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Engadget  -
1 days and 1 hours ago
 If you recall,
about a month ago Sprint tweeted
that it was working on delivering Android 2.1
upgrade for its HTC Hero and Samsung Moment in early Q2 this year. An optimistic guess
would be April, right? Funnily enough, Techie Buzz has heard that two eager customers
managed to squeeze a more precise date out of Sprint over a phone call -- end of March or even March
26th. Don't go reaching for that champagne just yet, though -- a self-proclaimed Sprint employee
shared a recent internal memo on XDA-Developers forum, revealing that it's "actively
working on having the Android 2.1 platform available to our Hero and Moment customers over the
coming weeks," and that "more information coming in April." Oh Sprint, you do love playing with our
little minds, don't you?
Sprint to release Android 2.1 update for Hero and Moment 'over the coming weeks' originally
appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:27:00
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Autoblog -
1 days and 2 hours ago
Filed under: Budget, SUV, Recalls, Off-Road, South Korea, Daihatsu
Stop the presses! While the rest of the world has been yanking its hair out over that little dustup at Toyota, some actual recall news
has been slipping through the cracks. For example, did you know that 2004 Mitsubishi
Endeavors are having salted road issues that lead to fuel leaks? Or that 2005
Honda Odysseys have bad liftgate struts? Tsk, tsk. However, all that pales in comparison to the
following paragraph.
Turns out, that the check valve in the fuel vapor evaporative emissions control system of 1990-1992
Daihatsu Rockys might crack, causing
fumes to fill the cabin. Gasoline fumes inside your Rocky's cabin are bad (think fire, explosions),
especially if you smoke. Of course, if you own a convertible Rocky, this won't be too much of an
issue. Still, might as well take advantage of this NHTSA recall at your local Daihatsu dealer.
Wherever that might be.
Also, in case you've been worried sick about it, there are no recalls for the Toyota
Starlet. Phew!
[Source:
NHTSA | Image: Wikimedia
Commons]
Recall: 1990-1992 Daihatsu Rocky has check valve issues originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Pros Apologian -
1 days and 5 hours ago
James Swan
" How do you know that the Holy Scripture is all you need? What tells you that? Might you
need a God-led authority (like the Roman Catholic Church) to tell you that?" This was a
question I recently came across from the depths of cyberspace. It's a question sharply aimed
against sola scriptura, but it's a false question attacking an incorrect understanding of
sola scriptura. Underlying this question is the assumption that the Sacred Scriptures are
not enough to function as the sole rule of faith for the church. There must be something else a
believer needs, like an infallible magisterium.
One part of this question is indeed true: if God's voice of special revelation is found somewhere
else besides the Bible, Christians are obligated to seek out that voice, and follow it with their
entire heart, soul, mind, and strength. Protestants though argue the only extant record of God's
infallible voice of special revelation is found in the Sacred Scriptures. The burden of proof then
lies on those who claim God's infallible voice is somewhere else besides the Scriptures.
If God's infallible voice is extant today somewhere else, sola scriptura is refuted. If
God's voice is found in an infallible magisterium or unwritten traditions, sola scriptura
is refuted.
This is why those of us defending sola scriptura constantly ask those attacking it to
produce what they claim to have. If they have God's special revelation elsewhere, throw it on the
table and let's get a good look at it. For those of you who've listened to Dr. White's debates on
sola scriptura, this is his pen example. In his old debate with Patrick Madrid on sola scriptura, Dr.
White held up his pen and said:
If our debate this evening was that I was going to stand here and say that this is the only pen of
its kind in all the universe, how would I go about proving it? Well, the only way I could prove the
statement "there is no other pen like this in all the universe," is if I looked in all of your
purses, and all of your shirt pockets, and in all the stores in the world that carry pens, and look
through all the houses, and all over the planet Earth, and the Moon, and the planets in the Solar
System, and in the entire universe, looking for another pen like this. And, of course, I could not
do that. But it would be very easy for Mr. Madrid to win that debate. All he needs to do is go out,
get a Cross Medallist pen, walk up here, hold it right next to mine, and say, "See! Another pen,
just like yours!" and he's won the debate.
In light of this, I would assert that Mr. Madrid must either recognize this reality, and not
attempt to win this debate by doing nothing more than depending upon an illogical demand; or, he
must demonstrate the existence of "the other pen." That is, he must prove to us what the Council of
Trent said was true. I quote, "It also clearly perceives that these truths and rules are contained
in the written books and in the unwritten traditions, which, received by the Apostles from the
mouth of Christ Himself, or from the Apostles themselves, the Holy Ghost dictating, have come down
to us, transmitted as it were, from hand to hand."
An argument like this is pointed directly at what Romanism claims to have: God's voice elsewhere
besides the Sacred Scriptures. Most often those defending Romanism claim to have God's voice in
Sacred Tradition. Getting them to throw this Tradition up on the table to take a look at is the
problem. Typically only one thing is thrown up on the table as Sacred Tradition, the canon of
Sacred Scripture. The canon is said to be an example of God's voice of special revelation outside
the Bible.
The first problem with this argument is that it goes to battle alone. If I quote a verse from the
Bible, I can also have that verse joined by the entire text from which the verse is found. When
someone uses the canon as an example of God's voice in Sacred Tradition, the entire contents of
Sacred Tradition still hides back up in the hills. Roman Catholics can't produce what they claim to
have. They aren't even unified as to whether Sacred Tradition is simply the same material as found
in the Bible, or if it's information of another kind. One bucket of water in a desert is not proof
that a large lake is just over the mountain.The second problem is a misunderstanding by Roman
Catholics as to what the canon list is. The canon list is not revelation, it's an artifact of
revelation. It is Scripture which Christians believe inspired, not a knowledge of the canon
which is inspired. The church has discovered which books are canon, they haven't infallibly
determined them to be canon. For a detailed explanation of this, track down a copy of Dr. White's
book, Scripture Alone,
chapter five.
Third, Roman Catholics have often jumped on R.C.
Sproul's statement that the canon is a fallible collection of infallible books. The statement
itself originates from Sproul's mentor, John Gerstner. This statement is not an admission that
there is an error in the canon. It is a statement simply designed to acknowledge the historical
selection process the church used in discovering the canon. By God's providence, God's people have
always identified His Word, and they didn't need to be infallible to do so. Remember that large set
of books in your Bible before the Gospel of Matthew? The church had the Old Testament, and
believers during the period in which the Old Testament was written also had God's inscripturated
word, this despite a lack of magisterial infallibility.
Fourth, there is no reason to assume church infallibility in order for the church to receive the
canon. That is, there is no reason to assume God's voice of infallible pronouncement via an
infallible magisterium. I recognize the Christian church received the canon. It does not though
infallibly create the canon, or stand above the canon. The church was used by God to provide a
widespread knowledge of the canon. The Holy Spirit had worked among the early Christian church in
providing them with the books of the New Testament. This same process can be seen with the Old
Testament and Old Testament believers. The Old Testament believer fifty years before Christ was
born had a canon of Scripture, this despite the ruling from an infallible authority.
First century Christians had the Old Testament, and had "certainty" that it was the very word of
almighty. Clement of Rome frequently quotes the Old Testament. He does so, with the understanding
that the words of the Old Testament are the very words of God. He was certain of it, this despite
not having the alleged infallible ruling of an infallible authority. His use of Old Testament
passages show a certainty that the words were God's words. Or, think of Paul's exhortation to
Timothy. Paul notes that from infancy Timothy "knew" the Holy Scriptures (2 Tim 3:15): " and how
from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus." How was it Timothy could know the Scriptures were the words of
God without an infallible church council declaring which books were canonical?
Obviously, the notion that an infallible authority can only provide canon certainty cannot be an
accurate explanation of Christian reality. Think of all the New Testament writers. They freely
quote the Old Testament with the certainty that it was the Word of God. Yet, no infallible source
defined the canon for them. A "source" definitely received the Old Testament canon, but that
"source" was not infallible, nor do I recall Rome arguing that the Jewish Old Testament leadership
was infallible. There is no logical reason why the entirety of the Bible needs an infallible
authority to declare the canon. It wasn't needed previous to Trent, Damasus, or the pre-Christ
Jewish authority.
How was it that Timothy had "certainty" the Old Testament was the word of God? It is God's
sovereign power that reveals the canon to His church, for His purposes. The people of God are
indwelt with the Holy Spirit. It is they, who are given spiritual life and continually fed by its
words. Jesus did this himself, as recorded in Luke 24:45, " Then He opened their minds so they
could understand the Scriptures." As to how a Protestant can have certainty on the canon, my
certainty is in the providence and work of God. Only faith will read the Bible and hear the voice
of God. God used means in giving us His canon, but like the Old Testament believers, those means
don't need to be infallible for one to know they are reading and hearing God's word.
If sola scriptura isn't sola, this certainly isn't proven by Roman Catholic
claims or argumentation. If Roman Catholic have God's voice somewhere else other than the
Scriptures, they need to prove it. Till then, I'll stick with that which is God breathed and which
can thoroughly equip a believer (2 Tim. 3:16). I'll stick with that which is " useful for
teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be
thoroughly equipped for every good work." |
BMC Bioinformatics -
1 days and 16 hours ago
Publication Date: 2010 Mar 17 PMID: 20236517Authors: Licamele, L. - Getoor, L.Journal: BMC
BioinformaticsABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: There is a large amount of gene expression data that exists in
the public domain. This data has been generated under a variety of experimental conditions.
Unfortunately, these experimental variations have generally prevented researchers from accurately
comparing and combining this wealth of data, which still hides many novel insights. RESULTS: In
this paper we present a new method, which we refer to as indirect two-sided relative ranking, for
comparing gene expression profiles that is robust to variations in experimental conditions. This
method extends the current best approach, which is based on comparing the correlations of the up
and down regulated genes, by introducing a comparison based on the correlations in rankings across
the entire database. Because our method is robust to experimental variations, it allows a greater
variety of gene expression data to be combined, which, as we show, leads to richer scientific
discoveries. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate the benefit of our proposed indirect method on several
datasets. We first evaluate the ability of the indirect method to retrieve compounds with similar
therapeutic effects across known experimental barriers, namely vehicle and batch effects, on two
independent datasets (one private and one public). We show that our indirect method is able to
significantly improve upon the previous state-of-the-art method with a substantial improvement in
recall at rank 10 of 97.03% and 49.44%, on each dataset, respectively. Next, we demonstrate that
our indirect method results in improved accuracy for classification in several additional datasets.
These datasets demonstrate the use of our indirect method for classifying cancer subtypes,
predicting drug sensitivity/resistance, and classifying (related) cell types. Even in the absence
of a known (i.e., labeled) experimental barrier, the improvement of the indirect method in each of
these datasets is statistically significant.post to:
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U2Torrents.com’s U2torrents news feed -
1 days and 23 hours ago
A new torrent has been uploaded to U2Torrents.com.
Torrent: 5759
Title: 2001-10-10 * Joyce Center * University of Notre Dame * South Bend, IN * JEMS archive
masters DVD
Size: 7.66 GB
Category: Elevation
Uploaded by: JEMSHQ
Description
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U2
Joyce Center
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN
October 10, 2001
JEMS masters
Video Source: live satellite feed > satellite receiver > forgotten professional format
video tape (likely Betacam) > Digital 8 tapes
Audio Source: live satellite feed > satellite receiver > Casio DAR-100 DAT
Master Digital 8 tapes and DAT tape > Vegas edit, sync and author > Dual Layer DVD-R >
VIDEO_TS
Data Size: 7.66 GB
Video Info:
Authored with menu
NTSC
MPEG-2
720 × 480 (4:3)
29.97 fps
8.00 Mbps
Audio Info:
PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
01 Beautiful Day
02 Until the End of the World > Two Tribes
03 New Year's Day
04 When Will I See You Again
05 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
06 What's Going On
07 New York
08 Pride (In the Name of Love)
09 Sunday Bloody Sunday
10 Kite
11 Angel of Harlem
12 Staring at the Sun
13 Bad > Molly Malone
14 Psalm 116 > Where the Streets Have No Name
15 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
16 With Or Without You > Shine Like Stars
17 Elevation > Creep
18 Mysterious Ways > Sexual Healing
19 One
20 Peace on Earth (tiny glitch on both audio and video masters)
21 Walk On
So…some of you know that JEMS recorded the 2001 Notre Dame webcast
direct from the satellite feed. I posted that audio a couple years ago and the response seemed to
be positive in that it was considered the best version yet to circulate (oddly, a webcast-sourced
version was posted to U2T a few months ago that some preferred even as the capture, by its very
nature, should be inferior. Not throwing stones, I just don't understand how a direct capture
from a satellite receiver could be inferior to a webcast downstream of the same source given the
state of broadband in 2001).
While we were not able to capture live video ourselves, live video was recorded from the
satellite though not of the multi-camera feed. From what I was told, this was because the feeds
were coming through in PAL as that was the video system U2 employed on the road, but the
so-called Bono-cam was NTSC and that feed was recorded. Now I honestly don't recall to what tape
format the Booncam was captured (it was most likely Betacam), but well after the fact, JEMS was
able to borrow and dub those pro tapes to what was the best format we could put our hands onto on
short notice, Digital 8.
This DVD is the first time those Digital 8 tapes (three of them) have been transferred and
circulated. Our good friend KS did the authoring and the syncing to the DAT audio source. He has
done great work in the past and this one is no exception. He felt the quality was strong enough
to author as a dual-layer DVD which will annoy some of you but at this point dual-layer burners
are pretty common. This will be the only version.
Now, the real question is, is this better than what's circulating? I know at least one other
satellite capture was made of the Bono-cam and it has always been my presumption that it was the
source for all the copies in circulation. I have compared ours to the screen grabs at Achtung
Bootlegs and it does appear to be an upgrade. The colors aren't as washed out (look at the green
of Bono's guitar). The picture edges are more defined (read the word "Security" on the jackets
near b-stage), and the audio should be an improvement. I have attached screen grabs of the menus
and a few other frames to help guide you.
Sorry about the upload speed. This is going to take awhile and it will probably be turned off a
few times over the weekend.
Butterking for JEMS
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You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login).
http://u2torrents.com/torrents-details.php?id=5759&hit=1
Take care!
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Mashable! -
2 days and 5 hours ago
 Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr, one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. Leyl has more
than 15 years experience driving high-impact communications programs for emerging technology
companies.
While more than three million businesses, brands and celebrities have created Facebook Pages, many are struggling to figure out
how best to use them. Companies are finding that even when they keep their pages updated with
fresh content, they still aren’t seeing steady growth in their fan base.
And yet there are many brands who’ve surpassed the one million fan mark, while their peers
have languished in the thousands. What’s their secret? These companies have figured out how
to move from “broadcast” mode into engagement. They have engaged people so well that
their fans even invite others along for the ride.
Here are four ways that savvy Facebook marketers are using the medium to engage with their fans.
1. Ask Their Opinion
If you post something on your Facebook Page, you might generate a good number of comments. But if
you post your content in the context of a question, you provide an easy call to action. With a
question, you engage people’s egos and provoke viral distribution of your content —
everyone loves to share their opinion!
At the DigiDay: Social conference
this month, social media marketing application developer Fan Appz highlighted an example of how a simple question can boost
engagement. One of their customers — a leading video content provider with over 300,000
Facebook fans — routinely posts videos on their Facebook Page. The company found that when
they paired videos with a question, video plays jumped by a whopping factor of 7 to 10. This
simple yet effective strategy also generated 100 times more Facebook media impressions, as people
posted videos to their walls in the context of their response to the question.
The NBA has also adopted this approach, issuing a steady stream of “Top Five” polls
and other engaging content that has propelled the organization to top the two million
fan mark, an unprecedented number for a sports league on the social networking site. The NBA
routinely invites fans to rank their top five shooters, point guards and more. During the 2009-10
NBA season, their Fan Page generated nearly 500 million status update impressions and more than
six million video views.
2. Test Their Knowledge
Consider testing people’s knowledge with a fun, relevant quiz, and even tying the results
to a giveaway or promotion (more on that later). A clever quiz is not only entertaining, but also
lengthens the time a user spends engaged with your brand.
One company embracing this approach is Molotov, a digital marketing agency whose clients include
comedians such as George Lopez, David Spade and Jamie Kennedy. Molotov worked with George Lopez
to create quizzes such as How Well Do You Know George Lopez? to push his fan base over the one
million mark and drive viewership for his TV show.
In another Molotov program to promote a client’s new TV show, the company ran a series of
quizzes about the celebrity in conjunction with a sweepstakes for signed merchandise. The quizzes
were tests of knowledge about the comedian, his comedy, his routines, even about what happened on
last week’s show. Giving people the opportunity to test their knowledge got them into a
competitive mode and provided an additional incentive to share their results with friends. In the
span of a little over a week, the campaign drove over 12 million brand impressions — and
the premiere of the show was the highest rated show on the cable network for the year.
3. Pair Promotions with Content
While a contest or sweepstakes may get you some e-mail addresses, simply posting these on your
page provides limited incentive to share with friends or even to participate. The way to boost
participation is by tying the offer to content. People taking a brand-related quiz are great
targets for your message. They may already have an affinity for the brand, so this is the best
time to make them an offer.
In the example mentioned above, Molotov gave fans a chance to enter a sweepstakes to win signed
merchandise — but the offer was made within the flow of the quiz. This strategy resulted in
a 50% conversion rate. For every ten fans who tested their knowledge, five signed up to
participate in the promotion, generating over 30,000 sign-ups for the weekly e-mail blast to
promote the show.
The offer doesn’t even have to be big. Before the Super Bowl, the NFL ran a How Well Do You Know the
NFL? quiz, with one lucky participant selected to receive a $50 gift card to NFLshop.com. Over 10,000 people took the quiz. If you
estimate that each participant has 200 friends, that’s a possible two million impressions
in the news feed with a relatively small giveaway.
4. Thank Your Fans
Giving your fans something of value — whether it’s as simple as a coupon, or as
flashy as tickets to the Tonight Show — is a great way to show that you appreciate
their continued support.
But what about picking one fan at random to get something really special?
The NBA again shows that they are on the leading edge. This brilliant strategy taps some of their
biggest stars to record personalized video clips thanking select fans. Here’s a picture of Shaq
thanking fan #385. If you’re an NBA fan, you could be next!
Put These Ideas Into Action
You don’t have to be a major brand like the NBA to turn your Facebook Page into an engaging
destination. Any business can take these ideas and get creative. A restaurant could pair a quiz
about famous restaurant movie scenes with a $100 gift certificate sweepstakes, or a Ford
dealership could run a poll gauging people’s reactions to the Toyota recall news and give
away interest-free financing to one lucky winner. The trick is to think about what your users
would be interested in, what’s trendy or fun, then try it out.
In what ways are you engaging with your Facebook fans?
More Facebook resources from Mashable:
- 5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page
Ideas to Learn From
- HOW TO: Build a Facebook
Landing Page for Your Business
- HOW TO: Block FarmVille on
Facebook
- How Facebook Can Become a Money
Making Machine
- 10 Musts for Marketing to
Women on Facebook
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