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Amazon?s next-generation Kindle Fire to launch in August, says China Times
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NBA Draft Grades: Perry Jones Earns High Marks For Oklahoma City Thunder
Better late than never is how the saying goes, so while the NBA Draft grades coming from Dennis Velasco at the Basketball Jones arrive after everyone else has filed their columns, it?s still a great read for basketball fans. The good news for the Oklahoma City Thunder is that Velasco loves their draft and the specific pick of Perry Jones.
Instead of just offering the quick take that everyone else does, Velasco goes the extra mile and gives depth on his opinion. That?s what makes this column a great read on every team. Specifically he loves the value of the pick and it becomes once again a potential impact addition by Sam Presti. Velasco writes:
This could end up being a great pick for the Thunder. During the beginning of Jones? freshman year, he was actually projected to be the first overall selection in many mocks. He has that much talent. However, there was a perceived dip in skill this season for Jones, who actually played out of position most of the season. It?s difficult to project what Jones will do with the Thunder as it will be dependent on where they play him.
Since Kevin Durant will man the three, you?d have to assume that Jones will play the four, which could mean the eventuality of Serge Ibaka being let go when he becomes a free agent after next season. That would be a mistake, but Jones is so talented that it would be a mistake not to start him. Time will tell, but this is easily a low risk-high reward pick at the end of the first round. It?s easy to love this pick, value-wise.
For more on the Thunder, be sure to head over to Welcome to Loud City and join the discussion. For more on the 2012 NBA Draft check out SB Nation's NBA hub.
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Polio vaccination programs not reaching enough children in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Polio vaccination programs not reaching enough children in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Wednesday, July 4, 2012New, more effective vaccines are struggling to have an impact in the drive to eradicate polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan because not enough children are being vaccinated, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal today. Sharp declines in vaccine uptake led to a rise in the number of new infections between 2006 and 2011, even though new vaccines introduced during this time have proven to be more effective against the main circulating strain of the virus.
Poliovirus exists in three strains, with type 1 the most prevalent and type 2 unseen anywhere in the world since 1999. It mainly affects children under five and causes paralysis in about one in 200 cases. In most parts of the world it has been eliminated by sustained vaccination programmes in the late 20th century. Afghanistan and Pakistan are among only three countries ? along with Nigeria ? that have never managed to eliminate polio.
Since it was launched in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) ? spearheaded by national governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF - has relied on mass campaigns using the trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine, which contains all three types of the virus,. However, the presence of the type 2 strain in the trivalent vaccine makes it less effective against the other types. In 2005, monovalent vaccines of types 1 and 3 were introduced by the GPEI and in 2009 a bivalent vaccine containing both types was first used.
Scientists from Imperial College London and the WHO assessed the effect of immunisation campaigns in the Afghanistan and Pakistan by analysing data collected by national surveillance programmes. They also assessed the effectiveness of the three varieties of polio vaccine against the predominant type 1 strain of the virus.
The study found that the monovalent vaccine was more effective than the trivalent vaccine against type 1 poliovirus. The bivalent vaccine was comparable in effectiveness to the monovalent vaccine. The difference between the bivalent and trivalent vaccines was not large enough to be statistically significant.
In 2006 over 80% of children in Afghanistan and Pakistan aged 0-2 years old received four doses or more of vaccine. However, vaccine coverage in southern Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, including Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) declined from 2006 to 2011. Although the impact was partially offset by the use of the more effective vaccines, this resulted in significantly lower population immunity levels, leading to an increase in cases over that time frame. In 2011 there were 198 cases in Pakistan and 80 cases in Afghanistan compared with 40 cases in Pakistan and 31 in Afghanistan in 2006.
This analysis prompted a major shift in approaches in 2012 in both countries, to address the underlying challenges which prevent children from having access to polio vaccines. Both countries are this year implementing national polio emergency action plans, involving measures such as increasing technical support to the worst-performing areas; creating accountability mechanisms for district-level leadership; and engaging with communities to increase demand for immunisation.
"Our findings show it's not just small pockets where vaccine coverage decreased from 2006 to 2011," said Dr Kath O'Reilly, from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, who led the study. "The new vaccines appear to be more effective than the trivalent vaccine, which offers encouragement that polio eradication is achievable. But the best vaccine in the world will not work unless it reaches the children its intended to protect. So it's vitally important that vaccine coverage is considerably improved in 2012 through better campaigns and routine programmes if we're to finally eradicate polio globally."
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Creating a Bootable DOS Flash Drive the Easy Way
Date: July 2, 2012Author(s): Rob Williams
Creating a bootable flash drive equipped with a Windows installer or Linux distro is a simple affair today, but what about creating one with DOS? Yes, DOS. The need for such a thing can hit you when you least expect it, especially as a hardware enthusiast, but luckily, creating one is very, very easy.
Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history. While most folks will never have to look at DOS in this day and age, there are situations where using it may be unavoidable. The most common? Updating that old-school BIOS we just mentioned.
So - where on earth do you get a copy of DOS in 2012?
You might be surprised to learn that DOS is stilll being kept alive thanks to projects like FreeDOS and DR-DOS. But even those can be a little complicated to get running, especially if you're hoping to just plug in a thumb drive and boot right into it. Some DOS-variants exist on "LiveCDs", but you might run into the problem where you'll be unable to find any files outside of the operating system itself (eg: C:\).
The goal of this article is to give you the easiest solution to build a bootable DOS thumb drive (flash drive). You might want to do more than simply run a BIOS flashing tool, and that's fine. Solutions such as FreeDOS are designed to run anything DOS is meant to, including games. Your options are far from limited.
Since neither VMware or VirtualBox allow booting from a thumb drive, I'll need to reference the below screenshot I grabbed after installing FreeDOS to a virtual machine. The solutions I am going to point out below aren't going to mimic this screenshot entirely, but the end solution will be the same: you'll have DOS at the ready.
One of the biggest reasons for writing this article is that finding a solution to this problem isn't exactly easy. That's so much the case that I've been without a solution for years, a problem rectified just within the last week. It's clear that there are not enough simple guides out there, so this article strives to be one.
As a side reason, there's a website you're bound to land on when searching for this solution that refuses to tell you the name of its most-recommended tool unless you cough over $4. The site even goes far enough to provide a screenshot of the tool, while blocking out its title bar. Thankfully, with the help of Google image search, I've been able to track that tool down, and to my surprise (not really), it's 100% free and open-sourced. For your hard-earned $0, I'll let you in on its name: Rufus.
Rufus
Its name might be a little strange for the job it does, but Rufus has some interesting claims. According to the developer, it's the fastest bootdisk creator around, even beating the secondary tool I'll talk about next. The program can create bootable thumb drives for more than just DOS, including a ton of different Linux distributions and even Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
Despite its simple goal, Rufus is quite flexible. To gain full functionality, you'll want to hit the "Format Options" toggle, which might as well be called "Advanced", as it opens up a couple of extra options. Hitting that toggle also increases the number of options in the "Create a bootable disk using" menu. By default, MS-DOS will be shown, but after the toggle you'll see FreeDOS, ISO and Syslinux.
I used both the MS-DOS and FreeDOS setting to test the program out, but to actually flash a BIOS, I simply stuck with the MS-DOS option (yes, I actually flashed a BIOS during testing). Because DOS as a whole is very small, the entire process took about five seconds total, and the amount of data transferred might as well be nil.
Unlike the next program I'm going to talk about, there are a couple of things that I find gives Rufus an advantage. First, it has the ability to detect when a drive is plugged in, after it's already opened. Most other tools, by contrast, will need to be restarted to spot the change. Also, where FreeDOS is concerned, Rufus flashes the drive in such a way that when you boot up with it, you'll wind up at the command prompt - there are no menus to contend with. This speeds things up and removes some tedium.
While I prefer Rufus for this purpose more than any other tool I've ever checked out, I'd be remiss to not talk about another very popular option, UNetbootin.
UNetbootin
I've used UNetbootin in the past for creating bootable Linux thumb drives, and to my recollection, it's never failed me. One of its best features is allowing you to create a bootable drive for an OS you don't even have downloaded. That of course means it'll download the ISO for you, which is quite handy. If the OS you want isn't listed, it might still work. In a personal example, Gentoo isn't listed, but I've successfully made a bootable thumb drive with this program.
Compared to Rufus, UNetbootin is lacking in the options department, but for most people, that's not going to matter. Unless you're trying to flash an oddball thumb drive, either of these tools will suffice if all that's needed is a FreeDOS option. There is one thing about UNetbootin that might turn some away, however. No matter what OS or tool you make a bootable thumb drive with, UNetbootin puts in its own boot menu. This might have its upsides, as it seems the OS you choose will edit this menu appropriately, but I've personally never needed anything but the default boot option, so it's only ever slowed me down.
For non-Windows users, UNetbootin has a major advantage compared to Rufus: it's also for Linux and OS X. I've used the Linux version in the past and it's worked just the same as the Windows version, so I'd heartily recommend it.
With our look at Rufus and UNetbootin out of the way, you're now on the right path to creating a bootable DOS thumb drive. So go forth, flash that BIOS, play that CGA game or torture yourself with a DOS spreadsheet program.
As a side note, if you're interested in creating a bootable flash drive equipped with a Windows installer using a couple of official methods, check out our article here.
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Occupy the Dollhouse!
A: You need to address these issue with yourself, then your children?not your sister. Your sister and her husband have more money than you do. That usually translates into having a bigger house, nicer cars, fancier vacations, more toys for the kids. Live with it. Unless they are constantly flaunting their wealth?which you don't mention?you, and your children, need to understand that good and bad fortune is not distributed equally. Sure, their cousins may have more stuff than they do, but you need to remind them they have more stuff than their friends [fill in the blank]. Explain that's life, and if the absence of an American Girl doll is one of their biggest heartaches, then that means all of you are lucky?even if seeing their cousin's two, two, two American Girl dolls really can be annoying. Your sister's children may get a generous allowance, but I love the lessons they are teaching their kids about it: They earn it through chores; they are putting some away for their own future; they are giving another percentage to those less fortunate; and if they save their money wisely over a long time (18 months for a little girl!) they can enjoy the result. I think you need to take a page from your sister's parenting book and instill some worthy lessons in your own kids.
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