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Pre-game preview: SMU
It's a good day to be at Gampel Pavilion.
No. 21 UConn is hosting Southern Methodist University at 2 p.m. in an important American Athletic Conference game.
The 1999 national championship team and its point guard Khalid El-Amin will be inducted into the Huskies of Honor during halftime.
All five starters are expected to be here -- El-Amin, Ricky Moore, Richard Hamilton, Kevin Freeman and Jake Voskuhl. Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun also is planning to attend.
Here's a pre-game preview:
Tip-off time: 2 p.m. (CBS Sports Network)
Records: SMU 21-6, 10-4; UConn 21-5, 9-4
Last game: SMU beat Houston, 68-64, Wednesday; UConn won at Temple, 68-55, Thursday
Probable starters:
UConn, 6-1 sr. guard Shabazz Napier (17.9 pts, 6.1 rebs, 5.5 assists), 6-0 jr. guard Ryan Boatright (12.5 pts, 3.6 assists), 6-6 grad. forward Lasan Kromah (7.3 pts, 3.1 rebs), 6-9 jr. forward DeAndre Daniels (13.2 pts, 5.4 rebs), 7-0 fr. center Amida Brimah (4.3 pts, 2.9 rebs, 2.6blks)
SMU, 5-9 so. guard Nic Moore (14.1 pts, 4.6 assists), 6-4 sr. guard Nick Russell (8.8 pts), 6-6 fr. guard Sterling Brown (4.0 pts, 3.4 rebs), 6-7 sr. forward Shawn Williams (5.2 pts, 3.0 rebs), 6-9 so. forward Markus Kennedy (11.7 pts, 7.0 rebs)
-- The Huskies have won 10 of their last 12, including four straight.
-- Series: UConn trails 2-0, losing 74-65 on Jan. 4 inDallas. Huskies shot 36.7 percent. Boatright (15) and Moore (20) led their respective teams.
-- The Mustangs are making first ever trip to UConn. They owe a 5-5 road record.
-- SMU ranks second in nation in FG percentage defense at 37.1 and allow 61.6 points per game.
-- The Mustangs have out-scored 24 of 27 opponents in the paint by an average of 35.0-21.0. They've reached 21 wins for only seventh time in program history.
-- Hot: UConn defense has forced an average of 16.7 turnovers in last four games. Cold: Kromah just 5-for-19 from the field in last three games.
-- Ollie was a member of the Philadelphia 76ers when UConn won the national championship. He watched the game on TV.
"I didn't get a chance to go out (to St. Petersburg, Fla.) because I was on a 10-day contract and I couldn't get the private jet. … I didn't have the money back then. I still don't have the money. But I just watched on TV."
"It was just an amazing time."
-- For game updates, follow me on Twitter @GavinKeefe
-- Check back after the game for a post-game breakdown and video.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
This is Part III of a three-part story on the Middle East's changing borders. If you have not done so already, we suggest first reading The Changing Middle East: Revolt Against Artificial Borders - Part I and The Changing Middle East: Revolt Against Artificial Borders - Part II
What should Israel expect in this constantly changing environment? Here opinions differ.
"Up until now many in the Israeli establishment believed Assad was a guarantee of stability, as he was the person who kept our northern border quiet for the past forty years," said Paz. "Now the situation is changing with many officials preferring to see him toppled. In any case, chaos is not good for Israel because it's not manageable, you can never know what the outcome will be," he continued.
Talking about the possible repercussions for the entire area, Paz also stressed that the fall of Assad could lead to further destabilization, prompting revolts in Jordan and Palestine, two areas that have thus far remained relatively stable. "The Jewish state might be drawn into a conflict if the regime [in Jordan] is threatened," he said. The expert referred to the events of 1970 when Israel was prepared to send troops to Jordan in a bid to oust Palestinian Liberation Organization, a terrorist movement that aimed to depose the late King Hussein.
Perlov voiced a different view. "No matter what happens, we shouldn't panic. The division of Syria is not fatal for Israel. I am sure we will be able to come to terms with Kurdistan and any other new state that might emerge. Any scenario is better than Assad," she reasoned, while acknowledging that the ouster of the current regime might create power vacuums, easily filled by hostile elements that could promote violent cross-border tensions and crime. "There are dangers but with the right management of the crisis, Israel can only benefit from a new regime in Syria," she concluded.
There are historical precedents for bloody conflicts that were resolved by partition. The dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1990's -- a region with a history of ethnic conflicts -- brought the creation of several independent countries that mostly live in peace with each other. Will Syria share the same fate? Experts agree that it is too early to tell.
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EL MONTE – A vigil will be held Monday for an El Monte High School student who was killed in a bus crash in Northern California last week.
The vigil for Adrian Castro is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the school's quad area ,which is in front of the library, according to school officials.
El Monte High School is located at 3048 N. Tyler Ave.
Castro, a senior, was among the 10 people killed when a Fedex truck collided with a bus in Orland on Thursday. The bus was carrying high school students who were going to visit Humboldt State University.
El Monte coach Joel Sanchez said football teams from South El Monte, Gabrielino, Mountain View, Rosemead and Arroyo – who all compete against El Monte in the Mission Valley League – will wear their high school jerseys in honor of Castro, along with El Monte's football team.


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It has become fashionable of late for big city reporters to beat up on ethanol and other renewable fuels with "doomsday" articles. (Ever notice how the national media seem to travel in packs on these?)
In the stories, corn- or grain-based ethanol is often criticized for causing: (1) rising food prices and resulting shortfalls in food aid programs, (2) less fuel efficiency compared to petroleum fuels, (3) the use of more energy to produce than it produces and (4) increased emissions of certain pollutants.
Scientists are refuting many of the claims, including rejection of ideas ethanol is a net-loss when it comes to energy savings by none other than researchers for the National Resources Defense Council.
But the pseudo-debates over whether ethanol takes more energy to produce than petroleum fuels and ethanol emissions pale in comparison to a recent statement by someone who was no friend of ethanol for many years.
The statement from T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman, didn't get much press, but it should have given the latest run-up in oil prices to more than $108 a barrel in recent trading sessions.
Pickens, who admitted he once opposed ethanol, said on CNBC's daily "Squawk Box" program that America's purchases of foreign oil are costing the country a half a trillion dollars every year.
"You take 10 years, and you have $5 trillion," said Pickens. "That's more than $1 billion a day. We can't stand that." (That $500 billion per year is not far from the record federal deficit of $552 billion in 2004.)
Ethanol industry leaders have been saying the United States needed to reduce its use of foreign-produced oil to avoid transferring such wealth out of the country. Few put it in such dramatic terms as Pickens.
Acknowledging he didn't think much of ethanol's claims in the early years, he said he now supports increased production. "I'd rather have ethanol and recirculate the money in the country, than to have it go out the back door on us." (Pickens is investing $10 billion in wind energy.)
Pickens' probably won't be the last word on ethanol, but his comments accentuate some of ethanol's positives, such as a recent report that increased ethanol use is expected to reduce the country's petroleum consumption by 90,000 barrels per day.
In 2006, ethanol contributed $49.1 billion to the country's gross economic output while supporting the creation of 160,231 jobs, putting another $6.7 billion in the pockets of American consumers and adding $5 billion in tax revenues for federal, state and local governments. 2007's numbers are expected to be higher.
As far as claims about ethanol's biological "footprint," recent reports says greenhouse gas emissions from Midwest oil refineries are expected to increase by as much as 40 percent in the next decade because of the extra energy required to extract oil from the tar sands of Canada.
Most importantly, ethanol is producing income from the marketplace, a development all of us should favor.


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Gran Turismo 6's Microtransactions Detailed
Now you'll be able to build up your collection of cars in the upcoming Gran Turismo 6 through the magic of microtransactions. Some newly-released information breaks down exactly how you'll be able to amass your car army.
A post on the EU PlayStation Blog divulges the details on how microtransactions will work in Gran Turismo 6. You can purchase in-game credits through the PlayStation Store, or from a local retailer, in order to buy cars and parts. Credits can be bought at the following denominations: 500K, 1 million, 2.5 million and 7 million credits. The image above shows you an example of what you'll be able to afford with 1 million credits.
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Hookah club permit discussion continues
DANBURY -- The debate over a college student's petition to reopen his downtown hookah lounge continued Tuesday night about whether a club that features an ancient smoking practice has a place in a city of modern clean air laws.
The application by 23-year-old Danbury native Dev Patel to reopen a club on Ives Street that the city shut down in 2012 was expected to be reviewed by members of the city's Zoning Commission, who have sought assurances that the club would be secure, ventilated, alcohol-free and restricted to adults.
"Our biggest thing right now is how can we make this work in Danbury," said Patel, a Danbury High School graduate, speaking before Tuesday night's meeting. "The hookah is different, and that is what attracts the people. We were sold out every night we were open."
The city's Zoning Commission is expected to continue its review in August.
The issue, which is also being debated in Bridgeport, where a merchant is applying for permission to convert part of his Main Street store into a hookah lounge, is whether the practice of smoking sweetened tobacco through a group water pipe can be regulated, and whether approving it will undercut public health initiatives to combat smoking.
"The comparison that an hour of hookah smoking is equal to 100 cigarettes I am not arguing, because I will be the first to tell you that it is terrible for your health," Patel said before Tuesday night's meeting. "Smoking is dangerous. But most of our customers come on a monthly basis."
Danbury Planning Director Dennis Elpern has already expressed concern that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health authorities have deemed hookah smoking harmful.
The American Lung Association considers hookah smoking to be a growing health threat that could lead to a resurgence of tobacco use. The association has called on governments to close loopholes that exempt hookah bars from smoke-free laws.
Patel's Cloud 9 club on Ives Street was open for a month in 2012 before a city inspector saw him advertising hookah smoking on the social media site Twitter and closed it.
Patel's argument is that neighboring towns, including Fairfield, have hookah bars, and business would be good for the downtown if Danbury grants his application. He said his club was drawing people from surrounding towns.
Mayor Mark Boughton said city leaders are skeptical.
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"Are we sending the right signals about smoking in general? I just read a study about hookah smoking, and it is clearly not good for you."
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The Harvard women's hockey team hits the ice for an exhibition matchup against McGill, the top-ranked team in the Quebec University Hockey League, Saturday at Bright Hockey Center. Today's contest marks the only exhibition game for Harvard this season. Admission to the exhibition game is free.
Last Season
Harvard hosted McGill in a preseason exhibition a year ago tomorrow and skated to a convincing 4-1 win. Kate Buesser led the Crimson attack with two goals and Kathryn Farni '10 had a four-point game with a goal and three assists. Katharine Chute netted Harvard's fourth goal at the 19:59 mark of the second period. Christina Kessler '10 made 22 saves in goal for Harvard.
Crimson Captains
Harvard's three captains this year are seniors Kate Buesser, Leanna Coskren and Liza Ryabkina.
Preseason Prognostications
After finishing third in the ECAC Hockey regular season standings and advancing to the ECAC Tournament semifinal last season, Harvard has been picked to finish third in the league in the ECAC Preseason Poll. Senior captain and forward Kate Buesser, a 2009-10 Patty Kazmaier Award Nominee, was selected to the Preseason All-League team. Harvard also garnered top-10 rankings in both national preseason polls, receiving a No. 8 ranking in the USCHO.com poll and a No. 9 ranking in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.
Returning Statistical Leaders
Harvard returns four of its top five scorers from last season, including its top three. Kate Buesser was the leading scorer last season, totaling 40 points on 16 goals and 24 assists, all of which were team-high totals. Jillian Dempsey finished the year with 27 points (11g, 16a) and Liza Ryabkina collected 22 points on 15 goals and seven assists in just 24 games. Leanna Coskren led all defensemen with 19 points (8g, 11a) last season. Buesser (+25) and Dempsey (+20) were the top-two rated players at the end of last season.
Laura Bellamy took over goalie duties midway through the season and put up solid numbers through the final 18 games. The then-freshman racked up 326 saves on the year for a save percentage of .921 and finished with a 1.69 goals-against-average.
Scouting the Martlets
McGill brings a 6-4-1 record into today's game, competing in a mix of exhibition and regular-season contests. It is currently riding a four-game win streak, having taken down ECAC Hockey opponents Princeton (4-3) and Yale (1-0) in the process.
In their last game, the Martlets extended their QUHL winning streak to a staggering 83 games, downing Montreal, 5-2, Wednesday night in Montreal. McGill received third period goals from Darragh Hamilton, Cathy Chartrand and Carly Hill and goalie Andrea Weckman stopped 22 shots to seal the win.
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According to Germany's Focus magazine, the house that Jobs rebuilt wants to become as ubiquitous in cars as it is in shirt pockets. Though unconfirmed, the story is Mercedes will be the first manufacturer to offer Apple's system, which will reportedly combine entertainment, communication and navigation in a single unit. After an initial period where Mercedes will offer the system exclusively, a full-market launch is expected in 2009. No word on whether it'll use Google Maps, as with the iPhone, or another provider for the cartography, or if it'll be able to make crank calls to Starbucks. Ask your geek brother what that just meant.
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Battling against the Fortress Mentality
In recent days, hundreds of Africans have tried to scale the border fences to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco. In his commentary, Peter Philipp suggests that the time has come to set up a system of regulated immigration
As long as people do not have any prospects in their native countries and are willing, if needs be, to risk their lives in order to secure the chance of a better life, classic methods of protecting the EU's external borders are doomed to failure.
Europe has certainly no reason to be proud of what is currently happening to African refugees on the Moroccan-Spanish borders. European governments remain silent; at best, a few human rights organisations are voicing criticism about the treatment of the Africans.
The "fortress mentality" has spread
On the whole, however, there would appear to be a silent consensus, namely "where would we be if everyone could just simply climb over the fence into Europe?"
And this from a continent that repeatedly assured the world in the course of its union that there would be no such thing as a "fortress Europe". Since then, the fortress mentality – and everything that goes with it – has spread.
As has the degree of indifference to what happens outside this fortress. Apart from Spain's timid protest to Rabat that it is not very humane to simply bundle refugees into trucks, drive them into the Sahara, and dump them there, no-one is standing up for these miserable creatures who are so desperate to get to Europe and to get a share of the affluence they expect to find there so that they can support their loved ones at home.
"Economic refugees" is the derogatory term used to describe these people, as if there was a huge difference between escaping an oppressive dictator and escaping abject poverty. Quite apart from the fact that most of these refugees are in fact fleeing both.
Wealth and poverty are relative
But the term "economic refugee" is also loaded with the criticism that these people just want to somehow get rich at our expense. This is a feeling that would appear to internally justify turning such refugees away. How far the western Europeans have come since the days when they congratulated anyone who succeeded in crossing the "iron curtain" to get to the West.
But now, the streets of the West, of the European Union, are no longer paved with gold, as people in some African countries would appear to think. But this is all relative: the poverty in which people in Europe live seems to be affluence to some Africans. So the question remains as to whether Europe can be allowed to ignore the problem.
And is it really appropriate to use the north African transit countries as "deputy sheriffs"? Libya as the starting point for dangerous Mediterranean crossings or Morocco as the runway for desperate leaps over the Spanish border?
Reception camps for refugees?
The outgoing German Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily, suggested setting up reception camps in these countries. In doing so, he was ignoring the fact that for those refugees who failed to make it across the border, these reception camps would be at best prison camps. And now, no-one is protesting at the fact that Morocco – which is, after all, not exactly a liberal democracy – is maltreating the refugees in a variety of ways.
The very clever in Europe now think that it is time to start treating the "roots" of the problem: in other words, in Africa itself. This is a long-term process with an uncertain outcome. Have the Europeans long forgotten that they themselves once fled to the United States to escape famine and misery?
In a similar way, maybe it is time to set up a system of regulated immigration for Africans wanting to migrate to Europe. But don't worry: they won't steal our jobs! There are too few skilled workers among them for that to happen. But one day, they too may pay taxes and pension contributions.
Peter Philipp
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Franz Alt
West Africa Is Dying - Europe Is Sleeping
Locust plagues, poverty and million environmental refugees in Africa: An efficient European Marshall Plan would help Africa out of its current misery. Proceeding in this way would simply be a matter of European self-respect, argues Franz Alt
Analysis Francis Njubi Nesbitt
Brain Gain Politics Embedded in the North
In his article, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, assistant professor at San Diego State University, concedes that the brain drain trend has increased, but argues that expatriates can successfully work as African lobbyists in Northern policy networks
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Gerrard faces surgery in summer
Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard is likely to require surgery on a shoulder injury this summer, according to Reds first-team coach Mike Marsh.
The 32-year-old, who has featured in every minute of the Reds' 34 Premier League matches so far, has been playing through the problem this season.
"It's looking more and more likely that he might require surgery," Marsh told Liverpoolfc.com. "He has been playing with a shoulder injury for quite a while now. We'll try to find the right time for him to get it fixed properly."
He added: "It's not ideal timing, it's going to take quite a while for him to heal. It's a funny injury - it's pretty similar to Joe Allen (who has already had surgery which has ruled him out for the remainder of the campaign).
"If it needs repairing, it needs repairing and when he's back fit, he's back fit. There's not much we can do about it."
If, as expected, he undergoes an operation, Gerrard is likely to miss internationals against the Republic of Ireland at Wembley on May 29 and Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on June 2.
While Gerrard will soldier on until the end of the season there are other players finally returning to fitness. Forward Fabio Borini, who has not played since dislocating a shoulder in February, has been training this week while Raheem Sterling - who has not featured since March 31 - has rejoined the group.
"The long-standing injuries that we've got are on the road back to recovery," Marsh added. "One or two are a little bit closer - Fabio Borini has joined in, Raheem Sterling is now back out on the pitch and Martin Kelly (out since September after cruciate knee ligament surgery) is also outside. We're back to almost a full complement."
Borini has a chance of making the bench for Saturday's match at Newcastle, which will boost the squad after fellow forward Luis Suarez was banned for 10 matches, subject to appeal, for his bite on Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.
"He had the all-clear from the surgeon and joined in during the last couple of days and it's looking really good," Marsh said of the Italian. "He might be included on the bench at the weekend, it might be the week after."


text: Brian, There are usually three or four categories of storage: 1) /home - small, just enough to keep source files and compile code 2) /scratch/local - distributed disks within a cluster for local writing (think Gaussian) 3) /scratch/global - a high-performance (and higher cost) parallel file system accessible by all nodes 4) /archive - a very large pool of spinning disks which receives data from /scratch/global when a run (or set of consecutive runs) is "complete." The idea is to clear off the expensive parallel system for other run-time use, but that you still want to hold the data for some future need. I would keep your /home and /scratch/global separate. The /scratch/global solution you pick will very much depend on how you want it connected to your clusters. By definition (of your cluster suite) you cannot have a system that relies on IB as not all of your systems have IB. This leaves GbE as the only global means of connection. If at all possible, I would dedicate a GbE interface on all nodes who access /scratch/global. -- Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director Systems Administration and Technical Operations <bropers at msi.umn.edu> Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation 599 Walter Library +1 612-626-5948 (V) 117 Pleasant Street S.E. +1 612-624-8861 (F) University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus Minneapolis, MN 55455-0255 http://www.msi.umn.edu/


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The coming presidential election presents a consequential choice for American voters. Many Americans are concerned with the direction their country is heading. Arab Americans are no different. As a community we are well integrated into American political life and an important voting constituency in many areas of the country. Our vote matters, as do the concerns and insight of our community matter this election season. In September 2012, the Arab American Institute released a poll on how the community will vote. The poll found that 16% of voters remain undecided and therefore up for grabs by both campaigns. These voters are listening closely for a campaign message that speaks to their concerns. On issues such as the economy, education, and engagement of the community, Governor Mitt Romney has made a strong case for why he deserves the Arab American vote.
The past four years under President Barack Obama has seen a record 42 consecutive months of unemployment above 8 percent. 23 million Americans are out of work and one in six Americans is in poverty. It is no wonder given these economic conditions that jobs and the economy are far and away the most cited issue of importance to my fellow Arab Americans. AAI's poll shows that 82 percent of Arab Americans rated the economy as the most important issue to them this election season.
Romney's campaign message, focused on jobs and economic growth, has resonated with Arab Americans across the country. Arab American voters appreciate Romney's private sector experience and find his belief in entrepreneurial spirit and individual achievement consistent with their values. His economic plan, in particular his pledge to lower taxes and simplify the tax code, would provide relief to the many Arab Americans seeking to expand their business or simply find work. Romney's pledge to champion small business also resonates with the Arab American community. Many Arab American small business owners feel that Romney's policy proposals aimed at reducing their tax burden and eliminating regulations and red tape would help their businesses grow. Our community is one that values education. 45% of Americans of Arab descent have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 28% of Americans at large. Romney's education policies speak to those who place high value on quality and choice in their children's education. As President, Romney would promote affordable and innovative options to students trapped in bad schools. His policies would attract and retain better teachers, as well as hold teachers accountable for results. His record as Governor, in which Massachusetts schools led the nation, appeals to voters on this issue of great importance.
Arab Americans' role in the Romney campaign has been active and substantive from the start. I am one of several high profile advisors to the Romney campaign from the community, as I serve on Governor Romney's labor policy committee. Former Governor and Arab American John Sununu serves as one of Romney's most visible surrogates in the media. A record number of Arab Americans participated in the Republican National Convention as delegates. This month the Romney campaign announced "Arab Americans for Romney," a national coalition of Arab American supporters of Mitt Romney's bid for the presidency of the United States. This involvement is also a testimony to how far the community has come. 30 years ago, when Arab Americans made campaign donations, our contributions were returned. Now members of our community are able to participate in politics while wearing their ethnicity on their sleeve and campaigns like Governor Romney's tout their support from our community.
As a member of a religious minority himself, Governor Romney holds a personal belief in the need to protect religious minorities. Romney was the pastor of his church in Belmont Massachusetts when it was burned down in a suspected arson attack. This experience helps the Governor understand what many religious minorities in the United States, including American Muslims, experience. It is likely that this experience would also inform his decisions on protection of religious minorities in the Arab world.
Many of us have liked what President Obama has tried to do in the foreign policy area, but are frustrated that he has failed to deliver. Some of Governor Romney's statements on the campaign trail, particularly on the peace process, indicate that he needs to better understand the Arab world. Romney's career, however, shows that he is a highly analytical person, who is always open to new information. The Romney campaign's embrace of its Arab American support suggests that he would be willing as President to learn from our community about issues relevant to the Arab world. Between President Obama's record and Governor Romney's statements on the trail, we are not presented with a clear choice on foreign policy. This disappointment among Arab Americans in their foreign policy choices is yet another reason why we will be casting our votes in November based on issues like education and the economy.
The stakes are high in this election for Arab Americans, as well as for all Americans. More than any other issue, this election is about Americans' economic future. American voters in general are rightly concerned by the slow pace of recovery and persistently high unemployment. Arab Americans are business owners, doctors, lawyers and public servants, and together as a community they are an electoral constituency that matters. Mitt Romney knows this, and his campaign speaks to the concern our community has about our future and the future of our country.
George Salem is the Chairperson of the Arab-American Institute AAI and serves on Mitt Romney's campaign Labor Committee.


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Kevin Landis is the manager of this year's best performing investment fund on Wall St. but investors may want to think twice before copying his stock picks.
Landis, the portfolio manager of the tiny $6.7 million Firsthand Alternative Energy fund , has posted a return of 79.6 percent for the year through October 7, the best performance of any actively-managed stock fund in the United States that doesn't use leverage, according to Lipper.
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His very good year follows one of his worst. Landis closed out 2012 with a decline of 23.5 percent, one of the poorest performances among his Morningstar category and nearly 40 percentage points less than the MSCI World index. The roughly 100 percentage point swing in performance between 2012 and 2013 is the largest for any U.S. mutual fund over that time, according to Lipper.
Landis' green energy bets, especially on the solar industry, could remain volatile.
After years of oversupply cut into profits and sent shares tumbling, solar companies have rebounded this year in part because of long-standing subsidies and rebates to residential customers in the United States.
These tax credits and other incentives were initially offered when the cost of solar power was higher. Utility companies are lobbying for them to be dropped or reduced on grounds they have become too generous. Such moves would hurt solar companies if adopted.
With rooftop solar installations rising, the total output of solar power in the U.S. is expected to rise 20 percent this year, according to GTM Research. The country will become the fifth-largest supplier of solar power worldwide by 2018, according to market forecaster NPD Solarbuzz.
As a result, companies like SolarCity Corp - which makes up about 14 percent of Landis's portfolio - have seen their shares jump 215 percent for the year to date. SunPower Corp, which makes up about 4 percent of his portfolio, is up nearly 410 percent since January, while SunEdison Inc is up approximately 177 percent.
Those outsized gains make fund analysts wary.
"You can't argue with its recent track record, but the fund's volatility is worth paying attention to. Alternative energy has history of being a market where everything is going very well or very, very poorly," said Todd Rosenbluth, director of mutual fund research at S&P Capital IQ.
Landis, for his part, said that he has shifted his strategy for solar companies, which make up approximately a third of his assets, away from Chinese manufacturers and toward more stable U.S. service providers.
"People who felt they had the vision to see where the world was headed - I'll include myself in that list - learned the hard way that just buying the solar panel makers and figuring 'Surely they must eventually get their costs down' was not a very successful investment strategy," Landis said.
A better investment strategy has been to focus on companies like Solar City that take advantage of lower costs without having to lose money selling and making panels, he said.
Even with the large gains for the year, Landis has been holding on to his top-performing solar positions. Analysts, however, have been more wary. Six of the seven analysts polled by Reuters who cover SolarCity, for instance, have a 'hold' rating on the stock, with the remaining analyst rating the company a 'sell.'
Landis says that solar companies may remain volatile over the next five years even as they expand their market size.
"This may turn into the TV business, where there are lots of revenues but from time to time it's unprofitable," he said, referring to the occasional gluts of production in that industry that squeeze retailers and manufacturers. "Still, when you take a look at our home utility bill, the rates that you are paying only go up and the price of solar only goes down. I think we're now at the point where people can make money with a sensible business approach," he said.
Landis, who co-founded San Jose, California based Firsthand Capital Management in 1993, is better known in the fund industry for his investments in technology. His $74.6 million Firsthand Technology Opportunities fund, for instance, has returned an annualized 20.7 percent over the last five years, putting it in the top 17 percent in its category, and his firm has made early-stage investments in companies such as Twitter.
Along with his bet on solar servicers, Landis's alternative energy fund also benefited by a very well timed bet on electric car company Tesla Motors. He began buying shares in April when it traded at around $40, and sold the position in late August after its shares topped $160, enough for a 300 percent gain. Tesla closed at $183.07 on October 7, giving the company a 440 percent rally for the year.
"We weren't serious investors in the stock. We made our money and we were out," Landis said.
In order to diversify his portfolio, Landis has also expanded his definition of what he considers an alternative energy stock. His second-largest position is in glass maker Corning Inc, for instance, because the company has been expanding into the polycrystalline silicon market, which is the key raw material used in most solar cells.
He has also been buying shares of industrial company 3M Co and auto parts supplier Johnson Controls Inc that have been developing products for the so-called smart grid, the term for modern electricity infrastructure that emphasizes automation and efficiency.
Investors who want to follow Landis's lead will have to pay for it. The fund charges an annual fee of $1.98 per $100 invested, an expense ratio that Morningstar considers high.
(Reporting by David Randall; editing by Andrew Hay)


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News Corp said on Monday it is still reviewing whether it has any record of a notification from the United States government involving a subpoena for a Fox News reporter's phone records.
The media conglomerate was responding to the Justice Department, which said it told News Corp about the seizure of phone records for James Rosen, a reporter with Fox News, in August 2010.
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"While we don't take issue with the DOJ's account that they sent a notice to News Corp, we do not have a record of ever having received it," said News Corp spokesman Nathaniel Brown, who added the company is looking into the matter.
Fox News, which is owned by News Corp, has said it never received a notification from the government.
Lawrence Jacobs, the former worldwide general counsel at News Corp during 2010, told Reuters he had no recollection of ever receiving it nor had News Corp found any evidence when it combed through Jacobs' emails.
"I have no memory of it," he said.
A law enforcement official who asked not to be named said in a statement Monday that "In the investigation that led to the indictment of Stephen Kim, the government issued subpoenas for toll records for five phone numbers associated with the media. Consistent with Department of Justice policies and procedures, the government provided notification of those subpoenas nearly three years ago by certified mail, facsimile, and e-mail."
The official said notice went to both News Corp and to the reporter, Rosen.
The Fox subpoena is the latest twist involving an acrimonious battle between the media's right to publish and the government's ability to investigate leaks involving classified information.
Guidelines for the Justice Department have for decades required the personal involvement of the attorney general when prosecutors are considering a subpoena to the media and for the media organization be notified of any action.
Last week, the Justice Department said that Attorney General Eric Holder and other senior officials vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to Rosen whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.
Rosen reported in June 2009 that U.S. intelligence officials believed North Korea would conduct more nuclear tests in response to U.N. sanctions.
Rosen's alleged source, former State Department analyst Stephen Kim, is scheduled to go to trial as soon as next year on charges that he violated an anti-espionage law. Rosen was not charged and prosecutors have given no indication they plan to charge him.
In a statement on Friday, the department said the May 2010 search warrant for the reporter's Google email account followed all laws and policies.
The Associated Press revealed earlier in May the government secretly seized the phone records of several AP offices and reporters describing the action as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion."
(Reporting by Jennifer Saba in New York and Fred Barbash in Washington; Editing by Eric Walsh)


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Greghead1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
We are a real estate investment company in Alberta Canada. We are launching a new brand that will be targeted to home owners that are in need of a fast sale of their home.
We are ethical investors and always seek to put deals together that are a win/win for both the seller and ourselves as buyers. This needs to come through in our branding.
Home owners who have found themselves in a situation where they need to sell their house quickly for some of the following reasons:
- behind in payments
- are landlords with bad tenants
- Tired of being a landlord
- bought a new house, but cant sell the old one
- need to sell new house to qualify for a new one
- Getting Divorced
- Estate sale
- Facing bankruptcy or foreclosure
We are looking for a logo to be designed based around the name soldforcash.ca.
In addition to the logo, please come up with a slogan and incorporate that into the design.
It is important that we establish credibility quickly with our target audience.
Most often when people are in these situations they are scared of being taken advantage of. That is not who we are and would like to to come through in our branding.
Some of the key words to consider in coming up with the slogan are as follows:
- easy
- integrity
- win/win
- ethical
- solution
- housing
- problem solving
- we buy with cash
We would like the image to be clean, refreshing and indicate housing.
Further to this competition, we will also have other needs including a web design, print, and other branding requirements.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to your creative brilliance.
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This past November my husband and I sailed on the Azamara Quest from Dubai to Singapore on a voyage entitled "Spices, Tea & Rubber Trees". We like to select destinations that are new to us and this fit the bill perfectly, as did the title. An element I might have added to the title is "Elephant." Well-dressed elephants greeted us in almost every port along the route, but more about that in another post.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Embarkation Day
We embarked from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, through one of the cleanest and newest cruise terminals I've seen.
Once onboard the Azamara Quest, flutes of champagne with floating raspberries were ubiquitous, as were milling guests too excited to go to their suites and staterooms.
Upon entering stateroom VX8019, we found another bottle of bubbly awaiting us, along with welcome aboard cards, an invitation to the Cruise Critic Meet & Mingle party and an invitation to a private VIP tour of the bridge with Captain José Vilarinho.
I attended the Cruise Critic Meet & Mingle party located in the Looking Glass Lounge, where I sat with a couple, Mike and Dee. Both are avid Cruise Critic readers who confessed to never posting. This seems to be more common than one would believe. After accepting yet another glass of bubbly, I introduced myself as Azamara's Chief Blogging Officer and what a warm welcome I received. Dee told me she loves my blogs. That is heartwarming. Thank you, Dee, as you read this back home at your Northern Australia ranch.
Sea Day
We enjoyed a three-day stretch of sea days as we cruised towards the first port-of-call: Mumbai, India. The seas were as calm as glass, and the weather was perfect with sunny blue skies and star-filled nights. The pool deck was the place to be and yet there were plenty of chaise lounges and chairs available for those that want them.
One afternoon we toured the bridge with Captain José and a few officers. Later, I actually went to the gym! I told myself I would and I'm proud of myself for not reading (or napping) all afternoon. The treadmills are top-of-the-line, each with an unblocked view of the ocean, the horizon and bird life. Two miles passed quickly.
Captain Jose explaining how stabilizers work.
In the evening, we enjoyed a fabulous Vietnamese buffet in the Windows Café. We loved the quality and variety of the cuisine, and the ability to dine outside in the warm evening air. Days at sea are the main reason I enjoy cruising.
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A 19 year old mother is being charged with child abuse and aggravated DUI charges after she drove home with her 5 week old child strapped in a car seat on the roof early Saturday morning.
The baby was found in the middle of an intersection in Phoenix, AZ around 1am on Saturday after falling off the roof but is "perfectly fine" according to Phoenix Police spokesman James Holmes. In a written statement Holmes also revealed some of the events leading up to Catalina Clouser (pictured above) leaving her child on the roof of her 2000 Ford Focus.
It seems Clouser and her Boyfriend were smoking pot in a park with the child on Friday night when they decided to go buy some beer. On the way to the liquor store, officers pulled the car over and arrested Clouser's boyfriend for suspicion of driving under the influence. They allowed Clouser and her child to drive away in the Focus.
Upset by the arrest, Clouser decided to go to a friend's house and "admittedly smoked one or two additional bowls of marijuana," according to Holmes. The woman placed the child on the roof of the car when left her friend's house sometime after midnight and drove away.
When Clouser returned home she realized her baby was missing. Friends of Clouser's mother intercepted Police while they were looking for the child along the route the woman had traveled. When Clouser's mother arrived at the scene she "made admissions to what had occurred." The baby is currently in custody of Arizona Child Protective Services.


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Sanchez Watt played his return from injury as Colchester United's under-21s played out a 0-0 draw with Sheffield United in their Professional Development League Two opener.
The former Arsenal youngster, who has been sidelined with tendonitis, completed 90 minutes against the Blades at their Redtooth Academy as Richard Hall's academy side started their campaign with a draw.
Watt hit the crossbar for the U's, for whom midfielder David Wright also featured in his comeback from an Achilles problem.
Byron Lawrence from Ipswich Town and Tottenham Hotspur defender Kane Vincent-Young also played.
Colchester under-21s' next league game is at Crystal Palace, next Tuesday.
For all of the latest Colchester United news, see Wednesday's Daily Gazette.


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Reginald Dwayne Betts at NYU
Washington, D.C.–based poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Shahid Reads His Own Palm and the memoir A Question of Freedom, blogs about participating in a P&W-supported reading curated by the creative writing program at New York University in April 2010.
Raina J. Leon, January Gill O'Neil, and myself—I couldn't have asked for more. The three of us at NYU on a rainy Friday night. And, Cornelius Eady and Yusef Komunyakaa sat in the audience alongside emerging poet Rickey Laurentis and Catherine Barnett, a professor at NYU. The room was claustrophobic...in a good way. People squeezed in tight with nothing but poetry keeping them from going out into the rain.
I still remember Raina's final poem about her brother. Haunting, the poem has left a lasting impression. Many of her poems do this, give me pause. And January, January read the best sex poem I've heard in years! A poem so filled with yearning and the unexpected that I thought the audience would soon depart to find love in the rain. The audience stayed, and allowed me to read a poem or two.
A few weeks before the reading, I Skyped with Catherine Barnett's class. Some students from that class showed up, and one of the coolest things happened. Paul, one of Catherine's students, gave me The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh. He took the time to pass on the book and make some really humbling comments about my work. Folks read and write for millions of reasons, but the one that is most important to me is connecting with others.
Photo: Reginald Dwayne Betts. Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
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Bram needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 166 designs submitted by 54 freelance designers.
Logo design for a software company that develops innovative, easy-to-use, web 2.0 style, software products for the (legal) professional services market.
Legalsense is a young software company that develops browser-based software for the (legal) professional services market.
We are looking for a logo design for our main corporate brand that can be used on all our marketing material.
There are no set colors or guidelines yet, except for the name ("legalsense"). The logo should correspond with our company values:
- keep it simple;
- clear, accessible and clean (= easy to understand);
- deliver what we promise;
- flexible and open;
- The name "legalsense" in the logo, preferable all lowercase though if the design works better with a capitalized first letter that is up to you.
- Colors are open. Fresh and clean colors are preffered. Needs to work well on a website. Needs to work on white background. Multiple colors are allowed but not too many (4 max.).
- Apple like designs
- Eye for detail
- Playful yet professional (not boring)
- Part of the logo should be reusable as a separate logo/icon element
- Not text-only
- Unprofessional fonts
- Rainbow colors
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Urban Search and Rescue, US&R, is a "multi-hazard" discipline, that may be needed for a variety of emergencies or disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, storms, tornadoes, floods, dam failures, technological accidents, terrorist activities and hazardous materials releases.
CA-TF6 is one of 28 National Task Forces and one of eight in California that respond as either FEMA or as a California EMA resource during emergencies requiring highly skilled search and rescue personnel. Although US&R Task Forces are a FEMA resources, they also work for, and in support of, local response agencies.
Under the leadership of Division Chief and US&R Program Manager Steve McKinster, the highly trained members include firefighters, medical professionals, canine/handler teams and emergency management personnel with special expertise in search and rescue operations. They have performed search and rescue for numerous major disasters, including the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina and the Oso Mud Slide.
As US&R Program Manager, Division Chief Steve McKinster, plans, organizes and administers the Urban Search & Rescue program during day-to-day operations and during team deployments. Within the US&R Division, Captain Mike Williams is the Task Force Cache Manager who maintains the team's state of readiness. Mike Avila is the Task Force Account Clerk and Pete Sellas assists with cache maintenance and is also a team Canine Handler.
Mission Statement
The CA US&R System provides highly specialized personnel and resources, leveraged from the local level, for 24/7 response capability to the State and Federal Government.
The primary role of the CA US&R System
is to provide highly trained, motivated and experienced
personnel, specialized tools, equipment and techniques for
the purpose of rescuing persons in peril as a result of
natural and manmade disasters, terrorist acts and acts of
war, as well as to provide large scale incident management
coordination and support, as applicable, in support of
overall incident operations.
Vision Statement
The California Urban Search and Rescue Task Force Six will attain the highest level of readiness and be recognized at the local, state and national level for its strength in providing specialized all-risk search and rescue capability.
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It's the time of the year when businesses need to say "thank you" to their customers during the holiday season. Campaigner®, an email marketing service that empowers companies to better attract and retain business through creative email marketing campaigns, and brand of j2 Global™ Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM), is sharing five ways for businesses to show gratitude to customers using event-driven email campaigns.
"A timely thank you can have a tremendous impact on building a customer relationship," said Mike Pugh, vice president marketing, j2 Global. "Creating a sequence of messages to show appreciation lets the customer know that a business truly values that relationship, regardless of whether a purchase was made. When a customer feels appreciated they are more likely to return, more likely to purchase, and more likely to recommend."
Each of the following five trigger points can be a separate opportunity for businesses to send a touch point email campaign to customers.
Keep Microsoft Exchange Humming in 2012 Ten management tips for fine-tuning Exchange.
Top Eight Features in Windows Server 8 Windows Server 8 is a technically sophisticated operating system that is crammed with features that bring many previously enterprise-only capabilities to small and mid-sized businesses.
Eleven Benefits of Cloud-based Identity Management Eleven breakthrough capabilities not available with traditional software deployments.
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HARTSVILLE, SC – Coker played an outstanding second half Saturday afternoon to defeat Lees-McRae 80-70 in men's collegiate basketball. The Cobras built an 18 point lead and held off the hot-shooting Bobcats down the stretch to move to 4-6, 2-1 in the CVAC. LMC drops to 3-7 overall and 0-3 in the conference.
Coker withstood a strong start by the bruising Bobcat squad and went on an 11-0 run to retake the lead at 18-16 with 6:43 left on the clock. The teams were tied at 24-24 in the last ten seconds but senior Blake Hall/Moncks Corner, SC drove to the hoop and made an acrobatic shot to give CC a two-point cushion at the break.
There were four more lead changes in the first 10 minutes of the second half but Coker slowly began to pull away, taking a 10 point advantage with 6:34 to play. Lees-McRae took a few ill-advised shots as the margin grew and the Cobras made them pay by converting on the other end. Their clutch play led to a 65-47 lead with 4:29 remaining and the game seemed to be in hand.
The Bobcats went to a three-point offense and a pressing defense in the final four minutes and had excellent results. LMC made six of the 12 three pointers they made in the game in the last few minutes and created several turnovers on defense.
Lees-McRae pulled back within five points with 44 seconds to play but finally the long-range bombs stopped connecting. Coker held off the furious comeback by stepping to the foul line and making 15-17 free-throws in the final 4:29.
Hall had his best game as a Cobra with a game-high 17 points, including a perfect 10-10 effort from the foul line. Junior Jason Fulwood/Cumming, GA scored 14 points and senior Jamie Jenkins/Columbia, SC had 13 markers.
Junior Johnny Jackson/Hartsville, SC had 10 points and seven rebounds and classmate Mark Duncan/Graham, TX turned in a workmanlike six points and six boards in 16 minutes.
Derrick Griffin led the Bobcats with 14 points and Tyreek Ramsuer had 13 points, six steals and six rebounds. Shawn Zellers totaled 12 points and five rebounds and Aaron Dugger scored 11 on the night.
Coker overcame 24 turnovers with solid shooting and by winning the rebounding battle 39-27. CC shot 51 percent overall and 56 percent from three-point range. The Cobras also made 31-40 free throws, while LMC managed to only connect on 46 percent of their attempts.
Coker returns to conference action at 7:30 on Monday night, January 10, at Erskine College.


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We recently decided that the reason this E36 autocrosser won his girlfriend's hand in marriage was because of that oh-so-perfectly executed handbrake turn. Who could resist a man with skills like that?
See, the handbrake turn is a tricky proposition (pardon the wedding pun.) It's the ultimate "Do it right and you look awesome/Do it wrong and you look like an asshole" driving move. It paid off for this guy, but many aren't so lucky.
So here's our question of the day: What's the hardest driving technique to master? It could be specialized techniques you use on a race course, or just everyday driving skills that are important but escape most people.
Like putting down your cell phone when you're driving, for example. A lot of folks have trouble with that one.
(QOTD is your chance to answer the day's most pressing automotive questions and experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good "Question Of the Day" send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)


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Cheap Places to Stay in Yosemite – (Where to Stay in Yosemite)
If you are trying to go to Yosemite during the summer months, often times you will have a hard time finding cheap accommodations INSIDE the park. During the summer, Yosemite hotels and lodging are very limited and quite expensive (often $200-$500 as of 2012). Most lodgings are fully booked 3-6 months in advance. Most last minutes traveler often have to […]Read more ›


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[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] ACM-MMDB 2003 Call for Papers The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases New Orleans, Louisiana, USA November 7, 2003 http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mmdb03 The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on November 7 2003. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia databases, and to all those who wish to gain a detailed technical understanding of what multimedia databases involve. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia databases. ACM MMDB 2003 will be held in conjunction with The 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2003). Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - multimedia database query processing - multimedia database query languages - multimedia database engine - multimedia data modeling - multimedia data indexing - multimedia database searching - multimedia data storage - image/video/audio databases - multimodal databases - distributed multimedia databases - content-based retrieval - multimedia synchronization model - new standards (XML, MPEG-7, etc.) - multimedia database applications Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to the PC co-chairs. Authors need to submit an abstract (in ascii) via email to chens at cs.fiu.edu by May 20, 2003. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by May 28, 2003 to the workshop website (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mmdb03). Papers must be prepared in such a way that ensures they will print anywhere. Thus, you should avoid using special fonts. Manuscripts must be in English and should not exceed 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address on the first page. If electronic submission is not possible, please send four copies of the paper to the following postal address: Dr. Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University School of Computer Science 11200 SW 8th Street, ECS 354 Miami, FL 33199, USA tel: 305-348-3480 fax: 305-348-3549 email: chens at cs.fiu.edu Important Dates: Abstraction Submission Deadline: May 20, 2003 (Email in ascii to chens at cs.fiu.edu) Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2003 (PDF format) Notification of Results: August 5, 2003 Camera Ready Copies: September 3, 2003 (PDF, black and white only) Registration Deadline: September 10, 2003 (for authors) Workshop date: November 7, 2003 Program Chairs: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Program Committee: ================================================================== Walid Aref Purdue University, USA Arbee L.P. Chen National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Chin-Wan Chung Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Jen-Yao Chung IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Isabel F. Cruz University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Chabane Djeraba IRIN, University of Nantes, France Forouzan Golshani Arizona State University, USA William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Mohand-Said Hacid Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1-Batiment Nautibus, France Harald Kosch University Klagenfurt, Australia Chung-Sheng Li IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China Xuan Liu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Chang-Tien Lu Virginia Tech, USA Wei-Ying Ma Microsoft Research China, P.R. China Stuart Rubin Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, USA Yong Rui Microsoft Research, USA Cyrus Shahabi University of Southern California, USA John R. Smith IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota, USA V.S. Subrahmanian University of Maryland, College Park, USA Kian-Lee Tan National University of Singapore, Singapore Michalis Vazirgiannis Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece Agnes Voisard Fraunhofer ISST Berlin and Freie Universitdt Berlin, Germany Roger Weber ETH Zurich, Switzerland Yi-Leh Wu VIMA Technologies, USA ---


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It might be beneficial if we delineate specific IO roles and responsibilities that are being considered.
I understand that much of what we do falls under the very large umbrella of IO. I gree with everything that has been said about Cyber. I also believe that much of what we do in the J39/N39 falls in our swim lane.
What specific jobs in the milestone listing are you talking about? What specific IO roles and responsibilities are you talking about?
(BTW, this is being discussed over at Station HYPO, with the new tri-fold as the reference...)


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"Crush The Serpent" is here to shine the Light of Truth into the darkness of the Serpent's lair; to strengthen Christians with the knowledge of the Truth that will prevent them from being sucked into the great apostasy that will soon come upon the world at the unveiling of the Antichrist; and to prepare the "way of the Lord Jesus", who will destroy the serpent, the devil, at His glorious Second Coming.
Our prayer @ CRUSH THE SERPENT is that the reader of this blog will become a "lover of truth", and "search the Scriptures to see if these things are so". Our experience has shown us that a great blanket of deception has been cast over the earth, and particularly over the Evangelical Christian Church. We challenge every Christian to re-examine what they have been taught about end-time Bible prophecy. "I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your pure minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ".
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Back in November I shared our activities from hosting a 2 and 3-year-olds play group. Some moms in my neighborhood and I take turns each week hosting our little group which consists of 4 little girls who are now all 3 years old. Contrary to what you may think, this is a super fun and easy thing to host. These kids get along so well and are so well behaved. Of course, it helps that activities are planned for the whole amount of time. If only a birthday party could go this smoothly.
I am just getting around to hosting it again in my home. This time I decided on a 3 Little Pigs theme and set up the activities and crafts accordingly.
As the kids arrived, they came in and began to play with the Little People village I had set up. This was a huge hit, I think they could have played with just these toys the entire time.
After the kids had all arrived, I was able to coax them over to the table (really, they just wanted to play with the Little People). I had found these little plaster pigs on clearance at Michael's for only 19 cents a piece. The kids had a great time painting these.
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While we were letting the pigs dry, we sat down and read some pig books: The Three Little Pigs, Olivia the Princess, This Little Piggy, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and If You Give a Pig a Party. I am truly amazed at how these kids can sit through this many books. Well, there were a few who were still playing with the toys.
By now, we were running out of time. We barely had time to get started on these Little Pigs houses and parents were arriving to pick up their kids. I also had a game planned that we entirely didn't get around to.
I opted to do the craft instead of the game because I had prepared all this stuff and didn't want it to go to waste. The kids got to glue straws, sticks and bricks to the three houses. I think that any craft involving glue is a hit with kids.
The first house pictured here is just a shot of how I had envisioned the craft to turn out- just to give you an idea of what it was "supposed" to look like. The middle shot is one my 7 year-old put together the night before when I was prepping. She used shredded paper for the straw house, but I opted to use drinking straws the next day purely for the purpose of having less of a mess. The third set of houses pictured is the one my 3 year-old put together and pretty accurately resembles how the other kids put their houses together as well.
My girls and I ended up playing the game later in the afternoon. . . stay tuned. We had a lot of fun!
Linking to NurtureStore Play Academy.
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It is usual to use second, third and fourth moments of a distribution to describe certain properties. Do partial moments or moments higher than fourth describe any useful properites of a distribtution.
3$\begingroup$ Readers may wish to know this is a duplicate of this question on the statistics site: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2893/… $\endgroup$ – Mark Meckes Sep 20 '10 at 19:42
That depends on what you mean by "useful properties". For instance, all of the even moments are required to characterize sub-Gaussian random variables, which are those variables whose tail is majorized by that of a Gaussian random variable. A random variable X is sub-Gaussian if and only if there exists a non-negative number b such that $E[X^{2k}] \leq \frac{(2k)!b^{2k}}{2^k k!}$ for all $k \geq 1$.
Not sure if this is what you had in mind, but a bounded random variable (i.e. one which almost surely takes values in some bounded subset of $\mathbb R$) is uniquely determined by its moments.
Off the top of my head, one way to see this - probably not the most efficient! - is that the distribution of a random variable $X$ is uniquely determined by the set of values ${\mathbb E}f(X)$ as $f$ runs over all bounded continuous functions $\mathbb R\to \mathbb R$; and now since $X$ is a.s. bounded, the Weierstrass approximation theorem implies that $X$ is uniquely determined by the set of values $\mathbb E p(X)$ as $p$ runs over all polynomials.
Thus in some settings, knowing the moments is equivalent to knowing the distribution. (This point of view is much loved by those working in "free probability", but that's another story altogether...)
I should also mention that the question of just when we can say that the moment sequence determines the distribution has also been studied: see here for instance.
The typical example I remember being given at school is that of kurtosis, which uses fourth moment and is easy to understand.
Wiki says: "Higher kurtosis means more of the variance is the result of infrequent extreme deviations, as opposed to frequent modestly sized deviations."


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Avis Budget Group lost the long-running race to buy car-rental chain Dollar Thrifty after Hertz finally closed on its deal last year.
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The car rental company announced Wednesday it would buy Zipcar for $500 million, far cheaper than the $1.5 billion it had ultimately offered for Dollar Thrifty before backing out of the bidding war in September 2011. Hertz also walked away but came back last year and closed its purchase of Dollar Thrifty in November.
Zipcar was the pioneer in what the industry calls car sharing, essentially short-term rentals that come with a membership. Hertz has aggressively pushed into the space with its Hertz On Demand program, but remains far behind Zipcar in membership numbers. In the third quarter, Hertz had said membership nearly tripled to 160,000. Zipcar has nearly 5 times that at 760,000 members.


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