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Professor Col. Vance P. Zider, Chairperson.
Assistant Professors Capts. D. Baker, M. Baker, and Maj. Bass.
The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps curriculum is designed to educate university men and women for careers as Air Force officers and to develop quality graduates with a sense of professionalism and dedication. The ability to think and communicate effectively in their preparation for and acceptance of officer responsibilities is of utmost importance in the Department of Aerospace Studies.
The purposes and specific objectives of the Air Force ROTC program are (a) to select and motivate cadets to serve as career officers in specialty areas required by the U.S. Air Force; (b) to develop in cadets by example, discussion, and participation the character, personality, and attitudes essential for leadership; (c) to develop in cadets an interest in and understanding of the Air Force mission, organization, operations, and techniques; and (d) to provide military education which will give cadets a general background and sound foundation on which to build an officer career.
All courses in the program are taught by Air Force officers possessing graduate degrees.
General Military Course. This course, consisting of the first two years of Air Force ROTC, examines the role of the U.S. military forces in the contemporary world with particular attention to the U.S. Air Force its organization and mission. The organizational structure of the Air Force, missions of selected military organizations, professionalism and officership are covered in AERS 1105 and AERS 1106the first year. In the second year, the historic development of air power is studied in AERS 2103 and 2104.
Supplemental Course Requirements. All GMC contract cadets (scholarship students) must successfully complete at least one 3-hour course in English composition. All cadets must demonstrate proficiency or successfully complete a course in mathematical reasoning before commissioning.
Professional Officer Course. Application for the POC normally starts one year prior to entry into the program. A student must be accepted into the POC to enroll in AERS 3305, 3306, 4303, and 4304. This course introduces the cadet in the first year to the study of Air Force leadership in the junior officer level including its theoretical and professional aspects, and a study of military management functions, principles, and techniques. The second year is a study of national security policy and strategy. Additional subjects cover the military profession and its relationship to American society. Within this program, attention is devoted to developing communicative skills and providing leadership experiences in officer-type activities.
Entrance to the professional officer course is limited to those who are regularly enrolled in the University as full-time students, who have completed the necessary screening, testing, physical examination, and who have completed the general military course or the preenrollment five-week field training for two-year applicants, or who receive credit for prior military service and are selected by HQ AFROTC through a competitive screening process.
Cadets who complete the Air Force ROTC professional officer course are commissioned upon graduation and enter active duty as Air Force second lieutenants.
Awards and Recognition. A number of awards, trophies, and decorations are presented each year to outstanding Air Force ROTC cadets during a suitable military ceremony by military and civilian leaders. The awards, presented to recognize achievement and to encourage competition, are given to recipients chosen by the Professor of Aerospace Studies, his staff, and the Cadet Staff. The President's Award is presented annually by the President of the University to the outstanding professional officer course cadet who has achieved a high academic standing and materially contributed to student life during his or her university career. The Bernard F. Fisher Leadership Awards go each regular semester to the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior cadets who have demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Cadet Corps.
Sabre Flight Precision Drill Team. The Sabre Flight is an organization of AFROTC students composed primarily of freshmen and sophomores. It is an integral part of the program and its basic mission is to promote interest in the Air Force ROTC. Members of the flight participate regularly in color and honor guard formations and precision drill activities.
Arnold Air Society. This professional honorary service organization of selected Air Force ROTC cadets participates in a variety of service functions for the University and the community. Its objective is to create a closer and more efficient relationship within the Air Force ROTC and to promote interest in the Air Force.
Silver Wings. The Silver Wings is a university organization. Its mission is to promote interest in the Air Force ROTC, Air Force programs, and participate in various university and community service projects. Open to all students, membership selection is based on personality and scholastic standing.
Field Training. Air Force ROTC field training is offered during the summer months at selected Air Force bases throughout the United States. Students in the four-year program participate in four weeks of field training during the summer, usually between the sophomore and junior year. Students applying for entry into the two-year program must successfully complete five weeks of field training prior to enrolling in Air Force ROTC. The major areas of study in the field training program include junior officer training, aircraft and aircrew orientation, career orientation, survival training, base functions and Air Force environment, and physical conditioning. There are numerous program opportunities available for cadet participation on a voluntary basis within the Professional Development Training (PDT) Program. PDT may consist of 10 or 21 days of training by "shadowing" an active duty officer in a career field related to the cadet's category. Other programs include basic freefall parachute training, soaring, Army airborne, British exchange, research and development experience, combat survival training, and Pentagon internship.
Courses in Aerospace Studies. (AERS)
First Year
1105. The Air Force Today (1:1:1-1/2). A survey course that deals with the mission, organization, and function of the American military, especially as it applies to the United States Air Force.
1106. The Air Force Today (1:1:1-1/2). A survey course that deals with the Air Force in the contemporary world through a study of the total force structure, strategic offensive and defensive forces, general purpose forces and aerospace support forces.
Second Year
2103, 2104. (1:1:1-1/2 each). A survey course designed to facilitate the transition from Air Force ROTC cadet to Air Force ROTC candidate. Featured topics include: Air Force heritage, Air Force leaders, Quality Air Force, and introduction to ethics and values, introduction to leadership, group leadership problems, and continuing application of communication skills.
Third Year
3305. Air Force Leadership and Management (3:3:1-1/2). Prerequisite: acceptance into the Professional Officer Course. An introductory management course emphasizing the individual as a manager in the Air Force. Individual motivation and behavioral processes, leadership, communication, and group dynamics are covered to provide a foundation for the development of the junior officer's professional skills as an Air Force leader.
3306. Air Force Leadership and Management (3:3:1-1/2). Prerequisite: acceptance into the Professional Officer Course. Leadership theory and management practice are amplified through study of management of forces in change, organizational power, managerial strategy and tactics, and leadership ethics.
Fourth Year
4303, 4304. (3:3:1-1/2 each). Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Professional Officer Course. AS 400 examines the national security process, regional studies, advanced leadership ethics, and Air Force doctrine. Special topics of interest focus on the military as a profession, officership, military justice, civilian control of the military, preparation for active duty, and current issues affecting military professionalism. Within this structure, continued emphasis is given to the refinement of communication skills.
Leadership Laboratory. Instruction is conducted within the framework of an organized cadet corps with
a progression of experiences designed to develop each student's leadership potential. Leadership Laboratory
involves a study of Air Force customs and courtesies; drill and ceremonies; career opportunities in the Air Force;
and the life and work of an Air Force junior officer. Students develop their leadership potential in a practical,
supervised laboratory which typically includes field trips to Air Force installations and visits by Air Force officers in various
job specialties. Students who enroll in aerospace studies courses must also enroll in a corresponding
Leadership Laboratory section. Contact the Aerospace Studies Department for details.
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TUSCALOOSA | Five-year-old Rhae Busby of Demopolis has had 186 broken bones in her lifetime and is often in constant pain because of osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes her fragile bones to break easily.
TUSCALOOSA | Five-year-old Rhae Busby of Demopolis has had 186 broken bones in her lifetime and is often in constant pain because of osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes her fragile bones to break easily.
But she excitedly sat next to University of Alabama mascot Big Al on Sunday, her pastel pink walker nearby, with a group of other little girls from Alabama with the same condition, all watching the Alabama cheerleaders practice. The cheerleaders, including a 26-member all-girls cheerleading squad and 22-member coed team, wore yellow in honor of the children with OI.
"The little girls are loving this, and we appreciate anyone willing to help promote awareness," said Rhae's mom, Dana Busby. "I think it's great, because it brings more recognition of OI."
Today is Wishbone Day, where people are encouraged to wear yellow to bring awareness to OI and to celebrate the people, like Rhae Busby, who live with the condition each day.
The University of Alabama cheerleaders started organizing a Wishbone Day event last year in honor of Maggie Bailey, the 31⁄2-year-old daughter of two former UA cheerleaders, Jenna and Chris Bailey.
"It's something we plan to do each year," said UA cheerleading coach Brian Groeschell.
Jenna and Chris Bailey first discovered their daughter's condition during an ultrasound before she was born. They said they appreciate the cheerleaders bringing awareness to the cause with the event, which serves as a gathering for Alabama families who have children with OI.
"Support is huge when you have a disorder that's not common," Jenna Bailey said.
Families who have children with OI try to get together at least quarterly through the Alabama OI Foundation, Busby added. But Facebook has also been a great source of support from people all over the world who are parents of children with OI, Bailey said.
At Sunday's event 18-month-old Lucy Slye of McCalla bounded around, happily pointing at the cheerleaders practicing their cheers and stunts. Like most of the children with OI at Sunday's event, Lucy receives pamidronate treatment, which strengthens bones and helps reduce pain.
Before she started treatment, she had broken almost all of her vertebrae, her shoulder and both of her legs. But since she started the treatment, she has not suffered any more broken bones. The treatment also enabled her to sit up, and she has learned to walk.
"The cheerleading team is so gracious to do this," said Jennifer Slye. "We are so thankful we can get everyone together."
For more information on OI or wishbone day, go to www.wishboneday.com or www.oif.org.
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World Software Corporation Launches Worldox GX3 Cloud at LegalTech New York '13
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Jan. 24, 2013 09:10 AM
Next week at LegalTech New York '13, World Software Corporation® (www.worldox.com), launches Worldox GX3 Cloud, a cloud-based delivery of its award-winning document management system (DMS). This software-as-a-service contains the full functionality of Worldox GX3 Professional with a patent-pending delivery architecture that allows for anytime anywhere document access. GX3 Cloud supports all existing Worldox partner and application integrations.
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Dr. Steve Bares, president and executive director of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, is clear-eyed and unequivocal about what success looks like for the startup accelerator program his foundation operates and which launched its new season this week.
"You can measure us by the attention we get, or you can measure us by whether we get companies funded," said Bares about ZeroTo510, the foundation's medical device company accelerator that has begun its second season. "We're trying to build businesses and commercialize ideas. And in this business of scalable startups, if you don't get funded – all of this is just a party."
ZeroTo510 kicked off its new season – which will send six teams of entrepreneurs through 12 weeks of intensive, mentorship-driven instruction and hands-on activities – with a low-key open house event.
Applicants from around the country and two international applicants vied to participate in the program, the name of which alludes to the goal of helping participants achieve the critical U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) pre-market notification filing. As in, the companies are going from zero to the 510 filing.
It's operated by Bioworks and Innova – a co-investor in ZeroTo510 – and the program is an initiative of the Greater Memphis Regional Accelerator, a program funded by Launch Tennessee and the state under Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's INCITE initiative.
INCITE is a program that supports innovation around the state, and it's also an acronym that stands for Innovation, Commercialization, Investment, Technology and Entrepreneurship.
–Dr. Steve Bares President and executive director, Memphis Bioworks Foundation
Allan Daisley, director of entrepreneurship and sustainability for Bioworks, said the high quality of applicants this year made the final selection a challenge, but that's par for the course.
ZeroTo510 works with people experienced in their fields who tend to have practical ideas about what the marketplace will accept in the way of new products.
It's just a matter of sculpting those participants into entrepreneurs in charge of companies.
"Because of the globally significant medical device industry here in Memphis, we are able to get these startups in front of decision-makers and mentors who can help guide them to success," said Jan Bouten, a partner at Innova and a ZeroTo510 adviser.
Bares said the program's mission could be sliced into three components: inspiration, funding and growth.
It's about lining up companies with the best ideas, putting them in front of potential investors and giving them the tools they need to build a business that will grow over time.
Each ZeroTo510 company gets $50,000 in initial seed capital from Innova and Memphis-based venture capital firm MB Venture Partners. The program culminates with Demo Day on Aug. 8. That's when the participants will pitch to a group of investors.
Finalists chosen at that point could get as much as $100,000 in additional capital and the opportunity to further develop their business.
One of the companies in the inaugural cohort of ZeroTo510 in 2012, Restore Medical Solutions, completed the program with a full round of Series A venture funding, and four others got follow-on funding of $100,000 each.
Six teams will participate in ZeroTo510's 2013 cohort.
AIS Inc. is a local team led by a biomedical engineering student from the University of Memphis. It's building a leadless, single surgery GPS- and Bluetooth-enabled hybrid cardioverter defibrillator.
Better Walk is led by a team of biomedical engineering students from Georgia Tech that's making a redesigned crutch that eliminates a common crutch complaint – the discomfort in the underarm due to axillary nerve damage.
The third team is Cuff-Gard, which is led by a nurse from West Memphis and has designed a disposable skin barrier to protect and extend the life of blood pressure machine cuffs.
Health and Bliss is led by a team from Baltimore and is attempting to revolutionize the way people detect strep throat by introducing a self-contained screening test.
The fifth team is Mobilizer, which has a device that's modeled after a wheeled walker but includes shelves and attachments that help carry around other things like IV drips and oxygen tanks.
And lastly is SurgiLight, which is led by a team that's designed an LED light for use in surgeries.


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'The Bachelorette' Premiere Recap: Emily Maynard's One Hot Mama
Monday, May 14, 2012
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Here we go again. Later in the summer, we'll be treated to the Olympics of athleticism. Tonight, we once again begin a slightly less ancient and much less honorable tradition -- the Olympics of televised dating. Tonight, 25 men began this harrowing race. This decathlon of emotions, embarrassment and ego. But by the end, only one man will be left standing with the shiny and coveted gold medal. Or, rather, the coveted woman who's wearing a shiny gold dress tonight -- Emily Maynard. And at the end of all this,
hopes to have something that many women would probably prefer over a gold medal: A
This is truly epic stuff, you guys! If only Morgan Freeman were here to do voiceover.
OK, now back to reality (television): Heartbreaking as it is, our newest
Emily Maynard's backstory bears little to no repeating, as most/all of us remember it well from her first time around on
The Bachelor
. But tonight's premiere, when Emily will attempt to finally step out of the role of untouchable tragic figure to sassy, multiple-man-kissin' star, starts with a refresher on Emily's past anyway. She had a NASCAR driver fiance; he died in a plane crash; found out she was pregnant a week later; named her daughter after him; been a happy but lonely single mom (save that brief few months she was one of Brad Womack's girlfriends) ever since. Emily says it's been a long time, and she's ready to move on, and I think we all believe her. What a hard thing to live in for so long; it must have been difficult, and exhausting, for her when ABC and the media and the viewers began to dwell upon it all anew last year. I get the sense that part of the reason she's doing
The Bachelorette
is to actively change the conversation and give a better sense of herself than simply the tragic single mom. And I'm excited to see that!
Now Emily wants to find the right guy to complete her family, and to be a father figure for little Ricki. We see Emily and Ricki feeding the ducks, playing with Barbies and making breakfast in their matching pink pajamas (and in full hair and makeup for Emily, just like normal life!) and we get the picture. Emily's daughter will play a major role (at least, in abstract) this season, as any guy who gets down on one knee at the end is actually proposing to both of them. Husband
father (figure). That is some truly, multiple-lives-altering, important sh*t. While we're always -- OK,
-- rooting for the Bachelor/Bachelorette lead to find the right one and settle down, the stakes are higher this time. It didn't work out last time with Brad, but Emily did open herself back up during that season. "Coming back to be the Bachelorette is a huge risk, but finding the person I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life with is worth it," she declares. We see her pensively sitting by an urban fountain, and then commandingly riding on a horse, so we know that she knows what she's doing. She's putting on her "big girl panties and moving on with it!"
The Cream (or Crap?) of the Crop
But just because Emily wants a serious relationship doesn't mean all of her candidates will fit the bill. What's a good Bachelorette season without some good ol' stunt casting? We meet a few of the guys before Emily gets to, including
, who calls himself a "luxury brand consultant" by occupation, rides in a private helicopter and seems more into himself and his money than he could ever be into her. Kalon claims he's had a moment of self-realization and turned sweet after years of being "obnoxious," but we know better than to believe that. He still carries himself like a d-bag, and his name sounds like a villain's from
Harry Potter
, who used to play pro football and now runs a pro sports training facility with the help of his muscles.
is also a fitness enthusiast, as well as a lumber trader, but his most important role is that of a single father. I want to like him, but then he does the whole, "What has two thumbs and is gonna marry Emily? THIS GUY!" thing.
Then we meet
, who's a real estate agent and a self-described family man. He also appears to be the only black guy in the mix -- notable if only given the recent racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the show.
is a singer/songwriter from New York City who loves his Word of the Day calendar (I counted "ineffable," "disparate" and "facets" in just his intro) but can only sing, "Emily, Emilaaay, Emileeey" when he sits at the paino. David says that writing songs comes naturally to him. To be fair, he never said they were
led a perfect, boring life until he fell off a balcony and broke four ribs, punctured a lung, fractured his spine and sustained a brain injury. Whoa. AND he has an English bulldog. Immortality AND great taste in dogs? Sign me up!
Next up is
, who rides a skateboard and has a pompadour hipster haircut and wears a denim jacket. He is also the CEO of a charity bottled water company that helps build wells around the world where people can't get clean drinking water. The latter part is saving him from my mockery about the former.
is an Indy car driver originally from the Netherlands, but now he's from Arizona. He's worried that he might bring back some painful memories for Emily, since her fiance was also a racecar driver.
"And we wouldn't want thaaaaat!"
an ABC producer says, then laughs maniacally, in the background.
The Introductions
This season, instead of the iconic, candelabra- and STD-laden mansion outside of L.A. where they typically film, the show is kicking off in North Carolina so Emily can live at home and still be a mother to Ricki. The men will stay in a gorgeous mansion in Charlotte, where Emily will meet them tonight. She arrives in a seriously sparkly gold and nude gown. It's a little bit figure skater-ish for my tastes, but it feels appropriately glamorous and romantic, and she looks stunning, of course. I don't think there's any way for her NOT to. After a brief conversation with human ottoman Chris Harrison, it's time for her to meet the 25 guys who will try, and each systematically fail (except for one!) to woo her.
As far as Bachelor(ette) introductions go, this batch of guys seems tame. Maybe too many of them saw Emily, got paralyzed and forgot the cheesy line they intended to open with. If that's the case, it's a welcome side effect and I thank Emily for her ridiculous beauty.
Some of the highlights:
Single dad
is sweet and open, but seems poised to fall into the friend zone if he keeps talking about kids only.
opens by getting down on one knee and reciting a cheesy quote. This is national TV, dude. Get creative.
may be a leprechaun. Or on cocaine. Either way, he loves to yell and prance!
the biology teacher immediately has two strikes against him: Huge hipster glasses that he dramatically removes like he's the President in an alien invasion movie; and a terrible line about "finding chemistry" (instead of biology) with Emily. Too bad. He's a good looking one.
is a warm, touchy-feely native Brazilian who tells Emily that she looks beautiful in Portuguese.
shows up on his skateboard, probably because limos are for OLD FOGIES and DWEEBS! Then, like he's the bad boy in a Disney Channel sitcom, he throws the skateboard into the bushes and it magically dissolves off-camera without a sound. Is TV magical, or
is it just Jef?
the PARTY EMCEE arrives with a boombox in hand, and dancing like a dipsh*t to disco music. He's wearing a heinous bright green shirt and has a goatee. Everything about him is so wrong. More Stevie all the time!
, bless his cheesy and misguided heart, arrives with a glass slipper and satin pillow, calling himself "Charming ... Prince Charming." Emily is a good sport, and allows him to put the shoe on her and give his little speech about finding his princess and believing in fairy tales. Her eyes say, "MUCH TOO MUCH." The shoe fits, but that doesn't make it right.
Of course, Tony's stunt looks genuinely charming next to
's, who shows up in a "grandma" costume in a misguided and frankly depressing play on last season's premiere, when one contestant brought her actual grandmother to meet Bachelor Ben. He does a grandma gimmick for a minute. Emily doesn't laugh, so he awkwardly rips off the costume and then forgets to introduce himself
himself. The irony, of course, is that he's a marketing manager. Some self-marketing, what's yer name!
puts a nametag on himself and tells Emily that once she's got his name down, she can come rip it off of him. Nothing's sexier than a stick-on nametag, right ladiessss?
Taking his cues from high school health class,
shows up holding a massive egg and says that "throughout this journey" he'll take care of the egg the same way he would take care of Emily and Ricki. Does that mean he's going to sit on them, or eat them?
the football player "reads" a note to Emily that says "You are beautiful" on one side and "I'm so nervous" on the other. Gotta admit, it's a good play.
Of course, last and extremely least to show up is
, who descents in his candy-red helicopter like he's Donald Trump's long-lost son. Emily is too polite to say that the stunt is obnoxious, but thankfully she's not such a great actress, so I can tell she agrees with me. The chopper doesn't win Kalon any fans in the house either. The guys look at him with a mixture of disgust and jealousy when he walks in. "Where's the bar?" he asks. Crickets. (Literally.) Yep, you're really gonna need that drink now, you grandstanding idiot.
Cocktail Party
Emily greets the guys with a sweet "golly, I'm nervous!" and thanks them for showing up to get in line to win her over. She's effortlessly and warmly charming in her sweet Southern way, and I cross my fingers for a season, unlike the last few, of not needing to cringe or roll my eyes every time she speaks. Of course, the guys are all so fixated on her beauty that she could just deliver a series of grunts and they'd still be all over her.
Time for some party mingling, and Emily's loving all the attention. "This is so not like my normal life. When I go to the grocery store, guys are not pulling me ... in fifteen different sections of the grocery store."
tells Emily about his accident and jokes that his face was rebuilt with titanium. He's the Five Million Dollar Man! (A little less sexy than the Six Million Dollar Man.) We learn that
, he of the name-tag, also has six kids. The way things are going, we should probably just call him "Dealbreaker Brent."
pulls a couple bobbleheads out of his jacket -- one in his likeness, and one in hers. They enact a little scene with them. It's a risky move, but luckily for him, Emily thinks it's cute, and brings her bobblehead in for a little peck when she says that she likes him.
is one smoooooth operator, and Emily says that he "makes her feel like a nerd." She's legitimately nervous around him, like in high school when you have a crush on the popular guy. "He's super cool, and I hope he thinks I'm cool, too."
gives Emily a note that his 11-year-old son wrote to her, and it's precious. An excerpt: "I think you should know that my dad is one of the greatest dads ever because he always tucks me in at night." Emily almost tears up and says, "Just from that I can tell that Doug has done a really great job of being a dad." With all these conversations, the trick is to find a way to stand out and let her know who you are without going over the top and being unnatural. Doug hit the nail on the head.
The first impression rose comes out, and some of the guys are sweating about not getting enough time with Emily. Everyone agrees that
shouldn't get it, especially
, who has it out for
, whom he finds unbearably superficial and obnoxious. Unfortunately for Stevie, Kalon brings out his softer side with Emily -- and Stevie's so fixated on criticizing Kalon that he doesn't seem to put any effort into getting to know Emily. They get into a little disagreement that culminates in Kalon saying, "Why are you so hostile?" and Stevie making a face like he has indigestion. Not exactly grade-A drama, but we'll take what we can get.
Right away,
confesses to Emily that he's a racecar driver, and asks if it will bother her, but Emily brushes his concerns away, saying that she loves racing and it's really the only sport that she knows about, and she loves it. "That's like, a huge ...
," he says. I think he was about to say "turn-on," but thought better of it. Good man.
Emily grabs Single Dad
to give him the first impression rose. "You made me feel really comfortable," she says, and pins the rose on him. Stevie: "I'm just glad the helicopter guy didn't get it." Kalon: "I'll at least get *a* rose, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters to me."
Chris Harrison descends to whisk Emily away, as it's time for her to decide which guys will get roses and be allowed to remain another week.
Rose Ceremony
has his first impression rose, and the rest go to...
Chris the Bobblehead Guy
Ryan the Football Player
Kalon the Awful
Arie the Racecar Driver
Charlie with the Titanium Face
Jef the Super-Cool Skateboarder
Nate the Unknown
Sean the Blond Bombshell
Joe the Hyper Schmo
Kyle the Effeminate
Aaron the Biology Teacher
Alejandro the Sexy Colombian
John "Wolf"
Alessandro the Other Latino
Michael the Long-Haired Musician
Stevie the Party Emcee/President of the Kalon Hate Club
Tony the Overenthusiastic Prince
Chris Harrison arrives to say this is the final rose of the night. And it goes to...
the Egg Man
He accepts the rose, egg in hand. Is he really going to carry that thing around the whole time? I hope Emily takes him on a tight-rope walking or rappelling or paintball date.
So, for
the grandma impersonator,
the marine biologist,
the fitness model,
the father of six,
the singer-songwriter and
the only black guy, it's the end of the line. Brent cries. Jackson rips off his shirt for the camera to show us what Emily's missing. Both of them sort of just prove that she made the right call.
Emily toasts to her remaining 19 guys, and to "finding love in Charlotte!" Then we see a montage of what's to come this season, including lots of kissing, hand-holding, dancing and cheering in exotic locales. The guys will be tested on how good they are with kids, but one guy won't pass the test when he calls Ricki "baggage." The implication seems to be that Kalon, apparently our villain this season, is the guy who says it, and Emily will tell him to "get the f*ck OUT!" But he's not the one crying in this promo. Doug and Tony (and maybe some others) are. Elsewhere this season, Emily will meet Dolly Parton (AHHH! YES!), make out on the floor of the Beast's castle library, and other exciting adventures that we'll just have to wait and see.
What did you think of Emily's first episode? Any stand-out guys in the bunch so far? Are you excited to see her as the Bachelorette?
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NEW YORK - The Columbia men's golf team will travel to Lemont, Ill. this weekend to compete at the John Dallio Memorial hosted by DePaul.
The Ruffled Feathers Golf Club will serve as the host course for the two-day tournament that begins Saturday, Oct. 6. The par-72, 6,898-yard course has been the host of the John Dallio Memorial, formerly the DePaul Invitational, since 2002.
This year's field features: Chicago State, Columbia, DePaul, Eastern Illinois, Evansville, Green Bay, IUPUI, Loyola-Chicago, Marquette, Northern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Oakland, SIUE, Valparaiso and Western Illinois.
Southern Illinois has two John Dallio titles to its name, winning the championship in 2004 and 2008. Florida Gulf Coast won the title in 2011, while IUPUI and DePaul won it in 2010 and 2009, respectively.
Golfstat.com will provide live stats of the tournament beginning Saturday morning.


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Carved Door Panels
These three door panels obviously came from a house with additional but now gone similar doors. The top panel of each door is a highly stylized pierced bat, representing Fu or good luck. The pierced fret work is the same design in each of the three doors. Two of the doors have similar if not quite identical carved panels. The third door also has a flower carved panel. These doors originated in Shanxi province and were rescued from a destroyed house that was built about 1920.
Wood: Cypress
Province: Shanxi
Dimensions: 80" x 21" x 3"
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Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Maborosi, Vertical Ray of the Sun, The Terminator, Terminator 2, Alien, Alien 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s remake), Body Snatchers, The Fly (70s remake),The Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Divorce Italian Style, The 400 Blows, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, My Dinner with Andre, The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in America, It's a Gift, Horse Feathers, Duck SoupOnly two matches with the favorites in my profile. But with all that Japanese animation, where is "Grave of the Fireflies"?
For some annoying reason, he's excised his Site Meter. Well, that's no fun. Don't you know this is a game? I like to know the score!
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Could an Indian herb or an extract from the bark of a French pine tree help keep our brains in good nick? Melbourne researcher Con Stough, of Swinburne University's Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, has his fingers crossed. He is leading a government-funded study to see if these supplements improve cognition in 500 healthy people aged over 65.
One group will take Bacopa monniera (also called brahmi), a herb used in traditional Indian ayurvedic medicine for improving memory. Although this study is focused on older brains, earlier research has shown improvement in cognition in younger people, Stough says. The centre will soon begin a trial of Bacopa involving children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in Australia and India.
''We're starting to get good evidence that Bacopa is helpful for the brain,'' he says. ''Unlike drugs that tend to have a potent but single action, herbs often have multiple actions, and we think Bacopa does a few different things. It has a strong antioxidant effect, which may help remove the beta-amyloid plaques thought to contribute to Alzheimer's disease. It also has a strong anti-inflammatory effect and appears to improve blood flow to the brain.''
A second group in the Swinburne study will take Pycnogenol, a patented extract from the bark of a French maritime pine found to improve working memory in a pilot study of 100 healthy people between the ages of 60 and 85. ''It's not clear how Pycnogenol works, but one theory is that it is by improving blood flow to the brain,'' Stough says.
The ability to boost the brain's blood supply made another herb, Gingko biloba, look promising for warding off memory loss, but research results for preventing Alzheimer's have been disappointing. However, there is evidence the herb is helpful for treating dementia and improving cognition in younger people.
The Swinburne study also aims to find out if extra B vitamins can help older brains. A third group in the study is taking a supplement that combines B vitamins with other nutrients.
''As we get older our levels of B vitamins diminish, although it's not clear whether this is an effect of ageing, diet or both. But a British study from Cambridge University showed that vitamin B12 improved brain shrinkage,'' Stough says. ''There is also emerging evidence that vitamins B6 and B12 may help reduce blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's.''
But before we dash to the health-food shop to load up on brain pills, there are things to consider. For a start, more research is needed to confirm if these supplements work. It's also hard for consumers to know which products might be effective, because the quality of herbal medicines in Australia is so variable, Stough says. While many products contain Bacopa, for instance, only a few have been studied. These include a Bacopa extract manufactured by Flordis, the subject of the Swinburne research, and another Bacopa product made by Natural Remedies found to improve memory in older people in a Southern Cross University study.
Just because complementary medicines are registered with the government's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is no guarantee a product works. Manufacturers must prove to the TGA their products are safe, but not that they work. If anything is proven to prevent dementia, it's likely it needs to be taken earlier, rather than later.
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NEW YORK - The secret of Mariano Rivera's career is that he is not a closer, but a middle act. Metallica opens ninth innings at Yankee Stadium, Rivera does his maestro stuff on the mound, and then Frank Sinatra closes the show with "New York, New York," after Rivera's last pitch.
Metallica was at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, playing a live version of "Enter Sandman" as part of the Mariano Rivera Day festivities, and Rivera was masterful in his pitching work on the day he had his number retired, but it was not a typical set because Sinatra could not be heard until after the Yankees had made their final out, rather than after New York's opponents had made theirs.
MORE: Rivera's greatest feat | Metallica rocks the Bronx | Mo's gifts
In a 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants, the Yankees stranded runners on second and third in the seventh inning, then had two runners thrown out at the plate in the eighth. So the sellout crowd of 49,197 and all the honored guests in the Bronx had to settle for merely watching a vintage Rivera performance without his usual closing act.
The Yankees' closer was called on to keep the game within reach after doubles by Pablo Sandoval and Tony Abreu gave the Giants the lead in the top of the eighth, and he was as dominant as ever. To get five outs, Rivera needed only 16 pitches -- and he would have needed even fewer if Robinson Cano had not made a throwing error to turn a sure double play into no outs in the ninth inning. Rivera would have pitched the 10th inning if there had been one, which was just as much a reminder of how good he has been, and what a different class he has been in than other closers, as the ceremony to honor him and retire his number before the game.
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"It means a lot to me, especially the guys that were there to me," Rivera said. "Seeing Geno (Gene Monahan), our trainer for a long time, Mr. Torre and Tino and Posada and Bernie and O'Neill and all the guys. It was outstanding. I don't know what to say. I thank God for that."
The Yankees don't have Tino Martinez, Jorge Posada, Bernie Williams, and Paul O'Neill in their lineup anymore. On Sunday, they had Mark Reynolds at first base, Chris Stewart and then J.R. Murphy catching, Curtis Granderson in center field, and Ichiro Suzuki in right field. Reynolds homered for the Yankees' only run, and Granderson and Suzuki are no slouches, but the Yankees who will be best remembered as Rivera's teammates were not wearing pinstripes. Rivera's presence in the bullpen still looms large over any game the Yankees play, but his team has to have the lead in order for him to protect it.
"I liked to try to get all the players in the All-Star Game, and I remember saying, 'Guys, let's score more runs,' because we had a one-run lead and I wanted to use everybody," Joe Torre said. "Somebody drags on my jacket from behind, and I turned around and it's Darin Erstad, who says, 'Who's pitching the ninth?' I said, 'Mariano Rivera,' and he said, 'You don't need any more runs.' That struck me, at that point in time, to give you an idea of the respect that he garnered throughout the game."
"I can't think of anybody who had more of an impact in the game just by the mere notion that he is available," said Bernie Williams. "Teams adjusted their lineups and were so unorthodox. Righthanders would hit, pinch-hitting against him (to try to neutralize the legendary cutter, which was more effective against lefthanders). He really made people get away from their comfort zone and do some crazy things because he was pitching. I can't think of anybody that had that much of an impact in the game being a non-position player."
Said Jorge Posada: "Teams would do anything to get to you in the seventh and eighth inning, because in the ninth, it was pretty much done."
On Mariano Rivera Day, that was what the Giants did. With nothing to save, Rivera could not get one, and just had to settle for being his usual brilliant self. It's still amazing to watch him work - "He mastered his craft as well as anyone I've ever seen," Joe Girardi said - but it's not the same without Sinatra playing him off.
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A new report sharply critical of the MBTA pension fund urges state leaders to improve the health and oversight of the fund by firing its current directors and raising the retirement age for T workers to 60 from 55, in line with state employees.
Targeting the T's relatively low retirement age could save the pension system at least $1.1 billion over several decades, according to the report, slated for release Thursday by the Pioneer Institute, a Boston think tank.
Changes in 2009 did away with the T's controversial "23-and-out'' provision that allowed workers to tap pensions after 23 years on the job, no matter their age. But the benefits remain rich compared with those for state workers, the report says.
Presently, an MBTA employee earning $60,000 a year could retire at age 55 after 25 years of service and collect a $36,900 annual pension, nearly 70 percent more than a state employee would be eligible to receive at age 60, the report says. With a life expectancy of age 85, the T worker would collect $1.1 million in benefits, more than double the state worker's total benefit.
The Pioneer report also says the retirement fund's directors have been ineffective as watchdogs and should be replaced. It recommended installing a new, independent board.
A spokesman for the MBTA said officials were reviewing the report and its recommendations. Steve Crawford, a spokesman for the T retirement fund, declined to comment.
Like most pension funds, the MBTA's $1.6 billion retirement fund does not presently hold enough assets to meet its future obligations. The T's pension accounts were 94 percent funded in 2006, but that coverage shrank to 68 percent by the end of 2011. The full-funding gap grew to $726 million that year.
The cash-strapped transit authority's yearly contribution to the pension fund was nearly $55 million in 2012, a figure that has doubled since 2003. That money comes from riders who pay fares on buses and trains, as well as taxpayers. Employee contributions also have increased, from $14.2 million in 2003 to $20 million in 2012.
In his report, titled "Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions," Pioneer's Iliya Atanasov writes that pensioners and taxpayers are at risk if the T does not further overhaul its pension program.
The notion that "taxpayers cannot be harmed by mismanagement at the MBTA's pension systems is perhaps the most egregious myth of all,'' writes Atanasov, senior fellow on finance at Pioneer. "It has been used to justify the lack of state oversight of [the fund] over its 65-year history and as an excuse to turn a blind eye to the lavish early retirement options.''
The report was prompted in part by recent revelations that the T pension fund lost $25 million on a hedge fund investment and did not disclose the setback to members or the public until it was reported in news stories. The fund also did not disclose in its annual report that it had made the investment in Fletcher Asset Management on the advice of former MBTA pension chief Karl White, after he had gone to work for Fletcher.
For decades, the T pension fund has used its legal status as a private trust to shield itself against pressure to adopt common practices such as holding open meetings and barring former executives from selling products to the fund for their personal gain once they leave.
The investment with Fletcher, now under federal investigation for running a suspected Ponzi scheme, has fueled new outrage among politicians and T critics such as Pioneer. The design of the pension plan, including retirement age, is subject to negotiation between union workers and the MBTA, although legislation such as the 2009 changes also can play a role.
The Pioneer report also calls for folding the MBTA fund into the much larger state pension fund or at least bringing it under the oversight of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission. Under a 1993 Supreme Judicial Court ruling, the fund is not subject to state oversight.
Representatives of the fund in the past have suggested they have no obligation to share its operating details with the public because taxpayers would not be responsible in the event the fund cannot meet its pension obligation. The Pioneer report disputes that argument, citing the rising annual contributions to the pension system from the T.
One factor behind the rising contributions: Higher pension benefit expenses. The retirement fund paid out $174.6 million in benefits in 2012, a sum that has more than doubled from $73.4 million in 1996. There are now more MBTA employees in retirement than on the job, with 6,275 receiving pensions and 5,733 actively working.Beth Healy can be reached at email@example.com


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I know this is corny, but one of my favorite movies is As Good As It Gets. I love this scene and the very end is fitting.
Aros wrote:LOL, indeed my friend. Indeed.
Foghawk wrote:"The Perfect Human Being"
So to bring back around to the movie theme................
He is in fact "The 5th Element"
Aros wrote:I'm going with the robot theory myself.
tacomahawk wrote:About 5 weeks ago, my daughter (10) and I were watching the NFL network and an interview with Russell came on. I really wanted to hear it, and she was singing to herself or talking (you guys know the crap little girls do). So I asked her if she could be a little more quiet. She did as I asked, and half way through the interview my wife came in from the kitchen. My daughter tells her "Mom you gotta be quiet Dad's boyfriend is on tv again"
Long story short, the man crush is very very very strong with me, so I know how you feel. He also makes me want to be a better person. A better husband, father, boss etc. The craps contagious
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Gee, will the South Side be ready when the summit comes to town
September 15, 2009
What will the G-20 summit mean for those that live and work in South Side which on "normal" evenings is an entertainment destination for visitors?
"There are a lot of questions and not many answers" said Councilman Bruce Kraus, who is concerned with how the international summit could affect the city.
Augmenting the city's police force will be around 700 Pennsylvania State Police officers, 1,200 Pennsylvania National Guard members and an additional 2,000 officers from other police departments. Councilman Kraus stressed that residents should continue to use 9-1-1 for all emergencies, G-20 related or not.
"All [law enforcement] will be under Chief Harper," Mr. Kraus said while repeating the need to call 9-1-1 for any and all emergencies.
He emphasized that the city police will not be pulled from patrolling their regular sectors during the summit. Pittsburgh police will continue to make their regular patrols in the zone.
Preparing for Super Bowl and Stanley Cup celebrations has helped the city to be ready for potential crowds, at least along Carson Street. The councilman has requested that Zone 3 Commander Catherine McNeilly put in place the same plan during the G-20 that the police used for the last Super Bowl.
Aspects of the plan include removing newspaper street boxes, planters and street furniture.
"I don't want to hurt businesses or put them out of business," Mr. Kraus said. "Street furniture might be okay during the day, but does it have to be out at midnight? I don't want anything out that could be used to throw through a $1,000 plate glass window."
Should businesses board up their windows in preparation for the summit and any possible damage by protesters the councilman asked, and then offered that it could be an opportunity for businesses to take advantage of to do extra business.
"You don't want to over-react," he said. "If you feel better about taking precautions, then take precautions."
As of Monday, only Cece Wheeler had applied for a permit to use the South Side Riverfront Park. The councilman said that if a group wants to use the park, they will have
to abide by city policy including having to vacate the park by 11 p.m.
If a protest is held at the park, he said residents should be not be surprised, but prepared, for the as many as 5,000 people walking, driving, hiking and biking down 18th Street to the park's entrance.
The councilman said that the police also know that there are G-20 protesters already in the neighborhood and "are monitoring the situation."
Mr. Kraus said during the week of the G-20, the city is considering opening the old Zone 3 Police Station and its 13 holding cells on Mary Street to be used to process summary offenses. He said the city anticipates having to process as many as 1,000 summary offenses during the week of the summit.
Chief Harper has agreed to the opening of the station, but the city still needs approval from the state.
Those who would like to stay up-to-date with security measures for the G-20 can go to http://www.g20safety.org and sign-up for email notifications.
Councilman Kraus said that City Council will change their schedule for the week of the summit: they will be in their offices on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 21-22; and out of session on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Sept. 23-25.
He again urged residents to call 9-1-1 with any problems. However, he said that he would be monitoring telephone calls to his office and checking his email while out of session. He hoped to be able to provide more information in the coming week.


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Sophomore Kyle Vinales scored 30 points for the fifth time in his career and led the Central Connecticut men's basketball team to a 73-66 home victory over Wagner on Thursday night. Vinales and the Blue Devils improve to 7-9 overall and 3-2 in Northeast Conference play. Wagner is now 9-7 overall and also 3-2 in the league.
Vinales led all scorers in the game, hitting 8-of-17 from the floor and 4-of-8 from three. He was 10-of-14 from the line and added a team-high five assists to lead the Blue Devils to the victory.
Central led 33-31 at the half, but the Seahawks came out to score the first six points of the second half to claim a four-point lead, 37-33. Central went on an 8-0 run and would never trail again in the victory. The eight points fueled an 18-4 run for the Blue Devils.
The led by as many as 10 in the half and held on for the seven point win.
Four players scored in double-figures in the win, including junior Matt Hunter who had 13 points and eight rebounds. He also had three assists, two blocks and two steals. Sophomore Adonis Burbage had 10 points and senior Joe Efese added 10 in 10 minutes of action.
Efese was 5-of-5 from the floor and added a pair of steals in the victory for CCSU.
Wagner was led by Kenneth Ortiz who had 18 points and six assists. Eric Fanning added 13 points.
The teams were tied with 35 rebounds apiece. The Blue Devils forced 14 Wagner turnovers and tuened them into 15 points.
Vinales scored 22 of his points after halftime, he was 5-of-7 from the field and 10-of-14 from the line after the break. Central made just 14-of-24 free-throws in the game, they came in as the seventh best free-throw shooting team in the country.
Central scored its final 11 points from the free-throw line, including six from Vinales and two from Burbage.
The Blue Devils return to action on Saturday hosting Mount St. Mary's beginning at 3:30 p.m. The game will air live on www.NECFrontRow.com.


text: Guy, the father of my daughter's friend Sam, owns a landscaping company. One day, while Sam was helping his father, Sam made the mistake of driving through a mud puddle near a police car, without mud flaps on the trailer. The officer gave Sam a ticket that gave him two weeks to present the trailer with mud flaps to void the ticket. I designed, fabricated and installed mud flaps for the trailer. Sam presented the trailer and the police tore up the ticket. The attached pictures are of the mud flap portion of the trailer project.


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First of all, this was submitted by someone from Infoworld, and the article is on Infoworld, so nice spam.
Second, web platforms are dead, and native apps that call web services are the new rage. It's just a better experience. Web platforms have been tried before since the 90s--see Java applets and ActiveX--and the experience is always poor. Nobody wants ChromeOS over iOS, Android, etc. Google has offered Native Client and Dart to compete performance-wise, but those are non-standard, Google-specific technologies (Dart as a language has been criticized pretty heavily on its own), and there's just something weird about shoving the web browser into the stack as a middle-man for no reason.
Third, and this will sound flamebait-ey so take it as personal opinion, but forgive me if I'm a little uncomfortable with a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a history of privacy violations tracking everything I do at an OS level. It'd be like installing an operating system written by DoubleClick. I'd rather limit my data exposure to the occasional web search or Gmail message, thanks.
What does the number of comments have to do with modding +5?
You do realize that modders can't comment, don't you? There are many who prefer to mod over chirping in with a pointless comment.
And finally, why worry about mods on a thread that has no comments yet. All that indicates is SOME people with mod points are using them as new stories come out. There are heavy anti-google and heavy pro apple modders on
You do realize that modders can't comment, don't you? There are many who prefer to mod over chirping in with a pointless comment.
But in that case at least wait until there are enough comments to mod.
One is enough to mod.
You are supposed to mod a comment based on its content, not score them on a curve like in grade school.
How can this be +5 insightful with less than 10 comments on the entire post? It turns out that if you do a search for the phrase "a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a history of privacy violations", you'll discover this is just spam propped up by puppet accounts.
Yep. By his epithets ye shall know him. Perhaps "multi-billion dollar advertising company with..." is just bonch's version of "carthago delenda est".
Soooo...speaking the truth is bad if it doesn't fit with your perception bubble? "All go to hell except cave 76! oh and Google!~ Rah!" please. Name a single thing the guy wrote that wasn't factual. Billion dollar web advertising company? simply look up their SEC filings and it says in black and white they make more than 96% of their income from ads, and they are a multi-billion dollar company, so check there. And Google having a history [redorbit.com] of privacy [washingtonpost.com] violations? [examiner.com] I would say that's a pretty big yes. So I'm sorry if his post breaks your perception bubble but truth is truth.
As for TFA give me a damned break, we've tried that crap over and over and over and over its sucked the big wet titty. ChromeOS is going exactly nowhere,service across the country is spotty so good luck if you have anything important due soon and your connection takes a big crapola, and finally the performance sucks. As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.
The "privacy violations" stuff is mostly just Microsoft plant stories to smear Google. Microsoft's best buddy, Facebook, is 100 times worse when it comes to real privacy violations. Google may know that one thousand people left your website to go to Amazon; but google does not know who those people are. Huge difference between that Facebook. Facebook knows exactly who you are.
Since nothing that Google is doing is proprietary, what's the great panic?
Now compare that to Microsoft with Silverlight, and OOXML.
Gotta agree, native networked apps have some big advantages - fast local processing, local gfx elements, cached local data, richer GUI etc. But they have real disadvantages too - they have to be written for specific architectures & platforms, and consumers have to locate (and update) them through a whole different channel (an app store) than the site they communicate with (which is usually a company website).
But a NaCl (or similar) app could work just as well as a mobile app does. They have all the same advantages (fast, rich local GUI, etc), with the added advantage of being downloaded on-demand directly from the relevant website. And NaCl's disadvantages (platform-specificity and security issues) are no worse than existing native apps.
Heck, for mobile platforms (well, Android) you might as well use standard APKs as your native client, with just a streamlined installer (click a link, show a permissions dialog, then auto d/l+install+start), and bypass the app stores altogether. Next time you click that link, it takes you directly to that respective app (as with Maps and YouTube links), which then displays the content you wanted.
Billion dollar web advertising company? simply look up their SEC filings and it says in black and white they make more than 96% of their income from ads, and they are a multi-billion dollar company, so check there.
That's more than a little disingenuous, don't you think? By this logic News Corp., Viacom and all newspapers are also "advertising companies" because they make most of their money from advertisers, and Microsoft is a "business-oriented financial services company" because they get most of their money as electronic funds transfers from large corporations.
And Google having a history [redorbit.com] of privacy [washingtonpost.com] violations? [examiner.com] I would say that's a pretty big yes.
How are three links to the same story on different websites a "history"? On top of that, have you actually looked into what happened? Google configured their services to be able to offer certain features that required cookies to Safari users who hadn't changed the default settings (which fails to block "third party" cookies in certain circumstances even though it says it will, in a way that Google itself had already submitted a fix for in Webkit), and a bunch of media companies butthurt that Google was on the list of companies opposing SOPA (notably News Corp's The Wall Street Journal, who broke the story) decided to blow it all out of proportion.
I mean they're complaining that Google added the +1 feature to ads for users already signed into Google+. This is what passes for a privacy breach now?
if you do a search for the phrase "a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a history of privacy violations", you'll discover
the part of my brain that contains my sense of irony just melted...
It'd be like installing an operating system written by DoubleClick.
You meaan Android? Nobody seems to mind.
The InfoWorld article is just sensationalism.
That may be so, but at least one highly respected technology news source is reporting that the 'browser-neutral' web may 'soon become a thing of the past', and there's a serious risk that 'the standards-compliant Web, as we know it, will die' [slashdot.org] Can this be prevented?
"Google has offered Native Client and Dart to compete performance-wise, but those are non-standard, Google-specific technologies..."
The conditions surrounding the use of these technologies are no different then SPDY, which is being adopted by Amazon and Mozilla, and is on its way to becoming standardized.
Comparing these to MS's contributions to the Internet (e.g. ActiveX and MSIE) is not appropriate - Google's technologies' are open for adoption by anyone and they have the habit of improving the Internet, not subverting it.
"Google has offered Native Client and Dart to compete performance-wise, but those are non-standard, Google-specific technologies..."
The conditions surrounding the use of these technologies are no different then SPDY, which is being adopted by Amazon and Mozilla, and is on its way to becoming standardized.
No one wants to use Dart because it doesn't provide any benefits that couldn't also be provided by extending JavaScript, which is something Mozilla, MS, and Google are all working on. This is why no one else wants to implement it, and Google knew no one else wanted to implement it before it was even announced. I'm not even sure if Google intends for Dart to be used, as opposed to using it to try to push specific features through TC39.
and there's just something weird about shoving the web browser into the stack as a middle-man for no reason
Oh, there's a reason, all right - the same one as offering Android for free - anything that will tie people into Google's ecosphere more close.y. That's a pretty good reason to break standard.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
First of all, this was submitted by someone from Infoworld, and the article is on Infoworld, so nice spam.
Infoworld is routinely fed "press hits" by public relations firms looking to advance the interests of paying clients. Like most trade rags, Infoworld is a tool for spreading marketing hype and PR bullshit. The engineers amongst us usually see through these "technical articles". However, the IT managers, whom trade rags target with flatery, sadly often do not. It's because of Infoworld and others like them that we engineers have to waste time defending mature, proven and well defined technologies against marketing bullshit and unicorn farts like "cloud computing". The PR firms and their hack writers, who actually know nothing about what they're writing, make our jobs as engineers harder and we hate them for it.
I'm not convinced that web platforms are dead. Sure, native apps have been taking off, but when was the last time you saw somebody download Facebook for the PC? They're more popular on phones because of the integration with sensors/contacts/etc that a native app can enable, combined with the slow network and browser speeds on those platforms - the app just is nicer. However, there really isn't much that a native app for something like Facebook or Gmail would add on a full PC.
The problem with native apps
If your app is only presenting information from the internet, or is a user interface client then a web app is simpler to install (you don't need to)
If your app needs to access any native hardware, or uses the system to it's fullest (processing, graphics, disk, other) then a native app is the only way to go
Facebook only presents data from a web server, so does Gmail, a native client gives you no advantage
Now try playing most games in a web interface, or anything that pins the processor, graphics, disk, or ne
It is hilarious to see people writing web platforms are dead... on a web site. And you're flat-out stupid to write shoving the web browser into the stack for as a middle-man for no reason, when the browser is a universal zero-install runtime for many kinds of fantastic software. And some organizations do want ChromeOS instead of current desktop O.S.es, and if users who only use their laptops to go online understood the benefits it offers, many of them would want ChromeOS too.
I agree Dart and NaCl are divisi
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Or is there any other way this can be interpreted?
I don't think Google has the same kind of motivations that Microsoft did, though the final effects may be the same. Microsoft was about forcefully expanding their market presence to ensure success, while Google's is to provide free services in order to track more and more personal data and deliver more ads. For what it's worth, I doubt this initiative from Google to create their own web platform will be successful.
Mod parent up (even tough I disagree with his point of view)
I don't think Google has the same kind of motivations that Microsoft did, though the final effects may be the same. Microsoft was about forcefully expanding their market presence to ensure success, while Google's is to provide free services in order to track more and more personal data and deliver more ads. For what it's worth, I doubt this initiative from Google to create their own web platform will be successful.
They are both companies. Their natural goal is to make as much money as possible. This will mean that they will be wanting to expand their market share. At some point this will happen with force.
Also: Google's thing is not to provide free service. Their goal is to sell ad space. The free service is just to lure the product they sell (the people using it) so they can sell more of it.
Actually, Google's business is to organize, index and provide access to information. Selling ad-space is just how they profit off their core business, for now. This can change anytime in the future when a better business model appears.
They are both companies. Their natural goal is to make as much money as possible.
This is a horribly dangerous misconception.
The fact is that for MANY companies money is not the primary goal, once they have enough money to "coast".
Larry Ellison. Steve Jobs. Scott McNealy. Bill Gates.
These are all guys who did insane things with the companies they ran, insane at least with the expectation you'd be making money.
No, for the top players it is NOT about making money, it's about the Game. There's not even one Game, each is playing his own and wanting to "win" by whatever internal definition they have.
Until you understand this basic truth you will never understand the computer/technology market, or be able to predict anything about it - and that is VERY dangerous if you have a career that intersects it in any way.
How about we all just stick with official standards and co-habitate?
If you will read the "Field Guide" you will discover that it is all based on HTML5 which is a standard that all browsers should support.
Yeah! Back to ie6..
You know what is ironic?
IE 9 and 10 are fully open standards compliant with XAML the only semi proprietary thing in it for Metro hooks. Oddly I am considering going to IE 10 when it comes out because it is the the most standards compliant, secure, and best browser and I am afraid to get locked into an eco system.
I feel I just walked into the twilight for even saying this! But I feel it is exactly 10 years ago all over again with IE 6 and that fear of the web being closed off. Those were some dark days.
Companies like Apple have proved that once they are in a dominate position can quickly turn into the bad guys. 10 years ago I never would have imagined Apple doing anything as crazy as they are today. Google just might pull it off as IE and FF usage is declining.
It's pretty obvious Google are trying to make a "web platform" with Dart and NaCL. Most people spend a lot of time using the web, probably most of the time in front of the computer is web-time. When I use the web, which is a lot I want a better experience, I want native speed, I want real apps and games delivered on the web. If Google can give me that, more power to them. So far their technologies is open source, so I see little wrong from their doings. I don't like installing crap on my computer, phone or "pad", if apps can be delivered over the web, all the better.
Seeing the web as a glorified publishing tool as it is today is old school. Google should have WOW ported to NaCL, that would give it a boost.
I hear where you're coming from, but I don't agree. The OS is becoming less and less relevant. If the web is where people are when using the computer it's the web that needs to evolve. Current technologies gives my computer the speed of an Amiga from 20 years ago while using the web, not good enough if you ask me. I want native speeds, I want portability, I don't want restrictions on what developer tools to use when programming (everything Javascript isn't really that hot). NaCL seems like a good bet, if Go
Nothing that I can see. Lean and serves the purpose very well. Just as useful as paper and as easy to handle.
Of course there are always those that want to blink and animate and visually scream at you in order to capture your attention. That is something traditional webpages do not do or do not do well, and that is actually one of their advantages, as really the only purpose this serves is advertising. Personally, I have blocked any animated add for years now, and the web has a cleaner, calmer and far more pleasant look to me because of it. (Blocking is via Opera integrated content-blocker.) For me, the web is a library, and the clean look of wikipedia the ideal. I do not want another wannabe television surrogate. I have dropped TV more than 10 years ago, because it became intolerable.
This angle would also explain why Google wants to break away from it: Their main business is wasting peoples time, i.e. serving them ads. (Which is, in itself pretty evil, all things considered. But hey, nobody believes the "don't be evil" mantra anyways today.) This also includes getting as much statistical data as they can. Both the serving and the snooping works far better when you leave traditional webpages behind.
Their main business is wasting peoples time, i.e. serving them ads.
I don't see that. Googles main business is providing relevant search results. The result of that being that peoples time is not wasted. Many find Googles search results to be productivity boosters. They make money by monetizing search results, but that will only work so long as the search results are relevant and don't waste peoples time.
The only company I worship anymore is the Bell System. They invented the transistor and wired a nation. They are dead and gone and can't break my heart. (Looking at you HP and Motorola.)
I guess that depends. Google gives me Android, to use however I wish. They give me the fastest browser, interesting new languages, interesting applications of age-old technologies. And a first-rate video and audio codec family with no patent encumbrances. And of course when I look for stuff they are Johnny on the spot. And then there's this new web platform in TFA that I can use however I like. The only thing I can't do with this stuff is tell people I invented it.
Microsoft offers us freebies now and then - like freeware feature-limited applications and development environments. But there's always a catch, like it only works with their for-pay ware, has limited use, is nagware or whatever. Even the search engine just doesn't do it for me - and they sold out to China.
Of course Google's pouring money into lots of interesting stuff, like carbon-neutral energy research, space research, just bunches of stuff.
Overall I think I'm OK with giving Google more slack than a company that has the Halloween Memo collection and the Comes Collection history of horrors behind it. Google seems to be more about driving the pace of progress and keeping things open - and by the way, having great other stuff that they make money on. To me Microsoft seems committed to preventing all the progress they can't control utterly. I think Google has the better offer here, and I don't think anybody else even comes close to trying.
With Google, you pay by giving up your information and privacy.
You don't even have to login to use google. Google does not even know who you are, unless you want Google to know.
Yes, google uses you search information to display innocuous ads by the side of the page, so what?
Google may not deserve to be worshiped as a paragon of virtue; but I don't see Google filing dozens of bogus lawsuits, using total junk patents, like Apple and Microsoft routinely do. I don't see Google being an abusive monopoly, like Microsoft. I don't see Google trying to prevent the use of competitor's technology by forcing proprietary standards like OOXML, and Silverlight. I don't see where Google has been caught red-handed astroturfing, or hiring shills on message boards. I don't see a US federal judge accusing Google of using "Tonya Harding tactics." I don't see google hiring shill companies to do fake TCO studies, or benchmark studies. I don't see Google caught red-handed outright lying to the US DoJ. I don't see Google caught red-handed bribing OSI officials.
Last I checked, Google didn't really control the development of WebKit, and JavaScript is based on standards - so unless there's evidence Chrome intends to start down the old proprietay-extensions path Microsoft blazed 10-15 years ago with Internet Explorer, I'm not sure how "web apps" became synonymous with "Chrome as an exclusive platform".
Now - as the article points out - Google has proposed some ideas (e.g. Dart) that break from the past; but 1) as far as I can tell, they haven't tried to lock others out, and 2) there's currently no evidence these new ideas will ever gain any real-world traction (actually, #2 is probably the more important point by far). Many of us are old enough to remember the pain Microsoft's proprietary browser caused - and most of us will steer clear of anything that looks like an attempt to bring back that model.
Google has proprietary CSS and Javascript as "enchancements". Yes webkit is open source but the CSS 3 implementations are not w3c standards. THey propose replacing HTTP with SPDY and already violate RFC implementations of http that can flood routers that are not configured properly in order to make it appear faster. Now everyone is doing it.
To me Chrome feels a lot like IE 5 or 5.5 where cool AJAX was introduced and IE at the time was a great browser that was faster and sleeker. However, proprietarness crept in at those releases just like it is with Chrome.
IE did its work in the corporate market with tie in. Chrome is doing it in the consumer market. Oddly, IE 10 is one of the most standards compliant browsers that is being developed. It is the total opposite of 10 years ago but Chrome will be stuck with many webmasters a decade from now who will wine like they do today with supporting IE 6.
The -webkit stuff is nothing to be shocked by. It's just a step towards eventually becoming part of the css standard. There are tons of -moz properties as well. Take -border-radius, which is now part of the standard. Before it was part of the standard it was -webkit-border-radius and -moz-border-radius. So, the whole -webkit thing is just a step on the trail to standardization.
When you see a company stuck on XP, there is simply not a good reason for it anymore. Most often, being stuck on XP or IE6 means the company IT department is not able to keep up with change and are doing things like it is 1997. They are using a software installation model that is based on physically inserting CDs to perform upgrades and often are unable to cope with distributing a security patch in a timely manner.
It is high time that CEOs realize if their people are using IE6 or WinXP, that the CIO and CTO should be sacked. Sorry, but there is no excuse for keeping your company stuck in the 1990s. Also, if you develop web apps, the right move is always to discontinue support for IE6. If you are feeding the monster, you are part of the problem.
Chrome is new now just like IE 6 was when CSS was new. It was not an issue in 2001. Look what happened? W3c came up with a different box model than IE which meant missing padding and stretching, W3C decided to round with floats instead of doubles with pixels so now IE 6 places elements wrong too, many new features came out as IE was frozen in time. This lead to where it is today. Chrome is being just as stupid as the W3C could implement something differently than Chrome making IE and FF render the site diff
> It's just a step towards eventually becoming part of
> the css standard
Except when it's not. There are plenty of -webkit properties that have never been proposed for standardization, and some that Apple is refusing to propose even though people are asking them to. Presumably because Apple has patents covering the behavior of those properties and doesn't actually want to license them.
Err all the html apps you get on the chrome store are, chrome only.
Stuff like gmail offline storage (reading emails offline) only works on chrome, despite the offline storage works on other browsers.
NaCl of course only works on Chrome.
It goes on and on.
Of course one could take Chrome and push it into their browser to be compatible, since most of it is open source, right? Well that's one of the point of the article actually: Google becoming the platform.
Starting a real web platform's been tried before(netscape)
Its much harder than it looks, and ultimately, we're protected by those firms still using ie6 in this day and age. They slow down adoption enough for people to breathe and smell the roses.
At the end of the day the relationship between user, platform builder and 3 rd party dev has(so far) always been much more contentious than expected, and usually to the detriment of anyone but the app devs
I have two laptops. A MacBook Pro with an Ubuntu partition, and Samsung Chromebook, I really like both. Many here comment negatively about Chromebooks and my guess it is mainly those that do not won them. I use my MacBook in reality as a desktop, and when I travel I PREFER the Chromebook. I would like to see a Chrome tablet, and would prefer that to an iOS or Android platform for the tasks tablets do. Until you use a Chromebook in real life, and see most of the negative " can't do anything without internet
Almost everything in the "Field Guide" is supported across browsers --- which is good and proper, but it's not pointing the way to Chrome-only applications like the Infoworld article suggests.
Apparently in the Infoworld article, Chrome's "technical advantages" are NaCl and Dart (not mentioned in the "Field Guide"). NaCl is bad for the Web in multiple ways. It ties Web apps to specific processor architectures. (PNaCl is going nowhere because LLVM bitcode is not actually architecture-independent.) Worse, it creates a huge new set of Web APIs ("Pepper") for NaCl applications that mostly duplicate the functionality of the standards-based APIs we already have. This is a lot of unnecessary bloat, complexity and attack surface, plus a lot of extra standards work that would have to be done if NaCl were to be come a real cross-browser standard (which it won't, because no other browser vendor has shown interest in implementing it). The performance advantages of NaCl are overrated; C-to-JS compilers like Emscripten are rapidly improving, the JS language and implementations are rapidly improving, and for a lot of modern apps you want to be offloading to the GPU anyway.
Dart is unnecessary and will simply be overtaken by improvements to Javascript.
... LLVM bitcode is not actually architecture-independent...
This surprises me. Could you please explain why?
The goal of Google is to move everything into the cloud, which is their domain. But they are not stupid, and while they are certainly trying, they won't force stuff like that when it doesn't work. So while Google will certainly try to make Chrome a new platform, whether it becomes one or not doesn't depend only on them.
Apps are not the future. They are the past.
Webapps or just web pages, as we used to call them, are the future of software. You just enter an address or click a link and you get to the most up to date "app". No installation, no updates, no permissions, no specific OS or hardware necessary. It works everywhere by everyone and all the time with no hassles.
The reason apps made a comeback is because you can charge for apps. An app is a defined thing and an installation is a chargeable privilege. So thank Apple and all the me-too followers for burdening us with software deployment and management just as we were about to escape those unnecessary activities.
Apps as platform is not driven by mobile OSes, browsers or other modern technology. It is driven by capitalism.
The reason apps made a comeback is because you can charge for apps.
I don't think that's it. I think apps made a comeback because there were fancy new devices which were a different form factor which didn't match the paradigm used by most websites. Company's wanted a good experience and found it easier to provide that experience by creating an app, having access to OS api's, than by creating a version of the website that worked well with the hand held, touch, form factor. Plus, many consumers only look for a companies app, they don't consider there might be a decent handheld website experience.
It works everywhere by everyone and all the time with no hassles.
So long as you have an internet connection.
Webapps or just web pages, as we used to call them, are the future of software.
For the most part, this is spot on. The exception is probably, as usual, games.
No installation, no updates, no permissions, no specific OS or hardware necessary. It works everywhere by everyone and all the time with no hassles.
Apps gained traction because they worked better than web apps. That's why people pay for them.
They said that 10 years ago. The browser was to break the MS monopoly, obsolete the OS, really soon now everything would be running in the browser, yada, yada, yada.
Every few years, someone digs up a dead horse and runs it through town again.
"They said that 10 years ago. The browser was to break the MS monopoly, obsolete the OS, really soon now everything would be running in the browser, yada, yada, yada.
Every few years, someone digs up a dead horse and runs it through town again."
You mean like salesforce.com, SAP, Google Docs, Gmail, Office 365, Iphone apps?
The iPhone is the new
The reason it went away "10 years ago" was due to bandwidth - now that the bandwidth is here, we're ready to move forward. The web platform and can will deliver on it's the promises - it's already making significant waves
From some dope at Microsoft friendly infoworld.
1) ChromeOS can run on any common platform.
2) Dart is going to be opensource. Anybody can incorporate Dart into their browser.
3) Dart can be compiled to JavaScript.
4) HTML5 etc. are also free to be used by anybody
Add it up: Google Chrome will be no more a web platform than any other browser.
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