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What Does Bid For Dow Jones Mean To GE's CNBC?
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As people continue to chew over News Corp.'s bid for Dow Jones, some are wondering what the potential implications are for financial news network CNBC, which is a joint venture between Dow Jones and GE's NBC unit. Because News Corp. is going to launch its own Fox business channel at some point, it seems inevitable that the company would extricate Dow Jones from CNBC (as soon as legally possible), if its bid were to be successful. As it is, a Fox business channel would likely prove to be a formidable competitor to CNBC (just look what Fox News did to CNN's ratings), and the addition of Dow Jones' assets would make it even more so. All of this comes at a time when some are encouraging GE to divest itself of non-core assets, like NBC. Obviously, CNBC isn't a big part of GE's total operations, but it is significant to the NBC business. If Dow Jones appears ready to accept an offer from News Corp. (which remains in doubt at the moment), GE might have to look seriously at the future of CNBC, and by extension NBC. Some are speculating that GE might make a rival bid for Dow Jones; the company could probably afford it, but it would be extremely costly, considering how rich the offer from News Corp. is. If GE were to do something else with NBC, such as spin it off or sell it to private equity (all of which is entirely speculative right now), then News Corp.'s offer for Dow Jones could represent the beginning of some major changes across the big media landscape.


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I thought TIMSers would be interested by this review paper published last year by a Taiwanese group on jugular venous reflux (JVR) in J Med Ultrasound. They reference Charcot. They give a very good picture of the cerebral venous sytem and its components. They report "JVR indicates an increased proximal venous pressure, which might impede cerebral venous outflow and induce neurologic dysfunction". Unfortunately they don't mention Pr Zamboni.
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Good Deal vs. Good Cause: Meaningful Holiday Shopping
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Newswise — Many consumers sacrificed their Thanksgiving dinners this year to grab that ultimate pre-Black Friday deal that they can spend the rest of the season bragging about. But according to Saint Joseph's University sociologist Keith Brown, Ph.D., more and more shoppers are seeking something greater than saving a buck.
Brown has been studying what he calls an ethical turn in markets that has consumers looking to make purchases that make an impact, or can even change the world.
"I think the spirit of the holidays encourages shoppers to think more critically about a lot of their gifts," he says. "Many are turning to socially responsible products that are produced in sustainable ways or that have economic, social and environmental benefits for producers. In this respect, it's a double-gift."
Retailers are latching on to the rise in "do-gooder consumers," says Brown, and are shifting the way they market to appeal to this population.
"Retailers are doing things like creating more conspicuous labels that allow consumers to show off their status as socially conscious," he says.
But Brown cautions that many companies are trying to capitalize on this ethical turn and are selling products that are not as socially responsible as they initially appear.
"It is important for consumers to remember that advertisers' claims of sustainability do not always align with their actual practices," he says. "Third party certifications such as fair trade, organic and rainforest alliance provide some baseline assurances that companies are meeting their claims."
But what about consumers who want to be more socially responsible, but find it less than realistic? Brown acknowledges that cost, aesthetics and quality often complicate decisions.
"Even responsible shoppers often buy products that do not align with their values," he admits. "Some consumers willfully ignore where many of their products are coming from. Others rationalize by, say, shopping at Target as opposed to Walmart, when really there's not a vast difference in things like benefits and pay of entry level workers, for instance."
Brown's book Buying Into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality and Consumption is due out in March.
He can be reached for comment by contacting the Office of University Communications at 610-660-1222.


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Set to open the season playing 10 of their first 12 on the road, the Chicago Blackhawks knew a slow start would put them in a major hole.
A healthy Marian Hossa has made sure that hasn't happened.
The 2-0 Blackhawks open up their home schedule on Tuesday night as they host the division-rival St. Louis Blues.
Perhaps no player in the league benefited from the lockout more than Hossa, who likely would not have been ready to play in an October start after suffering a concussion in Game 3 of last season's Western Conference quarterfinals against the Phoenix Coyotes. Hossa left that game on a stretcher after taking a hit to the head from the Coyotes' Raffi Torres, who was suspended for the check.
Hossa had a pair of goals and an assist in Saturday's season-opening win at Los Angeles and then notched another two tallies in Sunday's 6-4 revenge win over the Coyotes.
"No hard feelings," Hossa said of the playing the Coyotes. "I just tried to take it as another game for me, just prepared as I always do. A big two points."
Dave Bolland added two goals and an assist for Chicago, which lost that playoff series to Phoenix in six games.
Ray Emery made 25 saves in the victory for a Blackhawks club that will play eight of its next nine on the road following this game.
Chicago did have the fourth-best home record in the NHL last season, going 27-8-6. That included a victory in all three meetings with St. Louis as the Blackhawks have won seven straight and nine of their last 10 at home versus the Blues.
Hossa had three goals and six points in six games versus the Blues last season as Chicago won the season series 4-2.
St. Louis is also 2-0 on the season and is coming off a road victory in Nashville on Monday night. Brian Elliott was called upon in relief and stopped all 13 shots he faced through overtime before turning away both skaters in a shootout as the Blues claimed a 4-3 win.
T.J. Oshie and Alexander Steen had shootout goals for the Blues.
Elliott came into the game after Jaroslav Halak yielded his third goal on the 11th shot he faced with 7:07 left in the second period. As Elliott pitched a shutout on his end, Alex Pietrangelo netted the game-tying goal with 7:50 left in the third.
"I was really happy with the way we stuck with it in the third. We just kept coming and coming and coming," said St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock, who is expected to start Elliott in this game.
Rookie Vladimir Tarasenko continued his excellent start, following up a two- goal debut in Saturday's 6-0 win over Detroit with a goal and two assists versus Nashville. His five points through his first two NHL games equals the most ever by a Blues rookie in that span. The mark was first set by Wayne Babych in 1978.
Steen is set to become the 53rd Swedish skater to play in 500 NHL games on Tuesday night, while this game could also mark the Blues debut of defenseman Wade Redden.
Redden was signed on Sunday after having his contract bought out by the New York Rangers last week. The Rangers had banished Redden to the Connecticut Whale of the AHL over the previous two seasons.
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At least 28 people have died, 22 of them children, after a bus carrying Belgian children crashed in a Swiss tunnel, police confirmed on Wednesday.
Distraught parents are due to meet outside the Sint Lambertus school today, to comfort one another and wait to hear more details. The parents of the victims will travel on to Switzerland later on Wednesday.
As the families of the victims prepare to leave for Switzerland, a 12-year-old survivor with broken legs and a broken arm managed to reach her father.
She was quoted by the Lesoir newspaper as telling her Dad "It was very dark, and I heard a huge shock. All the seats went flying and I found myself between two seats."
Belgian police spokesperson Marc Vranckx said: "Some parents know their kids have survived. For others there is no news."
Valais police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet said 52 people were on the bus carrying students home from a skiing trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel. A further 24 children were injured in the crash and taken to hospital.
Both bus drivers were killed and news agency AFP reports most of the children were aged around 12 years old.
The children are thought to have been from two different schools, the Sint Lambertus school in Heverlee and from the 't Stekske school in Lommel.
The schoolkids had written a blog about their holiday where they talked about the "great time" they were having skiing and how much they were "looking forward to getting home."
People outside the Sint Lambertus school
Police said the bus, which was carrying 52 people in total, crashed around 9pm local time on Tuesday in a tunnel at Sierre.
According to local reports, the bus swerved, hit a curb and then crashed into a concrete wall inside the tunnel.
The wreckage of the coach
Eight helicopters and 12 ambulances transported the victims to hospital, while 15 doctors and numerous firefighters and police attended the scene, the Associated Press reports.
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Switzerland's Cantonal police head Christian Varone said the crash was "unprecedented".
The victims are all thought to be Belgians living in Flanders.
Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynders said the crash was "incomprehensible" and authorities were still identifying the victims.
"It is incomprehensible. There were three buses and only one was in an accident, without any contact with another vehicle."
Rescue workers stand near debris of a crashed tourist bus
The Belgian prime minister said it was a "tragic day" for his country. "First thoughts go to the victims, to the members of their family and their loved ones."
Belgium's ambassador to Switzerland Jan Luykx also expressed his sympathies saying the tragedy will "hit the whole of Belgium."
"The magnitude of the accident is difficult to take in. For the moment I am concentrating on the practical aspects. The emotional side will come when we meet the families."
A spokesperson for the Swiss government said a crisis centre has been set up and an emergency number provided for families.
An investigation is now under way.


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Do orange and Red still post here?
Do orange and Red still post here?
I highly doubt Jesse is... Haven't seen him in a while. As for Red. I don't think I remember him/her.
Jesse posted something a week or so ago.
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks
I stand corrected then.
Jesse is currently in rehab for alcohol abuse after not being able to live up to expectations after his you got served joke.
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god bless Jesse .
It's good to know that you are ok. Yeah it's quiet.


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Injury-cursed UFC star Dominick Cruz finally gave up his claim on the undisputed bantamweight title late last night, forced to withdraw from a unification clash with Renan Barao at UFC 169 by a groin tear.
Cruz was due to make his Octagon return in New Jersey on February 2nd, attempting to end an absence from competitive action that stretches back to October 2011 due to successive knee injuries.
Interim champ Barao has been quietly dismantling opponents in the bantamweight king's absence, winning six straight UFC fights including victories over Urijah Faber and Brad Pickett.
Cruz's latest injury not only puts paid to a huge unification clash but must surely put the ex-champions chances of returning to action at all under the microscope, with a successful defence against now flyweight king Demetrious Johnson more than two years ago a distant memory.
Faber will now step in at less than a month's notice to rematch Barao for the belt, riding a wave of confidence after rebounding from a loss to the Brazilian with four straight wins, including three successes by stoppage.
UFC 160 will now be headlined by Barao vs. Faber II, with Jose Aldo defending his featherweight strap against Ricardo Lamas in the co-main event.
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Office Space to Rent in Welsh Newton
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Welsh Newton. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Welsh Newton. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
*Start up businesses will receive 5% off RRP office suites* Set in landscaped grounds the park provides a unique working environment in a mixture of office and light industrial. OFFICES: Flexible accommodation, range of sizes from single person office to 9,045 ft² (840.30 m²), available on traditional or serviced basis. INDUSTRIAL: Flexible accommodation, range of sizes from 250 ft² (23.22 m²) to 15,317 ft² (1423 m²), available on traditional or serviced basis. Unique working environment. Just off the A449/A40 with on-site amenities.
This business centre is a small family run office and self-storage facility offering companies and private individuals a cost effective solution to their office, workshop or storage units. The offices and small workshop facilities range in size from 150-2,500 sq. ft. across two floors, which can be let individually or as a whole. The rental terms are based on easy in, easy out agreements with licences starting from as little as one month on an all-inclusive rent.
A small collection of high quality town centre offices on Church Street, Monmouth. This Victorian property has benefited from a recent re-fit and now provides affordable, comfortable and flexible workspace in the heart of Monmouth. Offices available furnished or unfurnished on flexible terms. Offices ranging in size from 100sq ft - 2500sq ft. Available February 2017.
This business centre is a multi purpose site offering flexible office space for SME's and large multi-national companies. Undergoing a complete building refurbishment, it is the prime office space site locally. On site drinks facilities, Super Fast Broadband amongst other facilities are available on site.
The centre offers a range of offices to let from small single rooms to suites of offices suitable for the larger 'small' business and all at very competitive prices.
This centre provides a range of modern workshop / industrial units that are available on flexible terms. The centre totals 13,965 ft2 (1,297 m2) and provides ample free car parking. The units range from 750 to 2,000 ft2 (70 to 186 m2) and benefit from up-and-over and personnel access doors, 3-phase electricity, lighting, gas blow heating and WC and washing facilities.
The business centre offers high specification fully serviced offices, meeting rooms and conference facilities. Providing an impressive reception and visitor area, high speed internet access via fibre optic/cat 5e connections, digital telephone systems, site security and disabled facilities and a host of expected features inline with a business centre renown for its quality and excellence. In addition on site there are laboratories and offices offered on traditional leases.
This is a modern business centre providing a range of furnished offices, workshops and studios that are available on flexible terms. The centre is telecoms & IT enabled and provides a manned reception, meeting rooms, free car parking, cycle racks, shower facilities, CCTV security and an on-site cafe. The office spaces range from 130 to 570 ft2 (12 to 53 m2) and can be let with or without furniture. The workshops range from 580 to 1,820 ft2 (54 to 169 m2). They benefit from powered roller shutter doors, lighting and WC facilities.
This unique business centre has bright, clean fresh offices that offers a wide range of unit designs suitable for small, medium and large businesses. There is a good range of facilities, including breakout area, and meeting rooms are available to internal and external clients. The centre's reception area ensures a positive first impression. Also offering virtual offices, which will give you a business address, telephone number and the use of all of the amenities such as meeting rooms throughout the country. This centre offers flexible monthly licenses, easy-in/easy-out options to make your business move stress-free. . The licence is a simple two page document, with no solicitors fees and no hidden extras. This business centre holds external Networking Events which tenants can attend which helps to promote your business throughout the Devon area. If you want a new image and don't want to sign long leases, but do want a monthly manageable rent, come and see this fantastic business centre.
The property is located on a prestigious Business Park which has free on site parking. High quality and fully Air Conditioned modern offices, large reception area & personalised telephone answering, CAT5 cabling, ISDN, digital telephony, high speed internet access. All offices are fully furnished to a very high standard. Security is provided for out of hours access via centrally monitored CCTV, 24 / 7 access is available to all offices. Boardrooms, meeting rooms and virtual offices also available. Flexible licences & Agreements.
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When the buzzer sounded on Medfield High's 54-36 win over Nashoba Regional last Saturday at the DCU Center in Worcester, and the Warriors were crowned the Division 2 state champions in girls' basketball, Lauren Petit found her emotions running the gamut.
"It was a rush of excitement. It was so amazing," she said.
"The last two minutes we were up a fair amount so we just wanted the game to be over and we wanted to win, but we also didn't want our season to be over. It was kind of mixed feelings, but it was awesome."
Luckily for Petit, it was not her last opportunity.
She, and nearly all of her teammates, will have a chance to make a run at a second consecutive state title next season.
Led by Petit, a junior and the Tri-Valley League's MVP this season, Medfield will have nine of its 12 varsity players back, including four starters.
The day after the state title game, the Warriors met in a classroom beneath their home gym's floor to wrap up the season and look ahead to the future. They openly discussed their goal to retain the Division 2 state title plaque.
"We definitely talked about it," coach Mark Nickerson said. "We feel we have a real good shot of doing it again. We're returning almost our whole team. . . . We're going to be real tough."
There are teams across the region built for the future: St. John's High returns its young, talented back court — sophomore Davon Jones and freshman Adham Floyd — after making the Division 1 Central final this season; the Watertown girls made the Division 3 North title game without a senior starter; Newton North's girls return one of the best players in the state in junior Infiniti Thomas-Waheed ; and Nashoba Regional, Medfield's foe in this year's Division 2 final, will not graduate a single player off of its roster.
But perhaps no team is set up for success like Medfield. The Warriors will lose senior captain Jen Narlee , but Petit will pair up with fellow seniors-to-be Ali Mileszko and Kristin Fechtelkotter on the perimeter, while up-and-coming sophomore forward Payton Ouimette will look to carry over her torrid play from the tournament into next season.
At 5-foot-10, Ouimette averaged 13 points along with 12 rebounds in her team's final five games, and Nickerson said her style reminds him of Reading's Olivia Healy , the state's Gatorade Player of the Year.
"She was as valuable as anybody," Nickerson said. "Especially as a sophomore, but for anybody in the tournament, against the kind of competition we were playing against, to do what she did is incredibly impressive."
Medfield will shift from Division 2 South to Division 2 Central next season, meaning that if they are to face Nashoba in next year's playoffs, it will come earlier in the tournament. And given that the Chieftains return all 10 players from this season's roster, both sides are expecting to see each other again next March.
Chieftains coach Beth McNamara said she knows she will have to cook up a game plan to answer the size advantage Medfield used to its advantage in the championship.
"In order for us to be the district champion again next year, I'm assuming we'll have to go through them," McNamara said. "That ups the ante a little bit I think. We know they're not going to shrink. They're not getting any smaller, we're not getting any taller, so we need to find a way to beat them. The bottom line is they beat us that day. . . . It left a bad taste in our mouth."
Nashoba relied on a balanced attack this season, led by its leading scorers, sophomore forward Erin Cressman (11.4 points per game) and junior guard Emmalie Keenan (10.2). Sophomore Nikkiah Snoddy provides some size at 5-11, while sophomore Kelly Poole and junior Cecilia Burke round out the returning starting lineup.
McNamara said she hopes that her team can take a leap up next year, with six of its sophomores, many of whom played on a travel team together in middle school, gaining a year of valuable experience.
"Getting that far into the tournament has definitely helped us, and I'm hoping it's made us hungry to get there again," McNamara said. "That's just the type of kids I have. . . They'll work hard in the offseason and get better, and hopefully we can get there again."
Medfield plans on stopping them first.
"I think they'll definitely be back for blood trying to beat us because we ended their season," Petit said. "And next season I think they'll be much tougher because they'll all be a year older. They have the same exact team coming back and just the fact that we won this year, I think there will be a rivalry there."
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As the dust settles on postseason play, here are some tournament awards for a few of the top performers at area schools.
■ Rookie of the tournament: The award for best freshman in the playoffs goes to Newton South's Emily Chang , who averaged 11.8 points per game during the Lions' improbable run to the Division 1 South semifinal as the bracket's No. 17 seed.
■ Best sharpshooter:Chris Murray is Littleton High's all-time leading scorer with more than 1,600 points in his career, and he is the three-time Player of the Year in the Midland Wachusett League's Division D. He lived up to his lofty pedigree in the postseason, averaging 23.8 points per game as he led the Tigers to the Division 3 Central title.
■ Top thief:Lauren Petit was a steals machine all year for Medfield, and the junior continued to play lock-down defense in the tournament, averaging 5.6 swipes per playoff game.
■ Mr. Intangibles: He played less than a minute per game last season, but senior point guard Matt Lawrence took the reins as Wellesley captain this winter and was a natural leader, averaging 17.7 points per game in the tournament and helping the No. 14 seed Raiders reach the Division 2 South semifinals.
■ Breakthrough performance: Look for Millis High's 5-foot-9 sophomore point guard Amy Assad to make her presence felt in a big way once again next season after averaging 18 points per game in the tournament as her team made it to the Division 4 South final.Phil Perry can be reached at paperry27@ gmail.com.


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This project employs a number of strategies to fight deforestation in Kenya. "Tree Seedling Propagation to Combat Disastrous Deforestation around Migori" helps people from three local slums manufacture efficient cook stoves, grow tree seedlings, and make building blocks out of sand in Migori town. The integrated approach provides various environmental benefits while giving the urban poor new ways to make a living.
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650 efficient cook stoves produced weekly
500,000 tree seedlings grown every six months
145 members benefit directly
Poverty, overpopulation, and overdependence on wood for fuel have combined to cause disastrous deforestation in Kenya. In Migori Town of southwest Kenya, the urban poor depend on firewood and charcoal for fuel. It is also a necessity to earn a living. But deforestation and the related effects have harmed the environment in and around Migori town. This in turn affects the townspeople, for example in the form of erosion and flooding.
The solution
Members of the Wadu, a self-help group, have developed an innovative and efficient cook stove made of salvaged tin or iron sheets. Poor populations in Migori town can learn how to make these cook stoves, and sell them. The stoves are able to burn a single piece of wood for several hours, and are used for example in preparation of street food.
Urban poor who formerly sold firewood are also now harvesting sand that is continually deposited along the banks of the Migori River. They use the sand, combining it with soil and cement, to produce blocks that can be sold for construction. The self-help group is also propagating tree seedlings, having established three large nurseries to supply government demand.
Helping the planet
Planting trees prevents riverbank erosion and reduces flooding around the town. The greenery attracts rain, adds nutrients to the soil, and allows aquifers to be replenished. Sustainable extraction of sand has replaced the destruction of trees for wood and charcoal. The blocks don't need to be fired, which also reduces use of fuel. Since people are using less wood for fuel, pollution is also reduced.
Helping people
Energy-saving cook stoves improve indoor air quality, preventing respiratory illness. Sand harvesting and tree seedling cultivation have helped to lift the standard of living for slum-dwellers who make and sell the products. As a result, crime has decreased, and more children are attending school. Additionally, the planting of fruit trees contributes to regional food security.
Spillover effect
Other self-help groups are forming to emulate this project's integrated approach. The project can be easily copied, particularly in other East African regions where trees remain the dominant source of fuel.
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OMG - This is a real thing:
Allan Sherwood was the first buddy doll created for Ken. The vintage Allan doll first came on the market in 1964. His creation mirrored the creation of Barbie's pal, Midge. Allan was advertised as Midge's "boyfriend".
Yeah ... just like Marcus Bachmann is advertised as Michele's "husband".
Nice try, Mattel.


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Topic: Nicholas II
Emperor Nicholas II arriving at the Governing Senate in St. Petersburg, 1911. The dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral can be seen in the background. Photograph by Karl Bulla.
The Governing Senate was a legislative, judicial, and executive body of Russian monarchs. It was instituted by Emperor Peter I to replace the Boyar Duma. The Senate was chaired by the Ober-Procurator, who served as the link between the Sovereign and the Senate and acted in the Emperor's own words, as "the sovereign's eye".
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Uhhh.... I was hoping no one would ask!Billbbill wrote:
At the end of part 1 you cite the scale. Seems light G dorian (F Ionian?) if I'm hearing it right. Can you elaborate on what's going on scale wise?
Yeah, I too could swear it is G dorian. I think that works because this lick occurs over the Cmin segment of the chord progression.
In the key of F, it is basically Re to Re (using the Do Re Mi thing). I need to check again tonight as I don't have a guit in hand.
That lick slides up to the first note, and also uses the bV hammer-on, which Jer uses a fair amount in general.


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After hopping a train to the north, the family finds a world of literature awaiting in the English Lake District, an area so abundant with beauty it inspired celebrated authors like William Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter. Nathan and Seamus get a chance to explore some of the area stories at the World of Beatrix Potter Museum and the natural surrounds as they bump through the countryside in an off-road adventure, steam down the lake and up the mountains and get to know some of the area's woodland and lake creatures.
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After dominating English football for more then a decade, Manchester United's supremacy of English football has taken a pause after the reigns were passed on from Sir Alex Ferguson to David Moyes in the summer.
Although the task was always going to be unimaginably difficult, how exactly has David Moyes' performed in the early days of his Old Trafford career?
Surprisingly, Moyes' shortcomings have come in the Premier League, where his side failed to reinforce their side in the summer when their rivals spent large amounts of money. Their only signing of the summer, Marouane Fellaini has proven to be disappointing so far, and he'll be hoping to make a mark when he recovers from his injury.
In the summer, Moyes showed his inexperience with a massive budget in comparison to Everton, where he attempted to buy Cesc Fabregas. It doesn't take a genius to comprehend that Barcelona would never sell one of their best players, especially as he's in line to replace the ageing Xavi and Iniesta.
However, not all the blame can be put on Moyes' shoulders. Ed Woodward must take some of the responsibility as he departed United's pre-season tour to deal with urgent transfer business which lead to only signing on the last day of the transfer window. It wasn't good enough.
Running in parallel to these events was another controversial decision on Moyes' part. He let go of Mike Phelan, Rene Meulensteen and Eric Steele in favour to bring his own back-room staff in Steve Round, Jimmy Lumdsen and Chris Woods.
Moyes' may have missed a massive opportunity to understand the players better if the previous staff stayed for another season. This could also be a reason as to why the United players seemed so unmotivated earlier in the season.
After back-to-back defeats in December, Moyes saw his team spiralling downhill as they were in a miserable 8th place. Since then, they've achieved six wins in a row and now find themselves 8 points off Arsenal. Understandably, Moyes has played down this run as he knows it's nothing less then what it is to be expected at such a massive club.
Although the Premier League hasn't bore fruit for Moyes thus far, he's done well in the cup competitions- especially in the Champions League, where many thought he would falter. Moyes' side was unbeaten in the group stages, winning 4 of their six games and drawing the other two.
Finishing top of their group, Moyes has received a favourable draw against Olympiacos, where they should comfortably go through to the quarter-finals, and who knows? Could they do a Chelsea and go all the way?
The Capital One Cup will be high on the agenda this season for Manchester United as it's their most realistic chance at silverware so far. They find themselves in the semi-finals having to play a two-legged tie against Sunderland.
They will most likely play Manchester City at Wembley who must overcome a stubborn West Ham side, and if Moyes was to win that final, it may give him the same boost it gave to Jose Mourinho in his first spell at Chelsea. It could propel the Scotsman's team to win more trophies.
Indeed, it is difficult to judge David Moyes as it's still early and he hasn't stamped his own ideas on the club just yet. Many United fans will be hoping he splashes the cash in January to really push on all fronts, however, Moyes must sell at some point too.
So far this season, the likes of Anderson, Nani and Fabio have failed to make any impact on the United team and they could be shown the door in either January or in the summer.
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Jeffrey H. Anderson is a writer for The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.
The verdict now seems to be in on the Romney campaign's strategy of generally avoiding making the case against Obamacare and choosing not to make President Obama's defining legislation a defining issue in this campaign. That strategy plainly seems to have benefited both Obamacare and Obama, and it likely goes a long way toward explaining Romney's struggles in the polls. Moreover, given how much each party relies on its presidential nominee to make the case for its side, it may also help explain why Rasmussen's polling of likely voters now shows Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot for only the second time in the 88 weeks since Republicans took control of the House.
The good news, however, is that we're still almost two full months from Election Day, so there remains plenty of time for Romney's campaign to adopt a strategy on Obamacare that's more conducive both to victory and to repeal.
Since Obamacare was passed into law in March 2010, Rasmussen has conducted 109 polls on whether Americans want to repeal it. Support for repeal has outpaced opposition to repeal in all 109 polls, thereby giving Obamacare a win-loss record of 0-109 and making it the poster child for unpopular legislation. Moreover, this polling has consistently shown independents to be every bit as supportive of repeal as voters as a whole — and often even more so. None of this should be surprising to Republicans, as they rode their firm opposition to Obamacare to a historic electoral victory less than two years ago, largely on the basis of strong support from independent voters.
The Romney campaign's strategy is aimed at appealing to independents. Yet by not making the case against Obamacare, Romney is rapidly losing independents on this issue.
On July 7-8, Rasmussen's polling showed that independents supported the repeal of Obamacare by a margin of 19 percentage points (56 to 37 percent). By a 27-point margin (56 to 29 percent), they thought Obamacare was bad, rather than good, for the country. Exactly two months later, on September 7-8, after a Republican convention in which Obamacare was relegated to an afterthought in prime time (except by Paul Ryan), and a Democratic convention in which Obama was praised as caring and courageous for ignoring the clear wishes of the American people and spearheading Obamacare's passage, independents now oppose repeal by a margin of 9 percentage points (52 to 43 percent). By a 7-point margin they now think Obamacare is good, rather than bad, for the country. That's a 28-point swing on repeal, and a 34-point swing on whether Obamacare would be good or bad for the country, in just two months — among the voting block that will likely decide this election.
Why is this happening? Independents can tell that President Obama badly wants to keep Obamacare in place. When Romney chooses not to emphasize it, the sense that comes through is that he doesn't really think it's all that important to repeal it. Using the two candidates as the poles, centrists therefore surmise that the right position on Obamacare must be somewhere between strongly supporting it and tepidly opposing it. If they split the difference (they are, after all, centrists), they'll end up supporting it.
And if they end up supporting it, they'll likely end up supporting Obama. As most any conservative could tell you, the worst aspect of Obama's presidency has been his spearheading of Obamacare. As most any liberal would tell you, the best aspect of Obama's presidency has been his spearheading of Obamacare. As most any independent can tell you, the most important aspect of Obama's presidency has been his spearheading of Obamacare. And these independents' votes will likely be decided by whether they think the most important aspect of Obama's presidency is a good or a bad thing.


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Atari 800 rules!
Atari 800 rules!
Here we go again
The Apple ][, clearly.
There doesn't appear to be any section on custom high-speed communication with the external floppy drive unit. IIRC, you could upload a small program to the drive, and then you could in particular read data from the drive a lot faster than the 'OS' normally supported. This technique was also used to do copy protection for a bunch of titles, primarily by stepping the drive head 1/2 between tracks then doing reads. Production disk duplication could write to both the track & between tracks [or could write a wide enough track to cover the whole area], but regular floppy drives couldn't write both [you could either write on the track, or between tracks].
Not that I was interested in this stuff or anything.
A disk-drive fast loader could fit into 256 bytes, IIRC.
The trick was to shift bits in an unrolled loop. I remember I stored some values on the stack by using PHA in this loop.
I did write a fast loader for a few games I wrote on the C64 (with was one of the computers I was doing games in the 80s, along with Oric, Thomson TO7 and MO6 and Amstrad CPC). Atari ST appeared in 1987.
The 1541 drives were purposefully slowed down to maintain compatibility with some other Commodore hardware (I forget at the moment exactly which)..... so they weren't so much fast-loaders as they were "doing it the way the engineers designed it to work, not the way the boss made them change it so he could claim compatibility.
That's in an exhaustive 1541 ROM dis-assembly book. I do not now recall who published or wrote it. It had exhaustive detail on how the drive's rom worked. Using that and some machine code I actually found out you could store a file on the floppy that on power on would boot no-knock code. I used that for several years. Then tech got more difficult and less accessible for a time.
Now with small devices like the Arduino and Make Magazine's controllers many people are learning and better creating things with rea
It's been so long I cannot recall if the code was in that book or if I used this portion of it to create the program.
http://project64.c64.org/hw/1541_tricks.txt [c64.org]
I can't even find the program that ran on the C64 to stop the knock on the 1541.
Now, I can finally stop waiting and get to programming my Commodore 64!
Now, I can finally stop waiting and get to programming my Commodore 64!
I know right! I finally got my Beowulf Cluster of c128's running GNU/linux doing seti@home work!!! Sure it's drawing about 200amps but damn it's a sweet setup and only takes about 24 days per unit!
Relax. You've obviously read too many kdawson stories recently, and have been trolled into a heightened state of paranoia. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.
Also, why have you switched off your iphone citizen 533448?
My response was to kick their copy protection out of the game.
What? It's legal! My country's copyright law explicitely states that disassembly and alteration of compiled code is allowed if necessary to make a system or program to interoperate with another one. No kidding. They pretty much prompted me to invoke that portion of our copyright code and crack their game. Without the crack, it is not able to cooperate with the disasselber or the CD-drive emulator I have running that I simply cannot turn off (sorr
I literally bought a game, had to hack away the protection, and then I could play it on my computer.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of like how my Linux computer won't play a Blu-Ray from walmart, but it does just fine with one from the pirate bay.
It was possible to fully understand all of the old 8 and 16 but machines. Now you could spend momths trying to fully understand one video card, which would be replaced by something more complex by the time you finished understanding it.
And that was a big part of it, the stability of the platforms during that era. A C64 was exactly the same as every other one, a Tandy Coco was identical to the million others of it's kind. Later models tended to retain as close to 100% backward compatibility as possible so knowledge and software tools retained value. Now you buy a lot of PCs with the understanding that a year from now you won't be able to buy more of the exact model even if you stick to Optiplexes and such that promote the relative stability of the platform. Something will be slightly different. So, understanding being impossible we abstract it all away to the greatest extent possible.
If you want to reconnect with low level look at AVR microcontrollers. If you are really frugal you can get going for $20.
It was possible to fully understand all of the old 8 and 16 but machines.
Personally I prefer my butts to be over 18, but to each his own I guess.
It's not really exact, since the C64 existed in 2 forms: one for the US and one for the Europe.
I vaguely remember that it introduced a difference in the fast disk-loading routine mentioned in a message above, because there was one cycle of difference (yes, simply a NOP).
If somebody is interested, I can dig in my very old source code to retrieve this information (I coded several games for the C64 in the years 1985-1988).
It was possible to fully understand all of the old 8 and 16 but machines.
Well, a lot of the segment-based memory management features introduced in the 80286 seemed to be so complex and hard to understand that nobody really used them to the extent Intel envisioned. Once the much simpler page-based virtual memory was added to the 32-bit 80386, people tried to forget that those 286 features ever existed.
Though my experience was on the Apple II not the Commodore. Little things like writing your own device drivers, drawing graphics via direct access to interlaces vram, (oh the maths!) direct read latch access to the floppy drives, writing hybrid assembly/BASIC apps. It was grand.
It's downright depressing to compare my present-day knowledge of computers, classify myself as somewhere in the upper 2%, and still wish I knew a quarter as much (percentage-wise) about my current computer as I did about my
I think it's there if you want it. A couple of weeks ago I was writing in assembly language specifically for one of the top ten fastest computers in the world. Sure, there's a shitload I don't know about that cluster -- no idea if there's an RJ-45 port, much less how I'd access it via the assembler, but I could probably find out if I cared and got clearance for it.
It's easy to romanticize simpler times, and there is some truth to them being simpler, but I'm damn excited about today. I mean, really, you can
It's downright depressing to compare my present-day knowledge of computers, classify myself as somewhere in the upper 2%, and still wish I knew a quarter as much (percentage-wise) about my current computer as I did about my
Can you get more done with a program today than you could with the Apple II?
Err okay... so are you rebooting and launching Visual Studio enough times that it takes longer these days to write a program than it did back in the C64 days?
I must admit I am disappointed. I thought I was going to hear about how all the abstraction and use of libraries/modules/etc meant that we can create useful apps in a fraction of the time that we could in the 80's. I had no idea it actually took longer!
That's right; one of the usability tests was boot-to-use time. I'm sure it was far from the most important, and there are changes in the way computers are used now that make it almost obsolete. For instance, my MacBook Pro might take over a minute from cold boot to an open terminal window, but I reboot it only rarely. Most of the time I just close the lid and let it sleep, so wake-to-use time is under 5 seconds; less if I already had a terminal window open.
The answer to the grandparent's question is, "ye
> One of the usability tests that Jef Raskin proposed was the time from turning a computer on to having written a program for adding two numbers together.
So the Openoffice spreadsheet is totally unusable.
Those were the good old days.
I could make beautiful music on my Apple II.
No, really, I made music. Like this:
Man... I was so productive back then...
I remember writing that exact same program. The rising and falling of the speaker tones as I twisted the paddle knob back and forth.
Good times.
So, top 2%, what are you doing now?
I also place myself in the top 2% and did very well as a freelance programmer for many years. Then I started competing with offshore programmers.
Now I'm not a programmer any more. I miss it, but I need to make a living.
So, top 2%, what are you doing now?
Today I do warranty repair work for Apple at an AASP. Our shop is small, but I have the satisfaction in knowing we're good and well-respected. From time to time the local (50 miles away!) apple store actually sends customers here because they can't cut it.
Hence the wish that I could have anywhere near the mastery level on the mac as I did on the II. But for now I solve problems, I fix things, and I help people. That sums up what I enjoy doing, and usually involves t
...buy yourself some Atmel microcontrollers (ATMega8 is a good choice). This will be instantly familiar to anyone who programmed assembly language on the C64. There are some differences, the Atmels aren't Von-Neumann architecture but Harvard architecture (separate program and data address space) and the CPU has more registers, but there is excellent hardware documentation, the complete command set and detailed register descriptions in the data sheet. There are lots of interesting application notes (IR decoding, interfacing to PS/2 keyboards, LCD output,
It's not a toy either. These controllers are everywhere. Have fun and learn a useful skill...
Octocore Core i13 and a half is just a fancy C64 with more CPU instructions, more memory, more peripherals that runs faster
Possible, but nowhere near as easy. I've read most of volume 3A of Intel's architecture reference while doing background reading for my Xen book, but the complete architecture reference is well over 3,000 pages. The GPU reference - if you can get it - is a similar length, and that's before you get to the OS. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is 720 pages. It's a good book, but it skips over a lot of details. The copy of the X11 protocol reference that I read was several hundred pages, and it's a few revisions old. The OpenGL reference was a similar length. But now you can do 2D and 3D graphics and, once you've read the C spec (not so bad, only a couple of hundred pages) and spent some time familiarising yourself with your C compiler and standard library you can draw things.
To get the level of understanding that the original poster is talking about, on a modern computer, means reading and remembering around 10,000 pages of reference books, and gaining familiarity with the source code that they mention. And that's just going to give you one CPU architecture and the core bits of the OS.
It's lovely to remember what was, but not so great to forget what we have today.
Sure, we generally don't know the whole widget from top to bottom, but it's a hell of a lot easier to get a program up and running. It's not just frameworks either - the choice of languages we have today beats the crappy BASIC we had then, or the assembly language tools we had.
The first machine I knew inside-out was the ZX-Spectrum. While I like to remember it fondly, I would never want a return to those primitive times.
It's a bit like object-oriented programming - we hide the details of an object and only deal with the interface. It's more scalable and leads to faster development.
If you want to know a platform inside out, there's a fully documented open-source linux kernel staring there at you in the face.
Go get any of the dozens of embedded arm kits, any of the GREAT bits of documentation, and dig in. You want to get dirty with the hardware? U-boot is right there.
Want to pay with SRAM and gates? A $100 FPGA will get you all you need. Including a VGA out. We made a fully HDL Pong Game; including the VGA DAC out of a $20 part.
Hell, for ALL that matter, go get a Gameboy (any one) for
I credit going through elementary school with a Commodore 64, one of the few in my school that couldn't actually afford one, for my advanced engineer position I have now. I spent so much time hacking away basic programs and stuff that I ended up learning so much computer science without even realizing.
Its the only explanation I have for how I've been a software engineer for my entire post school career (the past dozen plus years) while my undergrad degree was a BA in English.
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature.html [salon.com]
Ellen Ullman was a programmer for a full career before she discovered she was also a talented writer. The above link is to a Salon.com article that was basically an excerpt from her excellent book, "Close to the Machine".
She writes about getting a PC and stripping off Windows, DOS, everything, until the (old even for 1998) BIOS is saying "Basic Not Loaded", then building Linux on it.
Her conclusions do sound a smidge "kids these days" when she writes about modern programmers that only know libraries and IDEs, but I know the
"Most of the programming team consisted of programmers who had great facility with Windows, Microsoft Visual C++ and the Foundation Classes. In no time at all, it seemed, they had generated many screenfuls of windows and toolbars and dialogs, all with connections to networks and data sources, thousands and thousands of lines of code. But when the inevitable difficulties of debugging came, they seemed at sea. In the face of the usual weird and unexplainable outcomes, they stood a bit agog. It was left to the UNIX-trained programmers to fix things. The UNIX team members were accustomed to having to know. Their view of programming as language-as-text gave them the patience to look slowly through the code. In the end, the overall "productivity" of the system, the fact that it came into being at all, was the handiwork not of tools that sought to make programming seem easy, but the work of engineers who had no fear of "hard."
I do recall some
Still, the point of the desire is to have *maximum* control of the level of tool you are able to work directly with. The philosophy was echoed by Neal Stephenson in his essay, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", the googling of which I will leave to the student. It's on-line.
The deep knowledge is still there - the well is just a LOT deeper, and more complex.
In the days of the C64 - it was reasonable for a skilled and/or curious programmer to get to the bottom of things and learn how everything worked, exactly. It was also potentially USEFUL for him to do this.... it was the only direction you could go, short of inventing a new language.
So - today we still find deep knowledge out there - but it just not be as useful for even a very good programmer to go ALL the way down.
Yes, a
I had a 1 line game for the commodore series of computers.
Something like the below. You could do it in less than 40 characters with the short cuts. It even worked on the TRS80 line with slight modifications.
I liked walking into their sales rooms with the "don't touch serious stuff" feel and having a game going in 30 seconds.
0 poke 32788+loc,65; loc=loc+peek(151)*2-1; print tab(rand(37)),"XXX"; if peek(32788+loc) == 32 GOTO 0
You had to clear the screen and start it with RUN at the bottom for it to work
poke 3
Commodore originally licensed BASIC from Microsoft. They wrangled some deal which gave them full rights with a one-off payment. MS eventually felt hard done by and you see the Microsoft copyright message on the c128 boot screen.
I've recently rediscovered the joy of small computers that can be fully understood by one person. The 8 bit machines from the 80s provide opportunities for learning and experimentation that are not present in today's computers. "Retro computing" is growing as a hobby amongst both people who remember these machines fondly from past days and younger folks who just find them interesting. It is strictly a hobby of course, very little "useful" stuff can be done with these boxes beyond the education they can provide.
My favorite retro system is OS-9, a real time multitasking operating system that you can fit in your head. There is an open source version called NitrOS-9 [nitros9.org] which has excellent documentation and most of the code well commented. It runs on 6809 based computers like the Tandy Color Computer and the Tano Dragon.
You can learn a tremendous amount about process scheduling, IPC, memory management, device drivers and low level I/O, etc from playing with this system.
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.


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April 3, 2010
Box Score, Game 1 Box Score, Game 2
SACRAMENTO - A late offensive surge by Sacramento State in the second game Saturday and a superb pitching performance in the first game allowed the Hornets to pull off the sweep, defeating UCSB's baseball team 3-0 and 10-9 at Hornet Field.
The Gauchos had a three-game winning streak snapped and lost their final non-conference weekend series before Big West Conference play begins next weekend.
UCSB falls to 12-10 overall while Sac State improves to 10-15-1.
After getting just one hit in the first game, UCSB opened the second game by scoring five runs in the first two innings. However, the Hornets scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning off of Jesse Meaux.
The crux of UCSB's offense was Beck Wheeler's three-run home run in the second inning, the second straight game the Gaucho designated hitter went deep.
In the third inning Ryan Palermo's two-run double gave the Gauchos a 7-4 lead.
Sac State scratched out a run in the bottom of the third before exploding for four more runs in the sixth inning off Meaux.
Justin Lamb's single scored the Hornets' first run of the frame and after a sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third, Josh Powers' two-run single gave Sac State an 8-7 lead.
The Hornets tacked on their fourth run on a sac fly.
UCSB rallied for two runs in the seventh inning to tie the game when Ryan Tregoning hit a two-out, pinch-hit double down the left field line.
But Blake Miller hit a run-scoring single with two outs off Nick Loredo (0-2) to give Sac State a lead it would never relinquish.
In the ninth Matt Valaika singled but was wiped out on a double play before Bryce Tafelski doubled and Palermo reached on an error to give UCSB a chance with runners on the corners.
But, the hero in game one, Andrew Galvan, came in to get Tregoning to fly out to end the game for his fourth save. Galvan pitched eight shutout innings, allowing just one hit, in game one.
In the first game, UCSB managed just one hit - Beck Wheeler's fourth inning infield single - and couldn't support ace left-hander Mario Hollands. The junior from El Cerrito, Calif. pitched all eight innings, allowing three earned runs on 11 hits while striking out seven. Hollands falls to 2-2 on the season.
Brandon Creel and Andrew Galvan combined to shut down the Gauchos in the first game, which started at 11 a.m. after Friday's game was postponed due to rain. The duo struck out six combined batters and didn't walk a batter between them. The game was played in a crisp two hours.
UCSB hosts Loyola Marymount on Tuesday at 2 p.m. before playing at Cal Poly to open conference play next weekend. The Gauchos' first conference weekend series is against Cal State Fullerton the weekend of April 16.
To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.
New this season, UCSB baseball games will be broadcast on AM 1490 and streaming live online at UCSBgauchos.com. Steve Wendt will handle the play-by-play duties with every Big West weekend series scheduled to air live on the radio and streaming live online. Click here for more information and a schedule of baseball games on the air!
Earlier this year UCSB revealed a new look and the baseball team is sporting some new logos and uniforms on the field. Be sure to come to the baseball team's home games to outfit yourself in the new gear! Click here to take a look at the new logos and uniforms the Gauchos are wearing. All new gear is available for purchase at UCSB home baseball games.


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His Grace Bishop MERCURIUS Visits Archdiocese Headquarters
On Bright Tuesday, April 21, 2009, His Grace Vladyka MERCURIUS, the Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchal Parishes in the United States visited His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP at the Antiochian Archdiocese in Englewood, New Jersey.
The occasion was a farewell visit by Vladyka MERCURIUS before he departs for Moscow to assume his new duties as the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechism for the Moscow Patriarchate, and Abbot of St. Peter's Monastery in Moscow.
Metropolitan PHILIP expressed his warm feelings regarding the good relations which he enjoyed with Vladyka MERCURIUS during his stay in the United States over the past 9 years. The two hierarchs exchanged many ideas on the topic of Orthodox unity in America, and the forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council which will be held in Cyprus later this year. His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP expressed his wishes that His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia would exercise a leading role in international Orthodox relations, especially given that His Holiness represents approximately 100 million Orthodox Christians. His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP expressed fond memories of his previous two visits to Russia and asked Vladyka MERCURIUS to express his warmest regards to His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL.
Very Rev. Thomas Zain, His Grace Bishop MERCURIUS, His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP, Very Rev. Alexander Abramov, Rev. George Kevorkian


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Lawrence appointed TSTC President
Waco — Chancellor Mike Reeser announces the appointment of Gail Lawrence as president of Texas State Technical College West Texas, pending board approval. The TSTC Board of Regents will consider the appointment for approval on Aug. 5, at their next regular meeting.Lawrence has served in an interim capacity since Reeser stepped down as president when he was chosen to serve as the TSTC System Chancellor/CEO on Nov. 4, 2010. A presidential search committee considered numerous candidates and presented Lawrence to the Chancellor. In May, the search committee completed an initial search cycle without selecting a final candidate. The search committee is made up of TSTC employees, administrators and regents."We put candidates through a rigorous interview process," said Jonathan Hoekstra, chair of the presidential search committee, "and Ms. Lawrence went through an even more intense experience, having served in the position of president for the past eight months.""Ms. Lawrence's outstanding performance as interim president earned the respect of the other three TSTC presidents, so it's understandable that she holds their unqualified endorsement, as well as that of the entire search committee," said Chancellor Reeser."Gail Lawrence's private and public sector experience, when coupled with her years of success in higher education, make her the ideal leader for the president role in west Texas," said Regent Joe Hearne, chair of the human and organizational development committee for the TSTC Board of Regents, and member of the presidential search committee."Gail has been a west Texan for decades and is a proven performer who never forgets that the students are the reason for our efforts. So, I look forward to discussing her selection at the TSTC Board meeting in which we will consider her ratification," said Regent J.V. Martin who also served on the presidential search committee."I'm very pleased for the students and employees of TSTC West Texas who will be the fortunate beneficiaries of her leadership," added Reeser.Lawrence holds a bachelor of science in business from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Prior to serving as interim president, Lawrence served at TSTC West Texas as the director of human resources, chief of staff and executive vice president. In addition to serving in higher education, Lawrence has also worked in the health care industry, serving as director of human resources for both Hendrick Health System in Abilene and Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital in Sweetwater. Her public service includes: nine year member of the Sweetwater ISD Board of Trustees, having served as secretary, vice president and president; founding board member of West Texas Children's Advocacy Center; board member, Texas Midwest Community Network; and board member of the Nolan County Appraisal District.Lawrence has been a member of the Big Country community for 27 years. She implemented and chaired a "Back to School" project providing free school supplies for area students. She is a graduate of Leadership Sweetwater and member of First United Methodist Church Sweetwater.Lawrence and her husband Kyle have been married for 25 years. They have five children: Kaitlin, 23, a second year Baylor Law Student; Jake, 19, a sophomore at The University of Texas at Austin; Elise, 16, a junior at Sweetwater High School and twins Mark and Michael, 13, eighth graders at Sweetwater Middle School.About TSTCTexas State Technical College (www.tstc.edu) consists of four technical colleges: TSTC Harlingen, TSTC Marshall, TSTC Waco and TSTC West Texas, which has campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood and Sweetwater. TSTC colleges rank among the top colleges in the state and nation for conferring associate degrees in engineering, precision production, computer information sciences and support services, science technologies/technicians and enrollment of Hispanic students (http://www.ccweek.com). Washington Monthly magazine's annual publication of America's 50 best community colleges for 2010 ranked TSTC Waco No. 41 on the magazine's list; TSTC West Texas and TSTC Waco landed in the second and third spots respectively in Texas in the Community Colleges category.


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Kris Jenkins and Mark Sanchez were teammates for two seasons with the Jets. But after seeing Sanchez struggle in last week's loss to the Seahawks, Jenkins was so disgusted that he said he'd like to see Sanchez suffer an injury.
"There is a point where I wished some defensive end would have knocked him out of a game so they wouldn't have had a choice but to put somebody else in," Jenkins said on SNY's Jets postgame show, via the New York Daily News.
However, with a few days to think about it, Jenkins reconsidered. On Thursday, Jenkins still said he thinks Sanchez should be taken off the field, but he said he doesn't want it to happen because Sanchez is seriously injured.
"As a former player, we know among players there's a difference between hurting a guy, inflicting pain or injuring them. I would not like to see any harm come over Sanchez in an injury capacity," Jenkins said. "However, right now his performance is terrible. I don't feel like talking about him."
As a former player who has said playing in the NFL is hell and fans have no clue about how physically painful it is, Jenkins is the last person who should be making light of a player getting injured. But as an analyst, Jenkins is right about one thing: Sanchez's performance is terrible.


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Lockheed Martin and UH renew educational partnershipUniversity of Hawaiʻi
UH Manoa Chancellor's Office
Doug Sayers, (858) 795-1408
Lockheed Martin
Professional and educational opportunities continue to expand for the State of Hawaiʻi as Lockheed Martin and the University of Hawaiʻi's College of Engineering renew a collaborative agreement through the Industry Affiliates Program, strengthening bonds between the University and the Oʻahu-based high-tech company.
The partnership agreement calls for the University of Hawaiʻi's College of Engineering to receive a broad range of support from Lockheed Martin ORINCON Defense, including providing guest lecturers for classes, clubs, meetings, and seminars; reviewing of student presentations and projects, and providing other interactive programs.
Ty Aldinger, Director of Lockheed Martin ORINCON Hawaiʻi Operations, said, "Technology is critical in every aspect of modern life and its role continues to grow. As part of Hawaiʻi's ohana we believe everyone should have every opportunity to succeed. This partnership has strengthened our commitment to provide additional opportunities for Hawaii's engineering students."
Lockheed Martin ORINCON Defense established a Hawaiʻi Operations on the island of Oʻahu in 1987, providing high-tech jobs to island residents. Fully 50% of the engineers employed by Lockheed Martin ORINCON are graduates of the University of Hawaiʻi. They have offices on Oʻahu, Maui, and, soon, on Kauaʻi, providing innovative software solutions to a wide range of federal and state agencies.
Dr. Wai-Fah Chen, UH College of Engineering Dean, said, "Industry Affiliates such as Lockheed Martin are invaluable to our students and faculty who work closely with industry leaders, learning new technologies, applications, and methods that enhance the curriculum of the College of Engineering. In turn, we graduate highly skilled engineers whose contributions to Hawaiʻi's business community are immediate and significant."
Last year the Lockheed Martin contribution allowed the College of Engineering to establish a Multidisciplinary Engineering Cooperative Program for the College of Engineering, system administration security and maintenance, and web development and programming of the College of Engineering website. In addition, Lockheed Martin and other Industry Affiliates collaborate to refine the College's engineering program syllabi.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2003 sales of $31.8 billion.


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Development hell is a sad place. Thousands of shelves line the drab walls that overflow with the games, films, books and albums that never quite made it. Whether they were deemed unprofitable, unfinished, unwanted or inappropriate, they now just sit in that unforgiving place, gathering dust. Few projects escape this dank idea-tomb, but occasionally a title will have a surge of interest or stroke of luck that propels it, blinking, back into the sunlight. When a title with as troubled a development as United Front Games' Sleeping Dogs finally sees a release, it's a miracle in itself. I had a good four hours to sit down and explore Sleeping Dogs' vibrant and menacing world in some early and mid-game segments to see how the crime drama fared after a stint in development hell.
Sleeping Dogs began life as an original IP inspired by the free-roaming, crime-filled world of Grand Theft Auto but planned to offer players a bustling Hong Kong in which to cause all manner of havoc. The difference to the more well-known GTA is the game's obvious roots in Hong Kong action cinema.
The story is dark and the action highly stylised. Before Sleeping Dogs had a publisher though, Activision came along and noted the game's thematic similarities to their seemingly dead True Crime series. Wanting to reboot that series with a serious, and already near-finished, game, they bought the rights and set about rebranding the game as their own with a new development team. Unsurprisingly, they eventually noticed the ambivalent industry, and fan, reaction to another True Crime title and decided to concentrate on their more profitable franchises. The original team at United Front Games were given back their code and went about completing the game sans the True Crime name. This was a confusing time for Sleeping Dogs, as gamers weren't sure which title was which and internet speculation was rife. So when the game was picked up by the new publisher Square Enix, they set about orchestrating a media blitz of fantastic trailers to emphasise the original and mature concept many gamers were still confusing for True Crime.
An important distinction to make before we go any further is Sleeping Dogs' influences. While free-roaming crime games like GTA are steeped in American crime dramas, Sleeping Dogs takes some heavy cues from Hong Kong action films. Specifically, films such as Hardboiled and Internal Affairs have obviously influenced many aspects of the game. This means the action is stylistic and over the top, while still being grounded with a dark, brutal storyline. It also means players expecting the attempted realism of GTA IV will be disappointed. This doesn't reflect poorly on the game though, only on players' expectations.
Sleeping Dogs puts you in the capable shoes of Wei Shen, an undercover cop sent back to his native Hong Kong from San Francisco because of his history with the Sun On Yee, a huge Yakuza-like organisation that operates in the city. Shen quickly slips back in with his childhood friends who never escaped the brutal life of organised crime.
While this may seem like a fairly standard undercover cop story, the exciting aspect is the two paths Shen can take. Should you choose the honourable route, you can try and bring the Sun On Yee down from the inside while tenuously maintaining your cover. But for the more power-hungry players, the story can branch off into much darker territory as you slowly move up the ranks of the criminal organisation through various acts of sabotage, murder and kidnapping. All under the nose of the police force. Much of the time these choices are by no means straightforward, forcing you to make hard decisions that could get your friends arrested or your colleagues killed. What makes it so tense is that the characters are not merely cardboard cut-outs. Your childhood friend, Jackie Ma, is a perfect example of this. While he is content to operate on the fringes of the Sun On Yee, your ascent to power drags him into increasingly dangerous situations that are entirely your fault. His character grows on you though, and the comfortable friendship makes late game decisions even more difficult. The interesting characters are helped along by some surprisingly stellar voice actors, especially for an unproven series. Will Yun Lee (the Silver Samurai in the upcoming Wolverine film) plays Wei Shen to great effect, with the cast rounded out by big names such as Edison Chen, James Hong, Kelly Hu and the eternally entertaining Tom Wilkinson. The talent on offer shows how confident Square Enix are in their new franchise, and gives the plot a higher level of cinematic credibility than if the developers had procured unproven names.
The combat feels reminiscent of the free-flowing brutality of Batman: Arkham City. Many recent games have attempted to emulate the combat system that Arkham Asylum introduced (and Arkham City improved), with varying degrees of success. Sleeping Dogs has commandeered several of the developers who helped develop the Batman fighting system, and players familiar with that game will feel immediately at home. But Sleeping Dogs makes Shen feel like a very different beast to Batman, and years of gang association have honed him into a more than capable physical powerhouse. It's actually surprising and pleasing that the game slipped under the Office of Film and Literature Classification's radar, because some of Shen's finishing moves are beyond brutal. This fits perfectly in with the story and the city's dark underbelly.
Vehicles also play a huge part in the gameplay of Sleeping Dogs, with high-speed chases a particular highlight. Some of the team that helped develop the Need for Speed series have weighed in on the driving mechanics. This is obvious when you first jump onto your bike. The handling doesn't have the weight of more realistic driving simulators, but the emphasis is on conveying speed to the player. Coupled with a shunt move and the (endlessly fun) ability to jump from one car to another, mid-chase, means the driving segments are as fast-paced as they are action-packed. This is especially apparent later in the game when Shen obtains some hugely powerful cars befitting a high-ranking mobster. These endlessly respawn at your car park should you get a taste for running your sports cars up the back of unsuspecting motorbikes.
Sleeping Dogs doesn't aim to reinvent the wheel, but the game does offer a different perspective on the open-world crime drama. Players might have differing expectations on what the game is intending to deliver, as many won't notice the cinematic influences. Still, from the four hours that I played, the game has some exciting new ideas mixed in with the classic fun of an open-world game. This format, wrapped up in a dark undercover cop drama, should be more than enough to launch a successful new franchise for Square Enix, as long as it can overcome the aftermath of the mid-development woes that almost left it as just another True Crime game.


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Brigid (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-19-11 07:20 PM
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Please, please, please travel to Madison and speak to the protesters. Place yourself fully and without reservation behind their cause. This is your moment to show the idiot right wingers what you are really made of andwhom you really care about. As for those who don't like it, just channel FDR and tell them you welcome their hatred. This is a pivotal moment in this country's history. Don't just watch from the sidelines.
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News Feature
Web exclusive, April 29, 2010
Board, principal question school improvement grant process
Public comment wanted at May 4 meeting
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by Colin Powell
After deciding in March to proceed with applying for the school improvement grant for the Deer Isle-Stonington High School as a result of being listed as a persistently low-achieving school, the CSD 13 school board showed signs of dissent after being asked by Superintendent Bob Webster to approve a document pledging "operational flexibility."
Of five bullet points in the short document, the sticking point for board Vice-Chairman Skip Greenlaw is committing the board to provide financial support beyond the grant's three year period for any grant activities the board chooses to support. "One legislative body cannot commit another legislative body to do something in the future," he stated at the board's April 26 meeting. "The next school board has every right to change things in the future."
Beyond the operational flexibility document, Greenlaw also added that he is growing increasingly less comfortable with some parts of the proposed grant, specifically paying bonuses to teachers whose students test well. As a seafood distributor, Greenlaw pointed out, "I don't get any credit for bringing fresh seafood; that's what's expected of me," alluding to the job for which teachers are hired.
High school Principal Todd West, listening to Greenlaw's statements, said the board should be very thoughtful about the grant going forward. "We're asking a lot from the people in [the high school]. To submit [the grant application] and not really commit to three years would be hard on them."
Greenlaw said a caveat ought to accompany the grant that a change in school governance could alter the board's ability to support the proposals it contains.
"That's the problem with these grants," said board member Don Sargent. "Local control is undermined by what this grant asks of us."
Discussing the complexities of the grant's requests, such as extending the school day, West admitted that his biggest concern is that the school is being asked to substantially reorganize the school in only two months. Greenlaw agreed. "I just don't want this thing to come crashing down on Todd [West]'s head," he stated. He said a big part of that is that many parents who will be affected by changes made by accepting the grant will not come to meetings.
West said he has spent a lot of time thinking about the grant and said he has a major concern about the school's ability to do what the grant asks, especially with regard to work already done to improve the school. "I question whether we can do it, or whether we'll burn out students, teachers, administrators, and not have any really lasting changes," he said.
West pointed out that nationally, many of the "turn-around principals" lauded in Chicago for affecting change in inner-city schools have moved on to superintendent positions elsewhere, and the schools have slid back. "I'm roughly 50/50 on [the grant] right now," said West.
Adult Education Teacher Mike Wood also pointed out, "Even if we do all this, the standards we are measured by are not the standards we have chosen. No matter what we do we will still be measured by the SAT, which I feel is a flawed test."
Sargent proposed the idea of coming up with a plan that would incorporate much of what the grant requires, but do it using island resources and on the island's time. "This [grant] is trying to mandate us to do work we were already doing at a scale we are not capable of," said Sargent, pointing out that the recent accreditation report showed that board and administration already know where the school needs to improve. "The leadership is in place, the teachers are all here and on board," he added.
By the end of the discussion, the board agreed that the application must still be submitted. Webster told the board that his feeling is that the state may not even provide full funding if the grant is awarded. Rather, they may suggest one or two elements be implemented and provide partial funding, which would scale back what the school is asked to do.


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Chinese Ribbon Dance
October 13, 2012
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For ages 3 to 12 years
Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Barakett Endowment for Children's and Young Adult Programs and Services. Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Katerina and Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences. Additional support is provided by the Estate of Charles J. Mauro; the Estate of William C. Morris; the Estate of Esther Manes; New York Life Foundation; MetLife Foundation; Sandra Priest Rose; Solon E. Summerfield Foundation, Inc.; Con Edison; Mr. and Mrs. John Klingenstein; Beth and Christopher Kojima; Milton S. Teicher; Mr. and Mrs. George T. Votis; The Walt Disney Company; The Edith Glick Shoolman Children's Foundation; and an anonymous donor.
Come learn the Chinese ribbon dance. Margaret Yuen, Director of the Red Silk Dancers, will demonstrate the dance and show you how to wave a long silk ribbon to create rainbows, dragons and waterfalls. No previous training required and all materials will be provided. Recommended for children ages 4 and older.


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New, improved Banks leads MSU into Florida
It would be amazing to imagine what Johnthan Banks thinks would be a spectacular play.
He's still shocked at the reception he gets on and off campus one year removed from a game against Florida in which he entered the school's record book for longest interception return and only player with two touchdowns off interceptions.
"I didn't really make any big plays," Banks said. "Corey Broomfield tipped one ball and Pernell McPhee hit the quarterback to make him throw the other one up in the air. I didn't do anything except run under the ball and catch it."
Immediately after he returned a pass from then-Florida quarterback Tim Tebow 102 yards for a touchdown at the end of the first half, MSU players, coaches and officials all say Davis-Wade Stadium shook in a way never felt since that Saturday night in 2009.
"I was exhausted," Banks joked after last year's Florida game. "It meant so much to me because I did it against one of the best players to ever play college football and meant so much at that point for my team."
Banks finished the 2009 season by being named to the Southeastern Conference All-Freshman team by the league's coaches after totaling 34 tackles, four interceptions and three pass breakups in just six starts.
As a former Starkville Daily News Area Player of the Year, Banks was certainly not a secret to the surrounding communities but after an historical performance as a true freshman against one of the countries dominant college football programs on national television, Banks not only gained publicity for himself but also his hometown and high school.
"After that game I probably had about 1,000 friend requests on Facebook and hundreds of text messages," Banks said. "Everybody (in Starkville) knew who I was when I go through town just because of that game. It went crazy."
Banks is hopeful he can showcase his talents along with the other 10 players on the Mississippi State defense as they travel to Gainesville this week (6 p.m., ESPNU) in the hope of upsetting the 22nd-ranked Gators on the road for the first time since 1965.
"We just need to take this past year's game and take it down to Florida," Banks said. "It's pretty much the same offense and be ready for the passing attack."
The ESPN broadcast duo of Brad Nessler and Todd Blackledge relayed a story on the air last year about Mississippi State coaching staff being confident they'd be able to sign Banks out of East Webster High School because "they'd found a kid nobody had seen because his school doesn't even show up on a modern day GPS."
"He went to a (Class) 1A high school and you're playing offense, defense, special teams and never came off the field," Mullen said. "You star on the basketball team, star on the track team and you kind of do everything – you're a ball guy. John is now developing himself into a football player."
While starring at East Webster, Banks accounted for 1,740 yards of total offense and 17 touchdowns while playing quarterback but also starred on the defensive side of the ball, making 35 tackles and seven pass interceptions during his senior season.
Banks says he returns to East Webster High for every home game and is impressed to watch his former team currently go through its first eight games undefeated and be a favorite to reach the Class 2A North Half title game next month.
"Every week I'll go home at some point and stop by the school to holler at coach or he'll text me every so often," Banks said. "That's my home and it'll always be my home so we'll always be close."
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound defensive back wasn't sure as he stepped on the Starkville campus last year if he was big enough to play Division 1 college football but a year removed a lot of things have changed his perspective from skeptical to confident.
The first thing that initially changed for Banks was his defensive coordinator as Manny Diaz became the new defensive boss at MSU and after watching extensive tape of the 2009 season decided to change Banks from his temporary role at safety to a more permanent position of cornerback.
"We remarked the other day that we couldn't imagine where we'd be if we hadn't moved him," Diaz said. "We think he's a natural there because he gives us a good big-sized presence at corner and a very detail-oriented football player and smart. We look to him to get better and better with all the experience he gets."
Banks has said since the spring he loves his new position but considers himself a completely different player from 2009, not simply because of where he lines up, but by the knowledge he's gained from a year of football in the SEC.
"Last year I honestly didn't know what I was doing," Banks said. "You can ask anybody out there with me and half the time I was on the field, I was just out there because I'm athletic."
Going through the same transition as true freshmen, fellow MSU cornerback Corey Broomfield can vouch for the confusion he and Banks were having with the transition from high school to arguably the highest level of college football in the country.
"The coaches are doing a great job of preparing us but of course you get out there and get a little nervous," Broomfield said. "When we're out there this year, we feel prepared and confident about our abilities translating into why we're supposed to do certain things."
Diaz, who has playfully needled his young defensive back during this spring game with sarcastic questions like "John, can you only play against Tim Tebow? He's not going to be on the field this year," said the lack of deflections or interceptions for Banks this year is not at all a lack of production but a sign of respect by opposing offenses.
"Sometimes when they don't throw it to your guy, you don't get noticed, but that's because you are covering the guy," Diaz said. "He's done a great job of being dependable and being where he's supposed to be."
So while Mississippi State fans would love to see the same performance out of Banks against the Gators this week, he insists they've seen a different human being out on the football field in 2010.
"I'm bigger, stronger, faster and using my head more at my new position," Banks said. "I've just got a different swagger to me when I'm out there now like I'm the best player on the field. When you play with teammates and coaches like I have, you better feel that way."


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Teamlist Tuesday is here with #NRL Teamlists and officials for Round 12 confirmed.
Head to bit.ly/L...
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A spirited comeback wasn't enough for the South Sydney Rabbitohs tonight, with Super League opponents Warrington holding them out with a 34-28 win in the annual Return to Redfern trial match.
The match was preceeded by a significant announcement for the Rabbitohs, with the South Sydney club confirming 5 on-field captains for the 2012 season. Michael Crocker, Matt King, Sam Burgess, John Sutton and Roy Asotasi will all be listed with (c) by their names in this years Telstra Premiership.
Play was underway with both teams wearing predominantly white strips on a humid Sydney evening - and within ten minutes the Wolves had battered the Bunnies - Rhys Evans and Simon Grix both crossing to put "Wire" up 12-0 early. Lee Briers was faultless with the boot despite some sideline attempts early.
The first trial of the 2012 season was, as usual, split into four quarters. Warrington added one more try before the first break, Rhys Williams putting the visitors 18-0 up. The patriotic near-sellout crowd of 5,000 at Redfern was in stunned silence not long after the resumption of the second quarter, with England international Ryan Atkins adding a try of his own to push the score to 24-0.
It was at that point the visiting side gave up their dominance, and a wave of momentum swung back to the hosts. Souths recording two tries inside the final ten minutes of the second quarter, both Shaune Corrigan and Brendan McKinnon on the scoreboard before the siren sounded.
Trailing 24-12, South Sydney stepped up their assault in the second half, with Warrington turning to an extended bench to give some of their top line players a rest. The Rabbitohs added tries with Nathan Peats and Ryan Carr in the third quarter, and with little resistance from the Wolves, it was suddenly 24-22.
Warrington's soft defence tightened in the final quarter - adding a try through Chris Bridge which wasn't converted - and with South Sydney hitting back shortly after (Corrigan grabbing a double), the final ten minutes would be a tense battle. The Wolves would ultimately find the line with five remaining, Gareth O'Brien with the matchwinner, Richie Myler nailing the final conversion to give the visitors a six-point victory.
As with most trials there isn't much to read into the result of tonight's match - both sides appeared to falter when fielding players from their extended benches. For the Rabbitohs, a lineup made up of primarily NSW Cup players with a few first graders meant they were always going to be challenged by a Warrington lineup only a few short weeks away from the start of their Stobart Super League campaign.
No major injury news in the aftermath of this match, although early reports suggested Adrian Morley may have sustained a minor injury in the first half. We'll bring you more via our Twitter feed at @LeagueUnlimited over the coming week.
Warrington Wolves 34 (Rhys Williams, Rhys Evans, Ryan Atkins, Simon Grix, Chris Bridge and Gareth O'Brien tries; Lee Briers 4/4, Richie Myler 1/2 goals) defeated South Sydney Rabbitohs 28 (Shaune Corrigan 2, Ryan Carr, Nathan Peats, Brendan McKinnon tries; Adam Reynolds 5/6 goals) at Australian Technology Park, Redfern. Crowd: 5,000.
Referees: Tony Archer & Gavin Badger; Sideline Officials: Dan Eastwood & Jason Walsh.


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Seinfeld Google Map
Fans of Seinfeld are going to love this Google Map from Sony Pictures. The map shows many of the New York locations used in the hit comedy series. More excitingly, each location comes with a short video clip from the show.
As EW.com point out the show was actually shot in Los Angeles, so a little creativity seems to have gone into the placement of some of the locations. This could be why there is no Street View option on the map. This is a bit of a shame as some of the locations, such as Monk's Diner (Tom's Restaurant in real life), can actually be found on Street View.
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The Geography of Seinfeld


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Monday, 04 March, 2013
A Photoconductive Thienothiophene-Based Covalent Organic Framework Showing Charge Transfer Towards Included Fullerene
M. Dogru, M. Handloser, F. Auras, T. Kunz, D. Medina, A. Hartschuh, P. Knochel, and T. Bein -
Angew. Chem. Int. Edition, Vol. 52 (10), pp. 2920-2924
Filling a honeycomb: The thienothiophene-based covalent organic framework (COF) can be loaded with a complementary semiconductor, such as a fullerene derivative, and electronic interactions are observed (see figure). The novel periodic interpenetrated donoracceptor system shows the spectroscopic signatures of efficient charge transfer on the nanoscale. Photovoltaic activity was demonstrated upon integrating the COF:fullerene film into a device.


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Mugabe Declared Winner in Zimbabwe; Opposition Leader Calls Result a 'Sham'
Tsvangirai Vows to Challenge Outcome in Court
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe's electoral officials said Saturday that President Robert Mugabe remains in power after winning this week's presidential election with 61% of the vote, dealing a blow to the opposition, which vowed to go to court to show that the election wasn't free and fair.
Prime Minister and former trade-union leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday his opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, would contest the outcome of elections he described as a "sham." Wednesday's vote pitted 61-year-old...