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It makes everyone equal with Windows.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
MS must be sacred shitless of Linux, especially since Linux-Android is kicking its ass in the phone and tablet market. MS has a long way to go to match Linux's and Linux's distros' feature sets.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
Why do that, when you control the Windows logo rules?
Windows must have a preferred status; features available to Windows users must surpass the list of features available to users of competing platforms; that is, as a condition of applying Windows logo certification to a qualifying hardware product, Hardware must have an experience or supported featureset on Windows that exceeds the user experience on any competing operating system.
Now ask again why we need antitrust laws with teeth.
They've got Balmer, we don't need antitrust laws.
Could you give the source of your quote?
This is not a quote. It is an implication; that behind closed doors, between vendors, there is an "arrangement" MS requires, and if they refuse to comply --- MS has the stick of refusing logo certification to their product ---- if nVidia doesn't get the Windows Logo; then neither do any of the hardware builders or OEMs using nVidia components; therefore, they are likely to ship someone else's hardware instead, so they can get the logo.
Some of the Logo certification requirements [microsoft.com]
As for multiple
This is not a quote. It is an implication; that behind closed doors, between vendors, there is an "arrangement" MS requires, and if they refuse to comply --- MS has the stick of refusing logo certification to their product ---- if nVidia doesn't get the Windows Logo; then neither do any of the hardware builders or OEMs using nVidia components; therefore, they are likely to ship someone else's hardware instead, so they can get the logo.
In other words, you made up a phony quote that looks like it's copied straight from a real policy and got modded to +5 Informative, when instead it's just speculation on your part.
It's well known that for 18 years (at least since 1996), that Microsoft doesn't want OpenGL to offer features that DirectX doesn't have. Some companies would be required to put the "brightest graduates" on DirectX projects rather than OpenGL ones - that's from interviews and direct employment.
Well from experience Microsoft has secret contract terms like this that repeatedly come out after years of competitive interests being shitcanned on support from hardware vendors or OEMS. So while this exact term may be made up, it most certainly EXISTS in their contracts... Because that's Microsoft's MO.
I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft or Windows -- you can check my posting history to see that -- but it strikes me that the WHQL requirements could have a good reason and such an exception shouldn't be granted. In particular, it makes sense to me that the OS should be able to see multiple GPUs separately so that it can manage them itself.
I may not entirely know what I'm talking about, but I get the general impression that the real issue is that X delegates too much responsibility to the driver, and that the
What advantages does Nvidia get by it's hardware carrying the Nvidia logo? Why do they care?
I dare say buyers/suppliers are more fickle than you're giving them credit for.
I'd love to know whether that's a real quote from the Windows logo rules. Unfortunately, a Google search for the text returns only one result: this comment. [Citation needed]
Do hardware drivers make the user experience so much better?
I'm sorry, let me rephrase that: Do hardware drivers make the user experience so much better? That must be one crappy operating system then....
Funny. If I read just this part of your comment, I wouldn't know whether you are criticizing Windows or Linux. This whole article is about hardware drivers affecting user experience!!
I think WHQL certification is mostly MS' way of pressuring component vendors to implement new features they want. For example; UEFI secure boot / OS signing, and preventing OSes such as Linux for booting, or providing TCPA / TCPM (Trusted Computing Platform Modules).
But that's not all. there are plenty of features. Whatever MS requires or forbids will be extremely influential, as computer manufacturers Want to be able to advertise their product using the Windows Logo; and they are required to use only Windows logo certified components in their systems, so a hardware vendor not getting the stamp of approval on their product can be harmful to their business.
MS will use their leverage to do what they think will improve the number of people buying their product --- that includes improving their user experience, or diminishing the user experience of old operating systems, or competing vendors' OS.
For example: making new hardware no longer compatible with XP or Windows 7 would be a win for them, because it encourages more sales of Windows 8.
The WHQL [microsoft.com] requirements are full of lists of features that must be supported and features that must not be supported by hardware.
In the former category; they list supposed business justifications, and it's all about user experience.
For the latter category; these are limitations of Windows, and the hardware is not allowed to have support for features outside of Windows' limitations.
In the middle category; there are features hardware vendors must ask for permission to implement; that is probably the safest category for MS to use to pressure vendors --- just withhold permission, until they agree to 'off the record' conditions.
So what stops nVidia selling a not dissimilar card without this feature and with a penguin logo instead?
You're asking the wrong question. What benefit do they get by selling a not-dissimilar piece of silicon with a penguin logo instead? (And is that benefit greater than the cost?)
The cost of marketing and selling another product can be significant; especially, if they have to make sure the driver for the penguin logo product won't work on the Windows logo product.
I imagine most OEMs such as Dell,
Whoosh [imdb.com]?
No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
That's kind of the point, most of the time the opensource world does not get to make deals with corporations. You take what they dole out and then you thank them for it.
I don't like it, and I'm hoping it doesn't last, but it does seem to be the reality.
In the ideal world our esteemed colleagues at Redmond will continue to screw themselves over and the world will turn slowly to Linux and all the hardware vendors will start playing ball, and there is some indication that has been the gradual trend over the pa
Why Apple's CEO? The Samsung Wrist Phone...
Are you kidding? I'm guessing the conversation around the bong was more along the lines of:
".... so dude... we managed to convince our competitors, the pundits and the market that we'd make a stupid fucking watch right?"
"... I know right
*more giggles* *at least one board member falls off his chair*
"... oh man
I bet it's just for the test cases.
I wonder how this will affect SteamOS, since the Steam Machines are nvidia based. Maybe Valve will start throwing their weight around to get nvidia to offer better Linux support?
They already have. I don't remember reading anything about SteamOS being completely opensource.
Their "prototype beta hardware" is off the shelf stuff.
Valve stated that SteamOS will be open source.
I've looked, and found no reference for this. On their SteamOS [steampowered.com] page, they hint at it but it's nebulous:
"Cooperating system
Steam is not a one-way content broadcast channel, it's a collaborative many-to-many entertainment platform, in which each participant is a multiplier of the experience for everyone else. With SteamOS, "openness" means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they've been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users c
The OS will be based on open source stuff, but I don't think it's enterity will be open source, since Steam includes DRM, and DRM+Open source don't go hand in hand.
Considering it's a console that plugs into a TV, I don't think this matters much at all. Valve's definitely been throwing their weight around demanding better performance and fewer bugs, though. nVidia Linux drivers have been performing better with every release.
Considering it's a console that plugs into a TV, I don't think this matters much at all. Valve's definitely been throwing their weight around demanding better performance and fewer bugs, though.
That or the fact that of the four eighth-generation consoles available now, all three run AMD graphics. PS4 and Xbox One have essentially the same AMD APU, and Wii U is reportedly built on a Radeon HD 5000 [wiiudaily.com]. Only the OUYA console has NVIDIA graphics, and that's the same Tegra 3 that's in the first-generation Nexus 7. Perhaps this is NV's attempt to redeem itself to gamers who say OUYA doesn't count.
Meanwhile as of 3.11 the kernel "radeon" driver is already fully functional, complete with power management and KMS support.
Frankly I'd wager nvidia has already lost on Linux, even though it may currently appear they are still the preferred platform with their higher quality binary driver. But binary drivers have a very limited future on Linux, especially such a critical one as the graphics driver. AMD may have a shitty binary driver, but the "radeon" driver is miles ahead of "nouveau", and once they start
once they start seeing the signs on the wall it will be a simple matter for them to put in a little effort and make "radeon" the best graphics driver for gaming on Linux
Or a lot more work, from what I gather one of the key differences between the radeon driver and the catalyst driver is that they've created a ton of behavior profiles to fit different workloads and they're continuously working to update them and providing even more specific ones tuned to the individual game. That takes a lot of manpower and a rather complicated driver infrastructure, while the open source driver has gone for a much simpler "jack of all trades" acceleration. Last I was really paying attentio
Anyway, if i'm right, optimus support under linux is not on par with windows.
Are you nvidia going to fix optimus on linux, or "for feature parity" are you going to make the optimus support worse on windows too?
Directly quoting someone from that thread because this was exactly what I was thinking of.
All this time I've been pissed at the nouveau [freedesktop.org] drivers that came as default with my linux distribution. "NVIDIA's drivers are working perfectly" I thought. "Why the hell are you building something not as good, just to make it open source?"
Now I know.
Silly RMS and his free software. He is starting to look quite a bit more insightful, decades after he started his public campaign.
Starting to? He looked insightful from the start to anyone with similar insight. What you mean is that it's taken decades for you to start realizing some of the things he's been preaching for so long.
Or perhaps, some of RMS's decades-old insights have become obvious now.
It still lacks critical features like proper power management, which means cards using Nouveau tend to have reduced lifespans compared to the binary drivers which actually control the fans and voltages properly.
Nouveau is a good idea and should be encouraged, but there's no fucking way I'll touch it even if NVIDIA treats Linux like a second-class citizen. And honestly, if you aren't used to being treated like a second (or after OS X, a third-class citizen) on the desktop computing world, you haven't used Li
It still lacks critical features like proper power management, which means cards using Nouveau tend to have reduced lifespans compared to the binary drivers which actually control the fans and voltages properly.
Can you back up the statement that it actually reduces lifespan or it's just a wild conjecture? Indeed nouveau lacks support for voltage and fan control by default, but it leads to it using lowest frequency for GPU which doesn't require much fan management. I wouldn't expect degradation of lifespan.
Now I know.
It's much more difficult to hide an NSA backdoor in nouveau than in the closed-source nVidia blobs. Just so you know more.
They removed basic customizable anaglyph support from both after I detailed how you could hack 3D support into Left 4 Dead and other games.
And I'm still an Nvidia fanboy.
I used that feature on a Geforce 2MX to try it out, a good while ago. No idea what you mean by "hacking" 3D support, you only had to press a hotkey to enable Stereo 3D in any game or app (with or without great results, but at least it's working or trying to). Five year laters I tried shutter glasses on Geforce 6/7 (too bad FSAA wasn't working, as I had to run at 640x480 or 800x600 on the old CRT to play with stereo).
Anaglyph was really shit though, it fucks your color vision (after using it for a hour your eyes or brain compensate, if you look away from the screen and close one eye, one eye sees in red and the other in blue! to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
Thank god. It was bothering me that I was seeing this and yet when I described it to others no one knew what they hell I was talking about.
Anaglyph was really shit though, it fucks your color vision (after using it for a hour your eyes or brain compensate, if you look away from the screen and close one eye, one eye sees in red and the other in blue! to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
That's not the Anaglyph driver, that's physics and biology and is an artifact of the red-blue method of "3d". You'll get the same effect watching an old 3d movie from the '50s with the red-blue (more like bluegreen
Indeed, the complaint was more about anaglyph than the driver per se. You don't even need a driver, you can look at stuff right from image search results. The comments about blood flow in the eyes from other posters are damn interesting too, this means there are probably no long term effects.
About shutter glasses, they don't deal with colors and theoretically would not affect them. They darken the picture and give an unwanted blue tint, but that's because the LCDs are far from perfect. With the old style PC
to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
This sounds like a multi-million$ lawsuit.
to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one
There's no biological reason why this effect would last more than ten to fifteen minutes.
My eyes do that naturally and I've never used any of those red/blue glasses. It's normal for your eyes not to see the same colors.
My big beef with cheap, TN panel LCDs is that the viewing angle is so narrow, my left eye sees different colors than my right eye. I have to use a good IPS display just for everyday work or I get a stereographic-induced headache. Forget resolution -- I'm pissed it took so long for affordable IPS displays to hit the market.
Nvidia still dosent get it.
Nvidia gets it alright. They just don't agree.
In this case, I think that Nvidia is using driver capabilities to sell new chips. What happens is that the chips are designed with a certain feature set, but the driver does not enable all of them. Later, "new" chips are released, but the only real change is a change to the drivers, which now unlock features already in the prior chips.
"In order to sell more video cards, we set BaseMosaic to 3 screens."
For any people with free time, how about starting a PAC to get a new law passed that would require hardware manufacturers to provide full specifications of their products to consumers in a standardized format? It could be used not only for open source developers (rights of the consumer to use purchased gear as he or she sees fit) but also could be used to guarantee and verify all provided functions and that there aren't any additional spyware functions included. Conceivably it could be used in a software / firmware binary verification program too.
we don't follow our existing laws - and you want to create new ones?
there is a law against NSA spying on citizens but they do it anyway.
besides, you can't get the gov to sign any laws that tie their hands on spying. and spyware, whether corporate or governmental is not going to be outlawed. that would interfere with, well, business and government! at least the current bad behavior of those two.
the time when government stood up for consumers' rights was 20 or more years ago. the last few decades, well, n
get a new law passed that would require hardware manufacturers to provide full specifications
This is analogous to patching bad code with more bad code instead of fixing the bug. The reason there is so little competition among video card manufacturers can be found in the patent system and corporate liability law.
Fix the real bugs.
1.) Go to the Nvidia site and search for 'Linux' and then surf all the linux related
pages on thier site.
2.) Send an email to technical support and ask why you can no longer use all the monitors on your desktop.
3.) Buy an AMD/ATI card , send them an email to let them know why. Let AMD know you are using Linux and why.
4.) Send your old Nvidia card to Nvidia head office for RMA in protest by mail. (Write it off)
4.) Send your old Nvidia card to Nvidia head office for RMA in protest by mail. (Write it off)
That may be a good moral stance, but it's not a fix. nVidia has already said they don't care about the linux multi-head users - sending them a small amount of e-waste isn't going to change that.
Let's see: you use an overblown proprietary binary blob that contains who-knows-what in times of overall NSA spying, and you dare complain that this binary blob has lost one tiny bit of functionality w.r.t. Windows' binary blob? Don't worry, the main functionality of this nVidia blob (NSA backdoor?) is still fully functional.
Nvidia has never been a perfect partner to the opensource world, however your tinfoil hat is too tight son, it's clearly cutting off the blood flow to your brain.
And I was being a little flippant.
Yes, any binary that you don't have the source to is a potential security hole.
But it's like worrying about people wearing bombs in their shoes, you're focusing on the wrong thing.
Ah if only I had not already commented on this...
So I'll point out that step 4) should include a cover letter that clearly documents your actions in 1), 2) & 3)
Step 5) would be to document the above and any responses from NVIDIA somewhere in public on the web.
No profit here, but much satisfaction from righteous indignation.
I've been running NVIDIA hardware with 4 monitors for over a decade. So, maybe there is an issue with win7/8 and multiple GPUs? In the past I would even mix/match the GPU's because the windows multimonitor support is (was?) part of the OS. I remember packing multiple PCI (not e) boards into the same machine. Lots of combinations worked but not all of them.
So, as another user on the nvidia forums pointed out it sounds like BS.
That said, running single screen configurations with linux/Xinerama has been proble
Just thought I'd post that our kickstarter goes live on 10/9 for an LGPL graphics core. It is a complete 2D/3D Verilog implementation. The current version is PCI based and runs on Altera/ Xilinx or ASIC. 100% clean and synthesizable Verilog. We have a number of stretch goals that bring new features, generic interfaces so you could run on a PCIe FPGA board or an SOC part. The ultimate stretch goal would be a Unified Shader design.
We have pictures and will have video from the FPGA board on the kickstarter sit
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|"Education Matters" to Community Foundation
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According to a 2011 report put out by the Census Bureau, roughly 42% of adult residents in Washington County have only attained the educational equivalency of a high school diploma. 34% of adults have gone on to accomplish some level of college work, including about 18% who received a degree, and another 23% had not been able to receive a complete high school education.
These figures were the focal point for a series of presentations hosted by the Washington County Community Foundation to spotlight "Education Matters". The Community Foundation's Director, Judy Johnson, explained that "Education Matters" is a regional undertaking to raise awareness for adult education programs in Southern Indiana and how vital a college degree is for employers and would-be employees alike in the 21st century job market.
Speakers for the event included Haley Glover, Strategy Director for the Lumina Foundation, Wendy Dant Chesser, President and CEO of One Southern Indiana, Dr. Uric Dufrene, Professor of Business Administration at IU Southeast, and Dr. Rita Hudson Shourds, Chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College.
They were each allowed 15 minute to give a brief presentation to the audience. Glover talked about Lumina's mission to help people get into and through college successfully. "For a long time we have been giving people fish, now we need to teach people how to fish." She emphasized that simply offering college courses is not enough anymore. Potential students need to be sought out, encouraged, and given the tools they'll need to succeed in college.
Chesser talked about what big companies look for in a potential employee and within communities they are considering planting roots in. "Companies look for a reason to cross communities off their lists," she said. Some of the critical trends Chesser said companies tend to look for are location, workforce availability, and workforce affordability. A steady population of educated workers is a big plus for encouraging job growth, she added. "We can't move forward without a quality workforce...economic development is a team sport."
Dr. Dufrene looked at national trends between education level and unemployment rates, citing that people with a high school degree typically faced a steeper unemployment rate and lower personal income levels than people with a college degree in the workforce. He said this proved especially true during the most recent national recession that began in 2008.
Dr. Shourds talked about how Ivy Tech has been adapting and expanding their services to suit the needs of adults who are going back for their college education. "Over 40% of Ivy Tech's students work full time jobs," Dr. Shourds explained. This fact has led the Community College to set up classes off-campus sites, such as workplaces and other public spaces, and they've taken some unique approaches to traditional services, such as offering class registration at the local YMCA.
She also suggested that dual credit programs are a good incentive to get high school students thinking about their college careers early. Dual credit is a special program available at most high schools where students can earn certain college credits while they're still in high school. Dr. Shrouds said Salem, Eastern and West Washington High Schools all have dual credit programs.
The Community Foundations of Clark, Floyd, Harrison and Scott Counties are collaborating with Washington County's Foundation to bring awareness of "Education Matters" across the area.

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited the memorial to the Boston Marathon bombing victims Friday in Copley Square, leaving a bouquet at the site and greeting other people who came to pay their respects.
Napolitano quietly took in many of the items left at the memorial, lingering for a while at a sign left for the youngest victim killed in the explosions, 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester.
The sign read, "Martin Richard, age 8, wise beyond his years, left the world a powerful message. . . . No more hurting people. Peace."
The secretary laid the bouquet in the center of the memorial near a display of four crucifixes bearing the names of the dead and a number of stuffed animals.
Jim Wareing, 54, of Dorchester, watched Napolitano place the bouquet at the site. He wore a "Boston Strong" T-shirt.
"I think it was nice for her to come," said Wareing, who volunteers to help maintain the memorial. "For her to come to pay tribute is just a nice courtesy."
Wareing and his friend, June Sugarman, another memorial volunteer, said victims and first responders have begun to visit the site. "It's a very healing process," said Sugarman, a Back Bay resident.
Napolitano went from the memorial site to a closed-door meeting with first responders inside the Boston Public Library. She did not take questions from reporters.Travis Andersen can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter@TAGlobe.


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This latest milestone, along with the completion of the Upper Penitencia Creek Improvement Project last year, marks fulfillment of environmental mitigation requirements related to the construction of the 10-mile, two station Berryessa Extension Project.
The Alum Rock Fish Passage enhances access for the threatened Central California Coast steelhead trout population in the area along the Upper Penitencia Creek near the Youth Science Institute in San Jose's Alum Rock Park.
"This project exemplifies how protecting ecological habitats and establishing sustainability plans is the way SCVTA approaches all its construction projects," said SCVTA General Manager Michael Burns. "It helps us comply with federal and state regulations, while ensuring the community that it's important to us to be mindful of the environment."
The Alum Rock Fish Passage project scope required a team of engineers, archeologists and biologists to work with the construction team to remove a five-foot fish barrier, expand a floodplain, conduct erosion repair and remove non-native vegetation. Through the construction of a series of chutes and pools, a fish ladder was created, allowing fish access upstream. During the stream diversion installation and de-watering process, crews were able to relocate all area steelhead and California red legged frogs, achieving a 100 percent survival rate. The new flood plain improves the habitat for the steelhead by providing refuge during high flows. An abutment to provide bank stabilization to preserve a 1930's historic bridge was also built.
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black 1940's
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Grimsby, United ...
this dress is from a vintage pattern. i can't remember which one it was. simplicity i think.
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made in black polyester viscose, with cream bows. back zip fastening.
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Dec 13, 2012, 12.59 PMby ronnielee
I'm sure this is from vintage vogue V2787. I did start to make the dress, but the fabric I had chosen was too bulky and the seems puckered way to much so I gave up! (another UFO to my pile) Yours is a great version, i may revisit that style after all!
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Dec 13, 2012, 10.08 PMby Fletcher & Fenn
ur right it is a vouge pattern. i filed the pattern away and don't have time to check with preperations for christmas. But my pattern was an origional vintage one from the 1940s. it was given to me by my boyfriends father. His mother was a dressmaker in the 30's and 40's, and when she died the year before last they gave me everything including this pattern. So as a tribute to her and to show my thanks i've been making the patterns up.
Dec 10, 2012, 07.04 PMby sala22
What a cute dress! I love the pleating!
Dec 9, 2012, 01.13 PMby flowergirl22
wow,, the pleats at the front are done so good,, looks stunning,, is the front of the colour not strangling you ?
Dec 9, 2012, 12.51 PMby kisses
Lovely dress…so vintage
Dec 8, 2012, 08.57 PMby Glenville Hughes
smashing dress
Dec 8, 2012, 04.54 PMby kess
This is so beautiful! was it difficult to sew the corners?
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Dec 13, 2012, 10.09 PMby Fletcher & Fenn
kind of. A bit fidely. I devised my own way.
Dec 8, 2012, 03.41 PMby Mary Athey
Oh I love this. I.d love to know what pattern you.used if you find it please. I.d love to make this one . Just fab x
Dec 8, 2012, 03.31 PMby martinK
that's a stylish vintage dress, like it!!!
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Ecuador Delegation Taps Northwest CUs for Service Delivery Strategies
WOCCU Program Participants Share Ideas, Experience
April 11, 2011
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Nine staff members from Cooperativa Financiera de Ahorro y Crédito San Francisco, a credit union located in Ambato, Ecuador, focused on new technology and branch service strategies during a recent visit to the Northwest Credit Union Association (NWCUA) and four credit unions in Oregon and Washington. World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) organized the international study tour, which became a cultural exchange where both sides benefitted from learning new credit union strategies.
The week-long visit began at the headquarters of NWCUA. The association serves credit unions in the Pacific Northwest from offices in Beaverton, Ore., and Federal Way, Wash. NWCUA President Troy Stang briefed the group to make sure visits to their credit unions would best fit the group's objectives and to understand just what insights delegation members themselves had to offer.
"Ecuador's credit unions have some innovative strategies that our members could learn from," Stang said. "This was a really wonderful opportunity not only for our friends from Ecuador, but also for the association to share our commitment to growing the credit union movement throughout the world."
Cooperativa San Francisco has US$89 million in assets and serves more than 120,000 members. The credit union has 110 employees and operates nine branches, which it is looking to augment through a greater use of technology.
"My credit union is going through a tremendous transformation, and we
are looking to integrate technology into our product and services
offerings," said Cooperativa San Francisco General Manager Estuardo Paredes. "We have been serving members who have
traditionally used our physical branches to do their business. However,
to attract younger members, we would like to incorporate the technology
and services they are used to.
"American credit unions have offered a valid example, and I am taking back several concepts to Cooperativa San Francisco," Paredes added.
The Ecuadorian credit union delegation visited Sunset Science Park Credit Union, which offered the visitors an inside look into the credit union's innovative cellular phone banking capabilities, while Providence Federal Credit Union shared its branding strategy and applications. Both credit unions are located in metropolitan Portland, Ore.
The group also traveled to iQ Credit Union in Vancouver, Wash., to review the credit union's home banking system, including an electronic check deposit service that allows members to scan checks for deposit at home. The credit union also shared information on the features and management strategies behind its six secondary school branches.
Ecuador does not have corporate credit unions, so the delegation spent a half-day visit at Southwest Bridge Corporate Federal Credit Union to learn how these organizations operate and fit within the wider system.
Other stops included a visit with Oregon state Sen. Jason Atkinson and credit union regulator Janet Powell, who discussed how the state's credit unions are regulated using the National Credit Union Administration's CAMEL system. CAMEL, an acronym that stands for Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings and Liquidity/asset-liability management, is used to regulate many of Ecuador's credit unions as well.
The delegation also visited Portland's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, which Oregon and Washington credit unions have supported for many years with more than US$11 million in donations. The entire experience provided crucial input during a time of change for the Ecuadorian credit union, according to Paredes.
The Northwest Credit Union Association is the not-for-profit trade association serving Oregon and Washington's 200 credit unions and their 4.2 million members. The NWCUA is the voice of the Northwest credit union movement, providing legislative, regulatory and public advocacy in addition to education, compliance, networking support and business solutions to its members.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.
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Jess fears she and Russell don't share the fiery passion he exhibits with his ex-wife Ouli. Meanwhile, Cece is not yet willing to admit her true feelings for Schmidt, so she encourages him to go on a date with one of her Russian model roommates. Then, a down-in-the-dumps Nick channels all of his energy into a new vegetable garden.
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New Girl is charming and quite funny, but especially when compared with the other two shows, it seems quite old-school.The New York Times Full Review
It's the dialogue that takes this series over the top.New York Post Full Review
New Girl didn't give me as many laugh-out-loud moments as some comedies. But the show delivered something extra that my favorite sitcoms often don't: It made me feel warm and fuzzy.Chicago Sun-Times Full Review
The three guys have yet to be fleshed out, though, so right now this is a one-woman show.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
It's funny and cute.Slate Full Review
Overall [it] is more charming than hilarious.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Full Review
Overall, it's a strong first episode and we will definitely keep watching.Zap2it (Inside the Box) Full Review
New Girl possesses ample energy, even if it almost instantly violates "Seinfeld's" old "No hugging, no learning" rule. Then again, heart is part of its DNA.Variety Full Review
Deschanel is utterly con-vincing as this off-kilter gal, and of the supporting cast, Wayans sparks the most as Coach.Boston Herald Full Review
If you love Zooey Deschanel, this one's for you. If not, a pass.Newsday Full Review
Despite growing out of a plot conceit that involves Craigslist, New Girl--from its characters to the Felix the Cat-like predicaments in which they land--doesn't seem rooted in reality of any kind.Slant Magazine Full Review
I love this show, because I love the wide-eyed star, who is fully engaged in her role here. If you dislike her hipster adorability, though, beware.Boston Globe Full Review
The rather sunny ending of New Girl doesn't feel earned, and your enjoyment level may depend on how much you can tolerate Zooey Deschanel's doofy charisma.The Huffington Post Full Review
Where everything comes together beautifully in "Broke," New Girl tries too hard and falls short for doing so.San Francisco Chronicle Full Review
The promos for New Girl suggest that it's something new or at least mildly unusual. But its first episode looks like more of the same.PopMatters Full Review
This truly hideous sitcom offers a postmodernist take on the 1960s comedy That Girl, in which Marlo Thomas starred as an aspiring actress afflicted with insufferable cuteness.Miami Herald Full Review
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(BaseballStL) -- A hot start led to three rough outings for rookie pitcher Tyler Lyons. Now the lefty is being sent back to Memphis.
Official News Release from the Cardinals:
Cardinals recall rookie pitcher Michael Blazek; lefty Tyler Lyons optioned to Memphis (AAA)
The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have recalled rookie right-handed pitcher Michael Blazek from Memphis (AAA) and optioned left-handed pitcher Tyler Lyons to the triple-A club. Blazek, 24, appeared on the Cardinals Major League roster earlier this season (May 26-29), but did not appear in any games.
Blazek was drafted by the Cardinals in the 35th round (1,068th player overall) of the 2007 June draft out of Arbor View High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 6-0, 200-pound righty most recently has appeared in eight games for Memphis where he posted a 2.31 ERA and one save. Four of his eight outings at Memphis have been 2.0 innings, including his most recent on Thursday (June 20) at Round Rock, the Texas Rangers triple-A affiliate. Blazek has struck out 19 batters in his 11.2 IP for Memphis and walked three.
Earlier this season, Blazek had appeared in 17 games for the Springfield Cardinals (AA), allowing just two earned runs on 11 hits in 19.2 innings pitched (0.92 ERA) while fanning 25. He and teammate Keith Butler had each saved seven games, ranking T2nd in the Texas League. Blazek has yet to allow a homer this season in 31.1 combined innings with Memphis and Springfield.
Lyons was 2-3 with a 5.51 ERA in six starts for the Cardinals.
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FOXBOROUGH — In the second quarter of last Sunday's win over Denver, with the Patriots in full hyper-speed, no-huddle mode, they faced a third and 1 from their 45-yard line.
Tom Brady handed the ball to rookie Brandon Bolden, who went straight to the hole on the right side between Rob Gronkowski and Deion Branch.
Bolden got the yard for a first down, plus some: He was taken down after a 24-yard gain, putting New England well into Denver territory.
The play kept alive what became a 16-play drive that ended in a field goal, giving the Patriots a 17-7 lead at halftime.
In a league that is widely becoming pass-first and on a team that has become known as a throwing team in recent years, running the ball effectively seems like a nouveau notion in New England.
But thanks to a re-emphasis on the ground game and dynamic talent at the position, the Patriots have been running the ball with great results through the first five games and that has made an already-successful offense even more difficult for opposing defenses.
"Now we can be a little more balanced, and I think teams prepare for us a little bit differently now," said Branch. "Back in the past, it was always, 'We've got to defend the pass game.' Now they have to defend both. So that's always a plus — teams have to play us a little different.
"Some teams come in the game and play us with nickel, and once you start doing that, you have all the smaller guys on the field, you want to run the ball. And I think we should. We've been doing a great job with it so far."
As they prepare for Sunday's game in Seattle, the Patriots have the top-ranked offense in the NFL in terms of total yardage and scoring. Being near the top of both categories has been familiar for this team since 2007, when Brady went from trying to move the chains with Reche Caldwell and Doug Gabriel to doing so with Wes Welker and Randy Moss.
But unlike the last five years, it is being done with a far heavier dose of rushing plays.
Through five games, the Patriots have actually rushed the ball more than they have passed. Of their 388 offensive plays, 191 were rushes and 185 passes (the other 12 plays were sacks). And they are averaging 33 points per outing.
In four of the last five seasons, the Patriots were quite a bit over 50 percent when it came to the pass/run split. The one exception was 2008, when Brady went out in the first game and Matt Cassel was thrust into the starting role. That year, they still passed slightly more than they rushed, 48.8 percent to 46.8 percent (with sacks accounting for 4.4 percent, as Cassel was brought down 47 times in '08).
Last year, though, was when New England hit the high-water mark: 56.6 percent of its offensive plays were passes. For comparison's sake, Green Bay and New Orleans, the teams that finished ahead of the Patriots in points per game, passed on 55.9 percent and 59.2 percent of their offensive snaps, respectively.
The steady but unspectacular BenJarvus Green-Ellis averaged just 3.7 yards per carry for the Patriots last year, and second-leading rusher Stevan Ridley, then a rookie, didn't get a chance consistently until late in the season.
This year, Ridley won the starting job out of training camp, and will keep it as long as his fumble against the Broncos remains just a hiccup. Bolden has gained trust quickly, and has produced when on the field.
Throw in some Danny Woodhead, and you have the makings of a very good ground game, with players who can get 4 or 5 yards but also bigger gains; the Patriots have 17 rushes of 10-plus yards to this point. They had just 29 all of last season.
"I think we're doing a good job of changing field position handing the ball off," Brady said. "It's different when you hand it off and gain 4 yards or 6 yards, which is a good run, but it's different when you hand off and you gain 25. You go, 'That was easy, let's do that again.'
"If you can run it and force them to tackle you and force them to get their run fixed and worry about run support and, bam, you play-action pass them, that's what makes good football.
"We just have to continue to do it. It's only been five weeks and we're certainly doing great in the running game but it really means nothing if we don't do it this week."
Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said something similar earlier this week about more offensive balance, noting that balance is good only if it's working, and New England has been able to use it more because it has been in positive situations in regard to the scoreboard.
"The last so many weeks — and really all year — we've been in the game or been ahead in the game and have had the ability to maintain our run-pass balance, if you will," McDaniels said. "We go into each week trying to figure out the best way to play the game . . . and so far I think that being balanced has been part of that formula."
Being able to hand off the ball takes pressure off both Brady and the offensive line, Branch pointed out, but Brady discounted any idea that there's any less pressure for him.
"I don't think there's been pressure off me in a long time," he said, smiling. "I think that's part of the position and probably all NFL quarterbacks feel that.
"But when your number is called, you have to be able to execute. Believe me, it's nice to be able to hand it off and run the ball in. We've been balanced this year on offense. We just have to continue to keep it going."
He is right, of course. The Patriots won't continue to run if they aren't running effectively. But for all of the reasons that it is a positive to do so, here's maybe another one: The last time they finished the season with a run-pass ratio slanted toward the run was in 2004, the last year they won the Super Bowl.Shalise Manza Young can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.


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- Subject: [mg27101] Re: [mg27055] Getting parameters from Fit[]..
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 02:58:27 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Needs["Statistics`LinearRegression`"]; data={{0.055,90},{0.091,97},{0.138,107},{0.167,124},{0.182,142},{0.211, 150},{0.232,172},{0.248,189},{0.284,209},{0.351,253}}; funcs = {1, x, x^2}; bfp=(BestFitParameters /. Regress[data, funcs, x, RegressionReport -> BestFitParameters]); bfp.funcs == Fit[data, funcs, x] True funcs = {1, x^2}; bfp=(BestFitParameters /. Regress[data, funcs, x, RegressionReport -> BestFitParameters]); bfp.funcs == Fit[data, funcs, x] True Bob Hanlon In a message dated 2001/2/3 5:25:07 AM, harderm at ucs.orst.edu writes: >I am doing a linear fit to obtain parameters for use in a larger, >iterative procedure (a separable linear-nonlinear data fitting >algorithm), and I'm trying to use Fit[] to do this. Unfortunately, Fit > >does not return parameters by themselves, just the linear combination of > >my basis functions(which are much more complicated than the usual >examples given in the documentation) weighted by the parameters. I have > >tried various things, like using Regress instead of Fit, but that prints > >out at least a written report of the parameters every time it is >invoked, which will make for a very cluttered output when included in >the larger problem I am trying to solve. I suppose I can find a method > >to isolate just the parts of the output of Fit that contain the >parameters and process them to get the parameters, but that seems >awkward and might introduce numerical errors. I've looked at the >MathGroup archives and found only 1 response to this question in the >past, which was "Sorry, dont know how to do that. why don't you use >Regress?". > Doesn't Mathematica provide any simple method for recovering just >the parameter vector from a linear fit? If it doesn't, perhaps it ought > >to. Alternatively, is there some way to get Regress to provide the >BestFitParameters rules without printing them out? Or, is there some >*simple* and accurate way of getting the parameters from the Fit output > >as is? >


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A few months ago Army Sgt. 1st Class Walter Talens was shooting footage from Afghanistan, but on Sunday he had a prime seat to star watch at The Academy Awards.
Talens was one of dozens of service members from various military branches sprinkled around the show's fan bleachers, where Talens says he hopes to get a glimpse of actress Jennifer Lawrence from his second-row seat. It's a new vantage point for him — he's worked two Oscar shows filming shout outs to troops overseas, but had never sat in the fan bleachers, and neither has his boss, Maj. John Reynolds.
Reynolds , who relocated from a posting in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., a few months before last year's show, says he's hoping for a glimpse of Denzel Washington, Ben Affleck and Lawrence.
"I never thought I would be this close to the red carpet," says Reynolds, who has a front row seat near where the stars enter the Dolby Theatre.
When he moved to LA, he'd been told to expect occasional star sightings at restaurants or on the street, but Sunday's Oscars will feature a parade of top talent.
Talens, who noted the Oscars' long support of the troops, says, "I'm very happy the (motion picture) academy supports the military and allows us to see the glitz and glamour."
— Anthony McCartney — Twitter http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP
EDITOR'S NOTE — Show Bits brings you the 85th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.


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The nation's broadcasters say they can clean up their own house and the government shouldn't butt in. The industry is reacting to Thursday's House vote jacking up the maximum fine for indecency on radio and TV.
The National Association of Broadcasters says it doesn't support the bill as it's written, but that it will take voluntary action to deal with indecency. NAB President Edward Fritts says internal action is "far preferable" to government regulation.
He notes that the industry will hold an indecency summit later this month.
The nation's biggest radio station chain says the legislation may turn out to be a good thing if it gives incentive to broadcasters to adopt voluntary guidelines to follow the law.
Clear Channel Communications says it has already taken those steps. Clear Channel fired popular and raunchy morning host Bubba the Love Sponge, and has suspended the Howard Stern show from its stations.


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The NFL has a friendly message for the conspiracy theorists among us who might have thought they spotted something suspicious in the decision to flex Sunday's Patriots-Dolphins game on CBS — rather than the more compelling Texans-Colts matchup — from 1 p.m. to 4:25.
There's nothing to see here — other than an afternoon of football games organized to have as much relevance on playoff seeding as possible.
Perhaps eyebrows were raised when the Texans-Colts game — featuring the emotional return of Indianapolis coach Chuck Pagano from leukemia treatments, and a contest in which Houston can secure the No. 1 seed in the AFC — was passed over in favor of Patriots-Dolphins.
Tom Brady is always a ratings draw but the Dolphins have nothing to play for and little appeal, so one doesn't have to wander far onto the NFL's version of a grassy knoll to find that conspiracy theory.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft is the chairman of the NFL's broadcast committee. Could it be that he pulled a few strings to make sure the Texans played before the Patriots so his team would have a better sense of what it was playing for before taking the field?
Fun theory . . . but there's nothing to it, according to NFL spokesman Dan Masonson. He said the decision wasn't about prioritizing the Patriots or Texans, and certainly not about giving one of them a small tactical advantage. It was to ensure that the Broncos-Chiefs game, also slated for 4:25 p.m. and not a candidate to be flexed because of its Mountain Time kickoff, matters as much as possible.
"The games are scheduled sequentially to have the most impact on the playoff race/seeding,'' said Masonson via e-mail, noting that Texans-Colts is the national game at 1 p.m. "The Patriots are playing at 4:25 p.m. because that's when the Broncos are playing. [Even if the Texans win], both teams are playing for the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye."
In other words, the league is emphasizing the drama of having three teams scrambling to lock up the two first-round byes over everything else. The Texans and Broncos are both 12-3, while the Patriots are 11-4 but own tiebreakers over both by virtue of beating them head-to-head.
Had the Patriots remained at 1 p.m. and lost to the Dolphins, the Texans and Broncos would be locked in as the top two seeds, with the order dependent on the outcome of their games.
And had the Texans won at 1 p.m. while the Patriots lost at the same time, the Texans would be the No. 1 seed and the Broncos No. 2 no matter what Peyton Manning & Co. did against the Chiefs.
With the Patriots flexed, it is guaranteed that something is at stake beginning at 4:25.
"This way, all three games for the three top seeds have meaning,'' Masonson said.Chad Finn can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at GlobeChadFinn.


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Chocolate Castle is a tricky sliding block puzzle game. The object of each puzzle is to arrange blocks of chocolate into large connected regions so that they can then be consumed by a team of hungry animals. Munch your way through 120 rooms of hand-designed puzzles, or design your own with the built-in editor!
Minimum system requirements:
x86-compatible CPU
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Recent studies show that senior citizens are the fastest growing population of drivers. They fall second behind teens with the highest number of traffic accident fatalities. So when is it time to quit driving?
That's a question many seniors face.
61 year old Stanley Antrobus, is a volunteer for RSVP, which provides transportation for senior citizens who can't get around on their own. Stanley drives seniors to the store and the doctor. A growing number of the elderly,usually considered 70 and older, is choosing not to drive due to age related illness coupled with a decline in physical and mental abilities. Stanley still feels completely confident in his driving abilities, but knows others may not be.
" I always watch the speed. As long as I know I can see, I'll drive," said Antrobus.
In fact, vision is a big problem for senior motorists. Many have trouble seeing traffic signs and lights.
" Many older drivers have cataracts, which increase sensitivity to glare, a particular problem at night. Reflexes tend to slow down," said Dave Willis, a researcher for the Texas Transportation Institute.
Willis also worked for AAA for years. He has found that elderly drivers are more likely to get seriously injured or killed in a collision because they are more fragile. He also says studies show seniors to be more easily distracted, much like young drivers.
" Older drivers also tend to have problems in complex driving situations, at intersections for example," said Willis.
Many seniors may have a hard time accepting when it's their time to rely on others to do the driving for them.
" There are some drivers, for whatever reason, that don't recognize their limitations and continue to drive when they shouldn't be driving," said Willis.
But Stanley says when the time comes for him to stop driving, he'll accept it.
" I hope it never does, but I believe when it does, I'll just stop driving," said Antrobus.
AARP offers the 55 Alive Senior driving course.
For more information call 731- 1231. Triple A offers some useful tips to senior drivers. Visit the featured links section of our website for more information.


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Naperville's police union has taken exception to criticism from a city council member regarding behavior that prompted the recent $430,000 settlement of an excessive force civil suit.
In a statement released late this week, Naperville Fraternal Order of Police President Vince Clark said council member Robert Fieseler's claim that "police have been overreaching" was both "offensive and ironic."
"(Fieseler's comments) are offensive in that the city's own legal department negotiated a settlement ... (in which) the city of Naperville and its police department did not admit any liability," Clark said in the statement.
"However a councilman apparently is doing so in the newspaper. It undermines a settlement the legal department negotiated," Clark wrote. "It's also offensive for a councilman to publicly question the actions of our officers and in our opinion 'armchair quarterback' our officers' decisions on the street."
Fieseler made his comments in a story that ran in Monday's Daily Herald regarding the settlement of a lawsuit brought by a Lemont woman who suffered a torn rotator cuff when she struggled with police while her son was being arrested on drug charges in 2010.
Clark said Friday it was unfair for Fieseler to criticize officers for a "business decision" made by city attorneys.
Fieseler, meanwhile, stood behind his comments Friday and continued to raise questions about the actions of the city's police department.
"For (the union) to write such a letter in such a thuggish way is exactly the behavior I was referring to when I made my original statements," he said.
Fieseler said he has studied excessive force cases in Naperville since 2007 and written several memos to the city staff expressing the need for change.
"The solution is to recognize a pattern -- and maybe I am Monday morning quarterbacking -- that we've got 10 cases in the last seven years that are textbook cases of over-exuberance where people who are not suspects themselves are injured or have their rights violated," Fieseler said.
"I'm convinced more than ever that people like me need to speak out.
"The culture of denial and protectiveness is costing residents, not to mention the reputational effect and impression left with the public when police intervene in a way that sweeps in bystanders who wind up being found not liable for anything."
Clark suggested Fieseler's anger was misguided and should be aimed at the city for settling the suit and costing the police department $435,000 that could have otherwise been used for training related to the incident.
Fieseler, however, quoted Abraham Lincoln to summarize the union's response.
"When the facts are on your side, you pound the facts. When the law is on your side, you pound the law.
"And when you have neither, you pound the table," Fieseler said. "They're doing a lot of table-pounding over at the police department."


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The debate over pit bulls goes on ("Pit bull kills a small dog on Wollaston Beach," June 26).
Yes, there are good dog owners and bad dog owners. And yes, dogs can be a product of their environment. That is true of all dog breeds. But what can't be denied are the facts associated with pit bulls.
According to the ASPCA website – The Truth About Pit Bulls: "Pit bulls were genetically selected for their fighting ability, they have been bred to behave differently during a fight. They may not give warning before becoming aggressive, and they're less likely to back down when clashing with an opponent. When provoked, they may become aggressive more readily than another breed might. Sometimes they don't inhibit their bites, so they may cause injury more often than other dogs."
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association conducted a 20-year study on the most dangerous dog breeds based on the amount of fatalities they have caused. The American Pit Bull Terrier is, no surprise, at number one on the list of deadliest dogs. In this study the pit bull stood far ahead of all the other breeds, with 66 fatalities attributed to it.
The ASPCA website concludes with: "Pit bulls aren't all bad. They're not ferocious beasts to be feared and reviled. Pit bulls aren't all good either. … They require a great deal of exercise, proper training and responsible management."
With their genetic breeding and statistical history of violence, is it worth the risk?
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Rules allowing the shooting of birds at San Jose's airport are getting revised.
Birds pose a deadly danger to aircraft that strike them or ingest them into jet intakes.
The San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/V5Ztg0) says the current ordinance only allows police officers and military officers to fire weapons at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.
Mostly blanks are used.
This week's ordinance modification proposal will allow airport staff and contracted biologists to shoot at birds to clear them from the airfield. They will also get permission to load birdshot if the blanks don't scare them away.
San Francisco and Oakland airports already allow staff and biologists to shoot at the birds.
Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com
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Hi all
All I wanted to do is this:
I have a jpg on a site. When I click that jpg I want it to change to a different jpg for 1 second while playing a quick soundbite.
After the click I want everything to turn back to normal ie. jpg 1.
SO in theory I should be able to click the image as many times as i want and the image would change for a second while playing a sound and return back to normal.
This should be really easy right?


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One Paid Girl: That Kat Denning seems like a cool lady. [GQ]
Nailing It Down: A how-to post giving you the tools you need to build your own dinner table by the time Thanksgiving rolls around. Not too shabby. [Art of Manliness]
It's 6:30 Somewhere: A thoughtful, well-reasoned case for drinking on the job. You'll want to forward this to your boss. [KegWorks]
Gentlemen of the Cloth: Thom Sweeney makes a hell of a suit. Learn the name, gentlemen. [Clothes Before Hoes]


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Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."
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UPDATED: Power outages, road closures and school delays reported in the region
Heavy rain and wind has caused numerous power outages, downed trees and school delays this morning.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning until 9 a.m. Wind gusts could reach up to 60 mph.
Connecticut Light & Power is reporting that 61,880 customers statewide are in the dark. The utility company is reporting that 271 customers in East Lyme, 408 customers in Salem, 641 in North Stonington and 102 customers in Waterford are without power.
Montville was hardest hit by the storm. CL&P is reporting that 39 percent of the town or 3,154 customers are in the dark. At one point, 52 percent of the town was without electricity.
The outages in Montville has closed school for the day. Salem is on a two-hour delay.
Montville is also reporting numerous road closures because of downed trees and wires. A portion of Route 163 is closed. Chapel Hill Road in the area of Florida Drive and New York Road is closed. Old Colchester Road in the area of Black Ash and Adamo roads as well as Simpson Lane in the area of Pires Drive are closed.
Waterford police is reporting that Vauxhall Street between Hickory Lane and Fairlawn Street is closed.
About 200 Norwich Public Utilities customers lost power during the height of the overnight wind and rain storm, but most were restored quickly, a utility spokesman said this morning.
As of 10 a.m., only 27 customers remained without power, including 14 on Barbers Road, a rural road in the northern section of Norwich near the Sprague border.
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Botany Bay is actually quite a nice place now. The people we really don't like get sent to Woomera, Christmas Island and Naru.
With the number of DJs here, I would not expect all of them to even know of this rule or for the ARIA to suddenly take all "offenders" to court. Don't feed the hands that bite you!
You either:
1. Buy (and subsequently own) the music on the physical media. Then you are legally allowed to do whatever you want with it, including selling.
2. Buy a license to listen to the music. Then you can media-shift all you want, as you are licensing the music. You never have to rebuy it either, if your disk breaks, just download the music, you already have a license.
This thievery has to stop. It is insane.
Imagine a world where the people weren't such meek sheep.
2. Buy a license to listen to the music. Then you can media-shift all you want, as you are licensing the music. You never have to rebuy it either, if your disk breaks, just download the music, you already have a license.
Says who? If you have a license, you're bound by whatever the license stipulates. Since you don't own anything, you don't have any ownsership rights like first sale or fair use or anything like that. You're thinking of one possible license which grants you everything you want, but there's no more reason a media-bound content license should be any more invalid than a computer-bound OEM software license. Licensing does away with pretty much all the pesky problems of selling anything, because you can agree to
In 2006, the government passed a law making format shift legal. In particular, it would be legal to copy from a CD to an iPod.
It turns out this is only for "private, domestic use", which wouldn't apply to DJs on commercial premises.
Format shifting fact sheet [copyright.org.au]
From the fact sheet:
Heh! Can't even distribute it to your family members...
I can see the 'A' slowly shifting... ARIA becomes RIAA. Give it six months and the malicious law suits will begin...
Since the venues are already paying a licensing fee for public performance, maybe DJs should 'sell' their music (in all its formats) to the venue for the duration of the gig. I know it doesn't get around the 'private use' element of the act, but I'm sure there will be some creative workarounds.
My wife and I had vaguely looked into relocating to Australia, as it seemed to embody a lot of what the US was once proud to stand for. From all the news we've been hearing from there, though, it seems like they're following the bad example we're setting. Am I misreading things, or is Australia really rushing to become another nanny state of infinite laws?
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November 18, 2013
Free Concert Lineup: Rock Collegium, Student Composers & more
When we in the music department say "Everybody performs," we aren't kidding. Concert season includes performances in fabulous venues like the Green Music Center, Weill Hall, and Warren Auditorium.
Coming soon...
Reflections from the Studio
Instrumental Repertory Recital - 11/20, 1 PM Weill Hall
A juried performance of chamber music; featured works to include Dvorak's A Major piano quintet; Juon's Four Miniatures; Turina's Scene Andalouse & Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor.
From Apocalyptica to Zappa
Rock Collegium - 11/21, 7:30 PM Warren Auditorium
Rock Collegium returns with more brand-new compositions in various Rock styles, plus playing covers of old – and not-so-old – favorites by Yes, Zappa, Apocalyptica and more.
Compose Yourself
Student Composers Concert - 11/23, 7:30 PM GMC 1028
Showcasing the talents of our music composition students, performing their original works – with a little help from their friends.
Turn up the Volume
Jazz Ensembles & Rock Collegium - 11/25, 7:30 PM Weill Hall
Right before your ears you will witness the evolution of styles from modern jazz through fusion to art rock on this eclectic concert. Performances By SSU's Bebop ensemble, Funk/Fusion ensemble & Rock Collegium.
What I Did For Love
Music Theatre Scenes Workshop
12/5, 7:30 PM Warren Auditorium
12/7, 2 PM, Warren Auditorium
Music theatre fans will love this student-created cabaret that riffs on the timeless themes of Love and Life. Two shows for your enjoyment.
Evert B. Person Theatre
A 475-seat proscenium theatre, Person Theatre is adjacent to Ives Hall in the southeastern area of campus. From the South entrance on East Cotati Avenue, turn right at the stop sign in front of the information kiosk. Park in Lots E (left) and F (right).
Donald and Maureen Green Music Center (GMC)
Located at the north entrance to campus, off Rohnert Park Expressway and just west of Petaluma Hill Road. Parking is available in Lots O and L. The GMC complex includes:
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall
Music Education Hall
Hospitality Center and "Prelude" Restaurant
Schroeder's Recital Hall (opening in 2014)
GMC 1027, 1028 and 1029 in Music Education Hall
From the North entrance at Rohnert Park Expressway, proceed past Weill Hall. Park in Lot L (on the right). Enter the building through the glass doorway at the top of the steps.
Warren Auditorium
A 200-seat proscenium auditorium, Warren Auditorium is located on the second floor of Ives Hall in the southeastern area of campus. From the South entrance on East Cotati Avenue, turn right at the stop sign in front of the information kiosk. Park in Lots E (left) and F (right).
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Would the Queen be the one to make the decision on final disposition of the remains? Although not a descendant, I imagine she is arguably the closest living relative.
Quote from: BarensMom on November 07, 2012, 12:40:35 PMWould the Queen be the one to make the decision on final disposition of the remains? Although not a descendant, I imagine she is arguably the closest living relative. Could be awkward- she's descended from the guy who won the battle where he was killed....
About the princes, my best guess is that they've been exhumed and examined so many times that there probably isn't much left. So it would be pointless to re-exhume them yet again.
My dad made me laugh actually, when the story came out that whoever had drunkenly decided to dig him up and lob his bones in the river got the wrong church. As he said, "Yep sounds like Leicester!".
I'd also wondered if they will inter him in Westminster.
Philippa Langley, of the Richard III Society, who played a key role in the dig, said a private secretary to the Queen had confirmed the Palace was not interested in claiming the king and would rather see him buried in Leicester.Ms Langley said: "We've been in touch with the Palace and they've said that they don't want Richard for Westminster Abbey or Windsor Castle."Not because they don't want him, but they believe because he died in Leicester and was buried in Leicester for 500 years, he should stay in Leicester."So, Westminster and Windsor Castle are definitely out."She said there was strong evidence that Richard had wanted to be buried at York Minister.She said: "I will say, though, that it is best archaeological practice to re-inter as close to the site of discovery as possible and the site is in the shadow of Leicester Cathedral."I would say there is a very high chance it will be Leicester Cathedral."The palace have said they believe it should be Leicester Cathedral." - Leicester Mercury, 14/09/12
we even have the 'King Richard III Infant School' just up the road from me
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I got a post card in the mail from a local merchant I'd never heard of before, Tails of Santa Monica, inviting all postcard recipients to come to Yappy Hour every Thursday from 6pm til 8pm. I live up the hill from Main Street in Santa Monica. Main Street, a few blocks from the beach and surrounded by neighborhoods of modest rent controlled apartments, is a very trendy area, a city street where people walk and go to trendy restaurants and shop at trendy stores, and there is a trendy pet store there which i didn't know about, i think it must be new. So tonight we went to Yappy Hour. It was quite fun. We went inside a gate to a small court yard, and the shop opened into the courtyard behind it, and there were dogs running around with their leashes off, like a dog park only it was a small compact contained area. It was quite funny to watch all the dog antics and Zack was in heaven with all those dogs to play with. I was proud of him, everyone in dog land seems to appreciate the cavalier, everyone knows about the breed, "Oh, is that a cavalier? My friend has one," and i was so proud of Zack when twice, from a far distance, while he was in the middle of dog play, i called him and he came running to me! I really didn't expect him to, i didn't think he'd stop playing or pay any attention to me. After all, when i call him to come to me at home from only a few feet away, he usually just stares at me, but at Yappy Hour, he came running just like Rin Tin Tin, and people were impressed, they oohed and ahhed.
I am looking forward to going to Yappy Hour next week. Normally I can't go to Yappy Hour because I work on Thursday nights, but we are on a 3 week break right now. It was fun looking at the expensive boutique doggie stuff at the store, cute squeaky toys, gourmet treats that look just like human pastries, and i was admiring a $65 halter/leash combination in camouflage, Zack tried it on. i controlled myself and didn't buy it, to the obvious disappointment of the proprietor. I signed Zack up for a puppy class they are having on Sunday. maybe i'll get him an overpriced squeaky toy when he graduates, just to say thank you to the proprietors for the nice time.


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Yeah - you've got a point. From my end, I used to work at ATT back in the evil early 80s, and it was one of the most corrupt and arrogant places I was ever involved with. And they were always the people bringing a knife to a gun fight - fighting this year's war with last year's technology and last decade's strategy. Clusterfuck central. There are ways to deal with all of this, but ATT lacks the creativity, and Google is too opportunistic to work any of it out. Sigh. Trainwreck on the count of three... 1... 2...
So far the telcos have bought enough legislation to the point where they have almost reunited into Ma Bell. This isn't last decade's strategy; litigating your way to corporate success is as old as the corporation (lawyers have been around far longer.)
Pretty sure AT&T has been all up in its Machiavelli for long enough to know what it's doing. This is a potentially transformative time, though; it will be interesting to see what the consumer demands. It is very often not precisely what the PowersThatBe wan
I quite agree.
Just for a second, suppose AT&T have got a point. That still wouldn't turn Net Neutrality a bad idea.
This is just a corporate level ad-hominem attack: Google are hypocrites, therefore they are Wrong, and their ideas are all Bad.
I reckon AT&T must be getting desperate if they're scraping this far down into the bottom of the barrel.
The lack of neutrality on the phone network exists because AT&T (along with the other Regional Bell Operating Companies, aka "ex-AT&T's" aka "Incumbent Local Exchange Comapnies") lobbied for it and they did so out of a belief that *they* owned the most valuable phone network resource (lots of subscribers) and could use the lack of peering to block competitors from entering the market (even though that was THE reason the courts caused the RBOCs to be created) by charging the competitors (CLECs) huge fees to access AT&T's customers which the CLECs would, in turn, have to pass on to their customers. Who'd buy phone service from Vonage if they had to charge you 15 times as much as AT&T or Verizon just so that Vonage customers could sometimes dial AT&T or Verizon customers?
Now the "incumbent" ISPs are making the same mistake in believing that *they* control the most valuable Internet resource (again, lots of subscribers) and want the right to charge connection fees. So what if somebody repeats what happened in the phone network world and starts up a small (restricted customer set) top-tier ISP and promises to give Google or Youtube absolutely free Internet service with the expectation that the ISP will recoup that cost (and much more) by charging the "incumbent" ISPs huge fees to connect people with Google's servers? Cha-Ching!
You'd think these people would learn from their mistakes...
You don't even have to suppose that AT&T has a good point. They don't.
Doesn't matter whether they do or they don't. Their argument is bogus either way. Why bother evaluating terms beyond those necessary?
The services question are 1-900-xxx-xxxx numbers here, and charge outrageous fees. The problem is that in some rural areas, apparently, the small teclos charge the long distance carriers (the phone network backbone) significantly more to connect each call then the connection would normally be worth. The per connection fee is charged to the long distance carrier regardless of what type of number is dialed.
These small telcos then agree to share revenue from connection costs with those 900 number services, in
This doesn't have anything to do with 900 numbers, it has to do with toll calls to rural telephone carriers. They are allowed to set arbitrary rates that AT&T and other LD carriers must/should pay. To entice calls they offer free conference call systems or other services that cause people in other areas to call these toll numbers.
All of this is based on a crazy fee structure created by the big telecoms in an effort to drive out smaller competition. There has been a multi-decade war of defining fee structures that look fairish but are anything but that in practice followed by some provider finding a loophole and raking in a fortune. That, in turn, causes the large providers to demand a re-structuring all while pretending the last one wasn't their idea. Lather, rinse, repeat endlessly.
All of this is exactly the sort of double dipping they want to implement for the internet and it's 100% anti-neutrality.
Fundamentally, cross charging other carriers is bogus since each already got paid a fair fee by their own customer to provide the service. That is, I have a phone and I pay a monthly fee for it. That fee is in part for the service of accepting incoming calls for me and connecting them. I have already paid the call 'termination fee'. If my provider refuses to connect a call for me to my paid for phone line (presumably if another carrier originating the call refuses to pay termination fees), they are ripping ME off by not providing what I paid for.
So, actually, Google is pressing for proper neutrality in the VoIP world by refusing to participate in an anti-neutrality scheme that was in-part created by AT&T.
I see no problem.
Google is just protecting itself from unscrupulous end-line telcos.
exactly, and by doing these blocks, it encourages the unscrupulous end-line telcos to go out of business, or change their ways, that benefit both Google and AT&T and others.
It sounds like AT&T are just idiots here...
One major difference between what Google's doing and what AT&;T would like to do: AT&T wants to block/limit something the user wants to do and that they are doing deliberately, when the blocking benefits AT&T and negatively affects the user. Google is blocking something the user doesn't know (before they get the bill, at least) would happen and didn't ask for, and the blocking benefits the user (by keeping them from being unwittingly charged a large sum of money) and not Google. The whole reason those rural numbers are used, after all, is specifically because they can charge high rates without it being apparent from the number that the charges are going to be any higher than normal. They're used to deceive callers into thinking the call's a regular one and not one that'll be charged at a premium rate. Blocking that deception is, IMO, just ever so slightly different from keeping a user from using a service they want to use.
The user doesn't get charged at all, just the phone company. The rural phone companies are exploiting a sideways subsidy meant to allow them to charge more for connections to rural homes by redirecting calls to large call centres through their networks. It's a shell game.
Unfortunately, you're a bit incorrect about this. If you look around at these other posts, the issue is that even tho you dial any XXX-XXX-XXXX number in the US like it's local, AT&T and Google still both pay long-distance fees in the case of these rural lines. AT&T isn't allowed by federal rules to block these gouging calls, but since Google Voice is an overlay network basically they can. AT&T is just mad because they can't block the calls too.
As was said by someone else on this post, if net neutrality existed on phone networks, this wouldn't be an issue.
As was said by someone else on this post, if net neutrality existed on phone networks, this wouldn't be an issue.
True, but if we want net neutrality on phones then probably a good first step would be getting rid of all the crazy pricing schemes that exist. Frankly, these kinds of scams aren't fair to ANYBODY.
Look, I'm fine with a system that lets some farmer have a phone without having to pay $500 per month, but there has to be a better way. Net Neutrality doesn't mean charging people using pricing games
If Google's charging for this service, and thus passing these costs on to the customer, it's a bit like anti-phishing -- there should be a warning, but it shouldn't be blocked entirely. And it should be possible to turn the warning off.
That's the difference, and that's a possible valid point AT&T might have.
Except I think Google Voice is a free service, which means Google would essentially be swallowing these fees. What they're doing here is more akin to a backbone ISP refusing to peer with another, and
I'm not really your target audience here, but if you are trying to persuade the crowd that would be influenced by appeals to the "american dream", you might want to modify your spelling of "centre". They're pretty big on the "English-only" thing, and they have an odd definition of "English".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences [wikipedia.org]
Spend a little time looking through the list, and you'll see the whole thing is such a big clusterfuck that neither variant can claim to be more "true" English than the other can.
you can complain about telco's but Google's way of doing things for the last few years has been to take other companies' data and make money off it while giving nothing back.
Google bid on the 700MHz auction a few years ago and either lost or purposefully underbid to saddle VZW other ATT wtih debt while planning to ride on their network. if Google wants to be a telecom they should have won the auction or did like Boost Mobile and MetroPCS and start up a cell phone service by buying other frequencies.
Even Von
Google bid on the 700MHz auction a few years ago and either lost or purposefully underbid
I'm not sure if you understand how an auction works but there's no such thing as 'underbidding'. You bid what you want to pay, and if someone else wants to pay more they bid more. Your lack of auction savvy makes me wonder why you aren't condemning the other parties at the auction for purposefully inflating the price instead!
Ugh, number portability. What a huge goddamn mess.
For the unwashed masses:
Your NPA-NXX is owned by the Local exchange carrier, When number portability came out, they basically said, "oh, well now we need twice as many numbers" One number is the REAL NPA-NXX (which is no longer your true phone number, and the other is the dialable number. So your phone number may be 123-555-1234, but the carrier's number may really be 321-555-8765. In a sense, each "phone number" is now really two. the one you dial, and the
Hmm, I just realized. IIRC AT&T (like most phone companies) offers a premium-rate-call blocking service themselves. One that you have to pay for, if they're like the others I'm familiar with. Google's blocking makes it unnecessary to pay for AT&T's blocking. I suspect that's why AT&T's upset.
This is yet another instance where the conflation of infrastructure with service muddies the picture.
Netneutrality should really be about neutrality in the network (ie the infrastructure/series of tubes) service providers USE the series of tubs and ought to be able to come up with whatever usage scheme they want as long as people will buy it.
Instead, in the US, at least, the service provider owns the infrastructure as well and we end up in obtuse arguments like this one complaining that a network USER is in
service providers USE the series of tubs
Does that mean the internet is actually a series of tubgirls?
If phone companies were to use peering, like ISPs do, then this would be a neutrality issue. Since there's no peering, and this is a simple matter of avoiding exorbitant costs, there's no neutrality issue.
Actually, it is. They don't do peering because that would keep them from killing small players with exorbitant termination fees. They're trying to bring the same corrupt model to the internet.
It's "flouting," not "flaunting."
What the hell is AT&T smoking? Net Neutrality has nothing to do with phone service at the phone network level. Net Neutrality is all about internet network packet delivery and it is basically an Internet Service Provider issue, not about phone service. Last time I checked Google isn't an ISP (to third parties) while AT&T is for a large chunk of this country and as a major packet routing network (aka backbone provider) between various ISPs. AT&T trying its best to spread FUD as usual as it did in order to get laws passed to ban Municipal ISPs.
Because AT&T wouldn't be trying to confuse the issue, would they?
Here's a little head's up. Six Republican Senators (at least) are co-sponsoring a bill that would prohibit the FCC from implementing it's newly announced Net Neutrality policy. One of those Senators is Jim DeMint, out of South Carolina.
How much has AT&T put into DeMint's 2010 re-election campaign so far? Why... over $63,000 (in individual donations and PAC contributions). AT&T is, in fact, the second-highest donater of funds to DeM
I'm disappointed guys!
We should mandate that all phone companies allow free and unrestricted access to their networks from all comers over the internet. Phone service isn't anything special, it's just data. There's absolutely no legitimate reason anyone should pay a dime for it if they want to run it over their internet connection.
I used to get a daily call from AT&T pushing their Uverse, DSL, etc. Even though I told them no, they would call back the next day. So my only course was to forward my land line to my Google Voice phone number to block them. Soon after that I received a postcard asking if I was having problem with my land line.
A few days ago, The Iowa Department of Commerce Utilities Board put a stop to traffic pumping in Iowa. [iowa.gov] It seems that a number of small telcos like "The Farmers and Merchants Mutual Telephone Company of Wayland, Iowa" were overcharging long distance carriers for "terminating" large numbers of long distance calls that were actually shipped elsewhere. (Unlike the Internet, there is inter-company billing within the telephone system.) This service was used mostly for conference bridges and dial-a-porn. Sprint, which offers flat-rate long distance service within the US, was losing money on calls to those numbers. So Sprint blocked them and filed a complaint with the Iowa authorities.
Iowa ruled this week that the telcos were overcharging, had to stop it, and had to give the money back. Sprint also had to stop blocking, which won't be a problem once the rates come down.
The FCC is working on this problem nationally, but the worst offenders just got shut down.
'By openly flaunting the call-blocking prohibition that applies to its competitors, Google is acting in a manner inconsistent with the spirit, if not the letter, of the FCC's fourth principle contained in its Internet Policy Statement,' Robert Quinn, AT&T's senior vice president focusing on federal regulation,
The word is "flout", which means [wiktionary.org]
1. To express contempt for the rules by word or action.
2. To scorn.
"They flouted the conventions and were asked to leave."
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Web.com Tour rookie Dae-Hyun Kim carded a 2-under 68 in breezy conditions Friday and grabbed a 2-stroke lead after two rounds of the Panama Claro Championship.
Kim ended 36 holes at 7-under-par 133. He is making his first tour start.
Former PGA Tour player Len Mattiace fired a 5-under 65 to jump into a share of second place with Kevin Foley, who shot 69 on Friday. They stand at minus-5.
Mark Anderson, who shared the first-round lead with Andrew Loupe, stumbled to a 2-over 72 and slid into a tie for fourth at 4-under-par 136. He was joined there by 2008 winner Scott Dunlap (66), Gavin Coles (67), Roland Thatcher (69), Vaughn Taylor (69), Peter Tomasulo (71), Aron Price (66) and Billy Hurley III (68).
Loupe struggled to a 4-over 74 and dropped into a share of 20th at 2-under-par 138 at Club de Golf de Panama.
Kim, who qualified for the 2011 U.S. Open, but missed the cut, started on the back nine and dropped a shot at his opening hole. He got that stroke back with a birdie on the 14th, but tripped to another bogey at the 16th.
The Korean traded a birdie at 18 for a bogey at the first. Kim was 1-over par for his round, but poured in three straight birdies from the second to grab the lead at minus-7. He parred his final five holes to end there.
"One of my goals is to get to the PGA Tour. I also want to gain some experience playing more golf courses in the United States," Kim said through an interpreter. "I haven't played many times in the U.S."
Mattiace also started on No. 10 and had two birdies and a bogey on his opening nine. He faltered to another bogey on the second, but flew up the leaderboard from there.
The 45-year-old, who won twice on the PGA Tour, wrapped birdies at three and five around an eagle at the par-5 fourth. He also birdied the eighth to get within two of the lead.
Foley had a birdie and a bogey on his first nine, the back nine. He birdied the first and fourth to move to 6-under, but tripped to a bogey on No. 9, his final hole, to end two back.
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When protecting property goes too far in homes
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Two high-profile cases are testing the lines when it comes to defending one's home.
A Montana man is accused of setting a trap and blindly blasting a shotgun into his garage, killing a 17-year-old German exchange student. A Minnesota man is convicted of lying in wait in his basement for two teenagers and killing them during a break-in.
Both are being tried for murder due to the extreme measures they went to while defending their homes — and we think prosecutors have made the right call by taking both cases to the jury.
We strongly believe in citizens' right to protect themselves and their property using the appropriate force necessary — but there are lines.
The Montana case involves a man who blindly blasted a shotgun into his garage, killing an exchange student. Markus Kaarma, 29, who said he had been burgled twice, left a purse in his garage as a carrot to a prospective intruder. He allegedly told his hairdresser he stayed up three days waiting to spring the trap and now Diren Dede, 17 of Hamburg, Germany, is dead. It is not known why Dede was in the garage as he was shot without warning.
The Minnesota case is gruesome. Byron Smith, 65, was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of Nick Brady, 17, and Haile Kifer, 18, when the two broke into his home in 2012 looking for prescription drugs. Audio recording detailed a disturbing scene.
Smith moved his vehicle to make it appear he wasn't home and waited in the basement with supplies and weaponry in what was described as a "deer stand." According to prosecution, Smith shot Brady three times then put the body in a tarp and moved it into a different room. Kifer, looking for her partner in the break in, came down to the stairs and was shot six times, including what Smith himself described as a "finishing shot." Police were not called until the day after the shootings.
Smith was afraid. His home and safety was violated. However, as Smith's situation progressed, it became harder and harder to defend his actions as reasonable self-defense. We think the jury made the right call.
Again, we do support private citizens' right to defend of their homes and property, but these cases go too far.
If you feel the need to buy a firearm for that purpose, by all means exercise that right.
But please hope and pray it never comes to that point. The weight of a taking a life is a burden no one should have to bear.


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Happy 10th anniversary to Burger Joint, the hidden-but-not-so-secret no-frills burger joint known for making one of the city's best burgers...and for being located behind a red curtain in the lobby of Le Parker Meridian. Although many other great burgers have popped up in NYC over the last decade, no one else can offer the odd juxtaposition of fancy-pants hotel and Burger Joint's decor: "'70s rec room-style diner," in the words of Adam Kuban.
To celebrate the big 1-0, Burger Joint is offering everything for 2002 prices all day: $4 hamburgers (instead of $6.89), $4.50 cheeseburgers (instead of $7.35), $1.25 fries (instead of $3.67), and more. Sorry for not getting the word out sooner, but they're open until 11:30 p.m., so you have about eight and a half hours to get there (and probably wait in a long line).
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