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MoneyShow's Jim Jubak takes a unique, in-depth look at the US GDP report, which may give us important clues as to the health of the economy in 2013.
We got a preview of what might happen if we get sequesters and budget cuts and all that good stuff that might happen in April or so for the federal government. The preview came in fourth-quarter GDP numbers.
Basically it was a very, very light miss. We wound up with GDP down 0.1% for the fourth quarter on the first read.
You look at it and you say there's no real problem here because it's all the sort of private part of the economy stuff—consumption was up, investment was up. The only stuff that was down was government spending. We had a 6.6% or so drop in government spending for the quarter year to year, and most of that came on the federal level; a 15% drop in spending on the federal level.
You go OK, there's really nothing wrong with the private economy. This was just spending cuts at the end of the year, the fiscal crisis and all that stuff. If you think about that, then go OK, we're talking about some kind of a replay on this when the cuts that we put off for three months in January come up again in April.
Remember that there are big cuts to spending in defense as well as some discretionary items. If you look at that and say OK, this is still the real economy—government spending, private sector spending, Not different things, just different ways of sourcing the money—it has a multiplier effect on all of that.
You can then say maybe what we're looking at in the first-quarter GDP numbers and the second-quarter GDP numbers are a US economy that's slower than people expect because of that effect on federal spending. In that sense, the fourth-quarter GDP drop is a preview and it's not a particularly comfortable one.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Nicole Johnson hit a home run over the left center field fence with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to propel Cal State Fullerton to a 3-2 victory over UC Santa Barbara on Sunday at Campus Diamond. The win gave the Titans the 2-1 Big West series victory.
With the loss, UCSB falls 13-18 on the season and 1-2 in conference play. Fullerton improves to 13-16 and 2-1 in league.
UCSB was trailing 2-0 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning and had registered just two hits across the previous six frames. With their backs against the wall, the Gauchos did what they do best: they got scrappy.
Keilani Jennings led things off with a single hit to the shallow outfield, just over the Fullerton shortstop's head. Jessica Beristianos followed with a hard hit grounder that blasted under the second baseman's glove and into right center field. A blooper hit over the second baseman's head by Lauren Boser loaded the bases with no outs.
Amanda Zielger grounded out to second base on the next play and sent Jennings home in the process, cutting the Titans' lead in half. Lainey DePompa then hit another blooper, this one to first base, sending Beristianos home for the game-tying run. In an attempt to win the game right there, Boser tried to come home on the same play, but the throw just beat her out.
Johnson's homer was the lone hit in the extra innings as both pitchers did a commendable job of keeping their teams in the game.
Krista Cobb (5-9) suffered the loss for UCSB after allowing three earned runs on seven hits. She walked four and struck out five. For the Titans, Ari Cervantes (10-9) took the win after giving up just two earned runs on six hits. She struck out three and did not allow a walk in the effort. Johnson's home run was the only extra base hit allowed during the game.
Ashley Carter got the ball rolling for the Titans in the third inning when she led off with a single to center field before being bunted over to second by K.C. Craddick. A base hit to left field by Johnson followed, putting runners on the corners with just one out.
UCSB intentionally walked Torrie Anderson to load the bases, prior to Cervantes' at-bat. The pitcher sent a single just past third base, driving Johnson and Craddick home for the 2-0 lead. Cobb struck out the next two batters to escape the inning without further damage.
Boser led the Gauchos at the plate, going 2-for-4. Johnson went 3-for-4 to lead the Titans.
UCSB will play again tomorrow when it hosts South Dakota in a non-conference doubleheader at Campus Diamond. Game time is slated for 1 p.m. To purchase tickets, call (805) 893-UCSB or click here.
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Brunello di Montalcino is one of the most famous red wines produced anywhere in the world. Made entirely from Sangiovese – known as Brunello in the Montalcino area – Brunello is one of the longest-lived red wines of Italy, with most bottlings drinking well fro 12-15 years, while the finest examples from the best estates in the top vintages lasting as long as 25-30 years.
Brunello di Montalcino – and the lighter, more approachable Rosso di Montalcino – are the only Tuscan reds that are regulated as being produced solely with Sangiovese. A Brunello must be aged for a minimum of two years in oak barrels, though the size of the barrel is not mentioned. This gives winemakers freedom; some use the traditional botti grandi, large casks that hold anywhere between 2000 to 6000 liters, while other producers prefer barriques, small barrels that hold 225 liters (other still, prefer tonneau, 500-liter casks).
This means a wide variety of styles of Brunello, with the traditional wines aged in large casks offering flavors of red cherry, currant , cinnamon and cedar, while the more modern bottlings focus on black cherry, vanilla and spice. Traditional producers include Biondi-Santi, Il Poggione and Talenti, while the modern producers include Fanti, Valdicava and Donatella Cinelli Colombini.
As this is a famous red that can age for decades, prices are not inexpensive. Expect to pay between $60-$80 for most current bottlings of Brunello. The price is fair when you consider that a Brunello di Montalcino cannnot be released in the market place until the fifth year after the harvest; thus the 2004 bottlings are now being released in 2009.
The Consorzio of Brunello producers rates each vintage on its quality, from one star (poor) to five stars (exceptional). 2004 is a five-star vintage; others include 1997, 1995 and 1990. The 2007 vintage has also been rated five stars; these wines however will not be released until 2012.
Given the fame of this wine, many new estates have been established over the past 10-15 years. In the 1970s, there were fewer than 40; today the number exceeds 140. Many are quite small, owning only 2-3 acres of vineyards and producing less than 5000 bottles of Brunello per vintage.
Given the number of producers making Brunello today, here is a short list of some of the finest:
- Biondi-Santi
- Il Poggione
- Le Chiuse
- Sesta di Sopra
- Talenti
- Il Palazzone
- Uccelliera
- Valdicava
- Caprili
- Casanuova delle Cerbaie
- Argiano
- Caparzo
- Fuligni
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In 2008, investigations into an alleged scandal looked into the question of whether certain producers have or had been introducing varieties other than Sangiovese into the wine. Some members of the media have said this has been going on for years and point to the softer acidity of the wines as well as deeper color. As Sangiovese has lively acidity for a red variety and the color is generally garnet, these critics point to the deep ruby red color as well as soft acidity that a grape such as Merlot or possibly Syrah or Cabernet Sauvignon was added to certain wines.
To date, a few dozen producers have been investigated and a few estates declassified their Brunellos in 2003, a sign to some that that particular wine was not 100% Sangiovese. Yet nothing has really been proven.
It seems safe to say that while this may be happening, it is not the practice of the majority. It seems also safe to say that what makes Brunello di Montalcino so distinct is its requirement of 100% Sangiovese. It seems unlikely that there will be any changes to this law anytime soon. In my opinion, there certainly does not need ot be any change regarding Brunello as a wine made purely from Sangiovese.
As for a Rosso di Montalcino, there are no requirements for wood aging; the wine can be released as soon as one year after the vintage. A few producers also make a Reserva bottling of Brunello di Montalcino; these wines cannot be released in the market before the sixth year following the vintage.
Read more about some of the best producers of Brunello di Montalcino at my website
I have just put together a collection of my reviews of the latest wines from Tuscany. These reviews can be found in a special Tuscan issue of my newsletter, Guide to Italian Wines; this is a 30-page pdf document. This issue contains reviews of 50 different Brunellos from the 2004 vintage, as well as reviews of wines from six different estates in Bolgheri (including three vintages of Sassicaia), as well as 40 new bottlings of Chianti Classico, a dozen examples of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and even a couple newly released bottlings of Vin Santo.
The price for this special issue is only $10 US. I will email the issue to you upon payment (either check or Paypal), so if you are interested, please email me and I will reply with payment instructions. This is a must for a Tuscan wine lover!


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As the month of April was coming to a close, the San Jose Earthquakes seemed to be slipping further and further away from the form that helped them reach the postseason the season before.
The offense was stagnant and the defense was being pressured into too many costly mistakes. San Jose's 2010 MLS Golden Boot winner Chris Wondolowski was getting his chances on goal, but with opposing defenders marking him closely, the space and time to unleash his signature shots were limited. Wondo was working hard up top, but was missing that one thing that would propel him back into the conversation of the MLS elite.
Back on MLS draft day in January, bruising Columbus Crew forward Steven Lenhart was relaxing near his family's home in Yorba Linda, Calif. and enjoying the rest afforded by the offseason. When his phone rang alerting him that he had been traded to San Jose, the news was mostly unexpected, but certainly welcomed. After three years in the Midwest, following a successful college career in Southern California, the chance to move back to the Golden State felt like a homecoming. Lenhart embraced the move to the Earthquakes and he quickly bonded with his teammates. Knee surgery in the pre-season and the subsequent untimely death of his father prevented him from getting on the field with his new team, as his physical and emotional rehabilitation required his full attention. Lenhart returned to the fold a half dozen matches into the season, but still needed time to complete the path back to full fitness and confidence.
Their stories, once just about the individual, slowly meshed together as the two Earthquakes strikers developed the chemistry required for all striking partnerships to be successful. Wondolowski soon learned what to expect on the field from the big fellow with the curly golden locks, while Lenhart figured out the best methods to steer the ball toward the opportunistic shooter with the golden boots. Sharing the field in training against teammates and in matches against MLS foes, the pair showed glimpses of their cohesion as a striking pair, but their development was still incomplete.
However, that all changed last Saturday night as the Earthquakes blitzed the Columbus Crew in a 3-0 victory in front of an appreciative Buck Shaw crowd. Wondolowski and Lenhart, paired up top as the starting strikers in the Quakes 4-4-2 formation for only the second time all season, went together like peanut butter and jelly. The dynamic duo spent the first half calibrating their play before closing out the second half with the best stretch of offensive soccer seen from the Earthquakes in 2011. Wondo was still all smiles days later when looking back at how much the partnership with Lenhart is reaching new heights.
"He absolutely complements my game," shared Wondolowski after a recent training session. "I can play underneath him, while he wins a lot of balls. He had at least two balls that he laid off to me in the first half (against Columbus) that I should have gotten on frame, and I was frustrated by that. It was some great play by him, and I think more and more we'll keep striving to do better."
Lenhart in turn was more subdued about the performance, probably in part to the opposing team filled with players with whom he still shares a strong bond. With a low, murmured voice, the Quakes forward congratulated Wondolowski on the nice goal before laughing at having his credited goal be surrendered by MLS to teammate Brandon McDonald. His first goal with his new team will come soon enough, but in the meantime watching his teammates benefit from his play was reward enough.
"He's a great player, and I think we are getting more and more on the same page," said Wondolowski when asked to assess his new striking partner. "It's incredible playing with him, especially the way he battles and fights for every ball. I just get to pick up the scraps and pick and choose where I want to go, which helps me a lot. He understands the game very well and is such a force up there."
The partnership is hard at work and starting to pay dividends for the Earthquakes. On this week's official team podcast, the Quakes Cast, the discussion turned as to how to describe the front line of Wondolowski and Lenhart. As individuals, the two players are readily identifiable and referred to by the supporters at Buck Shaw Stadium. However, as they emerge as a strike force to be reckoned with, a new moniker seems necessary for the duo, a shared nickname for the complementary pair of heroes. The Golden Boot and the Golden Mane? Wondo and 'Stache? With the Earthquakes season seemingly back on track, and Wondolowski and Lenhart leading the way offensively, the time has come for supporters to share their nickname ideas in the comments section below. It is such a simple challenge — let's find one that rolls off the tongue just right and gives the boys their due.
Robert Jonas is a writer for CenterLineSoccer.com and SJEarthquakes.com. Send him feedback on Twitter: @RobertJonas


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Former Bayern Munich midfielder Marcel Witeczek is expecting the Bavarians to overcome Juventus on Tuesday, but feels the Bianconeri will pose Jupp Heynckes' side problems.
The 44-year-old spent four years at the club during the mid-1990s, and while he remembers several tough games against Serie A teams, he expects his old club to prevail.
"I can remember difficult games against Italian sides from my time at Bayern Munich," he told Goal.com.
"They are teams who work very well tactically and defensively, but also have a lot to offer going forward. This also applies to the current Juve team.
"Bayern are 60 per cent favourites for this match. They play better football. However, they should not underestimate Juventus.
"A first-leg win and a two-goal advantage would be important as the second leg in Turin will be tough."
Bayern are running away with the Bundesliga this season and have reached two of the last three Champions League finals, and Witeczek is impressed with the Roten's progress.
"The current Bayern team have played on a very high level internationally over the last two or three years, which they've shown by reaching the final last year.
"This year, the experience fighting for the Champions League title could play into their hands."
And the former West Germany Under-21 international feels the winners of the competition will be from either La Liga or Bundesliga.
"For me, both German and the Spanish teams are favourites for the title, namely Dortmund, Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid," he added.
"If they play each other, their form on the day will be decisive. All four of these teams have outstanding players who are capable of deciding matches on their own.
"I'm not surprised by Dortmund's strong displays in the Champions League this season. They have gained experience and matured. They stopped walking into traps as they did last term.
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Equity futures were slightly higher at the beginning of electronic trading on Sunday night as talks continued in Washington over resolving the "fiscal cliff."
However, stocks still could end up falling on Monday when the cash markets open if lawmakers are unable to come to an agreement to avoid a series of $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts that are expected to hurt economic growth.
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"Hard to predict how or when there will be a deal, but I believe investors will show their displeasure tomorrow by selling stocks if there is no deal," said Mohannad Aama, managing director at Beam Capital Management, an investment advisory firm in New York.
S&P 500 futures were up 5.5 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,389.50 in electronic trading. Stocks fell sharply on Friday, with significant losses in the last minutes of trading, as prospects for a deal worsened at the beginning of the weekend.
The rise in the futures market does not necessarily augur for a rally on Monday, however. The cash market and futures markets closed with a wide gulf on Friday, by virtue of the extra 15 minutes of trading in futures, when investors sold aggressively.
The S&P 500 closed at 1,402.43 at 4 p.m. EST on Friday, down 1.1 percent, but futures continued to fall before closing 15 minutes later with a loss of 1.9 percent. S&P futures and the S&P cash index don't match point by point, but that kind of disparity is uncommon, and it points to a weak opening in stocks on Monday.
One hour before they had hoped to present a plan, Democratic and Republican Senate leaders said they were still unable to reach a compromise that would stop the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the U.S. economy back into recession.
Earlier in the day, President Barack Obama, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said investors could begin to show greater concerns in the new year.
"If people start seeing that on January 1st, this problem still hasn't been solved ... then obviously that's going to have an adverse reaction in the markets," he said,
Investors have remained relatively sanguine about the process, believing that it will eventually be solved. In the past two months, markets have not shown the kind of volatility that was present during the fight to raise the debt ceiling in 2011.
Both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 lost 1.9 percent last week, after falling for five straight sessions, the S&P 500's longest losing streak in three months. Equities have largely performed well in the last two months despite constant chatter about the fiscal cliff, but the last few days shows a bit of increased worry.
The CBOE Volatility Index rose to its highest level since June on Friday, closing at 22.72.
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Two U.S. Senators on Thursday recalled their own experiences as student-athletes while speaking out against the unionization of college sports.
Referring to the March 26 ruling by a National Labor Relations Board regional director that identified Northwestern football players as employees who could unionize, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., took to the Senate floor to offer their personal beliefs about the damaging impacts they felt unionization would have, particularly on small schools, private schools, and women's sports.
Alexander, a 1962 Vanderbilt University graduate, was a walk-on for the track and field team who helped set a new school record in the 440-yard relay. He was inducted into the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011. Burr was a scholarship defensive back at Wake Forest University, where he graduated from in 1978.
"Here are two former student-athletes of varying talents who benefited enormously from that," Alexander said. "There are many others who would say the same. The university does not owe us anything. We owe the university—at least that is the way I feel about it—for the privilege of competing, for the privilege of attending."
Burr added that unionization would likely disrupt the foundation of college sports.
"I plead with those who play today," Burr said, "do you truly believe you can form a team if in fact you have individuals who negotiate individual things for themselves?"
Alexander urged other student-athletes to consider the value of their opportunity to compete. The idea student-athletes receive nothing in return for their athletic contributions is "financially wrong," he argued. In addition to a college degree, which the College Board estimates is worth $1 million over the course of a lifetime, the senator said he received discipline, memories and competition from his collegiate sports career.
"The idea of intercollegiate athletics is that the teams represent their institutions as true members of the student body, not as hired hands," Alexander said. "I continue to believe that athletes are students first, not professionals," Alexander said. "Some of the concerns raised by these college athletes are legitimate, but unions are not the solution."
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The crowds were buzzing on the opening day of London Collections: – a new showcase for men's fashion developed from men's day at London Fashion Week – but it was nothing like the talk on Twitter when Nick Hart, the man behind Spencer Hart announced that a mystery guest would be walking the brand's show.
As the show drew closer, it was revealed that it would be genious detective, and upcoming Star Trek 2 villain, Benedict Cumberbatch, and we couldn't wait to head to Old Selfridges Hotel to take our seats.
Nick Hart describes the Spencer Hart man as an independent thinker, which shows in the label's sharp signature style. The spring/summer 2013 collection of the luxury Savile Row tailor didn't disappoint; with Jazz age influences and old school glamour key looks included textured finishes, lightweight fabrics (perfect for warm summer days) and classic suede shoes. We particularly liked the mix of black and dark blue fabrics as well, often though as a no-go for many in the fashion industry.
Cumberbatch has long been a Hart fan, having worn his designs on several red carpet events such as the TV BAFTAs and the Golden Globes, so his guest appearance wasn't that much of a surprise. As part of a celebrity five piece, Cumberbatch took to the catwalk clutching a cigar and a glass of whisky, while showing off an elegant black silk pyjama set. He was joined by polar explorer Inge Solheim, former English rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio, award-winning artist Stuart Pearson Wright and Michelin-starred Pollen Street Social founder Jason Atherton.
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What CAN happen, however, is that you, the user, may have two pieces of display profile loading software activated in the Windows Start-Up menu and that indeed will mess things up. You must insure that your Start-up menu only contains ONE set of instructions for loading the default profile and it is the piece of software which loads the default profile you want.
I can't comment on Spyder 3, Mac OSX or the NEC 2690 because I don't use any of that equipment - except to say that the NEC 2690 can come bundled with Spectraview which is their custom calibration and profiling package. Presumably if you were to use that and make sure that DDC compliance works and that your calibration settings are OK, you should get decent profiles for that display. There is, however, another thread in the COlorsync Listserve raising a question about whether OSX 10.5.6 is handling DDC compliance properly. I don't know the status of the issue.
DDC is broken since 10.5.6 on Mac.
The cables on a dual monitor set up are important , that they be the same, same length and type if you want to have equal results without influences other than the LUTs loaded in the video card.
IS the Spyder working as expected? Both Colorvision and Gretag colorimeters have been known to fail.
Next step, download a ColorEyes demo good for 10 tries. Make sure you have the Energy settings to no sleep. Carefully go through all the steps, on the primary monitor first, the secondary display after. Same settings. Nothing is infallible but CE is as close as it gets for multiple platform, multiple device software.
Switch the monitors if the problem persists to see if it's the luts or cables.
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So the Edmonton Oilers are trotting out the big boys, eh?
Not only did future star Taylor Hall attend their meeting with Justin Schultz, but they also reached into their past and had Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey call the unrestricted free-agent defenceman hockey people expect to be an impact player in the NHL next season.
That should impress Schultz' dad, anyway. At least he would have seen those two greats play, if his boy doesn't remember them.
The New York Rangers brought along coach John Tortorella and blueliner Ryan McDonagh for their presentation to Schultz, we are told. Not bad. Schultz skated with McDonagh at the University of Wisconsin. They must be buds. But if Tortorella's mood was anything like it was when he addressed the media after playoff games this past spring, that's a wash. In fact, Schultz probably scratched New York off his shortlist immediately after the get-together.
Presume the Leafs had former Badger Jake Gardiner in tow for their sit-down with Schultz. But really, who's he? Another friend? Big deal. Everybody's his pal these days.
And yes, the assumption that the West Kelowna, B.C., native grew up a Canucks fan — and word that his parents are already season ticket holders — probably tip the scales Vancouver's way, at least a bit, in the Schultz Sweepstakes.
But the Canucks are also the most hated team in the NHL. Does the kid really want to start his pro career as a member of the despised?
If Schultz is smart, like he surely is to have himself in a position where he's suddenly considered right up there with Zach Parise and Ryan Suter as the most sought after unrestricted free agents — despite the fact he hasn't played a single NHL game — then he also has to like the idea of becoming an Ottawa Senator.
And if the Senators are smart, like they've proven to be in wrestling so many other college free agents away from the pack that desired them, then they also had a player of their own drop a dime to contact Schultz.
Like, Erik Karlsson, maybe?
If you're Schultz, an offensively gifted player who knew he was going to start a frenzy by jumping into the NHL, then you were watching the league closely last season. In doing so, you saw Karlsson thrive in coach Paul MacLean's system. To the point where he not only crushed the competition in the defenceman scoring race, but fool all the experts by winning the Norris Trophy as the loop's best blueliner.
If you're Schultz, isn't that enough to make you ask Bryan Murray for his pen? Don't you want to follow that path yourself?
Karlsson, who is getting married in Sweden July 7, should see Schultz as an early gift from the Senators. Someone who would take the back-end load off him, offensively. Why wouldn't he want to chip in for that present?
This much, we know: Heading into week's end, Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton and the Rangers were on Schultz' shortlist, with rumblings that the Minnesota Wild also had a chance at getting in the game.
What we don't know, despite all the speculation, is which way Schultz is leaning.
This is what we think. If he does choose the Senators, Sergei Gonchar and his $5.5-million contract will be gonzo sometime after July 1, when teams that failed to get the UFA they wanted have to settle on a veteran who still has something to offer even though his best days are behind him.
The Senators must have in their minds a scenario that sees Karlsson and Jared Cowen form the first pairing, with Schultz and the veteran, defensive defenceman Murray promises to land lining up as the 3-4 tandem. That would allow one of rookies Mark Borowiecki or Patrick Wiercioch to line up with and learn from Chris Phillips.
Could work out well for the Senators, who might also throw the money they'd save from the Gonchar-new defensive defenceman trade off towards a free agent goal scorer they desperately need. Not that they are short on cash to spend.
But more on all that Sunday.


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As we had previously announced, venture capitalist Jim Hogan moderated a panel at DAC regarding the IoT.
It was an eye opener about all things IoT……or maybe we should call it the IoE (The Internet of Everything), or as one prominent editor noted, the IoW (The Internet of Whatever). Our panelists included: Gary Smith, Market Analyst, GSEDA; Frank Schirrmeister, Group Director, System Development Suite, Cadence; Bernard Murphy, CTO, Atrenta; and Randy Smith, VP of Marketing, Sonics.
Very lively discussion among panelists, but also from the floor! Most notably editor Gabe Moretti of Chip Design and Simon Bloch of Samsung. Bloch, Sr. Director of R&D in mobile consumer wireless devices, posed questions and stimulated discussion to the point where he might be called the unannounced 6th panelist.
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"Companies today need company-wide appreciation and understanding of user-centered design in order to reach online users," said Jay More, President of HFI. "The Essentials of Usability course is an excellent way for a company to bring the basic knowledge of usability to a wide audience within the organization and this promotion makes it more cost effective than ever."
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Dinan, Brittany
This walled medieval city in France's ancient Breton heartland is the last place anyone would look for evidence of a coming transformation in US law. German and British tourists crowd the old stone streets and file through the twelfth-century Church of St. Saveur to gaze up at a stained-glass portrayal of St. Rocco dying in prison. The small Commissaire du Police on the town square nearby is barely noticeable. But a few months ago, gendarmes from this police station and prosecutors from the nineteenth-century Palais du Justice down the block made international headlines with the arrest of fugitive James Charles Kopp, accused of murdering Buffalo obstetrician Bernard Slepian and wounding three Canadian physicians.
As noteworthy to many Americans as the fugitive's arrest was what Dinan officials did next: They refused to extradite Kopp to the United States, because he might face the death penalty. No one in France had any sympathy for Kopp, nor did they doubt the danger he represents. But France is a signatory to European conventions prohibiting extradition where capital charges are a possibility; in a late June court hearing in Rennes, a few miles from Dinan, three judges made it clear that when it comes to this standard, France means business: Kopp would only be turned over to US prosecutors, they reiterated, if the death penalty is not "requested, pronounced or applied." Kopp's French lawyer, Hervé Rouzaud-Leboeuf, added this fillip: "Given what we know of the opinions of the current American President, we must stay extra vigilant." It took three months of painstaking negotiations, ending with written assurances from George W. Bush's normally death-penalty-enamored Justice Department, before the French in early July shipped Kopp back to New York for trial.
France's refusal to extradite even so intensely hunted a fugitive is at once ordinary and emblematic. Ordinary: The sheltering of a US defendant from the US death penalty is routine in a growing number of countries, and is unusual only in that it surfaced in the media. Emblematic: In recent months, long-simmering overseas opposition to the US death penalty seems to have reached the boiling point.
The datelines alone suggest that something is happening on a widespread scale. Toronto and Johannesburg: The high courts of Canada and South Africa both ruled unanimously this spring that their nations may not extradite even the most wanted criminals to the United States or other nations if they could face capital charges–effectively blocking execution, one case at a time, in an international gesture of judicial noncooperation. Mexico City: President Vicente Fox personally persuaded Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating to stay the scheduled June execution of Mexican national Gerardo Valdez Mota after the State Department acknowledged that Valdez's rights under the Vienna Convention had been violated; throughout his trial and appeals Valdez was never informed that he could call the Mexican consulate for legal help. (On July 20, however, Keating refused clemency–turning aside not only Fox but the recommendation of Oklahoma's own parole board.) The Hague: On June 27 the World Court ruled that the United States had violated its Vienna Convention obligations by executing two German nationals without permitting them a lawyer hired by their consulate–and asserted the Court's own authority over capital cases involving foreign nationals. Madrid: When President Bush landed in Spain, he faced scores of anti-death-penalty protesters and hard questions from the local press about a Spanish national on Florida's death row who had been exonerated and freed just days before. All this in just a few weeks' time. As much as 2000 was marked by Illinois Governor George Ryan's death-penalty moratorium, this year represents "a moment of transformation," in the words of Harold Koh, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights–one in which the American death-penalty debate is going definitively global.


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Fred,Maybe just the CCD's you've used? Ability to lift shadows is great but if when you lift the shadows you don't get detail in the darkest areas and they just go from black to a clean grey doesn't mean the cameras got stellar DR.
Bernard,We made a comparison in my studio of D800 vs Aptus 12. No question the d800 shadows can be lifted, perhaps more than the aptus, however I would not say the d800 has more DR. It looks like the aptus 12 has a bit more... maybe 1/2 a stop. That's what Imatest says also, when I used the RAW sample someone here supplied of the stouffer transmissive step wedge against the one I shot with the aptus 12. Hard to be exact when the two files were shot by different people but it seems clear to me. I think the d800e gets lots of detail, but lacks good color tonality and also presence compared to the MF. I'd be surprised if the Pentax didn't also have better DR and color. Eric
What makes you think a CMOS can't go to a 16 bit file.Nikon d800 sensor gets more dynamic range than and CCD......
Not exactly the way to go about a test... shot at different locations and not physically the same target.
The person who posted the d800 raw did a decent job of shooting the target (actually Bernard was that you?) ,
A very expensive lens but like no other in the MF world. Radu
Certainly not, I would not devote even a second to shooting targets. Cheers,Bernard
Sounds like a tilt-shift lense, right?
it's a pity, I would kill for a tilt-shift lense for my 645D. But let's see what suprise Pentax will offer us.
.................I predict a dramatic shift from the "poor man's MF system" ..............
Hi Radu:Rather I think of the 645D as a comparatively affordable MF camera with modern DSLR features. Producing state-of the-art and cutting edge products (e.g. 25mm) is admirable and consistent with a company that made a 800mm ED lens for a 67 camera; however, Pentax had excellent affordable offerings as well I hope they dont forget that tradition.Tom
Radu:Yes the diminishing USD is responsible for price increases, but that wasnt my point. When the 645D was introduced, a new wide angle was an immediate need. Pentax chose to introduce a extraordinarily wide and expensive lens for the 645 format. A 30mm f/4.5 would have been easier, less expensive and a better seller the 25mm could have come later. Based on your comments, the 90mm will also be a spectacular, but an expensive lens as well.Just my two US cents (currently worth somewhat less than before),Tom


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The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman died at age 52 late last year while his Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Treasury Department was being processed. Pitman had asked the Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup that the government had agreed to guarantee. Pitman made the request on the quaint understanding that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used.
More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails, none of which Pittman requested. None of the documents responded to Pittman's request for "records sufficient to show the names of the relevant securities" or the dates and terms of the guarantees.
The government withheld 866 pages of documents, asserting that each was exempt from disclosure under FOIA on one of four grounds: trade secrets, personnel rules and practices, memos subject to attorney-client privilege and violations of personal privacy. Bloomberg News tells the story in "Treasury shields Citigroup as deletions undercut disclosure," from which I have freely drawn here.
The government also cited the trade-secrets exemption in responding to a separate, similar FOIA request by Bloomberg News for details about Citigroup's segregated bad assets. In that response, 73 of 104 pages were completely blacked out except for headings. Only six pages — the cover, contents, a boilerplate list of legal disclosures and a paragraph titled "FOIA Request for Confidential Treatment" — were free of redactions.
The Bloomberg News report adds that the federal government is Citigroup is the largest shareholder in Citigroup as of October 1, according to regulatory filings. "Taxpayers' stake, 12.4 percent, was three times the second-largest investor's."
The government's response to Bloomberg's FOIA request suggests that secrets of state are being kept under wraps. The CIA used to call its big secrets "the family jewels." Is the government now protecting the family junk?
UPDATE: Via Instaupundit, I meant to link to this report by J.P Freire of the Treasury hiring FOIA officers to "withhold information from release" to the public. It's a full-time job.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican lawmakers including Sen. Russ Fulcher aim to eliminate Idaho's 6 percent tax on groceries starting July 1, 2016.
Fulcher, a Meridian Republican running against Gov. Butch Otter in the May primary, and Boise Sen. Cliff Bayer are promoting the proposed legislation.
Currently, Idaho gives nearly all its residents a credit when they file their annual tax returns, to offset surcharges they pay on groceries.
This tax credit has been expanded since legislation passed in 2009.
Come next year, it's due to be $100 for everyone, and $120 for seniors.
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I wonder if they are going to give wp7 a bash too ? Probably have to triple the memory and add a couple of extra processors though.
Time-rich hackers have got Android 2.3, Gingerbread booting on an iPhone 3G, for the fanboy of divided loyalties who must have the latest of everything. Honeycomb isn't completely functional yet, but being based on the iDroid project it offers dual-boot capability for those who want to keep iOS around for the more mundane …
I wonder if they are going to give wp7 a bash too ? Probably have to triple the memory and add a couple of extra processors though.
... WP7 runs on the 1GHz Scorpion/Adreno chip from Qualcomm, as proscribed by Microsoft to ensure good performance. Similar SOC to many smartphones, including the HTC Desire and arguably less powerful than the iPhone4's chip and that of the latest Samsung devices.
And WP7 according to all reviews is fluid and smooth.
Shame for Microsoft and their potential customers (many of whom could be very happy with their WP7 device), this kind of poorly crafted 'humour' and "I think I'm a real geek therefore I must bash Microsoft whether true or not" attitude just spreads misinformation, and sadly most people don't realise that a lot of the time it's FUD.
Get back under your bridge!
I am surprised that people seem to accept these Windows Phone 7 performance claims so readily.
I have not used one and am happy to accept that it is fluid and smooth etc. as you say. But if I'm not mistaken, it is running an OS with the capabilities of the original iPhone (i.e. no app data sharing or multi-tasking) on hardware similar to an iPhone 4. Under these circumstances I would be shocked if it didn't fly.
I'll reserve judgement on whether MS have learned from their mistakes until they release a fully functional Phone OS.
...as that would mean MS are telling you NOT to use that hardware. Perhaps you meant "prescribe"?
Microshaft are past masters in bullshit, FUD, unfair competition and general underhanded dealings who have not changed their spots, see the recent patent buyout at Novell as a classic example. Yeah "Get the facts" - pah
I'd trust the Sweeney Todd to give me a haircut much more than an MS salesman.
Buying from Jobs at least you get something innovative even if it does cost you your house and first born child.
...the article is talking about the iPhone 3G, which isn't anywhere near the performance of the current crop of Android phones or the iPhone 4.
Get back under YOUR bridge!
"Microshaft", M$... oh please, grow up. Or at least go back a half dozen years or so when your "clever" and "funny" terms had a little more relevance and weren't showing their age as much...
iPhone 3G runs on a 620 MHz (underclocked to 412 MHz) processor. I have a Windows Phone and it's just as fast as my other half's iPhone 4. I wrote an app for WP7 that progressively chews up memory and processing cycles. Neither was able to slow the phone as the OS shuts the app down when it uses more than 90MB RAM. Don't know what the processor threshold is because the RAM limit was reached first.
Honeycomb is 3.0, for tablets - this is 2.3 - Gingerbread.
You might want to fix the RSS feed and change it in the second paragraph too.....
Um, WP7 runs on similar-level hardware to iPhone and Android. If you meant desktop W7 then your attempt at humour makes sense.
I'm going to put my pedant hat on an say that 2.3 is Gingerbread, while 3.0 Honeycomb will [apparently] be for entirely for tablets.
As and Android user, and occasional developer, I actually have to ask why. I couldn't cope with a phone which only has one button (excluding volume, mute & power). Other than that minor shortsight, I have to say I do quite like the hardware.
You could put the usual android buttons permanently at the bottom of the screen, or on a popup when pressing the hardware button.
As the article says...if you need to ask why, you won't understand.
I for one applaud this endevour; I'd love to be skilled enough to do this sort of thing myself. Kudos!
Written on my still-boringly-vanilla iphone.
Very much. :)
(Apart from having an iphone - android all the way for me. :)
"I for one applaud this endevour". Me too. Now if only someone could get android running on my dead badger then I can get rid of my old Vudu linux :-)
...I'll go straight to:
How do they deal with the lack of physical buttons on the iPhone? Android phones have more buttons, right?
(Apologies if this is explained in the video, can't view it from here)
Well all the ones i've seen have 3 main buttons, so not including volume, camera or power.
That gives you a Home button, a Back button, and a Menu button.
Without them the Android phone is still fully functional, most games and apps will struggle though.
Anyone else notice how laggy Droid 2.3 was in the video?
Is that because it's still in testing?
Probably in the same way us WM6.5 HD2 owners do once we've ported to Android... We use a *sliding soft key representation of physical buttons 'cause we reckon (based on evidence) the hard keys on the H2 aren't going to take the volume of presses Android use encourages.
* Look up "Button Savior" (misspelt) or similar on the Android market.
I haven't watched the video, but the article says it's running on an old 3G. IIRC they had ARM CPUs running at ~400MHz, so it's bound to be a bit slow compared to the 1GHz most Android phones now available.
iOS apps are virtualized so in theory an app could be running on a desktop or a tablet or even a rival phone provided there was a LLVM and APIs there to support it.
I wonder if anyone is developing a compatibility layer for Android. Aside from the amusing apoplexy it would provoke in Apple, it would have a practical benefit. It would hugely useful for app developers who want to port a mass of iPhone code over to Android or other platforms.
They take a £500 phone and put an OS on it that you can run on a £100 phone. Why? Is their end game to allow people to run Android on iphone? Then those people should buy a cheaper Android phone and save themselves a load of money. It's not as if the best apps are Android-only and iphone users need to swtich from iOS to Android.
I really don't think they have an end game, nor are they really doing it for other people.
People like this try to things just to see if they can, and I salute them! They'll be doing it just to explore what is possible, and sharing the results with anyone who is interested.
I've always thought that Hillary could just have gone up to the top of the Malverns - they're the tallest things for miles around and generally nowhere near as troublesome as the Himalayas in terms of snow and breathable air, not to mention the friendlier inclines. The views from there are every bit as good in their own way and if it was good enough for Elgar I don't see why anyone would feel the need to go traipsing off all that way to get a bit of fresh air into their lungs.
Although Apple products hold their value quite well, I doubt you'd end up paying £500 for a device that originally cost £500 and is now two generations out of date.
If you're looking for a cost argument for this hack (which I don't for a second believe that the team responsible considered at all), it's to repurpose a hand-me-down handset.
I sold my 3G to Mazuma, when I upgraded to my i4 for almost exactly as much as I paid for it, about a month after release.
its not for the need. its the techie mantra lifted from climbers. why climb the mountain .. because it's there.
or why go to the moon.. because its hard.
the challenge is the fun. publishing for knowledge share and kudos.
Writing decent software is hard. Surely these people would be better off working on Linux to make it decent or fixing all the horrible security holes in Android?
It was traditional for Scrooge to finish such comments with a "Pah! Humbug!"....
Actually, it is in repurposing and shoe-horning *nix and such onto initially unsupported hardware that some flaws in the system are found, be they compatibility modules, drivers, API calls, etc. Heck, just running the OS on a setup with some shortcoming may reveal a weakness (lack of function, not security) of the OS. I'm quite sure they have to troll through the original driver code to see what can be copy/pasted for their port as well, which means: code review. Just reading through the code doesn't solve problems; working with it and modifying it solves problems.
I'd rather see iOS running on an Android tablet, that way I could have some decent games. I have an iphone and a Sammy Tab, oh how I long for the graphic goodness thats on the iphone, to replace all the crap games available on Android Marketplace.
There seems to be a certain amount of lag involved with this "update", but I'm sure the guys are working on it.
2.3 looks to be the last of the "great" ROMS, as 3.0 (HoneyComb) looks to be entirely Tablet orientated, although I am sure SOMEONE will try to port it to the relevant devices. But if HoneyComb is entirely tablet orientated, what will happen to Android for the small mobile device???
I expect the gameplan is 2.3 for smart phones to tide them over for 6 months, 3.0 primarily for tablets and then some subsequent 3.x release sees a combined release schedule again. Doesn't mean existing phones will get an upgrade of course since system requirements might be jacked up for the 3.x series.
Why is it that developers clever enough to hack the iPhone and install Android are always too thick to understand the purpose of a camera tripod?
"Why is it that developers clever enough to hack the iPhone and install Android are always too thick to understand the purpose of a camera tripod?"
That's a hardware issue. These are software guys.
@Matt: I snorted out loud...that was great.
I'd never salute them, but I am interested. Money is not important its the doing that counts.
my galaxy s has a menu button, a volume up / down button and a side button for power.
Same as the jesus phone
i think this is awesome by the way,. dual boot ios and android 2.3
........maybe they just want to get as far up Steve Jobs' nose as they possible can!
On Nexus One, if you're clever. Then I'll be impressed.
Let the the name of an upcoming Android release with iOS app compatibility be Apple pie!
...you can't polish a turd. Why are people even trying to give phones a proper OS when a better phone costs less and looks nicer?
eg; Can they port it onto a brand new unused SE Satio? Brilliant hardware but oh...Symbian. Or onto a N97 ...same story abt Symbain.
Surely the apple hardware is the worst part of the phone and the pretty interface the best part? Why bother putting Android on worse hardware? You might want to put iOS on better hardware but with the lock in to Apples store that's not a very attractive option either.


text: NAMI Establishes Policy Institute to "Drive National Debate on Mental Illness" Mike Fitzpatrick Named Director Mar 21 2002 Arlington, VA - The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has established the NAMI Policy Research Institute (NPRI) as part of its campaign to drive national, state, and local debates on reforms and investments in the nation's mental health care system. The action comes at a time when President George W. Bush also is expected to appoint a national commission on treatment and services in the nation's often fragmented mental health care system "The Institute will bring together scientists, policymakers and advocates to craft solutions and expand support for science-based, recession-proof treatment and recovery systems," said NAMI executive director Richard. C. Birkel, Ph.D. "The greatest challenge we face is convincing both the public and elected officials that investments in research, professional training, treatment and recovery must be sustained from year to year. Promoting recovery from mental illness and substance abuse must be the cornerstone of enlightened public policy." Named as NPRI director is Michael Fitzpatrick, who currently serves as NAMI's Director of State Policy, providing technical assistance to NAMI state organizations and local affiliates and playing a pivotal role in legislative campaigns throughout the country for health insurance parity, access to medication, children's issues and increased funding. In 2000, he led NAMI's national "I Vote, I Count" voter registration and education campaign. During the 1990's, Fitzpatrick served in the Maine House of Representatives, including a term as chair of the Health & Human Services Committee, with jurisdiction over Medicaid and other key issues affecting the states' treatment systems. "Mike Fitzpatrick is a savvy advocate and legislator who is equally at home in the capitol and with the grass roots," Birkel said. "He is knowledgeable, patient, and down to earth. He knows how to unlock rhetoric and political posturing in order to focus on the real needs of people with severe mental illnesses and their families." During 25 years in the public and private sector, Fitzpatrick has worked with housing, employment and outreach issues. From 1990 to 1996, he served as NAMI Maine's executive director. He has a Masters in Social Work in administration and planning from Boston College. "NPRI's creation comes at a time of significant stress in America's systems of care for children, adolescents, adults and elders with mental illnesses," Fitzpatrick said. " No family is immune from being hurt by already fragile service systems that are at risk today because of years of neglect and the renewed threat of major budget cuts." "NPRI will work closely with NAMI's state leaders to develop innovative policy and advocacy strategies. Its mission also includes reaching out to other groups to build consensus and coalitions that focus on the big issues on which the mental health community generally agree, while overcoming divisions on smaller issues that threaten our effectiveness. I look forward to leading the Institute and helping to build a broader, stronger movement for reform." NPRI will function as a 501(c)3 supporting organization.


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The Tar Heels ran off an 18-2 spurt over a four-minute stretch of the second half to effectively decide the outcome.
CHAPEL HILL | Roy Williams, as he's been known to do, replaced all five players on the floor when he wasn't happy with their performance midway through the second half of North Carolina's rematch with N.C. State on Saturday.
It was Williams' way of issuing a challenge to his team.
And the Tar Heels responded.
A few minutes later, after UNC had flipped a four-point deficit into a rapidly expanding lead, it was the Wolfpack's turn to be challenged. But instead of rising to the occasion as its hated rival had just done, coach Mark Gottfried's team lost its composure.
The difference in the way the teams handled their pivotal moments turned out to be the difference in the game, as UNC pulled away for a 76-65 win at the Smith Center.
It could also end up being the difference between a first-round ACC tournament bye and having the unenviable task of playing four games in four days to win a league title in Greensboro next month.
That's a proposition the Tar Heels probably avoided Saturday, thanks to an urgency that emerged just when they needed it.
With only a little bit of prodding from their Hall of Fame coach.
"I was just ticked off," Williams said of the mass benching. "I thought we were getting casual with everything we did. … When those guys came back in, they had a better sense of purpose."
So what did Williams tell Reggie Bullock, James Michael McAdoo, P.J. Hairston and Dexter Strickland before sending them back onto the court with point guard Marcus Paige following a TV timeout with 11:37 remaining and State holding a 49-45 lead?
"He told us 'this is it,' basically," Hairston said. " 'Y'all have to play from here on in and get stops.' After that we just picked up our intensity on the defensive end."
The Wolfpack (19-8, 8-6) briefly matched the Tar Heels when they began to raise the level of their game. But that quickly changed after UNC's renewed defensive commitment started turning into unanswered baskets on offense.
Before State knew what hit it, the Tar Heels had run off an 18-2 spurt over a four-minute stretch to effectively decide the outcome. Bullock did his part with a team-leading 22 points and a career-high 13 rebounds, but it was the freshman Paige who did the most damage late by scoring 11 of his 14 points in the final 7� minutes.
"You've got to give those guys credit," Gottfried said of UNC, which improved to 19-8 (9-5) while solidifying its hold on third place in the league standings. "We had a great run there to take the lead (and) they responded. You have to credit them for that. They could have been a little bit shaky there, too, and they weren't."
Instead, it was State that got shaken.
It was a stark contrast from the earlier meeting between these teams in Raleigh four weeks ago. That night, the Wolfpack got strong performances from its best players, executed its fastbreak to perfection while amassing a 28-point lead and coasting to a 91-83 victory.
This time, it turned the ball over 17 times, scored just four transition points and got a disastrous performance from star forward C.J. Leslie while failing to take advantage of the mismatches presented by the Tar Heels' new smaller lineup.
Leslie had as many points as turnovers – six – with only four rebounds while going 3 of 8 from the floor and 0 for 4 from the line. The preseason ACC Player of the Year was such a nonfactor that his own coach called him out afterward.
In doing so, Gottfried made it a point to say he still loves Leslie "as much as anybody." And he still loves his team and its chances in the rapidly approaching postseason.
As he should.
Because unlike UNC, which needed to assume a completely new identity to begin playing like a top-level ACC contender, the Wolfpack has already proven it can play with and beat the league's best.
It just needs to file this one away as a bad day at the office, continue to improve and become more consistent at the things it does well, and when faced with a challenge, learn how to recognize it and rise to the occasion.
Like the Tar Heels did Saturday.
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Authored by Rich Harris, Svelte takes a unique approach. It compiles your app at build time so that you ship the lightest weight code possible. From the documentation:
...Svelte has a crucial difference: rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
And because there's no overhead, you can easily adopt Svelte in an existing app incrementally, or ship widgets as standalone packages that work anywhere.
An interesting project related to Svelte is Sapper , a framework similar in philosophy to Next.js , but with a greater emphasis on performance.
Sapper is a framework for building extremely high-performance web apps...There are two basic concepts:
Building an app with all the modern best practices — code-splitting, offline support, server-rendered views with client-side hydration — is fiendishly complicated. Sapper does all the boring stuff for you so that you can get on with the creative part.
There are a lot of interesting frameworks here. Some are the product of a single developer, while others have strong communities with a large number of contributors and corporate sponsorship.
If you're an author or contributor to one of these projects and you'd like to provide more or updated information, please reach out to me .
Authored by Yiyi Sun, AppRun in a small (3KB) library that uses TypeScript as the development language and takes inspiration from Elm:
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It is fast, low size framework with rendering based on Virtual DOM. The main focus is on speed and simplicity of code generation...Content and behavior of any page can be defined simply by composing JavaScript objects.
The page content rendering is based on comparison of Virtual DOMs. The application has some state in time and bobril application generates the Virtual DOM according to this state. Virtual DOM is an object representation of the resultant DOM. If some state-changing event occurs and the previous Virtual DOM is different than currently generated Virtual DOM, the real DOM will change according to this change.
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We believe frameworks should be disposable, and components recyclable. We don't want a web where walled gardens jealously compete with one another. By making the DOM the lowest common denominator, switching from one framework to another becomes frictionless. Choo is modest in its design; we don't believe it will be top of the class forever, so we've made it as easy to toss out as it is to pick up...We want everyone on a team, no matter the size, to fully understand how an application is laid out. And once an application is built, we want it to be small, performant and easy to reason about. All of which makes for easy to debug code, better results and super smiley faces.


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Although it has suffered its fair share of injuries, the UFC's year-end event is still stacked enough to ensure that the sport's highest promotion goes out with a bang rather than a whimper (*cough* Strikeforce *cough*). Featuring Joe Lauzon vs. Jim Miller in a FOTN front-runner, a rematch of top middleweights in Alan Belcher vs. Yushin Okami, and the return of The Duffman, UFC 155 will hopefully continue with the trend established by last weekend's TUF 16 Finale, which is to say "Vicious knockout, vicious knockout, suplex knockout, knockout, rinse, repeat."
And no matchup on the card has a higher likelihood of ending with a fantastic finish than the main event rematch between former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and the man that took his belt away, current heavyweight kingpin Junior dos Santos. There were a lot of extraneous factors leading into their original clash at UFC on FOX 1 — Velasquez had come off back-to-back surgeries and dos Santos went into the bout with a torn meniscus. However, Velasquez looked like a man possessed in his first round destruction of Antonio Silva at UFC 146 and promises to bring the same one sided ass-kicking to dos Santos in the above preview, so check it out and give us your predictions for the fight in the comments section.
After the jump: A video claiming to have captured Velasquez tearing his ACL just two weeks before his loss to dos Santos at UFC on FOX 1. If that's truly the case, Velasquez deserves major bro hugs for even making into the ring, because damn.


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Treasury 30-year bond yields touched the highest level in more than a month before the Federal Reserve concludes a two-day policy meeting at which it's forecast to decide to buy more Treasuries to spur the economy.
Ten-year yields reached a two-week high before the U.S. sells $21 billion of the securities today amid optimism lawmakers are inching closer to a budget agreement. President Barack Obama reduced his demand for tax increases as he and House Speaker John Boehner traded offers yesterday to try to avoid more than $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts.
"There's a lot of 10-year supply, and I assume people want to push it down more before the auction," said Michael Franzese, senior vice president of fixed-income trading at ED&F Man Capital Markets in New York. "The Fed is going to do something because they feel it's necessary."
The 30-year yield increased two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 2.86 percent, the highest since Nov. 7, at 10:34 a.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The price of the 2.75 percent bond due in November 2042 declined 11/32, or $3.44 per $1,000 face amount, to 97 26/32.
The benchmark 10-year note yield advanced one basis point to 1.67 percent, the highest since Nov. 27.
The Fed's Operation Twist program, in which it sells shorter-maturity Treasuries in its holdings and buys longer- dated sovereign debt, is set to expire at the end of this month. The central bank also is purchasing $40 billion in mortgage bonds each month to spur the economy.
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The notes to be sold today yielded 1.675 percent in pre- auction trading, matching the yield at the previous sale on Nov. 7. The record auction low, 1.459 percent, was reached at the July offering. The Treasury is due to announce today's results at about 11:30 a.m. Washington time.
Investors bid for 2.59 times the amount of available debt at last month's 10-year note sale, down from 3.26 on Oct. 10. Indirect bidders, a category that includes foreign central banks, bought 39.7 percent of the securities at the November offering, versus 41.4 percent the month before.
The U.S. sold $32 billion of three-year notes yesterday at a record-low yield of 0.327 percent. The bid-to-cover ratio, which gauges demand by comparing the number of bids to the amount of securities sold, fell to 3.36 from 3.41 in November. The government is scheduled to auction $13 billion of 30-year bonds tomorrow.
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