.
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Department of Revenue News Release
April 01, 2009New Fee Agents Chosen for Mexico & Springfield (Fremont Ave.) Motor Vehicle License Offices
A not-for-profit corporation is one of two new fee agents chosen to manage local motor vehicle license offices in Springfield and Mexico.
Alternative Opportunities, Inc. has been awarded the right to run the license office at 3061 South Fremont Ave. in Springfield. Alternative Opportunities, Inc. is a Springfield-based not-for-profit with a mission of providing career training, services to disabled Missourians and help for families in crisis. The license office will remain at the South Fremont location.
The license office in Mexico has been awarded to Donald E. Koester, Jr. and Donald E. Koester, Sr. The license office will also be located at the former location, 201 North Abat Street. The office was closed at the end of last year by the former fee agent.
Details about the operating hours of the offices will be announced by the new agents.
The South Fremont and Mexico offices are the latest offices to have their management chosen using a new bidding process that was implemented when Gov. Jay Nixon took office on Jan. 12. The new system calls for people or groups to submit detailed bids to obtain the management contracts to operate the offices. The South Fremont office received three bids and there were two proposals for the Mexico office.
Karen King Mitchell, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said the process has gone well.
"The teams evaluating these bids were looking for the best business plan for each office," Mitchell said. "I am proud of how thorough and conscientious the teams were. I'm also glad that the Mexico office will be able to reopen soon. I know it has been inconvenient for the people in the Mexico area, and we are optimistic that the new agent will provide excellent customer service."
As part of their bids, the new license office agents agreed to return some of their profits to the state. The cumulative amount of estimated annual funds that will be returned to the state from the four license offices that have been awarded under the bidding process is $47,918. (The Hannibal and Moberly offices were awarded in March).
"The willingness of agents to return some of their profits is a great cost-efficiency measure for the state," Mitchell said.
All 183 local license offices provide services that are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each office is operated by an independent contractor. Transactions that are conducted at these offices include the issuance and renewal of driver licenses, applying for titles for motor vehicles, and the issuance and renewal of registration for motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors.
Additional information on the bids will be posted by the Missouri Office of Administration within the next few days.


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OAKLAND, Calif. — His usual carefree self, Felix Hernandez danced in the visitors clubhouse to his techno "house music" Sunday.
It's fitting that Hernandez will make his season debut and first outing since landing a $175 million, seven-year contract against the Oakland Athletics.
The Seattle ace always faces them to start, or so it seems to the A's.
"A lot," Hernandez said with a smile. "I've faced the A's a lot."
Three times last season, in fact — first in the opening game in Tokyo, again in Seattle's 2012 Safeco Field debut, then once more back in Oakland for the A's home opener. The Mariners won the first two.
That's quite the fill of King Felix. The AL West champion A's will see Hernandez again Monday night to open the season at the Oakland Coliseum, with the pitcher fresh off the new contract from February that briefly made him baseball's highest-paid pitcher until Detroit's Justin Verlander topped him Friday.
"We're used to it," A's third baseman Josh Donaldson said, chuckling. "If there's a team that's used to facing Felix, it's us."
Hernandez, who turns 27 on April 8, even opted to sit out the World Baseball Classic for Venezuela to focus on this season. He went 13-9 with a 3.06 ERA in 33 starts last season, two years after capturing the AL Cy Young award.
"I don't care how many times you've done it. Starting on opening day never gets old," Hernandez said. "It's an honor, because there's so much anticipation leading up to that game. It's an exciting time and a fun time to be on the mound. That's especially true against on the road against division rival, when you know the crowd will be into it."
If the sellout crowd is anything close to comparable to that energized ballpark full of fans from last fall's special run, Hernandez will have a hard time not taking notice.
The A's won 94 games and became the first team in major league history to capture a division or pennant after trailing by five games with fewer than 10 to play, stunning the two-time reigning AL champion Texas Rangers on the season's final day. Oakland then lost in the deciding Game 5 of the AL division series to Detroit.
"I think everybody's ready. We've been waiting for opening day for a while now, for most of the guys here probably since the last out was made in Game 5," Donaldson said. "Everybody was diligent in the offseason getting their all their work in, now we're just ready for it to show."
Hernandez will try not to allow any fanfare to throw him off on Day 1.
"I don't do anything different, I just come to win every opening day," Hernandez said a day ahead of his sixth opening day start and fifth in a row. "I can't do anything different. I've just got to be the same guy."
Hernandez might need to mind Yoenis Cespedes in the middle of the order. The Cuban homered in two of his final three spring training games, including a three-run drive Saturday off San Francisco starter Ryan Vogelsong in a 4-3 victory over the World Series champion Giants.
Cespedes ended spring training on a 13-for-33 run, with all six of his home runs and 13 RBIs over the final 11 games.
The six home runs, which came after Cespedes batted just .179 in his first 11 games, are the most by an A's hitter in the spring since 2007.
"The tickets are sold. It's going to be a great game," Cespedes said. "Felix is really happy. He is a great player and has pitched so well. But I see this A's team as being better than last year. We have more balance."
Oakland sure hopes to carry over some momentum from what it accomplished in October, with a more experienced starting rotation to boot.
"I just think a lot of it has to do with confidence. Going into last year we knew that we could win but we hadn't," Donaldson said. "Last year, especially in the second half on, the success that we did have shows that we have a good team here and we have the talent and a good staff. We're ready to get out there and go, and win some games."
Typically, the pitchers are considered to be ahead of the hitters in the season's early stage. The A's hope they can challenge Hernandez, anyway.
"What's new, right?" A's manager Bob Melvin said. "We had like three Day 1s with him last year. There's good pitching in our division. He may be at the forefront of that. It's our draw. It seems like since I've been here we open up against Seattle and we get him. It's part of the deal."
Hernandez is as eager as everybody else to get going.
"I'm really prepared. Well, finely spring training is over, it was a long one," Hernandez said. "I feel as comfortable as I ever have going into this opening day. I trust the hitters we have and the guys playing behind me. I'm getting dialed in and ready for another season. I love playing for Seattle. I can't wait for this season to get started."


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PowerSchool e-registration
For the 2012-2013 school year, Solon Community Schools will be once again be using an e-registration process accessible through PowerSchool. This process will use the same login information parents of middle school and high school students use to check grades via PowerSchool. Parents of incoming preschool and Kindergarten students will be mailed access IDs and passwords in early June. We are encouraging all families to use e-registration, therefore we will be setting up computers at the central office to assist families with completing e-registration. The e-registration process will be available beginning July 2 by browsing to the SCSD website (www.solon.k12.ia.us) and clicking on the registration tab. At the end of the e-registration process, parents/guardians will be directed to pay fees electronically via RevTrak or complete a school fees form and pay by check. PreK students instructional/book fees are waived. In addition, several optional forms may need to be printed and completed. Questions about e-registration may be directed to Kris at 319-624-3401, ext. 1349 in the central office.


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Juan Cuadrado in talks on Viola future
Juan Cuadrado's future at Fiorentina is set to become clearer when he holds talks with club president Andrea Della Valle on Friday.
The negotiations take place amid growing reports of interest in the Colombian winger from Manchester United and Barcelona.
Cuadrado returned to preseason training with the Viola on Wednesday -- but Gazzetta dello Sport reported that he later drove angrily away from the training ground.
The 26-year-old is under contract at Fiorentina, whom he joined from Udinese last summer, until 2017.
He impressed at the World Cup in Brazil, scoring once and setting up four other goals as he played in all five of Colombia's matches.
United and Barca are both reported to be monitoring developments, although it is thought unlikely that either would be able to sign the player for less than 40 million euros.
Coach Vincenzo Montella sees Cuadrado, together with Giuseppe Rossi and Mario Gomez, as key to his attack-minded formation.
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The Warwick Vets wrestling team traveled to Willimantic, Conn., over the weekend for the Lancer Invitational and came home with four first-place medals.
John Altieri beat Mike Ruffino of Windham, Conn., by a 6-4 score for the crown at 113. Nate Colicci beat Brian Manes of Jonathan Law High School in Connecticut by a 4-1 score at 120. George Schmeider captured the title at 160 with a 6-5 victory over Windham's Devyn Petsa, and Devin Hurst took the crown at 170 with a pin of Cumberland's Bill Spaziano. Hurst finished the tourney with three pins in just three minutes, 25 seconds.
Cumberland won the team title. Vets finished seventh.


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- Fire at Chester Zoo leads to evacuation of visitors
- Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton win Strictly Come Dancing 2018
- Mother and daughter, 8, die in Nottinghamshire fire
- Ariana Grande plans special Manchester concert during 2019 tour
- Newcastle man in court on terror charge
- Four children in group of 11 migrants rescued off Dover
- Drone 50ft from hitting plane at Stansted
- Linton railings crash escape leaves police 'speechless'
- Anglesey school plea not to buy staff Christmas gifts
- Fake make-up artist paints woman's face in Beales, Bournemouth
- Lottery winner claims £76m after appeal in Boston and Skegness
- Strictly Come Dancing winner crowned
- Brexit: A busy week, but has anything changed?
- Flames and smoke as zoo fire takes hold
- Sex abuse victim Natasha Mina: 'Kickboxing gave me strength'
- How rainbow cards can bring joy at Christmas
- Pigs-in-blankets turned into ice cream at Hitchin parlour
- 'My mummy's sick': Boy, 4, calls ambulance for mum using Siri
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- Newspaper headlines: 'PM's team plots new referendum' and Strictly winner
- Why J Hus felt he had to take a knife to Westfield
- Do autistic people 'get' jokes?
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- Universal credit claimants fear spending Christmas without money
- The people's Christmas cards revealed
- Gary Lineker row: What can BBC presenters say and not say?
- Christmas Jumper Day: Who wins, retailers or charity?
- Theresa May's week in charts
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Trend Watch: Chevron For Days
This chevron trend blossomed a few months ago and I've sat back and watched it take it's course. I never thought I'd get attached but well, there's just something about this chevron wave that even has me hooked!
The pattern is just so darn striking. You can almost see it from miles away and you can use it on just about anything. Have an ugly dresser you are so desperately wanting to transform — paint a chevron pattern on it! Add chevron curtains to a room in your house if you're looking to make a statement.
One of the most dramatic ways to use chevron in the home is to actually paint your floors — it's quite the undertaking but the outcome is so totally worth it. If you're not quite ready to commit to the long term ramifications of painting your floors you can always pick up a chevron rug or you can make your own.
Chevron is really turning out to be quite versatile — what do you think about this trendy pattern?
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Celtic goes seven points clear in table
Smart finishes from Georgios Samaras and Gary Hooper sent Celtic seven points clear at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League with a 2-0 victory at Dundee.
Samaras sent Celtic on their way to a fifth consecutive SPL victory with an overhead kick 16 minutes into a one-sided first half at Dens Park.
Dundee made a game of it after the break and Colin Nish missed a great chance to equalize but Hooper secured the points in the 71st minute when he lobbed Rab Douglas.
Celtic controlled the final stages as they extended their lead at the top of the table after second-placed Inverness were earlier held by St Mirren.
Motherwell produced a ruthless attacking display to defeat Aberdeen 4-1 at Fir Park and go level on points with Inverness in second place.
Tom Hateley headed home Jamie Murphy's cross after 10 minutes to give Stuart McCall's side the lead against the run of play.
The hosts again punished Aberdeen's failure to take their chances as Murphy doubled their advantage on the half-hour mark, however Jonny Hayes powered through the midfield before powering an effort past Darren Randolph to reduce the deficit just minutes later.
Murphy notched his 10th goal of the season on the stroke of half-time to provide a timely boost for Well and Michael Higdon added a fourth 10 minutes into the second half.
Former Scotland Under-21 international Murphy was handed a chance to complete his hat-trick when Motherwell were awarded a penalty with 25 minutes remaining, but his weak effort was saved by Jamie Langfield.
Inverness maintained their reputation as a tough side to defeat after twice coming from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with St Mirren.
Inverness had lost only once in their previous 18 matches in all competitions and surpassed their goals tally for last season as they took their total to 44, two more than their entire haul in 2011-12
Injuries and suspensions left St Mirren boss Danny Lennon a player short on the substitutes' bench but the Paisley side stunned Inverness when they scored after just 76 seconds following a lightning three-man move started by Stephen Thompson.
Dougie Imrie finished it off with a low angled shot from 18 yards after Paul McGowan had also played his part as the link man.
Andrew Shinnie equalised after 38 minutes only for Thompson to put St Mirren back in the driving seat 10 minutes after the restart.
However, Inverness captain Richie Foran headed the home side level again with 67 minutes played.
Liam Kelly's first-half penalty was enough to give Kilmarnock three hard-fought points against Hearts with a 1-0 win at Rugby Park.
There was little between the teams in the first half, which saw Kelly score from the spot in the 26th minute after Gorgie defender Andy Webster had fouled James Dayton.
However, the Tynecastle men laid siege to the Killie box at times in the second period only to be denied by dogged defending and some fine saves from keeper Cammy Bell.
Hearts will wonder how they managed to leave Ayrshire with nothing for their efforts but that will worry Killie little, as they leapfrog the Edinburgh men to move into sixth place in the table.
Dundee United fought out an entertaining Tayside derby with St Johnstone as they drew 1-1 at Tannadice.
Peter Houston's men looked like winning their first home SPL clash since August when defender Gavin Gunning headed them into the lead inside two minutes, but an own goal from team-mate Brian McLean put paid to that as Steve Lomas' Saints side fought back to ensure a deserved share of the spoils.
Ross County ended a nine-match winless run with a 1-0 victory over Hibernian at Easter Road.
Richard Brittain headed in the winner after 57 minutes as the visitors won for the first time in almost two months to emulate Aberdeen and claim a second win over Hibs from two attempts this season.
Fourth-placed Hibs, who now play Celtic and Hearts in successive matches in a true test of their top-six credentials, lacked the guile to open up their opponents and have one point from their last four SPL matches after a third home loss of the season.


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Learning Abroad: India
Cost & Payment Information
The cost of the India learning abroad trip is $2,400 per student. This includes hotel accommodations (based on double occupancy), continental breakfast, most meals, program excursions, and seminars. There will be a one-time $50 learning abroad fee that will be posted to your people soft account for services rendered by the OISP office.
If due to any events in the international political climate, we reserve the right to cancel the trip anytime prior to departure should we believe that student safety is compromised. In such a case, we will refund all fee payments made, but are not be responsible for airline ticket reimbursements or other related incurred expenses.
Program cost of $2400 Includes:
- All surface transportation (by A/C coach and train) in India
- Hotel accommodations (5/4-star)
- Breakfast included + most meals
- Company and site visits
- Guided city tours
Ask us about Scholarships!!
Program Cost Does Not Include:
- Round trip airfare from Houston and air
- travel within India
- UH tuition
- Visa fees for India
- Health Insurance
- Voluntary Excursions
For details please visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/degrees-programs/study_abroad/india/ Or Contact:
Chair, DISC Dept
(713) 743-4721
Faculty Director
(713) 743-4829
Associate Dean Undergraduate Programs
(713) 743-4912
Graduate Advisor
(713) 743-4909
Assistant Director, Accounting
(713) 743-5936
Please send an email directly to Dr. S. Khumawala, informing her of your intent to participate.
Fee Payments & Reservations
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|Reservation depending on availability. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first serve basis.
|Pay residual program cost minus $500 deposit.
Send an email to Dr. Khumawala, email@example.com to inform us of your interest. The email should include your full name, email address, and the learning abroad program you are interested in. This will also put you on a distribution list to be informed of up-coming Info Sessions, trip updates, fun events, as well as scholarship and application deadline reminders or add yourself to the distribution list by clicking here
To make your reservation for the program, the Sign-Up materials listed below must be submitted to Dr. S. Khumawala in 390M Melcher Hall by the deadlines above with corresponding deposit amount. Students not submitting all the required materials by March 3rd will lose their reservation. A third sign-up date will be posted on the web site for any remaining spots.
Forms Required for Learning Abroad
- Bauer India Learning Abroad Application (submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com)
- The following documents should be completed at the OISP office- Resource Center.
Please contact Bilal Tawil to schedule an appointment:
Phone: 713-743-4687, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Get your Photographs taken (at OISP)
- Complete, sign and submit (at OISP):
- Release and Waiver of Liability Agreement
- Consent to Release Information (notarize at OISP)
Please visit http://uh.edu/studyabroad/Instructions.htm for more information.
Dr. Khumawala will send you an e-mail confirming your reservation and confirming that all sign-up materials were received.The confirmation of the sign-up materials will acknowledge your acceptance into the program.
Passport & Visa
Students are responsible for obtaining a passport and Visa to enter India. Students need to have a passport in order to get a Visa. Keep in mind that passports can take up to 6 weeks to be issued or you can pay up to $60+ for rush service. Go to the following web sites for more details.
Cost Savings
Students have found a number of ways to reduce their costs associated with this trip. First, some students use their frequent flier miles to save on airfare costs. Second, many students have convinced their employers to pay for the program as part of a employer's educational reimbursement program. Third, some students who apply for scholarships receive some money, so we strongly recommend that participants apply for scholarships.
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Students must enroll in at least one of these two courses to participate in this program:
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Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
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International Legal Environment of Business
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
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Luxury Brand Management
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Email: Dr. Vanessa Patrick
International Marketing
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Email: Prof. Amy Vandaveer
Course Details:
Courses to be during Summer Session II timeframe from May 29 – June 4, 2017
- All coursework outside of the weeklong trip to Paris will be online
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Regional Issues in Global Management
Email: Dr. Steve Werner
Positive Leadership in a Global Context
Email: Dr. Je'Anna Abbott
Tentative itinerary
Although the itinerary for this trip is still tentative, past trips have included:
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(Skoda, Oracle, Czechinvest )
- Czech Republic University
(Centre of Economics Research and Graduate Ed. at Charles Univ.)
- Walking tour of Prague
- The Cities
- China Visa Requirement
- Travel Information from the U.S. Department of State
- Scholarships
MANA 7353 Regional Issues in Global Management: Asia
- Dr. Dejun Tony Kong
- Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
MANA 7397 International Environment of Business
- Professor Daniel Currie
- Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Tentative Itinerary
- Company Visits
- Market Study
- Cultural Exploration
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DAVIE, Fla. -- Ashley Carrero was ... well, Ashley Carrero. Tashalyn Begon has bloomed into another option, and Barry University's volleyball team completed the weekend sweep in a three-set win at Nova Southeastern.
The Buccaneers reached their 10th win of the season, beating the Sharks on the road, 25-20, 25-22, 25-14, Saturday night. It marked a second straight win over a rival school in as many nights after Barry beat Lynn in five sets on Friday. The Buccaneers improved to 10-14, 3-9 in the Sunshine State Conference. Nova fell to 5-18, 1-11.
Carrero had 17 kills and hit .467, while recording 10 digs in a match the Bucs attacked at a .298 clip. It was the highest hitting percentage for the Buccaneers since recording a .375 attack rate in a sweep of Valdosta State on Oct. 19. It was the 12th time this year Carrero has recorded double digit kills, and her 17 Saturday fell one shy of her season high. She also had 10 digs.
Begon finished with 10 kills. eight digs and two blocks, while hitting .261. It marked her second straight match with double figure kills, and was her highest attacking percentage this year when she recorded 10 or more kills. She hit .500 and .462 in matches earlier this year when she had seven kills on both occasions.
The Buccaneers hit .300 in the opening set and .423 in the third. The Sharks hit .242 in the first and -.032 in the third.
Jayla Trombley had seven kills and eight digs, and hit .312 in a match the Bucs and Sharks matched each other with four blocks apiece. Setter Jenny Trinidad had 32 assists, four kills and six digs.
After Carrero pounded a kill to knot the first set at 10-10, the Buccaneers trailed only once more for the remainder of the match -- at 1-0 in the third set when Nova's Samantha High delivered a kill off Barry freshman Ivana Didanovic's serve.
Barry will play at Florida Tech Tuesday night. The Bucs' final two home matches are set for Nov. 22-23 when they host Florida Southern and Saint Leo.


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In his visit to Arizona, "Chepo" admitted that his starting lineup will feature no European-based stars, due to the game not taking place on an official FIFA friendly date.
"It's going to be complicated (to call up players in Europe), it's not a FIFA date so teams aren't obliged to give you their stars," he admitted. "Their club competitions are very demanding, so they won't give up their players easily. Our call-ups will come from the Mexican league," he continued.
De La Torre also revealed that he would be calling players a week before the match to ensure maximum preparation. Denmark is placed No. 23 in the FIFA rankings, eight spots below Mexico in the most recent listing.
To that point, the Mexican manager also responded to allegations that Mexico was not facing a quality opponent in its first match of the year. "It's complicated to bring teams with a higher ranking over here, they're also in international competitions (such as World Cup qualifying)," he said.
Finally, "Chepo" praised his youth teams for their recent success, noting that U-23 and U-20 players are coming up the ranks and pressuring his staff when making call-ups to the senior side.
"The internal competition is strong, we look at our U-23 and U-20 squads that have been growing and that's been very important for us," said the senior team manager.


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As the fall semester approaches, I've been thinking more about political rhetoric. In my writing seminar, we mostly read political philosophy, but we also study rhetoric and analyze popular arguments as well. (My students last semester analyzed popular politics on the class blog, which I think is pretty good.)
Recently I came across the American Freedom Campaign, an effort by several groups to define "American" as including an opposition to torture or the suspension of habeas corpus. It's hard to believe, but some powerful Americans seem to support these things. Not the American Freedom Campaign, though. Here, for example, is the "Freedom Pledge" they'd like you to sign:
"We are Americans, and in our America we do not torture, we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy, we do not tap people's phones and emails without a court order, and above all we do not give any President unchecked power.
I pledge to fight to protect and defend the Constitution from assault by any President."
And they also say that, "under the pretense of the 'war on terror,' the White House is dismantling the Constitution, concentrating power in the President and undermining the rule of law. THIS IS UN-AMERICAN."
In addition to its appeal on other grounds, it's interesting for the way it plays with some traditional American political rhetoric. What is American? Is it everything that has happened in America? Or only the best parts of the American tradition? Or perhaps that which is unique to America?
Many people criticize America for its past slavery, for example, but slavery wasn't unique to America. Creating a written Constitution that more or less enshrined classical liberal goals was unique, as was creating a country based on the ideas of liberty and freedom. (For a great book on the distinction between American "liberty" and "freedom," read David Hackett Fischer's outstanding book Liberty and Freedom. He uses liberty more in the sense of "freedom from" or what Isaiah Berlin would call "negative liberty" or Benjamin Constant would call the "freedom of the moderns," while freedom is more like the civic republican notion of political participation and self-government, what Berlin might call "positive liberty" and Constant the "liberty of the ancients." Fischer does a remarkable job of showing the power of these concepts in American history.)
So is the deplorable history of slavery and racism "American," or instead are the ideas of freedom and political equality that inspired the founders and led to the eventual end of slavery more "American"? Can both be "American"? Only, I suppose, if "American" is taken in the least meaningful sense of "things that happened in America." If "American" means those things unique to America, then the term becomes more meaningful, and not just politically. "American" then would include jazz and blues music, for example, but not racism or sexism, which are hardly confined to the United States.
There's the old saying, "as American as mom and apple pie." That's just silly. I don't know where apple pie originated, but I'm pretty sure there were mothers before the United States existed. But what could be more American than Robert Johnson, or Thelonious Monk, or Johnny Cash, or Wild Turkey, or the rule of law enshrined in a written constitution?
The American Freedom Campaign is plotting a different rhetorical course, though, one where "American" has a powerful political meaning, in this sense one of "a nation of laws."
I think the American Freedom Campaign's tactic is both more true and more useful than either a negative anti-Americanism or an overbroad definition of "American." Defining "American" as whatever happened in America guts the term of any political usefulness, for the left or the right. Thinking of the history of America as the history of slavery, genocide, and oppression (as a friend of mine does) also reduces the power of the term "American." American and Un-American could be politically powerful if used in effective ways. Reminding people that freedom, liberty, equality, and the rule of law are American, and their opposites un-American, can be persuasive in a way that hostile political rhetoric never can be.


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Sapphire HD 6770 FleX Edition Review
The HD 6770 is a card that now fleshes out AMD's 6000 series portfolio and gets rid of one of the last vestiges of the ATI brand. But in reality, the card is a renamed HD 5770 under the skin. Many times the renaming of a product gets a lot of negative attention because of the confusion it creates along with new price points that further complicate matters while the old products are still being sold. If there are improvements to the build process or capabilities, then really is this something bad? Depends on how you look at it! AMD has made improvements to the BIOS to enable HDMI 1.4a and UVD3 to set the HD 6770 apart from the HD 5770, so you are getting something slightly different even though the hardware is left untouched. So where does that leave us? With current pricing, there is no incentive to go for the HD 5770 over the HD 6770, if you look carefully — pricing is very close, with prices determined by brand, bundle, and cooling solutions employed.
One of Sapphire's entries into the 6700 arena is the HD 6770 FleX edition card that brings "Eyefinity" to the $130 price point. What you get is a card that is capable of driving up to four monitors in a Single Large Surface group to maximize productivity. The allure of the FleX Edition is the ability to handle up to three lower cost DVI monitors in a three monitor "Eyefinity" setup without the need for expensive adapters and added costs. Both are a plus for the person looking maximize efficiency.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the HD 6770 FleX Edition is full of information, but is much smaller than that of the HD 5770. This smaller package size is a way to manage costs to keep the price down on a card that is in the $140 price range. The front panel has a representation of "Ruby" in mid-strike with the FleX information just to the right. What this states is that this card is capable of sending a display signal out to a total of four monitors in Eyefinity mode without the use of expensive active adapters. Three DVI monitors in Eyefinity mode is supported as well, again without adapters. Along the bottom of the front panel are features that the HD 6770 FleX counts among its attributes, including being CrossFireX-ready and having onboard DisplayPort and HDMI 1.4 connectivity. On the back panel the features are highlighted with a more detailed look at each of the listed features.
Inside is a standard cardboard container that holds the HD 6770 FleX Edition card. The documentation is front and center when the box is opened, with the card held in place by a foam block and the bubble wrap bag around the card. Underneath are the accessories included with the FleX Edition.
The accessory bundle that comes with the FleX Edition HD 6770 includes the installation manual, driver disk, and an invitation to join Sapphire's Select Club that gives members tangible benefits that include games and software applications, Automatic RMA registration, contests, and giveaways. The hardware part of the bundle includes a 4-pin to 6-pin PCIe power adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter, and an HDMI to SL-DVI dongle to add support for three lower cost DVI monitors.
Let's start our trip down memory lane with a look at the HD 6770 FleX.


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The Irony of Stereotypes: Toward an Anthropology of Ethnicity
Essay Abstract
"Greek" is a ubiquitous stereotype in the discourse of Greek Americans. They know "Greek" reflects on themselves, though they are sometimes puzzled by the "Greek" component of their identities. Constructing these identities is problematic for them principally because there is no single "Greek" identity. "Greek" is refracted by various images and tropes, or figures of speech, each operating in different structural settings. My argumenthere is that this simple observation about tropes in American talk about ethnicity opens up a new way to think about ethnicity in the United States. My aimis to pose the problem of ethnicity at home in radically cultural terms.
My examination of the operations of one trope-irony-on ethnic stereotypes in Greek American talk leads me to suggest that an anthropology of ethnicity must take note of irony and, more, may use it to make a new beginning in the analysis of systems of meaning. Ethnicity belongs to that assortment of cultural operators (Boon 1973) with which anthropology has made distinctive contributions among the social sciences and humanities to understanding social life: the rendering of complex cultural processes as cultural (rather than psychological or economic). This anthropological collection houses les pensees sauvage of trick- sters (Beidelman 1980), totemism (Lévi-Strauss 1963, 1966), animal categories and verbal abuse (Leach 1964), food (Douglas 1975; Feeley-Harik 1981), rites of affliction (Turner 1968), and more. However, since they are not exotic, each is a worker that engages the fundamental and fundamentally social tasks of fitting the categorical around the situational. All are transformers in cultures-hence they are moral, as emphasized by social anthropologists-and rendering their powers makes the theoretical enterprise of anthropology worthwhile. (Chock, 347)
About the Author
Phyllis Pease Chock is a retired Professor Emerita at the Catholic University of America and is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in American ethnicity and discourses of cultural identity, "ethnicity," and gender, particularly about "citizenship." Her work has focused especially on Greek-Americans and the symbols and meanings in which they explore their identities as "Greek" and as "American" and the play of gender in discourses about such identities.Recently she has published studies of Congressional testimony and other official discourses on what it means to be American. Among her publications are:
--"The Constrained Use of Irony in U.S. Congressional Testimony" (2001).
--" 'A Very Bright Line': Birth, Nature, and Reason in U.S. Congressional Hearings on Birthright Citizenship" (1999).
-- "Porous Borders: Discourses of Difference in Congressional Hearings on Immigration" (1997).
--" 'No New Women': Gender, 'Alien,' and 'Citizen' in Congressional Debate on Immigration Reform" (1996).
--"'Illegal Aliens' and 'Opportunity': Myth-making in Congressional Testimony" (1991).
--"The Self-Made Woman: The Success Story and Gender in Greek-American Family Histories" (1995).
--"Ambiguity in Policy Discourse: Congressional Talk about Immigration" (1995)
--"Culturalism: Pluralism, Culture, and Race in The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups" (1995).
--"'Your Friend, the Illegal': Definition and Paradox in Newspaper Accounts of Immigration Reform," Co-authored with Susan B. Coutin (1995).
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Joe Manganiello & Amaury Nolasco - Art of Elysium Gala
Joe Manganiello and Amaury Nolasco suit up for the 2013 Art of Elysium Heaven Gala held at 2nd Street Tunnel on Saturday (January 12) in Los Angeles.
The guys were joined at the event by The New Normal's Justin Bartha, Ringer's Ioan Gruffudd, Fringe's Seth Gabel, and David Arquette.
The men helped support the cause to continue the expansion of the organization's mission to make art a catalyst for social change, and bring creativity into the lives of tens of thousands of hospitalized children.
25+ pictures inside of Joe Manganiello and others at the gala…


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(Relaxnews) - As stories of an upcoming launch of a new, more affordable iPhone mount, Apple's Senior Vice President of Marketing moves to quash rumors.
Speaking to the Shanghai Evening News, Phil Schiller said: "Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple's products. In fact, although Apple's [global] market share of smartphones is just about 20%, we own 75% of the profit."
In recent weeks speculation has been mounting that Apple intends to launch a 'cheap' or low-end iPhone before the end of 2013 aimed at emerging markets such as China and Brazil where the premium price attached to the company's existing product line is preventing it from growing its market share.
A number of tech analysts and investment banks have been claiming that a discounted phone is the only way that Apple can remain competitive against the growing threat of Android and on January 9 The Wall Street Journal , which was the first to report that Apple was building an iPad Mini, published a story claiming the company was actively working on a "lower-end" iPhone that would use cheaper materials in its shell construction. "The cheaper phone could resemble the standard iPhone, with a different, less-expensive body, one of the people said. One possibility Apple has considered is lowering the cost of the device by using a different shell made of polycarbonate plastic. Many other parts could remain the same or be recycled from older iPhone models," it said. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS), 2013.


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I built this as I went so the layout is pretty messy =)
The user wears a headband that has electrodes placed at the temples. The left and right eye movements are tracked. The gain of the op amps in the electrooculogram circuit are controlled by the arduino through an AD5204 digital pot to allow for an automatic calibration routine.
You put on the headband and power up the board, and it outputs eye movement, unix timestamp and REM status to a computer for graphing. It waits a set amount of time for you to fall asleep, and then monitors your eye movements to detect the REM stage of sleep (when you are dreaming). When it detects REM, it blinks LEDs mounted in front of your eyes to give you a hint that you are dreaming to help you become lucid (
). When the REM ends, it can wake you up so you can remember the dream better.
Since your physical eye movements match your dream eye movements, movement sequences can be programmed so that you can interact with it while you are in a lucid dream (like turn the flashing LEDs off, or make notes in the log, i.e. I'm Lucid)
It also has a built in alarm clock that can wake you up at a set time in the morning.
I got the idea from some experiments Stephen Laberge did at Stanford university
I had found a device called "RemDreamer" that could flash LEDs when you were in REM but it couldn't output a graph of exact eye movements and was pretty expensive so I decided to make my own.
It's working but I still need to make a PCB for it and integrate it into a sleep mask.
I was able to get all of the ICs except the atmega168 as free samples so the cost for this was about $15.
It uses an LM358, INA126P, 2x TLV2472, AD5204, DS1307, Atmega168 w/arduino bootloader and is powered via FTDI cable.
This is the eye movement output of a 3 hour afternoon nap:
I'm pretty happy that it all actually works and just wanted to share =)
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Mar 04, 2010, 07:26 pm
I'm pretty happy that it all actually works
And proud, too, I hope: that's extremely clever and slick.
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Having lots of fun with Arduino. Thanks everyone!
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Mar 04, 2010, 07:47 pm
Thats a cool project!
Of course, we expect you to post your next update from your dream. ;-)
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Mar 04, 2010, 08:28 pm
Thanks! I found a company that was kind enough to send me a couple samples of some really nice electrodes to use with this so hopefully that will clean up the signal a bit.
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Mar 04, 2010, 08:53 pm
First I've heard of that! I read both articles and am amazed... but I do think I remember having Lucid dreams myself....
Thank you for posting and I will follow this thread more.
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Mar 04, 2010, 09:30 pm
That's pretty amazing!
I'm a lucid dreamer too (I'm active as 'Doublet' on the dutch LD4all)!
I'll make me one too
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Mar 04, 2010, 09:49 pm
Nice job!
I've always wanted to pursue something like this, but never found the time. Something that I wondered was whether by using a computer, headphones, and lights over the eyes - if the computer could somehow control or feed suggestions to the dreamer; in some manner using a computer to alter the dream-world thru suggestion in some manner (ie, lucid-dream virtual reality). Feedback from the REM movements would be necessary and needed, but you already have that...
What has always annoyed me most when lucid dreaming (the rare occasion it does occur to me; I rarely can remember on my own, so it is happenstance) is how easy it is to fall out of lucidity - if there were some way to both a) induce/remind the user for lucidity (which this machine can probably help) and b) keep the user in lucidity - dreaming would be a much more interesting (and potentially useful) experience...
Keep us updated on your progress, ok?
I will not respond to Arduino help PM's from random forum users; if you have such a question, start a new topic thread.
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Mar 05, 2010, 12:25 am
Well done!
Really interesting project, and something I really want to do myself at some point. I bought some of the bits needed but haven't had the time to work on it, and they've been sitting gathering dust for months.
I`d love to see a more detailed write up if you're happy to do one & share at some point
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Mar 05, 2010, 04:24 am
Man, I'd love to see how you monitor eye movements, tell when the user is asleep, etc. I always thought you had to use EMF detectors (which are usually pricey) to tell when the user is asleep, etc.
Looks almost as cool as
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Mar 05, 2010, 07:21 am
Looks almost as cool as Zeo!
I dunno if I want to use a subliminal coaching machine purchased from a site that set at least NINE cookies before showing the home page (It may have wanted to do more, but I clicked "Deny" when Firefox asked permission for the ninth).
"When you wake up, you will feel refreshed and confident, and have an irresistible urge to order a Zeo for each of your immediate family members..."
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Mar 05, 2010, 02:29 pm
This is definately one of the coolest projects I've seen on this board so far.
I spent months constantly counting my fingers and checking clocks and lightswitches while I was awake, but never managed to have (or remember having) a lucid dream. It's on my "to-do" list for life.
Good job
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Mar 06, 2010, 08:09 am
Where did you get the IC's? Can you also post the schematics?
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Mar 06, 2010, 03:47 pm
I got the ICs from Texas Instruments (INA126P & TLV2472), Analog Devices (AD5204), and Maxim (DS1307). The passive components and atmega168 I got from digikey. If you want to try building one I would recommend the atmega328 instead, digi was just out of them when I ordered stuff.
The only schematic I have right now is from when I was figuring out the EOG circuit in pspice:
Some things I changed since that schematic: I just power it from FTDI now so I got rid of the 9V battery and 7805. I took out the TLV2472 from the virtual ground circuit and replaced it with an LM358. I reused the TLV2472 to cascade two more 40Hz low pass filters before the final amplification. I replaced the 280ohm resistor in the instrumentation amplifier with a channel on the AD5204. I replaced the 270K resistor on the final amp circuit with a 150K, and I replaced the 10K resistor on the final amp circuit with another channel on the AD5204.
The rest of it I just made as I went on the breadboard so I dont have any schematics right now, but Im going to build a PCB for this and I can post the full schematic after I get it in to eagle
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Mar 06, 2010, 04:34 pm
If you would make a shield or PCB, I'm VERY interested in buying one.
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Mar 06, 2010, 04:59 pm
Cool. I'm waiting on a couple different types of sleep masks and the reusable electrodes to come in. The adhesive ones I've been using leave nasty red marks next to my eyes after wearing them so my GF has kindly asked my to stop using them =)
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Maverick Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa creates a surreal yet laconic love story set in the dystopic near future as Tokyo is gripped by mysterious and virulent pollen.
The story focuses on Haru, a thoroughly bored music producer who justifiably fears that he might literally disappear into thin air; and Michi, an employee at an international mail carrier, who likes to decorate her apartment with stolen items and fantasizes about going to foreign lands.
Listless and prone to violent fantasies -- his of gang war, hers of suicide -- the couple volunteers to be test subjects for a new experimental drug designed to combat the effects of the pollen, even though the side effects render them sterile. Within this vague and insecure world, the two try to maintain their love but find themselves drifting apart.
Every half-thought attempt at salvaging their relationship only results in further alienation. Haru buys a dog but eventually he gives it away, putting further strain on the two. The couple attempts to flee their everyday existence and visit the sea, when they happen upon a washed-up skeleton.
The emotional fallout finally results in the relationship's breaking up. Later, they meet again in a most surprising fashion. Kurosawa's film, told largely with long takes and a minimum of dialog, reads like an ironic reworking of alienated youth dramas.
These characters are so internally inert and emotionally cut off that they seem to verge on the darkly comic; yet their love for one another keeps them from sliding into the abyss.
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|2011-05-07, 19:00
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Either that or it is a situation of "vote for the criminal you know".
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But what is interesting is that from the results, the ruling party enjoy relatively good support in the west from those lower working class. But cracks have began to emerge in the east from the more educated, middle to upper income class.
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Have v Have-nots has always been a mainstay in many political competitions because they have different wants based on their lifestyles; the former may want a better life while the latter may want to be able to get more out of what they have in life. It is a murky area that sometimes, if the income gap is wide enough, unrest breaks out.
Though I would like to see how PAP tackles the rising cost issue. It is moved by external factors and there is little the government can do, other than doing some subsidising until the shit blows over. But it isn't going to be over soon because Dr Breen is still printing money, and those retards in the Mideast won't stop fighting amongst themselves.
Come to think of it, TRL must be crying himself to sleep now since Nicole Seah didn't win Marine Parade - he wanted a chick in the parliament so he can get more motivation to edit and cover political reports at work.
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But this chick got in :-
I can't comment on her ability to lead. But posing with a high class product and making a snide remark to a comment of an political opponent will not exactly go down well with the voters. She's lucky that she had a former Prime Minister on her side.
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Her snide comment is well worth it because Nicole Seah really needs to get her head out and walk around more, and do some research on macroeconomic issues before she rants about the income gap and rising costs. Up till now, there are still many who don't understand that this is an inevitable issue precipitating from chaos in certain parts of the world that is disrupting international financial systems and trade.
Yesterday's Lianhe Wanbao (the tabloid-ish Chinese newspaper) blared the headlines of Nicole wanting to have a legal suit with Pei Ling over those comments. Since Pei Ling had worked in M&A, I am sure most, if not all of the men in Singapore, are waiting for Pei Ling to acquire Nicole and merge with her amidst a field of lilies into the PAP.
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another reason why you should own an Apple MAC laptop.....
... or if you're too poor for a MAC then you should get Sandboxie
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Despite the reinstatement of a two-thirds majority in Parliament, I see little cause for optimism for the PAP. I cannot dispute the fact that the PAP did garner the majority of the votes needed to retain its status as the Government, but neither can I overlook the drop in the PAP's winning margin; 60.2% this year, compared to 66.6% in the previous election, and 75% in the one before that. Almost across the board, even in the constituencies they've won, support for the PAP has dropped.
I never expected this election to bring about much change in the status quo, and I wasn't disappointed in that regard. But if I may venture a guess, I'd say that the younger generation of Singapore are making their presence felt; probably the first time they've ever been able to vote, they've used it to announce their dissatisfaction with the policies of the ruling party. And the young ones are just going to grow in number, while the older folks that make up the core of the PAP base will only slowly lose their numbers to the crematorium.
Writing's on the wall. Can this trend be reversed, or is it a matter of a few more Elections for real change to happen?
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Speaking of elections....
UK 'will not block' Scottish independence referendum
Of course, now Scotland will decide if it wants to be independent or remained with the United Kingdom but since the UK just had a referendum of whether it wants to have an alternative voting system in the Britsih Government which they rejected it.....
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And they just pick up anything the opposition says and nod their head without using it. I wondered if the S$700 PAP gave us is for an air ticket out of Singapore should the opposition win - I fail to see credibility in any of them (especially NSP, slogans and pandering to "democracy against monopoly of power").
The party that rules isn't important. It is the younger generation and their 20-30 year plan for the future of the country that matters.
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|2011-05-08, 01:53
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And the people in the West are complaining about PAP winning....tell me, how to vote for opp when they talk so much cock?
|2011-05-08, 02:54
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Location: Singapore
Age: 43
And this was despite a great deal of unhappiness with the PAP anchor candidate Vivian Balakrishnan, the Sports Minister who busted the Youth Olympic Games budget by S$200 million (US$161 million). There was also resentment broiling against Mr Vivian for his clumsy use of a smear tactic, implying near the start of the campaign that the SDP team had a gay agenda.
The way I read the results, it's clear that richer, better-educated Singaporeans were able to distinguish between good or bad proposals, and chose the candidates who they felt could implement the best policies (SDP candidate Tan Jee Say proposed raising income taxes to 30% for the rich... dumb much?).
That's 56.7%, folks, significantly below the national average of 60.14% for the PAP. That result speaks volumes — people there were very likely voting against Ms Tin Pei Ling than for the opposition.
So, if anything, this General Election shows how warped the "Group Representation Constituency" system is. If not for the GRC system, voters wouldn't have had to put up with what they consider a lightweight MP-elect, nor would they have been forced to choose between a good team of opposition candidates and a Cabinet minister most people liked.
Speaking personally, I strongly feel the GRC system must be abolished. It warps democracy and I don't believe any Singaporean other than a PAP cadre truly thinks it ensures minority representation.
And, believe me, it's not just the PAP that is worried, but many older voters too, including people of my generation, the tail-end of Generation X (those born in the 1960s to 1975). It's not that we don't sympathise with the grouses of younger voters, but that we worry that idealistic youth just don't understand the kind of risks they are playing with (for example, Ms Nicole Seah, who parleyed strawmen polemics to her great advantage).
Personally though, the best take-home message for me is how online media completely fails to be representative of "mainstream" opinion in Singapore. If one reads online media alone, you'd think that all of Singapore was ready to throw out their present "masters". Well, the results speak for themselves: so-called "objective" (lol) online media represent only the usual tiny group of whiners who make the loudest noise. They are the kind of people who would ask for the Sun when you give them the Moon, and proceed to ask for the galaxy when you deliver the Sun.
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I think we need a major disaster to jolt those complacent portions of the population awake. Failing that, a second coming of the MM to lead us.
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Death toll in Egypt church clash rises to 10
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I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
The way I see it, the online media aren't representative of "mainstream" opinion; they're representative of the POV of the group of people who are most familiar with usage of the Internet; once again, the younger generation. And yes, I'd dare claim that much, since that includes those of the younger folks who are "pro-PAP" or "objective", who are as free as any of the "pro-Opposition" guys to make their POVs known online. And I should know, given that there were more "objective" thinkers within my circle than I expected over the last few days.
So once again, this goes back to the numbers game; yeah, the current Government still has the majority for now. However, give or take several more Elections, a couple of age groups newly of age and eligible to vote, and a couple more safely ensconced in urns and out of the picture, who knows?
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Location: Singapore
Age: 43
Heck, my hopes for true reform includes dismantling the many laws that effectively turn our constitutional right to free speech into a privilege. None of the parties campaigned on that platform, even if it appears in some form or another in their manifestos. That to me, is the real challenge for the future, a time when Singaporeans dare to look beyond bread-and-butter issues and think seriously about what kind of democracy we truly want. Young or old, I think most, if not all, Singaporeans would support such changes.
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Age: 29
Like the mad fanboy at one of the rallies who waved a banner "Nicole, will you marry me?".
What I am actually worried about is the income tax. As abovementioned, if their finance ministry continues to spend stupidly, the rest of SEA will have to bail them out and they will definitely borrow most from their closest neighbours - and the money will come from our pockets. Who knows, they might even reinstate the tax on private investment.
GST will definitely rise. The question is when : I was hoping for a delay of at least until start of 2013 or near end 2012 so I can rebuild my savings (which is burned thanks to the goddamn expensive piece of paper called a degree). Also, I am still wondering how Singaporeans, being so pampered by the government, are going to cope with that emotionally.
Her number of haters seem to be rising though. She better do something right, or she will never be able to live in Singapore again.
If an earthquake hits, they will go "Where is the SCDF?".
If someone invades us, they will go "Where is the SAF?".
When we got hit by a terrorist attack, they will go "Mata zho simi?" (What are the police doing?).
My generation (1985-1995) is probably the start of the decadence, though I don't know what it will take to wake them up. Maybe it is like what one of my Warrant Officers back in my army days said, "Stupid got medicine or not?"
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Kim Kardashian, Michelle Obama, Kate Hudson and Penélope Cruz are just a few ladies who have adorned red carpets and concrete catwalks with the esquisite designs of Rachel Roy. Rachel's style, charm and drive are infectious! She's more than a pretty face with gorgeous designs, her charity work has impacted the lives of many and she continues to give back. And it doesn't end here, Rachel is raising her 2 amazing daughters that will undoubtedly run the world, just like mom!
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Animal Prints Done Subtly
We love animal prints, but we don't like to be hit over the head with them. Our two rules for using animal prints in a subtle, not-so-trendy fashion: 1) Avoid the zebra rug; 2) Use only one print on one item in the room. Here are examples of rooms with just one animal printed item &mdash plus, animal-print décor options for your room.
• 1 Traditional Home
• 2 Pillow from West Elm
• 3 Traditional Home
• 4 Bedding from Williams-Sonoma Home
• 5 Kelly Wearstler's bedroom in Vogue
• 6 Prints of animals add animal prints without it having to be on a towel or rug, from Sharon Montrose
• 7Print from ZGallerie
• 8 One accent piece in an animal print can make a big statement, such as this giraffe bath math from Pottery Barn
• 9 The Izzy Collection from Missoni Home has towels reminiscent of zebra prints, but not exactly the same thing. At Unica Home
• 10 This Zebra balsa wall hanging from Velocity Art & Design is another way to get an animal print in a room.


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Stupid errors must stop, says Grosjean
French Formula One driver Romain Grosjean said on Tuesday he would repay the Lotus team's faith in him by cutting out the reckless mistakes that cast a shadow over a largely successful season for him in 2012.
Lotus, who finished an impressive fourth in the constructors championship as the duo of former world champion Kimi Raikkonen racked up some impressive performances, signed up the 26-year-old Swiss born driver for the 2013 campaign on Monday.
However, as Grosjean revealed he had had some sleepless nights after the curtain came down on the season in Brazil last month and talks went on over his future to the extent he feared that the race had been his last in Formula One.
"There were some tough moments, some sleepless nights," said Grosjean, who made his Formula One debut in 2009 when he raced seven times for Renault before a three year hiatus prior to driving for Lotus last term.
"I had a lot of discussions with the team's owners, which were constructive and allowed us to make progress. Today I am happy to have their confidence, to be able to carry on with them, and I am really going to try and create something special."
Grosjean, who recorded three podium finishes last season to finish a respectable eighth in the championship with 96 points, accepted, though, that he had to erase the wild charges he made from the grid and which earned him not only a suspension but also angered several of his rivals.
The most notable and perhaps costly one was at the beginning of the Belgian Grand Prix which claimed among its victims Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who was to go on and finish second in the world title race, just three points behind Sebastian Vettel.
Grosjean's recklessness in that collision resulted in a one race suspension – however, he was to go on and take Australian Mark Webber out of the Japanese Grand Prix at the start although this time he escaped censure.
"We have been working together since September in order to make progess because I did not want to wait till the end of the season," he said.
"There are lots of things that I am trying to improve on, because I am no longer a rookie, I no longer have the right to make clearly stupid mistakes, which were 100% my fault.
"I want to be more consistent, while remaining as quick as before."
Grosjean, who was unable to match Raikkonen's Grand Prix victory in Abu Dhabi, said that his ambitions matched those of Lotus.
"My ability to drive fast weighed in my favour for being retained, the talks as well, and the fact that we (he and Lotus) both are hungry to be world champions together.
"If we sort out some concerns, we will succeed."
Grosjean, though, was delighted that being re-signed by Lotus he could put off to another time his other favoured ambition which is to open a restaurant.
"I do not know whether I would have, if I had been let go, thrown myself immediately into opening a restaurant," he said.
"I had already looked elsewhere, in order to continue what I do best, to drive a car, but the idea is still in my head."


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Jan. 11, 2010
2010 Yale Invitational Results
2010 Army Carleton Crowell Open Results
The Sacred Heart men's and women's track & field teams return to action over the weekend competing at the Army Carleton Crowell Open and the 28th Annual Yale Track Classic. The Pioneers saw their first action since competing at the Harvard Open in early December.
At the Army Crowell Open, senior Kerry Ojeda (Coram, NY) won the pole vault, clearing the bar at 3.30 meters. Freshman teammate Lauren Sudbey (Sandy Hook, CT) took fourth in the event with a height of 3.15 meters.
In the shot put, sophomore Christine Middleton (Colchester, CT) finished third with a throw of 12.04 meters. Sophomore Chantaul Smith (New Britain, CT) finished ninth with a throw of 10.87 meters. In the weight throw Smith was eighth with a throw of 14.07 meters and Middleton was ninth with a throw of 13.98 meters. In the high jump, senior Tyler Teaton (Nanuet, NY) finished fourth clearing a height of 1.45 meters.
In the heptathlon, senior Keith Rowe (Taunton, MA) finished second with a total of 4,480 points. Sophomore Joseph Toledo-Quinones (Groton, CT) finished eighth (3841 points) and junior Daniel Galanto (East Hampton, NY) took ninth (3694 points). In the pentathlon, senior Bonnie Kilis (Marlborough, CT) took second place with 3,114 points. Freshman Molly Hurkett (Woburn, MA) was seventh (2421 points) and freshman Ashley Beck (Nesconset, NY) finished eighth (2303 points).
In the long jump, senior Brett Luongo (North Attleboro, MA) finished sixth with a leap of 5.81 meters. Freshman Matthew Wagner (Brookhaven, NY) was seventh in the weight throw with a throw of 14.28 meters.
At the Yale meet, sophomore Bertony Jean-Louis (Norwalk, CT) recorded a victory in the 60 meter hurdles. Jean-Louis was first with a time of 8.12 seconds, a New England and IC4A qualifying time. R-Freshman teammate Jeremy Rosado (Brooklyn, NY) was second, also posting a New England and IC4A qualifying time of 8.24 seconds. Junior Peter Conti (Mansfield, MA) was the third Pioneer to finish in the top-five in the event, taking fourth in a New England Championship qualifying time of 8.34 seconds.
In the 3000 meters, grad student John Kenworthy (Gloversville, NY) finished second with a time of 8:36.28 seconds.
For the women, sophomore Ashley Matakevich (Stratford, CT) picked-up a fourth place finish in the triple jump and a sixth place finish in the long jump. Matakevich posted a jump of 10.73 meters in the triple jump and a leap of 5.27 meters.
Junior Angelica Johnson (Little Ferry, NJ) finished seventh in the 60 meter dash, posting a New England Championship qualifying time of 7.70 seconds. Junior Samantha Troy (Lebanon, CT) ran eighth in the mile, clocking in at 5:24.48 seconds.


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Sunday at PGA National
Rory McIlroy won The Honda Classic, and with it the World Golf Ranking of #1. Rory had a last round of 69 for a tournament total of -12 under par, two shots clear of the field. Tiger Woods finished joint second after a marvelous round of -8 under par, and a total of -10 at the end. He shared second place with the ever present and consistent Tom Gillis, who made a mockery of his lowly world ranking with four rounds in the sixty's in this tournament. Justin Rose sadly could not improve on his overnight score, finishing with a level round of 70 and a -7 total. Ricky Fowler also had a good last round, with a 66, to finish tied 7th, looks like he may be getting used to those new Cobra clubs of his.
Tiger Woods eagled the 18th, which sent a massive roar around the golf course, Rory heard it all the way back on the 13th green, just as he was about to put for a birdie, he said;
"I could hear the huge roar, and it definitely wasn't a birdie roar.I was able to hole that putt, which was very important. I knew if I could just play the last five holes at even par, it was going to be good enough. Great to get the job done, and very happy to come out on top."
"It was tough today, especially seeing Tiger make a charge, I knew par golf would probably be good enough. To shoot 1 under in these conditions, when you go into the round with the lead, is very nice. And I was just able to get the job done."
On becoming World #1 Rory enthused;
"It was always a dream of mine to become the world No. 1 and the best player in the world or whatever you want to call it. But I didn't know that I would be able to get here this quickly. Hopefully, I can hold onto it for a little longer."


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Will Rogers (1879-1935) comic,
William Penn Adair Rogers or Will Rogers became a media sensation from humble beginnings. He grew up on a ranch in Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. After a few years as a rancher and cowboy he made it to vaudeville. His folksy humor and rope tricks made people take note and in 1915 he signed on with the Ziegfield Follies. In five years Rogers was a movie star, radio star and successful newspaper columnist. During the 20's this cowboy-philosopher was a national icon whose witticisms were widely quoted in the press. Rogers is still famous for saying "I only know what I read in the newspaper" and "I never met a man I didn't like." He was killed in 1935 with pilot Wiley Post when their plane crashed in Alaska.
Once at a dinner in New York he was the toastmaster and each speaker for the occasion was allowed 8 minutes to speak. The first two speakers got off within time allotted but the third rambled on. After 45 minutes he hastily broke off and apologized,' Mr. Toast-master I am sorry if I overstayed my time, but I kept my watch at home.'
Roger hunched forward and said calmly, 'There was a calendar right behind you.' (Eddie Cantor)
Just before he left for a White House dinner one of Will Roger's friends made a bet with him that he could not make the dour Cal laugh in two minutes.
'I'll bet he laughs in 20 seconds,' answered Will.
'Mr. Coolidge, I want to introduce Mr. Will Rogers.' Will held his hand out looked confused and said, 'Excuse me, I didn't quite get the name.' Will won the bet.
During the White House dinner Mrs. Coolidge said there was only one person who could do a better impersonation of Cal than Will-and that was herself. When asked to demonstrate she went into a monologue that won Will's applause.
'Yes, that's mighty fine, Mrs. Coolidge,' conceded the cowboy-philosopher,'think what you had to go through to learn it.'
The film 'State Fair' was a very satisfying experience for him. He had a prize boar to work with. He got along well with Blue Boar. On the last day of shooting, the Studio suggested that he buy the boar for the family larder. Rogers declined. His excuse was ' I wouldn't feel right eatin' a fellow actor.'
At the dedication of the Coolidge Dam in Arizona ,in 1930 the Master of Ceremonies was Will Rogers. Arizona has been under acute drought conditions and Wiil scanned San Carlos Lake now a sea of grass and he remarked, 'If that was my lake, I'd mow it."
A piano manufacturer tried to get a testimonial from Will Rogers for his piano. Rogers who never endorsed a product unless he really believed in wrote this letter to the firm. 'Dear Sirs, I guess your pianos are the best I ever leaned against . Yours truly, Will Rogers.'
During an interview with President Harding comic Will Rogers said,' 'I'd like to tell you all the latest jokes, Mr. President.'
'You don't have to', Harding answered, 'I appointed them all to office.'
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The Effects of Choice-based Sampling and Small-sample Bias on Past Fair Lending Exams
by Jason Dietrich
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency uses choice-based sampling and limited sample sizes for statistically modeled fair lending exams. Both choice-based sampling and small sample sizes introduce bias into the maximum likelihood logit estimator, the standard estimator used by the OCC. This study applies results from Amemiya (1980) and Scott and Wild (1991) to estimate these biases for 16 recent exams.
The results show that of 29 tests of the null hypothesis of no racial effect conducted during the 16 exams, the outcome of two would change if small sample bias were taken into account, and the outcome of six would change if choice-based sampling bias were taken into account. Overall, the bias from choice-based sampling is generally larger. Although this study does not attempt to establish whether better sampling strategies would have changed examination conclusions based on any of the 29 hypothesis tests, the findings show that such strategies would have prescribed more thorough manual followup reviews for at least five of the 29 tests.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Jason Dietrich " The Effects of Choice-based Sampling and Small-sample Bias on Past Fair Lending Exams, " Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 2001-2, June 2001.
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Can I be the first to say, "no !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !!?"
Key findings of the report are:
* women in sport made up just nine per cent of all sports coverage in Australian television news and current affairs and seven per cent of other sport programming
* television news reports on female sport had the lowest average duration of all the types of sport news analysed; with reports on male sport having an average duration of 30 seconds longer than reports on female sport
* female athletes generally need to win in order to receive media coverage, whereas male athletes tend to receive coverage regardless of their success
* the gender stereotyping in press and television coverage of female athletes was minimal, with reporting focussed on the performances and results rather than their looks, sexuality or emotions.
The Australian Government through the ASC recognises that one of the major barriers facing women's participation in sport is getting women seen, heard and supported in the media. That is why the Government is investing in raising the profile of women's sport in Australia by providing:
* $32 million over 4 years to the Football Federation Australia, which includes supporting a televised Westfield Women's League,
* $2.4 million to support the Trans-Tasman netball competition, including funding to support and promote free-to-air television coverage of the ANZ Netball Championships; and
* $100,000 to support the 5th IWG International Conference on Women and Sport.
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that includes over 7 million insects specimens representing about 200,000 species, or roughly 20% of the World's described insect fauna. Our collection is an important resource for Cornell students, staff and faculty, for the College of Agriculture, for residents of New York State, and for the broader systematics community.
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The Emerald Ash Borer is now known from several isolated localities in New York State. To minimize spread of this insect, never move firewood. Please help save our forests.
Question: Do you like the doink of a baseball off of an aluminum bat?
Answer: Well, if you DON'T, you're like us, so keep Ash bats in America's Pastime, and NEVER EVER move firewood.


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