Wharton takes top exec MBA honors - Fortune Management ...

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- For the third year in a row, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School tops the Poets&Quants' ranking of the world's best executive MBA programs. The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management came in second and third, respectively, in the 2013 composite ranking, just as they had in the previous two years.

The big surprise? Washington University's Olin School EMBA program finished fourth, ahead of several big brand MBAs, including Columbia Business School, which fell one spot to No. 5. Washington's much improved performance, climbing 11 places from No. 15 in 2012, was due to a higher ranking from U.S. News & World Report this year and a surprising ninth place finish in The Financial Times' 2012 executive MBA ranking for its EMBA program in Shanghai.

Also in the top 10 are No. 6 New York University's Stern School, No. 7 UCLA's Anderson School, No. 8 the University of Michigan's Ross School, No. 9 Cornell University, and No. 10 the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business.

The new ranking by Poets&Quants measures the overall reputation of these programs by combining the four latest ratings on EMBA programs from BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and U.S. News & World Report. By blending these rankings into a composite list, the methodology tends to diminish anomalies that often show up in any one rating system. The new ranking also takes into account a blizzard of metrics to measure the quality of the programs, from surveys of student satisfaction to rises in income attributed to the degree. Each of the four major rankings are equally weighted in this 2013 survey.

Wharton topped our list for the third consecutive year due to the caliber of students in its two programs in Philadelphia and San Francisco. Both cohorts boast median GMAT scores of 700 out of a total score of 800 at a time when many EMBA programs no longer require the exam.

Even beyond the impressive GMATs, Wharton's executive students have stats that easily make them among the best participants in any EMBA program in the world.?The home campus cohort in Philadelphia, 118 students in the class of 2014, already earns an average $166,000 in salary and bonus, has an average 10 years of work experience, and 39% came to the program with advanced degrees. And 43% of the class is employed by companies paying 50% or more of the program's cost.

The San Francisco cohort of 102 students in the class of 2014 have an even higher average salary and bonus: $170,000. They average 11 years of work experience and 36% already hold advanced degrees. Only 27% of the class work for companies that are paying 50% or more of the cost of the program.

Current students have plenty of praise for the Wharton experience and the value of its brand. As Lindsay Stewart, an EMBA student in Wharton's San Francisco program puts it, ""I've taken only six hours of marketing, but I know enough to understand that brand matters. Plain and simple." It's why, she says, she only applied to Wharton.

That prestige brand doesn't come cheap. Wharton's Executive MBA students pay the highest tuition of any EMBA program in the world. The 2012 tuition for the two-year program in San Francisco is $175,678, while the tuition for the Philadelphia program is $171,360. Those costs do not include airfare for a required international trip. The No. 2 EMBA program at the University of Chicago costs $154,000 and includes hotel and meals for two residential weeks in Chicago, a residential week in London, and a residential week in Singapore.

Despite the costs of such programs, especially at the preeminent business schools, deans predict that executive MBAs will grow in popularity, if only because students in them don't incur the opportunity costs involved in quitting a job to attend graduate school full-time. "That is why I am a big fan of EMBA programs, because the biggest part of the cost of a full-time program isn't the tuition," says Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard. "It's the foregone income. EMBA solves that. When you are in an EMBA program, you can take what you learned on Saturday and bring it to work on Monday."

Schools that moved upward in the new 2013 ranking tended to get better ratings in the past year from U.S. News and World Report or The Financial Times. BusinessWeek last ranked EMBA programs in 2011, so its list had the same impact on the Poets&Ranks ranking as it did last year. The same was true of The Wall Street Journal, which last ranked such programs in 2010. The schools that had the most dramatic climbs or falls generally fell on or off one of these key lists of the world's best programs, such as Washington University's Olin School.

Each ranking organization uses a different methodology to measure a school's executive MBA program. BusinessWeek, for example, excludes partnership EMBA programs among multiple schools. The Financial Times does not rank programs under five years of age, and BusinessWeek also uses the "age of a program" as a ranking hurdle. Three of the four listed sources rank these programs globally in a single list. U.S. News only ranks U.S. programs.

These differences obviously will affect a composite ranking like Poets&Quants'. As a result, some very good programs are excluded from our list or, in the case of some partnership programs, they are ranked lower than they might otherwise have been. Two obvious examples: the Trium EMBA program, a joint venture between NYU's Stern School, the London School of Economics, and HEC Paris; and MIT Sloan's relatively new EMBA program. The Financial Times ranks the Trium program third best in the world, but it is unranked by BusinessWeek, U.S. News, and The Wall Street Journal, whose ranking predates the program. MIT is ranked only by U.S. News, at 17th best in the U.S., largely because MIT graduated its first EMBA class in 2012.

Only schools whose EMBA programs are recognized by at least two of the four most influential rankings are included on the Poets&Quants' ranking. Imposing this rule eliminates potential anomalies that often appear in a single ranking system. Some 52 programs met this requirement, while another 64 schools were only ranked by one organization and therefore failed to make our list. Because The Financial Times ranks 100 EMBA programs and BusinessWeek ranks 66 programs, those rankings tend to have more influence than U.S. News or The Wall Street Journal, which both rank only 25 programs each.

The highest ranked non-U.S. school on the Poets&Quants' list is IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, which held on to its No. 14 spot from last year. INSEAD in France and Singapore and IESE Business School in Barcelona and Madrid came next with ranks of 22 and 23, respectively.

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Source: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/26/wharton-executive-mba/

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EADS says Spain may sell 1.15 percent stake in shake-up

Mar 26 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 7. John Merrick $1,343,514 8. Dustin Johnson $1,330,507 9. Russell Henley $1,313,280 10. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 11. Keegan Bradley $1,274,593 12. Charles Howell III $1,256,373 13. Michael Thompson $1,254,669 14. Brian Gay $1,171,721 15. Justin Rose $1,155,550 16. Jason Day $1,115,565 17. Chris Kirk $1,097,053 18. ...

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Rob Kardashian Dissed By "Ex" Rita Ora!

It turns out that Rob Kardashian got all upset over nothing, because he and Rita Ora were never an item. Yes, they had a fling for a while, but 22-year-old Ora claims that she never, ever dated Kardashian.

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Buy Vintage Audio Gear for Audiophile Quality On the Cheap

Being an audiophile is hard to do on a budget, but it is possible. Weblog MakeUseOf notes that buying vintage audio gear is a great way to get bang for your buck.

We recently ran down the five best A/V receivers, but if you're not looking to spend a bundle?or if you just want something for audio?sometimes vintage is the best way to go hit up eBay or Craigslist for an older model:

For the money you put in, an old vintage audio amp has the potential to provide way more bang for your buck than a modern active speaker system.

To determine if an amp or set of speakers is worth your money you will need to sharpen your search skills and check out forums like AudioKarma and AVForums. Certain brands (Sansui, Luxman and Marantz to name but a few) hold their value better than others (Teac, Sanyo, Onkyo) but aren't necessarily "better". Even an unheard of model sitting at the back of a thrift store might delight you with a light and clean performance worthy of any entertainment system. Oh yeah, be warned?this is addictive territory.

This is also one of the most oft-suggested tips over at Reddit's audiophile forum, too. Hit up the MakeUseOf post for tips on where to buy, how to find a quality amp, and how to set it up for all your new digital music (or, if you're a vinyl buff, your turntable).

Quality Sound On The Cheap ? Buying Vintage Audio Equipment | MakeUseOf

Photo by Andres Rueda.

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No more telecommuting? Not a problem for most American workers.

First Yahoo!, then Best Buy revoked their employee policies allowing telecommuting, stirring a furor in the blogosphere. The reality is that, for better or worse, few US workers enjoy that kind of flexibility, data show.

By Daniel B. Wood,?Staff writer / March 5, 2013

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer appears on NBC News' 'Today' show in February to introduce the website's redesign.

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The hubbub surrounding Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's recent decision to suspend telecommuting at the Internet giant had not yet faded when word came this week that Minnesota-based Best Buy, the electronics retailer, now wants its corporate employees, who had enjoyed a flexible "performance-based" management system, to start working at the office.

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Judging from the furor over these decisions to revoke telecommuting policies, both made by struggling companies who say they need workers to band together to help pull out of a slump, it may be tempting to think the Dark Ages have descended upon much of the American workforce. The reality, though, is that the share of American workers who telecommute remains relatively small.?

Take Yahoo! Only about 2 percent, or some 180 of its 15,000 employees, is thought to be working full-time from home. Nationally, about 4.3 percent of the American workforce worked primarily from home in 2010 ? up from 2.3 percent 30 years earlier, according to the US Census Bureau. About 10 percent of workers, meanwhile, report working from home at least one day a week. (That includes people who are self-employed or who do unpaid work for a family business, so the real number of telecommuters working for a nonfamily business is about half that, estimates?Ravi Gajendran, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Illinois, who has written and researched the subject extensively.)

Who are these telecommuters? And for what kinds of companies do they generally work?

An accurate picture is harder to come by than one might think. The telecommuter stereotype is of a working mom who juggles kids' needs after school and then labors late into the night to finish her work day for a tech company.?

?The profile of who makes up the population of telecommuters is somewhat murky because different research entities define the term differently,? says Mr. Gajendran. ?Researchers have had to triangulate and combine studies to get a picture they can understand. No one alone sums it all up in a satisfying way.??

A profile by Telework Research Network, an independent research firm that generally backs flexible workplaces, paints the typical telecommuter as a?49-year-old, college-educated, salaried, nonunion employee in a management or professional role, earning $58,000 a year at a company with more than 100 employees.

Gajendran and?MaryAnne Hyland, associate professor of resource management at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., fill in other details. They say telecommuters are typically between 35 and 54, slightly more likely to be male than female, and more likely to be white than Hispanic or black. About a third of telecommuters live in households with annual incomes of $100,000 or more, they add.?

Though the overall number of telecommuters is relatively small, the rate of growth of telecommuting appears to be picking up. The number of workers who regularly telecommute grew 61 percent from 2005 and 2009, according to a 2011 Telework study, ?The State of Telework in the US: How individuals, businesses and government benefit.? Telecommuters?will total 4.9 million by 2016, a 69 percent increase from now, the study forecasts.?

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2 new genes linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders

Monday, March 4, 2013

A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has discovered mutations in two genes that lead to the death of nerve cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and related degenerative diseases.

The same mutation occurred in both genes and led to the abnormal build-up of the proteins inside cells. These proteins play an essential role in normal RNA functioning and have also been linked to cancer, including the Ewing sarcoma, the second most common type of bone cancer in children and adolescents. The finding is the latest in a series of discoveries suggesting degenerative diseases and cancer may have common origins. RNA is the molecule that directs protein assembly based on instructions carried in DNA.

The study also adds to evidence that seemingly unrelated neurodegenerative diseases may involve similar defects in RNA metabolism. Researchers linked the problems to a specific region of the mutated proteins whose normal function was unclear. The study was published today in the advanced online edition of the scientific journal Nature.

"I hope this study helps to build the foundation for desperately needed treatments for ALS and perhaps a broad range of diseases caused by abnormal RNA metabolism," said J. Paul Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology and senior author of the study. Taylor and James Shorter, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the biochemistry and biophysics department at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, are the study's corresponding authors.

Each year approximately 5,600 people in the U.S. are found to have ALS. The disease is nearly always fatal, often within five years. Patients suffer muscle wasting and paralysis that affects their limbs and trunk as well as their ability to talk, swallow and breathe. There is no cure.

For this project, St. Jude sequenced just the portion of the genome called the exome, which carries instructions for making proteins. Researchers sequenced the exomes of two families affected by rare inherited degenerative disorders that target cells in the muscle, bone and brain. Neither family carried mutations previously tied to ALS or related diseases. The project built on the infrastructure developed by the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -- Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, which played an important role in finding the mutations.

Researchers found the families carried a single, previously unknown mutation in a pair of RNA-binding proteins named hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1. The proteins both bind RNA and help regulate its function. When researchers checked for the same mutations in 517 ALS patients they found hnRNPA1 protein mutated in two patients. One patient had the inherited form of ALS. The other ALS patient had no family history of the disease.

The new mutations occurred in a region of the proteins Taylor refers to as a prion-like domain because it has similarities with yeast proteins called prions. Prions are proteins that can alternate between shapes as needed for different functions. "Until recently we did not know these domains existed in humans and now we realize that hundreds of human proteins have them," Taylor said. "We're only beginning to understand their function in human cells."

Researchers showed the prion-like domains are responsible for the shape change that occurs when these proteins convert into slender threads called fibrils. The mutations accelerate fibril formation and recruit normal proteins to form fibrils. This phenomenon called propagation may explain how ALS and related diseases spread throughout the nervous system.

Taylor speculated that the normal function of prion-like domains is to assemble RNAs into temporary structures called granules, which are part of the cell's normal protein production machinery. Granules are normally short lived, and the RNA-binding proteins involved in their formation are recycled. But in cells with hnRNPA2B1 or hnRNPA1 mutation, RNA granules accumulated in the cytoplasm instead of being disassembled. "That's bad news for RNA regulation, which is bad news for those cells," Taylor said.

The study has several important implications, Taylor said. Recognition that the mutations adversely impact regulation of RNA could lead to targeted therapy to correct the problem. The mutation's location in the prion-like domain might also prove significant. Although the mutations in hnRNPA2B1 or hnRNPA1 appear to be rare, hundreds of other RNA-binding proteins have prion-like domains. Taylor said patients with unexplained neurodegenerative diseases may have mutations in these proteins.

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Researchers discover how to shutdown cancer's powerful master protein

Monday, March 4, 2013

The powerful master regulatory transcription factor called Bcl6 is key to the survival of a majority of aggressive lymphomas, which arise from the B-cells of the immune system. The protein has long been considered too complex to target with a drug since it is also crucial to the healthy functioning of many immune cells in the body, not just B cells gone bad.

But now, in the journal Nature Immunology, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College report that it is possible to shut down Bcl6 in the cancer, known as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), while not affecting its vital function in T cells and macrophages that are needed to support a healthy immune system.

"The finding comes as a very welcome surprise," says the study's lead investigator, Dr. Ari Melnick, Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology and director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences at Weill Cornell.

"This means the drugs we have developed against Bcl6 are more likely to be significantly less toxic and safer for patients with this cancer than we realized," says Dr. Melnick, who is also a hematologist-oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

If Bcl6 is completely inhibited, patients might suffer from systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Weill Cornell researchers conducted this new study to help clarify possible risks, as well as to understand how Bcl6 controls the various aspects of the immune system.

DLBCL is the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma -- the seventh most frequently diagnosed cancer -- and many of these patients are resistant to currently available treatments.

"Scientists have been searching for the right answer to treat this difficult lymphoma, which, after initial treatment, can be at high risk of relapse and resistant to current therapies," Dr. Melnick says. "Believing that Bcl6 could not be targeted, some researchers have been testing alternative therapeutic approaches. This study strongly supports the notion of using Bcl6-targeting drugs."

In fact, the findings in this study were inspired from preclinical testing of two Bcl6-targeting agents that Dr. Melnick and his Weill Cornell colleagues have developed to treat DLBCLs. These experimental drugs are RI-BPI, a peptide mimic, and the small molecule agent 79-6.

Dr. Melnick says the discovery that a master regulatory transcription factor can be targeted offers implications beyond just treating DLBCL. Recent studies from Dr. Melnick and others have revealed that Bcl6 plays a key role in the most aggressive forms of acute leukemia, as well as certain solid tumors.

Transcription factors are responsible for either inhibiting or promoting the expression of genes, and master regulatory transcription factors are the equivalent of the CPU of a computer ? their actions regulate thousands of genes in different kinds of cells. For example, Bcl6 can control the type of immune cell that develops in the bone marrow -- playing many roles in the development of B cells, T cells, macrophages and other cells -- including a primary and essential role in enabling B-cells to generate specific antibodies against pathogens.

"When cells lose control of Bcl6, lymphomas develop in the immune system. Lymphomas are 'addicted' to Bcl6, and therefore Bcl6 inhibitors powerfully and quickly destroy lymphoma cells," Dr. Melnick says.

The big surprise in the current study is that rather than functioning as a single molecular machine, Bcl6 instead seems to function more like a Swiss Army knife, using different tools to control different cell types. This multi-function paradigm could represent a general model for the functioning of other master regulatory transcription factors.

"In this analogy, the Swiss Army knife, or transcription factor, keeps most of its tools folded, opening only the one it needs in any given cell type," Dr. Melnick says. "For B cells, it might open and use the knife tool; for T cells, the cork screw; for macrophages, the scissors. The amazing thing from a medical standpoint is that this means that you only need to prevent the master regulator from using certain tools to treat cancer. You don't need to eliminate the whole knife," he says. "In fact, we show that taking out the whole knife is harmful since the transcription factor has many other vital functions that other cells in the body need."

Prior to these study results, it was not known that a master regulator could separate its functions so precisely.

"Now we know we can take out a specific tool -- to shut down a specific part of the protein -- that causes the disease we want to treat."

Researchers hope this will be a major benefit to the treatment of DLBCL and perhaps other disorders that are influenced by Bcl6 and other master regulatory transcription factors.

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Romney: ?It kills me? not to be in White House

Mitt Romney says it "kills" him that he's not the president, but doesn't blame his loss to Barack Obama on Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or anything except his failed election campaign.

?It kills me not to be there," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday" in his first television interview since his November loss.

The former Massachusetts governor said his failure to connect with black and Hispanic voters--and those infamous "47 percent" comments--damaged and ultimately derailed his campaign.

Ann Romney, though, pointed the finger at the fourth estate. ?It was not just the campaign?s fault," Ann Romney said. "I believe it was the media's fault as well, in that he was not being given a fair shake, that people weren?t allowed to really see him for who he was."

She added: ?I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now."

Mitt Romney said President Obama has failed to lead on the sequester.

"He didn?t think the sequester would happen," Romney said. "It is happening. To date, what we?ve seen is the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing. Now, what does that do? That causes the Republicans to retrench and to put up a wall and to fight back.?

On election night, Romney said, he was "convinced" he'd win the election--until Ohio went in Obama's favor.

?It was a slow recognition until ultimately when the Ohio numbers began coming in and they were disappointing,? he said. ?By 8 or 9 o?clock, it was pretty clear that we were not going to win.?

Romney, who has avoided the press since his loss to Obama, likened the election and its aftermath to an amusement park ride.

"We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs," Romney said. "But the ride ends. And then you get off. And it's not like, oh, can't we be on a roller coaster the rest of our life? It's like, no, the ride's over."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-kills-fox-obama-163333853--election.html

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Pure Avalon 300R Connect review - Pocket-lint

Selling your very first Freeview set-top-box in 2012 is the move of either a company that knows what it's doing, or the move of a company so adept at missing the boat that it has evolved into a fish to avoid further boat-missing agony.

The Pure Avalon 300R is, indeed, Pure's first crack of the Freeview box whip. Before, the company just did digital radios, and it did them well, but now it wants to bring its expertise, the expertise of its parent company and access to its online music services into one box.

None of that affects us, the normal person on the street though. What we want is a box that records things, and that doesn't make us scream with rage when it forgets to record Peppa Pig.

You can see the radio influence

The Avalon looks different enough to be a nice change from the usual black box in your living room. It's still a black box mind you, but it's shorter than usual, and it looks great. The Pure logo is massive, but that puts us in mind of the transformation in car badges from a few years ago, sparked by VW and it's HUGE logo on the back of the Golf. It looked daft at the time, but now it's standard. If you don't like it, then chuck the box somewhere behind a screen, but the overall petite dimensions more than make up for it.

Around the back, there are four HDMI sockets, these are used to connect up existing hardware you might have, to enable the Pure to act as a sort of "switch". There's a fifth HDMI, which is the output to your TV too.

There are stereo RCA jacks for audio too, along with digital audio connectors - both coaxial and optical - which allow you to get audio to an external amp, or surround sound system. The number of connectors here is a great thing to see, and very typical of an audio brand.

One other point of interest is the external power supply. This means the PVR runs from a 12v transformer, which is external. Some might see this as a hassle, but actually, from a heat point of view, it means a lot of the extra warmth is already outside the chassis. If you've read our review of the YouView box, you'll know we had a huge problem with the amount of noise it made. Here, there is a fan, but we couldn't hear it in an environment identical to the one we tested the YouView box in.

Freeview HD

Freeview isn't the most exciting service. It's still too full of dull and annoying shopping channels and the dumping ground for shows that Sky has had its full of showing 900 times per week for a million weeks.

That said, BBC One, BBC HD - soon to be BBC Two HD - ITV1 HD and 4HD all make it worthwhile. We'd love to see more HD on Freeview, and we're pretty sure it's coming, but there will need to be another rearrangement for that to happen. Right now, with money being tight in broadcasting and idiots being happy to keep shopping channels in business, we're sort of stuck with what we've got.

We have to say though, when it comes to picture quality, we have nothing but praise for the Pure. HD channels look terrific, and SD upscaling within the box is pretty decent too, it's certainly not noticeably worse than the scaler in our high-end TV. This means that even older shows, or those on non-HD channels should look pretty good. Although the low-bitrate of Freeview will seek to confound that.

Flashy

One of the unique selling points of the Avalon is the graphics hardware. There's a story here that comes from Pure's parent company, which owns patients and such on a number of technologies that give Pure access to some pretty powerful hardware. In short, it's Imagination Technologies showing off, but it all looks so lovely we welcome their posturing.

The gloss is visible everywhere. The EPG has semi-transparent effects, and moving around the menus comes with the sort of slick, fluid effects that you'd expect from a PC, rather than a set-top-box. But then, this box costs nearly as much as a laptop, so perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised. Our only complaint here, is that there's not much visible on the EPG at any one time. It's a reasonably small page, with lots of extra clutter. This doesn't bother us, but some people will hate it.

As part of this, you get a lot of picture-in-picture too, which is nice when you're in the EPG or menus. But there's also the option to preview another channel while you're watching something. To do this, you bring up the EPG search and scan bar, press an arrow key, and up pops the preview. It's stunning actually, and while it's of limited use, it's a nice showcase for how well designed the pure is, and how powerful the box is.

Wireless

As much of the Avalon's skill lies in its internet connectivity, it's good to see that the box includes built-in Wi-Fi. Although to some, the initial cost of the box will be offputting, it scores over YouView in that it has wireless out of the box. For us, this has more value than a large hard drive to some extent, because it makes the box more portable and more flexible.

And what's more, Pure hasn't just gone for some rancid and cheap wireless card, no, the Avalon has a 5GHz capable MIMO system. Technically, this means that the box can use the far less crowded, shorter range, 5GHz band. Of course, if your router doesn't support it, 2.4GHz is supported too, but it's a much more congested bit of spectrum. In our tests, the wireless was flawless. We even streamed 1080p video from our Plex server through to the Avalon. And it looked stunning.

On demand

One of the few areas where we're not entirely impressed with the Avalon is in catch-up TV. It's not that there's anything at all wrong with what it does offer, but the selection is very limited.

Out of the box you get iPlayer and YouTube, and that's your lot. We've had a chat with Pure about the system, and we're told that it uses the HTML 5 players for both. That could mean that the firm is waiting on similar support from other broadcasters before rolling out their catch-up players on to the service. If so, the wait could be long.

However, iPlayer works well, as it has to be said, it usually does on third-party players. The real star here seems to be the Pure, and how quick it seems to handle network based things. This has impressed us a great deal, as we're using it on Wi-Fi.

Streaming media

Here's where the Pure smacked us in the mouth properly: with it's media playback support via DLNA, and even from USB. Although we knew the machine would have some support for this kind of thing, at the launch event, it wasn't clear what codec support we might expect. As it turns out, the codec support is impressive. There's HD video in MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 transport streams as well as support for the brilliant MKV container - which allows subtitles and chapters to be embedded into the file.

We mostly found ourselves using DLNA though, and there's a good reason for that - DLNA devices are becoming ubiquitous. Your phone is probably a DLNA device, your computer certainly is, and it's possible that your tablet is too. Put simply, if you have media on something, DLNA can help you get it onto another device very easily.

We're big Plex fans anyway. If you haven't used it, Plex is a program that runs on your computer, looks for media files like music, pictures and videos. It scans your libraries, works out what the files are, then builds a database around them. This means movies and TV shows can be presented in a logical manner, with no fussy filenames and can be played as easily as if they were just airing on the TV. Plex is very good, but the Pure seems to help things along with its rather brilliant networking. There are still some minor browsing frustrations, but overall, the way the box works is inspiring.

Consider that a separate DLNA player might cost a few hundred quid, this might not sell you the Pure, but it's another feather in its cap.

Aside from the DLNA aspects, there's also a range of services from Pure Connect. These are a managed set of audio services, including Pure's own subscription music system, live radio from all over the planet, and BBC on-demand radio, and a variety of other podcasts. It's also capable of playing music from an Android or iOS device with the Pure app installed.

Pure sees it's music services as key to what Avalon does. If you're someone who lives in the Pure universe, then this will be true. Its digital radios are already great for this sort of thing, so by buying Avalon you'll be getting into a familiar ecosystem that you'll already be happy with.

HDMI switch

We have some mixed feelings about the HDMI switch. For some, it will be brilliant and very useful, especially if you don't have a surround sound setup of any kind, or you're using a limited 2.1 system with just a few inputs, and perhaps no HDMI sockets.

For those of us with home cinema systems though, the HDMI switch is less useful. There's some value to it, especially for those with so much equipment they've run out of sockets on their AV receiver, but it's a far less likely scenario.

The implementation is nice though. Simply switch to the HDMI menu, press okay and you'll see the list. You are able to rename them to suit you too, so it's all nice and clear. Arguably more so than it would be on a little home cinema system, and especially than a dumb switch that you might be using if your TV was short of HDMI sockets.

The Peppa Pig factor

Here's a real problem that affects mummies and daddies the country over. Peppa Pig. If you've ever tried to record it on Channel 5 for your little one to enjoy when they awake from their graceful slumber then you'll know it's not that easy. Freeview boxes, Sky+HD, freesat+ and freesat freetime boxes all fail dismally, with recordings either starting too early, too late or cutting off too early. SkyHD was usually the best, getting it just about right.

Until now. Because in our test, the box recorded Peppa Pig perfectly, with the start of the recording happening at exactly the start of the programme. This is great news, and should keep the little-linters in our midst very happy.

It's an interesting point in general though, because programme record accuracy is usually governed by something called, predictably, "accurate recording" which is a set of flags which are sent by the broadcaster to keep shows recording without problem. Channel 5 has a long-held reputation for not handling these properly, so we have no idea how the Pure manages to record properly.

Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/6163/pure-avalon-300r-connect-freeview-hd-pvr-review

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LAX ghost town a home to memories and rare butterflies

The remains of what was once one of Los Angeles' most coveted neighborhoods can be seen behind a fence topped with barbed wire.

Weeds sprout through cracks along streets lined with majestic palms. Retaining walls and foundations of custom homes peek through the brush. Rusty utility lines that have wiggled their way above ground bake in the sun like scattered bones.

Two throttled-up passenger jets simultaneously take off from LAX and soar overhead, the thundering cacophony a reminder of why the community of Surfridge was forced to disappear.

PHOTOS: Surfridge

Developed in the 1920s and 1930s, Surfridge was an isolated playground of the wealthy, among the last communities built on miles of sand dunes that once dominated the coast. Hollywood elites built homes here that commanded views from Palos Verdes to Malibu.

The small airfield to the east that opened in 1928 was a good place to see an air show. It would take nearly two decades for it to become the city's primary airport.

Today, Surfridge is a Los Angeles curiosity ? a modern ghost town inhabited by a rare butterfly.

The El Segundo blue butterfly was near extinction when the last of Surfridge's 800 homes were removed in the early 1970s, the victim of an expanding Los Angeles International Airport.

In the decades since, the federally protected endangered species has made a comeback due to the establishment of a 200-acre butterfly preserve managed by the city. Nonnative plants were removed and native buckwheat ? where the butterflies feed and lay their eggs ? was reintroduced.

Now, more than 125,000 butterflies take flight each summer, unfazed by the constant thunder of jets overhead.

LAX may have wiped Surfridge off the map, but the airport has turned out to be a perfect neighbor for a growing community of butterflies.

"It's a remarkable recovery," said Richard Arnold, an entomologist who has worked as a consultant at the preserve. "But you've got to realize that insects have a remarkable reproductive capacity if their natural food source is there."

Soon there will be more. The California Coastal Commission recently approved a $3-million plan to restore portions of 48 acres at the northern end of the old subdivision. The project is part of a settlement of a lawsuit between LAX and surrounding cities over the airport's expansion plans.

Some streets, curbs, sidewalks, home foundations and utilities visible to neighboring homeowners will be removed. Six acres will be reseeded with native plants ? sagebrush and goldenbush, primrose, poppies and salt grass among them ? that will return this sliver of dunes back to where it was a century ago.

"They wanted us to fix what they consider to be an eyesore," airport spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles said.

The story of Surfridge is a parable for a century's worth of urban growth destruction.

"It was paradise when I was a kid," said Duke Dukesherer, a business executive and amateur historian who has written about the area. "Everybody who sees it now asks the same question: What the hell happened here?"

A development company held a contest in 1925 to name its newest neighborhood, awarding $1,000 to a Los Angeles man who submitted "Surfridge."

"The outstanding name was (chosen) due to its brevity, euphony, ease of pronunciation?" The Times reported. "But above all because it most satisfactorily tells the story of this new wonder city."

Prospective buyers picked up brochures in downtown Los Angeles and drove to the coast, where salesmen worked out of tents. Lots went for $50 down and $20 a month for three years.

Home exteriors were required to be brick, stone or stucco ? no frame structures allowed. And no one "not entirely that of the Caucasian race," according to the development's deed restrictions "except such as are in the employ of the resident owners."

The onset of the Great Depression nearly torpedoed the project, but by the early 1930s, the wealthy gobbled up lots and built large homes. They were followed by an expanding upper middle class.

As commercial aviation surged after World War II, there were more and more planes overhead, a burgeoning industry in a city that was growing at a breakneck pace.

But it was the Jet Age that killed Surfridge.

"If you lived in Surfridge prior to the late 1950s, you had to raise your voice a bit when having a conversation," Dukesherer said. "After the jets came, you had to literally stop talking when they took off."

The 1960s brought complaints, anger, lawsuits, condemnation, holdouts and, finally, capitulation.

Today, except for the crumbling concrete, Surfridge exists solely in memory and faded snapshots. The views are still great and people park their vehicles on the road above Dockweiler State Beach to savor them, read a book or take a nap.

It's a strange place to seek relaxation. The screech and roar overhead invades the senses like blowing sand.

But wait long enough and there is a lull in air traffic and respite from the racket. The ocean below can finally be heard. Thoughts turn to a time when this was all dunes and the blue butterfly didn't need any help.

And then, just as suddenly, a 747 shatters the silence.

mike.anton@latimes.com

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PFT: Receiver Moss' plans remain mysterious

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Bills WR Stevie Johnson already is recruiting players like 49ers S Dashon Goldson.? (It?s not tampering unless the team puts the player up to it.)

The Jets have signed three players with Arena League experience.? (Hey, you never know where you?re going to find your next personal punt protector.)

To tag or not to tag, that is the question for the Patriots, as debated by Mike Reiss and Field Yates of ESPNBoston.com.

The Dolphins continue to conduct junior training camps at local elementary schools.? (Sometimes, the fruit just hangs too low.)

The Ravens have a tough decision to make with FB Vonta Leach, who participated in only 42 percent of the snaps in 2012.

Hawaii CB Mike Edwards, a Cleveland native, wants to play for the Browns.

Players who get tagged by the Bengals typically stay only one more year.

Former Steelers RB Carey Davis is pursuing an acting career.

Titans LB Will Witherspoon hopes to play four more years, even though he lost his starting job in 2012.

Colts owner Jim Irsay says that, if the Colts have earned the third pick or lower in 2012, they would have kept QB Peyton Manning.

Jaguars president Mark Lamping talks about the effort to build enhanced video boards at EverBank Field; ?If we don?t keep up, we?re falling behind. We can?t afford to do that in a market this size, because if we do, then we put the franchise at risk,? Lamping said.

Texans LB Brooks Reed could move from the outside to the inside in 2013.? (And it?s time for a question from Gronk:? ?Don?t they already play in a dome??)

Factoring in the trade for QB Alex Smith, the Chiefs will have $7.5 million in cap space, which means they?d have to create more of it to tag WR Dwayne Bowe.

Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio was scheduled to speak at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.? (His comments may or may not have touched upon properly managing water bills.)

Here?s a look at the Chargers who could be cutting their pay in order to help the team clear cap space.

Raiders LS Jon Condo will receive the team?s 2012 Commitment to Excellence Award on March 9.? (The fruit still hangs too low.)

Cowboys CB Brandon Carr says he restructured his contract because he?s a ?team player.?

Giants coach Tom Coughlin reunited with players from his first head-coaching gig, at Rochester Institute of Technology, way back in 1970.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and his ex-wife are still making movies together.

Suing the league over cap space could mean that the Redskins would never host a Super Bowl.

DE Chris Canty will visit the Packers next week, his agent confirmed.

LB Nick Roach hopes to return to the Bears, at the right price.

LB Justin Durant hopes to return to the Lions, at the right price.

Vikings P Chris Kluwe explains that, when inappropriate questions are posed at the Scouting Combine, the prospective rookie can?t say ?go eff yourself.?

The bounty scandal emerged for the Saints one year ago today.

Former Falcons DE John Abraham still wants to see the team do well, even after it cut him.

Friday?s moves leave the Panthers $3.5 million over the cap, a problem that will be solved as soon as they cut CB Chris Gamble.

With their division rivals dumping a pass rusher, the Buccaneers have even greater incentive to keep DE Michael Bennett off the open market.

ESPN?s Trent Dilfer thinks 49ers (for now) QB Alex Smith will be in even better position in Chiefs coach Andy Reid?s offense.

It?s been 11 years since the Seahawks introduced the uniforms they abandoned a year ago.

Rams COO Kevin Demoff on analytics in football:? ?There is so much in play with respect to the team?s system . . . there is so much covariance in a football game because there are so many other factors.?

Hearing-impaired advocates have sued the Cardinals for failing to provide appropriate accommodations.? (Apparently, the Cardinals aren?t keen on putting ?the crowd is booing . . . again? on the video boards.)

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/02/moss-becomes-man-of-mystery-again/related/

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Director of Education, Virginia Holocaust Museum | Jewish Jobster

Job Description

The Virginia Holocaust Museum is seeking a Director of Education for its extensive education program. The successful candidate should be a current or former educator with a minimum of a BA or BS degree, preferably with middle or high school teaching experience. Though a knowledge of twentieth century history and culture will be advantageous to the successful candidate, the ability to teach effectively both adult and students groups will be paramount, as well as having a demonstrated record of excellence in or knowledge of:

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• Best Practices for the teaching of middle and high school students;
• Presenting lectures of all sorts to both large and small groups of adults and middle and high school students;
• Utilizing instructional technologies to enhance and facilitate the learning experience;
• Creating model units which allow for interdisciplinary teaching;
• Working knowledge of the Common Core Standards and/or the Virginia Standards of Learning, grades 5-12 in both the histories and English/language arts;
• Working knowledge of the Common Core Standards and/or the Virginia Standards of Learning, grades 5-12 in the arts, math, science and foreign languages;
• Desiring to become involved in the Richmond museum community and other learning institutions in Virginia.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send a letter of applications together with their r?sum?, a teaching statement, three letters of reference and a set of current teaching evaluations to:

? Dr. Simon P. Sibelman,

?? Executive Director

??? Virginia Holocaust Museum

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????? Richmond, VA?? 23223

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Job Categories: Non-Profit. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: education and museum educator. Salary: 20,000 - 40,000. Job expires in 180 days.

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Gayle King Watches Old Footage Of Herself Saying She's Black On 'Watch What Happens: Live' (VIDEO)

Gayle King got a blast from the past during her visit to the clubhouse on "Watch What Happens: Live." Of course, Andy Cohen and his team would pull out one of the most embarrassing moments from early in her career as a news broadcaster.

The moment came when she was a news anchor in Hartford, Connecticut. It was King doing a simple sign off, but one messed-up word changed the meaning of everything.

"Thank you for joining us. We?ll all be black next ... we?ll all be back next week, and I?ll be black. We?ll all be back," she said in the video.

"That was mortifying at the time, though, because you?re thinking, I am black," King said. "I just said I?m black on TV with white people sitting here."

While it may have been mortifying at the time, King can look back on it now and laugh. And it certainly didn't hold her back, as she's currently co-anchoring "CBS This Morning." Catch "Watch What Happens: Live" on Sunday through Thursday at 11 p.m. EST on Bravo.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

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Mastermind of UK's 'Great Train Robbery' dies

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Detectives inspect the Royal Mail train from which over 2.6 million pounds was stolen, on Aug. 8, 1963, in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, England.

By Clare Hutchison, Reuters

LONDON ? The mastermind behind Britain's "Great Train Robbery," a 1963 heist that turned its perpetrators into celebrities, has died at age 81, local media reported Thursday.

Bruce Reynolds died in his sleep at his home in London after a period of ill health, reports from news media including the BBC said, citing comments from Reynolds' son, Nick.

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A photo issued by Scotland Yard on Aug. 2, 1963, shows Bruce Reynolds, who has died at home in London.

His death came just months before the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, which was at the time Britain's largest robbery.

In August 1963, Reynolds, along with an 11-member gang, tampered with railway track signals and stopped a Royal Mail night train travelling from Glasgow to London carrying letters, parcels and large amounts of cash.

Reynolds and his men stormed the train and made off with 2.6 million pounds, equivalent to about 40 million pounds or $61 million in today's money.

Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head during the robbery. He died seven years later, and many people believed the injuries he sustained during the heist contributed to his death.

Most of the gang members were caught and given prison sentences totaling more than 300 years, but Reynolds evaded capture, fleeing Britain with his wife and son. He spent five years as a fugitive in places as far afield as Canada and Mexico.

On his return to Britain, Reynolds was caught by police and sentenced to 25 years in prison, of which he served just 10.

Reynolds later found fame as an author after penning his memoirs, titled "Autobiography of a Thief."?

His accomplice Ronnie Biggs achieved similar notoriety after he escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year jail sentence for his part in the robbery.

Biggs spent 36 years on the run, leading a playboy lifestyle in South America, before finally surrendering to British police in 2001. Biggs was freed in 2009 on health grounds.

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WHO: Small cancer risk after Fukushima accident

LONDON (AP) ? People exposed to the highest doses of radiation during Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer but one so small it probably won't be detectable, the World Health Organization said in a report released Thursday.

A group of experts convened by the agency assessed the risk of various cancers based on estimates of how much radiation people at the epicenter of the nuclear disaster received, namely those directly under the plumes of radiation in the most affected communities in Fukushima, a rural agricultural area about 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Tokyo.

Some 110,000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 knocked out the plant's power and cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors and spewing radiation into the surrounding air, soil and water.

In the new report, the highest increases in risk appeared for people exposed as infants to radiation in the most heavily affected areas. Normally in Japan, the lifetime risk of developing cancer of an organ is about 41 percent for men and 29 percent for women. The new report said that for infants in the most heavily exposed areas, the radiation from Fukushima would add about 1 percentage point to those numbers.

"These are pretty small proportional increases," said Richard Wakeford of the University of Manchester, one of the authors of the report.

"The additional risk is quite small and will probably be hidden by the noise of other (cancer) risks like people's lifestyle choices and statistical fluctuations," he said. "It's more important not to start smoking than having been in Fukushima."

Experts had been particularly worried about a spike in thyroid cancer, since iodine released in nuclear accidents is absorbed by the thyroid, especially in children. After the Chernobyl disaster, about 6,000 children exposed to radiation later developed thyroid cancer because many drank contaminated milk after the accident.

In Japan, dairy radiation levels were closely monitored, but children are not big milk drinkers there.

WHO estimated that women exposed as infants to the most radiation after the Fukushima accident would have a 70 percent higher chance of getting thyroid cancer in their lifetimes. But thyroid cancer is extremely rare, one of the most treatable cancers when caught early, and the normal lifetime risk of developing it is about 0.75 percent. That risk would be half of one percentage point higher for women who got the highest radiation doses as infants.

Wakeford said the increase in such cancers may be so small it will probably not be observable.

For people beyond the most directly affected areas of Fukushima, Wakeford said the projected risk from the radiation dropped dramatically. "The risks to everyone else were just infinitesimal."

David Brenner of Columbia University in New York, an expert on radiation-induced cancers, said that although the risk to individuals is tiny outside the most heavily exposed areas, some cancers might still result, at least in theory. But they'd be too rare to be detectable in overall cancer rates, he said.

Brenner said the numerical risk estimates in the WHO report were not surprising. He also said they should be considered imprecise because of the difficulty in determining risk from low doses of radiation. He was not connected to the WHO report.

Some experts said it was surprising that any increase in cancer was even predicted.

"On the basis of the radiation doses people have received, there is no reason to think there would be an increase in cancer in the next 50 years," said Wade Allison, an emeritus professor of physics at Oxford University, who was not connected to the WHO report. "The very small increase in cancers means that it's even less than the risk of crossing the road," he said.

WHO acknowledged in its report that it relied on some assumptions that may have resulted in an overestimate of the radiation dose in the general population.

Gerry Thomas, a professor of molecular pathology at Imperial College London, accused the WHO of hyping the cancer risk.

"It's understandable that WHO wants to err on the side of caution, but telling the Japanese about a barely significant personal risk may not be helpful," she said.

Thomas said the WHO report used inflated estimates of radiation doses and didn't properly take into account Japan's quick evacuation of people from Fukushima.

"This will fuel fears in Japan that could be more dangerous than the physical effects of radiation," she said, noting that people living under stress have higher rates of heart problems, suicide and mental illness.

In Japan, Norio Kanno, the chief of Iitate village, in one of the regions hardest hit by the disaster, harshly criticized the WHO report on Japanese public television channel NHK, describing it as "totally hypothetical."

Many people who remain in Fukushima still fear long-term health risks from the radiation, and some refuse to let their children play outside or eat locally-grown food. Kanno accused the report of exaggerating the cancer risk and stoking fear among residents.

"I'm enraged," he said.

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Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/small-cancer-risk-fukushima-accident-093105593.html

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Expand Photo Contest: Win a Samsung Galaxy Camera!

Our first ever Expand event is around the corner, this March 16-17 in San Francisco. In addition to oodles of interesting speakers, there'll be shiny sights to see: robots, retro games, of course gadgets galore and a few surprises we haven't even unveiled yet. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to record said sights with your own state-of-the art camera?

Show us you can shoot an awesome photo of your favorite gadget, and you could win a Samsung Galaxy Camera! We described it thusly: "Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy Camera is a bit of a wild card, marrying Google's Android Jelly Bean OS with a 16-megapixel camera - heck, it's even got a 4.8-inch 1,280 × 720-pixel (308 ppi) touchscreen display... the entire back consists of that 4.8-inch screen, edge-to-edge..." Check out our full review for all the details and specs.

Want a chance at nabbing this bad boy for your very own? Step 1 is to Like the Expand Facebook page. Step 2 is to use the entry form on our Facebook page to submit a photo you've taken of your favorite gadget, title the photo, and give a short description about why it's your chosen top device. Team Expand will judge entries based on creativity, style and skill. Show us why you deserve a new camera!

Good luck, and may the best shot win -- you have until this coming Monday, March 4 at 2pm PST to get your entry in. To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years of age and a U.S. resident (please peruse the full rules).

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