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Hong Kong
HIV infections have risen to record levels in Hong Kong, registering a 17 percent increase in 2005 over the previous year. According to the city's department of health, sexual contact remains the major route of transmission, accounting for around 64 percent of new cases, with the largest increase in new cases occurring among men who have sex with men. According to UNAIDS in 2004, Hong Kong's adult HIV prevalence was 0.1 percent. (Shanghaidaily.com, 14/2/06; UNAIDS)India
Mandatory HIV testing before marriage may soon be required in the western state of Goa, an act that would make Goa the first Indian region to implement such a law. On 17 March, the Goan government announced plans to ask that the state assembly amend the Goa Public Health Act to require couples registering for marriage to be screened for the virus. The terms of the revised act would allow couples to marry even if one or both are HIV positive, and it would also allow couples to opt out of testing. But the plan has met with a chorus of opposition from such organizations as the Goa State AIDS Control Society, a subsidiary of the Indian government's National AIDS Control Organization, the UNAIDS program in India, and a vocal group of Indian NGOs. If passed, Goa's mandatory testing will run counter to India's national AIDS policy, which encourages voluntary testing. Currently more than 5 million people in India are estimated to be infected with HIV, with at least 90 percent unaware of their status, according to UNAIDS. (Economic Times, 17/3/06; Financial Times, 27/3/06)
The rate of HIV infection in southern India among people aged 15 to 24 has dropped by roughly 35 percent, according to a study published 30 March in The Lancet. This striking decline in prevalence in the worst hit region in India is the result, researchers believe, of successful prevention efforts aimed at commercial sex workers and their clients. Indeed, condom use among sex workers has increased by 70 percent since HIV awareness campaigns were introduced, according to one of the study's authors. Prevalence rates in the four southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra—which together account for about 75 percent of all of India's HIV infections—dropped from 1.7 percent in 2000 to 1.1 percent in 2004. The study found no significant decrease in the northern Indian states, where the epidemic is driven primarily by injecting drug use. (AP/Globe and Mail, 30/3/06)
Papua New Guinea
The government of Papua New Guinea has for the first time publicly called for "one hundred percent condom use" and has urged Christian churches and other religious organizations to move beyond their "religious and moral biases" to support the new condom program. Dr. Puka Temu, minister assisting the prime minister on HIV/AIDS, spoke at the National HIV Prevention Summit about the necessity of implementing widespread condom use in a country with an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 1.7 percent. At the same summit, a new study was submitted showing that children in Papua New Guinea as young as eight years old have had sexual intercourse and that large numbers of young people begin having sex between the ages of 11 and 15, many without using condoms. (Post-Courier Online, 12/3/06)
Under the aegis of a new campaign called Sex Alert, the Thai government has launched its first HIV/AIDS prevention program aimed at men who have sex with men (MSM). Sex Alert will use a variety of media to present educational materials on safer sex and HIV, and will provide condoms and lubricant. (11/2/06, Medical News Today) Until recently, MSM have been largely overlooked by Thailand's national HIV prevention efforts, but prevalence rates among MSM have begun to rise. Recent studies have suggested that Thailand's efforts to combat HIV/AIDS on a broader level have also begun to falter; in response, the government announced plans to cut new infections by half over the next three years. (Yahoo! News, 14/2/06)
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Concepcion, Chile, Jul 8, 2013 / 11:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The archbishop of Concepcion, Chile, has donated a $50,000 inheritance to a Catholic university in the city to establish a food scholarship in memory of his late aunt.
"I believe that in Chile, donation is a path we must take for a more just society, in a bid for freedom for all," Archbishop Fernando N. Chomali Garib said at the June 24 ceremony establishing the Yolanda Garib Food Scholarship at the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception.
The inheritance received by the archbishop from his maternal aunt, Yolanda Garib, will serve as financial aid for meals for students whose parents are imprisoned or immigrants.
The rector of the university, Juan Miguel Cancino, as well as members of the Chilean Prison Guard Force, government officials, the ambassador of Palestine, and family and friends of the archbishop were present at the ceremony.
"We hope that this example of generosity is followed by many," Cancino said of the donation.
Archbishop Chomali said that "money is to overcome poverty," adding that "now I had the opportunity to lead by example."
Nearly 80 percent of the university's students are from impoverished families, and the school is meant to help lift students out of poverty.
There is a "very complex" link between education and social standing in Chile, Archbishop Chomali said, and it should be overcome.
Ahead of the ceremony, Archbishop Chomali said that "many, by virtue of their poverty and discrimination, could not study. And had they had more support, maybe they would have studied."
"I believe we need to take care of the poorest of the poor, who today are the children of inmates who are finishing their sentences, and the children of immigrants.
"At least they know that someone wants to lend them a hand," he reflected.


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"The hacker group LulzSec on Thursday posted information it took from Sony Entertainment and Sony BMG on its site, called the LulzBoat. The information includes about a million usernames and passwords of customers in the U.S., Netherlands and Belgium and is available for download and posted on the group's site. A release posted on LulzSec's page said the group has more, but can't copy all of the information it stole. The group also said none of the information it took from Sony was encrypted."
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Your home network doesn't need to provide services to the internet, and even without a firewall it shouldn't be providing anything people could attack.
Sony actually do need to provide services, so based on that these services would be permitted through by their firewall anyway. If someone finds a vulnerability in the services they offer, then thats a route in and gets you behind the firewall.


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A grilled cheese sandwich requires little forethought: slap two slices of American cheese between two pieces of buttered bread and grill until the cheese is melted.
But turn the concept over to creative chefs and prepare to be amazed at what they dream up.
Jeff Richard, owner of Crave Real Burgers, takes the toasted sandwich where it rarely has been before, using two to stand in for buns in his Fatty Melt burger. And grilled cheese is the base for his version of the Slopper — an open-face burger smothered in green chili, a sensation made popular in Pueblo.
"We must have had 100 people from Pueblo come to Crave when we opened in Castle Rock telling us we had to make a Slopper," he said. "We had never heard of it. Once we figured out the concept, it was a natural to put our grilled cheese sandwich on the bottom to hold up to the chili."
Richard is particular about the type of bread he uses. He uses a sourdough bread that is more dense and firm than store-bought white bread. He also cuts the slices thicker to hold up to the juiciness of his burgers and toppings.
Crave also offers what Richard calls "the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich." It's the Virginia, which starts with the sourdough bread and is topped with thick slices of grilled ham and Swiss, provolone and cheddar cheeses.
Scarlett Farney (full disclosure: she's my daughter), executive chef at Mozaic restaurant at the Inn at Palmer Divide in Palmer Lake, took home bragging rights from the Colorado Springs Chorale Chefs' Gala in February for her grilled cheese creation. The dish — Chipotle Cherry Cheddar Cheese Grilled Sandwich with duck confit on homemade brioche with onion-bacon marmalade served with romesco sauce — took second in the appetizer category.
Think of this dish as fat on fat. The duck confit is duck legs that have been simmered slowly in duck fat until the meat falls off the bone in velvety strands. It's combined with the gooey goodness of creamy cheddar cheese bookended with butter-toasted brioche. The sweet-savory marmalade plays nicely with the cheese and butter sandwich flavors.
So grilled cheese doesn't have to be a simple sandwich. It can ooze with surprising combinations, and can even involve dessert.
In honor of Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month (who knew?), we offer a couple of easy recipes that take grilled cheese to the next level.
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The French Connection
Yield: 2 sandwiches
4 slices of French bread
4 ounces blue cheese
10 strawberries, quartered
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
8 basil leaves
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1-2 tablespoons granulated sugar
A half-hour before making sandwich, clean and quarter the strawberries. Combine the strawberries, balsamic vinegar and sugar in a bowl and gently toss. Let ingredients sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
To make sandwich, butter sliced bread with room temperature butter. To construct sandwiches, place bread butter-side-down and layer 2 ounces blue cheese, basil leaves and top with half of strawberry mixture on each sandwich.
Transfer to hot skillet and cook until cheese is melted and bread is nicely browned.
Source: Adapted from Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co.
The Vermont Sunrise
Yield: 4 sandwiches
1 can of biscuits
12 slices cheddar
12 slices of bacon
1 Granny Smith apple, sliced
4 tablespoon butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons maple syrup, warm
Bake the biscuits in the oven as directed while cooking the bacon in a skillet. Set bacon aside.
When baked, cut the biscuits in half and butter the outsides of each biscuit. To construct sandwiches, layer cheddar slices, then apple slices, and top with bacon.
Drizzle each sandwich with ½ Tbsp. warm maple syrup, close with top half of buttered biscuit. Place sandwich on skillet and grill until heated and cheese melts.
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At Sundance 2014, a 'Mad Men' Reunion For the Movie 'God's Pocket'
For his directorial debut, John Slattery collected one of the most impressive casts at the Sundance Film Festival this year: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, and the director's "Mad Men" co-star Christina Hendricks.
The movie, "God's Pocket," is an adaptation of a novel by reporter Pete Dexter about life in a down-and-out Philadelphia neighborhood that veers back and forth over the line between gritty and absurd.
Mr. Slattery, who plays slimy ad salesman Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," said in a question-and-answer session after the movie's premiere screening Friday that he had been attempting to secure rights to the book for nearly a decade before finally making "God's Pocket."


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Until 2006, each written letter or recovery report was processed in a batch of approximately 100 reports and assigned a batch number. Reports called in to the 1-800 number and reported on the band reporting website are strictly electronic reports and were given a five digit batch number comprised of the year and Julian date. The Cycle Processed indicates the week of the year that the recovery was processed. The batch number was once used to locate original or microfilmed reports. These numbers are in the comments field of encounter reports and the batch number is represented as B#xxxxx and cycle processed is represented as C#xxxx. When the BBL switched to the Oracle relational database from the HP hierarchical database, batch numbers and cycles processed were no longer used.
In 2010-2011 the BBL digitized all paper and microfilm encounter report records and indexed them by their band number, increasing the accessibility and efficiency of locating the original copy of these records. While the batch number and cycle processed are now irrelevant when trying to locate the original copy of a report sent in by postal mail, these numbers are retained in the comments on encounter reports given that they also provide a historical account of when the record was processed.


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Lee Memorial Health System Foundation announces it has begun its annual partnership with Spirit of Halloween stores.
Now through Oct. 20, the stores will give 10 percent of each purchase back to the Child Life Department at Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida when customers present a special coupon at checkout.
Along with helping local children, the coupon will saves the customer 10 percent off each purchase.
Participating locations include Fort Myers, Naples, Cape Coral, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Venice and Bradenton.
A key component of pediatric care at Golisano Children's Hospital is the Child Life Program, which is designed to help children understand and cope with their medical treatment.
The goal is to make a child's treatment experience as positive and stress-free as possible.
Child Life specialists work with children, families, medical staff and the entire healthcare team in the treatment of young patients.
The goal is to minimize the stress of a hospital experience through the following services: pre-admission and pre-surgical tours; age-appropriate activities in the playroom, teen lounge and bedside; preparation for medical tests, procedures and surgeries; educational services, including coordination of homebound/hospital teaching and a school re-entry program; special events for fun and learning such as pet therapy, clowns and more; as well as planning birthday and holiday celebrations.
Providing a sense of normalcy for children who are coping with serious health issues is important to their treatment and recovery.
The community can access the special coupon by downloading it online at: tinyurl.com/m3bbs94.
For more information on the special offer or the partnership, call the LMHS Foundation at (239) 343-6950.


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Has anyone in your/DH's family ever written a dissertation? Because they may be underestimating what a huge effort it is. Trust me, I sympathize. I make my living writing, and you wouldn't believe the number of people who think that you sit down in front of the computer and POOF the words just appear.
Perhaps the family need also be reminded that done isn't good enough. It also has to be good enough to be done.Is your DH in a field where his dissertation may later be published? Perhaps use that to spin the time commitment and make them understand. i.e. "It can be frustrating, but DH is working so hard to finish with a strong dissertation. Did you know that with a great dissertation he'll 1) be so much closer to publishing his first book or 2) be a much stronger candidate in this tough economy. Think of it like building a house. Do you want the builders to finish fast or build it strong?"
"The dissertation is coming along fine but DH & I made a pact that we were taking a vacation from it for this week (or however long that you're in Home City) so we can relax." Then bean dip like mad. And lather-rinse-repeat as needed. The mention of the pact between you & DH and the word vacation, repeated as often as necessary, should drive home the fact that the topic is off limits for this trip without making it sound like it has anything to do with you not wanting the parents to ask, but more to do with your own needs to take a break from it.I've found that often, the best way to get someone to do something you want is to put all the blame on yourself. So instead of implying that their asking is annoying, you're stating that it's all about your need for a holiday from work.
Do you think bringing him on a vacation away from his paper is a good idea if you go to a place where everyone there is going to remind him of it?
What I think your dh should do is go into a very lengthy discussion of his dissertion. You know, like an hour or more. And bring it up every five minutes or so or bring it up into every conversation. By the end of the first day with your family, I bet no one brings up the dissertation again!
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League-leading Freeman too much for Chewelah
The Chewelah Cougars (1-4, 0-2) faced off against the Freeman Scotties (5-0, 2-0) on Friday night in Chewelah in a key Northeast A League football game. The Cougars held their own for most of the first half, but two late touchdowns by league-leading Freeman in the first half opened up the game and the Scotties never looked back, cruising to a 41-12 victory on Senior Night for Chewelah.For the second straight week, the big play was the nemesis of the Cougar defense--a touchdown pass of 56 yards and two other touchdowns set up by plays of 40-plus yards in the first half. "The kids played hard of defense," said head coach Jim Fisk. "They rallied well and played good for the first half, but the big play hurt us. We'll make some adjustments and take care of it." Secondary gives up big plays to high-powered Freeman offenseThe secondary giving up the long pass is the biggest issue for the inexperienced Cougar defense, but it is being addressed in practice by coach Fisk. " I've got to put kids in a better place to make plays and that's a fixable thing for me," the coach said. The defense kept Freeman running back Quinn Robinson in check, holding him to 86 yards on 21 carries. "Overall, I think two-thirds of our defense is playing well," added Fisk. "We just need to make some improvements in the secondary." The offense for Chewelah struggled to put points on the board, but moved the ball well between the 20-yard-lines. The Cougars gained 340 total yards, 170 running and 170 passing. Derek Smith gained a majority of that yardage for Chewelah, while Dylan Long caught both touchdown passes thrown by Smith. "We were O.K. on offense...we weren't hitting on all cylinders, but the guys' effort was good," Fisk said. The Cougars' offensive line is still learning from week to week what it takes to play at a high level. "The O-line is playing hard, but they need to keep on their feet ...scramble better on their blocks, give those guys a gap (Smith, Calvin Connell and Ben Johnstone) and they'll make a play for us," Fisk said of his team's line play.The other area of concern for coach Fisk is getting Connell more involved in the offense. "Teams are trying to take Calvin out of the mix and we need to do a better job of not allowing that to happen," he said. Senior NightIt was Senior Night at Snyder Field and the seniors and their parents were honored by JHS in a pre-game ceremony. The Cougars took those good feelings into the first quarter. A 21- yard run by Smith on third and 20 keyed a 56-yard touchdown drive, capped by a four- yard touchdown pass from Smith to Long and a 6-0 lead. The advantage was short-lived as Freeman went on a 2 minute, 63-yard touchdown drive, most of which was covered on a 50- yard run by Scotties' quarterback Cody Unfred. Freeman scored on a Robinson 3 yard run and took a 7-6 lead with four-minutes remaining in the first quarter. The Cougars and Scotties defenses took over for much of the remainder of the half, holding each other scoreless until four-minutes were left in the second quarter. On second and five from their own 44-yard-line, Freeman hit on their second big play of the half. Justin Barrong got behind the Chewelah defense and Unfred hit him on a 56-yard touchdown pass and a 14-6 Scottie lead. After a short Cougar punt, Freeman took over at the Chewelah 45 with 1:45 left in the half and immediately hit on their third big play of the half, a 40-yard completion to Derek Harter by Unfred that put the ball on the Cougar five. Robinson capped off the drive with a one-yard run and just like that the Scotties had a 21-6 lead going into halftime. "A couple of big plays late and you go down two scores--that hurts in a lot of ways," said coach Fisk.In the second half, Freeman took advantage of a short field, scoring on drives of 24 and 44 yards to build a 35-6 lead going into the fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Cougars found the end zone again, Long, on a 15-yard touchdown pass by Smith,, finished off a 56- yard touchdown drive by the Cougars to cut the Chewelah deficit to 35-12. Freeman recovered the onside kick at midfield and once again took advantage of the short field to score their final touchdown of the evening. This time, Kellen Miller caught a 13- yard Unfred TD pass to set the final score of 41-12. THIS WEEKThe week the Cougars travel to Priest River, Idaho (0-5) to play the Spartans, and coach Fisk feels that the Cougars will make some noise in the final month of the season. "We're close," he said. "I am hungry for some wins and I know the boys are too." Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Priest River HS.Freeman 7 14 14 6--41Chewelah 6 0 0 6--12Chw-Long 4 pass from Smith (run failed)Fre-Robinson 3 run (Harter kick)Fre-Barrong 56 pass from Un¬fred (Harter kick)Fre-Robinson 1 run (Harter kick)Fre-Robinson 10 run (Harter kick)Fre-Robinson 21 pass from Unfred (Harter kick)Chw-Long 13 pass from Smith (run failed)Fre-Miller 15 pass from Un¬fred (kick failed)


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- Michael Simon: We don't know how to make sense of tragedy, but our kids want our guidance
- He says media accounts come faster than brain can process complex emotions, empathy
- He says study shows deluge of news interferes with ability to help others with their emotions
- Simon: To respond to suffering of kids, loved ones: slow down, give persistent, calm attention
I don't have the answers.
Under the weight of mystery, loss and grief, most of us long for healing and look for answers. After hearing of the mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut, I asked a friend, the principal of an elementary school, how the children and parents there were doing.
"There was a different feeling and a much longer line than usual to pick up the kids," he said "Hugs held longer, smiles broader, more patience all around; these parents were mindful of the privilege of picking up their children today."
Not including the tragic killings at Sandy Hook, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence lists over 170 school shootings in the United States since 1997, prompting many to describe the tragic shooting as part of an epidemic of gun violence in America.
How do we make sense of these incidents and their antecedents and envision a better future? I don't know, and neither do many of the so-called experts, but that hasn't stopped them and the mass media from weighing in very quickly.
We've seen this all before: Media outlets rush to feed the voracious hunger of the 24-hour news cycle, reporting on instant theories and repeating rumors and mistakes, sometimes supplied by well-meaning law enforcement and school officials eager to provide information to anxious parents. Pundits rush to defend or denounce gun control or render judgments about the mental health system.
Tweets and texts fly, fingers wag in consternation at all those who got the facts wrong. Theories, reasons and blame pile up. Unbridled arguments break out -- check the comments under this piece, and most other pieces online.
Meanwhile, our young children are watching, listening and looking to us for answers.
They need us calmly close by, a loving, attentive presence quietly assuring them that their world will not change. It scares us to our depths because we know we cannot really promise that.
To calm a shocked nation, President Barack Obama appeared on television as events were still unfolding in Newtown. After expressing heartbreak for the slain children and their parents, he spoke of the parents whose children had survived: "Their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early and there are no words that will ease their pain."
If there are no words, then what is there? The president's tearful reaction was notable for several long pauses as he struggled to prevent his feelings from overwhelming the need to communicate to a nation in grief.
Obama's pauses were bookends to his observation that "our hearts are broken today." They point to necessity of time for any deep, effective, moral and compassionate response to pain and loss. A 2009 prize-winning study done by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Antonio Damasio and their colleagues at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California could be seen as a kind of scientific exploration of what it means to have "our hearts broken."
Immordino-Yang put it simply:
"The poets had it right all along. This isn't merely metaphor. Our study shows that we use the feeling of our own body as a platform for knowing how to respond to other people's social and psychological situations."
But the speed of our digitally mass-mediated lives is not conducive -- according to Immordino-Yang and Damasio's work -- to experiencing the "nobler instincts" of empathy and compassion in response to violence and human suffering.
The USC study demonstrated that when people heard stories depicting physical pain, the pain centers of their own brains activated very quickly. But empathizing with stories of psychological pain took much longer. Seeing or hearing stories of physical injury and death -- the stock in trade of much media -- does deeply and quickly move us. But the higher emotions and the capacity for an ethical response, compassion and empathy, "are inherently slow."
Immordino-Yang surmises, "For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection." She warns that if the flow of information and news is too quick, it can interfere with the experiencing of emotions about other people's psychological states, a problem she argues has "implications for your morality."
By slowing down and recognizing the need for time to ethically respond to suffering, we see the faint echoes of an answer to the question of whether our children can live in this imperfect world and still feel free and hopeful (and whether we can do the same).
Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at USC, thoughtfully summarized Damasio's study: "Lasting compassion in relationship to psychological suffering requires a level of persistent, emotional attention."
Persistent, quiet, calm attention: This is what our children need from us in the wake of this horror, and what we owe one another as we stumble along trying to figure out what to do about it all. It suggests that deep listening, rather than quickly speaking (or cajoling, warning, or advising our children and each other) may provide the time we need to experience our "nobler instincts" in the face of all-too-human grief and loss. I don't have the answers. But I suspect that answers will come — slowly.


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We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Madeley. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
This centre offers high quality, purpose built accommodation. Units are of similar size at around 1100 sqft and have been designed to afford flexibility of use by way of internal partitioning or combination of one or more units as required.
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Desk space available in a shared office environment. It has been furnished to a high specification and would suit small professional businesses who would like somewhere they can concentrate and be productive.
This centre is packed with technologically facilities including lighting that is designed specifically to compliment the use of VDU's, category 5 cabling throughout the building and a telephone system which allows broadband access as well as a convenient divert system. Air conditioned conference facilities are available and can be prior booked at reception. The full time receptionist means that all clients are announced or directed to your suite as appropriate. This is in addition to the hi-tech security system. A large, gated parking area is available in which parking spaces are allocated proportionately to floor area taken. Offices are available in sizes ranging from 100 sq.ft to 3000 sq.ft. These are available on a flexible lease. The fully inclusive prices comprises of rent, rates, heat, light, power and car parking at the rate of 1 space per 500 sq.ft. This all inclusive rate only excludes cleaning of own areas and telephone lines.
This is a modern business centre providing a range of furnished offices, workshops and studios that are available on flexible terms. The centre is telecoms & IT enabled and provides a manned reception, meeting rooms, free car parking, cycle racks, shower facilities, CCTV security and an on-site cafe. The offices range from 140 to 500 ft2 (13 to 47 m2) and can be let with or without furniture. The workshops range from 900 to 1,300 ft2 (84 to 121 m2) and benefit from powered roller shutter doors, lighting and WC facilities.
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Regardless of who you were rooting for today, you had to feel a bit bad for Andy Roddick following his 16-14 in-the-fifth loss to Roger Federer, the man who has now beat A-Rod on 19 of 21 tries.
In his post-match interview with Sue Barker, Roddick was beyond brief, answering his questions quickly and striding back to his place at the net, obviously overcome with defeat and grief in what was the longest Wimbledon finals match ever.
Federer (who can blame him?), was beaming in his interview. Though he tried to console Andy with a "I've been there too, buddy," it didn't quite seem to work. Will Andy ever win Wimbledon? Another slam? We sure hope so…
A photo of a near-tears Roddick during Fed's interview. Video is here.
(first image via getty; second via youtube screen grab)


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Bill and Brooke discuss Wyatt, Rick briefs Hope on his love life, and Wyatt opens up to Quinn.
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At home, Wyatt thinks about his memories with Hope and smiles. Quinn comes in with groceries and tells him again that she's sorry about Bill. Wyatt talks about the hopes he had for being a Spencer and muses that's over now. "Back to being myself again." Wyatt admits he may have overreacted, but Bill's making a big mistake. He thinks Bill should respect him for being honest. Quinn is glad Wyatt figured him out quickly. Wyatt marvels that he thought Bill was a great guy, but he's a womanizer and a jerk. He doesn't want to fit in with the Spencers. Quinn knows he wanted a father, she realizes it's hard to lose him again. Wyatt says the idea of losing Hope is worse. Quinn can't ignore how he looks when he talks about Hope. She doesn't think he should give up. Wyatt says Hope's amazing...and engaged to Liam. He's afraid he won't see her again.
At Forrester, Hope thinks about Wyatt. Rick appears. She is enthusiastic about the line and muses that she could get used to all this attention. Rick tells Hope that he and Caroline are on again. She asks about Maya. He says it's complicated - she left him and the line. He says he blew it. Rick asks about Liam. Hope says everything is fine and talks about Wyatt moving out. Pam ushers in Thomas, Marcus, and a couple of models wearing accessories to go with the designs. They look at jewelry. Hope wants to go with a signature line. She finds some she likes - they're from Quinn Artisan Jewelers. Hope says she has to go.
In their bedroom, Bill hangs up the phone. He tells Brooke that he keeps getting calls about what Katie is doing at the company. "She's playing at being me." He turns his attentions to the perks of sleeping in... Later, Bill is surprised that Wyatt hasn't texted an apology. Brooke suggests Bill reach out. Bill tells her to forget it, but admits he was a little impressed with Wyatt's actions. Brooke says Bill takes action all the time - it's attractive. Bill grumbles that he hated his father but he always respected him. Brooke thinks Wyatt was just disappointed in him. She feels Wyatt has all Bill's qualities and was just sticking up for his little brother. She reminds him how volatile things were with Liam in the beginning as well. Bill tells Brooke she's good for him; puts things in perspective. He jokes for her to tell Hope not to dig up any more long lost sons. Bill says he may consider reaching out to Wyatt...eventually. They kiss. They debate over whether Hope will still be friends with Wyatt. Bill muses that even when they disagree, it feels peaceful. He realizes she's put a stallion ringtone on his phone for when she calls. He calls her crazy in the best way possible.
Hope arrives at Quinn Jewelry and calls out to Wyatt. She says she's wants them to be the exclusive designers for her line. Wyatt's happy to accommodate her.
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DUBOIS – Students Evan Aravich of Brockway and Jessica Metzger of Brookville have been chosen to represent Penn State DuBois at THON this year as the designated campus dancers.
The honor will place the pair in the middle of the action at the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park during THON 2014. They'll attempt to dance and stay on their feet for 46 consecutive hours.
THON 2014 will take place from Feb. 21-23. The largest student-run philanthropy in the world, THON raised a record $12,374,034 last year. All proceeds directly benefit the Four Diamonds Fund, an organization dedicated to battling childhood cancer.
Students from across all of Penn State work in numerous ways to raise money for the cause, holding the 46 hour dance marathon at the end of a long fundraising season. The Penn State DuBois THON Committee supports the university-wide efforts of THON by holding can drives, hair auctions and a number of other fundraising activities.
Students who are chosen as dancers for THON have worked hard for the privilege. At Penn State DuBois, a student must raise a minimum of $1,000 for the cause all on their own before even being considered for the position. In addition, they must also organize a fundraising event, participate in canning weekends and more. For those who want to support the children touched by the Four Diamonds Fund, however, the reward is well worth the work.
"I committed to being a dancer this year because standing 46 hours for the kids is the biggest way we can show each family who has a child fighting cancer that we are there for them every step of the way. Even though we may not be in their shoes, this is how we show our support to them," Aravich said.
A junior majoring in human development and family studies, Aravich is also co-chair of the campus THON Committee, and has been involved with THON since his freshman year.
"It means so much more to me that I have this opportunity to represent Penn State DuBois at THON. I cannot describe the feeling, and how excited I am to be there with the other dancers taking a stand For the Kids.
For Metzger, a senior occupational therapy assistant major from Brookville, the cause is very personal. She said, "I became involved with THON because my family has lost a loved one to cancer. It has been 28 years since my brother has passed away but I can still see my family struggling with the pain of losing him every day. My ultimate goal is to help find a cure, so other families don't have to experience losing a loved one to cancer, especially a child."
Metzger participated in every canning weekend for THON this year, and organized a blood drive to benefit THON.
"I want to help put a stop to the pain and suffering these kids and their families go through every day," she said.
For more information on THON and upcoming THON events at Penn State DuBois, contact the Office of Student Life at 814-375-4764 or email@example.com.


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Liverpool's Spanish summer signings have yet to impress but assistant manager Colin Pascoe insists that does not mean they should be written off as not having a part to play.
Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto arrived from Celta Vigo and Sevilla for a combined fee of around £14million and were expected to bolster squad options.
However, together they have managed just 19 appearances with Aspas the only one to start in the Premier League (five times) and Pascoe admitted they had taken a while to adapt to English football.
The pair may get a chance to show how much they have learned in Sunday's FA Cup third round visit of League One Oldham - who knocked out the Reds at Boundary Park just over 12 months ago - and Pascoe stressed they should be given time to settle into their surroundings.
"Luis has found the pace of the Premier League hard but he and Iago are working well in training and the more they get used to the Premier League the better they get," he said.
"Alberto can play in a couple of positions. He can play wide or up front as a nine or as a 10 and if you asked him he would say a 10.
"We can tweak things if we have to and push him up there but we're not going to put him at nine as we have Luis (Suarez) up there.
"Iago started the season well and obviously had his (thigh) injury. He has been working hard; he has to wait his turn like all the strikers do.
"He did well the other day (against Hull) and with the way he is training he is getting better.
"It is like any player, if they are British or foreign, you hope they gel together quickly but sometimes you need time to adapt to the Premier League.
"They know themselves sometimes they have to be patient.
"With Phil (Coutinho) playing well and Luis (Suarez) and Raheem (Sterling) doing well the team really picks itself on a lot of times."
Pascoe is adamant after last year's humbling at Boundary Park the Reds will not be taking anything for granted against.
And the assistant manager is confident the FA Cup will not affect the club's priority of a top-four Barclays Premier League finish.
"The players are all focused and ready and the team we put out on Sunday will be ready to perform and it will be a strong team," he added.
"Of course we want to get into the fourth round. The FA Cup is a fantastic trophy. In the history of Liverpool, we've won it seven times and we'll be looking to win it an eighth time.
"We've got a responsibility (to get results) all the time, when we go to play any game in the Premier League or the FA Cup, and it won't be any different on Sunday.
"It is not a distraction. The Premier League is week in, week out but the tradition of Liverpool and the tradition of the FA Cup mean we want to go out there and win it."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers could come up against his son Anton, who joined Latics in the summer, and while Pascoe admits it will be a great family occasion he insists things have to remain professional.
"When I was watching the game when they played Mansfield we (he and Rodgers) texted each other and said there was a chance Anton may be involved," he said.
"It will be a bit of fun for Brendan and Anton but we are focused on winning."
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GRAND JUNCTION,Colo. There have been three major plane crashed in the last few weeks and officials around the world are still trying to unravel the cause of Thursday's Algeria Airlines crash.
The second black box from that flight has finally been located and French officials are asking for a speedy analysis of its contents so they can determine what caused the deadly crash.
Right now no possible reasons for the crash have been ruled out although French authorities say bad weather is a probable cause, after the pilot changed course due to severe weather.
A terrorist attack is also still being considered, since the plane went down in a restive area of Mali where extremists roam.
Progress is also being made on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 that also killed all 298 members aboard.
Official have now identified the first victim although any information regarding that victim has not yet been made public.
With the recent spike in crashes many people across the United States are feeling nervous about their next flight, and Mesa county Resident Jamie Lee said she is feeling the same way.
"Well I used to travel to Europe a lot and I enjoyed it a great deal, and especially after 2001 and that incident I just to want to go anymore and it's a shame," said Lee.
While many residents agree with Lee and said they don't see themselves flying overseas anytime soon, they have said they have no concerns about flying anywhere within the United States.


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During the recent Polar Plunge in Palatine, blue and orange dominated the winter landscape.
Those are the colors of Hoffman Estates High School, which had 40 students, faculty and staff brave the icy waters of the Twin Lakes Recreation Area for the event sponsored by the Law Enforcement Torch Run.
They called themselves "Freezin' For a Reason" and in this case, the "reason" was Special Olympics. The Hawks earned awards for being the largest team on hand and the one that raised the most money, more than $14,000.
Amy Longmore, the special education teacher who led the team, credited the school's SOAR program -- Show respect, Own your actions, Accept differences and Realize your potential -- with helping to fuel the team this year.
The initiative was launched at the beginning of the school year, Longmore said, as a way to encourage students and staff to "SOAR" in a positive direction.
School officials have developed activities throughout the year that underscore each of the core values in the program. Last month, days before the Polar Plunge, they showed a video about a Hoffman Estates graduate who had blossomed because of her involvement in Special Olympics.
The eight-minute video was directed by award-winning filmmaker Martin Rodahl, a Norwegian native now living in Chicago, and produced by officials with Special Olympics Illinois.
After viewing the video, students were encouraged to write a response and assess how they treat others who might have intellectual disabilities. They also were given ways to support Special Olympians, and the Polar Plunge was one of them.
Already, the film has drawn more than 650 hits on YouTube and has been distributed throughout the state to all 18 areas of Special Olympics Illinois.
In it, viewers learn about 23-year-old Ashley Jones, who grew up participating in Special Olympics through Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 before continuing her competition on the Hoffman Estates High School team.
She now trains in gymnastics and figure skating with the Elite Stars team, based at Gymkhana in Hanover Park.
"(Ashley) likes to showcase what she can do," says her older sister, Tercera, in the video. "She loves to dance, she loves to move, she loves to pose for pictures."
Hoffman Estates students connected with Ashley as one of their own, watching her hone her floor exercise skills in gymnastics before taking to the ice under the guidance of her father, Mike, one of her coaches.
The same day the video was shown at the high school, Ashley returned to her alma mater to visit with her former teachers and to meet some of the students. Longmore said they treated Ashley as something of a celebrity.
Just four days later, they took the plunge.
"A really cool part of the day was that we had some of the Special Olympics athletes from Hoffman giving us high fives and cheering us on at the event," Longmore says. "Just when we thought we were crazy for jumping in freezing water, we were completely reminded of why we were doing this."


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Pa. Budget Office Releases Keystone Pension Report
Nov 26, 2012, 13:41 ET from Pennsylvania Office of the Budget
State Faces $41 Billion in Pension Unfunded Liability, Increasing Pension Contributions
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gov. Tom Corbett's Budget Office released the Keystone Pension Report today, providing a comprehensive overview of Pennsylvania's public pensions and demonstrating the impact pension contributions and unfunded liabilities have on the state's budget.
The report outlines the current pension situation facing Pennsylvania, identifies factors that have contributed to Pennsylvania's pension crisis, and offers a framework for considering structural redesign and reform of the pension system to ensure long-term stability of the plans.
"Absent meaningful structural pension reform, the state's General Fund budget is on a very predictable path that will force a choice between either fully funding pension obligations or making cuts to the core functions of government," Budget Secretary Charles B. Zogby said. "With a clear understanding of the crisis and the challenges we confront, it is imperative that Pennsylvania find a workable solution."
Contributing factors to today's pension crisis include previously instituted expansions to retiree and member benefits, nearly a decade of state and school district underfunding of contributions, and less-than-expected investment returns. As a result, both the State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and the Pennsylvania School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) pension programs are less than 68 percent funded. A healthy pension funding ratio is about 80 percent funded.
In addition to the unfunded status of the pension systems, the report describes the growing nature of required employer contributions needed to fund the current cost of the pension benefits, as well as addresses the unfunded liability. Contributions are expected to rise significantly in the coming decade, reducing the state's ability to pay for mandated programs and services like medical assistance, public education, public safety, roads and bridges.
Next year's revenue growth is expected to be nearly $819 million. Of that total growth, pension costs are projected to claim about 62 percent. That translates to more than $511 million that could have been spent on programs and services. Without any pension reform, the state must continue spending reductions to account for this amount in balancing its budget.
While the report paints a stark picture of the pension crisis in Pennsylvania, it also outlines a framework for developing a solution to the crisis. It calls for a unified approach to pension reform involving the General Assembly, stakeholder groups and the pension systems. The goal will be to build long-term stability to the pension systems and make them more affordable for the state and, ultimately, the taxpayer.
"The taxpayers did not create this problem, nor did commonwealth or school district employees. As we move forward, we must keep the taxpayer top of mind and not harm current and past employees," added Zogby. "We will not touch accrued benefits, nor will we allow the pension problem to continue for future generations. We need to fix this problem for the future stability of both the pension systems and the commonwealth's budget."
"Over the next several months, it is my hope that by working together we can begin to institute meaningful reform."
The Keystone Pension Report is available for download at www.budget.state.pa.us.
Media contact: Jay Pagni, 717-787-2542
SOURCE Pennsylvania Office of the Budget


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No, This Guy Didn't Invent The iPod 30 Years Ago
from the try-again dept
Yet, here we go again, as the DailyMail in the UK is claiming that Apple has admitted that this guy did, in fact, invent the iPod. However, again, that's not true at all. What happened was that Apple had him provide some evidence in its dispute with Burst.com (which was eventually settled). Basically, what Apple was doing wasn't admitting that Kramer "invented the iPod" but was showing that there was plenty of prior art (including Kramers) that predated Burst's highly questionable patents.
That doesn't mean that Kramer invented the iPod. It just means that his work predated Burst's claim of a monopoly on some specific technology that it claimed Apple infringed. That's a long way from "inventing the iPod." Besides, there were plenty of digital music players prior to the iPod. In fact, the real revolution around the iPod wasn't the fact that it was a digital player, but that it was the first digital player that had significant storage and could carry large collections of music at once -- something that Kramer's player never could do. So, please, can we stop repeating this myth that he somehow invented the iPod. He didn't.


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Michael Vick said that he resumed throwing Wednesday for the first time since his chest injury and did not rule out a return by Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Asked if a Sunday return was highly unlikely, the Eagles quarterback said, "I wouldn't say that."
Vick, who suffered cartilage damage to his rib injury in the Washington game, said that he's got his "throwing motion back." Eagles coach Andy Reid said earlier that Vick hadn't thrown since his injury.
"It's just being able to deal with it and working out the kinks," Vick said, who did not practice Wednesday.
Kevin Kolb, who started in place of Vick against the 49ers, took all the snaps at practice.
Vick said that playing against his former team provided no extra motivation to get back in time for Sunday's game.
"There's no extra motivation just because it's Atlanta week," Vick said. "I feel like we passed that last year. It's just another football game against a tough opponent."
Vick said that he didn't necessarily need to practce this week in order to play against the Falcons.
King Dunlap, who gave up three sacks against the 49ers, will start in place of left tackle Jason Peters, Andy Reid said Wednesday.
Peters has a torn meniscus and will have surgery Thursday to clean out the knee Reid said. He is out for at least this week. Reid did not say how long he will have to sit for.
Reid said that he considered moving left guard Todd Herremans to left tackle, as he did on a few occasions last season, but that he ultimately had confidence in Dunlap.
"He had a couple plays that he would have liked to have back," Reid said about Dunlap's performance in relief of Peters against the 49ers Sunday. "But the rest of it I thought he did a good job with. And I'm sure he'll tell you the same thing – there are some things that he'll work on this week. It will be good for him to have some practice, here. He didn't have a chance to get out there and practice with the ones, so he'll get in and have that opportunity and see how he does."
Defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley, though, has a shot to play after Reid initially feared he would be lost for the season with an elbow sprain. Bunkley's elbow has swelling, but his arm is strong and the pain is at least manageable. Still, Reid said it would be a "stretch" for Bunkley to get in this week's game against the Falcons. Rookie Jeff Owens, a member of the practice squad, will get practice time this week and will play if Bunkley is unable to go.
Michael Vick has started lifting light weights, but is not yet throwing and will not practice today, Reid said. That makes it appear unlikely that he will be ready for Sunday's game.
"He had swelling on the right side, more so than the left where the actual crack was," Reid said. "That swelling has gone down. Right now I can't tell you that he's pain free and I'm not going to tell you that; he still has pain. He started lifting light weight. He hasn't thrown, but he's made big jumps, big strides over the few days."
Herremans (knee swelling) and running back LeSean McCoy (cracked rib) will sit out practice today, but Reid said he expects them back Thursday. Wide receiver Riley Cooper and cornerback Asante Samuel (concussions) will return to practice.
Despite DeSean Jackson's knee injury during a punt return Sunday, Reid said that the wide receiver was still his No. 1 punt returner.
"He will right now, yeah," Reid said. "I'm leaving that statement open. [Jackson] is the number one punt returner, yes, but I say that and there have been games where [Jorrick] Calvin's gone in and spotted. I always check with DeSean and I check with [kick returner Ellis] Hobbs on how they're feeling and if they're tired or whatever it might be. If they have a long series, then I go with Calvin."


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I think Coach Beckman at Toledo deserves special mention in your Zook Punt Of The Week for his crappy timeout management Tuesday night
Looking forward to that manifesto, Mathlete
Kick it off like we always do…
The early touchdown saw the unadjusted numbers drop below 30% but the spread adjustment kept the expectation at about 70% or above for the whole game.
Top 3 Plays:
Play #45, +12%, Robinson to Roundtree for 49 yards on 3rd and 20.
Play #73, +11%, Robinson to Gallon for 42 yards and 1st and Goal.
Play #67, +10%, Avery picks off the Marve deflection
Bottom 3 Plays:
Play #6, –18%, TerBush to Bush for 48 yards a Purdue lead.
Play #36, –9%, Robinson picked on third down.
Play #46, –9% Gardner picked for the first time this year.
The story of Saturday was mostly Fitz Toussaint, and rightfully so. His +7 on the day was the best mark for a Michigan running back on the season. In fact, other than Vincent Smith's +6 against Eastern Michigan no Michigan back had even crossed +3 on the season.
The defense continues to do enough to allow the offense to take hold of the game. After four B1G games this season the defense has had a best Win Percent Added (WPA) of +6% from Saturday to a worst of –7% against Northwestern. That is a incredibly tight window to operate in and means that defense has essentially held serve in every B1G game this season. The offense is still doing the heavy lifting, but at least the defense isn't adding to load this season.
Grades are in PAN (pts/game) and opponent adjusted.
Rush Offense: +3
Fitz: +7
Vincent Smith: +1
Denard: -7
Pass Offense: +5
Denard: +7
Devin: -1
Rush Defense: +2
Pass Defense: +0
Special Teams: +1 (best of the year)
A little frustrated with the coverage on the Heisman this year. Apparently the NFL GM's are now deciding who the best performer is in college football. This isn't a knock on Andrew Luck, but just because the NFL says he is a sure thing, doesn't automatically mean he is going to have the most deserving year. He has piled up good stats against bad teams so far and the conversation could still change.
Here are my ratings of the top contenders looking at both PAN and WPA.
Player, School: PAN (Rank), WPA (Rank)
Andrew Luck, Stanford: +6 (25th), +1.7 (8th)
Trent Richardson, Alabama: +4 (2nd RB), +.4 (11th)
Kellen Moore, Boise St: +11 (4th), +2.1 (4th)
Russell Wilson, Wisconsin: +13 (1st), +2.4 (1st)
Case Keenum , Houston: +13 (2nd), +2.2 (3rd)
Denard Robinson, Michigan: +6 (22nd), +2.2 (2nd)
Pickings were a little slimmer this week but this week's award goes to the Will Muschamp and the Florida Gators. Trailing by 4 in the World's Largest Non-Alcoholic but Actually a Total Drunkfest Party with a little over 8 minutes to go, the Gators faced 4th and 2 at the Georgia 37. This one works out for the Gators, even though they go on to lose, anyway. After taking a Delay of Game to give the punter more room (the first sign of a dumb punt), Florida manages to down the ball at the 4 and get a three and out. Florida gets the ball back at the 36, trading 2+ minutes on the clock to get a yard and a fresh set of downs, the Gators throw three straight incompletions and then go for the 4th and 10 but fail, never getting the ball back.
If you missed it Monday I posted detailed odds for the B1G championship game. Michigan stands at 9.5% overall. Going 4-0 down the stretch bumps it up to nearly 40%. A loss to division foes Iowa or Nebraska effectively kills the chances where going 3-1 with a loss to either Illinois or Ohio still leaves the odds around 20%.
After an expected win last week against Purdue, the overall win projection for Michigan is relatively unchanged in between 9 and 10 wins.
Game Odds
Opp (Change vs last post)
@Iowa: 67% (-1%)
@Illinois: 55% (+6%)
Nebraska: 56% (-8%)
Ohio: 70% (-7%)
My Top 5
1. Oklahoma St
2. Boise St
4. Alabama
5. Stanford
B1G Ten
9. Nebraska
12. Michigan
13. Wisconsin
15. Michigan St
19. Penn St
38. Purdue
42. Ohio
47. Illinois
73. Northwestern
88. Iowa
104. Minnesota
113. Indiana
PAN, National Rank (leader), B1G Rank (leader)
Rush Offense
Michigan: +5, 3rd (Georgia Tech), 1st
Iowa: +1, 53rd, 7th
Pass Offense
Michigan: +2, 32nd (Boise), 4th (Wisconsin)
Iowa: –6, 118th, 11th
Rush Defense
Michigan: +2, 25th (LSU), 5th (Michigan St)
Iowa: +3, 18th, 3rd
Pass Defense
Michigan: +1, 43rd (Oklahoma St), 7th (Michigan St)
Iowa: +3, 23rd, 2nd
Special Teams
Michigan: 0, 88th (Florida St), 10th (Purdue)
Iowa: +1, 49th, 7th
The next three games are all slight Michigan favors before matching up with an improving Ohio team. A home game versus Iowa would make me more comfortable but I still think it goes our way, 37-30 Michigan.
One final note is that based on a little twitter prompting from @cdbarker I have begun work on a game-theory manifesto and it's going to be long, probably to be posted in December. Planned topics include: how to use timeouts, suprise on-side kicks, a better 2-point conversion chart and possibly a revisit of 4th down stategy. Hit me in the comments or @The_Mathlete with other things you would like to see.
I think Coach Beckman at Toledo deserves special mention in your Zook Punt Of The Week for his crappy timeout management Tuesday night
Looking forward to that manifesto, Mathlete
You do opponent adjusted stats, but do you do play-calling adjusted stats? Or garbage time adjusted? For example, Eastern Michigan was able to rack up nearly 200 yards on the ground and came into the game ranked 6th in the nation in rushing yards per game. They only passed a grand total of 3 times, though. Michigan State also didn't pass as much because of the trash tornado, which is a factor in their high rushing total in that game.
Similarly, once Purdue fell behind by a lot, they were forced to almost exclusively pass and by the 4th quarter they had only accumulated 170 or something yards total so we put in our 2nd string defense and they were finally able to move the ball. The vast majority of Purdue's passing yards came in garbage time.
Ouch I'm stupid I didn't see he had linked to it in the post itself... my bad.
Merry Christmas to the board! Looking forward to my presents from the Mathlete.
go DOWN after they lost to Minnesota? I would think stat-based metrics would crush them for that.
Didn't post them over the bye week and the last two weeks have seen Iowa slighly increase and Michigan hold. Change is pretty minimal.
Mathelete, is this one of Denard's worst rushing ratings you've seen? Just curious.
Far and away his worst. He only has one other negative day on the ground in the last two years and that's last year against Illinois. Most of his negative against Purdue was on one play, the failed 4th and goal from the 1.
Don't want to speak poorly of Denard. Folks will neg you.....
How is Iowa 3rd and 2nd in rush and pass defense in the Big 10? I have no idea how you can arrive at those numbers.. (even after looking at your methodology). The only medicore competition they have beaten(unless you count Pitt) is Northwestern, and have lost to some terrible competition (Minnesota, Iowa State). Not to mention Indiana, Northwestern, Minnesota, Iowa State, and Pitt racking up huge amounts of yardage against them.
In addition, Iowa is ranked 9th in scoring defense, 9th in total defense, 12th in pass defense, 9th in pass efficiency defense, and 9th in sacks. In other words, they have marginally better defense than Minnesota, Indiana, and Northwestern. This is all while playing their cupcake schedule.
Maybe you're counting the Penn State game as bumping-up their stats? But you have to realize then that Penn State is 12th in the big 10 (below Minnesota) in pass offense efficiency , 9th in pass offense, and 10th in total offense. I don't see how they can be one of the top 3 defenses in the Big 10 this way.
This is written, like Brian's preview, in terms of Michigan. Rush Defense means Michigan defending Iowa's rush, so the ratings given for Iowa under this heading are for Iowa's Rush Offense (Michigan's Rush Defense).
Florida's probability of scoring on the drive at the point of facing 4th and 2 from the 37 compared to their probability of scoring on the following drive with 1st and 10 from the 36 post punt.
Going has a 38% chance of scoring a TD and the 1st and 10 has a 62% chance of scoring a TD. However, to get back to the same spot, Florida had to get a couple breaks. Most punts from the 42 don't get downed at the 4, the average is the 12. Second break was getting a stop. Third was a weak punt by Georgia that gave the Gators back the ball in good shape. Usually trading punts in this territory is a net loss for the driving team.
What is contributing the most to our bad special teams ranking? Is there an area that is good? FG kicking is improved, but we haven't had to kick much. How bad are we doing with kick returns? I thought our punting was supposed to be a strength.
Even though the rank is low the effect is minimal. Special teams really only matter if you are really good or really bad at them which Michigan is neither. Kickoff is a strength, FG kicking is slighly above average. Punting has been a disappointment and both return games are the biggest source of the ranking.
Our kickoff team is a strength now? That's a big change from September.
I'm still wondering about the Illinois decision to go for 2 when up by 7. I tried doing the math myself, but there were too many variables to make my napkin math reliable in the least bit. It seems to me, though, that if you are near certain that the opponent's offense will move down the field to score (1) you should be near certain that they will make a 2pt conversion, (2) they probably have a better chance to win in overtime than you, and (3) you should take every opportunity you can to seal the game. I view it in the same way that I view our final TD against ND. We could have gone the safe route, kicked the FG, and gone to overtime, but if you have a chance to seal the game, you take it, assuming that the gamble is small.
Anyway, I think it would be interesting to see which scenarios, if any, warrant going for 2 and which variables (opp off, your def, time, hfa, etc.) would be the most influential in the decision.
How are the "Game Odds" calculated?
After Illinois layed an egg against Purdue and their recent losses to PSU and OSU, it would seem that we should be heavily favored, even if @ Illinois.
The reverse for Nebraska, which took MSU to task this past week.
Each week game scores are re-adjusted for all prior games based on each teams work for the season in total. In week 7 Illinois was a +11. If they played this week they would be a +5. I don't forecast a trend, but their recent results have brought them down by nearly a touchdown in the last month.
Just a thought, should more weight be given for the most recent 1, 2 or 3 games?
This would probably be a good idea. It would account a bit for injuries, suspensions, etc. I'd bet that it would swing the OSU game to 50%
OT theory: e.g. Playing for OT or a win at the end of regulation? Percentages on taking the ball 1st in OT vs. taking the "bottom of the 9th" advantage? Score a TD to be down 1 before 3rd OT: when do you go for 2? 4th and goal inside the 2 with the first possession: what probability of scoring a TD suffices to overcome the necessity of taking the 3 points?
Hoke vs. Dantonio theory: Hoke has shown himself to be aggressive on 4th down this year, especially with short yardage in the "No Man's Land" where we often get the Dumb Punt of the Week. But he's so far just played straight up going for it. Dantonio, as we know, has a proclivity for the fake. A subsection of fourth down theory might look at going for it straight up vs. faking a FG/punt.
Has anyone ever taken the ball first in OT? I don't recall ever seeing it happen. Everyone seems to want to go second.
at beating OSU and a greater than 50% chance against Nebraska?
Purdue is 38? Is that a typo? Iowa at 88? Wouldn't that imply Iowa will be much easier than Purdue (even if on the road)?


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PHILADELPHIA — A tweet can be interpreted any number of ways. But 76ers coach Brett Brown knows what he's seen out of Nerlens Noel.
Tuesday, Noel participated in 4-on-4 workouts out of halfcourt sets. His teammates, per Brown's estimation, were not going lightly at Noel, either. They were instructed to play physically and not to shy from contact with Noel, the Sixers' rookie center.
Noel sent out a tweet over the weekend that read, "4-4-14," triggering speculation that the 19-year-old would prefer to make his NBA debut on that night. Even though Noel has yet to play while rehabbing a surgically repaired left knee, Brown appreciates the kid's excitable style.
"It tells me what I think we've got. It confirms that we've got a competitor," Brown said following Tuesday's session at PCOM. "We can talk all about, 'He's 19, yup. He weighs this, yup. He's got to work on this, yup.' But how he ticks and how he sees things from a competitive side is beyond impressive.
"Don't think for a moment him sitting on the sideline and watching his teammates lose this year, at times the (lopsided) way we have, doesn't trickle in and creep in in a defiant way and a good way, him seeing exactly what he doesn't want. People talk about bad habits and acceptance (of losing). I think this has been a real eye-opener and a good thing for Nerlens, where he knows he can come in and make a difference and get us back on track."
Noel, according to Brown, continues to ramp up his involvement in the Sixers' on-court activity. Just last week Noel was said to have been a participant in 1-on-1 work with a teammate, after months of relegation to one-handed, stand-still shooting and scripted workouts with coaches.
Brown does not want Noel rushed into a situation in which he cannot succeed — a comment Tuesday that would seem to support the Sixers' longstanding plan for Noel.
While Noel continues progression toward a game-ready state, Brown has noticed flaws in his prized player's fitness — as to be expected for a guy who hasn't played in more than a year.
"That is the bottom line and that's what we saw today," Brown said. "He's worked his tail off in the weight room, in shooting 1-on-1, 1-on-0 with coach (Greg) Foster, working with me — I can't ask any more from him. What he's seen on NBA benches and video rooms has been great. Now all of a sudden, we start playing 3-on-3 and 4-on-4, 5-on-5, you can see his conditioning is what it should be. It's short because he goes so hard, his (heart) is going to beat out of his chest. He's got to take some time off, then we go back at it again."
The sixth overall pick in last summer's draft, Noel sustained an ACL tear in his left knee 13 months ago during his only season at Kentucky. Wednesday, when the Sixers host Sacramento, will mark the one-year anniversary of when Noel went under the knife.
So how does Noel look?
"You can see signs of what he can be," forward Thaddeus Young said.
Young has had a couple opportunities to go 1-on-1 with Noel, and Young — the seventh-year vet — said he's enjoyed exploiting Noel's youthful inexperience.
"I'm definitely not taking it easy on him," Young said. "I've had a couple drills, 1-on-1 stuff, and I knew he was going to jump. So I got all the pump fakes in. He's too antsy right now. I gave him 30, 40 pump fakes. I was like, 'You're going to jump for one,' and he goes for one, and I drop the ball in. He's very athletic. He's working hard."
Speaking of that athleticism…
"One of the times we were going at each other," Young said, "(Noel) altered the shot, I got the rebound and he was back off his feet again. I was like, 'Jesus.' He's very quick off his feet. He could probably go three or four times before somebody jumps twice."
For the record, Brown said he's chosen to "purposefully ignore" Noel's tweet about a potential return date. Hey, why buy into something less tangible than what's going on right in front of your very eyes?
NOTES: Jarvis Varnado is here to stay, and might be around next season. The Sixers signed the center through the rest of this season, a league source said. And according to a Yahoo! Sports report, the Sixers gave Varnado a team option with guaranteed money for the 2014-15 season. Varnado's 10-day contract expired at midnight Monday, so the Sixers had to make a decision on the 7-footer. … The Sixers were expected to host a quartet of D-Leaguers for a workout Tuesday at PCOM. With Varnado's newly minted deal, the Sixers' 15-man roster is at the league max.


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Fantasia is proud to host the world premiere launch of Spectacular Optical's first anthology book, KID POWER! — all about cool, tuff and inspiring kids in cult film and television. Co-edited by Kier-La Janisse and Canuxploitation's Paul Corupe and featuring writing by a diverse array of genre film criticism's most unique voices, Kid Power! covers the gamut fromTHE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION to THE ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL and the dark side of Disney. And tons more! The launch will be accompanied by a rare 35mm screening of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) and a FREE cereal buffet!
Growing up, did you ever sit in front of a TV, a 16mm school projector or a VCR and come under the hypnotic spell of the tuff, sassy, cool and inspiring kids that you saw on the screen? Perhaps you grinned as Jacob Two-Two stood up to The Hooded Fang, thrilled as Hawk Jones grabbed a small arsenal to take down some gangsters or cringed as a bespectacled Scott Baio got stoned?
We certainly looked up to many of these pint-sized tots, tweens and teens, and chances are you did too. That's why we're devoting the first anthology in the new Spectacular Optical book series, KID POWER!, to this inspiring world of kid cult classics from North America, the UK, Australia and beyond. From the 1940s antics of Curley and his Gang to the overwrought denim-clad melodrama of THE ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL, from the surreal fantasies of THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION to the pre-teen bloodsucking dramedy of THE LITTLE VAMPIRE, KID POWER! is a heavily illustrated collection of film writing by a diverse array of some of genre criticism's most unique voices.
Contributors include author/film producer Zack Carlson (DESTROY ALL MOVIES!! THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PUNKS ON FILM and THE AMERICAN SCREAM), FANGORIA Editor-in-Chief Chris Alexander, underground comic legends Rick Trembles (MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY) and Robin Bougie (CINEMA SEWER), Canuxploitation.com's Paul Corupe, film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (RAPE REVENGE FILMS: A CRITICAL STUDY) performance artist/pop culture historian Robert Dayton (Canned Hamm, The Canadian Romantic), film programmers Bret Berg (CineFamily), Jesse Hawthorne Ficks (MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS) and Briony Kidd (Stranger With My Face Horror Film Festival) and writers Owen Williams (EMPIRE) and Cheryl Singleton (FANGORIA) as well as Spectacular Optical Editor-in-Chief Kier-La Janisse (HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN). PLUS! cover and key art by Portland-based illustrator/graphic artist Austin Sellers.
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"It was very emotional. It came from my heart," Bakhtiari said. "I'm not a very vocal person, unless I'm joking around having fun.
"So I told the guys, 'I'm not a guy that usually talks, but what do you guys play (the game) for?' I told them what I play for, and I went into detail about that.
"I told them that these coaches know how to win. They're the best coaches I've ever played for. I was completely distraught that we cannot execute what they set out for us. I told them, 'Look. If you're not willing to give 100 percent, to do exactly what they tell you, buy into this program, be a Buffalo, then I don't want you coming to practice, I don't want you suiting up, I don't want any of that.'"
No coaching changes
CU coach Jon Embree said after the game he does not plan on making any staff changes.
"I believe in our coaches," he said.
Pericak liking DE
A defensive tackle for most
of his career, senior Will Pericak (6-4, 285) made his second start at defensive end against Fresno State. That enables true-freshman defensive tackle Josh Tupou (6-3, 325) to move into the starting lineup.
"We want to get our best players on the field," CU coach Jon Embree said.
Pericak said he enjoys playing at end.
"It's something new, and there is more space playing D-end," Pericak said. "It was a little awkward at first, but I'm getting used to it."
Embree said this could improve Pericak's stock in the eyes of NFL scouts because Embree believes his best position at the pro level may be defensive end on a team that uses a 3-4 alignment.
Fresno State entered the game with an 11-5 home record against Pac-12 teams. The Bulldogs had 12 victories over teams from the power conferences since 2003.
In a contradiction, Fresno State entered the game averaging 31 points but ranked just 119th among FBS teams in third-down conversion percentage. ... Temperature at kickoff was 102 degrees. The forecast high for the day 101 was three more than that predicted for Phoenix.


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Ronda Rousey compares herself to Mike Tyson
Ronda Rousey doesn't just beat her opponents, she dominates them. The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion has won all 10 of her UFC fights by knockout, with nine of the wins coming in the first round. Her most recent fight lasted just 16 seconds. Does Rousey's ferocity remind you of a certain famous boxer?
Some have argued that Rousey's dominance is bad for women's mixed martial arts, as people will become bored if she is not challenged. When discussing that issue recently, Rousey pointed out that no one got bored with Mike Tyson.
"Mike Tyson had some serious competition too, don't forget. It wasn't always easy," Rousey told Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times. "People knew from those fights to get there immediately. You never know what's going to happen in one of my fights, either. That's the advantage I have over my opponents and what draws the fans in so much. From the second my fight starts to the second it's over, nobody sits down."
[WATCH: Ronda Rousey knocks out Alexis Davis in 16 seconds]
UFC boss Dana White shared some similar thoughts, also comparing Rousey's fights to Tyson's.
"(That's) like saying they should have had some better fights for Mike Tyson," White said. "The Tyson era was one of the most awesome eras in boxing history.
"You hear Ronda Rousey's last fight went 16 seconds and you're like, 'Sixteen seconds?' But what she did in those 16 seconds was un … believable. For 16 seconds, she traded punches, knocked [Alexis Davis] out with one, caught her under her arm, kneed her to the stomach, threw her and then hit her with about 15 punches. That all happened in 16 seconds."
Tyson won 50 of his 58 fights, and 44 of those wins came via knockout. Rousey has a long way to go before she can be compared to one of the greatest champions of all time, but we see the point. UFC fans boo mercilessly when fighters dance around for 15 minutes before making an actual attempt to hit their opponent or take them down. Complaining about Rousey's dominance makes no sense.


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PARKER, S.D. (AP), Oct 08 - A farmer in southeast South Dakota has grown a pumpkin nearly big enough to be Cinderella's coach.Kevin Marsh of Parker says the 1,674-pound pumpkin isn't pretty - it won an ugliest pumpkin award at a Colorado event. But it's only 51 pounds shy of the world record listed by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth.It's not the first big pumpkin Marsh has grown. He had one last year that weighed in at 1,488 pounds, and one he grew earlier this year was 1,536 pounds.Marsh says he doesn't have any big secrets to growing the behemoth squash. He says he buries vines as they grow so they get double the amount of roots, and uses a lot of organic fertilizers.


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Launch Konqueror. Type in the URL: "smb://smbserver/share".
Every time I get a new PC or new version of Microsoft I spend hours figuing out how to get it to stop doing annoying default behavior and trying to figure out where sh!t is, and frequently pissed off becuase there's only one way to get at something and it's buried (i.e. you have to know where to look.)
I've never considered Microsoft's implementations of anything to be best in class. More often myself and coworkers have simply given up on shaping applications and interfaces to work to our advantage, because someone who knows better than us, has taken that decision power.
If RH is mimicking Microsoft, I sure as heck hope they don't mimic them all the way, two cruddy interfaces for two different products isn't any kind of improvement in my book.
Realistically though, they didn't hack both Gnome and KDE together, they just sorta made them "LOOK" similar. This is essential, as some people use both KDE and Gnome programs regardless of which interface they use.
It's worth a try for you redhat and mandrake users. Debian and Slackware users will probably dislike what they've done.
Hi, Slackware Zealot here. Just to prove you wrong, I like the idea of a nice perty interface. I think it is needed. However, I won't use it. I am downloading it for one of my roomates who wants to try Linux though, I think this is a real nice starting point for most users.
That being said, I have one complaint. FIVE fscking-disks?! Hello!?!? Some people still are too cheap to buy stuff! Hell Slack is just recently toying with the idea for possibly going to 2, and even they postponed it for another release. Sheesh!
Give them the OS, the GUI, and a brower with a ton of links to other stuff..
At least they are following the GPL. A distressing number of people are distributing Linux and GNU binaries without worrying about their obligation to either provide matching source at the same time, or to include a written offer, good for three years, to provide source later.
I did install 8.0 last night. I was running "null" for the last week or so, and it looks like most of my problems with null were fixed. One hassle is that my laptop doesn't have APM support; like most new laptops it is ACPI only. The kernel RedHat ships isn't ACPI enabled, unforch. Easy enough to fix, of course, but annoying none the less.
My only real outstanding issues are suspend (which swsusp should cover if I can't get Toshiba's ACPI BIOS to cooperate) and scanner support.
Unforch, the latter was a problem in 7.3 as well, and I never did get it working. Worked fine in 7.2, IIRC. Epson Perfection 1200U Photo is the scanner model. I haven't really done any looking into the issue, though, just tried SANE and it couldn't find the scanner.
All in all 8.0 looks pretty nice. The root menu (or the "start menu" that has replaced it $#@%!) is still a fsking mess, with many config tools not there. I do virtually all my config using my favorite config tool though (vi), so that is mostly an issue for interfaces they've changed. Some of the new GUI prefs tools are pretty nice, though, so I may well start using them.
The AI fonts looke nice, though the only fonts available for gnome-terminal (using the std prefs dialog anyway, haven't checked to see if good ole "fixed" is available) look like shite when made small enough to fit two terms side-by-side on my XGA display. Quick install of either the old fonts or rxvt should fix that, though, and the tradeoff is well worth it for most users (nice clear text in slightly larger sizes).
In short, I approve of 8.0. The new compiler tool chain, Python 2.2.1, Mozilla 1.0.1, GTK+/GNOME 2.0, etc. made upgrading an eazy decision for me.
That being said, I have one complaint. FIVE fscking-disks?! Hello!?!? Some people still are too cheap to buy stuff!
Having said that, I read the summary that you've written about RedHat, and their KDE modifications. I think it's very well written, and very comprehensive. I would have a hard time disagreeing with any of the conclusions that you've drawn.
I hope that some of the complainers take the time to read it as well.
RedHat is simply trying to put forward the best that Linux has to offer, which will invariably result in the subjective assessment of various competing applications. Some applications are simply more refined than others, and as a result, they've been elevated to "default" status. The alternatives are still present.
As for trying to unify the appearance of the completing desktop environments, that too is a step that most people see as inevitable. It certainly makes life easier for the new users, and OS converts. I know that from an aesthetic perspective, I'd like my KDE and GNOME apps to have a similar appearance, regardless of which desktop I happen to be running.
These are for the most part cosmetic changes, and the end result is a better overall distribution.
Good for RedHat, and good for Linux.
We don't need those damn manuals.
And have you ever tried to download the ISOs with a 56k. I'm not doing that again?
I had all three iso disc images downloaded Monday.
How exactly is the behavior you are complaining about -- inaccuracies in headline and submitter comments and delayed coverage of old news -- atypical for Slashdot? One might argue that they are very much old hat for regular readers.
More to the point, you're wrong about many of the 'issues' you raise. Point two, that it is called (null) instead of null, is just being pedantic, and I am quite skeptical regarding its accuracy.
If one were inclined to pick nits, one might observe that the theme is Bluecurve, not "Blue Curve", but I'm feeling generous and so I'll let it pass.
And finally, in case you missed it, there was a story about Red Hat 8.0 on Monday, when it was released. I have no idea why there's another one, but the story was reported as news when it actually was news, and here it is again.
One of the joys of Slashdot is that over the days and months and years, you see familiar stories reappear and can recapture the joy you felt when reading them initially. The main page is like an endless parade of friendly faces, each one smiling and saying, "It's been a while. Take a break, read me again, let's catch up."
I have always believed that this happens because the editors firmly believe, like Faulkner before them, that there are truly no new stories. In the vast span of human existence, tales of greed and altruism, life and death, nobility and depravity, wonder and Red Hat point releases, have all been played out countless times in the same familiar manner. Only the faces change. To my mind this is a very humanistic sentiment, and I cherish those editors who recognize this fundamental truth of our existence.
Kudos to you, Slashdot staff!
And it's still not done downloading the first CD.
I tried out Null when it was released, and it does feel XP-ish, only without the horrid default color scheme of XP
Ximian Evolution has been out for quite a while, and it's included in most major distros, not just RH. I use Evolution (came with Slack 8.1) for my daily email.
I tried out Null when it was released, and it does feel XP-ish, only without the horrid default color scheme of XP
Introducing Red Hat Linux 8.0, a user-friendly Linux operating system.
OK but does it pass the Grandma test? I can just hear myself now, "OK Grandma, type vee-eye "frontslash" etc/hosts... no wait, frontslash... no, not the one above the RETURN key... wait, yours is called the ENTER key?" Still, the "dumbing down" of the interface all in all is a great step in the right direction to capturing new mindshare.
The new Red Hat will be 8.0? New desktop theme? Wow, thanks for letting us know!
Seriously, though, is there something new with Evolution or is it the same UI that's always been an Outlook clone?
I've been running Ximian Gnome for quite some time now, and Real People think it looks good, but is somewhat alien in presentation... the new RH "skin" on KDE/Gnome is targetted directly at them, and this is a Good Thing(tm) for Linux. The inclusion of a display settings dialog that changes the screen resolution and colors via a GUI that functions similarly to WinX is now present and functional. The purists scoff, but the Real People use.
Embrace and extend, remember?
I was struggling with ftp transfers for the last two days. They are miserably clogged, as we all expect. I was surprised to find a perfectly legitimate use for P2P file sharing networks in this - gtk-gnutella has found all five isos for me with download speeds about 40 times greater than I was getting on ftp.
Just check the MD5 and enjoy.
All recent version of PHP have deprecated the REGISTER_GLOBALS option (and good riddance!). This is most likely what is causing your problems, poorly written scripts will no longer run on recent PHP's.
They haven't got rid of REGISTER_GLOBALS rather they have just made the default to be off. That is of course a good thing as they can often cause drastic security risks by people passing variables to your script and causing behaviour you didn't expect. For now you could re-enable it but I wouldn't recommend leaving it that way. Fix your scripts and then leave it off.
However, aside from the new Blue Curve theme RH 8.0 also contains new major relases of Gnome and Apache. Apache is also probably the most used "userland" application in the system.... So imo Apache 2 and Gnome 2 _alone_ mandates a new major release number for RedHat Linux.
Btw, I thought the short informal mail RH sent to RHN customers is probaly the the best "in a nuthshell" description of RH8:s new features:
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:41:54 -0400
From: Red Hat Network <firstname.lastname@example.com>
What's new in Red Hat Linux 8.0, anyway?
* A new interface -- a user-friendly desktop with graphical enhancements and improved menu organization
* The latest Gnu Compiler Collection, gcc-3.2, and a specially tuned and tested high-performace kernel, 2.4.18.
* Cutting-edge web server technology powered by the latest release of Apache, 2.0.
* Updated graphical configuration tools that make setting up a Linux server a truly point-and-click experience.
* A single interface for package selection during and after installation
* Enhanced personal security, featuring a point-and-click firewall tool to protect your system from Internet intruders.
Now, that doesn't mean that redhat == linux. I am a bit disappointed to see that now that RH takes the step to the desktop (which IMHO they should have taken long ago, when they are actually preaching against Linux adoption in the desktop marker) everybody seem to be discovering that Linux can run on desktops. Hello, have you tried mandrake ?. Mandrake also has dektop integration, my menues look the same in GNOME and KDE. The task oriented menues pick the best apps wherever they come from. It really feels integrated. But it looks like RH invented the concept. And this is simply not true.
I tried myself Mandrake a week ago with 9.0. It blew mi mind. Really really much more useable than anything else I tried. I switched my Laptop from RH 7.3 to ML 9.0. Then my home desktop. Now I'll switch my office workstation. I am configuring in 15 seconds with "point'n click" things that took me several minutes (if not hours) of HOWTOs and RTFM's and what not. Almost everything gets autodetected. SMB mounts, NFS mounts, hardware, it is really amazing.
In general, the improvement in usability I feel in the transition RH 7.3 -> ML 9.0 is similar to the one I experienced back in the day when I switched Slackware -> RH 6.0
I am not flaming RH, they do a damn fine distro. I am just saying, if you are looking for usability, may be you'll find rewarding to give Mandrake 9.0 a shot. The install will take no effort and little time. If you are looking for mission-critical stability, I cannot tell because I haven't used ML long enough to compare.
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