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Phil Mickelson completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., again flirting with history in a dominating four-day run.
Mickelson shot a 4-under-par 67 Sunday to finish at 28-under 256, two strokes off the PGA Tour record of 254 set by Tommy Armour III in the 2003 Texas Open.
''It's an important one for me, because it's been a while since I won, been a while since I've been in contention,'' Mickelson said. ''I was certainly nervous heading into today. I think the thing I'm most excited about was the way I was able to regain control of my thoughts after a few shots early on that I didn't care for.''
Mickelson missed a chance for a 59 in the first round when his 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole caught the right edge of the cup, curled 180 degrees, and stayed out. He settled for a 60 and followed with rounds of 65 and 64 to take a six-stroke lead into the final round.
''I think that sets up the tone for the rest of the year, because I really started to play well,'' Mickelson said. ''But for me, the rest of the year took a turn on Tuesday when I got my new driver. It just changed my whole deal.''
Brandt Snedeker finished second, four strokes back after a 65. Scott Piercy (61) finished third at 23 under and Ryan Moore (65) was fourth, another stroke back.
Mickelson took a three-stroke lead to the 17th tee, and nearly drove into the left-side water on the drivable par 4, his ball stopping a yard short of the hazard. He hit his 25-yard second shot 15 feet past the hole and made the birdie putt. Snedeker matched him with a little shorter putt to remain three shots behind.
Mickelson parred the par-4 18th after another drive to the left, one that easily cleared the water he hit into Friday en route to a double bogey. Snedeker closed with a bogey.
Mickelson had his third wire-to-wire victory and first since the 2006 BellSouth Classic — a 13-stroke blowout the week before the second of his three Masters victories. He pushed his victory total to 41, winning for the first time since 51 weeks ago at Pebble Beach.
Making his 24th appearance in the event that he also won in 1996 and 2005, Mickelson tied the tournament scoring record set by Mark Calcavecchia in 2001, and joined Calcavecchia, Arnold Palmer, and Gene Littler as the only three-time winners. With six victories in Arizona, Mickelson also matched Johnny Miller's tour record.
European — Stephen Gallacher holed an eagle on No. 16 and won the Dubai Desert Classic in the United Arab Emirates, overcoming early jitters to beat playing partner Richard Sterne (71) by three shots.
Gallacher (71) finished with a 22-under total of 266 to take his second tour win and the first since 2004.
Felipe Aguilar (69) and Thorbjorn Olesen (71) finished five shots back in a tie for third. Eighth-ranked Lee Westwood (68) and Marcus Fraser (67) were another back.
European Ladies — Karrie Webb won her eighth Australian Ladies Masters title, coming from two strokes behind to edge Chella Choi (69) in the final round with birdies on three of her last five holes for a 5-under 67 and a two-stroke victory at Gold Coast.
Webb, 38, finished at 13-under 203 in the 54-hole tournament, the season opener on the tour. Her eighth win in the same tournament matches the PGA Tour record of Sam Snead, who won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times.


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SALINA, Kan. (AP) _ A state prison inmate who was in prison for killing a 15-year-old Salina girl in 1984 has died.
Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay says 72-year-old Lonnie McKibben died of natural causes on Saturday at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
He was serving 30 years to life in prison for shooting Sheleen McLain in the back and leaving her to die in bitter cold in November 1984.
The Salina Journal reports that McKibben was scheduled for his fifth parole hearing in October.
A former classmate of McLain's, Kerry Bettes of Abilene, said she was in the process of collecting signatures on petitions to advocate keeping McKibben in prison. She had collected signatures four previous times that McKibben came up for parole.
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I know they'll sell like hotcakes then. Especially if they smelled like hot cakes!
One certainty is that whether the XBox 360 does include HD-DVD, the games are going to be stuck on DVD. Seeing the massive strains placed on DVD by having FMV, higher textures
Because HDMI is the standard for high definition TV. All televisions bearing an HD Ready logo in Europe require it (or DVI-D) and no doubt it's defacto standard in US and Japan, as well as the fact it offers better picture quality.
2) Blu-Ray support is equivilent to HD-DVD support. The 360 wins here since you have the option of buying it or not.
Yes, you have the option of buy some strap-on requiring its own power supply or not
4) PS3 games over Wifi are horrible. There is a noticable lag difference vs ethernet.
I'll give you one really good example to blow this out of the water...
My younger brother purchased the cheaper version of the PS3. My parent's house is several miles outside of town and is hooked up to this extended range DSL from the local telco. (Pioneer Telephone @ Kingfisher, OK) It is supposed to be a 1.5Mbit line, and as you can imagine it never achieves that kind of bandwidth. This is hooked up to a Netgear 802.11g wireless router.
As I said, he got the cheap PS3 without wireless, and instead
Anyway the PS3 ne
There were already a number of game developers complaining about space even at launch, and that voice will just become stronger until Microsoft can no longer resit it.
That "number of game developers" was really just one. Bethesda (the guys who made Oblivion) voiced concerns about fitting Oblivion onto a DVD-9 disc well before the 360 ever shipped. Sure enough, they were able to make it fit. Anyway, it's too late to make a change now. If Microsoft were to allow games to ship on HD-DVD, they'd be alie
To which EA will reply, have you not noticed that the games and control schemes going for the Wii are generally different? Or simply reply "fine then we're pulling Madden like we said". Microsoft is not the one in a position of strength here to make demands.
Actually, I think it's the other way around. Microsoft's head start in the market (or its lesser specs in comparison to PS3, take your pick) has made the 360 the platform of choice for multi-platform developers. EA will never come to Microsoft and
PS3 didn't raise the bar in any way with those features, since the Wii has proven that those features are not necessary in any way for a given console to succeed.
The PS3 certainly raises the technical bar. And its far, far too early to decide how all these new consoles will pan out, sales-wise. Wii is a superstar right now for sure, but Xbox360 is doing great also, and the PS3 is not even on sale in the UK yet.
(Such as myself, I have yet to buy a console that cost more than $150 for the system, and yes, t
HDMI=DRM! Sony has got to love it. DVI would be a better choice.
You do realize that DVI-D can do HDCP just like HDMI, right? In fact the video portion of HDMI is signal-compatible with DVI-D. The only other bit that you get with HDMI is audio, but unless you have an HDMI-enabled receiver I'd stick with the TOSLink digital audio output instead.
I still expect to see a 360 that is also a PVR and support for the Zune.
Acting as a PVR would obviously require a hard drive. It would also require a TV tu
As to the ZUNE. From everything I have read you can not fill it from your XBox! DUMB! DUMB! DUMB!
No, that just makes sense with the 360's current approach to media. It's an endpoint, not a provider. If you want to fill your Zune, do it from the PC where the Xbox is getting its info as well (you're not ripping CDs or vids directly to your 360, are you? That'd be dumb!). While it would be neat to be able to move Xbox Marketplace bits directly over to a Zune, that's a rather small scenario since the ma
you can't put movies or demos on any media drives you connect, only the main drive
Then what's the point?
To: Carlo Becchi
From: this great guy
Dear son, I told you a hundred times, but you never seem to remember.
- Gb means Gigabit
- GB means Gigabytes
This Xbox model would come with a 120 GB disk, not 120 Gb.
your dad.
Is that true? I have noticed a big difference in sound, between the 2, but is it strictly the DVD drive? or do these DVD based games require more of the system, thus it has to crank the fans also to keep it cool?
C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup


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Copy that title block into a new blank drawing based on your current template, then save it again as a template over your existing one. This sets it for all your future new drawings.
For the existing drawings, once you open it up and find that you've got an out of date title block, just open up a new blank drawing - since you've already saved the new block to your template - and then copy-paste either just the new title block itself over to the old drawing, or you can bring the whole Drawing Resources folder over. This will bring sketch symbols, borders, etc., as well. I wind up doing this a lot - over the last 10 months or so I've been constantly adding new little automations and sketched symbols to my template, as well as title block changes, so I just bring the whole thing over in one shot.


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Tempers boil over project
BRADENTON — In a brief but heated exchange, Sarasota County Commissioner Nora Patterson told Charlotte County Commissioner Chris Constance there's no legitimate beef over an estimated $7 million that water users in his county must pay for repairs and upgrades to the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority plant.
"My back is getting a little up," Patterson, who chairs the water board, told fellow member Constance during Wednesday's authority meeting in Manatee County. "To say we blindly are following (the authority's recommendations) is an insult. Give us a little more credit on this end … I have not taken a single action without getting staff to weigh in. I spent an enormous amount of effort learning, and know you do not have a legitimate beef … intelligent people can disagree. Lawyers can get involved. God bless you and go forward (with a lawsuit)."


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Journey has been receiving tons of praise for its inspirational art direction. But, it also features online play--a feature many have been curious to try. You may be lucky enough to get a chance to walk through the sands yourself, as thatgamecompany confirmed over Twitter that "a very limited, private Online Beta" is coming. In fact, details of the program will be unveiled on Monday.
It'll be curious to see exactly what the beta test tests, as the online experience for the game is radically different from what other PSN games have attempted:
There's no chat with other players, text or voice; nor is there a sign language to communicate in-game, though it is possible to create a sort of agreed upon language of motion and signals with the other player by experimentation. And there's also no indication of who the other player is. Journey's online is a one-on-one anonymous adventure.


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Submission + - Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed 5
From the announcement:
Our vision has always been to provide the geeky tech consumer an alternative avenue to purchase quality refurbished and new techy products and gadgets. That vision was the cornerstone of our slogan "Best Deals Every Nanosecond". Unfortunately after a lot of difficult consideration the owners of Geeks.com feel we are unable to come through on this vision any longer.
There are many why's... The e-commerce landscape, as well as the consumer electronics market, has changed dramatically with intense competition and a 1000lb gorilla (do we really need to say who) competitor that can lose millions of dollars to buy customers and suck up inventory. They can lose money with impunity, supported by the stock market. We cannot.
The landing page of their website now goes directly to this announcement; the storefront is switched off.
They maintain a Facebook page where a combination of remorse and surprise is rapidly growing. The letter also asserts that they will fulfill all business obligations to online customers during their transition to both a solitary, brick-and-mortar presence in California and a wholesale division, Evertek.
Personally, just about every keyboard in my closet was purchased from them, and another box full of USB devices as well. Five of my PC builds exist because of their competitive pricing and reasonable service. Feel free to share your own memories of the former Computer Geeks Discount Outlet.


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The April 16th, 2012 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim including Angels shake up bullpen, progress made towards an extension for Erick Aybar, C.J. Wilson upset at the Rangers for "wasting his time" this off-season and much more…
The Story: The Angels shook up their bullpen, making a flurry of moves including calling up David Carpenter and designating Rich Thompson for assignment.
The Monkey Says: That seems a bit harsh to whack Chopper like that, but he does have a history of melting down anytime he pitches in a pressure situation. Hopefully he clears waivers and heads to Salt Lake where he can build himself up for another shot. As insignificant as he was, the Halos best hope they can hold on to him because they have almost no relief depth in the minors now that Carpenter is part of the pen. Carpenter could be very useful though as he can get a lot of grounders and miss some bats even though he doesn't have overpowering stuff. Other moves made were Brad Mills being activated and then sent down after one game to make room for Jerome Williams on the roster. Alexi Amarista was also sent to the minors to make room for Carpenter. Finally, I do believe that at some point in the near future we will see Bobby Cassevah get activated off his rehab assignment to try and bolster the bullpen, but that might only happen if David Carpenter struggles.
The Story: Jerry Dipoto is "very confident" that the team will get a contract extension with Erick Aybar done after recent progress was made.
The Monkey Says: This is significant because Dipoto has been very non-committal about the Aybar extension up until now and generally plays everything close to the vest. Looks like this is going to happen. I'd have to guess that Aybar is looking at a very similar deal to the one Howie Kendrick signed earlier in the off-season.
The Story: C.J. Wilson told Dan Patrick that he was upset about the Rangers "wasting his time" this off-season by continually saying they were going to make him an offer but never actually presenting him with one.
The Monkey Says: This statement is going to be overblown because they are only going to focus on the part where he said they wasted his time, but it reads to me like he is just honestly recounting how negotiations went and not trying to insult them, though it surely will be taken that way by some. Of course, one could also argue he was wasting Texas' time by even talking to them even though it was pretty evident that he wanted to sign with the Angels the second the off-season began.
The Story: Jerry Dipoto says the Angels are exploring further upgrades to the bullpen, but not currently considering any free agent options.
The Monkey Says: That means no Mike Gonzalez, who had been a popular suggestion in recent days. JeDi makes the salient point though that while he may want to acquire a quality relief arm, it is so early in the season that few teams are really in a mode where they would be willing to deal away anyone of significance. Looks like they are going to have to handle this in-house for the next several weeks before the trade market starts to open up.
The Story: Scott Downs threw a brief side session to test his injured ankle and thinks he could be ready soon.
The Monkey Says: Don't get too excited because Downs wants to make sure he doesn't push himself to come back too soon and screw his ankle up again. On the bright side, he is going to avoid the DL.
The Story: A look at the many flaws that this Angel team might have.
The Monkey Says: This is a wonderful slam piece on the Angels, though I am sure he could (and probably should) write similar pieces on all the other perceived contenders in the Majors because they would probably read very similarly.
The Story: A scouting look at what David Carpenter can bring to the Angel bullpen.
The Monkey Says: Check the MWAH/LAAI prospect rankings and you will see similar comments about Carpenter, who ranked #16, largely because he has a limited ceiling. With the shameless self-promotion out of the way, it is pretty nice to see people sounding so bullish on Carpenter even though he has only pitched in 21 games above A-ball before he got promoted.
The Story: Mike Trout and Garrett Richards are two prospects who appear to be knocking on the door of a big league call-up.
The Monkey Says: Two Goldstein pieces in a row, hope you all pay for BP and/or Insider. Anyway, Trout is obvious but it isn't going to happen until the Halos pull the plug on Vernon Wells who seems to be doing just enough to keep his job for the next few weeks. As for Richards, he is killing it in AAA right now and even Goldstein, one of the biggest Richards doubters out there, is coming around on him. I don't think the Angels should give up so easily on Jerome Williams yet, but it is going to be awfully hard to keep Richards in the minors if he pitches like a guy who could come in and be a quality starter right away.
The Story: Kendrys Morales is still trying to find a groove and get used to the daily grind of MLB play again.
The Monkey Says: Morales has gone cold since his hot start, which was bound to happen. It might behoove the Angels to rest him a bit more going forward, but really, he just needs to get used to seeing big league pitching still, so there was always going to be an adjustment period, though it might be best for him to move down a few slots in the order until he starts clicking again.
The Story: A comparative look at Vernon Wells' new and old swing.
The Monkey Says: I'm not sure using spring training swing is the best comparison, but it does illustrate it well enough. There sure doesn't seems to be much of a visible difference in swings, though I do believe I have noticed more of a load in his swing this year, but I might just be imagining things. One thing is for sure, his spray chart is still horrible as he is pulling almost everything. Wells has always been a pull hitter, but last year he went overboard, much to his detriment and he seems to be making the same mistake this season.
The Story: A look at how all the recent long-term, big-money contracts given to elite first basemen are risky deals.
The Monkey Says: I feel like this article was written three months ago, but Rosenthal forgot to submit it and then came across it in his My Documents folder and was like "sweet!" As you can tell, I am really tired of reading stories like this. We get it, ten-year deals worth a quarter of a billion dollars aren't a great idea.


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I'm heading up to the OR coast for a wedding near Seaside. I was planning to head north and check out the Gorge area since I'll be so close. What's a good resource for getting info to all of the cool spots. I'm not that strong of a wave surfer yet, but I'm willing to try if I can find a good spot. I'd prefer kiting something that's more like SI. The Sand Bar sounds like it would be good.
I was thinking of contacting one of the local kite shops and see if I could tag along with them. I was also going to post on NWK and see if I could befriend some locals. Can anyone on here give me some good feedback? Thanks!


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Hi everyone,
This is the problem I am having issues with:
4x + y - 3z = 11
2x - 3y + 27 = 9
x + y + z = (-3)
The instructions are to solve for x, y, and z.
I tried using two of the equations and eliminating one of the variables, then solving for one of the others. But then I got stuck- I didn't know if I should substitute that equation into one of the others... or do something else entirely! I'm not completely sure that I had started it off correctly, either. :(
I did read all of the lessons about Systems of Linear Equations and the Gaussian system but they only confused me more! Please help me...


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WFP Food Brings Lifeline to Thousands Fleeing Unrest in Eastern DRC
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of people are on the move, balancing their belongings on their heads or on chukudus, the local wooden scooters. They pack the roads of North and South Kivu, fleeing the newest wave of violence spreading across the region. WFP is working around the clock to ensure the most destitute have enough to eat.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo – Just before insurgents gained control of North Kivu's provincial capital last week, Mujinya Kobua fled here from a camp for displaced people just 10 kilometres away. Now, she and her 10 children count among nearly 11,000 tired and hungry Congolese packed in Don Bosco, a Catholic institution in Goma that now serves as a makeshift refuge from the fighting that is raging in eastern DRC.
"We rushed out of the Kanyaruchinya camp on Monday morning when the battle front moved from Kibumba down to Goma", said Mujinya last week, naming another North Kivu town. "We have been sheltering here in Don Bosco centre with next to no potable water, nothing to eat and nowhere to lay one's head."
That changed a few hours later, when Mujinya and her family received WFP food rations to tide them over for the next few days as they decide whether to stay put in Goma, move on to somewhere else, or try to return home.
Operations resumed
On Friday 23 November, WFP resumed its operations in Goma, providing emergency food assistance to more than 81,000 people in a dozen sites in and around the city.
They include people already displaced like Mujinya, who fled the Kanyaruchinya camp as rebels advanced southwards towards Goma from Rutshuru territory. Many have joined host families; others have sought shelter in places like Don Bosco.
Still others have since left Goma to return to their villages in Rutshuru.
"They had left their home some months ago when Rutshuru territory was under a wave of violence. They came to Goma with basically nothing and have left their fields unattended, most of them will therefore need food assistance back in their home town", explained Martin Ohlsen, WFP DRC country director.
"Food assistance is crucial as the displaced people have absolutely no means to access food. Their situation is even harder as food prices are increasing dramatically on the local market", added Mr Ohlsen.
Deteriorating situation
With some 140,000 newly displaced people in the Goma area, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated rapidly. Electricity supplies have been cut off, leading to an interruption in clean water supplies.
Thousands of Congolese are also fleeing the Masisi area, further south, and Kalehe, in South Kivu. But the volatile security situation is limiting efforts by WFP and other agencies to rapidly assess and respond to this humanitarian crisis.
Despite the tense situation in eastern DRC, WFP staff remains on duty, ready to assist as quickly as possible. WFP has maintained its assistance programmes in South Kivu and is about to resume operations in Bunia, in neighbouring Orientale province, where angry protestors recently plundered WFP offices and looted stocks form the warehouse and of our trucks. .
Since January 2012, WFP has delivered food assistance to nearly one million people in five provinces of eastern DRC, including the two Kivus, as part of its emergency operations.


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April 17, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - No. 44 Yale improved to 5-1 in the Ivy League and 14-5 overall while extending its home winning streak to 20 matches with a 6-1 victory over Dartmouth Friday. The win put the Bulldogs one victory away from clinching their second straight Ivy League Title and second straight NCAA Tournament Berth.
On a day where Yale celebrated the careers of seniors Janet Kim and Lilian Nguyen, it was the underclassmen who shined for the Bulldogs.
Yale won matches at No. 2 through No. 6 singles and won the doubles point as well. At No. 2 singles, junior Jessica Rhee rolled to a 6-3, 6-0 win. Freshman Vicky Brook cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 win at the No. 3 singles spot. Playing No. 4 singles, sophomore Lindsay Clark won 6-3, 6-0. Sophomore Stevi Petrelli took care of business in straight sets with a 6-2, 6-2 victory. At No. 6 singles, junior Sarah Lederhandler pulled out a 7-6 (5), 6-1 victory.
The Bulldogs won matches at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles to win the doubles point. At No. 2 doubles, Janet Kim and Jessica Rhee rolled to an 8-1 victory. Petrelli and Lederhandler battled to a 9-7 win at No. 3 doubles.
Because Brown lost to Harvard 4-3 Friday, Yale finds itself in complete control of its own destiny. A win Sunday over Harvard in Cambridge will guarantee the Bulldogs their second straight NCAA Tournament Berth.
A win would also guarantee Yale its second straight Ivy League Title, albeit this title could very well be a split championship. Because Princeton is also 5-1 in the Ivy League, Princeton would split the Ivy League Championship with Yale if both teams were to win Sunday. The Bulldogs would earn the NCAA Tournament Berth based on head-to-head record. Yale defeated Princeton 4-3 back on April 3.
Complete Results
1. Molly Scott (D) def. Janet Kim (Y), 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
2. Jessica Rhee (Y) def. Mary Beth Winingham (D), 6-3, 6-0
3. Vicky Brook (Y) def. Jesse Adler (D), 6-2, 6-0
4. Lindsay Clark (Y) def. Georgiana Smyser (D), 6-3, 6-0
5. Stevi Petrelli (Y) def. Carley Markovitz (D), 6-2, 6-2
6. Sarah Lederhandler (Y) def. Ryan Reichel (D), 7-6 (5), 6-1
1. Winingham / Scott (D) def. Brook / Clark (Y), 9-7
2. Kim / Rhee (Y) def. Adler / Smyser (D), 8-1
3. Petrelli / Lederhandler (Y) def. King / Zak (D), 9-7
Report Filed by Steven Horn '10, Yale Sports Publicity


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For small to midsized medical offices struggling to get by, educating staff about proper coding is often low on the list of spending priorities. But failing to do so may be contributing to their downfall, experts say, as coding mistakes are a major source of lost revenue.
"Most small offices don't do audits and have no idea that they're doing anything wrong and losing potential revenue," says Lynn M. Anderanin, senior director of coding, compliance, and education for consulting firm Healthcare Information Services in Park Ridge, Ill.
Anderanin says she routinely finds the same errors repeated when auditing her clients' charts and reviewing their procedures. Many stem from a lack of education about the latest coding additions and changes, leading to misuse of modifiers and coding at the wrong service level. Another big problem is lack of staff dedicated to following up on denials.
"Practices miss revenue when the billing staff doesn't correct and resubmit denied claims," says Nancy M. Enos, coding consultant for the Medical Group Management Association and a coding instructor for the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC). "And if the back office doesn't tell the front office what mistakes they're making, they won't be able to correct them and learn from them."
Anderanin, Enos, and other experts weighed in on some of the most common coding mistakes they see everyday leading to lost revenue. Most can be avoided, they say, through educating staff and devoting resources to fixing the problems that cause claims to be denied.
Front-desk problems
The potential for error begins as soon as a patient walks through the door, with registration and insurance verification. Inaccurate personal or insurance information recorded at the front desk leads to a significant number of denied claims, says Enos.
In busy small practices, front office staff may simply copy the patient's insurance card without taking the time to verify that she is still covered under that plan, Enos says. Other common errors include recording incorrect policy numbers, failing to authorize services, and entering the wrong name, address, guarantor, and even gender.
"If you write down the patient's name as 'Skip Brown' because that's what they told you — but the insurer only knows 'Walter Brown' — then they're not going to pay that claim," she says.
Patients sometimes unknowingly submit the wrong insurance information, says Anderanin. For example, Medicare patients who enrolled in the Medicare Advantage Program might submit their old Medicare card and assume it's the same program, but Medicare Advantage operates independently from traditional Medicare.
If staff fails to verify the Medicare card, the claim gets sent to the wrong place and the office doesn't get paid until it is sent back, corrected, and resubmitted, she says.
"You can document the right procedure and code the right way, but if you send it to the wrong insurer it won't get paid," says Raemarie Jimenez, who manages the clinical development of AAPC's exam program and oversees development of content for its coding certification exam. She recommends always asking the patient a direct question ("What is your insurance?") as opposed to whether anything has changed since their last visit (they'll usually say "no"). Then verify the information online.


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Cajun Christmas Nights Concert with Wayne Toups, Jamie Bergeron, Bayou Boys & More
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The Cajun Christmas Nights Concert with Wayne Toups, Jamie Bergeron and more is coming to Outlaws Saloon in Lafayette on December 12th!
For $12 in advance, you can see these Cajun legends as well as Cajunation, Joel Martin, Gregg Martinez, Steve Grisaffe, Lee Benoit and the Bayou Boys and the greatest part is, a portion of the proceeds benefits Second Harvest Food Bank of Acadiana!
Tickets for Cajun Christmas Nights are on sale now. Tickets are $12 in advance/$15 at the door. Click here to buy tickets! A portion of the proceeds to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Acadiana.
Date and Time
The concert will kick off 8:15pm on December 12th. Doors open at 7pm.
The show will take place at Outlaws in Lafayette. Check out a map of the location here.
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Part of it has to do with having a larger install base. Sure some require more than a typical PC to play, but I'm sure the number of machines that can run the games are significantly higher than the total number of XBoxes out there.
Well that and the fact that the consoles are having such a long cycle this time means that games haven't been pushing PCs for awhile now. Hell even on the 3D games like shooters you'd be surprised what you could still game on.
My oldest nephew had one of my hand me downs which he was using for gaming for ages, a 3.6Ghz P4 with HT and a 7600GS AGP and while he had to turn down the bling his TF2 and Bioshock II played just fine. I just recently took pity on him by upgrading him to a Pentium D and an HD4650 PC
Heck you can go even cheaper, as a LOT of those late model Pentium 4 LGA775 boards can take a Pentium D and those can be had for a whole $30 and the late model P4s often go for $40, even less sometimes. Drop in a cheap low midrange GPU (Tigerdirect had a Geforce 210 last week for $10) and voila! Gaming goodness. As I said the oldest as well as his little brother are gaming on Pentium Ds, one with a $45 HD4650 1Gb, the other with a $60 HD4850 and both are blasting away on TF2 and their RPGs.
As for playing on
And how many of those on eBay will you get a box with a brick? I quit messing with eBay after buying some off lease machines that were SUPPOSED to be late model P4s and they shipped me some 386 shitpiles it looked like they had literally picked up off the side of the road and all I got from eBay was basically "tough shit". Now I will ONLY shop Craigslist where I can see the actual merch or someplace where I know its legit like Starmicro (GREAT place for CPUs BTW) and Surpluscomputers.
And while you may not c
[citation needed]. Steam may not carry "bad" games, but they sure promote a ton of unknown (that is, not yet popular) games.
Steam is particularly fantastic with indie games. Just look at the Potato Sack - a large bundle of highly-discounted games that *everybody* (ok, hundreds of thousands) bought because it was tied in to the Portal 2 launch.
Let's be realistic, it is all down to the game packs. Buying a whole bunch of games for one relatively accessible price, even if half of them suck, the rest are still cheap enough. Of course steam can become unreliable at times when huge numbers of packs go out the digital door leaving millions of gigabytes to download, creating huge burdens on their systems, with regards to login, game downloads, and game connections.
What your actually paying for a game becomes arbitrary, likely paying more for a newer
No, actually the problem is the opposite. Independent games on steam seem to have some sort of quality control, whereas xbox indie games include a ton of trash that block out the decent items.
I wandered through the thread for a while to confirm someone had the right answer.
If this was a comparison between "proper" XBox arcade games and Steam, then it would mean something. But "Indie Games" is a wasteland (because of no quality control or promotion of quality games), and none of the XBox owners I know have bothered to look there for a long time.
There's a strong, justified assumption that if something is in "Indie Games", it's trash. MS need to give some attention to helping promote and discover good games, or else Indie Games will continue to wither (despite, reasonably good tools and technology).
"MS need to give some attention to helping promote and discover good games"
It kind of does, the best indie games at review stage have been given license to shift to be Live Arcade releases instead, but that doesn't help the middle of the road games that are better than the shite in indie games, but not good enough for live arcade.
You have to be accepted by Steam in order to have your game on the service.
From Steamworks FAQ [steampowered.com]: "For new games we look for unique and interesting gameplay and art, and of course it should be fun!" That doesn't give much detail, especially how much of a budget they're expecting to produce "unique and interesting [...] art". Another technical criterion is that it run on a PC, which has its own limitations such as generally smaller monitors than consoles.
I don't know what the system is on the XBox.
Xbox Live Indie Games, as I understand it [pineight.com], starts with legal residence in select countries plus paying $99 per year to join App Hub
even if someone found it on xbox, they're more likely to buy it on pc. pc is just better by default, if not for any reason that you usually get to keep your game one way or another and play at more places. quote from art: "Also, apparently, people are starting to pirate our games. If that isn't proof that we've hit it big, I don't know what is," too bad that part isn't true, as a way to spur up some interest in me to get a job now many years ago, I did couple of shareware games for s60(ngage was the best pl
pc is just better by default
Not if you have friends over. PCs are perfectly capable of split- or otherwise shared-screen multiplayer play (just connect four USB gamepads and an HDTV), but far more games for Xbox 360 than for PC actually support it. It's a lot cheaper to buy three spare gamepads in case friends visit you than to buy three spare gaming PCs to make a LAN party.
I would really like to see more PC games that support this. I regularly get together with a friend who doesn't do much gaming on his own (due to a lack of adequate hardware) to play some co-op on my PC. The selection of PC games that support this is pretty slim but there are a few good titles such as Shadowgrounds (and its sequel), Magicka, Trine, and a couple more.
I hate to complain about what is out there, but most of these games are really hard to play with a gamepad. Maybe I am just too used to a keyboa
Consoles in general are not good for RPG games It is really a PC thing. Probably due to the old days RPG needed a keyboard... Although they are less needed now it is probably still a PC mindset to play RPG while you do action games on Consoles.
Wha? These are "CRPG"-style games (ie *console* role playing game). Think Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, etc. The whole point is they were designed to play on a console without a keyboard, and they have been massively popular for decades...
Oops, yeah, "JRPG" = "console RPG"
Well, there have been PC RPG's ported to consoles in the past. Not much recently though which surprises me. Wouldn't have been THAT difficult to port the original Fallout's UI to a controller, it's turn based so speed doesn't matter, same goes for Baldur's Gate. If they could port Civ II for gods sakes, then they can port anything.
That is simply untrue. JRPGs are almost always better on console, and are generally designed with consoles in mind.
It's one of the things that separates Ultima from Final Fantasy.
Yeah, just because it looks a little like a CRPG from the 80's, doesn't mean it's as good. If I wanted graphics from 1988 I'd probably just play a good game from 1988...
If I wanted graphics from 1988 I'd probably just play a good game from 1988
Good luck digging out your console from 1988 and getting it to work.
1988? Hah! I have a working Intellivision from 1980, among others. Ever heard of eBay?
PS3 and Xbobx360 are all HDMI look great
HDMI is DVI signaling with PCM sound in a different connector. PCs have supported DVI longer than the Xbox 360 has supported HDMI.
flashbang boom.
Stun grenades [wikipedia.org] have been around since Counter-Strike, which predates the original Xbox.
Good graphics are a REALITY of modern gaming.
Say someone wants to express his vision in a video game but has only a shoestring budget. How would you recommend that this person produce worthy graphics?
Three words: Full motion video.
Three words: Full motion video.
What do you mean by those three words? Do you mean "make a movie instead of a video game"? Do you mean "make an FMV game [wikipedia.org] like those popular in the LaserDisc and Sega CD eras"?
On Steam, the games are promoted with giant images and a discount on the front page every time you visit the site.
On XBLA, finding where the Indie games are is a game in itself. Hell, sometimes even finding a non-indie game that just doesn't happen to be promoted well is difficult. They can't be wasting all that space advertising videogames, after all. They need that precious space so they can sell their paying customers repulsive AXE body spray, beef jerky, cell phone plans, and advertise the latest shitty romantic comedy featuring people you've never heard of.
It's not just that. For the steam release, I saw people blogging about it, but I heard nothing about it prior to that.
It's not a surprise to me that an unknown game doesn't get sold. You have to advertise it.
...For the steam release, I saw people blogging about it
It makes more sense when you consider that it's all on the same platform. If you see a good deal on Steam, and you're on Twitter/Facebook, you're just an Alt+TAB away from recommending it to whomever is following you. This is especially true for short-span offers. It's common to see a tweet like "game X is awesome and it's on Steam for half price right now!". A couple of times I saw a tweet like that while I was working, for a game that I wanted to try out. I just launched the Steam client, made the purchas
...For the steam release, I saw people blogging about it
It's common to see a tweet like "game X is awesome and it's on Steam for half price right now!".
yep, you're spot on about that, I'll get them every day on Facebook from various mates - Drops my productivity way down.
As the AC notes, you can buy XBLA games on the internet site for the XBLA marketplace. Even better, you can queue the demo for download to your console, and it'll download when you turn it on. Steam doesn't have that! (And I sure wish they did.)
On Steam, the games are promoted with giant images and a discount on the front page every time you visit the site.
Not just then. They also seem to pop up new game announcements and ads for large-scale sales when you close the game you've been playing, if something new appeared since you last did that - and I believe with some preconfigured frequency (i.e. not more often than 1 per day?).
It sounds annoying, but I actually like it - it gives me reasonable rate of updates, and, despite being a popup, it actually happens at the point where it doesn't interfere with my workflow (I've just closed a fullscreen game, so it doe
I think it's pretty obvious. There's a lot of PC gamers who grew up with games very much like indie RPGs. Whereas the average console gamer grew up with twitch games. Does it really surprise anyone which platform will be superior for that genre?
I think you mean Dragon Warrior, not Dragon Quest. But anyway, I consider myself a PC gamer through and through (haven't owned a console since the SNES), but I was playing console games long before PC games. Probably because I remember pinching pennies and doing extra chores as a kid to save up for an NES which must have cost ~$120 whereas our family's first computer cost at least $2000, was bought years after I had owned that NES (it was a 386), and was initially reserved for my father's "serious work", no
Then your original comment doesn't make much sense. What do you mean by "isn't the type of game that PC gamers grew up with"? It's one of the better known classic PC games!
PC gamers also grew up without restrictive Steam DRM or any of that "YourPlatform Live" junk.
Anyone who logs into steam sees the front page sales first thing, and this game was on it IIRC. Also, the update news will show new games for those who stay logged in all the time. Not to mention, steam almost always has some pretty good sales going on (even besides the annual summer sale, which is the best in the business) so its worth checking around for new releases/ specials. I do, anyways, and I suspect a lot of others do as well. Combine this with steams relative ease of use and extreme ease of purcha
Well, fear of piracy isn't really a BS reason. Large numbers of people pirated the humble indie bundle, despite the fact that it could be purchased for $1 (or was it 1 cent?). Some people are just incredibly selfish. I can understand why devs might want to avoid that, even though I think they're making a mistake if they do.
True, some people will never buy the game. You won't get money from them in any way.
However, for others the case is different. For instance, I first played World of Goo when a friend pirated it and gave it to me. Never would have played it otherwise. Guess what? I now own it on steam. Never installed it (yet), but I might get around to replaying it on there at some point. Regardless, they now have a sale they wouldn't have had it not been for piracy. Piracy can be an indie games greatest advertiser. The g
People always bring up this argument, but it is deeply, deeply flawed.
You assume:
A) That no one who pirates a game would have bought it otherwise. This is false. There are at least some people who would have.
B) That a substantial number of people buy the game after having pirated it. This is true to an extent, but you have no idea how common it is.
If the number of people in category A exceeds the number in category B, then it is a net loss for the developers. The fact that you fall into group B does not
The number of people in category A has been demonstrated to be very, very small in every study to date (TorrentFreak links to many of them), while the number of B's is quite high. There are a multitude of studies that show that people who pirate heavily, have also invested lots more money in the medium they pirate than infrequent downloaders.
If I only have $100 monthly to spend on gaming, that's all I have to spend on gaming. Sure, I could pirate beyond that budget because its free, but if somehow magica
You forgot about
C)All the people who hear about the game from friends who pirated it and then go out and buy it. Probably pretty huge. Granted I didn't explicitly mention it (my bad).
However, the whole debate is rather pointless as no one has any really good numbers. Its nearly impossible to know. I do grant that people who bring this argument up in discussions about AAA titles are probably mostly wrong, what with the amount of marketing/demos those already have (and I can personally say that I generally
Dude, there was an article on Slashdot just two ago [slashdot.org] saying that the media corporations had suppressed a study showing that B is effectively true for music and video (the study showed that pirates are better customers than non-pirates, which implies that pirates in general are likely to purchase the things that they pirate given that they 1. pirate a lot of stuff and 2. buy a lot of stuff).
Why would you assume that games are be any different?
Many people, including myself, downloaded the humble indie bundles from their favorite torrent site after paying for them. Why should I have to go to the trouble of individually downloading each game through an overloaded http server when I can just grab the torrent?
My point is that the piracy figures for the humble bundles are ridiculously misleading, even for piracy figures.
I'm note sure why so many indie developers even target Xbox/PS3.
For single-player games, I agree with you. For multiplayer games, it's the fact that far more people have a console connected to a TV than have a PC connected to a TV. It's hard to fit you and three mates around a 17" screen.
Why is it that everyone who links to this article uses "Xbox" or "Xbox Live" in the title instead of the more specific (and less newsworthy) "Xbox Live Indie Games?"
There's been a slew of articles lately describing how difficult it is to profit from the XBLIG channel. If the games were on the Xbox Live Arcade and got trounced by Steam, that might be worth reporting. As is, saying a game could not find success on the Indie Games channel is borderline obvious.
Why make an Indie game section? Indie isn't a category, it's a development path.
By separating them from other sections they get less exposure unless someone specifically looks for it in the indie section. If I'm looking for a racing game I am not going to first look under racing, and then search under indie for any other racing game that might be interesting to me.
If indie gets it's own category it will be the special ed of categories.
If it does not get it's own category then indie will battle head to hea
Steam already has an Indie game section. Just go to the store, click on "Genres" and select "Indie". Considering that, at any given time, there are at least a couple indie games on the front page, I think Valve is very serious about pushing indie titles. Most likely because they tend to be low cost, meaning that they can be impulse buys, and thus generate more revenue than $50 non-AAA games.
Most likely because they tend to be low cost, meaning that they can be impulse buys, and thus generate more revenue than $50 non-AAA games.
The impulse buy is certainly a big part of it. I'm not going to lose any sleep on a $5 mistake, but if I by a $50 game that I get tired of after a couple of hours, it'll really bug me. Because of this, I won't wait for there to be 15 reviews on metacritic for a $5 game -- if I see just a couple of recommendations, and I know it's the type of game I'll probably like, then I'll just take the chance. Sure, I've been burnt a couple of times, but there were far more cases where I found I really fun time-sink for
That's the way it works for me. Having been burned a few times on the $50 titles I'd rather take that same money and buy a whole bunch of cheaper games in the hope one or two will be genuinely entertaining. The problem is I don't stop at $50.
It's simply PC. Although Steam is the most popular distribution channel for the PC, indie games for the PC also sell well through other channels.
It's just a major difference in culture for the gamers.
Plus most of the stuff on the indie games bit is generally pretty shit, it's mostly filled with top down zombie shooters
Don't knock Robotron clones. Doom is what you get when you balance a first-person shooter as if it were Robotron [vectorpoem.com]. If you're referring to poorly balanced Robotron clones, on the other hand, that's another thing entirely. I don't yet own an Xbox 360 console, so I can't know firsthand just yet.
There are gems in there but you mostly find out about them elsewhere
How would you recommend that Microsoft discover which are any good and promote them?
And the marketplace has a new games section too...
Yes - I'm sure they had a few minutes in the sun before they got pushed off by "XBox Massage Master" and "Avatar Tic-Tac-Toe: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS chapter 1 by PandaStar Studio in co-operation with JohnnyFyre".
Has anyone here actually bothered looking at all or is everyone just assuming?
Yes. Most everyone with an XBox and non-infinite time (at least among people I know) has given up even scrolling over to the Indie Games new releases. Anytime I've heard Indie Games discussed among developers, it has been in the context of "How can I get out of the Indie Games ghetto and into the re
It is no surprise. The good game to crap ratio in XBLIG is terrible just due to the nature of how games are put there, and games have almost no chance of making a real profit there. There's no proper advertising or anything. You just dump your game there and spread advertising through word of mouth yourself. Advertise yourself, and hope you can make some money.
Steam is different. They advertise (a lot) for you, help you pick out a good price, have all sorts of awesome deals you can arrange. It's a wonderful
Haven't played them yet (and don't know when I will - probably not before September), but I bought them because the developer actually priced them HONESTLY - usually there's a $1 = 1â parity on Steam, but this package was 1.99â. In fact, that's even cheaper than $2.99! Mind asplodes!
So, essentially, the guy got my money because he isn't a greedy, obnoxious jerk who thinks that it's fine to charge European customers 40% extra. That's damn rare, and deserves an applause. And money, too.
I bought the bundle on Steam, because I like to support indie games and 2 games for $2.50 was the right indie price. As it turns out, both are excellent titles in the vein of the old Dragon Warrior series and I look forward to further offerings. Steam offers great promotion whenever they run one of their sales or announce something new, and I'm very glad that they extend this courtesy to indie games selling for under $5 as they do big-name AAA titles.
Personally, I feel that we in its entirety, we
Its pretty much holding games hostage
Yes, because Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo are forcing people to make games for their consoles contrary to their will.
Well, if you look at some of the agreements necessary (especially in years past - look at the whole Official Nintendo Seal of Quality debacle), it has limited what developers can do, though not as much as it once did. Exclusives and timed exclusives still persist, sometimes in contract but I wasn't really referring to console manufacturers holding games hostage "by themselves", but rather the entire industry - development, publishing etc... is creating games in a way that isn't to the benefit of the user.
Every game from the indie set to the biggest corporate AAA kit is developed on PCs..so let them play on PCs as well.
How big is a typical PC monitor? 17" to 19" diagonal viewable image size. Some laptops are smaller, some desktops are bigger, but take that as a median. How big is a living room TV? Twice that, which means four times the area, enough for you and three mates instead of just you.
have a better chance of your target audience equipped to play your game
Except people aren't equipped to play a multiplayer indie game. Any TV made in the past five years VGA and HDMI inputs on which PCs are perfectly capable of displayi
Most people aren't willing to drop five, or even three, bucks on a game that they've never heard of or never played. Without some sort of input, whether from a review, or friend's recommendation, or a demo, I won't buy a game, even if it does cost less than a trip to McDonald's.
What I would really like to see is an average time-played ratings system in Steam, XBLA, etc. I'd like to be able to log in to the Steam store, search for games at the $5 point, and then look at the ones that people have played for
Most people aren't willing to drop five, or even three, bucks on a game that they've never heard of or never played.
Every XBL Indie Games release has to have a free demo (and they give you help in the platform API to manage locked features/time-limiting/etc.. they did have some good ideas with this platform). You never have to buy a game sight unseen.
But you're right anyways.
Why? Because after a while, people aren't just unwilling to pay for a game. If the games are bad enough - and XBL Indie Games is a perfect platform for displaying how bad games can be - people will become unwilling to even browse titles. So, yes
I didn't realize XBL indies were required to have a demo - I do all my gaming on PC, and have never even used XBL (I only have a 360 because of MS's free 360 promo this summer). But I get very annoyed when games don't have a demo - I'm not a programmer, but I can't believe they take much more effort to make once you've actually finished a game. So when a game doesn't have a demo, I just assume that it's like when production companies don't allow prescreenings of big films - it usually means they're very,
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Not everybody lives in a country that calls its currency a "dollar". I guess is so that a "point" will have roughly the same value in all regions, modulo short-term currency fluctuation and whether it is the custom in a given country to include sales tax in a list price.
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PHILADELPHIA — It was his biggest miss as a Celtic and Courtney Lee knew it. This wasn't a regular miss in a regular loss. Lee missed everything and it exemplified his struggles in Boston.
With the Celtics ahead by a point in the final minute of overtime, Rajon Rondo found an open Lee in the corner, his favorite spot on the floor. Lee gathered the pass and fired a 23-footer that never had a chance, the ball soaring 3 feet over the basket for an embarrassing airball.
Evan Turner came back and cashed in a 13-footer, which was the deciding margin in the Celtics' 95-94 overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. For Lee, it was a disheartening moment, especially given his shooting struggles.
A career 38.5 percent 3-point shooter entering this season, Lee is 7 of 27 from beyond the arc with the Celtics and has missed a series of pivotal shots. Friday's was a crusher, leaving him to ponder his shortcomings after the game.
"I know Doc [Rivers] talked to the media and probably said it was unfair that I was sitting like 12 minutes [before the shot], but it doesn't matter," Lee said. "NBA players get paid to play this game. At least, I should have hit the rim and given us a chance to get the offensive rebound. I didn't do that so I'm very disappointed in myself.
"I know when I took the shot, I was stiff so I overshot it to try to make sure it got there. But I put a little too much oomph in it. I have to be able to make the shot or hit the rim, at least."
Lee has been playing well of late, providing defensive spark, but his offense has yet to meet expectations. He began the season as the starting shooting guard but lost his job to Jason Terry. He was 4-for-22 shooting from the 3-point line in November and has hit just one 3-pointer in 10 home games.
Friday was an opportunity to seize the moment, seal an important victory with a clutch shot, but it wasn't even close.
"The confidence is always going to be there because I've been playing basketball for a while," he said. "I can't count or recall how many times I've shot an airball but you've just got to continue to work and keep practicing, that's all."
Rivalry renewed
The 76ers' recent resurgence under coach Doug Collins has been good for the city and the club has reinvigorated its rivalry with the Celtics, making this rare two-game, back-to-back set the most interesting stretch of the early season.
The series started in typical fashion with the 76ers' dramatic overtime win. Philadelphia's athleticism and physicality make it a difficult matchup for the finesse Celtics, so the two games should provide an arduous test, one Rivers relishes.
"I like it, I've always liked it, I think most coaches don't like it," he said. "I just always thought that it's very competitive from a playing standpoint when you play the same team back-to-back the games become very competitive, almost chippy. I like it.
"The downside to it is it's very, very hard to win both games. I think that's why most coaches don't like it. When it's two good teams, it's even more dangerous because you could lose both games, the whole thing is hard. I like it but I can see why most don't."
Feeling full
The Celtics still have one roster spot open but Rivers said there hasn't been much discussion about filling it. An NBA source said this week that the club was considering veteran center Erick Dampier.
"I'm good; obviously if there was somebody out there we'd look," Rivers said. "I can tell you I haven't had any conversations with [team president] Danny [Ainge] about anyone basically since the season started. We haven't looked at anyone but if there's someone out there, give me a call."
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Leandro Barbosa and Jared Sullinger, both of whom had been battling flu-like symptoms, were healthy enough to play Friday. Sullinger logged 13 minutes and pulled down five rebounds but Barbosa did not play . . . The 76ers were without Nick Young (hyper-extended left big toe), who burned the Celtics for 10 points in 18 minutes Nov. 9. Royal Ivey (groin strain) and Kwame Brown (stomach virus) were also out . . . The 76ers are 2-7 when they shoot a worse percentage than their opponents . . . After posting just one double-double last season, Thaddeus Young posted his fifth of the season with 17 points and 12 rebounds Friday.Gary Washburn can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @gwashNBAGlobe


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Gaiking Necklace
Review by JoshB
This Gaiking Necklace is another piece of the Joshua C-10 Fraser collection. He wore it to the 2008 Summit, and it was left behind to be documented...
It's a basic Popy soft vinyl robot figure with a brass ring in the head and arms up in the air. The only point of articulation is at the waist.
The brass ring is attached to a long metal chain.
The Necklace was sold in a plastic capsule, similar to todays UFO Capsule toys.
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I have always been a fan of the necklace vinyls. They are so ghetto-tastic. the only other one I have is the Gekko Kaman (Moonlight Mask). I wonder just how many they made? I know of a number of them, but it would be great to see a full collection of them.
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Last week we reported that Verizon FiOS Internet users were about to receive a significant speed boost, and today it's been made official. Most impressive is that the download speed of the fastest tier has doubled to 300 Mbps, with a 65 Mbps upload speed alongside it. Here's a look at all the new speed tiers:
- 300/65 Mbps (previously 150/35)
- 150/65 Mbps (previously 50/20)
- 75/35 Mbps (previously 35/35)
- 50/25 Mbps (previously 25/25)
- 15/5 Mbps
On the fastest tier, you can download a 2-hour 1080p movie in less than 22 minutes. The new speeds take effect in June.
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Fall 2012
5418 Torts - EVANS- 12625
Barbara Evans (FACULTY)
Credits: 4
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section C
Time: T: 9:00a-10:20a WF: 10:30a-11:50a Location: 111 TU2
Course Outline: An introduction to the law of torts, legal reasoning, and legal history. A survey of intentional, negligent and strict liability torts, with selective treatment of such topics as product liability, nuisance, defamation, and privacy law.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus (pdf)
Course Notes:
First Day Assignments: Franklin & Rabin (F&R) Casebook (9th ed)
Read: 1-17 (stop at Section D)
Case: Hammontree v. Jenner
Also read: F&R read pages 129 through 141 (end of note 5)
Cases: Harper v. Herman
Farwell v. Keeton
Final Exam Schedule: 12/12 9am-1pm 111 TU2 117 TU2
This course will have:
Exam: Yes
Satisfies Skills Course Requirement: No
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|2013-11-04, 19:15
|Link #2901
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Rumor from Japan is that Shinji Higuchi (storyboard artist on EVA, NADIA, Y2199), who also directed Episode 3 of YAMATO: 2199 under a psuedonym, will be helming next year's Y2199 feature film. Again, this is a rumor, and has not yet been verified in any way, shape, or form.
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|2013-11-04, 22:18
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Is there a significance or connection to the arrival date of the Yamato to Earth, being December 8? Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7th, Hawaii time, but it was also December 8th, Japan time.
|2013-11-05, 04:04
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December 8th also happens to be the Captain's birthday.
|2013-11-05, 15:15
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Hello! I'm a total new guy to Yamato 2199. I love the original series and have some questions about the new 2199 series. I know there is a lot of information and I apologize for asking questions that are probably already answered elsewhere, but this thread is up to 146 pages already. Yamato 2299 will be out before I get all caught up.
So, where is the best place to buy the shows? By best, I mean cheapest. I looked on eBay and may have had a mild stroke.
Also, the models for the series seem to be 1/1000 scale. An old series 1/1000 scale sells for around $10 it would seem, but the new 2199 1/1000 scale stuff is $40+. Is it just the new that is causing the extra expense, or is Bandai coating the new stuff in so much awesome that the price is higher? Is there a retailer (online) in the US that stocks the kits? I don't mind ordering from Japan, but it takes a larger order to make shipping worthwhile in most cases.
Any help on this would be much appreciated!
|2013-11-06, 01:01
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At the moment, there is no cheap way to buy anything Yamato 2199. Amazon.co.jp seems to have at least somewhat lesser prices as they have discounts (Off by 20% or more) and buying all at once would reduce the shipping cost significantly. I've seen the price of a single Blu-ray as low as $58 US Dollars before shipping.
Ebay tends to be rather high as it takes retail prices and shipping cost from Japan into account for the seller.
The older, cheaper model kits tended to be box size and were rarely in scale with each other. Most were about six inches long if I recall.
The Yamato 2199 models are (mostly) 1/1000 scale and a lot of them are longer than six inches long. Yamato in 1/1000 scale is 13 inches long and the larger Gamilas carriers and battleships are in the 13 to 16 inch range with the super battleships projected at being 25 and 29 inches respectively.
The smaller models tend to come with more than one ship, and so far all the model kits have come with extra stuff (fighter planes, tanks, reflex satelites, other kinds of ships).
There is also a line of 1/72 scale fighters and a new 1/500 scale Yamato that will be 26 inches long.
|2013-11-06, 02:45
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With Blu-rays, better wait for a cheap American release box set.
For models, go to HLJ, they have more mailing box size choices, hence you can combine shipping more easily and keep it under 2kg for the SAL economy. Also, their EMS rates are amongst the cheapest by default.
|2013-11-06, 08:22
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Thanks guys! That definitely helps.
I used to have a lot of the tiny ship models. You can still get them on HLJ for under two bucks each. I always wanted to collect a couple fleets as there used to be a Star Blazers branded miniatures game... maybe back in he 1990's? I thought it would be neat to adapt the game to use the small models. Alas, the book and the accumulated models disappeared along with some other collectibles a couple of moves ago. Someone probably moved into an apartment in 2008 and found a box of treasure in a closet.
I've been eyeing the 1/72 scale fighters as well. They look fantastic! It would be nice to see them in action, but I think I might have to wait on the movies till the price comes down or, as mentioned above, there is an official US box set. I'd rather spend the money on models at this point.
Thanks again for the information. I'll lurking this thread for a while... waiting to leap from the shadows with more silly questions!
|2013-11-06, 12:37
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The Star Blazers Fleet Battle System miniatures game books and miniatures can still be purchased from Musashi Enterprises. http://www.starblazersonline.com/products.html
We also play from time to time. More recently adapting the old rules and ships for Yamato 2199.
|2013-11-06, 13:58
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|2013-11-06, 15:32
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In 2011, I decided that I wasn't going to wait for a US release that could take years, if any at all, and started purchasing the Blu-rays (which contain English Subtitles), from the very beginning — and I choose to have friends in Japan snag the Theater Exclusive versions for me. And getting these has proved to be worth every damned penny to me (but, I'm crazy like that). So, it might be prudent to buy them over time (there are no current plans for even a Japanese box set). But, that's up to the individual.
Welcome aboard!
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|2013-11-06, 16:19
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Hey I just realised some of those miniatures are actually from Plex's Mechanical Collection series. I hope they will release something for Yamato 2199 so I can get some 1/500 Cosmo Falcons for the 1/500 Yamato in December. I have a couple of unmanned battleships coming from Yahoo Japan Auction. I already have many Cosmo tigers.
The rest of the miniatures appear to be original molds.
Somehow since Plex's mechanical collection are only approximately to scale, e.g. the battleship, cruisers and destroyers are to scale but not everything else such as the transport ship, it is not too different from the mecha colle ones.
|2013-11-07, 10:10
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Thanks again for the help guys. I do appreciate it. I've got a cart load at the HLJ site, I just need to wait a couple days for some ebay/paypal funds to clear then pull the trigger.
I'm in experienced model builder and I've been assembling Japanese model kids since the early 1980's. I never painted them as a kid though. Is there an online resource that will help with any required translations of paint colors recommended in the 2199 model kits instructions? Or are they modeled in pretty accurate colors? My last Real Grade Gundam kit I just decal'd and sprayed with Testors Dulcote flat finish to take off the plastic shine and it looks really good.
|2013-11-07, 10:44
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In the original..
|2013-11-07, 23:39
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I paid $635.00 for all 7 BDs (mix of new and used for best prices).
STAY AWAY from the $30.00 (about) DVD/CDs on Amazon.
Those are bootlegs.
|2013-11-07, 23:45
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Amazon Japan would probably be even cheaper. With the yen down a bit still, you can probably pick each one up at $60 US dollars each plus shipping. Shipping them all together would lower the price since the present cost individually is $20 shipping...so grouped up it might be a lot less than a combined $140 in shipping costs.
And even indivudually now, you can probably get them all for less than $550 as Chapter 1 is usually cheaper than the other six chapters. (I was buying staring last year when the yen was high and it was about $700 for them all over the last year and a half).
Right now you can get all seven individually on Amazon Japan for a total of 40311 yen...or $410.41 US Dollars. Plus shipping (individually it is 2000 yen each...together I don't know)...if you bought all seven individually today, it would cost you $552.94. Less if you buy them all together to reduce shipping cost or if you find used copies.
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Megahouse Melda Dietz...open for preorder.
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text: Local artist Phyllis Garner greeted art lovers and friends Nov. 25 during the opening reception for her show of recent oil paintings. Her show is at the Centre for Arts and Artists at 501 W. Third St. N. in Newton and will be on display until Dec. 8. The CAA is open Monday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m. On Saturday, the CAA is open from 9 a.m. until noon. Garner grew up in Lincoln, Neb., and raised her four children in Des Moines. She relocated to Seattle, Wash., where she spent most of her professional life. She moved to Newton in 2007. Garner waited most of her life for the opportunity to work full time as a professional artist which she now does in the painting studio located in her home. For more information, call Linda Klepinger, CAA executive director, at (641) 521-3554.


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NBC's Today Show Inaccurately Blames Fox News for Sherrod Firing
On Wednesday's Today show, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Savannah Guthrie
left the impression that Fox News's criticism of Shirley Sherrod was
the reason she lost her job at the Agriculture Department, with Lauer,
in his interview with Sherrod, charging: "I don't know who to blame
here, Miss Sherrod. I mean the, the, the activist who put forward this
garbage in the first place has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by
that. The cable news network that, that played this garbage on and on
and talked about it, has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that."
But Lauer and NBC News, itself, revealed they have their own agenda, by
failing to report, as the MRC's
Rich Noyes pointed out, that Fox News didn't mention the Sherrod
story until she had already left her job.
However, that didn't stop Curry from claiming, in the 8am half hour news brief, that: "After the video was used to vilify her on Fox television, she lost her job," and Guthrie advancing the NAACP's notion, in her piece, that they had been "snookered" by Fox News.
The following is a complete transcript of Guthrie's set-up piece followed by Lauer's interview with Sherrod as they were aired on the July 21 Today show:
MATT LAUER: Now to the turbulence facing the Obama administration over the resignation of an Agriculture Department official. Was she forced to quit her job for comments that were taken completely out of context? We're gonna talk to Shirley Sherrod in a moment, but first, NBC's Savannah Guthrie is at the White House with the latest. Savannah, good morning.
[On screen headline: "Race In America, Should Obama Appointee Have Been Forced To Resign?"]
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Good morning to you, Matt. Well these developments are moving really quickly. At first there were condemnations against Shirley Sherrod for alleged racist remarks. But now some of the very first people to rebuke her are now apologizing and over the night the White House directed the agency that fired her to reconsider. This is the video at the center of the controversy.
SHIRLEY SHERROD: The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm-
GUTHRIE: First posted on a conservative Web site, it shows Shirley Sherrod, a Georgia-based official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an Obama administration appointee, at an NAACP dinner in March of this year describing her reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid.
SHERROD: I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do.
GUTHRIE: The video became an overnight cable news sensation.
BILL O'REILLY: Miss Sherrod must resign immediately. The federal government cannot have skin color deciding any assistance.
LAURA INGRAHAM: The question is how many more people like Miss Sherrod exist in the Obama administration?
GUTHRIE: The action against Sherrod was quick and decisive. The NAACP condemned her, calling her remarks shameful and intolerable. The USDA asked her to resign. Sherrod says she was driving Monday afternoon when she got the call from an official in Washington.
SHERROD: She said, "Well they want you to pull over to the side of the road and submit your resignation." It was just unbelievable. You know, it was just unbelievable.
GUTHRIE: But Sherrod says it was a rush to judgment. The incident she had described at the March NAACP dinner had occurred more than 20 years ago, before she worked for the USDA, and it was a story she told, as an example of overcoming her own prejudices.
SHERROD: That's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have. And in telling that story, how I changed while working with him, I used that to help others to see it's not about race.
GUTHRIE: The farmer who Sherrod is accused of treating unfairly went public Tuesday saying she is no racist and saved his family farm.
FARMER: I appreciated everything she done for [us], and we got our farm back.
GUTHRIE: Still, in a statement Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stood by his decision to fire Sherrod saying, quote, "We have been working to turn the page on this sordid civil rights record at USDA, and this controversy could make it more difficult to move forward on correcting injustices. But by Tuesday night, the NAACP had reversed course. Officials looked at the full context of her remarks made at the NAACP's own event, concluded they'd been, quote, "snookered" by Fox News and the conservative activist, who first posted portions of the video. But they acknowledged, they were too quick to condemn.
BENJAMIN JEALOUS, NAACP PRESIDENT: We made a mistake here. We have a very good batting average. You know it is near 1,000 but some times we make a mistake and we, and we made one here.
GUTHRIE: For Shirley Sherrod, the damage has been done.
SHERROD: They called me a racist, of all people. They called me a racist. When you look at my work, when you look at everything I've done, you know that I'm not a racist.
GUTHRIE: Alright, so initially officials here at the White House said this was solely at the discretion of the Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack. That the President was briefed only afterward, although staff knew something of it, and that he fully stood by the Agriculture Secretary's decision. However, late last night after the full video was posted on the NAACP Web site, the White House contacted the Agriculture Secretary and encouraged the Agriculture Secretary to take another look. He now says he will, and let me read the statement from Tom Vilsack. He said, quote, "I am, of course, willing and will conduct a thorough review and consider additional facts to ensure to the American people we are providing services in a fair and equitable manner." But no word yet, Matt, this morning whether or not Shirley Sherrod gets her job back.
MATT LAUER: Savannah Guthrie, thank you very much. Shirley Sherrod is with us now from Atlanta. Miss Sherrod, good morning to you.
SHIRLEY SHERROD: Good morning.
LAUER: What a 24-48 hours you've had. I mean let's go through it here. You were villainized, you were forced to resign, and then when, when even the most elementary level of investigation was put toward your situation, what I like to call the "oopses!" began. The NAACP, which had originally come out against you, apologized saying they made a mistake and now I even understand that the Agriculture Secretary who originally stood by his decision, has said he's willing to see more information. Can you describe your emotions as we sit here and talk this morning?
SHERROD: You know, it's so hard looking at the last 24 hours. When the department, when, you know, this first came to light I said to them you need to look at the whole thing. That's not the message I was putting out there. And for them, all day yesterday, to say they were standing by their decision and now, you know, at this late hour to be saying they are now willing to look at the facts, you know, it's hard to take at this point.
LAUER: What's outrageous about this is this story, that was sent out there as an example of racism on your part was the opposite. It was a story of enlightenment and transformation of overcoming the narrow mindedness that you had been surrounded by as a younger woman and here it was completely misconstrued and misrepresented.
SHERROD: Yes, and I couldn't get people, I couldn't get the people I was working with, people who should have listened to me, to see that because that was one of the things I kept saying. You need to look at the whole thing. That's not my message. That's not me. If you look at my life, if you look at my life's work, you would know that, that's not me.
[On screen headline: "Race In America, Obama Appointee Forced To Resign Speaks Out"]
LAUER: As a state worker in Georgia, you tell this story about how you were dealing with a white farmer who was about to lose his farm and perhaps the temptation was there on your part to continue down the road, you had seen so many travel in the past and maybe not give that farmer, that white person, all the benefit of your help. But you had this, almost an epiphany at that moment-
SHERROD: Yes.
LAUER: -and said, "Wait a second, the civil rights movement was not about black versus white. It's about the poor and the powerless and this man deserves as much help as anyone." I mean did, could anyone who had listened, who would have listened to the entire story have, have thought of you as a racist?
SHERROD: I don't think they would have. I don't, if, you know, anyone, you know, most people would not have known me but if they had looked at the entire tape, I just don't see how they could've come away with it, thinking I was a racist.
LAUER: I don't who to blame-
SHERROD: You know those-
LAUER: I don't know who to blame here, Miss Sherrod. I mean the, the, the activist who put forward this garbage in the first place has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that.
SHERROD: Right.
LAUER: The cable news network that, that played this garbage on and on and talked about it, has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that. I am shocked at the NAACP, I have to admit. That, that-
SHERROD: Yes.
LAUER: -that they did not investigate further before condemning you. And I'm shocked at the Obama administration for not putting an investigation in place either. Can you give me your thoughts on that?
SHERROD: Yes. I was particularly hurt by the NAACP's reaction to it because if they - you know, I put years, all of my life has been about civil rights work and fairness. And if they had just taken the time to look at it, to see, to look at me, to, to see what I've done, I'm certain they would not have come out with that first statement. But I can appreciate the fact that they now have looked at it, they've seen, and they come up with a new statement. I can accept the apology.
LAUER: And as for the Obama administration, as for the Obama administration, why do you think the Secretary of Agriculture acted so quickly in this situation?
SHERROD: You know, that is so hard to, to, to take, especially when I kept saying look at the entire thing. Look at my message and no one would listen. No one would listen.
LAUER: The NAACP, Miss Sherrod, now calls this "a teachable moment."What lessons have you learned?
SHERROD: Oh, gosh. You know, the, it's, it's the outpouring of support has just been great for me. To, you know, I don't know that I would have done anything different because this is just me. This is my life. It's all about fairness. And then to not be treated fairly, you know, in this whole situation is, is, it's, it's just something hard to deal with.
LAUER: The door seems to be open a little bit to you getting your, your old job back. Do you want to walk through that door?
SHERROD: You know, I am just not sure of how I would be treated there now. That's, that's, that's one I just don't know at this point.
LAUER: Shirley Sherrod. Miss Sherrod I thank you for your time this morning.
SHERROD: Thank you.
-Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here


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--TLDR Version--
I'm a sysadmin, not developer, and was defaulted to as the Intranet admin (basic updates/changes). I'd like to re-write it and will be learning as I go (I know it's going to take a long time but I have the time right now). Currently site is built on XHTML 1.0 Transitional and ColdFusion (SQL 2005 and IIS 6.0 back end). I would be moving to HTML5 and CSS3 to make things more efficient and manageable however I'm not sure what other (is frameworks the right word?) I need to look at to store data on the server (people directory, news articles, etc). Is there something simpler than CF/SQL?
--TLDR Version End--
I'm our companies (about 150 employees) Sysadmin and due to downsizing have been defaulted to for being the Intranet admin (I guess because I learned basic HTML in school and like figuring stuff out). I don't have a problem with this (and actually enjoy doing it) however I think it's in dire need of a re-write. Now I'm not a programmer but I think I have a good understanding of when something is done properly (and elegantly) and when something is kludged together and I believe our Intranet is the latter. Currently it's built on XHTML 1.0 Transitional, ColdFusion, and a bit of CSS.
Why I think it's kludged?
Code is horribly messy (no consistent indentation, comments sparse (and improperly declared), confusing nested functions, etc). Like I said I'm not a programmer so maybe it's supposed to look like this but I really don't think so.
Certain functions could definitely be implemented more efficiently.
Our breadcrumb navigation is static on each page. (Eg, Home >> Departments >> Engineering >> Procedures.). One of the groups in our company just changed names and I had to update it on every page. This means every breadcrumb entry which referenced it had to be manually updated.
There are files hosted on our intranet for people to download (presentations, forms, spreadsheets, etc). They are just static (no CMS is required). For people to make documents available they need to connect to the web server via Explorer (shared drive), copy files to certain folders (they also need to be named a certain way or else they won't show up), and make sure permissions are properly set. The pages that show these are "dynamically built" (this is what the previous developer has written on them) and they generate a link to the file. Couldn't a simple drag and drop interface be incorporated directly on the page so users who have the permission to upload just drag files from explorer/desktop to the browser? (Don't need a how-to on this, just explaining situation).
The actual web server directories are all over the place. Nothing is organized.
It uses ColdFusion -- I'm not bashing the platform (and this is one of the places I'm looking for suggestions on) however I think it's overkill for our Intranet. (or prove me wrong). From what I've learned, CF is used to connect to a backend SQL database. Are there simpler ways?
The site only plays nice with IE (this can't be a good sign)
Like I said before - the primary use of the intranet is to have links to files and to other websites. Other features are as follows: - Needs to authenticate users using pass-through credentials (Only IE seems to do this properly, FF, Chrome need to have users re-enter it) - News - Any user can submit a news item but they are approved by certain users - News archive - search old articles. - People directory with Org Chart (this is searchable) - Various forms to submit to email addresses - Intranet suggestions from users
I know the news and intranet suggestions get dumped to a SQL database so I need some way of storing information and retrieving it.
The Org Chart is manually updated - can this be generated from Active Directory? Users are automatically directed to their applicable site (Canada or US) depending on where they are employed (this is flagged from the People directory - users are tagged either or) (btw, not looking for a how-to on this, just rambling)
Also not looking for a COTS product (we have too many of those which are all poorly implemented). I really don't think this needs to be as confusing as what it is.
Hoping I can get some direction here!


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/fring_passwords/
Fring cops to unchangeable passwords
Security isn't a Fring thing
Posted in Security, 19th April 2010 10:26 GMT
Do you use Fring? Do you change your passwords regularly? If you answered yes to both then you're lying, as Fring has admitted that changing the password isn't an option.
Fring is an identity-aggregator which combines instant messaging and VoIP applications, routing connections through its servers to provide an integrated interface. That means Fring has to keep copies of all your messaging passwords, and makes the inability to change the master password even more worrying.
The tip comes from a Reg reader who contacted Fring to ask how to go about changing his password, and was told that it was impossible. He was advised that it could only be done by him asking Fring to delete the account and then create a new one, as passwords are immutable. Like us, he was flabbergasted. The company has now confirmed to us that passwords can't ever be changed.
"Your reader is correct, you cannot change your password on fring, once registered. The way around it is to ask us to delete your account and have you re-create it with a new one," Fring told us.
Register readers, of course, know the importance of regularly changing passwords, so obviously none of you are using Fring.
Fring recently added video support for Skype, allowing free video calls over 3G networks, and featured in our top-10 list of Android apps as it's a very nice application despite the company lacking any kind of believable business model. Obviously not many Fring users have tried to change their password, but knowing that it can't be done doesn't instil confidence in the company's security. ®


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Take a night out with the gals, add a cocktail or two, stir in some philanthropy, and what do you get? A hangover with meaning? No, a giving circle, a social way to raise funds for a cause you believe in. Rather than writing an anonymous check to this group or that, you and your friends can join forces—and pool your money (or time)—to make a significant difference on an issue that matters to you. No wonder the number of giving circles has grown exponentially over the past decade—and collectively raised more than $88 million. Want to circle up?
- Come up with a mission. Are you and your pals passionate about the arts? The environment? Education? Think big—where do you most want to make a change?
- Lay down guidelines. How often will you meet? What's the minimum each member needs to contribute? Will you give money, time, or both?
- Learn more. "Assign someone to find out what your town's needs are, or invite leaders of a nonprofit to talk about how they'd use your funds," says Emily Kessler, co-director of the NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund, which uses a giving-circle model.
- Pick an organization. You can request that your money be used for a specific purpose such as buying new computers for an underserved school. And ask for progress reports, so you can see exactly how you and your friends have made an impact. Now that's money well spent.