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That no good GM candidate wants the Jets job.
Jerry Angelo has brought a clear vision to Bears football after guiding Chicago to three division championships since joining the team as general manager prior to the 2001 campaign, culminating in the team's 2006 NFC Championship and the organization's first Super Bowl appearance in 21 years.
During the 2010 offseason, Angelo coordinated one of the biggest free agent acquisitions in franchise history, signing five-time Pro Bowl DE Julius Peppers. On the same day, Angelo also helped acquire RB Chester Taylor and TE Brandon Manumaleuna.
During the 2009 offseason, Angelo orchestrated one of the biggest trades in NFL history, acquiring Pro Bowl QB Jay Cutler from the Denver Broncos.
Meanwhile, rewarding core players, building through the draft and managing the salary cap are the cornerstones of Angelo's direction. His plan has created stability in Chicago and generated hope as the Bears continue to build upon a strong nucleus of talent.
Chicago has three division titles over the last nine years, ending an 11-year drought in Angelo's first season in 2001. Angelo's tenure has yielded an overall regular season record of 76-68 (.517), plus a 2-3 postseason mark.
Under Angelo's watch, Chicago is tied for the third-most regular season wins in the NFC and tied for 11th-most in the NFL over that same time. The Bears 47 wins in the past five seasons are third best in the NFC and tied for seventh best in the NFL.
Angelo's mantra during his tenure in Chicago has been "reward your own" and he has followed through by taking a proactive approach with the team's key players. In 2009, Angelo extended the contracts of Cutler and DL Israel Idonije. The previous year, Angelo extended the contracts of 10 players, including Pro Bowlers Lance Briggs, Robbie Gould, Tommie Harris, Devin Hester and Brian Urlacher. Other Pro Bowlers to receive contract extensions since Angelo's arrival include Olin Kreutz and Nathan Vasher and nearly 60 percent of the Bears 2010 roster is signed through the next two seasons (not including the five 2010 draft picks).
The draft, the primary means of bringing new talent to any NFL team, has been accentuated under Angelo. The efforts of his scouting staff have been highlighted after each of the last five seasons as five Bears players drafted by Angelo have received Pro Bowl selections: Lance Briggs (drafted in 2003), Tommie Harris (2004), Nathan Vasher (2004), Devin Hester (2006) and Johnny Knox (2009). Briggs has been selected to five straight Pro Bowls. Harris was selected to three consecutive Pro Bowls from 2005-07, Hester was named to two straight (2006-07) after becoming Chicago's first rookie Pro Bowl selection since 2000 (Brian Urlacher), Knox was selected to the Pro Bowl after his rookie season in 2009, while Vasher played in the Pro Bowl following the 2005 season.
Angelo's seven drafts prior to 2010 produced an aggregate total of 23 rookie starters combining to make 159 starts: 38 in 2003, 30 in 2004, 33 in 2005, 15 in 2006, 14 in 2007, 16 in 2008 and 13 in 2009.
Managing the salary cap is a key element to maintaining a team's continuity and providing the ability to sign talent through free agency. Angelo and his staff have excelled in this area allowing the Bears to attract key contributors through the free agent market each off-season of his tenure.
The Bears current roster bolsters such free agent acquisitions as 2009 starters DT Anthony Adams (UFA - 2007), S Josh Bullocks (UFA 2009), TE Desmond Clark (UFA - 2003), G Roberto Garza (UFA - 2005), OL Frank Omiyale (UFA 2009) and T Kevin Shaffer (WFA -2009).
Players such as Ruben Brown (LG), Thomas Jones (RB), Ricky Manning, Jr. (CB), Fred Miller (RT), Muhsin Muhammad (WR) and John Tait (LT) were also free agent pick-ups that started for the NFC Champion Bears in 2006.
In addition to the draft and free agency, Angelo and his staff have also found contributors via the waiver wire, opponents' practice squads and other football leagues. Chicago acquired Pro Bowl special teamer Brendon Ayanbadejo and DE Adewale Ogunleye, who were key contributors during the Bears Super Bowl run in 2006, via trades. Angelo's personnel department has found key contributors that were waived by other teams such as Pro Bowler Robbie Gould (K, 2005), Hunter Hillenmeyer (LB, 2003) and Jason McKie (FB, 2003). LB Nick Roach and WR Devin Aromashodu were signed by the Bears off of practice squads of other NFL teams. Angelo has also guided the Bears to success in acquiring talent outside of the NFL, signing Rashied Davis (WR) out of the Arena Football League in 2005.
Continuity in the Bears football operations was solidified in the 2004 off-season when Angelo hired Lovie Smith to be the 13th head coach in Chicago Bears history. Angelo and Smith spent five years (1996-2000) together in Tampa Bay, helping build a team that went on to capture a Super Bowl championship in 2002. Angelo created long-term stability for the Bears during the 2007 offseason when he signed Smith to a contract extension through 2011.
In his first season leading the Bears football staff, Angelo helped guide the team to its first division title in 11 years. He was handed the reins of the Chicago Bears football operations on June 12, 2001 as the team's first general manager since 1986 (Jerry Vainisi). Angelo has 41 years of football experience, including 21 as a NFL scout and 23 in the NFC North Division (includes 15 years in former NFC Central Division). He oversees the Bears entire football staff including football operations, personnel and coaching along with all decisions regarding the draft, free agency, trades and the salary cap.
Angelo accepted his current post after spending 14 years overseeing Tampa Bay's scouting department as the Buccaneers' Director of Player Personnel. In Tampa, Angelo helped turn a team that averaged under five wins a season in its first 21 years of existence into a perennial playoff contender, as the Buccaneers averaged almost 10 wins over his last four years with three playoff berths and one NFC Championship appearance (1999). The Youngstown, Ohio, native was a key member in carrying out the philosophy of Tampa's rebuilding process. He contributed to drafting nine Pro Bowlers with the Bucs and was pivotal in recruiting free agents Hardy Nickerson, Jeff Christy and Randall McDaniel, all of whom made trips to Hawaii donning a Bucs uniform. Angelo had a hand in Tampa's 32 Pro Bowl appearances by 14 different players from 1989 to 2000.
Prior to joining Tampa Bay in 1987, Angelo spent five seasons (1982-86) as a regional scout for the New York Giants, including their Super Bowl XXI campaign. He spent 1981 in the Canadian Football League as the Calgary Stampeders linebackers coach. Angelo broke into the NFL as a scout for the Dallas Cowboys in 1980. After playing defensive tackle for three years (1968-70) at Miami of Ohio for coaches Bo Schembechler and Bill Mallory, Angelo graduated with a bachelor's degree in social sciences and a master's in secondary administration while working as a graduate assistant at the university in 1971. He went on to coach eight more years in the collegiate ranks beginning at Colorado State as a part-time defensive line coach (1972) and ending with a five-year stint as the D-line coach at Syracuse (1975-79). In 1973 and 1974, he served as the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Tampa before the Spartans cut the football program.
Jerry and his wife, Bernie, have two daughters, Leisa, who is married to Brad Rice, and Sutton.
That no good GM candidate wants the Jets job.
I don't understand why everyone is so against Angelo.
Just 4 years ago, Forbes named him one of the Top 10 GM's in all of professional sports.
Also loved this quote from him back before the Cutler trade:
"Its all about the quarterback... You dont win because of wide receivers. You dont win because of running backs. You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. Were fixated on that.
He knows you aren't winning dick without a QB in this league.
And for all the people who want a personell guy instead of a cap guy, Angelo has coaching and scouting experience going all the way back to '72.
Jay Glazer @JayGlazer
While I think Jets will hire some1 quickly for GM job, they have been getting rebuffed a lot and gone back to some asking them to reconsider
I invite anyone here to ask a Bears fan what he/she thinks of Angelo. It won't be good. I spent a lot of time in Chicago during his tenure and I didn't hear too many positive things. This would be as uninspired a hire as can be, among the candidates mentioned. Makes it a perfect Woody Johnson move.
I am not a huge Angelo fan, but we could do worse. At least we know he has experience running a front office and has built good teams in the past and isn't afraid of going out to get a franchise QB (Cutler trade). He also signed Peppers
His drafts are "blah" but the last couple were without a 1st round pick because he went out and got Cutler. Otherws were marred by injuries that you can't predict.
Part of an article giving Angelo credit for Bears recent success:
He complemented the playoff roster Angelo primarily put together.
Angelo pulled off the trade for Cutler, his signature move. He signed defensive end Julius Peppers, the No. 1 free-agent of the '10 class. He found cornerback Tim Jennings on the NFL scrap heap after the Colts discarded him. He took a shot with underrated starting outside linebacker Nick Roach after the Chargers cut him. Defensive tackle Israel Idonije didn't find his way to Chicago from Canada accidentally. Neither did former defensive end Adewale Ogunleye, a key part of the 2005-06 dominance whom Angelo acquired in return for Marty Booker in August 2004.
Lest anybody forget in this week's piling on of Angelo that the '08 draft that Williams marred also included the Bears selecting Pro Bowl running back Matt Forte in the second round and trusty wide receiver Earl Bennett in the third. The misses at the top of the Bears '09 draft that made us shake our heads — pool-leaping defensive end Jarron Gilbert and wide receiver Juaquin Iglesias — make it easy to forget Angelo also found three starters with late-round selections: Nickel back D.J. Moore, defensive tackle Henry Melton and guard Lance Louis. He selected starting safeties Major Wright and Chris Conte in the third rounds of the '10 and '11 drafts, respectively.
This is an average hire by the Jets. If Jerry Angelo gets the job. You can spin his work in Chicago as positive or negative depending on how you look at it.
On the positive track besides the team's overall winning success. This is on Jerry Angelo's resume.
He drafted Charles Tillman(2nd round), Lance Briggs(3rd round), Danieal Manning(2nd round), Devin Hester(2nd round), Matt Forte(2nd round), Alex Brown(4th round), Corey Graham(5th round), Earl Bennett(3rd round), Johnny Knox(5th round), Lance Louis(7th round),Kyle Orton(4th round), J'Marcus Webb(7th round).
He traded for Jay Cutler and signed Julius Peppers.Many of the best players on the Bears current roster and during their superbowl run are courtesy of Jerry Angelo's moves.
The Bears fans hate Angelo. To me, his track record suggest that he wasn't as bad as they painted him out to be. The team was competitive and winning and many of the players he drafted, traded for or signed are some of the greatest Bears of all time at their respective positions. Jay Cutler, Matt Forter, Julius Peppers, Devin Hester, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman. Having those guys on your resume is not exactly a bad thing.
Anyone but Angelo please.
I like this quote from Angelo I found on Wiki
In an interview in January 2009, he stated, Its all about the quarterback... You dont win because of wide receivers. You dont win because of running backs. You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. Were fixated on that.
ugh, not a fan of angelo. The only positive is, I don't think he would put up with the buffoon and should be able to keep him in his place.
Cohen actually may be the better personnell guy for all we know, angelo does not have an impressive draft history
Did any other team bother to interview Angelo? Don't think so, yet he is our leading candidate? This is what our due diligence comes up with? Thanks Woody!
Fire Rex and a lot of GMs would reconsider. Bigger mess: Rex>Jets
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Molecular Jigsaw: Pattern Diversity Encoded by Elementary Geometrical Features
C. Rohr, M. Balbs Gambra, K. Gruber, E. C. Constable, E. Frey, T. Franosch and B. A. Hermann -
Nano Lett., Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/nl903225j (2010)
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of self-organized monolayers of Fréchet dendrons display a variety of two-dimensional ordering motifs, which are influenced by engineering the molecular interactions. An interaction-site model condenses the essential molecular properties determined by molecular mechanics modeling, which in a Monte Carlo approach successfully predicts the various ordering motifs. This confirms that geometry as well as a few salient weak interaction sites encode these structural motifs.

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As the title implies, this entry is meant to give you a general idea of what to expect over the next month or so of the blog. First of all, I'm going to do my best to start blogging at least once every few days. No more week long droughts between entries. Of those blog entries, every Saturday's entry will be a Q and A entry, unless something big happens in the baseball world. As far as the day to day blogging goes, it all depends on the latest baseball news, however, I do have a general idea of some of my blog entries to come:
- Tomorrow, I'm going to post the Q and A I did with Myke Jones, of the Atlanta Braves organization.
- Coming up sometime next week, I'm going to do an entry on the players that I'm planning to send out autograph requests to, during Spring Training.
- Then, sometime during March (before S.T. is over) I'm going to do publish my 2012 MLB Predictions blog entry. I was planning on doing it sometime this month, but I decided to wait until closer to the regular season.
- Also, on April 4th, I'm going to post an entry on the Cleveland Indians exhibition game against my local Minor League team.
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WARRENSBURG, MO (May 23, 2012) – The University of Central Missouri's Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport and the UCM Department of Aviation will host the Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport Expo Saturday, June 2. The event, planned for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will offer the public an opportunity to tour the airport facilities while experiencing a variety of activities related to aviation.
The expo will open with the national anthem, followed by a flyover at 10:15 a.m. by a pair of A-10 Thunderbolt jets from the 303rd Fighter Squadron, part of the 442nd Operations Group at Whiteman Air Force Base. Piloting the planes will be graduates of UCM's aviation program.
A highlight of the event will be "Extreme Flight," an aerial performance by Patrick McAlee of St. Louis, flying the Blue Demon, a custom-designed biplane. Performing at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., McAlee will execute a variety of precision aerobatics. McAlee, who took his first aerobatic flight at the age of seven, was a commercial pilot at 18, a certified mechanic at 21, and an airline captain at 26. He has trained at the Tutima Academy with Sean Tucker and had logged more than 10,000 total hours in more than 30 different aircraft by the age of 31.
For a nominal fee, Johnny Rowlands, veteran helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for KMBC-TV, Channel 9 in Kansas City, will be on hand, provided helicopter rides, and the UCM hot air balloon will provided tethered balloon rides, weather and wind conditions permitting.
Also on display and available for rides will be the B-25J Mitchell World War II bomber, "Show Me," and the Missouri National Guard will have a static display of information and equipment. A World War I biplane also will be on display. A variety of specialty aircraft manufacturers also will be attending, including Cirrus and Renegade light sport aviation.
Airport staff and UCM aviation faculty and students will be on hand to answer questions and provide tours of the airport. Food and beverages will be available from a variety of local vendors, and parking will be available on site. The event is open and free to the public.
Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport, owned and operated by the University of Central Missouri, is located four miles west of Warrensburg on U.S. Highway 50. The airport serves as a training facility for the university's aviation program while also serving Johnson County, Mo., as a public community airport. The facility is named for Warrensburg entrepreneur and businessman Max B. Swisher, who donated the airport and surrounding 86 acres of property to the university in 1966. Further property acquisition has expanded the airport property to more than 400 acres.
Learn more about the Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport and careers in aviation at UCM by contacting the UCM Department of Aviation at 660-543-4975 or www.ucmo.edu/aviation.


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Former Illinois police sergeant indicted in death of 3rd wife
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By Karen Hawkins, The Associated Press
LOCKPORT, Ill. - Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant who went on a high-profile media blitz after his fourth wife's disappearance more than 1 1/2 years ago, is facing murder charges in the death of a previous wife.
Peterson, 55, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home.
He was arrested during an evening traffic stop Thursday near his Bolingbrook home and held on $20 million bond, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said.
"We are very confident in our case," Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said.
Savio's body was found with her hair soaked in blood from a head wound, just before the couple's divorce settlement was finalized. Her death originally was ruled an accidental drowning but authorities later said it was a homicide staged to look like an accident.
The indictment alleges that "Peterson on or about Feb. 29, 2004 ... caused Kathleen Savio to inhale fluid," causing her death.
Savio's family has long voiced suspicions, saying she feared Peterson and told relatives if she died it would not be an accident. Their fears resurfaced after the October 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson, then 23.
Drew Peterson, 55, is a suspect in the disappearance, which police have called a possible homicide. But he has not been charged and has repeatedly said he thinks Stacy Peterson ran off with another man.
"I guess I should have returned those library books," a handcuffed Peterson said as state police led him into headquarters following his arrest, according to the (Joliet) Herald-News.
Despite the flip comment, "Drew takes these charges very seriously," defence lawyer Joel Brodsky said Friday in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." Brodsky said "wisecracks and comedy" are just Peterson's way of dealing with stress.
Glasgow said Thursday that the case against Peterson would include evidence that might previously have been inadmissible. Last year state legislators passed a law that allows a judge to admit hearsay evidence in first-degree murder cases if prosecutors can prove the defendant killed a witness to prevent them from testifying.
"In essence what you're basically allowing the victim of a violent crime to do is testify from the grave," Glasgow said.
Savio filed an order of protection against Peterson in 2002 and in it she wrote that she feared Peterson could kill her.
"He wants me dead and if he has to he will burn the house down just to shut me up," she wrote.
In an interview on Chicago's WGN-TV, Brodsky said he will argue that statements about Peterson made by Savio before her death can't be used by prosecutors in court.
"It's going to have to face a constitutional challenge," he said. "We're now involving rumour and innuendo and unreliable evidence in a homicide case."
Brodsky questioned whether Savio's death was a homicide and said Peterson's $20 million bail is unreasonable.
Another defence lawyer, Andrew Abood, said the indictment was not a complete surprise.
"There was tremendous pressure for the government to do something in this case," Abood said Thursday evening. But Abood said one of Peterson's sons with Savio has "provided a lock-tight alibi" for his father, who faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
In an appearance on CBS' "The Early Show" last month, 16-year-old Thomas Peterson appeared alongside his father and defended him.
"I highly do not believe that my dad had murdered my mom. Because, first off, he wasn't there, he was with us during that period of time," Thomas Peterson said on the show.
Peterson has seemed to relish the spotlight since Stacy Peterson's disappearance, appearing in a People magazine cover story and on multiple national talk shows - most recently to tout his new engagement to a 24-year-old woman.
From the day Stacy Peterson was reported missing, her husband, a cop of nearly 30 years, knew if investigators weren't focused on him, they soon would be. And it wasn't two weeks before the Illinois State Police made it official, calling Peterson a suspect and her disappearance a possible homicide.
When at the same time authorities announced they believed Savio's death looked like it was a homicide, Peterson knew authorities were looking closely at him as well.
"The husband is always a suspect, whether you declare him so or not," defence attorney Brodsky said when authorities revealed an autopsy on Savio's exhumed body showed she was murdered.
Savio's body was found by a friend of Peterson after the police sergeant called him to say he was worried because he had not talked to or seen Savio for a few days. The couple had recently divorced.
The friend, Steve Carcerano, has said he went to the house and went upstairs while Peterson waited downstairs. When he found Savio's body in the bathtub, he called downstairs to Peterson, who has said he then ran upstairs, took Savio's pulse, but found none.
Peterson's next wife was Stacy, who was 30 years younger. They had two children, who lived with the couple along with Peterson's two children from his marriage to Savio.
On the morning of Oct. 28, 2007, Stacy Peterson talked to a friend. Stacy's sister, Cassandra Cales, tried to call her in the middle of the afternoon, and did not get through. Late that night, Cales went to Peterson's home, but neither Drew nor Stacy was there. A few minutes later, she reached Peterson on his cell phone, with Peterson telling her that Stacy had left him.
Cales didn't believe it and reported her sister missing the next day.
Pamela Bosco, a friend of Stacy's family who has acted as an unofficial family spokeswoman, said "we're just happy for the Savio family."
"We always said that Stacy and Kathleen had one thing in common ... Drew Peterson," Bosco said.


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Four of the six CF-18s sent overseas by the Harper government earlier this year have arrived at Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania, where they will fly armed air policing missions over the Baltic states.
The formal handover of responsibility is expected to take place early next week and the mission is expected to last until the end of the year.
While in Lithuania, the Canadian jets will be working alongside fighters from Portugal. Germany and Belgium also have fighters in the region, but they will be carrying out flights from bases in another Baltic state.
The missions are meant to reassure European allies unnerved by Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula, as well as the military action currently unfolding in eastern Ukraine.
The jets, which had been based in Romania on a training exercise, are tasked with defending Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian airspace because those countries are unable to do so on their own.
The deployment comes against the unfolding backdrop of heavy fighting and an apparent Russian invasion, and brings Canadian fighters as close to Russian territory as they've been since the crisis began.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called an urgent session of the national security council on Thursday after two columns of Russian tanks reportedly entered the country's southeast earlier in the day.
"Destabilization of the situation and panic, this is as much of a weapon of the enemy as tanks," Poroshenko told the security council, according to the Interfax news agency.
Russia's latest escalation is an outrage that will have repercussions, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said as he called on President Vladimir Putin's regime to halt its apparent invasion, as well as the flow of arms to separatists.
The Harper government will review what further sanctions and other measures can be taken, Baird said, but he stopped short of specifics about what sort of response could be expected.
Last spring, Prime Minister Stephen Harper described the annexation of Crimea as a "slow-motion invasion" of Ukraine. Baird said the events of the last few days indicate the Russians have accelerated their efforts.
"This is absolutely unacceptable, irresponsible and absolutely reckless," he said in a conference call from Zagreb, Croatia.
"It is also deeply and shamelessly dishonest. While Russian President Putin talked about ceasefires with President (Petro) Poroshenko in Minsk, his military was busy fighting on Ukrainian soil."
Despite all the tough talk, a tit-for-tat exchange on Twitter between the NATO delegations for the two countries provided a briefly amusing — if ominous — respite from the escalating tension.
On Wednesday, Canada's NATO delegation tweeted a map of the region with Russia labelled as Russia and Ukraine, including the Crimean Peninsula, as "Not Russia."
"Geography can be tough," sneered the tweet, which had been retweeted more than 25,000 times by late Thursday. "Here's a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost and 'accidentally' entering #Ukraine."
Russia shot back Thursday with a more traditional-looking map, Crimea clearly identified as Russian territory. "Helping our Canadian colleagues to catch up with contemporary geography of #Europe," it read.
NATO estimates that as many as 1,000 Russian troops are fighting inside Ukraine with an additional 20,000 soldiers massing on the border for support — or possible reinforcements.
"Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia's military interference in Ukraine," said Dutch Brig.-Gen. Nico Tak.
"We have also detected large quantities of advanced weapons, including air defence systems, artillery, tanks, and armoured personnel carriers being transferred to separatist forces in eastern Ukraine."
The military alliance also released a series of satellite images supporting its claim.
Major U.S. banks, meanwhile, reported they were the target of a massive cyberattack that defence officials suggested may have originated in Russia.
Defence analysts expressed little surprise at that revelation, noting Russia's military strategy involves the use of cyberwarfare to disrupt and cripple adversaries.
Baird called the recent events a "significant provocation" in advance of next week's NATO summit in Wales, where the alliance's leaders are expected to hold a special meeting with Poroshenko.
Asked to characterize the latest developments, Baird described Russia's move as an "incursion" and an "invasion," but stopped of short declaring it an act of war.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, unlike other eastern European nations; the alliance is not automatically obliged to come to its defence.
U.S. President Barack Obama ruled out the possibility that the U.S. will take military action over Ukraine and declined to characterize the assault as an invasion.
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PENN � An anticipated settlement to the contract dispute with Avon Grove teachers will have to wait for at least a few more weeks.
Teachers have been negotiating without a contract this year.
A school board motion last week to approve a collective bargaining agreement, memorandum of understanding and a tuition reimbursement side letter agreement was postponed until later in March.
The new two-year contract, covering the current school year and the 2013-14 year calls for a salary freeze this year and 2.89 percent in raises starting in the fall. In the second year of the contract, spring conferences at the high school are eliminated, giving more teaching time, but costing the district for an additional day of bussing.
It also shows increases to the employee contributions to their medical and prescription plans. The base medical plan has a 10 percent employee contribution this year, going up to 12 percent in 2013-14, with similar 2 percent increases in the other medical plan options. The prescription plan base contribution increases from 10 percent this year to 13 percent in the fall.
In the district�s summary of the contract, a total savings of $500,000 over the next two years is projected when compared to continuing to the end of the 2013-14 school year without a contract.
One of the items in the contract that stirred some public comment is a provision to allow staff to check off a contribution directly to the union�s political action committee. The donation is voluntary. There were also several non-union teachers who expressed objections to the fair share clause.
�Fair share is an amount that employees, who choose not to join the association, pay for services they may receive from the association, such as representation and collective bargaining. The amount is based on a percentage of total membership dues, determined by a formula, and is less than the total amount of dues that a member pays,� Business Manager James Asciutto explained by e-mail after the board meeting. �All employees are required to pay the fair share amount by means of a payroll deduction.�
�It was put in without any representation from those it is going to affect. We have been kind of shut out in the process,� said Donna Gordon, a high school teacher, to the board. Gordon is one of approximately 15 percent of the district�s 365 employees in the bargaining unit who are not members of the Avon Grove Education Association. The few who spoke at the meeting, like Gordon, feel they are being overlooked in the contract negotiation process, and are not being given a chance to comment on the contract that will impact them as well as the union members.
�We feel excluded. We are not even given the contract. We are effectively not included,� Gordon said, noting that the non-union teachers do not even know who the other non-union members are.
In other business, the board formed a committee to look at board policy concerning volunteers. There have been concerns about the requirements for background checks for volunteers and how they can be best carried out. �We want to make it a little more friendly, if you will, and get rid of some to the barriers, yet still be concerned about safety,� Massaro said.


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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Diagnostics, a leading national provider of clinical drug testing and medication monitoring services, will sponsor a year-long series of regional educational Lunch'n'Learns hosted by Addiction Professional, a magazine published for the addiction treatment field by Vendome Healthcare Media.
Dominion Diagnostics has been designated by Addiction Professional as a Thought Leadership Partner for 2013. As a lead sponsor and designated partner, Dominion will participate in each event in the educational series. Each panel in the series will feature thought leaders and experts from the addiction treatment and behavioral health fields discussing critical topics in managing addiction treatment today.
A number of the 2013 series featured panelists are members of Dominion's Addiction Medicine Advisory Board, an assembly of 14 recognized thought leaders with vast experience in the addiction medicine field. The Board focuses on collaborative research, developing and delivering educational curricula, and understanding field trends to assist Dominion in designing clinically relevant products and services for addiction treatment providers.
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Dr. Smith is well-known in the field for establishing the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinics in 1967. Dr. Smith is also a past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, a current participant in the San Francisco Medical Society Committee on the Well-Being of Physicians, and a member of Dominion's Addiction Medicine Advisory Board.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — So they're moving the London interbank offered rate to New York in a bid to restore integrity to the scandal-plagued credit product.
But will a New York–based Libor — a NY-bor — be any better than the tainted original?
Only if the regulatory arm of NYSE Euronext US:NYX is vigilant. Under the British Bankers Association, Libor became a don't-ask-don't-tell product. In London, a presumably free-market interest rate became a rigged game that distorted markets and affected credit for the biggest global corporations as well as credit-card rates for the average Joe.
The NYSE has every reason to take its new task as Libor's steward seriously. For one, all eyes will be watching. It's unlikely that the NYSE would risk the fallout of another rate-rigging, or other, scandal.
Secondly, owning Libor is not only a money-making venture; it's an essential tool for derivative markets. Here is where the future of the NYSE and its future owner, the IntercontinentalExchange Inc. ICE, +0.94% will be able to leverage the information by creating products for customers.
In housing Libor, there is the potential to cut into the business of the CMG Group Inc. CME, +0.84% which lists most of the Libor derivatives contracts.
Again, the NYSE and ICE need to walk a fine line. Exchanges are under fire for selling information to customers ahead of public releases.
And, ultimately, the success of NY-bor will hinge on the participating banks. Global entities including Barclays PLC BCS, +0.04% , J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.94% and UBS AG UBS, +0.41% are intimidating enough on their own — imagine how 16 of them working together could bully a regulator.
That said, moving Libor to New York makes sense. It offers the appearance of a new, and cleaner, start. Now it's up to the participants to make sure the game isn't rigged.


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As he watched his team struggle to score in the first half of Saturday night's contest, Reservoir coach Kyle Sullivan challenged his team to make a decision on how it wanted to play in the second half.
"At halftime I told them that we looked sluggish and I reminded them that we are in contention for a county championship," Sullivan said.
"I told them if they didn't make up their minds to play better, then they were going to look back and wish that they had played with more focus and intensity. I said, 'It's on you guys. If you don't pick it up, we're not going to win this game.' "
The Gators – led by junior captain Zelor Massaquoi – decided to be dominant over the final 16 minutes. Reservoir used its defense to create instant offense and raced to a 48-33 victory over host Glenelg in the annual Howard County Women's Athletics Hall of Fame game.
Massaquoi took it upon herself to help get the Gators (13-2, 13-2) rolling in the third quarter. She scored 12 of her career-high 29 points in the third, and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
Junior guard Olivia Nowlin drained three 3-pointers in the second quarter to help the Gladiators take a 19-14 lead into the halftime. Defending county champion Glenelg was looking to snap a five-game slide and appeared to be on its way to doing so.
Then Massaquoi asserted herself on both ends of the floor.
Reservoir opened the third quarter with an 8-0 run – sparked by five points from Massaquoi and a 3-pointer by Keri Rager – to claim the lead, 22-19.
"When I was shooting around during halftime, I thought about something that my assistant coach told me. He said 'The way I play, my teammates follow suit,' " Massaquoi said. "If I play the right way, they will play the right way. If I have intensity, they will have intensity."
The intensity was definitely there. Later in the third, Massaquoi turned two steals into layups and gave an emphatic fist pump after getting fouled on a put-back layup.
Trailing by 13 early in the fourth, Glenelg (6-9, 8-10) tried to mount a comeback.
Ally Forejt was fouled on a drive to the basket and sank both free throws. Megan Taylor followed with a strong move to the rim to cut the deficit to 38-29 with 3 minutes, 54 seconds left to play.
But the Gators kept their foot on the gas pedal, outscoring the Gladiators, 10-4, over the remainder of the game.
"I thought that we played well," said Nowlin, who finished with 12 points for Glenelg. "In the third quarter, I guess we were just off but we worked as a team and really gave it our all."
Statistical breakdown:
Re: Massaquoi 11, Bonner 4, Rager 3.
G: Yuan 11, Nowlin 3, Zucco 2.
Re: Rager 3, Thompson 3, Turner 3.
G: Zucco 2, Taylor 2.
Field goals
Re: 20
Free throws
Re: 6-11
Reservoir 48, Glenelg 33
Re (13-2, 13-2): Massaquoi 29, Thompson 7, Rager 5, Bonner 4, Turner 2, Johnson 1.
G (6-9, 8-10): Nowlin 12, Forejt 9, Taylor 8, Yuan 2, Doermann 2.
Half: 19-14 G.
Post play pushes Wilde Lake to win over Hammond
Wilde Lake knew that it had a decided height advantage over Hammond, and it took full advantage of that fact.
Forwards Lindsey Williams and Kourtney Harrison (14 rebounds) each scored 13 points in the Wildecats' 55-32 victory over the Golden Bears on Saturday afternoon.
"We knew that we had to be strong and that's our thing. We know where we are on the court and we know what we need to do," Williams said. "We got some easy put backs and layups."
Rachel Lazris also scored 13 points for the Wildecats, who saw 10 players score in the game.
"That height advantage thing came into play for us against Marriotts Ridge (last week) and we're really starting to get good entry passes in from the guards," Wilde Lake coach Caitlin Williams said.
"We've been working on our outside-inside game. That kind of fell apart over the last two games but today we were able to execute it again. Our posts were calling for the ball high and used their height."
Wilde Lake never trailed in the game, but had a tough time with Hammond early. Keyuana Griffin finished a drive to the basket and Cambria Conley added a free throw as the Golden Bears trailed, 9-5, late in the first quarter.
Then the host Wildecats began to work the ball into the post. In the second quarter, Harrison had three straight buckets in the paint – two on offensive rebounds – to stretch the lead to 19-10.
Free throw shooting helped Wilde Lake increase the lead to 32-18 at halftime. The Wildecats went 11-for-17 from the foul line in the second quarter and took command of the contest.
Griffin led Hammond with eight points, while Jameelah Wallace and Amber Ginsburg each added six points.
Statistical breakdown:
Ha: King 10, Wallace 9, Faass 8, Atkins 5.
WL: Harrison 14, Lazris 5, Williams 4, Babaturk 4.
Ha: Griffin 2, four tied with 1.
WL: Drury 2, Corbett 2, 2 tied with 1.
Field goals
Ha: 11
Free throws
Ha: 9-27
Wilde Lake 55, Hammond 32
Ha (0-15, 0-15): Griffin 8, Wallace 6, Ginsburg 6, Faass 5, King 4, Conley 3.
WL (3-12, 4-13): Lazris 13, Williams 13, Harrison 13, Drury 4, Babturk 4, Alexander 2, M. Sciabarra 2, Bialek 2, Fisher 1, Berry 1.
Half: 32-18 WL.


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FBI nominee to receive $3 million from Bridgewater if confirmed
Published 9:04 pm, Monday, July 8, 2013
James B. Comey, nominated to be the next director of the FBI, will receive a payout of $3.07 million from hedge fund Bridgewater Associates if he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Comey, who left his position as Westport-based Bridgewater's general counsel in January, would receive the money as a "full payout" of his interests in the company's profit-sharing plan, according to a questionnaire filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Should Comey be confirmed by the Senate, the money would be paid "prior to the date that I assume the position" as FBI director, according to the 32-page questionnaire, signed by Comey and dated June 26.
Russell Sherman, a spokesman for Bridgewater, didn't have an immediate comment on the payout.
Comey, a former deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 21 to take over the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He testified Monday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the panel, has said he plans to look into Comey's work at Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund. Grassley, who complimented Comey's work on national security issues and his independence, said in a June statement that he remained "interested in his recent work in the hedge fund industry." Comey already is facing questions from civil liberties groups and some Senate Democrats over his role in the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, as well as recent disclosures about the scope of the federal government's secret surveillance programs.
Still, lawmakers on both sides have lauded Obama's pick of a lawyer who also served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and, after he departed the Bush administration, the general counsel of Lockheed Martin.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary panel, called for the "swift and respectful confirmation" of Comey by the Senate. Comey, if confirmed, would replace current FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has held the job since September 2001.


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I have been bored during school lately so I have been drawing. Right now this is one of the only ones that I have scanned so this is it until probably later today or tommarow. I hope you like them.
The first one is a wolfpack bandit drawing.
Comments are welcome.


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Originally Posted by GOREDSGO32
"My mission is to be the ray of hope, the guy who stands out there on that beautiful field and owns up to his mistakes and lets people know it's never completely hopeless, no matter how bad it seems at the time. I have a platform and a message, and now I go to bed at night, sober and happy, praying I can be a good messenger." -Josh Hamilton
Let's make some noise!
Aww...forget it.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Cincy Reds!!
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
Go Gators!
Jail time?
Go Gators!
who dey?
Tom Shearn... who knew?
Reds reccord when I attend in 2007: 6-1
REDSOriginally Posted by GOREDSGO32
Cowboys! :Originally Posted by Matt700wlw
I mean, CINCY!
I hate the Cardinals. I hate the Cubs.
Let's. Go. Reds.
"Per Aspera Ad Astra"
Go Gators!
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When I first heard that there were not one, but two!, fairy-tale inspired stories coming to night-time television last fall, I was pretty excited. I wanted to check out both Grimm and One Upon a Time and.. I did. I actually watched Grimm first and couldn't get into it, at first. The format was more dramatic and crime procedural than I expected so I turned it off within a few minutes, despite feeling that the main character was pretty hot.
I think I forced myself to like Once Upon a Time because there was no way I was going to not like any fairy-tale television show. And I like how the plot incorporates your favorite stories into a modern day version. There's enough of a spin to keep it interesting and some of the characters are masterfully cast. Specifically, Mr Gold/Rumpelstiltskin and the mayor. There's some cheesy CGI and plot holes in general but nothing that will keep me from watching it. It's a family-friendly show that requires a little bit of suspension of disbelief but it feels good and.. magical.
But I decided to give Grimm another chance the other night and now.. I have to admit that I not only like it but I like it better than I like Once Upon a Time but.. it's not fairy-tale-esque. Although the main character is a descendent of the ancient Grimm family and, as such, is expected to hunt monsters like werewolves and such, it's not about fairy tales. Because he's a cop, this definitely has a dramatic, police feel to it. So it's not magical but, that's okay. I already have a magical show to watch.
As I described Grimm to Wendy, she asked if it was like Supernatural. It's not quite as dark but, yes. Most of the adversaries have been were-like creatures: bears, pigs, bees and, yes, wolves. There was a stay ogre, too. Grimm isn't necessarily any more realistic than Once Upon a Time and the focus is more on the drama and action than on the characters, like in One Upon a Time, which focuses on character development. Still, I really enjoy the main character's werewolf buddy. He brings some great comic relief to the show and was well cast himself. Grimm also has some of the same CGI problems but it feels a little more polished than Once Upon a Time.
Anyway, they're both good but only one of them is really about fairy tales.


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Bulldogs Push Crimson to Four Three-Setters
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Yale men's tennis team suffered a close defeat to perennial rival No. 47 Harvard late Friday night at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Indoor Team Championship. Playing at Cornell's Reis Tennis Center, the Bulldogs dropped the doubles point and were unable to make up the difference in singles, with the Crimson sealing a 4-2 win.
Yale (4-2), seeded No. 8, was playing No. 1 seed Harvard (5-3) in the first round of the ECAC Championship for the second year in a row, with the Crimson also having come out on top last season. Playing the last of the four opening round matches, the Bulldogs played Harvard tough throughout the course of the night, forcing no less than four three-set singles matches.
Before the Elis tried to stage this courageous comeback, however, Harvard had come out strong in doubles, scoring victories at the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles spots. Nicky Hu and Andy Nguyen defeated junior Patrick Chase and senior John Huang 8-5, while Shaun Chaudhuri and Alex Steinroeder triumphed over senior Zachary Dean and sophomore Matt Saiontz by the same score.
The Elis refused to go away silently, however, and but for a few points here or there, the end result could have very well turned out differently. Senior Marc Powers, playing at No. 2 singles for the Bulldogs, lost a first-set tiebreaker before storming back to defeat Chaudhuri 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-1. In another match that went the distance, captain Daniel Hoffman, playing at No. 3 singles, overcame Steinroeder, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. These hard-fought victories were canceled out, however, by Harvard wins at the No. 5 and No. 6 spots.
Freshman Jason Brown's match against Andy Nguyen proved to be the turning point. After splitting the two sets, Brown and Nguyen matched each other stroke for stroke in the final set, which fittingly ended in a nail-biting tiebreaker, which Nguyen snatched to close out the 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(8) win. A victory by Brown, who drops to 21-3 on the season, would have left Huang's match, which also looked to be heading to a tight finish, to be the decider.
In the other ECAC opening round matches, No. 42 Columbia edged out George Washington, No. 64 Princeton defeated No. 59 Dartmouth and No. 73 Cornell upset No. 61 Brown.
Harvard's squad advances to the ECAC semifinals, where it will face Cornell. Yale, meanwhile, moves into the consolation bracket for fifth place and will play Brown, a team that the Elis met in a friendly scrimmage in January. The Bulldogs will have to recover quickly, as this match gets underway at approximately 11:00 a.m. on Saturday at Cornell's Reis Tennis Center.
Report by Robert Batista '15, Yale Sports Publicity
1. Denis Nguyen (Harvard) vs. John Huang (Yale), 6-3, 3-6, 3-2 (DNF)
2. Marc Powers (Yale) def. Shaun Chaudhuri (Harvard), 6-7 (6) 6-3, 6-1
3. Daniel Hoffman (Yale) def. Alex Steinroeder (Harvard), 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
4. Andy Nguyen (Harvard) def. Jason Brown (Yale), 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (8)
5. Nicky Hu (Harvard) def. Martin Svenning (Yale), 6-4, 6-4
6. Casey MacMaster (Harvard) def. Zachary Dean (Yale), 6-2, 6-2
1. MacMaster/D. Nguyen (Harvard) vs. Hoffman/Powers (Yale), 4-6 (DNF)
2. Hu/A. Nguyen (Harvard) def. Patrick Chase/Huang (Yale), 8-5
3. Chaudhuri/Steinroeder (Harvard) def. Dean/Matt Saiontz (Yale), 8-5


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November 2012 Newsletter
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Dear OW2 Members, dear All,
November is yet another hectic month for OW2. This week we are launching the CompatibleOne project at Cloud Expo West in Santa Clara, California, along with a host of supporting partners which include Intel, Prologue, ComputeNext, UShareSoft and Cedexis (check out the first pictures).
And while we achieve unprecedented visibility at a major US IT event, we are already getting all pumped up for OW2con'12, the annual conference of the OW2 community. Our program is set to be the best ever: five keynote addresses, an entirely new workshop on Big Data and our first OW2 Projects Awards.
Things to do at/for OW2con'12:
- help promote the OW2 Annual Conference by inserting the OW2con button in your blog, website or eNewsletter, copy from here.
- listen to and meet with our keynote speakers: Patrick Starck, Cloudwatt, Mark Weitzel, OpenSocial Foundation, Jim Walker, HortonWorks, Ali Ataya, Linanon E-Government Unit, Alexandre Zapolski, Linagora and Alfonso Castro, Microsoft.
- attend our sessions on big data (new this year), open cloud (we have breakthrough technologies to share with you), SQuAT (i.e. Software Quality Assurance and Trustworthiness, our strategic quality program), and our OW2 project spotlight presentations (a classic!).
- check out the great program we've put together for you, REGISTER (space is limited!) and book your hotels.
It's hard to believe that only last month we were buzzing across China from Nanjing to Beijing for our second highly successful China Open Source Week (COSW12). We would particularly like to thank CVIC-SE, NUAA and Peter Cheng for their invaluable help. We already have great plans for COSW13. For more details and pictures of the different COSW events, please follow the links from here.
On another note, we are pleased to welcome LINAGORA as a new member in our community. A leading open source systems integrator in France, LINAGORA joins OW2 to promote its research and development activity and grow its international business.
I look forward to seeing many of you again at OW2con'12 (November 27-29) in Paris!
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>Project News
>Project Updates
30 Oct 12: Joram 5.8.0 is released (Posted by: afreyssin)
26 Oct 12: SpagoBI 3.6 now available! (Posted by: bernabei)
23 Oct 12: XWiki Enterprise 4.3 Milestone 1 Released (Posted by: fmancinelli)
17 Oct 12: Talend Open Studio for Data Integration 5.2.0RC2 available (Posted by: pcoffre)
14 Oct 12: ASM 4.1 released (Posted by: ebruneton)
12 Oct 12: Bonita Open Solution 5.8 now available (Posted by: jlipp)
>New Projects
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Play Event Marketplace: Elastic and reliable architecture for dynamic and complex, event-driven interaction in large highly distributed and heterogeneous service systems.
CHOReOS: Framework and Integreted Development and Run Time Environment for scalable service choreographies for applications in the future internet of things.
>Community News
COSW'12 (China Open Source Week) Oct. 15-20, Beijing, Nanjing
If you didn't attend you can now check out, here, the pictures of the China Open Source Week 2012 (COSW'12) which took place in Nanjing and Beijing, October 15-20. More.
Cloud Expo 2012 West, Nov. 5-8, Santa Clara, CA
OW2 launches CompatibleOne, The Open Source Cloud Broker, at Cloud Expo West 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. Visit us on booth #915, check out the interview here, read the press releases and check out the first pictures of the event. More.
OW2con'12, Nov. 27-29, Paris
Register now online to OW2con'12. Check out the program, please visit the sessions page for more details and the final list of keynotes speakers. Visit the conference website.
OW2 Project Awards at OW2con'12, Nov. 27-29, Paris
Project leaders, check out the OW2con'12 Awards Contest: do not miss this opportunity for exceptional visibility, the deadline to submit your project is November 15th. Visit the conference website.
OpenSocial Workshop at OW2con'12, Nov. 27, Paris
Our friends at OpenSocial will host a full-day workshop that will set the stage for what the next generation of open and social middleware is looking to deliver, present an overview of the open source projects, and show how they are being used across multiple commercial vendors like IBM, Jive Software, and others. More.
OCEAN Project Kick-off, October 18th, Brussels
OCEAN - Open Cloud for Europe, JApan and beyoNd is a two-year european project. Another result of the OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative (OSCi) OCEAN aims at generating synergies among open cloud projects. More here or visit the OCEAN project website.
Cloud Expo Europe, Jan 29-30, 2013, London
OW2 will exhibit at Cloud Expo Europe in London and showcase CompatibleOne and several leading cloud computing open source collaborative projects including OpenCloudware, XLcloud and OCEAN. More.
CeBIT 2013, March 5-9, 2013, Hanover
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I'd guess this means that he's joining Reid in KC. No big loss here
@BrianCoz: Tom Heckert has canceled his interview with the Jets #NYJ
I'd guess this means that he's joining Reid in KC. No big loss here
Gamble/Caldwell or bust
More time with Gamble tomorrow. I'm all in for Tom Gamble!
Source says Jets salary cap situation scared Heckert away. Had nothing to do with tattoos.#NYJ
I'm ok with this. We Gamble/Dorsey/Caldwell Bowl now!
@BobGlauber: Confirmed Tom Heckert has canceled scheduled interview for Jets' GM job. Big concerns about bloated cap. No issue with having Rex as coach.
Heckert wasn't anything special, and i'm glad he changed his mind.
Let's hope he goes to KC.
I'd much rather see Gamble, Caldwell, Dorsey or Ross running the show here.


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Looking good!
Looking good!
How about you post a few more ? You look HOT!!!
Hey Bimmer!
Merry Christmas, dude!
Sir Ron is most happy to see your sexy self once again!
Hope that the ladies are being good to you. Your body is awesome and deserving of the highest worship!
Thanks for sharing your newest pic with us! What an awesome holiday treat from a JUB friend!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Welcome back Bimmer -looking excellent as always! Happy Holidays and hope you will post more!
Welcome back stud!!! Happy Christmas to you! We look forward to more pics.
Looking good Bimmer! Welcome back!
Welcome back, stud!!
You're looking sexy as ever!
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing
YOU ARE BACK?!?? Yes!! Dude you are a stud!!! Awesome pics
Glad to have you back stud. Merry Christmas!
gorgeous! just gorgeous!
I KNEW you'd be back....... ....... ....... thankfully!.......
Great looking update. Happy Holidays.
HOT bod, very HOT bod!!
Great to see you again! Hope life is treating you ok!
Hey Bimmer - so glad you have come back! You are looking as god as ever. Keep us happy in the new Year!
WELCOME BACK STUD!!! A lot of us here have missed you tremendously...thanks for the new pic...you're just as hot as ever! How was Europe? Merry Christmas to you too.
Wb brimmer.
Looking good.
Gregster, Gumby, Muffin Man, Zer00ry, Zero, Tech Superhero ,Gumbicito, King Gumby VII, King Gumby VIII,
King of NoVA, King with a Royal Scepter, Greggo.
Welcome back Bimmer!!!
Yay! I honestly can't wait to see more of what you post! Sexiest man on JUB to be honest. You should also make a tumblr account
bump this up!
Yay, you're back! Hope you post a few more.
YAY!!!!!! You're Back !!!!!!!
awesome to see you again mate
pleassse keep the pics coming :P
Looking good bro
Aww hellooooo
Seriously bimmerguy...give us some more pics!
hello! where r u man!? come back plzzzzzz ! pretty plzzz


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I tried out IE 10 and it was great. It downloaded firefox and chrome even better than ever. People who haven't updated should. Too bad XP users can't use it though.
It rocked because it was a completely different browser from IE on x86. The only thing it had in common with the Windows version was that it was non-standard in similar [but not the same] ways.
Anyone else noticed that for years the MacOSX version of Office was so much better and prettier than on Windows?
I wondered for awhile which side the developers on Redmond were on? Granted today Office 2010 and IE 10 for Windows have caught up. I guess the old Windows apis must have been really bad if they couldn't get them to be as good as another competitors OS.
I know you were joking, but IE remains the only major browser that runs on one platform only. I'm sure Microsoft will port it to other platforms someday!
You haven't heard? Microsoft has been working hard to finish porting IE6 to Linux. They seem to be targeting their ads mostly to business clients whom use Active X. I wonder why Microsoft would support the Linux community, have they gave up being evil???
IE is cross-platform. x86, x64, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, etc.
Serious post - I'm sure microsoft will re-port IE to other platforms if/when Windows looks like losing significant market share. The OS is becoming irrelevant, and the browser is becoming more and more important as a platform for application development.
Eventually, I'm sure they'd prefer to have a higher share of the browser market by supporting multiple platforms, than seeing the browser share shrink with Windows. With the epic failure of Windows 8, it may happen sooner than we expect.
I actually had to for my friend. He loves using Ubuntu since I converted his work laptop, then all his home computers, but there was some stupid IE only website that he had to use to make reservations for his business.
It is not perfect, but it gets the job done, and works much better than Virtual Box on his old laptop. Much less pwnage running under Wine too.
IIRC it loads some kind of IE only plugin to do the 'secure' ordering and reservations, but I will give that a try. I gotta pay him a holiday visit anyways. I didn't see him@ Target this Christmas eve. First time since Target opened here about 10 years ago:) I can't imagine he had all his shopping done ahead of time!
What better way to say happy holidays than to remove the last remaining piece of Microsoft software from his life and update his 10.04 Ubuntu install to Mint 14!
Thanks and Happy New Year!
It's here [von-thadden.de]. You also can get it from your distro's reposotory.
It's very usefull to test pages in development. Also, you can install several versions of IE at the same Ubuntu computer. But it probably won't emulate this bug, so you won't have the complete experience of having your computer owned (by this exploit).
Anyone still using IE6 or IE7 deserves to get hacked anyway. I might have a crocodile tear for IE8 users
Anyone still using IE6 or IE7 deserves to get hacked anyway. I might have a crocodile tear for IE8 users
I not a doctor - Do I deserve to get sick, I'm not a mechanic - Do I have to walk..How about fixing leaky tap!...how about making a violin!!. I am not an expert in everything, and have been rarely been out of education, some things take years to learn. The truth is why should everyone be executed to be experts at computing.The sad fact is the world is moving towards electronics away from general purpose computers...making experts like you redundant!
But then, your argument completely falls apart because these users are mostly corporate users whose IT managers should know better.
Households users either worry about it and upgrade themselves, or have more savvy family or friends who do it for them. Do you leave your grand parents, parents or friends with a batshit crazy outdated browser lying around? Of course not. You upgrade it when you notice, and you ideally configure the PC to do so automatically in the future.
The truth is why should everyone be executed to be experts at computing.
One does not simply avoid getting Malware. Only the dead can know peace from this evil.
The sad fact is the world is moving towards electronics away from general purpose computers...making experts like you redundant!
There's nothing sad about this. Not everybody needs a general purpose computer. What they want is a Facebook machine, a Tumblr machine, a Youtube machine, and a Netflix machine. And give it to them. I'm sick and tired of hand-holding users who can't handle a general-purpose computer that can run more than 1 thing at once. I don't run Windows at home. I don't get paid to do support. When something blows up, I get called over to read over the dialogs and apply common sense, because I'm the "computer g
When your doctor tells you to stop eating unhealthy foods because you're at risk of diabetes, do you give him shit like that? When your mechanic tells you that you need to bring your car in to get an oil change on time, do you throw your hands up in the air and bitch about not being an expert?
pretty sure the op struggles to get food to dock with his food hole
When your doctor tells you to stop eating unhealthy foods because you're at risk of diabetes, do you give him shit like that? When your mechanic tells you that you need to bring your car in to get an oil change on time, do you throw your hands up in the air and bitch about not being an expert?
pretty sure the op struggles to get food to dock with his food hole
The big boys at work who buy these $100,000 SAP, Oracle, Kronos, Manpower, Siebel, and other crapware do so because they get a ROI. Bitch about being geeky to this non tech user who just blew $500,000 upgrading everything from IE 6 to cutting edge IE 8 (in his mind) will fire you with such a doctors analogy on the spot. That or he will look at you funny and ask if you replaced the toner on his printer yet?
This man writes your paycheck and he tells you what you support you either su
heh, they ask for a piece of shit and they get a piece of shit, what does that have to do with anything?
That POS you call it, does wonders to productivity. You are looking at it through a geek lense of HTML 5 features and multimedia support. My boss looks at it though how much can IT raise the shareprice. These corporate apps might not look as pretty as www.engadget.com on a HTML 5 browser with cool effects, but can display and automate business processes well.
They wont support anything above IE 8 yet (maybe 1 or 2 do as of the last 6 months) because XP wont die and IE 8 is the common gateway that runs on bot
Well, clearly MS disagrees. In fact, a week or so ago I reported a security bug that only affects IE7 (as far that I have tested) to ZDI. I will not reveal any more details until it is patched, of course.
Microsoft has wanted for ages that those users upgrade.
Would they resort to this method to scare people into upgrading?
Microsoft aren't even getting a sales bump from launching a new version of their platform, providing a shitty experience on their platform has them running to any other platform, and have yet to transition to the new world, where they are not the Daddy!. Android is set to surpass them next year. I'd argue it was more to provide advantages over previous versions of their OS when really their is very little real advantages present. Simply leaving the older unmaintained version insecure is simply a bonus.
Title: New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe
Sentence Two: While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions IE6, IE7, and IE8 are
Then: "We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8,"
Then: People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted.""
Could someone please tell me which versions are vulnerable and which ones are not?
Title: New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe
Sentence Two: While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions IE6, IE7, and IE8 are
Then: "We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8,"
Then: People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted.""
Could someone please tell me which versions are vulnerable and which ones are not?
It clearly states multiple times that IE 6-8 is affected and 9 & 10 aren't.
What if I'm running IE10 in IE8 mode?
Its a work around.
Who uses IE?
Who uses IE?
I'd throw out some numbers but they are skewed towared the site measuring them. Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] pulls some sites together in one place.
Until Oracle, Kronos, Siebel, DerpMaster, Manpower, Sap, and about 85% of all intranet app makers support anything above IE 8 the answer to any recent or different browser is a resounding NO!
Part of me feels they do so on purpose to hurt Microsoft so they can sell cloud solutions and make the pc platform and internal intranet apps higher TCO (Sap and Oracle) and we all need to suffer in the process by not having HTML 5 yet.
College kids reading this. Be prepared for disappointment in the real world as your p
Compatibility View seems to turn IE 8-10 into IE 7... And I find people using it all the bloody time (and for no good reason other than they didn't like how the newer version CORRECTLY rendered some random page they were used to seeing broken!). So is Compatibility View immune to the exploit? I'm unclear whether IE has a separate engine for this or just uses some bizarre CSS definitions to achieve the brokenness...
Don't forget that IE also has a selectable document mode. So, I'd like to see a full matrix of browser modes and document modes that are effected (if it applies).
I wonder that too.
Many corps who use IE 9 (still few) but it in IE 7 mode typically because of one tiny app used by HR wont render right so they make a group policy for the whole company. This eliminated youtube and facebook support which the PHBs even like!
LOL. What?
The only way to make Microsoft software trustworthy is to cut power to the computer.
Recently http://battlelog.battlefield.com/ [battlefield.com] (Battle Field 3 web interface)
stopped supporting IE 8.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/news/view/2832654782553529670/ [battlefield.com]
A clan member asked what they could do about it, I told her to use a different browser.
they came back: I suppose you expect everybody to have two browsers installed.
Actually I did, the only browser they used was an out of date IE. Playing games on-line,
having a functioning chat system installed; one would think they'd have an above average
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