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Kiki Jenkins (1977 - ) is a dateable character in Grand Theft Auto IV. She is datable after the mission Out of the Closet (once Algonquin is unlocked) and can be contacted via Love-Meet.net under the alias LawChick. She lives in Little Italy, Algonquin. She seems to be of Pacific Islander descent. She works at the Goldberg, Ligner and Shyster law offices.
Kiki is more down-to-earth than the other two internet girlfriends. She feels guilty of living a good and lavish life and often talks about her charity work. She is highly critical of the law enforcement and court authorities, which she perceives as corrupt and overly harsh, and she is sympathetic towards criminals like Niko, believing that they are products of the environment and bad circumstances.
Kiki comes across as needy and clingy at times, and if Niko doesn't see her for an extended period of time, he may receive paranoid phone calls from her demanding to know where he is and what he's doing.
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Kiki likes cheap clothes from the Russian shop and likes mid-range to very cheap cars. Her favorite activities are bowling, darts and pool. She also enjoys visiting the Split Sides comedy club and the Perestroika cabaret club in Broker. For meals, Kiki enjoys fast food outlets such as Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell, shunning more expensive establishments. She is available between 2pm and 6am. She will sometimes send the picture Roman sends Niko when he goes to a strip club, attached to the image she questions: "Is this what your whores send you?", which could support the fact that Kiki is a stalker and is intercepting Niko's text messages.
Cars Kiki Likes:
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Venues Kiki Likes:
- Bowling (though seems iffy about the idea at first)
- Darts
- Pool (though seems iffy about the idea at first)
- Split Sides
- Perestroika
Once Niko's relationship level gets high enough, he will gain the ability to lose up to, and including, a 3 star wanted level by calling Kiki on his mobile phone.
- Some pedestrians bear a striking resemblance to Kiki, complete with her signature red scarf and black coat.


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Big chance for Baines
With Leighton Baines set to get his England chance in the absence of Ashley Cole, Adam Bate looks at the stats that show the Everton man might well be the better left-back but wonders whether the player will seize his big opportunity...
By Adam Bate - Follow @GhostGoal
Last Updated: 10/10/13 10:02am
Finally, it's time for Leighton Baines to step up. Ashley Cole's rib injury robs Roy Hodgson of one of his most experienced players going into a match he must win and the enforced change means that Baines will start for England against Montenegro on Friday evening. The Everton left-back will be among the least experienced internationals on the pitch. Given that Baines has been widely regarded as one of the best players in the country in recent seasons, it's a curious state of affairs.
While Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard have found themselves squeezed into the same midfield and Peter Shilton and Ray Clemence were expected to rotate goalkeeping duties, Baines has had to wait for his chance. A San Marino exhibition here; a friendly in Norway there; and an unused substitute when the trips to Poland, Montenegro and Ukraine came around. Just six competitive internationals so far for the only Englishman named in the PFA XI for each of the last two seasons.
Suddenly, it is all on the line. England need two wins to seal their place at next summer's World Cup in Brazil. It is a time for experience and there can be no denying this is a big game for Baines. Denied a move to Manchester United in the summer and turning 29 in December, he could be forgiven for thinking his best chance of playing Champions League football - a competition Cole has won - is already gone. The biggest game of Baines' career so far was a spirited FA Cup final defeat in 2009. And this time a Wembley win is demanded.
But with Baines, the notion that he is a mere understudy feels like a huge disservice. This chance is overdue and the circumstances could suit his game. The need for three points means that Hodgson might be tempted to abandon his more cautious tendencies, potentially bringing out the best in his attacking left-back. Of course, in this regard, the statistics are astonishing.
Baines created more chances - 116 - than any other Premier League player last season. More than the likes of Juan Mata, David Silva and Santi Cazorla. Many of those were from set-pieces and that could prove an important asset for England, as anybody who saw those stunning free-kicks in the win over West Ham last month would attest. But even from open play, Baines was mixing it with the Spanish trio in the top 10 creators in the country - creating 20 more opportunities than any other Premier League defender.
Of course, the question marks over Baines - at least in relation to Cole - have concerned his defensive capabilities. The Chelsea man remains a supreme athlete and is regarded as a big-game player. Those performances in Champions League finals and the knockout stages of major tournaments are burnt on the memory. His club manager Jose Mourinho is convinced of Cole's status.
"He is the best in England and he is also one of the best in the world," said Mourinho upon his own return to Stamford Bridge in the summer. "I trust him a lot because defensively he is one of the best, with the ball he goes forward and creates goals for the other guys, so I think he is a very complete left-back... He is a perfect player."
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Baines may not have achieved defensive perfection in the eyes of the Portuguese coach but his statistics as a stopper of wingers do stand up. He ranked in the top 10 for tackles and the top 20 for interceptions among Premier League defenders last season. This is not just a playmaker from left-back, but someone who is delivering this creative threat as well as doing the basics well.
In the current campaign, he is also outperforming Cole on paper as a pure defender. Not only has Baines made more tackles and interceptions than the Chelsea left-back in the opening seven matches of the season, he has also been dribbled past by opposition players on fewer occasions. Given that this is surely Cole's raison d'être - the epitome of the solid full-back - it is a revealing statistic. Everything points to Baines being a reliable option.
Perhaps this also reflects the progress that Baines has made since being overlooked by Fabio Capello for the 2010 World Cup in favour of Stephen Warnock. "I see him getting better in lots of ways," said David Moyes earlier this year. "His football intelligence and how he can improve his and the team's performances. He always looks to improve himself every day. He has risen to the challenge of being England's left-back. He's turning out to be as good a left-back as there is."
This week gives Baines the perfect opportunity to show the rest of the country whether Moyes is right. When qualifying is over, will we be left wondering why the explosive game-changer was held back for so long... or will we be bemoaning the collective naivety of the nation in believing that a world-class left-back would not be sorely missed? Either way, it's time for Leighton Baines to step up.

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Activation of FA proteins by DNA substrates. The current understanding of the triggers of activation for the FA/BRCA pathway proteins is incomplete. We are testing DNA binding and DNA structure-specific FA protein activation in cell free extracts to identify the FA-specific transactions.
Chemical Modulation of the FA/BRCA Pathway. We designed a rapid, inexpensive and sensitive cell-free assay to screen for small molecules that modulate the FA/BRCA pathway. We are using this assay to identify potential therapeutic targets and to dissect the activity of the FA proteins within the network of proteins that guard genomic stability.
The role of the FA proteins at early stages of hematopoiesis. We identified a novel transcriptional repressor (FAZF, for Fanconi Anemia Zinc Finger) that binds to FANCC, one of the Fanconi proteins. We are interested in the functional consequences of this interaction in normal and dysregulated hematopoiesis.
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Angela Classes are Mon, Weds, Friday
Classes begin at 10am, 11am and 12pm
$10 per class cash or check payable to in Yoga Instructor Angela W.
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RENO -- Students from Truckee Meadows Community College are raising money for those injured in the Boston attack.
Amy Blomquist, a TMCC advisor, ran in the Boston Marathon.
"Getting very excited feeling like this was a goal of mine, to getting to the end... just panic, the only thing I really cared about was making sure my family was okay," she said.
Blomquist is encouraging others to help after the attack. She is among those urging support of Wiggle Your Toes, a non-profit that helps amputees.
"As much money as possible to help them out with what they need," she said.
Blomquist said her mother received more than thirty stitches in her leg after the attack. She said her mother is recovering and is now driving again.
A multi-faith prayer was also held at TMCC.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Debate over the rules that govern operation of the state Assembly could trigger the first partisan fight of the legislative session.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Monday one goal of the new rules is to curtail debating late into the night. The Assembly has more frequently taken votes on bills in the dark of night or even as the sun rises.
Delaying debate or votes on a bill is frequently a tactic used by the minority party. Any changes to rules that would limit debate are likely to be met with fierce opposition from Democrats.
Assembly leaders were to meet Tuesday to discuss the rules changes up for debate Thursday. Vos says details of the changes will be released after that meeting.


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[artist id="988"]Green Day[/artist] fans attending Thursday night's performance of the just-opened Broadway musical "American Idiot" got an extra-special treat following the final bow: The veteran rock trio jumped onstage for a surprise performance.
"This is my first night on Broadway," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced as his two bandmates — bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool — took their places behind him. They quickly ripped into a blistering performance of "American Idiot," the first single from the album of the same name that serves as the basis for the musical. The adoring audience — which included winners of MTV's "American Idiot" contest — went berserk and rushed the stage in order to get a little closer to the band they adore.
Clearly, the performance was as surprising to the cast as it was to the crowd, as the actors — still onstage from their curtain call — joined in the bedlam. They broke out video cameras and snapped photos. One actor crowd-surfed over the audience as Armstrong encouraged the crowd to pump their fists in the air during the song's bridge.
Once they finished "American Idiot," Cool tossed his sticks into the crowd and Armstrong waved to the fans. But the energized theatergoers would not let the band leave so soon, so Armstrong raised one finger to indicate they had one more number in them. Armstrong ripped into the opening chords of "Basket Case" (the massive single from their breakthrough album Dookie, which is not included in the stage musical), once again sending the crowd into a frenzy. For a brief moment, it seemed like a mosh pit was going break out. Instead, it turned into the ultimate punk-rock singalong, with both the crowd and the cast shouting every word right along with Armstrong.
When the song wrapped, the band took its final bow with the cast. Everyone received a standing ovation from the adoring crowd (which included Armstrong's wife and children and U2's The Edge), ending an unexpectedly transcendent night of rock and theater.


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Kairat duo promise almighty effort
Tuesday 23 April 2013
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Kairat Almaty take on holders FC Barcelona in their fifth semi-final on Friday in Tbilisi – and Dinmukhambet Suleimenov and Vitaliy Khalyavin have their sights set on a first decider.
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Kairat Almaty will face holders FC Barcelona in their fifth UEFA Futsal Cup semi-final on Friday in Tbilisi – and are determined to make the decider for the first time.
In 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011 (the last as hosts), Kairat fell in the last four and their preparations for this year's tournament were disrupted when coach João Carlos Barbosa left for Rusisa's Sibiryak in February. In his place, however, came former Kairat player Cacau, and fresh from securing their tenth straight Kazakh title defender Dinmukhambet Suleimenov and goalkeeper Vitaliy Khalyavin are in confident mood.
UEFA.com: What does this competition mean to Kairat?
Dinmukhambet Suleimenov: First, it means pride for us, for the club and for Kazakhstan. It's not the first time we have played in the finals and we are honoured to defend the colours of Kazakhstan and our team.
Vitaliy Khalyavin: Participating in the UEFA Cup is prestigious because it gathers together the champions of different countries. For Kairat and all of Kazakhstan it's really an honour to take part in these tournaments with the strongest teams.
UEFA.com: How surprised were you when coach João Carlos Barbosa left?
Khalyavin: Of course, it was very unexpected to discover that two months before the finals the coach had left the team. It was his decision. He didn't leave any problems after his resignation; the team were still ready. A new coach has replaced him and we carry on working.
Suleimenov: It was a bit of a shock for us. We thought he would stay with us to the end. But it happened and, as he put it, he "behaved professionally". But we don't stop at that. We have a new coach, a former player. He knows us players very well, and together we are trying to establish a positive atmosphere within the team.
UEFA.com: How has it been under Cacau?
Khalyavin: Quite comfortable. Meaning that he's not disrupting the mentality of the team. He's always open to communication with players. It's a positive experience and the team have a [positive] attitude to him. He knows a lot of the players because he used to play for the club
Suleimenov: Cacau knows the players, he used to play with some of them. He has a common language with everybody. He has also brought in some new ideas concerning free-kicks and tactics.
UEFA.com: There have also been signings this year. How have the new players like Betão and Euler adapted?
Suleimenov: Well. They have fitted into the existing atmosphere. And everyone gives their best in the training sessions.
UEFA.com: Betão helped Interviú Madrid to victory in this competition in 2009. How useful will that experience be?
Khalyavin: He's a very experienced player who has played for the top teams in the world, in European terms. He has also been a world champion [with Brazil]. So of course I think his experience will be useful. As a player he can help us and take command of the game. I think it will help a lot.
UEFA.com: What can you say about the other challengers in Georgia: Barcelona, MFK Dinamo and Iberia Star Tbilisi?
Suleimenov: They are all very strong teams. Barcelona are the UEFA Cup holders, Dinamo used to be. As for Iberia, I heard that they have participated in every UEFA Cup and have now reached the finals for the first time. They are playing at home, so you can imagine how helpful the support will be for them. I think every team is strong in its own way.
UEFA.com: Kairat have lost four semi-finals – can the fifth one be lucky for you?
Khalyavin: It can. Because the club have done a lot of work in strengthening this team.
Suleimenov: Everything is being done by the managers and the players so that we can win the cup this year. We will do our best.
UEFA.com: What has been missing in the past?
Suleimenov: I myself participated in the 2011 finals. In the semi-final [against Sporting Clube de Portugal] we were 2-0 behind, then we equalised but conceded the third goal almost immediately. At that time our team had many young and inexperienced players, so a lack of experience played its part in that semi-final.


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Mount Union Students, Faculty and Staff to Participate in Various Projects for Make a Difference Week
October 27, 2009
Mount Union College will be celebrating Make a Difference Week October 24-31 by doing multiple service projects with various community agencies and organizations.
Make a Difference Week was started by Mount Union in 2006 to expand upon Make a Difference Day which is a national, annual event that provides an opportunity for individuals to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities. The College's Make a Difference Week is being kicked off with Make a Difference Day and it is sponsored by the Office of Service-Learning and Community Service.
Since 2000, Mount Union has participated in the national Make a Difference Day celebration. An initiative created by USA WEEKEND Magazine, Make A Difference Day is an annual event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October. Mount Union has expanded the event to last a full week, giving students the opportunity to serve in a variety of capacities.
The week begins on Saturday, October 24 with a Habitat for Humanity build day from 8:30 to 4:30 in Leetonia. Members of the AmeriCorps M3C program will be working at Stark Parks with students from Walsh University and Baldwin Wallace College. The Office of Service-Learning and Community Service will be volunteering at the trick-or-treat party at McCrea Manor from 2 to 5 p.m. Delta Sigma Tau sorority also will be helping with a Halloween party at Damascus Elementary School.
On Sunday, many organizations will be participating in Trunk or Treat at Southside Church of God from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Sigma Theta Epsilon fraternity will be helping with Treats from the Ark at First Christian Church from 5 to 7 p.m. Alpha Phi Omega, a service honorary on campus, will be participating in Boo at the Zoo.
Student National Education Association (SNEA) will be cleaning and organizing at Interfaith Child Development Center on either Wednesday or Thursday.
Also on Thursday, Alpha Delta Pi will be trick-or-treating with residents from Copeland Oaks from 2 to 5 p.m. Alpha Phi Omega will be having a Halloween dance at McCrea Manor that evening. Delta Sigma Tau also will be participating in family night at the Alliance Neighborhood Center.
International students and members of the Mount Union band will be participating in the Kiwanis' monthly food distribution on Friday. Alpha Xi Delta will also be hosting an event on Friday called "Xi Marks the Spot." This event will raise money for Autism Speaks.
This exciting week of service will end with Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods on Saturday, October 31 from 5 to 7 p.m.
"The ultimate goal of Make A Difference Week is to have enough projects going on in the community so that every Mount Union student has a chance to take part in a project," said Heather Eichner, Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA. "Each year, annual and new projects during Mount Union's Make a Difference Week help us get closer to reaching this goal."


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Playmakers Mark had earlier in his career:
Greene (young),
Replacement players this/last year:
Greene (old).
Find me 1 player that's a better one-for-one swap of the guy he replaced. You can't. We have the worst set of receiving targets in the NFL. It's hard to be a good QB when you have nothing to throw to.
Note that I did not list the OL fails. Note that I did not list the Coordinator fail. Note that I did not list the Tebow distraction.
I simply believe that he went downhill because of a series of predictable, deliberate decisions by an overconfident GM and an idiotic HC and that he should get a second look with some legitimate weapons again seeing how well he started off.
I just want us to find our franchise quarterback after 40 years. I'm not throwing Mark Sanchez out the door until I see if he sucks with an NFL caliber offense around him.
gcSAR, making excuses for sh!itty QBs daily...
The 2011 lockout shortened offseason was a complete disaster. The loss of veteran leadership and talent without any adequate replacements devastated this team.
I concur. The lockout set the trajectory on a downward angle. That was the first big event.
What ultimately changed that downward trajectory into a complete nosedive was the Cruz 99 yard touchdown on Christmas Eve. From that moment the Jets have been a hopeless bottom feeder in the league.
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Look, if you want to say that Mark would have been as mediocre in 2011 and 2012 as he was in 2009 and 2010, if they had surrounded him with good talent, then no one would disagree with you.
The problem is, you continue to insist that Mark was actually good in those first 2 years. He wasn't. He was one of the bottom 10 QBs in the NFL.
I do find the sentiment that Sanchez needs top 10 talent to be serviceable completely hilarious, though. I mean, surround me with top 10 talent and I'm sure even I could manage to hand the ball off. I AM THE FRANCHISE QB THE JETS DESERVE! MCBOW! MCBOW! MCBOW!
The misguided belief that Santonio Holmes was a no 1 and worthy of that mega contract.The acquiring of Holmes for a 5th round pick was genius but the smart,pragmatic move was to let him hit the market in 2011 (remember he was a restricted FA at he top of his value curve) and turn that 5th rounder into a probable 1st and 3rd or even 2nd and 4th.Then draft a young replacement WR high and prioritise Braylon.Not the sole reason for our demise but a pretty key part of it.
You MUST build your team around someone who can play within himself.. Mark has already proven he can win with a solid defense and playmakers.
If you want a Gunslinger who can win games on his own, are you talking about Guys like Tony Romo?(even he has all pro WR's) and he STILL cant win a playoff game..
Ryan Fitzpatrick?
Carson Palmer????
Mark is 4-2 in the playoffs, (all 4 wins on the road) and that didnt happen by accident. His 4th quarter comebacks not only showed character, but showed his ability to lead a team instead of packing it in....
The failure of this team was the inability to surround our quarterback with playmakers. This responsibility solely falls on the GM which was rightfully fired.
Mark is a small part of the problem and is trying to force balls due to his frustration of WR's not getting open.
You saw what happened with Mcelroy.. You would have seen the same movie regardless of who was at quarterback that week.
Im going with the quarterback who took us within 1 quarter of the Superbowl.. The closest we have EVER been in my short 37 years here on earth as a Jets fan.
Which downfall? The most current? There has been about 20-25 downfalls over the course of the franchise, of which this is just the lastest version.
Rex Ryan getting weight-loss surgery.
Why is this overlooked by so many fans. Just look at the players we lost and the contracts we restructured to make room for Aso.
But we can also looking to Rex allowing himself and the team to celebrate the NE game as it were the SB. In hindsight that was a fireable offense.


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The German players are giving the audience of the BMW Open great value for their ticket money as four home players advanced into the final eight when the quarter-final begins on Friday.
Tommy Haas had a tough task in his opener as he faced Ernst Gulbis whom showed strong form lately. He was of to a good start however, as he won the first set 6-3 in front of a very angry opponent throwing rackets all over the court.
The second set was tight and came down to a tiebreak. A tiebreak who the Latvian in the end rightfully won and forced a third set. The third set though, was a one way traffic affaire as Tommy Haas once again gained control early with some extraordinary shot making leaping into a 4-1 advantage. Again, Ernst lost his temper and from that point Haas easily brought it home 6-4 6-7 6-1 in front of a enthusiastic home crowd.
Haas told reporters: "It's never easy to play in a little bit of rain with the balls getting heavy. But they were the same conditions for my opponent.
"Gulbis is a tough player. He's got the better of me the last couple times in big matches, so I'm happy to have pulled this out in front of a home crowd."
Haas will now face countryman Florian Mayer in the quarterfinal. Florian who earlier the same day came back from a set down to beat Marinko Matosevic 2-6 6-4 6-2.
Daniel brands pulled of an upset as he got the better of frenchman and former top-10 ranked Gael Monfils in three sets. They shared the games equally during the first two sets, 6-3 3-6, before Brands pulled the big trigger and cruised into the quarterfinals by winning the deciding set 6-0.
Brands will now face the first seeded Serb Janko Tipsarevic who performed very well facing Grega Zemlja in the third match of the day. The 10th ranked Tipsarevic is looking for his second title of 2013, after winning ATP chennai earlier this year.
"I felt good. I was very cautious because I lost my last match to Grega," Tipsarevic told reporters."I was really pumped, because I knew he is a great returner and can turn the match around if you are not serving well. But on the other hand, I was good at using my chances today and this is why I have a comfortable win under my belt."
The first man to reach the semis early this morning is Ivan Dodig from Croatia, who pulled of yet another upset sending Alexander Dolgopolov home in straight sets 6-4 6-4. This is the first time of 2013 that Dodig has made it into the semifinals and he will face a German up next. If it is Mayer or Haas he will face, we will know later today.
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Belmont routs Eastern Illinois 80-49
CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) -- Trevor Noack and J.J. Mann scored 21 apiece to lead Belmont in a 80-49 rout over Eastern Illinois on Wednesday night.
Noack was 8 of 10 from the field and grabbed six rebounds. Mann was 7 for 10 including three 3-pointers and pulled five rebounds. Each was 4 for 4 from the free-throw line for Belmont (21-6, 12-2 Ohio Valley), which was 12 of 13 from the line on the game and shot 60 percent from the field in the first half while outscoring the Panthers 42-20.
The Bruins led by as many as 37 points mid-way through the second half.
Sherman Blanford had 14 points and five rebounds to lead Eastern Illinois (8-20, 5-10), which shot only 31.9 percent from the floor. Malcolm Herron scored seven points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Alex Austin chipped in with 10 points.
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England are optimistic a fourth FIFA Women's World Cup campaign can be their most successful yet, as Mark Sampson's team made sure of qualification in ruthless fashion.
A 4-0 victory over Wales means England have booked their place at Canada 2015 with a game to spare.
They will head to Montenegro next month aiming to complete a perfect 10 out of 10 record after nine straight wins to date.
Needing just a point at the Cardiff City Stadium, Karen Carney's early opening goal set up the visitors for a comfortable night against opponents who could still join them in Canada next year through the play-offs.
Eniola Aluko, Laura Bassett and Lianne Sanderson added goals before half-time, and England, who have taken inspiration from the national women's rugby team's World Cup triumph, were able to cruise from there on.
Managed by a Welshman in 31-year-old former Swansea City centre of excellence boss Sampson, England look a different team to the side easily picked apart at last summer's European Championships, when they managed just one point from three group games.
A set of players wracked with anxiety at Euro 2013 now revel in each other's company, sharing in coffee clubs and socialising together, carrying their bond onto the pitch.
Sanderson has been an early beneficiary of the new era, having retired from international football four years ago, as a 22-year-old, when her testy relationship with then manager Hope Powell became irreconcilable.
Sampson, appointed in December after the team played their first four qualifiers under caretaker boss Brent Hills, immediately summoned the Boston Breakers striker across the Atlantic for a winter training camp in Spain.
She instantly bonded with team-mates she feared might cold-shoulder her. England set up in an attacking formation, with three strikers in Sanderson, Aluko and Toni Duggan and the inventive Carney playing just behind as she won a 98th cap.
Carney's opening goal in the 16th minute was ostensibly a fluke, her curling free-kick from the left being missed by Aluko and deceiving goalkeeper Nicola Davies on its way inside the far post.
Jordan Nobbs drifted a 20-yard effort against the top of the Wales crossbar as England sought a swift second.
That extra cushion came in the 39th minute when Aluko produced an explosive finish, taking down a throw-in from the right and lashing the ball across Davies.
It was 3-0 by the 44th minute as centre-back Bassett, selected ahead of former captain Casey Stoney, prodded home a left-wing corner from Carney.
Sanderson punished shaky defending just a minute later when the mohawked striker darted into space to head in right-back Alex Scott's pacey cross.
Sampson told BBC Three: "It's a special moment. We wanted to come here and do the job and I thought for spells in the first half we were outstanding.
"The objective was to win and to play well and qualify, and there was loads of good play in our performance.
"We've finally made it to Canada.
"We're excited by it, with the way we're playing at the moment, but there's lots more to come from this group."
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I don't know about Debian, but FreeBSD didn't issue an advisory until the day after this went public. We have a very strict policy about making sure that security updates won't break anything, and OpenSSL's original patch was broken and not fixed until a day later.
It wasn't really per se, but it did contain some unnecessary code. None of it was major, and I don't think it would have caused any problems, but the revised patch, which we in Debian also used, touched fewer files and was generally simpler.
It also needs to be noted that the impact of this bug is not nearly as wide as a slashdot front-page headline might suggest. The FreeBSD security advisory [freebsd.org] has some good info on why. To quote: (emphasis mine)
RSA public keys may use a variety of public exponents, of which 3, 17, and 65537 are most common. As a result of a number of known attacks, most keys generated recently use a public exponent of at least 65537.
OpenSSL will incorrectly report some invalid signatures as valid. When an RSA public exponent of 3 is used, or more generally when a small public exponent is used with a relatively large modulus (e.g., a public exponent of 17 with a 4096-bit modulus), an attacker can construct a signature which OpenSSL will accept as a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 signature.
So yeah, there may be some vulnerable sites out there, but they were already weaker than they should have been, and most sites are likely unaffected. That, coupled with the simplicity of the fix (both as provided in source form and from the OS vendors) makes this a non-story.
Unfortunately it is. While it may be true that few certs are issued with small exponents these days it doesn't really matter. Some of the pre-installed Certificate Authorities use a small exponent and you simply forge *their* signature to create a "valid" cert for any site you like.It also needs to be noted that the impact of this bug is not nearly as wide as a slashdot front-page headline might suggest.
No, the impact of this problem was wider than what the front page suggests; the same bug hit Firefox (which uses its own "NSS" SSL library, not OpenSSL), and several of the root certificates were e=3 (e=3 is a widely-recommended optimization). Long story short, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror are all spoofable until you download patches.
The simple exploit (generate a new WELLSFARGO.COM cert and "sign" it in a way that will trick a browser into believing a root CA signed it) is literally 3 lines of Python.
You're also wrong about the crypto details: e=3 RSA is not "weaker" than e=65537. The problem is not that people used "weak" RSA parameters; the problem is that they didn't verify all the bits in an RSA-decoded signature, but instead tried to fish something that looked like a valid SHA/MD5 hash out of it. If you screw up any of the details in RSA signature verification, you're screwed, e=3, e=5, or e=65537. Conversely if you get the details right, e=3 is as secure as factoring.
It is funny that this is just hitting Slashdot now; it's weeks old.
Indeed, Opera 9.02 was released just a week ago, fixing this.Long story short, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror are all spoofable until you download patches.
That sounds like the md5/sha hash issues. Though those would probably be exploitable on openssl too. Openssl supports hashes. Digital signatures are usually done by hashing the data first then signing the hash. (Because public key algorithms are usually slow, hashes are usually much faster)
The junk shouldn't matter. How often do you look at the source html or all the fields of a cert on secure pages? Probably never. There may be an area or field of certs which most program don't even show, so even if you
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - 10th ranked UC Santa Barbara put up a good fight against No. six California, but, it was not enough. Allison Gold and Stephanie Schnugg each scored two goals for the Golden Bears helping them to their 6-5 victory.
Cal opened the scoring with a goal by Schnugg in the first quarter. UCSB quickly retaliated. Katya Eadington snuck one in at the end of the first quarter making the score 2-1, Cal. Freshman Gillian Morgan tied it up halfway through the second quarter, but Schnugg answered back with her second goal of the game bringing the score to 3-2 Cal at half time.
Allison Gold scored her first goal for the Golden Bears early in the second half. The Gauchos' Lindsay Knott came back with a goal, but Cal's Brittani Llorente quickly retaliated. The score was 5-3 Golden Bears after the third quarter. Halfway through the fourth quarter UCSB rattled the cage again. Junior ZiZi Clark of the Gauchos followed bringing the game to 5-5. The tie was broken by Gold of California leading the Golden Bears to their 6-5 win.
UCSB is now 7-9 overall and 0-4 in MPSF play. The Gauchos continue action tomorrow against Pacific at 12 p.m. at UCSB's Campus Pool.
Team 1 2 3 4 Total California 2 1 2 1 6 UC Santa Barbara 1 1 2 1 5 California Goals: Gold (2), Schnugg (2), Eadington, Llorente UC Santa Barbara Goals: J. Clark (2), Z. Clark, Knott, Morgan California Saves: Burke (5), Stuart (4) UC Santa Barbara Saves: Redaelli (11)


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- A local group is giving away free food to hungry individuals in need Monday.
Restore food pantry will hold a mobile food pantry from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Faith Family Life Centre, located at 3710 NW Topeka Blvd.
The distribution will consist primarily of fresh produce.
Recipients will be asked to provide the number of people living in their household.
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There is a whole series of these modified 'SFW porn' pics...I think I posted them in this thread once...but they should be reposted immediately
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State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced on Tuesday an agreement with five Fortune 500 companies to disclose corporate funds used for political spending, Gannett's Haley Viccaro reports.
Southwest Airlines, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Plum Creek Timber Company, Harley-Davidson and Noble Energy agreed to make their political contributions available to the public to increase transparency.
"Shareholders have a right to know how companies are using corporate money for political purposes," DiNapoli said in a statement.
The agreements would require the five companies to disclose all direct and indirect monetary and non-monetary contributions to political and trade associations, DiNapoli said.
In 2010, the Comptroller's Office of Corporate Governance and the Council of Institutional Investors sent letters to 430 companies calling for political spending disclosure.
In 2011 and 2012, the comptroller's office reached an agreement with 10 companies, DiNapoli said. This year an additional eight companies also reached an agreement for disclosure.
"To date, eighteen companies have reached agreements with the New York State Common Retirement Fund to disclose their political spending," DiNapoli said in a statement. "It's time for more good corporate citizens to follow their lead."


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Coastway moves to become publicly traded bank
New headquarters office under construction at Metro Center office park
Coastway Community Bank has come a long way from its roots as the Telephone Workers Credit Union of Rhode Island and the Warwick Credit Union. It now has nine branches, 26,000 customers and about $375 million in assets.
If the membership ratifies the unanimous action taken by the bank's board, Coastway stock could become publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock market as soon as early next year. And depending on the shares sold, which will be offered first to all those who were depositors on July 30, 2012, the bank could have twice the assets to invest back into the community in the form of mortgages and loans.
"To keep going, this business, like any other, needs to grow," bank president and CEO Bill White said in an interview Friday. Since 2000, with the merger of the Warwick and Coastway Credit Unions, the institution has grown from four to nine branches.
But White and the Coastway Board are not looking to further expand the bank's center of operations in the West Bay and Providence. Doing that, White explained, increases expenses with the addition of personnel and branches. The option is to increase capital though the sale of stock so, as White puts it, "It allows us to make more loans. We are able to fuel the engine with our own internal growth."
White sees it, ensuring Coastway remains a "vibrant market alternative to the big banks."
"I feel strongly that that market is still out there for us, that we provide most services for the average Rhode Islander," he said.
While looking to grow bigger in Rhode Island, Coastway will also bring its headquarters back to Warwick.
"Once a Warwick boy, always a Warwick boy," White said.
"We're out of parking and there's no more desk space," White says of Coastway's Cranston headquarters. That building offers about 21,000 square feet. Warwick developer Michael Integlia is in the process of building a three-story, 45,000-square-foot building in Metro Center. Coastway will occupy the second and third floors and lease the first floor.
White expects to make the move next April or May.
The big move, which to a state-chartered corporation that will serve as a holding company for Coastway and offer shares of common stock, will come in November when depositors receive a prospectus. White said depositors would have the ability to "subscribe" to shares that he expects would sell for about $10. A maximum of 20,000 shares will be available. He said in the event that the offer is over-subscribed, a reduced number of shares would go to the subscribers on a prorated basis. Thus, for example, if the offering were over subscribed by 110 percent, everyone would get 90 percent of the shares they wished to purchase.
"Everyone will be treated the same," White said.
He said the intent of offering the stock to depositors first is to give them a "chance to benefit … and to share in the success of the bank going forward."
White makes a point of emphasizing the bank will remain independent and a strong part of the community.
He said that, since July 2009, Coastway has made more than $700,000 in local charitable donations, not counting more than 3,000 hours in paid employee hours to organizations such as the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership in just the past year. About 60 Coastway employees, or about 40 percent of its entire staff, serve as mentors for one hour a week during the academic year. Overall, White said, 90 percent of the company's 149 employees participate in community non-profit organizations.
"We want to continue to grow, to be a part of the community," he said.
As part of the community commitment, White said the bank would endow a foundation with $1.3 million.
In a statement released last week, White said, "After the conversion, our commitment to our customers will remain unchanged and they will continue to be served by the same great Coastway team with the same commitment to excellent service."
In addition to requiring approval of the depositors, the conversion requires Federal Reserve Board and Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation approvals.
Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. has been selected as the conversion agent and Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick, P.C. as counsel.
White estimated the conversion to cost about $1 million, which would come out of the proceeds of the sale of stock.
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text: pond hockey How Kalispell hopes hockey will help with the "off season" By Katrin Frye • Feb 21, 2014 Katrin Frye Most businesses in the Flathead count on winter as the slow season for tourism and visitation. Business and economic development leaders are hoping hockey will help take the sting out of the slow season. Rob Brisendine with the Kalispell Convention and Visitors Bureau says they're hosting the first annual Pond Hockey Classic on Foys Lake this weekend.


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Stop Wallowing And Start Doing Cool Stuff With Business Models, The Wil Wheaton Edition
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This is incredibly inspiring to me, and I hope that it's just as inspiring to indie artists everywhere. Why not take a creative risk and see if it works out? Unlike the old days, when we had to purchase a lot of stock ahead of time and hope we could sell it, we can just Get Excited and Make Things, knowing that the very worst that can happen is that nobody likes that thing we made as much as we thought they would.Much of this is inspired by some experiments some friends are doing and discussing -- and one of the links he puts forth tries to tackle the "but this only works if you're big and famous" fallacy that we've debunked in the past.
I have to admit that 2009 has really become the year of creators embracing cool, working business models. These days, we get probably five to ten submissions per day of more artists embracing these sorts of business models that we talk about. We used to write about many of these, but it's reached the stage where we really only pick and choose to write about really interesting or unique ones, even as we see that many of these are working wonders. But the key point is the one that Wheaton hinges his post on, which is that more and more people aren't worrying any more, but they've decided to
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If Nuggets don't earn No. 4 seed for NBA playoffs, it's an epic fail
On the strength on another star-making game by Ty Lawson and a rare offensive outburst of 29 points by Andre Iguodala, the Nuggets beat reeling Portland 111-109 Wednesday night. Denver now sits four games back in the loss column to Memphis for the coveted fourth seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
There is certainly still time for the Nuggets to pass the Griz and earn home-court advantage for the opening round of the playoffs. I say the No. 4 seed should be the minimum goal for these coddled Nuggets, and anything less would be an epic fail for a team annually purported to be on the rise. Peter Burns and I discuss if coach George Karl is doing enough to earn his big salary. Listen here:
What do you think? Should anybody be disappointed if the Denver Nuggets fail to get home-court advantage? Is the NBA a rigged league where Nuggets have no chance of winning a championship? Or should we expect more from this team?
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(iPad wiped all my hyperlinks, so if you're interested in the security programs I mention, you'll have to search then yourself.)
A friend's email got hacked. This led to a discussion with a very knowledgeable person about the risks she now faces. Upon realizing she was hacked, she immediately changed her email password and assumed her troubles were over. He told her the contrary was true: her troubles had just begun.
She told him she had run a full virus check and it came up clean, so she shouldn't have troubles. He told her that virus checkers, no matter how good, are just a superficial panacea.
The real problem, he said, is keystroke logging malware that lodges deep in the operating system. This means that every time you log into a website, the logger tracks and records your user name and password, and then delivers the data to the hacker. The hacker can then process that information to access your accounts and — voila! — your identity is compromised. He can also sell it far and wide. Everything is at risk, from bank accounts to your Facebook page.
There are some ways to protect yourself. When it comes to email security, the best thing is two-step verification. If you log onto a computer that you haven't authorized as a trusted computer, the double verify system sends you a numerical text message. Even if a hacker has both your user name and password, if he doesn't have your cell phone, he can't get into your email.
To prevent problems in the first place, you should have a good anti-virus software. Recently, for Microsoft users, several computer gurus have recommended Microsoft Security Essentials to me, which they say is the best and, as an added bonus, is free. You can also keep your computer away from dangerous websites by having your router pass through OpenDNS, which blocks your computer from accessing dangerous sites.
But if you've already got a keystroke logger buried in your operating system, you're out of luck. Most virus checkers can't find this type of malware, because it's buried too deeply in your operating system, not to mention that it can actually look innocuous at a code level. Serious computer security people have two computers, one of which is for fun, and one of which is dedicated solely to secure information. They keep their passwords on a flash drive. When they need a password, they plug in the flash drive and then cut-and-paste, so that there are never keystrokes.
With all this in mind, the knowledgeable person told my friend that, because she knows she's been compromised, she should junk her computer entirely. He thinks that even reinstalling the operating system is insufficient.
Another party to the conversation said this was all overkill. He said that the likelihood of a hacker taking the time to ferret out your information from all the information he selects is minuscule. Further, if he does, most institutions will notice strange behavior and contact you immediately. Ultimately, he felt the risks from hacking were too small to justify the draconian solution of throwing away a computer and starting anew.
As for me, I got totally paranoid from this conversation. I know I don't have a virus, but I have no way of knowing if I have caught keystroke logger malware. I'm going to change my passwords, but if there's a keystroke logger, that's a wasted effort. I'm in a perpetual loop of paranoia and vulnerability.
This paranoia loop — which was triggered by an information dump from someone with more information than I have — irresistibly brought to mind the way we deal with politics in America. Last night, at dinner, Democrat said that Obama, during the his first term, did the best job possible with the hand he'd been dealt. She did not know that Reagan had a rougher economic hand and achieved a better economic outcome. In her limited information universe, Obama was the best.
Fiscal cliff? Going over it may be a plunge from which the economy never recovers, or it may be an illusory line and we discover, once we've crossed, that nothing has changed. Since my understand of economics is simple — you cannot spend more than you have or borrow more than you can repay — I foresee catastrophe. Others say a national economy is not a household, and that my analysis isn't just simple, it's idiotic and stifles our country's economic potential.
The same thing happens with the way Americans approach the risk from Islamism. Those of us steeped in information about Islamic doctrine, worldwide terrorist attacks, and Islamic rhetoric see a very high risk. Those who accept that Islam is a religion of peace and think that it's just a coincidence that all terrorists and would-be terrorists happen to be Muslims, believe are risks are low, and that we are just paranoid, loony conspiracy theorists.
This paranoia runs the other way too. Progressives are convinced that we are cooking ourselves and that the world will melt. We think they're overreacting to, and taking unreasonable responsibility for, a natural phenomenon that has happened repeatedly since earth's creation.
Quite obviously, people's perception of risk is going to affect the steps they take to protect against those perceived risks. The big question, then, is whether the paranoid informed people or the relaxed uninformed people had a better read of the situation. Have we over educated ourselves about risk to the point of dysfunction and overblown reactions? Or have they gone beyond a reasonable assessment of actual risk to a denial so overwhelming that they are incapable of defending against a genuine enemy? Do we change our passwords or junk the whole computer?
As for me, right now, I'm just going to change my passwords and put them onto LastPass, so as to minimize the keystrokes I enter. I'm also going to remind myself that a hacker who collects trillions of keystrokes from millions of computers can't possibly process that info, and that the odds are I won't be processed.
UPDATE: A friend who knows more about computers and programming than anyone I have ever met says that an excellent way to protect oneself is to use Google Chrome. He says that Adobe flash is now a primary vehicle for malware. Chrome doesn't use flash, thereby avoiding that risk. I like Firefox, and don't like Chrome, but I'm not so stubborn that I won't recognize a reasonable trade off and learn to live with a different browser.


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Mo. House Gives Preliminary Approval To Medication Abortion Restrictions
April 19, 2013 — The Missouri House this week approved a bill (HB 400) that would impose additional requirements on the provision of medication abortions, the Missouri Times reports.
The legislation -- sponsored by state Rep. Jeanie Riddle (R) -- would require medication abortion drugs, which are typically taken in two doses about 24 hours apart, to be administered in the physical presence of the prescribing physician. The measure also would require the physician to keep "detailed records" of any follow-up appointments. The bill states doctors should make every effort to schedule a follow-up appointment within 12 to 18 days to ensure the woman is no longer pregnant.
Under normal standards of care for medication abortions, women take the first drug in the regimen at a health care provider's office and take the second drug at home. Women are encouraged to return for a follow-up appointment seven to 14 days after taking the second drug.
Riddle said the bill is "about a woman's health and safety" and is "not about who will or who will not have an abortion."
However, opponents argued that the measure could prevent women from accessing care, especially if they live in rural areas (Reischman, Missouri Times, 4/18).
Michelle Trupiano, statewide manager of government affairs for Planned Parenthood affiliates in Missouri, said the measure would be "extremely burdensome" because it would require women seeking medication abortions to make an extra trip to the doctor's office. "This bill is about politics and about restricting access to abortion and has nothing to do with women's health and safety," Trupiano said (AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/17).


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I'll start: Steve Jobs is God
Your move.
You're thinking of Eric Clapton.
You're thinking of Eric Clapton.
I was thinking more of Eric Cartman.
I'll start: Steve Jobs is God
Then God is dead?
Would Nietzsche have been an Apple user?
Is that you, Socrates?
Would Nietzsche have been an Apple user?
Man and iMan
No, Eric Clapton is dead...try to follow the conversation, sheesh.
Vapid an Useless? I agree.
Only Apple Haters care about Steve Jobs.
The rest of us just like functional devices.
The rest of us realize Jobs didn't really matter, except that he had a talent for creating teams with amazing people.
Not to belittle that talent, but since his team is the reason Apple succeeds Apple will do fine without him.
I think you're selling him short. The guy had the courage to enforce his own very strong opinions, that luckily were very user-centric, but also knew to back down from time to time. I don't agree with most of his choices, but they did work and push the envelope. On the other side, MS seems a prime case of community design and political choices, probably knowing what the market wanted (Metro !), but failing to push courageous solutions in favor of preserving their markets and counting on their strength to force bad-ish solutions down our throats. Smartphones and tablets are a prime example: MS was there first by a wide margin, but marred the experience by trying to use their desktop interface, failing to spot the allure of a fully locked-in, proprietary ecosystem, and relying on OEMs for hardware, apps, cloud.
Only Apple Haters care about Steve Jobs.
I take it you never went to any Apple events while Jobs was alive then?
The rest of us just like functional devices.
Functional like, being able to add memory, replace your battery, choose your own apps, modify your device as you see fit etc? That type of functionality?
The rest of us realize Jobs didn't really matter,
Wow, even Apple most haters admit Steve Jobs was an exceptional person, just not a god that's all.
except that he had a talent for creating teams with amazing people.
Not to belittle that talent, but since his team is the reason Apple succeeds Apple will do fine without him.
We'll have to agree to disagree with that. The Apple juggernaut has seen it's best days. The smart phone/tablet revolution has had it's best days, Apple led the charge, made a ton of cash, but consumers are fickle. When you replace your device every couple of years and have no driving reason to stick with a brand, people will buy whatever is
Wonder if they could set the "Slashdot green" to get "hotter" as the discussion goes on?
Anyone can rise to the top with the right product at the right time. Staying on top is much harder. It will be interesting to see how Apple innovates from here...and how long they can hold on to their position.
Apple fanbois like me can't get the batteries out to make them sail across the backyard from the bonfire pit.
On a serious note: It's actually pretty easy to pop off the back and change out the battery. Just a thin piece a plastic and a pentalobe screw driver you can get for a couple bucks.
Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology: A screen large enough for web-surfing & an easy-to-use touch interface. Plus people were already thrilled with the best-selling iPod, so stepping up to an iPhone was a natural next step.
In other news: I was just reading this morning that phone sales are down for everyone (except Apple apparently). Overall retail sales in the EU have dropped 7%. Sounds like we're headed for great recession part 2.
"Steve Jobs and his team made a damn fine piece of technology"
Copied. they Copied it from the LG Prada.
Hmmm. Let's test that statement. Can you tell me which part of the Prada they copied? Because frankly, those two phones had nothing to do with one another.
Enough alike that I doubt an IP lawyer could tell the difference from across a courtroom.
Which proves nothing but the utter stupidity of said lawyer.
Since the LG Prada was announced December 2006, and the iPhone was shown by Steve just three weeks later, it seems unlikely they copied. It was parallel development like how both Elisha Grey and Bell developed the phone in parallel.
So are you saying that you believe that Steve Jobs' exceptionally strong moral and ethical compass put him way above engaging in a bit of industrial spying?
Except the development of the iPhone started nearly 3 years before LG announced the Prada, and the iPhone was announced less than a month after the Prada.
If the iPhone was truly copied from the Prada, you can bet that LG would have filed a lawsuit and be rolling in the money. Even they realize that it wasn't, and they have a lot more to lose than a poster on
A) Prada came out just around the time of the iPhone, not enough time for Apple to copy.
B) The only remote similarity was in shape, and some icons - the rest was a horrible mess.
Where did you see the news? Goldman Sachs cut their growth targets for smartphones on Monday, but they still believe the market will grow 38% in 2012. They didn't have anything negative to say about either Apple or Samsung (unlike the downgrade they gave RIM).
Additionally, Samsung announced on Monday that the Galaxy SIII is their best selling smartphone ever and estimated sales of 10 million by the end of July (although they are having a components shortage right now due to demand).
I am guessing the news
People forget this now, but the iPhone did not support apps when it launched. Jobs didn't want third-party code on the iPhone, and tried to assuage the demand with web-based APIs for accessing phone hardware. App support was only added over a year later with iOS 2, coinciding with the launch of the iPhone 3G, as Apple and Jobs conceded to the inevitable.
Jobs didn't want third-party code on the iPhone,
More like: Apple didn't have an SDK that was in good enough shape to hand it out to third-party developers.
Jobs didn't want third-party code on the iPhone
This is false. The volume of documentation and the quality of it demonstrated Apple had planned for 3rd party app development all along... They just delayed initial access to shake out the API's before the public had access to them.
It wouldn't be the first time that somebody in Apple went and did something behind Jobs' back anticipating a change of heart. The story of the Sony/Alps situation for the original Mac floppy drive is probably the most famous example.
Jobs loved the new Sony 3.5" floppy drive format, and decided seven months before the Mac was supposed to ship that he wanted to use it... and he wanted that to happen via an Apple/Alps developed-from-scratch clone. The team thought this was insane, so while grudgingly going through the motions with Alps, they secretly continued working on integrating the Sony drive. They kept all the meetings/negotiations/hardware secret from Jobs, to the extent that they would hide the Sony engineer visiting Cupertino in a closet whenever Jobs was nearby. This obviously greatly confused the Sony engineer, but he went along with it.
Later, when Alps told Apple that they needed eighteen months to get the thing ready, the team revealed to Jobs that they had gone behind his back and kept the Sony deal alive, and he ended up thanking them for their little rebellion.
I'm not saying that this is the same situation here, only that what Jobs was convinced was the right approach and what the Apple engineers working on the internal SDK were convinced was the right approach may not have aligned. It's pretty well documented from multiple sources internal to Apple that Jobs was obstinately refusing to consider third-party apps. He didn't want other people messing with his perfection, and he didn't think his team had the bandwidth to figure out how to make it work (in terms of reliability and integration) on top of their existing workload.
The volume of documentation and the quality of it demonstrated Apple had planned for 3rd party app development all along...
Kudos to the tech pubs team at Apple, but I'm afraid you're mistaken. At launch time, there was no intention to allow third-party apps on the phone. It took quite a lot of convincing to get SJ to allow it.
I was just reading this morning that phone sales are down for everyone (except Apple apparently).
What were you reading, a blog written by your sister? (IOW, link please.) For the rest of us, the situation seems to be developing as you would expect, contrary to widespread reality distortion from Apple. Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 26.0 percent market share. Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured more than 30 percent. [comscore.com]
The iPhone was the first cellphone that included a touchscreen interface that is actually viable and useful--interestingly, an outgrowth of all that research into a tablet computer (it's been said the tablet computer development that resulted in the iPad came before the iPhone, but when engineers realized the interface they ended up with on the iPad was very adaptable to a small touchscreen cellphone, the result was a cellphone that totally changed the cellphone industry).
What makes the iPhone even more imp
with just five different smartphone models under its belt during that span."
That's a significant part of the reason for it, right there.
Right; 100%. With an iPhone there is a dead simple choice; I'm rich / prioritize this - take the latest model, pay a reasonable amount. Poor / sensible - take the older one still on sale. All of them are still delivering a platform on which most of the features ("apps") will work except where tied to some very specific new feature (e.g. siri to voice recognition). If you want to see how much other phone companies don't get this, look only at the wannabe competitors who are releasing new phones unable to run skype where previous models have been able to. Even Android is barely succeeding at getting this even with Google continually and determinedly pushing it.
The real truth is that the brilliance of Apple was in sacrificing market share for the ability to make decisions independent of the mobile operators. This meant that there was only one company (Apple its self) putting it's own interests above the consumers and even that company is pretty much aware of the danger and so only does it "tastefully".
This is what Microsoft is fighting for with Skype - the ability to bypass the mobile operators and make them irrelevant. I don't think they will succeed, but once the mobile operators realise the risk I think it will make Apple and Google's bargaining power much larger.
That's a huge reason. The model simplicity (which is probably closer to 2 models when you factor in that the 3 models and 4 models share the basic case/form factor) is a huge win for consumers because it makes it easier for Apple to continue to support them with iOS updates AND for consumers to own them because they need to buy fewer accessories (my ProClip car holder still works with my 4s as it did with my 3gs).
It's also simpler for consumers to wrap their mind around -- I wouldn't know what fucking Android phone to buy if you put a gun to my head. There's too many and too many from even one maker, and they seem (at least from the marketing background noise) to come out with new ones continuously.
They do have far too many models, and there's a new flagship every 4-6 months at most manufacturers. Those flagships are completely different on each carrier, too.
On one hand, it promotes competition - Android phone specs are improving at a far better rate than the iPhone line. On the other, it makes the marketplace a total clusterfuck, so consumers have no idea what they're getting.
One is an extreme singular focus, the other is an extremely competitive marketplace. If anything, this is a good case study of those extremes that can likely be applied to other industries as well. Too much high profile competition clouds the market, while too little ends up removing freedom in the name of centralization.
"Meteoric" brings to mind "meteor" which is something that falls down very fast and tends to burn up in the sky. (Yeah, I get that "meteor" as in "meteorology" and the notion that meteors are "fast"... it's the other properties of the word that I find horribly misplaced.)
Sorry, but it seems "meteoric rise" has been used a lot lately and it's almost as if people are being tested to see how stupid they are.
It's not 'stupid' as such, it's short-sighted. At some point a lot of people are going to realize that they themselves want to have the final work on what runs on their phone. Both Windows and OSX are headed the opposite way though, and will probably also be locked down before people realize they've lost control. Yeah, sure they'll have developer licences, but it really goes beyond that. Many people fought long and hard to keep computing open, and a lot of ground is being lost.
I just realized that you meant being tested regarding the word 'meteoric'. I pass on that one, but fail overall. I thought you were saying iPhone users were stupid.
Brilliant and quick.
Really, you should do less looking at others and calling them stupid, and more looking into the mirror.
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Sorry, but it seems "meteoric rise" has been used a lot lately and it's almost as if people are being tested to see how stupid they are.
Actually, it's a test of how quickly some people jump to erroneous conclusions without bothering to check if there is a reasonable explanation they simply don't know about. We could call it the "true knowledge test for males between the ages of 15 and 30".
The phrase "meteoric rise" has been in use at least since 1865 [worldwidewords.org] - and, given the context, it makes perfect sense.
The word meteor comes to us from ancient Greek, with some kind of meaning of lifting up. Obviously the original etymological meaning is irrelevant to users of the modern phrase, but it's perhaps ironic that the meaning fits.
The phrase "meteoric rise" has been used at least since the 1860s in print, and probably earlier than that in speech. Today we may know that meteors are drifting chunks of rock that burn up in the atmosphere or crash to the ground, but what about 200 years ago? What did (at least most) p
And in fact, although meteors are in fact falling, that is by no means evident to the watcher on the ground. It is not uncommon to see the track of a meteor start near the horizon and "rise" higher into the sky.
Most people can't figure out how to spell "Phoenixian".
And even when they can how many would understand what it meant?
Everyone knows of the fiery path of the meteor, even if as you say it's going the wrong way for what they are trying to imply.
I wonder if this will continue for Apple.
iOS 6 is a yawner. Yes, what we need -- more facebook integration. Already, there is a backlash against FB. The latest Android announcement had some cool items in it including another method of protecting against piracy that does not depend on if a device is not rooted.
The Retina Display Macbook Pro has a cool screen, but cannot be repaired or upgraded.
Mountain Lion?
Jobs's RDF is gone.
What Apple needs to do is start figuring out how to get themselves enterprise-friendly without losing their consumer market. Enterprises buy stuff in such large chunks that a few good contracts are a lot better than lines around the building of hipsters.
First, redo the Mac Pro. Make a chassis that works like a tower, but can have a rack drawer attached so it can be slammed into a standard enclosure. Offer not just 8Gbs FC cards, but NICs with enough packet offloading power so FCoE is workable.
Second, make something like BES but for managing iPhones. Yes, Exchange can do a lot, but having a dedicated policy management server that can handle data transmissions, perhaps even backups of phone devices would bring a lot of revenue.
Third, the ARM processor supports worlds. In this day of BYOD, offer iPhones and iPads with a "work" partition and a "home" partition. That way, the employee only needs to type in the long password when accessing the "work" side, and the Exchange erase only blows that out. It also allows for apps to only see a subset of data, so the FB app isn't able to access work contacts.
Fourth, make an antipiracy mechanism similar to Google's LVL or new encryption mechanism in Jelly Bean. That way, apps don't have to rely on the fact a device is not jailbroken. As an added bonus, more money can be spent on features, not anti-jailbreak BS.
Fifth, make a business friendly Mac desktop that can push the Dells and Compaqs out of the offices. Take an iMac, toss the camera and mic, and sell that as a business PC with service plans to follow. Lots of cash there to be made, as most companies would switch to Macs if they could, only for the artistic value of the machines.
Apple is actually alienating some of its most influential users, the ones with the big fancy machines that other Apple owners fap to. Macbook Pro is decidedly un-pro what with all the stuff you can't replace or upgrade. Mac Pro is not as expandable or upgradable as a real PC. Neither one is "professional". You can expect them to make the mac pro worse, not better.
Mac Pro is not as expandable or upgradable as a real PC.
Wait, what? Have you ever used a Mac Pro?
By "not as expandable or upgradeable" do you mean, "just as expandable and upgradable and a lot less bloody knuckling"?
This is such a glorious example of how Slashdot readers just don't get it sometimes. Let's see:
Yes, what we need -- more facebook integration.
Yes. There are literally 100's of millions of Facebook users and I suspect they will happily take more Facebook integration with their phone. Just because you (or many Slashdotters) hate Facebook doesn't mean that the vast (VAST) majority of people out there also hate it.
What Apple needs to do is start figuring out how to get themselves enterprise-friendly without losing their consumer market. Enterprises buy stuff in such large chunks that a few good contracts are a lot better than lines around the building of hipsters.
Absolutely right. Except the iPhone is, by a wide margin, the most successful smartphone on the market making Apple the most successful company in the world while RIM, with it's focus on enterprise, is nearly dead. So maybe not so right after all.
Seriously, Slashdotters have such a strong sense of "I know how to do it right and they clearly don't so let me spell it out for you..." Um, Apple is _THE_ most successful company on the planet, by a wide margin. They have figured out how to do it. Perhaps your roadmap to success isn't quite as good as you think it is given that your roadmap to success sounds a HELL of a lot like "focus on enterprise like RIM". You know, RIM, the company that is desperately cutting overhead in an effort to save their company from utter ruin because that's where they're headed.
Look, Apple isn't perfect and there are things that they can do better in various ways but I think they've proven, beyond any possible shadow of a doubt, that their approach works a hell of a lot better than your suggested approach. Focusing on consumers is a roadmap to success. Getting consumers behind your product gets your product into businesses. They've proven this. Why Slashdotters cannot see this is a mystery to me.
What Apple needs to do is start figuring out how to get themselves enterprise-friendly without losing their consumer market.
In engineering, EVERYTHING is about tradeoffs. You simply can't have a good enterprise experience AND a good consumer experience, so Apple (thankfully for me as a consumer) has leaned towards consumer. Sure there are some positive aspects of the consumer brand that could be incorporated into the enterprise environment, but for the most part, the two are mutually exclusive. This is why, in my opinion, Windows + x86 sucks as a consumer product. The money Microsoft makes from businesses is way more than their
iOS 6 is a yawner
Spoken like someone totally ignorant of details, or lacking in vision...
iOS6 has such major, important updates for developers that going forward I will go with iOS6 support only as soon as it comes out, with no backwards support.
Finally developers will be able to display anything on the built in maps framework, without any of the limits imposed by GOOGLE on how you can use maps.
Also developers will be able to create regionally focused mapping applications that users can buy in the map itself! Android does not have nearly as open and extensible built in third-party map helper support - only what Google chooses to provide. Yes you can buy other mapping apps but you have to find them yourself, and determine if they will work where you are.
Also iOS6 has an really advanced constrait based layout engine that goes way beyond a springs/struts model, or Android's Relative layout model. It makes support for proper internationalization trivial.
Apple never needed Jobs mythical RDF, just great products... and Apple is continuing to provide that for users.
The macbook air is hugely successful and can't be upgraded. The way you upgrade a mac is you sell it or give it away and get a new one.
What Apple needs to do is start figuring out how to get themselves enterprise-friendly without losing their consumer market. Enterprises buy stuff in such large chunks that a few good contracts are a lot better than lines around the building of hipsters.
Based on what? Enterprise customers are
a) cheap while Apple tends to offer top of the line hardware
b) demand long sup
"Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
*facepalm* Sorry, I know its a minor detail, but Daft Punk originally wrote "Better, faster, harder, stronger", and Kanye sampled it (with permission) for his song. They have a cameo in his video, which is an awesome tribute to Akira for those that haven't seen it.
*watches Daft Hands and Daft Bodies on youtube*
Who actually sampled http://www.last.fm/music/Edwin+Birdsong [www.last.fm] heavily for the song...
Reminds me of when a former coworker of mine ranted about how The White Stripes had ruined "Joss Stone's" song 'Fell In Love With A [Girl]' taking a "really lovely soul song" and wrecking it.
I laughed. I'm not sure he understood why.
It's funny how people fight over which smartphone is superior. If people from the past (even 10 years) could see people name-calling over who has what smartphone, they would think it absurd.
Let me make it simple for you. Me touch phone. It do stuff. Me make phone call. Me play game. Nice blinky lights.
It's no more complicated than that people.
Yeah. 100% right.
I don't get it either. I have an iPhone
But I don't give a flying f**k that Apple made it. Nor do I think Android is inf
I am a phone geek. The cell phone that I like the best. Actually the best cell phone ever made, in my opinion is the Nokia N9. Now dead, no longer made, it's corpse used to make shitty Lumia's. It could have been the 3rd leg in the cell phone triad.
But, it isn't about technology. The people that buy cell phones aren't the real customers, but the companies that suck user information and sell it.
The Nokia N9 is like the 2002 BMW E39 M5. the last of the great road cars where you could actually shift it, and trurning off the traction control really did just that.
So, long Nokia. The N9 could have been a stellar hit.
Bad car analogy (but great car that BMW)...I've been driving for 26 years, and have never owned an automatic, to include my two current BMWs (1-series, 3-series wagon). Are you suggesting BMW no longer makes manual transmissions, or BMW no longer makes great cars?
Okay, so you're a cellphone geek? Good for you.
But the truth is that the vast majority of people don't care that much about a great big feature list. They care about "will this make me happier?" - emotional benefits, if you like.
The iPhone is regularly advertised with video chat to the hypothetical user's nearest and dearest. That's a great emotional-benefit type feature.
Competition has a way of eroding fat margins. Just saying.
Apple only has 30% of the Mobile OS market share [bgr.com] compared to Android at 51%. If you want to go off a different graph [droid-life.com] Apple is at 29% so it's still pretty close despite two separate studies.
Furthermore, the top mobile OEMs are Samsung and LG. Apple is bringing in a measly measly 14% [vimg.net]. Yes, Apple took no time at all in getting profitable in the last five years, but that's in stark contrast to global market dominance where things aren't so hot for Apple. I know it's hard to fathom but the rest of the world (
That last graph includes non-smartphones. Apple is not in that market, never will be, and doesn't care about it.
If Apple also made a non-smartphone then the metric might mean something (in terms of "it being not so hot for Apple" ), but the fact that they have chosen to concentrate on a small segment (by global phone use) standards, but one that is growing all the time, is the area you need to look. In that market they are competing well and doing quite nicely for themselves.
According to ZDnet Samsung is ahead of apple in the smartphone market.
Samsung's success in the U.S. is both a blessing and a curse. It dominates the U.S. smartphone market, even outshining Apple's iPhone. But delays, sales injunctions, and supply chain issues are hampering Samsung's latest efforts to crank out its Galaxy S III smartphone to the market.
Market research firm
Samsung Electronics' Galaxy series has overtaken Apple's iPhone as the number-one individual smartphone sub-brand in the world.
According to a report published by American market research firm Strategy Analystics in the first half of the year, Samsung sold 41-million units of its Galaxy series, which comprised 28 percent of the global smartphone market.
Apple was close behind, selling 35-million units of the iPhone and taking up 24 percent of the market share.
Research in Motion's Curve was the third-largest smartphone brand, but it only accounted for FOUR percent of the market.
The report said Samsung and Apple are "clear leaders," since they make up over half of the global smartphone market combined.
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The number 5.0 holds a hallowed place in Ford lore. For more 25 years, Ford's 5.0-liter V-8 powered everything from Thunderbirds to F-150 pickups to Broncos. But most notably, they powered Mustangs.
Now, after 16 years in exile, the 5.0 is back. Ford retired the old 5.0, also known as the 302 for its displacement in cubic inches, in 1995, replacing its venerable V-8 with the decent 4.6-liter. But while the 4.6 did a decent job, it didn't have that beloved number attached to its valvecovers.
Don't think for a moment that Ford's decision to bring back the 5.0 isn't partly driven by nostalgia. Automakers decide how big a new engine design will be based on a lot of factors such as the power characteristics it needs, fuel economy and smoothness. But they also make decisions based on what the marketers say will help sell cars.
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Quoted from DoSHow do you respond to yogurt/kefir?
Loose stools are not necessarily bad. The things you describe may not be bad per say either. Gas and loose stools can actually be a sign of balance happening. Warriors need Omega 3's like everyone else, but you could switch to real Tuna. Just go with compliant fish and you should be good.
Also have you considered the possibility that what you are seeing is actually from the liver cleaning itself? I can't see it, but it is similar to the description of what people see post liver overnight cleanse.
CLA isn't a supplement for Omega 3's, but is a great supplement for typical warriors! The Warrior diet is rich in Omega 3's though with all the soy, some fish, and a lot of the nuts.
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November 13-19 will mark the 90th annual observance of American Education Week. Our AEW tagline, "Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility," highlights the importance of bringing together educators, parents, students, and communities in a unified effort to build great public schools.
Today's teachers do more than teach basic skills. They nurture and inspire children. They help students learn essential skills not always measured in testing, such as critical thinking, conflict resolution, cooperation, and problem solving, which help students throughout life.
However, you and I know that no school is without problems. There is always something needing improvement. That's why we have programs such as a mentoring program for first and second year teachers where experienced teachers help new teachers.
We participate in Big Brothers Big Sisters where High School students are paired up with elementary children to develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on children's lives. The list of programs such as these goes on but all with the goal of helping our students achieve success.
Parents, I invite you to visit your child's school and learn for yourself how you can help. If you do not have children at home, please consider contacting one of our schools and asking how you can contribute to a child's success today.
Thank you for taking time to read this letter. I'm proud to make a difference in the lives of the students I teach.
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The Effect of Meditation on Health
One of the readers of these 'Letters' asked why in our Community we do not lay the same stress on the health benefits of meditation as some do.
The Role of Attention
"In order to enter into this holy and mysterious communion with the Word of God dwelling within us, we must first have the courage to become more and more silent……..a silence where we have to listen, to concentrate, to attend." (Word into Silence)
Hard-wired to Experience Higher States of Consciousness
We looked at the role attention plays in becoming aware of who we truly are. But there is another process that is put into motion by paying attention; parts of our brain are activated/de-activated, allowing a new and more truthful perception of Reality.
The Christ Within
We have been looking at how the brain is a beautiful God-given instrument, which allows us to tune into different realities. This different way of perception, this metanoia, can come about gradually by meditating faithfully with all our loving attention focused on our mantra;
Letting go of ego
St Paul's experience of the risen Christ mirrors our experience of Him in the deep silence of our meditation: "He is a real, risen presence encountered deep within the personal experience of the disciple and new believer." (Laurence Freeman)
What is time?
"It seems to me that we have ultimately to go beyond all forms of thought – even beyond the Trinity, the Incarnation...... All these belong to the world of signs – manifestations of God in human thought – but God Himself, Truth itself is beyond all forms of thought." (Bede Griffiths OSB)
Reading the Gospel
Origen was a native Alexandrian of the 2nd century CE, highly educated in Greek, Jewish and Christian wisdom. At the young age of 17 he was made Head of the Catechetical School in Alexandria, successor to Clement.
The Human Vocation
Our next guide is Evagrius Ponticus, who was at first very much part of the established 'orthodox' Church in the fourth century CE; he contributed passionately to all the debates that marked the early church, which were basically about who Jesus really was and what his life and teaching meant.
Contemplating Nature and Silent Prayer
Evagrius' ideas of approaching God, through scripture, nature and through pure prayer were a fundamental idea with the Desert Fathers and Mothers: "One of the wise men of that time went to find the holy man Antony and asked him:
What are Our Demons?
We looked at Evagrius' division of the spiritual life into the 'praxis' and 'theoria'. Let us concentrate for a moment longer on 'Praxis'. We must not forget that our spiritual growth depends both on grace and effort. Grace was paramount for Evagrius , but effort was also important.


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Three years ago, Cody Thueringer transferred to the University of Montana Western and the Bulldog varsity basketball team after playing basketball one year at Highline Community College in Seattle, Wash.
That decision turned out to very beneficial for both Thueringer and Montana Western. "I wanted to come to UMW because I liked the atmosphere," Thueringer says of his decision to attend Montana Western.
"I like the small-town feel and I love the players and coaching staff."
The Kentwood High School graduate is the son of Marty and Julie Thueringer and has an older sister, Chelsey, who is 23-years old. Thueringer is a business administration major and will finish up his degree in spring 2011. A successful student, he also recently earned a spot on the Montana Western Dean's List. Thueringer plans are to utilize his degree by joining his father in the construction business.
The 6'3" senior guard from Kent, Wash. is also in the final stages of a very successful basketball career with the Bulldogs. During his tenure with the men's basketball team he has experienced three winning seasons and has become a force to be reckoned with in the Frontier Conference.
"In his three years at Montana Western, Cody Thueringer has had a major impact in the resurrection of the Bulldog basketball program," Head Coach Steve Keller says of Thueringer. "After an 11-19 season the year before he came, Cody has now led the Bulldogs to three consecutive winning seasons and a combined record of 60-31 as well as a national tournament appearance last year."
During his sophomore year Thueringer averaged 9.5 points per game and made 25 of 68 (.368) of his three-point shot attempts. The team finished 8-6 in the conference, in fifth place, and 15-14 overall. In his second year he averaged 7.4 points per game and made 24 of 71 (.338) of his three-point attempts. The team set a school record for wins in a season, going 25-10 overall and 10-4 in conference play, good for second place.
The Bulldogs also played in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament and defeated Union University from Tennessee 82-79 in the opening round before dropping a hard-fought contest in the second round to Southern Nazarene University (SNU), 81-78. Thueringer scored four points in the opening game and had 10 points in the loss to SNU.
When asked about highlights of his basketball career at Montana Western, the team-oriented Thueringer says last year's successes stood out.
"My favorite highlights of my basketball experience here would be going to the national tournament and hosting a play-off game at home last year," Thueringer explains. The experience of playing in Kansas City, Kan. and his team's success was not lost on Thueringer.
Over the summer he worked hard on getting into the best physical and basketball shape of his life and spent hours on improving his shot. Thueringer's hard work brought him into his final year of college basketball ready for a big season. Coach Keller says it was easy to see his athleticism and shooting was much improved.
After two years of coming off the bench as a role player for the Bulldogs, Thueringer would be a starter in his senior season and expected to be a go-to player for the Bulldogs.
"Cody is a very fundamental player and one the best defenders on the team," Keller said of Thueringer at the beginning of the 2010-2011 season. "He will look to score more this year and will start at the 2- or 3-guard position." Keller says Thueringer definitely lived up to his expectations.
With two important conference games remaining in the regular season, the Bulldogs are 20-7 overall and in a four-way tie for the conference lead at 8-4. Thueringer is averaging 15.2 points per game (sixth in the conference) and has made 58 of 142 (.408) three-point shots. He has scored in double figures in 20 of the team's 26 games.
During a road trip in November he finished the weekend with a 54-point cumulative effort against the College of Idaho (22 points) and Warner Pacific University (32 points). That outstanding weekend earned him the honor of being chosen the Frontier Conference play of the week.
"Cody is the type of player on and off the floor we strive to have in our program," Keller adds. "He has been a great leader for us this year as the Bulldogs are in the hunt for a Frontier Conference title. He is self-motivated and worked very hard in the off season to become a pure three-point shooter and improve his athleticism."
As important as the pursuit of that title is for Keller, Thueringer and the rest of the Bulldog squad, Keller says he is even more proud of Thueringer's performance in the classroom.
"I am very proud of what Cody has accomplished on the basketball court but also in the classroom," Keller notes. "He will graduate from Montana Western with a degree in business this spring. I am also proud to say that I have had the opportunity to be Cody's coach for the past three years. There is no doubt in my mind that Cody will be successful in the real game of life."


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Renowned Courtroom Reporter Linda Deutsch to Visit UH
From Sirhan Sirhan and Patty Hearst to William Kennedy Smith and O.J. Simpson, Linda Deutsch has covered some of the most infamous trials in historyUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Linda Deutsch, legal affairs correspondent and premier courtroom reporter for the Associated Press, will share her experiences and insight with the public in a lecture entitled "High Profile: A Look at the Most Celebrated Trials of our Times," at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa on Tuesday, October 22, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
Deutsch has covered some of the most famous trials of our time, including those of Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood, William Kennedy Smith, the four police officers accused in the beating of motorist Rodney King, and the Menendez Brothers. She is currently covering the Robert Blake murder case.
Her most notable work has been her coverage of the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, for which she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. At the end of the criminal trial, the AP honored her with its prestigious Oliver Gramling Award for career long excellence. The Simpson trial brought her face as well as her byline into millions of homes as she was called upon by TV news shows to share her expertise with audiences across the world. She coauthored the AP book, "Verdict: The Chronicle of the O.J. Simpson Trial," and she also wrote the foreword to "Headline Justice," a book by her best friend and mentor, legendary reporter Theo Wilson.
Deutsch has also covered two U.S. presidents, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, at their Western White Houses and covered two assassination attempts on a third president, Gerald Ford. From Guam, she helped cover the evacuation of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.
AP named Deutsch a special correspondent in 1992 in recognition of her long and distinguished career with the wire service. The designation of special correspondent is one she shares with only a handful of other active AP writers and one that has been bestowed on just 18 AP reporters in the history of the news service.
In her lecture, Deutsch will examine how trials, especially those of celebrity figures, form the social history of our times. Based on her own experience and insight covering the most famous trials of the past three decades, Deutsch will demonstrate how trials have become a microcosm of our world reflecting the attitude of our country, state of our economy, and values of our society. She will also offer a behind the scenes look at some of the more humorous and lighter moments of covering these headline making events.
Deutsch will also be speaking to the Honolulu Media Council and to various UH classes including journalism classes, and beginning law students at the William S. Richardson School of Law and paralegal students from the various UH community colleges.