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Linux dropped to a rounding error? Really??
Maybe those running Linux didn't want to goto jail for knowing how to use a hacker OS with that scary black screen and gray text mode or maybe this article is full of shit.
Perhaps there's been an increase in multimedia design students, for which I understand a Mac is best.
Perhaps the decrease in Windows use is due to a drop in enrollment for spreadsheet classes, for which I understand a PC is best.
Afraid I have to be a bit tough on that one, "student employees of ITC, known as Computing Advisors (CAs), a group of first-year students hired to advise and assist their peers with computing", the tough world of statistics. So the students that require the greatest assistance in computer use are using either Windows or Apple, students using Linux require very little assistance and that's down to rounding error area.
So 43% of computer assistance requests are made by students that use apple computers (reg
...So the students that require the greatest assistance in computer use are using either Windows or Apple, students using Linux require very little assistance and that's down to rounding error area.
Shame you couldn't be bothered to read beyond the first sentence, and then went on to make a blindingly stupid assumption.
"The data is based on a census of first-year residence halls each fall conducted by the CAs....This table documents how many first-year students brought a personally-owned computer with them to college."
It's nothing to do with counting assistance requests. It's a census of ownership using the population "living in first-year residence halls", not the population "sought assistance with their computing."
Was it poor comprehension on your part, or just a demonstration of how far an OS fanatic is prepared to twist any facts that don't match his preconceptions?
and it's free- something that ought to appeal to poor starving college students.
Most college students purchase a computer before their freshman year and intend it to last throughout their entire four year program. That means they are still at home, still largely unphased by the costs of college, and living far more dependently on their parents' income than they will on campus.
>>>That means they are still at home, still largely unphased by the costs of college
Good point. A former teacher just asked my recommendation for her college-bound kid. I searched the advertisements and said, "Here's a nice HP laptop for $350, or you can get the better Toshiba with double the RAM for $450. Both hav the latest Windows 7 OS." Well my ex-teacher followed my advice but her kid had a fit and insisted she "had" to have a MacBook...... they ended-up spending $1500.
Kids don't care if
Well you're either lying or simply mistaken.
http://apple.com/store [apple.com]
Choose the macbook. Add all the internal upgrades (RAM, HDD)
And it's not even close to $1,500. Not to mention as a teacher (and with her daughter being a student) they'd be entitled to a fairly big discount, at least 15% when I bought mine.
I'm not lying but maybe the teacher was - SHE'S the one who said it cost her $1500.
The cheapest MacBook is still $1000..... still a hell of a lot more than $350 or $450 for the WIN7 machine. Way overpriced. Why buy an Acura when a Honda is just as good (and made by the same company besides)?
The $450-range Toshibas are pieces of shit. The 15" laptops have horrible ergonomics and build quality. They feel like they're going to fall apart if you move them around too much and the keyboards are off-center from the screen which makes them horribly uncomfortable to type on. The number pad they so "thoughtfully" include isn't used nearly enough to make up for the ridiculous ergonomics. Even the smaller laptops are bulky and don't fit well in backpacks or messenger bags. The power supplies are monsters and have very fragile feeling DC connectors. If you tilt your laptop back a little too far you're likely to snap the damn thing off in the plug. They're also really unbalanced so tilting your screen back too far will cause your laptop to topple backwards.
You can (and obviously will) naysay Mac laptops but at least some thought went into their industrial design. They fit neatly into bags because they don't have oddly shaped bottom panels that catch on things. The MagSafe adapter has saved me from destroying my computer on a number of occasions, and they go to sleep and then wake up from sleep very quickly. I'll spend the extra money to get a laptop with features that actually make it nice to use. Bullet point features like a faster CPU or RAM don't mean a whole lot when I'm putting it into or pulling it out of a bag a hundred times a week.
The justification would be the same as for the nicer car, if the car feels nice and has better fit and finish it's probably worth the extra money. You interact with the fit and finish every single second you're using the thing. If it's build cheaply you feel it every time you touch it. I'll get a car with power windows and locks so I don't have to check every door handle when I get out like a rube to make sure they're all locked. I can roll all the windows down at once when it's been sitting in the sun so I don't need to crank the AC when I get in it. I'll get the more comfortable seat that's easier to adjust because I sit in it every single day.
Excuse you?
The $450 toshiba laptops are fine and half the models in that range come without a keypad.
On the other hand I prefer my $550 lenovo. They did include a keypad but with thin keys, making the keyboard about normal sized since the screen is 16:9, which I prefer anyways and have on all of my desktops. I could have gotten a $400 lenovo or toshiba but I wanted a video chip that didn't have intel written on it.
The three macbooks I've used on the other hand I can't stand, the keys all have that weird feeling like theres already a fine powder spilled on them. Other than that, which admittedly is a personal pet peeve and probably doesn't apply ot a lot of other people, they're fine ergonomically, but by no means far superior to any other laptop.
Also they should check the numbers on how many people buy a mac going into college, realize its an expensive piece of shit after a year(Compatibility? Whats that?) and have to go buy a real computer anyways. I personally know 3 people that have "had to have" one and were immediately disgusted that they had spent so much money on something that offered very little extra and was actually worse in some cases. Of those people 1 admits it freely and 2 give you a strange look and espouse the virtues of the mac while already having admitted they won't buy another one.
and they go to sleep and then wake up from sleep very quickly.
I finally got around to using the Windows 7 upgrade I bought (on pre-order so it's been a while - it was just too cheap to pass up, but I never figured it would be much of an improvement). My formerly Vista laptop now wakes from sleep, with network connection, just as fast as my girlfriends Mac! (like 2 seconds) I am kicking myself for waiting so long...
The $450-range Toshibas are pieces of shit.
It's not just the PCs in that price range. I remember when you could buy an HP computer that would wear like a Sherman tank, but since the Dell/Gateway/Acer race to the bottom, there hasn't been enough profit margin in the windows world for hardware makers to afford to make anything that wasn't flimsy as hell. I use a unibody MacBook Pro, so I'm used to having a machine feel solid. I picked up a friend's Sony VAIO laptop a couple of days ago, and I could feel i
Why buy an Acura when a Honda is just as good (and made by the same company besides)?
This is telling. I'd buy the Acura. Heck, I drive a Lexus instead of a Toyota. They may be made by the same company, but they aren't the same car. The noise suppression alone is worth the difference in cost, but there are a dozen other reasons to choose the Lexus too, including resale value, dealer support, complementary car if you ever need warranty service, etc.
It all comes down to what you value. If you value price above all else, you're not the target audience for a Mac. If you care about elegance, simplicity, compatibility, and longevity, Macs are not a bad deal.
I don't think you are lying, just missing salient details.
Most MacBooks will last a long time; 6 years would be about average, but 7 years or more is not uncommon. That's better than twice as long as any other laptop manufacturer. So consider the useful life of the machine before you throw money away on garbage. Because, no matter what, you get what you pay for. I don't even have to know what the machine is to tell you a $1500 machine is gonna be a lot better than a $350 machine. They aren't made of the sa
I've done countless comparisons of Macs to comparable Lenovo's, Dells, HPs, etc. For comparably equivalent machines, (sames size LED backlit IPS panel, same HD size and speed, same bus, memory, processor, bluetooth, camera, etc, etc) with comparable software (that generally means Win 7 Home Ultimate) Macs are, generally, 10% to 20% more, and not way overpriced.
Generally the Mac will have less ports, but has as compensation the large multi-touch track pad, the smaller mag safe power adapters, and that ultra-rigid unibody design.
I don't consider it overpriced, but it may be over spec'd.
I know the average Mac user doesn't actually know how to use a computer
as for this piece of GP AC weaksauce, the average Windows user doesn't know anymore about using a computer than the average Mac user. That's because they're, uh, average users. The person who actually knows how to really use a computer is in reality pretty rare - most people just learn (barely) how to use the software they need and do things by rote, and this isn't limited to Mac users. I see people double-clicking links in IE all the time...
Stop calling them either liars or idiots. You are the one who is way off. Take a Macbook, expand it from 2GB to 4GB, change the 250GB drive to 500GB, add iWork, add Microsoft Office home and student edition, and add Applecare because now you've got quite a lot riding on a measly 1 year warranty. You're looking at $1676.95. And that's without Aperture, Logic Express, Final Cut, Filemaker, no DVI adapter, and no airline adapter. Just that stuff will take you up to $2491.90, and that's the CHEAP version of Filemaker.
So, $1500.00 is easily reached with the bottom of the line Macbook, even with a 15% discount.
>>>I do not think Linux is such a terrible operating system that it would see no use whatsoever
Maybe it is being used, but the students checked "Windows" because that's the primary OS installed on their machine? I'm surrpsied how far Mac has come. When I visited Penn State 1.5 years ago, I went to all the old Mac labs but they no longer existed. Everything had been converted to IBM PC compatibles. Ditto another local college which had just 6 Macs on the whole campus (located in the music buil
Most people don't care about "free" when all they see are computers for sale that come with the "free" operating system already installed. Very few people really buy a barebones computer and then go pay retail or otherwise acquire some OS. All they see is a bundled price, this has been industry standard for like forever, so that is how it goes. A starving student will buy used, and THAT will come with a "free" operating system on it.
Yes, it SHOULD have been made a requirement at the retail level ages ago to SHOW the software cost in the total bill, or to force these guys to offer alternatives, but the government didn't care, people didn't seem to care, so there ya go. It's just what comes with the machine, so the software is "free enough" for people.
And for that matter, very few people build their own desktops, and when it comes to laptops, that falls way way down to insignificant levels, even within the hard core tech savvy crowd. They may wipe the disk and install something else, but the incidence of barebones laptops or build from scratch laptops is microscopic in terms of numbers. It is possible, just very unlikely.
So "free" or Free never enters the picture for most people. Just the way it is.
And that deal with Dell and Canonical..from day one you could see Dell wasn't sincere about it, it was a sop or something, just to get them shutup and to "prove" to the shareholders or whatever that "linux doesn't sell" so they could eventually abandon the idea and have it go away.. They had "dell recommends windows..yada yada" on top of the pages for the few models with ubuntu they were selling! I mean, WTF, I saw that and thought "no way am I ever buying from them for being such dickheads about it". And there was no price savings, and most models you couldn't get, and you had to hunt to even find those. It was a con from day one. Ya, they would sell you one, but their effort was some sort of con, a half assed attempt designed to fail. That's my opinion of course, can't prove it, but recommending windows on top of the linux computers page is rather glaring evidence that they never were sincere about the effort.
The fix has been in for a long long time now. Wintel on your boxes, or now Apple has such good cred with phones and whatnot they are using that to boost sales with their other offerings, and free operating systems are relegated to mostly server use and the one dude out of a thousand-that's it, one in a thousand maybe- who geeks out with the hardware. And even there the free software enthusiasts are dwarfed by just the gamers. Heck, most hardware geeking that kids do revolves around video games, I don't think this can be disputed, so that means Windows.
It looked for awhile that netbooks might provide the big breakthrough, but that is lost now as well, back to mostly windows on those things from the manufacturers.
I like linux just swell, use it exclusively. never tried any of the BSDs but I assume they work fine as well. so now you have to ask the question, why having totally free stuff doesn't work, and the only credible answer is, it isn't a real mainstream business, and there is no credible mainstream retail level business to be made from it. As such, it will continue to exist, but at low levels and "hidden" like in various gadgets with embedded systems, android phones, etc. But mainstreet-mainstream desktops and laptops, DOA. When Free and free doesn't work, it is no longer much of a viable business model, if it ever was to begin with.
Now if someone with really DEEP pockets wanted to out canonical canonical, and do a "stack", hardware plus guaranteed to work free software offering (just offering the software is not a real business model with any hope), and then advertised the snot out of it nation wide/globally..perhaps.
Short of that, small mom and pop "linux installed" sales, and a few enthusiasts, and that's it. And half the enthusiasts (right here on slashdot for one example) still use windows and a
Linux dropped to a rounding error? Really??
That's essentially where Linux stands in the July stats from Net Applications. The iPhone at 0.7%. Linux, all flavors, at 0.9%. Operating System Market Share [netmarketshare.com]
Depends on how they're counting the installs - notice that they ask in the survey about their "primary" OS... so dual-boots would likely translate to "Windows", since they'd use that on their non-mac computers for the majority of their actual schoolwork (read: Office docs, especially those ending in *.docx, *.xlsx, and such).
Perhaps the headline should be "PC Vendors Losing Big To Apple On Campus".
Surveys dealing with what kind of hardware people buy or plan to buy may not even ask what OS will be used, or if more than one OS will be installed. Certainly there are some people using Macs with more than one OS, but the share totals don't add up to more than 100% proving my point.
I think if a little effort were made to educate students to some of the advantages of Linux, many of those with PCs would at least add it to not be tota
*ITC provides limited support for these operating systems to connect to the unencrypted wahoo wireless network.
Sounds like they basically tell incoming freshman, "Don't use 'Linux,' use Windows or Mac OS X, or else we will not help you." Here is something else to consider:
http://www.uvastudentcomputers.com/shop_undergrad.asp?mscssid=30F0745C151949448828BA5BF0423D90 [uvastudentcomputers.com]
Notice that they place Apple's laptops higher on the page than Dell's or Lenovo's -- and that they choose words like "fastest" and "most powerful" to describe them (compare with the descriptions of other machines). This store is located in UVa's bookstore, and so incoming students are likely to purchase their computers from there. No surprise, then, that so many students at UVa are using Apple products.
Linux use has dropped from a high of 2.5% in 2004 to a rounding error this year.
Paraphrasing Principal Skinner: Why, there are no children using Linux, either! Am I so out of touch? (pauses to think) No, it's the children who are wrong.
Wouldn't it be easier to just watch them adapt?
I'm sure the majority of COBOL and FORTRAN programmers back in the '70s and '80s are still alive today, after all...
I'm sure the majority of COBOL and FORTRAN programmers back in the '70s and '80s are still alive today, after all...
Oh, we're alive, all right, but as to how many of us have decent tech jobs currently... that's something else. We cost more to insure, we tend to be less "hip", and we don't have the energy levels of a 20-year old. Nor are we particularly enthused about working more than a normal workday. And these are the (essentially correct) assumptions us "oldies" face when applying for any job. There
Apple is now the big man on campus?
Which is going to suck extra hard for them given what a complete disaster Microsoft Office for the Mac is!
(iWork is marginally better for some things, but in my experience both MacOffice and iWork suffer from various glaring compatibility problems with Windows Office!)
UVA is a state school, but is sometimes called the "public Ivy" (Bobby and Ted Kennedy both went to law school there after Harvard). UVA and William & Marry cater more to the polo shirt and pearl set crowd than other state schools here like VCU, ODU, etc, which are more what one would consider "public".
Everyone I know that went to UVA came from a fairly well-to-do background, or had insane amounts of financial aid. A couple of my friends had full-ride scholarships + stipends for undergraduate to UVA.
I would be surprised if more than 10% of the students there couldn't afford a Mac if they wanted one.
Interesting result. Certainly isn't the case at my local University. I do wonder about the demographic of the surveyed college? For example are they fairly wealthy?
As I said, I am deeply curious how rich these kids are.
UVa is a so-called "public Ivy". It's consistently rated in national Top 25 rankings every single year. Its competitors are schools like the Ivy's, U. of Chicago, the big 3 in California, Northwestern, etc. They're as selective as any Ivy, and so they're attracting the same kind of affluent students. There have been some complaints in the state of Virginia that UVa prefers out of state "stars" to some of its own better students (whether or not that's actually true, I don't know). But most UVa students, academic-wise and income-wise, wouldn't be out of place in any Ivy school. UVa has more in common with Brown or Dartmouth than they do with, say, Penn State.
Interesting result. Certainly isn't the case at my local University.
Bellevue Community College isn't a University... it's a Microsoft Outreach program.
I definitely see the trend growing here in St. Louis, MO -- including with students just getting ready to go away to college. They're not necessary well-off financially, but many of them work over the summer to save up for a new Mac to take with them. (That's exactly what our last babysitter was doing....)
A basic Macbook notebook just isn't all that expensive, in the grand scheme of things! I find it interesting so many PC/Windows users act like anything with the Apple logo on it is unattainably expensiv
You can run Windows on a Mac when you need.. But if you buy a Mac for the better hardware specs, you might as well play with the Mac OS - which you'll find runs smoother on Mac laptops than any Windows-based laptop I have seen. Just try the touchpad on the newest Mac laptop and you'll see it is far superior to any touchpad on any Windows laptop available now.
Seriously.. the laptops available for Windows fucking suck. They're shit. They're all shit since IBM sold Thinkpad to Lenovo. Dell makes shit. HP makes shit. The consumer 'Best Buy' laptops are shiny shit. The 'enterprise' class laptops are flimsy shit. Nothing available holds a candle to any of the Mac laptops in terms of hardware. They're all too thick or flimsy or get too hot. The only thing Mac is missing that would allow it to take over the enterprise is a docking station (probably because that's against Steve Job's whackjob religion.)
Show me a Windows laptop with hardware that can hold a candle to Mac's current lineup, and I'll buy one. I'm currently using a Dell M4400 and I think it's a flimsy piece of crap that has a formfactor as usable as a potato chip and somehow it gets good reviews. I don't own any Macs - but other developers I work with use them.
Oh ya.. and Windows 7 is a crappy OS that just happens to be less crappy than Vista.
It's really sad.. I went from being the biggest nerd in the world that had to have every latest and greatest gadget to being the most jaded. Every new electronic device from cell phones to laptops is missing features I used to have with an old device. At least Mac is making an attempt to introduce higher quality with newer devices. Every other company is racing to offer the cheapest piece of Chinese shit they can find.
If I haven't affended you a little, it's because I spent so little effort in my rant. Am I the only one that is completely annoyed by the lack of technological progression in consumer electronic devices - both hardware, software, and everything else that has to do with them?
OK, I accept your challenge: The HP EliteBook line. (Which are never in stock at Best Buy/Future Shop.)
I'm typing this on a three year old HP 2710p which has since become the 2740p. It's an extremely tough 3.6lb machine with a lovely screen and stylus support, trackpad and trackpoint, a light (like the ThinkPad lights). The battery is rated for 5:30, up to 11 with an optional slice. It can take a very slim dock for extra USB, DVD, video, etc. The 2740p has both touch and stylus support and can be conf
Seriously.. the laptops available for Windows fucking suck. They're shit. They're all shit since IBM sold Thinkpad to Lenovo.
You have a good point. I remember when I worked at university's IT department we treated Apples and Thinkpads as equals. When an affluent professor asked for a laptop recommendation, we recommended one of those, depending on OS choice. When a poor postdoc or a graduate student needed a laptop with the most computing bang for buck, we offered to setup a Dell Inspiron (price/performanc
Recently the private school my daughter goes to went 100% Macbooks and servers. Support and forced upgrade costs pushed the IT department to draw a line in the sand and decreed absolutely no MS allowed (except for Office).
Of course it's a double-edged sword. There's higher upfront costs but the TCO is greatly lowered through IT not having to deal with the all the problems related to using Microsoft software. And switching from one monopoly with crappy products to another potential monopoly with ok produc
I answer help desk phone calls at a large research university that brings in about 10,000 freshmen a year. It's very common for them, or their parents to ask "Which kind of laptop should we buy, PC or Mac?". It's not that they don't like one or the other, or they don't know the difference. It's not that they care which is cheaper, or which looks prettier. It's not that there's a particular processor that's better than another, or the graphics chipset is faster, or any of the geek stuff that we argue about.
They just want to know, for this campus, which machine will give them or their kid the least amount of hassle while doing everything they need to get through four years of classes. Will it run MS Office? Does it work with the on-campus apps (online class material, email, calendar, etc)? Is it going to break and cost me more money in two years? If it *does* break, how much of a PITA is it to get it fixed?
When people, incoming students or parents, ask which they should buy, I tell them honestly that I have a 13" white MacBook with OpenOffice that does everything I need for all of my classes, works with all of the on-campus apps I need to deal with, and generally causes me no grief, and I like it.
When people ask me which is better for dealing with viruses, I answer that 100% of the calls I receive for malware/virus infections are from PC users; I add that I still run antivirus software on my Mac, and the university requires all Mac users to run it, but I've never taken a Mac virus call. I am enough of a hacker to know that Mac OS X is not perfect, and that it has security holes. But I've yet to take a call that dealt with the results of one, and I've taken plenty of calls for Windows machines whose end resolution was a complete reinstall.
After that explanation, people go next door to the store and buy a Macbook, and I never hear from them again unless they have forgotten a password.
That, friends, is why Apple is kicking the crap out of machines running Windows.
Your post can be summed up in one line:
Computer *USERS* want the least amount of hassles to get the job done.
That is something many of the computer *ENTHUSIASTS* in the FOSS community do not understand, can't keep up with or refuse to accept, finding the idea offensive. That is why Linux is barely on the map ( I am and have been a linux user for 10 years ).
Microsoft won its market share on price for "good enough" quality versus excellent quality at a stiffer price.
That was a long time ago. As the article
I work at a university and I can confirm that you see a lot more Macs there than in the population at large. Number of reasons for this:
1) Apple is in with the hipster crowd and a lot of university students are. It is "cool" to own a Mac so they do for that reason alone. Same reason they'll spend $60 (really) on an Ed Hardy T-shirt (there's an Ed Hardy store right next to campus)
2) They tend to have more disposable income in that regard and income they aren't attached to. Normally their parents buy them a computer since all programs recommend it and some require it. Easier to spend extra money when the cost isn't your direct consideration.
3) The university computer store pushes Apple really heavy. The staff there are Mac fans and Apple gets a large amount of floor space, and that space is right near the entrance.
So you see a lot. But the majority? No not really. Also there's a big difference between Apple winning and MS losing. The computer store also does brisk business in Windows licenses and VMWare Fusion. Part of the reason Macs are now viable is that they run Windows. One of our student workers told an amusing story of the first test for 1Ls at law school. You have to have a laptop for it, they use a crappy automated testing software. Also, said software is Windows ONLY. This is clearly stated in the materials you get. This leads to much whining from the Mac owners, and then a run to the bookstore to buy Windows 7 and install it with bootcamp (said crap software won't run in virtualization mode).
Same kind of thing in the department I work in. We have a number of professors that buy Macs for their labs. In some cases, they only get a few. Their desktop, maybe a couple others are Mac and are used mainly for word processing and Internet surfing, maybe some Matlab work. The research systems are Windows. In others they are all Mac, and right after they get their shiny new Mac, they have us get a license for Windows 7 and Fusion. We have a number of important software packages that are Windows only. Also paying a premium for a Mac for a desktop isn't such a big deal, it is grant money anyhow. Paying a premium for a bunch of computers for simulations, well that is a bit harder to justify.
So ya, the point of all this rambling is that I've no doubt Mac sell well on campus, that is easy to see. However I do doubt that it is a majority, and I doubt even more that it is hurting MS.
College can be very demanding and any time at all spent paying attention to a computer or its software or its operation needs to be avoided. Linux is a superior OS but there is a learning curve and the time spent paying attention to the computer may drain the constant pressure towards narrow concentration on subject matters. Back in the day we used to see hackers who used Apple machines simply because they wanted to use all of their concentration in penetration of other peoples' systems.
Wouldn't lack of experience with Windows be a detriment to someone looking for employment in the business world, where Windows runs on well over 90% of all computers? I realize you can run Windows on a Mac, and many people do, but that seems like an expensive approach to gaining these valuable skills.
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In their 2007 best seller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams taught the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the new global marketplace. But much has changed in three years, and the principles of wikinomics are now more powerful than ever.
In this new age of networked intelligence, businesses and communities are bypassing crumbling institutions. We are altering the way our financial institutions and governments operate; how we educate our children; and how the health care, newspaper, and energy industries serve their customers.
In every corner of the globe, businesses, organizations, and individuals alike are using mass collaboration to revolutionize not only the way we work but how we live, learn, create, and care for each other. You'll meet such innovators as:
Once again backed by original research, In this new age of networked intelligence, businesses and communities are bypassing crumbling institutions. We are altering the way our financial institutions and governments operate; how we educate our children; and how the health care, newspaper, and energy industries serve their customers. Once again backed by original research, Tapscott and Williams provide vivid, new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics.
I got Macrowikinomics to learn about recent trends in social development but I think I fell for the hype. I got a lot of business buzzphrases ("interactive web pages"? How many websites are not interactive?) and fluff around some interesting background information on organizations that I was already familiar with. A decent, but nearly-outdated and overly optimistic assesment of the networked age.
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Similar to Wikinomics, this book offers the principles of networked intelligent media (collaboration, openness, sharing, integrity, and interdependence) and speculates about the impact of social networking. Tapscott and Williams apply their thinking to green energy, transportation, education, health care, media and government. They accomplish this through anecdotes and illustrations of how that media is being used in the changng economy. I enjoyed this book, but it isn't a great leap beyond the initial Wikinomics. They also devote a lot of space in chapters on green energy and transportation telling the reader how dire the climate situation has become. I have no real problem with that, but I was hoping for more insight into macrowikinomics, per se. Positively, if you have not read the prior book, this book does provide welcome and helpful illustrations of how social media is dramatically changing our economy and lives. The book is well written, very well read by Alan Sklar, and worth the time for those who are interested.
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How did the narrator detract from the book?
He would adopt an accent when reading a quotation. Very distracting because it was poorly done. He is no M.Streep!
Also, very noticeable breathing - sucking in of air before speaking.
As a result, I couldn't finish the book.
Any additional comments?
I would like to hear an executive summary with an accompanying PowerPoint. I have been to presentations by Don Tapscott. He is very interesting as a presenter.
The ideas can be conveyed with fewer words - in part by taking out the anecdotes and story telling.
Having heard a number of eye-opening interviews with Don Tapscott, I was utterly disappointed by this book. The subject matter is interesting and ultimately highly important, but struggles to shine beneath the stodgy language and over-explanations of the book's prose.
Clearly, the audience of this book is the layman, who has been living in the 1950s since, well, the 1950s. For a tech-savvy, future-focused reader like myself, there was hardly anything I hadn't heard before.
Strangely, while the book highlights a number of anecdotes and case studies of companies and individuals who are pushing the accepted norms, I don't feel enough suggestions and action steps were presented. I could do without the broad predictions using phrases like "governments will" and "corporations must". Only in the conclusion are we shown an honest laundry list of how we can (and should change).
I still have faith in this movement, and in the top-line notions discussed in the book. But I can't endorse this sterile, boring, tome. In the realm of pop economics and industry-based non-fiction, I'd suggest Chris Anderson, Alain de Botton, or Malcolm Gladwell.
The book's authors have many interesting and valid insights into a changing business world. However, if you are not a fan of Al Gore and the Obama administration, it is a tough pill to swallow.
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Jonathan Davies looks set to miss the rest of the Dove Men Series due to a pectoral injury suffered against the Springboks while Adam Jones, Liam Williams and Scott Andrews were all forced from the field. The loss of the four players certainly hindered Wales but Edwards believes such a hard encounter could have a positive impact going into the meeting with the Pumas.
"The level of the game at the weekend was outstanding and the standard of physicality and the breakdown in particular can only put us in good stead," said Edwards.
"I thought it was a Test match of epic proportions. There was no doubt it was a step up but I thought we matched that.
"I was really proud of the team for the way they hung in there despite the injuries we had, particularly to backs. They're a coach's nightmare and to lose two backs, reshuffle and still be within two points of them at 68 minutes was a sterling effort from the lads. If we can continue in that vein then good times will be ahead."
The injuries suffered against South Africa have led to calls up to the squad for props Sampson Lee and Rhodri Jones as well as Dragons duo Tom Prydie and Hallam Amos.
"We're still continuing to assess a number of players. Jonathan Davies' injury is more serious and he's pretty much out of this series," said Edwards.
"We're just hoping he's not going to be out of the Six Nations - it's a massive loss for us obviously."
On the new arrivals, who will train with the squad this week, the Wales defence coach added: "Rhodri Jones has been with us for a while, he's a very dynamic ball carrier and you think this guy is going to be a top player one day.
"Sampson Lee is probably a little bit different, he's an out and out scrummaging prop. Tom Prydie has been with us before. I was very impressed with him on the Japanese tour, he seems to have matured a lot and he's playing regular first team rugby. Hallam Amos has X factor ability.
"We've got to put time and effort into them so they understand the defensive systems. You can't expect a player to get to the level of Jonathan Davies in a week, it's impossible. But these guys all have their own individual skills which they're going to bring to the table."
Looking ahead to this weekend's visit of the Pumas, Edwards added: "Argentina are a very difficult team to play against.
"We're northern hemisphere champions and I think we always play better when we're under pressure. We really want to win this game on Saturday, there's no doubt about that."
Tickets for Wales against Argentina are available via www.wru.co.uk/tickets from £30 for adults and £10 concessions. There is also a family ticket available (2 Adults + 2 Kids) priced at £70.00.


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Congratulations to my sister-in-law, JJED, for logging her 300th find over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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What you'll find below is the player or team that garnered the most votes in each category, a quick breakdown who else picked up votes, and a majority opinion written by one of the six voters:
MLS MVP: Thierry Henry, New York Red Bulls
Only two other players recived votes in this category, and Henry was the only player to pick up multiple votes, pulling in four. Chris Wondolowski and Mauro Rosales each also had a nomination.
Avi Creditor's take on Henry as MVP: A finalist for MVP last season, Henry is coming off a 15-goal, 12-assist campaign and should have no problem replicating, or even exceeding, those numbers for a club that put the quality around him that should be conducive to a top-class showing.
Rookie of the Year: Kyle Bekker, Toronto FC
Bekker and Andrew Farrell both pulled multiple votes, with Bekker edging out the New England Revolution defender. The overriding theme seemed to be that both rookies would get enough playing time and be effective enough to be in consideration. Erik Hurtado of Vancouver also picked up a vote.
Goal.com Canada's Rudi Schuller's take on Bekker for ROY: Total homer pick by me, but he'll get lots of playing time in a position where TFC needs help, so why not?
Golden Boot: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose Earthquakes
It's hard to argue against a guy that is coming off the season that Wondolowski had in 2012, but the vote was close. Robbie Keane pulled two votes and Eddie Johnson earned one, with both expected to play big parts for good teams.
Keith Hickey's take on Wondolowski's Golden Boot chances: Last season, Wondo became the third player to win a second golden boot in MLS (Taylor Twellman and Jeff Cunningham being the others), and my money is on him to become the first player to win it two years in a row and the first to win three total.
Best New Foreign Signing: Nigel Reo-Coker, Vancouver Whitecaps
With plenty of options, this vote got split across five players. Reo-Coker was the only person to pull multiple votes, but Portland's Diego Valeri, New York's Juninho, pending Seattle Sounders arrival Obafemi Martins (his imminent signing from Levante is not yet complete, but his potential should he join MLS is high) and Sporting Kansas City's Claudio Bieler were all mentioned as well.
Allen Ramsey's take on Reo-Coker: Here's a player that has plenty of class through the middle of the park, is a ball winner and isn't so old that you should expect him to have just two or three good years left. The more Reo-Cokers MLS gets, the better the level of play will be in the league.
Breakout Player: Darren Mattocks, Vancouver Whitecaps
LA Galaxy and U.S. U-20 forward Jose Villarreal and San Jose Earthquakes forward Mike Fucito picked up single votes, but after Mattocks showed flashes of how good he could be last year, the majority feels that he is primed to bust loose.
Seth Vertelney's take on why Mattocks will have a big season: Watch how good he can be without any bizarre cooking accidents taking away two months of his season.
Comeback Player: Robbie Findley, Real Salt Lake
As is the case with MLS' loose definition of the award, it does not only have to go to a player returning from major injury, as evidenced by Eddie Johnson winning the honors last season. Conor Casey, Carlos Ruiz, Danny Koevermans and Benny Feilhaber all pulled votes, with Findley winning on the strength of being the only player picked twice.
Alex Labidou's take on Findley's return to RSL: This is usually the most ambiguous award of the postseason, so my money is on Findley. Returning to RSL's system should pay big dividends for the former United States international.
Supporters' Shield: Seattle Sounders FC
Sporting Kansas City, Seattle and New York all grabbed votes, but the Sounders took the split over SKC, with New York picking up one selection.
Allen Ramsey's take on the Sounders' outlook: Attacking talent, a midfield that can not only supply service and join in the attack, but break up play and win balls, and a defense that should be able to hold its own against the powers in the West. What more does Seattle need?
Team under the most pressure: Toronto FC
TFC, a team with very low expectations around the league, beat out two teams with high expectations in New York and Seattle, to win this vote going away.
Rudi's Schuller's take on the pressure in Toronto: The once boisterous fanbase has dwindled and become restless, and TFC is under a ton of pressure to at least show signs of life in order to stay relevant in a city where the other sports franchises are finally looking competitive again.
Most improved team: New England Revolution
Once again the vote was split. Vancouver, Montreal, Colorado, Portland each picked up one vote, with two votes going to New England.
Keith Hickey on why the Revs will be better in 2013: That the Revs scored just 39 goals last year is mind-boggling, considering the attacking talent they have available. A full year with no injuries, and Jay Heaps should have no problem getting goals out of a talented crew of Jerry Bengston, Lee Nguyen, and Kelyn Rowe (in addition to Saer Sene when he returns from his torn ACL).
MLS Cup winner: Houston Dynamo
Despite Seattle and Sporting Kansas City taking most of the votes for the Supporters' Shield, both were way behind Houston in the voting for which team would be crowned as champion. Houston picked up three votes, with SKC, Seattle and New York each pulling one. Perhaps surprisingly, two-time defending champion LA wasn't shown any love.
Avi Creditor's take on the Dynamo's title chances:With no major defections, shrewd additions in Omar Cummings, Eric Brunner and Andrew Driver, full seasons of Oscar Boniek Garcia and Giles Barnes and a playoff-tested squad to boot, the Dynamo will put the past two MLS Cup failures in the rear-view mirror by hoisting the trophy this season.


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'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete 305
An anonymous reader writes "Australian surgeon Guy Hingston is suing Google in the U.S. for 'auto-complete' defamation. Typing in his name brings up 'Guy Hingston bankrupt' in the auto-complete. The association seems to have come about because Hingston purchased an aviation group CoastJet which went bankrupt two-and-a-half years later. Hingston himself was also bankrupted. Hingston claims this association has cost him customers and is suing Google for $75k, plus court costs. Google has often found itself the target of litigation over auto-complete searches. Are auto-complete results even useful? Should Google be policing the auto-complete suggestions?"


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Joe Mauer finished 4-for-5 with a solo home run, three RBI and two runs scored to lead the Minnesota Twins to an 8-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the opener of a three-game set Monday at Target Field.
Trevor Plouffe tallied two hits, including a solo homer, and Pedro Florimon added a pair of RBI and a run scored for the Twins, who snapped a five-game skid.
"It was a good night," Mauer said. "The ball was carrying better. The balls I hit carried pretty good. I've been disappointed a few times this season, but tonight it was flying a little bit better."
Kevin Correia (1-1) limited the Angels to eight hits and two runs over seven frames to earn the victory. The right-hander struck out five and walked one.
Peter Bourjos and Brendan Harris each stroked solo shots to account for Los Angeles' offense, while starter Joe Blanton (0-3) was touched for four runs on nine hits over 4 2/3 frames for the Halos, who had won two straight.
"It's early," Blanton said of his team's struggles. "You can only say that for so long, but three starts in, I think you look at history and guys will turn around and start going into seven innings and hopefully be able to stay here."
After both teams plated a run in the first and third innings, Plouffe led off the bottom of the fourth with a towering fly ball into the left-field seats to give the Twins the lead for good.
Mauer followed an inning later with a leadoff blast of his own to make it a two-run game before the Minnesota catcher knocked in another run with a single in the sixth to push the Twins' lead to 5-2.
Minnesota then broke the game open with a three-run eighth, as Aaron Hicks worked a leadoff walk, stole second, and found third on LA reliever Mark Lowe's wild pitch.
Brian Dozier followed with a walk before Florimon stroked a double to left to score Hicks and Dozier for a 7-2 lead.
Mauer capped his offensive outburst two batters later, as his single to center scored Florimon to account for the final margin.
Bourjos launched the fifth pitch of the game over the wall in left-center field to give the Halos an early 1-0 lead, but the Twins answered in the bottom half when Mauer scorched a one-out double before scoring on Ryan Doumit's two-out single.
LA again led briefly in the third when Harris started the frame with his first homer of the season.
The Twins countered in the bottom half though, as Darin Mastroianni led off with a single and stole second before scoring on Justin Morneau's double to tie the game at 2-2.
Game Notes
All players and on-field personnel wore No. 42 on their uniforms to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. Sixty-six years ago, Robinson played in his first major league game, breaking the color barrier in baseball ... Minnesota outfielder Oswaldo Arcia, who was recalled on Monday, smacked a single in the second for his first major league hit ... Minnesota went 5-for-14 with runners in scoring position and left eight on base ... LA went 0-for-5 with men in scoring position and stranded six baserunners.


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Instructor(s) Gaines, Martha (Meg), Davis, Sarah, Mednick, Aphra
The Center for Patient Partnerships trains students in health care patient advocacy in the clinical course 768-001. Students work in an interdisciplinary environment, providing patient advocacy to individuals living with a serious and life threatening illness.
Students help clients and families negotiate insurance disputes, apply for financial assistance/charity care, tap existing and new support networks, find new or experimental treatments, learn to participate in their care team, protect employment rights, secure private and public disability benefits, and access appropriate medical care. Students learn about law related to insurance, public benefits, rights and responsibilities, Social Security, employment law re: illness/disabilities, power of attorney for health care and estate planning.
Students practice skills for effective patient-centered advocacy, including how to empathize, listen actively, respect confidentiality, communicate effectively with clients, uphold professional ethics, interview clients effectively, and manage complex cases.
For more information about the Center for Patient Partnerships visit our website, www.patientpartnerships.org. Students must submit an application and have instructor permission to enroll in course 768-001.


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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced plans Tuesday to launch a pilot epidemiological study of cancer risks near six nuclear power plants, including San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in north San Diego County.
The commission is acting out of growing concern that using uranium to produce electricity may be dangerous even without accidents at nuclear plants. In addition, recent epidemiological studies in Germany and France suggest that the children living near nuclear reactors are twice as likely to develop leukemia.
The U.S. study will be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, which will also help the commission determine whether to extend the study to all 65 U.S. nuclear power plants and certain nuclear fuel sites.
The pilot study will investigate cancer rates in each census tract within a 30-mile radius of the nuclear facilities, and assess cancers in children younger than 15 whose mothers lived near a nuclear facility during pregnancy. About 1 million people live within five miles of operating nuclear plants in the United States, and more than 45 million live within 30 miles, nuclear regulatory officials said.


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Brazil's World Cup golden boys reduced to broken men
In shirt colour and quality, Brazil have set world football's gold standard. Germany's crushing of the hosts presents the game's No.1 power with a new struggle to retain their standing as the go-to nation for talent.
Juninho Paulista, a member of 2002 World Cup winning squad, called the 7-1 defeat in Belo Horizonte "an alarm signal for Brazilian football," adding: "Prioritising physical force from the lowest levels has limited our players and we forgot what's best about Brazil: the midfielder who can create."
A sceptic would say "physical force" was one of the virtues Brazil lacked, as the best midfield at this tournament rolled over Fernandinho and Luiz Gustavo and then demolished David Luiz and Dante. Brazilian machismo, much discussed in the build-up, descended into feebleness.
Yet Juninho's point is well made. The 11 players who earned nought out of 10 in the Brazilian daily O Globo carry a double burden. Already they have taken up a slot in their country's history as ghosts in the most embarrassing result since the 1950 final defeat to Uruguay at the Maracana.
Back at their clubs, they may no longer appear to fans as the reliable core of any self-respecting Champions League side. Those £25 million price tags may look wonky on players who appeared woefully prosaic against the magisterial Germans.
In the stadium and on the streets that night, mortification took precedence over anger. The expected eruption of disorder never materialised (or not in the immediate aftermath). As one media bus made its way back into town, a Brazilian man rushed from a bar to make an obscene gesture at journalists and yank at the badge on his replica jersey. Some girls tried to rip a flag from the car of triumphant German supporters. For the most part, though, shame and bewilderment shaped the reaction.
A personal theory is that the rampant emotionalism of Luiz Felipe Scolari's players burned up a lot of the hysteria. The overcooking of Neymar's absence - the No.10 shirt held up for the anthem was cringe-inducing - turned what should have been a tactical and technical challenge into an opera for a lost brother. Luiz's weeping at the end may have rendered many Brazilians too startled to indulge their own despair, though many cried. The players themselves were so obviously broken men that it may have seemed unnecessary for the population to take on the role of mourners.
The pathos was already taken care of. The damage to the credibility of the game here, however, is universal, and may even be felt in downward pressure on transfer fees and wages as clubs seize the chance to reclassify Brazil as a B-grade provider of talent.
The statistics say that in last season's Champions League there were 52 Brazilians, with only Spain (78) and Germany (55) supplying more combatants. England had 23.
One recent count of Brazilian footballers across the globe reached 1169, an extraordinarily high number. There were 606 in the top divisions of 40 European nations. France was next, with 579. This illustrates the scale and value of football for Brazil as an export industry. In the short-term, the 7-1 thrashing is bound to dim the glow of players such as Paulinho, Fernandinho and poor Fred, who was dismal. Rightly or not, Brazilian midfielders may seem factory-produced.
This defeat was worse than 1950, most commentators here agreed, because it was a wipeout, in a Brazil World Cup, by a country who have stolen the Brazilian way of sumptuous passing and kaleidoscopic pressing. Toni Kroos might have been an illustrious Brazilian No.8, threading passes and seeing the whole landscape of the pitch. Thomas Mueller might have been the darting, eager figure in an old Selecao. First Spain devised a national style of play that relegated Brazil to the chasing pack. Then Germany threatened to open a new era in international football, annexing Ronaldo's World Cup scoring record, though Miroslav Klose.
Brazil's media led the assault, with O Globo proclaiming a day of "Embarrassment, Shame, Humiliation," and insisting: "Brazilian football has only one solution: to resuscitate. Brazilian football has to be born again. It has to be reborn."
Now they know how England feel. We keep this kind of apocalyptic language on a loop. Maybe Brazil's mistake was appropriating so many English names. Fred, Bernard and Jo may have sucked them into the mire. It is a flippant point, but even the names of these Brazilian players lack the resonance of a Socrates or Ronaldinho. Or perhaps we just sensed a while back that they were unusually short on creativity.
Fernandinho, who will return to Manchester City under a weather system to match the area, is among those facing a struggle to forget, or at least recover. "Incredible things happened," he said, like a man at the scene of an accident. "We can try to explain for the rest of our lives, but we cannot find the words to explain this situation. I've never experienced anything like that in my life. It's the first time. I'm not sure how long it will take for me to get over this. This pain is big, big. All we can say is sorry to the people."
There is a huge financial incentive for the Brazilian football industry to find solutions. This great country cannot send its players abroad with a sign saying: "Buyer beware."
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Love is in the air at Logan — especially during a snowstorm.
Boston's often-maligned Logan International Airport has been named one of the top four airports in the country for making a romantic connection by the dating website MeetAtTheAirport.com. But the ranking isn't about the airport's buzzing nightlife or alluring atmosphere — neither of which actually exists there, as far as we know. It's about lousy weather, and what some of the airport's 29 million annual passengers do to keep themselves occupied while they wait for delayed flights
Which means if you're in the mood for love and flying out of Boston on Tuesday, you're in luck. The forecast calls for up to 7 inches of snow, which is bound to lead to at least a few long layovers — and bored travelers looking for companionship.
There's nothing like being stuck in an airport with nowhere to go and not much to do to fan the flames of flirtation. Airports also make a great spot for meeting people because they are so safe, said Steve Pasternack, the site's chief executive, a former Wall Street commodities trader who also started the dating site sugardaddie.com.
"What other public place will do a fully-body search for weapons and check for several forms of ID before they let them through to meet you?" he said.
To become a member of MeetAtTheAirport.com, people enter basic dating details: eye color, height, hobbies, as well as their nearest airport. When members book a trip, they enter the day and time and location of the flight, and the site connects them with travelers who have similar itineraries. To compile the rankings, the website considered airport size, the number and quality of eating and drinking establishments, Yelp reviews, flight delays, and survey results from its 70,000 members.
Orlando International Airport, which has a Hyatt Regency inside the main terminal with a flat $99 rate for daytime stays, topped the list of hookup-worthy airports. Miami came in second in part due to its large number of international flights.
One in six departures from Logan were delayed last year, according to the aviation data site Flightstats.com, ranking Logan 14th among the top 35 North American airports in on-time departures. There have been 35 "love connections" at Logan, resulting in one marriage, since the MeetAtTheAirport.com began in late 2011, according to the website.
Boston is the third most popular city in terms of residents who belong to the site, and members at Logan log in to the site three times as often as the average user.
"We should be higher," Matthew Brelis, spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan, said of the airport's ranking as the country's fourth-hottest pickup joint. "New Englanders are well known for their ability to ignore the bad weather."Katie Johnston can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @ktkjohnston.


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The lights are on
RPG elements are a fantastic pairing with side-scrolling beat 'em ups. Sure, it's enough to hit parades of baddies, but it's so much more fulfilling when slashes and smashes get stronger over time.
Sacred Citadel aims to recapture the joy of yesteryear's side-scrollers, but not without making concessions for modern sensibilities. Each of the four characters offers multiple weapon types and different skills handled by an RPG system. Three players can adventure together via drop-in/drop-out cooperative play, and the story provides the setup for the next Sacred RPG.
This title also marks new independence for developer Southend Interactive. The studio had been operating under the auspices of Tactel Holding AB.
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Can Obama earn that Nobel Peace Prize?
Bill Press: Despite some vacilating, president could end up winner on Syria in long run
In his masterful portrayal of John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorensen, special counsel to the president, revealed JFK's occasional frustration with the job of president. One evening, while changing clothes to get ready for a televised address to the nation on the Cuban missile crisis, following a contentious meeting with leaders of Congress, Kennedy turned to Sorensen in disgust and said: "If they want this ––- job, they can have it."
You can't help but imagine that Barack Obama feels the same way today about Syria. For the last two years, on every front, he's been "damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't." We should supply arms to the rebels; no, if we do so, we're only helping al-Qaida. We should mount a no-fly zone over rebel-held territory; no, because that's an act of war, and we don't want to get involved in another war in the Middle East. We should have bombed Syria the first time they used chemical weapons; no, the president can't use military force without congressional authorization. The poor guy can't win for losing.
Now, admittedly, part of the blame for confusion over Syria rests with the president himself. To put it mildly, his approach to Syria has not always been steady or easy to follow. For two years, our stated goal was to get rid of Bashar al-Assad, but we did nothing about it. When Obama walked into the Rose Garden on Aug. 31, we reporters expected him to announce plans for a military strike. Instead, he announced plans to consult Congress first. Then, when Congress rushed back to vote, he changed course again and asked them not to vote while he explored Syria's sudden offer, conveyed through Russian President Vladimir Putin, to surrender its chemical weapons to U.N. inspectors.
And now the Eeyores of Washington are quick to point out all the perils of Obama's pursuing this possible 11th-hour diplomatic solution. For starters, you have to trust both Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. Then you've got to get a resolution through the United Nations Security Council. Then you have to send in a team of U.N. monitors, which might include a few Americans. So that does mean we're putting "boots on the ground." And then you have to locate all the weapons, round 'em up, secure 'em and then destroy 'em. All of this must be accomplished in the middle of a civil war. And, of course, this whole process will take a lot of time: weeks, months, maybe even years. How do we know Assad won't use chemical weapons again in the meantime?
Enough, already. There are a hundred reasons for not taking the Russian proposal seriously. But there's one reason why Obama has no choice: Because it's the best possible option. True, getting the United Nations to agree on a plan, getting Putin and Assad to stick to their word and getting rid of all those weapons won't be easy. But, if we can pull it off, it's a heck of a lot better than another war. And the United States always has the military option available – with the support of more countries, next time – if everything falls apart.
There's one other potentially big payoff. Our end goal, remember, is the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power. Negotiations on the surrender and destruction of Syria's chemical weapons will bring all parties to the table: the United States, Russia, Syria and the rebels – who must agree to safe conduct for U.N. personnel. It will require concessions by Assad. It will deprive him of his most lethal weapons. There's no guarantee, but it will at least improve the chances that, once the issue of WMD is resolved, all parties can continue negotiations toward the end of that nation's deadly civil war and a transition of power in Syria.
In light of that big picture, all the grumbling about Obama's clumsy handling of Syria seems petty. So what if his course of action's been uncertain, even sloppy, at times? So what if he's pivoted from diplomacy to military action and back to diplomacy again? It's not the process that counts, it's the end result.
So far, President Obama has brought Syria to its knees with the threat of a military strike. If he can now negotiate the peaceful surrender of Syria's chemical weapons without firing a shot, he will have earned his Nobel Peace Prize.


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Upcoming outdoors events.
Sportsmen's expo - The annual International Sportsmen's Exposition, the premier hunting, fishing and travel show since 1975, returns to Cal Expo in Sacramento. The show features equipment, seminars and travel information for all ages. Times: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 10-11; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Jan. 12; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 13. Tickets: $15 for adults, free for children and youth under age 16 and active military with a military ID card. Information: sportsexpos.com
Bird festival - The 6th annual Galt Winter Bird Festival will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at McCaffrey Middle School, 997 Park Terrace Drive, Galt. The event includes wild animal presentations, guest speakers, demonstrations, exhibits, free youth activities, food vendors and many wildlife viewing tours. Information and tour signups: ci.galt.ca.us or (209) 366-7115.
Hunter safety classes - Valley Waterfowl's and the Galt Parks and Recreation Department are teaming to provide hunter safety classes for youth and adults on Feb. 22-24; April 26-28; June 21-23; and Aug. 23-25. Cost is $10. Signups are limited to the first 25 students for each of the three class sessions. Information: Bruce Bullard (209) 744-2766.


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Sioux Falls Getting Rock & Roll Academy
Chuck Brennan, a former Sioux Falls Boys Club kid who has since had success as an entrepreneur, has struck the first chord with a donation of $100,000 and has committed funding nearly $3,000,000 to provide the rock & roll program to the kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire for the next 20 years. The Brennan Rock & Roll Academy will be located in a prime location on the historic Sioux Falls' loop. Mr. Brennan grew up near 8th and Covell, less than a mile from the Historic Loop Plaza that he built with his business partner, Keith Bergh. As a kid, he used to ride his bike up to the construction site when they were building the original Hardee's restaurant. As the years passed and the neighborhood started to decline he was thrilled to spearhead the development project that sparked an entire revitalization of the neighborhood.
To announce this new programming, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire is holding a "ground rocking" event on Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 at 3:30pm at 900 W 11th Street, Sioux Falls, SD.
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire (BGCSE) is thrilled with this multi-million dollar donation commitment from Chuck Brennan to open the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy which will provide music education for Boys & Girls Club kids that focuses on Rock & Roll instruments, including guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums, and vocals. Currently the club does not have a music program of any sort. Brennan and his wife Mary donate hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to various children's charities. They got the idea from his son Jett who attends the "School of Rock" in Las Vegas and his friend Alice Cooper who has a similar incredible program in Phoenix called the Solid Rock Foundation.
Helping to ensure the success of the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy, Mr. Brennan has brought on board the Academy's very own Rock & Roll Ambassador, Kory Van Sickle. Kory is the founder/lead singer/songwriter of Kory and the Fireflies, and will join forces with Brennan Rock & Roll Academy by consulting and co-creating with the organization. Chuck envisions Kory's involvement to be "a sort of a living example for the students at Brennan Rock & Roll Academy of what they can aspire to."
Members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire will receive weekly one-on-one lessons with professional musicians, along with weekly band rehearsals to prepare for upcoming concerts. As they continue to cultivate their skills, they will participate in a live performance in front of a real crowd. Van Sickle will also speak with Academy students and instructors, sharing his experiences with the intention of inspiring the future rock and rollers. "The fact that this type of facility and program will be offered for free to the members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire is simply amazing", said Brennan, "This joint is going to change some lives and bring a level of cool to these children that they may have never had a chance to experience".
By participating in the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy, students will go through their own unique musical journey. In addition to learning to play instruments or sing, youth will learn how to work in groups and gain confidence that will serve them throughout their lives. In order to rock at the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy, a youth must be a member of the Boys & Girls Club. The Eastside Boys & Girls Club is a safe, drop-in afterschool and evening program for youth from 1st grade to age 18 located at 700 S. Sneve Avenue, Sioux Falls. Membership is $25 per year per child, which includes all programming, meals and activities. Knowing that transportation can be an issue for kids and families, Brennan will also provide the BGCSE with "super cool transportation" to allow kids to attend the Academy and/or the Eastside Boys & Girls Club.
The Eastside Club focuses on five core areas: Character & Leadership, Career & Education, Health & Life Skills, the Arts, and Sports, Fitness & Recreation. These core areas are woven into programming that is fun, engaging and positive. Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls, shaping them into future leaders, employees and community members.
Thank you Chuck, for keeping rock and roll alive and well in our city!


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The label on the beer looks like an album cover, with a floating reptilian eye and two gray pyramids that bring to mind Pink Floyd. Scan its QR code with your smartphone and a music video appears: the Baltimore indie group Lower Dens performing their droning, nihilistic number "In the End Is the Beginning."
The music, in a sense, is also in the bottle. A pour reveals a hazy orange beer called Sensory Series Vol. 1, brewed by Brian Strumke of Baltimore's Stillwater Artisanal Ales. He had hoped to translate the song's sound into aroma and taste. The result? A Belgian-influenced saison with berrylike depth and a hint of smoke.
Strumke's new, esoteric project embodies an intriguing trend. Across the country, brewers have been making beers in collaboration with musicians or otherwise inspired by music, a phenomenon that sheds light on how rock, heavy metal and other styles have influenced the iconography and culture of craft beer.
"It's cool that I'm seeing more projects like this pop up, because beer is artistic, or at least it can be," says Strumke, who once roamed the United States and Europe as a professional DJ and wants to release three more Sensory Series beers this year. "The more we can bring other artistic elements into the world of beer, the more it is validated as being a possible art form and not just a manufacturing industry."
Strumke is hardly the first musically inclined brewer to unite his two passions. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery's Sam Calagione -- "I played sax a little bit in grade school and then fell in love," he says, especially with punk rock and jazz -- is well known for the beers in his Music Series, which he launched in 2010.
Those include Hellhound on my Ale, a double India pale ale that tastes like caramel and citrus peel and is a tribute to Robert Johnson, the blues guitarist who has been called "the grandfather of rock and roll." Last summer, Calagione released Firefly Ale, the official beer of Delaware's Firefly Music Festival, which was headlined by rock acts including the Killers and the Black Keys.
Music influences Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock, the co-founders of DC Brau, who regularly spin records at Washington's U Street Music Hall and elsewhere as the Brothers Brau. Two weeks ago, they collaborated on a beer with Colorado's Ska Brewing and the D.C.-based ska band the Pietasters. Eventually, they hope to brew beers with the punk band Regents and the heavy-metal group Darkest Hour.
The Pietasters collaboration, a German-style doppelbock laced with cold-brewed coffee, will debut in March, and DC Brau will donate the profits to a scholarship fund honoring Todd Eckhardt, the late Pietasters bassist, says Skall, DC Brau's chief executive. The beer is called Taster's Choice, a nod to the instant-coffee brand and a Pietasters song of the same name.
In fact, DC Brau often sneaks songs and lyrics into the names of its beers, Skall points out, such as the brewery's Your Favorite Foreign Movie (a Steely Dan lyric), Ghoul's Night Out (a punk song by the Misfits) and Thyme After Thyme (a Cyndi Lauper reference).
Setting aside the brewery's homage to the iconic performer of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," those decisions reflect a pattern that might, by now, be obvious. The music in question is almost always some sort of rock, also a touchstone for Strumke, Calagione and too many other brewers to count.
The rock-beer connection is at least partially based on demographics such as race and gender. According to data cited last year by the communications firm Beverage Media Group, 80 percent of craft beer, by volume, is ingested by white consumers, most of whom are between the ages of 21 and 44. And 75 percent of the total volume of craft beer is consumed by men. Meanwhile, according to the most recently published Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted in 2008 by the National Endowment for the Arts, men and whites tend to like rock music more than women and members of other races. People in the 18-to-44 age bracket are also the most avid fans of contemporary rock.
It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that a new experiment by Tomme Arthur, director of brewery operations at California's Port Brewing and its sister brand the Lost Abbey, was so successful. Last fall, beer geeks paid a whopping $450 for limited-edition "Ultimate Box Sets" of a dozen barrel-aged Lost Abbey beers, "Tracks" 1 through 12.
The bottles were packed in black vinyl road cases with aluminum edges and named for songs by the likes of Iron Maiden and Van Halen.
"The basic premise was a box that looked like it could be loaded onto the truck going to the next show," Arthur says.
He adds, "If we'd come out with a classical-music set, I'm not sure it would have inspired the same kind of fervor."


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(NEW YORK) — New York City police officers lifted a taxicab off a 19-year-old man over the weekend.
Officers responding to reports of a traffic incident around 2:50 a.m. Sunday in the Bronx arrived to find a pedestrian trapped beneath the cab, according to Sgt. Brendan Ryan of the NYPD.
Several officers, working together, were able to lift the cab off the man, who was not identified, and transport him to a nearby hospital where he remains in critical condition. His injuries have not been specified.
The driver of the taxi cab remained on the scene and no charges are likely, according to police. Police have not released the name of the victim, described as a young Hispanic male, or any details about the rescue as the investigation is ongoing.
An eyewitness who captured the rescue on camera told ABC News he believed the victim was involved in an altercation at a nearby restaurant before he ran into the street.
"Cops were chasing this guy yelling, 'No, stop, stop!'" Enrique Elias told ABC News. "Then I heard a loud noise and looked outside and started to take pictures. When I realized they were going to move the car I started to film video. It was incredible."
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The Oakland Press (http://www.theoaklandpress.com)
Friday, December 6, 2013
Those who call names at our president, you nitpick everything he does. You never talk about the good he does. As far as him being stupid, he's not and he could run circles around you and that is why he is president and you're not and that is what is bothering you. Face it, he is not going anywhere.
Bloomfield Hills
I totally agree with the opinion page regarding the student who wants to study at the hospital, 24/7. The hospital is for sick people and their families.
West Bloomfield
I can't believe that Rochester is going to use 18 acres for townhouses and expect to get two thousand dollars a month for them. Who in the sam hill can afford that? Couldn't they use the land for something people can afford?
There is a store in Rochester Hills which deserves a lot of credit named Kroger, the one on Silver Bell and Adams Rd. The employees are always friendly and eager to help. We appreciate the service and thank all of them.
Auburn Hills
Obamacare has had its problems but I wonder those who are complaining have had to go without insurance. Giving medical care to those in need is the right thing to do. I hope you wake up soon and sees the light. It so necessary.
Rochester Hills
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The Caddo Herald
October 20, 1942
Frank B. Semple Writes about Soldiers Mail
And The Masons and Herald
Ft. Rackman, Mass. Sept 22, '42
Masonic Lodge, Caddo, Okla.:
I wish to take this opportunity and manner of thinking you for your contribution to the men from Caddo who are now in the services- The Caddo Herald.
The gesture is one of the finest and certainly one of the most appreciated that could be made by a group of home town men. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps feed us; give us weapons to make us the best fighting men in the world. But Uncle Sam cannot manufacture the mail, not the kind the young fellow out there likes to get.
The mail clerk calls out names of Jones, Smith, Brown. They grin, make a grab for the letter, card, or paper or package. One by one the contents of the mail sack are handed out. Faces are alight. Hearts beat a little faster. These are little pieces of home; home that may be thousands of miles away.
There are a few men who turn away from the eager circle around the mail clerk. Nothing for them. Out of sight; out of mind. Not that they are unloved at home. Just that some of the folks at home did not realize how desperately the youth at the front , sailing the dangerous seas, guarding some lonely beach, needed mail from home.
Mail is important in the armed services. Congress passed a bill so that service men could always write home. The Government risked a submarine to carry United States mail to Corregidor.
The only copy of the Caddo Herald that arrives at this post is thoroughly digested every Tuesday a.m. I am sure the Caddo boys all over the world appreciate this little piece of home.
Very truly,
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It's an important night for several basketball teams in the panhandle, and all across the state.
For local teams it's a chance to make the trip to the state final four...
Port St. Joe is one of those teams looking for a regional title and a berth in the final four...
They played host to Pensacola Christian tonight in the 2a playoffs... The tiger sharks earn their 16th regional title, 55-45.
The Sharks advance to the final four against Tampa Prep on Friday March 5th.
In 4a and Rutherford on the road against Creekside in just it's second regional final ever, and Rutherford gets the 55-49 win. They earn the second trip to the final four, the first in 16 years.
They will play Fort Meyers on Friday for a trip to the championship game.
Niceville also hosting in 5a, taking on Gainesville and the Eagles get the win 41-38.
So, that's the third area team heading to the final four in Lakeland, the eagles will play Sickles on Wednesday.


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Emanuela de Paula Has Never Even Heard of Snow
Glam Life: A kind soul digs up the only five issues of Star, the premiere magazine of early 70s west-coast groupie culture. Looks like it was quite a scene. [Boing Boing]
Sartorial Man: Scott Schuman waxes poetic, gets his hair cut and wears the hell out of an overcoat. [The Sartorialist]
Sock 'Em: A few of the world's more colorful socks, in honor of cold ankles. [Unabashedly Prep]
Spiked Bats are the New Axes: Nike Sportswear put together this spiked bat as part of their latest installation. Adidas better watch themselves. [Yimmy Yayo]


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(16) Anonymous, June 10, 2016 7:45 AM
Evolution and all that Jazz
My comments are based on a number of key books that are essential reading: "Genesis and Genes" by Yoram Bocagz, "Torah, Chazal and Science" by Moshe Meiselman. "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" by Thomas Nagel.
Part I
The scientific community has moved on from Darwinian expressions of 'evolution'. Its a moot point to talk about it because it lacks that scientific rigor that is required today. Darwin didn't have a complete fossil record, he had no understanding of DNA and genetics and his theory of natural selection was primitive compared to Neo-darwinian formulations today.
There are a number of major issues that need to be dealt with. 1. Our assessment of life today involves the highly controversial discussion about speciation and species - what they are and how to define them. There is no single definition that can be used throughout biology. You can't talk about macro-processes if you don't have a clear definition of species. 2. Evolution is defined differently in different contexts by different biological fields. The definition that is usually described in the debates amongst scientists and intelligent design followers, requires a process of macro changes that result in a change in species. However, micro changes within the same class of animal are usually never in dispute, but the definition of evolution in this framework is used in the other - conflating the issue and making things unintelligible.
3. Evolution as biologists refer to it, is a hard presumption to articulate because it fails dismally in the scientific method. The scientific method at least according to Popper requires predictable results that are quantifiable and tested. Evolution's predictions are almost none. Which doesn't make it a theory, however much scientists would like it to be. to be continued in Part 2...
(15) Chani, May 21, 2013 10:59 AM
This video is cool!
(14) Gloria E. Schroeder, May 15, 2013 9:34 PM
beautiful / inspiring / strengthening
(13) Prof. Feldman, PhD, May 13, 2013 6:01 PM
Torah has proven to be the best University
The more I read the Torah, the more I study the Torah, the more I discuss and get into debates about the Torah and its history and teachings and laws, the more I realize it is the best University a person can attend. The laws os phisics, of linguistics, of nature in general are measured by science through observation and analizis. Science can analyze the Torah but it cannot apprehend all the layers and dimensions of the Torah because the Torah is revealed by a different technique of studying and reading.
I learnt more with Tzvi Klor in a year in Jerusalem than in 20 years at university because there´s nothing above or below heaven or the earth that has not been made by Hashem.
The fact we do not understand why we suffer or why we get sick or something bad happens to a loved one DOES NOT mean there is no G´d.
Hashem is not there to be seen, to explain things or to serve us. We serve the King of the Universe, not the opposite. The King of Universe gave us the Torah (to say it is a code of laws or a kind of constitution to be followed is to say the least) and when our way diverge from it we either find ourselves in a dead end.
No matters what others say or do, Hashem is our Lord, Hashem is One, our King
Science cannot discuss what it cannot see. Hashem is also feeling, perceiving, apprehending and more than all knowledge.
Hashem, Baruch Shemo, Bless Israel and all its allies
(12) Willy Basic, May 31, 2012 2:44 AM
What an inspiring message! Of course the Bible is the greatest book, bar none. It would be difficult to name any human composition which has had so extended and so lasting an affect. Everyone knows that it was translated into the language of every country. It worked nothing short of miracles. Like the Torah says, As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. Finally, I quote Henry Adams who was the son and grandson of Presidents (the Adam's -- John and John Quincy), who said that "the Jews are the finest exponents of all virtue, honor and valor."


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Seattle Mariners catcher Jesus Montero is the latest name to be connected to the South Florida-based anti-aging clinic suspected of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to major league players, according to a report in the New York Daily News published Wednesday.
The article stated that the former New York Yankees top prospect was listed in the records of Biogenesis of America, the clinic run by notorious athletic consultant Anthony Bosch with alleged ties to a number of players either accused of or proven to have been involved in previous steroid use.
Biogensis initially came into recent news by a story from the Miami New Times last week claimed that Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and several other notable major leaguers were among the names found in a notebook of Bosch, who was previously linked to Manny Ramirez when the star slugger was suspended by MLB for violating the league's drug policy in 2009.
A Yahoo! Sports report that came out Tuesday also pegged Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and 2011 National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun as having an involvement with Bosch's clinic, which is currently under investigation by MLB.
Melky Cabrera, Nelson Cruz, Gio Gonzalez and Bartolo Colon are among others who have been implicated in the growing scandal.
Montero, who was traded by the Yankees to Seattle prior to last season, is also a client of the ACES sports agency run by Seth and Sam Levinson. The Brooklyn-based brothers also represent Cabrera, handed a 50-game suspension by MLB this past summer after testing positive for elevated levels of testerone while then a member of the San Francisco Giants.
The Levinsons are also being probed by MLB for their possible involvement in Cabrera's attempt to cover up his steroid use by creating a fictitious website intended to be selling supplements blamed for the outfielder's positive test.
Both Rodriguez, who admitted in 2009 that he used PEDs during his time with the Rangers from 2001-03, and Braun have released statements denying having purchased performance-enhancers from Biogenesis, though Braun did acknowledge having a business relationship with Bosch.


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Four of the six simulated flights Drew Wiss guided during a campus visit to Air Force last month landed safely.
While that .667 mark translates to a marvelous batting average, it's not exactly the stuff of recruiting videos.
Good thing for Wiss he has time to get acclimated. The Burlington Central senior only verbally committed to the Falcons baseball program Sunday.
"I don't mind flying," Wiss said. "I just never thought about going into the Air Force to do it."
Actually, Wiss may not even enter an aircraft career arc when the time comes to solidify his post-graduation military service path in a few years.
The Air Force offers versatile options, much like Wiss, who wowed the Falcons both with his 3.94 grade-point average and slick, 5-foot-11, 175-pound frame.
"He can literally play all four infield positions and all three outfield positions," Central coach Kyle Nelson said. "Actually, when he came into our program, he was a catcher and a pitcher. He doesn't do any of those things for us anymore, but I'm sure he could if you asked him."
Wiss played shortstop for the majority of 2014, batting .381 as the leadoff man for the Big Northern Conference East co-champions. Seventeen of his 37 hits went for extra bases.
A few colleges expressed interest entering the season, but one school's involvement rose to the top thanks to a May 10 nonconference game against Grant.
Air Force coach Mike Kazlausky's father, a Grant assistant, was so impressed with Wiss' play that day at Judson University that he called his son in Colorado Springs, Colorado to offer a recommendation.
Kazlausky watched Wiss play center field with his Downers Grove Longshots travel team a few weeks later and was doubly encouraged when his academic acumen matched up with Air Force's standards, too.
"Both baseball and academics are super important to me, and I think Air Force is one of the few colleges where you can succeed in both of them," Wiss said.
Committing early not only frees any anxiety entering Wiss' senior year, it also re-routes his training focus.
After clocking Wiss with a 6.7 60-yard dash, Kazlausky informed him that likely targeted Wiss for a corner infield spot or second base. The Falcons typically want a center fielder who runs a 6.5 60 or below.
"Basically that's my plan this offseason, to get faster," Wiss said. "Because I want to get that center field spot or that shortstop spot, even."
Nelson said he plans to keep Wiss at shortstop next spring.
Until then, Wiss – also a member of Central's National Honor Society and boys basketball team – already is taking a chapter from the Air Force manual.
"Aim High" isn't just an old recruiting slogan anymore.


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Hours Teachers Work: Eye-Opening Graphic
Interesting that the AFL-CIO union putting this graphic together chose a plump male to represent teachers when some 76% of all public school teachers are female…. Hmmmm From upworthy. . . When you look at the time teachers actually spend working, you can see that it's not a cakewalk – at all. The next time your city or state wants to cut back on teacher salaries or hammer their...read more


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Georgia College women's basketball and head coach Maurice Smith are proud to announce the addition of graduate assistant coach Huguette Yanga.
Yanga, known as Yaya to her teammates, played for the Bobcats during the 2010-11 season, the year the Bobcats won the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament.
She transferred to GC from Santa Fe College, where she was All-Conference honorable mention. During her season with GC she was a PBC Presidential Scholar. She is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honor society for business students.
"I think she'll really help the post players develop their overall game," Smith said. "She's going to help add a little more toughness to our inside game."
Yanga will work with the forwards while on the Bobcat coaching staff. She already has a built in relationship with two important forwards, as Abby Slocumb and Krysta Lewis were both freshmen during Yanga's year on the roster (2010-11). In addition to being familiar with some of the players, Yanga already knows the coaching staff as well, having played for head coach Smith during his first year as head coach of the Bobcats.
Yanga be with the coaching staff for two years as she works towards her Masters in Accounting.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Riya Shah
Lecturer in Law
Riya Saha Shah joined Juvenile Law Center in September 2005 as the fourth Sol and Helen Zubrow Fellow in Children's Law. While at Juvenile Law Center, Riya has represented youth in dependency court, researched and written amicus briefs and conducted trainings for child-serving professionals. Riya also coauthored several publications, including a manual on child abuse reporting, a manual on minor's health care rights, a monograph on minors' rights against self incrimination, and guides to juvenile records and expungement for attorneys and youth.
Prior to being awarded the Zubrow fellowship, Riya graduated cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in May 2005, where she was a Civitas ChildLaw Fellow. At Loyola, Riya was an active member of the Public Interest Law Society, the president of the ChildLaw Society, and Editor-in-Chief of The Children's Legal Rights Journal, a legal journal published with the ABA Center on Children and the Law and the National Association of Counsel for Children. Riya is a graduate of University of Michigan Ann Arbor where she earned her B.A. in Psychology and American Culture. Riya also was a former Teach for America Corps member in Jersey City, New Jersey where she taught second grade, and a bilingual third grade teacher in Detroit, Michigan.


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Yahoo's De Castro Rolls Out Reorg of Ad Sales Unit – Kara Swisher – Media – AllThingsD.
The Googleification of Yahoo continues. Can this approach work on a company with a different DNA? Sales reorgs, or any reorg for that matter, is like surgery– you're cutting into yourself and injuring yourself in the short run in hopes that you get better in the long run. This opens up questions about how much leash this management team has from the board. However, if you recall, Max Levchin just joined so the board so it should be more friendly to this management team that any other would have been in recent history.


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The Scottish Sources – 2012 handout by George Caldwell for his Genealogy in Scotland session, yesterday, Tuesday, May 8th at Vancouver Public Library (VPL), Central Branch, Vancouver has been posted on the BCGS Education Handouts webpage.
This session was one of an on-going series of free genealogy programmes co-sponsored by the Vancouver Public Library and the British Columbia Genealogical Society.
The next will be Irish Genealogy with BCGS Education Co-ordinator, Eunice Robinson – Monday June 4, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm. Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia St. Vancouver. For this and more VPL events, see the VPL events calendar.