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SILENCE will fall across Australia on Sunday as we remember those who have paid the ultimate price for peace, almost a century since the end of the first World War.
At 11am on the morning of November 11, 1918, the last guns would fall silent, but the "war to end all wars" would not, in the end, live up to its name.
Still today, wars are waged across the globe and innocent blood continues to be spilt.
But Remembrance Day honours those whose lives have been lost, and whose memory will continue to live on forever, in the hearts and minds of a nation.
Community members are welcome to join the Returned & Services League Port Macquarie Sub-branch for Remembrance Day on Sunday, November 11, at 10:45am.
"We'll never forget it, will we," said Brian Clare who served in the 57th - 60 Infantry Battalion in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
"We remember all those poor chaps, it's a terrible thing isn't it. We've lost thousands of lives."
A young and adventurous Mr Clare decided to join the army at the age of 18.
"We were only a bunch of kids," he said. "We knew nothing. We just thought it was a bit of fun, we didn't really know what was going on."
From there Mr Clare and his mates were in North Queensland dodging live ammunition and explosives as part of their month-long training.
"Five chaps were killed in the training," he said. "We quickly realised what we got ourselves into. We went to the Tablelands and next thing we knew we were on trucks roaring down to Townsville and on a boat, and away we went."
In the middle of the night they crossed the ocean to Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. Some of them would never return home.
"When we got to the islands a young man stepped outside, and he shot himself," Mr Clare said. "Whennhe saw the place, he lost his nerve."
That would be the first time Mr Clare would see a man lose his life on the Islands, but not the last.
"One night we were on patrol, there were two in front and four at the back," he said. "The Japanese scouts came out of nowhere, they opened fire and killed him. Blew his stomach out and it was hanging there, there was no chance of saving him."
That night Mr Clare would lose his best friend, and for the rest of his life would be haunted by the images of watching 19-year-old Harry Collins die.
"It still plays on my mind, I can still see it," he said. "We were only just turned 19, we were only boys."
The soldiers spent five days trying to retrieve the bodies of their comrades – through the mud and rain and the open fire of the Japanese Army.
Mr Clare spent 487 days slogging through the tropical jungles of the Solomons, constantly fearing for his life and fighting for his country.
"We practically lived under ground, we were like rabbits," he said. "I've still got crook feet from it now. Some people had to get the socks cut out of their feet."
All the while his sweetheart Cathryn Joyce Clare was writing her man letters from across the sea, waiting for him to come back to her.
"Oh, it was great getting the letters," Mr Clare said. "But the censors would read your mail and if you said anything you shouldn't have, they'd cut it out.
But their love lasted the war and to this day, the pair are happily married.
Mr Clare said Remembrance Day will always be a very important day for him. War, he said, was a "necessary evil".
"I suppose they just fight between themselves, why can't we just leave 'em be?"


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Jun 12, 2013
Since being diagnosed 5 or 6 years ago, I have had ADAP, Medicaid and HASA to help with prescriptions and doctor visits. Fortunately (and unfortunately) I now make too much money for any of those programs, but not enough for private insurance. I'm being quoted min $1500+/month plus deductibles and copays (Empire Blue Cross). I feel like I've reached out to every resource, but to no avail. Is there any more affordable insurance out there for HIV, or any program out there, with prescription/medical assistance for gross $78,000/yr in NYC? FYI insurance is not offered at my place of work and my medicaid ends this month.
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I'm not sure you will find anything cheaper in NYC. New York requires community rating and acceptance of anyone applying regardless of health. The combination has resulted in truly outrageous health insurance rates.
Hopefully, when Affordable Care starts on January 1, it may result in a softening of rates, but I can't guarantee that. Stay current on what New York is doing in setting up their health insurance exchange. That may offer some relief in 2014.
Doublecheck with Medicaid about their 250% FPL Working Disabled Program. Your income may be too high for that, but it's worth checking.
Also, check with HIV clinics and AIDS Service Organizations in NYC. I'm not very current on programs in NYC, but the city used to offer broad support for people dealing with HIV. Maybe they will know of some assistance available.
Other than that, you should try to make arrangements for payments and fees with your doctors and pharmacists or seek out some who will try to accommodate you.
Good luck, Jacques
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When a foster parent shares the nurturing of a foster child alongside the birth parents and caseworker, reunification tends to happen at a quicker and more successful rate. Co-Parenting sees you, as a foster parent, working alongside the biological parents of the child living under your roof, and with your family. This may be the more difficult part of your job. To begin with, these may be the people who abused or neglected your foster child. Helping them might just be the last thing you wish to do. Therefore, it is important that you do not prejudge them before you meet them. What is important to consider, though, is that many biological parents of foster children were abused themselves, and know of no other way when raising children. Also disturbing is that some birth parents were foster children, as well, and are just repeating the cycle they went through as a child. Certainly, there are reasons why their children are in care that we may never understand. What is best for your foster child, though, is that you work alongside your caseworker, as well as the birth parents, and try to determine what is best for your foster child's future, as well as how to best meet his needs in the present.
For birth parents and family members, you might be the best example of what a good parent is. Everything you do as a foster parent will send signals to the biological parents on how a parent should act, as well as how to treat their own children. When your foster child meets with his birth parents for visitations, he should be well dressed, clean, healthy, and looking his best. As a foster parent, part of your mission is to support reunification with your foster child and his biological parents. Do your best to encourage reunification between the child and his parents. Find ways you can help the biological parents with their parenting skills. Discuss ways and ideas on how you can help them meet their caseload, as they attempt to meet the requirements of reunification
Your foster child's family members will want to know what kind of family their child is living with, what his home life will be like, if he is being taken care of, and many other concerns. After all, their child has been taken away from them, against their wishes, and placed in a strange home. They will have many concerns, and may not be as courteous to you as you might like. Be prepared for them to be hostile, rude, angry, or even distant. Remember, they are hurting, and have been a traumatic experience with the removal of their child. Respectfully encourage them to ask you as many questions as they would like. It is important that you answer their questions as honestly and as openly as possible, treating them with the utmost integrity, kindness, and politeness.
Your foster child's biological parents and family members will know him better than anyone, and your meeting with them will offer you the opportunity to learn a great deal about him, as well as acquire important information you might need. When you ask questions about their child, you are showing the birth parents that you are interested in him and his well being. By indicating, with your questions, that his parents are the experts, you will begin to form an important relationship, one that will benefit all involved. A list of questions prepared beforehand will help you gather the information you need.
As a foster parent, it is important to remember that your foster child's biological parents are people in need, and they deserve your kindness and sympathy, not your anger. By working withthem, and by showing them kindness and compassion, you will not only help them, you will teach your foster child an important lesson in love and humanity.
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|2013-04-08, 17:54
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As for the X-Men as a whole, you have to remember that they're supposed to be an allegory to gays/blacks/whatever minority is currently being hated on. Regular people hate them because they fear them. They're different, they have powers. Take this in the same context you see zealots championing anti-gay rights (note: gays don't have super powers).
Obviously this gets harder to believe in-story as time goes on, since it's hard to believe that people would hate mutants after being saved so many times. Thus, it'd be best for movies to focus mostly on remote locations. Savage Land, Asteroid M, Shi'ar, etc. This way normal people would never come to know about the X-Men's heroics, thinking it was just a school for mutants, while still making for interesting movies.
The reason they were purged in the comics was to capture this essence again. Mutants began to no longer be a minority, and it made for uninteresting stories. Whenever they needed shock value, they'd create a mutant character (usually a relatively young character), build them up for a short while, and then kill them off.
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X-Men doesn't really fit in with the rest of Marvel superheroes. With the X-men there is massive oppression and hatred of Mutants, yet in most of the other series, it doesn't seem to come up. Maybe because most of the other heroes are a result of accidents, experianent, aliens, or gods.
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So, saw the movie yesterday. I actually really enjoyed it. Wasn't super amazing or anything, but it was at least better than X3, Wolverine Origins, Superman, and possibly better or on par with Iron Man 3 (hard to gauge since I may put a bias towards Wolverine, given that 90% of the movie is in Japan with real Japanese being spoken).
Also, stay for the mid-credit clip, as it's a lead-in to Days of Future Past.
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As far as I could tell, this film felt to me more like a side-story to Wolverine threading together his past experiences in both X3: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins; the plot of the movie focuses on how Wolverine is dealing with the aftermath after the events of X3.
It doesn't shed anything knew about the character, or bringing to topic the issue of how he can resolve his lost memories dilemma.
The film itself wasn't boring, but the romantic scenes involving Mariko and Logan together do not add chemistry into their mix; Jean and Logan in the dream world fit the perfect match.
If you're a hardcore fan exclusively to the Wolverine, then this move is for you. As for myself, the post-credits scene is the only moment that's worth my money well spent, as I separated it from the rest of the movie.
In fact, it is thanks to that post-credit scene that I learn that X-Men 4, Days of Future Past, is on its way very soon.
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I enjoyed the movie overall. Then I made the mistake of trying to make sense of the story.
Spoiler for plot questions among many others I haven't begun to articulate:
Other than the above, the amusing thing for me is that Rila Fukushima (Yukio) and Tao Okamoto (Mariko) physically resemble a couple of colleagues. Well, maybe not so amusing, since I'm trying to manage a huge crush on the latter colleague who resembles Tao.
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I'd agree with GDB and even go a bit farther by saying "The Wolverine" is probably the best superhero film of the year (so far, I still have a lot of hope for "Thor 2"). In fact, it is one of the few Superhero films that actually manages to transcend its genre. The Wolverine is a competent, often times quite good, character drama filled with beautiful locales and authentic cityscapes added together with some wonderful action setpieces that feel organic and true to the characters and story being told. There are some (a little too many) plot contrivances and a few holes, but overall this was a damn fine theatre experience. 75/100
Of special note is just how good the models turned actors Rila Fukushima and Tao Okamoto were (there were a plethora of damn fine older Japanese male actors that popped up, especially Hiroyuki Sanada as Shingen Yashida and Hal Yamanouchi and the eldest Yoshida*). They had very little acting experience (if any), yet they were more than able to stand beside actors with years of experience. (As an aside (and somewhat jokingly), I have to say the female Japanese actors have really ruled the month of July in terms of above-average to pretty damn good performances in 2 big Hollywood blockbusters. Hopefully this well will be gone to more often in future Hollywood features .)
*I was a little confused as to why Korean-American Will Yun Lee was playing the pseudo-famous Japanese character Kenuichio Harada/Silver Samurai. His performance was certainly good, I just found the slight racebending odd...
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Honestly i think the ending was bad. Too much meaningless twists.
Well correct me if i'm wrong but the way i see it, nothing would have happened if Logan just stayed in (presumably) Canada in the first place....
Spoiler for Just in case:
Nut i do noit rate it so high in the first place, so maybe i just miss out (and do not really care) on plot devices
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For those who have seen it: does the story in The Wolverine made it clear that X-Men Origins: Wolverine never happened, or Foxs just being coy and still want/trying to tie all X-Men movies together? (If it needs to be specifically mentioned, just say it in spoiler tags. Im okay with spoilers)
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Saw it last weekend and it was very good...
Very laidback for an action piece and very well timed humor...
Thought it was cool to watch a neat and tight little side story that essentially worked as a character piece...Perhaps this will give more merit to producers to make Superhero movies based on one good comic book series that people don't know about instead of having to make every comic adaptation the biggest slice of epic epicness ever epic'd...
I mean Sony, Fox, etc., aren't giving up rights anytime soon, so why not make subtle side stories like this that are just good movies that advance moments of transition in a character's life...
I've see everything this summer an I'd say Wolverine was as good if not better than everything except for Star Trek which owned the most to me this summer...Ironman3? Lets just say thank god for Downey...
The only true criticism I have of the film (and no I didn't mind that the final 30 mins of the movie actually turned into an Xmen cartoon because that's how shit goes down in comics), but it was the actress who played Viper... She was so awful she made January Jones look like an emmy winner in First Class (oh hell no I did not mean that lol^^)...
Good thing the movie only marginally focused on her because Jackman was bringing it too good for her to be the only mutant villain..
An speaking of Jackman...
i am a man, and honestly I don't regularly comment about men for various reasons, but his physical commitment to TRULY becoming the visual spectacle that is Wolverine is one of the most mind-blowing body achievements I have ever witnessed on film (we have to go back to Arnold in the 80's to appreciate this)...
I hated when Jackman was cast as Wolverine originally (for some now-crazy seeming reason I thought Vincent D'Onofrio in his early 30's looked more like the character), but I can see now that Jackman loves this character and he is the Wolverine...
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Football has paid its tributes to Gary Speed on the first anniversary of the death of the former Wales manager.
Former Leeds, Everton, Newcastle, Bolton and Sheffield United midfielder Speed was found dead at his Cheshire home at the age of 42, provoking an outpouring of grief for a man liked and respected throughout the football community.
Staff at the Football Association of Wales, including current Wales boss Chris Coleman, met on Tuesday to remember Speed at the governing body's headquarters in Cardiff. Flowers were laid while an image of Speed outside the building was lit up.
Several Wales players and coaching staff were among those to pay tribute on Twitter to the man who had guided Wales to four wins from his last five games in charge.
Tottenham star Gareth Bale, posted: "Remembering Gary Speed 1 year on #RIP", while Celtic midfielder Joe Ledley tweeted: "A year ago today a legend left us, but will never be forgotten. Rip Gary speed."
Striker Robert Earnshaw, who played alongside Speed for Wales, said: "Remembering #GarySpeed today.R.I.P. I learnt alot from him." John Hartson, another of Speed's former team-mates, now part of Coleman's backroom staff, tweeted: "It's one year today since we lost a wonderful man. My thoughts today are with his family God bless."
There was also a message from Sepp Blatter. A post on the FIFA president's official Twitter site read: "Thoughts with Gary Speed's family 1 year on from his passing. Sadly missed by the game he served with such distinction"
All of Speed's former clubs posted messages in his memory and there will be a minute's silence at Elland Road, where Speed began his career and won the 1992 league title, ahead of Leeds' Championship fixture against Leicester this evening.
Former Wales midfielder Matt Jones took part in a 24-hour cycle in memory of Speed.
The 32-year-old had already completed a series of half-marathons, the London marathon, a run up and down Mount Snowdon, and a sky-dive, raising thousands of pounds for charities supported by Speed, including the Bobby Robson Foundation, the John Hartson Foundation and the Spinal Injuries Association.
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DWIGHT IS ON A MISSION TO GET NOTICED AT CORPORATE - CATHERINE TATE ("THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW") JOINS THE SHOW - After Dwight and his team arrive in Tallahassee, Dwight competes with his Dunder Mifflin coworkers to impress Sabre special projects president, Nellie Bertram (Catherine Tate). Back in Scranton, Andy avoids being manager when several people in the office demand raises. Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak, Leslie David Baker, Phyllis Smith, Angela Kinsey, Brian Baumgartner, Oscar Nunez, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling, Creed Bratton, Craig Robinson and Ellie Kemper also star.


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A plain wooden paddle is shown. A penny a nickel and a dime are each secured to the paddle with small rubberbands. Magically a duplicate of each coin appears on the other side of the paddle. You repeat for all three coins until you have doubled your money. All size coins are removed. The paddle is then waved over the coins and a dollar bill appears on the paddle, trapped under the rubber bands. You tell the audience it was all done with mirrors. The bill is removed and underneath the bill is a mirror.
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I certainly notice. I just the other day got - an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
The real question is, will the firefox use a different tube than the explorer? And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. So I think people will know if they're using the one or the other.
What, Opera?
Internet Explorer runs faster on Windows than Firefox does. And it works with sites that use ActiveX.
I use Firefox. But I am not deluded about the percentage of users that know what standards compliance is, let alone care about it. The only way "the other half" is going to switch to another browser is when they discover ad blocking. And if they do that, all that free content I enjoy so much is going to dry right up.
At least, not by me. I imagine that most users will be confused by the presence of more than one "internet" on their machines, and one browser or another still has to be the default. Does MS have to make Firefox the default browser, too?
I agree. I know what I'm doing and I still find that this or that file or link opens by default in browser X when my main default browser is Y. for example Minefield grabs the firefox links some of the time etc..
As for my poor mom with a barely adequate supply of computer memory I constantly find her sluggish computer with two or three browsers running and causing page swaps. Her bookmarks scatterd on all of them and her calling me up because she can't find the one she needs.
Then there's the nag screens that ask you to make this or that your default browser. You don't dare click "don't ask me this again, because youi can never get that back again unless you know the magic about:: command on firefox.
You just don't want to that horror to come uninvited to novice users.
IMHO they're missing the point. How about going all the way: what about shipping computers offering other OS's? Especially if the computer maker and the OS maker are not the same.
The above suggestion is much like the browser issue is to windows - the EU is ignoring the forest in favour of a few trees.
"IMHO they're missing the point."
It seems to be you who's missing it.
"How about going all the way: what about shipping computers offering other OS's?"
This is a matter of EU anti-trust laws, under which having a monopoly in one market (personal computer operating systems in Microsoft's case) isn't illegal, but using that monopoly to try and establish another one in a different market (Internet browsers and rich Internet content) definitely is illegal. Note that the definition of "monopoly" from the EU's viewpoint only concerns their own markets, so it's irrelevant what share of other markets a company may or may not have.
"The above suggestion is much like the browser issue is to windows"
It bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the browser issue under EU anti-trust laws, which existed before Microsoft did, and were therefore also being used to curtail corporate monopoly abusers before Microsoft existed.
>>>You don't dare click "don't ask me this again" because you can never get that back again unless you know the magic about:: command on firefox.
Tools--->Options--->Main Tab--->click the "check now" button at bottom, and that will change all your defaults to Firefox. No need to remember text commands.
Microsoft being forced to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing operating system(s) instead of, or in addition to, Windows they want to install and which one they want to have as default..."
Microsoft being forced to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing operating system(s) instead of, or in addition to, Windows they want to install and which one they want to have as default..."
If you take the GNU bootloader say, it allows you to boot other operating systems that may already be installed on the machine. When you install a typical Linux distro on a Windows computer, the distro asks you nicely if you want to keep the other OS, and it makes sure not to overwrite the parts of the disk which are used by the other OS.
This is only common sense and courtesy, which Microsoft sorely lacks. I'd be in favour if they were forced to play nice in the same way with other operating systems that may be present on the system.
Now you DIE, Mr. Bond!
Or you just offer weak support for bundling other browsers. If I'm not mistaken, many viewers will probably see Google Chrome ads on this page. Which is definitely a good start for getting out the word about alternative browsers. Even better is to apply peer pressure to your friends, neighbors, and relatives. Peer pressure can be an excellent tool for getting people to conform to non-conformity. (Bizarre idea, eh?) Especially when the non-conformity is actually the direction that conformity is going.
Let's just make sure we do the RIGHT thing and don't get too focused on a particular browser. As long as it's not IE, the world will be a better place.
with the integration between Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer.
At the end of the day IE is still there and cannot be removed. What I hoped would come out of this was that the EU would force Microsoft to make IE removable. Ubuntu bundles Firefox, Apple bundles Safari with OS X (although the bundling with Craptunes and Craptime should not be happening) but above all else these browsers are removable. IE is the biggest security hole at work, 60% of all viruses found at work are first detected
During the US anti-trust trial about the same thing one expert witness demonstrated a windows install stripped of IE. It was based on CE (whatever verion was based on XP tech), but this in turn demonstrated that windows can be (and is) modular - just not the one they throw on desktops.
Or for a simpler experiment at home, look for tinyXP or nLite to get rid of IE for you.
it was windows 98, where internet explorer was removed and parts of it were replaced with parts of windows 95.
bundles 10-20 really crappy and outdated browsers
I've never understood why there isn't a central application installer in Windows, something similar to apt-get & Co of Linux, or the Store of the iPhone. Let 3rd party register and submit apps to it, vetted by MS, possibly payware, and in this antitrust case they can add Firefox at no charge. On first run of the OS, let the user customize the apps they want, charge them if necessary and make money along the way.
The internet is my flash drive.
Utter confusion is the first thing. Few average users are going to be able to handle the idea that there is any point to multiple browsers on one computer. Either one works and the other one does not, or there is no point. If one is broken, then it shouldn't be there.
Next, if MS, Dell or any other large OEM is going to be including FireFox, Opera, Safari and others on a computer they are going to require some pretty stringent requirements on release planning and QA. If these aren't present in the organization supporting them the OEM will introduce these. This means there will be a "official" release and a Dell release. That is going to help, isn't it?
Since the HTML rendering engine and a good part of the browser is used for displaying lots of other stuff besides web pages, this is going to make for some interesting times. Some HTML that displays differently between the "source" and the actual rendering.
Certainly going to be interesting.
Next, if MS, Dell or any other large OEM is going to be including FireFox, Opera, Safari and others on a computer they are going to require some pretty stringent requirements on release planning and QA.
You mean like the QA and Release planning we've had with the last 12 years from Microsoft?
A good part of the browser is *NOT* used for displaying other stuff besides web pages.
IEXPLORE.EXE is the browser. That's used by almost nothing. Almost all applications that use the browser use it by doing ShellExecute("mydoc.html"), which opens the html document in whichever browser the user has selected as default.
How about this:
Bill Nigh kicks Chuck Norris' ass before breakfast [ebaumsworld.com]
Now, just start one about FireFox
Firefox is so badass that it doesn't care what OS it runs over
Firefox invented the Internet
Firefox killed the blue screen of death
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Not only would we have to make sure people understand the choices, but we should let them know why they should actually CARE.
I can imagine someone who simply doesn't care... setting up their computer. They are prompted.. and all they will see is:
Choose one:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Choose this to install the Internet
Choose this to also install the Internet
This is an important choice. Both will allow you to do email and porn.
The market is already doing what they hope to achieve, and it got a nice head start. They should just let it happen instead of legislating it, we're already halfway there.
Everyone here seems to be acting as if consumers don't understand how to download, install or use some alternative program. Yet, everyone has been buying programs for video game consoles for almost 30 years, and has been buying software for PCs for nearly as long. Yet, somehow consumers are to notice that there is a choice in browsers.
For the EU, if they are looking to protect their way into developing a domestic desktop industry, the problem is that the ideology that permeates the continent, utterly pre
Yet, everyone has been buying programs for video game consoles for almost 30 years
I think this statement best summarises where you are wrong. You do realise that most people have never owned a console. I am talking about the majority of computer users, not people in some African nation. You really do have a very warped view of the world, if you think 50% of people using computers even know what a browser is.
Just put a link that opens a Live.com search for "web browser"! Not only is Live.com completely unbiased, but the link will open in the default system web browser!
Dear god, how this got a +4 Insightful I'll never know.
Madness? Using an illegal monopoly to muscle into other markets is madness. You're saying you'd be quite happy for the electric company to bundle a crappy washing machine that tears your clothes with your electricity bill?
Oh, and the electric company have ensured that even if you buy another washing machine, you can't remove theirs. And theirs insists on washing your clothes from time to time, no matter how hard you try to remove it. That's what MS did here - they used one product that you pretty much *had* to buy to bundle in a bug ridden piece of crap and force it on customers.
You can't remove IE from a system, they managed to bodge it in pretty well. And no matter how many competitors products you install, from time to time IE will pop up again.
If you're going to talk about the freedom of a company to sell it's product without interference, go speak to Netscape. They deserved to be able to sell their product without Microsoft illegally killing their market. And yes, it was illegal. Both the US and the EU have ruled on that now.
Calling decisions by some of the top courts on two continents insane just shows how much you're missing the point here. You're right about a line needing to be drawn though; the courts are telling Microsoft they've stepped over it, and it's about time.
I don't know how effective a 'spread the word about alternative browsers' campaign would be.
To you and I, doing a quick google search about web browsers to learn the pros and cons of each is no big deal. but to non-techie people, they would not even think about doing this.
we could have a massive online campaign running, radio ads, TV spots, and beat people over the head with the idea that 'web browser x' is better than IE, and it won't mean anything to them because they don't know what a web browser is. To
If the geek had an once of sense he'd put more distance between himself and the EU bureaucrat.
There is precedent now for government to add or subtract - mandate anything it wants from any OS distribution - depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?"
More to the point, how is Microsoft going to exploit it? I'm not an anti-MS zealot, but I can completely see them bundling some third-rate thing that still uses the IE rendering engine or something like Safari that's nowhere near usable on Win32.
That said, if IE is still the default option (or from the user's perspective appears to be), then this judgement really amounts to zilch no matter which side of the debate you're on.
I think the most significant line in the slashdot article is this:
"But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is."
But Glyn then goes on to suggest some kind of publicity campaign, which misses the point of this entire inane EU process. Because if a publicity campaign were useful, it should be done regardless of this ruling.
The average user does not, and continues to not, care. For those of us who do care, we know how to install Firefox and don't need Microsoft or the European governments to hand-hold us through the process. This EU process been one big, fat waste of time.
Even if Microsoft offers a version of Windows that lets users choose explicitly to install IE or Firefox (and I guess, what, Opera as well? Safari? Chrome?), I bet you good money that most users will choose "Microsoft Internet Explorer" because it has Microsoft in the title. As in, faced with this bogus non-option, an ignorant user will choose the program that was written by the operating system vendor.
And I mean this bet literally, because when I write web browser plugins I make sure they support IE first. It's the browser most people have because most people don't care. Until and unless the EU makes Microsoft bundle Firefox to the exclusion of IE---a move that hardly seems fair by any rational metric---most users will still use the most convenient option, because most users simply don't care. End of story.
An advertising campaign that would sell Firefox needs to begin by making people care about their web browser as an application, then explain why Firefox is a better application for browsing the web. History suggests it's an uphill battle.
Incidentally, the fortune file entry at the bottom of my article listing right now is "bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste." How appropriate.
Well, obviously, Apple isn't in a monopoly position, and has not been shown to have criminal intent to abuse such a monopoly.
Microsoft, however, has been found in criminal breach of monopoly and other laws.
That's a pretty basic difference, right there.
Leave fanboyism out of it.
I know it is common to get mixed up between the EU and Europe, but you do know that Opera is Norwegian, and Norway is not a part of the EU, right?
Microsoft had found ways to make Java under-perform while promoting their own proprietary and non-compliant Java VM. Microsoft did similar things against DR-DOS. I expect to see the same of any co-bundled browser.
Any implementation of a browser alternative should be written as a drop-in replacement for the trident rendering engine, not merely the inclusion of some alternative browser package in the add/remove programs list. Part of what is wrong is that too many applications become vulnerabilities by virtue of trident's own vulnerabilities. But if those same API handles were linked over to webkit or something else, then people would have a true alternative that fixes problems not only with the browsers, but within applications that use the rendering of them.
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Warm weather brings a return to the outdoors and more vigorous activities, such as softball, running and yard work. This sudden increase in activity can cause a higher risk of injury, including two of the most common injuries, sprains and strains. Identifying the symptoms of a strain or sprain and knowing when to seek treatment can help prevent long-term pain and disability.
Sprain vs. Strain
You have probably seen athletes like David Beckham and Serena Williams sporting a mysterious colorful therapeutic tape called Kinesio Tex Tape. While it may not be as obvious at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, athletes from skiers to ice hockey players are sure to be using the tape for its therapeutic properties.
Imagine you're taking a leisurely stroll down the sidewalk, but you don't notice that the sidewalk is uneven. As you set your foot down to take another step, you begin to lose your balance.
Normally, your ankle ligaments and leg muscles would kick in at this point, contracting to help you regain your balance. But, if you've endured repeated sprains to your ankle, these mechanisms may be damaged, and you would instead stumble or fall.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Five members of the Otter Valley Union High School football team and two from Mount Abraham earned postseason recognition from the Division III coaches.
Four OV players were named first-team all-stars: senior Mike Winslow as a running back and a linebacker, senior Tyler Jones as an offensive lineman, junior Joe Scarborough as a receiver and junior John Winslow as a defensive back, while Mount Abe senior Tommy Lee Hodsden earned a first-team nod as a kick returner.
Hodsden made the second team twice, as a running back and defensive back; Jones made the second team as a defensive lineman; and John Winslow earned second-team recognition as a quarterback.
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Quitman's mayor and board of aldermen took their oaths of office Monday.
It's the second term in office for Mayor Eddie Fulton, who was reelected with 65 percent of the vote over challenger Chris Reeves.
Fulton says he wants to take advantage of studies the city has paid for to plan for the future. He says with assets like the Archusa Reservoir, Clarkco State Park and the Chickasawhay River, the city is prime for economic growth.
"A mayor cant do it by himself. It takes a good board, and we've got a good board," said Fulton. "And I've got probably the strongest group of volunteers, that you'd ever want to work with; they're outstanding with what they've done. So I'm very excited about the next four years."
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For all his achievements, A R Rahman is humility personified. The ace composer now wants to nurture youngsters with a passion for music. And his KM Music Conservatory, an International School of Music and Music Technology, is a step in that direction.
"We hope to expand the horizons of musicians in India by creating awareness about Western music and Music Technology, while continuing to respect and strengthen the art of Indian music. Aspirants will be trained to reach high standards of proficiency as musicians with good grounding in the technology that goes behind the process of making music," explains the enthusiastic founder and principal of the Conservatory.
When it comes to acknowledging good work, Rahman is second to none. At the recent audio release function of the film Saroja, he heaped praise on music director Yuvan Shankar Raja. "Yuvan was seven or eight when I was working with Ilayaraja. I have seen him grow as a music director. I am happy that he is among the best composers in the industry right now. I am sure he will reach greater heights," he says.


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March 7, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
The No. 13 UC Santa Barbara women's water polo posted a 16-1 blowout victory over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps before defeating No. 16 Long Beach State, 7-6, on Saturday, the opening day of the Gaucho Spring Invite, being held at Campus Pool.
With the wins, UCSB improves to 9-5 on the season. The Gauchos have now won five straight games and the streak includes two victories over Big West Conference foe Long Beach State.
During the first game of the day against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the Gauchos jumped on the board early with a pair of goals from Lizzie Rouleau within the first minute and a half of the game. UCSB poured on five more goals during the first quarter, including a hat trick from Gillian Morgan.
UCSB was held to just one goal - a six-on-five point from Amanda Tipton - during the second. In the third, Alisha Khan, Alyssa Rangel and Kristin Kulakowski each scored for the Gauchos while UCSB continued to keep the Athenas scoreless.
Jamie Moran and Kulakoski each posted two goals in the fourth for UCSB. CMS was finally able to get on the board with power play goal from Abigayle Lin four minutes into the final quarter. That would be it for the Athenas though, as UCSB captured the 16-1 victory.
Goalie Chelsea Carrillo tallied 10 saves in the win for UCSB.
Against Long Beach State, Meagan Leonard posted the first goal of the game just 20 seconds into the first quarter, but the Gauchos quickly responded and Jillian Waldron tied the game at 1-1 just 34 seconds later. UCSB took the lead just over a minute later with another goal from Waldron during a six-on-five opportunity.
Leonard tied the game back up with a six-on-five goal of her own with 2:41 to go in the quarter. With 1:34 on the clock in the first, Gillian Morgan scored during a 49er ejection to give UCSB a slight 3-2 advantage.
Early in the second quarter, Lizzie Rouleau and Kathryn Nelson tallied back-to-back goals, giving UCSB its biggest lead of the game at 5-2. The 49ers managed just one goal during the second and trailed 5-3 at halftime.
With 3:02 to go in the third quarter, Long Beach scored a man-up goal and cut the UCSB lead to one goal. Nelson's second goal of the game at the beginning of the fourth gave UCSB a little room to breath, but with 5:05 on the clock Leonard tallied her third point of the game and once again put the 49ers within one. UCSB was able to hold on through the final five minutes and captured the 7-6 win.
Morgan, Nelson and Waldron led the team with two goals apiece while Kate Murphy posted 11 saves in the win.
UCSB's Gaucho Spring Invite continues tomorrow at Campus Pool. The Gauchos will take on No. 19 UC San Diego at 11:45 a.m. and finish the tournament with a game against No. 6 San Diego State at 4:45 p.m. For complete results, schedules and ticket information for the Gaucho Spring Invite, click here.
#13 UC Santa Barbara 16, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 1
1 2 3 4 Final UCSB 7 1 3 5 16 CMS 0 0 0 1 1
UCSB Goals: Gillian Morgan 3, Kristin Kulakowski 3, Claire Buchanan 2, Lizzie Rouleau 2, Alisha Khan 2, Jamie Moran 2, Alyssa Rangel 1, Amanda Tipton 1.
UCSB Saves: Kate Murphy 1, Chelsea Carrillo 10.
CMS Goals: Abigayle Lin 1.
CMS Saves: Abigail Woodruff 3, Lanier Zimmer 4.
#13 UCSB 7, #16 Long Beach State 6
1 2 3 4 Final LBSU 2 1 2 1 6 UCSB 3 2 1 1 7
LBSU Goals: Meaghan Leonard 3, Cecilia Canetti 1, Keala O'Sullivan 1, Kelsie Emerick 1.
LBSU Saves: Kristen Stragier 8.
UCSB Goals: Gillian Morgan 2, Kathryn Nelson 2, Jillian Waldron 2, Lizzie Rouleau 1.
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By Ben Levisohn
JC Penney (JCP) has made a lot of progress but there's one area that undermine all the good work it's done so far–its need for cash.
Sterne Agee's Charles Grom and team explain why they think JC Penny will need to raise more cash:
We had always expected a sales recovery at JC Penney, but running our model at the current pace of recovery raises concerns about JC Penney's liquidity in a few quarters. To this point, our base case currently incorporates a 2.0% comp in FY14 and a potentially generous gross profit margin recovery to 35.5%, but this still results in ~$800 million in cash burn, including ~$1.26 billion burn through 3Q14′s peak seasonal inventory build – as a result, cash levels fall to very low sub $250 million levels in 3Q14, which we believe may be too tight for vendors' comfort…
In our view, dangerously low liquidity levels augment the odds of another capital raise and we believe the company may/should choose to act sooner rather than later (particularly with the stock rallying from $5 to $6 recently) when options are more limited. To this end, we estimate the company may need a $500-$750 million liquidity infusion given the current pace of sales/margin recovery.
Shares of J.C. Penney have dropped 3.3% to $5.79 at 11:06 a.m., lagging other struggling retailers. Sears Holdings (SHLD), for one, has gained 2.8% to $42.11, while Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) has ticked down 0.1% after an activist investor nominated five candidates for its board.


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Very sorry for your loss Bing
Thoughts and Prayers go out to you and your family
My most sincere condolences, my friend. RIP
Very sorry for your loss Bing
Thoughts and Prayers go out to you and your family
breaks my heart, Bing
My condolences to you and your and his loved ones.
Nothing worse I think than outliving your children
I'm so sorry.
My condolences
Sorry to hear Bing.
Bing, I'm so sorry to hear this. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
RIP Bill.
You are a very strong Individual evidence by the tone in your words. The grace of God be with you and your family in this time.
F uck.
I just got home from work and saw this. I'm so very, very sorry for you and your family. Please let me know if there is any way I can help out, be it with arrangements or otherwise. Please know that your son and his fight were never far from my thoughts, nor is the sorrow you and your family are now enduring.
All my best,
Prayers for you and your family. You have my condolences, sympathies and respect. God Bless.
- John
God Bless you & may your son Rest in Peace.
My deepest sympathies bing. May The Lord provide peace and his love to William, and your family.
Bing - my sincerest condolences, brother. God bless you and your family through this very difficult time.
:-( My prayers are with you.
My deepest sympathies, Bing. Hoping you take some small solace in knowing the man he became, and was, right to the end.
So very sorry for your loss.
Cant find any words, just crazy.
So sorrry to read this.
My sincerest condolences to you and your family.
Sincere condolences, Bing. Prayers for you and yours.
Very sorry for your loss.


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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Frank Stewart, a professor of English and a nationally acclaimed poet, recently represented the United States at the Asia-Pacific Conference- Workshop on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila, Philippines. The conference featured international poets and writer-delegates from 13 nations in the Asia-Pacific region who explored the linkages between indigenous poetryespecially that of oral traditionand poetry as it is now practiced in Asia-Pacific countries and the United States.
Stewart is a widely published poet and essayist, and an expert on the contemporary writing of the Pacific and Asia. He is the recipient of the 1998 College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature Excellence in Teaching award. In addition to teaching, he is also the editor of "Mānoa," an international journal that publishes contemporary literature from Asia and the Pacific. The journal, which Stewart co-founded in 1989, is published twice a year by the University of Hawai'i Press.
Stewart has bachelor's and master's degrees from UH Mānoa, and teaches courses in creative writing, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, and American nature writing.
Other poets at the conference included Kripal Singh of Singapore, Kazuko Shiraishi of Japan, Ko Un of South Korea, and Anthony Tran of the Philippines. The conference was sponsored by the Japan Foundation, consulates from the region, and the host country. The 13 nations represented were Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Philippines, and the United States.


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The article also reminds us that "NT's not ancient history, in spite of its age. The NT 'core' is what's inside Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure and the Xbox One.
Indeed. No matter how structurally sound your operating system may be, UI developers (receiving messages from on high) can still make it look like trash.
BSD is the core of OSX and it's even older.
VMS pre-dated BSD substantially, and NT is basically a rewrite of the VMS kernel.
If you call 6 months substantially:
October 25, 1977 - V1.0 VAX-11/780, Initial commercial release
March 9, 1978 - 1BSD
May 1979 - 2BSD
December 1979 - 3BSD with VAX support. ie. Virtual memory, etc.
November 1980 - 4BSD
If you call 6 months substantially:
October 25, 1977 - V1.0 VAX-11/780, Initial commercial release March 9, 1978 - 1BSD May 1979 - 2BSD December 1979 - 3BSD with VAX support. ie. Virtual memory, etc. November 1980 - 4BSD
"1BSD" was an add-on to V6 UNIX (which was PDP-11 only), and 2BSD was also based on PDP-11 UNIX, so the "BSD" that contributed to OS X was more like 4.4-Lite, which dates back more to 4BSD and 3BSD than the PDP-11 BSDs..
BSD is the core of OSX and it's even older.
VMS pre-dated BSD substantially, and NT is basically a rewrite of the VMS kernel.
...as opposed to OSX, which actually shares and reuses code from the BSD kernel.
That was my sense as well. Especially for the DEC Alpha version, NT 3.51 seemed quite stable.
Oneof the major issues wit 4.0 was how they switch the video drivers to ring 0 for better performance, but most video drivers in those days were total crap. Things have gotten better.
Originally it was a pretty good design, based on the concepts implemented by DEC's VMS system. It only got butchered later by people who didn't know their stuff as well as the original engineers.
Warts and all, Windows owes it's lineage to VMS and the once mighty DEC.
I've heard there are still places running VMS-based hardware.
I've heard there are still places running VMS-based hardware.
Hell, VMS-on-VAX was Digital's replacement for the PDP line of minicomputers (phased in in 1977), and even their predecessors are still running [slashdot.org] in a few places.
I'm sure OpenVMS is in use, running some COBOL for a bank orso. In 1995 VAX/VMS was HUGE in network cluster tech.
I was right in the middle of that, since we were pitching a VAXcluster box against Appleshare and WinNT for serving Computer Based Training for Fokker Aircraft (now sadly defunct).
Our requirement was to serve a classroom full of Apple Mac's (Apple OS 6.x, oh good times), Appleshare won.
VAX/VMS choked on 2Mb/s on a 10Mb ethernet. Still I loved the architecture, and it sparked by furure *nix intere
The Linux kernel would have bought it a beer, but it hasn't turned 21 yet.
Legal drinking age is 18 in Finland (and much of the civilised world, actually. USA is kinda weird. Mind you, allowing driving and drinking at the same time, does that sound like a good idea? Maybe they are right. No, surely not).
No, wait, Linux first release was 1991, that makes it, um, 22. What the heck is wrong with your arithmetic? What do they teach at school these days? Bah. Get off my lawn. (And yes, I did program PDP 11s back in the day. Why do you ask?)
Perhaps the GP meant that the NT kernel hasn't turned 21 yet.
In case anyone was wondering what NT stood for
I forget where I read it, but I recall NT standing for New Technology.
Well, you know, that New Technology Technology is what powers Automated Teller Machine Machines.
...into which you type your Personal Identification Number Number.
I forget where I read it, but I recall NT standing for New Technology.
My, possibly time-addled, memories from the OS/2 days were that the future of the PC was going to be OS/2 NT (OS/2 New Technology), but then Microsoft announced that they were releasing a new OS called Windows NT, which was nothing to do with OS/2 New Technology at all, no sir.
An article for WinNT turning 20, but nothing for Slackware when it did the same [slackware.com] 10 days ago? What is wrong with you, Slashdot?
Wait, don't answer that...
It takes a lot of skill to keep windows running for 20 years.
a 24 year old could have run slackware for the last 20 years.
An article for WinNT turning 20, but nothing for Slackware when it did the same [slackware.com] 10 days ago? What is wrong with you, Slashdot?
Wait, don't answer that...
You could have submitted it to Slashdot. That's how this place runs...
A few releases are missing in the partial Windows NT history mentioned in the article:
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008
And the Xbox.
You forgot 2008 R2. But I think their point was the Windows that are most current. Besides, MS has client and server go hand-in-hand so it's a little redundant to mention both.
- 2000/2000 (obviously)
- Vista/2008
- 8/2012
When every new release of NT brought with it new and useful features at least I was always excited to upgrade from 3.5 on till about 2K8.
Now nobody seems to care about technology anymore... It is all politics, marketeering and guarding the table to ensure no excess value is ever left upon it. Innovation is now measured by games with shells, errecting walled gardens and fresh paint of questionable quality. Sad to see so much potential go to waste.
2008 R2 has some nice improvements over 2008, and 2012 has a lot of nice new stuff, but I *hate* that they decided to use the Metro UI for Server 2012. I liked having the Windows Classic theme for 2003/2008. The Metro UI makes it more difficult to get to some basic settings. It's a server, make it simple and straightforward and aesthetics be damned.
NT was the last revolutionary product put out by Microsoft. VB3 came out the same summer, and was also revolutionary. Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0 were the only other two revolutionary Microsoft products, and those came out the year previous.
All of these products are essentially unchanged over the past 20 years, with even the same codebase, with the exception of VB 3.0, concepts of which continue in the 2nd generation Visual Studio product (based on the late-90's Visual Interdev platform, chucking the highly responsive 1st generation that ended with Visual Studio 6.0).
Being my usual devil's advocate, there have been some innovations which have been useful that MS has made. They are not revolutionary as NT (which was nice at the time because it was completely pre-emptive, while Windows and System 7/8 were cooperative multi-tasking operating systems.)
One of the bigger ones was the jump from NT 4.0 with all its service packs to Windows 2000. The old domain structure got tossed for a new directory server model, which has proven to stand the test of time in companies. Nothing is perfect, but AD has been decently reliable and secure. I don't often hear about complete compromise of AD unless someone managed to get complete rights on an AD server.
GPOs are another item. This is something that has zero value to all but enterprises, but are extremely useful when they come to play. The enterprise-tier management tools in Windows are not perfect, but they are extremely useful. If I want to lock access to USB flash drives to certain users, I can easily do that with security groups and OUs. This isn't flashy, but it makes life easier to turn the legal department writings into stuff I can say I can implement.
Then, there are some cool features. Windows Server 2012 has disk deduplication. This will come in handy on VM servers. It isn't perfect deduplication, as it is a two stage thing (writes are done normally, and a background task removes the duplicated blocks with links), but it is something useful.
There are also things that get the "A for best effort" award.
To me, MS is a mixed bag. They do some cool things in the enterprise. However, on the user front, they need some help/polish. They need to focus on developer morale so a new platform would get a critical mass of apps/games on it when it comes out.
C# is an excellent language, and is superior to Java, in my opinion.
C# hasn't really gone anywhere, because MS isn't really pushing it anymore, but it was well-designed.
There are some other MS products which were pretty good. SQL Server was fine (I realize it was based on Sybase 4). Visual Studio is pretty good.
MS's worst products, in my opinion, were Exchange and Outlook. MS should have fired everyone that was working on either of those. I was astonished that Outlook still sucked so badly after a decade of
The trouble with GPOs is that many of them are extremely porous and can be bypassed with minimal effort. They are enforced mainly by the programs that they apply to. For example, the GPO to stop people using the command prompt can be easily bypassed simply by having a cmd.exe binary that ignores the setting. Similarly with regedit.
The trouble with GPOs is that many of them are extremely porous and can be bypassed with minimal effort. They are enforced mainly by the programs that they apply to. For example, the GPO to stop people using the command prompt can be easily bypassed simply by having a cmd.exe binary that ignores the setting. Similarly with regedit.
Uhm. Not all GPOs are security policies as you seem to believe. If you do not want users to access resources on the local computer then use permissions to restrict users instead of trying to stop them from going to the command prompt. This is not your stupid sudo. There are other and better ways to secure resources than trying to prevent users from running applications that can access them.
You may hide the command prompt if you don't want your users to strafe out where they don't know how to come back from.
I would opine that Windows 95 was actually the last innovative product that Microsoft brought out. Think about it: 16- and 32-bit program support, plug and play (or "plug and pray" as we called it early on), protected memory support, good virtual memory support, pre-emptive multitasking, networking support. Yes, as a multitasking operating system is was mediocre and its stability left little to be desired when compared to Windows NT, but compared to available alternatives (Windows 3.11 and MacOS) it was
I would opine that Windows 95 was actually the last innovative product that Microsoft brought out.
WTF ?! - a kludgy OS that was outdated at its launch - it had been preceded by better OS's in Windows NT and OS/2. MS should have been producing a Lite version of NT in 1995, but someone in MS was still in love with DOS and wanted to keep building OSs on its ricketty foundation - as they did with Win95/98/ME for 5 wasted years.
AND it ran on just about every configuration of PC hardware imaginable.
That is not thanks to MS, it is thanks to the hardware makers who knew that without W95 drivers for their kit they would never sell it. MS was in the fortunate position that they co
huh? everything in that wikipedia (except the name 'developer studio' which was decided on for 4.0 by Julie Larson in a rather contentious meeting) was part of Visual C++ 2.0.
I was really excited about NT when it first came out - I wanted there to be a common OS, living on different microprocessors, not just x86, and NT was that for me. The Unixes were fragmented, each w/ a different one for each platform, but NT had the potential of being common - b/w Intel, MIPS, Alpha and later, maybe others.
I was however disappointed that NT never progressed on the RISC side at all. NT-RISC on both Alpha, as well as MIPS R4x00 was a golden opportunity for Microsoft to develop a win64 sub
I tend to agree about NT. Once you add the GUI component Win2k was the pinnacle of their OS line. It was uphill to that point, and has been downhill ever since.
I disagree on excel being revolutionary however, it was evolutionary, from competitors products and ideas.
...that 640k was not enough!
Who said that?
Windows NT 3.51 was the most stable operating system I have ever used.
I miss it sometimes.
Start up Visual Studio. Enable a breakpoint in C/C++.
Insert a CD and start playing it.
Run your program and wait to hit the breakpoint.
Now wait until the CD player skips to the next track.
Guaranteed blue screen.
Just read this over the past week. Never knew Cutler was such a douche. Reminds me of the argument that came up here a few weeks ago about Linus's management style. Cutler makes Linus seem like a real hoopy frood in comparison.
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Everyone looks for a silver lining during protracted periods of bad weather. Well, here's one: The cold and rain that stole much of 2013's summer across the country, following a warm and dry 2012, helped to save the lives of some motorcycle riders.
According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, the number of motorcyclist fatalities during the first nine months of 2013 indicates that, for the entire year, fatalities declined by 7 percent from 2012. That decline was the first since 1997.
But the reason for the decline, the GSHA said, was as gloomy as the weather itself. There was no increase in motorcycle or rider safety. Rather, 2012's unusually warm and dry weather produced a spike in motorcycle riding and fatalities. The 2013 weather, cooler and wetter in most of the country, kept more motorcycles off the road for longer periods than in 2012.
Pennsylvania reported 158 motorcycle fatalities during the first nine months of 2013, a decline of 27 from the first nine months of 2012.
Overall, the report emphasized that motorcycle safety has not improved as automobile safety has improved dramatically. A car passenger was twice as safe in 2011 as in 1997, measured by fatalities per registered vehicle, whereas motorcycle safety remained consistent.
In 2011, motorcycles accounted for six times more occupant fatalities per registration than passenger vehicles, even though most motorcycles carry only one or two people.
Some of the fatal crashes involved speeding, some involved drinking and driving. But the most important factor, the report said, was whether the victim was wearing a helmet.
"Helmets are 37 percent effective in preventing fatal injuries to motorcycle operators and 41 percent effective for passengers," the report said. "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that helmets saved the lives of 1,617 motorcyclists in 2011. If all motorcyclists had worn helmets, an additional 703 lives could have been saved."
Yet only 19 states and the District of Columbia have universal helmet laws; 28 others, including Pennsylvania, require only younger and beginner riders to wear helmets.
"By far, helmets are the single most effective way to prevent serious injury and death in the event of a motorcycle crash," said Kendell Poole, GHSA chairman and director of the Tennessee Office of Highway Safety.
Pennsylvania is among the states that have gone in the wrong direction. Lawmakers should reinstate mandatory helmet use instead of relying on the weather to reduce the carnage.


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Book discussion and signing will be 11 a.m. in the Community Room at Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell St., Norristown. Author Michael E. Tolle will discuss his book �What Killed Downtown? Norristown, Pennsylvania from Main Street to the Malls.� A book signing will follow the presentatio.
Ireland trip information will be presented 7 p.m. at St. Helena�s School, 1489 DeKalb Pike. There will be a slide presentation and discussion of the trip, which will include Ireland, North and South. Information:Theresa Smith at 215-646-7636.
Free computer classes are being offered at Tabernacle International Deliverance Church, 151 W. Marshall St., Suite 400, Norristown, 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays. Internet and email will begin today for three weeks. Microsoft Word Level 1 begins Feb. 20, and runs for 5 weeks. For more information and to register for classes, call the church Office at 610-275-1120
Join Rondi, at Montco SAAC, 536 George St., Norristown, at 10:30 am, for tips to enhance appearance and improve outlook. Information: 610-275-1960.
Bookmobiles of Montgomery County Library District will visit Plymouth Square Shopping Center, Ridge and Butler Pikes, Plymouth, 1 to 4:30 p.m.; and Valley Stream Apartments, Cowpath Road and Line Street, Hatfield, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell St., Norristown, has Baby lap Rap, for ages up to 24 months with a caregiver. in the Children�s Learning Center, second floor. Simple stories, rhymes and songs. Information: 610-278-5100, ext. 205.
Royersford Free Public Library, 200 S. Fourth Ave., Royersford, hosts story time for children of any age, 10:15 a.m. Morning Book Discussion Group for adults meets 10:15 a.m. for discussion of �In the Time of the Butterflies� by Julia Alvarez. Chess Club for adults meets 6 to 8 p.m.; all skill levels needed. Bring chess set, if you have one. Pre-registration required. Information: 610-948-7277 or www.mc-npl.org, choose the Royersford Branch.
William Jeanes Library, 4051 Joshua Road, Lafayette Hill, has Tales for Tots at 10:15 a.m. for children 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 with a caregiver for stories, songs, fingerplays and a craft with Miss Linda and her puppet Lucy. Free, registration required. Mother Goose Storytime for caregivers and their children 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 is at 11:15 a.m. with Miss Beth. Stories, rhymes, music. Free, registration required. A parenting seminar will be at 6:45 p.m. with Nancy M. Cummings, M.A. Sponsored by the Souther Montco SAHM�s Group, seminar is free but space is limited and registration is required. Information: 610-828-0441 or www.jeaneslibrary.org.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Blue Bell Branch, 650 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell, offers knitting and crocheting every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Work on your own projects or pick up hints and tips. Mah Jongg is at 1 p.m. New players welcome. Miss Michelle�s story time is at 4:30 p.m. Chess Club for adults, teens and children (with parent), meets 7 p.m. Information: 215-643-1320 or www.wvpl.org.
Bingo takes place 6:45 p.m. at Presentation of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1564 Allentown Road, Lansdale. Doors and kitchen open at 5 p.m. Information: 215-368-3993. The church also sells pierogies and kielbasa every Wednesday, 3 to 7 p.m. in the church hall. Information: 215-362-9599.
Bridge game will take place for bridge players interested in playing 7 p.m. Wednesdays. For information, call 610-279-3772. All levels welcome. No partner necessary.
Learn to line dance classes take place 7 p.m. at the Holy Saviour Club, 436 E. Main St., Norristown, across from Holy Saviour Church. Sign in by 6:45. Learn Philly line, soul line and some country line.Information: Joanne at 610-322-2986, email@example.com or Carol at 484-919-3690, email@example.com.
BNI Limerick Chapter of Business Network International meets Wednesdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m. at the Sly Fox Restaurant, Lewis Road, Royersford. Visitors welcome. Only cost is for the meal. For information or reservation to attend, call 610-948-1085 or visit www.BNIDVR.com and click on �Find a chapter.�
The BNI, Limerick II Chapter meets every Wednesday at the Sly Fox Restaurant, 312 N. Lewis Road,Royersford, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors welcome. Only cost is that for your meal. For information or to make a reservation, call Margot Aronson at 610-306-7939 or visit www.BNIDVR.com and click the menu item �Find a Chapter.�
LeTip of the Main Line, a professional referral network meets at 7:01 a.m. at the Villanova Conference Center, Radnor, to learn more about members� businesses and exchange referrals. Information: Bob Rodenbaugh, 610-313-1882.
Blue Star Mothers of America are looking for family and friends who have loved ones serving in the United States Military. They are welcome to the monthly meeting, the second Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Bucks County Courthouse Community Room, Doylestown. Information: bluestarmothers.com or call 215-723-4935.
Western Montgomery County LeTip, a business networking group, meets 7:01 a.m. every Wednesday at the Sandtrap Restaurant at Limerick Golf Course, to exchange business tips. Information: www.westernmontcoletip.com or contact Saul Rivkin at 610-948-9000 or firstname.lastname@example.com. No charge to attend your first meeting.
Free scoliosis and spinal screenings for children ages 2 to 18 are offered Wednesdays as a service to the community by Dr. Brian S. Roth, 20 S. Trooper Road, Norristown. Information: Cory Kapusta at 610-539-5000.
Blood pressure screenings continue until 8:15 p.m. in the lobby of the Phoenixville Hospital, 140 Nutt Road, Phoenixville. Information: 610-983-1288.
St. Peter�s Thrift Shop, Main and Church streets, North Wales, is open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. It feature women�s and children�s clothing, household items, books, toys and more. Proceeds go to local charities. Parking available in the church lot. Entrance in rear of church building. Donations are tax deductible.
Thrift Shop of the Reformed Church of the Ascension, 1700 W. Main St., Jeffersonville, is open Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is a large selection of gently-used clothing and household merchandise for sale. Donations of clean, usable items are accepted during regular business hours.
Second Time Around Shop of All Saints� Church, 535 Haws Avenue, Norristown, is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays. There is a variety of clothing, accessories, collectibles, jewelry, household items, small appliances, decorative items, linens, children and teen items, craft supplies, holiday decorations and 10-cent greeting cards, as well as books and magazines, including 10-cent paperbacks. New merchandise weekly. Tax receipts for donations available.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets 7 to 8 p.m. in the King of Prussia Medical Building, 491 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Room 321. Information: 610-783-0345.
Hope Al-Anon meets 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the fifth floor conference room at Mercy Suburban Hospital, DeKalb Pike, East Norriton.
Gamblers Anonymous meets at 7:15 p.m. in the Wolffe Conference Room at Valley Forge Medical Center & Hospital, 1033 W. Germantown Pike, West Norriton. Information: 610-539-8500. Gamanon, for families of gamblers, meets at 7:45 p.m. in the Outpatient Therapy Room.
King of Prussia Alcoholics Anonymous meetings take place 7 a.m. daily at Upper Merion Baptist Church, Valley Forge and Gen. Steuben roads, King of Prussia and at noon at Church of Christ, 590 W. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia, Monday through Friday.
Narcotics Anonymous Recovery Group meets 8 p.m. at Olivet Schwenkfelder United Church of Christ, 619 W. Township Line Road, East Norriton. Information: Butch at 610-272-5843.
�Together We Grow,� a Nar-Anon Family Support Group meets 7:30 p.m., Room 10 at the Church on the Mall, Plymouth Meeting Mall. Plymouth Meeting. Information available at Nar-Anon Hotline, 800-678-4989, www.naranon.com.
Food Addicts Anonymous, a support group for individuals who have a problem controlling the way they eat, withno dues, fees or weigh-ins, has a community public information meeting, 9:30 to 11 a.m. weekly at the Philadelphia Inquirer Building, River Road (Route 23), Upper Merion. Information: Rose at 610-272-0448 or visit www.foodaddicts.org.
Overeaters Anonymous meets every Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, 1600 E. High St., Pottstown, in Private Dining Room �B.� Information: Kathy at 484-941-1541.
Phoenixville Courage to Change Al-Anon Family Group meets at St. John�s Lutheran Church every Wednesday evening. Beginner meeting at 7 is followed by regular meeting at 8 p.m.
Nicotine Anonymous meets 7:30 p.m. in the Eisenhower Room, St. John�s Lutheran Church, St. John�s Circle, Phoenixville. Only requirement for membership is desire to stop smoking. Information: 610-933-9181 or 610-933-6056.
Conshohocken Helping Hands Group, Alcoholics Anonymous, meets 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8:30 p.m. Friday at Mary Wood Park House, 120 E. Fifth Ave., Conshohocken.
Glenn Miller will be at Montco SAAC, 536 George St., Norristown, at 12:15 p.m., to perform some high-energy classics on his accordion. Information: 610-275-1960.
The Conshohocken Free Library, 301 Fayette St., presents the following program �Is Your Home Safe?� at 10:30 p.m. The workshop will discuss hidden dangers in in the home and strategies for safety. Call 610-825-1656 to register.
Bookmobiles of the Montgomery Library District will be at North Penn Marketplace, Sumneytown Pike and Valley Forge Road, Upper Gwynedd, noon to 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.; Merrymead Farm 2222 Valley Forge Road, Worcester, 1 to 3:30 p.m. and Willowbrook Apartments, 825 Willowbrook Drive, West Norriton, 5 to 7 p.m.
George Washington Carver Community Center 249 E. Jacoby St., Norristown, offers Zumba, 7 to 7:45 p.m. Information: 610-277-7260.
Lower Providence Community Library, 50 Parklane Drive, Eagleville, hosts story time 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. for ages 4 and older. Free and open to the public. Information: 610-666-6640.
Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library Children�s Department, 1001 Powell St., Norristown offers Toddler Tickle Tales at 10:30 a.m. for the active toddler and early preschool age child, ages 2 to 4, with caregiver, in the Children�s Department, second floor. Stories, songs, games. Information: www.mc-npl.org or 610-278-5100, ext. 205.
Royersford Free Public Library, 200 S. Fourth Ave., Royersford, holds story times on Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. for children of any age. Free; no registration required. Evening book discussion for adults on �Unaccustomed Earth� by Jhumpa Lahiri at 6:30 p.m. New readers welcome. Information: 610-948-7277 or www.mc-npl.org, choose the Royersford Branch.
William Jeanes Library, 4051 Joshua Road, Lafayette Hill, offers Mother Goose Story Time, 10:15 a.m. for children from 1 to 2 1/2 years old with stories, songs and rhymes. Tales for Tots with Miss Beth for children 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years old will be at 11:15 with Miss Linda and her puppet Lucy and includes stories, songs, rhymes and crafts. Reading Romp for children ages 2 to 5 is at 1:30 p.m. with stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. All are free; registration required. Poetry Shots will be at 6:30 p.m. Group will read a poem together and discuss. Registration required. Information: 610-828-0441 or www.jeaneslibrary.org.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Ambler Branch, 209 Race St., Ambler, hosts programs for children and adults including story time at 4:30 p.m. Information: 215-646-1072 or www.wvpl.org.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Blue Bell Branch, 650 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell, features Gardening Tips and Tricks with Master Gardener Kathy Kllein at 2 p.m. Lego Club for ages 3 and older meets at 4:30 p.m. Legos and Duplos provided. Information: 215-643-1320 or www.wvpl.org.
Forteniters Club meets at 5 p.m. at St. Patrick�s Hall, DeKalb and Chestnut streets, Norristow, for socialization followed by a dinner hosted by Lower Providence Optimists.
LeTip, professional referral network, meets Thursday mornings at the Holiday Inn, Fort Washington, to learn more about other members� businesses and exchange referrals. Information: Greg Sarian at 610-878-8426.
Montgomery County Health Department sponsors free cancer awareness prevention programs: colorectal, prostate, ovarian and skin cancer. To schedule a program, contact Pat Fallon at 610-278-5117, ext. 6782 or email@example.com.
Free Medicare and Health Insurance Advice every Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Aging & Adult Services office, Montgomery County Human Services Center, 1430 DeKalb Pike, Norristown. For information or to confirm, call 610-278-3911. Confidential counseling provided by RSVP of Montgomery County�s volunteer Apprise counselors. Apprise is the State Health Insurance Assistance Program offering advice on Medicare, Medicaid, Medigap, Medicare Advantage plans, long-term care insurance and the prescription drug benefit. Counselors help determine what plan or combination best meets individual needs.
Free blood pressure screenings, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Montgomery Home Care, 25 W. Fornance St., Norristown. No appointments necessary. Information: 610-272-1080.
Free blood pressure checks by the North Penn Visiting Nurses every Thursday, 2 to 3 p.m., at Community Housing Services, 311 N. Broad St., Lansdale. No appointment needed. Information: 215-362-5250.
Living with HIV and Addiction Support Group meets 6 to 7:30 p.m. For information, location and directions, call Project Hope at 610-630-2111.
Montgomery County Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 8 p.m. every Thursday and Monday at Calvary Episcopal Church, Fourth and Fayette streets, Conshohocken.
King of Prussia Alcoholics Anonymous meetings take place 7 a.m. daily at Upper Merion Baptist Church, Valley Forge and Gen. Steuben roads, King of Prussia and at noon at Church of Christ, 590 W. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia, Monday through Friday.
Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families Group meets at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Ambler, Butler Pike and 4 S. Ridge Ave. Information: 610-220-6303.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at Jeffersonville Presbyterian Church, rear entrance, 1921 W. Main St., Jeffersonville. Weigh-in 5:45 to 6:10 p.m. Meeting 6:15 p.m. Information: Rose Marie Salkowski: 610-279-6896.
Nar-Anon support group for families and friends of drug abusers meets 7 p.m. at St. John�s Lutheran Church, St. John�s Circle, Phoenixville. Overeaters Anonymous meets at noon at Conshohocken United Methodist Church, Sixth Avenue and Fayette Street, Conshohocken. Use Sixth Avenue entrance.
Morning STAR Ministries: Christians United Against Addictions, a support group to achieve healing through Christ in their lives and lives of those that are affected by the results of an addictive and compulsive behavior lifestyle, meets 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Fellowship House, 515 Harry St., Conshohocken. Information and directions: Ted: 484-744-3662 or Page: 215-620-7961.
Co-Dependents Anonymous meets 7:30 to 9 p.m. at St. Andrew�s Lutheran Church, 2725 Egypt Road, Audubon.
First Step Group Valley Forge, Alcoholics Anonymous, meets 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday at Valley Forge Medical Center, 1033 W. Germantown Pike, East Norriton.
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Step Study open meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays at Souderton Mennonite Church, 105 W. Chestnut St. (entrance on Wile Avenue), Souderton.
Basket bingo will take place at Plymouth Elementary School Gym, 542 Plymouth Road, Plymouth Meeting. Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door and includes 20 games and chance for door prizes; adults only with only 200 seats available. Doors open at 6 p.m. with games starting at 7 p.m. Information: Dana Hermann at email@example.com or Colette Duffy at firstname.lastname@example.com, 610-832-0702.
Registrations for basic computer courses for the Winter Term are being accepted at Montgomery County � Norristown Public Library Computer Lab, 1001 Powell St, Norristown. Classes begin Jan. 22 and registrations will be ongoing until the courses are filled. Registrations must be done in person in the Lab and payment of class fees must be made at that time. Contact the Lab for more information about courses offered and class fees. Information: 610-278-5100, ext 141, or visit www.mc-npl.org, click on Computer Lab.
The Conshohocken Free Library, 301 Fayette St., presents Make & Take Craft: Drop in between 2:45 and 4:45 p.m. to make a special craft with Miss Lorraine. For more information, call 610-825-1656.
Bookmobiles of the Montgomery County Library District will be at Upper Frederick Township Building, Route 73, Obelisk, 10 a.m. to noon.; Ralph�s Corner, Routes 63 and 463, Hatfield, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.; and North Penn, Sumneytown Pike and Valley Forge Road, Upper Gwynedd, 1 to 4:30 p.m.
William Jeanes Library, 4051 Joshua Road, Lafayette Hill, Tai Chi for Arthritis, 10:30 a.m. Tai Chi at a beginner level. Second session of four free sessions. There is a fee of $20 ($5/session) for the next 4 sessions � payable at the end of the fourth session. Walk-ins are $8 per class. Chair yoga is at 2 p.m. Fee is $5 per class, day of class or in advance. Registration is required for all activities by visiting jeaneslibrary.org or calling 610-828-0441.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Blue Bell Branch, 650 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell, hosts story time at 10:30 a.m. with Miss Michelle singing and playing the guitar Information: 215-643-1320 or www.wvpl.org.
Dance California dance group meets Fridays (except first Friday of the month) for buffet dinner at 6:45 p.m., beginners� lesson at 7:30 p.m., intermediate lesson at 8:15 p.m. and dance party from 9 to midnight at Church on the Mall, Plymouth Meeting Mall. Cost: $12. Information: 610-558-4556.
Free excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), psoriasis, vitiligo evaluations take place at the offices of Marlene J. Mash, MD & Associates, General & Cosmetic Integrative Dermatology, 545 W.Germantown Pike, Suite 100, Plymouth Meeting. For more information: firstname.lastname@example.com, www.DrMarleneMash.com or phone 484-351-8268.
Daisy Thrift Shop is open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Haws Avenue United Methodist Church, 800 W. Marshall St. and Haws Avenue, Norristown. Clothing, toys and household goods available.
Norristown Hospitality Center, 12 Steps for Christians, meets 10 a.m at 530 Church St., Norristown. All welcome. Information: 610-277-1321.
Norristown Group of Alcoholics Anonymous holds an open AA 12-Step meeting at 6:30 p.m every Friday, at the Friends Fellowship Hall at 20 E. Jacoby St., Norristown. All are welcome to open meetings.
Collegeville Alcoholics Anonymous Group meets at 8:30 p.m. at Trinity United Church of Christ, 532 Main St., Collegeville.
King of Prussia Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 8 p.m. at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Henderson and Valley Forge roads, King of Prussia. Information: 215-923-7900.
King of Prussia Alcoholics Anonymous meetings take place 7 a.m. daily at Upper Merion Baptist Church, Valley Forge and Gen. Steuben roads, King of Prussia and at noon at Church of Christ, 590 W. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia, Monday through Friday.
Reformers Unanimous Addictions Program meets 7 to 9 p.m. weekly at Valley Forge Baptist Temple, 616 S. Trappe Road, Collegeville. This provides a safe place for accountability, trained leaders, Biblical instruction, education and personal support. Programs for teens and children available. Child care and transportation can be provided. No pre-registration required. Information: 610-948-8100.
Delaware Valley Chapter of Marijuana Anonymous meets 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew�s Episcopal Church, 7 St. Andrew�s Lane (Route 401 just west of Route 100), Glenmoore. Information: 1-800-766-6779.
Abington Lines Model Railroad Club, Inc., open houses continue noon to 4 p.m. today and Sunday and Feb. 2, 3. 9, 10, 16 and 17 at 2066 Second St., Pike, Richboro, Bucks County. This is an HO scale railroad set in the Pennylvania mountains. Featured this year is an expanded trolley operation. Admission: Free but donations help in growth and improvement and are appreciated. Two complete train sets also will be raffled.
Annual Model Railroad Open House concludes today and Sunday at Schuylkill Valley Model Railroad Club, 400 S. Main St. Phoenixville, (diagonally across from the Phoenixville Library) 1 to 5 p.m. Freight and passenger trains pulled by steam or diesel engines over 700 feet of track depict four different railroads. Visitors could win a train set. Admission is free. Donations are gratefully accepted. Informaton: 610-935-1126 or www.svmrrc.com.
GATSME Model Railroad Club is holding its last open house at its current location, Prospect and Madison avenues, Fort Washington, noon to 4 p.m. today and Sunday The display is a 40� x 50� HO scale layout, based on central Pennsylvania in the mid 1950s. During the show there will be trains from all eras. Admission is free donations are accepted. Information: 215-646-2033 or www.gatsme.org.
Lower Providence Community Library, 50 Parklane Drive, Eagleville, offers story time at 10:30 a.m. for infants to 3-year-olds, and at 11:15 a.m. for children 4 years and older. Information: 610-666-6640 or www.lowerprovidencelibrary.org.
Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library, 1001 Powell St., Norristown , holds Roll Over and Read, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Children�s Learning Center, second floor. Elementary age children can read to specially trained dogs. Bring your own book or use one from the library. Information: 610-278-5100, ext. 205.
William Jeanes Memorial Library, 4051 Joshua Road, Lafayette Hill, offers teen card games and snacks at 3 p.m. for students in grades 6 to 12. No registration or fees required. Information: 610-828-0441.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Ambler Branch, 209 Race St., Ambler, .... Information: 610-646-1072 or www.wvpl.org.
Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Blue Bell Branch, 650 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell, children�s �Pigeon Party� will be at 11 a.m. Mystery Book Group meets at 2 p.m. Featured is �Child 44� by Rob Smith.On Jan. 21 and 28 there will be an AARP Driving Class at 6 p.m. Both sessions required for certificate. Cost: $12 for AARP members; $14 for non-members. Register now. Information: 215-643-1320 or www.wvpl.org.
Elmwood Park Zoo, 1661 Harding Blvd., Norristown, is open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regular admission fees are: $12 per adult (ages 13 to 64); $9, per child ages (2 to 12) and per senior (ages 65 and over); $7 per person for groups of 15 or more. Elmwood Park Zoo members and children under 2 admitted free. Information: 610-277-3825 or visit www.elmwoodparkzoo.org.
Peppermint Dance Club meets for ballroom dancing Saturdays and Thursdays at Church on the Mall, Plymouth Meeting Mall, Germantown Pike. Beginners lessons are 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.; intermediate lessons, 8:30 to 9 p.m.; dance party, 9 to midnight. Light refreshments. Singles welcome. Admission: $12 includes lesson. Information: 610-558-4556 or www.peppermintdanceclub.com.
Free Posture and Spine Checkup every Saturday, 9 to 11 a.m., at Gulph Mills Chiropractic Center, 600 Lewis Road, Suite 113, King of Prussia. Information: 610-768-4559.
Thrift Shop of the Reformed Church of the Ascension, 1700 W. Main St., Jeffersonville, is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. There is a large selection of clothing for the entire family, household items, books, tapes, movies and more. Donations of clean and usable clothing and household items accepted during shop hours.
Debtors Anonymous meets 8 to 9:15 a.m. at St. John�s Episcopal Church, 1333 Old Welsh Road (Route 63), Huntingdon Valley. This is a 12-step program for people with money problems and debt. Directions and information: Alan at 215-239-5152.
Norristown Group of Alcoholics Anonymous holds a closed AA speaker meeting at 10 a.m. every Saturday, at the Friends Fellowship Hall at 20 E. Jacoby St., Norristown. Closed meetings are for alchoholics only.
Overeaters Anonymous meets 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Green Tree Church of the Brethren, 1078 Egypt Road, Oaks. Handicapped accessible. Information: www.oa-brandywine.org.
Double Trouble, a support group for those personally affected by mental health issues and drug and alcohol, meets 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays at the Friends Connection of Montgomery County, 700 E. Main St., Norristown. Wheelchair accessible. Information: 610-292-9922.
King of Prussia Alcoholics Anonymous meetings take place 7 a.m. daily and noon Monday through Friday at Upper Merion Baptist Church, Valley Forge and Gen. Steuben roads, King of Prussia.
Overeaters Anonymous Step Meeting takes place 10 a.m. Saturdays at Conshohocken United Methodist Church, Sixth and Fayette streets, Conshohocken, in the second floor meeting room. Enter through Sixth Avenue door. Information: 610-825-0366.


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Uranerz Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results
By: Marketwired .
Nov. 8, 2012 01:20 PM
CASPER, WYOMING -- (Marketwire) -- 11/08/12 -- Uranerz Energy Corporation ("Uranerz" or the "Company") (TSX:URZ)(NYSE Amex:URZ)(FRANKFURT:U9E) has released its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 as filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and in Canada with the Canadian securities administrators (on SEDAR).
Subsequent to the third quarter end, the Company received its Class I Underground Injection Control (deep disposal well) permit from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for the Nichols Ranch ISR Uranium Project located in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, U.S.A. The Company now has all of the regulatory permits and licenses needed to construct and operate an ISR uranium mine in Wyoming. Construction of the Nichols Ranch ISR Mine is nearing completion and uranium production is targeted to commence in 2013.
On November 6, 2012, the Wyoming Business Council recommended approval of the Company's application for a $20 million loan under the State of Wyoming's Industrial Development Bond financing program. The loan will be repayable over seven years and bear interest at a rate of 4.25%. Final approval for the loan is subject to the completion of due diligence and satisfaction of various other State approvals.
Quarterly Financial Results Highlights:
Financial Position at September 30, 2012 Cash and cash equivalents $ 11,784,479 Working capital $ 11,569,072 Total assets $ 43,139,934 Current liabilities $ 1,229,260 Long term debt $ Nil Stockholders' Equity $ 40,784,169 Results of operations for three months ended September 30 2012 2011 ----------------------------- Net Loss $ 1,668,910 $ 2,113,094 Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share $ 0.02 $ 0.03 Net Cash Used in Operating Activities $ 2,324,885 $ 1,874,546 Net Cash Used in Investing Activities(i) $ 5,329,642 $ 2,578,700 Net cash Provided by Financing Activities $ 186,083 $ 631,467 Results of operations for nine months ended September 30 2012 2011 ----------------------------- Net Loss $ 4,948,437 $ 11,558,864 Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share $ 0.06 $ 0.15 Net Cash Used in Operating Activities $ 6,008,211 $ 6,772,101 Net Cash Used in Investing Activities(i) $ 17,329,054 $ 3,401,863 Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities $ 476,999 $ 14,767,575 (i) Capital assets including mine construction
The financial information presented is in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. To review Uranerz' quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2012, including its management discussion and analysis, visit the SEC, SEDAR or Uranerz websites.
About Uranerz
The Nichols Ranch ISR Uranium Project is Uranerz' first ISR mine. ISR, or in-situ recovery, is a mining process that uses a leaching solution to extract uranium from sandstone uranium deposits; it is the generally accepted extraction technology used in the Powder River Basin area of Wyoming. Uranerz controls a large strategic land position in the central Powder River Basin. The Company's management team has specialized expertise in the ISR uranium mining method and a record of licensing, constructing, and operating ISR uranium projects. The Company has entered into long-term uranium sales contracts for a portion of its planned production with Exelon and one other of the largest nuclear utilities in the country.
Further Information
For further information, please contact Derek Iwanaka, Manager of Investor Relations at 1-800-689-1659 or by email at email@example.com. Alternatively, please refer to the Company's website at www.uranerz.com, review the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov, or visit the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release may contain or refer to "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable United States and Canadian securities laws, which may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the Company's expectation that it will commence commercial production at the Nichols Ranch ISR Uranium Project in 2013, and all other statements which describe future activities or express intentions or expectations including without limitation the statement respecting the potential grant by the Wyoming Business Council of a loan to the Company and the Company's expectations regarding the amount and terms of such loan. Such forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, the risks and uncertainties outlined in our most recent financial statements and reports and registration statement filed with the SEC (available at www.sec.gov) and with Canadian securities administrators (available at www.sedar.com). Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. We do not undertake to update forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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