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Hard Drive Recovery: A Closer Look ? Computer Support

Have you ever experienced losing all of your files from your computer, external hard drive, USB or any other secondary storage? That may be one of the dreaded situations of almost anyone who depend on the computer for their work, projects or school work. And hard drive recovery is the answer to this kind of problem.

Data recovery is very important nowadays because almost everything is saved or stored in computers, such as pictures, documents, music, movies and a lot more. That is why the risk of accidentally deleting or losing these important files or documents is always present. If your external memory or computer acquires virus or any malware, you may need to reformat it and this could also mean deleting all the files in your computer or external hard drive. Or worse, if your computer crashes you could lose all of your files! But with data recovery or hard drive recovery, you will be able to recover your files from your computer or hard drive and this is very helpful for a lot of people.

But what is it exactly?

Data recovery is a process wherein you recover, salvage or retrieve your files or different data from any damaged, corrupted or even from an inaccessible storage or second storage such as USBs or any external hard drives.

When do you need it?

Recovering of data or any file may be necessary on any, but not limited to the following situations:

1. During an operating system (OS) failure. This is the most common scenario or situation wherein you need to perform data recovery. The goal of data recovery in this situation is to simply retrieve and copy all important or necessary files to another disk or storage.
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July 20-21, 2012 - Midwestern Roots 2012 by the Indiana Historical Society - Indianapolis, Indiana

August 4, 2012 - Kentucky Genealogy Society - Frankfort, Kentucky

August 29 to September 1, 2012 -Federation of Genealogical Societies' annual conference - Birmingham, Alabama

September 15, 2012 - Essex (Massachusetts) Society of Genealogists, Inc. - Lynnfield Center, Massachusetts

September 22, 2012 - Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Genealogical Society - Bensalem, Pennsylvania

September 29, 2012 - Georgia Genealogical Society - Morrow, Georgia

October 6, 2012 - Houston Genealogical Forum - Houston, Texas

October 13, 2012 - North Carolina Genealogical Society - Raleigh, North Carolina

October 20, 2012 - Heritage Hunters - Saratoga Springs, New York

October 27, 2012 - Wilson-Cobb Research Library, Roswell, New Mexico

December 8, 2012 - Middlesex County Chapter, Massachusetts Society of Genealogists

February 16, 2013 - Manatee Genealogical Society - Bradenton, Florida

February 22 - 24, 2013 - Who Do You Think You Are? Live!, London, England

March 21 - 23, 2013 - RootsTech, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Reimagining Home Improvement: Houzz vs. Better Homes and ...

We're running a series based on Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report mid-year, in which she listed 50+ industries that are being "reimagined" by social and mobile technologies. One of her slides was about the home improvement information industry, which up till recently revolved around broadcast media like magazines and TV. Meeker pointed to a new generation of home improvement services, like Houzz and One Kings Lane, that is making this industry much more two-way... and useful!

Houzz describes itself as "the leading online platform for home remodeling and design." The company told us it has five million unique users per month and has had over two million downloads of its iPad and iPhone apps.

The previous generation of home improvement information services is typified by Better Homes and Gardens, a magazine boasting the fourth highest circulation in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens is owned by The Meredith Corporation and has been around since 1922.?It has a website at bhg.com?which,?at first glance, appears similar to Houzz. But let's look more closely...

Houzz (House + Buzz, Geddit?)

As well as offering a?Pinterest-like catalog of colorful home designs for users to browse, Houzz has hundreds of articles and community discussions. However, the real killer feature of Houzz is that it connects homeowners with designers and home improvement professionals.

Houzz helps you organize a home improvement project, with a concept it calls "Ideabook." I'm currently looking to buy a dining table, so I created a new Ideabook for that. I then entered the search term "dining table" into Houzz. The homepage has photos as its default search type and that brought up 7,124 "dining table" home design photos. I added a few to my new Ideabook.

The thing is, I'm no interior design expert. I need a little help here. Happily, at the bottom of the photo results page for "dining table", there was a link to an article entitled Discover Your Dining Table Style. The article gave some handy tips, encouraging me to add styles I liked into my dining table Ideabook.

Houzz follows the Pinterest model even further, by offering an "Add to Ideabook" bookmarklet - so you can save images from external websites into your Ideabooks (privately, if you don't want the whole world to see).

There's a good discussion area in Houzz, where you can ask a question to the community or browse existing questions. You can also follow people on Houzz, whether it's professionals or other homeowners. Overall, the site has very strong community features.

Finally, it's worth noting that Houzz has well-designed iPad and iPhone apps.

The one area which Houzz could improve on is e-commerce. Houzz isn't a full e-commerce operation, it simply links to external sites. To hire a professional Interior Designer or purchase a dining table, I'd need to go to the provider's external website or call them up. It would make a lot of sense if I could order a new dining room table - or even a second-hand one - from within Houzz. Or order the services of an Interior Designer who has good ratings.

How Does Better Homes and Gardens Compare?

I tested the BHG website with the same search for a dining table. It turned up 33 articles, 2 videos and 115 slideshows (although a quick browse through the slideshows revealed that many were about more than just dining tables).

BHG does have some good articles on dining tables, such as one gradly titled Ultimate Guide to Dining Room Tables. But overall, the BHG user experience is inferior to Houzz. There is no way for me to organize projects, a la Houzz's Ideabooks, and there isn't much community on BHG. The site also has tech glitches - I had trouble with the signup process and the Pinterest link led me to its Twitter page.

Mary Meeker described the reimagined home improvement website as a "Communication Platform for Designers & Consumers [featuring] Share / Discover & Click-And-Buy." Houzz has excellent discovery and sharing features, as well as a large and active community. It has a massive database of products - over 7,000 photos of dining room tables, for example. The one thing it doesn't have, as noted above, is click-and-buy. But (as with Pinterest) this is surely the next step for Houzz.

As for BHG, right now they remain the 4th most popular magazine in the US according to circulation. But with its current website, which is limited and not very functional compared to Houzz, it's hard to see how it can continue to remain the leader in the home improvement information market. Especially with the financial backing Houzz has - at the end of last year, Houzz received $11.6 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital.

I'm curious to check back in 5 years time and see how the two products compare then. It seems to me that Houzz has a massive opportunity to bring a reimagined home improvement service to a mainstream user base.

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The State Of Product Management In India, 2012 | Confianzys ...

With rising interest in product management in India, and a growing awareness of the value of the discipline, we decided to conduct a study on the state of product management in India: what activities are product managers involved with, what their biggest challenges are, and how they are equipping themselves on the road to product success.

The survey was administered online using a structured questionnaire, and we received responses from 100 practicing product managers (PMs) across companies of different sizes, all of whom had attended a training workshop delivered by Confianzys. ?A small number of in-depth interviews were also conducted with product managers (who had not attended a Confianzys training workshop.)

Here are some of the key inputs and insights from the Confianzys State of Product Management in India, 2012.

What is Product Management?

Currently, the four key deliverables owned by the PM function were business case, market requirements document (MRD), market plan and product roadmap. This is good news because it indicates that product managers in India are beginning to spend adequate time on defining the right problem, rather than rushing towards solutions for the wrong ones.

In the majority of cases (68%), product management resides in the marketing (43%) or engineering (19%) or other functions when it should be a corporate function (only 32%).

Clearly, even companies that have created a space for product management are yet to internalize the benefits of giving it a key role in the organization.

What challenges do PMs face?

A large number of product managers (45%) felt that their recently launched product could have been more successful in the market. ?It is worthwhile looking at this figure in the context of the challenges that PMs felt applied to them.

The key internal challenges faced can be divided into 2 kinds ?

(a) 45% of PMs agreed to role definition and role implementation related challenges (poorly defined, poorly supported by executive management, poor quality of internal interactions)

(b) 55% of PMs agreed to knowledge related challenges (lack of tools, process, strategy and methodology)

As for external challenges, 69% of the respondents felt that conducting market research, validating market opportunities, articulating market needs and prioritizing customer needs were ones that applied to them.

Another issue that emerged was that 75% of the PMs did not use any scientific pricing methodology.

Overcoming challenges in product management

Almost 45% of respondents felt that market driven methodology, tools and structured PM processes helped them in overcoming the challenges. Another 21% opted for better skills.

These indicate the need for of PM training in the Indian market. Given that many product managers move into the space from engineering, there is value in learning to become market-centric and approach product management in the right way.

81% of respondents felt that they needed immediate improvements in market opportunity identification, customer needs understanding and process adoption.

From the qualitative data obtained, it also emerges that there is a lack of tools and skills to understand customers, or specific aspects such as customers in a particular geography, changing customer preferences or developing a voice of customer program.

From the Confianzys State of Product Management in India, 2012 study, we can conclude that there is a growing awareness of what a product manager?s role in the organization is. At the same time, this is not yet supported in many companies with a clear mandate from executive management.

Further, there is a clear felt need for skill upgrading in the PM space, with respondents articulating that they need more understanding of the PM process and in the areas of evaluating market opportunities and understanding customer needs in their respective industries.

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'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Fans Can't Wait For Elevator Scene

'It's pretty much my favorite part,' one 'Fifty Shades' reader tells MTV News of planned movie.
By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Uptin Saiidi

"Fifty Shades of Grey" book cover
Photo: The Writer's Coffee Shop

NEW YORK, NY — Perhaps it's too hot for even an R rating, but regardless of an MPAA ruling, this much is clear: A "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie is inevitable. Fans are chomping down on their leather belts of choice in anticipation of the live-action take on Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele — indeed, the dream casting calls are already pouring out with no signs of slowing.

With so many iconic scenes already in the making, it's almost impossible to ask fans to pick only one that they're most excited to see— but for some "Fifty Shades" readers, the decision is a no-painer.

"The scene I would like to see the most on the big screen is the elevator scene," fan Sean Barnett told MTV News during a "Fifty Shades of Grey" signing at Barnes & Noble in New York's Union Square last month. Fellow fan Morgan Nazarzideh had to agree: "When the movie comes out, I'm waiting for the elevator scene to happen. It's pretty much my favorite part."

They weren't alone in their requests for a raunchy elevator scene, but that wasn't the only moment fans are pining for. In fact, "Fifty Shades" readers Christina Regalbuto and Jennifer Lubrano are already looking toward the potential sequel, "Fifty Shades Darker," to see how steamy Christian and Ana's relationship can get.

"The scene I'm excited to see is from the second book, when she finally gets to touch him for the first time," said Regalbuto, referring to the long-awaited moment in E.L. James' second "Fifty Shades" novel. Stemming from that, Lubrano added: "Also from the second book, when he proposes to her. That's a big, dramatic scene."

Fan Manuel Lemus said that, in the end, there are simply too many coveted moments from "Fifty Shades of Grey" to pick only one most-anticipated movie moment.

"I'm excited to see everything, to be honest with you," he said. "I really enjoyed reading this book. I'm excited. I can't wait [for the movie]."

Which "Fifty Shades" scenes are you most looking forward to seeing? Weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section below!

For young Hollywood news, fashion and "Twilight" updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com.

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Title IX: The next hurdle: Women coaching men's teams ? Local ...

VALDOSTA ? It took a woman to bring men?s rugby back to Ithaca College.

Seventeen years ago, the club sport was banned on the upstate New York college campus for the atrocious behavior of its players on and off the field. The team?s ?Animal House? reputation stuck so hard it took more than a decade before the private college would even consider reinstating the sport.

The scene changed when a group of male student-athletes recruited Annemarie Farrell, a former women?s rugby coach and sports management professor, to coach their team. She agreed, with conditions: a zero-tolerance policy toward hazing and a ban on post-game partying.

Men?s rugby returned to Ithaca College in 2009 under her leadership; two years later, Farrell took the undefeated Bombers to the national championship for NCAA Division III club teams.

Forty years after the passage of the federal anti-discrimination law known as Title IX opened wide the opportunities for girls in sports, few women coach men?s college teams. But Farrell, 33, is convinced that?s bound to change.

?I?m coaching young men who?ve grown up on the sidelines watching their mothers play sports, and they?ve had the experience of seeing their sisters often being the best athlete in the house,? Farrell said.

?I?m coaching a generation of male athletes who really don?t care about the gender of the person with the whistle.?

In 1972, Congress passed Title IX to create a culture of equal opportunity for girls and boys, women and men in the nation?s educational institutions. It barred those schools getting federal dollars from using gender as a reason for exclusion from academics or athletics, and it would mandate that schools divvy up their resources ? including dollars spent on sports ? more equitably.

Title IX was around for 20 years before most of Farrell?s players were out of diapers. While compliance issues still exist ? Women?s Sports Foundation research shows less money and fewer opportunities for female athletes than male athletes in high schools and colleges ? Farrell is convinced that 40 years of the law has transformed how both men and women see sports.

?I can?t think of one negative experience I?ve had with my players because of my gender,? Farrell said.

Building confidence and self-esteem

The transformation caused by Title IX was witnessed by female coaches who have come to embody the success of women?s sports.

Lin Dunn, 61, is the coach of the Women?s National Basketball Association Indiana Fever professional team. She is also one of the winningest basketball coaches in the nation, with more than 500 victories in college and pro ball. She was a child in Alabama when girls were barred by law from team sports. ?I remember being told I couldn?t play Little League ball,? Dunn said. ?I didn?t understand why, especially since I knew I was better than most of the boys.?

In high school in Tennessee in the 1960s, she could play on the girls? basketball team, but only under rules that restricted players to half-court action. The rules were designed to assure that the girls didn?t overexert themselves.

In Dunn?s first college coaching job, at Austin Peay State University, her players had to buy their own meals when they played on the road. Instead of staying in hotels, they often laid out sleeping bags on their opponent?s gym floor.

Title IX passed when Dunn was at Austin Peay, but little changed until much later. ?I?d take old stuff from the men?s locker room that they weren?t using anymore,? Dunn said. ?I would literally pull out the bleachers before every game.?

Dunn is a legend in women?s basketball for the Olympians she?s coached and the powerhouse teams she built at Mississippi, Miami and Purdue. At Purdue she coached the women?s basketball team to seven national tournaments before she was fired in 1996, after publicly complaining that her salary was less than half of what the men?s basketball coach was making.

Dunn loves coaching and the game of basketball. Even more, she loves what basketball does for the women who play it.

?There something about team sports that builds confidence and self-esteem,? Dunn said. ?There?s something about teamwork ? of everybody having to be together and build together to accomplish something great. Where else are you going to get that??

?Anything a boy could do ? even better?

Research supports Dunn?s conclusion. A University of Pennsylvania study shows young female athletes have a stronger sense of competence and confidence than many of their peers. It also shows female athletes are more likely than non-athletes to abstain from smoking, avoid drugs and graduate from college.

Betsey Stevenson, an economist at Penn?s Wharton School of Business, conducted the study. She also found girls who played sports in high school later got better jobs with higher salaries and were more likely to work in ?male-dominated occupations.?

Stevenson has taken her message to Washington. She appeared earlier this year with Olympic gold medalist figure skater Sarah Hughes at a Capitol Hill briefing on legislation by New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter requiring high schools to publish their Title IX compliance levels.

The message Stevenson delivered: ?When we limit girls? opportunities to play sports, we aren?t just limiting them as children, we are limiting their entire lives.?

Six years after Title IX was enacted in 1972, the percentage of girls in high school playing team sports jumped six-fold, from about 4 percent to 25 percent. Today, two in five high school girls are active in organized sports, according to the National Federation of High School Associations, which tracks participation by gender. There are now 10 times as many female players in intercollegiate sports as there were when Title IX became the law of the land.

But the numbers tell only part of the transformative story.

Tamika Catchings, 33, is the reigning MVP of the WBNA. The all-star forward for the Indiana Fever is headed to London this summer with the U.S. women?s basketball team for her third Olympic games.

Catchings learned to play basketball on the blacktop driveway outside her suburban Chicago home. Her teacher was her dad, former NBA player Harvey Catchings. When Tamika was in the third grade, he volunteered to coach for a local parks and recreation league; he put both of his daughters on the otherwise all-boys team. In seventh grade, Tamika told her parents she wanted to play in the NBA, so her dad coached her even harder.

?I loved that my dad wasn?t going to take it easy on me because I was a girl,? Catchings said. ?I was the ultimate tomboy growing up. I thought I could do anything a boy could do ? even better.?

Catchings reveres Dunn and her college coach, Pat Summitt. Catchings was an all-American when she played for Summitt, the iconic Tennessee Volunteers coach who won more games than any other coach, man or woman, in NCAA college basketball history before stepping down this spring.

But Catchings? eyes are on a different prize: ?I don?t want to be a coach,? she said. ?I want to be a general manager.?

?Possibilities that never existed?

If you can see it, you can be it.

That?s how Indiana Fever General Manager Kelly Krauskopf sees Catchings? dream.

Krauskopf, born 10 years before Title IX passed, grew up in south Texas playing basketball in her neighborhood. ?My brother taught me how to shoot a jump shot,? said Krauskopf, who won a college scholarship to Texas A&M when schools were still in the early stages of compliance.

She and her teammates would pile into an old van for road games. They patched the handles on their worn-out travel bags with duct tape. Told there was no money for new duffel bags, she and her teammates pooled their cash and bought them on sale at JCPenney.

?Our (school) colors were maroon and white, but we bought the blue ones because they were on sale,? said Krauskopf.

By 1996, Krauskopf and women?s basketball had come a long way. NBA Commissioner David Stern invited her to his New York City office and offered her the job as the first director of basketball operations for the new women?s league, the WNBA.

?I remember looking down out of his window, onto Fifth Avenue, and thinking, ?How did a girl from south Texas get here??? said Krauskopf.

The answer: ?I?m a product of Title IX,? she said. ?It opened up possibilities that never existed. I owe my career to Title IX.?

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How Animals Can Help With Senior Care

When it comes to senior care, animal therapy can provide significant benefits that few types of medical or other therapeutic strategies can rival. However, a large amount of the recorded improvements observed during interactions between seniors and animals remain unexplained. Nevertheless, it's not something that needs explaining; for many people, animal therapy just works, and it might work for your elderly family members as well. The following are 5 ways that pet therapy for seniors can improve their quality of life.

1.) Companionship

One of the biggest difficulties facing the elderly is loneliness. In fact, many people believe that because humans are such highly social creatures, loneliness can actually lead to a decline in emotional and physical health. Animal companionship fills this empty gap in a senior's life. If cared for properly, animals can provide constant companionship, affection, and in some cases even improve mobility issues by helping a person stay active.

2.) Keep Busy/Distraction

Elderly people with dementia or chronic pain can benefit from animal therapy because the interaction with a pet can help to distract them from their discomfort and focus their mind on other things. Animals provide plenty of reason to do more than just watch television, stare out the window or sleep. In fact, because animals are sometimes known to be able to sense emotional upset or physical discomfort, they may actively seek to engage their owners when they sense this, providing reassurance and a warm, welcome distraction.

3.) Healthy Routines

As we age the routines that we keep tend to change. With kids no longer in the home and in some cases no spouse or other family to care for, the elderly sometimes stop following any routine at all -- an unhealthy choice as the mind and body need to stay active in order to maintain their functions.

Like humans, animals also function well with a routine. They need to be taken out to relieve themselves, fed, groomed and interacted with on a regular, several-times-a-day basis. When an elderly person has a pet, they often find it much easier to maintain a routine because they MUST do so in order to care for their animals.

The need to care for other living beings is a critical human need, so a pet-related routine shouldn't be looked at as a hindrance or bother -- it could prove extremely beneficial because it will allow the pet owner to have something to care about/for again, giving new meaning to their life.

4.) Emotional & Physical Connection

A common problem with many seniors is withdrawal from relationships and social interaction; especially when dementia is present. Having an animal or taking part in pet therapy can help to mitigate this serious concern, as seniors often take readily to animals whereas they may withdraw even from people they have known their entire lives. Having emotional connections is critical for sound mental health.

Additionally, just the act of petting or playing with a pet can provide that critical need that all humans have for physical affection with a being that they care about.

5.) Longer Life

Many studies and a great deal of anecdotal evidence suggest that people who have pets live longer. This seems to be especially true in the case of elderly people, as keeping a routine, having companionship and an emotional connection with an animal can help to improve their physical health. And if their health improves, then it's likely that they'll live longer, better-quality lives.

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Wikipedia founder backs UK student wanted by US

LONDON (AP) ? The founder of Wikipedia urged British officials on Monday to block the extradition of a 24-year-old British student wanted in the United States over alleged copyright offenses.

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales expressed support for Richard O'Dwyer, who was arrested at his university dorm in 2010 by British officers accompanied by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. O'Dwyer's alleged crime was running a file-swapping website called TVShack.net, where users shared links to movies and television shows, many of them protected by copyright.

Wales said merely posting links is not a crime and urged citizens to stand up for their rights online.

"Richard O'Dwyer is the human face of the battle between the content industry and the interests of the general public," Wales said in an online petition posted on Change.org, adding that the student had always done his best to "play by the rules."

By midday Monday the petition to halt O'Dwyer's extradition had gained more than 20,400 signatures.

The Guardian newspaper has thrown its support behind O'Dwyer as well, saying in an editorial published Monday that his case was "unfair" and "absurd."

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Garmin Swim watch tracks your water workouts, we hit the pool (hands-on)

Garmin is adding a new product to its line-up of fitness watches, and this one is dedicated to workouts of the aquatic variety. The Garmin Swim tracks your distance swam, average pace, workout time and more, and it uploads those stats to the web to help monitor your progress. Though it's meant to be a part of your exercise routine, the Garmin Swim watch looks like your average plastic digi-timepiece. The watch has six buttons with functions for viewing the time of day, scrolling through the menu options, controlling the timer, viewing the menu and entering workout mode. The setup takes some getting used to, but the illustrative icons on the watch helped us get into the rhythm quickly.

Getting started with the Swim simply entails entering the size of your pool, with options to measure in yards or meters. Once that info is uploaded, you press the swim button and are ready to get splashing. We spent a solid half-hour doing laps, and the Swim duly recognized and recorded that we varied our strokes. Stopping the timer each time we took a break created a new interval for our workout, with a rundown of the elapsed time, distance in meters, number of strokes, type of stroke, total laps, average speed and calories burned. That's a lot of data to pore over, and Garmin lets you wirelessly upload it all to the Garmin Connect site. To do this, you have to pair the watch with your computer using a USB ANT stick: once it works, it's an efficient, easy way to review your workout, but it took us a few tries before our laptop recognized the watch. Garmin says the watch's battery will last a full year, which is plenty of time to log some serious laps. For more about the Swim, check out the press info past the break.

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Tell Note 1.0 for iPad - Easily make and save audio recordings on-the-go

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Kiev, Ukraine - Aperio Lux Team today is pleased to inform you that our product Tell Note is now available for the iPad. Perfect for business or studies, Tell Note is a simple and easy-to-use tool for audio recording conference, lectures, notes, etc., as well as convenient storage and listening, at any time and anywhere. It's very simple: just run the application and click "Record".

During recording, you can check your mail, read books, visit an Internet page, use any application on your iPad, and all this time, the recording will continue until you stop it. You can just put the iPad beside yourself, and even when the screen is disabled Tell Note will continue recording.

All audio recordings made by Tell Note can be easily exported to your Mac via iTunes for future work with them. Small audio recordings can be sent by eMail directly from Tell Note. You can add text notes for each audio recording, which together can be exported to iTunes, or Sent as eMail. The duration of recordings is not limited. Make an audio recording for duration of 10 hours with the help of Tell Note is as easily as an audio recording duration of 10 minutes. Tell Note also supports playback of audio files created with it.

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Phase change memory breakthrough could lead to gigahertz-plus data transfers, make SSDs seem pokey

Often considered the eventual successor to flash, phase change memory has had a tough time getting to the point where it would truly take over; when it takes longer to write data than conventional RAM, there's clearly a roadblock. The University of Cambridge has the potential cure through a constant-power trick that primes the needed hybrid of germanium, antimony and tellurium so that it crystalizes much faster, committing data to memory at an equally speedy rate. Sending a steady, weak electric field through the substance lets a write operation go through in just 500 picoseconds; that's 10 times faster than an earlier development without the antimony or continuous power. Researchers think it could lead to permanent storage that runs at refresh rates of a gigahertz or more. In other words, the kinds of responsiveness that would make solid-state drives break out in a sweat. Any practical use is still some distance off, although avid phase change memory producers like Micron are no doubt champing at the bit for any upgrade they can get.

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Gogga set to be named Cobras coach

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Former Proteas spin bowler Paul Adams is expected to be named the new Cape Cobras coach early next week.

Former Proteas spin bowler Paul Adams is expected to be named the new Cape Cobras coach early next week.

Adams, 35, as well as Barney Mohammed, Salieg Nackerdien and Andy Moles, were interviewed earlier this month for the coaching job at the local franchise, after the surprise resignation of incumbent Richard Pybus in March, two years into his three-year contract.

It is understood that Adams, who has the least experience of those interviewed in terms of having mentored teams, has got the main job.

As with any change in leadership of this kind, there are potentially other changes in terms of the range of assistants to be appointed, and an official announcement is expected once these details have been finalised.

Adams does bring his experience as an international in the modern era to the job. He has also coached the Western Cape academy (the young talent of WP and Boland) for two years, has been a spin-bowling consultant to Cricket South Africa, and was assistant coach for the Impi in the domestic T20 competition last summer. He has also featured regularly as a commentator on television.

For the Proteas, the left-arm wrist-spinner played 45 Tests (134 wickets) and 24 ODIs (29 wickets). His last international was in a Test against New Zealand in 2004. He also represented the Western Cape franchise between 1995 and 2008.

Pybus said that he was undermined in his job by a range of issues to do with chief executive Andre Odendaal and the franchise. This had made continuing in the position untenable. Pybus is now coach of Bangladesh, who yesterday beat the Proteas in a T20 match in Zimbabwe.

Another consideration surrounds who is going to captain the Cobras next season. Justin Kemp has quit the job, but is still a member of the squad.

Candidates for the position include Justin Ontong and Andrew Puttick, both of whom have led the side in the past.

The Cobras? new coach will immediately have to settle an unease which surfaced in the squad last season, around a range of issues. The situation led to a player delegation meeting with Odendaal. - Weekend Argus

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Amanda Nejat, Danville Mother, Banned From Nordstrom After Leaving Infants In Car (VIDEO)

A mother of 11-week-old twins has been banned from the Nordstrom in Pleasanton, Calif., after authorities discovered she left her infant children locked inside her SUV while she shopped.

Amanda Nejat, from Danville, Calif., was arrested in February after a woman discovered the children inside the car and called the police. She has pleaded no contest to the crime on Wednesday.

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According to the Contra Costa Times, the judge also barred the new mother from leaving her children unattended and required her to take 26 parenting classes and attend counseling.

Nejat, 46, refused to comment to the media.

The incident unfolded at Pleasanton's Stoneridge Mall on February 8 after a women discovered the two crying infants in the back seat of Nejat's Cadillac Escalade. Pleasanton Police Officer Larry Cox told Danville Patch that based on security footage, it appeared Nejat had been inside Nordstrom for at least 40 minutes.

Cox said that Nejat originally told authorities she had to use the bathroom, and later admitted she returned some items to Nordstrom. Her infants were unharmed and released to the custody of their father.

Nejat's criminal conviction expunged if she follows the terms of her agreement for two years. For more, take a look at CBS News' video report on the case below:

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Building Covenant Relationships ? Frank Damazio

What matters most in life is not what ladders we climb, churches we build, or possessions we accumulate. What matters most is relationship, more specifically, our covenant relationships. A covenant relationship is one that you can accept or reject, but you can?t change it. Covenant relationships with God-given friendships are a vital part of every leader?s life.
Covenant relationships take time, commitment, and godly character; they don?t just happen. True covenant relationships begin with a specific decision and continue as certain principles of integrity are respected and continually activated. God is adamant about covenant relationships.
One example from the Bible of a covenant relationship is the one between David and Jonathan. Every believer and leader should understand and glean from four clear principles exemplified in David and Jonathan?s relationship.
1. Covenant relationship begins with a spiritual act of being knit together
Being ?knit? together is like being chained to one another. In nearly every language, friendship is considered to be the union of souls bound together by the band of love. Covenant relationships produce a sameness ? as though one soul were in two bodies. To be knit together, the strands of God-centered belief need to be tied in place. There must be a mutual personal commitment to the relationship that includes a mutual respect, resulting in building the other person and not tearing down.
2. Covenant relationship begins and grows by making and keeping covenant
The purpose of a covenant is to guarantee that the relationship will remain healthy and will last. The covenant itself is a series of words that are spoken to define the nature of the relationship and the principles of commitment to it. When covenant is the foundation for relationships, the possibility of maintaining permanence and stability is greatly enhanced.
3. Covenant relationship begins with a ?generous soul? attitude
The generous soul gives not only what is valuable and suitable to the relationship, but also asks what is honorable. A ?generous soul? attitude causes both people to pour out affirmation, encouragement, and words of greatness. It quickly promotes the other person over self. All relationships grow when the ?generous soul? attitude is present.
4. Covenant relationship grows and stays healthy as we protect the relationship
Every relationship will have its times of testing, stretching, problems, and disruption. Outside pressures can be expected; however, we must handle these pressures wisely and successfully if we are to maintain true covenant relationships. We need to consistently protect the relationship by being faithful at all times with our words, attitudes, and actions.
Your leadership and your life will be much more fulfilling and fruitful when you have covenant relationships.
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Pakistan's ruling party names new PM nominee

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Pakistan's ruling party named a new candidate for prime minister who was expected to be approved by parliament later Friday, setting the stage for what is likely to be a short and turbulent premiership.

The announcement of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as premier-designate followed a week of turbulence that pitted the Supreme Court against the government in a high-stakes battle for power in this nuclear-armed country considered crucial to the U.S.'s war in Afghanistan. The crisis was triggered earlier this week when the high court disqualified the current prime minister over a corruption probe.

Ashraf, who was the minister for information technology in the recently ousted government, was originally put forward as a backup candidate but got the nod after the first choice was hit with an arrest warrant following his nomination on Thursday.

The parliament is scheduled to vote on Ashraf's candidacy Friday evening. The ruling coalition has a majority so Ashraf is likely to be approved. The Pakistan People's Party is the largest party in the coalition.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister for failing to ask a Swiss court to initiate a corruption probe into the president's affairs, the climax of more than two years of legal maneuvering against the premier.

A senior PPP member, Khursheed Shah, said during a news conference Friday that the party had decided on Ashraf after consultations with their coalition partners. "Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is our final nominee," he said.

During the news conference, the PPP also announced new elections. Opposition members had been calling for new elections to be held immediately, but the ruling party, fearing it would not do well, was reluctant to call the vote. Shah did not give a date for the elections, but the earliest they could likely be held is late in the fall. Elections were originally going to be held early next year.

"This year will be the year of new elections, and we are going for the elections," he said.

Ashraf's tenure will almost certainly be as rocky as it would be short.

The Supreme Court is likely to renew its request that the prime minister ask the Swiss court to open the corruption probe of President Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected in 2008 following the assassination of his wife Benazir Bhutto.

The money-laundering allegations against Zardari date back to the 1990s. Gilani argued that Zardari enjoys immunity while in power and refused the court's request.

There's little chance that the Swiss would reopen the case after all these years, calling into question the reasons behind the Pakistan court's insistence on the issue. Critics say the court is taking on too overt a political role that threatens the democratic process in a country where elected governments have been toppled by army coups often sanctioned by the court.

The court's supporters say activist judges are needed to keep a check on rampant corruption and misuse of power by the government. They point out the court has also been carrying out investigations into human rights abuses by the military.

When asked whether the new prime minister would write a letter to the Swiss authorities, Shah said: "We will consult our coalition partners when such a stage comes."

Ashraf himself has also been accused of corruption allegations, relating to power projects. While in a previous position as the head of the water and power ministry he oversaw the import of short-term power stations, or "rental power" projects that cost the government millions of dollars but produced little energy. The Supreme Court has accused him of corruption related to the schemes, earning him the nickname "Raja Rental" in the Pakistani media. Ashraf denies any wrongdoing.

When Shah was asked about the corruption allegations against the new candidate, he said allegations are leveled against many people, but no charges have ever been proven against Ashraf.

The political jockeying for power likely means Pakistan's more weighty problems will fall by the wayside until a new government is established. The country's economy is in shambles. The military is fighting a violent insurgency in the tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. In many parts of the country, residents receive only a few hours of electricity a day, sparking violent riots earlier this week.

Pakistan and U.S. relations are also at an all-time low. The U.S. accuses Pakistan of not going after insurgent groups operating in its tribal areas while Pakistan says the U.S. doesn't give it credit for the losses it has suffered fighting al-Qaida and other militant groups.

Pakistan closed U.S. and NATO supply routes going through Pakistan into Afghanistan after American forces accidentally killed 24 Pakistani troops on the border. Pakistan refuses to open the routes without an American apology.

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Paraguay president faces impeachment trial

Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo gives a news conference at the government palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The lower house of Paraguay's congress has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Lugo for his role in a violent eviction, after he was heavily criticized over a land eviction last week that killed 17 people in gunbattles between police and landless farmers in a forest reserve. (AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo)

Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo gives a news conference at the government palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The lower house of Paraguay's congress has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Lugo for his role in a violent eviction, after he was heavily criticized over a land eviction last week that killed 17 people in gunbattles between police and landless farmers in a forest reserve. (AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo)

Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo gives a news conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The lower house of Paraguay's congress has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Lugo for his role in a violent eviction, after he was heavily criticized over a land eviction last week that killed 17 people in gunbattles between police and landless farmers in a forest reserve. (AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo)

Farmers protest holding pictures of people who died on June 15 in clashes with police as they were evicted from a reserve, on the outskirts of Curuguaty, Paraguay, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The lower house of Paraguay's congress has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo for his role in the violent eviction. Lugo has been heavily criticized over the land eviction last week that killed 17 people in gunbattles between police and landless farmers in a forest reserve. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Farmers protest holding pictures of people who died on June 15 during clashes with police as they were evicted from a reserve, on the outskirts of Curuguaty, Paraguay, Thursday, June 21, 2012. The lower house of Paraguay's congress has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo for his role in the violent eviction, after Lugo was heavily criticized over the land eviction last week that killed 17 people in gunbattles between police and landless farmers in a forest reserve. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Soldier patrol near Curuguaty, Paraguay, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Paraguay deployed its army Friday to resolve a violent land dispute in a remote northern forest reserve after 17 people were killed in gun battles between police and landless farmers. The violence broke out as police tried to evict about 150 farmers from the reserve. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) ? Paraguayan lawmakers voted to impeach President Fernando Lugo for his role in a deadly clash involving landless farmers and announced that former Roman Catholic bishop's impeachment trial would begin on Friday in the Senate.

Lugo, who was elected four years ago on promises that he would help the South American country's poor, went on national television to dismiss rumors that he would resign and vowed to face the trial "with all its consequences."

The lower house approved the impeachment trial by a vote of 76-1 on Thursday and hours later the Senate announced that it will begin his impeachment trial on Friday.

The vote added to the political turmoil in the poor, landlocked country with a history of political instability and prompted frightened residents of the capital, Asuncion, to shutter businesses and pull children from school.

Paraguayans were unnerved by the looming showdown in the opposition-controlled Senate and the possibility that it could spark street protests such as those that followed the March 1999 assassination of Vice President Luis Maria Argana.

"I'm working in the street and truth is I'm really scared! Upset," a Twitter user named Pamela Veron wrote on her account.

"And the new Interior Minister, what does he say about our security?" a Paraguayan man named Juan Fleytas tweeted. "He guarantees that nothing will happen to us if we protest?"

Hospitals in Asuncion were put on alert, freeing up beds, suspending scheduled surgeries and ensuring plenty of medical staff were on standby as a preventive measure in the face of possible violence, said Enrique Bellassai, director of the Medical Emergencies Hospital in Asuncion.

"We are not going to escape turbulence, it's coming," said Paraguayan political analyst Horacio Galeano Perrone, who specializes in national defense issues. "If you were to ask me, I'd tell you to go to the supermarket and buy batteries, buy everything."

Lugo's election in 2008 ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party, and he has constantly clashed with Congress, where he has few firm allies. If ousted, Lugo would be replaced by Vice President Federico Franco.

Critics blame Lugo for the violence that erupted last week when police tried to evict about 150 farmers from the 4,900-acre (2,000)-hectare reserve, which is part of a huge estate owned by a Colorado Party politician. Advocates for the farmers say the landowner used political influence to get the land from the state decades ago, and say it should have been put it to use for land reform.

Seventeen people died in the clash.

Lugo, 63, has expressed sorrow at the confrontation and accepted the resignations of his interior minister and his chief of police.

Paraguay is the world's No. 4 supplier of soybeans and land disputes have risen in recent years as farmers seek more land to grow the crop, which is the country's top export earner.

Lugo, who resigned as a bishop to run for the presidency, had promised farmland for 87,000 landless families. But as he nears the end of his term next year, he has failed to deliver, partly because his programs have been blocked in the legislature.

The president was once known as the "bishop of the poor," and his election was part of South America's leftward swing.

Lugo is still backed by some farmworker groups, including several whose leaders said they wanted to travel to the capital to demonstrate their support.

On the streets of the Paraguayan capital, opinions about the impeachment effort were mixed.

"Lugo should finish his mandate and afterward we will elect someone who belongs to us," said Benito Canete, a 68-year-old concierge in an apartment building. "I think that if they get rid of him now it will be bad for the country."

Ana Campuzano, a 42-year-old odontologist, backed the ouster effort. "Lugo should resign, it was bad for him to remain" after the deadly clash, she said. "It's his fault because he doesn't know how to manage things."

On Thursday, Lugo urged lawmakers to do all they can to avoid an impeachment trial, warning that it could be resisted by many citizens who back him and that it could put them on the wrong side of history.

Paraguay's land ownership problems stretch back nearly 140 years to a war Paraguay lost to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Saddled with crushing war debt, Paraguay began selling off government holdings that amounted to 95 percent of the country, with the most fertile parcels going to political cronies.

Privatizations accelerated under the 1954-1989 dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner and into the early 1990s, when about 17 million acres (7 million hectares) ended up in the hands of just 1,877 people, according to a 2004 government study.

In 1999, the assassination of Argana deepened a political clash and led to demonstrations calling for President Raul Cubas Grau of the Colorado Party to be tried for Argana's killing. Seven demonstrators were killed in a confrontation with government forces, leading to Cubas' resignation.

Associated Press

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Contempt? GOP lawmakers weigh citing Holder over 'Fast and Furious' docs

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Attorney General Eric Holder talks with House Oversight Committee and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa in this Feb. 2, 2012 file photo.

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In a mounting confrontation with congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege Wednesday to withhold documents a House committee is seeking. The panel neared a vote on citing Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt.

Comments rapidly grew more heated. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner suggested administration officials had lied earlier or were now "bending the law," while Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings said the committee's GOP chairman "had no interest" in resolving the issue and was trying to pick a fight.

In a letter to the committee chairman, Darrell Issa of California, a Justice Department official said the executive privilege applies to documents that explain how the department learned there were problems with an investigation in Arizona of gun-running into Mexico, called Operation Fast and Furious.

At the start of a hearing, Issa called the president's action "an untimely" assertion of privilege. The committee was later to vote on whether to cite Holder for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the documents. If the panel approved that, the contempt citation would then go to the full House. Technically, if the full House approved, there could be a federal case against Holder, but history strongly suggests the matter won't get that far.

First Read: What happens after the contempt vote?

"The president has asserted executive privilege," Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in the letter to Issa. "We regret that we have arrived at this point, after the many steps we have taken to address the committee's concerns and to accommodate the committee's legitimate oversight interests."

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Rep. Elijah Cummings hears from Rep. Dennis Kucinich during a House Oversight Committee hearing on June 20, 2012.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, raised another question after the president invoked the privilege.

"Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding 'Fast and Furious' were confined to the Department of Justice. The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the 'Fast and Furious' operation or the cover-up that followed," said Boehner's press secretary Brendan Buck. "The administration has always insisted that wasn't the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?"

Rep. Cummings of Maryland, the committee's ranking Democrat, had a different take. He said Issa could have settled the matter with Holder reasonably but has instead resorted to "partisan and inflammatory personal attacks."

The likelihood of a contempt vote rose after Holder and Issa failed to reach agreement Tuesday in a 20-minute meeting at the Capitol.

During the committee's year-and-a-half-long investigation, the department has turned over 7,600 documents about the conduct of the Fast and Furious operation. However, because Justice initially told the committee falsely the operation did not use a risky investigative technique known as gun-walking, the panel has turned its attention from the details of the operation and is now seeking documents that would show how the department headquarters responded to the committee's investigation.

In Fast and Furious, agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Arizona abandoned the agency's usual practice of intercepting all weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased. Instead, the goal of gun-walking was to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers, who had long eluded prosecution, and to dismantle their networks.

Just as a House Committee is expected to vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over the documents sought by this group. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

Gun-walking has long been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two investigations during the George W. Bush administration before Fast and Furious. These experiments came as the department was under widespread criticism that the old policy of arresting every suspected low-level "straw purchaser" was still allowing tens of thousands of guns to reach Mexico. A straw purchaser is an illicit buyer of guns for others.

The agents in Arizona lost track of many of the weapons in Operation Fast and Furious. Two of the guns that "walked" in the operation were found at the scene of the slaying of U.S. border agent Brian Terry.

Holder and Issa met for 20 minutes Tuesday but failed to resolve the dispute.

Issa wanted the documents immediately. Holder told reporters he would not turn over documents on the gun-smuggling probe unless Issa agreed to another congressional briefing on the Justice Department material. Holder wanted an assurance from Issa that the transfer of the records would satisfy a subpoena from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa heads.

"If we receive no documents, we'll go forward" with a contempt vote, Issa told reporters.

If the committee votes to recommend that Holder be held in contempt of Congress, its recommendation would go next to the full House for a vote although House leaders are not required to call it up for a vote. They could instead use the threat of that to press for renewed negotiations.

Historically, at some point Congress and the president negotiate agreements to settle these disputes, because both sides want to avoid a court battle that could narrow either the reach of executive privilege or Congress' subpoena power.

Ordinarily, deliberative documents like those Issa is seeking are off-limits to Congress. In Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's initial incorrect denials are seen as providing justification for the additional demands.

Issa and the House Republican leadership have asked whether the department's initial denial in a Feb. 4, 2011, letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was part of a broader effort to obstruct a congressional investigation.

The material "pretty clearly demonstrates that there was no intention to mislead, to deceive," Holder told reporters.

After executive privilege was asserted, the committee moved ahead with discussion of the contempt citation.

Issa said that "more than eight months after a subpoena and clearly after the question of executive privilege could have and should have been asserted, this untimely assertion ... falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings."

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said a vote should be postponed.

"The administration has the constitutional right to claim executive privilege and refuse to produce those documents," Kucinich said. "It would be a shame to produce a titanic contest between two branches of government."?

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