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"Dynamic Navigation" or "In-Context Navigation" is one of my favorite features of the Adobe Community Help Client.
The Dynamic Navigation feature of the Community Help Client displays related topics based on the context of your search results.
For example, when you're reading through a particular topic in the CFML Reference, you can quickly jump to related topics in the Developer Guide or on the web without doing a new search.
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In the Community Help Client, select ColdFusion 9 as the product.
Ensure that Community Help is selected as the search option.
Enter the search term "cfmap", and press Enter.
- Select the first search result pointing to the CFML Reference.
You will see a Related Content tab appear at the bottom left corner of the CHC offering you links like these:
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State appeared to be in
cruise control for much of the game Thursday night at Tennessee
Tech, owning leads as large as 15 points. However, the Tigers
needed some timely free throw shooting in the final two minutes to
break a late tie and escape Eblen Center with a 77-74 Ohio Valley
Conference victory as the Golden Eagles missed their tying try at
the buzzer.
The Golden Eagles stormed back with a 15-0 run, including eight points by freshman Kevin Murphy, over the final six minutes, to jolt the crowd and make it a two-minute contest.
Tennessee State regained the lead on a layup by Jarrell Houston and then made 8-for-14 at the free throw line to cling to the victory. A 3-pointer by Frank Davis with 8.5 seconds to go cut it to a 76-74 TSU lead.
After Wil Peters made one free throw for a 77-74 lead, Tech rebounded the second and got one final chance but Zach Bailey's 3-point try from the right corner was off the mark.
With the victory, the Tigers (9-17/7-9 OVC) clinched a spot in the OVC Tournament and no worse than the No.7 seed.
The Golden Eagles, meanwhile, have put all of their eggs in one basket, so to speak. After their non-conference game Saturday at Ball State, Tech (11-16/5-12 OVC) will wrap up the regular season next Saturday with a game at Jacksonville State.
Tech and JSU (11-16/5-12 OVC) will go head-to-head for the No. 8 seed and final spot in the tournament. The winner gets to play another day, while the loser's season will be finished.
After the first 20 minutes of battling, Tennessee State held a five-point lead at halftime, 36-31. The Tigers took the lead early after back-and-forth scoring through the first five minutes. Jarrell Houston converted a three-point play with 15:05 to go to lift TSU ahead by a 9-8 score, keying a 10-0 run that ended with the visitors on top, 17-8. Houston scored seven of the points in the run.
That nine-point lead grew to as much as 15 points, when Gershom Jorgan made a jumper with 8:55 remaining for a 30-15 TSU lead.
Frank Davis hit a 3-pointer and Tech scored the next seven points to pull the margin back down into single digits, 30-22, with 5:51 to play. TSU went back up by nine on a layup by Wil Peters, before Tech closed with a 5-1 run into halftime.
Tennessee State seemed to control the game through most of the second half, taking its lead from four (40-36) back into double digits. The Tigers marched to their largest lead of the night at 15 points, 67-52, with 6:32 remaining when Darius Cox put together a three-point play.
But the Golden Eagles caught fire, piecing together their 15-0 run to tie the game at 67-67 for the final two minutes of action.
Gerald Robinson was the top scorer for TSU with 19 points, in addition to four assists and three steals. Houston finished with 17 points and six rebounds while Darius Cox recorded a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Lonnie Funderburke contributed six points and eight rebounds, helping TSU to a 42-35 edge on the glass.
Murphy topped Tech with 19 points,, while Frank Davis finished with 17 points and three steals. Daniel Northern also scored in double figures with 12, and led Tech with five rebounds.
The Golden Eagles take a break from conference play Saturday with a visit to Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., for a 1 p.m. CST ESPN Bracket Buster game against the Cardinals.

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OggPlay is a library designed to allow drop-in playback of Xiph.Org media in an application. OggPlay handles demuxing and decoding, generates timestamps for raw data, maintains synchronisation across multiple streams, and provides a lock-free buffer implementation for easy multithreading.
OggPlay is a work in progress: the first release should be availably by mid-2007.
OggPlay is currently hosted by Annodex, although there are plans to move hosting over to the Xiph.Org servers. SVN access is available through http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/trunk.
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The Win32 version of the plugin has been developed and tested on Win200x/XP platforms.
For detailed instructions how to setup Mozilla plugin development environment and start hacking on Win32 version of OggPlay Mozilla Firefox plugin go to: Win32 Development Envrionment Setup. The same link provides links to the plugin binaries and instructions how to install and test Oggplay Mozilla plugin.
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Guidance sheet on 'How can aid be gender responsive in the context of the new aid modalities? Lessons from gender responsive budgeting initiatives'
The principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PD) (2005) demonstrate a global commitment to reform aid management modalities, and improve the quality of aid so that it contributes to the achievement of collectively agreed development goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this context, gender equality advocates, human rights activists, and environmental groups have demanded increased action to ensure that aid reform translates into rights-based, sustainable, and equitable development.
To compliment these efforts, UNIFEM conducted research in ten countries examining the experiences of using gender responsive budgeting (GRB) tools and strategies in the context of GBS and SWAPs. This research was carried out as part of an EC-supported programme 'Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda'.
The country assessments aimed to develop a deeper understanding of aid management processes focusing specifically on the EC's and selected donor practices. The assessments examined lessons learnt from the engagement of GRB initiatives in national planning and budgeting processes, and how these efforts contributed to the promotion of gender equality.
This brief is one of the five knowledge briefs produced by UNIFEM in 2010 under the EC/UNIFEM programme 'Integrating Gender Responsive Budgeting into the Aid Effectiveness Agenda'. The briefs are available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.Download
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UN Women office involved in publication: UN Women Headquarters
Publication year: 2010
Publishing entities: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)


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Sergio Agüero is hoping to return to training with Manchester City next week, which could see him back in time for the Capital One Cup final.
The Argentina striker, who has scored 26 goals in 25 appearances for City this season, has been sidelined since the end of January with a hamstring injury.
"Feeling very good about my last week of recovery work," Agüero tweeted. "If I keep it up next week I'll train with the team!"
That would suggest Saturday's Premier League meeting with Stoke is too soon, but Agüero could be fit in time to face Sunderland at Wembley on 2 March.


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• The Schedule
NCAA Tournament Second Round
Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 - 5 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara (14-6-1) vs. Providence (11-7-1)
at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium
Series Record: First Meeting
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• It's Tourney Time
No. 15 seed UC Santa Barbara will open 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship play this Sunday with a Second Round game against Providence. The Gauchos will host the match at 5 p.m. at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium.
• Tune In Or Watch Live
All of UCSB's postseason contests will also be broadcast on AM 1290 KZSB, the Santa Barbara News-Press Radio Station. Gerry Fall will be calling the play-by-play while Mark Patton will cover the color commentary. Fans can listen online and also watch a live stream of the match here.
• Get Your Tickets!
Tickets for Sunday's match are now on sale. Call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, or click here to buy now. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for youth, high school and college students.
Students that have purchased Loco Passes can pick up their tickets in the Ticket Office anytime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you are interested in becoming a Loco Pass member, click here or sign up at any of this week's home basketball games: men's basketball vs. Westmont (Friday) and women's basketball vs. Loyola Marymount (Saturday).
• For The Record
The Gauchos enter Sunday's match with a 14-6-1 overall record. UCSB finished second in the Big West Conference standings (6-4) and in the league's tournament. The Gauchos fell to UC Irvine in the Big West final last Saturday, 3-2, in double overtime.
• Super Streak
This marks the Gauchos' 10th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Only 16 programs – including UCSB – have ever put together a string of 10 or more tournament appearances. Currently, UCSB is one of six teams amidst an active streak of 10 or more appearances along with Connecticut (14), Indiana (25), Maryland (11), UCLA (28) and Virginia (30).
• Home Sweet Harder
In each of the Gauchos' previous nine NCAA appearances, they have hosted their first game. UCSB is 10-1 in tournament games at Harder Stadium with its lone loss coming in a 2008 Second Round game against Cal, 3-2, in double overtime. The match also marks the only time that UCSB has lost its first tournament game. This season, the Gauchos have posted a 9-2-1 mark on Meredith Field.
• Offensive Behavior
If the Gauchos have shown one thing this season, it's that they can flat out score. UCSB ranks fourth in the nation in total goals (47) and fifth in goals per game (2.24). In the UCSB record book, this year's squad ranks sixth in goals in a season and goals per match average.
• Seven Gauchos Earn All-Big West Distinction
On Monday, the Big West Conference doled out its year-end awards. Senior Luis Silva was named the Big West Midfielder of the Year and senior James Kiffe earned Big West Defender of the Year honors. Silva and Kiffe were joined on the All-Big West First Team by junior forward Sam Garza and senior defender Tim Pontius. Sophomore defender Peter Schmetz, junior midfielder Josue Madueno and sophomore forward Dom Sarle each earned Honorable Mention accolades.
• Hi Ho Silva
Luis Silva will go down as one of the best players in UCSB history. The senior currently ranks fourth in the nation in total points (41), sixth in goals (16), eighth in points per game (2.05), 12th in goals per game (0.8) and assists (9), and 17th in assists per game (0.45). The Los Angeles, Calif. native is busy cementing his place in the UCSB record books. He ranks third in career matches (86) and points in a season, fourth in career points (76), fifth in goals in a season (16), sixth in career shots (192) and career assists (21), seventh in career goals (27), and tenth in shots in a season (73). Silva has had at least one point in 13 of the Gauchos' games this year and has had a goal or an assist in nine of the last 11 contests. He has scored in five of the last six contests.
• Don't Mess With Texas
Highland Village, Texas native Sam Garza is second on the team with 20 points and tied second with David Opoku in goals (8). The junior forward has tallied a goal or an assist in eight of the last 10 contests. Garza leads the Gauchos with his 77 shots, which ties his total from the 2010 campaign. He ranks ninth in the UCSB record book with 154 career shots.
• Getting Dom-inated
Sophomore transfer Dom Sarle has been an incredible addition to the Gaucho offense this season. He is second on the team in assists with eight and is fourth on the squad with 14 total points. Sarle scored his third goal of the season in the Big West Tournament Championship last week against UC Irvine. Sarle currently ranks 17th nationally in total assists.
• Tale Of Two Halves
UCSB has allowed 29 goals this season and 21 of those have been in the second half. The Gauchos have allowed just seven first half goals. As for its output, UCSB is almost evenly split with 20 goals in the first half and 23 scored in the second.
• Pulse On The Polls
Three of the national polls – Top Drawer Soccer, NSCAA and Soccer Times – currently have the Gauchos ranked as lucky No. 13. Soccer America and College Soccer News, meanwhile, both have UCSB tabbed as the No. 14 team in the nation.
• Gauchos Know Goals
UCSB has a streak of five-straight NCAA Tournament games in which they have scored just one goal. The 2011 Gauchos, however, really haven't been a one-goal team. UCSB has had 16 multiple goal games this season, which means that they have been limited to one or no goals on just five occasions. The last time the Gauchos were held to one goal was on Oct. 14 at Cal Poly. They have scored two or more in the last seven contests.
• Tournament Resumes
Several Gauchos on the active roster have plenty of NCAA Tournament experience under their belts. Luis Silva has played in a team-leading six tournament contests while juniors Michael Nonni, Nic Ryan and Josue Madueno each have played in five. Only one current player has scored in an NCAA Tournament game and that is Waid Ibrahim, whose services are unavailable after he suffered a season-ending injury earlier this year.
• Facing The Friars
Providence advances to Sunday's Second Round after defeating Dartmouth, 1-0, in Thursday's First Round match-up. The Friars play in the Big East conference and are making their sixth NCAA Tournament appearance and their fifth in the last seven seasons. This marks the second consecutive season that Providence has advanced to the tournament's Second Round. The Friars have a 3-5 all-time NCAA Tournament record. UCSB and Providence share one common opponent this season: West Virginia. The Friars defeated the Mountaineers, 2-1, on Oct. 21 while UCSB posted a 2-0 victory on Sept. 9. Sunday's match marks the first meeting between the Gauchos and Providence.
• What's Next?
The winner of Sunday's match will advance to play the winner between No. 2 seeded Creighton and Northern Illinois in the Third Round on Sunday, Nov. 27.
• Please Leave The Noisemakers At Home
The NCAA does not allow any noisemakers to be used during its Men's Soccer Championship, so fans are reminded to leave their noisemakers at home.


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Skip to comments.The Prez promotes his pet 'Razist' (advances Third World inside US)
Posted on 01/14/2012 5:53:01 AM PST by Liz
....the WH quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist....Cecilia Munoz, now intergovernmental affairs director, will head the Domestic Policy Council. Shell wield influence at Obamas morning briefings and expand her reach into education, health care and beyond. Munoz was chief registered lobbyist for La Raza (The Race)......which promotes drivers licenses and in-state tuition for illegals; opposed cooperative US immigration-enforcement efforts and a southern border fence.
Munoz advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal-alien amnesty....La Raza protested post-9/11 homeland-security measures and joined a failed lawsuit to block immigration information-sharing between the feds and local police. The group also has called for TV and cable-news networks to keep immigration-enforcement proponents off the airwaves.
La Raza and other open-borders groups pressured the White House to deliver the DREAM Acts bailout of illegal-alien students by executive fiat after it was defeated repeatedly by bipartisan majorities on Capitol Hill. Obama started issuing the amnesty waivers last August. This week, the White House announced an even wider expansion of waiver status to illegal aliens claiming hardship.
La Raza raked in $4.1 million in federal subsidies in 2009 and more than $11 million in 2010. Much of that money came from the Obama stimulus, and much of it went to mortgage counseling.
Thanks to strategic partnerships with Wachovia and Bank of America, La Raza has succeeded in lowering mortgage-application requirements and documentation standards. La Raza also collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded community-development projects.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Munoz was also a senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza before Obama tapped her for the administration in 2009.
REFERENCE Munoz must be salivating to undermine US ntl security w/ Raza Studies ...... taught in Arizona schools for a decade.
AN EXAMINATION OF RAZA STUDIES One textbook titled Occupied America, by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a speech given by activist and university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him, (pg. 323). The book also talks about the need for Mexico to re- take seven states in the Southwestern United States.
The following rather shocking quotes are taken directly from Occupied America (pg. 167):
<><> Supporters would execute all white males over age 16, (also known as the Plan of San Diego).
<><> The Southwest would become a Chicano nation.
IS LA RAZA COLLUDING W/ US POLITICIANS TO FINANCE RECONQUISTA? In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the polarizing beliefs outlined above in traditional public schools, the organization known as La Raza operates 100 charter schools across the counry. The following is a select list of La Raza charter schools:
-Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles)
- Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ)
-Mexicayotl Academy (Nogales, AZ)
-The Dolores Huerta Prepatory High School (Pueblo, CO)
-Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School (St. Paul, MN)
In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given out to these La Raza charter schools in the form of U.S. Department of Education grants. These schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan, and even Aztec math.
One latino stole $3.2 million UI benefits using several identities. Jose Madrigal---the Washington state tapist---had some 30 identities.
REFERENCE July 21, 2006----BERGEN RECORD, NJ
Texans accused of selling counterfeit IDs (impoverished illegals "here for a better life" pay several thousand $$$ for fake ID's)
Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said.
The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses----for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said state police.
The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force regularly runs checks.
The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately.
The Texas brothers consented to a search. Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.
All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####
Illegal Manuel Mejia Ordonez ordered to repay $3M in Calif employment fraud
San Francisco Chronicle | June 26, 2010
FR Posted June 26, 2010 by artichokegrower
A former Marysville resident has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation.
US Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said 31-year-old Manuel Mejia Ordonez was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
QUESTION How does a citizen of Mexico make $3 million in unemployment claims? A. By establishing multiple identities. The fraudster, Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.
We now have the most racist and divisive President in history.
The Southwest would become a Chicano nation.
Sure. And just who will continue to pay "entitlement" benefits after the revolution?
No other president has appointed an individual who was colluding with a foreign country try to undermine the safety and security of US citizens.
Is it possible we would have an admistration as far right as this one is far left? There aren't enough Klansman in the Aryan Nation to balance this out. How can this happen? How does no one notice?
In addition, "La Raza" has a more general leftist, pro-Islamist, anti-Western civilization global bias, as can readily be gleaned from the writings and statements of its leaders past and present. They're very much in tune with Zero's ideology.
One Raza Studies textbook titled Occupied America, by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him, (pg. 323).
This is taken directly from Occupied America (pg. 167): Supporters would execute all white males over age 16, (this is AKA the Plan of San Diego).
America-hating Raza Studies teach violence and undermining US ntl security----and preaches the need for Mexico to "re-take seven states in the Southwest...in order to make the SW a Chicano nation.
Course, if you oppose this, you are "heartless"....../s.
Adelita is all up in arms about Raza Studies getting tossed via the state legislature's action...she is the daughter of Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7) who was just narrowly re-elected to our US Congress.
Raul Grijalva is one of Mexicos most productive and loyal representatives in our Congress....aiding and abetting building a Third World on US soil.
Now that Obama enhanced Munoz's federal power-------
So where is the GOP?
Thanks Liz.
Former VP of pro-marxist La Raza, Cecilia Munoz, "trusted" and promoted by President Obama
HUSBAND - Amit A. Pandya is Chief of Staff at the International Labor Affairs Bureau of the US Department of Labor. He served between 2007 and 2010 as Director of the Stimson Centers Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project. Pandya is a South Asia expert and international lawyer. He has been Counsel to the Government Operations and Foreign Affairs Committees of the House of Representatives, and held senior positions at the Departments of Defense and State and at the US Agency for International Development. He has also practiced law and worked in various civil and human rights nonprofit organizations, and was formerly an ethnographer and teacher.
Amit A. Pandya, Author, Muslim Indians: Struggle for Inclusion
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Look who Obamas new czar is tied to Cecilia Munoz previously worked with infamous list
Obama's "Razist" Lobbyist Moves Up
Former La Raza VP Cecilia Munoz Named White House Domestic Policy Director
Obama Appoints La Raza Radical to Control Domestic Policy
"No other president has appointed an individual who was colluding with a foreign country try to undermine the safety and security of US citizens."
. . . . Check out article, - also see comments by Liz and thouworm.
Each recess whether it is a recess or not, more Marxist czars. Anyone have a current count on the czars that are accountable only to the dictator in chief?
Well, in these states, they are either outnumbered or aren't outnumbered by much, so I wouldn't rule it out:
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent definition and source info Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 37.6%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 45.3%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent,2010 37.6%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 40.1%
New Mexico:
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 46.3%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 40.5%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 29.6%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 57.8
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 26.5%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 54.1%
If you want to understand the REAL laraza, click the aztlan link.. There, you will find links to their constitution and various other statements of great interest. In all this time, NOTHING has changed.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- James White ran for two touchdowns and caught a pass for another score, and No. 21 Wisconsin stalled BYU's fast-paced offense in a 27-17 victory Saturday.
White finished with 147 yards rushing, while Chris Borland looked just fine coming back from a hamstring injury in flying around the field for 13 tackles and two sacks for the Badgers (7-2).
Kyle Van Noy went step-for-step with Borland in a matchup of star linebackers with eight tackles and an interception for BYU (6-3). Taysom Hill threw two touchdown passes to Cody Hoffman, but the dual-treat quarterback was held in check by Wisconsin pressure.
White locked up the win with his third score on a 14-yard run with 13:51 left in the fourth for a three-possession lead.


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If Brazil arrived at Wembley in a state of mild flux, they left it looking unusually muted. There were plenty among the 90,000 capacity crowd who came to Wembley expecting, unfairly from a thrown-together selecão, a show of familiar attacking panache. They will have been disappointed.
With a year and a half to go before one of the more feverishly anticipated home World Cups this was a friendly that might have signalled the first stage in a concerted Brazilian regrouping, not least with the presence at Wembley of both the returning Gaúcho superstar Ronaldinho and in Neymar a player described rather optimistically by Luiz Felipe Scolari as already on a par with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. In the event Brazil were beaten 2-1 by an unusually frisky and uncowed England team. And if at times in the second half they did stir themselves – now and then, they even looked a bit like Brazil – this was a disappointingly muted showing from Ronaldinho and Neymar, who in a first half of declining influence managed to miss a penalty and a sitter between them as Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere emerged as the dominant creative influences.
There was plenty of talk in the lead-up to this game about "world-class players" and the general absence thereof. For Brazil this is a preoccupation that has arisen only in the last few years, though for a nation whose foot soldiers staff many of the world's domestic leagues the question is one of quality rather than quantity. For the first time since the pre-Romário years there is suddenly a shortage of peak Brazilians, of Brazilians who can be ranked, unarguably, among the world's very greatest players.
For Brazil it is a lineage that ended with the only man at Wembley who can speak with any personal authority on the subject. At his pre-match press conference Ronaldinho had looked almost alarmingly frozen and dewy-eyed, as he did here for almost the entire 45 minutes he stayed on the pitch. His first involvement involved being sent the wrong way by a shimmy from Joe Hart and, if there was an element of Seaman's revenge here, there was more to come with that 18th-minute penalty. Brazil's No10 won it himself with a flick up on to Wilshere's arm. His kick was hit low but Hart's double save was brilliantly athletic.
At which point Ronaldinho pretty much stopped playing, disappearing at half-time to be replaced by Fred. With the Brazilian leagues in hiatus neither Ronaldinho nor Neymar had much football behind him at Wembley. Frankly it showed.
If Brazil's veteran space-Gaúcho represents the world-class past, Neymar represents hope for the future. Here he started briskly: a wiry, spindly figure, blessed with swift lateral movement and acceleration if not searing pace. In the seventh minute he sped away from Gary Cahill to take a long pass, only for his touch to fail under pressure. There was a lovely swerving run across England's defence and some nice little combinations, enough to make Neymar perhaps the most notable presence on the pitch before Rooney's opening goal.
The two make for an intriguing juxtaposition. If Neymar remains – for those not seduced by Brazilian domestic exploits – all potential, Rooney at the same age had achieved more on a broader stage. And rather than Neymar the outstanding 21-year-old on the pitch was Wilshere, whose vision with a pass in tight spaces caught the eye, not least in the build-up to Rooney's goal.
And so to Neymar's miss on 36 minutes. Skied over the bar from Oscar's cross, it was perhaps not as horrific as it looked at first – the ball bobbled up – but his two-footed lunge at the ball with the goal gaping was horribly callow. After half-time Brazil were transformed briefly, Fred capitalising brilliantly on Cahill's mistake to smash a shot past Hart. Neymar too seemed energised by his promotion to lone frontman status. One flick and swerve away from Glen Johnson was a delight. By now Oscar had moved away from the right flank and into the centre and over 90 minutes it was the Chelsea man, pre-acclimatised, who was Brazil's outstanding attacker.
From Neymar there was an enduring work rate as the half drew on. His movement was lively, his passing neat. For now that will have to be enough. There remains an enormous pressure on those frail shoulders, not simply in the gulf between status and achievement: if Ronaldo has been there and bought the T-shirt, Neymar has to date proved himself above all expert at selling T-shirts (thanks to major sponsorship he is already the seventh best-paid footballer in the world); but also in the clamour from Brazil for a new star to close the stature gap.
Wembley on a cold Wednesday night may not linger long in the memory and Neymar and co will no doubt return in more robust physical shape. "England played well but we will see how they do [at the Maracanã] in June," Scolari said afterwards. At which point Brazil will expect a little more from their next and last generation superstars.


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BaggyPantsDevil returns from points unknown to give his take on the Michigan-Wisconsin game this week.
When you need some cheese to make your sandwich, what better place to go than Wisconsin? OK, Michigan isn't actually going to Wisconsin, Wisconsin is coming to Michigan—don't forget to bring some cheese, guys!—and I'm sure there are better—by which I mean worse—teams to play than Wisconsin.
Before any of the Badger faithful get upset, I actually kind of dig Wisconsin. Beer, bratwursts, cheese, old school, smash-mouth football, and Barry Alvarez who generally managed to lose to Michigan but won his Rose Bowls. So, when the Badgers aren't playing Michigan, I'm generally pulling for them.
And, let's face it, after demolishing Notre Dame, playing a visiting Wisconsin team sure beats the hell out of heading out west to play Oregon. If poor special teams play or a crowned field don't get you out there, the worst referees this side of the Sun Belt Conference will.
This is clearly a game Michigan should win. Even most of Wisconsin's fans think so. Of course, there are a few of the Badger faithful who still believe. More power to you, guys. That's what being a fan is all about.
It can be helpful to see how Michigan and Wisconsin compare statistically. Last week, the statistics indicated Michigan's defense pretty much had it all over Notre Dame (Michigan's then 4th in rushing defense against Notre Dame's 71st in rushing offense and Michigan's 3rd in sacks against Notre Dame's 85th in sacks allowed). Although Michigan didn't get as many sacks as I would have expected, I think the pass rush forced Quinn to make bad throws and interceptions. Anyway, I'll give it a shot with Wisconsin.
Wisconsin does match up against Michigan a little differently than Notre Dame did. Statistically, Wisconsin's defense—particularly its pass defense—is a lot better than Notre Dame's. Wisconsin is 46th in rushing defense against Michigan's 18th rushing offense and is 4th in pass defense to Michigan's 87th passing offense. Of course, those numbers may be skewed by Wisconsin's schedule of Bowling Green, Western Illinois, and San Diego State.
Wait a minute. Western Illinois is a Division I-AA school. Shame on you Wisconsin, shame on you. You guys are better than that. Leave the Division I-AA opponents for the likes of Nebraska and—ha ha—Colorado. A quick aside here, this coming Saturday, Western Illinois plays Northern Colorado, school o' stabbing second string punters.
Anyway, the rather lowly competition Wisconsin has faced tends to make me skeptical of their fourth best pass defense in the country ranking, but one could have said the same thing about Michigan's rankings on offense and defense last week and we know how that worked out.
On offense, Wisconsin being Wisconsin, they run the ball better than Notre Dame does but are worse at passing it (Wisconsin is 22nd, Notre Dame was 71st). So, Wisconsin's offensive strength will go up against Michigan's defensive strength (1st in the nation against the run, baby). Additionally, Wisconsin is worse than Notre Dame in turnover margin—Wisconsin, tied for 54th while Notre Dame's was 11th—in which Michigan is second in the country.
So, statistically, this game should have a lower score than the Notre Dame game with offenses that mostly run the ball and the Michigan defense forcing a fair amount of turnovers. Of course, last year, Mario Manningham had 106 yards receiving including a 49 yard touchdown pass.
Also working in Michigan's favor is last year's game. Wisconsin quarterback John Stocco's four yard touchdown run with 24 seconds remaining in the game should give Michigan plenty of motivation to beat the crap out of him a la Brady Quinn.
I think the revenge factor with Wisconsin and Minnesota will do a lot to prevent a letdown the next couple of weeks.
(HT to Brian at AOL's Michigan Fanhouse for the Wisconsin in the "acceptence" phase of grieving stuff.)


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Review: The 9800GT overclocked
Today we'll show you Gainward's top notch version of the Geforce 9800 GT, which the company dubbed Geforce 9800 GT Golden Sample Goes Like Hell. This card comes with the core overclocked from reference 600MHz to 650MHz, shaders from 1500MHz to 1625MHz and the memory from 900MHz to 1100MHz (1800MHz to 2200MHz effectively). Furthermore, this card is surely a great addition to Gainward's 9800GT offer, which already features a few "Green Edition" cards. The aforementioned cards are apparently a trend now as they consume less but come clocked lower than reference.
The 9800 GT GS GLH comes with dual slot cooling. This cooler has been in Gainward's arsenal for a while, and it's instantly recognizable by the large central fan with the aluminum heatsink and the large plastic hood covering the rest of the card. The following photo shows our today's Gainward card codenamed GF9800GT GLH 512M DDR3 256B CRT DVI HDMI. As the name suggests, the card comes with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, 256-bit interface and comes with three types of video outs.
In case you've forgotten, the 9800GT is actually the 8800GT card with the new 55nm graphics core. The core brought about some improvements, most notably lower consumption and Hybrid Power. Note that HybridPower will run only when paired up with the corresponding Nvidia chipset, meaning motherboards with integrated Nvidia graphics. The G92 graphics chip is responsible for many awards the 8800GT has won, but the new 55nm version codenamed G92b didn't disappoint either. It's well worth noting that this two year old technology is still good enough to deliver a decent framerate in the latest games and at standard resolutions.
While most of the "GLH" cards we've tested had the famous "+" in the name, the 9800 GT GS GLH comes without it. The "+" as you know means room for additional overclocking, but since Gainward already did it for you , additional overclocking will void the warranty. We still checked the functionality of Gainward's overclocking tool, "ExpertTool", included on the driver CD, and overclocked the card to the maximum allowed 700MHz core, 1760MHz shaders and 1150MHz for the memory.
As we expected, the dual-slot cooling did a great job. After our overclocking, maximum temperatures were 72°C, otherwise it stays below 69°C. Although the cooler is pretty large and does a good job, it doesn't feature manual RPM settings, so the fan speed is dynamically altered to suit the needs of the graphics core. Of course, this results in a bit of noise when the GPU is pushed harder. The card ran stable at 700MHz/1760MHz/2300MHz and idle temperatures were around 46°C.
The Geforce 9800 GPU is based on Geforce 8x GPU architecture with all the goodies it brings to the table – unified shader architecture, DX10 API support, as well as other significant improvements (TMU, ROP, PureVideo HD) first seen on
8800GT and moved to the 9800GT. The memory is 256bit GDDR3 and the 9800GT core comes with 112 stream processors, 16 ROPs and 56 texture units. Although the GPU-Z reports the GF9800GT GLH 512M DDR3 256B CRT DVI HDMI to be based on the 65nm graphics core, we took the cooler off and found out this card is indeed based on the new 55nm G92 (G92-286-B1) GPU, which consumes less and runs cooler.
The pictures make it clear that this is a dual slot card. The cooler touches the graphics core whereas the memory is cooled by the fan air. The card has 512MB of memory distributed among the 8 memory chips, all of which are positioned on the face of the card. Gainward uses Samsung K4J52324QH-HJ08 GDDR3 memory rated at 0.8ns or 1200MHz, but the memory runs at 1100MHz on the card which leaves room for overclocking.
The 9800 GS GLH comes with a dual-link DVI, VGA and one HDMI connector. In order to get both video and audio via an HDMI cable, you'll have to bring sound from the motherboard's/soundcard's SPDIF out to the graphics card with the provided SPDIF audio cable, something Nvidia graphics owners are probably familiar with.
This DX10, PCI Express 2.0 card supports both dual SLI as well as triple SLI. Gainward used two SLI connectors, which kept their original position. Note that many 9800GT cards come with only one SLI connector, allowing only for dual SLI.
Just like on the 8800GT, the card draws power via one 6-pin PCIe power connector.
The box is small but stylish and pretty rugged. Note that if you require two DVI outs, you'll have to make a trip to the store and get it as it doesn't come with the card. Gainward was the first vendor to start sending these converters with native HDMI cards, but it seems like the recession has affected everyone.


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What: Boulder City Council study session
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Boulder Municipal Building, 1777 Broadway
More info: A discussion of the proposed transportation maintenance fee is scheduled for 6 p.m. The discussion of the snow and ice removal plan follows. The complete memo and a map of the proposed pilot program can be found at tinyurl.com/c7hrn4t.
That Boulder doesn't plow residential streets, leaving some hilly, shaded roads to turn to sheets of ice, is a perennial complaint. The standard response has been that it would cost too much to plow residential streets.
Hitting every street, instead of just arterial and secondary roads, would double the city's costs for snow and ice removal.
Now, Boulder is considering a pilot program to plow and treat just those residential streets that have a history of problems -- the streets with steeper grade, with a lot of shade cover, with a history of resident complaints.
The Boulder City Council will hear a report on the city's snow and ice removal program at its study session Tuesday. If the City Council signs off, the pilot program would begin in September and run through next April.
Felix Gallo, the city's transportation and utilities maintenance coordinator, said his department wants to find out what it actually costs to provide that extra service and whether residents really want it.
While some people complain about the ice now, other residents may find they don't like having snow piled around their cars or in front of their driveways or may not like the city using Ice Slicer, a mineral salt, on their streets, he said.
"The pilot will gauge the effectiveness of this and whether it's worth it," he said. "That's a question of cost but also of citizen satisfaction."
City crews already try to pre-treat streets that are known problem areas and make one pass with the plow after they address higher-priority areas.
Under the pilot program, the city would have larger pickup trucks with plows in the front and equipment to distribute Ice Slicer in the back focused on residential streets, particularly in the Chautauqua, University Hill and Mapleton Hill areas.
The department has set aside $77,000 in vacancy savings to pay for the pilot program. If the city decides to make the program permanent, the money would have to be added to the regular budget.
Jay Mesinger, who lives just north of Baseline Road on Eighth Street, said he's glad the city is finally tackling the issue.
After getting tired of slick streets that didn't thaw for "weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks," he gathered a group of neighbors to pay for private snow removal and was shocked to learn that isn't allowed within city limits.
"Not only could we not get the city to do it, we couldn't even hire someone to do it because of some ordinance," said Mesinger, a 20-year Boulder resident. "Everyone would like to see more snow removal. It's a perilous, dangerous circumstance, for automobiles and for people."
Ted Fiflis, a mostly retired law professor who has lived in the 1600 block of Columbine Avenue since 1965, recalled complaining about hard-packed ice last year. The city truck that came to break up the ice slid down the street and into his daughter's fence.
He welcomes the pilot program.
"I think safety does require spending the necessary funds," he said.
Boulder Councilman Macon Cowles, who asked earlier this year that the city consider putting more resources into known problem streets, said he supports the idea of the pilot program.
"I think it poses a danger for pedestrians and also people in automobiles," he said. "It's really tough to do because of the resources you need. Maybe there are places that we can move our resources to. We have a well-defined plan."
Gallo said the pilot program will determine whether the additional expense and effort makes sense.
"If we plowed every single road, we'd double our budget," Gallo said. "We definitely can't do that, but can we incrementally do something that would increase citizen satisfaction? That's what we're going to find out."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or email@example.com.


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However, I do have an intellectual curiosity about women's sexuality. I'm pro-sexuality for women, not grossed out by it as so many silly gays can be. I can even enjoy seeing a woman enjoying herself (and not putting on a campy, silly, big-haired, long-nailed, high-heeled, cliche porn routine for a straight guy as fake as her boobs... I mean actually enjoying her own sexuality.) But I've just never been sure what it has to do with me. You get the odd straight scene which both my guy and I would enjoy, mostly amateur rather than the over-produced stuff.
And you could also say I have an indirect interest in str8 sex: Men often make more sense to me in the way they enjoy their own sexuality whether they're straight or gay, even if we don't have the same sexual lifestyle. I get guys. I'm attracted to guys. I understand guys. Other men and their experiences intrigue me. And since a lot of guys seem to enjoy heterosexuality, it fascinates me because it reveals something about their guy-ness.
It makes a great fantasy to think of joining in with a straight or bi couple. But i would be completely distracted by his presence, his reactions, what he's getting out of it, how he explores the moment. Even if he gave me a hands-on guided tour of a woman, I think I would inevitably end up focussing on what it showed me about his experience. If many men are heterosexual, it's just another way to learn about the male experience.
So in a non-monogamous alternate universe maybe it could happen, and I'm sure it would reveal another side of men that I don't find obvious or intuitive, and which seems like a mystery to me even if I'm curious about it. But I don't know exactly what that scenario does for the woman involved. I imagine that it could be fairly boring for her.


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Did anyone expect anything other than spin from MS with regards to Open Source Software? Hmmm.
Compared to say Cnet's spin, which suggested that MS didn't spend very much on R&D compared to OSS companies.
Apparantly half its income - around $7B spent on R&D is "not much".
The R&D they do never makes it into products.
$7,000,000,000??? What a monumental waste of money! mAYBE THATS how much the losers at MS have to pay their developers to come up with an OS that doesn't crash, and even then they have failed miserably judging by all the work I have had lately.
If they're spending so much on R&D, where are the fucking results?
Vista? Aero? You have to be fucking joking. That's really the best they could come up with for $7,000,000,000? No wonder Shuttleworth and the Linux crowd are making such fantastic progress.
On Ubuntu
If they're spending so much on R&D, where are the fucking results?
Here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/projects/default.aspx [microsoft.com]
but do they invest enough money in preventing problems like http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954960.mspx [microsoft.com] ?
Um, that's the list of research projects. The GP asked where the results are, in software that made it to market (I assume).
This blog at c/net is just an indication that MS is in a more subtle tone, crapping themselves. They have NO effective response to open source. This has been true since their first public strike at Open Source. (Cancer, anyone?)
The reason? The simple existence of open source is a contradiction to their very own fundamental business model.
They rely on software licenses as their main source of income. They will do ANYTHING to protect that. We know this from their history. They're about control...Because to them, control is profit. (Examples: Protocols, document formats, de-facto standards, anti-piracy schemes like Activation and "Genuine Advantage", etc are all different aspects of control.)
But Open Source turns that model upside down. Software licenses become $0. You don't control and "encourage" people to use your products. You let them do things on their own accord. You let your fellow man/woman choose. It puts more pressure on you to improve the technology.
Companies who are based on this model now focus their resources on tools to give to the community. They let the community innovate while they polish up and improve for their commercially supported variants. (The cycle continues endlessly as they improve and give back).
The result? Microsoft will find it harder and harder as Open Source improves. Granted, the closed source model gets you the money quicker, and its more polished for mainstream PC users, but you don't have genuine user loyalty.
The fundamental weakness here is, if you can create an Open Source equivalent (features that are equal or better), closed source companies will be in serious trouble. Why would people pay if they can get it elsewhere for free? (legally).
This is why they're so scared. They know the day will come. (On that day, be sure to note the share prices and the company's general behaviour).
They can resort to petty distractions and occasional seasons of being nice to open source, but they know they cannot stop this stone wheel. It may grind slowly, but its coming. Consistent improvement, that's what its all about.
Almost no one realizes that R&D has only a tiny sliver of R of it, and the rest of it is D. And by Development, they mean everything - developer/tester/program manager salaries, computers, costs of running the buildings and datacenters, IT, etc. So it's not like they spend $7B just on Microsoft Research. Last I heard, MSR costs something like $300M a year. And stuff from there does end up in products every now and then.
Well, if you don't see any of it in products, I'm curious what you call R&D? 'Cause unless I'm mistaken, it means exactly that: Research and Development. It's the first step in the chain that then goes through Manufacturing and later Marketing.
So normally even stuff like developing a new product (say, the XBox 360) does count as R&D. When Ford comes up with a new car, even if it's not revolutionary in any way or aspect? That's R&D. When NEC or Samsung come up with a new TFT, only this time with LED backlight? That's R&D. When Seagate announces a new line of HDDs, only this time with higher density (i.e., pretty much a smaller head and more precise mechanics)? That's R&D too.
Technically even writing a program, any program, is R&D. (That's a mistake many PHB's do: thinking that programming is manufacturing and can be treated and measured like assembly line work.) Manufacturing is when you press the CDs and print the manuals and box it, later. So if none of MS's R&D made it into a product, they pretty much wouldn't have a product.
So, yes, MS does invest in R&D. Now if you're trying to say that they never made some major scientific breakthrough, we can agree on that. But then most other companies don't, either. And I don't remember many fundamental breakthroughs from the F/OSS camp either. They too just tweak a little here and there and occasionally put lipstick on a pig... err... skins and transparencies on the same old program. Not condemning it in any way, but let's not pretend that the latest release of KDE or Firefox are comparable to discovering Penicilin or Quantum Mechanics. It's R&D anyway. And it's still R&D when MS does it.
And yes, occasionally R&D does produce a dud like Vista. Well, that's the inherent risk of it. It happens to other companies too.
This report has very little to do with open source, it is all about marketing. The M$ board and executive team is basically treating it's shareholders the same way it treats it's customers. It is feeding them a line of non-committal B$ in order to keep their jobs and maintain a threatened share price.
So M$'s annual report is starting to bear no resemblance to what most respectable companies would produce or what an executive team with integrity would present to shareholders. It is a empty glossy pump up produced by a marketing team rather than an management and engineering team. No new directions, no new products, no new ideas, just more of ballmer's self involved blather and bull shit.
Psychologically it is interesting, hmm, we know everything, we make no mistakes, we are the computer industry, when it goes wrong, it is everybody else's fault, they stole it from us, they don't know anything and the customer is stupid when they don't realise this.
Technically it is quite true that M$ help to create the OSS movement, they were such an unreliable and deceitful supplier of software that they really did do more than anybody else to drive customers to OSS.
Technically it is quite true that M$ help to create the OSS movement, they were such an unreliable and deceitful supplier of software that they really did do more than anybody else to drive customers to OSS.
Somewhat of an overstatement or at least an over simplification. You need only look at the programs that started out in
That being said, M$ is what made OSS into a viable, enterprise level force in the computer software business. From their buggy programs and operating systems to their use of vaporware to string the market along, M$'s unwillingness to allow any competitor to survive (DR-DOS or OS/2 anyone? How about WordPerfect, Ami Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, etc?) made open source software necessary. Linux and *BSD would still be hobby toys if there was really a competitive commercial software marketplace with real choice.
Microsoft didn't actually create OSS. Open source software existed long before Microsoft. Microsoft is what made OSS necessary as the only way to offer a competitive, alternative product. One that couldn't be squeezed out of existence through contractual agreements that forbade offering the alternative.
P.S. I've been using Linux since 1998 and I was an OS/2 user prior to that.
Did anyone expect anything other than spin from MS with regards to Open Source Software? Hmmm.
Ok, one word posts can get good moderation but I'm willing to expand on this.
Microsoft's innovation is to sell the ideas of others as organic product. This is not really a new idea. See "Kufu: Expansions on the Art of Building Pyramids." (not cited)
I'm currently working my way through Cashman & Shelly's "Introduction to Computer Programming IBM/360 Assembler Language" (c)1969, Anaheim Publishing Company.
Familiar terms there include "DOS", "Work Areas" and "Control Macros"
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
For prior art on the rest of them you need only read Communications of the ACM, origin through 1981.
I'm willing to bet there are a couple dozen ideas in this book that invalidate Microsoft patents.
Just about every software patent has an idea that invalidates it. The thing though is, with MS stocking up on patents, we never know which ones they really don't care about and which ones they will sue for. It is expensive and time consuming to strike down every patent, and when someone sues Linux or another F/OSS project in a major suit (like SCO) even though anyone with half a brain knows that it should have been thrown out ages ago, it still leaves CEOs (usually missing half a brain) not using Linux because they are scared they will be sued or the support will end.
Until politicians start to realize that things that apply with the physical world make no sense in the digital world, MS has a legal advantage, and with some judges having the mental capacity of a 4 year old MS might win a few minor suits.
We need a ruling that software patents are void. We're well on the way. Recent Supreme Court rulings are indicative of a climate change in the Court.
People need to get behind the idea that software patents and copyrights serve to prevent "the progress of science and useful arts."
Progress is the goal. If the tool no longer serves it, it needs to be abandoned [abolishcopyright.com].
Like they did with IE? Shut out competitors by mimicking another product and making it a default install of their own?
Didn't they JUST begin to do that with Apache?
Hmm, where did that IP stack come from? Where did they get the idea of tabbed browsing? Where did they get a web browser from? The list goes on and on. I wonder how many "patents" came from ideas inspired by open source?
The reason Microsoft is failing is that the parasite has become larger than the host.
The parent post is right, Microsoft has incorporated BSD-derived code into its operating systems [kuro5hin.org].
The web browser and web server were concepts and implementations that originated within the open-source community.
If MS is accusing the open-source community of absconding with its intellectual property, then why no compunction about incorporating same into their products?
Software *ideas* are just that, ideas. They should not be patented, or patentable, but that's just what's happened and has been encouraged by USPTO. Companies like MS (and many others) rode that bandwagon and have patents that one might call dubious.
he parent post is right, Microsoft has incorporated BSD-derived code into its operating systems [kuro5hin.org].
for those curious:
http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22The+Regents+of+the+University+of+California%22+intitle%3ASource+site%3Aresearch.microsoft.com [google.com]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22The+Regents+of+the+University+of+California%22+intitle:Source+site:research.microsoft.com&start=40&sa=N&filter=0 [google.com]
Sorry bout that - looks like google filters out some of them. This should list (hopefully) all of them.
That makes sense now. Leave peer review out of research and you get vista.
Not only peer review. Also your programmers, your users, your administrators... or rather, the programmers, users and admins that have to suffer from the result.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.
Those sound like the same point. Was it that way in the report or just in the summary... meh, not worth it to RTFA.
Microsoft's innovations stand on their own.
Their accomplishments with active directory, for instance, are wonderful. I'd like to see the open source community come up with anything like it.
Also, their networking stack is rock solid. It would take years for the open source community to come up with anything as polished.
From the beginning, Microsoft has been an innovative company. MS Dos, Basic, I could go on and on. Their contributions to original research have truly advanced the human condition.
Open source projects are simply parasites on the innovations of microsoft. Bah!
Microsoft's innovations stand on their own.
Their accomplishments with active directory, for instance, are wonderful. I'd like to see the open source community come up with anything like it.
Despite the "Funny" mod, there is actually one very good point in there.
Yes I know Active Directory is nothing more than a kerberized LDAP server with a fancy schema. But I also do not know of any F/OSS mechanism to automatically get all sorts of software packages, configuration and policy settings from an LDAP server. Given the number of Linux distributions that exist and the sometimes only slight resemblance between any two in terms of configuration, I suspect that such a product isn't really practical
A 10K report is *supposed* to have a section where the CEO lays out, in gory detail, external threats and situations on the horizon that have a significant chance of derailing their revenue plan for the next year.
What Ballmer is saying here is that
IIRC it was Marc Andressen who first hit on this tactic for competing against Microsoft, when Netscape launched the Mozilla Foundation in 1998. It took a few years of fumbling around before that took fruit - probably because the Navigator/Communicator code was so badly written - but that turned out to be a masterstroke of business tactics.
IIRC it was Marc Andressen who first hit on this tactic for competing against Microsoft, when Netscape launched the Mozilla Foundation in 1998. It took a few years of fumbling around before that took fruit - probably because the Navigator/Communicator code was so badly written - but that turned out to be a masterstroke of business tactics.
And look how well Netscape's doing today.
Microsoft knows that a lot of open source products overlap their patents, many of which would be dubious in court. MS is positioning itself to justify using it's patents to try and crush competing open source projects.
The originally proposed wording:
"Open source means you should sell your shares."
Just got reworked to make it easier to read.
Not really worded as the author states, and is quite interesting - mainly the meat is the Risk Factors section where they must report the possible situations on investment/profit risk. Nothing really much there about stealing ideas, but what was omitted by the author was the probable losses incurred by MS "opening up" on some interoperability technology as well as being forced to open up other standards due to high court rulings.
They still call their Licensing "Ownership" as in Cost of Ownership... sigh.
Very interesting read.
Cost of ownership has nothing to do with *you* owning the product
Perhaps it would be better if they called it the Cost of Pwnership?
I fail to see where Microsoft makes any "mistakes" in its filing. The statement the company made were, as far as I can tell, correct. Without making judgment calls on R&D models, it's fair to say that the proprietary-versus-open source methods are very different, and that open source products benefit from the fact that their research costs *are* distributed amongst the various contributing developers.
The filing never says that OSS companies don't spend a great deal on R&D, nor does it say that Microsoft's R&D (ie. feature development and coding) hasn't been influenced by outside factors. Therefore, I fail to see how there are any mistruths spoken here.
Keep in mind that this is SEC filing, for goodness sake, and that the questionable sections are intended to be simple, concise analyses of the competition and a few differentiating factors between them and Microsoft. I think it does that just fine.
With all the complaining we do here about the FUD inflicted on us by megacorporations, I am rather embarrassed to see us using the very same tacticts with this sort of story.
Wow, did you used to work there, too?
Three years ago, I became an unwilling MSFT employee via acquisition (don't worry, I didn't stay and remain ideologically pure ), and that's *exactly* how many Microsoft employees think. It's not surprising and it's not their fault, considering how much effort and money Microsoft spends on propaganda to tell them so. The only place I've ever lived that had a propaganda drive like MSFT HQ was a communist country with huge party banners on many street corners.
Or Apple HQ?
Compatibility gets confused with copying. And when you know nothing about the history of computing, well, "UNIX? That's like DOS, right?" Because the GUIs can be made similar to Windows, because menus like OpenOffice are made similar to Office for ease of transition, because compatible file formats are often read and written, people who know nothing about the underlying structure of computers or the history of innovations can logically, if incorrectly, conclude from their experience with Windows from the earlier '90s that linux _must_ be a copy of Windows in the '00s.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights;
2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.
I think Microsoft is absolutely right here. I mean if you see this story [slashdot.org] about what they did to BlueJ I think you'd get a better picture of what I mean.
Pot, meet Kettle.
So what MS is and has been saying is that it acquired the IP fair in square, and is properly selling it on the market, while others are just copying. Let us not dwell on the fact that is where MS was 20 years ago when Apple acquired the WIMP interface fair and square and MS copied it to run on cheaper hardware, which let us remember that Compaq created at no small expense fair and square. No, let's just look at the claims as they stand using a classic example, SQL
SQL server was aquired acquired from sybase. Is there technology here that MS can claim was part of that deal, and stolen by the OSS community. I think not. SQL was developed by IBM and what is now Oracle, and was standardized, I believe, in the mid 80's. The two big OSS competitors, mSQL and PostreSQL were both independently developed by teams concurrently with the Sybase product and opensourced, partly or otherwise, by their creator. I am sure that both not include features that MS SQL has, but I would also guess that Oracle or IBM has the features first.
In the end MS problem is simply that they are not 2-3 years ahead of the curve. When this happened to SGI, they went bankrupt. A firm simply cannot charge a premium for this years technology. In the case of software, this is because the OSS people can do the same thing, for free. MS Office is simply too mature to be a profit center. MS Server is simply relatively too low tech. Even the X Box is not at the front of the pack, at least not by more than six months.MS has some traction through collaboration, and they can continue to make money there, but complaining about the loss os MS Windows market share is silly. They had the chance the database file system, but for some reason they did not provide enough resources. This in itself proves that they are not innovative.
MS will lose customers because they are lazy. They will continue to have enterprise customers, they will continue to have the gaming market. We will see the general desktop and server market move away from them unless they come up with something big or go back to their roots as the cheap solution. We see this in the emerging $100-$200 portable market. If this will provide the growth the stock market wants is yet to be seen.
In a surprising twist, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted yesterday that Free Software is the cause of better than average health for Microsoft employees. "Free software means no free soda" is the new catch cry at the Redmond, WA software powerhouse.
"We used to offer our developers free soda, and never thought about the health consequences", said Ballmer while rocking on a designer chair. "Then one day, one of our employees installed Linux on his workstation, which also happened to run the in-house Visual Basic control panel that overrides all the networked soft drink machines on the campus. Suddently, people couldn't get their Mountain Dew anymore, unless they actually paid for it themselves".
Ballmer went on to explain that the programmer who wrote the soda control software had left years ago, and nobody could replace him. Soft drinks were left in the machines for months and morale went down at first among the employees, but soon picked up again when a drop in the monthly rate of deaths from heart failure was noticed. "Free software is like a virus that actually helps you", Ballmer said. "With the money we saved in ambulance fees, I bought every employee a free yo-yo, and even had enough money left over for a new chair. Way to go, Free Software, we love ya!" Former CEO Bill Gates declined to comment.
I know it's somewhat taboo to RTFA around here, but I thought I'd compare with the summary anyway:
Article, quoting MSFT:
"Some of these firms may build upon Microsoft ideas that we provide to them free or at low royalties in connection with our interoperability initiatives."
Implication: there exist some companies that reuse some of Microsoft's ideas, reducing their costs in the process (presumably at MSFT's expense)
Slashdot summary:
"Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights"
Implication: Microsoft claims most/all open source companies copy Microsoft's ideas and don't contribute anything
Article,quoting MSFT:
"Open source software vendors are devoting considerable efforts to developing software that mimics the features and functionality of our products, in some cases on the basis of technical specifications for Microsoft technologies that we make available."
Implication: there are open source products that look and behave very similarly to some of Microsoft's products
Slashdot summary:
"Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products."
Implication: Microsoft claims most/all open source products are copies of MSFT's products
I understand that bashing MSFT is a popular passtime around here, but when the article summaries are completely misleading, that starts to get in the way of the trustworthiness Slashdot as a whole. If Slashdot hopes to remain relevant in the longterm, it needs to make at least some effort to accurately portray the stories. Otherwise, it will eventually become the internet equivalent of tabloids, worth only the entertainment value of reading the stories+comments, and completely untrustworthy for actual facts.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights;
I say Microsoft cannot sue. If they could, they would've already done it. I think if Microsoft sues, they are either afraid that they'll get sued for the free-ride they've been enjoying or they simply do not know who or how to sue. OSS isn't really making any money. OSS is not a company. Yes, MS could sue, say, Redhat, but Redhat is not equal to or represent in anyway OSS itself, and I doubt Redhat really does that much IP damage since most of their business is distributing what others have made and providing support - they are not burning CDs of Windows, if you will. Then sue GNOME or KDE? Can't. Sue kernel developers? How? For what? They would have to go project to project performing drive-by lawsuits which will all be tedious and expensive and very unrewarding.
Like all annual reports, these are self-published documents designed to serve the appetites of shareholders. So anything written in it should be viewed with that in mind. It is not a tech document or a fact sheet. It is a spin sheet.
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Several readers sent word of a Mozilla announcement that 18 carriers have committed to launching phones running Firefox OS. The carriers are primarily from markets in South America and Europe. They include Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and Sprint. The devices running Firefox OS will be made by LG, ZTE, Huawei, and Alcatel, and all will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. The new mobile operating system is built to allow HTML5 apps to run directly on the device, a solution Mozilla thinks will give it an edge when playing catch-up to all the software available for Android and iOS devices. "Developers are busy and don't have time to learn a new programming language. We believe that the only remaining eco-system is the web and there are more developers for the web than for any other platform in the world," said Jay Sullivan. According to Reuters, "Mozilla will initially look to compete in so-called 'emerging economies' in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia, where many people still use older phone models and have yet to upgrade to more expensive smartphones that feature touchscreens and high-speed Internet connections."


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Prices for natural gas liquids, or NGLs, have dropped precipitously this year amid growing supplies, weakening the profitability of a key driver of the US shale development.
This is according to a quarterly analysis from the oil and gas division of advisory services firm Ernst & Young, who released the report on Tuesday.
Extracting NGLs, such as ethane, propane and butane, is still more attractive than producing dry natural gas, the firm says. But it's not as robust as it was nine months ago.
NGL production has surged in recent years as oil and gas producers dramatically changed their drilling focus from dry to liquids-rich gas in a bid to boost profits.
But supply has outpaced demand, primarily from chemical plants that use NGLs as feedstock for plastics. The result has been lower prices.
Companies still have plenty of incentive to produce NGLs. Prices remain significantly higher than natural gas. But we're seeing a marked shift in demand, said Marcela Donadio, Americas oil and gas leader for Ernst & Young. The market for liquids seems to be leveling out.
Profit margins for the global refining business strengthened compared to the second quarter as product prices stayed relatively high, the firm said.
Much of the recent strength in the global downstream segment has come from improved margins from distillates, such as heating oil, gas oil and diesel fuel. Global distillate demand growth has remained relatively strong, while gasoline demand worldwide has been fairly weak.
Looking ahead, the future for the downstream sector continues to present challenges. A lot of new refining capacity is expected to come online in the next three to five years, which would erode refining margins across the board and could force less-profitable plants in the US and Europe to close.
Gas Further pressuring the "frac spread" has been the recent increase in natural gas prices, which have been driven upward by improving fundamentals a slow-down in production growth, increasing demand (particularly in the power sector, where year-to-date gas consumption is up 30%), and a reduction in the massive storage overhang that had persisted over most of the past year.
Spot natural gas prices have climbed over $3.25/MMBtu. While this is about 50% higher than the second quarter, it is still low by historical standards.
After a long time of being significantly above normal levels, natural-gas storage levels in the US are approaching a more average range. This is encouraging for natural gas producers as prices would be strengthened by a cold, early winter and lower storage levels.
Oil prices remain high, with UK Brent crude trading over $110/bbl and US WTI crude trading over $90/bbl.
Despite worldwide economic uncertainty and growing political tensions in the Middle East, supply and demand have been relatively balanced, with no real supply shortages or supply excesses in sight.
An important recent development is the strong comeback of Iraq's oil production, which reached its highest-level in more than 30 years. Particularly if global oil demand remains relatively weak, this is likely to pressure OPEC members to cut back production in order to make room for Iraq's new output, the firm says.
US oil production continues to grow amid increased shale drilling, but infrastructure bottlenecks remain a serious issue. Defying the historical trend, moving crude by rail has become a crucial piece of the US energy infrastructure and the solution continues to gain ground.
Oilfield services
Spending by oil and gas producers worldwide is still cautiously increasing, but at a slower pace. Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has come back fairly strongly this year with a steady increase in rigs count.
In the US, total rig count has declined slightly over the last few months as new oil and liquids-directed drilling has not fully offset a continued decline in natural gas drilling. Globally, except for some offshore drilling, cost pressures for oil field services are being somewhat tempered by gains in efficiency.
Oil and gas transaction activity in North America was up slightly in the third quarter, driven mainly by the $15.1-billion bid of China's CNOOC for Canada's Nexen. The move underscored the continuing strong interest of Asian companies in North American unconventional oil and gas assets.
Merger and acquisition activity is expected to stay strong as companies with weakened balance sheets and limited cash flows move toward strategic and/or deep-pocketed buyers in particular, the majors or NOCs.


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Roscoe's Caden Smith has recently received more postseason football honors.Smith, a 6-3, 240-pound senior, was chosen this week by the Abilene Reporter-News to its All-Big Country Class 1A Football Team as a defensive lineman after a season in which he record-ed 109 tackles. In addition, Smith received honorable mention to the team on offense at quarterback.Also, Smith has been nominated as an Old Spice Player of the Year, making him among a select group of players eligible to be selected as a national Old Spice Player of the Year and be honored in a full-page feature in USA Today. The program honors athletes who are able to elevate their play and step up when the heat is really on and embody lead-ership, performance and desire, and serve as exam-ples to their teammates on and off the field. Smith is also eligible to be named one of 50 national Players of the Year and receive a plaque and other awards.


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April 9, 2009
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The Schedule
Saturday, Apr. 11, 2009 at Anteater Aquatics Complex
No. 15 UC Santa Barbara (13-9, 0-3) at No. 10 UC Irvine (17-8, 2-0), 12 p.m.
This Week In Water Polo
The No. 15 UC Santa Barbara women's water polo team will face a relatively light week as it plays just one contest this week - a Big West Conference match-up with No. 10 UC Irvine at the Anteater Aquatics Complex on Saturday at noon.
For The Record
UCSB currently holds a 13-9 overall record and is 0-3 in Big West action. The Gauchos split a pair of games last week in Northridge. They were defeated 10-6 by CSUN in a conference game on Saturday before rebounding with a 15-10 victory over Cal Baptist later in the afternoon. UCSB is currently tied 16th in this week's Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-20 Coaches Poll with Long Beach State.
Morgan's Milestone
Senior Gillian Morgan tied and then re-set the UC Santa Barbara single season scoring record last Saturday. The utility player tied Kelley Tiffany's 2001 record of 61 goals after scoring in the loss to Northridge. Morgan then scored six goals in the victory over Cal Baptist, making 67 the new UCSB single season scoring record. Morgan currently ranks second all-time on the UCSB career scoring list with 189 during her four-year career. Kelley owns the career record with 213 goals.
With A Little Help From My Friend
Sophomore Katie Kepner currently leads the Gauchos with 14 assists this season, one more than Morgan has posted. She needs just six more to tie her total from the 2008 season. Kepner scored three goals over the weekend, including two against Northridge, tying her season-high. She is tied for sixth on the team with 12 goals this season.
No. 2 Stunna
Junior Lizzie Rouleau is currently second on the team with 26 goals this season and was tied with Kepner with a team-leading two goals in the loss to Northridge. Rouleau has scored in 16 of the Gauchos' games this season and has had seven multiple-goal performances. She has also earned a team-leading 33 penalties or ejections, one more than her total from 2008.
Goalie Gossip
Sophomore goalkeeper Chelsea Carrillo had seven saves in the game against Northridge on Saturday, her second highest total this season. She then blocked six shots in the victory over Cal Baptist. She is currently averaging 6.1 saves per game. Sophomore goalie Kate Murphy will be sidelined indefinitely due to an illness. Murphy was averaging 8.2 saves per game and had started 14 contests in the goal for UCSB.
Oh What A Difference A Year Makes!
UCSB is currently averaging 10 goals per game offensively, over a two goal-per-game improvement from its 7.89 average last season. The Gauchos also allow an average of 8.13 goals-per-game, which is 1.5 goals fewer than their 2008 average.
All About The Anteaters
UC Irvine enters this weekend with a 17-8 overall record and, after defeating UC Davis and Pacific last weekend, it owns a perfect 2-0 Big West record. Gianna Rossi leads the team with 53 goals this season and Julia Fancher is second with 43. Goalkeeper Lauren Davis has tallied 91 saves to lead the team defensively. The two teams last met on Apr. 26, 2008 at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament, where the Anteaters defeated UCSB, 8-5.
Be Great
Earlier this year UCSB Athletics unveiled the BE Great initiative. BE Great is dedicated to maximizing leadership ability, strong on-campus interaction, and general welfare for all 450 student-athletes and Intercollegiate Athletics staff at UC Santa Barbara. BE Great also focuses on personal and career development, diversity, and social awareness, along with ensuring academic success. UCSB has a 92% student-athlete graduation rate.
On The Road Again
Next weekend, the Gauchos will wrap up regular season action. UCSB will play non-conference foe Loyola Marymount on Friday, Apr. 17 before heading to Long Beach State for its Big West season closer with the 49ers and a neutral site game against Sonoma State on Saturday.


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The precinct of Al Muneera can be found within the Al Raha Beach Development in the United Arab Emirates, not far from the Abu Dhabi City Corniche. Previously 10km of beaches and shipping canal shoreline, it has recently been developed by Aldar Properties PSJC, an Abu Dhabi-based development company. Michael Cox, the Australian project director of Al Raha Beach Development was one of the original directors of Aldar. His strong vision drove the concept design and managed to draw in a wide range of international architects.
The Al Raha master plan was created by Australian firm Esquisse and the landscape master plan by EDAW Australia. Singapore based SCDA produced the concept design for Al Muneera. Other architects involved included Norman Foster, Asymptote (New York), Benoy, GHD, MZ and Partners, and Broadway Malyan.
Leading engineering company Waterman International became the lead consultants in delivering SDCA's design. They in turn employed Matt Brindley from Kann Finch in 2007 to run the architectural part of the project alongside a 50-strong team of multinational staff.
Brindley produced an internal report about the design for Waterman, which found its way to Cox. Initially seen as a criticism, Brindley's redesign of the carpark from two levels to one and creation an additional 56 apartments where the upper level of carpark proved to be beneficial to the client. Brindley pushed the project forward by also redesigning the townhouses and many apartment layouts. An office tower was completely redesigned.
The project consists of a mainland and island site linked by two road bridges and a pedestrian bridge. There are 1,484 apartments in 16 residential towers, 149 townhouses and 11 waterfront villas. A 15-storey office tower sits on the mainland site. 20 restaurants fronting a public beach are found on the northern edge of the island. Underground parking holds approximately 3,000 cars while along the middle internal road of Al Raha, a light rail line running into Abu Dhabi has been proposed for development in 2015. There is also provision for a station directly opposite the main office tower.
Of the costs, Brindley says: "We succeeded, through redesign and value engineering, in saving the project over AED 2.5bn ($750m). Construction costs in 2009 money were AED 3.5bn ($1bn)." At present, the Aldar HQ by MZ and Partners, Al Bandar by Broadway Malyan and Al Zeina have been completed.
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The cap is a percentage of earnings and is a moving target.
If teams aren't spending a lot on big names it just means they're spending more on lesser talent and spreading out the money. Most teams are spending the entire cap and there is a minimum percentage that must be spent.
The cap is NOT hurting the players any more than it has in the past.
I love the hard cap and the parity it creates.


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Posted on: 29 April, 2015
The second semiannual Education and Psychology Research in Action Conference is set for Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Foundation Hall of East Central University's Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.
The free event is geared toward public school teachers, pre-service teachers and those in the field of psychology.
Dr. Anna Hinton, director of parental options and improvement for the U.S. Department of Education, will be the keynote speaker. Breakout sessions will also take place.
Posted on: 28 April, 2015
The sound of the bat rang out across the Chickasaw Nation Softball Complex as five t-ball teams squared off on April 11 in the first Chikasha To'ili Tournament, under the direction of Tiffany Postoak, a Chickasaw citizen and East Central University political science and legal studies major.
Chikasha To'ili means 'Chickasaw Baseball' in the Chickasaw language.
In an effort to collect clothing for Native American children in foster care, Postoak was able to collect five large boxes, valued at approximately $1500, and was able to donate another $150 for emergency needs.
Posted on: 28 April, 2015
Jaysa Hutchings, a political science major at East Central University, recently won a $1,500 Gaston Scholarship at the Alpha Chi National Convention in Chicago.
Hutchings, a junior from Wilson, earned the award after presenting a paper entitled "Why Do We Debate? A Content Analysis of the Obama vs. McCain Election and Voter Opinion."
Posted on: 28 April, 2015
Aileen Barton and Emily Davis are co-winners of the prestigious 2015 George Nigh Award at East Central University, it was announced at a luncheon Wednesday, April 22.
Nigh, the former governor of Oklahoma and ECU alumnus, was on hand to present the awards. Nigh served four terms in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, four as lieutenant governor and two as governor. He was also president of the University of Central Oklahoma.
Posted on: 24 April, 2015
A three-week summer institute for high school students will offer free Russian language instruction and sessions about Russian culture, June 7-26, at East Central University.
StarTalk 2015 In Search of the Firebird: Connecting Generations through Tradition is designed to improve language skills of students who will be in grades 9-12 next fall by immersing them into the Russian language and culture.
Posted on: 24 April, 2015
East Central University will screen the Broadway masterpiece "Of Mice and Men" on Thursday, April 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center.
This powerful production, starring James Franco (127 Hours, Milk), brings to life Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's enduring story of friendship and sacrifice.
Posted on: 24 April, 2015
In recognition for service to the community, East Central University's Rhetta Farrill is one of 11 inspirational college students from across the state to be named a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
A sophomore from Stratford, Farrill has led efforts to improve the welfare of children which have resulted in thousands of dollars in aid to children. She has also worked with several partner organizations to improve conditions for adults and families.
Posted on: 22 April, 2015
Dr. Thomas A. Zeni, assistant professor of business administration in East Central University's Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business, has been named a regional recipient of the 2015 Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Teaching Excellence Award.
"I feel excited. It's great to be recognized for one's work, but more importantly, this is an exciting time for the Stonecipher School of Business and East Central University," said Zeni. "We're all doing great things here and I'm happy my contributions can help get the word out."


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